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Evening star., 1942-09-30
Porter Calls on D. {.
To Guard Against
.Enemy-AidingF Fires
Fire-Prevention Week
To Open Sunday; Cost Of
Curelessness Stressed

Residents of Washington were
invited today by Fire Chief Stephen
r. Porter to visit the neiohborhood
fire stations to learn the amazing
facts about fire" as first move in
observance of Fire Prevention Week,
beginning next Sunday through
Saturday.
Appealing to the public to enlist
in the war against fire at home so
that we will be able to win the war
over there" Chief Porter declared
that every time a fire occurs, 1t
helps Hitler.
He continued: Fire can destroy
more in an hour than war produc-
ton plant can produce in a month.
Protect the arsenal of democracy
from destruction by fire II you
permit fire to start and get out
of control, thereby consuming VAL
liable lives and property in time Of
war, you are committing an act of
sabotage just as dangerous as that
of any enemy agent. For the Ma
tons sake, keep fire in its place"
Carelessness to Blame.
The fire chief said Americas an
nual fire loss of more than $780,
600 900, and most of the deaths that
occurred from uncontrolled fire was
due to carelessness. He said even
the smallest fire started accidentally
in a private home may set the
torch to vital war plants"
He reported that during last year,
In the District, Is persons were
killed by fire and 201 were injured.
Property valued at nearly $1,000, 900
was destroyed, he added.
9s9 Fires by Smokers.
Careless smoking caused 939 fires,
and II cigar and cigarette stubs had
been carefully extinguished before
being thrown away, these would not
have happened, Chief Porter said.
Most of the 939 automobile fires. he
said, could have been avoided by
proper inspection. Brush and other
outdoor fires numbered 1920. There
were 348 fires caused by faulty
chimneys and heating appliances.
The fire chief declared, many little
things" can be done by the house.
holder to prevent fires. He said:
"Flammable material should be kept
away from heating plants. Never
remove hot ashes from a furnace
and place them close to anything
that will burn. Put them in a metal
can.
Gasoline is a terribly dangerous
thing to use for cleaning. II you
burn trash or leaves in your yard, be
sure 1t Is done in daylight, when
there Is no wind. Be sure the fire Is
thoroughly extinguished."
Evening star., 1942-09-30
Arch Mcdonald Honored
As Baseball Broudcuster

Arch Mcdonald, who broadcasts
the Washington baseball games for
Station WJSV here, was presented
with the Sporting News trophy In St.
Louis today, designating him as the
outstanding baseball broadcaster of
the 1942 season
The radio announcer was In st.
Louis to attend the opening of the
World Series.
Evening star., 1942-09-30
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1895, s1O.95 Honon
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Anniversary Price 1885

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ond cordoyons Limited eroup-don't oeIoy
Evening star., 1942-09-30
S. Mems Felt Hats
in Fovorite Styles
A""ive,,ory Price 1886

Snop brins, new crown effects, all hond-
blocked in the kind of Felt hot thot will
give you service for long time to come.
Welt bound or raw edge finish.
Evening star., 1942-09-30

Yes, TWO trouser suits. Sturdy long
wearing worsteds, tailored for SERVICE
No more Of these can be manufactured.
Also inoreosing y scarce genuine British
worsteds in popular striped, Diagonal
potteens.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Further Transfers
Of Workers From
D. +. Recommended
Public Buildings Chief Also
Says $50, 600, 900 Housing
Fund Will Be inadequate

Commissioner of Public Build
ings w. E. Reynolds today told
the House Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee it is possible
to move $4,000 Government
workers out of Washington and
that he had recommended fur
ther decentralization of Federal
agencies that would take away
far more than the 1000 or 12,-
600 already slated to 60.
At the same time, he declared the
proposed $50,000,O00 appropriation
to relieve the acute housing short
age in the metropolitan area would
be inadequate to provide accommo-
dations for the steady influx of new
Federal war workers.
One Of the first witnesses before
the committee as it began hearings
on legislation aimed at providing
special funds for construction Of
vast housing projects and public
works in the District area, Mr.. Rey-
nolds bluntly declared:
"The present plans of decentrah-
zation provide for removal of 1000
or 1900 Federal workers. 1t is
possible to move additional people
from Washington and 1t should GER
tainly be done with dispatch. I
made such a recommendation re-
Gently before House Appropria-
tions Subcommittee"
Mr.. Reynolds pointed out that
(See HOUSING, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-01-29
By DANIEL DELUCE,

Associated fIeSS Wdr correspondent.
RANGOON, Burma, Jan. 29.-The
young man from Chipley, Ca, came
tumbling out of the blue Burma
sky-down, down, down at the rate
of 140 miles an hour.
Somewhere near him his bullet
slashed Tomahawk plane, fiat on
its back with the painted sharks
teeth on its belly grinning up at the
sun, spun to the earth like q crazy
top-nose over tail, sidewise, back
wards.
The Georgian kept falling. The
half-broken strap of his wrist watch
tapped annoyingly. He took it on
and put it in his pocket.
He remembered a passage in his
textbook which said a parachute
jump gave very little feeling of
dropping through space at a high
rate of speed.
Nuts" he thought, II can feel
myself falling now, and its ter
rife"
The revolving sky, the rice pad
dies, the clouds and patches Of
green jungle made . crazy quilt
Evening star., 1942-01-29
First Congressional Medal
Of War Given Boton Victim
' 1t. Ninineer Went
Into Foes Positions
Alone to Kill Snipers

The posthumous award of the
Congressional Medal of Honor to
Second 1t. Alexander r. Nininger,
jr., the first time this highest
United States decoration has been
authorized since the war started,
was announced today by the War
Department.
1t. Nininger, "a, an officer of the
57th Infantry. Philippine Scouts,
was killed in action January IL on
the Batan Peninsula. The citation
was for conspicuous gallantry and
intrepidity above and beyond the
call of duty.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur recon-
mended the award, reporting that
1t. Nininger, whose own company
was not in action. voluntarily at
tached himself to another outfit en-.
gagged in fierce fighting against Jap
anese snipers and sharpshooters
who, posted in fox holes" were
halting q counterattack In which the
Americans sought to regain lost po-
sitions.
With rifle and hand grenade 1t.
Nininger fought his way forward.
killing several enemy snipers and
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Australian Aircraft Hits
Japanese Ship at RabauI'
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, Australia. Jan. 20.
Australian aircraft scored a direct
hit on one japanese ship and prob
ably hit another despite bad visi-
bility in their third attack on
Rabaul, New Britain, since the island
port was occupied by the Japanese,
an r. A. A. F. communique said
today.
All the Australian planes returned
to their base.
Four Of the II japanese vessels
known to be at Rabaul were reported
previously to have been knocked out
Of action by damage from the Aus
tralian raiders.
Reconnaissance flights over the
Bismarck Archipelago, Of which New
Britain Is a part, were reported to
have disclosed no developments OF
major importance.
Formation of a special peoples
army, trained on the lines of Brit
aims home guard, for protection of
the commonwealth against invasion,
is to be discussed by Army Minister
Francis M. Forde and Maj. Gen.
Vernon Sturdee, chief Of the Aus
tralan general staf1.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
President May Make
Fireside Address
About February ~

President Roosevelt may
make another fireside radio ad-
dress to the Nation next month,
it was indicated at the White
House today.
Stephen T. Early, presidential
secretary, said there had been
many requests that the Chief
Executive make another Ma
tion-wide address on progress
of the war and in answer to
poisonous and troublesome
rumors."
Mr.. Early explained that the
President does not feel that a
formal address would be timely
right now but that it is prob
able he will plan such an ac-
counting about the time of
Washington's birthday, Febru-
ary 20. At that time, Mr.. Early
added, there may be some news
of importance to bring to the
Nation. 57 --...
Evening star., 1942-01-29
u S. Pilot, Forced to Bail Out in Burma Battle,
Takes Off Watch on Way Down at 14O MP.H.

around him. No matter how he
strained he couldn't manage to stay
upright, feet first toward the
ground.
When he finally pulled the rip
cord, for the first time in his life,
he guessed he'd fallen 10000 or H.
600 feet.
His chute opened and then, he
said later, II felt right in the
groove" One eye was surrounded
by q bruise from striking the buck
ing cockpit.
''Bailing out and falling so far
was so the Japs wouldn't have a
chance to take pot shots at me the
way they did at Chris (another
American pilot last week." said the
Georgian.
Gil and I had taken on seven
Japs at about 21,000 feet. I was on
a Jap's tail, firing, when my plane
Topped over, out of control, prob
ably from an attack by some one
I never saw.
Il pulled back the hatch to
change my Tommy's flying charac-
ter. but 1t was no good. I was ret.
ting quite . betting around.
Evening star., 1942-01-29

BY JOHN C. HENRY.
President Roosevelt summoned
j. Edgar Hoover, head of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
to the White House today for dis
cussion of steps to free American
counterespionage agents OF
time restrictions which
already have worked to the ad-
vantage OF enemy powers.
The President took this step as
legislation Tightening alien registra-
Hill for his approval. The measure
received congressional concurrence
yesterday after critical debate in
the House on compromise features
of the conference report.
In announcing the Hoover ap-
pointment today, White House Sec
retary Stephen T. Early said the
purpose was to consider ways and
means of broadening the limited
powers of the F. B. I. in counter
espionage operations, particularly
with regard to intercepting tele-
phone and telegraph messages.
"The Presidents feeling" Mr.
Early said, sis that the handouts
ought to be taken of the F. B. I.
and put somewhere else"
The President and the Justice De-
partment went on record some time
ago as favoring legislation to permit
wire tapping and the interception
of other messages when specifically
authorized by the Attorney General
but Congress has refused its ap-
proval on grounds of endangering
civil liberties. Mr.. Early predicted
new legislative efforts will be pressed
intensively as a result of the White
House conversations today. Under
existing law, intercepted messages
are inadmiSSable as evidence in
Federal courts.
In its report on the Japanese
American engagement at Pearl
Harbor, the Roberts Commission dis
closed that the Hawaiian Islands
prior to December 7 were teeming
with a network of japanese spies.
The most detailed and accurate
information on American defense
operations in that area was COL
lected by this espionage system and
transmitted to Toxic, principally
through ordinary commercial COM
rr1lIpico fiOp fo ciJifioc
The contents of these messages.
if they could have been learned,
might have furnished valuable in
formation" the Roberts report
stated. I'm view of the peaceful
relations with Japan and the con-
sequent restrictions on the activities
Of the investigating agencies they
were unable prior to December 7 to
obtain and examine messages trans
mitted through commercial chan
nels by the Japanese consul or by
persons acting for him"
Hampered by Laws.
The intelligence services OF both
the Army and Navy and the F. 3. I.
all were exercising co-ordinated
jurisdiction in Hawaii, but in the
face Of the specified restrictions
were prevented from any effective
counter-espionage.
Among other obstacles, the report
cited, was an expressed unwilling
(See ROOSEVELT Page A-80
Evening star., 1942-01-29

AFTER we'd dropped about 1000
feet I let 60 the safety buckle. AL
I knew after that was that the
planes tail went by me and I was
dropping like a rock.
1T was a lot more sensation than
they tell you in the textbooks.
zone plane came at me after the
chute opened. I thought sure it
was q Jap.
Then I got q good look and 1t
turned out to be Gil, just hanging
around to convoy me down.
II barely missed plopping into a
cattle water-hole. and Tommy
landed fiat on his belly about q
quarter of mile away.
THE native farmers were very
kind. One of them insisted on
squirting mouthfuls of water to wash
the blood OF my forehead. Others
stuffed my pockets full of crackers
to eat on the way back to town.
II got back 50 late the skipper
didn't have me down on the next
days flying schedule. That's how
you caught me loafing now he
said.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Senate Committee
Recommends Custer
OF LANCER as Unfit
Former North Dokoto
Governor Is Declared
Not Entitled to Seat
Ry the Associated Press.

The Senate Elections Commit
tee reported today that Senator
LANCER, Republican, of North
Dakota was not entitled to a
Senate seat because of "a
continuous, contemptuous and
shameful disregard for high con-
ceptS Of public duty"
"The respondent Ganger)," the
committee said, has not avoided,
and cannot avoid, the consequences
Of the acts of gross improperly,
lawlessness, shotgun law enforce
ment, jail breaking, violation of
oath as an attorney, rabble-rousing,
civil disobedience, breach Of the
peace, obstruction of the admin
istration of justice and tampering
with court officials. ="
Asserting that the integrity Of the
Senate was at stake, the committee
asked the chamber to deny member
ship to the former Governor Of
North Dakota, and recommended
that action be taken by a simple
majority VOCe.
Hearings Exceeded Year.
Filing Of the committee report
climaxed more than a year of in
vestigations and public hearings on
81 allegations made against Sena-
tor LANCER by a group of North Da-
kota petitioners.
Senator LANCER was seated with
out prejudice" January 8, 1941, and
continues to serve with all the rights
and privileges of q Senator pending
a final vote by the Senate. The
committee voted, IS to 3, against
LANCER December 18, and then be-
gan preparation Of its formal re-
port.
In it the committee told the Sen
ate that "the charge of moral
turpitude against respondent has
been proven beyond all reasonable
doubt."s
Senator LANCER, the report said,
(see LANCER, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1942-01-29

The lone negative ballot came
from James Maxton, Independent
Labor Party, whose two co-mem-
bers, Jack McGovern and Campbell
Stephen, acted as tellers and could
not vote. Twenty-four members,
mostly Laborites, abstained from
voting.
The presence of an A. E. F. on soil
of the United Kingdom-in North
ern acknowledgements the desire
of the United States that her ready
troops should establish battle con-
tact as soon as feasible, the Prime
Minister said.
Nom Committal on Singapore.
AS for the battle of Malaga on
the other side of the world, Mr..
Churchill held forth neither con-
viction that Singapore could be held
nor fear that 1t would be lost. He
said, however, that reinforcements
had been steadily arriving in the
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Americans and British
Bag Is More Planes
In Rangoon Fight
-Four More May Have Been
Destroyed; No Allied
Losses Reported
BY the Associated Press.

RANGOON, Burma. Jan. 29.-
Sharp shooting Yankee and Brit
ish combat pilots wiped out. a
Japanese fighter plane sweep
over the cloud-decked Rango0n
area this afternoon, destroying
at least 13 enemy planes, and
possibly four more, without a loss
in their own squadrons.
The smashing blow to the Japa-
nese added to the already glistening
fighting record of the American
volunteers and the British pilots
who yesterday knocked down 7 raid
ers and chased off 80 others at q
cost of but single plane whose
pilot bailed out unhurt.
Today's Army communique for the
Tenasserim front, east and south OF
Moulmein, said the situation in gen.
eral remained unchanged.
There has been some slight ac-
tivity to the south where our troops
have engaged small forces Of the
enemy" the communique said.
A. v. G. Get Most of Spoils.
The American-built (Curtiss)
Tomahawks of the American VOL
unteer Group bagged the major
share of the spoils. But two Hurri-
canes and one Buffalo fighter of the
R. A. F. did victory barrel-rolls over
the airdromes to show they had
done their blazing bit.
To onlookers from the ground the
far-flung battle consisted Of a dis
tant chatter of machine guns, bill
lowing puffs of anti-aircraft smoke
and the occasional smoky spiral of
a falling japanese plane.
Suddenly, out of a cloud bank
5000 feet up. appeared a Japanese
plane. 1t was weaving drunkenly,
its motor almost idling.
The pilot apparently intended to
repeat the performance of a wound
ed comrade who yesterday made a
suicide dive into a Tomahawk on
the runway.
At 400 feet the japanese crossed
the field, then hurtled down at a
parked Blenheim bomber. He missed
it by yards.
From the splintered remnants Of
the Japanese plane-No. 842-R. A..
F. medical orderlies removed the
pilots broken body.
Certainly had some pluck, that
chap" said an R. A. F. sergeant.
One of the Americans, Sandy"
from San Antonio, Tex, shot down
two planes and may have downed a
third in yesterdays fight.
A communique announcing the
appearance of the Japanese over the
(See BURMA, Page A-30
Evening star., 1942-01-29

past several weeks FOR defense of
that Pacific bulwark.
In closing the debate on the con-
duct of the war. Mr.. Churchill said
there were four important points
with which he wanted to deal.
The first was the arrival of United
States Army forces in Northern Ire
land, which, he said, Americans and
their leaders wished to see "in con-
tact with the enemy as close and
as soon as possible"
The second point was that the
presence of these troops "implants
greater freedom Of movement over
seas in theaters where we are
already engaged"
Third, the United States rein
forcements have afforded not only
latitude Of maneuver" to mature
and seasoned divisions of the Brit
(See CHIJRCHTTI, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Dr.. Ruiz Guinozu
Hurt in Crash of
| AirIiner at Rio
j. the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 29.-An
Argentine air liner carrying DR.. En-
rique Ruiz Guinazu, Foreign Minis
ter of Argentina, and other dele
gates home from the Rio de Janeiro
Pan-American Conference fell into
the sea today, but all aboard were
saved.
DR.. Ruiz Guinazu suffered a chest
injury. He was picked up by a
launch and taken to the Naval
School Hospital.
The accident occurred ut $50 am.
(7:30 am, z. 8. T) as the plane was
taking Oh from the Rio de Janeifo
Airport.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Enemy Infantry
Losses HEAVY,
Army Reports
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The War Department reported
today that headlong Japanese
infantry assaults on Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's lines in the
Batan Peninsula had been bro
ken up by American artillery fire
with heavy enemy losses.
In the Netherlands Indies, the de-
partment said in its morning COM
munique, third attack by heavy
American bombers on japanese
shipping in Macassar Straits de-
stroyed an enemy transport in
Balik Papan Harbor and set another
transport af1re. Two enemy fighting
planes were shot down and third
damaged, with all American planes
returning safely to their base.
This apparently was the same
action announced yesterday in a
United Nations communique from
Batavia.
The communique said that air
activity In Batan was limited to
reconnaissance.
Lull of Several Days.
For several days there had been
q comparative lull on the Batan
front in the Philippines. since Gen.
MacArthur's greatly outnumbered
forces hurled back an all-out at
tempt by the enemy to smother his
lines.
The fact that the Japanese con-
fined their air activity to recon-
naissance flights in the fighting re-
ported today indicates they may
have failed to bring in sufficient
reinforcements of bombers to re-
peat the costly raids on the Cor
regidor fortress and Gen. Mac
Arthur's front-line positions.
Up to January 16 officials of the
War Department had estimated q
total of 124 Japanese warplanes shot
down in the Philippines by Amer
lean airmen and anti-aircraft bat
teries.
Reports today gave no indication
of further landings of japanese
reinforcements in Subic Bay,
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Axis Reports Entry
Into Pot Of Bengasi
In Libyan Advance
Continuous Action Against
British in Sundstorms
Announced by Rome
By the Associated Press.


ROME From Italian Broad
casts, Jan. 29.-The Italian
high command announced in a
special bulletin that German and
Italian troops this morning en-
tered Bengasi, chief port and
capital of Crenaica.
(The same announcement was
made in Berlin)
The entry Of the Axis columns
was made at dawn, the bulletin
said.
(Today's British communique
admitted Axis forces were clos
ing in on the city, which now
has changed hands four times in
Is months, from the east and
south)
Earlier the high commands reg
ular communique reported fighting
between British and Axis patrols
in desert sandstorms in the west
ern Cirenaica area.
Surprise Thrust.
0cSpNle udiluICdpS Oh Illc StOIulS,
German and Italian air forces were
said to have carried out continuous
actions against British supply lines
in the battle instituted last week
with surprise thrust eventually ex-
tended northeastward $50 miles by
the armored units Of German Gen.
Erwin Rommel.
Attacks of Axis air forces against
Malta continued" the high COM
mand said, "and military objectives
were bombed"
A British air raid on Tripoli, capt.
tai of Libya and major base of Axis
military operations, was acknowl-
edged.
Slight Damage Reported.
There was slight damage and
several persons we're injured" the
communique said.
One British plane was reported
shot down in an air fight.
A British reconnaissance plane
crashed into the Ionian Sea near
Catanzaro, on the sole Of the italian
boot, and the pilot was captured by
a detail of anti-parachute troops,
the high command said.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Axis Shifts Direction
OF Drive in Libyo

CAIRO, Jan. 20 R.-Gen. Erwin
Rommel's Libyan counteroffensive
has veered sharply to the west and
northwest and driven to within 16
miles of the British-held port of
Bengasi, the British command an
nounced today.
The sudden change in direction
Evening star., 1942-01-29
laps Report Relentless
Hommering of British

TOXIC From japanese Broad
casts, Jan. 20 R.-Japanese forces
advancing on the western coastal
strip of the Malay Peninsula ham,
mered relentlessly throughout yes
terday at British mechanical units
lSee MAIAVA Paoe A-iol