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Evening star., 1942-01-24
Inquiry Yields No Clues
In Lombard Plane Crash
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24-From
new witnesses Civil Aeronautics
Authority officials sought today the
answer to what caused T. w. A.
airliner to crash against Nevada
mountain January 16, killing Actress
Carole Lombard, IS Army flyers and
6 other persons.
There was not the slightest evi-
dence, the remotest possibility of
sabotage" asserted John A. Col
lings. operations superintendent of
Transcontinental and Western Air.
Walden G. Golien. T. w. A. chief
pilot, said Capt. Wayne c. Williams,
Al, pilot of the craft, was a 10-year
veteran with the airline and had
flown the same route at night last
December 81, He added that Capt.
Williams was "6.7 miles off the
course assigned to him" January Is.
Radio signals would have indicat-
ed the ship was distinctly off course
If Capt. Williams was flying by the
radio beam. said Mr. Golien.
Other witnesses said flying condi-
tions were perfect, engines and in
struments had been checked at Las
Vegas, the crew was experienced
and competent and the equipment
was new.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
| Women Advised
| Not to Worry
| About GirdIes

Lets not be too worried about
our girdles," Mrs. Patrick Henry
Adams told delegates to the General
Federation of Women's Clubs ma
tional defense forum in the May
flower Hotel today.
Reporting as federation chairman
of the Consumer Problems Commit
tee, Mrs. Adams warned the women
they faced many sacrifices in the
years to come.
"We1l have to do without our
high powered cars, too," she de-
clared, I'VE may soon come to cot
ton stockings. and well have to like
that too
She advised the delegates against
using the words, "They say and
asserted it would help to start an
unwarranted buying wave.
In buying today, she added, 1t is
best to follow the advise Of air-raid
wardens: BE calm"
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Virginia Editors Get
Awards al Convention
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va. Jan. 24.-Mem-
bers of the Virginia Press Associa-
ton met in the final business ses-
sion of their oath midwinter meet
ing today. e
The Lee editorial award for Vir-
ginia daily newspapers in 1941 went
to Carleton A. Harkrader. formerly
OF the Bristol Herald-C Courier and
now lieutenant at Camp Lee. A
similar award in the weekly field was
won by Robert Lane Anderson, pub
Usher of the Marion Democrat and
Smyth County News.
The report of the judges cited
for honorable mention:
Louis Spilman, publisher of the
Waynesboro ws-Virginian. and
Hubert Phipps. editor of the Fau-
quier Democrat weekly.
The awards are sponsored by the
V. P. A. and Lee Journalism Foun-
dation of Washington and Lee Uni
verSity.
Winners of C. C. Rhame certifi-
Gates for excellence in various pha Ses
OF newspaper work included the
Waynesboro News-Virginian, Win
chester Evening Star, Fredericks-
burg Free Lance-Star and Alexan-
dria Gazette.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Liner Reaches New York
After 7 Torpedo Escapes
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-Sixty-
eight passengers reached New York
on the Grace liner, Santa Paula last
night with a stirring story of two
narrow escapes in torpedo attacks.
The 9,135-ton vessel was off the
West African coast when its helms
man saw the first torpedo coming.
He threw his wheel hard enough to
jerk the ship aside and the death
dealing fish" slid harmlessly past.
Six hours later. while the passen-
gers still were jittery, another tor
pedo was fired. but this one missed
by at least ships length.
AS a climax, the ship narrowly
escaped colliding with two other YES
sells off the United States coast while
travelling blacked-out and zigzagging
ito avoid submarines on its last
night at sea.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Virginia Tire Quotas
Announced for February
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 24.-Feb-
ruary tire quotas released yesterday
by Brig. Gen. j. Fulmer Bright.
State commodity rationing admin
istrator, showed a reduction of 338
in the number of tires available for
passenger automobiles, with a de-
cline of 1883 in the number of truck
tires apportioned to Virginia.
Quotas for the State for next
month are 1,407 tires for passenger
automobiles and light trucks, COM
pared with 1,745 in January; truck
and bus tires, 2,760, as against Alb
for January.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Col. Dawson Appointed
To New Army Air Post

Col. F. Trubee Dawson, one time
Assistant Secretary of War for Air.
was designated yesterday assistant
chief Of the Army's air staff in
charge of military and civilian per-
sonnel of the Army Air Forces.
Col. Dawson succeeds Brig. Gen.
Ralph P. Cousins, who has been
given command of the West Coast
Air Corps training center.
Col. Dawson, Assistant Secretary
in charge of Army aviation in the
Coolidge administration, has been
on active duty since last summer
as deputy chief of the Air Force
Combat Command staff. In the
World War he commanded the first
unit Of the Aerial Coast Patrol.
known as the first Yale unit, which
served with distinction overseas.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Nv EDDY GILMORE.

MOSCOW, Jan. "a wide World
st. Paul's Cathedral in London is
q magnificent monument by moon
light, but st. BasiPs, seen against
the city's snow in the blackout here
on a night when the temperature is
40 below zero, is something to write
home about, too.
It's been just year since this
reporter boarded a trans s-Atlantic
clipper to stick his nose into Eu-
ropes war. but the supreme emo
tional thrill came as I stood in front
Of Lenin's tomb before the Kremlin
wall.
There probably is no other black
out exactly like Moscow's. To begin
with, 1t is a city of great distances.
When it's blanketed with snow
everything is doubly silhouetted in
the ebony of the blackout.
st. Basils weird pile of spirals and
domes sticking fantastically into the
night looks like something from a
ke-believe world.
Many a place has been called a
ghost city, but that's really what
Moscow seems near midnight. You
meet practically nobody on the
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Seem MoeSwiney Dead;
Former Head of |. R. A.

BY the Associated Press.
CORK, Ireland, Jan. 24.-Sean
MacSwiney. SO, former Irish Re-
publican Army leader, who escaped
from the British while under death
sentence in 1921, died here yes
terday.
MacSwiney was imprisoned on
Spoke Island but escaped by motor
boat. past British warship at
anchor nearby.
He was brother of Terence Mac
Swiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, who
died on hunger strike in Brixton
Prison In 1920.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Swope Takes FuII-Time
Post at Treasury

BY the Associated Press.
Gerard Swope, retired industrial
ist, yesterday became a full-time
special assistant to Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau.
A Treasury announcement said
that Mr.. Swope would "act as gen.
eral advisor to the Secretary on a
great variety of business problems
that arise in the conduct of the de-
partment."
Mr.. Swope, who was formely presi-
dent of the General Electric Co., has
been chairman of the New York City
Housing Authority for the last two
years. He is resigning that position
and also a dictatorship in the. Ma
tional City Bank of New York.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
New Demand Is Seen
For Social Workers
NV the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS.-A great in
crease in the demand for social
workers as a result of the war is
seen by DR.. Elizabeth Wisner, dean
of the Tulane University school of
social work.
Already numerous social workers
from Tulane University have gone
into defense or wartime jobs" she
said. 1T was during the last war
that social work received its i'm
petus as profession and the prob
lens created by this war probably
will cause a great upswing again."
DR.. Wisner, a former medical
social worker with the American
Red Cross, said morale problems
among men in the Army, which
were among the greatest social
workers had to deal with before
the war, should virtually disappear
now.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Closing Chicago Grain

BY the associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.-Last-minute
buying by processing interests and
professional traders, many of whom
were covering previous short sales
Tor the week end, today forced grain
and soybean prices up sharply Just
before the close.
All prices were near top levels for
the past five years and in some cases
new peaks since 1887 were estah.
lished.
Soybeans led the upturn with
gains of more than 4 cents busnel
carrying July contracts as high as
2OlA, within fractions of the all
time peak price for that commodity
quoted here last September. Rye
was up almost cents, wheat about
a cent and corn and oats fraction
ally.
Wheat closed Sal cent higher
than yesterday, May 1.327s-1.33, July
1.3412 -3s; corn ss-1a up, May
$685., July 91h-5ss; oats un-
changed to 4 up, rye 1A-1% higher,
May 8e1a-3s; soybeans 31z-3A up,
May 1891 -le87s.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
JeweIer Found Guilty.
Of Toking Actors Gems
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24.-William
Seymour, Beverly Hills jeweler, was
convicted yesterday of stealing a
jeweled piece consisting of 250-
carat star sapphire and 262 small
diamonds from Franchot Tone,
actor.
Mr.. Tone, testified he left the clip
with Seymour in 1910 with the un-
derstanding he would sell it for at
least $4,000 or return it. Instead
he said, he learned Seymour sold
1t for s11 900 and paid him nothing.
Mrs. Eugenia Clair Flatto, wealthy
Beverly Hills matron, testified she
bought the clip. Seymour denied
any intention of defrauding Mr..
Tone, declaring it was entirely a
business transaction.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Senators Opposition !
To DoIIar-Year Mems
Political Activity Rises
Truman Says Proposal
To Exempt Them From
Hutch Act to Be Killed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Strong Democratic support de-
yeloped in the Senate today behind
an effort to force the Governments
dollar-a-year men to abandon polit-
ical activities Or give up their
Federal jobs.
Leading the effort was Chairman
Truman Of the Senate Defense, In
vestigating Committee who declared
that several members of the Re-
publican National Committee now
hold defense jobs.
Senator Truman named Cyrus
Mccormick, committeeman from
New Mexico, as one of those and
added, Il am told there are others"
Mr.. Mccormick is price executive
for the division of automobiles
and trucks in the ONCE of Price
Administration.
Showdown Due Soon.
The issue is expected to come to
a head In connection with pending
legislation to broaden and strength
en- the Governments war powers.
One section of that measure would
exempt part-time employees, dollar
a-year men and persons working
without pay from Hatch Act re-
strictions against political activity
by Federal employees
Senator Truman disclosed that he
had drafted an amendment striking
that exemption from the bill. He
told reporters that he was confident
of enough support to win on the
Senate floor.
There is no more reason" he
said, why dollar-a-year men should
be exempted than any of the rest
of the Government. What's right
for the goose is right for the gander.
Biddle supports Exemption.
This is just a matter of fairness
to all other Government employees.
If they are going to repeal the Hatch
Act, they ought to repeal it for
everybody and not just for a favored
few"
In support of the proposed ex-
emption, the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee brought forward statement
by Attorney General Biddle, who
contended, This proposal does not
subvert the spirit and general nur-
pose of the CHatch) Act. which was
to prevent the self-perpetuation in
Office of Federal offlceholders.
THE Government needs every
man and woman who can make a
contribution to the war effort"
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Cigarette and Cigar
Output at New Peck

BY the Associated Press.
Cigarette and cigar production hit
new records in 1941.
The Treasury said yesterday that
on the basis of revenue stamp sales,
production of Small-sized cigarettes
went up from 1S0662, ,7S7,772 in 1910
to zoe, ,42e, 1868 last year.
Output of larger size cigarettes in
creased from 1884, ,449 to 1,795,766,
and production of cigars rose from
5,355, ,4os 6Is to 5,7s7 ,235,511.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Lord Ashbourne Dead
At Home in France
By tie Associated Press.

BY tie Associated Press
LONDON, Jan. 24.-The Berlin
radio reported today that Lord Ash
bourne. 70, former president of the
Gaelic League of London, had died
at his home in Compiegne, France.
Lord Ashbourne, a student of
French history and the author of
several works on the French church
and state, had lived on the continent
for a number of years.
Lord Ashbourne's sister, the
Honorable Violet Gibson, ATTEMPTED
to assassinate Premier Mussolini
with pistol fire in Rome July l.
1926. A bullet struck the tip of
his nose. She pleaded insanity and,
after year in confinement, was
released.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Clarence (. Mills Dies
In Ounce Orchard
Special Dispstch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OUNCE ORCHARD, Md, Jan. "a.
Clarence E. Mills, 50, lifelong resi-
dent of the ounce orchard neigh
borhood, died suddenly at his home
Thursday.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Bessie Mills; four daughters, Mrs.
Frank Howard and the Misses Mar
jorie. Grace and Janet Mills, all
of Ounce Orchard; eight sons,
Clarence E., Carlton E.. Forest A.
and Douglas Mills, all of the Travi-
lah neighborhood, and Norman,
Stanley. Merrill and Alfred Mills. all
of Ounce Orchard; sister, Mrs.
Roy L. Crown, Hunting Hill, Md;
a brother, Aubrey Mills, Trayilah,
and nine grandchildren. 50
The funeral will take place to-
morrow with burial in Forest Oak
Cemetery, Gaithersburg.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Youth Aids Anti-Nuzis

Junta Juvenil de Auda a Los
Pueblas Antinazis, an organization
OF Argentine young people with
headquarters in Buenos Aires. has
started a campaign to aid the anti
Naz1 countries. A collection of
S50,000 has been started and 5000
was raised the first day. In addition
the Junta delivered 5000 knitted
garments to the Junta de la Victoria
in a single day.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
FIFTH RAcE-Purse, $1,000: allow
FuirGrounds
BY the Associated Press.

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
FIRST RACE-Lone Star Stakes, tFirst
Liberty Pan lshelhamer) 4.oO s4o go
cKhamcia tCraigl 300 ~
My Tet Rambler (Thacker) 2.2O
Time. 0:23.
Also ran-Green Torch. csingins Sun.
Fobrecito, Greenock Image, Hysrohour.
cK. Murchison entry.
SECOND RACE-Purse. $500; claiming;
4-year-oids and upward; furlongs.
Mismark (Brooks) $40 500 4.60
Guy Fawkes Frye) 4.S0 $50
Cocklebur tBarber) 4.4O
Also ime' rran@iPunchdrunk. Double Call
Axelson, Jay .. Bane.
DAILY Double paid SO .20)
THIRD RACE-Purse. S1,500. added:
The Lone Star Stakes second division:
2-year-old hllies: 2 furlongs.
oreenock Flame tMsrt,s, TAO a.ss00 3.eo
q Blue Norther (sconza3 $40
Also rsn@c valdina sulia. Queen Lib
erty, Saneeve. Glenock Scout Real. Blue
Chimes Police Patron. b Liberty Eve. Equal
Chance and Fair Georgia,
bJ L Sullivan and Ralph Z. Fair entry.
YaldinA Farm entry.
REYNOLDS Bros. entry.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Racing Results
Hioteoh Park
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
FIRST RACE-Purse. $1,000; allow
ances; 2year-olds: 3 furlongs.
gshmaS simsa9~ H4,s 3asea765 .Rstsr llsO o sso
KoRla tRooertson' $50
piccaeily' sS Blue Swords, Dreamy Eyes,
SECOND RACEPurse, $1,000; allow
ances; 3-year-olds: z furlongs.
Fisseritout (Gilber) 800 go s50
Hafd Hiis Isiast' siast 'twestrope) ~''O $50
Also e rangFive o. Eight. Wise Colonel,
Ell T0reisaI epsily I5ens nenSie Gasl paid sa4.soo
THIRD RACE-Purse, $1,000; allow
ances: 3-year-olds; Z furlongs.
Rodney tGilbertl $50 900 $50
Brother Wear tRobertson) 1900 $50
Also e' rnainn2Royal weista, Msrmeduke,
Calls Pet, New Trick. Bsris.
FOURTH RACHPurse. 81 900; claim
Liberty Franc tCoule) $50 40 2.9o
Strong Arm day $50 4.a9
Scotch Trap (MeynelD 500
Also @e, rsan.Nons ai.os by One Eoysl e., Ruby B. II Il.
psDayeT ssnsng saSa Mdrdeea dieseid Pelsse Cur
WOOD % ROBIN Robin lHanforO $40 $40 $50
Sam Houston tDattilo) 40
Also ,ei iranwGiioucester. Eternal Peace and
Sweep Swinser.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Suicide Certificate Issued
In Death Of Accountant

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
last night issued a certificate of
suicide in the death of William K.
Barry, Al, who was found earlier
yesterday with his throat cut in a
third-floor bathroom Of his home,
1925 Euclid street NV.
Mr.. Barry, an accountant, was
discovered by a roomer, William
Walters. He was pronounced dead
by DR.. B. s. French of 1925 M street
NV. Police said razor was found
at his side 1t was understood he
had been in i'll health for several
years.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Tailor Identifies
Attack Suspect by
Feeling His Suit
BY the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, Jan. "a
Morris Rothberg, 74-year-old
tailor, had just completed
measurements of a stranger
when he was slugged.
At a hospital, blood was still
pouring from his scalp when
officers brought in a suspect.
Unable to see, Mr.. Rothberg
felt the mans clothes.
That's the fellow" he mur-
INJURED. That's the suit. Meas
ure him. See If he isn't 81 leg,
80 waist"
He was, and officers said as
sault charges would be fled.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Stote Racing Officials
Re-eIect All Officers
Earlier Story on Page B-5D

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 24.-Ihe Ma
tional Association of State Racing
Commissioners reelected all offlcers
today and decided to meet at Los
Angeles next winter.
Named again were President Bev-
erly Broun of West Virginia. First
Vice President Charles F. Connors
of Massachusetts,, Second Vice Presi-
dent Chester F. Hockey of Mary
land and Secretary Treasurer
Thomas r. Underwood Of Kentucky.
Evening star., 1942-01-24

Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat no sales reported. Corn,
old, sample yellow. So: new. No. 8 yellow,
So; No. 4. 79-s0H; No. s, T7-7s; sample.
51-75N. Oats, No; white, 60,60a;
No. i Special red. 5sla. Barley, mating.
1879. nominal: feed and ssreeninss, 5a-
i.s71s; No. 4. 1.s0E-I .s4h;. sample. l.58-
nominal: Timothy seed 7.25-50; alsike.
18.0O.1sO0: XTeet 6.50-900.
Evening star., 1942-01-24

Colombia IL considering the con-
struction of government hydro
electric plants. L $
Evening star., 1942-01-24
THIRD RACE-Purse. 81 200: claiming:
maidenS. 3-year -olds. 81 hIrlnngs
FOURTH RACE-Purse 81 200. claim
ng; 4-year-olds and upward; Z furlnnrs

LLle JcuA -OlQS hIlu
Meritorious (Schmidll
Young County tPier,
Hiehomar lArcaro) :
Anopheles mo boyl
Count Maurice mo b.
Breeze tWestropel
Odessa's Pride mo |
Liberty Sand (Hanfor.
Royal Blue mo boy
Slnslng Heels (Dupr
xPaper Plate (no be
Ballast Reef Colbert
Uncle Walter mo be
st. Dismas KEEPER
Coffee Man (Gilbertl
Argos (Moore)
Evening star., 1942-01-24

SIXTH RACE-Purse S146n: allow.
ances; 4-year-olds and upward: ia miles
Keep SHOW (Mehrtensl los
Pet mo boyl 10.
xCity Talk day II.
Century Note tno boy .--.------ IL:
Homewerd Bound (Hanford) ------ ia
xTotal Eclipse (no boy) ---------- 1l4
Evening star., 1942-01-24

SEVENTH RACE
Ing; 4-year-olds and
xStar Bud tho boy)
Wicked tho boy
xCatomar (Brennanl
xDianapat (Brunelle)
xSaxonian tno boy)
Wee Scot (Ma skelD =
Old Smoothly tno boy
Pit Terrier mo boyl
Spanish Way tho b
xTaxes day
xLong Pass tMehrten
xNilon tBrunelle)
Leonardtown (no bo.
Greenski tNodarse) :
InscoeQuel (no boy)
Portsmouth (no boy
Evening star., 1942-01-24
HioIeuh Park Entries
For Monday
BY the Associated Press.

SECOND RACE-Purse. $1,000: claim
ing. 3-year-0ldS. X fUrlonRs
Evening star., 1942-09-02
deferment on occupational

sought deferment on occupational
grounds: James Thomas Calomaris,
Mayfiower Hotel waiter; Joseph B.
Ridenhour. War Department engi-
neer; Halle j. Cook, War Depart
ment clerk typist; James r. john
son, custodian at the National In
stitute of Health; George Palmer,
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
laborer, and William Victor Levine,
Washington Beef & Provisions Co.
bookkeeper,
Those whose requests for occu-
pational deferment were denied
were Mr.. Harkavy, Leonard w.
Weisgerber, Indemnity Insurance
Co. safety engineer; James H.
Hardison. Melvern Diaries, Inc, re-
frigeration engineer, for whom a
60-dav stay of induction was rec
commended; Nicholas P. Mazziota.
Washington Dental Co. technlcian,
for whom 30-day stay of induction
was recommended, Jack Kristen,
McCauley, credit and Office man
ager Of Hires Turner Glass Co.,
Arlington, Va.
The appeal Of James A. Mandes,
minister Of Jehovah's Witnesses, for
deferment as a minister was denied.
The appeal Of Albert F. Otto, Cen
sus Bureau clerk. for deferment be-
cause of dependents or as con-
scientious objector, was referred to
the Justice Department and the case
of Eugene F.. Sims, Capital Transit
Co. bus operator, was returned to
his local board.
Evening star., 1942-09-02
Windsor Warns Bahamas
May Face Income Tax
Ps the Associated Press.

Ps the Associated Press.
NASSAU. Bahamas. Sept. q
This colony must face the possi-
bility of shattering precedent by
accepting an income tax to offset
the loss of tourist trade. while ra-
tioning and price ceilings also are
in prospect, the Duke of Windsor
told the new legislature in its first
meeting.
After reviewing the recent riot by
laborers who complained that their
wages were insufficient, the COVER
nor last night outlined system of
Tearranging the internal economy of
the islands to avoid such disturb
anceS in the future. He said the
war had brought an increase of 33
per cent in the cost of living.
He also disclosed that a Bahamas
defense force has been organized,