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Evening star., 1942-01-28
Indictment Charges
Nazis Pay Propaganda
Cost With War Loot
Federal jury in New York
Accuses Firm and Four
OfficiuIs of Plot
~ tht Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. %. The
German high command and their
agents in New York City were
accused in a Federal indictment
today of dumping plundered loot
and spoils Of war in United
States markets, the proceeds to
be used to finance propaganda
work in North and South
America.
A New York corporation, its pres
ident and three other individuals
were named In the conspiracy in
dictment.
Those indicted were the Pioneer
Import Corp; Werner Won GLENN,
its president. said by Federal agents
to be cousin of the wife Of Ger
man Foreign Minister Won Ribben-
trop; Carl Won GLENN, Werner's
twin brother. said by authorities to
be German emissary in Italy;
Ernest Cremer, manager of the Dia-
mond Control Once. a regulative
body established by the Nazis in the
Low Countries following their occu-
patton, and Carlos Hoepfner, Euro
pean vice president of Pioneer Corp.
and believed to be now in Germany
Named as co-conspirators, but not
as defendants, were persons con-
stituting the high command of the
German Army; members and paIt-
ners Of the International Mortgage
Handelsgellschaft G. M. B. H., Eu-
ropean purchasing agency for Pho
neer Corp, and persons consti-
tuting the Diamond Control Office
of the German Army in Antwerp"
The indictment said the alleged
spoils included millions of dollars
worth of diamonds seized in Bel
GUM and the Netherlands when
German troops occupied those
countries in the spring Of 1910.
Assistant United States Attorney
Bruno Schachner said Treasury De-
partment agents had in their pos
session 100000 worth Of diamonds
allegedly shipped from Germany to
the Pioneer Import Corp, and had
traced to the same corporation the
sale of an additional $50.000 worth
of diamonds from the same source.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Compulsory Payment Of Part
OfWuqes in War Bonds Seen

Treasury and congressional tax
experts now are studying potential
new tax sources. Capitol Hill has
heard some talk Of a possible Fed
eral tax on retail sales.
Turning to the postwar era, DR..
Hansen wrote:
I'VE shall have, when the war
is over. the technical equipment. the
trained and efficient labor. and the
natural resources required to pro-
duce a substantially higher real in
come for civilian needs than any
ever achieved before in our his
tory. Whether or not we shall. in
fact, achieve that level of income
will depend upon our intelligence
and capacity for cooperative ac-
ton"
Evening star., 1942-01-28


Charge Against Obana.
The indictment declared that
Obana,. the secretary Of the jap
anese Chamber Of Commerce, fled
a registration statement with the
State Department on behalf of the
Trade and Information Committee
which failed to state that the coiu-
mittee was getting money from the
Japanese consulate in San Fran
cisco.
The indictment was handed up tn
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough in
District Court this morning and the
Department of Justice lawyers i'm
mediately asked Justice Colds
borough to issue bench warrants for
the arrest OF the defendants still
in this country. The Government
is anxious to proceed against them
as quickly as possible, it was ex-
planned.
State Department records show
that Mr.. Townsend resigned from
the American foreign service in
February, 1888. after a years duty
in China. He Was appointed to the
foreign service December is. 1890,
serving first as vice consul at Mon
treal and being assigned to Foochow
China, January 8, 1882.
He was detailed temporarily to
Shanghai for a time, returning to
Foochow in April of 1882 He still
was assigned there when he re-
signed.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Hull Congratu|ates
Rio Conference for
Aid 10 Solidarity
Ministers Collaboration
To Safeguard Americas
Praised by Secretary

Secretary of State Hull today ex-
tended congratulations to the
Conference of American Foreign
Ministers at Rio de Janeiro for its
notable contribution" to the pro
gressive development of inter-
American cooperation and soli-
darity."
In a message to DR.. Oswaldc
Aranha, Brazilian Foreign Minister
who is presiding at the conference
Mr.. Hull expressed my profound
admiration for your leadership and
the outstanding craftsmanship OF
our colleagues"
The Rio de Janeiro meeting, the
Secretary said in his message, to
the Brazilian Foreign Minister,
climaxes a series of pan American
conferences in which the American
republics have collaborated to
make the Americas a secure and
impregnable stronghold of free and
hberty-loving nations"
The Secretary's message was in
reply to one from DR.. Aranha ex-
pressing regret that Mr.. Hull could
not attend the conference person.
ally and emphasizing that all the
Americas had demonstrated that
now, more than ever before, they
are disposed to transform into
reality the ideal Of American soli-
darity."
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Far East
Continued From First PageD

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least 36 the number of japanese
ships sunk or damaged in flve-day
battle.
The United Nations command in
Batavia said the American bombers
outgunned Japanese fighter planes
which tried to break up their at
tack.
The fighting power of the big
American planes was stressed in
the United Nations headquarters
communique, which said Japanese
fighter aircraft which attempted to
intercept our bombers were roughly
handled"
Two were shot down." the COM
munique reported, "and one was
damaged"
Macassar Strait. the roadway to
Java, headquarters of Gen. Sir
Archibald P. Wavell's United Ma
tions command, lies between Dutch
East Borneo and Celebes Island.
A Netherlands Indies commu-
nique acknowledged that the Japa-
nese had apparently occupied the
burned-out oil center of Balik Papan.
Invaders Lured Into Trap.
1t was apparent, however, that the
invaders had been lured into a
deadly trap, set by the Dutch more
than a week ago when they an
nounced that Balik Papan's great oil
fields had been destroyed and i'm
piled that land defenses had been
withdrawn.
In accepting the Invitation" the
Japanese armada unwarily sailed
into a hornets nest of Allied sub
marines, bombers and surface war
craft. No immediate estimate was
available on the loss of Japanese
lives, which presumably ran into
the thousands.
While the Dutch listed only 80
japanese troopships and warships
sunk or badly damaged. American
accounts put the f1ve-day toll at
36. including a battleship.
Dispatches from Batavia did not
disclose whether the battle in the
shark-infested strait still continued
after yesterdays smashing blows
by United States bombers.
Sumatra Coast Raided.
Japanese bombers made q heavy
raid today on Emmahaven, on the
west coast of Sumatra, setting fire
to two ships and damaging a third,
it was announced in Batavia.
Some casualties were announced
as a result of new attack in the
region of Ambon, on Amboina
Island between the Celebes and New
Guinea.
There has been no decrease in
enemy air activity" the Netherlands
Indies command said. Bombs
were dropped on several undefenoed
places. causing little material dam
age. Here and there in the south
east of Borneo bombs were dropped
and machine cunning took place.
Reporting no news from Balik
Papan, Borneo port on the Macassar
Strait, the Indies communique said
there Is reason to assume the jap
Evening star., 1942-01-28
By the Associated Press.


Compulsory part payment OF
salaries and wages in Defense
bonds, and even higher taxes.
were foreseen today by the Ma
tional Resources Planning Board
in an analysis of the trends of
war needs and postwar policy.
The board. Federal agency,
secuted any theory that a postwar
depression was inevitable.
With respect to the war period,
the agency, in a special pamphlet
prepared by Alvin H. Hansen, Har-
ward economics professor and spe-
cial adviser to the Federal Reserve
Board, said the following policies
were Indicated:
1. High corporate-income and ex-
cess profits taxes. 2. Sharply pro-
greSsive estate taxes. 3. Broadening
of individual income tax base to-
gether with steeply graduated sur
tax rates. 4. Sharp increase in ex-
else taxes on commodities compet-
ing with the war program 5. Part
payment of wages and salaries in
defense bonds. g. "Qualitative shift
in the components of consumption" ="
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Russians Reported
Battering 25O-kiIe
Nazi Defense Line
Recopture Of - More
Towns Is Claimed;
Rzhev in Danger

By the Associated Press.
RuSsia's armies, pressing their
great winter counteroffensive,
were reported surging forward
unchecked today on the threSh-
old of a 250-mile German de-
tense line northwest and south
west of Moscow.
Soviet dispatches reported the re-
capture Of 10 more towns and indi-
Gated that Adolf Hitler's retreat
ing invaders were falling back on a
double row defense system. a mile
and q half in depth, extending from
Velikie Luki to Vyazma to Bryansk.
Velikie Luki is only 80 miles from
the Latvian frontier.
Crimea Nearly Cleared, Nazis Say.
On the Crimean front a German
war bulletin asserted that Russian
reinforcements landed on the south
ern coast of the Black Sea penin-
sula had been beaten of and almost
completely wiped out In several
odNS IldI u
The Red Army newspaper Red
Star said assault troops were at the
approaches of important centers of
German resistance in that snow
smothered area and of these Rzhev,
a railroad center on the upper Volga
100 miles from the capital, is out
standing.
Rzhev was reported encircled after
Russian spearheads had driven to
the Dno-Velikie Luki area.
Naais Forces "Blockaded."
Soviet troops are blockading the
enemy with small forces and have
cut his communications" Red Star
said. THE bulk of the Red Army
troops are pursuing the retreating
Fascists, splitting them into iso-
lated groups and annihilating
them"
The British radio said the Rus
slams had blown up a hotel in which
$50 officers were billeted at Orel,
a railway city 200 miles south of
the capital which is reported to be
the objective of a land drive. The
Soviet Information Bureau said
Ukrainian guerrillas killed two Ger
man generals.
Nazis Prepare Berlin Defense.
Germany is building q series OF
defense lines on the eastern front
stretching all the way back to the
approaches to Berlin. Prof. Mikhail
Gavrilov declared yesterday in a
lecture before the Kuibyshev Com
munists' Club.
Gabrilov, a well-known party
spokesman, told his 500 listeners
that the Germans were creating one
line along the 1899 Russian-Polish
border, another along the previous
Russian-Polish frontier further east
and a third along the entire length
of the Oder River In Germany.
I'm the near future" he said, all
Soviet territory will again become
Russian"
Evening star., 1942-01-28

now under construction in Arlington
County.
Last November he was made as
sistant chief of staff of the Army
in charge Of supply for the War De-
partment general staff. e=.sgzes--ssrs,s
Other colonels nominated to be
brigadier generals today were:
James Arthur Code, jr: Roger Bald
win Cotton; Robert MCGOWAN Lit
tlejohn, Henry Spiese Aurand,
Hugh Chapman Minton. Alexander
Wilson, Paul Xavier English, Charles
Clark Hillman, Frederick William
Browne, Haig Shekerjian, Isaac
Spalding, Leven Cooper Allen, Ed
win Colyer Mcneil, Hugh John
Casey, Clinton Albert Pierce, Arnold
John Funk, William Frederic Mar
guat, Harold Huston George and
Carl Herndon Seals.
Lieutenant colonies nominated to
be colonies were; William Henry
Walmsley Youngs, Lee Stanley
Fountain. John Lloyd Schock and
Charles Walter Lewis.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Hitch-Hiking Sergeant
Given Lift by MurshoII
By the Associated Press.

BY tht Associated PreSS.
CAMP LEE. Va, Jan. 28.-Sergt.
Ray Myers. %, of the Camp Lee
quartermaster replacement center
headquarters company was walking
down Constitution avenue in Wash
ington after several unsuccessful ef-
forts to catch a ride with civilian
motorists yesterday afternoon. A
car bearing four stars on the license
plate drew up.
The occupant asked Sergt. Myers
where he was going. He replied,
Camp Lee" and was told to get in.
His host was Gen. George C.
Marshall. Chief of Staff.
He even let me sit in the back
seat with him." said Sergt Myers
/ He took me we'll on my way on
Route l. When I left the car, he
said he was sorry he couldn't take
me any farther
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Soviet Paper Laughs
At Jap Boasts of How
They Will Rule Asia
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Jan. 28.-Under
the headline "He Who Laughs
Last" the Communist Party
newspaper Pravda reported to-
day that Japanese journalists
are predicting the establishment
of a vast economic arc from
Australia to eastern Siberia
under Japanese control.
Since there is rigid censorship
in Japan, Pravda added. such
articles must be published with
the full knowledge of the au-
thorities.
I'VE consider it necessary to
warn them against this kind of
senseless writing" continued
the Communist paper, advising
the japanese writer's to learn
from the early boasting of the
German press over what the
Nazi army would do in Russia.
Evening star., 1942-01-28

anese have occupied the completely
destroyed and burned-out establish
ments."
Strong resistance was reported
against the invaders at Kendari, but
loss of communication with that
city was acknowledged.
A formation of seven japanese
bombers carried out nine attacks on
Emmahaven, the communique said.
Despite the damage to the ships, no
casualties were reported there.
Netherlands naval aircraft again
bombed the airdrome and storage
yards at Kuchipg, Sarawak," the
Indies command said.
1t gave no further details of the
operation against Kuching, jap
anese-occupied capital Of the white
Rajah" kingdom which makes up a
part of British Borneo.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
.vichy Rushes Food
To End Disorders
In South France
Demonstrations Assumed
Political Aspect, Soys
Interior Official
By the Associated Press

b the Associated Press.
VICHY, Unoccupied France,
Jan. %. Hundreds Of tons Of
foodstuffs have been rushed to
the departments Of Herauh and
Gard, in Southern France, to put
an end to food demonstrations
which have broken oat through
out that region, Raymond .Gri-
NAL, an official Of the Interior
Ministry, said today.
The demonstrations began about
mid-January In Montpelier, Sete.
Mines, Aries, Ales and Agde, result
ing in police measures such as
arrests and house-to-house searches,
NJ. Grimal disclosed.
Some of the demonstrations. he
asserted, have taken on q political
aspect" presumably have become
demonstrations against the Vichy
regime). In case of occurrences
order will be maintained ener-
getically," he declared.
Some of those arrested. as in Sete.
where dock workers went on strike,
were released the same day and the
demonstration continued.
M. Grimal announced that an ex-
ira meat ration had been granted
to each person In the two depart
ments OF the last two weeks in jan
uary, with an extra $50 grams t26
ounces of spaghetti and noodles
in special trouble spots and 500
grams Q71a ounces in the rest OF
the area.
M. Grimal warned of drastic meas
ures If certain disturbers try to
provoke new incidents" He attrib-
uted the food shortage to three fac
tors: The fact that the region is q
one-crop area dependent on i'm
ports. the sinking Of the steamship
La Moriciere which was bringing
food from North Africa. and the
cold wave which has hampered land
transportation.
Among the foodstuffs sent into the
two departments were 200 tons Of
potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes and
Swedish turnips from Limoges. and
tons more brought from Algeria.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Trailer Camp
Rent Posed
CousweN

Administrator Robert r. Cogs-
we'll, who has dealt with many
battling questions since the District
rent control law became effective,
was confronted with new problem
today-the matter of rents in an
automobile trailer camp.
A man called Mr.. Cogswell and
said his trailer was parked just out
side of Alexandria. The owner. he
said, wanted more rent for the spot
The administrator sighed with re-
lief and explained that his jurisdic-
ton extends only to the boundaries
of the District. He commented
later that the trailer camp problem
was new one to him and that he
had not decided whether or not the
law gives him authority to control
rents at camps in the District.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Seumen's Pay Protected

The Maritime War Emergency
Board announced yesterday that
seamen on American merchant
ships would receive their usual pay
while interned abroad or absent
from the United States because Of
loss OF their vessel through enemy
action. The decision is retroactive
to December and will remain in
effect until three months after the
end of the war.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Famine in Athens
Kills 1000 in Day;
Bread SIS a Loaf

By tie Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Jan. %.
Famine conditions in Greece
are so acute that 1000 persons
died In Athens alone in a single
day and bread sells for SIS a
loaf, the Journal de Geneve
reported today.
The paper quoted an anony-
NOUS letter dated December 9,
l94l, from a writer in Greece
as the source of its informa-
ton.
People of the streets all are
like skeletons and on every
corner people are lying down" )"
the letter said. THE winter is
especially intense and there is
no wood.
"Only the richest can afford
available food, with bread SELL
ing at SIS a loaf"
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Soldier Gets Ten Years
As Drinking Bout Slayer

BY the Associated Press.
CAMP ROBERTS, Calf, Jan.
28.-Master Sergt. Charles T. Lam
ham, 49, OF Martinsburg, w. Va,
was sentenced to 10 years in prison
yesterday by a court-martial which
convicted him Of manslaughter in
the shooting Of Sergt. Robert w.
Alexander during a drinking bout
December II.
Sergt. Alexander. ~. OF Mcdowell,
Va, came here with Sergt. Lanham
last October from Fort Monroe, Va
Evening star., 1942-01-28
F. B. !. to Hold Police
War Traffic School

The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton will open war traffic school
here February 9 for the instruction
of local police officers and members
of the auxiliary police in handling
traffic problems arising out of emer-
gency conditions.
The course, lasting six days. will
deal with conditions during black
outs, bombing raids. troop move
ments and other phases Of war.
The instruction will be given in
120 cities and will continue through
the first week in April.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Lily Pons' Fur Cout,
Valued at $4,000, Stolen

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Jan. 28.-Lily Pons.
opera star. reported to police that
her $4,000 mink coat was stolen
from her dressing room in Carnegie
Hall. where she gave concert last
night
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Churchill Assured
Of Confidence, but
Regime IsAccused- :
Government MisIed Motion
On Security in Pacific,
Commons Critics Charge
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 28.-The gov
ernment was accused today Of
misleading the country with
childish inconsistency" and un-
fulfilled promises of security in
the Pacific war area but, in al
most the same breath, Prime
Minister Churchill's critics in the
House Of Commons assured him
the vote of confidence that he
demands.
Starting the second day Of debate
over the governments war leader
ship. launched yesterday with the
Prime Minister'S accounting to
Parliament and the nation, Clement
r. Attlee, his lieutenant in the
House, formally proposed the vote of
confidence.
Some May Abstain.
Labor members decided by a large
Majority to support it. but there
were signs that some might abstain
and that few might even vote
against the government. Liberals
were reported also to have decided
to support him.
Any shred of doubt over the out
come was dispelled when Mr.
Churchill's own Conservative party
announced after a meeting this
afternoon that 1t supported him
overwhelmingly. The vote is ex-
pected tomorrow, at the end of the
three-day debate.
Sir John Wardlaw Milne, an in
f1uential Conservative who led the
critics attack, announced, neverthe.
less. that he also would vote con.
f1dence because an adverse vote
would be disaster" He accused the
Prime Minister of seeking the vote
primarily for the sake of his assailed
colleagues.
Reverses Pivots Of Attack.
As was foreseen, Britain's reverses
In the battle for Singapore and the
trend Of the war in North Africa
were two pivots Of the attack, anc
prospective United States help was
cited on the credit side of the gov
ernment's ledger.
I'VE are entitled to look to the
United States for naval control in
the Pacific Sir John declared. "and
I have no doubt that in the end
we shall not be disappointed.
1T would be valueless to discuss
Pearl Harbor. They, at least, had
the excuse that they weren't at war.
We were. and We were caught equally
mapping"
That the United States agreed at
a time when she was attacked by a
formidable enemy to pool her
resources and let them be sent where
they are most needed will stand
high among the great transactions
OF these days" said Henry Graham
White, Liberal.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Jops' Loss at Chonssho
Sc, ,944 Men, Chinese Soy

Bv the Associated Press. 49,
CHUNGKING. Jan. 2S-An OH
cial Chinese tabulation today placed
at 56,944 the japanese losses in dead
and prisoners in the invaders third
losing battle of Changsha.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Gen. Knudsen Confirmed
By the Associated Press.

By the Assocltted FreSs
The Senate confirmed late yes
terday the nomination OF William
S. Knudsen, former director Of the
o. P. NJ, as a lieutenant general In
charge of production and procure
ment for the Army.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
CharRe Axainst Obana,

a month, in cash-from the japanese
consulate. .s...-... ..-.......-.-.....
Evening star., 1942-01-28
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