Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1942, Page 4

Rank of Brigadier To Reward 5 Colonels For Service af Batan Senate Subcommittee Approves Knudsen for Lieutenant General Five Army colonels who have “ex- traordinarily distinguished them- | the desperate battle | selves” in agsinst Japanese invaders in the Philippines will be rewarded by pro- motion to brigadier general, Presi- dent Roosevelt disclosed yesterday. Meanwhile, a Senate Military Af- | fairs Subcommittee unanimously ap- proved the nomination of William Knudsen, former O. P. M. director, to be a lieutenant general in the Army to supervise military produc- tion. Announcement of President Roose- wvelt’s intention to nominate the five officers in the Philippines for ad- vancement to the temporary grade of brigadier general came from the ‘War Department. Such action was recommended by Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, commander of the Army in the Philippines. List of Nominations. Those recommended for promo- tion “for having extraordinarily dis- tinguished themselves by their lead- ership and gallantry in the severe fighting now in progress on the Batan Peninsula,” viere: Col. Hugh J. Casey, Corps of En- gineers, a native of Brooklyn. Col. Clinton A. Pierce, cavalry, also born in Brooklyn. Col. Arnold J. Funk, infantry, a native of Stayton, Ore., who lists his home as Portland, Ore. Col. William F. Marquat, Coast Artillery, Seattle, Wash., and a na- tive of St. Louis. Col. Harold H. George, Air Corps, Los Angeles. He was born in Lock- port, N. Y. Nominsted also for the rank of brigadier general because of his work as a member of Gen. Mac- Arthur's staff was Col. Carl H. Seals. a native of Eufala, Ala, whose home is listed as Birmingham, Ala. Col. George, a veteran Army fiyer, holds the Distinguished Serv- ice Cross for heroism in the World War. He was an unofficial ace, being credited with destruction of five enemy planes as a pilot with the A. E. F. Other Promotions Approved. The same Senate subcommittee that approved Mr. Knudsen’s nom- ination also reported favorably on | a number of other Army promotions, including the advancement of for- mer Secretary of War Patrick J.| Hurley from a colonel in the Re- serve Corps to a temporary briga- dier general. He now is on a “sealed orders” mission. Other promotions approved were: Brig. Gen. Julian F. Barnes to be a major general of artillery; Col. Philip R. Faymonville, Lt. Col. Arthur R. Wilson and Col. Earl L. Naiden to be brigadier generals. Action on the Knudsen appoint- ment came after it was indorsed before the subcommittee at a closed hearing .by Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson and Donald Nelson, head of the new War Pro- duction Board. Chairman Chandler of the sub- committee described as “very en- couraging” testimony from Mr. Nel- son giving a general picture of what he hopes to accomplish in the new war production organization. No Complaints Made. Mr. Knudsen will work directly under Mr. Patterson. The subcom- mittee was given the impression that he will spend a considerable part of his time in industrial areas of the country, seeking to speed up production on War Department or- ; ders in every way possible. | Senators who attended ecutive session said no comp. or objections to giving Mr. Kni | sen the rank of lieutenant general the ex-i laints | AL o_____s00 MILES AT EOUATOR THE WESTERN PACIFIC—Fro! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 25, 1942. - HILIPPINEZ. = A I HOW JAPAN'S MILITARY MOVEMENTS HAVE SPREAD IN m an artificially located ocean base, lines spread to areas where Japanese land operations (solid | lines) or air attacks (dotted lines) have been reported—ranging ‘ s eSS cmad #°, EAST InpiES ' north and south of a line more Equator—involving operations Malaya, the Netherlands Indies and Australian possessions north of Australia itself. 32 Japanese Planes Shot Down in Burma In Two-Day Fight American and British Pilots Prove Effective Against Invaders By the Associated Press. RANGOON, Burma, Jan. 24.—The skillful American and British pilots who defend the modern roads to Mandalay won another spectacular air combat over the Rangoon area today, annihilating an entire bomber squadron and totaling up a two-day bag of 32 Japanese planes. Military secrecy, meanwhile, covered the land action in Southern Burma’s watch - fob appendage, where the British were shortening | their land lines east of Moulmein, | Kiplingesque port which lies across the broad gulf of Martaban from Rangoon. Thousands See Fight. Thousands of delighted Burmese saw the wild, mid-day dogfight in the sky In which every one of a seven-plane Japanese flight of heavy, two-motored bombers was shot down, and four of their protect- ing fighters were sent plummeting In plames toward the rice paddies about the city. The Allled fighters scarcely had refuelled when a second wave of Japanese planes, all single-seaters, | appeared. At heights up to 16,000 feet running duels began and the fleeing Japanese were chased far out of sight. (The British radio said 16 | enemy planes, including seven bombers, were shot down during the two raids. The broadcasi, heard in New York by C. B. S., said the Americans and British sustained no losses.) The American volunteer group | claimed a majority of the bag of at | least 11 aircraft downed. A former | than 4,000 miles long along the in China, Indo-China, Burma, —A. P. Wirephoto. Australia (Continued From First Page.) after a review of the situation by the war cabinet end chiefs of staff of the military service who were said to have presented detailed re- quests for specific military equip- ment, particularly bombers, fighter planes and naval units. Replies had not vet been received from an earlier appeal to Weshing- ton and London. (Richard G. Casey, Australian Minister, Saturday afternoon | handed to President Roosevelt at the White House a letter from his country’'s Prime Minister, John Curtin. After the visit Mr. Casey refused to disclose the na- ture of the communication but seid the President had promised to give it “a considerate answer as soon as he can.”) In a broadcast, Mr. Forde took the view that the whole war might be won or lost in the Pacific. “The only thing that can stop the | battle for Australia being fought | right on our beaches is immediate ement of }(alaya ‘9 pivotal point of the war forces which Japan now considers herself free to |use in Australian waters,” he de- | clared. John Beasley, minister of supply, expressed the general Australiap feeling of alarm, declaring “the ris- ‘ | "| ing sun is now almost overhead” and said if the Japanese won Malaya | and Singapore ;they could then spread out to India and Australia, win domination of the Pacific and | even send their navy into the At- | lantic to aid the Germans. | “The battle of the Pacific is the battle of the Atlantic,” he concluded. Prime Minister Curtin, in a state- | 9,000,000 people in the Pacific de- | Singapore Defense Becomes Confused Series of Battles Australians and R. A. F. Reporting Success Against Japanese | By the Associated Press. successfully wiping out small pa- trols so' far encountered. British Planes Busy. In the central sector the Britis] | air force was bombing and ma- | chine-gunning Japanese along the road south of Labis, which im- perial fofces previously had held. Nineteen miles to the west, just | north of Yong Peng, Australian ar- | tillery smashed numbers of tanks |and trucks attempting to advance. And | day's communique said some of the | heaviest fighting was taking place | at Batu Pahat, where only Japan- | ese infiltration activity had previ- on the western coast to- | naval fiyer named Neil from Seattle, Wash., said an explosion from a | Japanese bomber he was gunning | shook his pursuing Tomahawk like | a leaf. Other fivers from San Antonio, | Tex., and Minnesota were credited | | Novelist Will Address .Districl Girl Scouts | Mrs. Margaret Culkin Banning, " novelist, whose latest book is “Salud: . unom;!‘i:‘l‘liy with blxgingr ll:ombers. B 1| lers Lose nes. | A South American Journal” Will| yogerday the combined fenter | address the annual luncheon of | force of the R. A.F.and the A. V. G. | Girl Scouts of the District tomor- | —American volunteer group of for- | row at the Willard Hotel on “West- | mer United States Army and Navy | ern Hemisphere Solidarity.” pilots—knocked down 21 out of | more than 60 raiders. | Recent developments in Girl All the United Nations’ flvers got f Scouting in Latin America will be back to base in safety today. Two discussed by Senorita Paulina | Wer® lost Saturday, one an Ameri- | Alexandrian Helping Speed Arms Traffic Along Burma Road Don Gurley Trades Job In U. S. for One With Chiang Kai-shek By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. 24— Don Gurley, 24, who once dis- patched huge trailer trucks along the Atlantic seaboard for the Barn- well Bros. Co., is doing the same job now for Generalissimo Cbiang Kai-shek on the Burma road. According to word received here by one of his friends, Fire Chief James M. Duncan, Mr. Gurley has arrived at Lashio, the transfer point where supplies consigned to the | Chinese armies under the lease- | lend program are removed from the | freight trains coming up from | Rangoon and put aboard trucks for the perilous route to the interior of China. Mr. Gurley was one of 43 trans- | portation specialists selected from | companies in the United States to g0 to China to straighten out the | traMic situation along the Burma road, under fire recently for al- leged inefficiency and graft. The group got as far as Manila when the Japanese attacked and how they finally escaped and reached their | destination has not been made pub- lic With his companions, Mr. Gurley is now aiding in getting much- needed war materials over the route that winds through mountainous country into the area where the Chinese armies are based. ESCAPES JAPS—Pilot Officer R. G. “Big Moose” Moss, | Georgia-born American vol- unteer with the Chinese Air Force, reached Rangoon, Burma, safely after parachut- ing from his damaged plane and slipping through the Jap- anese lines. He got through to Moulmein by river raft and bull cart, then came back to Rangoon in a British plane. —A. P. Wirephoto. Death at 112 Recalls Brifain’s Cenfenarians Britain’s oldest man, Alfred C. Nunez, who died recently at the zge of 112, was a Londoner, and now people are asking in what part of the country has one the best chance | of living to be a hundred. | London has produced compara- tively few centenarians. Janet Scrimshaw was 127 when she died in 1711. Shropshire has a better record than London. In Atterbury lived the Parrs. Thomas, known as “Old Parr,” died at 152. He married the second time at 122, and had a son. The youngest Parr died at 123, and Thomas' son-in-law lived to be 127 Shropshire boasts also of Thomas Carn, who died in 1588. Records gave his age as 201, In Cumber- land, between 1664 and 1793. 13 per- sons died at ages ranging from 100 to 114. Maori Chieftainess Dies Death has taken the Maori chief- tainess, Mrs. Hipera Werohit, at the age of 102. She was born in the Omahu district, near Hastings, New Zealand, and was the only remain- ing chieftainess of the Ngata Upo- kori Tribe. She was married four times. Only from her first mar- riage was there any family, a daugh- ter. She is survived by four grand- children, 12 great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren and one great-great-great-grandchild. Dealers in Carrots . | SINGAPORE, Jan. 24.—A mighty |ously been reported. | | battle raged indecisively tonight in | Dispatches from the front even | the greatest of confusion along the mentioned some Japanese patrols | 80-mile breadth of the Malay Pe- |south of Batu Pahat, but apparently | Gomez Vega of Bogota, Colombia, o vice president of the National Coun- cil of Girl Scouts in her country. Seven tableaux depicting defense t will recall to that | | ninsula north of Singapore. Australian gunners poured fire into massed tank, truck and infan- try columns, and R. A. F. squadrons roamed the battle front strafing and bombing troop concentrations and | supply columns to the rear. Austra- lian lines in general were contract- ing, faced with the difficult prob- lems of insufficient men and ma- | Said one correspgndent w | Australians at the front tonight: “Singapore is now being well guarded, but the troops are not much better off than earlier in this | campaign and no better off than their brothers in other theaters earlier m this war. Our fighters are over the front, but still' every one instinctively seeks cover when planes are heard overhead.” Melee of Battling. In the western and eastern sec- tors the battle was a melee of Japanese who had inflltrated through jungles and rubber groves and Australian detachments sent out to track down and eliminate them. In some cases, front-line dis- ud- | ment at Perth, said it is time “the | patches made plain, it was difficult to tell who was the hunted and who were raised. The favorable report | manded a real voice in the decisions | the hunter. is expected to be submitted to the | full Senate Military Affairs Com- | mittee early this week. Chairman Reynolds of the full | committee said Friday that a num- | ber of telegrams had been received | protesting the appointment of a | civilian to such a military post on | the ground that it might be adverse | to Army morale. Senators Kilgore, Democrat, of ‘West Virginia and Holman, Repub- lican, of Oregon served on the sub- | committee with Senator Chandler. Far East | Guinea. for defense and strategy in the Pacific.” He urged an Australian seat in a British war cabinet and a Pacific Council. First News From Rabaul. The first news from Rabaul in more than 48 hours was obtained | by air reconnaissance from Port | Moresby, in Southeastern New| | | The military commandant t.here: said 11 Japanese merchant ships | were in Rabaul harbor, 450 miles "’i the northeast, last night and that three cruisers, a destroyer and an| aircraft carrier were standing 5| (Continued From First Page.) fend Manila further, the General ‘mlles offshore along- with another | | motor ship. Mr. Forde said the From the western coastal sector, in particular, where the imperial forces have been ordered into a counterattack, small parties of In- dians and Australians trickled back to their headquarters all day long with stories of heroism. Not until no more of these par- ties are returning, it was said, can the situation be clarified. In general, however, the Japanese were active as far south as these points: ‘Western coastal sector—At Batu 'ahat, 60 miles northwest of Sing- apore. Western sector, inland — Just north of Yong Peng, 67 miles north of Singapore. Central sector—At Paloh, a small | station on the railway, 14 miles concentrated his troops on Batan | number of planes being used in- | north of Kluang, which is 50 miles Peninsula, the tongue of land which separates Manila Bay from the South China sea. Off the tip of the peninsula lies the strong Ameri- can island fortress, Corregidor. Would Be Difficult Move. Many expected him, in the last eventuality on the mainland, to withdraw as many of his troops as possible to the island. It would be a difficult operation, with boatloads of men exposed to aircraft fire, particularly if the move were at- tempted by daylight. But at night especially if helped by fog or storm, it could be done, military experts thought. The entry of the Japanese war- ships into the Batan fighting was/ a new development, and may well have been a controlling factor. Throughout the fighting, American artillery and the accuracy of Ameri can artillerymen have proved vastly superior to those of the Japs. A fortnight ago, the enemy at- | tempted to blast it out with big, guns, and got unmercifully smashed for it. The warships were brought up, it was generally thought, to offset this one advantage of the American and Filipino forces. Culhe;rul Choral Group To Seek New Members A membership drive to fill va- cancies in the National Cathedral Choral Society was announced to- day by Paul Callaway, director. Auditions will be held for the next few weeks to bring the group up to its full strength of 200 voices. Formed last November, the organi- | ; gation will present its first concert in April. It will be accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra in singing Verd{’s “Requiem.” Applications for auditions should De made to Mr. Callaway, organist Efl choirmaster of the Naticnal Ca- edral. ~) | dicated three aircraft carriers were in the area. | It was believed the militia on the | island was continuing resistance, | but air reconnaissance disclosed no | signs of fighting near Rabaul. | Direct word had not been re- ceived from Rabaul since 4 pm. Thursday when the Japanese fleet j was sighted 45 miles away. | There still was no precise report | |on the points at which Japanese had | i landed in New Guinea, which is part | | Australian and part Dutch, or the| | progress they had made. A London broadcast, | heard by! N. B. C., said the defenders on| | Bougainville, 500 miles east of New | | Guinea, had “made contact” with | the Japanese, models. Steam and air ‘whi and fire alarm systems. J. I ELLMA 827 14th St. N. north of Singapore. East coastal sector—In the neigh- borhood of Mersing, 65 miles north of Singapore. In the latter zone Australians were reported holding their ground, | PIANOS for RENT Choose from new and used spinets, grands, consoles and uprights of good makes. Rea- sonable rates. ; TELEPHONE REPUBLIC 6212 KlTTIs 1330 G STREET (Middle of the Block) 'AIR RAID ALARMS Apartments Office Buildings Hotels Government Depts. Schools Institutions A complete line of.warning whistles, horns, gongs and sirens. *AC or DC. Motor driven, battery or hand crank stles. Also complete signal N *SIGNAL ENGINEERS NA. 5948 approximately 70 miles |they were not numerous or strong. | Bukit Payong, the rugged hill | where a violent battle was in prog- | |ress two days ago, is about nine miles northeast of Batu Pahat, and | 11 miles west of Yong Peng. 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