Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1942, Page 2

Two Extra Pages In-This Edition Late news and sports are covered on Pages 1-X and 2-X of this edition of The Star, supplementing the news of the regular home delivered edition. Closina N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 18. ) 90th YEAR. No. 35,703, Japanese 18 Miles From Straits, Hitler Admif Driving Toward Singapore on Central and West Malay Line Roosevelt Marks 60th Birthday, Nipponese Planes Increase Activity Against British By the Associated Press. SINGAPORE, Jan. 30.—The British admitted a’ Japanese penetration to within 18 miles of the Strait of Johore today in a communique announcing con- tact with the enemy about Kulai. K The companion Japanese drive | down the west coast of the Malayan | Peninsula appeared to be keeping pace with the British acknowledg- ment that fighting had taken place | In the Pontian Besar area, roughly | 20 miles from the one-mile strait| separating Singapore Island and the mainland. (A militaty commentator in London said the Japanese in the western sector were 26 miles air- line fron. the causeway connect- ing the island and the peninsula.) (A Domei report from Malaya, broadcast from Tokio, also said Japanese troops had reached Kulai and were driving down a wide highway paralleling the railroad to Johore Bahru, across the strait of Johore from the island of Singapore with its great British naval base.) Planes Increasingly Active. British headquarters said lacon- {cally in a communique: “In the center there is contact with the enemy about Kulai, and heavy fighting took place yesterday in the Sedenak area.” Sedenak is 8 miles above Kulai. | (The Japanese claimed Sed- enak fell last night and their troops immediately swept down on Kulai.) In the thundering drive down the Malayan Peninsula, the Japa- nese air force became increasingly active both against British forward positions and communications and against Singapore. During air raids on Singapore Island this morning, headquarters said, defense planes destroyed one enemy fighter and severely damaged several other aircraft. During raids yesterday and last night, in which | it was acknowledged “some damage has been caused,” anti-tircraft guns shot down two invading planes, No Change in East. While the Japanese land forces | forged ahead in the central part of the Malayan Peninsula, head- quarters said there was ng change in the eastern sector of the front, where the invaders last had been reported 40 miles from the Strait of Johore. On the western flank it was re- ported that 1,000 British troops who had been cut off in the Batu Pahat area, 60 miles above Singa- pore, now had rejoined the main defense bodies. Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival, general officer commanding in Malaya and administrator of martial law in Singapore, imposed the curfew, ef- fective at 9 o'clock tonight, as the latest precautionary step by which | the island was preparing for any | eventuality. Driving Down Highway To Singapore, Japs Claim LONDON, Jan. 30 (#).—Reuters today quoted a Domei, Japanese news agency, dispatch broadcast from Tokio saying Japanese troops had reached Kulai, only 18 miles north of Singapore island in the Central Malayan sector, and were driving down a wide highway which parallels the railroad to Johore Bahru. “Meanwhile,” Domei continued, “another Japanese column proceed- ing down Central Malaya after oc- cupying Kluang (50 miles above‘ Bingapore) suddenly maneuvered | toward the eastern coast and caught | in a pincers movement and com- | pletely routed Australian forces at a point north of Jema Luang (55 miles north of Singapore).” | Position Is More Grave In Malaya, B. B. C. Says NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (#).—The British Broadcasting Corp. in a broadcast on the situation in| Malaya, heard todav by National Broadcasting Co., said “the position is more grave” with the whole weight of six Japanese divisions declared pressing the British south. Enemy Planes Draw Fire Over Northeast Ulster B- the Associated Press. A NORTHERN IRELAND TOWN, | Jan. 30.—Anti-aircraft defense bat- teries opened fire today when enemy planes appeared over Northeastern Ulster. Only Two Days Left For Purchasing Auto Tax Stamps Only two days remain in which to buy a Federal use tax stamp for vehicles, the Bureau of Internal Revenue reminds auto owners. To accommodate late pur- chasers, all postal stations in the Washington postal district will remain open until 9 p.m. tomorrow, V. C. Burke, post- master here, announced today. He said stamps will be on sale for $2.09 at the main post of- fice and the Benjamin Frank- lin Station throughout tomor- row night and Sunday. The law requires a stamp to be affixed to all automobiles, trucks or motorcycles using public highways on February 1. Buy one now and avoid a pen- alty, the bureau counsels. | Pacific war by the Netherlands | Aneta. | most impossible task, since the island Facing Career's Hardest Fight War Tasks Fill Anniversary’s Schedule; Gen. MacArthur Sends Greeting Gen. MacArthur halted his fight for life in the Philippines long enough today to send this message to President Roosevelt: “Today, January 30, the anniversary of your birth, smoke- begrimed men covered with the marks of battle rise from the foxholes of Batan and the batteries of Corregidor to pray rev- erently that God may bless immeasureably the President of the United States. “DOUGLAS MacARTHUR, Gen, U. 8. A, “Batan Peninsula, P. I.” By JOHN C. HENRY. President Roosevelt completed 60 years of a crowded and his- tory-making lifetime today, a milestone which found him looking forward to even greater deeds and service on behalf of the freedom- | < loving people of the world. Dutch Mainfaining Ship-a-Day Record On 54th Day of War Indies Forces Reported Battling Invaders at 4 Points in Islands By the Associated Pross. BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies, Jan. 30.— Fifty-four Japanese ships have been sunk or heavily | damaged in the 54 days of the| Indies Navy and Air Force, it was announced today as Dutch Regular Army units and guer- rilla detachments battled the invaders in four widely-separat- ed parts of the islands. The staggering total of losses in- flicted on Japanese shipping by the Dutch alone was announced in an authoritative summary made avail- able to the official news agency This one-a-day Dutch average of course does not include the losses inflicted on the Japanese by Ameri- can, British and Australian action | which were considerable in them- selves. The Dutch list of sunk or dam- | aged Japanese ships follows:. One | battleship, 10 cruisers, 25 trans- | ports, four of these being -troop | ships, and a fifth a passenger liner used as a transport; seven destroy- ers, one seaplane tender, three tank- ers, one lighter, one cargo ship, five other vessels. Informed sources said the Jap- anese could not stand such losses in the long run, but they.apparently were willing to accept even greater casualties in their effort to con- solidate strategic positions in the Indies and knock out Singapore be- fore substantial Allied reinforce- ments arrive. Fight in and Near Balik Papan. The high command communique, | released through Aneta, told of con- | tinued fighting both in and near | Balik Papan, Borneo east coast oil | center, whose vast oil stores and in- stallations were destroyed before the Japanese landed there. “Fighting continues not only near Balik Papan, but in the town itself,” said the communique. Bands of Indies guerrilla campaigners were said to be harrying the Japanese forces which occupied the Minahassa Peninsula, northeastern arm of Celebes. Unofficial word was received that the Dutch defenders were putting up a bitter struggle against the sea- borne and overland Japarese drive on Pontianak, chief port on the west coast ot Borneo with a nor- mal population of 50,000. Fighting also was assumed to be continuing in the Kendari region in Southeast- | ern Celebes. Japanese planes shot down a pas- senger plane of the Royal Nether- lands Indies airline today, killing two possengers and three members of the crew, the news agency Aneta announced. Japanese Flyers Active Again. Today’s communique reported further intensive Japanese aerial reconnaissance over the islands. “Here and there bombs were dropped which caused slight damage to ma- terial but no persons were killed,” said the high command. There was no new word concern- ing the Japanese invasion armada in Macassar Strait, which at last re- port was said to be continuing its | thrust toward Java, nerve center of the Indies and seat of the United | Nations’ supreme command in the | Southwest Pacific. Effective defense of Borneo, it was generally conceded, was an al- is as large as England and Wales together and is little more than one defense jungle. However, it was felt the defense forces at least would be able to delay the Japanese advance effectively. Americans With Allies May Join U. S. Forces By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 30.—The United States Embassy announced today that arrangements were being made to allow Americans in Allied forces to transfer to United States armed services. “Service departments of the United States Government and of other in- terested governments,” an Embassy statement said, “are now collaborat- ing to the end that those Americans now serving with Allied forces who wish to do so may transfer, under certain conditions, to the armed forces of the United States.” Each great crisis of civilization brings to the forefront heroes and leaders—men who possessed the spark to fire the spirit and mobi- lize the will power 6f those who are to survive. From the immediate background of a personal crisis, Franklin D. Roosevelt has propelled himself in the last score of years not only to leadership of an America united as never before in its lusty history, but to a stature of eminence sym- bolic of all the deep-seated hopes of every race of people now resisting wartime aggression. For this responsibility he is armed | (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-2.) Japs Rush Fresh Army To Batan for New Attack on MacArthur Large-Scale Offensive Expected to Follow Lull in Fighting By NELSON M. SHEPARD. | | War May Not End This Year U-Boats Now Free for U. S. Shipping Raids, Fuehrer Asserts BY the Associated Press. BERLIN (From German Broad- casts), Jan, 30.—Adolf Hitler in the first speech since his decla- ration of war against the United States told his people today that “I do not know whether th® war will end this year,” but said “we are armed against everything from the north to the south.” He ,also declared that “America’s war with Japan made us free to act” and “now we shall see what our U- boats may achieve.” Hitler declared that on the Eastern front the armies of the Reich were on the defensive against the weather —not the Russians, and claimed that the front there had finally been sta- bilized. He said of the Russian war thus far that “in the East we fought a struggle which one day will be the glory of our nation.” Cheers greeted his statement that in North Africa Field Marshal Gen. Erwin Rommel “turned around the moment that our enemies thought he was beaten and drove the British before him.” “The most difficult part is be- hind us,” he asserted. Predicts Successes in Russia. He declared that winter had been the great hope of Germany’s enemies in the East, but that this hope never would be fulfilled. “The winter will break in the South and the ice will melt,” he said, “and the hour will come when the ground will be hard and firm again —and when our armies will storm ahead again.” Then, he said, would come the re- venge of “those who have now be- come the victims of frost.” Although he said he did not know whether the war would end in 1942, Hitler declared he was confident, however, that “where we meet the enemy we will beat him.” At one juncture he shouted: “We shall see who wins this war— those who have nothing to lose and everything to gain or those who have everything to lose and nothing to gain?” Increase in Submarines. He told his audience of Axis rep- A War Department communi- | resentatives, party leaders and sol- que today reported the arrival of i fresh Japanese troops at the|Germany’s number of submarines|yp g constant flow of replacements. P il | had been increased greatly and that | 5 s [ front on the Batan Peninsula,| and movements behind the line indicating extensive prepara- | diers—many of them wounded—that their activities would make them- | selves felt as a factor in the war. He concluded his 1 hour 53-minute tions for an early large-scale speech with an appeal to the Ger- offensive against Gen. Douglas| man nation to produce arms and | MacArthur’s forces. During light fighting in the last 24 hours, following recent frontal assaults, Gen. MacArthur found time to send President Roosevelt a con- gratulatory radio message on the occasion of his birthday. Today’s communique reported practically no enemy air activity on the Batan front. During the lull in the fighting the Japanese were taking time to bring up reinforce- ments in view of the artillery su- periority which the American forces have been maintaining during the last 48 hours. No Reports From Flyers. No reports from Army bombers operating with the Dutch in the Netherland Indles were received at the department today. The communique said: “1. Philippine theater: “Fighting on the Batan Peninsula was light during the past 24 hours. There was practically no enemy air activity. The arrival of fresh Jaj anese troops at the front and move- ments behind the line indicate prep- arations by the enemy for the re- sumption of a large-scale offensive. sumption of a .Jarge-scale offen- siye s =s “2. There is nothing to report | from other areas.” Quezon Pledges “Fight to Victory.” A communique issued by the War | Department late yesterday gave no new details of fighting but con- tained a message from Philippine President Quezon pledging his peo- ple to “continue fighting side by side | with the United States until victory is won.” Mr. Quezon pointed out that the Japanese had thus far occupied only about one-third of the area of the Philippines and said his government still maintained constitutional rule over the remaining two-thirds. Treaty Signed at Teheran MOSCOW, Jan. 30 (#)—Tass, Soviet news agency, reported from Teheran today that a treaty of alli- ance among Great Britain, the Soviet Union and Iran was signed in the Iranian capital yesterday. munitions ' for the battlefront to | insure that “this will be another year of great victories.” Same Old Foes, He Says. Hitler assailed President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill and declared that, excepting his Axis partners, Germany is fighting a new World War against her same old foes. Most of the address was a reitera- tion of Hitler’s long standing ar,u- ments that Germany was perse- cuted. Denounces Wilson. He said that even in the last war Mr. Churchill was among the Eng- lish “warmongers” and that Presi- dent Roosevelt was the right hand of Woodrow Wilson, whom he de- scribed as “the man who caused the greatest harm to the German people.” Hitler's speech celebrated the ninth anniversary of his elevation as Reichschancellor. Addressing party members, soldiers and representatives of otHer Axis powers in the Sportspalast he de- clared: “All of us who can remember the last war will still remember that Mr. Churchill was already then one of (See HITLER, Page A-5.) 616 Children Reported lcebound Off Finland BY the Associated Press. BERLIN (From German Broad- casts), Jan. 30—The 1386-ton Swedish steamer Heimdall, with 616 children aboard, is ice-bound in the Northern Baltic off Abo, Finland, it was reported today from Stock- holm. The ship’s food supply was said to be running out and it was planned to send food and water by plane. The vessel was on her way from Abo to Sweden. A dispatch from Oslo said the small Norwegian ship Vaaland, operating in the northern coastwise service, had been lost as a result of “enemy action.” One man of the crew of four was lost. Summary of -Today's Star Page. | Obituary ...A-12 AmusementsC-10 mi Articles___A-11 Finance ___ A-18| Where to Go -B-5 LegalNotices, C-7 | Woman's Lost& Found, A-3 Foreign. New wave of U-boat attacks in At- lantic expected. Page A-1 Churghill and King send Roosevelt birthday messages. Page A-2 The Netherlands Foreign Minister here to seek war aid. Page A-2 43 sinkings off U. S. and Canada claimed by Nazis. Page A-4 Decision in Mexico may bring re- opening of oil case. Page A-6 National. Six billion added to record naval ap- propriations bill. Page A-1 Primary dates. set; Illinois voting, April 14, is first. Page A-3 Priorities violations by steel com- panies reported. Page A-12 ca Bakers and laundrymen to curtail delivery service. Page A-2 Tire stocks and records to be in- spected by Henderson. Page A-§ Unity of military command is urged by Chairman Vinson. Page A-12 15 per cent pay roll tax considered to boost U. S. revenues. Page A-5 New A. E. F. ready “to get this thing over quickly.” Page A-13 101,500 killed in accidents in U. 8. last year. Page A-16 Auto industry ends civilian produc- tion tomorrow. Page A-18 U. S. expels enemy aliens from vital areas. Page B-14 Washington and Vicinity. 10 p.m. curfew for Federal woman workers proposed. Page A-1 President takes 60th birthday, like crises, in his stride. Page A-1 Taxi pickup service starts Febru- ary 9. Page B-1 Miscellany. 2 g Page B-§ Page B-18 Page B-16 “GO0D WORK, WINSTON. | SEE YOU ALSO BE- LIEVE IN KEEPING ALIVES THE OPPOSITION Navy Fears New Wave 0f U-Boat Atfacks \On Atlantic Shipping At Least 20 Destroyed or Damaged; Pilot Reports ‘Sighted Sub, Sank Same’ BY the Associated Press. A new wave of U-boat attacks | on Atlantic Coast shipping was | considered likely today despite the increasing effectiveness of American counter measures which already have sunk or | damaged at least 20 Axis sub- marines. The Navy warned that “enemy submarines continue to operate off the East Coast of the United States and are reported as far south as Florida,” but no new coastal at- tacks have been announced since | the sinking of the Franeis E. Pow- | ell was disclosed on Wednesday. German tactics in past submarine campaigns have been to maintain | attacks in chosen areas by keeping | Following the same system in the | present warfare, U-boats fresh from Germany would now be replacing those ‘which made the first attacks on coastal shipping in the week of January 12 and whose torpedoes | or fuel would have been i ‘There was speculation that the Germans might try to keep more than a score of U-boats off the Atlantic coast in an attempt to! force the Navy to divert warships | from the North Atlantic convoy route to meet the new menace. The Navy added another sub- marine to the toll of those pre- viously reported sunk by making | public the report of a petty officer plane pilot. | “Sighted sub, sank same said | the report. Impressed by the | pungency of the message, officials (See SUBMARINE, Page A-6.) gAIIies’?Pacific Council Plans Headquarters Here By the Associated Press. MELBOURNE, Jan. 30.—The headquarters of the Pacific Coun- cil will be Washington, an suthori- tative source said today. British Prime Minister Ghurchill on Tuesday sald it was proposed that a Pacific Council be set up in Washington or London, comprising Great Britain, Australia, New Zea- land and the Netherlands Indies, to transmit the united view of the British and the Dutch to the com- bined Chiefs of Staff Committee sit- ting in Washington. He said both Australia and New Zealand preferred that this council should be in Washington. 20 U. S. Agents Indicted On Alcohol Plot Charge By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—Claiming & loss of $5,000,000 in taxes, the Gov- ernment has indicted 20 agents of the United States Alcohol Control Unit as bribe-takers in allegedly per- mitting the diversion of huge quan- tities of denatured alcohol from its intended ,use as hair tonic and cos- metics ingredients to illegal making of liquor. The indictment returned by a Federal grand jury in Brooklyn yes- terday charged that the conspiracy to defraud the Government of al- cohol taxes began with the advent of repeal and continued “until re- cently. Of the agents named, 15 pleaded innocent when arraigned and were released in $2,000 bail each for trial March 4. The remaining other five are to report in Federal Court next week. United State District At- torney Harold M. Kennedy said all but three defendants were stiM in the service when the formal charges were returned. 2,140,000 Aliens in Reich Are Forced to Work Bv the Associated Press. BERLIN (From German Broad- casts), Jan. 30.—An official an- nouncement today said 3,140,000 alien men and women had been put to work in' Germany in addition to 1,500,000 “prisoners of war.” The announcement said 960,000 were working on farms, 50,000 as waiters and domestic servants, and the rest in commereial, industrial and transportation jobs. Chippewas Issue War Declaration Against Axis B7 the Associated Press. ASSININS, Mich, Jan. 30.—The Chippewa Indians of upper Michi- gan—1,000 strong—were formally at war with the Axis today. In a spirited pow-wow held at their old mission hall here yester- day, the tribesmen issued the formal declaration of war and pledged to “stand by Uncle Sam to the end as we always have.” “Our Great White Father in| ‘Washington is sending men across the sea to defend our Nation against our common enemies,” Charles Car- dinal, veteran council member, ob- served. “He has asked us to help win the war, and we are standing once more shoulder to shoulder with our white brothers as we did with George Washington at Valley Forge and in every war for liberty.” Decision in Mexico May Bring Reopening Of Oil Seizure Case Claim of Foreign Countries Upheld By Supreme Court By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 30.—A pos- sibility that the 1938 oil expropriat- tion issue might be reopened was seen today in a declaration by Su- preme Court Justice Alfonso Fran- cisco Ramirez that the court had upheld the claim of foreign oil companies to a right to indemnifi- | cation for oil under the surface of | their former properties. | The justice in an interview in his chambers yesterday said the court in a recent decision written | by him had reversed in principle the findings of its predecessors dur- ing the administration of President Lazaro Cardenas and had recog- nized subsoil rights acquired be- fore 1917. ‘The companiés have valued their subsoll rights at as much as $150,- 000,000. The government argued that the 1017 comstitution outlawed sub- soll indemnification because article 27 states that all oil and minerals under the surface belong to the| nation. | ‘The companies answered that the Supreme Court in five decisions | in 1921 ruled that article 27 should | not be applied retroactively to con- ‘ cessions granted befare 1917. » The concessions of the 17 Amer- ican British and Dutch companies | expropriated by Cardenas in 1938 had been confirmed before 1917 under various petroleum laws dating back to 1884. Mexico and the United States are engaged in official negotiations for settlement of the cases. Standard Oil's Claim Settled by Bolivia LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 30 (®.—An agreement announced last night whereby tife Standard Ol Co. would receive $1,000,000 from the govern- ment and would surrender machin- ery and geological survey records, thus settling claims filed after the government in 1937 created the “Yacimientos Petroliferos Bolivi- anos” and took possession of private oil fields. 240,000 Gallons of Gas Destroyed in Ohio Fire BY the Associated Press. LIMA, Ohio, Jan. 30.—A spark of static electricity was blamed today for a spectacular fire which de- stroyed 240,000 gallons of gasoline and other petroleum products at a Standard Oil Co. of Ohio bulk sta- tion. Loss estimates ran from $100,- 000 to $300,000. Eight storage tanks were destroyed before the stubborn blaze was ex- tinguished early today. Flames bursting from a tank truck at & loading rack about 2 pm. yesterday, spread quickly and smoke rose 1,000 feet into the air. Firemen played water on a sheet iron roof sheltering 100 barrels of naphtha while refinery workmen in asbestos suits removed the drums. C. A. Doyle, the company’s Lima division manager, said the naphtha An Evening Newspaper With !"“ Full Day’s News LOCAL—NATIONAL—FOREIGN Associated Press and (#) Wirephetos, North American Daily News Foreign Service ‘The Star's Staff Writers, Reporters and \phers. P Means Associated Press. 1 Increase of 6 Billions In Record Navy Bill Approved by Senators Roosevelt's Request Pushing Total to 26 Billions Granted B> the Associated Press. President Roosevelt today asked Congress to add $6,016,- 300,000 to the record-breaking Navy appropriation bill already passed by the House. A Sen- ate Appropriations Subcommittee approved the request at once. The estimates were approved by the subcommittee after Chairman Overton had announced he would try to put an additional $4,000,000,000 in the huge bill for additional naval aircraft. The new requests from the Budget day pushed the bill to a total of $26,494,265,000, compazed with the $10.977,965474 voted by the House when it speeded approval of the history-making fund. The new total includes a $500,000,000 emergency contractural fund for the Navy. Army Bill Signed. The President made:his new naval request a short time before signing a bill appropriating $12,555,000,000, including funds for 23,000 combat planes and 10,000 training planes for the Army. The Army Air Corps would get about $9,000,000,000. The measure, largest single appro- priation ever passed by Congress for one military arm, also carried $30,- 000,000 for construction of the Doug- las Dam on the French Broad River in T. V. A. territory. The new estimates asked $5401.- 300,000 additional cash for the Navy during the present 1942 fiscal year and $615,000,000 cash for the new fiscal year of 1943 that begins July 1. Specific Requests. The President asked that $4,176,- 000,000 be made immediately avail- able for naval aviation under the Bureau of Aeronautics; $869,300,000 for the Bureau of Ordnance, and $329,000,000 for the Bureau of Ships. For the next fiscal year he asked (See NAVAL, Page A-6.) Sunday School Teacher, Shot at Oahu, Back in U. §. E¥ the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif, Jan. 30— Several score more war evacuees have arrived from Hawaii, including a young Sunday school teacher from Miami, twice wounded by Japanese machine gun bullets. Miss Sylvia Gray, whose father, a Navy officer, was killed recently in an airplane crash on the main- and hip while taking seven children to Sunday school on the Island of Oahu. “I didn’t know what was happen- ing or who shot me until some time after the attack,” Miss Gray, 8 graduate of Duke University in 1939, related. “I noticed blood on my dress, and then bullets striking the station wagon in which I was driving the children. I noticed planes above, but thought they might be our Army craft. As the firing continued, I rushed the children to the dis- pensary and then started running to a place where my friend might be on duty. were attacking. Two hours later, I was taken to a hospital, where I remained two weeks. I sprained my right ankle running from the low- b lanes.” %pcny'l mother, Mrs. Grace Parker, lives in Miami. D.C. Got $263,463,412 From W.P. A., Report Says The District’s share in the $14,- 670,000,000 W. P. A. expenditures recorded from 1935 to January 1, 1942, was $263463412, President Roosevelt reported to Congress to- day. That exceeded the individual share of the following 33 States: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, _ Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missis- sippl, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Ham) , New Mexico, North and South Carolina, North and South Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, would Have exploded “worse than bombe.” Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. Bureau and committee additions to- | land, was wounded In the shoulder | “It was then I learned the Japs| THREE CENTS. Roosevelt Signs Price Bill; Cites Its Dangers Says Henderson Will Continue As Administrator (Text of Price Bill Message on Page A-13.) B3 the Ascociated Press., President Roosevelt signed the price-control bill today and told reporters it was good in many respects, but that provisions ap- plying to farm prices offered a danger. “It does not mean that the bat- tle against inflation has been won,” he added, in a formal statement on the bill issued shortly after he talked to re- porters. These provisions, he said, pro- vide a real danger in that no farm price could be stabilized below 110 per cent of parity. For eight years, he said, the ad- ministration has sought to work toward parity prices for farmers {and the bill, he added, represents a very definite violation of that ob- Jective. The measure, with the farm pro- visions, he said, provides a threat to the cost of living. Best Obtainable at Time. Nevertheless, he said, the bill is certainly worth having and is the best that could be obtained at this time. The Chief Executive asserted that | undoubtedly the toes of a great | many people must be stepped on in administering it. He said he hoped that the admin- istration of the bill would be vigor- ous and suggested that later on gaps in the legislation could be filled in and if necessary, amendments re- quested. If need be, he said, Congress will | be asked to correct the 110 per cent | of parity sections. | Leon Henderson, the price admin- | istrator, sat behind the President | and when Mr. Roosevelt was asked | who would be appointed administra- tor under the bill, he tossed his head at Mr. Henderson and replied in | Latin, “ecce homo,” or behold the man, | Not By Legislation Alone. | In his formal statement the Pres- ident declared that price-control legislation alone “cannot success- fully combat inflation.” “To do that,” he asserted, “an ade- quate tax and fiscal program, a broad savings program, a sound pro- | duction program and an effective | priorities and rationing program are | all needed. | “Finally, all bulwarks against in- | flation must fail, unless all of us, the business man, the worker, the | farmer and the consumer—are de- | termined to make those bulwarks | hold fast. In the last analysis, as | Woodrow Wilson said, ‘The best form of efficiency is the spontaneous co-operation of a free people.’” | Mr. Roosevelt described the new | act as “an important weapon in | our armory against the onslaught | of the Axis powers.” | Few farm products have reached | price ceilings of 110 per cent of parity authorized by the law. An Agriculture Department report on prices received by farmers in mid- January indicated that only rice, beef, cattle, veal calves, wool, pea=- | nuts and soybeans for vegetable oil | production, had reached the min- imum ceiling level. Minimum Ceilings. The approximate minimum ceil- ings and the January 15 farm prices, respectively, of principal come modities included: Cotton, 2147 and 1693 cents a pound; cotton seed, $50.36 and $43.24 | a ton; wheat, $142 and $1.06 a | bushel; corn, $1.03 and 72.7 cents a | bushel; oats, 64 and 50 cents a | bushel; barley, 99.4 and 60.8 cents a bushel; rice, $143% and $1576 a | bushel; rye, $1.156 and 65 cents a | bushel; flax seed, $2.71 and $195 a | bushel; potatoes, $1.24 and 97.6 cents | a bushel; sweet potatoes, $1.41 and | 93 cents a bushel. Hay, $1906 and $10.15 a ton; apples, $1.54 and $1.16 a bushel; | hogs, $1159 and $1055 per 100 pounds; beef cattle, $9.38 and $9.77 per 100 pounds; veal calves, $11.22 and $12.14 per 100 pounds; lambs, $1112 and $10.30 per 100 pounds; butter fat, 445 and 363 cents a | pound; eggs, 32.7 and 313 cents a dozen; wool, 37.1 and 372 cents (See PRICE CONTROL, Page A-6.) | 175,000 Salesmen ‘You may enlist 175,000 silent salesmen to visit the majority of Washington and suburban homes every evening and Sunday morning to bring customers to your store by advertising in The Star. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) Yesterday’s Circulation The Evening Star Thurs., Jan. 29, 1942__*185,873 Thurs.,, Jan. 30, 1941__*167,699 *Returns from newsstands not deducted snd no samples included.