Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1942, Page 1

Weather Continueq warm T Report today and tonight, with gentle winds. Temperatures today—Highest, 78, at 3:45 Pam.; lowest, 54, at.6 a.m. From the Unitea Suaves Weatner Bureau Report. Full Details on Page A-18. Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, 90th YEAR. No. 35,955. WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1942—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. X SENATE VOTES 5 PCT. VICTORY IN and K WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Star 21 Hurt as Buses Crash at Sixteenth Driver Blames Brake Failure For Accident Interstate Vehicle Rams Capital Transit Machine Head-On Two buses crashed head-on shortly after 1 o'clock this after- noon on K street N.W., near Six- teenth street, and more than a score of passengers were re- moved to District hospitals. First reports set the number of injured at 21 and hospital attaches said none was critically hurt. There ‘were approximately 40 pasengers on the two vehicles. Involved in the accident was an interstate Trallways bus and a Capital Transit city bus. The Trail- ways bus was bound west on K street, while the Capital Transit bus had just completed a left turn from Sixteenth into K street. A passenger car crashed into the rear of the Capital Transit bus, but police had little information on the extent of the damage to this car. ‘The automobile driver's name was given as Joseph B. Latimer, 1829 Sixteenth street N.-W. The driver of the Trailways bus, whose name was given as Harry Edward Dwyer, 29, 45 M street N.W., said his brakes had failed. Pulled From Behind Cars. He was approaching Sixteenth street and came up behind a line of automobiles, waiting at the red light on Sixteenth, he said. When he applied his brakes they failed to catch and—rather than pile into the automobiles from behind—he swung out of the line of traffic oh to the other side of the street, the driver related. At that moment the Capital Tran- sit bus swung into K street from Sixteenth and the two vehicles rammed together. The front ends of both buses were badly damaged. The Capital Transit driver was identified as Coleman H. Dameron, 42, 615 Franklin street N.E. He suf-| fered” injuries, not believed serious. Mr. Dwyer told police he had| States Court of Appeals ordered the | stopped his bus suddenly just a|execution postponed until Chief Jus- | block from the scene of the crash when an automobile cut him off. He had shifted gears and had just got- ten into high gear—proceeding at a low rate of speed—when he started | said a plea for a stay of execution | to apply his brakes again for the for Robinson was filed about noon | stop between Fifteenth and Six- and that it was immediately dis-| teenth streets. Driver for 14 Years. Police charged Mr. Dwyer with driving on the wrong side of the street. He had been driving a bus for four months, but said he had 14 years' experience driving automo- biles. The other driver told police he had just made his turn with the green arrow when he came face to face with the Trailways bus. He applied his brakes and yelled “Hold on” to his passengers. He had five years' experience as a bus driver with Capital Transit. According to James M. Day, Cen- treville, Va. a passenger on the ‘Trallways bus, the driver of that ve- hicle tried to apply his emergency brake, but it did not take effect either. “When the emergency failed.” Mr. Day said, “the driver said ‘uh-oh’ and then we hit the other bus.” All avallable ambulances and Rescue Squads were rushed to the scene of the accident. Injured were removed to Emergency, Casualty and Doctors’ Hospitals. Crowd Gathers Quickly. Hundreds of persons from the lunch-hour crowd in the business district were attracted to the scene and police reinforcements were summoned to handle the situation. The facilities of Emergency Hos- pital were strained by the arrival of the injured there. Doctors on duty in all parts of the hospital were sum- moned to the emergency room. Tel- ephone calls from hundreds of per- sons came in, seeking the identity of the injured. Ambulances were running from the accident scene to the hospitals and returning for more of the injured. One of the new stretcher-equipped police squad cars was pressed into service. The Trailways bus a:a]stlzo&nd {or Cul] r, Va., and had lei e sta- tlonp:?e'rwemh street and New York avenue at 1 pm. The Capital Tran- sit bus was an S-2, bound for Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue N.W. There were said to be 19 pas- serigers on the local bus and about 20 on the interstate bus. Two passengers were taken to Doctors’ Hospital. They were listed as Miss Margaret Bullard, 53, of (See CRASH, Page 2-X.) Canada Will Shackle 1,376 Nazis Tomorrow (Earlier Story on Page A-2) By the Associated Press. TORONTO, Oct. 9.—The Daily Star said in an Oftawa dispatch today. that plans were being com- pleted for the shackling tomorrow of 107 German officers and ' 1,269 men among Nazl prisoners of war in Canada to retaliate against action by the Germans in fettering a simi- Jar number of prisoners taken at m”‘ will be done if the Nazis £ail to remove the fetters from Ca- and British prisoners before noon tomorrow,” the Star said. World Series Hero Gefs Job With Stafe By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn,, Oct. 9.—Gov. Prentice Cooper announced today the appointment of Johnny Beazley, the St. Louis Cardinal’s pitching | hero for the World Series, as a field |nfan in the Tennessee Department of Education. Beazley, 23-year-old Nashville boy, will travel throughout the State, aid- ing physical education and -health programs in the schools. He will assume his new duties about Novem- ber 1. “Young Beazley seems ideally fitted for the job I have in mind,” the Governor said. “I have tolfi him of its duties and he has accepted the position.” Beazley denied reports he planned to join the marines following the { World Series. “I think they're a fine outfit, but I haven't decided yet on any branch of the service,” he declared, Robinson Executed For Assault as Stone Rejects Last Appeal Pays With Life in Chair At District Jail for Attacking Girl, 15 William Isaac Robinson, 34, colored, paid with his life in the electric chair today for criminal assault, after a last-ditch fight by his lawyers for a stay of exe- | cution had been denied by Chief Justice Stone. Robinson entered the District Jail death chamber at 1:35 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 1:48 by Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald and Dr. Martin L. Cannon, medical officer of the jail. | The execution was scheduled to occur between 10 a.m. and 2 pm, but after witnesses had gathered and early preparations had been made, it was announced by E. A. Green, superintendent of the Dis- trict Jail, that legal complications would force a delay. | Shortly befote noon the United tice Stone could rule on an & for a reprieve. Plea Sent to Justice’s Home. The Supreme .Court clerk's office ppeal patched to the home of Chief Justice | Stone at 2340 Wyoming avenue N.W. | appeal. | Robinson received spiritual solace throughout the day from the Rev. James L. Pinn, pastor of the Good 1wm Baptist Church. Mr. Green reported that the prisoner was calm and uncommunicative. Robinson was led into_the death chamber by two guards ahd quickly | strapped to the chair. He showed | no signs of emotional tension. Newspapermen Witnesses. Observing the execution from the | witness room behind a “one-way” men acting as official witnesses. | Robinson was convicted in Sep- tember, 1941, of criminally as- saulting the 15-year-old daughter (See ROBINSON, Page 2-X.) (Ford Plants’ War Output | Amazes Brazilian Envoy By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Oct. 9.—Carlos Mar- tins, Brazilian ambassador to the | United States, expressed “amaze- ment” at the magnitude of Detroit war production today following a visit to plants of the Ford Motor 0. | "I will carry back to my country- | men an inspiring message that with | Detroit automotive companies pour- | ing out war production the way they | are we can be assured that our battle | with the Axis can be successfully | concluded,” he said at a luncheon attended by a number of Ford execu- | tives including President Edsel B. | Ford. | “This is my first visit to Detroit and the Ford Motor Co. and I am ab- | solutely amazed at the magnitude of production of war goods that I have seen.” Other members of the party on its inspection tour of the Ford Rouge and Willow Run bomber plants were Gen. Amaro Bittencourt, Brazilian military attache who shortly will return to active duty in Brazil; Hugo Gouthier, secretary of the Brazilian Embassy, and D. J. Hut- chins of the Detroit regional office of the War Production Board. Roosevelt Is Silent On ‘Teen Age Draft Plan By the Associated Press, President Roosevel;, had no com- ment to offer today When asked at & press con‘erence about the pros- pests of the drafting of 18 and 19 year old youths for military service. Chairmen Reynolds and May of the Senate and House Military Committees, respectively, said they had received no War Department recommendation on legislation for drafting im:these age groups. 3 Senator Reynolds added he under- stood a - department recommenda- tion was at the: t Bureau but that he did not what it was, The Chief Justice later denied the | | glass were five District newspaper- | Sl 'BUS is the center stripe on K street. CRASH INJURES MANY—Close-up of today’s bus crash shows the Capital Transit Co. bus and the National Trailways bus head-on at Sixteenth and K streets N-W. In the foreground 600 Planes in U. S. Rai LONDON (®).—Nearly 500 the sweeps over Northern Fr: least five enemy fighters, the nounced tonight. More than 100 American other areas. (Earlier Story Late News Bulletin d on France fighter planes participated in ance today and shot down at Air Ministry News Service an- The Berlin radio broadcast a German high command claim that 16 Allied craft, including “some” Flying Fort- resses, were shot down during the morning. “The damage was small in cémparison to the number of Allied planes employed,” the German radio said. four-motored bombers—Flying Fortresses and Libergtors—struck the Lille industrial and on Page A-1) Cut in Production 0f Paper by U. §. and (Canada Predicted WPB May Issue Order In Week; Dominion Also Expected to Take Action By the Associated Press. | Parallel actions by the United States and Canadian govern- ments to curtail production of paper, including newsprint, were predicted for the near future to- day by informed Government officials. A War Production Board order | cutting the rate of United States | paper production may be issued within a week, it was said by a ‘WPB source who cannot be quoted by name. The extent of the pro- posed curtailment was not dis- | closed, but this official said he did not believe it would be “very serious” although it might be the forerunner of more extensive slashes to come, 75 Per Cent From Canada. ‘The supply of newsprint for news- papers would be &ffected primarily by the Canadian action, which officials said was expected to ac- compeny or closely follow the WPB decree, since this country obtains about 75, per cent of its present supply from the Dominion. Shortages of manpower, electric power and transportation were the principal reasons advanced for cur- tailing paper production. Cana- dian government officials have been discussing the curtallment with WPB officials for some time. The manpower shortage in the woods was described as particularly press- ing in Canada. Lists Causes of Shortage. In at least one instance, an official said, a Canadian firm producing pulp lumber estimated it needed 600 men in the woods. But was cut 150, and its pay roll frozen at that level. Also, increasing diversion of power from pulp mills to wartime industries was said to have threat- ened a shortage. To a lesser degree, a WPB official said, the same situd- tion has been developing in New England and in the Pacific North-' west. David Winton, Minneapolis ‘lum- ber man who is head of WPB's pulp and paper branch, declined to discuss the forthcoming order., The paper manufacturing indus- try is one of this country’s largest, with an annual output valued at $2,000,000,000 and a labor force esti- mated at about 300.000. Draft Clerk Sentenced On Bribery Charge By the Associated Press. 4 MILWAUKEE, Oct. 9.—Walter C. Lutz, 47, former chief clerk of a Mil- waukee.draft board, was sentenced in Federal Court today to three years in: & Federal penitentiary after he taking $50 from a prospective selectee on a promise to obtain deferment for him, 2 i b 3 ¥ had pleaded, guilty. to a charge of Gunman Roger Touhy, '3 Others Flee From |IMlinois Prison Kidnaper and Fellow Fugitives Reported in Car and Heavily Armed By the Associsted Press. JOLIET, Ill, Oct. 9.—Roger Touhy, notorfous gangster, and three other dangerous criminals | were reported to'have escaped | today over the west wall of the Stateville Penitentiary. State highway police blockaded roads througout Northern Illinois and broadcast a report that the fugitives were fleeing in a green se- dan and were “heavily armed.” The prison warden, E. H. Stubble- field, was en route from Springfield to Joliet and prison employes de- clined to discuss the break in his absence but Lt. Harold Kenny of the State highway police said he was informed that Touhy and three des- perate convicts had escaped. Touhy was serving a 99-year term for the $70,000 kidnaping of John (Jake the Barber) Factor. The kid- haping was in 1933 and he was im- prisoned in 1934 , Brig. Gen. Smedberg, [Retired, Dies at 71 Brig. Gen. Willlam R. Smedberg, jr., 71, former chief of the adminis- trative division, National Guard Bu- reau, died early today at Walter Reed Hospital. A veteran of the Spanish, Philippine and World W;ra, he retired from the Army in 1935, . Late Races Earlier Results and Entries for Tomorrow on Page 2-X. Belmont Park SIXTH RACE—Pu ® a-ra:fll-mm. class G; 2,500 A By B Porter's. E Pail Q.llc( ‘n‘lm)“‘ Waller (Mehsténs) ) 790 B40 380 12.80 gio e, 1 T 21 - PEL B rman, Gramps, Ar- Laurel SIXTH Purse. 81,200 - ances; 3- v and in: "Le ten " Vintage (Merrit) 6.80 ° 3. Solita ( - Herolls (e Camillis) Alzo ' 7an — Princs Gov: Barbars cnilds. Fa et » Rockingham Park ShE n Hawthorne 4 tests by -naval pilots, .| to the fuselage, for this reason the A woman passenger on the local bus is shown receiving first aid from two policemen. She fainted on the bus and was carried off in a stretcher. To Offici Government telephone calls, effec- | tive November 1, will have priority | over all private .phone calls, even to the point of interrupting private | | conversations which may be in prog- ress when the lines are needed, the Board of War Communications an- nounced today. The board divided the priorities into three classes. The first covers calls which require immediate com- | pletion for war purposes or to safe- guard life or.property. The second relates to messages for the national | defense and the successful conduct of the war. The third priority will deal with messages pertaining to machinery, tools or raw materials for war plants, production of essen- tial supplies, maintenance of essen- tial public services and supply or movement of food. The order provides that the tele- phone facilities of any subscriber who willfully attempts to obtain a priority for a phone call by fraud- ulently designating such messages as a priority call, or by furnishing false information to any telephone carriers for the purpose of obtain- ing a priority, shall be subject to | closure or removal from the prem- ises, i The following persons and agen- cies are designated as authorized to call for priority service: The.Presi- dent and Vice President' of the United States, cabinet officers, members of Congress, Army, Nayy, Alrcraft Warning Service, Federal, Navy Will Test Jap Zeros At Anacosfia Station The Navy announced today that & Japanese Zero fighter subishi 00 which was salvaged: after being brought down . with slight damages in the Aleutian Islands will be flown from San.Diego to the Naval Air Station at Anacostia for The Zeto's frame is a single unit and the wings are riveted solidly plane’is being flown eastward in- Harry E. Dwyer, 29, of 45 M street. N.-W. (left), the driver of ing led from the scene by police. He was taken to headquarters for questioning. Federal Phone Calls to Receive Priority Over Private Messages Civilian Subscribers Must Give Way al Conversations Nov. 1 State ' and . municipal - government departments and agencies, embas- sies, legations and' commissions of the United States, civilian defense | organizations, Red Cross, State and | home guards, essential war indus-| tries, essential services such as communications, transportation, power, water, fuel, press. associa- tions, . newspapers and health and sanitation services. the Trailways bus, is shown be= °| Series, leaves tonight for the Nor- CLOSING Washington and Bu%bs ‘NIGHT FINAL LATEST NEWS AND SPORTS THREE CENTS. Esewhere o MARKETS Streets —Star Staft Photos. Phil Rizzuto, Yankee Shortstop, Joins Navy By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 9—Phil Riz- zuto, diminutive shortstop whose play was a high light of the New York Yankees in the recent World! folk, Va., Naval Base, where tomor- row he starts training as a seaman first class. Admitting he was “a little scared” about the change from civilian life to that in the armed service, Riz- zuto took comfort h the thought he felt the same way when he first came up to the Yankees. “I wouldnt take a million for| those two years with the Yankees,” he said, Gallup Poll Shows Newspapers Spread Scrap Message Well By DR. GEORGE GALLUP,. Director, American Institute of Public Opinion. PRINCETON, N. J,, Oct. 9.—If the present national -scrap metal drive doesn’t go hurtling over the top, it won't be because the Nation’s news- papers have failed to tell the peo- ple about it. From Maine to Florida, from New York to San Francisco, the news- papers have taken the story of the scrap metal drive into the American home with such effectiveness that 94 out of any 100 persons will tell you they have read about it. This would indicate that practical- ly the entire literate population had read about the scrap drive. As part of their contribution to the scrap campaign, the newspaper members of the American Institute of Public. Opinion asked that the Gallup Poll put the following ques- tion to a cross-section of the popula- tion in every State in the Nation: “Have you read about the present drive to collect scrap metal?” The purpose of the survey was to provide newspapers with some indi- cation of the job still to be done. The results of the study completed early this week are eloquent testi- mony to the effectiveness of the free American press in its sponsorship of the scrap campaign. Here are the results of the survey: Yes (have read)—94 per cent. No (have not read)—86 per cent. While the survey by the institute discloses a splendid performance by the newspapers of the country it also reveals that there is still a big Job facing the local committees han- (See GALLUP, Page A-2.) 2,000 Chrysler Out Over Smoking Dispute By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Oct. 9 —Two thousand war workers in the Chrysler Corp. Jefferson ayenue plant here left their jobs this morning, & manage- ment spokesman said, in protest o z Jack Zeller, president of Chrysler Local T (CIO), United Automobile ‘Workers, denied tha Workers Walk the men held a meeting after. they left the plant and agreed to return to work tomorrow. He said he had asked for a meeting with corporation officials to work out an equitable smoking rule. “This strike is definite ‘sabotage against the Nation's war effort,” said a statement issued by the corpora- tion.. “Apparently these men are not interested in getting out war work but are only interested in their own personal desires without respect to rules or regulations. These 400 men were - disciplined according to the shop rules with which they are all {amiliar and given a one-day layoff. ‘When they left the plant, 2,000 other men walked out with them.” The statement said the 400 men Roosevelf Plea To Hike Old-Age Levy Rejected Legislators Keep Social Security Rate of 1 Pct. BULLETIN. By a roll-call vote of 50 to 35 the Senate this &fternoon upheld its Finance Commit- tee in freezing the social se- curity payroll tax for old-age retirement at the present rate of 1 per cent. By this vote, it turned down a plea received earlier in the day from President Roose- velt to let the rate go up to 2 per cent on January 1, as con- templated in the original So- cial Security Act. The President’s appeal was in a letter to Chairman George of the Finance Committee. The Senate’s decision was a victory for Senator Vanden- berg, Republican, of Michigan, who told the Senate that even by retaining the present 1 per cent, the tax next year would bring in as much as administration officials sev- eral years ago predicted would be raised in 1943 from a 2 per cent rate. (Earlier Story on Page A-1.) By the Associated Press. The Senate voted today to place on top of the regular in- come tax a 5 per cent “victory” levy against all earnings of in- dividuals in excess of $624 yearly. Adoption of the new wartime tax came on a voice vote after the Sen- ate had rejected a proposal by Senator Downey, Democrat, of Cali- fornia, to enlarge the basic exemp- tion to $1,200 yearly and boost the levy to 10 per cent on earnings above $2,400. Also today, President Roosevelt notified Congress that the doubling of social security taxes next January 1 would be “not only in accord with the necessities of the social securi- ity system itself, but at the same time would contribute to the non- inflationary financing of rapidly mounting war expenditures.” Opposes Freezing Pay Roll Taxes, In a letter to Chairman George of the Senate Finance Committee, the President expressed opposition to a committee approved amend- ment to the new revenue bill which would freeze pay roll taxes at their present levels of 1 per cent on em= ployers and a like amount on em- ployes for 1943. This amendment, not yet voted on by the Senate, would stay an other- wise automatic increase of the tax on January 1 to 2 per cent each on employers and employes. Formal addition of the victory levy to the new revenue bill boosted the potential yield of that measure by a disputed amount ranging from a $3,107,000,000 gross total esti- mated by the Treasury and the $3,= 600,000,000 set by the Senate Fine ance Committee, Credit Claims Allowed. The Treasury said victory tax credits to taxpayers for post-war re« bates and current debt payments would aggregate $1,169,000,000 yearly and the committee fixed this amount at $1,100,000,000. Single taxpayers could claim cred- its for 25 per cent of the amount they paid, with a limit of $500, and married persons could obtain 40 per cent credit, plus 2 per cent for each dependent. As approved by the Senate, the tax would go into effect next Jane uary 1, being withheld at the source " (See TAXES, Page 2 New York Scrap Chief Quits; Says U. S. Lags By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Park Com= missioner Robert Moses resigned to- day as chairman of the industrial division of the scrap drive in New York. He told Mayor La Guardia he had been unable to get enough co-operation from Federal officials. Mayor La Guardia commented: “When the Federal Government is ready to co-operate I am sure Mr. Moses will resume. * * * They didn't keep up his pace.” Mr. Moses said John M. Hopwood, head of the War Materials Corp., had infomed him Mr. Hopwood is “stopped in his tracks in the heavy scrap collection, is very disappointed, cannot give an authorization to pro- ceed with the contracts proposed and is not at liberty to talk.” Mr. Moses announced Monday he had submitted to the War Materials Corp. proposed contracts for re- moval of 49,330 tons of heavy scrap metal at an estimated cost of $2,- 723,000. He recommended that the corporation buy and scrap 28,000 tons of steel lining segments for the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel, now under construction. Markets at a Glance NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (#).—Stocks mixed; profit taking stems rally. Bonds irregular; some rails up, general list drifts. Cotton quiet; mill buying offsets hedge selling, CHICAGO.—Wheat lower; flour business fails to expand. Corn lower; selling .prior to crop re- port. Hogs 10-15 cents lower; top $15.65; bigger receipts. Cattle, began smoking “simultanecusly and obviously by predrrangement.” firm, heifers steady; smail % %% 2% % %N COME TAX: w w ® w 222222322222 233 3 3 2 2 20 2008 06 36 06 06 06 0 16 36 0 36 06 06 36 36 0 26 06 16 06 26 0 3 2 06 6 36 2%