Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1941, Page 1

Weather Forecast Occasional rain; lowest morrow cloudy and moderately cold, Temperatures today—Highest, 37, at 3:25 p.m.; lowest, 30, at 1:35 am.; 36 at 4 pm. From the Unitea oraves we Full Detatle on Fage A-2, Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Pa tonight about 34; to- eatmer Bureau Report. 89th YEAR. No. 35,635. ch WASHINGTON, D. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, ¢ Foening Star 1941 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. { NIGHT FINAL SPORTS (®) Means Asso ciated Pre: THREE CENTS.’ GUAM PROBABLY TAKEN BY JAPS, NAVY SAYS ONFEREES OK. 10 BILLION FOR DEFENSE D. C. Would Get §25,000,000 For Buildings $2,000,000 Additional For City Included in Emergency Bill The $10572,000,000 supplemental national defense appropriation bill, carrying more than $27,000,000 for emergeney needs in the District, was approved today by House and Sen- ate conferees. All District items in the bill as it passed the Senate yesterday were agreed on. | Approximately 325,000,000 of the more than $27,000,000 earmarked for the District, would be used for ad- ditional temporary Federal office buildings. The bill as it passed the Senate authorized construction of some of the buildings on the Sol- diers' Home reservation and di rected that all of the structures be| The Joint located in the District. Conference Committee, changed the provision, to permit some of the buildings to be loceted in nearby Maryland and Virginia. Back to House and Senate Monday. House and Senate approval of the conference report on the bill is ex- | pected Monday. Publication of testimony taken by the Senate Appropriations Commit- | tee on the bill disclosed today a charge by Senator Thomas, Demo- crat, of Oklahoma, that there was no airplane detector service in| operation at Honolulu when Jap- anese bombers attacked Pearl Har- | bor last Sunday. Recalling an inspection trip he | made as chairman of a subcommit- | tee handling War Department ap- | propriations, Senator Thomas said | that a year ago when he visited | Honolulu he found “practically no | detector service” there { “The results of Sunday confirmed | my failure to find them,” the com- | mittee record quoted Senator | Thomas as declaring. “It wasn't | there Sunday—if so, it is obvious | that it was not in successful opera- tion. Tam not a military man, but | it doesn’t take a military man to see some things that are vitally wrong.” Senator Thomas put into the rec- | ord a letter he had written Harry Woodring, then Secretary of War,| on January 15, 1940, in which he complained that there was inade- (See WAR BILL, Page A-2.) Sea Forecasts Cease | Discontinuance of wind and weather forecasts for ocean, coastal and marine areas was an- nounced today by the Weather | Bureau. These forecasts will be | continued, however, for small eraft, storm or hurricane warn- | ings. i Bullitt Reaches Cairo CAIRO, Egypt (@ —William | C. Bullitt, former United States | Ambassador to Moscow and Paris, | arrived today to assume his du- ties as President Roosevelt’s per- | sonal representative in the Mid- dle East war zone. Hungary Declares War The Hungarian government in- formed the United States today it considered a state of war to exist between Hungary and the United States. v, enezu;la.t)pens Ports The Venezuelan Embassy an- nounced today its government had opened its ports to ships of the United States and other na- tions at war with the Axis. however, | Late War Bulletin 20 Jap Planes Downed In Honolulu Attack More than 20 Japanese planes were destroyed during the sur- prise attack at Honolulu on De- cember 7, the War Department was advised late today by Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, command- ing the Hawalian Department, who also took occasion to cite numerous spectacular feats of | heroism on the part of American Army fiyers during the action. Six young Army aviators were cited by Gen. Short for actions “characteristic of the fight.” | Second Lt. Kenneth M. Taylor of Hominy, Okla., and Second Lt. George S. Welch of Wilmington, Del., attacked a formation of six Japanese planes early in the raid. Each officer shot down two enemy planes. The other two escaped for the time being. H Later, Lt. Welch, alone in his | Curtis single-seat pursuit ship, engaged two other Japanese planes and shot them both down. First Lt. Lewis M. Sanders of Fort Wayne, Ind., flying at high | altitude, joined in a dogfight be- tween an American and a Japa- nese plane. As he approached he saw the American plane go down in flames and shot down the Japanese plane after a furi- ous battle. Dutch Subs Sink Four Loaded Jap Troopships - 4,000 Men Reported | Lost En Route to % Malaya Front By the Associated Press. BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies, | Dec. 13.—Dutch submarines were credited tonight with destruc- tion of about 4,000 Japanese sol- idiers and their four transports‘ off Southern Thailand, and an‘i other naval force was said to | have liquidated a Japanese set- | tlement on the east coast of | Borneo. | The transports were smashed as | Japanese reinforcements were be- ing moved to the Malayan battle- | front. (R. A. F. will send immediate re- | inforcements to Malaya and the Near East, it was announced to- day 1n London.) | The submarine victory was an- | nounced by the Batavia radio, but | | the Indies military-naval commu-‘; nique reported the Borneo action, | saying “a unit of our naval forces has dealt with a Japanese settle- ment on the east coast of Borneo.” “A number of motor launches | were seized during this action while ; other vessels were destroyed,” the | communique added. “The settlers | have been interned.” | The high command announced | that hostilities had not vet touched | ! Indies- territory and that mobiliza- | tion of the army was proceeding smoothly. | Invasion of Malaya | | Checked, British Say | | SINGAPORE, Dec. 13 (#).—The | | British indicated in tonight's com- | | munique that the Japanese invasion | of Upper British Malaya had been | | substantially checked. el thi h, it id, and the situa- Racing Results | oo it v o me s | Charles Town FIRST RACE—Purse S600: 3-year-olds and up: 8'a furlon; Braxton Bell (Glidewell) 4.00 Silver_Beam_(Root) Miss Ksar (Cowley) 40 Time, 1:232 Also ran—Chide. Lady Andy. Taradiddle, Eaypia and Sought After. claiming: s SECOND RACE- $600: claiming; 3-year-olds and up: Charles Town course. Apprehend (Lo Turco) 8.20 5.00 3.60 MeHenry (Root) 700 520 Arboreal (Eversole) 17 RIS JenLens Girl Berwrn, Miss 50 — . 5 ! Wing, Clayhill and Roval Echo. claiming; Chance Ru Minstrel Wit (Carr) e, 1:22% Also out- R;.“:.'_Bgan.m‘.;..mcl...m. rigger, Rolica and Buds Girl Y (Daily Doubg paid $32.60.) POURTH RACE—Purse. $500: claiming 3-year-olds and up: 1/, miles Bob Junior (Wright) ~ 13.00 5.80 Self Starter (Scott) 7.60 0 FPeed Patch (Glidewell) 240 Neita Wood. Hepzibah. Glen- broom. Gasis Hill. Fair Isle. FIFTH RACE—Purse. $700: claiming: Jyear-olds and up: ' about 4% furion: ¥ Flying (Eversole) 9.80 4.60 Hi_ Blaze (Root) Butterman (Scocca) Tim Time, 0:50. Also ' ran—Rawson, Broomoria, Hello|tgold a reporter today. “He always e loved the sea. He often said that Purse. $1,000: E—] allow- ids and up; 1. milss. SIXTH RACI ances: 3-year-o} idridge (Glidewell) 10.60 820 94.80 | of his life.” Lo R ML T 10407340 Mrs. Booth said that her son’en- Xefi:x:ul (Critehield) so ran—Bold Risk. Lauderkin, Darby Broker's Bud. Al Du. Brazen Hussy ai SEVENTH RACR—Purse. $700: claim- ing; 3-year-olds and upward: 1% ‘miles. Sir B. (Glidewell) 15.00 7.60 4.80 Centerville (Wright) 9.00 4.40 Hezedrel (Acosta) Del. Palki Saddle. Lyconna, Ti 1k 1 Wi e b Tl | 00 | the University of Maryland, young was no alteration in positions. Three British planes in combat TSee FAR EAST. Page A-10, Col. 6.) NEW YORK.—CONVICTIONS FOUND I N SPY RING TRIALS— Escorted by a deputy United States marshal (left), several of the 14 defendants accused by military information to Germa early today after a Federal ju the Government of supplying ny are led from the courtroom ry found them guflfy. Left to right, front row: Herman Lang (next to marshal), 40, a Norden Co. employe, and Conradin Dold, 35. MANILA, P. L. (Sunday) ese parachutists and land soldiers in the mountains o By the Associated Press. The Navy announced toda; was probable. were said to have landed at sev- eral points on the island. The Navy said Wake and Mid- | way Islands, which lie closer to | Hawaii than Guam — which is In rear: Heinrich Eilers, 42 (with glasses), and Josef Klein, 38 (hand to mouth, smoking cigarette). (Story on Page A-12.) Man in center with face covered is unidentified. —A. P, Wirephoto. To Protect Property From Enemy Atfack $100,000,000 Corporation Is Being Set Up by R. F. C., Jones Says Creation of a $100,000,000 War In- surance Corp. and immediate free protection for American property owners against losses resulting from enemy attacks was announced late today by Federal Loan Adminis- trator Jones. For the time being, Mr. Jones an- nounced, ro premium will charged property owners for this protection, and no declaration or re- ports required unless there is a loss. Mr. Jones said the new agency is being set up by the Reconstruction Finence Corp. with approval of President Roosevelt “to provide reasonable protection against losses resulting from enemy attacks which may be sustained by owners of prop- erty in the United States through damage to or destruction of build- ings * * * and personal property.” Securities, objects of art, money and similar articles will not be covered. Pending completion of more detailed plans for the insur- | ance protection, Mr. Jones an- nounced that coverage will begin Combat continued on the Kedah | as of this date and will be limited | Province front, facing Thailand in to the total capitalization of the agency, which is $100,000,000. | C “No protection will be available,” | ! in the Kelantan Province area there | Mr. Jones announced, “to owners | of property who, in the opinion of the President, are unfriendly to the United States.” be | | nces and Stores } Japanese Bombers Miss Nichols Field, \ Hitting Small Reside By the Assoclated Press. MANILA, P. I, Sunday, Dec. 14— Blackened and smashed ruins of more than 100 small residences and stores littered a 3-mile area border- ing Nichols Air Field, where Japa- nese bombs killed at least 75 per- sons and wounded 300 in Saturday's air raid The long pathway of destruction | showed that the Japanese airmen both overshot and undershot their | Nichols Field objective in their most | destructive raid thus far on Manila. | however. At least four planes were reported shot down from the 43 planes which bombed Manila objectives and the other planes which attacked Clark Field to the north and another field in Nueva Ecija province, which also is in the north central part of Luzon Island Three of the 12-plane formation were reported shotdown by anti- aircraft fire in the north and one by the Manila harbor defenses. | | The final figures may exceed lhis.! Free War Insurance |75 Killed and 300 Wounded Brifish Report Sinking In Manila’s Worst Air Raid 0f Second ltalian .Cruiser in Flofilla Another, Attacked by Destroyers, Declared Left in Flames By the Associated Press LONDON, Dec. 13—A pack of British and Dutch destroyers, pounc- | ing with sudden and effective fire on two Italian cruisers in the Medi- terranean, sank one and left the other burning from stem to stern The casualties brought the city’s| _ The Japanese planes wheeled over | today, the Admiralty announced. death toll so far to more than 100. ! (See EYEWITNESS, Page A-2.) U. S. and British Assets Frozen by Thailand By the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13.—The Tokio radio, in a broadcast heard | here by N. B. C., reported that the government of Thailand had frozen | all American and British assets | ! there and was preparing to hreukj off diplomatic relations with Wash- i ington and London. | Sugar Stocks Frozen | The Office of Production Man- agement late today froze sugar stocks in the United States and | limited new deliveries by im- | porters and refiners to 1940 levels. The move was designed | to “prevent possible hoarding or 'lpecuhllnn." Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sinclaire | Booth, 2301 Cathedral avenue N.W., | have been notified by the Navy De- partment that their son, Robert Sinclaire Booth, jr., an ensign in the United States Naval Reserve, has | been killed in action. It was the | first fatality report of this area since the Japanese attack of last Sunday. Ensign Booth, who was 26 years old, was an honor graduate of Cen- tral High School in 1932, and studied engineering at the University of Maryland for three years before en- | listing in the Naval Reserve. | “He died the way we know he| would have wanted to die, in the service of his country,” his mother this past year was the happiest tered the United States Reserve Midshipmen’s School and was com- missioned as an ensign the follow- ing November. After studying for three years at Booth worked for the Western Elec- tric Co. at Kearny, N. J., for ut & year and then was employediin = [Ensign Robert Booth, Jr., Is Killed in Action; First Fatality Listed for Capital Area : ENIGN ROBERT S. BOOTH. New York for a time bef ing the training school. While at Central High e enter- was captain of the high school rifle team, his mother said. During one summer vacation, when he was 17, he worked his passage on a mer- chant liner to Germany as a utility boy and later took a trip to India on a freighter. He was particularly interested in sailing, Mrs. Booth said, and often salled with friends in New Jersey waters. The last time Mrs. Booth saw her son was about a year ago, just be- fore he was sent to Seattle, Wash. The father, who is employed at the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, said he saw his son last sum- mer. Young Booth was born in Hickory, N. C., and his family came to Wash- ington in 1915. James Roosevelt to Coast Capt. James Rooseveit, U. S. M. C., eldest son of the President, has been erdered to the West Coast, it was learned at the White House Iate today. Capt. Roose< velt has been on du ith Ce- ordinator of Infe J. Donevan. Legislation Removing Barrierfo A. E. F. Signed by President Hershey Says New Draft Age Limits Would Reach About 40,000,000 Men Legislation removing statutory re- strictions on the sending of an i American expeditionary force out- side the Western Hemisphere was signed late today by President Roosevelt. The measure also removes the 900,000 limitation on the number of selectees permitted in training at one time, and freezes terms of military service for the duration | of the war, At the same time, Mr. Roosevelt signed a bill providing for extension of Navy enlistments during the war. Meanwhile, the House Military Af- fairs Committee, opening hearings on broader selective service legisla- tion, heard Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, estimate that the new registration age limits would reach about 40,- 000,000 men, including. 17,500,000 from 21 to 35 already registered. He referred to a bill to register all men from 18 to 64, inclusive, and (See DRAFT, Page A-2) Knox Returns From Hawaii; Hurries Here By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 13—The | Navy announced today the arrival of Secretary Knox by plane from Hawaii. He left immediately for ‘Washington. “I will have no statements to re- lease until after a conference with the President,” he said, Completion of the Secretary’s speedy trip to the scene of war ac- tion in the Pacific w officially by Rear A 1 Charles A. Blakely, command: f the 11th { Naval District. | Thus, with the Italian cruiser believed to have been sunk by a British submarine in the Mediter- ranean yesterday, an entire flotilla of three Italian cruisers apparently | had been destroyed. None of the four destroyers—three British and one Dutch—which at- tacked the heavier enemy warships suffered casualties or damage, the Admiralty said. In addition, they sank one motor torpedo boat and heavily damaged nother, the communique continued. Encountered in Darkness. The four warships made up the whole Italian formation encoun- | tered in the darkness before dawn this morning. There was no immediate con- firmation that these were the rem- nants of three Italian cruisers re- ported by the Admiralty yesterday. But today’'s communique dove-tailed perfectly with that of last night which said a British submarine had spotted three Italian cruisers shortly before dark and had scored three torpedo hits, probably sinking one of the Fascist craft. The one sunk by destroyers to- day burned fiercely, then blew up. Usually matter-of-fact, the Ad- miralty acclaimed the British de- stroyers Sikh, Legion and Maori, and the Netherlands destroyer Isaac Sweers for a “brilliant” action, and said they hit both cruisers with their opening bursts of gun and tor- “Reports have been received of a brilliant night action fought before dawn this morning in the central Mediterranean by destroyers on patrol under command of Com- mander G. H. Stokes, D. S. C., R. N. One Italian cruiser has been sunk and another severely damaged. “In addition an Italian torpedo boat was seriously damaged and an (See CRUISERS, Page A-3.) GUIDE FOR READER Page. Page. Amusements. B-16 Christmas Story -..-A-10 Church Comics Editorials ___A-8 Sports __A-14-15 ‘Where to Features.. A-9| Go .__.._._A-7 Finance -...A-13 Womsn’ Legal Page ... B-10 Notices ___B-13}. DNB. reported last night in a H umaniin ‘closest to the Philippines—were ‘cominuing to resist. | No Mention of Defenders. | The communique made no men- tion of American civilians on Guam or what their fate might have been. Some time ago Congress - appro- priated considerable sums for de- | velopment of seaplane facilities there and it was believed that un- | less the workers had been with- ! drawn even after Japan's lightning attack on Pearl Harbor Sunday, | many of them probably were on the Enemy Is Wiped Out North of Manila by Landing Forces Crushed At Lingayen; Wake and Midway Still Hold Out BULLETIN. (®).—Hundreds of Japan- troops were wiped out in several hours of hand-to-hand fighting with Filipino f North Central Luzon Is- land on Thursday, an eye witness told reporters today. y that it was unable to com- municate with the Pacific island of Guam by either radio or cable and added that capture of Guam by the Japanese A force of fewer than 400 naval personnel and 155 marines were stationed on the island, the Navy communi- que said and these defenders had been repeatedly bombed. Furthermore, Japanese troops® island at the time of its supposed capture The fall of Guam had been antici- pated here practically ever since the start of the war with Japan. Small Size of Force. President Roosevelt said in his radio address Tuesday night that the people must accept the idea that Guam, Midway and Wake could all be taken. Purther proof of this ex- pectation was seen in the small size of the armed force stationed there, 555 men in all. Similarly, Wake and Midway may fall despite heroic resistance. The Navy already has reported that in one 48-hour period the Japanese at- tacked Wake four times by air and v Stubborn Defenders once by naval units and that during . the latter assault, a Japanese light cruiser and destroyer were sunk by aerial counterattack by the Wake Marine garrison. | Army Concludes Mopping Up In Lingayen Sector By the Associated Press MANILA, Dec. 13 (53 PM., 4 A. M., (E. S. T.) —Japanese landing forces | which won a foothold at Lingayen | | on the west coast of Luzon 100 miles north of Manila were declared offi- cially today to nave been wiped out. A communique from the head- quarters of Lt. Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur indicated that the Japanese | had made no gains at other landing bridgeheads and that no new land- ings had been reported. “YThe situation on the ground has not changed,” the war bulletin as- serted. It added that “mopping up in the Lingayen area has been con- cluded.” | Thus the second Japanese attempt gain a Luzon foothold there i within striking distance of the con- centration of military works around | | Manila apparently was smashed in | | a stubborn defense fight. | | The Japanese first were reported | | landing at Lingayen last Wednesday. Within 24 hours the situation there | was declared “under control.” but it was disclosed yesterday that the| Japanese were attempting once more | to develop an attack there. } (In Washington, the War De- | | partment announced last night | | that the Japanese attempted yes- | | terday to land south of Vigan and |Bulgaria Declares War On U. §. and Brifain ‘ By the Associated Press. LONDON, Dec. 13.—Bulgaria has | declared war on the United States| and Britain as an ally of the Axis | powers, a Berlin broadcast said to- day. | The broadcast, quoting a dispatch relayed from Budapest by the Ger- man news agency D.N.B., said Premier Bogdan Philov had an- nounced the government’s decision | to Parliament at noon. | rect word had been recelved here of | & Bulgarian declaration of war. Any confirmation, he sala, would have to | come through the United States Minister in Sofia. Britain severed diplomatic reh-\‘ tions with Bulgaria March 5 because | of her action in allowing German troops to take up positions on Bul- garian ‘soil threatening Greece. Rumania Declares War. BERN, Switzerland, Dec. 13 (#).— | Rumania, as an Axis partner, has| notified the United States Minister | in Bucharest that she considers herself at war with the United States, the German news agency dispatch from the Ri ital. . Five Killed in Bomber Crash| BALBOA, C. Z. (®)~—A United States bomber taking off from an outlying field last night crashed into » barracks, killing five per- sons and injuring ten, Army offi- clals said today. cap- A British spokesman sald no di- | north of San Fernando and at Lingayen, all on the West Luzon coast, but were repulsed.) A Tokio official broadcast earlier , told the Japanese people that their forces were advancing inland from the Luzon landings and urging the Filipinos to revolt. Chutist Reports Unconfirmed. Gen. MacArthur reported that fighting at other places where the Japanese had stabbed at the coastai defenses had become sporadic. He declared there had been no con- firmation of recurrent reports tbat the Japanese had landed parachute troops. The Japanese struck anew during the day at United States air bases around Manila and elsewhere in the Philippines, but a communique said that although reports so far were meager “it is believed our were slight.” Some Japanese planes—their num- ber undetermined—were reported shot down. A harbor defense anti- aircraft battery was credited with (See MANILA, Page A-2) Communiques Probable Fall of Guam Announced Navy No. 5, issued today, said: Department communique “The Navy Department announced that it is unable to communicate with Guam either by radio or cable. ‘The capture of the island is prob- able. A small force of less than 400 naval personnel and 155 Marines were stationed in Guam. Accord- ing to the last reports from Guam, the island had been bombed re- peatedly and Japanese troops had landed at several points on the island. “Wake and Midway continue to esist. “The above is based on reports until 9 a.m. today.” War Department communique No. 7, issued today, said: “1. Philippine theater: “Enemy aircraft in medium strength bombed Cebu and Clark Field. Japanese ground activity on the Island of Luzon was sporatic and unimportant. The enemy plan is now clearly revealed as an attempt to secure improvised air bases out- side of the area encompassed by our ground defenses. “On Wednesday the Secretary of War authorized the commanding general of the Far East Command to award the Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Flying Cross for gallantry in action beyond the call of duty. He also gave Gen. MacArthur the power to promote officers and enlisted men of the Far East Command for outstanding leadership in the present operations. “3. Hawaii: No further reports of enemy activity have been re- ceived.” (Text of jyar Department eom- munique N on page A-12) N losses _