Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1942, Page 1

he Foening Sfar Weather Forecast Fair, somewhat colder, lowest tonight slightly below freezing. Temperatures today—Highest, 53, at 4 p.m.; low- est, 37, at 8:30 am. Prom the United States Weather Buresu Report, B D NIGHT FINAL SPORTS , WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION s Associat: Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 18. 90th YEAR. No. 35,688. THREE CENTS. WASHINGTON, D. C; THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, SHIP ATTACKED 75 MILES FROM NEW YORK: 1942—FIFTY PAGES. X X € %« SURVIVORS SIGHTED ON LIFE BOAT, RAFT: + Hill, Guilty on Two Perjury Counts, Faces 20-Year Term Liberty on Bond Pending Appeal Is Denied Sentence Expected Tomorrow or Week | From Tomorrow | George Hill, second secretary to Representative Fish of New York, was convicted this after- noon on both counts of a perjury indictment returned against him by a grand jury which was in- vestigating Nazi activities in the United States. A District Court jury gave its verdict after de- liberating less than an hour. A maximum sentence of 20 years— 10 on each count—may be given by | Justice F. Dickinson Letts. Court officials indicated sentence may bei pronounced either tomorrow or a | week from tomorrow. | Defense Astorney John J. O'Con- nor indicated he would appeal. While awaiting the verdict, Mr. | Hill had told a reporter that a quick | verdict would, he believed, hold him | guilty. He said he” hoped the jury | would stay out a long time, because that would indicate it was “hung.” Jury Spends Heur at Lunch. | The jury’s decision was quxcker‘ than the elapsed time indicated. | 1 GEORGE HILL. Jurors left the trial room at 12:47 | pm. and spent about an hour | lunching. At 2:25 pm. they rang and declared they were ready with their decision, but it was 17 minutes before lawyers could be summoned and the courtroom cleared of an- other case. The jury foreman, David J. Guy, B5, listed on court records as as- sistant manager of the Chamber ~of Commerce, spoke the word | “guilty” when asked the verdict on | each count. | The first charged that Mr. Hill lied when he told the grand jury | he did not order certain mailbags | placed in a storeroom assigned to Al Axis Agents | mon front against the Axis ag-| i retain its policy of considering the Welles Calls on Americas fo Bar Urges Common Front; | Neutrality No Longer | Possible, He Warns (Earlier Story on Page A-2) y the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 15.—| | Sumner Welles, United States| Undersecretary of State, today urged the non-belligerent West- | ern Hemisphere nations to cast | aside “the shibboleth of classic neutrality” and unite in a com- B gressors seeking “to conquer the entire world.” | While avoiding a direct request for severance of diplomatic relations, Mr. Welles stressed the necessity for banishment of all Axis agents from the Americas in an address to the | | Conference of American Foreign | Ministers gathered here to consider problems of hemisphere defense. Vargas Pledges Aid. Brazilian Foreign Minister Os- waldo Aranha opened the confer- ence. and President Getulio Vargas of Brazil declared in the opening| speech that his nation was deter- mined to “defend their own terri- tory inch by inch against any incur- sions and not to permit their land or sea to be used as a point of ad- vantage for aggression against sister natfons.” Replying to Vargas, Foreign Min- iste; Juan Bautista Rossetti of Chile | called on the delegates to “use all| our faith and enthusiasm” to make | the hemisphere “one and indivisible | in the defense * * * of her unalien-| able right to decide her destiny for herself.” No Real Neutrality, Welles Says. Mr. Welles said, “There can no longer be any real neutrality as be- tween the powers of evil and the forces that are struggling to pre- serve the rights and the inde- pendence of free peoples.” “It is far better for any people to strive gloriously to safeguard its in- dependence; it is far better for any people to die, if need be, in the bat- tle to save its liberties, than by cling- ing to the tattered fiction of an il- lusory neutrality, succeeding only by so doing in committing suicide.” Not Necessarily War. Mr. Welles' declaration came as Argentina was reported to be the| only nation that would not join a “solid front” rupture of diplomatic relations with Germany, Japan and Italy. Argentina reportedly wants to United States a “non-belligerent.” United action against aggression does mnot imply necessarily, Mr. ‘Welles explained, the actual engage- ment in war of all American re- publics. It does imply, however, the driving from the Western Hemis- phere of Axis agents, still enjoying immunity under the cloak of diplo- matfc activity, and adoption of measures to “prevent all business, Representative Fish. The second |financial and trade transactions be- count claimed Mr. Hill perjured | tWeen the Western Hemisphere and himself when he denied knowing | George Sylvester Viereck, registered | German agent. | The crime of which Mr. Fish's secretary was convicted carries a | (See HILL, Page 2-X.) | Nazi U-Boat Yards Fired By Heavy Brifish Raids (Earlier Story on Page A-1) By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 15—The big the aggressor states.” “The continued presence of these Axis agents within the Western Hemisphere,” he declared, “con- stitutes a direct danger to the na- tional defense of the republics en- gaged in war. | Financial Aid Offered. “There is not a Japanese nor a | German consul, nor a consul of Hit- ler satellite countries in the New World at this moment who is not reporting to his superiors every- time a ship leaves the ports of the country where he is stationed, for Bloehm and Voss shipyards at Ham- burg, which turn out submarines | and other craft for the German Navy, were bombed heavily and mgthodically last night in an R. A. FJ raid which left the yards and ks ablaze, the Air Ministry news ice reported tonight. Returning flyers said fires started y their bombs flared up with “ex- plosive violence” and could be seen for 20 minutes after the British planes turned back toward their bases. The news service also reported t & drydock and two floating and a destroyer and subma- in them were damaged in an k on Hamburg in October. en and other ports of North- Germany also were bombed at GUIDE\FOR READERS Pa; Page. | Amusements, | Obituary ___A-12 | B-6-7 | Radio --- C-6 Comics . . C-6-7 | Serial Story.A-16 | Editorial __.A-10 | Society B-3 Editorial | Sports ____C-1-3 Comment A-11 | Where to Finance A-18| Go ----A-15 Legal Notices, C-5 Woman's Lost and I Pages B-16-17 Found _.___A-3 {Complete Index, Page A-1.) ‘smelling gas in the building last (See WELLES, Page 2-X.) Nurse Is Found Dead In Gas-Filled Room Miss Maud C. Jordan, 43, a regis- tered nurse, was found dead this afternoon in her gas-filled apart- ment at 644 Massachusetts avenue N.E, police reported. A note, ad- dressed to a sister, Mrs. Charles M. Scott of Cleveland, was discovered near the body. Deputy Coroner Christopher J. Murphy issued a certificate of sui- cide. He said Miss Jordan probably had been dead about 24 hours. Police said neighbors told of night, but did not investigate. Miss Jordan, once & nurse at Providence |' Hospital, had been in ill health for some time, according to police. Markets at a Glance NEW YORK, Jan. 15 (A — Stocks irregular; price changes narrow. Bonds uneven; some specialties improve. Foreign ex- change quiet; generally un- changed. Cotton higher; com- mission house and trade buying. Wool tops steady; trade and spot | Navy vessels had been found in the house buying. CHICAGO: About steady; hedging checks advance. Corn about steady; hedging sales. JAP SHIP OF TYPE SUNK BY —The Navy announced today that a 17,000-ton Japanese mer- chant 1ner had been sunk by a UNITED STATES SUBMARINE owned and operated by the N. United States submarine. The vertible into an aircraft carrier. ship is reported to be of the class of the Yawata Maru (above), Y. K. Lines and probably con- —A. P. Wirephoto. Congress Conferees | Fail to Reach Accord On Price Measure Reported Agreed on Broad Purpeses, but Not on Major:Differences “(Earlie: Story on Page B-12.) | BY the Assc:iated Press. A Berate-House conference committée reported general| agreemext today on broad pur- poses of wartime price-control legislaticn, but failed to settle any of the major differences be- tween tre two branches of Con- gress over the measure. Senatox Brown, Democrat, of Michigan after the initial session of an har and a half, said the joint congressional group was read- ing through the Senate bill, which drew sha-p criticism from President Roosevelt because of farm price ex- ceptions. The committee, Senator Brown s:id, was for the present skipping jver “all controversial sec- tions.” Head o the six Senate conferees | | meeting with five House members in | | the attenpt to iron out differences. Senator brown said the group would meet agsin later today but prob- ably wou'd not try to adjust dis- putes over the farm sections, licens- mng of basiness, or administrative procedure until later sessions. Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir- ginia, first to leave the closed door session, said the Senate and House spokesmea still “are a thousand miles apert.” Says P;soner Had Sketches BY the Assiciated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15.—The F. B. I. :nnouneed today that me- ticulous iketches of gun relay and fire cont'ol wiring on Mare Island possession of Hilbert Sylvester Coz, | 53, an electrician. Late Races Earlier Results, Rossvan’s, Other Selections and Entries for Te- morrow. Page 2-X. : Hialech Park FIFTH RACE—Purse, $1.500: allow- ll;lc'e‘s. 4-rear-olds and upward: 7 fur- suenay I (Mehrtens) 51.00 11.10 5.00 One (Bodiou) 330 250 kelly) 70 35 | Minee-Mo, Choppy Sea and | SIXTH RACE_-Puse $1.500: sllow- gnces: 4--ear-olds shd upward: 7 - | 3. He Rolls 3.60 Riding L1 2.80 | Get &t 350 | Volitant. Arestino. 00; claim- : 11 miles. | Smith) 23.00 10.30 6.00 6380 520 McCreary) 28.30 8.30 U (Schmid)) 410 ay me. 25 Also rar—S8ignato! nelle) Lady Infhite (Strickler) 350 Time 153, Also rin—Parfait_ Amour. All Even, Placer_Ini, Bunny Baby, Colorado Ore, Easy Task Jimson Belle and Iron Bar. Fair Grounds RACE—Purse. $600: maiden 4_rear-olds and ypward: Ssmmy Elegant (Cia’k) 10.24 Vinged Piasigh (Guerin) Ladisias nr}m Also rax—Lady Memphis, f Dotwill. Bob HL Delivey, Memo Pad, Belmar, Huste, LA G. (Physic Play, Moutons Boy. 1 Field. URTI RACE—Pui 4;yearolis and upwar L 1 P E{hflllnl McCoy) Hag - (ghelhamer) . $600: claiming; 8 Jfurlongs. { 7.00 480 4.00| 1020 300 | 440 | S0 nn—Mismark. Southern 3 Narghilen ' Budfon. {Markee, " Behave ; n'l 'l?dled. Larkmead. C. C. Cur- Late News Bulletins Chinese Report New Offensive Begun LONDON (#).—The Chungking radio said tonight that a new Chinese offensive had been started west of Canton, South China, and now is in full swing. (Earlier Story on Page A-3.) - Nazis Report New Jap Gains in Malaya BERLIN (Official Broadcast) (#).—Japanese troops in Malaya have reached the town of Malacca, on the west coast, and have put it behind their advanced forces, the German radio said today, quoting Japanese Army headquarters. (Earlier Story on Page A-1.) Alcohol Bill Goes to White House - Legislation relaxing alcohol production regulations to permit distilleries more easily to convert part of- their pro- duction to industrial alcohol for war use was passed by the Senate late today and sent to the White House.™ House Completes: Action on Housing Bill Theé House completed congressional action today on a bill to authorize a $300,000,000 appropriation for defense housing [Hershey Says Army 'Must Draw on Men | | | | | Carrier Type Plane Drops Food (Earlier Tanker Story on Page A-1.) By the Associated Press. time in two days struck at commercial shipping in New sight of watchers on the south shore of Long Island. ‘The Coast Guard at Quogue, Long Island, said survivors were | being brought in and that some had landed by midafternoon. A Coast Guard plane had dropped food and whisky to about 10 sur- vivors seen in a lifeboat and on a raft. | The name of the ship was not immediately learned. Details |of the attack, about 19 miles south of Southampton, also were | lacking. | mediately after the attack, presum- Big Jap Ship of Rkt Reports from Hampton Bays, Long | Island, about 75 miles from New | York City, said onlookers from shore | had seen the tanker during or im- It was learned that the attack oc- a submarine rose to the surface and thrice torpedoed the Panamanian tanker Norness about 50 miles from the scene of today's attack. The area swarmed with activity | as measures were taken to destroy the craft that came within sight of land to make its attack. The duty officer at the Quogus Coast Guard station said survivors | were being brought to Shinnecock | Inlet, which links the Atlantio Ocean with Shinnecock Bay. Liner Believed One Of Three Designed For Naval Use ?Regislering Feb. 16 Draft Will Be Necessary | To Achieve Expanded ‘ Force of 3,600,000 | (Earlier Stery on Page A-1.) Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, said today it would be necessary to draw from the 9,000,000 men be- tween 20 and 44, inclusive, who | will register February 16, 10 of the Yawata class were built for ‘The Navy announced today the s ol B e what | A | Observers said the vessel was still chant liner similar to a type afloat and that an oil slick more " designed for conversion as an than five miles long could be seen. aircraft carrier. Says No Survivors Brought In. The vessel was described as of Police Chief John H. Sutter of | the Yawata class, which for- Hampton Bays said late in the aft- | merly was operated by the Japa- | m“o"‘;r:":h:";n’e‘°;fi:ge‘;fi' gf | nese Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line | between Japan and the West| fres’33 miles of Shinmecock Tniek | Coast. No location of the sink-| and that fast cutters dispatched at | ing was given. once from the Tiana Coast Guard No official information was given | station had searched the area but Assault Takes Place el In Sight of Shore; Y w NEW YORK, Jan, 15.—Enemy warships for the second "y York waters when a tanker was attacked today within “y curred about 9:30 a.m.,, 32 hours afte» Y D4 w = w0 » on the sinking of the Japanese liner, | returned without finding any sur- “wef” | but it was learned that three ships | vivors. ‘The report from the patrol plane, | achieve the 1942 Army strength | operation by the N. Y. K. line for | Chief Sutter said, was that 10 men i of 3,600,000 announced earlier in the day by Secretary of War | Stimson. { Gen. Hershey told a press con- | ference that the additional 1.900,000 | men to be sought by the end of | this calendar year—present Army | strength is around 1.700.000—could | be raised from present registrants, but added: “I don't think that would | be public policy.” | merchant and cargo service and|had been sighted in a life boat and that all were designed for conver- | 4 on a raft. He added that Guards- sion into aircraft carriers. So far | men who made the trip in the cut- These ‘vetaels has beén converted | At ‘.45 pim, w1 howr and-a halt | :45 pm., an hour and a hal and apparently it was undetermined | after the news broke, Rear Admiral whether the sinking announced to- | Adolphus Andrews, commandant of day involved that one. 5 | the 3d Naval District, said through Thiee Graces of he N. Y. K. and | have no immmediste comment on che . Y. K. ave no iate comment on t} are among the finest and newest of | attack. e the Jepanese merchant fleet. Their| Tankers are difficult to sink War Department on 6- Beginning Saturday the entire personnel of the War De- partment, including field workers, will go on a six-day, 48-hour week for the duration of the war, in compliance with an order today by Secretary Stimson. and a $150,000,000 fund for community facilities. Day, 48-Hour Week Of Counting on BY the Associated Press. VICHY, Jan. 15.—Continuing his press campaign against the Petain Marcel Deat wrote Deat Accuses Vichy Regime Allied Victory | The only thing lacking is the op- portunity to start action.” He declared the hardiest op- ponents of collaboration at Vichy government, “underhandedly encouraged in high today in an editorial in L'Oeuvre, | places, systematically propagate Estimating that 1000000 of the names are Yawata Maru, Nitta | additional men could be provided Maru and Kasuga Maru. The first from present registrants already | two were constructed in 1939 and | he believed another 1.200.000 could last year 2nd may have been the be raised from the 2,000,000 men 0| one converted into an aircraft car- | register February 16 in the 21 t0 rjer | 2133 year bracket and another 400~ | pe 000 from older February 16 regis-| capacity | trants, of whom there are to listed speed P’ 22 knots, although | about 7,000,008, they are believed to have a speed | These estimates total 2,600,000, and of 22 or 23 knots. One of | are large enough to provide a reserve, | this class established a new speed Gen. Hershey said. He added that|record from Yokohama to San because of dependents, trade skills | Francisco on a voyage last year. and physical defects he doubted that | They are 557 feet long and have a many men in their late 30s and 40s | T4-foot beam. would be called. i Toll Now 11 Jap Ships. Gen. Hershey announced there , SINKINg of the liner raised to 11 would be a re-examination of all ex- | the total of enemy vessels sent to isting deferments and that 100,000 | the bottom by American submarine | to 150,000 men might be picked up | 8ction in the Far East. The 10 | from present registrants by lowering | V€ssels previously reported sunk by ships have a passenger of 300 each and | classified in 1-A, Gen. Hershey said | the Kasuga was under construction | < Driver Injured as Train leading Paris collaborationist news- paper, that Vichy “hopes for and counts on Anglo-Saxon victory.” “The government is playing a comedy. There are outward gestures which fail to conform to innermost intentions. It may be officially col- laborationist, but it remains under- stood that its real hopes are of another sort,” the Rightist editor declared. “It salutes the occupying power (Gérmany) politely, but it hopes for and counts on Anglo-Saxon victory.” In his article, under a caption “The Ache Comes Prom the Head,” Deat wrote: “The high administration at pres- ent is rotten with De Gaullism and fermenting with virtual treason. Anglomania and Americanophile watchwords.” Laval Back in Paris. BERLIN, Jan. 15 (Official Broad- cast) (P —Plerre Laval, one-time Premier of France, has returned from his country home at Chateldon, near Viehy, to Paris and already has received numerous visitors, accord- ing to a German dispatch from Paris. The return to Paris of Laval strong advocate of French collab- oration with Germany and Marshal Petain’s chief aide until he was ousted from the Vichy regime in December, 1940,, may herald impor- tant developments in Prench-Ger- man relations. New Fifth Column Peril Seen By the Associated Press. Representative Dies, Democrat, of Texas told the House today the Na- | tion was not on the alert against “foes that are within our borders,” and said some defense workers be- lieved themselves available for a “revolutionary change in our form of government” in a crisis. ‘The Texan reported that his com- mittee, investigating un-American activities, opened closed hearings today “on those pro-Nazi organ- izations which constitute a danger- ous fifth column in our midst.” Asserting that his intent was “not to embarrass but to aid the admin- istration,” Chairman Dies also re- peated his charge that Communists and persons with Communistic con- nections were holding down Gov- ernment jobs. He singled out for criticlsm sev- 80 | eral employes of the Office of Price Administra tion and said the “house- iteh, | cleaning” in that agency had not been completed. : f N By Dies as Inquiry Reopens In a long floor speech, Mr. Dies said: 1. That Leon Henderson, price administrator, once was a member of “the Committee on Technocracy” and was assoclated with “one of the craziest economic propositions efer hatched.” 2. That the Civil Service Com- mission had recommendéd dismissal of “Robert A. Brady and Mildred Edie Brady” who, he said, were among O. P. A. workers with Com- munist views and connections.” 3. The O. P. A. senior business specialist was Harold Loeb, who wréte books “which veered emphat- ically to the crackpot side.” 4. Malcolm Cowley, who for 10 years “was one of the most Srdent Communist intellectuals in this country,” had been employed as ¢hief information analyst in the Offce of Pacts and Pigures. The Dies committee today was econcerned with an inquiry into the | National Workers’ League of Detroit. - physical standards, particularly as they relate to teeth. He said he | hoped to maintain existing require- ments for dependency deferments | until it was absolutely necessary to | change them to get more men. |Wenner-Gren Asks U. S. To Explain Blacklisfing (Earlier Story on Page A-9.) | Bs the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, Jan. lionaire industrialist who has been | blacklisted by the United States | State Department, asked today in a statement that the Washington , Government either make public the | grounds for its decision or else | “clear my name of what is a cruel |and unfounded charge.” ‘Wenner-Gren's name was included | in a list of 1.800 issued by the State | Department last night, all of whom are considered by United States au- thorities to be acting for the benefit of Axis powers or exporting goods deemed detrimental to United States Returning to Mexico @ity t8day from a trip to Vera Cruz, Wenner- Gren said: “T want to 4y simply and directly that a seri mistake has been made by the State Department and that I am confident that a public examinasion of the evidence on which the State Department acted in my case will quickly clarify the error. It will also reveal that I am, in fact, as I always have been, a friend of the United States and British Governments and peoples.” ‘Wenner-Gren’s palatial yacht, the Southern Cross, is at. Vera Cruz. One of his associates said he had offered it to the United States along with an airplane and his laboratories mNUMT. defense. Their assets were frozen. | American undersea craft were five transports, three cargo vessels, a supply vessel and a minesweeper. | Three other Japanese ships—a de- | stroyer, a transport and a seaplane | tender—have been reported ‘“prob- ably lost” by submarine action. A Navy spokesman said the ves- sels were built at the great Mitsu- bischi shipyards and were fitted with every modern device, including direction finders, gyro compasses and echo-landing devices. The Navy spokesman who said it | was possible that the now-sunk liner 15—Axel | had been converted into an aircraft | Wenner-Gren, Swedish multi-mil- | carrier said it also was considered | ! ! possible that it might have been in | service as a transport. |Big 240-MM. Howitzer |Starts Trip to Aberdeen | B the Associated Press. | MILWAUKEE, Jan. millimeter howitzer, largest pieces of mobile artillery | ever built in this country, was rolled out of a factory oday and started on its way to th® Aberdeen (Md.) Army Proving Ground. 15—A 240- barrel, was guarded by armed soldiers. A convoy of three 10-ton moving trucks, a self-propelling cl and eight other vehicles, ac- anica it Count Ciano Arrives In Budapest for Visit By the Associated Press. ian Radio) —Italian Foreign Minis- ter Count Galeazzo Ciano arrived here this morning for an official yisit at the invitation of the Hun- garian Premier, Laszlo de Bardossy. The Premier and several other of- ficials, including representatives of the three-power pact signatories, welcomed Count Ciano at the sta- one of the| The gun, which has a 27-foot | BUDAPEST, Jan. 15 (Official Ital- | with torpedoes because they are divided into many compartments. | Some have been known to sail 1,600 miles after being struck with two 'and three torpedoes. Hifs Truck in Branchville (Earlier Traffic Story on Page A-6) * Melvin A. Grim, 22, of Linthicum Heights, Md., ) death in Branchville, Md. this - morning when the truck he was { driving was struck by the Baltimore & Ohio's National Limited, en route * from Washington to New York. Police said the train hit the truck Jjust behind the cab, lifting the dump part of the vehicle off the chassis and hurling it about 80 feet. The chassis, knocked to one side of the | track, was virtually destroyed, ac- | cording to police. The cab of the truck was crushed by the impact. Mr. Grim was removed from the truck. unconscious, and taken to | Casualty Hospital by the Branch- * | ville Rescue Squad. Hospital aids said he was suffering from head | injuries and body abrasions. | The truck, owned, according to | police, by William A. Harding of - Lansdowne, was carrying gravel for A. H. Smith of Riverdale. Gravel was strewn 100 yards from the scene f the accident, according to wit- | nesses. The front of the diesel- | powered locomotive was dented. | An unidentified colored man was | killed and two other men injured | late this afternoon in a head-on | collision between two trucks on | Central avenue near Halls Corner, Md. The man killed was driving | one of thee®trucks. Gerald Costly, 34, colored, 1900, | Savannah place SE. who was rid- ing in the truck with the driver who was killed, was brought to Casualty Hospital in serious con- | dition. | Two Soldiers Killed; 3 Hurt in Auto Wreck BY the Associated Press. HENDERSON, Ky., Jan. 15.—=Two Fort Knox soldiers were killed today and three others were injured, one critically, when their automobile ! plunged from Highway 60, 12 miles south of here. Pvt. Loren Brewer, Mo., was killed outright and Sergt. Joe Eddington, 22, Palmer, Mo., died several hours later in a hospital here. L ‘The injured were: Pvt. James Brown, 19, New Madrid, Mo,; Sergt. Arthur Hornsby, Florids, and Pvt. Glenn Bard of Ohlo. The condition of Sergt. Hornsby was sald to be critical, b- ¢ w b_4 S narrowly escaped w > " 4 w Charleston, ' w »