Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1942, Page 4

A—2 %xx Plot Theory Blasted In Wreck of Train With Gold Cargo One Passenger Killed, 13 Hurt When Engine Rams Abandoned Auto By the Associated Press. PITTSTON, Pa., Jan. 5.—A speed- ing Lehigh Valley express train carrying a cargo of gold rammed an abandoned automobile and was de- railed during a blizzard near here vesterday. killing one passenger and injuring 13 others. Seven coaches and the locomotive of the 14-car Buffalo-to-New York “night flyer” sprawled zig-zag on the Susquehanna River bank, 16 miles west of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., trapping many of the 250 passengers for more than an hour. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and postal inspectors, here from Philadelphia, discounted the theory the train was wrecked in a plot to steal the shipment of $250,- 000 in gold. Owner Says Auto Stalled. State Police Sergt. J. E. Hess said | the owner of the car, Henry Meine- | feld, 38, of Scranton, Pa., told him | his car had stalled on the crossing and that he had walked to a nearby factory to find help. Mr. Meinefeld was not held The dead man was identified from a C. C. C. discharge found in his pocket as Joseph Layzock, about 40 of Chicago. Most seriously injured was Lt. Harry A. Hawk, of Sayre, stationed at Camp Croft, S. C. His| right leg was crushed and later was | amputated at Pittston Hospital. The crash occurred at 2:45 am. in the midst of a blinding snow- storm. The crossing is 200 feet from the Susquehanna River and leads to an abandoned ferry. The 250 train passengers included goldiers and sailors returning to duty. Most of them escaped injury. Baggagemaster James A. Morton, 44, of Nichols, N. Y., who suffered | fractured ribs and bruises, was the only member of the train crew in- | Jured. Wreck Called Accident. Sergt. Hess said investigation con- ’ vinced him the wreck was acci- | dental. He said he did not know the destination of the gold cargo. The automobile was knocked 100 yards and demolished. Trainmen and passengers in the undamaged cars used sledgehammers and crow- bars to free those in the derailed cars. Physicians, nurses and ambulances from Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and Pittston rushed over snow-drifted | roads to give first aid. The 13 in- Jured passengers were rushed to the | Pittston Hospital while other pas- | sengers were treated at the scene | and then taken by bus to Lehighton, : Pa.. where they were put on another train. Bay State C. I. 0. Outlaws Strikes for Duration Br the Associated Press. BOSTON, Jan. 5—The Massa- chusetts C. I. O. pledged itself yes- terday to settle all industrial dis- putes by negotiation or arbitration without strikes during the war, and appointed a committee to work out an industrial peace policy in co- | operation with the State Federation | of Labor (A. F. L). | The pledges were made in resolu- tions adopted at an emergency con- vention or the C. I. O. Council, fol- lowing by one day the adoption of similar resolutions by the A. F. L. Federation. | Quick adoption of the C. I. O.! program followed a speech by Pres dent Salerno, who declared that labor must “prove to the world that free labor.” | “Speedier production means speed- | fer victory,” Mr. Salerno said., labor can outproduce slave | Takoma Park Woman Found Shot to Death Mrs. Elizabeth Carroll Grice, 33, of 7714 Wildwood drive, Takoma Park, was found last night shot through the heart in a second- floor bedroom of her home. | received Parliament’s | support. | presented the proposals to a nine- | Saturday PITTSTON, PA.—GOLD TRAIN THE EVENING WRECKED BY STALLED AUTO —Seven cars of a Lehigh Valley express train, which State police said was carrying $250,000 in gold, lie wrecked beside the roadbed here after hitting a stalled and abandoned auto STAR, WASHINGT . C, early yesterday. Below: A wrecking crew is hoisting the locomotive from the ditch. One was Killed and 13 injured in the wreck. —A. P. Wirephotos. Denmark’s King Balks At Nati Insistence On Anti-Jewish Laws Christian Refuses To Override Cabinet, Threatens Abdication By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN, Foreign Correspondent of The Star and | Chicago Daily News LONDON, Jarf: 5.—King Christian X of Denmark has threatened to abdicate because of German in- sistence that Denmark adopt the Nurenberg laws, it is learned in| London. Christian’s threat came last Satur- day as the climax of a long series of political maneuverings by three pro- Nazi members of the Danish gov- ernment and their German backers. The trouble started when anti- Jewish legislation was prepared and presented to the cabinet by Foreign Minister Erik Scavenius, Minister of Transport Gunnar-Larsen, who in- cidentally is head of the Portland Cement Co., and Minister of Justice Th. Jacobsen. At the meeting of ministers last Thursday their pro- posals were rejected by the other ministers and Premier Stauning re- fused to present them to the King. When Scavenius subsequently ap- proached tHe King and asked him to override the cabinet, the King refused and indicated he would ap- prove the proposals only if they unanimous The Nazi Ministers then man special committee which on rejected them unani- mously. The Germans then de- manded that the laws be accepted immediately. It was then that the King an- nounced that if they persisted in the demands and attempted to force their acceptance, he would abdicate. It is not known whether the Ger- mans have backed down, but if they have not, the King's abdication may be expected within a few days. (Copyrignt, 1942, by Chicago Daily News.) Dutch to Bomb Jap Ships Seeking Oil at Sarawak By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 5—Lt. Gen. Hein ter Poorten, commander in chief of the Netherlands Indies Army, de- clared today in an article that the Netherlands Indies Air Force would “bomb hell” out of any Japanese ship attempting to obtain oil from wells captured in Sarawak, British Boreno. Writing in the Netherlands gov- | ernment paper Voice of Netherlands published in London, he said the Japanese were draining small quan- tities from the Sarawak wells despite reports that the British destroyed them. The prime need for defense of the | Indies, he asserted, is equipment and replacement of supplies from the | United States and Britain, partic- ularly aircraft. “We are prepared to defend our- selves to the utmost of our capabil- ities, realizing the key position in which we find ourselves as a result | of Japanese advances in the Philip- pines and Malaya,” he added. ‘Job Insurance Payments Increase in 30 States | By the Associated Press. | Paul V. McNutt, Federal security administrator, reported today that Job-insurance payments increased in 30 States during November, reflect- | ing unemployment due to priorities and curtailment orders and | porary lay-offs in plants retooling | for war production, plus the normal seasonal declines in many fields. However, decreases in such pay- tem- | Stockholm to be at their worst since the armistice.) City Council Suspended. Secrefary fo Vichy | nature of the incident at Brest, but | they were informed it was so serious as to cause the suspension yesterday of the entire City Council, including . Cabinef Member 's Found Dead ;the Mayor. Whatever happened | occurred during an inaugural cere- Mungled Body Discovered ‘mfl&;ny for the Council, just taking : office Beside Railroad Tracks Near Flamboin-Gouaiz Brest is where the German battle- ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the cruiser Prinz Eugen are be- | | lieved laid up for repairs. The port, | By the Associated Press. often blasted by the R. A. F., was | VICHY, Unoccupied Prance, Jan.|bombed again Friday and Saturday | 5.—The battered body of Yves Per- | nights. | ringaux, chief secretary to Interior | . ’I'hem:au:ze of the Paris qurfew or- ) Minister Pierre Pucheu, has beenih:.e‘ D Wy et ewmewics found along the railroad tracks be-, The Paris outburst is the first of | tween Paris and Troyes, in German- | any consequence reported in Occu- occupied France, it was announced |Pied France since German firing iy i squads shot 100 Frenchmen at Nan- | - 3 tes and Bordeaux last October in (The Berlin radio at first broad- | reprisal for the slaying of two Ger- cast that both M. Perringaux and | man officers and held 100 more as M. Pucheu had been found dead, |hostages after last-minute reprieves presumably the victims of assas- | from executions. sins, but later changed its story to say that only M. Perringaux was killed. (It gave no explanation for withdrawing the original story, although it previously had an- | nounced that an investigation into what was said then to be two deaths had been started. (Whether M. Perringauy was traveling with M. Pucheu was not | disclosed.) M. Perringaux’s body was said to | Pepco Worker Burned Charles Stansbury, 32, of 3618 O street, Potomac Electric Power Co. employe, was burned severely today | as he was working in a manhole in | the 400 block of Eleventh street S.W. | | Cause of the burns was not d | termined. Mr. Stansbury was ad- | mitted to Casualty Hospital. MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1942. Two Oflicjals Testify Against Transferring Federal-Agencies President Wants Workers! Kept Here if Shift Causes Them ‘Undue Hardship’ .Joseph B, Eastman, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, and Abner H. Ferguson, Fed- eral Housing Administrator, today told 8 House subcommittee that re- moval of these agencies from Wash- ington would seriously retard their efficiency and effectiveness. was quoted by the Civil Service Commission as wanting Federal em- ployes to be kept here in cases where agencies would cause “undue hard- ship.” The Commission announced this today in a circular, but qual- ified it with the provision that trans- fers must not impair the efficiency of the moved agencies. Mr. Eastman and Mr. Ferguson testified before the Downs subcom- mittee of the House Public Build- ings and Grounds Committee, which is nearing the close of a series of public hearings on a proposed Gov- ernment decentralization program. Meanwhile President Roosevelt | sending them out of town with their | several patent attorneys. Henry | C. Parker, chairman of the Patents Committee of the American Insti- tute of Chemical Engineers, de- scribed the various difficulties to be encountered by both patent lawyers and Government.agencies in main- | taining contact with the office in Richmond. He said, too, inventors | may think the Government is no longer interested in inventions, and added: “A single invention may win this war.” Representative Downs said a sug- | gestion had been made that the | United Statess Chamber of Com- merce “decentralize” so some of the | | space in its “large and beautiful | building” could be used by the Gov- | | ernment. | The subcommittee expects to con- | | clude the hearings at 10 a.m. tomor- | |row Called as the final witnesses | | are representatives of the National | | Labor Relations Board and the | Office of Price Administration. Lee Opposes Decentralizing. Senator Lee, Democrat, of Okla- | decentralizing Government activ. ities, but said if the moving of through, the Indian Bureau should be in Oklahoma and prepared a bill so providing. Arguing against the decentralizing program, Senator Lee pointed out it will make it difficult for members | of Congress to transact business | with Government agencies. He pointed out also that citizens having “Serious” and “Adverse” Effects. “Serious” and “adverse” were the words used by Mr. Eastman to describe the effect on the commis- sion if it should be shifted to some other city. business to transact with Govern- | ment departments now can come to Washington and go from one de- partment to another. Under de- centralization, he said, they may have to journey to several cities. Noting how rapidly temporary | homa also came out today against | bureaus from Washington is going | He pointed oyt that most of the | pujldings have been erected here in commission’s 2017 employes here the last few months, Senator Lee are “deeply rooted,” that 57 per cent | said it seemed to him adequate space | with salaries of $2,000 or more either | could be provided here almost as | own or are buying their own homes. | quickly as the older agencies can be U. 5. Navy fo Operate From Australasian Station, Curfin Says America’s Role Gives Great Encouragement, Prime Minister Asserts By the Associated Press. MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 5.— Prime Minister John Curtin an- nounced yesterday that under the united nations’ strategy the United States Navy will operate from an Australasian station. Declaring Australia’s strategic po- sition vitally important in the plan of Britain, the United States, the Netherlands Indies and Austraiia to fight and work together, Mr Cur- | tin said: “The part which American forces will play gives great encourage- ment, and we vividly recall the statement of the commander of the | United States naval squadron which recently visited Australia, ‘You talk |like us and fight like us.' That | United States naval units will op- erate in an Australasian station is a natural sequel to that declara- tion.” (The term Australasia is a loose term which might include New Zealand, the Netherlands Indies, the Malay archipelago and the numerous surrounding archi- pelagos as well as Australia. (The United States naval com- mander referred to by Mr. Curtin was Rear Admiral John H. New- ton, who led a squadron of seven United States warships to Aus- tralia on & good-will visit last March.) Further, he expressed the belief the commission would lose the serv- ices of a great many of them if it should be moved. Mr. Eastman also sald the cofn- mission and the newly-created Of- fice of Defense Transportation which he heads are working closely with defense agencies in their war effort. Representative Manasco, Demo- |crat, of Alabama inquired if addi- tional space could be provided in the ! commission’s offices if the staff Vichy sources did not reveal the ' worked an around-the-clock sched- | ule. | “Off hand,” he replied, “I would say it would be difficult 1o work out a 24-hour schedule satisfactory to the public. But I will be glad to give attention to the suggestion.” Would “Thoroughly Disrupt” F. H. A. | Removal from Washington of the F. H A, Mr. Ferguson told the subcommittee, would “thoroughly disrupt” the organization for many months. Not more than 50 per cent of the organization's 1700 employes here, he predicted, would | go_with it. The staff of the F. H. A, he pointed out, is highly technical. Even the stenographers have been | trained to familiarize themselves vith technfcal language, he d, nd their replacement with equally qualified employes in another city would be difficult. | Moreover, Mr. Ferguson declared the F H. A. is largely decentralized, | 70 per cent of its personnel being scattered in 105 field offices through- out the country. R. Granville Curry, an attorney who practices before the I. C. C., supported Mr. Eastman’s opposition to its removal. He outlined the hardships that would be caused by such a plan. Patent Office Echoes. An echo of the removal of the | moved to other cities. Forays Extended. The civil service circular said: “It is the desire of the President | that as many employes as possible move with the agencies affected by the decentralization program,” the Commission said. “But it is also his desire that those agencies release for transfer all employes on whom the move will work undue hardship if they can be spared without seri- ously impairing the operating effi- ciency of the agency. Other Agencies Must Co-operate. “Agencies that are not affected by ‘the program will be expected to re- lease as many employes as possible | of those who wish to transfer to agencies removed from Washington to the States, preference being given to those employes originally residing in such States | _“In addition, the Civil Service | Commission will recruit eligibles in the States to which the agencies will be moved, and those eligibles can be drawn upon to replace the rest of the employes released in Washington.” In a statement accompanying the | circular, the commission said that stenographers, typists and other classes of personnel are wanted for service with the Patent Office, Im- migration and Naturalization Serv- ice and Rural Electrification Admin- istration, in Richmond, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Certain professional and technical employes also are wanted for the Patent Office. Non-Civil Service Jobs, In those instances where employes holding positions exempted from | civil service requirements seek to re- | main here, the commission said, their qualifications will be studied to determine if they might be assigned | to civil service positions for which registers have become exhausted. In no case, however, it was added, will Almost simultaneously with Mr. | Curtin’s announcement, Japanese bombers ‘extended their forays to within 800 miles of Australia, twice | bombing the Australian air force | airdrome at Rabaul on the island |of New Britain in the Bismarck | archipelago. In the first attack, a communique said, a few bombs were dropped, and some damage was done to | installations at the field and a few | natives in the vicinity were killed or wounded. In the second attack, 11 bombers participated. | The first atack, made by long- | range bombers which presumably flew from Japanese-mandated islands, evidently was the result of Japanese curiosity as to the activities taking place in the archipelago. for the official communique said they were |on a reconnaissance flight. | Scattered Widely. An attempt was made to intercept them after the attack, but they scattered widely and made pursuit impractical. The Japanese previously have re- ported reconnaissance flights in the direction of Australia, and they have bombed Ocean Island, 1200 miles east of Rabaul The Bismarck archipelago, which #des almost under the Equator, ex- | tends north and east of Papua, the Australian-mandated half of the island of New Guinea. The other half belongs to the Netherlands | Indies. Rabaul itself is about 300 ! miles northeast of New Guinea. Third Division Society The Washington branch of the Third Division Society of the A E. F. will hold its first meeting of the year at the American Legion Clubhouse, 2437 Fifteenth street Patent Office to Richmond, Va. the commission seek to locate other N.W. at 8 p.m. Wednesday, John A. came to the subcommittee from excepted positions for this class. | Rees, president, announced have been found in a mangled con- | dition near the station of Flamboin- Gouaix, about two-thirds of the way between Paris and Troyes. He had taken a train in Paris last night | en route to Belfort, in Alsace. | Troyes is in the Aube Depsrt-i ment, about 85 miles southeast of | ments in the other 18 States more | : than offset the increases, and job- Paris. insurance disbursements for the| M. Perringaux was a member | whole country dropped in November | of the extreme Rightist party of the to a new low of $21,066,400. | turncoat Communist, Jacques Do- Placements by the 1500 United | riot. He had been M. Pucheu's aide States Employment Service offices |since the interior minister first declined in November, especially in | entered the Vichy government as the arigcultural States which nor- | secretary of industrial production, mally experience sharp reductions |but only recently had been made after the harvest season. In all, | chief secretary. 406.000 jobs were filled during the | In his early forties and still un- Prince Georges County police said —_—— Mrs. Grice was cleaning the house . . and had taken down & 32 catibre Dr. John O. Evjen Dies revolver in a holster from a closet CHICAGO, Jan.5 (#).—Dr. John O. shelf in the room when the gun | Evjen, 67, dean of Carthage Col- apparently went off. Dr. James I |lege, Carthage. Ill., and well-known Boyd, Prince Georges County cor- | lecturer and church historian, died oner, is investigating. | of a heart ailment yesterday. Comeback for Horses Unlikely Despite Auto and Tire Bans ;the added manpower necessary to 5—The use horses and mules. And as far as city transfer and By the Asscciated Pross. KANSAS CITY, Jan. comeback trail looks like a long, hard pull for Old Dobbin. and truck restrictions, go, it's too Notwithstanding prohibition of | expensive to support a horse, except gales of automobiles and tires to |as a last restort. | delivery concerns, hit by the tire | tober, but 12 per cent more than November, 1940. Reporter Fells Bandit, Takes Him to Station By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5. — Jack Cravens, 28, police reporter for a Los Angeles newspaper, created his own news today. police station with a 22-year-old youth, who, he said, held him up with a gun and took his wallet. When the gunman started to re- | move Mr. Cravens’ wrist watch, | the reporter struck his assailant | with a right to the jaw, then dis- | armed him. He appeared at the Hollywood! month, 24 per cent fewer than Oc- ysually vigorous, he was conspicuous among Frenchmen for his height of almost 6 feet 3 inches. Parisians smarted under a new German punishment in the form of a partial 5 p.m. curfew after fresh anti-Nazi incidents in Paris and the German-occupied Atlantic port of Brest. (The Berlin radio said the Paris curfew was placed on cafes | and other public places, because unidentified assailants had ex- ploded a bomb in a restaurant frequented by Germans. The radio said there were no victims and only slight material damage was caused. (The incidents coincided with an apparent chilling of French- German relations, reported in such an opportunity as in a really fine $55 KILDAIRE TWE OVERCOAT—here are IMPORTED FABRICS! At Sharp Reductions! We can’t remember a more impressive line-up of woolen names than these O'Coats present . . . and such magnificent tailoring, representative of the best needlework in this country. And an important point to consider in this SALE is the fact that we honestly believe it will be many years before this will be possible again. 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A normal 58 S4s Neze IS EyiCronibieofia berdean Scatluna Radica 0 ot with husband or wife, who have an | tax of 4 per cent on the amount of s for Last 24 Hours. s aggregate gross income of $1,500 or | the net income in excess of the | (Prom noon yestétday to maon today.) ami, Fla o Use Our Y% in 3 Charge Plan—Pay % Feb, 15th @ % March 15th @ Y% Apr. 15th more. allowable credits against net income | , HIghest. 40. at 4:10 p.m. yesterday. Year NOs-S); Tagh jinn..—- 28 —18 ‘When must returns be filed? For | (personal exemption, credits for de- | Lowest. 32. at 6:30 a.m. today. Year gg g the calendar year 1941, on or before | pendents, interest on obligations of | *** 25 Prodtattation. 11 1 . March 16, 1942. For the fiscal year, ‘ the United States and its instru- | Monthly precipitation in_ inches in the % 29 on or before the 15th day of the | mentalities and earned income |Capital (current month to date): Phoe B2 third - month following the fiscal | credit) in the computation of the | ;,Month. 04 ave. et LR - year. normal tax net income, and a gigg 688 84 Por 35 i; ‘Where and with whom must in- |graduated surtax on the amount of .sjé? 513 R B T {?, e 4 eome tax returns be filed? In the | net income in excess of the allow- | Ma: DRy 2 & - | (] internal revenue district in which | able credits (personal exemption and | July 471 1083 88 | sg 1’ h a the person lives or has his chief | credits for dependents) against net i apg 3 $ 2 > vend piace of business, and with the col- income in the cagiputation of the 33 1148 2 B3 > tor of internal revenue. surtax net incom ;i; 238 0 © n >