Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1942, Page 18

“A—16 W Defense Sidelights Southwest Neon Signs to Be Dimmed; Burroughs Citizens Plan Meeting Business establishments in the Bouthwest section are being asked this week by air-raid wardens to turn off neon signs. Other lighted signs should be re- duced by 50 per cent during the war, it was said today by Joepeth Carra, chairman of a special defense committee. The program is in line with instructions received from Chief Air-Raid Warden Clement Murphy and Robert A. Hull, jr., deputy warden for the area. A civilian defense meeting will be heid by the Burroughs Citizens’ As- sociation at the John Burroughs School, Sixteenth and Monroe streets | N.W., at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Capt. Wil- liam L. Clemens, public relations officer in the District Office of Civil- fan Defense. will be the principal speaker. Brief talks will be made by William J. Byrnes, first ald chair- man; Zeb T. Hamilton, assistant deputy air-raid warden; Dr. A. F. Heath, first aid chairman, and Mrs. Marie Cuthbertson Nold, emergency housing chairman. Hechinger Co. has installed what | 1s believed to be the first service flag in the city. There is a star for each man in the service. | William Hallman nas been ap-| pointed new deputy air-raid warden for the Brentwood area. He succeeds Louis Block, who was compelled to made by Herbert Yocum, chairman of the Executive Committee of the area. = il Fort Georgée G. Meade, Md., will have a blackout tomorrow between 7:10 and 7:30 pm. Fire sirens at strategic points will seund an alarm of five series of risi and falling wails of 30 seconds each. All traffic within the post will move off roads, stop and turn out lights. “What the War Means to the Consumer” will be discussed by Mrs. May Thompson Evans, chief of con- sumers relation section of the Na- tional Defense Commission, at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. 4., 901 Rhode Island avenue N.W. James B. Browning will be the discussion leader. A civilian defense meeting of Zone A, Hampshire Heights area, will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the audi- torium of Barnard School, Fourth and Decatur streets N.W. Zone A includes the area between Decatur and Webster streets N.W. and be- tween Rock Creek Cemetery and Fifth street NW. A motion picture of London bombings will be shown, and there will be talks by Sherrard Tupman, deputy warden for the area, | and Robert Mohr, zone warden. resign owing to pressure of other jefense work. The appointment was 0il Insl;ilalions At Great Borneo Port Desiroyed Dutch Expect Japanese To Make Balik Papan Next Point of Attack By the Associated Press. BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies, | Jan. 22—The oil wells and oil plants at Balik Papan, most pro- | ductive in all of Dutch Borneo, have been destroyed completely “in view of the clearly distinguished Japa- nese intention” to make the oil port the target of their next major as- sault in the Netherlands Indies, it was announced officially today. The oil installations at Balik | Papan employed some 23,000 of the | town's population of 30,000 and were | operated by the Batavia Petruleum? Co., a subsidiary of the Royal Dutch | Shell. | Balik Papan and Tarakan in 1939 | had a combined production of | 1,680,377 tons. Since the outnum- | bered Dutch garrison at Tarakan had destroyed the oil stores and machinery there before surrender- | ing to the Japanese, army head- | quarters regarded it as inevitable | that the Japanese next would at- | tempt to move on Balik Papan, 315 | miles airline to the south. | “If the enemy attacks Balik Pa- | pan,” today's announcement said, | “he will not find there anything that would be useful to him . . . except for establishing a base there, the Japanese may just as wellfor- get their plans for Balik Papan.” Today'’s communique from the | Netherlands Indies high command reported a slackening in Japanese merial operdtions, with “slight ac- tivity” over various parts of the outer possessions but a number of attacks on Northern Sumatra. Belawan, east coast town on Su- matra and seaport for Medan, again | was bombed this morning and ship- ping off the Northern Sumatra coast —presumably in the wide entrance to the Strait of Malacca between Sumatra and Malaya—was raided. 10 Planes Destroyed, Japs Say. (This_dispatch was sent from an nemy country. whose motive in re- easing news is apt to be propaganda. Axis claims should be credited oniy When confirmed by American or Allied sources.) TOKIO. Jan. 22 (Official Broad- cast) (#).—Imperial Japanese head- quarters today claimed destruction of 10 Netherlands Indieg aircraft, in- cluding six flying boaf®, in attacks on Dutch bases since January 15. The announcement also asserted that last Monday Japanese naval planes destroyed harbor installations and blew up & 2,000-ton vessel in at- tacks on the ports of Sabang and Medan, on the island of Sumatra. Pan-American (Continued From First Page.) American resolution for sever- ance of relations with the Axis nations in crder to make it com- pletely acceptable to Argentina, Buenos Aires sources close to the Argentine government declared today. They did not specify the nature of the modifications.) Brazil May Act Speedily. An authoritative source said Brazil might sever relations with the Axis powers even before the end of the conference as & move to encourage other American nations to act promptly to fulfill the resolution. The conference Committee on Economic Co-operation, meanwhile, began work on its agenda, topped by separate proposals for American nations to end all financial, com- mercial and economic dealings with the Axis. Among recommendations before this committee were proposals for freezing funds of Axis nations and -REASON IT OUT AND YOU'LL @In NR (Nature's Remedy) Tablets, there are no icals, no minerals, #o phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are different—act different. Purely vegetable —a combination of 10 vegetabile ingre- dients formulated over 50 tz:s ago. Uncoated or candy coated, action g:ug as set 2 104 is dependable, thorough, yet millions of NR’s have proved. Convincer Box. Larger economy sizes, too. businesses throughout the Americas and establishing blacklists of in- individuals and businesses linked with the Axis. ' ° Defense Committee Suggested. The committee also is considering | a substitute for the original proposal | to establish an all-American general staff. Instead it was suggested that a defense committee be formed— thus avoiding the impression of purely military purposes—with each nation naming one representative. The committee would operate at ‘Washington. Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela introduced last Priday the original resolution calling for a rupture of relations with the Axis, a measure against which Argentina nnq Chile balked. ‘The agreement. as rewritten from that resolution. did not stipulate that the break must be immediate and eliminated the original provision for a simultaneous cutting of economic ties with the Axis. ; It stated in a carefully-worded section that the constituted ers of the governments signing it must be in accord, indicating that the Argentine Congress would have to pass on it for that nation. The Argentina delegation accepted the compromise resolution without res- ervation. However, the Chilean delegate, Foreign Minister Juan Bautista Ros- setti, who has insisted that Chile’s special geographical situation af- fected her position, specifically stated that the agreement would have to be put before the Chilean Congress. The next regular session of the Argentine Congress begins May 1. Acting President Ramon S. Cas- tillo"thus far-has refused to eall a special session. 3 The meeting at which the five nations- threshed out their problem was at the office of Foreign Min- ister Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil. Be- St features of the easy eating—j bites—and as: N8 TO-NIGHT; TONOAROW ALRIGNT }, *THE +*EVENING * STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, THURSDAY sides Aranha and Rossetti, those present were United States Under- secretary of State Sumner Welles, Argeatine Foreign Minister Dr. En- rique Ruiz Guinazu and Peruvian Minister Alfredo Solf Muro. * Text of Resolution. ‘The text of the four-point de- claration follows: Article 1. The American repub- lics reafirm their declaration against any act of aggression on the part of a non-American state against one of them as an act of aggression against all of the, since such an act constitues an act of aggression against the liberty and sovereignty of America. Article 2. The American repub- lics refflarm their complete soli- darity and determination to co-op- erate together for mutual protec- tion until the effect of the existing aggression to the continent shall have disappeared. Article 3. The American republics, consequently, declare that in the ex. ercise of their sovereignty and in ac- cordance with their constitutional institutions and provided that these are in accord, they can- not dontinue diplomatic relations with Japan, since Japan has attacked and the others have declared war upon a country of our hemisphere. Germany and Italy, Article 4. The American republies finally declare that before, they re- establish relations referred to in the previous paragraph they will con- sult together in order that their de- cision may be collective and unan- imous. ‘With the redrafted resolution pre- pared for the full session of the con- ference, there was only one major defense question for consideratiod— the declaration of all allies of the United States as non-belligerents. Pan-American Accord | Hailed in Washington > she Associated Press. News that Argentina and Chile finally had swung into line with the IT:T 19 other - American republics in a declaration of intention to sever diplomatic relations with the Axis was received with relief in Washing- ton today. Even tha conditional nature of the Argentine and Chilean. acceptances fafled to dim the gratification of many in the Capital who had feared a less favorable outcome. They re- garded the Chilean representative’s reservation that his government would have to be consulted and the apparent - Argentine insistence on ratification by the Argentine Con- gress as not ‘insurmountable bar- riers to a permanently unified dip- lomatic front. New Significance of Plan. On the military front, the Rio de Janeiro agreement gave new sig- nificance to the hemisphere war pro- duction plan disclosed in Washing- ton yesterday, especially to its pro- posal for pooling of ships and joint convoys to protect them. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, brings the Rio Conference to your Living Room Open: your paper or fune in your radio and, through either of these news mediums, you're sitting elbow to elbow with your 21 Good Neigh- bors at the Pan American Conference. Much of that news comes to you through L. T.&T.’s associate companies, All America Cables and Mackay Radio. 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