Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1942, Page 5

Peace -Ofler by Japs To China Predicted By:Senator George Georgian Shares Alarm Felt by Connally Over Far East Situation B7 the Associated Press., Senator George, Democrat, of Georgia forecast today the Japanese would try to effect peace with China if they succeed in capturing Singa- pore and penetrating to Rangoon, in Burma. Senator Gecrge, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was nearly as pessimistic about British prospects in Malaya,as Chairman Connally of the foreign relations group, who told a press conference yesterday that he feared Singapore eventually would fall. : Senator Connally said this would be a serious military blow to the United Nations in the fight for con- trol of the Far East and Senator George added that such a disaster | was almost sure to mean that the Japanese would throw their full! strangth against Burma in an effort | to cut off the Burma road, chief | Chinese supply line. Threat to India Seen. Senator George said that Burma would be hard to defend if Singapore fell. A Japanese conquest of Bur- | ma, he continued, held the threat of a-direct attack on India. Successful defense of Rangoon, chief port for the Burma road, prob- ably would lie in the massing eof Chinese troops there with sufficient air power furnished by the United Nations, Senator George declared. | He said that if the Japanese once were able to cut off the Burma road supplies, the Chinese would be in a difficult postition where they might be much more susceptible to peace feelers. The Japanese then might say, he pointed out, that they no longer needed territory in China be- cause they were on their way to ob- taining all of the rich lands of the Southwestern Pacific. | Tokio's approach to the Chinese, | he went on, might be made on the | basis that they ought to join the Japanese in taking all of Asia for | the Asiatics. Senator George expressed con- | fidence that the Chinese would | stand fast against any such over-| tures, but he added that the pos-.| sibility of such a move demon- strated the vital need for holding Bingapore and keeping the Burma road open. Huge Nazi Losses Reported. Commenting on recent Russian successes, Senator George said he had been informed that the British believed the Germans had lost 2.- 000,000 men killed or wounded since the war began, most of them in| TORPEDOED LATVIAN SHIP THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942, WALLOWS HELPLESSLY IN ATLANTIC—This view of the 8. 8. Ciltvaira was made from & United States Navy patrol plane after the Latviar vessel had been torpedoed and broken amidships by an enemy submarine off the Atlantic coast last Monday. The captain of the ship and ejght men stayed aboard in an attempt to keep her afloat long enough to reach port, but were taken off later when it ap- peared there was little hope of salvage. —A. P. Photo. Russia. Senator Connally. in his remarks | vesterday, also touched on the Latin | American situation, expressing hope | that Argentina would change her President unless the latter changed his mind about breaking off rela- tions with Axis powers. The State 4 & HOBOKEN, N. J—RESCUED SEAMAN SAVES WIFE'S PICTURE—R. E. Fennell (left), oiler of the City of Atlanta, sunk off Cape Hatteras, N. C, rests in a hospital bed here—his life and his wife's picture saved. When the torpedo struck, Fennell ran to get a picture of his wife which he kept under his bunk pillow. Next to Fennell is Second Officer G. B. Tavelle. one other are the only known survivors of Fu City of Atlanta’s crew of 47. Passenger Fare Hike |Is Expected to Yield 45 Million fo Carriers Ten Per Cent Increase Is Granted to Offset Higher Operating Costs B7 the Associated Press. The Nation's railroads held official authority today to raise passenger fares 10 per cent to meet increased wages and operating costs. The Interstate Commerce Com- mission, acting on urgent pleas of | the ‘carriers, granted the increase which it is estimated would yield an extra $45000000 on the basis of last year's revenues. The new fares will apply 10 days after the companies file new tariffs with the I. C. C. and probably be- come effective between February 1 and February 4. The railroads’ application for an increase in freight rates by the same percentage still is pending be- fore the commission. The passenger fare increase ap- plies to all except the 1Y, cents a mile rate for service men on fur- lough and the rates charged on extra fare trains. Basic rallroad fare for Pullman passengers, exclusive of Pullman | charges, now is 3 cents a mile. The | | basic coach fare is 2 cents in the | East and and West and 1!; cents| in the South The commission said the higher Fennell, Tavelle and —A. P. Wirephoto. Department promptly issued a state- ment here, saying that Senator an agreement between the United Connally was not talking for the | States and Canada for joint control executive branch of the Cmvem-; over the islands of St. Pierre and ment. Senator Connally was discussing | | Miquelon might be in the making. Such an agreement, he ‘said, prob- reports that Acting President Ramon | ably would involve evacuation of the S. Castillo of Argentina had said his | Free French forces that took over. Gruening of Alaska yesterday deé- | creased enormously, Miss Lenroot government would not break off the | the islands last month, United | scribed the proposed $25,000,000 in- | said. States control of radio facilities | ternational highway to the territory | States and. the District show that there and a working “protectorate” | a5 “our Burma road to the great|in the first six months of 1941 near- relations. (However, a later news dis- patch from Rio de Janeiro, re- ceived after Senator Connally spoke, quoted a high source as saying that Argentina and 20 other American republics meet- ing there had agreed to a four- point declaration providing for severance of relations with the Axis.) | Hull's Office Issues Statement. The State Department issued the following statement: “The Secretary of State was asked whether the, questions’ taken up in Senator Connally’s press con- ference had been discussed with the Secretary by the Senator. He | over the islands by Canada and the | United States. Man, Failing in Suicide, Held in Slaying of Girl A 22-year-old colored man whé tried to commit suicide after shoot- ing his girl friend to death will face a coroner’s jury tomorrow because the gun failed to fire a second time. The shooting occurred early today while Thelma Mae Byrd, 19, of 1225 replied that they had not, and |yinden street N.E. was sitting next | added that members of the legis- lative department of the Govern- | ment are accustomed to express | their individual views relative m[ public questions. Their views lnd’ attitudes so expressed, as in the present case, are, of course, not to be construed as representing the views of the executive branch of the Government, and they are not the views of this Government.” Senator Connally also issued a | supplemental statement which said: | “In my comment today with re- | spect to the Rio De Janeiro Con- | ference I did not purport to ex- | press the sentiments of any one other than myself.” | Discussing another aspect of world developments, Senator Connally said LO:! BELGIAN POLICE DOG—Female: all blacl lost in Arlington County. near Falls Churcl a.: named ~Juba.” Reward. CH. 0850. 3 . Sunday. Jan. 18; | 5 "Reward. L COAT.. 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Georsia €:30 p.m. 'TCH, Py ivil e Lineal Teward” WarBe | WATCH, lady’s white gold “Elgin," k band, vie. 14th and Fairmont and Euclid.” R 1 CO._7400. 734. eward. 2701 14th, binck, ILLFOLD_AND G containiag $20. Reward. st nw. MI. 3786, PITT BULLDOG ite: apswers to name “Gin- | an lfllr:- '7!1]“(! Nebrask; Rock, Creek Park Call Woodley 4 | street S.E., who was stabbed with a knife during an altercation at his . | Dr. Wilson Cash, placed his hands | on a tenth century copy of the Gos- —| 724 9th N.W. to Thomas H. Harrod of 1882 Savan- | nah street SE. in a car being driven { north on Naylor road S.E. by Wil- | liam A. Thompson, 29, of the Savan- nah street address. Police said Harrod shot the girl through the right breast with a .32- caliber revolver and then jumped from the automobile. He placed the gun at his own right temple and | pulled the trigger twice, but the gun failed to go off. Harrod was arrested at his home | and taken to No. 11 precinct station, | where police said he told them that | he had shot the girl because she | said she no longer wanted to go out | with him. An inquest also will be held to- morrow in the death of Charles Mol- ton, colored, 43, of 1016 Seventh home last night. Ella Gray, colored, 21, was arrested at the scene and taken to the Women's Bureau after receiving treatment for scalp lacera- tions at Providence Hospital. Takes Oath on Ancient Bible During his enthronement, the new Bishop of Worcester, England, pels as he took his oat! 6th & N. Y. Avenue N.W, Alaska Highway Called passenger fares were necessary to| meét, in pari, increased operating expenses “incurred or to be incurred by said petitioners because of the | tion program in 1940, it was esti- | mated that approximately 1,302,000 boys and girls between the ages of | Britain Now Taxes Two Million Workers Previously Exempt Levy Deducted Weekly From Pay Envelopes Of All Wage Earners More than two million British workers whose incomes had pre- viously not been high enough to involve them in paying®income tax have begun to do so through deduc- tions from their weekly pay enve- lopes this month, says the British Press fervice. This system which now applies to all British wage earn- ers has been received philosophically, thanks to the very clear explanations published by the Government both of the method of deduction and of the necessity for the sacrifice. The taxing authorities have estab- lished a definite ruling whereby de- ductions for income tax purposes must not reduce pay below certain fixed minimum levels. Every fac- tory now displays tables with the subtitle “What an income tax of 10 shillings in the pound d. e, 50 per cent) really means to you.” Thus a single person earning 3 pounds pounds ($32) pays 18 shillings ($4.50) without any return in the form of post-war credit. ‘The calculations are extremely complicated. Twenty-two thousand inland revenue officials are working overtime to complete the assess- ment. As man power could be used for more important purposes than this, it seems inevitable that some simplification of this mazelike sys- "fgu:fll be effected in the near Civil Engineers’ Sociefy Honors Col. H. M. Waite Col. Henry M. Waite, noted engi- | neer and consultant in the Defense Projects Unit of the Budget Bu- reau, has been elected to honorary | membership in the American So- | clety of Civil Engineers for out- standing achievement in his pro- | fession, according to an Associated | | Press dispatch from New York. - | Awards and honorary member- | ships were conferred last night at ' the opening of the 89th annual meeting of the society there. Elected to honorary membership | along with Col. Waite were Ralph | | Budd, president of the Chicago, | Burlington & Quincy Railroad, who ’hu spent much time here as part- | time Government official since the emergency began; Col. William | | Kelly, Corps of Engineers, Buffalo; | s A-3 | |{Moonshiners Blamed For Sugar Sales Curb BY the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Jan. 22— Federal Treasury officials blame restrictions on sugar sales in large part on moonshiners. Supervisor W. D. Herrington of the Alcohol Tax Unit here, and As- sistant Supervisor Raleigh Wall re- ported that agents destroyed 810 stills in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida in December. Mash and whisky representing 477,« 655 pounds of sugar was found. Retail sugar sales were restricted | yesterday to 1 pound for each $1 purchase with a maximum of § pounds by chain stores here. Mr. Herrington said 95 per cent |of the wholesalers are co-operating |in efforts to keep sugar from boot- leggers, but thers is an unco-nper- | ative 5 per cent. 26-Story Hotel Damaged By Fire in Cincinnati By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 22— Crews cleared debris from the five lower floors of the palatial Nether- land Plaza Hotel today following & small fire in a motor room. Actual structural damage to the 26-story building yesterday was small, Fire Chief Barney Houston said. However, water from fire hose (812) weekly loses 8 shillings ($2), but | Prof. Henry E. Riggs, University of | poured down richly - over a third of this eventually re- | Michigan. and John L. Savage, Bu- | g;ys and seeped ln’wc:rbp:me:‘:xnru turns to him in the form of a post- war credit registered in his name. | reau of Reclamation, Denver. | Before joining the Budget Bu- | | and restaurant. Manager Max Schulman estimated A married man, without children,| reau Col. Waite had been deputy | the damage at $200,000, mainly to 6 pounds ($24) a week. pays 12 shill- | administrator of the Public Works | costly furnishings. Chief Houston's ings ($3) of which an eighth part| Administration and had served on estimate was $100,000. will be returned as a post-war pay- ment. A married man earning 3 | the National Resources Planning | Board. . Nevertheless, the hotel advertised “business as usual” today. More Than Ever, You Should Learn to Be a Good D BRIGHT SPIRITS ARE THE ORDER OF THE DAY ... DANCING KEEPS MORALE HIGH Dancing is the best tonic for physical and mental health. 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