Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1942, Page 8

A6 %% THE EVENING Vichy Navy fo Resist ‘Philippine Raids Threw Japs NaziRule, Free French /nto Panic, Gen. Royce Says Admiral Believes Auboyneau Indicates Scuttling Before Use Would Be Tolerated By BLAIR BOLLES. The men in the Vichy French Navy will ignore any orders that would put the fleet at the dis- | posal of Germany, Admiral Phil- Attack Was Field Day, ‘Something Like a Picnic,” He Asserts Associated Press. m uNIT:D STATES ARMY /HEADQUARTERS IN AUS- !TRALIA, April 16-—Consterna- tion, as well as made-in-the-U. S. A. bombs, hit the Japanese | when the aerial task force of | Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce smashed | STAR, WASHINGTON, lZ Witnesses C Clmged ; With Perjury to Aid 'Plea by Ewing | Prosecutor Says Pair Repudiated Testimony About ‘Frame-up’ Assistant United States Attorney | John W. Fihelly today filed in Dis- trict Court afidavits in which he | sald two witnesses confessed they | perjured themaelves in testimony | D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942. new ma with & downtown eclothi: Me lived with his mother an ‘brother according to police. Police 'um the mother, a nurse, wis not at home when they went to the apartment last night | The youth once attended an in- dustrial school in Baltimore, which | he left without permission, police added The slim, dark-haired victim was | the daughter of William Menry | Matthes. who also has been active |in behalf of Jehovah's Witnesses | Mr. Matthes was reluctant to talk | with reporters this morning, but said his daughter had been very enthu- | siastic about her religious work and | pursued it diligently to the exclusion | Of social activities. The father sald [she had two brothers and a sister, {all of whom live in tha M street Dr. John J. Field DENTIST NW ME+ 'rd of, A bank which T8 m. [nach Witk ec 11 TUlek. and the provisions FFaderal Reserve orts ax of April d4th. 1042, of & hoenth and fanipaton. b ¢ hipping of hou: I effects. and ippe Auboyneau, the new com- ¥ at & hearing on motion for A new apartment. . ok mander in chief of the Free e e L pines. A lad TSIV | trial made by Orman W. Ewing oS i i m’m:‘ - French vy, said today in an| -The raids obviously threw the former Democratic nationai gom- | " N ;».n, OWNA fore than & ma interview hrrfi Japanese into a terrific panic,” Gen | mitteeman from Utah, convicted of | Father Ignatius Fealy t last Stockholders | m of Afliate |, Admiral Auboyneu. 42 I8 stopping | Rovce wald. “You can imagine i . eu Dies at Baltimore 3 & n Washington on his way to Lon-|their bewilderment when suddenly | The witnesses, Raymond Mager K _owned. none don. He was in charge of the de- out of the sky. appeared & big ot ‘Waantagten. agd Bis. 0o 8 [ The Rev. Ignatius Fealy, 84. pastor Biin. none fense »f New Caledonia, in the bunch of bombers which let looee ) \ t ock il name o Bouth Pacific. when Gen. Charles averything on them | ;{‘v'“,';““ - d"m" 'g l"‘:"”;‘ ‘:\;o:d'l e R iy Daridy 6 ediibe s ' 10 Snates heriod de Gaulle appointed him commander They didnt know where the . Va, repudiated their testimony | Awn, in Baltimore, died yes- [ ol Feecrdy s Ao Thd00 in chief to succeed Admiral Emil| bombers came from and the radio | "‘“tm" yne, & star Qovern- [ terday at St. Agnes' Hospital there. , O'her * ey - W e Muselier, the man who engineered | used up all the ether for the whole ,m’:""“““'w npd“’“‘“‘“ ':‘fl""_‘h‘“ He had been pastor at 8t. Joseph's Gt nlfl‘,:r‘m:'i n.x:on ATy 10 diselose the seizure of St. Pierre and|of Sunday trying to find out where | ‘oi m" rior &l l“ll;‘fl» o .1” Church here from 1004 to 1013 and "M, " llon Witk Muciary eaaeity Miquelon we were coming from and meAns join ing” & man, Mr. Fihelly | for nine years was chaplain in the 3 The possibllity that the strong | for stopping u." e s e United States Army French flee. will be made avallable | Seated serenely in a hotel as if| ording to Mr. Fihelly. they admitted Servioes will be held at 10 am Fistiman o Mo best 0t my KRowl” to Germany by Vichy 18 one of the he had just returned from a week- :Mm'“:a P’::“;‘ :m?"’&‘fa | Saturday at St. Agnes’. with burial | ddxe and o most anxious questions now disturbe end pleasure junket. Gen. Royoe | { Tacan wet “;l tod 1t 8 - in Mount Olivet Cemetery, bt g 105 the United States and our Allies, | told the story of the thrilling ex- nee but indics was not & MURDER SUSPECT IN CUSTODY-Policeman G. M. Timko is e i Sk '\;!e.l' " u-’"\}o\“trr.:‘nl:;"nu The admiral sald he had heard ploft and sald the whole plan for | ‘m;fl.“;fi‘gt_mgg‘g:flfll{ sing | *hOWn leading Richard L. Wilhite, 17, to his cell in No. 1 precinet er, can_vou spare & dime? 111 day ‘ot Aoel fim % teports 5f Nazis being placed aboard |it was drawn up by Gen. Douglas | . Police sald the former theater usher confessed in| It so, buy & Defense stam pi iy the French warships. which still are | MacArthur and his stafl decision by Justice James W. Morris, | Station Bt X o Nkt Bt responsihle to Viehy, but that he disappointed in its hopes of using the French vessels Sees Scuttling First. Some French officers, the admiral despite thought Germany would be | | @en. Royce called the rald “a field day for two days * * * some- | thing in the nature of a picnic.” | Gen. Royce said he did not take | actual part in the attacks them- | selves, but maintained personal con- | At the hearing, the two witnesses | testified Mr. Payne told them he | knew a girl who could entice “an | old goat” into a room for purposes of “framing” him. Mr. Payne de- nied at the hearing he had made Murder Miss Madeline Matthes, 25-year-old religious work > — —Star Staff Photo. | h. Oflml“d one year of high ormerly worked as an usher faid, might be disposed toward col- | tact with them by courler plane. | Aoy D::‘:‘{le:' ey —{(Continued From Fir w Tonlgh’ 8:30-8:45 WMAL laboration, but not the men who| The teamwork of his fiyers, he de- lack commissions. Without predict- | clared, left nothing to be desired he two defense withesses hae been o rigu;:d ADVERTIS! ing the future, he left the impres- | In between- operations the gen- | under investigation by District At- | Al txe mrc fl“’( . Ym mi sion the loyal Frenchmen on the | eral piloted one bomber himself for | T R W O M | O e faities ot bee ships would scuttle them befors | n" gou“ BRIG. GEN. RALPH ROYCE. |Fihelly, Assistant District Attorney | Whether Miss ?‘:fllnfi a at n LOSE 20 LBS. EACH | letting them operate in the Axis| S R S e S S e o — |Charles B. Murray and Detective | criminally attacked. 1In addition . interest He spoke on the basis of his long knowledge of French naval officers | and men and on the basis of intelll- gence reports sent to him from Lon. don. He was active in the fight against Germany as long as Franoce was in the war and he jolned De Gaulle shortly after the French surrender in 1940, “What do you make of the change that puts Laval in power?" he was asked “It simplifies everything, doesn't 1t2" he replied. Marine's Case Cited. The admiral was told during the Interview by another Free French official about & French marine who recently escaped to this ocountry after deserting from his ship in North Afriea. The marine sald he | was offered 12,000 francs a year by | Nazi agents to stay with his ship, This is a small fortune for a French- man While the French naval feeling against Germany is profound, the | admiral said, there is at the same | time a disposition to remember the British attack on the fleet at Oran | (Cross-Town Bus Line | 'Service Revision 'Backed by Sager Utilities Board Engineer Explains Plan to Improve Northeast Area Routes Uncertainties as to deliveries of new buses were olted by Fred A. Sager, chief engineer of the Public Utllities Commission, as one reason for proposed transportation system (ohmlu in the Northeast area dur- \nal hearing today before the com- The commiasion oalled the he to consider A proposed extenaion o! the oross-town bus line from the vieinity of Oatholic University to Bladensburg road N.E, via Monroe !hnvm; through service, but he snid substitution of feeder service for through service should be consid« ered in the light of difficulties in hzun. new buses due to the war, ¢ estimated the Oapital Transit Co. would need 600 new buses this {‘ and, due to priotity conditions, LR { jure the company would nnt get that many. Oompany spokesmen quemoned‘ the need for the new feeder lines | and whether it was “unreasonable” | to expect streetoar or bus riders to wal halfmile to get service. Mr. Sager said he knew of no exact standard about walking distance, but that it was generally agreed that this should not be more than 1,800 £ Navy Asks Corps Of Women for Shore Duties Dy the Associnten Press. Just a step behind the Army but | Lt. Joseph W. Bhimon of the Metro- | to crushing blows on the head, the politan Police Department, assigned | body bore cuts about the neck and to Mr. Curran's office. on the chest Youth Had New Job. Police 8aid they rct had a habit of leaving home had been reported missing 10 If you can remember Pearl Har- bor, you can remember to call a s collector and give him your old | ang paper. $ 4 learned the | | " times since August, 1940. They said | 100 FAT LADIES In a clinical test just completed under the direction of Dr. C. B. Von Moove: 100 overweight persons lost an av of 20 pounds each in the thirty di tween Janusry 2nd and Pebruary 2n 1042, One registered Nurse lost 90| pounds. and a Dietitian 30 pounds in the Shirty days. All of these people|| used the new Ayds vitamin ocandy dueing plan, which costs onll mfl'm ot 1‘“3..‘“{ a"out o Just phone your lavorte | driig "Counter or’ health foodshop and WCBM, Baltimore GOVERNOR 0°'CONOR Will Discuss the War Etffort —and Maryland's Part in it Just as enthusiastic over the value of women in war, the Navy moved yesterday toward establishing a fem- and the British-Free French shell. | ing of Dakar. These incidents have not improve street, South Dakota nue and Franklin_street; discont ce of d the Vichy navy's|some seotions of the Rhode I llnu afMnity for England Admiral Auboyneau exprossed concern over the prospect of & Jap- anese move against the French | island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean—a likely base of -Axia opera- tions fof harassing the supply lines of the Allles to the Persian Qulf and the Red Sea Fred. French Fleet Small. It has been estimated that his| active Free French fleet comprises around 180 vessels, most of them small, although he has a few cruls. ers and the world's largest sub. marine, the Surcouf. s fleet could not cope with the vessels | which Prime Minister Churehill re- ported the Japanese have operating in the Indian Ocean. However, Admiral Auboyneau will | e command a much larger flotilla if | Vichy takes steps to turn its vessels | over to the Axis. That would be the signal for the Allles to put into action the French vessels now under | their control, but not used for belligerent purposes. These include the battleships Paris, Courbet and Lorraine, 22,000 tons each, which now are demili- fern, 10,000 tons; Duguay-Trouin, the Duquesne and the Tourville These ships are in British harbors The plane-carrier Bearn and the cruisers Jeanne D'Arc and Emile Bertin are in the harbor of Mar- tinique Vichy Fleet Big. The Vichy French fleet inclu 5 battleships, 12 light and heavy cruisers, 50 destroyers and 50 nub- marines. Some small Vichy ships are at Madagascar, where the har- bor of Diegd Suarez has been im- proved during the last two years Six Vichy cruisers are believed on their way to Madagascar The 35.000-ton battlsship Richelieu is stationed at Dakar. Her sister ship, the Jean Bart, carrying 15-inch guns, is at Casablanca in French North Afriea. The battleships Strasbourg and Dunkerque, both at Toulon, naval base in Southern France, are 26500-ton vessels. The Provence is 32,000 tons. The Prov- ence and the Dunkerque were ine Jured at the Oran shelling Navy Yard Mac;\inist Found Dead in Auto John F. Leimeister. 49, a machin- 15t at the Navy Yard for eig PATS was found shot to d auto, parked at Tenth and E streets SE early today aliber revolver one bullet had been d from which d, was in his lap w eman W. D Ward made t Coroner A. Magrud issued a certificate of Pressure of w Yard had mad his landlady » 910 G street SE he had seemed unusually cheerful when he left for work yesterday afternoon Senate—Esslinger National Bohemian— Neuweiler—Yuengling AR RRIRANRR AR AN T NN tarized, along with the cruisers Sufs | avenue and the Myattaville-College Park bus lines, and establishment of several new feeder bus improved service in &ou wonhmt | area. | New Buses Not Neaded. Mr. Sager sald he-belleved the pro:;oud mx\\:lmuo& &h‘m | would not e M more ‘bunh‘ than rn.:w‘-fi%fl(h the bus mile per hour would be in- | creased. cnuduhonno'um ‘u nused Atreetcar cApacity Wi should be used and that this d jpnvmt need for additional buses due to the rerouting. 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