Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1942, Page 5

Spamsh Ship Sunk By Axis Subs to Stir Trouble, British Say Navemar ‘Outrage’ Held Part of ‘Ruthless’ Policy Toward Iberian Traffic By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 28.—The admiralty asserted today the 5473-ton Span- ish freighter Navemar had been sunk by Axis submarines and “as is their practice the Axis have put out broadcasts asserting the ship was torpedoed by a British submarine” In order to stir up trouble between Britein and Spain. (Lisbon dispatches reported the sinking of the ship on Mon- day and said German and Italian news dispatches claimed the ship had been sunk by a British sub- marine.) The admiralty said in its state- ment that it “previously pointed out in connection with the sinking of the Spanish ship Badalona that the object of the Axis in making these lying allegations is to create trouble between Britain and Spain. | “In view of the long record of at- tacks by Axis U-boats upon neu- tral merchant ships, it is obvious where to look for the authors of this latest outrage. Nevertheless, the admiralty state that no British or Allied submarine was at the time anywhere near the scene of the mcident.” The Navemar was the vessel with passenger accommodations for 15, which carried more than 1,000 Jewish refugees from Lisbon to New York last summer. The admiralty’s statement added “Circumstances of the sinking of the Portuguese ship Corte Real and the Spanish ships Badalona and Castillo Oropesa make it plain it is the deliberate policy of the Axis to deal ruthlessly with shipping of the | Iberian Peninsula. * * * “This new attack on a earrying supplies tot across the Atlantic may indicate they are now hoping to cut off| Spain from all trade with the out- side world.” It said that two British warships ware diverted to search the area| where the Navemar was attacked. but the majority of the crew was reported saved by a Spanish vessel. Heriot Clarkson Dles North Carolina Jurist B the Arsociated Press CHARLOTTE, N. C., Jan. 28.— Heriot Clarkson, 78, since 1923 an associate justice of the North Caro- lina Supreme Court, died vesterday ms the home of his son, Francis O. Clarkson. He was stricken {ll shortly after his arrival here with Mrs. Clarkson Friday from their summer home at Little Switzerland Death was attributed trouble. | Funeral services were to be held | here today at St. Peter’s Ep1<copal‘ Church. Survivors include the widow, \hn; befort her marriage December 10, | 1889, was Miss Mary Llovd Osborne | of Charlotte; three sons and a daughter, Francis O. Clarkson and Edwin O. Clarkson of Charlotte, the Rev. Thomas Simmons Clarkson of Tupelo, Miss,, land Pollard of Washington. 11 on Torpedoed Steamer | iand on Island in Pacific Ry the Associated NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 28--Capt. G. H. Bov of Houston, Tex., and 10 additional survivors of the steamship Prusa. torpedoed December 18, have been landed at a Pacific island, the Tampa Interocean Steamship Co. announced here today. Steamship company officials said several lives were lost in the tor- pedoing and that a lifeboat of sur- vivors previously had been rescued. In addition to the captain the other rescued men were listed as: James H. Darlin. Houston, Tes Bernard Baker, Jeferson, Iow Floyd McWilliams, Smyrna, Ga.; Karl Knee, Hammond, Ind.; Thomas Bartlett, Elizabeth City, N. C.; J. P. Higgins, art, Wilmington, Del.; George Bercy, New Orleans; Alfred A. Smith, New York and Eric J. Williams, New York. to heart | $175,000 Paid for Renoir 3y Patient Connoisseur By the Assoclated Press, PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 23.—Dr. Albert C. Barnes has realized a 30- vear ambition—ownership of Re- noir's painting “Mussel Fishers at Serneval"—for $175,000. The art collector said he believed this was the second highest price ever paid for a Renoir canvas. He tried to purchase it before the first | World War from the late Pierre Durand-Ruel, friend of the artist, who, Dr. Barnes said, “I'm sure didn't pay more than $100 for it.” Just before the present conflict, the picture was sent to New York, and last week was placed on sale, where “I snapped it up at once.” Gas Rationing Forecast | By Dealers’ Counsel By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28.—Sol A. Herzog of New York, counsel for the Eastern States Gasoline Dealers | Conference, predicts that gasoline rationing is “just around the cor- ner,” because of tanker-torpedoings and military requirements. He told about 400 delegates from 14 States yesterday that the fuel may be one of the first commodities | rationed by Leon Henderson under his new powers. The dealers, in a series of reso- lutions. proposed a mandatory clos- ing of stations between 7 p.m. and 7 am. and a dealers’ margin of flvef cents a gallon on sales instead of | four cents. Widow Gets Estate ROCKVILLE. Md., Jan. 28 (Spe- cial).—Under the will of Joseph W. Meade of Silver Spring, which was pdmitted to probate here yesterday, his widow, Mr. Ada Lois Meade, re- ceives the entire estate, value of which was not disclosed. x ship | Spain from | and Mrs. John Gar- | Philadelphia; Frank Stew- | THE EVENING | tanker. | These three crewmen (left to right), STAR, WASHINGTON, LEWES, DEL.—SURVIVORS OF TORPEDOED OIL TANKER—Fourteen of the 17 rescued crew members of the torpedoed American oil tanker Francis E. Powell are shown at the Coast Guard station here last night after their dramatic rescue at sea by the W. C. Fairbanks, another oil Among the missing after the submarine attack off the Atlantic coast is Capt: T. J. Har- rington of Baltimore. The tanker’s normal complement was listed in ship registers as 32 men. Firemen Joseph Oritz and James Aylor and Cook Theo- doro Contreras, toast their rescue with steaming coffee after arriving at the Coast Guard station. | —A. P. Wirephotos. Rewswn of Tactics Expected Following Wavell's Burma Visit Lessons Learned in Malay | Fighting to Be Turned To Good Advantage By RODERICK MacDONALD, Foreign Correspondent of The Star and North American Newspaper Alliance. By CLAUDE A, MAHONEY. Capt. Leland P. Lovette, who com- manded a destroyer division at Pearl Harbor, was back on duty at the Navy Department today with addi- tional tales of the Japs’ December 7 attack and enthusiastic praise for defenders who got anti-aircraft " |guns on our ships into action RANGOON, Jan. 29 (by Wire-|ifaster than in target practice” and less) —Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell's| who stuck to burning decks despite talks here with Burma civil and mil- | orders to save themselves. | itary officials is expected to result in! application of special tactics to counter the Japanese offensive. | ‘ News of the visit of the commander | in chief of the United Nations in the | Southwest Pacific was released after he was on his way back to his new headquarters in the Netherlands In- informally yesterday, said “every man did beyond duty. A British officer told him, he said, |that he, a veteran of Dunquerque and Crete, had never seen the equal of the resistance put up by American fighters. Capt. Lovette, who goes on duty as assistant to Admiral A. J. Hep- dies last night. ‘| burn in the Office of Public Rela- There have been many lessons tions, explained the well-planned learned in the fighting still under- |Japanese attack by saying that way in Malaya and it is believed that & those folks lived for years in the these lessons will be turned to good hills overlooking Pearl Harbor, and advantage in Burma where a major the Americans never did anything campaign is developing. to prevent it ’ they undoubtedly photographed According to a very reliable source eyervthin We captured 3 here Gen. Wavell pointed out the rt g pitirediJapanese charts of the harbor necessity of maintaining the of- arbor as good as our own."” fensive wherever possible. He re- S . o portedly insisted that the utmost| Didn't Know Planes Weren't Up. Judgment must be used to avoid the | Emphasizing the fact that his error of overestimating the Japanese env.he_auenuon in advance had been numerical superiority. | in ‘;l'";g that the ships were pre- Some reports here indicate that = = caecan, Be &0 | the Japanese practice of infiltrating along the flanks of British Empire | forces often gives the impression jthan they are present in greater numbers than actually is the case. The counterattacks, according to \1nfnrmed quarters here—and this | is believed to be one of the Ma- | laya lessons Gen. Wavell empha- sized—are for empire forces to ad- vance. The air force of the United Na- tions definitely has the upper hand in Burma. In view of this, em- pire land forces are not going to be hampered by the lack of air sup- port as they were in Malaya. It is likely that Gen. Wavell's| visit will result in & major read- justment in the defense plun” against the Japanese and Siamese | troops which now are reportedly | | being held by the empire forces along the Salween River line, Maps for the training of R. A. F.| pilots and observers are now being | prepared by art students of colleges throuzhnuz Bntain ‘Two-Edged Controversy Arises Over Torpedoed Spanish Ship Capt. Lovette didn’t know the aerial patrols were | not out to warn us in advance.” New tales of heroism related by | “little doctor” who carried a 275- pound medical chest down two ships’ ladders. for the entire medical unit, includ- ing pharmacists' mates who ap- strafing gunfire, Florida to Ban Parrots In Move to Curb Fever By the Associated Press. rot fever, all traffic in parrots and | their kin is to be halted in Florida next October. Many parts of London have been made more beautiful by the re- | moval of iron railings for munitions. | BY the Associated Press. claimants’ charghs the vessel was | o( “the gloomy ferryboat of ‘Charon” carrying passengers and was filthy, | —officially the Spanish {freighter Navemar—was the center of two separate disputes today, although | the ill-starred vessel lies at the bot- {tom of the sea. On file in Federal Court are claims totaling $3,427,628 brought against | the owners by 593 passengers who arrived here last September after a 48-day Atlantic crossing so marked with illness and death that marine | the specter of the “gloomy ferry- circles immediately applied the un- | boat” complimentary nickname, | Axis over whose submarine sunk the Forty-one persons became ill and Navemar a few days ago off the five died during the voyage between | Portuguese coast. Seville, Havana and New York German and Italian news dis- as more than 1000 European refu- | patches from Lisbon Monday gees were herded into the 5473-ton | claimed it was a British submersible. ship. The British Admiralty denied this Claims are being made for pass- |today, asserting -Axi¥ submarines age money refunds, personal in-|were responsible. A . supplied. The owners, the Compania Es- panola de Navegacion Maritime, have denied responsibility with the statement the craft was under char- that voyage. The second controversy to plague Officer, Back on Duty Here, Lauds Pearl Harbor Heroes Men Stuck to Burning Decks Despite Order | To Save Selves, Capt. Leland Lovette Says ' Discussing the Japanese attack ' the | They had visitors, and | mitted that “as a surface officer, I | | Capt. Lovette included that of the comment by Capt. Lovette: He had praise also | planes approached the harbor from plied emergency dressings and who any conflict with or comment on the literally had to be ordered out of Roberts report, The officer spoke of the cruel ef- (Pred hv our forcet or lhe Japanese, JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 28—‘ In a counter measure against par-‘ ‘junes and property damage on the | NEW YORK, Jan. 28 —The ghost ‘not seaworthy, was inadequate for | overcrowded, unsanitary and im- | | properly manned, equipped and | ter to a resident of Lishon during | is between Britain and the | D. | Mitchell, 17, all of Laurel, C, Police Press Inquiry In Mystery Death 0fD. C. Woman Laurel Probe Continued, Despite Report She Died Of Natural Causes An investigation into the mysteri- ous death of a women tentatively identified as Mary Scott Burke, 28 a waitress, of the 1900 block of Eighteenth Street N.W, was con- tinued today by Maryland State | police, although a medical examiner said her death was due to natural causes, The body was found yeuendny under a tree near a bridge on a| road leading to the Lauyrel race | track. Her maroon waitress uniform had been partially torn from her body. Her clothing was blood- | stained. : In Baltimore last night, Col.| Beverly S. Ober, State police super-,’ intendent, said: “We're working on the case from every possible angle. We're checking the circumstances that led to her death.” | He said the ‘“case is not closed” even though Dr. James I. Boyd, | Prince Georges County medical ex- | aminer, issued a certificate of “death | due to natural causes.” Dr. Boyd said the woman died from a hemmorhage. He said an examination revealed no bruises or\ other injuries. Col. Ober said tentative idenufi- cation had been made from a Social Security card and from letters in her purse. Police Chief Edward Brown, who has been working with State and District police on the case. said Miss Burke left Washington Satur- day afternoon to bring Dolores Lin- | dain, 9, a pupil at St. Mildred's Academy, back to Washington,| where her father, Sefanio Lindain, lives at the Eighteenth street ad- | dress. When his daughter did not arrive, Mr. Lindain checked Sun- | day morning with academy officials. who said Miss Burke had not been there since an earlier trip on & similar errand two weeks ago. Chief Brown said Miss Burke's movements from the time she left Washington were being carefully in- | vestigated. Up to the time she left, she had worked for a drug store near her home, he said The body was discovered by Ralph Rector, 14; Lee Wiley, 19, and Robert as they emerged from a thicket along the Patuxent River where they had set muskrat traps Dr. Bovd said the woman had WEDNESDAY, | been dead from 12 to 20 hours. 2Men Slam, Woman Shot | In Barber Shop Affray | By the Associated P HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 28— Chief of Police Oscar Blough today formally charged Nick N. Galvan, 40, with murder in the death of two men, and assault with intent to kill a woman, after a barber shop shoot- ing affray | The dead men were James Ander- | son, 60, barber, and George Whar- | ton, retired railroad man celebrat- |ing his 58th birthday anniversary Mr. Ander- | ¢ who was a bystander. son’s wife, Alice, 55, was wounded | but discharged from the hospital a few hours later. City Patrolman Gilbert Sandanna | said Galvan told him that persons m the barber shop had tormented hlm Army Pilot Dies as Plane |Crashes and Burns | B the Associated Press. DETROIT, Jan. 28.—An Army plane crashed and burned in a field 2 miles from the Wayne Coun- ty Airport today, killing the pilot, Rescuers were unable to approach | the burning wreckage because of CAPT. LELAND P. LOVETTE. —Underwood & Underwood. ficiency of the Japanese plans for the attack. “They pianned it for a quiet Sun- day morning when the religious | services were about to be held. In fact, the Catholic boys were ashore | at church at the time. The Japs | trafed even the small boats the | boys were going back and forth in.” | Japanese and American aviators | were compared in the following | “Our average flyers can equal their best.” He expressed the opinion that the at least three aircraft carriers. Speaking guardedly and avoiding Capt. Lovette was unwilling to discuss casualties suf- Treasury Experfs Study MacArthur Tax Problem B the Associated Press. The Treasury yesterday sought | means of preventing Gen. Douglas | MacArthur and other Americans | isolated in war areas from being | classed as income tax dodgers. | John L. Sullivan, Assistant Secre- tary of the Treasury, said the prob- | lem was being studied and mlght | require legislation. Americans outside of the United | States have until June 15, instead of March 15, to file their annyal tax returns. If they fail to pny‘ then, they must be chnrged 6 per’ cent interest. Present laws appar- ently do not permit suspension of these interest charges, although the Treasury has authority to waive any additional penalties. Gen. Lear to Promote Ablest Officers Only By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 28.—Lt. Gen. Ben Lear wants his 2d Army commanders to place ability as the | first consideration in the advance- | ment of officers. In an order yesterday calling for abandonment of the traditional sys- | tem of promotion by seniority, Gen. |Lear told his commanders it was | their solemn duty to see that their troops have the best leaders avail- able. “Under no circumstances,” he said, would an individual's need for higher be considered in making prom 4 intense heat. Officers at the Army hangar at | Wayne Airport did not immediately disclose the name of the pilot. He had taken off from the airport only a few minutes before the crash. Red Cross Seeks Funds for War The District Red Cross is ap- pealing for $750,000 as its quota of the American Red Cross ‘War Pund Campaign for $50,- 000,000 to provide relief for American war victims and to carry on rapidly expanding Red Cross services for the armed forces. ‘Today the District fund stands at $232.474.62. 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