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Evening star., 1940-11-01

automobile and another collided
head-on here yesterday.
The Secretary, accompanied by
two other women and her chauf-
feur, all of whom were unhurt. was
en- route to her summer home at
Newcastle. The party continued tins
journey.
Evening star., 1940-11-01

Jungles in Central America are
yielding large quantities of wild
cinchona bark, from which quinine
Is derived.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
CrossIey Poll Shows Wilkes
Strenqth Is Third ern Issue
36 of 100 Votes
Protest Breaking
Of Tradition

This is the third OF a series OF
10 articles on the election trend
by the CroSSley Poll.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
Miss Perkins Escapes
Injury in Auto Crosh

BY the Associated Press.
WOOLWICH, Me, Nov. Sec
retary of Labor Frances Perkins was
shaken up but uninjured when her
Evening star., 1940-11-01
S48,405 Gifts Reported
By Independent Voters

BY the Associated Press.
The National Committee of indie
pendent Voters reported to the
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Elliott Rules VioIators
Of Labor Act May Be
Refused Contracts
Secretary Of War Told
Defense Boord Moy
Reject Low Bids

National defense contracts may
be withheld from labor law violators
even though they quote the lowest
figure when bidding competitively,
under a decision by Acting Control
Ter General Elliott made public to-
day.
The ruling, which went to the
Secretary of War, is expected to go
far toward clarifying the Govern
ment policy on the award of defense
production contracts to firms which
are accused of violating the National
Labor Relations Act or other sta
tutes governing wages and working
conditions
The decision was in response to
a request from the Secretary of War
for a ruling on competitive bid
awards in the light of the Defense
Commission ennunciated labor
policy that work carried on as
part of the defense program should
comply with Federal statutory pro-
visions affecting labor, including the
National Labor Relations Act.
Advertising Often Preferable.
The Secretary of War said there
seemed to be no doubt that consid-
Grafton might be given to the De-
fense Commission policy where con-
tracts were negotiated without
advertising for competitive bids
under national defense legislation
However, he continued, "the ques-
ton has arisen as to whether con-
sideration may be given to these
principles in the award of contracts
when resort Is had to formal adver-
tising.
That is to say, may a low bid
received in response to a formal in
vitation for bids, which is otherwise
acceptable, be rejected because an
award to the bidder would violate
any one or all of the principles
adopted by the Advisory Commits
sion?
The co-ordinator of procurement,
Mr.. Donald Nelson. feeling that the
use of formal advertising in many
cases is preferable to negotiation,
provided that the principles enun-
ciated may be properly incorporated
in formal advertising, has recon-
mended that this question be pre-
sented to you"
Lesser Authority Included.
After quoting the defense legiSla-
ton statute on purchases, which
permits them to be made with or
without advertising, Mr. Elliott said l.:
This express authority to nego-
tiate without advertising such con-
tracts as may be deemed necessary
to carry out the purposes specified
in the section comprehends the
lesser authority to utilize advertis-
ing to the extent administratively
deemed appropriate in making con-
/ tracts. under such section without
restricting final administrative de-
termination of the bidder to whom
the contract should be awarded.
Hence, in such cases an admin
tSee CONTRACTS, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Martin Proises Johnson
As Proqressivism Leader

NEW YORK. Oct Is CP,.-Repub-
lican National Chairman Martin
said today Senator johnson Of Cali
fornia would exert a powerful in
f1uence not only in his own State.
but in every State. if he comes out
for Wendell Willkie."
Senator johnson has been a
leader for 25 years in the battle for
progressivism in this country" Mr..
Martin told press conference at
which he discussed the campaign
situation generally.
Mr.. Martin said the Republicans
had "the best organization in Cali
fornia in years" and he was receiv-
ing encouraging reports, although he
conceded that as matters stand to-
day the Republicans would have
difficulty in carrying the State.
He said he was not counting on
a break in the solid" South, but
that there were indications of an
upswing in the Southern Republican
vote.
Evening star., 1940-10-15

Plans for a special registration
station at the Capitol to accom-
modate the two members of the
Senate and IS House members who
are within the registration age are
being made today by Gen. Albert
L. Cox, director of registration In
Washington, who said he is ready
to do whatever members of Con-
gress wish"
The two Senators are Senators
Rush D. Holt and Joseph Ball,
who has just been appointed by
Gov. Stassen of Minnesota as sue
cessor to the late Senator Lundeen.
The Is House members are Repre-
sentatives Robert A. Grant, Indiana;
Robert K. Goodwin, Iowa; Carl T.
Curtis, Nebraska; Frank c. Osmers,
jr., New Jersey: Robert j. Corbett,
Pennsylvania; Albert Gore, Tennes-
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Plan 10 House Army
'Pitifu||Y Inefficient
.inkie Charges
Offers His Own 3-Point
Program to Speed Up
Quarters for Troops
(Tert Of Mr. WILKES speech at
Syracuse is on page B-S.)
BY J. A. O'LEARY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

N- >NN-
ABOARD THE WILLKIE SPE-
CIAL EN- ROUTE TO BUFFALO,
Oct. 15.-With Nation wide regis
tration for military training set fol
tomorrow, Wendell Willkie today
accused the administration of pitt
full inefficiency" in starting housing
facilities for the drafted men.
He made the charge at Rochester
this morning, following major at
tack on the third-term issue in
Syracuse last night in which he
listed outstanding Democratic states
men who stood against long con-
tinuance in the presidency. He took
occasion at Syracuse to laud James
A. Farley, former Democratic ma
tional chairman.
sharply last night at a statement
he attributed to Charles Nicholson,
director of the Democratic publicity
staff, to the effect that his five
farms in Indiana were principally
or totally bought at share sales
when the rest of the farmers were
under mortgage foreclosures from
depression
Farms Nearly Broke" Him.
This" said Mr.. Willkie, is the
great issue of the New Deal party
when democracy is at stake in the
world. l didn't buy any farm at a
share sale, but I bought them all
in time of economic depression, be-
cause I bought them while Franklin
D. Roosevelt was President of the
United States. And. may I say, l
have almost gone broke on them
since because he is still President.
Mr.. WILKES schedule called for
afternoon talks from his train at
Batavia and Niagara Falls. To-
night he will speak in Buffalo and
then will campaign tomorrow
through Ohio.
The Republican nominee told the
crowd at Rochester the Army is
right not to induct boys into the
service until they are ready to care
/ for them in a healthful manner,
but he deplored the length of time
he said it will take to meet the
housing needs. The Republican
| nominee declared:
Recent news dispatches bring the
speech from the acting director OF
/ the draft stating that there cannot
be enough housing to take care OF
our first increment of new soldiers
for five months and that it will
probably not be possible to meet the
requirements of the total of 1000
for another year. He states, there
/ fore, that no men will be inducted
into the military service until full
! facilities are available.
Say Army Is Right.
] The Army, of course. is quite
right not to induct our boys into the
Army until they are ready to take
care of them in a completely health
/ full manner.
I'VE have also known for long
time that there was a lack of the
military equipment necessary to arm
a force of 100000 men. The fact
that we are unable even to house
these men, however, is startling and
disturbing. Some delay in making
things like guns and tanks, for which
(See WILLKIE, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Draft Catches II in Congress,
But Law Exempts Them All

see; Lindley Beckworth, Texas;
Warren G. Magnuson. Washington;
Robert F. Jones, Ohio; Edwin A..
Hall, New York: Elmer J. Ryan,
Minnesota; Clyde T. Ellis, Arkansas;
Wilbur D. Mills, Arkansas; Eugene
]. Keogh, New York, and Lyndon
D. johnson, Texas.
A check is being made today to
determine how many of these reg
istrants are still in Washington.
Many members Of Congress have
left the Capital following the agree
ment for three-day recesses with no
important legislative matters sched-
uled for consideration before the
November election.
All members of Congress and of
State Legislatures will be deferred
from service automatically, as long
as they hold ONCE. They were
exempted by law.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Defense Plant Workers
To Register on Job
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EAST FARMINGDALE, N. Y,
Oct. 15.-To maintain uninter-
rupted production of military air.
craft at the Republic Aviation Corp.
plant on registration day tomorrow
l,4OO employees will merely lay down
their tools and sign up right on the
job.
In response to a War Department
request for unbroken 24-hour pro-
duction, Suffolk County authorities
have set up a special board of 60
registrars to canvass the humming
factory.
Another move to speed up plane
production was the announcement
that Republic had acquired a
training school at Jericho, N. Y, to
train 5000 mechanics for jobs in
their expanding plant. The first
class in the million-doll training
program will be enrolled October %.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Rv the Associated Press.

Rv the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Oct. l5.-The Soviet
government, through its official
news agency. declared today that it
had not received what it considered
satisfactory advance information of
Germany's plans to send troops into
Rumania.
This indication of official Russian
reaction to Germanys move through
the Balkans to the Black Sea took
a familiar form, a denial by TaSs,
the official agency, of a newspaper
dispatch.
This dispatch, to a Danish news
paper asserting that the Kremlin
was timely informed of the plan
and of ''the aims and number of
troops sent to Rumania." was de-
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Red Troops Reported Marching
Across Danube Into Rumonio;
Moscow Is Irked by Nozi Moves
Soviets Declared
To Have Modified
$4,000 on Border
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. l5.-Reuters. Brit
ish news agency, said in a dispatch
from Bucharest today that reports
received there from BeSsarabia said
Soviet Russian troops have ad-
vanced into Rumania.
(The Associated Press had no
confirmation of these reports
from other sources)
The Reuters dispatch said Soviet
troops were reported to have moved
southwark from Bessarabia and al
ready to have crossed the Chilia
mouth of the Danube. the most
northerly branch of the river. and
to be advancing as far as Sulina
on the mouth of the central arm.
THE reports suggest" the dis
patch asserted, that Russia is an
swering the German occupation of
Rumania by moves to gain control
Of the entire Danube delta"
From the Sulina area, Reuters
said, 1T seems they (the Russians)
are likely to extend their hold to
the st. George Channel'-the most
southerly arm of the river.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
How and Where
To Register

The Star and Station
WMAL present another in the
series of broadcaStS on Selec-
tive Service tonight at 10:30
o'clock.
Star staff reporters assigned
to cover every phase of the
CONSUMPTION program will tell
how and where to register.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
johnson Radio Talk
Friday 10 Oppose
Third Term
Aides Expect California
Senator to Indorse
WiIIkie Candidacy
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Office aides said today that Sen
ator johnson. Republican, of Cali
fornia, would make a Nationwide
radio broadcast at 10 pm. Friday.
in opposition to a third term for
President Roosevelt.
The California Senator. who sup
ported Mr. Roosevelt in 1882, has
told friends recently that he was
opposed to third term as matter
of principle. Senator johnson was
renominated on both the Republican
and Democratic tickets recently
after President Roosevelt had said
at a press conference that in his
estimation the Californian could no
longer be considered a liberal or
progressive.
Aides said they supposed" Sem
ator johnson would indorse Wendell
L. Willkie. the Republican presi-
Dental nominee, in the course Of
his remarks.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Special Justice Unit
Is Set Up 10 Probe
Campaign Charges
Pendereost Prosecutor
Named by Jackson
To Conduct Inquiry

Explaining that election fraud
charges were pouring in from all
parts of the country. Attorney Gen.
eral Jackson announced today Gre
alton of a special Justice Depart
ment unit to investigate these COM
plants and appointed Maurice M
Milligan. United States attorney for
the Western District of Missouri, to
direct operations.
Mr.. Milligan. who prosecuted the
PendergaSt ring in Kansas City and
sent its head. Thomas j. Pendergast,
and a number of aides to prison for
income tax and election law viola
tions, will have the rank of special
assistant to the Attorney General
He is expected to take over today,
but will not rellnquish his post as
district attorney. to which he was
recently reappointed after resigning
to make an unsuccessful race for
the Democratic senatorial nomina-
ton in Missouri.
The investigation will be con-
Quoted in every State or city where
complaints indicate a prima facie
case of law violation" Mr.. Jackson
said in announcing creation of the
unit. which, so far as Justice De-
partment officials know, is the first
OF its kind ever set up in that agency
Reason Explained.
Explaining the reason for the new
agency, the Attorney General said {:
"A great number of complaints have
been filed with the Department of
Justice or publicly made BY Off
cials of both national political par
ties and by individual citizens
throughout the country. charging
wholesale registration irregularities
and conspiracies to violate the Cor
rupt Practices Act. the civil rights
statutes, the Hatch Act and other
Federal laws. The charges include
receiving contributions and making
expenditures in excess of the limits
provided in the Hatch Act, padded
registration lists, destruction of rec
ords. Hatch Act violations of a Grim
inal nature, striking off of registra-
ton lists and various alleged con-
spiracies to violate Federal statutes" "
The character of these COM
plants makes it imperative that we
have thorough investigation
wherever such complaints seem
we'll founded and an agency quail
fed to carry through prosecutions
where warranted" he said.
Utmost Latitude.
The Justice Department said Mr..
Milligan would have the utmost lat
itude in conducting the inquiry,
which will include fair and i'm
partial investigation of complaints
of substance filed with the depart
ment" 1t explained he would have
at his disposal all the resources of
the department and that United
States attorneys throughout the
country would cooperate with HIM
Conferences with the district attor-
neys are now being arranged.
Attorney General Jackson paid
high tribute to Mr. Milligan, saying
he knew of no one better qualified
to undertake the task that now
confronts the man whose success
full prosecution of Kansas City cleo
ton fraud cases in 1936-1938 and
the 1899 income tax cases broke
the control of the Pendergast ma
chine in Missouri"
Mr.. Milligan's recent reappoint-
ment as United States district attor-
ney occasioned some surprise in view
(See CAMPAIGN, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1940-10-15
7oss Asserts Germans Failed
To Give Notice of Army Shift
Dispatch in Donish Poper Declared
Not to Correspond With Facts

clared not to correspond with the
facts"
The agency published this COM
munique:
The Danish newspaper Po!itiken
published report of its Berlin cor
respondent stating The Soviet
government was timely informed
that German troops would be sent
to Rumania and that the Kremlin
was informed of the aims and num-
ber OF troops sent to Rumania'
'Tass is authorized to state that
this report of the newspaper Poll
tiken does not correspond to the
facts"
Tass yesterday described as fan
tastic invention" reports abroad that
(See MOSCOW, Page A-12.)
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Kennedy to Return
Soon for Talks,
Hull Believes

Secretary of State Hull said
today he believed that Joseph
P. Kennedy. American Ambas-
sador to Great Britain, would
be able to leave London within
a week or 10 days for a visit to
Washington.
The Secretary said Mr.. Ken
nedy's visit here would be for
the purpose of consultation
and. so far as he knew. the
Ambassador would return to
London.
There have been persistent
reports from London that Mr..
Kennedy planned to resign.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Arrival of German
Troops at Albanian
Port Rumored
Dy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SKOPLJE, Yugoslavia, Oct.
15.-Unconfirmed reports from
across the Albanian frontier
said today that several ship
loads of German troops had ar
rived at Durazzo, Albanian port
on the Adriatic Sea.
These troops were said to be
q part of two complete German
divisions (between 10000 and
10000 mem now at Bari, Italy,
directly across the Adriatic
from Durazzo, awaiting trans
portation to Albania.
ROME, Oct. IS (P).-Well-in-
formed Fascists today described
as false" reports that German
troops have been sent to AL
bania.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
U. S. Officers at Lisbon
En- Route to London
Ey the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-Five
United States Army officers en- route
to London to study England's air
defense in operation have arrived
at Lisbon by transatlantic Clip
per. the German wireless reported
today in a broadcast picked up
here.
The mission, headed by Maj. Gen.
Baron K. Yount. assistant chief of
the Air Corps, and Maj. Gen. James
E. CLANCY, commander OF the
Army's new experimental Air De-
fense Command with headquarters
at Mitchell Field. N. Y, left Wash
ington last week.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Cathedral Time Bomb
Hero Made Captain

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 15.-Lt. Robert
Davies, Canadian engineering Of
Ger who received the George Cross
recently for his leadership of a
suicide squad" which removed time
bombs embedded in the ground near
st. Paul's Cathedral, was promoted
to captain TODAY.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Oil Cor ExpIodes;
Bomb Theory Probed
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, Oct. 15.-It
was reported from Susak today that
railway freight car loaded with
naphtha from Rumania exploded
and that authorities were investi-
eating q theory that . time bomb
had been placed in the car during
transit.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
ak by Roosevelt
On Registration Is
Slated Tomorrow

President Roosevelt will give
registration for selective service
a send-off with a radio broad
cast at 8 am. tomorrow, one
hour after the registration CEN
tiers open in the District.
His talk. scheduled TO last
about 10 minutes, will be heard
over the four major networks.
including all four Washington
stations.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
President Will Make
Two Political Talks
In Next IS Days
Appeal Next Wednesday
To Be Directed to
Younger Voters
By JOHN c. HENRY.

President Roosevelts s final drive
for reelection will include at least
two major political addresses in the
next IS days, it was announced at
the White House today.
On Wednesday. October %. the
Chief Executive will make a Nation
wide radio appeal directed par
ticularly at the Nations younger
voters. Occasion for this address will
be National Youth Day and White
House spokesman said the speech
will take its political coloration from
this fact.
A week later, Mr.. Roosevelt will
make another formal political speech
on a Nationwide radio hookup.
In both instances. the Democrats
National Committee has purchased
radio time for the addresses. The
first will be broadcast from $50 to
10 pm and the second from 1890
to II pm.
Evening star., 1940-10-15

Foreign
Nazi shipbuilding center of Stettin
bombed by R. A. F. Page Al
$50 Nazi planes attack London in
six raids. Page Al
Russian troops reported marching
into Rumania. Page Al
Nazis paved the way for conquests by
smart salesmanship. Page Al
japanese quiz Grew on evacuation OF
U. S. citizens. Page Al
Axis reported planning offensive on
five fronts. Page Al
Italy reports second attack on Brit
ish convoy. Page AS
Restrictions on passports to Far
East ordered. Page AS
National.
Two major political addresses plan
ned by President. Page Al
Hiram Johnson to oppose third
term. Page Al
Leaders" taking us toward war,
Lindbergh charges. Page Az
u. S. and Canada agree on st. Law
renee power survey. Page AS
Maj. Eliot warns against counting on
Russian support. Page A.
Evening star., 1940-10-15


action Of the Mediterranean
sweep and no contact was
made between the main Brit
ish and Italian forces.
Bv the Associated Press.
LONDON. Oct. 15.-Reverting to
mass tactics, German raiders made
six thrusts at London today in
gradually increasing force, using
perhaps $50 planes in all after the
fiercest night attack of the war on
this capital.
Each of the six raids was re-
ported repulsed before extensive
damage could be inflicted on. the
city. however. Only twice did a
small number of planes penetrate
the city.
Instead of sending single raiders
as yesterday, the Germans dis
patched their fighter bombers in
formations and gradually increased
the number until in the fourth at
tack 100 planes were used.
The succession of waves was met
over the southeast coast by squad
ron after squadron Of British
fighters.
Nine German planes were shot
down up to $50 pm. 1l:30 am,
Eastern standard time) the Air
Ministry announced. while 10 Brit
ish fighters were missing.
Nazi planes also we're attacking
South Wales, the Midlands and the
northwest coast.
Stettin Is Raided.
The British claimed air successes
for themselves, too. Stettin, sea-
port for Berlin and one of the chief
shipbuilding centers in Germany
was subjected to particularly
effective bombing by the r. A. F
last night. the Air Ministry reported
For nearly an hour and quarter
the ministry said. the r. A. F..
bombers swept back and forth over
Berlin and its suburbs, seeking out
military objectives and hurting high
explosives at them.
LIE Havre, on the French coast,
was also bombed. Fires and explo-
sions resulted, the ministry asserted
Weather conditions were unfavor-
able and some of the British planes
were unable to reach their first OBJ
jectives, the ministry said. so some
moved on to the great ports of Ham,
burg and Emden in Germany and
Den Helder in Holland, where they
unloaded bombs on the docks, while
others attacked railway communica-
tions at Goettingen. Lingen and
Hanover, besides several factories
and airdromes at those points.
The ministry acknowledged that
four planes were missing after these
operations and in daylight patrols
yesterday
Shell Across Strait.
In the early morning British
long-range guns on the Channel
coast fired several salvoS across the
Dover Strait. Their shells burst in
the sea. but mist prevented watch
ers on the English coast from see
ing the targets
In another fight in the clouds
over the southeast coast, British
fighters ambushed a strong force
of German planes. and the hum
of engines and rattle of machine
gun and cannon fire was heard by
the people below.
Alarms Last Few Minutes.
Some bombs fell in the London
area during the first two daylight
attacks. but each time the alarm
lasted only few minutes.
Waves of Nazi planes we're seen
crossing the southeast coast at Mar
gate, headed for London. where the
Continued on Page ALP, Col. 20
Evening star., 1940-10-15
$50 Nazi Planes
Attack London
In Six Raids
Germans RepuIsed;
Seaport Of Stettin
Blasted by R. A. F.
BULLETIN.

LONDON, (P)-The Admiralty
reported tonight that the
British cruiser Ajax sank two
Italian destrOyers and Grip
pied a third in two engage
ments during a recent extern
sive sweep of the eastern and
central Mediterranean by the
British fleet.
The Ajax was one Of three
British cruisers which drove
the German pocket battleship
Graf Spec into Montevideo in
the battle off Uruguay last
December 13.
The Admiralty said the
Ajax's fights with the de-
strOyers constituted the main
action of the Mediterranean
sweep and no contact was
made between the main Brit
ish and Italian forces.