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Weather Forecast ‘Warmer today; moderate winds. Tem- peratures vesterday—Highest, 42, at 4 pm.; lowest, 19, at 6 am, Prom the United States Weat] Full Details on Page No. 1,921—No. 35,691 U.S. Sub Sinks 3 Ships Near Tokio; Relays of British Planes Batter Jap Troops Driving on S TPresid‘ent I;wduced Ehurchill Nipponese Smash At MacArthur's | Right Flank l Bv the Associated Press. . A United States submarine has | earried the war to the strong- hold of the enemy and, in the fleet’s most audacious operation ! of the war to date, has sunk| three Japanese merchant shlps‘ off Tokio Bay, the Navy Depart- | ment announced last night, but from the big land battle in the Philippines came word that the enemy was. smashing at the right flank of the American Army on Batan peninsula. | The fact that the Navy said the | submarine’s successful attacks took | place “off” Tokio Bay was taken as an indication the vessel had been | operating within striking distance orf the Japanese capital itself. The | great seaport city of Yokohama also : is on the bay. | The communique disclosed offi-| ecially that Admiral Thomas C. Hart | has assumed command of all Allied | naval forces in the Southwest Pacific. Admiral Hart arrived in the Netherlands Indies lasi week. U-Boats Still Off East Coast. The announcement of the three new sinkings ran the total score of Japanese vessels, combat and others, | accounted for by the Navy and| Marines since the start of the war to at least 27. In addition, Army | planes have accounted for ejght | others, including the battleship | Haruna. ! Yesterday’s was the third succes- sive communique reporting Navy | successes. Fridav the Navy an- nounced its submarines had sunk three Japanese transports and two cargo vessels and on Thursday it reported the sinking of a 17,000-ton | liner. On the other side of the war| ledger, the Navy communique said | “enemy submarine activities off the Northeast coast of the United States continue”—a reference to Nazi U- boats which have torpedoed two ves- sels in the distant approaches to New York Harbor and sunk another woff Nova Scotia. Batan Resistance Stubborn. ‘The War Department told of the‘ Japanese onslaught against Gen.| Douglas MacArthur’s forces in the | Philippines, an attack which wlsl‘ encountering stubborn resistance. | Aircraft and artillery are sup- porting the assault which it was believed here is aimed al turning the flank of the outnumbered Amer- ican-Filipino troops and preventing | any eventual retreat to Corregidor Fortress. Batan Peninsula is a narrow, rug- | ged strip of land lying between | Manila Bay on the east and the South China Sea on the west. Just off the tip of the peninsula lies the heavily fortified American strong- | hold, Corregidor Island. | Jap Claims Unconfirmed. Forced to abandon defense of | Manila, Gen MacArthur withdrew | his troops into this area for a last | stand against the enemy invader. | The terrain offers natural defensive advantages which the general was quick to capitalize. Presumably his line runs across the upper end of | Batan from sea to bay. I Thus the right flank is anchored | on Manila Bay, and guards a road- | way that follows the bay shore to & point near Corregidor. Presumably. one reason Gen. Mac- ‘ Arthur chose Batan for a final stand | was that the bay and sea protected his flanks. and barring a night | landing by the enemy, made it easier | to keep the Japanese troops always before him. | Tokio radio broadcasts, subject of | course to discount, said Gen. Mac- | Arthur’'s men were finally retreating | down the peninsula. There was, however, no confirmation of this| here. 35 Survivors Reach Port AN EAST COAST CANADIAN| PORT, Jan. 17 (P —Some, 35 per- sons, eleven of them hospitalized, are being cared for here following | the loss of an Allied merchant ship | in the North Atlantic, it was an-| her Bureau report. A2, he FASHINGTON, To Fly Home to Avoid Subs; Lost Convoy Coming Over By a Staft Writer of The Star and the North American Newspaper Allignce. Winston Churchill has ar- rived safely back in Britain and some of the hair-raising details of his journey to and from this country can new be told. It was literally at the very last moment—before leaving Washington late Wednesday evening, January 14—that the decision was made that the British Prime Minister and his party would return to England by air. Mr. Churchill is not over-fond of flying. He would have pre- ferred to return to England in the battleship that brought him to this country. But the known presence of enemy submarines near the North Atlantic Coast, coupled with the pleas of Presi- dent Roosevelt and air-minded Lord Beaverbrook. plus the dan- gers attendant on the Westward trip. induced the Prime Minister, after 10 days of seclusion in this country. to choose plane trans- portation. Now that it is all over, and the mission a registered success, it is interesting to know that the voy- poE e LONDON.—CHUR ill as he met his wife yesterday States. age to this country very nearly did not take place at all. It was twice called off. The first time was when the warships Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk by Japanese bombs and torpedoes. The second cancellatior. came one hour before the time of depar- ture, when the Rome radio broad- cast the fact of the impending visit. But 30 minutes later the “go” signal was given and the party went off on schedule. The battleship bringing the Prime Minister, Lord Beaver- brook, the chiefs of the British fighting services and their staffs to the United States was one of the newest, fastest and biggest in commission. The party landed at a port on the East Coast south of Washington. There the chiefs transferred to a plane. The others went to Washington by train. From the beginning to near the end, the vovage to this country was fraught with peril for Mr. Churchill and company. .To foft possible enemy watchers, - the battleship took a zig-zag course around Britain, starting from a northern port, but this meant that for several days the ship was within a 500-mile range of German bases and the luftwaffe. Expected Convoy Missing. Destroyers escorted the giant ship to a point near the Azores, where a new convoy was to meet and escort it to the United States. But when they arrived at the Portuguese islands, the British destroyers were not there. It was dangerous to,wait there, as enemy agents could send mes- sages to German or Italian sub- marines. So the mighty ship with ik on without any outside protec- tion whatsoever. And not much protection from within. The system controlling the operation of the big guns broke down when tried out for the first time after leaving Eng- land. The floating fertress. had it been attacked by enemy ships. would have relied on the small guns only. But the Churchill luck held good and neither enemy sub- marine nor plane spotted the prize package on its way to America. Some distance from the East Coast, United States Navy ships and an air escort brought the battleship safely to harbor. Crossing Is Rough. The westward trip was stormy. Most of the distinguished pas- sengers admitted feeling a little squeamish—one midshipman on his first active service was seri- ously ill for three davs. But ship- loving Churchill felt fine all the Way ACross The Prime Minister’s quarters were high up on the admirals deck. One evening the sailors on duty were being particularly noisy, and Mr. Churchill, who was B < CHILL HOME AGAIN—Prime Minister Church- after returning from the United —A. P. Wirephoto. | trying for a cat-nap before din- ner, opened his door and shouted, “Can’'t you ke a little more con- sideraie?” It was dark and the men could not see the owner of the voice. A sailor came back with “You'd better take it up with | ‘Ttler, guv'nor.” Mr. Churchill told the story later with amuse- | ment. | Every night, in spite of the | storm, Mr. Churchill, Lord Bea- verbrook and the-other members of the mission were entertained with # movie. Among the 10 films seen 'were “The Fighting 69th.” “Elizabeth and Essex” and “Juarez.” Lord Beaverbrook, who had seen most of the films before, would shout across in the dark to the Prime Minister, telling him what was coming next. (It's lucky for the Beaver that Mr. Churchill is fond of him.) Churchill Likes Fighting Films. Mr. Churchill is not as great a movie fan as Lord Beaverbrook, but he has a preference for films with fighting themes. He entered into the spirit of each movie, en- joying the gunfire noises. But at the end of one film he seemed relieved that it was over and said, “Now we can get on with the war.” Mr. Churchill's presence in the White House and Florida during the last part of his stay here was a well-kept secret. His last ap- pearance for the cameramen was in his “siren suit” on the chilly lawns of the White House. His disappearance from public view was intended to mislead the enemy, who were presumably eager to catch him on his way back to England, with a partic- ular interest in the movements of the battleship that was expected ingapore Sunday WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION More Air Support Rushed to Malaya, Australia Reveals By C. YATES McDANIEL, Associated Press War Correspondent. SINGAPORE, Jan. 17.—Relays of British fighters and bombers.’ which have been longing for a| | chance to catch the Japanese at | |a disadvantage, have found !thelr opportunity and wmught’ ‘havoc among troops. freight cars and truck convoys along | the Gemas-Tampin line, 110 to | 120 miles north of Singapore; | Island, an official statement | isaid tonight. | (It was disclosed authorita- i tively in Canberra, Australia, | Saturday that plane reinforce- i ments have been sent to the | Malayan front, and these may ‘ have taken part in the British | | | \ | | | § | air offensive. The Australian government was declared to have taken a firm stand in the matter of hastening aerial help to the battle of Singapore in which | fresh Australian ground forces have gone into action.) As this vigorous air attack was proceeding inland, other airmen struck at concentrations of barges and small ships along the west | | coast where a picked Japanese spearhead was attempting to en- | | large its foothold among mangrove swamps south of the Muar River, | within 90 miles of Singapore. | Freight Yard “Plastered.” “While our bombers were plaster- | ing the marshalling vards at Gemas, {long serpentine line of transport | venicles from a low altitude” on the | Gemas-Tampin road, the statement | said. The pilots said they caught the | motor transports stretched for 2 | miles along the narrow road from they left many fires among the 1,000 or more vehicles. | Bombers unloaded scores of large | caliber bombs on the railway yards and convoys at Gemas, scoring hits and starting more than 50 fires, the pilots said. | Japanese bombers which struck | _lg-xn at Singapore Friday succeeded | in dropping a few bombs in the naval dockyards area, but caused no | serious damage, an official state- | ment said. Six people were killed and 22 injured. | This attack was followed by a 70- | p_lane assault in which at least 150 | civilians were killed or wounded. by far the heaviest casualties acknowl- edged in six weeks of war. ! Little Action on East Coast. | | Swarms of British fighters dived on clusters of enemy launches and | barges in the mouth of the Muar, | littering the dank waters with | wreckage and bodies. At least one | launch blew up under the spray of machine-gun fire from the low- fying attackers; invading troops packed tight into the barges were | cut down like Wheat. The fighters came back with | | bombers to blast and strafe those | mechanized enemy forces which | managed to reach the south bank of | | the stream to form a bridge-head there. | (Tokio reports purporting to | come from a reporter with the Japanese Army in Malaya said | the Japanese spearhead, or what | remained of it, had reached the | “Batu Pahat sector” at dawn | Saturday. Batu Pahat is a coast- | al town at the mouth of a river 20-odd miles south of the Muar, and about 70, miles above Singa- pore, but “the Batu Pahat sec- tor” might include considerable territory above the town.) To the east on the short fighting | front, in the sector where fresh | Japanese advance and smashed some : their activities to cautious patrols. Big Axis Losses Claimed | NEW YORK. Jan. 17 (#—The' | British radio said tonight more than | 5,000,000 tons of German and Italian | shipping have been sunk by the British Navy and R. A. F. since the A LIKELY LOOKING Slar D. C, JANUARY 18, 1942—-128 PAGES. OFFCER YOUVE GOT THERE, MR .PRESIDENT. YES,UNCLE , AND THE COUNTRY IS IMMEASURABLY INDEBTED TO HiM: ALREADY / HE DOESNT LOOK LIKE ANY TEDDY BEAR To ME. Carole Lombard's i Plane Apparently Hit Mountain at Full Speed; Army Loses 15 Flyers BY the Associated Press. i LAS VEGAS, Nev., Jan. 17— Bodies of 22 persons, including Screen Star Carole Lombard, were found scattered for hun- fighters were machine gunning a dreds of yards today on the . slopes of Table Mountaint 35 miles to the southwest, where a T. W. A. passenger plane crashed last night, killing all aboard. Horseback searchers found the bodies and the wreckage of the Los Angeles-bound plane. It plunged mountain soon after taking off from here under cleer skies at 7:07 o'clock 1ast night. ‘Undersheriff Glenn Jones report- | ed from Jean, Nev, that the big 21-passenger craft seemingly hit at full speed. Many of the victims were burned beyond recognition. Killed with the movie actress were her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peters: Otto Winkler, M-&-M studio publicity man; Mrs. Lois Hamilton of Detroit, three plane crew mem- | bers and 15 officers and men of the | Army Air Corps’ Long Beach, Calif., ferrying command. Thus ended the idyllic marriage of Miss Lombard and Clark Gable, ! idol of thousands of feminine movie- | goers. When word came, a dis- traught Gable was on his way into the mountains to join personally in the search. He flew here early todey from Hollywood. The actor paced a hotel room for hours awaiting word from searchers, and finally set off soon after noon with Sheriff M. E. Ward " (See AIRLINER. Page A-4.) | | School Bus With 35 Crashes; 11 Known Hurt By the Associated Press. | BLOOMER, Wis, Jan. 17.—A school bus, carrying 35 students from Bloomer, Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire High Schools, crashed headon into a bridge culvert near here today. Eleven of the young people were | being treated in hospitals at Chip- pewa Falls and Eau Claire. Their conditions were not immediately re- ported but it was thought none | was seriously injured. The bus, returning to Eau Claire from debate tournaments ip Barron and Spooner, was going south on Australian troops have checked the | nighway 53, 3!; miles north of | here, it was reported. The driver of their tanks, the Japanese limited ! was Oscar Franson. The roads were | said to be slippery and visibility poor. Mrs. Wallace Takes 10 1 Swings to Christen Plane BY the Associated Press. The Evening and Sunday Star is delivered in the city and suburbs at 75c per month. The Night Final Edition and Sunday Morning Star at 85¢ per mon (#) Means Associated Press. H ) ‘Air Liner Ruins Yield $32,000,000 Plan to Rebuild 12 Bodies, Including Southwest Section Is Drawn Housing Project Would End Slums, Provide Quarters for (Stories concerning a new and a new registry for renta on Page A-6.) War Workers p bill to provide D. C. housing 1 facilities here will be found By JAMES Y. NEWTON. Plans for rehabilitation and reconstruction of Southw Washington to provide housing est for thousands of war workers employed within walking distance of the area are being studied by the office of Defense Housing Co-ordinator Charles F. Palmer, The Star learned last night. The section under consideration comprises 85 city blocks, cost of acquisition, the entire residential portion of the Southwest. have been worked out for a nine-block “sample” area, showing | cost of remodeling buildings structurally | Detailed plans th. TEN CENTS Population Rise 0f 250,000 Seen Here This Year Budget Director Says 85,000 More Workers Will Come to D. C. By J. A. FOX. The Government is planning | to add 85000 employes to the Capital staff during the current year—a program calculated to !expand the population of the | Metropolitan Area by “at least” 250,000—Harold D. Smith, bud- get director, said last night in a | statement, designed to justify i the removal of regular agencies from Washington to make way for the emergency force. Mr. Smith's figure doubles previe ous estimates as to the probable number of war workers to be brought in here this year. and would raise the executive agency personnel total as of next January 1 to ap- proximately 300,000, or more than two and one half times the size of the peak force of the First World ‘War—118.000. Explaining that his statement was | ntended to show “the conditions the | District may face” as the result of ;xhe prospective expansion, Mr. | Smith said they would be the same | as though “another city the size of | Akron or Birmingham pressed down |on overcrowded Washington.” His |survey pictured public services, | housing and office space as totally | inadequate to meet the new | demands. 85,000 Plus 42,500 More. | The Smith statement did not ex- plain where the new employes would be assigned, but said that data gathered by the Budget Bureau | indicates that approximately 45,000 | employes will come here between now and July 1, and 40,000 in the last half of the yea “Experience shows,” the state- sound, and cost of construction of new units to be added. Facts ment continues” that even under revealed in the “sample” are considered applicable to the whole conditions such as exist in Wash- section. | ington today, these 85.000 new Gov- If carried out in entirety, the program would be the largest of its kind | ernment employes will draw an ad- £ ever undertaken in the United States. The cost would approximate ditional 42.500 workers to serve them Tampin toward the East, and that ' mysteriously against the 8.500-foot | ¢33 000.000. and their families as clerk, crafts- Though designed primarily to relieve Washington's acute war housing men, telephone operators, city em- (Continued on Pagé A-5. Column 2.) Lewis P}oposes . Renewal of Efforfs For Labor Peace A. F. L's Committee Ready to Meet With C. I. O's, Green Replies By JOHN C. HENRY. John L. Lewis, who more than five years ago led nearly 2,000.- 000 workers out of the A. F. of L. into the rival C. I. O, propos_ed last night that peace negotia- tions be resumed between the two great bodies of organized labor, asserting that labor unity is imperative to the Nation in the war effort. Addressing identical letters . to Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions and to William Green, presi- Roosevelt Requests $11,000,000,000 More For Navy 314 Billions For Ordnance Sought; Vinson to Ask 1,799 Small Craft | By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt is request- ing a supplemental appropria- {tion of $11,000,000.000 for the | Navy, it was learned last night, {in which the largest item 1s | $3,500,000,000 for ordnance. | The request calls for the addition | of $7.000.000.000 to the Navy's 1943 | budget and $4,000,000000 to 1942 estimates. | The latter, a Navy spokesman said, | is to provide $1,100.000.000 for ord- | nance. $306.500,000 for public works, | $232,000,000 for Naval aviation and ployes and in other capacities. These new Government workers and private workers, together with their families, are expected to bring the total of new residents this year to approximately 250,000 by next Janu- ary 1, “This increase is equal to more than half the total of the District's population in 1930, which was 485.- 000; it is approximately equal to | the total population of Akron or Birmingham, according to the latest census. Furthermore the increase | will come after many months of constant growth, which has already | exhausted the leeway for expansion of population and services formerly possessed by Washington in com- mon with other cities. Many Thousands More Will Come. “In addition to this quarter of a | million people who will arrive in | Washington, there are many thou- | sands who are now waiting to come, A recent survey showed that of the | 36,300 families who moved * into | Washington between October 1, 1940, and November, 1941, one-quar- |ger of them left spouses or de- pendent children behind them. Of | this number of familles, 82 per cent dent of the American Federation of | $1,750,000,000 for new ship construc- |are now sharing a dwelling with | Labor, Mr. Lewis suggested that the negotiations be undertaken by standing committees which failed in the same task in 1939. The suggestion brought an im- mediate letter of reply from Mr. Green, with a formal statement by the Federation that “our peace committee stands ready to meet with a committee from the C. I. O. at any time.” | tained from the C. I. O. as Mr. | Murray was out of town and un- available for comment. | cumstances which both enfeeble and No immediate reaction was ob-| | tion, among other items. The $7.000,000,000 supplement in- cludes $2.500,000,000 for ordnance, | $13.500.000 for ship maintenance, | $729,000,000 for aviation, $232,750.000 for pay and transportation and $57,- 000,000 for the Coast Guard. | “Lucky” Figures Noted. | The Budget Bureau disclosed the request in an announcement calling attention to a lot of lucky sevens and elevens connected with the esti- | mates. Its statement follows: “The Navy is in for a tremendous run of good luck, according to the In view of the public nature of‘Bumu of the Budget, which reports | the proposal and the wartime cir- | that its naval and maritime section | (See LABOR, Page A-5) 1 of the Estimates Division sees 7s and (See NAVY BILL, Page A-5. Two U. S. Freighters Collide, | ™ "= One Sinks, One Afire; 35 Saved Eight Amy Fiyers Die steamer Madison is proceeding to | others, many of them because they are unable to procure-other accom= modations. “Rental vacancies ready for oc- cupancy are now reported at less than one half of one per cent in the | District—which for practical pur- poses represents complete absorp- tion. The public and private build- ing programs, either now under way |or recently planned, will provide | adequate facilities for little more than the existing demand. Esti- | mates indicate that approximately | 75,000 family units would be re- quired to care for the 85000 new Government employes and the 42,- 500 private workers and their fam- ilies. The total cost of this housing, if it were possible to provide it, (See DECENTRALIZATION, A-10.) |When Bomber Crashes nounced officially tonight. By the Associated Press. STRATFORD, Conn., Jan. 17— e Two American freighters collided | | Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife of the ight, Vice President, today took nine|Off the New Jersey coast last night, “strikes” ‘to christen the Excalibur, |the Navy Department announced, a four-motored trans-Atlantic mon- | One of them sinking and the other to take him. war began. the scene of the collision 15 miles | py the Associated Press off the New Jersey shore southeast | FORT GEORGE WRIGHT, Wash,, of- Atlantic Gity. | Jan. 17—Eight men, including Both ships, officials disclosed, had | Sacond - Heulcoantal | were its precious human cargo sailed Delivery of permission to run with dim lights. | Night Final Edition ‘The Night Final Edition of The Star, with- two addi- tional pages of last-minute D. C. Residents Five short blasts at half second intervals, sbunded three consecutive 1 times, will not be the District's| news, is delivered through- out Washington and nearby suburbs, together with The Sunday Star, at 85c per month. This edition gives the latest developments of the day in International, Na- tional and Local news, with complete Financial Reports. Special delivery is made between 6 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. daily. . air raid alarm signal after all—at | least not on the 24 new electric sirens just installed. This fact came to light yester- day, after newspapers, including | The Star, at the request of Wash- | ington Civilian Defense officials, | had printed every day for two weeks a notice describing the official alarm. 4 Have Been Dril half second and that all the sirens installed were built to comply wi'.h! the national O. C. D. code—which | calls for an interval of at least | 3 seconds. ! It was agreed that the obvious solution was to change the Wash- ington alarm signal interval to fit the sirens but no official author- ization for this was forthcoming last night. Instructions focal officials asked | residents to heed were as follows: | 24 New Sirens Can’t Sound Air Raid Signal led to Obey blasts of one and one-half seconds each.” ' C. V. McBroom, of the Federal Electric Co., of New York and Chi- cago, which has an order for 41 sirens costing $42,000, has been squirming every time he reads the “Air-Raid Alarm” information put out by the local defense office. Here's what he said: “As manufacturers of air-raid sirens, we wish to advise that both of these signals (the alarm and all- The manufacturer of the motor- | “Air-raid alarm: Five short blasts | clear) are impossible to sound. A driven apparatus revealed yester-|at half-second intervals, sounded |large siren must have more than a day his sirens ceuld mot possibly|three consecutive times, s total of | half-second between intervals 30| shook the regiom betwsen neon and w-m:mmmdulyl 15 Dblasts. Allelu!:‘l‘um « BIRENS, MJIOJ oplane built here for the American Export Airlines. There was nothing wrong with Mrs. Wallace's aim: The bottle of each time. On the ninth try, however, officials in charge of the ceremony placed an iron pive on the giant plane’s nose. That did it. | 4 Tem;lors Jar Colima | (#.—Dispatches from Colima, which was devastated by an earthquake | last April, said the- city's 30,000 in- | habitants were panic-stricken yes- terday when four earth temblors midnight, f champagne she swung hit the target | GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Jan. 17 | said in Philadelphia the steamer A. | catching afire. The United Fruit steamer San | Jose, of 3,358 gross tons, was sunk. The 7,600-ton Santa Elisa of the Grace Line, built only last year, was ablaze off Atlantic City, N. J. Survivors from the San Jose were picked up by the merchant steamers Wellhart and Charles L. O'Connor. ‘The Wellhart was reported to have 18 and the O’Connor 11, including the master, first mate and third | mate of the San Jose. A spokesman for the Coast Guard | L. Kent had picked up six men, one injured, and the others suffering from exposure. All of them were presumed to be from the San Jose. They will be taken to an undisclosed port tomorrow: 3 spokesman also sald the i 4 The first SOS came from the Santa Elisa about 8:10 pm. (E. S. T.) The San Jose appraently suffered a big hole in her forward part and sank “quite soon.” A Navy spokesman said that other survivors had been picked up by | a third merchant ship and by Coast Guard vessels but it was not known | whether all of the San Jose's crew | were rescued. Shipping registers list | her normal complement as 42. The survivors are being brought | ashore but the Navy declined to disclose the ports to which they are being taken. No details of the Santa Elisa's condition were made ‘public here but it was assumed that she had been taken in tow by Coast Guard cratt, L s killed today in the crash of an Army Air Porce bombing plane 2!z miles north of the Pendleton, Oreg., air base. The Second Air Force reported { the dead were: Second Lt. A. J. [ Prancisco, pilot; Second Lt. R. C. | Schows, co-pilot; Second Lt. L. E. | Grindle, navigator; Staff Sergt. A. D. Piers, Sergt. D. Clark, Corp. V. A. Learman; Pvt. G. T. Vrable, Pvt. L. Fagan, | Home addresses of the men were not available. Rescue crews from the Pendleton air base were at the scene. Radio Programs, Page E-4 Complete Index, Page A-2