Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1942, Page 9

Mercury Drops fo 7 As Light Snow Ices Capifal Streefs Day Coldest in Two Years, With 5 to 10 Reading Forecast for Tonight Washington today suffered from the coldest weather in nearly two vears when the mercury stood at 7 degrees above zero from 7:40 am. until after 9 pm., equaling the low of Jenuary 29, 1940, but failing to reach the previous low of zero on January 23, 1936. The Weather Bureau offered no fmmediate relief, the current fore- cast being fair and continued cold this afternoon and tonight, with the lowest temperature tonight be- tween 5 and 10 degrees above zero. Accompanied by a light, dry snow that coated streets with ice during the night. the mercury dropped steadily from 20 degrees at 8 pm.. and it was not until 10 o'clock this morning that it had turned defi- nitely upward again, reaching 8 de- grees at that hour. By 10:30 am. the reading was 9. Rush-hour traffic was slowed con- siderably by snow and ice this morn- ing. and police reported generally careful driving on the part of mo- torists, with less than a score of minor accidents. The first reported victim of a fall on slippery streets was Miss Evan- geline Thurston . of the Believue Hotel. English teacher at Langley Junior High School. She slipped and fell at the intersection of Mas- zachusetis avenue and North Cap- 1tal streets. She was rushed to Cas- ualty Hospital where she was found to have suffered & broken hip Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald held an autopsv at the District Morgue to determine whether Frank V. Loving. 41, of 131 C street SF. found dead vesierday in a lumber vard in the 1600 block of Maryland avenue N.E. had died of exposure or of natural causes, Hill (Continued From First Page.) These included the Islands for War Debts Committee, which was headed by the late Senator Lundeen of Minnesota. The move came during cross ex- aminetion of Mrs. Henrv Grattan Doyle, grand jury secretary. She and the two attornevs identified the following pieces of isolationist ma- terial: Extension of Senator Reynolds remarks on the Senate floor en- titled “Past Statement of Winston Churchill,” a reprint from the New York Inquirer, a Sunday publica- tion described by Mr. Maloney 2s of pro-German leanings Extension of remarks by Senator D. Clark entitled “England Expects Everv American to Do His Duty.” This contained extracts from a book published in 1937 by Quincy Howe, it was testified. Evidence Overruled. The next was the extension of re- marks by Senator Nve containing editorials from the Sieuben News and the Gaelic-American. Mr. Ma- loney attempted to introduce evi- dence that the letter was written by an associate here of Mr. Dennett, but was overruled by Judge Letts. A post card franked by Representa- tive Stratton was dated May 2, 1941, and was listed as reprint from the American Guardian, entitled “Roose- velt Tours, Inc.” Yesterday Mr. Malonev declared he would show it was Mr. Hill's func- tion to obtain "hundreds of thou- sands” of reprints of congressional speeches from the Government Printing Office. Hampering of Inquiry Charged. Mr. Hill is charged in one count with falsely informing jury he did not know Viereck. and in a second count with wrongfully stating he did not order the mailbags to be placed in the store- room of Representative Fish. The prosecutor declared these alleged perjuries were of a nature hamper- ing an investigation revealing Mr. Hill as one link in a Hazi-sponsored propaganda network. Under his questioning Mrs. Doyle president of the District Board of Education, declared her grand jury had evidence that Viereck advised the late Senator Ernest Lundeen on the content of his speeches. Mrs. Doyle also said that Viereck Platinum Mounting. the grand ; Surgical Patient Lives After Heart Stops 20 Minutes By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—A man whose heart stopped beating for 20 minutes during an operation has astonished the medical world by completely. | The unusual case is described in the Journal of the American Med- ical Association by Dr. Herbert D. Adams and Dr. Leo V. Hand of Bos- ton. They said it demonstrates length of time heart action can stop -—and still permit normal recovery— s much longer than formerly ap- preciated.” The man’s heart stopped beating while he was undergoing an opera- tion on the left Jung. Heart stim- ulants were injected and a quick incision was made to expose the man’s heart Artificial circulation of blood was maintained by rhythmic compres- sion of the heart by hand. Oxygen was supplied to the lungs by rhyth- mic pressure on the rebreathing bag used to administer anesthesia. After 20 minutes the heart re- sumed its own contractions and a few seconds later the man began to breathe. The operation was fin- ished, using oxygen only, and the patient left the hospital 60 days later. To Catalogue Nazi Crimes By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 8—The British radio said last night that representa- tives of all Allied governments would meet in London next week “to cala- logue German crimes throughout occupied Europe.” “Holland, Belgium, land, Czecho-Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Greece and the British, United States and Russian governments will be present.” the announcer said in | a broadcast heard here by C. B. S. “It will be one of the most terrible indictments in all recorded history.” The British radio disclosed last October 7 that Britain was col- lecting evidence on cases of German oppression. and compiling names of the individuals immediately sponsible. —ee——r Norway, Po- revealed to the grand jury investi- gating Nazi activities that he did recovering re- | Reports Upheaval the |War Department Views London Parley Next Week . know Mr. Hill. She said that Viereck | would not define their relationship. however, for fear of incriminating himself. She also told of grand jury evidence that when German-inspired addresses had been delivered on the floor of the Senate, Mr. Hill caused reprints to be made at the Govern- ment Printing Office. 1f unhampered by delavs, the Government would be able to com- plete its case today. despite & long list of witnesses. according to Ed: ward J. Hickey, jr., a special assis ant 1o the Attorney General, collab orating in the prosecution. These witnesses include Viereck.' himself under indictment by the grand jury, on the charge he failed to ccmplete his State Department registration as a propagandist: John S. Gorrell, grand jury foreman Miss Elizabeth Marie Tomai. Miss | | Harriet Johnson and Miss Phyllis Posivio, all members of Senator Lundeen’s office staff. and Frank Monroe, Charles Wilson, TIrving Quinn and Michael O'Gorman. ém- ployes in the House Office Building. Mr. Fish was at first listed as 15 “probable” witnesses. bu was no prediction he would appear today. Court Clerk Testifies. First witness heard vesterday was Harry M. Hull, Criminal Court clerk giving evidence that the grand jury was legally impaneled. J. Wesley Adams. jr., of the State Department’s Division of Foreign Ac- tivity Correlation, testified concern- ing registration statements received from Viereck. Questioned, he said that neither Representative Fish nor Mr. Hill had ever registered with the State Department as a foreign agent. Within the past vear the reigning sovereigns of the British protector- ate of Sarawak relinquished their absolute power in favor of an ad- ministrative council of British of- ficials. 1 Quality Diamonds— | ernment or out of members’ pockets. | part | many other Government agencies, the Nazi pathway to the Caucasus | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, British Minimize M. P.s Express Fear Brifain May Become Mere U. S. Outpost Americd’s Pacific Fleet Unprepared for War, Commons Is Told In Reich Is Near- Repeated Admonitions To Public Echoed in | Foreign Office Warning | By the Associated Press. BY the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 8—A Foreign Of- fice commentator today advised that reports of a possible imminent internal upheaval in Germany be treated with extreme reserve. | He said that so far as he was able to learn these reports “all come from | one source.” He did not name it. | said, “I hate to think of the milita His warning echoed repeated ad- | center of control shifting to Was monitions to the British public from portions of the British press against | hopes that the war could be won | simply by awaiting an economic and political collapse within, the | German nation. Moreley Richards. indeed, I might s we may find o lves reduced t military re- oo porter of the Daily Express, wrote | &f Europe. i that machine-gun posts were being | Edgar Louls Granville, Libera sald: set up at strategic points in Ber- lin and manned by Adolf Hitler's own S. 8. (elite guard) troops as & precaution against a coup detat. He said the German people were now aware of “the breach between Hitler and the army command.” | whether this island shall be American-controlled civilization.” United States Navy Criticized. News With Skepticism As two members of the Senaie Foreign Relations Committee com- mented with pleasure on rumors coming to them of morale deteriora- tion within Germany, the War De- partment today received a secret report from an Allied nation on starvation and disease among Ger- man troops in Russia and on Ger- man Armv plans for the overthrow of Adolf Hitler. The secret report is being pub- lished in the news-letter Foreign Correspondence, conducted by Sir Willmott Lewis and Edward Weintel The War Department is said ta be skeptical of all encouraging news about disaffection within Germany. Hitler is reported as still strong with the German people. Senators George, Democrat. of in for criticism. After remarking vessels were “surprised” by anese attack when “the: ought t Pacific in Jeffreys said: “With regard to the proposal tha the commander of ican Fleet has not begun this wa experience of modern war what ever. It took no part in any fightin, in the last war. command.” The first comment along this lins LONDON, Jan. 8.—Fear that the British Isles might become an Amer- ican outpost was openly expressed today by two members of the House of Commons in commenting on re- | sults of the Washington conferences. Laborite Richard Rapier Stokes ington. It gives me a nasty feeling— I have had it for many months— | v for years—that | what I term occupying the position of America’s Helgoland off the coast “We may have 1o choose between Western outpost of totalitarian Eu- rope or the Eastern outpost of an The United States' preparedness for the war in the Pacific also came have been on the other side of the Singapore,” Sir George the American Fleet should be the commander of our fleet in the Far East. the Amer- well and American personnei has no “I doubt whether British seamen will like serving under a foreign D. C, THURSDAY had ceme from Comdr. Sir Archibald Southby, Conservative, who said that Russian and African successes do not offset the loss of Guam and other islands to Japan. “It might have been better,” Southby said, “if the United States | had augmented the defense of those ‘vlully important places rather than expend time and material in crea- | tion of the bases which we have | leased to them in the West Indies ; and Newfoundland.” H. D. Pollard, 70, Dies; Georgia Central Official | By the Associated Press. SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 8—H. D Pollard, 70, an official of the Central of Georgia Railway for more than 40 years and a director of the Ocean Steamship Co., died at his home here last night He started with the railroad in 1898, became president in 1931, re- ceiver in 1932 and co-trustee in 1940 when the Federal Court grdnted a o pany. Mr. Pollard was born in Aylett, Va., October 14, 1872, and educated at the University of Virginia and Drexel Institute. Philadelphia Funeral services were set for 4 pm. today at Christ Episcopal Church, where Mr. Pollard served for many yvears as & vestrvman and as its senior warden. Burial will be in Baltimore, Md. 1 Indiu-Stah;; Unchanged For Present, British Say B the Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 8—L. S. Amery secretary for India, told the House of Commons today that the British government “cannot make further progress” in solving the problem of India’s status “until there is some willingness on the part of the leading parties to work together.” “It is not in our power to bring them together,” he said. Mr. Amery said he had noted various statements and resolutions by Indian leaders and parties but “I regret that I cannot discover in them any satisfactory response to the viceroy's recent appeal for unity and co-operation in the face of common danger.” that American the Jap- o t X Georgia, and Lee, Democrat, of Ok- lahoma, disclosed they had received rumors of internal disruption in the Reich. However, Senator George said re- ports on the Nazis' internal situa- tion were so nebulous that it was hard to judge the extent of disaf- fection, but it appeared to him that Mid-Wi Hitler was having more serious trouble at home than had been supposed. . Senator Lee said he did not be- lieve dissension in Germany had reached the point where this coun- try could count on any internal collapse there. Praising the valor of the Russian troops pushing the German Army back in retreat, Chairman Con- nallv of the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee said today that further Soviet successes might close F real savings. nd_Turkey. “The success of the Russian troops in the Crimean and Black Sea area is gratifying,” said Sena- tor Connally. Decentralization (Continued From First Page.) officials States, Mr. Rankin also reminded mem- bers of Congress that they have no long-distance telephone appropria- tion and that decentralization will mean a heavy expense in telephone tolls, to be met either by the Gov- about matters in their SALE Representative McGehee, Demo- crat. of Mississippi, joined Mr. Ran- kin in opposing the removal of any of the Government from Washington. Ganson Purcell, & member of the Securities and Exchange Comm:s- sion. which has been ordered to Philadelphia, told the committee the bulk of its work is carried on here. He emphasized the S. E. C. is not unmindful of defense needs, but pointed out the commisison’s work is inextricably related to the work of S‘l 95 Made Right Here in Washington Few Indian Office Workers Here. The Indians themselves would suffer greatly if the headquarters of the Indian Bureau is moved out of Washington. Joseph C. 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It previously had been brought out that the Indian Office has only about 380 employes in Washinglon, while 9.000 of its workers are already in the field, so that moving the main office to Chicago would afford little relief to the housing situation here. Speaking for the Railroad Retire- ment Board, Murray W. Latimer said the board already has decen- tralized as much of its work to field | offices during the last three years as it believes advisable. Originally, | he said, 98 per cent of its work was handled here. Now about 30 per cent of its work is done here. 40 Per Cent Would Not Leave. Mr. Latimer said that of 1400 of the Retirement Board's employes who have answered a questionnaire YOUR DOCTO Truss Ann CONSULT in) either mext It is invisible OPEN SATURDAYS U Many trusees are im- proper or improperly fit- ted, and can cause me harm than good by de- livering pressure to deli- cate nerves and blood vessels, which eventually gives a mervous reaction that saps the vitality and ages the wearer before his time. Come in and let us ex- amine your truss and ad- Just it free of charge. We will be giad te explain your rupture to you and teach vyou the proper method of wearing a truss. It Is Incorrect 1L 5 P.M, oys Yo to date, 40 per cent have said they ( i would ot go if the board is moved. 1822 K L Opposite Eight per cent said they would go Eye St. D°"‘.’" only if they could not get a better N.W. INSTRUMENT CO. Hospital Jjob. Most of the married workers " Daiy, 9 AM. te 5:30 F.M. said 1n any event they would leave their families here for the time being. This prompted Senator Tydings to recall that the main object be- hind the decentralization order was to create housing for defense work- ers here. “If the employes are not going to move when the agencies leave. we are following a ‘will-o-the-wisp’ in moving the bureaus.” Newton B. Drury. director of the National . Park _Service, said his , like the Igdian Bureau, al- ' ready is almost completely decen- LIONEL 3-DAY SALE Thursday—F¥iday—Saturday v e JAXUARY reorganzation of the railway com- 8, 1942. Japs Make Americans |Wear Identity Bands | By the Associated Press. ‘ Americans on the Japanese-oc- | cupied fsland of Kulangsu, where | most of the foreign residents of | Amoy, China, have their homes, are | permitted to move about the island | but are compelled to wear distin- | guishing arm bands, the State De- | partment was informed yesterday. . A’ message from the American | Consul at Foochow, Edward E. Rice, | *» AT with his suite in Budapest today after a two-day visit with the Hun- garain regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, in the country, He was greeted by Dr. L. de Bar- |said the Japanese landed on Ku- langsu December 8 and placed Amer- |lcan and British nationals under ‘cuswdy in a Japanese hospital, later releasing them with arm bands for identification. dossy, Hungarian Premier and SN S IS ‘I-'ox'mgn Minister; members of tha Hungarian government and the Ribbentrop Concludes | German Legation. 'Visit With Horthy [ : 1 A it S The American Builder estimates BERLIN. 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