Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1942, Page 1

Weather Fo recast Snow flurries and much’ colder today. Temperatures yesterday—Highest, 53, at 2 pm.; lowest, 33, at 2 a From the United States Weath m. er Bureau report. Il Details on Page A-2. No. 1,923—No. 35,705. he WASHINGTON, D. Japs Begin Siege of Singapore After British Surrender Malaya; Naz_fl]quine Peril !ntefiifiedgkeach Bermuda Help Assuredly Will Come, Commander of Defenders Asserts EY the Associaied Press. SINGAPORE, Jan. 31.—Jungle- | weary British Imperials gave up the fight in Malaya today, with- | drew into the hot, tight little island of Singapore and prepared for a long and wasting siege in a desperate bid to hold this last inch of the Malay barrier until reinforcements arrive to reverse the tide of Japanese conquest. Causeway Blast Grim Reminder Of War Horrors Much-Bombed Singapore Used To Explosions By DOUGLAS WILKIE. SINGAPORE, Jan. 31 (By Wire- Soviet Army Advance Of 115 Miles Past Taganrog Reported | B the Associated Press. MOSCOW, Sunday, Feb. 1.— | The Russian Army has captured Berestovoya, 115 miles west of | iGerman-held Taganrog and 30 | | | | | sundiay ‘WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION ( Brifish Vessel Torpedoed: 34 32 Landed in Canada After Sub Attack; in Open Boat 18 Hours | By the Asscciated Press. | | 'HAMILTON, Bermuda (Passed | by British Censor), Jan. 31.— Thirty-four survivors of a Brit- L4 DOOKCES WO’O"’*"’QE (AN o’«’b’o.’t":'f"“ HURRY, RUSS. THAT LOGKS LIKE | miles north of the Sea of Azov, | |in a smashing blow threatening | | the Southern Ukraine anchor of | |the Nazi defense lines, the Red ish merchantman torpedoed | early today were landed here | this afternoon by 4 United States destroyer. The crewmen said that after sending three torpedoes into | less to N.ANN.A.) —The first siege| Army newspaper Red Star re-| their vessel the submarine tried | of Singapore began today as tons | ported today in a warfront dis- | yncucsessfully to smash the “Our task is to hold this fortress of high explosive, touched off by | until help can come, as assuredly the wave of a British officer’s it will come; this we are determined patch. Red Star said a full-scale offen- sive had been in progress on this | three lifeboats in which the ship’s hands escaped. to do,” said a proclamation of the Singapore commander, Lt. Gen. A. E, Percival, who called for ruthless | steps against the enemy both within and without. “Any of the enemy who sets foot in our fortress must be dealt with immediately,” he declared. “The enemy within our gates must be ruthlessly weeded out. “There must be no more loose talk and rumor-mongering. “Our duty is clear: With firm re- solve and fixed determination we shall win through. Enemy Superiority Cited. “For nearly two months our troops have fought an enemy on the main- land who has had the advantage of great air superiority and con- siderable freedom of movement by sea. “Our task has been to impose losses on the enemy and gain time to enable the forces of the Allies to be concentrated for this struggle in the Far East. “Today we stand beleaguered In our island fortress.” ) The final retreat of Australians, Scottish Highlanders, British, Sikhs, Gurkhas and Malayan militia was carried out last night from a line which had extended across the Malay jungles from 18 to 40 miles north of this island. The transfer of this force of un- disclosed size across Johore Strait was aided by units of the British Navy. and under the protection of the air force, but the Japanese did little to interfere, probably because ‘ the sudden withdrawal was a sur- | prise to them. ; (The British radio said war- ships played an important part in the evacuation while the R. A. F. flung a “protective umbrella overhead.” The broad- cast was heard by N. B. C.) Causeway Destroyed. Then when the last truck and hand, shattered the causeway linking the island with the Ma- layan mainland. It will be unlike any siege the world has ever seen. After eight weeks of war only a sting in the tail of Britain's wealthiest and most = prosperous | colony remains. Facing the is'and, on the mainland, along the banks of | 30-mile long straits divisions of the Japanese army already are massing within potential range of the Japa- nese artillery in sight of Britain's $400,000,000 naval base. | Echos of the explosion, which | hurled thousands of tons of rock | masonry into Johore Straits, were heard by many of the three quarter million civilians crowded in Singa- | pore city. | These civilians are used to explo- | sions, they have been bombed day | and night for wecks. They have heard the sound of other demoli- tions. They have heard the prac- tice thunder of Singapore's great fortress guns mounted to repel in- | vasion, some of which are now (See CAUSEWAY, Page A-4) | MacAfihur’s Tr?ops, Holding Off Japs, Take "Some Prisoners’ ‘ ‘Sporadic Fighting’ Reported as Foe Gets Ready for Big Assault BY the Associated Press. Gen. Douglas MacArthur re- ported yesterday that in addi- tion to holding off the Japanese, his forces have been taking some | prisoners. After a 48-hour lull, during which ndous' Those arriving here were from two SO A o e ey Ctha | of the lifeboats. The third was un- | Germans subjected to day and night derstcod to have been picked up by | pressure. another rescue ship. Eerestovoya is 30 miles nérth of The survivors sald their two life- O sipenko (Berdyansk), port on the boats, lashed together, were sighted Sea of Azov, and haliway between by an Atlantic patrol plane which Melitipol and Marlupel. guided the American destroyer to Apparently the Russian forces em-. the rescue. ployed in this new thrust by-passed A they drifted through the bit- Taganrog itself in an effort to out- terly oold night a portable radio flank and trap the German garrison Sreichtione bt e there. It was to Taganrog that the g g by one of German forces retired after the Was turned on and ironically, the Soviet counter offensive had blasted | first thing they heard was a New them out of Rostov, the gateway to ' York station broadcasting a furrier’s Star , FEBRUARY 1, 1942-126 PAGES.’, * IF YOU KICK HIM 0UT, 'M SUN! HE AINT NO PARASITE, BOSS. HE'S A LOCAL TAXPAYER, A RESPECTED VESTRYMAN, HE CANT VOTE AND HE CLAIMS RESIDENCE NOWHERE ELSE. () Msans K The Evening and Sunday Star is delivered in the city and suburbs at 75¢ per month. The Night Final Edition and Sunday Morning Star at 85c per month. TEN CENTS. Welders Defy War Board o Quit Shipyards 1654 Leave Jobs In Puget Sound Inter-Union Dispute By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Jan. 31.—A walkout of welders disputing with A. F. L. unions took 1,654 men off their jobs in Puget Sound shipyards | today in the face of a flat refusal by the War Production Board to recognize their independent or- ganization. The walkout left 1,180 welders idls in the Tacoma yard of the Seattle- Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, 454 at the Seattle yard of the same company, and 20 at the Associated Shipbuilders at Seattle. Several other yards in Seattle and the huge Boeing Aircraft plant reported all their welders were working, al- though Welders’ Independent Un- ion officials there had predicted 1,300 would be off the job by to- night. $100,000,000 Contracts Held. Allied PoolingPlan | Navy to Rent 4 Collegesto Train the Caucasus. (The thrust marked an advance of more than 100 miles from the last lines reported by the Rus- sians in this area. These ran from east of Taganrog to well east of Ordzhonikidze. The Rus- sians gave no indication of how they had reached this peint, but it may have been by an advance along the railroad which runs from Stalino to Melitopol, by-passing other points on the route. It might also have been a landing west of Taganrog on the Sea of Azov, which the Russians men- tioned January 15. (In any case, the sudden an- nouncement of the taking of a town well to the west of their lines, after a long silence concern- ing activity in the area, fits in with Russian policy recently. (On Thursday the Russians suddenly announced they had captured Lozovaya, marking a 93- mile penetration from previously reported lines in this area. (Lozovaya is almost on a direct line 135 miles north of Beres- tovoya. (On a map of the Russian lines last reported the two thrusts to Lozovaya and Berestovoya look like two long prongs thrust out from the Russian lines between Kharkov and the Sea of Azov. ‘With complete details still lack- ing, the shape of the front in this area cannot be defined exactly. announcement: “Now is the to buy your winter coats.” [ 32 Freighter Survivors { Landed in Canada AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, Jan. 31 (®).—Thirty-two time Lease-Lend Sefup Hepkins and Dill Meet Vith Army and Navy Each School to Be an ‘The welders said all their mem- bers at the Tacoma plant, which employs 6,500 persons and holds | $100,000,000 in war contracts, had walked off the job. Expected fo Supplant :30,000 ‘Tough’ Pilots a Year ‘Annapolis of the Air’; Men to Get Boxing, Jui-Jitsu and Long Hikes By CLAUDE A. MAHONEY. Secretary of the Navy. Knox last night announced the most tank had rumbled across, the mines | the enemy made ready for another which had been set under the .alf- | 1arge scale assault, there had been | mile long causeway connecting the | “sporadic fighting,” he advised the | island with the mainland were set War Department. | off and chunks of the structure were | Determined efforts to infiltrate hurled into the sky. the Batan Peninsula defense line Defending the approaches to this Were rebuffed, and in the course of fortress on which Britain has these actions the prisoners were lavished $400,000,000 in recent years, taken. As for a number of days the British in seven weeks of ex- DPast, there has been virtually no hausting warfare had beat a retreat enemy activity in the air, he said. of 350 miles through the swamps, streams and rubber groves of Port of prisoners captured, and some Malaya, regularly outflanked by the | thought the effect might be to re- infiltration tactics of Japanese strain the Japanese from such brutal snipers landed on each coast each | treatment of American prisoners as time a determined stand was made | the General complained of a week on a natural line of defense. | ago. The Japanese now have all the | On January 23, he informed the rich rubber and tin resources of War Department of “several in- Malaya and the question Wwas | stances” of Japanese violation of the whether they can also reduce this | international convention relating to fortress and thereby win a free pas- | captured prisoners of war. Japan sage into the Indian Ocean and & ' had announced her intention to strong position from which to attack | abide by that agreement. ;;;;;he citadel of the Nether\ands; Gen. MacArthur said that on ‘The fall of Singapore would permit January 12 the body of a Filipino Japanese air and naval forces to| SCOUL Fernando Tan, had been found face down in a stream. His sweep into the Gulf of Martaban ,,;ic naq been bound behind his and possibly choke off not only the Batk @ he Bhad s source of supply for the Burma road | = an‘ e een bnyo_neted to China, but also undo the work severall times, and he had obviously which has been accomplished in ";",‘, “thrown into the stream to building up a threat to Japan's flank | E in Burma. In reporting the mistreatment of Try MacArthur's Stunt. Pvt. Tan, the department said: It was Gen. MacArthur's first re- | (In announcing the recapture of Lozovaya, the Russians said they had retaken 400 populated centers in a 10-day advance in which | 25,000 Germans were killed. Thus the rewon Soviet territory in the south may be much more extensive than indicated by a map showing a sharp arm reach- ing out to Lozovaya. (Both thrusts could easily be aimed at the bend in the Dnieper River which comes east in this area.) | Earlier reports said the Russians had broken through the German | (See RUSSIAN, Page A-10)) Girl Dies After Drinking |5 Quarts of Water in Test | By the Associated Press. | NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 31.—Twelve- year-old Margaret Boylan died to- | day in her mother'’s arms a few | | hours after drinking 110 small| glasses of water while playing party. Dr. Harrison Martland, Essex | County medical examiner, issued a | | tentative verdict of “death from in- ternal drowning.” He said the girl drank about five quarts of water, Sergt. Thomas J. Birmingham of | the Newark police casualty squad survivors of the crew of a British | freighter, the latest victims in-the | German submarine way against At- lantic shipping, have been brought here after a U-boat sent three tor- pedoes into their ship killing 10 men. They spent 18 hours tossing in an open life boat in the freezing | cold of the North Atlantic before ibelng picked up. They said the second torpedo came as they were lowering the life boats. One of the boats was shattered and six men died of the concussion or were so | stunned they drowned. Four were pulled aboard the second life boat. Four of them died later of wounds or exposure. Survivors said the submarine sur- faced briefly, then disappeared. | Rochester Survivors | Disagree on U-Boat Size | | (Pictures on Page A-10.) | NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 31 (»—| Survivors of the tanker Rochester, | sunk off the Virginia coast yesterday, | disagreed after their landing here | today about the size of the attack- ing submarine but agreed that the German U-boatmen were “bum shooters.” ‘The tanker, owned by the Socony- Vacuum Co., was struck by two torpedoes in broad daylight, killing three of the crew. The submarine then came to the surface and fired 13 shells, several of which missed their target. Chief Officer L. J. Davidson of Little Falls, N. J., said the “Ger- mans were bum shooters, but even though they couldn't shoot they sure were polite. “When the sub started shelling the ship we were between the two | vessels (in a lifeboat) and in the line of fire,” he added. “The sub- marine waved us away, and some one on her shouted in English, ‘Get (See U-BOATS, Page A-4) Officers to Map Program By BLAIR BOLLES. An early death for the lease- lend program in all but its most limited functions is being charted here in Washington by the American and British offi- cials working out the details of the materials pooling scheme announced by President Roose- velt. After their work is done it is expected that the only ma- terials shipped abroad under the lease-lend arrangement will be food supplies and the few weapons, like anti-aircraft guns, of a type which our Allies but not we ourselves use. With the reorganization complete the lease-lend administration will exist as little more than a book- keeping agency. From an early date forward all the United Nations will | be sharing American-made war | goods rather than receiving them with the understanding that some sort of future payment is tp be made on them, either in kind or in cash or in deeds. | Another step toward the reorgan- ization was taken yesterday, when Harry Hopkins met at the White House with Field Marshal Sir John Dill, the British government's su- | preme military spokesman in the | United States, and high American | Army and Naval officers to discuss | the progress of the three-point pool- | ing plan, which calls for a combined i raw materials board, a munitions assignment board and a combined shipping adjustment board. The full change from the old system to the new awaits the estab- lishment of the Allied supply coun- cil, which is the central interest of | the Hopkins-Dill conversations at the present. ‘ Rearrangement of the British government, with some steps taken |to place Lord Beaverbrook, now | “(See ARMS POOL, Page A-10.) | The Recor TOTAL ADVERTISING. 1—Washington Star _ 2—New York Times_ 3—Baltimore Sun. 4—Chicago Tribune_ d for 1941 Lines 24,022,352 21,343,881 21,303,201 21,282,935 extensive airplane pilot training program in American Naval his- | Secretary of Agriculture Wickard | sessions. By withdrawing into this island, 27 miles long and 14 miles wide, the | British were attempting to do what Gen. Douglas MacArthur was doing | in Batan Peninsula in the Philip- pines and what they attempted un- | successfully to do at Hong Kong. Johore Strait on the north is one- | half to a mile wide, and the Jap- mnese must cross it. The British for days have been| preparing for the attack, moving all civilians out of a mile-wide belt along the strait. Hidden pillboxes dot the low, mafirshy shore, mines fill the sur-| rounding waters, fortified islands guard the entrances to the strait and artillery occupies commanding | positions. From four main airfields and smaller hidden flelds a reinforced R. A. F. with Hurricanes, Blenheims and Buffaloes is able to give con-| siderable air protection. Singapore itself, “the City of the Lion,” located on the south side of the island, is out of the imme- diate land battle zone, but its poly- got population of Orientals and Eu- ropeans of more than 700,000 persons has suffered many hundred dead and wounded from Japanese air attacks already. Caches of food, fuel and ammuni- tion are buried in the low hills, and extensive reservoirs normally supply sufficient water. Singapore’s harbor on the south side affords docking space for ships Tunning the air blockade which the (8ce SINGAPORE, Page “However foully the enemy may | reported that Margaret, her brother, 5—Detroit News__ act, the general states that he will abide by decent concepts of hu- manity and civilization.” The text of yesterday’s com- munique follows: “There was sporadic fighting on | the Batan Peninsula during the past | Philip, jr., 15, and her sister, Kath- leen, 14, had held a contest last night in the kitchen of their home to see who could drink the most water. Philip drank 140 whisky glasses full and Kathleen 120, they told 6—Milwaukee Journal T—New York News.__ 8—ILos Angeles Times 9—Pittsburgh Press +10—Akron Beacon-Journal - 21,101,888 20,860,771 19,145,117 17,878,388 17,736,347 17,693,151 24 hours. Determined enemy at- | Sergt. Birmingham. Margaret drank | tempts at infiltration through our | 110 glasses in a short time. She died lines were {rustrated. Some Japan- | shortly after midnight. | ese prisoners were taken. A | Dr. Martland said Philip had a | “Practically no hostile air activity | slight heart palpitation today but was noted.” | Kathleen showed no ill effects. For the past ten consecutive years The Star has led all newspapers in the United States in total advertising. Fingerprinting 1 Fifteen thousand District liquor licensees and employes must be fingerprinted in order to obtain li- cense renewals under regulations by the Commissioners effective to- day—and the police, who do the fingerprinting, were “frantic” last night over how the job is to be done. According to police sources, the identification bureau’s six - man staff under Sergt. Viggo H. Larsen has a present backlog of work that. would take almost three months to dispose of. The main job, it was said, is not taking impressions but classifica- tion and filing of prints which con- sumes anywhere from five minutes to half an hour due to blurs or bad prints, The new regulations require all 5,000 Liquor Store Workers Stymies Police new licensees obtaining certain types of licenses from the District Government and all old licensees as they come up for renewal. But the fact that nearly all of the liquor licenses—perhaps 1500 of them—must be renewed as of today, throws the whole burden of the old licensees on the department at one time. For the 'past several weeks, the following types of original and re- newed licensees have submitted to fingerprinting. Operators of massage, bowling, bil- liard and pool establishments; solici-~ tors, private detectives, fortune ts, street 2nd Newspaper __ 3rd Newspaper .. 4th Newspaper activities in Washington. Advertising in Washington Newspapers. The Evening and Sunday Star The STAR is a mighty guide to tomorrow’s buying *Circulation The STAR'’S circulation is‘more than double that of any other Washington newspaper in the afternoon and evening (not including noon editions), and its total circulation in Washington far exceeds that of any of its contemporaries in the morning or Sunday field. Lines 24,022,352 -- 14,833,380 -- 11,799,352 7,181,454 97% “of The STAR'S circulation is within Washington and its trading area and has increased 18,000 during’ the past year. i The War Production Board stand was outlined in a telegram from Paul R. Porter, chairman of the | Shipbuilding Stabilization Commit- } tee, to Dave Basor, Seattle Welders' | official. The wire said the board “expects all shipyard welders to serve their country by remaining at their jobs. A strike in the ship- tory, designed to start 30,000 young men a year on the road t0 yards while our Nation is at war becoming the toughest and most resourceful fighters in the world. | ang American lives are at stake is Four unnamed universities will be rented from their owners intolerable.” and operated for the preliminary ground training. be comparable in size to the Navale- = Academy at Annapolis, and each is to become an “Annapolis of the Air” the Navy said. One will be in the East, one in the West, an- other in the South, and the fourth in the Mid-West. On these Navy-operated cam- puses, famous coaches and athletic directors will put the cadets through a man-building program of such vigor that “they will learn to march up to 40 miles from sunup to sun- down, will be set at ditch-digging, wood-chopping and land-clearing, and will be extensively schooled in such realistic self-defense arts as boxing, advanced jui jitsu, and rough-and-tumble fighting.” Indicating that the Navy wants | Each will its pilots to be prepared to defend themselves under any conditions and climates, the announcement says the young men will be taught “to be expert swimmers and life savers, to take care of themselves in a jungle, in a blizzard, and in barren desert lands.” The rough- and-tumble course will stress get- ting control of an opponent and “liquidating’” him by physical means. Two Years of College Needed. Lt. Comdr. Tom Hamilton, former head football coach at the Naval Academy, will direct the physical course, and Lt. Comdr. Gene Tun- ney, U. S§. N. R, will be available (See PILOTS, Page A-8) Wickard's Farm Price Views Disappoint Senafe Group Secretary Indicates Growers Won't Receive As Much as They Want By GOULD LINCOLN. Members of the Senate Agri- culture Committee yesterday wondered if they had picked “a lemon” when they insisted on | the Bankhead amendment to the | Price Control Act, which gave the final say on prices for agri- | cultural commodities. Suspecting that all was not as it appeared on the surface, the com- | mittee called Mr. Wickard before | it yesterday and questioned him at length at morning and afternoon It developed that Secretary Wick- | ard intended to keep farmers’ prices | “around pamity”—that he felt under | no obligations to see that the prlces: paid farmers should go as high| as 110 per cent of parity or to the‘ price level of 1919-1929. These are among the four provisions of the| price control act which are to pro- vide a “ceiling” on farm prices be- | fore the fixing of prices can be undertaken. The other two are: the price paid on October 1, 1941, and the price paid on December 15, 1941. In any case, the higest price under these four yardsticks must be reached before fixing by the Price Control Administration can begin. His Stand Causes Regret? The Senators with regret that Mr. Wickard was not planning to brlngi the farm prices to 110 per cent of | parity, and that if the farmers| received “parity” for their products that would be sufficient. Further, | Mr. Wickard explained that parity income by the farmer did not mean getting the actual prices of food- stuffs and other agricultural prod- ucts up to “parity”, but that if the prices rose to a point where, by adding the present Government subsidies under soil conservation programs, etc., to the prices received parity receipts to farmers were ac- complished, enough would have been done by the farmers. Parity is the price at which a farm product has the same pur- chasing power in terms of non- farm products that it had in a base period, usually 1909-14. It also was developed that it was| the plan of the Secretary to keep (Continued on Page A-6, Column 1.) Complete Index Page A-2 Radio Programs Page E-4 | Brown, 35; his wife, also 35, and | 37, of Connecticut who, police said, Five Persons Killed In 3 Auto Crashes on | Baltimore Boulevard Head-on Collision Claims Three Lives, Critically Injures Another Person Five persons were killed and a | sixth was critically injured yes- | terday in three automobile acci dents on the Baltimore boule vard. Three of the five victims were killed instantly in a head-on col- lision between two automobiles | near Elkridge, according to police. They were James H. John H. Crist, all of Baltimore. Police said Mr. Crist was driving the car in which the Browns were riding. Mrs. Charlotte C. Beckwith, was driving the other car, was taken to St. Agnes’ Hospital in Baltimore. Attendants there said her condition was critical. She suffered a frac- tured ankle and leg and possible | internal injuries. Car Sideswipes Truck. | Alonzo Harris, 31, colored, of Wil- | mington, Del, was fatally injured near Beltsville when the car he was another and | Election Plea Rejected. It added that the National Labor Relations Board yesterday had dis= missed a welders' plea for an elec- tion to determine whether the men should be represented by the A. F. L. Metal Trades Union or their own independent union. Therefore, Porter concluded, the A. F. L. Metal Trades Unions “must be recognized as the exclusive bargain- ing agency, as stipulated in exist- ing contracts between shipbuilding companies and the A. F.L." Porter said he had been asked by Donald M. Nelson, director of war- time production, to reply to Basor. Basor had telegraphed an appeal to Nelson. Basor said that dismissal of welders ‘at the Boeing Aircraft Co. because they did not pay dues to the Aeronautical Mechanics Union was responsible for the Seattle walkout, The work interruption at Tacoma was a renewal of a walkout last November stopped by O. P. M. order upon the outbreak of war. Work on Ships Not Halted. Work on the ships at the plant did | not stop because of the walkout, but in the previous dispute work was curtailed gradually for about a week until almost all activity was suspended. The dispute was between welders and the A. F. of L. The A. F. of L. refused to let the welders—who had en affiliated with various A. F, of L. unions—form an independent union. The welders said many of their members thus were forced to maintain eards in more than one union in order to work on various jobs. Today's development came to g head when several welders were dis= missed from work for failure to pay dues to the A. F. of L. Boiler- Makers’ Union. With their dismis- sal, the rest of the welders stopped work. The shipyards have a closed shop contract with the A. F. of L. and hiring is done at union halls. Meat Ration Is Reduced By Ifalian Government ROME, January 31 (Andi to Asso= ciated Press)—The Italian Govern- driving sideswiped | ment today reduced the meat ration struck a truck. He died shortly | afterwards in Casualty Hospital. | Miss Olean Prince, 18, colored, 1121 Holbrook terrace N.E., died in | Casualty Hospital nearly 12 hours (See ACCIDENTS, Page A-10.) to three and one-half ounces a week for each person and restricted its consumption to one day a week. Henceforth Italians may eat meat only at luncheon on Saturdays, while other week-end meals must be restricted to vegetables and fruit. The orders were issued through the recently formed Inter-minis- T terial Food Control Committee For Draft Examinafion | nesded by Premier Mussolni. By the Associated Press. Another edict extended penalties WESTON, W. Va,, Jan. 31.—For- | for evasion of food regulations to mer United States Senator Rush |include those guilty of buying edi- Dew Holt, an isolationist before the | bles privately and selling them at Rush Holt Is Called | service registration. outbreak of hostilities, was among | 49 draftees called up by the Lewis County Draft Board today for ex- | amination. The preliminary examinations, be- | fore Dr. C. R. Davisson of Weston, will be made next Thursday and those passed will be sent on to Clarksburg for a final checkup Mr. Holt, who will be 37 years old June 19, was 35 in October, 1940, at the time of the first selective The former Senator, who waited until June, 1935, to take his seat, retired from the Senate in January, 1941. He married Miss Helen Froelichs of Gridley, Ill., last symmer. At Mr. Holt’s home it was said he probably was en route to Weston from Washington and expected to arrive tonight or tomorrow, In the last few months he had spent s considerable amount of his time in his home town. { increased prices. The committee indicated the milk ration which now is one-tenth of & liter (about a fifth of a pint) daily would be reduced even further, Mrs. Longworth Calls Herself a 52-Year I J Squatter’ Here One comment on the Presi- dent’s suggestion that “para. sites” should leave the Capital came yesterday from Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, widow of the Speaker of the House and herself once & White House oc- cupant as daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. She called herself & “squatter” of 52 years’ standing. She added: “You may say Mrs. Long- worth seemed to be taking it with amused equanimity.”