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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-21

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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-21
Metropolitan Club
Will Meet Tonight

Metropolitan Club will meet
tonight at 8 pm. in the John r.
Murphy ciubrooms
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Need Of Law TO Plug Leaks
OF War Secrets Questioned

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Austin, Republican, Of
Vermont, said today that ''it might
develop that we need no new legis-
lation" to prevent leaks of important
war information.
Senator Austin, chairman Of a
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee con-
sidering a confidential documents"
bill, told reporters that after a
lengthy conference with Attorney
General Biddle and Oscar Cox, as
sistant Attorney General.
The Attorney General, after his
original bill brought numerous pro-
tests against possible dictatorial
censorship, told Senators at a re-
cent public hearing that the legis-
latioh might be greatly modified.
Senator Austin said the two ad-
ministration lawyers and the Senate
subcommittee agreed today to as
semble all existing laws dealing with
protection of Government informa-
ton and military secrets and all
proposals offered in this and other
nations, as a legal background"
When we get through we will
nave a program that will be satisfac-
tory to the public, and all parts of
it." the Senator said.
The original bill presented by Mr.
Biddle would allow the head of any
Government agency to label infor-
nation as confidential or secret. "
Penalties up to 5000 and two years
In prison could be imposed for dis
closure of such data.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
.Cuve-In Kills
Two District
.Workmen

Two workmen were killed to-
day when one side of a 12-foot-
deep sewer trench on a Govern
ment construction project at
Second and P. streets S.W. coll
lapSed.
The victims were identified as
Elmer Martin. 81, of l27 Twelfth
street NE, a plumber, and Fred
Pendergast, about 40, colored, Of IS
H street NV, a laborer.
The laborer's body was recovered
first after about an hour of frantic
digging and he was pronounced
dead. Another hour and a. half Of
work was required before the
plumbers body was extricated.
Police were told the men were
buried when snoring gave way, per-
hitting earth to fill the trench,
which was about 10 inches wide.
Another workman was understood to
have jumped to safety as the cave
in began. About 20 feet of the ditch
caved in.
The accident occurred on a tract
being used for construction of tenn
porary Federal Office buildings.
Two Casualty Hospital ambulances
and Fire Department rescue squad
went to the scene. Inspector Maurice
Collins, Capt. Sidney j. Marks and
Capt. Robert j. Barrett of the
Police Department and Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald were sum-
moned.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
AIsab Top-Weighted
In FIamingo Stakes
Field Of Seventeen
ChuIIedon and Other Turf
Sturs to Run in Second
Feature Tomorrow

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 27.-Seven-
teen leading American 3-year-
olds. headed. by the 1941 cham
pion, Alsab, were listed today to
carry their owners hopes tomor-
row in the $4,000 Flamingo
Stakes, second-biggest money
race of the winter and a preview
Of the Kentucky Derby.
Albert SABBATH arranged for r. L,
Vedder, Alsab's jockey when he be-
came known as a wonder horse, to
ride the colt in the Flamingo in the
hope he could overcome the effects
Of two disappointing starts this year
Alsab to Garry 126 Pounds.
Alsab went in at 1876 pounds,
against 122 for his chief Juvenile
rival, B. F. Whitaker's Requested,
and 100 for Mrs. Alice F. Sherman's s
American Wolf, Mrs. Ralph Nell
Vain's Bright Willie, and Sidney s
Zell's Incoming.
Other entries, with their weights
Sweep Swinger, 100: Alohort, First
Fiddle, Florizan Beau, Grey Wind
More Than Few, Sir War and Wood
Robin, 118: Equinox. Red Thorn and
Rodney, 1l6, and To Boot, ia.
To make Flamingo day one Of
Hialeah's greatest, the owners en-
(See ALSAB, Page 2-X.) So.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Local Asks Green to Cleanse
Union of 'Rucketeer' Leaders

80 years, from 1911 to 194l, no con-
vention or election of officers in
this International union was held.
Joseph w. Moreschi assumed the
presidency in 1926. . He was
never elected to Office nor was his
assumption of the presidency ever
ratified until he was finally COM
PEELED, by public pressure - to
call a convention of the interna-
tional union last September"
The locals action followed the
yesterday Of a vic
tory for insurgents who won control
of Local II at Newburgh, N. Y, after
their complaints of racketeering
an investigation by
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman. The old
administration, accused of misap-
dues and initiation fees
received from workers on the $780,
900 900 New York City water supply
project, was defeated in every i'm
portant contest.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Transformer Plant
Closed by WaIkout
Earlier Story on Page A-5.)


BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27.-A walk
out of C. I. o. United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers today
closed the Pennsylvania Trans
former Co. plant, which has been
producing equipment for defense
plants, after the day shift had
worked for 20 minutes. The COM
pany said it did not know of any
grievance and the union said only
that a membership meeting would
be held. About $50 are employed at
the plant.
Settlement of q work stoppage
which had halted production Of vital
war materials for two days at the
Labelle works of the Crucible Steel
Co. was announced by representa-
tives of the C. I. o., management
and Federal Cancellation Service.
A statement said the plant, em-
ploying approximately 1000, was ex-
pected to resume full operations by
Monday. Further conferences will
be held Monday, the statement add
ed, to clear up details of the quess.
tions involved"
The Steel Workers Organizing
Committee had called the stoppage
lockout while the company asserted
1t was an unauthorized strike.
Evening star., 1942-02-27

Walter Woodward, to presidency of
the company on the death of his
father in 1917.
Although in LII health for several
months, Mr.. Woodward's death came
suddenly. He had been resting in
Florida for six weeks when stricken,
according to word received here.
Noted for his philanthropies, the
executive also was a director of the
Washington Loan & Trust Co. He
held memberships in the University,
Blue Ridge Rod and Gun, Columbia
Country, Burning Tree and Chevy
Chase Clubs. He was also member
of the Washington Board of Trade.
Mr.. Woodward's long service as
head of the store was interrupted by
the World War, when he served as a
lieutenant of artillery. He fought
in the ST.. Mihiel offensive and the
Meuse- e-Argonne battle.
He was a graduate Of Yale Uni
versity in the class of 1910 and pre-
pared for college at st. Paufs School
in New Hampshire. On graduating
he came to work for his father, who
with Alvin M. Lothrop founded the
store in $780,,
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Margaret Sypesteyn woodward, and
three sisters, Mrs. Luke I. Wilson
and Mrs. Brainard w. Parker, both
of Bethesda, Md, and Mrs. John
Tyssowski of New York City.
The Woodwards maintained a
home here at 2118 Leroy place NV.
and summer home, Brodwood,
near Rockville.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Dwight Davis Heads
NewArmyCorps
OF Specialists
Outstanding Leaders
To Be in Unit Set Up
By President

Creation of a new Army Spe-
cialist Corps. headed by Dwight
F. Davis, former Secretary OF
War from 1925-29. was an
nounced by the War Department
today as a result of an executive
order signed by President Roose-
welt.
Mr.. Davis, who was a colonel
during the first World War and
once served as Governor General Of
the Philippines, has taken over
quarters in the Munitions Building.
He will marshal outstanding scien-
tific, technical, labor and business
skills directly into the Army.
Applications Withheld.
For the greater part the new
corps will consist of uniformed ci-
vilians, all specialists in their par
ticular fields. In announcing its
creation, the War Department said
applications for service with the
corps should be withheld pending its
formal organization and drafting of
rules. ..- --..
BY this corps, the War Depart
ment plans TO establish, under mill
tary control carefully selected
body of specialists to supply all arms
of the services and all echelons Of
the Army.
The new corps also will provide a
much uniformed organiza-
ton. it was said, to which civilian
employees of the War Department In
war areas may be transferred. Un-
der this plan they would be entitled
to the same rights and privileges
as soldiers in the event they become
prisoners of war.
Native of st. Louis.
Mr.. Davis has been at the War De-
partment several days awaiting sign
ing of his papers.
His home is Tallahassee, Fla, but
he was born in st. Louis, July 5,
1879. A graduate of Harvard and
an LII. B. of Washington University,
Col. Davis went into the World War
as captain In the 5th Missouri
Infantry.
He was decorated with the Dis
tinguished Service Cross for "ex-
traordinary heroism" in operations
at Baulny and Chaudron Farm in
France.
After the war he was made a di-
rector of the War Finance Corp.
in 1921.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
z Miniuture Destroyerss
Are Launched at Boston
rxth. A....,.tsd prss,

BY the Associated Press. 1e
BOSTON, Feb. 27.-Where once
defenders Of the Americas Cup,
most famous Of yachting trophies,
slid down the ways, two defenders
of the Nation were launched today
at the Lawley Shipyard.
They were two swift, 17o-foot pa
troll boats-miniature destroyers-
which are Navy secrets. Both were
built far ahead of schedule.
The PC-463 was sponsored by Miss
Frederick e. Castle, II. niece Of the
yards steel superintendent, and the
PC-464. was sponsored by Mrs. Ed
ward Fleming of Weymouth. wife OF
the Navy's resident inspector Of
shipbuilding.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
12-Hour BIuckout Here
'SiIIy,' Hebert Suys

Earlier Story on Page ALL
Representative Hebert, Democrat,
of Louisiana today called the IL
hour blackout proposed here for
Tuesday night SILLY, senseless and
ridiculous"
He declared it could serve no good
purpose and might interfere with
important war work In Government
offices and certainly would incon-
venience and irritate Washington
residents needlessly.
He agreed with Chairman RAN
dolph of the District Committee
that any blackout practice should
be complete and preferably for II
minutes instead of IL hours.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Nv tht Associates Press.

py TIT Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-Approxl-
mately one-sixth of the membership
of Local lat of the International
Hod Carriers, Building and Common
Laborers' Union today called on VII
liam Green, A. F. L. president, to
cleanse our international union.
A letter to Mr.. Green signed by
254 of the 1900 MISUNDERSTANDING
hogs who work at underground
excayating-charged that industrial
racketeers were running local unions
as dues collecting rackets, accepting
kickbacks and taking bribes from
contractors which led to union men
working for wages lower than the
prevailing scale.
"For many years our international
union has been run as dictatorship
by these same racketeering eie-
ments," the letter said ours is the
most notorious organization in the
American Federation of Labor. For
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Lands Given
30 Days 10 End
Shake-up
Byrd Says Groups
Inquiry Of Agency
Will Then Resume
Earlier Story on Page A-10
By ]. A. O'LEARY.

Chairman Byrd OF the Joint
Congressional Economy Commit
tee this afternoon gave James
M. Lands, director of the ONCE
Of Civilian Defense, 80 days in
which to complete a reorganiza-
ton of the agency, now under
way, before resuming the inquiry
into its activities begun this
morning.
Before Mr.. Lands left the stand,
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland, told the director he could
render real service to the country
by stripping O. c. D. down to the
function OF preparing the people to
deal with air raids.
Questioned by Senator Byrd as to
what would be eliminated in the re-
organization, Mr.. Lands testified
the controversial physical fitness di-
vision is about to be transferred to
the ONCE of Health, Defense and
Welfare of the Federal Security
Agency, and that the youth section
may be abolished. He told Senator
Byrd he was hesitant about abolish
ing the Racial Relations Section.
Salvage OF Paper Cited.
Mr.. Lands told the committeeman
he did not want to leave them un-
der the illusion the agency would
be limited solely to protective work
against bombing. There are 5000
local defense councils throughout the
country. he said. which are available
to carry out Federal policies.
To illustrate, he cited the cam
paign to salvage paper. tin and
other materials, as . kind Of defense
effort in which o. c. D. might CO.
operate.
That brought a renewed attack
from Senator McKellar. Democrat,
Of Tennessee, who earlier had ac-
cused O. @. d. of not following the
intent Of the ban Congress recently
placed on entertainment or dancing
instruction. The Tennessean ques-
toned the authority of o. c. D. to
engage liz the salvage campaign. but
Mr.. Lands read an excerpt from
the Presidents executive order Gre
ating o. c. D., which he insisted
would cover such q defense effort.
Senator McKellar advised Mr..
Lands to consult Controller General
Warren, who passes on the validity
of Government expenditures, before
engaging in that program, and add
ed:
Il think it Is my duty as a men,
(See o. c. D., Page 2-XD
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Mississippi House o. KS
.Anti-VioIence Bill
Bv fft Associated Press.

DIV TT fSSOCldtCu Eicsos
JACKSON, Miss. Feb. 27.-The
House of Representatives today sent
to the Senate for concurrence in
minor amendments bill providing
up to two years imprisonment for
any one using violence to prevent
persons from engaging in legitimate
occupations.
A modified version of bill orig
inally directed specifically at vio-
lence in connection with labor dis
putes, the measure would provide
the maximum penalty In cases af-
fecting defense Industries and would
penalize conspiracy or assembly to
promote violence as well as overt acts.
Senate concurrence in the amend
ments was expected. That chamber
passed the original bill. -
Evening star., 1942-02-27
us. Tanker Attacked 20 Miles
Off Jersey Coast; Two Saved

was built in 1896 at Kearny, N. j.
It weighed 7,451 tons gross and was
435 feet long.
Lookout Saw U-Boat.
The r. P. Resor's keel buckled,
from either the explosions or the
heat, and its stern rode out OF the
water.
1t was the oath ship announced Of
ficially as sunk or damaged by
enemy action of the United States
coast since January H., 1t was the
18th tanker. Including ships struck
of Canada and Newfoundland, the
total was 80.
The Navy released details of the
attack for publication this after
noon.
1t identified one survivor as John
J. Forsdal, about A. Of San Fran
cisco, but withheld the name Of the
other.
A Navy spokesman said the tanker,
laden with. crude oil, was travelling
northward at a good clip when, in
the words of Mr. Forsdal, who was
on lookout on forecastle head:
Il sighted what looked like a
(See TANKER, Page 2-x0 ,
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Derrineer, in So, 900 Suit,
Describes Double Vision

Derringer said he won only IL
games last season compared to "a
in 1910. His effectiveness was i'm
paired during the 1941 season be-
cause the double vision" made him
nervous about fielding balls.
The big pitcher said he struck
his head against the scaffold as he
was leaving the store after making
purchases, and that the scaffold was
not across the entrance when he
entered the building.
The pitcher testified he was hit
by q batted ball In Tampa while
pitching during l94l spring train
ing and that the double vision"
was the reason because he saw two
balls coming toward him and
grabbed at the wrong one.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Roosevelt Says Latin Navies
HeIp 10 Project Shipping

South American naval units are
helping to protect inter-American
merchant shipping from Axis raid
ers, President Roosevelt revealed to
q press conference today.
The Presidents disclosure came
after he was questioned about pro-
measures f6r such shipping.
His answer was that this Govern
ment is attempting to safeguard as
many ships as it can on all the
oceans of the world. 1t is task, he
added, of trying to cover too much
bread with insufficient butter.
Asked then If South American
countries are contributing to this
limited butter supply" Mr.. Roose-
welt said that they are.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Earlier Story on Page AID


BY the Associated Press.
MANASQUAN, N. j.. Feb. 27.-
The American tanker r. P. Resor
burned at sea today after 1t had
been torpedoed about 20 miles south
east of ManasQuan. Two survivors
were landed here.
The two said they saw a motor
lifeboat bearing about 80 men clear
the ship and the flaming oil which
surrounded it. They expressed hope
the boats occupants had been res
cued by another ship.
One unidentified body was brought
ashore at Belmar.
The tanker normally carried a
crew of 38.
Torpedoed just before midnight
last night, the burning and buckled
ship drifted slowly northward today
from the place where 1t had been
struck. That was about 18 miles
east of Lavallette, a seashore resort
between Barnegat Bay and the At
lantic Ocean.
The tanker was owned by the
Standard Oil Co. Of New Jersey and
Evening star., 1942-02-27
u, the Axsociated press.


TAMPA, Fla, Feb. z7.-Paul Der
ringer, veteran Cincinnati pitcher.
testified in Circuit Court today that
injuries he received when his head
struck a scaffold across the entrance
of the Raybro Electric Supplies Co.
of Tampa in November. 1910, caused
him to have double vision"
Derringer is suing the company
for $65, 900 damages.
The big highlander, who helped
pitch the Reds to the worlds cham
pionship in 1910, declared he had to
take q 5000 salary cut for the COM
ing season because of his failure to
win the usual number Of games last
year.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Former U. S. Destroyer
Sunk, Brituin Reveals
px ,r. asxoc,.,ed Press

BIZ TIE Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 27.-The British
Admiralty announced today that the
former American destroyer Belmont
has been sunk.
The Belmont, 1,190 tons, was one
of so destroyers traded to Great
Britain for Western Hemisphere
bases. She was finished in 1919 and
was formerly named the Aulick.
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Smith Proposal
Voted Down by
.226 10 81
Other Amendments
For Suspension of
Labor Act Beaten

An amendment to the second
war. powers bill to suspend for
the wars duration the 40-hour
work week and other laws con-
trolling hours of labor was de-
feated in the House today, 226
to 81, on a division. The vote
was taken with the House Sit
ting in committee of the whole,
where a record vote is not per-
mitted.
Several amendments offered
to the amendment by Repre-
sentative Smith, Democrat, Of
Virginia, designed to give the
President authority to suspend
the hours of Labor Act in indus
tries which he considered es-
Sential to war purposes, also
were voted down.
Administration leaders earlier in
the day had expressed fear the
Smith amendment might be ac-
cepted and debate was heated.
'MacArthur's men are calling for
tools and it is high time for Amer
ica to answer that call" declared
Representative Russell, Democrat, of
Texas. in charging during the aft
ernoon'S bitter wrangling that the
war effort was handicapped by some
union leaders who prevent their
members from working on holidays.
Ninety-eight per cent of labor is
just as patriotic as the members
here" rejoined another Texas
Democrat, Representative Thoma-
son, who argued that the amend
ment would increase. rather than
diminish labor disputes.
Green, Murray Oppose Plan.
President william Green of the
A. F. L. and President Philip Muir
ray of the C. I. o. sent messages
to party leaders in the House op-
posing the Smith proposal. Repre-
sentatives of their organization were
buttonholing members of the HOUSE
in the Capitol corridors.
From a high administration au-
thority it was learned that the
Government thinks the general ef-
feet of the amendment would be,
principally, to eliminate overtime
pay in industry generally, not only
in war work.
Mr.. Green's statement said:
The Smith amendment is false
in its basic premise and misleading
in its objective. II would not
lengthen working hours. There is
nothing in existing law which pre-
vents workers from being employed
for more than 40 hours a week.
What this amendment really aims
to do is to absolve employers of
sweated workers, who did not have
the protection of unions, of the re-
quirement of paying such workers
overtime rates for work in excess Of
40 hours a week.
Murray States Views.
Mr.. Murray's letter said:
What Representative Smith knows
and fails to state is that the sole
effect of his proposal would be to
deny to American working men and
women appropriate payment long
guaranteed by statute for those extra
hours of work For every
ounce of extra production turned out
by those extra hours of work the
employers receive appropriate pay
ment-payment which has already
swelled corporate profits in the Ma
ton to excessive heights The
sole effect of his proposal would be
to increase those swollen profits
even further at the direct expense
of labor"
Representative Carlson, Repub-
lican, of Kansas called on colleagues
to pass the amendment and de-
Evening star., 1942-02-27
Reply Promises
French Fleet
Wont Be Used
Answer Fails to Satisfy
Completely, However,
WeHes indicates
Earlier Story nm Pare A-l.)

NAe&AhASk oboAy VII \ 04C -AsI
President Roosevelt has warned
the Vichy government, Acting
Secretary of State Welles said
this afternoon, that If France
ships war materials or supplies
to the Axis powers it will place
itself in the category of govern
mentS assisting the declared
enemies of the United States.
Vichy, in response to the Presi-
dents representations, has assured
the United States that 1t will not
lend military aid to any belligerent,
particularly any aid involving
French warships.
Mr.. Welles made the disclosure
after growing speculation here and
elsewhere that the French fleet, still
powerful element, was headed for
German control.
The personal warning, from Mr..
Roosevelt to Marshal Petain,
brought the renewed assurances of
neutrality which do not completely
satisfy this Government, Mr.. Welles
said
Mr.. Welles said further clarifica-
tions" regarding important" ques-
tions are awaited.
Mr.. Wenes said the President sent
the message February 10 to Marshal
Petain in regard to information that
French supplies had been shipped to
Axis forces in Libya.
The Presidents message warned
that If France were to render any
assistance to the Axis beyond obliga-
tions imposed by her 1910 armistice,
the French government would place
itself in the category of governments
which are directly assisting the de-
clared enemies of the United
States"
Text Of Statement.
The text of Mr.. Welles' statement
follows:
Relations between the Govern
rnent Of the United States and the
French Government Of Vichy have
been predicated upon the formal as
surances given to this Government
by the French government upon re-
peated occasions that the French
government in its relations with the
Axis powers will not exceed the
terms of its armistice agreements
with those powers, and in particular,
that the French government will in
no wise relinquish to those powers
any control over or. use of French
territorial possessions nor any con-
troll over nor use of the French fleet.
THE assurances received by the
United States Government in this
regard likewise included the assur-
ance that the Grench government
will give no military assistance to
the Axis powers.
"On February 10 the President sent
a personal message to Marshal Pc
tain informing him that the Gov
ernment of the United States had
been advised that supplies had been
shipped from metropolitan France
to North Africa for the use of the
Axis forces In Libya.
Frances Position Realized.
The President made it clear that
the position of France and the linn
itations placed upon France through
the armistice agreements which had
been signed with Germany and Italy
are fully recognized and understood
by the Government and people of
the United States.
HE stated further, however, that
in the opinion of the Government
of the United States, If France were
(See VICHY, Page 2-X)