Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1942, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, .65 FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1942 Chinese Admit Fall 0f Suburbs in Raging Battle for Changsha Defenders Claim to Be Encircling Foe, However, In Fight of ‘Annihilation’ By the Associated Press CHUNGKING, China, Jan. 2.— Japanese occupation of the northern suburbs of Changsha, Hunan prov- ince capital and silk center, was acknowledged by the Chinese today as fighting in a shifting, no-quarter battle for possession of the city raged without a pause. A Chinese communique said the | battl Northern H province Ph'l' . D ' d v m s fmat stages ana cninese | NIIPPING Delenders soldiers were fiercely resisting at- - "Making Last Stand, Japanese Declare tacks on the outer defenses of Changsha. (German correspondents at U. S. Troops Attacked by Air in Retreat to Batan Peninsula, Tokio Claims < Shanghai reported to Berlin that nese forces entered Chang- A at noon yvesterday after breaking through five divisions of Chinese defenders. (The correspondents said they visited the Changsha front at the invitation of the Japanese and weré taken to a large air- rome near the city, but were not permitted to enter Changsha be- cause fighting was still going on there.) Japanese troops supported by air- By the Associated Press. TOKIO, Jan. 2 (Official Broad- cast).—The Japanese declared offi- cially that Gen. Douglas MacAr- | thur’s defense forces had fallen back | to the fortress island of Corregidor 'v‘ {t forced their way across the | ang the mountainous Batan penin- tuyang River into the suburbs ves- | guja for a “last stand” after giving the Chinese Central News | yn” Manila, eney repor panese war of the | ted. Simultaneously, | planes attacked the | city, unloading ex- Domei reported that the general, himself, had moved to the heavily- armed fortress island of Corregiflor 1o chi " ,”1:\“”3:,‘,:“1 2ad at the entrance to Manila Bay. Other Hunan Province towns. in- A Japanese summary of the op- | Cuding the important railway | €rations said the American forces | tion of Hengvang. about 100 Were kept under repeated air attack | miles south of Changsha, also were | A5 they crossed to the island, and - AESN, (A | reported that other American and ymbed. Casualties Enormous, The main battle for Changsha was rogress on the plains just north- | of the city of 300.000 population T s on both sides were said |Plnlxppme troops were drawn up [ on the Batan peninsula which juts into Manila Bay from the north. It said the Americans. themselves, had described Corregidor with its powerful batteries of 12-inch guns and its bristling anti-aircraft guns so were engaged as one of the strongest forts in the and fighting in | world. hecl andlwere yp_mf]‘::‘,;”(‘\“fhcfi'\{ A Japanese military spokesman ackina the wine-making city of Shid “all ships in the Manila Bight A the constal pr s | which could have been used to re- ; Lol ‘70}] ilee Move troops have been successfully bombed by the Japanese Air Force.” The military spokesman said all the American defense positions in the Philippines were concentrated of the Changsha battle e suffered two cf their worst s of the Chinese AT in vain attempts to capture and | 2t Manila. once in October. They asserted that because of its 1 September. strategic position and shipping < sources de- facilities it was regarded in Tokio the Japanese have poured ' ~as A focal point in Japan's fight cements across the Liuyang Against the Anglo-American powers™” and its loss would be feit acately by the United States. On another front, connaissance, planes were said to | have returned safely from a flight “in the direction of Australia” on an undisclosed mission. T 109,000 men to build their strength up to 1 observers probably izeo | Japanese re- inihilation is bemz {oided ese carry out 2 = S encire ent against the 1in Japanese forces.” the Ct 1 n Jupanese forces” the Cential yce fo Address Leaders Chan a. in the midst of a rich is 400 airline Japanese-held e-growing district On War Co-operafion By the Associated Press. ne SAME| ROME, Jan. 2 (Andi Agency).— 8 gk ssolini will address party The Chinese declared they had jeaders tomorrow and the news- eccuted effective flanking attacks paper 11 Picolo said he would give ik ese supply lines orders “clear and precise” on elimi- the way to the Japanese base at ochow, 100 miles north of Chang- at the po where Tungting ke joins the Yangtze River. nation of “obstacles to co-operation between the home and war fronts. Fascist leaders throughout Italy have been ordered to read in public The Chinese agency said scores Mussolini's speech of January 3, v been taken in the 1025 soon after the death of the seriously threat- gocialist and anti-Fascist Giacomo e line of supply Matteoti, In that speech Mussolini gave the the Chinese said they Fascist slogan of “Basta” tenough) d cou ked and recap- and said in reference to the anti- d the tow Fenchsin, west of Fascist movement that “when two wchan si Province parties are struggling the solution lies in force. There has never been another solution and there never will be.” Il Picolo said the problem now is nd Wednesday. one of solidifving the country and The Chinese said they had recap- Fascist party’s mission is “unequiv- rured three points around Shaoking. ' ocal and irrevocable." bout 30 miles east of Hangchow,, i that Shaohing itself was under attack, Biood <0 was reported ! 5 miles southwest Nanchang, with positions chang- hands several times Tuesday |Japs Announce Death |Of General at Midway tion of a “blackel-out” | Bs the Associated Press. scheduled for tonight| NEW YORK., Jan. 2.—The British and Virginia avenues |radio reported last night that the | N.W., has been postponed until next | Japanese had announced the death | it was announced today by|of Gen. Yamagata and a Col. Ishfi | W. A. Van Duzer, director of vehicles | in an attack on Midway Islsnd' and traffic. N. B. C. heard the broadcast here. Blackout Test”Proisrtponed | | fect Rows of shells in their racks Japane<e planes earlier in the week. —— Laura Ingalls Considers | Plea of Nolo Contendere ' Attorneys for Laura Ingalls, the woman fiver, said today their client may plead nolo contendere—"I do not wish to contest™—to the indict- ment charging her with being a Nazi agent who failed to register with the State Department as re- quired by law. The attorneys. William J. Hughes. jr., and James F. Reilly, suggested the possibility of the nolo con- tendere plea after a conference with District Court Justice James W. Morris. in which Justice Depart- ment prosecutors participated. A plea of nolo contendere is con- sidered tantamount to a limited ad- mission of guilt, but is not an out- right plea of guilty. It savs. in ef- that the accused is without a proper defense which she is pre- pared to present at this time. If 'Vlm Ingalls pleads nolo contendere he action would dispense with a trial and the jurist would sentence her under the law without delay. Capt. Beardall Nominated For Rank of Rear Admiral Capt. John R. Beardall, naval aide to President Roosevelt, today was nominated by the Chief Executive to the rank of rear admiral for tem- porary service. At the same time, the President submitted similar nominations for the following Navy captains: Olaf M. Hustvedt, Willis A. Lee, jr.. William R. Purnell, Theodore S. Wilkinson and William W. Smith. Capt. Husvedt is commanding of- ficer of the new 35.000-ton battieship North Carolina. which was put in service during the summer. Capt Lee is attached to the Bureau of Naval Opeartions in the Navy De- partment. Capt. Purnell is chief of staff and | alde to the commander in chief of the Asiatic Fleet. Capt. Wilkinson is commanding officer of the U. 8. S. Mississippi and Capt. Smith is a member of the staff of the com- mander in chief of the Pacific Fleet. Wofford Teacher Dies SPARTANBURG, S. C., Jan. 2 (P —Dr. John G. Clinkscales, 86, pro- fessor of mathematics at Wofford College for 50 years, died at his home here today. CAVITE NAVAL BASE FALLS TO JAPANESE—Aerial view of the United States naval base at Cavite near Maxpla, which the War and Navy Departments said had been evacuated of military and naval supplies and equipment before advance units of the enemy arrived. —Official United States Navy Photo. A N “ b J . A FORTRESS ISLAND IN MANILA BAY—View of the Fortress of Corregidor across Manila Bay which is still being “strongly held by our troops,” despite the loss of Manila and Cav)ite according to latest word from the War Department. beneath the walls of Corregidor. —A. P. Wil MANILA AND CAVITE BASE F. the nearby Cavite naval base. Filipino troops were cut off on t! Corregidor. American forces w north (31 of Manila. north (4) and southeast (5), Tokio reports said American and The Japanese attack has been from the —A. P. Wirephoto. | The fortress was bombed by rephoto from Paramount News. | | ALL TO JAPANESE—Corregidor Island (1) remained a~defense stronghold today as the War De- partment announced the fall of Manila (3) and evacuation of he Batan Peninsula (2) north of ere reported in strong positions —A. P. erephow. MacArthur s Forces Still Have Naval Base and Several Forts All Major Resistance Chosen by Commander for Defensive Fight By the Associated Press. The loss of Manila today left Gen. Douglas MacArthur's unified re- , maining forces within a great arc north and northwest of the city | with Manila Bay, the South China Sea and the fixed fortifications at the entrance of the bay to their rear. The abandonment of the $9,500,000 Cavite naval base to the southwest of the Philippine capital indicated that all major resistance to the Jan- anese would now be centered to the north, on terrain presumably chosen | by Gen. MacArthur as lending itself | to defensive warfare. Prepared for a long siege, the fixed fortifications on the bay are | Fort Mills, on Corregidor Island, | and outlying Forts Hughes, Drum and Prank, on smaller islands. Gen. MacArthur's defensive fight | was termed “masterful” by Secre- tary Stimson yesterday and officials viewed the maneuver of consolidat- ing the defenders on the eve of the | loss of Manila in the same light. Navy men did not minimize the significance of the loss of Cavite, the United States farthest advanced | base for the submarines and other warships of the Asiatic Fleet. It meant that the Navy must turn to some new point for facilities to maintain, repair, supply and fuel the undersea boats which are counted on heavily to harass Japanese naval | and commercial shipping move- ments in Oriental waters. But Navy men said no submers- ibles or other warships were taken by the Japanese, owing to evacu- ation of all craft from the base along with stores, equipment and records. A secondary naval base, Olongapo, was still in American hands. Itsuse- fulness was dubious, however, be- cause of the announced withdrawal of most naval forces from the is- lands and Olongapo's vulnerability | to air attack. Situated on Subic Bay, air miles northwest of some 50 Manila, | Olongapo had been almost aban- | doned by the Navy until reinforce- | ment of Philippine defenses started recently. A floating dry dock, the Dewey, built in the United States and towed across the Pacific, was long stationed there. Cavite, occupying a peninsula jut- ting into Manila Bay 10 miles south- west of the capital by road and 6 miles by water, was headquarters of the 16th Naval District. It was not the base for the Asiatic r v Now Centered on Terrain | | Fleet commanded by Rear Admiral Thomas C. Hart, which uses no shore-established operating base. The entire Navy installation wa: comparatively small in area, taking | in about 250 buildings on 50.35 acres in all, but it represented thr bulx of approximately $17.470,000 ex- pendpd by the Navy in Philippine | installations since American seizure | 'of tne Philippine archipelago in | 1898. Beside the navy yard, submarine ! base and hospital, the Cavite area ,Dog | took in a Marine barracks, ammuni- | | tion and mine depot, naval prison, | fuel depot, a high power radio sta- | tion with 17 buildings, 8 marine | railway capable of hauling ships | | displacing up to 2.000 tons out of the | water for overhaul, and a submarine | telephone and telegraph cable. ‘Roosevell Asked fo Alter |Stand on Island Seizure | By the Associated Press. | Fitty citizens, including many | | writers and educators, yesterday ex- | | pressed faith in the Government's | | foreign policy, but asked President | Roosevelt to reconsider this coun- trys position on the Free French | | seizure of St. Pierre and Miquelon. In a telegram to the President they said that the State Depart- ment’s denunciation of the occupa- tion of the islands “violates the | principles of the Atlantic charter | and the war aims you have so nobly | proclaimed,” and was “a cul tion of the State Department's policy of neglecting our friends | | and conciliating our enemies which | has resulted in failure after failure, | from Spain to Pearl Harbor.” Among the signers were c-rl‘ Sandburg. Grenville Clark, Mnx-‘ well Anderson, Frank Kingdon, | Frank Porter Graham, Clifton Fadi- man. Walter Millis, Stephen Vincent Benet, Rex Stout, Franklin P. Adams, Michael Williams and Wil- liam Jay Schieffelin. Malta Raided 97 Times VALLETTA, Malta, Jan. 2 (®— This tiny mid-Mediterranean Brit- ish island had 97 air raids in the last 12 days of 1941. Twelve German | paper Hochi which declared that | Anglo-American co-operation,” | velopment.” lockville | pike. and Georgetown rd.. Bet gqa- Mars- | PEARLS, with gold medal | wRI Probation Execufive Will Arrive Monday To Study D. C. System Three-Month Experiment To Be Conducted Here By Federal Officer Beginning Monday, Lewis J. Grout of Kansas City, Mo, chief proba- tion officer for the Western Federal District of Missouri, will be in Wash- ington for 30 days to aid District Court in enlarging the probation sys- tem. Officials plan to conduct an experiment here for about three months, with some other Federal probation official taking Mr. Grout's place later. Under the new program, all per- sons convicted of crimes will be in- | vestigated prior to sentence by the probation authorities to ascertain their educational, religious, employ- ment, family and other connections. This will be done so that the jurist sentencing the prisoner may have a clearer picture of the man before him, The bringing of Mr. Grout to Washington is in response to a rr-‘ quest by District Court here and | was arranged by Henry P. Chandler, | director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Mr. Grout will co-operate with the Dis- trict's Federal probation officer, | Joseph Y. Reeves, and his staff. Justice James W. Morris, presid- | ing in Criminal Court No. 2 of Dis- trict Court, made a study for the | tribunal of the probation situation here. First offenders are usually placed on probation in the District, after the probation officer has ren- dered a report to the interested jurist. Under the enlarged pro- | gram, all persons convicted would be subject to probnuon mvemguuon. Japanese Tell Russia To Honor Neutrality Pact By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Jan. 2 (Official Broad- | cast) —Dispatches from Tokio to- day quoted an editorial in the news- | ‘we must ask the Soviets to observe | | most strictly the stipulations of the | neum\)ny pact with Japan and to | reject Anglo-American machina- | tions energetically and unmedlnte- Iy." “Recent closer | the article was quoted, “and regards the understanding reached between " reports anent | Churchill and Roosevelt to induce Soviet Russia to increase its help | for England and the United States reveal the efforts of the Western democracies to drag the Soviet com- pletely to their side. We could not look disinterestedly at such a de- | CERTIPICA of Hyattsville _Building Association. Liberal reward offered for their return to Hyattsville Building Asso- . 819 14th st nw ashington, | C_ COCKER SPANIEL PUPPY__ small. black, on Wednesday, Dec. 31 Chasé. Md. Call WI. 4219, Reward DIAMOND RING. solitair: 0%, on bus or streetcar. 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The ruessage was a telegram from the Nawy Department saying there had been a mistake and Seaman Reidy was alive and well and that a letter from him would follow. ~1 wouldn't take a million for that message,” the father said yesterday. Mr. Reidy stayed up all night in- forming relatives and friends of the happy news Young Reldy, a native of Wash- ington, was educated at St. Dom- inic’s School, Jefferson Junior High and Abbott Vocational School. He had a local reputation as an athlete, specializing in baseball ‘The youth enlisted in the Navy in September of 1940 after working for the Associated Press and as a plumber’s assistant. A brother, Michael J. Reidy, lives in Silver | Spring. FINEST SILVER IT COSTS NO MORE To Park ot the CAPITAL GARAGE 3o¢ FIRST HOUR 1320 N. Y. AVE. RUSH OF ENLISTMENTS shows that the American youth of 1942 are living up to the traditions of 1917. 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