Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1942, Page 2

Two Extra Pages In This Edition Late news and sports are covered on Pages 1-X and 2-X of this edition of The Star, supplementing the news of the regular home delivered edition. Closina N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 18. 90th YEAR. American General Directs Fighting In Shirtsleeves By DANIEL DELUCE, Associated Press War Correspondent. WITH THE CHINESE ARMY ON THE TOUNGOO FRONT, March 31 (delayed).—Toungoo was abandoned today by the fierce-fighting remnant of the Chinese garrison which held out there through five days of ter- rific air and ground assault and then battered a way over fields of Japanese dead to rejoin troops which their American command- er, Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, personally led to their relief. Not until ordered by radio to re- treat after Gen. Stilwell's forces proved unable to crack the Japanese line 12 miles north of the town did the garrison budge from its shallow machine-gun holes and rifle pits in the eastern outskirts of Toungoo. The Chinese crossed the Sittang under almost point-blank fire, cut- | ting a bloody swathe through the invaders’ lines, and scattered in the wooded hills northeast of the town, whence they made their way to the main Chinese lines. Goes Up to Front Lines. Gen. Stilwell, lean-jawed com- mander of the Chinese in Burma, came up to the very front lines to direct the fight to save the Toungoo garrison. At his command, boyish rifiemen and machine gunners from China, | spread in thin khaki lines through | the brown jungle flanking the road to Mandalay, counterattacked re- peatedly against the reinforced Jap- anese positions 12 miles north of ‘Toungoo. Four times captured and four times lost by the Chinese in the bitter fighting, the smoking ruins of the Nangyun railroad station a half- mile west of the Burma road, 12| miles north of Toungoo and 5 miles south of Yedashe, was still the center of the battle. Gen. Stilwell, who reached an ad- vanced post near Nangyun Sunday, ordered every Chinese soldiers avail- | able into the fight to open a way | for the Toungoo garrison to with- | No. 35,764. I LT. GEN. JOSEPH W. STILWELL. Sevastopol Garrison Opens Counferattack To Break Nazi Siege 11,500,000 Germans and Russians Are Reported Massing for Drives By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 1.—Red Army men of Sevastopol, veterans of a | 150-day siege, were reported | counterattacking today in a Crimean preliminary to vast | spring engagements which Lon- | don observers expect to involve | about 4,500,000 Germans and 7,- 1 000,000 Russians. Moreover, there were Axis ac- |counts of new Russian thrusts | against Kharwox, Donets Basin in- dustrial center. Bucharest advices relayed by the Vichy radio said Soviet armored | forces, following artillery prepara- tion lasting until Monday midnight, had launched an offensive at the h tilwell Leads Chinese in Battle As Toungoo Troops Escape Trap; aps Take Some Bataan Positions > | ! halt before it reached his main line. | Y‘Some of our advanced positions were taken after fierce bayonet | leaders, who said “it would be Albombs on an airdrome runway at had confirmed that it torpedoed an ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1942 Fierce Bayonet Combat Halts Foe’s Drive ‘The War Department reported today that the Japanese, in a heavy attack on the right center of Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wain- wright’s line in Bataan, cap- tured some of the advanced po- sitions but were halted in fierce hand-to-hand combat before they reached the main Ameri- can-Filipino line. A number of minor air raids on Corregidor occurred yesterday, a mmunique said, and anti-aircraft | artillery shot down two heevy Jap- | anese bombers. A formal apology was received from the Japanese imperial high| command in the Philippines for the | ‘recent, bombing of a base hospital | in Bataan. A Japenese Army spokesman said in a radio broad-| cast that the bombing was un- intentional. Heavy Mortar Fire. | In the first severe land attacks| since Saturday waves of “assault| troops,” supported by heavy fire from mortars, made repeated at- tacks on the American outposts. Gen. Wainwright rushed up re-| inforcements and efter several hours of flerce bayonet combat he reported | the enemy attack was brought to a | The Japanese raid yesterday was | their 116th on the Manila Bay fortress and the ninth consecutive day that the Corregidor gunners have beaten off enemy air raids. Text of Communique. The text of the communique, No. 170, based on reports received up to 9:30 am. said: “1. Philippine theater: “Japanese infantry opened & heavy attack on the right center of | our line at about 8 p.m., March 31. | Several waves of assault troops, sup- | repeated attacks on our outposts. fighting. Our troops were rein- forced and after several hours of savage hand-to-hand combat the Minority Group In India Rejects British Offer Sikhs Are Expected To Join Opposition To Moslems By the Associated Press. NEW DELHI, April 1.—The | Sikh All-Parties Committee, one of India’s minority groups, issued the first flat rejection today of Britain’s offer of post-war do- minion status for India. The Sikhs, a Hindu warrior caste, | rejected the plan as submitted by | Britain's special envoy, Sir Stafford Cripps, on the grounds that it would | leave them at the mercy of the| Moslem majority in Punjab Province. | As a result the Sikhs were ex- pected , to make common cause | against the Moslems with the | Mahasabha, organization of Hindu | extremists, whose rejection of the offer already had appeared certain. The chief stumbling block to ac- ceptance was the requirement that India’s wartime defenses be left in British hands. Final Decision Later. It appeared likely that Sir Staf- ford would not have the final deci- sions of all the major Indian groups | before Friday. The Congress Party | bombers, operating in the face of | YOU'Re A SixT \RE A = Qu LUREiSIN 3! AH HA GOEBRELS! LISTEN 70 THE VOICE OF THE AMERICAN Go H Co NOTHE E ||| PRETTY QUIET—AND GETTING PRETTY MAD, THATS NOT THE PEOPLE TALKING, THOSE ARE THE VOICES OF THE LEADERS. Daily News Foreig: | FUEHRER., PEOPLE ARE KEEPING Allied Planes Strike At 2 Japanese Bases North of Australia 12 Aircraft Are Believed Smashed in Attack on Koepang, Timor, Airport BY the Associated Press. MELBOURNE, Australia, April 1.—United States and Australian Deathless Day Is First In 10 Years at Bellevue By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 1.—Death took his first holiday today in more than 10 years at famous Bellevue Hos- pital. For a 24-hour period ending this morning, there were no deaths in the vast red-brick city institution on the East River which houses from 2,500 to 3,000 patients. Deaths aver- age six to 10 a day. Hospital workers said they could not recall a day in more than a | decade in which no one had died | there. Working Committee, whose stand is | heavy tropical storms, struck de- | the most important, was drafting its reply. but it was not known wheh it would be handed to Sir Stafford. The Mahasabha and the Moslem League adjourned their exeruuve“ structive new blows at two Jap- anese bases north of this conti- nent today. A communique said it was believed ‘Torpedoing of Cruiser |Claimed by Ifalians sessions until Priday, when both are | Six enemy plancs were destroyed on | gy the Associated Press. due to announce their verdicts. | was seen, however, in a joint state- | Dr. Mukund Ramrao Jayakar, | spokesmen of India’s non-party | scored numerous hits with heavy|the submarine, returning to its base. tragedy if the Cripps mission failed, | for it would produce a keen sense | 'This continuation of the nerig]:EfiSlEm Mediterranean, of disappaintment and frustration the ground., six others were dam- were touched off by Australian on Timor, while an Allied force Salamaua, New Guinea. | | ROME (from Italian broadcasts), | A last-minute glimmer of hope | 2ged and many fires and explosions April 1—An Italian submarine has | | lorpedoed an enemy cruiser, the Ital- | ported by heavy mortar fire, made | ment of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and | bombers which attacked Koepang, | ian high command announced today. ‘The command’s communique said d ‘ damaged an enemy cruiser in the as men- ‘Standard Oil Admits 'Withholding Defails 0f Butyl From Navy Farish Testifies U. S. ‘Wasn’t Interested’ In Technical Facts ‘ By J. A. FOX. | | W. S. Farish, president of the Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), | today told the Senate Defense | Investigating Committee that | “technical details” of the manu- | facture of butyl, the synthetic | rubber developed by the com-| { pany, had been withheld from a representative of the Navy De- partment who visited the Stand- | ard plant at Bayway, N. J, in| | 1830. | Mr. Farish said he understood the ‘i Navy man—a Mr. Werkenthin— | “was not particularly interested” in | | that phase of synthetic rubber but | | rather in the uses to which it could | offensive by Australia’s defenders |tioned in an earlier Italian com- | be put. | P Means Associated Press. | months |of a subsequent memorandum.” An Evening Newspaper With the Full Day’s News LOCAL—NATIONAL—FOREIGN Associated Press and (#) Wirephetos, North American Newspaper Alliance, Chicago n Service and The Star’s Staff Writers, Reporters and Photographers. THREE CENTS. New Registrants To Get First Call In May or June "Draft Boards Ordered To Be Ready to Fill Mixed Quotas National Selective Service head- quarters disclosed today that men who registered February 16 would be classified immediately and some probably would be in- ducted into service in May or June. The announcement indicated a partial settlement at least of a dispute between the War Depart- ment and selective service over when local draft boards would be able to call new registrants to fill Army quotas. The celective service statement, in the form of a memorandum to local boards, instructed the boards to start classification at once of the men enrolled in the last regis- tration “and to prepare to fill the Army’s June call for men, and pos- sibly the May call” with both new and old registrants. The memorandum explained that if any local board does not have a | sufficient number of old registrants | available in Class 1-A to fill its May call, it should call enough men from the reservoir of new registrants to fill its quota. Procedure Not Yet Decided. After June 1, however, the an- nouncement said, requisitions prob- ably will call for both new and old | registrants, but it added that the exact procedure to be followed in filling calls for June and succeedir.g } be made the subject Selective service said: “The War Department has indi- cated that beginning June 1, 1942, requisitions will probably call for men of both age groups. In such event it will be necessary to lay calls for the month of June, 1942, and for subsequent months on both age groups. In those local boards where the first age group is exhausted by June 1, 1942, calls will of necessity be made only upon the second age group. The precise method which will be followed for the filling of calls for the month of June, 1942, and for subsequent months, as be- tween registrants in the first age group and registrants in the second age group, will be made the subject of a subsequent memorandum.” Regulations May Stand. It was explained that”men who registered October 16, 1940, and July 1, N . | 1941, constituted the “first age came on the heels of an official re- munique. The disclosure caused Senator | group,” with those who registered capitulation listing 33 enemy planes| The Italians also said their tor-| O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming | February 16 being referred to as the as put out of action in three days. ;pedm-carrying planes successfully | to assert that any layman such as "second'nge group.” Four were reported destroyed, 18 attacked a convoy in the Eastern| he could not “avoid the inference | It was disclosed & few day probably destroyed and 11—includ- | Mediterrantan and sank a large|that an official of Standard was | ot the Wa-rCDe ? P[ “,a‘f ;%" ing four flying boats machine-gun- | merchantman. | instructed to steer the Navy official | {het t0e ¥ e ned in a previous raid on Koepang— | On the land fighting in Libya, the | away from a knowledge of the man- | Svar® calling new registrants before | German defenses of Kharkov from | three sides, north, east and south. The German radio asserted today ‘all these thrusts collapsed” and that mopping-up operations vielded | * | several hundred prisoners. i Tass declared the Germans had draw. enemy attack was brought to & halt | and provoke antagonism which in | before it reached our main line. | our opinion would be disastrous in “A formal gpology was made by s hour of crisis.”, the Japanese imperial high com- Compromise Urged. mand in the Philippines for the aerial bombing of our base hospital emfl;h,&:g& .‘:,',;',’fimfh;; qunfi'fl in Bataan. In a radio broadcast a Has Strong Escort. Armed with tommy guns, Pirst |, Amold, former | teacher at Los Angeles, and Sergt Francis Astolfi of Wilkesbarre, Pa. convoyed Gen. Stilwell in a United States armored scout car. Lt. Arnold, who wrote the music for Gen. Stilwell's verses of an Army marching son, “Let’s Go,” had no chance to test his proficiency at gunnery, for the Chinese command | also sent along a strong escort. | Gen. Stilwell and Maj. Gen. Teng | Hsi-kuei, 1925 graduate of the Vir- | ginia Military Institute and now a | member of the Chinese National | Military Council in liason with the American mission, calmly inter- rupted their inspection of the front to take cover in the high brush at times when Japanese planes circled overhead. Gen. Stilwell, in shirtsleeves, chewed gum and puffed on a cigarette in a black holder as he chatted in fluent Chinese with hisi unit commanders only a few hun- dred yards from sputtering ma- | chine guns. Once when nine enemy bombers passed overhead, flying north, ai buck-toothed Chinese sentry whose German-made helmet was camou- flaged with leafy branches pointed them out to his general with a grin. “Take a picture of the Chinese; don't take me,” Gen. Stillwell told a newspaperman. ‘“The Chinese are the big story of this war.” No Sign of Surrendering. Despite the battering they with- stood as they forced the Japanese to pay in blood for every inch of the town, the garrison had showed no sign of surrendering. The fight they put up made the battle of Toungoo the fiercest of the Burma campaign so far. The Chinese garrison had been | cut off for a week from all sup-| plies except one ammunition convoy which slipped through the Japanese lines. Since Sumday it had been ap- parent that the Chinese relief drive | down the road to Mandalay from the north could not reach the hemmed-in troops, and it became a question of how many of the trapped troops could be saved. Pushed Southwest. To accomplish this, units of the Chinese relief forces pushed south- west from Yedashe to draw the Japanese strength away from the east and weaken the invaders’ lines there, for the garrison’s break- through. Observers said that had the Chinese reinforcements now in line 12 miles north of Toungoo been available there a week ago, the issue might well have been different. The Chinese- counterdrive could not be started, nowever, until last Friday. Lack of air support for the Chinese was regarded as a large factor in the outcome. British Flying Boat Lost With 20 Fleeing Java By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 1.—The British flying boat Circe, carrying a crew of 4 and 16 passengers escaping from Java, was lost somewhere in Neth- erlands Indies waters late in Feb- bruary, the Dutch news agency Aneta reported today on the basis of information from Australia. There has been no word of any survivors, Aneta sald. The plane’s last radio message | Indian Ocean.” | By the Assoclated Press. sacrificed 45,000 men, including “units reserved for their much-ad- vertised spring offensive,” in vain efforts to capture Sevastopol, Soviet Black Sea naval base, and that ac- tion to break their ring was under 100 Divisions Moved. Qualified informants in London said Adolf Hitler was moving 100 fresh divisions into Russia to bolster about 180 divisions struggling in snow and mud to hold key salients against Russian pressure generated throughout the winter. Renewed German efforts to take over all the Crimea and crack Rus- sian defense lines before the oil-rich Caucasus on the 400-mile southern mainland front between Orel and Taganrog were forecast. Listening post advices suggested to one responsible foreign source that the Germans were preparing for a series of southern drives “to clesr the railroads and bases they need if they are ever to shake hands with the Japanese in Persia (Iran) or the “Hitler has been forced to use pre- mateurely 40 of the 140 divisions he had been resting and conditioning in the Warsaw area especially for the spring attack,” he said. Exhaustion of the Finns “and their subjection to so many seditious influences” were declared to have (See RUSSIA, Page A-6) 23 Island Evacuees Arrive in Australia SYDNEY, Australia, April 1— Twenty-three evacuees from an island north of Australia arrived in this country today after a perilous trip on which they lived on native food and roots, hacked their way through jungles and crossed rivers in primitive canoes. Members of the party, which in- cluded planters and European po- licemen, were sworn to temporary secrecy on the details of their jour- ney in order not to endanger the lives of friends who were left be- hind. However, they said they be- lieved some of these also may have escaped. | anese bombers engaged in the rald | were shot down by our anti-aircraft {On Bases in France Japanese Army spokesman declared that the bombing was uninten- tional. “The enemy made a number of minor air raids on Corregidor and our rear areas in Bataan during the daylight hours of March 31. Most of these attacks were made by flights of two planes. The 116th air atack on Corregidor was brought to an abrupt end when the two heavy Jap- artillery at about 5 pm. March 31. “2. There is nothing to report from other areas.” R. A. F. Resumes Agacks By the Associated Press. A SOUTHEAST COAST ENG- LISH TOWN, April 1—The R. A. F. resumed its attacks on Nazi bases in northern France today for the first time since Sunday, after being forced into inaction by bad weather over the Continent. A formation of bombers under fighter escort was seen returning from the direction of Calais this | afternoon. Damages Slight, Nazis Say. BERLIN (From German Broad- casts, April 1 (#)—British bombs dropped by planes on “nuisance flights” into western Germany yes- terday and last night caused slight material damage and casualties, the German high command reported today. For their part, the Germans said, Nazi bombers damaged a large mer- chant ship by several bomb hits off the southeast English coast. Continuing attacks on the Brit- ish Mediterranean base of Malta, the Germans reported, Nazi planes bombed state wharves and subma- rine bases at Valletta as well as British airdromes in day and night raids. The Germans said their fighters shot down two enemy planes. Successful air attacks were direct- ed against airfields in Libya, the coastal area of Egypt and the des- ert railway there, the Germans added. | its constitutional and internationai fense issue, these leaders said Britain's proposals “make it clear that after the war India will not have to struggle for recognition of status.” Aurobindo Ghose, Indian spiritual leader whose sanctuary at Pondi- cherry is well known to American visitors, also sent a message to Cripps cohgratulating him on his Monday broadcast explaining the proposals. The answer of the Congress Party’s | Working Committee, it was under- stood, was being drafted by Mohan- das K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawa- harlal Nehru, both former Congress presidents, for final consideration by | the committee today. Issue Is Centrol of Defense. Discussions yesterday again re- volved chiefly around the issue of | control of defense for this great sub- ctontinent and its 390,000,000 in- habitants—already under the men- ace of Japanese forces in Burma and on islands in the Bay of Bengal. This part of the British plan has | met such opposition that, failing | a substantial change, it was believed | it might prove a stumbling block for the whole scheme. (A dispatch to the Daily Her- ald, London Laborite newspaper, said Gandhi had advised rejection of the plan as “unworthy” and a report from New Delhi to the London News Chronicle said the Sikhs already had turned it down because it would place them in a minority in the Punjab.) N. C. Chatterjee, working presi- dent of the Mahasabha, telegraphed that organization’s Bengal branch that “we will reject Pakistan in any shape or form.” British Communists Hit Indian Independence Plan LONDON, April 1 (#).—The British Communist party in a statement last night said the proposed basis of Britain'’s India independence plan was “undemocratic” and that it would favor “separation and tend- encles to partition which would be as harmful for India as it has been for Ireland.” By LELAND STOWE, Foreign Correspondent of The Star and Chicago Dally News. CALCUTTA, March 22 (Delayed). —Of all the tremendous dislocations of human beings in this war, the wildest and most fantastic pilgrim- age is that which tens of thousands of refugees, chiefly Indians but in- cluding a considerable number of Europeans, are making from Central Burma through primitive jungles, through malaria-infested wastelands and over formidable mountains inte India. This is a trek of hundreds of miles, and the humblest Indian laborers, their wives and children, cover most of it afoot, often being en route for six to eight weeks or more, whereas the more fortunate evacuees travel ve its position as 200 miles from gflhfilp. on Java's south coast. g " by truck, river launch, elephan motor bus and, finslly, by s t, train— | nard. American Refugees Brave Horrors of Jungle, But Finally Escape to Calcutta From Burma except for three days of the most arduous mountain climbing where the only possible transport is two- legged. It is a long, terrible journey, where all risk exposure to cholera, undergo constant hardship and tra- verse regions where leopards and other jungle beasts rove within eye- sight. Among the recent arrivals here is a group of six American executives and engineers of General Motors, and two women, who made the war’s worst trek, from Mandalay to Cal- cutta, in 14 days. They are David Ladin, manager of the General Mo- tors' lease-lend assembly plant at Rangoon; Willlam Whitelaw, Wal- lace H. Thoresen, Alexander Gard- ner, Charles Hogg, Mrs. Helga Fran- cis and Mr. and Mrs. Rene Guig- All lost 8 to 15 pounds during the trek, during which even the two women hiked over rugged moun- tains, 12 hours a day for three days, to cover a stretch of 36 miles in order to reach the first passable road inside India’s state of Assam. The story of their trek, as told by Thore- sen, a Norwegian-American, of En- glewood, N. J., follows: “We traveled in two Chevvy trucks, four by four. They got their first real test on the second day out from Mandalay. when we hit what they called a newly surveyed trail. It wasn't a road. The trees had simply been cut down straight through the jungle. It was awfully bumpy and we had to detour over paddy flelds and across dikes with mud up to the axles. Then we had another very bad 50 miles in order (Bee m} Page A-3.) { | as damaged. All these attacks were made with- out loss to the United Nations' eir British armored patrols which were forces. Optimism Growing. There was growing optimism among Australian observers that the Japanese now can be held off in New Guinea, although they were cautious not to overemphasize the | enemy’s recent withdrawal from the inundated Markhem Valley. Nevertheless, they said, the with- drawal means that Japan's hold now is confined to the narrow coastal strip where her position may be made precarious. The vital point, in these informants’ view, is that the Japanese now cannot dis- perse their planes—which was seen as a prime goal of the march into the valley. The arrival of the wet season, which lasts three months, was ac- cepted as the chief cause for the withdrawal, but it was believed also that heavy air blows struck at the invaders’ shipping and planes were another factor. ‘The New Guinea correspondent of the Sydney Sun, citing the Japanese failure to raid Port Moresby for the last six days, declared that the in- vaders had been forced on the de- fensive in that area. While he also stressed the enemy’s heavy plane losses, he pointed out it would not be wise to accept the pres- ent lull in offensive action as any in- dication of a collapse of Japanese striking power. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Allied supreme commander in the South- west Pacific, spent half an hour with Prime Minister John Curtin discuss- ing strategic problems. Reorganization 0. K.'d. Meanwhile, Army Minister Fran- cis M. Forde said Gen. MacArthur had called on him and expressed complete approval of the reorgani- zation of the Australian Army. Mr. Forde said Gen. MacArthur had made certain suggestions re- garding the army and Australian (See AUSTRALIA, Page A-4) Flyer and Colored Sailor Cited as Hawaii Heroes By the Associated Press, Destruction of an enemy sub- marine in the Hawaii area in Janu- ary was credited to First Lt. James Valentine Edmundson of the Army Air Forces today by Secretary of the Navy Knox, who formally com- mended the fiyer. Doris Miller, colored, mess attend- ant, first class, also was commended by Secretary Knox for heroism dis- played during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Lt. Edmundson, 26, of Santa Monica, Calif., was praised for his “keen observation, flying skill and successful attack with bofhbs.” The Miller commendation said: “ * * * While at the side of his captain on the bridge, Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his captain, who had been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later manned and operated a machine gun until or- dered to leave the bridge.” Iémnmt Miller is from Waco, 4 high command reported one of its | reconnoissance patrols engaged | supported by artillery east of El Mechili. “The enemy lost several armored cars,” the communique said. * | crew of one of these, including an | officer, was captured.” |Nazis Sent 1,200 to Death 'In Mines, Dufch Charge By the Associated Press. | LONDON, April 1.—The Nether- | lands government in exile announced tonight that 1,200 Dutch Jews, sent | by the Germans to enforced labor |in the salt and sulphur mines at Hauthausen, have all died and that the Germans had deliberately sent them without protection into the “poisonous vapors.” “The protests of the civilized world, when informed by the Neth- erlands government were unavail- ing,” the announcement, made on Radio Orange, said. “Urgent requests by the Red Cross to be admitted to the victims were bluntly refused because the matter was called by the Germans ‘our private affair’” said the announce- ment as carried by Aneta, Dutch news agency. The statement recalled the arrest of 800 Jews in Amsterdam in Feb- ruary, 1941, in a round-up on the streets, and the seizure of 400 in other Netherlands towns a few weeks later, and added: “Terrible rumors about their fate have been going around ever since. It has now been established that none is alive.” Gen. Smart to Represent Australia in Talks Here By the Associated Press. MELBOURNE, April 1--Lt. Gen. E. K. Smart is going to Washington to represent Australia in war coun- cils of the United Nations, Army Minister Francis M. Forde announced today. Gen. Smart, who has been in charge of the Australian Army's southern command, will represent | Australia on the United Nations | Chiefs of Staff Committee. ufacturing process.” Arnold Made Charge. Failure of Standard to give this | information to the Navy man was | cited last week by Assistant Attor- ney General Thurman Arnold, who | alleged it was in conformity with the alliance between Standard and 1. G. Farbenindustrie, the German | dye trust, which has been broken up by a consent decree, and which | the Government charged served to | stifle production of synthetic rubber ! in this country, Under the Standard-Farben | agreement, the German company | was given full details of the manu- facture of butyl in 1938—a year be- fore the Werkenthin incident. Mr. Farish’s admission prompied by Senator O'Mahoney, who directed his attention to a letter introduced into the record by Mr., | address of the letter were identified. | Incorporated in the document was this statement: tion of butyl rubber to some of the Navy's requirements, Mr. Werken- | thin had been instructed also to look |into the manufacturing process. question up- with you before his arrival. Couldn’t Steer Him Away. “As agreed upon, I took Mr. Wer- it appeared that I could not very | well steer his interest away from | the process. However, I am quite certain that he left with no picture of the operations other than that a considerable amount of distillation | and refrigeration is involved in the handling of light hydrocarbons, and that refinery gas rather than | straight butadiene is the raw ma- | terial.” Reading this letter, Senator O'Ma- honey recalled that the wtiness had testified a full account of Standard’s synthetic rubber activities had been furnished to the Army and Navy Munitions Board, in January, 1939. “Actually you were not making a full disclosure to the Government?” the Wyoming Senator pressed. “Everything the Government could make practical use of,” the witness responded. “We understood that the (See RUBBER, Page A-4) Summary of Foreign. “Hunger” revolts among Essen work- ers reported. Page A-3 Three Chinese corps to map trans- port route from India. Page A-3 U. 8. doctor works in bomb-wrecked Burmese town. Page A-4 Allied forces fight way out of Burma trap. Page A-6 British reinforce convoys’ escorts go- ing to Russia. Page A-6 National. United States shuts off aid to Ar- gentina. Page A-2 F. C. C. and P. U. C. probe hotel phone rates. Page A-4 13 sub victims, adrift 45 hours, land Page Today's Star Pendergast foes again sweep Kansas City. Page A-13 Miami Beach hotels to house 30,000 troops. Page A-14 Brown criticizes small business aid bill. Page A-16 B. I. arrests two on sedition charges. PageA-17 Washington and Vicinity. Six from D. C. area rescued from Pennsylvania blizzard. Page A-2 Four finalists named in Legion ora- tory contest. Page A-4 Sale of auto tags drops 2,416 under last year. Page B-1 Wave of tire thefts brings sharper police watc Page B-1 r Commissioners name seven - man | position, was from Standard files which had been | Arnold. Neither the writer nor the | “Because of the possible applica- | | You will recall that I took this| kenthin over to the “K" plant when | the lists of old registrants available for service are exhausted, while selective service wanted to exhaust | the lists of old registrants before | starting to call on the new regis- | trants. Selective service had contended }that the War Department plan | would necessitate redrafting of reg- | ulations before questionnaires could | be sent out to new registrants, since | questionnaires are sent out by order | numbers. But a selective service spokesman questioned on this point today said he believed it would not be necessary to redraft regulations to carry out the plan outlined in today's announcement. Proportionate Plan Used. Asked whether Secretary of War | Stimson's scheme for calling old and new registrants for service on a proportionate basis might be adopted for use after June 1, the spokesman said he couldn't say. War Department officials had indi- cated that the ration system would be followed. Today's memorandum said that local boards which had not com- pleted mailing of questionnaires to old registrants should continue to mail them, but “at the same time the local board will proceed to mail questionnaires to new registrants |and to classify them” in sufficient numbers to insure the filling of the | June call (estimated not to exceed | the call of February, 1942) entirely | from new registrants “if such action | s required.” Men hetween 21 and 35 years of age, inclusive, registered October 16, | 1940. Those who reached 21 years of age between October 16, 1940, and | July 1, 1941, registered on the latter | date, and on February 16 those who | had not previously registered, but | who were within the ages of 20 and | 45 years were listed. | McNutt Explains “Census.” Meanwhile, Federal Security Ad- ministrator McNutt said today tha a questionnaire going to selective service registrants this week consti- tuted an “occupational census” making possible the first “accurate and practicable budgeting of the Nation's man power.” The questionnaire, a four-page document, is to be sent to all men who registered February 16 and is intended to place on the record any special skills, aptitudes or experi- ence that might be helpful in the war effort. “When the information called for has been received,” Mr. McNutt said, “the United States Govern- ment will have for the first time a complete list of the cccupational® skills of the entire male population of working age. “The United States Employment Service then will be able to locate men who have skills urgently needed by war industries and offer them an opportunity to transfer to war pro- duction jobs or to be trained for such jobs.” Mr. McNutt made it clear that selective service authorities will re- tain responsibility and authority for determining whether a registrant should be “deferred on occupational grounds or enrolled in the Army.” The employment service will be in & , however, to advise the draft parking. 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