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Evening star., 1942-03-23
William 5. Hodge Rites
Twill Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for William
Stuart Hodge, 81, victim of a hit
and-run accident, who died Satur-
day at Casualty Hospital, will be
held at 2 pm. tomorrow at the
Speare funeral home, 1909 H street
NV He will be- buried in Loudon
Park Cemetery, Baltimore.
Mr.. Hodge was struck by hit
and-run driver on March IA at
Eighteenth street and Park road
NV.
He was connected with House &
Hermann, Inc, furniture firm, for
some 40 years, retiring several years
ago as credit manager. Mr.. Hodge
was a member of the Columbia
Lodge, No. 13, of the Masons, and
was also a Royal Arch Mason.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Ada Collins Hodge, and daughter,
Mrs. Helen Murray of Lynnbrook,
Long Island, N. Y. He made his
home at 1840 Monroe street NV.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Opens third week Of debate on
seating of Senator LANCER, Repuoll-
can. of North Dakota.
Labor Committee hearing on pro-
posal to abolish c. c. c. and N. Y. A.
immigration Committee considers
numerous bills.
Agriculture Committee considers
amendments to Perishable Commod-
tiles Act.
Appropriations S b o m m ttee
hearing on War Department civil
functions supply measure.
Territories and 1nsular Affairs
Committee considers calendar.
House:
Routine matters.
WAYS and Means Committee works
on tax program.
Naval Affairs Committee studies
proposed percentage limitation on
war profits.
Military Affairs Subcommittee digs
into resignation of Robert r. Guthrie
from w. P. B.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Germans Report Bitter
Donets Bosin Fighting

BERLIN From German Broad
casts. March % (Pl.-Soviet forces
still attacking in the Kerch PENN
sula of the Crimea and in the
Donets Basin, have been repulsed
the high command said today.
Particularly bitter fighting was
reported in the DonetS Basin.
ON the Kerch Peninsula" the
war report said, further enemy
attacks collapsed
The high command reported that
in two days the Russians had lost
several thousand dead and num-
ber of prisoners in fighting pre-
sumably on the central front.
"On other fronts, too the COM
munique added. German troops
were successful in repulsing enemy
attacks and in offensive operations. y
German air attacks were said to
have destroyed more than 300
enemy vehicles of all kinds and %
railway trains"
The high command said the Rus
sian Air Force lost 81 planes yester-
day and that 1877 Russian tanks were
destroyed from March 18 to %.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
FederaI-American
Depositors Will Get
$S3o,ooo Dividend .
1000 Will Receive
Final 80 Pct. Payment,
Starting This Week

Final dividends of 90 per cent,
amounting to about $3.50, 900, will be
paid to nearly $4,000 depositors of
the closed Federal-American Ma
tional Bank and Trust Co., beginning
this week, Receiver Harry j. Hall
announced today.
The disbursement will be made at
the receivers office at Fourteenth
and U streets NV, but depositors
were warned not to call there until
they receive official notification.
The final disbursement brings the
dividend up to a total of $40 per
cent. Three previous dividends had
been declared, totaling rs per cent.
The total received by the de-
positors will be more than $1,000, 900
Cards Will Be Mailed.
Mr.. Hall said creditors living in
or near Washington will be notified
by postal card when the checks are
available for delivery Checks will
be mailed to those in other locali-
ties.
Notices to those living in the
Metropolitan Area will be mailed in
groups, a certain number each day
estimated to be the number who
could be served daily at the window
The payments will be made only
by check. and the period for de-
livery, Mr.. Hall announced, has
been limited to May 16. Checks un-
called for by that time will be re-
turned to the controller of the cur
rency.
Meantime a large number OF
checks from previous dividends are
in the receivers hands. These are
available up to May 16 at the re-
ceiver's Office.
The Office will be open daily
Mondays through Saturdays from
8 am. to 4:30 pm.
Commercial Dividend.
Mr.. Hall also announced he is pre-
pairing to pay the final dividend ir
the closed Commercial Nationa,
Bank. Checks probably will not be
available until about so or 80 days
however. The amount has not been
disclosed.
Depositors have received dividends
totaling 10 per cent When the last
payment Is ready, depositors will be
notified.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Sayre, Here, Sure U. 5
Soon Will Win Back
Philippine Islands
Commissioner Anxious
To ToIk With President;
Greeted by Daughter

In high spirits and brimming
with the health of a man who
has lived in the open, Philippine
High Commissioner Francis B.
Sayre arrived in Washington to-
day, declaring that mot for one
minute" did he doubt that Amer
ica will soon regain control of
the Philippines.
His train pulled into Union Sta
ton 10 minutes late and there was
a brief delay in collecting his bag
gage before Mr.. Sayre rolled in a
black limousine to the University
Club, but the Commissioner ac-
cepted this with the air of one who
has known rather greater difficulties
in transportation. He refused to
describe Immediately the method OF
his escape from the Jap encirclement
but limited he would tell all after
comforting with President Roosevelt
The White House is his first OBJ
jective. Mr.. Sayre kept telling re-
porters that he wanted to see Mr.
Roosevelt right away.
Greeted by Daughter.
First to greet him-with a big
hug and a prolonged kiss-was his
daughter, Miss Eleanor Sayre, who
dashed away from a museum job
in New London, Conn, to see her
father. She is the granddaughter OF
Woodrow Wilson. Her mother, Jes-
sic Wilson, was wed to Mr. Sayre
in the White House in 1913, died
few years later.
He looks more wonderful than
ever" Miss Sayre said of her ruddy-
complexioned father. The last time
she saw him was before the war
when he left his job as Assistant
Secretary OF State to take over the
Philippine job.
Others who thronged about Com
missioner Sayre included Assistant
Secretary of the Interior E. K Ber-
lew and Guy J. Swope, director OF
the departments Division of Ter
ritories and Island Possessions
There was one small Filipino who
broke through the police guard at
the gate and shook the hand Of the
high commissioner
Mr.. Sayre exploded the japanese
propaganda story of the death OF
Filipino President Manuel L. Que
zon. He said President Quezon, his
warm personal friend. was in fair
" good health when they saw each
other recently.
Wife Still En- Route.
Except for Miss Sayre. the high
commissioner has no member of his
family in Washington now. His wife
the former Mrs. Ralph A. Graves
and his step-son. William Graves
who escaped with HIM from the
Philippines, he said, are still on the
way to the United States.
officials who met him told him
that he had been given an office in
the Department of the Interior and
a secretary to help hip answer lots
of mail
Carefully wrapped, but with bit
Of the metal flashing through at
one end, was the japanese officer
saber which the high commits,
sioner is bringing to President
Roosevelt as gift from Gen. Doug
las Macarthur. The saber was taken
from the body of a japanese officer
who fell in action in the Philippines
Evening star., 1942-03-23
British Ship Damaged
By Fire at New York

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March GA blaze
which police attributed to spon-
taneous combustion broke out last
night in a coal bunker of a large
British merchant vessel as it lay
at anchor in upper New York Bay.
1t was extinguis.>ed in As minutes
by fireboat and a police launch.
The fire, which was reported at
6:39 pm. caused but slight damage,
police said.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Harold Vanderbilt
Buys Historic Estate
Near Woodstock, Va,
Dunmore Mount Airy,
Is Sold for Between
$500, 900 and $3.50, 900
BY the Associated Press.

by lDe hSSOCldte0 HreSS.
WOODSTOCK, Va, March 23.-
Dunmore Mount Airy, historic estate
near Mount Jackson, has been sold
to Harold S. Vanderbilt, sportsman,
of Manalapin, Fla, it was learned
here yesterday.
The purchase price was reported
to be between 100000 and $2500O0
and was one of the largest real estate
transactions involving private in
dividual ever made in Northern Vir-
ginia, attorneys here said.
The first owner of the estate was
Taverner Beale, first sheriff of Dun
more, now Shenandoah County. His
son-in-law, William Steenbergen,
built the present mansion house in
1899. The estate was purchased by
John G. Meem of Lynchburg in
1841 and descended to his son.
Daniel Kelleher of Seattle, Wash,
bought the place in 1909 and Mrs.
Kelleher, on her husbands death,
decided it to Dunmore Mount Airy,
Inc, from whom Mr.. Vanderbilt
made the purchase.
The estate includes 1000 acres of
land, herds Of livestock and water
rights on the site of the Mount
Jackson municipal system.
Evening star., 1942-03-23

Court 10 Expunge
0'Connor Paper
Suggests os Alternative
Thut Statement Be
Made Under Oath

District Court was asked today to
expunge from its records the paper
filed last week by former Repre-
sentative John j. O'Connor of New
York, who represented George Hill,
an ex-employe of Representative
Fish, Republican, of New York, at
Hills perjury trial.
The tribunal was told by Richard
A. Harman, Hills present counsel,
that the paper is defamatory and
makes unfounded accusations
against Hill, prejudices him, ex-
culpates Mr.. O'Connor without sub
mitting him to examination under
oath and makes accusations against
other persons.
filed in the criminal clerks Office,
asked the court, as an alternative,
to require Mr.. O'Connor to take
oath as to the contents of the
paper. which was filed last Friday,
when Justice F. Dickinson Let's in
Criminal Court No. 3 cut Hills
original two-to-Six-year perjury
sentence to 1012 to 31l2 months.
The Government convicted Hill of
testifying falsely before the special
grand jury investigating Nazi ac-
tivities.
Mr.. Harman contended in todays
motion that if the statements con-
tanned in Mr. O'Connor's paper are
true, then Hill is guilty of further
perjury and so stands accused, with
out an opportunity to defend him.
self, because Mr.. O'Connor gave the
impression that the defendant has
available funds, when the record
shows that he made an affidavit that
he was without funds and that he
owned no real estate or other assets.
The attorney advised the court
that no copy of the paper was served
upon the defendant or his counsel.
The paper, Mr.. Harman asserts,
was not plea for leniency, but,
according to the motion. is in fact
IAN exculpatory plea by John j.
OConnor, esquire, in his own be-
half"
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Shooting
Continued From First Page.)

there was no trouble at that point
and he advised the driver to proceed
to his destination in, the 300 block
of G street NV. He followed the
cab on foot and outside the house
observed two men fighting on the
street. apparently having just left
the cab.
He separated them, told them
they were under arrest and had
started with them to a patrol box
when a third man jumped on him
from behind, he said Two of the
men beat the policeman about the
face and head with their firsts and
the night stick they had taken from
MIN while one of them tried to
choke him as he lay on the side
walk.
Shot in Thigh.
AS one of the men. according to
the police report. took the officers S
gun from his pocket. another OF
them was pulled off Pvt. Hoffman
by one of the women passengers IN
the cab.
Pvt. Hoffman said the man with
the officers gun backed away warn
ing him, don't move" AS the off,
Ger struggled to his feet, the thug
fired one shot and Pvt Hoffman
fell to the sidewalk. The bullet,
later found on the sidewalk, went
through his thigh.
Pvt. Hoffman, who has been four
times wounded in the line of duty
during his II years on the police
force. was taken to Casualty Hospl-
tai. Other officers started the hunt
for his attackers.
Witnesses to the affray were taken
into custody, including the woman
who had pulled one of the men off
the policeman. another woman and
the cab driver.
Meanwhile, woman in the 900
block of T street NV. called in to
complain of a prowler. Police from
precinct No. l3 found a man hiding
in first-f1oor closet who they be-
lieve was implicated in the G street
attack
Tip Given on Fugitives.
A few minutes later tip came
in that the men they sought could
be found in the 1900 block of T
street NV.
A scout Car from precinct No. 2
was first at the scene and Pvt.
E. C. Helms noticed two men walk
ing rapidly down Fourteenth street
away from T street AS he ap-
preached to question them, they
started to dash for an alley
Just as he got up to them, he said
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Flaming Plane ExpIodes
After Pilot Balls Out

BY the Associat Press
NORFOLK, Va. March 23-After
catching fire in the air. a single
seat Army plane crashed and ex-
ploded in Princess Anne County
orchard yesterday. but the pilot
bailed out before the crash.
The motor was buried in the earth,
but only fragments of the rest Of
the plane were found.
The pilot, Ralph H. Baker, %,
suffered slight burns.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
$4,000 Nazis Slain
In KaIinin Sector,
Russians Claim
Much MoterieI Declared
Seized; Fighting on y
Entire Front Stepped Up

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. March 23.-The
Slaughter of 10000 German off,
GERS and soldiers on the Kalinin
sector alone was reported today
by the Russians as the war on
the entire front rushed into a
faster tempo and both the Rus
slams and Germans sought ad-
vantage for crucial spring en-
gagements.
A special Soviet announcement
said the 10000 Germans were killed
between March II and 81 and de-
tailed the capture or destruction OF
vast quantity of planes, guns and
other war materiel in the area
northwest of Moscow.
The Russian Army newspaper Red
Star disclosed that United States
built Airacobra fighter planes would
be used in spring combats with the
Germans These planes have been
assembled and tested at training
center and Red Star said few days
ago an air regiment arrived at the
center to be equipped with the ma
chimes.
The German high command,
dropping the term defensive
from its Sunday report on the
Russian war with the coming Of
spring. claimed that offensive
operations" were successful on
number of sectorsD
Situation Changed Little.
Russian reports indicated there
had been no substantial change in
several days on the front, with the
principal actions taking place south
of Leningrad, in the Staraya Russa
and Kalinin sectors, along the CEN
trail front, where the Russians are
driving against Smolensk, on the
southwestern front in the Bryansk
area and on the Crimean peninsula
Listing the gains on the Kallnln
front in the bitter Today struggle
the Russians said Sc guns of various
caliberS five tanks, 81 trench NOR
tars and a quantity of shells and
hand grenades were captured while
% planes, 24O tracks, II guns and
about 200 wagons with supplies and
two ammunition dumps were de-
stroyed.
Official reports also said several
populated places on the kallnln
front had been recaptured and
many prisoners taken.
Indications that a tremendous
fight was in progress southwest of
Moscow were seen in a Red Star
dispatch datehned from the Bry-
ansk front" saying the commu-
niques are brief. but in the middle
of a battle nobody talks. They
fight" Bryansk is 210 miles from
Moscow
Counterattack Broken Up.
Another dispatch said a major
German counterattack on the
southwest front, in which four Ger
man divisions and one Rumanian
division participated, had been
broken up and the Red Army was
pursuing the enemy The foe was
said to have lost 2,250 men killed in
that engagement.
The Russians quoted a captured
German flying officer as saying the
Germans were transferring planes
from Africa and from the central
front to carry supplies to the encir-
cled 10th Army.
Front-line dispatches said the
Germans were moving up reserves
from Nazi-occupied areas as far
away as the Atlantic coast of France
in preparation for the spring push.
Red Star said, however. that the
Russians have not slept and that
the German successes of last July
will not be repeated
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Virginia Coast BIackouts
Wait on Official Word
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, March %
Shoreline blackouts, ordered by Gov.
Darden Saturday. were not gen.
orally complied with that night and
last night, authorities said today,
because officials had not received
formal instructions.
Chief w. S. White of the Princess
Anne County police and Chief John
F. Woods of Norfolk said they would
await official word before attempt
ing the blackout, ordered as pre-
caution against aiding enemy sub
marines in detecting passing ships.
Virginia Beach authorities said
compliance with the order at that
Seashore resort was satisfying.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
F. T. Maxwell Dies;
Business Executive
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz.. March %
Francis Taylor Maxwell, 81, Rock
vile Conn business executive
died today in a Phoenix hotel
For 81 years Mr. Maxwell was
president of the Hockanum Worsted
Co., now the M. T. Stevens Co. OF
Rockville.
He was a director of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail
road; Travellers Insurance Co. and
National Fire Insurance Co.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Steals Trailer and Heifers

GARDEN CITY, Kans. (P).-A
thief visited OBJ Reeves farm, stole
his cattle trailer and hooked it to
his car and then loaded two OF
Reeves heifers into it and drove
away.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Viscountess AIIenby Dies

BROCKENHURST, England, March
% LP).-The death of Viscountess
Allenby, widow of the World War
conqueror of Palestine. was an
nounced today. Her husband died
in 1896.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Weather Report
Furnished b,

Furnished
Coumbia-Moderately cold diminishing winds
night
winds slightly colder tonight
Evening star., 1942-03-23

Britain has a nation-w wide drive
for economy in coal
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Report for Last 4s Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. 55, at 4 pm. yesterday. Year
Lowest. 80. at 4:1O am. today. Year
ago. 80.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
Highest. 81 per cent at sos a m. today.
Lowest. - per cent. r pm. yesterday.
Evening star., 1942-03-23

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital current month to date:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-09
AGE, EDUCATION NEEDS

u opttlilIdllNt NdliuINdlt IIust W
not less than 10 years old nor
'more than 26. They must have sc-
CURED two years Of college credits
toward a degree or have the
equivalent in formal education or
practical training.
Upon arrival al the new head
quarters, each applicant will be
interviewed and then sent 70 the
medical department for a flight"
physical examination II found
qualified. he is forwarded 10 the
administrative department. where
final papers will be completed 10
start him on his first actual steps
Of flights training al one Of the
many naval reserve aviation bases
throughout the country.
Upon being commissioned i'm the
naval reserve as cnSignS. the new
officers receive salaries Of approXi-
nlately S2f5 a month while on
active duty.
After IFS establishment. the local
board will set up travelling boards
TO cover all cities and towns
throughout Michigan and Ohio, 10
assist prospective applicants in
starting careers as navy airmen
Meanwhile. Commander Ed
wards issued a personal plea for
all interested young men 10 call
personally or write 10 the Naval
Aviation Cadet Selection Board.
ninth floor, Book Tower, Washing
ton boulevard, Detroit.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-09
COMMANDER TELLS GOAL

In announcing establishment OF
the new quarters. Commander Ed
wards pointed out that, while re-
quirements for pilot training with
the navy, must necessarily be
somewhat higher than those for
other branches OF the service. they
are not beyond the attainment OF
the average, physically fit. young
American.
ut IL the desire of the navy
department and the Naval Avia-
tion Cadet Selection Board to
assist In every way the thousands
Of young men who are anxious
20 acquire the splendid train
Ing the navy offers 10 prospec-
tive pilots" he said.
ANY young man who has rea-
son 10 believe he il qualified for
flight training il requested To
contact the board headquarters
where he will receive every
assistance and advice.
"Many young men who are
afraid they might not he able
TO pass the physical examination
or who are not sure they meas
ure up otherwise. actually might
be logical candidates n they only
knew. My advice 10 such men IL
to come In before the board and
discuss the matter"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-09

ADVERTISEMENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-09
Combat Pilots
Sought by Navy;
|0ffiles Opened

A concerted drive to obtain COM
bat pilots for the United States
Navy will be started in Detroit
next Monday when an enlarged
Naval Aviation Cadet SeleetionI
Board opens offices on the ninth
floor of the Book Tower on Wash
ington boulevard.
The local board. which now COM
prises a staff of Ia line officers
and two score enlisted men, will
operate a complete office at the
new address, enabling Michigan
applicants TO manage an entire
processing downtown without the
necessity Of visiting the naval base
at Crosse He.
The new office, under the direc-
ton of Lieutenant Commander c.
L. Edwards, is the outgrowth OF a
small organization started by Com
mander Edwards some time ago at
the Crosse lie base.
OPEN NEW OFFICE MONDAY
Heretofore II has been necessary
for applicants TO 60 to Crosse lie
for hYsieat-exau1inationS-an and
necessary interviews. Starting
Monday, all functions of the office
will be carried out in the down.
town offices. which will utilize
virtually the entire ninth floor OF
the Book Tower.
Need for the new and larger
quarters is a result OF the rapid
expansion OF the air arm OF the
navy. 1t was ordered by the naval
\ bureau OF aeronautics, whose
principal purpose Is the procure
'ment, training and maintenance of
sufficient air combat pilots TO win
and hold aerial superiority for the
United States.
A complete medical organization
will be stated at the downtown
offices, under the direction OF
Commander Harry II. Jackson. so
that otherwise acceptable appli-
cants may be given their eXamina-
ton the same day they apply.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-09

Get ready for camping days. Heavy
white duck. hardwood frame with CEN
ter leg. metal reinforced. Very compact
-. easy 10 earryi
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-09

7l-s y,rds long, full width curtains.
Beautifully tailored with loOPei top.
Choice OF patterns in French eeru
shade. Greatly underprieedl
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-03-06
Return to New York

Mrs. George Cow and daughter
left last night for their home III
Jackson Heights, Long Island, New
York, after spending several week,
here with Mrs. Cows parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. p. Parham.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-03-06
Visit Here.

MIR. and Mrs. p. l.. Franklin. q
Durham visited Mrs, franklin par.
nt5, Mr.. and Mrs ". S. Strange, l.
t. city Thursday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-03-06

Mrs. w. NJ. Putnam. who under
went an operation al M1rIa Palh-n
hospital recently, is said to be getting
along very nicely.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-03-06
Guest from Fayetteville.

Miss Alice S. Haigh, of Favettg-
vile, is Vi ting her sister Ms. |. ".
Hughes, a her residence on Chestnut
street.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-03-06
DOES HE WALK

Lonely walks are the delights ..
Ny.ts. one of the questions MaIea
the impatient Cleopatra assuIl~ Cupa-
aau4, in regard TO Anthony, is, doe
nn. W1lk2"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-07
Hold Dreamed Food

BUTTERCUPS ARE crisp
little containers for creamed
food. Trim the crusts from
slices of fresh bread. and brush
lightly with melted butter. Press
each slice into a muffin cup and
toast in a moderate oven 1915
degrees until lightly Drowned.