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Evening star., 1942-05-31
British Ship Torpedoed
Off Seaboard, Killing
9 and Setting 72Adrift
Coptoin, Veteran Of Four
Sinkines, Shruss OFF
PeriIs as Port of Job
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, May 30.-Two
Axis torpedoes broke the back OF a
medium sized British cargo ship of
the Atlantic Coast May 10, killing
nine Lascar crewmen and sending
u survivors adrift in two GfeJoats
for So hours before they were res
cued, the Navy announced today.
The survivors were landed at an
other East Coast port and were
brought to Norfolk the night Of
May 27, leaving for New York the
next day before newsmen had an
opportunity to interview them. They
included % British and 40 natives
OF India.
Capt. Edward Cough told naval
officers the torpedoing was the
fourth he had experienced during
this war He shrugged them off and
said they were just part of the job.
Third Engineer William McGil-
livwry was severely scalded in the
ships engine room, where he was
on watch when the torpedoes
struck amidship. Describing the
engineers escape as miracle"
Capt. Cough said McGillivwry was
pinned against the ceiling of the
engine room by inrushing water.
The ship shifted, however, and the
engineer was able to get a little
breathing space and from there
fought his way TO safety.
McGillivwry was hospitalized at
the port to which the survivors
were first taken.
Capt. Cough praised the Lascars
for their behavior. This is the
fourth time l nave shipped with
a part-native crew and they are
all right, he said. They behaved
very well during the attack and
gave us not the slightest trouble
when it was necessary TO abandon
the ship"
Evening star., 1942-05-31
PART FIVE.
Poor Roomer Dies;
Wealth Is Discovered
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 30.-John Hitler,
81, who lived in apparent poverty.
died today.
The landlady of his modest ROOM
ing house reported he was several
weeks behind in his rent: that he
subsisted for two months on q star
vation level diet of thin soup and
crackers.
Detectives rummaging through his
effects found a bank book showing
a balance of $7,123, stocks Of two
mail order companies and the key Of
a safety deposit box which may con-
tain more wealth.
Evening star., 1942-05-31
American Soldiers
In Britain Honor
Dead Comrades
Memorial Rites Held
In Northern ireland
And London
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 30. - American
soldiers paused today in their prep
srations for battle on the European
continent to honor their comrades
who slready have lost their lives.
Over four new graves marked by
white wooden crosses at the foot
of one of the green hills of Northern
Ireland, company of infantry
fired salute, band played a dirge,
and a chaplain read a service for
the dead.
The graves were those of Corp.
Earl Perkins of Aitken. Mimi, and
Pvts. John Strause of st. Paul,
Ralph Helbling of Pittsburgh, and
Joseph Mickiewicz of Springfield,
Mass.
Services also were conducted in
each American camp in Ulster, while
nurses attended a special cathedral
service in Belfast.
Meanwhile, in London, wreatns
were laid at the Cenotaph, the
British World War memorial, and
at the statue of Abraham Lincoln
in Westminster.
A United States Army detach-
ment stood at attention at the Ceno-
taph and buglers sounded taps as
C. A. Hayden, commander of the
American Legion post, placed the
wreath. He was accompanied by
Maj Gen. James E. CLANCY, COM
mander of United States Army
forces in the British Isles; Rear
Admiral Alan c. Kirk, chief of staff
of United States naval forces in
Europe, and Brig. Gen. Robert A.
Mcclure, Military Attache.
Admiral Kirk and Gen. Mcclure
placed the wreath at the feet of the
Lincoln Statue on behalf of the
Women's Relief Corps.
we must be sure this time that
the gallant dead shall not have died
in vain" said Canon A. C. Don at a
service in st. Margaret's Church,
where United States Ambassador
John G. Wfnant joined in prayers.
We rededicate ourselves to sac
rif1ce and service" Mr.. Winant said.
Evening star., 1942-05-31
Senate's Vote Clears
Way in Mexico for
War DetIaration
President Is Left Free
To Proclaim HostiIities
Whenever He Chooses
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, May 30.-The
Mexican Senate cleared the deck
for war on the Axis today when
it unanimously authorized Presi-
dent Avila Camacho to declare
state Of war against GERMANY,
Italy and Japan and then ap-
proved a bill to suspend consti-
tutional guarantees and grant
him extraordinary powers to
mobilize the entire nation.
The Senate action, following the
unanimous war vote OF the Chamber
of Deputies last night. left Avila
Camacho free formally to proclaim
hostilities when ever he chooses. The
vote on both measures was So to 0.
The Senate Immediately adjourn
ed after session of nearly six
hours during which the principal
figures of the upper chamber de-
nounced the submarine torpedoing
Of two Mexican tankers 16 days
ago as a "cowardly crime" and
praised President Roosevelt as the
champion Of the ideals of liberty
and democracy In the world"
President Is Informed.
The Senate clerk reported both
approved measures would be re-
turned to the Chamber OF Deputies,
the house Of origin, to be trans
mitted as quickly as possible to the
President
President Avila Camacho was in
formed Immediately of the Senate
vote and he was expected to COM
plete his proclamation declaring
war for the first time in Mexico's
history either tonight or tomorrow.
Gen. Salvador Sanchez, chief of
the General Staf1, announced that
Supreme National Defense Coun-
Gil with President Avila Camacho
at its head was being established
Immediately to mobilize all the ma
tons resources and man power.
He said the detenses of both coasts
were being heavily reinforced and
that reorganization and stream
lining of the Army had started to
prepare Mexico to resist any at
tempt at invasion.
Reorganization to Take Year.
Gen. Sanchez said the reorganiza-
ton of the army would require a
year and added the high command
believed mo serious danger of in
vasion would develop within year"
However, strong units of the army
are being moved into positions on
the Gulf and Pacific coasts, he said.
The general said the army COM
mand would be centralized and new
units formed to handle the modern
weapons, planes and other arma-
merits now coming from the United
States.
Police Chief Miguel Martinez re-
ported that police would start regis
tering all foreigners in Mexico City
Monday.
He disclosed several persons had
been arrested for spreading alarm
ing rumors on the war situation
but had been released with warnings.
The Ministry of Interior Is en-
gagged in new registration and fin.
gerprinting of all foreigners in Mex
ico and further controls are expected
soon.
Evening star., 1942-05-31
Cos Pump Fire Hits
Naval Air Station

District firemen were called last
night to a fire at the Boiling Field
Naval Air Station, which they said
was confined to gas pumps" Thick
smoke was reported over parts of
AnacoStia near the field.
The fremen declined to give
further information or to estimate
the extent of the damage.
Evening star., 1942-05-31
Graduating at Pembroke

Miss Jean Hendricks, daughter of
Mrs. Thomas M. Hendricks, who be-
fore her marriage was Miss Eva l..
Moran of Hyattsville, Md, and
Washington, is among the 1912
graduates of Pembroke College,
Brown University. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hendricks live in Pawtucket, r. I.
Evening star., 1942-05-31

One summer day so years ago,
two Washington youths still In their
teens started to work. One took q
job In an art gallery, the other
became a clerk In q storage COM
pany.
Today c. Powell Minnigerode, who
took the art gallery job Just be-
cause the job was there and he
needed one, is the director of the
Corcoran Gallery OF Art, and Clar-
ence A. Aspinwall, the youth who
hitched his wagon to the storage
business. Is president of the Sc
curity Storage Co.
Tomorrow they will mark their
50th anniversary OF service to their
respective institutions and embark
on another year. AS far as they're
concerned. there will be no special
celebrations-just another days
work.
1t was on June /, 1892. that they
started their careers, and in terms
OF unbroken service Mr.. Minnige-
rode is certain he outstrips any
other art gallery director, and Mr..
Aspinwall probably tops his field,
too. When he started out the Sc
curity Storage Co. was just a de-
partment of the American Security
&, Trust Co, and it was something
rather new in the business world.
During the years Mr. Aspinwall has
been a prominent figure in chari-
table and cultural activities of
Washington.
Grown Up Together.
Mr.. Minnigerode and Corcoran
have grown up together since the
half century ago when the gallery
was located at the corner of Seven
teenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, where the Court of Claims
now stands. He has seen it move
from there in 1897 to its present
location. He became its assistant
director in 1904 and has been di-
rector since 1915.
Mr.. Aspinwall has seen several
additions made to his firms build
Ing since he started, but it is still
at the same location. ll40 Fifteenth
street NV. where he began work.
Il was the entire clerical staff
then he says.
Although their careers are in
different fields, Mr.. Minnigerode
and Mr.. Aspinwall have a common
problem today-how to safeguard
priceless paintings and other art
objects from destruction by bombs
II air raids should come.
Two floors of the storage firm
are filled with stored art works. It
is Mr.. Aspinwall's task to guard
them against destruction. On the
other hand, safeguarding the Cor
coran Gallery treasures is the most
important duty now of Mr.. Mimi.
gerode.
One precaution the Corcoran di-
rector has taken is to establish a
secret vault within 100 miles of
Washington, where the Rembrandts
and Titians and Rubens are locked
in vault outside the likely bomb
ing area. Some valuable works.
among them paintings by Joshua
Reynolds and Gainsborough, still are
on display. for, explained Mr.. Mimi
gerode, Il don't want to strip the
gallery"
Experienced Combination.
1t is an experienced combination
these two men make. Looking back
over his first so years in business,
Mr.. Aspinwall likes to recall the
acquaintances he had made in years
Of storing and moving household
and personal effects of Presidents,
Ambassadors, Supreme Court JUS
tices and many other famous per-
sonages.
On the walls of his Office are per-
sonally autographed pictures of
Presidents Theodore Roosevelt Taft
Evening star., 1942-05-31
Weather Report

tFurnih by :,
District of ColumbaNo today, With occasional
light thundershowers.
vrgna-Continued with few thundershowers in the
Maryand-Not quite war; wit a thundershowers
Evening star., 1942-05-31
Readers Guide
News Summary
The Sunday Star, May 81, 1912.
PART ONE,
PART ONE.

Foreign.
Nazis link parachutists to attack on
Heydrich. Page Al
Mexican Senate clears way for dec
laration of war. Page Az
British blast plants in Paris suburb,
smash enemy convoy. Page AS
National.
U. S. must help police world for
peace, Welles says. Page Al
New Deal Senators protest Hender-
sons hiring habits. Page Al
Sheppard bill may bring new prohi-
bltlon contest to fore Page A-3
U. S. benefits for civilian bomb
victims opposed. Page A
Washington ond Vicinity.
Survey of Districts travel habits
will start tomorrow. Page Alb
Miscellany.
Obituary. Page A-1s
Educational news. Page A 24-25
Jessie FAINT Evans. Page A-24
Travel and resorts. Pages A 26-27
PART TWO.
Editorial articles. Pages Bis
Editorials. Page b.
War review. Page B-3
John Glagett Proctor. Page b.
CIVIC news. Page B-6
Where to 60. Page B-7
PART THREE.
Sports and Finonce.
Sports. Pages CHS
Financial news. Pages C-6-7-s
PART FOUR.
Society.
Society. Pages Bis
Clubs. Page DIE
Garden news. Page Do
Fraternal and service news. Dill
Evening star., 1942-05-31

The Sun and Neon.
Rises. Gets,
sun tOQay O.4o h.ZN
Sun, tomorrow - 6:44 s:27
Moon, today - 1904 pm. III am.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-hah hour after sunset.
Preeipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
Evening star., 1942-05-31

The Sun and Neon.
Evening star., 1942-10-30
Riflemen Guard turkeys
As Public Demand Grows
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 3o.-Near
Topeka, Kans., turkey herders are
sleeping in the open, near their
high-roosting - and high-priced-
fiocks, keeping their rifles at their
sides.
They're watching. like other herd
ers all over the Midwest, for coyotes
and thieves who might steal the
birds that are pushing beefsteak off
daily dinner platters across the
Nation.
Wholesale poultrymen here said
everybody's eating more turkey
despite a price increase at Kansas
City from Is cents a pound to AZ
cents in one year.
1--WE sold more turkeys in July,
August and September this year
than we did in the holiday rush
of 194l,' said the manager of the
poultry division of one big packing
company. The demand, he said, is
up r1eary IS per cent from last years
figure.
The supply is holding up we'll,
however; 1912 production has nearly
equaled last years big crop.
Another wholesaler declared: ::
'There really Is small surplus of
turkey and other poultry and
doubt whether they'll ration it,"
Evening star., 1942-10-30
WPB to Rescind
Privote BuiIdinq
Ban, Boykin Says
Earlier Story on Page B-1,)

tEarIler story on rage B-l.)
BY the Associated Press.
Representative Boykin. Democrat,
of Alabama, said today he had been
assured the War Production Board
order hating the issuance of pri-
ority certificates for private home
building would be withdrawn by
Monday.
I'VE have a solemn promise that
the order stopping private building
will be rescinded tomorrow or Mon
day." Representative Boykin said.
He said he had conferred with
Ferdinand Eberstadt, vice chairman
Of the War Production Board: Fred
Searls, chief of the facility and
construction program branch; Sui
Ivan Jones, chief of the housing
branch, and John B. Blandford,
administrator of the National Hous-
ing Agency.
"A new agreement is being pre-
pared but will not be signed until
tomorrow or Monday" Representa-
tive Boykin said. But I feel sure
there Is no doubt about it and our
builders can go right ahead"
Before Representative Boykin's S
statement, congressional subcom-
mittee had voted to call high WIPE
officials to appear Monday and ex-
plain the stop order.
Evening star., 1942-10-30
7 Men Die, One Hurt
AS Gravel PIT Caves In
South Of Alexandria
Victims Are Believed
To Be Marines at
Work On Excavation

Two men were killed and at
least one was injured when a
gravel pit bank caved in this aft
ernoon on the dairy farm of S. E.
Ayres at Groveton, Va, about a
half-mile off the Washington
Richmond highway, three miles
south of Alexandria.
Mrs. Ayres said marines" from a
nearby airport had been engaged in
digging gravel in the 15-foot-deep
excavation for about a month. Two
of the men were killed and she saw
another walking around with blood
on his face, she said.
= 1t could not be learned immedi-
ately whether Navy or marine per-
sonnel was involved, but the Navy
Department here was checking on
names.
Capt. Edgar Sims of the Alex
andria Police Department, one of
the first to reach the scene, called
for DR.. T. B. McCord, Fairfax Coun-
ty coroner, and left word at his
headquarters that two men were
killed. =
The bodies had been removed
about an hour after the accident.
The gravel pit is on the Fort Hum
phries road.
Evening star., 1942-10-30
Unidentified Planes Cause
San Francisco Alert
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30.-The
San Francisco Bay area underwent
an hour and f1ve-minute alert to-
day at the approach of "unidenti-
fed planes"
During the alert planes swarmed
out over the San Francisco beaches.
The all clear was sounded when
"the unidentified planes were elm
mated as potential targets" an
Army conlmunique said.
Army officers declined to COM
ment on the absence of the usual
phraseology that the potential tar
gets were Identified as friendly y
Afraid warning sirens were not
sounded.
1t was the first alert here since
the bay area was under a 53-minute
preliminary warning. July %.
Today residents along the city's
beach could hear the throb of plane
motors as ships droned through the
high air.
Bay area radio stations left the
air at l0:43 am, followed five min
utes later by stations in Sacramento
Some of the San Francisco grade
schools sent their pupils home.
Evening star., 1942-10-30
Speedy Sinking
lOf Attacked Ship
costs Lives of 3
BY the Associated Press.


The Navy announced today that
a small Panamanian merchant ship,
torpedoed in the Atlantic of the
northern coast of South America
early in September, sank in less than
a minute, carrying eight of her
crew with her. There were q sur
vivorS.
The attack occurred in broad day.
light, Navy announcement said,
and the submarine was never
sighted.
The speed of the attack prevented
complete story of the sinking.
One Of the crew, asked how long 1t
took the men to abandon ship, re-.
piled: About 20 seconds"
The crew barely had time to jump
over the side, but two life RATS
broke loose as the ship went down
and the ~ survivors clambered ON
them.
They floated on RATS until noon
the following day, when they
reached an East Coast United States
port. The captain was one OF the
eight men missing.
The sinking raised to 500 the Asso.
ciated Press count Of announced
losses In the Western Atlantic sincf
December Z. l9l1. 81
Evening star., 1942-10-30
u. ). Pilots Tell Of Attack
On Nazi-HeId BeIqium
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 30.-The pilots
who led the American low-level
fighter plane attack yesterday on
tugboats and canal barges in Nazi-
occupied Belgium declared today
they dealt out "a lot of punishment"
although the action was too fast
for an accurate tally of the score.
The two flight leaders were Ca
nadians, Its. r. L. Alexander. of
Aylmer, Ontario, and James A. Good
son of Ontario, who transferred
from the Raj to the United States
Army Air Forces last month.
1t. Alexander said he spotted
five sets of six or eight barges EACH
and got in two bursts of cannon and
machine-gun fire on two tugboats'
while 1t. Goodson pounded on the
barges behind.
Reuters recorded a DNB broad
cast today reporting the Raj was
over a German coastal district, Hell
goland blight and occupied conti-
mental territory last night.
Evening star., 1942-10-30

Unit 10 Promote Use
OF Rail Facilities
ODT Creotes Group
To Study Monpower
And Training Problems
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Organization of a joint rail-
road-labor-management confer
ence to promote maximum use of
railroad facilities in the war ef-
fort was announced today by
Joseph B. Eastman, director of
the Office of Defense Transpor-
tation.
The committee is similar to labor
management committees which have
been set up in the War Production
Board for war factories.
Mr.. Eastman said the group was
organized at conference yesterday
and will hold its first formal meet
ings November 26.
Through this conference" Mr..
Eastman said, "a means is provided
ODT for a systematic consultation
which is both desirable and neces-
sary in developing and carrying out
wartime policies. The problem of
railway manpower and training will
be at the top of the agenda which
will be prepared in advance for the
next meetings"
Management representatives are
M. w. Clement, president Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad; E. w. Scheer,
president of the Reading Railway
System: j. B. Hill, president of the
Louisville e. Nashville Railroad; E..
E. Norris, president of the Southern
Railway System: H. w. Baldwin,
chief executive officer Of the Missouri
Pacific Lines, and c. L. Denney,
president of the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
Labor representatives are David
B. Robertson, president of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen; George NJ. Harrison,
president of the Brotherhood of
Railway and Steamship Clerks;
Samuel J. Hogan, president of the
National Marine Engineers Bene-
fetal Association; B. M. Jewell,
president of the Railway Employees
Department, American Federation of
Labor; A. F. Whitney, president of
the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, and Julius Luhrsen, secretary
of the Railway Labor Executives
Association.
Evening star., 1942-10-30
Pennsylvania Woman Kills
Invalid Husband and Self

By the Associated Press.
CHELTENHAM, Pa, Oct. 25.-
Mrs. Blanche Bowman, so, and her
60-year -old invalid husband, Frank,
were found shot to death in their
home in this Philadelphia suburb
today.
Police Sergt. Walter Fink said
Mrs. Bowman apparently shot her
husband early yesterday, went for
an automobile ride in the afternoon
and took her own life with the same
pistol at am. today.
In Mr.. Bowmans room was a note
saying, II shot Mr.. Bowman early
Thursday. Be sure to bury him in
his gray suit I couldn't take care
of him any longer"
A second note in Mrs. B6wman's
room, said, 1T Is now / am. Fri
day. I have my velvet dress laid out
for my funeral. Now I'm going to
kill myself"
Evening star., 1942-10-30
Rail Executive Asks 0DT
To Grant Court Hearino
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
George P. McNear. jr., president
OF the Toledo, Peoria & Western
Railroad, asked Joseph B. Eastman,
director of the Office of Defense
Transportation, today to agree to a
hearing of the roads problems by a
special referee named by the senior
Judge OF the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals at Chicago.
The American people who are
becoming concerned about the con-
duct of this war have a right to
know the true facts about the wastes
OF manpower, motive power equip
ment and materials on our railroads
due to featherbed rules" Mr.. Nc
Near said in a statement which an.
nounced his request to Mr.. Eastman,
Mr.. McNear's line was taken over
by the Government last March after
a dispute over labor questions.
Evening star., 1942-10-30
D. {. War Fund
Total Reaches
$1,2S6,889
Almost One-Third
Of Goal Raised;
SibIey, Allen Speak

Bringing in $156,924.12 in new
subscriptions today, the Com
munity War Fund campaign
leaders at their third report
luncheon at the Willard Hotel
sent the total figure to $780,
889.33, which is 31.07 per cent of
the goal of $4,141 900.
The report by units follows:
Government until 1896 givers,
$115,482.56 today, for a total of
62,682 givers, $631, 1892, which is
30.57 per cent of the unit goal OF
s2.o65, 900.
Group Solicitation Unit i 1,645
givers, $24,036.25 today, for total
Of 2,2O9 givers, $402 ,605.91, .33 per
cent Of goal of 81 1,285 900.
Metropolitan Unit-872 givers, ST.
405.31 today, for a total of 2,945
givers, $3.50, ,604.50, which is 32.44 per
cent of the goal of $791 900.
Sibley Appeals for Support.
Harper Sibley, vice president of
USO, made an appeal for support OF
the welfare and war agencies, par
ticularly the USO, and the War
Prisoners Committee of the Inter-
national YMCA.
Today was observed as newspap per
day at the luncheon, when Bruce
Allen, campaign vice chairman, paid
high tribute to the contribution
made by the press of the city, not
only in advertising and news space,
but also in cash. Representatives
of the four papers were introduced
to the gathering from the head
table.
The next report meeting will be
Monday, when Chairman Floyd D.
Akers, hopes to roll up the sub
scriptions to a s2,000,000 total at
the halfway mark in the campaign.
$500 Give s1,21o,5s6.
The totals chalked up yesterday
were: $500 givers, 81, ,210,536.74 sub
scriptions, which is 1928 per cent OF
the total goal OF $4,141 900.
The Navy Department was hon.
ored during yesterdays luncheon tor
its remarkable feat Of turning in
subscriptions totaling. $257, ,079. 40,
which IS 1863 per cent OF its goal OF
$175,000. The report by Capt. G. A.
Epbank pointed out that these fig
ures did not include the Navy Yard,
(See WAR FUND, Page A-9)