Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1942, Page 2

Two Extra Pages In This Edition Late news and sports are covered on Pages 1-X and 3-X of this edition of The Star, supplementing the news of Readers Prefer The Star More than twice as many people read ‘The Star in the afternoon and evening im Washington thah any other news- paper. Telephone National 5000 and delivery the regular home delivered edition. at your home will start immediately. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 14. 90th YEAR. No. 35,683. British Falling Back in Malaya, UP) Means Associated Press. THREE CENTS. Police, Firemen WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1942 IM MIGHTY HAPPY T0 SEE YOU MRLANDIS, COME RIGHT IN AND PULL UP A CHAIR. I'™M GOING T0 TAKE A RUN UP T0 NEW YORK TO SEE IF 1 CAN FIND SOMEBODY Kuala Lumpur Attack Reported; Jap Gun Enemy Advances Almost 50 Miles In 24 Hours + By the Associated Press. Japanese troops led by monster tanks, advancing almost 50 miles in 24 hours through the Malayan “Green Hell” jungles, were re- * ported today in an offtcial Tokio broadcast to have driven within 10 milés of Kuala Lumpur, the| world’s crude rubber capital, 240 miles north of Singapore. The Japanese subsequently re- ported that their troops had taken | positions in a field two and one-half miles southwest of Kuala Lumpur and had opened & general assault on the southern part of the city this morning. An official -German broadcast quoted a report by Domei, Jgpanese news agency, as saying that Kuala Lumpur had been abandoned. Japanese fleld dispatches indicate the British forces have abandoned their defense lines in the Kuala Lumpur region, permitting peaceful entry of the Japanese forces. . British Far East headquarters tersely acknowledged that battle- wearied imperial troops had with- drawn “farther to the south” from the latest of & series of defense lines 80 miles north of Kuala Lumpur. No details were giveén Domei said the Mikado's invasion forces were closing in on the city from two directions—one moving down from the northeast, the other | from the north. Bloody Fighting Reported. Domei said the north column had | swept within 10 miles of Kuala Lum- pur by 5 pm. yesterday after | smashing through British lines at | Tanjong Malim 50 miles to the | north. Front line dispatches said the Japanese advance was marked by the bloodiest fighting of the month- old campaign, with the invaders hurling themselves recklessly into death-trap British defense positions. Heaviest-type Japanese tanks ‘were leading the assault, dispatches &aid. London quarters admitted gravely that a critical hour had struck in the defense of Singapore, Britain's No. 1 stronghold in the Far East, fortified at a cost of $400,000,000, and declared that the need for re- inforcements in troops and planes was urgent. Slash at Enemy Bases. Far north of the battle sector, British bombers were reported slash- ing at three Japanese bases in an attempt to relieve the pressure, raid- ing Sungei Patani and Singora, in Thailand, and Japanese-held Ipoh in Malayan Perak state, 125 miles above Kuala Lumpur, The British communique said there had been two air raid alarms in Singapore during the last 24 hours, but no bombs were dropped. ‘The Japanese themselves declared Stingapore was raided last night and hits scored on military targest. ‘The British said one plane, which approached Singapore this morning, was intercepted by British fighters and shot down over Johore State. Large Fires Reported. In the raids on the Japanese bases, the British reported several large fires were started at Sungei Patani, while at Singora, up the coast from Sungei Patani, “it was thought considerable damage was | done mijlitary stores.” Bombs were said to have been dropped on shipping. a railway junc- tion and military buildings at Sin- gora. In the Ipoh raid, runways at the airdrome were hit and two fires were started, the communique said. A third fire, visible 50 miles away, was said to have been started in a | long building at the airdrome. | The Japanese were said to be at- tempting to smash their way ahead in Western Malaya by sheer weight of arms. They were using the heav- iest tanks yet employed by the in- vaders. ‘There was no change reported in the Eastern Malayan front, where " (See MALAYA, Page A-2.) R. A. F. Batters Brest Fifth Night in Row By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 10—R. A. F. bombers made their fifth attack in & row last night on the docks of Brest, German-occupied naval base where the Nazi battleships Gnies- enau and Scharnhorst are reported | ;heltered, authorities announced to- ay. BERLIN, Jan. 10 (Official Broad- tast) (#.—Four British bombers were declared by the high command to- day to have been shot down in at- tacks on the coast of German-oc- cupied Prance. Industry Joins Up President Roosevelt in his message to Congress outlined a stupendous program for tanks, planes, guns and ships. David Lawrence, writing in the Editorial Feature Section of The Sunday Star tomorrow will give you in detail what By the Associated Press. SOMEWHERE ON THE GER- MAN FRONTIER, Jan. 10.—Advices reaching this border point state that persistent reports of incipient revo- lution in Germany follewing in-- creasing reverses on the Eastern | front have impelled the Nazi For- | eign Office to make a middle-of- | the-night denial. Foreign correspondents one night | this week were called from bed to | be told individually by telephone of the reports, which the Foveign Office attributed to British and American sources, and to hear the official de- | nial, 2 v | While correspondents themselves could confirm that no open or or- ganized revolutionary movement ex- isted in Berlin, some expressed sur- prise that the stories created so much concern in Wilhelmstrasse | that an immediate denial was con- sidered necessayy. { The German press, now acknowl- | edging the seriousness of the sit- uation on the eastern front. has de- nied, however. reports that the Ger- mans are building a defense line {along the Oder River in Eastern Germany. (Axis newspapers, as well as Berlin and Rome ocommuniques, have not mentioned the loss of a single city since acknowledg- <4ng the withdrawal from Rostov last November 29, but have em- Phasized continued reports of the repulse of strong Red Army at- tacks, Bern dispatches’ noted. (Gravity of the German mili- tary situatior! was admitted, how- ever, ¥y Hitler's press chief, Dr. Otto Dietrich, when he said yes- terday that the military opera- tions “have entered an extremely o serious and indeed ecritcial stage.”) Increasingly, information from re- liable sources indicates the German Army’s troubles began when Adolf Hitler overruled Field Masshal Wal- ther von Brauchitsch's plan—which reputedly was to fall back to the Berezina River before winter set in. The Berezina is in White Russia almost 400 rniles from Moscow. It was said that Hitler hoped to press on, whereupon Von Brau- chitsch resigned. Hitler reportedry took over per- sonal command thep when other high officers declined to tske re- sponsibility for an effort t& continue the offensive. A By that time it was too ‘late to| s Prepare Luzon Assault iNazi Unrest Reports Persist; ’ Berlin Decides to Deny Them Foreign Correspondents Called in Middle Of Night and Told Stories Are Not True Nipponese Thrust At Indies Near, Dutch §elieve Artillery duels that usually pre- cede a heavy attack were re- ported by the War Department today along the Luzon front of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s forces in the Philippines as the Japa- nese struck nearer the Nether- lands Indies in what seemed a prelude to a new invasion effort. The Japanese continued bringing up heavy reinforcements on the Luzon front, a communique issued shortly after 9:30 a.m. reported. A considerable number of enemy vessels have appeared off the coast of the southernmost Philippine island. of Mindanao, the War De- partment said, indicating the prob- ability of additional Japanese land- ings there. Davao, on Mindanao, is one of the ports from which the Japanese could launch a full dress assault on the Dutch Indies, without waiting for the fall of Corregidor, which now | bars them from Manila Bay. Lull in Air Continues. ‘The two-day lull in air activity in Luzon was unbroken. Enemy planes again yesterday limited their activ- ities to®observation flights. United States and Dutch Navy turn back.- Real winter set in be-'| announcements earlier told of Jap- ‘74'8ee UNREST, Page A-3.) Recapture of Mosalsk Tightens Red Pincers Menacing Mozhaisk Russian Spearhead Now Only 25 Miles East of Vyazma-Bryansk Line B7 the Associated Press. KUIBYSHEV, Rusiia, Jan. 10— | Soviet columns driving west at a pace of more than 4 miles a day have recaptured Mosalsk, 47 miles west of Kaluga, and appreciably tightened the pincers menacing 100,- 000 Germans at Mozhaisk, the Rus- slans said today. The fall of Mosalsk, 140 miles south of the northern anchor of the Mozhaisk encirclement arc at Star- itsa, was announced by the Soviet Information Bureau last night, along with & number of other towns in- cluding nearby Serpeisk and Vet- chino. “The Germans are sustaining heavy losses,” it said. (Serpeisk lies a few miles south of Mosalsk. Vetchino is a village situated between Kaluga and Maloyaroslavets, which also was recaptured recently.) Near German Defense Line. ‘The action placed Russian spear- heads only 25 miles east of the Vyazma-Bryansk line where an- other German stand is expected deep in the rear of the Mozhaisk salient 57 miles west of Moscow. (The British radio quoted a Moscow announcement today that 12,000 Germans were Kkilled . in in the Volkov and Tikhvin sec- tors of the Leningrad front dur- ing December and the first days of January. (B. B. C. quoted an Izvestia correspondent as saying that, having evacuated Staritsa, the: Germans were retreating south- westward toward Rzhev, aban- doning tanks, guns and motor transport in some places.) (The British radio said the Russians gained further successes in the Orel sector, 200 miles southwest of Moscow, “and killed here 5,000 German soldiers in the last five days.” The Swiss radio broadcast a 'Axis Retreat in Libya So Rapid Brifish Can’t| Catch Up, Cairo Says Enemy Mechanized Units Falling Back From Agedabia Bombed By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Jan. 10.—The Axis re- treat from Eastern Cirenaica has become so rapid that advanced British forces yesterday were unable to bring the enemy to action, the British Near East headquarters as- serted today. ‘The only fighting of ground forces in Libya mentioned by the commu- nique was between British vanguards and the enemy rearguard covering the retreat from Agedabia toward El Agheila. More than 300 miles to the east, where the British are still trying to wipe out isolated Axis holdout posi- tions, the communique said Free French air units and warships of the British Fleet combined in a heavy bombardment of enemy post- tions in the Halfaya area. ‘The British Air Force kept up its battering of Axis troops and their motorized equipment. A communique said mechanized columns on the road from Agedabia to El Ageila were bombed heavily and severely damaged yesterday. Bomb Damage to Malta Heavy, Italians Claim ROME, Jan. 10 (Official Broad- cast) (#).—The Italian high com- mand announced today heavy dam- age and destruction were caused in incessant bomb attacks on all Brit- ish air and naval bases on the Mediterranean Island of Malta yes- terday. The communique gave no further details. The Axis has stepped up its air assaults on the British stronghold in the Mediterranean to a point where some observers predict an at- tempted invasion of the island might be in the offing. British forces based on Malta have played a prominent part in slowing the flow of Axis reinforcements to Africa. ‘The British radio said today that in the past five weeks Malta had had more than 200 air raids, of which " (See RUSSIAN, Page A-3) at least 90 were in the daytime. anese submarine and air raids in Netherlands Indies waters. Authori- tative quarters in Batavia believed a imminent, the Associated Press re- ported. ‘The 8,000-ton American ship Ruth Alexander of the American Presi- dents Line was destroyed by an the United States Navy announced, with one crew member killed and four injured. The Dutch disclosed the sinking of a Netherlands freighter by a Japanese submarine in the Java Sea. Only three were saved. Bombers Miss Warship. Japanese warplanes for the sec- today at a Dutch warship in the harbor of Tarakan, off North Bor- were scored, they said. Five mem- bers of the crew of a merchant ship anchored nearby were reported wounded slightly by one of the few bombs which came near the ship. Japanese submarine operations off the American West Coast, mean- while, were said by the Navy to have been narrowed by coastal defense forces. Similarly, the Navy reported | that “operations continue against Pacific. A report that an Axis submarine was operating in New England waters proved groundless. The Navy said the area “has been thoroughly searched without tangible results.” Although communiques failed to disclose the disposition of Gen. Mac- Arthur's army, military officials ex- pressed a belief that he had with- drawn his forces possible 15 miles to a new Philippine defense line since repulsing the heavy Japanese assault last Sunday. Army Massed in Batan. A War Department spokesman said the new main defense front probably centered in a corner of Pampanga Province, 30 to 50 miles north of the Corregidor fortress. Much of Gen. MacArthur’s army ap- peared to be massed in the Batan (See PACIFIC, Page A-2.) French List 96 Saved In Sinking of Liner By the Associated Press. VICHY, Unoccupied France, Jan. 10.—The PFrench Line today pub- lished a list of 96 persons saved in the sinking of the 4,700-ton pas- senger liner La Mornciere yesterday in a storm off the Balearic Islands. There were reports that 260 pas- sengers and 100 crew members were | aboard, but because of the number of ships which went to the rescue |1t was not known whether the 96 were the only ones saved. major Japanese invasion thrust was | ond straight day hurled 30 bombs neo, the Dutch reported. No hits | enemy submarines” in the Central | TO HELP ME WITH THAT JOB, Two Blasts Start Fire Causing $2,250,000 'Loss at Grain Elevator Wisconsin Blaze Perils Docks and Oil Storage At Superior; 7 Injured : BY the Associated Press. SUPERIOR, Wis., Jan. 10—Two | explosions, followed by fire, de-| stroyed the Great Northern Rnfl-j | road's elevator X, giant grain stor- | | age plant, today with a loss esti- | enemy plane off the Dutch islands, | mated at $2.250.000. Seven persons, . Sunday. | including twb firemen, were injured | fighting the blaze in subzero tem- | peratures. | At 8:45 am. firemen were trying | to prevent the blaze from spreading | to other elevators and oil storage | and coal docks in the heart of the | city’s lakefront defense production section. The fire was fanned by a high wind and all buildings in the area | were threatened. 2 Firemen Tossed 100 Feet. The first explosion rocked the | building, injuring five employes. The second blast hurled two firemen nearly 100 feet. The authorities were unable to. determine the origin of the ex- plosions immediately. The injured men were taken to St. Mary's Hospital where attend- | ants said they were not hurt crit- ically. .~ " The men are Capt. John Lynch. | 46, and Pipeman Peter Moe, 40, of | the fire department, and the follow- ing employes: Russell Paulson. 32; | Cari Peterson, 38, and Leslie Moen. | |33, ali of Moose Lake, Minn., and | Elmer Jack, 31, and Ben Olson, 62, of Superior. Fire Chief Edward Nelson said the Federal Bureau of Investigation would be asked to investigate the‘ fire | Elevator X contained 1500000 bushels of grain, valued at one dollar | a bushel. Damage to the elevator | proper was set at $750,000. but offi- | cials said it could not be replaced for less than $1,000,000. Biggest in United States. Elevator X and Elevator 8, situ- ated one-half block away, formed a joint grain storage pool described as the largest in the United States. The building had a total capacity of about 12,000.000 bushels. Nearby are three ofl tank farms, | four other elevators and three coal | docks which the firemen labored desperately to protect. By mid-morning Elevator X had been reduced to a mountain of grain erupting liquid fire which rained down onto the waterfront. Chief Nelson said that if the wind remained in the southwest, he | believed the fire could be kept under control. Flames soared 200 feet into the air and were visible 25 miles. The blasts shook dishes from shelves |uven.l miles away. (On December 16 the Associ- ated Press received word that Larry Allen, its correspondent with the British Mediterranean fleet, was in an Alezandria Hos- pital after having swallowed ‘much oily water and suflered cuts and bruises in a 45-minute plunge into the sea. (Today, recovered from his in- juries and permitted by British censorship to explain how he came by them, Allen tops a long list of dramatic eyewitness accounts of sea war in the Mediterranean with the following first-person account of the destruction of the British cruiser Galatea and his own narrow escape from death.) By LARRY ALLEN. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Jan. 10— The British light cruiser Galatea, struck by three torpedoes from an Axis submarine, flopped over like & stabbed turtle and went down has been done and is to be done. It is an optimistic note in trying times. .Washington’s only Roto- gravure Section will contain an interesting page of pictures of tank production. 2 within three minutes off the Egyp- tian Mediterranean coast in the inky darkness just after midnight the morning of December 16. ‘The torpedoes, launched from close range, smashed in swift suc- cession against the Calatea’s after The 5720-ton British cruiser Galatea. port side, amidships and forward, tearing into her interior with loud blasts and spurting flame. On the dying cruiser’s quarterdack T clung tenaciously to the starboard rail until the list of the ship flung me into the cold, choppy sea. Then I battled through thick, oily scum for 45 minutes before being rescued. (The British Admiralty an- nounced yesterday that a subma- rine had sunk the 5220-ton Gala- tea, but did not specify the date, place or number of casualties. The Germans claimed on Decem- ber 16 that they had nrk s . Allen Tells of His Narrow Escape From Death in Oily Sea 'As Three Axis Torpedoes Sank British Cruiser Galatea "\ ran to the commander’s cabin and —A. P. Wirephoto. cruiser of this class in the Medi- terranean.) We had been dive-bombed for more than seven hours on Decem- ber 14 while patrolling with a squad- ron of cruisers and destroyers off the Libyan coast, but the Galatea suc- cessfully beat off those attacks and headed eastward. At midnight on December 15 the cruiser’s announcer system warned: “First-degree readiness heavy ar- mament.” Gunners thus were gdered to informed the Reuters naval cor- respondent, Alexander Massy Ander- son. Adjusting lifebelts, we stepped out into the inky blackness of the quar- terdeck and raced toward the bridge. | animously behind Mayor Rossi in We had barely started when the first torpedo smashed into the after port side with a burst of flame, heavily rocking the Galatea. The time was 12:02 am. Ship Listed Quickly. ‘Torpedoes seemed to chase us along™ the deck, for the second crashed through amidships with a blinding flash and the third struck forward, just under a 6-inch gun turret. (The Galatea had six of these, her major guns). ‘The ship listed quickly and heav- ily to port, shuddering all over. As the warship dipped quickly and deeply into the sea on the port side I caught hold of the starboard deck rail, dropped by tin helmet, bomb anti-flash gear and raincoat and with one hand unscrewed the nozzle on the lifebelt hose hung around my neck. I blew into it with all the breath T could summon, inflating it just as the cruiser flopped completely over on her portside. From that moment I went through the most dangerous (See ALLEN, Page A-2.) Zero Weather Due Tonight; No Relief Seen The temperature may fall to zero | tonight, the Weather Bureau warned | today, with no relief in sight from the six-day cold wave which last night brought the second snowfall in two days. The forecast was fair and much colder tonight, with lowest tempera- ture between zero and 5 degrees above. Two inches of snow, which began falling at 10 o'clock last night and | continued until 4:20 am. brought added discomfort to Washington residents who have been shivering in sub - freezing temperatures since | There was some comfort in the fact the thermometer, which dropped to seven degrees yesterday morning, fell only to 18 at 9 am. today. The highest yesterday was 26 degrees at | 8:30 pm. 10% Increasein Parity Price-Fixing Levels DIR§§TOR CIVILIAN DEFENSE Farm Bloc Demands Senate Convenes Early In Effort to Pass Control Bill Today By the Associated Press. A 10 per cent increase in farm | parity price-fixing levels was de-| manded today by ferm state law- makers who already had won Sen-; ate exemption of farm products from | the same price control as other| goods in war emergency measures.| Senators O'Mahoney, Democrat, of | Wyoming and McCarran, Democrat, | of Nevada sought consideration for | this new amendment as the Senate tonvened an hour earlier than usual in an effort to complete passage of Pay Raise Up in House Monday Small Loan, Liquor Bill Also Slated For Consideration By JAMES E. CHINN, House consideration Monday of legislation providing substantial pay increases for police and firemen, authorizing small loan companies to operate here and forbidding the ad- vertising of liquor prices by “any medium” was unexpectedly ordered today by the District Committee. Action was taken at a special meeting called to consider Wash- ington's wartime mass transporta- tion problem. The legislation which the House will be asked to consider has been on its calendar since last summer and has not been called up because it was regarded as highly contro- versial. The police and fire increase bill would add about $1,500,000 a year to the District budget. The com- mittee ordered it for immediate consideration by the House in the face of a warning by Representa- tive Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois, that increased taxes might be nec- essary to provide the higher salaries, ‘The small loan bill would author- ize small loan companies to make loans up to $500 and collect an in- terest rate of 2 per cent a month on the unpaid balance. Representative Schulte, Democrat, of Indiana, said immediate action on the liquor price bill which he sponsored, is necessary to break up & “chaotic condition” in the lo- cal liquor industry. “Short prac- tices,” and underselling are rame pant, he charged. The committee also ordered with« drawn from the House calendar for public hearings a bill authoriz- ing reorganization of the Board of Trustees of Columbus University. 35-Knot Cruiser S&fi—Diego Goes Info Commission By the Associated Press BOSTON, Jan. 10.—The 6.000-ton light cruiser San Diego—one of the fastest ever built for the Navy— was commissioned today at the Bos- ton Navy Yard. The craft, launched at the Beth- lehem Steel Co.'s Fore River plant Man Found Dead ifl P“ - “llhl price-control bill today. Demo-| j,y 26, is designed to make approxi- Of Elevator Shaft Here Harry Jerome Wilkes, 61, of Maryland Park, Md., was found dead early today at the bottom of the treight elevator shaft of the Albee | Building at Fifteenth and G streets N.W., police reported. Police said Mr. Wilkes apparently | fell into the pit when he went to| the basement entrance of the shaft with the intention of ascending to the first floor on the elevator., The elevator was on another floor at the time. A 52-year-old building engineer,; whom the victim was said to have been visiting, was held for ques- tioning. Correspondent, Ca—plured By Nazis, Reported Safe By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 10—In & postcard from Italy to his sister, Godfrey H.i P. Anderson. a correspondent of the | Associated Press of Great Britain, reported he was “safe and unhurt” after his capture by Germans in| Libya last November 23. The card was dated December 1. “I was captured by Germans dur- ing the battle in Libya November 23, and brought to Italy in an Italian cruiser, and am now in a prisoner of war camp. . . .” the postcard said. “It is bitterly cold here but we all | are being well treated. . .. “Edward Ward of the British Broadcasting Corp. is here with me.” | Mr. Anderson’s sister, Dorothy An- derson, lives in Upper Warlingham, Sussex. San Franciscans Seek To Recall Mayor Rossi BY the Associated Press. SAN FRANCICO, Jan. 10—A move to recall Mayor Angelo J. Rossi has been initiated. Phil F. Garvey, San Francisco lawyer and spokesman for the re- call group, said the move was a development in the Mayor’s “mis- handling of civilian defense pre- parations and his general incom- petence.” Mr. Garvey filed an application with the Secretary of State to re- serve the corporate name “Recall Rossi and Save San Francisco.” The San Francisco Press, un- the last election, now generally has criticized him, claiming he was “playing politics” in civilian defense. Attack on Australia Predicted by Menzies By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Former Australian Prime Minister Robert G. Menzie declared today in a broad- cast from Sydney that Australia “almost certainly” would experience “direct physical attack” but that the British Empire as a whole “is much nearer victory than seemed possible a year ago.” The broadcast was heard here by C.B. 8. Australion Official Quits SYDNEY, Australis, Jan. 10 (P.— . H. Holmes, recently appointed director of Mmztma wAd‘:; tralian governmen! 0 voicing “dissatisfaction with minis- terial control and rfl of policy.” cratic Leader Barkley predicted | speedy approval of the measure as & whole. The parity increase amendment was expected to get the backing of | farm bloc Senators who yesterday overrode President Roosevelt's writ- ten objections and wrote into the bill a provision giving the Secre- tary of Agriculture veto power over, farm price fixing. Veto Power tor Wickard. Turning down a proposed com- promise by Senator Barkley, the farm bloc obtained a 48-to-37 vote for an amendment by Senator Bankhead, Democrat. of Alabama providing that the Secretary of Agri- | culture must give “prior approval”| before & price administrator, to be | established by the bill. could fix a celling on basic agriculture commod- ities. Senator Barkley had sought to| turn aside this proposal by another | amendment which would have re- | quired “prior consultation” with the | Secretary, but the Senate rejected | this, 46 to 39. President Roosevelt previously had written Senator Barkley and Senator Brown. Demo- crat, of Michigan urging that the price administrator be given full au- thority. The Senate's action added the Secretary’s virtual veto power to two | other committee-approved restric- tions on the fixing of farm prices. These provided that no ceiling should be placed lower than the average price last October 1 or | lower than 110 per cent of parily. Parity is a computed price calcu- lated to give a commodity the same purchasing power it had in a base period, usually 1909-14. Safeguards Held Inadequate. Senator O'Mahoney told reporters, | after he had offered the amendment increasing tvhe parity figure, that he | (See PRICES, Page A-2) Bangkok Again Bombed, Berlin Radio Reports By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Jan. 10 (Official Broad- cast) —German radio reports from Bangkok today said the British carried out & heavy aerial raid on the Japanese-occupied Thal capital last night, dropping s large number of bombs. Many casualties were re- ported among the Indian and Chi- nese population. mately 35 knots, approaching the speed of new-type destroyers. To provide this speed, the new cruiser is streamlined and smaller than light cruisers of the Omaha class, built about 20 years ago, and in general bears a resemblance to & destroyer. The new vessel was named for the city and on behalf of that municipality Representative Izac of California, a retired lieutenant com- mander, was selected to present a silver service set for use on the cruiser. In the World War a cruiser of the same name, built in 1907 and orig- inally named the California, sank in collision with a mine off Fire Island, New York. : OpiumVVa'Iued at $60,000 Seized as Ship Docks By the Associated Press. The Treasury announced today that its agents had seized 900 ounces of opium valued at nearly $60.000 at current quotations when an un- named American steamship docked at Hoboken, N. J. yesterday. A longshoreman and a Chinese |laundryman from the vessel were seized for questioning, the Treasury {said. It declined to name the ship {or the persons held. | Officials said the seizure was un- usually large under present shipping conditions. Opium is now selling around $65 an ounce in the illicit | trade, but practically none is ob- tainable, customs officials said. The seizure consisted of 100 one- tael tins of smoking opium, 455 half-ounce tubes of smoking opium, 32 pound slabs of crude opium and two 8-ounce bottles of “opium in soak.” The one-tael tins contained 1!3 ounces each, officials said. Strange PlanesiBfing Lompoc, Calif., Blackout By the Associated Press. LOMPOC, Calif , Jan. 10.—Lompoe had a 37-minute blackout last night. Ordered by police authorities at 6:08 pm, it was terminated by an all- clear signal at 6:45. (At Los Angeles the 4th In- terceptor Command said it was informed the blackout was or- dered after an observer reported the presence of unidentified planes over Point Conception.) German ani]ap Jailed On Cuban Plot Charge BY the Associated Press. HAVANA, Jan. 10—Emil Hachez, (The account gave no details of military damage. Two raids ‘were made on Bangkok by Brit- reported that Japanese planes raided Rangoon, Burma, again today. 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 Virginia and Mgryland: Alarm—Five short blasts at three consecutive times, a total of 15 blasts. All clear—Three long blasts of one and one-half seconds each. & German subject, and Urano ‘Tokuyo, & Japanese, were sentenced to two years in prison yesterday by Urgency Court on charges of con- spiring against the Cuban State. Hachez was charged with corre- sponding with Germany's secret police. Tokuyo was said o have attempted, when arrested, to de- stroy & map showing certain air Mother Learns 2 Sons Died at Pearl Harbor B the Associated Fress. NEVADA, Mo, Jan. 10—War in the Pacific, little more than a month shortly after the Pear] Harbor attack, that her son, William, was missing. Yesterday she learned that ane other son, Raymond, had lost his life in the same action. )