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Evening star., 1942-07-26
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Evening star., 1942-03-09
Merrimuc Anniversary
HeruIds New Navy Era

NORFOLK, Va, March 9.-The
ineffective crash Of cannon balls
against the armor plate Of the Mer-
rimac and the Monitor on March .,
1862, found a distant echo today,
80 years later, in the tumult OF
building ''ironclads" of another age.
No formal observance Of the an
niversary of the battle between the
Confederate and Union ships in
Hampton Roads was planned, but
the date served to recall the begin
ming of a new era in naval con-
xtruction which has brought forth
the mighty warships Of today.
Evening star., 1942-03-09
Wheat Shipment 10 Leave
Lisbon Soon for Greece

sy Cable to The Star.
LONDON. March "a first ship
ment of 5000 tons of wheat to
relieve the Greek famine will shortly
leave Lisbon for Athens aboard the
Swedish steamer Helleren.
The steamer has been chartered
by the British government and safe
passage has been secured from the
Axis through the International Red
Cross, a Swiss organization. Con-
trary to earlier reports, the wheat
has been paid for by the Greek
government in London and the role
of the Red Cross has been purely
that of an obliging intermediary.
This shipment Is expected to be
the first of several and the British
governments decision to arrange it
constitutes q definite but qualified
relaxation of the blockade policy.
1t has been taken, first, because
Greece is in far worse plight
than any of the other occupied
countries and, secondly, because the
Greeks have no industry worth
mentioning working for the Axis.
The British have no intention of
making similar relaxation in cases
of other occupied countries and pro-
tests which can be expected from
France and Belgium, duly prompted
by Berlin, will fall on deaf ears.
(Copyright, 1912. by Chicaso Daily NewsD
Evening star., 1942-03-09
Biggest Taxpaying
Week Starts Today;
Il Billion Expected
Rush Begins Here;
Interest on Defense
Bonds Worries Mony
BY the Associated Pfsss.

BY the Associated Pfsss.
The biggest taxpaying week in
American history began today, and
by . week from tonight Is expected
to bring $2,750,000,000 into the
Treasury.
The deadline for filing individual
and corporation income tax returns
on 104l earnings will be midnight
next Monday, since March IS, the
usual last day, comes on Sunday.
More than 22,000, 900 individuals,
including at least 100000 who
never filed one before, will be re-
quired to meet the deadline.
Millions Are Concerned.
At the tax window. either literally
or by mail, will be not only the
banker and the butcher, but also
millions of common laborers, includ-
ing some w. p. A. workers. Every
unmarried person who averaged SIS
Q week or more and every married
person who average at least $50 a
week last year must file a return.
Several million persons on the bor-
derline will have to file returns, but
won't owe any tax.
This weeks tax payments are ex-
pected to be more than double what
they were q year ago. Better earn
ings-largely due to the defense pro-
gram-lower exemptions and higher
tax rates are the reason.
Since then, exemptions have been
cut from $500 to $3.50 for single per-
sons and from $4,000 to $500 for
married persons. In some cases the
rates are three or four times higher.
too.
Hundreds In Line Here.
Income taxpayers here who had
struggled over the week end with
their accounts, poured into the office
of the deputy collector OF internal
revenue today by the hundreds.
More than 800 persons had passed
through the door up to 10 am, to
get help from experts in making out
their returns. Hundreds more had
gone through the back door" to
pay their tax.
The Office, at Twelfth street and
Constitution avenue NV. will be
open until pm daily this week,
according to A. P. Rasin, deputy
collector in charge. There are about
200 experts available to help the
public.
One question that has been
troubling taxpayers concerns the
accrued interest on defense bonds.
The interest on Government bonds
has been taxable since March l,
ls4l, under special act of Con-
gress There are no more new tax
exempt Federal securities.
Evening star., 1942-03-09
War Seen Reducing
GAGS About BROOKLYN

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 9-Well,
says Sidney H. Ascher. president
of the S. P. D. r. A. B., the war
has done one good thing. anyway
people are too busy razzing the
Axis to take time out for poke at
the borough"
Last year, says Mr.. Ascher. Brook
lyn, the worlds fairest community"
was "viciously slandered and libeled
6,457 times via radio. stage. motion
pictures, newspapers and other pub
locations"
Since December 7. however, he
says that in his capacity as presi-
dent of the s. P D. r. A. B. he has
noted q decline in gags directed at
Brooklyn.
The S. p D. r. A. B.. of course
is the Society for Prevention of
Disparaging Remarks About Brook
lyn.
Evening star., 1942-03-09
New Trial Is Granted
Mckenzie, Doomed
For Attacking Woman
Jury Charge Is Ruled
Faulty in Not Stressing
Identification

James Mckenzie, 2l. colored,
slated to die April II for criminal
assault on a young married woman
clerk at cleaning and dyeing es-
tabishment in the 3400 block Of
Fourteenth street NV. last June "a,
was granted a new trial today by
the Court of Appeals
The appellate tribunal ruled that
the trial court had been in error
in its failure to tell the jury in
plain words that if the circum-
stances of the identification were
not convincing they should acquit. "
McKenzie's attorneys, John H.
Wilson and William A. Powell, ap-
pealed the case after their client
had been convicted on each OF two
separate indictments, one charging
criminal assault and the other rob-
berry. Conviction on the first charge
carried the death penalty.
The conviction. the appellate
court said today, rested largely on
the testimony of the complaining
''-N~-SoS eAANo SAAC nSSuSCO, anu IlOC
some one else. had criminally as
saulted and robbed her. The COM
plainant. the appellate court pointed
out, described her assailant as a
man between 80 and IS years of age.
while witnesses at the trial later
spoke of the appellant as q boy.
The Court of Appeals also said
today that Federal Judge T. Whit
neld Davidson of the northern
district of Texas. here on temporary
duty, who presided at McKende's
trial in District Court last July, had
in effect directed the minds Of the
jury almost exclusively" to the alibi
aspect of the accuseds defense
When ne singled this out in his
charge.
Evening star., 1942-03-09
Appeals Bench Tells
Police Court 10 Guard
Rights Of Accused
Men Who Were Unodvised
At Preliminary Hearing
Win New TriuI

The constitutional rights Of an
accused person must be fully pro-
tected at a preliminary hearing in
Police Court, the Court Of Appeals
emphasized today in a 1s-page de-
cision which may effect fundamental
changes in existing procedure in
the lower court.
The Appellate Court ordered 4 new
trial for Roy Lee Wood and Fred M.
Wolf, who were convicted of robbery.
The two pleaded guilty when brought
into Police Court for 4 preliminary
hearing
At that time, the Appeals Court
found, they had not been advised Of
their constitutional rights and had
no counsel. Later Attorney Francis
Noonan was appointed to defend
them at their trial in District Court.
Evidence was admitted at their
District Court trial that they had
pleaded guilty at the preliminary
hearing in Police Court. The ad-
mission of this evidence, the Court
Of Appeals held, was an error.
Associate Justice Wiley Rutledge
wrote the opinion, concurred in by
Chief Justice D. Lawrence Groner
and Associate Justice Henry w.
Edgerton. The opinion held that
accused persons. when arraigned in
Police Court, must be informed that
they have the right to keep silent
making neither plea of guilty or
not guilty.
The accused must be informed of
the right to have counsel. In cases
where the accused Is not fully in
formed of his rights. the court as
serted, statements made at the
preliminary hearing can not be ad-
mitted in evidence against him at a
later trial
The court observed that in times
such rs these there is special rea-
son for not relaxing the
old freedoms won. as this was,
through centuries OF struggle"
Evening star., 1942-03-09

Don't spend your money building
IN AFRAID shelter. Buy Defense
Bonds and Stamps and keep the
bNmbers avay.
Evening star., 1942-03-09
New Restrictions Put
On Insta|Iment Sales
By Reserve Board
Credit on Many Articles
Reduced to IS Months,
Down Poyment Increased
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Federal Reserve Board
has laid down new installment
buying regulations which will
cut the credit period from 18 to
IS months on most articles COM
monty purchased on time and
require q greater down pay
ment. The order, announced
yesterday, is effective March IS,
The new restrictions, issued after
Commerce Department experts had
estimated that war production would
raise the national income this year
to about $l15,0O0,000, constitute an
anti-inf1ation measure designed to
help neutralize the huge war ex-
penditures.
Exempted from the new time
limit were residential modernization.
plumbing, furnaces. water heaters.
water pumps and pianos.
Down payment minima were, in
creased as follows: Refrigerators.
washing machines, ironers, vacuum
cleaners, electric dish-washers, room
unit air conditioners. sewing ma
chimes, radios, monographs and
musical instruments, from 20 per
cent to 1913; furnaces. water heaters.
water pumps and plumbing, from
is per cent to 20; home air con-
ditioning systems and attic ventilat-
ing fans, from Is per cent to 33la.
Added to the list of articles under
regulation were bicycles, lawn now
ers, silverware and Photographic
equipment, on which a 331s per cent
down payment will be required. and
clocks, watches and floor coverings,
20 per cent.
Lenders or sellers coming under
the new regulations will have until
June l to register with the Federal
Reserve Bank in their districts and
may operate under a general license
meanwhile.
The order also provided that after
April the maximum credit value
allowable on used car will be the
actual purchase price or the "ap-
praisal guide value" plus taxes.
whichever is lower.
Evening star., 1942-03-09
Army EnroIIs Cadets
For Air Corps at
EIks Club Office
Recruiting Quarters
Donated by Lodge for
Duration of War

Newest Washington recruiting
center is the Army Aviation Cadet
Examining Board at 9l9 H street
NV, where applicants for Air
Corps services now are being en-
listed.
The Elks Club donated an entire
floor of its headquarters for use by
the unit for the duration of the
war
Maj. Earl V. Compton is in COM
mand, assisted by 1t. Frederick H.
Silverman and 1t Samuel p. Faber
Applicants must be between 18 and
26 years old and must have been
citizens of the United States for at
least 10 years Immediately preced-
ing appointment.
Those passed by the board are
Evening star., 1942-03-09
Manassas Herd Fourth

MANASSAS, Va, March 8 tSpe-
ciaD.-The herd of Wilmer M Kline
OF Manassas placed fourth in the
State in January production Of milk
and butterfat according to . report
by r. c. Connolly, secretary-treasu-
rer of the Virginia State Dairymen's
Association. Mr.. Klines herd made
an average of 1,135 pounds milk and
45.3 pounds butterfat.
Evening star., 1942-03-09

eligible for training either in flying,
navigation, bomb-sight operation,
air crew duty, photography, COM
munications, engineering, meteorol-
ogy or ground crew duty. Men &C
cepted are known as aviation ca
diets. On satisfactory completion
Of training they are appointed Sec
ond lieutenants in the Air Corps
Reserve and assigned to active duty.
Cadets who do not qualify for fly
ing duty will be assigned to ground
training, provided they meet the re-
quirements. If requirements for
ground training are not met, those
disqualified viii be sent IS privates
to the Air Corps Replacement
Center for technical training.
Evening star., 1942-03-09
Senate Group Probes
Charges Sea Offer
Is impractical
Several Unconvinced
Cargo Vessel Is Not
Answer to Sub War
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A group of Senators. unconvinced
that the "sea otter" is impractical,
inquiring into what tests were given
this revolutionary-type small cargo
vessel once heralded as the answer
to submarine warfare.
Chairman Gillette disclosed yes
terday that a three-man Senate
Naval Affairs Subcommittee already
had heard numerous shipping ex-
perts in closed-door testimony and
said the group would develop all
the facts before we get through"
Secretary of Navy Knox told a
recent press conference that tests
Of sea-otter type ship had proved
very disappointing" to both Presi-
dent Roosevelt and himself, and In
dicated that the idea Of mass pro-
duction of them had been aban-
doned.
Early Enthusiasm.
In September, the Navy had re-
ported enthusiastically on the posi-
bilities of this type Of ship, saying
tests OF a small scale model indicat-
ed success Is virtually . foregone
conclusion"
The design, as reported by the
Navy, was for a ship 270 feet long
of about 1,500 tons driven by 16
gasoline engines geared to vertical
shaft turning a six-foot propeller
located amidShips.
OF low silhouette, the ships would
- A;NRc,,yt fny e1yhy,o a vi,oA$ N a30ht.
and the word was that they could
be built 80 cheaply that they could
be sent to England with . cargo
and then scrapped. A Government
corporation was projected to turn
them out by the hundreds.
Senator Gillette said Roland L.
Russell, a New York attorney, and
the Chrysler Automobile Co. ad-
vanced funds for an original S-foot
model that proved quite successful
In usual trials. The President then
overrode opposition of some Navy
and maritime veterans to order =
full-size test Otter constructed.
The Senator said this was about
$50 feet long and was built at
Orange. Tex, by the Livingston
Shipbuilding Co., for Ships, Inc.
q Government corporation formed
with backing of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. The revolutionary
boat then was moved to Charleston.
s. c., Navy Yard on trial.
Results Disputed.
Results of these tests were dis
puted before closed hearings of the
Senate group. One report was that
British officials, for whom the boats
we're to be built with lease-lend
funds, rejected the Sea Otter with
out even q test run.
Senator Gillette said the Senate
group would call J. w. Powell. for
mer Bethlehem Ship Co. executive
and more recently an adviser to
Secretary Knox, and E. B. Ger
main, president of Ships, Inc, for
testimony at executive sessions.
Mr.. Knox told reporters that
the trial Sea Otter had cost $500 900
to build, or about four times the
original estimate; that it had proved
difhcult to handle and that it might |
be redesigned as small tanker.
Associated with Senator Gillette
in the inquiry are Senator'S Gerry,
Democrat, of Rhode Island and
Brewster. Republican, Of Maine.
Evening star., 1942-03-09

good faith Of your committee, and
especially have they taken apparent
delight either wilfully or ignorantly
in q daring attack upon the aetivi-
ties Of the subcommittee"
Every act Of moral trpitude
upon which We depend to exclude
the Senator-elect LANCER involved
the conduct Of william LANCER as
a public officer of North Dakota,
and nothing else" he added
Senator LANCER was permitted to
take his seat in January without
prejudice" pending an investigation
of charges brought against him by
a group of North Dakota petit
tioners.
Evening star., 1942-03-09
Toft's Son in Navy

BOSTON, March 8 tP-Robert
Taft, jr., son of Senator Taft, Re
publican, of Ohio, reported for duty
with the Navy today, following his
commissioning last week as an en-
sign in the Naval Reserve. Ensign
Taft, q graduate of Yale, has been
q student at Harvard Law School.
Evening star., 1942-03-09
Senate Opens Debate
On LANCER Charges;
Lucas Asks Custer
Minority Report Filed
BY Two Committeeman
Called Smoke Screen
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Senate opened debate to-
day on an Elections Committee
recommendation that Senator
LANCER, Republican, of North
Dakota be denied his seat be-
cause OF "a continuous, con-
temptuous and shameful disre-
gard of public duty" while he was
a public servant of North
Dakota.
Senator Lucas, Democrat, of
Illinois began the plea for Senator
Langer's exclusion, asserting in a
statement that the committee had
developed this fact:
That the charge of moral turpi-
tude against respondent has been
proven beyond all reasonable doubt,
and this decision was based upon
the continuous questionable conduct
of the respondent over q long period
of years, while he was an officer OF
the court, Attorney General, or while
he was Governor of North Dakota"
Two Reports From Committee.
AS the debate began members had
before them two reports from the
committee. The majority report,
signed by 13 members, urged the
Senate to deny Senator LANCER his
seat in order to uphold the in
tegrity OF the United States Senate"
The minority report, signed by
two members and concurred in gen.
orally, but not fully by a third, as
serted that charges against the
gray-haired North Dakotan had not
been substantiated by evidence be-
fore the committee and that the
North Dakotans' seeking his exclu-
sion were asking the Senate to in
dulge in unjustified presumption,
imaginations and suspicious"
LANCER" the committee majority
has contended, has not avoided
and cannot avoid the consequences
OF the acts of gross improperly,
lawlessness, shotgun law enforce
ment, Jail breaking, violation Of oath
as an attorney, rabble-rousing, civil
disobe dience, breach of the peace,
obstruction of the administration of
justice and tampering with court Of
flcials."
Senator Lucas asked the Senate
to consider itself collectively as act
ing in . judicial capacity with mo
interest in the political fortune or
misfortunes of any person seeking
q seat In the United States Senate"
Defender of Dignity.
The Illinois Senator told the Sen
ate to view him not as a prosecutor
of Senator LANCER but rather as
defender of the integrity and dig
nifty" of the Senate.
Referring briefly to the minority
report signed by Senators Smith of
South Carolina and Murdock of
Utah, Democrats, Senator Lucas de-
clared that "the smokescreen which
these two gentlemen have laid down
to protect the respondent will be of
no avail" In saying this, Senator
Lucas took exception to criticism
Senators Smith and Murdock di-
rected in their report against the
committees conduct Of the investi-
cation.
His two colleagues, said Senator
Lucas, had made serious charge"
against the Election Committee.
Apparently with a full realiza-
ton Of the desperate plight in which
they found Senator ELECT LANCER,
these two able Senators have in
their minority report directly chal-
lenged the fairness and integrity of
the investigators employed by your
committee" Senator Lucas declared.
Not content with many bold and
unwarranted conclusions on that
II ! H.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-30
Rainbow Event Led
By Phil Baumani

Harold Allen has a l20-poini lead
today in the Rainbow fAdfyidtlsf
! Classic with one week y 90 Pit
>Bauman's 1903 (205, 22SS224 "a
I225) led a squad Of 20 yesterday
in the twenty-fifth round Dr.
Gregory J. Grimaldi was second
with 234 in 1865. Allen MADE 1000
and Ted Thornton 1850.
Other par" scores were August
Bamberg, 1887; Paul Scri6ner
1917: Joe Scribner 1011. Louis
Serianni. 1923; Joe Pau,n, i025.
and John Grondon. 1904
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-30

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-30

change IRE nsne ~ tle vsllsEs 10
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-30
First 10 in Doubles

Steve Cenker and AL VaelIa are
in the first 10 today Of the Rsan-
bow $50" doubles tournament.
Their score is 1879. Tournament
officials report los scores OF llOC
4 better In three days. =
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-30

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-30
Ash Town Named M'Ar4hur

MILWAUKEE Wis. April %
h-In GreendAIe. the feslarsl grs-
ernrhensS ioss cost issasing fnojuc,
on the outskirts of Milwaukee. .
petition il being circulated q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-30
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compesisIon FOR individual cssmpion.hipA
Crowns Feature Metropolitan Pin Loo

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individual averages viii be an sd-
lditionsi feature 10 the Wild scran-
bile between Az clubs. standard.
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