Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1941, Page 1

Weather Brief showers tonight and tomorrow morning; lowest tonight about 66 degrees. 4 pm; today—Highest, 84. at 6:45 am From the Daiteq S:imtes Weatner Buream report. Full Details on Page A-2 i Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales. Page 20. Forecast Temperatures lowest, 65, at Ch ! NIGHT FINAL l SPORTS (#) Means Assoclated Pr 89th YEAR. No. 35,576. DODGERS WIN NATIONAL LEAGUE WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. (., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9= 25, 1941—FIFTY PAGES. ¢ Foening Star THREE CENTS. 0il Tank Carsfl 7 1,500 Too Few, Industry Finds 142,000 Are Rolling ’ Now, but Can’t Meet Terrific Demand By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Oil company executives were formed today in a confidential industry report that their re- quirements for railroad tank cars to supply petroleum and petro- Jeum products to the East and West coasts had risen 1,500 cars above the total available in the in- whole country. The report was said to have in- dicated a terrific rise in the use of rail transportation during the few weeks which have intervened since J. J. Pelley, president of the Ameri- can Association of Railroads, stated in Washington that 20.000 idle tank cars were available to carry oil from Texas to Eastern refineries. With several hundred filling sta- tions in the East already empty of gasoline, despite the 7 pm. to 7 am. curfew on gasoline sales, the oil men accepted the report of tank-car shortage as a grave matter. The gasoline shortage, they said. sppeared to be deepening in the Eastern seaboard, with the effect of the transfer of American ocean tankers to Great Britain being felt increasingly. 142,000 Cars Rolling Now. At present. the Nation has about 150,000 railroad tank cars. About half are owned by General American Tank Car Co. and Union Tank Car Co., from which they are rented by various fums. The Army and Na: own about 1000 and about 2,500 more are suitable only for such products as milk, cottonseed oil and other farm products. About 3 per cent, or around 4,500 are always out of service fo? repairs These figures indicate that ap- proximately 142,000 tank cars, with capacities of about 10,000 gallons each, now are transporting petroleum and its prodyets This total was said to be the great- est tank car operation in the history of the United States but one which already was being heavily supple- mented, on both the East and Wesj, Coasts, by motor truck transporta- tion as refineries demand supplies with which to continue operations. West Coast Draws Cars. It was asserted that many of the rail carriers which previously had been available to the East and deep South had been transferrec to Cali- fornia, Oregon and Washington to make up for the withdrawal of tankers from the West Coast into both the trans-Atlantic and, trans- Pacific routes. Some quarters predicted that com- pletion of the Plantation pipe line across the South from Louisiana, scheduled for late December or early January, would release several thou- sand tank cars from that region, which now receives practically all its gasoline supplies by rail. In the meantime, some comfort was derived from the fact that gaso- line supplies on the Eastern Sea- board were reported up 11.000 bar- rels last week, reversing a heavy withdrawal trend which ruled throughout the summer. iDuke to Return Here fo Study ‘C. C.C.Camp Talks With McEntee | After Visiting | Duchess’ Aunt (Earlier Story on Page A-1) | The Duke of Windsor is com-| 1 ing back here early in Novem- ber to visit a nearby Civilian Conservation Corps camp and study its-operation, he told C. C. C. Director James J. McEntee when conferring this afternoon with corps officials for 55 min- utes, the Duke’s longest official | call of the day. Mr. McEntee said the Duke was intensely interested in the admin- | istration and accomplishments of | the C. C. C. organization and showed | a “surprising” knowledge of this | Federal program | Called in to elaborate on the | agency's routine were more than | half a dozen members of the C. C. C. administrative and advisory staff. Surprises C. C. C. Chief. Mr. McEntee said the Duke has decided to return to the Capital after he and the Duchess complete their vacation at his Canadian ranch. Stops at New York and | Baltimore, the Duchess’ former heme, already have been scheduled | on the return trip to the Bahamas.! “1 was surprised at the informa- tion he already had about the corps,” | Mr. McEntee said, after the Duke {left the C. C. C. headquarters in the Otis Building. 810 Eighteenth street NW. “He particularly seem- ed to know about the work habits of the boys The Duke said he had read Mr. McEntee’s book on the C. C. C. en- titled. “Now They Are Men." While posing for pictures on the edge of Mr. McEntee's desk after the conference, the Duke said to cameramen “I've kept you quite busy today, haven't 12" One photographer replied: “We don’'t mind so long as it's produc- tive.” Visits Duchess’ ! The Duke and Duches were separated for the duration of the lunch hour today, but got back to- gether again before schedule when the Duke paid an unexpected call to the apartment of the Duchess’ aunt, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman, | with whom she was having lunch. Finishing his lunch at the British Embassy, the Duke slipped quietly out a back entrance and hurried to | Mrs. Merryman'’s apartment at 1911 R street N.W., accompanied by his bodyguard, Sergt. H. Holder of Scot- land Yard, and several Metropolitan | Police detectives. The Duke surprised several re-| porters and a newsphotographer in the small lobby of the apartment | building and when the photographer | hurried snapped his picture the Duke inquired: “Do I look any different from this morning?” Reporter Gets Retort. ! “You look swell,” a woman re- porter exclaimed, | The Duke, puffing his pipe and | walking briskly to the elevator, re- torted over his shoulder: | “I was talking to the photog- | rapher.” | The Duchess had arrived at tihe Merryman apartment about an hour earlier. Accompanied by Secret ~ (See WINDSORS, Page 2-X.) | DoT1e||i, Du"ques Also to Coach P (Earlier Story on Page C-2.) By the Associated Press PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25.—Aldo (Buff) Donelli, head coach at Du- quesne University, today was ap- pointed coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Professional Football League and will bold down both the collegiate ano pro jobs, Donelli said after his selection was announced by Bert Bell, co-owner | of the Steelers. Bell resigned last night as the Steelers’ coach after his team had lost its first two games of the season. The new setup means, according to Donelli, that in holding both jobs he will tutor the pros in the morn- ings and devote his afternoons to his college charges. “The new arrangement means I'm ne Grid Mentor, ittsburgh Pros ;just being borrowed,” he dlhclcs(‘d‘ s at a mountain hotel mear Greens- burg, where the pros maintain train- ing quarters. “Or, to be more exact, | it means I'm permitted to work with | the Steelers.” | Donelli became head coach m.l Duquesne two years ago and his col- lege contract runs until March.l 1943. His first two seasons estab- lished him as one of the most suc- | cessful young coaches in the coun- try. The two college teams he has headed have notched a record of 17 victories, one defeat and one tie over the two-season span and his | 1941 team opened its season last | week with another victory. | The 47-year-old Bell severed a 21-year collegiate and pro grid | coaching career by resigning. He said he will confine his duties to the business end of the team. | -Odien Sol;s inM As Murder Trial Is Begun ? (Earlier Story on Page B-1). With his mother’s arms clasped tightly around his neck, Guy Oden, 19, sobbed in District Court this afternoon as the prosecution told the jury trying him for. the first-| degree murder of his 15-year-old fweetheart that the shooting was “deliberate, premeditated and cold blooded.” Assistant United States Attorney Bernard Margolius was making his opening statement to the jury when the defendant’s mother, Mrs. Lilliam Elam, slipped suddenly through the railing separating spectators from principles in the trial, ran to her son’s side and clasped him tightly as he sat facing the jury. Attend- ants took her arms from about Oden’s neck and led her back to her seat. Mr. Margolius told the jury he will prove Oden was calm and col- - [ other’s Arms |lected when he fired three shots into the body of his sweetheart, |Miss Ellen Reid Cannon, in the | apartment of the girl's sister at/ 114 O street S.W. on July 19 declared the young theater usher and his victim had been living together as man and wife and that the youth became infuriated when a member of the girl's family and a neighbor tried to separate them. He said the shots were fired in the heat of great emotion as the result of an “irresistible impulse.” Mr. Margolius told the jury he would ask for “the proper ver- dict at the proper time,” but did not indicate if he would seek the death penalty. The first wit- nesses were introduced late this | afternoon before Justice Jesse C. | Adkins. The morning session was | occupied with picking a jury. n | Georges County and the State of Defense Counsel Milton I. Lewis »000. WAITING FOR THE WINDSORS—This is what went on outside the Commerce Department Building today while the Duke of Windsor was inside conferring with Admiral Emory S. Land chairman of the Maritime Commission. Henderson Urges Longer Work Week In Defense Plants Increase in Production Level Badly Needed, He Tells House Group By the Associated Press Price Administrator Leon Hen- derson today advocated a longer york week in certain selected indus- tries. chiefly those working on de- fense orders, to attain what he said was a badly needed increase in the production level Testifying before the House Bank- ing Committee on the administra- tion's price control bill. Mr. Hen- derson said that even now the aver- age work week for all manufactur- ing industries in this country was 40.3 hours. “Right at the present time” he said, “I would doubt if we are getting within 30 to 35 per cent of the full efficiency of our machine tool ca- pacity.” = Lack of Trained Men. | Explaining he was talking about three-shift capacity, Mr. Henderson | said one of the reasons for the lag was lack of trained men for the extra shifts “It has always seemed to me.” he went on. “that one of the rearrange- ments that could be made would be longer hours in certain selected in- | dustries.” Mr. Henderson also said that he hed newspapers generally would ‘interest themselves in what are fair prices,” during discussion of a suggestion by Represertative Dewey, Republican, of Illinois that the Gov- srnment issue a quarterly “fair- price catalog” to guide the buying sublic = Calls on Newspapers for Aid. Representatives Dewey said that he country’s two leading mail order aouses issue about 107,000,000 price sublications annually and expressed oelief that if the public had some similar list of prices from the Gov- srnment it would do much of its >wn “policing” of the price situa- ion Representative Ford, Democrat, of California, asserting that prices are | z0ing to be the country’s biggest news during the emergen asked whether newspapers couldn’t render much the same service that Repre- l sentative Dewey suggested. “T wish papers generally would Interest themselves in what are fair orices,” Mr. Henderson responded. Police Press Wide Hunt For Hyattsville Bandits (Earlier Story on Page A-1) As police of Washington, Prince Maryland and F. B. 1. agents pressed a widespread search late today for three bandits who held up and robbed two messengers of the Prince Georges (Md.) Bank & Trust Co. near Hyattsville earlier in the day, the exact amount of the cash loot | taken was revealed by the bank to have been $52,616.95. The bandits also took two non- negotiable cashier's-checks total- ing $75,000. A tabulation at the bank disclosed the cash loss, which earlier had been estimated at $53,- It also was learned the robbers’ | car bore a Maryland license number. Hyattsville police were checking on the name in which the tag was is- sued. It was considered likely the car was stolen. The two bank messengers, Jack Dameron and Van Stauber; T. How- ard Duckett, president of tHe bank; Police Chief Arthur Hepburn of Hyattsville and others were ex- pected to come to the Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Washington tonight to view rogues’ gallery pic- tures. Local police said the descrip- tions which the youths gave of two | of the bandits fitted those of men | with criminal records. b by | ing 7F;eigihler Reported Sinking in Hurricane In Caribbean Sea Steering Gear Crippled As Vessel Fights Storm | 200 Miles From Haiti BULLETIN. \ HAVANA., Cuba (®.—The national observatory reported today that a Caribbean storm of cyclonic proportions was centered about 300 miles south of Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, and was moving | west-northwest toward the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 360 miles a day. By the Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Sept. 25— | Coast Guard headquarters reported today that the S. S. Libby Maine in the Caribbean Sea had sent out dis- tress calls, saying she had been hit by a “hurricane” and was “sink- " She asked immediate aid. | The ship gave its position as lati- tude 14 degrees and 20 minutes north and longitude 70 degrees and | 10 minutes west. The Libby Maine had reported | earlier that her steering gear was out of order and she was being buf- | feted by a tropical storm aboul 200 miles south of Haiti. | The Coast Guard at San Juam Puerto Rico. advised headquarters | here that it had dispatched the | cutter Analga to the position give=nl by the Libby Maine. There was no | information here about the number of persons aboard About the same time the Weather Bureau here received an advisory | from its bureau at San Juan, Puerlo‘ Rico. saying “delayed ship reports | indicate the tropical disturbance in the Caribbean Sea was centered at 7 am. E. S. T, about latitude 13| degrees and 30 minutes north and | longitude 69 degrees and 30 minutes west moving westward with in- creasing intensity.” | Lloyd's shipping register lists the | Libby Maine as a 1,811-ton freighter built in 1918 and operating out of San Francisco, by the firm of Libby, McNeill & Libby Late Races Earlier Results, Rossvan's, Other Selections and Entries for To- morrow, Page 2-X. 5 Havre de Grace SIXTH RACE—Purse, ing: J-vear-olds and up Maecioud (Remerscheid) Sun Lark (Keiper) Charmful (Lynch) Time. 1:474%. $1.000: claim- 10" miles | 3.00 0 4 340 | Also ran—Curves, Arboreal. Miss Iden- tify. San Stefana. Landfall and Impseen. SEVENTH RACE—Purs 4-year-olds and up:_1 Rhodium _(Keiper) 5 £1.000: claim- | 'a milf‘s Grandloso (Acosta) iz0 { Cisneros (Howell) 3.80 | ime. 1:563s. | Also_ran—Predicate, Grey Pertros, Two Ply. " Giggle Bred in Blue. Belmont Park EIGHTH RACE—Purse. $1.500: elaim- | Lee, Residue. Scout About. West Sea and Hazel W. ing: 3-year-olds and up: 1/ mil N Strolling In (Wall) 18,00 10.60 650 Chalmac (McCreary) 11 7.40 La_Joya (Westrope) 4.50 Time, 1:44 Also ran—Doorbell. Fortification. Cinder Maid. Cagot. Star of Padula. Betty's Broom. Santo Domingo, Bright Vietory and Blue Castle. Narragansett Park EIGHTH RACE—Purse, $1,100: claim- year-olds and upward: ' miles. ing: e Easterner (Dattilo) 480" 290 Guardsman (Atkinson) 330 100 7 Caterbrun (McRoberts) 1L10 ‘Time, 1:40%. Also ran—Allatwit, Purple Dawn, Mah- lette, Tonianns. Miss Mogul, Hendersonian, Chameleon, Dark Level and Lovick. Hawthorne Park SIXTH RACE—Purse. $1.100: allow- ances: 2-year-olds: 6 furlongs. Stinging Bee (Snider) 6.60 480 3.60 String Band (Haskell) 22,00 11.80 a rian y_(Ebberts) 4.00 | ime, 1:15 Also ' ran—a Brave Chance, Fuiiwars. Some Man. New Glory. Snow . Amy | Reigh. Fairy Fleel and More Refined | John Marech entry. . > come out again The crowd that —=% and shouted (Other Pictures on Page B-1) watched the Duke go in stayed ushmg and shoving for position. and waved as he walked The photographer snapped this full-face picture of the Duchess as she sat in a car outside the State Department waiting for her husband. to see him to his automobile. —Associated Press hotos. It is an unusual close-up. “PENNANT | Cardinals Lose, Brooklyn Roufs Braves, 6o 0 Wyatt Scores 22d Victory; Butcher Outpitches White The Brooklyn Dodgers clinched | the National League pennant this u.s. St;ldiers Took Role of Nazi Troops In Film, Inquiry Told 28 Air Corps Pilots And Bombers Used Also, Tobey Says (Earlier Story on Page A-1) By J: A. O'LEARY. Charges that American soldiers dressed in German uniforms, were | used as actors in the making of a motion picture in 1936, were laid | before the Senate Interstate Com- | merce Subcommittee this afternoon | for investigation by Senator Tobey 1 }Repubhcan. of New Hampshire. Senator Tobey said information had reached him over the signature of Aubrey Blair, who was described as an officer of the Screen Guild. The film, called “Captured,” starred the late Douglas Fairbanks | and Leslie Howard. | Senator Tobey said the allegation | was that 28 pilots at March Field, Calif, were used along with 14 bombers and 5 or 6 other planes. ‘The planes, Senator Tobey was told, | were repainted to resemble German ships, and that the Warner film staff was fed at the Government commissary. Can’t Recall Film. Harry M. Warner, president of Warner Bros., told Senator Tobey " (See MOVIES, Page 2-X.) | A Late News Bulletins Senate Approves Property Seizure Bill On a voice vote, the Senate gave final approval today to legislation permitting the President to take over certain property needed for defense. must be approved finally by the House. The measure, a compromise, Under the bill the President could not requisition personal sporting firearms or weapons nor any machinery indispensable to a firm's con- tinued operation. Russians Attack Germans on Dvina River BERLIN (#.—The Russians are throwing great masses of men against German positions on the Dvina River more than 200 miles. west of Moscow, D.N.B. said tonight. It reported that German infantry which dug in on the east bank of the Dvina yesterday had repulsed the attack. (The Russians re- ported Wednesday they had routed German troops 200 miles west of Moscow on the Dvina in a four-day battle that cost the Germans more than 2500 dead.) (Earlier Story on Page A-1.) Japan Plans to Resume Mail Service to U. S. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, Sept. 25.—The Japanese post office today began accepting mail for dispatch to the United States on’'a Japanese vessel which authorities said would leave next Direct mail service to the United States has been suspended for sev- eral weeks. Japanese trans-Pacific | services were halted when Japanese assets in the United States were frozen. ] Markets at a Glance NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (#)— Stogks weak; leaders break on new tax fears. Bonds lower; Morgenthau tax talk depresses. Foreign exchange quiet; Argen- tine free peso down slightly. Cot- ton lower; liquidation and com- mission house selling. Sugar firm; covering in nearby world contracts. Metals steady; alloca- tions of foreign lead to be dis- cussed. Wool Tops easier; spot house selling. CHICAGO. — Wheat — Profit- taking, hedging erase early ad- vnce. v afternoon with a 6-0 rout of the Braves at Boston while St. Louis was dropping a 3-1 decision to the Pirates at Pittsburgh. The Dodgers boosted their lead over St. Louis to two and a half games, and since each club has but two more games to play the desper= ate bid of the second-place Cardis nals was choked off after one of the mc hectic pennant campaigns in The clincher was a sweet five-hit victory for Whitlow Wyatt, star Brooklyn right hander—his 22d of the season and his sixth over the Braves, who haven't beaten him once this vear. Brooklyn got to Tom Earley right at the start, scoring ore run in each of the first three innings and adding two in the seventh and another in the eighth. | The Dodgers got a total of nin safeties and four Boston errors helped them score their easy victory. Fletcher Hits Homer. uthpaw Ernie the Cardinals and Max Butcher of the Pirates had a real mound duel at Pittsburgh, where St. Louis bowed | to Butcher, getting only five safeties, while the Pirates were accumulating six, including Elbie Fletcher's sixth- ng home run with a mate on Billy Southworth sent neke in to rescue White in and he set the Pirates er for two innings. but inals couldn't fathom offerings. It was the fifth had failed in quest of his 18th victory The only St. Louis score came in the seventh. Musial and Crabtree single i Padgett, ed, filling the bases. Slaughter then drew a walk, forcing in Musial. Two Carde inal pinch hitters then fanned, The Dodgers got off to a one-run lead in~the opening frame after Walker singled, advanced on Reiser's |walk and an infield out and then | scored as Medwick beat out a slow ller, | The Dodgers added another in the second inning when Owen and Walker singled and the catcher came home as the Braves tried to trap Walker between bases. In the third, Rowell. who went to second in place of Roberge for the Braves, was charged with three errors, the last permitting Camilli to count a Dodger run Two Errors on One Play. Reiser led off with a single and went to third as Rowell first fume bled Camilli’s grounder and then made a wild throw past first. On Medwick’s tap to Earley. Reiser was run down between third and home, Camilli going to second. Then when Rowell threw wild again on at- tempted double-play of Lavagetto’s grounder, the Brooklyn first base- man scored Reiser connected with his 14th homer of the year with Wyatt on base in the seventh to increase the | Dodgers’ lead to 5-0. Wyatt, who got on when Miller booted his grounder, pitched three-hit ball through the same frames, setting the Braves down in order in the last two innings The Dodgers picked up their sixth run in the eighth when Lavagetto walked, moved to third on Reese’s single and came home as Owen hit into a double-play Earl Johnson took over thy mound for Boston in the ninth and got the league leaders out in order with a double-play erasing Walker’s infield hit. Waner singled with two out in the last of the ninth, but was stranded. Pirates Lead, 3-1, in Seventh, In Pittsburgh the Pirates took a 1-0 lead over St. Louis in the third Inning on a triple by their rookie shortstop, Bill Cox, and Vaughan's fly to Crabtree. Meanwhile Butcher set the Cards down in order, except in the first when he walked Moore with two out. A double play nulli- fied Crabtree’s second-inning single. Fletcher gave the Pirates their final tally in the sixth when he hit his 11th home run with Vince Di Maggio on base as the result of be- ing hit by a pitched ball. Major League Games AMERICAN LEAGUE No Games Scheduled. | NATIONAL LEAGUE At Boston— | Brooklyn ... 111 000 .210— 6 90 | Boston _____ 000 000 000— 0 5 4 | At Pittsburgh— | St. Louis ___ 000 000 100— 1 50 | Pittsburgh .. 001 002 00x— 3 61 Batteries—White, Warneke and W, | Conper: Butcher and Lopex. At Philadelphia— New York_.. 000 000 201—3 71 Philadelphia 000 010 010—2 91 Batteries—Carpenter and O'Dea; Pode gainy, Johnson and Warren. At Cincinnati— | Chicago ... 000 000 00— 0 22 Cincinnati _ 000 051 00x— 6 10 1 Batteries—Schmit. Mooty and MeCule lough: Starr and West Today's Home Runs National. Warren, Philadelphia, 5th inning. | Fletcher, Pittsburgh, 6th inning. | Reiser, Brooklyn, 7th inning a It W = ¢ b ¢ = w < ~ =~ ~ o~ -~ — N \ v X ¥ % X ) 4 B | ¥ ¥ * £ $ \ );. £ 3 / 2222228 w w W