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Evening star., 1942-04-11
Jups Paid Heavily for Botoon After Missing
Bio Chance for Knockout Late in December

stationed south of Manila and when
told he was moving toward Bataan,
I guessed the army was going there
and acted accordingly.
The movement toward Bataan
really began that day, shortly after
the japanese landed at Antimonan
and Mauban, in Southeast Luzon.
Our forces there, small and mex
perienced, withdrew under orders.
Many Units Cut OF.
Many defense units were cut off,
whereupon the officers disbanded the
Filipino troops and buried their
rifles. The officers continued the
trek toward Manila, destroying
bridges behind them.
The withdrawal from the north be-
gan December 81, the day the jap
anese landed on the eastern shore
of Lingayen Gulf. The enemy ad-
vanced quickly despite terrific losses
and threatened to turn Gen. Mac
Arthur's left flank.
Some American units were trapped
on the mountain road leading to
Baguio, the summer capital. Part
of these succeeded later In rejoining
their units. Others took to the
mountains, where they have been
fighting in guerrilla style ever since.
The Japanese never attempted to
land on the southern shore of Lin
(See LEE, Page A-40
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Nozis Report II Tanks
Destroyed in Crimeo

BERLIN Prom German Broad
casts. April IL (P.-The German
high command announced today
that the Russians had lost 70 tanks
and that % others were put out of
action in the recent Red Army at
tack on the Kerch Peninsula in the
Crimea.
The German communique said
there had been no important activity
after the collapse of the attack of
last Thursday which resulted in
heavy losses for the enemy"
On the Black Sea coast, the Ger
mans said, Nazi planes bombed
Soviet port installations, and dam
aged two fairly large merchant ships
by direct hits.
Several enemy units surrounded
on the central sector were reported
annihilated and the Germans said
the Russians suffered great losses
of men In successful Nazi thrusts.
Russian attacks supported by
tanks on the northern sector were
reported repulsed
In fighting on the Lapland front
of the far north, the Germans
said their mounted troops and Fin
nish units took a we'll fortified en-
emy strongpoint in a daring thrust,
and destroyed 40 posts with their
crews.
on the Norwegian coast. the COM
munioue said. a Soviet submarine
ran into German mine field.
Evening star., 1942-04-11

ally unnamed, behind Gen. Dou-
glas MacArthur's forces and blocked
the approaches,
Opportunity Lost.
Instead they moved cautiously
and lost the opportunity.
Equipment available to the de-
tenders proved it's worth, but there
was not enough of it. The Army
seemed to have only one or two
pieces of the United States most
modern equipment-one radio di-
rection finder, one fully equipped
anti-aircraft battery, one squadron
of torpedo boats, one group of
mounted 75s-
The movement to Bataan was SO
we'll screened that the Japanese ap-
parently failed to detect it.
Otherwise, their spies and agents
had proved an important factor in
aiding the enemy attacks on LuZon.
Beams from concealed radio sets
had guided japanese planes to the
Cavite naval base and Clark Field.
Numerous japanese agents were
detected and shot during the early
days of the war. One was an attrac-
tive Japanese girl employed at
Cavite, who was caught red-handed.
learned of the movement toward
Bataan only through an accidental
meeting with q Filipino ofncer at
San Fernando north of Manila on
December IL. knew he had been
Evening star., 1942-04-11
$4,000, 900 Lanham Bill
Is Siqned by President

The White House announced to-
day the President has signed the
Lanham bill authorizing $50, ,000,-
900 expenditure for wartime housing
and related public works in the
District.
Necessary funds to put the au-
thorization into effect are expected
to be attached to the sixth defense
appropriation bill which was sent
to conference between the House
and Senate Tuesday.
No estimate for the appropriation
has yet been sent to the Capitol by
the Budget Bureau, 1t was said, but
the bureau was understood to be
awaiting only the presidential sigma
ture to the authorization before act
ing. When the estimate is received
at the Capitol. it will be acted on
by the House Deficiency Subcom-
mittee of the Appropriations Com
mittee and then probably attached
to the defense bill, according to
predictions by members of the
House and Senate Appropriations
Committees.
The authorization provides for
$50, 1000 900 for housing and $40, ,000,-
900 for community facilities.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Nozi School Troins Boys
To Rule Over Europe

Germany is training a selected
group of boys to be the bosses of
Europe and to act as Nazi agents
throughout the world. a Berlin
broadcast, recorded by the Foreign
Broadcast Monitoring Service said.
1t described life at the Adolf Hitler
School at Ordensburg.
Purpose of the school is ito pro-
vide future political leadership
The boys are taught "Germanistiks. "
a Nazihed version of history and
literature which pictures Germany
as the rightful ruler Of Europe, and
which exalts the German race and
teaches that all other races are in
ferior.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
krupp Works Target
OF Heavy Air Attack
On Ruhr Section
British Report l3 Planes
Lost, but Do Not View
Cost os Excessive
B. ttr = ssociated Press.

bN ffr SSOCldIeO PFeSS-
LONDON, April l1-With hun
dredS of tons of heavy-caliber
bombs and countless" incendi-
aries, British planes spread de-
struction again through Ger
many's industrial sections in the
Ruhr last night, Air Ministry
sources announced today.
The great Krupp armament works
were the principal targets of the
raids which we're reported to have
been "as heavy" as any of the two
previous assaults on the Ruhr this
week.
The British lost 13 planes. but Air
Ministry sources, apparently un-
perturbed, said that was the cost
the r. A. F. expected to pay for a
raid "as big as that last night"
THE Berlin radio said II
British planes were shot down
last night during r. A. F. raids
on Northern and Western Ger
many. Bombs were dropped on
residential districts. houses were
damaged. and there were casual
ties among the civilian popula-
ton" the radio quoted D.NB.
news agency. Seven British planes
also were reported downed over
the Channel and Norwegian coast
yesterday
The German-occupied French port
at LIE Havre was also bombed.
A communique said there was lit
tie German air activity over Britain
though a lone Nazi raider dropped
several bombs on the south coast
which were said to have caused
no damage.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
United Drive on Hitler
Urqed Now by litvinoff

BY the Assccia ted Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 1.-THE
time has come, the Russian Am
bassador declared last night, TO
make Hitlel rack his brains and
wonder where his enemies will direct
their next blows" instead of others
guessing where Hitler will strike
next.
Isn't it time to compel him to
scatter his forces a little?" asked
Maxim M. Litvinoff in an address
before the American Academy OF
Political and Social Science. That
is what united efforts are needed
for. and not united efforts in the
abstract, or at some future date.
Il mean united efforts now, for
the definite purpose of inf1icting de-
feat on Hitler on the only front
where this is now possible. Victory
may be long in coming if one state
has to exhaust its major forces in
today's military operations, while
another harbors them for possible
operations at some indefinite time
in the future. Our efforts must be
united for simultaneous action"
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Jopon's Flag Planted on Tip
Of Botoon, Toxic Reports
News Agency Tells of
Purported Surrender
Of American Forces
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC CFrom Japanese Broad
casts, April 11.-Front-line dis
patches to Domei News Agency
from Bataan said today that
advance units of Japanese forces
had planted their flag on the tip
of the besieged peninsula.
Japanese dispatches yesterday re-
ported the occupation of Cabcaben,
the last settlement before the out
post of Mariveles on extreme South
ern Bataan.
The japanese dispatches. describ-
ing action up to late Thursday. said
the advancing troops planted the
Rising Sun flag within enemy de-
fense lines around Mariveles, stra-
tegic city at the tip of the penin-
Sula."
CThis indicated, apparently,
that at that time American and
Filipino forces were still c0ntinu-
ing their rear guard resistance to
cover the withdrawal Southward)
Attacks on CorregidOr.
japanese bombing planes and war
ships combined in devastating at
tacks on American positions at Cor
regidor fortress at the same time
that japanese troops were moving
southwark along the eastern coast
Of Bataan, supplementary dispatches
said.
Domei said the air and sea assault
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Nine on Sinking AirIiner Saved
After Plunge in Flushing Bay

Stewardness Josephine Dargis. %,
injured right arm; taken to Flushing
Hospital.
Co-Pilot F. F. Butterfield. injured
left leg and sprained ankle; taken to
a hospital.
Capt. Douglas Wilson, slight cut
over eye.
All three are from Chicago.
None of the passengers. among
them another United Airlines CO.
pilot named John Lovett, also from
Chicago, received more than a shak-
ing up, partly due to Mr.. Lovett's ac-
ton in helping them out of their
safety landing belts.
AS the bays incoming morning
tide swept in toward the shore on
which the sprawling airport fronts.
it overturned the plane, and the
craft began to sink nose first, its
tail pointing skyward.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
1900 Germans Killed
In Bryansk Sector,
Moscow Reports
Red Star Says Hitler
Is Losing Heavily
In Counterottucks
/, IT, Associated Press.

KUIBYSHEV, Russia, April IL.
More than 5000 Germans have
been killed in fighting with Red
Army troops in the last few days
on the Bryansk sector southwest
of Moscow, the Soviet 1nforma-
ton Bureau said in a COM
munique broadcast today.
Bryansk is a German-held rail-
way center on the Desna River
220 miles from the capital.
The newspaper Red Star said
Adolf Hitler's high command was
losing thousands of its men in
counterattacks aimed at relinking
defense bases and relieving encircled
Nazi garrisons.
The Information Bureaus mid
night communique. broadcast by the
Moscow radio, said that during
April 10 there were no significant
changes at the front"
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Second Triumph in 2 Days
Is Credited to A. V. G.

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, China, April IL
Still supreme in their corner of the
air after the japanese radio re-
peatedly boasted they would be
blasted from the sky, the hard-hit-
ting Flying Tigers" of the Amer
ican Volunteer Group we're credited
today with their second triumph in
as many days over Japan's air force.
The A. v. G., part of the vast sys-
tenn of men and guns being mar
shaled for the defense of India, re-
ported shooting down 7 japanese
planes for certain and probably 4
more out of a force of 20 which at
tempted to attack an airdrome in
Northern Burma Thursday.
All A. v. G. planes returned to their
base without a scratch.
Only the day before the A. v. G.
intercepted 20 raiders and shot
down 10.
The japanese got in few icks
Thursday morning. however. At
(See BURMA. Page AID
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Further Withdrawal
In Fighting in Burma
Indicated by British
Communique Reports
Engagement With Jops
So Miles Above Prone
Ry the Associated Press.

RN the associated Press.
NEW DELHI, April 1l.-A fur
ther British withdrawal on the
1rrawaddy River valley front in
Burma was indicated today by a
British communique announcing
that three japanese vehicles
were engaged Wednesday by
light reconnaissance troops in
the vicinity of Nyaungbintha."
Nyaungbintha is l8 miles north
of the Thayetmyo defenses and So
miles above Prone, which was
yielded before the pressure of nu-
merically superior forces last week.
"On the Chinese front (the East
ern defense lines above Toungoo)
there was japanese artillery fire
yesterday, but no definite infantry
action" the communique said.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Marshall Reported
Convinced Russia Is
Decisive Battlefield
Plans for Heavy Bombing
Of Germany Indicted
By Inspections
B, the = associated Press.

DS tDt = SSOtlatcu fIcSs.
LONDON, April ll.-Reliable
sources today said Americas
Gen. George c. Marshall and
Harry Hopkins, convinced that
Russia was the decisive battle
field, were discussing with the
British the most effective way to
aid the Red Armies against the
Axis.
This aid, the sources added. is
almost certain to include United
States airforce reinforcements of the
r. A. F. bombing of Germany.
The British and United States
fleets are so busy conveying supplies
for Russia's own land battles and
the shipping situation Is so acute
that it probably will be some time
before there will be transports for
continental invasion-a fact which
the United States chief of staff and
Mr.. Hopkins know as well as the
British.
But the growing establishments
which Gen. Marshall is inspecting
and the increasing pools of United
States planes in Britain are taken
as an indication that American as
we'll as British air forces will be
bombing Germany in a month or
two to retard and divert the Nazi
offensive against the Soviet Union.
Invasion Talk Hinted.
Today one British newspaper, the
Daily Sketch, said the Marshall
Hopkins conferences showed that
"our plans have gone beyond the
production stage" and it limited the
discussions covered continental in
vaSion.
1.-The contemplated stroke may. for
all we know, be of an unexpected
character and at an unexpected
place" the newspaper said. There
is plenty of room for striking at
Nazi-occupied Europe"
Gen. Marshall and Mr.. Hop
kins, President Roosevelt's repre-
sentative, arranged to continue their
discussions with Prime Minister
Churchill, service chiefs and vari-
GUS members of the British war
cabinet during the week end in the
country.
Hopkins Sees Bevins.
There was no authoritative indi-
cation of the specific trend of the
discussions beyond the broad out
l.nes of strategy and supply.
Observers concluded that man
power problems came into discus
a q =
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Philadelphia Teacher
To Wed Flying Bishop
BY tts associated Press.

BY tire Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 1.-THE
Right Rev. Archibald Lang Flem-
ing. the Flying Bishop of the Arc
TIC" and Miss Elizabeth Nelson
Lukens, a school teacher from Phil
adelphia's Main Line. will be mar
ried in June, it was disclosed today
by her family.
Bishop Fleming. who is actual
head of the Anglican Church of
Canada, is famed for his work
among ESkimos and Indians In his
top-of world diocese of 1850, 900
square miles from Ungava to the
Yukon. \
He met Miss Lukens. associate
headmistress of the Agnes Irwin
School in suburban Wynnewood,
while here on speaking engage
ment.
Evening star., 1942-04-11

MAJ. GEN. E. p. KING, Jr.
u. S. Army Photo.
was an "all-out offensive to exter-
inmate 1t. Gen. Jonathan M. VAIN
wright's beleaguered Filipino Amer
ican forces"
1T is learned that large numbers
of boats filled with Filipino and
American troops fleeing from Ba-
taan. Corregidor and Caballo and
unable to flee elsewhere, are facing
annihilation," Domei reported.
Story of Surrender.
Demei said it HAD received a de-
scription of the purported surrender
of American forces from its corre-
spondent with the japanese forces
at Limay, one of the occupied
coastal towns.
ARMY reports from Washing
ton said resistance in the Bataan
area is continuing, particularly at
Corregidor to where $500 marines
had been safely evacuated.
American reports have never &C
knowledged formal surrender
of American and Filipino forces
on Bataan0
The Domei story of the surrender
said:
An unpretentious, small open car
displaying a white flag. speeding
along military highway early on
the morning of April 9 in the direc-
ton of the Japanese lines in the
vicinity of Limay signaled the sur
render of beleaguered Filipino and
American troops in Bataan within
six days after the launching of the
all-out Japanese offensive.
japanese soldiers who hailed the
car to stop found an elderly Ameri-
can general, attended by six Ameri-
can soldiers, all with somewhat
frightened looks.
"On being questioned, the Ameri-
can officer revealed that he had
been dispatched by American head
quarters to arrange for an inter-
view between representatives of the
japanese and American forces in
Bataan.
The matter was Immediately re-
ported to headquarters of the Japa-
nese forces and q meeting was ar
ranged for II m. between the COM
mander of an undisclosed japanese
unit and the American general in
residence, In front of the Lamao
agricultural research station.
''On being introduced to the jap
anese unit commander, the elderly
American officer identified himself
for the first time as Maj. Gen. E. P
King, jr., commander of the Amer
ican forces in Bataan, and intro
duced his aide as 1t. Col. E. P.
william, chief of staff, who subse-
quently produced a written formal
surrender.
"The Japanese commander, how
ever, refrained from giving a def
mite answer to the American OFF,
GERS"
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Nozis Claim II Ships
Sunk Off U. S. Coast

B tie Associated Press.
BERLIN From German Broad
casts. April IA special an
nouncement said today that. since
a report of April s. German U-boats
had sunk IL merchant ships. in
cluding four large tankers, off the
East Coast of America.
An average toll of four ships a
day was implied Adolf Hitlers
headquarters announced April 8
that German submarines had sunk
16 vessels totaling 100000 tons in
continued attacks on United States
and British shipping. 13 off the
American coast and the remainder
of Africa.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Japanese Hammer at Correqidor;
Seek Quick Occupation Of Cebu;
y. S. Sub Lost in Western Pacific
Perch's Normal
Complement
Was so Men

The United States submarine
Perch has been overdue for a
month and presumably is lost
in the Western Pacific, the Navy
announced today.
The Perch, commissioned six years
ago. last was reported operating in
the Java Sea. She was under COM
mand of 1t. Comdr. David Albert
Hurt, 50, of Pounding Mill. Va.
She was the fourth submarine
reported lost or missing by the Navy
Department since the war began.
The others were the Shark, reported
overdue in the Western Pacific; the
S-26. which went down after a
collision off Panama and the Sea
Lion, demolished at Cavite In the
Philippines.
Loss of the Perch brought to Is
the number of naval vessels an
nounced as lost since December 7.
Normal Complement Was 50.
The announcement said that next
of kin of all members of the crew
nave been notified, but gave no
estimate of the total personnel.
Commissioned in 1896, the Perch
had a displacement of 1880 tons.
Her length was 300 feet 6 inches and
her beam IS feet. Her draft was
l3 feet 10 inches.
In unoficial Navy publications the
Perch'S surface speed was listed at
20 knots and its submerged speed at
9. Chief armament consisted of one
3-inch gun and six 2l-inch torpedo
tubes, of which four were in the bow
and two in the stern. The Perch was
built by the Electric Boat Co. and
was one of 10 P-type underseas boats
laid down between 1888 and 1894.
The Perch formerly was flagship of
Squadron 6, Submarine Force, and
later was assigned to the Asiatic
Fleet.
Comdr. Hurt was born at Pound
ing Mill, which is in Southwest Vir-
ginia, August 4, 1903. He attended
the Tazewell High School and
Hampden-Sydney College before be-
Ing appointed to the Naval Academy
by Senator Glass in 1921.
Assigned to Raleigh.
Following graduation his first as
signment to sea duty was in the
U. S. S. Raleigh. In October, 1928,
he was transferred to Submarine
Division II and in December of that
year he reported to the Submarine
School in New London, Conn, for in
struction. He served aboard SUBJ
marine RIA until 1882 when he re-
ported to the postgraduate school
Of the Naval Academy.
After completing the post t-graduate
course in 1884. Comdr. Hurt served
aboard the S-34 and in January,
1885. was ordered to command the
S-35. He remained in that duty
until May, 1887, and was instructor
in the department of electrical en-
gineering at the Naval Academy
from June. 1887, to May, 1889, when
he assumed command of the Perch.
Family Lives in Annapolis.
The officer is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Constance Wickham
Hurt; their two sons, John, 7, and
Thomas w. Hurt, 9, and by son
by a former marriage, David, jr.,
Is. His family left Manila a year
ago to live in Annapolis.
His parents are dead but his sis
ter. Miss Louise Hurt, Tazewell, Va,
postmistress survives. She first re-
ceived message from the Navy
Department stating that Comdr.
Hurts craft was overdue and this
was followed by a message saying
he had been lost at sea.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
BY CLARK LEE,
HIriLa HInrld MnMS

MELBOURNE, Australia, April
11.-Japanese officers spent the lives
of their troops prodigally to break
the defense of Bataan by sending
them down open roads under artii-
lery fire.
Recklessness and caution were
oddly combined in the campaign.
Thousands were killed by shell
bursts from defense guns and hum
dreds of other Japanese piled into
American barbed wire and died
under machine-gun fire.
The Japanese might have avoided
the entire costly operation if they
had pressed their attacks late in
December at the right time. They
might have smashed the American
Filipino forces before they ever
reached the mountainous peninsula.
Early in the invasion they could
have landed on Bataan, then virtu-
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Girl Tells Soldier Yes
But General Doesn't
|, I've Aesoriated preeo

B. TIE Associated Press.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, April
1.-THE girl said "yes," but the gen.
eral didn't. so Pvt. Herbert w.
Cooke, 20. of Cleveland, and Thelma
Smith. 18, Belfast waitress. didn't
get married today as planned.
Miss Smith said the final decision
on permission for the A. Z. F. pri-
.vate to marry rested with his COM
mander, Maj. Gen. Russell P. Hartle.
who has not yet given his consent.
But I'm not worrying" she said.
I'D rather wait until May or June
anyway"
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Picture on Page All

EN ire r ESSOCldteu fIeSs.
NEW YORK, April 11.-A 21-pas-
senger United Airlines transport
plane overshot a runway in landing
at La Guardia Airport in pre-dawn
murk today and plunged into Flush
ing Bay. The three crew members
were injured; six passengers were
unhurt.
Quick action by two crash boats
from the nearby Pan-American Air
ways clipper terminal averted fur
ther casualties by rescuing all nine
occupants even while the plane was
sinking under them.
The accident occurred at 5:37 am.
as the plane, flight IL originating in
Oakland, Calf, completed the last
leg of its trip from Chicago.
The injured:
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Nozis Grant France
Civil Representation

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY, Unoccupied France. April
11.-Jacques Chevalier, former un-
dersecretary of state for family and
health, was appointed administra-
tive director today of the depart
ment of French labor in Germany"
Frances first civilian representation
to the Reich since the war.
He will supervise arrangements for
the care and protection of French
workers employed in German fac
tories, estimated by German official
sources to number approximately
100000.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Bube Ruth Better

HOLLYWOOD, April II (P.-The
condition of Babe Ruth, baseball
veteran stricken with pneumonia
early this week. was described as
very satisfactory" today bv his
nurse.
His physician reported yesterday
that Ruth apparently had passed
the crisis.