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Inquirer Co. VOL. 225. No. 112 11 Lost in UBat Attack on Keaoiiy; Port With 10 Mured.

OP Ship Official Blocks Free Food for Children Bffe Wants Food, Xot Surveys iff I ff 111 yp- Cl '4 One Penna. Man Missing, Another Is Critically Hurt By CHARLES H. ELLIS, JR. Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.

Eleven members of the crew of the U. S. destroyer Kearny are missing as the result of the attack last Friday by a submarine which was "undoubtedly German," the Navy Department announced tonight. Ten more were injured, one critically and one seriously, in the attack, it was announced. While the Navy would not add to its terse statement that the ship had reached port, and that there were casualties, it was presumed here that the 11 men were lost.

They would be the first to die as a result of German attacks on U. S. naval vessels. RELIEVED TO HAVE REACHED ICELAND POUT On Sept. 4, a submarine fired on the destroyerGreer, but missed its target, and there were no casualties.

The Navy did not reveal what port the Kearny reached. The destroyer was torpedoed while patrolling1 350 miles south and west of Iceland, and it was believed she might have put in at an Icelandic port. In its second official statement concerning the attack, the Navy Department added these facts to its first announcement last Friday 1 The destroyer was attacked by a German submarine. The first announcement did not mention the type or nationality of the attacking vessel. 2 The attack resulted in casualties.

The statement Friday said that no casualties were indicated in the message from the vessel. Tonight's announcement also indicated that the damage to the destroyer, one of the newer ones in the U. S. fleet, was greater than had been thought at first. One of the missing men, and the man seriously injured, were from western Pennsylvania.

In addition, the wife of one of the missing men is a Philadclphian, but none of the nine Philadelphia residents on the destroyer was on the list of casualties. PATROL CONTINUES SEARCH FOR U-BOAT Competent authorities said there was not "one chance in a million" that the missing would be found alive. They pointed out that the destroyer, after being hit, apparently did not launch lifeboats. This means, they believed, that the men wore blown overboard or were trapped in a flooded compartment of the ship. The further information on the attack was received aa the North Atlantic patrol continued its search for the submarine, under orders from President Roosevelt to "shoot on sight" any marauders.

The Navy did not say who sent the dispatches, but it was Continued on Page 8, Column 1 ANDERSON GOT OFFER IN 1938, KEPT IT SECRET Insists on 'Surveys' And More. 'Data While 160,000 Go Undernourished Picture Story on Page 16 By HUGH MORROW One man stands between undernourished Philadelphfa school children and free food to make their bodies strong. He has blocked the way for three years. He earns $12,000 a year, paid by the taxpayers. He is Add B.

Anderson, secretary and business manager of the Philadelphia Board of Education. OFFER MADE 3 YEARS AGO For it was three years ago that the Federal Surplus Marketing Administration first told Anderson that the Federal agency's warehouses were bursting with surplus food That this agency was ready to GIVE the board enough of this food to stamp out undernourishment in the entire school system NEVER TOLD BOARD BUT the Board of Education, Anderson's employer, the taxpayers' representative in the administration of their school tax money, HAS NOT EVEN BEEN TOLD ABOUT THE OFFER! The proposal has never been laid before the Board of Education It has never been discussed at the board's meetings in the $2,857,000 Board of Education "palace" at 21st st. and the Parkway. lfO.OOO UNDERNOURISHED The members of the board who have heard about the proposal many of them for the first time when The Inquirer revealed slightly more than a week ago that the offer had been made have had to go to Anderson to learn what it was all about. And in the meantime, of 255,000 children returning to their classes in the public schools today, 160,000 will still be undernourished.

WAREHOUSES CRAMMED Some of those 160.000 will leave for school after eating inadequate breakfasts. Some will get no breakfast at all. Many will be unable to buy food for lunch at the school's profitable cafeterias. Some will eat cold lunches brought from home. Some won't eat any lunch at all.

And many will go home tonight to lnade- Contlnued on Page 3, Column 1 A mmmm Lone Children Hungry They Can't Eat 'Data' Food Offered Free City Entitled to It Officials Stalling LBv John 31. Cum tilings THE gentlemen in charge of Philadelphia's public school system would like to do something for the city's army of undernourished children, but They ould be glad to dish out, lor the benefit of these unfortunate kids, the food placed at their disposal by the Government tnrough the Federal Surplus Marketing Administration, but Still the "buts" of these gentlemen butter no parsnips, flavor no soup. They provide no vitamins end are totally devoid of calories. Mr. Add B.

Anderson, the distinguished business manager of the honorable board, says he is assembling some data. Very fine. Give the half-starved youngsters a mess cf data. Serve it piping hot. It should prove filling.

It should build them up and make tnem feel like going out and licking twice their weight in wildcats. The Honorable Morris Leeds, president of the board, says a surrey is being: made. How about giving; the kids a mess of that. Take the data of Anderson and mix it with the survey of Leeds, flavor the stew with the doubt and the indecision, to say nothing; of the bull-headedness of other members of the board, feed it to the children and watch the pink blush of health surge to their cheeks. The well-fed gentlemen running th? beard are disposed to eievate the royal snoot at the mere suggestion that the Government's surplus food be served free to the children so badly in need of it.

This, it seems to be contended, would interfere with business at the cafeterias which are operrtec at so many schools. Business of course, is business. Yet it is to be doubted that the Jood the Government wants to turn over to the district would interfere to any great extent with the svecess of the cafeterias. The board knows, or should, the poor and the undernourished. And even if the sons and daughters of tne rich reach in and get a fistful cf Uncle Sam's beans, what of it? The school system is not run for a profit in money.

It's run for a profit in lives, for a profit to be oerived later from mentally alert and rhjsically sound citizens. In any event the "free" food is not quite as free as the word implies This is surplus food taken off the hands of the growers, by the Government. The Government paid the the growers for it. The Government gets its money from the people in the form of taxes Philadelphia pays its share of these taxes. Philadelphia entitled to its share of these surplus commodities.

The Government is icilling and anxious that Philadelphia should receive its share. The food is ready for delivery. It is packed away in storehouses. All that remains is for the Board ontinued on Page 3. Column 3 Of Special Interest Toflav Hungry school children photographic studies.

Page 16 Vincent Sheean, famous author and war correspondent, i si New Zealand. Page 9 Coal in the Schuylkill another in the series on Philadelphia's rivers. Page 5 Play America's newest game craze. It's fun. See photopun.

Page 21 WORKERS URGE SECOND FRONT Representatives of 500,000 Send Plea To Churchill; Tell Of Wide Suspicion LONDON, Oct. 19 (A. Shop stewards representing 500,000 factory workers sent to Prime Minister Winston Churchill today a demand that Britain open up a Western Front against Germany "as quickly as possible." Clamor for such action appeared to be spreading elsewhere with a growing dissatisfaction over Britain's present part in the war. INSIST ON ACTION At the next meeting of Parliament, it was said in informed quarters, some members will contend that "if Russia is to be saved, we must attack," Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, a leading Laborite, has announced that he will urge dropping the present British defensive policy and "abandonment of the Maginot Line mentality." The call for a land attack on Germany was made in a statement adopted at the opening session of a war production conference of the National Council of Engineering and Allied Trades Shop Stewards. The statement said that British workers "iisist on the immediate opening of a second front." WARN GOVERNMENT Factories are seething with suspicion, the statement said, that the Government is letting Russia down and that certain members of the Cabinet are preventing creation of a second front.

The War Secretary, Captain H. D. R. Margesson. and the Minister for Aircraft Production.

Lieutenant Colonel J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon. were namea.

alon with Lord Halifax, Ambassador to Washington. "We warn the Government that the workers will never allow them to let Russia down, for they know that it means we go down as well," said the statement read by Walter Swan-son, labor leader of the London area. REACTIONARIES ITED "The workers." it continued, "demand that Britain put ns much in the kitty as the Russians. There has got to be a more equitable distribution of sacrifice." The statement said that British industrial workers and the armed forces should act as a single unit to "smash Hitler," and asserted that Continued on PaRe 11, Column 5 DIES ACCUSES 1124 U.S. AIDES AS REDS Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Oct.

19 With the assertion that there is a "new influx of subversive elements into official Washington." Representative Martin Dies Tex.) today sent to Attorney General Francis Biddle a list of 1124 Federal employees he charged were affiliated with subversive organizations. Dies did not make public the names of the employees he charged are affiliated with subversive groups, but he released a breakdown by departments, showing, lie said, "how completely the Communists, their fellow travelers and their sympathizers have permeated the entire structure of the Federal Government." The greatest numlx-r 207 was In the Department of Agriculture. In the War Department, Dies declared, there are 45 members of Communist-dominated groups; in the Navy Department, 40; in the State De- Continued on Page 7, Column 2 Odessa Incorporated Under Rumania Rule BERLIN, Oct. 19 tA. Marshal Ion Antonescu.

of Rumania, today decreed the incorporation of the Russian Black Sea port of Odessa into the Rumanian administrative district east of the Dniester River, a D. N. B. dispatch said today. NTO OPEN GITIZENS ARMY IS RUSHED TO Nazis Only 62 Miles Away; Stalin Orders State of Siege in Capital LONDON, Oct.

20 (Monday) (U. Moscow and adjoining districts were placed under a state of siege today as a citizens' army surged westward to fight to the death German forces already within 62 miles of the Red Capital. The Moscow radio announced that the state of siege was ordered by Premier Josef Stalin as chairman of the state committee for defense shortly after he had issued a special order of the day calling for a fight to the end to save Moscow. PLEADS FOR CALM He appealed to all "toilers" remaining in Moscow to "keep calm and orderly and to render the Red army defending Moscow all possible help." Stalin's order placed the Germans at 62 to 75 miles west of Moscow. The early morning communique had placed the areas of fiercest fighting in the sectors of Mozhaisk, 60 miles west of Moscow on the broad highway to Minsk, and Maloyaroslavets, 65 miles southwest of Moscow on the road to Bryansk.

TEXT OF ORDER The text of the order proclaiming the state of siege, as broadcast by the Moscow radio, follows: "The supreme command on the positions at a distance of 100 to 120 kilometers west of Moscow has been entrusted to the commander of the Western Front. General G. K. Zhu-kov, and the defense of the Moscow approaches has been assigned to the commander of the Moscow garrison. Lieutenant General Artemyiv.

"In order to secure the rear of Moscow's defenses and to strengthen the rear of the troops defending Moscow and also in order to stop the activities of spies and saboteurs and other agents of German Fascism, the State Committee for Defense decrees: "1 Introduction of a state of siege for Moscow and districts adjoining as from today (Monday). CURFEW IMPOSED "2 All street movements of individuals and vehicles from midnight to 5 A. M. is forbidden except vehicles and persons which must be out in accordance witli regulations adopted by Moscow's Continued on Pa Re 11, Column 4 Demands On U. S.

Made In Tokio Press TOKIO, Oct. 20 (Monday) (U.P.). The new cabinet, headed by General Hideki Tojo as premier, "will take every possible measure to preserve the peace," the newspaper Miyako said today and added that four concessions by the United States can avert a Japanese-American conflict. Miyako added that the conditions for a Japanese-American accord are: 1. That the United States follow a policy in the Far East independent of that of Britain and judge conditions "realistically." HALT AID TO CHINA 2.

A cessation of assistance to the Nationalist government of China in Chungking while Japan "adjusts" her relations with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. 3. Washington to cease leadership in the effort to form a group Continued on Page 9, Column 5 Mary Pickford Enters Hospital for Checkup CLEVELAND, Oct. 19 (A. P.

"America's Sweetheart" of the silent films, Mary Pickford, arrived here today by plane from New York for a "routine checkup" at Cleveland Clinic. Hospital attaches said she was expected to remain only a day or two. MOSCOW FRONT George Bright, 7, of 88 Mifflin stares unhappily-over a bowl of soup, the principal item of his diet because his mother can rarely afford more expensive and more substantial fare. He is one of the Board of Education's "forgotten children." Typical Families Can't Afford Right Meals THE pitiful spectacle of hungry children in their homes, begging for food that is not there, daily rends the hearts of thousands of Philadelphia parents. Such conditions have existed for decades, for centuries, but for the last three years in Philadelphia they have existed needlessly.

For it was three- years ago that the Federal Government first offered to supply enough free food from America's bountiful surpluses to give every IN TODAY'S INQUIRER Wheeler Is Challenged On War Resolution WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (U. Tom Con-nalljr, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which meets tomorrow to determine the scope of Neutrality Act revision to be sought in the upper house, tonight challenged isolationist Continued on Page 3, Column 4 GENERAL Shenandoah girl dies of food poi soning, five in family made ill. Page 2 EDITORIALS What Taxpayers Expect of Coun cil; Give Them Food, Not Surveys; All-Out Tank Production Promised; Japan Still on the Tightrope; A New Order Built on Banditry. Hutton's cartoon.

Page 12 SPORTS Washington defeats Phila. Eagles, 21-17, before 19,071. Page 23 Mt. St. Mary's triumphs over LaSalle College eleven, 7-6.

Page 23 Penn, Temple, Villanova among East's seven unbeaten teams. Page 23 German-Americans jolt Phila. Nationals, 2-1, in soccer. Page 23 BUSINESS ANI FINANCIAL Losses in stock values reduced by late rallies. Page 26 Investors' Guide.

Page 26 Security quotations. Pages 26, 27, 28 Maritime news. Page 28 SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS Amusements 10 Puzzle Pages Comics 20-21 20-21 Death Notices 33 Radio 24 Feature Page 17 Short Story 14 Obituaries 4 Women's Pages Picture Page 16 14-15 COLUMNS AND FEATURES Barton Clapper Culbertson Cummings Forbes Johnson 17 Mallon 17 Maxwell 15 Newton 1 Parsons 26 Pegler 17 17 14 12 10 17 PETRILLO EXECUTED: ARSENIC 16 KILLER Herman Petrillo, South Philadelphia spaghetti salesman and ringleader in the murder-for-insurance ring, walked shakily to the electric chair in Western State Penitentiary. Bellefonte, at 12.29 A.M. today, nervously protesting i innocence even as the switch was pulled to snuff out his life.

He was pronounced dead at 12.32 this morning by Dr. J. W. Claudy, the prison physician. RING KILLED SCORES His death was in payment for his part in the fantastic organization of killers who put to death scores of Philadelphians for their insurance.

Nervous since his confinement in the death cell row at the prison. Petrillo ambled slowly the 40 feet to the Continued on Page 2, Column 1 George M. Cohan Reported Improved NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (U. George M.

Cohan, veteran actor and "song and dance man. who had an emergency operation at Fifth Avenue Hospital last night after a sudden illness, was reported resting well today. His physician. Dr. Miguel G.

Elias, I said he passed a comfortable night aiiu umi ins cuiiuiiiuii was tory. Friends said Cohan, 63, had been suffering from a heart malady. NATIONAL AFFAIRS 11 lost, 10 injured in Nazi attack on Kearny. Page 1 Connally challenges Wheeler to offer war resolution. Page 1 Dies accuses 1124 more U.

S. workers as Reds. Page 1 German Foreign Office organ says Kearny incident was created by President Roosevelt. Page 8 Navy orders ships to get official O. K.

before leaving West Coast. Page 9 FOREIGN Moscow under state of siege; citizens army rushes to battle Nazis only 62 miles away. Page 1 British workers urge creation of second front to aid Reds Page 1 Four demands on U. S. issued in Tokio paper.

Page 1 Six nations forming "Empire of the Amazon." Page 6 Vincent Sheean reports New Zealand is doing full share for war. Page 9 Nazis claim break-through near Moscow, capture of Sea of Azov port. Page Afghanistan ousts German and Italian nationals. Page 11 CITY AND VICINITY official blocks free food for children. Page 1 Typical families can't afford right meals.

Page 1 Herman Petrillo executed In mur der of cripple. Page 1 Fortune in coal dumped into river by operators. Seventh of series. Page 5 Sea Scout is drowned on Delaware River cruise. Page 19 leader Senator Burton K.

i Wheeler Mont.) to introduce a resolution declaring war on Germany. Connally accused Wheeler of conducting "guerrilla warfare" against the national defense and foreign policy programs. His statement was in reply to Wheeler's assertion that any attempt to repeal the Neutrality Act outright would be countered with a war resolution designed to test Congressional sentiment on the question of war or peace. HITS GUERRILLA TACTICS Wheeler, who recently returned from an extended speaking tour, has charged that "the men surrounding the President apparently want to go to war but they are not willing to come out openly and honestly and ask for a declaration of war." He said their methods have been "deceitful and dishonest." "If Senator Wheeler wants to Introduce such a (war) resolution," Con- Continued on Page 8, Column 3 I V. S.

WEATHER FORECAST Philadelphia and vicinity: Partly cloudy and cooler with highest temperature about 65 degrees. Continued cool tonight. Moderate northeast and east winds. Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware: Fair and cooler today, tomorrow fair with mild temperature. Sun rises Moon rises 6 15 A.M.

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