Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1942, Page 6

r A—4 kun Hill Lauds Volunfeers In Dedicafing Canteen For Service Men Senator Urges Citizens To Back War Effort; Warns of Propaganda The canteen of the Soldiers, Sall- ors and Marines' Club, at 1015 L street N.\W., was dedicated yester- . day in ceremonies during which Senator Hill, Democrat, of Alabama praised enlisted men as the “first Americans to make sacrifices in a new kind of war.” Addressing representatives of the Women's Army and Navy League and the National Democratic Wom- en’s Club in Chadwick Hall, Sena- tor Hill asserted that “to date too many civililans have prospered by the war” while only the men and boys in the armed forces have made sacrifices. He called on all citizens to make some contribution to the war effort “if the things we hold dear are to be saved” Warns of Propagandists. The Nazis wage two kinds of war, he said, e#en warfare and invisi- ble war. In the latter category prop- agandists will seek to break down faith in our leaders, Senator Hill warned, and added that we must stand behind the President and his military chiefs throughout the struggle. “We have been losing the war for 20 years,” the Senator declared, “be- cause Americans have been think- ing in terms of peace and comfort and not war and mobilizati In noting facilities for the recrea- tion of enlisted men, Senator Hill said that during the last war he found Washington the “loneliest place in the world” and that he was glad to see a place where soldiers could come “to give their morale a boost.” Women Donate $6,000, At the close of Senator Hill's ad- dress the group moved across an areaway to the basement of the main building, where the canteen has been put in operation for en- listed men. The Democratic Wom- en’s Club had donated nearly $6,000 | for the project. A bronze plaque marking the oc- casion was placed on one wall of the canteen. Assisting in the cere- monies were Mrs. Raymond Fowler, president of the league; Mrs. Curtis Shears, president of the Democratic group, and Mrs. John B. Gordon, chairman of the club's Defense Project Committee, Mrs. Henry Jewett, widow of Col. Jewett, is chairman of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines’ Club commit- tee operating the canteen, where men on leave are supplied with home-cooked meals at relatively small cost. | Hovering Stork Still Keeps Nazi Attache inD. C. The stork has ,earned special treatment from the American Gov- ernment for Karl Resenberg, first secretary of the German Embassy here. Mr. Resenberg is being permitted to remain in Washington instead of being concentrated with other mem- bers of the German Embassy stafl at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., because his wife is expecting a| baby. This explanation came from the State Department today when offi- cials were asked if reports that Mr. Resenberg had been seen in Wash- ington during the last few days could be correct. Mr. Resenberg, at his home, 2027 Greenvale road’N.W., said the baby was expected next week. Prau Resenberg, her husband said, is an American citizen, & native of Towa. Her maiden name was Claire Bukoff. They have been married three years. This will be their first child. The child expected nex'. ‘week will have the choice of American or Ger- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1942. Libya (Continued From First Page.) sions in supply depots, airdromes and harbor works. Clash With Main British Force Yet to Come LONDON, Feb. 4 (/.—The main British force in Libya has not yet clashed with Axis assault troops which now have pushed roughly two-thirds of the way back from El Agheila, highwater mark of Brit- ain’s westward drive, to the starting point on the Egyptian frontier, a military commentator declared to- day. The action so far has involved only patrols and covering units, British sources said. An authoritative British source declared the pick of Germany’s U-boat commanders and crews had been shifted to the Mediterranean to help guard the flow of reinforce- ments to Field Marshal Erwin Rom- mel’s North African army. He said other factors which had helped the Axis get men and sup- plies across the Mediterranean were: 1. The use of considerably stronger 1 | surface and air convoys 2. Transport of some supplies on | speedy cruisers and destroyers which | are more difficult to intercept thln slower transport vessels. 3. Weather which recently has | French Again Deny Nazis Get Aid Via Tunisia 4 (.—An authorized French source he sald were of British origin, that German Field Marshal Edwin Rom- mel's African army has been get- terial through French Tunisia. (The B. B. C. said yesterday the French Vice Premier Darlan had agreed to send two shiploads of supplies weekly.) The French source said nelther\ French supplies nor Tunisian terri- | tory nor Tunisian territorial waters | had been used by the Germans and Ttalians. Tunisia is on the western border of Libya. Seminar Planned Tonight Continuing a series of round table | discussions of great works of litera- ture, inaugurated by Stringfellow Barr, president of St. John's Col- I.eze Shakespeare’s “King Lear” will discussed at a seminar to be held at 8 o'clock tonight at the Whittall Pavilion of the Library of Congress. Peter Petcoff will lead the discussion, the sixth in a series | sponsored by the Library of Con- man citizenship, officials said. gress discussion group. | Capital Navy Wife Informed Husband Is Japanese Prisoner | Lt. Comdr. Newman Captured by Enemy On Guam Island On December 2, Mrs. Helen B. Newman, 2440 Sixteenth street N.W., received a letter from her husband, Lt. Comdr. Samuel Arthur Newman, stationed on Guam Island, in which he predicted: “I'll be dead or off the island by February 15.” She knew his forecast of an attack came true, of course. But which of the alternatives befell him? Last night, she found out. She received a message via a short-wave listening post in San Francisco that revealed he was “off the island,” a Japanese prisoner of war. Has Lost Weight. ® Here is the message she said she was given: “Although a prisoner of war in Japan, I feel as well as I did on my return from Europe as a groom in 1924. The Japanese army treats us well. Consult father about selling home but do not sell if my position is secure with the Gulf Oil Corp. Love, Arthur.” “I was startled at first and a little afraid,” she said. “But then, of course, my feeling changed to Jjoy. I'm just the happlest ever.” His reference to his physical con- dition indicated to Mrs. Newman that his weight had dropped since being captured from his normal 185 pounds to 155 pounds, which he weighed in 1924. He had not been ill on his return from Europe, but had put on weight as’the years passed. “I guess they've got the prisoners on short rations,” she commented. “But I do hope they won't be too unkind to them.” Served in World War. As for his job with Gulf—he was assistant district sales manager in Pittsburgh before being called to duty in the Naval Reserve a year ago—it's perfectly safe, Mrs. New- man said. And she won't have to sell the house. Comdr. Newman, who is 42, is a native of Texas City, Tex., and & graduate of Texas A. & M. "College. He served with the Navy during the | ‘Wor)d War and had been in Guam @s an engineer ipervtflnx con- » MRS. HELEN NEWMAN. —Woltz Photo. LT. COMDR. S. A. NEWMAN. —Underwood & Underwood. struction of naval facilities since Septembe: He nnd llrl Newman were mar- ried at the Washington Cathedral here in 1923. ‘ ] been unfavorable to interception. | VICHY, Unoccupied France, Feb. | again denled today reports, which | ting reinforcements of men and ma- | GRADUATES—Elton F. Young, jr., 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elton F. Young of 3601 S street N.W., who was graduat- ed from Kelly Field, Tex., and will be commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. A native of this city, he graduated from West- ern High School and the Uni- versity of Maryland. Lt. Young started his training last July. Singapore (Continued From nm Page.) ,manned their guns to ward off | Japanese air raiders. In the tangled mangrove swamps along Johore Strait troops, familiar with the art of camouflage, masked new machine-gun nests, rifie pits | and gun emplacements with which every chink in the island’s armor was being stoppered. Battle-hardened imperial troops, | meanwhile, worked swiftly to in- struct newly-arrived reinforcements |in tricks of war learned in the Mnllynn jungles, where for more than six weeks they fought the in- vaders. British military men declared that | every day the Japanese delayed launching their expected assault would make the attack more difficult | | and more costly. (A German radio broadcast heard last night in London ac- knowledged that the Japanese would “face & heavy task” if they tried to take Singapore. “Singa- pore still has enough and more than enough defense potentiali- ties,” the broadcast said.) Raids Stoically Accepted. Singapore’s cosmopolitan popula- tion appeared to be accepting stoi- cally the repeated raids by Jap- anese bombers which were generally regarded as preliminary to an at- tempted push across Johore Strait. “Business as usual” signs, long fa- | miliar in bomb-blasted London, hun: deflantly before many shops in sections which had been hit hardest by enemy raiders. Though official figures were lack- ing, it appeared that Japanese bombers which ranged over the island from dawn to early afternoon yesterday had caused comparatively few casualties. The raiders started a number of fires and 2t the day's end smoke clouds smudged the blood-red sun- set, but all blazes except two had been extinguished and they were under control. Playing an important part in the task of cleaning up air-raid damage and constructing defense positions was & newly-organized army of Chi- nese laborers which displayed a willingness to work under the most hazardous conditions. North Singapore Island Scene Bleak, Japs Say (This_dispatch was sent from an enemy country, whose motive in re- leasing news is likely to be propaganda. Axis claims should be credited only when confirmed by American or Allied sources.) TOKIO (From Japanese Broad- casts), Feb. 4 (£ —With oll tanks blazing on the water front the northern part of Singapore island presents a bleak, lifeless scene, bro- ken only by the movement of trucks creeping along the coastal hills and the occasional appearance of a transport plane, Domel reported today. ° From high ground on the Ma- layan side of narrow Johore Strait, the news agency said, it is possible to see the hulk of a three-masted British destroyer partly submerged in the Singapore naval base, where it was run aground. The roads around the base were said to be entirely deserted. Studded along the strait can be with square loopholes menacing any invasion attempt. “Five out of 26 tanks bombed by Japanese aircraft are blazing un- checked, their smoke. billowing over “Occasionally transpor plancs, prob- 3 lonally P! , prob- ably cdrrying refugees to the Neth- erlands East Indies, can be seen fly- ing over an airdrome, but there is no sign of a single British warplane, indicating that the British air force stationed at Singapore “either has been annihilated or humy trans- ferred to the Indies.” seen camouflaged concrete pillboxes CANTEEN DEDICATION CEREMONIES—The canteen at the Soldiers, Sallors and Marines’ Club was dedicated yesterday. Participants included (left to right) Mrs. Curtis S8hears, president of Democratic Women'’s Club; Senator Hill, Democrat, of Alabama and Mrs. John B. Gordon, chair- man of the club’s Defense Projects Committee. —Star Staft Photo. Suicide Report Is Filed In Woman's Death Leap Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald issued a certificate of suicide today in the death of Mrs. Adaline Porter McReynolds, 28, of Salem, Va., who leaped last night from the Calvert Street Bridge to the pavement of ‘Waterside drive in Rock Creek Park. Police, who received a call at 9:51 pm. that a woman had jumped from the bridge, found Mrs. McRey- nolds on the drive. She was pro- nounced dead at 10:19 pm. by Dr. L. R. Lang, Emergency Hospital physician. Identification was made by Wil- liam E. McReynolds, a brother-in- law, of 2311 Connecticut avenue N.W. She was the wife of Harry D. McReynolds of Salem, and had been in {ll health for some time. Re- cently she received treatment in a Reynolds told police. He explained that a friend of Mrs. McReynolds had gone to Union Sta- | tion to meet her last night, expect- | ing her on a train from Roanoke. Beside Mrs. McReynolds’ body | | police found her purse. A gold wed- | dxng rlng was found on the tmdce :Coliege Meleorologlcal 'Staffs Called to Capifal | the experience gained in the Gov- wemmem, training program in ad- | vanced meteorology, representatives of the meteorological staffs of five | universities, under call of the Weather Bureau, will meet here Federal experts, the Commerce De- partment announced today. The last through February 19. sented are Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, | the University of Chicago, California Institute of Technology and the University of California at Los Angeles. In co-operation with the Weather Bureau, the Army, the Navy and the 1clvfl Aeronautics Administration, these five institutions instituted a meteorological training program in | September, 1940. Among the in- | structors are nine Weather Bureau meteorologists. Two groups of students have com- pleted these courses, and the third group, double the size of the last class, will begin its studies on | March 2. Early Income Tax Tofa! Twice That of Last Year By the Associated Press. Thousands of Federal income tax- payers—new and old—have taken the gloom out of March by filing their returns early, the Treasury disclosed yesterday in announcing that such tax receipts to date are twice as large as they were a year 2g0. The Treasury reported that Janu- ary collections were $133468,893, compared with $62,759,357 in the same month last"year. At some col- lection offices, the ratio was even higher. . Although the deadline for this year’s Federal income tax returns is March 16, the returns were due tech- nically on January 1. So to avoid the customary 1lth-hour rush an increasing number of Americans are getting the annual chore out of the way early. 1In Chicago, for instance, a Federal Revenue office said that returns filed between January 2 and January 28 numbered 25,701, compared with 12.296 for the same 1941 period, and the revenues amounted to $24,300,- 000, compared with $9,859,000. In Baltimore, both returns and revenues were up 100 per cent, and scattered reports from other parts of the country told similar stories. ShipbfiilfleTs’ Union Row Compromised by W. L. B. By the Assoclated Press. Another union shop demand by a C. 1. O. organization was compro- mised last night by the new War Labor Board. The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers, in a con- tract despute with the Robert Jacob Shipyard of City Island, N. Y., had demanded a clause by which all workers would be compelled to join the union. The company demurred. ‘The compromise provides for a union maintenance clause which re- quires all employes who are union members to:remain in good stand- ing, but does not require non-union workers to join. The compromise also provides that the company will hire new men through the union. hospital in Roanoke, Va., Mr. Mc- | [R. A. F. Dive Bombers ’Supplied by U.S. i To discuss weather problems aris-| give bombers and how they com- | | ing from the entrance of the United | | States into the war and co-ordinate February 16 with Army, Navy and; The five universities to be repre- | | | | bombers from the United States. 'Dr. Furbay Will Talk conference, the first of its kind, will| Chinese Claim Fall Of Three Towns Near Japan's Hunan Base Chungking Also Reports Successes in Other Theaters of Conflict By the Associated Press. CHUNGKING, Feb. 4.—The Chinese command reported to- day eapture of three towns near Yochow, the Hunan Province base from which the Japanese launched their recent disastrous thrust at Changsha, and the seizure of two villages on the Canton-Kowloon Rallway in South China. at polnh in Northern IM Central Hupeh, also were recorded in a communique. In the drive along the Canton- Kowloon Railway the Chinese were sald to have seized Bunday the sta- tion of Chengmuktou, only 30 miles from the border of Japanese-held Hong Kong, and the nearby village of Shekma. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties in this operation, said the communique. 2 It said the seizure of towns near Yochow was accomplished January 31, presumably by troops which had followed up Japanese columns re- treating from their” Changsha ad- venture. “The enemy was put to| fiight,” the communique added. | (Yochow, 110 miles southwest of Hankow at the big bend of the Yangtze, where the waters of Tungting Lake empty into the river, is, one of the key points in the whole Japanese position in Central China. Its capture might compel the invaders to abandon their hold on Ichang, nearly 200 miles up the Yangtze, and fall back on Hankow. Ichang already is under heavy Chinese pressure.) ‘The high command said helvy? casualties were being inflicted on the | Japanese in the Nanchang area, but gave no geographical details, Enemy attacks in Hupeh were repulsed, it asserted. B) the Associated Press. | LONDON, Feb. 4—Air Minister | Sir Archibdld Sinclair disclosed in the House of Commons today that the R. A. F. is receiving its dive His statement was in answer to & question whether Britain was pro- ducing “any substantial number” of pared with German types. | The Air Minister said a special new type was being produced in the | United States and, without divulg- ing specifications, commented that | “there is good reason to suppose | their performance will be satisfac- | tory.” On Nazis in Africa Dr. John Harvey Furbay, professor at Mills College, Oakland, Calif., will lecture on “My Experiences with the German Fifth Column in West Iwo Nearby Marylanders ipplne Casualfies A 2%-year-old Washington nkh = For War Industries - g5 853240 i g5 superintendent of trash collection in District, said he was not in- Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Mc- Donald of Lan- ham, a selectee with the Army Engineers at Clark Fleld in the Philippines. His family was informed that Mebert McDenald. Pvt. McDonald, s graduate of the Hyattsville High School, was only slightly wounded. Housing _ (Continued Prom First Page) _ authorization of a $50,000,000 appro- priation, and within 24 hours after- ward the committee started hearings on the legislation. These hearings, he recalled, were held Thufsday, Friday and yesterday. “How could the committe have acted faster?” He asked newspaper- men. “It was my intention to ex- pedite action on the legislation and that was done. Surely the critics of the committee do not understand how legislation is Randled.” Hospital Needs Cited. Charles D. Drayton, chairman of the Hospital Presidents Association of the District, meanwhile, made public a copy of a letter sent Chair- | man Lanham on behalf of the | association stating that a shortage of “not less than 1,650 beds” exists | tn hospital facilities of the Metro- | politan Area. “This need for additional beds is desperate now.,” the association ad- vised, “and with the impending in- crease in population will become a real menace 1f the need is not met. These beds are needed chiefly for the low and middle income class of our population which the expansion of governmental functions has brought to Washington and who should not and do not desire to be made the objects of public charity. * * * “Private capital is not available for effecting this expansion. In this | emergency the best solution appears to be construction of low-cost facili- ties on properties now held by the | existing hospitals in the District of Columbia, which could be operated by present adm! tive staffs. And the voluntary hospi stand ready to co-operate to the fullest extent p:c:dib!e in meeting this compelling need.” Africa” at 8 pm. tomorrow in the chapel of Georgetown Presbyterian | Church, 3115 P street NW. | The Lewis & Bonds or bondage! States savings bonds! Buy United Thes. Saltz , 1409 G Street, N.W. 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Miss Thelma McKelvey of the War Production Board’s labor division said today that the board was plan- ning an immediate inventory of ‘women lnmble for war plant work. , consideration will industry or perform other essential ‘war services.” Miss McKelvey told s special House committee studying worker migration and the problem: of mus- tering the Nation’s full labor re- sources that “we cannot predict the limits of our future reeds, and the only wise course is to prepare for every eventuality.” Depression Migration Seen Likely. “If we can succeed in using effec- tively our potentially great labor force of women workers, we need have no doubt about meeting any labor requirements for war produc- | tion,” she added. Howard B. Myers, W. P. A. di- rector of research, testified that the “all-out war effort, accompanied by | npld shifts in industrial concentra- | tion, vast new demands for labor in some areas and large-scale priorities unemployment in other areas and diminishing primary labor sources, is certain to provide a marked stim- ulus to the further movement of Ppopulation.™ “The course of post-war migra- tion,” he added, “will be far less| happy than that of the present day. | Post-war migration may well be | depression migration all over again.” | Farm Hands Needed. Meanwhile, the United Federal Workers Auxiliary (C. I. O.) sent to the committee a statement ad- vocating a broad program to release women from household chores, give them vocational training, expand public nursery schools and increase | lunch facilities both for school chil- dren and for factory workers en- gaged in war production. Discussing the need of farm hands, Senator Nye, Republican, of In- diana, told reporters he and other Senators were asking that selective service regulations be adjusted to provide safeguards against jeopar- dizing agricultural production. He said farmers were experiencing | a labor problem as a result of the | draft, together with the attraction | of men to better wages in industry. | Bishop Baker to Head | Missionary Council [ By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 4—The Inter- | national Missionary Council an- | nounced that Dr. John R. Mott, 76, | its chairman since its establish- | ment, in 1820, had resigned md‘ would be succeeded by James C. Baker of the southem California area of the Methodist | ‘The council comprises missionary | organizations of Protestant churches | throughout the world. * Germany Can't Make Bulgarians Fight Russia, Earle Says Tide of Hate for Nazis Growing in Europe, Ex-Envoy Reports By the Associated Press. day that Bulgaria is so pro-Russian “there is no doubt whatever” but that Bulgarian troops would have mutinied if sent to Russia to fight alongside Germans. “Never in all history,” he said while here to report to of State Hull, “has there been such a tidal wave of hatred in Europe as now has welled up against the Ger- mans.” Mr. Earle said he questioned whether Hitler had enough men to hold the lid on this cauldron of hatred very much longer. He said he had been reliably in- formed ‘hat the Germans are so short of man power that only boys under 15 and men over 75 are be- ing used in such non-combatant duties as the customs service. “However,” he cautioned, “men can't fight the German war machine with their bare hands.” The Bulgarian people were “shocked and saddened beyond | words” when the United States came into the war” Mr. Earle as- serted. “They were absolutely heartbroken.” He said his present plans are rather indefinite, except that “I hope to get in the Navy and see active service.” 'Marines Launch Drive For College Men Here A Marine Corps recruiting cam- paign among college students in Washington got under way this week at Georgetown University, where Lt. Thomas F. Mullahey, jr., a 1941 alumnus, registered 66 former college mates as applicants for the officers’ candidate school. ‘The local effort is part of a Nation- | wide drive to obtain 4,000 Marine Reserve officers from the colleges of the country, the program providing that they shall not be called to active duty until the compietion of their college courses. Conservation of Paper Every citizen is called upon to see that not a pound of paper is wasted. Demand from every clerk that any unnecessary wrapping of packages or un- necessary use of paper bags be dispensed with, Waste paper for paperboard is vital to the packaging of a great quantity of war equip- ment. Do not burn newspapers, but, when you have saved enough for a bundle, give them to the school children who are co- operating in the defense pro- gram with the parent-teacher organization in The Star’s campaign for reclaiming old newspapers. 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