Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 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. Readers Prefer The Star The Star's afternoon and evening circulation is more than double that of any other Washington newspaper Its total circulation in Washington far exceeds that of any of its conteme poraries in the morning or on Sunday. Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales. Page 20. 90th Y EAR. No. 35,779. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942 R. A. F., Pressing Offensive, Corregidor Guns Battles Germans Over France; Blow Up Japs’ More Daylight Attack Follows Night Raid on Ruhr B the Associated Press LONDON, April+ 16.—British and German flyers fought bit- ter air battles high over France today as the R. A. F., still hitting on an around-the-clock schedule, | smashed back in a daylight of- | fensive following heavy attacks on the Ruhr last night Two Nazi planes were reported | authoritatively as having been shot down In the dogfights this morning The Air Ministry news service sald three others were damaged by R. A. F. fighters during the sweep in which bomb-bearing Hurricanes scored hits on railroad sidings and the dock area of Dunkerque | None of the British Hurricane bombers or their Spitfire escort was hit during the sweep, the service said, | Battle at 12,000 Feet. | In one sky battle, it reported, a wing of Spitfires engaged 12 FW-109s at 20,000 feet and “prob- | ably destroyed” two of the German | planes. The Spitfires were so high, | however, that their pilots could not | see the end of their victims In another, still higher battle, it said, the leader of the R. A. F fighter squadron drilled another FW-108 which “rolled over and went steeply down with smoke pour- ing from it." The service also reported that a lone Spitfire, on shipping recon- naissance, spotted a 200-ton Ger- man torpedo boat in the Channel and dived on it from 5000 feet with cannon and machine guns firing. It said the boat was dam- | aged in the dive attack, which the | pilot kept up until his plane was | almost touching water. Second Big Night Attack. | The night attack on the Ruhr | was the second large-scale pene- | tration of Germany in as many | nights. | Four planes were announced as missing from the attacks, which also included raids on St. Nazaire, docks at Le Havre and airdromes in the Low Countries. The Ruhr, site of the Krupp works und other industries which | form a backbone of the Nazi war effort, caught most of 1,000 tons of | bombs reported dropped on Gers | many last week and observers ex- | pressed belief it was well on the | way toward receiving another 1,000 | tons this week Sunday, Tuesday and last nights the valley targets were blasted in attacks officially described as heavy. Raids Resumed at Dawn. % Warplane formations droned over | the Channel coast at Folkestone | soon after dawn today and observ- ers heard the distant explosions of bombs and anti-aircraft fire for an hour and a half before they re- turned The oft-raided area about Calais, a center of German fortifications skirting the French shore, was bat- tered again in the night after virtually uninterrupted attacks throughout Wednesday against it, Boulogne, Cherbourg and a Nazi airdrome Heavy blasts thundered across the sea. Three British fighters were Msted as missing after those day- light sweeps and three German | planes were declared definitely de- stroved The German air force struck back | with a night raid on a town in Northeast England which killed at least 12 persons. Heavy bombs scored direct hits on blocks of houses in three streets. The National Fire Service was called out to fight a number of blazes “A few bombs dropped elsewhere caused neither damage nor casual- ties,” a British communique said A total of 12 bodies had been re- covered by morning from the North- east England town, and many per- sons were hospitalized Five babies were among those killed, and two or three mothers of the children were believed lost also Two emergency centers were opened for the homeless from at least a dozen bomb-wrecked homes Harbor and Arms Center Raided, Nazis Declare BERLIN, April 16 (. —Strong formations of heavy fighter-bombers attacked British harbor installations and the armament indus 1 center on the Tyne estuary overnight, DNB. said today. The high com. mand said Sunderland was a ma, ebpective. Big explosions and fires were ob- objectives. served in mih German news age The war bulletin plane in R. A F over differ many” was shot dowr were felle Ty the nuisance Western Ger- and 10 o Rubberless Tires . Given Road Test By Goodyear Co. By the Associated Press. AKRON. Ohio. April 16— Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co announced today We now have test cars on the road which are running on tires made without rubber We can make no further comment on the development at this time." Goodyear officials refused any hint of the materials the tires contain The announcement followed disclosure at Detroit that Ford Motor Co. engineers have de- veloped a process for manufac- turing tires with not more than one-sixteenth of the rubber heretofore used. Japs Pouring | Royce’s ‘Camouflage’ Lures Jap Planes To Waste Bombs By the Associated Press UNITED STATES ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN AUS- TRALIA, April 16 —Brig. Gen Ralph Royce, who led the American bombing raid on the Philippines, disclosed today that he fooled Japanese bomb- ers by fixing up an old, de-| | commissioned B-17 fiying for- tress on a Philippine landing field Four wooden “propellers” were | | attached to the worthless plane and new “camouflage” Was pro- vided—not to conceal it but to make the Japanese think con- cealment was intended Sure enough, the Japanese came over and bombed it all day, but their 13 twin-engined bombers failed to find Gen Royce's base. As souvenirs of the ruse Gen Royce displayed metal frag- ments with which Japanese bombs are filled. Several of the pieces of scrap had “Ford” stamped on them. Secref Base Guarded & = 5'2 Fresh Divisions | Sent; 40 Transports | Sighted at Rangoon Py the Associated Press CHUNGKING, China, April 16 -The Japanese are reported pouring five and a half fresh di- visions into the Burma campaign and two of these divisions al- ready are landing at Rangoon, where 40 transports have been sighted by British R. A. F. flyers, a Chinese military spokesman said today (Earlier estimates have placed the strength of the Japanese forces already engaged in Burma | at about three divisions. The reinforcements would make the | total eight and a half divisions, perhaps 150,000 men.) | Position More Difficult. The spokesman disclosed that the position of the Chinese forces bat- tling desperately against the Jap- anese below Mandalay had been made still more difficult by the British retreat on the Irrawaddy River sector to the west, dangerously exposing the Chinese right flank Another new danger appeared vesterday on the Chinese left when it became evident, according to a Chinese communique, that a Jap- anese drive northwestward from Thailand into the Shan states of jon the . | For Further Raids on T o s S5 s i » | proportions of a major offensive. Ja s in Phlll ines Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stiwell, p pp | United States Army, commands the Chinese forces in Burma. Exploit Shows Turn in Chinese S Haamg, 4 % The Chinese spokesman said Chi- Tide, Curtin Asserts; nese troops still were holding on at Myohla but that the flank and rear | New Blows Seen | of their position were threatened | seriously by the Japanese advance | By C. YATES McDANl::L. i up the Irrawaddy. Associated Press War Correspondent. B il t ol Yapanihe oalinrina | UNITED ~STATES ARMY | were striking foward Loikaw, capital | HEADQUARTERS IN AUS-|of Karenni Province and southern | TRALIA, April 16—Brig. Gen.|gate to the Shan states | Ralph Royce, volunteer leader oii One column was reported moving the bomber squadron which de- | up the Salween River valley toward | livered the United States’ first | Loikaw from the southeast. Another long-distance smash in the | ¥ said t‘}? h‘:"‘f ’_l‘:“hed Y“L"' hd | : i = miles northeast of Toungoo and ap- Phlhpplnes. disclosed todax that | proximately half way from Toungoo the raiders used a base hidden | {; the Karenni capital In the islands, protected by | 4 fighter planes, and provisioned it | for future use. | ‘Twelve planes of the 13 which for two days wrought destruction and | dismay among the enemy at the start of the week ferried 44 pas- sengers on their return trip te Aus- stralia—10 crewmen from a Fort- ress bomber lost on the foray and 3¢ Army men and civilians from | Bataan, Corregidor and other island | points. | Most of the evacues were air- men, indicating that while the | Americans still have fighting planes | in the islands, as Gen. Royee said, they have a surfeit of men to fly them Morale of Men Excellent. Gen. Royce said the morale of the | men left behind was excellent, espe- cially now that they have plenty of food. The American fighter planes co-operated with the Australia- based bombers, shooting down two Japanese planes which tried to at- tack the bomber squadron. The hidden field served the 10| medium and three Fortress bombers as a forward base on their 4,000- mile round-trip attack. The Fort- ress craft lost on the flight was | grounded there, having an engine | changed. when a Japanese bomb hit destroyed it in flames. The advance base may figure | prominently in future attacks, for | the assaults of last Sunday and Monday were acclaimed here as only | a sample of heavier blows still to be | delivered in an effort to turn the tide of battle in the Southwest Pa- cific Indeed, Australian Prime Min- ister John Curtin declared today that the Royce exploit showed tha the tide of war was turning against Japan Others to Follow. He added that it was but the first drive into the h of Japanese military positions and in time would be followed by the operations of vast air fleets One hundred ten tons of bombs were dropped on the enemy in Cebu, Mindanao and Luzon in the two peril-fraught days in which the bomber force dominated the skies in its theater of operation. Topping the list of successes were the sink- ing of four transports and hits on four others uding one probably sunk The chief eignifia lay not eved. but i opening blow pite the ter of the raid the destruc-1 sull un- the con- f Allied air- bases closer s a pre-dawn at- on Koepang, in Dutch se tack today Timor, and a new assault yesterday at Rabaul, New Britain—lacked ppeal to popular fancy was announced officially that one hit and & near miss were scored on an enemy ship at Rabaul, the center of the enemy's preparations against Australia. At Koepang, the (See BASES. Page A-4) in Jose Carbonero bies; Noted Spanish Painter By thc Associated Press MADRID, April 16.—Jose Moreno Carbonero, 82, noted Spanish paint- | er, who had translated into colorful pictures the love of his country for | the literary classic, “Don Quixote,” | | died at his Madrid home today. He | had studied in many of the art capitals of Europe. [ | part A. V. G. Flyers Attack Japs. American Volunteer Group flyers of the Chinese Air Force success: fully attacked Japanese positions in | the forward areas of the Burma | front yesterday morning, a Chi- | nese, communique announced last | night. ” r On the ground a detachment of | Chinese troops on the Swa River, a branch of the Sittang, wiped out a Japanese unit in a surprise raid, | the communique said. British Forces Dig In On Irrawaddy Front NEW DELHI. India, April 16 (®) | —TFierce fighting continued through- | out yesterday in the battle of | Burma and British forces with- drawn from the Migyaungye area on the Irrawaddy front dug in near Yenchaung, south of Minhla, a| British communique said. The communique quoted reports | from the Chinese headquarters that | “steady enemy pressure continues on | the Myohla front,” 35 miles up the | road to Mandalay from Toungoo, | “with their troops moving slowly | back and fighting a stubborn delay- ing action.” The British declared that their own withdrawal from the Mig- yaungye area was made possible by covering action of the King's own Yorkshire light infantry, “who for days have fought a magnificent action.” | While the British battled on in defense of Central Burma’'s oil | fields, a full-fledged new front de- veloped with a sudden Japanese | thrust into the Shan states of Eastern Burma, apparently aimed at cutting the Mandalay-Lashio railway Offensive Near Thai Border. | The offensive was launched in the Salween River region near the upper Thailand border where Japa- nese and Chinese troops have been sparring inconclusively for weeks. | Its object would be to separate the Chinese forces in the Shan States from those in the Sittang River valley to the southwest The Mandalay-Lashio railroad is the last feeder link to the old Burma | road, and also would be used as of the new routes planned from India to China, across upper Burma Fresh reinforcements were being thrown steadily into the new Sal- | ween offensive and Japanese air- | craft were active in force | Bataan a week ago. nto Burma Arms on Bafaan Troop Concentrations And Truck Columns Also Are Hit Corregidor’'s guns scored hits on troop concentrations and truck columns on the Bataan Peninsula and enemy ammuni- tion dumps were hit and blown up, the War Department reported in a communique this morning. Japanese casualties were believed to have been numerous, the com- munique said. Fierce fighting continued on the island of Cebu, more than 300 miles to the south, where the Japanese last week landed an invasion force | estimated at 12,000, which was sup- | ported by dive bombers and tanks Corregidor was raided five times yesterday, tne communique said, but the defenders’ anti-aircraft artillery forced the Japanese planes to fly so high bombing was ineffective. 206 Alarms on Corregidor. The War Department reported Corregidor’s steadfast garrison has been subjected to 206 air-raid alarms since the beginning of the war on December 7, with actually more raids than alarms. Since April 9, after the fall of Bataan, the Japan- ese air forces have raided the be- leaguered island 65 times. Despite the almost constant bombing, Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright was reported as saying that damage to military installations island has been relatively slight. This was due to the great height at which the accurate fire of anti-aircraft guns have forced the Jap airmen. “The morale of the troops is unimpaired,” the com- munique said. Indicating the savageness and persistence of the Japanese air at- tacks, the War Department said there have been occasions when the |alarm was on for half a day, during which four occurred. As the Japanese renewed their air raids on Corregidor yesterday, en- emy heavy artillery from the Bataan shore and across Manila Bay con- tined to pound the rocky fortress. This enemy fire was kept up inter- mittently during the day, without, however, inflicting any serious dam- age. The American artillery or five alr atacks replied | with a fire that raked the hills on Bataan. Direct hits were scored on ammunition dumps and many of the Japanese were killed and wounded during the explosions. Truck col- umns and troop concentrations along the Bataan highway have been a target of the Corregidor gunners during the past week and yesterday they again scored direct hits and in- | flicted damage. Some Jap Raiders Lost. The five air raids reported yester- | day bring to 31 the number of air attacks mentioned specifically in of- ficial communiques since the fall of All these were beaten off successfully. Communiques of the past week in reporting the continuous aerial pounding of the fortress made no mention of any airplanes having been shot down. It is understood here, however, that some of the Jap raiders have been lost in the at- tacks. The communique today made no report on operations in the southern- most island of Mindanao, one of the points of the devastating raid car- ried out Monday and Tuesday by the squadron of bombers under com- mand of Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce. It may be that communication with Davao on the southern tip of the island has again been cut off. Private Auto Seizure Bill Is Offered by Downey By the Associated Press. Senator Downey, Democrat, of California today introduced a bill | that would give the President power to seize privately-owned automobiles. At the same time, the California Senator recommended that im- mediate steps be taken to “remove some 10,000,000 cars from the roads and place them in a vast pool to meet a serious transportation crisis | we can expect within a year or so.” Senator Downey said he was con- vinced that there “simply will not | be any tires for the 30,000,000 civilian | automobiles for four or five years even if we get all the synthetic rubber hoped for by Jesse Jones and | 40" g others.” Senator Downey said this lack of 1 | | tires and the halt in car manufac- | ture would cause a sharp curtail- ment in available transportation for workers, the mails and other neces- | sary services which should be anticipated now by Government action to conserve present supplies of cars éhennafilf, Chiefof A. V. G., Recalled, Promoted by Army By the Associated Press Col. Claire L. Chennault mander of the spectacular American Volunteer Group of Fiyers fighting the Japanese advance in Burma. was called to active duty in the United States Army today and nominated to be a brigadier general President Roosevelt sent his name to the Senate in a list of 28 other Army officers to be advanced tem- porarily to major generals or briga- dier general Col. Chennault has been on the air force retired list, with the perma- nent rank of captain. Whether the volunteer airmen he helped recruit in this country and has long com- mand on the Chinese border also | will be called into American Army ' com- service was not closed at the War Department. Those nominated to be major gen- erals included Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective serv- ice. He is 48 and his home is An- gola, Ind Others promoted included Brig. Gen. Mark W. Clark of Indianapo- lis, 45-year-old chief of staff of the Army Ground Forces, and three brigadier generals who recently were put in command of newly-organized infantry divisions. The division commanders were Brig. Gens Emil R. Reinhardt of | By the Associated Press. Detroit, commander of the 67th In- fantry Division: Ira T. Wyche, a na- tive of Ocracoke, N. C., 7th In- fantry Division, and Gustav H Franke, a native of Manning, Iowa, commander of the 81st Infantry Di- 4 §i immediately dis- | | air attacks on Malta the same day. “ | rescue ship the following morning. 0. P. A UNCLE, THAT Designs New Clothes for Uncle Sam WOULD CERTAINLY BE BECOMING THIS YEAR P (P) Means Associated Press. THREE CENTS. Siiinson, Knox To Help Direct Civil Defense President Gives | Landis’ Unit | Advisory Group By JOHN C. HENRY. President Roosevelt today di- rected a reorganization of the Office of Civillan Defense de- | signed to integrate its activities | more closely with those of other war agencies To accomplish this, he orderea establishment within the Office of Civilian Defense of a board on which Secretary of War Stimson and Sec- | retary of Navy Knox will serve, In addition to these two depart- ment heads, full membership of the board will include O. C. D. Director | James M. Landis, who will serve as chairman; Attorney General | Biddle, Paul V. McNutt, director of | the Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Services; Mayor Morris J. Tobin of Boston, Gov. Harold Stas- | sen of Minnesota, Red Cross Chair- | man Norman H. Davis and Earl D, Mallery, who is executive director of the American Municipalities Asso- clation. SurT After Periscope Is Shot Off 1 38 Survivors of Attack In Atlantic Reach N. Y.; | Seven Feared Lost | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 16.—A ma- | chine-gun crew aboard a United | States merchantman shot off one | of the periscopes of an attacking | submarine, which nevertheless | sank their ship off the Atlantic | coast, three of the ship’s'38 sur- vivors related today. The sinking presumably cost the lives of seven men, listed as missing. One was believed killed by the first torpedo blast and six others prob- | ably drowned as two of the three | lifeboats launched were sucked un- der after the second torepdo hit-the starboard side. \ ‘The submarine apparently was not completely disabled by the ship’s machine gun, for one survivor said that when he was struggling on an overturned lifeboat he saw the sub- marine on ¢he surface. Naval au- thorities said many submarines carried more than one periscope. The machine gunners had only seven minutes to answer their at- tacker and save themselves before the ship plunged to the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. The story of the ship's sinking was told at the 3d Naval District headquarters by Richard Bennett, 34; William Olson, 44, and John K. Shauck, 40, all of Baltimore. Mr Bennett said the U-boat attacked without warning and that he saw its periscope from the bridge as it crossed close to the ship's stern a| moment after the first torpedo hit. The submarine struck at 5:25 pm. (E. W. T.) April 5, the first torpedo smashing the radio aerial. The crew managed to repair it a few minutes before the second torpedo hit so that SOS calls could be dispatched. The captain, who was not identi- fied, was the last to leave his ship, | leaping overboard as she went to the bottom. The 38 survivors were picked up from a lifeboat and liferaft by a Two More U. S. Vessels Torpedoed in Atlantic NORFOLK, Va., April 16 (#).—Tor- pedoes gliding out of the darkness on the early morning and night of April 9 sank one American mer- chantman, tore another in two and apparently cost the lives of three seamen off the Atlantic Coast, the 5th Naval District reported yester- day. Sixty-three men aboard the two vessels were rescued. | Twenty-eight survivors of one of | the ships, a small merchant ves- sel, were picked up by a rescue party after they had been adrift for six hours and were brought ashore the following day. Navy spokesmen said Fireman Earl Channess, jr. 22, of Jackson- | ville, Fla., was missing and presumed | lost. He jumped overboard when rst of two torpedoes ripped into the ship. An hour and a half after the other attack, 35 survivors of a medium-sized vessel were picked up and landed at Morehead City, N. C. Two men dived overboard from this ship to escape flames and were believed lost. British Ruid]:izonvoy ‘1 i 'In Mid-Mediterranean By the Associated Press. CAIRO, April 1§ —Torpedo-carry- ing British planes scored hits on | merchant ships in an Axis convoy in “ the mid-Mediterranean Tuesday and | shot down two German Messer- | schmitts of the convoy's escort of | fighters and bombers, R. A. F. head- | quarters announced today. | Four German planes were said to | have been shot down during Axis | “From all operations,” the com- | munique said, “seven of our aircraft are missing.” Weygand's Successor Inspecting Morocco LONDON, April 16.—Gen. Alfonse Juin, who succeeded Gen. Maxime Weygand last November 20 as mili- tary commander of French North No New Sailing Date | For American Diplomats By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, April 16.—The United States Legation announced today that no new sailing date had Gov. Stassen, now serving also as a lieutenant commander in the Navy, is a prominent Republican NeWbold Noyes Dies; ;whn has been mentioned frequently . . | as G. O. P. presidential timber. This Associate Editor of is his first official appearance in | the administrative end of the war effort in Washington. Board’s Advice Required. Youth Admits Slaying been set for the Swedish-American ¢The s'ar Since 1919 1 liner Drottningholm, chartered for | an exchange of Axis and American | Work diplomats. | ivi ' The American-Swedish news ex- | In CI. e .OI’ 4 X change reported that a last-minute | Prominent in Journalism delay in German approval of the | | passenger list of 166 civilians re- | Newbold Noyes, associate editor | turning to the United States aboard | o¢ The Star since 1919, died at | the ship caused postponement of |5’y m ‘today at his residence, 1239 the original sailing, which had been ‘Vermont avenue. A long illness, fheod don yeswrfh“ et Y with complications resulting from arteriosclerosis, preceded his death. The only son of Frank Brett and Janet Thruston | | Newbold Noyes, he was born in | Girl Religious Worker wension sunuacy i iz - InD. C. Apartment Took Leading Part ducted by the Right Rev. James E. | Freeman, Bishop of Washington, | | assisted by the Rev. John G. Magee, | henceforth be fulfilled The President's order specifies that the O. C. D. director shall con- tinue to discharge and perform duties of that office under imme- diate supervision of the President, but that his specific functions shall “with the advice and assistance of the board.” Mr. Landis, in a formal statement, said the new order accomplishes two important things. First, he said, it streamlines O. C. D. for war “in a manner in which I believe it should be streamlined,” and, second, it integrates the operations of O. O. D. with those of the total Gov- ernment program for the prosecu- tion of the war. . “I am, needless to say, very much pleased with the new order,” said Mr. Landis. Technically today's order reinstates the establishment, within the Office | mer theater usher, walked into No. 1 for Emergency Management, of the |at St. John's Episcopal Church, | omee of Civilian Defense, The new Sixteenth and H streets NW, | the Battered, Slashed Body .| ey Ao Tis "t s Tpan | Doard, -however, is added to Found on Bedroom Floor In N Street Flat The body of a young woman | religious worker, beaten with a hammer and slashed, was found last night by police who were led“ to an apartment at 1422 N street | N.W. by a 17-year-old youth, | who, according to police, later signed a confession to the slay- ing. The victim was identified by her | father as Miss Madeline Matthes, 25, of 1321 M street N'W,, who was | active in distributing tracts of the| Jehovah's Witnesses sect. Lt. Jeremiah Flaherty, chief of the policé homicide squad, said a signed confession was obtained from the youth, booked as Richard L.| Wilhite of the N street address.| Youth’s Story Related. | The youth’s statement, according | to Lt. Flaherty, gave this ucccunti of the crime: | Wilhite asked the young wom-| an to come in and have a seat| when he went to the door in answer | to her fing shortly after 8 pm. He | was alone in the apartment at the time. He then went to the kitchen and obtained a tack hammer. He walked up behind Miss Matthes and struck her on the head. As she fell, he struck her on the head again with the hammer. He attacked her and then went to the kitchen for a knife, with which he slashed the unconscious woman several times on the neck and on the chest. He left the apart- ment, hitch-hiked to Alexandria, returned to Washington and went | to the precinct station. | Lt. Flaherty said the youth, a for- | precinct station last night and| asked to speak to the lieutenant.| Lt. Irving H. Umbaugh and Precinct | Detective O. P. Fuss talked to the | boy and then went with him to the | N street apartment. They reported the body was found on the bedroom floor with head snd; shoulders lying in a closet. The| girl's dress was disarranged and | part of her underclothing had been | torn away. A bloody hammer and | butcher knife were found in the room. Police were admitted to the two- room apartment by Joseph Wilhite, 20, described as a brother of the suspect, who was returning home from work with a telegraph com- Y. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald (See MURDER, Page A-6. | mitment that might impair freedom present organizational setup. A White House statement accom- panying the order said that the op- erating functions of the reorganized agency are twofold: 1. To work out plans and pro- grams for the protection of life and property against war hazards, such as air raids, including the recruit- ing and training of civilian auxili- aries. Co-operation of State and local authorities is specifically so- licited 2. To mobilize a maximum civilian effort in the prosecution of the war, including the enrollment of volunteers to assist in carrying for- ward the total war program. In more detail, the order outlines seven specific functions for the di- rector and the new Advisory Board. Center for Information. First of these is that the agency shall serve as a center for co-ordi- nation of Federal civilian defense activities which involve relation- ships with State and local govern- ments, establishing and maintaining contact with these governments and Interment will be private. Trained to Journalism. i Trained to jourpalism from the start of his career, Mr. Noyes at- tended Preston’s Academy, Wash- ington; the Chicago Latin School, and Westminster School, Simsbury, Conn. He was graduated from Yale | University with the degree of | bachelor of arts in 1914 and joined the staff of The Star as a reporter the same year. Assigned at differ- ent times thereafter to the Capitol and the White House, he also saw service on the copy desk and as an editorial and feature writer | To Mr. Noyes, no calling was more | important than his chosen profes- | sion of newspaperman. Because he felt that he could better serve his native city and his country by de- voting himself diligently to his Jjournalistic duties and because he wished to avoid any partisan com- of action in connection with his editorial work, he declined appoint- ments in the diplomatic service and | in other Government positions | their defense agencies. which were offered to him at vari- | secondly, the agency shall “keep ous times. informed of problems which arise in | States and local communities from the impact of the industrial and military efforts required by war, and take steps to secure the co- operation of appropriate Federal agencies * * * in meeting the emer- gency needs of such State and com- munities in such a manner as to Active Despite Ill Health. Despite failing health In recent | years, Mr. Noyes insisted on taking | a yeoman's share of extra editorial | responsibilities growing out of the | Second World War and America’s | relation to it. He early had fore- | seen the dangers of spreading total- | itarianism abroad and of blind | promote the war effort.” isolationism at home. Many edito- |~ The third function is to assist rials which he wrote for The Star |local governments in establishing reflected his forthright views in defense councils or other agencies, favor of adequate preparedness| While . the fourth is to study and and of all-out aid to democ-| help carry out plans for protection racies resisting the march of ag- Of life and property. The recruit- gression. Pinland, fighting hero- |ing and training of civilian auxili- ically against Russian invaders, | aries and the dissemination of in- found in him an ardent admirer A formation will be part of this latter who was quick to advocate real | responsibility. material aid for the beleaguered The fifth function, designed to Baltic nation. Great Britain, Greece mMobilize maximum civilian effort and China, fighting perils which he | and provide opportunities for con- believed to menace democracies Structive civilian participation in everywhere, won from him strong | the war program, calls for a review editorial support of their appeals for | 8nd approval of all civilian defense immediate assistance from America. | activities involving use of volun- The record shows that he was far | teer services “so as to assure unity ahead of many of his countrymen |and balance in the application of in sensing the gravity of develop- | Such programs. ments in this critical era and in| The final two functions are to advocating measures designed to |r€view existing or proposed Iocal preserve the peace and security of | défense measures and recommend the Western Hemisphere such additional ones as may be con- Served in A. E. F. | sidered necessary, and to perform " . | such other duties relating to par- I phideopiny doncering Amer: ticipation in the war program as the President may from time to time prescribe. First Designed for Defense. ican preparedness was based upon | Mr. Noyes' own experience in the | Pirst World War. When the United | (See NEWBOLD NOYES. Pg. A-3.) Summary of Foreign Japs reported pouring thousands of troops into Burma. Page A-1 New Hitler peace feelers to Britain are reported. Word still awaited by MacArthur on extent of powers. Page A-4 Reds report advances through line near Bryansk. Page A-5 | Raids threw Japanese into panic, Gen. Royce asserts. Page A-6 National Two more U. S. ships sunk off East coast. > Page A-2 Navy broadens plan for commissions for enlisted men. Page A-2 Morgenthau says Roosevelt prefers Africa, has left Algiers for Morocco on a tour of inspection, the Vichy radio announced today. voluntary bond plan. Page A-3 House committee starts work on F. C. C. change measure. Page A-7 Today’s Star | , Editors warned war censorship tests freedom of press. Page B-5| :Wushinghm and Vicinity. to death. Page A-1 | 53,106,278 above budget recom-| | mended for D. C. Page A-2 | P. U. C. concludes hearings on taxi- | cab rates. Page B-1| | Board grants deferment to 13 se- | lectees; 22 rejected. Page A-15 | High school cadets to lose rifles to | _Army by mid-June. Page B-1 House committee approves D. C. recreation board bill. Page B-1 | Miscellany Marriage Licenses. Page B-18 | Births and Deaths. Page B-18 | After Dark. Page B-18 Nature's Children. Page B-24 \ Officials pointed out that the ex- ecutive order setting up the Office of Civilian Defense last May was loosely drawn and geared to defense rather than war. Such objectives as “sustaining national morale” were expressed in the original order. Civilian defense officials indicated they not only had suggested the order, but had anficipated it to the Page A-2 Young religious worker found beaten | extent of already eliminating the “frills” generally banned in the new order, The Star pointed out Sunday that O. C. D. had already accomplished an internal reorgan- ization. The order was also hailed by civilan defense officials on the ground that it tied O. C. D. specifi- cally into the war program through the appointment of the new ad- visory board, regarded by O. C. officials as “Landis’ war cabinet.” agency “social service is no concern to the war effort” and had directed vol- unteers into other lines more closely tied down to the war program.