Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1942, Page 5

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The exact sector and the time | covered by the operation were not | given. The Soviet Information Bureau in |its midnight and midday com- | muniques reported continued Red | Army advances which cost the | Germans heavily, as the Russian at total victory within the year. The sinking of a transport by | Russian naval units in the Barents | Sea was announced. Cavalry played an important part in the southwestern front advance, it was said. The 90 populated | points included four large district | centers. Fortified Zone Pierced. ‘The Russians said 16 additional | populated points were liberated yes- terday and that fighting is now un- der way for the populated point “N,” a railway junction in which | it was claimed 400 German dead lie. A German fortified zone of the | southwestern front was declared | by the Soviet Information Bureau | to have been pierced by a Red Army {unit in an attack which cost the invaders 370 officers and men, “We captured 6 trucks, 11 ma- |chine guns, 4 mortars and 26 | trucks and took prisoners,” the A war correspondent of Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, said Russian shock units of the | southern front had routed four Ger- man infantry regiments—the 228th, 229th, 389th and 13th—and battered the 16th motorized regiment and the 3d Hungarian Cavalry Regiment. These units have annihilated about 1,000 Fascist officers and men in the last five days, Izvestia re- | ported. Aerial Defeat for Nazis. Maj. Gen. Grendal of the Red| air corps. writing in the Army pub- | lication Red Star, said winter had | caught the German air force so| unprepared in Russia that the Nazis | had suffered their worst aerial de- | feat of the war. He said that in the last 20 days| the Germans could spare only! enough planes for concentrated op- erations in the Crimea, but added: | “It is not to be concluded. how- | ever, that the German air power is | broken.” | Gen. Grendal said the Red air | fleet had become increasingly active | while the Germans had dropped off from raids on Moscow by 100 to 150 planes in August to raids by only 20 or 30 in the first half of December. Blizzards Restrict Crimea BERLIN (From German Broad- | | casts). Jan. 29 /P.—Blizzards were | reported by the high command to- | day to have restricted fighting in the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FORT KNOX, KY.—NURSES WITH A. E. F. IN NORTHERN IRELAND—Making the perilous voyage to Northern Ireland with the A. E. F. were 24 nurses from Fort Knox. Seventeen of them, all second lieutenants, are shown just before leaving Knox. Left to right: erine Wellman, Deflance, Ohio Mary Armstrong, Beverly, Ohio; Kath- ; Margaret Broderick, Nashua, N. H.; Vera Eberly, Toledo; Janet Harrington, Lyndhurst, Ohio; RED CROSS GIFT TO ICELAND—These girls have landed in America’s North Atlantic outpost to From left to right in front row are Margaret Singer, Uniontown, Md.; Jane Goodell, New York; Helen Lee Stephenson, Washington, and Camelia Greetham, Arlington. Rear: [ Mary Dolliver, Fort Dodge, Towa; Betsy Lane Quinlan, Waynesville, N..C.; Doris Thain, Birming- ham, Ala.; Nancy Duncan, Washington, and Elizabeth Clark, Framingham Centre, Mass. Photo cheer our forces. was taken here before their d eparture. ] In Iceland for War Work Three girls from Washington and | nearby have arrived in Iceland for recreation and welfare duties with ‘The party will assist survivors of | ocean disasters arriving in Iceland, | conduct a recreation program for | hospitalized and convalescent serv-l ice men and do welfare work for Held for “Associafion’ With Japs Here THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1942. Agnes R. 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Full Indo-China Conirol | Threatened by Japs ‘; BY the Associated Press. | TOKIO (From Japanese Broad- casts), Jan. 20.—The Japan Times' and Advertiser intimated strongly today that Japan might eliminate the last vestiges of Prench control| in Indo-China unless activities hostile to Japan ceased. ‘ (The Japanese moved troops | Into Indo-Chins last year under ! guise of a treaty with the Vichy government for protection of the colony, ‘and built the air and troop bases for the Japanese sweep through Thailand and the attack on Malaya and Burma.) The Times shd Advertiser, con-| trolled by the Japanese foreign office, said force would be resorted to if Pree PFrench activity in Indo- China continued. It said that French Gov. Gen. 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In this way, minor defects are discovered and corrected before they cause expensive repair bills. | Crimea and on the southern sector | the American armed forces there, of the Russian mainland front. | the Red Cross was informed here “In the destruction of a group of | by cable yesterday. | enemy forces on the south coast of | Miss Helen Lee Stephenson, 28, soldiers and sailors. | Dr. George K. Strode of New York, | | associate director of the interna- e bitaminous. re $11.50; “Kidnev Trouble P .45, PA. HARD COALS et Anthracite—Stove, $13.70; Pea, $11.85; All coals thoroughlv re- screened and guaranteed. We Deliver ';-Ton Orders. DIAL NA. 5885 or Jackson 2000 ORDERS TAKEN DAY OR NIGHT B | troops maintained the initiative on 08 ALL NALES o ouk BUDGET PLAN \ 6th & N. Y. Avenue N.W. 3rd and H Streets N.E. “Serving the Washington Public for Over 37 Years” " Next to A Now Car l'; . Chernerized Car Is Best RNERIZED [CHE . ufo flepalr ' ‘Sm/lce.’ for any Make or Model Car we |} ris. Get your car checked often! wse only eriginal fact: We nave ‘complete f; properly service any . CHERNERIZING to longer life for y automobile. e p— J j ;':rd—-fllercnryu—-l.ineoln 1181 Florida Ave. 8ranch:"Conn. & Neb. Aves. Phone HObart 5000 ‘we're said to be operating success- | the Crimea, reported in yesterday's high command communique,” it wes said, “German and Rumanian troops‘ captured 840 prisoners, 12 guns and | 111 machine guns and mine throw- | ers.” { | German and Slovak troops were | | declared to have repulsed local Red | Army assaults and counterattacked | | successfully on the Donets Basin| | front. | Russian attacks on the central| front were described as futile, while | “in our attacks a number of places | were taken after violent fighting and a number of guns were cap-| | tured.” It was acknowledged that Soviet | | the northern front, with battles still | | in progress. However, German shock troops | | fully both southeast of Lake Ilmen, ‘100 miles below Leningrad, and in | the Lapland zone of the Far North. | | A number of Russian aircraft were | | set afire by German air force at- | tacks, the high command reported. | | - | Hikes Teach First Aid | NEW YORK (& —Manhattan Girl Scouts hike not only for health but to survey the borough these days. They're finding out how long | it takes to get an injured person | from specific areas to the nearest 1630 R street N.W.; Miss Nancy | Duncan, 24, 2909 Dumbarton avenue N.W., and Miss Camelia Greetham, 26, 404 North Nelson street, Arling- ton, were workers at National Red Cross headquarters when they jumped at a chance to go to Iceland with 13 others in a party headed by Charles McDonald of Bingham- ton, N. Y. z tional health division of the Rocke- 1 feller Foundation, accompanied the | group to survey public health prob- | lems | Miss Greetham is the daughter of Comdr. W. D. Greetham, head of the’ Ordnance School at the Navy Yard. She and the two other local girls were assigned to the unit as | secretaries. | Burma (Continued From First P | Rangoon area yesterday gave full| credit to the A. V. G. (American | “according to latest reports” seven | Japanese planes were destroyed. | Five more of the enemy probnbl_v} were destroyed and nine others were | known to have been damaged as | they streaked for home, their fragile | Japanese Army “97" planes com- pletely beaten by the faster and heavier Tomahawks, whose cockpits are sheathed with armorplate. Yesterday's air battle occurred shortly after 12:30 p.m. The Ameri-| cans took to the air jauntily and soon returned jauntier than ever. These | Americans, guarding Burma and the‘i Chinese supply route running through it, have yet to be beaten by | the Japanese, although they have never yet fought on terms of nu-| merical equality. | first aid station. which can be a hospital, a clinic or an emergency | | first aid setup. The American Tomahawks tore into the Japanese 97s with speed and ‘Hitler Declared | By the Associated Press St LONDON, Jan. 29 —The anti-Axis | German language newspaper Die reached by Adolf Hitler and certain | elements of the German high com- | mand is “equivalent to an admission | on the part of Hitler that he is| unable to carry on the eastern (Rus- | | sian) campaign without the aid of | experienced strategists.” circulated today by thé British Ministry of Information, declares that commands of the conservative generals, Von Bock, Von Rundstedt, confirmed and they are now in charge of new armies.” The price Hitler paid for the com- promise was mainly a promise to reduce the recently strong voice of Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief, in military affairs and send him back to the Reich from headquarters on the eastern front. | However, Die Zeitung declared, Himmler is still the strongest man {in Germany after Hitler and he | has afoot his own preparations for increasing the power of the Nazi | party and regime. One of these is |a big recruiting program for the SS. Hitler's elite guard. Himmler is expected to take over | the Interior Ministry when the pres- ent minister, Wilhelm Frick, reaches retirement age and form an unoffi- cial “Reich Civil War Ministry” to | ing command of German forces in | Joseph R. Haw! instill the “SS caste spirit” in the to Have Curbecij Himmler to Appease Generals { whole nation. Frick will be 85 on | March 12. Fedor von Bock. Karl Zeitung, published in London, will |Gerd von Rundstedt and Wilhelm | his ship 40 miles east of here. A/ say tomorrow that a compromise |Ritter von Leeb, each a field mar- | comrade named “Gil” who once | shal general, have figured in reports of a shakeup in the German com- mand. On Janv~ry 20 a Swiss press dis- patch f Berlin said Gen. von Bock h- :cceeded the late Field Marshal C.:n. Walter von Reichenau An extract from the newspaper, | as commander in the Ukraine. Gen ,von Reichenau had died—so Berlin | announced—of apoplexy. Gen. Von Rundstedt appears to | have shared with Gen. von Reich- ‘nrmles on the southern front and rumor once had it that he had asked to be relieved of his com- mand. However, Gen. von Rund- | stedt remained in such high stand- !ln( that he was chosen to represent the Fuehrer at Gen. von Reich- enau’s funeral. | Gen. von Leeb has been command- |ing the German forces in their | siege of Leningrad. He, too, has been reported asking to be relieved | of that command. | Of possible bearing on the line- | ups of commanders on the Russian front was a dispatch from Stockholm | which said that Gen. Nikolaus von | Falkenhorst, who since last June | had been in command of German- | Finnish forces on the far northern | front, had returned to Oslo, resum- Norway. fe | chine-gun firing mechanism. Pre- A | fury. and the latter soon were speed- “ ing toward their bases across the | Gulf of Martaban in full retreat. The | . casualties dropped one by one from the skies. “Sandy.” the Texan. peppered two | see. them dive in flames into the | sea. He reported getting another burst of gunfire into a third Jap| plane, but was uncertain of the re- sult. { He had barely landed at the air-| drome near Rangoon when one of the strangest incidents of the Jap- anese campaign occurred. With motor sputtering and propeller turn- ing weakly, a Japanese fighter came in a long dive directly at the run- | way where “Sandy’'s” plane stood. Was Dying In the Air. ‘The Japanese pilot, it was dis- covered afterward, had bullet| wounds in the chest, stomach and | head. He was dying In the air, but his fingers still pressed his ma- ceded by a stream of his own bul- lets, his ship crashed on the run-| way and rolled across a ditch where | andy” had taken cover. The| broken body of the Japanese pilot!| was flung like a rag doll from the wreckage. Within a week the Yank flyers have shot down at least 40 planes | with only two casualties. | In one running fight one of them named Hastey, from Northern | Rudolf | Georgia, was forced to bail out of | ! flew from the United States aircraft carrier Ranger in a scouting squad- ! | ron, circled Hastey's parachute un- ! | til the latter landed so that the enemy couldn’t shoot him as hap- | pen;d to another volunteer last week. Occupaticn of Merqui | | Reported by Saigon Radio ‘ LONDON, Jan. 29 (#.—The Jap-w’ Von Leeb and others, “have been |enau the command of the German | gnese-controlled Saigon radio said - | today the Japanese had occupied Mergui, on the west coast of the' Burma panhandle. The British an- | | nounced their withdrawal from Mer- gui' two days ago. | The Saigon radio also reported the | Japanese had sunk an Austr-lian} | ship in Netherlands Indies waters. w’ | | N | Veteran Book Dealer Dies | HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 28 (P)— | Leverett Belknap, 90, one of Hart-, ford's best known book dealers, who. knew such literary characters as! Mark Twain, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Charles Dudley Warner and ley, died last night in. West Hartford at the home of a son. - BY.the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 29.—Squadron Leader F. J. Rutland of the Royal Air Force, who returned from the United States last Oc- tober, is being detained for “al- leged hostile assoeiations” with the Japanese while in Washing- ton, an official spokesman an- nounced today. Detention of the veteran pilot in- olves “important military ques- tions,” he said. Rutland. was a flyer in the last war and while piloting what was Volunteer Group) in stating that | little enemy fighters and waited to | described as “a very hazardous con- traption” first spotted the German fleet off Jutland. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for that exploit. His detention first was disclosed a week ago today. The official spokesman said “very important security considerations are involved in this case and it is very undesirable the matter should be discussed further.” A check by the British Press Serv- ice here disclosed that Squadron | PAINT FOR EVERY PURPOSE MUTH 710 13 %% NW. | n Hetel Salaries Is Real Trouble” remarked a customer . . . “but it troubles me less and less’ as 1 drink more and more of the soothing mineral water’" Let us send a case (o you. Phone ME:. 1062, MOUNTAIN VALLEY MINERAL WATER From HOT SPRINGS, ARK. 901 12(h St. N.W. ME. 1063 SACRIFICE $13,950 Well Financed at 4Y2% Interest A 6-bedroom house — 3 baths. 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