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Evening star., 1942-01-05
Comeback for Horses Unlikely
DESPITE Auto and Tire Bans

the added manpower necessary to
use horses and mules.
And as far as city transfer and
delivery concerns, hit by the tire
and truck restrictions, go, it's too
expensive to support horse, except
as last restort.
Prairie hay. for example, sells at
$13 ton. up 81 a ton over last
January; alfalfa hay is s21 ton, up
50, and oats cost 81 cents a bushel
Is cents more than a year ago
Wheat straw, used to bed the horses
down, costs s12 a ton, s10.50 more
than a couple of years ago.
And finally, there aren't any
wagons for the horses to pull
They're not made any more on a
mass production basis, and a wagon
which formerly cost $500 would
come as a custom made job now al
four times the cost.
So, any quick comeback looks un-
likely for Dobbin.
Evening star., 1942-01-05

Who must file a return? Every
single person having gross income
of $3.50 or more; every married per-
son, not living with husband or wife,
and having a gross income of $3.50 or
more, and married persons living
with husband or wife, who have an
aggregate gross income of $500 or
more.
When must returns be filed? For
the calendar year 1941, on or before
March 16, 1912. For the fiscal year,
on or before the 18th day of the
third month following the fiscal
year.
Where and with whom must in
come tax returns be filed? In the
internal revenue district in which
the person lives or has his chief
place of business, and with the COL
kctor Of internal revenue.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Denmark S King Ba|ks
Al Nazi Insistence
On Anti-Jewish Laws
Christiun Refuses
To Override Cabinet,
Threatens Abdicution
BY WILLIAM H. STONEMAN,

Dy WILLIAM n. SlONEMAN,
Foreign Correspondent Of The Star and
Chicago Daily News.
LONDON, jan. 5.-King Christian
x of Denmark has threatened to
abdicate because of German in
sistence that Denmark adopt the
Nuremberg laws, it is learned in
London.
Christians threat came last Satur-
day as the climax of a long series of
political maneuverings by three pro-
Nazi members Of the Danish gov
ernment and their German hackers.
The trouble started when anti
Jewish legislation was prepared and
presented to the cabinet by Foreign
Minister Erik Scavenius, Minister Of
Transport Gunnar-Larsen, who in
cidentally is head of the Portland
Cement Co., and Minister of Justice
TIL. Jacobsen. At the meeting of
ministers last Thursday their pro-
posals we're rejected by the other
ministers and Premier Stauning re-
fused to present them to the King.
VAlCll oSdFCiiluo SuOoCQuCllVlS dR.
preached the King and asked him
to override the cabinet, the King
refused and indicated he would ap-
prove the proposals only if they
received Parliament's unanimous
support. The Nazi Ministers then
presented the proposals to nine
man special committee which on
Saturday rejected them unani-
mously. The Germans then de-
manded that the laws be accepted
Immediately.
1t was then that the King an
nounced that if they persisted in
the demands and attempted to force
their acceptance, he would abdicate.
1t is not known whether the Ger
mans have backed down, but if they
have not, the Kings abdication may
be expected within a few days.
copyright, 1912. by Chicago Daily News)
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Job Insurance Payments
Increase in 80 States
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Paul v. McNutt, Federal security
administrator, reported today that
job-insurance payments increased in
80 States during November, reflect
ing unemployment due to priorities
and curtailment orders and tenn
porary lay-offs in plants retooling
for war production, plus the normal
seasonal declines in many fields.
However, decreases in such pay
ments in the other 18 States more
than Offset the increases, and job
insurance disbursements for the
whole country dropped in November
to new low of $2l ,O66, 400.
Placements by the 1,50O United
States Employment Service offices
declined in November, especially in
the agricultural States which nor
mally experience sharp reductions
after the harvest season. In all.
406, 900 jobs were filled during the
month, "a per cent fewer than Oc-
tober. but II per cent more than
November. 1910.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Reporter FeIIs Bandit,
Takes Him to Station
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5. - Jack
Cravens, %, police reporter for a
Los Angeles newspaper, created his
own news today.
He appeared at the Hollywood
police station with a 22-year- -old
youth. who, he said, held him up
with a gun and took his wallet.
When the gunman started to re-
move Mr.. Cravens' wrist watch,
the reporter struck his assailant
with a right to the jaw, then dis
armed him,
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Secretary 10 Vichy
Cabinet Member
Is Found Dead
MoneIed Body Discovered
Beside RuiIroud Tracks
Near FIomboin-Gouoiz
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY, Unoccupied France, Jan
5.-The battered body of Yves Per
ringaux, chief secretary to interior
Minister Pierre Pucheu, has beer
found along the railroad tracks be-
tween Paris and Troyes, in German
occupied France, it was announced
today.
(The Berlin radio at first broad
cast that both M. Perringaux and
M. Pucheu had been found dead,
presumably the victims Of assas-
sins, but later changed its story
to say that only M. Perringaux
was killed.
ct gave no explanation for
withdrawing the original story,
although it previously had an
nounced that an investigation
into what was said then to be
two deaths had been started.
(Whether M. PerringauX was
travelling with NJ Pucheu was not
disclosed)
M. Perringaux's body was said to
have been found in a mangled con-
dition near the station of Flamboin-
Gouaix, about two thirds of the way
between Paris and Troyes. He had
taken a train in Paris last night
en- route to Belfort, in Alsace.
Troyes is in the Aube Depart
ment, about IS miles southeast of
Paris.
M. Perringaux was member
of the extreme Rightist party of the
turncoat Communist, Jacques Do
riot. He had been M. Pucheu's aide
since the interior minister first
entered the Vichy government as
secretary of industrial production
but only recently had been made
chief secretary.
In his early forties and still I'M
usually vigorous, he was conspicuous
among Frenchmen for his height of
almost 6 feet 3 inches.
PariSianS Smarted under a new
German punishment in the form OF
a partial S pm. curfew after fresh
anti-Nazi incidents in Paris and the
German-occupied Atlantic port OF
BreSt.
CThe Berlin radio said the
Paris curfew was placed on cafes
and other public places, because
unidentified assailants had ex-
ploded a bomb in a restaurant
frequented by Germans The
radio said there we're no victims
and only slight material damage
was caused.
(The incidents coincided with
an apparent chilling of French
German relations, reported In
Evening star., 1942-01-05
| Dutch to Bomb
| Jap Ships Seeking
lOH at Sorowok
y the Associated Press.


LONDON, Jan. Sit. Gen. Helm
ter Poorten, commander in chief Of
the Netherlands Indies Army, de-
clared today in an article that the
Netherlands Indies Air Force would
bomb hell' out of any Japanese
ship attempting to obtain oil from
wells captured in Sarawak, British
Boreno.
Writing in the Netherlands gov
ernment paper Voice of Netherlands
published in London, he said the
Japanese were draining small guam
titles from the Sarawak wells despite
reports that the British destroyed
them.
The prime need for defense of the
Indies, he asserted, is equipment and
replacement of supplies from the
United States and Britain, partic-
ularly aircraft.
I'VE are prepared to defend our
selves to the utmost of our capabil-
tiles, realizing the key position in
which we find ourselves as a result
Of Japanese advances in the Philip
pines and Malaya," he added.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Bay State {. |. 0. Outlaws
Strikes for Duration
BY the Associated Press.


BOSTON, Jan. 5-The Massa-
chusetts c. I. o. pledged itself yes
terday to settle all industrial dis
putes by negotiation or arbitrat tior
without strikes during the war, and
appointed a committee to work out
an industrial peace policy in CO.
operation with the State Federation
of Labor CA. F. L).
The pledges were made in resolu-
tons adopted at an emergency con-
vention or the C. I. o. Council, fol-
lowing by one day the adoption of
similar resolutions by the A. F. L.
Federation.
Quick adoption of the C. I. o.
program followed a speech by Presi-
dent Salerno, who declared that
labor must prove to the world that
free labor can outproduce slave
labor"
"Speedier production means speed
Ter victory" Mr.. Salerno said.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 5.-The
comeback trail looks like a long,
hard pull for Old Dobbin.
Notwithstanding prohibition of
sales of automobiles and tires to
private users and restrictions on
farm machinery, the turnover of
horses and mules on this major
market is lower than year ago
And right now you can pick up
good 5-year-old team of horses for
SITS and a first-class team of mules
for $500.
Even these prices aren't likely to
start any immediate backward tran
sition from the mechanical age, be-
lives Ferd Owens. veteran horse and
mule commission man.
The reasons?
Farmers, handicapped by increas-
ing labor shortages, just can't get
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Plot Theory Blasted
In Wreck Of Train
With Gold Cargo
One Passenger Killed,
Is Hurt When Engine
Roms Abandoned Auto
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PITTSTON, Pa, Jan. 5.-A speed
ing Lehigh Valley express train
carrying cargo Of gold rammed an
abandoned automobile and was de-
rallied during blizzard near here
yesterday, killing one passenger and
injuring 13 others.
Seven coaches and the locomotive
of the 14-car Buffalo-to-New York
might flyer" sprawled zig-zag on
the Susquehanna River bank, 16
miles west of Wilkes-Barre, Pa,
trapping many of the $50 passengers
for more than an hour.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents and postal inspectors, here
from Philadelphia, discounted the
theory the train was wrecked in
plot to steal the shipment of $780,
600 in gold.
Owner Says Auto Stalled.
State Police Sergt. j. E. Hess said
the owner of the car, Henry Meme
field, 38, of Scranton. Pa, told him
his car had stalled on the crossing
and that he had walked to a nearby
factory to find help.
Mr.. Meinefeld was not held.
The dead man was identified from
a G. c. c. discharge found in his
pocket as Joseph Layzock, about 40.
of Chicago. Most seriously injured
was 1t. Harry A. Hawk, %. of Sayre,
stationed at Camp Croft, S. c. His
right leg was crushed and later was
amputated at Pittston Hospital
The crash occurred at 2:45 am.
IN the midst of binding snow
storm. The crossing is 200 feet from
the Susquehanna River and leads to
an abandoned ferry.
The $50 train passengers included
soldiers and sailors returning to
duty Most of them escaped injury
Baggagemaster James A. Morton,
"a, of Nichols, N. Y, who suffered
fractured ribs and bruises, was the
only member of the train crew in
jured.
Wreck Called Accident.
Sergt. Hess said investigation con-
vinced him the wreck was acci-
dental. He said he did not know the
destination of the gold cargo
The automobile was knocked 100
yards and demolished. Trainmen
and passengers in the undamaged
cars used sledgehammers and crow
bars to free those in the derailed
cars.
Physicians, nurses and ambulances
from Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and
Pittston rushed over snoW-drifted
roads to give first aid The 13 in
jured passengers were rushed to the
Pittston Hospital while other pas
sengers were treated at the scene
and then taken by bus to Lehighton,
Pa, where they were put on another
train.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
STAR, WASHINGTON, C. MONDAY
Two Officials Testify
Against Transferring
FederaLAgencies
President Wants Workers
Kept Here if Shift Cuuses
Them Undue Hurdship'

Joseph B. Eastman, chairman Of
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, and Abner H. Ferguson, Fed
eral Housing Administrator. today
told House subcommittee that re-
moval Of these agencies from WASH
ington would seriously retard their
efficiency and effectiveness.
Meanwhile President Roosevelt
was quoted by the Civil Service
Commission as wanting Federal en-
ployes to be kept here in cases where
sending them out of town with their
agencies would cause undue hard
ship" The Commission announced
this today in a circular, but quail
flied it with the provision that trans
fers must not impair the efficiency
of the moved agencies.
Mr.. Eastman and Mr.. Ferguson
testified before the Downs subcom-
mittee of the House Public Build
ings and Grounds Committee, which
is nearing the close of series of
public hearings on proposed Gov
ernment decentralization program.
"Serious" and adverse" Effects.
Serious" and adverse" were the
words used by Mr.. Eastman to
describe the effect on the commits
sion if it should be shifted to some
other city.
He pointed out that most of the
commissions 2,017 employees here
are deeply rooted" that 81 per cent
with salaries Of $4,000 or more either
own or are buying their own homes
Further. he expressed the belief
the commission would lose the serv-
ices OF a great many of them if 1t
should be moved.
Mr.. Eastman also said the com
mission and the newly-created Of
flee of Defense Transportation which
ne heads are working closely with
defense agencies in their war effort.
Representative Manasco, Demo-
crat, Of Alabama inquired if addi-
tional space could be provided in the
commissions Offices If the staff
worked an around the clock sched-
ule.
of hand" he replied, II would
say it would be difficult TO work out
a 24-hour schedule satisfactory to
the public. But 1 will be glad to
give attention to the suggestion"
Would Thoroughly Disrupt" F. H. A.
Removal from Washington of the
F. H. A.. Mr.. Ferguson told the
subcommittee, would thoroughly
disrupt" the organization for many
months. Not more than so per
cent Of the organizations 1,70O
employees here, he predicted, would
60 with it.
The staff Of the F. H. A.. he
pointed out, is highly technical.
Even the stenographers have been
trained to familiarize themselves
with technical language, he said,
iand their replacement with equally
qualified employees in another city
would be difficult.
Moreover, Mr.. Ferguson declared
the F H. A. is largely decentralized.
10 per cent of its personnel being
scattered in los field Offices through
out the country.
r. Granville Curry, an attorney
who practices before the I. C. c.,
supported Mr.. Eastmans opposition
to it's removal. He outlined the
hardships that would be caused by
such a plan.
Patent Office Echoes.
An echo of the removal of the
Patent Office to Richmond, Va,
came to the subcommittee from
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Tokomu Park Woman
Found Shot to Death

Mrs. Elizabeth Carroll Grice, 33
of TIA Wildwood drive, Takoma
Park, was found last night shot
through the heart in a second
floor bedroom of her home.
Prince Georges County police said
Mrs. Grice was cleaning the house
and had taken down a 80 calibre
revolver in a holster from a closet
shelf in the room when the gun
apparently went off. DR.. James l.
Boyd, Prince Georges County cor
oner, is investigating
Evening star., 1942-01-05
U. 5. Navy 10 Operate
From AustraIasian
Station, Curtin Says
Americas Role Gives
Great Encouragement,
Prime Minister Asserts
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. s.
Prime Minister John Curtin an
nounced yesterday that under the
united nations strategy the United
States Navy will operate from an
AustralaSian station.
Declaring Australia's strategic po-
sition vitally important in the plan
of Britain, the United States, the
Netherlands Indies and Australia
to fight and work together, Mr. Cur
tin said:
The part which American forces
will play gives great encourage
ment, and we vividly recall the
statement Of the commander Of the
United States naval squadron which
recently visited Australia, You talk
like us and fight like US That
United States naval units will op-
crate in an Australasian station
is natural sequel to that declara-
tion."
The term Australasia is loose
term which might include New
Zealand, the Netherlands Indies,
the Malay archipelago and the
numerous surrounding archi-
pelagos as we'll as Australia.
(The United States naval COM
| mander referred to by Mr.. Curtin
was Rear Admiral John H. New
ton, who led a squadron of seven
United States warships to AUS
tralia on a goodwill visit last
| March.)
FOrays Extended.
Almost simultaneously with Mr..
Curtin's announcement, Japanese
bombers extended their forays to
within 300 miles of Australia, twice
bombing the Australian air force
airdrome at Rabaul on the island
of New Britain in the Bismarck
archipelago.
In the first attack, communique
said, a few bombs were dropped,
and some damage was done to
installations at the field and few
natives in the vicinity were killed
or wounded. In the second attack,
II bombers participated.
The first attack, made by long,
range bombers which presumably flew
from Japanese-mandated islands,
evidently was the result of Japanese
curiosity as to the activities taking
place in the archipelago, for the
official communique said they were
on a reconnaissance fight.
Scattered Widely.
| An attempt was made to intercept
them after the attack. but they
scattered widely and made pursuit
impractical.
The Japanese previously have re-
ported reconnaissance flights in the
direction of Australia, and they have
bombed Ocean Island, 1900 miles
/ east of Rabaul
The Bismarck archipelago. which
lies almost under the Equator, ex-
tends north and east of Papua, the
Australian-mandated half of the
island of New Guinea. The other
half belongs to the Netherlands
Indies. Rabaul itself is about 300
miles northeast of New Guinea.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Stockholm to be at their worst
since the armistice.)
City Council Suspended.

oeoShAiOiLi W VIC ~ lllCA WOIob
since the armistice)
City Council Suspended.
Vichy sources did not reveal the
nature OF the incident at BreSt, but
they were informed it was so serious
as to cause the suspension yesterday
of the entire City Council, including
the Mayor. Whatever happened
occurred during an inaugural cere-
mony for the Council, just taking
office.
Brest is where the German battle
ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
and the cruiser Prinz Eugen are be-
lieved laid up for repairs. The port,
often blasted by the r. A. F., was
bombed again Friday and Saturday
nights.
The cause Of the Paris Qurfew or
der likewise was not announced
here.
The Paris outburst is the first of
any consequence reported in Occu-
pied France since German firing
squads shot 100 Frenchmen at Nam
tes and Bordeaux last October in
reprisal for the Staying of two Ger
man officers and held 100 more as
hostages after last-minute reprieves
from executions.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Pepco Worker Burned

Charles Stansbury, 80, of 361s o
street, Potomac Electric Power Co.
employe. was burned severely today
as he was working in manhole in
the 400 block of Eleventh street SW.
Cause OF the burns was not de-
termlned. Mr.. Stansbury was ad-
mltted to Casualty Hospital.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Third Division Society

The Washington branch Of the
Third Division Society of the A.
E. F. will hold its first meeting OF
the year at the American Legion
Clubhouse, 2437 Fifteenth street
NV, at 8 pm. wednesday, John A.
| Rees, president, announced.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
DR.. John 0. Evien Dies

CHICAGO, Jan. 5 lP)-Dr. John o.
Evjen, 81, dean of Carthage Col
lege, Carthage. ILL.,, and well-known
lecturer and church historian, died
of a heart ailment yesterday.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest, So. on January 2.
Lowest, %, on January 8.

Humidity for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest 90 per cent, at am. today
Lowest, 20 Der cent, at m yesterday
Weather In Various Cities.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Report for Last A Hours
Records for Last "a Hours,

Records for Last "a Hours.
rrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 40 at 4;1O p.m. yesterday. Year
ago, 49,
Lowest. 80. at $50 am. today. Year
ago, 25.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Report
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by he United ates
District Columbia and fair colder tonight
with lowest temperature 20 degrees gentle winds.
Evening star., 1942-01-05

Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
Il Harpers Ferry: Potomac muddy at Great
The Nome nugget., 1942-10-30
Dimond Asserts General Rationing For Alaska Is Just Plain Screwy'
OPA Says Ii is Reasonable to Assume That General
 Rationing Policy Will be Applied To Alaska

WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (49 - Deayed-An oaic- al of the OPA said is reasonable to assume that gen. eral rationng will be applied to Alaska but Delegate Dimond said any such plan is just plain screwy."
 Rupert Emerson, head of the Territories Division of the OPA, said tires autos and typewriters are a- ready rationed but sugar and gas are not. Emerson said:
 Insofar as it is necessary will apply the nation al rationing program to Alaska. l. is reasonable assumption that it Wil have to be If coffee is rationed in the remainder Of the nation there is no reason why it shouldn't be rati0ne5 n Alaska. We have reached no flat decision and ara studying the question
 Mrs. Mildred Hemann ratjonng director for the Territory is now enrogte to Washington We will eX- anime the situation here and is reasonable to assume that general ratoning will be applied to Alaska if it is to be applied to the rest of the country very good reason will have to be shown why Alaska is not in- cluded'
 Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said: It would be just plain screWy to apply general rationng Alaska l tried to find out, but l have been unable to learn what the OPA intends to do.
 Interior Alaska residents have to lay n applies ev cry summer for the next twelve months. They can't run to the corner grocery every time they need a pound of suger It might be necessary ration liquor but the cost of general ratoning policy for 80 to 9OOOO people in territory the size of Texas would be tremendous and foolish"
The Nome nugget., 1942-10-30
Dimond Urges Extension Alaska
 Highway 600 Miles To Bering Sea
Urges Use Of Alaska To Strike At Japan, Territory
 Being Only Two Tohusand Miles From Tokyo

WASHINGTON Oct. 29 (4Y - Delegate Dimond described Alaska to the House of Representatives as the best route to to defeat the Japanese by strk ing at the homeland "We normally look forward to the expansion of military developments in and through Alaska both to bring power to bear against the Japanese and to materially supply the Russo-Ger- man front he said.
 The strategic importance of Alaska was brought vividy to attention, he said, by the obvious difficulty of supplying forces in Australia and the Solomon Is- lands and the great distances overseas always subject to the enemys naval forces. If drive the Japanese out of the AleutianS must at the earliest pos sibe moment then can come within 2,000 miles of Tokyo without leaving our own territory"
 Urging the appointment of a committee to ispect the new Alaska highway, Dimond suggested that such a group would be likely to recommend the extension of the road, the 600 additional miles to the Boring Sea or Strait. rough survey has already been made for highway from Fairbanks to Nome
 Dimond also urged highway from frince George Dimond suggested connecting the present highway from Fort St. John with Prince George.