davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-10-08
Sales Expert
To Speak Here
October IA

Elmer Wheeler, sales and ply
sociology consultant for several
of the country's leading bust
ness firms, has been secured by
the Newark Junior Chamber of
Commerce for an address in the
high school auditorium Wednes-
day, Oct. IA at 8 p. m.
Wheeler is an entertaining
and forceful speaker, and the
author of some of the nations
"Best- Seller" business books,
which have attracted nation wide
attention. Several large maga-
zines have carried stories of
"The No. l Salesman of Today"
Tickets are on sale at the
Chamber of Commerce office at
81.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-10-08

on your family's health regular
ly. This preventive medicine
means: going to the dentist or
dental clinic twice a year at least
going to the doctor or clinic for
a general physical examination
at least once a year.
If you have some spare time
you should take the standard
Red Cross course in first aid (20
hours), followed by the advanced
course 90 hours). There should
be:
One person in every home with
training in first aid.
One worker out of every 20 in
factories and business with train
ing in first aid.
If you have an aptitude for
teaching, you can make yourself
even more useful by going on
and taking the instructors
Course. Instructors are badly
needed.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-10-08
Maritime Service
OPENS Drive

Headquarters of the Fifth Re-
gional District, United States
Maritime Service in Cleveland,
announced a drive for $500 men
for the Victory Fleet by Thanks
giving Day, Nov. 26.
The new drive comes with the
celebration of Victory Fleet day,
which marked the production
of three new Liberty ships a
day. The Maritime Service re-
cruits and trains men for vital
jobs aboard these ships.
Men entering the Maritime
Service must be American citi-
zens Of good character between
the ages of II and 35 and must
pass a physical examination.
Accepted applicants are sworr
into the Merchant Marine Re-
I serve of the United States Ma
Wy. This exempts them from
Selective Service.
Three months of intensive
training prepares the men for
important, high-paying posi-
tions aboard cargo vessels of
the American Merchant Marine.
During the training period ap-
prentice seamen receive $50 a
month, and upon completion of
the course, jobs are secured for
graduates which pay as high as
$500 a month. Advancement is
possible after fourteen months
of sea duty; at the end of which
time a seaman can apply for Of
ficer training.
Special training for radio op-
orators is also offered by the
Maritime Service. To qualify,
men must have completed two
years of high school, with one
year of algebra.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-10-08

BUY U S. WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Evening star., 1942-02-09
ingalls,
Continued From First Page.)

pare this country for the new order
Of Adolf Hitler"
He said she was constantly In
touch with Hans Thomson, former
German charge d'affaires in this
country; Fritz Wiedemann, former
German consul In San Francisco
and intimate Of Hitler; Fritz Wagner
and his wife, Bernhardine Wagner.
minor attaches Of the German EN-
baSsy here.
Intermediary Named.
Often Miss ingalls, visited with
the Wagners here, the prosecutor
charged. Miss Julia Kraus Of 2829
s street Sc. often acted as inter-
mediary between Miss Ingalls, and
officials of the German government,
he said, and Miss ingalls, sometimes
stayed at Miss Kraus' apartment
in Washington and through her re-
ceived money from the embassy.
During the time she was receiv-
ing money, she was making speeches
under the auspices of various organ
izations throughout the country" !"
said Mr.. Andrews. "She would talk
on whatever issue the organization
was interested in, interpreting her
speeches with quotations from 'Mein
Kampf' and otherwise spreading
German propaganda"
Selection Of the jury for the trial
before Justice James w. Morris con-
sumed the morning session. Both
Mr.. Andrews and Defense Counsel
James Reilly questioned prospective
Jurors closely on possible connec-
ton with isolationist or anti-isola-
tionis organizations. Several jurors
disqualified themselves with the ad-
mission that they were "prejudiced"
against Axis powers.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Russia
Continued From First Page. }

said the Rumanian captives fought
German prisoners. They COM
planned that the German COM
manders had assured them Of artil-
lery and German infantry support
which did not materialize.
Detachment Kills I79.
On the Kalinin front northwest Of
Moscow, q guerrilla detachment led
by q grandfather" attached . Ger
man rearguard detachment, killing
ITO officers and men, capturing i've
anti-tank guns and other material.
The Soviets claimed they cap
tured an order Of the day Of the
290th German infantry regiment
which said: -'
Lately q number of instances
have occurred showing . decline in
discipline and a lowering OF morale
Of the unit. During fighting, posi-
tions are surrendered prematurely
without good reason. In addition,
arms are abandoned and wounded
are left behind. On march. men
singly and even in groups have been
leaving the marching column with
out permission, abandoning their
arms. Ofncers must put an end to
this situation by all means at their
disposal"
The Russians were using Ameri-
can-made planes against German
battalions whose massed artillery
has lost its sting.
Operate in Various Areas.
The American-made planes were
said to be operating on various Sec
tions of the long-snowbound front.
(The British radio. heard by
c. B. s., quoted q Russian broad
cast announcing the Red Army
had recaptured the town Of Kras-
nograd, go miles southwest Of
Kharkov and an important juno
ton of the Acknowledgment
petrovsk and Odessa Railway.
This report indicated another ad-
vance for the Russians driving
westward in the Donets area
toward Dnieperopetrovsk)
The assertion that the celebrated
German artillery no longer was .
factor in the Donets and Ukraine
fighting came from Col. G. Nadysev,
who said the ammunition furnished
each battery had been cut down
until the mass fire which usually
preceded an infantry attack had
been eliminated.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Mines Bureau Urges Use
OF U. 5. Manganese Ores
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary of Interior Ickes an
nounced yesterday that the Bureau
Of Mines had proposed $38, ,00o, 900
program to utilize the low-grade,
domestic manganese for Americas
wartime steel industry.
The Nation normally imports from
Southern Asia, Brazilian and Cuban
ports more than 80 per cent of its
manganese requirements, officials
said, adding that they feared q re-
duction in shipping might result
in a deficiency in 1943 without ad-
ditional processing of domestic ores.
Pointing out that approximately
1880, 1000 tons of domestic ores
could be produced annually, the
bureau proposed that either pri-
vate industry or the Government
Immediately build u plants in
eight Western and Midwestern
States to apply newly discovered
processes for utilizing the domestic
output. All of the plants, the bureau
told Mr.. Ickes, could be In opera
ton at the end Of the year, and
many at the end Of nine months.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Broad Power Given
President Declared
Handicap 10 Defense
Agency Failure Seen
In American Councils
Survey Of Emergency
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A study Of presidential powers
and national emergency" made pub
lie last night by the American Coun-
ell on Public Affairs declared that
the concentration Of powers in Pres
ident Roosevelt's hands during the
defense emergency had handicapped
the Nations armament program.
The study found that although
Specific authority originally dele
gated to the President by Congress
has been sub-delegated to various
agencies, ultimate control resides in
the hands of the Commander in
Chief.
His reluctance to relinquish au-
thority and place more responsibility
upon his lieutenants." 1t continued,
resulted in such wide span Of con-
troll as to jeopardize efficiency Of the
defense effort"
Years Research Made.
The study was made for the coun.
Gil, a private research organization,
by DR.. Albert Lee Sturm of the
University Of Michigan faculty. DR..
Sturm conducted q years research
here under . cooperative fellow
ship of Duke University and Brook.
ings Institution.
Threats of economic disaster
during the early years Of the Roose-
welt administration prompted the
passage Of legislation by Congress
vesting broad powers in the Presi-
dent" the study said.
The outbreak of war In Europe
In 1889 resulted in the delegation Of
additional powers to the executive
for the purpose OF Strengthening
national defense.
Greatest Power Granted.
these grants, supplemented by
the constitutional authority and
previous delegations to the President,
place more power In the hands OF
Franklin Delano Roosevelt than has
ever been possessed by any Of his
predecessors in time Of peace"
DR.. Sturm distinguished between
what he termed constitutional die
tatorship" and the methods Of con-
temporary European dictators, but
held that q long period Of ab-
solutism would tend to cause the
formation of new habits and render
restoration Of constitutional gov
eminent more difncult."
Evening star., 1942-02-09
; 3Americans and Jap
Plead Innocenfto
Alien Agent Charge
Four Accused Of Acting
As U. S. Propueundists
For Toxic Government

Pleas Of innocent we're entered by
three Americans and . Japanese
alien at their arraignment today
before Justice T. Alan Goldsborough
in District Court on charges Of con-
spiracy to violate the Foreign Agents
Registration Act.
The defendants are Ralph Town.
send Of Lake Geneva, Wis, former
editor and contributor to Scribner's
Commentator; David Warren Ry-
der and Frederick Vincent williams,
San Francisco publicity men, and
Tsutomu Obana, former secretary Of
the Japanese Chamber Of Commerce
in San Francisco, who has been in
detention camp.
Representing Mr.. Ryder as coun-
sci was Joseph A. Cantrel. who said
that Elisha Hanson, attorney for
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association, would be an, associate
counsel. Samuel Beach represented
Mr.. williams, while Mr.. Townsend
had no counsel. Attorney William
A. Porter told Justice Goldsborough
he had been requested by San Fran
cisco attorneys to obtain counsel for
Mr.. Obana.
The three Americans are at lib
erty on $1,000 bond.
The Government charges that the
four defendants distributed propa-
ganda In this country on behalf of
Japan. They are accused Of work
ing in connection with Japanese
Committee on Trade and Informa-
ton, with headquarters in San
Francisco. This committee was the
agent of the japanese consulate
general in San Francisco and re-
ceived more than $4,000 from the
consulate, 1t is charged.
Representing the Government are
Special Assistants to the Attorney
General Albert E. Aren't and Arthur
B. Caldwell.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Pacific War Council
Will Sit in London,
Curtin Declares
Australia CONSIDERING
Strengthening Of
Representation Here

LONDON, Feb. 9.-The Ex-
change Telegraph Agency re-
ported from Canbarra today that
Australian Prime Minister John
Curtin announced the establish
ment in London Of q Pacific war
council.
Mr.. Curtin said Sir Earle Page,
Australian representative In Lon.
don, would be the dominion's mem.
Der for the present.
Consideration Is being given, he
added, to strengthening Australian
representation in Washington to
provide an adequate link with the
combined Chiefs Of Stah Committee
functioning there.
Informed sources in London were
puzzled by the meaning Of Mr..
Curtin's announcement since there
had been no information of the es.
tablishment here Of such q council.
In fact, 1t had been understood that
1t would sit In Washington.
His statement that Sir Earle
would represent Australia tempo
rarily was taken as an indication
that he might be referring to con-
ferences Of the British war cabinet.
Mr.. Curtin said the establishment
Of the council In London had been
agreed to because Of the urgency
Of the Allied position in the Pacific.
"I am gratified to learn that Mr..
Churchill has adopted q more ap-
propriate title suggested by the Aus
tralian government" he added, and
to receive the assurance from Mr..
Churchill that 1t will deal not only
with the A. B. D. A. area but with
the whole Pacific situation"
Evening star., 1942-02-09
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON 6, MONDAY FEBRUARY 1912
Missing Persons

Those haptng information
concerning persons reported
missing should communicates
tctth the Public Relations Squad
OF the Police Department, Nd-
ttonal 1000. l.
Warren Webb, ., 1 feet 4 inches,
90 pounds. blue eyes. blond hair.
scar over left eye, wearing blue and
gray lumberjacket, gray trousers
and black shoes. missing from 334
Eighth street NE. since Saturday.
Edna Ashby, is, 5 feet z inches,
135 pounds, hazel eyes. blond hAir.
wearing brown shirt and shoes, red
sweater and blue coat. Missing from
TOT Fifteenth street NE. since Sat-
urday.
Jackie Jones, II. feet 10h inches.
1876 pounds, black eyes and hair,
three -cornered scar on palm Of right
hand. wearing green corduroy 1ac-
ket, green wool trousers. grayish
green hat and dark tan shoes. He
Is driving . 1888 Ford coupe. Mary
land tags 495-959. Missing from
Hyattsville since Saturday.
Marjorie Catherine Chamberlain,
II, 5 feet 3 inches, 125 pounds, brown
eyes and hair. Missing from 500
Third street NV. since yesterday.
Sarah James, 10, colored, 5 feet
I inches. 125 pounds, gray hair,
wearing long coat, missing from SIG
First street NV. since Friday.
Robert Wilson, II, colored, 5 feet
6 6inches, 40 pounds, wearing leather
lumber jacket plaid in front. green
trousers and gray cap, missing from
900 New Hampshire avenue NV.
since Saturday.
Annie Wallace, 30. colored, 5 feet
wearing black chinchilla coat
trimmed with white fur, black dress
and green hat, missing from 1921
Fourth street NV. since Friday.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
10tst Enemy Plane
Credited 10 Americans
Fighting Over Burma
Wreekoge Of Bomber Hit
BY Colorado Flyer Lost
Week Is Found
N the Assoeiatad YrAsa.

By the Associated Press.
RANGOON, Burma, Feb. 9.-The
American Volunteer Group the
flying tigers" Of Burma's air de-
fenses-was credited with its 1o1st
confirmed victory over the japanese
Air Force today with the discovery
of q wrecked bomber which Robert
Keaton Of Manzanola, Colo, at
tackled February 3. but was not sure
he had even damaged.
Keaton, former Colorado College
fullback who left q naval bombing
patrol assignment ut San Diego to
join the volunteers, had been de-
tailed to the ferry service in Burma
until he got the feel Of the Toma-
hawks which he had not piloted
previously.
Tried to Save Plane.
When the Japanese raided the up
country field, Keaton jumped into
the cockpit Of Q lone Tomahawk
to attempt to save 1t from destruc-
ton. He took 1t aloft and cruised
for half an hour in q high altitude
without helmet or oxygen equip
ment. He felt himself losing con-
sciousness and began to descend.
On the way down he saw the only
remaining Japanese bomber 1000
feet below apparently engaged in
Photographic reconnaissance. He
switched on his firing mechanism
and dived at the enemy with al
his guns shooting.
Texan Ii Killed.
Bob Neale OF Seattle took over
command Of q squadron Of the
A. v. G. today. succeeding r. J. San
dell Of San Antonio, Tex, who was
killed in an accident crash two days
ago.
Sandel was killed after chalking
up seven victories over the Japa
nese. five in two days. His Toma
hawk fighter plane had been dam
aged when q Japanese flyer COM
mttted suicide by diving onto the
planes tail more than Z week ago
1t was parked on an airfield at
the time.
The plane had been repaired and
Sandell took it up for q test flight
when 1t crashed.
Let freedom ring on Uncle Sans
cash register! Buy United States
Defense bonds and stamps.
Evening star., 1942-02-09

sources.)
TOXIC (from Japanese broad
easts), Feb. 8 (P.-Japanese bomb
ing planes carried out extensive
raids on the Rangoon airfield early
today as well as on military ob1ec-
tives at Martaban at the mouth OF
the Salween River, Domei dispatches
reported.
More than so planes were de-
stroyed in raids over Sumatra Feb
ruary z, additional dispatches said.
when japanese bomber and fighter
formations attacked 'in complete
defiance of the N. z. I. airforce" at
Pelembang and Pakanbaroe.
''Winging their way over the sea
toward Pelembang," Domei oorre-
spondents said, Japanese raiders
shot down four out Of six Blenheims
which attempted to intercept them
over Berhala Island, 125 miles south
Of Singapore.
Japanese aircraft then brought
down IS Hurricanes. 2 Lockheeds
and 6 Blenheims over Pelembang
after which they dove down on the
airfield destroying 16 Hurricanes,
Blenheims and Lockheeds on the
ground.
concentrating their bombs on IA
other planes on the ground, the
raiders set fire to at least six other
planes. Meanwhile. another jap
anese squadron which swooped down
on Pakanbaroe the same day de-
stroyed one Lockheed and two
Bknheims by machine-gun fire."
Domei, Japanese news agency. re-
ported today from the Burma war
front that Japanese warplanes had
bombed and wiped out large Brit
ish force retreating along the west
bank of the Salween River, north OF
Moulmein.
Domei In a dispatch from an
undisclosed base reported that jap
anese Navy planes sank q large
type enemy vessel" yesterday In
Casper Strait. between Bangka
island and Billion Island Of South
east Sumatra.
The Toxic Newspaper Miyako an
nounced it was beginning a drive
for funds to purchase and trans
port Japanese cherry trees to be
planted around memorials to jap
anese war dead in newly occupied
southern territories.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
CAPT. Carlos Grevemberg
Is Buried in ARLINGTON

Capt. Carlos E. Grevemberg, 50,
Of Rose Hill, Port Tobacco, Md, who
died at Emergency Hospital Friday,
was buried today in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery, following mass at
10 am. at st. Matthews Cathedral.
Capt. Grevemberg was stricken
with a heart attack Friday while in
a store in La Plata and was brought
to the hospital here.
He was an Army engineer in the
First World War. Some years ago he
acquired Rose Hill, ancestral home
Of DR.. Gustavus Brown, one Of the
physicians who attended George
washington in his last illness. Capt.
Grevemberg carefully restored the
estate.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Bullets Cripple Plane
Near Defense Plant;
Passenger Wounded
Girl, IS, and Pilot Also
lmperiIed by VolIey
In Illinois
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
GRANITE CITY. ILL.,. Feb. "a
burst Of gunfire ended the first air
plane ride Of Delbert Henson and
15-year -old Beverly Ann Keith,
leaving Mr.. Henson critically
wounded. r.
He was given several blood trans
fusions.
The plane was nying near the
restricted defense area ut Alton. ILL.,,
which houses the vast western
Cartridge Co. plant.
Soldiers from Jefferson Barracks,
Mo-. and company police patrol the
area. 1t. j. A. Vilhauer, In charge
Of the Army guards. and company
ofiicials refused to coment.
Investigation Ordered.
Army authorities at Jefferson
Barracks said merely that . report
of the shooting had been sent to
7th Corps Area headquarters at
Omaha and an investigation would
be made there.
Delbert Richardson. Granite City
flying instructor who was plotting
the plane, gave this account Of the
incident:
Mr.. Henson and Miss Keith. tax
ing their first plane ride. asked him
TO fly over the girls home at Alton.
He refused because he feared 1t was
too close to the restricted area.
He then turned the plane at an
altitude of 1,100 feet at q point he
believed was 8 or 10 miles from the
restricted zone.
AS he banked, the first of seven
shots hit the ship. One pierced
Mr.. Henson's hip and stomach. An
other penetrated the gasoline tank.
forcing Mr.. Richardson to switch
to an emergency supply.
Flies Back to Airport.
Mr.. Henson Lumped against Miss
Keith groaning. Mr.. Richardson,
fearing another salvo, decided
against an emergency landing
despite his passengers injuries and
flew his crippled ship back to the
airport.
Seven Of the bullets struck the
planes under carriage, wings and
fuselage. One Of them pierced the
pilots chair, only an inch from Mr..
Richardson's body.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Fraternity initiates 3

New members Of the Alpha Chi
Sigma chemical fraternity initiated
Saturday ct the University OF Mary
land Are Dr.. Leason H. Adams, d.
rector Of the geophyScal laboratory
Of the Carnegie Institution Of WASH
tngton; Dr.. Ferdinand @. Brick
wedde. cryogenic laboratory chief at
the National Bureau Of Standards,
and Or. 1rl G. Schoonover, research
assistant at the bureau.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Former U. S. EmpIoye
Found Shot in Head

Suffering from a gunshot wound
in the right side Of his head. Jacob
c. Earnhart, so, Of 323 Eleventh
street NE. early today was taken to
Casualty Hospital where attendants
said his condition Is critical.
He was found by his wife, Lottie,
tn the bedroom Of his home about
7:30 O'Clock this morning, according
to police, who said Mr.. Earnhart
formerly was q guard at the Smith
sonian Institution and had been
suffering from a nervous breakdown
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Thomos Mexican Dies:
Author and Playwright
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VILLANOVA, Pa, Feb. o.-Thom-
as McKean, 73. socially prominent
author, playwright and descendant
Of Thomas Mexican, signer Of the
Declaration of Independence, died
Saturday at his home.
One of Mr.. McKean's plays. The
Main Line depicted suburban
Philadelphia society life. He also
wrote the novels. THE Vortex"
"The Master Of influence" The
Mercy Of Fate" and "The Wife De-
cides."
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Ulster Prime Minister
Conferrinq in London

by the Associated Press.
BELFAST, Northern ireland, Feb.
9.-Just a month after his visit to
London to arrange for the landing
Of United States troops In Northern
Ireland, Prime Minister John Miller
Andrews Is again in the British
capital conferring with members Of
the British government.
Details were not disclosed.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Roeder Reported BoIked
In Seeking French Fleet
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Feb. 9.-Grand Admiral
Erich Raeder recently had q secret
three-hour interview with Admiral
Darlan 'in an attempt to gain full
use of the French fleet" for Ger
many, but Admiral Darlan re
iterated Petain's REFUSAL" the Daily
Mail reported in q dispatch from
The meeting occurred In q small
provincial French town while Ad-
miral Raeder was inspecting Ger
man bases on the coast, the cor
respondent said.