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Evening star., 1942-11-09
Delay in Carrying Out
D. T.. Death Sentences
Criticized by Nolan
Trade Board Unit Told
Judicial Conference
Is Studying Question

Contrast between the speedy ex-
ecution of six Nazi saboteurs, and
the long delays in carrying out
death sentences imposed in Dis
trict Courts, was emphasized today
by DR.. James Allen Nelan, managing
director of the Washington Criminal
Justice Association. before the
Board of Trades Public Order Com
mittee.
He said that since 1880 an aver
age period of nearly % months has
elapsed between arrest and execu-
ton for capital crimes here, as COM
pared with an average OF 15.2
months for the executions per-
formed in the District of Columbia
in the last 76 years.
DR.. Nolan said he was not blam-
ing the courts, the District Attor-
ney's Office or the Bar Association,
but added he was glad the Judicial
Conference, which includes WASH
ington. is studying the question.
Out of this conference, he suggested,
remedial legislation may be devel-
oped.
He cited the case of two white
men who languished q months in
prison before being executed here
in April, 1887.
The first one fairly ran to the
chair. and the second told the
executioner, Come on, let's get it
over with quickly" DR.. Nolan as
serted After their long wait in
Jail, while legal technicalities were
being resorted to, death came as a
relief" the speaker said.
He contrasted this delay with the
hanging in Baltimore last July of
two District colored men, seven
months after their arrest for a
holdup murder.
Discussing the vice situation, DR.
Nelson said studies show Washing
ton has the highest percentage OF
street solicitations by prostitutes OF
any comparable city in the Nation
He added this city also has the high.
est priced prostitutes of any city.
A study revealed that % girls had
been arrested a total of 8l1 times
here during three-year period, one
girl having been taken into custody
90 times and convicted only once
DR.. Nelson said He attributed the
low conviction rate to these factors
Men on the police vice squad gen.
orally are rookie policemen. Courts
have held that if a police officer
speaks to a prostitute first, the cops
do the soliciting The girls usually
travel in threesomes, so that when
one is arrested, there are two wit
nesses in court the next day to swear
the police officer solicited her anc
sought to entrap her"
Evening star., 1942-11-09
vandenberg Promises
Fight on TreasurY's
6-Bi||ion Tax Plan
Michigan Senator Says
Yeor's Moratorium on
New Levies Is Needed

The possibility of a fight over
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau's proposal to levy $4,000 000,OoO
in new taxes was in prospect TO-DAY
after Senator Vandenberg, Repub-
lican. of Michigan, high-ranking
member of the Senat Finance Com
mittee, declared that years mora
torium on additional taxes is needed.
The Michigan Senator said that
direct taxes assessed as result OF
the new revenue bill approach the
danger line" for both individuals
and corporations, and he told re-
porters that he believed Congress
next great problem is to find ade-
quate and prudent methods for the
absorption of Government bonds.
Steps should be taken to insure the
sale of five times as many War
bonds as now are being bought, he
amplifled.
Secretary Morgenthau announced
before passage of the new revenue
bill that he would ask Congress for
the additional $4,000, ,000,00 Sem
ator Vandenberg said he would op-
pose any fundamental alteration in
the tax structure, insisting that
action be limited to closing loop
holes, correcting inequities, improv-'
ing methods of collecting at the
source and installing the so-called
Ruml plan for payment of taxes on
a current basis.
Wants Year to Adjust.
His views on this point were ac-
corded significance since they ap-
peared largely representative of the
Senate minority whose strength in
the new Congress convening in jan
uary will increase materially as q
result of the elections.
The country should have a year
In which to adjust itself to the latest
tax bill" Senator Vandenberg de-
clared These new taxes already
approach the danger line so far as
ordinary corporate existence is con-
cerned, just as they also drive close
to the subsistence line for millions
of our people"
Calculating this years Govern.
ment deficit at close to $50 1000 ,000,-,
600 after collection of S25 900 000, 900
in taxes. Senator Vandenberg said
the levying of $4,000 100000 more,
in taxes is much less important thar
was the problem of collecting the
$50 900 100000 which the Treasury
must borrow from as many indi-
vidual bondholders as possible. s.
Cites WPB Warning.
| This involves 10 times as much
money as could possibly be squeezed
out of the American hide in the
form of new taxes superimposed
upon those already voted" he OBJ
served
Certainly it requires us to leave
American business as a going con-
Germ to carry this load-and we are
already warned by the War PRODUCE
tion Board that we have already
gone to the tax limit for sustaining
a healthy national economy.
Certainly it requires us to leave
the individual taxpayer with some
sort of margin with which to face
these other unavoidable response :.
| bllltles, What we need now and
what we cannot escape is a practi-
cal program for the Nation wide
distribution-as far as possible in
the hands of private investors-of
at least five times as many War
bonds as now are being subscribed. ;"
He said the answer to this prob
lem appeared to lie in some form
of compulsory savings, although he.
was not prepared to outline a pro-
gram now.
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Armistice Message
Calls People 10 Win
War, Build Just Peace
President Will Take Part
In Annual Ceremonies
At Arlington Cemetery

President Roosevelt today called
on the American people to re-
dedicate the Nation on Armistice
Day this year ito the great task of
winning this war and building a
just peace"
The President took occasion in his
Armistice Day proclamation to en-
phasize that the end of the World
War November II, 1918, only closed
one phase of a worldwide struggle
against lawless aggression and for
the basic freedom of mankind"
President Roosevelt is scheduled
to take personal part in the annual
Armistice Day observance in Arling-
ton Cemetery Wednesday, laying a
wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier and speaking briefly to the
Nation by radio from the amphi-
theater.
The text of his proclamation issued
today follows:
The calm which settled over the
Western Front at II a m on Novem-
ber II, 1918, closed one phase of a
worldwide struggle against lawless
aggression and for the basic freedom
of mankind; and
THE United States, in company
with the United Nations, must once
more champion the essential free
doms-freedom OF speech, freedom
of worship, freedom from want, and
freedom from fear-on a world wide
battlefield, and
Faith can be kept with those who
died in the First World War only by
resolutely prosecuting to final vic
tory the great war in which we are
now engaged, and by crowning that
victory with peace which shall
safeguard and extend these essen
tial freedoms.
whereas, Senate concurrent reso-
luton ID of the Sixty-ninth Con-
gress, passed June 4, 1926, requests
the President of the United States to
issue a proclamation for the observ-
ance of Armistice Day November II: ::
Now, therefore, I, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, President of the United
States of America, do hereby call
upon the people of the United States
to re-dedicate .his Nation on No
vember II. 1912, to the great task of
winning this war and building a
just peace in order that we and our
children may live in a world free to
work toward human advancement;
and I direct that the flag of the
United States be displayed on all
Government buildings on that day.
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Maryland Negro Doctors
Invited to Seminar
Nv tho Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov g. Negro
physicians in Maryland have been
invited to attend a three-day post
graduate seminar to be held at
Howard University college of med
icine. Washington, D. c., Novem-
ber 1918.
The seminar will be sponsored by
Howard University. the District of
Columbia tuberculosis Association,
the Maryland tuberculosis Associ-
alton. the Virginia tuberculosis As
sociation, the Medicochirurgical
Society and the Social Hygiene
Society of the District of Columbia.
Four major health problems will
be Observation-Disclosures. syphilis,
pediatrics and maternal welfare.
Evening star., 1942-11-09
C~IO
Continued From First PageD

ously applauded Mr.. Murray's OBJ
vious reference to the practice of
some AFL unions which deny men,
bership to Negroes.
Mr.. Murray avoided mention of
Mr.. Lewis by name, but referred to
him as a former friend" the same
phrase Mr.. Lewis used to describe
Mr.. Murray when he removed him
from the vice presidency of the
United Mine Workers last May.
Il am not running away from
any of my responsibilities. I started
out with CIO in 1885 and I am
going to stay with it. 1 am not going
to acquire peeve-a peeve," he
repeated as the delegates yelled and
whistled, that will make me run
away, because I am not that kind"
Asks Greater Representation.
The CIO president referred to an
occasion when the International
Ladies Garment Workers left the
CIO and returned to the AFL and
Mr.. Lewis declared that no matter
who left he would stand alone with
the CIO and fight.
"I," said Mr.. Murray, attribute
that kind of boastfulness to fat
rabbits"
Mr.. Murray said labor had not
been accorded its deserved repre-
sentation in the councils of Gov
ernment, particularly on the War
Production Board. He asserted
promises to give organized labor
policy making positions within the
board have been made and broken.
Il think our Government, and the
War Production Board in particu-
lar, should call upon the genius and
vitality of labor and ask them to
help solve these problems. Labor,
he added scornfully. doesn't want
jobs. 1t doesn't want jobs with
salaries attached to them, not jobs
on measly, so-called advisory COM
mittees. We want positions of trust
and responsibility"
Opposes Labor Conscription.
Mr.. Murray denounced the en-
ployment of dollar a-year men from
companies which have been in
dicted in the Federal courts for
conspiracy to defeat our production
aims"
What are we running in Wash
ington,' he shouted. "A war pro-
duction organization win the war,
or an organization to destroy labor
Referring to the manpower issue
the C1O chief said labor is prepared
to make any contribution, but
under present circumstances labor
will not agree to regimentation and
conscription. for many good, sound
and sufficient reasons" One rea-
son, he said, was because there is
no one in the city of Washington
with a sound, overall picture of
what the manpower problem really
is
The convention adopted unani-
mously a resolution calling for
passage of the draft bill covering
10 and 10 year old youths without
amendment 1t said the amend
ment which would require a full
years training was very unfortu-
nate" and would hamper the full
est effective use of American SOL
diers" and would impose restric-
tions upon our military leaders"
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Baltimore War Plant
Wins Army-NoN e

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 9.-The Balti-
more plant of the Bendix Aviation
Corp. displayed today the Army
Navy "E" pennant for excellence in
war production after presentation
ceremonies in which Maj. Halsom
Randolph Battley, Army Air Forces,
participated.
Maj. Battley, in presenting the
pennant to Plant Manager Earl
Kingston, commented that Il re-
gret to say that there are many
Americans who still do not take this
was seriously.
only those who have eyes and see
not, ears but hear not, can live in
Utopia and believe that it is not
possible for the Axis to attack us
here on this continent"
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Marine Recruit, Mother
Die of Gas Fumes
BY the Associated Press.

by tne hSSOClateQ p1eSs.
AMSTERDAM, N: Y, Nov. "a
young man scheduled for induction
into the marines today is dead and
his 50-year- old mother is in criti-
cal condition from inhaling illmui-
mating gas in their apartment, Coro-
ner James B. Conant said.
A note, indicating she preferred
death for her son, William, 81, and
herself to having him leave, was
left by the mother, Mrs. Clementine
Madik. the coroner stated
Mother and son were found in a
bedroom by police after neighbors
smelled gas coming from their
apartment today Police said rub
ber tube, attached to a gas stove,
led into the room.
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Philadelphia Funding
Program Approved
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. O. The
plan for refunding upward of s162,-
296.000 City of Philadelphia out
standing obligs tions, which was
presented to the city on October
% by Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia
and Lehman Bros. of New York,
has been approved by the Finance
Committee of the Philadelphia City
Council and reported favorably to
the council. The plan comes up
for final action on November IL.
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Tire S|asher Captured
After Chase by Civilians

Two unidentified civilians yester-
day pursued and captured 21-year-,
old colored man after he had slashed.
the tires on nine parked automobiles
in the vicinity of North Capitol and
H streets.
The man was taken to No. / Pre-
cinct Station.
On each of the cars the man had
cut at least two tires. He told police
he had been drinking.
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Ice Show Is 'B|ucked Out
As Girl Skater Loses Skirt

on her midriff. During two tricks,
she tugged and did her best to rec
tify matters. Toward the end of
the act, matters were getting out
of hand
Mary said she took one look at
her sister and decided the cash GUS
toners had had enough, for their
money. She streaked for the exit,
hoping her sister would take the
hint.
Apparently she did. but before
Jane could get off the ice, Mary
said she heard the sound of long,
low whistles rising from the audi
ence. She shuddered and then /.
Merciful blackness.
Evening star., 1942-11-09

The 5000 customers watching the
Ice Follies of 1943 at Riverside Sta
dium yesterday afternoon went
through an unannounced and
unscheduled blackout-and they
couldn't blame it on Hitler or the
Office of Civilian Defense.
What happened was delicate sit
uation involving = young woman's
skirt. A crisis was averted only be-
cause a fast-thinking electrician
pulled a switch in time.
The 18-year-old Thomas twins
Mary and Jane-were going through
their routine on skates when Jane
began to feel unaccustomed breezes
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Huukon H. Hammer Dies:
NewsService Executive
6y tho Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. g.
Haakon H. Hammer, IS, Pacific
Coast director of the International
News Service. died Saturday night
at San Francisco hospital where
he had been undergoing treatment
for a heart ailment.
He was a graduate of the Danish
Naval Academy, and onetime
member of the Roald Amundsen
polar exploring expeditions.
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Anthem Adds 9 Hours
To Soldiers FurIouqh

By the Associated Press.
FORT DEVENS. Mass.-Patriot-
ism gave nine Oklahoma soldiers an
unscheduled nine extra hours of
furlough. .r~i 2
On their way back to camp their
train stopped at Cleveland and the
soldiers got out to stretch their legs.
A band giving a send-of to a group
of selectees played the Star Span
gled Banner"
While the soldiers stood at atten-
ton their train pulled out. The next
train for their destination came
nine hours later.
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Bermudions Protest

People of Bermuda are protesting
against the curtailment of evapo-
rated mix supplies needed for chill
dren while imports OF wines and
,luxuries are increasing.
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Cafe Chains Teaspoon

Because Of repeated thefts, SUIT
ton (EnglandD cafe proprietor now
supplies a communal teaspoon
chained to the counter. 81
Evening star., 1942-11-09

Factory roof fire spoilers In Eng
land are helping farmers detect boys
stealing apples from orchards.
Evening star., 1942-11-09
Potatoes Boosted

British restaurants are being urged
by the ministry of food to serve big
ger helpings of potatoes instead of
rolls and butter.
Evening star., 1942-11-09

difficult the task of responsible lead
ership. and threaten the effective at
tainment of the objectives for which
the board has been established
Asks Production Integration.
The annual report of C1O Presi-
dent Philip Murray called for the
integration of war production and
all manpower mobilization, includ-
ing selective service, under single
unified command.
Mr.. Murray said debate over COM
pulsory or voluntary methods was
incidental to the drafting OF an ef-
fective national plan; declared his
confidence in judgment of the Com
mander in Chief in opening second
front, and while recognizing unity
with the AFI as imperative" he as
sailed his former chief, John l..
Lewis, as disrupter.
Mr.. Murray's report did not OBJ
ject to job-freezing, but IN effect
said compulsion would accomplish
nothing if there were no workable
plan and that if workable plan
were devised, labor would cooperate
voluntarily.
IF we have manpower chaos TO-
day." he said, "a job-freeze merely
freezes chaos"
Evening star., 1942-11-01
News From Dogdom
Notes on Variety of Subjects of Interest
In Washington and Vicinity
By X. r. Taynfon.

the club. The place of the meeting
will be decided at the November
meeting which is to be held in AL
Gardeners Washington Office. As
far as possible, meetings in the
future will be held in the District,
although the annual meeting will
be held at the George Mason Hotel
in Alexandria, probably.
The newly formed Buckeye Bull
dog Club held its first speciality
show in Columbus Ohio, This was
a combination English bulldog and
Boston terrier show and drew en-
tries from many distant points,
including the Washington area.
Mrs. Richard Birney's Boston ter
rier,. Honey Dew Boots, was taken
to the show by Dick Birney, who
piloted her through to winners bitch
for a neat four points. One or two
more like that will see Honey eligi-
BILE for one of those nice, gold
medals.
Another entry from hereabouts
which covered herself with glory
and her owner with pride was Lii
Virginia Sunshine, Jimmy Aliens
white bulldog, which went first in
the puppy class.
Piggy is a dachshund owned bv
DR.. Louis Cornet. When she fell
down the stairs recently and broke
her leg, her advancing years made it
inadvisable to give her an anesthe-
tic while setting 1t. so DOC" used
Army tactics on her and set it with
out the benefit of anesthesia. Piggy
grinned and bore it, and In spite OF
her II years, the break is knitting
nicely and Piggy will soon be as good
as new.
Apparently the woods are full Of
13-year-old girls who want jobs in
kennels. 1t just took one item about
one of them to stir them up. One
young miss asks specifically where
and how to apply for the job. No
body knows what the new year Is
going to bring, and no business is
more precarious than that of raising
dogs in war time. But when summer
time comes again, and If these 12-
year-olds still feel they would like
kennel work, the place to apply is
directly to the kennel owners.
Most kennels are located in the
country. Working in a kennel might
we'll mean boarding there. But no
place could be more healthful, more
interesting or safer than most KEN
mel cations. While in the past very
few serious kennel owners would hire
such youngsters, it might we'll b.
that in the future breeders will bs
delighted to get help Of any kind.
Nor is the work too difficult for most
children of that age. This sort of
work would be in line with the re-
cent trend to employ high school
youngsters on farms. Some sections
Of the country are planning on re.
scheduling the school year to con-
form with farm needs. Apparently
the day of real usefulness for chill.
dren. of chores and jobs, is rolling
around again.
Evening star., 1942-11-01

North's bid of one spade over
Vests heart call was psychic
which East, of course. recognized.
On the second round East's four no.
trump was a slam invitation and
called upon West to bid five dia-
monds in order to show that he had
one ace. East's bid of seven no.
trump was a bit optimistic but he
had expected to find his partner
with six hearts to the ace-king-
queen, or, if not the queen, he hoped
to find the queen of hearts with
South so that he could finesse the
jack if necessary.
North's psychic spade bid had
deceived his partner, who thought
he must have one trick. He did not
lead the spade because East had
shown that he could stop to suit at
least twice. So of the 13 cards
in his hand he chose to lead the
only one which would enable East
to make his contract-the ten of
hearts-a lead through declared
strength. Mr.. Buckley was quick to
take advantage of the error. He
covered with the ace and led the
king. Both the queen and the jack
fell upon this lead and the remain
der of Vests hearts were good fol-
discards of diamonds and clubs.
When hearts were exhausted the
Declarer led spades and won five
more tricks which, with his two
minor suit aces. gave him his re-
doubled vulnerable grind slam no.
trump contract. The score was 1880
the highest of the evening and the
highest that a declarer can make
unless he holds all the honors of a
suit in one hand and is doubled and
Evening star., 1942-11-01
With the Chess Players
Local Events and Activities - Unusual
Problems
Problems

Global problem No. (No. 495) is
solved by key-move: /. B-QB5, and
one correct mating variation is: l..
B-QB5, KtxB discovered check; 2.
Kt-Q4 mate.
Problems to date in the current
Global Problem-Solving Star Winter
Tournament, 1923. have been
easy. Watch for more difficult and
trickler puzzles. The wedding out
process is about to begin. After all
there are some 70 entries and only
four special prizes. However, an
honor certificate will be given to
each fan who solves at any time any
so problems.
Scholarly aptly describes the
wo-volume publication by Frank
Altschul, the Overlook Press, at
Stamford, Conn.,, titled "a Sketch
book OF American Chess Problema-
tists." (1942), compiled by Alain
White, Edgar w. Allen and Burney
M. Marshall.
Volume I treats OF early Com
posers," "The Revival" and "The
Middle Period" The reader is told
that chess probably was played in
Mexico before in the United States,
that in Charles Henry Stanley's
chess column in THE Spirit of the
Times" appeared the first original
American problem on March l, 1845.
Micro-hiographies of the early COM
posers are portrayed.
In Volume II the Good Com
panions," originally the Good Com
panior Chess Problem Club at
Philadelphia, headed by James F.
Magee, jr., in 1913, are pictured as a
world influence, and rightly. But
it Is the section termed Our Con-
temporaries" that would stress es-
pecially. Chess Review Magazine,
American Chess Bulletin, the
Chess Correspondent Magazine-all
receive bouquets worthy OF their
part in developing the problem art.