Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1942, Page 9

Strategic Post Given Maj. Gen. Reckord as Third Corps Chief New Commander for 29th Guard Division May Be Named Soon Designation of a new commander | of the 29th.National Guard Division of the District, Maryland and Vir- ginia is expected to be announced 800n to succeed Maj. Gen. Milton A Reckord, veteran Marylander, who ‘was assigned yesterday to command the 3d Corps Area headquarters in Baltimore. Maj. Gen. Henry C. Pratt, who has been in command in Baltimore since August 14, was given another command yesterday. There has been no announcement from the War Department, however, as to the nature of his new duties. Gen. Reckord’s transfer combat forcse to administrative duties has been expected ever since he reached his 62d birthday anni- versary December 28. Strategic Post. Officials at the War Department said that Gen. Reckord’s services would be available to the Army in one of the most important posts in the nine corps areas of the military establishment. The Baltimore head- quarters has jurisdiction over the{ District, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, and next to the 1st Corps Area is probably one of the most strategic- spots. Gen. Reckord is one of the best known as well as one of the ablest National Guard officers in the coun- try. He has spent 38 years in the Maryland National Guard, serving ! from private to its highest command. | He has taken a prominent part fn Maryland politics as well &s its National Guard and was adjutant | general of the State when called | into active Federal duty on Febru- | ary 3, 1941. He is also national | from executive vice president of the Na- | tional Rifle Association of America. Served in France. Gen. Reckord served with the 29th Division in France during the World War as commanding officer of the 115th Infantry. The Army | awarded him the Distinguished Serv- {ce Medal. When the 29th Division was de- -mobilized in 1919 he accepted a commission as colonel of infantry in the Officers’ Reserve Corps and two years later was made a colonel in the adjutant general's office of the Maryland National Guard. He was promoted to a brigadier general in July. 1921: to brigadier general | of the line on March 21, 1924, and | to major general on April 14, 1934. As commanding officer of the 29th Division at Fort Meade, Gen. Rec- kord supervised the training of this National Guard outfit since the mo- | bilization started. He was in com- | «mand of its field maneuvers in Vir- | ginia and more recently in the | Carolinas. Gen. Pratt Is 59. | Gen. Pratt, whom he succeeds at | headquarters of the Third Corps Area, is 59 vears old and a West | | MAJ.GEN. MILTON RECKORD. —Harris & Ewing Photo. | 'First-Hand Account 0f London Bombings Given Citizens Dupont Circle Association Told Raids Can Last Through the Night | An Englishman’s advice to Wash- | ington residents preparing for | eventual air raids is that raids are | not always over in half an hour and | that when incendiary bombs begin | to fall, they can drop “like hail- | stones.” This warning came yesterday from | H.H.Le Cheminant, assistant direc- | tor of the British Purchasing Com- mission here, who gave a first hand account of London's raids. He was | the principal speaker at the monthly meeting of the Dupont Circle Cit- izens’ Association in the Mayflower | Hotel. He also suggested that families provide at least one completely blacked room in the home so that | “life might go on” and that some | member of the family become pro- | ficient in first aid to take care of in- juries before the doctor arrives. Some air raids go on all night, he | remarked, “whether you have to get to work the next day or not” He added: “It's not really uncom- fortable under your diping room table provided you have a matress.” Thousands of people in London slept that way for weeks, he said, and “went to work each following day.” Mr. Le Cheminant said it was a vic responsibzility in England for persons to extinguish incendiaries that fell in their neighborhood. “A | person who doesn't dispose of in- cendiaries dropped on his place is not doing his duty.” He also sug- gested that attics be cleared of a cumulation as incendiaries frequen ly dropped through roofs and burned ere. | ek | He said such bombs were more of | a nuisance value than actually dan- . | during his long public career, for THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1942. Senator Glass, 84, Hears Praises by His Colleagues ‘Great Wisdom, Fiery Condor’ Lauded After Virginian's Birthday | Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir- | ginia, who had celebrated his 84th birthday anniversary just the day before, heard his “great wisdom” and his “flery candor” in tributes that took up & large share of the Senate’s time on the opening day of the new session yesterday. After hearing his colleagues heap praises on his life and record, the veteran Virginia lawmaker shook hands warmiy with a host of Demo- cratic and Republican Senators who went to his chair to extend per- sonal best wishes. The eldest member of the Senate, Mr. Glass shared attention on the opening day with the newest Sena- tor, Eugene D. Millikin, Denver attorney, who was sworn in by Vice President Wallace to fill the seat vacated December 1 by the death of Senator Adams, Democrat, of Colo- rado. Millikin Sworn In, Mr. Millikin, a Republicai ap- pointed by Gov. Ralph Carr of Colo- rado o the Senate seat, was es- corted to the rostrum by Senator Johnson, Democrat, of Colorado. In the House, another new Re- publican member of Congress from Colorado, Robert F. Rockwell, was sworn in by Speaker Sam Rayburn. Mr. Rockwell was elected December 9 to succeed the late Representative Edward T. Taylor, Democrat from Colorado’s 4th district. Senator Glass' junior colleague, Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir- ginia, opened the series of formal speeches in tribute to him. He was joined by Majority Leader Barkley, Minority Leader McNary, Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas and Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee. Hgh Praise Given Glass. Mr. Glass, Senator Byrd said, “grows finer and better and more splendid each day. I know that I voice the unanimous desire of the | Senate of the United States that he | may be with us for many years to come, serving as he is now as a Sen- ator of the United States of great courage, great wisdom and of ines- timable value to our country.” Senator Barkley asserted that| Glass “has not only enjoyed com- paratively long life, but has enjoyed the opportunity, and he has fulfilled that opportunity during most of that long life, to render distin- guished service to his State and to | | his Nation. “There is no man, regardless of any differences with respect to in- dividual issues that may have arisen whom the American people have a | greater affection and a higher regard | than for Senator Glass.” | Senator McNary said his admira- | gerous to human life. Discussing attempts at biackouts here. Mr. Le Chaminant said we would have to make up our minds tion for Senator Glass was because of his “aggressive forthrightness, | his fiery candor and his superb | ability,” and Senator Connally said Point graduate of 1904. Serving in ' of a complete blackout “sooner or | “the "standards of the past, the the Cavalry during his earlier years | later.” He added that our fire standards of Virginia from the early in the Army he transferred to the | engine sirens were confusing and | d8¥s of the Republic. are in no wise | Air Corps immediately after the[that when he first came to this | ‘World War. From 1930 to 1934 he | country and heard one, he ran for | served as assistant chief of the Air | shelter. Corps. Capt. William L. Clemens, director Gen. Pratt has been commander of | of public relations for District civil- | Jowered in the hands of the great and good Senator from Virginia.” Need 6f-Fé;iing Station Text of President Roosevelt's Message (Continued From First Page.) tions will so dispose our forces that we can strike at the common enemy wherever the greatest damage can be done. ‘The militarists in Berlin and Tokio started this war. But the massed, angered forces of common humanity wili finish it. World Too Small to Provide Room for Hitler and God. Destruction of the material and spiritual centers of civilization—this has been and still is the purpose of Hitler and his Italian and Japanese chessmen. They would wreck the pewer of the British Commonwealth and Russia and China and the Netherlands—and then combine all their forces to achieve their ultimate goal, the conquest of the United States. They know that victory for us means victory for freedom. ‘They know that victory for us means victory for the institution of democracy—the ideal of the family, the simple principles of common de- cency and humanity. They know that victory for us means victory for religion. And they could not tolerate that. The world is too small to provide adequate “living room” for both Hit- ler and God. In proof of that, the Nazis have now announced their plan for enforcing their new Ger- man, pagan religion throughout the world—the plan by which the Holy Bible and the Cross of Mercy would be displaced by “Mein Kampf” and the swastika and the naked sword. Our own objectives are clear; the objective of smashing the militarism imposed by war lords upon their en- slaved peoples—the objective of lib- erating the subjugated nations—the objective of establishing and secur- ing freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear everywhere in the world. | Superiority in Weapons Must Be Overwhelming. We shall not stop short of these objectives—nor shall we be satisfied merely to gain them and then call it a day. I know that I speak for the American people—and I have good reason to believe I speak also for all the other peoples who fight with us—when I say that this time we are determined not only to win the war, but also to maintain the security of the peace which will follow. But modern methods of war fare make it a task, not only of | shooting and fighting, but an even more urgent one of working and producing. Victory requires the actual wea- pons of war and the means of trans- | porting them to a dozen points of | combat. | It will not be sufficient for us and | the other United Nations to produce | a slightly superior supply of muni- | tions to that of Germany, Japan, Italy and the stolen industries in the countries which they have over- run. The superiority of the United Nations in munitions and ships must be overwhelming—so overwhelming that the Axis nations can never hope to catch up with it. to attain this overwhelming superi- ority the United States must build planes and tanks and guns and ships to the utmost limit of our national capacity. capacity to produce arms not only | for our own forces, but also for the | armies, navies and air forces fi ing on our side. Production Must Be Raised ght- In order | We have the ability and | ments of war will give the Japanese and Nazis a little idea of just what they accomplished in the attack on Pear]l Harbor. every existing armament-producing facility to the and their brothers on the fronts. Production for war is based on metals and raw materials—steel, copper, rubber, aluminum, zinc, tin. Greater and greater quantities of them will have to be diverted to war purposes. Civilian use of them will have to be cut further and still fur- ther—and, in many cases, completely eliminated. $56,000,000,000 War Budget More Than Half National Income. ‘War costs money. So far, we have hardly even begun to pay for it. We have devoted only 15 per cent of our national income to national defense. As will appear in my budget message tomorrow, our war program for the coming fiscal year will cost $56,000,- 000,000, or in other words, more than one-half of the estimated annual national income. This means taxes and bonds and bonds and taxes. It means cutting luxuries and other non-essentials. In a word, it means an “all-out” war by individual effort and family effort in a united coun- try. Only this all-out scale of produc- tion will hasten the ultimate all-out victory. Speed will count. Lost ground can always be regained— lost time never. Speed will save lives; speed will save this Nation which is in peril; speed will save our freedom and civilization—and slow- ness has never been an American characteristic. As the United States goes into its full stride, we must always be on guard against misconceptions which will arise naturally or which will be planted among us by our enemies. Nation Must Be on Guard Against Cemplacency. We must guard against com- placency. We must not underrate the enemy. He is powerful and cunning—and cruel and ruthless. | He will stop at nothing which gives him a chance to kill and to destroy. He has trained his people to believe that their highest perfection is achieved by waging war. For many years he has prepared for this very conflict—planning, plotting, train- ing, arming, fighting. We have al- ready tasted defeat. We may suffer further setbacks. We must face the fact of a hard war, a long war, a | bloody war, a costly war. We must, on the other hand, guard against defeatism. That has been one of the chief weapons of Hitler's propaganda machine—used | time and again with deadly results. | It will not be used successfully on | the American people. We must guard against divisions among ourselves and among all the | other united nations. We must be particularly vigilant against racial g | 1 | | | é& B Bgl 53397393 vivors of that great fight are lib- erated and restored to their homes they will léarn that 130,000,000 of their fellow citizens have been in- spired to render their own full share of service and ice. ‘War Will End Only With End Of Axis Militarism. Our men on the fighting fronts have already proved that Americans today are just as rugged and just as tough as any of the heroes whose exploits we celebrate on the Fourth of July. Many people ask, “When will this war end?” There is only one answer to that. It will end just as soon as we make it end, by our combined efforts, our combined strength, our combined determination to fight through and work through until the end—the end of militarism in Ger- many and Italy and Japan. Most certainly we shall not settle for less. That is the spirit in which dis- cussions have been conducted dur- ing the visit of the British Prime Minister to Washington. Mr. Churchill and I understand each other, our motives and our purposes. Together, during the past two weeks, we have faced squarely the major military and economic problems of this greatest world war. All in our Nation have been cheered by Mr. Churchill's visit. We have been deeply stirred by his great message to us. We wish him a safe return to his home. He is welcome in our midst, now and in days to come. No Return to Kind of World We Had After Last War. ‘We are fighting on the same side | with the British people, who fought | alone for long, terrible months and withstood the enemy with fortitude and tenacity and skill. We are fighting on the same side with the Russian people who have | seen the Nazi hordes swarm up to| the very gates of Moscow, and who with almost superhuman will and | courage have forced the invaders| back into retreat. We are fighting on the same side as the brave people of China who for four and a half long years have withstood bombs and starvation and have whipped the invaders time and again in spite of superior Japanese equipment and arms. We are fighting on the same side as the indomitable Dutch. ‘We are fighting on the same side as all the other governments in exile, whom Hitler and all his armies and ‘ French Africa Press Warns Vichy Germans May Occupy Washington Accused in Article of Attempting To Provoke Incident - By the Associated Press. VICHY, Unoccupied France, Jan. 6—The warning that Germany might occupy French Africa unless Vichy swung back to closer harmony with Berlin was given Frenchmen today in an article filling most of the front page of the newspaper Nouveaux Temps. It was the most sensational dec- laration so far in the current anti- government offensive in the Paris press. Its author, Jean Luchaire, accused ‘Washington of attempting deliber- ately to provoke such an incident and thus divert Nazi energies through an African campaign. German occupation of French Af- rica would take several months | against the resistance of the French there, he said, and the Nazis would not return it after the war. M. Luchaire warned that a vic- torious Germany might partition France permanently after the war if further provoked. He said there was a change of attitude in Vichy which he at- tributed to a growing French conviction that the war tide had turned against Germany and to backstage intrigues by United States Ambassador Admiral Wil- liam Leahy, whom he pictured as 8 “Mephistopheles” using Mar- shal Petain as his “Faust.” More Bombings in Paris. Dispatches from Nazi-occupied Paris last night told of two more bombings at German centers there, coincident with a declaration by the recently wounded Marcel Deat, a leading French advocate of €0-0p- | eration with the Nazis, that Mar- | shal Petain’s government had turned | against collaboration with Germany | since the entry of the United States | into war. The German announcement yes- terday of a 5 pm. curfew in Paris said it had been instituted “follow- | ing various attacks committed with the ald of bombs in the past few days. In the evening of January 3 notably, infernel machines were ex- ploded before a German bookshop on the Rue de Bassano and before the Soldiers’ Club.” | Attributed to Leahy Efforts. | M. Deat charged that the Petain regime had jollied along the Ger- mans until Britain grew stronger and America entered the war. He attributed this alleged change in course largely to the efforts of Ad- miral Leahy. Admiral Leahy, M. Deat said in a Paris radio address which was the latest in a series of attacks on Mar- | shal Petain since his New Year Day | speech, had promised a swift vic- | tory over the Axis by the United | Nations. This, he went on, was a promise which the United States was in no position to fulfiil since it now was defending itself in the Far East. M. Deat, who was shot and wound- |ing the Allies and in threatening | counter-action if Vichy did not toe | the line of collaboration: ““Anglo-Americano-Bolshevo - De- gaullist!” Central Labor Union Opposes Moving of Federal Agencies Committee Also Set Up To Solicit Funds for Civilian Defense Washington Central Labor Union « last night adopted a resolution op- posing transfer of Federal agéncies from the Capital and set up a spe- cial committee to solicit afi unions for a fund to contribute to- ward civilian defense here. Prank J. Coleman, recording sec- retary of C. L. U, informed the group's meeting at Typographical Temple that the joint legislative conference of the American Federa- tion of Labor and the Railroad Brotherhoods had authorized A. F. L. President Willlam Green to re- quest President Roosevelt to post- pone any agency transfers until the costs of such moves were detere mined. C. L. U. suggested in its resolution that transfers be averted by placing Federal workers on two or three shifts a day and by more rapid construction of temjJurary buildings. This action is in contrast to that of the Maryland-District C. I. O. in favoring the transfers. The new Defense Fund Commit= tee, created by another resolution, will hold its first meeting Thursday night. It is composed of one rep- resentative from each of the trade unions affiliated with the Central Union. Mr. Coleman explained its pur- pose will be to raise money to “buy one or two ambulances for civilian defense here, equip mobile field kitchens for air raids, or equip light delivery trucks for ambu- lances, or to help out on any other equipment the Commissioners may desire.” Some organizations, he said, al- ready plan to assess their members from $1 to a full day's pay for this fund. John Locher was unanimously re- elected president of Central Labor Union at last night's session. Alse re-elected were Charles B. Mc- Closky, vice president; Mr. Cole- man, recording secretary; Robert Lester, financial secretary; James A. Holden, treasurer; Michael Toz- zalo, sgrgeant at arms; Frank W, Lee and D. C Dow, trustees. Ernest Fontana was named a trustee to succeed Harry J. Thomp- son, Brewery Workers' Union, who became ineligible when his union was suspended by the last A. F. L. National Convention. Highway Bridge Closed For Hour by Draw Break A bearing in the draw mechanism of Highway Bridge broke while the draw was being closed about 6:45 o'clock last night and traffic had to | be rerouted over Memorial Bridge | until 7:55 o'clock, when temporary repairs were made. | Presley Griffin, in charge of the | draw, said the bearing was located in the south end of the draw. The break caused the street on the draw to drop down about four inches. The | 3ate was being closed after letting an | oil barge through when the mech- anism got out of order. | Automobiles on the bridge when the break came turned around and the Air Corps Tactical School and | jan defense, reported that the local in 1940 commanded the Philippine | warden system was going shead Division. In that year he was | “faster than we thought,” but added | promoted to major general and as- | that the District was in need of signed to headquarters of the Sth more auxiliary firemen. 1 Corps Area in San Prancisco. He said Fire Chief Stephen C. He was made commander of the Porter had informed the Commis- Second -Army Corps on November | sioners he encountered difficulties in 20. 1940, with headquarters at Fort | getting the required number of | Meade. M;jl. The headquarters of volunteers. this command subsequently was — Harral Milliken. second vice presi- | changed to Wilmington, Del, and | dent, presided in the absence of I SIE bl Gestupo Ty nok able crossed by Memorial Bridge. Big been trucks, however, could not make the turn and had to wait until repair was made. Soldiers guarding the structure aided in directing trafic, Far Above Present Levels. ‘ S'a“s Ufged ai Mee“ng [ And our overwhelming superiority | Though stressing the urgent need ;fl“:::m'm B’;‘“:Lb:!‘g::“;;e to | pons oper | for emergency food and housing |time int tne hands of those men | preparations in civilian defense, | in the conquered nations, who stand | Franklyn C. Sartwell of the Me- ready to seize the first opportunity | fac | ue of falsehood - | No Successful Compromise tropolis View Citizens' Association | ";’ revolt against their German and | mongegmg with which n:g ivided | Botween Geod and Evil. last night congratulated the asso- | apanese oppressors, and against ’Prlnce from Britain. He is trying to | ciation on its fine cb-operation in g’_f traitors in their own ranks, | do this with us even now. But he | volunteering for these jobs. oD of ucihe already infamous | yill find & unity of will and pure | ™ Mr. Sartwell said many more RN&8me of “Quislings.” As we get | discrimination in any of fits Ugly | 14 conquer. forms. Hitler will try again 10| "Byt we of the united nations are breed mistrust and suspicion be- | not making all this sacrifice of hu- tween one individual and another, man effort and human lives to Te- one group and another, one Mece | ¢ m to the kind of world we had| and another, one government and after the last World War. another. He will try to use the same 1 { Nazis Set Deadline |For Giving Up Firearms BERLIN, Jan. 6 (Official Broad- | cast) (#).—The German military commander for Belgium and North- ern France announced yesterday Sem—— that the ulation would be given L Y ones| NOW YOU'LL HEAR Him ON last opportunity to surrender fire- | TUESDAYS We are fighting today for security, arms without penalty up to January | r progress and for peace, not only | 20 and that after that date any one | r. | for ourselves, but for all men, not | found in possession of arms would on August 14, last. he took over president L. M. Leisenring. duties with the Third Corps Area, £ SR D. C. Attorney, Victim Col. Henry Bankhead To Return to Army |Of Hammer Atfack, Dies By the Associated Press. A 24-year-old former convict was | le must be found to organize | 8uns to the patriots in those lands, mng stations and emer‘gency | they t00 will fire shots heard 'round housing throughout the community. | the world. Most people, though interested, he This production of ours in the said, do not realize the seriousness United States must be raised far | of the situation. | above its present level, even though | The recent blackout was declared | it Will mean the dislocation of the | pose against him, which will pe: | ;eivetr,f \:‘mdn ‘the destruc:ion of all|only for one generation but for lll\ | his black designs upon the freedom | |'and safety of the people of the world. | 5,’.':',.',',‘ h:::’ wo‘::i o‘{renn’t‘:?:r:‘:n:vil‘:‘ War Cannot Be Waged ancient ills. In a Defensive Spirit. | Our enemies are guided by brutal | We cannot wage this war in a de- | cynicism, by unholy contempt for | be executed. | Men Urged to Serve | Night Watch in Schools A resolution urging that men re- | OTTAWA, Jan. 6—Col. Henry Bankhead, United States commercial attache in Ottawa since July, 1933, | bas offered his services to his coun- | try in its present emergency, and | will leave Ottawa for Hot Springs, | Ark., today. Col. Bankhead during his 25 years of service with the United States Army saw experience in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, spent seven years in the Philippines and | served one year in France during the | ‘World War - “I have gone through three wars and-I feel like I've got one more | good war in my system,” he said yesterday. Malta Undergoes Series *Of Day, Night Raids By the Associated Press. . VALLETTA, Malta, Jan, 6—British headquarters announced yesterday one enemy raiding plane was| destroyed and at least two bombers.| were damaged by anti-aircraft fire | in a series.of day and night attacks that began late Sunday afternoon | and continued with seven alarms | the National Press Building. being held without bail today in New York City as the assailant of Frank C. Cole, 62-year-old Wash- ington and New York attorney who died yesterday of injuries received when attacked with a hammer in a washroom in the Chrysler Build- ing Priday, the Associated Press re- ported, The ex-convict was described by Assistant District Attorney Harold X. McGowan as “the most vicious | and brutal killer who has ever been arraigned in this court.” It was | reported that he had been released | from prison two months ago after serving part of a 5 to 10 year sen- tence on conviction of a series of washroom attacks and robberies in the business and financial district | in 19386, Mr. Cole, a specialist in patent | trademark and copyright law, was | associated here with the firm of Dorsey, Cole & Garner, located in His home was in New York. A native of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Mr. Cole was a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and was once associated with Thomas Ewing, commissioner of patents under Pres- | successful in the community | Chief Deputy Warden Boudren. The only delinquents were | | & few storekeepers who had misun- | | derstood the rules and had left one | 1ight on after closing. Mr. Boudren | | asserted that his zone had 126 | wardens on the street. The first aid | | courses avajlable at the meeting | i place two nights a week were sug- | | gested as & necessity for wardens. | Mrs. Franklyn Sartwell discussed | | plans to organize Red Croes knitting | | and sewing groups, and suggested that housewives would do well to| learn nursing also. Members were asked to co-operate | with the District’s campaign for re- | covery of waste paper, metal, cloth i and other scrap material. | Law on Fire Thefts Asked | District officials and members of | the House and Senate District Com- | mittees today were asked by the | American Automobile Association to consider legislation making the | theft of automabile tires or acces- | sories in the District a felony re- gardless of the value of the prop- erty involved. ident Wilson. sesterday. | ‘The communique reported slight | casualties and minor damage in Sun- day’s daylight attack and a few casualties in the night operations which caused four aleits, and said the planes which caused yesterday’s alarms were driven off by heavy enti-aircraft fire. Montgomery to Prepare Delinquent Tax List Soon Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md.. Jan. 6 —Within the next few days eight clerks in the | office of the county treasurer here | will begin preparation of the coun- | ty’s annual delinquent tax list, | it was announced today. Several| weeks will be required to complete the job, it was said. Many hundreds of pieces of real estate in all parts of the county| on which State and county taxes are in arrears will be listed for sale at public auction on the second Monday in April and unless taxes and inter- est are paid in the meantime, the land will be sold. His Defense Contribution GALVA, Kans. (»—Each year for 31 years A. H. Sellers has saved his old automobile license plates, Six Attempts Fa Rushing at Bloc By the Associated Press. PITTSTON, Pa, Jan. 6.—The story of frantic attempts to flag the Lehigh Valley Express was re- lated today by a State policeman who sald the wreck of the Buffalo- New York limited in which one was killed had been declared “purely accidental.” ‘The train, carrying a $250,000 cargo of gold, smashed into a stalled automobile on a crossing during a snowstorm early Sunday morning. Seven cars and the loco- motive were derailed. Joseph Lay- zock, 40, Chicago, was killed and 13 others injured. State Police Sergt. J. E. Hess put together this sequence of events which preceded the crash: Henry Meinfield, 38, of Scranton, dashed to a mearby factory when he found he was unable to move his stalled car from the crossing. There an employe telephoned a warning to & railroad dispatcher, but the train already had passed. Another worker grabbed a flashlight and ran up the track. But his light nailing them on his garage walls. ‘The other day he took them all lown and contributed them to ,Meme scrap metal pool. couldn’t pierce the blinding fall ef smow. The railroad tried in vain to hal the train by telephoning two il to Halt Train ked Crossing dispatchers along the line, but there also, the train had beaten the calls. A locomotive then was sent out in an effort to intercept the train be- fore it reached the blocked cross- ing, and from a garage down the road came a wrecking truck, but both missed their objectives by seconds. Four of he injured were released yesterday from a hospital. The condition of Lt. Harry Hawk, 28, Sayre, Pa.. remained critical. From his post at Camp Croft, 8. C., came an offer from the commanding offi- cer that he would “fly any number of men to Pittston to give blood transfusions if necessary.” Preaches for 59 Years Ninety-one-year-old R. E. Clegg traveled from Estcourt to Durban, South Africa, to conduct a service at the Jubilee Celebrations of the Social Preachers’ Convention ,and has been & Methodist lay preacher for 59 years. Over nine-tenths of all goods shipped from El Salvador are for the United States. lives and occupations of millions of | fensive spirit. As our power and the human race. We are inspired | our own people. We must raise our | OUr resources are fully mobilized, | by a faith which goes back through | Place the teachers serving nightly in Vincent sights all along the production line. | W& Shall carry the attack against |all the years to the first chapter of | civilian defense duties in the Let no man say it cannot be done, the enemy—we shall hit him and |the Book of Genesis, “God created | schools was adopted last night by dertaken to do it. 60,000 Planes, 45,000 Tanks Ordered Built in 1942, I have just sent a letter of direc- tion to the appropriate departments and agencies of our Government, ordering that immediate steps be | taken: 1. To increase our production rate of airplanes so rapidly that in this year, 1942, we shall pro- duce 60,000 planes, 10,000 more than the goal set a year and a half ago. This includes 45000 combat planes—bombers, dive- bombers, pursuit planes. The rate of increase will be con- tinued, so that next year, 1943, we shall produce 125000 air- planes, including 100,000 combat planes. 2. To increase our production rate of tanks so rapidly that in this year, 1942, we shall produce 45,000 tanks. and to continue that increase so that next year, 1943, we shall produce 75,000 tanks. N 3. To increase our production rate of anti-aircraft guns so rapidly that in this year, 1942, we shall produce 20,000 of them, and to continue that increase so that next year, 1943, we shall produce 35,000 anti-aircraft guns. 4. To increase our production rate of merchant ships so rap- idly that in this year, 1042, we shall build 8,000,000 deadweight tons as com with a 1941 producton of 1,100,000. We shall continue that increase so that next year, 1943, we shall build 10,000,000 tons. v Every Available Plant Must Aid in War Production. These figures and similar figures for a multitude of other imple- Dr. John J. Field DENTIST 406 Tth ST. NW. MEt. 9256 pielnns (UAPEouet SNIA At R_ESIIIOI:""";E.‘I | ever we can reach him. | We must keep him far from our | | shores, | battle to him on his grounds. American armed forces must be | used at any place in all the world | where it seems advisable to engage the forces of the enemy. In some cases these operations will be de- fensive, in order to protect key po- sitions. In other cases, these oper- ations will be offensive, in order to strike at the common enemy, with 8 view to his complete encirclement and eventual total defeat. American armed forces will oper- ate at many points in the Far East. American armed forces will be on all the oceans—helping to guard the essential communications which are vital to the United Nations. Amesican land and air and sea forces will take stations in the Brit- ish Isles—which constitute an es- ulntm fortress in this world strug- gle. American armed forces will help to protect this hemisphere—and also bases outside this hemisphere, which could be used for an attack on the Americas. Herole Wake Island Defense An Inspiration to All of Us. | It must be done—and we have un. | hit him again wherever and when- |man in His own image.” We on our side are striving to be true to that devine heritage. We God. Those on the other side are striving to destroy this deep belief and to create a world in their own | image—a world of tyranny and cruelty and serfdom. That is the conflict that day and night now pervades our lives. No compromise can end that conflict. There never has been—there never can be—successful compromise be- tween good and evil. Only total victory can reward the champions of tolerance and decency, and free- dom and faith. Manlfi e Chairman Of Power Commission By the Associated Press. Election of Commissioner Basil | Manly as vice chairman for the coming year was announced yester- | day by the Federal Power Commis- | sion. Claude L. Draper, who has been vice chairman for the past two years. Mr. Manly has been a member of If any of our enemies, from Eu- rope or from Asia, attempt long- Men and Apply at once HA 1207 F the commission since 1933 and was vice chairman from 1933 to 1936. Wanted Experienced Shoe Salespeeople Women For Full-Time and Part-Time Employment to Mr. Abbey HN Street | the Progressive Citizens’ Associa- | tion of Congress Heights. It was re- | quested that Commissioner J. Rus- , for we intend to bring this are fighting, as our fathers have sell Young see that air-raid war- | own home | fought, to uphold the doctrine that | dens or other civilian defense work- | {all men are equal in the sight of | ers replace the teachers, and not the janitors of schools. Additional policemen to control | the traffic jams on Eleventh street | S.E. near the administration build- ing of the Navy Yard between 4 and 5 o'clock every afternoon was asked | by the association on the motion of R. A. Sullivan. The group also re- quested that a traffic light be in- stalled at Fifth streetgand Esther | place SE. | Dr. R. E. Richardson presided over the meeting, held in the Con- gress Heights School. the respective Rhumba, conga, tango to authentic South Americaa rhythms with aVier )%usaf TONIGHT WMAL 8:00 P.M. ON 1ML AIR FOR +CAMEL- CIGARFTTES “WE BURN DUSTLESS He succeeds Commissioner | POCAHONTAS STOVE COAL At Our House” 19| “During the three yea: have been using Dustle we the results. you try it today?” guarantes. , Fuel Oil, Deleo Oil 1313 H ST. N.W. has no dust or dirt ggd costs less per ton. we've been in Washington Pocahontas coal. Several #riends recommended it. We'reamore than sdtisfied with It barns theroughly . . . heats quickly . . . 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