Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1942, Page 13

THE EVENING i STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1942, *3 A-13 Senator Ball Proposes Legislation fo Require Unions fo Register ~ Says Voluntary Action Has Failed to Solve Closed Shop Problem Br the Associated Press. Renewed demands for anti-strike legislation arose at the Capitol to- day. : Declaring that a voluntary agree- ment between representatives of in- dustry and labor to end strikes for the duration of the war had failed | to solve the closed shop problem, Senator Ball, Republican, of Minne- sota proposed that Congress con- sider legislation to require the reg- istration of unions and regulation of their operation. | “If the closed shop question is to | be left in this emergency period to the bargaining activities of unions,” Senator Ball declared, “then there ought to be some sort of regulation of the unions. This ought to take the form of Federal assurance to the man inside the defense plant that he shall not be denied union mem- | was closed up when we attacked,” By LELAND STOWE, Foreign Correspondent of The Star and Chicago Daily News. RANGOON, Jan. 2—The ace of the American “Scalpers” Squad- ron is an unassuming, straightfor- ward farm boy from South Dakota who is known as “Duke” to Ameri- can flyers in Burma. In the Anglo- American air forces in the Christ- mas battle against more than 100 Japanese planes Duke shot down minutes of combat and bagged his | last one just before his gasoline ran out. Duke has South Dakota'’s farm- |lands stamped on his rugged, me- dium stature. He told us how it happened in simple phrases. You like the cut of his jib and that look glad it happened to him. “The first formation of bombers he said. “I am pretty sure I got two of them. I gave them bursts at from 200 to 50 yards and saw them both go down. But, of course, maybe somebody else had winged them. Anyhow, it doesn't matter. It is only what the squadron does that counts. Landed Fresh Out of Gas. bership which would deny him a Job and that union elections shall | be conducted fairly.” | Senator Connally, Democrat, of | Texas said he would demand that | the Senate consider next week his | bill to permit the Government to | take over strike-bound war industry | plants. Working conditions would be frozen in such plants, but a board, would be named to adjust wages. | Senator George, Democrat, of | Georgia said he was satisfied that | some action would be taken, despite the apparent reluctance of Senate leaders to consider any labor legis- lation until a projected war labor board had been set up and was glven time to demonstrate what it | could do. Ice Cream Store Robbed For Fourth Time Miss Evelyn L. Ryan, 32, clerk in an ice cream store at 2016 P street N.W., was held up and robbed there last night for the fourth time in recent weeks. Miss Ryan told police a colored man entered the store and later was joined by another armed with a gun. They took an undeter- mined amount of money from the cash drawer and searched {8 her, taking a SN bracelet, locket | and chain, she R | said. The clerk said she received a minor cut from a can opener held by one of the men 4 "The holdup victim expressed the opinion last night’s visit might be a retaliation for her testifving be- fore the grand jury against anoth- er pair of men charged with two of the previous robberies Miss Ryan lives at 1007 E. I street Mrs. Mary Kaimes, 81, of 1304 Fourth street S'W. told police two | colored men forced open’ a window of her first-floor room early ves- terday, knocked her to the floor and | fled with $20. To Build Raid Tower CAMBRIDGE, Md., Jan. 2 (#)— | American Legion members asked for i and received a $300 appropriation | from the city commissioners for the ‘ erection of an air raid warning! | which the Anglo-American pilots, | four and a half years of war. | chance to fight on something like | fought the battle of Britain and “Afterward I saw three bombers cut loose to one side, so I went after them, and I know I got two. I was alone, and both went down in flames. Later on I got one fighter. By that time my plane was shot up pretty badly.” “We were low on gas because we ‘were up nearly two hours before we caught the Japanese. When I land- ed I was fresh out of gas.” That is all the ace of the Scalpers had to say about his Japanese scalps. My British colleague asked him if, in the United States Air Force, they automatically awarded the Dis-| tinguished Service Cross to an avi- | ator when he had got seven planes, | as is the custom in the Royal Air Force. “I don’t know.” replied Duke, the South Dakota farm boy. “I hadn't thought about that.” Maybe somebody back home will, but even if they don’t Duke will be in the fighting. First Crushing Defeat for Japs. That Christmas Day reception fighting the second aerial combat of their lives, gave the more than 100 Nipponese raiders, has now been established as the first walloping and crushing defeat that the Jap- anese air force has suffered in Simultaneously, these youngsters proved that, given the planes, they can knock the living daylights out of Japanese aircraft and veteran air- men—and all they ask for is a eyen terms. What has happened here in two Japanese raids has only one parallel in the entire war. It is an honor- able equivalent to what R. A. F. fighter squadrons did to the Luft- waffe in September, 1940, when they saved the British Isles from inva- sion. . Fighting with the same magnifi- cent spirit and against similar odds, | the Yankees and Britishers dealt the Japanese raiders such a blow as they will never forget. Japs Lost 25% of Planes. Here are revised figures based on rechecks with the boys who did the fighting. In the Christmas combat the Japanese lost at least 16 bombers and 12 fighters, or a total of 328, compared to six Anglo-American planes lost. Moreover, the Ameri- cans who engaged the enemy above the sea are confident that several more Nipponese planes wére de- stroyed there where confirmation is impossible. In any case, it is now certain the four bombers and one fighter in 30 | in his eyes. Very quickly you were tower. The commissioners agreed to | Japanese lost approximately 25 per pay up to that amount for the ob- | cent of all the bombers and fighters servation post but declared that no ‘ with which they attacked Rangoon South Dakotan Bags 5 as Japs Lose 28 Planes Of 100 at Rangoon in ‘First Crushing Defeat’ the Japanese defeat was still more staggering. The Christmas raid cost them at least 92 pilots and bomber crewmen, compared with only four pilots for the glo-American de- fenders of Burma’s airfront. Count- ing the first Japanese raid of De- cember 23 the score stands as a minimum of 149 air personnel elim- inated for the Japanese and only six pilots lost by the Yankees and the R. A. F. Reason for Tokio Claims. ‘The Japanese also had at least 41 | aircraft destroyed, possibly 50, | whereas the Anglo-American plane | losses in the two Rangoon raids were only nine. These fights dem- | onstrate eloquently why the Tokio radio, after the first raid, broad- | cast absolutely fantastic claims— | In classical Nazi fashion—of having | downed 21 Spitfires plus four | Gloucesters over Rangoon. These same extraordinary vital | statistics, which have been care- | fully checked by your correspondent, reveal the terrific punishment which | inferior numbers of American and | British pilots imposed on the cream | of the Japanese air force here even | though their adversaries were vet- erans and they in aerial combat for the first time. It appears that the Japanese, after their initial successes, due uniquely to blitz attack, have suf- fered above Rangoon their first seri- ous defeat of the war. Psychological Blow. ‘The psychological effect of this blow on the Japanese air force can- not yvet be estimated, but beyond question it is likely to be consid- erable, An enormous lot depended on Yankee, British, Australian and New U.S. Army Officers’ Regulation OVERCOATS and MACKINAWS Ready for Immediate Delivery § o AVIA. TION OFFICERS’ UNIFORMS EQUIPMENT for immediate We Accept All Post Exchange Charges IRVING'S Washington’s Riding and Military Store Cor. 10th and E N.W. 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Be sure to see aid in full to the organizations to unsupported by this page of pic- tures. It will show you what children can do for victory. The Sunday Call NAtional 5000 for reguler delivery both Tk s s e sk e e e ke ke ok St Sunday and daily. Jedrkek \ More Planes Needed For Alaskan Defense, Dimond Declares Delegate to Congress Says Aleutians Should Be Well Armed By the Associated Press. Immediate strengthening of the strategic Aleutian Islands, potential Pacific ramparts for the rich terri- tory of Alaska, and concentration in the area of “planes, more planes— lots of planes” was urged today by Alaska’s delegate to Congress, An- thony J. Dimond. He expressed his opinion in an interview following the Navy's dis- closure earlier this week that “Japa- nese vessels are suspected of being in the vicinity of Kodiak,” an island off the Alaskan peninsula which recently has been transformed into a Navy base, Mr. Dimond declared that this northwest corner of the continent Zealand youngsters who took to the air to defend Rangoon. Inexperi- enced as they were in aerial war- fare, they had to stand up sgainst expertly handled Japanese attack manned by veterans. Otherwise, the Nipponese would be obsessed with the idea of their unshakable superi- ority over American and British aviators. The Americans and the R. A. F. stood up wonderfully to the ex- tremely severe test and they must have shaken the Japanese to their shoelaces. It hardly seems acci- dental that the Nipponese, following their disastrous one-out-of-four losses on Christmas Day, failed to revisit Rangoon for several days. Here in Burma the American and British people have shown what their airmen can do against the Japanese. They have also the most enlightening demonstration of what our allied air forces can do to the Japanese once parity in aircraft is established in the Far Eastern fight- ing zones. 3 (Copyright, 1942, by Chicago Daily News.) Mercury Zooms Up Info 90s Weather Bureau Holds) Out No Hope For Re- lief From Heat needed “plenty of all types of planes and as many naval vessels as can be spared, and given protection against air attack, until we catch up with and sink any Japanese sub- marines operating in those waters.” From his intimate knowledge of the region, Mr. Dimond contended that any Japanese offensive di- rected against Alaska necessarily would start in the Aleutian Islands, which stretch in stepping-stone fashion aimost to Asia. And he suggested also that an attempt be made by this country to lease from Soviet Russia the Komandorsky Islands—which lie near the Asiatic tip of the Aleutian chain—both for self-protection and as a closer base for aerial operations against Japan. The Alaskan delegate said that it was likely that the Japanese had detailed knowledge of the coastlines, harbors, terrain and potential flying fields in the Aleutians, accumulating the information over a period of years while operating fishing’ and sealing vessels in nearby waters. “What happened at Guam is enough to tell us what we should do on the islands off Alaska,” Mr. | Dimond said. “If we have sufficient planes Alaska itself won't be in| | Rear Admiral Admiral Ingersoll Takes Atlantic Fleet Command By the Associated Press, Vice Admiral Royal Eason Inger- soll assumed yesterday his duties as commander in chief of the At- lantic fleet, at an undisclosed loca- tion. The admiral recsived his orders as commander in chief De-| The ceremony, a Navy announce- | ment sald, was marked by utmost | simplicity and required onl; few | minutes to hoist the admiral's per- | sonal flag on the mainmast of the U. 8. 8. Augusta. Admiral Ingersoll | succeeds Admiral Ernest J. King, | who has been made commander in chief of the United States Fleet. The Navy also announced that Frederick Joseph Horne, who has been serving on the General Board at the Navy, has been named to relieve Vice Admiral | Ingersoll as assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations, | Rear Admiral Ralston Smith Holmes, who also has been a mem- ber of the General Board, has re- lieved Rear Admiral Charles Adams | Blakely as commandant of the 11t) danger.” Thi l:d 90-Degree DayWith No Rain Leaves For- ests Parched 1 District, 8an Diego, Callif. ;| Are present unse! extend into to! v ol ast. tut Lowest tempera! B& n suburbs last O ees at Homeland. e :)fnwu ::‘ | use By MARTIN L. 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