Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1942, Page 1

Weather Forecast Light rain and snow mixed, ending early to- night; somewhat colder. Temperatures today— Highest, 39, at 12:45 p.m.; lowest, 35, at 6:50 am.;38at 4 pm. From the United States Weather Bureay Report. Full Detalls on Page A-2. ¢ Foenit “NIGHT FINAL WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SPORTS UP) Means Associated Press. o Star WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1942—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. | LINER SUNK OFF COAST: 5 DIE, 245 MIS @h WASHINGTON, Closina N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 18. 90th YEAR. No. 35,701, D. C, THREE CENTS. SING: % % % % % % % Late News B s ulletins Agency to Go to New York, Not Chicago The Employes’ Compensa! to: New York instead of Ch scheduled to go under the tion Commission will be moved icago, where it-originally was decentralization program, the Budget Bureau announced this afternoon. The move will be made shortly after February 15. Employes directly con- cerned with workmen's compensation in the District will not be shifted. Nazis Ready to ‘Welcome’ A. E. F. BERLIN (German Broadcast) (®.—A Berlin broadcast said today that any American soldiers who reached Northern Ireland “raring for action” against the Reich could be assured that a “hearty welcome” awaited them on the continent. Americans in Hong Kong Reported Safe All American nationals caught in Hong Kong when that city was taken by the Japanese were reported by the State Department today to be safe a nd well. Georgetown Prep Beats Devitt, 38-22 Georgetown Prep defeated Devitt, 38-22, in their basket ball game at Garrett Park today. Individual scoring honors went to Nino Briscuso, who scored 12 points for the losers. Senate Passes Army Supply Bill The Senate late today passed the $12,500,000,000 Army supplemental appropriation bill, designed mainly to provide for construction of 33,000 war] to the White House. The measure now goes planes. War Powers Measure, With Free Mail for Troops, Passes Senate Agencies Given Fourteen Grants of Authority To Aid Effectiveness The Senate late today passed and sent to the House the second war powers bill, with a last-minute amendment giving all members of the armed forces the right of free Ppostage. 4 The bill contains 14 specific grants of new authority to enable various Government agencies to prosecute the war more successfully. including penalties for violations of priorities, the right to take over machine tools in a factory not work- ing on defense, and Wm for the Federal Reserve t Buy Government bonds directly, instead of on the open market, to help finance the war. Several Senators expressed fear the Federal Reserve feature might lead to inflation, but the Senate re- jected an amendment by Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio, to limit such bond purchases by the Federal Reserve Banks to 30-day notes and | today that Congress investigate the | to $2,000,000,000 at any one time. The free postage for all soldiers, sailors and marines was adopted on two separate roll calls. the first time 74 to 3 and again 53 to 26. On motion of Senator Wheeler of Montana the Interstate Commerce Commission was given the same wartime powers to regulate the movement of water borne commerce it exercises over railroads ) The pending bill already gave it ~(See WAR POWERS, Page 2-X.) Ball Players Traded NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 28 (A)—The Newark International League base- ball club announced today the trade of Veteran Outfielder Leo Nonne- kamp, who hit 303 last season, to| “is taking advantage of the stress of | Kansas City of the American Asso- | the moment to federalize all means| Earlier Results, Rossvan's, Other eiation for Arthur (Bud) Metheny. Tokio Threatens | | Bolivian Blockade '| For Axis Break ¥ the Associated Press. LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 28.—In- formed sources said today that | Fuyitaro Irie, Japanese Charge D'Affaires, had delivered a note to the Bolivian foreign office hinting that Japan might blockade the | South American coast and halt Bolivia's overseas trade if she }severed relations with the Axis. | A little later Bolivia announced ishe had broken off. relations with the Axis. It was said that the note of the | Japanese Charge D'Affaires claimed that Japan soon would dominate the Pacific and declared that Tokio would not be disposed to heed any tardy appeals. B {Cax, Seeking F.C.C. Probe ‘Says Fly Runs 'Gestapo’ BY the Associated Press. Accustg Chairman James Law- Civil Populace Evacuated From North Singapore : Mile-Deep Strip On Malaya Side of Island Is Cleared (Earlier Story on Page A-1) By the Associated Press. SINGAPORE, Jan. 28.—Orders were issued today for the evacu- ation by noon Friday of all civ: | lans and livestock from a strip | one mile deep on the northern | shore of Singapore Island which | faces the Malayan mainland | across the narrow Johore Strait. | The edict came as the fighting lines swayed about 50 miles above the water hurdle which the Jap- | anese must cross in any land-based | attempt to invade this British Pa- ‘ cific bastion. | The nearest enemy approach ap- parently was along the Malacca Strait, on the west coast of the peninsula, where the night war bul- letin said heavy fighting was taking ! | place at Rengit, south of Seng- | | garang. which is 48 miles from Singapore. As the battle drew closer suburban Singapore underwent another bomb- | ing from 27 Japanese planes which +quickly dropped their cargoes and disappeared. | The night communique indicated that the front, at least for the mo- ment, was holding firm. | It said there was no change in the situation in the sector between | Ayer Hitam and Kluang, the rail- | road center 50 miles to the north,| | and that there were no reports of | further enemy landings at Endau, | where the Japanese put reinforce- | ments ashore yesterday. “Enemy air activity,” it said, “has been slight. j | “A considerable number of Brit- | | ish and Indian troops who were cut off in the Batu Pahat area have now rejoined the main bodies,” the | communique added. U. 5. Agrees fo Aid Bolivia By the Associated Press. | RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 28—Sign- | ing of an agreement between the United States and Bolivia for a rence Fly of the Federal Communi-| ¢9505000 Bolivian development cations Commission of maintaining | program was announced here today. “an active and ambitious gestapo,” Representative Cox, Democrat, of | Georgia, proposed on the House floor |P.C.C. Mr. Cox said he would offer legis- lation for the inquiry as soon as possible. “Mr. Fly * * * is using a good law to a bad end” the Georgian de- clared. “He is guilty'of a monstrous abuse of power and is rapidly be- coming the most dangerops man in the Government. He maintains an active and ambitious gestapo and 45 | putting shackles on the freedom of | thought. press and speech, without | restraint.” Mr. Cox asserted that “in the pre- | tended regulation of the broad-| casters, which need regulating,” Mr. | Fly was “breaking down those free- | doms which guard all others” and "of communications.” Ulster Legislator Would Like | ‘To Throw U.S. (Earlier Story on Page A-2) B5 “he Asociated Press BELFAST, Jan. 28 —Patrick Max- well, nationalist member of the Northern Ireland Parliament, de- clared %in an interview today that “there is nothing we can do physi- cally to throw the American troops out of Northern Ireland. or we would do so. So far as we are concerned,” he added. “it is the same thing as the landing of the Germans in Nor- way.” Maxwell, who represents the Foyle division of Londonderry. said he was “wholeheartedly” in sympathy | with Premier Eamon De Valera of Eire, who has protested the United States troop landing across the border from Eire. “We consider the landings an ag- gression against the Irish nation. ‘The closest analogy would be if the Japanese were to land in Occupied | France to help the Germans.” Senator Simmons, 75-year-old mayor of Londonderry, presented the opposite view when he said he was going to get up from his sick Troops Out’ | bed to welcome Amercian officers in | his mayoral chambers tomorrow. He said he was taking this action in re- ply to De Valera's “impudent pro- | | test” which, coming from a neutral | | source, “could not be tolerated and i | is utterly in bad taste.” | Churchill Sought A. E. F. | |On Washington Visit LONDON, Jan. 28 (#)—Winston | Churchill put forward his case for | sending American troops to North- | ern Ireland on his recent visit to | | the United States, and when he fin- ished President Roosevelt said, “We will send the troops,” Lord Beaver- | brook, minister of supply, declared in a radio broadcast today. “If we went to Moscow to give.” | he said, “we went to Washington to | | get, and getting always is more diffi- ! cult than giving.” Lord Beaverbrook said Britain | | “must not expect too much in the way of increased supplies from the United States in the immediate fu- ture,” explaining they they “have their own necessities.” | ous | Amazed (George) A Bolivian development corpora- tion is to be set up with a $10,000,000 } credit from the Export-Import Bank | at Washington. The first big project of the de- | velopment corporation is expected to | be construction of a 225-mile high- | way from Conchabama to Santa! Cruz, linking Bolivia's agricultural and mining centers. The announcement said plans for such a development were under way and that a United States economic mission already was in Bolivia. Soviet Env;y to Britain Il LONDON, Jan. 28 (#)—The Rus- | slan Embassy disclosed today that | | Ivan M. Maisky, Soviet ambassador | to Britain, is ill with malaria. 'Late Races Selections and Entries for Tomor- row, Page 2-X. Hialeah Park FIFTH RACE—Purse. $1.500: Grade C..| handicap; 3-year-olds and up; 6'4 fur-| Delivers (Jemas) 4.70 3.10 250 Kansas City (Strickler) 340 270, Justice M. (James) 320 Time, 1:181-5. Also ' ran—Cadmium. Knight Call and Night Glow, SIXTH Handicap; turlongs. Zacatine (Mehrtens) Big Ben (Westrope) Market Wise (Eads) Time. 1:19 2-5 Also ran—Dispose. Doubirab, Ponty and Ringie. RACE—Purse, %1.600: Grade B 3-year-olds and upward. 6'z 11.30 650 240 870 .60 3.10 SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $1.500: Grade Handicap: 3-vear-olds and upward; 6'z e furl J. (James) .50, 340 250 20 riongs. Johonie Alakick (Skeily) 3.90 Aboyne o) 2.60 boyne (AT ime. 5. Also Royal Ruby II, Tragic Ending and Tamil. Fair Grounds THIRD RACE—Purse. 3-year-olds: 6 furlongs. £600: maiden 8.00 880 580 | Tripod (Parise) 6.80 2.60 Valdina Tout (Craig) 3.60 Time 1:13. | _ Also ran_Tra | Broom. Don Briar. sey Byrd. | and f Burma. 1 Pield. our. Hannicale. 1Boards Miss. {Boot- Liberty Cap, Loretta Rice FOURTH RACE—Purse. ances; 3-year-olds: 6 furlong: Louisville II (Guerin) 25.41 Paircais (Parise) Baruna (Mora) 6.80 | Time, 1 5 Valdina Alpha. Countmein, $600; 5. 0 10.60 13120 allow- 5.40 4.00 Hurban Tells of Czech Dumping Molten Metal, Killing 14 Nazis BY the Associated Press. The story of how a munitions worker named Vacek in Czecho- Slovakia recently killed 14 German Army officers by dumping molten metal on them from a crane, then committed suicide by jumping to the ground was related today by Col. Viadimir Hurban, Czech Min- ister. The incident occurred in the Bkoda Works in Pilsen, the Min- ister said. With Jan Ciechamowski, Polish Ambassador, Col. Hurban was describing to reporters the “well-organized” sabotage against | Germany in those occupied coun- | tries, The Ambassador said the anti- | German campaign continued on a well-organized scale and was “mak- | | ing progress”—so much so, in fact, {that Germany has to keep a large number of troops in Poland to maintain order. | Col. Hurban described the cam- | | paign in his country as “undetected” sabotage, such as slowing down manufacturing of gunsand dropping of chemicals in oil. That was more effective, he said, than the shooting of German officers on the in France. 4 A R4 IFTH RA | 3-year-olds 50 T Gray Romance. fHenry Greenock. [Sea Tack, Praiseworthy. Great Occasion. Jack ink ( 8 Eair = ero (Guerin) ime, 1:13. Also ran—Nimble, 8ir Kid. Pranks Boy. | GUIDE FOR READERS Page. Amusements, * | Finance - cs 15 | Radio , . Editorial ._.A-10| Serial Editorial | Story _ Comment__A-11 | Society al }smru __A-15-17 Notices ._B-13| Where to and Go Found ..__A-3 | Woman's Page streets a5 | (Complete Index, Page A-1.)| FREDERICK V. WILLIAMS. Federal agents here an- | nounced this afternoon the arrests of two Americans, in- dicted by a District grand jury earlier today with four other ‘tecting and fighting “in all the Knox Says Navy Is Busy Fighting Foeiin All Seas Secretary Regards Japanese, Nazis As One Enemy By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—Secretary Knox today pictured the Navy as engaged in a gigantic job of pro- seas and all the oceans” against “one indivisible, total enemy.” It is “an immense assignment,” }_nhsaid. but “your Navy is doing the job.” The Secretary, in a speech at a Chicago Association of Commerce luncheon, said that if some persons misunderstood his remarks of Janu- ary 12 to the effect that Hitler is the principal enemy. “the Navy didn't.” He said he wished to make it “em- phatically clear” that he regarded the war in the Pacific, the Atlantic, Russia, China, Malaya, Libya as “all one war, one world revolution, one bid for world mastery.” Hitler “hatched this ghastly conspiracy on | the whole world, but the enemy is | one enemy,” he said. | The Secretary discussed “the vexa- | tions and misunderstood business of | security and the public information | policy generally,” reminding Amer- | | | U-Boat Sighfed In Gulf: Hunted By Planes, Ships Naval Commandant Believes Second Sub Is Off Texas Shore BY the Associated Press. Axis submarines, ranging the eastern American coast from the gulf of Mexico to northern Ca- nadian waters, have sunk at |least 14 American and Allied | ships since the undersea raiders }appeared off Nova Scotia Jan- | uary 12. | Latest announced blow was the torpedoing of a large Allied pas- senger liner carrying 321 passengers and‘crew from Bermuda to an East- ern port. Only 71 have been saved, five bodies recovered and 245 persons are missing from the liner. The po- sition of the attack was not given. Among the survivors were 17 Americans, 12 of them from St. Joseph, Mo. | _As this blow was announced, the | Navy at Corpus Christi, Tex.. said persons as unregistered propa- gandists for the Japanese gov- government. Townsend was arrested at Lake Geneva, Wis,, and Williams at San Fran- cisco. (8tory on page A-1) | —A. P. Wirephotos. | " In$25,000,000 WorksPlan 2 D. C. Housing Bills Involving $50,000,000 Ouflay Infroduced Lanham Submits Own Plan And Measure Proposed Previously by Palmer A bill designed not only to pro- vide housing for Washington war workers but for erection of new schools, hospitals and for expansion of street, water and sewage facilities, was introduced in the House this afternoon by icans wondering what the Asiatic | fleet is doing that the Japs “are more | curious than you are.” | Japanese uncertainty over what | our fleet is doing or where it is going, he said, is one such as “has| caused everv one of you to ask| ‘What is Hitler going to do next?’”| He said it had manifest strategic Value because “not knowing what | your adversary is going to do, you| have to disperse your forces and attempt to be ready for anything.” l Japanese Are Jittery. | Mr. Knox said a study of what Axis short wave stations call “news” indicated the Japs “are jittery be- cause they can't determine just where the American fleet is and what its objects may be.” He re- lated: “For example. On January 1 they announced that they had sunk seven of our battleships, no less. But by the 15th a spirit of prudence hld‘ crept over them, and they magnani- mously cha the figure to four, thus restoring three to the surface, ‘where others may follow in due course. “On the 2ist, curiously enough, their compilation omitted any men- tion of a seaplane carrier whose demise had been solemnly chron- icled the week before.” He said he often was asked why | dicted by a county grand jury| WON'T ALIBI IF PROGRAM FAILS — War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson, pictured as he listened to questions by mem- bers of the Truman Senate Defense Committee today, said he will offer no alibis if his program does not succeed. He told the committee he was not interested in the political phases of the war production effort and offered to shoulder full responsibility and, if necessary, be the “goat.” (Story on Page A-1.) —A. P. Photo. Brother Is Indicted In Kansas City Girl's Mutilation Slaying Action by Grand Jury Climaxes Long Inquiry Into Baffling Murder (Picture on Page 2-X.) | By the Associated Press. | KANSAS CITY, Jan. 28.— George W. Welsh II, 28, was in- 'Dies Warns House Action Needed to Halt West Coast 'Tragedy’ Texan Says Fifth Column Peril Great; to Disclose Data on Jap Espionage By the Associated Press. Representative Dies, Democrat, | of Texas told the House today that “unless the Government adopts an alert attitude there he wished to keep something secret | today on a charge of slaying and will occur on the West Coast a when the public already knew it | and had been talking about it. “My answer is that our enemies— being past masters at such tactics themselves—deliberately plant and circulate rumors in order to con- fuse us. “It is not the circulation but the confirmation of so-called facts that is important. If official confirma- tion is given these inside stories that always circulate in wartime, mutilating his pretty 24-year- old sister, Leila Adele Welsh, in her bedroom last March. The indictment—climaxing weeks of investigation—was drawn by the attorney general's office at Jeffer- son City and returned to Circult Judge Marion D. Waltner. Her brother was summoned be- | fore the jury for questioning when tragedy that will make Pearl Harbor sink in significance.” The Pearl Harbor disaster. Mr. Dies said, was largely due to “a fear of displeasing foreign powers and a maudlin attitude toward fifth columnists.” He said the attack might never have occurred had the House Com- mittee on Un-American Activities, which he heads. been “permitted” to disclose last September its findings Representative Lanham, Demo- ;" o achongile member of the | he returned here fsom California for | on Japanese espionage. crat, of Texas, chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings ; and Grounds. Government publicly backs them up, the element of uncertainty is | destroyed, and our enemies are | the Christmas holidays. Slept Near Murder Scene. Soon after the slaying he had told Mr. Dies said he would make public within a week or two “a full and complete report” on Japanese The bill, drafted by Mr. Lanham | then free to make their plans and | officers that he slept on a divan in espionage and sabotage in this and members of his committee, calls | carry out their counter-measures | the living room near his sister’s bed- | country, including official letters for suthorization of $50,000,000 for housing and necessary public works | to take care of some of the thou- sands of new Government employes arriving in the Capital. Mr. Lan- ham also introduced a measure call- ing for appropriation of a similar with a far greater degree of pre- cision and certainty.” Press, Radio Co-operate. | The press ard radio, Mr. Knox | said, have co-operated perfectly. “And as a newspaperman, it is not | easy for me to be counseling re-| room the night of the murder. The Welsh slaying has been one of Kansas City's most baffling mys- teries. An abundance of clues led investigators through a maze of con- flicting channels. | disclosing “the true attitude of of- | ficial Washington toward the whole | fifth column question.” | Dies Amendments Rejected. | Mr. Dies was arguing—unsuccess- | fully—in favor of his amendments amount which was. submitted to the | strictions, silence and faith, but as committee yesterday by Defense knowledge and understanding of the Housing Co-ordinator Charles F. problem spreads. skepticism and con- (See HOUSING, Page 2-X.) ge 2- (See KNOX, Page 2- It was shortly after 9 o'clock the |to specify Communists and Bund- | morning of last March 9 that Mrs. |ists as foreign agents in a pending | Marie F. Welsh ran screaming from | alien propaganda registration bill | her home in a quiet Southside resi- |and force them to file lists of their | dential district to the home of a members and records of their | neighbor. There she told of finding ' finances. her daughter slain in her bed. The House, by a standing vote of Police found that the girl's throat ' 228 to 40, rejected Mr. Dies’ motion -| to serve in the penitentiary for life | Virginia Youth Pleads Guilty 'To Murder of Three, Gets Life i Boy Shot Couple | And Daughter In Robbery | (Earlier Story on Page B-1.) | By W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr., | Star Statf Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Va., Jan. 28.—| | Sixteen-year-old Thomas Dewey | (Buck) Cameron was sentenced to life imprisonment here this afternoon when he pleaded guil- |ty to three murder indictments | at conclusion of a brief trial be- fore Judge J. R. H. Alexander. | | Ordered to stand, the boy an- swered “guilty” in a loud, clear voice to the charges of shooting to death | Edward Johnson, 42; his wife, Sadie, 40, and their 15-year-oid daughter, Ethel, in the robbery of the John- sons’ general store at Huntley and the post office in it last May 29. Despite expert testimony that the | boy had epileptic tendencies, and was retarded mentally and phys- ically Judge Alexander held he was “legally responsible for his- acts.” The diminutive defendant, whose | development was compared to that | of a boy 10 years old, was sentenced | on each of the three indictments. | He will be taken to the State | penitentiary at Richmond to start | his term in a few days. | Defense Attorney William C. Arm- | strong of Front Royal, who was ap- pointed by the court, said he did not plan an appeal from the sen- tence. The boy's father, Thomas Dewey Cameron, sr., an orchard worker, testified at the trial that his son was subject to fits, convulsions and A THOMAS DEWEY CAMERON, Jr. —Star Staff Photo. fainting spells from his second to' his ninth year. These sometimes occurred as often as two or three times a week, the father testified. Evidence that the boy showed definite tendencies toward epilepsy was offered by Dr. David Wilson, s psychiatrist of -the University of Virginia. ' had been slashed from ear to ear. Her skull had been smashed by | three terrific blows. Her pajamas | were cut and torn. From her right }hlp a piece of flesh had been cut. Chisel Found Near Bed. On the floor near the bed was a track chisel, a kind of hammer used by railroad men. From the throat wound police took a man’s white shirt, later identified as one a neigh- bor had discarded near his garage. bedroom, half a pair of draperies lay on the sill, hanging partly out- side. police, said the curtain had been | deliberately placed there as a sort | of “flag of victory” by the slayer. | The mother told police that when she went to awaken her daughter for Sunday school she found a chair room door. Many clues—cigarette butts, a butcher knife stuck nearly to the hilt in the earth outside of the bed- room window, footprints of what police believed to be a small man, bits of paper and string—were found. They were checked and re- checked. West Point’s Trainer Released to Aid Navy Bj the Associated Press. WEST POINT. N. Y., Jan. 28— The Army Athletic Association an- nounced today that Roland Logan | had been released from his contract | as West Point team trainer, effec- | tive immediately, to serve in the| naval aviation physical training program. | A graduate of Kansas University in 1930, Logan was on the train- ing staffs of Kansas, George Wash- ington. and Pittsburgh Universities and the Boston Red Sox baseball In an open window of the girl's | L. B. Reed, then chief of | tilted against the inside of the bed- | to recommit the bill to committee, then passed it as it stood. A House and Senate conference | committee recommended elimina- tion of the Dies amendments, con- | tending that every one engaging in activities for a foreign power was blanketed by the measure, and that | oy | _But Mr. Dies protested that the | Communists in particular would never be reached if his amend- ments were eliminated, and shouted: i Policy Called Suicidal suicidal policy of coddling the tools and dupes of foreign powers.” “Have we come to the time when | we dare not legislate on matters concerning a domestic organization because of the fear of displeasing some foreign dictator?” he asked. Intended to put teeth in the 1938 | Alien Registration Act, the pending legislation would require foreign agents to label all political propa- ganda they disseminate in this country and extend application of the law to include foreign agents using this country as a base for propaganda activities in Central and South America. 25,000 to 30,000 Japs Reported Drowned In Macassar Battle (Earlier Stories on Page A-1 and A-2) By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—The British radio, heard today by C. B. S, reported that “25,000 to 30,000 Japanese are said to have been drowned already” in the United Nations' air and sea attacks on Japanese troop transports and warships in the Strait of Macassar. club before coming to West Point in 1939, the specifications were not neces- “There must be an end to this| that a submarine “doubtlessly Ger- | man” had been sighted 15 miles from | nearby Port Aransas and that prob=- ably another U-boat was in the vi- | cinity. Planes and ships from the station are now seeking the craft, said Capt. Alva Bernhard. com- | mandant of the naval air station at Corpus Christi | The torpedoing of the liner was | reported by Capt. Helgesen of the | rescue ship, the New York-to-Puerto Rico steamer Coamo, on his arrival | in San Juan. He said he picked up | the survivors Friday night, five days after the liner had been struck twice | by torpedoes and sunk. | Two Attacked Yesterday. | These announcements followed last night's report of a U-boat'’s sinking _the 7,096-ton . American | Tanker Francis E. Powell off Lewes, Del,, with an indicated loss of three lives. The fate of another American tanker, the Pan-Maine, 7237 tons, remained in doubt following a ra- dio report yesterday afternoon that she was being attacked. The Pan- Maine carried 38 men. Thirty-three survivors from a Greek freighter and a Norwegian | tanker arrived at an Eastern | Canadian port last night and re- | ported that 51 men were missing | or dead in successful attacks on | their vessels. | | Five Dead in Lifeboat. Capt. Helgesen said all the survi- vors were taken from e single life- boat intended to accommodate 63 persons. In all 76 had crowded into the boat, but five died during their five days adrift. The steamer was sald to have been attacked without warning, the first torpedo striking No. 2 hatch on the port side just forward of the bridge. The second wrecked the engine room, putting out all lights. The steamer was said to have gone down so quickly there was no time to send out an S.OS. The fate of any other survi- vors was not known. Those Capt. Helgesen rescued said their lifeboat | drifted apart from the others. Sub Sent Up Smoke Bomb. The sub sighted in the Gulf of Mexico, probably sneaked in during the night with the intention of at- tacking oil tankers, Capt. Bern- hard said. The submarine was sighted by a naval plane on patrol. “It is possible that the second submarine is also in the vicinity since it is known that they have been operating in pairs elsewhere, and shortly after the submarine was sighted a smoke bomb appeared out of the water four miles south of it,” Capt. Bernhard said. Smoke bombs. released by sub- marines, rise in the air similar to a rocket before settling back on the water. They frequently are used by submarines as a distress signal. The captain was unable to ac- count for the smoke bomb other than through the possibility of its indicating a second craft. Patrol planes from the station, he disclosed. are patrolling an area ex- tending 250 miles north of the border east of Corpus Christi Plane Told to Maintain Contact. Capt. Bernhard said after the plane reported the submnrinfiahe directed it to “maintain contact” with the undersea vessel. The Navy plane was unarmed, he said. “It evidently frightened the sub- | marine because4t submerged,” Capt. | Bernhard said. Crew members of the tanker Powell, brought ashore at Norfolk (See SUBS, Page 2-X.) 'Yankee Flyers Hit 21 of 37 Jap Raiders i (Earlier Story on Page A-4) | By the Associated Press. RANGOON, Jan. 28.—Yankee vol- unteer flyers achieved another air- fighting miracle east of Rangoon {today when in a daylight dogfight | they destroyed six Japanese fighter planes by unofficial count, probably | destroyed six more and damaged | nine others of a disrupted formation | of 37. | The American fighters returned 1(0 their base without suffering any casualties. Unofficial reports sald that & formation of R. A. 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