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Evening star., 1942-03-27
Psychiatrist Advises
Welfare Workers on
Juvenile Problems
Social Agencies Council
Units Urged to Avoid
Point Blank Questions

If you would win childs conf
dence. don't start off asking ques-
tions; rather tell the boy or girl how
you hope to help them have more
fun.
This advice to Washington well
fare workers was given yesterday by
DR.. Alexander r. Martin, psychi-
artist for the Boys Club unit of the
Childrens Aid Society and Union
Settlement in New York City.
Addressing the first joint meeting
this year of the health and recrea-
ton divisions of the District Council
Of Social Agencies at the Y. w. c. A,
Dr.. Martin emphasized that war
conditions breed additional delin-
quency problems and that welfare
stats must evolve a new approach
in understanding reasons for child
delinquency.
The srrest way to build up resist
ance In a child, the speaker added, is
to begin by asking questions, thus
arousing child's suspicious. In
stead, DR.. Martin said. the friendly
approach Is to let child know he
will find recognition and apprecia-
ton Of his latent qualities by shar-
ing his experiences and ambitions
with an understanding welfare
worker.
Terming overprotection, parent
exploitation and deprivation of
family companionship the three
basic causes of delinquency. DR..
Martin said child problems are uni
versal and differ only in the in
tensity of parental attitudes.
DR.. Ray Buxton, director OF the
Washington Institute of Mental Hy-
giene. termed lack of recreational
activities a basic cause OF de-
linquency.
Judge Fay L. Bentley of Juvenile
Court said the effect of war condi-
tions on children is challenge to
all workers in the welfare and So
cial service field. I'VE can help"
she said. "by doing more in our
respective fields"
DR.. Dean Clark, who presided. said
Juvenile delinquency in England
reached such proportions it was nee
essary to withdraw youth leaders
from the armed services to help
Evening star., 1942-03-27
Nuzis' Dutch Persecution
Likened to Norwuy

BY Radio to The Star.
BERN, March 27-Nazi perse-
cution of the church in the Neither
lands is on a scale comparable to
that employed in Norway, according
to information printed yesterday in
the Journal de Geneve, chief Protes-
tant newspaper of Switzerland.
Two well-known professors of
Groningen University, Aalders and
Paul Scholten, have been arrested
by the Nazis. Both had worked
toward union of the Protestant sects
throughout the world.
While the reason for the arrests
remains undisclosed, the deep feel
ing created in the country by this
Nazi action is stressed by the Swiss
journal.
tCopyrisht 1912. by Chicago Daily News)
Evening star., 1942-03-27

alleviate social problems on the
home front.
Approximately 200 health and
recreation workers attended the
luncheon meeting.
Evening star., 1942-02-24
New Needs Presented.

the ticket being in the form of a
bonus for purchase of the stamps
The stores at which the tickets
and stamps may be obtained are
Garfnckel's, Goldenberg's, Jelleff's,
s. Kann Sons, Lansburgh & Bro,
Palais Royal, the Hecht Co. and
Woodward & Lothrop.
Each of the three service bands
will give a brief concert, with a
minute man from the Treasury
speaking briefly after each. Miss
Monroe will lead in the singing
of various favorite songs in much
the same manner as she did at
last summers outdoor sing, which
was attended by more than 10000
persons. As a finale, all three serv-
ice bands will unite to play the
music as Miss Monroe leads in the
singing of THE Star Spangled
Banner"
There will be no reserved seats,
all seats being on the first come,
first served basis.
+ This concert is the first of a
series to be held In principal cities
all over the United States seeking
TO stimulate sales Of Defense stamps
and Defense bonds.
Evening star., 1942-02-24

loss of personnel, was made In
eommunique which read:
Atlantic area.
"The u. S. S. Truxtun, World
War destroyer, and the o. S. S.
PolIux, a cargo ship, ran aground IN
foul weather off the coast Of New
foundland and were lost.
due to the extremely difhcult
surf caused by the gale raging in
the Atlantic and the bitterness OF
the winter weather, loss of life was
heavy on both vessels. Heroic ef-
forts to swim lines ashore failed
due to the inability to handle them
when they became oil-soaked.
"A breeches buoy was finally
rigged to a ledge at sea level, but
some of the survivors were washed
away before they could be gotten
to the top Of the cliff that lined
the rocky shore.
THE Truxtun broke up almost I'M
mediately after grounding and soon
thereafter the Pollux did likewise.
The survivors owe their rescue in
large measure to the tireless, efficient
and in many cases heroic action OF
the people of St. Lawrence, New
foundland.
THE next of kin of those lost in
this tragic drama of the sea have
been notified"
1t. Comdr. HickoX had been on
Evening star., 1942-02-24
Wife Took
Viereck File Out Of
Office, Jury Told
Ex-Aide Says Senator'S
Widow Wanted Popers
In Her Possession

Testimony that after Senator
Lundeen's death in a plane ac-
cident August 81, 1910, his wife
stripped his Office files of all ma
terial relating to George Sylves-
ter Viereck was given in District
Court today as the Government
drew toward a close its case
against the registered German
propaganda for assertedly with
holding information from the
State Department.
Mrs. Gordon Spielman, then a
confidential secretary in Senator
Lundeen's Office, told the jury in
Justice F. Dickinson Let's court
that Mrs. Lundeen got the Viereck
file.
WAS a special file kept for Vie
reck?" asked Special Prosecutor Ed
ward j. Hickey, jr.
YES" said the witness. Mrs.
Lundeen directed us to put every
thing relating to Mr.. Viereck in one
file and give it to her"
Didn't Take Other Files.
Didn't she take charge of all the
Senator's files after his death?"
asked Defense Attorney Emil Moro
sini on cross
NO" said Mrs. Spielman. "Just
the Viereck matter She wanted that
in her possession and she took it
out"
Mrs. Lundeen is under subpoena
as a defense witness.
During long cross-examination,
Mrs. Spielman repeated what she
had said when she first testified last
(See VIERECK, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1942-02-24
Britain and U. 5. Discuss
Shipments 10 Africa

By tie Associated Press, ..+--.,-.,s,
LONDON, Feb 24.-The Ministry
Of Economic Warfare announced
through Undersecretary Dingle
Macintosh Foot today that the
question of United States shipments
to French North Africa was under
discussion with the United States
Government"
Mr.. Foot made the announcement
in response to Liberal Goeffrey
Mander, who ironically inquired
whether the government thought
"at the moment when the French
Battleship Dunkerque has been
moved to Toulon, that we should
provide facilities for the Vichy gov
ernment, and If we are going to
interrupt the blockade would it not
be better to let the supplies go to
starving Greece?"
The British have charged that
Axis armies in Libya have received
some supplies through Tunisia.
The shipments in question have
consisted principally of sugar, coal,
pitch and cotton piece goods, but no
oil has been included except 20 tons
of gasoline for the United States
consular Offices" Mr.. Foot said.
Evening star., 1942-02-24
Tickets for Community Sing
Now Available at 8 Stores

Tickets for the community sing
to be led by Lucy Monroe which
is being sponsored in Washington
by The Evening Star in co-opera-
ton with r. c. A.-Victor at the re-
quest of the Treasury, are ready
for distribution at eight Of the
large downtown department stores
and in the lobby of The Evening
Star Building.
The concert, which will be held
on the evening of March at Riv-
erside Stadium, will include in its
program the United States Army
Band, the Navy Band and the Ma
rine Band, and appearing on the
stage also will be Irving Berlin
and Barry Wood, the baritone heard
on radios popular Hit Parade each
week.
Admission to the concert requires
only that at least 81 worth of
Defense stamps be purchased at
one of the stamp booths in the
cooperating stores. The pur-
chaser of the stamps need only re-
quest . ticket for each dollar
worth Of stamps purchased. There
Is no direct charge for admission,
Evening star., 1942-02-24
Portuguese Troops Going
To Timor Continue VOYAGE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LISBON, Feb. 24.-The voyage
Of Portuguese troops en- route to
Timor, Southwest Pacific island
jointly owned by the Netherlands
and Portugal and now invaded by
the japanese, is proceeding without
incident, the newspaper Diario de
Lisboa reported today.
THE japanese government has
guaranteed it would respect Portu-
guese sovereignty and so the voyage
proceeds" the paper said.
Portuguese troops left for
Timor before the Japanese oc-
cupation, which caused an "en-
ergetic" protest to be sent from
Lisbon to Toxic. The Japanese
claimed they were forced to oc-
cupy the island before Dutch
and Australian troops had taken
control of the Portuguese half
last December)
The troops are aboard the liner
Joao Belo and are escorted by the
naval sloop Concalvez Arco. Posi-
tions of both are radioed constantly
to belligerents in the South Pacific
zone.
Evening star., 1942-02-24
Roosevelt Lists
High Purposes
For All Americans
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

These three high purposes"
for every American were cited
by President Roosevelt in his
address last night:
/. We shall not stop work for
a single day. If any dispute
arises, we shall keep on work.
ing while the dispute is solved
by mediation, concihation or
arbitration-until the war Is
won.
2. We shall not demand spe-
cial gains or special privileges
or advantages for any one group
or occupation.
3. We shall give up con-
veniences and modify the rou-
tine of our lives If our country
asks us to do so. We will do it
cheerfully. remembering that
the common enemy seeks to
destroy every freedom in every
part of our land.
Evening star., 1942-02-24
millionaire Colony Plays Host
To 22OH Torpedoed Tanker
Survivors of S. S. Republic Given Food
And Clothing by Jupiter Island Residents
By FRANCIS E. STAN,
Star Staff Correspondent.

PALM BEACH, Fla, Feb. "a
Mr.. and Mrs. Worthington Scran-
ton weren't planning a party at
lis am. Sunday at their palatial
beach house on the almost fabulous
Jupiter Island overlooking the At
lantic. AS a matter of fact, Mr..
Scranton, millionaire from Scran-
ton, Pa, was in bed and Mrs.
Scranton was finishing the last
pages of book when % unexpected
guests. half dozen clad only in
underwear, dropped in.
When they did the wheels of the
Once of Civilian Defense began to
turn, possibly for the first time in
World War II under actual war con-
ditions, and the millionaires oc-
cupying one Of the most exclusive
resorts in the country behaved in
a manner to warm the cookies of
Dean Lands heart. There are %
torpedoed sailors to attest to that.
Mrs. Scranton swung into action
Evening star., 1942-02-24
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Friends of Progress accused at
hearing. Page A-3
Rate of lease-lend aid tripled since
Pearl Harbor. Page A
Cuban Navy probing report of sink
ing of sugar ship. Page AS
Greed, ineficiency held chief indus
trial saboteurs. Page AS
Senate farm group seeks price plan
in arms measure. Page A-10
Corporation and individual income
tax raises seen. Page A-10
Judicial Conference to be held here
Thursday. Page ALL
Ship workers quit after eight hours
in shift protest. Page Ali
Maj. Won Parseval, builder of nom
rigid dirigibles, dies. Page B-8
Washington and Vicinity.
School workshops get model plane
plans this week. Page B-1
Boiling soldier admits killing taxi
driver. Page B-1
Miscellany
Natures Children. Page B-f3
Evening star., 1942-02-24
U.S.. Destroyer and Auxiliary Lost
In Newfoundland Gale; 189 Dead;
Jap Sea Control Wanes-ChurchiII
D. c. Officer Is
Among Victims
Of Disaster

The U. S. s. Truxtun, a de-
stroyer, and the U. s. s. Pollux,
a Navy cargo ship, were lost in a
raging gale of the coast of New
foundland with a loss of at least
189 officers and men, the Navy
Department announced today.
The commanding officer of the
Truxtun was 1t. Comdr. Ralph
Hickox, SO, of Washington, and he
was among those who died, the Navy
said. The commander of the stores
ship, the Pollux, was not identified
but the Navy reported him safe.
The heavy loss of life was attrib-
uted to the fact that the two ships,
constituting portion of convoy,
were torn to wreckage under the
inerciless battering of wind and
wave very quickly after they ran
aground.
The double disaster occurred in
daylight but visibility was extremely
low. The frothy currents set up by
the dashing of the waters against
rocks and reefs made the coastline
tndistinct and regular aids to navi-
CATION were obscured by low-sweep-
ing scud. The point at which the
ships went aground was described
as near the entrance to Lawrence
Harbor, on which is located the
town of Lawrence, Newfoundland.
Heroic Efforts Praised.
Residents of that place were
praised by the Navy for their heroic
efforts in pulling such men as sur
vived through the icy storm-tossed
seas to safety.
The certain dead aboard the Trux-
tun were placed at seven officers and
90 men and there was possibility
that three more deaths would be
confirmed later. the Navy said. Dead
aboard the Pollux were one officer
and 81 men.
The Truxtun was the same type OF
old destroyer as the Reuben James,
which was torpedoed and sunk in
the North Atlantic off Iceland with
the loss of 100 officers and men last
fall.
The normal complement of the
Pollux, a new 6,085-ton merchant
vessel which had been taken over
by the Navy only last year, was not
given. ,,.--.-r' a--s
Communique Issued. -
Disclosure of the loss of the Trux-
tun, following closely on the Navy's
announcement yesterday that the
Coast Guard cutter Alexander Ham
tlton had been torpedoed and later
sunk OF Iceland with a moderate"
Evening star., 1942-02-24

natural barrier guarding the Ran
goon-Lashio Railway, which feeds
the Burma road, military commen-
tator declared. Presumably Japa-
nese forces freed by the fall 0f
Singapore now have joined the in
vasion of Burma.
Withdrawing from the 30-mile
sector between the Bilin and Sittang
Rivers in stubbornly fought rear
guard action, the British now hold
positions within Is miles of the rail-
way town of Pegu and within 10
(See BURMA. Page A-Rl
Evening star., 1942-02-24

employment and the exchange and
consumption of goods to the
elimination of all forms of discrim-
inatory treatment in international
commerce, and to the reduction of
tariffs and other trade barriers"
Basic measurement for the inter-
change of economic benefits which
will be deemed essential to the
creation of this postwar interna-
tionalism will be determined in large
part by an evaluation of lease-lend
and other wartime assistance given
by this Nation to Great Britain, and
reciprocal aid extended to the
United States by the British Empire.
Agreement Signed Yesterday.
Continuance of this wartime
exchange of supplies and fighting
facilities is specifically reaf1rmed
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1942-02-24
Army,NaNHunt
Sub That Fired
On California
U-Bout's Twin Guns
Hurled Is Shells at
Oil Refinery

The War Department an
nounced today that Army and
Navy aircraft and surface vessels
have launched an intensive
search for an enemy submarine,
apparently japanese, which
bombarded the Bankline Oil Re
flnery near Ellwood, II miles
west Of Santa Barbara, Calf,
about 7:20 o'clock last night.
The Army. in a communique at
$50 am, said the submarine fired
rs rounds of shells from two 5-inch
guns.
There was no indication as to
whether more than one submarine
was involved.
The communique stated that little
damage was done and no casualties
we're reported.
Sub Is New Type.
The shelling revealed the presence
along the West Coast of a new type
Japanese submarine armed with
two 5-inch guns.
This new type is one of the series
completed in 1939-40, with the long
range operation against the West
Coast of the United States as one
OF its ultimate objectives. The sub
marine is reported to have a range
OF 5000 miles and maximum sur
face speed of about II knots.
The new Japanese submarine is
reported to be about $50 feet long
and the largest of a series which
ranges from 2,l80 to $500 tons. It
has six 2l-inch torpedo tubes. How
many of the 193s-40 series are large
enough to carry two of the 5-inch
guns was not definitely known.
Evening star., 1942-02-24

MI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS III INCW OClIIl
said the India commander, Gen
Sir Alan Fleming Hartley, had as
sumed direction of the bitterly con-
tested campaign in which the
japanese are approaching Rangoon
and the railway that feeds the
Burma road.
The shift in command was said to
have been one result of the visit to
India of China's generaissimo,
Chang Kai-shek.
The Japanese have thrown fresh
troops into mounting Burma Of
fensive which has driven the Brit
ish back on the Sittang River, last
Evening star., 1942-02-24
Daughter Learns
Of Hickox's S Death
At Birthday Party

A Navy wife's brave effort to
provide a happy birthday for
her 8-year-old daughter, de-
spite knowledge her husband
had been lost at sea, proved un-
availing today when the child,
Dorcas Ann Hickox, heard a
radio report that the U. S. S.
Truxtun, a destroyer, had run
aground with heavy loss of life.
Dorcas AIMS father, 1t.
Comdr. Ralph Hickox, was IN
command of the Truxtun and
was reported lost.
A birthday cake was on the
table in the home of her grand
mother, Mrs. Robert L. Barber,
113 Eleventh street NE, when
the report came over the air.
They had seen Comdr. Hickox
only q few days ago in Boston
while his vessel was m port.
Evening star., 1942-02-24
Great French Supplies
Reported Sent to Nuzis
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. A-The value of
industrial products removed by the
Nazis from France to Germany since
the armistice of June, 1910, totals
approximately 100000, 900, an off,
cial spokesman declared today.
The value of foodstuffs removed
might be anything between" $780,
100000 and 1920, ,0O0, 900, he said.
The computation was based on
the rate of 176 francs to one pound
sterling, the spokesman said.
He added that information about
securities transferred from France
TO Germany was not sufficient to
enable him to give figures.
Evening star., 1942-02-24
'Japs Claim U. S. Defeat
In Plan 10 Attack Islands
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC F'rom. Japanese Broad
casts, Feb. 24.-Authorized naval
sources declared today that jap
anese aircraft had broken up an
attempt to attack Japanese man
dated islands in the South Seas by
inflicting heavy damage on United
States Fleet units discovered steam
ing westward toward the islands last
Friday,
Evening star., 1942-02-24
Raging
East Of SmoIensk
As Reds Push On
lnitiutive in Our Hands,
Russion Dispatch
From Front Says
BY the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, Feb. 24.-Intensive
battles ragged east of Smolensl
today as Russian dispatches re-
ported the Red Army surging on
from Dorogobuzh, only so miles
from the key city in the central
front.
The retreating Germans were re-
ported burning everything in the
territory they yielded.
(The Vichy radio was heard in
London today broadcasting a
statement attributed to the Ger
man radio that the Russians had
launched their biggest offensive
of the war and that the relief
Of Leningrad was expected at any
moment.
cOur troops on Leningrad front
are in great danger" Vichy
quoted the Berlin broadcast.
(No such German broadcast
was heard by New York listen
ing posts, and Vichys version
may be propaganda to lull Allied
peoples.
CAS- relayed by Vichy, the Ger
man radio added that with the
biggest and bloodiest battles" in
the history of mankind raging
in the Smolensk, Dnieperpet-
rovsk and Sevastopol sectors, the
Germans could not afford to yield
another inch)
THE initiative is now in our
hands," a dispatch from the Western
front said.
It told also of a solemn meeting o1
Red Army troops in that sector
yesterday to hear Premier Stains
order of the day.
Men Take Oath.
After hearing the phrase "Red
banners must float over all occupied
territory" the Red Army command
ers and soldiers took an oath to
iberate all Nazi-occupied territory
Dorogobuzh fell after violent at
tack launched at dawn yesterday
after hours of artillery preparation
Soviet authorities said.
Massed infantrymen, led by tanks
supported by field guns and covered
by planes, headed in force towarc
Smolensk, German base $50 miles
west of Moscow, to capitalize or
conquests a month earlier in thu
Mozhaisk sector at their rear anc
on correlated pincer actions.
Without identifying the sectors
the Soviet Information Bureau sale
one Russian unit had repelled five
fierce counterattacks and killed more
than 500 Germans, that Red Army
infantry and cavalry had coop
Grated to reoccupy 10 settlements
annihilate more than $500 invaders
and take number of prisoners, anc
that Soviet detachment had killec
100 in a foray in which it destroyed
three tanks. ,,
Equipment Captured.
Soviet units operating on ont
sector of the southern front" 1t said
captured three German tanks, fow
guns, eight minethrowers, nine ma.
chine guns, 90 cages Of mines ant
Evening star., 1942-02-24
District Housing Cost
Raised 10 S72,145,268
AT Senate Hearing
New Totul includes
$1,000, 900 Project in
Southwest Section
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

Washington needs $72, 145 1858
instead of the $50 ,0O0, 900 in the
Lanham defense housing bill, if
all its wartime municipal needs
are to be met, a group of Federal
and local officials told a Senate
subcommittee today.
The new total included a recon-
mendation for the addition of ST.
000, 900 to carry out the Goodwillie
plan for reconstruction of a nine
block area in the Southwest section,
as part of the housing program.
The officials were called into con-
ference by Chairman Ellender of an
education and labor subcommittee
to reconcile conflicting estimates at
earlier hearings as to the amounts
needed for various phases of the
program. '''%'+''
= wf1en the conference adjourned
at 1880 Senator Ellender said he
did not believe any further hear
ings will be necessary and that the
subcommittee would meet later in
the week to decide whether it will
provide for the general needs, listed
today, or conflne the measure to
the 10000 new houses and related
facilities.
Senator Ellender said the Federal
Government should do in the Dis
trict whatever 1t is doing to aid
other defenes areas, but at the
same time we should see to it that
the District government pays its
fair proportion"
Differences Of Degree"
Baird Snyder, acting administra-
tor Of the Federal Works Agency,
testified the various groups con-
cerned with the housing problem
here met Sunday and drew up a
letter embodying the whole picture
as they see it.
Mr.. Snyder said the apparent diff
ferences in estimates at the earlier
hearings were matters of degree
rather than of fact" He emphasized
that the House approved bill was
drawn to build 10000 new family
units at a cost of $4,000, 900, and
the additional 10000, 900 was in
tended to provide only the hospital
space, schools and other facilities
needed for those houses. The trou-
bic at the last hearing, he indicated,
grew out Of the fact that the city's
remaining needs were discussed
along with the specific requirements
for these 10000 housing units.
The purpose of the Sunday con-
ference, he said, was ito agree on
the needs of greater Washington
for housing and other facilities. :"
The Federal Security Administra-
tion, the District Commissioners and
the Alley Dwelling Authority were
represented.
New Needs Presented.
All were in agreement, he said, on
the need for the 10000 family units
in the Lanham bill, that they should
all be of permanent-type construc-
ton, and that dormitories to pro-
vide temporary shelter for $500
more persons could be financed out
(see HOUSING, Page A-5D