Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1942, Page 1

» Weather Forecast Continued moderately cold tonight. Tempera- tures today—Highest, 47, at 2:30 p.m.; lowest, 28, at 6:40 am.; 45 at ¢ pm, rom e Sy PN R St Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 22. 90th YEAR, No. 35,695. GHT FINAL SPORTS UP) Means Associated Press. THREE CENTS. he Foening Stap ™ | U.S. REINFORCEMENTS STREAM TO Late News Bulletins Green and Meany at White House The second unheralded labor conference at the White House in two days was held by President Roosevelt this after- noon when he conferred with William Green and George Meany, president and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Roosevelt conferred yes- terday with Philip Murray, head of the C. L. O. (Earlier Story W. P. A. to Hire War Jobless ‘The W. P. A. will give jobs to all persons thrown out of work directly because of the war production program and who are ineligible for unemployment compensation, Howard O. Hunter, work project commissioner, announced today. He pre- dicted an increase of almost June. 80 Italians Reported Killed in Albania NEW YORK, (®.—The “bloody battles between Albani at Tirana and other towns of Italian-occupied Albania. Twelve Albanians were killed Italian soldiers in one engagment, B. B. C. said, and 200 arrests were made. Canadian Plebiscife Sef on Conscription For Overseas Duty Unprecedented War Effort Planned as Government Rescinds Old Pledge By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Jan. 22.—A Cana- dian plebiscite on raising troops by conscription for overseas duty was announced today at the opening of Parliamept. ‘The plebiscite was announced in the speech from the throne read by the Earl of Athlone, Governor Gen- <ral of Canada, who said the govern- ment would ask to be released “from any obligations arising out of past commitments restricting the raising of men for military service.” The “past commitments” referred 0 the pledge Prime Minister W. L. | Mackenzie King gave in the House of commons before the war that his administration never wotlld initiate legislation to compel Canadians to fight ouside of Canada. At present, Canadian men are sub- Ject to call by classes for compulsory military and home service, but only volunteer units may be sent outside the country. The Earl of Athone gave no details as to tiie date of the plebiscite or other plans for an all-out fight, but promised the details would be made public later. “You will be advised,” he said, “of the means the government proposes to adopt to effect as complete as possible a mobilization of the ma- terial resources and manpower of the country in direct furtherance of the total national effort.” The speech, opening the third session of the 19th Parliament, said there would be substantial increases in the'armed forces and in food and munitions production. Britain Orders Compulsory Home Guard Service LONDON, Jan. 22 (#).—Service in Britain’s Home Guard will be com- pulsory after February 16 the War Office announced today. The present 14-day notice to quit the service no longer will be in effect, but members can apply for discharge on grounds of age, med- ical unfitness or hardship. Men dodging service will be liable, on conviction by a civil court, to a $40 fine, a month's imprisonment or both. Late Races Other results, Rossvan’s Com- ment, other selections and entries for tomorrow on page 2-X. Hialeah Park FOURTH RACE—Purse, $1.200; claim- ing; 4-yeat-olds and upward: 7 furiongs. George Lamaze (Berg) 50.60 16.50 9.3 YVotum _(Gilbert) Y Down Six (Coule) e, 1:26 3-5 0 Tan—O Play. Maegay. Buffichead. Asron Burr, Impenetrable Hour Al, Weis- enheimer and Smart Crack. FIFTH -year-olds: Alohort (Wi Bir War (James) Marksman (Robertson) Time, 1:18 i ‘ran—Incoming. Kokomo and Cas- 6% furlengs. all) - SIXTH RACE_Purse, $1.500: allow- 4-year-olds and’ upward: 6 fur- Signator (McCreary) 670 3.80 Johnnie J. (James) 5.70 ‘H%fln anh" (8Smith) ime 1:12. Also_ran—Bryan Station, Roncat and Doubt Not. SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $1.200; claim- ; 4-year-olds and upward; 7 furlongs. Gino Beau (Pollard( 20.00 9.90 6.90 Remote Control (Strickler) 11.50 7.80 Bright Arc_(Lindberg) 8.50 Time, 1:27 2-5. Also ran—General Jack. HI? ‘Weaver, French Horn, Armor Bearer_ Commence- ment, Boy Angler, Harry Heiman and Magie Stream. Fair Grounds THIRD RACE—Purse. _$600: special weights: maidens, 2-year-olds: 2 furlongs. Oomph ' (Shelhamer) 3.80 2.80 2.60 Greenock Flame (Martinez) 16.00 11.00 Aerial Torvedo (Fallon) 540 Time. 23 1.5 Also_ran—Kaymarion, Leba G.. Salina Refute. { Rideega 1 Hi wer and Be Sweet. O. 1Ingood, Murt, Sun Flo RACE—Purse, $600: claiming: | FOURTH 4-year-olds and upward: 1 yords. Lvdla’ K. (Crowel) 11.80 8.40 Kitche Maniton (Clark) 400 Jane Madden) ‘mile and 5.60 4.00 10.60 70 ‘anavia, Reigh Countess, 5. Pink Coral ~ Waki . f8tella Mc. . Call 1 Pleld. *'H. Nay and P. G. Orr eniry FIFTH _RACE—Purse. $800: sllowances: fimr;lfi and ufv-ra: L] t!lh (Guerin) 11.80 33 (Glidewell) t Arms (Hooper) e. 1:12 3-5. ¥ e i, B g 5 &8 Howara entry. A 3.30 5.60 | RACE—Purse. $1,500; handicap: | é Found by Scienfist 40 | among the National on Page A-10.) 2,000,000 in unemployment by British radio today reported ian patriots and Italian troops” and 60 wounded along with 80 Chinese Planes Bomb 'Indo-China, Hinfing Invasion From Yunnan American Fighters Believed Likely to Have Taken Part in Attack | By the Associated Press. CHUNGKING, Jan. 22—| | China’s air force carried the war | iinto French Indo-China for the | first time today by blasting an unidentified air base in the Jap- anese-occupied French colony, the official Central News Agency | reported tonight. There was no mention of the American Volunteer Group—volun- | teer airmen from the United States | —but it was believed likely that| A. V. G. fighters escorted the bombers. It was the first attack of any kind made by the Chinese against Prench Indo-China and some observers re- garded it as possibly a prelude to land invasion from ‘The Chinese press sistently urging Chinese initistive against Indo-China and it was re- called that an army spokesman said recently that all Japanese troops ern part of the colony. The spokesman asserted that the regular French and native troops, supplemented by similar moved from central Indo-China. | & Chinde air base that the attackers, (See CHINA, Page 2-X.) Gasoline Price Increased \InD. C. and 15 States 3 By the Associated Press. A three-tenths-of-a-cent-a-gallon increase on all grades of gasoline | sold in the District and 15 Eastern {and Southern States was approved today by the Office of Price Ad- | ministration. \ The increase, which will be per- mitted on all sales, including tank wagons, service stations and other retail outlets, was in accord with assurances given the oil industry last fall by Price Administrator Hen- derson and Petroleum Co-ordinator iHamld Ickes. | At that time the oil companies were told that they would be re- imbursed for additional transporta- tion expenses incurred in efforts to relieve the petroleum shortage on the East Coast by using tank cars and other high-cost methods in place of tankers. States affected by the increase are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con- necticut, New York, New Jersey, | Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, North Car- olina, South Carolina. ECancer Virus Reported By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 322.—The today sald Dr. Robert G. Green, University of Minnesota bacteriolo- gist, declared tests, after 10 years' experimentation, show certain ani- mal cancers are the result of virus infections and open the way for similar experiments on human cancer. Dr. Green, casting aside generall; accepted theories that the‘:' cance¥ “bug” is a chemical agent, said tests on mice, rabbits and monkeys and study of viruses concentrated by | elaborate laboratory machinery clearly show certain animal can- cers are the result of virus infec- tions, Human pre-cancerous growths transmitted to monkeys during the test gave strong evidence, Dr. Green contended, that human cancers de- velop from pre-cancerous growths caused by viruses. |Hialeah Park to Give ! Day’s Receipts to Charity By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 22.—Presidént Roosevelt’s birthday anpiversary, January 30, has been set aside by Hialeah Park as charity day at the race track. The day’s proceeds will be divided Foundation for Infantile the American Red Cross and the Army and Navy Relief Association. A had been removed from the north-| region was garrisoned only by its | forces | The Central News reported from | Star Journal in a copyrighted story | WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. Reds Reported Fighting West 0f Borodino Nazi Flanks Slashed By Ski Troops Dozen Miles From Mozhaisk (Earlier Story on Page A-1.) By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 22—Russian ski troops, carried on propeller- driven sledges, were reported tonight to be operating west of Borodino, the old Napoleonic battle field a dozen miles west of recaptured Mozhaisk, in sting- ing pursuit of Germans trying to fight their way back out of the Mozhaisk salient. . (On _the southwestern front in the Orel-Kursk-Kharkov zone, the Moscow radio reported, the Russians have recaptured 44 towns and villages in the last few days.) Skimming the countryside over waist-deep snow, the sledge-riding Red Army forces were said to be principally scouts slashing at the flanks of the German retreat to- ward Vyazma, which was regarded as the site of the next German stand against the Russian central front offensive. The Germans were said to be seek- ing cover, also from the bitterest week of Russia’s winter so far. ‘These harrying tactics will satisfy the Russian high command, London sources sald, because it sees the straightening of the receding Ger- man “winter line” between Kirov and Rzhev as the most pressing consideration of the Germans. The German retreat therefore | would be a hasty one, it was pointed out, with or without a Soviet effort to accelerate it. The Germans have been reported fortifying the line between Mozhaisk and Vyazma since the-start of the Russian cbunteroffensive. Observers here reasoned that the Russians Would rely on their artillery, whose superior fire and mobility have been demonstrated at Mozhaisk, to blast any German strong points. Mozhaisk is 57 miles west of Mos- Botodino | Historian Defends Press Entry Info Radio Field (Earlier Story on Page A-7.) BY the Associated Press. | A noted historian told the Federal | Communications Commission today | that it was a natural development for newspapers to enter the radio | fleld. commission’s investigation of news- | paper-radio relationships, Dr. Frank | Luther Mott, director of the Uni- versity of Iowa's school of journal- | ism, opposed any prohibitions against | future acquisition of radio stations by newspaper interests. Dr. Mott, whose “History of Amer- | ican Magazines,” was a_ Pulitzer | Prize winner, carefully triced for| the commission the history of Amer- | ican journalism, starting with Co- lonial times, and concluded that | there had been a vast improvement. | Commissioner T. A. M. Craven, an | opponent of the investigation, asked | | Dr. Mott whether he saw any danger in the licensing of more radio sta- | tions to newspapers. “No, I don’t,” the witness replied. Mr. Craven then asked whether prohibitions against newspapers op- erating radio stations would endan- ger the freedom of the press, Dr. Mott replied that “it certainly would be a strong blow against the news- papers, economically and in the matter of prestige.” Asked whether he saw any dan- ger to the freedom of the press by the licensing of stations owned by newspapers, Dr. Mott replied that it was “conceivable” that a news- paper, whose radio license was com- ing up for renewal, might change it’s attitude on some governmental question, “but this certainly would ! not be general.” Kurt Engel, Pianist, Dies Giving Lesson | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—Kurt En- gel, 32, refugee concert pianist, died of a heart attack in his apartment today while teaching a student. Mr. Engel was scheduled to give a ro:im at Carmegie Hall Febru- ary 8. compiled by the Office-of released for publication in document. taken from a German prisoner, TRIPOLL.—WAR HITS AN AXIS-HELD HARBOR—This picture, shows ships smashed in Royal Alr Force raids on the Axis-held harbor of Tripoli, according to WAR MYSTERY—The British in Libya found this unidentified victim of sea warfare, broken and battered, washed up on the been smashing at convoys. British sources. Cairo today reported Nazi Gen. Edwin Rommel PACIFIC TR iWesla;I And Hawaii Newly Forfified Rising Bomber Flow Offsetting Advantage Japan Seized Dec. 7 By the Associated Press. A high Government official re- ported today that since the Pearl Harbor attack the Army had been able to fortify Hawaii and the Pacific Coast more for- midably than ever before, while starting a stream of reinforce- ments to the Southwest Pacific. (What constituted this stream, in terms of men and material, was not disclosed.) Within the United States more than 600,000 troops have been shifted to new positions in less than seven weeks with a speed and effi- ciency which the official said had been termed “miraculous” by a rail- road president. b was striking back at the British with most of the tank force |, L0¢ 2dvantage Japan gained over he has left in what was described as a feeler stroke, the Navy by the December 7 sur- prize attack was declared to have | been largely offset by the mount- }ing flow of American long-range bombers. Survey of Measures Taken. Omitting details which might con- vey damaging information to the enemy, the official gave thispicture of the urgent military measures taken <ince war started: Japan's treacherous raid on Ha- | waii was against the key position of | the defense of the entire American Pacific Coast, and the first reports, which fortunately were exaggerated, | made it appear that the West coast | had been stripped of its protection. | In the emergency preparatians of | the last 18 months, heavy reliance | was placed on the fleet and its Ha- | waii base, and Pacific Coast defenses had lagged somewhat for the bene- | fit of more exposed positions. North African coast, where both British and Axis forces have (Story on page A-2) —A. P. Wirephotos. 'Argenfina Objects To Imporfant Phrase | (In Anti-Axis Measure Testifying in connection with the | Orders From Buenos Aires | Are Awaited to Settle Eleventh-Hour Exception (Earlier Story on Page A-1) BY the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. | 22—A member of Argentina's delegation to the Pan-American | Conference raised an eleventh- hour objection today to the turn | of an important phrase in the| draft resolution for unanimous| | American breach of relations with the Axis—a point which cast a shadow of previously in- dicated unanimity. The Argentine Foreign Minister and head of that country’s delega- tion, Enrique Ruiz Guinazu, mean- ‘vhfle, said he approved the idea of breaking off relations “in prin- ciple” but added that the delegation was awaiting final word from Buenos Aires. A member of the delegation said his group would seek two tions in the text of the agreement this afternoon. The first chahge would be to drop the word “collective” at the end of article four to make the resolution say that consultation be held before any resumption of Axis relations, thus to establish that the decision is merely “unanimous” and not “collective.” Other conferees are | expected to agree to this. But the other objection, a pro- posal to change the wording of key article “‘hree, was expected to pro- duce a fight. As article three stands it would have the American republics de- clare that they “cannot continue (See RIO, Page 2-X) - Report to the Nation The story of American prepamtion. for war, as Facts and Figures, will be the newspapers tomorrow. The Star will print—in daily installments—the complete text of this stimulating and informative A summary of the report, with the first instaliment of the text, will appear tomorrow in Du Barry's Bed Sold For $760 in Paris; Auyction a Sensation By the Associated Press. VICHY, Jan. 22—The bed- room furniture from the Merval Chateau of Mme. Du Barry. mistress of King Louis XV of Prance, was sold at auction in Paris yesterday. Du Barry's bed brought a bid of 38,000 francs (about $760). ‘The auction.created a sensa- Waish and McNary Demand Congress Curb War Profits Naval Committee Head Says Millionaires Are Being Made by Conflict BY the Associated Press. Demands that Congress take irffmediate steps to limit war profits were sounded in the Sen- ate today by Chairman Walsh of the Senate Naval Affairs Com- mittee and Republican Leader McNary. “Checkbooks will not win this war,” Senator Walsh shouted as he | asked what drafted men in the armed forces must think when they read congressional reports of exces- sive profits and new millionaires. Senator McNary inferrupted de- bate on a-Navy measure to ask Sen- ator Walsh what steps had been taken to limit profits. Asserting that he favored a strict limit on all war profits, Senator Walsh said that while “soldiers get- ting $21 and $31 a month were pour- ing out their life blood wealth is be- ing piled up and more millionaires Senator Walsh recalled that from 1924 to 1938 Cong1iss placed a profit limit of 12 per cent on aircraft and 10 per cent on Navy vessels and that in 1938 Congress reduced these to 8 and 7 per cent, but these limits were removed in an appropriation measure. “I was bombarded by the Office of Production Menagement, by the Nztionpl Manufacturers’ Association and by aircraft manufacturers with protests on the profit limits,” Sena- tor Walsh said. “They said it would delay our naval expansion progrem because there was no limit on profits of subcontractors who would take more profitable foreign orders. “The war has ended all that.” Col. A. R. Wilson Promoted Bhe Foewing. $lar Senafe Passes Bill | For More Off-Street | Parking Facilifies Measure Changing D. C. Income Tax Law Also Approved (Earlier Parking Story on Page A-8.) By J. A. O'LEARY. The Senate voted this after- noon to give the Commissioners | power to establish more off-| street parking lots in the Dis- | trict as a means of helping solve | the automobile congestion prob- lem. The Senate passed another bill making a series of minor changes in the District income tax law. The tax measure previously had passed the House, but goes back for ac- tion on several amendments. The off-street parking bill also must go to the House, where the subject is still in the District Com- mittee. Senator Burton, Republican, of Ohio, who steered both measures through the Senate, explained that the parking bill is an effort | to bring about s comprehensive solution of a major part of the Dis- | trict traffic problem. 7-Man Board Created. The bill sets up a seven-man board, to be known as Motor Vehicle Parking Agency, to pre- pare plans for the acquisition of land and other facilities for the proposed additional parking lots. Congress later would pass on the appropriations to carry out the plans. Senator Burton said considera- tion has been given to the laying out of a series of off-street parking places on the fringe of the con- gested area, where motorists could leave their cars and proceed down- town on public vehicles. ‘The proposed agency also would have power to install more parking meters along the curb lines, and| to regulate the rates for off-street parking facilities. Parking lots could be established on property zoned residential, with the approval of the Zoning Commis- sion after public hearings. Rates would be fixed with a view (8ee PARKING, Page 2-X.) GUIDE FOR READERS Page. Page. A-14 §775,000,000 Voted For Ship Repair and New Construction President Asks 100 Million for Protection Of U. S. Civilians (Earlier Story on Page A-1.) By the Associated Press. The Senate passed and sent to | the White House today legisla-| tion authorizing expenditure of | $775,000,000 for new shipbuilding and ship repair facilities. Of the total, repair facilities would account for $275,000,000. Congress at the same time was asked by President Roosevelt to appropriate $100,000,000 for pro- tection of civilians during the war. The funds would be used by the director of civilian defense chiefly | for the purchase of gas masks for | civilians, additional fire-fighting equipment and other materjals nec- :ls;xry for protection during air The appropriation was requested as a result of a bill recently passed by Congress authorizing $100,000,000 for these purposes, but which did not name the specific appropriation. The measure was finally approved by Congress Monday and sent to the White House for the President’s signature. Mr. Roosevelt’s request for the $100,000,000 specifically would allow some of the money to be used for civilian defense in the District. Senate leaders decided this aft- ernoon to postpone debate on a new war powers bill until Monday to| give Senators time to study the measure as reported from the Judi- clary Committee this morning. Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of ‘Wyoming, filed at noon a favorable repert adopted by the Judiciary Committee yesterday. The report explains 14 changes the bill makes in various existing laws to speed up the war effort. Two Army Flyers Unhurt In Blue Plains Crash Two Army fiyers escaped injury when their training plane made a forced landing in a pasture near the Blue Plains Home for the Aged this afternoon. The pilot, Second Lt. Otis J. Burris, and Staff- Sergt. Edward J. Olshefski, the only oc- cupants, were| jured. Damage to the plane was slight. Col. Robert W. C. Wimsatt, operations officer at Bolling Field, said the monoplane had just taken off on a routine training flight when it devel engine trouble. Found (Complet: A3 Index, Page A-2.) ( gear still re- tracted, the plane struck s low fence in the open pasture before pancaking. The two men, unharmed, returned to Bolling by automobile. Into the threatened breach the Army sped almost the entire force { of bombers available in the United States. | Fortunately production had mounted to such a degree that | fighter planes as well were ready. The task entailed also, however, creation of extensive anti-aircraft and other defenses. Rapid movements of men and weapons were possible because emergency storage yards, other rail- way facilities and ports of em- barkation had been prepared in the last year and a half. The efficiency demonstrated ap- plies to movements of forces out- side the country as well. Pacific Attack Foreseen. The Southwest Pacific emergency was not unforeseen, as it was in the cards for years, since the United States tried unsuccessfully to sta- bilize the Pacific with the first naval disarmament conference and the accompanying nine-power treaty. ‘The Army and Navy recognized that if Japan failed to observe these commitments, the United States would be placed at a heavy disad- vantage by gepgraphy and a lim- ited fleet, and the Japanese soon started first to encroach on and then deliberately to violate the treaties. Though Japan gained an enor- mous advantage by surprise on Mccember 7, this already has been offset partially by American pro- duction of long range bombers, which is on the increase and is Hestined to mount to great pro- portions. Losses of Many Admitted. As the Pacific crisis grew, a sub- stantial force of heavy bombers was sent to the Philippines, beginning last summer, and although many have been put out of commission, those still in action have been re- storing somewhat the balance upset by the loss of warships at Pearl Harbor. In addition the United States and the other nations involved in the Pacific struggle have been laying broad foundations for united action, in Washington, Chungking, Moscow, Singapore and elsewhere. Freighter Sunk In Collision, 'Navy Reveals | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—The 3d Naval District announced today that the Clyde-Mallory freighter Brazos, 4,497 tons, had sunk Jan- uary 13 after a collision off the Southern United States coast. Identity of the other ship was not revealed. All 35 of the crew were saved. They were landed at Charleston, s.C. The ship, long known in the coast- wise trade between New York, Gal- veston and Charleston, was com- manded by Capt. C. L. Stone, a na- tive of Maine. The Brazos was built 43 years ago at Newport News, Va. The Navy said the collision occurred 150 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras in an area known to be traversed by enemy submarines. ‘The Navy said 23 survivors already had reached New York via rail and 9 would arrive tomorrow. The men were injureti, the Navy said. They were not immediately identified. W 2 2 06 3% 36 6 06 0 6 06 X 6 0% 6 6 6 X o 0 0 6 X 06 0 3 0 36 06 6 6 06 6 36 36 36 36 % % 6 % 6 6 % 06 6 6 6 6 6 6 X6 0 6 X6 36 26 3 26 26 36 36 6 36 X6 2 % % % %