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Evening star., 1941-03-09
II British Vessels
Sunk by Speedboats,
Germans Declare
Bombers and Submarines
Send Down Four More,
High Command Reveals
PS the Associated Press.

Ps the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March "a deadly
sWoop by a fleet OF Adolf Hitler's
vaunted motor Speedboats was de-
clared by authorized Nazis tonight
to have sunk two British Destroy
erS and 10 merchantmen off the
southeast coast of England.
The merchant tonnage sent to
the bottom by these fast little craft
was given at 45,600 and the two
warships were put at 1000 tons
each. In conjunction with victo-
ries claimed by the high command
for Nazi bomberS and submarines
the total tonnage reported sunk by
German sources today was 1880;
the total ships, 16.
On London Saturday night the
British Admiralty announced
the loss of two traWlers, but said
nothing of a loss of deStroyerS0
High Command Claims Raised.
The high command itself claimed
only that the SpeedboatS themselves
sank six merchantmen and the two
destroyers, but informed spokesmen
boosted the total on the basis OF
later information.
German newspapers reported ju-
bilantly that the overnight speed
boat foray meant that six OF Brit
aims precious destroyers have been
sunk in the past nine weeks, COM
pared to eight in the first seven
months of the present war.
Two of the merchantmen sunk
it was limited, were important
tankers.
Reporting the speedboat victory
the German high command credited
the British with stiff defense.
Five Credited to Sub.
The sinking of five armed freight
ers, aggregating $4,000 tons, was at
tributed to a single submarine.
Destruction by German bomberS
of a 1,200-ton merchantmen in the
North Sea and damage to three ad-
ditional ships also were reported.
In the aerial offensive, the high
command announced, German dive
bombers delivered yesterday another
in the long series of attacks on the
British fortified Mediterranean is
land of Malta, setting off big
fire in a torpedo depot and de-
stroying three British planes.
In England heavy destruction"
of hangers and other airdrome ia
cilities was claimed, and it was
said. too. that armament factories
in Newark and Bristol were hit.
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men serving in the Army. Navy
and Marine Corps for only a few
dollars a month, how can unions
Justify strikes which are intended
more to advance the cause of
unions than to benefit the workers
themselves"
Mr.. Ford charged that "competi-
tors" aided creation of unions.
Some of the strikes in some
Detroit plants were pulled off by
company henchmen in order to lay
men off when production was run
ming ahead of orders" he declared.
Says Workers Are Satisfied.
The men in our plants are sat-
isfied generally with wages and con-
ditions. Occasionally agitators try
to keep our employees stirred up, but
the men know they will be treated
fairly by the company, without out
side intervention.
Mr.. Ford talked quietly, but with
conviction, here on the Georgia es-
tate where he and Mrs. Ford are
spending several weeks.
IN my opinion" he said, unions
are losing ground and haven't leg
to stand on.
The American people are on to
their scheme of operations and cltl-
zens will rise up if unions continue
to hamper the defense program"
The manufacturer said his son,
Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor
Co., was in accord" with his views
on unions.
Patent Fight Recalled.
"We've been battling with about
the same crowd for 81 years now, u
he recalled. 1t started with the Sell
dom patent fight 81 years ago. That
was an effort to remove us from the
automobile industry. There have
been so many others since it is diff
fcult to enumerate them all, but al
ways back of the scene is the same
group out to get us.
1--WE talk with our employees per-
sonally. We have always paid the
best wages possible and increased
them voluntarily. There is no place
for a union in a picture like this"
During his stay here Mr.. Ford
keeps in close touch with conditions
at Dearborn, Mich, where his larg-
est plants are located.
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lCOnJllueO FROM rlISG HdStD
"far apart" also in informal" dis
cussions about several other points
in the nine-point union program
adopted yesterday.
Mr.. Fairless agreed yesterday
that I should take these steps for
NAL negotiations, said Mr.. Muir
ray. Nothing else was to be done.
1t was utter futility to continue the
discussions on the basis they were. y
Fail to End Milwaukee Tie-up.
At Washington. the Office of Pro-
duction Management failed in new
effort to end the 45-day-old strike
at the Allis- Chalmers Co.'S plant in
Milwaukee which has tied up S45,-
100000 of defense production.
The o. P. M. announced that the
company had refused to accept with
out additional guarantees proposal
that referee be named to rule on
certain disputes between the man
agement and the C. 1. O.-United
Automobile Workers.
~. T. n. Ol1lCldIo SplN bIldG lIIC
U. A. w. sought union security"
under which the company could be
called upon to discharge worker
who had not paid his union dues.
The company, said the o. P. NJ,
wanted guarantees that no such
power be given the referee.
Meanwhile. Neil Brant, official of
the Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers Union &C. I. o.. said a
stoppage originally scheduled for to-
morrow at the Thomas A. Edison
Industries, Inc, in New Jersey had
been postponed pending submission
of new company proposals on a
contract.
Electric Workers to Strike.
At another New Jersey plant, how
ever, workers were to walk out at
midnight. An official of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers CA. F. of L. announced
that the local at the South Plain
field plant of the Corneu-Dubilier
Electric Corp. plant had voted to
| strike.
Frank A. Diana, local president
Evening star., 1941-03-09

said the union was seeking wage in
creases. Octave Blake, president of
the company, said the firm had been
ordered by the labor board to bar
gain with no union pending an
election.
At Chicago. J. A. Gillies, vice
chairman of the Western Railways
Conference Committee, announced
that the carriers in that organiza-
ton had been forced" to request
the National Mediation Board to as
sumo jurisdiction in controversy
with IA incorporating railroad
brotherhoods. The brotherhoods, he
said, had rejected the carriers offer
to negotiate the employees demands
for vacations with pay.
Evening star., 1941-03-09

Skidmore Convicted
Of Tax Evasion on
; Of 6 Counts
Judge Defers Action on
Sentence Pending
New Trial Pleas
By the Associated Press.

by 1he Associated PRESS.
CHICAGO, March 8.-William r.
Skidmore, who has been pictured
by the Government as the agent
who arranged protection" for
gambling operators in the Chicago
area, was convicted today of evad-
ing taxes on his income.
A Federal court jury composed
of eight women and four men re-
turned findings of guilty on three
of the six counts in two indict-
ments-verdicts which could entail
maximum penalty of Is years in
prison and fines totaling 100000
Judge Philip L. Sullivan deferred
action on sentence, however, pend
ing arguments on a motion for a
new trial on March 21
Skidmore, a bald, forid man of
68 who has the appearance of a
conservative business man and who
insisted throughout his trial that
he was Just that and nothing more,
received the bad news calmly.
The jurors returned their first
verdict at 11:25 am. after the case
had been in their hands for almost
% hours. In this they convicted
the defendant of evading $685.
648. SO in taxes on his 1888 income.
They retired for further delibera-
tions and reported their verdict on
the second of the two indictments
shortly before 3 pm. In the latter
they adjudged the defendant guilty
of lodging taxes of $32 483 .33 on his
1887 income and SIG, PIT 30 in taxes
on his 1886 income, but decided he
had not evaded taxes on his 1888
1884 and 1885 earnings.
The two indictments, consolidated
for trial purposes, charged total
evasions of s505, ,766.11 in the six
year period. But the jury convicted
him of evading only s347, ,40973.
Evening star., 1941-03-09
Balkans
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got involved with Turkey England
would, at the same time, get the
chance she is waiting for"
Despite this apparently hardening
Turkish attitude, the Germans cir
culated dispatches throughout the
Balkans saying confidently that the
Reich and Turkey would reach an
agreement whereby Turkey will not
hinder" the Germans strategic plan
in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
the attack on Greece.
French Syria was brought into
the picture, too. The German news
agency Internationales Nachrichten-
Buro put out dispatch saying bold
ly: Syria will soon be important,
especially for Germany as a high
way to the Mosul oil fields and the
Suez Canal"
May Sign Amity Treaty.
Here in Belgrade, government
quarters said Foreign Minister Ak
sandar Cincar-Markovich might GO
to Berchtesgaden or Berlin early
next week to sign with the Germans
treaty of friendship and consulta-
ton as opposed to outright Yugoslay
adhesion to the axis.
Yugoslavia is expected thus to as
sure Germany of her benevolent
neutrality" with Hitler in turn
pledging respect for her frontiers.
This treaty, said some informants
likely would give the Nazis the privi-
lege of sending hospital trains back
to Germany from the Bulgarian
front over Yugoslav railways.
There was no confirmation of re-
ports that the Yugoslav cabinet also
had agreed to let German military
trains use the Vardar Valley Rail-
way to Salonika or Yugoslav air.
ports near the Greek frontier.
Evening star., 1941-03-09
Reelected by School Board

LURAY,. Va, March 8 tP,.-The
Page County School Board has re-
elected Cecil Graves as division
superintendent for another four
year term.
Evening star., 1941-03-09

Switzerland's new income tax be-
gins with annual incomes Of $465
for single persons.
Evening star., 1941-09-18
Four Corners Citizens
Ask More School Buses

Two resolutions asking steps to
protect school children of the area
were adopted last night by the Four
Corners MD Citizens Association
at a meeting in the Methodist
Church.
Additional buses to eliminate over
crowding of school vehicles was
urged in a resolution directed to the
County Board of Education. 1t was
pointed out that some of the buses
carry between 40 and so children.
The second, resolution requested
the State Roads Commission to re-
duce the speed limit on the old
Bladensburg road. from Wheaton to
Piney Branch road, from so to 30
miles an hour as a safeguard for
children travelling to and from
school.
DR.. William H. Randall, newly ap-
pointed chairman of the Sanitation
Committee, announced a clean
up drive.
Other committee chairmen named
were Mrs. Philip Buscher, schools:
George ONeill, public utilities, and
Charles Buscher, membership.
The resignation of Berry Clark as
president was declined. He had re-
Gently offered his resignation be-
cause of i'll health. The association
voted to continue under the leader
ship of Walter Miles, jr., who pre-
sided at the meeting last night.
Evening star., 1941-09-18
Leonardfown Murder Case
To 60 10 Jury Today
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LEONARDTOWN, Md. Sept 1s-
The case of Dewey Thompson, AZ
year-old Germantown Md man
charged with the Staying of Mrs.
Clara Robertson last April %, was
expected to go to the jury today
following closing arguments by
counsel.
Thompson odd-jobs worker. ad-
mitted on the stand yesterday that
he fired the shotgun blasts that
killed Mrs. Robertson and wounded
her husband. John, at the Thompson
home. He is charged with murder
The trial opened and all testimony
was concluded yesterday.
Thompson related that he and the
RobertsonS had been drinking and
that an argument ensued, during
which Thompson father. James B..
SO, and Robertson ordered Dewey
Thompson from the house. Robert
son also struck him, the witness
said.
He testified that he went to the
kitchen, picked up shotgun, walked
to the front yard and fired two shots
at Robertson, one of them striking
him in the arm
Mrs. Robertson, he said. was at
the gate, and threatened him.
Thompson warned her not to step
inside the gate, he said. and as she
moved forward he fired again.
wounding her in the side. She died
before the arrival of police.
Evening star., 1941-09-18
Family Of Nine F|ees
As Ear|y-Morning
Fire Razes House
2-Doy-OId Boby Carried
Out Of Smoking Home
On Road to Baltimore

The Furr family, mother, father
and seven children, including a q
day-old baby girl. escaped with their
lives, but little else, early today when
fire destroyed a restaurant, barber
shop and home on Baltimore boule-
ward at Autoville Drive near
Branchville
Mrs. Ruby Furr was awakened by
the smell of smoke about 2:30 am.
and awakened her husband James.
He discovered the flames in the rear
of the restaurant on the first floor
and while he was attempting to
fight the fire his wife managed to
wake the children.
AS the smoke grew thicker, Mrs.
Furr. holding the baby. Alma Jean,
born Tuesday in the upstairs apart
ment. crawled down the back stair
wav to safety, but was close to col
lapse when she reached the bottom
Eight t-year-old James, the eldest
of the seven children, followed his
mOtQer carrying Md1S ASiCo' =
and then ran across the street to
a filling station to summon aid.
BY the time the Branchville Fire
Department arrived Margaret, s,
mad reached the back yard with her
brother, Albert 10 months, and Joan
Ann. 5. and Donald 4, had come
down the stairway in their night
clothes.
Mr.. Furr, who operates a barber
shop next to the restaurant, man
aged by his wife. said he carried
no insurance. Damage was estl-
mated at about $1,000. Some cloth
ing was saved, but members of the
family were being cared for by rela-
tives today.
Evening star., 1941-09-18
Boston Man Joins Staff
OF Planning Commission

John R. Kellam of Boston has ac-
cepted an offer of a position With
the Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission as junior
planning assistant and will take over
his new duties October Is, Park
Commissioner Lacy Shaw announced
today.
Mr.. Kellam will be assigned to
work on planning. highway and zon-
ing work in a new post created last
week by the commission. His salary
will be $4,000 a year.
Mr.. Shaw said a survey made in
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties recently by Mr.. Kellam was
largely responsible for the offer hav-
ing been made to him. He visited
the metropolitan area and made
several suggestions for carrying out
planning and zoning work in the
future. He studied planning at the
University of Minnesota, Harvard
University and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
The commission expects to name
a senior planner soon, but has taken
no definite action yet, Mr.. Shaw
said.
Evening star., 1941-09-18
Services Held in Florida
For Rev. w. P. Thompson

Funeral services were held in De
Funiak, Fla, today for the Rev
Warner P. Thompson, pastor of the
Ashton and Burtonsville Methodist
Churches, who died suddenly Tues
day while vacationing in a cottage
at Santa Roso, Fla. Burial was in
De Funiak. which is the winter home
of Mr.. Thompson's mother, Mrs.
Dora Thompson, and his brother,
Ollie Thompson.
Other survivors are his widow.
Mrs. Ina Simmons Thompson; a
son, Paul, II; daughter, Gretchen,
5; another brother, Oda Thompson,
Detroit, and sister, Mrs. Iva Rim
goe, st. Augustine. Fla.
Born in Kentucky, Mr.. Thompson
moved at an early age to Florida.
Though for the last several years he
had been engaged at pastorates in
Patapsco, Baltimore and Sykesville,
Md, he returned to Florida every
year on his vacation.
Evening star., 1941-09-18
Southern Maryland
Fair Opens With
1000 Entries
Partial List Of Judges
For Upper Marlboro
Event Announced
BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.


UPPER MARLBORO. Md, Sept
18-The annual Southern Maryland
Fair opened here yesterday with
about 1000 entries expected TO COM
pete for the $1,000 prize money Of
fered in the various classes.
Domestic and farm products,
poultry cattle, and booths of the
Prince Georges County Federation
Of Women's Clubs will be exhibited
In addition, horse show will be
held Saturday afternoon.
A partial list of judges announced
yesterday includes Walter B. Posey
of Marlboro, Mrs John Magruder
of College Park, Miss Margaret Nc
Pheeters, nutrition specialist of the
University of Maryland; Mrs. H. W.
Gilbertson of Decatur Heights, Albin
Kuhn, assistant agronomist of the
University Of Maryland's extension
service and w. R. Ballard. extension
service horticulturist. Judges OF
the women's clubs booths, which
illustrate phases of national defense
are Mrs. Frank M. Stuart. represent
ing the District of Columbia Fed
Grafton of Womens Clubs; Mrs
Otto Hammerlund of the D. A. R.,
and Charles A Sheffield of the ex-
tension service, Agricultural Depart
, ment
Directors of the fair are M. Hamp-
, ton Magruder, DR. Charles V. Hay
den, Walter J. Mitchell, John Par
ran, Hal B. Clagett, William G
Brooke, secretary; Frank H. Hall
and James B. Berry.
The Ladies Committee, headed by
Mrs. Walter c. Euwer, is composed
of Miss Alice D. Duvall, Mrs. Frank
Forbes, Mrs. Frank Parran, Mrs
Henry L. Morris. Mrs. James Carr
Mrs. Maud G. Danner, Mrs. Henry
B, Brady. Mrs. Thomas H. Lyons
Mrs. Martha Boone, Mrs. John E
Millikin. Mrs. Gui H. Clagett,' Mrs
George w. Buck, Mrs. John T. Hall
Mrs. Fabian Heilig, Mrs. William T
Davis, Mrs. Philip Nalley, Mrs. Leo
Farrall. Mrs. William S. Hill, Miss
Susie Clagett, Mrs. r. L. Jenkins
Mrs. William o. WEIGH. Miss Ethel
Regan, Mrs. George B. Peverly, Mrs
Lansdale G.. Sasscer, Mrs. John H
Traband. Mrs. Clarence M. Roberts
Mrs. Rudolph S. Allen, Mrs. Charles
M. Lowe, Mrs. John Berberick, Mrs
Samuel E. Sweeney, Mrs. j. F
Goldsborough, Mrs. Joseph H
Blandford, Mrs. R. Bernard Brady
Mrs. Albert o. Beall. Mrs. French
Bowie Addison. Mrs. Francis S. Car
mody, Mrs. Julian S. Hall. Miss Lou.
ise Cheston, Mrs. Albert Bowling
Mrs. j. Enos Ray and Mrs. Nellie
Watts.
Evening star., 1941-09-18
| Reeves Named 10 Board
| Of Falls Church Schools
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star

BY a Staff Correspondent OF The star.
FALLS CHURCH. Va, Sept. 18.-
George T. Reeves has been elected a
member of the Falls Church School
Board by the Town Council, it was
announced today following special
meeting of the Council to consider
school problems resulting from over
crowded conditions at Madison
Elementary School.
Mr.. Reeves succeeds c. L. ShotWell,
who resigned from the board this
summer while absent on Govern
ment business in the West.
The Council also voted approval
of a request by R. c. Staebner,
School Board secretary, that an
additional 1,5O0 be set up in the
school fund section of the town
budget to cover employment of
additional teachers. The sum, Mr..
Staebner said, would enable the
board to employ one additional full
time teacher and one part-time
teacher to be shared with thee Dunn
Loring School.
Council members said it was
anticipated the cost of the extra
teaching service would be recovered
by the town in tuition collected from
Fairfax County for pupils outside
the town admitted to the Falls
Church schools this year.
The School Board will meet to-
night to elect a chairman to succeed
Mr.. Shotweu and discuss plans to
overcome the present congested con-
ditions in several Madison School
classes.
Evening star., 1941-09-18
S95O,00O in Bonds
Issued 10 Finance
Alexandria HOUSING
F. H. A. Provides Most
Of Funds for Two SIum
Clearance Projects
BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY Staff Correspondent OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Sept. l8.-A
permanent system of financing for
two slum clearance projects was
authorized by the Alexandria Hous-
ing Authority yesterday with the
issuance of s950.O0O worth of bonds,
s133 900 of which were acquired by
a private firm and the balance taken
over by the Federal Government.
The smaller issue, designated as
series A, was made to Hemphlll.
Moves & Co. of Washington and
New York, which was said to be the
lowest bidder of five firms whose
proposals were open by the Housing
Authority yesterday afternoon. They
will bear interest at 20643 per cent
and will mature over a 20-year
period.
Under a previous agreement with
the United States Housing Authority.
a series B issue was made to that
Government agency yesterday total
ing $4,000. This issue will mature
through the next SO years and Will
have been retired in the year 1000,
according to terms of the arrange
ment.
The low-cost slum clearance
project will consist of one of 1870
units for white families at West and
Oronoco streets: the colored project
of ITO units is situated in the square
bounded by Fairfax, Princess, Royal
and Pendleton streets.
The bond issues are to be retired
out of profits from rentals together
with Federal subsidies made each
year. The estimated total cost
ranges between s950000 and ST.
O44 900.
A portion of funds raised by the
two issues yesterday will be used to
refinance a private loan made last
spring. At that time notes totalng
$4,000 were made by the Authority
and cleared by the Chemical Bank
& Trust Co. of New York.
These notes will be retired neces-
stating interest charges of approx
mately $4,000 additional.
The interest rate at which the
series A issue was made yesterday
was described as the lowest ever to
be effected for this type of project
in Virginia.
Evening star., 1941-09-18
Rockville Board Studies
School Project Bids
special Dispatch to The Star

special DlSpdtcn 10 Inc star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Sept. 18.-
Contracts for construction of two
three room public school buildings
in the -Four Corners section and a
cafeteria and workshop building
for Richard Montgomery High
School, Rockville, are expected to
be awarded in the near future.
Bids have been received and re-
ferred to committees of members of
the Montgomery County Board of
Education for recommendations at
the next meeting of the board
One of the Four Corners buildings
will be known as the South Four
Corners Section Elementary School
and the others as the North Four
Corners Section Elementary School.
They will be the first units of what
will eventually be much larger
structures. According to DR.. Edwin
w. Broome, county superintendent
of schools, each building will cost
around $4,000, as will the Rockville
structure.
Evening star., 1941-09-18
Fairfax Red Cross Head
Sees Success in Roll Call
Special Dispatch to The Star.

FAIRFAX, Va, Sept. 18.-Reports
from several districts in the county
indicate the present Red Cross Roll
Call in Fairfax County will reach
the goal set at the beginning of the
drive. it has been announced by w.
Stanley Teagle of Belle Haven. Roll
Call chairman.
In Herndon 200 memberships have
been obtained under the direction
of Mrs. Arthur Buella: in Mount
Vernon district, under the direction
of Thomas Moncure. 325 members
have been enrolled. and in Falls
Church district, Mrs. Milton Eisen-
hover, subchairman, has reported
300 members.
At the same time it was reported
the following workers in Mclean
area have reached so. per cent or
more of their quotas: Mrs. E. E
Samson, Mrs. c. E. Randall, Mrs,
Alfred Souder, Mrs. A. E. Brandt
Mrs. John C.. Mackall and Mrs
Ralph Segar. The Rev. Paschal
Fowlkes is sub chairman.
Mr.. Teagle will address a meeting
OF all workers in the chapter head
quarters at East Falls Church Mon
day at pm.