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senssens A—6 & Cogswell Holds Rent Hearing; Finds Many Misunderstood Law Hears Varied Complaints; Woman Seeking House Calls on Him for Aid By JAMES Y. NEWTON. After two days in office, Rent Ad- ministrator Robert F. Cogswell finds himself conducting a sort of good- will court where people come to spill their woes, due largely to public misconception of what the District’s new rent control law is all about. He finds also there apparently are numerous landlords who haven't " THE SUNDAY 'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 4, 1942. Senate Leaders See Men, Not Party Ties, Winning in November War Reduces Value Of Political Labels, Taft, Tydin_gs Hold By the Associated Press. With the war going & long way - | toward making political bedfellows out of Democrats and Republicans, legisiators predicted yesterday that the results of this year's congres- sional elections would be determined by personalities rather than issues. Senators Taft, Repubiican, of bay, De Wolf said, while the sub- marine picked its way carefully to a mudbank. From there it sighted three additional heavily laden enemy transports lying at anchor in the bay. “Orders were given to man the bow and starboard torpedo tubes while the boat slowly continued to make way,” De Wolf said. “As we were in two and one-half fathoms of water it was impossible to dive. The commander maneuvered into position and six explosions followed. Thereafter we made for the open sea.” Submarine Hits Mine. The sinking of four Japanese transports off the east coast of Thalland with the loss of 4,000 Jap- anese troops was announced by the Netherlands Indies War Command December 13. Nights later the victorious sub- marine struck & mine and sank Ohio and Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland said in separate inter- views that they did not believe party affiliations would mean as much next November as they have in the past, adding that the war had removed many of the issues which ordinarily while on the way to investigate an unidentified light on the horizon. The commander of the vessel, De Wolf and four others in the con- ning tower were thrown into the | sea. The commander was lost im- YALE CLUB GUEST — Presi- dent Charles Seymour of Yale University, who will be guest of honor at a reception to be given by the Yale Club of heard of the law, what with many tenants complaining they are threatened with eviction unless they pey more rent. An elderly woman broke down and eried yesterday in telling Mr. Cogs- well how a tenant cursed her over a misunderstanding about last July’s rent. She contended the tenant had not paid for the month and sought to enlist the administrator to help her collect. He sent her to Municipal Court. He listened to her story pa- tiently, although his outer office was crowded with others seeking en- lightenment. Another woman telephoned: “Are you the rent administrator? Well, I certainly am having a terrible time finding a house. Do you have any- would figure in the contests. cuting the war to the fullest extent of the Nation’s ability and both will support an all-out production pro- gram,” Senator Taft said. Helpful Criticism Justified. He added that he thought Repub- licans were justified in any con- structive criticism they might be able to make of the war effort, but intimated he thought that was not likely to become a major issue un- less the administration’s program “Both parties will be for prose- mediately and of the five others who tried to swim ashore all but De Wolf drowned. Washington at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Metropolitan Club. “Quartermaster De Wolf brought with him a message of courage, sacrifice and devotion to duty to the Netherlands East Indies and the world from his shipmates,” Aneta Dutch (Continued From First Page.) termaster De Wolf said his ship- mates expected to hear the explosion |of depth charges at any moment. | However, nothing happened and the next morning the Dutch crew heard a wireless report that they were at | said. Will Discuss Welding | James F. Lincoln, president of the Lincoln Electric Co.. manufacturers thing down there for about $502” Mr. Cogswell looked over the line of people waiting to see him, said he had worries of his own, and added he was very happy that the job of finding houses wasn’t his. There was evidence to show that most of the serious cases of rent “gouging” are in furnished apart- ments. One man said he rented an apartment for $80, furnished it and sublet it for $150. He wanted to war with Japan. That night, December 7, the “The way to win control of the | Dutch submarine sighted an enemy House will be to put up better can- | transport ship but distance and didates than the other party,” he |heavy showers made a successful declared. |attack impossible. At 5 am., De Senator Tydings said he expected | Wolf said, the chase was given up few shifts in the majority and mi- and when daylight came the sub- nority lineups of the House and |marine dived and waited until Senate, barring unforeseen develop- | darkness. ments in the next 10 months. Submarine on Surface. “As conditions now stand,” he| When the submarine again ap- of war industry welding equipment, will speak on “What Welding Can | Do to Win the War,” before the | Washington Society of Engineers at | the Cosmos Club at 8:15 p.m. Wed- | nesday. It was in Mr. Lincoln's honor that the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation was cre- ated. gave clear signs of bogging down. know if he was within his rights. He found what the administrator ll;:d to say was decidedly discourag- 8. Hearings Strictly Informal. So far, Mr. Cogswell's hearings have been strictly informal. He has taken action only in very serious cases like the one on Friday where a woman charged her landlady with turning off heat and hot water in a threat to get her to move. Next week, when printed complaint forms are ready, and his office is com- pletely staffed, he expects to start “cracking down.” | One of yesterday's most serious | complaints was lodged by a woman tenant of Eighth street N.E. She rented the apartment last Septem- ber for $43.35 a month. On Novem- ber 14 the rent was raised to $30 without any increase in service. She was told to pay or get out, so she paid. There was no place to go. If, on investigation, the administrator | finds the charge to bhe true, the | rent will be set back to $43.35. All persons owning apartments which have been furnished or fixed up greatly in 1941 face the possi- bility of losing the price of the extra services for January. On January 1, 1941, the law’s freezing date, one man was renting a ramshackle house for $25 a month. During last year he spent $6.000 in remodeling the place. The current tenant pays $6 a month and is satisfied. But, under the law he may charge only $25 until his case is heard and adjusted. This same ruling applies to those with newly-furnished quarters who wish to be on the safe side. A Southern Maryland woman left her farm where she raised Irish setter pups and moved to Washing- ton last spring. She rented an un- furnished house for $60, furnished it, sublet it for $90 and moved out. She was told she could charge only $60 until she had filed a claim and the case was cleared. “Oh” she said, “I had rather gather up the furniture and move back with my dogs than go to all that trouble.” Landlord Has Trouble. Tn another case a landlord com- plained his tenant was using the control law as an excuse for mnot | paying full rent. The tenant, who | had been paying $40 all last year, refused to pay more than $35 on January 1. He threatened to take the landlord before Mr. Cogswell. The administrator told the landlord he cculd demand and collect the full $40. A man and wife rented an apart- ment on Ridge road S.E. for $38.50 last April. Using the threat to evict them, the landlord raised the | figure to $41 in September. In No- | vember the rent was again lifted, this time to $45. This morning the landlerd insisted on $45 for Janu- ary, and when it was refused he started moving out the furniture. The wife, rather than have her furnishings put on the street with no place to go, paid the $45. Mr. Cogswell warned the landlord faces serious trouble unless the added rent is refunded immediately. The law states that a landlord who in- nocently violates it is subject to suit for $50 and costs. Where the law is willfully violated he faces a fine or Jail sentence. Mr. Cogswell warned of the pos- sible danger awaiting a landlord even when a tenant is apparently satisfied with an increase in rent. A woman called to say she owned 40 apartments and she had raised the price of all of them in 1941. In every case, she said, the tenant was satisfled. Mr. Cogswell urged her to return the extra rent col- lected for this month. He pointed out that should one tenant become dissatisfied at some future date, he could charge her with violating the law and would probably win his case. Persons in all walks of life are appealing to Mr. Cogswell for help and advice. He gives every caller opportunity to state his case. Yes- terday nearly 500 telephone calls and more than 150 personal visits were handled by the administrator. He states simply that he will co- operate completely with the public and expects co-operation in return. He worked all day on New Year's. Today he planned to be at the office answering some of the hun- dreds of written complaints ar- riving with every mail. Foreclosures Decline To 15-Year Low Mark By the Associated Press. Mortgage foreclosures on non- farm real estate dropped to 4204 cases in November, the lowest total in the 15 years for which figures are available, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board announced yesterday. The previous low was 4271 cases zeported for August. The November total was 204 be- Jow October and 1628 under the MALTA.—SHELTER FROM BOMBING RAIDS—The British island of Malta, off Sicily in the Mediterranean, boasts what the ‘War Office terms the strongest air raid shelters in Europe. There are 30 long underground galleries dug deep into the rock and Heroic and-Fruitful Chapter in Navy Medicine Written in Pearl Harbor's Grueling Stress By THOMAS R. HENRY. One of the most colorful chapters | of the emergency, he got out of bed, | burned surfaces. The oil acted as in the history of American medicine was written at Pearl Harbor on December 7 when a little group of United States Navy doctors and nurses, aided by assistants who rushed to their aid from the city of Honolulu, cared for 960 casual- ties—in many cases terribly burned and wounded men—by working con- stantly for 16 hectic hours. Bad as was the Pearl Harbor dis- | aster, the loss of life and the suffer- ing would have been far worse had it not been for the heroic work of these men and women, whose story ‘has come to Washington iff lettérs and reports to the Navy’s Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Ross T. Mc- Intyre. The newest weapons in medicine's armament were used in this strug- gle against death and pain. Even a few months ago many would have died who now are out of danger and having uneventful recoveries. Most notable of these were the various sulfa drugs placed directly in open wounds and the recently developed liquid and dried blood plasma. Mobile Hospital Ready. However far from anticipating any such disaster, the Navy Medical Corps was ready for it. Fortunately one of the mobile hospitals, the first of which was turned out little more than a year ago, had just arrived and been set up. There was also a hospital ship at Pearl Harbor to add to the available hospital facilities. Otherwise. the ordinary facilities at the station would have been hopelessly swamped by the sudden demands. As it was, adequate emergency treatment had been given every in- jured man by midnight. The magni- tude of the task can hardly be over- estimated. No bombs were dropped on hos- pital buildings. The planes were not immediately recognized as en- emy craft, and when they were it was too late to give warning by tele- phone until they had started firthg on their objectives. Members of the Medical Corps, many of them at their own homes, immediately began assembling at the hospital stations. Within a few minutes all of the staff were on duty. Shortly afterward a blazing plane seemed to be flying directly into the main hospital. Just before it would have struck, the Jap pilot swerved slightly and crashed into the chief petty officers’ quarters a few feet away. This building was set afire and destroyed. Almost at once the casualties started coming in—by ambulance, truck, private car and delivery wagon. Many of these ran through raining shrapnel. Began Check on Dead. One of the major jobs undertaken by the Navy medical and dental officers was that of identifying the dead who were brought in from the ships. They worked all night in the temporary morgue established in the hospital basement. found on the bodies, patterns of dental work which could be checked against records and fingerprints. Work of Navy dentists was out- standing, it is shown by reports from Pearl Harbor. In one case a dentist directed all the first aid work on a bombed ship whose senior medical officer happened to be ashore and whose junior medical officer was killed early in the action. A major job of the Navy Medical | Corps was to get these dead buried. A new-cemetery has been opened for them. It probably will be their final resting place and tentatively has been named the Halawa Na- tional Cemetery. Meany instances of _individual heroism have been reported on the part of the Medical Corps personnel. One medical officer, for example, E'd undergone an appendiclus op- . November, 1940, total. The dead | were identified by clothing, papers | | eration three days before. Hearing assembled his kit, and worked stead- ily for three days and nights, until | he finally collapsed from exhaus- tion. Volunteer Nurses Respond. Volunteer nurses appeared as if from nowhere and began aiding the physicians very efficiently. Many of them were wives of en- listed men at the station, who had had nursing experience. By nightfall Sunday, according to | the reports to Surg. Gen. McIntire, 90 per cent of the casualties brought in had.been treated and made as comfortable as possible, although much of the surgery remained to be done. More than 300 less seriously burned had been treated and had been returned to duty. B The Navy learned many lessons | from Pearl Harbor, the greatest | single disaster the service doctors ever have been called upon to deal with. Doctors were called on sud- denly to apply all that had been with which hitherto they had had no personal contact. The spirit and morale displayed | in the face of this unparelleled task | leave no doubt of the extremely | high quality of the corps, the reports | | from Pearl Harbor show clearly. | The lessons learned there are ex- pected to save many lives during the course of the war. Majority of Casualties Burned. “It was burns, burns and more burns,” says the chief report re- ceived by Surg. Gen. McIntyre. | More than 60 per cent of the 960 injuries treated by the Navy doctors between 8 am. and midnight De- | cember 7 were due to burns. | A lesson was learned which will never be forgotten. The majority | were what are known as “flash | burns,” to which the flesh had been exposed only a second or so. It was found—and this fact also was noted by the National Research Council doctors who looked over the situ- ation a few days later—that the | burned areas followed closely the outlines of the clothing. If the | sailors had been wearing flull-length pants and shirts with long sleeves they would hardly have been burned |at all. There were no chest burns | on men who had been wearing un- dershirts. There were few arm | burns found on men who were wear- |ing shirts. Only those wearing shorts instead of full-length breeches suffered leg burns. Unfortunately, many sailors were | very lightly clad at the time of |the attack. This was largely re- | sponsible for hundreds of painful injuries. The burned sailors at Pearl Har- bor were treated in a new fashion with the use of two sovereign reme- dies for the first time on a large scale. One was a mixture of mineral oil and sulfanilamide or sulfathizole. Large dressings were dipped in thi: TRIBBY'S BECAUSE THEY SA | A PART OF THESE SAVINGS THE EXPENSE OF CHARGE All Guaranteed learned from Europeon experience | in the present war under conditions | rrom 10% 10 25% DIAMONDS o WATCHES o JEWELRY RIBBY’S 79 YEARS IN WASHINGTON [P 2 STORES Beadquariers Eouired 615 15th St. N.W. i 617 7th St. N.W. filled with bunks such as these. Malta has withstood a thousand air raids, aimed at the naval base there, since the present war began, London says. | mixture and applied directly to the |a soothing lotion while the sulfa | drugs prevented the development of infections. In other cases dressings were dipped in gun tubs filled with tannic acid solution and applied. In still other cases tannic acid jelly was rubbed gently over the burned | | surfaces. It was found that sulfanil- | amide powder tended to cake over the wound surfaces and its use was discontinued. Forestalled Infections. At the same time large doses of | sulfathiazole were given by mouth,‘ By, this means the danger of infec- | tion from burns was reduced to a minimum and in only a few cases did any infections develop. Death from burns most frequently is due to shock—perhaps caused primarily by the escape of liquids | from the body through the for- mation of blisters. This was reduced to a minimum through the use of the most recent of war remeries—blood plasma. The sald, “I don’t see any clear-cut issue | proached the surface it sighted a ahead. Almost everybody will be Japanese transport steaming toward standing for the same thing—to win | Patani, on the east coast of Malaya the war—and personalities are | just south of the Thailand border. likely to decide many of the races.” | The submarine followed the enemy Thirty-four Senate seats will be |ship with only its periscope above AIR-RAID PRECAUTION Protection From Fire FYR-FYTER EXTINGUISHERS High Quality, Dependable | as great as 72 hours. | the situation were especially im- Navy had supplies of its own. Also it was fortunate that the city oll Honolulu had a large blood plasmal | bank from which supplies could be | drawn for the emergency. A total | of 750 units of plasma, both liquid and dried, were used on December | | 7, and by December 17, 1450 units | had been employed. A unit is the amount of plasma obtained from a pint of blood. One of the first considerations was to replace at once the plasma drawn from the bank. Within 15 days after the Pearl Harbor attack. | blood had been donated by 3.500 | citizens of Honolulu and Navy and Army personnel. Many of the dressings also were supplied by the citizens of Hono- lulu. The Red Cross chapter there had insisted on making these sup- plies after it had been told that its quota was filled. This was a god- send in the treatment of the burned sailors whose dressings had to be changed frequently and the used ones thrown away. “Hopeless” Cases Saved. Next to burns, the most frequent wounds were caused by shrapnel and flying debris. The Army, espe- cially, suffered many abdominal gun- shot wounds. There were many intestinal perforations. A few years ago many o these cases would have been hopeless. A prime necessity would have been immediate opera- tion before the onset of infection. ‘With the wounded piling into the hospital, this was impossible. After the wounds were cleaned, from 10 to 20 grams of sulfanilamide powder were dropped in and the incisions closed, without providing for drain- age in most cases. Most of the men are making normal recoveries. Shrapnel wounds could not be handled fast enough. Many had been -caused by bomb fragments so hot that they cauterized the wounds they made, cutting down somewhat s the risk of infection. The patients SELLS FOR LESS SELL FOR CASH VE ARE_MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE ACCOUNTS IS ELIMINATED THE CASH JEWELER crats, nine by Republicans and one by an Independent, Senator Norris of Nebraska. Senator Norris has | said he would not run again, but many of his friends hope to per- | suade him to change this decision. Democrats Talk House Gains. —A. P. Photo. were given morphine immediately to reduce the suffering, gross hem- All the House seats, of course, will orrhages were stopped, and sulfa- | be at stake. Some Democrats who nilamide powder placed in the |feared a few weeks ago that the wounds. Then they were put to | Republicans might make heavy in- | bed until they could be operated | roads in the House altered their | on. In some cases this period was | calculations after the Japanese at- In most cases | tack on Pearl Harbor and now are | the men are making excellent re- | talking of gaining instead of losing. | coveries. Until two or three years| Representative Joseph W. Marun | ago, many of them would almost |of Massachusetts, national Republi- | certainly have died. can chairman and leader of the National Research Council phy- | House minority, declined to make sicians sent to Pearl Harbor to study | any predictions about November | results. Several months ago he had said the Republicans stood a good | | chance of gaining control of the | House. “It would be foolish to make any pressed by the lack of fever reac- tions. This shows .that the sul- fanilamide was successfully pre- venting infection. Morphine Flasks Invaluable. guesses now because so many things could happen between now and next Of priceless value, report the Navy | November,” he said. doctors, were “morphine syrettes”— | " b ia i ShIE Wi small plastic flasks with hypodermic gor “gl?x:lsxe‘gn:hc:lulc?s.rsn.gelvslr.ngaa(;?‘u: needles containing singles doses of | 514 Republicans would reserve the morphine solutions. These have | riont to call attention to any mis- recently been introduced into Navy | takes that might be made in the practice. . | war effort. On December 7 there was no time M for the preparation of hypodermics | Chainn::\"]{,(‘a:((;:“::q gg;e alorti or hypodermic solutions. One of the lessons.learned was Meeting of the Republican State chairmen, which he had set for the necessity of having supplies of these syrettes distributed over a Januray 12 here, to discuss plans for | the coming congressional elections. ship where they will be immedi- | ately available. Morphine supplies | He also had planned a meeting of | must be guarded closely and the | the National Committee. Both these usual practice has been to keep the | meetings probably will be held later entire supply under lock and key in the year, after it has been clearly in one place. | demonstrated that the Republicans | The lesson of Pearl Harbor was are 100 per cent back of the effort| that distribution in many places is t0 Win the war. | essential, regardless of the incon- venience to individual commanding officers o medical officers due to Library of Congress the necessity of providing proper T Open Poster Exhibit sa!eguar(_ls. Morphine was an angel of mercy An exhibition of billboard posters | from Central and South American at Pearl Harbor. Without an ade- quate supply, the burned men would Republics will be opened formally have suffered horribly. | at the Library of Congress tomorrow Shows Need of Masks. night. The display will continue The same need of distribution, {t | through January 17. was found, applies to other medical | ComPposed of 150 posters. many of supplies and first-aid equipment, | GOvernment origin, the exhibition and to the medical personnel aboard | }5 Part of Willlam Morris Collec- ship. There were several instances | tion started in 1898. The Washing- at Pearl Harbor where sections of | o1 Soclety of Typographic Arts and ships were completely isolated by the Office of the Co-ordinator of fire and locally stored first-aid boxes | INteT-American Affairs are spon- were the only ones obtainable. soring the exhibition. The posters As never before, the n ity of are on view in the main lobby of gas masks was demonstrated, al- the Library. Later they will be though the Japanese used no gas. taken throughout the United States. Fuel oil fires caused a thick, im- penetrable black smoke mixed with explosion gases. Many sailors were | overcome as they rushed into| smoke-filled compartments without their gas masks to rescue wounded es. Another lesson was that flash lights or electric lanterns should be worn at all times by hospital corps men, and probably by other Navy personnel, attached to cords about | the neck or “lanyards” as the Navy calls them. War Industries Free Of Work Stoppages Important war industries cur- rently are entirely free from work stoppages of any kind, O. P. M.'s labor division reported yesterday. © TEARS ® BURNS Re-Woven AS GOOD AS NEW Headiocielf R seroic 1319 F N.W. Rm. 208 EVENINGS UPHOLSTERERS and DECORATORS CO. 5116 2447-49 18tn st. Nw. 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