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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-29
Japanese Bomb
Burma Road
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ferred 10 President Roosevelt 8
statement that American mer-
chant ships in the Pacific will no,
be armed Immediately as q
trick
according to a Toxic radio
broadcast picked up by NBC.
Japanese newspapers proclaimed
in banner headlines that the
United States has broken the
peace.
CALLED ULTIMATUM
("Despite the declaration OF
President Roosevelt that nego-
tiations between Japan and the
United States still are going on.
the United States, In presenting
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-29

! neered by those In nlgn places VINO
advocate and practise MARKHAM
IideoIogies which are hostile to ouI
Constitution.
To date. not one Communist has
been removed from within the
government.
What more proof Is needed that
this war IL not for future peace
nor liberty, but for q new world
empire in which Christianity and
the flour freedoms" will have no
place.
Already. our American institu-
tions have been weakened to the
point of collapse.
While we still have a semblance
of the Constitution left, every real,
honest American should act now.
Demand this country be kept
out Of war and protest further aid
to Stain.
Very sincerely.
c. MACDONALD.
81 Carter ST., Newburgh, n. ",
Sept. FL. 1941.
Mr.. William Randolph Hearst,
WyntoOn,
MeG leHdI, Gaiif.- -
My Dear Mr.. Hearst:
W OUR interesting column en-
- tightening our citizens on
the very black page Of Rus
sian history, Is both timely and
very interesting, and I wish to
thank you and commend you for IT,.
am born In this country OF
Swedish parents, and I am. 1 must
confess, possessed OF fault,
wherein I am unable to hate any
body, he they French, English,
German. jew or anything else until
they have hurt me, and even then l
don't hate them, but just dcspise
their way.
do not think that am all
alone in this feeling. for I think
the majority of Americans like
myself who have lived all their
lives here. have been shielded from
the hates of Europe and thus we
have come to . very docile and
lovely way of living In peace and
contentment. That IL we were
until 1917.
Then we became involved In q
European fracas and II seems We
are unable to wash our hands oil
their bloody orgies over there.
Must we always 20 on with the
thorn OF hate In our sides fol
Germans. Films, Petain French
or anyone somebody wants US "a
hate?
/. Can we no longer live In peace
and tranquility, and show th'
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Japan Verdict
On Peace Near

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ances that the Nippon empire
would refrain from any aggressive
action in the northern or southern
Pacific.
American quarters arc under
stood TO have been cool toward
the proposal. However. Secretary
of State Cordell Hull presented
M to the diplomatic representa-
ltives of Great Britain. Australia
The Netherlands and China last
Saturday
At that time. both Washington
and London werepdeeply concerned
over the Vichy governments G. :
missal Of Gen. Maxine Weygand
as commander in chief of French
North Africa.
1t was not clear whether IS
meant that Niehy was about n
turn over the French fleet and
the French African bases 10 the
AXIS.
If such had been the case, the
British were fearful they might
have TO recall some IF their war
ships from Singapore 10 the Medi-
terranean.
During the weekend. the Brit
ish advance in Libya also ran into
difficulties.
BY Tuesday. Britain, Australia
and The Netherlands are under
stood TO have been favorably dis
posed toward the -Ided Of SOME
temporary arrangement W h
Toxic.
L. s. CHANGES MIND
7. However. events occurred during
the next "a hours which made the
American government change its
mind. These appear TO be in their
order of Importance, as follows:
| Definite information that
l. Japan was massing troops
in French Indo-China for an at
tack on Thailand. which Secre-
tary Hull regarded AS an act OF
bad faith on the part of Toxic
while the peace talks we're
going on.
C-Indications that public opin-
- ion In this country would
regard the truce as appeasement
OF Japan at the expense OF China.
C-Word that Nichy was not
- acquiescing completely TO
German demands, and that the
British situation had improved.
Am urgent appeal from
China not 10 weaken the
united front.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-29
Saturdays Symposium

SO hoppy and so debonatr.
SO full of jog and lore Of
life
HIS thoughts 1cere far from
Wdr and strife.
But nAeH his country called
for men,
No spell nor charm could
h0id him then.
And HOW to feel through
time and space
RI Hcrer more behold his
face.
For O, the bog that used to
be.
We sent to fight across the
sea,
To fight for his country and
fight for the right;
To make men equal IN each
others sight.
And he kept his ,cord to his
God and to nc
Ny bog, and the boys that
rent Orer the sea.
And they say they buried
him lcherc he fell
In The soil of France, that
he loped so mell--
Where the golden grain and
the poppicS bl01c:'
I kHoiC and feel he Would
1rtShTt so.
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81 Carter ST., Newburgh, n. ",
Sept. FL, 1941.
Mr.. William Randolph Hearst,
WyntoOn,
~
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Sincerely yours,
T. b. WILSON
Chairman of the Board
TranscOntinental e. Western
Air, Inc.
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- West IL ST.. New York
Sept. \, 1871
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-29
CALLED ULTIMATUM

neered by those In high places who
advocate and practise MARKHAM
ideoIogies which are hostile to our
Constitution.
To date, not one Communist has
government.
Evening star., 1941-12-26
Planes Sink japanese
Transport, Destroyer,
Netherlands Reports
Enemy Ships OFF Sorowok
Targets; White Rojoh's
Troops RoIIyine
"A. P. Photo.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BATAVIA. Netherlands East In
dies, Dec. 26.-The Dutch, whose air
and submarine forces have set a
daily average of one japanese ship
sunk or seriously damaged since
they went to war with Japan, an
nounced today the sinking of q
Japanese destroyer and transport in
an air attack on enemy shipping
concentration off Kuching. capital
Of Sarawak, Island Of Borneo.
(Aneta, official Dutch news
agency, telephoning the COM
munique to New York. appeared
to say that a destroyer or a
transport" had been sunk The
New York Office of Aneta was re-
checking this PASSAGE
On the basis OF the latest report
the Japanese had lost two destroyers
in recent days to the Dutch, who
reported only yesterday that one OF
the 2100-ton Amagiri class was tor
pedoed and sunk the night OF De-
cember 24-25 by submarine which
escaped the depth bombs dropped by
an accompanying destroyer to report
its victory.
Just when the other destroyer was
hit was not clear since the Dutch
Naval Air Force has been hammer
ing at shipping off Kuching for the
past three or four days.
A Dutch reconnaissance plane was
said today to have spotted a Japa-
nese seaplane circling around the
(See DUTCH, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1941-12-26
Harmon Is Reported
Slated 10 Command
Army Air Combat
Would Succeed Emmons,
Transferred to Handle
Huwuii's Defenses

BY the Associated Press.
Mai. Gen. Millard F. Harmon,
veteran flyer. was reported reliably
TODAY to have been chosen to head
the Army Air Force Combat Com
mand and thus to be general field
director of Army air fighting opera
tions.
Gen. Harmon, recently COM
mander of the I'd Air Force with
headquarters at Fort George Wright,
Wash. succeeds 1t. Gen. Delos c..
Emmons, who has been put in
charge of Hawaii's defenses.
An air force officer since he flew
into Mexico with the 1916 punitive
expedition, Gen. Harmon is SO and
a graduate of the Military Academy.
Gen. Harmon won the French
Croix de Guerre in the World War
as a fighter pilot attached to a
French combat group in the Somme
offensive.
A native of San Francisco he was
given command of the End Air Force
in July after brief service as COM
mander of the interceptor command
of the 4th Air Force at Riverside,
Calf.
Whether he is to head the COM
bat command permanently or only
temporarily during the absence OF
Gen. Emmons was left unanswered
at the War Department.
The combat command is one OF
the two major components OF the
Army Air Forces, which are headed
by 1t. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, deputy
chief of the War Department gen.
eral staff. The other is the Army
Air Corps, commanded by Maj, Gen,
George H. Brett, reported today to be
in Chungking, China.
The combat command controls all
aerial operations except for units
specifically attached to task forces.
overseas garrisons or other COM
manders.
The Air Corps has the task OF
supplying and maintaining the air
forces, and training pilots and me-
chanicS.
Evening star., 1941-12-26
Prime Minister ellis
Congress Results to
Be Surprise to Axis
U. 5. and British
Advisers Meet on
Economy Strategy

President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill took up the
all-important wartime problems
Of supply and fighting strategy
this afternoon, meeting at the
White House with experts OF
their two governments in these
fields.
The conferences, split into two
sections on the basis of subject
matter, followed a meeting of the
Presidents cabinet.
Meeting with the President we're
the production advisers. including
Lord Beaverbrook. British Minister
of Supply; Vice President Wallace
and Federal Loan Administrator
Jones.
Others at the conference were
the Office of Production Man.
agement. Director Donald Nelson
of the Supply Priorities and AL
locations Board, Director William
L. Bait of the o. P. NJ. Production
Division. Undersecretary of War
Robert P. Paterson, Assistant Secre-
.ary of War Robert A. Lovett, Under
secretary Of the Navy James V.
Forrestal, Price Administrator Leon
Henderson and Harry L. Hopkins,
who has been directing all phases
of the lease-lend program.
Military Council Called.
Later. the President and Mr.,
Churchill were to meet with top
ranking officers in the fighting arms
of both governments.
Called in for this consultation
were Secretary of War Stimson, Sec
retary of the Navy Knox, Gen.
George c. Marshall, Army chief of
staff; 1t. Gen. Henry H. Arnold.
Army air chief; Admiral Harold r..
Stark, chief of naval operations; Ad-
miral Ernest J. King, commander in
chief of the United States Fleet:
Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, first sea
lord of Britain; Gen. Sir John Dill,
retiring chief Of staff of the British
Army; Air Marshal Sir Charles Por-
tai. Lord Beaverbrook and Mr. Hop
kins.
Carrying out the expressed inten-
ton to keep all other governments
associated in the war against the
Axis fully informed, the President
today called Maxim Litvinov, Rus
sian Ambassador for review of the
British American conversations thus
far.
Tomorrow. it was announced, Mr..
Roosevelt will receive representatives
of all of the Pan American republics
for similar purpose Tentatively.
it also was planned for the Chief
Executive to review the conferences
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1941-12-26
Halfway Bill Siqned

vale of years. could have been here
to see. BY the way, cannot help
rejecting that if my father had been
an American and my mother Brit
ish, instead of the other way around,
I might have got here on my own.
In that case, this would not have
been the first time you would have
heard my voice. In that case
would not have needed any invita-
tion, but if I had it is hardly likely
that it would have been unanimous.
So perhaps things are better as they
are. 1 may confess. however, that
do not feel quite like a fish out OF
water in a legislative assembly where
English is spoken.
Favors Gettysburg Ideal.
I am a child of the House OF
Commons. I was brought up in my
fathers house to believe in democ-
racy; trust the people, that was his
Evening star., 1941-12-26

The tert of Prime Minister
Churchilrs speech to Congress
tolloUS:
Members Of the Senate and of the
House of Representatives of the
United States::I feel greatly honored
that you should have thus invited
me to enter the United States Sen
ate chamber and address the rep
resentatives of both branches Of
Congress. The fact that my Amer
sican forebears have for so many
generation played their part in the
life of the United States and that
here am, an Englishman, welcomed
in your midst, makes this expert
ence one of the most moving and
thrilling in my life, which is already
long and has not been entirely I'M
eventful.
I wish, indeed, that my mother.
whose memory I cherish across the
Evening star., 1941-12-26

strokes have been needed to bring
us together"
Certain of Victory.
1T is not given us to peer into
the mysteries of the future" he con-
cluded. Still l avow my hope and
faith. sure and inviolate. that in
the DAYS to come the British and
American peoples will for their own
safety and for good of all walk to-
gether SIDE by side in majesty, IN
justice, and in peace
Answering critics who have asked
why the British and the United
States we're not better prepared in
the Pacific Ocean to meet the at
tacks launched by Japan, Mr..
Churchill said that the British at
war had to decide whether it was
better to send supplies to Libya or
to Malaga and the United States
had to decide whether to furnish
supplies to Hawaii and the Philip
pines or to give them to those al
ready fighting the Axis powers.
History. he said, will prove that
both nations were right in the choice
made.
The British Prime Minister, speak
ing of the attacks launched by Japan
on Great Britain and the United
States, said:
What kind of a people do they
think we are? Is it possible they
do not realize that we shall never
lContinlIed on PAGE Az. Column J
Evening star., 1941-12-26
Traffic Toll Rises to 94
As Injured Man Dies
Earlier Traffic Story on Page B-l.

Earlier Traffic Story on Page B-1J
The Districts oath traffic fatality
was registered today with the death
of Frederick Drake, Al, of Isl V
street NV. whose automobile was
involved in a crash with street
car December / in the 1900 block OF
Connecticut avenue. He died at
Gallinger Hospital.
The hospital said the man was
admitted yesterday after. it was
said, he had fallen down a flight
of stairs in his home. At the time
of the accident, Mr.. Drake was
treated for head injuries at Emer-
gency Hospital, where he was re-
leased after his condition was es-
tablished as mot serious"
After performing an autopsy this
afternoon, Coroner A. Magruder Nc
Donald said q cerebral hemorrhage
due to the trafilc accident was the
cause of the death.
Evening star., 1941-12-26
Plane Hits Mountain,
Army Aviator Dies

By the Associated Press.
BLAIN, Pa, Dec. 26.-An Army
attack plane crashed and burned
today atop Conococheague Noun
tain, killing the pilot.
The victims charred body was
still at the controls when a search
ing party found the wreckage three
miles north of this Central Penn
sylvania community.
State police said a watch found
on the body carried the name OF
William Luetzow. Officials at Mid
dletown Army Airport, some 40 miles
from the crash scene, said 1t. Will
liam e. Luetzow was missing on q
flight mission from Boiling Field.
Evening star., 1941-12-26
Leader Certain
Democrucies Can
Win World Peace
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Prime Minister Churchill today
told Congress that "the end of
1912 will see us quite definitely
in better position" and "the
year l943 will enable US to as
sumo the initiative upon an
ample scale"
He predicted that in a year or
10 months the flow of munitions in
the United States and Britain will
produce results in war power be
yond anything that has been seen
or foreseen in the dictatorship
states"
Both serious and jolly as he stood
before a battery of radio micro
phones on the platform of the Sen
ate. Britains Prime Minister aroused
his audience to alternate high
pitches of enthusiasm and mirth.
Turning to the unity in which the
British and the Americans find
themselves today, Mr.. Churchill said
solemnly that ''prodigious hammer
Evening star., 1941-12-26
GUIDE FOR READERS
Text of ChurchWs Address to Congress

message. was to see him cheered
at meetings and in the streets by
crowds of working men way back IN
those aristocratic, Victorian days
when, as Disraeli said, the world was
for the few and for the very few.
Therefore, I have been in full
harmony all my life with the tides
which have flowed on both sides of
the Atlantic. against privilege and
monopoly. and I have steered con-
fidently toward the Gettysburg ideal
of government of the people, by the
people, for the people.
I owe my advancement entirely to
the House of Commons. whose serv-
ant am. In my country as in yours
public men are proud to be the
servants of the state. and would be
ashamed to be its masters. On any
day, If they thought the people
CONTINUED on Page AS, Column %
Evening star., 1941-12-26
Late News Bulletins
'BIockout' Bill Siqned; School ViqI Extended

President Roosevelt this afternoon signed bill giving the
Commissioners broad wartime including authority to
stage real backous and permission to borrow to $OOOOOO
for defense At the time DR. Frank W. Baou
superintendent schools the request of
local defense officials the 4hour watch at public school
buildings would be continued through January g.
Earlier Story Page AD
Midway Marines Still Holding Out
The Navy today Marines Midway
Island still holding out The Midway garrison was In COM
municaon with headquarters here yesterday but the Navy
would not discuss the messages how the Marines
faring on the mid Pacific isle.
Duce Accepts designations of Aides
ROME (Andi Agency to tP9)-Premier Mussoini today
accepted designations of Fascist Party Secretary Adech
Agriculture Minister Giuseppe Tassnar Serenas
resignation explained result OF desire ito partc-
pate in the volunteer" and Tassnars or
of health"
Australians Bomb Japanese Island
MELBOURNE LP.-The Royal Australian Airforce an
nounced tonight R A. planes bombed stores and
installations Greenwich Island Japanese mandated). All
returned safely"
Evening star., 1941-12-26
DR.. Torrance Is Freed
On Charge Of Killing Bride

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 26-Press
dispatches from Monterrey today
said that DR.. Arthur Torrance, who
had been charged with numbering
his bride. the former Ada Loveland
of Kalamazoo, Mich, on a honey
moon trip. was ordered freed be-
cause of insufficient evidence to sup
port the charge.
With tears in his eyes. DR.. Ter
rance was said to have cried, Viva
Mexico!" as Judge Viella ordered
his release
He said he had always had faith
in Mexican justice, the dispatches
said
Evening star., 1941-12-26
Churchill Flashes
w Sign as Congress
Roors Approval
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Winston Churchill raised his
fingers in a "V"-for victory sign
today as he left the Senate
chamber after his historic ad-
dress.
The Prime Minister sat down
when he completed his speech.
Several minutes of applause and
roaring approval followed.
Then, as he left the rostrur,
Mr.. Churchill held up his right
hand with the first two fingers
forming the 'FV' and the crowd
roared.
Evening star., 1941-12-26
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 26.-Rioting among
the native population preceded the
invasion of Hong Kong Island, the
British War Once disclosed tonight
in a day-to-day story of the last
days of the crown colony.
The recapitulation covered three
weeks of fighting and it was q
graphic, If matter-of-fact record
of a brave but hopeless defense.
December Is, said the narrative,
was q difncult day. Smelling in
Evening star., 1941-12-26
australians Bomb Japanese Island
Civilian Rioting Preceded Fall
OfHong Kong, Fight Log Shows

creased in intensity and accuracy
and various guns and searchights
were put out of action.
"The enemy appeared to be col
lecting launches and junks in Kow-
loon ION the mainland) and some
activity was observed in Lamma
Island. The difficulty with the
civilian population is reported grave,
though under control.
"On the 14th of December there
was systematic shelling by the
(See HONG KONG. Page A-30
Evening star., 1941-12-26
By RUSSELL BRINES,

MANILA, Dec 26-Big, genial
Clark Lee was a mass of mud. Even
his four-day growth of beard was
matted.
Four days earlier when he de-
parted for the Lingayen battlefront
he was dressed in immaculate
whites. Now he wore a borrowed
khaki shirt and denim trousers
He had no socks bitches had
served him as air raid shelters after
Evening star., 1941-12-26

LONDON (P.-The German
radio reported tonight the Ger
man Navy and air force has sunk
27 British warships SO far in De-
cember.
D. c. Cos Tax Bill Signed
The bill increasing the Dis
trict's gasoline tax from 2 to 5
cents, effective January l, 1912,
was signed this afternoon by
President Roosevelt.
Highway Bill Signed
President Roosevelt signed to-
day legislation authorizing an ap-
preparation of S20,0O0,000 for
United States cooperation with
Central American governments
in construction of a proposed in
ter-American highway.
Evening star., 1941-12-26
Newsmon Dodges Bullets, laps
ANWoy From Front to Manila
Reporter q Moss
Of Mud After Return
From Lingoyen

Clark Lee, bearded and muddy,
,Ualked into the Associated Press
Office in Manila on Christmas
night, grabbed a typewriter and
1Urote a story. Mr.. Lee, ndtiUe
OF Oakland, Calf, a newspaper
man since his college days. Drote
the first detailed, eye-tUitneSS
account of the japanese inDasion
along Lingayen Cult. Mr.. Lees
personal experiences in gather
ing the story Uere related to a
cO-,UOrker.
Evening star., 1941-12-26

JERUSALEM, Dec. 26 (P).-Wil-
liam c. Bullitt, President Roose-
velt's special representative in the
Near East, left for Cairo today af-
ter two days of sightseeing and con-
ferences in the Holy Land.
Evening star., 1941-12-26
FoeRepu|sed
In Lingayen
Gulf Battle
Tank Fight in South
Takes Heavy Toll;
Sinkings Confirmed
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANILA, Dec. 26 $3.50 pm.
$50 am, E. S. T).-Japanese
invaders have intensified a two
way assault on Manila. with ar
artillery fight northwest of the
capital and a tank battle to the
southeast, where japanese pres
sure has been increased, an Army
communique declared late today
Casualties were reported heavy
in the tank battle.
The war bulletin was the. last is
sued from the United States armed
forces of the Far East headquarter.
here before all staff officers left
Manila declared officially to be ar
open city to spare its residents fur
ther bombardment.
In Washington the War De-
partment reported repulse of re-
peated enemy assaults on the
main fighting line near Lingayen
Gulf. in Northern Luzon, in the
Philippines.
GA communique said Gen.
Douglas Macarthur had advised
that he had reorganiZed and
strengthened the positions held
by Filipino defending
forces in this area, about 100 air
miles north of Manila.
(The Navy today confirmed the
sinking by the Asiatic Fleet of
one enemy transport and a mine
sweeper and probably an addi-
tional transport and seaplane
tender. The sinkings occurred
yesterday
Aerial Activity Continues.
Japanese aerial activity over the
city continued through most Of the
day, however, with one siren
sounded alarm after another
Two waves of japanese planes,
II in all, cruised over the city for
more than an hour, beginning at
$40 pm, in the days fifth raid
alarm.
Some bombs were dropped out
side of the city, but for the most
part the planes. flying low, appeared
bent on observation to test the an
nouncement that Manila is not a
military objective.
The japanese bombers appeared
to be striking beyond the city itself
at military bases nearby. Suburban
Nichols Airport was one of their OBJ
jectives.
The Army communique described
aerial activity over the capital dur
ing the preceding Is hours as very
brisk
All soldiers and sailors had been
moved from Manila by this after
noon in accordance with the an
nouncement that the city was not
defended. Anti-aircraft batteries
were dismounted and unmovable
military stores destroyed.
For the first time Since the war
started no tanks or other motorized
equipment moved through the city
streets.
The Japanese controlled radio
at Saigon said in a broadcast
heard in Los Angeles that Jap
anese military leaders have
recognized Manila as an open city
since yesterday
Heavy Pressure by Japs.
The final war bulletin from the
Manila headquarters said there has
(See PHILIPPINES, Page A-6D