Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1942, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Carol Announces Self As Leader of Move For ‘Free Rumania’ Former King Says Son and People Are Prisoners Of ‘German Bandits’ By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 8—Exiled King Carol of Rumania was back in action today as the self-proclaimed leader of those of his countrymen who refused to accept their nation’s partnership with Germany. In a statement issued late yes- terday, Carol announced he had placed himself at the head of a “Free Rumania” ranged at the side of the anti-Axis nations. Carol asserted the Rumanian people and his son, Mihai, who was proclaimed King of Rumania when his father went into exile in Sep- tember, 1940, and who Carol said bhad returned to Rumania from Italy, were prisoners of “the Ger- man bandits.” Rumanian Chief of State Marshal Ion Antonescu he charactered as a lackey of Adolf Hitler and a traitor. Carols statement made it clear that he did not consider himself to have abdicated. He said he had only delegated the royal authority to his son to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. The King, who left Rumania in & bullet-scarred train and made his way by difficult stages to Spain, Portugal, Bermuda and Cuba to Mexico, is living in a small villa in & Mexico City suburb. Mme. Elena Lupescu, who accom- panied him on the journey, is with him. It was the second time that Carol had proclaimed himself successor to his son. As Crown Prince, he re- nounced his rights to the throne in 1925 to continue living in prlmte[ life with Mme. Lupescu, but flew to | Bucharest in 1930 and proclaimed himself King, Mihai becorhing Crown Prince. Former Minister Opposes Visit by Carol to U. S. A report from New York yesterday #aid former King Carol might visit the United States shortly as leader of the Free Rumania Committee for the Triumph of Democrac; Opposition to such a visit was ex- pressed here yesterday by Charles A. Davila, former Rumanian Min- ister, who said he spoke “in the name of the Rumanian democrats.” His statement said: “Rumania is through with Carol Hohenzollern. He ought to know it by now, but he is quite an unusual man as his past performances show. “Of course, all his statements about his son, his own second ab- dication and his departure from Ru- mania are falsehoods. He has un- fortunately always had the greatest difficulty in simply telling the truth and his supporters became always victims of the same inhibition. People having the dictator complex are generally like that. is typical that he was ‘asked ume the leadership of a free- anian movement’ by an anony- s American citizen. “The Rumanian people are over- whelmingly on: the Allied side, tn spite of the present regime's sub- servience to Hitler. I do not think that even the news of Carol's kind intentions, aired in the American press, could discourage them from helping the Allied cause, when they will be directed how to do it. “Of course, there will not be any kind of Rumanian ori gmmzauonl headed by Carol Hohenzollern either| on American or on Canadian soil, or anywhere else. There does not seem to be any reason to believe that he will ever come to the United States the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Official United States Navy photo shows Japanese dive bomber in flames over Pearl Harbor after it had been hit by Navy anti-aircraft fire. —A. P. Wirephotos. or Canada, not because that would enable him to ‘organize’ anything, but because in a most serious busi- ness like this war and in the decent world that will result from Allied | victory, there cannot be any more place for headliners of this type.” | Rumanians Do Not Want Carol, London Paper Says LONDON, Jan. 8 (#)—The News | Chronical said today that former King Carol was trying to “muscle in on the Free Rumanian govern- ment,” but that it was “in the highest degree unlikely that the | Rumanian people, on a free vote, will ever want their discredited | monarch back.” Trial Board Recommends Dismissal of Policeman Policeman Nathan T. Imlay, 38. of the fourth precinct was recommend- ed for dismissal yesterday by a po- | lice trial board, which found him | guilty on charges of having been | under the influence of alcohol while on duty and conduct unbecommg\ an officer. The charges stated that he had been suspended Christmas Day after having struck Capt. Sidney J. Marks, his commanding officer. Imlay, who lived in Maryland Park, Md., joined the Police Department in Febru- ary, 1926. He was transferred from the eleventh precinct to the fourth on December 1 after a previous trial board had held him guilty of failing to communicate with his precinct. The board fined him $25 on that charge. The District Commissioners must approve yesterday's trial board find- ing, from which the officer has the right of appeal. Red Cross Seeks Funds for War The District Red Cross is ap- pealing for $750,000 as .its quota of the American Red Cross War Fund Campaign for $50,- 000,000 to provide relief for American war victims and to carry on rapidly expanding Red Cross services for the armed forces. Today the District fund stands at $81.892.06. Checks should be made pay- able to the American Red Cross and envelopes marked “For the War Fund.” Any bank will accept your contribution and forward it to District Red Cross headquar- ters. 2020 Massachusetts avenue N.W. There are also booths in leading hotels, department stores and at Union Station. Increased by Large 'Confributions Pershing Gives $1,000; 11l Veteran Presents $25 Anonymou_sly Talks by volunteer Red Cross workers were scheduled at various gatherings here today as the drive to raise Washington’s $750,000 quota. of the mercy organization's $50,000,- 000 war fund gathered momentum. hospital boosted the total yesterday. | Gen. Pershing is honorary chair- man for the District. Other large donations reported included: Christian Heurich, $1,000; Maj.¢Gen. Henry Sharpe, $300; Sis- terhood of Adas Israel Congregation, $200; Mrs. Charles E. Ely, $100; Miss Barbara Donald, $100, and Mrs. Charles Runyon, $50. Party Proceeds Coming In. Proceeds from collections taken at New Year eve parties still were coming in, campaign headquarters reported. Linton M. Collins discussed the drive today at a luncheon meeting of the Cosmopoliatn Club in the | Hay-Adams House, and Mrs. Lena Hitchcock spoke at a meeting of the Maude Sell Circle in the Florence Crittenton Home. Mrs. John H. Jouett, Canteen Corps chairman, was to speak this afternoon in the nurses’ home of Emergency Hospital. Ira B. Tice will be the volunteer addressing the American University Park Citi- zens’ Associaition at 8:30 pm. in Hurst Hall of American University. 551 Chapters Exceed Goals. than 50 per cent of their quotas reached, S. Sloan Colt, national chairman, announced today, and 551 local chapters in all parts of the Nation have exceeded their goals. The leading States are: Montana (first to exceed its quota), Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia and Wyo- ming. Two contributions of $25,000 or more from corporations were an- nounced. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. gave $40,000, to be apportioned among chapters of ,000, Red Cross War Fund | Gifts of $1,000 from Gen. John | J. Pershing and $25 from an anony- | | mous ex-private ill in a veterans’ Nine States have reported more | communities in which the firm does | business, and Time, Inc., donated A Japanese dive bomber, its ~ jective during the surprise raid diving flaps down, was ecaught by & Navy photographer as it approached its Pearl Harbor ob- December 7. Absorbed in Copy of James Aldridge, young war corre- | | spondent for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance, paid | his first visit to Washington and w\ 2 The Star yester- | P day afternoon and found the weather here “colder” as far| as personal dis- comfort is con- | cerned—than in | Finland. He was | assured by his| expert weather colleagues in| The Star office that it was the | humidity, not| the weather, that he was talk- ing about. Mr. Aldridge is an Australian. and | recently arrived in the United States | from Australia by clipper after a brief visit home. He is making plans now to return to the Far East to cover the war. He was study- |ing at Oxford, he said, when the war began and he left college for Fleet street, where he made a con- nection with the North American Newspaper Alliance and worked his way to Finland on a freighter to cover the war there. Later he was in Russia, Greece, Crete, Libys and Turkey. In An- kara one evening he was in a smoky restaurant and saw & Turk sitting James Aldridge. War Reporter Visits Capital; Wrote ‘Frozen Bodies’ Story | | shore facilities. Aldridge Tells of Finding Former Hacker Here The Star in Ankara in the corner reading an American | newspaper. He investigated and found that the paper was the Wash- | ington Star. The reader was a former Washing- | ton taxicab driver. The paper, he said, was torn and tattered by hav- ing passed through many hands, and the ex-taxi driver was not missing & word. | ‘The correspondent wrote one of the first stories of Finland on the fantastic effects of the bitter cold and has found himself aruging about it ever since, wherever he goes. His description of the bizarre shapes as- sumed by the dead, so quickly frozen that some of them remained stand- | ing, was later corroborated by pic- tures and the stories of other cor- respondents. But not until there had oeen numerous arguments with read- ers all over the world. One of his best stories, written from another theater of war, told of his experiences as an observer in a British bomber in s night attack on | Brindisi, Italy. He received clippings | of this story, a fine piece of descrip- tive writing, with the word “Nuts” scrawled on it by skeptical American readers. Aldridge wears & correspondent’s | uniform even in Washington, where it helps him gain admittance to Gov- ernment buildings. Unlike most of his newspaper colleagues, he favors the strict regulations here. It shows the Army and Navy are on the| job, he says. Ramspeck Pay Increases Begin Generally Today Distribution of pay raises under the new Ramspeck-Mead Act were started generally today, the initial beneficiaries being the groups paid | on the 8th and 23d- In two or three instances, small units had received their money on the last pay roll. Approximately 224,000 employes out of a total in excess of 600,000 ; will be affected in the current fiscal | year by the law, which grants raises every 18 months to employes receiv- ing less than $3,800 annually, and every 30 months to those over that figure and under $9,000, provided their efficiency rating is “good” or better. The raises are retroactive to last October 1. In the current year, ap- proximately 60,000 employes here— Federal and District—will receive raises. In the field, the number will approximate 164,000. The advances range from $60 to $250 annually. | Methodist Union Drive A drive to obtain 5,000 members for the Methodist Union will be con- ducted from January 11 through January 18, it was announced today by Dr. Horace E. Cromer, superin- tendeht of the East Washington district. The drive will be conducted in both East and West Washington districts, which include territory be- tween Frederick, Md., and Solomons | Island, Md. IS Gloria Vanderbilt Di Cicco Plans Sightseeing Here Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt | Di Cicco has never been to Wash- ington before, so she will spend most of her two days here sightseeing and doing & little post-wedding shopping. Her husband of a week, Pat Di Cicco, has been here before so he will content himself with visits o old friends like Senator Chandler, Democrat, of Kentucky. Senator Chandler will be his host at a luncheon at the Senate restaurant today. Mr. Di Cicco and the Vanderbilt heiress arrived at the Mayflower Hotel last night from Roanoke, Va. After two days here and two more weeks of honeymooning in the East they will return to their home in Los Angeles, where Mr. Di Cicco is employed with the Howard Hughes Airplane Manufacturing Co. The Di Ciccos were married De- cember 28 at the Santa Barbara Mission. \ Martin to Head Police HARRISONBURG, Va, Jan. 8 (#).—Everett Martin has been named sergeant in charge of the Harrison- burg Police Department until a new police chief is selected to succeed J. Hillyer Boice, who will become ehle{“ol police at Lynchburg Janu- ary 16. D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1942. HONOLULU.—BLASTED FROM THE SKY—This wmknge. identified by the vay as a Japanese torpedo plane, was salvaged from fSenale Votes Power To President fo Put Clocks Up Two Hours House Gets Measure For 1-Hour Advance, Passes Navy Bill B7 the Associated Press. Legislation to set clocks ahead throughout the Nation won Senate approval yesterday and was reported in different form by the House In- terstate Commerce Committee. The bill which passed the Senate would authorize the President to advance the time in any part of the United States by not more than two hours. Discarding a similar proposal, the House committee approved a meas- ure which would provide an auto- | coc matic advance of one hour in each Case Expected fo Go fo Jury Today Defense Presents Final Testimony on Mistaken Identity B7 the Assoctated Press. BALTIMORE, Jan. 8—The case of Hilllard Sanders and William L. Keefe, accused of a $52,616.95 hold- up of two bank messengers in Hy- attsville last September 25, was ex- pected to go to the jury in Federal Court today. The defense having presented its testimony, a portion of the final arguments were heard before court recessed yesterday. Purporting to bear out the de- fense claim of mistaken identity was the testimony of L. F. Chap- man, warden of a Florida State prison, who produced records to| | show that Sanders was a visitor at | his institution the day of the holdup At the end of his testimony, Mr. Chapman said it was the first tl.me in his career that he had ever tes- tified for the defense. He appeared, | he said, because “of the fear which . \wnrdens, like judges, have of in- | justice.” | Danny J. Sanders, a brother of Hilliard, earlier testified that the accused visited him at Camp Bland- ing, Fla., the night of September 24. Sanders and Keefe went on trial Monday, both having pleaded in- nocent. They were identified by Government witnesses as two of the three men who participated in the holdup and money allegedly in their possession when arrested was iden- tified by employes of the Prince Georges Bank & Trust Co. as having | been handled in the bank. Neither defendant took the stand. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 8 (# —Dor- othy Brady's face was doubly red. The city treasurer’s clerk not only was discovered sticking gum under | her desk but the place she stuck it | was a burglar alarm button and | before she got it off six detectives had arrived. LOST. PROMMAT!LY 265 TARPAULINS, sizes 18 It to 15x20 1t mostly brown in ¥ some initiaied -'r H Reward informatjon eading to Fecovers - of ALl Communications held conf- H rtell Co, 920 ¢ for property. dential. n iy .na “Bachd. BIRD DOG. black black harness. bra: Hampshire ave. and liberal reward. AD. | whi m th. rosette. vicinity New n‘nernu lane. Md.. BLACK LEATHER WALLET. money and identification_ cards Phone Emerson 1153 after BOSTON TERRIER, small bl-ek remlk »hite marks on face. chest and, both fron feet. answers to name St from Unlnn ‘station Jan. Bih. Branch 53: COAT. un }iu’ififie topcoat. lnm r | Tripler, N. vicinity 29th and Que #! Georgeiown. Reward. DU. 4 containing o REVAT time zone 20 days after the enact- -7 _ ment of the bill, with no presidential | Sira: discretion in the matter. 500,000 Kilowatts Saving. Purpose of the legislation would be to make fuller use of daylight hours. William 8. Knudsen, co- director of the Office of Production Management, has estimated that the | action would save 500,000 kilowatts | of electricity annually. In another move to push war preparations, the House yesterday approved a bill authorizing an $845,- 000,000 expenditure to expand naval During the debate, Chairman Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee, urged suspension of the eight-hour day to hasten the Navy's ship-building program. In a detailed outline of that pro- gram, he said that since January 1 of last year contracts had been let for 379 combatant ships, 79 auxiliary ships and 4,721 other boats, amount- ing to $8.473,021,269. Pleased by Progress. He declared that progress thus far was a “healthy sign of being on the job as far as the Navy is concerned.” “But,” “the program cannot be completed in the time necessary if we adhere to the eight-hour law.” He added | that the President had authority | jais W under the Walsh-Healy Act to sus- pend the eight-hour day for work‘ on Navy contracts, and expressed | hope that the Chief Executive would exercise that right. The House also passed and sent to President Roosevelt a bill author- | izing an increase in naval enlisted | personnel from 300,000 to 500.000, and in Marine Corps strength from | 60,000 to 104.000. Meanwhile, stringent legislation m prevent lobbying and restrict fees in | BRING cm connection with Maritime Commis- sion contracts was introduced yes- terday by Chairman Bland of the | House Merchant Marine Committee which recently investigated the sub- Ject. The bill would outlaw any fees when their amount was contingent upon the procuring of a contract or upon the amount of the contract. It also would outlaw fees paid “for the purpose of affecting the award through means other than cus- tomary technical or professional services.” All contractors would be required to report any fees paid @irectly or | indirectly in connection with con- tract negotiations. 6th & N. Y. Avenue N 3rd and H Strests N.E. he cautioned the House. | 27 MOND PIN. iost in Alexandria. Re- d_if returned to 501 Franklin s T»mn!o "u e Vaimed ai l\lly Oulll’f vl:lm Linden S 3365, DrESSES - n.e. Wednesday p C st.ne Phone TASSES in case hom Tuesday vicinity 18th an; Reward. 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