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Evening star., 1941-08-22

'Iranian government has declared its
neutrality, the minister said, and
I'VE believe maintenance of that
neutrality is to the interest of our
neighbors, particularly Britain"
Reports No Discrepancy.
Mr.. Hull said that there was no
discrepancy between his informa-
ton about the number of Germans
in Iran and the information of the
Minister.
The clear definiteness of Mr.. Hull's
public disavowal of any American
support of the British and the Rus
slams in the Iranian region of the
Near East provoked the question
here of whether there was some
discord in Anglo o-American rela-
tions.
The British have made it known
that they have brought pressure on
the Iran government to eject from
that country all the Germans re-
naming there. The Secretary was
reminded at his press conference of
a press report from London this
morning that the British and the
Russians are preparing to move into
Iran in order to protect the Allied
position in the Near East.
No knowledge Of Project.
Mr.. Hull expressed his ignorance
about such project and added
that the further report that the
United States is backing Britain and
Russia in this reported enterprise is
entirely without foundation. Mr..
Hull said he had made no effort to
gather any facts on the subject of
Russian British intentions with re-
gard to Iran and he said he refrained
from discussing with the Iranian
(See TRAN pace A-30
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Plan for Exchange
OF Citizens With
Japan Indicated
Hull Refuses Details
On Formula for Gradual
Repatriation by Both
BY the Associated Press.


Secretary of State Hull indicated
today that some arrangement had
been made with Japan for gradual
repatriation of American citizens
from that country and japanese
from the United States.
He said there likely would be
movement of small groups of Amer
leans from Japan to Shanghai and
japanese from this country to
Japan.
The Secretary would not 60 into
details, but indicated some formula
had been agreed on with the jap
anese to solve the problem created
by earlier refusal of the Japanese
authorities to permit more than
100 Americans to leave that country.
Twenty-Five Americans obtained
reservations yesterday on a jap
anese ship leaving for Shanghai
and were expected to be repatriated
on American vessels leaving there
for the United States.
Mr.. Hull indicated there probably
would be additional groups leaving
Japan by the same means.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Maid Confesses Burning
Valued Stolen Paintings
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Police said
that a maid who wanted to hurt"
her employer today confessed she
stole three paintings. including two
Gainsboroughs. from Capt. Daniel
S. Sickles, aviation executive, and
burned them. The paintings were
insured for S44 900.
The maid, Marie Hauser, IS, was
arrested in the prison ward at
Bellevue Hospital, where she was
taken after what police said was a
suicide attempt. She was charged
with grand larceny and malicious
mischief.
Miss Hauser herself reported the
disappearance of the paintings last
week. She was quoted by police as
saying she loved the captains wife
and two children, but wanted to
hurt him." and felt she could best
do so by destroying the paintings in
which he took great pride.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Mystery Fire Burns
Freighter al
New York ANCHORAGE
First Officer Killed,
Skipper Injured os
Crew Escapes
By the Associated Press.

DS ttle asSOSldlC EltSss
NEW YORK, Aug. ga fire of
mysterious origin aboard the war
stranded Finnish motorship freighter
Aurora ragged for five hours today,
the second ship fire here within
five days.
First Officer Conrad Freese of
Helsinki, Finland, was suffocated as
he slept on the 4,596-ton vessel at
her Hudson River anchorage mile
north of the George Washington
Bridge at 2:20 am. Other members
of the crew of 18, including two
mattresses, were rescued by police
and private boats.
At the same time police an
nounced II more deaths resulting
from a $1,500,000 Brooklyn water
front blaze of Monday in which the
American freighter Panuco, her pier
and several barges were destroyed
or badly damaged That brought
the death toll for that fire to 81 and
left two men missing.
Aurora Ordered Beached.
The Aurora, listing badly from
the water in her holds, was ordered
beached on the New Jersey shore
near Englewood cliffs.
Authorities said they had un-
covered no evidence of sabotage in
a preliminary investigation. =
Loaded with a rich cargo of
linseed oil, wool, hides, grains and
other items from Buenos Aires,
Curacao and Laguaira, the Aurora
put into New York July % because
of Finland's entry into the war. Her
operators said the job of trying to
reach Helsinki through the British
blockade was too risky.
Her crew was paid of yesterday
lSee EIRE PAGE A.ol
Evening star., 1941-08-22

and that mounted detachments were
thrusting deep behind the German
lines.
Specific local successes claimed IN
cluded a heavy and Furnishing ar
tillery attack on German division
somewhere along the main highway
that stretches westward to Warsaw
and the destruction of more than 400
German infantrymen IN a saoer
charge by Red cavalry,
During last night, the Soviet In
formation Bureau said, particularly
stubborn fighting ragged around
Kingisepp. Novgorod and Gomez.
Strategic Maneuver.
The withdrawal from Gomel, Sit
uated on the Sozh River just north
east of its junction with the Dnleper,
was described as a strategic maneu-
yer to keep the Red Army intact
after it had inflicted the largest pos
sible losses on the Germans.
The loss of Gomel did not appear
Evening star., 1941-08-22
President Denies
Supporting British
Policy Toward Iran
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug.
22-President Roosevelt scoffed
today at reports from London
that he was in accord with
Britain on her policy toward
Iran.
Asked about the reports at a
press conference. he said that
they illustrated the freedom of
the press in London. that they
were untrue and he knew moth
ing about the whole matter.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
IceIond's Viking Sons, With No Army Of Own,
Get Their First Breath of War in Century

American and British troops
jointly are occupying Iceland.
Hitherto this isolated Arctic
kingdom, key to the North At
lantic, has been closed to corre-
spondentS. A member of The
Star staff wds a member OF the
first newspaper party to pisit the
island, and this is the first OF a
series of II articles on conditions
there.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Nozi SS Elite Corps
Opens Its Ranks
To Newcomers
Hy the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 22.-The Ger
man SIS Elite Corps, which as
an association of volunteers IS
known as Adolf Hitler's body
guard, today opened its ranks
to newcomers.
An announcement said quail
fed men from II to As might
Join for military and other spe-
cial SIS services. Recruits now
will be accepted for the dura-
ton of the emergency" where
as normally they are required
to sign up for II years.
There has been no announce
ment of the losses to this or
any other German formation,
but the SIS has been in the thick
of the action since the Russian
campaign began.
Russian communlqueS ire
ouently have reported the an
initiation of SIS units.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

the first breath and color of war the
kingdom has known for more than
century-since Napoleon, block
AIDED its harbors to shut of Eng
lands Goldfish supply in 1914.
Iceland had asked only to be left
(see HENRY, Page A-4o
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Russians Halt Leningrod Drive;
City Made Into military Camp;
Resistoncein Ukraine Increased
Citizenry Rushes to
Join Peoples Army
Supporting Regulars
B. the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 22.-The Red
Army appeared today to be
checking the German offensive
against Leningrad-a city de-
scribed in military dispatches as
having been transformed into a
formidable military camp"
The battle admittedly has put
RuSsia's No. city and onetime cap
ital in dread danger Today It
still sWirled to the southwest and
southeast of Leningrad, in the re-
gions of Kingisepp and Novgorod.
TN Berlin a high command
communique declared 'our forces
are fighting their way steadily
forward" toward Leningrad, while
an authorized German commen-
tator said the Russians were
throwing reserves into battle and
acknowledged the existence OF
islands of opposition y both IN
the Dnieper bend of the Ukraine
ana DtIllIlil dNlN ullNN w AAAe'A4 ttAA0S
on the central 'front.'
Observers here said. however, this
was the fourth successive day that
fighting has been reported IN the
areas of Kingisepp and Novgoroo,
and they added it indicated the
Germans had made no significant
progress.
Both the Russians and Ger
mans have reported KlnglSepp IN
Nazi hands and the German high
command also has claimed Noy-
gorodD
Citizens Join Defense.
Leningrad, meanwhile, was re-
ported by a TaSS correspondent 10
be echoing to the sounds of march
ing men trampng through its broao
squares and parks TO join the peo-
pies army. supporting the regular
army at the front.
The Germans were reported try
ing to clear the way for extensive
raids on Leningrad by bombing air
ports outside the city. The army
newspaper Red Star said that not g
single bomb had fallen inside the
city in II attempted attacks.
The struggle on the approaches
to the city is unceasing,' Red Star
said, and more serious trials still
are ahead"
While thousands of men were
going to the front from Lenlngrad,
tens of thousands were toiling to
build Notifications not only along
the approaches to the city, but also
in the streets of Leningrad itself.
Counterattacks Continued.
In the central theater. despite the
admitted loss of Gomel on the lower
reaches of that front, military dis
patches reported that the Russians
were continuing their counterattacks
Evening star., 1941-08-22

them his 40th generation descend
ants?
The Yankees and the British,
thousands Of them, are occupying
the land Of red Erik and have
brought to its long, mountain walled
fjords and lonely white farmsteads
Evening star., 1941-08-22

Foreign.
Supplies over Burma Road doubled
in fortnight. Page AS
Legislators split on question of war
loan for Russia. Page AS
Notionol.
Visas for U. S. consuls again sought
from Vichy. Page AS
Lowering OF income tax exemptions
predicted by George. Page AS
Edwin Smiths term on Labor Board
ends Monday. Page Al
Deadlocks persist in Detroit transit
and Kearny strikes. Page Al
Defense priorities pinch private
home builders. Page B-1
Evening star., 1941-08-22

Evidence that the Army is con-
sidering seriously the idea of put
ting its projected new War Depart
ment building on a 78-acre tract
South of the Arlington Experimental
Farm was seen today in the fact
that work has stopped on group of
warehouses planned for that site.
Until the President told Army rep
resentativ Wednesday to go back
and restudy their $35, 900, 900 dream
building" project-both as to size
and location-it had been the
Army's intent to build five ware
houses for a huge Quartermaster
depot on the 78 acres.
The Army recently purchased the
depot tract for S5O0.000. 1t lies be-
tween the southern border of the
experimental farm and Columbia
pike.
Type Of Building Unknown.
Whether the War Department
building that might be located on
this site would be permanent. or
whether it would be so reduced in
size as to enable the Army TO go
ahead with at least part of its
warehouse construction, could not
be learned. Army officials. working
architects in three shifts at the di-
rection of the President, declined
even to discuss the War Department
building project. The President is
on record, however, for a building
only half as large as that sought by
the Army.
Meanwhile, Miss Harlean James,
executive secretary of the American
Planning and Civic Association, in
a statement setting forth the views
of her organization, urged that any
permanent new building be located
in the Northwest Rectangle in
Washington, thus fitting in with the
long range plan for development OF
Washington agreed to in the past
by both planning officials and the
War Department.
Let us adhere to the established
plan for the permanent War Depart
ment buildings" Miss James state
ment said. 1t continued:
IF, however, the present crisis Is
such that a building to house War
Department employees must be ready
for occupation before a unit of the
permanent War Department build
ings, as planned, can be produced
we suggest that building suitable
for temporary use by employees
working on expanded defense activ-
tiles be erected on the land which
the War Department has acquired
for uuartermaster's stores"
Any permanent building plan. the
statement emphasized, should bt
based on the northwest rectangle
development.
Immediately after getting the re-
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Gasoline Stations
Restrict Sales, Plan
Sunday CIosings
Limit Of Five GoIIons
Imposed by Many
After Dealers Meeting

Many local gasoline dealers today
restricted their individual sales to
a maximum of gallons and some
made plans to shut down their sta
tions on Sundays voluntarily in line
with warning sounded at meet
ing of retailers at the new Interior
Building last night.
A check revealed that many sta
tions had set up daily quota and
had made arrangement to close or
to stop sales of gasoline each day
after the quota is reached. A few
announced that they had begun to
restrict sales to their regular GUS
toners
At last nights meeting. Harry
Wainwright, research secretary for
Retail Gasoline Dealers. Inc, spon-
sor of the session. urged all dealers
to curtail their sales Immediately
by at least 20 per cent.
Mr.. Wainwright cautioned dealers
that a drastic compulsory curtail-
ment may be put into effect if the
local supply is exhausted during the
Labor Day week end.
Warned Of Drastic Action.
AT the rate gasoline is selling
now" he warned. there will be none
here by August q. And if there's S
none here Labor Day. you can bet
your bottom dollar there1l be drastic
curtailment as of September l.
After listening to this warning,
members of the Dealers Association
recommended that the curtailment
be extended to take in the entire
country so that more uniform de-
liveries can be made. They also
promised to cooperate individually
with the rationing program.
Action of the dealers was spurred
by experiences yesterday when the
demand was so great at the city
stations that some motorists were
forced to go to three and four sta
tions before they could obtain
enough gasoline to fill their tanks.
Last nights meeting was called in
order that the dealers might work
out definite policy of rstioning.
Speakers pointed out that a 10
per cent slash in consumption still
is contemplated, but that this would
call for 20 per cent reduction in
(See GASOLINE. Page A-50
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Depot Site Believed
Considered Seriously
For New War Office
Army Holts Construction
Of Warehouses Planned
At Arlington Troct
BACKGROUND

bAS ShuhOOND-
Construction OF s35, 900 900 War
Department Building on old er-
perimentdl farm in Arlington
County lUds authorized in bill
passed by Congress and sent TO
White House last Monday. Plan
had been opposed on ground
property should be held tor Ar
lington Cemetery eIpanSion and
because OF strain more than 40 900
,eorkerS tCould put on county
facilities. President Roosevelt,
tUho had urged building halt as
large, on Wednesday ordered
Army to make a new study and
proposal.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Summary Of Todoy's Star
Washington and Vicinity.

Commissioners deny controller gen.
erals highway charges. Page B-1
Nations retailers preparing to sell
defense stamps. Page B-1
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(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4J
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CONTINUED on Page Az, Column ~
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CSee RUSSIANS. Page A-3O
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(See GASOLINE, Page A-5D
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Aurora Ordered Beached.

(See FIRE, Page A-2)
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(See IRAN. Page A-3D
Evening star., 1941-08-22

Most people in Washington have The
Star delivered to their homes every
weekday evening and Sunday morning
Evening star., 1941-11-17
Demands
Right 10 Organize
Government Unions
Workers Problems Have
Been Like Those in
Industry, He Declares

B, Staff Correspondent OF The Star.
DETROIT, Nov. 1.-THE right Of
Government employees - Federal
State and local-to organize in
unions and bargain collectively, was
demanded today by Philip Murray,
president of the C. I. O., in his re-
port to the fourth constitutional
convention.
This question was raised in a dis
cussion of the situation at the
Kearny Ship Yards, where the Gov
ernment took over, and where, Mr..
Murray explained, the Navy De-
partment is complying with collec-
tive bargaining relations with the
c. I. o. recommended by the De-
fense Mediation Board.
The situation may be repeated. -
he said. The Federal Government
in these situations must be pre-
pared, in justice to the unions which
may be involved, TO engage in COL
lective bargaining relations similar
Evening star., 1941-11-17
to those which prevailed at the pri.
vate companies.

vate companies
The same problem is involved in
the case OF the several millions OF
Government employees who desire TO
organize into unions of their own
choosing and to engage in collective
bargaining for the purpose OF i'm
proving their wages, hours and other
working conditions.
The experience of the Govern
ment worker during the past few
years has been similar TO that OF
the American worker in private in
dustry. His living standard is SUBJ
ject to the same burdens. On the
other hand, wages and working con-
ditions have not received the i'm
provement which workers in private
industry through unions have been
able to obtain.
The protection of civil service
in no way meets the basic problems
of improving the conditions for
these workers. The economic need
for workers to join unions in order
to improve their lot is even greater
in the case of Government en-
ployes than employees in private in
dustry. Particularly today where 1t
is essential that the morale of our
workers be kept at maximum, Gov
ernment employees should not be de-
MED the basic rights enjoyed by
other workers Democracy cannot
be maintained as living force when
enjoyed by some and denied to
others. The freedom to belong to
unions which endeavor to better the
conditions of their members is a
right that must be enjoyed by all"
Evening star., 1941-11-17

steps that have been taken since
the War Resources Board was set up
in 1899 as a tangle of administrative
history, Mr.. Murray said that "a
horde of representatives of large
corporations descended upon Wash
ington and attempted to assume
complete control of our defense
effort through the dollar -a-year
men," and that labor has been
practically ignored"
The numerous agencies, in their
many reorganizations, have failed
so far to conduct the defense pro-
gram and defense production at
maximum efficiency" he said in
summing up. Each Of the reorgan-
izations has in itself been an admis-
sion of serious failure In many
cases the machinery of production
has become so encrusted with con-
f1icting and unwieldly bureaucracy
that the output has been less than
it would have been had no Govern
ment agency been set up at all. So
far, each new reorganization has
dragged along with its accumula-
ton of old agencies and establish
ments SO heavy as to make certain
the new agency's failure"
In proof. the C. l. O. president
said that at the end of September,
IA months after the defense pro-
gram was launched. expenditures
totaled $10,560,000,0 900, or barely"
one-sixth of the total appropriated
and that probably less than half of
this sum represents armament pro-
duction."
Substitute for Mediation Board.
The council plan advanced by Mr.
Murray is based on employer en-
plOye groups set up for each industry
to regulate production. prices and
labor regulations The labor medi-
alton machinery provided under this
| arrangement incidentally is the
for the National Defense Mediation
Board now facing dissolution after
the withdrawal of Mr. Murray and
other c. I. o. representative be-
cause of the adverse vote on the
union shop issue,
There was an interesting after
math Of that bolt today A section
of the report praised the board as
"one OF the few emergency defense
agencies that has worked success
fully" adding that this is largely
due to the fact that labor has been
given and has exercised an equal
voice in the formation of policy"
| A one-page "addendum' distrib-
uted with the report incorporated
/ the letter to the President in which
Mr.. Murray and Mr. Kennedy re
/ signed from the board
In making public the Executive
Board resolution backing the U. M
W., Mr.. Murray pointed out thai
the board had set a precedent fol
upholding a union shop demand ir
the Bethlehem shipbuilding case or
the West Coast where an A. F. L
union was involved and that som
of the industrialists who votet
against the C. I. O. have union shoy
agreements with their own workers
Under the circumstances, he said
there was no reason for rejection o
the terms of the miners union.
Along this line he told the dele
gates in the annual report that Il
is not too much to say that the ke
issue of American labor during tn
coming months, now that the grea
anti-labor citadels of the steel an
automobile industries have been re
duced, will be the establishment O
the union shop as the Fundamental
bargaining pattern.
Evening star., 1941-11-17

Congress, however, the c. I. o. Ex-
ecutive Board, meeting in Detroit,
pledged its unqualified support to
the U. M. w. in the captive mine
dispute.
First mine closed was that of the
National Mining Co., a United States
Steel subsidiary. at Morgan. Pa. A
maintenance crew due at work last
midnight failed to appear.
One man broke through a picket
line at the Buckeye mine Of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.
in Green County. Pa, but pickets
turned back the rest of a 50-man
maintenance crew.