Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1942, Page 9

Louisiana Nominee Put Long Machine First, Senators Told Christenberry Opposed U. S. Investigation, Rogge Testifies B the Associated Press. The man who conducted the Government's investigation of the Louisiana political ecases in 1939 told a Senate committee today that he could not indorse Herbert W. Christenberry for United States dis- trict attorney at New Orleans. O. John Rogge, former Assistant Attorney General, testified that he felt Mr. Christenberry’s loyalty to the political organization formerly headed by Huey P. Long outweighed his loyalty to the Government. A Senate Judiciary subcommittee 1s conducting a hearing on the nomi- nation of Mr. Christenberry, brother of Earle Christenberry, former secre- tary of the late Senator Long. Mr. Rogge sald that during the investigation of the political cases in Louisiana, Herbert Christenberry, as assistant United States district attorney, was co-operative and able except where the interests of the Long organization were involved. Faction Declared Put First. “However, our investigation of election irregularities and voting frauds found him in thorough dis- agreement with us,” Mr. Rogge said, “and he apeared to let his loyalty to a political faction outweigh his loyalty to the department. “I think he placed his political faction above the department lnd; I could not have recommended him | for district attorney.” Under further questioning, Mr. Rogge said that upon his return to ‘Washington he had asked the Jus- tice Department to recommend the | then district attorney, Rene A. Viosca, for a Federal judgeship be- ecause he was impressed with him, and that a new district attorney be | appointed who would employ new that man’s ingenuity has created,” he told the group. “We know they have a great air fleet and the capa- city for adding to its strength swift- ly. We know that, in the far West- of no insignificant proportions, and we also know that, having all these things, they will stop at the use of no means to achieve their ends— that a part of their arsenal are the weapons of corruption and treach- ery. We know that they will stop at nothing and because we know all these things and estimate to the full their weight, we know it will take a assistants and bring about “a house- | long time, that it will call for infi- cleaning.” Mr. Rogge said his recommenda- tions were not followed. Office Leaks Indicated. Both Mr. Rogge and Harold| Rosenwald, another special Assist- ant Attorney General who went to New Orleans to assist in the in-| vestigations, testified that there| were evidences of “leaks” of in-| formation from the district attor- ney’s office when the investigation | of election irregularities was under- | taken and that Mr. Christenberry had opposed prosecution of election fraud cases. | Senators Overton and Ellender | of Louisiana, who recommended Mr. | Christenberry for the appointment, | told Mr. Rogge he had “not been 50 secret about his investigations | and gave frequent interviews to the | press.” | At one point Mr. Rogge denied he had “tried the cases in the news- papers,” as Senator Overton in-| sisted. | In one matter of election irregu- larities, Mr. Rogge said, the investi- gators decided to proceed under a civil rights statute little used. The case, he said, involved the smashing of the camera of a photographer | who was taking pictures in an elec- tion booth. Defense Quick With Answer. He said that immediately upon the returning of an indictment, | lawyers for the accused appeared in court with a typed demurrer to the; indictment which indicated they | had prior knowledge of how the | then turned the telephone over to Government was proceeding. Mr. Rogge said he could not say that Mr. Christenberry gave the in- | formation to the attorneys, "bu't‘ Lundeen, written by Viereck and | some one in the district attorney’s | prepared for mailing by Mr. Hill, office did.” Later, Mr. Rosenthal told the eommittee he was advised by an- other Justice Department lawyer, Albert Arent, that Mr. Christenberry was standing behind the stenog- rapher on the day the indictment was typed. Vermont suggested Mr. Arent be called and the committee clerk | telephoned for him. | folks at home. The days of half-in | J. Hickey, jr., one of the Govern- nite patience.” He called on the mayors, as civic leaders, to play “a great part in this campaign for victory.” The war will not be won by fighting men alone, he ern Pacific, they possess a sea power | THE EVEINING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1942. WHERE JAPS STRUCK OFF BORNEO—A ship tak:s on oil from a pipe line extending from the island of Tarakan, sff the north- east coast of Borneo, where Japanese struck in their invasion know exactly how many copies of “Six Men and War” had been mailed out and exactly how far Mr. Hill had proceeded witk. the list that was being used. she saic. When Viereck vas put on the| | phone he also askec about the mail- | ing list and told M. Hill he thought more copies of tte speech would have to be orderd, according to Mrs. Spielman’s teximony. The young secr¢iary to Senator Lundeen, who turied to work in the Navy Departneent and Library of Congress and lat.r to a New York magazine after her employer’s death in a plane crash, estifiled she told the Congressional Record clerk to | :denver about 100,00 copies of “Six | Men and War” to Mr. Hill in Mr,i | Fish's office. Her testimony 7as brought out said, but also by the restless drive | under questioning !y Special Assist- and uninterrupted industry of the }nnt to ‘3he Attomge&ycpegzlc-u E‘?!i‘n!:d and half-out war are gone, Mr. Knox | ment's counsel. Iefense Attorney declared, and from this time on, | John J. O'Connor, former member no matter how hard the road, “we | of the House !ror.' New York, ob-| will, all of us, seek steadfastly its end, | jected constantly ‘to her ans'wers‘ where peace awaits us—peace—a | and brought out i cross-examina- peace of justice and righteousness— | tion the fact that sie conferred with | a peace with victory.’ prosecutors in the Justice Depart- Among the topics on the program | ment for half an hour this morn- of the Mayors are control of enemy | ing. aliens, civilian defense, priorities, price control and rationing, labor, public health and airports. Says She Wa; Shadowed. After testifying, Mrs. Spielman | told reporters that two strange men | had tried to investgate her in New | York over the wee) end and she be- | lieved she was traied on the train between here ancd New York. She | could not identify ‘he person whom she thought was *shadowing” her. It was for this reason that she went to the Justice Department this morning to talk with Prosecutors Maloney and Hickey, she said. Saturday, while she was absent from her apartmeat, her landlady | refused admittanc: to a man who | sald he was “an fxspector,” because | he could not idenify himself, Mrs. Hill Trial (Continued from First Page.) O'Connor. He refused an answer when asked if he knew Representa- tive Fish. He also refused to say whether he was paid $25,000 by the German Library of Information. Lundeen Aide Testifies. When Mr. Hill's trial, which re- cessed Friday, was resumed today, the late Senator Ernest Lundeen's secretary, Mrs. Phyllis Posivio Spiel- man. testified concerning phone | SPielman reportec - conversations she said she heard be- | TN¢ same day a man claiming to tween Viereck and Hill. | be representing :n “anti-defama- The one time Mmr.esota Farmer- | tion” league callec on her husband, Labor Senator spoke to Mr. Hill | Gordon Spielman, at his work, she first on each of two occasions and |.5aid. Her husbard refused to an- swer questions brcause the man Viereck, Mrs. Spielman said. The |lacked credentials | conversations concerned speeches Justice Letts ook no official | delivered before the Senate by Mr. | Cognizance of he' complaint. Cecil Brown Is Barred From Radio by British BY the Associated Pres. she testified. Mrs. Spielman said these con- versations and other telephone con- | versations she had with Mr. Hill | took place in Room 110 of the Senate | Office Building, where “research | ] | and where Viereck was a “frequent Senator Austin, Republican, of | visitor.” NEW YORK, .an. 12.—Columbia Broadcasting Sy:tem announced last night that Ce:il Brown, its cor- respondent in Sirgapore, had been | barred from brogicasting there by1 work " was done for Senator Lundeen | Speeches Discussed. The first Viereck-Hill conversation she heard contained references by of the Netherlands Indies. an important oil eenter. Chinese Army Scores Successes Against Japs on Four Fronts Enemy Declared Fleeing North From Changsha In Great Confusion By the Associated Press. CHUNGKING, Jan. 12.—The new- found offensive power of Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-Shek's forces has wrested successes from drives against the Japanese on four widely sep- arated fronts, a communique an- nounced today. . On one front, the announcement sald, two villages have been captured in & new offensive which apparently endangered the entire position of the | Japanese forces along the Lunghai, Railroad south of the Yellow River. Chinese attention continued to be centered, however, on their third great victory at Changsha in Hunan | Province, where the communique said the Japanese were fleeing northward in great confusion” after suffering 8,000 more casualties and losing 1,000 prisoners. Japanese Declared Smashed. The Japanese force of approxi- mately 100,000 which had set out from its bases around Tungting Lake in a third determined effort,to teke and hold the Hunan capital and rice | market was “finally engaged® on the | line of retreat and completely smashed, the Chinese said. Chinese estimates placed the losses of this| force at no less than 45,000 men. The Japanese encountered disaster | when they were trapped at Fulinpu, 35 miles northeast of Changsha.| and subjected to a pounding from Chinese artillery such as no Japa- nese force has faced in four years| and a half of war, it was said. This, attack raged for 24 hours last Fri- | day, the communique said. ; Among the prisoners captured, the communique added, were officers wearing Chinese civilian clothing. Approximately 350 miles north of | this battlefield the Chinese reported the storming of more than five vil- lages, Luyi and four villages about | Hwaiyang, in a northeastward thrust which evidently endangered posi- tions of embattled Japanese who are still trying to take the junction of | the Lunghai and Peiping-Hankow | railways at Chengchow, just south of the Yellow River in Honan Prov- | ince. Dutch forces today claimed bomb hits on & Japanese cruiser and two transports off the island, Louis Passes Physical Test; Will Enter Army - Wednesday at Upfon Heavyweight Champjon Is Glad to Learn He Doesn’t Have Flat Feet B) the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 12—Joe Louis passed his final physical examina- tion today for induction into the Army, and will take the last step Wednesday at Camp Upton, Long Island, which will change him to plain Pvt. Joe Louis Barrow. ‘The heavyweight champion went through an hour-and-a-half physi- cal test at Fort Jay, Governors Island, along with some 400 other selectees. “Well, guess I haven't got those flat feet I was afraid of,” Louls said on hearing that the Army physicians had okayed him “from head to feet.” The fighter tipped the scales at| 220 pounds in the course of the ex- amination, compared with the 206% at which he weighed in before flat- tening Buddy Baer in the first round | in Madison Square Garden lest Fri- | day. The 220 represented Joe and | about 5 pounds of clothing. | Louis went through the “whole| works,” as one major at Fort Jay expressed it, “just as any other draftee.” He started out with the ferry ride from the Battery and passed through the hands of all the examining physitians. ‘The only extra he received was an official tour of Fort Jay, conducted by a major and a colonel. Having charged that Admiral Baeder de- |completed that, he bought himself liberately permitted false reports to | & bag of peanuts and took the ferry spread indicating the rate of sink- | back. ings of British and Allied ships was | After induction Wednesday, he much higher than it actually was. | will be placed in the Morale Division He also was said to have charged | of the Army. that the rate of new submarine con- struction was much lower than the | Germans reported. ‘The Keitel report has not been verified. The Star said the Moscow an- ~—A. P. Wirephoto. Germany | (Continued From First Page.) Profiteering in Cigarettes An acute shortage of cigarettes recently caused profiteering in Brit- | ish Malaya, and American smokes | nouncer cited a Geneva report as | that retailed at 65 cents a can of 50 authority, but that there was no | Sk¥rocketed to $1.10. | indication whether Gen, Keitel had | = | been forced to yield his post. | from Berlin yesterday reported the | The rumors that Hitler had carried | €Xécution of four persons in the German capital Friday. One was out & purge among his army gen-| erals appeared strengthened by a Stockholm report yesterday quoting a German spokesman as saying that 1 changes in the German army would | be announced “at a suitable time.” | This comment, according to a| Reuters dispatch quoting Berlin re- | ports to the Swedish newspaper Social Demokraten, was made spe- cifically in reply to rumers that such | & purge had been carried out. The Stockholm newspaper quoted | the spokesman, described as official, as adding that the time of the forth- | coming announcement of changes | “will not be determined by foreign | propaganda.” “ The rumors that all was not going | well within Germany, and particu- larly between Hitler and the army, began to circulate freely with the first German setbacks on the Rus- sian front six weeks ago, and they received impetus three weeks ago when Hitler suddenly dismissed Gen. von Brauchitsch. | Others Mentioned. Gen. Fedor von Bock, com-| mander of the central front in Rus- sla, and Col. Gen. Johannes Blas- kowitz, a leader in the Polish cam- paign, also haye figured prominently in these rumors. The list of gen- erals rumored to have been dis- missed or to have asked to resign includes Gen. Oscar von Neidermayer, a close aide of Von Brauchitsch; | Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. commander of the Leningrad front; Field Marshal Gen. Karl Ru- | dolf von Rundstedt, commander of | the southern Russian front, and | Gen. Heinz Guderian, expert tank | commander on the central Russian front. o3 ik | There came a new:fwist to the! whole situation yestefday. The Brit- | ish radio broadcast & report that | “rumors are rife in Berlin” that Gen. Ernst Udet, quartermaster general of the German air farce, “did not die as was officially declared * * * but has been executed.” said to be Pritz Winkelman, de- scribed as an Economic Ministry official, executed for the illegal| hawking of food and clothing ration | tickets. | Two, apparently Czech-Slovaks, | were accused of hiding weapons, | and the fourth, said to be a Pole. | was charged with espion: CLASSES STARTING JANUARY 19 SPANISH ered. Three of the cars stolen in the first 10 days of January, 1941, INSLOW for PAI it s sure black-out Winslew's Black-eut Paints tor inside and omtside use. 922 N. Y. 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There are also, he said, “endless lines of ships crawling over the waters of the earth” that the Navy must protect. To put it in its simplest terms, Mr. Knox explained, the task of the navies of the United States and Britain is to have effec- tive fighting strength in all the seas and all the oceans. Speaking in contemptuous terms | of Japan and Italy, Mr. Knox laid | the entire world conflict directly at | Hitler's door. Nazis the Big Opponent. “We know who our great enemy is. The enemy who before all othes must be defeated first,” he said. It is | not Japan, it is not Italy. It is Hitler | and Hitler's Nazis, Hitler's Germany. | It is Hitler we must destroy. That | done, the whole Axis fabric will col- | lapse. The finishing off of !mler'x} satellites will be easy by contrast. Japan, like Italy, is just the tool of Hitler. Just as Italy was employed in an effort to frighten Britain into compromise when Prance fell, so0 Ja- pan became the useful utensil of | Hitler, who sought, through this use of Japan, to divert our productive capacity from Britain and Russia, to our own use, and thus halt the| threat that this aid of ours to those | two fighting nations was to his pro- | gram for a European conquest. i “Never in modern history has a | | nation so obviously committed na- tional suicide as has Japan. She was persuaded by Germany to si- multaneoulsy begin war upon the American and British peoples. These two great peoples possess the great- est potential power to make war in all the world. Neither the British Bmpire nor the American republic g0 to war easily. For them, it is always a last resort, but when once embarked in war, they both have & habit of winning their wars. This one*will be no exception.” While insisting confidently that the final victory would go to the Allies, Secretary Knox warned of the power of the enemy. Time Is Required. *We know that our enemies pos- ®ees the greatest military machine [} b Record, “Six Men and War.” Mrs. Spielman quoted Viereck as | saying he knew Hill would handle the mailing. Earlier that same day, in July or August, 1940, Mr. Hill phoned Mrs. Spielman, she declared, and asked if Viereck would be in Senator Lun- deen’s office that afternoon. “I hesitated to answer.” Mrs. Spielman said. “I didn’t think he knew Mr. Viereck was coming to our office.” She said she finally informed Mr. Hill, however, that Viereck would be there. When Viereck came, he remained until “late that evening,” she testified. Talk to Senator Related. About three weeks later Senator Lundeen phoned Hill and wanted to UNITED STATES SAVINGS It will cost money to defeat the Axis. Your Government calls on you to help now. 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