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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
SHIP STRUCK TWO TIMES,
 THEN SINKS
Indications Are that More than $50 CreWmen and
 Passengers Missing

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan. 28 -Torpedoing of an Allied steamer is reported by ship captain on arrival here. He rescued II of the crew and passengers but indicated more than $50 persons are missing.
 The rescue officer is Capt. Hei- gesen of the New York-Puerto Rico steamer Coamo.
 Capt Helgesen said he picked up the survivors last Friday night, five days after the steamer had been struck twice by torpedoes and sunk quickly.
 The position of the attack is not given.
 The Allied steamer had about 450 persons aboard. The crew num- bered at least 100 and there were at least $50 passengers aboard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
REDS FORGE AHEAD ALONG WIDE FRONT
Germans Reported Re- treating 10 Deep Defense
 System Near Latyia
CBY ASSOCIATED PREss)

Russia's armies, pressing great winter counter offensive, today were reported surging forward un- checked on the threshold of the 250-mile German defense lin e northwest and southwest of Mos- COW.
 Soviet dispatches reported the recapture of 79 more towns and indicated Hitler's retreating invad- CTS are falling back on double row defense system which is a mile and one-half in depth. ex- tending from Velikie Luki to Wy azma to Bryansk. Velikie Luki is only 30 miles from the Latvian frontier.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28

Commander Winfield Scott Cum ningham, U. s. N. tabOve), Com mander of the American naval and marine forces at Wake Island during the one-sided battle with the invading Japs, who was re- gently reported as having person. ally delivered a radio address under Japanese auspices. in which he said, "Since the capture of Wake, the prisoners, including myself, have been fairly treated and are all in good health" His wife was the former Louise Dadey, a University of California student from Phoenix. Ariz., whom Com mander Cunningham married in Oakland in 1927. Also heard on the air was, purportedly, Hudson T. Sutherland of Portland, Ore, foreman of a Wake Island civilian defense work project. His wife and daughter live in Salinas, Calf.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
Allied Steamer 7orpedoed; Many Missing
Many Expedifionary
 Forces Already Sent
 From U. 5., Says FDR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 - Presi- dent Roosevelt asersted that six, eight or 10 expeditionary forces have been sent outside the United States
 The President told tn enewsmen at a conference that the United States is sending all help is could and as fast as it could to the whole southwest Pacific area
 The President also told the news men that very good progress was being made in getting aid to Vest ern Pacific.
 The President did not elaborate on his statement about the expedi- tionary forces and said he pre- ferred not to discuss the where the American forces have been sent
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
SURVIVORS
 T0RpED0ED
 SHIP SAFE


 NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 28-Twelve survivors and one body of the crew of the torpedoed tanker Francis Powell have been landed at Chinco- league and will be brought to Nor folk this afternoon, according Jo an announcement by the Fifth Naval District.
 The survivors and one body &C., counts for at least 30 of the tank CTS usual complement of 32 crew men.
 The tanker was torpedoed off the east coast early Tuesday and IT seamen were brought ashore at Lewes, Delaware, last night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
SINGAPORE
 STRIP I5 TO
 BE CLEARED
Evacuation of Civilians, Livestock, Ordered by
 Friday Noon

SINGAPORE, Jan. 28 Orders have been issued for the execution by noon Friday of all civilians and livestock from a strip one mile deep On the northern shore of Singapore Island which faces the Malayan mainland across the narrow strip of Johore Strait.
 The edict came late today as the fighting lines swayed back and forth above the water hurdle the Japanese must cross for any land attack to enter Singapore.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
National Capital Rests Ifs War Torn Nerves; All
 Taking If Out On Ice Rink

that down with a plop, too. That's a military reservation.
 As matter of fact this complete occupation with war problems and policies should show how thor oughly Congress and Washington has taken over the problem in hand.
 In one week of solid sessions,
 only twice did Congress extend
 itself in the Congressional
 Record Index on any matters
 not pertaining to the war.
 You'll have to do lot of dig ging to find any one who can re- member when Congress has stayed so solidly on one track so long.
 A unique federal office IS the Homes Listing Office. It has been in operation for about year and is now setting up on Post Square in the heart of the government building belt.
 The idea is to help newcom-
 CTS to Washingt ton, particularly
 government employees, get To-
 cated. For some time now it
 has employed 20 persons and it
 is locating homes for incOm-
 ing flood at the rate of 100
 day.
 Nobody will deny that plenty of folk in Washington are working their heads off. However, one of the government personnel experts tells me that after as thorough q survey as it is possible to make, he estimates that only one-third of the 200.00O-odd government em- ,.oyees here are working more than
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
pairitk Hurley Is
 Nominated byFDR
 To Be US. Minister

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 The nomination of Patrick Hurley, Secretary of War in the Hoover Administration, to be United States Minister to New Zealand, was sub mitted to the Senate today.
 The President assumed that Hu-- ley has reached his post and his nomination was withheld until it was believed he was safe in New Zealand.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
HEARING ON
 RATE RAISE
 IN SEATTLE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 The Maritime Commission announced today that the reopened hearing on the Alaska freight and passeu- ger rate case has been transferred to Seattle from Washington. The date has not been changed and the hearing will be held on February 3.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
34 MINERS L05ELIvE5,
 EXPLOSION

MOUNT HARRIS. Colo. Jan. 28 -Thirty-four miners perished in an explosion in the Victor Ameri- can Fuel Company coal mine late last night. Only four miners es- capped.
 The explosion was caused by black damp and deadly dioxide gas filled the shaft after the explosion and impeded work of rescue squads who were unable to reach the vic- tims for over six hours.
 Nearly every family in this small mining community had relatives employed in the mine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
BRITISH SAY LIBYAN WAR
 AT IkpA55E
Germans, Italians Differ on Versions of Rom-
 meI's Activity
(BY ASSOCIATED PREss)

British headquarters on the North African front today said that Gen. eral Rommel's Axis armies, which showed the British back l50 miles in three days, have been stopped for the past two days and apparent ly have reached an impasse in their counter drive.
 Axis versions of the vast desert struggle differed Hitlers head quarters noted merely reconnaiss- ance activity on both sides in the Libyan desert. while Mussoiini's command asserted the British were continuing to retreat eastward
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
Anchorage Bond
 Issue Introduced, : Delegate Dimond

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28-Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has introduced a bill to authorize the City of Anchorage to issue bonds, not to exceed $1 200, 900 for the pur- chase of the Anchorage Light and Power System.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
PLIERS
 BAG JAP PLANES,
 DARING D06FIGHT

ABINGDON, Jan. 28-Yankee vol unteer fliers have achieved an- other air fighting miracle east of Rangoon.
 In daylight dog fight the Yank- ees destroyed six Japanese fighter planes and the official count may reach nine The Yankees suffered no casualties.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
OFF RUSSIANS,
 E CLAIM

BERLIN, Jan. 28-On the Cri- mean front, German bulletin to- day asserts that Russian reinforce ments that landed on the north ern coast of the Black Sea Penir- sula have been beaten off and al- most completely wiped out after several days Of hard fighting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 = The Capital in wartime:
 To see the gang that assemblies to skate on the Reflecting Pool these days and nights, you would never think Washington had a care in the world.
 I doubt if there's another ice rink anywhere like the Reflecting Pool. You can stand at one end and say I'll race you from the Washington Monument to the Lin- coin Memorial"
 7 One of the bright young men who cover "the Hill" set out the other day to try to find some new bill that didn't have a thing to do with the war. After diligent search he came on "A bill to ap- propriate funds to provide for the educational attainment of persons IT years of age or over, having less than fourth grade educa- tion."
 His shout of Eureka" died on
 his lips for the next phrase
 was, For the purpose of faciIi-
 tating the National Defense 
 It is, too. It's measure de-
 signed to raise the educational
 status of boys who have been
 deferred in the draft for fail
 ure to meet it's comparatively
 mild educational standards.
 Sixty-two bills and some min utes later, he arrived at I'll. R. 6332' It looked like a cinch. It was a bill to change the founda- tions of the Chickamauga -Chatta- nooga National Park in Tennessee and Georgia. A closer scrutiny let
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
MRS. REDLING SOUTH

Mrs. William N. Redling visited friends in Juneau last night while enroute from Chilkoot Barracks to Seattle. She is accompanied by her mother.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
MRS. MORRISON LEAVES

Mrs. Malcolm Morrison an d daughter Gail, are southbound for Seattle to remain indefinitely.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28

WASHINGTON A CT lIiIec years probing of subversive activi- ties, it takes a lot to excite Rep resentative Martin Dies, but the other day the rangy Texan hit on a discovery that took his breath away.
 His committee has been making a sweeping inquiry of Jap fifth-col- umning on the West Coast, in cluding subversive teaching in Jap anese language schools. all EIser Southern California. Investigators found that from the primary grades up students in these schools are in doctrinated with militarism and the theology of their Japanese an- cestorS.
 Primer books, for instance, are filled with pictures of the Japanese flag and soldiers, accounts of the greatness of the Jap navy, and stories with titles like My Brother Enlisted in the Army"
 However, the thing that stunned Dies was a portion of story titled Submarines" Although written several years ago, it was a perfect description of the sneak Jap sub marine attack at Pearl Harbor.
 Printed in both Japanese and English, it read: Tt is our duty to go underwater when the enemy's battleships draw near and sink them by shooting torpedoes, and at times to go secretly to the enemy's harbor and attack his battleships without warning /"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-01-28
U.s.-CANApIAN COOPERATION

OsOs>OhINhDAhN OOOA GASA AOAS
 On the morning that the State Department issued it's famous state ment blasting the "so-called" Free French for taking over the tiny North Atlantic islands of St. Pierre Miquelon, Ray Atherton, chief of the State Departments European Division, telephoned to Hume Wrong, counselor of the Canadian Legation.
 Canada is more concerned with the two French islands than any other country because they are nearest her shores; so Atherton
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BUY DEFENSE STAMPS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-08

from Farrington's catch of broad
bill swordfish, just few pounds of
the world record, through Sara Far
rington's difficulty in proving to
native guides she was good enough
to take on what they believed to be
only a mans game and down to the
chapter by Francesca La Monte on
the International Game Fish Asso-
ciation-the high court of the pis-
catorial world.
Tularemia Still Overlooked:
Each fall with the opening OF the
hunting season in Maryland hunt
ers are cautioned against shooting
inactive Dummies or handling the
flesh of any without rubber gloves,
but despite this at least a dozen
cases of tularemia, or rabbit fever,
bob up every year.
Considering that more than 400,-
600 rabbits are killed each year in
Maryland this isn't so bad, but there
should be no cases. If the importa-
ton or rabbits from the West could
be prohibited this might become
fact.
Some States already have banned,
through legislation, such importa-
tons. Why others continue to buy a
few thousand each year to stock
fields Is hard to understand.
1t certainly isn't needed in Mary
land when the importations
amount to about one-tenth Of one
percent of the annual crop. It ap-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-08
A. U. Quint, Defeated
By Catholic IT,, Has
Rough Road Ahead
Loser in ABB Contest
Focing Baltimore and
Hoyos in Next Games

American University's two-game
losing streak suddenly may develop
into chain of four games unless
the Eagle tossers spill University Of
Baltimore tomorrow night at Balti-
more, for facing them on Thursday
night will be collision with George
towns crack team.
The Eagles absorbed a ABB whip
ping from Catholic University last
night at A. U. gym for their second
straight loss. After resting today
A. U. will plunge into a busy
slate, meeting Baltimore tomorrow,
Georgetown on Thursday and Johns
Hopkins on Friday.
Catholic u, of to an encouraging
start under Coach Shorty Hughes,
also will be playing in Baltimore
tomorrow night, tangling with
Loyola in the Cards only other game
of the week.
1t was Fred Rice, jr., son of the
former G. U. coach currently help
ing Hughes, who spanked the Cards
victory over the Eagles with IA
points, but it was Substitute Walter
Kolodny who provided four vital
points when c. U. appeared ripe for
defeat.
With the score 1873 against c. u,
Kolodny was rushed into action and
promptly provided two field goals to
lock the score. Steve Mercak, Jack
Baltrukonis and Dick Scanlon then
scored successfully to send C.. U.
ahead to stay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-08
Gauthier Will Return
To Goal When Lions
Oppose Capitals
Injured Vet to Be Ready
Saturday.; Pittsburgh
To Visit Tomorrow

Paul Gauthier, chunky veteran
goalie Of the Washington Lions who
has been inactive for several weeks
due to an injured right leg, will re-
turn to action against the Indian
apolis Capitals on Saturday night at
Uline Arena.
In the net against the Pittsburgh
Hornets tomorrow night at the same
site, however, will be Frankie Gerry
ance, who has performed we'll since
being borrowed from the Hershey
Bears two weeks ago.
The Hornets will be shooting for
their sixth consecutive American
Hockey League victory and their
fourth straight triumph over the
Lions. Defenseman Tony Graboski
with an injured ankle, and Center
Ossie Asmundsen, with a strained
side, may not be available to the
Lions.
Meanwhile the Lions have failed
to insert player among the league
top 10 scorers: Leading the pack is
slender Alb DeMarco of the Prov
idence Reds with 80 points, five
ahead of runner-up Wally Kilrea OF
Hershey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-08
Wit. BILL AckzsuAn
Kip Forrington's Pacific Game Fishing
Deemed Valuable Guide to Sportsmen

A veritable who's who of big game
fishing is the best way to describe
S. Kip Farrington's new book,
Pacific Game Fishing" published
by Coward Mccain, New York. for
it is factual account Of pioneering
sportsmen.
Kip has done considerable pioneer
ing himself along the Atlantic Coast
since he got the first blue marlin
ever caught on rod and reel in the
Bimint area across the Gulf Stream
from Miami.
We remember we'll his first pub
lished story on that accomplishment
and his first book, Atlantic Game
Fishing" which has become a stand
ard reference book.
Fund Of Information.
His latest effort is much better,
although it follows the same plan
of giving in detail all pertinent in
formation about guides, tackle, costs,
accommodations and travel-1ust
what the fishing reader wants most
to know.
This is the first book really cover
ing Pacific fishing. 1t takes in all
the well known grounds from Chile
to British Columbia and notes all
record catches.
Kip and his wife Sarah have cov-
cred American fishing well. Their
records on big fish attest to that.
We believe you will like Pacific
Game Fishing" as well as we do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-08

shurnas Missouri and games Tyre oklahoma
GuardsVeie Abrams. Missouri Nebraska
Center-Jef
euarter--Earold Adams Missouri
Han-Wilam
Maf-Willam Campbell. Oklahoma.
Full I'D Reece
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Runnerup Oklahoma Is Honored
With Five Posts on A||-Big Six
Four Sooner Lnemen Selected; Champion
Missouri Gets Three on Star Team

uted to the placement Of seven Tiger
gridders on the second eleven.
-Four of the seven first-string line
jobs went to Oklahoma, a tribute to
the stanch Sooner forward wall that
held Missouri, Texas and Tulsa to a
minimum Of rushing gains.
Bob Steuber, Missouri's high-scor-
ing halfback, was named to the first
team by every critic who took part
In the poll, and was the only 1941
All-Star to receive an encore. Dale
Bradley, Nebraska tailback, was
named to the first team last fall, but
was dropped to an ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ton status this year. Injuries forced
him from the lineup several times
during the season.
Bert Ekern, Tiger end, gained a
notch over his second-team position
of 1941, and his teammate Don
(BulD Reece, another top-notch
performer handicapped by injuries,
repeated as fullback on the second
club.
Steuber, Ray Evans of Kansas,
probably the finest passer in the
history Of the Big Six loop; Vic
Schleich, giant Nebraska tackle, and
w. G.. dub Lamb, Oklahoma's fine
defensive wingman, polled the great
est number of votes.
Evans Given High Rating.
Steuber, for the second straight
year ranked with the greatest ball
carriers in the Nation, bore the
brunt of the high-scoring Missouri
offense, and did much of the Tiger
kicking and passing work. The 1872
pound Splinter was constant threat
throughout difficult, 12-game
schedule, and was one Of the most
popular men on the Missouri squad
Many ranked Evans as a better
all-around gridder than Steuber.
The hnusky Jayhawk Junior COM
pleted 101 passes during the season
to lead the Nations throwers. He
was the greatest Kansas threat on
the ground, and in several games
handled the punting and signal
calling chores in addition to his
other duties. Many of the observers
cited Evans as the best defensive
back of the year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-08
BY FRANK HOOD,
Associated Press Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 8.-Okla-
homa, runnerup if the Big Six Con-
ference football chase. took individ-
ual honors today by placing five men
on the 1912 Associated Press all-star
football team selected by coaches,
newspapermen and officials.
The Missouri Tigers, winners of
the conference championship, land
ed three f1rst-team berths, and Ne
braska, Kansas and Iowa State each
placed one player.
An almost long plague of
injuries. coupled with constant
battle for starting positions, handi-
capped the Tigers in the balloting.
Few of the Missouri athletes got in
enough playing to catch the eyes of
all observers, a factor that contrib
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-08
Anything-to-Win Chewaki
| Apt 10 Give Steinborn
Touch Time on Mat

Chief Chewaki, one Of the rowing
Rover boys of wrestling. will grace
the card at Turner's Arena tomor-
row night when the brethren of the
Amalgamated Mutton and Muscle
Men hold their weekly meeting.
Chewaki is the playful individual
who employs everything but barbed
wire. to. Yin-and that may be an
idea. Hes carried broken chairs,
peanut hulls, bicycle tape, scrap
iron, old stoyepipes, and Mexican
-good-luck rings into action and
plays the role Of villain, naturally.
His opponent. by the way, will be
Milo Steinborn, Who has done an
overnight job Of reforming to be
ready for his role OF hero. The
bout supports the main dish featur-
ing Max Krauser and. Gino Carl
baldi.
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Ward, Golf King, Wears
Army Lieutenant Bars

It's 1t. Marvin H. Ward, Air
Forces, Army OF the United States.
now. go, :.
1t. Ward is better known in sport
circles as national amateur golf
champion Of the United States. He
won the title in 1899 and 1941. Nick
named Bud" 1t. Ward, whose home
is at, Spokane, Wash, was the rank
ing United States amateur inksman
for three years before enlisting in
the Army Air Forces earlier this
year. He is commanding Squadron
42-H in the aviation Cadet Pre-
Flight School at the Santa Ana
Army Air Base.
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Looms as Smoothest
Outfit al Hilltop
In Many Years
Three Sophs and Frosh
To Be Among Starters;
Schedule Is Tough

What may develop as the smooth.
est Georgetown University basket
ball team in years will be stacked
against veteran Western Mary
land outfit tonight at Tech High
gym at $50 o'clock, with Coach
Elmer Ripley including three sopho-
mores and freshman among his
starters.
From freshman team that CAP
tured 10 Of 10 games last year, losing
only to Aberdeen Proving Grounds,
Ripley has plucked Billy Hassett,
Dan Kraus and Andy Kostecka. At
center he'll start 6-foot 8-inch John
Malmken, a freshmen, with Danny
Gabbianelli, the only veteran of the
group. rounding out the opening
lineup.
Loaded" With Talent.
Georgetown admittedly is loaded
this season with capable replace
ments to back up that crack starting
team. Little Miggs Reilly, Lloyd
Pottolicchio and Ed LAWN are other
holdovers from last seasons fresh
man five and another towering
freshman center is Stretch Goedde,
q 6-foot 71a-inch specimen.
The Hoyas may have to be as
talented as preseason chatter would
have fans believe to survive a sched-
ule that includes Temple, Army,
George Washington, Syracuse, Penn
State, Fordham, ST. Johns, Colgate
and Norfolk Naval Training Sta
ton.
Western Maryland will be an un-
derdog tonight despite the presence
OF four returning veterans, but the
Green Terrors are expected to offer
the Hoyas strenuous opening test
Georgetown will face American Uni
versity on Thursday night, then
proceed to bite into the tougher
portion Of its slate.
Mogowski Is Terror Star.
In Ed Mogowski the Green Ter
rors will present the leading scorer
In the Mason-Dixon Conference last
season. Mogowski averaged better
than IA points a game last season,
but also tabled for special consid-
Grafton is Frank Suffern, who
scored 10 points against the Hoyas
last year.
Launching his seventh season as
Georgetowns basket ball coach, Rip
ley says his current club is the most
aggressive he ever has instructed in
his lengthy career. Many of his
players have been performing to-
gether since grammar school days.
In preliminary tonight the
Georgetown Prep Midgets will tan
gle with st. Matthews Parochial
School at 7:45.
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V.P.I. Cage Team in Line
For Title, Coach Feels
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
BLACKSBURG, Va, Dec. g.
Coach Macauley McEver believes
the Virginia Tech Gobblers, who
broke even in their basket ball
schedule last season, may be bigger
and faster than In 1912. -
The Gobblers haven't attended
the Southern Conference tourna-
ment since 1888 and the Tech
mentor is so popped up over his
prospects this year that he hopes
the squad will get tournament bid.
McEver is building his team
around three returning veterans, CO.
Capts. Julius Rubin Of Norfolk and
Guy Crawford of Kingsport, Tenn,
forwards, and Walter Schneider Of
Rutherford, N. j., center.