Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1942, Page 1

Weather Forecast Continued cool in afternoon; slightly cooler to- Temperatures today—Highest, night. pm.; lowest, 50, at 6:45 a. Prom the United States Wepiner Bureau Report. e A-2. Full Details on Closina N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 18. 63, at 4 m, 90th YEAR. No. 35,801. MAMMOTH 16 J ch WASHINGTON, ¢ Foening Star W‘ITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1942—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. NAVAL BATTLE STILL RAGING; APANESE SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED: British Flyers Attack Convoy Off Dutch Coast Nazis Kill Children In Blitz Raid on English Town By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 8 —Hudson air- craft of the coastal command made two attacks on a heavily escorted convoy of 12 enemy supply ships off the Dutch coast last night, the Air Ministry an- nounced today. “In the first attack at dusk” a eommunique said, ‘“several ships were hit-by bombs. A second attack was made in darkness some hours later when another ship was hit. Two aircraft are missing.” German raiders attacked a South- east English coast town shortly be- fore noon today, roaring over roof- tops, dropping bombs and spraying streets with cannon and machine gun fire. The attack lasted no more than 20 seconds. Before most residents could reach shelter, the planes were racing away across the Channel. A school building received a direct hit and a number of children in the playground were killed. Others, in- jured, were pulled from the wreck- age of the building. Some who got | to a shelter in time were unhurt | although the shelter was buried un- der the ruins of the schoolhouse. Vichy Reporis Fighting Continues in Madagascar | (Earlier Story on Page A-1) By the Associated Press. VICHY, May 8.—A company of French troops landed from the sloop Entrecasteux was reported by an authorized source today to be fight- ing on in the mountains a short dis- tance south of Diego Suarez de- | spite capitulation of the other French forces on that northern tip | of Madagascar. The landing force was said to have put ashore Wednesday, the day following the first British land- ing at Courrier Bay, and to have taken up positions favorable to| guerrilla warfare. Vichy still was without official word of the terms of surrender a Diego Suarez, and all that was af- firmed officially was that the armis- tice there did not mean that the en- tire island had capitulated uncon- ditionally or that the original Brit- ish terms had been accepted. ‘ 30,000 Nazi Casualties | In Russia Reported (Earlier Story on Page A-1) By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 8.— Dispatches from the Russian front reported to- | day that the Germans had suffered 30,000 casualties southwest of Len- ingrad in counter attacks attempt- | ing to wrest the initiative from the Red Army. | The losses were said to have in- | cluded German casualties in new fighting around Staraya Russa. The | period covered by the report was not | \Crew Affer Shells | Set Ship Afire THE BAD NEWS—Standing and Henderson, price administrator, told members of the House Interstate Commerce Committee today that Eastern Seaboard -autoists using their cars for non-essential driving could expect no more than three gallons of gasoline a week. Page A-1) U-Boat Machine-Guns Two Medium-Sized U. S. Merchantmen Sunk In Caribbean BULLETIN. The Navy reported today | 0f Aluminum gesturing with his hands, Leon (Story on —A. P. Photo. Jones Declares U. $. Will Get Ample Supply Says Output Will Reach 2 Billion Pounds When All Plants Are Built By the Associated Press. Secretary of Commerce Jones | that a medium-sized United | told a Senate Banking Subcom- | States merchant vessel had | mittee today “it looks like we | been torpedoed off the Atlan- | were going to have ample alumi- tic Coast and survivors had |num” as a result of the Govern- been landed at a port in the | ment's plant expansion program. Caribbean. He made the statement in testi- . mony in behalf of legislation to in- By the Associated Press. | crease the borrowing authority of KEY WEST, Fla, May 8—|the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Fourteen survivors, landed here | by $5.000.000,000 to a total of $14,- Head Preakness Field of Ten | Pair cali | said he expected to have either | Greentree Pair Alsab’s Name First In Box for $60,000 Pimlico Classic (Earlier Story on Page C-1) Br the Assocjated Press. BALTIMORE, May 8—Ten 3- year-olds—nine colts and a geld- ing—were entered today for to- morrow’s 52d running of the Preakness Stakes at . Pimlico, with the entry of Devil Diver and Shut Out still regarded as the horses to beat. All 10 of the candidates for the | $60,000 prize were in Racing Sec- | retary Charles J. McLennan's entryl box an hour before the deadline | for filing entries at 10:30 o’clock this | morning. All had been listed as | probable starters. Mrs. Payne Whitney's palr—Shut‘ Out, who won the Kentucky Derby a week ago, and Devil Diver, who | was supposed to—were among the | first entries in the box. Along with | them in the mile and three-six- teenths classic were William Wood- ward's Apache, Ben Whitaker's Re- quested, Louis B. Mayer's lore\gn-. | bred Domingo, R. Sterling Clark’s | | Colchis, Emerson Woodward's Val- | dina Orphan, Al Sabath’s Alub‘ Warren Wright's Sun Again and | Mrs. Barclay Douglas’ Fair Call. Luck of Draw. The luck of the draw gave Devil | Diver the inside-pole post position and Shut Out the sixth stall m‘ the starting gate. Colchis drew the ! tough outside lane, but .lockey‘ Georgie Woolf, who won the Preak- ness on Bold Venture in 1936, said | he “liked it because you've got room | to run irom there.” Apache was in lane 2, Fair Call in 3, Reguested, 4: Domingo 5; Valdina Orphan, 7; Alsab, 8, and Sun Again, 9. Although no jockey was listed for Trainer Arthur Fletcher | Johnny Gilbert or Don Meade rid- ing the son of Trace Call, who was | handled by Herb Lindberg in the Derby. Alsab, second in the Kentucky | today by the Navy, after two medium-sized United | States merchantmen were at-| tacked and sunk in the Carib- bean, reported angrily that two German submarines machine- | gunned members of one crew who sou the forecastle of their burning ship. ’I'he two attacks were made public | which said 28 men from one ship and 27 from another apparently lost their lives. Four men were saved from one mer- chantman from a crew of 32 and | were brought here by a passing Norwegian ship that risked destruc- | tion to make the rescue. Ten of 37 on the other vessel were saved by a Navy plane which kept vigil | above them throughout the night and picked them up at daylight. Swastika on Sub, Preston Carpenter, 26, fireman from Beaumont, Tex., said he could see one large German submarine plainly, a large black swastika 130,000,000. Giving an over-all picture of the F. C’s wartime lending and spending program, Secretary Jones | | said the agency and its subsidiaries | made commitments totaling $14,300.- | /000,000, of which $576,000444 had and $565,000,000 repaid. Commitments for Aircraft. Annual production of aluminum, | Mr. Jones predicted, would reach | 2,100,000,000 pounds when all phnt.s' have been finished, compared with a | production of 300,000,000 pounds two years ago and 540,000,000 pounds a year ago. The present rate of alum- inum production, he added, was about 1,000,000,000 pounds per year. The Secretary testified that com- mitments for aircraft plant produc- tion alone totaled $1912,000,000. | Other totals were $360,000,000 for | | magnesium plants; $700.000,000 for | synthetic rubber production, $734,- 000,000 for expansion of the steel industry, $468,000,000 for ordnance plants and $182,000,000 for ship- yards. | ght temporary safety in | peen canceled for various reasons | rive from Chicage tomorrow in time | entry of Shut Out and Devil Diver. | Derby a week ago and champion 2- | year-old of last year, was the first | horse entered when the secretary's office opened today. | His name was dropped into the | entry box by Trainer Sarge Swenke. Basil James, who rode the colt in the Derby, will be in the saddle again | tomorrow. “I don’t know whether it's ]uckv‘ or unlucky to start it off,” Swenke | said as he filed the entry. “They| say ‘first in, first home. 1 hope it doesn't work in reverse, t0o.” Sabath Arrives Tomorrow. Swenke said Mr. Sabath would ar- | for the race. Next into the entry box was the Bill Whitley, Louisville stable agent, filed the entries of Mrs. Payne | Whitney’s aces, and then disclosed that this will be the last time he | does the job for quite awhile since | he is to report to the Army May 15. | As was the case last week, Eddie Arcaro will ride Devil Diver and | Wayne Wright will try to repeat his crack job aboard Shut Out. One Foreign-Bred. Apache and Domingo, the only foreign-bred horse in the field, were the fourth and fifth entries in the box. Assistant Trainer George Tap- pen listed blinkers as part of Apache’s equipment in a race for the first time, because the colt worked NEW YORK.—HERO MEETS HIS SON—Lt. John D. Bulkeley, Navy torpedo boat hero, home from the Philippines, today got his first glimpse of his son, John Duncan Bulkeley, jr. The baby was born April 3. Lt. Bulkeley's wife (left) and mother as- sisted at the introduction. Daughter Joan, 19 months, waited somewhat dejectedly for her turn in the limelight. (8tory on Page A-6.) —A. P. Wirephoto. Late News Bulletins Port of Houston Closed HOUSTON, Tex. (#).—J. Russell Wait, port director, said today the Port of Houston had been.closed. Shippers were officially advised of the order today. “This just makes the - closing complete,” Mr. Wait said. “The Port of Houston has been practically closed for the last three months by all the Government and naval regulations.” Admiral Leahy Reported Leaving Lisbon LONDON #.—The Vichy radio said today that United States Ambassador William D. Leahy, who is returning home, had left Lisbon by Clipper. Pan-American Olympics Postponed BUENOS AIRES (#).—The Argentine Olympic Committee today approved postponement of the Pan-American Games until 1943 because of the war. Nazis Kill 5 Hostages, Doom 90 Others PARIS (#.—The Germans announced today that five hostages had been executed and 90 others condemned to death for an attack on a member of the occupation forces May 2 in the Clichy section. In addition, an order said 500 persons would be sent to work camps if the attackers were not discovered. Two Escaped German Flyers Recaptured OTTAWA (#.—Two German war prisoners who escaped Tuesday from Bowmanville, Ontario, were arrested today, Royal Canadian Mounted Police reported. The Germans, both aviation lieutenants, were Reinhardt Pfundter and Ernst ‘Wagner, They were recaptured near Eastview, a suburb of Ottawa. NIGHT FINAL SPORTS UP) Means Associated Press. CENTS W% W K A% Blsewhere Washington Five Cents and Suburbs THREE AR e R “ | b e - Two U. S. Carriers} And Battleship Are*—‘ Claimed by Tokio : BULLETINS. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia (#).—A naval spokesman, talking of the great sea battle rag- ing in the Coral Sea, said today “there was a good chance that we might have been blasted out of our beds last night, if this had not happened, but we got in there and did the job.” AN ADVANCE ALLIED BASE, Australia (#).— Desperate efforts by Japanese destroyers failed to save the aircraft carriers sunk or damaged by United States air and naval attack off New Guinea, and the crews had to dive overboard amid smoke and flames from the ships, authorities disclosed today. Japanese per- sonnel losses in the bnme may run into the thousands. In addition to one carrier sunk and one badly dam- aged, late reports indicate two cruisers and two de- stroyers have been sunk, along with other shipping, and war and merchant ships badly damaged. The large Japanese concentration was spied head- ing southward several days ago. United States bomb- ers pressed home the attack in the face of terrific anti- aircraft fire and the defense of Jap Zero fighters. The carriers were the main object of the initial assault. By the Associated Press. Allied and Japanese warships fought grimly today in a mammoth 5-day-old battle in the Coral Sea, northeast of Australia, in which American, British and Australian gun- ners have already sunk or crippled 16 enemy ships, 13 of them warships, The toll of Japanese warships was raised four today by the communique issued at United Nations headquarters in Australia— an aircraft carrier and heavy cruiser sunk, an aircraft carrier dam- aged and believed a total loss and a heavy cruiser damaged. Little news of the great battle can be expected until the en- gagement ends, Australian quarters said today. Only brief flashes have been received by the Allied headquarters from the United Btates sea forces, but these have been sufficient to show that enemy concentrations suffered heavy damage. Imperial Japanese headquarters in Tokio claimed a toll of five United Nations warships, including the sinking of a United States battleship of the 32,600-ton California class, the 33,000-ton United | States aircraft carrier Saratoga and the 19,000-ton United States | aircraft carrier Yorktown. In addition, Tokio asserted, a British battleship of the 30,600~ ton Warspite type was heavily damaged, perhaps sunk, and an | Australian cruiser of the 10,000-ton Canberra type was damaged |and may have gone down. London Denies Sinking of Battleship. In London, the Admiralty quickly denied that the Warspite or any other British battleship had been sunk or damaged in the Coral Sea. There was no confirmation of the other Japanese claims, either at Allied headquarters in Australia or in Washington. Following is the complete list of Japanese ships smashed in the Coral Sea as announced from Australia today and by the Navy De- partment in Washington yesterday: Sunk—One aircraft carrier, one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, two destroyers, four gunboats and a supply vessel. Badly damaged, believed a total loss—One aircraft carrier. Badly damaged—One heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, one 9,000-ton seaplane tender, a cargo vessel and a transport. Earlier today Allied bombers were credited with destruction of still another Japanese transport in a rald on the,Louisiade [mands northeast of Australia, raising the total Japanese loss in that area to 17. Greatest Battle for American Navy, On results thus far announced the battle is by far the largest in the history of the United States Navy and the greatest maval battle of World War IL | painted on her conning tower, after | * He estimated that the program | a mile in 1393 wearing eye-cover- disclosed. Late Races f Earlier Results, Racing Selec- | tions and Entries for Tomorrow, Page 2-X. Pimlico TH RACE— Fimiico TNuTeery Braker furiongs. Teentes (sehmidl) 1170 sillon epex, (Alaaro) Time. 1:004% h; ranHrgrohour, Masteville. dLib- u i Dete: Stroube and $5.000 added 2-year-olds. 5 380 | 8.80 360 8.00 1920 ort ollins entry. Jamuicu RACE—Purse. $1.500: claiming; olas and upward: [1-16 miles (Mccreary) " 4.70° .00 210 oy murn (Wahle 390 240 Gegeral Monlee Anuvmam 30 yuy. Also ran—Jamerica and Resolute IL Narragansett Park RACE _Purse. $1.000: claiming 3-year-olds: 6 aie) 7.90 Oldwick & Scarcity (8i Bhemite meuunem Time. 1:14 ran—Tiara, Shasta Man, %‘.L Betae RO Bar Aere tnd’ A1 rstal. Churchill Downs FIPTH RACEPurse. $1.000: aliow- 3-year-olds and upward: 6% fur. (Brooks) furionss. 2.60 250 810 8.7, 1040 640 Heart Man (Borton) 340 an—Belplay, Patriot, Treem, rante and Technician. Sportsman’s Park URTH RACE—Purse. $800: elaiming olds and upward; § turlongs igley 60 430 300 280 320 s Katherine BT, ireked | on- . Comics | the merchant ship was hit. “There was no rust on her” hr said, “She was freshly painted.| She looked as if she was just out | of drydock.” Angrily declaring he wanted to go | back to sea, Carpenter added: “I want to sail on a merchant ship that is armed so when these babies begin shooting, we can give them some of their own medicine.” ‘ Zig-Zag Three Hours. Aboard the other United States merchant ship members of the crew !saw the explosions and the blaze, iand for three hours 2ig-zagged, knowing that eventually the subma- rines would get them. They did. Kenneth Morgan, 19, of Princeton, N.J, just two weeks out of a Mari- time Commission school for radio operators, remained at the wireless key in a smoke-filled shack sending word of the attack until he e carried, almost unconscious, safety in the arms of Capt. Wa]ler Reed of Oaklyn, N. Y. 116 in Lifeboat Sail vy | And Drift for 16 Days B the Associated Press. __ NORFOLK, Va., May 8 —Thirteen T (See U-BOAT, Pnge Xy | GUIDE FOR READERS Page. Page Amusements, Lost, Found A-3 C-5-6 Obituary A-12 C-10-11 Radio C-10 | Editoriols _ A-10| §odetv B-3 | Editorial | Spor C- Articles __A-11 Wherz to Go B-10 Finance ____A-18' Woman's Legal | Page._ Notices. c-9 R 3 Complete Index on Page A-1! ¢ ‘ 3 (See ALUMINUM, Plge 2-X) Murkets at a Glance NEW YORK. May 8 @ —Stocks steady: selected industrials im- proved. Bonds higher; rails and utilities lead advance. Cotton improved; active trade price fix- ing. CHICAGO. — Wheat lower: profit taking. Corn steady to lower; profit taking. Hogs steady; top, $14.15; moderate supply. Cattle generally steady; little beef i crop. ings two days ago. Jimmy Stout | will ride Apache and Jackie West- rope will be astride Domingo, who worked a half-mile in 54 seconds flat today. Following in rapid order in e entry box were Colchis, hope of the | Marylanders for a hometown boy wi make good; Valdina Orphan, the front-running Texan who ran third in the Derby last week: Sun Again, the candidate with whom Wright | and Trainer Ben Jones hope to make it two Preaknesses in a row, and Fair Call. Sun Again, another that did not run in the Derby, was still on the “uncertain starter” list for the Preakness | Phlllpplne President in U. . | after the R. A. F. has smashed the Soon Will Come to Capital President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines arrived in San Francisco today and will come to Washington | soon with his family and party, it | was announced this afternoon by Philippine Resident Commissioner J. M. Elizalde In a statement, the commissioner snld: “I, jointly with all Filipinos in the world. am overjoyed at the arrival of President Quezon, his family and party in the United States after an | arduous ordeal on Corregidor and heroic resistance to the enemy. “Owing to an emergency opera- tion which I suffered last week, I was unfortunately unable to be present in San Francisco. On ar- rival of the party . . . President | Quezon will proceed shortly to been graciously made by Secretary of the Interior Ickes. “President Quezon is the living | spirit of Philippine democracy, and | the symbol of Filipino loyalty and | devotion to the United States. He personifies the unbending will of the Filipino people to recover their | country from the Japanese yoke at | the earliest possible date.” Secretary Ickes announced that | President Quezon would establish headquarters for the Philippine Commonwealth government here. Mr. Ickes, who has jurisdiction over the Office of Territories and Island Possessions, said plans for | the official welcome to be given the Washington, where he will be re- | ceived by the United States Govern- | ! ment. Arrangements for this have party on arrival in wnsmnzwn would be announced later. of the Western defense command. | rible summer,” | be—how long it will take—I can | last desperate throw. Maryland Losing in Seventh, 1-2 COLLEGE PARK, Md.—Washington and Lee was lead- ing Maryland at the end of the seventh inning, 2-1, in a pitchers’ battle between Roberts of Maryland and Cook of Washington and Lee. Air Minister Sees Invasion "Maior League Games After R. A. F. Does lts Work ¥y the Associated Press. American League. At Philadelphia— ton __ - 000 100 000— 1 50 BIRMINGH?M E:lglflndi ’di‘y Philadelphia 002 000 00x— 2 70 8.—Sir Archibald Sinclair, Air Min- ister, told an audience tonight that | Marehiiee soi W Wageew. "t Tesesk: Britain would invade the continent | (Only Game Scheduled.) Nazi air force. Promising the Luftwaffe a “ter-| and contrasting the | R. A. F.'s position now with what it was during the 1940 battle of Britain, Sinclair declared that “we knew that if we survived that battle our air power would surely grow.” “The German air force knows its power is waning,” he continued. “That is our opportunity. We must | give it no rest. We must hammer it out of shape. When that will National League, At Cincinnati— St. Louis __. 000 022 001—5 91 Cincinnati 010 001 000— 2 8 Shoun and Lamann At Chicago— | Pittsburgh__ 010 111 Chlcl‘o - 020 02 tories—Se and *MiCulioush, ! 4 Fhetos: At Brooklyn— not tell, but then will come the New York .. 01 invasion. “I do not mean the invasion of Brocklyn - 00 Britain, though that is AIWAYS & aag Omems ioion ané Dan possibility against which we must constantly be vigilant as Hitler's SCRSIy Gl SRaauie) I mean in- the | Today’s Home Runs Churchill to Speak Sunday | National League. NEW YORK, May 8 (P)—Prime | Lamanno, Cincinnati, 2d inning. Mmmer Churchill will broadcast &' pi Maggto, Pittsburgh, 4th inning. speech Sunday at 3 pm. (E. W. T.). | ganqers, gt. Louls, Sth inning. according to a British broadcasting | 2 nnouncement heard today by | Slaughter, St. Louis, 6th inning. . B. 8. \Mcc«mlck Cineinnati, 6th inning. Mooty . Wratt vasion by British forces of continent of Europe.” 16 Jap Ships Smashed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, May 8 (®.—The great- est naval battle of the war is in progress in the seas directly east of Australia, with the immediate | fate of this continent depending on the undetermined result. Alliled headquarters announced that already 10 Japanese ships had been sunk and six badly damaged, as follows: Sunk: An aircraft carrier, a heavy (See AUSTRALIA, Page A-6.) Freezing of Soft oft Wood Building Lumber Studied By the Associated Press. The War Production Board was reported today to be contemplating Batteries—Warneke and O'Dea: Riddle, | the freezing of all manufacturers’| sales of soft-wood construction lum- ber, except to Government buyers, to conserve supplies for the Army, Navy and shipbuilding program. Official confirmation was lacking, but reliable sources said the action could be expected “very soon. The freeze would apply to future produc- | tion and to distributors’ stocks as| well as manufacturers’, but not to retail sales, it was said. The freeze will be temporary, these sources reported, and prelim- inary to creation of a lumber allo- cation system which would appor-| tion available supplies between the | Army, Navy and Maritime Commis- sion, on the one hand and other per- mitted construction on the other. ‘W. P. B. officials were said to feel that lumber stocks in the hands of retail dealers would be sufficient to care for the needs of defense hous- ing and other authorized construc- tion until the allocation quotas were | worked out. + Japs Claim 5 Warships TOKIO (From Japanese Broad- casts;, May 8 (®.—Imperial | headquarters announced today | that Japanese naval units had sunk a United States battleship |and two United States aircraft carriers, heavily damaged a British battleship and crippled a British (Australian) heavy cruis- er in a continuing battle over the Coral Sea. The cruiser—identified as of the 10,000-ton _Canberra type—was ‘said to have been “seriously erippled™ (and Axis dispatches broadcast from Berlin said it was reported unofi- cl;g;; to have gone to the bottom also. U. 8. Craft Identified, The American craft declared sunk were formally identified as a battle- ship of the California type and air- | craft carriers of the Saratoga and Yorktown type. The damaged British battleship was of the 30,600-ton Warspite type (the World War Queen Elizabeth | class), the communique reported. (A Rome broadcast listed this ves sel as sunk.) | lThj British Admiralty denied (See TOKIO, PIBe A-6.) Arlington Bunul Slated | For Comdr. Burrow | By the Associated Press. The Navy announced today that Comdr. John Giles Burrow, 42, of | North Highland street, Arlington, Va., who was killed Saturday in the crash of an airliner near Salt Lake City, will be buried in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery tomorrow with full military honors. r " ii-i-i&%i%fi*-#i*##*&é%i*#i%*#%*%**%*-#*-&4 R & 2 TR S SRE AR