Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 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. Readers Prefer The Star The Star’s afternoon and evening circulation is more than double that of any other Washington newspaper Its total circulation in Washington far exceeds that of any of its contem= poraries in the morning or on Sunday, Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales. Page 20. 90th YEAR. No. 35,807. WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foeninng » D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942 XX (®) Means Washington and Suburbs THRE Reds Open Drive on Entire Front; Army Storming Gates of Kharkov; German Gain in Crimea Admitted New Kerch Line Being Held; Massive Russian Attacks Paced by Air Bombing By the Associated Press. Russia declared today that her armies were storming at the gates of Kharkov, the “Pittsburgh” of the Ukraine, and other Soviet offensives were reported rolling against the Germans in the vital sectors of Leningrad, Novgorod,' Staraya Russa and Moscow. The whole 1,200-mile battleline from Leningrad to the Black Sea appared to be aflame in a series of gigantic battles which may decide the war in Europe. In the Crimea, the Russians acknowledged yielding some ground in the six-day-old battle of Kerch Peninsula, but declared the Nazi high command'’s claim of decisive victory with the capture of 40,000 Soviet prisoners was ‘nothing but a lie.” I Latest Soviet dispatches said the Russians were now holding | & Messerschmitt on my tail. & new line in good order, inflicting heavy casualties on the Germans. | The Soviet radio reported tha Ukraine armies had smashed the German first-line defenses before t Marshal Semeon Timoshenko’s | flew over my old homestead. Free Frenchman Now WithR. A. F. Raids Own Plant By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 14—Bombing and | machine-gunning their old home | towns has ceased to be anything new | for numerous Free French flyers operating with the R. A. F., but one who remained particularly glum after a raid, was quoted: “That factory we smashed the other day—I am its principal share- | holder; in fact, I practically owned ez Others told of somewhat happier | experiences. | kitchen garden,” said ome. “I wanted to go down for a look, but T was chasing a Focke-Wulf and had Still another reported: “While scouting over Normandy I I saw “Recently I was right over my own | Martinique ‘Agrees fo Keep ‘Ships From Axis | Physical Aspects of Vessels Unchanged By New Accord By BLAIR BOLLES. | French officials in Martinique have agreed to the immobiliza- | tion of French warships in Mar- tinique Harbor and to refrain from using them in any manner | | detrimental to Allied interests, a | HANDING Miss ScH: REMEMBER WHILE You ARE FOR You. —_— @@HM OUT CARDS, OOLTEACHER, IVE GOT ONE 4 Associated Press. JE CENTS Elsewhere Five Cents Ovnly Onein Four Gets 'A" Card in Gas Rationing Last-Day Rush Drains Many Dealers Of Entire Stocks Only one-fourth of Washing- ton’s motorists are being classi- fied as “non-essential,” entitled to the smallest ration of gaso- line, statistics indicated today as anxious drivers staged a big-time | “run” on the filling stations. | This was their last day to do so before Federal rationing clamps down. The drain on supplies was so great today that many station operators had to choose between in- | stituting an informal rationing sys- | tem on their own, or letting pumps | run dry. | Four hundred motorists had been ‘turned away from one station in the Northwest section by noon. ‘O!hers were limiting sales to 50 | cents, or to two gallons, inquiry | showed. Long lines of cars waited at nearly every station, and many dealers expected soon to shut up shop and go home. high authority disclosed today. | ‘The same source said that United | 2 my apple trees in good fettle. In | States-Martinique conversations be- Kharkov and were advancing on the city itself, inminently threat- | the doorway a woman waved. I'm |gun last week are still in progress, ening the key Nazi stronghold. All winter Kharkov has been ad major obstacle in the path of Soviet counterdrives. The Ger- [ mans captured it last October 25. | The Russians said masses of Red | Army reserves had gone into action | for the first time against Kharkov, and declared: “Everything is being abandoned by the Germans in great qunntmes: on the field of action.” | The Red Army reported it was | maintaining the initiative all along | the line through Bryansk, and on | the western Kalinin, northwestern Leningrad, Karelian and Arctic | fronts. | As Red troops advanced over | boggy terrain on the Leningrad front, the Red Air Force reported it was dominating the skies in that area. On the Kalinin front massed artil- lery was credited with forcing the Germans to retreat after a counter- attack. | Tanks Lead Soviet Drive. The German high command | acknowledged that the Russians were attacking repeatedly on the Donets front, where Kharkov is lo- cated. German troops were said to be resisting “strong enemy attacks | supported by tanks.” | The attack on Kharkov is no mere | diversionary action to lessen enemy | pressure on Kerch, but is the real thing, all Soviet accounts empha- | sure it was my mother.” YA o STARA | taking up other problems, and that | there is no change in the basis of | the discussions between the United States agents and Admiral Georges | Robert, the Martinique high com- | missioner. | The ships are the 22,000-ton air- craft carrier Bearn, the 10,000-ton | cruiser Emile Bertin, which is one | of the fastest cruisers in the world; the light cruiser Jeanne D’'Arc and | | several training ships. | The new pledge of immobilization in no way changes existing assur- | | ances about the physical aspect of | | the ships, whose immobilization was | arranged for in 1940. All fuel oil | | shipments to the island are under | control of the United States. Vessels to Stay Neutral. However, the new agreement does | | provide the United States with as- | | surances that the vessels will stay | neutral despite the prospective | | change in Vichy policy suggested | | by the return to power of Pierre | | Laval. |in_any scheme of Vichy-German J collaboration. | Today's announcements mean that the United States has brushed aside Laval's note which complained that the talks on Martinique con- | stitute “an extra diplomatic of- | fenstve.” 1 It was made very clear here that E the United States in this particular | question is looking to Admiral Rob- | 'Morgenthau Favors Minimum Tax on All - Filing Income Refurns $5, He Says, Would Pay For Handling Papers And Raise 100 Million BY the Associated Press. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau today advocated a mintmum tex of “several dollars™ |, {0 on Cia Gapanese reports | 81 idepends on. whetheriithe | | a review by imperial headquarters in | Government decides to uge this | | Tokio two days ago, asserted the| means of saving rubber, and| damaged— | that there was no reason to| on every one who files an income tax return. Under existing laws, millions of people whose personal exemptions and other deductions exceed their income pay no tax at all, even though they have to file retuins. Secretary Morgenthau said his xperts were studying the constitu- tionality of the proposal, and, if e: The ships will not be used | they found & legal method of hav- | ing such a minimum, he would ask | Congress to enact it. | Later, Randolph Paul, top Treas- ury tax expert, sent word to the | press there was “no question that such a proposal would be constitu- | tional.” Mr. Paul said questions of | legality could be avoided by calling | the special minimum tax an “ex- cise” instead of an “income” tax. | George’s Backing Seen. Jap Claims in Coral Sea Exaggerated, Nazi Says By the Associated Press. BERLIN (From German Broad- | casts), May 14.—Rear Admiral Luetzow, German naval spokesman, said today in a weekly talk over the Berlin radio that first Japanese reports of the Coral Sea naval bat- | tle had greatly exaggerated Allied losses. Luetzow cited specifically the re- | ported sinking of the British battle- | ship Warspite, but said “such errors | were promptly put right in later | Japanese reports.” | Warspite had been whereas the British Admiralty had | said the Warspite had neither been sunk nor damaged. D. C. Merchants May ‘Ask Longer Hours 'For Woman Workers | Critical Shortage Exists As Draft, Agencies Take In the first two days of issuing ration cards, Tuesday and yesterday, only 25,082 A cards were distributed, }Rubber Seen by Ickes 'As Cause fo Extend Gas Ration Program New Pipeline Held Only Hope for Lifting Present Restrictions in East | | | Petroleum Co-ordinator Ickes | said today that any expansion of | gasoline rationing areas gener- broaden restricted areas now “from a petroleum point of view.” He added that the construction of the New York-Philadelphia area was the “only sure solution I can see at the moment” for the Eastern petroleum shortage, and announced a new application for steel for such the War Production Board. In another development growing out of the rationing program, which goes into effect at midnight, it was Teported at the Office of Price Ad- ministration that there is a possi- bility of a checkup on gasoline reg- a 1,500-mile pipeline from Texas to | | 2 line would be sent forthwith to | out of a total of 98,066, figures com- piled today showed. Final Day to Register. | Weary school teachers, who are | beginning to wonder if they will ever | g0 back to just teaching school, launched the final day of gasoline rationing registration this morning. With an extra five hours pro- vided for the registration windup, District officials were confident they would be able to accommodate the remaining unenrolled motorists be- fore the doors of the 28 school regis- tration centers are closed for the | last time at 8 p.m. All public schools were dismissed for the day and registration got under way at 10 am. five hours earlier than on the two previous days. A total of 48329 motorists re- | ceived ration cards yesterday—or | 1,408 fewer than on Tuesday. Comparing the two days, it was | Mrs. Roosevelt Gets ‘A’ Card for Gas Despite Her Travels Mrs. Roosevelt, who likes to travel about the countryside in a convertible coupe, today in- terrupted her press conference to sign up for gas rationing. She got an A card for her own r, entitling her to three gal- lons of gasoline a week. A White House usher es- | The Secretary pointed out that a| Help, House Group Told | similar tax has been proposed by | | Chairman George of the Senate| sized. Masses of reserves who have been training just behind the front have | ert and not to Vichy for an arrange- | ment. istrations to determine if action can corted a woman registrar to be taken against applicants who Draft boards and Government | At Fossevalbx (it it gone into action for the first time, | and assembled tanks and artillery are striking at the Germans after a pre-attack bombardment of Nazi airdromes in the southwest zone, the Russians said. The broad drive across the Ukrainian plains overshadowed both the German advance in the narrow Kerch peninsul and a new, vigorous Russian campaign in the north for the further relief of besieged Len- ingrad. Airacobra and Tomahawk planes from the United States, Hurricanes from Britain, and both American and British-made tanks are playing big roles in the Kharkov and Len- ingrad offensives. Shipment of American supplies has lately increased in volume, and British materials have been going to Russia throughout the winter. Cities Reported Taken By Nazis. In the Kerch fighting the Ger- mans were reported by the Swiss radio, quoting the Rumanian high command, to have taken the cities of Kerch and Takil, thus reaching the gateway to the great Caucasus oil fields. Kerch lies across a nar- row strait from the Caucasus This report, which also was broad- GIANT BATTLES FLARE ON 1,200-MILE FRONT—Arrows locate the massive attacks reported developing today on the Russo- German front. White arrow in effort to conquer all of the K Caucasus. dicates thrust by Germans in an erch Peninsula, gateway to the Black arrows the Russian smash at Kharkov and reported massive Russian attacks in the Leningrad and Staraya Russa areas. —A. P. Wirephoto. Allied Bombers Blast Three Jap Ships in 1,300-Mile Raid Amboina Docks Fired; Rabaul Attack Centers On 15 Enemy Planes cast by the Vichy radio, found no ' py (nhe Associated Press. confirmation in Berlin, which merely reported that “the port of Kerch and shipping concentrations in these waters were successfully bombed.” Adolf Hitler's headquarters as- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, May 14—Lashing out suddenly at the western flank of the Japanese invasion bases gerted that German troops in the horth of Australia, Allied bomb- Crimea had won a smashing victory ers last night sank a 3,000-ton on the Kerch Peninsula and were Japanese ship at the former now relentlessly pursuing the “de- feated” Russian Army The Soviet Information Bureau said a “fierce La'tle continued on the Kerch Peninsula. Neither Axis nor Russian dis- patches definitely disclosed the cur- rent site of the fighting, but the invaders apparently still were 30 or 35 miles from Kerch, the strait port that is a nerve center of the Soviet defense system before the oil-rich Caucasus. Heavy Fighting Around Leningrad. Stmultaneously, a Vichy (French) | the Battle of the Coral Sea has not | Dutch island of Ambonia and damaged two others, Gen. Doug- las MacArthur’s headquarters announced today. At the same time other Allied air raiders attacked Rabaul, New Britain, on the enemy's opposite flank, plastering shipping in the harbor and raining explosives on 15 Japanese bombers surprised on the airdrome runway, said The new Allied blows emphasized warnings by Australian leaders that broadcast said the Russians had ended the peril facing this continent launched “massive attacks,” paced | and that only continued assaults on | by violent aerial bombing, against the whole vast network of Japanese the German armies at Staraya Rus- bases to the northwest and north- sa and Novgorod, about 120 miles| east can avert invasion. south of Leningrad. A Pressing an apparently major at- tempt to break out of long-besieged round-trip fiight of more than 1300 | Leningrad, Red Army troops were M said to have crumpled the first Ger- man lines and captured many im- portant positions in the secondary lines in a continuing advance. The attack on Amboina, former Dutch naval base, represented a iles for Allied raiders attacking from Northwestern Australia. The island, situated between New | Guinea and Celebes, is 650 miles | northwest of Darwin and about an The Russian Baltic fleet has left | equal distance southeast of Davao, its base at Kronstadt, near Lenin- grad Finland,” where the Japanese bpse on the Philippine and is cruising in the Gulf of | island of Mindanao. battleship | Amboina thus is strategically sit- a communique | Two Killed, 10 Hurt In Texas Hotel Fire By the Associated Press. WICHITA FALLS, Tex., May 14.— Two men leaped to their deaths from | the top floor of the Texan Hotel to- | day as flames leveled the seven-story | structure. Ten other guests were injured, none seriously. The dead were identified as W. W. | Collier, 52, Fort Worth, and Chester F. Windell, 47, Dallas. | The fire spread to the Studio | Hotel, a four-and-a-half story ad- Jjoining structure, but was believed under control in midmorning. Thousands of Can;Eians Reach Camps in England By the Associated Press. SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, May 14.—Thousands of fresh Cana- dian troops newly landed from an Atlantic convoy reached camps in Southern England for advanced training and the Canadian PFirst Army moved a step nearer its final shape today Among them were formitions of an armored division commanded by Maj. Gen F. F. Worthington and the largest air force group, equally divided between ground and air crews, ever to make the crossing. They expect the Canadian Army to become a spearhead of Britain's invasion forces and some came ashore shouting, “You can start the war now that we've arrived.” | | The flat statement that this Gov- | ernment is dealing with Admiral Robert takes the edge off the at- name of Vichy that the ships at Martinique will be immobilized—a | pledge which the Vichy note said Laval is ready to make. Hull Talks With Rooesevelt. at length with President Roosevelt at the White House today, and it | was believed the problem of Mar- tinique entered into the discussion. Brazilian Ambassador Martins | called on Undersecretary of State Welles at the State Department amid suggestions that the question of French Guiana, French colony in northern South America, neighbor- ing on Brazil, is a matter for dis- cussion among the American re- publics. | The actual negotiations concern- | ing Martinique were begun by Ad- miral J. H. Hoover and Samuel | Reber of the State Department | Saturday under the personal direc- | tion of President Roosevelt. Details of the “arrangement” pro- posed to Admiral Robert by the American mission have not been made public. However, authorita- | tive quarters have said its purpose | is the protection of French Carib- bean possessions “from domination | and control by the common enemy.” } The necessity of such an arrange- | ment was made urgent, the State Department indicated in its an- nouncement of the mission to Mar- tinique Saturday, by “the collab- oration policy of M. Laval.” |Vichy Refuses to Turn Over | Merchant Ships to U. S. BERN, Switzerland, May 14 (®). —The Vichy government was re- | ported today to have advised Wash- | ington it was ready to immobilize | for the duration of the war French warships now stationed at Mar- tinique, but that it could not hand over to the United States merchant | ships berthed there. This course of action had been suggested vesterday by the Paris press, and the reported Vichy stand was regarded as an attempt to com- promise on demands on Martinique said to have been submitted by the United States. The French warships now sta- " (See MARTINIQUE, Page A-4) | | May Have to B Mrs. Roosevelt told her press con- ference today how she is meeting | rationing of gasoline, sugar and Marat has shelled German positions | uated as a springboard for a possible | travel. along the coast, the British radio| Japanese invasion thrust. said. The Russian warships had been | ;. held at Kronstadt by ice, which now | o4 has disappeared, the broadcast said. | dire Reds Drive Toward Smolensk. | Amboina Harbor, Fierce action was reported, t0o, on | set fire to docks. the Moscow front, with the Russians driving toward the big German winter base at Smolensk, 230 miles west of the Soviet capital. (Bee RUSSIA, Page A-4) At Rabaul, " headquarters declared. frequent target of | Allied raids, three of the 15 enemy bombers surprised on the airdrome way blew up and others were “The days of fierce new bumes:;!,;.ugd it no? wholly destroyed, | So far, she has had no sugar prob- | their own sugar, and the Roosevelts themselves use so little that they have had enough for their personal guests. Mrs. Roosevelt let it be known, however, that when she runs out ‘of sugar in her New York apart- ment or at Hyde Park, the guests | without. will have to bring their own or do ‘Roosevelts’ Personal Guests ring Own Sugar She said she made a point of al- | l-ways asking guests how much sugar | they wanted and “if theyre im- | portant enough I fill their orders.” With her own children, however, In eadition to sinking one vessel | lem because official entertaining is| She behaves differently. On the first the Allied | provided for, the servants bring lers were said to have scored ct hits on one ship of 3,000 tons ‘ and another of 2,000 tons. They also | day of their visit, she said, “I treat | them very well, but after that they g0 on short rations.” Apparently the prospect of travel rationing will necessitate some change in plans for the much- traveled President’s wife. The first curtailment, she thinks, will come in luxury provisions for travel, and she's perfectly willing to ride the (See MRS. ROOSEVELT, Page A-2.) tempt by Laval to pledge in the | | Finance Committee, who calls it an “examination fee,” because it would reimburse the Treasury for the ex- pense of examining otherwise non- | taxable returns. At one point in the press confer- ence in which he revealed the pro- | posal, Secretary Morgenthau sug- |gested $5 as a suitable minimum, {could collect $100,000000 a year through this method. “use it,” he commented. Morgenthau Converted. Secretary Morgenthau said the committee’s action yesterday in vot- |ing to reduce personal income tax exemptions on a scale differing from | Washington Taxpayers' Association, | deliveries proposed that the Minimum Wage | Oregon and Washington. Deliveries | Tuesday. | in the two States already have been | | his own suggestions were acceptable to him. He explained this sudden reversal of position came after he saw secret Labor Department studies indicat- ing persons in low-income groups | had a much larger proportion of the purchasing power of the Nation than he formerly suspected. This, he explained, made it seem necessary to remove through extra | taxes some of the money that could | be used to bid up prices of commod- | ities. Although declining to discuss further President Roosevelt’s pro- posal to limit individual incomes | to $25,000 a year, after payment of taxes, the Secretary revealed that | the Treasury is about to use some | existing powers to prevent corpora- tions from giving excessive salary | raises to their officials. | Would Prevent Abuses. ‘While this power could not, he | said, be used to reduce normal cor- | porate saleries, regardless of their | level, Treasury could keep corpora- | tions from decreasing their own taxes by spending their profits on | big pay increases for their higher officials. The Secretary also mentioned that he believed it was unfair not to | require a farmer to pay income tax on the value of his produce that he consumes on his own farm, just | the same as the produce he sells | at the market. He added, however, | that he planned no steps to change | this situation. | _ Noting that the House Ways and | Means Committee rejected his re- | quest for modification of the in- | come tax law on depletion of oil | wells and other wells and mines, the | Secretary said he would renew his request in the Senate. Mr. Morgenthau said sales of War bonds so far this month were run- ning ahead of the $600,000,000 quota (See TAXES, Page A-4.) Commons War Debate Scheduled by Cripps By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 14—Sir Stafford | Cripps told the House of Commons today that a war debate would be held the first and second days of the next series of sittings. Whether Prime Minister Churchill takes part in the discussion, the Lord Privy Seal said, will depend on the war and on the Prime Min- ister. When the next series of sittings ' will open was not announcec. - } agencies have taken such a “tre- mendous” number of employes critical labor shortage exists | which may compel District em- | ployers to ask that the eight- | hour-a-day law for woman | workers be relaxed for the dura- Secretary of State Hull conferred | and estimated that the Treasury | tion, the McGehee District House | Subcommittee was told today. Ringgold Hart, counsel for the “That's a tidy sum and we can Merchants and Manufacturers As-| | sociation, and Joseph C. McGar- | raghy, attorn ers, emphasized this situation. | Urges Board Be Abolished. | Rufus S. Lusk, president of the Board be abolished and a trained | administrator be substituted. | “This is an opportune time to | reorganize this antiquated District machinery,” Mr. Lusk said. Both Mr. Hart and Mr. Mec- | Garraghy opposed the bill urged by | the Minimum Wage Board which ‘wou]d require employers to post | work schedules of women employes. | They said that the labor problem | more troublesome and acute all the | time.” They added, “We may have | to ask for some relief for the dura- | tion.” Mr. McGarraghy said that the | proposed measure would “impose un- | reasonable burdens on employers during a critical period.” | ‘Work-Hour Changes. | Mrs. William Kittle, chairman of | the Minimum Wage Board, said that only 24 cases of work-hour violations have been carried to the court in the four years by the board. She estimated that at least 100 of the “worst kind of violations” should have been prosecuted during that period if the board had had better law enforcement machinery. Chairman Dan R. McGehee, Dem- | ocrat of Mississippi and other mem- | bers of the subcommittee advised | that the board might investigate | violations by checking on time slips and time clock schedules of work hours that employers are now re- quired to keep. from local merchants that a| |in the District stores “is getting | | have flouted rationing regulations | plies in excess of legitimate needs. Expanded Rationing Studied. | Mr. Ickes statement came as con- possibility of Nation-wide rationing of transportation and extension to the rest of the country by July 1 of the gasoline rationing program, which at the outset affects 17 States and the District of Columbia. Meanwhile, an authoritative source | was quoted by the Associated Press | would be inaugurated in the Pacific | Northwest, probably by June 1, when | the 50 per cent curtalment order for becomes * effective in | cut a third. | _Asked how long he thought gas- oline rationing would last, Mr. Ickes | responded, “How long do you think | the war will last?” And added: “The best we can do is accept the fact we have rationing, and we have to go along with it, perhaps indefinitely.” | Told that Texas had delayed ac- ceptance of recommendations on crude oil production curtailments, Mr. Ickes told newspapermen that if that State failed to comply, “we could ask W. P, B. to issue an order, which would provide penalties.” He expressed the opinion that such an order could be enforcible against the Texas Railroad Commission and oil producers. Indications of punitive action by the O. P. A. against motorists who averstated their needs coincided with reports from the rationing area indicating that the demand for B and X cards calling for excess sup- plies was exceeding pro-rationing estimates. It was made clear, how- ever, that officials did not know just what could or might be done. Conviction for falsifying an ap- plication carries a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for 10 years or both and in at least one city— Boston—the United States attorney was threatening “100 per cent” pros- (See O. P. A, Page A-4) 'Huge Military P Plans for a huge Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard | parade in Washington on Memorial | Day were divulged today by Secre- | tary of War Stimson. { He declared the purpose was to | give Washingtonians an opportu- nity to see the armed forces and some of their various components, an opportunity denied them at the recent Army Day observance. Secretary Stimson did not dis- close the actual number of troops to participate. Tentative plans are for the parade to form at Delaware avenue and march along Constitu- tion avenue to Seventeenth street. Its component parts will include in- fantry units, parachutists, field ar- tillery with its big 105 and 155 mm. guns, light and medium tanks, special Negro units, all classifica- ) For Capital on Memorial Day arade Planned tions of Army motorized vehicles, and engineer troops. In addition to the Army units, Mr, | Stimson said, there will be a detach- ment of sailors and marines, three companies of the Coast Guard | forces, and in special recognition of | the day, a remnant of the few re- | maining men of the Grand Army of | the Republic. Bearing in mind President Roose- velt's admonition that these are the times when more martial music should be heard, the plans for the Memorial Day parade include the Army, Navy and Marine Bands, famous throughout the country, as well as the invidiual musical groups of various units. ‘The hour of the parade, which will be one of the largest Washington | by procuring cards calling for sup- | gressional cireles speculated on the | ence and Mrs. Roosevelt promptly signed the card. It was the usher who an- nounced how much gasoline Mrs. Roosevelt would be en- titled to. evident that yesterday saw a greater run on B-2 and B-3 cards. The :other types showed a drop. The successful demand for X cards, however, was only slightly less than the day before. Yesterday ‘5.606 were issued, compared to 5,857 ey for District employ- | as saying that rationing by cards | °® Tuesday. Of A cards, 11,221 were issued | yesterday, compared to 13,861 on Tuesday. Other figures are: B-1 cards, 4946 yesterday; 5581 B-2 cards, 7,197 yesterday; 6,750 | Tuesday. B-3 cards, 19,345 yesterday; 17,673 | Tuesday. The effect of the big demand for B cards on the rationing machinery probably was demonstrated best at | Woodrow Wilson High School. Out of 195 registrars on duty there, | Principal Norman J. Nelson found ‘he needed only between 16 and 30 to work on applications for A cards. A dozen others were assigned to | handle requests for X cards and for | cards for boats. The other regis- trars, more than 150 of them, were |~ (See GASOLINE, Page A-3) \German Storm Troopers |Reported Called Home | | By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 14.—Tass, official Soviet news agency, said today that according to Stockholm reports from the German frontier, German storm troopers were being called home from the front and new units were being formed and given intensive training in street fighting because of Nazi fear of serious internal disturbances. It said these forces back in Ger- many were placed at 1,500,000 men, but actually were believed to be even more numerous. They are be- ing issued new armament, including large numbers of machine guns, the report continued. It said German discontent had not been appeased by a statement from Viktor Lutke, storm trooper chief of staff, that his men had taken an active part in front-line fighting since the start of the war. Churchill Opponents Organize New Party BY the Associated Press. LONDON, May 14 —Several mem- bers of Parliament today announced | formation of a new political party called the People. While its announced policy is to abolish “inefficiency” in politics, the identity of the members suggested it was largely opposed to Prime Min- ister Churchill. The party is headed by W. G. Brown, independent, who recently defeated the government candidate in Rugby; Capt. Alec Stratford Cunningham - Reid, Conservative, has seen in recent years, jas not yet been arranged. and Edgar Louis Granville, Liberal National.