Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1942, Page 2

Two Extra Pages In This Edition Late news and sports are covered on Pages 1-X and 2-X of this edition of The Star, supplementing the news of the regular home delivered edition. Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 18. 90th YEAR. No. 35,6 78. he WASHINGTON, 700 Invaders Are F;?O-to-4"4 Draft Registration 'Will Be Held February 16 9,000,000 Men Expected to Sign Up; No Date Fixed for Other Groups President Roosevelt proclaimed today that America’s third by Gen. Douglas MacArthur in- draft registration—first since the United States went to war—will flicted one of the most serious“be held on February 16, from 7 am. to 9 p.m. Killed in Luzon; 4 Bombers Felled Having escaped the trap of Japanese pincers strategy, Amer- ican and Philippine forces led reverses suffered by the Japa- nese in repulsing a heavy frontal | The 20-44 age group is to be ® covered—with approximately 9.000,- | ment with the local director of se- attack northwest of Manila yes- | 000 men expected to sign up. Regis- lective service. terday, the War Department an- tration applies to all male citizens | U. S. Possessions Included. This registration will take place nounced in a communique today. and some non-citizens who were not only in the continental United The Japanese lost about 700 men | born on or after February 17, 1897, | States. but also in Alaska, Hawalii | in this attack in Pampanga Prov- ince, east of the Bataan Peninsula. while American losses were reported as relatively small. Four more Japanese bombers were ghot down in the fourth aerial attack on the Corregidor fortress by Amer. ican anti-aircraft batteries. Fifty- two bombers participated in a three- hour attack. At least 15 enemy bombers have been brought down in this series of four air raids on the besieged fortress outside Manila Escaped Jaws of Pincers. The communique. reporting on movements as of 9:30 am. today. stated that yesterday's repulse of the invading force was “one of the most serious reverses suffered by the Japanese invaders since the war began.” Japanese strategy in the invasion of Luzon. the communique said, con- templated crushing the numerically inferior defending forces between two pincers operating from the north and south. This trap was closed, but American and Filipino | and on or before December 31, 1921. Mr. Roosevelt urged all employers | and Government agencies to give their workers sufficient time to at- tend the registration centers. In exceptional cases, men may reg- | ister before February 16, by arrange- and Puerto Rico. Men who are outside the United States at the time are to register as soon thereafter as | possible on their return. | This and other registrations * * * | will be required to insure victory, final and complete, over the enemies “(See REGISTRATION, Page A-6 Finnish Paper Urges Cessation of War Against Russia Labor Council Stresses Strain on People in Continuing Fight By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 5—The Helsinki newspaper Suomen Sosialidemok- ratti said this morning the present time “seems a suitable opportunity troops escaped its jaws in Mac- . - i RS Arthur’s move uniting his forces {0 b’:l“kR"“( "“';‘:’; “p'::“‘;‘[‘:d prior to the fall of Manila e e pottec | Failure of this sirategic pincer 2 | movement, Gen. MacArthur report- ed. made it necessary for the Jap- anese to risk a frontal attack in an attempt to dislodge strongly forti- fied defenders. That attack like- wise failed Apparently no new movements oc- curred in other sections of the Phil- ippine war theater. Offensive Indicated. As the Japanese forces suffered this important reverse there were indications that the Allies might be ready to take the offensive against the enemy on the Asiatic mainland. As far as could be deduced from dispatches from the Far East. the Japanese were in feverish haste to complete their conquest of the Philippines in order to release large numbers of troops for major oper- ations elsewhere. And as far as the evidence went, Gen. MacArthur was giving the enemy no co-opera- tion. Reports from British Burma ex- plained why the Japanese high command might be thinking in terms of other theaters. Large Al- lied forces were concentrating there and intensive Allied air activity was noted, with the J.panese coming off decidedly second best. accord- ing to a Rangoon communique. Major Potential Threat. In Allied nands, Burma repre- sents a major potential threat to Japan's grandiose plans for domi- nation of the South Pacific. A smashing drive eastward would cut across the top of Thailand and French Indi-China. placing the Al- lies squarely in the rear of the Japanese forces now driving fu- riously southward down the narrow Malay Peninsula toward Singapore. It also would put the Allies in a position to neutralize the Indo- China bases which have played such | an important role in Japan's South Sea successes to date. Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, architect of Britain's first victory in Libya and the newly-designated su- preme commander of Allied forces in the South Pacific. has given no hint that such a big flanking opera- tion is in prospect. On the con- trary, before assuming his new com- mand he cautioned that “the situa- tion may become worse until the tide turns.” Gen. Wavell, however, has not been a man who telegraphs his punches—legend is that he was hav- ing a casual cocktail in Cairo when the zero hour came for the Libyan push—and there is the evident Jap-| Seized Jap, Ashamed at Capture, Indicates Tokio Never Will Exchange Prisoners anese haste to free troops in the Philippines for operations elsewhere as quickly as possible. The Berlin radio. quoting Tokio dispatches, reported that a large fleet of Japanese transports was moving southwerd. presumably for operations against the Batan penin- gula, the bhig land arm inclosing " (See PHILIPPINES, Page londofi R;ports Air Activity On Both Sides of Channel By the Associated Press LONDON. Jan. 5.—Heavy air ac- tivity on both sides of the Channel was in progress this morning. While R. A. F. bombers were be- lieved attacking Nazi big-gun em- , near here, was speaking with great | change prisoners—no Japanese is placements and other positions | along the French coast, two Mes- | serschmitt 109 fighter planes car-' ried out low-level machine-gun! raids on a stretch of the English | south coast. The Nazi planes ran into heavy | anti-aircraft fire. One was believed damaged badly. ] Island Raids Reported. | BERLIN, Jan. 5 (Official Broad- | east) (#)—German air raiders suc- | cessfully attacked ports and radio stations in the Faeroes and Shetland Islands last night and also blasted at industrial installations on the British east coast, the Nazi high command said today. | - Referring to Field Marshal Baron Karl Gustaf Mannerheim's state- ment at the end of November that Finland's strategic goal almost had been reached, the newspaper said the goal appeared now to have been | achieved as several important towns had been occupied since that time. | “Since then our troops have not launched any offensive operations.” the paper added. “Therefore, it | seems a suitable opportunity to break off military operations at this point.” | Labor Stresses Problems. Meanwhile, the Central Council of the Finnish Trade Unions drew | the attention of Premier Jukha Rangell to problems troubling the | workers. It said that although the working class loyally supported the country, the workers relied on the government in continuing the war to | consider the strain on the Finnish | people and their capacity to en-| dure it. ' Great Britain announced Decem- | ber 6 that she was at war with Fin- | land. Hungary and Rumania be- | cause they persisted in fighting her | Russian ally, but thus far no mil- | itary action has been reported | | against the Finns by the British. | | Before that declaration. both Brit- | ain and the United States brought | diplomatic pressure to bear on Fin- | land in an effort to stop her war against Russia, but Finland. last November 12, stated in a note to the | United States that her war against | Russia still was defensive. | The Helsinki government advised the United States that Finland did not wish to continue the fight | against Russia any longer than her | vital security demanded. Territory Recovered. | Since going to war against Russia l'on June 26. 1941, Finland has re- covered substantially all the terri- tory she was forced to concede to Russia after the 1939-40 winter war ! Karelia. But the government in its note said vital areas still were in Russian | man of the Securities and Exchange | swiftly as possible for an attack hands, including the Fisher Penin- | Commission and a former member | against the Japanese by land before sula, whose guns control Petsamo, | of the House from Iowa, was nomi- | the Japanese can break Gen. Douglas outer | nated to succeed Chief Justice Alfred | MacArthur's spirited resistence on Finland's only ocean port; islands in the Gulf of Finland. and. | above all, the Hango Peninsula at | the southwestern tip of Finland. The Hango fortifications control shipping in the Gulf of Finland Shortly after the British dec! (See FINNS, Page A Sovief Drive Menaces Entire German Wing Southwest of Moscow Recapture of Belev, Key Town Near Kaluga, Is Reported by Reds By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, Jan. 5.—Recapture of Belev in a Red Army drive west of the Oka River, huriing the Germans back 100 miles from the high-water mark of their thrust south of Mos- | cow, was announced today in a Soviet communique. The communique declared the Germans lost 2,300 men—800 killed and 1500 wounded—in fierce fight- | ing for the key town 50 miles south of Kaluga and halfway to Bryansk from Tula. The drive. which appeared to menace the whole Nazi wing south- west of the Soviet capital. paralleled the pincer movement farther north where Borovsk fell, threatening en- trapment of the last German forces at Mozhaisk west of Moscow. A grand assault on the German garri- ! son at Mozhaisk impended. (The British radio reported | | that the Russians had closed in on the Mozhaisk sector and that fighting already was under way in the outskirts of the town, 57 miles west of Moscow. (The British report, heard by Columbia Broadcasting System, said 100,000 Germans were re- treating in the area west of Moscow alone in an attempt to escape encirclement by Russian forces whose swift flanking ad- vance caught the Nazis by sur- prise. (Observers in London declared that the Russian push was be- ginning to put hard pressure on the defense line which Adolf Hitler has been reported to have chosen for a last-ditch winter stand. (That line, it was said. runs from Leningrad through Rzhev, Vylazma and Bryansk. Rzhev, 125 miles northwest of Moscow, al- ready is under pressure of a Red Army attack from Staritsa, less than 30 miles to the east. and the (See RUSSIAN, Page A-6. Eicher Hearing Called By Senate Committee A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee today ordered a hearing at 10 am. | and has pushed on into Eastern | january 16, on the nomination of | gard the situation in the South | District Court. Mr. Eicher, chair- A. Wheat, who is retiring. Chairman McCarran of the sub- committee explained that the rules | of the Judiciary Committee requlre{ been announced, but there were | that an opportunity for a hearing | growing indications that Java, cen- | =~ ! be given on all judicial appointments | tral island of the Netherlands In- before they are acted on. 1 * enina WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Chinese Reported Rushing to Help Bolster British By the Associated Press. { LONDON, Jan. 5.—Veteran | Chinese troops are believed to| !be on their way to Malaya to help block the Japanese drive toward Singapore, British sources said today, as advices from Singapore disclosed further Japanese landings on the welt coast of Malaya. (In Singapore confidence in the long-range possibilities of defending the city was mounting in spite of the new British re- treat yesterday which forced the British to fall back from their positions below Ipoh on the west side of the Malavan Peninsula.) | . The London sources said assign- ! ment of Chinese forces to Malayva was a likely first step of the unified Southwest Pacific command under Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell. i Aid in Allied Crisis. They said the call on Chinese man power was for aid in a crisis until Britain and the United States can rush men and arms to the Far | East. It probablv was worked out uring the recent visits to Chungking {of Gen. Wavell and Maj. Gen. George H. Brett. United States Army Air | Corps chief, who is Gen. \Vlvell's! {aide in the unified command, they added Chinese forces already have bol- | | stered the British in Burma on the | flank of the Malay front 1 Military observers said British troops in Malaya had been forced to retreat not by more efficient Japanese fighting but by superior numbers and their inability to de- fend a wide front. | This situation. they said. could be remedied by Chinese infantry sup- ported by British artillery and mo- torized forces Threat to Left Flank. A British military commentator | said the new Japanese landings con- | stituted & “threat to our left flank.” The landings, at the mouths of the Perak and Bernam Rivers. ap- parently were made from small boats which the Japanese had picked up along the portion of the | coast which they had overrun to the north, the commentator said. He declared there were no indica- tions that the Japanese had been using transports, which would have to come through the Strait of Ma- lacca between Malava and Sumatra to reach their destination. i Koo's Statement Recalled. It was recalled that Chinese Am- bassador V. K. Wellington Koo said | several weeks ago in London thali | Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek stood ready with thousands of Chi- nese veterans in Yunnan Province | to provide manpower for the Allies if it was needed. | Some observers here saw in the Chinese generalissimo’s appointment | as Allied commander in China. Thai- | D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY MacArthur's Forces Repulse Japs After Escaping Pincer Movement; oe MakesNewMalayanLandings 5, An Evening Newspaper With the Full Day’s News LOCAL—NATIONAL—FOREIGN Associated Press and (#) Wirephotos, North American Newspaper Alliance, Chieago Daily News Foreign Service and The Star’s Staff Writers, Reporters and Photographers. Star s Associated Press. 1942, THREE CENTS. Come on 1N, YounG FeLtow:\ i SAD AS IT LOOKS IT CANT BE AS BAD FORYOU AsIT \MAS, |f FOR ME. Commissioners Plan Sweeping Revision of Traffic Department No Steps, However, Will Be' Taken Now to Obtain New Personnel Needed Reorganization of the District De- partment of Vehicles and Traffic along lines similar to traffic depart- ments in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis was approved in principle today by the Commissioners. The Commissioners said, however, that in view of the uncertainty of the personnel to be needed by the department during the fiscal year of 1943, no steps will be taken at this time to obtain the additiona! personnel needed for the new or- ganization They said this reorganization plarn should be used as a guide in acting on any personnel changes. Under the approved program. the traffic department would consist of a motor vehicle division, an engineering di- vision, an operations division and a public relations section. The public relations section, which is new, will succeed the traffic safety education section which is to be abolished. Eight New Positions. Eight new positions are asked for the department in the 1943 budget and 28 others proposed to complete the reorganization. Three minor posts would be abolished. Plans for the changes were worked out for the Commissioners by a special committee consisting of As- sistant Engineer Commissioner Bev- erly C. Snow and Highway Director H. C. Whitehurst. This committee called on Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer for his suggestions. In the investigation the commit- land and Indo-China an indication | tee studied the organization charts that the Chinese might be called of 30 cities of the country, 12 of on to help with an offensive to the Which have a population of more southeast. | than 500,000. The members also They pointed out that a land at- consulted the chart recommended tack from Burma and Yunnan by the National Safety Council and Province into Thailand and Indo- recommendations of Mr. Van Duzer. China would threaten the entire Will Report to Van Duzer. Japanese battle plan by hitting at| The heads of the three divisions important Japanese air and even | created and the public relations sec- naval bases and relieving the pres- | tion will report directly to Mr. Van sure on the Malava front by cutting | Duzer. Under the present setup the Japanese supply lines. | heads of the main divisions of the “Japan Seized Thailand through department are under the super- effective fifth column work, but vision of the assistant director of might have to vield it the same way | vehicles and traffic. because over 2,000,000 of the coun- | The assistant director will be given try's 14000000 population are ga new title of deputy director of ve- Chinese.” one observer commented. hicles and traffic and will be placed “These Thailand Chinese have been ' in charge of the engineering divi- {among the strongest supporters of | sion, which is regarded as the most | Chiang Kai-shek.” | important division. The assistant Military experts continued to re- | director is M. O. Eldridge. The secretary of the Commis- | Edward C. Eicher as chief justice of | Pacific as a race for time with Gen. | sioners’ Traffic Advisory Council is | Wavell mustering Allied strength as | placed at' the head of the public relations section. The operations division will consist | of an inspection section, a signals |and dssign section, a signs and marking section and & parking meter section. The engineering division | will be divided into a planning sec- | tion, & surveys section and an ac- (See TRAFFIC, Page A-6.) Luzon Island. The site where the Allied head- quarters will be established has not dies, would be chosen. By LELAND STOWE, Foreign Correspondent of The Star and | Chicago Daily News. | RANGOON, Jan. 5—"All the w-yi down in my parachute I was think- | ing, as soon as I land I must kill myself. I must commit seppuka | (hara-kiri). I was ready to do it. | Then I hit the ground so hard I; was knocked out—" | The Japanese prisoner, the pilot of | an Army-97 fighter which was shot | down in the Christmas Day battle with him, the pilot's head is close- cropped, his features plain. He looks as if he would have made a good chauffeur or mechanic in peacetime, but was certainly much below the level of intelligence aver- aged by British and American avi- ators. But he was happy at last to meet some one with whom he could converse in Japanese, so he talked on quite freely. “It's very depressing being prison- ers like we are because we can never be exchanged. Japan has no ex- Americans Battle Japs In New Rangoon Raid By the Associated Press. RANGOON. Burma, Jan. 5—Six fighters of the American volunteer group were reported today to have battled a large formation of Jap- anese planes which staged a day- light raid on Rangoon yesterday. The Americans, greatly outnum- bered, were said to have lost three of their planes, but all the pilots were reported safe. The Americans, known as the International Air Force, are guarding the Burma road. British headquarters announced there was an early morning Jap- anese air raid today on the “Ran- | dition to be transported. (The convention -also provides | that “for humane considerations” | belligerents “may” agree to direct repatriation of able-bodied pris- oners who have “undergone a long period of captivit; (The United States has in- | formed Japan,.through Switzer- land, that it is following the rules set out in the Geneva convention, with the expectation that Japan will do the same. No reply has beer. received.) goon area” which lasted an hour | and a half. Slight damage to build- | earnestness. He turned to our inter- | o, & 5 k pposed to become a prisoner. This preter. Maj. Frank D. Merrill, former | ¢ the most shnmenfl thing that American military attache in Japan, | coyld happen to us. Now we can and asked anxiously: | never go home. Even after the war “Tell me, is it a disgrace in the ends we cannot go back to Japan. | American Army if you become 8| If we did our families would be dis- prisoner before you commit sep- | graced.” puku?” (There has been no official in- When the major assured the cap- | dication of whether Japan will tive flight sergeant that, of course,| live up to an international agree- officers in the American and British | ment for exchange of incapaci- armies could honorably become pris- | tated prisoners of war. oners, the Japanese pilot's face (The Geneva convention of broke into a broad grin for the first | 1929, which Japan signed but time. Like the two Nipponese gun-| never ratified, binds belligerents ners, survivors of the eight-crew | to “send back to their own coun- bomber crash who are sharing the | try” seriously injured and seri- same steel-barred hospital room | ously ill prisoners when in con- » ~ While the pilot talked. the two | Japanese gunners sat on their cots. mostly listening. Sometimes the young forward gunner with a patch wer his right eye uttered a few words animatedly, momentarily los- 1ng his dull deadpan expression. The rear-gunner, a burly Japanese peas- ant who said he used to be a wrestler, looked even more like a second-rate former wrestler than his companion. He just looked dim and you couldn’t. tell whether he was thinking or may be just trying to. All three greatly resembled most of the Japanese soldiers I had seen in Southern In- do-China last September—tough, (See STOWE, Page A-4) n | north of the city was reported. R. A. . Raids Germans' |Sub Base at Salamis By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, Jan! 5.—The Ger- man submarine base at Salamis, near Athens, was raided by the R. A. F. Saturday night, a Near East communique announced today, and bombs fell on the base itself as well as munition factories and work- shops. \ Large fires broke out after the bombing, the communique said. 2 |ings and a runway at an airdrome | Marines to Seek Swamp Recruits In Louisiana The Marines are going to sweep the swamps and the backwoods for recruits. Equipped with a “pirogue.” or dug- out canoe, and a knowledge of bayou French and Spanish. Capt. Robert L. Mouton, United States Marine | Corps Reserve, will soon tour the bayou districts of Southern Louis- fana in search of recruits. Capt Mouton is a native of Louisiana and a former member of Congress. ‘Auto Industry Switch To All-Out War Output 1Planned atConferenc 200 Factory, Labor And Federal Executives Swing Into Arms Effort l D. C. TIRE RATIONING begins with seven applicants for new tires. Page B-1 Col. Frank Halford. United States SOME AREAS DELAYED as tire Marine Corps, retired, director of rationing begins throughout Na- recruiting, expressed the hope that tion. Page A-3 many ideal recruits will be obtained | ! from the area to be explored by the | More than 200 top-rinking in- dugout canoe. He pointed out that , ial Jabor I : leo as hunters and fishermen accus- | Gustrialists. labor leaders an = tomed to life in the open. the Louis- | ernment officials buckled down here iana bayou men are expected to today to the task of converting the make excellent Marines. | Nation's vast automobile industry to [ iy eart g o et production of armaments. w d A U d War and Navy Department araens Are Urged | omciais attendea the ciosed conter- ence to present details of a new To Take Over Watch | Army-Navy commitment of $5.000.- | 000,000 to the automobile industry. I The sum is to accomplish the con- ' ma er c oo S version and start immediate mass | i Official | production of war materials within ivilian Defense icigls the industry. ¢ s e ; | Undersecretary of Navy James V. Indicate Ballou’s Plan Forrestal and Maj. Gen. C. M. Wes- | bl son, chief of Army ordnance, were s Acceptable participating in the session. They were expected to be joined later by | sui:f;fe:’ ‘Sofi};:"l;l’ggthzflgf either Secretary of War Stimson or | fense authorities that the 24-hour | u'fi:fi;figgs}‘j‘;"nfi;j P guard over schools, which has been large hearing rooms adjacent to the | maintained largely by teachers. be omce of Director General William S. | modified to require air raid wardens ' gn.,4sen | to provide a watch over the smaller C 'mi fing Esutabued elementary school buildings. | e Dr. Ballou made this suggestion Price Administrator Leon Hender- | in a letter to Commissioner John | son opened the conference with an | Russell Young, defense co-ordnator.: explanation of the Government's Wiile there was no formal comment | new automobile rationing program, made immedately on the new plan. | Which is scheduled to become effec- it was indicated at civilian defense | tive January 15. | | headquarters that it would be ac-| Mr.Knudsen and O. P. M. Associate ceptable to the uthorities. | Director Sidney Hillman also were Meanwhile, Col. Lemuel Bolles:' present at the conference. Among executive director of civilian de- | representatives of the automobile fense, told the first session of a industry attending were Edsel Ford, school for volunteer workers at the | president of the Ford Motor Co.; | Departmental Auditorium today C. E. Wilson. president of General that Washington's civilian defense | (See AUTOS, Page A-3.) was approximately 80 per cent complete. 1 “We have established here a sound basic organization,” said Col. Bolles. “It is exceedingly simple and exceedingly effective.” of Propaganda AC“V“Y Dr. Ballou pointed out in his letter | | T(See D, C. DEFENSE, Page A-5) | "pi ity son 5. Bu-. ! OIS Ty s, % in ch: f the Detroit coca._COIa Flrm Shfls i;c: ?(nthen;ed.e:: ;urenu of In- | Rationing in Chatfanooga vestigation, disclosed today the ar- By the Associated Press. | Test of Glenn, C. Kiine, 31-year-old | s tenographer in a local railroad | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. f d described him as | The Coca-Cola Bottling Co, started | ticket office, and desc rationing case deliveries to retailers| Railroa_d'Worker Accused | ‘engaged in spreading vicious propa- | today due tp the sugar shortage and ganda here.” | other soft drink manufacturers in-| Kline was arrested by F. B. T.] | dicated they would adopt sitnilar | agents Saturday charged with fail- | | action. ure to register under the Selective Sam R. Connelly, manager of the | Service Act. Mr. Bugas said evi- | Chattanooga Coca-Cola Bon.ungldence of subversive activity would | Co., said sales would be reduced| be placed before a Federal grand | about 35 per cent. He explained | jury. 3 i Sl in a letter to customers that the Bugas said Kline has been active, Government had placed a limit on | in the “silver shirts” and he had dis- | sugar consumption of the carbonated | tributed subversive literature to beverage industry and that his com- | members of the Civilian Technial | | pany had been “forced to greatly | Corps sent to Great Britain from curtail the production.” the United States. | Sugar consumptiop for the month | Mr. Bugas said that when asked is limited to that in January, 1940,| Why he failed to register Kline de- Mr. Connelly seid, and added that | clared he believed the law unconsti- | sales here then were low, due to| tutional and would not fight “for a | extreme cold weather. | bogus America.” | Sl o ln e e chases a “pas i L T Owner Asks 0. P.M. fo Run they planned to adopt s retieniné Plant Closed by Pay Row purchases.” no definite action. By the Associated Press. TARENTUM, Pa., Jan. 5.—Samuel H 1 Corbis, proprietor of the Aluminum | 'A" L(“Ifl Countrles Ladder Co., said today he had closed | | To Have Embassies Here | nis piant because of a 1abor dispute | By the Associated Press. | and had asked the Office of Produc- The United States will place tion Management to take over and | diplomatic relations with all South | gperate the firm, which has been American countries on a full em- | busy on defense orders. bassy status within the current| Mr. Corbis said members of the week, diplomatic sources disclosed | A. F. L. Aluminum Ladder Workers’ today. !Unlon were demanding wage in- To facilitate relationships in a | creases of 25 cents an hour. Unidn hemisphere at war, the only three | representatives asserted they had countries now with a legation | asked pay hikes of 10 cents an hour rating—Bolivia, Ecuador and Para- | for some 30 employes earning from guay—will be raised to the top|45 to 73 cents an hour. diploggatic rank. The other eight| Mr. Corbis said he decided to close South American republics already [ his plant, which manufactures have exchanged Ambassadors with | aluminum ladders for submarines the United States. and bombers, after union leaders The diplomatic advancement will [ told him they would walk out bring few, if any, personne! changes | Wednesday unless their wage de- in the four capitals, diplomats said. | mands were lnzt. President fo Go Before Congress Tomorrow Daylight-Saving Law To Be Sought at Once, Barkley Declares President Roosevelt will deliver his message to Congress in per- son in the House at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow, Senate Majority Lead- er Barkley announced today after a conference with the President at the White House National daylight saving legisla- tion will be one of Congress’ im- mediate objectives, Senator Barkley said, adding that such a bill would be taken up today by the House and Senate Interstate Commerce Committees. In a program of speedy action, the Senate will begin debate Wednesday on the stringent price control bill, Senator Barkley said. On the same day, Congress expects to receive the President's budget message, Senator Barklev disclosed, but a final decision about that has not vet been definitely reached. Confer for 90 Minutes. The “big four” of Congress cone ferred for an hour and a half with Mr. Roosevelt in preparation for close co-operation between Congress and the Executive during the war emergency. Vice President Wallace. Speaker Rayburn and House Majority Leader McCormack accompanied Senator Barkley to the President’s study for the conferences preparatory to the opening of the new session of Con- gress, probably to be the most mo- mentous in the history of the repub- lic. “War calls for action and we are ready to act speedilv.” Representa- tive McCormack told the press when he left the White House. In another part of the White House, American and Allied military leaders spent the moming in con- ference on the plans being devel- oped during the presence here of the Churchill mission. President Works on Message. However, domestic business occu- pied President Roosevelt to the ex- clusion of matters relating directly to high military policy. and he kept his appointments slate empty for the rest of the day after the con- gressional leaders’ departure in order to work on his message for tomorrow. The daylight saving proposal would permit the President to put the clock backward or forward not more than two hours. He could pro- claim a national time change or prescribe zone changes. It was learnéd that the House is prepared to adopt as stringent a price control bill as the Senats passes. The House approved a weak price bill some time ago, but the Senate Banking Committee added many sharp teeth to the measure. Senator Barkley said that after the price bill and daylight saving are out of the way, Congress will go ahead with whatever legislation the war makes necessary. Huge Appropriations Due. Appropriation bills carrving un- precedented sums of money for Fed- eral expenditure are said to be on the must list, but their framing awaits delivery of the budget mes- sage. The President has announced that he will ask Congress for $50,000,000.- 000 to speed and insure the victory of American and Allied arms in the struggle with the Axis. Field Marshal Sir John Dill, chief of the British imperial staff, and Air Marshal Sir Charles F. Portal, R. A. P, leading military advisers of the Churchill mission, arrived at the White House early to pursue their vital work of mapping with American military men the blue- print for Allied co-operative mili- tary action. Some observers thought that ap- pointment of land and sea com- manders for unified action in the Atlantic region would be the next public announcement resulting from the Churchill mission activities Already Gen. Sir Archibald Wa- vell has been designated Far Eastern Allied commander and his associates and aides named for the pursuit of the anti-Axis war in that region, “Loose Ends” Legislation. Leaders said that discussions were going forward on possible legisla- tion to “gather up the loose ends” of the civillan defense program, but emphasized that the nature of such measures was still to be deter- mined. Meanwhile, four Senators served notice they would fight all attempts to eliminate Government programs for needy persons, youth training and farm aid as part of economizing in non-defense expenditures. Senator Norris, independent, of Nebraska, said it would be “penny- wise and pound foolish to try and eliminate these programs just as we are starting a war and may need them most.” Similar sentiment was expressed in separate interviews by Senators D. Worth Clark, Democrat, of Idaho; Bone, Democrat, of Wash- ing, and La Follette, Progressive, of ‘Wisconsin. Proposals for drastic cuts in Gov- T (See CONGRESS, Page A-6) Brig. Gen. Hershey Is Forum Speaker “Selective Service in Total War” is the subject of an address to be delivered by Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director of Selective Service in the National Radio Forum at 9 o'clock tonight. The forum is ar- ranged by The Star and broadcast over the network of the National Broadcast- ing Co. It is heard locally over Station WMAL.