Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1942, Page 5

- THE EVENING STAR, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1942. WASHINGTON, Women's Land Army Takes Step Toward Official Status Names of Volunteers For Farm Work to Be Given to War Boards ‘The Women's Land Army took a step toward official status today with announcement that names of farm labor volunteers who register with the army at the American ‘Women's Voluntary Services will be passed on to the United States Em- ployment Service and Agriculture Department County War Boards. Disclosure of the A. W. V., 8s land army's governmental tie-up, which has been in preparation near- 1y two months, came one week after its former chairman resigned with the recommendation that only tie- up with a governmental agency could save the army from death in & welter of “bickering” and “per- sonal interests.” Mrs. R. Ernest Dupuy, who founded the army last summer and was in- vited to place it under sponsorship of the A. W. V. S. last fall, resigned as chairman April 3. Her letter of resignation to Miss Anita Phipps, A. W. V. 8. president, declared: “Now my plan has proved work- able,” it is “a matter for adoption by some Government agency, where it will be free from the bickerings and divisions of personal interests seemingly inescapable from volun- teer operations of private agencies.” Mrs. Hendrickson Now Chief. Mrs. Dupuy, in reporting the prog- ress of the army under her guid- ance, mentioned only experimental farm projects and courses given for the A. W. V. S. by the Maryland University extension service. Appointment of Mrs. Dupuy'’s for- mer vice chairman, Mrs. Clarence I. Hendrickson, to head the land army was announced today by Mrs. L. Corrin Strong, chairman of the ag- riculture and nutrition section of British Sources Seek To Minimize Effects \0f India Breakdown Hope of Compromise Seen In Cripps’ Hint He May Return in New Post Sales Levy Held Sure If President Revises Tax Program Upward Ways and Means Members See Seven Billion Limit Under Morgenthau Plan By the Associated Press. Ly the Associated Press. House Ways and Means Com-| LONDON, April 11.—Responsible mittee members sald today that | British sources sought today to min- any 'Mflu‘"‘“m request 0T | ymie the effects of the breakdown ;gll;’;-c::;upr:g:?muxgfil-:urfigrklg | of negotiations on the status of some form of a sales tax certain, | 'ndia but failed to dispel entirely Discussing reports that President | the anxiety in some quarters over Roosevelt might revise upward his|the announcement that no imme- tax request as a means to help con- | diate new overtures were in prospect. trol inflation, committeemen said | Hopes that a compromise might that in that case some kind of con- | Vet be reached to bolster native sup- sumer tax—already indorsed by a|Port of Britain's defense prepara~ majority—could not be avoided. tions were pinned on the unex- _{plained statement by Sir Stafford by. his req for $7,610,000,000 more India, but “in what capacity that revenue, “until there is a public an- il fe 8% oot only knows. = | There were two popular guesses e ratimate ident™ of &| 1 unoffictal quarlers: That 8ir Stafford might be made Viceroy of Seen Inevitable Step. | India, or that he might be sent back “Any increase would make a sa)es as Minister of State. tax inevitable,” sald Representative | | ondon Paper Sees Knutson, Republican, of Minnesota | . . Sl he was iclied by mp,,s,m_lthtle Help From India tives Treadway, Republican, of Mass- LONDON, April 11 (#).—The Eve- achusetts and Disney, Democrat, of ning News, the first London news- Oklahoma. paper to editorialize on the failure of Most of the committeemen have | Sir Stafford Cripp's “gallant mis- said that in no event could Congress | sion,” said today that the All-India take more than $3,000,000,000 addi- | Congress “which purports to speak tional from individuals and an equal | for at least half of India's teeming amount from corporations. Those | millions stubbornly shuts its eyes to two proposals formed the basis for | the imminence of invasion.” Mr. Morgenthau'’s program presented | This means, the newspaper added, to Congress March 3. that “such help as we may get from Ways and Means Chairman [0dia will be entirely individual and Doughton has expressed preference | Pasmodic.” for a manufacturers sales tax, if |, “OW Weakenss in these vital stra- any such levy were to be made. But tegic areas has been demonstrated witnesses have testified that such|DY the tragic events of the past few a form would lead to endless pyra- | Xeeks.” the newspaper added miding of the tax, with the ultimate & consumer price much higher than the amount first imposed. Pleasant car, 6:30 p.m., April &; contains Collection Difficult. Luzier's_cosmetics. Reward. CO. 9120 Others have argued that a refail ]BILV‘JPH‘J containing mo’ne'v driver's | sales tax, such as a majority of wit- | reward oS U Bemnce nesses testifying on that subject 0. HERE IS JAPANESE AIR PICTURE OF PEARL HARBOR ATTACK—This picture, sent by radio from Moscow to New York, is described as having been made from a Japanese plane during the December 7 attack on Pearl Harbor. A column of white water (white arrow), evidently from an explosion, rises near a long row of large warships on the far side of Ford Island, which lies across the center of were described by the Japanese as (left to right) two United States cruisers, one of which is smoking; then the U. 8. 8. Utah, described as lying on her side; then a “special aircraft carrier,” smoking from a hit claimed by the Japanese. Smaller ships in narrow channel to left of island are described as United States destroyers. Mountains show in background. Japs claimed “rows of American planes” were the A, W. V. S. A former dean of | the picture. A tiny image of a plane (circle), described as a bomber, sails above visible on foreground of island (black arrow). Picture passed by Russian and women at the University of Connec- | the island. Four other warships lie close to Ford Island at left center. These United States censors. —A. P. Wirephoto. ticut, Mrs. Hendrickson is the wife ~ of an Agricultural Adjustment Agency economist. Details of the arrangement with the United States Employment Service to pass on names of volun- teers will be announced next week, Mrs. Hendrickson said. Disclosure of the plan was made by Mrs. Strong in the March report on the Land Army. Also contained in the report is the expansion of the Army beyond the status of a “women’s land army.” Boys and girls over 14 years of age, as well as women, who wish to help on farms or in canning fac- tories will be registered. Plan to Extend Training. “The A. W. V. S.” declared Mrs. Strong. “believes that realization of the 1942 food production program requires making available as effi- 1 . g;\:r l;;f u?ninm{‘syd:(?rfu pul‘he‘fi cient type of farm worker as is pos- 3 g 3 ! 4 o i grave dissensions might arise in slble under femisting ciounsanses the Indian Army, with its long | constitutional changes of the most SCENAUZER- ay named complicated kind. Every effort will be made to extend | # training as far as possible.” K » 4 ‘éx.:gmm of allegiance to the : The A. W. V. S. wants women and | Or ke focal s stia Dictatorship Seen. boys who will work part time at n (less| lormal, e, they d‘::;ebwm .‘2:::;‘1 h:"}):r ?,:,’:‘. prevailing wages oc full s 1fnr ay that if Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, ‘u clrgux:):tg:ces theu nomina{ed least a month with ht')_uslng n s:- o Hindii, had been iiade Defens n%‘ Founstances it netuinated pervised homes. It will nllso take | MGt iggectod AR cal T,Y&:u d,csp‘l,d ible to no| office workers, who are willing to negotiations, the Moslems, who | D¢ bu andecukiniod % “Texas. ° Telephone TR. 4408, 120 work in late afternoons, week ends make up the bulk of the natives | M°Ved: he said. This would mean wRIST wATCH lady's. whiie '"’“ Buloy, and on ““dmm “mdu?é ;M:;d in the British Army, would resent ;; ‘::‘:L‘:;‘wdo‘sx‘;";sf‘e‘;egfe;h;vm:fi | Mrs. Bogan. National 114 :"a,"'"“,e ;Br S St the appointment to & dangerous |y inorities in India, since it would | :exk‘zf;rn NJC.’?M B ave H-‘nmd“;flvr:n . subject them to a permanent and | B ard. _ Lincoln | Older women will be registered for | T 3 eanning factory employment, and as ,nf‘h"" e P'}‘“d[:"g::' . | autocratic majority in the cabinet. chaperones of camps of young peo- | e Congress' lengthy ment |~ Nor would it be consistent with | declared the essential and funda- . S ple. The A. W. V S. also needs land | mental prerequisite for ption | the pledges llreand() t:iverr:)"c); th: army workers who can study hous- | sty British governme; P ing possibilities, who can cook and of responsibility by the Indian peo- | i rities, he added aotse meals to ila workers in camps, | Ple is & realization as a fact that| "o “Moslem League resolution and do army office work. they are free and are in charge said that though the British gov- — maintaining and defending me‘rwemmem's proposals implied recog- Chicago Plans Exposifion freedom. nition of “Pakistan” (the Moslem 0f Allied War Weapons “What is most wanted is the en- |, incinle of autonomy) by providing By the Associated Press. LOST. BAG. brown _alligator, small. on Mt meant Azad believed he could not rally the Indian people. Sir Stafford also told Azad that until such time as the Indian people | have framed their new constitution | the British government must con- | tinue to carry out its “duties to those large sections of the Indian people to whom it had given its pledges.” (London observers said the nominal reason for failure of the mission was the insistance of the All-India Congress on an Indian Minister of defense with full powers. (They said the British could not agree to that with the pres- ent prospect of fighting Japan in India itself. One British objec- tion was said to be that if an In- |Jap General Appointed TOKIO, April 11 (#) —Imperial headquarters today announced the appointment of 53-year-old Lt. Gen. Marquis Toshinari Maeda, former head of the War College, as com- | . mander in chief of all Japanese S armed forces in North Borneo. to Bucknell University. SCOTTIE—Male: tag: last seen Rl Md. Ut 094 ainier. 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AT, 714 Presens factlities “mited to that clus only_ This picture, sent by radio from Moscow to New York, is Army nor Navy has any record of a “Taylor Airdrome” in the thusiastic response of the people, t of two or more which cannot be evoked without the fg;e;::;ihz‘:& :’he League Com- | fullest trust in them and the devolu- | migtee had no alternative in view of ton of respons bty (PO them I0 | the rigid British attitude. the matter of defense. | CHICAGO, April 11. — Chicago | The league also noted that the told the world today its plans for a United Nations war exposition. Mayor Edward J. Kelly, honorary chairman, said the exposition, ten- tatively set to open June 6, would be the first of its kind in the world, a morale-building, educational spec- tacle permitting the public to see, | feel and watch in action guns, tanks, | planes, air raid and civilian defense | equipment. Charles F. Glore, chairman, said, *“This thing is growing every day; we don't know really how the ex- position will run, and we’ll probably send it elsewhere around the coun- try eventually.” Hal Halperin, vice president, said the exposition hoped to get for dis- play a captured two-man Japanese submarine, the plane in which Ru- dolph Hess flew from Germany to Scotland, a captured German Mes- serschmitt plane, a captured Italian tank from Libya and other war materials. James W. Pope is now in London | working with representatives oh Britain and conquered European na- tions in exile for the dispatch of exhibits to Chicago. Col. Holdridge Host At Fort Washington Col. H. C. Holdridge, commandant of the Adjutant General's School at Fort Washington, was host last night at a reception and dance for 300 officer students and 200 addi- tional guests in the officers’ mess hall at the school. The present | class is the 11th to be in training at Fort Washington. Col. Holdridge was presented with a water color drawing of the school insignia by his staff and faculty. The Bolling Field Orchestra pro- vided music for’dancing. Part of the guests were taken to and from | the recepuon by excursion steamer. U.S. Flyer and British Cadet Die in Air Crash By *pr Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 11.— Lt. William S. Mudd, jr., 23, of Bir- mingham, Ala., and British Cadet Frederick Nash, 25, were killed yes- terday as their Gunter Field training plane crashed 3 miles southeast of here. Cause of the accident was unde- termined. Lt. Mudd was the son of William 8. Mudd, sr., president of the Tusca- loosa News, the Gadsden Times, and the Rome, Ga., News-Tribune. Cadet Nash was a former member of the London metropolitan police and his home address was listed as described by Japanese sources as a view taken from a Japanese plane of burning “Taylor Airdrome.” Neither the United States ‘Western Pacific war zone. United States censors. REPULSE AND WALES IN LOSING FIGHT FOR LIFE—This picture, radioed from Moscow to New York, is described as having been made by a Jap flyer during the December 10 air attack which sank the British capital ships Repulse (left) and Prince of Wales (right). photo shows latter burning while bombs fall at her stern. Photo indicates both ships traveling fast, Repulse making sharp turn. Japs said Repulse was heeled on her side—A. P. Wirephoto. Japs said the _— children, citizens of Axis nations 250 AXIS Women Yourhs\who were taken into custody in ‘Pannma, to Dallas yesterday, and Are Interned Near Dallas | Fanams, to Dallas vesterday, and By ihe Associated Press. rP'edernl Women's Reformatory at| DALLAS. Tex.. April 11.—A spe- | nearby Seagoville. Dover, Kent, England. cial train brought 250 women and| The institution—a new, $1,500,000 group of nearly 20 buildings on an 830-acre ‘tract—has been turned over the the exclusive use of in- terned women and children. All | former occupants of the institution were removed several days ago. Picture was passed by Russian and —A. P. Wirephoto. India (Continued From First Page.) ford said that “we are agreeable to postponing the entire issue so that the largest possible measure of unity might be achieved in the present crisis for India’s defense.” The formal announcements that the negotiations had broken down | came exactly one month after Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons that the British war cabinet had agreed on a plan for India and that Sir Stafford, a| member of the cabinet and friend of | India’s millions, would go to India. The British plan originally pro- vided for dominion status after the war, but stipulated that India’s de- fense now must remain in British hands. When the All-India Con- gress objected, the British offered as a concession to create an Indian defense minister, with the British- commander in chief in India to re- tain complete control in strategic and operational spheres. Concession Criticized. The British were said to be willing to transfer to the Indian defense minister defense co-ordination, non- technical military schools and rais- ing of the home guard. In its statement to Sir Stafford the Congress Working Committee declared the removal of defense from the sphere of Indian responsi- bility (presumably referring to the retention by the British commander of final control in the strategic and operational spheres) reduces that responsibility to a farce and nullity and makes it perfectly clear that India is not going to be free anyway and her government would not func- tion as a free and independent gov- ernment. Sir Stafford, replying to Azad, said the Indian defense minister would be offered all functions apart from those actually connected with the army, navy and air headqua: which are under Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell as head of the fighting forces. Sir Stafford was reported to have said that Indian representatives on the Viceroy's Council were offered the following portforlios: Home, communications, finance, including war finance; supply, information, broadcasting, civil defense, legisia- tive, labor and defense departments, which would include the administra- tion of Indian personnel. The special emissary added that nothing further could be done by way of awarding responsibility for defense services without jeopardizing India’s immediate defense. Sir Stafford said Azad’s refusal | provincial agencies are lacking in “It is only thus that even in this | | proposals embodying fundamentals grave eleventh hour it may be Pos- | yere not open to modification and sible to galvanize the people of India to rise to the height of the occasion. therefore no alternative proposals | were invited. In the British offer, states or prov- 5 | 1t is manifest that the present |y ceq which did not accede to the government of India as well as its | competence and are incapable of shouldering the burden of India’s defense. “It is only the people of India through their popular representa- tives who may shoulder this burden worthily, but that can only be done by the present freedom and full re- sponsibility being cast upon them.” Would Accept Limitations. Azad, in a letter to Sir Stafford dated April 10 elucidating the Con- gress Committee’s resolution refer- ring to the defense issue, said the national government would have made it clear that the commander in chief of India would have control of the armed forces and would conduct operations and other matters con- nected with them. Abad wrote that in order to reach a settlement the Congress was pre- pared to accept certain limitations on the normal part of the defense minister. “We have no desire to upset ih the middle of the war the present military organization or arrange- ments,” he said. Sir Stafford, in his reply to Azad. emphasized that the acceptance of a suggestion by Azad for a change in the constitution, niade for the first time yesterday, and formation of & national government which must be a cabinet government with full pow- e__rs_. would not be possible without LISTEN TO BOB HOPE MICKEY ROONEY Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne Lorette Young & other stors WHNAL 9 TO 10 P.M. 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