Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1942, Page 8

Clever Strategy Used By Russian Forces In Seizing Kaluga Army Advances Through Area Undefended Because Of Intense Weather By A. T. STEELE, Poreign Correspondent of The Star and Chicago Dally News. KUIBYSHEV, Jan. 5.—A clever bit of military strategy in last week’s| fighting on the central front re-won | for the Russian Army the important | railway city of Kaluga, it has been disclosed here. | The Soviets chose as their line of | approach an almost roadless region which the Germans considered im- passable because of the heavy win- ter weather and which, therefore, was inadequately defended. i The Red Army began its advance | —and before the Nazis realized what | was happening, the drive was well | under way. A newly developed Russian anti- tank airplane, heavily armored and able to fire armor-piercing shells of small caliber, has contributed to the | Soviet successes in the Moscow bat- | tle according to Russian reports. Set Fire to Villages. Whenever they have time, the Germans set fire to villages they are about to abandon in order to deprive the Russian troops of winter shelter. One of the best ways to check up on the speed of the German withdrawal from any given area is by the extent of the fire damage. In places where the Nazis have been surprised by a flank attack and forced to retire hurriedly, the damage is often neglible. In many | cases, as your correspondent noted | on a recent trip to the front, whole villages have been reduced to ashes. The problem of billeting troops in such cases is indeed a difficult one. The winter weather is gradually | becoming more severe and the | change is welcomed by the Russians, who realize that they are much better prepared for worse weather than their German opponents. The bad weather likewise enhances the | Germans’ problem of extricating mechanized equipment from high- ways and railways threatened by | Russian pincer operations. The Red Army’s conquests of the | last week raise hopes for an eaer;, falling back of the whole central | sector of the German front oppo- site Moscow. By recapturing Kalu- g8, Naro Fominsk and Maloyarosla- vets, the Russians have deprived the enemy of the three main pegs to which the southern end of that im- | portant sector was anchored. Intense Pressure. Previously the Red Army had knocked the biggest enemy group from the northern flank of this 150- mile battle line by taking Kalinin and Volokolamsk. Now, from new- 1y captured bases, the Russians ap- pear to be exerting intense pressure from the north and south on the Tear of the German forces massed around and behind Mozhaisk on the Smolensk-Moscow highway—the main spearhead of Hitler's akortive offensive against the Soviet capital. It is an encirclement more ambi- tious than some of those formerly attempted by the Germans. ‘Withdrawing from Mozhaisk. Mozhaisk is about 60 miles west of Moscow. For some days it has been reported that under threat of envelopment the Germans have been withdrawing from Mozhaisk toward new lines prepared at Gzhatsk, 30 miles farther back. But the Russians may try to close the points of their two-pronged opera- tion still deeper into the Nazi rear | —perhaps outside Vyazma, 120 miles | west of Moscow. Neither Mozhalsk nor Gzhatsk is big enough to provide suitable win- ter quarters for any large German force and even Vyazma boasts a population of only about 50,000. The Germans may have decided on a line where they intend to make | tion said that at Belev the Ger- DISCOVERY TOO LATE—Randolph Harrison - (left) and Harry Covington, fishing captains who Washington Scouts drifted out were frozen to death, -_— sians reported wiping out 1,000 Ger- [ mans in a single cavalry attack. From sector after sector along the battleline the Russian account was one of captured guns, broken resist- ance and heavy Nazl losses. ‘The Russians said they broke up | attempts of the Germans to estab- | lish new positions in a number oti sectors and “inflicted heavy losses : on the enemy in marr power and ma- terials.” The Soviet Bureau of Informa- mans “lost 800 killed, more than 1500 soldiers and officers wounded; we captured 25 guns, 17 mortars, 25 | heavy machine guns, 50 anti-tank rifles, 70 lorries, 300 bicycles and documents of & German infantry division.” On other sectors, the communique added, the Russians killed 1,750 of- ficers and men and captured 3| planes, 195 trucks, 8 tanks and many | guns. Coastline Advance. ‘The fresh gains in the Crimea | were said to have resulted from a coastline advance. (In Berlin the Germans said their air force was raiding the Russians on the Crimea day and night. Elsewhere, Berlin said yes- terday, there was only “local pa- trol action,” with some air at- tacks in the Moscow zone.) ! Viewing the situation along the | entire front with swelling confidence, the Soviet Army newspaper Red Star declared that “fine prospects | are open to our troops. We have a chance of depriving the Germans of all advantages they now possess.” ‘The recapture of Borovsk followed |two days after the recapture of | Maloyaroslavets, which lies 15 miles |south of Borovsk. The steady | | progress gave weight to a Red Army declaration this week end that the Germans were being hurled back | | from Moscow at a rate three times | as fast as they had advanced. ‘That the Germans may have been | driven beyond an intended winter | line at the southern end of the front was indicated in a report to Pravda, the Communist party newspaper. The report said Soviet | troops and tanks fell on an “inter- | mediate line” prepared by the Ger- | | mans, destroyed it ahd held it against counterattacks. Claim Heavy Nazi Toll The Soviet Information Bureau in a review of the week from De- | cember 25 to 31 said the Red Army | | wiped out more than 10,000 Ger- | | mans southwest of Moscow and | another 2,000 in the Feodosiya sector | | of the Crimea, destroyed 745 supply | | trucks and captured or destroyed a | quantity of other war material. | +held in the Lee funeral home, Fourth | | street SE., the Rev. L. L. Bowers | | it was reported, and the Merryman |Japs Admit Whifes found the boat in which three in Chesapeake Bay. The boys —Star Staff Photo, Single Funeral Rite Planned Tomorrow For Three Boy Scouts 18 Comrades to Act As Pallbearers for Boys Who Died in Bay A single funeral service will be held at 11 am. tomorrow for three Washington Boy Scouts who were comrades in life and died together | in a bl swept out into Chesapeake Bay. Eighteen Scouts who knew the| ers and students of the junier high | schools they attended are expected to be present at the service, to be| street and Massachusetts avenue | NE. For Carrell C. Baker, jr, 15, of 1602 C street N.E. a brief religious | rite will be conducted there by the | Rev. John M. Ballback of the Metro- politan Baptist Church. For Billy Merryman, 14, 902 Ninth | of the Fifteenth Street Christian Church will conduct the rites. For Earl Edwards, 15, 321 Seventh street N.E.. the Rev. d. Ray Garrett of the Second Bapt¥t Church will lead the third religious service, | Following this Scout service will be held, with an executive of the| organifation speaking, the Baker | boy's father said today. The boys| were all members of Troop 18, he | said. | Cold winds pulled the youngsters | out into the bay from Breezy Point Friday. Their two small boats were found lashed together off James Island, on the Eastern Shore, late ! Saturday. Capt. Randolph Harri-! son of Tilghman Island, skipper of | the fishing boat Retriever, and Capt. | Harry Covington, a companion, saw | the small craft bobbing—with the | boys inside, killed by cold. | The Baker and Edwards boys will | be buried at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, youngster at Cedar Hill, Philippines , (Continued From First Page.). | Manila Bay and the logical spot : for the American-Filipino last stand. | InManila Have Been Confined to Homes Discriminatory Treatment Is Denied, However, in Domei Nels Broadcast By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 5—Domei news agency, in a broadcast from Tokio heard here by Reuters, denied todby “foreign reports of alleged discrim- inatory - treatment” of the white lation of Manila by Japanese tary authorities. ‘Domel quoted a “very high source in the imperial high command” in issuing its denial. Domei acknowledged that all white civilians in Manila, irrespec- tive of natiohality, had been ordered to remain ndoors after the Japanese occupation (as charged by Gen Mac- Arthur), but said this step had been taken “principally to protect the whites and enable the Japanese to weed out possble American fifth columnists.” Harsh Treatment Accorded Americans, Army Says Japanese invaders of the Philip- pines accorded “especially harsh” treatment to American civillans in Manila and discriminated “against all white residents,” the War De- partment reported today. Immediately speculation arose whether the State Department would seek through Swiss diplomatic channels te better the conditions of United States citizens in the islands. Switzerland is looking after United States interests in Japan by agree- | ment with the State Department. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in a radio message from his headquarters somewhere north of Manila, advised the War Department he had re- ceived reports from the Philippine capital “indicating discrimination against Americans by the oceupying Japanese forces, in marked contrast to the treatment previously accorded Japanese civilians by American troops.” Japs Well Treated. More than & week ago Gen. Mac- | boys will act as pallbearers. Teach- | Arthur reported in detail that Japa- nese civilians under American con- trol were being well treated, that about 3,000 were being protected from possible mob violence and that their property was being protected. He said steps to protect the Japa- nese civilians were taken at the urgent request of the Japanese Consul General in Manila. The report Gen MacArthur made yesterday said: “While the txeatment of American civilians is especially harsh, the Jap- anese are discriminating against all white residents of Manila. The oc- cupyng troops have issued instruc- tions that all white civilians in Ma- nila, irrespective of nationality, must remain indoors, under penalty of being shot if they appear on the atreets. These instructions imply contemplated internment of the ‘white population of the city, without | regard to citizenship. Apparently | subjects of Germany and Italy, al- | lies of Japan, as well as citizens of | neutral countries, such as Spaniards, of whom there are many in Manila, are inch)de%in the general discrim- ination agh! Propaganda leaflets being dis- tribited by Japanese airplanes also contain “abusive attacks on the white race,” the general baid. S SR | Registration (Continued From First Page.) of the United States” declared the Chief Executive's proclamation. It made no mention of registering men who are 18 to 20 or 45 through 64 years of age. These groups are | to be registered later on—but will be | exempt from service with the armed | forces. 1 There are three big groups who | Japs Report Damage To "Enemy Warship’ In Hawaii Atfack Three Harbors Shelled In Islands Raid on Dec. 31, Tokio Says B7 the Associated Press. TOKIO, Jan. § (Qfficial Brosd- cast) —Imperial headquarters re- ported todsy that Japanese naval units “heavily damaged an enemy warship” at Hilo, Hawali, in an at- tack December 31 on three Hawalian islands, Besides Hilo, two harbors on Maui Island and one on Kauai Island were attacked-by the Japanese warships, the communique said. (The United States War De- partment, announcing the attacks last Thursday, said only slight damage was caused by Japanese submarines which shelled Hilo, the harbor of Kahulul on the Island of Maui, and the shore line near Lihue on the Island of Kaual. There was no indication that any American warship was hit.) The army séction of imperial headquarters announced that its forces occupied Brunel between North Borneo and Sarawak on the island of Borneo January 1. In the same operation Japanese troops were said to have occupied Labuau island off the North Borneo China Sea coast. Raids on Corregidor. | The war report sald that since | New Year Day Japanese bombers | | had been hitting at the fortress | | island of Corregidor in Manila Bay | and the " suxiliary naval base at| | Olongapo. % 1t said heavy damage was caused by & mass raid by naval bombers at | Singapore the night of January 1. Japanese troops in a fierce offen- | sive launched at dawn January 1 have swept across the Perak River in the face of heavy artillery fire and annihilated the greater part of the 8th Australian Division, Domel | reported yesterday in a delayed dis- patch from “somewhere in Malaya.” | Elements of the 9th Indian Divi- | sion also were wiped out in the fighting which saw the Japanese cross the river despite the destruc- | tion of more than a dozen bridges ! | and occupy a keypoint in the British | |defense in Central Malaya on| | January 2, the dispatch said. British Declared Weakened. | British forces have been greatly weakened by this fighting on the | western side of the peninsula, Domei | said, and Japanese planes already | are striking toward another British defense point along the coast. They are finding Singapore itself an open and easy target, the agency added. Army planes struck at a British air fleld at Moulmein in Burma and | set one fighting plane afire and | the seat and the far side of the car. | dealing with nature study and ele- destroyed three others on the the coast of the Gulf of Martaban. | Although Domei said the British | defénse was weakening, the news- paper Yomiurl said in a dBDllChI from Bangkok, Thailand, that 90,000 | in Singapore on December 31. Summing up naval operations in | Philippine waters since the start| of the war, the navy section of i perial headquaters declared four de- stroyers, seven submarines and five other vessels had been sunk and| 360 alrcraft destroyed by the Japa- nese. { Craft Damaged. | A destroyer, two auxiliary ships| and 30 smaller craft were damaged, | the navy added, and 103 of the destroyed planes were shot down in fights. The Tokio populace, clad in fes- tive garb, paraded in jubilation yes- | terday over the capture of Manila. Uniformed service bands of the MRS. ELIZABETH K. PEEPLES. Edmonston_ Photo Prince Georges Bank Robbery Suspects Go |On Trial in Baltimore Pair Accused of $53,000 Holdup of . Two Messengers Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, Jan. 5—Two men charged with being members of the bandit trio which held up two Hyattsville bank messengers last September 25 and escaped with $53,- 000 in cash went on trial today in | Federal Court here. * They are Wililam Leo Keefe, 42, and Hilliard Sanders, 27. Sanders was arrested in Washington October | 30, the day following Keefe's arrest | in New York by F. B. 1. agents. Their trial had been delayed in the hope that a third suspect might be 8 found. The holdup of the Prince Georges Bank & Trust Co. messengers oc- curred one block from the bank when three men in an automobile drove out from a side street and blocked the messengers’ car. The bandits jumped from their automobile. While one remained near the car for a quick getaway, | the other two brandished a shotgun and a pistol. One grabbed the ignition keys from the messengers’ car and the other took two satchels from the rear fioor. The bandits nearly missed the second and larger satchel of money. The first contained $16,000. It was as the pistol-armed mandit turned to carry away the smaller satchel “look in the back seat” He did so and located the second bag, which held $37,000, half hidden between Today's trial opened with the | about 100 miles east o% Rangoon, on | the case before Federal Judge Wil- | liam C. Coleman. Suspect to Be Returned Detective Sergt. Walter D. Perry 3 | fresh Australiin troops had landed | of the Washington Homicide Squad 8 WhChy: | o Loy defl{ left today for Ocala, Fla, to bring -back James Covington, colored, | sought in connection with the fatal shooting of Willle Malloy, colored, S.W, on May 6, 1939. Covington rrested in Ocala yesterday. Mrs. Peeples, Former Communify Center Director, Dies Janney School Principal Was One of Capital’s Best Known Educators Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples, admin- istrative principsl of the Janney School and former director of the ‘Hoepital, about the She left & teaching ‘chreer to be , but re to the school system in 1921 as & nature study teacher, Shortly theréafter she be- came head of the corps of natuge study teachers in the schools. In 1926 she was named administrative prineipal of the Brightwood Ele- mentary School. 8he became director of the Com- munity Center Department in 1931. During her administration it devel- oped a wide program of child and adult recreation throughout the city in dancing, bridge, shop work, music, language study and many other activities. Former Principal at Brown. In. 1939 Mrs. Peeples was trans- ferred from the Community Center Department to administrative prin- cipal of the E. V. Brown School in Chevy Chase, D. C. At the be- ginning of this school year, she went to the Janney School in the same capacity. » ;mpenntendent of schools, said. her “unusual versatility as an adminis- trator and executive was shown * * * in her supervision for some time of | the department of nature study and | gardeping in the public schools, during which time she held positions of Jeadership in the American Nature Soclety and the National Council of of Nature Study and Gardening, serving as vice president | of these national groups.” In the minutes of the Board of Education of June 24, 1931, it was stated that “Mrs. Peeples brings to the position of director of the Com- munity Centers Department a gen- | uine interest in community needs, | an unusual ability in organization and administration in which she has demonstrated her capacity as a lead- | er, and those personal qualifications necessary for success in a position in which the director must be a i worthy representative of the school department * * *.” | _Co-Author of Science Readers. Mrs. Peeples served as national | vision Committee on Elementary | that his companion told him to| Science and directed the compila- tion of the Fourth Yearbook of the Department of Superintendence of | the National Education Association, mentary science. She was the co- | | ground, it was reported. Moulmein is | Selection of a jury which will hear author, with Dr. Ellis C. Persing, in | the publication of a graded series | of sclence readers ! | In 1930 and 1931 Mrs. Peeples was | | president of the Elementary Princi~ | | pcl;' Association here, Mr. Haycock said. She leaves a daughter, Miss Eliz- abeth Peeples, and a. sister, Miss Dorothy ‘B. Kalb. She made her | home at 3420 Garrison street N.W. 1 Funeral services will be held at| !in the 900 block of Third street|1l1 am. Wednesday at the Hysong | | chapel, 1300 N street NW. Burial | will be private at Oak Hill Cemetery. ' Free Tickets Lure 1,000 to Concert; It's Radio Fake B the Associated Press. " NEW YORK, Jan. 5~ Hall was comfortably filled and an au- dience of 1,000 persons who had as- sembled to hear the “premiere American recital of Yifnuff, the distinguished European concert violinist,” sat in hushed expectancy during the introduction. Finally Yifnuff played—and the sudience howled. For Yifnuff turned out to be sim- ply Mrs. Helen Margaret Freas, a Medford (N. J) housewife, who's go'dnpfiu.but not 80 hot with the The whole thing was a stunt staged by a radio quiz program’s master mind, who made Mrs. Freas appear as a “forfeit” for giving a wrong answer, and who had lured the crowd by mailing free tickets and actually inserting ads in news- papers. Later a real recital was given | by & real violinist and a real pianist and the audience wasn't disap- pointed. ' Congress (Continued From Pirst Page.) ernment outlays for the social pro- gram of the New Deal already have been advanced by Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia as chairman of the recently created “Joint Com- Robert L. Haycock, first assistant | mittee on Reduction of Non-Essen- | tiol Federal Expenditures.” ‘The Virginia Senator and a ma- | Jority of this special economy com- | mittee urged Congress to trim usual ‘Government appropriations in order | to speed the wartime program. Sen- ator Byrd said that $1,000,000,000 to | more than $2,000,000,000 could be saved by cutting funds for farm benefit payments, relief programs, | the Farm Security Administration, | the National Youth Administration, | the Civilian Conservation Corps and }llmunr agencies developed under | President Roosevelt’s peace-time administrations. | But Senator Norris contended “we | simply must keep all agencies going | that tend to build up our morale.” | “I know that the C. C. C. has | done a wonderful job not only for | the country but for the boys as | well,” he said. “A lot of the Mid- | west would be almost depopulated | if it had not been for various ef- forts of the Federal Government. | This is no time to increase poverty | and misery.” chairman of the Curriculum Re- | | { NATION'S FAVORIT | Tokio reported intensive air bomb- | will fill out card: Feb: am A Red Army major general of | | out cards on February 16.| usi | aviation, &he{ Kk vj ™ gw in the | ing of troops withdrawing from the These are youths who have turned | e Ce e e e s , rbakov, wrol | Manil: th | { procession through the streets of | government newspapr Izvestia that | 2nila area northward toward this | 21 since the last registration, on | the capital. Holiday crowds stroll- their winter stand, but stopping a retreat is much more difficult than starting it especially when weather BUILD YOUR FUTURE! conditions are as severe and pur- suit as rapid as in this one. Already it is evident that the Germans in several places have been forced back farther than they planned. Their desperate but efforts to recapture Kaluga demon- strated their desire to hold that city. Russian tanks and airplanes have borne the brunt of the offensive where it was possible to use them but an enormously important role has been played by mobile detach- ments of cavalry, ski troops and automatic riflemen dispatched far into the German lines to make sur- prise raids on villages and lines of communications in towns many kilometers behind the front. Night Cavalry Raids. Typical of these attacks are the eavalry raids usually made at night. Starting at sundown to escape enemy aerial observation, the horse- men sneak up within striking dis- tance of inhabited points as deep as 10 or 15 miles in the German rear. Then the troops. dismount, deploy and launch a surprise at- tack on foot. They usually are armed with automatic rifles and often are equipped with anti-tank guns and other anti-tank weapons. Sometimes their purpose is merely to kill, destroy, sow confusion and withdraw before dawn. On other occasions their object is to capture a town and hold it pending the arrival of their main forces. The capture of Kaluga® was ac- complished by a striking group com- posed of infantry, cavalry, artillery and some tanks, which deliberately chose a line of approach through an almost roadless region which the Germans had considered im- passable and which was, therefore. inadequately defended. Before the Nazis realized what was happening the advance was well under way. (Copyright, 1941, Chicago Daily News, Inc.) Russian (Continued From First Page.) capture of Belev brought the Russians within 75 miles of Bryansk.) The news of the German defeat at Belev was the first official an- | nouncement of the extent of the | Russian penetration west of the Oka River toward Bryansk. The drive has been developing steadily since December 28 when the | Russians said the Oka had been crossed and Kaluga recaptured. At the far southern flank of the fighting front, Russian troops in the Crimea, supported by units of the Red Fleet, reported retaking “one village after another” in fierce fight- Qn another front which the com- munique did not identify the Rus- unsuccessful | the Russians would come back in | the air during 1942 with faster and | mightier fighters and with bombers | able to carry heavier bomb loads | | greater distances. He said the Russians would hold the upper hand during the winter | months because of better prepara- | tions for winter air warfare. i In a report on the enormous booty | taken on the Kalinin front, north- | west of Moscow, in the six days be- ! tween December 28 and January 3, | the Soviet Information Bureau in a special communique listed: Three hundred and forty guns, 19 tanks and tankettes, 8 aircraft,| | 3,891 rifles, 274 machine guns, 686 automatic rifles, 53 mortars, 15 anti- | ‘ tank rifles, 145 cases of powder, more | | than 36100 minues, 37,889 shells, | | 425,000 rifle cartridges and a variety | of other things, including trucks,! motorcycles, bicycles, tractors and | horses. A Tass broadcast of the Soviet In- formation Bureau communique said Red Army troops which recaptured | the Crimean Port of Kerch found | that townspeople had been slaugh- | tered by the hundreds by German | troops. | The communique said that onDe- | cember 22 alone 160 persons were | shot in a single street where their | bodies were left piled on'the pave- ment. 1 Residents were quoted as saying | that heaps of bodies were hauled | to & cemetery daily and that once | a large group of townspeople was marched outside the city and shot | in a mass execution. e Germans Report Firing Five Ships at Feodosiya BERLIN, Jan. 5 (Official Broad- cast) (A).—The German high com- mand announced today that Nazi bombers, contini their assaults on the Crimean port of Feodosiya, had set fire to five large ships and & destroyer and damaged another big merchant vessel in the harbor. On the central sector of the east- | ern front before Moscow, German troops successfully repulsed “numer- | out enemy attacks and ghrusts,” the | daily communique said. | “In other sections of the front there -was only local activity,” it! added. Rusgians Beaten Back, Finland Reports | HELSINKI, Jan. S (#—Russian | forces continuing a two-day offen- sive north of Lake Onega were beaten back all along the line and suffered heavy losses yesterday, the Finnish war communique reported today. The high command said the Red ar'my lost three tanks in this fight- 4 department reported, except for a region, which is largely jungle coun- try. 4 The Japanese also have been | pounding away from the air at the island fortress of Corregidor, which | {would anchor the southern flank of | tions by men in the age group any determined stand on the Batan peninsula. i Communiques issued by the War | Depastment here indicated that Jap- | anese bombers were finding Cor- | regidor a tough nut to crack. The | anti-aircraft batteries of the fortress | were credited with knocking down 4 enemy bombers out of a flight of 21 yesterday and damaging others in an exhibition of shooting which drove the attackers off. Only minor damage and a few casualties in the fort were reported. Tokio disptaches—which already on several occasions have “destroyed to pleces” the entire United States Pacific fleet—told a somewhat dif- ferent story. They said no Japanese planes were lost and claimed that the effectiveness of the bombing in the third mass raid on the island was evidenced by the weakening of L American defense fire. ' The United States Navy yesterday challenged Tokio’s veracity anew. | There was absolutely no foundation, the Navy sald, to Japanese asser- tions that 27 American destroyers, 25 submarines and oneé aircraft carrier were trapped at Cavite, the United States naval base fear Manila, which was evacuated. All ships and personnel were removed safely, the hospital detail left behind to care for sick rnd wounded. The belief here was that the Navy had shifted from Cavite to Olongapo, a secondary naval base on the Ba- tan peninsula where Gen. Mac- Arthur’s hard-pressed troops appar- ently are now concentrating. Resigned to a further worsening of the situation in the Philippines, the Capital looked to the newly ap- pointed unified command for the Southwest Pacific to tipset the Jap- anese string of successes. Mexican Probers Accuse | 70 of Axis Espionage By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, Jan. §—A Mexi- can congressional committee yester- day accused 69 Germans and ofie Spanish Falangist living in Mexico of conducting espionege and propa- ganda work for the Axis powers. Alfredo Felix Dia Escobar, com- mittee president, charged in s state- ment listing names of the 70 per- sons, that there was a full-fiedged campaign afoot to create differences among Mexican people and to pro- mote opposition to the government | July 1, 1841; the still younger group of 20-year-olds, amd the men be- tween 36 and 44, who were prevl-} ously exempt. In theory, there would also be a trickle of registra- covered by previous acts, who for | | various reasons may have failed to show up at registration centers. | The first and largest registration— | first in America’s peacetime history, | was held on October 16, 1940. | About 17,500,000 men already have | been enrolled under the Selective | Service Act, and 1dcal draft boards have speeded up their classification. The local boards, assisted by addi- tional volunfeer workers, will be used to enroll the additional men. ° Many Leaving C. C. C. Many of the men in the 18 to 20 and 45 to 64 group to be enrolled, members of Congress said, could be | trained for jobs as fire wardens, air-raid spotters and emergency po- | licemen. A new questionnaire has| been prepared to aid the local boards in determining the qualifications of registrants. An indjcation that the Army was receiving substantial augmentation from another source came from J. J. McEntee, director of the Civilian Conservation Corps. He reported that since declaraton of a limited emergency in May, 1940, about 100.- 000 'C. C. C. enrollees had left the corps either to join the Armed forces or take private jobs. He did not specify the number which had Jjoined the armed forces. Britain Will Register Boys of 17 January 31 LONDON, Jan. 5 (#) —Britain’s 17-year-old boys will register for national service January 31, the Ministry of Labor announced today. ‘These youths will not be called up for the fighting services until they are 19. But those who are not at- tached already to youth organiza- tions will be encouraged to take up a similar form of training. | At the first sign of lrritation, | cold weather. | tion. ing along the Ginza in their New Year - dress, girls and women in traditional headdress and gay kimonos, and men in stiff attire joined children in giving the parade rousing cheers. Two Ships Evacuate 350 From West Indies By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 5—Two gray-| painted American vessels reached | New York yesterday from West In- | dies ports carrying more than 350 members of families of United States | Army and Navy officers and men | evacuated from bases for the dura- tion of the war. Many, including children, were| cared for by Red Cross units as théy waited for baggage clearance in the " Traffic (Continued Prom ¥First Page.) cident analysis and prevention sec- Total Increase in Salaries. ‘The permit examination section and the permit issuance section will be combined into the operators’ per- mit section with an examination subsection and an issuance subsec- tion. A financial responsibility sec- tion will be organized into a revoca- tion and restoration subsection and & compulsory insurance subsection. A total increase of $33,320 in the annual salariés of statutory em- ployes of the department is pro- vided, together with an increase of $17,040 in the work appropriations' for various additional per diem per- sonnel. \ 3 The Investigating Committee said the increases recommended were a direct result of the “enormous in- crease of the business of the Depart- ment of Vehicles and Traffic.” Sneeze or Sniffle— GARGLE in —ROTARY CLUB, Hong Kong. comfort and a solace. that her mfts are being devoted crusade on which Democrics —SIR MONTAGUE BURTON, Lon, “The best informed woman 1 have ever listened.”—COPE] WHAT OTHERS SAY— “Miss Alexaliders inspiring message went out to the farthermost reaches of the Pacific. was & privilege and joy to havp heard her. “Miss Alexander's comprehensive and sym- pathetic understanding of world problems is & We are bappy to know has embark aker to whom TAND, New York Trained People Are in Demand - E'S YOUR O Influence Decide Today to Do Your Part—Learn How to Think and Speak on:Your Feet THE AALCXANDER FORUM -FOUNDATION OFFERS MEN AND WOMEN A COURSE “PUBLIC SPEAKING AND SELF IMPROVEMENT" designed EXPRESSLY TO TEACH YOU in 14 LESSONS—to speak fluently and with ease—whether at home, in the office, at the conference table, over the radio, or on the public platform. WHAT WILL THIS COURSE DO FOR YOi.l‘l IT TEACHES YOU! ~ . TO MASTER FEAR 10 the great CONFIDENCE. Lincd “ACROSS.” . LEADERSHIP. PPORTUNITY! Improve YOUR Position Build a USEFUL Career Increase Your EARNING Power . TO THINK AND SPEAK ON YOUR FEET. . HOW TO HOLD ATTENTION, AND PUT YOUR IDEA . TO BECOME A GOOD CONVERSATIONALIST. Rublic Opinion AND GAIN POISE AND SELF- Evening Pot. “She kept her audience enthralied. She it truly s remarkadle youne womar.—CEN- TURY CLUB, Philadelphis, Pe. “A born teacher—never have we heard such & wonderfully clear Jecture. Everybody ia Amer- ica should hear 'Miss Alexander."—ELWOOD WOMAN'S CLUB, Providence, R. 1. “Your presence and abl affairs made our ‘meetin day. You are the first a be 5o honored.”"—THE A Paris, France. “She is one of today's best informed and most brilliant speakers on national and inter- national affairs.”—ECONOMY CLUB, Bostom. address on world s gala and unique only weman RICAN CLUB, All classes are under the personal direction of Melinda Alexander, internationally famous world traveler, author, lawyer, economist, radio commentator, and lecturer, who has been guiding.careers and teach- ing public speaking for the past fifteen years. ENROLL NOW CLASSES FORMING BRING YOUR FRIENDS . HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR DICTION. . HOW TO ENLARGE YOUR VOCABULARY. . HOW TO BRING OUT YOUR PERSONALITY AND DEVELOP YOUR LATENT ABILITIES. . HOW TO QUALIFY IN MORE THAN ONE LINE OF ENDEAVOR. . HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY. . BUSINESS STRATEGY. . HOW TO INCREASE YOUR SALES AND EARNINGS . HOW TO BECOME A POSITIVE FORCE. . HOW TO CHOOSE A CAREER AND BETTER PRES- ENT SITUATION. TIME_LIMITED NO CHARGE—NO OBLIGATION policy of co-operstion with the United States. LISTERINE qorek! ‘This wonderful antibeptic kills millions of germs on throat surfaces . . . the very types that many suthorities say are responsible for the cold misery you know all too well. At the same time it often relieves irritation of sore throats du¢ to eolds. Remember, inummm-“-m , jar twice-a-day users mfi’?‘:fi fewer colds, milder eolds and eolds of shorter duration than nomusers. So, at the first sign of ‘trouble, use Listeripe Antissptic - and consult your doctor. r Mrs. F. ). Kelly—The Mayflower—District 3000 (NORTH ROOM) Exelusive Mansgemont. OPENING SESSION—THE MAYFLOWER TUESDAY, JANUARY 6th, 8 P. M. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7th, 8 P. M. Affiliated With THE ALCXANDER FORUM FOUNDATION canmaL FATURES