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Evening star., 1942-01-22
Macarthur BATTLES 100000 Japs;
Critical Fight Rages in Malaga;
Enemy Fleet off Australian Isles
Hurricane Planes
Bolster English
Counterottuck

British jungle troops, Selling
the initiative for the first time
in the Malayan campaign, were
reported smashing at Japan's
main invasion armies in a full
scale counteroffenSive 10 miles
north of Singapore today while
reinforcements of 350-mile-an-
hour Hurricane fighters swung
into action over Singapore itself.
The newly arrived Hurricanes,
single seaters with the greatest fire.
power punch OF any plane Of It's
type. are equipped either with IL
machine guns or four light cannon
and machine guns.
Behind the lines, British flyers
claimed a heavy toll Of Japanese
transport columns north OF Parti
Bulong, destroying many vehicles
and machine-gun troops.
3O4 Killed In Singapore Raid.
Singapore itself, under almost in
cessant aerial assault, grimly counted
a toll Of 304 killed and 725 wounded
in yesterdays 100-plane Japanese
attack comparatively surprising
the worst raids on London at the
height of the blitz.
A communique said 625 wounded
were admitted to hospitals and 100
others treated at first-aid posts. But
the beleaguered island colony was
cheered by the arrival of the Hurri-
cane pursuit fighters, and when 80
Japanese warplanes roared over
Singapore again today r. A. F. flyers
were credited with shooting down
five bombers and damaging fighter.
Japanese raids have killed 59l and
injured more than 1000 in the past
two days.
The big land battles for Southern
Malaga were being fought near the
east and west coasts Of Johore. On
the east the British reported falling
back from Endau, IS miles from
Singapore, and ambushing the jap
anese advance somewhere north Of
Mersing, 20 miles down the coast.
On the west the main battle has
developed In the hills around Bukit
Payong, inland and 8 miles north
east Of Batu Pahat, which Is so
miles northwest OF Singapore.
The main force Of the imperial
troops was hurled against the Japa-
nese In q major test there, only
patrols diverting to engage appar-
entity lesser Japanese units reported
nfiltrating down the coast into the
Batu Pahat section at the British
flank.
Expected to Relieve Trapped Unit.
The drive was expected to relieve
Australian and Indian troops cut
OF farther north in the Muar River
region. Some small groups of these
soldiers already have fought their
way through the jungles and Jap
anese patrols to rejoin Their COM
rades.
Informants in London said the
Hurricanes put into the fight for
(See MALAYA. Page A-6D
Evening star., 1942-01-22
Spittoon Mat Order
For Army Cancelled,
Vondenberg Says
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The Senate heard today that
the Army will buy no rubber
spittoon mats after all.
Senator Vandenberg. Repub-
lican, Of Michigan told his COL
leagues that Immediately after
public attention was called to a
Quartermaster Corps invitation
for bids on 1000 rubber mats,
the invitation was Withdrawn.
The War Department" Sena-
tor Vandenberg said, has been
completely and commercially
responsive. No such purchases
will be made"
The incident. he said, illustrat-
ed the need for constant
vigilance in administration Of
the war program.
Evening star., 1942-01-22

The 44-hour week is to be estab-
lished generally in the Government
because of the war emergency, a
check disclosed today after the
Budget Bureau asked agencies pro-
posing to lengthen their working
hours to make the change effective
next Monday.
The bureau made this request 50
arrangements could be made with
transportation agencies to co-ordi-
nate the flow of traffic.
OF the 10 departments, only Post
Once and Labor have not decided
If the work week will be jumped
from the prevailing 39-hour sched-
ule.
Justice, Treasury, Agriculture ard
Interior Departments 60 on the
longer hours Monday. The State
Department week win be length
ened starting February 2. The Navy
and War Departments already ore
on q 40-hour basis. Commerce went
on . A-hor week Monday.
Evening star., 1942-01-22
| II. S. Fortress
Bombers Now
In Indies
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies,
Jan. 22.-Aneta, Netherlands news
agency, said today 1t was announced
officially in Batavia that United
States fortress bombers arrived re-
Gently In the Netherlands Indies and
now are based there.
Aneta said 1t was these planes
which sank Japanese cruiser and
set fire to a 10,000-ton tanker on
Monday 100 miles south Of the is
land of Jolo, in the Philippines
south of Mlndanao.
The bombing successes had been
announced previously in Washing
ton, the War Department communi-
que of Tuesday crediting them to
"six American Army bombers."
Reuters, British news agency, re-
corded q Batavia radio announce
ment that q fortress bomber had
sunk q Japanese tanker of about
10000 tons 100 miles south Of Jolo,
but this evidently was the same ac-
ton already announced by Wash
ington. y
Evening star., 1942-01-22
Reds 5urging Ahead
Al Exfremities Of
2.0O0-MiIe Front
: -.. rr' .rf
ArtiIIerymen Continuing
To BIust Reor Of Nozis
Retreotine From MozhoisI
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
While Red Army artillerymen
blasted at the rear Of a German
Army reeling back from Mo-
zhaisk on the old Napoleon road
from Moscow, dispatches from
the northern and southern wings
of the 2,000-mile front told of
the continuing, forward surge of
the Russian offensive.
The front reports to Moscow in
dicated that the Germans were ex-
hausting every ready resource in
man power in an effort to stabilize
the vast front.
Among prisoners taken in one
sector were soldiers just arrived
from France who said they came to
Smolensk by train and were carried
thence by plane to a point the Rus
slams identified as "R" to help the
Germans make a stand.
The Moscow newspaper Pravda
said that in the Volkhov sector of
the Leningrad front the Germans
were bringing in worn-out detach-
ments from other sectors in their
desperation.
n Villages Retaken.
Despite these efforts, the Red
Army drive on the Leningrad front
continued, with the Germans with
drawing from four villages In the
last three days under infantry pres
sure backed by deadly artillery ac-
tion. Southeast of Leningrad the
Germans were said to have been
elected from 27 villages in a single
day.
On the southwestern front, that is,
before Kharkov, the Russians ac-
knowledged that the foe had coun-
terattacked in some sectors, but
these thrusts were beaten back and
the Red Army rolled on. With Red
airmen cooperating. dispatches
said, 1000 Germans were killed in
single engagement on the south
western front.
Inc m1Qoay RUSSIAN cOmmunlQue
told of a southern front fight in
which l,400 German officers and
men were killed and said that on the
Mozhaisk front the pursuing Rus
slams captured II German field guns,
50 motor vehicles and Is motor
cycles.
Red Resurgence in Crimea.
Even in the Crimea, where the
German high command recently
has claimed the upper hand again,
a Soviet resurgence was indicated.
A DN.B. report quoted by the Rome
radio said German troops on the
Black Sea peninsula had repulsed an
attack Somewhat bigger than
usual"
The German high command re-
ported In Berlin that German forces
on the Crimean peninsula repulsed
Russian attempts to break through
the Nazi encirclement of Sevastopol,
main Russian naval base on the
Black Sea.
The high commands communique
(see RUSSIA, Page A-e0
Evening star., 1942-01-22
Two More Ships Sunk
Off Carolina; Navy
Rushes Sub Hunt
Attacks in Atlantic Lift
Toll to Six Vessels in
Jan. l4-l9 Period,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated ffeSS.
The Navy rushed its Atlantic
submarine hunt today with the
added responsibility of protecting
sea lanes of the entire hemi-
sphere, now united against the
Axis in a solid diplomatic front.
Announcement of the intention
of all American republics to break
of relations with the Axis powers
raised the possibility that the con-
siderable land and naval forces of
South and Central America would
be joined together to guard vital
hemisphere commerce against any
attack. ''.
New enemy submarine successe.
along the. Atlantic coast demon
strated the urgent need OF guarding
ships until q mass convoy plan coulc
be worked out. as TO-.
Two More Vessels Attacked.
The Nays disclosure yesterday
that the s2ss-soc steamer City of
Atlanta had been sunk and the
3T7s-tou Larvi2a cargo ship Gilt
vaira had been attacked and prob
ably sunk brought 20 SIX The list OF
submarine victims N The SIX days
from January "a through January
10. -Four Of the SIX ships were
known 70 have gone 70 she bottom.
and the total OF dead or missing
crewmen rose 70 IS.
Attacked OF the Carolina coast
Monday. the City Of Atlanta sank
so fast there was no time to launch
lifeboats. Later the same day, the
Ciltvaira. torpedoed amidships, was
abandoned by her crew in flooded
and sinking condition. Forty-six
seamen were missing in the two at
tacks, which were announced as
soon as the 80 survivors had reached
port.
The Navy was silent on details Of
the Atlantic hunt, and likewise had
no new announcements on progress
Of sea fighting in the Pacific theater.
Ship Toll Listed.
The list Of ships announced ofh-
cially as attacked of the Atlantic
coast In the January 14-l9 period
follows:
Norness, Panamanian tanker, g.
SIT tons. sunk January IA OF the
eastern tip Of Long Island; 2 dead.
Coimbra, tanker of allied nation
6,76S tons. sunk of Southampton
Long Island, January Is; no loss
Of life reported.
Allan Jackson. American tanker
6,635 tons, sunk of North Carolina
January Is; % Of 35-man crew be-
heved lost.
Malay. American tanker, S,207
(See SINKINGS, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-01-22
Florida Crush Kills
Naval Reserve Flyer
BY the Associated Press.

oy Vic hSSOCihteu EIcoS
MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 22-Lt. g. G)
Roy Windan Williams, 80, Naval Re-
serve flyer, was killed last night
when he crashed on a routine flight
from Opa Locka Naval Air Station.
The stations public relations Of
ficer, in announcing the crash today,
said board would investigate.
1t. Williams came here last August
from jackson Heights, N. Y, and
lived in Miami Shores with his wife
and infant son. His mother, Mrs. M.
Williams, lives at Lakeland, Fla.
The officer received his commission
at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in
1897 and later became a co-pilot for
Eastern Air Lines
Evening star., 1942-01-22
$1,000 Bond Is Set
In Tire Theft Case
Special Dispatch to The Star.


WAYNESBORO, Va, Jan. o.
Trial Justice w. Terrell Sheehan
yesterday set $1,000 as the bond
figure in the case of John Bronson
20, colored, being held in Waynes-
boro Jail on a charge of stealing
an automobile tire, tube and rim
from a parked car here January IA
In fixing the bond, Trial Justice
Sheehan commented that, although
the alleged act was a misdemeanor
under Virginia law, stealing of a
tire under our present rationing
plan, adopted to assist our Govern
ment in time sof war, is a serious
offense."
Evening star., 1942-01-22
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan.
22.-Rabaul, capital of New Brit
ain, reported today that II ships,
including warships, had been
sighted of neighboring Watom
Island, and Immediately follow
ing this report communications
with Rabaul ceased.
1t was presumed here that New
Britain Island had been evacuated
Evening star., 1942-01-22
J. D. CoIIett, II, Dies;
Was Head of Oil Firm

BY the Associated Press.
FORT WORTH, Tex, Jan. a.
j. D. Collett, 72, president of O'Keefe
and Collett Corp, and long active
in the oil industry, died today. He
had been i'll three years.
He had been a director Of the
American Petroleum Institute. In
1885 he was chairman of the Plan
ming and Coordination Committee.
authority for the petroleum code.
Evening star., 1942-01-22
Employees Get Bicycles

SALISBURY. Md, Jan. % (R.-
The Eastern Shore Public Service
Co. is issuing bicycles to some Of its
employees, saving its trucks and tires
for use where absolutely necessary.
About IS bicycles have been issued
to meter readers, collectors and
servicemen.
Evening star., 1942-01-22
Eleven Vessels Are Sighted
Near New Britain Island
Area Presumably Evacuated by Military
Forces, Fearing Nipponese Landing Attempt

segment of the Bismarck archi-
pelago.
New Britain lies east of British
New Guinea and is 300 miles north
east of the nearest point Of Australia
proper. that is, Cape York penin-
sula. Rabaul is 1850 nautical miles
from Sydney, on the southeast coast
Of the sub-continent.
Before Rabaul flashed the report
Of the approaching fleet, japanese
planes ra'dei the city, in a continu-
Evening star., 1942-01-22
Army Bohs Volunteers
From Key> Output Jobs

BY the Associated Press.
Volunteers Of draft age will no
longer be accepted by the Army
unless they can prove they do not
occupy Eey positions in war indus
tries.
Effective February /, War De-
partment officials said yesterday,
men 20-A viii have to present
written evidence that they are not
holding technical or key jobs in
war production before Army re-
cruiting. officers win permit their
enlistment. "a
Evening star., 1942-01-22
400 of Jap Garrison
Killed, Chinese Claim
nv the Associsted Press.

By the Associated Press.
Cr-UNGKING, China, Jan. 22.-
Some 400 men of Japanese garrison
Of 1000 besieged at Hwaiyang, on
the Eastern Honan front, were de-
clared in q Chinese communique
today to have been killed or wounded
in a vain attempt to break through
Chinese lines Monday.
Evening star., 1942-01-22
Venice ConuIs Frozen

LONDON, Jan. 70 (R.-The
canals of Venice are frozen over and
temperatures Of seven degrees above
zero, Fahrenheit, have been reported
In . cold wave In Northern Italy,
the Paris radio said today. quoting
Rome reports.
Evening star., 1942-01-22
O'DunieI to Run Aaoin

Senator O'Daniel, Democrat. Of
Texas, who came here six months
ago to serve out the unexpired
term of the late Morris Sheppard,
announ ced last night he would be
q candidate for reelection this year.
Evening star., 1942-01-22

by military forces in anticipation of
a prospective Japanese landing.
The last word from Rabaul came
at 4 pm. Il am, E. S. t..
If the implications of the Rabaul
message are fulfilled the Japanese
are in the process of their first inva-
sion of Australian territory. The
island of New Britain Is inundated
to Australia and Is an important
Evening star., 1942-01-22

The Stars afternoon and evening
circulation is more than double that
Of any other Washington newspaper.
It's total circulation In Washington
far exceeds that of any Of its contem-
poraries in the morning or on Sunday.
fn Mana AasneiaAad Rraaa
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
Allies Regard
Ldvd|'s Return
As World Crisis

LONDON. April Il tUP).-A
British official spokesman said to-
day that Pierre Laval's return TO
power at Viehy was grave news,
and Allied governments were on
the alert in the belief that France
was passing through a crisis of
world moment.
Disposition OF the French fleet,
the possibility that French North
African colonies might aid the
Germans in Libya, threat of a
Vichy attack on Free French Afri-
can territories. possible Japanese
bid for Madagascar, the French is
land off Southeast Africa, which
dominates an Allied Indian Ocean
supply route; the danger that
Vichy might concede Germany
submarine bases in its colonies and
the future of Vichy-United States
relations became urgent matters.
Germany had put Marshal Henri
Petain increasingly under pressure
TO m a X e up his mind at once
whether 10 cooperate fully with
the AXIS
AS part Of the pressure. German
forces in occupied France had re-
stunned execution of alleged ter
rorists and had threatened to shoot
innocent hostages unless men re-
Sponsible for sabotage and attacks
on German soldiers were caught.
Of immediate interest was the
Question whether Vichy would
break relations with the United
States.
Germany had' charged angrily
that Admiral William d. Leahy
American ambassador 10 Vichy.
was debating French policies anc
each time he and Petain conferred
there was an outburSt from Berlir
and German controlled Paris.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
Ebag'E
Still Boss
OF Fleet
ny United Pres.

There was on encouraging word
for the United Nations in the news
from Vichy, France. today-al-
though Pierre Laval, collabora-
zionist, and, even before the war,
admirer of Fascist methods, re-
turns 10 power in the Vichy gov
eminent, Admiral Jean Francois
Darlan retains control of the
French fleet.
Admiral Darlan also is a coliab-
orationist, but his political and
private commitments 10 an Axis
victory are slight compared tc
those Of Laval.
Moreover. he is naval career
man where Laval is a politician.
SAFE WITH DARLAN
Qualified observers felt that
neither Laval nor anyone else ir
the Vichy government could hanc
the French fleet over 10 the Axis
so long as Darlan remained de.
Tense minister. Darlsn is said Il
deSpise Laval
Laval has played sinister par'
in French politics for many years
Without any stable following
among the French public. he man.
aged by parliamentary division Il
become premier in 1881.
His regime was not long-livec
one. and. aside from his open adj
vocacy of French agreement
with Nazi Germany and his ad
miration of Fascist Italy, hi
remained in political obScurit,
until the spring Of 1910 when IN,
French armies were retirin
through northern France bef0r,
the German invaders.
The government of Premier Pau
Reynaud fled from Paris to Dor
deauX. In Bordeaux the cabine
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
LAVAL DENOUNCED

The reports from Vichy came
only few hours after Acting
Secretary Welles had denounced
Laval and his collaborationist fol-
lowers for their contemplate dis
regard for the high tradition of
liberty and freedom which has
made France great"
He accused that handful Of
Frenchmen" OF attempting Ito
prostitute their country TO that
very regime which is bent upon
nothing else than the permanent
enslavement OF France.
Welles' statement was made In
letter 10 Ambassador Henry.
Hayes, who last week protested
the appointment Of an American
consulate general AT Brazzaville
the Free French capital Of Equa-
torial Africa.
DE FACTO RELATIONS
The letter advised the Nichy
government that the United States
intended TO continue 10 maintain
or 10 enter into relations with
French citizens who arc in actual
control Of such territories. a"
whether they be representatives Of
Vichy or Of the Free French
movement.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
CLOSED BORDERS

Marshal Petain had been put
under terrific pressure for many
days 10 cast Vichy'S lot def
nitcly with Germany. London
reported that as part of the
pressure Germany had closed the
border between occupied and I'M
occupied France and that the
entire French border opposite
Switzerland, including Vichy
France. had been closed.
United Press Vichy dispatches
had been draStlcally censored.
One received from United Press
correspondent HcinZcn yeStCr-
day said
("While official hermeti G
silence Is still imposed here
censored -, the Paris press
blatantly pretends that France
censored faces decisive
hours in the opinion OF Petit
Parisien. . censored same
as the German official news
agency and the radios in Berlin.
Paris. Brussels and elsewhere In
occupied territories. But Off
cially silence here still prevents
me from informing American
public opinion censored"
tPPtain, sometimes with Oar
Ian present, had held a SCENES Of
secret conferences with Laval
during the last two weeks, the
latest Saturday,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
Tuesday. April IA. 1912

met 10 take the decision whether
10 flee 10 French Africa and stay
in the war with the French fleet
and the French colonies, or sue
for an armistice.
No person was more active be-
hind the scenes than Laval, and
in tho end his opinion prevailed.
Reynaud resigned. Marshal Henri
Philippe Petain became head Of
the government. and France ac-
cepted the German and Italian
armiStice terms.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
Windsor Mayor Promoted

Lieut.. David A. Croll, mayor OF
Windsor in 1910, was promoted II
captain and appointed TO the Ok
ford Rifles. the military district
headquarters at London, Ont, an
nounced TODAY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14

that the cabinet reorganization
marked a crisis in French policy
Of Importance 10 the entire
United Nations world
The ueStion Immediately
arose whether France would
sever relations with the United
States and turn over its formid-
able navy 10 Germany.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
Two PatroImen Promoted

Promotion Of Patrolmen Lloyd
NJ. Savoie and Lawrence VI. Cop
land 10 the rank Of ScrgcantS was
announced today by Police Com
missioner Frank u. Eaman.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
DE FACTo RELATIONS
Auto Victim Dies Of Injuries

Mrs. Rose HerbSt. "A. Of 9l8
East Jefferson avenue, died early
today in Receiving Hospital of in
juries suffered when she was hit
by an automobile near her home
last Sunday
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
Laval
Restored
To Power
Continued from Page one)

Continued from Page oBe)
fun makeup Of the new cabinet
would not be announced, until
Thursday.
As the cabinet change was
made. the official journal pub
lished a decree Suspending the
Rom war guilt trial which
Germany had bitterly denounced
because the former French lead
ers involved were accused OF los
ing the war, not Of starting n.
Laval dismissed Summanly as
vice premier Dec. IL. 1910, was
returned 10 even more power than
he had enjoyed , for five months
before. that as virtual co-dictator
with Marshal Petain. in charge
of foreign and internal affairs.
AS minister of interior he now
controls the French national
police. whose hold extends into
the smallest village of the Coun-
try
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
ACCORD IN DoUBT

The accord included FrCnc y
pledges not 10 exceed the terms
OF the German armiStice IN aiding
the Axis. In return. the United
States would resume shipment OF
needed commodities 10 French
Africa.
Diplomats here dared not specu-
late on the effect Lavals appoint
'ment 10 high office might have on
French relations with this country
Most Of them believed that It
meant closer French collaboration
with the Axis and represented the
beginning OF serious crisis in
French policy
The greatest concern here for
months has been the eventual dis
position of the French fleet
diplomats reflected that concern
here this morning when informed
Of The Vichy reports by asking
first
us there any indication that
the Axis will get the French
fleet"
But the Vichy reports did not
indicate any immediate change in
that situation. only that Admiral
jean Francois Darlan would re-
tain his post as national defense
minister.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
DEMANDED ACTION

For days before the change.
Germany and Paris collaboration
lists had intensified their pressure
on the government and had said
with steadily increasing sharp
ness that France must make up
its mind al once on full CO.
operation with Germany
They had demanded first OF all
a reorganization of the cabinet,
with Laval in power under Petain,
and they had intimatcd plainly
that the decision must be made at
once
There was every indication
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
j. 5. Relations
With Vichy Face
Test Over Laval
BY JOHN 4. REICHM Am
Initrd Press SIAN Correspondent

WASHING TON, April II
Well-inforned sources predicted
today that the Shake-up IN the
Vichy French cabinet. would lead
20 a complete reorganization Of
relations between the L nit d
States and France
These sources said that Pierre
LaNaHs- return to paAer- -Nice
premier OF Franco would force
Acting Secretary Of State Sumner
WelleS 10 ask French Ambassador
CASTOR Hcnry-Haye for fun eN-
PLANTATION Of the sudden changes
Welles also would be expected
"a demand additional guarantees
that the recent accord reached by
him and Henry-Haye would not he
tcopsrdized by the new cabinet