Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1942, Page 1

Weather Forecast Moderate to heavy snow this morning becoming light in afternoon; continued The Evening and Sunday Star is delivered in the city and suburbs at 75¢ per month. The Night Final Edition and Sunday Morning Star at 85¢ per month. \ cold. Temperatures yesterday—Highest, 40, at 12:10 p.m.; lowest, 28, at 3:40 am. From the United States Weather Bureau report. Full Details on Page A-2. unday Star WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, he No. 1,919— No. 35,677, TEN CENTS (#) Means Associated P:ess. Wavell Heads United Forces|Damage Slight In Pacific, With Brett as Aide; In3-Hour Raid Hart to Direct All Naval Units|On Corregidor Chiang in Charge Of Activities in China Area By JOHN C. HENRY, ' Streamlining of the war com- mands of 26 nations now united in the effort to defeat the Axis was shaping up today as Gen. 8ir Archibald P. Wavell, veteran British officer, prepared to take over full responsibility for execu- tion of fighting strategy on land, sea and air in the vital South- west Pacific area. Designation of Gen. Wavell to this supreme post was announced late yesterday by the White House, and was accompanied by word that China’s Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek was being accorded similar sweeping authority over land and| air forces fighting the Axis in the Chinese theater. It was believed last night that | parallel unifications of command are imminent on other fronts where there is joint fighting endeavor— such as the North Atlantic and the | Mediterranean-Near East sectors. In addition, and of comparable importance, it appeared likely as a | result of a long meeting of British- American sapply and production ex- perts last night that a joint snpplyl board also will be formalized. New Effectiveness Sought. Out of these various simplifica- | tions of command it is believed that | a new effectiveness will come to the| united arms, a concerted mobllizlng‘ of full striking power at every point | where action is imminent or con- | templated, accompanied by a syn- chronization of supply movements. Presumably, under this arrange- ment there would be no repmtion‘i of such disastrous and disjointed | operations as the movement of the British naval squadron off Malaya Without air protection—resulting in | the sinking of the battleship Prince | of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse | by Japanese torpedo planes. | That full weight is being gi‘ven‘ to all the fighting branches in divising the centralized commands is in- dicated by the make-up of t}'mt named for the Southwest Pacific area. Brett Deputy Commander. Designated as deputy supreme commander was Maj. Gen. George H. Brett, chief of the Air Corps of the United States Army, who for months past has been on special missions in both the Middle and Far East. To command all naval forces, al- | though still under general super- vision of Gen. Wavell, was named another American, Admiral Thomas C. Hart, now commander of the United States Asiatic Fleet. Gen. Sir Henry Pownall, British commander in Singapore, Was named chief of staff to Gen. Wavell. | Under this integrated command | will operate strong British empire land forces, naval units in which the American squadron is predominant but to which the Dutch already have rallied important strength and air forces of all the participating powers. Immediate Strategy Defense. The whole structure of the unified command, the White House said in its announcement, results from sug- gestions made to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill by the British and American staff officers who have been meeting here during the past two weeks. Concurrence of the Netherlands government and of the dominion government affected was obtained. The selection of Gen. Wavell as the supreme commander was made at specific suggestion of the Presi- dent, it was said. Gen. Wavell first won renown by his direction of the successful British Libyen campaign a year ago. Since then, he has been commanding British forces in India and Burma. Immediate strategy, under the cir- cumstances, will be primarily de- fensive, with every effort being made to hold Singapore, the Netherlands Indies. and other points eastward toward Australia. Philippines Under Wavell. The part which continued efforts to defend the Philippines may play in this strategy is not indicated, but it is understood officially that the slands fall within the southwest Pacific zone and consequently are {See UNITED COMMAND, Pg. A-4) Schmidt Is First Reich General To Surrender By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Jan. 3. — Maj. Schmidt, commander of the Axis forces at the captured Libyan port of Bardia who was flown from the battle area today as a prisoner of war, is the first German general to make a formal surrender to an Allled general. He sat with Maj. Gen. I. P. De Villiers, in command of the 2d South African Division, in the back of a staff car yesterday while the British officer dictated the terms of surrender for the fortress. Then the Nazi commander left under escort as a prisoner of war. The parley, arranged by two Ger- man officers who earlier had driven through the British lines, followed an assault by the Allied forces— including South Africans, British, New Zealanders and Poles—which * | land, whose industrial economy has | 26 anti-Axis allies. Advised President To Ask 50 Billion War Budget By BLAIR BOLLES. Some light on what Lord Beaver- brook, British Minister of Supply, has been doing in Washington came out yesterday when it was learned that he has become informally the chief adviser of the American and Allied governments on the most dificult problem confronting the Churchill mission and the Roose- velt administration—the transfor- mation of the American industrial economy into the greatest military arsenal in the world’s history. Working completely behind the scenes, Lord Beaverbrook, in his Mayflower Hotel bedroom head- quarters, has been giving our pro- duction chiefs in the War and Navy Departments and the Office of Pro- duction Management the benefit of his own wide experience in Eng- been efficiently rearranged to sup- | ply everything possible for their own | and the Russian forces fighting the | Axis. Now the United States is to | oecome the central factory for the | His advice was a large factor in | Beaverbrook Maps Vast Setup ToMake U. S. Arsenal for Allies LORD BEAVERBROOK. the President’s announced decision to ask Congress for a $50,000,000,000 war budget for the coming year. Lord Beaverbrook is almost the only | person in the United States today | who could outline a plan for the expenditure of such a huge sum of (See BEAVERBROOK. Page A-4) | 90,000 Aussi;s land At Singapore, Says Reds Hurling Back Nazis 3 Times as Fast Japanese Radio Nipponese Attempt To Land Behind British Lines in Malaya Fails BULLETIN. TOKIO, Sunday, Jan. 4—(Offi- cial broadcast recorded by AP).— The newspaper Yomiuri reported today in a dispatch from Bang- kok, Thailand, that 90,000 fresh Australian troops had landed in Singapore December 31. By the Associated Press. SINGAPORE, Jan. 3.— British batteries which blasted Japanese barges to bits and set a steamer afire broke up a second Japanese attempt in two days to land troops behind defense lines on the west coast of Malaya, British headquar- ters announced today. (The Japanese claimed to have occupied all of six Malayan states, including Pahang, which at one point is within only 80 air miles from Singapore. The closest Japanese thrust toward Singapore acknowledged by the British is 175 miles away.) In a communique which covered operations throughout yesterday, the British said Japanese pressure south of Ipoh in Perak Province on the west coast had been increased, while on the east coast Japanese advance forces pushed into the out- skirts of Kuantan, 190 miles from Singapore. (The Japanese claimed capture of Kuantan December 31.) Line Near Perak River. Exact location of the British de- fense line in Perak Province has not been disclosed, but it was believed hinged near the mouth of the Perak River, 50 miles south of Ipoh and about 250 miles from Singapore. Observers here expressed the be- lief that the Japanese were at- tempting to flank the Perak de- fenses by landings with a little fleet of native fishing craft seized on the Island of Penang. The British communique said four barges used in the latest attempt were sunk and others withdrew un- der artillery fire. It reported that the Japanese lost 400 to 500 men in their intensified land thrust south through Perak Province. From Rangoon came reports of clashes between British units and small Japanese parties attempting to thrust into lower Burma. One such patrol was said to have been driven from a small town in the Mergui region. Five Malay States Occupied, Jap News Agency Claims TOKIO, Sunday, Jan. 4 (P.— Domei reported today that Japa- nese forces have occupied all of the Malayan States of Kedah, Perliu, Kelantan, Trengganau, Perak and Pahang. (Pahang, soutnernmost of the states claimed occupied, is a largs state in west central Malaya, ex- tending far north of Singapore but at its nearest point coming within only about 80 air miles-of the British naval base. (Japanese occupation of Pa- hang would leave only the state of Johore standing between them and_Singapore. (There has been no confirma- tion of any such Japanese gains from any source, including the Japanese Imperial Headquarters. The nearest the British have placed the Japanese to Singa- pore was Kenaman, 175 miles to the north of the east Malaya coast, and there only advance patrol activity was reported with- our further explanation.) Domei declared the Japanese had lasted 60 hours. 4 (See Libyan Story on Page A-5.) ! ] were “slashing their way toward Singapore with undiminished speed.” As They Advanced Virtual Destruction Of Spanish Division and Aerial Victories Claimed By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, Jan. 3—The Russian high command tonight reported vir- tual destruction of a division of Spanish volunteers and continued advances in the great counter-offen- sive which is now hurling back the Germans from Moscow at a rate three times as fast as they had ad- vanced. In a supplement to its regular evening communique, the Red Army announced that a prisoner from the Spanish Blue Division had disclosed that more than 8,000 of its members had been killed. ‘The communique itself was less| specific, but told of relentless drives | “in several sectors” which resulted | in the occupation of “a number of | localities.” At the same time the government| newspaper Izvestia sounded the key- | note of a new Russian determination —to “force the Germans to retreat until Germany becomes a battle- field.” Maloyaroslavets Recaptured. The high command also declared that Soviet warplanes yesterday “dispersed and partially annihilated” 10,000 Nazis Killed In Surprise Attack, Moscow Radio Says BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK (Sunday), Jan. 4—The London radio quoted the Moscow radio today as say- ing that “German losses dur- ing a recent surprise attack at the Crimean port of Feodosiya amounted to 10,000 dead.” The broadcast, heard here by N. B. C, added that Moscow also reported “further successes on the Leningrad front” and that “on the Azov front the Russians have shot down 14 German aircraft.” one Nazi infantry regiment and a platoon of cavalry, while destroying four armored cars, 309 trucks, four troop and supply-laden carts and five field guns and burning six rail- way trains, A Red Army unit in one sector of the front, the communique said, oc- cupied “five populated places” with- in one day. The Moscow radio said “at the present moment the most important task is not to give the enemy a | the most revealing since its an- fwhile the Allied positions there are MacArthur's Troops In Strong Position North of Manila By the Associated Press. A five-hour Japanese air attack on Corregidor, America’s last hope citadel in the Philippines, was re- ported yesterday by the War De- partment, but it said no material damage was inflicted on the island fortress in Manila Bay. ‘Three of 60 air raiders were shot down in the attack Friday, while the defenders lost 13 men killed and 35 wounded. Meanwhile, on nearby Batan pen- insula and on the approaches to it, the JapAnese slowed their assaults on the forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur. American and Filipino troops consolidated themselves in new positions, from which they were enabled to intensify their resist- ance. (The Japanese said they had virtually captured Luzon, had completed occupation of the sec- ond largest Philippine island, Mindanao, and that a full-scale battle to take Corregidor was un- der way.) Delay Most Hoped For. The War Department’s curt sum- mary of the fighting on Luzon was | nouncement that Gen. MacArthur had surrendered Manila and with- drawn to the north and northwest | of the city. ‘The announcement used such def- inite language that many pre- sumed Gen. MacArthur’s men had established a strong line from which | they could prolong the fighting for a considerable period. His forces | stand on a terrain that is a mosaic | of mountain and jungle and natur- ally suited to defensive fighting. But the most that was hoped for was a long-delayed battle which would keep the full might of Japan’s | mechanized hordes away from Ma- laya and the battle for Singapore, strengthened. Olongape Within Lines. So far as is known, Gen. MacAr- thur’s lines include the secondary naval station, Olongapo on Subic Bay at the northern end of the peninsula. It was conjectured that a considerable quantity of stores | and supplies might have been cached thére. Some of the more hopeful even were suggesting that reinforcements could be landed within the American lines at Olon- gapo. There has been no word of Japanese bombing of the shore facilities there. Corregidor lies some two miles off the tip of the peninsula in the entrance to Manila Fhy. It is a low-lying island of almost solid rock into which have been chiseled for- tifications which long were consid- | ered invulnerable. The negligible damage done by 60 enemy bombers | in a five-hour assault is evidence | of its strength. | Should Gen. MacArthur’s men ul- | timately be driven off the peninsula, conjecture is that they could be evacuated to Corregidor. Such a maneuver would, of course, expose them to attack from the air, but under favorable weather conditions —fog or storm—it could be at- tempted, strategists say, with every prospect of success. Land and Naval Forces Open Corregidor Attack ‘TOKIO, Jan. 3 (Official Broad- cast) (P)—The Japanese were told | tonight that the battle for the Ma- nila Bay stronghold of Corregidor was under way, that Luzon virtually was won, and that occupation of Mindanao, second largest of the Philippine Islands, had been com- pleted. Domei said it had “learned from the Japanese Army headquarters on Luzon” that “Corregidor was sub- jected to joint attack by Japanese land and naval forces.” (The news agency did not inti- mate whether mention of land (See PHILIPPINES, Page A-3) Representative Terry To Seek Senate Seat By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Jan. 3— Representative Terry of Little Rock, dean of Arkansas” Congressional delegation, announced tonight he would be a candidate for nomination to the United States Senate at next (See MOSCOW, Page A-5.) August's Democratic primary. butch, Suspicious of Japs, Sent Indies Navy to Sea Nov. 30 | Lone-Survivor of Sub How It-Sank Four Nipponese Transports By the Associated Press. BATAVIA, N. E. I, Jan. 3—Be- cause patrol planes’ saw that Jap- anese wearships and loaded trans- ports already were “sailing up and down the entrance of the Gulf of Siam,” Dutch warships were ordered to sea as long ago as November 30, while United States-Japanese ne- gotiations still were under way, it was disclosed officially tonight. ‘The disclosure came in a report by Aneta, official Netherlands Indie$ news agency, which said the navy was ordered into action because Indies authorities “did not trust the game the Japanese were playing” at the conference table, Aneta released the story of the only surviving member of vm:h " Which Hit Mine Tells submarine which torpedoed four heavily-laden Japanese transports off the Malayan coast the day after the Indies and Japan went to war. The submarine was lost after hit- ting & mine in the South China Sea December 25. Quartermaster C. De Wolf, sur- vivor of the ill-fated submarine, re- lated that his vessel had been or- dered to proceed to the Gulf of Siam. On the night of December 6 it sighted two blacked-out Japanese destroyers. They swept the sea with their searchlights but the submarine already had dived and passed un- derneath the destroyers. Although war had not yet broken out, Quar- Cold Kills 3 D. C. Boy Scouts | Adrift in Small Boat in Bay Bodies Found by Fisher Captain; Trio Floated From Camp Friday Three Washington Boy Scouts, | who' were swept out into Chesa- | peake Bay from Breezy Point in two small boats Friday, were found | dead yesterday after a- 24-hour | search when fishermen sighted their | craft bobbing in the icy waters off James Island, on the Eastern Shore. | Exposure had brought death. The boys were: | Billy Merryman, 14, 902 Ninth | street SE. Carrell C. Baker, jr., 15, 1602 C | street NE. | Earl Edwards, 15, 321 Seven- teenth street N.E. Capt. Randolph Harrison of Tilgh- man Island, skipper of the fishing boat Retriever, and a companion, Capt. Harry Covington, came across the boats while en route home from | Solomon's Island. The bodies of the boys lay in one, which was partly awash. The other boat was | lashed alongside, the watermen said, probably kept the water- logged craft with the bodies afioat. | The fishermen brought the bodies | to Tilghmans, a small community | on the island, and they later were | taken to Camp Roosevelt, the Boy | (8ee BOYS, Page A-8.) War Tops All Issues As Congress Prepares To OpetfNew Session Parties Expected to Drop Politics and Concentrate On Defeating Enemy By GOULD LINCOLN. The Seventy-seventh Congress, which adjourned its first session Friday, will open its second at noon tomorrow with its attentiom cen- | tered almost exclusively on war leg- | islation. The Congress, which fought al- | most continuously during its first session over lend-lease, neutrality, draft and other legislation, is ex- pected by leaders of both parties to act with great harmony now that war is actually under way. “We will fight the common enemy —not each other,” was the comment of Senate Majority Leader Barkley. Similar expressions came from Rep- resentative Martin of Massachusetts, Republican leader of the House. He said Republicans are ready to give the President all he asked for to | conduct the war to a successful end. There will be no “politics,”. he in- sisted, in the effort to win the war. The principal subjects now slated to come before the new session are price-control legislation, war taxes, war appropriations and the regular annual appropriations for the up- keep of Government, and daylight saving legislation. If the President has recommenda- tions for other legislation, either for (See CONGRESS, Page A-5.) New York Speaker Urges Tire Stealing Be Felony By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 3—New York’s Legislature, convening Wed- nesday, will be asked to curb what used to be the old wild West's bad man—the rustler. To forestall possibility of & gen- eral theft of automobile tir:s be- :ause of strict Government rationing, Assembly Speaker Oswald D. Heck, Republican, said he will propose making tire stealing a felony rather than a misdemeanor as at present. “In the old West,” he said, “the horse rustler was given the most sevre penalty — hanging — because he stole a man'’s sole means of trans- portation. In modern times, a per- son who steals a tire may cause another to lose use of his car or even his employment.” MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 8 (®). —Thomas P. Henry, president of the American Automobile Associa- tion, said today he would ask Con- gress to make theft of automobile tires a Federal offense. He asserted such thefts already had reached major proportions in some cities. New York City Employes Are Put on 7-Day Week By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Mayor La Guardia announced today that all city departments would be placed on a seven-day A week beginning Monday because of the war. The Mayor declined to elaborate cn the matter, telling reporters to wait until (See DUTCH, Pli’!i ) tomorrow for & formal rmnenc. Civilian Defense Lags In District, Col. Bolles Tells Federation | Delegates Oppose Shift Of Permanent Federal Agencies From Capital Senate Banking Group Despite the spur of the Japanese | attack on Pearl Harbor, organiza- tion of District civilian defense is | still lagging, Col. Lemuel Bolles, | executive director of the defense program, last night told the Feder- | ation of Citizens’ Associations in the | blacked-out board room of the Dis- | trict Building. | His talk followed unanimous ap- proval by the delegates of a reso- lution empowering President Harry | N. Stull to create a special com- mittee on co-operation in the war effort and civilian defense with | civil and military authorities. The group also registered vigor- ous opposition to the transfer of any permanent Government agencies from the District—especially the | PaPtent Office—except where their | retention might be detrimental to the public welfare. The delegates further voted against two proposed amendments to a bill establishing a seven-member recreation board for the District, and suggested the addi- tion of some changes of their own to the measure. The amendments (See FEDERATION, Page A-4) Morgenthau Air Crash Radioman Gets D. F. C. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex. Jan. 3— The Distinguished Flying Cross was presented today ftpo Stephen J. Brodpan, radio operator for the | Civil Aeronautics Authority sta- | tioned at the Houston airport. Brodnan was a member of the four-man crew of a Coast Guard plane in which Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, was a passenger when the ship struck a tree near Hackensack, N. J. The crewW¥managed to keep it in con- trol and landed safely at the Phila- delphia airport. The ship was| badly damaged. | Few Plane Types, Giant Output, U. S. Plan to Best Axis in Air 0. E. M. Lists ‘Superlative’ Models, Including ‘Fastest Single-Engined’ By THOMAS C. HARDMAN. The Office for Emergency Man- agement . disclosed yesterday that America’s plane production facilities will be concentrated in future on turning out certain selected military models to outstrip the enemy in number of planes as well as quality. Pointing out that “a limitation on the number of different planes of similar purpose will make it possible to produce more of the chosen few,” the O. E. M, in a special summary of the Nation’s aircraft production, named specific models that the armed services had found superla- tive in performance. These ncluded the new—and JANUARY 4, 1942—-122 PAGES. * THATS FINE, MR PReSIDENT, BUT HOW SOON CAN THOSE’ 1| FesodRceS o€ comserres | Pgal HARBOR li ' ANES AND TANKS? THIS LINES UP le TR WAKE TwenresxNatons wirn \| 1 1 (St (| o2 TWo-THIRDS OF THE WORLD'S )=t /[ [1 | MARILA, RESOURCES on 0UR SIDE e K7 N[l" s : = Amm Lol : A f% k flu D S - / | ==L e e il g S i Asks Early Passage 0f Price-Control Bill Stabilized, Report Says; Wage Action Delayed BACKGROUND— Last summer the administra- tion, fearing unwarranted price rises due to war-erpanding in- dustry, sent to Congress a meas- ure designed to curb inflation by price control. Demands for wage control arose, but were beat off before House bill passed in No- vember. Heated controversy over licensing system as major Jfor enforcing mazimum prices de- layed consideration of bill ‘in Senate and then actual entry of United States into war over= shadowed it temporarily. By J. A. O'LEARY. Warning the Nation it is in war for survival and that inflation must be checked, the Senate Bank- ing Committee last night made public a report urging prompt pass- age of the rigid price control bill on which Senate debate starts Tues- | day or Wednesday. The committee’s report said that | “legislation providing for control over wages may ultimately be found necessary as an emergency meas- San Francisco Blacked Out; Planes Heard Mystery Aircraft Detected 80 Miles From Golden Gate By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.—The roar of unidentified planes 80 miles west of the Golden Gate, picked up by an air raid listening post, gave the San Prancisco Bay district a 44-minute blackout tonight. The sound later faded. When it was not heard again for 15 minutes the all-clear signal was sounded. It was San Francisco’s first black- out since Friday, December 12. The bay district then was in darkness more than 2 hours. The Army said the air raid alarm was sounded at 6:48 p.m. (9:48 p.m. ‘Washington time). The all-clear came at 7:32 pm. Two Sound Tracks Heard. “Two definite sound tracks from about 80 miles at sea were traced into the filter station here, and that was the reason for the alarm,” the Army said. “The sound of the planes came from two directions and then veered away. When it was not heard for 15 minutes, the all-clear signal was given.” The blackout extended to Santa Cruz, 96 miles south of San Fran- cisco, and to Santa Rosa and Napa, some 50 miles north. Across the bay, Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and other cities also were blacked out. The alarm caught throngs of theater crowds downtown. Street. cars halted abruptly in Market street as whole blocks were dark- ened at once. Taxis and auto- mobiles pulled gyer to curbs. The blackout roll a blanket of si- lence over a majority of the specta- tors. Residents of the western part of San Prancisco, near the ocean beach, reported unidentified planes flying low over the city about 7:15 pm. Army searchlights in the vi- cinity stabbed the night sky, but their beams were turned off a few seconds later. Fire Alarm Comes in Dark. In the downtown area, fire en- gines with headlights turned off answered an alarm. They proceeded slowly, with just the bell clanging. The siren was not sounded for fear people would think it was the all- clear. Some window lights were smashed by air-raid wardens who could not find switches. The all-clear signal set the city in motion again without hesita« tion. . Elliott Roosevelt’s Baby Named David Boynton ure.” It added that “such controls, bewildering' in their complexity, are not yet necessary to control infla- | The Senate is expected to pass | the price control measure before the week ends, sending it to con- | ference with the House. The report | was filed by Senator Brown, Demo- | crat, of Michigan. The milder House bill may have n sufficient before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the committee ob- | served, but the outbreak of war | against Germany, Italy and Japan “leaves little time for the luxury | of experiment. The need for price stability is urgent. The cost of living must be stabilized.” Only One Major Fight Seen. The only major fight likely to arise in the Senate will be over | a renewed effort to give Secretary of Agriculture Wickard jurisdiction | over farm prices, instead of Price | Administrator Leon Henderson. The | odds are against such a separation of authority, which failed in com- mittee, especially since the com- mittee gave the President discre- tionary power to make such transfer | of functions if he deems it neces- sary later. The main Senate issues to be set- tled finally in conference between CONTROL, Page A-5) 1,100 Prospective Flyers (See PRICE By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex. Jan. 3.— The name-tag of a seven-pound baby boy at Cook Memorial Hospital was changed tonight from baby Roosevelt to David Boynton Roose- velt. The infant, son of Capt. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, was born at 10 am. today. He is their third child and the twelfth grandchild of Presi- dent and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Capt. Roosevelt was on duty with the Army Air Corps at Muroc, Calif,, and was unable to be here. The Elliott Roosevelts have two other children, Ruth Chandler, 7, and Tony, 5. British Said to Fear U. S. Will Forget Relief By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 3—British fears that the United States, now at war, might forget England’s relief needs were disclosed today by Mrs. Cameron Clark upon her return from Great Britain where she sur- veyed relief expenditures for the British War Relief Society of New York, Inc. The British felt, she said, that the United States would concentrate too hard on its own war-time needs to continue foreign aid. She prepared a report on $15,000,000 raised by the society end, for the most part, spent NEW YORK, Jan. 3. (#)—Eleven | in Britain. hundred young Americans—from 29 | to 26—who want to defend their | country in the sky jammed the Gov- ernor's Island induction barracks today to enlist as flying cadets. | It was the biggest mass examina- | tion of hopeful Army pilots on rec- | m-dd in the country, Army officials said. single-engine airplane in the world.” Heavily armored and bristling with both large and small-caliber guns, this plane, according to the O. E. M., has done 680 miles an hour in a power dive test and more than 400 miles an hour in level flight. The O. E. M. added thet the P-47, nearly ready to be put in quantity production, is engined with a 2,000- horsepower motor and has a four- blade propellor with a diameter of more than 12 feet. The P-47 weighs approximately 13,500 pounds, is 32 feet 8 inches in length, measures 13 feet in height and has & wing span of 41 feet, the survey continued. heretofore unpublicized—Republic P-47, described r Other models mentioned specifi- She arrived on the Yankee Clipper which also carried Charles Bate- man, newly appointed British Minister to Mexico—the first since diplomatic relations were severed in 1938 in the British oil properties expropriation dispute. Before going to Mexico, Mr. Bateman will confer with Lord Halifax at Washington. D. C. Will Get 5-Inch Snow, Melting Rapidly A “moderate to heavy” snow, amounting to five inches, was pre- dicted by the Weather Bureau last night, but much of it was expected to melt soon after it fell, with the temperature dropping not far below the freezing point today. The forecast, made while a mix- | ture of snow and sleet was falling, said: “Moderate to heavy snow by late tonight, continuing tomorrow. Total accumulation of five inches expected.” | The temperature stood at 34 de- | grees at the time of the forecast, | and the bureau said today’s mini- | mum would be around 30. Yester- | day’s maximum was 40 at noon. Radio Programs Page E-5 R “the fastest| (Continued on P‘! A-4, Column 1.) Complete Index Page A-2