Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1942, Page 4

A-1 Mud Slides, Floods Kill 4 in California; Properfy Loss High Houses Buried, Roads Blocked After Heavy Rains Near San Francisco By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7.—Huge mud slides and floods, caused by torrents of rain falling on Northern California, brought death to four persons and caused heavy property damage in a score of communities yesterday. The pouring rain washed away hillsides in the San Francisco Bay area. Tons of mud swept down steep slopes, burying & woman and a girl and crushing houses. Mrs. Dora Kammer, 62, San Fran- eisco, was killed by a landslide which destroyed her home in the Ingleside dilsmct in the southern part of the city. Muriel Swanfelt, 17, Fairfax, Marin County, was buried under a landslide which crushed her house. George Coster, 76, Healdsburg, So- noma County, girowned in a flooded street. John Runyon, 44, North Sacra- mento, drowned near Chico, Butte County. One last-minute rescue was at the home of Mrs. Robert Taylor, San Francisco, whose home began to slide, trapping her and her 13- months-old baby daughter, Mary Ann, “I was in the hall,” Mrs. Taylor said, “with Mary Ann in a back bedroom, when there was a rumbling roar and plaster started falling. ‘The house began to move. I ran for the baby but the door had jammed and I couldn't open it.” Frank White, driving past, heard the roar and Mrs. Taylor’s scream. He hauled himself at the door, broke it open and helped the mother and baby to safety. By that time, his automobile had been buried under the mud. Mrs. Robert Frazee was awakened Just before the slide crushed her house by her dog, Pat. Mrs. Frazee managed to save herself and her three small children. The dog was crushed under the debris. The southern part of the city of Napa was flooded. Hundreds of families were evacuated from their homes. Flood waters and slides blocked highways along the northern coastal area and throughout the Sacra- mento Valley. Up to 7 am. Friday, 3.26 inches of rain had fallen in Napa, while Calistoga recorded 4.78 inches and Lokoya, 3.79 inches. Quincy, in Plumas County, had 4.25 inches. X Communiques MacArthur Planes Down Jap Bomber The text of War Department com- munique No. 95, outlining the mili- tary situation as of 9:30 am. today. 1. Philippine theater: Concealed enemy batteries near the southeastern shore of Manila Bay bombarded our harbor de- fenses with heavy artillery for three hours. Most of the fire was concentrated on Fort Drum, but some was directed against Fort Mills and Fort Hughes, No ma- terial damage was done. Our guns returned the fire with undeter- mingd results. It has been deter- mined that Lt. Gen. Susumu Morioka is in command of Jap- anese forces in Manila and on the Cavite shore of Manila Bay There was little infantry action on the Bataan Peninsula during the past 24 hours, but enemy ar- tillery fire was heavy. Hostile dive bombers were ac- tive over our lines. Two of our fighter planes engaged four dive bombers, shooting down cone of them. Neither of our planes was damaged. 2. Netherlands Indies: Eight American P-40 pursuit planes were attacked by a greatly superior force of Japanese fight- ers and bombers near Bali. At least three enemy planes were shot down. One of our planes was destroyed and another is missing. 3. There is nothing to report from other areas. The tezt of War Department com- munique No. 94, based on reports re- eeived up to 5 p.m. yesterday. 1. Philippine Theater—-During the past few days American and Filipino troops have been bom- barded by the Japanese with radio broadcasts and pamphlets urging them to surrender. These appeals have occasioned consider- able amusement for the troops. A radio broadcast addressed to Gen. MacArthur was made by Emilio Aguinaldo from Manila. Aguinaldo, who led the revolu- tion against the United States in 1899, is apparently being put for- ward by the Japanese as a sort of Philippine Quisiing. He urged immediate surrender. The appeal was ignored by Gen. MacArthur, The latest pamphlet dropped by Japanese aviators over our lines declares that American money is rapidly becoming valueless and that the pay the soldiers are re- celving from the United States will do them no good. The pam- phlet concludes by urging the Filipino troops to surrender. American and Filipino soldiers fighting on Bataan Peninsula have received frequent reports from Manila about the worthless “invasion currency” the Japanese are attempting to circulate at the point of the bayonet. Hence this pamphlet appears to them par- ticularly ludicrous. (Here the communique gave the text of the pamphlet.) 3. Hawali—The steamship Cyn= thia Olsen, ufder charter to the United States Army as freight transport, having been unreported since December 7, 1941, is pre- sumed to be lost as a result of enemy action. On December 7 this vessel reported that it was under attack by a Japanese sub- marine. It gave its position at about 1,200 miles west of Seattle. ‘The vessel was en route to Hono- lulu with a cargo of lumber. It was due in Honolulu on Decem- ber 10. The vessel was 1380 net tons under charter to the War Depart- ment. On board the vessel at the time were 35 civilian mem- bers of the crew and two soldiers. fil are presumed to have been 3 3. There is to A i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘D. C, £ SAN FRANCISCO.—LANDSLIDE CRUSHES HOMES—Breaking away from a hillside (right), a sea of mud, moving like a bed of lava, swept downward several hundred yards yesterday to wreck American Industry Goes to War— Nation’s Big Chemical Plants Forsaking Products of Peace Scientific Wizardry Turns Military Necessities Out of Common Things of Earth and Sky (Seventh of a Series.) By THOMAS R. HENRY, Star Staff Correspondent. WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 7.—Merlin rides now with the knights of the free world. All the miracle-working necromancy of the greatest of latter- day wizards has been turned to conjuring weapons of destruction and mercy out of air, water, stone and the commonest things of earth and sky. The super-magician is America’s¢—m————————————— great chemical industry. It is largely a development of the past quarter century. The last war found chemistry largely enlisted on the side of the enemy. The United States had to depend mostly on the products of nature. Today the tables are turned. There are relatively few necessities of war or peace that man cannot make better and quicker and cheaper/ than nature. Here at Wilmington are the headquarters and labora- tories of the largest of all Ameri- can chemical makers—E. 1. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Its factories are spread over the country. - They- are: enlisted in an all-out war effort necessary for final victory. From Peace to War Products. For a generation now its chemists have been at work on development and practical utilization of thou- sands of things—synthetic and otherwise—for daily living. Some of these have become s0 necessary and so commonplace they are taken for granted. Others still are novelties and some are just coming into pro- duction. In their development hardly a thought was given to their use in war. Now, often to the surprise of the chemical companies themselves, it is found that many of them not only fit pertectly into the war pattern but are essential. They have been designed to make all aspects of life more efficient, and this war seems to include all aspects of life. The Du Pont company alone, it is estimated, makes about 10,000 sep- arate products. Nearly all of them are materials from which other manufacturers make a great variety of other articles. There is hardly a single one of them, it now de- velops, that does ont enter into the war picture. This means that the bulk of the resources of the company must be devoted to military and naval production and that civilians must learn to get along without countless of thesé articles which they have taken for granted. Neoprene Is an Example. In some ways it may mean going back to the horse-and-buggy age with a vengeance, since the chem- ical materials are essential in hun- dreds of flelds where their presence is seldom suspected by the general public. A good example is neoprene. In the last war only & few chemists had fantastic dreams of anything that would lock and act like rubber —except rubber itself. It was not until about a dozen years ago that a formula was found for making, out of coal, limestone and salt an elastic, bouncing material which had most of the characteristics of natural rubber. It was not rubber. It could hard- ly be described as “synthetic rub- ber.” It was considerably more ex- pensive than rubber. But the es- sential point was that it was better than rubber for many of the pur- poses for which rubber only had been used in the past. It was something new in the world. Starting 10 years ago the Du Pont company started to make it on a commercial scale. The last production figure that can be cited —present production is a military secret—was . 1500000 pounds s month. It was the first synthetic product to be placed on the priori- ties list—in March, 1941. Even the production which can be assumed today is only & drop in the bucket of America’s rubber needs. Motor- ists need not hope that neoprene will relieve the tire shortage very much, at least for a time, but very good neoprene tires are now in use. get along without it. lining of most of the gas stations, of the hose used the tanks of oil heating system: and the holds of the tanker fleet. The soles of rubber shoes used by factory workers are made of it. So are gloves used by housewives in their kitchens. These uses are due to its far greater resistance than natural rubber to certain chemi- cals and greases. It has about 500 known civilian uses. All these civiian uses, and probably many’ b, more, may be also military uses. Until the war is over the general public can expect very little of it— and oil heating will cost more as a result. Another striking example from the Du Pont company is nylon, a whole new family of raw waterials. This is the well-kno synthetic that in the form of a fiber replaces silk. It also is made out of the basic constituents of coal, water and air. It is one of the most recent major developments. Nylon, again, is not silk. In fiber form it looks and be- haves like silk but is superior to silk for many of the purposes for which silk has been used in the past. It is stronger thdn silk and has more chemical resistance. Everything considered, it is probably cheaper than the actual silk from Japan which today American women would spurn even if they could get it. Nylon is best known, of course, for its use in women’s hosiery and undergarments. In the past two years it has saved American house- | thy holds millions of dollars in hosiery bills because of its lasting qualiies. The first men’s nylon hosiery, by the way, had also made its appear- ance when the war intervened. ‘The Du Pont company was making 8,000,000 pounds a year of nylon yarn when the war start®d, and a second 8,000,000-pound-a-year plant was getting underway, along with further expansion plans. * This will not do civilians much good for a while. A good slice of the nylon output was commandeered by the Government immediately after Pearl Harbor and now the bulk of nylon yarn is to be used only as Washing- ton directs. The Army has re- quested that military uses of nylon not be mentioned. Obviously it is not intended for silk underwear for lady soldiers. But a curious turn of events may make the Army relent a little on the nylon situation so that Amer- icans can brush their teeth during the war. Ever since the toothbrushirg habit started a couple of generations ago, it seems, all brushes have been made from the bristles of Chinese and Siberian half-wild hogs. Domestic pigs get too fat to grow good brush bristles. Peasants actually hold wild-hog roundups to get bristles to sell to America. They set out rough- ened posts in the forests against which the pigs could scratch their backs and so leave a treasure trove. Nylon Bristles Better. Along came nylon bristles. They were about a thousand per cent bet- brushes now are made of them. Due to the situation in the Far East it probably will be impossible to get any more from the wild hogs. In one other field—this is an optimistic statement after making out this year’s income tax return— the general public will continue to come in contact with nylon. This is in American paper money, which is made of a very high-grade paper, run through with silk threads. The Treasury has just announced that in the future nylon threads will be used. This will result in money which lasts I Money in the past has used up quite a lot of silk. And it isn't considered quite right now to have the features of Washington, Jefferson and the rest run through with a Japanese product. Somehow the secret leaked out. It was intended to say nething about the plans and catch a few counter- felters who continued to use silk. Brest Is Raided Again By British Warplanes By the Associsted Press. LONDON, Feb. 7.—British air raiders carried out another attack last night on oft-bombed Brest, German-occupied port on the French coast where the Nazi battle- ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau have been reported sheltering, the Alr Ministry announced today. ‘The announcement said one plane was lost in the raid and acknowl- edged loss of another on patrol over the North Sea yesterday. several houses. the houses. The small cabin in the background was carried along the crest of the slide. Three other lives were lost. —A. P. Wirephoto. 0.C.D. (Continued From First Page.) arts council, carries an $8,000 annual salary, but only while he actually works at it. Action Subject to Roll Call. Action of the House will be sub- | ject to later roll call votes. Chairman Cannon of the Appro- priations Committee gained a delay until Monday on final action on the omnibus outlay in the hope of rally- ing support behind these and other controversial provisions. Both Republican and Democratic members took the floor to declare | that the country needed fewer en- tertainers and more bombers, and called for elimination of “para- sites and leeches” from the Federal payroll. Both Representative Faddis and Representative Taber denounced the Douglas and Chaney appoint- ments in the debate. Mr. Ta- ber, defining parasites as those who “eat at another’s table, repay- ing with flattery,” called for elim- ination of all “leeches” from the Government payroll. He mitted a list of what he called para- sites. The list included Secretary Ickes, Mr. Douglas, Miss Chaney and Joseph Lash, also a friend of Mrs. Rdosevelt, who was given a job in the O. C. D, of which Mrs. Roosevelt is assistant director. Mr. Lash serves without compensation but has his official expenses paid. Branded “Petty Criticism.” ‘The action of the House brought | from James M. Lamdis, executive of the O. C. D., no direct statement regarding it, but he said his office “will not be deflected from its task by pstty criticism or personal at- tack.” If the House sticks to the prohi- bitlons in the final vote Monday, there still is a question as to how effective such action will be, as Mr. ber brought out yesterday that O. C. O. had been financed by funds diverted from the Office for Emergency Management which, he said, had $600,000 to last out the year. During the angry debate which continued all yesterday afternoon, Representative Hoffman, Republi- can, of Michigan suggested that a “bundles for Eleanor” movement be started in tribute to Mrs. Roosevelt's alleged ability to get jobs for her friends. She was warmly defended, however, by Representative Can- non. Pointing out that Mrs. Roosevelt is active in many parts of the country and on all subjects, he said: “It is impossible that something would not be found in which she might be criticized under such cir- cumstances. But when the history of these times is written, Mrs. Roosevelt will become forever a credit and inspriation to American womanhood.” Representative Bennett, a Mis- souri Republican, centered his fire on Miss Chaney, who he said was “unknown.” “So far as has yet been made public,” he added, “the only qualification this charming dancer has for her position is that she has named one of her dances “The Eleanor Glide.'” “If she is worth $4,600 per year,” Mr. Bennett declared, “then Sally Rand, strip tease artist from my own congressional district in the Ozarks, ought to be employed at once because she would, on this scale, be worth at least $25,000 per year to the Civillan Defense.” Reverting to Miss Chaney's de- velopment of “The Eleanor Glide,” the Missourian said: “If that is the prime requisite for such an im- portant job, I promise you I will persuade Sally Rand to name six of her ostrich fans Capt. Jimmie, Capt® Ellott, Lt. John, Ensign Franklin, Sistie and Buzzie, respec- tively.” In short, sharp words, member after member pointed to the Ap- propriations Committee’s report that “enemy air raids on the con- tinental United States are to be ex- pected,” and then asked bluntly what actors and dancers could do to eliminate the danger. Protesting what he termed “boon- doggling in connection with the Office of Civillan Defense,” Repre- sentative Faddis said the office “Is being prostituted to boondoggling and to the interests of a class of people * * ¢ whose loyalty” he said was questionable. Mr. Douglas, Mr. Faddis com- mented, draws an O. C. D. salary equal to that of Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, and Miss Chaney’s pay is “almost twice as much as Capt. Colin Kelly” received before he was killed. But Capt. Kelly’s widow, he added sarcastically, “would stand small chance” to get an O. C. D. position “because she is not on the blacklist of the Dies committee.” Asserting that the Dies commit- tee —created to investigate un- American activities—might as well be abolished, Mr. Faddis contended that when the Dies committee ex- l.l:.:d.lvid\lll is sub- | such that Mayor La Guardia “couldn’t stand for it” and therefore was resigning. (Director La Guardia has announced that he is getting out.) Mr. Taber, in revealing that such employes as Miss Chaney are paid out of funds appropriated last sum- mer or fall for the Office for Emer- gency Management, said: “There is not too good legal au- thority for the use of this money in this way.” Representative Hinshaw, Repub- lican, of California, asked if Con- gress had no authority to halt such expenditures, to which Mr. Taber replied that he thought it did pro- vided it took the necessary steps. La Guardia Defended. Representative Marcantonlio, American-Labor, of New York arose La Guardia could in no way be held responsible for the appoint- ments under fire. Representative Vorys, Republican, of Ohio asked why Mayor La Guardia, if he did not approve of these appointments, did not re- | move the individuals from tke rolls. No satisfactory answer seemed to be forthcoming to this question. “There are items in this appro- | priation bill,” said Mr. Taber, as | he began his discussion of the mer- | ger, “which are almost a sacrilege | when it comes to considering the | position of the American taxpayer | today. President Roosevelt recently | spoke of ‘parasites’ in Washington who should be removed to give room for the national defense setup. I !mund to speak of things which | of ‘parasites’ from Washington. “In Webster’s Dictionary the word ‘parasite’ is defined as ‘one who eats at the table of another, repaying him with flattery and buffoonery.’ " Calls Employes ‘Parasites.’ Mr. Taber said that this defini- tion applied to a number of people on the Federal payroll and that he had selected from the list the names | of several he intended to mention. “Take Mr. Ickes to start with,” he | sald. “He has started Communistic operations in Puerto Rico which will cost $200,000,000, which have already proved a failure and he has put down there Rexford Tugwell as Gov- ernor. | also the oil administrator.” | Getting down to the employes of | the O. C. D. whom he designated as “parasites,” Mr. Taber mentioned first Bernard F. Dickman, former | Mayor of St. Louis. He said: | “Something should be done to put 'an end to this promotior of fan | dancing and moving pictures to amuse the people. We are treading | on toes high up, but thos: toes high up must get around to a point where they will be willing to make sacri- fices, too.” Both Sides Applaud. Applause greeted this remark from both Democratic and Republican sides of the House. Mr. Dickman had been defeated at the polls rot long ago. “Now he appears on the rolls of civilian defense as an inspector general at $6,500," Mr. Taber con- tinued. “Then there is Melvyn Douglas, moving picture actor about whom already a great deal has been said, to be paid at the rate of $8000 a year. Then there is Betty Lindsay at $5600. I under- stand she used to be the agent for that Sunday evening radio address —you know what that is. (Mrs. Roosevelt speaks on Sunday evening on the radio.) Mr. Taber mentioned the names of Miss Chaney and Mr. Lash. He mentioned also Malcolm Cowley, whom he described as & supporter of Communist candidates for office in this country, including William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President. “Almost all of these people are on the rolls ef the Dies Committee in- vestigation,” he said. “I have mentioned just a few of these outstanding parasites,” said Mr. Taber. They are leeches who should be removed. Unless they are taken off the Government payroll there will be no money left to buy guns, planes to fight this war. “The Treasury Department is em- ploying Walt Disney to make a mov- | ing picture at a cost of $80,000 to persuade the people tc pay their income taxes. Great God, can you think of anything that would make the people less willing to pay taxes used for a bomber. But perhaps there is no limit to this making a travesty out of national defense activities.” 44-Hour Week to Start AtG. A. O. February 16 ‘The General Accounting Office to- day joined the list of agencies ad- vancing working hours from 39 to 44 weekly and will make the cha Pebruary 16. . From Monday through Friday the working hours will be from 8:15 am. to 4:45 pm. with 30 minutes for lunch. The Saturday hours will be 8:15 am. to 13:15 pm. The. Ac- counting Office will continue to operate s night force also. : SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, to declare that in his opinion Mayor | | should be done for the elimination | You remember Mr. Ickes lsl 1942, Congressional Action Awaited on Charge F. §. A. Wastes Funds Head of Farm Bureau Says Agency’s Practices Are National Disgrace A demand for a congressional in- vestigation of the Farm Security Administration, based on charges that it had burdened farmers with unneceasary loans and had “wasted Federal funds to the extent of na- &nfl disgrace,” awaited action to- y. Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federa- tlon, made the charges before the Joint Congressional Committee on Reduction of Non-Essential Federal & thorough investigation to supple- ment studies by federation officials. “While we did not have the time nor the facilities to make a com- plete investigation,” Mr. O’'Neal said, “the preliminary findings indicate some startling and shocking condi- tions of waste, extravagance and in- defensible practices in the adminis- tration of this program.” La Foliette Asks for Evidence. Challenged by Senator La Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin to present evidence on which the allegations were based, Mr. O'Neal said that would be done at a later hearing by Donald Kirkpatrick, general counsel of the federation. Senator La Follette said he would then ask that F. 8. A. be given opportunity to rebut the evidence. The federation is a private org: ization of farmers. The F. S. A, Federal agency, is concerned pri- marily with extending aid to debt- distressed small farmers and to tenants who want to become land owners. Mr. O'Neal appeared after C. B. Baldwin, Farm Security Administra- | tor, defended as a “perfectly proper | thing” the agency’s practice of class- |ing poll taxes, along with other taxes, as an allowable expenditure in | determining the amount of a re- | habilitation loan. | Greene's Statement Resented. Probate Judge Robert K. Greene | to pay poll taxes of the agency's loan clients and said that citizens of | his community believed that was for the purpose of “influencing votes.” @ Mr. Baldwin said he would take immediate steps to have prosecuted any F. 8. A. employe who sought to influence votes. “I deeply resent the implication of Judge Greene’s statement,” he said, adding that he would con- tinue to regard poll taxes as an | allowable expenditure. Mr. Baldwin told the committee “self-respecting members of their | communities” and to encourage | them to undertake “the responsi- bilities and obligations that go with citizenship in a democracy.” He sald an Agriculture Depart- ment attorney had advised him that | the practice did not conflict with a | provision in the Alabama constitu- tion prohibiting any person from | ing money for payment of the tax | to influence his vote. Mrs. Helen C. Lines Found \Dead in Woodside Home | Mrs. Helen C. Lines, 48, kinder- garten teacher at the Woodside (Md.) Elementary School, was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning yesterday at her home at 9110 First avenue, Woodside. Dr. C. E. Hawks, county medical examiner, listed the death as a suicide. Mrs. Lines had been ill for several | months and had not taught since the | Christmas holidays. When she | failed to answer the telephone or door neighbors called the Silver | | Spring Rescue Squad and a door was | | broken down. Mrs. Lines was found lying on the kitchen floor, ascording | to Silver Spring police. | A native of Ohio, Mrs. Lines was educated in that State. As a young woman she made her home in Ta- koma Park, later moving to Wood- side. She taught in the kinder- garten for about 15 years. She was a former president of the Current Comment Club of Woodside. Her husband, the late Carl G. Lines, who was with the Census Bureay, died about three years ago. She is survived by a son, Jack, who is in the Patent Office] Honomty Taps 11 at G. W. U. Eleven George Washington Uni- versity students were tapped for membership in Omicron Delta Kap- pa, national honorary activities fra- ternity, at the all-umiversity prom held last night in the Shoreham Hotel. The outstandng undergraduates were John Picco, Bob Geran, Rich- ard Burns, Gordon Calvert, Kim Vought, Jack Bradley, Aaron Layne, George Bishop, Charles Carlson, Cole Reasin and Paul McClenon. District of Columbia—Colder portion. Maryland—Rather windy and River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clesar at Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear st Great Falls today. Tide Tables. (Furnished Iz United States Coast and letic Survey.) than that? That money could 'be | o Automobile one-half hour Repert for Last 34 Hours. Yesterday— D.m. ture. 47 40 43 41 41 2 Recerd for Last 34 Hours. (Prom Noon Yesterdsy to Noon Today.) Record Temperatures This Yoar. B ST anuary of Greensboro, Ala., had testified | that F. 8. A. funds were being used | * that one object of rehabilitation | work was to make farm families | | paying another’s poll tax or advanc- | Expenditures yesterday, and asked |. FARM LEADER CHARGES WASTE—Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told a congressional committee yesterday that his organization had found “startling and shocking conditions of waste” in practices of the Farm Security Administration. NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Capt. Einar Gleditsch, a weather-beaten Nor- wegian whaling skipper, disclosed last night that on the morning of January 19, off Cape Hatteras, his ship chased and attempted to ram an enemy submarine as it appeared ready to attack an unidentified sel. “But,” said the tanned veteran of 18 years of whaling, “I now think | the whole thing was a big bluff so far as the submarine was concerned. She must have been out of ammuni- tion. and torpedoes or otherwise she would have fired at us. “About 1 hour and 50 minutes | after we first heard the alarm and | just as we decided to give up the chase and return to our ariginal | course, an airplane flew over us | coming from the direction of the | shore and it circled the spot where | we last saw the partly submerged submarine. | _“I don't know whether the plane finished the job or not.” Commands Giant Shin |in the presence and with the per- | mission of Ensign Walter Sullivan |of the 3d Naval District public re- lations division. His vessel, the Kosmos II, a 25,000~ ton floating whale factory—the | largest cargo vessel afloat—now used as a tanker, nosed her way through dark but smooth waters off Cape Hatteras early one morning. Capt. Gleditsch said he was | awakened by the ringing of an au- tomatic alarm. “I heard the four long blasts | which meant that a vessel was in some distress,” he recalled in deep Norwegian accent, “but at first T did not think of the possibility we | might be torpedoed.” He sald he telephoned to the bridge and instructed his second officer to turn due east. The second officer told him he could see the wake of a submarine off their starboard beam and that its course was diagonal to theirs. Sub Partly submerged. “I called for utmost speed,” said the skipper, “and told the men on the bridge to keep our vessel on | course in hope of ramming the sub- marine. “My order was—Keep right on her, try to ram her'—and we came | within 200 feet of her as she crossed our bow.” Capt. Gleditsch, now 35, and the | father of two children, told his story | —Harris & Ewing Photo. Skipper of Whaler Describes Futile Attempt to Ram Sub Undersea Craft Outran His Ship Off Cape Hatteras, Norwegian Captain Says merged, the captain said, and quick- ly attempted to_go to greater depths but apparently could not. “Her bow came out of the water and then she settled back with her small coning tower about 2 or 3 feet above the surface,” he said. “She zig-zagged and we followed her as we proceeded on the same course, but she had about 1 mile an hour more speed than us. I had radiced to shore as soon as we sighted her and expected a patrol plane to arrive.” Capt. Gleditsch, a native of the town of Sandefjord, Norway, which equips and runs the largest whaling fleet in the world, has been at sea most of the time since he was 17. In normal times, the Kosmos IT would be accompanied on a whaling expedition by a number of smaller boats from which whales would be harpooned and caught. Aboard the Kosmos, the whales would be pro- cessed. | | The submarine was partly sub- How Sub Crew By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 6—For two days and two nights, an Italian sub- marine towed a lifeboat with 19 sur- vivors of a torpedoed Belgian ship and repeatedly took motion pictures of the victims, one of them said to- day. : The story of Gerard Dedoyard, 29, who also survived a second sinking, was released through the 3d Naval District Public Relations Office. Dedoyard, an engineer on a Bel- gian ship flying the British flag which arrived here a few days ago, said he was a gunner aboard the first ship to go down under him, 700 Weather Report (Purnished by the United States Weather Buresu. with temperatures somewhat below freezing tonight; fresh to strong winds. Virginia—Rather windy, somewhat colder in west and much colder in east portion tonight with snow flurries continuing in mountains of west somewhat colder tonight with light snow continuing in mountains of west portion. ‘West Virginia—Rather windy with snow flurries and colder tonight. -— Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From Noon Yesterday to Noon Today.) lighest, 96 Der cent, at 7:30 a.m. Lowest, 63 per cent at 1:30 p.m. Precipitatio; Monthly precipitation in Caitel uent mon taaste s In the 1942. Ayerage. ks £y - Tage. .llwd 83 [P, e VRS SS0a3, 5 5'222&‘:32% 228 2 1 27 ] ‘Worth, Tex. Kansas City, Mo. Louisville, Ky. Memphis. polishest, 49, st 145 pm. yesterdey. | Misal ‘fiz'é{‘ 3-.' at 10:30 a.m. today. Year | New axo, Ny EINAR GLEDITSCH. Survivor of Two Sinkings Tells Filmed Victims miles from the Azores. The sur- vivors were set adrift in a lifeboat, and the submarine submerged. The next day, he said, the sub- marine reappeared, tied a lifeboat to its stern and put all survivors in it During the subsequent two-day voy= age, he said, the motion pictures were taken, apparently for propa- ganda purposes. ‘They were then taken aboard the submariné, held there for two days and three nights and ate only maca- roni and apricots. “‘Why do you help the English?’* Dedoyard quoted the submarine commander as saying. He replied: “Why do you help the Germans?” ‘The survivors were put ashore at the Azores. On the return to Eng- land in a convoy from Lisbon, he sald, his ship was attacked by planes off the Irish coast and sank, but the crew was rescued by a lease- lend destroyer. Wartime Makes Paper Abandon Free Copy Offer By the Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla,, Feb. 7— The long-standing offer of the St. Petersburg Evening Independent to give free papers on days when the | sun fails to shine before press time will come to an end February 28, Maj. Lew B. Brown, editor and co-publisher, announced in an edi- torial today that changes in publi- cation hours under wartime left only 61 per cent of the possible sunshine period available before the paper went to press. “This is too much,” wrote Maj. Brown, “and the management of the newspaper considers it would be unfair to the reputation of the Sunshine City and to the Inde- pendent to continue the sunshine offer.” The editor instituted the offer more than 31 years ago. During that period the home edition has been distributed free on 14€ days.