Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1942, Page 2

Two Extra Pages In This Edition Late news and sports Pages 1-X and 2-X of the Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 22. 90th YEAR. No. 35,695. MacArthur Battles 200,000 Japs; The Star, supplementing the news of regular home delivered ‘edition. on this edition of* WASHINGTON, D. €, ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Critical Fight Rages in Malaya; Enemy Fleet Invaders Attack All of Defense Line in Luzon Heavily - reinforced Japanese assault troops are renewing at- tacks all along Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s line on the Batan Peninsula in an all-out effort to pierce the left and center wings, & morning War Department com- munique reported. Enemy forces comprising the 14th Japanese Army under Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma were estimated by Army officials here as approxi- mately 200,000 men. A major por- tion of this army is engaged in the assaults on the American-Filipino | lines. Other units were said to be | in support. | The War Department reported | at 9:30 am. that 17 Japanese| bombers Sunday attacked the city | of Cebu on one of the islands con-| Off Australian Eleven Vessels Are Sighted Near New Britain Island Area Presumably Evacuated by Military Forces, Fearing Nipponese Landing Attempt BY the Associated Press. MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 22.—Rabaul, capital of New Brit- ain, reported today that 11 ships, including warships, had been sighted off neighboring Watom Island, and immediately follow- ing this report communications with Rabaul ceased. It was presumed here that New Britain Island had been evacuated o 7 'd 4 siderably south of Luzon. No de- tails of this engagement were given. | The main attack on the Batan front was receiving m}{‘y I:fht air | t, the enemy evidently con- | entrating on artillery fire and in- | fantry thrusts. | More Troops Landed. Gen. Homma's forces were being augmented by reinforcements now being landed in Lingayen Gulf and Subic Bay, strategic areas available to the Japanese. Details of this major attack were lacking. Gen. MacArthur's forces yesterday were reported to have re- captured positions along the Batan lines which had been lost in earlier fighting. War Department officials seemed | confident that the beleaguered | American and Filipino lines would | continue to hold despite the heavy reinforcements the Japanese are throwing into the action. For several days it has been ap- parent that the Japanese were lead- ing up to a desperate attempt to break Gen. MacArthur’s main resist- | ance in this area, the capture of which would give them virtually| complete control over ‘' the entire island of Luzon. ] There was no indication in today's communique of reports recéived here that the stoutly-resisting American lines were unable to cope with the situation as it is now developing. Lack of reinforcements and air- plane support, however, are playing to the disadvantage of the defenders. Officials here said the 14th Japa- nese Army probably comprises from | eight to ten full divisions. A Japa-| nese division is estimated at about | 15,000 men, being about the same size as an American infantry di- vision. Homma Well Known Here. Gen. Homma is well known in this eountry, - officials said, and has played a prominent part in Japanese military affairs in recent years. He was said to be 54 years old, and an exceptionally good English linguist, and served both as staff officer and as a divisional commander in China. | At one time he was in command of | Japanese forces at Tientsin. | Officials here have a dossier of | his official record to date. He served as Japanese military attache in London in 1930 and as chief of the Public Relations Bureau of the War Office in Tokio from 1931 to 1932. During that period he was Army representative at the 1931 Geneva | Disarmament Conference. Gen Homma appeared in the news again in 1937 when he ac-| companied Prince Chichibu, brother of the Emperor, on a mission to London in 1937. In 1938, Gen. Hom- ma served as director of the second bureau of the general staff in Tokio, which corresponds to the military intelligence of the American general stafl. Officials here acquainted with his record said he was in supreme com- mand of the enemy forces in the Luzon area and was a highly effi- cient officer. Employes Get Bicycles SALISBURY, Md, Jan. 22 (#).— The Eastern Shore Public Service Co. is issuing bicycles to some of its employes, saving its trucks and tires for use where absolutely necessary. About 35 bicycles have been issued to meter readers, collectors and servicemen. e You and An Air Raid In response to public de- mand, The Star has made available additional copies of this informative pamphlet, which contains The Star's recent series of articles on air-raid precautions, revised to meet official instructions given out since publication of the series. The pamphlet is fully illus- trated and has been found particularly useful for air- raid wardens and others in the civilian defense organiza- tion, as well as for individual householders. Copies may be obtained at The Star counter for 2 cents each. By mail, 5 cents each. Address mail requests to “You and an Air Raid” Editor. All requests will be filled promptly. // SINGAPORE XN SUMATRA A ) ’ . : g. . BORNEO [ segment of the Bismarck archi- pelago. New Britain lies east of British New Guinea and is 800 miles north- east of the nearest point of Australia | proper, that is, Cape York penin- sula. Rabaul is 1,860 nautical miles from Sydney, on the southeast coast | of the sub-continent. Before Rabaul flashed the report of the approaching fleet, Japanese i planes ra‘ded the city, in a continu- PHILIPPINES. . P K YAl PALAU IS o o CAROLINE 15.¢ g DUTCH EAST .INDIES INDIAN OCEAN | by military forces in anticipation of | ation of assaults on the a prospective Japanese landing. The last word from Rabaul came at4pm. (1am, E. S.T). If the implications of the Rabaul message are fulfilled the Japanese are in the process of their first inva- sion of Australian territory. The island of New Britain is mandated islands | around New Guinea. Acting Prime Minister Francis M. Forde said Rabaul had undergone | two air attacks today and that Jap- anese aircraft also had raided the | Solomon Islands, southeast of New | Britain, | The Japanese flotilla was sighted | to Australia and is an important' ~ (See AUSTRALIA, Page A-6) Reds Surging Ahead At Extremities of 2,000-Mile Front Artillerymen Cantinuing To Blast Rear of Nazis Retreating From Mozhaisk By the Associated Press. While Red Army artillerymen blasted at the rear of a German Army reeling back from Mo- zhaisk on the old Napoleon road from Moscow, dispatches from the northern and southern wings of the 2,000-mile front told of the continuing, forward surge of the Russian offensive. The front reports to Moscow in- dicated that the Germans were ex- hausting every ready -resource in man power in an effort to stabilize the vast front. Among prisoners taken in one sector were soldiers just arrived from France who said they came to Smolensk by train and were carried thence by plane to a point the Rus- sians identified as “R” to help the Germans make a stand. The Moscow newspaper Pravda said that in the Volkhov sector of the Leningrad front the Germans were bringing in worn-out detach- ments from other sectors in their desperation. 27 Villages Retaken. Despite these efforts, the Red Army drive on the Leningrad front continued, with the Germans with- drawing from four villages in the last three days under infantry pres- sure backed by deadly artillery ac- tion. Southeast of Leningrad the Germans were said to have been ;Jecf.ed from 27 villages in a single ay. On the southwestern front, that is, before Kharkov, the Russians ac- knowledged that the foe had coun- terattacked in some sectors, but these thrusts were beaten back and the Red Army rolled on. With Red airmen co-operating, dispatches said, 1,000 Germans were killed in a single engagement on the south- western front. The midday Russian communique told of a southern front fight in which 1400 German officers and men were killed and said that on the Mozhaisk frapt the pursuing Rus- sians captured 11 German field guns, 53 motor vehicles and 15 motor- cycles. Red Recurgence in Crimea. Even in the Crimea, where the German high command recently has claimed the upper hand again, a Soviet resurgence was indicated. A D.N.B. report quoted by the Rome radio said German trcops on the Black Sea had repulsed an attack “soméwhat bigger than usual.” The German high command re- ported in Berlin that German forces on the Crimean peninsula repulsed Russian attempts to break through the Nazi encirclement of Sevastopol, main Russian naval base on the Black Sea. The high command’s communique (See RUSSIA, Page A-6) Venice Canals. Frozen 10 New Temporaries Will Be Scatfered In Four Capital Areas Buildings Will Provide Space for 15,000 Federal Workers - Locations for 10 more tempo- rary Government office build- ings, which will be scattered to the four sections of the Capital to relieve traffic congestion and provide space for 15,000 Federal | workers, were announced today | by W E. Reynolds, commissioner | of public buildings. Four of the buildings, lettered I, J, K and L, for use of the Navy De- partment, will be erected in a park area lining the south side of the | Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. These buildings will accommodate 4,300 employes. It will not be nec- essary to remove any trees from the area to complete the buildings. One to Have Cafeteria. Nine of the buildings will be used solely as offices. One, to be con- structed at Seventh street and Inde- pendence avenue S.W., will include a cafeteria which can serve 4800 persons. A portion of the structure will provide space for the building manager’s maintenance staff of the Public Buildings Administration. A congressional appropriation of $25,000,000 to help meet the critical need for Federal office space pro- vided necessary funds for the build- ings. Construction schedules for all call for completion within six to eight weeks after contract awards. Two G. A. O. Buildings. Buildings identified as O and P will be built on a site at Pourth, | Fifth, G and H streets N.W. The two will contzin about 235,000 square feet of space and will occommodate 3,000 workers. These buildings will be gsed by the General Accounting Of- ce. Two more buildings, X and Y, are to be erected at East Capitol and Nineteenth streets. These will pro- vide 370,000 feet of office space and accommodate 4,600 workers. The War Department is expected to get this space. The 10th will be built at Alabama avenue and Naylor road S.E, Ana- costia, and will contain 214,000 square feet of space, sufficient for 2,700 workers. This, toc, probably will be used by the Navy Depart- ment, All of the buildings will be erected by the P. B. A. Kentu;ky House Votes Derby Day Holiday By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT, Ky, Jan. 22—A bill 'to pay homage to thoroughbred horses apd one to outlaw horse rac- ing temporarily in y:tucky faced State legislators today. ‘The Senate received a bill to au- thorize the Governor to proclajm Kentucky .Derby day a State holi- day. It passed the House yesterday, 68 to 7. At the same time a measure was introduced in the House to out- law all racing in Kentucky for the duration of the war. A $1,000 fine would be imposed for each day any tratk operated in the State. Kentucky has four tracks, Churchill Downs, scene of the Derby; Keene- land, Latonia and le Park. Just to add to the confusion, a _I_sles Hurricane Planes Bolster English Counterattack * British jungle troops, seizing the initiative for the first time in the Malayan campaign, were reported smashing at Japan's main invasion armies in a full- scale counteroffensive 70 miles north of Singapore today while | reinforcements of 350-mile-an- hour Hurricane fighters swung into action over Singapore itself. The newly-arrived Hurricanes, single seaters with the greatest fire- power punch of any plane of its | type. are equipped either with 12 machine guns or four light cannon | and machine guns. | Behind the lines, British fiyers | claimed a heavy toll of Japanese | transport columns north of Parti | Bulong, destroying many vehicles and machine-gunning troops. | 304 Killed in Singapore Raid. Singapore itself, under almost in- | cessant aerial assault, grimly counted | a toll of 304 killed and 725 wounded in yesterday’s 100-plane Japanese attack — comparatively surpassing the worst raids on London at the height of the blitz. A communique said 625 wounded were admitted to shospitals and 100 | others treated at first-aid posts. But the beleaguered island colony was cheered by the arrival of the Hurri- Japanese warplanes Singapore again today R. A. F. flyers five bombers and damaging a fighter. Japanese raids have killed 591 and injured more than 1,000 in the past two days. The big land battles for Southern | Malaya were being fought near the east and west coasts of Johore. On the east the British reported falling back from Endau, 85 miles from anese adyance somewhere north of Mersing, 20 miles down the coast. On. the west the main battle has developed in the hills around Bukit Payong, inland and 9 miles north- east of Batu Pahat, which is 60 miies northwest of Singapore. ‘The main force of the imperial troops was hurled against the Japa- nése in a major test .there, only patrols diverting to engage appar- ently lesser Japanese units reported inflitrating down the coast into the Batu Pahat section at the British flank. Expected to Relieve Trapped Unit. The drive was expected to relieve | off farther north in the Muar River region. Some small groups of these soldiers already have~ fought their way through the jungles and Jap- | anese patrols to rejoin their com- rades. { _Informants in London said the Hurricanes put into the fight for (See MALAYA, Page A-6) |Florida Crash Kills Naval Reserve Flyer By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 22—Lt. (J. G) Roy Windall Williams, 33, Naval Re- serve fiyer, was killed last night when he crashed on a routine flight from Opa Locka Naval Air Station. The station’s public relations of- ficer, in announcing the crash today, said a board would investigate. Lt. Williams came here last August from Jackson Heights, N. Y. and lived in Miami Shores with his wife and infant son. His mother, Mrs. M. Williams, lives at Lakeland, Fla. The officer received his commission at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Eastern Air Lines. * |$1,000 Bond Is Set [In Tire Theft Case Special Dispatch to The Star. ' WAYNESBORO, Va. Jan. 22— ‘Trial Justice W. Terrell Sheehan yesterday set $1,000 as the bond figure in the case of John Bronson, 20, colored, being held in Waynes- boro Jail on a charge of stealing an automobile tire, tube and rim from a parked car here January 14. In fixing the bond, Trial Justice Sheehan commented that, although the alleged act was a misdemeanor under Virginia law, “stealing of a tire under our present rationing plan, adopted to assist our Govern- ment in timeof war, is a serious offense.” NAMED TO S. E. C—Robert H: O'Brien today was nom- inated by President Roosevelt as a member of the Securities: and Exchange Commission. A | cane pursuit fighters, and when 30| roared over | were credited with shooting down | Singapore, and ambushing the Jap- | | Australian and Indian troops cut | 1937 and later became a co-pilot for | 22 g Staf THURSDAY, JANUARY 1942 HAVENT You GOT SOME CHEERFUL, LIGHT READING? N DR & \\\ N far exceeds that poraries e S I i | Confinental Offensive Army’s Chief Task, Commons Is Told New Airdrome Defense Unit to Be Second to None, Sinclair Declares By the Associated Press. | LONDON, Jan. 22.—The Brit- ish Army’s main task is to organ- ize a continental offensive, Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair | told the House of Commons to- day in opening debate on the adequacy of British airfield de- fense against invasion of the | British Isles. | He said the R. A. F.'s new air- | drome defense regiment would be | “second to none.” In British usage the regiment is not a fixed num | ber of merf, but includes a variable | number of battalions. The new air- | field defense units are spoken of | as a regiment | | Explaining that the R. A. F. had formed its new airdrome defense units to relieve the army of that “onerous” protection job, Mr. Sin- clair, as Government spokesman in the debate, said: “The main task of the army is not defense, but to organize from its strictly limited manpower re- | sources the greatest possible strik- | ing force for offensive operations on the continent.” Army Keeps Responsibility. He added that the respansibility for ground defense of airflelds re- | mained, as before, with the army, | but that the R. A. F. had assumed | | command under army direction of forces stationed on the fields them- selves. | But Mr. Sinclair's description of 'the‘ newly conceived defense units which would be managed by the R. A. F. under army direction ap- | parently failed to satisfy critics who | recently have been crying alarm over | losses of airflelds in the war so far. | “The new scheme is compunt(‘d} and based on muddled thinking,” de- | clared Col. Arthur Evans, Conserva- tive, who said he could not lgrve} with Mr. Sinclair that responsibil- ity between the R. A. F. and the army was “clearcut and defined.” George M. Garro-Jones, Laborite, asserted that the divided command | still was the curse of the military | system. “We must get mobile air units | consisting of troop carriers, light! | tank carriers, parachute carriers and | | even gliders distributed all over the | country in small units so that not | one of our vital airdromes is more | than 15 minutes away from a strong, counterattacking air-borne force,” he said. Before Mr. Sinclair spoke, Prime Minister Churchill indicated that the debate would be conducted in secret as soon as it entered opera- | tional phases. Warmup for General Debate. Today's debate was but the warm- up for the forthcoming three-day general debate which Mr. Churchill himself will open with probably the longest statement of his career. While no possibility appeared that the government could be defeated, political observers regarded it ex- tremely likely that the government would be compelled to call for the vote of confidence which Mr. Churchill has said he would ask if the debate became challenging. Responding to criticism over re- peated losses of landing fields in Greece, Crete and now Malaya, Mr. Sinclair denied that efforts to deal with the problem had been “hindered or at all affected by any service jealousies which are being alleged in some quariers to exist.” He saia the Air Ministry had created a directorate of ground de- fense to study the matter as early as June, 1940, and added: Y “Probably few peopie realize how far we have already traveled from the extraordinarily and even alarm- ingly low standard of airdrome de- fense which existed in this country after the battlé of France.” Army Barts Yolunteers From Key,Output Jobs By the Associated Press, Volunteers of draft age will no longer be accepted by the Army unless they can prove they do not mcupy ey positions in war indus- es. Effective February 1, War De- partment officials - said = yesterday, Spittoon Mat Order For Army Canceled, Vandenberg Says By the Associated Press. | The Senate heard today that | | the Army will buy no rubber spittoon mats after all. Senator Vandenberg, Repub- lican, of Michigan told his col- leagues that immediately after public attention was called to a Quartermaster Corps invitation for bids on 1,000 rubber mats, the invitation was withdrawn. “The War Department,” Sena- tor Vandenberg said, “has been completely and commendably responsive. No such purchases will be made.” The incident, he said, illustrat- ed the need for “constant vigilance” in administration of the war program. Accord at Rio Opens Way for Unanimous Anfi-Axis Stand Agreement Among Five Nations Includes Chile And Argentina By the Associated Press. Two More Ships Sunk | 0ff Carolina; Navy Rushes Sub Hunt Attacks in Atlantic Lift Toll to Six Vessels in Jan. 14-19 Period, Readers Prefer The Star The Star's afternoon and evening circulation is more than double that of any other Washington newspaper Its total circulation in Washington of any of its conteme in the morning or on Sunday. #) Means Associated Press. THREE CENTS. Land Reports Allied Shipping Beating U-Boats Admiral Says U. S. Has ‘World Licked’ Now On Cargo Vessels By the Associated Press. Chairman Land of the Mari- time Commission has told Con- gress that construction of Allied shipping is now forging ahead of losses by sinkings at sea and that the United States has “the world licked right now” on standard cargo ships and tank- ers. Reporting on the progress of the program for a vast merchant ma- rine before a House appropriations subcommittee in testimony made public today, Admiral Land as- serted: “The last time I looked at the curves, the sinkings and the new production were just about balanced for the first time during the war, and now new construction is get- ting ahead.” That was on December 9. He re- ported that United States merchant marine tonnage was about 7,000,- 000 and that & total of 12,000,000 more tons was in prospect for 1942 and 1943. On the other hand, he sald that Great Britain started with about 21,000,000 tons, lost about 9,000,000 tons and at the same time had additions of about 5,000,000 tons. Report Optimistic. But Axis powers have lost about 5,000,000 tons, he estimated, and all world shipping losses amount to about 27 per cent of the 52,000,000 tons available at the outset of the war. After saying that United States and Great Britain had made re- placements of about 1500000 tons | By the Associated Press. The Navy rushed its Atlantic submarine hunt today with the | added responsibility of protecting sea lanes of thé entire hemi- sphere, now united against the | Axis in a solid diplomatic front. Announcement of the intention of all American republics to break off relations with the Axis powers raised the possibility that the con- | siderable land and naval forces of South and Central America would be joined together to guard vital hemisphere commerce sagainst any attack. New enemy submarine successes along tne Atlantic coast demon- strated the urgent need of guarding ships until a mass convoy plan could be worked out. Two More Vessels Attacked. The Navy's disclosure yesterday that the 5369-ton steamer City of RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. 22.—An agreement among five nations, including reluctant Argentina and Chile, on the much-debated proposal for a concerted diplomatic break with! the Axis opened the way today to a unanimous stand by the 21 American republics against Ger- many, Italy and Japan. Participating with Argentina and Chile in working out a four-point compromise resolution were United States, Brazil and Peru. The action drew favorable comment in conference circles and little difficulty | was anticipated in obtaining formal approval nations represented in ference of foreign ministers of Pan- American republics. (Certain further modification _will have to be made in the Pan. (See PAN-AMERICAN, Page A-16) Norse_ship Sunk by Sub Off St. Pierre Jan. 12 BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—The new Norwegian freighter Frisco, 1582 tons, was torpedoed and sunk Janu- ary 12 by a submarine off St. Pierre, French island off the Newfoundland coast, Norwegian shipping operators sald today. They said only 6 of the crew of 19 or 21 were rescued. (The Norwegian Shipping and ‘Trade Mission confirmed the re- port without comment.) The date of the sinking wes only two days before Axis submarines announced their appearance in American waters by sinking the 9,577-ton Panamanian tanker Nor- | ness off Long Island. O'Daniel to Run Again Senator O'Daniel, Democrat, of Texas, who came here six months ago to serve out the unexpired term of the late Morris Sheppard, announced last night he would be & candidate for re-election this year. the | from the remaining 16 the con-| the six days from January 14 through January 19. Four of the six ships were known to have gone to the bottom. and the total of dead or missing crewmen rose to 5. Atacked "off the Carolina coast Monday, the City of Atlanta sank so fast there was no time to launch lifeboats. Later the same day, the Ciltvaira, torpedoed amidships, was abandoned by her crew in a flooded and sinking condition. Forty-six seamen were missing in the two at- tacks, which were announced as soon as the 33 survivors had reached | port. The Navy was silent on details of the Atlantic hunt, and likewise had | no new announcements on progress of sea fighting in the Pacific theater. | Ship Toll Listed. \ The list of ships announced offi- | clally as attacked off the Atlantic coast in the January 14-19 period follows: Norness, Panamanian tanker, 9,- 577 tons, sunk January 14 off the eastern tip of Long Island; 2 dead. | Coimbra, tanker of allied nation, | Long Island, January 15; no loss of life reported. Allan Jackson, American tanker, | 6,635 tons, sunk off North Carolina, January 18; 22 of 35-man crew be- lieved lost. Malay. American tanker, 8207 (See SINKINGS, Page A-6) {400 of Jap Garrison Killed, Chinese Claim BY the Associated Press. C™UNGKING, China, Jan. 22— Some 400 men of a Japanese garrison of 1,000 besleged at Hweaiyang, on the Eastern Honan front, were de- clared in a Chinese communique today to have been killed or wounded in a vain attempt to break through Chinese lines Monday. Most U. S. Employes Will Work 44-Hour Week ‘The 44-hour week is to be estab-| lished-generally in the Government because of the war emergency, & check disclosed today "after the | Budget Bureau asked agencies pro- posing to lengthen their working hours to make the change effective next Monday. ‘The bureau made this request so arrangements could be made with transportation agencies to co-ordi- nate the flow of traffic. Of the 10 departments, only Post Office and Labor have not decided if the work week will be jumped from the prevailing 39-hour sched- ule. 2 for Duration Of the principal independent agencies the Civil Service Commis- sion already is on a 44-hour ‘basis and the Federal Power Commission announced today that the new schedule would be effective Monday. ‘The executive office of the Presi- dent also goes on the 44-hour basis Monday, as does Archives, Federal Securities and Federal Works. The General Accounting Office has & night force of auditors work- ing and does not contemplate for 6,768 tons, sunk off Southampton, | each annually, Admiral Land as- serted: “On replacements, the Axis powers | are not having much luck. * * * As to exact figures I know nothing about The admiral gave the committee | an optimistic progress report on the | merchant marine program involving 1,422 ships, of which 999 have been | contracted for and 423 will be or- | dered before July 1 Except for such bottlenecks as strikes and machinery and generat- | ing power, Admiral Land said that “very good to excellent” progress ‘ had been made. | Some Loss Through Strikes. | “The only serious difficulty has been strikes,” he said. “Up to about two months ago, we had some ‘velvet' but we lost the most of that due to strikes. We are still ahead of | schedule, but not quite up to the expedited schedule which we were last August—thanks to strikes.” Admiral Land also testified that: 1. Increased labor and material costs has caused an increase of $90.000,000 in an original cost esti- mate of $740,000,000 for 277 ships. 2. Training in gunnery is being given to new seamen and new of- ficers at two training stations snd will be extended to others. 3. The new program will require a doubling of the present 40000 seamen and 10,000 officers employed on deep-sea vessels. Subcontracting Pressed. During a general discussion of the shipbuilding program, Admiral Land said that as soon as the commis- sion couid find gears and turbines it would’ be able to give construc- tion preferences to standard types of cargo ships. “And we think we have the world licked right now on the standard type of cargo ship and tankers,” he remarked. Admiral Land said that every ef- fort was being mad to expedite the program by scattering the contracts as much as possible and by sub- contracting—a policy in which he said the Maritime Commission was a pacemaker. Long before Floyd Odlum, O. P. M. | small business director, came into office, Admiral Land said that “we got from high authority a couple of pats on the back because we did set this thing up.” “Maybe,” he added, “we will get a kick in our stern sheets before we get through.” J. D. Collett, 72, Dies; Was Head of Oil Firm By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex.,, Jan. 22— J. D. Collett, 72, president of O'Keefe and Collett Corp., and long active in the oil industry, died today. He had been {ill three years. He had been a director of the American Petroleum Institute. In 1935 he was chairman of the Plan- ning and Co-ordination Committee, authority for the petroleum code. U. S. Fortress Bombers Now In Indies By the Associated Press. BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies, Jan. 22.—Aneta, Netherlands news agency, said today it was announced officially in Batavia that United States fortress bombers arrived re- cently in the Netherlands Irndies and now are based there. Aneta sald it was these planes which sank a Japanese cruiser and set fire to a 10,000-ton tanker on Monday 100 miles south of the is- land of Jolo, in the Philippines south of Mindanao. The bombing successes had been announced previously in Washing- ton, the War Department communi- que of Tuesday crediting them to ment that a fortress bomber had sunk a Japanese tanker of about 10,000 tons 100 miles south of Jalo, but this-evidently was the same ac- tion already snnounced by Wash- ington.