Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1942, Page 6

A—4 X Jap Bombers Atfack Ports of New Guinea And Bismarck Isles Australian Air Command Sees Raids Indication Of New Assaults ] BY the Associated Press. MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan.| 21.—Japanese bombers raided the | key ports of Eastern New Guinea | and the Bismarck Archipelago| for hours today in strength which the Australian air com-| mand said suggested that “major | attacks in this area can be ex-| pected.” Principal targets of the ruders‘ were Kavieng. at the north cape tip | of New Ireland, where the Bismarck urchipelago juts closest to the Jap- anese-mandated Caroline Tslands, | and the east coast New Guinea cities of Madang, Salamaua, Bulolo and Lae. i ‘The bombers were supported by; strong fighter groups. | Forty bombers escorted by 20 fighters attacked Kavieng in the | first of the raids, early this morning, | an Australian communique said. A short time later three raiders bombed | Madang. | Strong Forces Sighted. Strong Japanese aerial forces were sighted at a number of other plsces; along the northern coast of New | Guinea and over the Bismarck | Archipelago. More than 50 Japanese bombers and fighters were observed flying in the direction of Salamaua. south of Madang, which is in the Australian part of New Guinea, and shortly after noon a small group of raiders attacked Salamaua airdrome. “The extent of damage and cas- ualties in these raids has not been reported.” the communique said, | but it added that from the strength of the forces the Japanese had put into the air “major attacks in this area can be expected.” (This evidently was an exten- sion of operations instituted yesterday against Australian- mandated New Britain Island. ww® TVENING S TAR, DERNA AIRPORT AFTER R. A. F. VISIT—Smashed German and Italian planes litter the Derna airport after R. A. F. fiyers smashed at the spot to soften the way for land troops in Libya. The Royal Navy also pounded at the city from off shore. —A. P. Wirephoto. In Southern Burma Checked, British Say Drive in Direction of Port of Moulmein Is Declared Halted BY the Associated Press. | RANGOON, Burma, Jan. 21— ToLeave U.S. for Homelands Italian Embassy Group Treated by.Doctor For Newly Developed Cases of ‘Nerves’ By HELEN LOMBARD. It will take the combined efforts of Swiss and Portuguese authorities to effect exchange of Axis diplomats | in the United States for American | diplomatic officers in Berlin, Rome, Bucharest, Budapest and Sofia. Arrangements are being made to fan countries have enjoyed to the full the comforts of life in Washing- ton, they have never relaxed their efforts to sell their own superlative system in the Capital of the United States. Aiding these regular diplomatic Thai-Japanese Thrust ?[A_xis Aides Reported keluctant Rio Parley Commitfee Expresses Sympathy For Axis-Held Lands Big Test of Solidarity Not Expected to Come | To Vote Till Tomorrow BY the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 21— WASHINGTON, D, C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1942. bate, said last night "he Imd it abandoned hope that unanimity of the 21 American republics ultimately would be achieved. Ne Déviation From Position. In his ste, t in Buenos Aires, Castilld dec] that thus far Ar- gentina had not deviated from her position of neutrality toward all war- ring nations ‘except. by treating the United States as a non-belligerent and thus permitting American war- ships the use of her ports. 'xtdlr position is final” Chstillo added. “It will not undergo any chang o & Transferred Government Employees Can you continue your present Hospitalization Insurance in other cities? QOur liberal Government Employees Group Hospitalization Insurance protects you every- ‘He protested, however, that Argen- || Where in the United States and Canada. - lna’s attitude toward the Pan- American €onference had wrongly been interpreted as a refusal to col- ‘gborate with the other American nations. » “Argentina, which defends the thesis that she believes best for America, will collaborate,” Castillo declared. Argentina’s position, he said, is “open, frank and loyal, and repre- sents—right or wrong—the opinion of the country.” Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guinazu, chief of the Argentine delegation here, is merely “carrying out instructions given him by the cabinet,” the acting chief executive ed. LONG & Telephone NAtional J. Stanley Lons. Pres. Army Flyer Uninjured In Mishap in Potomac Second Lt. Robert Hartzell nar- rowly escaped a ducking in the Potomac River at 8:15 o'clock last night when the Army training plane in which he was practicing night landings nosed over in the soft earth at the river's edge after run- ning off a runway at Bolling Feld. Lt. Haztzell, 22, of New York City was uninjured ‘and crawled from the plane unassisted. The single-motored craft was not badly damaged, according to Army public | relations officers. | Keep 'em rolling! We mean dol- | lars! Buy United States savings bonds and stamps. | 20% off | Movie Films VALENTINES PHOTO THE PERFECT CURRY Barr Building, 910 Severteenth St. N.W. 3610-11-12-13-14-18 Bpencer B. Curry, Sée.-Treas. 27 officers have been various American | The Defense Committee of the | | women, many of them married to | c i titled foreigners who have left Eu- ;P.n American Conference unan- | Thai-Japanese forces which launch- | The Bismarck Archipelago links | o /" 008 iCE from the Thalland | charter a Portuguese boat which New Britain and New Guinea.) COLUMBIA sz 3 of 100 Planes Felled. Defenders of Rabaul, New Britain base, were reported in a com- munique to have shot of 100 Japanese planes which struck there yesterday. Rabaul's casualties were 11 per- sons killed and 6 injured. The announcement acknowledged the loss of five British planes and | & combined army and R. A. F. com- | said one merchant ship and wharves were damaged. Rabaul principal city of New Britain, is about 500 miles north- east of Australia and approximately 3.500 miles east of Singapore. The planes participating in the raid were sald to have come from shore bases as well as an aircraft carrier, Peril to Australia Seen. Prime Minister John Curtin said the mass attacks showed the peril | to Australia was ‘“nearer, clearer | , and deadlier than ever.” “Anybody in Australia who fails| to perceive the immediate menace | to Australia which this attack con- | stitutes, must be lost to all reality.” W. C. Wurth, former chairman of the New South Wales Public Service Board, was appointed director gen- eral of manpower, heading an organ- ization under which every man, wo- | .man and child will be enrolled for| war service of some kind. -Muluyu (Continued From First Page.) | strip between the Muar River and Batu Pahat, which is 60 miles from | Singapore. Only slight action was reported around Batu Pahat. . At Endau, on the east coast 85/ miles from Johore Strait, a British | butpost was reported withdrawn in | the face of stronger Japanese forces. An official Tokio broadcast asserted that Allied warships had entered the critical battle of Singapore even @s Japan's navy minister, Vice Ad-| miral Shigetaro Shimada, boasted that the Japanese navy “virtually commands the Pacific from Malaya ! and the Indies to the west coast of the United States.” Claim Advance Continues, Japanese front-line dispatches said | down 3| border vesterday in the direction of | the important port of Moulmein in Southern Burma have been checked near the frontier town of Myawaddi, & communique said today. | Preceded by bombing attacks, Thal troops had crossed the Burma fron- | tier east of Myawaddi and engaged | British defenders north of the town, | munique said yesterday. | Japanese planes also bombed | Moulmein, 60 miles southwest of Myawaddi. The port of Tavoy, which fell to | the Japanese Monday, held out for | three days as defenders fought for 50 miles along the jungle invasion route. By taking the port the Jap. anese were able to cut Burma's long ‘Tenasserim coast practically in two. New Gains in Burma Claimed by Japanese TOKIO, Jan. 21 (Official Broad- | cast) (#.—Domei News Agency to- day claimed that Japanese forces striking Into Lower Burma had | made new gains'in the south amd | were advancing east of Moulmein. | A communique by the imperial { headquarters said Japanese troops | “annihilated” defense forces in‘a fight near Cowmeander, 16 miles northeast of the captured port of | Tavoy, last Saturday night. (The Japanese did not specify what gains they claimed to have made east of Moulmein, more than 150 miles north of Tavoy.) The Japanese claimed gains in | diplomatic attaches of the totalitar- | Southern Burma and said artillery | and dive bombers were supporting | heavy offehsive operations aimed at | Moulmein and Rangoon. The Japanese bombers also were said to have attacked Moulmein and Myawaddi. Imperial headquarters said Jap- anese forces which occupied Tavoy “captured 151 enemy troops and 10 motorcars, as well as large quantities of weapons.” Moulmein Endangered From Two Directions RANGOON, Burma, Jan 20 (De- layed) (#).—Moulmein, ringed by the jungle and the sea at the en- | will proceed to Lisbon loaded with members of the Axis embassies. As | | sodn as the boat is sighted the Amer- | icans will be sent to Portugal to | board the same vessel for the return | voyage. Swiss diplomats will super- vise the transaction and will see to it that neither side loses in the exchange. The exiled Americans are waiting ship is on the way. There is a | curious reluctance, however, on the { part of the Axis diplomats to leave | the shores of the United States. ‘The joys of life under the new order seem to grow less keen as the time | for renewing them grows near. Italians Develop “Nerves.” | A Washington physician has had his hands full with the cases of | nerves, which have suddenly de- veloped in the Italian Embassy, for instange. The distinguished doctor !hld béen busy with the administra- tion of sedatives to various attaches whose exuberance over the prospec- tive departure diminishes day by day. Prince Colonna, the Duce’s envoy, is far frorn happy. He does not fear the hardships for himself, he says, but the prospect ot a luxury-bare existence in Italy for his beautiful Greek wife is heart-breaking. Each member of the staff has a different reason for his lack of enthusiasm. One is sorry that his | children will no longer have a care- free life. Another dreads the pros- pect of soapless bath, and so on. Though the agents, envoys, and impatiently for the news that the | rope for the duration, leaving their Italian, French and German hus- bands behind them. They find much to criticlze in the United States and do not hesitate to point out, over a cup of tea, or at a dinner party, the superior qualities of the New Order they have fled. Their expanding waistlines, far from diminishing their enthusiasm in- creased their energy. Admiral Lais’ Views Quoted. Until the actual declaration of war and the subsequent hysterics at the prospect of leaving Washing- ton, the diplomats of 11 Duce worked enthusiastically for the Axis cause. Admiral Lais, the former Italian Naval Attache, was asked to leave Washington for his share in the sabotage of ships in New York Har- | bor, and was “detained” in Bermuda by the British authorities. , The Ttalian admiral, newly-ap- | pointed aide to 'his majesty, King | Victor Emmanuel, was given a num- | ber of parties by his official “jailer,” | British: Admiral Purvis, in command of naval forces at Bermuds. Lais mccepted the parties with pleasure but was highly amused at the at- tempts to woo him to the Allied eause. He remarked to an old friend whom he met in Bermuda: “It is somewhat naive of the British and Americans to imagine that they can woo us away from the Axis with a cocktail. We are irrevocably com- for us and more against us than America and England combined.” {Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, \Welfare Execufive, Dies By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—Dr. Solo- mon Lowenstein, 64, former presi- dent of the National Conference of Social Workers and member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine Admin- istrative Commission, collapsed shortly after leaving a midtown restaurant yesterday and died on the sidewalk, apparently of a heart at- | tack. Ordained a rabbi in 1901 after at- battle flags of the Rising Sun were | trance to the tideswept Gulf of | tending Hebrew Union College, Cin- advancing southward along the Ma- | Martaban, today appeared to be the | cinnati, Dr. Lowenstein, born in layan west coas! Malacca, which lies between the Malay Peninsula and the Nether-| nds Indies island of Sumatra. Burma. g ‘There was no indication yet as |to where the British and Burmese | “in spite of gunfire | Japanese Army’s next objective in its | Philadelphia. devoted most of his life {rom enemy ships” in the Strait of |attempted conquest of Southern | to social work and in 1938 was head | |of the Social Workers Conference, | composed of Protestant, Jewish and Catholis social executives. six Rescued From Tanker Here on Way North Eager to return to sea, six sur- vivors of the torpedoed tanker Allan Jackson stopped off in Washington | 1ast night on their way to Newark, IN.J. and a new assignment. | The Jackson, 6635-ton tanker, { was struck in the starboard hull by | & torpedo from an enemy submarine lina coast and caught fire and sank within 10 minutes. Twenty-two men were lost. Thirteen survived. They had had no warning of the impending disaster, the six seamen said. Several survivors barely escaped death again when their | lifeboat came dangerously near the | ship’s whirling propellers. The survivors, who came here by | | mitted to Hitler who can do more early Sunday off the North Caro-| | imously adopted a resolution to- | day expressing sympathy for | Axis-occupied countries and as- | suring recognition to’their gov- | ernments in exile. Delegates said the big test of pan- | American solidarity—action on the | resolution to break off relations | with the Axis which Argentina has sald she would oppose—would not come to committee vote until to- | morrow. ‘The expression of sympathy res- olution touched off a few minutes of heated discussion because of a | misunderstanding of the attitude of Brazil. Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's Foreign Minister, had sald “America is for Americans and must be defended.” “No, senor,” a Cuban delegate de- | clared. “America is not for Ameri- | cans. America is for humanity.” | Aranha quickly cleared up the impression that Brazil was not in’ sympathy with the conquered coun- | tries and emphasized that he was | criticizing only the superficiality of | such a resolution. Brazil, he de- clared. wanted more definite action | | from the conference. | Hopes Ard Dealt Blow. | Hopes that Argentina might fall into line on the proposal to break relations with the Axis were dealt a blow last night by Argentina’s act- | ing President, Ramon S. Castillo, | who said his government could not | modify its attitude toward the pro- posal. 1 (United States Ambassador Norman Armour went to the Argentine presidential offices in Buenos Aires this morning for a conference with Castillo. No an- nouncement was made as to the purpose of the Ambassador's visit, but it was assumed in informed quarters that it had to do with Argentina’s policy at the Rio de Janeiro conference, especially on the question of breaking relations with the Axis.) | Castillo'’s assertion, made , last | night in Buenos Aires, was gener- | ally accepted here as meaning that | Argentina had definitely decided against joining the other American nations—at least for the present— Iin forming 2 solid anti-Axis front. Of the 20 other republics repre- sented here. Chile is the only one | whose stand on a proposed joint | break with the Axis—scheduled for| debate tomorrow—is in doubt. Ne Hint of Compromise. Castillo's statement surprised ob- INC. 1424 N. Y. Ave. NA. 0619 3-WAY RELIEF FOR @ Capudine acts fast be- cause it's liquid—nothing aelay. 48 druggists. CAPUDINE Lost and Found ALL SIZES IN STOCK from “2412x48" to 40'ax 68", reduced for clearance J. 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Strong Japanese pressure also was reported against a British com- munications highway running south- | east from the Muar River sector, 90 | miles north of Singapore, where British, Australian and imperial Indian troops were struggling to halt the main Japanese onslaught. It was in this sector that Tokio asserted 20,000 British were trapped. A Tokio broadcast said Japanese forces yesterday captured Segamat, 85 miles north of Singapore, after & seven-day attack against positions defended by the Australian 8th Division and fortified to a depth of 85 miles. Thirteen Raiders Shot Down. Singapore’s defenders sharply raised their score against Japan’s airmen by shooting down 13 of the Jaiders which blasted at fortifica- tions and thickly settled residential districts alike of that island citadel. During the long attack scores of bombs were dropped. Eyewitnesses observed but two raiders knocked down by anti-aircraft fire. There was no immediate explana- tion of the increased effectiveness of the defense which heretofore has accounted for comparatively few of the atttackers who caused 150 casualties, 50 fatal, in a severe raid Yesterday. The Japanese claimed that their light bombers started seven fires in an attack on a British airplane assembly plant near the Seletar air base on Singapore island. ‘They said fighter planes escorting the bombers shot down seven of 10 British fighters which tried to break up the raid. ‘The honor roll for the home front! Pay roll savings for the purchase of United States savings bonds and atamps, [ | eventual offensive weapon, the Jap- | which split the Tenasserim coast— | Burma's “panhandle” along the | Western Malay Peninsula—by cap- | turing Tavoy With a numerically | superior force. Moulmein, at the head of the| Tenasserim coast, was endangered | from two directions: From the | Thai border, 70 miles to the east, | to and from Tavoy, 170 miles to the§ south, to which it is linked by a | combination railway and highway | route. | Admittedly, with the British | Army here still being forged into an anese strategy of piecemeal occu- | pation of exposed areas in Southern ! Burma poses the most difficult type of defense problem. Moulmein is less vulnerable than | ‘Tavoy, but hardly would be an ideal Burmese Verdun. It is about 15| minutes’ flying time from three | strong Japanese air bases just over | the Thai border due east. Swamps and bridgeless rivers separate it from Rangoon or other strong points to which the Moulmein garrison, if outnumbered, might be ordered to withdraw. The Japanese also have switched their bombing tactics, apparently | conserving their aircraft for attacks | on the south Burma front. Rangoon had three alerts in the last 24 hours, but the enemy did not get this far. Moulmein now appears to be the chief target, although Allied fighter planes are offering a stout defense. Enrolled in Gunnery School Pvt. Alvin D. Kidwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Kidwell, 1640 Massachusetts avenue SE. and a graduate of Eastern High School in 1938, is enrolled at the Air Corps Gunnery School at Las Vegas, Nev. Pvt. Kidwell entered the Army March 22, 1941, with his unit of the District National Guard, of which he had been a member since early in the year, Japanese troops—apparently 3. | anthropic ieties, h i |cisive stand against the enemy, hic socled e became head | Bayonne, N. J., pumpman; Aracelio | ‘worker of the Jewish settemernt of Cincinnati in 1900 and from 1902 to 1904 was superintendent of the Unt‘lwd Jewish Charities of Cincin- nati. Among other offices he held were State welfare posts in New York. With the rank of major, he went Palestine, attached to the Amer- ican Red Cross, in the last war. In 1904 he married Linda Berger at La Crosse, Wis. Mrs. Lowenstein died in October. Tunney Quifs Liquor Firm To Give Full Time to Navy BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—Lt. Comdr. Gene Tunney of the United States Navy has resigned as chairman of | the board of American Distilling Co. to devote all his time to physical training duties for the Navy, it was announced today. Comdr. director of the company, which owns the largest distilling plant in the country at Pekin, Ill., in 1935. He became chairman in 1938. In his letter of resignation, Comdr. Tunney said: “In view of the fact that our country is at war and I am on a full-time job with the United States Navy, I find it necessary to relin- quish all of my business interests.” Comdr. Tunney has been engaged in the physical training of recruits for the Navy for some months. At present he is at the naval training station in Cieveland. < Ferry Pilot Sets Record An American pilot flying planes across the Atlantic made two cross- ings in less than 20 hours, having breakfast at a British airport be- fore dawn, lunch in Newfoundland and supper at the airport he had left in the morning. Tunney was elected a| to Newark, are Jeremiah Donovan, | Lopez, Brooklyn, messman; Teague G, F, Burke, Bruce, Fla.; Onis May, | Panama_City, Fla, and Ross F. | Terrill, Baltimore, able-bodied sea- men, and Rolf Clausen, Brooklyn, | bos'n of the tanker. | They had combined with two others to set the lifeboat afloat. ‘They were adrift for six hours be- | fore they were picked up by a pass- | ing ship and taken to Norfolk. Trailing Balloon €able Lifts Auto Into Tree Caught by the trailing cable of a drifting barrage balloon, an auto- mobile in which a man and three women were traveling near Bally- clare, Eire, was lifted into the air and deposited in a tree after the occupants had jumped out. Caught in the tree, the car anchored the balloon, which was shot down by troops. It fell on lhl(h tension wires, causing Bally- | hours, Hemisphere (Continued Prom First Page.) the basic essential exports required to sustain the internal economy of each Latin American government. 7. The United States will provide a standard international formula for collecting, tabulating and dis- tributing economic, commercial and financial information. 8. The United States agrees to finance and complete certain major projects of value to all signatory nations in an all-out war and hem- ispheric program. This includes clare to be without lights for several | = reports that Argentina, long re- garded as the chief obstacle to unan- imous action by the conference, was being won to the majority view. There was no hint now, however, of | compromise. Proponents of the anti-Axis dec- laration indicated they were ready to go ahead. regardless of Argen- tina’s attitude, and there were re- ports one subcommittee member had proposed that Argentina or any other nation opposing the measure be ousted from the Pan-American Union. Some hope still existed that Argen- tina, while apparently unwilling to subscribe to an immediate break with the Axis, might do so when she feels the time is ripe. Those hold- ing to this belief maintained that the present attitude of Argentina, as well as Chile, was being strongly influ- ;nced by political considerations at ome. Dr. Eduardo Anze Matienzo, Bo- livian foreign minister in charge of reporting out the resolution for de- Archaeological . . . 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