Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1942, Page 2

Two Extra Pages In This Edition Late news and are covered on Pages 1-X and 2-X of this edition of The Star, supplementing the news of the regular home delivered edition. Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 14. 90th YEAR. No. 35,707, MacArth + Big Allied Movement Begun, Australian Minister Declares By the Associated Press. CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 3—Army Minister Francis M. Forde told the Australian forces Foe Concentrates Troops at Tip of Malay Peninsula By the Associated Press. Jap Bombers Pound Singapore; U.S. Planes Sink 2 Transports: ur Thwarts New Landings ¢ Foeni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1942 Nipponese Fiyers Blast Navy Base At Soerabaja BY the Associated Press. e Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses in Philippines Two more Japanese landing at- SINGAPORE, Feb. 3.— Wave after wave of Japanese bombers | hurled high explosives at this| great British bastion today while Nipponese troops concentrated | at the tip of conquered Malaya for an attempt to storm the island. (In Tokio the Japanese mili- tary spokesman said a general . Japanese offensive against Singa- pore fortress would be launched soon according to careful plans.) With imperial forces drawn up along the mile-wide moat of Johore | Strait and watchful around the en- | tire 70-mile perimeter of this strong- | hold, firemen and police were kept | busy throughout the interior con- | trolling fires lit by the Japanese | bombs. | Enemy dive bombers added their overseas in a broadcast today that “a big movement by the Allies is under way.” Addressing especially the men of the Australian imperial force at Singapore, Mr. Forde de- clared that each hour the Jap- anese are held at bay permits the concentration and deploy- ment of more reinforcements and the accumulation of more ‘weapons. “It does not need my words to impel you, therefore, to hold on,” he said. Prime Minister John Curtin gave premiers of all Australian states at a conference here a configent outline of the war situation. The democracies’ resources are being marshaled, he ex- plained, but problems of dis- BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies, tempts on the west coast of | Feb. 3.—Strong Japanese air Batan Peninsula were broken up | forces smashed at Soerabaja, the by Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s screaming fury to the attack, but the British communique said mili- tary casualties had been slight. The United Nations struck back with a raid on the Kluang Airdrome, 50 miles north, where many of the attacvkers were believed t§ be based. Number of Fires Set. In the section of Singapore City whish bore the brunt of this morn- <ng’s bombing, authorities and A. R. P. squads cleared away, the debris within a few minutes to ‘make way for fire trucks which quickly played water on a number of high leaping fires. When one of the shirt-sleeved civilians who was laying hose Straightened up for a moment, he .was recognized as Sir Shenton Thomas, Governor of the Straits Settlements. He was working along- side scores of natives. Nearby, Li commander of the defending army forces, was directing men removing valuable materials from a ware- house in the path of the flames Singapore’s civilians and ranking military men plunged unhesitatingly into the most dangerous spots to localize the damage. Every one, from the Governor and general down to the lowliest coolie, bent to his tasks with vigor. ~ Aside from the air attack virtually o military action worthy of men- | medium and 11 small transports, | six launches and a hospital ship in tion occurred during this fourth day of siege. The big guns poised along the narrow Johore Strait fired in- | ‘termittently, but so far the targets have been well concealed. Japs Move Through Jungle. The gloomy wail of air-raid sirens filled the air, off and on, through- out the day. R. A. F. reconnaissance showed a considerable movement of enemy troops southward through the lush green Malaya jungles. Singapore stood up well to the in- tensified Japanese aerial assaults which started at daybreak with low- level bombings and strafing of tar- gets in the outlying districts. The raids were climaxed near noon with concentrated blastings by formations of high-flying twin-engined bombers. The light Japanese planes which | opened the morning attacks were peppered vigorously by ground batteries. Heavy smoke and cloud banks shielded the island to some extent during the afternoon when a small tance and time prevent plans from being carried out imme- diately on a great scale. Big Japanese Convoy 0f 69 Ships Sighted In Formosa Strait 21 Transports Included i In Group En Route | South Off Amoyx By the Associated Press. QHUNGKING, Feb. 3.—A huge | warships and enough transports to carry an entire division, has' been sighted steaming south in Formosa Strait off Amoy jn éile of seviral moves by the' Tokio high command to make ‘up for its heavy losses in manpower in | the Sotithwest Pacific, a'Chfhese ' Army spokesman said today. | He said the convoy consisted of | 69 ships in all, with nine large, one addition to the warships. ‘The spokesman said several other divisions which had been reported moving south along the Tientsin- | Pukow railway on January 23 were | diverted at Tsinan to the North China port of Tsingtao, where they embarked on waiting transports. Tens of thousands of additional | | Japanese troops, he said, were pour- | ing into Shanghai by train to board ships there. | _As one of the heaviest blows to | said | great Indies naval base, and ns‘ flanking air fields today in an| evident attempt to cripple the United Nations’ striking power in the wake of an American | aerial attack which sank two, and possibly three, more inva- sion transports in Macassar Strait. | i It was the first enemy thrust at Java, one of the strongholds of the Indies’ defense, and the Dutch acknowledged that the raiders had scored some damage to naval estab- lishments at Soerabaja, which lies ‘close to the southern gate of Ma- | cassar Strait, and to “a few air- | craft lying on the water.” Aneta News Agency, however, anti-aircraft batteries and mobile anti-aircraft guns defending the base went into instant action and bagged at least one bomber and several fighter planes escorting the 26 bombers in the enemy armada. Two Bomber Thrusts. American bomber successes against Japanese ships at Balik Papan yesterday were revealed in a communique transmitted through Batavia from Allied general head- quarters on Java. (The War Department revealed yesterday that four flying fort- resses on a mission to Balik Papan had shot down nine Jap- anese fighters). The American flyers’ blows were struck in two forays against the Japanese convoy off Balik Papan, t. Gen. A. E. Percival, | Japanese convoy, including 41 the strait harbor on the east coast of Dutch Borneo which the invaders have occupied. The-terse announcement was the first of ‘major Japanese sea losses in the Macassar Strait since the four- day running battle from January 23 to January 26 in which at least 32 and perhaps as mahy as 46 ships of..a great Japanese armada were sunk or heavily damaged. The communique said that during the past few days Allied aircraft C: /ing _out '€cOl nce on xl:% m&{;} M !’u“.l'.;{‘) ait “Have Shdt" dowh' & 'totdl of Yiiné eriénty aircraft for a loss of one of our own” tand Dutch aircraft shot down a hos- tile machine in another part of the area. “In addition to these special op- erations,” said the communique, the | fourth to be issued from the Java | offices of Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, “normal attacks on enemy | airdromes and bases have been car- | ried out with satisfactory resulfs over the area between Malaya and the Japanese in the Pacific area, | the East Celebes.” the spokesman reported the virtual | annihilation of the Japanese 16th | division at Johore Bahru, across the | | narrow Johore Strait from Singa- | pore. He said 10,000 bodies already “hnd arrived at Saigon, in French | Indo-China. The spokesman told a press con- ference the Japanese were making | | thorough preparations for a drive | into Burma from Northern Thailand, |and already had threwn pontoon | bridges across the Salween River. Concentration point for the Jap- Aim to Cripple Base. outnumbered American and Fili- pino forces last night, the War Department announced today. Gen. MacArthur’s forces also suc- cessfully counterattacked the Jap- anese on their right flank, over- running three lines of enemy | trenches. | On the left flank of the Batan line, where frontal pressure of the Japanese 16th (Kimura) Division has been relaxed, operations were of a minor character. Isolated groups of Japanese soldiers were being mopped up. Heavy enemy losses in men and boats in the landing attempts were revealed when dawn broke and a litter of barges broken up by artillery fire and some of them still burning was seen scattered along the rocky | shore. None of the enemy reached the shore to effect a landing, the communique, summing up tke mil- | itary situation at 9:30 a.m., reported. Gen. Pierce Slightly Wounded. Gen. MacArthur reported that ! Brig. Gen. Clinton A, Pierce was slightly wounded in action during | the recent fighting in the thp-‘ | pines, but did not specify the date. | | Presumably Gen. Pierce is recover- | ing, and still with his troops. NO MISFORTUNE EXCEPT mmfiméam BEF) ummmw o A HOSTILE T0 . THE PRESIDENT. DURING THIS AD.JOURN TICS THE BOYS Readers Prefer The Star The Star's afternoon and evening circulation is more than double that of any other Wasl Newspaper: Its total circulation in ‘Washington far exceeds that of any of its contem- poraries in the morning or on Sunday. #) Means Associated Press. THREE CENTS. 'Army Will Bring 40,000 Civilians Here by July, 83 Housing Badly Needed For Low-Pay Group, Committee Told By JAMES E. CHINN. | Although striving to keep its civilian personnel in Washington | at an absolute minimum because of the acute shortage of housing | accommodations, the War De- N 6000 i ST T partment expects to add 40,000 to its pay roll by July 1, 1943, | Joseph H. Henderson, civilian MENT" POl WORK| WORD: B Scores Herded Into War Jobs, iAgricuIlure Transfer Some Wait Weeks for Work Reporter Finds Hundreds in Assignment | Center—No Place to Sit Down (Picture on Page B-1.) In reply to the charge of Representative Wilson, Republican, of Indiana that too many Government girls drag themselves down | | to work after late hours, without breakfast or make-up—a condi- Gen. Pierce was one of six officers| tion which, he said, might be remedied by a 10 p.m. curfew—a whose promotions from colonel to Government girl just arrived in Washington wrote The Star: “I started to work for the War Department January 23. Every brigadier general were confirmed by | the Senate on January 29 on Gen. | MacArthur's recommendation. Gen. | Plerce, a cavalryman, who was born | | in Brooklyn June 15, 1894, entered |the Army as a corporal in the Illinois National Guard in 1916. He went to the Philippines in January, 1940. His wife now lives at Sierra Madre, Calif. [ The first raid by the Tatori group of special Japanese shock troops occurred ; early last evening, but was frustrated by a concentration of artillery fire from the defending ippine batteries, communique said. i Veleran Troeps in Raid. | 'The communique described the | ajtack as.“a raid.”. indicating it. was | Made Wit yetefan troops, but not with great strength. It was a con- tinuation of the attempts by the Japanese to flank the American | position by an attack behind Ameri- | can - Philippine lines stretching across the peninsula from east to west and similar in method to tac- | ~(See PHILIPPINES, Page A-6) | ! FrETN = Rivers and Harbors Bill Closed to Non-War Items | The House Rivers and Harbors The main objectives of the Jap | Comnmhittee voted today to amend a raiders. military observers told Aneta, | general authorization bill to prevent | undoubtedly were to cripple the Soer- | expenditures for rivers and harbors | abaja base, whose importance to the | works not tied to the war effort. United Nations in the Pacific has' Chairman Mansfield said he hope: become paramount now that Singa- | to obtain House consideration of the | pore is under siege, and to incapaci- | bill within two weeks. tate airfields there, at Malang, Mn-‘ It would authorize navigation and | doien and Magetan. | hydro-eelectric power projects esti- | Like Soerabaja itself, all those | mated to cost more than $1,000,000,- fields are at the disposal of United | 000. Nation forces now in Java and are | The amendment, which Repre- formation of Japanese planes con- tinued the raid. Heavy Barrage Thrown Up. Singapore’s guns threw up a heavy barrage when the first formation of anese forces, he said, was at Chiengmai, 100 miles due east of the | river and 175 miles northeast of | Moulmein, city at the Salween River | mouth which already has been | a serious menace to Japanese op- | sentative Mansfield said was recom- erations. They lie along an arc mended by administration leaders, from the port of Rembang, about ‘[ would stipulate that no project could 100 miles west of Soerabaja, to Ma- | be started during the war or for six lang, roughly the same distance to | months afterward unless a defense the southeast. nine bombers roared over the city. An even heavier curtain of steel was hurled skyward when 27 bomb- ers came over later. Anti-aircraft shells burst amid the leading flight of three bombers, one of which trailed smoke and lost al- titude. By the time the formation disappeared the stricken Japanese plane was fluttering, just clearing the distant tree tops. Confident of their ability to make the invaders pay dearly for a mass assault across Johore Strait, im- perial forces kept sharp watch to thwart any repetition of the sly infiltration tactics which forced them to yield the Malayan main- land, but there was no sign yet of any ground activity, Bombing activity, however, described by a ccmmumqus (See SINGAPORE, Page A-6) A. E. F. Signifies Unity was evacuated by the British. A Chinese war communique today | said Chinese forces had counter- | attacked in the Nanchang area of | Central China after repelling two | Japanese thrusts south and west (of that city, capital of Kiangsi Province. | More than 300 casualties were in- | flicted on the Japanese west of the | capital and 500 on the Yon River to the south, it said. Among the dead listed was a Japanese lieutenant colonel. Marshall Isles Da—mage Admitted by Japanese By the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 3—Reuters heard | the Berlin radio broadcast a Jap- anese imperial headquarters an- nouncement today that “some mil- | itary installations” were damaged in | the week-end attack by United | States sea and air forces on the | The first war bulletin said no de- tails were available except that there had been ‘“rather consider- able damage to material” and a supplement mentioned only the spe- cific damage to planes and naval establishments at Soerabaja. Aneta said there were no cas- 'age A-6.) Pupua_ C;pitul Raided By Lone Jap Plane SIDNEY, Australia, Feb. 3—A Japanese air raid on Port Moresby, capital of Papua—the southeastern part of the island of New Guinea— was announced here today. Port Moresby lies on the Coral Sea 300 miles northeast of Cape York, the most northerly tip of the‘ Australian mainland. A Royal Australian Air: Force communique said that “as far as is known only one plane took part. There were no damage or casual- | agency and the President designated it as urgent for national defense. ' Puler;r{t‘),r Sicily, Naples Bombed Again by R. A. F. | By the Associated Press ROME (From Italian Broadcasts), | Feb. 3—The Royal Air Force has | again bombed Palermo, Sicily and | Naples, the Italian high command | announced today. Several high explosive bombs were reported to have been dropped in the British attacks on Naples and Palermo,” but the damage was de- scribed as unimportant. “There were no casualties at Naples,” the high command said, “but three were injured in Palermo.” Leahy Sees Petain | | VICHY, Unoccupied France, Feb. | 2 (Delayed) (#).—Marshal Petain | received Unitéd States Ambassa- | dor Admiral William D. Leahy for | a brief conversation this afternoon. | morning I have reported promptly for dentally, my make-up is on and ¢ I've had my breakfast.) My I have not been near a type- writer or even had a pencil in my hand. In short, there is nothing for me to do but write letters to my boy friend and read movie magazines. “The people in charge tell me not to worry, because I am being paid | work at 8 am. (Inci- useful. Not one single bit of work |title is junior stenographer, but | has been assigned me.” And she described a room—in Tem- porary Building H, War Depart- ment, Twenty-second and C streets N.W.—where girls similarly awaiting assignment were “herded daily like cattle.” She wrote: “The room " which we are forced to loaf agains our will is one of-the most horrible firetraps I have ever seen.” A reporter.investig: | (See WAR-IRO! Just: the same 8§°if I were being Reds’ Southern Drive Reinforcements Are More Than Matched by Soviet Weapons, Moscow Says By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, Feb. 3.—The Ger- mans are sending air and tank selective service director, said to- £0 to St. Louis, where space has been reinforcements to parts of the'day that Army entrance stand- leased by the Public Buildings Ad- | | southern front to combat Mar- ards inevitably would be lowere: shal Semeon Timoshenko’s in- being more than matched by Red | Army weapons, Soviet dispatches taken in for limited service reported today. (“Despite the reinforcements ‘which have already been brought up to the Russian front from the" German-occupied countries. the German generals have demanded from Hitler the immediate dis- patch of 20 fresh, picked divi- sions,” the B. B. C. said in a broadcast heard by N. B. C. in New York. (“The generals have threaten- ed.” it added, “that otherwise it would be very hard, if not impos- sible, to prevent a general Rus- sian break-through.”) Testifying to Red Air Force su- periority, dispatches from the front credited one Russian air unit with destroying 17 Nazi planes in a week and long-range bombers with deep- ening their offensives far into the German rear. At one vital German railroad junction, they said, three supply trains or more than 200 cars, were destroyed. Cafnon Dragged on Sled'lu. Dragging machine guns and can- | non on sledges in 40-below-zero | (Fahrenheit) cold over the same | roads used against Napoleon, the Russians were pressing forward on several fronts, all pointed toward Smodlensk, 210 miles west of Moscow, and keeping up their fast pace de- spite determined German resistance. Russian forces were reported to have killed some 1,400 Germans in Nazis Sending Tanks |Hershey Says Army ‘And Planes o Combat Will Cut Standards As Needs Increase | Hundreds of Thousands Of Men With Minor Defects Face Induction | By the Associated Press Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, d as the need for manpower de- 4| creasingly active army but are veloped, and predicted that men with minor defects would be “by the huridred thousands.” He appeared before a special House committee investigating mi- gration of defense workers and con- centrating now on methods of mus- tering all available man power for prosecution of the war effort. shey brought with him said: | “Allowance and allotment legis- lation has been proposed, and, if | enacted in proper form, it will re- | lease for induction many registrants | now deferred on the grounds of | dependency. Chief Deferment Condition. He noted at one point. however, | that dependency still would remain | “an outstanding condition of defer- | ment.” Gen. Hershey asserted flatly that competition among the varjous em- qrolled or eliminated,” adding: 'Although war industrial produc- tion must be maintained, it should not be permitted to draw unneces- | sarily upon the supply of potential {1-A men or upon men engaged in | war or agricultural production.” i Saying that he was “frightened” | at the American “philosophy of | abundance.” Gen. Hershey said “We (See HERSHEY, Page A-6) ‘Nazis Announce Spréad ETWEEN THEM personnel officer, today told the | House Public Buildings and | Grounds Committee. | The committee has under consid- eration legislation authorizing an }appmpriauon of $50,000,000 to pro- vide housing and necessary public works in the District and Metropoli- tan Area for the steadily rising in- flux of Government war workers. Mr. Henderson testified the War Depertment now has 35,000 civilian employes in Washington, 4500 ot whom were added in January, and is having extreme difficulty in find- ing suitable housing facilities for newcomers. 80 Per Cent Below $2,000. ! “There is complete dearth here !or satisfactory, sanitary living ac- | commodations for employes in the | low-income groups,” he declared. | Eighty per cent of the War De- partment’s civilian employes. Mr. | Henderson pointed out, have in- comes below $2,000 a year. 'Workers From D. C. The witness declared that one out Ame"ded Ofder Adds ‘Fof every four persons for which the ! ],550 to origi"d To'uI; department attempts to find living s . | accommodations are replacements— F.S. A. Goes to Cincinnati employes who have resigned and | Harold D. Smith, budget di-| gone home because they either can't live within their income or are dis- rector, announced today the 1llusmngd about Washington. . # He cited a problem faced by the Agriculture Department has been | gepartment last Thursday when 100 directed to remove from Wash- | gir gppointees arrived at the Wash- ington “at the earliest practi- | ington “induction center” st 6 pm. | cable date” 3,848 employes. The and had “no place to st: Sixty move will release approximately went to the homes of friends, he 485,000 square feet of office space eXplained, and the other 40 were for other agencies. taken care of by employes. Of the employes affected by to- , Mr- Henaerson said it would be | day's action, approximately 2.300 | were included in the agencies to be ansferred under the original de- “extremely desirable,” if possible. to locate employes assigned to the new centralization order issued Decem- ber 19. That means that about 1,550 'Will Send 3,848 ‘War Department building in nearby Arlington County, in close proximity to the building. “There are tnose who seem to think Jt pagriotic to fill up every room and he%’?n ‘Washington,” John { Thider, executive officer of the Alley Ihlder Cites Danger In Crowding Homes With War Workers John Ihider, executive secre- tary of the District Alley Dwelling Authority, warned the House Public Buildings and Grounds Commitee of the dan- ger of attempting to fill every vacant room here with war workers. “Washington is already crowded beyond the danger point, despite a few unoccupied bedrooms,” he declared. “There is danger in filling every spare room—danger of spreading dis- ease and also the danger of not having any space to put people ‘whose homes might be bombed.” If a disease epidemic occurs, he said, it probably will first hit in the overcrowded, insani- tary slum areas, and then spread rapidly to other sections. epy ? Included in the amended order are 1,140 Farm Credit Administra- tion employes, 700 Agricultural Ad- ju: 'nt Administration workers, 11,155 from the Rural Electrification | Adhinfstrafion; 633" Farm urity | Administration workers and 220 employes in the Office of the So- licitor, the branch that carries on legal work for these agencies. F. C. A. Goes to Kansas City. Under today's order, the Farm Credit Administration will establish | headquarters at Kansas City and | the Farm Security Administration. | previously ordered to St. Louis, will ' | move to Cincinnati instead. As previously scheduled, the Rural Electrification Administration will ministration. ! The announcement brings the Agticultural Adjustment Adminis- | tration into the picture for the first time. A majority of the employes affected, it was explained. will be | transferted to existing field offices of the agency. Both the R. E. A. and the F. C. A. | | will maintain a small liaison staff | A prepared statement Gen. Her- | |in Washington to work with the Agriculture Department and other Federal agencies left here. Patent Office Moving. The original decentralization order called for transfer of 12 Federal Dwelling Authority, told the com- mittee. “This might be a tenable policy if we knew the war was to last only six months, but that is une thinkable since we face the prob- abilitw of a long struggle. | ployers of man power “must be Disease Danger Stressed. “They should recognize that there is greater danger than that from aerial bombs. It is the spread of disease. We are told to stay home when we have colds to prevent spreading them in the places where we work. There is much greater danger of spreading them in places where we live if living quarters are overcrowded. agencies from Washington. Only one of these, the Patent Office, actu- ally has begun to move. The Patent Office shift began Saturday and will | be completed by February 14, offi- | | cials said today. Approximately 240 | van loads of office furniture and equipment are being sent to Rich- | mond. Other agencies included in the December order are expected to & leave Washington within the next “Others emphasize the danger of | two months. | overbuilding Washington for fear On January 18, Mr. Smith esti- | property values will be depressed. mated that approximately 45000 Here again we must emphasize, in- new Government employes would | stead, the greater danger of epi- | come to Washington between that | demic if we do not build more hous- | date and July 1, with another 40,- If many houses are | 000 to be added -during the re-‘ ING | mainder of the year. With the ad- dition of these new Government | workers and their families and em- ployes of private businesses, he esti- mated that the population of the Metropolitan Area would increase 250,000 during the year. | Germany Again Curbs Civilian Railway Travel By the Associated Press. BERN, Switzerland, Feb. 3.—For | the second time in lsss than three of Purpose, Klng Says Marshall Islands. | ties.” | three different sectors of the front Two T" ains Cr ush weeks, Germany has imposed re- By the Associated Press. BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Feb. 3—King George VI, in a written message opening a new session of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, declared today the recent arrival of American troops in the British Isles was “a demonstration of the unity of purpose” existing between Britain and the United States. “I am confident that the result will be a further strengthening of those ties of kinship and those common ideals which mean so much for the future of the world,” said the message, read to Parliament by the Duke of Abercorn, governor of Northern Ireland. The first contingent of United | States combat troops, thousands strong, landed last week at a North Irish port after an uneventful At- lantic crossing under the protection of the British and American navies. The King expressed a “fervent hope” that more recruits from Northern Ireland would join the empire fighting services, the Ulster Home Guard and civil defense or- ganizations. Service in the armed forces is on 8 purely voluntary basis in North- ern Ireland. ? 3 Yesterday, imperial headquarters said the only success of the Amer- | ican naval blow was damage to a | small Japanese auxiliary vessel and | that military establishments on the islands were unharmed. Deferment of Reserves InW. P. B. Canceled Reserve officers who have been deferred from active military duty to hold key civilian positions in the War Production Board were notified by Chairman Donald M. Nelson imday that their deferments had | | been canceled. “All Reserve officers are consid- | ered available for active duty at |any time hereafter,” he stated in a notice distributed throughout the W. P. B. offices. To determine what effect the change in status of these employes will have on operations of the W. P. B, Mr. Nelson distributed with the notices questionnaires which will show the position and the nature of the work of officer affected. Mr. Nelson cated that continued may be asked in some instances. - 1] | Nazis claim destruction of 63 mer- \ Details were not divulged. Summary of Foreign. Mobile British units ferreting out Axis forces in Libya. Page A-1 1,400 Germans slain in three sectors, Russians claim. Page A-1 New Chilean President lauds hemi- spheric unity. Page A-2 Egypt King’s loyalty to Allies put under suspicion. Page A-!y Nazis execute six French youths, ex- | ile 100 others. Page A-3 Britain to lend Haile Selassie $13,000,000. 3 Page A-3| chantmen in January. Page A-4 National. Army entrance standards’ lowering | seen by Gen. Hershey. Page A-1/ Martin says he will keep G. O. P. post | during campaign. Page A-1) ‘Wickard, and Henderson agree on price-control policies. Page A-1 Leader says striking welders chart new course, Page A-4 . Washington missionary is Jap prisoner in China. Page A-4 ». ! Today's Star Ttalian-American civic group gives Nimitz declares. Congress continues work on biils speeding war effort. Page A-6 ' Washington and Vicinity. More Agriculture employes to be moved out of D. C. Page A-1 Early House action on fringe park- ing lots predicted. Page A-2 Board, headed by Leary, takes over rationing automobiles. Page A-4 Eicher sworn in as District Court Chief Justice. Page A-4 Two doctors leap into Potomac when launch burns. Page B-1 Special study of D. C. hospital needs urged. Page B-1 Lodge sworn in as head of Alcohol Beverage Board. Page B-1 Evaders of auto use tax will be pros- Page B-1 Page B-7 Page B-7 Page B-8 4 and to have thrown back Nazi (See RUSSIA, Page A-6.) Sponsor of Curfew To Ignore Curfew to Go on Air With Girl Representative Wilson, Re- publican, of Indiana, advocate of a 10 p.m. curfew for Govern- ment girls, will go on the air at 10:15 o'clock tonight—with a Government girl. Fifteen minutes after his pro- posed curfew hour Mr. Wilson will explain over WJSV his program for increasing the ef- ficiency of Federal departments. Part of his plan is the curfe% for girls who persist, according to the Indianan, in appearing at work worn out from the night before without make-up and breakfast and requiring half the morning to prepare for the day’s labor. Mr. Wilson said today he had not yet picked the girl he will interview over the Nation-wide network. But she will be a Federal worker, ke sssured. |0f Typhus Into Germany By the Associated Press. BERN, Switzerland, Feb. Spotted typhus has spread from the Eastern front to Germany and the Nazi-occupied areas, the German Health Ministry announced today, listing 126 cases in Germany and 138 in the occupied Eastern coun- tries. A demarcation line has been established at which persons coming from the East are examined for the lice, a primary typhus carrier. The small village of Pernik, in Bulgaria, | was mentioned as one whete typhus | has broken out. a number of cases among Bulgarian Gypsies. (Most of Poland’s Jews are confined to the cramped quarters of Nazi-ordained gheitos in which any sort of hygienic pro- tection is lacking.) Though the German Health Min- istry professed the belief that Ger; German press dispatches also re- | Cab, Trapping Driver 7 Hours By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Iil, Feb. 3.— Robert Timm, 30, was trapped for seven hours in the wreckage of his taxicab after it was pancaked be- tween two trains in an unusual ac- cident today. Scores of horrified onlookers watched efforts to extri- cate him. Timm, who suffered severe leg injuries, remained conscious while a train wrecker lifted one end of a | | locomotive from the rails. The cab was struck at 2:25 am., |in downtown Springfield, by a | freight train. The taxi was crushed llu‘fnst and between another loco- motive, stafiding on an adjoining track. Timm was lifted from the wreckage shortly before 9:30 am. and taken to a hospital. Physicians said he was suffering | from shock as well as leg injuries. They, were undecided whether one or_both of his legs would have to be amputated. ‘The injured man's wife, mother of five children, waited at the scene lice. | throughout the rescue work. 4 | bulance train: strictions on civilian railway travel in order to release every possible piece of rolling stock in a tremend- ous effort to transport fresh sup- plies of men and arms to the eastern front. The restrictions were necessitated, according to the Berlin newspaper Lokalanzeiger, by “more and in- creasing demands on the railways to supply the eastern areas and to put at the disposal of the army means of transportation for staff and freight.” The first series of restrictions this year was announced January 17. The fact that much rolling stock has been converted for use as am- and troop barracks and the difiulties in getting -re- placements for damaged or worn- out cars and locomotives under an industrial. set-up almost solely for arms production also have contributed to cutting train service in Germany and its Allied countries. A major factor in the nations linked with the Axis has been a-lack of coal and lubricating oil. An offi- cial announcement gave this as the