Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1942, Page 8

A—6 %% Unifed Nations to Hold Conference at Otfawa To Push Air Training More Pilot Schools And Closer Co-ordination Are Among Goals By JOHN C. HENRY Indicating ever-increasing in- tensification of the air fighting program of the United Nations. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King of Canada announced jointly to- day that a conference on expan- sion of the training program will be held In Ottawa early next month All the governments now partie- pating in training programs in Can- Ada or the United States will be | invited to participate, the joint statement said ‘The purpose of the meeting," it was explained, “lies along the lines of further united military efforts The meeting in Ottawa would ex- tend the air programs to take in the training of personnel to operate the military aircraft to the end that the most effective use will be made of all resources of personnel.” Press Conference Canceled. The announcement was released simultaneously at the White House and in Ottawa at 10:30 o'clock. The President’s customary Priday morn- Ing press conference at that hour was canceled Plans for the conference, the Matement continued, “developed out of the recognition of the desirability of more closely co-ordinating the | British Commonwealth tincluding | Britain, Canada, Australia and New | Zealand) Air Training Plan with | the greatly-extended air training | program undertaken by the United States and other of the United Nations. In addition, this would include China, Norway, the Nether- lands, and several others which are already at war with the Axis"” Canadian, British, Chinese and | South American military pilots al- ready are receiving training at American schooling centers. The Canadian program is even more in- ternational in character, with prac- tically every one of the subjugated European countries represented in various Dominion centers. Production Progress Noted. Today's announcement made note | of the fact that “great progress already has been made in pooling the production end of the air war. The War Department explained that no celling has been set on the extent of pilot training facilities which may be created. New train- ing schools, extension of existing | ones and mass production of train- ing planes are proceeding at top speed with the program further ex- pedited by extensive decentraliza- tion | All elementary training is now | being conducted by eontract and under strict Army supervision at | civilian flying schools. Advanced | training is given at Army centers | with specialization in bombing, fighter operations, ground work, etc., being decentralized, Censors anfihioves Hamper Colonel's Book Between censors and thieves, Col Don G. Shingler, former assistant engineering commissioner of the District is having a hard time pre- serving information for his future book on transportation in the Middle East, where he is serving His wife, Mrs. Beatrice Shingler 3433 Wisconsin avenue N.W._, is sav- ing all his letters. She received one the other day that had part of it cut out by censors. Recently she went visiting in the 2200 block of Cathedral avenue N.W with the letter in her pocketbook. | While she and her hosts were in | another part of the house, someone stole the pocketbook from a draw- | ing room table, which was near the unlocked front door The purse contained a $100 dia- mond ring and other valuable pa- pers. but it's the letter Mrs. Shingler wants and shell pay a reward for any information ieading to its re- covery, Dr. Burnett C. Johnson, Veterinarian, Is Dead Dr. Burnett ¢. Johnson, 48, senior veterinarian with the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Agriculture Department, died Monday in St. Joseph, Mo, it was learned here Puneral services were held there Yesterday Dr. Johnson, & native of Minne- sota, started out in 1910 as a mes- senger with the department. He at- tend George Washington Univer- sity and at various times was sta- tioned as superintendent in charge of bureau offices at St. Paul, Mil- waukee, Fargo, N. Dak, and St Joseph He is survived by his widow, Mrs Theresa G. Johnson: a son, Neil: a Miss Florence Mae John- his father, Don C. Johnson of this city: a brother, Claude G three Miss Florence John- son and Lora Burrows, all of Washin and Mrs. Minnie Ken- nedy. Huntington, W Va Robert J. McCarthy Joins Army Air Corps Robert J. McCarthy, director svimming pools operated in the Dis- trict by the Welfare and Rec- reational Association, reported for Army Air Corps duty today Mr McC: hy a graduate of the George Washington University Medical School, has resided here for 12 years. S parture brings to 60 the number of association em- ployes who have joined the armed forces in recent months, these in- cluding Raymond D. Lewis, deputy general manager sisters Mrs Seaman Greets Friend; Sends Him to Hospital By ‘be Associated Press BUFFALO. N. Y ——Seaman Charles Pitzgerald of Buffalo hadnt seen Mis friend. Seaman Oscar Hartwig of Rochester, N. Y., for more than five years until they met at a down- town street corner They greeted each other with a hearty handshake—so hearty in fact that Seaman Hartwig had to go to Emergency Hospital to have four stitches taken in his index finger when an old wound was opened ' MAJ. GEN. E. P. KING, Jr. MAJ. GE PARK BRIG. GEN. W BROUGHER E BELIEVED HELD BY JAPS—Th BRIG. GEN. J. R. WEAVER THE EVENING N.G. M. ER, Jr. BRIG. GEN_A. G. McBRIDE, MAJ. GEN JONES. A N ese officers were reported among the 16 American and Filipino generals captured in the fall of Bataan April 9. Text of Stimson Statement Secretary Says Army Nears Stage Of Being Ready to By the Associnted Press. The text of Secretary of War Stimson's statement on strategy and progress in the war, which was issued at his press conference today, fol- lows You will remember that I told you right after the attack on Pearl Harbor that a dictator could always get the jump on a democracy in the first stages of a war. 1 think I even told you then that things would probably get worse before they got better. But I told you at the same time that in the latter stages of the war, when the strain began to be felt by all parties, a democracy could be counted on to show greater strength than an au- tocracy and would pull down its enemy by sheer endurance and unbreakable morale. 1 also told you some months ago that the only way we could finish this war would be by tak- ing the offensive and bringing the war home to our enemies, and that I was in favor of doing it as soon as we could 1 have no doubt that a good many of you have been troubled by the length of time it seemed to take before the United States could assume the initiative in this war, Planning for Offensive. But I want to say to you today that T am now more than ever convinced of the soundness of the propositions which I stated to you in these matters, and I am now more than ever eohvinced that we are going to get on the offensive and to do:so at the earliest practicable moment. Although many of us saw it coming, this war when it did come actually caught the most of our people by surprise. Neither their minds nor their spirits were ready for ils onset and in a great peaceful democracy there are lots of things that have to be done before the country is ready for war, particularly an offensive war When the blow first struck us, the first thing we had to do was to make certain key. defenses safe. And in a country as large as the United States that was a sizable job. I remember that I told you once here in this room that immediately after the blow at Pearl Harbor the Army had to move some 600,000 men around this continent in our effort to plug up the holes in our defenses and to strengthen them against another surprise blow Before we can lead this Nation into a long-sustained offensive we must be as sure as possible that cer- tain key points in our armor are as safe as possible. We must make sure that our resources and manufacturies are protected against any interruption which would hold up or damage our offensive. And when it is a world war with powerful enemies attacking us all around the globe our key points of defense run far out into distant quarters of the world where one friendly nation i¢ holding a post that is vital to That is what we have been trving to do during these difficult months and the task is not yet finished Morale Called High. But I think I can tell vou to- day that to me in my lookout. post in the War Department things are beginning to move and to move in the right direction 1 have great confidence in the growing morale of our people and 1 have overwhelming confidence in the morale of our young men in our armies. Before we got into the war. doubting Thomases used to question the morale of our boys, Those boys were just be- ginning their military lessons and experiencing the novelty and dis- Take Offensive | comforts of a soldier's life. Peo- ple used to talk about the low morale of our troops. 1 think I told vou then that as soon as our troops got further on in their training and better equipped with their weapons and particularly if we got into war and they realized the responsibility which rested on them, there would no longer be any question of their morale. 1 think that no one of you who comes in contact with our grow- ing armies today will raise that question with me at present. Whether our men are in far off and difficult and dangerous out- posts or whether they are strain- ing to get themselves fit for battle on the training grounds at home, their morale has become superb. It must be, if they are to ac- complish the many tasks which are before them. I have no doubt of heir stanchness for they are free men, and I think that by now they know they are fighting for thelr freedom I think T can assure you now that so far as the Army is con-' cerned we are getting pretty near to the stage of being ready for an offensive, however difficult it may be Nazi | (Continued From First Page.) | Cincinnati, where she was born Viola | Heise, daughter of a Sellersburg, (Ind.) grocer. She has made fre- quent trips to Germany in recent | years and on her return has spoken | | several times before women's organ- fzations on Hitler's Germany. Bodenschatz until several weeks | ago was head of a leather welt firm | here. After his indictment he sold out his interest in the concern. At the time he said he was liquidating | his assets to pay his lawyers. | The couple was married in 1919 | and at first ved in a modest apart- ment house here. Later as his leather business prospered the cou- ple moved to an exclusive apart- ment. " Came to United States at 20. Bodenschatz came to this country at the age of 20. He is a native of Renau, Bavaria. He first work in a leather shop at Morris, | T1L, near Chicago. He filed declara- tion of intention to become a United | States citizen in 1912, but did not | take the oath of allegiance until | 1921. During World War 1 he was registered as an alien agent | Indicted at the same time as the Bodenschatzs was Mrs. Margarete Gaertner, reported to be prominent in the Nazi Propaganda Ministry of Joseph Goebbels, and a frequent visitor here with the local couple. Mrs. Gaertner is said to be living in Germany now. The indictment. further identified Mrs. Gaertner as the New York consignee to whom a considerable portion of local print order for several thousand brochures published under the name of Mrs Bodenschatz was expressed ™ At the time of their arraignment the couple pleaded innocent to the Federal charges. Bodenschatz post- ed bond with a certified check for $10.000 at that time. Broadcast to Recount Darden Rescue in War Bv ihe Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va.. April 17.—Based on authentic service records and ar- ranged by the United States Marine Corps, the story of the rescue of a young Marine flyer from a burning plane overseas in the World War by & marine sergeant will be recounted in the broadcast of “The Saga of Sergt. McGraw,” over Station WRVA Richmond. at 2:15 p.m. Sunday The fiyer was Colgate W. Darden now Governor of Virginia—and rescuer was Sergt. John Me- ir the Graw Survivors of U. S. Vessel Watch Sub Shells Sink B the Associa COCOA. Fla of & torpedoed United States vessel vesterday told of sitting boat and watching one or two Axis submarines sink a neutral Swedish merchantman with deck guns Twenty-seven survivors landed along the coast from the small American freighter, with one known dead and four missing. Sevenieen landed from the Swedish ship, leav- ing nine unaccounted for. Announce- ment of the sinkings was made by naval authorities last night Torpedo Hits U. S. sShip. ¥ A single torpedo was sent without warning into the American ship last Sunday night. The crew took to lifeboats. Less than three hours later, Chief Engineer Thomas Mc- Carthy of New York said a form loomed out of the darkness, a glim- mer of light showing where a sea hatch evidently had not been fully closed The ship swept by, nearly running ) April tvors in a life- Swedish Ship down the lifeboat. whose occupants were afraid to hail her because she might open fire Suddenly a gun flashed. a shell whistled and exploded against the Swedish ship. A second submarine joined the shelling. Mr. McCarthy said, and together they pounded the vessel Forty-five Shells Fired We rowed as hard as we could to get out of the line of fire,” he declared Some of the Swedish ship's crew said two submarines took part in the shelling, but others believed only one undersea craft made the attack. using two guns® Arne Larsen, 21, a crewman on the Swedish ship, estimated about 45 shells were fired at the vessel Among the missing is Capt. Vidar Wickberg of Sweden. Capt. Albert Eriksson of Brooklyn, master of the American ship, said the lifeboat he was in picked up the | body of Lars Drange of New York, | a fireman on lhe“n"?d States ship. found | STAR, Counsel for Ewing Cross-Examines Confessed Perjurer Witness Says He Prefers To Remain in "Protec Custody’ of Lt. Shimon Justice James W. Morris today | continued the hearing in District Court st which Raymond Hager and Kenneth H. Miller of Hunting- | ton, W. Va. admitted they lied when | they previously testified they knew | that Robert Payne, R. F. C. employe | and star Government witness at| the Ewing criminal assault trial, | was attempting to “frame” the de- fendant | Defense Counsel James J. Laugh- lin, who has come into the case since the conviction of Orman W. Ewing. former Democratic committeeman of Utah, cross-examined Milier to- day Miller admitted he had not told the truth when he testified at the hearing on a motion for a new trial for Ewing and when he made his | first aMdavit before prior counsel for Ewing Miller explained that he spent Wednesday night in the office of Lt. Joseph W. Shimon, chief investi- gator for the District attorney Miller said he preferred to remain in the custody of the District at- torney, and made it clear that he was not under arrest and that mem- bers of Lt. Shimon's staff told him he “could go about his business” if he wanted to. Miller said he stayed last night in nearby Maryland at the home of one of Lt. Shimon's aides. He said he did this because he did not want to discuss the case with any one Before leaving the witness stand last night, Justice Morris cautioned Miller not to discuss the case with any one One of the main points Ewing re- lied on for a new trial was the previous testimony of Hager and Miller. Justice Morris lnnounc!d‘ from the bench yesterday that he has not yet decided what he will do with the two witnesses who perjured themselves. Miller and Hager previously testi- fled that Mr. Payne approached | them in a cafe here last Oc-| tober and proposed that each could get $100 if they would be wit- nesses, while his girl friend en- ticed an “old goat"—later identified | as Ewing—into her room to com- promise him. Mrs. Maude R. Manson Funeral Tomorrow Mrs. Maude R. Manson, 80. widow of Joseph O. Manson, who died Wednesday at her home, 4461 Green- wich Parkway N.W, will be buried tomorrow in Cedar Hill Cemetery, ' - following services at 10:30 am. at Hysong's chapel, Thirteenth and N streets NW. The Rev. Dr. F. E. Warren, pastor, St. Patrick’s Episco- | pal Chapel, will officiate Mr. Manson, who died in 1926, was for many years assistant cashier of the Treasury and later was ad- vanced to the position of executive assistant to the treasurer. Mrs. Manson, born in Newark, N. Y. came to this city with her parents when she was 13 years old and was employed as a clerk in the Treasury before her marriage. She is survived by three sons, Earle W, Philip R. and Charles G Manson, all of Washington; a daughter, Mrs. J. Homer Winkler of Cleveland; two sisters, Mrs. Flor- ence R. Abrams of this city and Mrs. Rosemond K. Furmin of Torrington, Conn,, amd an aunt, Mrs. Frances R. Kelcher of Washington. | 300 Europeans Rep;orted Dying on Indies Island B the Associated Press. | MELBOURNE, April 17.—Aneta, | Netherlands news service, reported today that two Dutch women who reached here from the East Indies said 300 Europeans were dying amid appalling conditions of dysentry and fever in a concentration camp on | the Japanese-captured island of | Ambon, site of a destroyed Dutch | naval base WASHINGTON, D. FRIDAY, Lt. McHale in Capital; Awarded Wings by Army Lt. Richard ¥. McHale, son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. McHale of 1418 Monroe street NW., who won his Army Air Corps Commission on graduating from a fiving school in Denver, Colo, a few days ago, ar- rived in Washington today for a APRIL 7, 1982, Roger |. Manning Dies; Prince Georges Educator Roger 1. Manning, 79. Prince Georges County educator for 42 vears, died early today in Garfield Hospital after a short illness. He had been living in retirement Accokeek for a number of years Mr. Manning was a native and lifelong resident of the county. He was educated there and in Wash- ington. During his long career he served as principal of the Laurel in | and Brandywine High Schools LT. RICHARD F. McHALE. visit with his parents before con- tinuing to his station at Tampa, Fla A baseball and basketball letter- | man at the University of Mary- land, Lt. McHale has just completed the course at the Aviation Train- ing School at Lowry Field in Den- ver. He was the only Washing- tonian in his graduation class His brother, John T. McHale, jr is also serving In the Army Air Corps at Biloxi, Miss. 41 Race Horses Rescued In Narragansett Fire By (ke Associated Press. PAWTUCKET, R. 1 Fort; new April 17— ne race horses were rescued at Narragansett Park race | track when fire of undetermined or- igin destroyed a barn. Officials esti- mated the loss at $10,000. Horsemen were near the barn when the flames broke out and quickly released horses which were trained by F. Preece, W. H. Hart- man, M. Simmons and A. J. Haw- | thorne | Penobscot, one of the horses in a second barn, ran away when re- | leased. He was not located an hour after the flames were subdued, and | was scratched from today’s card. ; Lru;orr (Continued From PFirst Page.) tions to make any contract, or to “engage in any combination or con- spiracy, in restraint of commerce,” by: 1. Jurisdictional work stoppages in a plant where one union already has been designated exclusive bar- gaining agent under the National Labor Relations Act. 2. Requiring employers to make a secret payment to any officer or agent of a labor organization. 3. Requiring any employer to im-| pose “unreasonable” restrictions or conditions upon the use of any ma- terisf machines or equipment. Price-Fixing Combinations. 4. Joining or combining with any employer or any non-labor lroupI to fix prices, allocate customers, re- strict production, eliminate compet- ing employers, attempt to monopo- lize any part of trade or commerce or to restrain competition. 5. Induce any employer fo hire | any person “when such person is in fact in excess of the number ofj persons reasonably required to per- form the work in which the em- ployer is engaged.” i Assistant Attorney General Thur- | man Arnold, in charge of anti-trust prosecutions, recently told the Ju-‘ diciary Committee that business. the farmer and the consumer all| were “at the mercy” of unions, and | that organized labor was “destroy- ing” small business THE HECHT CO. expresses its deep sympathy to THE WASHINGTON STAR and to the fam NEWBOLD ily of the late NOYES whose untimely passing represents a distinet loss to our community. He was a member of Christ ® & k& RIGHT | Church, Accokeek, and was active in Episcopal diocesan affairs Mr. Manning was interested in all county events and for some time was a correspondent for The Star He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Carroll Stansbury E Jones and Mrs. Elllott Owings all of the Washington area, and three sons, Roger, of Homersville Mo Lee. of Philadelphia, and Compton of Washington The widow of another son, John R. Man- ning. also lives in Washington Puneral ‘arrangements been completed today. A bond a day keeps the bombe away. Buy bonds. DRESS J SEASONS OUT OF 4! Wonder GABARDINES $29.50 $32.50 You can't beat gabardine for all-around service! And you can't beat those famous Wonder ALL WOOL gabardines for wear or appearance. Come on down to Wonder Clothes and see for yourself. Take a look at those smooth, well-tailored lines. Try one on. Get that easy-fitting, airy freedom! No foolin’, Wonder gabardines are tops! TWO EASY WAYS TO PAY! *10 D-1-V-1-D B *OR PAY ONLY ' -E-D PAYMENTS MONTHLY Mrs. Roland | had not Defense stamps and | High School Debaters To Meet Tomorrow The George Washington Univer- annual high school debate tournament, with awards of three full-tuition scholar- the winning team, sity's ninth one-year ships going to be held tomorrow in the Hall of Government, starting at 9:15 am In the previous eight years Wester High School has won six times The debate subject is: “Resolved That every able-bodied male citizen of the United States be required to have one vear of full-time military training before attaining the present draft age *x % | 3