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Evening star., 1941-08-22
Plane and DESTROYER
To Hunt Z, Adrift
On Dredge in Ocean
Help Rushed to Crew,
Cut Off From Tow Boot
By Storm in Pacific
Ey the Associated Press.


SAN PEDRO, Calf, Aug. 22.-
Twelve defense workers, who had
anticipated gay time in Honolulu,
are being blown about the Pacific on
a powerless, rudderless dredge by a
gale.
The dredge, s50O,00O, l,00O-ton
craft owned by the Standard Dredg-
ing Co. of New York, was torn from
its towing steamer, the Chippewa,
early yesterday. It's position then
was given as 1.240 miles due east
of Honolulu. 1t was en- route to
Honolulu for use on a Navy project.
Capt. Jonn Allison of the Chip
pewa radioed an appeal to rush
Navy tug from Coast and one from
Honolulu
Aid Being Speeded.
Court G.. Harrington, Honolulu
manager for Standard Dredging,
wirelessed the company's local Of
fee: Have arranged for destroyer
and plane and Young Bros. tug to
leave as soon as fuel and men are
aboard"
The dredge has an intership radio
with a 75-mile range.
One of Capt. Allison'S messages
was reported as impossible to re-
turn to dredge owing to fuel short
age. Send destroyer with plane
to locate and stand by dredge."
However, Standard spokesman
said he was certain the Chippewa
would remain within the dredge's
75-mile communications range.
Captain 50 Years at Sea.
He said Capt Allison is a veteran
of so years on the sea, that this
is the second SOS he ever has sent,
and that he has sufficient fuel to
remain in the vicinity for days.
The spokesman said the men on
the dredge have food and water for
Is more days and that their only
danger is in being swamped by the
gale. He said "the storm is plenty
bad" but the dredge should
weather it."
The dredge has no power and no
steering gear.
False Report Diverted Liner.
The spokesman said false re-
port radioed from Honolulu yester-
day that the Chippewa had found
the dredge and replaced the towline
had diverted the Matson liner Man
ukai from the vicinity. The
Manukai had offered to assist the
search, but resumed its course.
The spokesman said these men
are aboard the dredge, but that
their home towns were not avail
able:
Albert Randall superintendent;
Victor Peterson, captain; Dan Lewis,
chief engineer; Clovis Dupluchan,
Bert Olson and Fred Ring. lever
men: Eric Carlson, welder; Edward
Langh and Elmer Bourgh. operators;
Jarrett Halloway mate; Rudy Letell,
levee boss, and Bob Wicker, cook.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

burn here and there so that the crew
can see its way about. The craft
dives into the face of a stiff east
wind and into thick, dripping dark
where one can see, at the best, only
few feet ahead.
Other ships of the convoy become
invisible as the horizon is buried in
blackness. The presence of one of
them is indicated now and then by
flashed signal lights. This has been
the practice for some time-a simu-
lation of the way ships must sail
IN actual warfare to get the officers
and crew prepared for such condi-
tions should they become necessary.
Morning of Driving Rain.
Morning comes without a sunrise
and with driving rain out of the
east. The 1.-the, alert destroyers are
zigzaeging along on the outskirts
of the convoy-another stimulated
war measure. Their job is to close
in with their deadly guns on any
intruder that gets close to the slower
ships.
1t is busy morning OF training.
Raucous horns sound the signals for
fire drill, collision drill and for
abandoning ship. Then there is the
call to man all the stations and the
simulated target practice with the
muzzles of the guns shifting to de-
signated points in the sky
The blue canvas is pulled from the
machine guns. One Is impressed by
the complete lack of confusion with
which this small crew of specialists
attends to the multitudinous de-
tails of getting the destroyer in
battle order in few minutes. Any
attacking craft would be in a bad
mess inside the turquois serpent
coils which the zigzagging craft
traces through the water, whose
surface is covered with black dots
by the spattering rain. Even in
the uttermost dark there seems to
be a perfect coordination between
the different ships as they follow
their appointed paths.
Crew Appears Enthusiastic.
This Navy-at least as repre-
sented by the crew of the destroyer
seems a particularly happy and
Evening star., 1941-08-22
.Croat in Exile Fights
Axis Propaganda in
Broadcast 10 World
DR.. Krnjevieh Soys Foes
Seek to Stir Unreliable
Breach With Serbs

DR.. JuraJ krnJevlch, representa-
tive of the Croatian people in the
exile Jugoslav government in Lon
don, issued a statement today con-
demning fol- the Yugoslav govern
ment and for Croatians the creation
of the Italian puppet kingdom of
Croatia.
The statement was made avail
/ able here in the interest of notify
ing the world of the continuing
fundamental unity of the various
peoples who made up the Yugoslav
kingdom. DR. Krnjevich broadcast
his message in the Croatian Ian
guage to the people in Croatia from
Lcrdon.
From the beginning Of this war
the Croatians were well aware that
a victory of Hitler and Mussolini
would represent a great misfortune
for themselves as well as for the
whole of mankind" DR.. Krnjevich
said
Must Fight Propaganda.
The London government is faced
with the prospect that the country
might be divided irreparably dur
ing its Avis occupation through
propaganda aimed at making the
Croatians unwilling to rejoin the
Serbs and the Slovenes in a COM
mon state after the war.
Such a situation, in the event of
an Axis defeat, would create a diff
ficult problem for the democratic
peacemakers.
Our common enemies, Fascist
Italy and Nazi Germany" DR..
Krnjevich said in his broadcast. de-
signed to offset Axis propaganda,
ARE now doing their utmost in
order to create an unbeatable dis
sension between the Serbs and the
Croats and thus to Illustrate their
joint life.
BY such means they want to
wound Yugoslavia mortally and pre-
vent her restoration.
Repudiates Pavelitch.
THE Croatian people want
Croatia. But they want it in asso-
citation with Serbs and Slovenes,
and with any one else, without re-
gard for faith and nationality. as
long as they are real men, respecting
the soil that feeds them"
DR.. Krnjevich, repudiating the ac-
ton of Ante Pavelitch in co-operat-
ing with Italy in the establishment
of the independent Croatian state
said that "the people of Croatia
have nothing in common with mis-
deeds performed on Serbs by Pave
htch's perfidious group"
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Refugee 'BottIeneck
AT Lisbon Eliminated
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Aug. 22.-The trans
portation bottleneck at Lisbon, be-
hind which hundreds of refugees
and Others have waited weeks and
even months for passage TO the
United States has virtually been
eliminated, spokesman for Pan
American Airways said today.
He said the waiting time has now
been reduced to three or four days.
Several factors have aided the
situation, he explained. The Portu-
guese government has placed in
effect regulations requiring refugees
passing across Portugal to have
either a return ticket to their homes
or other destinations, or adequate
financial means to leave Portugal.
American shipping activities and
the fact that official ns-Atlantic
passengers now are crossing on
British planes between England and
Canada also have aided, he said.
The American Export Line
operates three passenger lines in the
trade and recent ships have been
bringing in so fewer passengers per
trip than they were bringing several
months ago. Portuguese and Span
ish vessels are operating on special
voyages to rid Lisbon of the refugees.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
z Killed, 80 Hurt as Car
And Two Buses Crash

bS the ASSOCIATED Press.
SAN RAFAEL, Calf, Aug. az
Two men were killed and an esti-
mated 80 persons injured today in
traffic accident near the Golden
Gate Bridge involving two buses
and a coupe
Commuters said the coupe turned
around in front of the leading bus
at the Waldo approach to the
bridge. The coupe was wrecked and
its two occupants pinned inside.
Both buses were loaded with
passengers going to work in San
Francisco from their homes in
Marin County. PaSsersby aided
ambulances in carrying the injured
to hospitals in Marin County towns
and San Francisco.
All San Rafael ambulances, the
Mill Valley City ambulance and
an Army ambulance from Fort
Baker were utilized.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Fire Kills ; Children
Before Helpless Mother
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22.-Three
children of the Russell Hagy family
were burned to death today when
trapped by fire on the second floor
Of their home in suburban Mana
yunk.
The dead children are Virginia, s.:
Adeline, 2, and Robert, 4.
The fire started while their moth
er. Katherine, was cleaning upstairs
Mrs. Hagy found the kitchen and
back shed mass of flames. The
fire spread so quickly she was unable
to get the children from the house.
In two similar recent Pennsylvania
fires, six children were burned to
death at Punxsutawney and five at
Doylestown.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Henry
Continued From First Page

in peace. Who wanted, the peace
loving Icelanders asked, this poor
little Arctic land with its vast in
terror Of glacier and lava, unin-
habited and only partially explored,
and its narrow, rocky coastline
stretching for 1000 miles like a
green ring. with fjords set in it like
amethysts, where a paltry 10000
poor farmers and fishermen fought
the elements for an existence?
Iceland was in nobody's way. 1t
depended for defense on attending
strictly to it's own business. The
country, then a Danish colony but
soon to become an Independent ma
ton under a common King, escaped
successfully any part in the holo-
caust of the First World War, kept up
good relations with everybody and
expected similar luck this time.
Hitler's Error.
But 1t calculated without know
ing the ways of Adolf Hitler. With
it's mountain-walled harbors and
quiet fjords stretching inland for
miles, it was the key to the North
Atlantic, or would be If in the pos
session of the Germans Its coasts
afforded scores of almost ideal sub
marine hiding places out OF which
the wolves of the sea would make
swift darts southwark at British
commerce.
Furthermore. as intelligent Ice
landers now realize. once an enemy
was lodged on the island he could
be dislodged only with terrible
slaughter and complete control OF
the air. The barren interior is sur
rounded by almost perpendicular
mountain walls from 1000 to 1000
feet high, cut only by. occasional
green valleys. A small army OF
parachute troops. II they could be
landed and kept supplied from the
Evening star., 1941-08-22

vers 80 that troops will become ac-
customed to the din.
The sound recordings we're made
as part of the effort by the Signal
Corps to utilize the facilities of the
American movie industry for de-
fense.
A number of films made in Holly
wood, which will be used 10 instruct
troops in various activities of the
Army, also were shown. Among
these were films giving instruction
in military courtesy, in skiing, in
handling trench mortars, etc.
1t. Col. Daryl Zanuck, Hollywood
producer, who has taken the leading
part in producing the films. was in
the audience and was introduced.
The training films are designed to
make available to all soldiers the
same expert instruction which coulo
be given to only a few men at a
time if the instructors had 70 give
1t personally.
A number Of films on different
aspects of Army life have been COM
pleted and scores more are being
written or acted out now in Holly
wood.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Defense Priofities
Pinch Builders Of
Private Housing
Supplies Of Hardware,
koiIs, Copper Cutters
And Piping Run Low
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Private home builders are begin
ming to feel the pinch Of defense
priorities.
Contractors-in some cases scour-
ing the .jobbers markets for build
ers' hardware, nails, copper cutters
and piping-today were pressing the
ONCE Of Production Management,
the Office of Price Administration
and Civilian Supply and their own
trade associations for some word of
the future.
From Atlanta. for instance, came
word that only one dealer there had
any No nails and even his supply
was nearly gone.
Similar situations were reported
in other parts of the Nation. Zinc
coated nails, needed for shingling
and other weather-exposed parts of
dwellings, were very scarce.
Advised to "Sit Tight"
Opacs and o. P. M. advised pri-
vate home builders in non-defense
areas to "sit tight" while Govern
ment agencies work out ALLEGATION
programs to meet construction
needs.
Housing authorities of the Gov
ernment also reported shortages and
said it was difficult even for Army
camps to get supplies.
Defense areas come first.
What is defense area?
An official of a widely known con-
tracing association, who declined
to be quoted by name, said he and
his associates. and he believed the
o. p. M. as well, has been trying
to find the answer to the question
A physician in small defense in
dustry town. needing home, might
we'll claim a priority on the ground
his house was necessary for National
defense If the health of the workers
wes involved, said this official. A
small town near an Army camp
might seek TO build a recreation
center for the troops. Would that
be a piece of defense construction?
Hope For Information Soon.
A contracting association official
said the members were cognizant
that all strictly defense orders would
take priority. would be filled even in
advance of orders given long pre-
viously and that it was impossible
to anticipate now what the situa-
tlon would be as to each individual
steel fabrication. Some plants. he
said, can't accept any more orders
right now, while others, working
today on materials needed for build
ers, may get orders tomorrow which
will necessitate cancellation of or
ders moving to shipping clerks at
the time.
The trade associations are telling
their members now that they hope
to be able to say with some certainty
within 10 days to two weeks what
will happen in the private home
building industry.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

spective adventure which is the
soul of this Atlantic patrol
They have just passed through a
night of darkness and morning
of rain and wind, which really tried
their stamina, without a grumble.
They might be even more enthusi-
astic if they were privileged to hear
the officers talking among them
selves about them-how such and
such a change in regulations might
be a benefit to them, how such and
such man might be helped along.
The destroyer is a complex ma
chine. but probably the most COM
plex feature is its personnel. whose
abilities and personalities must be
fitted into the pattern of the ma
chinery. In this case, at least, the
crew seem to mesh as smoothly
as the gears.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

lantic W ith q
dirty dishrag OF
+ a in clou d s
pinned over the
con t r a C t i n 6
dome of the sky
a S d a y Ii 6 h t
fades.
The speeding
destroyer / S / n
d a + k n e S S,
S W | t C h e S are
turned OF INSIDE
to S a I e & u ar d
against a gleam
through a port
hole a n d only
faint blue lamps
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Loses Arm in Bomb BIust

MEXICO CITY, Aug. % R.-
Gen. Ernesto Sanchez Mendez, Mex
lean munitions expert. lost his right
arm in an explosion at the military
air field here yesterday while ex-
amining an air force bomb. His
arm was amputated at the shoulder
in an emergency operation
Evening star., 1941-08-22
japanese Begin Erecting
Shanghai Burricudes
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 22.-The jap
anese Army began erecting new
barbed wire barricades aroun
Shanghai's city limits today, caus-
ing some apprehension among nom
Axis foreign residents.
Army oficials said it was neces-
sary to prevent terrorists from en-
tering or leaving.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Neutrality Patrol Under Way, BIocked Out
Efficient Crew Puts Destroyer Through PAGES Under
Rigorous Stimulation Of Wartime Conditions

Uncle Sans Atlantic patrol is
described in this series OF articles
,Chich henceforth wtH be pub
hshed Jointly ,Uith stories on the
occupation of Iceland.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

SOMEWHERE IN THE AT
LANTIC-Blackout at sundown
Not even London op a foeey night
of war is quite so black as the At
Evening star., 1941-08-22

CTo be continued.)
Evening star., 1941-02-13
Army Welfare Board
To Include Navy, Marines

The Army, Navy and Marine
Corps presented a unified front to-
day to protect the morals of the
young men in Uncle Sans expand
ing land and sea forces and to pro-
vide for their entertainment and
education while in the services.
This was brought about by direc-
tion of President Roosevelt in Civ
ing the Navy and Marine Corps
representation on the Committee on
Education, Recreation and Com
munity Service recently set up for
the War Department. The agency,
which is destined to play an impor-
tant part in the lives of all enlisted
men, is now officially designated as
the Joint Army and Navy Commit
tee on Welfare and Recreation.
Secretary Knox was authorized to
appoint five members to serve on
the new J2int committee which will
work in close liaison with Charles
P. Taft of Cincinnati son of the
former President and Chief Justice,
who has been named assistant CO.
ordinator of all health, welfare,
Evening star., 1941-02-13
Virginia Electric Maps
S9,024,765 Expansion
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 13.-Di-
rectors of the Virginia Electric and
Power Co. today authorized new con-
struction expenditures throughout
the system amounting to approx
mately S9,024,765.
Two major construction projects
started prior to January and to be
completed during 1941 or 1912 in
volved expenditures during the cur
rent year of $4,025 900 for the new
Reeves Avenue Power Station in
Norfolk, and $623, 900 for the COM
pletion of ll0,000-volt transmission
line from Richmond to Lee Hall,
where it will connect with the cleo
trio system of the Virginia Public
Service Co. to provide additional
power to the Newport News -Hamp-
ton-Langley Field area.
Jack G. HaltGclaW, president OF
Vepco, in announcing the action of
the directors, said 'the territory
served by Vepco is largely an area
in which defense activities are at
present of prime Importance"
Evening star., 1941-02-13

visible for IS miles leveled a huge
barn on the hospital grounds was
averted during the night by prompt
action of attendants.
Seriously i'll patients in the main
buildings, about 300 yards from the
fire, were moved to rooms where
they could not see the flames, which
caused damage estimated unoff1cially
at 100000 Those with minor all
ments we're given various tasks to
keep them occupied.
Evening star., 1941-02-13
Diners Take q Walk
As Fish Says WHIkie
Is Close to Treason
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 13.-Rep-
resentative Fish of New York
asserted in a Lincoln Day din
ner speech here last night that
Wendell WILKES testimony be-
fore the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee Tuesday came
pretty close to being treason
to America"
Mr.. WILKES views are not
the views of the Republican
members of Congress-" he said.
When he advocated turning
over to 10 destroyers month
to Great Britain, that is an act
of war.
I'VE have only 159 deStroyers
in the United States Navy. I
say that it is pretty close to
being treason to America when
a man advocates giving away
such a portion of our arma-
ment."
AS these words were spoken
J. Purdon Wright, Baltimore
attorney and one of the leading
Republicans present, got up
and stalked from the room. A
number of others attending the
dinner also walked out, though
none followed Mr.. Wright i'm
mediately.
Evening star., 1941-02-13

recreation and related activities af-
fecting national defense under the
Federal Security Administration.
The Navy appointees include
Sheldon Clark, Chicago, president
of the Navy League of the United
States. He has been named vice
chairman.
Others are Capt. Forrest U. Lake,
U. S. N, retired, director of the
training division, Bureau of Naviga-
ton; 1t. Col. James w. Webb, U. S.
M. c., officer in charge of the per-
sonnel administration division of
the Marine Corps; Comdr. John L.
Reynolds, officer in charge of well
fare and recreation, Bureau of
Navigation, and Comdr Austin K.
Doyle, attached to the personnel
division, Bureau of Aeronautics.
The other members of the Joint
Committee, headed by Frederick H.
Evening star., 1941-02-13
2. A. F. Far Better
TM Spring Than
'4C' Pilot Says
M,re Veterans, Better
Fiel Ter Croft Cited
As In movements
BY DIRE v MIDDLETON.

Associated Press War Correspondent.
AN R. A. F. STATION IN ENG
LAND, Feb. 13.-The 25-year-old
pilot who commands a squadron
here contends that the Royal Air
Force will be much stronger this
spring than it was in 1910 because
well have more veteran pilots, bet
ter fighter aircraft and we'll be
fighting over England"
Last spring, he says, seems like
another era"
1--WE were kids playing at war
But it was a game then,
now it's business"
"One thing the Germans have
not got is a fighter to compare with
our new Spit1res and Hurricanes"
he declared.
"As long as we have those the
Luftwaffe will never run wild over
Britain"
What are the new pilots like?" he
was asked.
Crusade" for New Men.
We'll" he replied, Il hate to say
1t, but think these kids are better
than We were. They know more.
If for us it's a business, it's a cru
SAGE for them. I haven't been
home much since the blitz started,
but these kids have and they're very
angry"
The leader, his face creased with
the lines of sponsibility, his eyes
hard, but grave, has won two medals,
was captured and escaped.
His squadron has been around,
too. 1t fretted over inactivity out
side Lille many months ago. It's
pilots fell asleep over their food in
Belgium during the hard fighting
in Flanders. T hey went up from the
coast of England later to fight for
the lives of the last struggling rem
nantS of the British army escaping
from Dunkerque.
Some faces are missing at mess.
No one mentions it. The confidence
OF the r. A. F. runs as deep and as
strong as ever.
Hopes for U. S. Planes.
One fighter pilot looked up from
his eating to comment:
Yes. Jerry1l come over to have
Whack at us. But we'll shoot him
down just as We did last summer.
It'll be big flap, but it won't last.
Pass the butter, please"
The commander said he had not
seen any American fighter planes.
They tell me they're very good"
he added. II wouldn't trade my air.
craft for one, though. hope we get
lots from you people"
We went to his room while he
dressed for patrol flight. He saw
Evening star., 1941-02-13
Mrs. Stern Gets New
Labor Board Position
BY the Associated Press.

The Labor Board announced to-
day the appointment of Mrs. Bea-
trice M. Stern to the newly created
position of its executive secretary.
Mrs. Stern has been assistant Sec
retary of the board since August,
1885. In her new post she will han
die part of the work formerly as
signed to the office of the secretary,
which has remained vacant since
the resignation of Nathan Witt.
Mrs. Stern was associated with
the California State Banking De-
partment, the California Compensa-
ton Insurance Fund and the ASSo-
ciated Charities of San Francisco
before Joining the board.
Evening star., 1941-02-13
Panic Averted in Blaze
On Hospital Grounds
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DANVERS, Mass, Feb. 13.-Panic
among 1903 mental patients at the
Danvers State Hospital when a fire
Evening star., 1941-02-13

me looking at a picture of his
daughter, aged 2.
That's what one man is fighting
for" he said.
Evening star., 1941-02-13

Osborn of New York. were appointed
some time ago by Secretary Stimson.
Evening star., 1941-02-13
Selected for r. B. |. Training

Policeman C. B. Presley OF Ar
lington County, Va. has been named
to attend the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation police academy.
County Manager Frank G. Han.
rahan announced yesterday.
The United States hold more than
100000 acres of land in trust for
Indians.
Evening star., 1941-08-03

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