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Evening star., 1941-07-26
Girls Lemonade SoIes
Swell Fund for U. S. 0.

A total Of 1921 ,3l7 of the Districts
s250,000 United Service Organiza-
tions quota had been collected up to
today, drive headquarters reported
For Sits of this sum officials gave
credit to 11-year-old June Love,
1920 Morrison street NV, who for
three days made lemonade and sold
it for l cent cup from a stand in
front of her home. She was assisted
by Eleanor Walton, 10, of 1922 Nc
Kinley street NV.
U. S. o. headquarters at 1419
F street NV. will be open the early
part of next week to receive direct
contributions, it was announced.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Defense Spending Up
To S50,785,O0O,O Total
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The ONCE of Production Manage
ment reported today that actual
and proposed defense expenditures.
including British orders in this
country, total $50,785, 900 900.
The total of United States appro-
priations and contract authorize
tions up to July Is was s47,116.-
000,0 700, including funds made avail
able to the Reconstruction Finance
Corp, the o. p. M. said, and orders
placed by the British Purchasing
Commission up to June Is were
So 1869 900, 900.
Airplanes led in the commitments.
with $11, 1857 900 900, while naval and
merchant vessels and transportation
equipment came next with s8.483,-
10000, and were closely followed
by ss.o8l ,0oo, 900 for guns and am
munition.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Japanese Ships Flee
U. 5. Ports;; Incoming
Boats Stay 0ffshore
Big Firms in California
Expect Roosevelt Order
To Halt Their Trode
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26-San
Francisco branches of Japan's great
est business firms feared they would
be obliged to close their doors today
as commerce between the United
States and Japan virtually ceased.
President Roosevelt's order freez-
ing Japanese assets in this country
came as a smashing blow to this
center of japanese American busi-
ness. The order was received here
while business houses were still
open and its effect was electric.
japanese stood anXiously in long
lines at bank windows during the
day, Withdrawing their funds in an
ticipation of the order. The YokO-
hama Specie Bank, which handles
most of the country's Japanese
American finances, was swarming
with -panicky Nipponese.
One Japanese observer commented
that business houses we're hopeful of
getting permits to carry on regular
trade, but they are all worried, most
naturally"
Ships Head to Sea.
japanese ships in American ports
headed to sea at full steam. and ap-
proXimately 40 lowering offshore or
marking time at sea gave no indica-
tion of their next move.
Movement of the 17,6OO-ton Ia
tuta Maru, carrying nearly 100
American citizens and a silk cargo
valued at s2,5O0.00O. remained a
mystery. The fast liner. about IL
miles offshore since Thursday, has
delayed her arrival for fear of
seizure.
The Tatuta Maru sent word she
would be in at am. g am. Wash
/ ington time today, giving rise to
/ speculation she had obtained some
special permit from the State De-
partment to land her passengers and
cargo, refuel and depart. Later.
however, she messaged that she
had been instructed by Toxic not
to dock here this morning Whether
| she would enter port later was not
known.
/ The huge new Japanese tanker
Nisshin Maru sailed from San Pedro
at midnight with $4,000 barrels of
oil, 10000 short of capacity. This
! departure cleared West Coast ports
1 Of japanese ships.
Difficulties Adjusted.
General Petroleum agents went
aboard the ship during the loading
to discuss payment for the oil in
view of frozen credits, but any
difficulty apparently was adjusted.
With full steam up. the Yamasimo
Maru and the Kyoko Maru headed
to sea with full cargoes from Pacific
Northwest ports last night.
A number of other japanese ships
are on the high seas with valuable
! cargoes consigned to the United
States. The ASama Maru is due at
Honolulu today with a $4,000 900
silk cargo. 1t was doubtful these
vessels would put into an American
= port and risk seizure of both ship
and cargo unless some special guar
antee of safe conduct we're granted.
| And there was no word of such
guarantees from Washington.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
100 Workers Return
To Jobs in Key West;
800 Still Hold Out
Navy Prepares to Call
Civil Service Men
To Complete Projects

By the Associated Press.
The United States Navy prepared
today to put civil service workers
on 1000 900 worth of defense pro-
jects at Key west. Fla, if more than
300 striking laborers continue to
stay away from their jobs.
1t. Albert J. Fay, public works
officer of the Florida naval station
said q compromise offer increasing
pay OF the workers by 10 cents an
hour, to so cents hourly. had been
made and that if it were not ac-
cepted the Navy would bring in civil
service workers from various places
in the country and take work over
from private contractors.
The laborers demanded 621a cents
an hour. The old pay scale was 40
cents.
They were working on a sub
marine base. an air base and a naval
housing project.
100 Return TO Jobs.
One hundred workers returned to
their jobs yesterday when their
wage demands were met by a private
contractor building two low-cost
housing projects near the Key West
station.
Local ), Electrical Workers Union
GA. F. L. of New York decided last
night to call out on strike Tuesday
$500 electrical workers and 1900
maintenance men on 900 jobs
throughout the city in an effort to
compel the Consolidated Edison Co.
to employ local members in install
lation work on the company's water
side plant.
Harry Van Arsdale, union busi-
ness manager, said the action fol-
lowed report by A. Lincoln Bush,
president of the New York Electrical
Contractors Association, that the
association had failed to persuade
Consolidated Edison to accede to
the unions demands
La Guardia Asked to Act.
The association has asked the in
tervention of Mayor La Guardia.
On another strike front. more
than 1000 striking garment workers
at Los Angeles went back to work,
leaving 1000 out. Their organiza-
ton, the International Garment
Workers Union, filed petition with
the National Labor Relations Board
charging six garment manufacturers
the Los Angeles Merchants and
Manufacturers Association and the
Woltman Bureau of Identification
with conspiracy to violate organiza
tional rights of employees, espionage
and intimidation.
In Washington representatives of
organized labor, the w. P. A. and
the War and Navy Departments re-
jected proposal that w. P. A. labor
be excluded from defense construc-
ton jobs.
F. H. Dryden, acting Works Prof.
ects commissioner, announcing the
decision, said it was agreed that
when contract is let for construc-
ton of q building by the War or
Navy Departments the contract
should cover the building in its en-
tirety.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
British Raid Berlin
With Heaviest Bombs;
Heart Of City Hit
Hamburg and Hanover
Also Toreets; Nine
English Planes Missing
B. the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 26.-Huge r. A. r
bomDers dropped some of Britain's
heaviest and most powerful bombs
in the heart of Berlin last night, the
Air Ministry news service reported
today.
There was no doubt about where
they had fallen" the news service
declared Huge flashes were right
in the center of the city.
It said the British raiders circled
over the German capital and illu-
minated their targets by dropping
flares.
1t claimed equal success in the
r. A. F's night bombing of Hamburg
and Hanover in attacks from
which. the Air Ministry announced,
nine British bombers have not re-
turned.
Air Bases in France Raided.
The main weight of the air at
tacks was concentrated on Hanover
and Hamburg, the communique said,
and small force of four -engined
bonbers attacked objectives in Ber-
lin." British fighter planes, mean
while, were making still another
series of raids on air bases in occu-
pied France, it added.
Informed sources refused to say
whether the four-engined bombers
were built Boeing flying
fortresses, but it was noted that
Britain's own Halifaxes and Stir
lings are equipped also for long
range, high altitude attacks.
One r. A. F. captain was quoted
as saying Berlin anti-aircraft bat
teries at first attempted to fool the
raiders by giving no sign OF their
existence
But as soon as the planes arrived
over the capital and British bombs
began falling, he said. the defense
batteries opened fire since 1t was
no longer any use for them to pre-
tend Berlin wasn't just below us"
No Clouds Over Germany.
I'VE had flown through storms
and above clouds on the way out.
but there were no clouds over Ger
many" he related I'VE passed
through two vast belts of search
lights before we reached Berlin.
They looked brighter than ever
on so dark highland so did the
flashes of our bombs in the center
of the city"
The raid. on Berlin was the 4eth
since the outbreak of the war, but
the first directed against the Ger
man capital in almost two months.
Only few German planes were
over Britain during the night, the
government said, dropping bombs
on Eastern England. Only minor
damage and no casualties were re-
ported.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
BeIbenoit Released
On immigration Chorge
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BROWNSVILLE. Tex. July 26-
Rene Belbenoit, who escaped from
the French penal colony at Devils
Island and wrote a book Of sdven-
ture, was released from Federal jail
today after posting two $1,000 bonds
on an immigration charge.
He was arrested at Falfurrias sew
eral months ago. Belbenoit said he
would visit Corpus Christi tomorrow
and 90 from there to New York.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
First Air Infantry
Formed by Army
In Canal Zone
Specially Trained Troops
Will Be Available for
Swift Hop TO Any Trouble
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Army's first organized force
Of transported landing troops. a
specially trained battalion available
for any hemisphere defense emer-
gency, is being formed in the Pana-
ma Canal Zone.
J Official sources disclosed today
that the unit, the 550th Infantry
Air-Borne Battalion, consists of
about $50 officers and men
Tentatively organized into three
rife companies, a heavy weapons
company and a headquarters de-
tachment, tn. force was ordered by
the War Department for instant
service as the aerial vanguard of a
fast-striking force.
Great Striking Power.
Combining great mobility with
exceptional striking power, the bat
talon is designed TO operate in con-
junction with the warplaneS of the
Caribbean Air Defense Command
and presumably with parachute
troops, in the event the German pat
tern Of aerial operations is followed.
The new step reflected an appar-
ent War Department trend toward
greater emphasis on air power, fa-
cllitated by the mounting produc-
ton of Warplanes and the expan-
sion of the Army air forces. The
Canal Zones new commander is ar
air officer, Maj Gen. Frank M. An
drews, first commander of the
General Headquarters Air Force.
The United States Army had ex-
perimented with the transport OF
troops by plane for years before the
world saw Germany make the first
large scale use of aerial infantry in
the 1910 Netherlands blitzkreig
The Panama unit, however. is the
first to be created for instant availa-
bility.
Light Artillery Transported.
Light artillery was transported ex-
perimentally by air in Panama as
long ago as 1888. In recent months
extensive preparations have been
made to move large numbers of
infantry, anti-tank and other weap-
ons by air, without, however, train
ing particular units for the purpose
At Fort Sam Houston. Tex. and
elsewhere, anti-tank guns and other
weapons of the I'd Regular Army
Division have been moved by aerial
transport, together with their crews
As a result military aviators be-
lieve substantial reinforcements
could be dispatched quickly to the
aid of vanguard such as the new
Panama battalion.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Dempseys ReconciIed;
Vacation Planned
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SALIDA, Colo. July 26.-Jack
Dempsey said yesterday he and his
wife, the former Hannah williams.
were reconciled about two months
ago after a separation of more than
year.
The one-time world heavyweight
boxing champion said he and Mrs.
Dempsey and their two children had
planned a vacation at Lake Tahoe,
New, next month, but that Mrs.
Dempsey was taken Ill recently In
New York and the plans were aban-
doned temporarily.
Mr.. Dempsey is here to referee
4 wrestling match.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Weather Report
Furnished by

FURNISHED
District Of
not quite tomorrow
tomorrow
Myand-Scattered hundershowers afternoon
generally
cooler tonight.
VrgnlaConslderab cloudine
tomorrow with
morrow afternoon
West Virginia Generally fair tonight and
Evening star., 1941-07-26
New York Fair Troct
Opens as PIoy Center
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 26-One Of
New York City's major recreational
centers, vast new park on the
Flushing Meadow site of the World S
Fair in 1889 and 1910, was opened
today.
The parks new swimming pool
and amphitheater will be dedicated
tonight with Mayor La Guardia Of
ficiating.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Limited Emergency
Resolution Sped by
Senate Committee
Unusual Weekend Session
Culied to Consider
FinoI Droft
- the Associated Press.

- the Associated Press.
The Senate Military Affairs Com
rnittee moved speedily today to whip
into shape a resolution declaring a
limited national emergency for the
purpose of retaining selectees, Ma
tional Guardsmen and reserves In
the Army beyond the present legal
limit of one year.
Backers of the resolution predicted
not more than two committee mem
bers would oppose the move.
Apparently agreed on the general
principles involved, the committee
was called into an unusual week
end session to consider the final
draft Of legislation expected to set
OF explosive debate when it reaches
the Senate floor, probably Monday.
One question yet to be deter
mined. some committee members
said, was whether Congress should
retain final control over the addi-
tional amount of time citizen SOL
diers might be called on to spend in
the Army.
Time Clause Unlikely.
There were indications this might
be accomplished by providing that
Congress could terminate the emer-
gency which it would be called on
to declare, rather than write in any
specific time clause.
nor1nnrot nf Ol1o-
homa said there appeared to be in
formal agreement on what he
termed "fiat-footed" language de-
elAring the national interests were
imperiled and that an emergency
existed
Beyond this, he said, most mem
bers appeared to desire a limitation
providing that the declaration should
not bring into force any powers
other than those necessary to main
tain the present Army intact. Prob
ably, he said, provision would be
made to extend the service of en-
listed men and non-commissioned
personnel In the Regular Army, as
well as the citizen soldiers, guards
men and reserves.
There would be, Senator Lee con-
tinued, no mention of the possible
employment of selectees, guardsmen
or reserves outside the Western
Hemisphere He said it was the
general belief of comnAttee men,
bers that. in the absence of language
OF this nature, present prohibitions
against such service would stand.
Representative Faddis, Democrat.
Of Pennsylvania, urging removal of
present length-of-service restric-
tons, asserted last night that "a
nation unwilling to take the often
sive cannot survive in the world
today"
In a radio speech. Representative
Faddis declared that our military
history is replete with instances OF
disaster caused by the failure of
troops, limited by temporal or
geographical bonds. to act in ac-
cordance with the public interest"
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Detained Socialist
Leader Assassinated
By Bomb in France
Marx Dormoy, Ex-Minister
OF Interior, Helped
Dissolve Riehtist Group
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VICHY, Unoccupied France, July
26.-Marx Dormoy. Socialist leader
In the French republic, was assassi-
mated last night at the Hotel Relais
de L Empereur at Montelimar, where
ne had been detained.
He was killed by explosion Of a
bomb placed in his hotel room.
The former Minister of the In
terror in Leon Blum's Popular Front
government had taken leading part
in dissolution of the "Rightist Ac-
ton" organization. the Croiz de Feu,
and other Nationalist organiza tions.
Room on First Floor.
1t was understood the bomb ex-
ploded in the middle of the night
while M. Dormoy was sleeping His
room was on the first floor of the
hotel overlooking a garden which is
accessible from the street at all
hours. The building is roomy old
roadhouse at the edge of the town,
facing a lively. shop-lined square on
the road to Marseille
There were comparatively few
guests there at the time of the as
sassination.
The 53-year-old' Socialist was ar
rested September 26, 1910, few
months after the armistice, and was
held with other political prisoners
who had led the defeated republic.
He once ousted Jacques Doriot,
former Communist and now lead
ing French Fascist, as Mayor Of st.
Denis and frequently was attacked
by anti-Communlsts and Rightists.
Many of the men who attacked him
now are in important government
posts.
Refused to Testify.
M. Dormoy refused to testify in the
sensational trial of Russian singer
charged with completely in the Paris
kidnapping of Gen. Eugene de Miller,
chief of the White Russian Veteran
Association. When the prosecution
charged that he blocked police in
vestigation. M. Dormoy wrote that
he refused to explain his acts as
minister except to Parliament.
Montelimar police revealed the in
fernal machine was a time bomb
and went of at 2:10 am People in
the hotel could not be reached since
police threw a guard around the
building, allowing none to enter or
leave.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Shoes for Soldiers Ordered

The War Department today or
dered 10000 pairs of prison-made
service shoes for the Army. The
s2l2.400 contract was placed with
Federal Prisons Industries. Inc,
Washington, cooperative organi-
zatlon setup under the supervision
of the Justice Department.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Cupt. Roosevelt on Coost
On Secret Air Mission
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. July 25-Capt.
James Roosevelt few into Los An
geles yesterday and explained his
presence with two words secret
mission
The Presidents son said he will
spend 10 days here. in San Fran
cisco and in San Diego on orders
from the Marine Corps general
headquarters in Washington.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Cos Price Increased

RICHMOND, VS., July rs CP).-
Gasoline prices advanced a half
cent gallon at some Richmond
retail stations yesterday. The in
crease made the price of regular
gas 20.6 cents a gallon and of the
high-test 226.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Named Coust Guard Codet

Carl Blanchett of COS South Bar
ton street, Arlington, Va, is one Of
six Virginians who have won ap-
pointment for training In the Coast
Guard Academy at New London,
Conn, HRas announced yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Guy WeIImun Dies

NEW YORK. July 26 P.-Guy
Wellman, IS, who retired last Feb
ruary as general counsel of the
Standard Oil Co. Of New Jersey, died
today in Neurological Institute,
Medical Center.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Wicomico to Get Fire Tower

SALISBURY, Nd, July 26 R.-
The taflest forest lookout tower In
Maryland-130 feet high-will be
erected in Wicomico County when
the State Forestry Department OBJ
tains approval Of Its request for q
priority raftng on steel.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Fortunate Skimmers

"Teazers" and cathedral makers, !"
under IS years of age in British
glass factories are exempt from con-
scription, but "skimmers' may con-
tinue to skim unY they are 90
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Repert for Last - Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon todsyD
Highest, a1, noon today. Year ago, 90.
Lowest, "A, $50 am. today. Year
ago, rs.
Record Temperatures This Year. .
Highest. %. on July 2.
Lowest Is, on March Is
Humidity fov Last 81 Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest, ~ per cent, at s am. today.
Lowest, 40 per cent, at noon today.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear at
Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High Oil am. p:56 am.
Low - 3:42am 4:25 am.
High --- Q:42pm. 1927 pm.
Low - 4:11pm 4:49 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises Sets
Sun today 5:03 7:25
Sun. tomorrow 6:04 7:24
Moon. today 7:2s am. $40 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on
Ae-haf hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1941-07-26
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation m inches Ia the
Capl.al tcurreRt month 70 datel:
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-04

ccrncd with the development Of
reading proficiency
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-04
Notes from the Office of the
Director Of the Summer
Session at BSTC

Dean G.. w. Within director
Of the summer session made the
following announcements last
week: The summer graduation
class will be oranizcd during
this week. Plan are also in pro-
gress for final and comrehcn-
sivc examinations. Those who
planned to graduate in August
made application Monday Of
this week. Summer school will
close August 8 since the sum
mer students voted to attend
classes on Saturdays. Saturday
classes will be held on the fol-
lowing dates: June %, July -
10. rs and August 2.
mn
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-04
WdoU OF
Bob White
Tells Story
NAACP Hears Bob White
Tragedy From Widow

Houston, TeX.-ln the crowd
ed auditorium of Good Hope
Baptist church here Wednesday,
June %, Mrs. Rubie Lee White,
33,widow of Bob White. murder
ed before her eyes in a Conruc
Texas, courtroom week before
last, told delegates to the MA
ACP conference meeting here
that:
The gun sounded like !
bomb. / had TO stop my ears.
When | looked up there was Il
big hole in Bob's head and
blood was running down the
back of his neck.
Mrs. White, dressed in mourn
in was introduced to the audicn-
ce by Walter White, NAACP
secretary. She held the crowd
Soundless as she echoed the
word of her husband on the day
he died, She stated that they
had hoped the Supreme Court
decision in Whites favor had
ended the case and that she ask
ed him why he was being brougt
to trial again.
Bob said, Il do not know that,
but God knows and | know that
| am innocent, and ] would
rather die than go through all
the torture ! have been through
these last years.
Speaking in Il soft voice she
ended her story with the pic
turc Of the courtroom shooting
when w. $. Cochran, Texas
landowner and husband of the
alleged victim of the crime walk
ed up to the chair in which Bob
White was sitting and shot him
in the head.
The murdered mans wife
said simply And that was how
the tradcgy ended, at five minut-
rs after twelve, the tenth Of
June"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-04
PLANS COMPLETED FOR
READING WORKSHOP AT
BLUEFIELD STATE

The Reading Workshop course
which will be a special feature
of the summer school session at
Bluefield state Teachers college,
will open July T. An intensive
program for a week duration
will get under way and will be
open to all teachers teachers who
desire to participate in the pro-
gram. Those not registered in
summer school but who plan to
attend should send their regiStra-
ton to the director of the sum-
mer school on or before July 2.
Two hours credit will be given
for the course. Room and board
will be charged at the usual rate,
board, 81, room, $3.50.
The workshop program will
be under the direction Of the
following experts: DR.. w. b.
Townsend, Mrs. w. b. Town
send, Mrs. Margaret Guilford,
Mrs. Mildred Grid, and Mrs.
Matt Rhes. This staff will be
assisted by the summer school
faculty, principals, and teachers
from the surrounding counties.
DR.. Townsend will bring a
wealth Of material which will be
in the library for study.
Five groups will be set up for
group participation. Group One
Grades one and two; GrouT
Two-Gradcs three and four
Group Three - grades five to 8
Group Four-high school; anC
Group Five administrators
Persons should indicate The
group i'm which they plan t,
study. Two demonstration
daily will be conducted by Mrs
] Townsend and staff in remedia
reading. The members of tn
course will have a period which
will be known as Individualizet
( Activities to work on any AM
all problems which they are per
sonally interested in and cor