Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Cloudy and colder, preceded by light rain today, colder tonight; 3:30 pm.; lowest, 32, at 5 From the United St Full deta — — tes Weather Bu s on Page A- tomorrow fair. ‘Temperatures yesterday—Highest, 49, at am, ireau report. No. 1,823—No. 34,998. Reported Taken in Viipuri Drive; Hitler Revives 'Gott Mit Uns' Cry Trapped in a Red Air Raid 12 Big Tower Guns? Captured, Russian Communique Says ALLIES' CONFIDENCE IN ITALY shown by troop dispositions, says Maj. Eliot; forces weakened at several points to put 250,000 in Syria. Page A-3 MUSSOLINI EXPECTED TO DE- LAY giving Welles views on war; may wait until American has visit- ed London, Paris and Berlin. Page A-4 FOREIGN EXCHANGE CONTROL is projected by Sweden; Riksdag meeting today to act to halt flow of gold abroad. Page A-7 “PARALLEL” ACTION on neutral- ity seen for Scandinavia; Nor- wegian and Danish Ministers hold preliminary talks. Page A-7| By the Associated Prese MOSCOW, Feb. 25 (Sunday).— The occupation of the strongly for- ‘tified islands of Koivisto, Tiurin- saari and Piisari, with the capture of 12 heavy coastal tower guns, was claimed today by the Russian Army in a communique issued by the Len- ingrad military headquarters. The communique said that while fighting yesterday Soviet troops “oc- cupied the islands of Koivisto (Bjorkoea), Tiurinsaariand Piisaari, strongly fortified with iron and con- crete forts. “Twenty-two guns, including 12| heavy coastal 10 and 6 inch tower | guns and field and zenith guns and a great number of heavy machine guns and dumps of munitions, were captured on these islands.” (Finland’s communique covering fighting on last Friday said the Russians had launched attacks from the regions of Koivisto, the western anchor of the Finnish Mannerheim Line, and Kaishlahti against Fin- nish positions on islands in the Bay of Viipuri.) 28 Fortifications Captured. mg‘gml Reporter on Back i Death Full in Face By LELAND STOWE, Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent, SORTAVALA, Eastern Finland, Feb. 23 (Delayed).—What does it feel like to look a falling bomb straight in the face? 1 have wondered about that for the past six months. No need to speculate about my possible reactions any more. With the vividness of a nightmare, I know how it feels to look a bomb in the face—certainly all that I ever cared to know about it. By the exact margin of 71 very short paces, ' I can sit here, wiser, but unscathed, and still tingle with a series ations which will be quits of sel in a lifetime. Until today I was one of those who rather marvelled at the seem- ingly unnecessary speed with which people in the small Finnish towns always dash for the shelters, or the neighboring woods, when the air alarms sound. Tonight I am cured once and forever of my ignorant boldness and my studied casualness. Hereafter, the only thing that will annoy me about anyhpdy’s air alarm conduct will be if he can hike for safety faster than I can. Even if remarkably educational, it is ex- tremely unpleasant to lie on the ground looking up at a bunch of five bombs which are apparently coming directly down upon you. 160 Bombs Poured on Town. This was not the official schedule | of the Odyssey upon which Wade | Werner of the Associated Press and myself unwittingly embarked when he 3 undi ITH DAILY EVENING EDITION far WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 25 1940—120 PAGES. *# Three Fortified Finnish Islands n Snow Stares as Bombs Fall for several years, and especially enough if they come only once we set out from Helsinki for Sor- tavala. After two nights and one day, it looked as if the Russian bombers had us boxed for good. This morning, when at last our train crawled into the village of B near the western coast of -Lage Ladoga, we saw some of the explanation. The Soviet planes had raided B five times in three hours last night and had poured down 160 bombs upon it. The station was a sad-looking spectacle, | and many of the streets too. | At 11 o'clock this morning we were | sitting in the Sortavala train; had | been sitting there for an hour, in fact, waiting for it to start. Then the engine whistles began shrieking, one after another for miles along the track. It was another air raid warn- | ing, the second of the day. Every- | (Continued on Page A-3, Column 2.) 'Chamberlain Bars Peace With Present German Government Pledges Allied Fight Turkey Mobilizes givilians in New Emergency Plans Newspapers Predict * Friendship With - | the earth should have everything. | have blessed* us only to drop us Soviet, Italy and Japan Reaffirmed (Text of Adolf Hitler's speech on Page A-4.) By the Associated Press. MUNICH, Feb. 24—Adolf Hitler cried out tonight that Germany will fight “until the terror of the plutoc- racies has been broken,” declared the “three mighty states” of Russia, Italy and Japan to be his friends and proclaimed his trust that God is with him and his Nazi Reich. To his old’ guard, in an hour's speech broadcast over the world, the Fuehrer asserted “the hand of Providence” saved him from death in a bomb explosion in this very city last November 8 and declared the same Providence “has especially blessed us” for six years. Sounding the World War battle cry of Imperial Germany—“Gott mit Uns"—the Fuehrer shouted that Germany was fighting against “the idea that one or two peoples of God didn't make the world for Eng- lishmen alone * * *” “Do you think Providence would now?” he asked. “* * ¢ There is a God—he creates people with equal rights.” “Stronger Than 1914 Reich.” No Accurate Figures Available | On Relief Needs, Bondy Says Welfare Chief Doesn’t Know How Much Money He Needs for First of a Series. Today's Germany, he said, is stronger in every way than the im- perial Reich of 1914—but, especially in its leadership. Preceded by the blood-stained flag which headed his marchers in the beer cellar putsch of 1923 and surrounded by old party fighters, | Hitler came to Munich's Haufbrau Hall tonight to commemorate the founding of the Nazi party and its adoption of a 25-point program 20 years ago. It was his first speech in Munich By JAMES FREE. No one knows how many Washington residents are destitute and in need of public or private No one knows how many persons on District are no longer eligibie for such ai No one can give the District taxpayer assuranc getting his money’s worth so far are concerned. No one knows how much money would be required to provide an | “adequate” public relief program in | Washington. In short, things that are not known about the public relief sit- uation here present as great a o‘_su; expenditures for public relief Adequate Program agency relief. unhllc relief rolls in the e that he is| because our public assistance divi- | sion staff has had neither the time | nor the facilities to obtain a compre- | hensive picture ef the local needs. Our case workers are handling an EVENING AND DELIVERED IN CITY AND SUBURES Single Copy 10 Cents SUNDAY 75 CENTS MONTH Sea Scouts Rescue 4 When Army Plane Noses Info River Flyers Extricated From Amphibian In Anacostia (Pictures on Page B-1.) An Army amphibian plane nosed | over in attempting to land on the Anacostia River off Buzzards Point | yesterday, but its four occupants escaped with minor cuts, bruises and a wetting when five Sea Scouts took their 16-foot whaleboat, supplied by the Red Cross, on its first rescue mission. Roosevelf Race With Garner in [{linois Assured Bankhead Urges President to Reveal Third-Term Plans By G. GOULD LINCOLN. Roosevelt against Garner—Presi- dent against Vice President—in the Illinols presidential preferential primary on April 9 was assured when the deadline for withdrawals passed at midnight last night. No word came from the President or his backers, according to dispatches from Springfield, Il Unless the decision of the Illinois Secretary of State should be upset by action of the State Certifying Board, last nignt stands as the last moment for withdrawals. The board will meet March 5. Included in its membership are the Governor and attorney general. While Illinois presents this con- test in the Democratic preference primary, Thomas E. Dewey of New York remains the sole outstanding figure in the Republican race there. Neither Senator Taft of Ohio nor Senator Vanderberg of Hlinois was willing to enter the primdry. Mayor La Guardia of New York, whose name was entered by a mysterious “client” of the Ross Federal Re- search Corp. of New York, withe drew at the 11th hour. Dewey’s Following Large. Mr. Dewey, according to reports brought here by Republican leaders from Illinois at the time of the G. O. P. National Committee meet- ing a week ago, has a large follow- ing in the State. “Dewey would defeat any of the other presidential aspirants 3 to 1 in the Illinois primary,” was thé comment made by one of these | party leaders. | Mayor La Guardia, whose with- drawal statement in New York in- | dicated he was again backing Presi- dent Roosevelt in a presidential race, would have been snowed under by | the Dewey vote in Illinois, it was | predicted. His declaration for Mr. | Roosevelt in the primary appears to | have removed him effectually from |any further consideration as a | since the Burgerbrauhaus explosion | problem as do the sober facts that |wrecked the scene of the original | are on the record. beer cellar plot and killed eight per-| These assertions do not come sons shortly after Hitler had left. from uninformed critics or carping On the eve of United States Un- | outsiders. They were made by Rob- | dersecretary of State Sumner |ert E. Bondy, director of the Dis- Welles' arrival in Furope for a |trict's Board of Public Welfare. feeling out of possible ways to puce,! “If,” said Mr. Bondy, “congres- | average of 190 cases each, as com- | pared with the Social Security Board's recommendation of an av- erage case load of 100, so naturally | they cannot do as complete an in- vestigation and advisory job as would | be desirable in all cases.” Known factors in the current pub- lic welfare situation include: Republican candidate—if he ever had any chance for such considera- tion. Representative Hamilton Fish, Re- publican, of New York advised Il- linois officials yesterday that he did The Sea Scouts had just launched | a catboat at the Corinthian Yacht Club when they saw the plane strike | the surface. They manned the| whaleboat under direction of Scout- | master Frederick Tilp and reached 1 the stricken craft ahead of Navy | not “choose to run” asa presiqentm crash boats dispatched from the op- | candidate in the Illinois primary. posite shore. | His decision was announced in a Until Satisfied That War Is Certain; ‘Freedom Is Safe’ Russian Oil Target BY the Associated Press. | ¥ the Associated Press. asserted | - LONDON, Feb. 24.—Prime Min-, ISTANBUL, Feb. 25 (Sunday).— g | ister Chamberlain today flatly ruled | Taking steps amounting virtually to | Unfavorable weather held the | oyt any peace with the present Ger- | civil mobilization, Turkey today ap- Boviet airplanes to reconnoltering‘ man government as incapable of | olied new emergency measures as the Russian troops captured 28 Fin- nish defensive fortifications on the Karelian Isthmus, the communique | added. However, a strong snowfall | and fog handicapped operations, it the Fuehrer gave a deflant war |sional authorities were to ask me message to his nation and to the | tomorrow to fill in a figure on a flights, the army reported. The communique: “February 24. Strong snowfall and | fog handicapped operations of Soviet troops on the Karelian Isthmus. | Soviet troops occupied on the front 28 of the enemy’s defensive forti- fications, including 19 iron and con- crete artillery forts. Artillery Reported Taken. “While fighting, the Soviet troops occupied the Islands of Koivisto | (Bjorkoe), Tiurinsaari and Piisaari, strongly fortified with iron and con- crete forts. Twenty two guns, in- cluding 12 heavy coastal 10 and § | inch tower guns, fleld and Zenith | guns, a great number of machine | successive night, ranging as far| guns and dumps of munition were | afield as Prague, capital of dismem- | captured on these islands, guaranteeing future security to { Europe. As he pledged a fight to the finish “until we are satisfied that freedom is safe,” the conflict with Germany | produced thgse results: The naval trawler Benvolio, 352- ton vessel engaged in mine sweeping, sank after hitting a mine, with 10 of her men lost. The vessel was | the 30th of the British Navy to go| down since the war began. R. A. F. Planes Over Prague. The air ministry announced Royal Air Force planes scouted deep into greater Germany for the second bered Czecho-Slovakia. Officials was regarded with increasing ap- lprehmxion in this country. | 'The Government Co-ordination | Committee, which was formed to | place industry and commerce on vir- tual wartime basis, inaugurated obligatory labor system in the Eregli | coal basin. | Under the plan, expected to be extended quickly, workers in ali in- | dustry would not be permitted to | leave their jobs. i Staff Officers Arrive. ¢ General staff officers arrived from Ankara for final steps in organiz- ing Istanbul’s defenses against any possible air and sea bombardments. | More British and French techni- possibility of wer in the Near East | world—threatening to smash any one who -seeks to deny Germany ‘her rightful living space, jeering | | at “these Chamberlains and their | !top hats,” sneering at Winston | Churchill and disdaining to reveal | | specific war aims. i He did mention his terms prior to the start of the war and de- | scribed them as modest—*'security of our living space, return of our | | colonies.” But his present price for | peace went unnamed. . | “Not Destined to Be Slaves.” | “What we are fighting against,” | { he shouted admist cries of approval, | | “Is the idea that one or two peoples | | of the earth should have ever_v'.hmg_\ God didn't make the world for blank check they would give me. if they should say to me, ‘You are the new director of public welfare and we are prepared to back you up on any amount you need—just say | how much,’ I would be forced to say, ‘I don’t know.’ “I don't know,” he explained, | dependent children (909 cases), old- In January public assistance was given in 6235 cases, most of which | involved family groups; 1,987 of these cases came under general relief, the remainder under Federal-local social security programs of aid to (8ce RELIEF, Page A-10) 8,000 Longshoremen In Southeast Poris Stage Walkout U. . District Atiorney Gets Dies Evidence On Pelley Letters Extricated from the cabin of the sinking four-place OA-9 type amphi- bian were Maj. Thomas D. White of 4514 Connecticut avenue N.W. attached to the office of the chief of the Army Air Corps here; Capt. G. W. McCoy, Bolling Field; Tech- nical Sergt. W. E. Langston, also of | Bolling Field, and Sergt. W. K. Ett- | linger, Arlington (Va). Cantonment. Plane Towed to Base. The Sea Scouts transferred the fiyers to a Navy craft, and crash boats later towed the plane, which had settled by the nose, to the Naval Air Station. Those participating in the rescue | were Richard A. Winfield, 20, Sea Scout mate, of 1020 Irving street NE.; Phillip Osborne, 16, of 1617 Seventeenth street N.W.; Joseph | telegram to Edward J. Hughes, Illinois secretary of State. Third-Term Mystery. Senator Bankhead of Alabama yesterday joined other Democrats | during the week in urging that | President Roosevelt make some statement regarding his political plans. Speaker Bankhead, brother | of the Senator, is a favorite-son candidate in Alabama. Senator Bankhead told reporters: | “The President should give ex- pression to what he is going to do. I don't think there is much dis- agreement on the point that he should make his intentions known. | It would be better for all concerned, including the President, if he would make a statement.” . Englishmen alone * * * it simply ::’n:e:;rvhfidr t:::’p EORKS the oot | cannot be that the German people | TRTEGnU newenaners predmed!"e destined to be slaves of the Last-Minute Mediation Fails in Fight for Senator Bankhead asserted that if Mr. Roosevelt should seek re- nomination, “then he can have it Pine Urged to Present Documents to Grand Tevis, 16, of 2518 Seventeenth street | N.W.; Jaok Gager, 18, of 5301 Mas- | sachusetts avenue N.W., and Ray “On other sectors of the front |Said besides Prague, points scouted | nothing of importance. Owing to ' included Kiel, Hamburg and unfavorable weather Soviet avia- Bremen. One plane made a forced | 4\ .. o reconnoitering | landing in Belgium; the crew of six | govie:” Ry tion made flights.” Finns Report 6,000 . Russians Killed B3 the Associated Press. HELSINKI, Feb. 24.—A strategi- cally spread Red Army, its dead re- ported littering the snow at the rate of 6,000 in two days, was said tonight by the Finnish high com- mand to be striking massively at only the island environs of Viipuri from | & captured coastal base only 715 miles away. From Kaislahti, nestled on the war-wrecked Gulf of Finland Rail- way just below Finland’s erstwhile second city and from Koivisto, 171, miles further south, once the west- ern anchor of Finland's Mannerheim Line, the Soviet offensive stretched out over the gulf ice to hammer at (See FINLAND, Page A-3.) Face-at-Window Mystery Solved by Burglar Killer By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Mrs. Ben- famin Hebald saw a grinning face pressed against the window of her fifth-floor apartment in Brooklyn tonight. ‘When police arrived the face was still grinning. They opened the window and a man toppled in from the fire escape, dead. ' In an adjoining building Patrol- man Herbert Miller started for his precinct station to report hav- ing fired at a burglar. Noticing fellow-patrolmen at the Hebald apartment, he went in and identi- fled the dead man as the one he shot. Mr. Miller thought the bur- glar had escaped. Berwyn Man Is Killed By Car on Boulevard A man, identified by & cousin as Charles Haker, 32, of Berwyn, Md., was killed early today when he was struck by an automobile on the ‘Washington-Baltimore Boulevard near Berwyn, Mr. Haker, who had been em- ployed by the Smith Gravel Co. at Berwyn, formerly lived four miles from Laurel, Md, on the Laurel- Bowie road. He is survived by his father, Henry Haker; two brothers. Jerome and Fred Haker, and a sis- ter, Miss Sophie Haker, all of near Laurel. Radio Programs, Page F-3 Complete Index, Page A-2 . | was arrested. The British press reported, witn- ou tofficial confirmation, that Royal Air Force planes had sunk three German submarines and a mer- chantman had rammed amd sunk | another. | The toll of merchantmen victims of the war rose with the foundering of the British steamer Royal Archer, | 2,266 tons. while being towed after | striking a mine. Address Sharp. ‘Winding up a series of pep meet- ings by cabinet ministers with an address in his\home town of Bir- mingham, the gaunt, 70-year-old Chamberlain delivered one of his sharpest fight talks of the war, Mr. Chamberlain decried Nazi aims as destruction of Britain and “domination of the world.” Britain, on the other hand, he said to the cheers of the crowd, is fighting a “crusade” for freedom and to abolish “the spirit of mili- tarism and accumulation of arma- ments which is pauperizing all Europe, and not in the least Ger- many herself.” “How in concrete terms are these aims to be secured?” he asked, and answered: “First, independence of the Poles and Czechs must be assured. “Secondly, we must have some tangible evidence that will satisfy us that any pledges or assurances given will be fulfilled. Under the present: German government there can be no security for the future.” He called Finland's fight against invading Russia a “heroic struggle” against “a gigantic and unwieldly ad- versary” and in an incisive passage on the British raid into a Norwegian (See CHAMBERLAIN, Page A-3.) A. F. L. Ready to Resume Peace Talks, Green Says President Willlam Green reiter- ated yesterday that the A. F. L. was ready to resume peace negotia- tions with the C. I. O. In a letter to a group of clergy- men who had urged renewal of peace negotiations, Mr. Green said the A. F. L. Peace Committee “stands ready to accept and con- sider any proposals designed to bring about a settlement of existing difficulties.” His letter was addressed to Msgr. John A. Ryan, director of the de- partment of social action of the National Catholic Welfare Confer- » ) ; Russia, on the Caspian Sea. between the allies and | ssia was certain, espe- | | cially if Russia becomes an impor- | | tant source of supplies. | It was asserted that in such case [ the allies would move immediately | | against the rich Baku oil fields of | Ready to Defend. The newspaper Yeni Sabah, closely connected with the Turkish government, declared: “Both the logical and legal justification al- ready exist for Britain and France to declare war on Russia.” Official quarters reiterated that Turkey was ready to fight to defend her own security. Turkey earlier had been virtually isolated by a storm which swept across Southeastern Europe, and Turkish officials had denied rumors of impending war which circulated in anxious Balkan capitals as the result of a prolonged interruption of communications. Belgian Loan Forecast BRUSSELS, Feb. 24 (#).—The Bel- gian Chamber of Deputies was told loday by Deputy Charles Jansse it must borrow about $490,000,000 next year to finance mobilization and other expenses, | leadership.” English and French.” Significantly, Hitler reverted to his early-war practice of leaving France almost out of his strictures Coming back to 1914, he intimated Germany would have won the World War had he been at the helm. The | nation’s leaders then, he declared, were “second rate.” But today— “we all know that neither militarily nor economically can Germany be defeated. The decisive thing is More than in any recent speech, the. Fuehrer claimed God as his ally —the ally of the German people. An awed hush fell over his fre- quently noisy listeners when he took them back to the night of the blast in the Burgerbrahaus and told them solemnly: “Only a few months ago, in a very special way, I experienced the hand of Providence.” Invokes Friendships. Again Hitler invoked his friend- ship with Soviet Russia and Italy, and this time he spoke in the same breath of Japan. “Three mighty nations” which were Germany's enemies in 1914 now are friendly, “benevolently neutral,” he said. This was just one of the reasons he gave why “it cannot be otherwise (See HITLER, Page A-4) i An egg a day, “heavier soup” and hot meals are on the menu of the Home for the Aged and Infirm be- ginning March 1, it was announced last night by Frank B. Haskell, superintendent. The revised and more nutritious menu, Mr. Haskell intimated, is the result of the recent unexpected visit to the institution by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the subsequent in- vestigation of the home by the Pub- lic Health Subcommittee of the House District Committee. Mr. Haskell said that in the past the more than 700 old and almost helpless inmates, because of the stringent allowances for food and maintenance at the institution, had been allowed an egg at every sev- enth meal and have not been served “heavier soups” at supper. “What do you mean by heavier soup?” asked a reporter. “Do you serve .these old people consomme?” “No,” said Supt. Haskell, “I mean that when we have bean soup there will be more beans in it; when we have pea soup thers will be more Blue Plains Inmates to Get Better Food After March 1 the House subcommittee that meals had been served cold to the in- mates. Mr. Haskell said this was more or less true because the meals were served first and the inmates were called in afterward to take their seats at the table. When they reached the table, he said, the meals were usually cold. But, beginning March 1, Supt. Haskell declared, there will be a new order of procedure. First of all, he declared, eggs are to be served at every breakfast. Scondly, he pointed out, the old folks at the home must be seated/before the meals are served so that no matter how slow an.inmate is in reaching the table, he will have & hot meal. Mr. Haskell explained that Health Department physicians as a result of recent orders had already ex- amined about 60 of the 130 bed- ridden patients in the at the home and had failed so far to find any cases of contagious diseases. He added the doctors had found two 10-Cent Wage Boost By the Associated Press. | JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 25 (Sunday).—A strike of 8,000 long- | shoremen asking wage increases went | into effect at eight Southeastern ports last midnight as last-minute mediation efforts failed. James L. Bernard, mediator from the Maritime Labor Board at Wash- ington, said V. E. Townsend, vice president of the International Long- shoremen’s Association, would ar- rive today and a conference had been scheduled for the afternoon. ‘The walkout, affecting coastwise shipping only, was voted Friday after several months of negotiations between wharf workers and ship- ping interests on a new contract. ‘The old agreement expired last Oc- tober. > Mr. Bernard said Mr. Townsend told him in a telephone conversa- tion from Charleston that many ships due in ports today would not be_unloaded. Ike Grayson, leader of the long- shoremen’s local, an American Fed- eration of Labor affiliate, explained the longshoremen who work coast- wise ships want a wage boost of 10 cents an hour so their pay will be in line with that received by wharf workers who load and unload deep- sea and intercoastal vessels. Union longshoremen in Wilming- ton, N. C.; Charleston, 8. C.; Savan- nah, Ga.; Jacksonville, Fort Pierce, Port Everglades, Miami and Tampa, Fla., are involved. Sailings Are Canceled As Strike Goes Into Effect NEW YORK, Feb. 2¢ (#).—Several coastwise sailings were canceled to- night and one shipping company placed an embargo on cargo mov- ing.out of the port of New York as 8,000 longshoremen in eight South- ern ports walked out. Clyde-Mallory Line canceled sail- ings of the Seminole, scheduled to leave Tuesday for Charleston and Jacksonville, and the Iriquois for Miami and Galveston on Wednes- day. It also put an em! 0 on cargo from New York. The new shipping impasse came slightly more than three months after the International Longshore- men’s Association (A. P. L) in New York signed an agreement ending a widespread coastal dock strike. John E. Craig, vice president of the Clyde Line, said revenues on coastwise ships had declined seri- | By the Assoctated Press. or three “doubtful” cases of in- sanity and expressed the opinion peas in it Complaints had been made before | (i A: ,” he -sdded. “The lines cannot afford expenses, 4 Jury for Action The Dies Committee yesterday | turned over to the United States | District Attorney all its information | concerning allegedly forged letters which purported to link its chair- man, Representative Dies, Democrat, of Texas, with William Dudley Pel- ley, the leader of the Silver Shirt legion. Mr. Dies himself transmitted the committez evidence to District At- torney David Pine, and asked him td present the documents to the grand jury for “appropriate action.” Meanwhile it was revealed that Attorney General Robert H. Jack- son has agreed to turn over to the Dies Committee a copy of the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation’s report of its inquiry last May into the ac- tivities of Mr. Pelley. Mr. Jackson emphasized, however, that the reports should be kept con- fidential in a letter to Representa- tive Starnes of Alabama, acting chairman of the Dies Committee. (See UN-AMERICAN, Pege A-14.) Theiss, 15, of 903 Flower avenue, Sil- ver Spring, Md. Maj. White was at the controls when the mishap occurred at the end of a routine tzaining flight. He is well known in service circles here, | having had several tours of duty in the Capital prior to his present as- signment. Went to Russia In 1934. In 1934 he became the first as- sistant military attache to be sent to Moscow after diplomatic relations had been established with Soviet Russia. Subsequently, he served for several years as assistant military attache to the United States Em- bassy in Rome and as assistant mil- itary attache for air in Greece. He is a descendant of Gen. Fran- cis Marion, “the Swamp Fox,” and John C. Calhoun. Maj. White declined to comment on the mishap last night, but a Bolling Field spokesman termed it “g minor accident in landing.” The latter officer added a board of in- quiry to attempt determination of the cause probably would be ap- pointed from among officers at the field, pointing out this was merely a routine procedure. Roosevelt Tops Garner, 841-18, In Unofficial Georgia Primary By the Associated Press. DONALSONVILLE, Ga., Feb. 24. —President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a vote of “landslide propor- tions” to head again the Democratic ticket in a make-believe Seminole County preference primary here today. ie The President was the first choice ‘of 841 voters, with Vice President John Garner second with 18. Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull re- ceived three votes, Postmaster Gen- eral James A. Farley, two; Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, two; Federa! Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, two, and Senator Walter P. George of one. The George vote was & “write-in” on the printed ballot. As a second-choice candidate, in case Mr. Roosevelt should decline a third term, Secretary of State Hull was given a substantial lead of 245. The President received only 1 vote for second choice, Mr, Farley, 154; Mr. Garner, 78; Senator Wheel- er, '11; Mr. McNutt, 9; - Senator George, 3, and former Gov. Eugene Talmadge, 1, & write-in. The vote, although unofficial and not binding in any wsy, attracted in that it was the first public actual ballot i . candidates. So keen was the local interest at 868 of the 1,500 eligible voters marked the printed ballots, a number equal to the average regu- lar 8 "’I?hmu as much interest as in a regular election,” said Chair- man Joe Johnson of the Seminole Democratic mm&" ucommm whe arranged for the vote. * has been so much talk about a pri- mary in Georgia we thought we would give our people a chance.” The President received 330 votes in the four rural precincts of the county, and 511 in the Donalson- ville town precinct. Mr. Johnson recalled that in past elections here Seminole has proved to be a sentiment sounder for the entire State. “In 1936 when we held the first primary the county voted 661 for Roosevelt and 120 for former Gov. Talmadge,” he said. ‘“Then last year Seminole lined up for Sena- tor George, first; , second, and Lawrence Camp third in the United States Senate race. They finished in that order.” Mr. Camp had the backing of President Roose- velt. in that race. Mr. Johnson said there was con- without much question.” The Ala- bama Senator added: i “People don't like second choices and as long as Mr. Roosevelt is at large in the situation there is no way for the people to make up their minds on other candidates. There can be no test of sentiment so long as the President remains silent.” First New Deal Plea. Senator Bankhead is the first New Deal Senator to suggest that Mr. Roosevelt declare his intentions. Similar suggestions were made last week by Senators Johnson, Demo- crat, of Colorado and McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada. The President’s silence has effec- tively hog-tied all other Democratic presidential possibilities — except Vice President Garner. That goes for Postmaster General James A. Farley, even though his name has been entered in the Massachusetts primary. The Democratic leaders in that State insisted they were «“for Roosevelt first” if the President should become a candidate. Neither Paul V. McNutt of Indi- ana, Federal Security administrator, nor Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, for example, have entered any contests for delegate support. Only the Vice President has turned up as a bona fide, open and above- board contestant against Mr. Roose- velt. In vain have the Garnerites en- deavored to stiffen the backbones of other potential candidates. It was the hope of the Garner supporters (See POLITICS, Page A-5.) Grocer Rings Up Dollar Profit On Holdup Harry Abelman, a grocer at 1200 G street S.W., is a good business- man. He surpassed himself last night, however, by turning in a profit on a holdup—of his own store. Mr. Abelman was alone in the store shortly before midnight when two colored men entered, ordered some groceries and handed him a dollar bill. He turned to the cash register, rang up the sale and started to hand the men - their change. At that point a gun appeared in the hand of one of the men and Mr. Abelman ducked behind -the counter, yelling for help. Members of his family hurried into the store and the robbers fled, leaving their es behind. nmeemen R. C. Redding and C. K. Talley arrived to ask . “How much did you lose?” “Lose?” replied Mr. Abelman, " "'*1 made a dollar profit ~