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Evening star., 1941-08-01

According newspapermen the un-
usual privilege of quoting him di-
rectly, the President made this COM
ment when asked if he would like to
discuss the progress of the Russo
German War and the success of the
Soviet armies in stopping the Nazi
blitzkrieg.
At the same time, the President
remarked on the ability of the Rus
slams to purchase war material here
and indicated he saw no immediate
prospect of them coming under the
benefits of the lease-lend program.
He qualified this position somewhat,
however, by saying there would be
a reconsideration of Russian needs
when Harry L. Hopkins, lease-lend
administrator, returns from his sur
prise visit to Moscow.
The Chief Executives comments
on military fortunes and the needs
of the Red armies follow con-
sultation yesterday with the two
man Russian military mission
Evening star., 1941-08-01

now in this country. Accompanied
BY Soviet Ambassador Constantine
Oumansky. Gen. Phillip I. Golikov
and Gen. Alexander Repin called on
the President at the White House
yesterday afternoon.
Thus far the President said he
had received from Mr.. Hopkins only
a report of his arrival in Moscow.
Mr.. Roosevelt declined to discuss
the manner in which his special
envoy is travelling. remarking that
in these days and for reasons for
human safety it is better not to
talk about the movements of ships
and airplanes.
Asked about progress on drafting
second lease-lend appropriation
request, the Chief Executive said
he did not believe there would be
any decision on this matter until Mr..
Hopkins returns.
1t was at this point that he was
See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4D
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Dupont Circle Stock
Was Sold on July ;,
Somervi|Ie Says
Ex-President Testifies
He Had Represented
80oo Of Holdings
By WILL p. KENNEDY.

Stock of Dupont Circle, Inc.
changed hands in IAN absolute sale"
shortly before noon July 3, House
investigating committee was told
today by Harrison Somerville, presi-
dent of the apartment hotel cor
poration from 1887 until July 3.
In connection with this disclosure,
committee members recalled that
in previous hearings Harry L. New
man had told the committee there
had been no change in ownership
since the corporation acquired the
property In the creditors trust sale
in 1887.
Since ownership of the apartment
hotel has remained in the corpora
ton since 1887, Mr.. Newman's testi-
mony might be regarded as tech
nically accurate, committee men,
bers indicated, but pointed out that
since Mr.. Newman and his as yet
unidentified associates acquired
ownership of all stock shares in the
corporation July 8, Mr.. Newman's
testimony did not present a COM
plete picture.
Before July 3, Mr.. Somerville tes-
titled today, he himself represented
80 per cent of the stock which was
owned by the Thomas Somerville
Co, dealers in plumbers supplies
Ten per cent was held by William
E. Furey, attorney for the Somer-
vile Co. and secretary of the apart
ment hotel corporation. The other
10 per cent was held by Mr.. Furey's
law partner, Paul v. Rogers.
Committee questioning disclosed
that Mr.. Newman had not owned a
single share of stock until July 8.
Yesterday Clay j. Guthridge, who
had charge of negotiations by the
Federal Government for a lease of
the apartment, testified that on May
7 Mr.. Newman represented himself
as owner in Offering the property
for lease by the Government and on
July signed the lease as president
Of Dupont Circle, Inc.
The deal by which the apartment
changed hands July 3, Mr.. Somer-
vile testified, was negotiated with
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u. S.-Born R. A. F. Pilot
Reporfed Shot Down
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. Limited States
born Wing Comdr. Whitney Straight,
an r. A. F. Hurricane pilot, was re-
ported authoritatively to have been
shot down in a dogfght over the
English Channel today, but was be-
heved to have landed his plane in
Occupied France.
A socially prominent former New
York flyer and automobile racer,
Straight suffered a head wound in
Norway with the r. A. F. in May,
1910. He received the Military Cross
In January. He became a natural
ized Briton in 1886.
Straight is a grandson of the late
William c. Whitney, one-time Sec
retary of the United States Navy
and nephew of the late Harry
Payne Whitney. His wife, Lady
Daphne Finch-Hatton Straight, is
the daughter of the Earl and the
Countess of Winchilsea. The
Countess was the former Margaret
Drexel, only daughter of the late
Anthony J. Drexel of Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
McKenar Proposes
DC. Police Head With
Sweeping Authority
Senator Says Department
Has 'FoiIed Completely
To Enforce Law
By ]. A. FOX.

Declaring that the Police De-
partment here had completely
failed to enforce the law" Senator
McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee
announced today that he would
offer a bill in the Senate stripping
the District Commissioners Of au-
thority over the department, abol-
ishing the Office of superintendent
Of police and giving absolute power
to employ and discharge every Of
fetal and man" to a $12 ,000-a-year
police commissioner who would be
appointed by the President and con-
flrmed by the Senate.
Senator McKellar's statement was
made at the opening of a Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on
bills by the Tennessean and Sen
ator Herring, Democrat, of Iowa to
empower the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation to run down crime here
a move that developed out of the
murder of Jessie Elizabeth Strieff.
Senator McKellar told the sub
committee he was withdrawing his
F. B. I. bill because he had been in
formed that the Federal agency was
unwilling to assume local criminal
jurisdiction.
After Senator McKellar had dis
cussed the other bill which he pro-
posed as substitute" Subcommit-
tee Chairman OMahoney adjourned
the hearings indefinitely, explain
ing that Senator Herring was un-
able to be present to discuss his
measure, and that the new Nc
Kellar bill could not be gone into
because District officials had not
had an opportunity to study it. He
indicated his belief that the meas
ure properly belongs before the Sem
ate District Committee.
ut seems to me that if we are
ever going to have law and order in
Evening star., 1941-08-01
7 Ecuadorean Towns
Reported Taken by
Peruvian 'Chutists
BIitz Tactics Are Used
Shortly Before Truce
Becomes Effective
B, the Associated Press.

LIMA, Peru, Aug. 1.-Peruvian
parachute troops were reported to-
day to have captured the Ecua-
dorean cities of Puerto Bolivar and
Machala only a few hours before
a truce ended three weeks Of border
war between the two countries at
6 o'clock last evening.
Introduction of European blitz-
krieg tactics for the first time in
the Western Hemisphere was dis
closed in a Peruvian communique
which claimed a brilliant victory
over Ecuador's armed forces.
Before the cease-fire order was
given, the communique said, Peru
Wan troops had regained all terri
tory seized by the Ecuadorian army
since July 6, when a l00-year -old
boundary dispute flared into open
war.
Consent to the truce. which rep
resentatives of Argentina, Brazil
and the United States have been
seeking to arrange for some time,
was given by the Lima government
after Ecuador rescinded mobiliza-
ton order calling 10000 men of
the 1868 classes to arms, the
communique added.
dispatches from Buenos Aires
said the ambassadors of Peru
and ecuador were expected to
meet Argentine, Brizilian and
United States representatives
there later this month in an
attempt to negotiate a none-ag-
gression treaty and reach perm
anent settlement of the border
disputeD
Mechanized forces as we'll as para
chutists were said to have played
an important part in the final days
fighting.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Reported
Demanding Bases
In ThaiIand
Control Of Rubber, Rice
And Tin Also Is Sought,
London Sources Soy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. Japan has de-
manded military bases in Thailand
and control of that country's rub
ber, rice and tin production, it was
reported authoritatively here, today
Japan was said to have offered in
exchange restoration of the Prov
ince of Laos and the ancient city OF
Angkor, both in japanese -dominat-
ed French Indo-C China.
1t was believed in London that
Thailand's only alternative to grant
ing bases would be forcible japanese
occupation of them.
(Toklo announced today an
agreement between Japan and
Thailand under which Japan
gained a large credit for pur-
chases in Thailand, mostly rice,
1t is presumedD
Thailand lies partly on the Malay
Peninsula, which is tipped by Brit.
aims Singapore fortress, and shares
the peninsula for stretch between
Burma and Singapore.
Since Thailand extends to within
400 miles of Singapore the danger
of such concessions, in the British
view, is easily seen. By occupation
of Thailand's part of the Malay
Peninsula, the Japanese could iso-
late Singapore from any assistance
by land from Burma and India.
The Royal Air Force has been
strengthened in Burma, the Air
Ministry announced, with construc-
ton of airdromes for both offensive
and defensive actions"
The new fields, the announcement
said, "are SO located that they give
Burma protection from any quar-
ter.
Considerable reinforcements were
said to be arriving in the British
Oriental country, including numbers
of American-made Buffalo planes.
Thousands of workers have been
(See JAPANESE, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Truck Hurled by Train
DeraiIs Second Locomotive
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, Aug. IA
Pennsylvania Railroad freight train
early today hurled stalled truck
to an adjoining track % miles east
of here, derailing passenger train
locomotive and killing three of its
occupants.
Crushed to death as the locomo-
tive and its coal tender plunged
down a 6-foot embankment were
Engineer F. E. Snyder, Northum-
berland, Pa: Fireman H. F. Nc
Henry, Sunbury, Pa, and c. K.
Shaibley of Williamsport, road
foreman of engines, who was on an
inspection trip.
Three baggage and mail cars of
the Washington Buffalo passenger
were yanked of the tracks, but
remained on the right of way.
None of the passenger coaches left
the rails. All occupants were re-
ported to have escaped injury.
Four men transporting steam
shovel over a rural route in a
trailer truck said after their ma
chine stalled they tried in vain to
flag the freight as it sped from
Altoona to Wilkes-Barre.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Germans Impudent
In Pressing Mexico,
We||es Charges
American Republics Need
No Advice From Nozis,
Acting Secretary Says
By GARNETT d. HORNER.

Germany'S request that Mexico
protest to the United States against
blacklisting of pro-Axis firms there
was described as bare-faced impu-
dence by Acting Secretary of State
Sumner Welles today.
Mr.. Welles added that he did not
think the government of Mexico or
any other American republic needed
any advice from Germany on how
to protect its sovereignty.
On the other hand, Mr. Welles
said recent actions by several Latin
American countries against sub
versive Nazi activities gave a heart
ening demonstration that all the
Americas are alive to the danger
of the present moment.
His comment came at a press
conference in response to questions
about Mexico's rebuke to the Ger
man request that she protest black
listing from trade with the United
States of certain firms alleged to
be acting in Mexico for the benefit
OF Germany and Italy. The black
list, published July IT, covered more
than 1900 pro-Axis firms through
out Latin America.
Comments on News Reports.
Mr.. Welles emphasized he was
commenting solely on the basis of
newspaper reports, having not yet
received official information on the
Mexican German exchange.
Press dispatches from Mexico City
said the German Minister had de-
scribed the United States blacklist
as violating the liberty of COM
merce and even the sovereignty Of
Mexico" adding that resigned ac-
ceptance by the Mexican govern
ment of such anti-Axis measures
could not fail to influence Ger
many's attitude in renewing COM
mercial relations with Mexico after
the war. Mexican Foreign Min
lister EzeQuiel Padilla rejected the
note as 'imperious and unjusti-
fable"
Mr.. Welles said the essence of the
question seems to be that Germany
threatened to take certain action in
the future if Mexico did not protest
to the United States on the pretext
that her sovereignty was being vio-
lated.
Remarking that he did not believe
any country had been more jealous
of her sovereign rights than Mexico
throughout her history, Mr.. Welles
said he did not believe the Mexi-
can or any other American govern
ment needed advice from Germany.
Bare-faced Impudence.
For government like the present
German government, which has vio-
lated the sovereignty of many other
countries, to try to tell an American
country what to do to protect its
sovereignty is nothing more or less
than bare-faced impudence, he
added.
In response to other questions, the
Acting Secretary said recent action
oy other American republics to stamp
out Axis subversive activities were in
line with the spirit of American
solidarity and with agreements
reached at a conference of American
foreign ministers in Havana last
summer.
He obviously had in mind in this
connection expulsion by Bolivia of
the German Minister there, followed
by numerous arrests to thwart an
alleged putsch and Argentine action
to smash a threatened uprising in
Entire Pins proyfpro 4r=-4-
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Hartman, Back in u. s.,
Sees President Today
Bv The Associated Press.

BN Tie ASSoclated PresS.
w. Averell Hartman, co-ordinator
of American aid to Britain, today
was placed on President Roosevelt's
calling list for late afternoon.
This indication that Mr.. Hartman
had arrived back in this country
unannounced followed word from
London he had left there by plane
on an unannounced date
Mr.. Hartman went to England in
March to handle the British end of
the Iease-lend program and this is
his first trip back.
The United States Embassy in
London said today that Mr.. Harri-
man was accompanied by his assist
ant, Robert Meikeljohn.
After a busy survey of Britain's
requirements, Mr.. Hartman few to
Cairo in mid-June for similar
checkup on the situation in the Near
East and returned to London two
weeks ago.
Evening star., 1941-08-01

Secretary of Labor Perkins today
ordered he dismissal of Mrs. Helen
Miller from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics effective as of July 3, the
date on which the department pre-
sented charges that she partici-
pated in Communistic- dominated
organizations and ordered her sus-
pension.
In the order of her dismissal Sec
retary Perkins said that Mrs. Miller's
membership in the Emergency
Peace Mobilization and the Ameri-
can Peace Mobilization, 'in which
known Communists had been &C
tive leaders" had impaired Mrs.
Miller's usefulness as a member of
the bureau.
Secretary Perkins said Mrs. Nil
ler's removal was not based on pro-
visions of the Hatch Act, but on
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Miss Perkins Orders Dismissal
Of Mrs. Miller for Red Links

rule IL of the Civil Service rules
which provides that mo person in
the classified service Of the United
States shall be removed therefrom
except for such cause as will pro-
mote the efficiency of the service" I"
Declaring that Mrs. Miller's as
sociations and conduct have i'm
paired her usefulness, Secretary
Perkins went on: The prestige of
this bureau rests upon public conf
dence and the integrity Of the in
formation it disseminates. This i'm
plies in turn that the public must
know that the bureau is composed
of loyal and dispassionate civil
servants"
Secretary Perkins decision and
order were announced in typewrit-
ten document Of 20 pages.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
House Member Strikes Witness
In Tilt at Apartment Hearing
Reedy Is Dealt Blow
On Jaw by Mills
In Hot Exchange

Angered in hot exchange near
the close of a House committee hear
ing today, Representative Mills,
Democrat, of Louisiana struck wit
ness, George E. Reedy, Washington
correspondent for the newspaper
PM, and a personal encounter en-
sued in a crowded hearing room in
the old House Office Building.
Mr.. Reedy, spokesman for tenants
of the Dupont Circle Apartment be-
fore the House Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee, resented state
ments by the Representative which
the correspondent said impugned his
personal reputation as we'll as that
of his newspaper.
At the suggestion of Committee
Chairman Lanham, the remarks in
question were stricken from the rec
(See SCITFFT r Page A-2)
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Tickets for Sinq

Tickets for the patriotic COM
munity sing and National SYM
phony Orchestra concert at the
Water Gate next Monday night
now are on sale at the SYM
phony Box ONCE, kits Music
Store, 1880 G street NV, tele-
phone National 1882. They are
priced at as cents, 50 cents
and 81.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Planners Urqe
Having Sizeof
War Building
Fine Arts Commission
Goes Further, Opposing
Site of, Structure
BACKGROUND

Supplementary military dpp~o-
priation bill, reported by House
committee, revealed on July ~ a
project for a s35,000 900 super
structure on the grounds OF the
old Experimental Farm in Ar
Hngton County, Va. Despite fact
the project ,DaS originated by the
War Department before the COM
mittee tUithout going through the
Park and Planning Commission,
the Fine Arts Commission or the
Budget Bureau, the House passed
the bill containing the project.
1t is noU before Senate sub
committee,
Evening star., 1941-08-01

singing.
His statement was made In con-
nection with q series of interviews
during the day between Miss Mon
roe and leading Government ofncials
In Washington. Others with whom
she talked were Secretary Of the
Navy Knox, Postmaster General
Walker and Mayor Fiorella La
Guardia. all of whom praised the
Idea of the program which she has
gotten under way.
Near the close Of her tour Of
(see WATER GATE, Page A-50
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Mexieons Reject Demand
For Blacklist Protest

MEXICO CITY, Aug. l (P.-Mex-
leo, rejecting with q stern rebuke q
German government request that
she protest President Roosevelt's
blacklist of pro-Axis firms here,
provided tangible evidence today of
her intention to cooperate with
the United States in solving mutual
problems created by the European
war.
Mexico told Germany she re-
garded the request not only as
(See MEXICO, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Western Reich Children
ResettIed in SIovukiu
By the Associated Press.

BERLIN, Aug. 1.-DNB., official
German news agency, reported from
Bratislava today that several thous-
and children from Berlin and West
ern Germany had been settled in
Slovakia to escape British air raids.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Gen. Marshall Indorses Sings
As Builder of Morale
Federal Officials Give Miss Monroe
Choice Of Songs for Monday Program

Marshall Army chief OF staff yesterday told
Miss Monroe he soprano who Will appear
Monday night that heartily approved community singing
morale and that he approved of
pan to appear at Army camps to such community
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Soviet Resistance to Germans
Magnificent Roosevelt Says
Sees No Prospect Of Immediate
Leuse-Lend Benefits for Nation
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

resistance to the invasion s magnificent,
frankly better than military Germany thought
would President Roosevelt told press conference today
Evening star., 1941-08-01

(See BUILDING, Page A-15.)
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(See DUPONT CIRCLE, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Weather Forecast

Fair, slightly cooler: about 10 degrees
tonight; tomorrow fair, not quite 50
warm; gentle northerly winds. Tenn
peratures today-Highest, 80, at pm;
lowest, n, at 5:45 am.
From the United States Weather Bureau report
Full Details on Page Az.
Evening star., 1941-08-01

(See POLICE, Page A-15)
Evening star., 1941-08-01

(See sCUFFLE, Page AID
Evening star., 1941-08-01

Most people In Washington have The
Star delivered to their homes every
weekday evening and Sunday morning.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-01
Michigan Military Men
State Soldiers Get New Training Program

by each regiment once each week
Schols for noncommissioned Of
ficers in which the next days drill
schedule will furnish the main
course are also on the program
each afternoon except Saturday.
The brigade is at present at
tached 10 the Regular Anny's 9th
Infantry Division for training.
Just added TO the first class of
cadets in the new Air Corps Re-
placement Center (Aircrew) at
Kelly Field, Tex, are Cyril G..
Browne Jr., son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cyril G.. Browne Of 1928 Gains
borough road; Lawrence G. Nc
Eaaehfliiiiiai= en=of and=MrsF L.
Mclaughlin of 1904 Ninsetta
boulevard. Royal Oak: Robert w.
Flagg of Battle Creek, and Harold
D. Haskill Jr. of Kalamazoo.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-01
T u F F Y


Ordnance District TO leave civilian
life this year for service in the
armed forces.
Now where are those many fell
lows who told us their jobs were
so important to d Tense they
shouldn't be drafted?
Included in a large group of Sc
lectees recently transferred from
the reception center at Fort
Hayes, Columbus, Ohio, to the
Quartermaster Corps Replacement
Training Center, Camp Lee, Va,
was one Detroiter, William r.
Meeker, of 3945 Lincoln avenue.
The band, rhythm orchestra and
chorus at the United States Naval
Training Station at Great Lakes.
Ill, will take part in the Sunday
evening Hour broadcast this COM
ing Sunday. .
The musical organizations will
not come TO Detroit. however, to
join the aggregation at Masonic
Temple, but will Join the coast-to-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-01
BY f. JEROME PETIT

Michigan soldiers Of the 72nd
Field Artillery Brigade at Fort
Leonard Wood. Mo. just have gone
on a new 40-hour week training
program which vii continue until
the middle of December. when
most of the men will start plan
ming their Christmas furloughs.
The new schedule includes two
hour period OF organized athletics
for all units on Wednesday after
moons plus the privilege Of Satur-
day afternoon passes.
The athletic schedule was made
possible by the recent appointment
of athletic officers for each of the
ls2nd, Nth and 10th Field Artil-
lery regiments, units OF the brigade.
Also on the new routine is a for
nal retreat inspection and review
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-01
p A G e 2 5
By Hof
By Billy De Beck
Paul Fogarty


1773; (c) did the First CONT
mental Congress meet?
3-What do these foreign phrases
mean: (a) caveat emptor; OBJ
amour propre; (c) der fuehrcrf
i-Who (a) was the Texan leader
when they gained their inde-
pendence; OBJ was the emperor
of Mexico, executed In 1867;
(c) was the Filipino leader Of
the revolt against the United
States7
what are these used for: fa)
casserole: (b) opthalmoscope:
(c) caliper?
(Which ta) is the smallest Of
American republics; (b) n tho
Black Republic: tc) T. the
state in the United States hay.
ing the smallest population7
What are the proper abbrsvk
atoms for (a) Wyoming; ID
Maine; (c) louisiana 80
ANSWERS on Page ~ >
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-01
Daily Quiz
BY THE ACE ANswERMAN

Distributed by King Features synd.. Inc
Historic old Fort Pitt stood at
a point now called the Golden
Triangle, where two mighty
rivers join to form a mightier
one. What three rivers are
they?
Pin Venice gondolas float
through the streets. In Amer
lea you might see them float
through the air. Under what
circumstances?
3-What ailment is cited as hav-
ing caused the death of each of
these American presidents:
Washington, Grant, Coolidge?
you'd not only be resentful but
have good cause for grief If
certain South Sea islanders
called you a long pie" Why?
5-What British statesman. four
. times premier, leader of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-01

coast hookup from their own base,
just, a. few miles. north of Fort
Sheridan on the Lake AMichigan
shore.
Camp Wolters, Tex. boasts a
private named Paul Christmas,
who is known among his buddies
as a genial soul. But he's getting
a little tired Of the gag his SER
geant persists in pulling on him
every morning at reveille roll call
these days. The sergeant calls
out:
as Christmas present? 2"