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said every one was received before
the half-hou total blackout ended
Mr.. Mileham, experiencing hi.
first blackout test as chief warden
said he WAS surprised at the general
effectiveness Of the practice, but
declared he believed there should
be an end to special exemptions
for certatn business establishments
He mentioned, among others, baker
les, laundries. printing establish
ments and fish markets.
They have had six months or
more to prepare for total black
OUTS he declared. They should
be ready for them now"
Union Station Lights Visible.
Commissioner Mason, who made
a tour of inspection with Judge
Whitaker OF the Court of Claims
advocate general for the OCD, said
he found the water front blackened
out satisfactorily. but he was not
satisfied with the results at Union
Station. Although lights inside the
waiting room were dimmed, those
in the cor.course were left burning
he said.
Accompanied by Col. A. Gibson.
who is in charge of the training
section of OCD, Col. Bolles viewed
the beginning of the blackout from
Howard University, then visited Hy-
attsville's control center. On the
drive to Hyattsville the only light
visible came from hundreds Of fire.
flies along the roadway.
On the return trip Col. Bolles
noted one floor of the Municipal
Center Building with light showing
through drawn shades, and then he
discovered a light on the second
floor in the District Building. 1t
turned out to be a light over the
safe in the tax collectors ONCE.
Gen. L. D. Gasser. in charge of the
protection services of OCD, and Gen.
Charles w. Kutz. District Engineer
Commissioner, visited some of the
anti-aircraft guns stationed about
the city and then viewed the
blacked-out city from atop the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing.
Some Autos Violated Orders.
Most motorists-and there were
a great many on the streets until
about midnight-observed the order
calling for dim or masked lights,
but there were some who used
strong headlights in the downtown
area.
At 300 intersections, most of them
in the congested downtown section.
traffic lights were dimmed to the
point of being almost invisible. The
voltage was reduced fro ITO to ~
volts, Traffic Department officials
said.
All Virginia was cooperating in
the blackout and from various
points in that State came reports
of minor errors and difficulties.
In Richmond, mobilizing OF Vir-
ginia Protective Force members
caused flood of lighting from autos
in the downtown section, officials
said. Hope was expressed that a
type of headlight hood would be
approved soon.
At Roanoke, an operator at a con-
troll board inadvertently gave an all
clear buzz to siren stations, necessi-
tating a hurried reversal of orders
and sounding a new alert.
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Droft Board Doctor Sues
To Stop Own Induction
~ the AsxoriatS6 pr.ss

bN fDe ASSOCletsO fTSS.
MOUNT VERNON. N. Y. June
18,-An examining physician for
local Draft Board TAI yesterday
filed an action against the board
in an effort to prevent his fellow
officials from inducing him into
the Army.
Asking for a Federal Court in
junction to prohibit action by the
board, DR. Frank j. Pirone asserted
that its step in classifying him in
IA violated selective service regu-
lations forbidding members of a
draft board to pass on the case Of
an official of the same board.
Or. Prone said he would be i'm
mediately and irreparably damaged
and injured and deprived of his
liberty" If taken into the service.
The case was believed to be the
first of it's kind under the Selective
Service Law.
Evening star., 1942-06-18

Abe Fortas, young director OF the
Interior Departments power divi-
sion, was nominated by President
Roosevelt today to be Undersecre-
tary OF the Interior.
The nomination was sent to the
Senate along with list of Army
Navy and foreign service ofhcers
for promotion.
Mr.. Fortas will succeed John j
Dempsey. whose resignation was &C
cepted yesterday by Mr. Roosevelt
Mr.. Dempsey plans to seek the Dem.
ocratic nomination for Governor OF
New Mexico.
Mr.. Fortas, a native of Tennessee
has been in Government service
since 1888. soon after he graduated
from Yale University. In addition
to his present position, he Is acting
general counsel of the National
Power Policy Committee.
Evening star., 1942-06-18
BIuckout
Continued From First Page.)

man asked: What is this. joke?'
lights had been extinguished.
One blackout conviction was
speedily obtained in Alexandria, Va
Pvt. Paul Kelly, U. S. M. c., of
Washington, was fined $40 and costs
by Judge James R. Duncan for driv-
ing in excess of IS miles an hour
with improperly dimmed lights.
District Collateral Forfeited.
In Washington, Alfred A. Alti-
mont of Chevy Chase, Md, forfeited
SO on a charge of driving with i'm
proper lights at 1l:05 pm. on
Nebraska avenue near Wisconsin
avenue NV, police reported.
Other violations may be slow in
coming to light. Wardens who noted
houses where lights were showing,
for example. were to report these to
police. Police investigate. and it
may be hours or days before the
case goes before an assistant cor
poration counsel, who may issue a
warrant. The 18th police precinct
said it was probing some alleged
violators, and the cases might be-
come public next week.
In Washington, no serious traffic
accident occurred during the black
out-and there was no fatal accident
nearby.
A pedestrian. Sharretts A. Paine,
So. of Hyattsville, was critically in
jured when hit at 4:45 am. on the
Baltimore boulevard by an auto
driven by Washington-bound
worker
Man Robbed by Trio.
About the only violence reported
to police was the robbery Of Robert
r. Kegg, 3O33 o street NV, by three
white youths who strongarmed him
at ! 80 a m. at Delaware avenue and
C street NE They took his watch
and So.
The police radio sent many calls
to scout cars, reporting suspicious
persons and attempts TO break into
homes. Investigation proved that
nearly all such alarms had been
caused by movements of afraid
wardens or auxiliary policemen.
Pedestrians experienced difficulty
merely walking along sidewalks dur
ing the intense darkness. At 10:40
pm. David Pinkney, %, walked into
a light pole near his home. 1887
E street Sc. Providence Hospital
physicians treated him for face
lacerations.
So dark was it, in fact, that an
airline pilot coming into Washing
ton National Airport did not know
he was over Washington until the
airport control tower gave him his
bearings. He told Civilian Defense
Co-ordinator j. Russell Young, who
visited the airport during the total
blackout phase of the test, that he
could not see the Capitol dome or
the Washington Monument, nor
could he see the outline of the
city.
Alarm Lasts 30 Minutes.
The AFRAID alarm, or total black
out period, which halted everything
except emergency vehicles and sent
pedestrians to cover, came at 1925
pm, 25 minutes after the blackout
began in the District. The yellow
or alert was sounded at $50, the
blue signal at 1905, the red at
1925 and the all-clear signal at
l0:55.
During the half-hour period, which
was given a realistic touch when
Army aircraft flew over the city,
trucks and automobiles pulled to
the curb or the side of the road,
streetcars and buses stopped wher-
ever they were and ghostly silence
settled over the whole area.
For Is minutes of the total black
out. the mammoth new War Build
ing in Arlington and the Washing
ton Navy Yard were blacked out
and, for the first time the National
Airport was completely dark, as
Evening star., 1942-06-18
One Serious Traffic
Accident Reported
During B|ackout
HyuttsviIIe Pedestrion
Is Struck by Auto on
Bultimore Boulevard
D. {. Troffic Toll
Killed in 1912 42--53
Killed in same period of l94l 40
Tol! for all of l941- -95

One man was seriously injured
early today in Hyattsville, but 9TH
erwise only minor traffic accidents
were reported in the Washington
area during the blackout.
Sharretts A. Paine, SO, of 4406
Madison avenue, Hyattsville, Nd.
was in critical condition at Casualty
Hospital, suffering a fractured skull
fractures of both legs, broken ribs
and shock.
Prince Georges County police said
he was struck by an automobile
while walking along the $500 block
of the Baltimore boulevard. He was
taken to the hospital by the Brent
wood rescue squad.
Child Hit by Car.
Police listed the driver of the car
as George E. Purschwitz of Brent
wood, Md. who said he was report
ing to work in Washington at the
time. He was charged with reck-
less driving.
During the previous blackout a
man was killed in Takoma Park,
Md, by a motorist.
Washingtons most severe traffic
accident last night came shortly
before the blackout, when 4-year- old
Rosa Lee Davis. colored, ran into
the street and was hit by an auto
near her home. 81 Pierce street
NV, police said. She was taken to
Sibley Hospital. suffering a head
injury. and was later transferred to
Childern's Hospital.
Policeman Nelson F. Skogland,
"a. was injured when all auto hit
his motorcycle at 2:30 am. He was
sitting on the cycle in the first
block of M street S. E. recording
information given by two auxiliary
policemen. Providence Hospital
physicians treated him for leg lacer-
ations.
Truck Strikes Pole.
Eighteen minutes after the black
out began a car driven by Albert A.
Baker, 54, 1928 H street NE struck
a pole, then a parked car at Third
and Massachusetts, avenue NV,
police said Mr.. Baker went home
after treatment for minor hurts at
Casualty Hospital
A truck driven by Frank Devine,
26. of Sands, Ala, struck a pole
early today at River road and Ray
mond avenue. Alexandria, police
said. The driver was uninjured, but
several wires were knocked from the
pole.
Mr.. Devine reported he was driv-
ing along River road. which is U.
S. Route /. with his lights dimmed
and was unable to see the pole.
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Utility President Dies

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June Is tP1.
Leroy o. Gordon. SO, president Of
the Peoples Water & Gas Co.. an
affiliate of the Southern Natural
Gas Co., died yesterday after an
illness of approximately a year.
Evening star., 1942-06-18
Weather Report


CoumbiaModerate this afternoon and
tonight: gentle winds
Maryland Vrgna-Moderae temperatures tonight.
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b. Houses for Sale

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Evening star., 1942-04-13
Declaration Of War
On Axis Satellites
Seen by WeIIes
U. S. Expected to Act
IF Motions Give Axis
Effective Aid

Congress will be asked to declare
war against Bulgaria, Hungary and
Rumania If 1t appeared those coun-
tries give material assistance to Ger
many against Russia, Acting Secre-
tary of State Welles said today.
He pointed out that so far the
United States has not declared war
against those countries in spite of
their declarations against us, since
it was realized that they were act
ing under German pressure and
against the true wishes of the people.
Mr.. welles said he had no def
mite information about the signif1-
canoe OF reported Bulgarian cabinet
changes, but assumed that they in
dicated intensified German pressure
to get the Bulgarian people to make
definite contribution to Germany's
war efforts.
He added that he left sure Presi-
dent Roosevelt would ask for a dec
laration of war against Bulgaria,
Rumania and Hungary If it ever
appeared they were giving effective
military assistance to Germany.
Rumanian and Hungarian troops
have been fighting with the Nazis
In Russia. 50
Mr.. Welles also told a press con-
ference that the United States is
not interested in reports of German
proposals for negotiating peace.
He made this comment when
asked about. reports from Stock
holm that the German envoy there
was sounding out the British on
peace proposals. He said he had
no information whatever on the
reports.
Charges by the German-controlled
press in Occupied France that the
Vichy Government has been con-
trolled for some months by the
Unietd States were described by
Mr.. Welles as part of a continuing
war Of nerves by Germany against
the French people.
Evening star., 1942-04-13

Under the new Federal rules of
civil procedure, both husband and
wife may sue a third party and one
may win and the other lose in the
litigation, without affecting each
others rights, said the United States
Court Of Appeals today.
Mrs. Alice e. Clark, 4e43 Kansas
avenue NV, brought suit in Dis
trict Court, claiming injuries be-
cause Of the alleged negligence Of
Lansburgh & Bro, Inc. In the
same suit, her husband, Samuel T.
Clark, a railroad man, sued the store
for out-of-pocket expenses and loss
Of services. resulting from his wtfe's
injuries.
A jury awarded the husband $500,
but gave the wife nothing. The store
then appealed, claiming that the
verdict adverse to the wife was con-
elusive on the husband and barred
his right to recover. Mr.. Clark was
represented in the higher court by
Attorneys s. Preston Smith, Row.
land Edwards and William j..
Sweeney.
In ruling today, through Chief
Justice D. Lawrence Groner, who
heard the appeal with Associate
Justice Justin Miller and Henry w.
Edgerton, the appellate court said a
Judgment against one is not q bar to
an action by the other.
1.-THE principle which sustains
this rule is that neither the parties
nor the causes are the same" de-
clared the court today. There is
no privity in blood, representation,
estate or law. The right Of the
wife to bring and control her own
Evening star., 1942-04-13
Cripps Wasn't Military
Failure Halifax SAYS
b the Associated Press.

6y INT AkSOCieteQ Prek&.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, April
13.-Lord Halifax, British Ambassa-
dor to the United States, said yes
terday the Sir Stafford Cripps mis-
sion to India is to be regarded as
q political failure and not as q mill
tary or strategic setback for Great
Britain.
India is giving British armies
in the East 1885, 900 volunteers,
whereas before the war with Japan
there were not more than 10000
native Indians In the army, Lord
Halifax said.
I'VE have not attempted to en-
force conscription in India" the
Ambassador explained, yet there
has been q steady increase in the
number Of volunteers coming into
our ranks to fight against Japanese
invasion"
Lord Halifax added that he felt
there was no hope for immediate
solution Of the Indian problem, but
that the British government would
continue to hope for better luck in
the future.
Evening star., 1942-04-13
"A. P. Wirephoto.

30; none of Canada left its total
23, and OF South America made
its war figures 6.
The latest sinking, announced by
the Navy yesterday, was that Of
medium sized Norwegian craft tor
pedoed early last Tuesday OF the
east coast. One crewman was miss
ing, but the other 40 were landed
safely at Norfolk. One man was
injured.
John H. Bjerkholt, master of the
vessel, said his ship was proceeding
at about normal speed and under
q complete blackout when the tor
pedo struck without warning.
The survivors were picked up
after three or four hours in the
hfeboats by two rescue vessels.
Evening star., 1942-04-13
Radio HAM Informs D. 6. Wife
Mate, Held by Jops, Is 'Okoy'

Mrs. Dorothy Cook of 1904 Nine
teenth street NV. has received word
that her husband, Walter j. Cook
Of the United States Navy, is being
treated okay" as japanese pris-
oner Of war, it was learned today.
A first class aerologist, who lived
here a year and a half while sta
toned at the Anacostia Naval Air
Station, Mr.. Cook was sent to Wake
Island last October and took part
in the defense of the island. The
same plane which on December 20
flew the day-by-day account of the
Wake defense to authorities at Pearl
Harbor, carried a post card from
Mr.. Cook to his wife.
Since then Mrs. Cook, employed at
the Bureau of Internal Revenue, had
no word till she got letter last week
from an amateur radio station op-
Evening star., 1942-04-13
II Sinkings in Week
Increase Total to 10

NEW YORK, April 13 R.-Twelve
omcially announced ship sinkings on
this side of the Atlantic last week
brought to 127 the acknowledged
total OF losses in the area since Pearl
Harbor.
Nine Of the victims were American
vessels; the others one each Of
British, Brazilian and Norwegian
registry.
Enemy submarines In Eastern
United States waters during the
week sent 8 merchantmen to the
bottom for q war total of %; ! in
the Caribbean boosted that total to
Evening star., 1942-04-13
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. c. MONDAY APRIL 49, 1912
Anti i-Semitism Charqe
Upheld as Basis for
Libel Action
Supreme Court Orders
Sweeney Suit Tried
On Its Merits
By the Associated Press.

The Supreme Court upheld to-
day by a 4-to-4 vote a circuit
court decision which a litigant
interpreted as making it libelous
to charge a public official with
anti-SemitiSm.
That action was taken or . libel
suit brought by Representative
Sweeney, Democrat, of Ohio against
the Schenectady IN. " Union Pub
fishing Co.
Mr.. Sweeney claimed to have been
hbeled by statements published in
the Schenectady Union Star that he
was opposing the appointment Of
Emerich Burt Freed as Federal dis
trict judge at Cleveland on the
ground that Mr.. Freed is a Jew.
$250,0 Damages Sought.
The statements were alleged to
have appeared December %, 1898,
in a column called the Washington
Daily Merry Co. Round" written by
Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen.
Mr.. Sweeney sought $3.50, 900
damages.
Dismissal of Mr.. Eweeney's COM
plant was ordered by the New York
Federal District Court. That was
reversed by the Federal Circuit
Court, which ordered a new trial on
the merits of the controversy.
Justice jackson did not participate
in today's action, which was taken
without q written opinion. How
the remaining eight justices divided
on the question was not announced.
Public Interest Cited.
In a brief filed with the tribunal,
the newspaper said that what the
Circuits Court decision means in
practical effect is that comment on
matters of public interest, and par
ticularly on public officials, is now
Of all times In American history-to
become a dangerous thing"
The newspaper contended that the
reasoning of the Circuit Court
decision would make it equally
libelous to say of Representative
Sweeney that he opposed Freed for
ONCE because he was a Yankee, a
Southerner, or Of English extrac-
ton"
Evening star., 1942-04-13
Boat Crippled, ; Youths
Swim to Huins Point

When their 1S-foot boat shipped
water in the Potomac yesterday
three youths swan rs feet to Hams
Point, where onlookers pulled them
over the seawan.
Rushed to their homes for a rub
down and change of clothes were
Edwin Mundy, 18, SIT Fifth street
NE; Garland Beans, 16, $40 Web
ster street NV, and Richard
Kahler, 800 Delafleld place NV.
Harbor police rescued their boat.
Evening star., 1942-04-13

orator in Las Vegas, New.
On April 6. wrote the operator, he
received the following message by
shortwave from Toxic, addressed to
Mrs Cook:
Dearest darling. Am alive and
well. Don't worry. I am eating and
sleeping well and am being treated
okay. Walter j. Cook"
The Las Vegas operator informed
Mrs. Cook that the announcer who
transmitted the message from Toxic
said Mr.. Cook had been captured on
Wake Island.
Mrs. Cook, native of South Da-
kota, has been employed at the
bureau five years. She and Mr..
Cook, formerly of Grand Rapids,
Mich, we're married about three
years ago. He left Washington in
May, 1941.
Evening star., 1942-04-13
Special Dispatch to The Star.

LEWES, Del, April 13.-The story
Of how child's prayer was answered
in storm tossed lifeboat in the
North Atlantic-a prayer that the
body of her mother would not be
committed to the ocean-was told
here today by one Of the survivors
Of an American freighter passenger
ship torpedoed on Palm Sunday.
1t was in another lifeboat from
the same ship that child was born
to Mrs. Desanka Mohorovic, who
reached Norfolk, Va, on April 2,
with her child and 81 other survi-
vors.
For Is days, the child huddled
with her mother In the nfeboat for
protection from the wind and rain
before the mother, Mrs. Sora Etter,
wife Of a New York restaurateur
died. The 3-year r-old girl, Miriam
Etter, was placed In the care of her
faithful nurse, Anna Zurcher, after
Mrs. Etter died.
The baby had seen the bodies Of
others thrown into the sea and
prayed: please don't throw my
mommy into the water"
Rescue Vessel Summoned.
Her prayer was answered. A few
hours later. a plane sighted the
boat and summoned q naval rescue
vessel. The body Of Mrs. Etter was
transferred to the rescue boat and
arrived here Saturday. The body Of
a member Of the crew, Seaman John
A. McInnis, Duluth, Mimi. also was
brought ashore along with the II
survivors.
The story was told by Miss Rosa
belle Blythe Clark, IS, Of Durham,
South Africa, who was on her way
to the United States to marry DR..
Henry Jacobs, q research worker In
the Rockefeller Foundation at New
York.
Miss Clark said only two of the
five lifeboats lowered from the sink
ing freighter got away safely. One
was capsized In launching and .
torpedo struck the other two, kill
ing all occupants, she said.
A Navy spokesman said only Is
Of the 124 persons aboard the
freighter were "unaccounted for" !"
Among those missing were Mrs.
Leonard Govett, about 81, and her
2-year-old son, who were on their
way to Washington.
Strict Rationing Of Supplies.
Telling her story at the hospital
here, Miss Clark said:
"It was the most hideous night
I have ever spent. The first night