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A—4 wnw THE EVENING STAR,, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1942. Japanese Elite Corps |3 Internationally Known Skiers|Auto Industry Heads Holds Monopoly on {Detained by U. S. as Aliens Plundering Rights Millions in Profits Pile Up From Taxes, Ransoms And Opium Dives As a war correspondent for the Associated Press during the first two years of the Chinese-Japa- nese war, Lloyd Lehrbas had a close-up of the Japanese exploita- tion technique, He reports on it here. By LLOYD LEHRBAS. ‘The Japanese Army has an elite corps called the “special service section” which—on the basis of its record in past Japanese conquests ~—can be expected to play a major role in exploitation of the Philip- pines. ‘What the 8. 8. 8. is doing in Ma- nila is yet to be disclosed, but the known record of its widespread op- erations in ‘occupied China shows the possibilities. The “special service section” is the army’s hand-picked and power- ful unit for accumulating vast funds for operations for which no ac- eounting is ever made, and for per- mitting high-ranking officers to feather their own nests in the proo- ess—all at the expense of the eon- quered peoples. The Japanese Army itself main- tains the polite fiction of the Sa- mural code of spotless incorrupti- today as an enemy alien. SALT LAKE CITY.—SKI STAR IN CUSTODY—Friedl Pfeifer, internationally known ski ehampion, pictured with his wife, the former Miss Hoyt Smith of Salt Lake City, was under detention —A. P. Wirephoto. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 8.—De- | head of the Sun Valley (Idaho) ski school, and Hoyt Smith, daughter of Fred E. Smith, Salt Lake City bank- And Labor Quarrel Over Wartime Sefup 0. P. M. to Establish New Committee to Advise It On Conversion of Plants A wartime friendship between management and labor in the auto- mobile industry, which appeared in the offing several days ago, today ylelded to & new guarrel over the power and make-up of a Govern- ment-industry-labor committee to handle the conversion of the indus- try to armament production. Here's the manner in which the program was developing: ‘The Office of Production Manage- ment rejected labor’s bid for a share in control of the industry’s war pro- duction because of a labor-manage- ment deadlock in the committee chosen to direct it. A new committee was to be set up composed of three representa- tives each of management and labor and one Government member, Labor Members Protest. ‘The new group would have no authority to act by itself but would | make recommendations O.P. M. ‘The ent of the new committee, constituting an outright rejection of labor’s proposals, was bitterly assailed by the five labbr members of the original body, while management spokesmen defended the action. * to the bility, relegating to the S. 8. S. & | tention as enemy aliens of three monopoly on plundering occupied nationally known skiers, Frederick | territories. Profits Still Piling Up. Priedl Pfeifer, Hans Hauser and | Joseph Seep Froelich, was disclosed Japanese officers, frequently in | yesterday. The Federal Bureau of uniform, direct its operations down | Inyestigation confirmed in Wash- to the smallest detail, and Japanese | ington that the men had been taken “ronin” (gangsters) and Korean in custody. camp followers do the dirty work. | = Mr. Pfeifer held the national sla- Profits in occupied China—which | jom championship in 1940; Mr. are still piling up—amount to mil- | gayser won the men's downhill lions of dollars annually from spe- championship of the Pederation In- cial licenses, taxes, fees, monopoly | ternationale de Ski at Innsbruck in exactions, protection payments. cut | 1933 on narcotic sales and ransoms from — The wedding here of Mr. Pfeifer, | er, was a soeial event of March, 1940.| R. J. Thomas, president of the Mr. Froelich is the husband of | United Auto Workers (C. I O.), | Natalie Rogers, a member of a|charged in a statement that under | wealthy Eastern family. In this| the new steup conversion would be | country he has entered little into| handled in “a leisurely way,” despite competition. “the despert need for quick pro- Mr. Hauser has been employed at ' duction of war materials.” Sun Valley as an instructor. | “The conclusion is inescapable | All three were confined for a time ' that the manufacturers contem- in Salt Lake County Jail, but Mr.| plate but little change from their | Pfeifer and Mr. Hauser recently ‘business as usual' attitude said | were taken tY a detention camp in | the statement, in which Mr. Thomas North Dakota. Mr. Froelich is wait- was joined by George F. Addes, ing a hearing to determine whether Walter P. Reuther, Richard T. he may be released. kidnapings. | After many years, and against great odds, the Chinese government had finally made considerable prog- ress in* eradicating opium smoking. Within a few days after Japanese troops occupied areas around Shanghai a gigantic Japanese- dominated opium monopoly sprang up. with the S. S. 8. providing the opium and other narcotics, furnish- ing protection, and handling all| finances. Congress Clears Way For War Fund Bills Asked by President | No. 1 ltem on Program agent in Shanghal forwarded to| - 2 Washington a comprehensive report | Provides for Production on the detailed operations, naming the Japanese S. S. S. officers. Of w'm Plones ¥ the Associated Press. Opium Dives Licensed. Opium smoke curled in the wake B . of the advancing Japanese Army.| A willing Congress gave the right Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the of way today to war appropriations, generalissimo, charged that the Jap” | with the No. 1 item funds for the anese had set out on a deliberate 3 campaign to drug the Chinese into | Production of the 60000 planes & nation of slaves. which President Roosevelt called for An American missionary, in a de- | this year. :;2;‘:0 Y e busineer n| OMclals had not the slightest Nanking, counted more than 600 doubt that the Senate and House opium dives which were licensed | quickly—and almost unanimously— and protected by the S. S. ?v and | would approve all of the President’s estimated that one in eight of Nan- | mjjitary naval and lease-lend re- king's population had become USeTS | o0 “'which total $56,000,000,000 of narcotics. | Almost as soon as the army had for the next fiscal year. sentries posted along the borders of | But to guard against waste. Sena- the Internaetional Settlement at!tor Truman, Democrat, of Missouri. Shanghai after conquest of the| proposed that the Senate Defense Chinese area in November, 1937, the | nyestigating Committee be assigned S. S. S. began selling licenses for | the task of watchman over the gambling houses and brothels, and | gigantic armament program, with a collecting a percentage of all Profits. | $100.000 budget to finance the job. singer, other labor members of the t original panel tackling the conver- Hudson Pier Swept By Five-Alarm Blaze In Near-Zero Weather Two Hurt, One Rescued From River; Second Fire Breaks Out ot Warehouse By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, Jan, 8.—A spec- tacular five-alarm fire swept & mid- town Hudson River pier today—the coldest day in six years—and it was hardly under control before a four- alarm blaze was discovered in a six- lfll‘ly “warehouse 35 blocks away., Spray from the firemen’s hoses flew through the early morning air like pellets and streams of water froee alinost immediately on contact with the burning structures. « Sidewalks, fire apparatus and fire- men’s clothing and helmets were glazed with ice by the near-zero ‘weather. Two firemen were injured in the pier fire at Forty-third street and a third was rescued from the icy waters of the river. Fire Marshal Thomas Brophy said the fire did not appear to be of suspicious origin. Twe Buildings Damaged. ‘Two large two-story frame build- ings of the American 8outh African Steamship Line and the adjacent baggage room of the West Shore Ferry—used by thousands of New Jersey commuters—were damaged as firemen manned 44 pieces of ap- paratus. The other fire, of undetermined ' . PORTSMOUTH, N. H—SINKS Atlantic Ocean southeast of the Army announced, with loss of Portsmouth. WITH EIGHT ABOARD—The United States Army mine planter Arnold (above) sank in the Isle of Shoals early today, the eight of its crew. When this picture was made the 98-foot craft was tied up at a berth in (Story on Page A-1.) —A. P. Wirephoto. To Need for Metals, Salvage collection depots will be | set up in many apartment houses, | homes and neighborhood centers to | | cut down the number of trips made by waste dealers and volunteer col- lectors, the Executive Board of the | District Salvage Committee decided | yesterday. The group was told by James E. Frankensteen and Richard E. Rei- | bills in recent years, remarked tha | sion problem. origin, started on the fourth floor | Colliflower, chairman, at the Bosrd‘ of a brick warehouse at Thirteenth | of Trade offices in the Star Building, | street and Sixth avenue, burned | that the number of calls to pick up | through the roof and clouded the | Small salvage loads had increased | morning sky with a pillar of gray | Pevord, capacity of the collection smoke. Effective fire-fighting haited | 3VStem to handle them efficiently. the spread of the blaze to nearby | HAITy N. Stull, president of the furniture warehouses. Federation of Citizens’ Associations, Shi > | therefore proposed that each citizens’ p Moved to Safely. | ccociation set up a salvage commit- Much of the apparatus responding | tee to select repositories for small had been rushed to Manhattan {rom | waste contributions. In addition, G. | Brooklyn to replace that called to Edward Altemus, Washington Real the pier fire, which broke out at Estate Board, promised that apart- | 4:45 am. as longshoremen were un- | ment owners would provide depots Number of Salvage Collection 'Trips May Be Cut With Depots Campaign Planned to Educate Citizens Rags, Rubber, Paper Paper Collection For Tomorrow The following is the schedule for the collection of paper, card- board and magazines tomorrow in The Evening Star-P.-T. A. Salvage for Victory program, to- gether with the five leaders in district No. 5, and their poundage to date. District, No. §. Eliot Junior High 1,488 pounds Kingsman 1,346 pounds Kenilworth 1,318 pounds Young 983 pounds Phelps Vocational _ $56 pounds Burrville Blair Deanwood Ludlow Benning Logan Smothers Stuart Junior Plans fo Withdraw - From War Denied By Finn Officials Helsinki Admits Gerrnans’ Retreat Prevents Fresh Offensive Operations By the Associated Press. . - HELSINKI, PFiniand, Jan. 8— ‘Widespread rumors that Finland is ready to withdraw from the .war against Soviet Russia were denied by official spokesmen last night, but it was.admitted that no offensive operations had been instituted re- cently. (Pinnish ¢ensors passed this dispatch less than 24 hours efier Stockholm news sources reported the presence in the Swedish capital of several officials from Heisinki, including the former Finnish Minister to Moscow who" helped make the 1940 peace with Russia, with Sweden as an inter- mediary.) Questioned as to an editorial in & Helsinki newspaper last Sundey suggesting that Finland's. goal af security had been reached, -the spokesmen said it was not possible to make any official comment. be- cause of military reasons. Cannot Risk Offensive Now. Withdrawal of German ezllies to winter defenses farther south was cited in explanation of the impli- cation that the Finnish Army was now fighting strictly on the defen- |sive. The Finns could hardly be | expected to risk a large-scale offen- | sive under the circumstances, it was said, even though their ultimate strategic aims remained unrealized. Finland must brace herself for a long war and protracted hardships, the newspaper Uusi Suomi warned ay. | “The situation simply demands | abandoning such wishful thinking as that the key to all problems can be found by ending our war.” Admitting that the Russian cam- paign had lasted beyond all expecta- tions. the newspaper said. however, that Russia would be smashed after the winter stalemate. § | “it is possible we can make some re- ductions not listed by the President. | “Socialisation” Charged. We will examine every item to see if | hand, C. E. Wilson it is justified and can be reduced Onjthejotier inand, o without crippling the farm pro- | president of General Motors, de- 5 fending the new committee, said gram. Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of | that to divide the responsibility for management would amount to “so- Alabama. who has sponsored much of the New Deal farm legislation, | cialization” and would “destroy the said he would support “reasonable very foundation upon which Amer- recommendations because I recog- | ica’s unparalleled record of indus- nize there must be come reduction ' trial accomplishment has been built.” in non-defense items. I always have i opposed attempts to balance the ' The O. P. M. said the new com- budget at expense of the farmers.” | mittee would endeavor “to assist in New Taxes Studied. the development of the best method for the utilization of labor, tools, Meanwhile, Ways and Means Committee members studied Presi- | machinery, facilities, etc., for the most expeditious conversion of the | dent Roosevelt's budget message. with particular attention to his | automotive industry for the pro- duction of war materials.” broadly-phrased request for $7,000,- 000,000 in new taxes to help finance| The new committee will be headed the war and another $2,000,000,000 by an O. P. M. official, the Govern- | ment member of the group. Edsel in Social Security levies. | Obviously awed by the magnitude | Ford, C. C. Carlton of the Motor Wheel Corp. and Mr. Wilson were | of the tax program, some lawmakers | asked each other how existing rev- mentioned as management members of the group. | enue sources such as individual and | corporation incomes could be made Attlee (Continued From First Page.) | to bear mtuch stiffer taxes, and what new levies would prove practicable. Yet they all agreed with Repre- sentative Doughton, Democrat, of | North Carolina, that “we will raise ) all the money we can, without, of course, turning the tree up by its roots.” Some committeemen said that the leased to them in the West Indies and Newfoundiand.” In a broad summarization of the war Mr. Attlee told Commons: loading copra, an inflammable coco- wherever possible. nut a_ubnunce. from a freighter at Publicity Is Urged. the pier, | To educate the District citizen to Tugboats, using scows as buffers, the need for saving metals, rags, | maneuvered the ship to safety in rubber, paper and other materials, | midstream .out of range of the Claude W. Owen suggested that the | flames. | weekly Shopping News carry a front- | Mayor P. H. La Guardia, who ar- page bulletin advertising places of rived at the scene shortly after the | collection. He also suggested set- last alarm was sounded, suffered a ting up of a speakers’ bureau and frostbitten face. use of pamphlets, posters, newspa- L pers and radio. i Millard A. West, jr., placed at the Russia | __(Continued From First Page.) grad on the main railway line to Moscow. | TIzvestia declared the Germans | were burning the bodies of many of | their dead to conceal their losses. It said 12,000 had fallen on one un-. | identified sector since December 1. Continued Red Attacks Reported by Germans | Speakers' Bureau. Services of the Boy Scouts to distribute posters and | educational pamphlets were prom- [ ised by Linn C. Drake. A salvage-foi Star and the parent-teacher asso- ciations and home and school asso- | ciations of the public schools. The cast) (#).—Continued Russian at- for 100 pounds of magazines. tacks in the central and northern | sectors of the front were reported | Mr. Colliflower announced that the today by the German high com- Junior Red Cross proposed to spon- mand, which said German bombers sor a city-wide educational pro- attacked docks and shipping at the School Program Planned. Brown Junior Carberry Blow Hilton ‘Webb Peabody Pierce Gales Eastern High Seaton Maury Walker Lovejoy Jones Edmonds Douglass- Madison Simmons Taylor Blake Hayes disposal of the board the services ' gram throughout the schools, with of the Junior Board of Commerce | the approval of the Board of Edu- cation, on the theme, Victory.” ‘The depots to be set up by the cit- A associations and apartment victory drive to col- | owners, he said. would “minimize | seized the initiative. gaining some lect waste paper is already being | waste and effort in distribution of ' ground sponsored in the District by The | educational material and setting up ' than 400 dead on this battlefield, izens’ of collection facilities.” Salvage of all kinds is being.col- | lected under auspices of the Dis- school children collect bundles of | trict Salvage Committee by waste out 450 pnper‘s,uclrwm ;nd magazines, the ' dealers and by trucks from the Vol- % association receiving 60 cents for 100 | unteers of America, Goodwill Indus- cost 250 men, the Pinns said. BERLIN, Jan. 8 (Official Broad- | pounds of newspapers and 90 cents | tries, Self-Help Exchange and Sal- | vation Army. Nugent Dodds and Mr. Owen yes- terday were unanimously elected first and second vice chairman of the general committee. a recent Soviet landing. Heavy losses were declared to have Crimean port of Feodos! site of | {Man Held for Grand Jury At the “Hollywood,” “Bee-Ba-Bo, “Flower Club” and two-score more gambling houses seen by many Americans and other foreigners the customer could play everything from Senator Truman said he was con- fident that the 10-member com- mittee, operating with a full staff. could prevent extravagances, ferret | out inefficiency and guard against a '; total revenue requested by the Pres- | ident was so large that a general | sales tax might have to be imposed as a last resort. the _committee, one highly placed “The fact that the United States been suffered by the Red Army in Although not on | has entered the war on our side has determined the result of the war, but does not offset the advantages that accrue to Japan in the begin- ning * * * friend of the administration said | its offensive onslaughts. | “In some places” the high com- ! mand went on, “fighting continues.” New Red Landing Attempts In Atfack on Woman | William (Billy) Mayes, 27, col- | ored, 2100 block of N street N.W. | today was ordered held for the grand jury without bond by Police roulette to craps. with a free pipe of [ i | “that_looks like the only way to Points to Enemy Strength. opium, a pretty little Cantonese girl, ition of mistakes previously and a free taxi ride home. | made in getting the defense pro- do it.” { Mr. Roosevelt, a consistent op- He declared that even if Britain had increased her own production | An American official reported | that a main residnetial street in| Peiping leading to the American school was lined with Japanese S. S. S. brothels, and that the once proud capital of the Chinese em- pire had “at least” 2.000 “entertain- ment establishments” with a month- | ly income of $7,000,000 (Chinese | currency). | One Japanese major had the mo- | nopoly on taxing all eggs and egg | products shipped down the Yangtze River from Nanking, one of the world's greatest egg-producing cen- ters. which normally sent shiploads of frozen and packed and canned | gram into high gear. Arnold to Be Witness. Looking toward the actual appro- | priations which will start the vastly | enlarged program géing, Chairman Cannon said his House Appropria- tions Subcommittee would start hearings Saturday on an unpreced- ented sum for combat planes such as dive-bombers and pursuit craft. ‘The exact amount of the request has not vet been determined. | Representative Cannon said that | the witnesses would include Lt. Gen. H. H. Arnold, deputy chief of staff | for air, that the hearings would be unusually brief, and that the testi- ponent of the sales tax as a perma- nent revenue source, declared in | his budget message that “in the | face of the present financial and | economic situation, however, we may later be compelled to reconsider Lthe temporary necessity of such measures.” | to the utmost she could not produce | enough arms at present for the Far | East to equal the strong military | force of Japan. 1 Apparently in reply to criticism of [the seeming inadequacy of British | military preparations in the Far | | East, Mr. Attlee said the fact that Committeemen said that no one | Britain’s Pacific tions were less could foretell what the new tax | strongly g."m,nl::ld and equipped program might contain—at least | than might have been wished was | until after Secretary Morgenthau | not due to lack of foresight.” and other Treasury officials, as well | Rather, he said, it was because it as special congressional tax statis- | . ticians, present tentative programs :;n??t:?'yeg;::n. EemOuC oS ojbe within a week or 10 days. But he drew s sharp picture of eggs to Europe. He collected hand- | somely, pocketed part of the levy, passed some on to his superior offi- cers, and contributed the remainder | to the S. 8. S. coffers. | Another officer had the monopoly on collecting taxes on all hogs shipped to Shanghai, while others collected on all incoming or out- going shipments of cotton, gaso- line. rice, chickens — everything down to the lowely and smelly Chi- nese cabbage which every Chinese ate. If a Chinese wanted to travel any- where, he paid a fee. Wealthy mony made public would be "quue}Henry w. Francis D i skeletonized.” ies; Once that bill is sent to the Ho for consideration, the committee will use turn to budget estimates for the‘Emp'oye o' u' S' AgencY | 45.000 tanks and 20,000 anti-aircraft | Henry Wood Francis, 55. an em- | guns recommended by the President | Ploye of the Old Age Pension branch | for this year. of the Social Security Board, died Other subcommittees started work | yesterday in Mount Alto Hospital | Eweek; ago on regular annual supply | after an illness of several weeks. | bills for the Treasury and Post Office| __He was born in Winchester, Tenn. | Departments and the score or more | He served in France during the | of independent agencies of the Gov- | First World War with the Tank | ernment. Corps. He had been a contact rep- Farm Block Yields. resentative with the Veterans’ Ad- Britain's utilization of her strength where it was concentrated and gave an optimistic, broad view of the war. British troops, he declared, already have advanced 600 miles from the start] point of their drive into Liby: d are engaging Gen. Edwin Rommel's German forces in “great tank battles.” On the Russian front the “initia- tive definitely has passed to the Russians” beyond the ability of the German high command to pass off its retreat as a planned maneuver. From the Malaya front, however, Chinese merchants were kidnaped and released only when a ransom was paid to a go-between for the S. S. S. The homes and shops of Chinese “suspected of being anti- | Japanese” were raided, the goods and furnishings confiscated, and the The President’s proposal to slash about a third of a billion dollars from Federal outlays for farmers won tentative acceptance from farm- minded legislators. Leaders of the potent Senate farm block said they agreed with the | ministration and was an active | member of the American Legion. Mr. Prancis is survived by his mother. Mrs. Lulu W. Francis, who lived with him at 143 Grafton street, Chevy Chase, Md., and by a sister, | Miss Grace Francis of San Fran- | cisco. Funeral services will be held Mr. Attlee reported a British with- drawal to a point about 60 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, which is 240 miles from Singapore, and said that altogether. the defenders of Malaya had been forced to give up 15 airdromes. !In Crimea Reported NEW YORK. Jan. 8 (#.—The British radio said today that Swedish correspondents in Berlin declare the Russians have attempted landings | at many fresh points in the Crimea with the support of units of the Soviet fleet. The radio quoted the Swedish | sources as saying Berlin was antici- pating further landings and that the | Russian operations in the Crimea | are of an extensive nature. The | broadcast was heard by Columbia | Broadcasting System. ?Minnes}'fiMa.n Aafilifled |0f Threatening President | By the Assoctated Press FERGUS FALLS. Minn,, Jan. 8 — | Walter Pearson, 29, of Baudette, | Minn,, accused of sending threaten- | ing post cards to President Roosevelt | and some members of the Senate. was acquitted today by a Federal Court jury. | Pearson admitted sending the cards, which read: | “Warning! “The enactment of | 1ease-lend bill will turn the United | States into Jewish dictatorship. If American people will demand that you pay the extreme penalty for your traitorous act.” | The defense contended he had | & right to oriticize, but the Govern- | ment argued that the question of you sign (or vote for) this bill the | Court Judge Hobart Newman on charges of criminally attacking s | 23-year-old colored woman in the | rear of the 1000 block of Tenth street N.W. on December 21. rectly* to the grand jury without going through Police Court the charges against criminally attacked and robbed a 31-year old Navy Department work- er early New Year Day in an alley in the block between Twentieth and Twenty-first and L and M streets In the second case the woman was accosted after having left a Pennsylvania avenue restaurant, on her way home from work. Charges had been entered unimt‘ Mayes by police earlier in the day. The Navy Department worker told | them immediately after the attack | that her assailant was a man who spoke Spanish. Police said Mayes denied he could speak the language, PIANOS for RENT | Choose from new | and used spinets. grands, consoles and uprights of good makes. Rea- sonable rates TELEPHONE REPUBLIC 6212 his acquaintances, spoke it. Australians Attack Greenwich Isle Again B the Assotiated Press. Nevertheless, even if Finland's own fight reaches a conclusion within the current year, the World War wiil continue, tt» newspaper said. and Pinns must adjust their lives to an indefinite prolongation. Deny Reds Make Headway. The Finnish high command said today the Red Army continued to batter at Finland's lines in a sus- tained winter offensive, but declared | it was making no headway and in some places even had to vield ground to Finnish counterattacks More than 1100 Russians were “Salvage for | killed in yvesterday's fighting. the | communique said. South of the River Svir, it continued, the Finns hurled back a Russian attack and The Russians left more | the Pinns said. On the northeast shore of Lake Onega. the Finns reported wiping Russians. In the same area other unsuccessful Russian attacks Citizens Seek Support For Charter System | The Hillandale Citizens' Associa~ | tion will ask the Montgomery County | but that they found, after ehecking Civic Pederation at its meeting Mon- that he often dav night to give its support to the | charter form of government for the | county as proposed by the Brookings { Institution. A resolution indorsing the pro- (posal was introduced by Theodore | Parkman at the association's meet- | ing at the home of Carl G. Stone Alfred D. Noves, chairman of the MELBOURNE, Australia. Jan. 8 — | The Royal Australian Air Force has sorsie o aryland Defense Counctl, made a new attack on the Japanese | air and naval station on Greenwich 2 | Island” just above the Equator, dam- At the same time, police an- aging installations and destroying nounced they would present di-|ga seaplane, an R. A. A. F. com- munique said today. Meanwhile Japanese planes were Mayes that he seen making reconnaissance flights the Bismarck Archipelago, over northeast of Australia. gave a talk on civilian defense Wanted 1940- Chevrolet Will Pay High Price Mr. Dietz, WO. 8401 4221 Connecticut BUY NOW...DURING OUR BIG MIDWINTER GRANDS! CONSOLES! proceeds credited to the S. S. 8. He disclosed to the House that 1330 G STREET President that higher market prices | at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Arlxngton! | free speech was not involved and of agricultural products should re- | National Cemetery. duce Treasury expenditures for farm aid, but they said that every pro- | posed reduction would be studied. | position to take place in Buenos Senator Russell, Democrat, of | Aires in 1942 to celebrate the 450th Georgia, who has directed passage of | anniversary of the discovery of record-breaking farm appropriation '‘America. Youth’s Letters Insist He's Alive, Plans are being made for an ex- Fther‘HariringIoiD'ies At St. Stephen’s Rectory The Rev. George B. Harrington, 65. native of Washington who had been pastor at St. Stephen’s Church since 1927, died yesterday at the| church rectory, 2436 Pennsylvania | avenue N.-W., after an illness of sev- eral weeks. Father Harrington was the son of Brig. Gen. F. H. Harrington of the | Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, as supremeé commander of Allied forces in the Far East, will direct opera- laya, the Netherlands Indies and | the Philippines—but excluding Aus- | tralia, India and Indio-China. Accepts Responsibility. It was explained that United States, Australian and the Nether- lands Indies officers will be on Gen. Wavell’s staff. ‘While Lord Addison, Labor party leader, declared in the House of Lords that Air Chief Marshal Sir tions in a vast area including Ma- | I | 7 | that Pearson had violated a law | KITT s | forbidding the putting of threat- ening matter in the mails. (Middle of the Block) United States Marine Corps. He at- tended Gonzaga College here, St., Charles College in Catonsville, Md., and St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore. He was ordained to the priesthood | in June, 1902, at the Cathedral of | s Aas % | announcement, then George Baker | jetter dated December 20 that he the Assumption, Baltimore. Though Army Is Returning Body| By the Associated Press. .. _ Administiation wrote Mrs. Baker | EMMITSBURG, Md., Jan. 8.—1If | saying George was killed in action a mother’s intuition is str'ongerifln the day of the Japanese attack. 3 But. belying this, the aviation! than an official ‘War Department |. o, i Giote his parents, in a Robert Brooke-Popham, recently replaced commander in the Far East, was a “nincompoop,” Mr. Aftlee told Commons that com- manders on the ground must not | be blamed for results in Malaya. | The Government, Mr. Attlee as- it's an A. KAHN INC. YouCanBcSun...v n Father Harrington conducted all |15 alive. his parishes in the vicinity of Wash- | ; ington, serving at Buckeystown, |Was notified thlt_ her son, an aviation Barnesville and St. Mary’s Church | mecHanic, was killed in the Japanese in Hagerstown, Md., before coming | attack on Hawaii December 7. to St. Stephen’s. But, in between, Mrs. Baker and The Most Rev. John M. Me- her husband have received letters | Namara, auxiliary bishop of Balti- | from their son in his own hand- more and Washington, will celebrate | writing declaring he was safe and pontifical requiem mass at 10:30 am. | well. And, even though her son— Three times Mrs. Roy M. Baker | was safe at Wheeler Field, where he | serted, accepted “full responsi- had been transferred from Hicnm?b‘uty S | "“The initiative definitely has Field. Then, on December, 31, the War passed over to the Russians” on Saturday at the church. The Most Reév. Michael J. Curley, archbishop one of six children—is officially listed as dead, Mrs. Beker clings to Department wrote Mrs. Baker that “the remains of your son, the late Pvt. George W. Baker, will be re- turned to the United States.” “They must have him mixed up with somebody else,” said Mrs. Baker. “All this has got me a wreck.” # of Baltimore and Washington, will | the belief he is alive. In his letter of December 20 Pvt. | the land and in the air over wide | sectors of the Russian front, Mr. ‘ Attlee said. | “1t is hardly even the pretense of the German high command that all these retreats are in accordance | with plans,” he added, “and those | trantie appeals for warm clothing show more clearly than anything d To assure yourself of a diamond truly worthy of ‘the proud occasion,’’ con- sult A. 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