Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1942, Page 6

Irish Fear A. E. F. Is Preliminary fo Seizure of Bases' ‘So Keen on Peace We Will Fight for It,” Says One; Blockade Not Feared BY the Associated Press. DUBLIN, Eire, Jan. 30.—Official eoncern is felt here that the arrival of United States troops in neigh- boring Ulster may be preliminary to seizure of Eire's naval bases which the Allies need badly for the battle of the Atlantic, an informed source said today. “We are so keen on peace,” said one Irishman, “that we will fight like hell for 4t. “Although I don't think it will come to that, any attack by Ger- many would not necessarily mean that we would call for help from anyone. Foreign troops would au- tomatically walk in to fight beside Eire's army.” Neutrality Strongly Expressed. ‘This neutrality of Eire is strongly expressed both by officials and by the man on Dublin's streets. The newspapers made only scant men- tion of the United States troops arriving, and consistent British press demands that Eire turn over bases to the Allies have seen little light in the censored press. The whole partition question, of eourse, is the root of Eire's attitude, and many declare that if Britain would permit Northern Ireland to join Eire's government—something Ulster emphatically refuses to do— thén Britain and & united Ireland could work out a mutual defense scheme. Eire's 250,000 troops are not armed adequately, and the government at- titude is that they should be equip- ped by Britain. One source sald that the De Valera regime would be willing to pledge not to use such armament in its aim of uniting Ireland by force. Ready to Face Blockade. ‘When the question is raised of 8 possible British blockade against Eire to force the issue of obtaining naval bases, the Irishman quickly retorts “That would be comsidered & form of warfare against us. * * * ‘We have faced famine as a weapon before and we are prepared to face it again*” Officially, Eire feels no obliggtions | to fight by the side of Britain even though she admittedly is dependent on Allied shipping. “Britain made a profit from , carrying our trade in peace years,” one source argued, “so why shouldn't she continue to do so now?” This Irishman saw no incongru- ity in Dublin's bright lights and full shops at a time of blackouts and severe shortages in Britain on whose ships she depends for her supplies. Housing (Continued From First Page.) here at the rate of 1,000 a week for the next year. Many of the new war workers, Mr. Stephens said, come to Washington alone with an idea of bringing their families here as soon.as possible. This situation; ‘he ‘pointed out, creates & potential increased load on Washington’s population. Chairman Lanham inquired if the people recruited for Government service are advised of lving condi- tions and expenses. “I'm not advised,” Mr. Stephens replied. of comment to the effect that not only are people refusing positions here, but that maby turn around and go home as soon as they get here because they are not satisfac- torily adjusted.” Lanham Suggests Plan. Representative Lanham suggested that perhaps the housing shortage could be alleviated by disregarding the civil service quota law and giv- ing Government positions to all available persons in the District. “Every effort has been made to use those who can qualify from the surrounding area,” Mr. Stephens responded. Representative Wilson said the only solution to Washington's hous- ing shortage is the “wholesale” de- centralization of Federal offices. The | Department of Agriculture, he de- clared, should be moved nearer the farm center. - Chairman Lanham agreed that‘ further decentralization of non- defense agencies is necessary. Wash- ington, he said, “is reaching the saturation point.” Recreation Facilities. John Nolen, jr., director of plan- ! ning of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, ex- pressed belief that one of the rea- sons it is difficult to get people to some to Washington to take Govern- ment positions is the inadequacy of recreation facilities. He pointed out that demands on local recrea- tional facilities have passed beyond | the ability of existing facilities to meet them. The committee will resume hear- ings on the $50,000,000 housing and public works authorization bills at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Chairman Lanham late yesterday deplored plans for establishment of a “reception center” for incoming Government workers, ! Defense Housing Co-ordinator ! Charles F. Palmer said the reception center might serve as a training school for applicants for Govern- ment jobs in Washington. It would be located in a temporary building, he said, and provide accommoda- tions for 1,000 persons. Sees “Intolerable Situation.” “This is the first time I've heard that the influx of people here might be due in part to those seeking Gov- ernment jobs,” declared Representa- tive Lanham. “I thought the center would be used for accommodation of those who have jobs ready for them and with no place to sleep. “If that plan is carried out, you will just make Washington a mecca for people looking for Government Jobs. The situation would be in- tolerable. Why can’t the Civil Serv- ice Commission take care of these people in other cities and determine their qualifications before they come to Washington?” Mr. Palmer also told the com- mittee congestion may become so acute in Washington during the war that non-defense Government workers might have to be asked to leave, and that unless the $50,000,000 48 made available for immediate construction of homes for new war workers, the city would soon face & “disastrous” condition. In addition, Mr. Palmer revesled that congestion in Washington may force the Government to take over A “T have heard a good deal | War Writer fq Learn to Swim Before Rejoining British Fleet censor. It arrived by cable a THE EVENING NEW YORK.—BEAT HIS STORY HOME—Larry Allen (left), Associated Press correspondent with the British Mediterranean Fleet in many of its majp adventures, returned to the United States yesterday to discover a story he wrote on the sinking of the battleship Barham last November 25 had not yet cleared the Here Allen, still wearing his British correspondent’s cap, is in- terviewed by A. P. Reporter Seth Moseley.—A. P. Wirephoto. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 30—Through | all the hair-breadth escapes and | hair-raising experiences that go with traveling nearly 100,000 miles aboard British battlewagons at war, Larry Allen, the Associated Press's most traveled seagoing correspondent, was | painfully aware that he lacked one vital accomplishment, He couldn't swim. But today, on furlough from re- porting the British Mediterranean fleet’s activities for readers back home in the U. 8. A, Mr. Allen took a solemn pledge with the sole idea it may save his life, which he almost lost when the British cruiser Galatea was sunk under him by Axis tor- pedoes. “I'm going to try,” he said, “to | learn to swim.” For the war isn't over by a long | shot, he added, and neither is his part in it. Minimum of Three Years. “We’ll ‘be in this' war for a long | time,” Mr. Allen predicted on his | arrival here yesterday. “At a mini- | how the torpedoes were apparently | mum three years, at 2 maximum five | years. I expect to get back into it, | and I want to.” | He based his forecast on the belief that while the Italian navy had failed in the Mediterranean, the | | Germans were still formidable—and | | the British as well. “The morale of the British fleet is excellent,” he said. “They are the most courageous people I have ever seen. They never count the po- | tential loss when going into battle, | of the chances they are taking. | | Neither the Germans nor the Ital- | | ians—especially the Italians—can | match them at sea. | to fight. They have five battleships, | 4 to 6 cruisers, 30 to 40 destroyers, | 70 to 80 submarines, but most of | them hug their ports. The British shoot straighter and think quicker. Germans Still Confident. “German morale is still excellent. The German U-boat prisoners I have | seen and talked to recently remain | hearty and confident.” | The Galatea sinking was his clos- | est call; he struggled and choked in the oil-scummed water for nearly | an hour, somehow managing to stay afloat until rescued by another war- ship. While recovering in a hospital in | Calro, he wrote an epic story of hml experiences on and off the Galatea, | and he has written numerous other | exclusive stories detailing such ad- ‘newapcper writing—is a native of | took the job he always wanted, that | few hours after Allen.got in. } | | \ ventures as the terrific bomb and | torpedo barrage he weathered aboard the aircraft carrier Illus-| trious, the great British victory over the Italian fleet off Cape Matapan where he had a grandstand seat aboard the flagship, and various offshore cannonading against Axis forces in Libya. Mr. Allen raeched New York al- most neck and neck with a detailed dispatch he had written weeks be- fore, giving exclusively and for the | first time the story of the sinking of the battleship Barham in the Medi- | terranean last November 25. The classic story of the Barham's end was written aboard the flagship Queen Elizabeth, from which he was the only war correspondent to wit- | ness the attack, and in it he told aimed at his ship but hit and ex- ploded the Barham when the Queen | Elizabeth dodged away on a zig-zag | course. Left Story With Censor. ‘Writing that story was something but getting it to the outside world | was something else again. He left | his dispatch with the censor for transmission to New York at the opportune time when the British | would decide to announce the Bar- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY,.JANUARY 30, 1942. Columbia-U. Offici Defends Newspapers’ Radio Ownership Operation No Different From Other Stations, F.C.C. s Told B7 the Associated rnum M i Newspaper-aflia o sta- tions lndwltlth‘ml without news- paper nonnections do not differ materially in their operations, the Pederal Communications Commis son was told yesterday. This was the conclusion of Dr. Paul Lazarsfeld, director of the office of 1adio research of Columbis University, who testified as a wit- ness forthe Newspaper-Radio Com- newspaper-radio relatfonships a view to determining jts future Radie Com« is opposing any on acquisition of stations by news- paper interests. Dr. Lazarsfeld presented numer- ous exhibits, most of them dealing with so-called “one-one communi- ties,” in which the only newspaper has an Interest in the only broad- cast station. had finished explaining Kaye, counsel Commit- mulp he “I don't find anything to indicate any material difference,”. Dr. La- zarsfeld replied. . g 5 Dr. Lazarsfeld testified as to the extent of outside newspapers and broadcast service in the “one-one” cities. In 74 cities where the only news- paper an interest in the only station, he said, outside news- ve & circulation of 35 to every 20 for the local paper, In 3§ cities where the only local owns contsol of the only of any sort limiting the complete freedom of the press.” Morris Ernst, associate counsel of .the union, an earlier witness, urged divorcement of radio from the press. Tomorrow * ham’s sinking and the censor sut:-l sequently would let it go. | For reasons of strategy the British withheld the Barham announce- | ment until last Tuesday. At that time Mr. Allen was making his way to the United States by air, flying one leg of his long journey from | Cairo in an Army bomber with | William C. Bullitt, personal repre- sentative of President Roosevelt. Larry Allen Finzel—he dropped | the last name when he started his Garrett County, Md. His first news- paper job. was. writing Beall High | Bchool and Frostburg notes for the Cumberland (Md.) Evening Times. | Went to West Virginia. After Mr. Allen’s graduation from high school, he took a newspaper job in Charleston, W. Va. He be- | gan service with the Associated | Press there in 1933. He learned the A. P. trade in West Virginia and | Washington, equipped himself lor; foreign service with two years of intensive language study, and then of a foreign correspondent. | Mr. Allen hopes to return to the | British Mediterranean fleet for the | last chapters of the greatest naval | experience a journalist ever has had. | And he’ll know how to swim. facilities not actually engaged in war work, and transfer another| 10000 or more Federal workers under the decentralization program by July 1. Since the Public Buildings and Grounds Committee decided to re- sume hearings on the housing bill today, Chairman Randolph of the House Legislatiye Committee called off a scheduled meeting so his mem- bers may attend the session. Six members of his committee was pres- | ent at the initial hearing yesterday. | Mr. Randolph said the program | he arranged for his committee today would be carried out Monday. This included resumption of considera- tion of Washington’s war time trans- portation problem and bills designed to limit the working hours of barbers and tq give the Public Utilities Com- mission control over fees charged by garages and public parking let | operators. Parasites (Continued From First Page.) one group of self-supporting - and relatively essential people the blind persons of the District, Pointing out that blind persons in the District are accorded the privi- lege of operating candy and news stands in Government buildings, Mr. Roosevelt said that expansion of the war offices has required so many of these small commercial enter- prises that there is actually a short- age of blind peopla here. In summation, he said that this group has been given an oppor- tunity to earn its living and to serve & purpose in the present in- tensified life of the community, For local relief rolls in general, he asserted that most of the indi- viduals are long-time bona fide resi- dents and that many found full or part-time employment. Twice during his discussion of re- moval of “parasites” the Chief Exec- utive referred to his wartime presi- dential powers for the necessary | authority to requisition hotels, apart- i ment houses, office buildings and even homes. | Asked who would determine whether individual residents are properly parasites, the President Jokingly countered that he might appoint a Parasite Commission, or & committee from the press. He made no reply beyond a smile when & slightly-worried reporter asked if | the press themselves might be con- sidered parasites. Truns;Ernployes Elect Credit Union Officers H. E. Miley yesterday was elected president of the Capital Transit Employes’ Federal Credit Union at its annual meeting at 2112 Georgia avenue NW. The group voted a 4 per cent dividend on share savings Other officers elected were Walter J. Bierwagen, treasurer and general manager; L. G. Jackson, vice presi- dent, and R. E. Barto, clerk. Di- rectors are G. G. Reese, A. E. Lackey, I. J. Oliver, L. G. Spitzer and T. G. Houser. Members of the Credit Committee are N. A. Jenkins, F. A. Stone and Leon Buckley and of the Supervisory Committee Hardy Glass, J. G. Bigelow and Carl| Gallup. Secret Bomb Factory Found in South Africa BY the Associated Press. CAPETOWN, South Africa, Jan. 30.—The Justice Ministry last night announced discovery of a secret bomb factory and arrest of & number of men believed responsible for re- cent bombings such as those which knocked out 12 electric power lines in_the Transvaal. 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BERLIN (From German Broad- casts), Jan, 30.—A special com- unique, preceded on the Ger- was man radio by a fanfare of trum- pets, today reported that U-boats operating off the United States and Canada had sunk 43 ships totaling 302,000 tons since the beginning of the war with the United States. ‘The special announcement added 13 ships totaling 74,000 tons to| the previous total claimed by the| Germans. The communique, introduced by the announcer &s ceming straight ::rg: the Fuehrer’s heedquarters, “German submarines in continu- ing attacks on enemy supply ship- ping in American and Canagian territorial waters have sunk s fur- ther 13 ships with a tonnage of 74,000 registered tons. “In these operastions the mm-‘ rine commanded by Lt, Kalk per- ticularly distinguished itself. “Since their first a oft the American coast our U-boats have sunk 43 enemy merchant ships with a total tonnage of 302,000.” Augusta County Schools Will Open Hour Later STAUNTON, Va., Jan. 30.—Au- gusta County schools will open at 10 am, an hour later than usual, when daylight saving time goes into effect February 9. Devoe 2-Coac Paint does s double job at once—saving half the painting cost. 922 N. Y. Ave. NA. 8610 wice-a-Year Ireland. Reduced to-- ford, England. Reduced $75 GOLDEN FLEECE OVERCOATINGS by Crombie, $55 KILDARE TWEED OVERCOATINGS from Athlone, $65 BRAEMAR OVERCOATINGS by Foz of Somersworth, England. 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