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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-11-13
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Evening star., 1941-02-26
1873 D. {. SeIectees
Chosen as Start on
.1,250 March Quota
Nearly 200 Of February
Choices Rejected, Double
The Earlier Percentages
BY THOMAS C. HARDMAN.


Nearly 20 per cent of the 353
Washington selectees tapped for
Army service this month have been
rejected at the Baltimore induction
station, selective service officials re-
vealed today, as 1873 registrants were
named as a starter in filling the
Districts bulky March quota of
1850 men.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
a supplementary March call may
be made on the District within the
next two days, possibly for more
than 400 additional men.
Requirements will have to be
selected for the rejected men as
soon as possible to complete the
February quota.
Obviously disturbed over the large
number of reflections after the Sc
lectees had been passed by Wash
ington examining physicians, Brig.
Gen. Albert L. Cox. selective service
chief. today requested Sd Corps
Area officials to outline for him de-
tailed reasons for the turned
downs, in order that local physical
requirements may be made more
rigid to weed out unfit registrants
before they are selected for induc-
ton.
Reflections Double Earlier Ones.
OF the 224 white and 129 colored
selectees sent to Baltimore this
month. 10 were turned down by
Army doctors. Thirty-SiX, or 16 per
cent, of the white men were re-
jected. and "a, or % per cent, of the
colored.
The February rejection percentage
is almost double that for registrants
selected from the District to fill ear
lier calls, and exceeds the national
average through the month of jan
uary by several percentage points.
1T Is obvious" Gen. Cox said,
that in some respects physical re-
quirements at the induction station
are more rigid than those now in
effect in local examinations. We
want to determine reasons for these
reflections so our doctors may tighten
up necessary features of our tests"
Gen. Cox added that the unneces-
sary cost of providing transporta-
ton for men, only to have them
turned down one step away from
the Army, must be avoided, as well
as the extreme inconvenience" to
the selectees themselves.
20 More to Be Named.
The 1873 men named today are to
be inducted March 8, along with 20
additional selectees from Board No.
20. Names of the latter were expected
to be announced late this afternoon.
These selecteeS are the first of
some LOO to be inducted by March
10 and subsequently transported to
Fort Bliss, Tex. for service with the
260th Coast Artillery, District Ma
tional Guard anti-aircraft regiment
(See D. C. DRAFT, Page A-59
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Destroyer Transfer Opposed
By Stark; Defenses Improved,
Says Marshall; Funds Boosted
0. P. M. Okoys Plans
To Expand 5 Plane
And Arms Plants

The War Department today
announced approval by the
Office of Production Manage
ment of plans for expanding the
capacity of five aircraft and
munitions plants at a cost of
$22 ,255 ,080.
Expansion of the Beaver CPa0
plant of the Curtiss- Wright
Corp. for the production of air
plane propellers will involve
1921 100 contract. The Amer
ican Brass Co. will build and
equip a new plant at Kenosha,
Wis, at a cost of S4,750,000, to
produce ammunition brass and
cups. The Bridgeport Comm
Brass Co. plans the construction
of a $11,500,000 plant near
Indianapolis for the manufac-
ture of cartridge cases.
The remaining two contracts
are small ones.
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Ship Blown Up and Sunk
AT YugosIav Port
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPLIT, Yugoslavia, Feb. 26.-The
freighter Xenia, of 1,400 tons, was
blown up and sunk by a mysterious
explosion last night just after she
arrived at the small Yugoslav port
of Stobbrece loaded with bauxite.
Iloyd's Register of Shipping
does not list the Xenia, and the
dispatch did not give the ships
nationality
A Yugoslav investigating commits
sion found the ship sank in less than
minute at a time when all the
crew had gone ashore.
One version of the blast said the
ship was scheduled to take its baux-
ite, the raw material for aluminium,
to Pola. an Italian port near Trieste,
and then sail to Albania, and that
the crew was unwilling to make the
Albanian voyage. This version said
the crew planted time bomb in the
hold.
The ship first was reported to be
an italian freighter, Littorio, and
observers at first said they believed
q torpedo might have blown It up.
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Party Guest Is Accused
In Long Island Staying
RN the Associated PreSS.

MINEOLA, N. Y, Feb 26.-Nas-
sau County police today held Thom-
as Gallagher. 81. on a charge of
flrSt-degree manSlaughter in the
gun Staying of John Gormley, 34-
year-old riding master, last night
after a drinking party at Great
Neck, Long Island
Detained as a material witness
was Mrs. Mary Gerken, in whose
home the party was held and where
Gormley's body was found.
Police came in response to Mrs
Gerken's telephone call that "a man
was being shot by another man."
Detective Inspector Harold r.
King said he found Gallagher sit
ting in bedroom adjoining Mrs.
Gerken's room holding a gun in
his hand and that when he entered
the room Gallagher asked: rs he
dead?"
Inspector King said Gormley had
tried to break into the master
bedroom and that Mrs. Gerken and
a guest had told him Gallagher
threatened to shoot the riding mas
ter If he entered the room.
Mrs. Gerken's husband, Edward
Ridlew Gerken, 38, is in Florida on
vacation. police learned.
Mr.. Gerken is one of several
nepheWS and nieces VINO shared in
the S1,000,000 estate of Edward
Albert Ridley, the recluse who was
mySteriously slain in his cellar Office
in lower Manhattan May 10, 1893.
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Spectacular Loop Blaze
Damage Set at S15O,OO0

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb 26.-The most
spectacular Loop fire in 10 years
raced through a five-story building
at 164-l6S West Lake street today,
causing damage which Fire Marshal
Michael Corrigan estimated tenta-
lively at $l50.000.
The structure housed the Geiser
Office Furniture Co. and the George
E. Watson Paint Co.
Seventy pieces of pparatus-one-
third of the available equipment
a flreboat and more than 100 police
men we're pressed into service.
One link of the S570OO.0OO Chicago
subway system, now building, runs
under Lake street. Above surface
equipment of the construction was
covered with tarpaulin and the
workers proceeded with their tasks
trundling their bags of cement
through the fire lines.
The flames were brought under
control after three hours.
Evening star., 1941-02-26
BY the Associated Press.


TORONTO, Feb. 26.-Sir Frederick
Banting bandaged the wounds of
Pilot Joseph Mackey before the
noted Canadian scientist died of his
own injuries 20 feet from a crashed
transatlantic plane near Musgrave
Harbor. Newfoundland. the Toronto
Evening Telegram said in copy
righted story today.
The kilograms dispatch, from
Musgrave Harbor, said Sir Fred
erick spent his fast-waning strength
in caring for Capt. Mackey of Kan
sas City, MO, who was the lone sur
VlVor among the planes four occu-
pants.
"Only when he had done all he
could, both as a doctor and as man,
did he leave the plane-to die" the
account said. Sir Frederick died
on bier of branches from the trees
into which the plane had crashed
there was no one to see Sir
Frederick make his way to his bier"
Capt. Mackey, after surveying the
country and seeking help, returned
to find Sir Frederick missing from
the plane, the dispatch said. 1t
continued:
Then about 20 feet away he saw
the scientists body. Over 1t was
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Spain Agrees TO Refrain
From FortifYinq Ianaier
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
LONDON, Feb. 26.-Britain today
announced a provisional agreement
under which Spain has promised
TO refrain from fortifying the Tan
gier international zone.
Spanish troops occupied the in
ternational area fianking the Strait
of Gibraltar last. June IA ito pro-
tect its neutrality" On November
4 the Spanish military officially took
full charge" of the zone, ousting
British employees.
r. A. Butler, Undersecretary for
Foreign Affairs. told the House of
Commons that under the provisional
wartime agreement Spain had
promised to compensate the dis
missed British employees ION a gen.
erous scale" and said the British
institutions there would be safe
guarded. Both nations reserved
claims for later discussion.
In return, Mr.. Butler said, Britain
recognized 'the special interest of
the Spanish government in the Tan
gier zone"
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Plan 10 Censor Press
Or Radio by His Office
Is Denied by Me||ett
Committee Votes to Let
Unit Have Funds Up to
Double Current Years
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

A bill authorizing expenditures for
the ONCE of Government Reports in
the executive Office of the President
was ordered favorably reported to-
day by the House Committee on EX-
penditures in the Executive Depart
ments, after Lowell Mellett, director
of the Office. emphatically told the
committee the Office was not in
tended for censorship or propaganda
purposes.
The bill provides legislative
authority for the Office of Govern
ment Reports, which has functioned
under an executive order of the
President and been financed from
relief appropriations. The bill, as
reported, provided a ceiling of
S1.500000 to be annually appro-
priated for the Office of Govern
ment Reports, a sum double the
current appropriation, The appro-
priations committees and Congress
itself, however, will fix the amount
allotted to the office within that
figure.
Representative Bender, Repub-
Hcan, of Ohio announced that he
would submit a minority report op-
posing the bill.
After Mr.. Mellett had read to
the committee statement out
lining the work performed by the
Office of Government Reports, he
was questioned by members of the
committee regarding the reports
that his office was to be used for
censorship of the press and radio.
Denies Any knowledge.
"If any censorship is contemplated
this office knows nothing about it"
said Mr. Mellett. My belief is that
no censorship is contemplated,
either now or if this country should
become involved in war. When 1
say no censorship is contemplated in
the event of war I do not mean
that there will not be censorship of
military and naval information. I
mean there will be no general CEN
sorship of the press and the radio,
such as is exercised in some coun-
tries abroad"
Mr.. Mellett was asked about re-
ports of imposed censorship
by the press under the present
emergency.
He replied that the publishers of
newspapers were entirely free to
impose such censorship If they
wanted to, but that he knew nothing
further about it.
Representative Cochran, Demo-
crat, of Missouri said he had been
called up by press representatives
who told him that the pending bill
proposed to set up an organization
to control newspapers and the radio.
"As a matter of fact. Mr.. Mellett," :"
said Mr.. Cochran, this bill does
nothing of the sort. Is that not
a fact?"
Mr.. Mellett said that no control
Of newspapers or radio is comtem-
(See CENSORSHIP, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Scientist Ignored Order
OF Pilot to Bail Out

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Feb.
26 P.-Joseph C. Mackey was quoted
by residents of lonely Musgrave Har-
bor last night as declaring he had
ordered Sir Frederick Banting and
two other men to bail out" of the
plane he was plotting, and that only
after it crashed did he discover all
three had met death by remaining
with him.
Sir Frederick, distinguished dis
coverer of insulin, was bound for
England on a wartime medical mis-
sion when the plane crashed early
Friday lao miles northwest of St.
Johns.
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Billion and Half
More Includes Guum
And Samoa Items
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An immediate outlay of s1,533,-
439,7 in cash and contract au-
thorizations for the Army and Navy
was recommended by the House
Appropriations Committee today
The sum included funds to develop
naval aviation outposts in the
Pacific islands of Guam and Samoa.
In addition to money for a vast
expansion of its shore bases, the
Nays $838, ,32l, ,702 share of the total
included funds to start construc-
ton of 400 submarine chasers and
other small craft and to make pos
sible the delivery by the end of
1943 of 55 more destroyers than had
been planned originally
The committee approved all but
one item recommended by the Bud
get Bureau-funds for a civilian
police force for the Navy-and sent
the measure Immediately to the
House floor for debate.
The bulk of the Army fund of
$685. l18 900 was earmarked for con-
Structlon. both new and under way.
A total of 1888 800 900 was included
to complete 1856 cantonments and
other housing projects for which the
original estimates were too low.
Army Commended on Housing.
The committee emphasized that,
despite delays and cost increases.
the Army was entitled to commenda-
ton for the manner in which the
s1,000,0000OO housing program had
been conducted.
Fairness compels a bestoWal of
commendation for the sincere, de-
termlned effort to do the best pos
slble kind of construction job under
the worst possible conditions both
as to expedition and cost" the COM
mittee said.
In connection with the program.
the committee recommended a sl5.-
100000 item to enable the Army to
make advance engineering SURVEYS
and other plans for any future con-
struction which may be necessary.
Col. Brehon Somervell, chief of con-
structlon, testified that availability
OF such fund before the present
program started would have saved
the government 100000.
Mosquito Fleet to Get Bases.
Included in the Navy share were
funds for 40 motor minesWeepers,
already under contract, and four
oilers to be acquired before June 30:
$4,000, 900 for construction at mos
quito feet" bases to cost ultimately
about s43,0o0,0o0 and $4,000 900 to
start the installation of equipment
to protect merchant vessels from
magnetic mines. About 1000 vessels
are to be so equipped.
A total of 500, 1882 300 in cash was
recommended for naval aviation to
apply on the cost of 1929 planes
ordered last year and to permit the
purchase of 189 of the most expen-
sive types of planes. acquisition of
which was postponed because last
See APPROPRIATIONS, Page A-4I
Evening star., 1941-02-26
BY J. A. OLEARY.

A group of Senate opponents Of
the British-aid bill agreed infor-
mally today to finish general debate
on the measure this week, which
would clear the way for considera-
ton of amendments starting Mon
day.
There are more than 20 amend
ments pending, however, and unless
some limitation is agreed on, discus
sion could continue for a long time
even after general speech-making
is completed.
Majority Leader Barkley indicated
at noon he would not make another
other day or two. Some supporters
of the bill are understood to be in
favor Of night sessions next week if
the end of debate is not in sight by
that time.
Meanwhile, on the Senate floor,
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon
tana asserted that President RooSe-
velt had made "a shocking state
ment" when he told his press con-
ference yesterday that proposals for
peace must await British victory
and that the first thing was to win
the war.
Interrupts Nye's Testimony.
Interrupting an attack by Senator
Nye, Republican, of North Dakota
on the British aid bill, Senator
Wheeler said the Presidents state
ment indicated position which the
United States certainly should not
take unless we are ready to get into
the war"
Il think this statement of the
President is a shocking statement, "
Senator Wheeler shouted. Il submit
that we are not in the war unless
the President of the United States
has already committed us to war.
If we are in the war, repeat that
we are in in violation of the Con-
stitution of the United States"
Senat tor Nye said he regarded the
Presidents expression of views as
increasing evidence" that the So
called lease-lend bill was a "go to
war" measure.
who are we in the United
States" Senator Wheeler broke in,
ito tell the British what they
should do? Who is the President
of the United States that he should
tell the British that the war should
60 on? How can Britain win a vic
tory unless we come into the ware"
Senator Clark, Democrat, of Mis-
souri,, another opponent of the bill,
said it was his view that the Presi-
dent practically said, Yes, we are
in the war"
Senator Wheeler said the general
feeling among the Is Senators who
conferred informally this morning
was that opposition to the bill is in
creasing in the country. He said,
however. he did not expect general
(Caa ppTTrcrJ hTn pooo A "a
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Roosevelt Conferrino
With Chief Advisers
On Defense Plans
Two Cabinet Groups,
British Air Marshal
On Full Schedule
By John C. HENRY.

President Roosevelt. as if suiting
his actions to his press conference
words of yesterday, when he said the
immediate problem is to win this
war, was comforting today with two
cabinet groups, high British war
official, and two additional defense
advisers.
First of his engagements on
crowded schedule was with the spe-
cial departmental group consulted
almost weekly on the actual progress
and state of the Nations defense
machine. In this group were Secre-
tary of State Hull, Secretary of War
StimSon, Undersecretary of Navy
Forrestal, Army Chief of Staff
George C. Marshall and Admiral
Harold R. Stark, chief of naval op-
erations.
This afternoon, Mr.. Roosevelt was
to see the same three cabinet officers
again, plus Secretary of Treasury
Morgenthau, for a long discussion
OF administrative details pertaining
to operation of the lease-lend pro-
gram.
To See Sir Hugh Dowding.
Shortly before lunch, the Presi-
dent expected to receive important
flrst-hand information on British
military aviation needs from Sir
Hugh Dowding, chief of the British
air forces. Air Marshal Dowding,
who has been in this country for
several weeks on a special aviation
procurement mission, will be accom-
panied to his White House meeting
by Harry L. Hopkins. Mr.. Hopkins,
former Secretary of Commerce, has
just returned from an observation
trip for the President in Great
Britain and has been advising
closely with the Chief Executive on
British needs and probable action
under the lease-lend bill.
Other presidential engagements
during the day were with Secretary
of Commerce Jones, Defense Com
missioner Chester Davis, Gano
Dunn, a division head in the defense
agency, and William S. Paley, preSi-
dent of the Columbia Broadcasting
System. Mr.. Paley has recently re-
turned from a South American trip.
Victory Before Peace Plan.
Victory before peace or parley
appeared to be the common objec-
tive of America and Britain in
the light of uutterances yesterday
by President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill
Occasion for Mr.. Roosevelt's dec
laration in this regard arose at his
afternoon press conference when a
reporter asked if John G. Winant,
our new Ambassador to Britain,
was carrying to London a postwar
social and economic program for
the two nations.
Pointedly, the President replied
that he knew of none and added
without trimming that the first
thing to do is to win the war.
Only a short while before Mr.
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Third D. {. Emp|oye Fired
AS Dog Tag Probe Continues

The immediate dismissal of a
third District government employe
for the good of the service" was
ordered today by the Commissioners
as police and high ranking municipal
officers continued their investiga-
tion of shortages of more than
$4,000 in the Districts dog tag
accounts.
The discharged employe is Mrs.
Estelle L. Devlin, 80, a junior clerk
stenographer employed in the tax
collectors office, who, at times, sold
dog tags.
The Commissioners and police
officials said they did not know
whether any arrests would be made.
Two other District workers who
have been discharged for the good
Of the service" in connection with
the shortage are Mrs. Hattie Small
and Mrs. Madeline Beard.
Evening star., 1941-02-26
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, Feb. 26.-The italian
high command indicated today
that the German Army and air
corps were taking over the brunt
of the battle against the British
in Libya and announced that
German and British armored de-
tachmentS have had their first
clash there.
Adolf Hitlers mechanical forma-
tions started into action Monday
morning, the day after Premier
Mussolini in a speech had disclosed
their presence in North Africa. and
met the British units southeast of
Agedabia, an Italian communique
said.
Agedabia is near the base of the
wide Sirte Gulf, which spreads be-
tween Bengasi and Tripoli.
Trucks, Tanks Destroyed.
In this first contact between for
nations of the German corps in
North Africa" and their foe. the
communique said, various enemy
trucks and tanks were destroyed
and prisoners taken without Ger
man losses"
Agedabia is about 100 miles south
of Bengasi
(The German high command
made similar announcement
this morning.
ut said: '"On the Libyan coast
southeastward of Agedabia, Ger
man and English motorized re-
cOnnaissance squads had a skir-
mish in the morning hours of
February "a. A number of Eng
lish motor vehicles were among
several armored cars destroyed
and several prisoners were taken.
There were no German loSses.O
First Intimation Sunday.
The first intimation that German
land forces had arrived in Libya
was given by Premier Mussolini in
a speech Sunday in which he said:
Cooperation offered by the
Fuehrer. air and armored detach-
ments operating IN the Mediter-
ranean, is another proof that all
fronts are common fronts. " = The
behavior of German troops in Sicily
and Libya is perfect in every way"
The Italians also reported Nazi
warplanes had bombed a British
naval base in Eastern Libya, "seri-
ously damaging two 80OO-ton ships
and causing violent explosions and
fires" among port installations and
military works.
The Germans identified the
base as Tobruk and said they
had damaged a l0O0O-ton muni-
tions ship and another merchant
vessel of equal sizeD
GarrisOns Resist StubbOrnIy.
At oases of Giarabub and Cufra,
in the Libyan Desert, the high COM
mand said italian garrisons were
"stubbornly resisting enemy pres
sure"
Italian troops also were said TO
be continuing heroic resistance"
(See LIBYA. Page A-4D
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Bonting Bondoged Hurt Pilot
Before Dying Of Own Injuries

spread his overcoat. Beside it, rest
ing on the snow, were a wallet and
some papers"
Sir Frederick, co-diScoverer of in
sulin and Nobel Prize winner; Navi-
gator William Bird of Kidder-
minister, England, and William
Snailham of Bedford, Nova Scotia,
were victims of the crash, which oc-
CURED after the plane took off on
an attempted flight to England last
Friday.
Evening star., 1941-02-26
japanese Heavily Bomb
Running, Burma Rood
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SHANGHAI, Feb. 26.-Japanese
reports said that waves of Japanese
naval aircraft operating from an air
base in French Indo-China" today
heavily bombed Running, capital
of Yunnan Province in China, and
strategic points on the Burma road.
The reports declared eight squad
rons of bombers took part in the
raids. Damage to Running was re-
ported to be heavy. The results of
the attack on the Burma road we're
not recounted.
Evening star., 1941-02-26
Mon Sues After Arrest
AS Common ScoId'
BY the Associated Press.

. ELIZABETH. N. j., Feb 26.-
Joseph r. Lamont of Summit seeks
$57,500 damages as a result of his
arrest and acquittal on a charge of
being a common scold," an offense
which a magistrate ruled could be
charged against only woman.