Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1942, Page 2

Two Extra Pages In This Edition Late news and sports are covered on Pages 1-X and 2-X of this edition of The Star, supplementing the news of the regular home delivered edition. An Evening Newspaper With the Full Day’s News LOCAL—NATIONAL—FOREIGN Associated Press and (#) Wirephotos, North American Newspaper Alliance, Chicago Daily News Foreign Service and The Star's Staff Writers, Reporters and Photographers. Closina N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 18. 90th YEAR. No. 35,792. > ch WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star D. € WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1942 CENTS. THREE More U.S.Troops Reach Australia, Offensive Prepared, Curtin Says; .Miles From Lashio, Burma :R. A. F. Fires Kiel Navy Base; ‘Trondheim Is Target Again aps 50 . Strong Forces Landed After New Warnings | Bs the Associated Press. | CANBERRA, Australia, April | 29. — More American troops, strong and well equipped, have arrived in Australia and an of- | fensive is being prepared in the very face of an imminent Japa- nese assault on this continent, | Prime Minister John Curtin an- nounced today. While he was giving to the House of Representatives this news and re- ports of a steadily increasing flow of | planes, tanks and guns from the | United States, Allied and Japanese | airmen continued the unending bat- | tle of bombs in the northern islands | which are the requisites to attack | by either side | Allied headquarters reported de- struction of a Japanese ammunition dump at Lae, New Guinea, and in- terception of a Japanese raid on Port Moresby. Damage Is Slight. In a raid on the Port Moresby area yesterday, the Japanese used | eight bombers and 14 Zero fighters. | Alljed fighters intervened and, a communique reported, damage was slight. United States anti-aircraft gun- | ners on beleaguered Corregidor were | disclosed to have shot down two | Japanese bombers when the enemy | carried out a high altitude raid on | the tsland fortress in Manila Bay. | Otherwise, action in the Philip- | pines was limited to artillery and | patrol operations. | Air Minister Arthur S. Drakeford warned that heavy Japanese air raids on Australia itself can be ex- pected soon, and other sources con- firmed that the enemy was massing his planes and equipment for a furi- ous onslaught possibly within a fort- night. ‘Taking cognizance of the danger, Mr. Curtin reported the Allied northern bases also were being 1 rapidly reinforced and said the new- | ly-arrived American reinforcements | included “important technical | units.” | The Prime Minister also an- nounced that he had created “the Prime Minister’s war conference” consisting of himself, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and such ministers and officers as he might summon to dis- | cuss highest strategical questions. Nazi Airdromes in L ow Countries Also Objects of British Air Attacks By the Associated Press LONDON, April 29.—The R. A. F. set fire to the great Nazi naval |day to have reached within 50 | | base of Kiel in a heavy attack last night, while another force at- | miles of Lashio, Burma, in an at- | tacked the German warship have second successive night. In announcing these assaults which rounded out a full week of | big-scale bombings of German con- | tinental positions, the British Air Ministry said other overnight raids were directed against airdromes in the occupied Low Countries and a power station at Ghent, Belgium. The total cost to Britain was nine bombers, while the Air Ministry said | & German night fighter was shot | | down over Kiel and a bomber was | destroyed off North Cornwall yes- terday evening. It disclosed also that the first big raid on Trondheim the night of' % - S | April 27-28 was aided by diversion: |.objective. | the effort to neutralize the menace n at Trondheim, Norway, for the ! ary attacks of the coastal air com- ! mand which hit two ships off Aale- sund, Norway, and struck oil tanks and airdromes ashore. The German battleship Tirpitz and other important naval units are based at Trondheim, but the naval base itself was the primary | ] The raids were in continuation of | to the Murmansk supply route, but | informed British sources refused to estimate the damage done to Trond- (See RAIDS, Page A-5) Center of Rostock Pictured as Ash Heap After Heavy Attacks Fires Still Smouldering, Population Evacuated, Reports to London Say | r | By the Associated Press. | LONDON, April 29.—The cen- | | ter of the German Baltic port of | U. S. Gunners Sink Japanese Warship In Manila Bay Area Enemy Air Attacks On Corregidor and Other Forts Lessen American guns on the be- leagured Manila Bay fortresses | sank a medium-sized Japanese | | | Formed by Chinese | Rostock is an ash heap and fires | war vessel and silenced enemy > Chinese Moving Supplies From Imperiled City By the Associated Press. CHUNGKING, China, April 29. —A Japanese spearhead thrust- ing northward was reported to- tack led by tanks and supported by planes. Another Japanese column was re- ported striking westward. Yesterday the Japanese, racing the monsoon rains into north Burma, were reported 100 miles from Lashio, with the Chinese already moving | essential supplies out of that threat- ened city. | Today's reports placed the Japa- | nese at Mansam, 60 miles due south of Lashio. The latest Japanese thrust was believed directed presently at Mong- yai, about 35 miles below Lashio and whence the invaders will find two routes leading to the Burma road between Lashio and Mandalay. Front in North Burma | LONDON, April 29 (#.—Chinese« troops were reported today hastily forming a front in Northern Burma | in a desperate effort to head off | Japanese divisions driving north from Monghai Ping toward the rail- road east from Mandalay to the Burma road. | British sources made no effort to | conceal the gravity of the situation | | as a result of the Japanese break- | through from Monghai Ping, 80 miles below Lashio, the railhead at the junction with the Burma road. One source put the Japanese strength at about 100,000 men, in- cluding 7,000 in armored fighting vehicles, on all the fronts in Burma. | David, Goliath and the Taxpayer Army Will Occupy Eastman Bans Cab C ruising; First Section of New Building Tomorrow Arlington Structure Unit Beats Schedule 6 Months; Another Ready June 1 Employes will begin moving into the first of two nearly com- pleted sections of the mammoth War Department Building in Arlington tomorrow, six months ahead of the schedule, Lt. Gen. Group Riding Encouraged Non-Essential Trips Must Stop, 8 War Worker Dormitory Sites Selected Arlington Farm Gets Largest; Potomac Park Field Second Plans for location of temporary dormitories for war workers were | disclosed today as the House con- sidered a special order of busi- ! ness the defense housing appro- priation bill for the District and nearby counties. Largest of the dormitories—to provide for 6,500 to 7.500 war workers —is planned for Arlington Farm, Va. it was learned. A second. to &c- commodate 3,500 to 4.500 persons s slated for the old polo flield n Potomac Park and a third will be erected for some 2,000 workers near the new airport property. Convenient to the new Govern- ment workshop at Suitland Md., a fourth dormitory will provide rooms for 1,000 and a fifth of similar size is to rise on the stadium site of East Capitol street. A dormitory for Negro women is planned at Howard University and another is to go up in Benning near the Langs- ton area—both together to provide for about 1,000. An eighth will be built for about 880 persons on District-owned prop- erty at Third street and Constitution avenue, now used as a parking lot. Authorization Cut. The original authorization of $50,000,000 carried in the Lanham Act has been ct by the Appropria- tions Committee to $29,500,000. In reporting to the House today, Transportation Chief Declares The Nation's taxicabs, which carried almost one billion pas- sengers last year, must stop “‘cruising” for the duration of the war, | oseph B. Eastman, defense transportation director, declared today. Mr. Eastman said in a statement®" that the “highly personalized” cab | taxicabs until the operators and | service available in the past could‘locnl regulatory authorities prove not be maintained in a “stripped | that present equipment is not being to the bone” war economy. wasted in the performance of non- “In the allotment of scarce ma- | essential services.” J still smoulder in the city, which has been evacuated of all except firemen and a few military forces | after four nights of heavy British | bombing, reports reaching Lon- | don said today. Photographs of the damage from the most intensive R. A. F. offensive against a single town, taken from British bombers after the second night's raid, showed fires so bright that planes could be seen on the airdrome. A later picture the same night shows the entire town' en- gulfed in flames and smoke. Berlin correspondents of Swedish batteries in Cavite and Bataan during the last 48 hours, a War Department communique report- | ed today. | Hope Monsoon Will Come. Lacking man power, planes and guns to withstand the crushing power of their foe, the Allies were resorting to every device to harass Brehon B. Somervell, command- ing the Services of Supply, an- nounced today. Gen. Somervell said the two sec- | ice, like all other organized trans- portation, must be considéred solely | from the standpoint of necessity of service. “With the entire American civilian | terials,” he cautioned, “taxicab serv- “Cruising must be eliminated and dead mileage reduced to the lowest possible point,” he said. “Non-es- sential riding must be stop; Every effort must be made to en- Tn his statement on the American | newspapers said the Baltic base and reinforcements, he said: | airplane manufacturing center was “Strong additional United States | virtually leveled and uninhabllable.‘ reinforcements which are well | People Evacuated. | equipped and include important Evacuation of the 90,000 popula- | technical units have arrived. tion became necessary, they said, be- | “The equipment position has ma- | cause public services and food and terfally improved. | water supply became impossible. “In addition to acceleration of lo- | Effects of Britain's newest giant eal production of munitions, supplies | bombs were shown in the reports of | of tanks and guns are arriving from | terrified refugees reaching neighbor- Enemy air attacks on Corregidor and the other bay forts lessened in intensity, the communique reported, while American gunners continued to break up troop concentrations on the Bataan and Cavite shores. New Invasion Move Seen. Meanwhile, it was reported the | Japanese were increasing their naval strength in the waters in the central part of the Philippine archi- pelago. This may mean a move, it was indicated, to occupy those is- lands in force. (A Tokio radio broadcast said Japanese forces landed early today at Cotobato, port on the western coast of Mindanao, in the southern part of the archi- pelago, and completed occupation of the place in four and a half hours.) In NortHern Luzon, enemy de- | | the invaders’ spread-out columns, block their roads, snipe, counter- | attack and raise every possible time- | consuming obstacle. The sole hope of those tried fight- ers against the fresh, increasing| weight of men and machines against them was that the torrential rains of the mid-May monsoon would bog the Japanese down before they could shut the door to Free China. tions will make available approxi- mately 1200,000 square feet of urgently needed office space for the far-scattered personnel. The second nearly-completed sec- tion will be ready for workers June 1. Approximately 11,000 workmen |are now employed in rushing the | \economy being stripped of non-es- | sentials, rubber and other replace- ment parts cannot be allocated to U. §. Has Sent Troops courage group or multiple riding so as to obtain the greatest possible efficiency from each taxicab.” Union Heads Agree | three other sections of the builcing | ‘w completion, and like the first | two, they are expected to. be ready | To All Continents, On Plan to Seftle All The first gales and showers of the tropical storms which will| ® ’%:‘::;jh‘:f:‘l:tn i drench Burma’s valleys and spill | the rivers over their banks already| The Ordnance Department per- sonnel will be the first to occupy have come, but even the monsoon | ;'t’“‘w"el""l‘;}g’;" :v!h:": T)::di;!u:::é | section A tomorrow. About 600,000 from Mandalay joins the mountain- | Square feet of space is available in ous Burma road to China. this practically completed section The Paris radio broadcast a Tokio but occupancy will be gradual. This report last night that one Japanese |is to prevent any general disorder, column had swarmed over the Shan | Gen. Somervell explained, and to Roosevelt Reveals Several Hundred Thousand Stationed on Widespread Fronts, Nation Told (Text on Page A-8.) Jurisdiction Disputes Mediation and Arbitration Procedure Will Be Used For Duration of War By the Associated Press, overseas in increasing numbers and ing ‘cities who said great blocks of | Mountains into Lashio. There was |allow the cafeteria to function The presidents of the A. F. L. quantities of vital war equipment |houses crumbled under the blasts have been received from ships orig- |and became tinder for incendiary inally destined for the Dutch East bomb showers. Indies. Fire-fighters were reported vir-| “Supplies of modern United States | tually helpless, with bomb-wrecked aircraft have made possible rein- forcement of our northern air bases, resulting in constant raiding of Jap- anese bases in New Guinea, New Britain and Timor.” Cordial Welcome. Mr. Curtin gave a cordial welcome to United States forces which re- cently have landed in New Caledo- nia and declared that “MacArthur's | directive provides that the combined | resources of our Allies and our- | selves will be devoted to the pro- | tection of the military regions ot Australia as bases for future of-| fensive action against Japan.” By the occupation of bases in the Bolomon Islands, he declared, the | Japanese indicated that they were “reaching toward our sea-borne communications with America.” The Prime Minister also dis- closed that Australia was awaiting the views of the Soviet government concerning the best form for an exchange of representation Mr. Curtin asserted that Aus- tralia was preparing to take the offensive against the Japanese even in the face of an invasion threat which she regards as constant and undiminished. “Notwithstanding Japanese losses in aircraft and shipping at New Guinea and elsewhere, the com- monwealth governmer regards an outright attack on Q\Nra]xa as a " (See AMERICANS, Page A-6.) British Bombing Policy Same, Sinclair Says B3 'he Associated Press. LONDON, April 29 —Sir Archi- bald Sinclalr, secretary of state for air, told a cheering House of Com- mons today that Britain's bombing policy, exemplified by raids on Luebeck and Rostock, remained the same as always, “to destroy the enemy capacity to make war.” The air secretary’s statement was in answer to a question by Labosite Rhys Davies whether the intensi- fied bombings meant a departure from Britain’s previously declared policy of attacking only military objectives. When Davis also asked Sinclair if he had seen pictures of non-military destruction in the German city of Luebeck, members interrupted with cries of “What about Bath?” The government’s policy, Sinclair declared, is “to destroy the enemy capacity to make war by bombing his war factories, means of trans- port and military stores wherever they may be found.” The ports of Luebeck and Rostock, he pointed out, supply the German fronts in Finland and Russia, Ros- tock is the home of the Heinkel sircraft works and Luebeck is the | @ite of a submarine training school. A q factories catching fire again 1ndi again. R. A. F. planes dived low, firing cannon and machine guns at fire- men and policemen, preventing them from doing effective work. Refugees Reach Berlin. Reports reaching here said the first refugees from the port and war industry center had reached Berlin after towns nearer by were overcrowded with families which fled from the devastation. “Enormous fires left practically the entire center of the town a heap* of ashes,” Exchange Tele- graph reported in a dispatch from Zurich. “The number of dead far exceeds the Luebeck figure.” Luebeck was said to have been | 40 per cent destroyed by R. A. F. | attacks. Looters Are Hunted. The Stockholm correspondent of the Daily Express said roads lead- ing south of Rostock were choked with tens of thousands of refugees. He reported that firefighters still were at work in the city yesterday, | the day after the last of the raids, and said “flames were still leaping hundreds of feet. from the Heinkel | (aircraft) and Neptune (shipbuild- ing works, and looters were being hunted in the ruins of the almost deserted city.” The News-Chronicle reported that passengers on a plane which flew from England to Stockholm said the red glow from burning Rostock “was plainly visible” as the plane skirted the Kattegat, 250 miles away. Berlin Populace Aroused By Rostock, Luebeck Raids BERN, April 29 () —Berlin street- cars and subway trains are buzzing with talk about the nightly R. A. F. attacks on German cities and the “man on the street is fully awake to the serious effects of these bomb- ings,” the Berlin correspondent of the Basel National Zeitung reported last night. He said Berliners were greatly ex- cited because of the repeated bomb- ing of Rostock and Luebeck. The ruins of the destroyed fac- | tories in Rostock caught fire “again and again,” he reported, and British | airmen prevented German police and fire brigades from attacking the flames promptly by diving over the city, “fighting with machine-guns and cannon against every gathering of men.” A military spokesman in Berlin was quoted as threatening that if the British bombed Stralsund, “ap- propriate objectives” would be found for counterattacks on England. The Germans reported that leaflets were dropped, warning the residents of Stralsund, about 45 miles northeast of Rostock, their city would be bombed. Iy tachments were reported advancing against patrols sent out by small units of the American-Filipino forces near the southern end of the Caga- yan Valley. Panay Resistance Continues. The morning communique, first since Monday from the War De- | partment, reported that resistance | was continuing against the enemy | on Panay, where fighting was re- | ported in the vicinity of Alibunan, | a small inland town and near San | Remigio on the west coast. Large bodies of Japanese troops have been concentrated near Panay during the | last two days. | Reports of the continued bom- | bardment and air raids on the| Manila Bay fortresses came from | Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s head- quarters in Australia. Most of the air attacks during the last two days were made with dive bombers, but | these raids which have now num- bered more than 250, were slacken- ing noticeably. Artillery duels, however, continued relentlessly. It was during this | firing that the American gunners i sank the armed enemy vessel. There was no report of damage inflicted on Corregidor or the other forts by either air raids or artillery bombardment. British Cruisers Hit 43 Times, Survivors Say | By the Associated Press. CAPETOWN, Union of South Af- rica, April 29 —Surviving crewmen | of the British cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall arrived at a South African port yesterday and report- | ed their ships. sunk in the Indian Ocean early this month by Japanese | bombers. were hit 43 times and went down within 20 minutes of each other One seaman said many of his comrades were killed or wounded | by machine gun bullets as they struggled in the water. | sources, however. no confirmation of this from other | Press Closer to Railroad. | Nevertheless, the Japanese were | pressing relentlessly closer to the | railroad, and if they reached it in time not only would they close the Burma road, but they also would outflank the defense forces to the west and complete the squeeze of Mandalay from east and west. That they may succeed was indi- cated by an announcement that the Burma civil government had quit Maymyo, its temporary capital, 40 miles east of Mandalay on the rail- road, and that the Chinese were emptying Lashio of essential sup- plies. The furthest reach of Japan's tank-led spearheads on the eastern flank south of the railway was placed by the Chinese high command yes- terday at about 60 miles below Hsi- paw, a station between Mandalay and Lashio, and 110 miles from Lashio. But the Chinese said the enemy as being contained for the present n those areas and on the whole, confused front the British and Chi- nese were counterattacking fran- tically to win time. Delaying Acticn Fought. wi Twice British tanks attached to | the Chinese command hammered the Japanese at Meiktila, about 80 | miles .soufhwesn of Mandalay, and (See BURMA, Page A-3) Fireworks lgn‘itéiH-uts; 23 Mexicans Killed B3 the Associated Press. HUITZUCO, Guerrero State, Mex- ico, April 29 —Twenty-three persons burned to death and 33 were in- jured seriously today when fiesta fireworks set fire to straw huts in the village of Tlapala. Barbed wire strung around the vil- lage to keep outsiders from the fiesta fenced several hundred towns- people in the fire zone. Notice to Rural Subscribers Delivery of The Evening and Sunday Star to continued so long as Tires RURAL subscribers will be and Gasoline are available. The price to such subscribers on Rural routes, whether delivered by truck or carrier boy, will be increased from 85c to $1. Sunday, so long as service 00 per month, daily and can be maintained. The price for The Evening Star Only will be 60c per month and The Sunda; This does not affect ne; not on rural routes. y Star 10c per copy. arby suburban subscribers properly at the start. Gen. Somervell, who originally planned and supervised construction | of the new War Department Build- ing, said that admission to the site By JOHN C. HENRY. . Americans had their cost sheet | for victory today in terms of |“hard work and sorrow and | blood,” while the world stood in- and the C. 1. O. were disclosed to- | day to have agreed on a pro- cedure for settling all union | jurisdiction disputes for the duration of the war. ‘formed that the fighting forces |of this Nation already are “in actual combat over all the con- | for the time being will be entrance | No. 3, directly accessible from the | south” parking field. While con- |3 2 | struction is proceeding on the re-|tinents and all the oceans. maining section, every effort will be | made to keep the work from inter- fering with occupants of the two made challengingly clear last night | sections soon to be in use. For this| as President Roosevelt presented to | | reason, it was explained, only those | the country by radio his most em- |roads and entrances designated for | bracing accounting of what has been | office employes will be used by per- | done in less than five months at sonnel entering and leaving the site. | war—and what will be done. | Roadways Will Suffice. lflmgolh u:eflvflfi gw;fx ere + revel lons not previous! los I Gen. Somervell said that while the to the American people, nor perhaps | new road network in Arlington | known to the enemy. | County is not expected to be com- Never before, for example, had it pleted before next fall, the high- | been revealed that “American war- | ways already available are consid- ships are now in combat * * * in | ered adequate to handle the expected | the Arctic, in the Mediterranean,” | | traffic. The present highways will | 8 Well as in the Pacific and At- | | be relieved as the new arteries are | lantic: or that “American troops— | ovened for use. | several hundred thousand — have | “In a measure,” he said, “traffic | taken stations in * * * the Near | coming from Washington to the new | East. the Middle East.” as well as | War Department Building is ex- | in bases scattered over other por-| pected to equalize traffic in the tions of the world; or that “Ameri- opposite_direction to Washington.” | Can Wwarplanes, manned by Ameri- The Public Roads Administra- | €ans, are flying in actual combnt" tion will have completed at least| OVer all the continents and all the two lanes of the proposed new road 0Ceans. from Memorial avenue through the Hints at Offensive. | former Agriculture Department Ex- Arresting, too, were the Presi- | perimental Farm to the parking | dent’s hints, some bluntly forthright area located at the southwest side | and others only more slightly veiled, of the building in time for the use | that the days of purely defensive of early occupants. | tactics and constant withdrawsls by | Traffic moving toward the new | the United Nations are near the | building by the higi»way bridge will | end—that any necessary measures be turned right on Columbia pike Will be taken to prevent use of That this is only the beginning on “a tough job—and a long one” was| In brief, the agreement provides for mediation of such disputes by labor’'s representatives on the War Labor Board. If that fails, the | parties agree to resort to arbitra- tion. “Under procedure worked out with Philip Murray, president of the C. I. O, and William Green, presi- dent of the A. F. L.” said an an- | nouncement by W. L. B. Chairman William H. Davis, “all jurisdictional questions in cases coming before the War Labor Board will be re- ferred as a matter of course to the labor members of the board for adjustment. If any particular dis- pute cannot be settled by the labor members, Mr. Murray and Mr. Green will be so notified and they will thereupon promptly appoint a group or individual to make a final and binding determination of the dispute.” “Jurisdictional disputes,” the board chairman added, “have al- ways been the most difficult to settle, because of their very nature. The American people will welcome this. agreement between the two labor organizations for finally deter- | mining all jurisdictional disputes until the war is won.” The board’s press release an- nouncing the agreement also in- cluded this statement: “This agreement will dispose not only of disputes between unions af- filiated with the two national or- ganizations but also disputes be- and diverted directly into this same | French territory by the Axis, to con- parking area. Employes with homes| (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3.) in Virginia, obviously, will find tween unions within either which affect the war effort.” | their transportation problem greatly | simplified by the opening of the new office building. Renshaw Praises Co-operation. Lt. Col. Clarence Renshaw, engi- neer for the Arlington district, has | immediate supervision over con- | | struction of the huge building which | | is designed to put nearly all War | Department employes under one | roof. The occupancy of the first | section by April 30, a half year |ahead of original expectancy, was | due to the co-operation of every | one involved in the vast undertak- | ing, he said. | In this “enthusiastic co-opera- tion,” Col. Renshaw said, the Po- | | tomac Electric Power Co., Order Going in Effec (Questions and Answers on An extensive rationing progr: ernmental and private, joined wholeheartedly in rushing the work. Since the start of the project, AS the long-heralded regulation | September 15, 1941, 2,500,000 cubic | Which will put price ceilings on most | vards of earth have been excavated. commodities and services that enter | At the peak of employment 13,000 | into the daily life of the average in- | persons were engaged on the job. | dividual and on rents in defense "rhe work involved also the pouring | areas were announced yesterday by | of 225,000 cubic yards of concrete | Price Administrator Leon Hender- | and the driving of over 40,00 piles | son, he told a crowded press con- | ward off inflation. * s | for the foundation, according to the | ference that he believes rationing, ! celed out to consumers, nor on when thus far involving only, sugar, motor (See PRICES, Page A-4) engineer. -~ I Fixes Maximums at March Level (List of Items Included in Freezing Order on Page A-7.) By J. A. FOX. the | the American public as a complementary step to a vast system of Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone | Price controls affecting millions of items which the Government is Co. and other agencies, both Gov- | preparing to invoke within the next three weeks in an effort to Extensive Rationing Forecast As O. P. A. Freezes Prices t Next Month Price Order on Page A-3.) am was in the offing today for vehicles, tires and gasoline, “is bound to be on a much wider basis.” “We are bound to run into some important shortages as the war ef- fort progresses,” he added. The price administrator would Tot speculate on the commodities that are likely eventually to be par- Chairman Cannon of the Appropria- tions Committee pointed out that the biggest cut is of $18,000,000 from the $30,000,000 requested for hous- ing. This $18,000,000 was intended to be used for 4,000 family dwelling units as a start to meet an esti- | mated need of 10,000 such dwelling units. This, the committee decided |not to approve. Testimony had shown, Chairman Cannon said in his report, that private enterprise cannot finance homes for persons with incomes below $2,200 at rents which they can afford to pay and if war workers in the lower income ped. | brackets with families are to be provided dwellings they will need to be built with public funds. The committee was not convinced, how- ever, that the need will exist for these additional dwellings or that priorities can be obtained for the | essential materials for permanent structures. Facilities Here Taxed. Chairman Cannon said that the Metropolitan area of the District, which includes the adjacent coun- ties of Montgomery and Prince Georges in Maryland and Arlington and Pairfax in Virginia, has felt the impact of the war program um its housing, community facilities other municipal services perhaps more heavily than any other com- munity in the Nation. He pointed out that the Appropria- tions Committee was advised that even if the $30,000,000 for housing was approved it would fall short of indicated requirements by some $20,000,000. Por the housing program the Appropriations Committee approved the requested amount, $12,000,000, for dormitories for 15,000 single workers. It is the purpose to place such dormitories, he said, wherever possible within walking distance of the Federal buildings in which the workers are employed to relieve the strain on transportation facilities. These dormitories are intended for. persons receiving $1,800 or less, with preference given to new persons coming in to the service and working in that vicinity. All the dormitory construction is to be temporary. The appropriation is based on 7,500 units providing for two persons to a room and the rent is to be about $20 per person or $40 per room. The $12,000,000 authorized includes all furniture and furnishings for these dormitories. Chairman Cannon, in his report, urged that a study be made regard. ing “appropriate utilization and dis- tribution of the personnel tnat is al- | ready employed” before additional war workers are brought to the Cap- ital. “There is a general feeling that in | some instances personnel is being recruited and brought to Washing- ; (Continued on Page A-6, Column 1. GUIDE FOR READERS | Amusements, Comics __ Editorials Editorial Articles_ Finance Legal Notices, Foreign - Chinese hastily forming front in North Burma. Page A-1 Rostock reported virtually burned out by raiders. Page A-1 Russians report 45-mile advance in four days. Page A-§ National. President gives Nation & cost sheet for victory. Page A-1 Unions agree on plan to settle juris- dictional disputes. Page A-1 Roosevelt asks U. 8. workers to pool transportation. Page A-3 Times Square blazes despite Army dimopt order. Page A-2 Early settlement of Bethlehem Steel strike predicted. Page A-8 Washington and Vicinity. Last day for commercial users of sugar to register. Page B-1 Consumers here not affected by cream price boost. Page B-1 Miscellany Nature's Children. Page C4 Vital Statistics. Page C-4