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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Senate Reflects Glass
As President Pro Tenn

By the Associated Press.
Carter Glass, 85-year-old senior
Senator from Virginia. was re-
elected President Pro Tempore of
the Senate TODAY over the Republi-
can nominee. Senator Vandenberg
OF Michigan.
Senator Glass name was offered
by Majority Leader Barley. but
Minority Leader McNarv inmsdi-
ately sent up substitute motion
to name Senator Vanden5erg. The
Michigan lawmaker was rejected.
43 to %. on straight party vote.
Senator McNarv then seconded Sem
ator Glass nomination and the Vir-
oinian, now i'll at his Lvnchburg
home. was elected bv acclama ton
In quick routine actions. the Sem
ate reelected Edwin A. Halsey as
its secretary, Leslie L. Bic as sec
retarv to the majority. Carl A.
Loefiler as secretary to the minority
and the Rev. Frederick Brown Har-
ris as chaplain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Mccormack Gives Lie
To House Question
On Roosevelt Sons
Kansas Legislator Tells
Of Report Two Were
'Jerked' From Bottle
BY he Associated Press.

by ne ASS0Clatcu f'TeSs
A question BY Representative
Lambertson. Republican, of Kansas
whether two of President Roose-
velt's sons had been "jerked" from
battle fronts by the Commander in
Chief brought sharp rejoinGer to-
day from House Majority Leader
Mccormack, who compared it to a
deliberate lie.
The Kansan told the House he
read today James Roosevelt had re-
ceived citation, but / have in
formation which came to nv atten-
ton that he was jerked from Quad
alcanal by the Commander in Chief
of the Army Immediately after the
marines entered that place"
Early in December" he said. "a
second son, Franklin, left the battle
front of North Africa and spent
four days in Philadelphia hos
pital with slight cold. Both of
these boys were jerked from two
fronts. I am asking. is it true
that two sons of the President have
been lerked from the battle fronts
by the Commander in Chief"
MI Mccormack thereupon de-
clared heatedly:
He makes no charges, but he
tries to throw out to the country
suspicion ANY such thought is
without foundation and if the gen.
tleman had the courage to make
the direct accusation within the
rules I would say that he is making
complete misstatement Of facts
Outside of the House any one max
ing any such statement I would say
tells q deliberate lie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
I'D. {. Chinese Held
In Draft Violation Plot

Eleven District Chinese charged
with conspiring to violate provisions
of the Selective Service Act of 1910
were held under 500 bond each
today when arraigned before United
States Commissioner Needham c.
Turnage
All pleaded not guilty to the
charge. The hearing was continued
until January "a.
The men arraigned we're: Wong
Lee, Gin Shue Mgee, Kenneth Fun
Lee. Victor Mg-kai. James Chan
Wing, zee You King. Kenneth Wah
Lee, Gee Lee. Ouch Shong Louie,
Ben Lee Hong, Lung On Lee.
The men were charsd with vio-
lating provisions of the Selective
Service Law. during the time be-
tween February /, 1912. and jan
uary II, of this year. Investigators
believed that Wong Lee was the
leader Of the group.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Two 0PA Officials Testify
AT Hecht Co. Price Trial
Earlier Story on Page A-2.)

Earlier Story on Page Az
Lester Kaplan and John A. Faith,
Office of Price Administration in
vestigators, took the stand as Gov
eminent witnesses late today as the
OPA case against the Hecht Co. on
charges of price ceiling and price
posting violations continued in JUS
tice F. Dickinson Let's District
trial court.
MI. Kaplan. whose l5-page affi-
davit was influential in securing a
temporary restraining order against
the company in Motions Court a
month ago. expanded on the results
of his Investigations which purport
to show violations of the general
price regulation in seven depart
nents of the store
He cited examples of where the
store is alleged to have sold items
at prices in excess of posted ceiling
prices. failed to keep current rec
ords according to the provisions of
the regulation. and in other ways
violated the regulation.
He was followed to the stand by
Mr.. Faith, who repeated various al
legations purporting to show that
the store was derelict in its price
posting obligations.
OPA also submitted approx
mately 20 typewriter and photo
static exhibits purporting to show
specific examples of violations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Admiral Ha|sey's Daughter
To Sponsor New Carrier

BY tire Associated Press.
CAMDEN. N. j.. Jan. 1.-THE
daughter of Admiral William F.
Halsey, jr.. commander of the South
Pacific Force of the Pacific Fleet
will christen a new aircraft carrier
The U. S. S. Cowpens-at the New
York Shipbuilding Corp. yards Sun
day, the Fourth Naval District an
nounced today.
Mrs. Preston Lea Spruance of
Greenville, Del. will sponsor the
craft and Admiral Halseys wife and
the three Spruance children. Pres
ton Lea. jr. 9: Margaret, 7, and
William Halsey Spruance, S, will at
tend the ceremony.
The Cowpens will be the fourth
carrier launched by New York ship
corporation in 20 weeks. The others
were the Independence. Princeton
and Belleau Wood.
Named in memory Of a Revolu-
tionary War battle fought at Cow
pens. S. c., the ship, like the indie
pendence. Princeton and Belleau
Wood, was converted from a lO. 600
ton cruiser part way through con-
struction. the Navy said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Seven CuItists Arrested
On Draft Evasion CHARGES
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j.. Jan l4-SeVen
colored members of cult described
by E. E. Conroy. FBI chief in New
Jersey. as identified with the pro-
japanese Pacific Movement, have
been arrested as selective service
violators.
Mr.. Conroy identified the leader
as Askew Thomas. alias Brother
Reuben Israel. formerly associate
head in the Newark area of the Pa
cific Movement. Thomas and the
six other members of the House of
Israel cult were arrested within the
past few days by FBI agents and
police of Harrison and Newark. All
were held for Federal grand jury
action by United States Commits
sioner William J. Bartholomew.
apprehension of these Negroes is
considered important" Mr. Conroy
said, because it is known to the
FBI that the men had been boast
ing to others Of their race that they
had not registered. would not serve
and that the Government was I'M
able to do anything about it. 1t is
believed that they had been melting
other Negroes not to fight the
Japs because they are another COL
ored race"
NEW YORK. Jan. IA tPp.-Leonard
Robert Jordan. AZ. leader of the
Ethiopian Pacific Movement. was
sentenced today to 10 years i'm
prisonment and fined $4,000 for
sedition.
Four other leaders were sentenced
to terms ranging from four to eight
years.
They were James Henry Thorn
hill, a.; eight years: Lester Eugene
Holiness, 80, seven years; Joseph
Hartney. IS, an Army private ar
rested at Fort Dix, N. j.. six years.
and the Rev Ralph Green Best, g.,
four years. All are from New York
City and all except Hartney are COL
ored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
A. P. Suit
Continued From First Page.)

court action would be brought, may
be the masters of the Associated
Press would even be sent to Jail
through criminal proceedings.
We'll. the members Of the Asso-
ciated Press did just exactly what
the American people could depend
upon them to do. They voted. with
marvellous accord, that the syco-
plant publisher could play in his
own back yard with his customary
playmates. but that the Associated
Press wanted none of him"
Thereupon. he charged, "the bu-
reaucrats took what was to them the
logical step. They moved to break
up the free association of free edi-
tors Of a free press"
Whether the court action sue
ceeds or fails. Mr.. Shafer said, lit is
by its very filing a gun held against
the ribs Of every editor and every
writer in America, whether he op-
crates in a vast city or q humble
township. This house, representing
those editors and representing the
people for whom they hold in trust
eeship the right Of a free press,
cannot longer ignore the insidious
as well as the overt attempts to de-
stroy the strongest thread in the
fabric Of our democracy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
| Jump Revealed
| In Detroit War
| Plant Jobs
By the Associated Press.


DETROIT, Jan. 14.-Figures COM
piled by the United States Employ
ment Service indicate that war fac
tories of Wayne CDetroiU County
will employ approximately 70S 900
persons in February. This will COM
pare with 645 900 last November. BY
November of this year the total, &C
cording to the same source. may
reach 10000.
The figures were given by Richard
Purdy of the Automotive Council for
War Production, in an address to
the Detroit Real Estate Board
While questioning the USES peak
figures as too high, Purdy said:
Most manufacturers, I believe,
will agree that so far there has been
no serious labor shortage in the
overall picture"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Woman, 5 Children Die
In Houston Blaze
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated PfeSS.
HOUSTON, Tex. Jan. l4-Five
children, ranging in age from 8
months to 5 years. and a woman
were burned to death yesterday in q
blaze in a four-apartment frame
building.
Two Of the children. months and
2 years old were those of Mr.. and
Mrs. M. F. Goforth. Mr.. Goforth. a
shipyard employe. was at work when
the fire broke out The other dead
have not been identified.
Mrs. Goforth was IN a hospital
suffering from third degree burns.
Ted Fields. head OF the Harris County
Emergency Corps. said Mrs. Goforth
jumped from the second floor with
her clothing afire. crying, MY
babies. my babies,"
Justice of the Peace Tom Macs
said he believed other persons &C.
cupying the second floor of the
building might have died in the fire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Rails
Continued From First Page,)

continued From First Page)
crease in rates, fares and charges
allowed railroads by the Interstate
Commerce Commission last year to
help meet wage increase for work.
ers and higher costs of fuel and
supplies. The ICC has been asked
by other Government agencies to
cancel the increase as an anti
imitation measure and the case has
been reopened
There is now a popular idea in
some quarters that the railroads
are too prosperous-at least more
prosperous than any railroad ought
to be- Mr.. Fitzgerald said at a
luncheon held in connection with
the meeting
Railroad history is about to re-
peat itself. Every time the rail-
roads manage to get five or six
steps ahead of the sheriff, there are
numerous proposals to lop off the
earnings and put the railroads back
in the bread line. We seem to for
get that the railroad share of pros
perity has always been too little
and most of the time, it has come
too late for the public good
Points to Wage Costs.
He said the wage increase au-
thorized at the end of 194l cost the
carriers in 1912 a total of 1897 ,000, 600
and higher fuel. materials and sup
plies added another Sic, 900 000 Had
the increased rates in fares and
freight been in effect throughout
1912, he said, the additional reve-
nues would have added about 1857 :
000. 900 to the. gross of class roads
Mr.. Fitzgerald said the railroads
already had made voluntary reduc-
tions to meet critical situations anc
cited as examples the lower rates or
oil to the shivering East Coast, which
cost the carriers $158 900 900 an.
nuauy on the basis Of present traf.
fic. and the lowered fares of servic.
men travelling on furlough which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14

suddenly found I could still fly. SO
I swung her up under the German
and gave him a burst.
Funny thing He thought he
must be up against something really
tough because he streaked for
home"
Was Fighting in Hour.
Within an hour after arriving at
this advanced United States air base
in North Africa a month ago Maj,
Cochran's squadron had refueled
and taken off on its first combat
mission.
They do not wait for orders we
would never get the job done if we
just sat down and awaited orders. a."
Mai Cochran explained.
None Is more appreciative of this
relentless audacity than the gallant
but poorly equipped French Army,
for the fact that P-40 pilots believe
in hitting first
When the Germans were getting
set for a big push in the Dondouck
sector recently the P-40s broke up
the concentration, burned nine
tanks and later destroyed "a trucks
and two more tanks. The Italians
hid 100 vehicles in an olive grove,
but Maj. Cochrans men found them
and put perhaps 80 out of order in
one attack
The squadron has lost only one
pilot.
Maj, Cochran is a man of action
The other day he hired a camel
train to do a particularly difficult
some official questions when the
bill got to headquarters but the
job was done. When the squadron
arrived he hired mules and even
borrowed ancient charcoal burning
trucks from aStonlShed French COM
nanders who were unable to i'm
agine the Americans lacking auto
mobiles.
High Regard for Nazi Pilots.
Here is his estimate of the Ger
man air force:
Their hoopla is all gone and
those people are strictly business.
They've got the war down to real
science and they know how to con-
serve planes
It's better that the folks back
home know how damned good they
are"
rode down with Maj. Cochran
In his peep from the primitive
ciugout, which serves both as head
quarters and his living quarters. to
look over hurried repairs on his
P-40
The squadron leader noticed that
somebody had inscribed with chalk
on the planes nose: Jean Rae.
Hancock. Mich"
Who's Jean Rae? Your grip"
he asked the mechanic who blushed
through dust incrusted, week old
Whiskers
Maj. Cochran Just smiled and We
drove off,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Betty Hansen Tells Jury
Details Of Flynn Party
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. l4-Gazing
squarely and severely at Enrol Flynn,
17-year-old Betty Hansen today
gave jury the details of the al
legged occurrences at dinner party
at Bel Air home last September
q which led to statutory charges
against the movie actor.
The blond Lincoln (NebrD school
girl. the States first major witness
in Flynn's trial on three counts of
statutory assault involving her and
another girl, gave her testimony I'M
hcsitatingly. Flynn, portrayer of
romantic movie roles, watched her
closely, chin in hand.
Betty said the act occurred at
the home of Fred McEvoy, former
British sportsman, after a dinner
party for six Before dinner. she
said. Flynn gave her a drink of
liquor she could not identify.
AT dinner, I ate little soup and
went back to the sunroom' the
girl told the Superior Court of nine
women and three men Then l
went back. had some dessert and
returned to the sunroom g. .s..-.-
The defendant AS she referred
10 Flynn throughout her testimony
came out and told me I wasn't
feeling we'll. He said he'd take me
upstairs where l could lie down. -
She said they were in the room
about half hour.
Betty began her testimony by
saying she turned II last September
81 and that she had never been
married.
She was preceded on the witness
stand by her older sister, Mrs
Patricia Marsden, who said that
last September a. while Betty was
residing with her here, they had
. dispute and Betty left the house
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Retailers Assured
Army Post Stores
Not Competing
Byron Speech Follows
Request for Probe Of
Civilian Sales
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. .%
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-Brig Gen.
Joseph w. Byron. head of the Army
post exchange system, speaking TO-
day at the Wartime Conference OF
the National Retail Drygoods Asso-
citation, assured retailers that the
post exchange stores were not en-
tering into competition with private
business.
Yesterday the National Associa-
ton of Retail Secretaries adopted a
resolution asking the administra-
ton and Congress to inquire INTO
the sales practices of the post eX-
changes to ascertain to what eX-
tent they we're selling to unauthor-
lied civilians.
IF there ever was an inclination
of the post exchange system to ell
gage in any empire building, it has
already been knocked in the head,
Gen. Byron said, the post eX-
changes are not chain of stores
and the system is being decentral-
lied through the service commands
of the post commands, who are
guided by the policymaking group in
Washington.
1--WE civilian soldiers of the post
exchange system, in the temporary
army have a sacred trust to turn
back the post-eXchanges in good
shape to the Regular Army at the
end of the War. We hope to do a
good Job but we know that if We
earn the enmity of retail business
and congressman, they will do
things to the exchange system that
will cause the Army to curse us in
stead of to thank us.
/ Regarding sales to civilian work.
| ers on military reservations, Gen,
Byron said that rules were being
written so that workers frozen on
/ their jobs and not leaving the res
ervation might purchase goods from
/ the post exchanges but workers re-
! turning to their homes will be re-
quired to buy goods from regular
! stores.
Gen. Byron stated that last OCto-
Der, the post exchange system did
business of $4,000 900, which he
said was only six-tenths of | per
cent of the total retail business IN
the country.
Another speaker at the morning
session on the realities of postwar
planning" was David C. Prince, vice
president of the General Electric Co.
He said that there would be a
tremendous backlog of buying power
after the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Frances Farmer Gets
8 Months in Jail for
Breaking Probation
Taken From Court,
She Knocks Down
One Officer
By The Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
SANTA MONICA, Calf. Jan IA
Frances Farmer. once glamorous
screen actress. was sentenced to
$50 days in Jail today for violation
Of drunk driving proba ton. and in
wild melee as she was taken from
court knocked down one officer but
was finally subdued by others.
Have you ever had a broken
hearth" she screamed at a matron
as she was carried to a cell.
1t was the only hint to the reason
for a wild "a hours, marked by
fight. which preceded her arrest in
a fashionable Hollywood hotel.
Drinks Anything"
Since you appeared in this court
last October a." Police Judge Mar
shall Hickson asked her as she was
brought before him this morning.
have you had anything to drink"
Her answer was a shout:
Yes, l drank everything I could
get, including benzedrine."
OF the hotel incident, the Judge
queried:
Were you fighting at the Holly
wood Knickerbocker Tuesday night?"
Yes" she replied, Il was. l was
fighting for my country and myself. "
You were advised" the judge de-
clared. that if you took one drink
of liquor or failed to be a law abid-
ing citizen
What do you expect me to do?"
the actress interrupted. Il get
liquor in my orange juice-in my
coffee. Must / starve to death to
obey your laws?"
Silenced by Court.
The judge silenced her to pro-
nounce sentence.
The scene in the matrons office
took place after she was refused
permission to use a telephone.
Before she was subdued, one
husky officer had been floored. the
matron and another officer bruised
and the actress herself seized and
held while her shoes were removed
to forestau further damage.
The sentence climaxed a career
which began in Hollywood six years
ago, after the Seattle girl, a uni
versitv graduate, had made a trip
to Russia as reward for winning a
hometown newspapers popularity
contest.
1t was no movie glamor girl who
faced the bench. however Her light
blue suit was mussed, her blond hair
struggling. her eyes were red. She
had spent the night in Jail after her
arrest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
". & 0. D. Ordered 10 Start
Ross|Yn-Leesburg Train
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. Jan. l4.-The
Washington e. Old Dominion Rail-
road was ordered to inaugurate on
an experimental basis, provided
equipment can be obtained, at least
one round trip passenger service
daily between Rosslyn and Leesburg
in an order entered today by the
State Corporation Commission.
The order thus ends the much
discussed case of passenger service
on the Northern Virginia line, but
still leaves in doubt whether such
service can be restored because of
the difficulties in obtaining suitable
equipment.
The commission. which conducted
another hearing on the case yester-
day, ordered the railroad to con-
tinue to make "diligent efforts" to
obtain the equipment and to report
at least every 80 days the results OF
such efforts. If the equipment is
found, the railroad was ordered to
begin the passenger service immedi-.
ately and make reports on financial
returns from its use by the travelling
public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Major Carries Fight
To Nazi Headquarters
In Dawn Raid Alone
Losses Single Bomb
From P-40 at Close
Ronge on Koirouon
BY holland NORGAARD.

AT A UNITED STATES FOR
WARD FIGHTER BASE IN TU-
N1SIA, Jan. 10 Delayed 1t was
about breakfast time at German
headquarters in Kairouan this
morning when a lone United States
Curtis P-40 fighter darted out of
the sky, headed straight for the
building housing the German staff
The P-40 loosed it's single bomb
and nosed upward just in time to
clear the roof while pieces of
masonry flew from the building and
the Nazls ran for cover.
This is Just minor chapter in
the almost private war that Maj
Philip G. Cochran, 80. of Erie. Pa
and his fighter squadron are wag-
ing on the Axis in Southern Tunisia
AS IN the case of a lot of other
audaciouS sorties, Maj. Cochran
himself conceived the idea of at
lacking the enemy's headquarters
and hardly a half dozen men on
this field knew what he was up to
when he took off.
MUMMY VII VII [1iIUthSf
This youthful daredevil, with
name of prematurely grazing hair
he hasn't been near a barber in
many weeks-came Wobbling home
with his right aileron out of COM
mission, the right tire shot half off.
and a bullet LOGGED in the propeller
blade, but that, he insisted, was the
result of Just fool carelesSness.
This afternoon he was off on an
other mission with part of his squad
ron after mechanics worked their
heads off to get his battered P-40
in shape again.
Maj. Cochran is a former Ohio
State University student who work.
ed his way through school as a
singer and then, he says. Il became
flyer because I was such a lousy
crooner"
On his way home from the head
quarters bombing. when he was 40
miles from Kairouan, he felt some
thing hit his right wing.
L thought it was a funny place
for a fax and looked back. There
he Was-a Focke-Wulf 100 right
on me, Maj. Cochran said.
I started in to crash land, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Five.KiI|ed in Crash
Of Bomber in Florida

BY the Associated Press
BLOUNTSTOWN, Fla, Jan. IA
An Army bomber from MacDill
Field. Fla. crashed in a forest near
Blountstown yesterday, killing five
men on a routine training flight.
There were no survivors.
MacDill Field announced these
dead:
Second 1t. Neil B. Snyder, Enid
Okla. pilot.
Second It. Sanford o. Schulberg
Belleville. Mich, co-pilot Second
1t. Abner r. Brooks, Ell Paso, Tex.
navigator. Staff Sergt. Walter E
Chatham, Galveston, Tex, engineer;
Staff Sergt. Waldo w. Lindsey, IT.
winton, Ga, bombardier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Court to Hear Arguments
On Conspiracy Charges

Arguments on various pleas chal-
longing validity of the Governments
first indictment charging 70 per-
sons with conspiring to undermine
the morale of the armed forces will
be heard in District Court at 10 a m.
tomorrow by Justice Jesse c. Adkins.
Miss Jean r. Meyer, attorney for
the Justice Department, revealed
today that seven persons have yet
to be arraigned on the first Of the
two Government indictments.
These are Robert Noble, Ellis o
Jones. Herman Max Schwinn and
Hans Diebel, all Of Los Angeles: Otto
Brennermann and Donald Mcdaniel
Of Chicago and william GrtfIin Of
New York.