Evening star., 1942-04-12
Japs Make Six Landings on Cebu>
But Pay Heavy Toll in Casualties;
u. s. Subs Sink Four More Vessels
Large Transport
And Destroyer
Among Victims
BY the Associated Press.

American submarines, prowl-
ing the Western Pacific, have
sunk four more Japanese vessels,
including a destroyer and a
large transport, the Navy an
nounced yesterday.
The other ships sent to the bot
tom were 7,000-ton merchant ves-
sci and a submarine chaser. In ad-
dition, hits we're scored on cruiser,
another large transport and 1000
ton freighter. The latter vessel a
communique said, possibly sank.
The communique covered opera
tions by two submarines. 1t said one
had sunk the merchant ship, the
sub chaser and hit the freighter.
Some operations of the other sub
marine had been reported in a COM
munique a week ago. Yesterdays
announcement. revising and en-
larging the earlier report. added the
transports, the destroyer ard the
cruiser to its score, but withdrew
an earlier announcement that this
submarine had hit two seaplane
tenders. One of the transports, the
Navy said. was mistakenly identi-
fled earlier as two seaplane tenders.
Submarine Month Overdue.
Against these successes the Navy
reported that the submarine Perch
was month overdue and was pre-
sumed to be lost. She had been
operating in the Java Sea.
The Perch was the fourth SUBJ
marine and the 29th naval vessel to
go down. Her commanding officer
was 1t. Comdr. David A. Hurt. 38,
of Pounding Mill, town in South
west Virginia.
The Navy did not give the number
OF her personnel, but said the next
of kin had been notified. He nor
NAL crew was so.
Commissioned in 1896. the Perch
was built by the Electric Boat Co..
Groton, Conn. Her overall length
was 300 feet, six inches and her
beam Is feet inch. She displaced
1880 tons.
OF the so-called "P" type, the
Perch carried a 3-inch gun and
had six 21-inch torpedo tubes.
The submarine which bagged the
japanese destroyer announced in
yesterdays communique netted a
total of one cruiser, one destroyer
and one transport sunk and two
cruisers, transport, a supply ship
and an unidentified vessel damaged
in the course of a single patrol
in the southwest Pacific and the
Indian Ocean.
Sub on Single Patrol.
After referring to damage it had
reported week ago was inflicted
on the enemy by submarines, the
Navy said, ''it is now known that
all the results" except the dam
aging of one supply ship in waters
near Lombok Island were achieved
by one submarine on a single pa
troll"
The damage inflicted by that sub
marine was listed as follows:
"a. One light cruiser was sunk
in the vicinity of Christmas Island,
south of Java.
"B. One light cruiser was damaged
and is believed to have sunk and
a third cruiser was damaged in
the vicinity of Christmas Island.
&c. One large transport was dam
aged near Bali
ID. One supply ship was damaged
in waters near Lombok Island.
e. One destroyer and one large
transport were sunk in the vicinity
of Bali and an unidentified vessel
was damaged
Sunk One Light Cruiser.
In previous reports of the action,
the Navy had reported that in the
vicinity of Christmas Island sub
marines had sunk one light cruiser
and scored two direct hits on an
other light cruiser. New informa-
ton showed that at Christmas
Island the single submarine sank
one light cruiser and damaged two
others.
The original report also told of
one barge transport and one un-
identified ship damaged by one
torpedo hit each. The recapHula-
ton showed that in that phase of
the action near Bali one destroyer
and one large transport definitely
were sunk and an unidentified vessel
was damaged.
Comdr. Hurt of the Perch was
born August 4, 1908. He attended
the Tazewell High School and
Hampden-Sydney College before be-
ing appointed to the Naval Academy
by Senator Glass in 1921.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Constance Wickham Hurt; their two
sons, John, 7, and Thomas w. Hurt,
9, and by son by a former mar
riage, David, jr., is. His family left
Manila a year ago to live in An