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Evening star., 1942-10-19

Radio Engineering Institute will
amount to approximately $4,000 a
year.
The men have been paying $3.50
a month to Ferdinand M. Ney,
wholesale liquor dealer here who, in
turn, pays $3.50 a month rent to the
owners, the rent administrator said.
He said that Mr.. Ney, through his
attorney, William r. Lichtenberg,
had been notified Of the rent order,
which became effective Saturday.
Mr.. Cogswell, conducting a per-
sonal investigation following news
paper accounts of conditions at what
he termed the "so-called DOR,
mitories," found there were no
facilities for furnishing heat to the
building and that mo recreational
(See RENT, Page A-16.)
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Woman Dies Instantly
In 60-Foot Plunge
From @ Street Bridqe
Police Identify Victim
As SecreturiuI Worker
In Office Here

A woman identified by police
as Mrs. Marjory Meana, about 40,
a secretary on leave of absence
from the Washington Offices of
General Motors Corp, leaped to
her death from the @ Street
Bridge this morning.
At her home at 1773 Massachu-
setts avenue NV, it was said that
Mrs. Meana had suffered a nervous
breakdown recently.
The woman's body narrowly
missed an automobile as it dropped
from the 60-feet-high span to the
macadam surface of the driveway.
She was pronounced dead by DR..
H. r. Weiner, of the Emergency
Hospital staff, who was called to the
scene by park police.
The Office of Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald later announced that a
certificate of suicide had been issued.
Bank checks and note stating
that in case of accident, her hus-
band, j. A. Meana, of the Massa-
chusetts avenue address, should be
notified, led police to their early
Identification. Mr.. Meana was sec
ond secretary of the Spanish En-
bassy in 1887 and 1888.
Mr.. Meana, a member of the fam
lily said, is seriously i'll and has been
under medical care recently. He is
the representative of the Mexican
Sugar Producers Association and
other interests in Washington.
Mrs. Meana, it was learned at the
home, had been granted leave of
three months from General Motors
about two weeks ago. This morn
ing, as on other days, she left home
about 10 o'clock to shop. Instead,
police say, she went to the bridge,
about seven blocks from her home.
Park police said no one saw the
woman 60 over the edge of the
bridge. A car driven by an attache
OF the Argentine Embassy was pass
(See pITJNTE pace A-Gl
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Soldiers Living in Warehouse
Get Rent Cut After Probe

Rent Control Administrator Rob-
ert F. Cogswell today announced he
has ordered the $20-a7month rent
which 1873 soldiers Of the Army
Signal Corps have been paying for
sleeping and studying in con-
verted warehouse reduced to $3.50
as result of a three-week survey
Of conditions there.
"It is at once apparent that the
housing accommodations furnished
the men In this case constitute very
LITTLE more than mere shelter, and
do not favorably compare with
housing accommodations normally
to be expected when one rents q
room," Mr.. Cogswell declared.
Savings to the men who took over
the tw0-story building at 400 Geor-
gia avenue NV. as quarters while
attending classes at the Capitol
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Henderson Bans 'Phony' Sales
OfHones to Evude Rent Law
Charges Tenants Forced to Buy Houses
So Owners Could Get Higher Payments

rent increases made under the guise
of sales, prohibits eviction of a
tenant until one-third of the pur-
chase price has been paid. A Ger
tificate authorizing eviction then
must be obtained from the area rent
director.
3 Months Notice Required.
Another requirement Is that three
months must pass after an eviction
certificate has been issued before
the tenant actually may be ousted.
The new order also says money
borrowed to make the one-third
purchase payment will not be con-
sidered as satisfying this require
ment.
Mr.. Henderson said: "This
amendment not only places an effec-
tive check on evictions in that pur-
chaser will have to wait three
months before he can occupy-it
will go a long way toward stopping
(see HENDERSON, page A-l6.)
Evening star., 1942-10-19
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-The jap
anese, pursuing some devious prop
aganda purpose not Immediately ap-
parent, reported today that United
States airmen had been captured
during the raid on Japan April 18
by planes under Brig. Gen. James
H. Doolittle's command, and would
be severely punished" for "in-
human acts"
Gen. Doolittle declared after his
return from the raid that not
plane was lost in Japan. One Amer
ican plane came down in Russia and
the crew was interned there.
The Japanese maneuver became
known when the. German radio
broadcast an announcement by the
Japanese home defense head
quarters.
This announcement said members
of the United States group which
bombed Japan had been captured
and convicted and would be severe
ly punished in accordance with IN
ternational law" ..
The announcement was given
wide attention throughout the day
by the Toxic and Berlin radios.
The wording Of some bf these
Evening star., 1942-10-19
5000, 900 in Chinese Area
Reported Near Starvation
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Oct. 19-Stricken
by one of the worst famines of mod
ern times, Chinese are dying by
thousands in the battlefield province
OF Honan, where 100000 persons
are reported officially to be on the
verge of starvation.
Reports brought to Chungking by
officials of the government and re-
lief workers said 100000 have be-
come famine refugees and that the
clogged roads from Honan into
Shensi and Hupeh Provinces are
strewn with dead and dying.
The situation was intensified by
the necessity Of supporting a large
military force to hold the present
front through the province against
the Japanese. The famine extends
into Japanese-held territory, but
exact information on conditions
there was not available.
The famine was attributed in part
to two years of drought conditions,
crop-killing spring frosts and locust
and rabbit plaques, but this was
coupled with the japanese invasion
of some districts last october, caus-
ing the abandonment of the rice
crop and delay in wheat planting.
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Elmer Davis Praises
Canada for Releasing
Dieppe S Bad News
Announcement Of Losses
Called Model of Condor
And Common Sense
BY the Associated Press.

MONTREAL, Oct. 19.-Praise
for the "candor and common
sense. with which the severe
losses in the Dieppe raid were
announced to the Canadian peo-
pie was expressed today by Elmer
Davis, director of the United
States Office of War Information,
at a Victory loan luncheon here.
"A free people wants to know, and
has right to know, how the battle
is going, and will fight all the harder
if it realizes how hard it must fight
for victory" Mr.. Davis said, refer
ring to Defense Minister J. L. Raj
stons announcement on September
ID that tWo-thirds of the Canadian
attacking force was lost in the
August 10 raid.
Model of Common Sense.
Here in Canada you have lately
given us convincing demonstra-
tion of that faith in your handling
of the news of the Dieppe raid. The
report of your defense minister, Mr..
Ralston, was a model of candor and
common sense. In that operation
the casualties were proportionately
very heavy. But prompt announce
ment of those casualties was a
proof that your government had
faith in the strength of the Cana
dian spirit. And that incident set
an example which every free people
in this war should remember and
profitably follow"
"In two far-off corners of the
world your men and ours have at
tackled the enemy together, within
the past few weeks" Mr.. Davis
said.
Cites Americans Role.
"We are glad that at least a
few United States rangers-though
they were only handful-were
there when the gallant Canadian
battalions stormed the beaches of
Dieppe -.
And at Kiska, Canadian and
American planes took turns diving
through the clouds to blast the
Japs out of their hiding places.
These are the attacks that appeared
in the headlines and they made
history, but there are other joint
attacks We do not read about =
the attacks made by our destroyers
and corvettes and armed merchant
men on enemy submarines the
attacks made by our patrol planes
which scour miles of empty ocean
in search of submarines.
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Senate 10 Act
Thursday on
Draft Bill
Vondenberg Offers
Proposal to Lower
Voting Age to 18
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
The administration agreed to-
day to delay until Thursday Sen
ate debate on legislation to SUBJ
ject 18 and 10 year old men to
the military draft.
Majority Leader Barkley said
he and Minority Leader McNary
had agreed on the postponement
to await the return of several alb
sent Senators. The House passed
the bill by an overwhelming vote
Saturday.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican,
of Michigan, announced just before
the Senate convened that he was
introducing a constitutional amend
ment which would lower the legal
voting age from 81 to 18.
IF 18 and 10 year olds are going
to be sent out to fight for this Gov
ernment, they ought to have the
right to vote and to say what kind
OF a government they are fighting
for" the Michigan Senator de-
clared.
Two Other Big Bills Pending.
The constitutional amendment
provision he submitted would re-
qulre ratification by three-fourths
OF the States, after congressional
approval, before it could become ef-
fective.
The Senate also has for considera-
ton this week the conference report
on the cord-breaking tax bill and
a S6,341 100000 appropriation meas
ure, including about $5,6oO,0o0, 900
for the Navy.
The appropriation measure had
the right of way.
FINAL congressional approval Of
the tax bill by tomorrow was re-
garded as foregone conclusion.
Leaders wanted to get it to the
PRESIDENT for his signature by
wednesday so that increased ex-
else taxes could go into effect on
November 1. The House was due to
act first on the conferees' report
ago.
There was little opposition to the
nuge appropriation measure, and
indications were that a majority
OF the Senate was prepared to 90
along on the drafting of 18 and 49,
year olds with only minor changes
In the House-approved bill.
Senator La Toilette, Progressive,
OF Wisconsin predicted an effort
would be made to adopt a House
provision delaying the induction Of
high school and college students
until the close of the academic year
next June. The Senate version
would defer only high school stu
dents and then only until the end
of the current semester.
Senator La Toilette said he would
support, but had no plans to offer.
an amendment which would prevent
(see CONGRESS, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Russians Move
Reinforcements
Into VoIgo City
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Oct. 19.-German
troops, advancing over the bodies
of hundreds of their dead, added
a new block of Stalingrad's
crumbling buildings to their
holdings within the city today as
the Russian defenders moved in
fresh troops in a desperate effort
to blunt and defeat the latest
Nazi assault. now in its sixth day.
Nevertheless, the force of the on
slaught seemed lessened from the
fury of attacks earlier in the siege,
and some observers here questioned
whether this was due to an ex-
haustion of forces or to a German
shift of strength to the west to face
a possible second front.
The danger to Stalingrad still
remained acute, with the German
attack concentrated into narrow
salients in a desperate effort to
achieve final break-through.
Is Tanks Knocked Out.
Earlier reports had placed the
f1ercest fighting in the besieged city
in the northern factory area and
it was assumed that the new Ger
man gain was registered here.
Hundreds of enemy dead were
left in the street and 18 tanks were
knocked out" the midday COM
munique said.
Fourteen German planes sup
porting the German assault were
brought down by Red Air Force
pilots and anti-aircraft fire, the
communique said. ..
Among the, Axis troops thrown
into the battle, the Russians said,
was the Croatian legion of 1000
troops, forming part of the Tooth
German Light Infantry Division.
Pravda reported that Of the orig
inal 1000 members of this legion
only a single company, or approx
mately 200 men, remained as the
German commanders relentlessly
pushed their troops toward the
Volga River.
Nazi Concentration Dispersed.
The fighting northwest of Stain
grad was only Of local Importance,
the communique said, but it added
that a German concentration of in
fantry preparing for attack in that
area was dispersed by Red Army
artillery fire. German attacks in
other sectors of this area were re-
pulsed, it was reported.
Red Army troops resisting the
German drive toward the Grozny oil
fields in the Mozdok region wiped
out three companies of German in
fantry and destroyed II tanks in
repulsing an attack there, the mid
day communique said.
The fighting in the Caucasus, at
Mozdok and Novorossisk, the Ger
man-occupied naval base on the
Black Sea, was pushed into the
background by the dramatic defense
of Stalingrad.
Yesterday alone, the midnight
Soviet communique said, $500 Nazi
soldiers gave up their lives for
Hitler's unfulfilled dream of taking
this sturdy citadel on the Volga.
Furious Battle for Factory.
The Russians reported they de-
stroyed As German tanks in the
course of bitter fighting, II of them
in furious battle for possession of
a factory, probably the Red Barri-
cade gun works.
1t was in this factory area that
the Germans earlier had driven a
wedge into the Russian positions.
Yesterday, the Russians said, 1000
Nazi officers and men were killed
lCn. nI1cCIA -. a =
Evening star., 1942-10-19
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

To break up "a racket" in
evading rent control, Price Ad-
minister Leon Henderson today
issued drastic regulations pro-
tecting, in every control area ex-
cept the District, tenants forced
to 60 through the motions of
buying houses so that the owners
might obtain higher monthly
payments.
Mr.. Henderson pointed out at a
press conference that the new regu-
lations do not apply to the District
because 1t still has its own rent
control law, but he suggested that
the local rent-control Office study"
the order. A bill which has passed
the House and is pending in the
Senate adds the District to States
affected by the general rent-control
law.
The new rules, intended to stop
Evening star., 1942-10-19
rs Die as Raj Plane
Crashes at RuiI Station
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Oct 19-At least Is
persons were believed to have died
as result of an air crash yesterday
near railway station when an RAF
plane undershot an airdrome, nosed
over and burst into flames.
Men, women and children leaving
trains scattered wildly as the plane
struck. Women and children were
among the casualties, but the COM
plete toll was not known.
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Uruguay to Salvage
Hull of Graf Spec
To Reclaim Steel
sr the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MONTEVIDEO, Oct. 49,
The Uruguyan government
authorized a private firm today
to raise the hull of the scuttled
German pocket battleship Graf
Spec from the bottom of the
River Plata in order to reclaim
the ships steel.
The Graf Spec has been
gradually sinking into the
muddy river bed since SAL
vagers removed the super
structure a year ago. The
10,000-ton Nazi man-'o-war
was driven to suicide in Monte
video Harbor on December II,
1899, after losing e running
battle to the British in the
Atlantic.
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Envoy Reported Attacked

LONDON, Oct. 19 R.-The Paris
radio broadcast report today that
a bomb had been thrown in Bagh-
dad, Iraq, at the British Ambassa-
dor, Sir Kinahan CORVALLIS. No
details of the results of the reported
attack were given.
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Hull Ends Vacation

Secretary Of State Hull was back
at his desk today after a two-week
vacation In the Upper Shenandoah
Valley. He was scheduled to lunch
with President Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Nuzi Ships Sunk in Baltic

LONDON, Oct. 10 (P.-The Mos
COW radio reported today that a
Soviet submarine operating in the
Baltic had sunk five German trans
ports totaling $4,000 tons.
Evening star., 1942-10-19

Yesterdays Circulation
The Sunday Star
Sunday, Oct. 1S, 1912 .1SS, ,SO7
Sunday, Oct. 10, 1941- -"175,236
Increase ---- 14,671
Returns from newsstands not deducted
and no samples included.
Don't fail to read The
Evening and Sunday Star
EVERY DAY. Phone National
5000 for regular delivery.
Evening star., 1942-10-19
King Christian Of Denmark
Hurt in Fall From Horse
BY the Associated Press,

~ tAAC AAoOSlhsCu SLV.
BERLIN (From German Broad
casts, Oct. 19.-King Christian x
of Denmark was injured today by a
fall from his horse and the acci-
dent, in view of his. age, u, 'is
causing great anxiety throughout
Denmark" the Transocean Agency
reported from Copenhagen.
"The King, who recently recov-
cred from a gall bladder infection,
went on his habitual morning ride
and shortly after he left the
Amalienborg Castle (tl1e royal
palace his horse SHE'D, for some
unknown reason, then bolted," the
dispatch said.
The King succeeded in refining in
his mount, but it stopped SO sud-
denly that the King was thrown and
his head hit a stone. Passersby
hurried to the scene and helped the
King, whose face was bleeding pro-
fusely, to his feet.
The King was taken to Castle
Amalienborg in an ambulance. It
is learned that he did not suffer
brain conclusion"
A Stockholm dispatch quoted the
Kings physicians as saying his in
juries were not serious, but that he
must spend some time in bed. His
injuries were described as a cut
behind the left ear and cuts on his
lips. There was no fracture, they
said.
Evening star., 1942-10-19
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Evening star., 1942-10-19
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Star that cost so little and
are worth so much that are
used by thousands of people
day after day.
The Stars overwhelming
leadership in classified lads"
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ity to produce results imme-
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(See PLUNGE, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1942-10-19

(See KADENS, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1942-10-19

(See RUSSIA. Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1942-10-19

Continued on Page A-16, Column /.
Evening star., 1942-10-19

(See CONGRESS, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-10-19

Late news and sports are covered on
RACES TX and 2-X Of this edition OF
Ihe Star, experimenting the news Of
the regular home delivered edition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-14

so often done before. No mind remains
even in benighted Germany so simple as
to believe that the road TO German
victory Is the kind of road that led to
Austria, or Czechoslovakia, or Poland, or
even to France, Norway, the Low Coun-
tries, and Greece. 1t is quite a different
road, and a road which every German
must contemplate with horror. The whole
world was willing to see few small coun-
tries despoiled. 1t swallowed the success
sive conquests OF Manchuria, and ETH
opia and Austria, and CZechoslovakia.
The world was patient too patient, per-
haps but it was patient.
There was an end to its patience, how
ever when it became clear that there
was no end to the rapacity of Germany
and Italy and Japan. Now the whole
world is fast uniting to insist with all its
co-ordinated might that the next decade
must be better than the dreadful one.
On January 80, 1943, Hitler, if he should
live SO long, will have completed his de-
cade. What is done between now and
then will determine whether the next de-
cade shall be one of sunrise or sunset for
free and enlightened civilization.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-14
Up From the Ashes

Just 100 days after a disastrous fire
largely destroyed it's plant the National
Bronze and Aluminium Company at Cleve-
land announced that it had tripled it's
pre-fre war production. One week after
the fire, the first castings were poured
in temporarily rooted quarters. Four
months afterward production had been
tripled, and in another 100 days, the men
promise to double it again.
In view of what was accomplished
after the fire, there is no reason to doubt
that it will be done This is the Ameri-
can answer to disaster. The American
people will return a similar answer to
every disaster the war may have in store
for them, for this is the spirit that cannot
be licked because it will not be licked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-14
Twilight of the Gods

1t isn't funny any more, but merely a
little sickening, to read of Berlin radio
broadcasts beamed for East Asia telling
how Wotan, the German pagan god, is
one with the japanese god of the sun and
the winds as fellow symbols of pure
Aryanism, linking Germany and Japan
in a supernatural bond.
The appalling thing about all this twad-
die is not merely that it is irrational, silly,
and impudently faxed. 1t is that mil
lions of people have been induced to act
on the orders of the kind of mind that
produced it. That, too, is what we are
fighting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-14

It's only two months more before New
Britain will grid itself for municipal
election And Judging by all reports
from the Hardware City the Democrats
are favored to continue in office. There
doesn't seem to be any doubt but what
Mayor George Coyle will be nominated
to succeed himself. He'll be tough can
didate for the Republicans to bowl over
just as are the other outstanding Demo-
cratic mayors around the state, our own
Vincent A. Scully in this coterie. Oddly
enough one of the names heard among
Republicans is that of eX-Mayor George
Quigley who only recently gave up his
real estate business to take a defense
lob in New Britain factory. Maybe he
won't want to drop his defense effort to
90 political again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-14
Lifetime OF Service

Quietly, as was his custom, James T.
Kelly slipped out of service in the Water
bury Post Office, where he had been the
Assistant Postmaster for many years past.
Having reached the retirement age Mr..
Kelly complied with the regulations and
departed the scenes SO familiar to him
and of which he was so integral a part.
His familiar figure will be seen rarely
now in the corridors of the Post Office or
in the working rooms behind.
His term of service with the local postal
services covers that of many Postmas-
ter, as we'll as lesser employe. He has seen
them come and go; he has worked faith
fully and theoretically with them to make
local service efficient He has seen the
locale of the Post Office change from the
Odd Fellows Building to the old building
on Grand Street, then to Brook Street,
back to Grand again in its present palatial
qaurters.
He has seen such Postmasters as Daniel
E. Fitzpatrick, j. H. Guernsey, James H.
Pilling, Edward NJ OBrien, Colonel
James Geddes, Albert Colgrove, and the
present incumbent, Charles Babin. He
served continuously as the Assistant
since 1916 when he succeeded the late
John T. Boylan of beloved memory.
Truly Mr.. Kelly's service is one filled with
Waterbury's postal history. His retire
ment, as quiet as it was, cannot be passed
over so lightly by his thousands Of friends
who regret to note the occurrence. His
has been fine and loyal contribution to
Uncle Sans Post Office Department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-14

The University of Connecticut is to be
allotted sufficient funds with which it
can make survey of the steps the state
would have to take to insure an adequate
supply of milk under extreme war condl-
tons This is being done at the request
of Governor Robert A. Hurley and there
is a lot to be said about it. A good many
people take for granted the delivery OF
milk to their doorsteps. Most of us are
supplied in this fashion with a minority
depending on store delivery for their
wants. And we take it SO much for
granted that it's hard to believe any such
Schedule of life could be upset. But there
is grave danger of not merely delivery but
obtaining adequate supplies of milk
should Connecticut be subjected to an
enemy attack. To be prepared for such
an eventuality the governor proposes that
steps be taken now to lay the plans That
would go into effect when and II the
attack came and people still required
their daily supplies of milk.