Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1942, Page 2

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L] L} k) 8 Drive Furiously at Singapore Crimea of Nazis - e | ' 0f Farm Bloc e i - i | UNITEDSTATES ST = Russians’ Offensive ATTORNEY GENERAL ' | Attempt by Sendtors English Lose 15 | EAGEA { ™ 2 100 } Swells in Karelia; _ i | To Give Veto Power Airports; Kuala ==\ ; Fleet in Action 7 ‘ | To Wickard Opposed Lumpur Menaced ‘ === | 57 the Assoctated s gl | BACKGROUND— e ‘ i | Iayed 2 aat Wsan: dotemees oi | : [Lost summer the edministra- Br‘?ush jungle fighn.ers de- % \>§ & | S’évuio(p(:} a:e;lreakgi;g the fiirr';il:: e Rt 3. Il | ::’;ndl/yu:lz’;u‘:%%mfi‘f;:{ 2IPOH | in the campaign to drive the in- passed by House Nove1r;ber 28 l;x withdrawal today south of the Slim River, in Northwest Malaya, as Japan's invasion Kuala Lumpur. The Slim River, a tributary the Bernam River dividing Perak and Selangor Provinces, is 50 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaya’'s second city, 240 miles from Singa- pore British Far East headquarters said the retirement was necessary to pre- serve a solid front. Tokio dispatches broadcast by the German radio said Japanese troops hordes | struck down the peninsula with peak fury in a drive aimed at of | Il Ni w&‘m !! | vader out of the Crimea. | Military dispatches said today that Russian troops advancing from | the hilly approaches to Sevastopol were crushing the Germans' own positions—now hurrledly converted | from offensive to defensive func- | tions—and that despite prevailing | storms, the Black Sea fleet was co- | operating in the operation. Russians Pouring In Powerful Reserves | LONDON. Jan. 8 (#.—The Red Army was reported reliably tonight to have poured powerful reserves of newly-trained troops into its west- modified form. It protected farm- ers by denying the price admin- wstrator the right to establish price mazximums until farm prices have reached 100 per cent of parity, or the level of last October 1. Farm block now is trying to deny final say to administrator, give it to Secretary of Agriculture, By the Associated Press. " President Roosevelt stepped into a Senate dispute today by sending administration leaders a letter op- posing demands of the farm bioe that the Secretary of Agriculture have veto power over the fixing of now “threaten the outer positions of =2} | ward drive south of Moscow which| ___ Rl s ARG o 05 oo kg s . farm prices. ‘Ku;ln Ln(li'np\ut' “and ]th;l anar;;:e E{ already has shoved the Germans The letter was to be presented agks and artillery had crossed a et i Awh-| halfway back to Smolensk from P . later today by either Majority Lead- Sk =1 | halfway y by river west of the town, cuttag off NS =R e ' the Nezi invasion F B ' D 'h - H S ' B er Barkl Senator Brown, Dem- the rear of British defense forces = lhTthr{‘p:\"‘flgogi werchaxd to have Ive urn 10 ea Harvard Residence Ca' e"ng ureaus o;ru:,r oteylzfchigun?rflo;r‘:nmger Kuala Lumpur is 240 miles north of supplemented their own arms with = Sends Back Census for the legislation Singapore. WHERE JAPANESE PUSH DOWN MALAYA PE SULA—In- | weapons abandoned by the Germans When F"e sweeps . Blow a' Democracy They have been battling demands in their forced retreat. Blank With Hauteur I | by the farm bloc, led by Senator Defense forces imposed a curfew on Kusla Lumpur and its residents| '2ding Japanese, striking by land and air in British Malaya, | ®.rp, pussians stili have un- o i l . | Banknead, Democrat, of Alabama Were ordered to stay in their homes had the key city of Kuala Lumpur as a major objective today as | ouched reserves of man power Inienor o' Dwe"lng ”'é’:&;‘;‘l‘&;;";{ o Rankln Assens that the Secretary of Agriculture , Mass, Jan. have the final say on any farm between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. The German radio. quoting “last- minute messages from Tokio.” said the Japanese had opened an all-out offensive aimed at Singapore. Brit- ain's No. 1 defense stronghold in the Far East. 15 Airdromes Lost. In London it was admitted that #o far the British have lost 15 air- they tried to push down the main road from Ipoh. Singapore dispatches said the British had the Kuala Selangor sector. On launched a counteroffensive in the east coast the British said there was no word of further Japanese advance from Kuantan, 190 miles north of Singapore. " —A. P. Wirephoto. fden Denies 'Négleci’ Japanese éringiné Up which they are tapping as fast as they can be srmed.” a reliable in- formant asserted. “The Red Armi now is on an offensive la:gely pow- ered by troops trained in the six months since the war started—and this training is going on at a rate that more than makes up for battle losses.” Advance in Crimea, Karelia. Survivors Relate How Home Suddenly Became Furnace | Five colored residents of a two- story hoyse at 607 Tenth street N.E. —Adams House, a Harvard undergraduate residence on the one-time famous Gold Coast. returned unanswered todayv a request for information from the United States Census Bu- reau. The incorrectly communication asked the num- ber of maniac-depressive. schiz- addressed | | | District Committees Hear Witnesses Opposing Decentralization By J. A. O'LEARY. Scattering the Federal Govern- price ceilings fixed by the price ad- ministrator whose office is created by the bill. Senators on both sides of the dis- pute said the administration was bringing unusual pressure in sup- port of single authority over all price controls. Taft Asked te Help. iuri s in frozen Kare- o e dromes during retirements in . . Russian advances in were burned to deatn about 10:30 | ophremic, senile, traumatic and | Ment around the country. where Senate administration leaders S re 4 . Fviieed In Preparation o Reinforcements for i e in i crimes e mere 5 oga six aer persons were | Scnole patinis dmelin | departments would be out of touch saled on & “Repubican._senitor r injured, one of whom may die. there. with Congress, would weaken the Taft, of Ohio to help them in the Coinciding with the Japanese land drive southward, Japanese warplanes were reported to have violently attacked military objectives in Dutch Sumatra. across the narrow Malacca Strait from Singapore. and raided the big Netherlands Indies naval base at Amboina for the second time in two days. Dispatches from Singapore de- clared that British troops were hold- ing fast under the first impacts %I the Japanese frontal assault toward Kuala Lumpur. capital of Selangor state. with the Japanese attempting to advance down the main north- south road from Ipoh. in Perak state, 120 miles north of Kuala Lumpur. Fifth Division Leading. | ‘The British said Japan’s 5th Divi- sion. veterans of a dozen campaigns in China, was leading the offensives, supported by swarms of bomber and dive-bomber Once again-——as in France.. Greece and Crete—the British appeared to have lost air superiority and were being sorely punished from the skies. Singapore Defense | Attlee Hints Impending Removal or Transfer | For Dutf Cooper By the Associated Press | LONDON, Jan. 8—Foriegn Sec- | retary Anthony Eden today denied | there had been any “neglect” by the government in preparing the de- | fense of Singapore against Japanese attack, declaring “If we were wrong it was a deliberate decision and not one based on neglect.” He said the problem of Malayan defense was weighed each time the | war cabinet considered sending re- inforcements to the Middle East or Russia. He reminded the House of Commons that the Singapore de- fenses had been strengthened many New Luzon Atfack U. S. Forces Prepare For Large-Scale Enemy Assault The Japanese are bringing up re- ' inforcements in all sections of the Luzon front, indicating preparations for a “large-scale general attack” on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's stoutly resisting forces along his entire front, the War Department said in a communique today Fighting of varving intensity is taking place in all sections of the front lines, it was reported. Gen MacArthur said the morale and de- termination of his defending forces are high. The defenders may be counted on. to resist with “skill and courage.” the communique reported him as saying. Japanese aerial attacks on Cor- which recaptured | cow front push the German Meshchovsk, deep in center. Bodies of nearly 400 German offi- cers and men were found in one of the rece.ptured points, the Soviet Information Bureau said. and auto- /matic riflemen annihilated almost 200 others in a fight for a village identified only as “P.” Meshchovsk lies 130 miles south- west of Moscow and only 40 miles short of the Vyazma-Bryvansk line on which the invaders were expected to attempt to dig in for the winter Representing a 40-mile advance from Kaluga, it becomes the base of a Soviet spearhead at the south- ern tip of the Moscow region offen- sive arc—anchored in the north at Staritsa, on the Upper Volga—which is menacing Mozhaisk, German stronghold 57 miles west of the capital. Sevastopol Garrison Attackv The Russian garrison of Sevasto- pol. long-besieged Black Sea naval base, was declared in a Tess broad- cast to have taken the offensive The dead were identified as Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson and her two children. William, 1 vear old. and Lillian May. 5; and Roger E. Rob- erts, 5, and his step-brother, Jack H. Jackson, 7. The mother of the last two boys, Mrs. Lillian Roberts. was burned on the face. arms and one leg wnen she fled from the burning building with her daughter, Gloria. 11 months old, and Peggy. 11 years old. The serjously injured person was Mrs. Geneva Bunch. colored. 38. who suffered a broken arm. injuries to her hip and possibly fractures of the back and leg. when she leaved from a second-story window at the rear Firemen picked her up and sent her to Casualty Hospital. Others Are Treated. Others treated at the hospital were Mrs. Roberts’ two daughters. Fireman Kermit R. Mull 27, of No. 8 Engine Co.. who cut his hands on broken glass while forcing entry Names of 3 Senators Mentioned in Trial Of Fish Secrefary Member of House Also Figures in Hill Case; Franked Speeches Shown ‘The names of Senators Nve of North Dakota, Reynolds of North Carolina and Clark of Idaho and Representative Stratton of Illinois today were brought into the perjury trial of George Hill, second secre- democratic form of Government, Representative Kankin of Missis- sippi told the Senate and House Dis- trict Committees in join session to- day. As the joint group took further | testimony against the administra-"| tion’s plan to move 12 agencies to ' other cities, Mr. Rankin asserted: | “I can think of no more vital' | blow that could be dealt representa- tive Government—and that is de- mocracy—than to move these agen- cies away from Washington. where | Congress would be out of contact with them.” Representative Rankin was first witness. “This is not a8 new question with me.” he said. “In 1921 I led the fight against decentralizing the Vet- erans’ Administration. In fact, this District of Columbia was created for a seat of Government and should be used for that purpose. If we need the maneuvering. Senator Taft, who served in the Food Administration during the last war as an aide to former President Hoover, had co-operated with Sen= ators Barkley and Brown in draft- ing the bill in the Senate Banking Committee Senator Bankhead claimed he had 50 votes lined up for his amend- ment. This would be more than enough to overturn administration provisions that price-fixing powers be centered in a single adminis- trator. Test of Votes Delayed. The House passed a less drastie bill or. November 28 and must act on the Senate amendments. Both Senators Brown and Bark- ley questioned Senator Bankhead's claim but indicated they would de- lay any test of votes until tomorrow. Administration leaders asked Sen- ator Taft's support. even though he tary to Representative Fish, in con- more space we should move some of differs with them over administra- nection with franked isolationist material. the private interests occupying val- uable space here.” Opposes Moving R. E. A. i tion of the wartime price controls. Senator Taft asked that the far- reaching powers be intrusted to & The situation north of Kuala i regidor Fortress ther bases - = < s -1 " i Lumpar was obscure. _Singapore tmes since 1939, = i BB e T O erteday against Axis forces diverted by sea | to the burning building. and Police- This took place when Defense At-| yp. Rankin said he was appearing board of five members, with the dispatches, however, said British Seemingly countering a charge far halnvet Fitne in several aays landings at other major- ports of man Ira Wetherell of the ninth pre- torney John J. O'Connor demanded ' especially to oppose moving anv Price Sledmmlstrlwr l; rhurgm. = 2 e t Most nators expecte Leon en« troops had launched a bold counter- offensive in the Kuala Selangor sector, 35 miles northwest of Kuala Lumpur. and were “beginning to deal with"” the Japanese in the green-hell jungle and swamp wilderness be- tween the Bernam and Selangor Rivers. Across the Malay Peninsula on the east coast. a British spokesman said there was no word of any fur- ther Japanese advance from Kuan- tan, 190 miles north of Singapore. Terrific Battle Repgrled. The Japanese news agency Domei broadcast a report that a terrific battle is under way between the British and Japanese along the bor- der between the Malayan states of Perak and Selangor. Domei said the that the dominions were not fully informed on the war effort. Mr. Eden stated that while he was in Moscow recently the dominions re- ceived full information on conver- sations he had with Joseph Stalin. Clement R. Atlee, Lord Privy Seal, indicated impending removal or transfer for Alfred Duff Cooper, res- ident commissioner for Far Eastern affairs, when he said in a written reply to a Commons question that “the appointment of a supreme comtflander in chief in the South- west Pacific has necessitated a re- view of functions” assigned to Duff Cooper there, Different View by Australia. Mr. Eden said Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King of Canada ‘and Enemy airplanes merely flew over for reconnaissance purposes. { Reports of Toll Incomplete. | The communique. which covered the situation as of 9:30 am. was made public at a press conference by Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy. partment has received no complete reports on casualties in the Philip- pines since the outbreak of hostili- ties. From all indications, he sug- | gested, American losses were “not {unduly heavy.” The department has no record either of Japanese | losses. which, Mr. McCloy said. were considerably higher. as any attack- ing force would incur. Gen. MacArthur is in the field in command of his troops, Mr. McCloy He said the War De- | the Crimes—Kerch, Feodosiva and Yevpatoriva. Advances of from 3 to 5 miles were registered in one day's fighting, the Soviet news agency said. with Rus- sian naval fiyers backing up the ground troops. “Units under Maj. Gen. Petrov. the commander. are dealing heavy blows to the enmy,” it said. “One inhabited locality has been occupied and sev- eral important heights have been captured.” The Soviet Information Bureau said five German companies had been wiped out and a vast quantity of arms captured in a continuing ad- vance on the southwestern front Tuesday. | Tass said Russian legions on the cinct. who was overcome by smoke and heat Three of the children who lost their lives were found in a back 1room. The two voungest lay in bed and a third was on a cot. Another child and Mrs. Johnson were found on the ground floor. According to Harold Jackson. 16, son of Mrs. Roberts by a previous marriage, , the upstairs room in which he'lay was suddenly a mass of flames. The doors and windows were tightly closed and the fire probably originated from an over- heated kerosene stove on the ground floor. Harold himself was almost overcome by heat and carbon monoxide gas. He ran to a front window, flung it open and climbed that the 18 filled United States mail- bags be hauled into District Court from an adjoining witness room and immediately began pulling out of them franked congressional speeches. He was soon joined in this enter- prise by the prosecutor. Special As- sistant to the Attorney General Wil- liam Power Malopey, who told Jus- tice F. Dickinson Letts he would produce evidence that the material was spirited from the office of Pres- cott Dennett shortly after he was summoned to appear before the grand jury investigating Nazi activ- ities. Mr. Maloney said the removal was arranged by Mr. Hill and the defendant ordered eight of the sacks placed in the storeroom of Repre- sentative Fish. part of the main office of the Rural Electrification Administration from Washington. Pointing out that R. E. A. now affects the rural areas of every State, Mr. Rankin said hardly a day passes that members of Congress do not have to confer with R. E. A Soldier Killed, 9 Injured As Truck Falls Info Marsh By the Associated Press BALTIMORE. Jan. 8--One was killed and nine injured when a six- wheel truck veered out of an Army convoy near Fort George G. Meade derson, acting price administrator under executive orders, to get the post of administrator Senator Taft told the Senate ves- terday that the bill was “very much broader” than price-control attempts during the last war. He said that only food and fuel administrations exercised price-fixing authority then, while the pending bill author- ized such action in almost all com- modities and fields. Big Price Increase Cited. Senator Brown, who spent nearly five hqurs explaining the measure to the Senate yesterday, said after- ward that price increases already had added $2.000,000.000 to defense outlays by the Government and that — Prime Minister Peter Fraser of New < 1 Japanese “tightened an encircle- | Zealand had expressed s'"sf““o"\fif,‘li":hl?e 'éi‘,’?"i‘i.c'firém‘iff"“’"; centrgl front had driven wedges to a sill projecting above a doorway = Mr. Hill is charged with falsely early todar. tore through a guard they would add another $13.500.- ment” of Brilish troops Iesisting with the present representation in | got WSt BER. MACCELIS PINCC | more than half way through German | of the house next door. From there telling the grand jury he did not and plunged down = 12-foot 000.000 to the $67.000.000.000 defense from defense lines built along the war effort, but that “a different a B S MOt | Jofenses as deep as 413 miles, in- he let himself to the ground. order the bags stored there. embankment into a marsh. ' g;ge!"[";e lgggrv::’k bz(C:f:greu ke edge of dense jungles. Meanwhile, reliable British sources raid there was no confirmation of a Japanese claim that mechanized units supported by planes had ad- vanced along the eastern Malayan coast to the border region of Johore. That would put the invaders within about 90 miles from Singapore. The German radio quoted the ‘Tokio newspaper Yomiuri as saying the British had been pursued to the Johore frontier. The Germans also broadcast a report that the British had been cleared out of an area 150 miles north of Singapore. Landed Month Ago. ‘The Japanese 5th Division landed In Southern Thailand a month ago. It was said by the minisiry of infor- mation in Singanore to be the same division defeated by the Chinese at ‘Taerchwang in Shantung Province in May, 1938, after whipping Chinese regulars and a Chinese Communist army in the fall of 1937. view has been taken by Australia. The question of Dominion rep- | resentation in the Allied War Coun- cil “must be left to Churchill,” Mr. Eden said. He rejected a suggestion that munitions sent to Russia should | have been allocated to Singapore, | saying that he knew that supplies had “plaved a very valuable part in the Russian military effort.” The Foreign Secretary also denied that the earlier decision to aid Greece was “sentimental” He de- | clared that it was taken with full | concurrence of military authorities. | | And he reiterated that the Yugo- | known, but Mr. McCloy said it would | be either on Corregidor Island. on | the Batan Peninsula or somewhere | else on the front. The whereabouts and intentions of the United States Pacific Fleet “(See WAR, Page A-6.) Aloskfin G&v;}nor Hits Ship Rate Ihcrease By the Associated Press. JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 8.—Gov. Ernest Gruening today denounced as an outrage a 45 per cent increase in | frieght and passenger rates an- slav coup detat with subsequent | nounced by the Alaska Steamship resistance to the Germans. coupled with the action of British troops in | Greece, had delayed the German attack on Russia by six weeks. This point was cheered by the House. Cites Jap Fleet's Power. Mr. Attlee, speaking as Mr. Churchill’s deputy. told Commons | | Co. The United States Maritime Com- | mission authorized the emergency surcharge because of higher war-’ time costs of operation. cluding a svstem of well-camou- flaged dugouts heated by stoves and overlaid with six or seven tiers of logs. Karelia Battle on 4 Days. | Stockholm reports said the Rus- sians were hurling battalion afte | battalion of troops and armored | forces against the Finnish front in | Eastern Karelia in a battle already | raging four days. evidently to render | secure the Arctic supply ports of | Murmansk and Archangel. Fierce fighting was reported by | the government newspaper Izvestia | il the Leningrad area. involving Gen. |@Meretskov's Soviet forces and the remnants of German divisions which | they pushed westward from Tikhvin, 110 miles southeast of Leningrad, | and Volkhovo, 80 miles below Lenin- " (See RUSSIA, Page A-4) Summary of Today's Star Gas Aides Spread of Flames. George Jackson, 15, was able to | escape to a window on the ground oor. He said he had no warning | of fire until the whole interior was a roaring furnace. | Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald expressed the opinion that the fire had been smouldering for some time in the tightly inclosed home and had generated enough gas to ren- der most of the occupants uncon- scious. The flames spread with dev- astating rapidity as soon as fresh oxygen was admitted. A next-door neighbor, Wilbur Nence, colored, of 605 Tenth street N.E, said he ran out when he heard he flames crackling next door. Smoke and fire were pouring from - | the windows on both floors and he was unable to enter the building. An alarm already had been turned in and firemen were on the scene a moment later. | The fire destroyed the interior of | the station said. Material Identified. Mr. Dennett has been identified Sergt. Chester Suda, 23, of Olean. N. Y, drowned in the marsh before other soldiers could extricate him If the rate of price increases since outbreak of the European war con- by Prosecutor Maloney as secretary- g o the truck, the cab of which tinues, Senator Brown said. it could treasurer of isolationist committees subsidized by George Sylvester Vie- reck, registered German agent. T (See HILL, Page A-7T) New Violent Fighting In Serbia Reported BY the Associated Press. BERN. Jan. 8.—The Belgrade radio station today said new violent fighting had broken out between insurgents and government troops in Serbia. In one encounter 17 insurgents were killed and 15 captured, while was buried in shallow water and ! Pvt. Walter Godtek was seriously injured and remained unconscious at St. Agnes’ Hospital several hours after ths accident. Eight other soldiers. who were riding in the body of the truck, were taken to the Fort Meade Hospital. Targe} in China Raided By Japanese Bombers By the Associated Press. TOKIO, Jan. 8 cast).—Domei dispatches from (Official Broad- 2 increase war costs by $50,000,000.000 or more on the vast program now set down by President Roosevelt. British Bombers Atfack Brest and St. Nazaire Br the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 8.—German naval bases at Brest, where the German battleships Gneisenau and Scharn- | horst have been attacked repeatedly | by British airmen, and the port of St. Nazaire were raided again last night by strong R. A. F. bomber fonr government men were killed, Japanese army airbase in South | forces, the Air Ministry announced near Leban, the insurgents lost 110 killed and captured, according to the report. army bombers attacked Shiuhing this morning and destroyed Chinese ' military establishments. In another fight, China said formations of Japanese | today. All of the participating aircraft were said to have returned. The attack on Brest was the third in as many nights and the fourth this year. Sioion Ty 143 220 Navive. In et sules, (5 apont| el et o resnd iner | O 21 Faae 1 ot ight Die as Mine Flanter Sinks s <, £ kihce; - s 7 i Malaya. Page A-1 . T o = 3 * cast) (P Tman bers were Th ; : the most powerful fleet in the W . be ff N H m anar:r:lah gln\'i’s:gnnr m:? r.:\‘;:,d ‘:‘; Pacific. D P Japanese bring up troops for new Cli;;t’:‘ggg‘ex:,"gax;flt" Il'ny war zone, I"sh Descr' ew a p s lre OOSt ;:w:;dh:zet:\:n:‘ iham'u';:";fi apolgzy. It violated an agreement| House members cheered. however, _ 1200 poak Page A-1| “grrive here. Page A-3 Wales Smkifl as || chznt hip off the Scottish cand with @he French. crossed into Indo- when he summed up accounts after Eden denics neglect in defense of woman burned to deatn in D. C g | (Fichire, o8 Rave dt) e e et et bevan wing |seriously damaged another - vessel China and cut up or captured an entire French army corps at Langson and Dong Dang. Apologizing to the French, Emperor Hirohito recalled the division’s commander. Air-Raid Alarm The Office of Civilian Defense for the Metropolitan Area has asked The Star to publish for the information of the public these air-raid signals for the entire region, including nearby of one and one-half seconds each. the first month of war in the Pa- cific even though they were given | Carol declares self head of “Free Commissioners little new information about the war | effort. News of further steps to co-ordi- | nate man power and munitions of | the united nations awaited the re- | |turn of the Prime Minister from | | America. L The first mild criticism of the | United States’ role in the Far East !came from Comdr: Sir Archibald | Southby. a Conservative, who de- Singapore. Page A-1 Rumanian” movement. Page A-3 nied by Finns. Page A-4 R. A. F. raids Bangkok; huge fires seen, pilots say. Page A-6 Toast to victory is drunk by United ' Route service by taxicabs being con- | Nations' representatives. Page A-8 National. Congress gives right of way to big spending plans. Page A-4 fire. Page A-2 refuse to discuss Hankin charges. Page A-6 | Intention to withdraw from war de- | Mercury drops to 7; light snow ices | streets. Page A-71 Traffic experts study evacuation | plans for D. C. Page B-1 sidered here. Page B-1 Entire school personnel to be asked | to aid in defense. Page Paper shortage reported here, O. P. M. issues warning. Page B-5 | clared the Russian and African suc- | Hudson River pier swept by five- New Orleans marks 127 years of expend time ‘and material in crea- racy, Rankin asserts. Page A-6 tion ef the bases which we have | pritain took risks in East, relying on | Nature’s Children. | Births and Deaths. | | Boating Accident | By Radio to The Star: LONDON, Jan. 8.—The Irish have now wrested the unofficial interna- tional title of “champign of under- statement” from the British. The Irish censors do not permit mention in Irish publications of | Irishmen fighting with the Allies, of decorations they may win, or of | casualties. For example, the Irish Times a few weeks ago printed a picture of a former member of its editorial accident, will be glad to learn that BY the Associated Press. PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Jan. 8— Army officials at Fort Constitution | said eight men drowned in the At- lantic 20 miles off the Isles of Shoals today when the 98-foot mine planter Arnold sank while being towed to port. not available immediately. They were believed to be civilians. The only survivor of the sinking was the Arnold's master, William H. Chasteen of Waterford, Conn., who over the area, the Arnold located the L-88 and started to tow her to | two smaller craft and began towing | both of them. Suddenly the Arnold sprang a | leak while the three ships were | being pounded by heavy seas. | 'The skipper was on the bridge and was thrown into the water. | Members of the crew of the L-88 | him . b un- | The names of the victims were | -p::ll:edm loua '::;";‘ :Il:e'z;old'n crew. | A Coast Guard boat searched the vicinity, but found only empty life | belts and overturned lifeboats. | The L-88 asked for assistance ‘qulck!y was covered with ice and | torped | ‘was ordered back. The mine with explosives. “In the early hours of January 7 some British aircraft dropped bombs | indiscriminately on places in West- ern Germany and in the North Ger- | man coastal area,” the high com- mand said. “No damage was done.” Dutch Report Sifiking ; U-Boat in Mediterranean | By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 8—A German U-boat has been sunk in the Medi- landed «t a British port by the Virginia and Maryland: | cesses do not ‘“offset the loss of alarm fire. Page A-4 _ peace with Britain. Page B-5| X was pulled from the water after his | yegterday afternoon when she de- Alarm—Five blasts of half- iGu\’m and other islands to Japan.” | praft aides told every fit man may | Vernon R. Dorman named new grand | staff, who, since last May, had been | yoq¢ went under. | veloped engine trouble 14 miles | terrgnean by & Dutch submarine second intervals, sounded three “It might have been better.” he | ngnht. Page A-§| Jjury foreman. Page B-10 | ferving with the British Navy on| “ne Arnold had been dispatched | southeast of White Island. ~The | operating with the British Navy, consecutive times, & total of 15 | | told the House, “if the United States | Ballot boxes hold hops of world,| .. the Prince of Wales. E’“"" the | yogterday to the assistance of an- | Arnold and & Navy tug were sent|the Netherlands Admiralty ane blasts. | had augmented the defense of those | Kelland says. Page A-5| Miscellany P‘fi;fl“’:n::: tt?enhcnm.'\ml::bl on. who | Other mine planter, the L-88. With | o meet her. nounced today. All clear—Three long blasts | | vitally important places rather than | gcattering bureaus blow at democ- | Army Orders. Page B-2 | yas involved in & re ecenutmhu"nnx the aid of an Army plane which flew | So great were the waves the tug Twel::eomll:gnu&r: ;( .t:; (See ATTLEE, Page A-4) U, 8., Sinclair says. Page A-11 \ | Marriage Licenses. | he is alive and well.” | (Coprright. 1942, by Chicago Duily News.) ! shore. sweeper | was sent out to take her place. | A 3 Duteh eraft.