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Evening star., 1942-01-15
Liberty on Bond .
Pending Appeal
Is Denied
Sentence Expected
7 Tomorrow or Week
From Tomorrow

George Hill, second secretary
to Representative Fish of New
York, was convicted this after
noon on both counts Of a perjury
indictment returned against him
by a grand jury which was in
vestigating Nazi activities in the
United States. A District Court
Jury gave its verdict after de-
liberating less than an hour.
A maximum sentence of 20 years
10 on each count-may be given by
Justice F. Dickinson Let's. Court
officials indicated sentence may be
pronounced either tomorrow or a
week from tomorrow.
Defense Attorney John j. O'Con-
nor indicated he would appeal.
While awaiting the verdict, Mr..
Hill had told reporter that quick
verdict would, he believed, hold him
guilty. He said he hoped the jury
would stay out long time, because
that would indicate it was hung
Jury Spends Hsur At Lunch.
The jury's decision was quicker
than the elapsed time indicated.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Wenner-6ren Asks U. s.
To Explain BIackistinq
Earlier Story on Page A.9.)

Earlier Story on Page A-9.)
By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 15-Axel
Wenner-Gren, Swedish multi-mil-
lionaire industrialist who has been
blackliSted by the United States
State Department, asked today in
statement that the Washington
Government either make public the
grounds for its decision or else
clear my name of what is a cruel
and unfounded charge"
Wenner- -Gren's name was included
in a list of 1900 issued by the State
Department last night, all Of whom
are considered by United States au-
thorities to be acting for the benefit
of Axis powers or exporting goods
deemed detrimental to United States
defense. Their assets were frczen.
Returning to Mexico city today
from . trip to Vera Cruz, Wenner-
Gren said:
Il want to sAy simply and directly
that q seriod6 mistake has been
made by the State Department and
that I am confident that . public
examinaDion of the evidence or
which the State Department acted
in my case will quickly clarity the
error. It will also reveal that am.
in fact, Is always have been, a
friend of the United States and
British Governments and peoples. {"
Wenner- Grens palatial yacht. the
Southern Cross, is at Vera Cruz.
One of his associates said he had
offered It to the United States along
with an airplane and his Laboratories
tn the United STATES.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Nazi U.boat Yards Fired
By Heavy British Raids
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)
- 81 A ~aetstah DraSs

Earlier Story on Page A-1.)
~ the Associated Press.
LONDON. Jan. 15.-The big
Bloehm and Voss shipyards at Ham
burg, which turn out submarines
and other craft for the German
Navy, were bombed heavily and
mfthodically last night in an R. A.
Fl raid which left the yards and
docks ablaze, the Air Ministry news
}ervice reported tonight.
J Returning flyers said fires started
{by their bombs flared up with sex
plosive violence" and could be seen
for 20 minutes sfter the British
planes turned back toward their
bases.
The news service also reported
that a drydock and two floating
do&ks and = destroyer and subma-
rin4 In them were damaged in an
attack on Hamburg in October.
Emden and other ports Of North
western Germany also were bombed
In widespread attacks.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Hershey Says Army
Must Draw on Men
Registering Feb. Is
Droft Will Be Necessary
To Achieve Expended
Force Of $500, 900
Earlier Story on Page ALL

Earlier Story on Page ALL
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey.
Selective Service director, said
today 1t would be necessary to
draw from the 5000 900 men be-
tween 20 and A, inclusive. who
will register February l6, to
achieve the 1912 Army strength
Of $500, 900 announced earlier in
the day by Secretary Of War
Stimson.
Gen. Hershey told a press con-
ference that the additional 1900 900
men to be sought by the end Of
this calendar year-present Army
strength is around l,700. .00O-co could
be raised from present registrants,
but added: Il don't think that would
be public policy"
Estimating that 100000 of the
additional men could be provided
from present registrants already
classified in IA, Gen. Hershey said
he believed another 1900 900 could
be raised from the l,000, 900 men to
register February is in the 81 to
2l1. year bracket and another 400
600 from older February 16 regis
trants. of whom there are to be
about 100000.
These estimates total 2, 800 900, and
are large enough to provide reserve,
Gen. Hershey said. He added that
because of dependents, trade skills
and physical defects he doubted that
many men in their late sos and 40s
would be called.
Gen. Hershey announced there
would be a re-examination of all ex-
isting deferments and that 100000
TO $50, 900 men might be picked up
from present registrants by lowering
physical standards, particularly as
they relate to teeth. He said he
hoped to maintain existing require
ments for dependency deferments
until it was absolutely necessary to
change them to get more men.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Markets at q Glance

NEW YORK, Jan. Is [P.-
Stocks irregular; price changes
narrow. Bonds uneven; some
specialties improve. Foreign ex-
change quiet: generally un-
changed. Cotton higher; COM
mission house and trade buying.
Wool tops steady; trade and spot
house buying.
CHICAGO: About steady:
hedging checks advance. Corn
about steady; hedging sales.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Driver Injured as Train
Hits Truck in BranchyiI|e

Earlier Traffic Story on Page A-6.)
Melvin A. Grim, %. of Linthicum
Heights, Md, narrowly escaped
death in Branchville, Nd. this
morning when the truck he was
driving was struck by the Baltimore
g. Ohio's National Limited. en- route
from Washington to New York.
Police said the train hit the truck
just behind the cab, lifting the dump
part of the vehicle of the chassis
and hurting it about 80 feet. The
chassis. knocked to one side of the
track, was virtually destroyed. ac-
cording to police. The cab of the
truck was crushed by the impact.
Mr.. Grim was removed from the
truck. unconscious, and taken to
Casualty Hospital by the Branch
vile Rescue Squad. Hospital aids
said he was suffering from head
injuries and body abrasions.
The truck, owned, according to
police. by William A. Harding Of
Lansdowne, was carrying gravel for
A. H. Smith of Riverdale Gravel
was strewn 100 yards from the scene
Of the accident, according to wit
nesses. The front of the diesel
powered locomotive was dented.
An unidentified colored man was
killed and two other men injured
late this afternoon in a head-on
collision between two trucks on
Central avenue near Halls Corner.
Md. The man killed was driving
one of the etruckS.
Gerald Costly, "a. colored, 1900
Savannah place Sc. who was rid
ing in the truck with the driver
who was killed, was brought to
Casualty Hospital in serious con-
dition.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
By the Associated Press.

81 the Associated Press.
VICHY, Jan. 15.-Continuing his
press campaign against the Petain
government, Marcel Deaf wrote
today in an editorial in L'Oeuvre,
leading Paris collaborationist news
paper, that Vichy hopes for and
counts on Anglo-Saxon victory"
THE government Is playing a
comedy. There are outward gestures
which fail to conform to innermost
intentions. 1t may be officially COL
laborationist, but it remains under
stood that its. real hopes are Of
another Sort" the Rightist editor
declared.
= 1T salutes the occupying power
Germany politely, but it hopes for
and counts on Anglo-Saxon victory" :"
In his article, under . caption
"The Ache Comes From the Head"
Deaf wrote:
THE high administration at pres
ent Is rotten with De Gaullism and
fermenting with virtual treason.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
New Fifth Column Peril Seen
By Dies as Inquiry Reopens
Laval Back in Paris.

In a long floor speech, Mr.. Dies
said:
/. That Leon Henderson, price
administrator, once was q member
Of "the Committee on Technocracy"
and was associated with "one of the
craziest economic propositions ever
Matched"
2. That the Civil Service Com
mission had recommended dismissal
Of Robert A. Brady and Mildred
Edie Brady" who, he said, were
among o. p. A. workers with Com
munist views and connections"
3. The o. p. A. senior business
specialist was Harold Loeb, who
wrote books which veered emphat-
ically to the crackpot side"
4. Malcolm Cowley, who for 10
years was one of the most Ardent
Communist intellectuals in this
country" had been employed as Chief
information analyst in the OfSce OF
Facts and Figures.
The Dies committee today was
concerned with an inquiry into the
National Workers League Of Detroit.
Evening star., 1942-01-15

Jurors left the trial room at 12:47
pm, and spent about an hour
lunching. At 2:25 pm. they rang
and declared they were ready with
their decision, but it was II minutes
before lawyers could be summoned
and the courtroom cleared of an
other case.
The jury foreman, David J. Guy,
IS, listed on court records as as
sistant manager of the Chamber
of Commerce, spoke the word
guilty" when asked the verdict on
each count
The first charged that Mr.. Hill
lied when he told the grand jury
he did not order certain mailbags
placed in a storeroom assigned to
Representative Fish. The second
count claimed Mr. Hill perjured
himself when he denied knowing
George Sylvester Viereck, registered
German agent.
The crime Of which Mr.. Fish's
secretary was convicted carries a
(See HILL, Page 2-XD
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Congress Conferees
Fail 10 Reach Accord
On Price Measure
Reported Agreed on Brood
Purposes, but Not on
Major Differences
Earle. Story on Page B-1zJ

(Earlie. Story on Page B-l2J
- the Associated Press.
A Senate House conference
committee reported general
agreement today on broad pur-
poses of wartime price-control
legislation, but failed to settle
any Of the major differences be-
tween tire two branches OF Con-
greSs over the measure.
Senator Brown, Democrat. of
Michigan after the initial session
Of an hour and a half, said the
joint congressional group was read
ing through the Senate bill, which
drew sha-p criticism from President
Roosevelt because Of farm price ex-
ceptions. The committee, Senator
Brown said, was for the present
skipping ,ver all controversial Sec
tions."
Head O. the six Senate conferees
meeting with five House members in
the attempt to iron out differences.
Senator Brown said the group would
meet again later today but prob
ably would not try to adjust dis
putes over the farm sections. hcens-
ing of business, or administrative
procedure until later sessions
Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, first to leave the closed door
session, said the Senate and House
Spokesmea still are q thousand
miles apart"
Evening star., 1942-01-15
j. ). Sub Sinks
Big Jap Ship Of
Carrier Type
Liner Believed One
Of Three Designed
For Naval Use

The Navy announced today the
sinking by one of its submarines
of a 17.0O0-ton Japanese mer-
chant liner similar to a type
designed for conversion as an
aircraft carrier.
The vessel was described rs Of
the Yawata class, which for
merly was operated by the Japa-
nese Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line
between Japan and the West
Coast. No location Of the sink
ing was given.
No omcial Information was given
on the sinking Of the japanese liner,
but it was learned that three ships
of the Yawata class were built for
operation by the N. Y. K. line for
and cargo service and
that all were designed for conver-
sion into aircraft carriers. So far
as is known definitely. only one of
these vessels has been converted
and apparently it was undetermined
whether the sinking announced to-
day involved that one.
The three ships are called the
Three Graces of the N. Y. K. and
are among the finest and newest of
the japanese merchant fleet. Their
names are Yawata Maru. Nitta
Maru and Kasuga Maru. The first
two were constructed in 1899 and
the Kasuga was under construction
last year end may have been the
one converted into an aircraft car
rier.
The ships have passenger
capacity of 300 each and a
listed speed of ~ knots, although
they are believed to have a speed
Of 70 or % knots. One of
this class established a new speed
record from Yokohama to San
Francisco on q voyage last year.
They are 557 feet long and have a
74-foot beam.
Toll Now IL Jap Ships.
Sinking OF the liner raised to II
the total of enemy vessels sent to
the bottom by American submarine
action in the Far East. The 10
vessels previously reported sunk by
American undersea craft were five
transports, three cargo vessels. a
supply vessel and a minesweeper.
Three other Japanese ships-a de-
stroyer, transport and seaplane
tender-have been reported prob
ably lost by submarine action.
A Navy spokesman said the YES
sells were built at the great Mitsu-
bischi shipyards and were fitted
with every modern device, including
direction finders, gyro compasses
and echo-landing devices.
The Navy spokesman who said it
was possible that the now-sunk liner
had been converted into an aircraft
carrier said it also was considered
possible that 1t might have been in
service as a transport.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
By the Associated Press.


Representative Dies, Democrat, Of
Texas told the House today the Ma
ton was not on the alert against
"foes that are within our borders" :"
and said some defense workers be-
Meved themselves available for .
revolutionary change in our form Of
government" in q crisis.
The Texan reported that his COM
mittee, investigating un-American
activities, opened closed hearings
today "on those pro-Nazi organ
izations which constitute q danger
Gus NTH column in our midst"
Asserting that his intent was mot
to embarrass but to aid the admin
istration," Chairman Dies also re-
peated his charge that Communists
and persons with Communistic con-
nections were holding down Gov
eminent jobs.
He singled out for criticism sew
eral employees of the Once Of Price
Administration and said the house
cleaning" in that agency had not
been completed.
Evening star., 1942-01-15

Reports from Hampton Bays, Long
Island, about IS miles from New
York City, said onlookers from shore
had seen the tanker during or i'm
after the attack, presum- ,
ably made by submarine.
Second Attack in 80 Hours.
1t was learned that the attack oc-
CURED about $50 m, 80 hours after
a submarine rose to the surface and
thrice torpedoed the Panamanian
tanker Norness about so miles from
the scene OF today's attack.
The area swarmed with activity
as measures were taken to destroy
the craft that came within sight of
land to make its attack.
The duty officer at the Quogue
Coast Guard station said survivors
were being brought to Shinnecock
Inlet, which links the Atlantic
Ocean with Shinnecock Bay.
1t was not known at once what
vessels made the rescues.
Observers said the vessel was still
afloat and that an oil slick more
than i've miles long could be seen.
SAYS No Survivors Brought In.
Police Chief John H. Sutter Of
Hampton Bays said late in the aft
ernoon he had been notified by the
Coast Guard that one of their pa
troll planes sighted q tanker in dis
tress % miles OH Shinnecock Inlet
and that fast cutters dispatched at
once from the Tiana Coast Guard
station had searched the area but
returned without finding any sur
vivors.
The report from the patrol plane,
Chief Sutter said. was that 10 men
had been sighted in a life boat and
4 on q raft. He added that Guards
men who made the trip in the cut
tiers called the sea very rough"
At AS pm, an hour and a half
after the news broke. Rear Admiral
Adolphus Andrews, commandant Of
the Sd Naval District, said through
press oficer that the Navy would
have no immediate comment on the
attack.
Tankers are difficult TO sink
with torpedoes because they are
divided into many compartments.
Some have been known to sail 1900
miles after being struck with two
and three torpedoes.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
We||es Calls on
Americas 10 Bar
All AxisAgents
Urges Common Front;
Neutrality No Longer
Possible, He Warns
Earlier Story on Page A-2D
BY tie Associated Press.

Earlier Story on Page A-2)
BY tie Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO. Jan. Is
Sumner Welles, United States
Undersecretary Of State, today
urged the acknowledgement West
ern Hemisphere nations to cast
aside "the shibboleth OF classic
neutrality" and unite in a COM
mon front against the Axis ag-
gressors seeking Ito conquer the
entire world"
While avoiding direct request for
severance of diplomatic relations,
Mr.. Welles stressed the necessity for
banishment of all Axis agents from
the Americas In an address to the
Conference of American Foreign
Ministers gathered here to consider
problems Of hemisphere defense.
Vargas Pledges Aid.
Brazilian Foreign Minister Os-
waldo Aranha opened the confer
ence. and President Getulio Vargas
of Brazil declared in the opening
speech that his nation was deter
mined to defend their own terri
tory inch by inch against any incur
sions and not to permit their land
or sea to be used as q point Of ad-
vantage for aggression against sister
nations"
Replying to Vargas. Foreign Min
lister Juan BautiSta Rossetti OF Chile
called on the delegates to ''use all
our faith and enthusiasm" to make
the hemisphere lone and indivisible
in the defense Of her unalien-
able right to decide her destiny for
herself"
No Real Neutrality. Welles Says.
Mr.. Welles said, There can no
longer be any real neutrality AS be-
tween the powers of evil and the
forces that are struggling to pre-
serve the rights and the inde.
pendence of free peoples"
"It is far better for any people to
strive gloriously to safeguard its in
dependence; it is far better for any
people to die, If need be, in the bat
tie to save its liberties, than by cling
ing to the tattered fiction of an IL
lusory neutrality. succeeding only
by so doing In committing suicide"
Not Necessarily War.
Mr.. Welles' declaration came as
Argentina was reported to be the
only nation that would not join a
solid front" rupture of diplomatic
relations with Germany, Japan and
Italy. Argentina repeatedly wants to
retain its policy of considering the
United States a acknowledgement"
United action against aggression
does not imply necessarily, Mr..
Welles explained, the actual engage
ment in war of all American re-
publics. 1t does imply. however, the
driving from the Western Hemis-
phere of Axis agents, still enjoying
immunity under the cloak Of diplo-
matte activity, and adoption Of
measures to prevent all business,
financial and trade transactions be-
tween the Western Hemisphere and
the aggressor states"
THE continued presence of these
Axis agents within the Western
Hemisphere" he declared, "con-
stitutes a direct danger to the ma
tional defense Of the republics en-
gagged in war.
Financial Aid Offered.
There Is not a Japanese nor q
German consul, nor q consul of Hit
ler satellite countries in the New
World at this moment who is not
reporting to his superiors every
time a ship leaves the ports of the
country where he is stationed, for
(See WELLES, Page 2-Xl
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Nurse Is Found Dead
In Gus-FiIIed Room

Miss Maud C. Jordan, 43, a regis
tered nurse, was found dead this
afternoon In her gas-flled apart
ment at GA Massachusetts, avenue
NE, police reported. A note. ad-
dressed to a sister, Mrs. Charles M.
Scott of Cleveland, was discovered
near the body.
Deputy Coroner Christopher J.
Murphy issued a certificate of sui
eide. He said Miss Jordan probably
had been dead about "a hours.
Police said neighbors told OF
smelling gas in the building last
night, but did not investigate. Miss
Jordan, once q nurse at Providence
Hospital. had been in Ill health for
some time, according to police.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Two Soldiers Killed;
; Hurt in Auto Wreck
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HENDERSON, KY, Jan. 15.-Two
Fort Knox soldiers were killed today
and three others were injured. one
critically, when their automobile
plunged from Highway so, IL miles
south of here.
Pvt. Loren Brewer, Charleston,
Mo-, was killed outright and Sergt.
Joe Eddington, %, Palmer. Mo-, died
several hours later in q hospital
here.
The injured were:
Pvt. James Brown, 10, New Madrid,
Mo-; Sergt. Arthur Hornsby, Florida.
and Pvt. Glenn Bard of Ohio.
The condition of serst. Hornsby
Was said to be critical.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Bio 24O-MM. Howitzer
Starts Trip to Aberdeen
PV the Associated Press.

HV the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 15.-A 240-
millimeter howitzer, one of the
largest pieces of mobile artillery
ever built in this country, was rolled
out of a factory n2day and started
on its way to the Aberdeen OMd)
Army Proving Ground.
The gun, which has 27-foot
barrel, was guarded by armed
soldiers. A convoy of three lotion
moving trucks. . self-propelling
cr6pe and eight other vehicles, ac-
companied it.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Count Ciuno Arrives
In Budapest for Visit
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Jan. IS (Oficial Ital-
ian Radio italian Foreign Minis
ter Count Galeazzo Ciano arrived
here this morning for an ofhcial
visit at the invitation Of the Hun
garian Premier, Laszlo de Bardossy.
The Premier and several other Of
ficials. including representatives Of
the three-power pact signatories,
welcomed Count Ciano at the sta
hoN
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Says Pr soner Had Sketches
BY the ASs,ciated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15.-The
F. B. I. announced today that me-
ticulous ;ketches of gun relay and
fire cont'ol wiring on Mare Island
Navy vessels had been found in the
possession of Hilbert Sylvester Coz,
50, an electrician.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
SHIP ATTACKED IS MILES FROM new YORK:
SURVIVORS SIGHTED ON LIFE BOAT RAFT
Takes Place
In Sight Of Shore;
Plane Drops Food
Earlier Tanker Story on Page ALL

BY he
NEW YORK, Jan. 15-Enemy warships for the second
time in two days struck at commercial shipping in New
York waters when tanker attacked today within
sight of watchers the south shore of Long Island
The Coast Guard at Quogue Long Island said
being brought that mdafternoon
Coast Guard plane had dropped food and whisky
vivors in lifeboat and raft
The of the ship not Immediately learned Details
attack, 10 miles Southampton
lacking.
Evening star., 1942-01-15
Late News Bulletins

Chinese Report New Offensive Begun
LONDON lP,.-The Chungking radio said tonight that
Chinese offensive been started of Canton South
China and is in full swing.
Earlier Story Page A-3J
Nozis Report New Jap Gains in MoIoyo
BERLIN (Oncial Broadcast OFp.-Japanese troops in
Malaga the west coast
and put behind their advanced the German
radio said today quoting japanese Army headquarters
Earlier Story on Page A-1)
Alcohol Bill Goes to White House.
Legislation relaxing alcohol production regulations to
permit dslleres easily convert part Of their pro-
ducton industrial alcohol for passed by the
Senate late today and sent to the White House.
House CompIeteSAction on Housing Bill
The House completed congressional action today bill
appropriation for defense housing
and sl5oOooooo fund for community facilities.
War Department on 6-Doy, 48-Hour Week
Beginning Saturday entire personnel of the War De-
parment including field workers. will sx-day 48-hour
week for the duration Of the in compliance with
order today by Secretary Stimson
Evening star., 1942-01-15
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