Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1942, Page 4

142 ek H President Ges Bill Shifting Authority Over Foreign Agenis Powers Given to Justice Department; Propaganda Must Be Labeled ‘Enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act is transferred from the State Department to the Justice Department under a bill that today awaited the signature of the Presi- dent after adoptiton of a conference report by House and Senate yester- dny. The legislation, which clarifies provisions of the 1938 act requiring agents of foreign principals to re- gister with this Government, also forces agents to label their propa- ganda and extends the registration requirements to agents whose prop- aganda is aimed at Latin-American eountries. The bill was modified by the House on final passage over the vigorous protest of Chairman Dies of the Committee Investigating un- American Activities, who declared that “there must e an end to this suicidal policy of coddling the tools and dupes of foreign powers.” The revision struek out specific mention of the Communist party, German- American Bund and thedKyfThauser- bund on the plea of the administra- tion not to “inflame ‘the interna- tional situation.” Dies Proposal Rejected. Refusal of the Senate to accept Dies-sponsored amendments which the House originally thad adopted, mentioning the Bunds snd the Com- munist party, had sent the bill to conference. 'The conferees’ recom- mendation for elimination of the amendments was adopted by voice vote after Mr. Dies’ motion to re- commit the bill was rejected in the same manner. The Senate then approved the compromise bill. Majority Leader McCormack and Chairman Sumners of the Judiciary Committee led the fight against the Dies proposals, arguing that it was unnecessary and unwise to mention | the three organizations. “Have we got any more people fighting on our side than we need?” Mr. Sumners asked.. “If we .are seeking to kick Russia then there's mighty good sense in these amend- ments. This is no time for child’s play or play to the galleries.” Mr. McCormack insisted that the original bill “covers everybody” and there was no need to single out the Communist party and the Bund. “We are at war,” the Democratic leader shouted. “This is not the time to inflame the international | situation * * * that is beneficial to our beloved country.” But Mr. Dies protested that the bill without his amendments “fails to reach the large class of foreign agents in this country.” “A fear of displeasing foreign powers and a maudlin attitude to- ward fifth -columnists was largely responsible for the Pearl Harbor in- cident,” he charged, and warned 7 X 2 | v 3N " have been ‘landed so far at Sal CANADIAN STEAMER LOST—The Lady Hawkins (above) has been lost “through enemy action,” Canadian National Steam- ships announced last night. The report said that 71 survivors . EVENING n Juan, Puerto Rico. —A. P. Wirephoto. Loss Placed at 250 In U-Boat Sinking Of Lady Hawkins Only One Boatload Of 71 Survivors Accounted For By the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan. |29.—An Axis submarine ap- | peared today to have inflicted the heaviest loss of life in enemy | forays off United States waters, !with 250 persons, including Americans, dead or missing in the torpedo sinking of the Cana- | dian liner Lady Hawkins. Only one boatload of 71 survivors has been accounted for from the ship | which sank January 19 so suddenly that_even an urgent call for help could not be sent. Seventeen survivors are Ameri- cans, 12 from St. Joseph, Mo. The others were from Canada, New- | foundland, the British Isles and the | British West Indies. Found last Friday by the New York-Puerto Rico steamer Coamo, they were landed here yesterday. | They went first to the hospital of the School of Tropical Medicine for examination, A The Red Cross provided clothing | and other necessities. Army and many of the 321 men, women and children aboard the 7,988-ton Lady Hawkins managed to reach boats. They quickly lost the other life- boats, whose fate still is unreported. Chief Officer Praised. Chief Officer Percy A. Kelly of | the rescued lifeboat, built to ac- commodate only 63. His handling | of the small craft and his courage who said they owed their lives to his seamanship. ‘The boat was propelled by a jury- So effective was Kelly's rationing system that 8 gallons of water re- mained on the boat when the Coamo took the survivors off. The 17 Americans were: Glenn Mooney, Carl Mooney, Charles Reed, Charles Nielsen, Leland Gann, Or- | land Peoples, James Coyle, William Pittan, Vincent K. Peoples, Willlam | Adams, Edward G. Brown and Wil- liam Ashlock, all of St. Joseph; Earl Withrow and Desmond Dawson, both of Savannah, Mo.; Thomas | Cooney, Belleville, Ill.; Frank Wil- liams, Mound City, Mo., and George | Gariglio of Los Angeles. Libya (Continued From First Page.) | came within the last 24 hours, ana carried the Axis assault force to Regima inland and just east of Ben- | gasi, the announcement disclosed. A communique said “the enemy's main forces in the Msus area”— that “unless the Government adopts | Navy units cared for the crew sur- | Some 70 miles southeast of Bengasi— an alert attitude there will occur on the West Coast a tragedy that will make Pearl Harbor sink into insig- nificance.” | Mr. Dies announced that within & | gpoard the ship and all but one| 880. week or twe he would make public “a full and complete report” on JAD- | They had beeh given emergency | clothing -by the crew and paslen-f anese espionage and sabotage in this country showing “the true attitude of official Washington toward the whole fifth column question.” Basis for “Offense” Asked. “If the Communist Party is sin- cere in jts formal declaration that there is. no connection between it | prayers and hymns led by one of the | ! Upion or any | missionaries aboard, Mrs. Marian Mel's armored forces were close to and the Soviet | vivors and British Army and Navy | men on the boat. | Given Emergency Clothing. Most of those rescued had rested | were able to disembark without help. gers of the Coamo. Before their rescue they subsisted | on slim daily rations of one sea bis- | cuit, two tablespoons of evaporated milk and four ounces of water per person. Their morale was buoyed by had changed the direction of their | thrust, which had been headed east | until virtually halted by the batter- ing'of the British air force two days 'y Vehicles Destroyed. In the latest phase of the battle, the communique said, the R. A. F. Zground forces with “Intensive at- | tacks on enemy columns, during | which they destroyed a number of 4 vehicles and damaged many others.” The British admitted Gen. Rom- | agency of the Sovief Unfon, why | Parkinson, whose husband appar-| Bengasi on the south and east. should the Soviet Unior be offended” | by the amendments? he asked. ently went down with the ship. Originally there were 76 in the life- | “Enemy columns, including tanks, | made contact with' our advanced | “Have we come to the time when | boat, but five times Mrs. Parkinson | troops to the south of Bengasi, while | we dare not legislate on matters conducted funeral services for per-|at the same time a strong enemy concerning a domestic erganization | sons who died before the Coamo force succeeded in reaching Regima, because of the fear‘of displeasing some foreign dictator?” he demand- | ed. “Does any one think for a mo- ment that Stalin would tolerate on Russian soil an American organiza- tion to promote the principles of | Americanism?” The administration of the law was | transferred to the Justice Depart-| ment to consolidate enforcement of | alien registration. Medal (Continued From First Page.) | | a Japanese officer and two Japanese | enlisted men dead beside him. He| had been wounded three times be- fore he died. The medal will be presented to| Lt. Nininger's father, Alexander R. Nininger, sr, of Fort Lauderdnle.l Fla Lt. Nininger was born in Georgia on October 30, 1918, and was ap- pointed to the Military Academy | from Florida. On his graduation | last June he was appointed a second | lieutenant of infantry and served a | short time at Fort Benning, Ga., then was assigned to duty in the Philip-| pines. ¢ Exposed to Heavy Enemy Fire. The citation accompanying the‘ award read: | “This officer, though assigned to | another company not then engaged | in combat, voluntarily attached himself to Company K, same regi- ment (57th Infantry, Philippine | Scouts), while that unit was being attacked by enemy forces superior | in fire and power. Enemy snipers in trees and fox holes had stopped counterattacks to regain part of position. { “In hand-to-hand fighting which | followed Lt. Nininger repeatedly forced his way to and into the hos- tile positions. Though exposed to | heavy enemy. fire, he continued to | attack with rifle and hand grenades | and succeeded in destroying several enemy groups in fox holes and en- emy snipers. “Though wounded three times, he continued his attacks until he was killed after pushing alone far within the enemy positions. body was found after recapture of | the position one enemy officer and two enemy soldiers lay dead around (The official Army biographical records listed Lt. Nininger's birthplace as Atlanta, though to- day’s communique said Gaines- ville, Ga.) ‘The Congressional Medal of Honor is the oldest and highest decoration conferred by the United States. Es- tablished by act of Congress in 1862, only 1,723 of the medals had been issued prior to the First World War, [ and during that war, with more than 4,000,000 in the Army, only 95 ‘won this award. The congressional act suthorized the President to be- When his | * appeared. David Schoonover of 8t. Joseph succumbed to exhaustion just five hours before the rescue. The survivors did not say how Communiques MacArthur's Artillery Smashes Jap Assaults The text of War Department com- munique No. 81, outlining the mili- tary situation as of 9:30 a.m. today, follows : Philippine theater: Headlong enemy infantry as- saults on the right and left flanks of our troops in the Batan Pan- insula were broken up by our artillery fire, Enemy losses were heavy. Activity of hostile aircraft was limited to reconnaissance flights. 2. Netherlands Indies: 2 A third attack by heavy Amer- ican bombers on Japanese ship- ping in Macassar Straits résulted in destruction of an enemy transport in Balik Papan harbor. Another transport was set on fire. Two enemy fighting planes were shot down and a third dam- aged. Five of our bombers par- ticipated in the attack and all returned safely to their base. some 16 miles due east of Bengasi,” | it said. | “In the Msus area patrol activity | | by both sides continued and minor actions took place.” Gain of 50 to 60 Miles. i Military commentators said that | {if Gen. Rommel's advance forces | could hold their new positions the | British garrison at Bengasi would | | be in danger of having its communi. | cations cut off. Bengasi, these | | sources said, is the site of the best | British advance air base in Cirenaica, | Gen. Rommel's advance in the new | | direction apparently was a gain of | between 50 and 60 miles from Msus. | It seemed obvious that Solluch, mid- way between Msus and Bengasi, must be in Axis hands. Nazis Report Successful Air Attadks on Enemy BERLIN .(From German Broad- casts), Jan. 29 (#)—British mo- torized columns, troop concentra- tions and fuel dumps on a 50-mile stretch of the North African coast between Bengasi, Libya, and Mat- ruh, Egypt, were declared by the high command today to have been successfully raided by Axis air forces. The line of home defense is the | line at the window marked “United There was nothing to report from other areas. States Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps.” Weather Report (Purnished by the United District of Columbia—Quite cold tonight, lowest temperature 15 to 20 degrees, diminishing winds. Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia—Somewhat colder tonight. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Yesterdas— 4pm, fpm. . Midnight "0d! for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) | Highest. 39, at 7 p.m. yesterday. Year 20, 37 Lowest, 26, at 8 am. today. Year ago, 24. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest. 65, on January 18. Lowest, 6, on January 11. Humidity for Last 24 Hoeurs. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 87 per cent. at 1:30 p.m. yes- | terday | Lowest, 51 per cent, at 7:30 a.m. today. | Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. am. ‘Tomorrow. 4 am, | Rl 7:1 3tipm. Bets. 12 1 Hison, | at Harpers Perry; Potomac Btates Weather Bureau.) River Report Polomac and Shensndoah Ri ea s clear at Great Falls today. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month, 1942, Ayerage. Record, January _ 1.90 783 37 February 6.84 arch _ R84 Aoril 9.13 Ma: 10.68 u 10.94 July 10.63 August~"C 1441 ptember 1745 tober (X531 November 869 December 758 Weather in Various Cities. Tempera- Precipi- ture. tion. Highest. Lowest. %4 24 hrs. 12 hrs. hrs., 1 Albuquerque, N, Mex__ 56 32 Atlanta, Ga. ' 49 40 Boston. Mass. 3R 34 Buffalo, N. Y. 29 17 Chieago, Til, * 3 3 Benver oot - 0T 80 34 nver, Colo. 0 Detroit. Midh. O ort Worth. Te: 0 - 38 ansas City. 48 28 uisville, Ky. 38 S: Miami, Mi of b, 5t be turned on ene- stow the medal when he wishes, Automobile lights half hour after sunset. Wadhineton, f—— STAR, | Halifax, Nova Scotia, commanded | drew high praise from his rellowsvi rigged sail and a few oars. | “ontinued effective support of British | Peru-Ecuador Accord Is Reached af Rio; Conference Ends Two-Week Sessions Are Adjourned; Delegates Sign 41 Resolutions By the Associated Press. ‘Western Hemisphere solidarity was affirmed unanimously and Peru and Ecuador agreed to settle their 111- year-old boundary dispute in a tri- umphant windup of the Pan-Amer- jcan Conference here early today. The conclusion came in post-con- ference mediation of the Peruvian- Ecuadorean differences several hours after foreign ministers of the 21 American republics had formally ad- journed their two-week sessions. Major fruits of the conference were contained in 41 resolutions— inscribed in English, French, Span- ish and Portuguese—:scommending severance of relations with the Axis, setting up joint military, economic and financial boards and otherwise covering virtually the entire field of Pan-American relations. Ecuador was signed up as the 21st to indorse them. Her delegation had insisted on settlement of the boundary dispute as a prerequisite. Accomplished at Meetings. This was accomplished at a gath- ering of Foreign Minister Jullo | Tobar Donoso of Ecuador, Foreign | Minister Dr. Alfredo Solf Muro of | Peru and mediating representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the United States. Tobar Donoso, although describ- | ing the border proposals as “an im- | mense sacrifice for Ecuador,” finally signed a bound and beribboned pact with Peru at 1:55 am. (11:55 p.m. | E. 8. T.) Wednesday. Dr. Solf Muro sald he was sat-| isfied with the agreement—"the| proof is T have just signed i o Both nations yielded some claims in the area of roughly 135,000 square miles of mountainous jungle land | with stretches for 300 miles north of the Upper Amazon, agreeing more or less on the status quo of 1936. | Peru is to move her troops from | regions occupied stnce July 5, 1941, a spokesman said. Officers of the mediating nations RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 29—|. | will supervise the withdrawal of the | | Peruvian troops. Eduardo Salazar Gomez of the | reaches of thr; Zi Putumayo. It was stipulated that the agre ment was guaranteed by the media- | rectifications as may be agreed on | in the future. | pan when the conference adjourned. | | Banking and financial experts of | the republics are to meet in Wash- | ington soon to set, up uniform pm-t cedure for coptrol of the funds of | Axis nationals and firms and decide on methods to establish a hemi- | sphere currency stabilization fund. | Military and naval officers of the republics are to form an inter- | American Defense Board which will | work in collaboration with the | United States general staff. Commercial Equilibrium. Economic Committee members were delegated to seek means | maintaining commercial equflibriam of the hemisphere when pelce" comes. “Economic mobilization” of basic defense materials was ordered. Another resolution in effect would pool the hemisphere’s cargo vessels to maintain sea commerce. Provision was made for the estab- | lishment of a seven-member com-f mittee to co-ordinate and co-relate | joint efforts of the republics to con- | trol subversive activities. Sumner Welles, United States Un- dersecretary of State and chief of the delegation from Washington, planned to pay a farewell call on President Vargas of Brazil today | at his summer home in Petropolis. ‘Then Mr. Welles will start a 36- hour flight to Miami on a cltpper1 plane. Accomplishments at Rio Praised by Roosevelt By the Associated Press. . President Roosevelt heartily praised the accomplishments of the Rio de Janeiro Conference in a mes- sage to President Vargas of Brazil last night. The State Department made pub- lic the following text of Mr. Roose- velt's letter to President Vargas: “The announcement that Brazil has severed relations with Germany, Japan and Italy has just reached me. It assures me once more of the support of your great country at a time of bitter struggle against forces whose actions and policies have been | unanimously condemned by the 21 American republics. “The achievements of the past ten days have indeed fully and brilliantly borne out the prophetic remarks con- tained in your welcome telegram of January 13 advising me of the in- auguration of the third consultative meeting of Ministers of Foreign Af- fairs of the American republics at Rio de Janeiro. “I know, as to the people of the entire continent, the great debt of gratitude which we all owe to your clear-sighted leadership. continental solidarity. as defined by you in your | address of greeting to the Foreign Ministers, has been greatly strength- ened. The American republics have won a magnificent triumph over those who have endeavored to sow disunity among them and to prevent them from taking action essential for the preservation of their liberties. That triumph has been sealed by the prompt and forthright decision of your government and of the other American governments which have reached similar decisions. “Your personal friendship in these critical times is a source of constant inspiration to me. The determina- tion and vision with which you are meeting the emergency which con- fronts free peoples everywhere have greatly heartened the people of the United States.” Charles E. Merrill Dies NEW YORK, Jan, 29 (). —Charles Edmund Merrill, jr., 65, president of the Charles E. Merrill Co., educa- tional publithers, died yesterday WOBTIM F - i - s PILING UP PAPER FOR DEFENSE.—Stacking up the paper brought into C entral High School by students as part of the paper conservation program are Mrs. Samuel 8. Segal, chairman of the campaign at that school and P.-T. A. member; Jack Sherfy, 17, commandant of the corridor patrol, and Patsy Neuland, 16. Schools Give 317,654 Pounds |Draft Appeal Board To Paper Salvage Drive 50 Tons a Week Foreseen as Move Hit Full Stride Moving well beyond the 300,000- | pound = mark, Washington school | children on Tuesday had amassed ‘Ecuadorian delegation said the set- | a total of 317,654 pounds of salvaged | tiement gives his country about paper, cardboard and magazines in | of the accepted frontier from upper even that figure probably is much arumilla River to | below what may be expected as more the confluence of the Guepi and and more children get into the Phelps swing of the drive. Pive of the schools dropped for Maury failure to coilect a minimum of | Lovejoy tor countries, subject to such minor | 200 pounds have been restored to R :{,fi;fi | Benning the list for collection. that there might be no doubt their intentions, one turned in 1,578 - | pounds: the second. 754; the third, | tions with Germany, Italy and Ja- | 595; the fourth, 418, and the fifth, | ' For some reason the high schools 343. In all five cases, apparently, the Paper Collection for Tomorrow The jollowing is the schedule for the collection of newspapers, cardboard and magazines in The Evening Star-P.-T. A. Salvage for Victory campaign in district No. 5, together with the five leaders and —_— 30,000 square miles of the disputed | The Evening Star-P.-T. A. Salvage | their poundage to date: | territory. |for Vittory campaign. Prom all| g, 31 | 1l gman . | " Rivers and Ravines Named. | Indications, in a week or two the | giiot Junor - 2557 Nineteen rivers and two ravines paper Will be turned in at better genjiworth . 2539 were named in charting the course |than 100000 pounds a week and| g w_webb . 2419 2387 { Smothers ___ Logan Pierce Stuart Junior Carberry Ludlow | Edmonds Peabody Madison Seaton Douglas-Simmons Hayes —S8tar Staff Photo. Grants 7 Deferments, Refuses 21 Others F. B. I. Employe, Member Of D. C. Police Force Given 2-A Rating ‘The District Board of Draft Ap- | peals announced today that defer- | ments were granted in seven cases | and turned down in 21 others at its last meeting. Registrants whose classification ‘was changed from 1-A to 3-A on ae- count of dependency were Sebastian V. Pani, 25, Commerce Department Thanet (C‘omd‘n B. 8. Davies, R‘Nb clerk, and Frank T. Wright, 21, | laborer. a8 a class have not._been as activef in the campaign &s the junior high i pupils had not realized just how schools and the grade schools. Only | vital a part salvaged paper plays Roosevelt, which has consistently (5 two Class 1-A Tegistrants, John | n national defense nor how simple | been near the top for the entire | | & matter it is for a school to pile city; Central, which has had two up a big record of collections if there is general participation. is a common sight in most neigh- good collections in the last two 1t | weeks, and Coolidge, which after an indifferent start turned in more borhoods to see scores of children than three-quarters of a ton last 0! going toward school carrying | 12 pounds of newspapers and maga- | zines to add to the growing total. to bring about 100 per cent co- girls |operation, even if each student for |brings only a Sunday paper or two of | the weight of an individual family’s | or three papers each week. A thou- weekly collection of newspapers can sand or more individuals can run; 714 is a program in which can participate as well as boys, hardly be too heavy a burden. 10 or Week, have been active. Many of the schools are seeking | up a big total in this manner. Edwin B. De Graw Dies; Commission Chief Clerk * Edwin Boileau De Graw, 65, chief clerk in the accounting office of the Panama Canal Commission, died ‘yuterdly at Homeopathic Hospital after an illness of several weeks. | Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sat- urday at his home, 210 Maryland avenue NE, with private burial rites in Rock Creek Cemetery. During his 37-year service at the commission office, Mr. De Graw was active also in civic work with the | Society of Natives and the Stanton | | Park Citizens’ Association. A for- !mer secretary of the Gridiron Club, | he was & member of the National | | Press Club and active in the First | Baptist Church. Mr. De Graw is survived by his mother, Mrs. Emma L. De Graw, with whom he lived. Mrs. De Graw was & worker with Clara Barton in the early days of the Red Cross. | His father, the late Peter De Graw, was Assistant Postmaster General HE pRE> FEZATURING WARDMAN PAR 2 P (‘**[ [¥s under President Theodore Roose- velt and President Taft. Honorary pallbearers include | Rear Admiral Ben Moreel, U. S. N.; | Bernard P. Burdick, Edward D.| | Anderson, James C. Hughes, Frank Govern, Charles H. Moran, Robert L. Dalgleish, Jay G. Hayden, J. Harry Cunningham and James L./ Wright. || Conservation of Paper Every citizen is called upon | | to see that not a pound of paper is wasted. Demand from every | | clerk that any unnecessary wrapping of packages or un- necessary use of paper bags be dispensed with. ‘Waste paper for paperboard is vital to the packaging of a great quantity of war equip- ment. Do not burn newspapers, but, when you have saved enough for a bundle, give them to the school children who are co- operating in the defense pro- gram with the parent-teacher organization in The Star’s campaign for reclaiming old newspapers. TS BIRTHDAY Byy, DINNER DANc, FRIDAY J“””Ai; g 3, 330 9008 & B WIS HE] H N (1] #1cTuRe sans apPEARN 74 uo M %55 peR pERSON ! /MA N pARKN!:.ow,AmH" NCL oT C¢Tave cwoopiey RO- PHO Classifications of 2-A—strategic employment — were granted the metropolitan police force. Temporary Deferments Given. A change from 1-A to 1-B_was voted - for' Bugene 'F. Lane, 22. of Georgetown University, while 60 day temporary deferments were granted Francis Sexton, 28, agent for the State Department, and Kenneth Albert Browning, 24, electrician. Cases of three appellants were re- tained for further information. They are George G. McKinney, 22, file clerk, Burfau of Internal Revenue; | Oren T. Eason, 24, Department of | j; Labor, and Mourice Lucchesi, 23,'stroyers and Japanese and Brifish Each Lose Destroyer In Fight Off Malaya Nipponese Ship Dmge‘g As Two English Warships Tackle 4 Enemy Vessels BY the Azsociated Press. ' LONDON, Jan. 29—A naval battle in which two British de-» stroyers spurned the odds and' tackled a Japanese cruiser and. three destroyers, sinking one de- ¥ stroyer and damaging a second « at the cost of one, was announced ; by the Admiralty today. . | _The British lost the 906-ton ] ‘Thanet, a vessel completed at the - end of the Pirst World War, in the ¢ action which took place last Mon- § day night off Endau, east coast port of Malaya 35 miles above Singapore. * Her comrade in the fight, the ' 1,090-ton Vampire of the Australian « Navy, escaped without damage or ¢ casualties. (The Vampire was one of the Australian destroyer flotilla which saw successful action in the Mediterranean in 1940 and which constituted part of the British fleet's “ferry service” to Tobruk during the Axis siege of that African stronghold.) Outnumbered Two te Ome. The Thanet normally had a com- ' plement of 98 officers and men, but | how many escaped was not known, ! the Admiralty stating it was hoped | | many reached shore. Names of the ! | Japanese vessels in the engagement | were not given. ! Although the British warships | were outnumbered two to one, the @ Admiraity said they engaged the : Japanese as soon as they intercepted them and the Japanese retired. A ' running fight ensued. It was in the Endau area that British fiyers Monday attacked a. Japanese convoy, scoring hits on a 3 cruiser and troop transports, but 2 failing to keep the Japanese from % making some landings. Presumably | the British destroyers were follow= ing up that attack by night (Japanese imperial headquar- | ters in Tokio in its version of the | battle said the Thanet and Vam- pire were attempting to impede Japanese landing operations. ‘The Japanese version said the Thanet was sunk, but claimed e to | coast of the Malayan Peninsula. Thomas B. Reilly, 24, employed in the F. B. I. Fingerprint Division, and the enemy, George L. Patterson. 26, member of running fight ensued. | only two Japanese destrovers | were involved and that neither | was damaged.) | Text of Communique. An Admiralty communique said: “Information has been received: that on the night of Monday, Jan- uary 26, two of our destroyers, H. M. A. S. Vampire of the Royal | Australian Navy (Comdr. W. T. A. Moran, MEETTH Mrvamet = 1 7000 @ e 0o v € intercepted a Japanese force con- sisting of one cruiser and three de- stroyers off Endau, on the east WTLENTIAS “Our destroyers at once engaged who retired, and a% @ “One Japanese destroyer was sunk 3 and a second damaged. “The board of the Admiralty re- | grets to announce that H. M. 8. "nmnet was sunk during the en- gagement. “H. M. A. 8: Vampire suffered no damage or casualties. “It is boped that many of the | sip’s company of H. M. 8. Thanet will have reached shore. <“The next of kin will be informed s soon as possible.” Japanese unfi'erlin’liheadqumers in ts version said the two British de- i z PETTITIRET e £ £ two Japanese de-< employed in his mother's delicates- | strovers were engaged in the battle, 3 sen store. fication. Dependency Claims Rejected. Appellants whose petitions for re- | classification on ground of depend- | .| Charles G. Daily, 25, mechanical en- John M. Perry, 23, 7 .| and Long D. Chambliss, 26, clerk, 25, laborer, Navy Yard; Paul Martin | British Purchasing Commission Astalos, 27, file clerk and student at Benjamin Franklin = University; | Joseph Edward Boneta, 24, machin- | ification instead of 1-a. They ar ency were rejected are Albert Smith, 23, laborer; quartermaster clerk; Bernard Clark, They seek a 3-A classi- It claimed that neither of the Jap- anese destroyers was damaged. Y man, Potomac Electric Power Co.;" eer, Federal Power Commission,; The board also turned down thri | appellants who sought a 2-a class: ist helper, War Department; Russell | Enrico A. Seeno, 21. student, Georges: . E. Stone, 28, proofreader, Depart-| Washington University; David} ment of Interior; Maurice Palmi- | Taylor Stanley, 25, personnel worker,» sano. 26. clerk, Western Electric Co.: | Department of Agriculture, and Joe Boles, 28, delivervman; Stanley | Philip P. Profeta, 24, clerk, Navy¥ H. Rabinowitz, 26, clerk, War De- | Department. 25, clerk, O. E. M.; Orville Burge Fra- | zier, 27, laborer; Christopher Harris, 22, construction worker; William J. partment: George Seymore, Goodman, 22, War Department, clerk; Ereole M. Viana, 25, cable' tuition with rice. ONLY TWICE AS MUCH 267 for recuiar 504 size HINDS noney £ ALMOND CREAM. % PRICE ! THE MONEY ! LIMITED TIME— AT TOILET GOODS COUNTERS Chinese farm children who at- | tend the United Christian Middle:: | School at Hsienhsien. Kwangtung Province, are permitted to pay their aay by Ve s HINDS ror