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Evening star., 1942-01-28
Hurley Named First
American Minister
To New Zealand
Former War Secretary
Believed Now at Post;
GeneroIship Pending
By JOHN C. HENRY.

President Roosevelt todaynom-
mated Patrick j. Hurley, Secre-
tary of War under President
Hoover, to be this Governments
first Minister to New Zealand.
The appointment came as the
United States was believed speeding
all kinds of military assistance to
the Southwest Pacific, where lie the
British dominions Of Australia and
New Zealand. two of the most valued
outposts of the United Nations.
Col. Hurley, who was recently
nominated to be brigadier general,
is believed already to have arrived
at his new post, or at least to be
we'll on his way. The White House
had announced more than week
ago that the former cabinet officer
was undertaking a special mission
for this Government.
New Zealand's Envoy Named.
New Zealand recently named
Walter Nash as its first Minister to
the UnlteQ STATES.
The White House announced
simultaneously today that Harry A.
Mcbride, a veteran State Depart
ment officer who has recently been
administrator of the National Gal
lery of Art, also Is about to under
take a special mission abroad for
President Roosevelt. Mr.. Mcbride
was to see the Chief Executive at
the White House early this after
noon.
In another matter dealing with
the diplomatic service. the President
was scheduled to confer today with
Assistant Secretary of State Breck-
inridge Long. Mr.. Long has been
directing efforts at this end for ex-
change of diplomatic missions with
nations with which we are now at
war. The White House said par
ticular efforts were being made to
obtain the release of Joseph C. Grew,
Ambassador to Japan.
Anglo-U. S. Session Called.
Ranking American and British
war officers were called to the White
House this afternoon for a confer
ence believed to be preliminary to
new joint operations of the two gov
ernments.
Summoned to meet with President
Roosevelt were Secretary of War
Stimson, Gen. George c. Marshall,
Army chief of staff Gen. Henry H.
Arnold, deputy chief of staff for
air; Admiral Harold r. Stark, chief
of naval operations, and Admiral
Ernest j. King, commander in chief
of the United States Fleet.
British officers also called in were
Gen. Sir John Dill, Gen. Colville
Wemyss, Air Marshal A. T. Harris
and Admiral Sir Charles Little.
Col. Hurley takes to his New Zea-
land post a varied knowledge Of
military matters and administrative
government.
Was Attorney for Choctaws.
Born in Indian Territory, now
Oklahoma, in 1888, he obtained his
law degree at National University
in this city. He was admitted to
the Oklahoma bar in 1908, and
from 1912 to 1917 served as national
attorney for the Choctaw Nation.
After serving in the volunteer
militia of the Indian Territory and
as a captain of the Oklahoma Ma
tional Guard, he was made a major
in the American Expeditionary
Force in France. He had the rank
of lieutenant colonel at the close of
the First World War and in the
intervening years has been a COL
onel in the Reserves.
Col. Hurley entered national poll
tics in the 1920's and served as an
Oklahoma delegate to the Repub-
lican National Convention In 1924.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Admiral Andrews
Cancels PorIeys
With Reporters
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-Rear
Admiral Adolphus Andrews.
commandant of the Sd Naval
District and commander of the
North Atlantic coastal from
tier-extending from Cape Hat
teras to Halifax-today discon-
tinued all conferences with the
press.
In canceling a conference
scheduled for 2:30 pm, his
press officers said the admiral
might later have an oficial
statement explaining his move.
At the beginning of the war he
held one conference a week,
changing 1t later to one every
two weeks.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
u. S. Planes Sink Jap Transport
And Hit Cruiser In Continuing
Battle in Straits Of Macassar
Foe Landing More
Troops in Subic
Bay District

Eight American Army bomberS
sank a large Japanese transport
in the river at Balik Papan, an
oil port in East BOrneO, and
scored a direct hit on a cruiser
outside the harbor, a War De-
partment communiue reported
today in a further disclosure of
the running naval and air &C
ton in the MacaSsar Straits.
One of the eight heavy American
bombers was lost in the attack, the
communique added.
Whether this action was separate
from a similar one recounted by the
United Nations high command at
Batavia. in the Netherlands East
Indies, was not definitely known.
War Department officials said that
because of time differentials, and
variance In wording of the reports,
they could not be sure. One authority
who based his position on timing
of previous announcements gathered
the impression the action reported
here antedated the one told of at
Batavia, but he would not say so
officially.
The Batavia report was that an
undisclosed number of four -motored
American bombers had sunk a jap
anese transport, set a second one
afire. shot down two japanese fighter
planes which sought to interfere,
Straddled an enemy cruiser with
bombs, and returned to base without
the loss of single bomber.
In previous attack in the Meth
erlands Indies, American Army
planes sank one Japanese trans
port and set another afire during
the engagement in the Macassar
Straits on January 26.
Land in Subic Bay Area.
Meanwhile the Japanese were re-
ported landing small detachments
of reinforcements in the Subic Bay
area in the Philippines. Fighting
In the Batan Peninsula, where Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's war-weary
forces have been holding off a huge
Japanese Army for weeks, was COM
paratively at standstill yesterday
The japanese limited their air
activity to reconnaissance flights
along the Batan line. q
The communique reported no
other activities in other areas.
War Department communique No.
30, outlining military situation as
OF $3.50 am. today, follows:
"1. Philippine theater:
There was practically no ground
activity on the Batan Peninsula yes
terday. The enemy landed rela-
lively few numbers in the Subic Bay
area.
Enemy air activity was limited to
reconnaissance flights.
20. Netherlands Indies:
Further reports of the action In
the Macassar Straits disclosed that
eight heavy American Army bomb
ers sank large japanese transport
in the river at Balik Papan and
scored direct hit on a cruiser out
side of the harbor During this
attack, one of our bombers was lost.
In a previous attack by our planes
in this action, one enemy trans
port was sunk and another set
afire, as reported on January 26.
"3 There is nothing 70 report
from other areas.
Toll Boosted to SO.
Pounding home Japan's greatest
naval disaster of the war, United
States flyers thus boosted to at
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Ba||ou Charges U. 5.
Plans 10 Take New
Kramer School
Superintendent Soys
He Wosn't Consulted
On Proposal

Supt. OF Schools Frank w.
Ballou today told a House sub
committee that plans were made
without his knowledge to COM
plete the new Kramer Junior
High School in Anacostia and
convert it into a Federal office
building.
His statement before the Educa-
ton Subcommittee OF the House Dis
trica Committee charged that o. p.
M. Disseminated against Washing
ton in its program allowing materials
for schools in defense areas, and
said that failure to obtain priorities
has held up ~ school projects.
Unless some Of these projects are
resumed, he said, he will be forced
to ask emergency appropriations to-
falling hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars for temporary accommodations
for Washington's swelling number
of .war-workers' children.
First Disclosure.
This was the first disclosure that
the Federal Government planned to
convert Kramer School Building to
office use. 1t previously had been
revealed that a similar arrangement
would be made in the case Of the
new central library.
At the District Building, Commis-
sioner Young said he did not want
to comment on the matter at the
moment, but declared the step had
the approval of the Commissioners
The plan involves priority Of ma
terials for completion of the build
ings to be used by the Federal Gov
ernment.
The new junior high school is
being built at Seventeenth and @
streets Sc. to relieve the over
crowded Anacostia Junior-Senior
High School, which has been operat-
ing on double shifts for many
months. The Anacostia- -Benning
area has been the section of the
city most affected by the influx OF
new Federal workers.
DR.. Ballou declared there is an
actual need for II Of the schools
particularly in Anacostia and other
sections Of Southeast Washington.
ri want to know what is essential
to get q priority rating for school
building" DR.. Ballou demanded.
Urges Stripping Of Plans.
Frank w. Maxton, chief Of the
project section, Government re-
Quirement branch, of the War Pro-
duction Board, answered that strip
ping" Of plans to eliminate critical
materials was one Of the chief
factors.
I'VE don't want to be brutal ir
our decisions" he declared. I'VE
try to be fair. We don't deny any
thing. We just defer it."
After q prolonged discussion Of
the school problems. Mr.. Maxton,
at the request of Chairman Ran
dolph Of the District Committee
and Representative Maciora, Dem
ocrat. Of Connecticut, head Of the
Education Subcommittee, promised
to review the priority schedule
which stopped work on Washington
schools.
H. F. Alves Of the Federal Once
Of Education told the subcommittee
that certificates Of necessity had
been approved by that ONCE for II
schools. in addition to completion
of q six-classroom addition to the
woodrow Wilson Senior High
School.
Six of the schools, Mr.. Alves dis
(See SCHOOLS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Lend-iesse program goes into re-
verse. Page Al
Navy reveals Midway Island still
holding. Page A
Hull congratulates Rio de Janeiro
meeting. Page AS
Hill loses plea for retrial in perjury
case. Page B-1
Part payment in Defense bonds
foreseen. = Page A-6
Washington and Vicinity.
Police press inquiry in D. c. woman's
mystery death. Page AS
Man struck by streetcar and carried
253 feet. Page A
House unit to consider parking lot
"profiteering Page A
Jobs open for 1900 to fill gaps in
shifted agencies. Page B-1
81 800 900 park plan studied by coun-
Gil. Page B-1
War housing funds bill to come be-
fore House. Page B-1
Stadium icemaker found bound and
on fire. Page B-1
Miscellany.
Marriage Licenses. Page BE-
Births and Deaths. Page B-16
Natures Children. Page Bill
Army Orders. Page ALI
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Nelson Tells Senator'S
He Won't Offer AIibi
Il Program Fails
-m Defends Policy Of Using
# knowledge ond Service
Of DoIIur-u-Yeur Men
By J.A. 04kARY.

: Assuming full responsibility
for the task of procurement and
production in the war effort,
Donald M. Nelson, new chief Of
the War Production Board, told
the Truman Senate Defense
Committee today he will offer
no alibis "now or six months
from now" il it does not succeed.
Mr.. Nelson won the commenda-
ton of Chairman Truman and other
committee members when he de-
clared he has no interest in politics
and realizes that in the job he has
undertaken he will have every
thing to lose and nothing to gain"
Earlier Mr.. Nelson defended the
policy of utilizing the knowledge and
services of dollar-a-year men, who,
he said, could not be expected to
relinquish their places in the in
dustrial world to take temporary
Government job at regular salaries.
Although the hearing was called
primarily to discuss the dollar-a-
year policy, it soon branched out
into the broad question Of speeding
up production. Committee members
and Mr.. Nelson pledged full CO.
operation of one another In making
the production effort success.
Quizzed by Brewster.
Mr.. Nelson's assurance that he has
no interest in politics came while
Senator Brewster, Republican. Of
Maine was quizzing him as to how
complete his authority Is to direct
the production. program.
Senator Brewster told Mr.. Nelson
he has been in Washington long
enough to be aware that various
different branches of Government
may at times inject themselves into
a specific problem.
II would like assurance from you
that the first time anything de-
velops-from the legislative, execu-
tive or judicial branches-that you
feel might impair your effort you
will seek the committees help"
Senator Brewster said.
II can assure you of one thing"
Mr.. Nelson replied. II am not In
ICoa DOIIAD vTAD Dee A-I0
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Dutch Foreign Minister
En- Route to Woshinqton
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 28-The Neither
lands government in exile an
nounced today that its foreign min
lister, Eeclo van Kleffens, was en-
route to Washington for a month
of conferences on Pacific war prob
lens.
While the announcement said
Van Kleffens' visit would last q
month, informed sources said he
would be prepared to stay longer
and probably would be the Neither
lands representative on any war
council which may be set UP by
the United Nations.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Brest, BouIoene Docks
Aqoin Bombed by R. A. F.
~ the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 28-British air
raiders blasted the oft-bombed docks
at Brest and Boulogne on the Ger
man-occupied French coast again
last night, the Air Ministry an
nounced today.
The raids were carried out with.
out the loss of q single aircraft,
said . terse communique.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Australia Records Quoke

SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. % (P.-
Strong earth shocks, believed cen
tering In the Arafura Sea between
New Guinea and Australia were re-
corded here at 1886 pm. today.
The force of the shocks dismounted
two Of eight seismographs at River
view Observatory.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
NewAssauItsHit
Fa|tering British
Lines inMa|aYa
Two Crack japanese
Divisions Pace
Fresh Smushes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SINGAPORE, Jan. 28.-Paced
by two crack divisions, the Japa-
nese invaders of Malaga hurled
fresh assaults today at a waver-
ing British defense line which in
some places was less than so
miles from Singapore.
The heaviest fighting was under
way on the west coast Of the mar
row peninsula, where the Japanese
imperial guards sought to crack new
positions established by British,
Australian and Indian troops near
Senggarang, 48 miles from this great
naval base, after a 12-mile retreat
from Batu Pahat.
Middle Of Line Hammered, Too.
The japanese 5th Division, COM
posed of veteran shock troops, ham
mered meanwhile at the middle of
the line between Aver Hitam and
Kluang, railway center about so
miles north of here.
British forces in Central Ma
laya have made another slight
withdrawal and very heavy
fighting is now going on south
of Kluang, a London military
commentator said today. He said
the Japanese forces thrusting
southwark in the central area
had made the closest approach Of
any of the invasion troops to
Singapore The exact distance
was not given, however,
Action on the east coast was re-
ported less intense, but here, too, a
major battle appeared to be in the
making as the Japanese moved up
reinforcements landed yesterday at
Endau from transports which took
q heavy battering from the r. A. F..
The British lines in that sector
were anchored at Jemaluang. about
So miles above Singapore and 10
miles south Of the Mersing River,
where the japanese were held up
for q week by concentrated artillery
fire.
To Straighten Lines.
The withdrawal along the east
coast, q British military spokesman
said, was ordered to straighten out
the lines after they had been bent
back In the central and western
sectors.
Advanced Japanese patrols which
crossed the Mersing River following
this withdrawal were encountered
by British patrols yesterday on the
coastal road above Jemaluang.
Aerial activity was reported heavy
along the entire front, with Japa-
nese dive-bombers attempting to
blast a path for advancing infan-
try and mechanized forces. while
the r. A. F. struck back at the
invaders lines of communication.
n Bombers Raid Singapore.
Twenty-seven Japanese bombers,
flying in a tight "V" formation,
bombed q suburban area of Singa-
pore today, then veered and dis
appeared in the clouds.
1t was the Japanese 5th Division,
which gained the first foothold for
the invaders in Thailand just above
the Malay border at the outset of
the war
The Imperial Guards first saw
action in Malaga In the Muar River
sector on the west coast, where
they cut OF portions Of Australian
and Indian battalions holding the
British left flank and forced the
Singapore defenders to fall back
from their positions in Central
Johore.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Dutch Are Confident
Singapore Can Be Held

BATAVIA, Jan. % [R.-Aneta
reported today that Netherlands
Indies officers who had returned
from Malaga, where they served as
omcial observers, said Allied troops
now were fighting the Japanese
along a defense line which could
be held more easily against inf1l-
tration.
They expressed confidence that
the Japanese could be halted short
of Sinpapore.
Evening star., 1942-01-28

the local judiciary have offciaI con-
nections in the Episcopal Church, it
was said at the diocesan office to-
day. Justice Roberts legal residence
is in Pennsylvania.
The Court Of Appeals. first in the
Sweeney case, and later in the De
Hart and Murphy cases, held that
Federal employees, because Of the
nature Of their employment here,
could claim domicile elsewhere, and
thereby escape the District income
tax. The Supreme Court, in a 60
decision read by Justice Jackson
tChief Justice Stone and Justice
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Explosion Kills 81
Trapped in Coal kine;;
-Four Escape Alive
Deadly Cos Impedes Work
Of Rescue Crews in
Colorado Disaster
BY the Associated Press.


MOUNT HARRIS, Colo, Jan. 2s.-
Thirty-four miners perished in an
explosion in the Victor American
Fuel Co. coal mine late last night.
Only four men escaped alive.
Black damp, deadly carbon di-
oxide gas, filled the shaft after
the blast and impeded the work of
rescue crews, unable to reach the
victims for nearly six hours.
Bill Fickle. one of the men res
cued. said the four heard a dull
thud from way back in the hole.
In second we smelled smoke and
ran for the air shaft"
Thirty volunteer workers set up
an improvised morgue at Liberty
Hall, the old opera house at Mount
Harris, to receive the bodies after
they are brought to the snow
covered surface.
Nearly every family in this small
mining community 200 miles north
west of Denver had relatives en-
ployed in the mine.
Trapped $500 Feet Down.
Mine Supt. Henry johnson said
the "a men we're trapped about $500
feet inside the tunnel Of the mine,
which slopes at an angle of about
10 degrees into Mount Harris.
The four who escaped were work.
ing nearer the entrance. They
heard the blast and fled.
Rescue crews fought the suffocat-
ing gas with huge blowers. forcing
air into the mine and sucking the
fumes out.
Families Rush to Pit.
The miners families rushed to
the pit from their homes in the sur
rounding towns of Craig, Hayden
and Steamboat Springs, but were
advised to return to their homes.
Ambulances and hearses were
called from all surrounding towns,
and State Mine Inspector Thomas
Allen left for the scene from Den
yer Immediately.
The four who were rescued alive
were Joe Gall, Bill Fickle, Elmer
Everson and Mike Atansoff.
Evening star., 1942-01-28

(See FAR EAST, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1942-01-28

(See MILLER, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-01-28

(See SCHOOLS, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-01-28

(See DOLLAR-A-YEAR, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-01-28

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages TX and 2-x of this edition Of
The Star, supplementing the news Of
the regular home delivered edition.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Toll Boosted to 36.

Pounding home Japan's greatest
naval disaster of the war, United
States flyers thus boosted to at
Evening star., 1942-10-18
Knights Of Columbus

Washington General Assembly,
fourth degree, will meet tomorrow
at the Mayfower Hotel at 8:15 pm
j. Fred Brady, faithful navigator
will preside. Following the meeting
Faithful Captain Francis j. Malley
will present the guest speaker of the
evening, William j. Mileham, chief
air-raid warden for the District of
Columbia, who will speak on afraid
defense.
At noon today the assembly will
participate in the golden jubilee
celebration of st. Anthonys parish
in Brookland by attending the solemn
high mass and serving as guard OF
honor during the service.
Tonight at 7:30 o'clock the as.
sembly will attend the annual vesper
service sponsored by the District OF
Columbia Chapter, at Immaculate
Conception Church and will serve
as a guard Of honor during benedic-
ton.
Evening star., 1942-10-18
Spunish War Veterans

Admiral George Dewey Naval
Camp will hold reunion of past
eommaders at Pythian Temple on
November IL at pm. @. M. Gen.
P. j. Callan, Department Comdr.
Elvin M. Luskey, Past Comdr
Charles w. McCaffrey, Capt. J. E.
Wilson, John A. Gallagher and
Berkley Inge will speak.
There will be nomination of Of
ficers.
Meetings this week: Monday
Col. John Jacob Astor Camp, United
States Soldiers shome; Wednesday,
Gen. M. Emmet Urell Camp, Pythian
Temple; Friday. Gen. Nelsoin A.
Miles Camp, Pythian Temple.
Auxiliaries.
Monday night in Admiral George
Dewey Unit Department President
Ethel Finn will make an official
inspection. There will be an apron
party. The department president
was guest of honor at the last
meeting with President Mary Hagen
presiding.
On Wednesday Gen. M. Emett
Urell Unit will celebrate the 28th
anniversary and the department
president will make an official in
spection. On Friday Gen. Nelson
A. Miles Unit will have an evening
Of games.
At the meeting Of Col. j. j. Astor
Unit Florence O'Connor was admit
ted to membership. Anna Berry was
appointed treasurer.
Evening star., 1942-10-18
D. {. Lodge 10 Join
In EIks' National
War Service Week
Meeting October 28 Will
Have Speciul Program
Dedicated to Defense

Grand Exalted Ruler E. Mark
Sullivan, B. P. o. Elks. has issued
proclamation in which he ordered
all lodges in the Nation to observe
the period of October IS to October
81 as Elks national war service
week. >-
Washington Lodge will hold q
special meeting dedicated to ma
tional defense on October %, in
which the war commission of the
lodge will present special pro-
gram. All Elks in Washington and
vicinity are urged to attend. Nor
man C. Schroth, chairman Of the
local Elks' War Commission, will
soon announce the program.
W. Seymour Hall, chairman of the
Elks' blood donor squad, announced
additional volunteers are needed
to fill the lodges pledge to furnish
more than 100 pints of blood to the
Red Cross. The committee is plan
hing to have the mobile blood donor
unit of the Red Cross set up head
quarters in the Elks Club during
Elks' national war service week.
The annual charity ball of WASH
ington Lodge will be held at the
Mayflower Hotel November "a.
Ellis Klein is chairman.
William H. Caswen has been ap-
pointed manager of the Elks Club to
succeed Gustave w. Brahler, who
recently resigned.
Evening star., 1942-10-18
Masonic News

Grand Master Noble D. Larner will
visit the following lodges this week:
Benjamin B. French, Pentalpha and
Sojourners, Monday night; National
and Arminius. Tuesday night: New
Jerusalem, Hiram and Albert Pike,
Thursday night.
Master Earl Garretson OF Anacostia
Lodge announces the r. C. degree
Monday night.
Russell Wolfgram, master of King
David Lodge, has scheduled the r. G.
degree Tuesday night.
East Gate Lodge will devote
Wednesday night to business fol-
lowed with refreshments.
The 14th degree will be conferred
by a selected cast of Scottish Rite
Mascns at the temple, 230O Sixteenth
street, on Tuesday evening. Scottish
Rite visitors and sojourners are in
vited to be present.
Mithras Lodge of Perfection will
meet preceding the exemplification
of the degree.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the De
Moley Commandery, No. 4, knights
Templar. will meet October a at
the home of Past Comdr. and Mrs.
H. c. Moynelo. with Mrs. w. B.
Waterman assisting hostess. The
president, Mrs. Eugene z. Thompson,
viii preside.