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Evening star., 1941-12-05
Three Labor Leaders
Quizzed in BOMBING
OF Currier Home
Detroit Men Deny Any
knowledge Of BIost;;
Others Face GriIIing

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Dec. 5.-Three labor
leaders had been questioned as au-
thorities today pressed a thorough
investigation into the bombing OF
the 100000 home of Patrick j
Currier. president of lumber COM
! pany which has become focal
point in a C. I. GA. F. l.. dispute
The three union leaders-EdWard
Thai. secretary of the Detroit Build
ing Trades Council; Robert Mitchell
president of the A. F. L. Team
sters' Union, and William Roe, Sec
retary of the Teamsters' Union
appeared at police headquarters yes
terday at the request of Inspector
George B. Mcclellan. They were
taken to the Office of Julian G.. Nc
Intosh, chief assistant prosecutor
for formal statements.
Mr.. Mcintosh said they denied
knowledge of the bombing or of
making threats, although they said
they had not seen eye to eye with
Mr. Currier on his labor policy.
Following their statements, Mr..
Mcintosh said he had asked police
to bring in several men for ques-
tioning. He refused to say whether
they had been named by union Of
ficials
Inspector Mcclellan said the bomb
which exploded on the porch of the
Detroit lumber dealers home ap-
parently was a scare" bomb. No
one was injured.
Mr.. Currier, who was in New York
with his wife at the time Of the
Evening star., 1941-12-05
Green BIames Lewis
For Anti-Strike Bill;
Plans Senate Fiqht
Textile Union Members
Make Calls at Capitol;
Mass Meeting Co,Ied

Approximately $50 delegates to the
United Textile Workers of America
convention mere were calling or
congressional delegations of theil
various States today to protest en-
actment of the Smith anti-strike
bill after hearing William Green
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, denounce the legisla
tlon and lay it at the doorstep OF
John L. Lewis former president OF
the c. I. o. and head of the United
Mine Workers.
While not mentioning Mr.. Lewis
by name, Mr.. Green told the textile
workers Yesterday that passage OF
the Smith bill by the House was a
result of the strike in captive coal
mines in defiance of President
Roosevelt and the National Defense
Mediation Board
In a statement to the press later
Mr.. Green denounced the bill as un-
constitutional and a threat to a
fundamental right of freedom.
A. F. l.. to Fight Bill.
He declared the House had acted
In anger as a result of the actions
of one individual. meaning Mr.
Lewis. Mr.. Green said the A. F. L,
would fight the legislation to the
last breath.
Meanwhile. the Congress of Indus
trial Organizations made tentative
plans for mass meeting of men,
bers at $50 pm. Monday in the
Press Club auditorium to discuss
means of defeating the Smith bill
Evening star., 1941-12-05

to violate the Neutrality Act by
shipping abroad without an export
license material that might have
been used by Axis powers.
Named in the indictment were the
Titan Shipping Co., Inc; William
Oberlander, its vice president; the
Companhia Nacional de Navegacao,
a Portuguese concern, and Antonio
de Silva, captain of the steamship
Thome, owned by the Titan COM
pany.
First of its kind in this district,
the indictment charged that about
IS coils of steel wire rope we're pur-
chased in st. Louis and shipped to
New York, where "a coils were placed
on the steamship Nyassa but later
removed by customs agents because
no export license had been obtained.
The indictment charged that the
remaining II coils, weighing some
Evening star., 1941-12-05

blast, posted a $1,000 reward for
capture of the perpetrators and
declared American Federation of
Labor adherents "are the only ones
who could be responsible"
Frank x. Martel, president of the
Detroit and Wayne County Fedora
ton of Labor, declared that This
is just another of Curriers' lies"
Mr.. Currier, whose company has
a contract with the United Con-
struction Workers &C. I. o., re-
Gently was refused a Government
contract on defense housing
project in suburban Wayne. al
though his bid was low by $43l 900,
after Sidney Hillman, o. P. NJ di-
rector, said A. F. L. building trades
threatened a general strike if Mr.
Currier got the award.
The lumber company head said
he had been threatened several
Evening star., 1941-12-05
Man, IS, Found Dead
In Gus-FiIIed Room

A 65-year-old roomer was found
dead in his gas-filled room at 736
Third street N. w. yesterday, police
reported. He was identified as
James T. Culleton, and was under
stood to have been a retired Marine
Corps sergeant.
Police said one burner of a gas
hot plate was on when the landlaGv.
who smelled gas fumes. called on
another roomer to force the door.
Evening star., 1941-12-05

18 tons and valued at about 50 900,
were shipped to Baltimore on May
Is last and placed aboard the
Thome as ships stores.
The Thome, the indictment
charged, left for Lisbon, Portugal,
with the shipment aboard.
A search of warehouses in Lis
bon, Treasury investigators said, 50
far had failed to turn up the ship
ment.
Evening star., 1941-12-05
Prosecutor Dies Suddenly

TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. S lP).-Paul
Manton, assistant United States
district attorney, died suddenly of a
heart attack ct his home today.
Born in Toledo in 1895, he was a
graduate of the United States Naval
Academy
Evening star., 1941-12-05
Alexander Warns japan
Aggression Won't Poy

By the Associated Press.
BRISTOL, England, Dec 5-A. v
Alexander, First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, today warned Japan "even
at this late hour" that aggression
in the long run. will not pay
Il had hoped that wiser counsels
in Japan would prevail over those
who appear to be leading her people
into new war of aggression, he
said in an address.
The threat has not abated and
aggression may be imminent"
Evening star., 1941-12-05
Two Shipping Lines
Indicted on Export
License Charges
Accused Of Transporting
Material Which Could
Have Helped Axis
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-A Federal
grand jury yesterday indicted two
shipping companies, the vice presi-
dent of one, and steamship cap
tain, charging each with conspiracy
Evening star., 1941-12-05

times" since his appearance in
Washington last month before a
committee investigating the hous-
ing contract award.
Evening star., 1941-10-01
u. S. Army Units Reach Iceland
To Bolster Island Defense
Maj. Gen. Charles H. BonesteeI Leads
Soldiers Landed From Giant Transports

accompanies all British general in
spection. The American took the
salute with Gen. Curtis, Brig. Gen.
John Marston, commanding the
United States Marine forces in Ice
land, and Admiral Scott, the British
naval officer commanding.
Gen Bonesteel said in an inter-
view aboard the TRANSPORT which
brought him here that I'VE are here
for a hard and serious business"
Just what the business was he did
not say, but he made it clear that
there is to be no folderol."
Gen. Bonesteel, who will COM
mand the neWly-organized Iceland
base force" said the vast amount
OF supplies landed included some
interesting equipment, skis. snow
shoes and Garand rifles, which
think are very good"
The Garand, with which every
soldier here is equipped, is rela-
lively light and has tremendous fire
power and is durable" Gen. Bone
steel said. "A better rifle NAV be in
the offing, but if you experiment
and experiment you never get any,
thing"
Evening star., 1941-10-01
Volunteer War Work
Urged by Mrs. Roosevelt
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. There is
mo such thing today as business as
usual, life as usual, or play as usual.
in the opinion Of Mrs. Franklin D
Roosevelt.
Mrs. Roosevelt told about 1000
people at a Knit for Defense tea
yesterday she believed every volun-
teer who undertook some work at
this time would feel responsibility
to the entire emergency situation.
Perhaps we will have to do things
we have never done before" she
said. but we must keep on doing
them because I think this emer-
gency will not come to an end when
war ceases in Europe. The de-
struction of war must be repaired"
The Citizens Committee for the
Army and Navy. which sponsored
the tea, is seeking 100000 sweaters
by Christmas.
Mrs. Roosevelt, already at work
on her contribution, appeared with
3 inches knitted on sweater.
Evening star., 1941-10-01
State Of Emergency
Extended by Nazis
In Bohemia-Moravia
a Executed in Netherlands
Fifth Gets Life Term for
Sabotage and Espionage
By the Associated Press.

bS the Associated Press.
Spreading unrest in Nazi-occupied
Europe brought reports today that
the Germans had extended their
state of emergency in the protec-
torate Of Bohemia -Moravia to in
clude three more districts and the
execution of four persons in the
Netherlands for sabotage and es-
pionage.
Reuters. British news agency. re-
ported in London that it had heard
the Prague radio announce the
proclamation of emergency in the
additional Czech districts, six of
which already were under a state
Of civil emergency decreed Sunday
by the new German trouble shooter,
Reinhard Heydyich within "a hours
after his appointment to suppress
revolutionary outbreaks.
The districts affected today, ac-
cording to the Prague radio, are
Hodonin, Uhersky Brod and Uhersky
Hradiste. Those put under the emer-
gency decree Sunday were the most
populous in the country-Prague
Bruena, Maehrisch- -Ostrau, Klando
Koenigradz and Olmuetz.
Besides the four executed in the
Netherlands a fifth was sentenced to
life imprisonment. The German
broadcast said the sentences were
ordered by special war courts under
direction of the German com
mander in chief for the occupied
country.
One of the four executed had shot
a German railway man without rea-
son, it said. while the others orig
mated and headed an espionage or
/ ganization recently unearthed.
German retaliation for Czech at.
tempts to throw off Nazi rule ha,
cost 88 lives in three days, So ot
| lCoa noro
Evening star., 1941-10-01
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
REYKJAVIK, Sept. IT Delayed
Soldiers of the United States
Army, commanded by Maj. Gen.
Charles H. Bonesteel, have landed
here to bolster the increasingly for
midable garrison of this Gibraltar
of the North.
1t was a Workmanlike operation
carried out with precision. Work
ing parties wrestled all day with
the grim material of modern war,
taking them from the holds of giant
transports which dwarfed the
wharves.
Gen. Bonesteel was met ashore by
Maj. Gen. H. o. Curtis, commander
in chief of the British forces and
general officer commanding all the
soldiers on the island.
AS he walked down the pier a
guard of honor from the Durham
Light Infantry Regiment snapped
to present arms and a quartet OF
warplanes roared low
Gen. Bonesteel walked down the
rows of light infantrymen accom-
panied by Gen. Curtis as the band
played over the Waves" which
Evening star., 1941-10-01
Soviet 19-Yeor-OIds
Called for Regular
Military Training
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Oct. 1.-The Rus
sian 1922 military Classic
year-old youths-was called up
today for its regular period of
military service. This is the
annual date for the summons
to military classes and the call
was issued by posters signed by
district military commanders.
The universal compulsory mil
itary training program by which
Soviet Russia has announced
that she plans to raise the
largest peoples army in history
from her immense reservoir of
manpower also began operating
today.
All men from 16 to so years
old will undergo 100 hours of
military training within the
next five months under the
plan decreed by Premier Stain.
Skiing will be included in the
winter program.
Evening star., 1941-10-01
S4,000,o00,000 More
Voted by Commons
To Meet War Costs
Expenditures for Fighting
Now Run S44 900, 900
Daily, Wood Declares
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-The House of
Commons today voted new war
credit Of s1O0O,000, ,0O0-about s4,-
900 ,000,000-aSked by Chancellor Of
the EXchequer Sir Kingsley Wood to
meeting the rising costs of the war.
British war expenditures now are
running to El1OO0,0O0 $4,000 ,00O
per day, the chancellor said.
That figure is more than so per
cent higher than during tine peak of
the World War, when they ran only
100000 per day.
? Billions Already Voted.
With two billions already author
lied for war purposes alone. in
this fiscal year beginning April l
Wood said the total government
expenditures now were fl3,000000
52,000,000) daily, compared with
$4,000 900 at the peak of the World
War
Omitted States Treasury figures
show that during the first 29
days of September that nation
spent s1,827 ,22o BAT, an average
of S63,000,000 a day of which
s1,28O,246,eO4, or s40,698 900 day,
wes specifically marked for ma
tional defense and lend-lease
add
The newly-voted billion pounds
sterling, he estimated, should last
at the current rate of expenditure
until about the end Of December
He said the object cited six months
ago of financing the war "by
methods which would hold the
dangers of imitation in check so far
has been achieved" but added that
the dangers of initiation remain.
Expenditures during the past two
wears of war totaled f70l8,000 900
1923 .O72 900 ,000) of which f5,668,-
100000 (s22, ,672 900 ,00o) was for war
services, Wood declared.
Warns Against High Interest.
With the warning that Britain
must not be burdened with high In
terest charges. Wood said.
I'm this war we haven't paid more
than three per cent even on the
longest loans compared with five
and six per cent in the last war
I've seen it suggested that in the
process of financing the war the
country is rapidly bleeding to death
such gloom and despondency
are thoroughly harmful and based
on a quite fantastic view of the
situation.
The dangers of the future will
not lie in the drying up of income
but in the faltering of our resolu-
ton to restrict the spending Of it."
Evening star., 1941-10-01
Morse Code Message Whsted by Third Mate
Brings Destroyer to Hurricane Survivors

a Coast Guard cutter after Navy
destroyers aided by seaplanes had
picked them OF bits Of wreckage.
The 1,811-ton wooden ship, laden
with steel rails from Los Angeles
for San Juan, ran into heavy weather
which damaged her steering gear
last Thursday morning, the survi-
vors said.
From that moment onward, this
is their narrative of cumulative
heroism and horror:
While attempting to switch from
the electric to hand steering gear
First Mate Harry christensen and
Chief Engineer H. Little were in
jured and were taken below to their
hunks. They never were seen again
for almost Immediately the Ethel
Evening star., 1941-10-01
N. Y. A. Irregularities
Charged in Report by
Controller General
Warren Says Youth
Might Be Denied Benefits
If Practices Continued
By WILL P. KENNEDY.

Numerous irregularities and
questionable transactions" have
been disclosed by the files of the
National Youth Administration,
many of which if continued would
apparently prevent the youth Of the
country from receiving full benefit
of the funds appropriated by Con-
gress, Lindsay c. Warren. Con-
troller General of the United States,
has declared in a report just made
to the chairmen of the Senate and
House Appropriations Committees.
Copies of this report have been
sent to the Director of the Budget
Bureau and the Administrator of
the Federal Security Agency. The
investigation made by the General
Accounting Office was authorized
the Controller General explained, IT
the Budget and Accounting Act OF
1921.
The Investigation was "in relation
to expenses incurred in the main
tenance and operation of employ
ment agencies for employment OF
youth by the National Youth Ad-
ministration. and certain general
practices found to exist in the
Offices of that organization.
Misinformation Charged.
Aubrey Williams, administrator OF
the National Youth Administration
in March. 1910, misinformed a House
appropriations subcommittee re-
garding the expenses incident to
establishment and maintenance of
employment agencies in l00 of l87
Offices located in Al States in finding
employment for youth in private in
dustry," Mr.. Warren's report asserts.
In reply to questions by members
of the subcommittee he said the
cost amounted to approximately
$629.52 for salaries and non-labor
costs. The report shows that eX-
penditures were made from sums
appropriated to the N. Y. A. for ad-
ministrative expenses. and the ques-
ton of legality of such expenditures
was raised in the appropriations
committee hearings. (The Controller
General Stated that the files in
Washington showed 450 persons en-
ployed in this Junior placement pro-
gram from 1885 to 1910 (the date Of
transfer of function and personne.
to the tSate Employment Service)
THE total cost was not ascertain
able" Mr.. Warren said ''as such ex.
penses were charged to the N. Y. A
general administrative expenses anc
not set up as project, and the
records under the Emergency Relic.
Act were maintained by the Work:
Progress Administration through
July, 1899. Correspondence in tht
N. Y. A. files shows numerous othel
persons-names not revealed-Wert
engaged and working on program
but actually assigned to projec
and paid from project funds; il
certain instances others engaged OF
the program were paid from fund
allotted to various N. Y. A. stat
officers for general administrativ,
expenses and some of the personne
employed on the program were pait
from w. P. A. funds"
Cites Assignment Quota.
Documents also show. according t,
the report, that none of the salarie
and expenses incurred by employe
of the Division of Guidance an,
Placement in the Washington offic
| (See N. Y. A., Page A-6D
Evening star., 1941-10-01
How BeIgions Beat
Italians in Africa

Knocked out OF the war In
Europe a tiny Belgian free
force has trekked from the
Congo jungle swamps over the
Nile watershed and desert
wastes of the Sudan to storm
key Italian strongholds in
Western Ethiopia.
George Weller, correspond
ent of The Star and Chicago
Daily News, donned the Bel
gian uniform, travelled 1000
miles up the Congo, then
down the White Nile to un-
cover this virtually unknown
chapter of the war. He tells
it in six dramatic articles, the
first of which appears tomor-
row in
Chr EurntnD Star
Evening star., 1941-10-01
Crushing Of Two
Nazi Batta|ions
Claimed by Reds
Bottle for Khurkov
Appears Near as
Germans Approach

BY the Associated Press.
The Russians today reported the
crushing of two battalions of Ger
man reinforcements rushed to q
sector of the southern front to re-
place two shattered Rumanian in
fantry brigades, and a battle for
Kharkov, industrial city in the heart
of the Donets River basin, ap-
peared to be in the offlng.
In two days. the Russian report
said, the Germans lost 2300 men
killed in fierce Red Army counter
attacks on the southern front, While
battles were developing also on the
west and northwest.
The reported German losses were
in addition to 100000 Axis soldiers
reported killed in the prolonged bat
ties for Leningrad and Odessa
100000 Germans at Leningrad and
100000 Rumanians at Odessa.
1,4OO Nazis Left Dead.
The Red army report said Russian
infantry which destroyed two Ru-
manian brigades September 26 kept
up its attacks against Germans hur-
ried into the breach and crushed
two battalions Of the first German
Alpine division and destroyed sew
eral other units. The Germans left
1,400 dead near the village of "U'
alone, it said, and the Russians
seized important war booty.
Another instance where the Ger
| mans sent reformed divisions back
into battle against the Russians was
reported by Tass, Soviet news
| agency, from the central front where
it said, the Germans launched ar
offensive five days ago in the river
s. zone with the 269th Division
| reorganized after it had been routed
on the Yelnya sector.
The division again was routed, the
agency said, when Russian forces
! launched a three-day counterdrivt
with air and artillery support. More
than 1900 Germans were left dead
on the battlefield, it said.
| HcIlldu lOSSeS Ol lUU,UUU OF more
men in the 10-week battle fol
Leningrad count only those faller
on the southern and Southwestern
approaches to Russia's second larg-
est city. the Red Army review said.
Red Star. Soviet Army newspaper
said enormous German losses il
Estonia and in the direction of Nov
gorod' were not included in the
Leningrad estimate. Rumanian plan.
losses at Odessa were put at 140 b.
| TaSs.
The Firms officially announced
capture of the Eastern Karelian cit,
OF Petrozavodsk, about 180 mile
airline northeast of Leningrad anc
on the vital Leningrad- -Murrnansl
Railroad.
Nazis Approach Kharkov.
On the southern front, German
military dispatches reported tha
Nazi troops were approaching th'
Evening star., 1941-10-01

big industrial city OF Kharkov, which
lies almost at the eastern border of
the Ukraine republic.
DN.B., official German news
agency, said Nazi flyers taking part
in ground fighting" around Kharkov
blasted a railway network and de-
molished 33 trains filled with So
Wet Army supplies.
Kharkov, a city of 654,000 popu-
lation, is a center of smelling, metal
lurgical and other industries.
The Russians, admitting the fall
Of historic Poltava, 80 miles south
west of Kharkov, where Peter the
Great routed the Swedish invaders
of Charles XII in 1709, declared
that Soviet troops were forming
along the east bank of the Vorskla
River to block the Nazi onslaught
toward Kharkov.
Capture of Poltava, city of $780,
900 on the west bank of the Vorskla
River, was acknowledged in the Red
Army's morning bulletin. The Ger
mans said it fell along with Kiev
/0.. yryAn na.. q
Evening star., 1941-10-01
Rotioning Throttles
Commerce in ltuly
~ the Assnciated PrekS.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME. Oct. with virtually all
consumers goods now rationed or
about to be rationed, commerce in
Italy stood almost at a standstill
today. 1t was the first day of ration
ing of bread, the mainstay OF the
italian workers diet.
The Ministry of Guilds called an
urgent meeting of the clothing guild
for October 7 to help it work out
the problem of the clothing industry
which is to be rationed within a
fortnight.
Evening star., 1941-10-01

Skakel settled into the sea as If
she had no bottom. The time was
9:10 am.
Third Mate Francis Holmes, on
watch, had no time to lower even a
single lifeboat. Quickly he slashed
the lines of one boat in a forlorn
hope, but it banged against the
bridge housing and fell bottomside
up in the raging sea.
Capt. Hans Bierd, who narrowly
escaped the blow from the lifeboat,
stood at the bridge rail. That was
the last any of his crew saw of him,
for the whole bridge and deck hous-
ing being carried away by the storm
Those men on deck were hurled
into the sea, grasping at any bit OF
(SAe SHIP Page A.6.)
Evening star., 1941-10-01
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN JUAN Puerto Rico. Oct. l.
A captain who went down with his
ship, radio operator who died after
reassuring his mates that help was
en- route, seaman who bled to
death from the attack of a shark
these we're among the incidents re-
lated today by the IL survivors Of
the motorship Ethel Skakel, former
ly the Libby Maine, which sank in
10 minutes during a Caribbean
storm.
Twenty men died when the Ethel
Skakel foundered or in the subse-
quent two-day battle for survival
against the wind-whipped sea. The
survivors, 10 of them in sick bay,
arrived here late last night aboard