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Evening star., 1941-12-08
Municipal Center Is Closed
To Visitors as War Measure

stations at other vital Offices In
Washington, following news of the
japanese attack, only one special
police officer was on duty at the
entrance of the Municipal Center
last night. The officer said he had
turned away dozens of persons who
said they had business with the
police.
Special passes have been given all
War Department employees in the
building, but Washington police and
newspapermen have only badges and
press passes. The order issued by
the Provost Marshal made no pro-
vision for police, who thus technically
enter the building illegally.
The building guards number about
a dozen. Some are employed direct
~ by the War Department. while
others are special officers under the
supervision of the District.
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Christmas Leaves
For Third of Army
Still in Prospect

Christmas leave for more than
a third of the Army's 100000
officers and men has not been
Cancelled because of the war
emergency, except for certain
specified units" the War De-
partment said last night. %
While the situation may
change entirely, Brig. Gen.
Alexander D. Surles. chief OF
the Public Relations Bureau,
told reporters that "as far as is
known" the order for Christ
mas leaves remains. He men,
toned there would be excep-
tions, but did not identify the
units.
Leaves are scheduled to start
December 20 for periods rang
ing from 10 days to month,
depending largely on length Of
service. Reduced railroad rates
and plans for mass rail move
ments criss-crossing the coun-
try are still in effect.
Navy officials said, however,
that under present conditions
cancellation of all leaves of
naval personnel was an auto
matte step to be taken by COM
mandants of the various naval
districts.
Evening star., 1941-12-08

An order issued by the Provost
Marshal of the Army late yesterday
barred the new Municipal Center
Building to all but persons employed
there or carrying special admittance
passes.
With the order, there arose the
interesting point of what Washing
tonians are going to do about enter
ing the building if they wish to re-
port some matter to police au-
thorities or to post collateral for
arking violations. The building
was originally intended for the Dis
trict government, but was almost
completely occupied by the War De-
partment at the start of the emer-
gency, only the Police Department
and a few other District agencies
getting quarters there.
While armed soldiers took up guard
Evening star., 1941-12-08
High Court Refuses
Tax Reduction for
Pro-German Lobby
Cost of U. S. Firms Work
For Return Of Reich
Property DisoIIowed

The Supreme Court held today
that concern which lobbied in be-
half Of German interests seeking
the return of S60,000,000 worth of
property seized by the alien property
custodian in the first World War.
was not entitled to deduct the ex-
penditures for this campaign as
ordinary and necessary expenses
OF business operation in comput-
ing income tax.
Under regulation promulgated
in connection with the Internal
Revenue Act of 1928. the Bureau of,
Internal Revenue had refused to al
low the deduction and was upheld
by the Third Circuit Court of Ap-
peals
Contracts to spread such insidi-.
Gus influences through legislative
holes have long been condemned.
said the unanimous decision of the
court read by Justice Douglas,
which upheld the Treasury regula-
ton
At the same time, the court held
that the Court OF Appeals sitting en-
banc with five members, was prop.
erly constituted-an issue that had
been raised by the Textile Mills Sc
curitieS Corp. which had fought the
| tax deduction.
The litigation was based on the
employment by the corporation Of
/ the Ivy Lee publicity organization;
Warren F. Martin, a former spe-
cial assistant to the Attorney Cen
eral, and j. Ruben Clark, a former
solicitor of the State Department
and later Ambassador to Mexico and
Undersecretary of State, to work
for the legislation through which
the Germans sought to recover their
property. Their services were ter
minated after passage Of the settle
ment of War Claims Act in 1928.
The Supreme Court today took
recess so the justices could go to
the Capitol to hear President Roose-
velt's message.
The court met at noon as usual,
and then adjourned until 2::30 pm,
with announcement that the deci-
sions would be handed down at that
time
Evening star., 1941-12-08

empty this morning, with the doors
leading to it closed.
The only essential difference be-
tween the scene at the Capitol to-
day and that "a years ago was that
President Wilson delivered his war
message to Congress at night, while
today a bright sun shone through
the glass ceiling of the House
chamber.
Two members of the House who
voted against the declaration of
war in 1917 are members today and
one of them again voted against war.
One Of them, Representative Knut-
son, Republican, Of Minnesota, has
seen continuous service since that
time.
War Declaration Took Days.
The other-Representative jean
nette Rankin, Republican, of Mon
tana-had just been sworn in as the
first woman ever elected to the
House shortly before World War I
She served only one term, made a
comeback victory last year. Today
she was the lone member to vote
against war.
In the last war President Wilson
delivered his message Monday night
April 2, and it was four days later
on the afternoon of Friday. April s
that Congress sent the completed
resolution to him to be signed.
1t should be remembered, however
that in 1917 a new Congress was
being organized and the House had
to go through the preliminaries OF
organizing.
The man chosen Speaker of the
House in that eventful week of 1917
was the late Champ Clark. whose
son, Senator Bennett Champ Clark
is in the Senate today.
In addition to Capitol police anc
Marines, $50 Metropolitan officer!
and a number of Secret Service mer
were detailed to the hill" 1t wa.
The heaviest police guard ever thrown
around the Capitol.
! The Gordon was reduced by ont
when Pvt. j. W. Carroll, 80, attached
to No. Precinct Station, slipped
and fell on the Capitol steps before
the President arrived. He was taker
to Casualty Hospital with injurie'
not Immediately ascertained.
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Capitol
Continued From First PageD

mediately adopted a joint resolution
for a joint session with the Senate
to hear the Presidents momentous
message.
1t took the Senate only nine
minutes to pass without word of
debate the resolution authorizing
the joint session.
Promptly at noon the Senate had
convened, with its chaplain, the
Rev. ZeBarney T. Phillips. offering
a special prayer for national unity.
The prayer was hardly finished
when the messenger from the House
arrived to present the resolution for
a Joint session and Senator Barkley
Immediately moved its adoption.
Senator McNary announced that
Senators Holman, Republican of
Oregon, and Wallgren, Democrat of
Washington are on their way back
to Washington; that Senator Cap
per, Republican of Kansas, also is
due to arrive late today or tomorrow,
and that Senator Thomas, Republi-
can of Idaho, was detained by ILL
ness in his family.
Applause Interrupts President.
The Presidents speech was inter-
rupted several times by applause
and when he concluded, the whole
gathering rose and cheers resounded
through the House chamber. They
sWelled again and again as the
President waved his hand
More than three hours before Con-
gress met to hear the message the
Capitol bristled with guards under
orders to make certain of the iden-
tity of each person seeking to enter
the building.
Marines with bayonets on their
rifles we're posted at entrances. and
the Capitol police. out in full force,
formed a secondary line Gables
were stretched along the sidewalks
around the House end to hold back
the crowd awaiting for a glimpse of
the President Barriers restricted
motorists at roads leading to the
grounds.
Guards demanded that persons
entering the Capitol display Gre
dentials. Representative Hoffman,
Republican, of Michigan was
stopped at the main House en-
trance shortly after 9 am. He told
the officer who halted him that
he did not have a card to the
building "and I don't need any"
Mr.. Hoffman brushed by and
swung through a revolving door
with the policeman in close pur-
suit. once inside, other guards
quickly identified the Michigan
member.
Galleries to the House, usually
open to the public, were locked,
with attendance limited to those re-
ceiving special permission.
There was a tense atmosphere
throughout the Capitol. Doors
leading from the Senate to the
House were barricaded so that only
those with passes could enter the
House wing to hear the President.
One hundred Metropolitan police
men were assigned to stand watch
along the route from the White
House to the Capital.
Movie cameramen we're on the
scene early, dragging spotlights
cameras and sound equipment up to
the House gallery to record another
momentous event in American his
tory.
The rotunda, usually filled by
milling crowd of tourists, was
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Oak land Schools Closed
As Air Raid Precaufion

BY the Associated Press.
OAKLAND, Calf, Dec. 8.-All
schools in metropolitan Oakland
were ordered closed today as an air
raid precaution on reports that 8
japanese airplane carrier may be
off the Pacific Coast
District Attorney Ralph Hoyt
chairman of the Oakland Civilian
Defense Committee, said his office
recommended the closing on ad-
vice from the Office of Civilian De.
fense in Washington.
Evening star., 1941-12-08
6. M. on War Busis

DETROIT, Dec. 8 lP).-General
Motors Corp. announced today that
all its plants working on defense
orders in the United States were
placed on full war status"
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Monchukuo in War

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 P).-The
German radio announced today that
Manchukuo had declared war on
the Unated States and Great Britain.
N. B. c. heard the broadcast.
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Lonq ThoiIund Frontier

While Thailand is smaller than
Colorado and New Mexico combined,
it has frontier of more than 1000
miles,
Evening star., 1941-12-08

The United States produces three
fourths of the sulphur supply of the
world.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Want Him Back After War.

However much the figures dis
agree. this fact is apparent-that
infants born at Sibley were dying
from some form of diarrheal dis
order during 1910 and other Wash
ington hospitals were relatively II
not completely free of the disease.
Termed an Epidemic.
Health Department officials term
what happened at Sibley this August
an outbreak of epidemic diarrhea
Of the newborn" Mr. Cromelin. on
the other hand, says "all hospitals
occasionally have case OF dlsentery.
We have had some cases"
Months before the actual out
break at Sibley, the death reports
were repeating last years pattern.
Diarrhea of the newborn is listed as
a cause of death of Sibley-born
children on March 18, April 10, June
6, July 10 and July 80 of this year.
On August %, 1941, a Children's
Hospital official called DR.. Open
heimer. Children's, he said, was
getting concerned over the number
of infants coming in from Sibley
with diarrhea of the newborn.
Didn't she think the Sibley nurs-
cry should be closed?
II Babies in One Nursery.
DR.. Oppenheimer found that Chill
dren's since August 9 had admitted
16 infants born at Sibley and Suf-
fering from diarrhea of the new
born. Another assistant was dis
patched to Sibley and returned with
the report that II babies were shar-
ing the same nursery, that number
of babies were feverish and that
there was evidence that something
was still going on
When DR.. Oppenheimer again
commented on the size of the nurs-
cry, she was told by Sibley President
John Orem, she says, that DR.. Cum
ming had approved the nursery
when it was being built.
The following day DR.. Orem called
the Health Department to say the
nursery had been closed-August 49,
Sibley, according to DR.. Open
heimer, is taking drastic measures
now to prevent recurrence of the
disease. One of the measures is the
breaking up of that general nursery
into smaller units.
On that score, Mr.. Cromelin said:
I'm accordance with the policy
that has existed for years, there are
various departments which are be-
ing painted now just as other por-
tions have been in the past. I don't
think this has any connection with
dysentery. 1t has been planned for
years to break up the nursery. The
logical tiras TO DO It would b when
i y slnGod.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Douglass Outlines
Program
For American j.
New President Replies
To McNutt Criticism
Of D. c. Colleges

American University stands ready
to refute any intimstion that
Washington is tagging in collegiate
education DR.. Paul F. Douglass de-
clared during convocation exercises
yesterday in the chapel. His re-
marks were in some measure a re-
ply to q statement by Paul V. Nc
Mutt, Federal security administrator
who urged creation of a great uni
versity system here by collaboration
of the existing institutions. Mr.
McNutt spoke Friday at the inau-
guration of the new president and
declared Washington needs an
educational revolution"
The youthful president of a young
seat of learning declared American
University faces the future with de-
termination. as he outlined the poll
cies for his administration He
stressed its teaching methods and
added they would combine modern
experimentation" with the classical
and religious traditions"
Flemming Is Speaker.
At football banquet of American
University and Swarthmore College
alumni held in the women's resi-
dence last night. Arthur Flemming
civil service commissioner, called on
the new president and American
students to hold to their basic con-
victions for the future. I'VE face
an international situation which
makes demands on the individual. p"
he added as he asked those present
TO think our way through the pres
ent crisis"
While Hitler's objective is enslave-
ment of the world, this theory of
world conquest is coming close to
home. he added. I'VE are closer to
losing the democratic process" he
said than at any time before. Mr..
Flemming then said this Nation is
close to total sacrifice needed for
defeat of Hitler. However. he eau
toned his hearers not to crack down
on those who failed to agree with
them.
w. Kenneth Hoover, a member of
the Board OF Trustees, was toast
master and introduced a number of
guests. including DR.. John w. Mason,
president of SWarthmore College,
whose football team yesterday de-
Evening star., 1941-10-12
BY EDDY GILMORE,

hsSoNiptcN L AcsS wal $O' AcopOiNchts
INVERNESS. Scotland. Oct. IL
A movement is gaining to sick the
famous Loeb Ness monster on Ger
man submarines.
AYE" said Robert MacBrayne
who looks as if he had lived along
the lake shore as long as the thistle,
he would be the proper laddie to
convoy ships. All he needs is a
little training"
The British Navy" buried Da-
vid Mackenzie. who lives near Fort
August on the lake shore. can do
anything. I am sure it could teach
the monster how to spot and de-
stroy Jerry submarines
There are only two bitches in the
plan
Who's going to catch the mon
ter?
2-How?
One might also append a scien-
tific inquiry as to the attributes
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Hospitals
Continued From Page abb

three different types of feeding. The
only constant factors were the fact
that all the water was boiled and
all the babies breathed the same
nursery air. They could find moth
ing.
In all, according to the pediatri-
clan in charge at the time, about &c
infants were stricken and two OF
three died The pediatrician said
nothing of this nature had occurred
at the hospital since then.
Garfield Hospital. too, was visited
by the disease several years ago
hospital officials said. Like most
Washington hospitals, Garfield keeps
it's nurseries small and just one
nursery was affected.
With a daily inspection of every
infant in the nursery, it was only a
matter of hours. before the sick
babies were discovered and promptly
isolated Despite the fact that only
three infants showed any signs OF
the illness, the nursery was closed
No one ever was able to find out
how it started, Garfield Official
said. but no more cases have oc-
CURED there since then.
Premature Nursery Affected.
Diarrhea of the newborn struck
the premature nursery at Gallingel
Hospital in August. After the first
two or three cases, Supt. Edgar Bo-
cock said, no more babies were ad-
mitted to the fourth floor, where in
fants requiring special care are
housed, as distinguished from the
well baby" nurseries on another
floor.
The closed premature nursery was
repainted and renovated and is now
back in service.
The victims were all premature
and DR.. Bocock thought it likely that
in several of the cases their hold on
life just wasn't strong enough to
carry them through, even If they
had not been stricken with diar-
rhea.
Questions about Sibley's expert
ence with diarrhea of the newborn
were referred by the hospital staff
to Paul B. Cromelin, chairman OF
the Hospitals Board of Trustees, at
torney and spokesman for the hos
pital.
Mr.. Cromelin was asked first about
cases of diarrhea of the newborn
at Sibley in 1910 because q reporter
had been informed that In the spring
Of 1910 q member Of the Children'l 4
Evening star., 1941-10-12

Hospital pediatric staff had tele-
phoned the Health Department that
infants who had been born at Sibley
and were suffering from diarrhea of
the newborn were coming into Chill
dren's at the rate of few almost
every month. Mr.. Cromelln SAID
he had no statement to make re-
garding last year.
Changes Suggested.
DR.. Ella Oppenheimer, chief OF
the Health Departments Bureau OF
Maternal and Child Welfare, said
she had received the call from Chill
dren's Hospital. She paid visit to
Sibley Hospital, she said, took a look
at the setup, suggested that the large
general nursery be divided into
smaller units and stationed an as
Sistant at the hospital.
The assistant studied hospital
records, compiled a mortality and
morbidity chart and by that time 1t
was the end of the year. The as
sistant took another position and no
formal report was ever made. De-
spite DR.. Oppenheimer'S suggestion,
the large nursery was not broken up.
The Health Department, however,
still has the 1910 study. 1t lists IA
deaths at Children's Hospital from
diarrhea of the newborn in Sibley-
born infants. The record also shows
that II other infants who had oc-
cupied the Sibley nursery were ad-
mitted to Childrens and discharged
cured.
Report Disagrees.
The Children's Hospital report
disagrees with these figures but con-
firms the fact that Sibley was not
free of the disease last year. Ac-
cording to this report, 19 infants
were brought into Children's Hos
pital suffering from diarrhea Of the
newborn in 1910 and nine of them
died
The 1910 report from the Bureau
of Vital Statistics lists six deaths
at Children's from diarrhea of the
newborn, four Of them Sibley-born
infants. In all, 9 of the IA deaths
recorded by the Bureau of Vital
Statistics from this cause last year
were Sibley-born infants. The four
infants under two weeks of age
whose deaths were listed in 1910
as caused by other gastro-intestinal
diseases were all Sibley-born.
Other statistics in the 1910 study
prepared for DR.. Oppenheimer state
that IL term" infants and 81 pre-
mature ones died at Sibley after
showing symptoms of the disease
and I'VE term" infants died at Sib-
ley after beinS readnadttsd because
oS dtsxri0a.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Officials Held in Theft
From Luborers' Union
By the Associated Press.

BY Lne ASsOCldttd PRESS.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 11.-Four officials
OF Local AZ of the A. F. of L. Hod
Carriers, Building and Common
Laborers Union were charged joint
" today with embezzlement of So
900 in a warrant issued by Acting
Circuit Attorney Henry G.. Morris.
Those named in the warrant were
Edward j. Hill, president Of the
local; Orville Golden, secretary
treasurer. and Business Agents Earl
Jenkins and Paul A. Hulahan.
A total shortage of $4,000 in the
funds of the union was reported by
Detective Sergt. Curtis Bostron.
He said Golden in a written state
rsent claimed two fake Internal
Revenue agents hi-jacked &4l 900 OF
the locals money on September 30.
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Loeb Ness Monster to Fight
Subs? WE'LL It's an Idea
Scots Want Him Back After War, However,
And Insist He Get Plenty of Rotons

or the very existence of the
storied creature. but this could
not be done automatically under
an Inverness dateline.
Want Him Back After War.
aye" ayed MacBrayne, I'VE could
do it all right. But it's a military
secret how We could do it. All We
want is the Admiralty's promise
they will keep the monster in rations
and return MIN to Loeb Ness after
the duration
The scene of this discussion was
a little pub nesting in the heather
on the lake. There the monster
always is a most popular topic and
when you couple the monster with
the war that's par for the con-
versational course
Meeting Alfred Barrie. this CORE
spondent relayed a rumor that the
monster had fed Loeb Ness for
Germany.
Where did you hear that?'
Barrie asked.
In Edinburgh"
"Lowland SANDER" he snorted.
The monster is as British as they
come"
Every one except the barkeep
chorused that Barrie was right. The
barkeep shouted that it was closing
time.
Disagree on Humps.
That's the trouble about the Loch
Ness monster-when the pubs close
he disappears.
The Loeb Ness monster has a way
of gaining in stature in pub diSser-
tations. No objective observer knows
yet whether the thing is fish. flesh
or foul Imagination. Some 1nVer-
ness commentators say the thing Is
creature with two unsightly
humps. 10 feet apart, but others
claim TO have counted as many as
six humps on a serpentlike animal
as long as a string of freight cars.
The Rev. Father Basil Wedge. a
monk of the Fort August Monastery,
leans to the scholarly hypothesis
that the lake is Inhabited by a
family of huge Plesiosaurus sur
vivals, and gives these specifications
for the monster:
Head-snake- like. with two horn
like projections. possible ears, a
name. Neck-8 feet. Is inches wide.
Body-short and thick, terminating
in a 10-foot tail. 2 feet wide. Legs
f1ippers in front and pair of short,
'claw-like legs behind.
Evening star., 1941-10-12

feated American, 20 to o. DR.. Mason
briefly spoke of intercollegiate and
national goodwill.
Social Intelligence Needed.
Earlier in the day. DR.. Douglass
declared at the convocation that if
the university fails to graduate stu
dents with participating social in
telligence" who will volunteer for
posts in their communities. it will
have failed utterly. However, he
added. American University contin-
ues to teach religious traditions nc
longer included in many curricula
Religion. he declared. still has a
strong position in the college educa-
ton.
AS a smaller institution. he point
ed out. American University is idea
to perfect human relationships be-
tween the teacher and student.
During the ceremonies, DR.. Doug
lass met representatives of other
educational institutions and socie-
ties present in the chapel. Intro
ductions were made by Bishop Adna
Wright Leonard, chairman of the
Board of Trustees A benediction
was given by Bishop Edwin Holt
Hughes, a trustee.
Evening star., 1941-10-12

An extensive program of improve
bent and Identification in the
suburbs of Panama City has just
been launched, the Commerce De-
partment reports.
Evening star., 1941-10-12

or the very existence of the
storied creature. but this could
not be done automatically under
an Inverness dateline.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-05
Piracy Charges
Face Ndzii Crew

International News Service Gable
MELBOURNE. Australia, Dec.
5.-Hope of finding survivors of
the Australian cruiser Sydney,
sunk in a battle with the German
auxiliary raider Kormoran. which
also went to the bottom, was Of
ficially abandoned today.
Survivors of the Kormoran,
picked up and brought TO Aus
tralia, may he treated as pirates,
il was announced.
Australian government authori-
ties hold that if the kormoran did
not run UP the German flag before
firing at the Sydney she was a
pirate ship and her personnel arc
not entitled TO treatment accorded
war prisoners. The investigation
is being continued.