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Evening star., 1941-09-23
Dewey Warns
Of Tax Strike
Under Rent Law
Illinois Representative
Tells Subcommittee
1910 Rutes Too Low
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Representative DeWey, RepuDllCdni
of Illinois, today predicted tax
strike of individual home owners in
Washington If impending rent
control legislation freezes rentals on
an unproductive basis.
Appearing before the Special De-
fense Subcommittee of the House
District Committee in opposition to
a provision in one of the three rent
control bills under consideration that
would freeze rentals here as of Sep
tember l, 1910. Mr.. Dewey declared
IF you freeze the ceiling on rents
too low you will likely have a tax
strike here similar to the one in
Chicago in the 1905, when hundreds
of thousands of home owners refused
to pay taxes, a situation which re-
resulted in complete dislocation of
real estate values from which that
city has not yet completely emerged.
Freezes Value Of House.
Rents represent the value OF a
house. If you freeze the rents you
also freeze the value of the house,
If everything else goes up, includ-
ing taxes-as they will-you are
liable to get a group of home own
ers who will refuse to pay their
taxes as they did in Chicago. OBJ
viously the city could not take over
half of the houses in the city"
Representative Dewey pointed out
there are hundreds of home owners
here whose safety and security
depends on incomes from pensions
and the rooms they rent. He pleaded
with the subcommittee to think of
them in reporting out rent-control
legislation.
Any legislation that would de-
prive these people Of fair return
on their property, he declared,
would be great injustice" to them.
Mr.. Dewey said some control over
rentals is desirable, but that Sep
tember Of last year was not proper
time to select for placing a ceiling
on rentals because it was in a low
rental period. He cited statistics
prepared by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics Of the Labor Department
to support his statement.
Cites Labor Statistics.
THE Bureau of Labor Statistics
index of rents by types of dwelling,
for 80 cities" he said, reveal that ir
September, 1910, the index fol-
Washington for single family dwell.
ings stood at l02. Of the 80 cite.
only three with an index figure o.
l0l, stood lower than Washington.
Representative Dewey opposed
placing Of new homes under rent
control.
"A new house" he declared. 81.
open to any one who wants to pay
the rent asked by the owner. New
housing. if left alone without rem
control, will stimulate more new
home construction"
Karl Borders. chief of the rem,
section Of the Office of Price Admin.
istration, told the subcommittee HI
had no quarrel with the proposed
September l, 1910, date for freezins
rentals here.
Mr.. Borders explained that a rent
Evening star., 1941-09-23
Budyenny Relieved
Of His Command,
SAYS Italian Rumor
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Sept. 23.-Red Army
units forced from the Dnieper
River defense zone were de-
clared by Stefani's correspond
ent on the Russian front today
to be retreating in disorder,
without artillery, toward new
line on the east bank of the
Don River.
Prisoners. however, were quot
ed as saying the Soviet COM
mand was sending reserve units
southwark from the Moscow
region as we'll as from the Don
and Volga zones to bolster the
new stand against the southern
invasion.
The news agency quoted pris-
oners as saying Marshal Seme-
on Budyenny had been relieved
of command on RusSia's SOUTH
ern front and replaced tenn
porarily by Marshal Semeon
Timoshenko. who commanded
the central front stand,
Evening star., 1941-09-23
Three Killed, 10 Injured
In West Coast Train Wreck
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. ga
heavy freight engine. running with
out cars, collided head-on with the
crack Western Pacific Exposition
Flyer In terrific crash some 30
miles east of here late last night.
Three trainmen died and 10 other
persons. seven of them passengers,
were injured.
Engineer Frank Huff and Fireman
A. A. Lown. both OF Oakland, were
crushed and burned to death in the
flyers engine. Oscar Lane. 81, of
Oakland, baggageman of the flyer,
died later in hospital.
The roadbed was torn up for 800
feet, the rails bent like hairpins and
the engines tangled mass of
smoking steel. Two cars were de-
rallied and the flyers baggage car
was demolished.
Engineer z. L. Jordan and Fire
man E. D. Hillous of the locomotive
leaped almost at the moment of the
impact. The two, of Oakland, were
injured seriously.
Evening star., 1941-09-23
50 Enemy Divisions
Crushed East of
Kiev, Berlin Says
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BERLIN, Sept 23.-Simultane-
Gus Russian counteroffensiveS in
the north. central and southern
sectors were reported in German
war dispatches tonight for the
first time, although all three
were declared to have been re-
pulsed, with 100000 prisoners
already taken in the encircle-
ment area carved out by the Ger
mans east of Kiev.
These captures, announced by the
high command in special COM
muniQue. overshadowed the Soviet
counterthrusts as far as Germany
was concerned.
In the continuing battle, so So
Wet divisions about 100000 mem
have been smashed, the Germans
announced.
No details Of any of the Russian
attacks were given, except their
lOGdllOIlS-lllS LGlllllsl du SCItOl III
the north. east of Smolensk in the
center and around Poltava in the
south, 160 miles southeast of Kiev.
DNB., official news agency. said
Russian advances far east Of Smo-
lensk collapsed under German fire"
Heavy Losses Claimed.
rr-l,o ,,eu-e ooeoc,, declorad ssrooov
Soviet units lost two-thirds or more
of their strength in attempts to
dash against the German lines. The
Bolsheviks literally stormed over the
corpses of the slain into German
fire. They were thrown back every
where"
D.N.B. also reported Red Air Force
plane losses in the last "a hours
totaled 73 and said German bombers
sank a 4.000-ton Russian transport
and two of 1000 tons each off Odessa
yesterday.
The high command, issuing
special communique to report the
victory around Kiev, said approx
tmately 100000 prisoners already
had been taken. and that huge
booty, including more than $40 tanks
and 2100 guns, had been captured
or destroyed.
After forces concentrated in the
area east of Kiev made unsuccessful
attempts to break out" said the
communique, increasing signs Of
disintegration became noticeable
among the enemy"
After recounting the prisoners
taken and telling o. the Russian
Evening star., 1941-09-23
D. {. Milk Regulations
GET Stout Support as
They Go on Trial
Rutland and Ashworth
Oppose Importation
Of inferior Product
By DON s. WARREN.

District milk regulations. on trial
today at public hearing before the
Commissioners to determine whether
the District should permit importa-
ton of milk and cream from distant
points. received at the outset stout
support from Washington Health
Department officials.
Both DR.. George c. Rutland,
health officer. and DR.. r. r. Ash
worth, head of the food inspection
service. declared they could see no
good reason for lowering District
standards to permit the Importation
of inferior" milk, which they said
would be permitted under the plan
demanded by Representative Schultz
of Indiana.
Nearly 200 witnesses and specta-
tors, including members of Congress
and representatives Of the milk in
dustry, crowded the District Building
boardroom for the hearing.
Prepared to oppose the move to
loosen health regulations to point
that would permit producers in dis
tant States to enter the field here
we're Senator Radcliffe of Maryland
and Representative Howard Smith
of Virginia and Representative
Katherine Byron of Maryland.
Schultz Not Present.
Placed in the record was a letter
from Senator Tydings of Maryland,
saying:
The high standard of health now
maintained in the District should
not be lowered. This has been built
up with great labor and pains, to say
nothing of the expense on the part
of the producers"
Representative Schultz, sponsor
Evening star., 1941-09-23
Hurricane Expected to Hit
Texas Coast, Go Inland Tonight

Palacios, on dangerous Matagorda
Bay, would lie near the center of the
storms path if 1t continues its pres
ent course. However, most of the
1880 men stationed there are in
Louisiana maneuvers and the others
have been moved to safety at
Wharton, Tex.
Approximately 100 persons spent
the night in the brick schoolhouse
at Port O'Connor, planning to hold
out during the blow. Another 400
had moved inland to Port Lavaca.
Elsewhere along the Texas coast,
where unusually high tides pre-
vailed and higher water was FORE
cast, lowland residents had moved
out and houses and stores were bat
tened down.
The barometer at Port O'Connor
dropped from 29.47 to 2s.4l In two
(See HURRICANE, Page ACID
Evening star., 1941-09-23
Germans Have Lost
100000 in War,
Russian Claims
Soviet. Envoy in London
Calls Berlin Reports
utterly Ridiculous
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Sept. 23-Three million
Germans-one-th third of the Nazi
army-have been killed, wounded or
are missing after three months Of
war with Russia, Soviet Ambassador
Ivan M. Maisky declared today in
an address before the American
Chamber of Commerce.
The German high commands an
nouncement last week concerning
German losses was utterly ridicu-
lous," he asserted. calling his own
estimate moderate one. He added
that the Germans had lost $500
planes in the Russian campaign,
The German high command
last Friday announced these as
Germany's army and air force
losses in the first two months Of
the Russian war: 1896 dead,
296,670 wounded. 20,299 missing,
725 planes lost)
Mr.. Maisky conceded that Rus
sia. like Germany, has suffered
heavy losses and that the enemy
has occupied important industrial
districts and the Russians had to
evacuate a number of factories and
plants, and some time must elapse
before they can start again on new
sites"
Warning against dangerous" COM
placency, which he said arose from
glib talk of amateur strategists about
Gems. Winter and Mud" he said
the facts proved that the Nazi war
machine still was strong.
Russia is facing a tense and diff
cult situation" Mr.. Maisky said. and
there is no use in people shutting
their eyes. to the realities of the
situation"
While he voiced no doubt that the
original German plans had been
upset and that Hitler's lightning
war" had failed miserably," he
declared:
War on the eastern front will not
be at a standstill either in autumn
or winter, and the Soviet people do
not base their views on such doubtful
calculations.
The fate of humanity for many
generations to come is being decided
around Leningrad and in the
Ukraine"
He urged that "freedom-l loving
countries" give aid TO help make up
Russias losses.
Evening star., 1941-09-23
Violent Fight Roges
Around Lake linen,
Moscow Says

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Sept. 23.-In violent
fighting around Lake linen,
south of Leningrad, Russian
troops have brought the German
onset to a standstill and driven
forward in successful counter
attacks. Red Star. organ of the
Red Army, declared today.
An article by 1t. Gen. Vatitin said
the drive had cost the Germans up
to $4,000 killed. wounded and cap
tured and denied German reports
that three Soviet armies had been
routed in the sector $50 miles south
of Russia's beseiged second city.
Reuters, in dispatch to Lon
don, quoting the Soviet news
agency, reported today the Ger
mans had been driven back seven
miles after a Russian bayonet
charge on one sector of the Len
ingrad 'front.'
Warfront dispatches declared that
fierce Russian counterattacks and
bayonet charges hurled back two
German regiments on the central
front and drove Finnish troops from
strong Notifications in the lake
country to the north.
Fighting ragged increasingly around
Leningrad and Odessa.
Red Star said two regiments of
the 102d German infantry division
were defeated in the central front
counterattacks, aimed at the recap
ture of a district designated only
as IN"
The Germans retreated when the
Russians followed up intense artil-
lery fire with bayonet charges, Red
Star reported. 1t said the fight was
continuing.
Firms Reported Dislodged.
To the north, Red Star reported,
Soviet counterattacks dislodged
Finnish troops from strongly forti-
fed positions near Lake Siaicho.
Four Finnish battalions we're re-
ported destroyed and others forced
to retreat.
A midday communique continued
the Russian account of German
losses Of men and material in wide
spread operations along the central
front where the Red Army and air
force was said to be striking hard.
In one unspecifled sector the
Germans lost more than 800 killed
and 1000 wounded and in another
sector more than $50 others were
killed, the war bulletin reported.
Bombing and machine-gunning
Russian planes were credited with
wiping out numerous other German
infantry and motorized units.
Attacks Repulsed.
A dispatch to Pravda from Odessa
reported that the big Russian
'Tobruk" was successfully resisting
repeated attacks by numerically
superior forces.
The dispatch said defenders of the
port repulsed with heavy losses in
tensive assaults from the southern
and western approaches where nine
German and Rumanian divisions
were masSed.
The Soviet Information Bureau
mentioning neither fallen Kiev MOI
Odessa and Leningrad, announced
that nearly six German infantry
misunderstanding perhaps $500
men-had been wiped out on the
central front.
Five days OF battle in that zone
the scene Of persistent Red Army
(see MOSCOW, Page A-17D
Evening star., 1941-09-23

loss in materiel, the high command
remarked that these figures are
constantly increasing"
Fifty Soviet divisions" said the
announcement, may be regarded
as completely destroyed"
"One of Greatest Battles"
An authorized German spokesman
described the battle east Of Kiev-
now 10 days old-as "one Of the
greatest battles of history" Final
figures on the number of prisoners
taken were expected here to top
those of all previous operations.
The great battle of Tannenberg in
the World War netted the Germans
100000 Russian prisoners, the
spokesman recalled, while in the
Smolensk battle of the present war
Germans claimed 10000 prisoners
The encirclement battle between
Smolensk and Minsk bagged 100000
Russians, according to German
figures.
The authoritative correspondence
service Dienst aus Deutschland said
that the number of prisoners in the
eastern campaign now exceeds two
millions"
During the entire World War"
Dienst said, altogether two million
(Cae PrpTJN Doce A1nN
Evening star., 1941-09-23
AuchinIeck and WaveII
Confer on Defense
q. the Arsor,.tsS prsu

p, the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 23-It was
officially disclosed today that Gems.
Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck and Sir
Archibald P. Wavell. British COM
manders of the Middle East and In
dia. recently conferred on defense
problems in view of the latest Rus
sian developments.
Sir Archibald now has returned to
India.
Sir Claude went aboard an Amers
lean freighter discharging a lease
lend cargo at an Egyptian port dur
ing a weekend visit to the Suez
Canal zone, it was disclosed today.
He shook hands and chatted with
the master and some of the crew and
watched the unloading of equipment
for his armies. Later he inspected
assembly workshops and docks and
visited Indian regiments.
Evening star., 1941-09-23
Java Volcano
Eruption Covers
Nearby City
Ey the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies,
Sept 23-Java's Smeroe Volcano
erupted suddenly today in a series
of explosions which threw rocks
and lava into the air and covered
the nearby city of Malang with a
rain of ashes.
Scientists said there did not ap-
pear to be any immediate danger,
but warned that the situation
might grow more serious. Precau-
tions were taken to remove 10000
natives living on the slopes of the
11.000-foot mountain.
Coolies ordered to assist in ex-
tinguishing forest fires on the noun
tain started by streams of molten
lava were so terrified they refused
to work.
Evening star., 1941-09-23
U. 5. Efforts Crippled
By Neutrality Act,
Col. Knox Declares
Repeal Demanded at
Launching Of U. S. S.
Massachusetts
BY CLAUDE A. MAHONEY,
E+sr Etaff rnrreSnpr6epf

QUINCY, Mass, Sept. 23.-As the
new 35 5.0O0-ton U. S. S. Massachu-
setts slid down the ways at the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. yards
here today, Secretary Of the Navy
Knox said the Neutrality Act that
prevents United States ships from
going into the war zones was Grip
pling" this country's efforts. He de-
manded immediate repeal.
The cabinet official also called for
full trust and support of President
Roosevelt.
THE time for partisanship has
gone by" he said, Now there should
be only Americanism."
In an extemporaneous address at
the launching Secretary Knox said
the law mo longer is an asset, but
a liability
Sea Power Emphasized.
ut is essential to national defense" ="
he added, that aid can be sent when
and where tits needed"
Our task" the Secretary said. "is
to keep the fighting away from
America. Let us free the hands of
the Commander in Chief
If American security is to be main
tanned. he added. we must rely for
years to come on the dominancy OF
sea power
Col. Knox asserted that recent
events on the Russian front had
made the prospect of victory dim. "
He did not elaborate on this. ex-
cept to say that the casualties in
Russia were greater than in any
other conflict in history and that
the fighting in Russia had "a direct
bearing on our own situation"
He said it was possible that the
battleship Just launched might have
to participate in another fight for
human liberty"
The Massachusetts, and other
battleships recently launched or
building would carry the heaviest
guns afloat. he said.
Ship Slides Into River.
In contrast to the launching of
the South Dakota this summer at
Camden, N. j., the launching of the
Massachusetts, was smooth affair.
AS the sponsor, Mrs. Charles Francis
Adams, wife of the former Secretary
OF the Navy, struck the prov with
the champagne bottle the great
ship creaked and began to slide into
the Fore River. A new system of
anchors stopped the ship before she
was far from the ways-a system of
large piles of chain left on shore
and allowed to drag slowly into the
water
The Massachusetts is the fourth
ship in the North Carolina class
to be launched. Two of them, the
North Carolina and Washington,
are In commission. Today's launch
ing was seven months ahead of the
first schedule.
Typical of the speed in shipyards
at the present day as the Nation
strives to build a two-ocean Navy,
the keel of the cruiser Flint was
laid Immediately after the Massa-
chusetts began to slide into the
river.
Evening star., 1941-09-23
Nozis Report Rescue
OfU. S. Eagle Flyer
From Channel Boat
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. 23.-Germafls
rescued Pilot Officer william D.
Geiger of the r. A. F.'s Amer
ican Eagle squadron from rub
ber boat In the English Chan
mel Saturday, D.N.B, news
agency. reported today.
D.N.B. said Geiger, a Cali
fornian, who was shot down
after a raid on German-occu-
pied territory, was taken to
Boulogne. He inquired about
Pilot Officer William Henry
Nichols of San Carlos, Calf.
who has been In a German
prison camp since being shot
down in an earlier British at
tack.
Eagle Squadron records In
London list Geiger's home as
New York. The Air Ministry
announced on September 9 that
Nichols and two other Eagles
were missing after a sweep over
France.
Evening star., 1941-09-23
Vo|untaryWage
Freezing Seen
ByHenderson
Says Agreements
More Effective
Than CompuIsion
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Price Administrator Leon Hen
derson told Congress today that
voluntary agreements to prevent
wage increases were "the next step
in the administrations effort to
avert imitation.
Testifying before the House Bank
ing Committee on the admlnlstra-
tion's price-control bill, Mr.. Hen
derson said such agreements with
labor were not only feasible but
highly likely"
That's what Hillman has been
working for" he added, referring TO
Sidney Hillman, o. P. M. director.
Mr.. Henderson told the committee
that despite the broad powers held
by the British government to regu-
late both wages and prices, there
was much more reliance placed on
voluntary understandings there than
on the law"
Discussion of whether wage con-
trolls should be included in price
regulation bill was stimulated in
the committee when Bernard M.
Baruch, World War head Of the
War Industries Board, advocated q
universal ceiling over all elements
Of the price structure.
Every Best Arguments"
When Representative Monroney,
Democrat, of Oklahoma. asked about
British attempts to control wages.
Mr.. Henderson said he thought that
the experience in both England and
Canada should be the very best
arguments" against including wage
control in this bill.
At the opening of "a great effort"
Mr.. Henderson testified, you cannot
get the cooperation necessary by
fixing wages"
Wages should be kept In re-
straint," he added. There should
be no unwarranted increases"
Meanwhile. a proposal to freeze
commodity prices, wages. salaries
and commissions as of october l
brought into the open widely diver
gent opinions among committeeman
over the scope of price-flxlng lesis-
/ lation.
The members cried, "adminiStra-
/ lively impossible" when Represen-
tative Gore, Democrat, of Tennes-
see. advanced that plan-the third
to be placed before the committee
since 1t began hearings August 1.
staggered" by Prospect.
Mr. Henderson, who has been be-
fore the committee for weeks, said he
was staggered" by the prospect Of
having to regulate prices for every
transaction of the Nations 130,-
100000 people.
But Representative Cores plan
/ began to crystalize the thoughts of
/ the members who at first considered
only an administration proposal to
I empower President Roosevelt to fix
/ ceilings on any runaway commodity
prices. Mr.. Baruch came along with
a more far-reaching plan-a univer-
sal ceiling on all elements Of the
/ price structure.
| The administration measure woukd
not apply to wages and would pro-
vide that no ceiling for farm prices
could be set at less than ITO per
cent of the parity level.
Mr. Henderson said that he and
his associates had spent at least Is
months debating whether to recon-
mend the universal ceiling method
but finally decided on the "selective
ceiling" plan embodied in the ad-
ministration's bill.
Evening star., 1941-09-23
Eden Holds Conference
With Turkish Envoy
By the Associated Press.

By the AsSoclated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 23.-Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden conferred with
the Turkish Ambassador today.
Presumably he discussed British
Turkish relations in the light of
continued reports of German pres
sure for military and trade conces-
sions from Turkey.
The serious situation on the
southern Russian front was ex-
pected to be discussed at conferences
Mr.. Eden scheduled for today with
the Russian and United States Am
bassadors, Ivan M. Maisky and John
G.. Winant.
Evening star., 1941-09-23
Collins, Doxey Contest
For Harrison Sect Today

By the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 23.-Two
veteran Mississippi members of
Congress today sought to fill the
l5-month unexpired term of the
late United States Senator Pat Har-
rison in an election in which less
than half of the States $4,000
voters were expected to participate.
The candidates are Representa-
tive Ross Collins, 81, of Meridian,
who has served 10 terms in the
House. and Representative Wall
Doxey, 40. of Holly Springs, a men,
Der of the House since 1928.
Evening star., 1941-09-23
BeIIboy Ends His Life
After Army Rejection

BY the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md, Sept. 23-
Ward Henry johnson, 22-year- -old
bellboy recently rejected for Army
service at draft induction headquar-
tiers in Baltimore, ended his life
with a 22-caliber rifle early today,
Deputy Medical Examiner Lime H.
Corson reported.
The shooting took place at the
Windsor Hotel, where the youth
worked and lived.