Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1942, Page 11

Plane Output Figure Seen As Tonic Method of Revealing Secret Criticized by Observer, However By DAVID LAWRENCE, For several weeks newspapermen have refrained from printing the figures of monthly production of sirplanes. This has been guarded as A military _ g secret. It has been known, of course, but the § patriotism of the press caused it to forebear. Imagine, there- fore, the sur- prise of 'the . Washington 3 newspapermen on reading in yesterday's i newspapers that Speaker Ray- David Lawrence. burn made a speech to his constit- uents in his. home town in Texas and gave out this long-guarded in- formation. “More than 3.300 planes are pour- ing "out of our factories monthly, | well ahead of schedule; tank pro- duction’ is ahead of schedule, with one company alone turning out an entire trainload daily, and anti- aircraft production is in advance of schedules.” If the Axis engineers know how big an American trainload is, they can figure out approximately how many tanks a day or week or month are being produced by one com- pany. Many a good newspaper article has been ruined by the Office of Facts and Figures, which makes the policy for the Government agencies on what shall or shall not be given out. And if any corre- spondent had dared to print the monthly production of airplanes, he would have been accused of violat- ing the censorship or being a sixth columnist or something worse., Fact Widely Known, But evidently the Office of Facts sand Figures either hasn't anything to say about what a Representative or Senator tells his constituents in the way of military data or else Speaker Rayburn cleared his figures through the Office of Facts and | That would mean that | members of Congress on.the Atump} will hereafter disclose data that it | Figures. iz forbidden the newspapermen in Washington to publish, Tt .seems hardly likely that the Office of Facts and Pigures knew anything about it. The: probabili- ties are that the Speaker learned in Washington about the airplane production—it is widely known, in- deed—and that he decided there | wasn't much military disadvantage n telling the people these things, | In fact, | he may have read the speech which | and he is right about it. Majority Leader Barkley, Demo- crat, made in the United States Benate only last Monday on that | subject. He said, in part: “I think if the American people | knew month. by month the number | of airplanes being produced they | would be very well satisfied with the | result, but that raises this question: We all know that airplanes are di- vided into categoties. There are bombers, there are fighters, there are | pursuit planes, and there are train- | ing planes, and there are also other | categories of planes. Of course, in the production of planes, we have to consider the total. I have in a modest way inquired why it would not be advisable to let the people | know month by month the number of planes we are producing but I have been met with the statement that if the total number is nounced -the jmpression might be created, in the first place, that they were all fighters and all bombers whereas they are not, and cannot be. “If information is given out with breakdown as to the number of bombers and the number of fighters and the number of training planes, of course, that information reaches the enemy. It presents a difficult rituation as to how far in detail the Government can go in informing its own people.” Bottlenecks Cited. During the same discussion Sena- tor Bali of Minnesota said: “The War Production Board and other agencies have been asking the public on the radio and through the Ppress day after day to work harder and increase production.. It is a gen- eralized demand. Wge found in every plant we visited that management and labor are willing and anxious. to do everything they can to increase production but that all too often a shortage in some critical part or ma- terial is preventing them from doing it. That certainly was true in the aircraft industry. THE EVENING The Political Mill . Stabilization of Wages Along With Prices and .Profits Seen as Need in Checking Inflation By GOULD LINCOLN., Prices, profits and wages— three factors of inflation—con- tinue the problems which con- front the American people in this time of war. With one of them, alone, Congress has dealt—prices. It put through a price control law after considerable delay. Fortunately the price adminis- trator, Leon Henderson, appoint- ed by President Roosevelt in ad- vance of congressignal action, already had taken some steps to " prevent a tremendous price in- " flation. The law which Congress finally put thfough last January is a workable proposition — if the question of increased and in- creasing wages is forgotten for the moment. It may be presumed that Mr. Henderson, under the powers granted him by the law and by the President, will deal adequately with prices, provided an- | the lawmaking body also deals with profits and wages. Both profits and wages are bound up inextricably with prices—and prices are what the American public will feel, do feel, at present. Strenuous efforts were made to get both the ad- ministration and Congress to deal with the question of both wages and profits when the price control bill was under considera- tion. Bernard M. Baruch, head of the War Industries Board in the last World War, had much to say at the time in favor of an overall ceiling on wages and profits and prices. But too much pressure was exerted against the adoption of such a general pro- gram. Revenue Bill May Help. Tt has become increasingly ap- parent, however, that if the wolf of inflation is to be kept from the door, something will have to be done about both profits and wages. The House Ways and Means Committee now is work- ing on a new revenue measure. It is in that bill profits can be taken care of—through special excess profits taxes—and prop- erly so. The House recently put through A& $19,000,000000 appropriation bill for war purposes and wrote into it a provision saying that none of the money should be ex- pended for Government contracts under which the contracting par- ties would receive more than 6 per cent profit. The Senate toyed with this proposition.and finally sent the measure to conference to work out some kind of a profit limitation formula. This, how- ever, is merely dabbling the toes in the water of profits under war conditions. So far as the question of wages is concerned. both the adminis- tration and Congress have avoid- ed any real attempt by legisla- tion to deal with increases. Action on Profits Promised. There seems no slightest doubt that the question of profits will be taken care of, through excess profits taxes and special taxes, when the revenue bill is con- sidered in both the House and the Senate. The promise that this will be done has come from many sources. The House Ways and Means Committee is still holding hear- ings on the revenue bill, however, and it is hot expected that the committee will be ready to report a measure to the House before the middle of May or early June. It may be the last of August before the new law is finally put through both houses and ap- proved by the President. Since, however, the new law will apply to all incomes and profits made during the current calendar year, it will not be too late to deal effectively with the question of war profits. Indeed, there .s am- ple time in which to tackle this problem effectively. ‘Wages, on the other hand, are a week by week, almost hour by hour proposition. Prices mayebe even more speedily changed. Mr. Henderson has his hand on the matter of prices and has given evidence that he can act quickly and effectively. Wages are an- other matter. Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohlo, a mernber of the Senate Fnance Committee, hus some very definite ideas about deal- ing with the matter of wages and profits. He regards the price con- trol law already enacted as an efficient measure. He would leave to the revenue bill the duty of dealing with profits. This seems entirely sound. He has a plan for dealing with wages, which he may offer as an amendment to the Connally bill—to authorize the President to take over struck defense plants—when that meas- ure comes up in the Senate—if it does—on April 20. 2 Senator Taft takes the position —a sound position—that the farmers and the products in war- time cannot object to a regula- tion of prices; that the business- man cannot object to a regula- tion of earnings, and that the workman cannot object to & regulation of wages. The country as a whole must make up its mind to a reduction in its stand- ard of living. Those who have been paying taxes already must realize this—and they will real- ize it still further. The administration started out bravely with a statement to labor that its standard of living must be maintained, there must be no relaxation of the “social gains” which had been made un- der the New Deal, which is an- other way of saying the same thing. It has never declared any policy whatever in regard to wage increases. Taft Would StabHize Wages. The country has been pretty lucky up to date. Prices have in- creased, but not inorinately, or anything like what they did in the last war. Wages havé in- creased also, but the percentage of increase has not yet been great. Workers have increased their earnings—through the time and a half paid for overtime beyvond the 40-hour work week, and the extra hours worked. The hourly rates of regular pay have not changed very greatly. Senator Taft believes that now is the time for Congress to act on this wages question, be- fore it gets out of hand. He is proposing legislation definitely requiring that all collective bar- gaining agreements between em- ployers and employes be con- tingent upon their approval by the War Labor Board, or by & ‘wage board to be established. Such a board, he says, should be instructed to stabilize wages as far as possible, authorizing increases only in proportion to increases in the cost of living, or in industries or individual cases where wages have been de- pressed below the general level of wages paid. By such a pro- cedure, he insists, it would be possible both to provide a definite standard of wages and also to avoid inflation in wages and in prices—and to avold many in- dustrial strikes. Senator Taft has not changed his position that Congress should not suspend the 40-hour work week law at this time—unless labor voluntarily agrees. But he does believe that labor should work a 48-hour week, and he does believe that labor itself should consider seriously the modification of the 40-hour week, either by lengthening the hours or cutting the overtime rate. LECTURE. “The Future of the Philippines,” 1 and P streets N.W., 6:15 p.m. today. Dance, refreshments, Y. W. C. A, by Sebastian Ugarte, League for | Seventeenth and K streets N.W. the Larger Life, 1322 Vermont ave- nue N.W,, 8:15 p.m. today. MUSIC. . Concert, Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall, 5:30 p.m. today. Organ recital, D. Sterling Wheel- wright, Washington Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Sixteenth street and Columbia road N.W., 8 p.m. today. DANCES. Dinner dance, Wanderbirds' Hik- ng Club, Dodge Hotel, 7 p.m. today. Tea dance, United Nations Club, Hotel 2400, 7 p.m. today. Dance and card party, Columbia 17:30 p.m. today. Dance, refreshments, Soldiers, | Sallors and Marines’ Club, 1015 L | street N.-W., 8 p.m. today. Dance, sponsored by the Women's Battalion, Departmental Auditor- ium, Constitution avenue between | | The Federal Bureau of Investiga- | tion announced yesterday four em- | ployes of an Alexander County silica plant had been arrested and ar-| Twelfth and Fourteenth N.W., 8 pm. today. Dancing, games, streets Service Men’s Club No. 1, 306 Ninth street N.W., | 8 p.m. today. “Peter the First” Russian film | missioner on charges of sabotage. with titles, All Souls’ Church, Six- ‘ the Springfield F. B. T. office. said | the four were accused of causing refreshments, | teenth and Harvard streets N.W. 8 p.m. today. . Dancing, games, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1942. 'HE opinions of the writers on this.page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star's effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. By DE WITT MACKENZIE, Wide World War Analyst. Speculation _increases like spring fever on both sides of the Atlantic about the possibility of opening up an Allied front some- where in Western Eu- " rope in sup- port of ‘the Russians, and something like that might hap- pent in" due course, but it must- be said that the Axis is making it very difficult for such a project to materialize. T refer to the heayy toll of ship- ping which the Triple Alliance is taking. When we telk about in- vasion across water one of the first things we must think about is ships—in great numbers. I'm afraid a lot of critics have: been overlooking that in demanding immediate invasion of the con- tinent. Britain and America have men enough for such a project; the British air power would seem to be sufficient to support the ven- ture; presumably we should have enough 1and equipment in the not distant future to warrant a start. But we Allies are woefully weak in shipping—a lack which has been hampering operations the world over. Pacific Ship Need Great. Our entrance into the war has increased difficulties in this re- spect immensely. Not only do we have the growing depredations by the Nazis, Italians and Japanese, but the opening of the battle of the Pacific has multiplied Allied commitments and the length of sea communications. When we stop to consfder that a convoyed vessel can make only three or four round trips in a year to the Orient from our West Coast or from England, we begin to see what a strain both America and Britain are under. So thus far the Allies haven't had enough ready boats to stage an irvasion, even if they had been prepared otherwise. And it must be remembered that it would require & huge fleet to get Mackenzie, fie ‘War Today Allied Lack of Shipping Considered Check on Mass Invasion of Europe troops, equipment and continuing supplies across the English Chan- nel. Also an armada would be necessary to blast open the way, and the Anglo-American naval fleets have been too busy with long-distance convoys for any concerted action like invasion. Then there is another point: It would be a terrific risk for the United Statés and Britaih to mass their fleets, or any oon- siderable portion of them, for the purposes ef invasion now. Should things go badly, they might lose enough warships to throw con- trol of the seas into the Axis pocket, to say nothing of giving the Japs the run of the ocean while we were busy with the op- eration. Most Difficult Operation. Thus we see that a full-dress invasion of Western Europe prob- ably would be the most difficult and dangerous operation which could be undertaken. However, there is ther era of inestim- able strategic importance which must be manned by the Allies— that is Syria, Iraq and Iran. From this Middle Eastern base help could be fed to the Russians through the Caucasus. And should Hitler break through the Caucasus, or by-pass Turkey in an effort to get into Syria, the Allied forces would be in posi- tion to block him. The Fuehrer's chief purpose in attacking Russia was to reach the fresh supplies of the Cau- casus and Middle East. The Allied salvation lies in stopping him at this gateway to plenty. Thus the maintenance of a pow- erful Allied base there would seem to be an essential—likely more essential than the opening of a fresh front in Western Burope. Actually, of course, Britain supposedly has large forces in the Middle East area already, and the United States is co- operating in building up the Allied strength in this general zone. Both British and Ameri- can ships can reach the Persian Gulf via the Cape of Good Hope over the long haul and, belleve it or not, it would be far easier to move a fully-equipped army from England to the Middle East over that 14,000-mile route, than to try to put the same army ashore across the 20 miles of English Channel. LA l d ;ench were identified by Mr. Crowl as Orvil Browning, 19, Ullin; Gussie Campaign Indorsed |3 0o g, 2, o s A proposal to raise 87500 for | Eleo, and Paul Johnson, 23, Ullin. equipment and expenses of the Mr. Crowl said Browning was ar- Brightwood Defense Fund | 2es.erm o e Federal grand Jury This Changing World Superior Force to Hold Off Japs and Quell Uprisings Held One Way to Save India By CONSTANTINE BROWN. ‘With the report that the All- India Congress Party has re- Jected the British plan for Indian independence, fears in respon- sible Washington quarters that concessions may have been made too late appear to be confirmed. Londoa has received repeated warnings from its friends and well-wishers that If a friendly understanding with the Indiang ‘were not completed in time, that is to say before the Japanese were at the very gates of India, the concessions it offered would not have the desired effect. Although most of the Nation- alist demands are said to have been granted, the fact that the Japanese are now preparing an invasion of the country may annul the effect of these 1lth hour concessions. The relations between the British and the Indians have been for many years those of ruler and ruled. This relation- ship was accepted by the Indian masses because British prestige and military power had never been challenged in that area. Profound Effect on Masses. A handful of British soldiers with modern equipment assured complete control of the country. Moreover, the Indian princes, ‘who were the pets of the London government, assisted the - British in their rule. The Nationalist movement made great progress in the last 20 years, but it was based, except on rare occasions, on passive resistance. The 150,- 000 British troops, supported by Sikhs and the Gurkhas, would have been able to continue the British grip on India for many generations. ‘The British unfortunately have suffered serious reverses in the Far East in recent weeks. These were intelligently exploited by the Japanese. The surrender of some 70,000 British troops to a smaller Japanese invasion force at Singapore is understandable to the white man. We know it was not cowardice which caused the British defeat. But in-India the fact that so many whites sur- rendered to the Japanese has had crushing effect on the confidence of the masses, which for almost two centuries were accustomed to see a handful of whites defeat much larger Asiatic forces. The British suffered reverses at the hands of the Indians on several occasions during the many years of their rule, but on each occasion Indian victories were won only by overwhelming numbers. Now they see that the Japanese have been able to de- ganda that the superiority of war machines, which in the past had been exclusively with the Occident, is now with the “fore- most Asiatic power.” These facts ‘have conspired to destroy Brit- ain’s prestige in India and with- out such prestige she cannot count on the loyalty of the Indian masses. One thing which might save India for ‘the British would be an overvhelming military force, both to check the Japanese and keep the Indians in order. It is doubtful whether the unlucky Gen, Sir Archibald Wavell has such a force at his disposal at the present time. The delay in reaching agree- ment with the Nationalist lead- ers gave the Indians the impres- sion that the concessions were obtained from London under duress. Those who know the Oriental mind believe such im- pressions will not lead to any conclusive stabilization of the situation in Indla and are afraid of a repetition of the Burma reverses, in which the British forces were stabbed in the back by the Burmese. Ceylon May Follow Java, The position of Britain in India and the Indian Ocean may become even more precarious if the naval battle which has been developing since last Tuesday turns definitely against the Brit- ish. So far we have had only scanty details of events in that region.” The loss of two heavy cruisers and an antiquated aircraft car- rier would indicate that the situ~ ation is not particularly favor- able for our ally. But there are 3 o 1 friniten no reports as yet regarding the final outcome of the battle in which the Japanese must have had numerical superiority both in the air and on the sea, as has been the case since December 7. The Nipponese high command is endeavoring to disperse the British naval forces which are interfering with the plan to land troops on several points in the Bay of Bengal. Should the Japs succeed in doing this, Ceylon may suffer the fate of Java and the Japanese transports will be able to effect landings wherever they like along the Indian coast without much opposition from the United Nations' air force. In such an event, most observ- ers here believe, even if an agree- ment had been reached with the Indian Nationalists, the ultimate fate of India could not have been affected. The most that may be obtained now is a passive atti- Trench Mortar Playing Important Role in Nazi-Soviet War Russians Overcoming Early German Advantage as Result of Production By A. T. STEELE, 'War Correspondent of The Btar. KUIBYSHEV, April 11.--Nine and one-half months of Russo-German conflict have shown that the dead- liest weapon in this war is not any new-fangled instrument of destruce tion but the old-fashioned trench mortar, streamlined to modern kill- ing requirements. One of the bright spots of the Boviet war outlook, as spring comes on, is that the Red Army has been able largely to offset the one-sided advantage which the Germans en- Joyed at the of their in- vasion in this highly important branch of armament. In conse- quence of their greatly expanded mortar production, the Russians will be able, it is believed, to trade almost shell for shell with the German minenwerfers (mortars) when the spring campaign opens. ‘What this means can be realized fully only by visiting military hos- pitals, where trench-mortar wounds account for more than half of all the casualties. Used Effectively by Nazis. The Germans made tremendously effective use of mortars during their offensive last summer and fall By massing these light and easily trans- ported weapons at points of attack, they were able to blanket the Soviet defenses with fire. The Russians | quickly realized their own deficiency, |but didn’t cry over it. They im- mediately created a special come missariat for mortar production, converted a number of peacetime enterprises to the manufacture of mortars and mortarshells and very soon had multiplied their mortar armamment. Mortars serve one all-important purpose—the destruction of man- power. The Nazis employed them in masses to soften resistance and wipe out machine-gun nests just before attack. On the defensive in recent months, they have been re- lieved heavily by mortars, in combi- nation with other weapons, in their attempts to break up advancing or charging detachments of Russian troops. Being encased in cast iron, mortar shells shatter into countless fragments on explosion. The mortar looks pretty much like 2 piece of steel pipe, mounted on a tripod. It is a muzzle-loader, fires at a hign angle and has a range of from several hundred to 3,000 yards, depending on its size. The thells are equipped with fins like the aerial bomb and signal their ap- proach with a nasty whirr. The Rus- | wood Citizens’ | have been trained or are in training. | units have been merged and pro- | | vision has been made for feeding | | ner in which he has handled the | Humphries, Ross L. Smith, Mrs. | the Capital Transit Co. that the | Association. | donor will have the privilege of membership in the association the remainder of the season. Thomas F. Ferry, chairman of the defense committee, spoke on ac- complishments of the organization and some of its future plans. He said 380 persons have been ap- pointed and more than 150 wardens The emergency housing and feeding | 200 to 300 people. More volunteers are still needed, he said. It is planned to have 30 women | canvass for funds, in the hope that | $3 will be donated by each family | in the area. Elmer Johnson, deputy air-raid warden, commended Mr. Ferry, who is principal of the Paul | Junior High School, for the man- many details of the organization. New members elected included: | Maurice N. Thompson, Russell C. | M. A. Wood. Philip C. Nicholson, F. J. Lightfoot and Miles C. Stearns. | The association was advised by | granting of transfers at Thirteenth | and Kennedy streets NW., to con- nect with the Thirteenth street bus 'Four llinois Workers Held route would tend to slow down the | express service and would result in | overloading this line. On Charges of Sabofage By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 11.— raigned before a United States com- A. H. Crowl, agent in charge of numerous work stoppages in Janu- Civilian Defense Committee for the | rested by two F. B. 1. agents on Brightwood area, was indorsed last | April 8 and confessed, implicating | | night at a meeting of the Bright- | Provoe, Smith and Johnson. Each | other three were arrested yesterday. tude on the part of the popula- tion. The resistance to invasion which might have been expected from the Indians if they had been won over a few months ago is hardly to be expected now. feat the white men in spite of the latter's numerical superiority. Army Might Save India. Japanese constantly hammer at the Indians with the propa- The | Uncle Sam needs waste paper. Is John L. Lewis Seeking Comeback? THE eyes of labor leaders and politicians are following the movements of the bushy-haired founder of the C. I. 0., whose colorful career has been marked by stormy scenes and sensational actions. Charles G. Ross, writing in the Editorial Feature Section of The Sunday Star, hints that Mr. Lewis once more is laying his lines for leadership in labor. He reviews the high spots of his career culminating in his repudiation of President Roosevelt, his support of Willkie in 1940 and his resignation from the C. I. O. presi- dency. If you like to look ahead, be sure to read this article. ITH Pan-American Day set for Tuesday, Blair Bolles writes of the problems involved in hemisphere solidar- ity, especially in view of the hesitancy of Argentina and Chile. His article, on the optimistic side, gives excellent background to weigh developments. .| fare. | clinging to the turrets of tanks and sians now are so well equipped with these weapons that it is estimated | that they have a light mortar for every dozen rifiemen in the battle | lines. Mortars come in three sizes, | 50. 70 and 82 mm's. The last. of which the Russians have plenty, have great destructive power. Important Role for Rifies. Next to the mortar for deadliness rank machine guns and automatic rifies. The Red Army began the war well supplied with machine guns, but there has been heavy em- phasis on the manufacture of auto- matic rifles. There is scarcely a report from the front which does | not” mention the activities of Ger- man or Soviet automatic riflemen. These are the shock troops, the close-range fighters of modern war- They often go into battle dismount when they reach the |enemy lines to wipe out nests of resistance, so preparing the way for the infantry which follows _Automatic riflemen have, to a con- siderable extent, taken the place of bayonet charges in modern war, Both sides, when launching an at- tack. make it a practice to send | most small detachments of automatic rifflemen into the enemy rear to | block the lines of retreat and create th illusion of encirclement. This is sometimes a suicidal job. The popular type of automatic | weapon used by the Russians looks | like a tommy gun. It holds 71 bul- lets, has a disc-shaped magazine and fires at the rate of 280 per min- ute. Claim It Is Superior. Red Army men claim it is superior | to the German model, the 3161, ;l’}_flch, it is said, carries 27 car- | tridges and fires 160 per minute. These automatic guns are used only at very close range with about the same -accuracy as the pistol, but their enormous fire rate makes them | & valuable weapon | Thus, in the realm of small agd | medium arms, the Russians are much nearer equality with the Ger- | mans today than they were last | summer. As for artillery, the Red Army, from the beginning of the | war, had superiority over the enemy and probably still holds it, although the Germans lately have made strenuous efforts to rectify their de- | ficiency. | Being overweighed in tank power, the Russians have striven through | the autumn and winter to augment | their production of anti-tank wea- pons of all kinds. We hear more and more incidents of disabling Ger- | man tanks with fire from anti-tank rifles. These strange-looking weap- ons, as long as & man, fire panzer- piercing bullets. They are coming into use in increasing numbers. (Copyright. 1942, by Chicago Daily News.) ary and February at the Elco Silica mine and pulverizing plant of the Ozark Mineral Co. by throwing for- “Instead of making generalized pleas for more production which | tend to upset the public but do not Fourth Candidafe Enfers Arkansas Senafe Race By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 11— The avowed field seeking the United States senatorial nomination in the Arkansas Democrataic primaries this summer stood at four today following the announcement of THER interesting articles will be by Richard L. Stokes, who points how much has been accomplished with so little by Russia and China; Constantine Brown and Felix Morley, who discuss various aspects of the war. Much food for thought. | Parish House, St. John's Episcopal Lo Yooy, S+ SNOTehaM | Grurch,” Sixteenth and I streets Alabama State Society, National | N-W- 8 p.m. today. eign substances into elevators and direct” the enthusiam and energy | press Club, 9:30 p.m. foday. Community — singing, _addresses, | conyeyors at the plant. which is aroused into any specific| Spring formal, Washington State g"“-sehm'{‘"l‘{ vcih“‘“h‘ smls““yz Those drraigned and held for the channel, perhaps it would ‘be better | and Alaska Societies, Wardman Park | Brénch road N.w., 8 p.m. ¥ = = = g Dance, games, refreshments, Y. M. | ADVERTISEMENT. for our Government agencies to Hotel, 9:30 p.m. today. R C. A, 1736 G street N.W. 9 pm.| e, s o IO concentrate on increasing produc- | Al States’ Club, Hotel Washing- | -, " i : | today. | HiH tion in those bottlenecks—there nre‘w'l',-ogt-mog"c': g;:;tment Recrea- | __Floor show, open house, hostesses, | y ons or 2 : shich | | T R O A i o | tiohia] Assoeiation sWardman Park [ SUO OB iDpec ey her BAL are really hol mzv up top-spee prov-l‘ Hotel, 10 pm. today. duction on the big assembly lines. These comments are but a few | which illustrate the bungling job which is being done in withholding Informmation which, "if published, could be of more value to6 our own morale than it could be helpful to | the enemy. Speaker Rayburn per- formed: a real service in telling the | American people about the monthly production of planes—for it is phe-i pemenal, and Germany and Japan will get scant comfort out of know- ing what they may expect soon from Our air power. (Reproduction Rights Reserved.) S0 he left you waiting at the altar? Then send that trunkful of old love letters to the junk dealer for waste-paper salvage. MEETINGS. Philosophical Society of Washing- ton, Cosmos Club Auditorium, 8:15 p.m. today. * Buffet supper meeting, Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity, Wardman Park Hotel, 9:30 p.m. today. DINNER. North Carolina Democratic Club, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 p.m. today. HIKE. Springfield to Newington, Va., | sponsored by the Wanderbirds’ Hik- ing Club, buses leave National The- ater at 10 a.m. tomorrow. FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE. Dinner, dance, sponsored by the Covenant-First Presbyterian Church, Fellowship House, 3563 Massachu- setts avenue N.W., 6:15 p.m. today. Vail(;nA{éni’,:?mreeL N.W..open;F th J h ? Mdi unL;ghI,n :rgakrast. y-non-securian{ a er o ns am religious discussion, Java Club, Y. M. C. A, 9:30 am. tomorrow. Sight-seeing trip, sponsored by the auxiliary group, Red Cross Motor Corps, leaves Soldiers, Sailors and Marines’ Club at 10 am. tomorrow. FOR COLORED SERVICE MEN. Swimming, games, Y. M. C. A, 1816 Twelfth street N.W., 6 p.m. today. Dance, Y. M. C. A, 8 p.m. today. Dance, Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A., 901 Rhode Island avenue N.-W., & p.m. today. Hostesses, refreshments, Leisure Lodge for Service Men, 1439 U street N.W, 9:30 p.m. today. Special church services -followed by dinner and- a. sight-seeing tour, Dinner, dance, sponsored by Foun- | meet at the Twelfth street Y. M. dry Methodist Church, Sixteenth C. A. at 10:30 am. tomorrow. 3 Experience has taught [% s | millions to call for Father John's Medi- cine when they catch - colds because they-lack sufficlent vitamin A. They know that it gives them two im- portant benefits: 4 First, it helps build internal resistance to colds when the body needs more vitamin A. It is also rich in vita- min D. ° N Second, it affords - - - prompt relief from coughs and throat irritation due to colds by.soothing the Pather John's Medicine has been used succeesfully for over 85 years. Tomorrow, April 12, in he Sunday Star Call National 5000 for rogulfir delivery both daily and Sunday A Buy Defense STAMPS and STAMP Out the Axis! Clyde Taylor Ellis of Bentonville, third district Congress member, of his candidacy. Mr. Ellis, 33, an outspoken pub- lic power advocate, announced from his home last night that “I reluct- antly give up my seat in-the House,” to which he was elected four years ago, to make the race. Representative D. D. Terry, Little Rock, and former Representative John L. McClellan, Campden attor- ney, have already qualified for the race. J. Rosser Venable, Little Rock, veteran of the first World War, has announced he would qualify. Mr. Ellis was elected to Congress ‘without opposition in the 1938 gene eral election after defeating Incume bent Claude A. Fuller of Fayette- ville, & veateran of five terms, in a close, bitter race in the primary.