Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1942, Page 8

4-6 x Henderson Studies List of Commodities He May Rafion Products Kept Secret To Avoid Defeat of : Program’s Purposes By THOMAS C. HARDMAN. The Office of Price Administra- tion, now vested with full authority to take up a notch in the belts of all Americans, is surveying the retail commodities fleld o determine where next the rationing ax must fall. Specific rationing plans now in the making are confined to sugar and automobiles, but there are daily indications at the O. P. A. that as soon as these programs are com- pleted, plans for consumer alloca- tion of other products will be in- stituted. ‘What these products will be is kept a close secret by Price Admin- istrator Henderson and his associ- ates, who point out that premature publishing of items high on the ra- tioning agenda will defeat the pur-| pose of the program. | Some idea of the future program can be obtained, however, by taking a look at the list of products where- in shortages admittedly exist, or are foreseen. Among the possibilities are fats and oils, coffee, paper prod- ucts, soaps and paints, and such household articles as refrigerators, radios and vacuum cleaners. Each Item on Separate Basis. No complete retail rationing plan s being contemplated. Every item and an Air Raid,” published by IDEL RE} THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1942. FUGE R SAMPE REFUGE ROOM—Patterned after suggestions in “You The Star, this sample air-raid refuge room is to be found at the Hecht Co. Dummy of a child which has to be rationed will be al- located on a separate u:.;-“u'l" &Ee‘ i ams will be similar. orCIPd I.Z programs Wil b% Sian conceivanty Ol PEATO L. ZaNnl, could be adopted in most of its fea- :mspirggutg? rationing of another Argen'ine Ail’ Chief, A refrigerator, however, c«;u]d not be rationed on the same basis &5 ms - sugar, just as the tire rationing pro- Ies ier ar ras gram now in effect differs in vir- tually every detail from the pending sugar allocation program. . ‘Names of boards set up to ration tires—and consequently tagged tire rationing boards—already have been changed simply to rationing boards, but some offifials doubt whether these agencies, scattered in every Former Attache Here Was Aviation Pioneer In South America BY the Associated Press. community in the Nation, will have the job of rationing all products | placed under the program in future. It is assumed in official circles that | these boards will have charge of automobile rationing as this func- tion would be closely akin to their established duties. Some doubt has been expressed whether they will be called on to handle the sugar pro- | gram, although the boards would be physically able to do so by vast ex- pansion of personnel. Few Detalils Disclosed. Few details of the sugar rationing plan have leaked out. Officials have made it known that ration cards or books are being printed. Their use alone will be a distinct departure from the system used in the last war whereby grocers themselves saw to it that their own customers bought no more than the 3-pound per person monthly allotment. This | ration later dropped to 2 pounds. | Who will get ration cards, how | they will be distributed and what | enforcement agencies are to be| charged with responsibility for the | program—these are a few of the details which have not come to light. | The per person ration of sugqr; when the pending program is adopted will be little higher than that at the outset of the rationing program during the last war. Mr. | Henderson has estimated that no more than three-fourths of a pound each week will be allowed an in-| dividual. | When Donald M. Nelson, War | Production Board chief, gave full | rationing authority to the O. P. A.| this week, he made it clear that BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 30.—Col. Pedro L. Zanni, 50, commander of the Argentine Army Air Force and | a pioneer of South American avia- | tion, died late last night of injuries | suffered in an automobile accident. His car collided earlier in the | night with a truck just outside the | Campo de Mayo military garrison 20 miles from Buenos Aires. Col. Zanni had been commandant | of military aviation since October 8, when Gen. Angel Zuloaga was re- lieved at his own request after dis- covery of an alleged subversive plot involving some junior officers. Military air attache in Washing- ton from 1938 to last June, Col. Zan- ni had held similar posts in Tokio, Paris, London and Brussels. He gained fame in 1915 when he broke the American altitude record, reach- ing a height of 6,500 meters (more than 21,000 feet). In 1920 he made one of the first two-way crossings of the Andes by air, In 1924 he began an ambitious flight around the world from Am- sterdam. His plane was wrecked in Hanoi, French Indo-China, but he finally continued with another ship- ped from Japan. With it he got as far as.Tokio, where he was hailed as a hero and decorated by the Japanese govern- | ment. Technical and political diffi- culties finally caused him to aban- don his projected flight across the Pacific, and he went home by steamer. His later career was primarly as | an officer and diplomat. Price Control (Continued From First Psgg.) pound! soybeans, $1.53 and 65 cents a bushel. Made Honest Woman? Smilingly, as he announced he had signed the bill, Mr. Roosevelt said Mr. Henderson had remarked in recommending that it be signed, that it made an honest woman out of him. Mr. Roosevelt said he had told Mr. Henderson it also made an honest woman out of the Chief Executive. ‘The legislation, he went on, gives congressional authorization for cer- sasg iyt Bkt | Seisy Lhiiog 4 fartures ¢ reposes under strong table, while another dummy is shown playing a game of darts, illustrating recreation in a refuge room. Henderson Orders Inspection of Stock 0f All Tire Firms Rationing Violation Reported; Several Small Dealers Here Accused For the first time since the Gov- ernment froze their stocks last De- | President said it had been hoped the | New Deluware C;‘O' tain things inherent in a war situa- | Cémber the Nation's tire dealers tion. Referring to & memorandum | today were faced with a strict ac- supplied him by Mr. Henderson, the counting of the _manncr in which President said the bill provided | they have complied with the regu- another valuable tool to use with lations of the tire-rationing pro- | others, such as savings, taxation and | 8ram. | rationing, to control inflation. He | FPrice Administrator Henderson did not explain how these supple- | has ordered a Nation-wide inspec- mentary tools were'to be employed. | tion of the stocks and records of Mr. Roosevelt described the frame- | tiré and tube dealers, large and work of the bill as good, since, he Small e said, it fixes responsibility in one ad- | , M. Henderson said “first atten- ministrator and provides for a work- | tion” will be given to establish- able administrative procedure. He ments or dealers against whom expressed approval of enforcement | COmplaints — have been received, provisions including those providing | ¢ither with the O. P. A. or State for licensing of people subject to the | @10 local tire-rationing boards. act and permissive authority to re-\ sort to criminal proceedings and | €fS have been reported to officials injunctions. He noted also that |8 Violators, it was understood. One consumers might bring damage | of the chief reported violations in | suits if they felt they were bung"he District was the practice of gouged on prices, selling frozen tire stocks during the Indorses Rent Section. period immediately preceding the Mr. Roosevelt indorsed sections | 2tioning program. designed to allow the stabilizing of | Mr. Henderson said a large in-| rents and also said that provisions | vestigative staff will be used in rou- | permitting the Government to buy | !N€ inspection of all dealers. It‘ and ‘sell farm commodities were wgll include members of the O.P.A’s| useful. i;‘olsktinomzauons Division and some The maximum price provisions, inw’ nspectors of the Labor Depart- | relation to many commodities, are | M¢1V's Wage and Hour Division, good, Mr. Roosevelt went on. In! If the inspection discloses any general, he said, the price of com. | Unauthorized transfers of new tires modities will be based on prices pre- | 0F tUbes, the dealer will be required vailing in the first half of Oc!ober,f’m explain,’ lhe‘.O. P. A. announced | 941, with some adjustments for | 1A° Vesterday. “Cases of deliberate | various factors. | violation will be referred to the en- But, in criticizing the sections | fOrcement division of O. P. A" dealing with farm products, the| legislation would be in such form | the Government could seek - Bri the Government, could seck an sver- | Bridge to Be Opened BY the Associated Press. Several small Washington deal-|j H. Towers, who followed Secre- —Star Staff Photo. Naval 1Con_t§nued From First Page.) | $615,000,000 additional for the Bu-| reau of Ships, to bring its 1943 total to $958,979,935. The Chief Executive also asked Congress to insert a provision in the huge bill granting him the right to transfer any ships to nations whose safety was deemed vital to the de- fense of the United States. The immediate intent of this pro- vision, containing phrases used in | the “Lease-Lend” Act, was not clear, but congressional clerks said they believed it would remove previous congressional restrictions on the amount of this aid. The provision was asked to apply on all Navy appropriations since | March 11, 1941, Calls for Supremacy. Senator Overton, talking before the budget request arrived, said | “without supremacy in the air, ev en | the strongest navy and army forces | are at a disadvantage.” Secretary of the Navy Knox told | reporters he had asked no changes | or increase in the bulky bill passed by the House, but Senator Overton said his proposal was the result of | long questioning of Rear Admiral tary Knox as a witness at yester- day’'s closed Senate hearings. Secretary Knox said that as passed by the House the bill carried funds for 27000 new Navy planes and Admiral Towers disclosed in previ- ous testimony that the Navy pro- gram now was 1,500 planes monthly, or 18,000 a year. Other Senators said the subcom- mittee would give speedy approval to the vast assortment of items al- ready voted by the House for a| powerful two-ocean Navy. Secre- tary Knox said this force would be able to claim supremacy everywhere when completed. Most of the funds would go to completing production of ships, guns, munitions, airplanes and other supplies and recent increase in naval strength approved by Con- gress. The latter included 150,000 tons of combatant ships, 800,000 | tons of auxiliary vessels, and 400 ad- ditional local defense vessels. | | programs, but that instead of cutting broadening of the consumer ration- ! Argentine Embassy officials here | ing program is inevitable. Critical | were shocked by the news of the | shortages exist in many basic raw | death of Col. Zanni, who was widely | materials which are more important | known and popular during his now in war production than in | nearly three years' service in Wash- ordinary civilian channels. | ington. He was said to be survived Mr. Nelson, as well as Mr. Hen- | by his widow and two children, a derson, realizes the average Amer- son, 10, and a daughter, 9. ican is in for rough going. Many | luxuries even now taken for granted | soon are going to be out for the| duration. These officials have ad- mitted privately that the outlook | for the average citizen is much | darker than it has been made to| relaxed the rule of secrecy on anti- appear publicly. . | submarine successes and gave. it The standard of living is bound ! to the country. They furnished no to be lowered. A housewife won't| getails, be able to take her money to the | Simultaneously with the pilot's corner store and come back with | report, the Navy issued a com- foods for a dinner-as-usual. Within | mynique stating that “increasingly three weeks she will have the Gov- | effective” countermeasures were be- Submarines (Continued From First Page.) ernment looking over her shoulder when she buys her sugar—and she won't be able to get enough for the usual pies and cakes and candies. A vegetable will have to be knocked off the menu here and there, and even an occasional meat dish is going to be eliminated, price con- trol or not. Fredericksburg Police Quell 200 Soldiers By the Associated Press. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. 80.—A. G. Kendall, city police su- | perintendent, said tear gas was used last night in dispersing a crowd of Jan. about 200 colored soldiers who sought to prevent the removal by police of one of their number from & colored hotel. No one was injured seriously in the melee and the soldiers were loaded into Army trucks and re- turned to the A. P. Hill military reservation near here, the superin- tendent added. ‘Three policemen went to the hotel | after receiving a call from the man- ! agement, police reported, and the | soldiers crowded about two of the policemen who went into the hotel. When the men became unruly, the third officer, left in the cruiser car, put in a radio call to head- quarters for help, and about 15 Fredericksburg and State police came to the scene, Police reinforcements were armed with riot equipment, but officials said that other than tear gas, the officers used only night sticks. Sev- eral soldiers suffered banged heads, but none required hospital treat- ment. The soldiers came to Predericks- burg earlier in the night on brief Jeave from camp. Keep 'em rolling! We mean dol- Jars! Buy United States savings bonds and stamps. ing taken against the Atlantic raiders. Any mention of operations inside the Gulf of Mexico—such as had been reported by naval officials at Port Arthur and Corpus Christi, Tex., Wednesday—was conspicuous- ly lacking, and this was authorita- tively interpreted as indicating that the Navy Department here was in- | clined to discount the validity of the Texas reports. Sub Sighted off Los Angeles. ! A Navy announcement at Los Angeles said an enemy submarine was sighted off the harbor there yesterday and was attacked by | depth bombs _without apparent | result. To date, the Atlantic U-boats are reported to have attacked 11 ves- sels off the United States East Coast and 4 off the Canadian coast, with casualties in dead and missing of more than 350. Of those 15, two have escaped sinking, including the tanker Pan Maine. Word that the 7236-ton Pan Maine was “afloat and safe” came from a Navy spokes- man last night, although informa- tion as to whether she had made port was withheld. The communique, covering naval activities in all theaters of op- | eration, credited the marines on Midway Island with having repelled | another Japanese attack, this time | almost if not actually before it | started. “ “Two enemy submarines appeared off Midway with the intention of shelling it,” the communique said. “They were driven away by the ar- tillery of our garrison. One hit was scored on one of the attacking sub- marines. No damage was inflicted on the Midway garrison, and there were no injuries.” Two days.ago the first report of The 110 per cent goal of the bill is & threat to living costs, he said, | especially because parity is not a fixed amount but a relationship be- tween non-agricultural and agricul- tural costs. As the cost of living goes up, he said, parity goes up, and so does the extra 10 per cent. On Buying and Selling. Mr. Roosevelt responded af- firmatively to an inquiry whether | the buying and selling provisions of the measure did not offer a fdir | way of combating the situation. Tt depends on the particular case, | he said in reply to another question, | whether the Government would | have to make it purchases at 110 per cent of parity. “Isn’t there a provision to forbid buying and selling to control prices?” a reporter wanted to know. The President referred the ques- tion to Mr. Henderson, who re- marked there was no bar on opera- tions of the Commodity Credit Corp. When he was asked whether a misunderstanding between Mr. Hen- derson and Secretary of Agriculture Wickard had been straightened out, Mr. Roosevelt said there was not so much controversy in that fleld. Mr. Henderson added that he ex- pected to see Secretary Wickard to- day. Other provisions of the bill: Maximum rents may be fixed for any defense housing area. with rents since April 1, 1941, serving as a standard. (Some areas, such as the District of Columbia, have their own rent terms and are not af- fected.) Business affected by the price or- ders may be licensed and this li- cense taken away in court for a second offense after warning on a first offense. Heavy Penalties Provided. Viclations of price ceilings and regulations may bring penalties up to $5,000 fine and two years in jail. The price administrator may buy or sell commodities in order to in- fluence prices for increased pro- duction, Persons charged more than price ceilings may sue for triple damages or $50, whichever is larger. ‘Wages and salaries were exempted. Also exempted were newspapers and other periodicals, radio, motion pic- tures and theaters, railroads and other utilities, insurance and pro- fessional fees. Appeals from price ceilings or regulations may be made first to the administrator, then to a spe- cial emergency court composed of Federal judges and finally to the Supreme Court. the initial Japanese attack on the island on December 7 was given out and disclosed that marine garrison, with & loss of two men, had dam- aged and driven off by artillery fire 8 Japanese cruiser and destroyer which shelled the island, Office of Price Administration of- ficlals said “nothing sweeping or radical” in the way of new price cellings need be expected immedi- ately. The effect on the consumer will be | or wholesale: level price ceilings to | drafted two months after completing negligible for the time being, they b | Du Pont, ST. Georges, Del,, Jan. 30.—A new | $2,500,000 bridge across the Chesa- peake & Delaware Canal here, re- placing one wrecked by a runaway freighter three years ago, will be opened to traffic without ceremony tomorrow. First automobile over the new structure will carry Gov. Walter W. Bacon, his aide, Col. Charles H. Grant; Col. Harry Vaughan, ir., of | the United States District Engineers | | Office at Philadelphia, and Frank V.| chairman of the State Highway Commission. Sheila M'Donald Is Injured in Auto Crash By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 30.—Sheila Mac- Donald suffered a fractured skull and other injuries in an automobile accident at Wimbledon early today. Miss MacDonald, sister of Malcolm MacDonald, Britain's high commis- sioner to Canada, and daughter of the late Ramsay MacDonald, was taken to a hospital, where her con- dition was reported as serious. forcement powers vested in Mr. ‘Hendersan may have the psycho- | logical effect of dissuading pro- ducers and dealers from edging prices up. No Food Ceilings Imminent. No new food price ceilings are im- minent; no spurt of price-fixing ac- | tivity is contemplated, and no whole- sale drive on the retail price fleld need be looked for, Henderson aides asserted. For the time being the principal job of O. P. A. executives will be that of converting the existing price schedules—covering 78 commodities, mostly raw materials—which are en- forced by what Mr. Henderson calls jawbone authority—into price regu- lations enforceable by law. As new commodities get out of line and are brought under price ontrol, the levels will be set as close- 1ly as possible to those designated as basic by Congress. About 100 voluntary agreements between industry representatives and the O. P. A. to hold prices in check will not be transformed into price regulations as long as they serve to curb inflationary ten- dencies. So far retail price ceilings have been few. They were imposed on 'said, except insofar as the new en- | Navy officers testified that the | man power of the Navy and Ma- rines would nearly double during the fiscal vear 1943. ‘The Senate yesterday passed and returned to the House for action on amendments legislation to authorize | construction of 1799 minor naval | vessels at an estimated cost of $3,150,000,000. The measure would also authorize expenditure of $750,000,000 for con- | struction and ordnance facilities. | Chairman Walsh of the Senate | | Naval Affairs Committee said the new ships would be used for convoy | and shore patrol work. | It also passed and returned to the | House for concurrence in amend- ments legislation to authorize ex- penditure of $450,000,000 for naval public works. One of the amendments would make temporary provision for relief of naval contractors and their em- ployes for losses incurred as a direct result of enemy action. A naval committee report said that allotments of pay of civilians captured at Guam and Wake by the Japanese would be made to de- pendents of the captives. | Victim of Drowning Buried in Maryland | 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md, Jan. 30.— drowned in St. Georges River under his boat, which capsized Sunday, was buried yesterday in the ceme- tery of St. George’s Catholic Church, | cupied France, consisting mainly of Leonard L. Dyer, 26, who was found | Food Sent fo France Diveried fo Germany, Officials Here Say President Renews Plea For Continued Aid To Friendly Nations Some food sent into unoccupied France has been diverted to Ger- many, it was disclosed today, as President Roosevelt urged that Americans continue contributions for relief to friendly countries when proper distribution 1s sssured. The disclosure of the diversion of relief supplies intended for the chil- dren and needy citizens in unoccu- pied France came from unimpeach- able Government sources. It also was said that immense confusion surrounds the entire question of transportation of food and other commodities between the occupled and unoccupied zones of France, Germany and French North Africa. Secretary of State Hull said, how- ever, that he had no information that any of the supplies diverted to Germany was of American origin. The American Red Cross, which up until last June 30 sent $4,737,000 worth of relief shipments to unoccu- pied France, sald its agent who supervised the distribution reported that not a single instance of diver- sion of this food had come to his attention. Food Sent on to Germany. ‘This country’s experience in send- ing food for relief of needy citizens and particularly children in unoccu- pied France has not been 100 per cent satisfactory, however, it was said on high authority. ‘This authority said that unfortu- nately some food which had been put on a train at Marseilles for dis- tribution in the unoccupied zone kept right on going into Germany. A number of small instances of similar nature was reported. Red Cross officials said a report had come to their attention that a shipload of food being imported by the Vichy Government from French North Africa and in- tended for the civilian popula- tion of unoccupied France had been diverted to Germany after being unloaded at Marseille. They sald they could not vdich for the truth of this report but that it probably was correct. It was said that this incident may have been the basis of the reports of diversion of supplies. Meanwhile, the President told Congress in & report that the American Government has spent $30,732,048.46 for the relief of home- less civilians of the Nazi-occupied countries in Europe. The report sald its W. P. A. program had cost the Nation $14.670.000000 from its inauguration in 1935 to the end of last December. | The Government foreign relief | funds were spent for food, medicine | and clothing, which was turned over to the Red Cross for distribution abroad. Congress earmarked & fund | of $50,000,000 for this purpose. The | W. P. A. furnished the Red Cross with $906,165.80 for expenses in- volved in the distribution. Many Nations Need Help. ‘The whole question of relief con- tributions for foreign countries came up at President Ronsevelt's press conference. He said he felt that a great many nations working on the Allied side need things which Americans can help supply for ci- vilian uses and that present efforts to get such assistance to them should | continue. | He mentioned particularly such items as worn clothing and food. | While the war has increased needs here, the President said this did not mean that we ought to cut off help to other nations. | He pointed out that this country | must keep up its own drives for such | - | things as the fund to combat in-| : fantile paralysis and other charity off anything, Americans should just give a little more. He emphasized, however, that contributions for use abroad should go only through au- thorized agencies. Asked if this policy applied to un- pccupied France, the President an- swered in the affirmative with the stipulation that relief may be sent to.the Vichy-controlled areas only when we can be sure of getting the supplies in there and be sure of proper distribution. This country cannot afford to send supplies to Germany now, it was pointed out. Chiefly Medicine and Milk. Red Cross shipments into unoc- medicine and milk for children, with | some of them including infants’ clothing and cereals, were supervised from beginning to end by American officials. The Red Cross representa- tives saw to it that the supplies they were handling went directly to the needy persons for whom they were intended. officials here said. Richard Allen, Red Cross dele- gate to Europe who recently re- turned after supervising distribu- tion of Red Cross shipments to un- occupied France, reported to su- periors that no instance of diversion had come to his attention. The shipments have been discon- tinued to Prance since last June, however. In response to desperate appeals for aid through the French Ambassador here, a ship was loaded at Baltimore late last fall with $30,- 000 worth of Red Cross medicines and milk for children, but the ship | was unloaded before leaving for France in view of disquieting re- ports at that time about the extent of Vichy collaboration with Ger- Valley Lee, following requiem mass. many. Convoy on Way Leo Branham, Associated Press correspondent, who crossed the North Atlantic in a United States Army transport, has arrived in Iceland. His first dispatch from Reykjavik follows.) By LEO BRANHAM, Associated Press Correspondent. REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Jan. 29 (Delayed).—The entire convoy, in- cluding its strong force of escorting warships, in which I recently came to this North Atlantic garrison drifted en route for 12 minutes while a soldier was buried at sea. It was a risky but impressive tribute to a private in the United new automobile tires and tubes be- cause of the rubber crisis, and on flashlights because of soaring Pacific Coast blackout demangs. In the main O. P.*A. has depended and will continue to depend on factory stabilize retail prices. A States Army—Prancis E. Metras of Detroit. He is believed to be the first American soldier in this war given a formal burial at sea. Metras got considerable notice about & year ago when he was 12 Minutes to Bury Soldier to Iceland Halts Army. He died after an abdominal operation. A signal from the flagship halted the convoy in its plodding gait to- ward Iceland. The sea was calm, in sharp contrast to preceding days. When the funeral began on the afterdeck of our vessel, the only sound was from waves slapping the ships’ sides. The chaplain read the Twenty- third Psalm over the flag-draped body, gave a benediction and then, as the pallbearers lifted the plank on which the body lay, an honor guard fired a three-volley salute and a bugler sounded “Taps.” Metras, the son of a Detroit street railways motorman, served in the Navy from 1931 through 1934, and maintained at the time of his in- duction into the Army, that he a regular four-year “hitch” in the | would be of more value in thou)‘luy. RADIO Jat's( ] Ur Right now a Suit and Overcoat is a wise investment especiclly when you can save during D. J. KAUFMAN’'S Entire Stock Fall & Winter SUITS $26.75 others priced at $29.75 ¢ $31.75 $33.75 o $36.75 o $40.75 o $44.75 DUROLUX OVERCOATS 336.75 Regular $47.50 Reduced more than 20% Single and double breasted models in choice of S pepular shades open a ¢harge account 4 MONTHS TO PAY Leng residence in D. C. not necessary 1005 PENNA.AVENW. 14TH & EYE STS.NW ARMY - NAVY OFFICERS— immediate delit B - ki by = Bviog g !