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Evening star., 1941-11-08
Sfetinius Starts Work
OF Speeding Soviet Aid

1mplementing of Government
plans for speeding lend-lease aid
to Russia was under way today as
Edward r. Stettinius, jr., admins
traitor of the program, began the
application of presidential orders
to get the job started "as quickly
as possible"
1t has been announced that 81
o00,000,000 in lend-lease aid is to
be extended to the Soviet.
The President gave Mr.. Stettinius
his instructions in a letter yester-
day, saying, in part: II have today
found that the defense of the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics is vital
to the defense of the United States.
II therefore authorize and direct
you to take immediate action to
transfer defense supplies to the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
under the Lend-Lease Act, and to
carry out the terms of my letter of
October 30, 1941, to Premier Stain.
Il should appreciate it if you
would work out as quickly as possi-
bic details of this program with
representatives of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics"
Evening star., 1941-11-08
Fort Meade Soldier Held
On CriminaI-A Charoe

A Fort Meade soldier today was
being held by Prince Georges County
police at Hyattsville, Md, on a
charge OF criminally assaulting a
13-year-old Laurel girl.
The man was listed by police as
Pvt. Joseph D. Taylor and was
being held without bond. He was
arrested in Laurel by Corpl. Louis
Mackall of the county police and
State Trooper Lee Pumphrey, after
lookout had been broadcast for
the girl who had been reported
missing.
Police said the girl met the soldier
at a public dance in Laurel. The
girl, police said, skipped" her chap
erone and left the dance with Pvt.
Taylor and another soldier.
The second soldier has not been
arrested and was said by police to
have been the driver Of an automo-
bile that carried the trio away from
the dance.
Evening star., 1941-11-08
School Press Convention
To Close With Dinner

By the Associated Press.
LEXINGTON, Va. Nov. 8.-Wu-
liam Haskell of the New York Her
ald-Tribune will address the South
ern Interscholastic Press Associa-
ton convention at Washington and
Lee University today.
The convention will close with a
banquet tonight at which Dean
Robert H. Tucker of w. and L. and
Harry Byrd. jr., editor of the Win
chester Evening Star, will be the
speakers. Publications contest win
ners will be announced and awards
made at the banquet.
Richard c. Hottelet, foreign cor
respondent, told the convention yes
terday the German Army is in
vincible" and declared the German
people "are fighting with Hitler, not
for him, and paradoxical as it may
seem they are fighting for peace
and nOrmality."
He said it was the Germans hope
that victory would mean peace and
security and relaxation of Nazi
regimentation.
Evening star., 1941-11-08
0. P. N. Prepares
To Allocate EveN
Defense Material
Survey Ordered Of All
Prospective Shortages;
CeIlophone Rotioned
BY the Associated Press,

| BY the Associated Press.
Preliminary steps were under way
today for eventual rationing of all
| critical materials to industry
At the request OF the Supply Pri-
critics and ALLEGATIONS Board, the
| Office of Production Management
undertook to survey the supplies of
and demand for all materials of
which there is an existing or pros
pective shortage.
Eventually, S. P A. B. indicated,
an "all-out ALLEGATIONS program" will
replace the present system of priori-
ties. The program necessarily will
be put into effect gradually, but the
final aim is out-and-out ALLEGATION
OF necessary materials for Army and
Navy items and for essential civilian
use, with any remainder distributed
among industries deemed not so es-
sential.
Under the present system, manu-
facturers are assigned priorities
ratings of varying urgency, but off,
cials indicated the system falls down
when there is not enough of some
critical material to fill all defense
needs.
Greater Certainty Promised.
A S. P. A. B. announcement said
the new program would give
greater certainty to American busi-
ness and industry, and it will also
mean that defense officials will have
clear, overall picture OF the Ma
tion's total requirements for raw
materials"
The progressing scarcity OF ma
terials urgently needed in defense
production was reflected by an order
which 0. P. M. issued yesterday for
bidding. from today forward. further
manufacture Of long list OF wrap
pings made from "cellophane and
similar transparent materials"
manufactured from cellulose. The
chlorine, phenol and glycerin in
gradients of the shiny packaging
material are needed for military
uses, officials said
Specifically, o. P. NJ declared that
the cellulose products shall no
longer be used to package razor
blades, cosmetics, soaps, textiles,
metal goods, sporting goods, paper
and paper products, wax articles,
hardware, electrical appliances,
decorations and novelties, flowers,
wreaths, ribbons, bows, rosettes and
similar articles
Cigarette packages and food con-
tainers did not come under the ban
Immediately. but are being studied
with view toward possible curtail-
ment later.
Merchants will be permitted to
sell their current supply Of cellulose-
packaged merchandise. All users"
are allowed so days to exhaust stocks
now on hand
Defense officials said that most
manufacturers and packaging COM
panies have substantial stocks of
cellophane, and that there will be
little or no difference in the deco
rative wrapping of Christmas boxes
and articles this season. The pinch
will become noticeable in most lines
early in 1912, 1t was said.
Evening star., 1941-11-08
Comparatively Few
Defense Employees
Working ; Shifts
Only 8 Per Cent Now
Operating Night Trick,
Labor Report Says

While some progress has been
made in recent months toward more
complete utilization Of existing de-
fense plant facilities-as urged by
President Roosevelt in his labor
speech Thursday-latest reports Of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics
showed today that vital factories
employ an average of 706 per cent
of their total employees on a first
work shift as compared with only
ZIG on a second shift and 8 on a
third.
These figures indicate gains be-
tween December, 1910, and June.
1941, with the second shift proper
tion rising "a per cent and the third
shift rising 18 per cent in that pc
riod, but they indicate clearly that a
vast amount of effort must be eX-
tended to achieve President Roose-
velt's aim of "the fullest use Of ev-
cry vital machine every minute Of
every day and every night"
In June, according to the labor re-
port, the important machine tool
industry employed 596 per cent of
its workers on a first shift, with the
second and third shifts having 26.6
and 1873 per cent, respectively. The
picture in machine tool accessories
was somewhat darker with I'll per
cent on the first shift and only 179
and on the other two. In plants
turning out brass, bronze and cop
per products, 719 per cent of the
employees were on the first shift as
compared with 206 and rs on the
second and third shifts.
Three Handicaps.
The principle handicaps in estab-
fishing the extra shifts, the report
continued, are: shortages Of
skilled workers, 2-shortages of sup
plies, parts and materials, Slack OF
balance among production depart
ments.
In the brass, bronze and copper
plants, for example, shortages Of
materials and equipment were said
to be the principle factor prevents
ing expansion. The skilled worker
shortage was blamed primarily for
the situation in machine tool plants.
To expedite plant expansion, the
Bureau Of Labor Statistics suggest
ed more widespread training of
workers and more subcontracting,
particularly in plants with unbal-
anced production.
Hillman Sees Progress.
Commenting on the work shift
situation, Sidney Hillman, asso-
ciate director of the o. P. NJ, said
that there is prospect of more prog
ress along this line in the near
future.
Some of the continuous process
plants are working $50 hours a
week with four 40-hour shifts" he
said, "and I believe that this op-
Grafton can and should be expand
ed -s+
Multiple shift operating sched-
ules are predominant in key indus
tries now and only a very small
fraction are operating exclusively
on the one-Shift basis. Most of
the blast furnaces, steel works, roll
ing mills and chemical factories
are operating on a four shift basis.
We must end the idleness OF ma
CHIMES. There must be no week
end blackout in our defense fac
tories"
Evening star., 1941-11-08
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 8.-New York
City voters elected some candidates
Tuesday to certain Offices and stimuli
taneously voted the Office out Of ex-
iistence, thus leaving the city today
with legal hangover. 1t appeared
that the courts would be called upon
to cure it.
1t is more than question Of
whether the egg came before the
chicken, whether the Offices were
abolished and candidates then elect
ed to them, or of whether the candi-
dates were elected and their offices
Immediately taken away.
1t seems, officials said, apparently
to be a question of what the people
wanted done.
This municipal paradox occurred
when voters in four of the citys five
counties-there was no election for
the Office in the flfth-chose their
county sheriffs and registers.
Then, on the same voting machine
and with the same yank, they ap-
proved a proposition to abolish the
offices and establish instead one
Evening star., 1941-11-08
Same Election AboIishes
And Fills New York Posts

city-wide sheriff and one city-wide
register, both to be appointed by
the Mayor from civil service lists.
Peter j. McGuinness, a Democrat,
reelected to his $12,0O0-a-year job
as register of Kings County, said he
was going to fight the validity Of
the abolishment and predicted other
elected sheriffs and registers would
join him.
He was reelected with 375,000
votes, 100000 more than the propo-
sition received in his county.
This is a clear indication to- me
that the people Of my county want
me to continue as register" he said.
Others pointed out that only one
third of those who voted expressed
themselves one way or the other on
the proposal to abolish.
They called attention also to elec-
ton figures which showed that in
each county the successful candidate
for the Offices without exception re-
ceived many more votes-in some
cases more than double the number
the proposition to abolish the Offices
received.
Evening star., 1941-11-08
Notre Dame Alumni
And AdmiraIs Hold
Joint Rally Here
Football Fans Hear Rival
Coaches Exude Gloom;
Knox Gives Pep Talk

The Navy and Notre Dame foot
ball teams set out today to settle
the 500 arguments that took place
at the Willard Hotel last night.
Secretary of the Navy Knox. Post
master General Frank C. Walker
and, so it seemed. about half the
admirals in the Navy were among
those who crowded the main hotel
ballroom to drink beer, sing the
two schools fighting songs and en-
JOY football talkfest.
Maj. Emery (Swede) Larsen, U. S.
NJ c., head coach at Naval Acad-
emy, and Coach Frank Leahy of
Notre Dame, as was expected, leaned
over backward in efforts to hide
their beliefs in victory.
AS Linda Darnell, movie actress,
who appeared on the program, put
1t, each coach was convinced the
others team was going to win.
Secretary Knox promised there
would be no appeasers on the Navy
team and said that while he wished
the Notre Dame team lots of luck,
he was pulling for the Middies to
win
In a more serious vein, he said
the spirit that wins ip football is
the spirit that wins battles.
I don't know what's ahead" he
said. There may be some hard.
tough days. But there is one thing
certain: America will come through
VIGOROUSLY because it's got the spirit
that's going to be demonstrated on
that field tomorrow"
Admiral Harold Stark, chief of
naval operations; Rear Admiral
Emory S. Land, chairman of the
Maritime Commission; Rear Ad-
miral G. w. Nimitz, chief of the
Bureau of Navigation; Grantland
Rice and Bob Considine, sports
writer's; Paul Lillis, captain of the
Notre Dame team; the Rev. John j.
Kanavaugh, vice president of Notre
Dame, and number of others ap-
peared on the program.
Bill Stern, radio sports announcer,
was master Of ceremonies and
Bernard E. Loshbough, president of
the Notre Dame Club here, pre-
sided.
Evening star., 1941-11-08
Joint Industrial Effort
OF u. s., Britain Will
Win, Says AH|ee
Utmost Collaboration
Needed for Firm Peace,
Statesman Asserts

Clement Richard Attlee, Lord
Privy Seal and Deputy Prime Minis
ter Of Britain, predicted during a
press conference at the British EN-
bassy yesterday that it will be the
joint action of industrial produc-
ton of America and Great Britain
that will defeat Hitler.
Pressed for an enlargement Of
this statement, the British War
Cabinet member. talking slowly and
deliberately and frequently parry
ing questions by voicing fear that
he would reveal military secrets.
said that what he meant was that
the power of the democracies"
would bring about the ultimate de-
feat of the Germans.
Utmost Collaboration"
He said that, in order to establish
stable peace in the world. we
must have the utmost collaboration
and avoid all misunderstanding" :"
and that this depended upon close
contact between the nations.
The visitor, in this country to at
tend the International Labor Office
Conference in New York, gave the
idea of close contact as one of bis
principle reasons for visiting the
United States, explaining that he
was conversing with statesmen, labor
leaders and others in America in
order Ito get as close as I can to
the minds of those who are collabo-
rating with us"
Il am trying to get a clear under
standing of the problems over here" :"
he continued.
Labor Situation Not Alarming.
Asked to what problems he re-
ferred, he said there were a good
many. he thought, most of them the
enormous economic problems of
changing from peace-time to war
time production.
He refused to comment on Ameri-
can labor relations, but said there
was no feeling of alarm over the
situation among the British when
he left there about three weeks ago.
He also declined to discuss Eng
lands military plans and would say
nothing about her aid to Russia
other than that it was substantial"
Evening star., 1941-11-08
Fraud Sentences Strip
City Of Local Officials
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LACKAWANNA. N. Y. Nov. g.
The $4,000 inhabitants of this CITY
were without local government ad-
mlnlstration today, their mayor and
six other officials having resigned
yesterday shortly before receiving
suspended prison terms for con-
splracy to defraud.
Immediately. citizens looked to
Gov. Lehman to appoint a new gov
ernment for LackaWanna where
towering smokestacks belch impress
siVe evidence Of national defense ef-
fort. The Governor gave no indi-
cation when he would act.
Convicted June 80 of padding citv
w. P. A. pay rolls, Mayor John F.
Aszkler, three councilmen. a citv
clerk and the city projects manager
were given suspended sentences bv
supreme Court Justice Almon w.
Lytle in Buffalo and fined $500 each.
A fourth councilman was fined $3.50
Evening star., 1941-11-08
Lundeen's S Refusal
To Help GET Trotsky
Into j. ). Revealed
Union Organizer Tells
OF 1887 Plan During
Trial of Socialists
BY the Associated Press.

.
/ MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. S-The
story of how the late Senator
Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota re-
fused to assist in Socialist Workers
Party plan to bring Leon Trotsky
to the United States from Mexico
was told from the witness stand
yesterday in the Federal Court trial
of % persons on charges of seditious
conspiracy.
Thomas McCue, an organizer for
Minneapolis General Drivers Union
No. 544, A. F. L., and a Government
witness, said he and Carl Skoglund,
defendant, visited Mr.. Lundeen in
Washington in January, 1887.
He testified that he and Skoglund
asked Senator Lundeen to use his
influence with the Government to
allow Trotsky to enter the United
States from Mexico, where the Rus
sian revolutionary leader was in
exile.
McCue said Senator Lundeen de-
clined to assist in the plan, mum
bling something about being in too
much hot water now"
The Government claims that S.
w. P. was Trotskys instrument in
the United States to bring about
the establishment of a proletarian
dictatorship.
HenryM. Harris, truck driver. tes-
titled for the Government that the
Federal workers section of the
Drivers Union. at the time it was
directed by leaders who are defend
ants in the trial, was controlled by
members of S. w. P.
He named Ed Palmquist. Roy Or
gen. Karl Kuehn, Max Goldman,
Jake Cooper and Mrs. Farrell Dobbs
as leaders of Federal workers Sec
ton. All are defendants except Mrs.
Dobbs, who is the wife of defend
ant.
Earlier. the Government presented
testimony designed to show that S.
w. P. was behind the Minneapolis
w. P. A. strike of 1899. The Fed
eral workers section of the union
was involved in this strike.
Evening star., 1941-11-08
James Was Torpedoed
While Aiding Salinas,
Witnesses Assert
Passengers From Iceland
Describe Encounter in
Seas Alive With Subs
By the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 8.-The Ameri-
can destroyer Reuben James was
torpedoed and sunk while aiding
the torpedoed American Navy
tanker Salinas, passengers of the
1celandic steamer Godafoss said
yesterday on arriving after a har-
rowing 16-day voyage marked by
submarine attacks and the inter-
mittent dropping of depth charges
by war craft
Collectively the 81 passengers pic
tured the section of the North At
lantic patrolled by American ships
as being "alive with submarines,
an area so dangerous that the con-
voy went almost 1000 miles off its
peace-time course.
Aboard the 1,542-ton herring boat,
passengers stayed up at night and
slept in the daytime, for submarines
seldom attack then, They wore
lifebelts "a hours a day and said
they lived in dread after seeing the
distress flares from the Salinas.
Joined Convoy in South.
The Godafoss left Reykjavik Oc-
tober % with three American
freighters, the Reuben James, four
other destroyers and the Salinas.
Far to the south they held a rem
devious with convoy. On october
% at 5 IN. the Salinas was wounded
by a torpedo.
The convoy scattered and fled as
destroyers zigzagged through the
ships, throwing depth charges at
the unseen enemy. The Reuben
James turned back to aid the strick-
en- Salinas and the next night while
the two proceeded toward a port
the submarines struck again, send
ing the James to the bottom.
The passengers said submarines
followed the convoy for five DAYS
while destroyers dropped more than
10 depth charges, each one shaking
the study little Godafoss.
The only American passengers
were three photographers, Neil Sui
Ivan, Pathe News; Lawrence Ken
nedy, Fox Movietone, and Walter
Lane, Life Magazine.
Mr.. Sullivan said American CEN
sorship made it almost impossible
to send news from Iceland, and he
described it as far more severe than
British censorship.
Isolationists Are Feared.
"The American officers aren't
worried as much about keeping in
formation from the enemy as they
are about furnishing fuel for isola-
tionists like Senator Wheeler" he
asserted.
He said survivors from torpedoed
ships were arriving in Iceland, but
reporters were unable to send news
OF the miShap.
He added that Maj. Gen. Charles
II. Bonesteel, commanding officer
Of the American forces, refused at
first to permit Associated Press Re-
porter Drew Middleton to send a
story relating how British doctor
had used fish hooks to pin down the
scalp of an injured seaman until
clamps and stitching were available.
"Bonesteel said 1t was too grue-
some" said Mr.. Sullivan. He seems
to want to kill anything that might
bs used by isolationists.
Mr.. Sullivan said that Gen. Bone
steel also delayed transmission Of
private messages, not meant for pub
ication, sent by Mr.. Middleton to
the New York office Of the Associ-
ated Press.
Evening star., 1941-11-08
Lii Domitu Asks Divorce
From ErroI Flynn
BY the Associated Press.

6y Inc ASSOClAteQ HIeSS.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. Sin six
years Of marriage, Actress Lili Da-
mita and her swashbuckling actor
husband, Enrol Flynn, separated
many times. Now she has filed suit
for divorce.
A statement accompanying the
complaintssaid property settlement
had been reached out of court.
Miss Damita charged cruelty and
asked custody of their 5-month- old
son Sean. They were married at
Yuma, Ariz., in 1885.
Mr.. Flynn, who earns $4,000 a
week, is on a budget of $4,000 q
month, pending settlement Of court
battle with his former agent, Myron
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Evening star., 1941-11-08
Robert Glass Vance,
Banker, Dies at 73
BY the Associated Press

BY The Associated Press.
WAYNESBORO, Va, Nov. g.
Robert Glass Vance, 70, vice presi-
dent, cashier and trust officer Of the
First National Bank here, died at his
home yesterday following a heart
attack.
He was born at Middletown, KY,
and before entering the banking
business here had served as a civil
engineer and superintendent of
mining operations in West Virginia
For more than a quarter century
he had been a leader in the business
civic and religious life of this COM
munity.
Evening star., 1941-11-08
Weather Conditions Last "a Hours.

Rather low pressure continues over the
Great Lakes reglon and cloudy. cold. windy
weather persists over the Northern Plains
States, the Ohio and Middle Mississippi
Valleys and the Lake region. with light
snow furries continuing over much of this
area. Cold air of polar origin has now
overspread all sections east of the Rocky
land, and temperatures are below normal.
Hleh pressure continues over the Far West
ern states and Texas. accompanied by fair
weather. Temperatures are considerably
above normal in the Far Western States,
and maximum temperatures between SO'
TO 90 were reported in nearly all sections
of California Friday afternoon
Evening star., 1941-11-08
Actress Weds Strong Man

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 8 CP.-Elinor
Fair, film actress and writer, and
Jack White, actor and claimant to
the national welterweight strong
man title, disclosed today they were
married at Las Vegas. New. August
10. Miss Fair Is the former wife Of
Wet, ---c--ie hero william Bovd.