Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 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. A Sy Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 14. 90th YEAR. Vast Production Plan Presented To Congress By JOHN C. HENRY. President Roosevelt told Con- gress today that America's blue- print for victory called for a tre- mendous production plan em- bracing an output of 125,000 planes, 75,000 tanks, 35,000 anti- mircraft guns and 10,000,000 tons of shipping in 1943. For this year—1942—he declared 60.000 planes, 10,000 more than the goal set a yvear and a half ago”: 45.000 tanks. 20,000 anti-aircraft guns and that “We ~shall produce 8.000.000 dead-weight tons of mer- chant vessels. Would Cost 56 Billion. Under an intensified four-point Industrial program. estimated to cost $56.000.000,000 in the coming fiscal year, the Chief Executive promised the world-wide forces of the united nations will carry this war to the back half a century. enemy. No. 35,679. The President’s Address Text of President Roosevelt’s address to Congress today on the state of the Union: In fulfiling my duty to report upon the state of the Union, I am proud to say to you that the spirit of the American people was never higher than it is today—the Union was never more closely knit together—this country was never more deeply deter- mined to face the solemn tasks before it. | The response of the American<- people has been instantaneous. It | will be sustained until our security is [ 2:' gf, sgl.ig::lg s}zr:g;nbvyh;shl:g- | assured. 2 L 3 to this Congre vhen _the die: { made in the months to come. We tators are ready fo make War UPON | iy o0 shrink from such decisions. us they wi i Y will not wait for an act of | o and those united with us will war on our part. * * * They—not we . —will choose the time and the place | Make those decisions with courage | and determination. and the method of their attack.” We now know their choice of the Plans Laid for Co-ordinated time, a peaceful Sunday morning— | And Co-operative Action. | December 7. 1941. r ' WASHINGTON, | We know their choice of the place, an American outpost in the Pacific | We know their choice of the! | method, the method of Hitler him- | | self. Japan's scheme of conquest goes | It was not merely a policy of seeking living Plans have been laid here and in the other capitals for co-ordinated and co-operative action by all the united nations—military action and economic action. Already we have established unified command of land. sea and air forces in the South- western Pacific theater of war. s i i a0 D. C, 60,000 Planes, 45,000 Tanks President's Goal for 1942 in Outline of Huge War Program * Sevastopol Reds WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ning A g i 1 W P Fe 3 Drive fo Smash Siege by Axis Russians Attempt ! Fresh Landings In West Crimea By the Associated Press. Russia’s long-besieged garrison at Sevastopol appeared to have broken German lines around | that key Black Sea naval base today, while Soviet transports boldly attempted to land troops on the Crimean west coast 40 miles to the rear of the Nazl | siege armies. | Front-line dispatches said Rus- “We shall hit him and hit him | room, it was a plan which included | There will be a continuation of con- again wherever and whenever we the subjugation of all the peoples in | ferences and consultations among can reach him,” he assured an at- tentive session of the House and Senate. the Far East and in the islands of | military staffs, so that the plans and the Pacific. and the domination of | Operations of each will fit into a | that ocean by Japanese military and | 8eneral strategy designed to crush sian troops had sallied forth from Sevastopol, advancing at a number of points to smash German outposts and destroy fortifications. At the same time the Berlin radio acknowledged that the Red armies Sta TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1942. Readers Prefer The Star More than twice as many people read ‘The Star in the afternoon and evening in Washington than any other news- paper. % Telephone National 5000 and delivery at your home will start immediately. P Means l0,000 Japs Cau;ht In Trap Northeast of Editorial in Turin Newspaper Lauds Gen. MacArthur ?Navy fo Turn Back Kearny Shipyard to BY the Associated Press. ROME. Jan. 6 (Andi Agency). —The Turin newspaper La Changsha, China Says Owners Tonight Associated Press. THREE - CENTS. 40-Million Fund Sought fo Keep ‘Agencies Here Senators to Press Appropriation for Office Space | ‘The Senate District Committes | today voted to seek an appropria- tion of $40.000,000 for additional temporary office space in and near | Washington to forestall the plan for | moving Government bureaus to other parts of the country. The committee, at a special ses- sion this morning, which was at- tended by ranking members of the House District Committee, indorsed a proposal made by Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, to have a resolution calling for the appropria- tion introduced in Congress. ‘The committee. at the same time, decided to send a telegram to Pres- ident Roosevelt, asking him to grant the Senate committee an early | opportunity to present to him the data it has collected showing that the Government can be kept in- tact in this area without any sub- stantial increase over the cost of moving agencies to other cities, Hearings Continue. Also meeting this morning to consider aspects of the same prob- flern was the Downs subcommittee of the House. which has been con- ducting hearings on decentralization for three months. This group heard testimony by officials of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board and the Office of Price Administration —to the effect that it would be | impractical to move either agency The Chief Executive outlined the naval control of the western coasts following as the victory program: |of North, Central and South Amer- | 1. For the calendar year 1942 ica. | the production of 60.000 military | giciere pry ogram Envisages planes, 45,000 of which will be | Domination ef Entire World. 1943 this total | . :‘;filb::n:i:l%%{o%r planes. ey | The development of this ambitious the enemy. We shall not fight iso- lated wars—each nation going its own way. These 26 nations are united—not in spirit and determina- tion alone. but in the broad conduct of the war in all its phases. For the first time since the Jap- 2. Production of 45000 tanks in 1942 and 75.000 in 1943. 3. Production of 20,000 anti- afrcraft guns in 1942 and 35,000 in the vear following. | conspiracy was marked by the war | anese and the Fascists and the Nazis | | against China in 1894; the subse- | started along their blood-stained | quent occupation of Korea: the war | course of conquest they now face against Russia in 1904; the illegal | the fact that superior forces are as- | | fortification of the mandated Pa 4. The launching of 8.000.000 deadweight tons of merchant shipping. compared with a 1941 | the invasion of China in 1937. production of 1,100.000 tons. In | A similar policy of criminal con- | The | 1943 production will be scaled to |quest was adopted by Italy. | 10.000,000. Fascists first revealed their imperial | “These figures and similar figures designs in Libva and Tripoli. In for a muititude of other implements ' 1935 they seized Abyssinia. Their of war,” he promised grimly, “will | goal was the domination of all North | give the Japanese and Nazis a little | Africa, Egypt, parts of France. and idea of just what they accomplished the entire Mediterranean world. | in the attack on Pearl Harbor.” But the dreams of empire of the | sembling against them. Gone for- | |cific islands following 1920; the | ever are the days when the aggres- | | seizure of Manchuria in 1931, and sors could attack and destroy their pomped resistance. (Continued on Page A-7.) We of the united na- Ship Built in Recofd Tim Completes Trials Today By the Associated Press. Unity of Purpose Hailed. Japanese} and Fascist leaders were BOSTON, Jan. 6.—The 12.000-ton Mr. Roosevelt’s report bristled modest in comparison With the tsnger Sinclair H-C undergoes ac- with invective against the enemies Bargantuan aspirations of Hitler and | ceptance trials today. 100 days after of the United Nations and hailed his Nazis. ! e repeatedly the unity of purpose and | to power in 1933, their plans for con- | constructing a ship of her size and determination which now mark the quest had been drawn. Those plans | type. anti-Axis front. Out of this de- provided for ultimate domination, "The tanker was built and launched termination, he asserted confidently, Not of any one section of the world, | at the Fore River Yard of the Beth- will come a true co-ordination of but of the whole earth and all the | jehem Steel Co. in 63 working days, Even before they came ' hor keel was laid—a world record for | fighting action and total victory. | oceans on it. | Even such victory, he went on, will not this time be the sole ob- jective of the associated powers opposing aggression. “Our own objectives are clear,” he said in explanation, “the objec- tive of smashing the militarism imposed by war lords upon their enslaved peoples—the objective of liberating the subjugated nations— the objective of establishing and securing freedom of speech, free- dom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear everywhere in the world.” Continuing this exposition of the war and peace aims, he asserted further: “We shall not stop short of these objectives—nor shall we be satisfied merely to gain them and then call it a day. I know that I speak for the American people—and I have good reason to believe I speak also for all the other peoples who fight with us—when I say that this time we are determined not only to win the war, but also to maintain the security of the peace which will follow.” Vast Superiority Seen. An attentive and approving body of legislators reflected the Presi- dent’s own earnest feelings and con- viction as he declared: or 76 days by the calendar. The Attack en Pearl Harbor Failed in Its Purpose. | | | With Hitler's formation of the ' Berlin - Rome - Tokio alliance. all these plans of conquest became a | single plan. Under this. in addition | |to her own schemes of conquest, | Japan's role was to cut off our supply | | of weapons of war to Britain, Russia | and China—weapons which increas- | ingly were speeding the day of | Hitler's doom. The act of Japan at | Pearl Harbor was intended to stun | us—to terrify us to such an extent | that we would divert our industrial | and military strength to the Pacific | area, or even to our own continental | | defense, The plan failed in its purpose. We have not been stunned. We have not been terrified or confused. This reassembling of the Seventy-seventh Congress is proof of that; for the mood of quiet, grim resolution which here prevails bodes ill for those who conspired and collaborated to mur- | der world peace. 1 That mood is stronger than any mere desire for revenge. It expresses | the will of the American people to | make very certain that the world | will never so suffer again. | Admittedly. we have been faced example. not to be able to relieve previous record. held by the same | plant, was 119 calendar days. She was taken on her builders’, trials yesterday and the acceptance trials today preceded delivery to her owners, the Sinclair Refining Co. Workmen at the vard, who have asserted “We can build ships faster than they can be sunk™ originally et 90 days as their goal for the launching of the Sinclair H-C, but they under-estimated their capa- bilities. The launching date was twice advanced as 14 days- were clipped off the 90. Usually about two months are re- quired to place a tanker of her size in commission after launching, but that was cut to 24 days. R. A.F.Planes Hearii'l.y Raid Brest and Cherbourg Docks BY the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 6—British air raiders heavily bombed docks at | Brest and Cherbourg in German-oc- | cupied France last night and dam- | aged a big Nazi supply vessel off the | Frisian Islands. announced today. The raids were carried out with no | with hard choices. It was bitter, for | 10‘:,::“1:::,2' '.h: °2::;':‘.§‘u§affllf . \ ““The militarists in Berlin and To- the heroic and historic defenders of NIPS Gneisenau and Scharnhorst kio started this war. But the wake Island. It was bitter for us 204 the cruiser Prinz Eugen have the Air Minlslryi had broken “the German main line" | before Moscow—perhaps referring | to the vital Mozhaisk sector, 57| miles west of the Russian cgpital, where the Germans have concen- trated powerful forces. Transports Bombed. A bulletin from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters, indicating that the Russians are now in full command of the Black Sea waters around the Crimea. said German warplanes Soviet troop transports off | victims one by one without unity of | Yevpatoriya, 40 miles north of Sev- | astopol. | The communique said three of the | Russian transports were damaged and a protecting speedboat was sunk. i It seemed clear that the Russians already overrunning the Eastern Ci mea in a tempestuous counterinva- sion. were seeking to gain a toehold 'on the west coast, where they could trap the Germans by cutting off the escape route north to the narrow Perekop isthmus. Dispatches to the Soviet govern- | ment newspaper Izvestia said Rus- | sian troops which landed at Feodo- siva, in the Eastern Crimea. had reached the Sea of Azov. cutting off | the entire Kerch peninsula. Izvestia's correspondent said the Germans tried to shift part of their Sevastopol forces to stem the Rus- sian onslaught on the Kerch Penin- sula, only to meet a deadly hail of shells from Soviet warships and coastal artillery and bombs from Russian naval aircraft. “The Black Sea fleet fulfills with credit its task,” the correspondent said. On the central front. the length- | ening arm of the Soviet ceunter- offensive was reported &weeping | the Germans back on Kursk., 280 miles below Moscow and about 100 miles south of Orel. Soviet dispatches said that Red Army troops who routed the Ger- mans from Tim. 40 miles east of Kursk. were advancing rapidly and that the road in this sector was littered for 15 miles with Nazi | corpses, shot-torn cars and trucks. “The Germans did everything to retain this line.” the Russians said. | “A unit commanded by Dobrovolsky | outflanked the Fascists and pene- | trated their rear.” | (The British Radio said the ‘ Russians were reported to have crossed the Upper Donets River as part of an attack on a broad front. This could be in the region of Kharkov.) 300 Square Miles Retaken. | Red Army troops, backed by Amer- ican-made fighter planes, were re- ported in Kuibyshev to have recap- 30,000 Nipponese Escape | Toward Yochow, 100 Miles to North Stampa in an editorial today commended Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's “resistance, courage, energy and obstinacy” in the American commander's defense of the Philippines. “Events have shown that, if The result of the Senate commit- |tee’s action this morning, it was indicated. will be the introduction in the Senate of a resolution by Senator McCarran. calling for the | $40,000.000 appropriation. The meas- | ure probably will be referred to the Plant Has Set Record Of Construction Under U. S. Management By the Associated Press. CHUNGKING, Jan. 6—Forty| thoysand Japanese troope are caught | he is not abandoned by his native troops, he will prolong his resistance,” the article de- | Secretary of the Navv Knox an- nounced today that the Kearny (N. J) plant of the Pederal Ship- in a Chinese trap on the plains be- | tween the Laotao and Liuyeng Rivers northeast of Changsha in Hunan Province and Chinese forces are confident of wiping out most of them, a Chinese spokesman said today. Estimating that the Japanese had suffered 30.000 casualties in the bat- tle before Changsha, the spokesman said only 30,000 of the original force of 100.000 had escaped toward their jumping off point at Yochow, 100 miles to the north. The spokesman’s estimate of 30,000 casualties was a reduction from pre- | vious estimates of 52,000. Retreat More Than 10 Miles. ‘The Japanese had retreated more than 10 miles from the Hunan prov- | ince capital, dispatches said. The third major Japanese defeat at Changsha in three years was at- clared. ‘Bame Tide Sweeping Nearer Singapore as British Yield Further | Withdrawals Are Made On Both East and West Coasts of Malaya BY the Associated Press. | building & Dry Dock Co. will be given back te the original manage- ment at midnight tonight, after 134 days of operation by the Navy. Secretary Knox acted in accord- ance with a White House executive | order signed by President Roosevelt. In announcing return of the plant to the owners, Secretary Knox said: “Any unsettled issues between the company and the union should be settled by negotiation and agree- ment.” Following a prolonged strike of a { C. I. O. union at the Kearny vards | the Navy took over management of | the plant last August 25. Held Huge Contracts. The union had demanded inclu- sion of the “maintenance of mem- SINGAPORE, Jan. 6.—The tide of | bership” clause in any agreement Peninsula, crept nearer to Singa- | battle, rolling "down .the Malayan and the management. headed by L. | H. Korndorft, refused to accede to | the demand. At the time the plant tributed to their inability to move pore today as hard-pressed British came under Navy management it | damage was | gunfire, massed. angered forces of commON | not to be able to land a million men | é€n reported docked, has been a humanity will finish it.” That Mr. Roosevelt is planning and a thousand ships in the Philip- | [requent target of the R. A. F. The | | pine Islands. = ;:x;f‘l:gs have been the prime ob- tured 300 square miles of territory on the Leningrad front in five days | of counterattacks after checking a | heavy armament south of the Milo ! forces yielded further ground at ‘ held $493,000,000 worth of ship con- River because of water-filled rice |, .} oas of the ill-defined front Struction contracts. fields and obliteration of the roads by Chinese forces who for the first time were able to concentrate su- perior artillery fire on their foe. Yale-in-China University at Changsha was used by the Japanese | ish troops were forced to withdraw cluding for headquarters before their re- | yesterday from Kuantan, only 190 Cruisers treat and was shelled by the Chi- | nese. the spokesman sald. This not serious, he de- clared, but before retiring the Jap- | anese set fire to the premises. As the front receded the sound of which had reverberated throughout the city yesterday morn- ing. diminished to a low rumble by nightfall, tne dispatch said. | Changsha Bombed Again. | Japanese planes, however, bombed Changsha again during the day and also attacked districts on the oppo- site side of the Siang River. The Chinese claimed. meanwhile. | that their troops in Western Hupen Province had slain approxomately 700 Japanese in a series of success- | ful counterattacks in the vicinity of | Ichang. | A spokesman annoupced creation | at Chunking of a united information ' committee of anti-Axis powers to co-ordinate all matters of publicity. Similar bodies are being estab- | he said. under fresh Japanese attacks by land and sea. On the eastern side of the penin- sula. a communique disclosed. Brit- miles from Singapore. On the western side, the Malayan war front moved southpard into an- other, the sixth, native-ruled state as Japanese forces fiitered down the Malacca Straits coast into Selangor. Japanese appearing in the area of Kuala Selangor, 240 miles from | Singapore, were believed intent on | flanking the British out of their po- sitions farther north along the Perak River. Moved South Along Coast. ‘The British said these Japanese detachments apparently were a part of the force which landed along the lower Perak, 60 miles north of Kuala Selangor. on January 2 and which then moved southward along a coastal footpath. Kuantan, 190 miles from Singa- pore, on the east coast, is connect- ed with Central South Malaya by a single poor road through rough- est jungle country infested with | lished at Washington and London, | tigers and crocodiles. Japanese infiltrations inland along this road, official quarters said, al- Since the Navy operation began under the direction of Rear Admiral | H. G. Bowen, the Navy reported, keels for 12 vessels have been laid; 10 ships have been launched, in- four destroyers and the Atlanta and Juneau, and seven vessels have been commis- sioned. In turning the plant back to the Federal officials, Secretary Knox said that as a result of the recent | industry-labor conference there will be no war stoppages anywhere. Text of Announcement. Text of the Knox statement fol- | lows: “This is not the time for the Navy to be operating an industrial plant | unless it is absolutely necessary. I | am advised that the management and the employes and everyone con- | cerned are anxious to relieve the | Navy of this burden and are con- | fident that restoration of the plant to its owners will insure maximum | production. “As a result of the recent industry- labor conference. there will be no war work stoppages anywhere and 11 disputes will be resolved by aceful means. Any unsettled issues between the company and the union should be settled by negotia- | tion and agreement; if not. they can | be resolved without interrupting pro- ready had “interfered” with Brit-| duction by recoume to the ma- ish troop movements westward and | chinery established by the President. had resulted in casualties on both | ~.iye confidentally expect the man- Occupation of Changsha Claimed by Japanese t ti j Si- {s?lrnvmsorN “ni".'l,i?ic{.fl'?&?é ";:k?g:g | United Nations' Efforts A pre-dawn foray by a lone in- + | Now Being Consolidated. vading bomber today caused some equipment for our own forces and | for those of the united nations was| But this adds only to our deter- |damage at a place on the northeast Indicated at several points in his mination to see to it that the Stars | message. From such a program as he is even now outlining, and ap- propriate departments alreadv have been ordered into immediate im- plementation of this chart, the President made clear his belief that | superiority of the united nations will become “so overwhelming that the Axis nations can never hope to catch up with it.” To no small degree. he prophe- gied, the supply of fighting equip- and Stripes will fly again over Wake | coast of England. the Government announced. No casualties were re- ported. Bombers Damage Two Ships. BERLIN, Jan. 6 (Official Broad- and Guam; and that the brave peo- | ple of the Philippines will be rid of | Japanese imperialism; and will live | in freedom, security and independ- | cast) () —German bombers dam- | aged two merchant ships in attacks Powerful and offensive actions |last night on British supply lines oft must and will be taken in proper |the Faeroes and the English west time. The consolidation of the | coast, the Nazi high command said United Nations’ total war effort, today. 1gainst our common enemies is being | achieved. — 2t g 2 | (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-6.) That is the purpose of conferences | | which have been held during the Mine Blast Kills Six LONDON, Jan. 6 (#).—Six coal past two weeks in Washington, in | miners were killed and four were in- | Moscow and in Chungking. That is| jured today in an explosion in a | | German offensive. | | Soviet gains in the frozen wastes of the North came with announce- | | ments of further inroads against | Hitler's legions at the center and | in the South. Russian dispatches said four Cur- tiss Tomahawks, manufactured in' the United States, shot down eight Messerschmitts and routed others | supporting the German drive before | Leningrad, which Maj. Gen. Fed-| yunisky's Soviet forces countered | with such vigor they drove the in- | vaders from 30 villages. | The Tomahawks came through | untouched. Correspondents said | | many Russian planes were equipped with skiis and others were being fitted with them for operations at | snow-blanketed fields. Arlington Traffic 7Cfippled By Fire in Coal Yards Traffic on the heavily-traversed Jefferson Davis Highway in Arling- ton County was held up for more than an hour during the peak traf- fic period this morning when a fire broke out at the Blue Ridge Coal Co. yard near Columbia pike. Hose spread by two Arlington fire ecompanies across the highway ‘he primary objective of the declara- colliery at Leigh, Lancashire. . Summary of Today’s Star | Washington and Vicinity. Tide of Malayan battle sweeps closer | Central Labor Unlon against moving to Singapore. Page A-1, agencies from D. C. Page A-7 British mopping u kets in rear AUto and tire problem may mean of rmmpx':; Ltbyp-.w Page A-2 _ more streetcars here. Page B-1 | Appeals Court orders retrial of “Siamese twin" case. Page B-1 Foreign. | “The German planes are still on | | wheels.” a front-line dispatch to | Kuibyshev said, “while lacking thei kind of airdromes wheels demand.” A Soviet Information Bureau communique, broadcast by the Mos- | cow radio, emphasized the aerial | theme, saying: “Our air force on January dis- | persed and annihilated more than | three regiments of infantry (per- |haps 6000 men), destroyed 790 trucks loaded with troops and shot | down 41 German planes with a loss | TOKIO, Jan. 6 (Official Broad-| cast) (#—A Hankow dispatch of | Domei, Japanese news agency. as- serted today that Japanese forces had completely occupied Changsha, | Hunan Privince capital. after four days of street fighting with the 10th Chinese Army Corps. 60 Escape Gambling Sentences by Aiding Hawaii's Blood Bank By the Associated Press. 1 HONOLULU, Jan. 6.— Sixty persons, arrested for gambling ! during the holidays, escaped ‘ | | | | fines and jail sentences by con- tributing to the islands’ emer- gency blood bank. sides. From Kuala Selangor good roads run eastward and to the railroad (See MALAYA Page A-3) | agement and the men to see to it | that this plant is operated at full and have quickly. On behalf of the speed to produce ships we must have | Navy and the Maritime Commission I want to thank the executive. super- visory and production personnel and the local C. I. O. union for their co-operation which has enabled Admiral Bowen to make a splendid | record at Federal and to produce | ships substantially ahead of sched- ule.” British Again Raid |Salamis Sub Base | | By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Libya. Jan. 6—An R. A. | P. raid on the German submarine | base at Salamis, Greek port west - of Athens, was reported by the| Union Not Recognised. R. A. F. Near East command today | The maintenance of membership for the second successive day. | clause, central issue of the long la- Senate Appropriations Committee Only two members of the House District Committee—Chairman Ran- dolph and Representative Dirksen of Illinois—were present and they were not bound by the Senate com- mittee’s action, but were requested by unanimous consent to present the proposal to the House committes for consideration. Tydings Leads Fight. Taking the lead in the fight te avoid scattering Government offices, Senator Tydings tald the gathering | an analysis of the report submitted late yesterday by Public Buildings Commissioner W. E. Reynolds shows the Government’s office problem can be met within the Metropolitan area | of Washington and that even if new housing had to be built for the workers not yet here. The ecost | would be only $21.000.000 more than the cost of moving a dozen agencies elsewhere for the period of the war. The Maryland Senator made no immediate provision in his resolu- | tion, however, for additional living | accomodations, pending a survey to find out how manv new employes could be taken care of in existing | dwelling places. To this end. he asked the Publie Buildings Administration to find out how many private homes in Wash- ington could make room for one or more Government employes. He developed also the information that 2,000 living units have been con- verted into office space by the teking over of hotels and apart- ment houses for war-work agencies. | These living quarters could be res stored. he said. by building the ad- ditional temporary office buildings. Representative Dirksen made the only argument for transfer of some of the non-defense agencies to other cities, and said he was thinking of their permanent removal, because the problem of providing for the newer agencies here is going to be a progressive one. Mr. Dirksen sug- gested less expensive living ac- commodations would be obtainable in the other cities. Contention Questioned. Senators Tyvdings and McCarran questioned this contention and countered with a prediction that a substantial part of the personnel of the agencies to be moved would not leave Washington, but would transfer to defense agencies. Their prediction was supported by John Collier, Commissioner of In- | dian Affairs, who said about 40 per cent of the employes in the Bureau of Indian Affairs here have indi- cated they would not leave Wash- ington with the bureau. Pointing out that the entire dis= cussion has centered around “de- centralizing” the Government, Mr. Collier said: “The Indian Bureau is already decentralized. We have only three per cent of our personnel—380 em- ployes—in Washington. Our fieid staff is 9.000.” e | He emphasized that it is impera- tive for the bureau to have a head- | quarters here because Congress is constantly legislating directly on In- dian matters, and the Indian tribes The Greek peninsula is directly across a narrow neck of the Medi- terranean from the hump of Libya | and, therefore, in a strategic posi- tion for German U-boats menacing British ships supplying the armies pushing westward in North Africa. bor dispute at Federal, requires that | make regular visits to Washington any union mémber presently | in connection with their legislation. ployed at the shipyard, or any work- | In the recent removal order the er who might later join the union would be required to maintain union membership in good standing as a condition of his employment. Clipper, Trapped in New Zealand by War, Flies-Around World to Get Back to U. S. (Picture on Page 1-X.) By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 6—Pan Amer- The globe-encircling route which ‘was then followed carried the Clip- blocked several thousand motorists National. | who were en route to work in Wash- s f | ington when the alarm was turned Senators seek to prevent moving of | in at 8:30 am. Federal bureaus. Page A-1| Coal company officials said the Navy returns Federal Shipbuudinc} blaze, probably started from internal Co. to owners tonight. Page A-1 ‘ combustion, was burning in a pile | Navy sets up sirship patrol for of coal containing 1,000 tons. Most | Atlantic. Page A-2 of the fuel, which had been stored Auto plant conversion plan expected in reserve in case of a shortage of today. Page A-2 coal this winter, was expected by company officials to be a total loss | Rotating chairmanship for new La- before the slow-burning blaze could | bor Board rumored. Page A-2 be extinguished. Several thousand | Ann Sheridan and George Brent are | tons of coal piled nearby was un-| married. Page A-§| touched- by the blaze, company | Philadelphia Evening Ledger sus-| efficials said. pends publication. Page A-l[ A f ahaney takes stand in Hyattsville bank robbery. Page B-1 ‘Wardens at defense sessions hear talks on bombs. Page B-1 29211 public and parochial pupils get free milk. Page B-1 Nearby tire boards begin operating this week. Page B-1 Bishop Freeman praises parishioners of Epiphany Church. Page B-7 Miscellany Nature’s Children. M Licenses. Births and Deaths. Army Orders. Page B-9 Page B-3 Page B-9 Page B-10 of 11 Soviet planes.” |ican Airways' Pacific Clipper, trap- In various actions aground yes- | ped in New Zealand by the outbreak terday Russian troops officially were | of war in the Far East a month ago declared to have continued their | tomorrow, arrived here today after advance in fierce fighting which cost the Germans heavy losses and “oc- cupied & number of inhabited lo- calitfes.” Pinnish forces suddenly have launched an attack below the Svir River—admittedly after a long pe- riod on the defense during the Ger- |man retreat farther south—and | have captured s number of Rus- sian positions, a Helsinki communi- que declared. a globe-girdling flight described offi- cially as “routine.” The flying boat was at Auckland on a scheduled passenger and mail flight from San Francisco and Los Angeles when overtaken by the start of hostilities. With the war closing the normal return route to the Pacific mainland, the Clipper was ordered to proceed by the “m ctical route” to the Atlantie terminal in New York. | per, commanded by Capt. Robert | Pord, back and forth across the | Equator four times and stretched out to 31,500 miles of flying from December 2. So earefully-guarded was the 85.- 000-pound clipper’s long flight that fewer than a dozen persons, includ- ing the airways staff at the base, knew of it. Starting from Auckland on De- cember 16. the Pacific Clipper turned northward to Noumes, New Caledonia, and from there headed £ ' the time it left San PFrancisco on | west to New York, more than 23,000 miles away. | Although details of the route fol- | lowed by Capt. Ford and his crew of | 11 were not disclosed for security | reasons, the clipper’s course caused | it to touch or cross five of the earth’s seven continents—all except Europe and Antarctica. csico until it reached La Guardia PFeld, it made 18 stops in 13 coun- tries. The Pacific Clipper touched or crossed the Bouth Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, Australia, the Timor Sea, Netherlands Indies, Bay (Bee CLIPPER, Paget A-3) Prom the time it left S8an Fran- | | Indian Office was slated to go to | Chicago. | New Space Estimated. ‘The $40,000.000 appropriation pro- posed by Senator Tydings would provide for 4000000 additional square feet of temporary office space, which it was estimated will be need- ed in 1943, after the completion of construction work now authorized. His resolution stated that the | cgmmissioner of public buildings had sstimated that on January 3, 1942, he had requests from agencies of the Government for 4,980,000 square feet of additional office space for use before June 30, 1942, and anticipates further requests for additional office space of 5,000,000 souare feet for use before December 31, 1942, with the following prospect of fulfillment: (A) Public Buildings Administrae tion has under construction 1,175,- 000 square feet. (B) Public Buildings Administrae tion has an appropriation which will create by June 30, 1942, 1,500,000 square feet. (C) Available space in new War (See TION. A.