Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1942, Page 6

I A—4 Ye Japanese Commander In Changsha Defeats Reporfed Suicide Gen. Anami, 55, Is Said To Have Ended Life At Hankow January 20 By the Associated Press. CHUNGKING, China, Feb. 2— Two defeats at Changsha—in which the Chinese claim 100,000 Japanese fell—have proved too much for the Japanese commander, Gen. Korech- 1ka Anami, Chinese reports said yes- terday, and the sword-rattling little general has killed himself. Whether he committed true hara- kirl in the traditional manner of Japanese noblemen and warlords or chose some less conventional man- ner is not certain. Gen.- Anami commanded the in- vaders in the second and third bat- . Grormosa IPHILIPPINE ‘18, tles for Changsha, which turned into | debacles. The Chinese said 56944 | Japanese .were killed or wounded | after the invaders were chased from | the central Hunan province city last month. Another 41,150 casualties | were claimed in an earlier battle which ended in a Japanese with- drawal last October 1. Death on Jan. 20 Reported. The 55-year-old general was said to have died at Hankow January 20. He had served at the head of the 11th Japanese Division. Before tak- ing the field, he was director of per- sonnel in the war office at Tokio. To have fulfilled to the letter the tradition of formal suicide, Emperor Hirohito would have sent the gen- eral a jeweled dagger with a mes- sage couched in gracious terms, suggesting that he die. A cere-| monial dias would have been built | 3 to 4 inthes higher than the floor of” his abode, covered with a rug of rich red felt. | Then dressed in a special cere- monial dress, the general, with his second, would have taken his place on the dais, surrounded by a semi- circle of friends and officials. When the weapon was handed him, the general would have made many obeisances to the Emperor, and then would have plunged the dagger into his left side below the waist, drawing it slowly across to the right. The bloody dagger then would have been taken to the Mikado as proof of the general’s atonement. None knows though—the general may have shot himself. Drive New Spearhead. Meanwhile, victorious Chinese troops who routed the Japanese in a five-day battle in the Waichow area drove a new spearhead toward the South China metropolis of Can- ton. Fighting_flared on the Canton- Kowloon Railroad between Poklo and Sheklung, Chinese field dis- patches said. Poklo is 70 miles east of Canton and Sheklung is but 45 | miles away, and the direction of the | fighting indicated the action might be to the north of Sheklung. ‘The Ministry of Finance yesterday ordered all branches of government banks in Hong Kong and Japanese- occupied portions of China closed. Willkie to Be Honor Guest| At Film Academy Dinner By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOQD, Calif, Feb. 2— ‘Wendell Willkie will be the guest of honor of the Academy of Motiop | Picture Arts and Sciences when it | awards its “Oscars” for the best movie performances of 1941 at a | banquet February 26. | The Army has withdrawn its ob- | Jections to the meeting, Academy | President Walter Wanger said, but . the affair is being planned with an | -#ye to war economy. Tickets will be | $10 instead of the usual $25. | ° “There will be no white ties or | black ties, and men will wear busi- | mess clothes,” said Mr. Wanger. | *There will be no formal evening ~gowns and no dancing.” Movie workers are voting now on ‘candidates, The nominees will be snnounced next Monday and final “‘ballots will be mailed to more than 10,000 members of the Screen Actors, ‘Writers and Directors, Guilds, pro- ducers, technicians and others Feb- “Fuary 12. Given Two Weeks fo Live, Bandit Tells Victims A neatly dressed colored man, who told his victims he had been dis- | charged from the Army because of | physical disability and only had two | waeks to live, yesterday held up an | ice cream store at 1643 Vermont | ‘avenue N.W. Brandishing a revolver, the man took $27 from the cash drawer and $9 from Miss Ella Redman, 2520 Fourteenth street N.W., one of the clerks. The other clerk, Miss Elizabeth Lindsey, 2020 Gales street N.E., quoted the gunman as saying: “The doctor told me I had only two weeks to live, I was discharged from the Army because of that. Now I'm going to enjoy myself.” Defense Dinner Planned To Climax Feb. 22 Rites - A national defense banquet will iclimax the annual Washington's “Birthday celebration of the Vet- ‘erans of Foreign Wars February 22 ;at Boulevard Farms, near Rockyille. +Past Department Comdr. Samuel iB. De Vaughan has announced. i The observances will include a trip in the morning to Mount Ver- inon, where a wreath will be placed on Washington's Tomb. Business sessions of veterans and the Ladies’ Auxiliary will be held in the after- noon. Past Post Comdr. William M. Herndon is chairman of the Ban- quet Committee. Dupont Circle Citizens To Perfect Defenses Citizens of the Dupont Circle area will meet at 8 pm. Friday at the Church of the Covenant, Eighteenth and N streets N.W., to perfect or- ganization of civilian defense work in the area. William Clark Taylor, chairman of civilian defense in the District, emphasized that scores of volun- teer workers still are needed to fill out committees and perform neces- sary tasks, fl WHERE U. S. STRUCK AT JAP MID-PACIFIC BASES—This map locates the Mid-Pacific Marshall and Gilbert Islands, which the Navy announced yesterday had been raided by ships and planes, causing extensive damage to Japanese bases, military establishments, planes and auxiliary ships. The raid included five bases in the Marshalls and on Makin Island in the Gilbert group, wrested THE EVENING .STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1942. e :F" Ml D:NAV WAKE ¢MAKIN 1. GILBERT T3] . S$AMo “Fua NEW CALEDONIA YONEY from the British early in the war. Wartime Hawaii Loses Trappings 0f Rich Playground Hula Dancers Have Jobs In Defense and Army Takes Over Hotels The writer of this article is supervisor of the Girl Reserve de- partment, Honolulu Y. W. C. A. She is a daughter of Dr. Earle E. Eubank, head of the department of sociology of the University of Cincinnati. By LAURIEL E. EUBANK, Bpecial Dispatch to The Star and North American Newspaper Alliance. HONOLULU, Feb. 2—Glamorous | Hawali—playground of the wealthy | and dreamland of the lonely—has | become, overnight, strategic Hawatl. | The vacationists have evacuated: the hula dancers have defense jobs: | the beach boys have been drafted: | the romantic spots of this world- | famous resort have been put in the | control of the military authorities. | Night life is definitely a thing of | the past, for the islands are in con- | tinual blackout and all persons must be off the streets by 6 p.m. In short, | America's happiest resort is under | martial law. ‘Take Doris Duke’s Yacht. The Royal Hawalian Hotel, spreading its luxurious arms along | the barbed wire entanglements of | Waikiki Beach, has been taken over by the Navy as an emergency hos- pital. - The ‘Outrigger Canoe Club, where debutantes in the past have sipped coel drinks under beach um- orellas, is now being used daily as s recreation center for the play-| hungry and hard-working sailors. | Private yachts have been confis- sated for harbor defense—including | the expensive one owned by Doris Duke Cromwell, wealthiest girl in the world. Kewalo Basi, picturesque fishing harbor where camera fans snapped the colorful Japanese sam-" pans, is now empty. Green golf courses and polo fields, | where fun-loving islanders came for | recreation, are now filled with dis- carded jalopies, tin cans, sewer | pipes, and other obstructions which | will prevent enemy planes from using them as landing flelds. Hawaiian Band Is Gone. Formerly sleek white liners brought happy tourists and return- ing ““kamaainas” to a lei-fragrant harbor on boat day. Now con- verted into transport ships, the blackened liners quietly dock at heavily-guarded piers without an- nouncement, loaded with troops and defense supplies. The Royal Ha- wailan Band, with its welcoming strains of “songs of the islands,” is| no longer there—instead it is playing a concert at Red Hill or Pearl Har- bor for defense workers on seven- day duty. | Typical Hawaiian foods are not| escaping the war influence. Papaya, formerly just & local and interest- ing fruit tried by all newcomers, is now being advocated to soldiers and civillans as a cure for night blind- ness in these days of blackout. Pine- apple and sugar flelds are being plowed up to make room for vege- table gardening made necessary by our island position. Sands No~ Free. ‘The very sand of the beaches and coco palms are no longer free! Sandbags are fllled daily along the coast for use around public build- ings and military strongholds. Palm fronds make excellent camouflage for machine-gun nests. Island kiawe trees, chanted about in Ha- waiian music, are*being chopped down by mass volunteer armies each | Sunday to make room for more| military equipment. Even Hawaii's weather, perfect from January to January, is free no more. It is now classed as a “mili- secret,” and even the most en- thusiastic Junior Chamber of Com- merce member cannot mention the state of the trade wines, the warmth of the sunshine, or the frequency of island rainbows. These are on the “‘censored” list. And so, as the still-romantic moon, uncognizant of war conditions, rises over the famous Hawalian pali, island residents, tired from their days of emergency war work, make a rush for their homes to arrive there before blackout time. Glam- orous Hawail, as played up by the movies and pictured in island songs, will exist just as a memory for a long time to come. He Saved Three Tires HAMMOND, La., Feb. 2 (#).—An obliging truck driver was pushing Dewey Davidson’s gasoline-dry au- tomobile to a service station when & locomotive smashed it to bits on s crossing. After leaping to safety Mr. Davidson remarked: “T was lucky! I managed to save three tires!” B War in Philippines Reveals Francis Sayre as Fighter High Commissioner ¢ Early Nailed Japs’ False Friendship By FRANK 1. WELLER, ‘Wide World News Service. Washington pauses long at the name of Francis Bowes Sayre, kind- ly scholar, when it ponders the fortune of Americans trapped in the Philippine Islands. At present, the United States high commissioner is safe, so far as the State Department knows, or is per- mitted to disclose. His whereabouts necessarily are secret. the Japanese, whose false friend- ship he nailed the moment he set foot on the islands, would consider him a prime prisoner. Officials here allow one to assume that Mr.’Sayre and Philippine Presi- denv Quezon were rushed to com- parative safety by the military com- mand when it declared Manila an open city. Both dropped out of sight just before Japanese occu- pation. Some here believe the Japa- ese associate both with the secret ‘free Filipino” radio sation which has crossed up their propaganda plans for “native co-operation” by | constantly assuring deliverance and | breaking up Japanese broadcasts. Mr. Sayre's last public words to America, heard in a radio appeal while bombs beat down on Manils, pledged the utmost resistance of the islanders but urged the main- land—almost prophetic of Gen. Mac- Arthur’s present dilemma—to “come on! Come on! Come on!” with help for the garrisons. Calls for Fight Back. ‘Turning to the local population, this physically slight little man of vast courage challenged Manila to fight back with the resolute courage of ‘London, Moscow and Chungking. “Manaila can take it, too,” he told the proud and warlike Filipino, who almost immediately was to begin sabotage of invader rule, “and help surely is coming—help of sufficient adequacy and power that the in- vader will be driven from our midst and * * °* made powerless ever to threaten us again. We have rare opportunity to show the stuff of which we are made!” The commissioner, now 57, suc- ceeddd to the post vacated three years ago by Paul V. McNutt. Some in Congress murmured against giv- ing 0 important a job on the thresh- old of a potential and powerful enemy to a man as much the “pro- fessor type” and as peace-minded as Mr. Sayre. He was born of deeply religious parents in Bethlehem, Pa., and is an ardent Episcopal churchman. His only brother is an ordained min- ister. Mr. Sayre has taught gov- ernment at Williams College and law at Harvard. Like his father-in- law, Woodrow Wilson, he advocated a co-responsibility of all nations to promote peace and prosperity. Shows Him As Fighter. War showed that Mr. Sayre, standing 5 feet 8 and weighing a scant 150 pounds, was far more the fighter than the friendliest critic had supposed. And he was much ahead of most of them in vision and foresight. As early as 1937, while Assistant Secretary of State, he warned a national preaching mission assem- bled at Richmond, Va., not to be “misled into thinking that neu- trality can save our own country.” He asked: “Are you going to stand supinely by and wait with hands folded for oncoming destruction?” Much as he had labored against war, he saw no hope of avoiding a clash with the Axis. In Washington, in 1938, he told the American So- clety of International Law that the United States “must be resoiute and prepared to withstand ag- gression ‘by lawlessness.” “This does not mean a desire for war,” -he added. “War is evil in- carnate. But.* * * some things are worse than fighting, if fighting be in defense of life and principle.” Warned of War’s Approach. On October 14, 1941, while some of his colleagues still talked of ap- peasing Japan, the high commis- sioner told a meeting of Manila business men that “gradually the United States is moving closer tw the brink of war” and announced that he, personally, had taken .up a sword to carry on economic war- fare against island enemies. He halted all exports. except under li- cense, of critical products he saw aliens siphoning away. Mr. Sayre first came prominently into the Washington scene in 1933 when another Wilson disciple, Franklin D. Roosevelt, made him an Assistant Secretary of State to head up Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade agreements program. By this HONOLULY IMARSHALL IS | Friends say | 7' KODIAK 1S 'IA’NAC”SCO LO! ANGELES oo, HAWAIIAN 18. \ - A, —A. P. Wirephoto. FRANCIS B. SAYRE. lateral commercial practices of dic- tator nations abroad. For one so quiet, reserved and pensive by nature, the new No. 1 | “Yankee trader” took Adolf Hitler's | economic measure in the first round. | “There is not room in the world,” | he told the free nations flocking to | Washington, “for both the closed economy of national self-sufficiency | and our system of open trading and fair treatment for all.” Pointed to Artificial Price. He poitned to an artificial price of | 60 cents a gallon for gasoline in | Germany and a domestio rubber price three times higher than the world market as samples of the Hitler economy which he was con- vinced inevitably would lead to looting war. He proclaimed in 1935 a tenet of | international trade which became | six years later, almost word for word, that part of the Roosevelt- | Churchill “Atlantic charter” advo- cating complete equality for all na- | tions (after the*war) in access to the colonial markets of the world. | As chairman of the 1935 Inter- departmental Committee on Philip- pine Affairs and in 1937 as chairman | of the Joint Preparatory Committee | on Philippine Affairs, he sought, and | won, agreement to keep a parental | eye on the islands until 1960 rather than break sharply off when they received independence in 1946, say- ing “we may be surprised at what happens out there before then.” Accumulated Background. He had accumulated background on the Far Eastern situation be- tween 1923-30 as foreign affairs ad- visor to the Thai (Siamese) govern- | ment in negotiating a number of | commercial and political treaties. Too, he represented Siam at the | permanent court of arbitration at the Hague during that time. Mr. Sayre was decorated by the pre-war governments of Denmark, Norway, France, Spain and Portugal for scholastic attainments and in- ternational service. He is the author of “Experiments in International Administration” (1919); *“Cases of Criminal Law” (1827), and other books. He married Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of the First World War President, in 1913. She died several years later, and in 1937 he married Mrs. Elizabeth Evans Graves, widow of Ralph Graves, noted Wi n writer and editor. Cut in Federal Releases Called for by Legislator By the Associated Press. Sharp curtailment of Government press and information releases is demanded by Representative Jones, Republican, of Ohio, who asserts that many Government bureaus are violating the spirit of the paper conservation drive. Mr. Jones wrote Price Administra- tor Leon Henderson saying th were frequent duplications in gov- ernmental releases. He also sub- mitted figures showing the Govern- ment in 1941 spent $27,500,000 “for information and propaganda agen- cies,” with $1,803,418 of that going for paper. Sales of Independent | Retailers Increase * By the Associated Press. The Census Bureau reports that sales of independent retailers were 17 per eent higher last year than in 1940 on the basis of reports from 34 States. The increase in 1940 over 1939 was 8 per cent. The greatest gains by States re- ported for 1941 were Washington, 25 per cent; Alabama and Con- necticut, 38 _per cent; Ohio, 31 per and Indians, Arkansas and |its planes, fuel and ammunition, | 10,000 Guerrillas Reporfed in Action Against Hungarians Attacks on Military Groups Announced, With 30 Killed By the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 2—Ten thousand guerrilla fighters are in action against Hungarians in the Carpatho- Ukraine, that part' of former Czecho-Sloyakia ceded to Hungary, it was reported last night by Pavel wufln of the Carpatho-! on the Czecho- Slovak State Council in London. These guerrillas, operating in the easternmogt tip of former Czecho- Slovakis, are in daily radio com- murication with the Czech Council in London, Cebere said. A communique issued here on the basis of radioed information said these guerrillas had attacked s Hungarian military unjt near the town of Tuska, killing at least 30 soldiers and exploding & large munitions dump. The guerrillas also were said to have slain the garrison at a Hungarian airdrome and destroyed destroyed a munitions dump and coal stores at the railway station of | Kerecin and seized a military supply transport - and distributed its food to civilians. Greek Guerrilla Activity Is Cited by Russians MOBCOW, Feb. 2 (#).—Greek be- hind-the-lines fighters were cited in a supplement to the Russian com- munique yesterday for guerrilla ac- tivity in their invaded country. The bulletin said a cotton-laden Italian freighter recently sank in the Greek harbor of Piraeus and that “investigation established that after the loading was finished a mine| which obviously had been placed in a bale of cotton exploded.” Serbs Reported Planning Drive Against Nazis NEW YORK, Feb. 2 (—The Moscow radio broadcast a Serbian report last night saying an army of 430,000 Serbian patriots under Gen. Draja Mikhallovic, Yugoslav war| minister, is preparing a spring of- fensive against the Germans from mountain hideaways. The broadcast was heard by National Broadcasting Co. §t. John’s fo Sp;n_s; 3 Lecture Courses Heré St. John's College of Annapolis | will sponsor three literature semi- | | nars and a series of legal and- sci- | = entific lectures here this month. Two lecture seminars will start at | 7:30 pm. tomorrow, at the Agricul- | ture Department. Seminar A will be led by Richard Scofield of the college faculty and Mrs, Aletha Johnston of Washington. - Raymond Wilburn of St. John's will lead seminar C group. Reg- istratiog.for both groups will be at the Department of Agriculture. The third discussion group, sem-, inar B, will be led by Charles Vayne of the faculty and Mrs. Scofield at the Frost School, 2003 Kalorama road N.W., beginning February 17. Registration for this sgminar and for the scientific and law lectures? i to begin February 15 at 2824 O street N.W,, should be made through the adult school, 8t. John's College. The first five lectures will take up “The Sructure of Modern Science,” the second, “Modern Law: ‘Natural and Human.” They will be given by faculty members at- the home ;;l(_ur. and Mrs. Walter C..Louch- eim. Millis Praises Progress By Labor and Employers By the Associated Press. Chairman H. A. Millis of the La- bor Relations Board expressed the view today that labor had learned to use its legal right of self-organ- ization and that employers “had ad- vanced far toward making collective bargaining the accepted practice of an industrial democracy.” He based his opinion on the rec- ord of the board for the 1940-41 fiscal year, a report made public yesterday. In a statement accom- panying the report, he said: “In the year 1937-38 our country was deeply disturbed by its labor disputes and the National Labor, Relations Board was inundated with cases, the majority of them alleging unfair labor practices. In Germany during that same year there werg no strikes, and unemployment for the first time in yeays fell below the 1,000,000 mark. “Upon the surface Americs st that time was the more endangered through the apparent maladjust- ments of its industrial relationships. But we now know better. We can examine without fears the new in- |} flux of labor board cases which be- gan in the spring of 1941, since they were predominantly intended for the completion of one of the last steps in the collective bargaining procedure, and since these cases which did involve repressive action against labor organization were concurrently yielding to the proc- esses of orderly administrative law.” Cross_-Co—untry Races Begun by Soviet Skiers By the Associated Press. KUIBYSHEV, Feb. 2—The Soviet | Union's greatest war-time sports event, the cross-country ski races in honor of the Red Army, began in | all snow-clad sections of the na-| tion yesterday, with civilian teams | competing under military condi- | tions. 2 | The number of competitors was expected to exceed those of last year, when a record of 5,000,000 par- ticipants was set. | Conservation of Paper Every citizen is called upon to see that not a pound of paper is wasted. 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