Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1942, Page 5

4 Night Bayonef Charge Forced Surrender 0f Bardia Garrison German Major General Among 5,000 Prisoners; British-Loss 60 Dead By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, Jan, 3.—A daring bayonet charge so powerful that the holdout Axis garrison at Bardia sur- rendered rather than face a second assault yielded the British more than 5,000 prisoners—among them a Nazi major general—and still uncounted booty, it was announced officially today. The assault cost the British Im- perial forces only three score dead. A communique telling the whole dramatic story for the first time said the fall yesterday of the Libyan port, a pocket of Axis resistance iso- lated by the British westward surge, was the swift accomplishment of night-charging, bayonet-brandishing South Africans supported by Brit- ish and Polish artillery, New Zea- land cavalry and the bombs and guns of Britain's air and sea fleets. Main Axis Force at Agedabia. ‘While these forces, the slower mov- ing rear guards of the British ad- vance, were wiping out what might have been an Axis version of Tobruk, vanguards of the British advance still were harassing the main Axis forces in the vicinity of Agedabia. The war bulletin said one German eolumn, including some armored cars, was put to flight in that area about 90 miles beyond Bengasi, after losing some of its mobile equipment and two anti-tank guns, leaving behind 3 officers and 45 men. The captured general was Maj. Gen. Schmidt, chief administrative staff officer of the German mech- anized African forces and apparent- ly one of Nazi Gen. Erwin Rommel’s right-hand men. (The British official wireless said that Gen. Schmidt was taken prisoner with his entire staff.) Navy and R. A. F. Aid. He was the fourth casualty among the German top command to come to British knowledge in the Libyan offensive. ~ Another general, Von Ravenstein, had been announced as captured at Rezegh earlier in the drive and the graves recently were found at Derna of two division com- manders, Maj. Gens. Neumann- Silkow and Suemmermann. The smash into Bardia was de- | gcribed in the war bulletin as a “bold, skilfully organized attack” by the 1st and 2d South African Divi- sions. including the famed Kaffir Rifles and Royal Durban Light In- fantry. “Rather than face a repetition,” 4t said, “the enemy decided to sur- render unconditionally.” The communique said the opera- tion was carried out while British warships lying off the coast pounded Axis forces and positions and the R. A. F. “made an invaluable con- tribution” by flying incessantly in the face of bad weather. 1,150 British Prisoners Freed. ‘The British rescued 1,150 of their own men from Axis imprisonment, the communique disclosed, and lost only 60 men killed and 300 wounded It said the operation was carried out so swiftly tbat the defenders were unable to destroy much of | their material and fortifications but | that there is no estimate yet of the | booty. Considerable damage by air at- tack on the Axis supply lines, in- cluding a direct hit on an 800-ton merchant ship in the Gulf of Sirte, was credited to the R. A. F., and 10 serviceable tanks, abandoned in the Axis flight from Cirenaica, were said to have been discovered by British mop-up forces. Moscow (Continued From First Page) breathing space. The Red Army must drive the enemy back until the last Nazi has been cleared from Russian soil.” Maj. Gen. Golubev, who led Rus- sian troops in the recapture of the | important rail line city of Maloyar- oslavets, 65 miles southwest of Mos- cow, said that task was well under way. In an interview in Izvestia, he as- serted that Russian forces had driven steadily westward scores of kilometers, retaking at least 100 communities south and southwest of Moscow since Christmas along a route lined with German graves. He said an average of 2.500 Ger- mans a day had died in the path of that advance from December 25 to 31 and reported that the Russians already were pushing on west of Maloyaroslavets in the direction of Vyazma, almost 150 miles west of Moscow. ‘This advance imperiled the whole German salient at Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of Moscow, the last of the positions from which the Nazis directly menaced the Soviet capital before the turn of the tide of attack. Gen. Golubev said the Russians retook Maloyaroslavets in a day and night of street fighting after cir- cling German defense positions and cutting the Nazi communications. He said the 15th, 98th and 34th German Infantry Divisions were routed in-the Red Army's assault, leaving to the Russians large stores of ammunition and fuel and quan- tities of tanks and armored cars in good condition, some of them loaded on railway cars. “We shall strive,” he pledged, “to continue our very modest success.” Nazis Reported Resisting Strong Russian Attacks BERLIN, Jan. 3 (Official Broad- | cast) (). — German troops fighting in intense cold have been under strong attack since yesterday morn- ing on the central Russian front, German spokesmen said tonight. The Germans, the spokesmen said, were resisting stubbornly In one sector a Red Army ar- mored division supported by in- fantry and artillery was said to have attacked in waves which the Germans reported fighting off in fierce engagements. In one place on the northern front the Germans said they beat back an attack in which Russian cavalry charged across a frozen river. Earlier, a communique said there were only local engagements in the northern and southern sectors but that the Germans continued “de- fensive fighting” on the central front. ‘The war report said German Bombers attacked Moscow last night, SINGAPORE—IN DEFENSE OF MALAYA—Scene in a Brit- ish recruiting office as natives eagerly lined up to join British forces fighting the Japanese invasion in Northern Malaya. Applicants were inducted into service and attached to Labor Corps or Malaya regiments. Price Control (Continued From First Page.) the two branches are one-man con- | trol and the licensing system of enforcement. The House rejected licensing and proposed a five-man board of review with veto power over the administration’s orders. Coincident with the committee’s report, Senator Danaher., Republi- can, of Connecticut, described the bill as “a necessary step, but only one of what should be a series of efforts to curtail inflation and bring about an orderly and protecting economy.” Senator Taft, Republican, of | Ohio, said he probably will renew on the floor his motion which was defeated in committee, for a five- man board. He added, however, that “the bill is all right,” and said he will vote for it even without the board. | McNary for Unified Control. | At the same time, Senator Mc- Nary of Oregon, minority leader, made known he is not in sympathy with the move to place farm prices under the separate control of the Agriculture Department. He be- lieves price control should all be in one place. | In addition to regulating the gen- | eral price structure, the bill also | covers these essential factors: Makes hoarding and speculative manipulation unlawful. Empowers the administrator to | control rents in defense areas, first | | through recommendations made to | local authorities, or, if necessary, by | establishing maximum rents. While the definition of defense areas in- cludes the District of Columbia, Congress has enacted a specific rent law for Washington. Gives the administrator broad power to buy and sell commodities as an added means of controlling the price level, including purchases out- side of the United States. Penalty Provisions. In addition to the licensing meth- |od of enforcement, the Senate bill | | would make it possible for a con- | sumer who was charged more than the fixed price to sue for three times the overcharge, or $50, whichever is greater, plus costs of the suit. This | provision would not take effect until the law has been in operation for { six months. | Neither the House bill nor the | Senate substitute contains any con- trol over wages. In connection with this, however, the committee said: “Legislation providing for control | over wages may ultimately be found | necessary as an emergency measure, | but there are strong reasons why | | such control, even if it became nec- | essary, should not be exercised by - . and kapok bridging. For mont THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Members of the Singapore officers’ cadet training units on maneuvers with collapsible boats hs before the Japanese attacked, the Pacific British and imperial forces in Malaya were preparing to meet them under the peculiar conditions. —Official British Photos from Wide World. these illustrations are based on pres- ent parity levels, and that some further upward revision of parity prices may be expected as the gen- eral price level changes. Price Yardstick Criticised. In rejecting the 1919 to 1929 yard- of unexpended appropriations be covered into the Treasury. Congress (Continued From First Page.) | almost entirely by recommendations the prosecution of the war or for | Of the Chief Executive. They wil JANUARY 4, 1942. War appropriations will be guided , IDemocrats Report Commitiee Received: $651,573 Last Year Republican Committee Lists $170,145 Taken In During Period By the Aseociated Press. The Democratic National Com- mittee reported to the House Clerk yesterday that its receipts totaled $65157394 and its disbursements $663,155.88 during the 1941 calendar year. Tte Republican National Com- mittes reported. receipts of $170,- 14592 and disbursements of $232.- 088.68 for the same period. i contribution to the G. O. P. was $45,000 from the United Re- publican Finance Committee for Metropolitan New York. Other eontributors ' included Charles P. Vogel, Milwaukee, $1,000; Lammot Dupont, Wilmington, Del., $4,000, and Mrs. N, H. Timken, Canton, Ohio, $1,500. 2 ‘The largest newly reported Demo- ratic contributions came from offi- cials in charge of Jackson Day din- ners, with $51,152 from the District | of Columbia and $36,000 from Texas. | Individual contributions of $5,000 | were made to the Democratic com- | mittee by Carl W. Badenhausen, | Newark, N. J.; Richard J. Reynolds, Winston-Salem, N. C.. Donald | Bloomingdale, Washington; Llndpey‘ Hopkins, jr., Miami; Mrs. Emmons | Blaine, Chicago; P. E. H. Leroy, | Akron; Charles Engelhard, New York City; D. E. White, Silver Spring, Md., and L. U. Noland, New- port Nows, Va. | The Democratic report said the following persons had eancelled loans of $5,000 each to the commit- tee: W. T. Burton, Sulphur, La.; | James A. Noe, Monroe, La.;: E. E.| These are members of the oth Gurkhas maneuvering in the Malayan jungles, where fighting now rages. They are intensively trained and are eonsidered first-class jungle fighters, recruited from the ruling Hindu easte of Nepal. Murphy, Chicago; Max Biskind, New York City, and Pearl Siskind, | New York City. Celtuce, an Oflm‘:ll‘ lettuce, Is| now being grown in country. arise between labor and manage- ment. Senator Connally, Democrat, of | Texas, author of the bill reported from the Judiclary Committee giv- ing the President authority to take over struck plants and to “freeze” labor status in those plants during the war, has continued to demand action on the bill. Senator Ball, Republican, of Min- nesota also is asking for passage| of his bill setting up machinery for | dealing with labor disputes and pro- | viding & “cooling off” period be-! fore strikes may be ordered. This bill also is on the Senate calendar. | The House already has passed the | Smith anti-strike bill and it is be- | fore the Benate Committee on Edu- cation and Labor. Organized labor is strongly opposed to the measures. | At present no legislation creating a food administration, such as in the last war, is contemplated. 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CLEARAN CE domestic matters, he has not yet L T e disclosed them. He may do so in his message on the state of the Union which he delivers to Congress stick for farm prices, the commit-i tee sald that standard would make The price control bill, already passed by the House, will be taken up early this week in the Senate, and will be drafted, finally, by a | tionary” price levels. Using that | period, the committee said, would | be equivalent to giving cotton 119 | per cent of parity, potatoes 123 | per cent of parity and chickens 130 per cent of parity before the ad- ministrator could apply a ceiling. Those levels, the report continued, “would represent not equal treat- ment for the farmer, but prefer- ential treatment.” In support of prompt passage the committee cited that on December 1 the Bureau of Labor Statistics index of 28 basic commodities had already increased about 57 per cent since August, 1939, when the war started; that wholesale prices had increased about 23 per cent, and the cost of living 12 per cent. total advance was the accelerating rate of increase,” the committee continued. “In the preceding nine | months there had occured one-half of the total advance in basic com- modity prices, two-thirds of the in- crease in wholesale prices and four- fifths of the increase in cost of living. Nor was there any reason to ;the same agency as that which is | | charged with the control over | prices.” | | “The committee also observed that | direct fixing of wages could, in no | event, be acceptable “unless cou- | pled with direct and specific deter- mination of the salaries of manage- ment, the dividends of stockholders, the interest payments received by | bondholders, the incomes of farm- ers or merchants, of professional | persons and of all others.” In addition to being unnecessary at this time, the committee said such complex income control would require a huge administrative staff, needed for more important tasks. Farm Prices Issue. Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of | Alabama will take the lead in ask- | ing the Senate to place farm prices under Agriculture. He is expected | to move that farm-price jurisdic- tion be vested in Secretary Wick- ard or that the Secretary be given veto power over the price admin- istrator as to farm commodities. A motion also is expected on the floor to restore the House provision, elim- |inated in Senate committee, that | farm prices could not be fixed lower than the average level of the 1919- t0-1929 period. The committee bill prohibits the price administrator from fixing farm prices lower than 110 per cent of parity, or the price level on October 1, 1941. Since only a few | agricultural products are up to par- | ity now, the committee pointed out in last night's report that the 110 per cent parity floor will make pos- sible further substantial increases in | main agricultural commodities. For example, the committee | pointed out that wheat, wifich was | bringing $1.02 a bushel on Decem- ber 15, could go to $140 on the parity rule. Corn was 669 cents a bushel on December 15, and could go to $1.01. Cotton, which was bringing 1623 cents a pound on November 15, could rise to 19.65 cents. 3 suppose that the rate of increase in the cost of living would be re- duced, because much of the advance in wholesale prices had not yet been reflected in the retail markets.” Fearing that advance hearings on proposed price ceilings would only invite periods of speculation, the Senate bill would make the price orders effective as soon as they are issued by the administrator. Hear- ings would then be granted and de- cided promptly. Appeals could still Appeals " created in the bill, and made up of Federal judges assigned for that purpose. Safeguards of Licensing Power. Safeguards also are thrown around the licensing power, by- limiting the administrator to a warning for the first offense, and requiring court action on revocation for a further offense. The committee pointed out last night that in the last war re- vocation of licenses by ttie Food and Fuel Administrations rarely was necessary, the threat of revocation being sufficient in substantially all cases to achieve compliance. In his personal discussion of the bill, Senator Danaher, a member of the Committee, said: “It should be accepted in princi- ple, but on the understanding that even more drastic measures may yet be required. As we gain ex- further corrections will be forth- coming, I am sure. “A reduction in taxes wherever possible by virtue of the decrease in expenses not essential to the prosecution of the war, a decrease in the amount of funds available to the public for consumer goods, through various devices, perhaps a rationing of the necessaries of life, and similar measures are yet neces- sary for a complete frontal attack on the forces of inflation. Above all, an enormous increase in pro- duction will assist in making avail- able all goods necessary for our wartime effort and for maintenance ‘The committee also pointed out that 4 of our economy.” possible “unreasonable and infla- | “More alarming even than the be taken to an Emergency Court of | perience under its administration, | |8t the start of each new regular session. This message may go to Congress | Tuesday or Wednesday, depending, | it was said, on how soon it is ready. | Whether it will be delivered in per- | son by the President at a joint ses- | sion of House and Senate is still to be determined, after the Presi- dent has consulted Congressional leaders. In some quarters it was | main practically in continuous ses- | predicted last night Mr. Roosevelt | sion, to be ready to act on any| probably would send the message | emergency legislation that may be | to be read in both Houses. | needed. Much of the work will be | | President Wilson, who revived the | done in the committees of the | | practice of addressing the Congress | House and Senate. | in person which had been abandoned | Whether there will be any labor | by President Washington in the |legislation depends on the success | early days of the republic, did not | of the new War Labor Board, loon[ | joint conference committee. ‘The daylight saving bill, asked for by the President, has already been introduced in the Senate by Chair- | man Wheeler of the Senate Inter- state Commerce Committee. It au-| thorizes the President to retard or | advance the clocks of the Nation by two hours. It is expected to pass. Congress, it is expected, will re-| | go to Congress to deliver his annual | to be appointed by the President, messages after the United States | in dealing with disputes which may entered the first World War. The House Ways and Means Com- | mittee will not begin work on new | tax legislation until it has the rec- | ommendations of the Treasury De- | partment, probably around January | 15. That the new taxes will be heavy, when added to those al- ready imposed, is well understood. President Roosevelt, in his annual | budget message which he will send | to Congress the day after his mes- sage on the state of the Union is| delivered, will give an indication of ‘ the amount of revenue which the | administration deems necessary to | raise from taxation to meet the | heavy war expenditures and the gen- | eral expenses of government. The Treasury Department has indicated it intends to raise all the money it can through taxes. Budget Message to Follow. Appropriation bills will be 8 major | | task of Congress. Every effort will| be made to hold the non-defense expenses to a minimum. 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