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Record U. S. Output Of Power Planned To Surpass Axis Commission Contemplates $1,500,000,000 Outlay Over Five-Year Period By the Associated Press. The Federal Power Commission disclosed today that It had launched what it intends to be the largest electric power expansion ever un dertaken, with the announced ob jective of giving the United States greater generating capacity than all of Germany, Italy and the Axis occupied countries. The projected expansion contem plates expenditure of more than $1,500,000,000 in private and public funds over a five-year period. The Reconstruction Finance Corp. has made available $150(000,000 to get the program going. A commission spokesman said the plan was designed to guarantee that the defenes effort shall never en counter a shortage of kilowatts es sential to the production of alumi num and other vital materials. Comparison of Outputs. He reported that commission ex perts had computed that the Axis powers, excluding Japan, would have electric capacity in their own and in conquered countries capable of generating 200,000.000.000 kilow-att hours in 1943. compared with a total output of 145.000.000,000 kilowatt hours in the United States last year. The commission program proposes to raise the United States kilowatt hour output in 1943 to 214.000.000.000. “This plan.” the power agency said, *'is today based on the necessity of preparing for defense expenditures which, by 1943, will be running at $3,000,000,000 per month." In preparation for a year and a half, the commission's unprecedented power expansion program was sub mitted to President Roosevelt July 16. Since that time it had not been mentioned in Government press releases. But informed quarters ac cepted the earmarking of $150,000,000 by R. F. C. for Power Commission purposes as an indication the ad ministration had hung out a green light for the first phase of the pro gram to get under way. run l apacity Planned. The commission spokesman said the R. F. C money would be used to keep equipment companies produc ing generator units at full capacity. Orders by private companies will be financed on a self-liquidating basis. As presented to-the President, the program proposed to add 13.888.000 kilowatts to the Nation's generating capacity. The present installed capacity is 42,689.251 kilowatts. In addition to the projected 13.888.000. there are now on order 7.799,315 kilowatts of new capacity. Thus, if the defense power expansion was carried through on schedule the Nation's installed capacity in 1946 would total almost 64,500.000 kilo watts. Czechs <Continued From First Page.t Baron Konstantin von Neurath who was said to have asked for tem porary leave because of ill health. Gen. Elias, who was trained in the Austro-Hungarian Army and became Premier of the Protectorate on April 27, 1939, with Adolf Hitler's blessing, will be tried before the German People's Court, an announcement said. In explanation of the arrest of Gen. Elias. Heydrich told Czech President Emil Hacha that ‘111 re cent days irresponsible elements in the pay of the enemies of Europe have committed a number of actions hostile to the Reich." These elements. Heydrich de clared, “through propaganda con nected with these acts, sought to brin^ the population of the protec torate into opposition to the inter ests of the Reich.” Later he issued a statement say lng “it is expected the population, which in the majority recognizes as a fact the common destiny of the European peoples with Germany, will not permit itself in any way to be provoked by enemies of the Reich.” President Hacha was said to have promised his co-operation. , The districts affected by the emer- ! gency decree—forming the most populous part of the protectorate— I are Prague, Bruena, Maehrisch-Os trau, Klando, Koenigradz and 01 muetz. A W. A c,_•. -- •»v *’</!■ upv v iiiru. The “hostile acts” to which Hey-! drich referred were not specified, but passive resistance of the Czechs has frequently been a source of trouble to the Germans since Hitler dismembered the Czecho-Slovak Re public in March, 1939. Once before—in November, 1939— the Germans established a state of emergency in Bohemia-Moravia, de claring martial law in five districts after student demonstrations which led to bitter clashes. Black-uni formed S. S. troops occupied Prague University buildings on that occa sion, arrested hundreds of students and executed a number as an example. Heydrieh. who is 37 and known as one of the best fencers in Eu rope. has a reputation for straight ening things out to suit German authorities in abrupt but thorough fashion. He was dispatched to Bohemia-Moravia following a short visit to Norway, where the Germans decreed a state of civil siege. Arms Factory Work Slowed. Czech government authorities in London said yesterday that increas ing sabotage In former Czecho-Slo vakia had slowed arms factory out put as much as 50 per cent, blown up a number of German troop trains and disorganized transportation. One troop train was crushed by the collapse of a tunnel in Vlara Pass, Slovakia, Just after the train entered it, said reports filtering Into London. The Czech government maintains constant communications with rebel leaders in the homeland by secret channels, the authorities said. An arms factory "go slow” strike has crippled the output of such great concerns as the Skoda works at Pilsen, the reports said. Peas ants were said to be burning granaries throughout the country in night-riding raids and then forming for angry hunger marches by day. Secret Station Broadcasts. A secret Czech radio station called “the Station for National Libera tion” broadcasts nightly. The an nouncer declared In the broadcast heard in London last night that Heydrieh was “the bloodiest man of Jkll the bloody Nazis.” “Czech people!” he cried. “Hey ESfrich was sent to provoke you to LLAiMitun, fti.—uULr aiAK slain—Marlon Miley, 27 (cen ter) was slain early yesterday and her mother. Mrs. Fred Miley (left), critically wounded by two men who broke Into their apartment in the Lexington Country Club, which Mrs. Miley managed. A nationally known golfer. Miss Miley was shot twice as she apparently went to the aid of her mother, who had been knocked down by one of the thugs after she revealed the hiding place of the country club’s Saturday night dance receipts. Mr. Miley, father of the slain girl (at right), was called to the bedside of his wife from Cincinnati, where he is a club golf pro. (Thirty years ago Mr. Miley was caddie master at the Columbia Country Club in Washington.) _A P Wirenhntn. Miley * Continued From First Page.! that robbery was the motive for the cijme. Search for the slayers was spurred by the posting of a $1,000 reward by the club for information that would lead to theif capture and convic tion. Earlier Detective Capt. Joe Harri gan said police were ‘'stumped'’ in 1 their effort to trap the slayers. Capt. Harrigan called the crime j "one of the most sensational murder cases" on record in the Bluegress, l while Investigation Supt. Guy W. Maupin termed the tragedy ’’a plain! case of robbery." possibly committed by amateur bandits. The Philadelphia-born Miss Miley j was shot through the head and chest, and her mother was hit three times in the abdomen, after being roused early yesterday by the rob- j bers. Mrs. Miley stumbled through the j > darkened white-columned building j to a sanatorium 300 yards away, I where police were called. Patrolman John Doyle, first to | reach Mrs. Mlley’s side, said she told him she was awakened by the efforts of two men to break down her apart ment door. Mr Doyle recounted that Mrs. : Miley told him the men asked her ! where the receipts from Saturday i night’s dance were located. She told them, whereupon one of the men struck her in the head with a window weight, knocking her down, and then fired three shots into her body. Miss Miley rushed from her room I to lend aid to her mother, Mr. Doyle j reported, and was shot down. Her pajama-ciad body was found in the j hallway. Familiar With Building. Capt. Harrigan theorized that the ' shooting and robbery may have been committed by persons familiar with the set-up at the swanky building and grounds. He said the electric switches had been turned off and the telephone lines disserviced. The only clues available, Capt. Harrigan said, were two buttons from a man's coat, three slugs from a .32 caliber automatic and several fingerprints on the wall near the Miley apartment. Fred Miley, husband of the wounded woman and a golf profes sional at the Marketwah Country Club at Cincinnati, hurried here after being told of an ‘•accident” at the Lexington Club. Mr. Miley said there was no nightwatchman at the Lexington Club, although he fre quently had advised the employ ment of one. i Mr. Miley was caddie master at the Columbia Country Club here in 1910 and 1911, before he became a golf professional. Miss Miley played at the Chevy Chase Club in 1934 as a member of the United States Curtis Cup team, which defeated a team of British w’omen.) Public reaction was sharp here, where the Mileys are popular fig ures in golfing and social circles. Senator Chandler. Democrat, of Kentucky uregd State police to spare no effort to apprehend the slayers. nciu .tiany l nampionsmps. Miss Mlley, a prominent golfer for the past decade, has won numerous tournaments. Including the Western Women's Open. Southern and Trans Mississippi. She was champion of Kentucky six times. Possessing an ideal competitive temperament and always cool un der pressure, Miss Miley consist ently ranked among the Nation's top women's golf stars for almost a decade. The tall, dark-haired Lexing ton star had a competitive makeup similar to that of Marvin “Bud” Ward, men's national amateur title open revolt and to drive all Czechs to their knees, but the unity of the Czech people will frustrate the Nazi plan.” A Czech government official in London, thumbing through a sheaf of messages, said that workers In some armaments plants were so slow they looked like slow-motion pic tures. Recently, he declared, there have been explosions in major Czecho slovak powder works. Railway damage was said to have been ex tensive. The incidents of sabotage have in creased sharply since the start of the German-Russlan war because of the natural inclination of the Slavs of former Czecho-Slavakia to sup port Russia, the “great mother of the Slavs,” authorities said. miss Miiey, nationally known golfer, pictured In 1939 after setting a new course and qual ifying record in the closed championship of the Women’s W’estern Golf Association. She won the Western in 1935 and 1937. —Wide World Photo. , -—-— I holder, who reached the top largely through his ability to achieve per fect concentration during his matches. Miss Miley had that same ability. [ On the course she was a poker-faced opponent who seldom allowed her self to become upset by poor shots j or by the brilliant performances of i her opponents. Off the course Miss Miley was genial and popular. Was Best Under Pressure. It was under fire that the Ken tucky star was often at her best. She demonstrated this many times to Chicago fans, most recently dur ing last month's Women's Western tournament at the Exmoor Club. In one of her early matches, Miss Miley was three down with only four holes to play. Yet she rallied brilliantly to win four straight holes, closing out the match at the 18th green by dropping a 20-foot putt. In that tournament, she lost in the semi-finals to the ultimate champion, Mrs. Russell Mann, of Omaha. A week later, in the Women’s National at Brookline, Miss Miley demonstrated her ability to come back by eliminating Mrs. Mann. In the last two years, some ob servers expressed the belief that Miss Miley played too much tourna ment golf. She was one of four or five stars who made every major tournament for years and often her game had a tendency to go stale from too much work. Never very long with either her woods or irons. Miss Miley’s game was built around her accuracy. Sel dom did one of her tee shots or long irons veer off line. She was an ex ceptional short pitch player and was noted for her ability to explode out of traps even though it was seldom during a tournament that she found herself in the bunkers. Stars Delay Match Because of Slaying 8T. L0UI8. Sept. 29 UP).—Two of Marion Miley's closest golfing friends, Patty Berg and Helen Dett weiler, broke Into tears yesterday when informed the young Kentucky star was shot and killed by a robber. Here for an exhibition match, the top ranking professionals were so shocked they asked to delay the contest until they pulled themselves together. ‘‘I was never so shocked In my life,” Miss Dettweiler, formerly of Washington, said. “Is it really true?” asked Patty. “I just can’t believe it.” STYLES CHANGE DRY LUMBER DOESN'T Call TUROVER wi. e«m BETHESDA, MD. DRY LUMBER "Aiwavi Under Cover" Nation’* Model Lumber ~Yard Fish Plans to See Justice Official in Hail Bag Incident House Member Declares His Office Did Not Accept Sacks Representative Pish of New York said this morning he will talk with Assistant Attorney General Wendell Berge today to clear up confusion about mall bags now lying outside Mr. Fish's stqrage room in the New House Office Building. The Justice Department has indicated the sacks may contain material which the department wishes to present to a grand jury Investigating suspected unregistered Nazi agents. Mr. Fish emphasized that the mail bags and their contents—which ln-^ elude franked envelopes, isolationist literature and other material—are not his. They have never been ac cepted by his office, he asserted, and therefore he cannot issue an "invita tion" for Justice Department agents to come and get them. But for his own part, Mr. Fish said, he doesn't care who comes and hauls them Similar Bags Subpoenaed. The Justice Department previous ly indicated it would seize the ma terial if questions of congressional privilege and immunity were not involved. Similar sacks found in the possession of the America First Committee headquarters, 126 C street N.E., were subpoenaed, offi cials said. Department officials contend that the sacks originally were among 20 which they say vanished 10 days ago from the office of Prescott Den nett, chairman of Make Europe Pay War Debts Committee, 1430 Rhode Island avenue N.W., shortly after Mr. Dennet was subpoenaed to ap pear as a grand jury witness. Mr. Dennett's committee has received contributions from “known German agents,” it was asserted by William Power Maloney, heading the in quiry as special assistant to the At torney General. Mr. Fish's office said nh member of his staff ever ordered the bags to be placed outside the Representa tive's storage chamber. George Hill, second secretary in the office, did send a House truck to Mr. Dennett's headquarters—with instructions to pick up only 500 speeches, it was said. The truck came back loaded with sacks, and Mr. Hill refused to accept delivery, Representative Fish asserted. Plans Address In House. The New York legislator said he would seek opportunity in the House today to deliver an address charging that a ‘'smear campaign’’ is being directed at him. particularly by one New York and one Washington newspaper. In regard to the franked speeches which the Department of Justice claims were in Mr. Dennett's posses sion, Representative Pish made the comment that he thought no com mittee has many of his speeches. ’Several months ago I issued orders that no group was to be given my material in bulk,’’ the House member said Perhaps two or three copies at a time have been sent out since then to committees taking a stand on the war issue. I have been in military service most of the recent period, and I think no material in bulk was sent out even from my own office.' Post Office Department officials said no abuse of the use of the frank has come to their attention in the Dennett case, and no investigation is now under way or being consid ered. Little could be done if an abuse were called to the attention of the department, it was said, since no penalty is attached to its misuse by a member of House or Senate. “It’s a matter for Congress to take care of,” one official commented. Father Greenwell Buried at Georgetown The Rev. Hezekiah Greenwell, S. J., 50, of Chaptico, Md., was buried this afternoon in the Jesuit Cemetery of Georgetown Univer sity. Father Greenwell, who died Saturday, had been pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Loretto at Chaptico since October. 1936. Funeral services wTere held at the church earlier today and his body was brought here for burial. in ok FARMS DAIRY SaanloM. Ulodel Radio Program jj(Vi Glulchen TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS 1340 on your DIAL ☆ Bader Gets New Artificial Leg, But Escape Attempt Fails By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Sept. 29—Wing Comdr. Douglas Bader, legless British pilot, who now Is ft German war pris oner, attempted to escape, a Nazi spokesman said today, only a few hours after the R. A. F. had de livered a new artificial limb to him by parachute with the approval of the Germans. laaaer, ju, lost Dotn legs in a flying accident In 1931, and one of the metal legs he wore was damaged when he was forced The story, as told by Harry W. Flannery, Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent In a broad cast from Berlin, was that Bader tried to get away August 19, the night the new leg arrived at the French airdrome where he was held to replace one damaged when he was forced down. German MaJ. Eric von Bach was quoted as saying a celebration was held in honor of the event. "There was a little drinking. I guess,’’ said the major, "and Bader danced anad turned somersaults and generally enjoyed it. Then, when it came time to break up, Bader was nowhere to be found. "Later some searchers came upon him in a hayloft down the road on his way, he thought, to liberty. “So they took away one of his legs every night and gave it back in the morning. I suppose he has them both all the time now, elnce he's probably in a regular prisoner of-war camp.” Eccles Parking (Continued From First Page.) (Continued Prom First Page.) the Treasury Morgenthau when he presented his tax program to Con gress. He did not explain, however, whether he was referring to the re cently enacted tax or to Mr. Mor genthau's later proposal for limita tion of all corporate profits to 6 per cent for the duration of the emer gency. Mr. Eccles said he did not be lieve Congress could "realistically I put a high level floor under farm prices and no celling." The administration’s bill would permit establishment of ceilings over farm prices as long as they were not fixed below 110 per cent of the parity price. Parity is a goal de signed to give farm commodities the same relative purchasing power In terms of non-agricultural products that they had between 1909 and 1914. Mr. Eccles said there might be justification for placing in effect temporarily a 48-hour work week instead of the present 40-hour week required of Industries operating in j interstate commerce. N'ye Barks Profit Limit. Meanwhile, qualified support foi Secretary Morgenthau's proposal tc limit corporate profits came from Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, one of the most insistent critics of the administration’s for eign policy. j Senator Nye. who headed the Sen ate committee which Investigated profits in the last war, told re porters that “there will come a time when it will take more than a e per cent limitation on corporation profits to satisfy the people that the tax load is fair.” But. the North Dakotan asserted. ; any effort to take away defense profits should be coupled with “safe ! guards providing some control over j wages and production costs.” “We have got to undertake to con j trol wages as well as industrial j profits.” he said. Firms Have Alternative. Mr. Morgenthau suggested that i the 6 per cent profit limitation be applied on the basis of invested capital for the duration of the emer gency. Corporations now have the alternative of computing taxable ex cess profits either on the basis of Invested capital or on the basis of average earnings for the years 1936 39. inclusive. Senator Nye told reporters “there i is only one way to limit war profits —or profits from the present pre paredness program—and that is by taxation. It has been proven that the profits taxes of the last war did not achieve the desired result.” He added that a stiffer schedule of j excess profits taxes should be im I posed and added that the levies should range up to 96 per cent “on upper bracket corporation inoomes.” Only such a law, Senator Nye declared, "could prevent corpora tions from finding some way to get around a limitation on corporate profits.” Mexico is warring on immoral films. Committee took today was to report out favorably a bill by Chairman Randolph authorizing the senior high schools of the city to set up courses In aeronautics. Courses in ground work only would be taught. Mr. Randolph said he hoped the District could do a job In preparing young men in the theory and me chanics of aviation which w’ould serve as a pattern for the Nation. Fire Bill Hits Snag. The long pending bill to mod ernize the District's fire regulations, which a subcommittee nas recom mended, slruck another snag today when opposition was voiced by S H. Ingberg, representing the Wash ington Building Congress, and by J. J. Smith, representing a fire alarm company. They charged that the bill, as flne-lly amended, would en courage a monopoly In requiring the Commissioners to furnish certain types of fire-alarm equipment which I only one or two companies could j provide. Mr. Ingberg said his organization opposed the bill because It would have the effect of putting the city into the business of providing fire alarm protection for private build ings. Although Representative Harris | Democrat, of Arkansas, chairman of the subcommittee, protested that the whole matter had been thrashed | out in subcommittee. Chairman | Randolph, remarking that a com | mittee quorum was not present, j asked that the legislation go over another w'eek and that the fire marshal pmd any other interested officials be requested to appear at that time. The committee con sented to this. 21 Paraguayan Students Reported Imprisoned Bv the Associated Press BUENOS AIRES. Sept. 29 — Twenty-one students were arrested last Friday by police raiding a meet ing at the Paraguayan National University at Asuncion and have been confined to a concentration camp for political prisoners, a border correspondent of the Argentine news j service. A N.D.I. reported today. The dispatch added that Paraguay j recently announced "complete con-* j trol” over student strikes, which I started two months ago after Presi dent Higinio Morinigo decreed death ! for persons convicted of plotting 1 against state security. a®a®fiisiaMaiisis®nniai®HJSJg/5isisW| TROUSERS i I «&/K£ 93 »5np I | EISEMAN’S—F at 7tb I We Need Used Cars! i For Your Car in Trade See Vs Today! FLOOD PONTIAC f 4221 Connecticut Ave. WOodley 8400 OLDEST PONTIAC DEALER IN D. C. Taxicab Driver Offers 'Valuable Disclosures' In Trunk Murder Victim's Husband Tells Police He Knows Nothing of Crime By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 29 —Police announced they had "valuable In formation" from a new witness to day as Charles Napoleon Ney, 60 year-old pensioned Alabama mail carrier, calmly disclaimed all knowl edge of how the nude body of his elderly wife came to be found stuffed in a trunk. Ney was charged with the murder of his wife, the former Mrs. Edith B. Lane, 60, of Boston. Her body was found by police in the trunk Saturday after an apart ment house owner became suspicious while helping Ney carry his burden to his waiting automobile. She had been dead several days from multiple fractures, the coroner said. Police Capt. Fred Williams said today, "We’ve got a cab driver who was bumming around with Ney in the French quarter Wednesday night, and he gave us some val uable information." Hammer Found in tar. Ney told police he had no idea how his wife was slain. ‘‘If I did it, I must have been out of my mind." said the slightly built man w‘ho claims descent from Marshal Ney Capt. Williams said a blood stained tack hammer found in Nev’s automobile was being examined by the city chemist. He disclosed that Ney told him he had twice been an inmate of the Alabama State Mental Hospital at Tuscaloosa Capt. Williams said Ney told this story: He was raised at Talladega. Ala.: educated at the University of Hei delberg, Germany, and obtained s degree there, but decided not tc practice medicine and returned tc Talladega to farm. He became a mail carrier, but was pensioned off at $68 a month two years ago. Shortly after going to St. Petersburg. Fla., last Apri: he met Mrs. Lane, widow of s Boston dentist, and married her b\ KITT'S 1330 G Street proxy in mid-May when she »aa in Boston and he was in New Or leans. Bij Profit From Business. The couple was married by a justice of the peace in Miami in June. Shortly after meeting Mrs. Lane he entered the jewelry busi ness, earning as much as '$10,000 a month, 100 per cent of which was clear profit.” Mrs. Ney complained Thursday to Mrs. Edward Aldidge, landlady of the apartment the couple had rent ed, that she was "upset'' and wanted to leave, but Ney told Mrs. Aldidge ‘‘don't pay any attention to my wife.” Ney went night-clubbing Wednes day, Thursday and Friday nights and early Saturday “smelled an i odor from the trunk and saw blood j and thought it best to take it back j to Talladega so the police there could open it.” He said his wife had gone to Boston to visit a brother. Capt. Williams said that when Ney was taken in custody he was carrying $1,300 in cash, $700 in money orders made out to Mrs. Ney, a $1,000 check signed by Mrs. Ney and made payable to her husband, and Jewelry worth about $600. He also had an automobile purchased j for $1,200 last July. 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