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Evening star., 1942-01-04
Reds Hurting Back
Nazis ; Times as Fast
As They Advanced
Virtual Destruction
Of Spanish Division und
Aerial Victories Claimed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Jan. 3-The Russian
high command tonight reported vir-
tual destruction of a division Of
Spanish volunteers and continued
advances in the great counter -offen-
sive which is now hurting back the
Germans from Moscow at rate
three times as fast as they had ad-
vanced.
In a supplement to its regular
evening communique, the Red Army
announced that a prisoner from the
Spanish Blue Division had disclosed
that more than 5000 of its members
had been killed.
The communique itself was less
specific, but told of relentless drives
'in several sectors" which resulted
in the occupation of "a number OF
localities"
At the same time the government
newspaper Izvestia sounded the key
note of a new Russian determination
to force the Germans to retreat
until Germany becomes a battle
field"
/ MalOyarOsIavets Recaptured.
The high command also declared
that Soviet warplanes yesterday
"dispersed and partially annihilated'
Evening star., 1942-01-04
War Tops All Issues
As Congress Prepares
To 0peli New Session
Parties Expected to Drop
Politics and Concentrate
On Defeating Enemy
By GOULD LINCOLN.

The Seventy-seventh Congress,
which adjourned its first session
Friday. will open its second at noon
tomorrow with it's attention CEN
tered almost exclusively on war leg
islatiOn.
The Congress, which fought al
most continuously during its first
session over lend-lease, neutrality
draft and other legislation, is ex-
pected by leaders of both parties to
act with great harmony now that
war is actually under way.
"We will fight the common enemy
not each other" was the comment
of Senate Majority Leader Barkley
Similar expressions came from Rep
resentative Martin of Massachusetts,
Republican leader of the House. HI
said Republicans are ready to give
the President all he asked for tt
conduct the war to a successful end
There will be no politics. he in.
sisted, in the effort to win the war
The principal subjects now SLATED
to come before the new session are
price-control legislation, war taxes
war appropriations and the regular
annual appropriations for the up
keep of Government, and daylight
saving legislation.
If the President has recommends
tions for other legislation, either TO-
1See CONGRESS. Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Civilian Defense lags
In District, Col. BoAe,
Tells Federation
Delegates Oppose Shift
Of Permanent Federal
Agencies From Capitol

Despite the spur of the japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, organiza-
ton of District civilian defense Is
still tagging. Col. Lemuel Bolles,
executive director of the defense
program, last night told the FEEDER
alton of Citizens Associations in the
blacked out board room of the Dis
trict Building.
His talk followed unanimous ap-
proval by the delegates of a reso-
luton empowering President Harry
N. Stun to create a special COM
mittee on cooperation in the war
effort and civilian defense with
civil and military authorities.
The group also registered vigor-
Gus opposition to the transfer of
any permanent Government agencies
from the District-especially the
PaPtent Ofilce-except where their
retention might be detrimental to
the public welfare. The delegates
further voted against two proposed
amendments to a bill establishing a
seven-member recreation board for
the District, and suggested the addi-
ton of some changes Of their own
to the measure The amendments
| (See FEDERATION. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Few Plane Types, Giant Output,
II. S. Plan to Best Axis in Air
O. E. N. Lists 'SuperIotive' Models,
Including 'Fostest SineIe-En9ined

single-engine airplane in the world"
Heavily armored and bristling with
both large and small-caliber guns,
this plane, according to the o. E. M,
has done $50 miles an hour in a
power dive test and more than 400
miles an hour in level flight.
The o. E. M. added that the PAT,
nearly ready to be put in quantity
production, is engined with a 1000
horsepower motor and has a four
blade propeller with a diameter Of
more than IL feet.
The P-47 weighs approximately
1880 pounds, is 80 feet 8 inches In
length, measures 13 feet in height
and has a wing span Of Al feet, the
survey continued.
Other models mentioned specif-
A Nj. 4 \
Evening star., 1942-01-04
British Said to Fear
U. S. Will Forget Relief
py+h aAeroniated prese

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-British
fears that the United States. now
at war, might forget England's relief
needs were disclosed today by Mrs.
Cameron Clark upon her return
from Great Britain where she sur
veyed relief expenditures for the
British War Relief Society OF New
York, Inc.
The British felt, she said, that the
United States would concentrate too
hard on its own wartime needs to
continue foreign aid. She prepared
a report on SIS 100000 raised by the
society end, for the most part, spent
in Britain.
She arrived on the Yankee Clipper
which also carried Charles Bate
man. newly appointed British
Minister to Mexico-the first since
diplomatic relations were severed in
1888 in the British oil properties
appropriation dispute. Before going
to Mexico, Mr.. Bateman will confer
with Lord Halifax at washington.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Beoverbrook Maps Vast Setup
To Make w. Arsenal for Allies
Advised President
To Ask so Billion
War Budget
By BLAIR BOLLES.

Some light on what Lord Beaver
brook, British Minister Of Supply
has been doing in Washington came
out yesterday when it was learned
that he has become informally the
chief adviser Of the American and
Allied governments on the most
difficult problem confronting the
Churchill mission and the Roose-
welt Administrations transfor-
nation of the American industrial
economy into the greatest military
arsenal in the worlds history.
Working completely behind the
scenes, Lord Beaverbrook, in his
Mayfower Hotel bedroom head
quarters, has been giving our pro-
duction chiefs in the War and Navy
Departments and the Office Of Pro-
duction Management the benefit OF
his own wide experience in Eng
land, whose industrial economy has
been efficiently rearranged to sup
ply everything possible for their own
and the Russian forces fighting the
Axis. Now the United States is to
oecome the central factory for the
Is anti-Axis allies.
His advice was large factor in
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Morgenthou Air Crash
| Rodiomun Gets D. F. c.
m xthaAssnciated presx

BY the Associated Press.
HOUSTON. Tex, Jan. 3.-
The Distinguished Flying Cross was
presented today 70 Stephen j.
Brodnan, radio operator for the
Civil Aeronautics Authority sta
toned at the Houston airport.
Brodnan was a member OF the
four-man crew of a Coast Guard
plane In which Henry Morgenthau
Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, was
a passenger when the ship struck a
tree near Hackensack, N. J. The
crew managed to keep it in con-
troll and landed safely at the Phila-
delphia airport. The ship was
badly damaged.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
San Francisco
B|acked Out;
Planes Heard
Mystery Aircraft
Detected 80 Miles
From Golden Cote
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.-The
roar of unidentified planes 80 miles
west of the Golden Gate, picked up
by an air raid listening post, gave
the San Francisco Bay district a
44-minute blackout tonight
The sound later faded. When it
was not heard again for Is minutes
the all-clear signal was sounded.
1t was San Franciscos first black
out since Friday, December II. The
bay district then was in darkness
more than hours.
The Army said the air raid alarm
was sounded at 6:48 pm. C9:48 pm.
Washington time. The all-clear
came at 1882 pm.
Two Sound Tracks Heard.
1.-TWO definite sound tracks from
about 80 miles at sea were traced
into the filter station here, and that
was the reason for the alarm" the
Army said.
THE sound of the planes came
from two directions and then veered
away. When 1t was not heard for
IS minutes, the all-clear signal was
given"
The blackout extended to Santa
Cruz, SO miles south of San Fran
cisco, and to Santa Rosa and Napa,
some so miles north. Across the
bay. Oakland. Berkeley, Richmond
and other cities also were blacked
out.
The alarm caught throngs Of
theater crowds downtown. Street,
cars halted abruptly in Market
street as whole blocks were dark
ened at once. Taxis and auto
mobiles pulled oyer to curbs. The
blackout rolled a blanket of si-
lence over a majority of the specta-
tors.
Residents of the western part Of
San Francisco, near the ocean
beach, reported unidentified planes
flying low over the city about 7:l5
pm. Army searchlights in the vi
cinity stabbed the night sky, but
their beams were turned of a few
seconds later.
Fire Alarm Comes In Dark.
In the downtown area, fire en-
gines with headlights turned of
answered an alarm. They proceeded
slowly, with just the bell changing
The siren was not sounded for fea
people would think it was the all
clear.
Some window lights were smashed
by AFRAID wardens who could no
find switches.
The all-clear signal set the city
in motion again without hesita-
ton.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
| Schmidt Is First
| Reich General
To Surrender
BY the Associated Press.

CAIRO, Jan. 3. - Maj. Gen.
Schmidt, commander of the Axis
forces at the captured Libyan port
of Bardia who was flown from the
battle area today as a prisoner OF
war. is the first German general
to make a formal surrender to an
Allied general.
He sat with Maj. Gen. I. P. De
Villiers, in command of the I'd South
African Division, in the back OF
a staff car yesterday while the
British officer dictated the terms
of surrender for the fortress.
Then the Nazi commander left
under escort as a prisoner of war.
The parley, arranged by two Ger
man officers who earlier had driven
through the British lines, followed
an assault by the Allied forces
including South Africans, British,
New Zealanders and Poles-which
had lasted so hours.
a (See Libyan Story on Page A-5)
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Five Malay States Occupied
jap News Agency Claims

TOXIC, Sunday, Jan. 4 P.-
Domei reported today that Japa'
nese forces have occupied all OF the
Malayan States of Kedah, Perliu
Kelantan, Trengganau, Perak ano
Pahang.
CPahang, soutnernmost of the
states claimed occupied, is a large
state in west central Malaga, ex-
tending far north of Singapore
but at its nearest point coming
within only about 80 air miles of
the British naval base.
Japanese occupation Of Pa
hang would leave only the state
of Johore standing between them
and Singapore.
(There has been no confirma-
ton of any such Japanese gains
from any source, including the
Japanese Imperial Headquarters.
The nearest the British have
placed the Japanese to Singa-
pore was Kenaman, ITS miles to
the north of the east Malaga
coast, and there only advance
patrol activity was reported with
our further explanatory
Domei declared the japanese
were "slashing their way towarc
Singapore with undiminished speed.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Cold Kills 3 D. c. Boy Scouts
Adrift in Small Boat in Bay
Bodies Found by Fisher Coptoin;
Trio FIooted From Comp Friday

Capt. Randolph Harrison Of Thigh
man Island, skipper of the fishing
boat Retriever, and a companion,
Capt. Harry Covington. came across
the boats while en- route home from
Solomon's Island. The bodies Of
the boys lay in one, which was
partly awash. The other boat was
lashed alongside, the watermen
said, probably kept the water
logged craft with the bodies afioat.
The fishermen brought the bodies
to Tilghmans, a small community
on the island, and they later were
taken to Camp Roosevelt. the Boy
(see BOYS, Page A-8)
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Dutch, Suspicious of Jops, Sent
Indies Navy to Sea Nov. 80
Lone,Suvivor Of Sub Which Hit Mine Tells
How It~sank Four Nipponese Transports

submarine which torpedoed four
heavily y-laden japanese transports
of the Malayan coast the day after
the Indies and Japan went to war.
The submarine was lost after hit
ting mine in the South China Sea
December Is.
Quartermaster c. De Wolf, sur
vivor of the Inflated submarine, re-
lated that his vessel had been Or
dered to proceed to the Gulf Of
Siam.
On the night of December it
sighted two blacked-out Japanese
destroyers. They swept the sea with
their searchlights but the submarine
already had dived and passed un-
derneath the destroyers. Although
war had not yet broken out, Quar-
(See DUTCH, Page A-60
Evening star., 1942-01-04
By J. A. OLEARY.

Warning the Nation 1t Is in
war for survival and that imitation
must be checked, the Senate Bank
ing Committee last night made
public a report urging prompt pass
age of the rigid price control bill
on which Senate debate starts Tues
day or Wednesday.
The committees report said that
Legislation providing for control
over wages may ultimately be found
necessary as an emergency meas
ure." 1t added that such controls,
bewildering in their complexity, are
not yet necessary to control infla-
ton
The Senate is expected to pass
the price control measure before
the week ends, sending it to con-
ference with the House. The report
was filed by Senator Brown, Demo-
crat, of Michigan.
The milder House bill may have
been sufficient before the attack
on Pearl Harbor, the committee OBJ
served, but the outbreak of war
against Germany, Italy and Japan
leaves little time for the luxury
of experiment. The need for price
stability is urgent. The cost Of
living must be stabilized"
Only One Major Fight Seen.
The only major fight likely tc
arise in the Senate will be over
a renewed effort to give Secretary
of Agriculture Wickard jurisdiction
over farm prices. instead OF Price
Administrator Leon Henderson. The
odds are against such separation
of authority, which failed in com
mittee, especially since the com
mittee gave the President discre'
tionary power to make such transfer
of functions if he deems it neces'
sary later.
The main Senate issues to be set
tied finally in conference betweel
(See PRICE CONTROL, Page AS.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
10000 Aussies Land
At Singapore, Says
japanese Radio
Nipponese Attempt
To Lond Behind British
Lines in MoIoyo Fails
BULLETIN.

TOXIC, Sunday, Jan. 4.-tOm-
cial broadcast recorded by AP).-
The newspaper Yomiuri reported
today in dispatch from Bang
kok, Thailand, that 10000 fresh
Australian troops had landed in
Singapore December 81.
BY the Associated Press.
SINGAPORE, Jan. g. British
batteries which blasted Japanese
barges to bits and set a steamer
afire broke up a second japanese
attempt in two days to land troops
behind defense lines on the west
coast of Malaga, British headquar-
ters announced today.
(The japanese claimed to have
occupied all of six Malayan
states, including Pahang, which
at one point is within only 30 air
miles from Singapore. The
closest japanese thrust toward
Singapore acknowledged by the
British is ITS miles away
In a communique which covered
operations throughout yesterday,
the British said japanese pressure
south of Ipoh in Perak Province on
the west coast had been increased,
while on the east coast Japanese
advance forces pushed into the out
skirts of Kuantan, 100 miles from
Singapore.
(The japanese claimed capture
of Kuantan December 3D.
Line Near Perak River.
Exact location OF the British de-
fense line in Perak Province has not
been disclosed, but it was believed
hinged near the mouth OF the Perak
River, so miles south of Ipoh and
about $50 miles from Singapore.
Observers here expressed the be-
lief that the Japanese were at
tempting to flank the Perak de-
fenses by landings with a little fleet
of native fishing craft seized on the
Island of Penang.
The British communique said four
barges used in the latest attempt
were sunk and others withdrew un-
der artillery fire.
1t reported that the japanese lost
400 to 500 men in their intenslfled
land thrust south through Perak
Province.
From Rangoon came reports OF
clashes between British units and
small Japanese parties attempting
to thrust into lower Burma. One
such patrol was said to have been
driven from a small town in the
Mergui region.
Evening star., 1942-01-04

one Nazi infantry regiment and a
platoon of cavalry, while destroying
four armored cars, 300 trucks, four
troop and supply laden carts and
five field guns and burning six rail-
way trains.
A Red Army unit in one sector OF
the front, the communique said. oc-
cupied five populated places" with
in one day.
The Moscow radio said "at the
present moment the most important
task is not to give the enemy q
(See MOSCOW. Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1942-01-04
ID. C.. Will Get
| 5-Inch Snow,
| Melting Rapidly

A moderate to heavy snow.
amounting to five inches, was pre-
dicted by the Weather Bureau last
night, but much Of it was expected
to melt soon after it fell, with the
temperature dropping not far below
the freezing point today.
The forecast, made while mix
ture of snow and sleet was falling.
said: Moderate to heavy snow by
late tonight, continuing tomorrow.
Total accumulation of five inches
expected"
The temperature stood at "a de-
grees at the time of the forecast,
and the bureau said today's mini
mum would be around 80. Yester-
days maximum was 40 at noon.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Damage Slight
In 5-Hour Raid
On Corregidor
MucArthur's Troops
In Strong Position
North of Manila

BY the Associated Press.
A flve-hour Japanese air attach
on Corregidor, Americas last hop'
citadel in the Philippines, was re-
ported yesterday by the War De-
partment, but it said no materia
damage was inflicted on the islane
fortress in Manila Bay.
Three of 60 air raiders were sho
down in the attack Friday. while
the defenders lost 13 men killed ant
IS wounded.
Meanwhile, on nearby Batan pen
insula and on the approaches to 1t
the JapADese slowed their ASSAULT
on the forces under Gen. Dougla!
Macarthur. American and Filipino
troops consolidated themselves il
new positions, from which they wer,
enabled to intensity their resist
ance.
(The japanese said they had
virtually captured Luzon, had
completed occupation Of the Sec
ond largest Philippine island,
Mindanao, and that a full-scale
battle to take Corregidor was un-
der way0
Delay Most Hoped For.
The War Departments curt sum.
mary of the fighting on LuZon was
the most revealing since its an
nouncement that Gen. Macarthur
had surrendered Manila and with
drawn to the north and northwest
of the city.
The announcement used such def
mite language that many pre-
sumed Gen. MacArthur's men hac
established a strong line from which
they could prolong the fighting fol
a considerable period. His force!
stand on a terrain that is mosaic
of mountain and jungle and natur'
ally suited to defensive fighting.
But the most that was hoped fol
was a long-delayed battle which
would keep the full might Of Japan!
mechanical hordes away from Ma
laya and the battle for Singapore
while the Allied positions there arr
strengthened.
Olongapo Within Lines.
So far as is known. Gen. MacAr
thurs lines include the secondar,
naval station. Olongapo on Subj
Bay at the northern end Of tn,
peninsula. 1t was conjectured tina
a considerable quantity Of store
and supplies might have bee
cached there. Some of the NOR
hopeful even were suggesting tina
reinforcements could be lande
within the American lines at Olon
gapo. There has been no word o
Japanese bombing Of the shor
facilities there.
Corregidor lies some two mile
of the tip Of the peninsula In tn
entrance to Manila Bay. It is
low-lying island of almost solid roc
into which have been chiseled for
tifications which long were consid
cred invulnerable. The negligibl
damage done by so enemy bomber
in a five-hour assault is evidenc
of its strength.
Should Gen. MacArthur's men ul
timately be driven off the peninsula
conjecture is that they could b
evacuated to Corregidor. Such
maneuver would, of course. expos
them to attack from the air, br
under favorable weather condition
fog or storm-it could be al
tempted, strategists say, with ever
prospect of success.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Elliott RooseveIt's Baby
Named David Boynton
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FORT WORTH, Tex, Jan. g.
The name-tag of a seven-pound
baby boy at Cook Memorial Hospital
was changed tonight from baby
Roosevelt to David Boynton Roose-
welt.
The infant, son of Capt. and Mrs.
Elliott Roosevelt. was born at 10
m. today. He is their third child
and the twelfth grandchild of Presi-
dent and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Capt. Roosevelt was on duty with
the Army Air Corps at Muroc, Calf =,
and was unable to be here.
The Elliott Roosevelts have two
other children, Ruth Chandler, Z,
and Tony, S.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
BY the Associated Press.


BATAVIA, N. E. l., Jan. 3.-Be-
cause patrol planes saw that Jap
anese warships and loaded trans
ports already were sailing up and
down the entrance of the Gulf of
Siam," Dutch warships were ordered
to sea as long ago as November 80,
while United States-Japanese ne
gotiations still were under way, II
was disclosed ofiicially tonight.
The disclosure came in a report by
Aneta, official Netherlands Indies
news agency, which said the navy
was ordered into action because
Indies authorities did not trust the
game the Japanese were playing" at
the conference table.
Aneta released the story of the
only surviving member of Dutch
Evening star., 1942-01-04

Three Washington Boy Scouts,
who were swept out into Chesa-
peake Bay from Breezy Point in
two small boats Friday, were found
dead yesterday after a 24-hour
search when fishermen sighted their
craft bobbing in the icy waters Of
James Island. on the Eastern Shore.
Exposure had brought death.
The boys were:
Billy Merryman, "a, 902 Ninth
street Sc.
Carrell c. Baker, jr., Is, 1902 c
street NE.
Earl Edwards, IS, 321 Seven
teenth street NE.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
By THOMAS C. HARDMAN.

The Once for Emergency Man
agement, disclosed yesterday that
Americas plane production facilities
will be concentrated in future on
turning out certain selected military
models to outstrip the enemy in
number of planes as well as quality
Pointing out that "a limitation on
the number of different planes Of
similar purpose will make it possible
to produce more of the chosen few"
the o. E. NJ, in a special summary
of the Nations aircraft production
named specific models that the
armed services had found superla-
tive in performance.
These included the new-ant
heretofore unpublicised-Republ
PAT, described rs the tastes
Evening star., 1942-01-04

NEW YORK, Jan. g. (P.-Eleven
hundred young Americans-from 20
to 26-who want to defend their
country in the sky jammed the Gov
ernor's Island induction barracks
today to enlist as flying cadets.
It was the biggest mass examina-
ton of hopeful Army pilots on rec
ord in the country, Army officials
said.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
New York Speaker Urges
Tire Stealing Be Felony
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY. N. Y, Jan. 3-New
York's Legislature, convening Wed
nesday, will be asked to curb what
used to be the old wild Vests bad
man-the rustler.
To forestall possibility Of q gen.
eral theft of automobile tires be
cause of strict Government rationing
Assembly Speaker Oswald D. Heck,
Republican, said he will propose
making tire stealing a felony rather
than a misdemeanor as at present.
In the old West" he said, "the
horse rustler was given the most
sevre penalty - hanging - because
he stole mans sole means Of trans
portation. In modern times, a per-
son who steals a tire may cause
another to lose use of his car or
even his employment"
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Jan. 8 (P
Thomas p. Henry, president OF
the American Automobile Associa-
ton, said today he would ask Con-
gress to make theft of automobile
tires q Federal offense. He asserted
such thefts already had reached
major proportions in some cities.
Evening star., 1942-01-04
Land and Naval Forces
Open Correqidor Attack

TOXIC, Jan. 3 (Oficial Broad
cast (P)-The Japanese were told
tonight that the battle for the Ma
Mia Bay stronghold of Corregidor
was under way, that Luzon virtually
was won, and that occupation of
Mindanao, second largest of the
Philippine Islands, had been COM
pleted.
Domei said it had learned from
the Japanese Army headquarters
on Luzon" that "Corregidor was SUBJ
jected to joint attack by Japanese
land and naval forces"
(The news agency did not inti-
mate whether mention of land
(See PHILIPPINES, Page AID