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Japanese Relations Unchanged, Declares Soviet Spokesman Lozovsky Claims Nazis Are Losing Help of ‘Allies’ And Thousands of Men By the Associated Press. KUTBYSHEV, Russia, Jan. 14— | 8. A. Lozovsky, Russian spokesman | and Vice Commissar of Foreign Aft fairs, declared yesterday that Soviet- Japanese relations were unchanged, | &till being based on the neutrality pact of April. His press conference, first since | war broke out in the Pacific, was | attended by both Japanese and Allied correspondents. His comment on relations with | Japan was in response to a Japanese reporter's question. He added that negotiations were under way for re- newal of the Far Eastern fisheries pact with Japan which expired De- cember 31 but that they had not been concluded. Of the war against Germany, he expressed optimism and said, “Ger- | many now is trying to get new forces from Hungary, Italy and Rumania, but it is more difficult since Ger- many has been weakened. The Red Army's blows at the Reichswehr are reflected not only in occupied coun- tries but also in those hitherto un- touched by war. Finnish Clashes Reported. “The situation in Finland is worse than in any other ‘ally’ of Ger- many.” He said he had heard ef clashes between Finnish soldiers and civil- fans on one hand and German | troops on the ather, and remarked, “such a situation cannot last much longer.” Lozovsky added, however, that he | was not acquainted with the motives i for the visit to Stockholm of the | Pinnish diplomat Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi. Lozovsky said the Germans and | Finns in the northern sectors had | thought that when the polar night | set in Red Army activity would | cease, “but they miscalculated; our | counterattacks there are con- tinuing. In the Crimea, he said. the Ger- | mans are getting no rest day or night and developments are favor- ing the Russians. Sneering at Adolf Hitler's appoint- 1‘ ment of himself as head of the Ger- | VELIKIE LUKI * RUSSIANS REPORT NEW WE offensive against the Germans i beyond toward Bryansk. NOVGOROD & THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1942. S.S.R. GOROKHO . MOZHAISK \ (j { MOSCOW . : STWARD GAINS—The Russians last night reported the recapture of Kirov ‘'n the Smolensk re- gion and Gorokhovo in the Mozhaisk area, indicating the deep- est westward penetration yet made in the Eed Army's counter- n the central sector. The reports said ski-shod Red troops virtually surrounded Orel and swept —A. P. Wirephoto. Request for $451,381 To Meet D. C. Needs - Reaches Commitfee Items From Roosevelt Provide for Armory And School Completions The House Appropriations Com- mittee had before it for considera- tion today a request from President Roosevelt that $451,381 be added to the 1942 District budget to meet deficiencies in appropriations due largely to increased costs of sup- plies and building materials. The largest item, amounting to $110,000, is intended to apply finish- |ing touches to the new armory for | the District militia in the vicinity | of Nineteenth and B streets S.E, | which is now being used by the War Department. Other major items include $73,320, to make up an anticipated deficit at the Home for the Aged and Infirm at Blue Plains in salaries and re- | pairs to buildings, $75,000 to equip | new school buildings, $36,000 for completing the new children’s re- ceiving home; and $34,360 for pur- chase of uniforms and radio appa- ratus for guards protecting Wash- | ington's water supply system from Great Falls to the o Dalecarlia | Reservoir. Among the minor items are these: For salaries and expenses of the Office of Civilian Defense, $10,000; for completion of the roof over the auditorium of the Prancis Junior High School, $2,500; for purchase of a site for an elevated water tank in vicinity of Alabama and Mass- achusetts avenues S.E., $5.000. Russia (Continued From First Page.) Far East (Continued From First Page.) Knox (Continued Prom First Page.) the withdrawal of the German gar- rison under pincer pressure. On the southern frout, Soviet sol- diers pressed within 12 miles of basin, An Izvestia correspondent said more than 20,000 German troops had been killed in recent fighting in the Donets Basin. Russian cavalrymen newly landed in the Crimea were reported to be south of Leningrad, was reported | restored to Russian control through Kharkov, in the Donets industrial | jumping-off place for the invasion of the Netherlands Indies. Japs 3roaden Attacks. A Netherlgnds communique indi- cated a broaiened scope of the Jap- anese attacks, reporting that Japa- nese bomber; had struck at the big | oil port of Balik Papan on the east | coast of Dutch Borneo some 300 miles south »f Tarakan. | The attack on the Southern Philippines, the Dutch war report said, was cerried out by a flying boat of the Indies navy which re- turned safel; after dropping bombs | Chinese, 28774; Filipinos, 52,569; | Korean, 6,851; Puerto Rican, 8296; | Hawalian and part Hawaiian, 64,- 1310, and other groups, 834. | This racial problem is so serious that a solution has not been found, the Secretary said. However, Mr. Knox pointed out, it was not a Navy problem, but belonged to the Army. | Secretary Knox discussed briefly | changes made in connection with | appointment of Admiral Ernest S.| King as commander in chief of the United States Fleet. The job of | chief of naval operations had be- | | workers, she said, have an even has been endeavoring to organize civilian defense according to metro- politan areas, rather than separate city or county lines, because from an airplane such boundary lines are meaningless. The plan has been to make the mayor of the largest city in a metro- politan area the regional director for the area. Mrs. Roosevelt stressed the need of ‘making every man and woman feel they are a part of the defense effort, and said whenever any group 1s left out it weakens civilian morale. “Take your Negro population right here in the District or in New York City—a group who feel they are set aside and not allowed to partici- pate,” Mrs. Roosevelt continued. “It may not be the Negro group in all cases. It may be an alien group, who came to this country to escape certain conditions abroad.” While discussing crowded condi- tions in Washington, Mrs. Roosevelt mentioned the difficulty defense workers have in getting their lunch in the time available. The colored greater problem, because they have to go further to places where they can get lunch. Paul V. McNutt, director of the Office of Defense Health and Wel- | 1&e Services, and James M. Landis, neWly appointed executive of civilian defense, also have been called to testify. In preparation for the appear- ance of the celebrities, movie cam- eramen have installed special light- ing equipment in room No. 1301 of | the New House Office Building, and Capitol police have been given in- | structions to keep the spacious | room where the ccmmittee meets | from being overcrowded. | __(Continued From First Page) Ciano is making to Budapest fol- | wing German Foreign Minister | joachim von Ribbentrop’s recent visit there. Turkey Disapproves. ‘The Hungarian radio has quoted ‘Turkish expressions of disapproval over troop concentrations in Bul- garia.. Dispatches in neutral Euro- pean newspapers recently have noted fresh Rumanian emphasis on her old territorial ambitions—espe- cially cqueerning Hungary. | Military observers lay uncertainty in Nazi planning—except for a | Soviet spring campaign—to the diffi- | culties of reorganizing the German | Army under Adolf Hitler, | One report from a usually reliable | source said Field Marshal Gen. Wal- Athens area now total nearly 1,000 daily, this report said. The Moscow radio has reported that Heinrich Himmler, chief of the German Gestapo, is Hitler's new chief collaborator in army direction and that Reichsmarshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering is under a cloud. Marshal Goering was Hitler's crown prince at the start of the war, head of the mighty Nazi air force and the German Fuehrer's own first choice as his successor. There is no confirmation from Germany, of course, that Marshal Goering has fallen from grace. Informants, however, said he in- curred Hitler's displeasure ooth be- cause he is regarded as having failed to win African concessions in his conferences with French Marshal Petain and also for two differences of opinion with his chief on high strategy. First, they said, he was overruled in his advocacy of an attack on England after Dunkerque and then he objected to the invasion of Russia. Himmler has taken an increps- ingly important role, say persons who recently have left Germany, as the old army command becomes more and more superseded and con- :’;l of the home front grows more d. British Urged to Leave Turkey. ISTANBUL, Jan. 13 (Delayed).— Some British subjects began selling their property and preparing to leave Turkey today following re- issuance of a warning by the British Consulate. ‘The warning to British subjects, the fourth in the last two years, advised them to leave if they had no important reason to stay. Diplomat Denies Britain Sold Out Europe to Reds By the Associated Press. ANKARA, Turkey, Jan. 14 —Ger- man allegations that Britain “sold out Europe to Russia” in recent Kremlin talks between Anthony Eden and Joseph Stalin were de- scribed as bull - Hugessen, British Ambassa- | dor to Turkey. “Nothing the Russians said went beyond pre-war Russian bound- aries,” Sir Hughe said in an in-| terview, “As far as I know. there | was no mention of the Balkans or Finland either.” The veteran envoy. who went to Moscow with Mr. Eden, said fur- ther that the Russians gave assur- ances they had no territorial de- signs on Turkey and Iran. “fantastic childishness” | last night by Sir Hughe Knatch- | ment setting up the War Production Board was couched in broad lan- guage, indigating that the details of the new supply organization were yet to be worked out. One big question it raised was the future status of the Office of Pro- duction Management and its co- directors, William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman. Hereofore O. P. M. has had responsibility for the muni- tions output. From time to time critics have charged it with short- sightedness in estimating the amount of vital raw materials needed for the war effort and with slowness in getting the Nation's industry on an all-out war footing. In the absence of word to the contrary, the presumption was that O. P. M,, like all other home front agencies interested in production or supply, would come uider the Nelson board’s jurisdiction. There was DONALD M. NELSON. some conjecture that Mr. Knudsen might be freed of considerable de- tail and utilized in a role that | would make the most of his genius as a production trouble-shooter and organizer. ‘These matters were expected to be cleared up as soon as President Roosevelt signs the executive order officially setting up the new board, and formally designates Mr. Nelson as its nead. Strictly speaking, the presidential announcement last night man control. He told reporters he had no comment on the new board, and did not mention it in his speech. “We need decisions, not discus- sions,” Mr. Willkie declared in his speech. “We need planes, not pre- dictions; we need tanks, not talk.” He charged that whole areas of in- dustry had not been converted to war production and that the auto industry’s capacities had not been fully utilized. However, earlier in the day an outright call for a production czar was made by Chairman Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee. His nominee for the post was former Postmaster Genera! | James A. Fauley. | Senator Connally charged at & | press conference that O. P. M. was | “in a state of confusion and over- | lapping” and needed ‘“one big, | fouble - fisted, hard-boiled, iron- tongued man to run it—somebody who could hit the desk and tell all these little fellows where to head. Tireless and Tough. A tireless, tough-hearted driver, Mr. Nelson will take charge of American war industry under a pledge to sweat the country into all- out arms production. “Just ahead of us are the hardest years we have been thypugh since Valley Forge,” he said. “Ever so often there comes a time which puts all Americans to the test and requires them to show that they can live and work the hard way instead of the easy way. They have always met that test thus far. We ourselves will meet it now. “This defense program isn't any W. P. A. program—a joyride—for industry. We are not playing for marbles. It's a life and daeth strug- gle. We are going to need the labor of every available worker and every machine that can be used in the land. “We are going to have to give up all manner of things which we would like to have and strip down for a struggle which will take everything | we can give it. Hitler is going to win this war unless we deny our- selves everything that we can possi- bly deny ourselves. “We Can Overtake Hitler.” “We can overtake Hitler. The man who says we can't is either blindly ignorant or believes that democracy and freedom are played out and helpless.” was a declaration of intention rather than fln;;!flm" lt‘i This Cll:c“l:“‘ has been preaching to industrialists | stance led to speculation whether and politicians alike in speeches | Mr. Roosevelt had just reached his'and conferences for more Eate | decision on the subject. or whether year. he had withheld disclosing his plans ~ His associates believe President until this time. :Rm!evelt picked him to head the Willkie Surprised. War Production Board because he i | was one of the few men who had his These are the words Mr. Nelson raiding German positions at Kar- | asubazar, 25 miles northeast of Sim- feropol, and driving northeastward | toward the Perekop Isthmus from | the Feodosiya area while parachute troops struck at behind-the-lines| objectives. Nazis’ Smolensk Bastion Periled. er von Brauchitsch. whose place itler has La,et!n as German Army | commander 'in chief, continues openly to express sharp criticism to | — his officer friends of current mili- | effectively into this “streamlined” tary tactics. | arrangement. Gen. List Reported Vanished. Thus Mr. Nelson emerged as the Semi-diplomatic information in | combination Beaverbrook - Baruch come so heavy that no one man | could handle it, the Secretary said, 1s| and thus the duties were divided. He described the division briefly by | available immediately. | using language from the original | The Sarawak border apparently is | executive order which sald that Ad- the slowly .leveloping battle front | miral King would direct the fighting | Detween Yo ense forses of Dutch | fieet and that Rear Admiral Harold | man Army, Lozovsky saild the Rus- | slan answer had been the taking of | Kaluga. | Big Nazi Losses Claimed. “We know the enemy is strong, however,” Lozovsky conceded. “The wounded beast is dangerous before | it dies, but we shall continue our | Wendell L. Willkie was as much surprised by the announcement as any one in the Capital, for he had | conferred with the President earlier | in the day and was ready to broad- |cast an appeal for one-man war | production control to end “debating | society” methods. on a barra:ks and runway of a Japanese-used airfield. The comnunique said no detai about the fight for Minahassa were | sights set on a program as large as the President envisaged even be- fore the two-year schedule of 120~ 000 tanks. 185,000 planes and 18.000.- 000 tons of shipping began to take shape. Mr. Nelson is a natural advocate of hard work and self-denial as the i’roductio; _(Continued From First Page.) blows until we clear the land of all Hitler murderers and assassins.” A British military commentator | Borneo and the Japanese who have | {in London said Russian spearheads | oyerrun the iand of the white rajah,i Lozovsky said the Germans lost | Were now only about 40 miles east gjr Charles Vyner Brooke. 200.000 dead between November 6 and January 6 and that the Rus-| sians had captured or destroyed 2900 German tanks, 4,500 guns, 82,000 rifles, 1,136 planes and 3,000 | sutomobiles. Writing in the Moscow News, Eng- lish-language paper now published | in Kuibyshev, Col. Sergel Gurov | also listed the German dead for that | period at 200,000 and said the Red | Army had recaptured 85,000 square kilometers, (32,800 square miles) of territory. | of the trunk railway angling be- tween Nazi bastions at Smolensk and Bryansk—“dangerously close.” | wounded ini a Japanese air attack | emphasize too strongly that the he said, from the German viewpoint. These spearheads were based at|of Celebes, snd said another soldier | of confidence in Admiral Stark, who Kirov and Lyudinovo, & sister town to the south. Bulletins from the Soviet central front reaching London by radio re- ported desperate German counter- attacks were breaking with heavy losses against the Red Army assault lines. Perhaps speaking of the same en- | The Dutck reported that two sol-l | diers were killed and one was| reported yesterday on Ternate, east | | was killed and three were wounded | (in & Japan2se raid on Tandjoeng | Oeban in th* Rhio Archipelago near Singapore. B ! “One of our warships was attacked by Japanesc bombers, which, how- | ever, did n>t manage to get over their targets,” the communique said. “All bombs fell far from the wer- | R. Stark would devote his time to logistics, administration and long- | range planning. Stark Not in Question. Mr. Knox said that he could not change was not made through lack is chief of naval operations. Obviously pleased at the step- up in shipbuilding effort since De- cember 7, the Secretary said war psychology had brought production rapidly upward and added: “The ‘workmen are pitching in.” | Secretary Knox expressed pleasure at the appointment of Donald Nel- | said he had replaced Field Marsha! Istanbul said today that Field Mar- | shal Gen. Siegmund List, last re- ported two months ago in Athens commanding German forces in Southeastern Europe, had disap- | peared. His friends in Berlin were | reported concerned for his safety. | A month ago Russian sources | 1 Fedor von Boch, German commund-i ed on the central front in Russia. | Meanwhile, new reports arriving in Istanbul from conquered Greece said approximately 70.000 German troops and seven Italian divisions | effort, the old German field marshal | of perhaps 105000 men were sta-| tioned in Greece. of the war’s production front battle. His board appeared roughly com- parable to the War Industries Board which Bernard M. Baruch directed so astutely in World War 1 and will exercise powers similar to those wielded by Britain's Min- istry of Supply, headed by Lord Beaverbrook. The record of the War Industries Board of 1918 was enough to gut the new one on its mettle. n Hindenburg festified to it in his memoirs after the last conflict. Writing of the American w: said: “Her brilliant, if pitiless, war British military | industry had entered the service of | | The advance text of the Willkie | speech was distributed here several hours before the White House an- nouncement, but in speaking the Roebuck in charge of merchandising 1940 Republican presidential nom- | before he was called to Washington | inee dropped out the section which | June 30. 1940, as co-ordinator of | contained his demand for the one- | defense purchasing. | | % MODE £ Once A Year! The Mode’s Annual Storewide solution of the Nation's problems. He fought his way up to a $75,000- a-year job as vice president of Sears« Lozovsky also said there were 100.000 Germans in Mozhaisk, west of Moscow, who were in “an unen- viable position.” ship.” | son as production chief and said gagement, the Soviet Information | Ojl Properties Destroyed. | that it was hard to find three men Bureau in Moscow repérted 200 Ger-... mans were killed “in violent fighting for possession of ‘K."” The Pinnish Army command in | Helsinki asserted that the fighting | north of Lake Onega had reached | aunrgasb!l;esa:;edl fl;isxhinfgmmon‘pmnonun and had not failed it.! med s tncontl anzivaallell Ineal| = o o LSS Underiitng compision of ymiiiaty air base and harbor tacilities be- | Undersecretary of War Patterson | jcp porder. :;d:;os;obd.'\;'nr,’:'l‘ tly. They {!oerreed fl::‘eTfi::;n garrison !Umn‘j;.ggreg:‘d_'mn;";fi"ordi:::Ls ):;2 Deaths from starvation in the President Roosevelt's announce- Reds [i;fing All Damage Inflicted by Germans By the Assnciated Press. MOSCOW, Jan. 14—A careful registration of all damage inflicted l by occupying Germans on industry | and agriculture in every city, town and village restored to Soviet rule is underway, Pravda said today. Reporting on destruction in some of the districts. Pravda asserted the big textile mills in Yakhroma, | Narofominsk and Vyssokovsk were burned and destroyed and the Volga canal was damaged. Of 155 collective farms in the Istra district just northwest of Moscow 60 were destroved by fire, the paper stated. Of 4500 farm- steads in the Solnechnogorsk district more than 3,000 were destroyed. Restoration is in full swing, the paper reported, with first attention given to such vital needs as power stations, bath houses, bakeries, rail- ways and highways. A number of tractor stations at | collective farms already have been | reorganized in preparation for the spring sowing, Pravda declared. Round-Table Seminar At Library Tonight The disintegration of liberalism | will be the subject of a round-table seminar at 8 o'clock tonight in the Library of Congress. The partici- pants will be members of the Library administration, with two staff mem- bers leading the discussion. The discussion will center around Lewis Mumford’s “Faith for Living.” This is the fifth of a series of seminars and panel discussions sponsored by the Library of Con- gress Discussion Group, Services Set Tomorrow For W. C. Harbaugh Funeral services will be held to- morrow for William C. Harbaugh, retired Government Printing Office employe, who died Monday at & local hospital. Services are scheduled for 3 pm. at the Huntemann funeral home, 5732 Georgia avenue N.W., with burial in Glenwood Cemetery. Mr. Harbaugh, employed at th printing office for 40 years, retire in 1938. He leaves a widow and four children. Navy Reduces Ag-e Limit For Air Training to 19 Age limit for enrollment in flight training leading to commissidn as ensigns has been reduced from 20 to 19, the Navy announced last night. Unmarried men, 19 to 26 years old, may enroll, providing they have had two years of college training and have been citizens of the United | Btates for 10 years. College seniors, juniors and sophomores may enlist in this class (V-5) and complete :hety current year before reporting for uty, ‘The United States Coast Guard Beeds men between*elgenolll end 31, the “mopping up” stage, its com- munique implying that the long- sustained Russian offensive on that front had been shattered. Initiative Up to Reds. Declaring the initiative rests with Soviet troops and that “their on- slaught is gaining momentum” Col. A. Vasilyev of the Red Army said in London that the Germans had lost enough material in their final offensive in November against Mos- cow to equip 11 tank divisions, § or 6 motorized divisions and 55 to 60 infantry regiments. Writing in a Russian Embassy war news publication, he said: “About 80 per cent of the effectives used in the ‘decisive’ German offen- | sive of November 16 were killed or wounded.” By January 1, wrote Vasilyev, the Germans’ last offensive and the Red Army’s counteroffensive had cost the Nazis 142,480 killed and 280,400 wounded. The figure for Nazi dead had risen to 200,000 by January 6, S. A. Lozov- sky, Soviet vice commissar of foreign affairs, said in Moscow. Vasilyev said the Nazis considered their defenses which the Russians smashed along the steep banks of the Nara, Protva and Oka Rivers impregnable. This river system runs from south of Mozhaisk through Kaluga to the south. German Atrocities Told. Soviet Embassy sources in London declared last night that refugees who escaped from German-held Kharkov gave this picture aof the once-flourishing city, often called the Russian Pittsburgh: “Violence and plunder increase daily as the German command be- gins to lose ground. Gallows have been erected in the central streets. Corpses hang from balconies, “The other day the building which is the headquarters of ‘the German command was blown up. In retalia- tion the Germans hanged 200 Khar- kov citizens. “Schools, hospitals and stores are closed, as they are in all adjacent villages. The city is in darkness every night, since only one power station has been recommissioned to serve the needs of the German mili- tary units and even this station . works to only one quarter of its capacity ¢ * *. ’ “There is no bread and, to combst famine, the German command evicted scores of thousands of resi- dents. Concentration camps were erected for Jews on the outskirts | of the cit; in ruined buildings devold of light and water * * *. “Half-dressed Jews were driven along the streets, lashed with whips and prodded by rifie butts. Ex- hausted old people and children fell dead on the road.” Exportation of Tires Forbidden by Mexico BY the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 14—The National Economy Ministry yester- day forbade export of tires in order to conserve Jubber supplies, which are estimat be enough for Mexico’s own or & year. “After Ta‘akan,” a spokesman told Aneta, “the Japanese know exactly what they sre to expect when they move further on Netherlands Indies territory. slready one of the oil | sources which Japan needs sopadly | | is lost for tnem, and lost for a long time, and ihe same holds for the| other ol fields if they cannot be held against the :nemy. | _“Since Jszpan could not get the’ | Netherlands Indies oil by long nego- | tiations she decided that she would | take it by force. Now Japan knows that this method is also failing and | | that the Netherlands Indies keeps its | A | The spokesman declined to give de- | tailed information on the oil field destruction at Tarakan because “the Netherlands Indies may have to de- stroy more oil in the coming months and there js no reason to give the | enemy too much information on | this subject. . .” Hill (Continued From First Page.) Press in New York that Mr. O'Con- nor “probably meant” that the Hill | indictment was “part of the smear | campaign against me.” | “I will say that George Hill is 100 | per cent OK. and I'll back George Hill to the limit on anything.” For a full half hour after the Gov- ernment yesterday had closed its | case against Mr. Hill, Attorney | O'Connor pleaded in favor of his | motion. Mr. O'Coanor declared there was nothing in che mail sacks the grand jury need be interested in—only franked spseches by members of Congress. He pointed out that Mr. Hill did “firally” get the bags to the grand jury, Viereck Connections Discounted. Defense counsel also contended there was “not one scintilla” of evi- dence Mr. Hill ever met Viereck, and only the word of two girls in the late ®enator Lundeen’s office that they heard Viereck phoning Mr. Hill » Justice Letts ruled yesterday that if convictel Mr. Hill wili be sen- tenced unq:r the District of Colum- bia code rather than under the Federal pe-jury statute as the de- fense had iesired. This de:ision means Mr. Hill could be sentenced to 2 to 10 years | imprisonment on each of the two | counts, presecution attorneys said. | A contrary ruling would have made the maximum jail sentence 5 years— | but would have permitted & $2,000 fine, it wax stated. | | Tires and Wheels Stolen| ime Parked Truck Theft of two tires and wheels from his t-uck parked in the 1000 block of Thirty-first street N.W., ‘was reported to police today by Ab- raham Silver, 312 Second street N.W. Curtis .J. Lewis, 203> Thirty-sev- enth street SE., told police a thief reached through an unlocked win- dow of his home and stole a hand- beg contaning $16 in ecash and currency, s $2.50 gold piece,; dis- ntond ringe at $850 and $150 and s wedding worth $15. | the Mayor replied. curement for the two services. TRAVEL. Morale (Continued Prom Pirst Page) o any time fussing around about that | bill.” Mr. Sparkman listed the argu- ments made in the House by those who favored giving the civilian de- fense job to the Armiy. Answering them one by one, the Mayor of New York said he didn't think it was | a military function, “and I don't think the Army wants it, or wants to go in for such things as child | care and nutrition.” Will Give Up One Post. The Mayor added: “If I had been a member,of the House I could have criticized the | work more effectively.” Turning to his own future, the Mayor said that “before long I'll have to choose one of three courses. I want to stay until you get this| pending bill through and until you‘ take up another now being pre- pared to provide some compensa- | tion for injury to civilian defense workers. After that I will either give up as’Mayor of New York and | stay with O. C. D, or give up O. | C. D. and go back to New York, | where I can criticize everything going on in Washington, or do what | I did in the last war if I can get | by.” In the last war Mr. La Guardia | served overseas. | While recognizing some of the | difficulties O. C. D. has encountered, the Mayor said he recently ar- ranged to have incendiary bombs imported to train civilian defense workers, but before he could get them he had to pay $18.75 to the Customs Bureau. | “Did you have it?” asked a mem- ber of the committee. “We managed to scrape it up,”| | “I want to fight the Japs, Italians } and Germany. 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Courtesy Parking—N.W. Corner 13th & K Sts. or Star Parking Plase THE MODE Y ’ F STREET ## ELEVENTH YN 90 Day Diiviten Paymont Plamw j| \_THE IMPORTANT MEN’S CORNER 3