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Evening star., 1941-11-09
South American
Women Ask Visit
By Mrs. Roosevelt
Delegates Of n Republics
Poss Resolution Here
Urging She Make Trip

A resolution expressing desire
that Mrs. Roosevelt tour Central
and South America was passed yes
terday at the Pan-American Union
by women delegates from the 81 re-
publics to the Inter-American Com
mission of Women.
Although a visit by Mrs. Roose-
velt as concrete expression of the
good neighbor policy has long been
rumored here and in Latin America,
the commission is the first official
group to extend her an invitation.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

1t was recommended at the sugges-
tion Of Sonora Ana Rosa de Mar.
tinez Guerrero Of Argentina, chair
man of the group
Evening star., 1941-11-09

The Arctic Territory is rich in gold,
salt and various minerals, as well
as fur-bearing animals.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

A Frenchman recently drriped
In NetD York-his name must be
Dithheld because he has relatipes
still living in Frdnce-diScloses
hitherto untold details about the
Ndzts' conduct in Paris and the
French resistance to them.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Practically all motion pictures
shown in Bermuda are American.
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Contracts LET for 123
Cargo Boats, 8 Shipways
ss the Associated Press.

By the ASSottfJeo Press-
The Maritime Commission an
nounced today the award Of con-
tracts for construction of 1913 cargo
vessels, eight shipways and other
facilities.
The ships, all of standard design,
will cost approximately $4,000 900.
The ways and other facilities will
cost about s6,0O0,O00
The awards included:
ingalls, Shipbuilding Corp, Pasca-
goula, Miss, six C-3's; Federal Ship
building & Drydock Co., Kearny,
N. j., "a CPS; Pennsylvania Ship
yards, Inc, Beaumont, Tex, 10 CTS:
Pusey & Jones, Wilmington, Del
10 C-2's; Sun Shipbuilding & Dry
dock Co.. Chester, Pa, 10 CPS;
Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Fran
cisco, II C-3s: Seattle-Tacoma Ship
building Corp, Tacoma, Wash, 80
C-3s; Moore Drydock Co., San
Francisco, II C-2's; Consolidated
Steel Corp, Los Angeles. four CHS.
Shipways awarded included:
Western Pipe & Steel, San Fran
cisco, two; Moore Drydock Co., San
Francisco, one; Pusey g. Jones, Will
mington, one; South Portland Ship
building Corp, South Portland, Me,
four.
The commission said the new ways
will be used to construct the EC-2
type ships ordered on April Is.
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Engineer Hurt in Leup
Tells of Blueprint Theft
BY the Associated Press.

0s lHc hSSOCldl leu TIeSS,
PITTSBURGH, May 26.-City de-
tectives and agents of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation today in
vestigated a story of the theft of
stolen blueprints," related by an
engineer injured in a plunge from
third-story window of a rooming
house yesterday.
City Detective John Dean said
the engineer, an unnaturaliZed
Hungarian, told a disconnected story
of the theft of blueprints from a
plant in Worcester, Mass, where he
lived until he came to Pittsburgh
three week ago.
Detectives reported the man said
he leaped from the rooming house
window because he thought C.
men were after me-" He suffered
back injuries and a broken pelvis.
His condition was described as seri-
Gus.
Evening star., 1941-05-26
District Income Tax
Review 10 Be Made
By Supreme Court
Case Involving Exemption
OF U. S. Workers Will Be
Argued in October Term

Marking a victory for the District
in the income tax fight, the Supreme
Court of the United States today
agreed to review the decision of the
United States Court of Appeals
holding that Federal employees on
duty here are exempt from the To-
cal income levy when they claim
permanent home elsewhere.
In announcing the rule the court
said Justices Stone and Roberts took
no part in the deliberations.
The litigation will be argued in
the Supreme Court in the new term
opening in october.
The Court of Appeals decision,
affecting approximately 10000 Capt.
tai residents, was handed down last
March "a, in cases involving Paul
M. De Hart, chief clerk of the Per-
sonnel and Organization Division of
the National Guard Bureau, War
Department, and Henry c. Murphy,
Treasury Department economist. A
resident here since 1914, Mr.. De
Hart claimed domicile in Harrisburg,
Pa, and paid under protest a tax
of $16.36 for the year ending Decem-
ber 81, 1899. Mr.. Murphy, who came
here in 1885, protested a payment
of $25.55 for the same period, claim.
ing domicile in Detroit. go
Based on Sweeney Case.
Their contention was upheld by
the Board of Tax Appeals, and when
the District took the case to the
Court of Appeals, the board ruling
was affirmed on the basis OF the
earlier Sweeney case In that the
court said that Federal duty re-
quires residential presence in the
District upon the part of all who
must come and remain here to do
the work of the Government" and
that Federal employe may main
tain his domicile in the State from
which he comes until the service
terminates unless he gives clear evil
dence of his intention to forego his
State allegiance"
In petltioning for Supreme Court
review, the District government said
these three major questions were
involved:
Whether the domicile of a Fed
eral employe is to be determined
upon different principles of law
than those applicable to the deter
minatiop of domicile of an indi-
(See INCOME TAX, Page AID
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Caught After IA Years,
Double Killer Is Sentenced
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANA, Pa, May 26.-Gaspar
Morganti, 40-year- -old Los Angeles
liquor dealer, was sentenced today
to a total of 16. to 80 years in the
penitentiary for a double Staying IA
years ago during an argument over
a broken baseball bat.
Judge E. E. Crops also ordered him
to pay the costs and fined him Ga
cents in one case and $4,000 in an
other.
Morganti, a former resident of
Whiskey Run, was convicted March
IS of second-degree murder in the
fatal shooting of Clarence Eye, %,
at Harttown August 6, 1926, and
pleaded guilty last Saturday to VOL
untary manslaughter in the death
of Thomas McEwan, %.
Morganti had contended he fired
at the two in self-defense after
they had attacked him with a ham,
mer and a tire iron. The three
had quarreled over a bat during a
game between the Harttown and
Whiskey Run teams.
Morganti was apprehended jan
uary "a in Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Thousands of Gestopo Agents
Working in U.S., VoItin Asserts
Former Soviet and Nozi Operative Testifies
U S. Defense Plants Are Honeycombed
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Thousands of Gestapo agentsNaz secret poce-are in this
country furnishing with vital information concerning
Americas defense activities special subcommittee of the Dies
told today Richard Krebs who under the
Valtin the seller Out
Night"
author whose operations
both Gesapo and member of the Soviet O. G. P u fur
nished material his book related somewhat
subdued police had like eriteS
way into this counrys industrial plants the Army
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Fuvorite Trick in
Seizine Countries,
Secretary Asserts
BY GARNETT d. HORNER.

Secretary of State Hull today
described a German warning to
the United States on naval pa
trolls and conveys as a threat
designed to induce America to
refrain from real efforts at self
defense until Hitler was ready to
attack.
He said it was a favorite German
system to use either threats or per-
suaslon to prevent other countries
from defending themselves until
Hitler was ready to seize them. Such
methods appear to be an integral
part of the program of world con-
quest by force, he said.
Comments on Raeder Warning.
The Secretary's comment was
made at his press conference in re-
sponse to questions about state
ments by German Grand Admiral
Erich Raeder that American con-
voys for supplies to England would
be an open war" act and that the
present system of naval patrols was
aggressive"
Mr.. Hull said the statement seems
TO speak for itself. 1t appears, he
added. to be some sort of a threat
to induce this country and probably
other American nations to refrain
from real efforts at self defense un-
til Hitler gets control of the high
seas and other continents of the
world.
Recent Speech Quoted.
While Mr.. Hull has not publicly
advocated the use of naval conveys,
he has said in recent radio speeches
that the United States will find a
way" to insure the delivery of ade-
quate supplies to Great Britain.
Every consideration of our own
defense and safety requires that we
see to it that Great Britain receive;
adequate supplies for her successful
resistance" the Secretary said in 6
radio broadcast May 18.
In the same address, he declared
that I'VE will not permit this purpose
to be frustrated and asserted that
American safety was in "morta'
danger" from the German drive tc
( secure control of the high seas as
part Of their program of world con-
quest.
Evening star., 1941-05-26
President Demands
Proper Food for All as
Experts Tackle Task
500 at Governments
Conference Work on
Feeding U. S. and Britoin
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

With a challenging demand from
President Roosevelt that every
American family be fed properly
the National Nutrition Conference
approximately 500 experts on food
and food distribution from all over
the country-started at the May
flower Hotel this morning its task
of mapping ways to nourish the
United States and Great Britain
during and after the present emer-
gency.
During these days of stress the
health problems OF the military and
civilian population are inseparable, y
the President wrote Federal Security
Administrator McNutt, who opened
the conference
Total defense demands man pow
er. The full energy of every Amer
lean is necessary. Medical author
tiles recognize completely that ef-
ficiency and stamina depend or
proper food. Fighting men of our
armed forces, workers in industry
the families of these workers, every
man and woman in America. must
have nourishing food. If people are
undernourished they cannot be eff
ficient in producing what We neec
in our unified drive for dynamic
strength.
"Undernourishment Widespread"
In recent years scientists have
made outstanding discoveries as tt
the amounts and kinds of fooC
needed for maximum health anC
vigor. Yet every survey of nutri.
ton, by whatever methods con-
Quoted, shows that here in the
United States undernourishment j!
widespread and serious.
The Department of Agriculture
has estimated that many million.
of men, women and children do moi
get the foods which science considers
essential. We do not lack, as we
will not lack, the means of pro-
ducing food in abundance and va
riety. Our task is to translate this
abundance into reality for every
American family"
Mr.. McNutt outlined the purposes
of the conference to determine, from
the most recent scientific findings
the actual food needs of the popu-
lation and then find means of dis
tributing through the entire social
structure the foods which will sup
ply these needs.
Two Kinds of Hunger PeriIs.
A large minority of the popula-
ton, he stressed, are not getting
enough to eat. A far larger number
are not getting proper things to eat,
partly through poverty and partly
through ignorance of the new ele-
mentS which medicine now considers
essential.
There is, he said, hollow
hunger which can be relieved by
raising incomes, and a hidden
hunger" which must be met by edu-
cation. Both are seriously under
mining the health of the people
Standards for the new enriched
flour agreed upon with the Food
and Drug Administration, Mr.. Nc
Mutt said, finally will be announced
tomorrow, but because of unfore-
seen difficulties, will not actually &c
into effect before January. Actually
a great deal of flour essentially con-
(See NUTRITION, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Brazilian Freighter
Reported Disabled
BY the Associated Press.

Dy tHC hooOtldbCu fiCoos
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 26.-The
Brazilian freighter Atalaia, $500
tons, was reported disabled today
after encountering a heavy storm
on voyage from Capetown, Union
of South Africa, to Buenos Aires
with 66 crewmen aboard.
The United States liner President
Harrison picked up message last
Friday saying she was in a serious
condition, go miles off Capetown.
Additional reports received here said
the Atalaia had lost her rudder and
two or three of her four hfeboats.
Lloyd Brasileiro, government
shipping company and owner of the
freighter. said she was believed to
have run into the storm of Tristan
Da Cunha.
Evening star., 1941-05-26
British DestroYers
And Planes Scour
Sea for Nazi Fleet
Hope Expressed Thut Loss
Of Hood Will Spur U. S.
To Tighten Petrol
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, May 26.- British
Swordflsh planes and speedy de-
stroyers were reported searching the
fog banks of the North Atlantic
today in a vengeance-driven effort
to put a British fighting squadron
back in battle contact with Ger
many's big new Bismarck and her
supporting ships.
The navy's torpedo carrying
planes were said to have scored at
least one hit Saturday night on the
German squadron which the Brit
ish said broke off the engagement
after the 35,0O0-ton Bismarck sank
the 42,1OO-ton battle cruiser Hood,
pride of the British Navy, earlier
that day.
The British reported that the Bis
marck was damaged during the
fight and expressed hope that this
and the torpedo hit would slow the
Germans enough so they might be
overtaken or headed off. There were
hints that powerful new units of
the British Navy might be speeded
to the scene.
Comment Declined.
The Admiralty, silent on the direc-
ton the German squadron took
from the sea fight in the strait be-
tween Iceland and Greenland, at the
edge of the Western Hemisphere, de-
clined comment on German claims
that the Bismarck also damaged
and drove off a battleship of Brit
aims new 35,0OO-ton King George V
class.
CThe German press, making
much of the report that King
George class battleship had re-
tired from the fight damaged,
declared this proved the superb
ority of Germany's new capital
ships over Britain's best.
"a German communique yes
terday said German naval forces
continue their operations with
out losses"
(Adolf Hitler's newspaper,
Voelkischer Beobachter, declared
in leading article on the
American idea of freedom of the
seas that "the German fleet will
bring into reality and be the
guarantor, at the end of the war,
for what until now has only been
a misused slogan"0
Grief over the destruction of the
once-mighty Hood and clamor for
vengeance through the smashing of
the Bismarck and her squadron
were mingled in Britain.
Hope for U. S. Action.
Expressions of hope were heard
that the loss of the Hood in an
action close to Greenland, protected
by the United States, would bring
action from the United States to
make her Atlantic patrol increas-
ingly effective.
Among London newspapers COM
menting editorially today on the loss
of the Hood, the Daily Mail said:
Spectacular and heavy though it
is. this setback is but an incident in
the long struggle of attrition at
sea-a struggle that began with full
ferocity when war was declared and
which will go on without ceasing
until the last shot is fred
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Morgenthou Goes
To Sea to Inspect
Atlantic Patrol
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau is on the high seas
today inspecting the Navy's At
lantic patrol.
Officials said the Secretary, a
member of President Roosevelt's
four-man Cabinet Defense
Committee, was the guest of
Admiral E. j. King, commander
of the Atlantic Fleet.
The effectiveness of the pa
troll in helping get goods to
England has been under discus
sion in the Capital in connec-
ton with the congressional de-
bate over possible use of con-
voys.
Aides said it was unusual for
Secretary Morgenthau to leave
the Capital when President
Roosevelt was In town.
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Italians Guard
Nozi Londinqs,
Rome Declares
Fascist WorpIones
Reported Taking
Part in Invasion
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, May 26-The Italian
high command declared today
Fascist planes were taking part in
the attack on Crete, repeatedly
bombing and machine cunning
strongholds on the island.
Fascist sources reported that Ger
man troops to reinforce air-borne
shock forces had been landed on
the island from ships protected by
the Italian Navy and conveyed
through waters the British fleet had
guarded.
Authoritative sources described
the Fascist air force as partic-
ularly active and said rescue planes
also were taking IAN intensely ac-
lCaa DOME pane Al
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Conveys Bombed in Sweep
OF Coasts, British Claim
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 26.-British bomb
er attacks on two conveys and
other vessels yesterday in a day.
light sweep along the Dutch Ger
man, and Danish coasts were re-
ported today by the Air Ministry.
The announcement said debris
from one ship of about 5000 tons
was hurled into the air after a
bomb explosion and a 4000-ton
vessel was reported left enveloped
in smoke after direct hits.
Several other ships were believed
damaged, the Air Ministry said.
1t acknowledged the loss of four
planes during the attacks and scout
ing operations.
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Roosevelt to Get Medal
For Service to Humanity
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 26.-The Council
of the Royal Society of Arts de-
cided today to give the Albert
Medal to President Roosevelt for
services to humanity as the fear
less and resolute champion of ideals
of national freedom and individual
liberty"
Arrangements for making the
presentation are to be announced
later.
The Albert gold medal, dating
from 1856, Is for gallantry In saw
' ing life at sea or on land.
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Eight Destroyers Also
Declared Sent
Down in Week
By the Associated Press.

BY Jne hSSUCldtcu 1000.
BERLIN, May 26.-German and
Italian naval and air forces COM
bined to sink II enemy cruisers,
destroyers, l submarine and 5
torpedo boats and damaged one
battleship and several more
, cruisers and destroyers in the
Eastern Mediterranean since last
Tuesday, the German high COM
mand announced today.
The Germans said II cruisers
were known to have been based at
Alexandria.
In addition to this summary OF
the fighting since the battle of
Crete began, the war bulletin said
that yesterday the Luftwaffe blast
ed British positions on the island
itself, setting munitions dumps
afire, and destroyed two merchant
men in nearby waters.
Six British planes were declared
destroyed in yesterdays air fights,
including three bombers and three
chasers. with an additional three
R. A. F. planes destroyed on the
ground.
Devastating" Blow Claimed.
The British Mediterranean fleet
has suffered a devastating" blow
in matching its strength with the
Luftwaffe in the battle of Crete and
important reverses no longer are
reckoned with" by Germany, the
highly placed commentary Dienst
aus Deutschland declared.
Authorized military spokesman
commenting on the high commands S
report of heavy destruction wrought
among the British warShips, de-
clared the Germans and Italians
virtually had wiped out the cruiser
section of the Royal Navy's Eastern
Mediterranean fleet.
In the forays against the Brit
ish Mediterranean fleet since the
battle started, the Germans said
the Luftwaffe accounted for seven
of the British cruisers, including
some anti-aircraft cruisers, and the
| Italians destroyed four.
Nazis Claim Battleship Hit.
Nazi airmen. the high command
reported, hit the battleship and
several cruisers and destroyers and
the Italians were said to have hit
several other ships.
Thus English mastery of the sea
in the Eastern Mediterranean
suffered a severe setback through
excellent collaboration of the naval
and air forces of the allied Axis
powers" the high command as
serted.
'On Crete, the fight of the air
force and army units operating
there under a steady flow of rein
forcements continued to be sue
cessful"
The battle of Crete continued to
rage fiercely yesterday, according to
first reports of yesterdays opera
tions reaching Berlin.
Bombs Dumped on British.
German bombers, destroyer planes,
dive-bombers and pursuit ships were
said to have dumped their loads on
British troop concentrations, camps,
battle positions and supply stores.
A series of explosions which lasted
throughout the day resulted when
one munitions dump was hit, Ger
man reports said.
A British counter-raid on German
positions was shattered in the face
of combined ground and air de-
fenses, informed sources said.
Across the Mediterranean the
Libyan war front at beleaguered
Tobruk was reported comparatively
quiet.
Evening star., 1941-05-26

Krebs said many Gestapo agents
came to this country in the guise of
political refugees to gather informa-
ton that might be of use to Ger
many in event this country entered
the war. Some, he declared. were
instructed to enlist in the Army or
(See DIES, Page AID
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Wallace Will Speak
On Radio Forum Time

The address of Vice President
Wallace before the National De.
fense Nutrition Conference at
the Departmental Auditorium at
$50 o'clock tonight will be
heard over WMAL in place of
the usual Monday night National
Radio Forum arranged by The
Star and the National Broadcast
ing Co. Mr.. Wallace will speak
on Nutrition and National De.
tense"
Evening star., 1941-05-26

There is not a single German
business house in America .
that has not on its staff at least
one Gestapo agent" Krebs said.
The Communists, he added, have
access TO trade unions, the NaziS
have access to business, and the
two groups cooperate. s--
Evening star., 1941-05-26
4 British Freighters Claimed.

BERLIN, May 26 (P).-Four Brit
ish freighters fell victim to German
air, raiders around Britain during
the "a hours up to this forenoon,
German reports said today.
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Farm Parity Payment
Measure Is Signed
By President
Legislation Approved
With Understanding on
Limit to Price Level
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Shrinking foreign markets and
increased cost OF liuing brought
from farmers early this year de-
mdnd for legislation to increase
their income in line Uith in
creased prosperity being enjoyed
BY labor and industry. The farm
parity plan 1DaS introduced in
Congress early in the present
session to assure producers OF
cotton, aDheat, corn, tobacco and
rice a fair exchange price through
loans designed to serue as floor
under market prices"
BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt today signed
legislation providing for loans or
major farm crops of IS per cent OF
parity, but declared he had done sc
with the understanding that farm
prices should not be permitted to &c
above the so-called parity level.
The legislation provides for man.
datory loans on cotton, corn, wheat
rice and tobacco.
Mr.. Roosevelt said in statement
that the legislation reflected the
Governments objective for eight
years and the fact that farmers did
not have and have not as great a
share of the national income as
other groups"
But he noted that when the bill
becomes law farmers cooperating
with the Government farm program
will be able to receive IS per cent
parity loans. plus cash parity pay
mentS, plus soil conservation pay
ments in cash.
Under no circumstances" the
Chief Executive declared, should
the sum of these three exceed parity.
am approving this joint
resolution on the distinct under
standing that parity payments will
be limited to the amount necessary
to bring the basic commodities to
parity, but not beyond parity"
Parity prices are designed to give
Evening star., 1941-05-26

Washington and Vicinity.

Three Virginians, Boiling Field SOL
dier killed in crashes. Page B-1
Stewart confident despite Mrs.
Roosevelt's stand. Page B-1
Parks official defends leasing of re-
creational facilities. Page B-1
National.
U. 8. diplomats going TO discuss re-
lease of Americans. Page AS
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Hull Calls Worninq
By Germans q Ruse
To Retord Defense
Early Sees Berlin
Trying to BecIoud
Roosevelt Speech

RAEDER WARNING TO U. 8. re-
moves all doubt of view on con-
voys, Nazis say. Page A-3
Evening star., 1941-05-26

(See FARM, Page A-4.0
Evening star., 1941-05-26
Weather Forecast

Mostly clear and warmer; lowest to-
night about SO; tomorrow fair and
warmer. Temperatures today, highest,
83, at 2 pm; lowest, So, at 5:45 am.
From the United States Weather Bureau report.
Full Details on Page Az
Evening star., 1941-05-26

(See DIES, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1941-05-26

(See ROME, Page A-5o
Evening star., 1941-05-26

(See CRETE, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1941-05-26

(See INCOME TAX, Page A-12D