davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Red Raiders Caused
Fires and Blasts in
Berlin, Soviet Says
Anti-Aircroft Guns Fooled
Attoek, Bringing Down
One PIone, Nozis Report
BY the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Sept. 5. - Russian
Dombers dropped explosives and in
cendiaries on military and industrial
targets in Berlin overnight and saw
their missiles touch on fires and ex-
plosions, it was reported today.
The announcement did not state
how many planes carried out the
attack, but said only one was miss
ing. (The German high command
said only several Russian planes at
tempted to attack the German cap
ital and one was shot DOWN.
Emphasizing Russian air opera
tions, the Soviet Information Bu-
reau said two Nazi-held airdromes
west of Lake linen, on the front
before Leningrad, had been de-
stroyed
Seventy-four grounded German
planes belonging to the Richthofen
Squadron were destroyed on those
fields and when the Nazis attempted
to fight of the Russian air attack
one of their fighter planes was shot
down and their anti-aircraft bat
tories Silerced ii said
Evening star., 1941-09-05

BERLIN, Sept. S (PD.-Anti-aircraft
defenses thwarted an attempt by
Russian warplanes to attack Berlin
during the night and brought down
one of two planes which approached
the capital, communique declared
today.
(The alarm apparently was re-
sponsible for an interruption in
telephone and telegraph COM
munications between Berlin and
Switzerland
The high command later said OF
last nights raid:
Attempts last night by several
Soviet planes to attack Northeastern
Germany and Berlin was ineffective
Anti-aircraft fire downed one
bomber"
An earlier communique said no
bombings were reported
German planes were credited with
sinking a 3,000-ton merchant ship
and an outpost boat between Britain
and Ireland during the night and
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Downey Withdraws
Pension Proposal;
Tax Bill Sped
Only One Chief Obstacle
Remains Before Final
Passage Of Measure
By J. A. OIEARY.

The S3,679, 800 900 tax bill, spread
ing the revenue burden both up
and down the income scale, moved
closer to final passage today when
the Downey old-age pension plan
was eliminated as an issue.
Senator Downey, Democrat, Of
California agreed to withhold his
pension amendment on assurance
from Senate leaders that it would
be. given prompt consideration as a
separate bill in the Finance Com
mittee.
This left as the chief remain
ing obstacle the fight over a
committee amendment seeking to
put the eight community property
States on parity with the rest of
the country in the filing of income
tax returns by husbands and wives.
If that question were eliminated,
the bill could pass late today or to-
morrow. Otherwise, debate is ex-
pected to drag into next week.
The IS use tax on all automobiles
also awaits decision, but 1t not ex-
pected to consume much time.
Would Provide $40 4 Month.
The Downey plan would give $40
a month, starting next July, to per-
sons not employed over so, in
creasing to $50 in 1914, with the pay
roll tax going up to per cent each
on employe and employer at that
time.
After Senator Downey had begun
to urge his pension amendment on
the floor, Chairman George of the
Finance Committee and Majority
Leader Barkley joined in promising
to arrange committee hearings on
the question as separate bill. SEN
stor Downey said he appreciated
this assurance and agreed to with
draw it from the tax bill after COM
pleting the speech he had started.
Meanwhile, however, Senator
Bankhead, Democrat, of Alabama
approached the question from new
angle by offering an amendment
which would put the Senate on rec
ord as asking the House Ways and
See TAXES pace A-1q1
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Capital Transit Moves
To Buy2OO New Buses,
81 New Streetcars
Sees Continued Increase
In District Traffic
Demands for 1912

Permission to buy 81 new stream
lined streetcars and 200 new buses,
at an estimated cost of s3,400, 900,
was sought today by the Capital
Transit Co. in a petition filed with
the Public Utilities Commission.
The new rolling stock would be Or
dered for delivery next year.
E. D. Merrill, company president.
said the request was made in an
ticipation OF continued increase in
traffic demands during 1912 as the
result of national defense activities
and in order to effect necessary re-
placements. The plan was approved
by the company's directors at a
meeting August %.
The proposal, involving large
financing for major purchase
order, poses test of the authority
of the Public Utilities Commission
to function with but one member,
Engineer Commissioner Charles w.
Kutz, whereas orders by the COM
mission are supposed to be issued
only after approval by a quorum of
the normal membership of three.
Nominee Unconfirmed.
President Roosevelt has nomi-
mated Gregory Hankin, an attorney
with the Federal Power Commission.
but as yet the Senate has not voted
confirmation. The President as vet
has nominated no one to the va
cancy caused by the death last year
of Riley E. Elgen.
However, Corporation Counsel
Richmond B. Keech, who is general
counsel to the Commission, said to-
day that while he had not yet re-
studied the law on the point, he be-
lieved that in view of the emergency
and the desire of the Commission
to see that the company is enabled
to render adequate service, he would
be willing to recommend that Cen
eral Kutz act on the petition, pro-
vided the Commission chief en-
gineer and other experts on the staff
find the purchases necessary and
desirable and if satisfactory
financing plan is presented.
The new streamlined streetcars
would be of the single-front type
with a center exit, with one-man
operation and of the character of
(See TRANSIT. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-09-05
F. B. |. Says Inventor
Impersonoted Officer
Rx the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-The New
York ofice of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation said today that Philip
L. E. Del Fungo Giera, an upstate
inventor, would be arraigned here
today on a warrant charging him
with obtaining $4,000 from an un-
identified New Yorker while imper-
sonating q United States Army Re
serve officer.
B. e. Sackett, special agent In
charge of the r. B. l., said that a
United States marshal served Del
Fungo with the warrant at the lat
ter's Mongaup Valley estate last
night. The complaint was filed by
the r. B. I.
Del Fungo maintained an expert.
mental research laboratory on his
1000 acre estate.
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Free French Sailors
Desert in California
By the Associated Press.

BY CNe hSkOCIGLtu FISSS.
SAN DIEGO, Calf pit. 5.-An
undisclosed number of French sail
ors have deserted from the big Free
French destroyer lie Triumphant,
now in San Diego Harbor for fuel
and repairs.
A Statewide bulletin asking ap-
prehension of the deserters was
broadcast over police teletype yes
terday under authority of E. T..
Sweeney of the immigration Bor-
der Patrol ONCE in Los Angeles.
Dan 8. Kuykerdal, chief of the
San Diego immigration ONCE, con-
flrmed the report of the desertion
but said no details were available.
Evening star., 1941-09-05

Fort Myer, the experimental farm
and other Federal properties would
be brought within the District.
Senator McCarran pointed out
that this transfer of jurisdiction
would not affect the real estate tax
structure of Arlington County and
the State of Virginia since Federal
propery is not ta1bble.
Principal advantage from the
shift, the Senator said, would accrue
to the Federal Government, since it
would bring within a single jurlsdic-
ticn all related Federal activities.
AS for specific advantage to the
District, the Senator pointed out
that any encouragement for the
tendency to scatter Federal agencies
Evening star., 1941-09-05
CrucibIe Steel Plant Closed
As Maintenance Men Walk Out
5000 Forced to Halt Work on Shells,
Artillery and Small Arms Production

citation of MachiniSts' local union
rejected the offer at a mass meeting
last night. The contract provided
for new rates of pay scaling so cents
an hour for unskilled beginners,
with a 5-cent-an-hour raise auto
matically every four weeks until a
minimum of rs cents an hour had
been reached at the end OF IL weeks
This compared with a former
starting rate of 81 cents an hour
with periodic automatic raises to SO
cents an hour at the end of six
months.
The agreement also provided for
raises for skilled employees not
affected by the beginners rates. All
raises we're to be retroactive to July
l. 194l. and Robert E. Gross. Lock
heed president, said they would have
cost the companies Sl6,712,717 a
year in additional wages.
Mine Hearing Called.
The Defense Mediation Board yes
terday asked operators and striking
Alabama coal miners to get back
into production pending a hearing
on their dispute.
william H. Davies, board chair
man, notified both sides a hearing
would be held in the Capital Septem-
ber 10, and called on AL parties
to resume and continue production
OF coal pending the boards con-
sideration Of the matter"
Earlier, the C. l. O.'s United Mine
Workers notified pit owners it was
calling out ali members.
William Mitch, district president
of the mine workers, said there had
been unreasonable delay" in nego-
1Se. STpTYEC pa,e AS0
Evening star., 1941-09-05
August Shipping Losses
Low, British Indicate
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. S.-British off,
cials said today the rate OF British
shipping losses in August was no
less satisfactory" than that for July.
although there appeared to be As
many submarines in operation as
before.
No figures have been announced
for either month. However, First
Lord of the Admiralty A. ". Alex
ander has stated that the July
losses were the lowest in more than
a year, and has ascribed this to
joint action of conveys, planes and
North Atlantic patrols. The infer
ence would place July and August
losses somewhere under 3oo,eoo tons
each.
Evening star., 1941-09-05
japanese Ignore Arrival
OF u. S. Oil in Siberia

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Sept. 5.-The Toxic press,
including early editions of Satur-
days papers, had not mentioned up
to tonight the arrival of the Ameri-
can oil tanker l.. P. st. Clair at
Vladivostok, announced in Wash
ington yesterday.
The shipment of American oil
through Far Eastern waters to Rus
sia has been a cardinal point in
Jspan's complaint Of "encircle-
ment" by Western nations.
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Munchukuo Boosts Defense

NEW YORK. Sept. (Pl.-The
German radio today quoted the
prime minister Of Manchukuo, jap
ans puppet state, as telling provin-
cisl governors at a conference at
Hsinking that Manchukuo is en-
dangered by the German Russian
war and, therefore, must strengthen
its defense.
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Food Seized by French
In Block Market Roids
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
vICHY, Unoccupied France, Sept.
5.-Police today seized tons of food
and arrested an undisclosed number
of suspects in a drive against the
black market" In both the un-
occupied and occupied zones of
France.
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Howoiion Legislature Called

HONOLULU, Sept. S (P.--Acting
Gov. Charles M. Hite called the
Hawaiian Legislature to meet in spe-
cisl session September Is to con-
slider legislation and appropriations
necessitated by the national emer-
gency.
Evening star., 1941-09-05

Reckord. Page B-l
Commanding officers of the three
principal District National Guard
units now in active training will be
relieved of their commands under
new age standards fixed by the Wal
Department, survey OF service
records revealed today.
Affected by the new maximumS
are Col. John w. Oehmann of the
121st Engineers, Col. Walter w
Burns of the 260th Coast Artillery
and Col. Ralph Hutchins of the
104th Quartermaster Regiment.
The new policy, announced yester-
day, provides that overage officers
now serving with troops will be
transferred to administrative duty
away from troops, or. in event such
duty is not available for those ir
reserve components. they will be re-
lieved of duty after II months
service.
Moreover. under certain condl-
tions, reserve and National Guarc
officers above the new age limit may
be relieved before the termination
of a years service If they so desire
the War Department said.
Col. Oehmann Over Maximum.
Col. Oehmann. on leave from hi!
duties as District of Columbia build
ing inspector, will be four year;
over the 55-year maximum age fol
colonels in December. The execu'
tive officer of his command-Lt. Col
Julian S. Oliff, who will be 81 next
month-also will be relieved undel
the new standards.
Col. Oehmann has been in the
armed services for AZ years. Mex
in command OF the 12lst Engineer!
on duty at Fort Meade. Md.-is 1t
Col. Douglas A. White. He is undel
the age maximum.
Col. Burns only recently returned
to Fort Bliss. Tex, where his regl'
ment, an anti-aircraft unit, is or
duty, after spending several week
here at Walter Reed Hospital. HI
was 81 in MAY, two years above th'
new maximum. The 260th wa
commanded in Col. Burns absence
by 1t. Col. Leroy S. Mann, execu
tive oficer. who is well within tint
new age standards.
Chaplain May Be Relieved.
However, 1t. Col. Arlington A
McCallum. chaplain of the 26Oth
probably will be relieved. as he wa
81 in May-five years over the maxi
mum for officers serving in non
promotion capacities with trool
units.
Col. Hutchins. a Marylander, wa
81 July 4. The 104th Quartermastel
Regiment, also on duty at For
Meade. is made up of District ant
MARYLAND troops. Col. Hutchins
staff oficers are within the ag'
standards.
At least six captains of the ILLS
Engineers will be affected by tn
age revision. They are William F
Jorgensen. James r. Quade, Edwart
A. Mcmahon. Charles e. Smithson
Luther B. Hall and George W
Johns.
Middle and lower brackets amonl
commissioned officers in the 260tl
Coast Artillery and 104th Quarter
master Regiment are filled will
younger men, and, consequently, vii
feel the effects of the new standard
less severely.
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Naval Patrol Hunts
Submarine in Attack
On Destroyer Greer
Raider Will Be Eliminated
If Found, President Says;
Crafts Identity Uncertain
By JOHN c. HENRY.

naval forces searching for the submarine which
U. the North Atlantic yesterday and
will eliminate" found
President this unqualified at
during long discussion Of the
which mail
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Summary of Todoy's Star
Foreign.

Foreign.
Anti-aircraft foils Red raid on Ber-
lin, Germans report. Page Al
Large Italian ship torpedoed. Brit
ish report. Page Az
Debris of 3 Russian divisions lines
road, Firms claim. Page AS
Germany won huge industrial spoils,
Argentina reports. Page Bio
Notionol.
Huge tax bill moves closer to
passage. Page Al
Quick end seen to East Coast gaso-
line shortage. Page AL
New Federal agency TO enlist small
plants In defense work. Page Az
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Nozis Claim Two Ships
Sunk in Suez Gulf
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. 5.-A ship given
as the 3, 3,336-ton City OF Oakland and
a 3,000-ton vessel were claimed by
D.N.B.. official German news agency,
today to have been sunk by the Ger
man air force in raid over the Gulf
Of SueZ Wednesday night.
Lloyd's Register of Shipping lists
no City of Oakland, but German
authorities when rechecked reassert-
ed the name City of Oakland was
correct for the ship they claimed as
q victim. Lloyd's lists q City of
Auckland of 1886 tons.
Evening star., 1941-09-05
New Age Standards
Hit Three District
Guard Commanders
Requirements Forced
For Coils. Oehmonn,
Burns and Hutchins

AGE STANDARDS for Army would
force replacement of Gen.
Reckord. Page B-1
Evening star., 1941-09-05

(See RAIDS, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1941-09-05

(See STRIKES, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1941-09-05

(See McCARRAN, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1941-09-05

(See TRANSIT, Page A-40
Evening star., 1941-09-05

(See MOSCOW, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Anti-Aircroft Thworted
Raid, Germans Report

teries silenced. it said.
Evening star., 1941-09-05

(See TAXES, Page AID
Evening star., 1941-09-05

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages TX and 2-X Of this edition OF
The Star. supplementing the news Of
the regular home delivered edition.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
Sunset Trail Lures
For Nova Scotia

FEW MOTOR highways eX-
coed in scenic beauty and mag
nifcence that provided by The
Sunset Trail in Nova Scotia, a
road destined this year to be
travelled by hundreds of Amer
lean motorists.
This enchanting highway en-
tends from Amherst 10 New
Glasgow, offering an ever-chanG-
ing panorama of sea and land.
Broad salt marshes and low
tide flats, mellow old farmsteads.
quaint and hospitable coastal
villages, tiny fishing hamlets and
hoary settlements redolent with
the earliest flavor of history-all
these and more await the for
tunate visitor to Nova Scotia,
Canada's sea-girt province which
bids the American guest well
come with all the warmth and
sincerity of the Scottish tradi-
ton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
Hioh Traditions Never Broken

VNI is 7, of traditions traditions which
broken every cadet Sautng the window of the
barracks which Stonewa Jackson spent his four years
the tradition of only being permitted TO sit the
ancient French front of the barracks the tradition
of freshman always moving and
following the possible between the
who be able sing his laundry list
the Dixie whenever called upon upperclasSman
%Most of the traditions and rules of conduct have
created themselves such prohibiting
cadet from riding automobile the hafmie into
downtown Lexington the rule forbdding smoking public
the rule that only secondyear his scarened
furlough relgouSy the
regulation been observed through the that today cadet
forms tailored without pockets
The campus of VMI IS of Virgnas top beauty spots
the magnificent bronze of Stonewa jackson done by Moses
Ezekiel VMI cadet Virginia Mourning Her Dead
: also by Ezekiel the old home IN which Matthew Fontane
Mauy lived nearby Goshen Pass through which Maus body
carried accordance with dying the that
is of rhododendron and laurel the Spring Mauy
called II the beautiful spot earth and
adjoining VMI the magnificent old of Washing
and Lee where Robert l. Lee president after
surrender at AppomattoX where Lee Is buried beneath The
famous recumben Valentine the Washington Lee
of tall white columns and festooned
vista of beauty you forget you've gazed
Net week the Old Trapeer eH tel about Williamsburg
aud jamestown oHd PocohoHtos opd obog tn haecd Indians
stW I've along the Chiekahopiug.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11

l.
fence attitude and refuse TO have any
part in the discussion.
But the Barbara Frietchie House is
a Mecca for 100000 visitors each year
:. and where is the schoolboy who
doesn't remember the poem? YOU
remember it, don't you? who
harms a hair on yen gray head dies
like a dog &. . march on g.. but tiiat
hardly sounds like the two-fiSted fight
ing man Stonewall jackson was. One
practical Frederickite opined that if
Barbara Frietchie did wave the American
flag from her window, Jackson probably
said: Sergeant, take couple of men
into that house and see what's the big
idea :. does that dame think this wars
joke? ?"
But be that as It may, today the
little town of Frederick is one of
Americas patriotic shrines . one of
the ''musts' on the itinerary of any one
vacationing in that part of the country
e. and certainly a town from which
the visitor gets an immense kick
from the Frietchie house TO the unique
jug Bridge" over the Monocacy River
/. from the old courthouse in which
- 49, -. -EE -.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
Isle RoydIe
UnspoiIed
Beauty Spot

ISLE ROYALE, the newest OF
L the national parks, will be a
port of call for two of the ships
of the Georgian Bay Line during
the 1941 season, instead of only
one of the ships as during the
last two years, according TO +.
J. Goebel, passenger traffic
manager of the line.
The S. S. South American will
replace the S. S. alabama on
the seven-day round-trip be-
tween Buffalo, Cleveland, De-
troit, Mackinac Island. Isle
Royale and Duluth. The s. S.
Alabama has been transferred
from this run TO a five-day
round trip from Chicago to
Mackinac Island and Isle Royale.
and a two-day weekend cruise
from icago to Macklnac
Island, Sturgeon Bay and return.
The S. S. North American Will
continue as in previous years on
seven-day cruises between Chi
cago, Mackinac Island. Midland,
Ont, Canada, Detroit, Cleveland
and Buffalo.
Tremendous interest has de-
VelOped in Ise Royale since 1t
became a national park last year
and our new schedule permits
persons living in Chicago and
vicinity to visit this great primi-
tive island" Goebel states. I'VE
believe this new itinerary will
develop many new passenger
prospects who wish to visit this
island and also like the idea of
travelling on Lake Superior
which Is always cool, even dur
ing the most depressing heat of
Summer"
Isle Royale is the second larg-
est island in the United States,
approximately "A miles long, with
an average width of five miles
and an area of 200 square miles.
1t is located in Lake Superior
about Is miles off Thunder Bay,
Canada.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
And More Anen+ Fabulous VMI

But of all the spots in that eastern swing is
enthraing the visitor than Lexington with Virginia
Military Institute VNI from which DeroiterS
and Mhganns have been graduated the NMl with record
surpassed school the face of the earth the WI which
has famed into the world Matthew Fonane
MaurY and Sonewall Jackson.
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and Maury Maverick Mai
Gen Marshall chiefofsta of the United States Army
IL other general officers with the VM which
1000 of graduates World War which in 1918
its graduating class into the which in the
Civil War S of and then sent
its babies defeat Gen Franz Sge at New Market and write
the brilliant written military history
Civil War l796 of the total of 1902 excades enlisted
Is of them with the Union forces and 25S died the
field but New Market that VMI cadets wrote the
chapter the schools history which will live long VM
lives The "groWnups of the school already the
May of 1864 when word to the school that General
Sigels Saunon just to the north of
Lexington Gen Scott Shpp superintendent turned out the
babies ranging from Is TO Is and through batering
rainstom hiked the 100 miles New Market.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
Royal Gorge Vests Lure

COLORADO'S ROYAL
GORGE, on the Burlington route
between the East and California,
Is one of natures most magnifi-
cent speetaeles. Ten miles long
and 1000 feet deep. this remark
able chasm through which trains
and the Arkansas River pass, is
only 30 feet across at the bottom
at some points.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
Babies Disobeyed Orders Once

babies" had ordered well TO the
support for Breckenridge and his forces protecting Saunton
but this the VMI dsobeyed orders the only
record order disobeyed and the babies $50 of
swollen by the rain until they could not be
their shoes sucked off by the heavy black mud moved
TO the front lines and charged and charged again and
SgefS with 10 the NMl babies
dead and 100 wounded
May Is. 1861 and May Is halowed day at
VMl for the entire cadet paTaded in full dress
lined up roca and the of the New Market dead
called and each mans called cadet designated
steps PAGES forward replies Dead the field of
honor"
And wherever the world two WI the
night of May Is the lights and drink silent
TO the New Market heroes crashing their glasses the floor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11
:ew Who Haven't Heard Tales

who heard thrilling tale of the Boston Tea
Party fewer who HAVE heard the story of Maryland
tea party when the British brig Peggy Stewart dropped anchor
Annapolis harbor with of taxed tea when band
patriots unmasked midday swarmed aboard and forced
the captain fire his ship patriots fired with the
love freedom ribbons about their hats reading Liberty and
independence Death in the Pursuit of It
And il Maryland which 1913 passed the so-caed
federation religious freedom after band of
Purtans nonconfomty found
there religious freedom just y years after William
white settlement
be closely followed by coonsts under royal charter from
rordP Pa