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Evening star., 1941-11-07
Rail Wage Proposals
OF Presidents S Board
Accepted by Carriers
Class ] Lines Cite
National Emergency as
Reason for Action
By the Assoc.sted Press.

By the Assoc.sted Press.
CHICAGO. Nov. Carriers
Conference Committees represent
ing all Glass railroads in the
United States announced today they
had decided to accept the recon-
mendation of President Roosevelt s
fact-finding body for temporary
wage increases for 1.250,000 railroad
workers.
The committees issued the fol-
lowing statement:
The Carriers Conference Com
mitteeS representing Eastern, West
ern and Southeastern railroads an
nounced today that while they are
disappointed in the recommended
tions OF the Presidents Emergency
Board in their working rules, wages
and vacation disputes. and despite
the very heavy burden it imposes
upon the railroads of the country
they have concluded to accept the
boards recommendations with re-
spect TO these issues.
National Emergency Cited.
"A full and fair hearing was held
before the Presidents Emergency
Board as provided by law. and the
committees feel that in this time Of
national emergency, in the interest
of national defense and in keeping
with the Presidents address to dele
gates to the International Labor
Office. the boards recommendations
should be accepted
The board recommended wage in
creases of 712 per cent for the $50
900 operating employees who had de-
manded boosts of 80 per cent. The
lowest paid of these now earns S506
day.
For the 100000 incorporating
workers, the board proposed an
average increase of 1912 per cent.
They had asked for 80 to "a cents
more an hour. They now receive IS
to IS cents.
One-week vacations with pay
were proposed for the incorporating
employees, with the board also rec
ommending wage increases Of 712
cents an hour for 40.0C0 or more
employees of the Railway Express Co.
Railroad spokesmen estimated it
would cost the lines at least $780,
100000 year to put the boards
recommendation into effect.
Disappointment Expressed.
Chiefs of the five big operating
brotherhoods expressed keen disap-
pointment at the recommendations
soon after they were made public,
but spokesmen for the incorporating
group decided to wait until Novem-
Der II before formulating their pol
icy and procedure in the light of the
report. They have called a meeting
of 1854 general chairmen of their
unions to consider the report on that
date.
The Presidents speech yesterday
referred to in the carriers state
ment, urged workers to stay on the
job while the Nation was engaged in
Its defense efforts.
Railroad workers have authorized
strike to enforce their demands.
but under provisions of the Railway
Labor Act they are not permitted to
walk out before December 5, 80 DAYS
after submission Of the Fact-Finding
Boards report.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Powerful Drive May Relieve
Siege on Leningrod; Stain
Gives Hitler Maybe q Year


Russian counerattack on Volokoamsk appears to be
developing into powerful offensive which may completely
reopen MoscowLenngrad communications and relieve the
siege on Lenngrad informed London said today
These reports Soviet drive followed admission by
Moscow had been halted entirely
capital by Premier Joseph Stain
which that within few months perhaps the
burst weight of her crimes"
while admitting their Moscow offensive had been
artillery had today begun their
fortress area but having
tough steel and mountain
Vookoamsk miles northwest of Moscow southwark
of Kann Red Army infantry cavalry artillery and planes were
dispatches Kubyshev having driven
of position after position along
Smile
dispatches northern front said the Germans
had ATTEMPTED in vain regain before Lenngrad
Actual Of the city under
declared of the question without
reinforcementS.
appeared that the Germans were IN for
bleak winter Lenngrad and Moscow
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Soviet Optimistic

! MOSCOW. Nov. 7 lP.-Premier Jo-
seph Stain today gave Adolf Hitler
maybe a year" before "Hitlerite
Germany must purst under the
weight of her own crimes in an
address on the oath anniversary of
the BolShevik revolution.
All Russia was "a single fighting
camp with inexhaustible supplies
of man power, Stain said. adding
that Germany counting on the Red
Army cracking after the first blow,
badly miscalculated'
The speech was delivered before
a military review in Red Square.
Stain contrasted Russia today
with that of the october revolution,
when Russia had peen stripped of
the Ukraine. the Caucasus. Central
Asia, the Urals, Siberia and the Far
East" and had neither allies, army
nor arms and lacked bread and
clothing
No Serious Shortage, He Says.
Today, he said. Russia has no
serious shortage either in food, arms
or clothing while her reserves of
man power are inexhaustible And
she has an army. navy, allies and
"the sympathy and support of all
peoples of Europe who have fallen
under the yoke of Fascist tyranny
Says Nazis Face Sure Disaster.
In the face of this, he declared,
the Nazis face sure disaster.
Germany is bleeding to death,
her resources giving out" Stain
said
The German invaders are strain
ing their last forces. There is no
doubt that Germany cannot sustain
such a strain for any long time. An
other few months, another half-year,
one year maybe and Hitlerite Ger
many must burst under the weight
of her own crimes"
This was Stains second speech
within two days in connection with
the anniversary of the revolution.
CThe London listening post of
Tass, official Russian news
agency, today issued a COM
plete and authentic" transcript
of the passage in yesterdays
speech in which the Russian
leader spoke of the need of a
second front in the battle with
Germany. The original recep-
ton had been unclear and in
complete on that part.
c'There is no doubt that the
See STAIN, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-11-07

By the Associated Press.
High administration officials
said today President Roosevelt
would veto the pending price
control bill. which critics say
would permit sharp increases in
the cost of agricultural commodl-
ties. if it reached his desk in the
form recommended by the House
Banking Committee.
AT his press conference earlier
in the day, the Chief Executive
did not answer questions con-
cerning ceilings for farm prices,
but it was learned authoritatively
that the bills restrictions against
establishing ceilings for those
commodities below the 1929
average were Objectionable to the
President.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
All Solid Fuels Added
To List Controlled
By Secretary Iekes
Roosevelt Gives Him
Power Over Use Of Coal
As Well os Oil and Cos

The White House announced to-
day that Secretary of Interior
Ickes has been appointed solid fuels
co-ordinator for defense.
In making the appointment in a
letter to the cabinet officer, Presi-
dent Roosevelt noted that Mr. Ickes
already is exercising a supervisory
function over oil and gas fuel and
that the Interior Department has
in its Bureau of Mines extensive
Evening star., 1941-11-07
U. S. and Cuba Sign
Leuse-Lend Agreement

Secretary of State Hull today an
nounced the signing of lease-lend
agreement with Cuba under which
the United States will exchange war
materials for Cuban supplies needed
in this country.
The agreement. similar to those
being worked out with a number of
Latin American countries, was
signed by Secretary Hull and DR..
Aurelio F. Concheso, Cuban Am
bassador here.
Mr. Hull declined to reveal any
details of the agreement other than
to say that supplies this country will
receive from Cuba in payment for
defense equipment will include such
items as sugar tobacco and man
paneSe
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Woman Corporal
Declared Suicide
After Reprimond
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. IA coroner
decided today that Mary
Clement Davies, lance corporal
in the Auxiliary Territorial
Service, committed suicide
Wednesday after a reprimand
for failing to salute an officer.
Miss Davies, daughter of
Clement Davies, member of
Parliament and critic of gov
ernment policies. was found
dead from electric shock at the
base of pylon at the Ats
School in Southern England.
The coroner said she appeared
to have lost her temper after
the reprimand, failed to keep a
promise to apologize and five
minutes later was found dead.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. 7.-Propaganda
Minister Paul Joseph Goebbes
writes in the weekly Das Reich
that the Axis powers are really
fighting for bare existence, and
the worries and distress which
We all must bear in the war
would pale in the face of the in
ferno which would await us if we
were to lose"
The article says that Adolf
Hitler's work "often enough hung
on silken thread" and that the
chance which the German nation
possesses is indeed its greatest,
but also its last"
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Observation-Disclosures
Reported Arrested
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
SHANGHAI, Nov. 7.-Foreign re-
ports said today that Cheng Wen
yuan, Vice Minister of War in the
Japanese-sponsored Nanking re-
glme, had been arrested by Nanking
agents and Japanese police on a
charge of espionage in behalf of
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek.
Several other high officials of the
War Ministry were arrested stimuli
taneously, it was said, as the result
OF discovery of an alleged plot to
supply information to Chungking
regarding movements of the Jap
anese and Wang Ching-wei, head Of
the Marking regime.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Output Of Big Bombers
Due Soon at 4 Plants
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Production of heavy bombers at the
first of the Governments four new
mass-production assembly plants
probably will start in January, War
Department officials said today
The Fort Worth, Tex, plant, to
be operated by Consolidated Aircraft
Corp, is scheduled for completion
December 81, and the assembly of
four -motored bombers, from parts
fabricated in large part by auto
mobile manufacturers, is expected to
| begin soon after that date.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Soldiers Will Get
Christmas FurIouohs

The War Department announced
today that routine troop movements
involving change of station will be
suspended from December IL to
January IL, so the maximum num-
ber of soldiers may take advantage
Of Christmas furloughs.
The Army Is applying furloughs
generally to all men at that time.
Evening star., 1941-11-07

information and facilities bearing
on the solid fuels.
"As the defense effort progresses"
Mr.. Roosevelt wrote, 1T becomes in
creasingly urgent to assure that the
supply of solid fuels will be ade-
quate and that they will be readily
available at consuming points when
required for military industrial and
civilian purposes. Difficult problems
are already arising with respect to
their supply and availability for
(See ICKES, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Influx

Mr., Mrs. and Miss New
conner are flocking to Wash
ington by thousands each
month. They find in The Star,
the Capitals oldest newspa-
per, a rare combination of
shopping guide and friend.
It's columns give them the
full news of the world; of
their new home town and of
the buying opportunities to
be found in all phases of its
commercial life.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
District Seeks
S Million in
1943 Budget
Estimates Sent to
Bureau Largest
In City's History
BACkGROUND-

BAChGROUNU-
WdshinotOn's population crotDth
in the past year, caused mostly
BY rnfur OF WWkers due TO nd-
tional emergency, created huge
neu problems which inspired de-
pdrtment executives to seek
nearly S65 ,00O 900 tOr the merit
fiscal year. At recent public hear
inqS on 1943 budget estimates
numerous groups insisted the
United States had great re-
Sponsidlity as to these eTtrnor-
binary needs and that District
BUDGET should be held doDn TO
dpOid tar rises.
Evening star., 1941-11-07

1Ot"1 OeOf P"Po1S oo'101
Yesterdays Circulation
The Evening Star
Thurs, Nov. 6, 1941- 176,291+
Thurs, Nov. !, 1910 166,373*
Increase - 9,918
Returns from newsstands not de-
Quoted and no samples included.
Telephone National 5000
and delivery of The Star to
your home will start i'm
rnediately.
Evening star., 1941-11-07

(See FINLAND, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1941-11-07

Continued on Page Az, Column s
Evening star., 1941-11-07

(See ICKES, Page A-bD
Evening star., 1941-11-07

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages Tx and 2X OF this edition OF
The Star, supplementing the news Of
the regular home delivered edition.
Evening star., 1941-11-07

See RUSSIAN LOAN, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1941-09-11
I'M Mrtttnria,1t

or, u saE as.s .ts.T Esss # s
September IL, 1889.
His weary hours and days Of pain,
His weary nights have passed;
His ever-patient, worn-ou soul
Has found sweet rest at last.
DEVOTED CHILDREN.
COHEN. FLORA. tribute of love and
asyotion & tS ths memory ,tt OF my ds,r mother: :
ago today. SEPTEMBER IL. 1889.
The memory Of her sweet love and hesu-
tiful companionship will always be = Joy
ash az foP1S51 DEvoTiS e soN. IS C. CECIL COHEN
CORA VIRGINIA HAcKLEy. who left us
twelve years ago today, September IL, 1929.
Dear mother, know you are our Kuid-
LOVING .5 DAUGHTER AND aRANpcHn-
RfRViN nfENi AHnA Tois MAb aNp siIE7 1IEEs TOMMY
ory oi oai tSsA = 2 ne WE
who passed away into eternal rest one
year ago today, September IL, 1910.
Today recalls . memory
The blow was hard, the shock severe;
ong tssSu.ht Of hin VII nv n:ssf asS
Are the ones who loved hta best.
WIFI. CLARA LHwIs.
MUTSCHLER. WILLIAM o. In loyinE
remembrance Of our dear son, WILLIAM
o. MUTSCHIkR. who departed this life
one year aGo today, september IL, 1880.
We were standing at your bedside
And saw your life DEPART,
| And when We knew you had gone
It almost srcke our hearts.
We tried so hard to save you.
Our prayers were all In vain;
This world would seem like Heaven
If We hss MoFars ffH s'i1 aNb Dsiini sfiAriHrn.
TYLER, GEORGE H. In loving re-
membrance Of GEORGE H. TYLER, son OF
| the late William and Mary Tyler.
| Dear Jack, We know you are rejoicing
| with our loved ones. but II God would
only lend US you Just. We say. . day Or TWO.
thousand Of moments would be Just .
| few to talk, sing and lauKh with you.
DEVOTED FAMILY. -
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Stinnson-
Continued From First Page.)

found that munition and ammuni-
ton factories are entering into pro-
duction on an encouraging scale.
Production will pick up speedily in
October, he indicated. He also de-
scribed as extraordinary" the train
ing being given mechanics at Army
Air Corps schools he visited.
4 Secretary Stimson referred to the
Lincoln Incident In discussing the
freedom OF criticism" which Is en-
joyed in our democratic setup and
is directed, he stressed, at ali pur.
poses for which our Army Is being
trained.
The Civil War President had been
under the attack Of politicians for
suspending the writ of habeas cor
pus which, Mr.. Stimson pointed out,
was no doubt the function of Con-
gress. Quoting An extract from Carl
Sandburg's Life Of Lincoln" he
read:
Pointing to the death penalty as
q requisite of military organiza-
tion, he president Lincoln) in
quired: Must I shoot q simple
minded soldier boy who deserts
while must not touch q hair of q
willy agitator who induces him to
desert? This is none the less in
furious when effected by getting q
father, brother or friend into q
public meeting and there WORKING
upon his feelings till he Is persuaded
to write the soldier boy that he ID
fighting In q bad cause, for q wick
ed administration Of . contemplate
government, too weak to arrest and
punish him If he shall desert.
II think that in such q case, t<
silence the agitator and save ths
boy Is not only constitutional but
withal, . great mercy"
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Draths

THEOFIELD, ALICE EvELYN. On
Wednesday. September 10: 1s4l; at chil-
FIELD. fi b beiesed dsaTSt.r & sA y John :. h. and
Grace A, Theofleld of Wilson lane. Be
thesda. Nd. Remains resting at the Be
Pumphrey. zoos Wisconsin % ave-. m-- "'0''n
Notice Of funeral later.
tember o. Ie41. VIRGE TURNER of ISL
St ,II. nE; devoted Td a si,ssr Gf Ernest Jurnsr
Repains resting at tn. Malvsn 4 schey
Hhsre services Win be S.d r1d.s s.
Cemetery.
WARD. SPENCE LAWRENCE. On Sep
sss s:%seF III asil snscR & Ia sRRcr hsR " % An
beloved son Of the late Gustayus W. Ward
and brother, of Emma ward swart and
Hattie Ward Joy.
pitsl, & FRANcEs Z. MHirTiMdToN ErnSSfeSs Se- Be-
loved wife Of Clarence R: whitsington.
Whittinston;. daushter Of MARY. Z. Burch.
Services at Chambers funeral home, SIT
a st. ss Ma, On FTdis II 4 III
Catholic Church at 10 am. Relatives and
Cemetery. Baltimore. Nd. papers @ % piesse
copyD II
WILLIAMSON. SAMUEL Z. Suddenly.
on Wednesday. September 10. 1941. at his
WILLIAMSON, the beloved husband of Hat
tie Williamson, father of Mrs. Ruth Will
Hanson Clark and brother Of JOSEPH b.
Williamson.
Services at the Chambers funeral home,
tember IS, at 2:3O pm. Relatives and
friends invited. Interment Confessional
Cemetery. 12
wRAY. GLoYD W. On wednesday, Sep
tember 10. I941, GLOYp W. WRAY OF
band Of. Doris wray and father Of Jean
and Robert Wray. Remains restinE At
the 8. Hines Co. funeral home, 2901
14th st. NV. until 8 pm. Friday. eep-
Services and interment crawfords-
vile, Ind.
WYNKO0P. JOSEPH ELLIS. On Thurs.
day, September IL, 1871, JOSEPH ELLIS
WYNKOOP. beloved husband Of Claudia
D. Wynkoop, father of Virginia W. Morse
Funeral from the w. w. Deal funeral
home. 4812 Georsia ave. NV, on Saturday,
September 13. at 2 pm. Relatives and
friends invited. Interment Ivy Hill Gem.
etery, Laurel, Nd IL
YOUNG. HARRY DllEHL. On wednes.
day, September 10. 1871. ut Garfield Hos.
pital, HARRY DIEHI. YOUNG beloved
husband of Maude Schnapp Young Of 921
Ingraham st. NV
Funeral from the home Of his nephew
Alton Y. Bennett. 1011 North Market st.
Frederick. Nd, Friday. September II, at
2 pm. Interment in Mount Olivet Gene.
terry, Frederick.
Evening star., 1941-09-11
'Deoth oyMotthews' Succumbs
In Welsh Laboratory Home
~ the Asso ciated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 11.-Harry Grin
dell-Matthews, 81, electrical research
scientist known as Death Ray
Matthews" died of q heart attack
today in his lonely, carefully guarded
laboratory bungalow ON the top of .
mountain near Swansea, Wales. He
had been i'll several months.
Mr.. Grindell-Matthews, who mar
ried Gamma Walska, the singer, in
1888, invented q ray which he said
would bring down airplanes at dis
lance. 1t had been reported also that
he devised . ray to kill disease germs
and designed a rocket plane to travel
8 miles second.
But, 50 far as the public knows,
none of his lethal machines ever has
been employed in the present war.
The mountain bungalow in which
Mr.. Gripdell-Matthews died was
near Swansea, closely guarded and
surrounded by barbed-wire fences.
"A bachelor until he married Nine.
WalSka, the inventor said then that
he was too busy working on an aerial
torpedo to 60 away on a honeymoon
with the Polish operatic star.
Mr.. Grindell-Matthews was
pioneer In radio and sound films. In
1911 he succeeded in establishing
radio communication with an air
plane IL miles away flying at the
then remarkable speed of so miles
an hour.
In 1880 he began q series of ex-
periments that cost him his left
eye. He worked in the greatest
secrecy, cutting himself OF from the
outside world in house and labor
atory surrounded with electrically
charged fences and burglar alarms.
His research problems included
device designed to detect submarines
as far as 80 miles away.
Devoting recent years especially
to air defense research, the inventor
concocted q scheme for aerial de-
Tense of cities by mining" the air
with bombs rocketed up to 10000
feet in 41a seconds and suspended
on parachutes by thin steel wires.
Mr.. Grindell-Matthews Is credited
in who's Who" with . number of
important inventions less spectacular
Grindell-Matthews is credited in
who's Who" with q number of i'm
portant inventions less spectacular
than the death ray" including "au-
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Moscow
Continued From First Page.)

Velikie Luki, south Of Lake linen
and deep behind the farthest Ger
man penetration, is about so miles
northwest of Zapadnaya Dvina.
In recent fighting, the news agency
said, Soviet troops have captured,
killed and wounded more than $4,000
German officers and men and have
destroyed $40 tanks and armored
cars, 140 guns, 400 trucks. Forty
seven German planes have been shot
down, 1t said.
An editorial in Pravda, the Com
munist party organ, declared the
tenacious defense of Leningrad,
Kiev and Odessa was making their
approaches an Axis graveyard. 1t
compared those cities with Verdun
in the World War, where the Ger
mans sent hundreds Of thousands Of
soldiers against the never-captured
French fortress which Pravda called
'.mincing machine"
"Verdun undermined the strength
of the Germany Army" said the edi-
torial. Not one, but many, Ver-
duns are already mincing the fren-
zied Fascist hordes."
1t declared that Rumanian Gen.
eralissimo Ion Antonescu already
had hurled half his army against
Odessa and "a considerable part
Of 1t has been annihilated."
More than 300 German planes,
it said, lie scattered around Lenin-
grad.
Prisoners, a communique reported,
said epidemics of influenza and
dysentery had struck among the
invaders, "wearied and exhausted by
the sustained fighting"
"a British radio report heard
by N. B. C. in New York quoted
Russian sources as saying the
German 95th and 9th Divisions
had been hard hit in fighting
around Kiev and that Rumanian
forces had met disaster outside
Odessa.
Authoritative sources in Lon
Evening star., 1941-09-11

the Senators that despite public
confusion" and doubt that q real
gasoline shortage existed in the
Eastern States. he expected patriotic
citizens to cooperate In present
curtailments.
He said that pipe line could be in
operation within nine months, and
possibly before July l and would.
he said, provide $50, 900 to 100000
barrels of petroleum daily to the
most thickly populated part Of the
country.
There was no direct reference at
the Senate hearing to action of the
Supply Priorities and ALLEGATIONS
Board denying immediate supplies
of steel needed for the $50, 900 900
pipe line.
Will Press Action.
Meanwhile, he said, every possible
means of conserving petroleum sup
plies and increasing them would be
pursued. He said completion of
smaller pipe lines, construction of
new tankers and scores of similar
suggestions for meeting the shortage
threat would be expended.
Plans, he said, were ready for ra-
tioning of gasoline and fuel oil, but
these would not be used except as
q last resort.
Mr.. Davies said the Eastern sup
ply of all petroleum products would
drop to about $4,000 barrels by
the end of the year. He added that
this was 10000 900 barrels below the
previous year and q dangerously
narrow margin for gasoline, heating
oil, industrial oil and other products.
In Washington several service sta
ton operators have reported that
the September curtailment of Is
per cent under July sales Is in reality
more severe than Is per cent be-
cause their business normally picks
up as much as Is per cent in Sep
tember.
More Gasoline Available.
Harry Wainwright, research direc-
tor of the Retail Gasoline Dealers
Association, said however that this
might be true of half dozen dealers
in sections where many of their
customers went away for the sum-
mer months.
For the District as a whole, though,
there is more gasoline available here
this month than in September, 1910,
even with the 15-per-cent under
July cut, according to Mr.. VAIN
wright. He pointed out that July,
1910. was possibly the best sales
month District dealers have ever
had, and that most dealers in Wash
ington report that September sales
usually run slightly under sales in
July and August.
Evening star., 1941-09-11

don said there were indications
the Germans had launched an
attack In the Murmansk area In
Northern Russia, presumably
from the west)
Dispatches 10 Moscow reported
continued pursuit westward of Ger
man troops defeated in the 26-day
battle of Yelnya, the Soviet cross
ing OF q river identified only a,