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Jackson Says Dies
Erred in Statement
On Co-operation
House Member Denies
Making Remarks; Plans
No Answer
By the Assocleied Press.
Attorney General Jackson said
last night that Representative Dies,
Democrat, of Texas had made
“erroneous " and "inaccurate” state
ments about a Justice Department
conference which Mr. Dies did not
attend.
Mr. Dies, who had gone to Chat
tanooga, Tenn., to make a speech,
was apprised by his secretary of Mr.
Jackson's assertion. Mr. Dies told
the secretary he had made no such
remarks as were described by the
Attorney General, and said he
planned no reply.
Mr. Jacksons statement—handed
to reporters without amplification
related to a conference Thursday
between the Attorney General and
Representative Voorhis. Democrat,
of California, a member of the
House Committee on Un-American
Activities, of which Mr. Dies is
chairman. Mr. Jackson asserted
Mr. Dies had issued an "announce
ment from Nashville, Tenn..” re
ferring to a ' formula for co-opera
fion between the Department of
Justice and the Dies Committee.
“No agreement has been made.”
Mr. Jackson said in his statement,
“that the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation, naval or military intelli
gence services would be placed at
the disposal of Congressman Dies.
"Congressman Dies' erronaous de
scription of a conference which he
has left to others and concerning
negotiations which are not com
pleted is illustrative of the difficulties
which he injects into our efforts
to co-operate with his committee
“When and if this department
makes any commitment it will be
in writing, and its terms will be
announced, and until then this de
partment cannot allow itself to be
committed by Congressman Dies'
inaccurate statement.”
After the Voorhis-Jackson confer
ence, the Attorney General an
nounced the Justice Department
would co-operate with the commit
tee in exposing Nazi and Fascist
mailed propaganda.
Mr. Dies issued a statement
through Robert Stripling, commit
tee clerk, here at noon yesterday,
but the clerk said it apparently
was not that to which Mr. Jack
son referred. This statement by
Mr. Dies said in full:
”1 am deeply gratified that Con
gressman Voorhis. representing our
committee, and Attorney General
Jackson have Ironed out the diffi
culties between our committee and
the Deoartment of Justice. I am
sure we can all work in complete
co-operation and it is necessary
that we do so at this time when
so much is to be done."
A Justice Department spokesman
also issued a denial, orally, of a
statement from a committee source
yesterday that evidence of sabotage
in West Coast airplane factories
had been turned over to the De
partment by the committee.
Constructive Criticism
Is Defended by Dies
By the Associated Press.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., Dee. T.
—Representative Dies. Democrat, of
Texas declined comment today
nn his rebuke at the hands of At
torney General Jackson, but reiter
ated instead part of an address in
which he said public agencies should
not resent constructive criticism
from congressional committees,
“especially when they have to de
pend on Congress for appropria
tions’*
“I have praised the F. B. I. all
along as an efficient and valuable
organization,” Mr. Dies said in his
address. “As far as Mr. Jackson is
concerned, if he construed construc
tive criticism as an attack upon the
F. B. I. then he was mistaken.”
“Personally, I welcome construc
tive criticism of the committee's
activities and I wouldn't resent such
criticism. I have a right as a pub
lic servant to make constructive
suggestions to other public agencies
and these agencies shouldn't resent
a congressional committee making
constructive suggestions, particularly
when they have to depend upon Con
gresa for their appropriations."
Greek Aid
tContinued From First Page)
liberty, without which life for us Is ;
inconceivable. I
"I wish to assure you that with ;
the help of the Almighty we will
march forward until our sacred
struggle is crowned with success. All
moral and material assistance will
strengthen the heroic Greek Army
and will bring it nearer to victory .”
In roply President Roosevelt said:
*T thank vour majesty for your
friendlv message, which comes at a
time w hen all free peoples are deeply
Impressed by ihe courage and stead
fastness of the Greek nation.
"The American Red Cross has
already sent substantial amounts of
funds and supplies for the relief of
suffering in your country and I am ;
sure that my countrymen will give
generously to the new organizations
which are being established for the
same purpose.
"As your majesty knows, it Is the
settled policy of the United States
Government to extend aid to those
governments and peoples who defend
themselves against aggression.
"I assure your majesty that steps
are being taken to extend such aid
to Greece which is defending itself
bo valiantly.”
HERE THEY ARE, HUNGRY AND READY FOR THE BIG GAME TOMORROW—
The Chicago Bears, Western champions of the National Football League, Just
aftei they arrived at Union Station this morning. Tomorrow they play the
Washington Redskins for the 1940 pro football championship.
Eleven of the squad of 33 were more Interested In breakfast than this picture
and rushed into taxicabs for their hotel before The Star photographer could
arrange the group. George Hal&s, owner and coach, crouches at the extreme
left. —Star Staff Photo.
Briton Tells of Nazi Sea Raider
Set for 3 Years of Plunder
Huge Rebuilt Passenger Liner Is Equipped
With 'Stage Props' to Change Appearance
B' tfc« Associated Pres«.
NEW YORK, Dec. 7—A masque
rading German sea raider prowling
Southern waters, laying hundreds of
mines and capturing and sinking
enemy merchantmen is a huge re
built passenger liner—os large that
she has been equipped for a three
year voyage of plunder.
This was told to the Associated
Press yesterday by Capt. Cornelius
Arundell, British skipper, who was
imprisoned on the vessel for 64 days
after the raider sank his ship, the
5.207-ton Haxby, near Bermuda.
The German marauder leads a
chameleon-like existence, carrying
elaborate “stage props'’ to change
her appearance from day to day.
She is even equipped with a tele
scopic funnel to further change her ,
superstructure.
Name Would Surprise.
Capt. Arundell, 49. who came here
from England to command an Amer
ican freighter recently purchased
by Britain, was bound by Admiralty
secrecy not to identify the raider,
her size, and other data, but he did
give this picture:
“She was a decent size man-of
war, much more 'han 10.000 tons. If
you knew her name you would be
surprised. Her skipper is a frigate
captain (German rank equivalent
to commander in the American
Navy) about 42 vears old.
“She carries six guns, four of
them broadside and other arms in
cluding a huge supply of mines.
“While I was aboard she changed
her disguise from a Greek ship to
a Brazilian and then a Dutchman
Through special rebuilding and light
steel plates she could change her
entire superstructure in r short
time. A telescopic funnel helped
do this.
Crew Is Huge.
“Her superstructure was con
stantly being repainted—in the
morning it would be white and before
night it would be bufT. This gives
you an idea of the huge crew she
carried.
(Capt. Arundell dodged questions
on the exact size of the crew, but
acknowledged that it comprised
more than 300 men.)
“She slipped out of Hamburg
April 6 while the British Navy was
rushing to Norway to fight the Ger
man invasion there. My ship was
her first victim.
En route from Greenock to Corpus
Christi, Tex., last April, the Haxby
sighted what appeared to be a Greek
ship. A moment later the vessel
crossed her bows and began firing
without warning.
“They killed 16 of my men.
smashed the lifeboat and set the
ship on fire before we abandoned
her," the bronzed veteran of Scapa
Flow In the last w'ar said.
Taken Aboard Raider.
The 24 survivors among the Hax
by's crew were taken aboard the
raider which then laid mines off
West Africa, met the Nazi tanker
Winnetou at sea for refueling, and
then proceeded to New Zealand
where 230 mines were dropped.
On June 18 the Britons were put
aboard a captured Norwegian
freighter, the Tropic Sea.
The Tropic Sea was scuttled 70
days later by her German prize
crew when a British submarine ac
costed her off Bordeaux. The Brit
ons were rescued by the submarine
and taken to Gibraltar.
The submarine—the Truant—was
unable to accommodate the 33 Nor
wegian and 30 Germans aboad the
Tropic Sea and left them in lifeboats
with orders to remain where they
were until flying boats arrived.
“Widow” Received Pension.
Fearing capture, the Germans fled
and managed to reach Spain in life
boats. The Norwegians were rescued
the next day.
Back in England, Capt, Arundell—
long unheard from—w’as officially
listed as dead and his “widow” had
been receiving pension payments
from the government for three
months, although she had refused
to give up hope, or to sign a death
certificate.
“She told me later that she used
to sit and look at my picture and it
would say to her. ‘Chin up, I'm all
right’," Capt. Arundell said. He re
LOHENGRIN
BY
RICHARD WAGNER
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turned home October 4, six months
after leaving Glasgow.
His one happy experience on the
raider was his June 22 birthday.
“The prison officer gave me a
carton of American cigarettes, a tin
of British cigarettes and apologized
for not being able to give me a
bottle of whisky," he said.
The raider, he said, is not the one
operating off South America, ex
plaining that “ours was much
larger.”
Optimistic Report
On Equal Rights Law
Given by Mrs. Wiley
Woman's Party Official
Sounds 'Victory Note' in
Work for Amendment
In an optimistic report on the
work of the National Woman's Party
in the last two years, Mrs. Harvey
W. Wiley, chairman of the National
Executive Councill, today sounded a
“victory note" in the party's cam
paign to have an equal rights amend
ment added to the Constitution.
Mrs. Wiley referred particularly
to the Republican National Conven
tions adoption of a plank to sub
mit the amendment to the States,
as she addressed the opening busi
ness session of the party's biennial
convention at the Mayflower Hotel
today.
She added that many Democratic
voters were in agreement with the
demand for referring the amend
ment to the States for ratification
She also pointed out that she had
been able to obtain renewal of the
study resolution of the equal rights
amendment at the council meeting
of the General Federation of Wom
en's Clubs in Milwaukee last sum
mer.
"I am more and more hopeful
that this great organization, with
which I have worked for so many
years so happily, will, in the not
too distant future, join the ever
increasing group of women's organi
zations who believe in the equality
of the sexes and that the constitu
tional amendment as the only way j
to secure that equality.”
Sees Threat to Women.
Mrs. Wiley described the present
as a “crucial time for women." !
Democratic principles are under fire
throughout the world, and a con
stant threat is aimed at women's
light to work for a living, she de
clared.
“The time has come to make
democracy whole,” she added. “To
throw the protection of the Con
stitution around women by adding
a new amendment w'hich writes the
phrase Including women’ beside
each of the guarantees of liberty in
our Constitution."
Reports of other officers also were
given at today’s session, over which
Mrs. Edwina Austin Avery, the con
vention chairman, presided. To
night Pearl Buck, the author, will
be the principal speaker at a ban
quet at the Mayflower.
New officers will be elected at the
concluding sessions tomorrow.
Members and friends attended a
reception last night at Alva Belmont
House, national headquarters. A
portrait of the late Maud Younger,
one of the founders of the party and
one of the most active workers for
the equal rights amendment, was
unveiled.
Mrs. Irwin Is Speaker.
Mrs. Inez Haynes Irwin of New
York, was the principal speaker,
describing Miss Younger's contribu
tion to the cause of the party and
stressing her perseverance and
determination. Mrs. Wiley presided,
while brief talks also were made
by Mrs. Bernita Shelton Matthews
and Miss Laura Berrien, active
members of the District of Columbia
branch; Miss Josephine Casey,
chairman of industrial women for
the party; Miss Helen Forbes, a
past chairman of Government
workers in the District; Mrs. Mary
Murray, leader of the labor group
in New York; Mrs. Jane Norman
Smith of New York, a vice presi
dent. and Miss Anita Pollitzer of
South Carolina, a vice president.
Miss Pollitzer assisted with the
unveiling.
Painted by Alice Reischer.
The portrait of Miss Younger,
which has been hung in the draw
ing room, was painted by Alice K.
Reischer. who came to America from
Vienna in November, 1938.
Among those attending the recep
tion were Mrs. Lois Buenzli of Phil
adelphia, Edwina Austin Avery, con
vention chairman; Mrs. Amy C.
Ransome of California, Mrs. Marie
Moore Forrest of Washington, Miss
Josephine Casey of New York, Mrs.
Florence Bayard Hilles of Delaware,
Mrs. Avery Coonley. Miss Alma Lutz,
Miss Marguerite Smith of Boston.
Mrs. Lorraine Blair, new Chicago
chairman; Mrs. Serena Davis of
Philadelphia. Clara Snell Wolfe of
Ohio. Mrs. Alma Anderson, Mrs. Ma
rie K. Brown, Mrs. Clara Kelly. Dr.
Annie Ranee. Miss Matilda Faln
burke, Mias Olive Hurlburt of Chi
MIAMI.—CONTINUES MERCY FLIGHT IN ARMY BOMBER—Senora Carlosa Davila, wife of
the former President of Chile, climbed weakly into an Army bomber provided by President Roose
velt for the second leg today of a flight from New York to Santiago, where she hopes for renewed
health. —A. P. Wirephoto.
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Mysterious Mission
Is Reported Taking
Donovan to Europe
Takes Clipper at Baltimore
Under Assumed Name;
Trip Stirs Speculation
Col. William J. (Wild Bill) Dono
van was reported en route to Europe
today on a secret mission for Gov
ernment officials.
Booking passage under the name
of “Donald Williams." the World
W'ar commander of the “Fighting
69th" and former Assistant Attor
ney General slipped out of Balti
more aboard the Alaskan Clipper
late yesterday, bound for Bermuda.
It was believed that he planned
to continue to Europe.
Reports that he was undertaking
a mysterious mission for Secretary
of the Navy Knox. Secretary of War
Stimson and other officials could
not be confirmed officially.
Secretary of State Hull said he
had nothing to do with Col. Dono
vans trip. It was emphasized in
other official quarters that Col.
Donovan was not going to Europe
as a representative of the State
Department
Wrote on “Fifth Column."
Col. Donovan reported to Secre
tary Knox on his return from a
previous mission to Eufope on Au
gust 31. He collaborated in the
writing of a series of articles for
the Chicago Daily News, of which
Secretary Knox is publisher, on the
significance of “fifth column” ac
tivity as a Nazi weapon in nations
conquered by Germany.
Destroyer Trade Followed Mission.
The trade of 50 over-age destroy
ers to Great Britain for the right
to lease naval bases on British ter
ritory in this hemisphere was an
nounced soon after Col. Donovan
completed the first mission, which
was reported to have concerned
i primarily determination of Britain's
most acute needs to carry on the
war.
On his present journey. Col. Don
ovan was traveling with three Eng
lishmen. the Baltimore Sun re
ported. The Newark Evening News
printed reports that the main pur
pose of- his trip now is to over
come impressions that have been
created by the “so-called defeatist
and appeasement outgivings'' of Jo
seph P. Kennedy, who has submitted
his resignation as American Am
bassador to London.
Wagner's 'Lohengrin' Added
To Opera Record Offering
Letters From Other States Show Wide
Interest in Appreciation Series
Tire tenth of 12 great operatic
works included in recordings being
offered by The Star in its current
music appreciation program was
made available to the public today
at the special booths in the lobby
of The Star Building, marking the
beginning of the eleventh week of
the campaign.
Scores of lovers of the musical
classics, anxious to add another
masterpiece to their own libraries of
recordings, visited the distribution
booths during the morning to ob
tain the latest offering. Richard
Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” This work,
the second of two Wagner operas
included in The Star's series, is of
fered in condensed form on three
records.
As music lovers in Washington
and vicinity called In person for
their sets of the new records, dozens
of others were being shipped to in
dividuals. organizations, colleges
and universities all over the coun
try. The interest of music lovers in
other States has increased with
each new offering.
Request From Louisiana.
Just a few days ago, The Star re
ceived a letter from a professor at
Louisiana State University, who said
he had obtained the symphonic
works made available by The Star
last year, and had enjoyed them so
much that he was anxious to get
some of the operatic works.
The names of many more out-of
town schools have been added in the
cago, Mrs. Edith Bartlett Conway,
Mrs. George Mesta, Mrs. Mildred V.
Palmer, Mrs. Ruth Clark of Wash
ington, Miss Lois Pugh of Idaho,
Mrs. Florence Bayard Hallsey. Miss
Mildred Taylor, Mrs. Ethel Ernest
Murrell, Miss Betty W. Mayer.
Arrangements were made by a
committee headed by Mrs. Mary
Heffeman, chairman, Rhode Island
branch of the party.
last few days to the king list of edu
cational institutions which are
planning to use the recordings in
their musical studies, and the music
supervisor of the public schools in
one city, Birmingham, Ala., has
written for complete details of the
offer.
Among the schools joining the list
are the University of San Fran
cisco, Southwest Baptist College,
Bolivar, Mo.; Bethany College, West
Virginia; Morningside College, Sioux
City, Iowa; Wilmington College of
Wilmington, Ohio; Goshen College
of Indiana. Minneapolis College of
Music; North Georgia College,
Dahlonega. Ga.; Medical College of
the State of North Carolina; Mus
kingum College. Webster College,
Mo.; College of St. Scholastica, Du
luth. Minn.; Rollins College of Flor
ida and others.
Other Works Available.
■In addition to the recordings re
leased today The Star also is con
tinuing the distribution of the nine
previous operatic releases, as well as
12 symphonic works, including the
10 made available last year, and two
additional recent releases.
The operas available a*e Bizet's
“Carmen.” Gounod’s “Faust," Verdi’s
“Aida.” “Rigoletto" and “La Travi
ata”; Puccini's “Madame Butterfly”
and “La Boheme,” Wagner’s
“Tannhauser” and Leoncavallo’s
“Pagliacci.”
The symphonic works of Tschai
kowsky’s “Fourth Symphony” and
"Nutcracker Suite,” Beethoven’s
“Fifth” and “Eighth” “Symphonies.”
Schubert's “Unfinished,” Mozart’s
"G Minor Symphony,” Bach's
“Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2 and
3,” Wagner’s preludes to "Die Meis
tersinger” and "Parsifal,” Debussy's
“Afternoon of a Faun.” “Clouds”
and "Festivals”;. Haydn's “Sym
phony No. 99 in E Flat Major,”
Brahms’ “Second Symphony” and
Franck’s "D Minor Symphony.”
r
Senora Davila Leaves
Miami on Over-Water
Flight to Panama
i
Uses Radio to Thank
Roosevelt for Trip
Aboard Army Bomber
By the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla., Dec. 7.—An over
water hop to Panama was laid out
i today for a United States Army
j bomber speeding a former First
Lady of Chile to her native land
in an effort to save her life.
Cause for cheer aboard the four
motored craft came from a report
that Senora Carlos Davila, wife of
the one-time President of Chile,
j withstood “remarkably well” a 6
| hour flight from New York yes
j terday.
Senora Davila rested overnight, at
i a Miami hotel, then resumed the
I flight with an easy hop today to
' Panama.
As a result of President Roose
velts intervention, Senora Davila
is scheduled to arrive Monday at
Santiago. Chile, where physicians
say she has /i chance to rally in
the mild climate and familiar sur
roundings from a serious illness
which two operations failed to cure.
Senora Davila used the plane's
radio yesterday to thank Mr. Roose
velt for discarding precedent and
arranging for an Army bomber not
only to take a woman aloft for the
first time, but also to make the
first flight to a foreign country
with a civilian aboard.
Addressing a message to Mr.
Roosevelt aboard the warship Tus
caloosa in the Caribbean Sea, she
said:
"Flying down to my country and, I
I hope to health. I wish to express
my deepest gratitude to the Presi
dent of the United States who made
this possible.”
Mr. Roosevelt placed the plane
at the disposal of Senor Davila
Wednesday when he learned physi
cians considered a trip by steam
ship or commercial plane too slow.
Senora Davila, who was Chilean
Ambassador to the United States be
fore he became chief executive, also
expressed his appreciation during
the overnight stay here.
Mexico Cuts Power Uses
To Prevent Shortage
B? the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 7—The Min
istry of National Economy an
nounced last night that the use of
electrical current in the federal dis
trict would be curtailed sharply
after tomorrow night to avoid a
power shortage.
An unusually light rainy season,
reducing waterpower, plus Mexico
City’s already overtaxed plant fa
cilities, was given as the reason.
U. S. Charge Returns
To Post in Vichy
By the Associated Press.
VICHY, Prance. Dec. 7.—Prepar
ing for the arrival of Admiral Wil
liam D. Leahy, newly-appointed
United States Ambassador to
Prance, the American Charge d’Af
faires, Robert D. Murphy, returned
to his poet here last night from
the United States after a three
month absence.
f
Security Board Aide
Cites Individualism of
Southern Republics
Miss Needleman Says
Different Viewpoints
Should Be Recognized
Those in the United States who
group together the people of the
various nations on the continent to
the south "as the people of South
America” cannot hope to obtain an
authentic Impression of viewpoints
held in those countries.
This is the opinion of Miss Rae L.
Needleman, associate economist in
the Bureau of Research and Sta
tistics of the Social Security Board.
Miss Needleman recently spent some
time in South America, studying
social and economic conditions.
In an interview yesterday, she
said, she discovered the people with
whom she had contact in Brazil
to be co-operative without evidenc
ing an inferiority complex, those
of Chile to be equally co-operative
but "conscious of their own short
comings” and the people she talked
with in Argentina rather unco
operative.
For Self-Industrialization.
The economist said her observa
tions indicated a passionate desire
for Industrialization common to all
the nations she visited—but an in
dustrialization effected by them
selves without foreign assistance.
South Americans, long harboring
a resentiment against what they
considered exploitation by the
United States, still point to failure
of this country's businessmen to
mingle with them. Miss Needle
man said, explaining she believed
this circumstance was traceable to
a situation in which the native of
the United States in business in
South America find he cannot dis
charge his responsibilities properly
and still adjust himself to the pat
tern of unhurried living and lavish
entertaining of the prosperous
Latins.
South American culture is "a poor
imitation of European culture,” but
people are beginning to realize that
the United States might hold some
cultural offerings of value, Miss
Needleman declared.
Seea Brasil as Progressive.
“Watch Brazil,” she said, adding
that country seemed to be the most
progressive at this time.
In the social welfare field, Chile
leads in legislation but is too poor
to make many tangible improve
ments, Miss Needleman reported.
Most of the housing projects have
standards far below those of com
parable efforts in this country, ex
cept in Peru, she said.
What of Nazi propaganda efforts?
South America appears to favor
the cause of Great Britain strongly !
at present but probably would be
quick to accept totalitarian methods
in event of an axis victory, in the
opinion of the Social Security Board
attache.
She became familiar with Nazi
slogans and principles during a visit
to Germany immediately prior to
Hitler accession to power, and she
heard many familiar utterances in
South America, she said, but
propaganda has been applied in
such subtle fashion that Nazi-style
verbiage is spoken by loyal citizens
of the South American countries
without a thought of their origin—
"without the quotation marks.”
Boy, 6, Kills Sister, 4,
While Playing With Gun
Geraldine Toney, 4 years old. col
ored, died today from a bullet
wound caused when her brother
James. 6. accidentally discharged a
38-caliber revolver.
There were no witnesses to the
shooting. The children were in the
i rear first floor room of 7* Defrees
! street N.W. at the time.
Dr. Warren G. Fletcher of Casu
alty Hospital pronounced the child
dead. Detective Sergt. Fred Rawl
inson of the police homicide squad
said the boy told him he had found
the gun in a bureau drawer and
was playing with it.
Repair Work Slated
On British Cruiser
Damaged in Battle
Hospital Ship Directed
To Stand By at
Montevideo
By th» Associated Press.
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay, Dec. T.
—Welders were called to the docki
by the British consulate today to
make hurried repairs to the 20,112
ton armed merchant cruiser Carnar
von Castle, damaged yesterday in a
South Atlantic sea battle with a
German raider.
Steel plates were assembled among
repair materials.
With radio restrictions still hiding
details of the battle about 700 miles
off the Uruguayan coast, the Car
narvon Castle headed slowly into
this port. She was expected about
2:30 p.m.
British Legation officials would
say only they had directed a hospital
ship to stand by as a precautionary
step, adding:
- When a heavy shell hits a ship
like the Carnarvon Castle, which is
unarmored, some one is almost cer
tain to get hurt.'’
Prisoner* Believed Aboard.
It was believed that the Carnarvon
Castle had German prisoners aboard.
On November 30 she stopped the
Brazilian coastal steamer Itape and
removed 22 passengers w ho the Brit
ish said were Germans. If so. she
would be obliged to release them
here under international law. The
Admiral Graf Spee freed her Brit
ish prisoners aboard after she was
driven into port by British vessels
before her crew scuttled her.
The Carnarvon Castle broke her
radio silence briefly last night to
report that the Nazi raider's superior
speed had enabled her to escape
after "a stern chase.”
The message added that the ac
tion had been at long range and
that the British had expended "con
siderable ammunition.' Then the
wireless fell silent without having
mentioned the extent of the ves
sels damage or casualties.
Probably Followed Instructions.
Studying reports of the action,
a naval expert here suggested that
the German commander probablv
was following instructions in fleeing
the British, remarking:
"The mission of these raiders is
not to give battle to enemy war
ships but to prey on lightly armed
or unarmed merchantmen.
It was believed that the German
was one of a group of vessels espe
cially equipped before the war be
gan to hound British shipping.
These are powered heavily, armed
with the most modem of 6.9-inch
cannon and are understood to be
able to outrun anything save a
regular warship.
The Uruguayan government has
given the Carnarvon Castle per
mission to anchor here, it was
learned on good authority, and the
news that she was putting in indi
cated to some naval men that an
other British ship perhaps had
taken up where she left of! in the
chase of the Nazi vessel.
Arthur Krock Purchases
Clarke County Estate
Specn! Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER. Va.. Dec. 7 —
Arthur Krock. Washington cor
respondent of the New York Times,
has become a member of the hunt
ing colony of nearby Clarke County
through purchase of a 12-room
brick house and 169 acres of the
original Castleman estate near the
Shenandoah River. Mason Osburn.
executor of the Decatur Osburn
estate, made the announcement,
saying the consideration was $16,000.
He said Mr. Krock told him he
intended to remodel the dwelling.
Store Will Give Bonus
The Esther Shop. 1226 F street
N.W.. announced today that every
member of the sales force will re
ceive a substantial Christmas bonus
this year regardless of length of
service. The distribution will be
made on Christmas Eve.
Weather Report
• Furnished by the United Stttes Weather Bureau >
District of Columbia—Cloudy, preceded by rain late this afternoon
and early tonight: warm this afternoon, turning colder tonight, with
lowest temperature about 37 degrees: tomorrow fair, slightly colder; fresh
southwest, shifting to west and northwest winds.
Maryland—Cloudy, rain in east and preceded by light rain in west
portion, colder in extreme west portion tonight; tomorrow cloudy and
colder.
Virginia—Cloudy, with rain tonight and in southeast portion to
morrow; colder tomorrow and in extreme west portion tonight.
West Virginia—Cloudy and colder tonight; tomorrow generally fair
and colder.
The disturbance that was over North*;
Dakota Friday momma has advanced east- i
ward to Northern Lake Huron. Sault Satnte
Marie. Mich., 99:16 millibars t29 .14
inches', with a trough extending southward
and southwestward to Louisiana. Shreve
port. 1.016 9 millibars (30.03 inches', and
thence southwestward to Southern Texas.
High pressure prevails off the Middle and
North Atlantic Coast. Nantucket. Mass.
1.022.4 millibars (.30 19 inchest, with a
wedge extending southwestward over the
South Atlantic States Pressure also Is
high over the Plateau. Salt Lake City.
1.027.8 millibars i30.3.i Inches', and over
Northwestern Texts. During the last 24
hours light snows have occurred in Norih
Dakota, Minnesota and the extreme north
portion of the North Atlantic States, and
rains on the Washington coast and in a
belt extending from the lower Lake region
Lhrough the Ohio and Middle Mississippi
Valleys to Eastern Texas and Louisiana. •
Temperatures have risen decidedly in the
Ohio and Lower Mississippi Valleys, the
lower Lake region and in portions of the
Middle Atlantic and North Atlantic States,
but It has become colder in North Dakota
and the Rocky Mountain region.
Report far Laat 24 Hours.
Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
4 p m. _ 40 30.31
8 p.m _ 34 30.30
Midnight _ 35 30.21
Today—
4 a.m. _ 36 30.10
8 a m. _ 39 30.04
Noon _ 54 29.94
Retard far Laat 24 Hears.
(From noon yesterday to noon today )
Highest. 54. noon today Year ago. 62
Lowest, 33. 10 p m. yesterday. Year
ago, 32.
- Reeard Temperatures Thii Year.
Highest. 100. on July 27.
Lowest. 7. on January 29.
Humidity far Last *4 Hears.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today !
Highett. 82 per cent, it 10 s.m. yes
terday.
Loweet. 44 per eent. at 12:30 p.m. yes
terday.
River Report.
Potomac and Bhenindoah Rivers clear at
Harnera Ferry: Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Oaadetle Survey.)
^ Today Tomorrow.
High _ 1:51a.m. 2:47a.m.
Lew _ 8:42 a.m. 9:38 a m. |
High _ 2:24 p.m. 3:20 p.m.
Lew _ _ 9:18 p.m. 10:15 p.m.1
The Sen and Moan.
Rises. Sett.
Sun. tod»y _ 7:13 4 46
Run. tomorrow_ 7:14 4 46
Moon, today _ ... 12:51p.m. 12:21am.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after gunset. i
k- ... ■ . .... .
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in Inches in th#
Capua! (current month to date):
Month. 194(1. Avg. Record.
January __2.17 3 S.-> 7.83 '3T
February _ 7 77 3.77 6.84 'St
March _ 3 42 3.75 8.84 '9|
April _619 3.27 9.13 'Su
May _ 3.1(1 3 70 111 69 '89
June _ n sii 4 13 10 94 'On
July _ 5.73 4 71 10.63 'SO
August _ 5.00 4 OL 14 41 '78
September _ 1 :14 3.24 17 45 '34
October _ 2.15 2 *4 8 81 '37
November 5 26 2 37 8 69 '89
December 0 15 3 32 7.66 '#1
Weather In Various Cities.
Temp Ram
Baroni Hish Low. fall. Waather.
Abilene _ 30.71 66 40 Cloudv
Albany 79 9S 29 20 _ Cloudy
Atlanta 30.15 56 36 _ Cloudy
All. City 30 12 45 34 ... Cloudy
Baltimore 30 06 36 34 _ Cloudy
Blrm gham 30 09 6o 49 _ Cloudy
Bismarck 3(Vi>4 44 25 Clear
Boston 30.12 28 24 Cloudy
Buffalo 29.62 43 34 0.11 Rain
Butte 30 24 34 2.3 Cloudy u
Charleston 30 18 56 48 Cloud*
Chicago 29 77 46 33 _ Cloudy
Cincinnati 29.83 53 44 0 98 Ram
Cleveland 29 65 45 .18 0.02 Rain
Columbia 30.21 54 33 Cloudy
Davenport 29,92 54 31 Cloody
Denver 30.16 57 77 _ Clear
Des Moines 30.nl 50 33 Cloudy
Detroit 29 56 45 39 _ Cloudy
El Paso 30 18 hi 36 Clear
Galveston 30.04 71 64 0.08 Rain
Huron 30.06 47 27 _ Clear
Indi’n'polis 29 86 53 38 _ Cloudy
Jacks'nvillr 30 18 69 44 cloudy
Kans City 30.12 57 38 Clear
L. Angeles 30.01 76 61 Clear
Louisville "9.92 52 44 0.67 Cloudy
Miami , 30.06 75 72 Cloudy
Mpls -St. P. 29 95 41 12 ... Clear
N Orleans 30.06 72 59 Cloudy
New York 39 09 40 79 __ Clear
Norfolk 39 18 4o 33 _ Cloudy
Okla. City 30.24 6n 37 _ Clear
Omaha .'to 09 54 ___ clear
Philad'phia 30 09 36 29 ... clear
Phoenix 39 06 8n 41 Clear
Pittsburgh. 29 83 45 36 0.22 Ram
P’tl'nd. Me. 30.09 27 5 . Cloudy
P'tl'd Ore. 30 18 54 34 Foggy
Raleigh . 30.21 49 _ Poge*
St. Louts 39 01 6! 40 Cloudy
S. Lake C. 30 36 49 30 . _ Clear
S Antonio 30 04 71 63 0.02 Rain
San Diego 30.01 73 4* _ _ Clear
S. Fr'ctsco 30.12 54 42 PoggT
Seattle 30.09 51 45 0.05 Ram
Spokane 30.15 45 33 Cloudy
Tampa 30.15 74 56 Cloudy
WASH D C. 3<> 06 42 33 ... dear
Ferelga Stations.
(Noon. Greenwich time. todar >
Temperature. Weather. I
Horta (Pgvali Azores 61 Cloudy
(Current observation*.)
San Juan. Puerto Rico 76 Clr>BdV
Havana. Cuba - 64 Ciaar
Colon. Canal Zone _ 81 Cloudy