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Evening star., 1941-10-11
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 11.-A
man who crawled over the side of
the Golden Gate Bridge, twisted
himself in through maze of girders
and lay there slowly bleeding to
death from a cut throat, was rescued
alive today.
Firemen and bridge riggers risked
their own lives repeatedly to reach
the man.
1t. N. Schou of the Fire Depart
ment said the man was John Law
renee Evans, 49, and that note
was found in a coat pocket stating,
Il have taken my own life, due to
i'll health and dependency"
1t. Schou said it appeared the
mans throat. slashed on both sides.
had been cut after he reached the
precariouS perch on the girderS un-
der the towering span.
Highway Patrolman Myron Smith
said Evans whispered weakly to him
that he had been under the bridge
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Mrs. John |. Newcomb
Dies at Charlottesville
BY the Associated Press.

CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, Oct. II.
Mrs. John Lloyd Newcomb, wife
of the president of the University of
Virginia and a leader in social and
welfare activities, died at the Uni
versity Hospital yesterday. She had
been i'll for some time.
Mrs. Newcomb served as chairman
of the university's Social Committee
and as a member of the University
League and Hospital Circle, the
Albemarle Garden Club and other
organizations She was chairman
of the city and county cancer con-
troll campaigns for several years.
Mrs. NeWcOmb also was an active
member of st. Paul's Episcopal
Church, where funeral services will
be held at pm. tomorrow. Burial
will be in the University Cemetery.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Court Throws Out
Two Charges Against
Draft Case Lawyer
Voids Accusation of
Conspiracy With Client
To Evude Service

One indictment and one count Of
another against Dorsey K. Offutt,
attorney, indicted recently by the
District grand jury on charges of
Illegally aiding client to avoid the
draft. were thrown out of District
Court yesterday by Justice T. Alan
Goldsborough.
After listening to arguments of
defense counsel Justice Goldsbor-
ough voided a conspiracy charge
against Mr.. Offutt and his client,
Robert J. Sopourn, which had ac-
cused the two men of contriving to
evade draft service by the latter.
The Jurist likewise quashed a count
of an indictment against Mr.. Offutt
charging that he Illegally advised
Mr.. Sopourn to evade serving in the
Army under the draft.
Now pending against Mr.. Offutt
is the charge that he counseled Mr..
Sopourn and aided him to evade
service by failing to report for in
duction into the Army. Justice
Goldsborough in making his ruling
declared that in his opinion none
of the overt acts charged in the
conspiracy indictment indicated any
wrongdoing.
Attorney Henry I. Quinn, rep
resenting Mr.. Offutt, plans to ask
the Government for a bill of par
ticulars to get more information on
what exactly his client is charged
with. Representing Mr.. Sopourn
are Attorneys Lawrence Koenigs-
berger and Charles E. Ford. The
prospective soldier, who registered
for the draft but later applied for
reclassification because of having a
dependent child, now is accused
only of failing to report for induc-
ton into the Army.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Suspicious Father Aids
In SoIyina Ihefts

A suspicious father helped police
round up four young thieves yester-
day, clearing up about two dozen
thefts from hotel rooms and apart
ments in the Dupont circle area.
The parent had accepted his sons
explanation-finding some money
when the boy displayed new roller
skates and an air rifle. He went to
police when a diamond-and-t topaz
ring was brought home. however.
The boy confessed and implicated
three companions, police said. De-
tectives were told the four made the
thefts by climbing through transoms.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Evangelist to Open
Sermons Tomorrow

The fall evangelistic series of the
University Park Church of the
Brethren on Tuckerman street, near
College Park. Md. will begin at II
a m. tomorrow with a sermon, The
First Great Work"
The sermons, to be held each
night at 7:30 pm, beginning to-
morrow and concluding october l9
at II am. will be delivered by the
Rev. John D. Long, Myersdale, Pa,
newly installed pastor.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Edward Miner, 50, Dies;
Famed Animal Painter
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MINEOLA. N. Y, Oct. lid
ward Herbert Miner, SO, art director
of the New York Daily News for %
years and an outstanding animal
painter, died yesterday.
Before joining the News, Mr..
Miner was with the Buffalo Courier,
the old New York Press and the
Morning Telegraph.
Outside newspaper circles he was
known for his extensive works de-
picting horses and dogs. In 1923 the
National Geographic Magazine pub
lished his series of % paintings
showing every variety of living
horse. Later he painted a series of
dogs and cattle for the same maga-
zine.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
u. 5. Asks Early Trial
AsViereck Pleads
Not Guilty
$4,000 Bond Continued
On Indictment Charging
Failure TO Register

George Sylvester Viereck, New
York publicist. yesterday pleaded
innocent to an indictment charging
him with failing to register properly
with the State Department as a
German agent. He is at liberty
under $4,000 bond, put up when he
was apprehended in New York City
and continued here, with Govern
nent approval, by Justice James w.
Morris in District Court.
Mr.. Viereck, who started out for
Washington with his counsel, Dan
lei F. Cohalan, jr., and Emil Moro
SIM. jr., by plane, was grounded in
Newark, N. j., by bad weather and
his arraignment was delayed until
late afternoon, when he arrived by
train from New York. When asked
by the clerk how he pleaded to the
indictment, Mr.. Viereck answered in
firm voice:
mot guilty.
U. S, Asks Early Trial.
He requested two weeks in which
TO file any desired motions attacking
the legality of the Indictment and
this was unoppoSed by the Govern
ment.
William Power Maloney. who is
handling the case with George A.
McNulty and Edward j. Hickey, jr.,
special assistants to the Attorney
General, told the court that it was
the desire of the Attorney General
nf nF
this case to have the trial at the
earliest possible moment" He made
1t clear that he has no desire to de-
prive the defendant or his counsel
of their legal rights.
When Mr.. Maloney started to tell
Justice Morris that the evidence
will show Mr.. Viereck to be the
head" of a Nazi propaganda ma
chine IN this country, Mr.. Morosini
cut him short with the statement
that there is no need to try the
case at this time" and Justice Nor
rls agreed.
Considers Transocean Costs.
Meanwhile, Justice Morris con-
s1dered the problem of assessing
$4,000 in trial costs on Transocean
News Service, a reputed German
propaganda agency in the United
States, closed recently by Presi-
dent Roosevelt's orders. Federal
Judge T. Whitfield Davidson of the
northern district of Texas signed
one Judgment, fning the service
$1,000, after its conviction by a Dis
trict Court jury here on charges of
falling to register legally with the
State Department as an agent of the
German government.
Immediately after Judge Davidson
signed this Judgment, Government
counsel called attention to the tax
ing of costs of the trial and the
jurist said that was his practice and
then later signed a second iudg-
ment, embodying this. The de-
fense, represented by Mr.. Cohalan
and Mr.. Morosini, both of New York,
made a motion that this second
judgment, assessing trial costs
against Transocean News Service,
be stricken from the records. The
Government, through Albert E.
Aren't, special assistant to the At
torney General, argued that this
second judgment should stand. ~
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Chief Justice Stone
Is 90 Years Old Today
BY the Associated F

BY the Associated Press.
Chief Justice Stone became SO
years old today.
Associates said the days program
consisted principally of working on
cases to be acted on at Mondays
court session.
The Chief Justice, who presided
over the tribunal for the first time
last Monday in his new capacity,
will be eligible to retire a year from
today if he so desires.
After serving as Associate Justice
since 1925. Justice Stone was ap-
pointed Chief Justice last June II
to succeed Charles Evans Hughes.
who retired at the age of 10.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Michigan Daily Bought
By Advertising Man

By the Associated Press.
SOUTH HAVEN, Mich, Oct. IL
Sale of the South Haven Daily
Tribune to Paul Mixter, former ma
tional advertising manager of the
Detroit Free Press, was announced
today by Harold S. Pringle, the
Tribune's publisher for eight years.
Associated with the Free Press
for % years, Mr.. Mixter was for
merly its Washington correspondent.
He will take control here Monday.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Armed British Liner
In Docks at Norfolk

The Navy Department announced
today that the one-time British
luxury liner, Queen of Bermuda,
now an armed merchant cruiser, is
at the Norfolk docks of the Newport
News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.
The announcement said that this
ship now is cleared for publicity" :"
which means that it has been in
port for more than a week and that
the announcement will not give the
enemy any clue as to where the ship
had been or where 1t was when it
was presumably damaged.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Bus Skids Into GuIIey,
Injuring l8 Passengers

BY the Associated Press.
BLUEFIELD, W. Va, Oct. IL
Eighteen persons aboard an At
lantic Greyhound bus were injured
early today when it skidded off the
highway and landed in gulley at
Bastian, Va. 10 miles from here.
Rescue crews cut through the sides
with acetylene torches to reach the
injured. Two were reported in a.
serious condition All the pasSen-
gers we're hospitalized except three
soldiers.
Evening star., 1941-10-11

Jevo where it was said a girl COL
lege student and a Jew paid the
penalty for spreading communist
propaganda.
The "a sentences on undisclosed
charges were pronounced at Trav-
mix, in Bosnia. Eleven of the SEN
tences later we're commuted to five
years imprisonment.
The arrest of the IS on charges
Of being Communists was said to
have taken place at Sirmien Prov
ince.
Evening star., 1941-10-11

The trough of low pressure has moved
and has been followed by clearing and
much cooler weather over the Eastern
States. The rainfall in connection with
this disturbance was confined mostly to
amounts, in general were moderate An
extensive high-pressure system now over
lies the Eastern States. and cool. dry
atmosphere prevails Temperatures in the
Eastern States have fallen Is degrees to
25 degrees during the past "a hours and
frosts, mostly light were reported in the
central Appalachian region. Higher tenn
peratures are reported over most of the
plains States as new disturbance moves
eastward over the Dakotas. The tropical
disturbance off the Florida coast is now
moving eastward fr ast-northeastvard
small area.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
U. S. Accused of Seizino
Markets From Britain
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Oct. 11-Everybody's, a
weekly news magazine, declares in
an issue to appear on the stands
Monday that there is more than q
suspicion that American business
men are using our need Of America S
help to seize our markets"
William J. Britain, general man.
ager of the weekly, in a special
article criticizes the government
economic relations with the United
States.
| w. Averell Hartman, who is in
charge of negotiations for American
aid to Russia, is viewed by some in
auential men in London" the article
says, "as brokers' man sitting in
our house with his bowler hat on
and watching our furniture"
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Weather Report
Furnished by the Unit


District Coumbia-Clear chilly tonight with lowest
diminishing
gentle
Vrginia-Fair west
light frost central portion tonight fair and
Maryland-Far portion cooler and light
Evening star., 1941-10-11
IS Reported Captured.

BERLIN, Oct. II R).-A D.NB.
report from zagreb. Croatia, said to-
day that IS persons described off-
cially as Communists had been cap
tured In Sirmien Province with
weapons and explosives in their pos
session.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Both chambers in recess.
House Banking and Currency
Committee continues hearings on
price control legislation.
Evening star., 1941-10-11

BERLIN, Oct. IL P.-A D.N.B.
dispatch today from The Hague car
ried the announcement that disso-
luton of the Catholic Trade Unions
had been completed and the Neither
lands Trade Union Federation, head
ed by a government commissioner,
had become the sole labor organi-
Zation in the Netherlands
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Reported Arrested
By Germans in France
By the Associated Press.

PARIS, German occupied France,
Oct. l1.-French police were report
ed today to have arrested l 100 per-
sons in recent weeks on charges of
anti-national, pro-British or Com
munist activity during a vast round
up in which $500 Parisiens were
searched and questioned.
Arrests since June were said to
total 16,749, including an unspecified
proportion Of non-political delin-
quencies.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
30 Executed In Serbia.
BUDAPEST HUNGARY Oct n "a

The Belgrade press reported to-
day that 80 Communists had been
executed at Cuprija, in Serbia.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Hishest. II. at 2;30 pm. yesterday,
Year ago 65.
Lowest. 40, at 8 am today. Year
ago, A..
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 100. on July 2s.
Lowest, 15 on March Is.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 64 per cent, at 7:30 am. today.
Lowest, 81 per cent, at $3.50 p.m. yes
terday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry: Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Tide Tables.
fr..x.irhad In rrx-it State= HnaSt and
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital (current month to datel
Evening star., 1941-10-11

Potato acreage in Argentina in
creased $4,000 acres this year.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
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Evening star., 1941-10-11

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-06

II think you are quite right" her
Ladyship answered. "And we decid-
ed at the hospital board meeting to
start work on another wing immed-
lately. We're fearfully overcrowded,
you know. They're sending us con-
valescent cases now. suppose that
is because we're far enough off the
line which the raiders take to Lon
dom"
II suppose so. But one never can
tell which direction they will take"
For time the couple sat in silence;
Lady Harrowsdale busy with her knit
ting for the soldiers, her husband
deep in the days news.
Wendy had left on the early train,
her twenty-four hour leave up, to
return to Watford where her ambu
lance corps was stationed. Oddly
enough, this town is only few miles
from st. Adams, but she did not know
that the Hornets were there.
A log fire cracked gaily in the
sitting room of The Downs, and the
only sound in the comfortable room
was the clicking Of the mistress
needles as the sock upon which she
was working grew with surprising
rapidity. Finally she broke the 81
lence. "Did you notice any change in
Wendy?"
Lord Harrowsdale folded his paper
and dropped it to the floor before
answering. "No. That is, nothing
much. Seemed a bit less laxative,
more on the silent side, and ate less
. than usual. Must be the war, and
the sights she is seeing hauling
wounded out of London. Rough job
. for girl"
"She's in love-"
Nonsense! Wendy is only child"
. The father could never reconcile him
self to the fact that his children had
. grown. He always saw them run
: ming about under his feet and falling
! off their Shetland ponies. "Non-
, sense!" he repeated. "Time for my
, ride" He went out and off towards
the stables, giving the matter no fur
Their thought.
But it was the mother, with her
/ woman's insight, who was right. AS
the train rumbled along towards Lon
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-06

by the clouds and disappeared. No
one was sure of a victory, so none
was claimed, although an anti-air-
craft crew below reported that three
Heinkels fell in flame under the spot
where the attack took place, and that
German pilot, who had saved him
self by parachute, said that some of
his comrades had been shot down by
squadron Of Spitfires. This news
came in by telephone just after
Hutch landed, and the C. o., feeling
confident that it was the work of
The Hornets, congratulated him.
"But you must come now" he said,
and led the wounded flyer to wait
ing car. "I'll go with you"
The doctor, captain in the medi-
cal corps, examined the wound care
fully, talking to no one in particular
as he worked. "Hum-not bad-nice
and clean-no bones-hum-anti-tet-
anus and needle, nurse. Two weeks,
three at most, and you'll be in the
air again."
"You mean" Hutch began, numb
ed by this news. He had thought
that with little iodine and some
bandages on what he called his
scratch would fix him up and that he
could return Immediately to duty.
'T mean" the doctor said. "that
we cannot afford to risk our pilots
through insufficient medical treat
ment and neglect. If the Germans
get you that cannot be helped, but
we who are supposed to save you
have every intention of doing our
best" The nurse gave him the needle
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-06
R.A.E ; % i

There they are. Tallyho. Tallyho!"
when he sighted the enemy. Now
Mac had followed so many others.
Among the more pleasant memories
that sifted through his feverish brain
were of the girl he had met that
morning on the golf links, Wendy
Bruce and her brother, Philip. The
latter had flown we'll, but Hutch had
hardly even met him. Seemed OK.
Stocky chap, and very English. But
the girl. That was something to
think about. Now he couldn't put
through his plan to visit the Bruces
for ever so long. First he would
have to return to the squadron and
make friends with the brother. Then
he would have to hint for an invita-
ton to his home, and-WHY it might
take months.
Her eyes seemed to be looking
straight at him, half smiling, half
serious. you're beautiful" he said,
and fell off into a troubled slumber,
filled with the most confused dreams
of airplanes, combats, Wendy, Rusty
and Mac.
600
Lord Harrowsdale spoke to his
wife from behind the morning paper.
Looks as though we may have to
give up our trips to London and Scot
land this year after all, dear. The
ferries are dumping their bombs in
over Kent when they
are turned back from their detectives.
That'll have my air raid wardens on
the jump, and I should be around to
keep their spirits up"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-06
SYNOPSIS

ANOA OA0
david Hutchinson, American avia-
tor with the Royal Air Force "HOr-
nets, makes a forced landing on a
golf course in Kent, England, where
he meets lovely Wendy Bruce, on
leave from the Ambulance Corps.
Just as David finishes repairing his
plane, he hears that familiar drOne
in the sky. Seeing three Messer-
schmidts chasing one Spitfire, he flies
off to join in the fight. Wendy
stands rooted to the spot, watching
the battle till the planes disappear
in the clouds. Then she wends her
way to "The Downs, ancestral home
Of her father, Lord Harrowdale. War
had changed the luxurious mode of
life at "The Downs" for all were do
ing their bit; his LOrdship was an air
raid warden, while Lady HarrOwsdale
directed the local hospital. Wendy
can't get the American out of her
mind; even now he might be lying
on the ground somewhere, wounded
or dead. Arriving home she finds
her brother, Philip, there on leave
impatiently waiting for an Opening"
in the Hornets. The telephone rings
Orders for Philip to join the squad
ron Immediately. One of the HOr-
nets had been shot down nearby.
Could il be David? Wendy wonders.
Philip has promised to let her know
if it was. When he telephones that
David is safe she burst into tears.
In the meantime, Hutch has returned
to his base, only to learn that his
captain and friend, John Mccall, was
the flyer who had bought it" Can
Raj. term for dying in cOmbat).
Two of Hutch's buddies, Arthur Stat
ford and Rusty RansOme, do their
best to cheer him up. Word comes
that a fleet of bOmbers was sighted
over Hastings. Hutch is made squad
ron leader in Macs place, and pre-
pares to take off for the attack. Just
as they are leaving, Philip joins them.
In flight, Hutch radios a welcome.
After a brief encounter, an anti-air-
craft crew reports that three bomb
ers fell in the vicinity, SO the Com
manding Officer credits the Hornets.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-06

and vial. "Thank you. Now, young
man, kindly open your shirt over the
abdomen and lie there on your back"
He indicated cot and Hutch obeyed.
"There, that's right"
He inserted the needle skillfully
into the stomach we'll below the ribs
and left it there, forcing in the serum
at five minute intervals until the vial
was emptied. Then he dressed the
wound, first washing it out carefully
with disinfectants, and told an order
ly to help the pilot to bed.
Broth and toast were served to
Hutch by the same nurse who had
brought the anti-tetanus and, after
he had finished it, she said good night
and put out the light.
How long he lay there in the dark,
tossing restlessly and thinking, he
could not say. 1t must have been
hours before sleep came, and during
that time a general summing-up OF
the last few days passed through his
mind, a resume that was not always
on the pleasant side There were
the pilots he had shot down, seen
crash to their deaths to be burned
and mangled beyond recognition. o.
course, this had been done in fail
combat. It was one or the other
and, as long as he could, he prefer
red to be the victor. But the poor
devils must have families back home
in the Fatherland who loved then
, and would mourn for them, feel theil
} loss dreadfully.
, Well, he had a family too, in fal
off Virginia. He must think of them
of his mother and father, of Betty
and Kate, his sisters. For theil
sakes he had to defend himself
Poor old Mac! He had been so alive
so full of life only that morning
> Hutch could see him plainly, running
full speed across the field when thu
signal had come, yelling to the othel
pilots, "A scramble! Hurry up, ;
, SCRAMBLED He had always been thu
most enthusiastic Of all for a fight
| the first to arrive at his plane, tn
, last to return.
Then Hutch heard his friends Gag
: err voice coming over the air through
the R.T. receivers, crying, "Tallyho
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-06
wanted. She retired to her room and

wanted. She retired to her room and
sat down to write Philip a letter.
When she once made up her mind to
do something she did it, and she had
made up her mind to know David
better. Why wait? Days and nights
were precious things that fled so
rapidly, especially now in war. De-
spite her youth she realized that time
was something not to be wasted, that
it is the most valuable thing we NOR
tails possess.
"Phil Darling" she began. 81
want you to bring" She tore this
up, and started another. Dearest
Phil: Will you please ask" Nor
would this do. They seemed to her
too awkward and straight to the
point. Try as she would she could
think of nothing more subtle. Sub
tlety was not one of her traits and
she gave it up. "Well," she said.
"Why not be awkward and straight
to the point?" For a third time she
began the letter.
"Phil, Old Dear-Please bring Da-
vid Hutchinson down to see us as
soon as you can. 1 want to know
him better Cheerio! Yours, Wen"
She read this over and seemed salts
fled. "There. No one can say that
am beating around the BUSH"
She sealed the letter, addressed it,
to the Raj. headquarters, and per-
sonally carried it to the post office.
Continued next week