Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1942, Page 4

MoOA—2 40,000-Share Issue By Gas Light Co. Approved byP. U.C. Check on Agreement With Underwriters to Clear Stock Plan Subject only to a final check on an agreement between the company and underwriters, the Public Utilities Commission has approved a petition by the Washington Gas Light Co. for | issuance and sale of 40,000 shares of | $5 cumulative preferred stock at a| price of $100 a share. Within five minutes after the con- | clusion of a four-hour public hear- | ing, the commission announced late | vesterday its approval of the issue, as well as a waiver of the commi X sion’s general rule requiring com- petitive bidding on utility stock is- sues. The only condition was that | the commission still reserved judg- | ment on the terms of the agreement between the company and a group of nine Washington underwriters. There was general agreement as to the need of the company for new financing, particularly to meet de-| mands created by reason of the war and the resulting increase in Wash- | ington’s population. | Changes in Prospect. i Some collateral issues raised dur- | ing the hearing, however, still are | awaiting a final answer and these | may lead to important changes in | the financial setup of the company and its procedure. | At the request of Gregory Hankin, | commission, chairman, E. Barrett| Prettyman, company counsel, agreed | for the company that its common | stockholders would be asked to vote | on a proposed revision of the com-| pany charter under which majority | voting rights would be given to the preferred stockholders if as many as six consecutive dividends were not paid. There are now 60,000 shares of | preferred stock, whereas there are ' 425,000 shares of common stock, giv- | ing the latter, as a class, voting con- | trol. Chairman Hankin suggested by | questions that such a change might be ordered by the commission with- | out the necessary delay of two or three months of getting a vote by the | present stockholders, but Mr. Pretty- | man insisted it would have to be sub- mitted to a stockholders’ vote since | that question had not been presented when they approved the proposed 40,000 preferred stock issue. | Robert C. Owers, company vice | president in charge of financial mat- | ters, told the commission the pres- | ent market was such that individual brokers would not assume the sale of the stock alone, and that therefore the company had negotiated a tenta- | tive agreement with nine Washing- fon underwriters. His statements were confirmed by Yelverton E. ¥ Booker, Washington broker, whose rm is one of the proposed under- ting group. Explains Payment. “ Mr. Booker also gave reasons to justify the proposed payment of $3.50 per share to the underwriters, these including explanations that the brokers were assuming a finan- | cial responsibility for half of thei issue and the value to the company | 2f the service of brokers in selling | such an issue. As he was stating that brokers | ucceed year after year only by the | tiust investors have in their integ- | rity and advice, Chairman Hankin | gsked: “Do you mean to say that | investors would pay more attention to the talk of a salesman than fto | e, spproval given a stock issue by the eommission?” Mr. Booker promptly retorted: “Yes, sir. Where their treasure is, there is the heart.” Common stockholders of the com- pany have pre-emptive rights to | purchase any or all of the new issue, if they so elect. Recently the commission granted | the company “authority” to issue | 42,500 shares of $4.25 ecumulative preferred stock, subject to later ap- proval by the commission on any actual proposal for sale. Company officials said this other issue was being deferred for later action, de- | ending on the financial needs of he concern. | | Actress’ Ex-Husband Lost in Pacific Action By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, April 11.—Mar- Jorie Weaver, motion picture actress, said she was notified by the Navy §esterday that her former husband, Lt. Kenneth George Schacht, had been lost in action in the Pacific. ! Miss Weaver and Lt. Schacht were arried in Goshen, Ind, October sfi. 1937. She divorced him in Las egas. Nev. last August, charging gruelty, { The day after the divorce, how- | ‘ver. Miss Weaver said she and Lt. | Schacht might remarry when he | returned to this country. Lt. Schacht's home was In Bure | lington, Wash. | 3 T | Kentucky Recruiting ’ Booms at Bataan’s Fall By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky, April 11— Kentuckians' response to the fall of Bataan was an increase of 300 per cent in the rate of applications here for Marine Corps service and one of 30 per cent in Navy enlist- ments. Wood Shortage Encountered in Kite Contest The District’s annual kite contest {s in a sad fix for lack of priorities on a fine white pine wood used for kite sticks. The Community Center and Play- grounds Department said it can't get the knot-free wood from & Phil- adelphia mill because the firm has too many war orders. The depart- ment usually buys the wood in planks and cuts it up for distribu- tion to the entrants, who then make theiz own designs. Enotigh wood for about 50,000 sticks is being sought. A date for the contest among white schools has not been set be- cause of the wood shortage. The contest £mong the colored schools was postponed from yesterday until April 18. “We told our youngsters they’d just have to go around to the lum- ber yards and pick up scraps of any kind of wood or make the kites out of bamboo,” a spokesman for the evlored section said. “If we don't herry, summer is going to be here and we won't be able to find a rweze to fly the kites.” - | of China. | scrutable members of a faraway | like us: people who, like us, do & lot | | production in the remote western | turning out war materials, | civilians. FORT McPHERSON, GA.—FOR heading used by the United States Army Signal Corps in re- THE JAPS—This was the grim leasing this photo of & big Army depot jammed with 6-inch shells for 155-mm. Howitzers. The shells weigh some 95 pounds 47% pounds of metal and mechaniem, 47Y, pounds of TNT. The depot’s location was withheld. Shell markings are valueless 10 the enemy. —A. P, Wirephoto. China's Battle s Ours, Says Mrs. McNutt in Appeal for Funds Calls for Co-operation By Public in Raising $75,000 for Relief The need America has for China | was cited today by Mrs. Paul V. McNutt, wife of the Federal security administrator, in making an appeal for public co-operation in the drive to raise $75000 in Washington for the relief of the embattled Chinese. An exchange of greetings between President Roosevelt and President Lin Sen of the Republic of China will be broadcast from 8 to 10 o'clock tonight over 420 stations as part of a program that will include Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney, Loretta Young and others. Wendell Willkie, honorary national chairman of the drive, will speak from New York. As the national campaign to raise $7.000,000 begins. an army of volun- teer District workers under the chairmanship of Dr. Wilson Comp- ton plans to carry the story of China’s plight into every home, business, civic and professional or- ganization here. A Solid Battlefront. “China is the one solid battle- front we have on our vital Far Eastern flank,” Dr. Compton said, “and we must maintain it at all costs if we wish to avoid a long, costly struggle and keep our losses at a minimum.” President Roosevelt's message will be read from the Chinese Embassy by Archibald MacLeish, director of O. F. F, and that of the Chinese President by Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador. As vice chairman of the cam-! paign, Mrs. McNutt was asked to| make a plea because of her long association with Chinese relief work. With her husband, then High Com- missioner of the Philippine Islande, she arrived in Shanghai shortly after the heavy bombing of Chapel. Finds Soul of China. “The people were wonderful,” she said. “Such courage. Such patience. | Such dignity and forbearance. It | was then that I discovered the soul | No longer were the Chinese figures on a screen, or in- race. They were people. People of laughing and a lot of slnging."; On returning to Manila, Mrs.| McNutt joined with a number of | Americans, English, Filipinos and | others in forming the committee to | organize .the first industrial oco- operative in China to carry on war provinces -which the Japanese have been unable to conquer. It -was the beginning of a Cco-operative now made up of 3,000 small workshops “China’s Battle Is Qurs.” “I wish I could convey to my fel- low Americans,” Mrs. MGNutt said, “the intense feeling of fellowship and linked destinies I have had | since Shanghal. China's_battle is our battle; ours, China’s. For nearly five years China has been fighting that battle alone. Fifty millions of her pepple are refugees; 5,000,000 have perished, one-third of them Two million of her chil- dren are orphaned. It is to care for | these, to give them work and shelter, to provide anesthetics, where none are used now, to supply hospital beds, educational factlities for the young people who must carry on, field clinics, seed for the farmers— all the work of rehabilitation and mercy—that United China Relief s raising money. “We need China—China needs us.” ‘Norway Fights On’ To Be Lecture Topic “Norway Fights On” is the sub- ject of a picture and lecture pro- gram to be- presented by the¢ Na- tional Park Service at8 p. Wed- nesday in the Departmental Audi- torium on Constitution avenue be-" tween Twelfth and Fourteenth streets N.W. The lecturer will be Mrs. Gladys M. Petch, first woman to teach Eng- lish by radio in Europe and first Englishwoman to receive the St. Olav's medal with scrolt from the King of Norway. The public i8 in- vited. Chicago Sun Names ; | Catledge Acting Editor By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 11.—Rex Smith, editor of the Chicago Sun, has been granted a leave of absence, effective today, to enter the Army and Turner Catledge, the pfllfier‘! ‘Washington correspondent, become acting editor, Silliman Evans, publisher, announced last night. King Left in Bataan Comr;ndhdu By Wainwright, Maj. Gen. Edward P. King, jr., 57, or Atlanta, reported by Tokio broad- casts as surrendering Bataan's de- fenders to the Japanese, was said by officials here to be the senior officer in command of the forces after Gen. ‘Wainwright evacuated to Corregidor, He commanded the 2d Corps, Gen. Wainwright previously having com- manded the 1st Corps. While offi- cials here assumed the surrender had taken place, though lacking offi- | cial confirmation, they said Gen. King was in command of all the re- maining ground forces on the pe- | ninsula. They were unable to identify Lt. Col. E. P. Willlam, who was said in | the Tokio dispatch to be Gen. King's aide and chief of staff. King Well Known Here. Gen. King, ordered to the Philip- pines on September 14, 1940, is well | known in Washington. where he has | served at least four different times. His last tour of duty here was as | a director of the Army War College | shortly before leaving for the Phil- | ippines. A graduate of the University of Georgia and a former officer in the State National Guard, Gen. King was commissioned a second lieu- Officials Say tenant of Feld Artillery in the) Regular Army on September 25, 1908. His entire Army service, which has | been outstanding, has been with the field artillery. Awarded D. 8. M. Before the World War Gen. King was serving a tour of duty at Stotsenburg in the Philippines. When war was declared he re- turned to this country and later | served as chief assistant in the office of the chief of field artillery. For his services in this connection he | was awarded the Army's Distin- | guished Service Medal. Some months &fter the Armistice | Gen, King was sént to Treves, Ger- | | many, for assignment as a student | at the Army Center of Artillery Stud- ies. Upon completion of this course | he returned te Washington for fur- ther duty with the chief of field ar- | tillery. Gen. King's next detail in Wash- | ington was in the same office from | 1925 to 1929. He later attended the Army War College, from which he graduated in 1930. He is one of the | few Army officers to graduate from the Naval War College also, and on completion of that course in 1937 he returned to Washington for his last tour of duty here. | Westihghouse Agrees’ To Accept Curbs on | Light Bulb Patents Consent Decree Filed [ Placing Restrictions Requested by U. S. | By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N.J., April 11.—The | Government filed in Federal | Court today a consent decree un- | der which the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. ac- cepted wide restraints sought by | the Department of Justice! | against' 12 major light bulb| manufacturers. The firms were named defendants in an anti-trust suit scheduled to open Monday in Federal Court here. Westinghouse agreed to restraint from enforcing restrictions on price, territorial or quota conditions placed on any patent licenses granted by the company. Also forbidden were new agree- ments or contracts with any lamp manufacturing firms by which ter- ritorial or quota restrictions would be placed on the makers’ use or sale of bulbs. Westinghouse was ordered under the consent decree signed by District Judge Phillip Forman to issue royalty-free licenses to any persons applying under all patents relating to lamps held by Westinghouse without any restrictions as to pro- ducts to be manufactured or price to be charged, | Westinghouse futther agreed to accept restraint against using the trade-mark “Mazda” providing Gen- eral Electric were also barred from its use in the forthcoming trial. The decree was flled after a con- ference by company counsel with representatives of the anti-trust di- vision of the Department of Justice, 80% of R. A. F.iPI;nes Made in England ‘ Elghty per cent of the planes flown by the R. A. F. are the product of English factories, authoritative in- formation ‘made available here through the British Press Service today disclosed. British plane out- put is reported still ahead of Ameri- can. The British government is report- ed to be working on plans for in- creasing the production of planes in the British Isles. Although some British planes come from American factories through lease-lend, the British factories have been supply- ing part of the air fighting needs of the Russians and of the Allied forces based on England—Free French, | ! | | Polish, Csechs, Belgians, Dutch and | Norwegians. Newspaper Sales Rise Since U. S. War Entry By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 11.—More people are reading newspapers since the entry of the United States into the war, Editor and Publisher, trade Journal, reports. ‘The publication said & survey of 24 key. cities showed increases in newspaper salés of as much as 17 per cent for the first three months of 1942 over the last quarter of 1941, Most of the increases ranged from 1 to 8 per cent. 2 Marshall : : v(fi:gnglfimil_iom First Page.) i Mr. Hi also " yester- day with W. Averell Harriman, lease-lend pxpediter in England. It was noted that since the Amer- ican visitors arrived the question of supply in Pacific war theaters has become more critical _because ' of the Japanese naval offensive and depletion of British seapower through the loss of two crulsers and an aircraft carrier recently. U.S. Reported Inquiring Into British Reluctonce NEW YORK, April 11 (#.—The New York Times says the principal | mission of Gen. George C. Marshall | and Harry Hopkins in London is to | determine whether the British gov- | ernment “is justified in the stand it | | has taken against invading Europe this summer.” (The White House announced earlier in the week that the trip was “perfectly nmormal wartime mission.”) | In a Washington dispatch, the Times reports the chief argument advanced by the British is that there are not enough ships able to transport and maintain an expedi- | tionary force across the English | Channel or the North Sea. A British expeditionary force in France, the London government re- | portedly contended, would have to | overcome at least 30 completely equipped German divisions totaling | about 600,000 troops with all auxili- | aries counted. The Times says the British have informed Gen. Marshall and MfF, Hopkins that to guarantee success an _expeditionary force should be fromn one and a half times to twice as large as the German defenders, and that elght tons of shipping per man would be required, with this shipping under incessant attack from the German air force and navy. Because of the shipping situation, the Times reports, the British felt that the United States would be unable to send a large enough A. E. F. in the near future. British government and mliitary leaders reportedly argued, the paper says, that it would be better to wait until Britain has accumulated all the equipment needed. Proponents of invasion, the Times says, claim that there is nothing to indicate that the shipping position of the United Nations will be any better next year than in 1842, with sinking and replacement res in- dieating the best to be for is that the situation will be né worse. If the British government were to agree to an invasion, the paper re- ports, it would ask certain guaran- tees from the United States and particularly for guarantees of more American naval aid. |Damaged British Cruiser |Reported at Gibraltar By tbe Associated Press. LONDON, April 11.—Reuters re- ported in a dispatch from Vichy last night that the British cruiser Her- 131 Regisl_ram; Take Bralove. George MeRale. John T.. Ir. Arthur, ir. Jos. ¥, n eeney. M. €. H gl rtyn-m'an R ! 3 ra ander W é:n Jé. S ceny AN John rosby. H.. MEUiater A Koeleon 3%, _ | Mannix. Eniow P." mione arrived in Gibraltar Thurs- day, damaged and with wounded aboard. Reuters said a dispatch from Ceu- ta to the Vichy news agency report- ed that the wounded were disem- barked at once. The dispatch said 1t was believed the cruiser had been engaged in & sea and air battle near Malta. [ Examinations Today For Induction 10 Others Have Either Transferred to Home Areas or Enlisted One hundred and thirty-one Dis- trict registrants were scheduled to | take their Army physical examina- | tions and, if" they pass, be inducted at Fort Myer, Va., today. Ten other registrants scheduled for induction have transferred to their home com- | munities or enlisted. The entire group follows: Board No 1. ) Board Brte Bt b van, Caldwell, .. Jr,\‘ , John K ) Pischer, Herbert Foley, J. P. Campbell, R. J 6. 14, ermott. Joe. P. Mzenak dono | Ims. Calvin L. { Robinson. L. N Smith. E. | omim, john Wade | rileworthy. O. W. Arens, Jou 4. P04 N8, 18, | o8, A | Befi Harojd i Billings. 1.3 | Birch, W) ,fim. Boswell, Righ ¢. Durhem. K. 1 Gershenson, M. arks, Jos. E. umate, Wam. N. uthier, 7. A (Tane) Bl wers. John K. | | | | | b asci, Y fi({.{‘"fi{ g Blliott, Willlam M. yd, John P. Esiity i*&fl Ee'\n T Bam | Ohlkin “IIM ,J‘. walt, Ty L. o5, ; | et BB PORLEAE ook, John .. )r. ‘ralster, Aaron L. | Maare Beckner. Ira Rufus Bimemiljer. Jfilfl . uever, Henry May, Howard "l',".‘?} Donals Ne. 11. McAuliffe. Charles L. foney. Edwin " Myer '!r.mni 8. (Trana) 51 heehy. Alvin T. Beast Mo 23, Beall. Louls R. intie, Chas. M. Cardwell, Lau I‘-I%“Alt nder Cohen, Harold K, arer, Roland B. Connor. Bruce ing. Morris Rl e ng e, h C. elloes, Beott Whitt. Siese s, Malhorl, Lester . Williaims. Lee & eCarthy, M. A. Citizen Unit Reassured On Kramer School Use | Quoting Assistant Engineer Com- | missioner Beverly Snow, C. A. Bar- | ker assured the Randle Highlands | Citizens’ Association last night that | a statement attributed to Commis- sioner John Russell Young that the Kramer Junlor High School would | be taken over by the Government for offices was in error, Mr. Barker £aid he fuiled to see Commissioner Young, but that he saw Maj. S8now, who said there was no truth in the reported statement. The association’s fight to get 24- hour bus service will continue, de- spite the first setback, T. P. Mudd, association president, asserted in 2 discussion of the District's trans- | portation problems. Answering a statement that late sérvice was not practicable, Mr, Mudd contended the primary function of public utilities is not to make huge profits, but to serve the public. Bradley Dixon submitted a plan to survey the community to deter- mine the attitude of parents toward keeping children in school during an air raid. It was decided to ask the parent-teacher association to make the survey. On the motion of Herbert M. Prazier it was decided to raise a fund to buy air-raid equipment for the area, the méthod to be decided later. $3.238,012 for China Relief NEW YORK, April 11 (#).—United China Relief, in its first annual re- port, announced yesterday that it and eight constituent agencies raised $3238,012 during 1041. Chicago Trolley Fares Rise CHICAGO, April 11 (#).—A 1-cent increase in Chicago street car farcs, making them 8 cents for adults and 4 cents for juveniles, has been au- thorized by the Illinols Commerce Commission, effective Apfll‘m. Congress in Brief ‘TODAY. | dustrial hygiene divisions, “be ex- | | panded to meet the existing and fu- | or nursing service.” ' | Canada, |Of $5,517 Is Disapproved | | false slips on | George Milligan, Gov. Charles Edi- | Both chambers in recess. Confucius say: . Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps. F[_‘HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, B, 0., .SATIIBDAY, APRIL 11, 1942. s Mobilizing of Health {Services Urged in Crifical War Areas Conference of Industrial Hygienists Cite Need Of Medical Facilities Immediate mobilization of med- ical, nursing and hospital facilities in critical war industry areas under leadership of the United States Pub- lic Health Service was racommended Inte yesterday by the fifth national conference of Governmental Indus- trial Hygienists. In a resolution adopted at the @lose of the business session in the Bocial Security Buliding, the con- ference also recommended that governmental industrial hygiene services, industrial medical services and private physicians effect closer working relationship with State and local departments of public health for the extension of general public health service to war workers and their families.” Need - for such & program was stressed because “fallure to assure the avallabllity of medical facilities to war workers and their families under present conditions constitutes 2 national emergency equal to the threat of enemy action among ci- vilian populations.” Cites Bhertage of Services. “The shortage of physicians, nurses and hospital facilities for civililan medical care,” the resolu- tion sald, “is widespread and acute in war industry areas, and in many communities is, indeed, desperate.” The public health service, it was pointed out, “is equipped by experi- ence and organisa! to effect & so- | lution of this problem.” | ‘The conference also recommended | that the national industrial hygiene program of research, training and technical assistance to industry through the Division of Industrial | Hygiene of the National Institute of Health and other governmental in- ture needs in war industries.” { Pointing to needs of workers in small plants, a resolution recom- mended that “preventive services” | be supplied by medical, engineering and nursing personnel “for that two- thirds of the industrial population now empioyed in plants of small size (500 workers or less), the ma- Jority of which provide no medical | Visit Institute of Health. ! The conference came to a close today with a visit to the National | Institute of Health. A banquet was held last night at the Cosmos Club. New officers named for the year | are: Chairman, M. F. Trice of Ra- | leigh. N. C.. chalrman of the State | Division of Industrial Hygiene; vice | chairman, Dr, Paul A. Brehm of the | Wisconsin State Industrial Hygiene Unit: eecretary-treasurer, J. J.! Bloomfield of the National Institute of Health. Dr. James G. Townsend of the nounced the conference had been | attended by more than 300 mem- bers and guests from 34 States, 13 | Federal agencies and 7 universities, and students from the Philippines, . Peru, Chile. the British West Indies and the Dominican Re« | public. Edison Cottage Food Bill | By the Associated Press, TRENTON, N. J., April 11.—8tate Gontroller Homer C. Zink has dis- approved a $5517 August “food” bill | for the Governor's summer cottage at Sea Girt after Augustus Giunco, merchant who supplied the goods, testified he made fictitious vouchers to cover up liquor purchases. Mr. Glunco said he made out the instructions from | son's butler, The Qovernor, holding up pay- | ment of the bill, which he termed | “preposterous.” has charged State Q. M. Gen. Stephen H. Barlow with pervision over spending for | cottage supplies. Mr. Milligan declined comment on Mr. Giunco's testimony. Gov. Edison | said he would await Mr. Zink's re- port before commenting. Communiques Submarine Perch Regarded as Lost | AXIS PROBE WITNESS— B. Hudson (fore- Charles ground) shown leaving Dis- trict Court here after testify- ing before a Federal grand jury investigating alleged Axis propaganda. He was re- turned to the jail cell to which he had been sentenced for contempt of court. —A, P. Photo. Hudson Will Remain Jailed Till Monday In Contempt Case Committing Justice Will Decide Whether Publisher Is Cleared A hearing to determine whether | National Institute of Health an-|Charles B. Hudson, Omaha pub- lisher, still in jail on a contempt charge for refusing to answer a question before the District grand jury investigating foreign propa ganda, shall be released, will be held Monday. Mr. Hudson is understood to have answered the question in a second appearance before the jury yesterday. District Court Justice Jennings Bailey, in sentencing Mr. Hudson to three months Thursday, told him he would be released if he answered the question to the jury's satisfaction | within 10 days. Court Not Sitting. The hearing to determine whether Hudson has met this condition fully | was not held today since the grand jury is not in session and Justice Bailey was not sitting. The law pro- hibits District Court from holding Saturday sessions after noon Whether Mr. Hudson has com- pietely purged himself of the con- tempt charge depends on the finding of Justice Bailey. Mr. Hudson, said to be the pub- lisher of a publication entitied “America in Danger,” had refused to answer a question as to who printed a postcard which he al- | legedly distributed Lyman Subpoenaed. Another development in connec- tion with the probe yesterday was the issuance of a subpoena sum- | moning Robert W. Lyman, 37, who was taken into custody after he was | found loitering about the grand jury room. Mr. Lyman, said to be connected | with the National Workers' League | | of Detroit, was questioned both by | | Secret Service and Federal Bureau of | Dr. Walsh Proposes That Stalin Pledge Freedom's Defense "G. U. Vice President Says * Declaration Would Give Soviet More Support- American military assistance to Soviet Russia in her greatest hour of need calis for a “reciproca! as- surknce” from Joseph Stalin that he is “with the United States in the defense of those freedoms which in- spire our total mobilization,” Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, 8. J., vice presi- dent of Georgetown University, de- clared last night. The Georgetown educator, who is a relentless foe of Communism, said the support of aid to Russia should not be questioned. But he reminded an audience in Memorial Conti- nental Hall that millions in this country are waiting for such an as- surance from the Soviet leader and Ambassador Litvinov in Washing- ton. In the absence of that, he sug- gested that everything is flowing in | & “one‘way street” to Moscow, as re- gards international co-operation. “What the Christian world and the democracies would welcome,” he said, “would be the thrilling news that complete religious freedom has been restored, that the Third In- ternational has been retired to the archives, not temporarily but per- manently, and that Soviet Russia adheres to the principles of the At- lantic charter and the common human liberties proclaimed by the 26 allied nations and by the Amer- ican states at the Conference of Rio | de Janeiro.” Dr. Waish said that “nothing can be lost by such a declaration” and the opportunity of a “master stroke” awalts Mr. Stalin to win complete | American confidence in addition to its military aid. “But much could be lost by refusing to break that deep | silence which is so subtly impeding 1comp)e'¢ co-operation by the peo- | ple of the United States and fur- nishing continued grist for the mills of the fifth calumnists,” he warned. | Dr. Walsh's next weekly lecture on the war will be held Tuesday eve- ning, instead of Priday. regardiess of the scheduled blackout tests in the city. Quick Appruvai See_n For Service Pay Boost By the Associated Press. Swift House approval of a bill doubling the $21-a-month basic pay for Army buck privates was fore- cast today as the Military Affairs Subcommittee prepared to open | hearings on it Tuesday. | The measure. already unani- mously aoproved by the Senate, would grant pay increases for all enlisted men in both Army and Navy. There were indications that an effort would be made to attach a rider to the bill, making financial provision for dependents of men in | the service. Representative Edmiston, Demo- |crat. of West Virginia, a veteran of the World War, already has | introduced & bill setting up a scale | of allowances for men in the Army. Navy and Coast Guard. but the | House Military Affairs Committee has not yet received a War Depart- ment report on it Chairman Sparkman of the sub- committee expressed the opinion the | allowance plan “would be a very appropriate amendment.” He sug- gested that with Mr. Edmiston's approval his bill could be attached as a rider to the pay increase measure. | The Edmiston proposal would call ‘Ior $15 monthly contributions from the participating service men, with the ~Government matching this amount for each man with a wife but no children. For a wife with one child the Government would pay $30, and for a wife with two chidlren. $40, with $5 for each addi- tional child up to a top of $50. ‘Summary of 7 ‘Today’s Star | Foreign. Marshall reported convinced Russia is decisive battlefield. Page A-1 | Further withdrawal in Burma indi- | cated by British. Page A-1 | Roepang Airdrome raided by Aus- tralian bombers. Page A-7 Washington and Vicinity. The text of Navy communique No.| Investigation agents after he was| Hudson spends second night in jail 70, based on reports received up to| 10:30 a.m. today, follows: Southwest Pacific: 1. The United States submarine Perch has been overdue for more than a month and must be presumed to be lost. 2. The Perch was one of the United States submarines operat- ing in the vicinity of Java and her last position report placed her in the Java Sea. 3. The next of kin have been notified. 4. There iz nothing to report from other areas. The text of War Department com- munique No. 185, based on reports | received up to 9:30 a.m. today, reads: 1. Philippine theater: Despite fierce resistance by the small American and Philippine force, the enemy was able to ef- fect a landing on the island of Cebu on April 10. The Japanese force now debarking on that is- land is estimated at 12,000. The landing is being supported by dive bombers and & heavy fire from hostile naval vessels. Tank units have been landed by the Jap- anese. ‘The defenders continue to re- sist stubbornly and the invaders have been unable to advance in- land more than a few miles at any point. Enemy casualties have been heavy. Corregidor and Fort Hughes in Manila Bay were subjected to intensive air attacks during the past 24 hours. However, our cas- ualties were few and the damage der intermittent fire from enemy artiliery in Bataan and on the south shore of the bay. ‘There is no communication be- tween our in Bataan and those in i 2. There is nothing to report from other areas. Now is the time for all good men to come to the ald of their country. Buy Defense bonds. b} picked up. He was released during the afternoon and served with the | subpoena directing him to appear | as a witness before the jury Mon- day. At that time the jury will hear several other witnesses not reached yesterday. Whale Machine-Gunned GIJON, Spain, April 11 (P.—A machine-gunned whale, apparently | mistaken for a submarine by pa- | trolling aviators, was-washed up on | beach near here today. Sixty feet long from nose to tail, the whale's hide had been punctured by ma- chine-gun slugs. here. Page A-2 j'rnngs attack two men in daylight here. Page A-10 No instructions for auto biackout | o jasued vet. Page A-16 Chevy Chase-Bethesda citizens push | hospital plans, Page Ar16 | 1942 District traffic fatalities increase | to37. Page A-16 1941 fund distribution revealed by U. 8. 0. - Page A-16 | Beds available for 995 visiting serv- | icemen. Page A-16 | Miscellany Marriage Licenses. Page B-16 | Births and Deaths. Page B-16 Nature's Children. Page A-11 ‘Weather Report (Purnished by the United States Weather Bureau.) District of Columbia—Somewhat cooler tonight, temperature above | freesing; fresh winds. Maryland—Slightly colder tonight with occasional snow squalls in ‘mountains. Virginia—S8lightly cooler tonig] southwest River Revort. Potomac and Bhenandoah Rivers muddy at Snmn Perry: Potomac sitghtly muddy at Great Falls today. < ht, possibly light frost in extreme Tide Tables. (Purnished by Geodetic Survey. ) United States Coast and Record for Last 24 Hours. Temorrow: (From noon yesterday to noon today.) $37am Highest, 53, noon todsy. Year ago. 48 2 m&.‘;‘fl' 41, 6:60 today. Year 198 pm The Sun ant Record Temperatures This Year. ighest, 91, April 7, AL - e Eovut 8l on® ARary 11. ) A P i Mumidity for Last 24 Howrs. Preeipitatios (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) onthly precipitat inches In the | _Mighest, 87 per cent, at 8:3 . capltnl (ourrent month (o date) terday: . B Month, 1042, Ave, .| Lowest. 66 per cent, at § a.m. today. H ; K4 Weather in Various Cities. .78 P . i E Statons. Hish. Low: tion 5 53 413 R e o1 120 | A 63 4 401 " g. E a3 ¥ H a0 D 333 786 " 8 Report for Last 34 Hours. fi 47 86 X 2 Midnight ‘Today— am _E ) : 4 52 [ 3% -