Evening star. [volume], February 12, 1942, Page A-4, Image 6

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                
G. 0. P. Speakers Call
For Halt in Waste
While Pledging Unity
400 at Lincoln Day
Dinner Hear London,
Martin and Watson
Pledges of unity in the war effort
were coupled by Republican leaders
In Lincoln Day addresses here last
night with demands for elimination
of “waste and inefficiency” and a
suggestion that the United States
“might well” be prepared to “change
leaders."
Alfred M. Landon, former Gov
enor of Kansas and Republican can
didate for President in 1936, said
that while all Americans are giving
President Roosevelt "wholehearted
support in his prosecution of the
war” there is "deep concern” at "our
unpreparedness” and "a growing
anger at the weakness in adminis
tration of war funds.”
"In this great national effort,” he
suggested, "we might well take a
leaf from the book of our English
cousins. Their determination to win
ultimate victory never changes. But
they do change leaders, in the field
or at home, whenever bungling
management of their wars en
dangers military success.”
400 Attend Dinner.
Mr. Landon, Representative Jos
eph W. Martin, jr„ House minority
leader and chairman of the Repub
lican National Committee, and for
mer Senator Watson of Indiana
spoke at a Lincoln Day dinner in
the Mayflower Hotel, sponsored by
Republican members of the Senate
and House and the District League
of Republican Women. More than
400 persons attended.
•'In this fight against the Axis
for the preservation of freedom
and our way of life,” Mr. Martin
declared. “Republicans will continue
vigorously to support the President.
We will always put country ahead
of partisanship.’’
He added, however, that “we In
sist upon the inalienable right of a
free people to offer constructive ap
praisal of the war effort.” He sug
gested that "prodding from patriotic
men and women of all parties may
help bring victory to our cause.”
Mr. Watson insisted that being
loyal during the war did not mean
“blindly following the administra
tion” and said that while Repub
licans did not intend to “play pol
itics” during the crisis “we do not
think it would be fair for the Dem
ocrats to take advantage of the
great surge of patriotism to aug
ment their party power.”
Refer to MacArthur’s Plight.
Enthusiastic applause greeted
references by both Mr. Landon and
Mr. Watson to the fight being waged
by the army of Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur against the Japanese in the
Philippines, which were coupled
with criticism of the administra
tion.
“We know,” Mr. Landon said,
that the flag would be flying over
all Luzon if those courageous sol
diers had been furnished the air
equipment they had a right to ex
pect.”
Remarking that Gen. MacAr
thur and "his gallant troops never
will be sufficiently praised,” Mr.
Watson said “How we wish they
had been properly supported in
that conflict.”
All the three speakers said there
could be no doubt of ultimate vic
tory in the war. but Mr. Landon
said that at best it may be “a long,
long time” until that is achieved
and indirectly blamed President
Roosevelt for "an appalling amount
of downright wishful thinking in
this country.”
‘‘The American people” he said,
“listen for the voice of our President.
He has not made clear the stagger
ing sacrifices ahead of us. • • * Be
cause of a lack of frankness, we are
not sufficiently aware of what is re
quired of us.
"The New Dealers are treating the
war as just another political alpha
bet project.”
Would Expose Inefficiency.
In calUng for exposure and elim
ination of waste and inefficiency
“wherever they exist.” Mr. Landon
said that in time of war "the kind of
politics that, because of party, de
fends incompetencey is treason.”
“Patriotism Is not confined to
political faiths,” he continued.
“Past differences sink Into Insig
nificance. For the immediate task
we are facing, there is only one
party In the United States, the party
of patriotic, loyal American men and
women determined to win this war
and to perpetuate the republic.”
He listed “results” demanded by
the people as adequate production,
definite certainty that defense funds
are not wasted or misused, preven
tion of all war profiteering and an
end to “personal rivalries and jeal
ousies.”
In outlining the function of the
Republican party, he said that “by
leadership of public opinion it has
very definitely the duty of pulling
and pushing and shoving the na
tional administration along the road
to vigorous war production, while
preserving fundamentals of our form
of government and our way of life.”
The G. O. P.’s duty also requires
“loyal support for all policies that
will tend to bring success to our
common cause,” he said, as well as
“honest and fearless discussion and
Impartial criticism of mistakes and
inefficiencies on the part of the ad
ministration.”
Urges Inflation Check.
As specific measures, he urged re
duction of every non-military ap
propriation by least 25 per cent and
elimination as “undesirable hazards
now" of all the "inflationary
policies” which he described as
•'holdovers” from early days of the
New Deal.
Mr. Landon expressed confidence
that the President’s “blue print of
war production” can be accom
plished, declaring that those in the
Axis countries attempting to “laugh*1
off” the program “are whistling
through the graveyard in the dark.”
In paying tribute to Lincoln, Mr.
Martin declared that he was a
victorious leader because he subor
dinated everything to the cause of
winning the war and the preserva
tion of the Union, adding, “The
spirit of Lincoln must be the spirit
of America today.”
He asserted that no opposition
party ever has given more complete
support than the Republicans now
are giving President Rooievelt,
pointing out that “we understand
fully that unless we win the war
there will be no parties.’
Mr. Watson sharply denounced a
tecent speech by Edward J. Flynn,
Democratic national chairman, In
which Mr. Flynn compared election
G. O. P. LEADERS HOLD ANNUAL LINCOLN DAT BANQUET—Republican members of the House
and Senate and the League of Republican Women of the District held a Lincoln’s birthday
banquet last night In the Mayflower Hotel. Some of the speakers, left to right, were: Alf M.
Landon, Mrs. Edward Gann, president of the League of Republican Women, and Senate Mi
nority Leader McNary. —Star Staff Photo.
Laura Ingalls Says
She Hoped to Expose
Nazis, Other Spies
Flyer Tells Jury She
Contacted Germans After
F. B. I. Spurned Her Aid
(Continued From First Page.)
discussed the war casually with the
doctor last spring.
Calls Hitler’s Work “Wonderful."
The physician, she said, expressed
admiration for the efficiency of the
Germans and she said she thought
this indicated "a detached viewpoint
which was admirable in an Ameri
can." She Indicated she may have
told him Adolf Hitler had helped the
German people.
“I do think It's wonderful what
Hitler has done for the German
people," Miss Ingalls said.
"Did you say that what America
needed was a Hitler?” her attorney
asked.
Miss Ingalls denied that she made
such a statement.
The defense attorney paved the
way for her testimony by calling to
the stand at the outset of today's
session Daniel T. McLaughlin, an
agent for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. He identified a state
ment which Miss Ingalls dictated
at the bureau last December 18, a
few short hours before she was for
mally placed under arrest.
Sought Place in F. B. I.
Mr. Reilly read the entire state
ment to the jury before putting
Miss Ingalls on the stand. In the
statement, Miss Ingalls explained
that she had been trying since
1939, w-hen the war broke out in
Europe, to persuade the F. B. I. to
give her a job as a counter-espion
age agent, but her offers had been
rejected, with the explanation that
no women were employed for this
work.
The statement went on to explain
that, since the F. B. I. would not
employ her, she decided to do some
investigating on her own hook and
went to see Dr. Thomsen. In the
statement she admitted receiving
sums of money from members of the
Embassy staff while on a speaking
tour for the America First Commit
tee, but Insisted her motive was
patriotic and she was trying to ex
pose the inner workings of the Nazi
espionage system.
Taking the stand. Miss Ingalls
said she was born in New York City
and now owned a home in Bur
bank. Calif. Her parents, she said,
were born in New England, and her
forebears had settled In Lynn,
Mass., jpd Rhode Island. For 11
years she had been an aviatrix.
Tells About Aerial Career.
“I always wanted to do something
different,” Miss Ingalls said. "I de
liberately went into acrobatic flying
because I consider it Important. It
is the basis of all combat flying and
it has always been questioned
whether a woman could do such
work.”
Miss Ingalls told the jury of mak
ing the first transcontinental round
trip flight by a woman and of a
record-breaking 17,000-mile flight
around South America on which
she became the first woman to fly
the Andes. She said she still held
the transcontinental record for a
plane of a certain type.
“I wanted to prove,” she added,
“that women could do something
in war besides sitting on the side
lines.”
So enthusiastic did Miss Ingalls
become as she went into her flying
achievements, that Justice James W.
Morris interrupted to suggest that
she get back to the matters at
issue.
When her attorney asked her age,
Miss Ingalls said "over 35.”
Referring to testimony that sue
of a Congress hostile to the President
with a major military disaster.
Wants Thorough Victory.
The former Indiana Senator
branded as "simply preposterous”
any idea that if a Republican House
is elected next fall it would not con
tinue supporting the war program.
“It is not necessary to be a Democrat
in this country to be patriotic,” he
added.
Declaring that "this war is no
mollycoddle business,” Mr. Watson
said that “when we whip these fel
lows I want to see such a job done
that they won’t be able to recuperate
for generations.” He asserted that
the "Republican party alone” could
solve tne post-war problems.
Representative Springer, Repub
lican of Indiana, presided at the
dinner, one of a series of Lincoln
Day affairs sponsored throughout
the country by local Republican
organizations. Representative Bolton,
Republican, of Ohio recited Lincoln’s
Gettysburg address. Dr. Albert J.
McCartney delivered the invocation.
The program was Interspersed with
music by Miss Doris Doe of the
Metropolitan ppera Company, and
the Howard University Quartet.
•4*. 6 7/.
UC**~*£ 1/'
Sw tfc
qC/L0l*£^& h C47*stuu~£^
@0L*£fJ Aw »
NEW LINCOLN PAPER—This
document in Abraham Lin
coln's handwriting was un
earthed at District Court re
cently. The discovery was
made by Richard J. Kirkland,
law clerk, who was doing some
work for Justice Bolitha J.
Laws. The paper commutes
the death sentence of a col
ored man named Emanuel
Pollard, who was convicted of
murder.
frequently had spoken German and
used German phrases In letters,
Miss Ingalls explained that as a
child she had a German governess,
but she had not tried to speak the
language much since.
"I know a few cut-and-dried
phrases,” she added, “and I can
understand It if people don t go
too fast."
Miss Ingalls said she spoke French
better than German.
The defense attorney took up the
Government's evidence that Miss In
galls was pro-Nazi item by item.
Miss Ingalls denied that in a
speech at Colorado Springs, Colo.,
she called the President “that
stupid man in Washington,” as an
F. B. I. agent testified. The defend
ant explained that she probably re
ferred to Congress as stupid because
she felt that it was letting this coun
try drift into war and every so
called peace measure passed was
actually a war bill.
Says Britain Needed V. 8.
Asked whether she had predicted
that Great Britain ultimately would
be defeated, Miss Ingalls replied:
“Without our help, yes. It was per
fectly obvious, despite all the talk of
a British invasion of the continent,
there would be none unless they got
an A. E. F.”
At another point in her testimony,
Miss Ingalls admitted she had told
audiences an invasion of this coun
try was not possible. Miss Ingalls
warming to the subject, went on em
phatically:
“As Lindbergh said, the Idea of a
direct invasion of this country was
fantastic unless we were supine and
asleep. It was absolutely unthink
able. This superstitous fear, this
creating of Hitler as a superman
made me think of Orson Welles’ re
port of an invasion from Mars.
"I don’t say a bomber might not
come across and drop a few stray
bombs. But you don’t take a country
that way. You take it in the old
fashioned way, with infantry, and I
said that If we had an adequate
Army and Navy and Air Force. Hit
ler could never take this country."
The Government rested its case
late yesterday. Among the docu
ments which Prosecutor M. Neil
Andrews read to the Jury during
the afternoon were copies of several
letters assertedly written by Miss
Ingalls to Mr. Thomsen.
Two of these letters closed with
the salutation: “Hell Hitler."
Letters Are Quoted.
8ome day, she wrote in one letter,
she would shout her admiration to
“a great leader and a great people."
In another letter, dated April 27,
1M1, Miss Ingalls was said to have
written Dr. Thomsen excoriating
British Prime Minister Churchill as
“the great single menace to the
peace of this country.”
Miss Ingalls, according, to the
prosecutor, wrote the German envoy
May 24 hallinf the capture of Crete
by the Germans and the sinking of
the British battleship Hood, referring
to the latter event as a tribute “to
the glory of the reborn navy.”
The last witness for the Govern
ment was Mr. Mclnughlln, the
T. B. I. agent. He described how
he, In company with other agents,
shadowed Baron Erich von Gienanth,
Second Secretary in the German Em
Masaryk Says Czechs
Cut Plants' Value to
Nazis by Sabotage
Minister Makes Report
To Roosevelt; Predicts
New Job for Himmler
Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of
the Czecho-Slovakian government
in exile, reported to President
Roosevelt today that economic
sabotage within his Axis-occupied
country has decreased its industrial
value to Germany by at least 35
per cent.
This form of combating the Axis
has been particularly effective, Mr.
Masaryk told White House reporters,
in the great Skoda munitions works.
It has been accomplished princi
pally, he explained, by a slow-down
in operations, difficult for German
overseers to detect or to combat.
The Czech official predicted there
will be changes in the German gov
ernment personnel in the near
future with Heinrich Himmler, pres
ent head of the Gestapo, slated to
succeed Wilhelm Prick as minister
of interior. He said he believed
Reinhard Heydrieh, who has been
gauleiter for the occupied Czech
territory, would become new chief
of the Gestapo.
Mr. Masaryk said between 300,000
and 400,000 agricultural and semi
skilled industrial workers have been
moved from Czecho-Slovakia Into
Germany for forced labor. He said
Czech soldiers are not being used In
the armed services in the protect
orate "because we are considered
very unreliable—thank God.”
German occupation forces at first
numbered approximately a quarter
of a million first-line troops, he said,
but reserves and older men are now
being sent in for this purpose. Both
the demands of the Russian cam
paign on German man power and
“whatever the devil has in mind in
the spring" are responsible for the
change, he added.
Mr. Masaryk saw the President
Just before Gen. Alexander Repin,
head of a Russian military supply
mission, was scheduled to visit the
White House. At a luncheon con
ference, the President was to dis
cuss Russian-American interest with
Maxim LitvinolT, Soviet Ambassador.
Speaking through an Interpreter,
Gen. Repin told White House re
porters that he had come to discuss
problems of military supply and
that his conversation with the
Chief Executive had been "cordial
and helpful.”
"The main question discussed,”
he said, "was the problem of supply
ing military equipment to the Soviet
Union by this country in a practical
way.”
Late in the afternoon the Presi
dent was to meet with civilian and
official radio authorities, including
Chairman James L. Fly of the Fed
eral Communications Commission,
Admiral Leigh Noyes and MaJ. Gen.
Dawson Olmstead, service members
of the Defense Communications
Board.
bassy, the night of October 10. They
saw him leave the University Club,
the agent said, get into a taxi and
halt the cab at Thomas Circle,
where he met Miss Ingalls in front
of a laundry. They both got Into the
cab. the witness said, and drove to
the baron’s home on Bradley boule
vard, Chevy Chase, Md., where they
remained several hours.
The Government produced a let
ter allegedly written by Miss Ingalls
to Catherine Curtis, Identified as
president of the Women's Executive
Committee of America, Inc., in
which the flyer said: “I know you'll
want to visit me at my chalet near
Berchtesgaden," referring to the
mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler.
Miss Curtis, it was brought out,
turned the letter over to the P. B. I.
Justice Morris overruled motions
by the defense to exclude certalh
admissions by Government witnesses
made In the absence of the de
fendant and' to declare a mistrial
because this testimony already was
before the Jury.
These concerned especially state
ments which Miss Julia Kraus ad
mitted she made to Baron von
Qlenanth and others. Miss Kraus,
who was on the witness stand pans
of two days, described herself as
the Intermediary between Miss In
galls and the baron, although the
two met dlreagty a number of times,
according to the Government’s evi
dence. A voluminous correspond
ence between Miss Ingalls and Miss
Kraus was Introduced in evidence
and read to the jury.
There was a possibility that the
case would the jury by tonight.
This a collector’s item.
Save it over te a trash
collector have
your It to school, where
it will be salvaged fer
war aeea.
Roosevelt Reported
Selecting Man-Power
Mobilization Board
McNutt Believed Slated
As Head of Agency to
Muster War Workers
Mi tbs Auocltted Prm
A man power mobilization board
authorized to muster all workers
necessary for maximum war factory
output was reported being formed
today, with Paul V. McNutt as the
probable head.
The Federal Security Administra-*
tor. former Governor of Indiana and
one-time high commissioner to the
Philippines, was said to have been
selected by President Roosevelt over
Sidney Hillman, head of the War
Production Board's Labor Division,
and Secretary of Labor Perkins, who
have been mentioned for the post.
It was learned that an executive
order creating the board was sub
mitted to President Roosevelt a few
days ago, but that the President had
asked for a new draft to eliminate
certain points to which he objected.
Government sources said the order
would be issued soon, but union
labor officials said they thought .Mr.
Roosevelt would wait until he had
consulted again with the six-man
C. I. O.-A. F. L. committee with
which he met last Friday. A second
meeting is scheduled for February 20.
Believed Conference Subject.
Labor supply was one of the ques
tions said to have been discussed by
Mr. Roosevelt and the union repre
sentatives, who were reported to be
drafting recommendations for sub
mission at the conferences.
A memorandum on the mobiliza
tion proposal, prepared under Mr.
McNutt's supervision, has been criti
cized in some labor quarters as a
labor conscription plan. The memo
randum asserted that six Federal
agencies are now engaged in re
cruiting man power and said that if
these were not to work at cross
purposes a mutual agreement as to
basic policy must be worked out.
Although the memorandum made
no recommendation for combining
the duties of the military selective
service system, directed by Brig.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, with recruit
ing of factory workers, it pointed out
that in Great Britain the Ministry
of Labor and National Service is
responsible both for military and
InduArial registration.
Six Recruiting Agencies.
The six man power recruiting
agencies were listed as the Army,
Navy, Selective Service, Civil Service
Commission, Office of Civilian De
fense and United States Employ
ment Service. The memorandum
proposed that the Mobilization
Board be composed of Secretary’ of
War Stimson. Secretary of the Navy
Knox, Secretary of Labor Perkins,
Mr. McNutt, Mr. Hillman, a mem
ber of the Civil Service Commission,
and the director of the Office of
Civilian Defense.
Mr. McNutt was questioned at
length about his views on federaliza
tion of the State unemployment In
surance program when he appeared
before the House Ways and Means
Committee yesterday to discuss legis
lation which would provide *300,000.
000 for "cushioning the *hock” of
unemployment resulting from con
version of plants to wartime pro
duction and for training workers
needed In defense industries.
Representative Buck, Democrat, of
California drew from the adminis
trator a statement of belief that
State programs should be fed
eralized.
“Do you think this bill is a pre
liminary step toward federalization,”
Mr, Buck asked.
Bill Would Not Federalize.
“I do not.” Mr. McNutt replied.
"You state that there ought to
be federalization of all State unem
ployment compensation programs?”
“That’s right,” the administrator
said. "I look upon unemployment as
a national problem and theuefore it
and relief for it must be handled on
a national basis. Those things that
require national action should re
ceive national action.”
The legislation being studied by
the committee would authorize an
appropriation of $300,000,000 so dis
tributed that displaced workers
would receive 120 per eent of their
weekly State unemployment com
pensation allowance for a maximum
of 26. weeks. The Federal Govern
ment would contribute 20 per cent
and the States 100 per cent as long
as the State laws permitted, and
then the Government would make
the full payments.
Both Mr. McNutt and Mr. Hill
man. who also was a witness, told
the committee that time was of the
essence, that the Federal Govern
ment must step in quickly to sup
plement Sate unemployment bene
fits they asserted were Inadequate.
W. P. B. Orders Cut
In Use of Tin Cans
After March 1
Containers for Number
Of Common Products
Banned, Others Curtailed
Ej the AuocliMd Prtu.
A sharp reduction in the supply of
tin cans posed a fresh wartime prob
lem today for America’s housewives,
already facing sugar rationing, do
ing without silk hose and walking
to the store to save tires.
The War Production Board an
nounced that after March 1 such
common products as pork and beans,
coffee, dog food, beer, tobacco and
oil must not be packed in tinned
containers. Use of tin cans for cer
tain "secondary" and "special” prod
ucts will be restricted to the 1940
output, and the manufacture of
small-size cans will be eliminated.
No limit was set, however, on the
use of tin for preserving such per
ishable products as imported fruits
and vegetables, tomato Juice, milk
and fish.
Saves 15,500 Tons Annually.
Tin is on the list of critical metals
as a result of the war in the Pacific.
America customarily has obtained
moat of its tin from Malaya. W. P.
B. experts estimated that the new
order would cut the use of tin by
can manufacturers as much as 40
per cent, saving at least 15,500 tons
a year.
Assurances that “the public need
have no fear that there will be any
shortage of the essential food prod
ucts” came from Paul S. Willis, pres
ident of the Associated Grocery
Manufacturers of America. He said
that warehouse stocks of canned
goods were so large that the public
would not notice the effect of the
order for some time. Meanwhile,
research experts are working on sub
stitute packaging methods, Mr.
Willis said.
The secondary food products, cans
for which will be limited to last
year's number, include apples,
peaches, pineapples, prunes and
other fruits and vegetables not re
garded as of primary importance.
Special products covered by the or
der take in medical, chemical, dental
and industrial supplies.
Restrictions on Retreads.
The restrictions were placed on tin
at the end of a day that saw re
treaded and recapped tires put on a
rationing basis and the rubber con
tent of tires and other products
custailed sharply.
Administrator Leon Henderson
said so little crude rubber was avail
able for retreading that probably no
.motorists except those now eligible
to buy new tires would be able to
buy retreads or have their present
tires recapped under the rationing to
start February 19.
In cutting down the rubber con
tent of various products, the War
Production Board detailed specifica
tions for 10 major classes of goods
to save 25,000 tons of crude rubber
annually. The order provided for
15 per cent less rubber in automobile
tires; only 7Vi ounces in bicycle
tires instead of 17, and only a half
a pound of rubber In boots and
overshoes
Automobiles sold before the “freez
ing" order went into effect on Jan
uary l were released today in con
formity with orders issued by Price
Administrator Henderson several
days ago.
Death of Neil P. Leary
Is Declared Suicide
A certificate of suicide has been
issued by Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald in the death of Neil P
Leary, 69. railroad traffic expert of
the quartermaster general's office,
War Department.
Mr. (.eary was found hanging
with a cord around his neck in a
closet at Mount Alto Hospital yes
terday. He had entered the hospital
January 26 to receive treatment for
heart trouble.
Mr. Leary, son of the late Brig.
Gen. Peter Leary, was an infantry
captain during the Spanish-Ameri
c&n War. He leaves his wife, Mrs.
Norma Lucille Leary, and a daugh
ter. Norma. 11, of 4311 Cathedral
avenue N.W.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow at 11 am. at the Chambers
funeral home, 3072 M street N.W.
Burial will be in Arlington National
Cemetery. «
Mrs. Ella Adams Uhl Dies
PUEBLO, Colo.. Feb. 12 (JP).—Mrs.
Ella Adams Uhl. daughter of the
late Senator Alva B. Adams, died
last night. She was the wife of
Joseph A. Uhl, president of the
Puebtti Savings & Trust Co.
RENT A PIANO
ON OUB NEW PURCHASE-BENTAL PLAN
.1 ii li li ii ii ii ii inii
A special plan for the many people, who, if it
were not for the uncertainty of their future status,
would buy a piano outright at once. You can
choose from any new or used spinet, grand or
upright in our store, and, if later you decide to
keep it, the payments you have made will apply
on the purchase price. If, on the other hand,
for any reason, you are unable to keep it, you
will be charged only the usual rental rate. We
also, of course, have plenty of pianos available
to rent on our regular monthly* rental plan.
TELEPHONE REPUBLIC 6212
KITTS
1330 G Street
MIDDLE OF THE BLOCK BETWEEN 13* b 14* STREETS
CALLED “DEFENSE BROKER”
—A House military subcom
mittee, reporting on activities
of defense brokers, said Leon
K. Shanack of New York
(above) received orders from
Remington Arms for ammuni
tion tools when he had no
means of his own for their
manufacture. Mr. Shanack
was described as a former
truck salesman and fight pro
moter, who made $124,743.22
in the first 10 months of his
operations as a broker.
Jury Decrees Death
For Berryville Man
In Attack Trial
Samuel Legions Found
Guilty of Assaulting
Leesburg Matron
By the Associated Press.
LEESBURG, Va„ Feb. 12 —
| Charged with criminally attacking a
married woman of Leesburg in her
home here last October, Samuel
Legions. 22, colored, of Berryville,
was convicted last night by a Lou
doun County jury which decided
| that he should die in the electric
chair.
A defense motion to set aside the
verdict was offered, and Judge H
R. H. Alexander set argument on It
I for February 23.
The testimony of two dozen wit
nesses was heard yesterday, part of
it behind closed doors.
The prosecution presented 14 wit
nesses, including the Leesburg ma
tron and her husband. The defense
| placed 10 witnesses on the stand
but did not call Legions.
The husband testified that Legions
entered his house and the first-floor
bedroom where he, his wife and a
month-old Infant were asleep. The
husband said Legions threatened to
kill them if there was an outcry and
that he then dragged the wife into
a kitchen and attacked her
Prosecution witnesses included
physicians, officers and several other
persons who said the husband had
reported the attack to them. De
fense witnesses said the woman
seemed composed and did not con
duct herself like a woman who had
been attacked.
Chief counsel for Legions was
Charles Houston. Washington at
torney. who said he was acting in a
private capacity and not for the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
War Work Refused by Firm
Of Conscientious Objectors
B? the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb 12.-The
Army has met its first industrial
conscientious objector — a Quaker
j company which doesn't want war
orders.
The 239-year-old firm of J. E
Rhoads & Sons, manufacturers of
leather goods, asked that it "be ex
cused” from quoting a price on an
order for leather belt cement.
The firm’s five active partners
said that as Friends they have
conscientious objections to war "and
therefore do not wish to sell their
merchandise for direct military use.”
An Army spokesman said no firm
is being compelled to fill Army
orders. “If we cannot get goods we
need, then we will have to com
mandeer.” he said, “but I don't
I think we’ll come to that.”
Boy's Hands and Feet
Frozen in Trek to
Save III Rancher
/
Party Ploughs Through
Drifts to Bring Sick Man
From Snow-Bound Cabin
B> the Associated Press.
GUNNISON. Colo., Feb. 12.—Six
teen-year-old David Ebert froze his
hands and feet in a struggle through
deep mountain drifts and bitter cold
to rescue a pneumonia-stricken
rancher from g snow-bound moun
tain cabin.
Young Ebert entered the Gunni
son Hospitel last night with the
sick rancher, Bryan O’Fallon, 24
hours after starting on snowshoes
with his father and two others on
the mercy trip into the isolated
8 000-foot high Taylor Park region
of Central Colorado.
Mr. O'Fallon appeared to be “over
the worst” of his pneumonia siege,
said a doctor, but Elbert’s right hand
and right foot are "very badly fro
zen.” The doctor said It was too
early to determine whether amputa
tion of fingers or toes would be
necessary.
Responded to Call.
David responded with his forest
ranger father. A. J. Ebert: Forest
Ranger William Poley and C. D.
McGonegal. telephone lineman, to a
help .appeal from Mr. OTefUon's
wife.
Mrs. O'Fallon and a npphew had
taken the sick rancher 6 miles on
p sled from their ranch to the
Taylor Dam caretaker’s cabin.
Tugging a toboggan on which
they planned to baring back the
sick rancher, the four started Tues
day night from Crystal Creek, as
far as a car could go and 8 miles
from Taylor Dam.
"It was awful tough*going," re
counted Mr. McGonegal. ‘On the
level the snow was about 2 feet
deep. But there were drifts 10 feet
deep.”
Boy Struggled On.
The elder Ebert, bothered by an
old leg injury’, had to flop on the
toboggan after pushing 6 miles of
the way. While Mr. Poley and Mr.
McGonegal pulled him, young Ebert
struggled ahead for help.
David's hands and feet were
frozen before he reached the dam
about 3 a.m.. nine hours after the
start of the trip. A man went out
and helped pull Ebert the last half
mile to the cabin.
After the exhausted Mr Poley
and Mr. McGonegal rested, they
continued on to Mr. OTallon's
ranch for a team of horses and the
sled to carry the sick rancher. Mr.
Ebert and his son back to Crystal
Creek.
First-aid treatment for Davids
frostbite delayed the start back un
til late yesterday.
Welders' Union Elects
National Officers
By the Associated Tress.
; HOUSTON. Tex., Feb. 12.—The
j United Brotherhood of Welders,
Cutters and Helpers of America
j elected A. E Baker of Little Rock
: national president last night.
C. S. Smet of Baton Rouge, was
i elected assistant president: Paul
| McIntosh of St. Louis, secretary
i treasurer; Merle Masteller of Ta
! coma, assistant secretary-treasurer,
and Carl V. Morris of Los Angeles,
W’illiatn Piested of Tacoma and
Arthur Miller of Des Moines,
trustees.
Sessions will resume tomorrow.
The welders formed a national union
yesterday.
Coast Artillery School
To Be Shifted, Enlarged
Br Ihf Associated Press.
Plans to transfer the Coast Ar
tillery Officer Candidate School
from Fort Monroe. Va„ to Camp
Davis. N. C., on March 2 and to
increase its capacity from 800 to
3.200 students were announced to
day by the War Department.
The enlarged school is expected
to supply enough junior officers to
meet the immediate needs of the
: Coast Artillery Corps and. in ad
dition. to create a reserve pool of
| officers. It will occupy the fa
cilities formerly used by the Bar
| rage Balloon Tra'ning Center, which
has been moved to Camp Tyson,
* Tenn.
■THE
^ODB
UNIFORMS
of Distinction
ARMY NAVY
AIR CORPS COAST GUARD
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
HE Mode offers a complete service
_ to officers of our military estab
lishment. Authentically styled uniforms,
tailored to the exacting standards for
which this store is famous, are carried
in stock ready for immediate delivery.
All required accessories and insignia are
here ... and we will be glad to act In an
advisory capacity to aid you in selection.
Courtesy Parking—W. Corner ltth £ I Sts.
or Star Parking Plaza.
THE MODE
F STREET at ELEVENTH
90 &tru9ec£ 9>ay*tand 9k2>*
THE IMPORTANT MEN’S CORNER