Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1942, Page 1

- State College from 1938 to 1941. enlisted in the Naval Reserve as a | Weather Forecast Palr, somewhat colder alightly below freeszing. tonight, with lowest Temperatures today—Highest, 43, at 1:56 pm.; Jowest, 32, at 3:45 am.; 42 at 4 p.m, From the &nufl&m- w mor Iunn Report. Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales. Page 12. —_— WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1942 THIRTY-SIX PAGES. 11 JAP BATTERIES SILENCED BY M'ARTHUR: NIGHT FINAL “ SPORTS T Means Asseciated Pross. THREE CENTS. (Story on Page A- l) PRESIDENT ADAMANT ON SHIFT OF AGENCIES : } Late War Bulletins Howy Tire Theft Penalties Proposed A penitentiary offense for theft of tires and other auto- mobile aceessories in the District during the war is provided in a bill introduced late today by Chairman Randolph of the Nouse District Committee. felony to steal tires, tubes, ehains, The measure would make it a gasoline, anti-freeze and skid . Government Completes Case Against Hill The Government this afternoon completed its case against Qeorge Hill, secretary to Representative Fish of New York, on trial in District Court, charged with perjury. Defense counsel asked for a directed verdict of acquittal, which was taken under advisement by Justice F. Dickinson Letts. (Earlier Story President Seeks Aid of on Page A-l) Farley, Smith, Hughes President Roosevelt indicated today he hoped to enlist the services of James A. Farley, Alfred E. Smith and Charles Bvans Hughes to assist the new War Labor Board. (Earlier Story on Page A-1.) Western Defeats Devitt, 36-10 Western High defeated Devitt Prep, 36-10, in a basket ball game today at the winner’s gym. Jimmy Karas and Swanson Moore led the Western scoring with 10 points each. Western led, 11-4, at the half. Central, 32; Eastern, 27 Central knocked Eastern off the undefeated list this aft- ernoon, 32-27, in a high school series basket ball game at Eastern. It was Eastern’s first setback in eight games. Ted Thomaides led the Viking attack with nine points. Coolidge Beats Anacostia, 32 to 2] Coolidge defeated Anacostia, 32-21, in an interhigh series basket ball game today at the Coolidge gymnasium. Rich Waterman starred for the winners with 12 points. Coolidge’s first series victory. It was Wilson Defeats Gonzaga, 39 to 27 Wilson High's basket ball team defeated Gonzaga, 39-27, at the Wilson gymnasium this sftersoon. @coring hopors for the winners were divided between Don Hillock and Johnny Coffey, who counted 13 and 12 points, respectively. Former Western High Athlete Killed in Texas Plane Crash Cadet Thomas Ward Victim of Accident Near Corpus Christi Aviation Cadet Thomas Freeman | Ward, 21, of 2627 Adams Mill road N.W., & Naval Reservist, was killed in s plane crash on Padre Island, near the Corpus Christi (Tex.) Naval Alr Station, yesterday, the Navy an- nounced this afternoon. A graduate of Western High School, where he played football and basket ball, Cadet Ward was the son of Mrs. Margaret Campbell Ward, who lives at the Adams Mill road address. Known as “Ace” Ward by fellow | students at Corpus Christi, young Ward was nearing the end of his training course and was slated to become an instructor when the ac- | cident occurred, a friend of the fam- | 1ly said today. Mrs. Ward last heard from her son on December 31 at which time he had but 40 hours to go to complete his training. A native of Watertown, S. Dak., Cadet Ward attended South Dakota seaman, second class, at Minneapo- lis in March and took preliminary He| ! CADET THOMAS F. WARD. | | serve aviation base there. He .was appointed an aviation cadet in June and assigned to train- ing duty at the Corpus Christi sta- tion. He is survived only by his mother. His father, a veteran of the last war, died in 1932. Burial will be in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. -Year-Old Baby Burns to Death While Playing in Home Here l!;uy Nunley, year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Edgar Nunley, 3913 B street ‘ water after Roy's clothing caught | SE., was burned to death this aft- | - ernoon when his clothing caught fire while he was playing with three -other young children in the Nunley’ s| apartment. ‘The child’s mother told police she hw,lvm to the grocery only a short time before and had left Roy in bed. ‘When found he was in his kiddie car. His playmates, according to police, said they had attempted to extin- |guish the flames with a bucket of fire while they were playing with matches. None of the other children was in- jured They were Gary Nunley, 2; Anne Nunley, 5, and Bobhy Frost, 3, according to the police report. The burned boy was discovered by | Mrs. Anna Goldenberg, a resident of | & the building, who smelled smoke and investigated. An ambulance took the boy to Casualty Hospital, where he died at 2:25 pm. Nazis Admit Shortage of Men, ‘Remarkable’ N By theAssociated Press. LONDON, Jan. 13—The German radio broadcast an account by a Nazl regorter on the eastern front toddy acknowledging a shortage of men for important positions facing Russian forces which had broken through German lines for an ad- vance along & wide sector. The writer told of “remarkable”. new Russian tactics being employed in harrying the Germans. “The enemy,” he related, “had broken through our lines and was advancing along s wide sector. He held a strategically important posi- tion covering the road which . the enemy would ldvln::m' “We were a party of one officer and 30 men. We asked for rein- forcements, but headquarters sent ew Red Tactics iny we were ordered to hold the position !-u b at all costs until reinforcements K could arrive. “Reinforcements subsequently did one platoon and agein we were told to hold out. “Early one bitterly cold morning we saw approaching a long column of dogs. They were white Polar dogs pulling white sleds on which were riding Siberian snipers dressed in white coats and masks. “They came like a flash, emptied machine guns against our lines and before we could reply they were out of sight. . “We became tired and colder, but the Russians allowed us no respite. Finally we were relieved by other the réply, ‘No men available' snd 2 8 sians in the rear. Then we escaped.” flight training at the Naval Re- | arrive but they consisted only of| g Price Bill Would Force Inflation, Roosevelt Says Senate Changes Hit; Roosevelt Won't Talk of Veto Chances (Earlier Price-Control Story en Pxge A-1) BY the Assqciated Press. ‘The price-control bill, as it passed the Senate, was described by President Roosevelt at a press conference today as one that would compe, inflation. too early to tilk of the possibility of his vetoing the measure unless features objec:ionable to him are removed. approved of the amendment spon- sored by Senator O'Mahoney, Demo- crat, of Wyomng, calling for prices for farm prodi~ts which other Sen- ators said would run up to 120 per cent of parity and the amendment by Senator Baikhead, Democrat, of Alabama, which would give the Secretary of Agriculture a virtually veto power on ‘arm price ceilings. Believes House Members Agree. The President made his views known followiig a conference ear- lier in the day with five House mem- bers who have been appointed to attempt to work out a satisfactory | bill in confersnce with a Senate delegation. Tae President said he thought the Mouse conferees were pretty sympsthetic toward his views. He said he had pointed out to them two impartant things: Pirst, that tre overwhelming ma- “the country cid not want to De which, in thé long run, would be costly to them and to éverybody in the United Ststes. The majority of farmers, he sa.d, do not want to be responsible for having so-called farm leaders upset tne entire apple cart of the war effort | O’Mahoney Plan Held Perilous. Second, the O'Mahoney amend- ment, if it became law, would start a spiral soone- than anything that could be sugyested and would do more than anything else to saddle a huge debt o1 this and later gen- erations. Furhermore, he said, it would encourage people doing other things such as producing bombs or tanks. to demand wage increases to meet a higher cost of living. It is well known, Mr. Roosevelt as- serted, that ¥ food prices go up other things g¢ up. The Presidext said he felt that it was thoroughl: unsound to give one | agent of the Government power to make a decisicn and another power to veto it. Taat was his reaction | to the Bankhead amendment. In the long run, Mr. Roosevelt | said, the ameidment would throw ’deflsions back on himself. Wickard Wan't Veto President. of his subordirates a veto over him, the President chuckled and respond- | ed. authorizing a direct quotation: “No; I can fire either one.” A reporter r'marked that appar- ently Agricultire Secretary Wick- | ard, without consulting any one, had urged that he be given a voice in controlling farm prices. Mr. Wickard. Mr. Roosevelt as- serted, had said in a letter to him that the press had misquoted the Agriculture. Secretary. VWhen was it dated?” a reporter wanted to knov. Today, the Zresident responded, joining in & burst of laughter. Late Races Earlier Resuls, Rossvan’s, Other Selections and Entries for To- morrow, Page 2-X. {Tropical Park FIFTH RACE— ®urse. $1.000: elaiming; 4-vear-olds and usward: l turlon ickoo-Man (DRy: 7.10 3?0 .",_llll ‘Tyrone (Gonzalez® 10.2 h‘lu Hul lCmue) Reniste Control. Range Dust, er ane Float Away. RACE—Purse $1.100: ar-old:; 6 furl bertaot) 164 Wood Robin. (becombs) }!-: l':nl—!lll Houston. “ eant Bill, Toreador, is B, ABnacA-Vish and r Melody RAGE_Purse. $1.000: elaim- Toolds amd upward: 1 mile and D!vilnl Light, _Chballante, Dismas, Roysal Blue Fair Grounds THIRD RACR—Purse weights: maidens; 2-year- 1Durlnr Tucy (Broexs) reinforcements attacking the Rus-|Ingomar, eMrs. frew entry; dC. '8 Howard entry. The Chief Executive said it was | But he made it clear that he dis- | Jority of farmers in every sectian of | to rout dccused of starting & Kind of spiral| Mr. Odlum Asked whetler it would give one | _| forever our custody of the peace,” . | tion, L. Clare Cargile, president of | Mayors Assail 0.P. M. System As 'Run-Around" Win Appointments On Contracts After Talk With Odlum . (Earlier Story on Page A-6.) American mayors, many of them bewildered after visiting numerous Government agencies in quest of war contracts, today | put the problems of their com- | munities before Floyd B. Odlum, director of O. P. M.’s Division of Contract Distribution, and promptly won appointments with O. P. M. experts. The 250 municipal heads, here for the Conference of Mayors at the Mayflower Hotel, poured out their problems after Mr. Odlum told them that in the war program “saving the country” was up to little in- dustry. “Ninety-four per cent of our man- ufacturing enterprises employ less than 100 persons,” Mr. Odlum said in urging the Mayors to encourage manufacturers back home “to go after war contracts with every ounce ol ingenuity and energy they Kelly Assalls System. Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chi- cago complained that the process | of obtaining s Government contract | was “too complicated, too arduous for the average businessman to un- derstand.” sands of srsenals.” ‘The complaint of Mayor James W. Kilner of Hazelton, Pa.. was typical. | Hazelton, he said, is in the heart | of the anthracite region with plenty | of water and labor supply and needs | work to relieve unemployment. * | Mayor Kilner said that yesterday | he was directed to O. P. M.'s Labor Division, thence to the Army Ord- | nance Department, later to an Army | | supply official and finally was re- | ferred back to Mr. Odlum's staff { where he had started. Can't Get Informatien. Mayor Richard O. Johnson, Lin- | coln, Nebr., said his community | was “desperately” seeking informa- tion, but that manufacturers there had been unable to learn what they could do in the war effort.” Mayor F. K. Hahn, Cedar Rapids. | Towa, indicated businessmen in his town were confused over what was meant by a “qualified contractor.” | Mr. Odlum finally invited them all | down to his office later today for in- | dividual coffsultations wxm experts | | on his stafr. Mr. Odlum said the Armys high command had learned that Hitler had $100,000,000,000 worth of tanks, | planes and guns, at the start of his ‘ Polish campaign 4nd since has add- ed $50,000,000000 in weapons and ' equipment. Added to this vast store of mate- | rial, Mr. Odlum said the enemy added Italy’s “patched up” war ma- | chine and the formidable weapons the Japanese developed “in a decade of almost clinical tests against Chi- nese patriots.” “Against their billions in arma- ments and millions in men, we must hurl forces so superior as to insure Mr. Odlum said. London Profiteers Fined LONDON, Jan. 13 (#).—Fines to- taling about $21520 were ixnpused‘| today on a London poultry firm and its officials for selling fowl above the fixed maximum price. The mag- istrate found that more than 50,000 fow! had been sold above the legal figures. The firm was fined $4,000. he went to Mr. Odlum’s office, where | - EAST CANADIAN PORT.—SURVIVED SINKING OFF NOVA SCOTIA—This seaman, suffering from frozen feet, was one of 89 persons saved when a large steamship was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine 160 miles off Nova Scotia. and 23 were white. battle of the Atlantic. Ninety-four were lost. Of those rescued, 55 were Chinese This sinking was the closest to the United States that has occurred in the (Story on Page A-1.) —A. P. Wirephoto. Roosevelt Requests $110,000 to Complele District Armory Deficiency Bill Includes Total of $451,381 For All Purposes President Roosevelt asked Con- gress this afternoon to appropriate | $110.000 to apply finishing touches to the new armory built for the District Militia at Nineteenth and | B streets SE.. which is now being | used by the War Department for office purposes. The request represented the | largest item in a list of 1942 de- ficlency estimates for the District | calling for appropriations totaling | $451,381. Other major items include $75.320 ‘ to make up an anticipated deficit at the Home for the Aged and In- firm-in Blue Plains in salaries and repairs to buildings there, $75.000 for equipment of new school build- ings, $36,000 for completing the new Children’s Receiving Home and $34,360 for the purchase of uniforms | and radio apparatus for guards pro- | tecting Washington’s water supply | system from Great Falls to the Dalecarlia Reservoir. | Balance of the estimates include $10,000 f salaries and expenses of the Office of Civilian Defense; $2,500 to complete the new roof over | the auditorium-of the Francis Junior | High School, and $5,000 for purchase of a site for an elevated water tank in the vicinity of Alabama and Mas- sachusetts avenues' SE. ‘Some’ Agencies Are (Earlier Story on Page A-1.) Plans are being worked out with “some” Government agencies ta aid automobile dealers whose business is | being menaced by the order halting 'mutomobile and light truck produc- the National Automobile Dealers’ As- scciation, today told the House Small Business Committee. Mr. Cargile said he thought “our very shortly will resolve it- He did not lpecfly the agencies with which the negotiations have besn conducted, but told the com- mittee that Leon Henderson, priee 3 Plan Being Worked Out to Aid x| Auto Dealers, House Unit Told To Offset O. P. M. Ban on New Cars 04| oqlers, Mr. Ourisman said the pro- Studying Program administrator, and his staff “have been very sympathetic.” New car production of 100,000 units a month bétween April 1 and December .31 this year was urged earlier by Benjamin Ourisman, president-elect of the Washington Automotive Trad¢ Association’ ‘Testifying at & hearing on the effect the stoppage of passenger car and lght truck production wulm have on the business of autorhobile duction ‘schedule, outlined, plus the stocks frozen by the Government January 1, and the current month’s output, would eéqual only about 50 per cent of the number of vehicles (See AUTO DEALERS, Page 3-X) g lOne-Hour Time-Saving Bill | Agreement Reporied B the Associated Press. Senate and House conferees werc reported in agreement today to ask both chambers to approve uni- versal daylight saving time of one | hour. ’ Members said the conferees agreed | to accept legislation. passed by the |Huuse instead of the Senate bill | which would give President Roose- | velt authority to set clocks ahead as ! much as two hours in any defense | area where conservation of electrical > energy was deemed necessary. Brifish Still Refreat 'In Western Malaya; Enemy Bases Raided Loss of Port Swettenham Indicated; ‘Extensive Demolition’ Claimed (Earlier Story on Page A-1) By the Associated Press. The British command at Singa- pore announced -t.odny. that "xn‘ Western Malaya the withdrawal of our troops to positions in the rear has continued.” “The withdrawal was covered by extensive demolition which pre- vented the enemy from following too I"closely.” the bulletin said. It told of a heavy attack by R. A. F. bambers on the railway at Sin- gora in Southern Thailand, which has been used as a major base for the Japanese push into Malaya. “Several tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs were dropped on the target and flames were ob- served among buildings adjacent to the railway,” it said. The communique, in effect, ad- mitted that Port Swettenham, the vital shipping point 27 miles south- west of Kuala Lumpur, had passed into Japanese hands. British bombers “attacked targets at Port Swettenham and started | fires,” it said. At Rangoon the R. A. F. was busy attacking Japanese-occupied air- dromes, and a new Japanese raid on the airdrome north of Rangoon was announced. and R. A. F. headquarters there ‘sflid one enemy plane was shot down in flames by an R. A. F. fighter patrol near Tavoy, thit two her Japanese planes were dam- aged in attacks on Thailand air bases and that the engine of a rail- | Co. way train was blown up at Ratburi. No damage was caused by the Japanese attack on the airdrome, nor by bombs which fell. in the Ayongon ares, the communique de- clared. Nazi PIaneS, Troops And Barges Massed In Sicily and Greece Hellenic Coast Said To Resemble Channel Ports in September, ‘40 (Earlier Story on Page A-3.) By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Jan. 13.—Concentration of German aircraft and troops in to the island air and naval base of Malta, less than 60 miles to the south, as a possible target of a ma- jor Axis attack. The London Daily Mail in a Madrid dispatch said German shock troops, according to re- ports from Rome, were prepar- ing for an assault on Malta within “10 days or 3 weeks.”) The Germans were reported to have other air concentrations in Greece and Crete, and the Greek coast was said to resemble the Eng- lish Channel ports in September, 1040, with countless invasion®barges and other craft waiting for action. Malta, which is heavily armed 8nd has had more than 1,000 air raid .algrms since the war began, has -been preparing intensively for months to stand off a heavy of- } fensive. Any invading force, espe- clally parachute troops, would run into heaty opposition. A base for many of the R. A. F.’s recent heavy air attacks on Italy and Tripolitania, the island base would be a logical primary target in any Axis offensive in the Mediterranean. Italy Seising Private Ships. NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (#)—The Italian government has requisitioned “ships which hitherto have been per- mitted to navigate for private enter- prises,” said a Rome broadcast today by the Vichy radio and recorded by C. B. 8. erations in the Mediterranean. Brit- ish military experts are predicting & campaign to seize Malta. |Nine Fire Companies Battle Bethesda Bloze Nine nearby Maryland and District fire companies were needed this aft- ernoon to control a fire that de- stroyed a three-story building used for storing machinery at a stone cutting plant in Bethesda, Md. Idle recently, the plant is the property or the George A. Fuller Construction Itnqulradmoreuuncwohoun to extinguish the hlaze. Dense clouds of oil smoke, apparently eomlnc from grease-packed machinery in the building, forced firemen to work in gas masks. Py (=] ‘Declares Public Doesn't Realize » Urgency of Case W = Many Thousands More Coming to Capital, He Says (Earlier Story on Page A-1.) By JOHN C. HENRY. Indicating there will be no modification of administration = plans for transferring numerous Federal agencies outside Wash- _ ington, President Roosevelt told W a press conference this afternoon that many more thousands of & Government workers than is generally realized must still be ‘fi' added to the Federal employe rolls. (Estimates have placed i the number of workers to be added here in the next year at _ 40,000.) Even the application of extended pew building projects, as proposed X by Capitol Hill opponents of the transfers, will be inadequate to meet these full needs, he said. Both plans may be right, the Pres- ident said, in reference to his plans for transfers and other plans for expanded building of office space. Must Extend Personnel. )/ As a general proposition, Mr. Roosevelt said, neither the country as a whole nor Washington in par- y ticular fully realize the extent to which the war effort will force an expansion of the Federal person- “J’ nel, especially in the Capital. Mr. Roosevelt’s remarks on the transfer controversy followed by a ‘L few hours his conference with Chair- men McCarran and Randolph of the e b b e w Senate and House District Commit- tees. The two legisiators have been oppased to wholesale transfers of Pedéral workers outside the Dis- trict. ' On leaving the White House -they said the President had agreed to discuss the problem further with W. E. Reynolds, head of the Public Buildings Administration. Asked directly if he is considering modification of the order which would move 12 agencies out of the city, the President replied that he did not think so and added that he could see no reason for such action. No Question of Authority. He went on to say half seriously, however, that if he could find any agency pleading for removal from ‘Washington he would gladly substi- tute it for one of those already des- ignated. , Mr. Roosevelt said there had been J&’ no discussion in his conferences with b 4 > b > the two congressional spokesmen of the question of authority for the transfer order, a point which has been debated on Capitol Hill. Some- what curtly, the President declared himself not interested in that ques- tion. In the light of his warning that w = Sicily turned British attention today | many rhore thousands of Federal workers are coming here, Mr. Roose- N~ | velt was asked about steps being | taken for adequate housing. His answer was that a great deal already has been undertaken in this direc- tion, with the further implication that additional steps are contem- iplated as they may become neces- sary. 'Nazis Identify’ Sunken Battleship as Barham BY the Associated Press. BERLIN, Jan. 13 (Official Broad- cast). —D N.B. news agency said to- day the British battleship reported by the German high command No- verhber 26 to have been tnrpedoedy by & U-boat off Salum was the 31,- 100-ton Barham. DNB. said identification of tha)' battleship was gained from British war prisoners who were quoted as saying the ship sank off the Bgyptian coast after only one hit. There has been no confirmation of this or previous Axis claims of | the Barham's slnklng = b Markets at a Glance NEW YORK, Jan. 13 & — y Stocks firm; metals, rubbers ad- vance. Bonds improved; rails y lead upturn. Foreign exchange quiet; gen- erally unchanged. Cotton lower; “Ja liquidation and Southern selling. ‘Wool tops steady; trade buying. CHICAGO.—Wheat lower; price control uncertainties. Corn lower with wheat. Hogs moder- ately active, 10-20 lower; top, 11.50; heavy arrivals. Cattle slow, steers and yearlings weak; large holdover mppuu w w w * GUIDE FOR READERS Amusements 538 Comics . 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