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Tax Payers Crowding Revenue Office to File 1941 Returns Cash Being Poured Into War Effort at Rate Far Higher Than Last Year Income taxes are pouring into Unde Sam’s coffers here at a rate estimated by officials to far ex ceed previous years. People are flocking to the office of the deputy collector of internal rev enue at the Revenue Building in such throngs that the staff of 85 experts Is working long hours to help the public make out and check their returns before filing. Lines > begin to form outside of Room 1002 at the building, corner of Twelfth street and Constitution avenue N.W, before the doors open at 8:30 am. When the doors open and each of the 85 experts is as signed to a_taxpayer the crowd is whittled down to a straggling few. But then the line begins to build up, and before long it stretches far down the long corridor. 2,805 on Wednesday. A total of 2.805 people filed through the deputy collector’s office Wednesday and left their returns and part of the Federal tax, accord ing to A. Parks Rasin, deputy col lector in charge of the local office. On the same date, February 25, last year, 2,475 taxpayers filed. There i ■■.. .... .. i Post Offices Open All Day Tomorrow To Aid Tax Payments The main office and all sta tions In the Washington postal district will remain open on the weekday schedule tomor row in order to accommodate the large number of Govern- • ment wsrkers and others who want to obtain money orders for income tax payments, Vin cent C. Burke, postmaster, an nounced today. Full postal facilities, Mr. Burke said, including the sale of Defense bonds and stamps, will be maintained. has been some fluctuation this year, with a few days recently falling be hind the figures of comparable days last year, but the total number of taxpayers filing early this year has exceeded those filing up to this time In 1941. With the rate of income taxes much higher this year, it is certain that much more money is coming in, to help carry the Gov ernment's tremendous war load. One of the most generally wide spread misapprehensions about the income tax, according to officials, is that the cigarette tax is de ductible. This tax cannot be de ducted on the income tax return, despite the claims of about every cither person who files. About half the people think that this tax is de ductible. Among other taxes which cannot be deducted are those on Jewelry, toilet articles, cosmetics, furs and the Federal gasoline tax. Some Others Whittle Figure. Certain taxes which are deductible j for purposes of the income tax re- I turn, however, include those on ad- 1 missions, including theaters, prize i fights, long-distance phone calls and transportation. The Federal automobile use tax, which was due this month and which cost each car owner $2.09 for the first installment, is deductible, but cannot be subtracted from the re turn due March 15, this year. An other payment of this kind of an automobile tax, $5 for the year, will1 be due July 1, making a total of $7 .09 which may be deducted from \ the 1942 return, due March 15, 1943. } State gasoline taxes, such as are i j»aid in the amount of 2 cents a gal lon in the District of Columbia: 4 cents a gallon in Maryland, and 5 cents a galren in Virginia, are de ductible. Exemptions Lower Now. Income tax blanks have been mailed out to all persons who paid an income tax last year, but not to the thousands of new taxpayers, ♦ho fall within the taxable group this year by virtue of the lowered exemptions. The exemption this years is only $750 a year for single persons and $1,500 for married couples. Plenty of blank returns are available at the office of the deputy collector for these new tax payers or for others who may have mislaid their mailed blanks. The office of the local deputy col lector is open daily from 8:30 am. to 5 p.m., except on Saturday, when the hours are from 8:30 am. to 1 pm. Civilian Specialist Corps Set Up in War Office l President Roosevelt today estab Ished in the War Department an prmy Specialist Corps to be made tp of uniformed civilian employes. The specialists are to be recruited fy the Civil Service Commission Without regard to whether or not they are on any civil service regis ter. Persons appointed, it was Stated in an executive order signed by the President, shall not acquire k classified civil service status. ; Purpose of the order was explained ps that of obtaining the temporary service of "certain qualified civilian Employes.” i m : M I : * . i ? : • H | ; ? < JAPS IN NEW WESTWARD MOVE—Map locates Port Blair (1) in India’s Andaman Islands, bombed in the farthest Japanese blow to the west since the war began. The move indicates an attempt toward cutting China-aid sea lanes into Calcutta (3), now that the Jap advance in the Rangoon area (2) has blocked use of the Burma road. —A. P. Wirephoto. Burma (Continued From First Page.) has been reduced with a view to discontinuance. Throughout the early days of ship ping east of India and until 1844, when the British troopships Briton and Runnymede were driven ashore there, the islands were shunned by mariners because of the hostility of their natives, a ferocious people of pigmy stock. Much Lease-Lend Equipment Is Saved at Rangoon By DANIEL DE LUCE, Associated Press Wsr Correspondent. MANDALAY, Burma. Feb. 27.— Remnants of lease-lend material on the docks of Rangoon apparently were in flames today along with other supplies which probably would have fallen to the Japanese if they captured that imperiled gateway to the Burma road. That was the obvious implication of a report that Lt. Col. Adrian St. John, head of the United States military mission in Rangoon, was on his way here by armored car, his work there done. It was Col. St. John's huge job to transfer northward thousands of tons of material which had accumu lated there during recent months and Allied observers agreed he had saved more than they had believed was possible. The biggest item of potential value to the enemy reported put to the torch was a group of about 100 trucks which could not be assem bled in time. Called “City of Ghoats.” Early this month I gave a pint of blood for a blood bank operated in a Rangoon hospital by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon S. Jury, volunteer transfu sion technicians from Hamilton, Ontario. Now they are here and describe Rangoon as "a city of ghosts” with only a few policemen and soldiers stirring in its wide, silent, streets and only the periodic echo of a dis tant explosion after the devastation of "scorched earth” fires. Lester L. Schnare of Georgia, United States consul general at Rangoon, flew here on orders from Washington to stay with the Bur mese government as long as it re mains in Burma. Some of his staff, however, was said officially to have reached Chungking. Raiders Beaten Off. The defense of deserted Rangoon Wednesday, in which American vol unteer "Flying Tigers” and R. A. F. Hurricane pilots destroyed 27 Japa nese planes surely and seven more probably, beat off the raiders in their biggest daylight air assault in Burma so far. Such a raid had been expected and the defense was a carefully prepared surprise for the enemy. (Official figures previously had placed the Japanese losses Wednesday at 30 planes.) The American Volunteer Group, under Squadron Leader Bob Neale of Seattle, Wash., had been ready for two weeks for just such a mass attack as the Japanese finally launched. In its picked flight roster were these combat veterans: Gregory Boyington, Seattle; M. W. Kukkendall, San Saba, Tex.; C. W. Sawyer, Emmett, Idaho; R. H. Smith, Eagle River, Wis.; C. R. Bond. Dallas, Tex.; R. W. Prescott, Fort Worth, Tex., and J. R. Rossi, San Francisco. D. C. Bar Delegates To Leave for Chicago Wilbur L. Gray, secretary of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, today announced that delegates to the midyear meeting of the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association will leave during the week end for the session at Chicago, which starts on Monday. Included in these delegates are Henry I. Quinn, George M. Morris, Sefton Darr, Walter M. Bastian, Paul F. Hannah, William Roy Val lance and Mr. Gray. 20 Animals Reported Starved To Death on Abandoned Farm r fey a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 27.— Montgomery County police today ferere investigating the reported death of 20 animals, whose bodies they said were found strewn over the ground and in a vacant cabin In the woods about a mile from Potomac. , Eleven dead goats were found on $he ground outside the cabin, to gether with three dead sheep, po lice said. The bodies of four goats and two sheep lay in the cabin, they reported. In addition nine geese, one horse, a dog, a goat and three rheep were wandering about the property in a half-starved condi tion. Police said the animals apparently bad starved to death. Empty water pans were located near an open animal shelter housing a small quantity of hay, according to police. No one was on the property at the time, the police said, although neigh bors said that some one formerly lived there. A representative of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Baltimore was to vsiit the property today to pick up the dead animals and take care of the live ones. Policeman Clayton Ricketts said he investigated after receiving a call last night from J. O. Woodford of Potomac, who said that a number of animals on a vacant farm near his house were starving to death. Policeman Ricketts said thrt he res trying to locate the owner of the property, whose name was g». m him by neighbors. New 57-Passenger Airliner To Cross Nation in 8V2 Hours By the Associated Presa. LOS ANGELES. Peb. 27—Lock heed Aircraft Corp. displayed a model today of the super-transport It Is constructing for Transcon tinental & Western Aalrlines and let out a few secrets about the 57 passenger airplane. With Army approval, it said the ship would have a 4,000-mile range, fly at 30,000 feet, cruise at 285 m.pli. and have a top speed of 350 miles an hour. That will enable it to reduce commercial flying time from .Los Angeles to New York to 8’3 hours. T. W. A.'s fastest coast-to coast flight is 13 hours 8 minutes. The new transport, costing about $500,000, is scheduled for June de livery. It will have four 2,500 horse power motors. It has provisions for a crew of seven. Lockheed said plans for the craft had been kept secret more than two years to prevent foreign designers from copying its revolutionary fea tures. It was designed by Jack Frye, T. W. A. president: Howard Hughes, millionaire aviator-sports man who bought into the airline in 1940, and Hall Hibbard, Lockheed vice president and chief engineer. Mr. Frye said the ship could be converted into an Army transport and should give the United States "virtual domination of the air from a commercial standpoint for several years." Labor (Continued From First Page.) Hillman, labor director of the War Production Board, issued a state ment asserting that Mr. Smith's proposal would not expedite produc tion, but "would result in confusion and demoralization and a lowering of morale, with incalculable loss to our war effort." Opposed by Norton. Chairman Norton of the House Labor Committee opposed the Smith amendment, declaring that the War Labor Board was in a better position to handle the situation. Emphasizing that his amendment would suspend the maximum hour and overtime pay requirements only ' for the duration of the emergency, i Mr. Smith said he could “not un derstand whv members • * • persist in resisting a suspension of those things * • • which are handicapping the efforts to save this Nation in its hour of emergency.” He expressed doubt that "na tional unity” must be "purchased” at the price of the eight-hour day and the 40-hour week. Labor’s Leaden Criticized. Asserting that strikes which have retarded the defense and war effort have not been desired in all cases by the workers themselves, the Vir ginian blamed “some arbitrary labor leaders” for the work stoppages. Representative McCormack said that the Smith amendment was so controversial that It would impede swift passage of the "important measure,” and told the House that Mr. Smith had attempted unsuc cessfully to add “anti-labor" legis lation recently to the huge war appropriations bill. Mr. Smith promptly protested that Mr. McCormack’s statement was unfair, drawing from the ma jority leader the rejoinder that “the gentleman from Virgilna is thin skinned.” Vote on Proposal Assured. Mr. McCormack declared, “This is a matter that should be left to the President. He’s charged with the prosecution of the war.” He ex pressed belief that the amendment would only “aggravate” the labor question. When Representative Smith’s bill was offered as an amendment, Rep resentative Celler and Martin J. Kennedy, New York Democrats, and Healey, Democrat, of Massa chusetts, argued it was not ger mane to the other subjects in the biU. Mr. Kennedy contended that the amendment would change “the whole public policy” and that it “strikes at something basically American.” The ruling against the point of order was made by Representative Cooper, Democrat, of Tennessee, as chairman of the House in commit tee as a whole. It was appealed by Mr. Kennedy, but was upheld, 218 to 14, on a standing vote. Bond Buying Limited. Before getting to the Smith pro posal the House tentatively agreed, oon a teller vote of 128 to 93, to limit to $5,000,000,000 the amount of Government obligations pur chased direct from the Treasury the Federal Reserve banks may have at one time. As passed by the Senate, the war powers legislation would have allowed the banks to purchase Government obligations without limit. Opponents of the Senate plan maintained it would lead to infla tion, a charge hotly denied by sup porters who insisted the power was needed only for emergency issues and to keep the bond market stable. Actor Burgess Meredith To Be Army Private By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 12—A bugle caH for Army service sounded today for anyother Hollywood star—Bur gess Meredith. The auburn-haired actor, who came from successes on the Broad way stage, awaits induction as a private *n the Army. Already in the service, first as a private and now a lieutenant in the Air Corps, is his pal and former roommate, James Stewart. — Pensions to Congress Repealer Approved By House Vote Conference Report Adopted; Agency Heads Are Also Affected The House today adopted a con ference report on the bill to repeal congressional pensions. Representative Vinson, Democrat, of Georgia, reporting for the con ferees defined department heads, j barred also from pensions, as not only cabinet members, but also “all agency heads." such as chiefs of the S. E. C.. F. C. C.. etc. The bill for the pension repeal included also the following matters: i 1. A pay increase of 20 per cent for enlisted men and 10 per cent for officers of the armed forces serv- ! ing in foreign lands or in the Philip pines, Hawaii or Midway Island 2. A provision temporarily excus ing from the income tax law Gen. Douglas MacArthur's men or any others “beleaguered or beseiged by armed forces,” captured, interned, missing or on distant duty with armed forces. However, they will have to fllr returns and pay as soon as they can. 3. A clause providing that the pay of soldiers, sailors and other Government employes captured or missing shall continue. In the case of the missing, the pay will con tinue for 12 months, whereupon death benefits will be paid, but if a missing man turns up thereafter he will owe the Government the death benefits. 4. A provision authorizing imme diate construction of an $8,000,000 lock on the Great Lakes canal through which most or the iron ore vital to the war program must move. I ________. Fears for Kin in Russia Blamed in Woman's Death Two women who took poison—one because of fears for the safety of relatives in Russia—died in Gallin ger Hospital yesterday. Mrs. Itia Menick. 67, was found unconscious by a delivery boy Mon day in the store at 801 Forty fourth street NJS., operated by her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Menick. The daughter-in-law said Mrs. Menick had been disconsolate since the Nazis invaded Russia because her daughter, son-in-law and their children lived in the area overrun. The Soviet Embassy had told her it was probable that her relatives were safe, since most of the resi dents of the area moved to the interior ahead of the German ad vance. The other poison victim, Mrs. Helen Gale, 50, of 5004 Second street N.W., was found by a son-in-law, Gerald Davis, Sunday. Deputy Coroner Christopher J. Murphy issued certificates of suicide in both deaths. Cousin ofCapf. Bennion Will Join Army Soon A Washington cousin of Capt. Mervyn Sharp Bennion, who died on the bridge of his ship and was called the outstanding hero at Pearl Harbor, soon will be in the fighting forces himself. He is Stewart R. Bennion. em ploye of the Bureau of Indian Af fairs, who probably will go into the Army next month. Young Bennion tried to volunteer for the Air Corps, hoping to fight the Japanese from the air, but he was rejected because of his eyes. He has passed his Army physical examination, however, and is now waiting for a call. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. Bennion, 1660 Lanier place N.W., Mr. Bennion said he last saw his cousin about two years ago when he was stationed here and learned of his death about three weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack. > 0. P. A. Will Ad Soon To Curb Inflationary Rents in Boom Areas More Than Dozen Cities Will Get 60-Day Notices To Meet Ceilings By the Auocuted Press. Price Administrator Leon Hender son within a few days will take firm action to curb Inflationary rentals in war-boom cities and towns hous ing upward of 7,000,000 persons, It was learned today. The Office of Price Administration will designate officially the first group of defense rental areas, with recommended ceilings to be applied, and with the boundaries of each area defined by local maps. The designation will put the com munities on 60-day notice to reduce rents to the Oovemment-recom mende<ylevels. If this is not accom plished* by State or local action, O. P A. may move in with powers con ferred in the price control bill to enforce lower rentals. The number of areas to be designated was not divulged, but there was good indication they would total more than a dozen Rent surveys have been conducted by O. P. A. in approximately 230 com munities. No Word About District. (There was no indication whether Washington would be included in one of the areas, but it was said few complaints of unconscionable rents here had reached the Federal agency. Washington rent protests are being handled by the District rent administrator. (In situations such as this, where rent control machinery already is in operation, the O. P. A. will seek to co-operate with rather than supersede the local authorities, it was ex plained.) It was assumed the first group of defense housing areas would be cities and commounities where rent levels have soared farthest above normal. Rent increases ranging between 5 and 100 per cent have been reported from numerous com munities, particularly ordnance, shipbuilding and aircraft manufac ; turing centers and in areas swollen because of the expansion of nearby military establishments. 170 Mayors Consulted. O. P. A. has consulted by mail with the mayors of about 170 cities on rent levels and the impending action is based on these advices to gether with data compiled by O. P. A. itself, by existing fair rent com mittees in scores of communities, by the Department of Labor and other agencies. The price control law provides that if communities do not bring about “substantial compliance” with O. P. A.'s recommendations within 60 days, the price administrator may fix maximum rentals and take action to enforce their observance. The law recommends that O. P. A. shall use as a basis for th£ rent ceilings the rentals for comparable accom modations on April 1,1940, but gives Mr. Henderson latitude in choosing some later level. v Sheriff and Political Rival Kill Each Other in Duel Pi the Associated Press. OZARK. Ark.. Feb. 27.—A country sheriff whose cunning once trapped one of the Southwest’s most noto rious desperadoes came to his end yesterday when he and a political rival shot it out. wounding each other fatally in a barber shop here. The dead are Champ Crawford, 41, who posed as a rural fisherman to capture the notorious Jack Rus sell after Russel fled a penitentiary in McAlester. Okla., in 1939, and Jim Wilson, 38. former county treas urer and candidate against Craw ford in 1940. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Mark E. Woolsey said Crawford was being shaved when Wilson walked in and told the barber, “I'll finish this man.” Mr. Woolsey continued: “Wilson pulled an automatic, the barbers fled and the shooting began. When the barbers returned the sheriff was slumped over the shoe shine stand dead. Wilson died in a hospital.” Nelson to Broadcast Series on War Efforts The latest advice on what the public can do to help win the war will be given in a series of four radio broadcasts by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, it was announced yesterday. The first of these “assignments to all classes of citizens” will come Monday at 9:45 pm. in a 15-minute address over the Blue Network. It will be aimed primarily at manage ment and workers in the war in dustry, it was announced, while later talks will be directed at other segments of the population. “Mr. Nelson will spend most of the time examining the allegation that there is too much smugness and complacency in the country, and that people are confused about what they can do to help the war effort,” a spokesman said. Mr. Nelson recently expressed be lief the next four to six months will be the most crucial of the present emergency. This is believed to be the underlying basis of his decision to address the Nation. Navy's 'Wildcats' Bagged 13 Jap Planes, Knox Says By »h» Associated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—United States “Wildcat” fighters in a re cent engagement destroyed 10 Jap anese fighters and three bombers without a single American loss, in dicating superiority of United States personnel and equipment, Secre tary of the Navy Knox said in a letter made public yesterday. . The Secretary did not identify the battle, but said the American planes were carrier-based and tee Japanese craft land-based. The letter was sent to the Grum man Aircraft Engineering Corp. whose employes’ craftsmanship he said “adds effectively to tip the scales of warfare in our favor.” Maybe you can’t buy a new tire, bat you can still get Defense stamps and bonds. Democrats Resolve To Counter 'Sniping' Attacks on President House Leaders Declare Harm Is Being Done To War Effort v Exercised over constant and grow, lng “sniping” at President Roose velt, Democratic leaders* in the House met at the call of Majority Leader McCormack in the House Rules Committee today and deter mined that all such attacks should be adequately met In the future. “The effort to undermine the President, who is commander In chief of the Army and Navy, and to bring disunity in the country while we are at war is indefensible,” said Mr. McCormack after the meeting. “These attacks are being made for partisan political advantage, but they are such as to do great harm to the war effort. We discussed the matter in the meeting today. We determined that such attacks must be met, that the misstatements in them must be revealed and that the truth must be told." Mr. McCormack said that he was not bringing an indictment against the Republican party. Indeed, he said, that was not his purpose at all. What he and the other Demo crats who met with him are aiming at, he said, are individuals, in Con gress and out, who make unfounded charges against the President for partisan purposes. Representative Pheiffer, Repub lican of New York ran into “sniping” charges yesterday when he said that Lt. Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr„ was being given favored treatment in the Navy, He met with hit denials from the Democratic side. Mr. Pheiffer asserted that the President’s soil, having recently undergone a “simple appendecto my,’* has been given a month's leave of absence. He said the com mission given him was an illustra tion of those “handed out on silver platters to the sons of prominent men.” “Shame on any member of the House that would get up to make that sort of an attack on the son of the President,” cried Repre sentative Woodrum, Democrat, of Virginia, “He (young Roosevelt) is in the hospital and he’s going to be kept there for the treatment that would be given any one in the armed forces, whether or not he was the son of the President.” Slayer Given 18 Years; Two Cases Still Pending By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE. Feb. 27 —State and defense attorneys conferred today on disposition of two more murder charges facing William Boyd Gilliam i after the shipyard worker was con victed of second-degree murder in the death of Mrs. Irene Carter and sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment. Gilliam was convicted last night by a jury that deliberated 3 hours and 40 minutes, and was sentenced by Judge W. .Conwell Smith to the maximum penalty allowed under the verdict. Gilliam, who had pleaded innocent and maintained he acted in self defense. was pale and silent when sentence was pronounced. He was indicted on charges of murdering Mrs. Carter, mother of four children; her sister, Mrs. Helen Johnson. 21, and Herman Eltermann, a musician, on Johnnycake road, near Catonsville last January 23. Mrs. Carter had been shot and stabbed to death; Mrs. Johnson and Eltermann shot. Gilliam testified the trio attempted to rob him. The State had asked for a verdict of first-degree murder. Use of Small Boats Banned Off Jersey and Delaware Br the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27.-The Coast Guard today abruptly brought to an end two of the major sports of Southern New Jersey and Dela ware—offshore fishing and sailing. Capt. E. A. Coffin of the Port of Philadelphia yesterday ordered all but commercial boats to confine their movements to inland waters. His order, described officially only as “a tightening of control over small eraft and extra precautionary measures,” covered the coastline of the 4th Naval District, from Point Pleasant, N J.. to Cape May, N. J., I and the Delaware coast. Patrol boats turned back all craft except those whose masters had licenses issued by the Port of Phila- ; flelphia. It was indicated these would be limited to commercial fishermen, eliminating deep-sea fishing from charter boats and private craft as a sport. Howard U. Dean Struck In Nashville Courthouse E> tt t Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., F'eb. 27.— R. D. Fessey, former Davidson County deputy sheriff, was charged last night with striking Leon A. Ransom, colored attorney and dean of the Howard University law school in Washington, as Mr. Ran som left a hearing in Criminal Court here. During the hearing, a plea in abatement case, Mr. Ransom charged that the County Jury Com mission had excluded Negroes from jury service “solely on account of their color, race and African de scent,” at the indictment of a Nashville Negro last June. Mr. Fessey was released under $1,000 bond on a charge of assault and battery. He declined to com ment. Conservation of Paper Every citizen is called upon to see that not a pound of paper is wasted. Demand from every clerk that any unnecessary wrapping of packages or un necessary use of paper bags be dispensed with. Waste paper for paperboard is vital to the packaging of a great quantity of war equip ment. Do not bum newspapers, but, when you have saved enough for a bundle, give them to the school children who are co operating in the defense pro gram with the parent-teacher organization in The Star’s campaign for reclaiming old newspapers. JESSE OWENS, One-time track star, now an O. C. D. “roving staff assist ant." —Wide World Photo. 0. C. D. (Continued From First Page.) not gone intensively into the qualifi cations of the staff,” Mr. Landis re plied, “because of its pending trans fer to another agency of the Gov ernment. I think it will be accom-' pllshed in a day of two.” Mr. Landis told the committees the physical fitness division is to be transferred almost immediately to the office of Health, Defense and Welfare, the Federal Security Agency, and that he thought the youth section of the O. C. D. would be abolished. Asked by Senator Byrd if the racial relations program would be dropped, Mr. Landis said he was hesitant to abolish that, believing there is helpful work for it to do. Senator Byrd pointed out that at present racial relations work is con fined to colored and white. He told Mr. Landis all citizens should be approached as Americans, without setting up separate sections, and expressed confidence the colored population is ready and willing to do its part in national defense. Suggests Expansion. If there are to be racial sections in O. C. D., the chairman said, it should be expanded to provide sepa rate groups for the Poles, Italians and other minority groups, or abol ished entirely. Under the questions of Senator McKellar, Mr. Landis insisted that the ban recently adopted by Con gress against educational activities relating to entertainment or dancing applies only to the $100,000,000 ap propriated in the act to which the ban was attached. Earlier he had brought out that the general oper ating expenses of O. C. D. are allo cated to him by the President, as part of the Office of Emergency Management. Funds From Two Sources. Senator McKellar interrupted to ! suggest that, since O. C. D. has money from two sources, It uses funds from the other source to carry on functions prohibited in the di- I rect congressional appropriation. "Surely you wouldn’t prohibit this ! agency Tr'om doing fts pnme job of educational work," Mr. Landis began to reply. "In other words,” Senator McKel lar continued, “you want to prevent bombs from falling on the people of Washington and other cities by educating them?'’ Mr. Landis said it was important to educate the people what to do when bombs fall. "I think we made a great mistake in appropriating the money if that is your idea,” Senator McKellar re joined "And I think you misled me. You ought to have been frank enough to say what you have said here today.” Senator Reads‘Record. The Tennesseean handed Mr. Lan-1 dis the printed record of hearings before the Appropriations Commit tee a few weeks ago. on the $100, 000,000 fund for purchase of gas masks and similar equipment. The Senator read an excerpt, in which Mr. Landis said if the physical fit ness program was left to him it1 would be confined to training men about to enter the Army or war- i production plants. “I got the distinct understanding you were not going to continue the frills and furbelows.” Senator Me- ] Kellar added. "I think I was mis led.” Mr. Landis contended Mr. Douglas is not employed for entertainment, but only to channel to other Gov ernment agencies persons they may want with particular talent. To Illustrate, he said If any Government agency wanted the services of the late Carole Lombard, Mr. Douglas' job would be to try to arrange It. "You cannot say too much to me about Carole Lombard,” Senator Me Kellar answered, “because I am a movie fan. I also admire the work of Mr. Douglas as a< movie actor. But, for heaven's sake, what does Mr. Douglas know about bombs! Money for Protection. “We appropriated this money to protect the American people, apd to continue these activities, I think. Is a willful waste of the people’s money and contrary to what I thought your position was before the appropria tions committee.” Earlier Senator Byrd had read from the O. C. D. salary list an item describing Daniel Lang, a free lance writer, assigned to travel through out the country, digging up human interest stories to arouse public In terest in civilian defense. He was asked if he thought that essential to the war effort. Mr. Landis said he might, because ‘‘getting Across” to one community what another community is doing is helpful. As the hearing adjourned Senator McKellar told Mr. Landis he Was not criticizing him personally, but only differing with him “radically” as to the policies of O. C. D. Chairman Byrd joined in to say be was not blaming Mr. Landis for what happened in O. C. D. before he became director, but wanted to know what branches of the agency would be abolished in a reorganization now being planned. Although not members of the joint committee, Senators Tydings, Demo crat. of Mary land and Clark. Demo crat, of Missouri, who both have bills pending to transfer O. C. D. to the War Department, followed to day’s hearing closely. Wants Duties Restricted. Senator Tydings told Mr. Landis he could render a great service to his country by stripping O. C. D. down to the function of preparing for air-raid protection. The author of a pending bill to transfer the agency to the War Department, Senator Tydings said he had no thought of establishing military su pervision over the thousands of civilian volunteers in every city, but argued that an Army man should be at the head of the directing agency in Washington. The Maryland Senator requested Mr. Landis to prepare for the record a brief, setting forth all the argu ments for and against placing an Army man at the head of O. C. D. Senator Tydings also told Mr. Landis he was not criticising his work as an individual. He said he realized O. C. D. had “two strikes on it when you took charge." At the outset Mr. Landis told the committee the annual payroll for, O. C. D. is now at the rate of $1, 479.260. From the beginning to January 1, 1942, actual expeditures amounted to $365,693. Mr. Landis explained O. C. D. op erating expenses are allocated by the President. The director said his own appointment was made as a special assistant to the President at $10,000 a year. Baby Abandoned on Car Is Restored to Mother The action- of a mother in aban doning her baby on an automobile running board a week ago pro vided a solution to her problem, but in a happier manner than 6he expected, it was learned today. Capt. Rhoda J. Milliken of the Police Woman s Bureau explained today the mother was located in nearby Maryland and'lound to have disposed of the infant because she feared, it would interfere with her employment. The woman told in vestigators she needed the job to ; support herself and believed she I would be discharged because of her | employer's policy against family obligations. * Capt. 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