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Evening star., 1941-11-01

Church near Chicago for his gallery
and asked fabulous prices. Being
well-to-do, he could wait. When Mr..
Roosevelt devaluated the dollar, the
artist marked up his prices 40 per
cent.
In 1881 he started on the junk
yard door. He set it on tombstone
and tackled on its panel wax fu-
neral wreath which Greek under
taker was unable to sell.
Chiaroscuro With Eggs.
The canvas and frame for the pic
ture were 10 feet high, so large he
had to cut a hole in the ceiling for
the top and another in the floor for
his feet when he painted the
threshold. To give dismal at
mosphere, he blackened the studio
walls, using three dozen eggs as a
paint binding to prevent light re-
Elections.
The painting, completed last sum-
mer, shows a woman's hand reaching
for the door knob while the blue
fumes of death ooze from the key
hole. 1t took a year to paint the
hand because the model could pose
only on Sundays.
The title, following Mr.. Albright's
penchant for long names. was That
Which Should Have Done Did
Not Do"
Evening star., 1941-11-01
japanese Threaten 10 Get
Oil by Dangerous Means
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC. Nov. If Japan is no
longer able to import oil by "ordi-
nary means" an editorial in the
newspaper Nichi Nichi declared to-
day, she will have to get 1t "by
extraordinary means, even If it
should prove dangerous"
AS the nation pulled in more
notches in its belt to meet new
rises in wartime taxes, the news
paper argued that modern nations
could not survive without oil and
that Japan's- insistence on getting
1t, therefore, was merely a legitimate
act of self-defense
Nichi Nichi noted specifically that
Japan's oil sources in the United
States and the Netherlands Indies
had been cut off and asserted the
United States never would be able
to force Japan to her knees by eco
nomic means.
The petroleum technical commits
sion, meanwhile, announced that
drilling was planned on 181 locations
In the coming year, apparently in
an attempt to realize quick returns
Of petroleum wherever possible
Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, gov
ernor of Formosa, declared in a
speech today that Japan's southwark
expansion policy was absolutely in
dispensable" and that to this end
Formosa should be converted into
IAN immovable aircraft carrier"
Evening star., 1941-11-01
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1.-The court
jester Of American art, a painter
who started drawing the wounds Of
American soldiers in France and
now puts varicose veins or some OF
his subjects, has won $500 prize
with the portrait of $3.50 door
rescued from junk yard.
Ivan Albright worked 10 years on
the picture of weather-beaten wood
which is attracting crowds at the
American exhibition in the Chicago
Art Institute. He values the paint
ing at more than 100000. and Is
said to have turned down $50, 900.
On his fathers estate In suburban
Warrenville, where the 44-year -old
painter lives, he is known as wag
In artists clothing. Adam Albright,
the father, was great painter in his
day, and used Ivan as a model for
Tom Sawyer fishing scenes.
Brother Takes Pseudonym.
Ivans twin brother, Malvin is also
an artist. When Ivan twitted him
about placing second in alphabetical
art catalogues, the brother took the
name of Zsissly" Now Albright and
zsissly open and close most art pro-
grams.
In the World War Ivan was
plucked from a Paris art school to
draw shell wounds for the Medical
Corps at a base hospital He soon
turned to doughboy portraits. If the
colonel asked him why, he said the
captain ordered it. If the captain
passed by, Ivan said the colonel left
instructions. Thus he concocted his
own assignmenti> for two years.
Mr.. Albright coaght a Methodist
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Army Flyers Lost for Week in High Sienos
Tell of Chance Meeting in Mountain Shack
Rescuers Amuzed
That Two Pilots
Survived Cold
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FRESNO, Calf, Nov. Lit. Jack
c. West of Centerville. Iowa, shiv-
cred and pulled his thin flying suit
tighter around his shoulders.
1t had been two days since he
parachuted from his P-40 pursuit
ship to the slope of 10.400-foot Bar
ton Peak and the abandoned trap
pers' shack he had managed to flnd
in Sugarloaf Valley, 5000 feet below
the crest of the mountains. didn't
offer much in the way Of protection
against the freezing autumn cold.
1t West surveyed his diminishing
supply of emergency rations and
the even scantier supply Of food he
had discovered in the cabin. 1t was
night again, and he wondered how
much longer he would be alone:
when or whether he would get out
of the high Sierra alive.
There was a knock at the door.
Who's there?" 1t. West called.
I'm a lost aviator" came the re-
ply. Can you show me the way
out of here?"
MY God. so am l." 1t. West
answered. Come on in
Spell Out Names.
1t. Leonard c. Lydon of Des
Moines, Iowa, came in. He said he
had jumped from his P-40 pursuit
ship to the slope of Barton Peak
two days before-Friday, October "a
when the plane had become sepa-
rated IN storm from a formation
of 10 flying northward toward Sac
ramento from March Field, in
Southern California.
1t. West told the same story. He,
too, had been in the pursuit squad
ron, had become lost and run out
of gasoline.
The two flyers pooled supplies.
They found fishing tackle and
caught IL fish. For five days they
wandered through the valley and
along the ridges, looking for a way
out.
At last they climbed halfway up
Barton Peak, lighted a fire and
spelled out their names with stones.
Searching planes spotted them and
guided ground rescue party to the
scene.
Last night. a week after they
leaped into the Sierra wilderness,
Its. Lydon and West were brought to
Fresno and instructed to rest at the
air base hospital.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
|ckes Accuses Jones
Of Forcing His Hand
In AIcoa Contract
Interior Heads Note
To Commerce Secretary
Reed at Senate Hearing

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes,
defense investigators heard yester-
day, has accused his fellow cabinet
member, Jesse Jones, of an attempt
at forcing my hand into the sign
ing of a contract that would not be
in the public interest"
This accusation was contained in
letter written by Mr.. Ickes to
Mr.. Jones, Federal Loan Admins
traitor and Secretary of Commerce,
on September 2, protesting a con-
tract between the Defense Plant
Corp. and the Aluminium Co. Of
America for construction and opera
ton Of new production facilities.
EnvisiOns Dilemma.
Frankly" Mr. Ickes wrote his
colleague, II would be rejecting on
your intelligence if I supposed for
minute that you did not have in
mind the dilemma in which I would
find myself when the demand was
made upon me to sign on the dotted
line an onerous and unconscionable
contract or run the risk of possible
condemnation by the unthinking for
not having done So"
One of the plants to be con-
structed under the contract would
be located in the Bonneville Grand
Coulee Dam area and would depend
upon Federal power for its operation.
Mr.. Ickes' letter was put into the
record of the Senate Defense In
vestigating Committee, which also
heard testimony from Alcoa off,
cials that a new contract was being
negotiated to replace the present
one, and that modification Of some
of the provisions to which Mr.
Ickes objected was being considered
by the negotiators.
Oscar Ewing, Alcoa counsel, as
serted that the interests Of the
Government were fully protected"
under the present contract.
Mr.. Ewing spoke after Chairman
Truman of the investigating COM
mittee had said, II don't think the
interests of the Government are
amply protected" He added that he
would blame the men in the Gov
ernment who are willing to sign a
contract like that without putting
in necessary safeguards.
Ready to Use Own Funds.
I. J. Wilson, Alcoa vice president.
testified that his company had been
to finance expansion OF
production with its own funds but
that the Government had preferred
use of Federal funds
"Alcoa," he declared, 'is still ready
to proceed to the extent OF Its
ability in expansion on its own
account"
Ickes listed these objections to the
contract, among Others:
THE production control provisions
of the lease strengthen and extend
the monopolistic position OF the
Aluminium Co
THE profit which Alcoa would
realize for operation of the plants
under this contract seems to be ex-
ceedingly generous.
Defense Plant Corps prospective
profits seem equally startling"
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Mrs. Fiermonte Leaves
Estute of $1,037,696
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-Mrs. Made
leine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte,
who died of heart attack at Palm
Beach, Fla, on March %, 1910, left
an estate of 1,O37 696, an estate tax
appraisal showed today.
The 47-year-old society woman,
whose first husband, Col. John Jacob
Astor, died in the Titanic disaster in
1912, left most Of her estate to two
sons, William Force Dick and John
Henry Dick of Islip, Long Island.
They will receive the principal when
they are %.
A S5O,OOO diamond ring went to
her oldest son, John Jacob Astor.
who her will said had been hereto
fore provided for"
No mention was made in the tax
appraisal of EMO Fiermonte, the
youthful italian prize fighter who
Mrs. Fiermonte divorced in 1888. =.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Price Rise Probable
In j. ). Cafeterias
Based on Pay Boost
Settlement Involving
More Than $l00, 900
Averts WuIkout

A rise in food prices in Govern
ment cafeterias was in prospect to-
day following an eleventh-hour
settlement last night of the dispute
between the cafeteria management
and the employees union, which had
threatened a strike of 200 workers
this morning unless an agreement
was reached.
Arthur j. Williams, president of
the Welfare and Recreation Asso--
citation, which operates the eating
places, said the organization would,
do everything in its power to pre-
vent price increases, but added that
they appeared inevitable" in view,
Of last nights developments. d,
Mr.. Williams said the wage in
creases agreed to would cost the as
sociation well over 100000" and
gave this as the reason for the
probable increase in the cost OF
food. He said he was considering
upping the price of the popular Is
cent special" luncheon to 80 cents.
Negotiating through Federal Con-
ciliator L. F. Rye. the association
agreed to wage boosts for union en-
ployes amounting to slightly less
than 10 per cent above the current
rates of 445 and 81 cents an hour
The union, Local All, Of the c. I.
O.'s United Cafeteria Employees,
withdrew its demands for free uni
form laundry service and a check
off arrangement. A clause providing
for renewal of negotiations in the
event of a sharp rise in the cost of
living was inserted
Jack Mink, local business agent.
predicted speedy ratification of the
agreement by the workers tonight.
The association operates some 35
cafeterias in most of the Federal
| buildings here. with the exception
of the Navy and Agriculture Depart
ments and Government Printing
Office.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Gestapo Hounded Him
For Bombsight Data,
Spy Suspect Says
Family Threatened if He
Lied About Device,
Lang Testifies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. His face
swollen by weeks of weeping, Her
mann Lang, 40, one of Is men on
trial for espionage conspiracy, testl-
fed yesterday that he was bounded
by Gestapo agents in Germany and
that they threatened to harm his
family if he had lied in denying
knowledge of the American Norden
bombsight.
Lang, an inspector in the Carl L.
Norden concern, said he took his
wife to Germany on June g. l938Tre-
turned to New York the following
September %, and advised his en-
ployer that a doctor had ordered
the trip for his wife for her health.
The Government charged that
while there he sold particulars OF
the Norden bombsight.
Before leaving New York, Lang
testified, he encountered fellow
Norden worker, Fritz Sohn, on the
street with a man introduced as
Nikolaus Ritter, a visiting German
textile engineer, During their brief
conversation. Lang said he men,
toned that he intended to go TO
Germany.
Worked on Sight Parts.
Lang said that while he was IN
Berlin Ritter introduced MIN TO a
Mr.. Boyer.
Lang then continued:
.Ritter told me his real name was
Ranzau mentioned in the indlct-
ment as the co-conspirator who or
sanized the espionage ring IN
America.
"Beyer said, 'Ranzu told me you
work in a factory which makes IN
struments.'
Ritter said, He works at Norden,
who makes bombsights.'
II had never mentioned this to
any one. I told them I work on
parts, but don't know what they are.
Boyer said, 'Ranzau told me you
work on bombsights. Do you know
what a finished one looks ike?'
Il said I never yet saw finished
one.
Boyer grew angry. He said to
Ritter, DO you think we have the
time and money to spend, when all
he knows is parts? We need fin
ished products
Tells of Threats.
"When We came outside Ritter
said, That fellow Boyer is my boss
If you don't talk you know what's
going to happen to me-
st said, I told the truth
Ritter said, If I find out you
didn't speak the truth it will be
pretty hard for your relatives"
Lang said Ritter, who identified
himself as being with the police,
followed him and his wife to Berlin.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
1882 Have Lost Lives
For Refusal 10 Bow
To Nazi Authority
Serbs Have Paid Heaviest
Toll With 345 Killed;
France Far Down List
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov AT least 1882
persons have been executed for re-
fusal to bow to NaZi authority in
countries directly within the Ger
man sphere OF influence since Ger
manys war with Russia began June
%, a compilation of reports made
public showed today.
In addition. references have been
made in the press at various times
to several" or "a number" of per-
sons who had been led before fir
ing squad or to the gallows. In
many cases the press failed to follow
up an original announcement that
a death sentence had been handed
down by a court-martial, thus leav-
ing in doubt whether those SEN
fenced had been killed or later par
doned.
158 Killed in France.
The most dramatic executions
were those at Nantes and Bordeaux.
where 100 French hostages were
killed for the assassination of two
German officers, 1t. Col. Paul Fried
rich Hotz and DR.. Hans Ulrich
ReimerS.
Since the drive against Commun-
lists began, a total of 158 have met
sudden death at the hands OF Ger
man executioners in France, pub
lished reports show, but France is
far down the list in total killed.
The most unruly peoples under
the German sway, judging by the
number of known executions, are
the tough mountain folk of Serbia,
who paid for non-co-operation with
345 lives.
For an attack on two German SOL
diers alone, 200 Serbs were reported
killed in reprisal.
Close on the heels of the Serbs
come the CroatS. A total of 254 are
said to have made the one-way trip
to the execution square, mostly on
charges of being Communists.
I95 Czechs Sent to Death.
Orders of Reinhard Heydrich,
Reich's protector of Bohemia Mo-
ravia, have sent at least 1875 Czechs
to death, mostly on charges of eco
nomic sabotage in what were termed
widespread plots. Heydrich accused
groups of Czechs of trying to wreck
distribution of food and blame it on
Germany He dissolved the Sokol
physical education movement.
Eighteen Poles, 20 Belgians. Is
Dutch. IA citizens of Germany,
Bulgars, AZ Rumanians and 13
Greeks have been reported executed
! since June %.
! Among the reasons given were
/ treason, sabotage, possession Of
weapons, being Communist. stab.
bing a German soldier, attacking 6
policeman, possessing explosives
attempting to flee to the enemy side
and aiding the enemy.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Non-Axis Shipping Pool
Predicted in London

LONDON, Nov. 1 (P).-Exchange
Telegraph said today well-informed
diplomatic quarters predicted that
non-Axis world shipping would be
controlled from Washington by an
international committee if Congress
repealed Neutrality Act restrictions
now preventing United States YES
sells from entering belligerent ports.
More economic use of vessels
would be the aim, the British news
agency said.
It reported that the United
States Maritime Commission pre-
sumably would be the key organ
lzation in the shipping pool and
other nations would establish mis-
sions ia. co-opc--
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Pastor Loses Church
For Spencer Wedding
1y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VENTURA, Calf, Nov. Tine
pastor who married Comdr. Earl
Winfield Spencer, jry disclosed yes
terday he had met fate similar to
that of the clergyman who married
Comdr. Spencer's former wife. Wal
lis Spencer Simpson, and the Duke
of Windsor.
The Rev. Floyd K. Gressett. pas
tor of the Ventura Full Gospel
Church, said the church assembly
had notified him he was Indefinitely
suspended because he had married
a divorced person, Comdr. Spencer,
and Mrs. Lillian Margaret Hackney
here October /.
The Rev. r. Anderson Jardine was
relieved of his Church of England
parish because he married Mrs.
Simpson and the Duke of Windsor.
He later went to Hollywood.
Evening star., 1941-11-01

said Maj. Carroll S. Miller, who led
the rescue party.
The planes flown by Its. Lydon
and West are among Ave which dis
appeared from the. squadron of l9.
Of the other three pilots lost. 1t. j.
H. Pease of Boise, Idaho. likewise
jumped to safety. and 1t. w. H. Bir-
rell of Warren, Ohio, crashed to his
death.
A hunt for the third, 1t Richard
N. Long Of Connellsville. Pa, still
goes on.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Rites for Rheu O. Lewis
In Marquette Tomorrow

Funeral services for Rhea O.
Lewis, 48. clerk in the Department
of Agriculture, who died yesterday
at Emergency Hospital, will be held
tomorrow afternoon at Marquette,
Mich. where he will be buried.
A native of Marquette, he was
educated in public schools and the
University of Wisconsin. Mr. Lewis,
who made his home at 1912 Nine
teenth street NV, had lived here
for seven years.
He leaves a sister, Miss Margaret
Lewis of the Nineteenth street ad-
dress.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
900 Tons of Cereals
Sent to Aid Near East

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 1.-More than 100,-
900 tons of cereals are on their way
to the Near East for distribution to
meet civil needs, it was announced
today.
1t will be distributed by the Near
East supply center which serves an
area of 2,50O,OO0 square miles COM
prising Egypt, Turkey, Palestine,
Transjordan, Sudan, Syria, Malta,
Cyprus, Alden, British Somaliland;
Ethiopia and British-occupied terri
tories.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
CONGRESS in Brief

By the Associated Press.
Senate:
Stages sixth day of debate or
Neutrality Act revision.
House:
In recess.
Banking. Committee continues
study OF price-contrG bill.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Weather Report

"
emperature
shifting diminishing
colder tonight preceded by along
MISUNDERSTANDING colder central portions cloudy
ending
morning fair somewhat
colder.
colder
Evening star., 1941-11-01
81 Communists Arrested
In France, kozis Report

LONDON. Nov. tPj.-The Ger
man radio broadcast today report
by DNB. that 81 members of a
secret Communist organization had
been arrested by police at Clermont-
Ferrand in Unoccupied France.
The news agency said seven of
those arrested were sent to a con-
centration camp and 80 remanded
for hearings. but the fate of the re-
mainder was not disclosed.
Evening star., 1941-11-01

Wan, bearded and heavy-eyed,
they still carried with them their
parachute ripcords-prized souve-
Mrs of a memorable experience.
The National Park Service re-
ported that night temperatures in
Sugar Loaf Valley the past week
ranged between 5 and Is degrees
above zero. Snow lay several inches
deep on the level.
Il don't know how they survived"
Evening star., 1941-11-01

lawless Of the Middle Ages existed
in Yugoslavia.
Serb guerrilla bands are in COM
plete power in the countryside and
have turned cities and towns garri-
soned by Axis troops into belea-
guered strongholds from which it is
unsafe to travel without an escort,
this informant asserted.
He described his trip through the
Axis-conquered country as so dan
gerous because of persistent sabotage
of railroads and actual attacks on
trains that he thought it best to
leave his wife and children behind.
Trains no longer run according
to schedules but only whenever
tracks are reported safe, the consul
said, so the trip from Budapest to
Istanbul, ordinarily a two-day jour-
ney, took nine days.
He said he was forced to remain
in Belgrade for "a hours while a
bloWn-up rail bed was restored.
A Yugoslav Legation spokesman
in London said on October Is that
Serb resistance to German rule had
reached the status of rebellion with
an armed force of 10000 led by army
officers opposing German rule.
He asserted that Italian tactics
of burning villages suspected of shell
tering the rebels had failed and that
Axis garrisons controlled few cities.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Weather Conditions Last e4 Hours

The extensive low-pressure system over
the Mississippi Valley is moving steadily
north-northeastward into the upper Lake
region attended by strong winds over a
rather extensive area. accompanied by
moderate to heavy rains. A well-marked
trough and cold front is moving steadily
eastward over the Appalachian region.
preceded by mild. riany weather over the
Atlantic States. but followed by an ex-
tensive mass Of colder air and clearing
weAther. Cloudy weather with light rain
prevails in the Pacific Northwest and over
Northern California Fair and rather
cold weather for the season prevail over
the Rocky Mountain region and eastward
to the Mississippi
Evening star., 1941-11-01

In England the cost of living rose
approximately % per cent between
the outbreak of war in September
1899, and 1uly 1, 1941. according to
the MinistrS Of Labo-.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Conditions in YugosIovio
Described as Chaotic

ISTANBUL, Turkey. Nov. (E1.-
A neutral consul in Budapest said
today on his arrival here that cha
otic conditions resembling the most
Evening star., 1941-11-01

Spices were so important IN an
cient Rome that the Law exempted
from military service any one con-
nected with the spice industry.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Report for Last 2i Hours.

Record for Last ~ Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest, 81, at noon to-day. Year
ago. "a
Lowest, So, at 4 pm. yesterday. Year
ago, As.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 100. on July 2s.
Lowest. Is. on March is.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon todayD
Highest, a6 per cent. at am: today
Lowest, rs per cent, at l2:3O pm
yesterday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
stitutes a greater threat to democ-
racy than war itself"
Capator Rarklev renlied that the

Senator BarKIey replied That the
President had more right to send
an expedition to Iceland to prevent
Hitler from using that point as a
jumping off place" for an attack
in this hemisphere than Hitler had
to take a pencil and draw a combat
zone on the ocean map. 1,500 miles
in one direction and 1000 miles in
the other.
Evening star., 1941-11-01

India is sending to Australia for
its trainer planes.
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches IN the
Capital lcurrent month to date):