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Evening star., 1941-07-15
Fire Appeals 10 U. 5.
To Sell Her More Ships

The Irish government today ap-
pealed to the United States for more
shipping facilities to transport food
stuffs, building materials and other
necessities from this country to Ire
land.
Robert Brennan, Irish Minister
here, presented to Acting Secretary
of State Sumner WelleS a request
to buy a number of cargo vessels
from the Maritime Commission. The
commission already has sold Ireland
two ships on direction of President
Roosevelt, but Mr.. Brennan said
these were not enough to relieve
shortages of necessities in what he
described as "the most blockaded
country in the whole world"
The Minister said approximately
$4,000 tons of wheat and other
grains, fruit, vegetables, STEEL tim
ber, fertilizer and other goods were
piled up on docks in New York
awaiting shipment to Ireland. Nor
NAL shipping facilities between Ire
land and the United States have
been cut off by the war, with Ameri-
can shipping forbidden to enter the
combat zone around Ireland, and
British ships concentrating on carry
ing war supplies to England.
Mr.. Brennan said a dozen addi-
tional vessels could be used to ad-
vantage in the Irish american trade
and he hoped to secure permission
to buy at least half that number.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
First Murder Trial
Under Amended Law
Opens in D. {. Court
Government Need Not
Prove HoIdup SIoying Was
intentional to Convict

The first trial under the new Dis
trict law, which omits from first
degree murder cases the require
ment that the Government prove
killing was intentional, opened in
District Court today. On trial is
William T. Mumforde, colored, 20
indicted by the District grand jury
on a charge of fatally shooting Fan
ME Cohen, 81, on February Is at
her dress shop, 1912 U street N. w,
during a holdup.
The case is being heard before
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough. Pros
ecuting is Assistant United States
Attorney William Hitz, while the
defense is being conducted by George
E. c. Hayes.
Under the new first degree murder
statute. Mr.. Hitz explained, Congress
left out the requirement that the
Government prove a Staying was in
territorial. Such proof placed an
undue burden on the Government,
officials believed. and the district
attorneys Office and the Department
of Justice successfully sought a
change in the law.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Aluminium Solicitations
Will Start Here Monday

Washington women, under the
leadership of Mrs Harry S. Bern
ton. will begin solicitation of alumni
mum contributions for defense Mon
day in a house-to-h house canvass. it
was decided last night at meeting
of the Planning Committee for the
aluminium drive here.
The metal is to be collected all
over the country at the request Of
the Office of Civilian Defense.
Following the door-to-door solici-
tation Monday and possibly Tues
day, % trucks carrying Boy Scouts,
American Legionnaires, c. c. c. and
w. P. A. enrollees, will make collec-
tions of the POTS and pans promised
to the solicitors.
Collection bins will be at each
police precinct and on the lawn in
front of the District Building.
Mayor La Guardia, head of the
national Office of Civilian Defense,
will speak to representatives of the
various committees tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Konoye and Hirohito
Confer on Possible
Extension Of War
Premier Is Received by
Emperor After Talks
With Ministers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, July l5-Premier Prince
Fumimaro Konoye was received in
audience by Emperor Hirohito today
after the Premier has held two meet
ings with his ministers believed to
have been devoted to Japan's eco
nomic preparation for meeting any
emergency that may arise from the
spread of the European war.
Prince Konoye first met with the
full cabinet and later conferred with
five ministers in charge of economic
and domestic affairs.
The haste with which Konoye de-
parted from the meeting for the
audience with the Emperor at the
Hayama summer villa where he is
vacationing suggested that some
new important decision had been
reached.
The five ministers at the confer
ence were Baron Kiichiro Hira-
numa, Home Minister; Isao Kawada,
finance; Gotaro Ogawa, railways;
klyoShi Akita, overseas affairs, and
Shozo Murata, communications.
The meeting was held on the eve
OF the first anniversary of the day
Prince Konoye was called on by the
Emperor to form a new cabinet
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Treasury House Program
To Fete Legionnaires

Certificates of award to members
of the National Guard of Honor
of the American Legion for their
help in the selective service lottery
will be presented tonight by Brig.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. deputy di-
rector of selective service, as a
feature of Legion Day" at Treas
uTy House, Fourteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
The program at Treasury House,
focal point of the drive to encour-
age sales of Defense bonds and
savings stamps, also will feature
six bands and a parade.
The program will begin at 7:l5
with a concert by the James Reese
Europe Post No 5 Drum and Bugle
Corps. The United States Army
Band and the Sons of the American
Legion Drum and Bugle Corps will
also participate.
Taking part in the parade will
be the Fort Stevens Drum and
Bugle Corps, Department of the
District of Columbia colors, depart
ment commander and staff, Ma
tional Guard of Honor, department
staff of the Forty and Eight, de-
partment of the auxiliary staff, de-
partment staff of the Eight and
Forty and the juniors of the auxil-
iary.
Maj. Gen. James A. Drain will
make the principal address. The
program will close with the James
E. Walker Band. v
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Housing Projects Listed
AT Cabin John, Falls Church

Approval of two sites near Cabin
John, Md, and a third near Falls
Church, Va. for defense housing
projects was announced today by
Federal Works Administrator Car
mody.
At Cabin John 120 homes will be
built. OF these. 100 will occupy a
tract on the south side of Conduit
road at the west end of the Cabin
John Bridge. The other 20 homes
will be situated on Seven Locks
road 81 miles from the David
Taylor model testing basin at Carde-
rock All the homes will be for
civilian employees at the testing
basin.
Civilian employees of the War De-
partment working at the Munitions
Building will occupy the 160 homes
to be erected in Virginia. All will
occupy a site between the boule-
ward and Lee highway near the
intersection of Cherry street.
Today's announcement brings to
3.765 the number of defense homes
to be constructed on various sites
in the Washington area.
Supervision of the new projects
has been assigned to the United
States Housing Authority.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Combat Plane Output
Too Slow, Says Gen. Brett

Bv the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July 15.-Maj.
Gen. George H. Brett, of the Army
Air Corps, said yesterday the Army
is turning out pilots at the rate of
800 every five weeks, but that COM
bat plane production was Ear too
slow.
Gen. Brett accompanied William
S. Knudsen of the OEce OF Pr0duc-
ton Management on an inspection
tour of the Vultee Aircraft plant.
Pleased with the showing on
training planes, Gen. Brett COM
mented:
The training program IS turning
out II times as many pilots as 1t
did year ago. We're getting about
500 more pilots every five weeks.
They're going into these trainers,
of which we're getting plenty.
But combat plane production is
far too slow as vet. If we could
get combat assembly lines like these
trainer setups 1t would be Won
derful.'
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Farmer Takes Own Life
After Staying His Wife
HS the Associated Press.


MONTPELIER, Va. July Is
Mrs. Early Smith was found dead in
the bed of her Hanover County
home with her throat slashed today
after the body of her 3O-year old
tenant-farmer husband had been
discovered on roadway near the
house, shotgun charge in his body.
DR.. Edwin Vaughan, Hanover
coroner, gave verdict of murder
and suicide in the deaths of the
couple-parents of four children six
years of age and under.
Smith left note which asked
Thomas Martin Waldrop, on whose
farm the Smiths lived. to pay burial
expenses by selling his COWS, hog
and dog. The note also requested
that an aunt be given custody of the
children
The eldest child admitted Mr.,
Waldrop to the home about 6 am.
after Smiths body had been found
in roadway and told him her
mother was asleep. He found Mrs.
Smith dead in her bed. The other
children were asleep.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Mrs. Spau|ding 10 Assist
Nurse Training Program

Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran an
nounced today that he has requested
appointment of Mrs. Eugenia K.
Spauldlng, assistant professor of
nursing education at Catholic Uni
versity, as one of three experts to
help in administration of a Nation
wide program for training nurses
to relieve an acute shortage created
by defense requirements.
Dr. Parran said he will send out
letters this week to accredited
schools of nursing here and through
out the country asking them to out
line possible expanded participation
in the training program. He pointed
out that Congress recently appro-
priated S1,200,000 for such expan-
sions, and that his Office is seeking
to determine the most effective and
economical way of turning out more
professional nurses.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Chinese Wife Refuses
To Prosecute Husband

Assault charges against Park Lin
Lee. Chinese, accused of beating his
wife a short time before she gave
birth to a child, were dismissed in
Police Court today when Mrs. Lee
refused to testify against her hus-
band
With her son, Stanley Lee, acting
aS.-an-.interprefe' Mrs. Lee-&ota
sudse 0eorgep NeAHp She-did M
want to prosecute. The case then
was dismissed.
Mrs Lee was found by police on
June % tied to a bannister in her
home in the $500 block of Georgia
avenue NW.----Wl While, Awaiting an
ambulance, Saeguve~birth to girl.
Lee, WHO rYes It 31OS Eleventh
street NV. and operates two laun-
dries, was arrested a short time
later at his home.
James R. Murphy represented Lee.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Army Kits to Include
SuIfuniIumide Tablets
BY the Associated Press.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, July Is
Sulfanilimide, famous for its po-
tency in combating infection, is be-
ing placed in United States Army
kits in a package specially designed
for self administration with one
hand, George A. Mohlman, vice
president of the Package Machinery
Co., announced today.
Mr.. Mohlman said the package
was intended to provide means of
self medication for a soldier if he
was wounded and separated from
his unit. A simple tape "Opens the
dirt t-and-Ueather-p protected pack
age. AS the box cover is moved
back, single tablet drops forward
and can be placed in the mouth
without spilling the remainder of
the contents. . ,
Wide, Use OF TIE drug. ddiing the
war has been reported by British
physicians. '
Evening star., 1941-07-15
1nsincerity' Toward Japan
Denied by Indo-Chino
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAIGON. French Indo-China,
July 15.-The Governor General of
French Indo-China. Admiral Jean
DecouX, today denied japanese press
charges that French Indo-C China was
failing to execute the terms of its
agreements with Japan and that it
was prosecuting its allegedly pro-
Japanese Annamite natives.
tSome Toxic newspapers have
charged the French colonial gov
ernment of Indo-China with in
sincerity" toward Japan
In statement in connection with
apparently increasingly strained re-
latlons between Japan and French
IndO-China, Admiral Decoux de-
clared japanese demands had been
received for further concessions in
Indo-China.
'Indo-China will do nothing to
trouble the situation in the South
ern Pacific" Admiral Decoux said.
The Governor discounted the be-
lief strongly held in many quarters
that Japan is preparing new mill
tary thrust at French Indo-China
and Thailand
Evening star., 1941-07-15
tonight and tOmorro

tsEssast g for the 5s psTOd tro% o
mddis SatuIaas Atsnc 2Gy states tat Sf bstret Of Co.
Maryland: Eastern Pennsylvania and New
ending Ending Thursday. Lisht to moderate
showers again at end of week, No ex-
tremeS in temperature lnalcated. signify
ature during the remainder of the week
will be near normal. - W.,
ginia, Western Pennsylvania and TenneS-
see Showers. mostly light except locally
heavy IN thunderstorms Wednesday, ,end. END.
s tn moderate meHnsSasS showers s again at end Of
week. No extremes in temperature moi
Gated. The, average temperature during
the remainder OF the week vii! De near
Numerous showers and thunderstorms
have occurred since yeSterasy est moTnlne oTni IN II,
oO'ta sion and PORTIONS Of the Plains States.
The rainfall was locally heavy Nr In p1s riofiaa IA
porting the greatest amount. 3.4s inches;
A minor disturbance is moving eastward
0ssr inohee and remains Teia
lively low over the Plains States, with
trough extending northeastward over the
Charleston, S. G, and saitillo, Tex, 1.014.9
mains low over the faT West. Blythe, calf.
pressure prevails over the Middle Atlantic
and North Atlantic States, the Rocky
Mountain region and North Dakota and
from the Bahamas eastward and northeast
ward over the ocean. Greenville. Me. 1,024
millibars l3o.24 inchesl and Lewiston.
Mont, .O22 millibars go. Is inches. Tenn
perature near or slightly below normal
prevails almost generally from the Rocky
Mountain region eastward to the Atlantic
Coast, while abnormally high temperatures
were registered Monday afternoon in the
interior of the North Pacific States. At
Portland and Medford. Oreg., the maximum
was lob degrees
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy at Great
Falls today.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
British Reject German Offer
For Exchange Of Ex-Envoy

was so important to keep the Ger
man under detention that Sir
Lancelot would have to remain in
their hands"
However, an authoritative source
said there never was any question"
of exchanging individual German
prisoners for individual British
prisoners held by the Nazis, but
that an arrangement whereby Is
Germans in this country. including
officials and members of their
families would have been exchanged
for 20 Britons was nearly concluded
last February.
At the last moment, this source
said, the Germans objected to some
details of the arrangement and the
plan fell through. Negotiations were
said to have been carried on through
the United States Government.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Guarded Like Gold,
Draft Numbers Go
10 Treasury Today
= Will Be Held in Vault
Until Time for Lottery
:; Thursday Night

1nclosed in melon -colored capsules,
figures to match the serial numbers
pf all the 21-year-olds who regis
ured on July ! for selective service
We're to be conveyed by armored
Huck to a Treasury Department
vault today.
= The filled capsules were guarded
last night by an armed squad of
Special police at national Selective
service headquarters. A trailer
equipped with machine guns was to
follow the capsule laden truck to the
Treasury today.
Brig Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, dep
uty director of selective service, was
to accompany the armed convoy to
the Treasury and intrust the capsules
to Frank J. Wilson, chief of the
Secret Service.
AS carefully guarded as a gold
shipment, the capsules will be re-
moved from the Treasury vault for
the drawing in the Departmental
Auditorium beginning at pm.
Thursday.
Selective service headquarters an
bounced the lottery will be open to
the public and no special cards of
admission. such as were used in the
first selective service lottery, will be
issued.
officials estimate the drawing of
the 800 capsules from the goldfish
bowl will require about two hours.
Nine thousand capsules were drawn
in the lottery last fall and the draw
ing lasted approximately 18 hours.
The historic goldfish bowl used in
the World War drafts and the first
selective service lottery as the re-
ceptacle for the capsules will be
brought to Washington from Phila-
Gelphia tomorrow.
In the District, 4,433 young men
will be affected by the drawing
which determines the sequence in
which the new registrants will be
integrated among the old registrants
in their local boards.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Glass Urges Repeal
OF Neutrality Act 10
Assure British Aid
Senator Declares Law
Surrenders American
Freedom of the Seas
Nv The Associated Press.

Nv The Associated Press.
Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir-
glnia called today for immediate
repeal of the Neutrality Act. to re-
establish freedom Of the seas for
American shipping and show Hitler
that we are not afraid" of him.
The act bars American merchant
ships from combat zones fixed by
the President, and Senator Glass, in
his first interview since his recent
election as President Pro Tempore
Of the Senate, said we ought to
wipe that thing off the statute books
and throw it in the rottenest waste.
basket in the country
Act Blamed on Fear.
1T never should have been passed
at all" the 83-year-old Virginian as
serted. 1T gave up the freedom Of
the seas, for which we had been
fighting since the beginning of the
Nation.
1T was passed because a lot Of
people were afraid of Hitler. We
should tell him now that we are not
afraid"
Repeal of the act would clear the
way for ships under the American
flag 10 carry goods into British
ports. and while he did not couple
the two ideas directly. the veteran
Senator declared the United States
should take any steps necessary to
see that our war materials are de-
livered to Great Britain"
Backs Present Aid Policy.
u think We are in war already"
he said. we have done a lot of
things that might give Germany an
excuse for declaring war against us.
think We should continue our pres
ent course and should do everything
possible TO get the goods across.
Then We can leave it to Germany as
to whether or not there will be a
declaration of war"
Senator Glass, who has opposed
many administration domestic pro-
grams but has supported President
Roosevelts foreign policy vigorously.
declared that "if the Germans make
the challenge (of war; then We ought
! TO meet it"
I'VE can't just sit here and let
Hitler say who is 10 sail the seas
who is to come and who is TO go
| he added.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Niagara Delegation
0pposes Waterway

Representatives of Buffalo. N Y,
and the Niagara frontier vigorously
opposed yesterday the $285, 100000
st. Lawrence seaway, contending
it was economically unsound and
would be disastrous to the entire
economic structure of this country"
Urging the House Kivers and
Harbors Committee to defer action
on legislation to authorize the sea-
way until further studies were made,
Fred M. Renshaw. traffic manager
of the Buffalo Chamber of Com
merce, declared:
I'VE contend that the savings in
transportation costs that might ac-
crue from deep waterway to the
sea are insignificant and far Cver-
shadoWed by not only the costs of
such venture but bv the damage
that might be done to existing
American transportation agencies" :"
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Merchant Ship Losses
Declined in June,
British Announce
Tonnage Less Than Any
Month Since Last July
With Two Exceptions
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 15.-Merchant
shipping losses of 10 ships totaling
329 ,296 tons during June were an
nounced today by the Admiralty.
The tonnage, which included
British, allied and neutral losses,
was less than for any month since
July, 1910, with the exception OF
last December and January.
Seventy-four ships aggregatlng
325,616 tons were admitted lost in
December and SO vessels totaling
309, ,73l tons in January.
British losses for June we're given
as So ships totaling 223,284 tons-or
less than any month in the past IL
with the exception of January, when
Al vessels of 205,473 tons were sent
to the bottom.
Will Not Be Listed Regularly.
Hereafter, an authoritative source
said, shipping losses will not be
published at regular intervals "be-
cause by this means valuable in
formation is given to the enemy"
From time to time. we shall,
however, consider publication of
shipping losses as may be required"
the source said. I'VE hope to keep
the public fully informed.
June mercantile losses, heavy as
they are, certainly give us hope for
better figures in the future and they
certainly must be disappointment
TO Hitler. His submarine crews are
expanding maximum effort, but still
they see large conveys OF our veS-
sells. Our position is improving be-
cause of help from the United States
and greater speed in turn around" :"
The June losses in addition TO the
British included 10 allied ships Of
82727 tons and eight neutrals Of
1925 tons, the Admiralty said.
r. A. F. Attacks Expanded.
Along with decreased losses, one
source said, more Axis shipping is
being sunk because the r. A. F. is
expanding its attacks to coastwise
vessels and to communications di-
recting the movements Of transports.
Revised figures for May showed
that 1O4 British, allied and neutral
vessels totaling 497 BAT tons were
sunk during that month. British
losses alone for May were listed as
II vessels of 380,035 tons.
British sources recalled the Ger
mans claimed to have sunk 1928
tons of shipping in June and the
Italians claimed 98,500 tons sunk.
making a total of 878,783.
These claims, an authorized
source said, represent an exaggera-
ton of just l65 per cent
$4,000 Monthly Average.
For the entire war the monthly
average is given as 324, 1000 tons and
for the period from July to Decem-
ber. 1910, 100000 tons.
Since the start of the war the
British say they have lost 1,078
merchant vessels totaling 4,605, 1872
tons. Allied losses for that period
were put at 334 ships of 1,498047
tons. and neutrals at 326 ships of
1,014,el3 tons.
The aggregate British. allied and
neutral losses since the start of the
war therefore were 1,738 vessels Of
7,l18,092 tons, according to the
British.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Col. Edgar Thompson
Dies at 56FoIIowinq
Illness Of Year
Native Of Newport, R. l.,
Was Graduate of Harvard
And Columbia Universities

Col. Edgar Hall Thompson, Sc,
coast artillery, died yesterday at his
home. 1909 Buchanan street NV,
after an illness of year.
A native of Newport, R. l., he was
graduated from Harvard and Co.
lumbia Universities. On graduation
from the latter school in 1908 he
took a civilian competitive exami-
nation and was commissioned a
second lieutenant in the Army. He
subsequently was promoted through
the grades to colonel. He attended
the Army Command and General
Staff School at Fort Leavenworth,
KanS.
Among the posts where he served
were old Fort Washington, Nd, Fort
Howard Md, Fort Lewis, Wash. !:
Fort Stevens, Ore, and Fort Adams,
r. I.
During the World War he served
in France with the 59th Coast
Artillery and after the war he was
with the Army of Occupation in
CpblentZ, Germany.
IAN. ardent sportsman, ,he was in.
tGested III hunting, fshihg and
boating. AS youth, he sailed with
former secretary of Navy Charles
Francis Adams in Americas cup
races.
For several years he beaded the
Organized Reserves Office in New
York City. He was a Mason and q
member of the Elks.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Elsie Brock
Thompson, he leaves two sons, Capt.
Edgar H. Thompson. jr., Fort Mon
roe, Va, and Paul B. Thompson, of
this city; daughter. Mrs. J. Lanier
Jordan, Chester Heights, Pa, and a
sister, Miss Helen Thompson, New
port, R. I.
Funeral services will be held at
l pm. tomorrow at the home and
burial will be in Arlington National
Cemetery.