Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1942, Page 9

Evening Star Club Honors 46 Employes Now in Armed forces D. C. Commissioners Among Many Guests At Annual Dinner Nearly 400 employes of The Star gathered in the ballroom of the Willard Hotel last night to honor members of The Star staff who are now serving in America’s armed forces. The occasion was the an- nual dinner of The Evening Star Club. District Commissioners Young, Kutz and Mason joined with officers and employes of The Star in paying tribute to the 46 employes who have volunteered or have been called to active duty with the Army, Navy and Marine Corps since the out- break of war. Nineteen of the 46 men attended the dinner, the others being unable to attend because of the distance of their posts. List of Speakers. Among those who spoke were Frank B. Noyes, president of The Evening Star Newspaper Co.; Flem- ing Newbold, vice president; Col. Leroy W. Herron, advertising direc- tor; S. H, Kauffmann, treasurer, and Commissioner Young, who was for- merly White House reporter of The Star. Other directors of the com-| pany introduced were R. M. Kauff-| and Crosby N.| mann, secretary, Boyd, assistant secretary-treasurer. | Theodore W. Noyes, editor of The Star, who was unable to attend, sent his best wishes to fellow members of the club and praised the em- ployes who have been called to service. Col. Herron, himself a war veteran who twice has been called from civil- {an life to serve his country in time of war, presided as toastmaster. He told the men his only regret was that he was not serving with them now. “Wherever you may be called on to go,” Col. Herron said, “I know you'll come back with a deeper understanding of what the Ameri- can flag means to all of us.” New President introduced. David Davenport, retiring presi- dent of the club, expressed appre- ciation for the co-operation he said he had received during his two years | as head of the club, arid introduced | Walter W. Millan, president-elect of the club. An entertainment program was ented under the direction of Bill Coyle, radio director of The Star, by theater and night club stars. Among the entertainers were Larry Blake, comedian; the Yost Singers, Carol King, ballerina, all from the Earle Theater; Marion Marlow, vocalist, and Joseph Suday, orchestra leader, both from the Carlton Cosmos Room, and Sasha Lucas, violinist at the Troika Club. George O'Connor, well known en- tertainer, sang several songs. Patriotic Tableau Finale. A patriotic tableau built nround: the song, “Wave That Flag, Amer- ica,” and dramatizing the spirit of the men who made our Nation’s his- tory, was presented by Mr. Coyle and a group of players as the finale of the program. As the final chorus was sung, the service men walked on stage and stood at attention facing the fifi:gmm in service honored at the dinner are: Albright, John D. Allen, Arthur A. Baulsir, John L. Berry, Chester J. X!e s. Norman A. Lawrence. Rot Robm' D. Bowers, Otis Reed anle Jahn M McAleer, Chlflex L Bruskin, Robe! McCallum, Dougal Bumm Achme M. McCawley! B Car Jam; Kenney. cym A Chalfonte. Ruhen c. Maisel Louie W Cina_Stephen Merkle, Theadore J. Gumberland. Jos. or ack Dovle. John Edgerton, Joseoh & Mus Garnett, 'Alex. Y. F. O’ Towira’ Geb. dams wuoner RobertE. auffmann., Watts, William Godfrey W. Whitman, E. W., 3 Woman and Ensign Sued For $75,000 in Crash ‘Two suits, asking $75,000 damages, were filed yesterday in District Court, as the outgrowth of a traffic accident on January 1 at Branch and Pennsylvania avenues SE. Named as defandants are Ensign Robert R. Reed, 3423 Carpenter street S.E., owner of the machine, which killed one man and injured three other persons, and Miss Marion Louise Robinson, 100 C street, Cap- itol Heights, Md. . Miss Robinson was indicted Tues- | day by the District grand jury on _ & charge of manslaughter, but it/ ignored a similar charge against | Ensign Read. Attorneys Leonard J. Ganse and | Carl F. Bauersfeld filed both suits. Jesse C. Finley, administrator of the | estate of his deceased son, Charles | William Finley, who was fatally| injured in the accident, according | to the complaint, asks $10,000 dam- | ages, Mr. Finley lives in Franklin, | Va. In the other suit, Miss Marguer- {te Clarke, 1304 A street SE. asks $50,000 damages: Miss Mary Vel- lenga, 1657 U street SE. $5000, while Paul E. Clarke, father of Miss Clarke, $10,000. Four Ships Acquired " By Navy Are Renamed The Navy yesterday announcgd new names for four ships recently taken over from private concerns © and individuals. The Wave, Gale .. 8nd Tide, all from the General Sea- foods Corp., have been renamed the Eagle, Hawk and Ibis, respectively. ‘The Vida, taken over from Earl P. Halliburton, has been renamed the Crystal, Australian Suggests Dropping Explosives In Enemy Volcanoes By the Associated Press. CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 21—A suggestion by Bernard Cronin, Australian author, that several tons of explosives be dropped by plane in the craters of Mount Vesuvius in Italy and Pujiyama in Japan “to persuade mother earth to kick up against the Axis was published by news- papers here yesterday. Vesuvius is an active volcano, but Puijivama, the almost per- fect cone 60 miles southwest of Tokio, has been inactive since 1707, ATTEND STAR CLUB DINNER—Pictured last night at te n- nual banquet of The Star Club at the Willard Hotel are (left to right) Commissioner John Russell Young, Fleming Newbold, D.. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942. le president of The Evening Star Co.; W. W. Millan, president- elect of the club, and 8. H. Kauffmann, treasurer of the company. —Star Staff Photo. By tie Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif, Jan. 22— The attack on Pearl Harbor, con- sidering the Japanese advantage of surprise and air power, was described | | as a ludicrously “bad job” today by | Elmer Renken, veteran gunner’s { mate from Alton, Il | Renken suffered 15 wounds and severe burns in the engagement and was one of the two members of a 12-man crew to survive from the casement of a broadside gun dam- aged by a direct hit from a 1,000- pound bomb, Somewhat of a hero himself, Renken, who has had 15 years’ service in the Navy, discounted his performance in an interview at the Naval Hospital here to tell of the “mere youngsters who proved in the attack that they were men.” “Proud of Youngsters.” ‘They leaned outside the gun case- ment, looked up at the Jap planes and shook their fists at them— daring them to come in and fight,” | Renken recounted. “Then, actually laughing, the kids went on banging away. We'e proud of the young- sters in the fleet.” Renken and others who partici- pated in the December 7 attack didn’t have much respect for Jap- anese marksmanship. “Considering the great advantage they had through and air power, they did a bad job of it” said Renken. “At the time a stream of bombers came over and seven other high explosives were dropped in perfect alignment. The string hit about 40 feet away from the ship and raised huge geysers of | water which sprayed the deck. “You would have thought the boys were watching a good movie com- edy, because they just looked at the dlsappelrlnx Jap planes nnd; laughed. Renken said even before the gen- | eral alarm sounded, one youth had | manned a machine gun and two minutes later had knocked down an enemy plane, Guns Manned llnmedhuly The rangy gunner was getting dressed preparatory to going on lib- erty when the first Japanese plane soared into view. “While the alarm had not been sounded yet, every gun was manned immediately,” he sald. “We were short two men in our 5-inch gun crew, but a colored sailor and a Filipino—both of them mess at- tendants—stepped in without a word, took up positions and began firing. “It was primarily a job for anti- aircraft and machine guns, because our gun is for use in combat with surface craft. At that, we managed to dust off two Japs ourselves, both of them torpedo planes. Altogether our ship was credited with nine Jap planes downed. “In all my years in the Navy I've never seen guns fired so rapidly and efficiently as they were during that hour and 45 minutes of action.” Saved by Mast. Renken’s crew had only slight before the 1,000-pounder shattered the casement. The gun Jap Attack on Pearl Harbor Was a ‘Bad Job,’ Says Gunner’s Mate Who Took Part in Battle captain, seeing a dive-bomber head- | ing for the ship, had just shouted for all hands to keep under cover when the blow struck. “T was standing beside the foot of the mast when it happened. Another fellow was right beside me, laughing and joking through it all. That | mast was what saved us, I guess, but even so we were hit by a lot of shrapnel. “I was knocked out for a few sec- onds, but #vhen I came to I remem- bered our guns were loaded and I thought I might be able to get re- placements and resume firing. I crawled out of the casement and made my way to the adjoining one, where they took charge of me for medical attention.” Many Examples of Courage. There were many examples of courfige in the area which became a hospital room. The action of a young lieutenant Renken described as typical. 3 “The officer, a young doctor, was staggering along, exhausted from inhaling too much smoke and bleed- ing from wounds. I tried to pull him into the casement, but I was too weak. Some of the other boys helped me. “They put the lieutenant on the | table and had just started to work on him when he snapped out of it and saw what was going on. He immediately brushed the boatswain’s mate aside and told him to take care of the others who were more seriously injured. A minute later he" was off the table and began Is Germany headed for a gigantic collapse? If so, when and how will it come? An at- tempt to answer that riddle which bewilders a war-torn world is presented in a series of articles by David M. Nichol, one of the most recently returned Amer- ican correspondents assigned to troubled Europe. The Star here- with presents Mr. Nichol's second article. By DAVID M. NICHOL. The peoples of modern Europe whom no other force or influence has been able to unite have found a common bond under the “new order”—their hatred and fear of everything that Naziism stands for | or does. Just as the blitz touched off some | hidden wellsprings of ~character | among the English, so the gray- green legions of Hitler, by taking freedom away, have taught the con- tinent what it means. The con- tinent’s response has been almost unanimous without regard to the attitudes of its governments, Allied, neutral or conquered. I encountered this smouldering, ‘onen poorly concealed hatred on dozens of occasions. It charged the atmosphere in Prague where cen- turies of foreign rule have been in- adequate to break the spirit of the Czechs. It added grim significance to the chalked inscription “Reserved” which appeared overnight on some of the telephone poles there, for | “Reserved” to every Czech means reserved for a German hanging-- some day! One felt it in former Poland with | |its Jim Crow streetcars for Poles | and its provocative signs limiting them to certain stores and activities. | In Switzerland it was an invitation | to a fight to speak high German. | | and the feelings of the French grow daily in intensity. “We'll chase them out with sticks some day if we can't do any better,” said a Parisian with tears in his eyes. Spiritual Kinship. Most of the occupied areas and the General-Gouvernements (former Poland) have been closed to Ameri- can correspondents for months, but. the signs are evident that a similar spiritual kinship exists in all of them. Dutch and Poles, Norwegians and Belgians alike have been a source of constant difficulty to their conquerors who have turned to the | only ultimate answer they know— | brutality. The Nazis in their turn | have been reluctant to let the world know the full story. | The Chicago Daily News Service once carried a report from London that Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmi- ler had loosed a blood purge in the wake of a tour of Norway. I was called to the Foreign Office in Ber- lin, lectured as a recalcitrant child might be, and instructed that some- thing must be done. I declined to deny the story without havin opportunity to check it first That, I was told, was impossible. Would Himmler deny the story in a formal statement? Perhaps. He never did, but neither did I see Norway. No amount of Nazi censorship was sufficient to keep many well-founded reports from filtering out, however. The police force of a large Nor- wegian city resigned en masse in the face of threatened imprisonment rather than serve under a German- chosen chief, for example, and this fall there have been numerous un- announced executions for “anti- German activity.” Poland was similar, but the horror there is even greater. Visiting War- saw involved obtaining permission from the general-governor Dr. Hans Frank. This I had, but Goebbels’ | soon after he had registered and 8n|told me later that the Illustrious’ and. | anti-aircraft fire was the worst he ands miristry ted” mnu the tims was w-lhh‘:c- Europe Found United in Hatred Of Nazis; Solidarity Maintained by Force ganize a party of correspondents. I told them I didn’t want an escorted tour. I never got farther than the border. Hatred Grows Daily. Everywhere the story is the same, The hatred grows with each day. If the Germans have spectacular successes, it submerges somewhat, but the first Nazi setback restores it even more strongly. Those who believed they could make a deal have found bitter disappointment. Those who were conquered were stunned by the initial impact, but they have now begun to breathe and feel again. “The Germans can’t go on forever with so much hatred around them,” a cafe waitress whispers at the risk of her life. Less generally known is the rising resentment of the Austrians, which as early as a year ago resulted in a demonstration against Goering’s wife in front of her hotel in Vienna and prompted Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach to warn them that extreme measures would be used if they con- tinued. “We made a great mistake with the Austrians,” a German official once admitted wryly. “We gave them citizenship. We can't use quite the same methods that we can in other countries.” The Germans in Berlin and the northern part of the Reich are un- familiar with this aspect. It came as a shock and surprise to a Berlin businessman when a Viennese hotel manager paid a visit to his room apologized in advance for any “inci- dents” or ‘“unpleasantness” that might arise. But the citizens of | neighboring Munich recognize it | readily. “How,” one of them asked bit- terly, “can we hope to make friends of the other peoples of Europe when we can’t even be friendly with the Austrians?” Italians Dislike Germans, Not even the Nazis' allies have escaped this virus. Mussolini has exhorted the Italians repeatedly to hate. They do. They hate the Ger- mans. Scarcely more than formal efforts are still made to conceal this, or ‘the contempt the Germans feel in return for the south end of the Axis. Attempts to use German and Italian armed forces in conjunction have proved most delicate. When German Stukas roared out | over the Mediterranean a year ago | for their first attack on the British | aircraft carrier Illustrious, they had | Italian fighter escorts. The Nazi| pilots returned to their bases in| Sicily prepared to carry out a pri-| vate war with their allies. “Where,” they asked, “were the Italians when the going got tough?” The Itallans had an excellent reply, They shruggeti and sald that it was | “much too dangerous.” One of those | Stuka bombers who had flown in | Poland, France and over England had ever experienced. It is but one of numerous similar frictions. As far away as Portugal, the feel- ing is only slightly less intense. Temporarily, it is somewhat con- fused by the British occupation of Portugal’s Pacific colony, Timor, but Hitler's new year’s message was still sufficient to drive a Lisbon citizen into voluble, profane Portuguese, and an official with whom I spoke sald, “We'd all be completely pro- | British again” should the Nazis make a move toward Spain. The net result of German diplo- macy and armed force has been to isolate the Reich more completely even than the Kaiser’s empire was isolated in 1914. It has no single- dependable ally. The three-power pact and all its adherences remains treating himself.” and Fear hoping that something, perhaps America’s entry into the war, will prove the opening wedge for a flood that will sweep away Hitler and all his works. Nazis Aware of Feeling. Most of the Germans are keenly aware of the extent and the depth of the hatred the other peoples of Europe hold for them. Many are honestly puzzled, unable to under- stand the reason despite the in- creasing clarity of the “new order” as nothing more than an economic system under which Europe will work for the Nazis and live in what may be left. Others, however, see it more clearly. Good PFriday afternoon the Ber-! liners turned out by the thousands | | to stare in fearful anticipation at the aftermath of the most spectacu- lar fire-bomb raid the British have yet staged there. Among the crowds in Unter den Linden and Kaiser Franz Josef Platz I found a German acquaintance, gazing thoughtfully at the still smoking ruins of the Prus- slan State Opera and the burned- out roofs along the street. “How do you like 1t?” I asked. He hesitated long before answer- “It’s time we had something such as this,” he sald. “Think of what we've done.” Powerful Propaganda Weapon. His reaction is far from typical For most of his countrymen this Account No Interest No Carry Charge Convenient Budget Terms Arranged JEWELRY 1114 F STREET N.W little more than s peper structure while Europs goes on hating—end rising sea of hatred has become a powerful propaganda weapon in the hmdl of Hitler and Goebbels. Ger- many must win, they say, or be torn apart and destroyed in the mael- strom which would follow a Nazi collapse. It is one of the most fac- tual statements they have made. No amount of political demon- strations, such as the renewal of the anti-Comintern pact in November, with all its window-dressing of continental solidarity, can conceal the truth that one factor and one factor alone, the Nazi armed forces and their ruthlessly efficient police and Gestapo, still holds Europe to- gether. For the time being, there is little prospect of any successful outbreak other than the acts of sabotage and individual terror that have been reported so regularly from all the occupied territories. Revolt is little more than suicide, although the Czechs tried it, and the Yugo- slavs have fought so valiantly that Bulgarian and Hungarian forces have been called to the assistance of the occupiers. Unarmed peoples, as Ribbentrop recenfly warned, do not as a rule rebel in the face of Stukas, panzers and S. S. troops. Should a crack appear, however, rebellion would flash up and down and across Europe overnight. The Nazis can never relax their vigilance for an instant. (Copyright, 1942, by Chicaso Daily News.) Norwegian Whaler Roufed Sub Attacking U. . Ship By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—A Nor- wegian whaler put to flight a large submarine which was about to at- tack an Americam tanker last Mon- day off Cape Hatteras, an oiler aboard the tanker said yesterday. A. E. Boyce, & member of the tanker’s crew, said she was 3 miles away from the tanker Malay when the Malay was shelled and torpedoed. (The Malay mde port, severely damaged.) Then, he said, his tanker picked up a message from a Norwegian whaler saying “submarine attacking us!” Ten minutes later came an- and then we saw the whaler coming after it,” he said. “The big sub turned and fled out to sea. I think they were afraid the whaler might ram ’em, or that it might have been a disguised raider.” Completes Air Course Philip Capell Wright, 215 Rock Creek Church road, has completed preliminary flight training at the\ Naval Air Station in Anacostia and | will go soon to a flight training| center to work toward a commission | in the Naval Reserve. He Iormerlyl attended Middlebury College, Mid- | dlebury, Vt, and was rudulud' from Central High School here. Dr. John J. Field DENTIST | 406 Tth ST. NW. MEt. 9256 Third Floor, Woolworth Building 3 diamonds of bril- liont quality exqui- sitely set.in gold. COMPANY F. C. C. Hears Defense |z=we 0f Newspaper Tie-ups| With Radio Stations News Is Cited as Field In Which Broadcasting Was ‘Saved’ by Papers the United States were described to the Federal Communications Com- mission yesterday as the “most com- plete and most honest” in the world. Ralph D. Casey, director of the University of Minnesota’s school of Journalism, gave the commission a detailed history of news reporting as it resumed its hearings into news- paper-radio relationships, Mr. Casey testified after the com- mission had denied a petition by Harold Hough of the Fort. Worth Star-Telegram, chairman of the Newspaper-Radio Committee, for an indefinite postponement of the in- vestigation. As first witness for the Newspa- per-Radio Committee, Mr. Casey potnted out that radio stations have the choice of several news services for their reports, and called the fees ‘“very reasonable.” Previously, Mr. Hough had argued that the commission, under existing law, lacked authority “to adopt any policy, rule or regulation pursuant conviction that interference with per-radio. operation would notonly h'nnwlmnud but would hld:flnlh hindrance to a unified Anhouruuru.kmxmepeuunn tion, Paul A. Walker, -mummmmw.muot James Lawrence Fly, announced its d-nhl has already been expended preparation of this case,” Mr. Wal- ker said. the argument that the war effort arded by adjourning the the tremendous amount of work has already been done. The commission believes the war effort will be advanced by complet- ing this investigation at the earliest possible moment.” Thomas D. Thacher, counsel for the newspaper-radio committee, ar- gued that testimony presented by the commission’s counsel “discloses that even if the commission pos- sessed the power to discriminate between applicants because of their business interests, there is no ground for such discrimination against ap- plicants interested in newspapers.” Inquiry Called Legislative. Mr. Thacher said the investiga- tion must be regarded as legislative in character and designed to deter- mine whether to ask Congress for legislation discriminating against persons with newspaper connections in the granting of broadcast licenses. In earlier hearings F. C. C. counsel had presented testimony dealing with the past difficulties of radio to which the commission may deny a | stations in obtaining adequate news broadcasting license because the ap- ,repons Mr. Casey’s testimony was plicant owns, is interested m or associated with a newspaper.” Petition Denied. Presentation of additional evi- dence, he contended, “will strengthen | designed to show that no such dif- ficulties now exist. The real source of the strength of | § the - United States agencles, Mr. Casey said, was that they were es- LUXUR/IOU LCOATS Never, we believe, have we had on hand a finer and larger collection of splendid overcoats than the won- derful stock which we are able to present in this unusual sale. Fortunately for our customers, we were prudent, and ordered early. May we suggest that you be equally prudent, and make your selection at once? 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