Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1942, Page 1

Weather Forecast Colder today, fresh to strong winds. ‘Temperatures yesterday—Highest, 48, at 1:45 pm.; lowest, 37, at 9:45 am. Prom the United States Wegther Bureau report. Full Details on Page A-2, No. 1924—No. 35,712. S Blasting Ships Out Planes Raid Rangoo Jap Force of 30 In Jungle Behin Enemy Wins Fresh Indies Foothold, Taking Amboina The British stronghold of Singapore, steeled for a last-| ditch stand, yesterday shelled‘ Japanese sampans out of Johore Strait and thus thwarted per- | haps the first invasion move of | enemy forces which for a week | WITH GEN. MacARTHUR'S have been massed for the on- PENINSULA, Feb. 5 (Delayed). slaught against the $400,000,000 | today annihilated the main fore island fortress. | of 300 picked soldiers who landed While Singapore also was receiv- | ing its baptism of shelling from | enemy long-range guns, there was‘ a variety of war news from other | y fronts, most of it unfavorable to |the Americans’ left flank, ap- the Allies: | parently aiming at cutting com- B 3 arnlnrics | munitions and sabotaging supplies. In Burma Japanese Warplanes ., fey gurviving Japanese fled nidgd Ban goonHiast niehtitnthe | to the edge of a cliff sloping sharply heaviest night attack of the war; BPaliHa Rea the vital Burma road terminus| %A ; was subjected to a three-hour‘ There they were cornered. pounding, with the heaviest assault | With Brig. Gen. Clinton Pierce, T centered on the airport just north | Was on the corpse-strewn main bat- of the city. | tleground when the final shots were ingapore Foils Jap Invasion, Tanks Pave Way for Final M‘opping Up Of Suicide Battalion in Dense Jungle By CLARK LEE, Associated Press War Correspondent. American tanks paved the way for the final’'mopping up, mow- ing down trees with gunfire, smashing underbrush and then blast- ing the Japanese out of their foxhole trenches. The Japanese had landed behind ¢— he WY Sunday Staf WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 8, 1942128 PAGES. of Strait; n 3 Hours 0Is Wiped Out d U. S. Flank FORCE IN WESTERN BATAAN | —American and Filipino troops e of a Japanese suicide battalion | from the sea some time ago. | resistance to the end wijh tenacious- ness which was finally overcome by | the relentless forward surge of the Americans and their Allies. One of the prisoners captured | carried a message from Lt. -Col. | Tsunehiro addressed to Lt. Gen. Naoki Kimura, commanding the | | 16th Division and to the Emperor | of Japan: “We are surrounded by the enemy | 1Two Million | idly expanding winged forces of the Army: to Expand Air Force fo New Program Calls For 3,600,000 Ground Troops By NELSON M. SHEPARD. Plans for a 2,000,000-man air force—the world’s largest and best equipped—and the start of a tremendous expansion of the Army’s ground forces to achieve a 3,600,000 goal before the end of this year were announced yester- day. The immediate objective of the Army Air Force is 1,000,000 men this year and “double that number later on,” according to an announce- ment authorized by Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff. Combined with the already rap- Navy, officials said the program would assure the United States and its allies air superiority over the Axis. They compared it with the esti- mated reported strength of around 1250000 men for the Nazis and The Evening and Sunday Star is delivered in the city 4nd suburbs at 75¢ per month. The Night Final Edition and Sunday Morning Star at 85¢ per month. AmnlesPems. TEN CENTS. Leary fo Head |Allied Fleet in Anzac Waters Glassford Named Chief of Southwest Pacific Forces (Pictures on Page A-9.) | Command of the naval forces | of the United Nations in the Aus- | tralian-New Zealand area has | been placed under Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary, the Navy De- partment announced in a com- munique late yesterday. He will have the title of “commander of Anzac forces.” At the same time it was revealed that Vice Admiral William A. Glass- Ford, jr, had been named chief of forces which formerly made up the Asiatic Fleet and now will be known as the “United States Naval Forces, Southwest Pacific.” ‘The naming of the two vice ad- mirals is part of a series of moves to unify command in the Southwest Pacific. The first was announced by the White House on January 3 fol- lowing conferences between Presi- dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill and military experts of The raid followed a quiet day dur- ing which R. A. F. warplanes at- tacked a formation of 24 Japanese scouting craft, dispersing it and downing three planes without loss to the R. A. F. | Amboina Is Lost to Japs. [ In the Netherlands Indies, the Allies’ vital Soerabaja base again was under air attack yesterday and the secondary base of Amboina was Jost to the Japanese. i‘ Also, in the Indies, came the only news of Allied successes. A Japa- nese cruiser and transport were sunk and another cruiser and de- stroyer were damaged. Eight Amer- ican Army P-40 fighter planes brought down three out of a larger enemy force, with one United States plane lost and another missing. The Dutch fleet, despite Tokio claims to | the contrary, still was intact and very much in operation. fired, driving the last stubborn Jap- anese from their hiding places, into the brush a few yards away from the China Sea. American and Filipino infantry- men followed them. The fighting was typical of the bitter warfare waged in the jungle areas of Bataan, where ground is contested inch by inch, and where men must kill or be killed. The Japanese continued futile and it is bécoming doubtful whether 200Ut 1000000 men in the British our forces can collect enough strength to hold out. ' “Our unit has suffered 152 cas- ualities, reducing its fighting | strength such an extent that main- | taining our position becomes pre- carious * * * our ammunition and food supplies are low * * * Banzai:” This morning Capt. C. A. Crome, | | husky South Carolinian with his T (See LEE, Page A-8) | Singapore’sWSul;urbs Shelled First Time By Japs' Big Guns Answering Artillery Jonathan Wainwright Is Awarded D. §. C. By Gen. MacArthur Former Commandant A F. News of plans for this tremendous striking force came yesterday at the same time President Roosevelt | announced he had signed an execu- | tive order calling to active duty 27| organized infantry divisions which officials said now exist only on paper. The executive order calls into service all units and personnel of the Organized Reserves of the Army not now on active duty. Secretary of War Stimson is authorized to set | the dates when these Reservists shall be called. Program Stepped Up. ‘The air force expansion program, ' however, overshadows all other | plans to build up an armed force | that “can carry the war to the enemy’'s home ground and hit him | again and again wherever we can | reach him.” } "War Time’ Becomes | Effective Over Nafion At 2 A.M. Tomorrow Trains Running Late Probably Only Agency Mfe(_:ted by Change The official change over from standard to “war time” will take | place throughout the Nation at 2 a.m. tomorrow, but indications | are that most Americans won't wait until the designated hour to advance their clocks. Time's leap over the one-hour period from 2 am. to 3 am. wil| put the Nation an hour ahead of Survivors of S-26 Describe How 33 Were Lost in Collision Expert Divers, Sent From Washington, Arrive Too Late to Rescue Crew By the Associated Press, AT SEA OFF PANAMA, Feb. 7—The United States submarine 8-26 sank in the Pacific January 24 after a sudden collision with an escort vessel and took with it all but 3 of 36 crewmen. The three survivors were two offi- cers and a seaman who had been | those who went down with the craft | standing on the bridge during the and added: submarine’s surface operations.| “The next of kin of casualties They were the commanding officers, have been notified.” the United Nations. Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell then was named commander in chief and | Admiral Thomas C. Hart, then chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet, as commander of Naval operations in the Southwest Pacific. No Details on Operation. No details were available here on | how the Hart-Leary command will operate. The Navy communique announc= |ing Admiral Leary’s designation said: “The following new naval com- | mand has been established to take | effect immediately: Lt. Comdr. Earle C. Hawk of Stu-! Names of the men were not dis- gerties, N. Y.; Lt. Robert E. N. Ward closed. ,of Antioch, Calif., and Seamen Joe Explaining events preceding the Forces, Southwest B. Hurst of Oda, Okla. | tragedy, Comdr. Hawk said he had The impact threw them clear of | been called to the bridge to view a the submarine’s superstructure and Ppassing merchantman when he “No. 1. Forces which formerly con=- stituted the Asiatic Fleet are now known as the United States Naval Pacific. Vice Admiral Willlam A. Glassford, jr., U. S. Navy, commands the forces. “No. 2. Admiral Thomas C. Hart Before Pearl Harbor, Secretary the sun and give Washington its | | Stimson had set a goal of 400.000 | st 23-nour day since daylight | Y Were fished out of the water. spotted the escort vessel following j5 commander of the combined naval The Navy Department in Washing- | & crossing course. forces in the A. B. D. A, (American- At Fort Myer Honored But even these latter bright spots Knocks Out at Least in the gloomy broader picture were With Gen. A. M. Jones | men in the Air Force by next ! saving of World War I. ton, in announcing the sinking, said He said the submarine’s course pritich-Dutch-Australian) area. ne Enemy Batte almost eclipsed by the Japanese oc- o Y £y ! June 30. The Air Force already is A sample survey conducted by cupation of Amboina—an operation’ By the Associated Press. carried out at the cost of the three SINGAPORE, Feb. 7.—British naval vessels. For Ambolna, flank- batteries on the north shore of ing the most direct supply route westward from the United States pans out of the Strait of Johore and Australia to the Indies, also | today and thus broke up perhaps gives the invader a fresh foothold | the first feint of the invasion only 630 miles from the chief north | forces which have massed for a Australian base at Port Darwin. | week for the onslaught against American Forts Bombarded, this fortress island and its de- ___! fiant “City of the Lion.” In the Philippines, there Were “geuerg) of the small craft near signs of a gathering Jepanese of- the Japanese-held Johore coast fensive in a three-hour bombard-|. ... cink. Juent °"A”1’\:"°fi“ ‘;:"; g Lan dine| _Outlving residential districts of rance to anila - " th Gorrapicor e Horttem il whioh 1| o SArC e (NELS Doninatzaro fs hi first time during the day by big has appeared for some time that| ;. .;.ce guns moved up to the low Gen. MacArthur eventually may | pyjs of southernmost Johore—10 have to withdrew his forces NOW | pjjes from the northern limits of 0 Bimn Foaome. the city at the nearest point. From Tokio, by varlous routes, — priticn artillery thundered back came a number of unsubstantiated |its answer to the challenge with a :;‘l{“’.m‘y:gen::e“m;:; Axis vex:;d | pounding which knocked out at least A al marine " |one of the Japanese batteries, a sunk a large destroyer in the Java | communique re:orwd.' Sea; that its naval forces had sunk‘ Overhead, the Japanese bombers 29 submarines and 50 surface shlpf | were back again, but there, too, the :;'fwrx "g;‘:n:“ggm‘ g:“‘]’\::;::‘; ! Japanese ran into a spirited defense. ¥ Cause Some Damage. campaign, it had lost a total of | only 3382 men killed and wounded | that the bombers caused some dam- to 39"’0‘? Allied ~ troops kmfd ©Or | age, but declared at least one of captured; that it had destroyed or | them was smashed to the earth by captured 399 Allied vessels, com- syift British fighter planes, another i | more were damaged. :lha: 91?1 Allif: planesd hadl bi;fl Not one of the British fighters was estroyed on the ground or in the jost, the war bulletin added. air, against Japanese losses of 153 The communique gave no details ‘aircraft. on the shelling of the sampans seen Singapore shelled Japanese sam- | The communique acknowledged | 200 Seized in French Town In Bombing Attempt By the Associated Press. VICHY, Unoccupied France, Feb. %.—Two hundred persons have been arrested at Rouen, in the occupied gone, for an attempt to bomb a German army building, it was an- nounced tonight. Another attack on the Germans was reported from Tours where an 8 p.m. curfew was ordered as pun- ishment for the community. (The nature of this outbreak was not at once described bevond the Nazi- slanted phrase “terrorism.”) The Petit Parisien, a newspaper published in German-occupied Paris, told of still another disturb- ance at Amiens, where, it said, an armed cyclist was arrested after he and a companion smashed the front of a store used as a recruit- ing station for volunteers to the anti-Russian Legion ‘When the cyclist was pursued he drew an automatic pistol and tried to fire, it was said, but the weapon jammed and he was overpowered. The prisoner, 21, gave his name as Raymond Gourdain. Malta Raided 13 Times VALETTA, Malta, Feb. 7 (#).— One German plane was shot down today during 13 raids on this much- bombed Mediterranean fortress. Despite the swarms of Axis planes, reinforcements continued to arrive. Earthquake at Lima LIMA, PERU, Feb. T (P).—An earth tremor rocked the Peruvian ‘gapital at 10:45 pm., E’' 8, T, to- night. in the closely guarded strait. They are the type of flat-bottom native boats which the Japanese have used before in moving small fighting forces around British land positions in the fight for Malaya, and might have been sent out to | test the British defenders or in an attempt to put infiltration parties ashore on Singapore Island. (The Vichy radio broadcast a For extraordinary hereism in| action in the Philippines, Gen. | Douglas MacArthur has awarded Distinguished Service Crosses to | two of his principal aides, Maj. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, former commandant at Fort | Myer, and Brig. Gen. Albert M. Jones of Quincy, Mass., the War | Department announced yester- | | day. | The awards were for achievements | in the early phases of the Philippine fighting. Gen. Walnwright com- manded the northern front on the Island of Luzon and Gen. Jones the southern sector. it | Pighting a Japanese foe greatly superior in numbers, their com- mands slowly fell back and finally | united in Pampanga Province be- | fore retiring to the present strong | position in the Bataan Peninsula. | “Gen. MacArthur reported to ‘the | War Department he had personally | decorated Gen. Wainwright and | Gen. Jones with the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action,” the communique read. It continued: “In the early phases of the fight- | ing * * * the troops under these two | commanders fought delaying ac- | tions, slowly falling back and finally { uniting their forces in Pampanga | Province. By particularly skillful ' maneuvers they were able to escape | being caught in a large-scale pincers movement executed by the Japanese. | Subsequently, the combined force | withdrew to Bataan Province, where the troops of both officers have been in practically continuous action for | several weeks.” The communique then gave a short biographical sketch of each of the officers. 3 Born in Walla Walla, Wash., August 23, 1883, Gen. Wainwright the second largest branch of the means of a little ‘random dialing Army. | of the telephone revealed—without The original goal of 400,000 men | creating a sensation—that practi- called for a training program of | cally no one in Washington is going 30,000 pilots a year. Today's goal | to sit up until 2 am. just to push of 2,000,000 men calls for sweeping | their clocks ahead. Theyll do it changes in the training program un- | before they go to bed or wait until dreamed of a few months ago. On | they get up. the basis of needs, it was believed | There's one exception. Josepn W. the pilot program, alone, would have | 8mith, who has had charge of the to be stepped up to around 120,000 & | four big clocks in the tower of the year, old Post Office Building at Twelfth Secretary of the Navy Knox said | street and Pennsylvania avenue recently the Navy would expand its | since 1920, is going to make the | alr arm by training 30,000 pilots a | Switch promptly at the official hour. year and that it was taking over | Will Take a Minute. four colleges and universities in | different parts of the United States '’y t posed to be on dut; to school the aerial fighters. o s 2 o Huge Plane Output Planned. | i anyway. Then hell go back He lives in Capitol Heights, Md., | | at that hour, but he's going to do all hope had been abandoned for ~ (See SUBMARINE, Page A-5) | Legality of Pepco |Big Freighter Sunk | Control by Qufside By Two U-Boas, 'Firm fo Be Probed 11 of Crew Saved Plan to Sell 30,000 Stock | 28 Missing After Attack Shares to W. R. E. Co. 200 Miles Off New York; Prompts Move Ship Down Off Canada By DON S. WARREN. By the Associated Press. Questioning whether control| NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—The 15,- | | | “No. 3. Combined naval forces of the Australian-New Zealand area have been established with Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary, U. 8. Navy, in command. His title is Commander Anzac Forces. Directed Fleet Training. Admiral Leary served as director of the Division of Fleet training in the office of the chief of naval operations here until 1939, when he was assigned to sea duty. The admiral, who is 56 and a native of Washington, is the son of another Navy veteran, Rear Admiral Richard P. Leary. He served with distinction in the World War and was awarded the of the Potomac Electric Power 355-ion Swedish vessel Amerika- Navy Cross as force gunnery officer The Army's 2,000000-man force home for an abbreviated night's Co.by the North American Co— | “ties in.” officlals said, with produc- | sleep before going to work at 8 am. | one of the huge holding corpora- | I8 in the world, sank less than | ! land, one of the largest freight- on the staff of the commander of Bettleship Force No. 1, 200 miles off the entrance to! He won a number of foreign |New Tires in Mexico tion plans for 60,000 planes this The job of changing the hour on year and 125000 next year. How | the four clocks will take only about many of these will actually be re- minute. - . tained by the United States Army | Some citizens set their clocks (See AIR FORCE, Page A-4) | ahead last night just to get used to the new arrangement. It's a U. S. Tourists Can Buy simple process, but the change ap- parently is causing no little con- fusion in the minds of some Wash- ingtonians. School officials had a number of inquiries from parents who were under the impression that they By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, Feb. T.—United States tourists may buy all the tires | would have to send their children they neéd in Mexico—but they have | i Actuall; to take their old ones back to the | ' 500l an hour earlier. Actuaty, it will be an hour earlier by the o N0 el ey tenll meetie sun, of course, but it will be the the new ones. > 7 - | 1 by the clock— Under this arrangement, already same HINS a8 SIAS I the s tions—is legal, the District Pub- | | New York harbor Monday after | | lic Utilities Commission yester-| g _ | being torpedoed three times by A8y onder o e e | two submarines, 11 survivors of | tigation of the ownership and | | financing of the local powerl;’i‘;m”‘“““ crew related to- | company. The ‘move, initiated by Gregory | The ore-carrying ship was under | Hankin, commission chairman, and | charter by the Ore Steamship Co.| supported by Col. Charles W, Kutz, | of New York from its Swedish| the other commission member, was | OWNers. | the outcome of a recent application | Representatives of the Third iby the power company for permis- | Naval District quoted survivors as | sion to sell 30,000 shares of its com- | saying the attack occurred at 8:30 | mon stock to its “parent,” the Wash- | pm. about 170 miles off Sandy | ington Railway & Electric Co. | Hook, the torpedoes striking the The proposed price was $100 a | starboard side at 10 to zo-mlnuuj | share, whereas Chairman Hankin | intervals. | ,'declnred if Pepco were to sell the | (Forty-five survivors landed decorations and after the armistice was a member of the commission which inspected German bases and ships. Admiral Leary served at various Naval posts in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin and from 1928 to 1931 commanded the powder factory at Indianhead, Md., and the Naval Proving Grounds at Dahl- gren, Va. In 1932 he completed a course at the Naval War College here. In recent years he served as com- mander in chief of the United States Fleet. His home address was given by the Navy as Jamestown, R. L in effect, border inspectors examine the old tires to make,sure they can- | not be repaired. Once satisfied of this, the tourist is permitted to take the new ones out. A. R. Khan, assistant collector of customs at Laredo, said the tires may enter the United States duty- free. He held that they couid be in- was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1908, (See SINGAPORE, Page A-4.) (See WAINWRIGHT, Page A-8.) With the Office of Civilian De- fense a focal point of both con- Jusion and controversy, The Star has assigned a reporter to inter- view key figures in the organiza- .tion and report what he discovers, what he is told and any news- worthy experience he has in thus attempting to bring an under- standing of the existing civilian defense setup to the public. To- day’s interview is with S. Howard Evans, head of the “Know Your . Government” services of the O. C.D. Another article will appear tomorrow. “I was sent over in December by the ‘Budget Bureau to help straighten out the O. C. D. and make it go.” Thus began 8. Howard Eyans, who left a $30-a-day job with the Budget Bureau to become the $8,000-a-year chief of “Know Your Government Services” of the Office of Civilian Defense. He went on: “I would say, now this thing is wrong and that thing is wrong, and whenever they didn’t know what to do they would come to me.” He declared that the g division, placed under his contrel, ! Even Dale Carnegie Flunked the Job, O. C. D. ‘Know Your Government’ Chief DANIEL W. HOAN. Phonograph voice of La Guardia. —Star Staff Photo. had assumed # would clear all requests for defense speakers throughout the eountry, and had [ gl cluded under the law allowing a tourist to import $100 worth of goods without paying duty. Says asked the Office of Government Re- ports to write three speeches which would be used everywhere. “To make -sure they were wows, these were sent up and Dale Car- negie rewrote them,” Mr. Evans explained. “They were sent out all over the country, God knows how many times they were used. They ‘were lousy.” Mrs. Sue C. Oulahan, hired at $4,600, and a staff of about nine whose individual salaries are $2,000 or less, are now engaged in register- ing volunteer speakers in every State and recording their abilities, he continued. About 2,000 are regis- tered now, but they are not yet in | action, according to Mr. Evans. He said many hever will be. “We want to refer them back to State and local committees,” he said. “If we used them all, they would get up in a meeting and say they represented the O. C. D. and say something crazy as hell.” To give the volunteers something to talk about eventually, Stephen C. Manning is now employed at $3,800 s year to get up “s brief—sort of | providing the clock has been ad- vanced an hour. Railroads, airlines and the radio industry have arranged to make the change over at 2 am. Radio stations here are happy that the system will be uniform throughout the country. In the past, when New York and other cities changed to daylight savings in the summer, Washington remained on standard time. | Trains to Move Up. The Association of American Railroads issued instructions to all | railroads to change clocks in train | dispatchers’ offices and all other offices open at 2 a.m. Trains en route will automatically be an hour late, but the railroads plan to pick up the “lost” hour within 24 hours after the war time goes into effect. Train | schedules will be moved up an hour | so they will conform with the clock. The new system will not neces- sitate any change in the time-tables, since the schedules are being ad- vanced, but new time tables will (See “WAR TIME,” Page A-6.) 100 Girls a Day! Where Will They Live? That’s the rate they are ar- riving in Washington for war- time jobs here. . .. And there are already over 90,000 Government wom- en in the Capital. What is the Government doing to take care of them? What is being done to look after their health ... their recreation? How the city is facing this | acute problem is outlined in & special article appearing on Page B-8. v 30,000 shares on the open market it probably would return $15,000,000 instead of the $3,000,000 it proposes to charge the W. R. & E. Co., which already owns all its present stock. Legal Question Raised. North American owns, or did until recently, it is said, about 95 per cent of the common stock of W. R. at a Canadian port Saturday reported & submarine had sunk their coastal freighter off the Canadian codSt and that 27 crewmen were still missing.) The Navy Department said in its afternoon communique that while Axis submarine attacks were con- tinuing, “their attacks on Allied & E., and off and on for years ques- merchant shipment are being com- (See POWER, Page A-5.) (See SINKINGS, Page A-9.) Approximately 2,500 taxicabs| from 14 Washington cab com- | panies will inaugurate an ex-| perimental “pick-up” service in the downtown sections begin- ing at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow. ° The service, at a rate of 20 cents a person, will be applicable only to zones 1 and 2 and effective only during” the morning and evening rush hours. The fare will be un- changed for persons taking a cab in zones 3 and 4. Specifically, the hours of epera- tion will be from 7:30 am. to 9:30 am. every day except holidays and from 3:30 pm. to 6:30 p.m. daily except Saturdays and holidays. The 14 participating companies— members of the District Taxicab Owners’ Association, headed by John H. Royer are: & ' Bell, Premier, Washington, Ameri- can, Checker, Yellow, Radio, Lin- coln, Diplomat, Harlem, Senator, Bison, Sun and General. The other cab companies will con- 'Cabs Start Pickup Service ‘Tomorrow for 30-Day Trial less of the zone, and are not eligible for the “pickup” fare. The tele- phone operator taking the request for the cab also will advise the cus- tomer that the pickup service is in effect and ask the customer to share the cab if it is hailed in the pickup zones by persons going to the same general destination. ' In every case, Mr. Royer empha- sized, the person controlling the destination of the cab is the first "person in it. Here is how the experiment will work: Tomorrow morning the partici- pating cab drivers will begin driving in from their homes all over the city. Each will have clipped to his| radiator a cardboard sign - reading “Emergency Pickup Service.” Will Carry 16 Cards. Each driver will carry 16 printed cardboard strips indicating possible destinations — six for the morning rush hour and 10 for the evening. This is because morning travel will be centralized in fewer areas, while tinue to provide private service. “Pick-up” seryice means just that, Persons telephoning for eabs will be charged the regular rates, regard- ) » the homeward bound will be dis- to all of the city. Any persing ‘participating m:aulll | Admiral Glassford, former com- mander of the Yangtze Patrol, is & native of San Francisco, whose present home address is Phoenix, Ariz. He was commissioned an ensign in 1908. Admiral Glassford was on duty in the Office of Naval Operations here from 1924 tp 1927. He is a brother of Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, former superintendent of police in Washington. (Fire at South Bend Field Disrupts Plane Service By the Associated Press. | SOUTH BEND, Ind, Feb. 7—This | center of commercial aviation and | aircraft manufacture was without its | normally busy air traffic today be- | cause of a fire at Bendix Field, the St. Joseph County airport. Manager W. W. Jones stopped plane traffic over the city last night after the airport’s two-story frame administration building burned with estimated loss of $35,000. Mr. Jones said he did not know what caused the blaze, but scouted any possibility of sabotage. Dewey Quits U. S. O. Post NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (/) —Former District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey has resigned as national chairman of United Service Organizations. Most of the administrative work re- cently has been done by Harper Sibley, president, and Walter Hove ing, chairman of the Board of Direc~ tors. Mr. Dewey's successor has not been announced. Radio Programs Page E-4 Complete Index Page A-2 2