Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1942, Page 5

Liner Normandie's Fragile Treasures Placed in Storage Navy Removing Art Objects Valued at $2,000,000 | By the Ascocinted Press | NEW YORK. Jan. 9.—Out from| beneath the looming shadow of the| enormous ship, with 2 roar drowning the footfalls of her sailor guards,| heavily loaded vans are rolling away | from the liner Normandie with the | fragile treasures that were the pride THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY ‘JA.\'['ARY 9, 1942. Henderson Reassures Owners of Cars U. S. Has No Seizure Plan Government to Aid Dealers Injured by Freezing, Rationing Price Administrator Leon Hen- derson today assured the country the Government has no intention now “or in the foreseeable future” of commandeering private auto- mobiles. He further ‘indicated the Goverpment plans t6 extend finan- cial aid to the Nation's 44.000 car | tspes which presumably would not | be wanted by Government purchas- ing agencies. Senator Murray said Mr. Hender= son would be asked fo give assure ance that the Government would pay the full retail price of all stocks of cars now in the hands of dealers and that the dealers would be given time in which to liquidate their business so they would not be foreed to carry on indefinitely with a large | overhead. ‘Army, Officer's Cook Held 'After Radio Set Is Found | By the Associated P NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—A .German | | cook who lived and worked for_sev- eral months in the Officers’ Gllib at | 1st Army .ieadquarters on Govern- Rent Office Distributes Firs} Complaint Forms 'l‘h'n first group of complaint forms for both tenants and landlords ander the District rent control law are formal action on the complaihts will' be taken as soon as possible, Rent Administrator Robert F. Cogs- well safd today. -~ Mr. Cogswell said he realizes swift | action is necessary o save money | for hundreds of tenants and land- lords, since his decisions on cases in | dispute will take effect the day they | are made-and will not be retroactive to January 1. when the law went | into™force. He adued, however, that {1t is doubtful if his office will be | sufficiently organized to hold for- mal hearings before the latter part of next week. These hearings will distributed this afternoon and | x A-3 Gas on Stomach What many Doct To Pork at the CAPITAL GARAGE soc FIRST HOUR of France Under the direction of American naval officers, the radiant pillars| from the main dining room, the| four gold-and-stucco bas reliefs, glowing with the life of Normandy, | the rich carpets, the enameled statues, are going for the duration of the war to the safety of storage | denlers to enable them o use their|ors Island was in Federal custody establishments as storage ware- | today after being found in posses- | houses for cars rationed under the |sion of a camera and a short-wave | pending program radio set. Testifying on rationing before the | Agents af the Federal Bureau of Senate Small Business Committee | Investigation seized Edward Oscar | meeting, in open session to con-|gar] Koenig, 39, late Wednesday sider the fate of the automobile | night in his quarters at the club,! dealers, Mr. Henderson expressed | through which he was permitted to | be public. | will get 500 or 5000 complaints. EVENING RATES S PM. to 1 AM. 35¢ 1320 N. Y. AVE. “Right now,” Mr. Cogswell con- tinued, “I ‘don’t know whether I The speed with which cases are dis- posed of will be governed largely by the number received.” During his first week in office, the administrator has been engaged in halls | ‘Workmen are shrouding in canvas or packing into crates the creations on which French craftsmen lavished | all their skill and care for many | months—works of art into which | the French poured their knowledge | of the making of beautiful things.| Statue of Peace Moved. 1 Into the darkness of storehouses, | the trucks carried: | The 13-foot bronze statue of peace. which stood behind the cap- tain's table in the days when the Normandie raced across the Atlantic to win biue ribbons for speedy voy- ages The figure of a Norman knight, relic of an age of chivalry, said to be the world's largest art work in enamel | An Aubusson carpet. 40 by 27 feet and weighing 1000 pounds. its 8- 000.000 stitches hand-knotted bv 10 | workmen. { Shimmering glass panels from the | dining room, totaling 45 tons In weight, which stood near the six in- terior-lighted radiant pillars in the dining room Panels Taken From Lounge. | Brilliant paneis from the main | ecabin lounge, depicting the birth of | Aphrodite, the chariot of Thetis. the chariot of Poseidon. and Europa . . . their background formed by pure | gold. pialladium and platinum The monumental bronze doorway of the dining room. nearly 20 feet high. decorated with 10 gilded bronze | circular medallions. representing the | famed cities of Normandy. The art objects being removed by | the Navy, which is converting tne ship into an auxiliary christened the U. S. S. Lafayette, are valued at more than $2.,000000 and the cost of removing and placing 2400 van loads in storage is estimated at $100,- | 000 to $125.000. NEW YORK.—LUXURY GIVES WAY TO WAL SERVICE—Workmen remove “La Normandie,” a lacquered wooden statue, from the head of tkz stairway.leading from the smoking room to the grill room on the former French luxury liner Normandie. The giant ship is being converted into 2 United States Navy auxiliary 1 Congressional Group 'Sees Morgenthau on | Source of New Taxes Many Types of Levies Considered to Find 9-Billion Revenue BY the Associated Press. A bipartisan delegation of con-| gressional leaders began with Secre- | tary of the Treasury Morgenthau a4 and rechristined t foday the work of raising the $9.000,- | 000,000 of new taxes asked by Presi- dent Roosevelt in his budget mes- | sage this week. { Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, speak- Ing on behalf of the delegation after | | he U. S. S. Lafayette. —Official U. S. Navy Photo From Wide World. ing program would be put in effect by January 15, the date tentatively set for its iauguration. To Announce Terms Soon. ernment might be in position before which cars may be handled by deal- | ers. These, he added, will include | such provisions as “what the Gov- | ernment will do for dealers in con- | | nection with stocks on hand.” | Mr. Henderson said that before the rationing program-is completed the Government must determine who will be eligible to buy cars and what their demands may be. He said an eligibility list similar to the tire-rationing lists is being | drawn up. | After a representative of the | automobile dealers had expressed concern over losses incurred by the freezing of car stocKs on floors, Mr. | flenderson assured the hearing that the dealers would get “fair com- pensation” for losses or delays re- sulting from the Government order, | No Advance Notice Given. Earlier, Senator Taft. Republican, of Ohio had asked L. Clare Cargile, president of the National Automo- bile Dealers’ Association whether the dealers had any “advance notice” of the Government's freezing order, which became effective January 1. “We had no advance notice.” Mr | cargile replied. “In fact. one of | the Government agencies indicated | to me the day before that such an | order would not be issued.” Mr. Cargile said he could not | identify the agency and added he was “not quite sure”’ which agency | issued the freezing order Mr. Henderson testified that a | principal reason that no advance notice of the order had been given was that “when there is a scarce | doubt that the automobile ration- | | that time to announce terms under ., roam freely, and took him to £llis | Island as an enemy alien subject to internment. Besides not complying with the | national erder that all aliens turn radios to police by night, Koenig was Agent P. E. Foxworth to have en- tered the United States illegally in 1923 at Houston, Tex. last Monday National Symphony to Play at Trinity College - The National Symphony Orchestra will give its annual concert at Trinity College at 4 pm. Sunday. Hans Kindler, conductor. will direct the orchestra. which will play in Notre Dame auditorium, Miss Helen Talbot. & senior from Winnetka, Ill, is chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. The program will include Mozart's “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik " and Wein- berg’s “Czech Rhapsody.” which was given its Washington premiere earlier this season. White House Worker Burned A construction worker suffered first and second degree burns yes- terday in attempting to light an oil burner being used on the White House grounds. police reported. The injured man, admitted to Emergency Hospital, was John Holady, 22. col- ored, of 907 Twenty-fifth street N'W., according to the report. ‘mostly "brown in H M’ Rewar to_recow. { ions held confl- Co., 920 lith id by F. B. L| organizing and advising informally the hundreds of persons who have called and written him. It is esti- mated that he has handled more | than 1500 informal complaints and He said, however,~that the GOV- | ovar their cametas and short-wave | requests of persons seeking clarifi- | cation of the control law. Mr. Cogswell said tanants living in nearby Virginia and Maryland con- tinue to call him. and he reiterated | that his jurisdiction does not extend | beygnd the District. i = Both natural and synthetic cam- phor are used extensively in the ! pyroxylin _and safety-glass indus- tries, the Department of Commerce say! PROMPT FUEL OIL - DELIVERY BLICK COAL (0. COL. 6300 WARS ARE WON SLOWLY When we are disposed to be impatient for victory, let us remember, seldom is a worth-while goal attained quickly. Just as an example— Marlow’s Famous Reading Anthracite is scrubbed and scrubbed again with water and sand. It is inspected. checked and double-checked. Only long, painstaking effort could make it the coal that it is—as nearly 100 pure coal as can be produced. Marlow Coal Co. 811 E Street N.W. NAtional 0311 In Business Over 83 Years Our Coal and Service Must Be Good | the conference at the Treasury, ex- | | plained that the meeting was pre- | | liminary and that no agreements| commodity to be rationed and ad- vance notice is given you naturally s Foserte. d U: Pope'§ Law of Nalions Called Peace Essential | A special committee of Catholic hops, in a statement released here terday. called for world accept- e of the law of nations of Pope XKIT as essential to world peace. The Pope on Christmas eve out- | a plan for world peace on the is of what was termed the law of tons. This law. the bishops as- “basically nothing more then right and wrong in interna- tiznal relations.” | Acceptance of the law, according ta the committee, does not impose on | any nation the surrender of its lea: te sovereignty or the aban- donment of its cultural resources. In- stead. it “envisions all nations liv- | ing under the law of the all-just God and prizes righteousness above ma- terial aggrandizement without over- looking the temporal happiness of peoples.” The committee was appointed here last November at an annual meeting of Catholic bishops for the purpose of studving the Pope’s peace plan. America’s war aims, they point out, include things which the Pope points out as requisites for peace. Shenandoah Plane Crash Report Found Groundless Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW MARKET., Va., Dec. 9.— Re- ports that a plane had crashed in the rugged terrain 5 miles north | of here last night were groundless, Sheriff Carl Gochenour of Shenan- doah County. reported today after & search of several hours. The report was received shortly after 5 pm. from persons who did not identify themselves. but was Investigated after a check with a plane spotting post at Shenandoah Caverns nearby disclosed that watchers there had seen a plane fiv_over eastbound at 4:55 pm. Sheriff Gochenour said he had | talked with several reseidents in| the area where the erash had been | reported who had seen a plane clear the nearby ridge of the Shenandoah | Mountain and disappear in the di-‘ rection of Washington, but had been unable to find any one who | had heard a crash. The plane was was described-as a large two-motor | plane but it was too dark to di tinouish anv merkings, the sheriff said. He discontinued the search late last nizht. | had been made yet on types of taxes | to be sought. | “All T can say is that we met to! exchange views and every one showed a verv fine spirit,” Repre- sentative Doughton said. Others at Conference. Others who met in Secretary Mor- | genthau’s office for a two-hour ses- sion were Chairman George of the | Senate Finance Committee, Repre- | sentative Treadway of Massachusets, | ranking minority member of the House committee, Senator Vanden- berg,. Republican, of Michigan and Colin F. Stam. chief research expert of the Joint Congressional Commit- | tee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Asked about individual types of taxes, such as sales taxes, income taxes or excess-profits taxes, Mr. Doughton said. “We talked about all of them and all the other kinds of | taxes we could think of. “We don't know vet which ones well use. We might need all of them.” Mr Doughton added that aithough the President’s $9.000.000,000 request was the basis of present tax dis- cussions, no specific goals have been set yet. Only Prelininary Talk. Senator George added. “After all, this was onlv a preliminarv con- ference, and we may have to have two or three more.” Pending these conferences between leaders and the Treasury. Mr. Doughton said he did not know how soon his committee would begin | hearings on a tax bill. These hear- ! ings previously*had been expected to ' start about January 15 | In his budget message yesterday the President proposed that Con- gress enact $2.000,000.000 of addi- tional social security taxes plus $7.000.000.000 of any cther kind of taxes, except a general sales tax. The President added. however, that although he opnosed a general sales tax he believed it might be neces- ! sary to put specific excise taxes on a large number of individual com- modities. The co:tly gilt pal have a run on this commodity and defeat your own purpose.” Explains Statement. 1 In a statement issued by his office. Mr. Henderson explained that fears of commandeering undoubtedly 2rose from his own answers to que: tions at a press conference Jan- (uary 2. At that time he said com- | mandeering of automobiles as “one of the gloomy possibilities” that a prolonged war might bring about Mr. Henderson said todav the Government “presently is well sup- | plied with automobiles’ and added neling being removed from the smoking room wall. The rich decorations and furnishings from the ship will be stor-d in warehouses for the duration. They are valued at $2,000,00¢. —A. P. Wirephoto. U S. Soldiers Escape Japlunese‘ By Playing Dead for 28 Hours | (The follywing dispatch—by 39-vear-old Clark Lee of Oak- land, Calif —is the first received from any of the three Associated Press reporters in the Philippines since Decemyer 31, and the first from any Anerican correspond- ent in the ilands since the fall of Manila tvo days later. (Lee apperently was able to evade the Jzpanese forces which marched inty Manila and reach Fort Mills, o1 the fortress island of Corregidcr, whence he com- municated w th San Francisco by radio. His dspatch did not men- tion his coll.agues of the A. P. Manila bure:u—R. P. Cronin, jr.. chief of bureau, and Russell Brines.) By (LARK LEE. FORT MILIS, Luzon Island. P. T, Jan. 9 (By Radio).—A strange story | came to light ‘oday in the adventure of five vouthful American soldiers who escaped encirclement by Jap- anese invaders by a daring ruse in w h three of them “played dead” for 28 hours | The men were Sergt. Emil Mor- rello and Sergt. R. H. Mitchell and Pvts. William Anson. Joe Gillis and William M. Hall, all of Salinas, Calif. | Their unit engaged the Japanese |in Southern Luzon on Christmas | Day but was cut off by an invading | | force which greatly outnumbered them. ! Sergt. Mitchel and Pvt | made their way through Japanese lines while the other three convinc- ingly played dead. Jepanese re- peatedly paused over their prostrate férms and one invacer detachment ate lunch within a few feet of them. All five met in the hills later and made their way over rugged coun- try to rejoin the main United States forces. Anson __(Continued From First Page.) sault, the enemy attacked down the main road with tanks, followed by infantry in trucks. “Reports to date indicate that the fighting was severe and c ualiies on both sides were heavy Kuala Lumpur is 240 miles north | of Singapcre. Hungary Travel Halted By 28-Hour Snowstorm | By the Associated Press ROME. Jan. 9 (Official Broad- east).—Budapest reports vesterday rald a 28-hour snowstorm in the capital and the proyinces of Hun- gary had disrupted 'transportation and other public services ) In many provinces. a Stefani dis- patch said, all fransnortation was brousht to a standstill. VICHY. Unoccupied France. Jan 9 . 7.—Renorts from A'2 today sqid freak cold W r on the African plateau hed cut communi- c4tions in many places and piled up- snowdrifts. B Vichy was deep in snow as the cqld wave spreading from Eastern | The Bri‘ish had nothing to report from the Eastern Malay coast, where the &ction has been obscure for several days since the British announced they were withdrawing from Kauntan, 190 miles north of Singapore. Apparently seeking to soften the defenses of Kuala Lumpur. the Jap- anese air force raided the city of Klang, zbout five miles west of the, rubber center. The Far Eastern command said a few casualties were | reported there Damage at Sing:pore. Some slisht damege to civilian | property wes cansed in tie Singa-| pore Island raid, the communique | said. Singapore itself had firs. | night alarm i three days but no | damage was reported there. The communique said British | | the | cupied Bangkok, capital of Thai- land, in less t.an 24 hours. The Japane.e, balked earlier this | week in flank.ng operations on the | western coast put more power into a frontal driv. down the Singapore road in the £lim River section. The Slim River is a tributary of Bernam River, which flows northwestwarc into the Strait of Melacca. The main ‘attle line apparently runs along the Bernam River in the west, then e:stward up the Slim River to th¢ mountains of the coastwise range. On the east coast the line is somewhere between | Kuantan and the Johore border. (Domei, J¢panese news agency, broadcast fiom Tokio a report that Britist. soldiers defending the norther: sector of Selangor state were i general retreat to- ward the siall state of Negri Sembilan, b-low Kuala Lumpur and between the states of Selan- gor and the Strait Settlement of Malacca. Demei added that the British wer. hastily destroying bridges and :oads and that troops in southern sectors of Selangor state were jcining in the retreat.) ‘The Japanese were reported still i threatens Kuala Lumpur and Brit- | ish positions to the rear. |Japs Claim New Advance | Toward Kuala Lumpur TOKIO, Jan. 9 (Official broad- casf), (#.—Japanese forces driving down the Malaya Peninsula have advanced more than 20 miles be- vond Tanjong Malim, which is some 50 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, Domei said tonight in a war sum- mary. (Presumably this would place the Japanese vanguard 30 miles from Kuala Lumpur. The Japa- nese communique made no men- tion today of the report broad- cast yesterday by the Rome radio that Kuala Lumpur had fallen. (Tanjong Malim is at the point where the west coast trunk railway crosses the frontier of Perak and Selangor States.) Domei said th2 Japanese. “in the wake of the retreating British forces, | were hammering at the enemy de- i fenses immediately before Kuala iL mpur. | mn_l line dispatches reported ithe British retreating in general ! | | 500 cars and motorc; there was no occesion for citizens to offer their cars for public use. He added: “I did not indicate that any such actione (as commandeering’ was likely or necessary now or in the foreseeable future. Indeed. at one point in the conference. according to the stenographic transeript, it was stated: ‘I think it is bad enough to have to freeze things without having to go out and commandeer them.’ “Reports have reached my office that in some areas citizens are offering to turn ovey their ci for Goverfiment use. These offers art commendable and patriotic. How- ever. the Government presently is well supplied witia automobiles. and while grateful for the spirit shown, I must advise citizens to retain their cars for their own use.” . Murray Paints Dark Picture. Chairman Murray of the Small Business Committee declared in an interview before the hearing that the order freezing sales of new cars would put thousands of salesmen, s versity Iiberal reward ~ AD. 735R TERRIER. $mall black fem ) face. chest and both ancwers Unio; name “'Mike": vicini ___Reward. _Shepherd DIAMOND PIN. 1o ward_if returned DEFENSE_STAMP! by Billy Gu! Seminary_rd._ SH e breed. wire-haired fox ter- om 2223 19th st. n w.. 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Mr. Cargile as- serted that unless the Government took prompt steps “the 44.000 dealers of America and their half-million .nployes are faced with immediate disaster.” He suggested several modifications of the freezing order, including permission for dealers to make delivery on bona fide orders dated before January 1, continued use of dealer facilities in handling Government automotive purchases, and lifting of restrictions on the sale of sports convertibles and other confusion from both North and South Selangor (the state of which Kuala Lumpur is capital), destroy- ing bridees and roads in the line of retreat in desperate attempts to slow down the pursuing Japanese. The #Tokio communique reported that in the final battle in Southern Perak State the Japanese captured 68 guns, 50 light armored cats and les. COAL Al ASK —HUFNAGEL COAL CO. Better grade coals—n higher price 2 Yards for Quick Delivery Every Pound D Your Bin at BLACK DIANMOND—Bit t Lisht Mar. Structure. Smeke. 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Several direct hits on the, Further Curbs on Food Indicated in Britain By the Associated Press. | 'LONDON, Jan. 9.—Britons may|(gckeq from the air were in the find their meager menu curtailed | guantan estuary, the communique sflll further as a result of the Warisaiq. A direct hit on one vessel of with Japan, Maj. Gwilym Llovd'4000 tons. causing large clor of | George, parliamentary secretarv to white smoke. was reported and the tle Ministry of Food, said today. | near misses were around a smaller, However, even if there were a new | ship in the estuary. All Britishj tightening of belts. he added in a|planes returned safely, it was said. ! speech at Middlesbrough. the British | Meanwhile, in Burma, British and | Il would be the best-fed nation in | American airmen told of two de-. Efirope. | structive assaults on Japanese-oc- ' . K reported. | decks and sides of the ships were | .. humid jungle southwest of the prin- cipal battlefi:ld. 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