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Evening star., 1941-07-24
House Committee Told
How Dupont Circle
Tenants Were 0usted
Subterfuees Used
To Hide Real Owners,
Witness Asserts

Protests of some TOO to 1000 ten
ants ordered to vacate the Dupont
Circle Apartments July Is because
the Government was taking over
the property, today were laid be-
fore the House Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds.
This was the feature of the first
hearings on the SABBATH resolution
for decentralization of Federal Gov
ernment activities The tenants
views were presented by George E.
Reedy, correspondent for the news
paper PM in the Capitol press GAL
lery.
The protests charged that the
acting manager of the apartment
had repeatedly assured tenants that
rumors that the Government would
take over the apartment were false
and that they would not be dis
turbed; that new leases were made
after the date on which an agent
of the Government made a cont
mitment for taking over the prop
erty; that there was subterfuge re-
garding the purchase or lease of the
apartment so that the tenants
could not know who the responsible
owners were; that intimidation and
strong arm methods were used to
oust the tenants-such as threats
that lights, elevators and telephone
service would be cut off and, while
there were still some tenants with
leases in the building, rugs and car
pets were taken up.
Government Officials Present.
Throughout this testimony, in
which members of the committee
took a deep interest, C. j. Guth-
ridge, chief of planning and space
control of the Public Buildings Ad-
ministration, who was identified as
having made the contract for the
Government, sat near the commit
tee table with other Government
officials.
More than 25 of the protesting
tenants were present and several
(see DUPONT CIRCLE, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-07-24
Man Dies in 21-F|oor Fall; ;
Survived 1O-Story Plunge
Nv the Associated Press,

BY tEe Associated FTess.
CHICAGO, July 24.-Wearing q
suit jacket over his pajamas and q
black sleeping mask on his forehead,
Richard Jaeckel, IS, widely known
New York furrier. plunged to his
death today from the 21st floor of q
Michigan avenue hotel.
On February S, 1910, Mr.. Jaeckel
fell 10 floors to a New York apart
ment house entrance canopy, but
suffered only minor head injury.
In his room in the Stevens Hotel
police found half dozen sealed
letters addressed to persons in New
York. Chicago and on the Pacific
Coast, and a note addressed to the
hotel manager which read:
MY correct name is Richard
Jaeckel. 10 East Fifty-Seventh
street, New York. Jumped from the
Stevens Hotel, room No. -. reg
istered under the name of Richard
Jones of Long Beach (Calif)."
In New York a nephew, Tracy
Jaeckel, said his uncle had been
in i'll health for two years and was
returning from Hollywood, where
he had a large clientele among mo-
ton picture stars. His wife and
child remained in Hollywood.
Evening star., 1941-07-24

Indo-China coast, which has been
used for months as troop concen-
tration base.
Camranh Bay already is naval
base on Indo-China' southeast
coast, 300 miles from Singapore, and
Cap st. Jacques dominates the
estuary of the Saigon River which
ships must use to reach Saigon,
which has a modern airfield, less
than TOO miles from Singapore.
Principle Agreed On.
From Vichy came the announce
ment that France and Japan had
agreed in principle on a basis for
japanese aid in protection of French
interests. but had so far signed moth
ing. Negotiations on details, it was
added, have now been shifted from
Vichy to Hanoi, capital of the
colony.
Negotiations at Vichy centered
around two points: % French rec
ognition of Japan as the predom-
inant power to safeguard peace in
the Orient and ~ French accept
ance in the present instance of
measures Japan deems necessary to
safeguard Indo-China without detri-
ment to French sovereignty.
The results of the Hanoi negotia-
tions must be referred back to Vichy,
where, French sources said, Japan
had informed the Petain govern
ment that she considered Indo-
China menaced.
The Japanese were said to have
inquired whether France was able
to defend the colony, to which the
French replied that they obviously
were not, since it was impossible to
reinforce the small garrison left
after the war with Thailand.
In Toxic, the Foreign ONCE con-
trolled Japan Times and Advertiser
featured a page l article present.
ing Japan as the guardian of French
1ndo-China gainst "Anglo-Ameri-
can imperialism"
But aside from secret Foreign Of
nee conferences there were no indi-
cations in Toxic of actual Japanese
moves.
Confers With Axis ENJOYS.
The new japanese Foreign Min
lister, Vice Admiral Teljiro Toyoda,
conferred for one hour with the
Axis Ambassadors, Gen. Eugen OFT
OF Germany and Mario Indelh of
Italy, following a conference between
Baron Guy Fain, counselor of the
French Embassy, and Vice Minister
OF Foreign Affairs Kumaichi Yam
amoto.
japan will have cut the distance
(See INDO-CHINA, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1941-07-24
Russian and Japanese
Troops Reported
| In Border Clash
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. July 24.-Re-
ports which could not be con-
firmed Immediately from any
source. but which circulated
through Shanghai, said today
that Russian and Japanese
troops had clashed on the
Manchukuo-S Siberian border in
the general vicinity OF Chang
kufeng.
These reports. which were
represented as originating with
sources close to the Japanese
military, said the fighting
started last night.
At japanese Army press head
quarters it was stated I'VE have
heard nothing of such reports"
Evening star., 1941-07-24
Gen. Marshall Reject!
Taft's Plan 10 Keen
SeIectees Is Months
Idea All Right in Time
Of Peace, but Not Now,
Chief Of Stoff Asserts
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
America launched its first
peacetime draft Army last tall
,uith approximately 700, 900 selec-
tees noiU in training. Several
minor changes already hare been
made to the draft procedure and
near passage nolO is an amend
ment Which lUould defer men
oUer 20. For present fiscal year,
President Roosevelt has author
tsed training OF 100000 men.
Gen. George c. Marshall, Army
chief of staff, turned thumbs down
today on a proposal by Senator Taft.
Republican, of Ohio to limit the
maximum active service of selectees,
National Guardsmen and Reserves
to l6 months.
In a formal statement filed with
the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee, Gen. Marshall said Senator
Taft's plan has great merit. but
only as a long-range plan for peace
time procurement and training pur-
poses"
The present limit is II months,
but the Army wants to make the
length of service indefinite.
Gen. Marshall said:
The present grave international
situation prompts me again to re-
quest that Congress remove. by joint
resolution or some other form of
legislation. the restrictive clauses in
the present law affecting the re-
serve components and selectees. in
order that the War Department may
have the maximum flexibility to
meet any situation which may rise. u
Committee attaches said they ex-
pected Gen. Marshall's statement to
be followed later in the day by the
submission of War Department
proposal that Congress declare a
full emergency, in which the Army
could be placed on wartime foot
ing.
The one-year limit on the service
of selectees, reserves and Guards
men would be removed automatically
dS WOulu lilc pou dsoiiot uoC VI
these men outside this hemisphere
In line with the expected report
to the Senate committee, Gen.
Marshall told the House Military Al
fairs Committee yesterday that in his
opinion Congress should solve the
problem of removing time restric-
tions on citizen soldiers by declaring
a national emergency because that
was the method set up in the Select
i've Service Act.
Gen Marshall appeared before the
ICae no ATrrT pora A10S
Evening star., 1941-07-24
$1,000 Bid General Good-by

FORT CUSTER, Mich. July "a
(P).-The $4,000 troops at Fort Gus
ter, standing in two columns four
miles long, bade goodbye today to
Maj Gen. Joseph M. Cummins just
before he left his command here for
Chicago, where he will assume COM
e nand of the 9Th Corps Area.
Gen. Cummins will be succeeded
. here by Maj. Gen. Charles H Bone
steel, whom he succeeds at the
Chicago post.
Evening star., 1941-07-24
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July 24.-Windows on
two sides of the residence of United
States Ambassador Laurence A.
Steinhardt we're blown in by a bomb
during the third successive night Of
German air assault on Moscow last
night.
The raid, earned out in relays,
again lasted five and one-half hours,
but Russians declared today that it.,
like its predecessors. was failure.
No officers of the United States
Embassy were in the Ambassador
residence, Spasso House Four Amer
lean newspapermen who were there
at the time were unhurt.
Curtains were ripped and rugs
and furniture were showered with
glass.
(Spasso House was refurbished
Evening star., 1941-07-24
Building Trades Plan
To Stabilize Labor
Approved by 0. P. N.
300, 900 Workers Would
Be Affected Directly by
Anti-Strike Agreement
BY the Associated Press.

os the AssOSie lto ieSes
Sidney Hillman, associate director,
said today the Office of Production
Management had approved a uni
form agreement between defense
agencies and the A. F. L. building
trades designed to stabilize employ
ment and prevent strikes.
The agreement, approved by the
War and Navy Departments and
the Defense Housing Coordination
office. will cover all building and
construction work in the defense
program.
Officials said that it would affect
about 100000 workers directly and
that indirectly a total of about l,50O,-
900 would be affected. They ex-
planned that many of the latter were
working on housing projects in de-
tense areas and were not hired di-
rectly by the Government.
Roosevelt Is Gratified.
At the White House, President
Roosevelt was described as tre-
mendously gratified at the agree
ment.
The agreement provides that uni
form rates of overtime pay equiva-
lent to time-and-a-half shall be
paid for more than 40 hours work
each week on single shift jobs and
for more than 371a hours where two
or more shifts are employed.
The A. F. of L. agreed that there
would be no stoppage of work on
account of jurisdictional disputes
''or for any other cause" Under the
agreement, all grievances and dis
putes would be settled by concili-
alton and arbitration.
The agreement provides for a
board made up of Government rep
resentatives with an A. F. L. mem
Der to interpret the agreement and
adjust disputes arising under it.
Would Eliminate w. PA
At the same time, the Govern
ment agencies affected by the agree
ment and the A. F. l.. proposed that
Legislative and administrative &C
ton be Immediately sought which
will eliminate Work Projects Ad-
ministration labor on projects
which are employed members" of
the affected unions. The confer
ence which drafted the agreement
was said to have agreed that use Of
w. P. A. labor on construction
projects was detrimental to peace
and harmony" in labor relations.
Mr.. Hillman's aides said the agree
ment was similar in principle to
those negotiated with the shipbuild-
ing industry. A somewhat similar
uniform agreement is being sought
in the aircraft industry.
Evening star., 1941-07-24
We||es Declares Japan Aggressor
In Warning on |ndo-China Move;
Toxic 'sWarships off Camranh Bay
Dozen Transports
Reported on Way
From Huinun
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Japanese warships have ar
rived off two strategic points Of
French Indo-C -China-Camranh
Bay and Cap st. Jacques-and
IL japanese transports are en-
route to Saigon, well-informed
sources in Saigon reported today,
following Vichy's acceptance of
Tokio's military demands on the
French colony.
Except for the formality of details
and signatures, Japan has won
naval and aerial positions in South
ern Indo-China which are two days
by battleship and three hours by
bomber from Britain's key fortress
in the Far East. Singapore, at the
tip of the Malay Peninsula.
The II transports were said to be
en- route from Hainan, Japanese
occupied Chinese island OF the
Evening star., 1941-07-24

Miss Monroe, director of patriotic
music for r. c. A.-Victor, will lead
the audience in singing patriotic
and popular American songs as a
part of program by the National
Symphony Orchestra under direc-
ton of Charles O'Connen, director
of artists and classical recordings
for r. c. A-Victor.
The program, expected to be
unique in Washington musical his
tory and planned as the forerunner
Of new, morale-stimulating series
of patriotic sings throughout the
Nation, is the result of a sugges-
ton made by Miss Monroe when she
Evening star., 1941-07-24
Navy Soon to Ask Censorship
OF All Gables Sent From u. S.

lation was being prepared by the
Attorney Generals Office for SUBJ
mission to Congress. and the pro-
gram was described as having the
approval of President Roosevelt.
white House Secretary Stephen
T. Early today disclaimed any
detailed knowledge of the purpose
of the requested appropriation.
explaining that he supposed 1t
was a precautionary move to
apply Army-Navy censorship "if
and when certain eventualities
take place" Plans for such a
step are always on hand, he
said)
Rear Admiral Ben Moreell, Navy
chief of yards and docks. testified
(See CENSORSHIP, Page Aid
Evening star., 1941-07-24
Trains Collide; ] Dead

VANCOUVER, British Columbia,
July "a Canadian Press Collision
Of a Canadian National Railways
continental limited and a Seattle
bound Great Northern passenger
train IL miles west out of Vancouver
today resulted in the death of one
man and injury of nine, three criti-
cally. One man was reported miss
ing,
Evening star., 1941-07-24
Home of u. S. Envoy in Moscow
Damaged in Third Nozi Raid
German Aircraft Pound Russian Capital
517 Hours; Radio Stations OFF Air

to provide quarters comparable
to the most luxurious home in
New York when former Ambas-
sador Joseph E. Davies was
named United States envoy late
in 1886. Ambassador and Mrs.
Davies sent ahead American in
terror decorators and servants
to install their own furnishings
and equip the residence-which
is separate from the Embassy
offices-with the first air-wash-
ing and air conditioning equip
ment in the Soviet UnionD
Two German planes were re-
ported snagged last night by the
trailing cables of Moscow's balloon
barrage.
Pravda. the Communist newspa-
per, said barrage crews ran up their
silvery balloons to a great altitude
tSee MOSCOW Page A-6O
Evening star., 1941-07-24
BY the Associated Press.

Plans for a naval censorship Of
all outgoing cable communications
have been prepared by the Navy De-
partment, and Congress will be
asked soon for legislation to make
them effective.
This was disclosed today with the
publication of testimony by naval
ofiicials before a House appropria-
tions subcommittee. These off,
cials asked the committee to in
clude in a new supplemental defense
appropriation the sum Of $796, 500 to
finance establishment of field CEN
sors' ofnces, but the committee de-
MED the request pending enactment
of enabling legislation.
The testimony showed such legis-
Evening star., 1941-07-24

and Mr.. O'Connell we're unable to
appear with the orchestra here on
July 2 because of rain.
Miss Monroe envisioned a great
out-of-doo concert. where the peo-
pie. instead of listening to the music
of others, would themselves make
music with the songs America loves.
The proposition was discussed with
The Star and the orchestra asso-
citation with the result that all pre-
liminary arrangements have been
completed and plans made for a
concert that will attract thousa nds
See WATER CATE PAGE A1ol
Evening star., 1941-07-24
Star and Symphony to Stage
A Patriotic Sing at Water Gate
Miss Lucy Monroe to Lead Public
In Greet Concert on August 6
"GUe me the mdkings OF the song OF nation
And care not Uho makes its latUs"

AS climax to the of Water Gate concerts
the first series of Sing America
Sing programs The the National Symphony Orchestra
Association will Miss Lucy Monroe the starspanged
soprano" community orchestra
the evening proceeds
the United Service Organizations chest
Evening star., 1941-07-24
Two Die in Plane Crush

SHARON, Pa, July "A (P.-An
airplane crashed In a field near this
Western Pennsylvania town today,
killing Bernard Spillane, 20, Roches-
ter. N. Y, the pilot. and Michael
Mitchell, ~. Oakland, Calf, . pas
senger.
Evening star., 1941-07-24
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Foreign.
Large trapped force of Reds destroy
ed, Germans claim. Page Al
r. A. F. planes cross Channel in
attacks on France. Page AS
Nazis on West Point await arrival
Of Americans today. Page Bis
Economic sanctions against Japan
seen injurious to Reich. Page B-A
National.
Army seeks removal of all limita-
tions on selectees. Page Al
Note on U. S. warships visiting Uru-
quay told at trial. Page Az
Greatest hope lies in defense pro-
gram, Willkie says. Page AS
New York electrical workers strike
threat lifted. Page A-9
Notes from shoebox will aid 'Nucky'
Johnson's defense. Page Ais
Evening star., 1941-07-24

(See DRAFT, Page A-12)
Evening star., 1941-07-24

(see APPROPRIATIONS, Pg. A-4J
Evening star., 1941-07-24

(See WATER GATE. Page AID
Evening star., 1941-07-24

(See WAR DEPARTMENT, Pg. A-4
Evening star., 1941-07-24
Weather Forecast

Fair tonight tomorrow morning; cloudy,
possibly thundershowers in afternoon;
continued warm: lowest tonight about
10. Temperatures today-Highest, SO,
pm; lowest, 10, $50 .m.; 81, 2 pm.
From the United States Weather Bureau report
Full Details on PAGE A.
Evening star., 1941-07-24

tSee MOSCOW. Page A-6.)
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

Metro recently faced . pla-
giarism charge by woman who
claimed the picture, "The Shop
Around the Corner" had the
same plot as her previously
written play, called with
Kindest Regards"
The studio assigned research
ers to discover whether the
plot had been used still earlier.
They had quite a time finding
the story, because it was part
of a book called "Mr. Fother-
gill's Plot" Sure enough,
Rebecca Vests yarn was about
a man and q girl who enter into
blind correspondence with eacn
other, later NEE! by chance and
without recognition, and fall in
love. This was the idea on
which the plaintiffs play and
M-G-M's picture had been built.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS

DURING the month of August,
the United States Postohice
Departments philstelic truck will
tour through Wisconsin and Min
nesota.
The French rs. S. Pasteur"
stamp, which was announced but
never actually issued, has been
released and surcharged "lFr."
The surtax will 20 TO shipwrecked
sailors.
Poland General Covernment)
has issued a 2 zloty stamp pictur-
ing the Warsaw Citadel which was
erected in 1902. The stamp Is
printed in deep blue.
Slovakia has issued three new
stamps. One shows the Castle at
Stievnics, another the Castle Lie
tava and the third, the Castle
Spisskyhrad.
Use Of postage stamps in espion.
age may bring restrictions upon
their shipment. British censors
have uncovered packets Of stamps
which give data on ships sailing
with war supplies. The stamps
ere arranged and mounted - that
the first letters Of the names OF
the stamp-issuing countries spell
out the message. Similar methods
were used IN World War /
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES

Japan now cries loudly that in seiz-
ing boses in Indo-Chino from the
French, it is doing only what the Unit
ed Stotes hos done in acquiring AtIon-
tic bosses.
There is on mportont difference:
!. Whot the United Stotes hos
done in the way Of acquisition Of bases
was done only otter years Of aggressive
warfare on the port Of others had prov
ed the necessity for doing SO.
Z. No bases have been acquired by
the United Stotes against the will Of
the people who yielded item.
It is little Iote in the doy for Ger
many. ItoIy, or Jopon to cIoim that
anything they do at this time is sonc-
toned by v. S. precedent.
Who storted this BUSINESS. onvwov9
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
SHIFTING WEIGHTS

People who specuIoted on the effect
Of the victory Of organized labor at the
Ford Motor Co. usually centered on it's
effect on industry. Now another ef-
feet begins to be clear. It is the effect
on organized labor, and especially on
the c. |. O.
The c. |. O has always been heavily
influenced by John L Lewis and the
United Mine Workers, not only because
Lewis started it and brought his strong
personality to bear on it, but because
the United Mine Workers, with its
cheok-off Of dues, always hos the
money to back woverine units and gen.
orally underwrite its views Now the
United Auto Workers, fortified by
$50, 900 q month in oheck-off dues
from Ford workers alone, and with on
estimated income Of 100000 in
sight for the coming year, begins to
be almost as strong as the Mine Wor-
kers. Its membership of more than
500. 900 is now close to thot Of the
UNIV, with many ororoft workers yet
to Join. And it has not always oereed
with Lewis.
So the net effect Of Ford oroonzo-
ton may yet be ereoter outside Ford's
than inside it.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-02
LET LABOR EMULATE INDUSTRY

Testifyino before q Senate commit
tee, Leon Henderson, the Federal price
administrator, sold thot he will oppose
further wage increases if they force.
uniustified increases in commodity
costs. He then proised American in
dusty for cooperating with his dePort-
ment in the vtol work Of preventing in
fIotion and holding down prices
Labor is taking mighty short
sighted point Of view if it believes it can
keep on getting .hieher and higher
wooes without, in the long run. produc-
ina price increases which will have q
ruinous effect on the standard OF liv-
ina of the greet masses Of the Ameri-
con people. What reolly counts is q
fomily's reel woees"-Thot is, its in
come Judged by the light of what it will
buy. Today Iobor's "reoI woees" are
the highest in its history. Strikes and
Iockouts which result from unjustified
and unfair demands on the port of To-
Dor must eventually force "reoI woees"
down by initiating prices.
American industry, as Mr.. Hender-
son sold, is doing q fine Job on behalf
of the public. Retail industry, led by
the chain stores and by the organized
Independents, is providing on especial
Iy noteworthy example Of this. These
stores have publicly pledged them
selves to fight profiteerine, to discour-
ooe speculation, to keep the public in
formed as to true conditions, to oppose
"hystericoI" buying, and to do every
thing else in their power to prevent
price rises. Retoi industry, in other
words, is not trying to cash in on the
emergency. And that is one Of the
main reasons why price increases have
so for been moderate, despite the in
fIotionory tendencies thot any such ex-
troordinory efforts as the arms drive
produce
Labor, if it is interested in its own
welfare, to soy nothing Of the notions
weIfore and security, would do we'll to
toke page from industry's book Some
of Iobor's best friends have said time
and again thot there is no legitimate
excuse for most Of the recent strikes
which have delayed production Of es-
sentioI supplies. 1t is to be hoped that
Mr. Henderson's for-siehted point Of
view finds its reflection in other high
governmental circles.