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Evening star., 1942-02-21
Direct Bomb Hits Scored on
Other Enemy Vessels
In Java Sea Bottle
Hy TIE Associated Press.


BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies, Feb. 21-In Java sea
fight the first Allied naval offensive the
battle for the Indies United States and Dutch warshps
strongly supported by dive bombers and fighting planes
blew up Japanese cruiser and seriously damaged
other destroyers the Dutch and United
Nations commands declared today
indicated third cruiser might
hit reported direct heavy bomb hits unspc
fed number of other vesSes-probaby mostly transports
confirmation of report that Allied destroyer
after having been hit by torpedo.
(The War Department in Washington announced that
bomber wnging the fight off Ball. just
Java Japanese planes scored bomb
japanese and four transports Four
States planes lost)
developing guarded
Java battle potentially
th,nt he fpht for MacaSSar
Evening star., 1942-02-21
; Nazi Warships Reported
Headline Up Norway Coast
BY tie Associated Press.

BY tie Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 2l.-Three big
German warships, the 35,000-ton
battleship Tirpitz, the l0,000-ton
pocket battleship Admiral Scheer
and the 10,000-ton cruiser Admiral
Hipper. were reported today steam
ing northward along the Norwegian
coast apparently as part of plan
to cut American British supply
routes to Russia.
A Stockholm dispatch to the
Daily Express reported the move
ment of the ships toward Trond-
helm and said:
Their job is to keep British naval
forces tied up in the North Sea and
raid conveys on the Marmansk
route to Russia"
The battleships. Scharnhorst and
Gneisenau and the cruiser Prinz
Eugen, which recently escaped from
Brest to Helgoland, probably will
Join them as soon as they have
been repaired" the dispatch added.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Americans and Dutch Open Drive;
Cruiser Sunk Another Damaged;
U.S.. Dive Bombers Join in Attack
| Nozis Claim
| 30 Ships Sunk
|Off Americas
ny the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN From German broad
casts, Feb. 2l.-German submarines
have sunk II additional ships total
ing 100000 tons to boost shipping
destroyed of the American coast
to 80 ships registering 532 900 tons,
the high command declared today.
I'm continuation Of these opera
tions in the Caribbean Sea-" a spe-
cial communique asserted, "one of
our submarines forced its way into
Paria Gulf west of Trinidad and
sank two ships, one of which was
a tanker, in the roadstead Of the
British harbor of Port-of-Spain."
United States Army headquarters
at Port Spain announced yester-
day that two ships at anchorage in
the Gulf of Paria had been dam
aged Wednesday night by explosions
apparently caused by U-boat tor
pedoes, but both remained afloat
and there were no casualties"
This specific case suggests that
radioed clalms Of German U-boat
commanders have. on at least some
occasions, been too broad.
Evening star., 1942-02-21

Family living costs in Washington
are the highest in the country. ac-
cording to estimates of intercity dif-
ferences in living costs released by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics today
On the basis Of the estimated re-
quirements of a four-person manual
workers family, Washington tops
New York, the second most expen-
sive city, by approximately So on
yearly budget figures for mainte-
nance living. A worker with a wife
and two children to support needs
$1,63316 a year here as compared
with $1,628.15 in New York, the bu-
reau estimated.
The three other most expensive
cities on the list of SO are Chicago,
Detroit and San Francisco. The two
cities with the lowest living costs,
each less than $1,400, are Kansas
City and Mobile.
Rents were higher here than In
any other city, according to the
bureau. The housing item in the
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Rosenman Studies Merger
OF 10 Housing Agencies
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Consolidation of 16 Federal hous-
ing agencies under one supervisory
head was indicated in oflcial quar-
ters today as the aim of Judge Sam
uel I. Rosenman Of the New York
Supreme Court, who has been work
ing on q reorganization plan for
President Roosevelt for several
months.
A final decision on the proposed
merger was said ut the White House
today to hinge on the return to
work Of Brig. Gen. Philip Fleming,
Federal works administrator. who
has been Ill for months.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Draft Cases Reopened
On Shipyard Strikers
By the Assc ciated Press

BY the Associated PreSS,
MOBILE, Ala, Feb. 21.-Reopen-
ing of the cases of Mobile shipyard
workers who have been given mill
tary draft deferments for defense
jobs which they no longer are per-
forming has been ordered by Brig.
Gen. Ben C. Smith, Montgomery,
in charge of the Selective Services
System in Alabama.
Approximately 300 members of the
United Brotherhood of Welders,
Cutters and Helpers of America left
their jobs at the Gulf Shipbuilding
Corps plant at Chickasaw Monday
because of an inter- union dispute.
The welders met again yesterday
but took no action toward ending
their walkout, although it was
learned that the Mobile draft
boards were preparing to carry out
Gen. Smiths order. Figures were
not available on the number of Sc
lective Service eligibles affected by
the order.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Civilians Ordered
Evacuated From
Darwin Area
OffieioIs FIotIy Deny
Heavy Damage to Navy
Units in jap Roid
nv the Associated Press.


CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 81.
Evacuation Of civilians from
Darwin, Northern Australian
naval station which was bombed
by Japanese air raiders Thurs
day, was ordered today as mill
tary authorities clamped strict
control on all activities in the
area.
All women will be removed
from Darwin except nurses, an
announcement said.
Australian authorities, meanwhile,
issued a fiat denial of Japanese
claims that heavy damage had been
inflicted on Allied naval units in the
Darwin raid. They said, however,
that for military reasons detailed
statement of the damage actually
inflicted by the raiders could not be
made at present.
Prime Minister John Curtin said
the measures at Darwin did not
constitute martial law.
London has been bombed but
not conquered and Darwin has been
bombed but not conquered" he
said. Martial law was not declared
in either place"
Hospital Ship attack Charged.
Mr.. Curtin, denying . statement
by the Toxic radio that a hospital
ship at Darwin was not attacked
during the raid, said today the "hos-
pital ship was attacked and dam
aged and there were casualties"
1t was reported also that the jap
anese machine-gunned the Berrima
and Bagot hospitals at Darwin,
causing some causalties.
The Premier of Victoria issued an
order today that no lights be shown
at night on any building within lo
(see AUSTRALIA, Page A-l0)
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Uruguayan President
Disso|ves Congress
In Political Squabb|e
Elections Also Cancelled
In Blocking Opponent of
Pun-Americon Unity
BY the Associated Press.


MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 21.-Pres-
ident Alfredo Baldomir kept a
firm grip on the Uruguayan gov
ernment today in an interior po-
litical Squabble which resulted in
dissolution of Congress, cancella-
ton of scheduled national elec-
tions March 29 and placed an
army of 1900 men in control of
the country.
BY an unexpected executive de-
cree, he blocked Uruguay's leading
opponent of Pan-American co-op-
Grafton, Luis Alberto de Herrera,
from forcing his hand on techni-
cal voting dispute by which mem
bers Of De Herrera's opposition
party might hold cabinet posts and
at the same time combat the gov
ernment in congressional debates.
Senator De Herrera has long op-
posed President Baldomir's foreign
policy and has been an outspoken
critic of the administrations plan
to build naval and air bases from
United States funds.
Under President Baldomir's decree
today. police Immediately occupied
the Congressional Building and for
bade anyone to enter or leave. The
Offices of the National Electoral
Court also were occupied.
All Troop Leaves Cancelled.
Minister of War Gen. Julio Ro-
letti resigned at once, and Presi-
dent Baldomir assigned his duties
temporarily to Foreign Minister Al
berto GUAM.
Leaves of all the troops were
Cancelled and the army was placed
in readiness to maintain order as
the dispute between President Bal
domir's supporters and the minority
party led by Senator de Herrera
reached a critical stage.
Special guards were placed around
all public buildings and the Monte
video electric power plant.
The President summoned the
cabinet to meet later in the day to
decide on further precautionary
measures and it was expected he
would broadcast a message to the
(See. URUGUAY, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Chinese Defending Burma
Report Repu|se Of Japs
BY the Associated Press,

by the Associated RIeSS.
CHUNGKING, China. Feb. 21.-
Japanese troops attempting to cross
river west of ChiengSen, in the
northernmost tip of Thailand, were
reported today to have been hurled
back by Chinese soldiers in one of
their first defenses of Burma.
The Japenese thrust was aimed
at Mongyuen, which does not appear
on maps available here.
The Japanese have been marching
toward Chiengsen from Chiengmai
some l25 miles to the southwest and
the terminus of the railroad from
Bangkok.
British soldiers were reported
fighting on positions on the western
shores of the Bilin River in an area
some 80 miles northeast of Rangoon
and only so miles short of the Ran
goon-Mandalay railroad leg of the
Burma supply route to China.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Pair Who Forged Tickets
For Excursion Sentenced
BS the Associated Press

Bs the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21-Richard
Ganaday, rs. and Charles Brown,
26, convicted last December of forg-
ing tickets for a colored persons
excursion last summer which re-
suited in three persons being
trampled to death during a stam-
pede at a Hudson River pier. yes
terday were sentenced to two to
five years each in prison.
Police said the forged tickets were
responsible for the appearance of
hundreds of persons who strove to
board the boat with holders of
legitimate tickets. Forty were in
jured.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Prisoner, Sentenced,
Escapes Courtroom
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Feb. 21.-
Earl Blake, %, of Huntington, con-
victed of breaking and entering
bolted from the courtroom and es-
capped today after being sentenced to
l to 10 years in the State Peniten-
tiary.
Blake, following the sentence i'm
posed by Common Pleas Judge H
Clay Warth, had been seated in
prisoners row" near the judges
bench.
Suddenly he leaped over a railing
fed down a long hallway and after
making his way to the outside dis
appeared in an alley. Several dep
uties and a lawyer took up the
chase, but were outdistanced.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
President Puts
Jobs Transfers
On Need Basis
Orders Priority
Classification of
Federal Agencies

President Roosevelt today Is
sued an executive order designed
to speed the transfer of civilian
employees of the Federal Govern
ment from non-defense to de-
fense jobs.
The order contains two specific
directives: First, that there shall
be established a priority classifica-
ton Of Federal agencies in respect
to their relative importance to the
war program, and, second, that
competent employees shall be trans
ferred to the most important war
agencies.
Transfers Under Civil Service.
The order vests in the Bureau Of
the Budget the duty of determining
the priority ratings of agencies,
while the employe transfer task is
delegated to the Civil Service Com
mission.
Protection is ACCORDED employees In
the transfer process by a require
ment that their consent is to be OBJ
tanned before the shift is made.
Transferred employees are guaran-
teed Unemployment benefits similar
to those afforded employees who are
drafted into military services, name
ly, maintenance of seniority and pay
status.
When individual transfers are
proposed. the order states, they are
to become effective not later than
10 days after notification to the
agency in which the employe is serv-
ing. If such agency presents to the
Civil Service Commission evidence
that its work would be jeopardized
by loss of the affected employe, the
commission Is empowered to con-
slider such evidence and make a
final decision.
Plan to Speed Work.
In a statement accompanying the
order today, the White House said
that the action ''is designed to fur
ther the effort started a week ago
to speed up the transfer of en-
| ployes to war work. At that time,
the President addressed a letter to
the heads of all departments and
agencies, directing a survey of all
activities to determine those en-
ployes who could be promptly re-
leased to other agencies engaged in
more important war activities. It
was pointed out that the extension
Of hours Of work of Government
employees should make possible such
releases"
Probe of Funds Asked.
The accompanying statement also
| said that the President has requested
the Budget Bureau to conduct an
immediate special investigation of
personnel appropriations and other
ordinary departmental expenditures
with the view to segregating in a
reserve fund any amounts found not
presently essential to the conduct of
the Government.
| 1t was further stated that Civil
Service Commission figures show
that since May 81, 1941, there have
been 8,049 employees transferred from
other Federal agencies to the fol-
lowing agencies more directly related
to the war effort: War Department,
Navy Department, Maritime Com
mission, Office for Emergency Man
agement, Civil Aeronautics Author
ity. Office of Censorship. Co-ordina-
tor of Information and the Board OF
Economic Warfare.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Pennsylvania Wreck
Third in Three Duys
BY the Associated Press.


ALTOONA, Pa, Feb. 21.-The en-
gine of a 71-car eastbound freight
train plunged over an embankment
and several of its cars derailed near
here today in an odd accident, the
Pennsylvania Railroad reported.
One member of the freight train
crew was injured slightly. The ac-
cident occurred 315 miles from
famed Horseshoe Curve"
Railroad officials said light en-
gine, also proceeding east. derailed
and caromed against the other locos
motive, jolting the second engine
from the tracks over the embank-
ment.
1t was the third wreck in three
days on the railroads Western
Pennsylvania lines. The most Sc
rious occurred near Johnstown, Pa.
last Tuesday when four members Of
the train crews were killed in a
head-on collision of an express and
a freight train.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Food Goinq to Prisoners

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 81 (R.-
The American Red Cross plans to
deliver food and clothing within
three weeks to the 1900 American
soldiers and civilians held prisoner
by the Japanese, Vice Chairman
Richard r. Allen told a regional
meeting Of the organization yester-
day.
Mr.. Allen said the arrangements
are being made now with the Jap
anese authoritiss,
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Bonus for Veterans
Of This War Proposed
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated PresS.
LANSING, Mich, Feb. 21.-The
Michigan Legislature concluded its
second special session last night,
enacting a bill to liberalize unem-
ployment compensation benefits
during the industrial changeover to
war production.
The measure will become op-
erative February %. raising max
imum benefits from SIC to $40 a
week; maximum duration from 1S
to 20 weeks; minimum benefits from
ST a week to $40 and minimum
duration from weeks to IL. The
liberalization will expire May 81
1943, unless extended by future legis-
lation.
Efforts to write soldiers bonus
clause into the bill collapsed. The
Legislature adopted instead a reso-
luton creating a committee to study
means of providing bonus for
veterans of the second World War.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Northern Ireland Visit
By Roosevelt Suggested
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ire
land, Feb. 21.-Senator F. j. Sim
mons, Lord Mayor of Londonderry
suggested today that President
Roosevelt should visit the United
Kingdom and said Northern Ireland
would welcome such a visit. He re-
called that President Grant had be-
come q freeman Of Londonderry.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Film Houxes FOUGHT

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 81 (R.-what,
no more phoneys or hoaxes?
Some Hollywood publicity men
have organized as the Free Lance
Publicists to create a standard of
ethics and practices" Vic Shapiro
is president, and, of course, they'd
have to have a public relations
man. He's Bev Barnett.
Evening star., 1942-02-21

A Dutch cOmmunlQue said the
Allied striking force consisted OF
Netherlands cruisers and Meth
e>lands and United States de-
stroyers recently grouped under
the command of the Dutch Vice
Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich, a sub
marine expert and an exponent
of this very type of offensive
stab.
Among the enemy ships" sup
plement to the war report said,
there were also cruisers carrying
guns of six inches"
First Offensive Action.
The communique said it was the
first time Dutch cruisers engaged
In offensive action" adding that up
to now they have been busy all the
time with other duties"
United States and Dutch fighters,
bombers and dive bombers support
ed the attack and struck blows OF
their own at invasion transports
over a wide area from Bali on the
east to Bangka Strait of Sumatra
to the west.
Their part in the fight was re-
oorted by a United Nations COM
mand war bulletin which credited
them with sinking a large japanese
transport and scoring hits on num-
erous other transports ana war
ships.
It said that during one attack
on two japanese cruisers and two
destroyers, japanese Zero" tnavaD
fighter planes tried to protect their
warships. but were driven OIL.
Hit On Four Ships.
Several hits were reported scored
by dive bombers on four Japanese
ships, engaged in landing opera
tions near Denpasar," afrf1eld and
coastal town on Southeastern BAN.
Here, again, the United Nations
command said, japanese fighters
clashed with the allied planes. Three
japanese planes were shot down ana
communique reported.
The American and Dutch bombers
we're operating the length OF Java's
northern seafront, the communlque
disclosed.
It reported that in the Bangka
Strait a direct hit was scored on
one transport ship and direct hit
and near miss on the 5,000-ton mer-
chant vessel, Koapang.
Ranging over the Musi River,
where Japanese invasion forces won
their foothold on Sumatra, Allied
planes we're said to have scored two
direct hits on an 8,000-ton vessel, a
bomb hit squarely on the bridge OF a
5,OOO-ton ship, and several near
misses of another ship of 5000 tons
Warship Hit by Torpedo.
In the sea fight with japanese
cruisers and destroyers, the Dutch
reported that the japanese warship
which was sunk was in flames after
having been hit by torpedo, and
after an hour it blew up"
CThe Japanese acknowledged
the naval battle, telling of clash
between their naval units and
Dutch cruisers and destroyers
yesterday between Bali and
Lombok.
(Reporting on only one phase
of the action, the japanese
claimed that two of their de-
stroyers, finally supported by
cruisers, sank two Dutch destroy
ers with torpedo hits and badly
damaged third. Dutch cruisers
also were said to have been hit0
The Dutch communique declared
japanese bombers struck at air.
fields at both ends of Java, and
bombed the eastern town of Ban
joewangi, just across the narrow
(See INDIES, Page A-10)
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Labor's Opposition Viewed
As Spiking Boom for Bu||ift
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG. Pa. Feb. 21.-
Word that a projected boom for
William c. Bullitt for the Demo-
cratic gubernatorial nomination in
Pennsylvania had been virtually
spiked prompted an Il told you so"
attitude in State party circles today.
Goodness of organized labor and
premature disclosure of President
Roosevelt's partiality toward the
Ambassador were given in Wash
ington as cause of the development.
Earlier this week responsible per-
sons reported the President had
suggested Mr.. Bullitt as a compro-
mise candidate. Mr.. Bullitt COM
mented he was interested In his
present diplomatic work. but would
Aln if the President desired.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Furious Big Gun Duel
Hera|ds Resumption
Of Jap Bataan Drive
Manila Boy Forts Toreets
American Fire Unceosine.
Infantry Patrols Clash

American and japanese artil-
lery engaged in an unexpected
furious duel today in the Bataan
Peninsula, with hostile fire di-
rected on all Notifications of the
Manila Bay area, a War Depart
ment communique reported.
Infantry patrols were active dur
ing the past "a hours, resulting In
numerous sharp SkirmiSheS, and Jap
airplanes made frequent flights over
the American positions, again rain
ing incendiary bombs on troops
seeking shelter in their foxholes.
Todays intense fighting was in
marked contrast to the comparative
lull that existed earlier on the Ba-
taan front, which gave Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's weary troops breath
ing spell. -
Japs Pound From Cavite.
Jap batteries on the Cavite shore
pounded away during the day and
night at the bay fortresses, with
most of their fire concentrated on
Fort Frank.
The big 12-inch guns of Corregi-
dor and the three other American
forts kept up a continuous fire in
return in an effort to silence the
Japanese batteries.
No mention was made of damage
to the fortresses or to losses among
the troops in Gen. MacAtthur's
front lines. 1t was apparent, a
War Department spokesman said,
that the japanese were bent on
bringing additional pressure in an
effort to soften the lines before at
tempting a large-scale frontal at
tack.
Since the fall of Singapore, Gen
Masaharu Homma, in charge of the
Bataan campaign, has received ad-
ditional artillery, and these guns
have been brought up into position
behind the front lines facing the
American and Filipino forces. An in
tense artillery fire in which both
sides engaged characterized the ac-
ton along the lines which extend
some IS miles midway across the
Bataan Peninsula.
Dive Bombers Not Active.
There was no indication from the
communique that Japanese dive
bombers have returned to make raids
on Corregidor.
The communique also announced
attacks on japanese shipping OF the
coast of Bali, an action which had
been announced previously from the
Netherlands East Indies.
The War Department said yester-
day that new tactics and special
equipment for landing operations
have aided the japanese in their
tSee PHILIPPINES, Page A-1oJ
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Duke Of Aostu III

NAIROBI. Kenya Colony, Feb. 81
R.-The Duke of Aosta, former
Viceroy of Ethiopia, who surrender
ed to the British last May 10 at Am
ba Alaji with his troops after long
seige, is gravely Ill of tuberculosis
in . nursing home here, 1t was re-
ported today.
Evening star., 1942-02-21
Nozis to Seize Hostages
For Fleeing Norweqions
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. al
For every Norwegian fleeing to Brit
ain or allied nations, police in Ger
man-occupied Norway will arrest 10
persons and hold them as hostages,
it was announced officially today
in Oslo.
One hundred hostages were re-
ported already held.
Evening star., 1942-02-21

(See PHILIPPINES, Page A-1o)
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-18
o McKENNY ON BRIDGE

interesting defensive hand shown
today, which he played in a re-
cent rubber tournament.
Declarcr let the king of dia-
monds hold the first trick. East
led a trump. South then led a
club and East correctly let the
queen win. The diamond was led
to the ace and South ruffed out
his third diamond. Then he took
out trumps, discarding a spade
from dummy.
Next he led the other club.
When Perlstein, sitting West,
produced the ten instead Of the
ace, declarer duckcd and PERL
stein held the trick.
AT this point PerlStein led the
king of spades. He saw that if
he led low, or If declarer were
left to develop the spades. the
nine-spot illnesses would be the
normal play and would make the
contract. The best defensive
chance was for West TO lead the
king, as though he held the king
queen. The play worked. for the
dcClarer held off, and then he
was beaten,