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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-26

Total construction in the United States will approximate Ills billion dollars this year compared with l0.8 billion in 194l
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-26
PAN AMERICAN
 OFFICIAL HERE

N. H. McDowell, Pan American Airways official has arrived from his Seattle headquarters on busi- ness with the company office here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-26
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow, Iones averages: industrials 1925, rails 2515, utilities 11.62.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-26
 TAXES JOB
 WITH FORD
flier Will Be Employed df Willow Run Air.
 plane Plant


 DETROIT, March 26 Harry Bennett, Ford Motor Company per- sonnel director, has announced that Charles A. Lindbergh will go to work at Ford's new Willow Run airplane plant
 He said the War Department ap- proved the move but did not specify what Lindbergh's duties would be. Henry Ford offered the flier the job yesterday after Lindbergh had in- spected the plant.
 RUMMAGE SALE
 By Am. Legion Aux Friday in the Dugout, starting 10 am.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-26
RUMMAGE SALE

By Am. Legion Aux. Friday in the Dugout, starting 10 am.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-26

Wild pigs in China produce the best bristles for paint brushes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-26
J0EE.B0WN,
 MOVIE STAR, I5 IN JUNEAU

(Continued from Page One)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-26
JAPAN NOW THREATENS
 CALCUTTA 4

(Contmued from Page One)
Evening star., 1942-08-02
Federal Agents Seize
81 Aliens CIassed
As Dangerous
jap With AIeution Charts
Among Those Arrested
In New York
By the Associated Press.

oy tHS AS6OClACSQ 1EeSS.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation
today announced the seizure of
81 dangerous" enemy aliens, in
Guiding a Japanese who had
maps Of Pacific air and sea dis
tances and navigation charts Of
the Aleutian Islands.
In contrast to previous arrests
here, p E. Foxworth, assistant di-
rector of the FBI, used the word
dangerous" in describing the aliens.
The group, composed of 66 Germans,
Is Italians and six Japanese, was
arrested in raids yesterday in the
Metropolitan Area.
All were taken to Ellis Island for
internment hearings.
FBI agents quoted the Jap who
had the maps as saying:
Il want to see Japan win the war.
I would not fight against the Japa-
nese under any circumstances. NV
Emperor, Hirohito, Is a good man.
He is my ruler and I must obey
him"
Mr.. Foxworth said that this man
was a leader of Hokoku- Dan, which
the FBI officials described as a
Fascist-type Japanese imperial serv-
ice group. 1t was formed in this
country three years ago and was
(See ALIENS. Page AL
Evening star., 1942-08-02
Chandler Is LEADING
Kentucky Opponent
By Wide Margin
Robson Having Closest
Race of Stute's Nine
House Members
By the Associated Press.

LOUISVILLE, KY. Aug. l.
Senator A. B. Happy" Chan
dler's lead over his opponent,
John Young Brown of Lexington,
in today's Democratic primary,
continued to climb tonight.
Unofficial returns from 1892 of
Kentucky's 4,375 precincts gave Sen
ator Chandler 1O2,378 and Mr..
Brown 42,435.
Vote Of Confidence.
At Versailles Senator Chandler
said he was pleased with the vote
of confidence which I asked for and
received" He added that he was
particularly pleased with the vote
in his home precinct which showed
LOT votes for him to % for Mr..
Brown. ..-
Mr.. Brown declined to make any
statement tonight. but said he
would have one Monday.
Senator Chandler said he would
leave for the West Coast Sunday
night to join a group of Senators
in a military inspection trip to
Alaska.
In the Republican primary with
1858 precincts reported, Richard j.
Colbert of Lexington had 11,046
votes; G. Tom Hawkins of Praise,
1884; Hector johnson Of Mckee,
1899 and Charles B. Gambler of
Somerset, 5,206.
While all nine of Kentucky's
Representatives were up for re-
nomination, the closest contest ap-
peared to be between Incumbent
John M. Robsion of Barbourville,
the States only Republican member
of Congress, and Eugene Siler, Will
liamsburg attorney, in the ninth
district. Four of the eight Dem
ocratic Representatives were without
opposition.
In the ninth district returns from
Sc OF total of 615 precincts gave
Mr.. Robsion 1854 to Mr.. Siler's ,238.
In the second congressional dis
(see KENTUCKY, Page A-8)
Evening star., 1942-08-02
IS to 40 War Dept. Employees
Stricken by Food POISONING

Between IS and 40 employees Of the
temporary War Department build
ings at Second and v streets S.W.
were stricken with food poisoning
yesterday afternoon.
Rushed from their work in am
balances, taxicabs and automobiles
the victims were treated at six hos
pitfalls throughout the city. Fifteen
persons were Ill enough to be ad-
mitted. Nine others were given hos
pital treatment and sent home. The
remaining victims were treated at
home. None was in a serious con-
dition, however.
The District Health Department
began an investigation Immediately.
DR.. James G. Cunning, District
epidermologist, said last night the
exact cause of the poisoning had
not been determined.
All of those stricken reported eat
ing lunch yesterday In the tenn
porary buildings. According to an
omcial there, two canteens and 4
cafeteria are operated In the build
Evening star., 1942-08-02
5 Children Return From Movie
To Find Mother Dead of Gas

The Walters children never miss
the Saturday serial at the neighbor-
hood movie, and yesterday they
were there when the doors opened.
Their mother, Mrs. Marie Walters,
had allowed even the youngest of
the five. 3-year-old Jimmy, to 20
to the show.
The group sat through the double
feature twice so it wasn't until
after 3 pm. that they got back to
their home at 1910 L street NE.
They tried to open the front
door, but is was locked. Their
mother didn't answer their knocks.
Dolores, who is u and the Oldest
looked in the front window.
She saw her mother lying on the
floor In the hallway between the
living room and the kitchen of the
little house. The cries OF the
children brought a neighbor from
across the street, Edward Mcdaniel,
23, who smelled gas.
The neighbor broks open the
Evening star., 1942-08-02
Heat Remains Today;
Showers May Come

Washington area weather today
promises to be much like yesterday S
scattered thunder storms during
the afternoon and little change in
temperature.
This means that the temperature
will range between 80 and 30. 1t
also means that prudent picnickers
and others enjoying the outdoors
will carry raincoats.
The high recorded yesterday was
o. degrees at 1852 pm. 1t had fallen
to 80 degrees at $50 pm. A mild
case Of heat prostration was re-
ported by police. Albert H. Smith,
rs, of 1882 Van Ness street NV,
was removed from the Riggs Ma
tional Bank branch at Wisconsin
and Warren avenues NV. to
Georgetown Hospital. He was sent
home after receiving treatment.
While the July rain deficiency
was only 40 of an inch. the 1912
precipitation here is still 6.96 inches
below normal rainfall. the Weather
Bureau said.
A bolt of lightning last night SET
fire to a barn containing 80 tons OF
hay on the John Knight farm, 2
miles from Rockville, Nd, on the
Potomac road.
The entire barn and contents
were destroyed and damage was
estimated by police at about $1,000
Evening star., 1942-08-02

ings. Physicians at the hospitals
said many OF the victims told of
eating ham sandwiches.
Forty-six nurses at Gallinger
Hospital were stricken with pto-
maine poisoning in June from food
served them at the institution, al
though the exact cause was never
determined. This was the greatest
number of cases reported in the
District this year. Yesterdays out
break, according to the Health De-
partment, was the fifth this year.
With the exception OF these two,
the others were of minor nature.
Employees in the three buildings
first complained OF feeling i'll around
3 pm. When the dispensaries be-
came overcrowded with patients,
victims were rushed to hospitals.
An Emergency Hospital ambulance
alone carried fve victims ut one
(eeS FOOD POISONING, Page Az
Evening star., 1942-08-02
Lady Astor Says Russia
Fights for Self, Not Britain

By the Associated Press.
SOUTHPORT, England, Aug. L.
Lady Astor, Virginia born member
OF the House of Commons, told a
United Nations demonstration here
today that she is grateful to the
Russians, but they are not fighting
for us. They are fighting for them
selves"
After the battle of Britain it was
America who came to our aid," she
went on. THE Russians at that time
were allies of Germany and it is
only now that they are facing the
Germans that they have come into
the fight.
ITO hear people talk you would
think they came to us in our own
dire need. Nothing of the kind. It
was America and don't you forget
it,"
She added that if the United
States had withheld help when she
was neutral I'VE should never have
carried on the war;
Evening star., 1942-08-02
Trade of Interned JOBS
For Americans Urqed
az the Ascnciotcd DraSe

By the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. Tx
change of interned Pacific Coast
alien Japanese for Americans held
as prisoners of war by Japan was
urged today by the Oregon depart
ment of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
In a telegram to Secretary Hull,
Dept. Comdr. Herman E. Lafky
said:
1--WE urge that all possible steps
be taken to effect early exchange of
Japanese enemy aliens in this coun-
try for American service men held
prisoners OF war by Japan. Gov
ernors Of Pacific Coast States are
being urged to JOIN In expedittns
this matter"
Evening star., 1942-08-02
Bond PIeu From Germany

NEWBURYPORT, Mass, Aug. /
H1.-A coded plea that Americans
VIII ouy many war bonds and
stamps came today from q former
"A merlcan volunteer ambulance
driver now In German concentra-
ton camp in France,
On February 10, his fathers birth.
oay anniversary. the son wrote !
postcard. one line Of which reaa.
Hope tho stand IN front of ths
posi- once y doing . runhtng busi-
ness
Evening star., 1942-08-02
Radio Programs Poee E-3
Complete Index Poqe Az

front door, held the children back,
while another neighbor called the
Casualty Hospital ambulance and
the Fire Rescue Squad.
Every gas jet on the stove and the
oven burner had been turned on.
The flremen worked over the 38-
year-old mother for some time, but
they knew it was hopeless before
her husband. Paul Walters, came
home from his Job at Union Station.
The coroner issued a certificate
OF suicide. It was easy to see what
had happened. Mrs. Walters, who
neighbors said, was expecting an
other child, had sent her children
out OF the house, locked all the
doors, sat for few minutes at the
kitchen table and then turned on
all the burners.
Spread out on the table were the
pictures Of Dolores, Barbars, Diclrie.
Theresa and Jimmy. her i've
children
Evening star., 1942-08-02
Nazis Fan Out Advance rs Miles
Below Don River; Russians Link
With Sta|ingrad Is |mperi|ed
SoIsk and Kushchevku Areas
Reached by Enemy; Reds
Make Counteruttucks
~ the Associated Press.

MOSCOW Sunday, Aug 2-German troops tanning out into
the Western reached the Ssk Kushchevka
IS and SO miles below the Don River which threat
Soviet communications with Salngrad in the east the
Sovets acknowledged early today
Rostov apparently
S
junction the Stalngrad Krasnodar railroad.
slightly the
said fighting
dozen
destroyed"
Kuhchevka northwest of Salsk, is the RoovBaku railway
which
claimed the of Salsk
stangrad Kranodar railway had broad fron
Only the Saingad itself did the Russians
Stalngrad
the Soviet witstood
counteraacked."
Russians
Evening star., 1942-08-02
Cut in West Virginia
Coal Output Rate Seen
81 tfe Associated Press.

6y ABsOCldlSu TIeSs.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Aug. L.
The attraction of jobs in war in
dustries for skilled miners may well
have an acute effect on coal pro-
duction" in West Virginia before the
end of 1912, the State Chamber OF
Commerce said today.
AS result. the chamber said, the
gain in the States coal output over
194l will probably become less than
10 per cent by the years end"
Coal production for the first six
months was 25.8 per cent ahead of
1941, but the mines were closed dur
ing April, 194l. because OF the APP
palachian wage negotiation stale
mate.
Coal mining, the States leading
industry, now employs m average
Of 125,000 workers, the chamber
said.
Evening star., 1942-08-02
Smith Will Defeat
Dawson by2z 10 |,
Supporters Claim
Labor Candidate Counts
On Influx of Workers
In Primary Tuesday
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Representative Howard w.
Smith, marked for slaughter by
organized labor in Virginia's
Democratic primary on Tuesday,
is expected to be renominated.
Democratic nomination to the
House in Mr.. Smiths district,
the eighth, is tantamount to re-
election. Only a major political
upheaval could cause Mr..
Smiths defeat-and that is not
in sight.
The AFL and the CIO have both
rallied in big way to the support
of Mr.. Smiths opponent in the
primary, Emmett C. Dawson, a for
mer mayor of Alexandria and at
present secretary-treasurer of the
AFL International Machinists'
Union. A ''labor's committee for
Emmett C. Dawson" has been set up.
The Railroad Brotherhoods have
jumped into the fray and sent a
special edition of their national
organ, Labor" into the district
which is being widely distributed.
Labor's No. l Target.
Mr.. Smith is organized labor's No.
l target in the House of Represen-
tatives. He is the author of several
bills and amendments to other bills,
particularly his so-called anti-strike
bill, which cause the labor leaders
to see red. The House, by ma
jority vote, passed in the last Con-
gress Mr.. Smiths bill amending the
Wagner Labor Relations Act In the
present Congress the House also
passed Mr.. Smiths anti-strike bill,
to curtail work stoppages in war
plants. Both bills struck snags in
the Senate. He also offered an
amendment to the war powers bill
to suspend for the duration of the
war the 40-hour work week laws
and to limit profits in war plants to
6 per cent.
Mr.. Smiths defeat in the coming
primary, If it could be accomplished,
would be a political feather in the
cap of organized labor. Further
more, it would be a weapon in the
hands of labor representatives in
their future dealings with Congress.
Mr.. Smith is by no means the only
member of Congress for whom or
ganized labor is cunning in this
years elections. The whole effort
is to show the power of the labor
vote for the effect it will have on
the legislators in both the present
and the succeeding Congress.
Unions Supported Dodd.
-Four years ago, Mr.. Smith was
the target of the Democratic New
Dealers, because of his opposition
to some of the administrators
policies. At that time youthful Will
liam E. Dodd, jr.. son of the late
Ambassador to Germany, was put
forward as candidate to take the
measure of the veteran Mr.. Smith.
Mr.. Dodd at that time had the
support of organized labor in large
part, too. Mr.. Smith carried all Is
counties in the district and both
cities, Charlottesville and Alexan-
Continued on Page AS, Column i
Evening star., 1942-08-02
Huge Fires Started
Al Dusseldorf by
RATS Raiders
'CeuseIess Rain Of
Missiles Hammers
industrial City
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Aug. 1.-The RAF
scourged the Rhineland NUM-
tions city Of Dusseldorf last
night with $50 two-ton block
buster bombs and a great weight
of other explosives and incendia-
ries in concentrated 5O-minute
attack probably without destruc-
tive precedent in aerial warfare.
The usually reserved Air Ministry
announced the raid was made in
very strong force and added that
the deluge of destruction was a
"ceaseless rain" of bombs and fire.
settlers.
Smoke billowed up almost four
flfths OF mile from the industrial
plants crushed under the weight of
the two-tonners and daylight recon-
naissance found fires still burning
in the city of $4,000 population in
midday.
The number of planes was not
speclfled beyond the mention Of a
great number of ur-motored Lam
caster bombers as well as a great
force of all other types of heavy
and medium bombers.
500 to 1000 Planes.
But from the announced loss OF
81 British planes it can be guessed
that there were hundreds partici-
pating, perhaps somewhere between
500 and 1000.
Dusseldorf is heavily defended
against air attack, being a Nazi
arsenal OF prime Importance, but
the ground gunners and searchlight
(See RAIDS, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-08-02
u. S. Launches
II Ships in July
To Set Record
Baltimore Leads
Production by
Delivering II

Another worlds record in ships
delivered for the anti-Axis supply
lines was made by United States
shipbuilders who delivered II cargo
ships and tankers during July, the
Maritime Commission announced
yesterday.
The individual honors went to the
Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard, Inc,
in the Fairfield suburb of Baltimore,
which delivered II ships during the
month. The yard is engaged ex-
clusively In the construction of the
Liberty-type ships, formerly known
as the ugly Ducklings."
OF the total, 50 were emergency
Liberty type, while four were c
type, which are part of the long
range program started to increase
the American merchant marine long
/c.. 4 yT1y~ITTNY~0 -
Evening star., 1942-08-02
One Killed and Il Injured
In Paris Food Store Riot
By tie Associated Press.

b TIE Associated Press.
V1CHY, Unoccupied France, Aur.
1.-One Frenchman was killed and
II persons were injured. including Z
German soldier and two French po-
licemen, in Paris during q food
store riot which authorities blamed
on "a Communist woman speaker"
a dispatch from the occupied capital
said tonight.
The riot was said to have occurred
at Avenue Orleans and Rue Da-
guerre when police sought to stop
the woman from speaking and dis
tributing tracts.
Three young men accompanying
her fired 20 shots. The German
soldier and one French policeman
were shot. The second French po-
liceman, who was not expected to
live. suffered seven bullet wound,
IN the chest and abdomen.
Evening star., 1942-08-02
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

~~~'AA~O - - ANH W oANs
The gravity of the officiating
prospect for next winter was
brought home to the East yester-
day by President Roosevelt, who
said that the petroleum shortage
was so serious that there can be
no guarantee of enough oil to
meet even minimum needs this
winter.
Mr.. Roosevelt made the statement
In message to Petroleum Co.
ordinator Ickes launching the Gov
ernment and industry campaign to
convert oil burners to coal and to
institute conservation measures in
homes where conversion is i'm
possible.
In an accompanying message
directed to fuel dealers, Mr.. Ickes
declared that the prospect was that
sellers supplies would be substanti-
ally restricted and there may be
some days when both you and your
customers will be completely without
fuel and heating OIL"
Mr.. Ickes further warned that the
supply next winter may be SO short
that deliveries may have to be re-
fused to any customer who is able
to convert but who has not done so.'
Jones Promises Help.
Meanwhile. help was promised oil
burning home owners in an an
nouncement by Secretary OF Com
merce Jones that an RFC subsidiary
had agreed to finance an extensive
barge conversion and construction
program designed to provide add1-
tional facilities for transporta ton Of
oil to the East by inland waterways.
The program is designed to make
available by this winter delivery Of
$4,000 barrels of additional oil daily
to the Eastern Seaboard. It calls for
conversion of existing steel dry
cargo barges into tank barges. The
Governments Inland Waterways
Corp. and private carriers are eA-
pected to furnish the steel barges
for conversion. These would be re-
placed by tug boats, tanker and dry
cargo barges to be constructed with
wooden hulls.
Other developments yesterday on
the heating front were:
!. A reduction of price Of fuel oil
to the consumer in Washington and
Continued on Page AS, Column u
Evening star., 1942-08-02

MlUWdy UcCWccll GllC NCSICIA Sdu->
casus and Stalingrad the Russians
said their troops still were trying to
erase Nazi bridgeheads on the Don
at Tsimlyansk, 120 miles upstream
from Rostov.
Heavy fighting continues" the
communique said of that sector.
I'm one attack the enemy lost 800
killed and IL tanks were destroyed"
The drive from Bataisk to Kush-
chevka represented 35-mile Nazi
advance. Another Nazi gain of
equal distance would put the Ger
mans into Tikhoretsk, which also is
the apparent goal Of the Nazls now
battering at Salsk.
Cossacks and Marines Join In.
Cossacks and Soviet Marines
Joined the Red Army in the effort
to stop the German flow southwark
from the Don. But the Nazi ad-
vance raised the imminent posi-
bility of an additional German
broadside directed from the Crimean
Peninsula just few miles of the
Caucasian mainland.
Press dispatches said a heaving
mass of men, tanks, dive-bombers,
artillery and Russian Cavalry was
fighting on the fertile west Cau-
casian plains. There was frequent
hand-to- -hand fighting.
The 550-mile curving Russian
southern front now runs from the
Kushchevka area through Salsk and
other points on the north Causa-
sian rail system to the east, leaps
the Don somewhere beyond Tsim-
lyansk, and then ziglzags along
the Upper Don to the voronezh
sector.
At the latter point in the north
the Soviets announced their troops
were consolidating captured posi-
tions, and hurting back Axis coun-
terattacks south Of Voronezh.
But II was obvious that Hitler's
desperate gamble to seize the oil
and mineral deposits of the Cau-
casus, to split the central and
southern Red Armies, and block
Allied supplies from the Middle
East, was making steady headway.
Eight Attacks Beaten OFF.
In the Kletskaya area Of the Don
River elbow, the Russians said they
beat of eight Nazi attacks, killing
nearly 1000 Germans and destroy
ing eight Nazi tanks. One Soviet
tank unit also broke through the
German. positions in one sector to
destroy long truck column of am
munition, the Russians said.
The German drive into the West
ern Caucasus developed in three di-
rections: Directly south of Bataisk
along the railway to Baku, south
east OF the city, and new offensive
along the Sea of Azov.
The marines and shore batteries
were reported to have turned away
the attacks along the sea. The main
(see RUSSIAN, Page ABB
Evening star., 1942-08-02
zoning Commission
Opens A-Areas 10
Rooming Houses
Strict Regulations
To Surround BOARDING
Places, However

In move designed to ease the
housing shortage in Washington,
the District Zoning Commission
decided yesterday to authorize
wartime use Of private dwellings
in restricted areas as boarding
and rooming houses.
Ending a long controversy over
the question of housing war workers
In private homes in restricted zones,
the commission announced adoption
OF an amendment to the zoning reg
ulations to permit such wartime use
under definite stipulations.
The new rule will open up for
such operations private dwellings in
the "A" restricted and "a" semi
restricted zones, provided approval
Is given by the Board OF Zoning
Adjustment in each case. The board
must find that the use proposed
will not have a tendency to blight
permanently the restricted charac-
ter Of the neighborhood."
Fire Escape Stipulation.
In line with this proviso, the
new regulation also stipulates that
boarding and rooming houses use
in the restricted zones shall not be
permitted If such use would re-
quire erection of exterior fire es-
capes under already existing law.
Furthermore, any such permits is
sued are to terminate within one
year after cessation OF the war, and
the applicant for permission to es-
tablish boarding and rooming house
uses is required to make an uncon-
ditional statement that within q
year after the war ends, all such
uses Of the building or part of the
building will cease. Also, the ap-
plicant must state that he recog-
nizes that any such use thereafter
in such areas will be illegal and sub
Ject him to penalties provided by
the zoning code.
Made Half Way Step.
Last December, the zoning Com
made halfway step in the
direction of opening private homes
to war workers when it changed its
ruling to permit housing of up to
four paying guests in private dwell
ings In restricted zones. Afterwards,
there developed a question as to
whether the housing of an addi-
tional number Of persons in private
homes should be permitted and, if
so, by zoning rulings or by change
in the law.
The problem found its way to
Capitol Hill when Representative
Cochran, Democrat, of Missouri
asked Corporation Counsel Rich
mond B. Keech to draw bill under
(See ZONING, Page A-4.)