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Japs' Drive Is Stalled,
And Possibly Broken,
In Northern Burma
British Forces Bolstered
By Crack Chinese and
Fresh Indian Troops
Br th* AuodsUd fiw.
RANGOON, Burma, Feb. 9.—
Crack Chinese fighters and fresh
Indian troops today bolstered the
British on the Salween River
front, where Japan’s drive toward
Rangoon and China’s last gate
way to the sea was stalled in
Northern Burma and,* possibly,
broken.
The “reasoned optimism” which
Oen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, the
United .Nations’ generalissimo in the
Southwest Pacific, voiced after his
Just-disclosed second visit to the
Burma front was reflected even more
forcibly by Lt. Oen. T. J. Hutton,
the British commander in Burma.
With the Japanese still stationary
a week after capturing Moulmeln
and falling repeatedly to get an
effective foothold across the Sal
ween or cripple Rangoon as a base
by air attack, Gen. Hutton declared:
“We are in a far sounder posi
tion to call a halt to the Japanese
than before."
Reviewed Situation.
Gen. Wavell flew from hia Java
headquarters In the Netherlands
Indies to talk with officer* and men
on the Moulmein front within ear
shot of enemy cannon and reviewed
the whole situation In Southeast
Asia with Gen. Hutton.
Much weight was attached to the
presence of large Chinese forces
fighting alongside Britain's lm
perials In Burma.
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, until
recently Britain’s Ambassador at
Chungking, speaking over the Cal
cutta radio, predicted a "big push"
by American, British tnd Chinese
troops. His reference to American
forces was not explained.
Ma], Gen. Lancelot Dennis, head
of the British military mission In
Chungking, said "large contingents”
of Chinese troops which reached
Burma weeks ago “are now playing
an important part in the defense
of the country” and "their numbers
have recently been increased and
are being increased."
Except for some patrol activity
near Japanese-held Paan, on the
east bank of the Salween about 30
miles north of Moulmein, where
the British thwarted some attempted
Japanese crossings, most of the week
end activity was in the air.
Rangoon Bombed 3 Hours.
In before-dawn bomber assaults
for the fourth successive day on
Rangoon yesterday, the Japanese
sent waves of planes over Burma’s
chief port for three hours at 15
mlnute intervals, but an R. A. F
communique reported only sUght
material damage.
(A Toklo broadcast said Jap
anese planes sank two ships
docked at Martaban, across the
wide mouth of the Salween from
Moulmein, set fire to military in
stallations there and attacked
trains and British troops to the
north.)
Maj. Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman
Bmith, Governor of Burma, acknowl
edged Rangoon’s vulnerability to air
attack, but he declared there was
no Immediate threat to this city
from the Salween front and that
government offices would remain
here.
Three Japanese spies have been
eaught and shot by police, British
military headquarters announced
last night.
Extensive Rangoon Raids
Reported by Tokio
(The following dispatch was sent by
an enemy country whose motive in re
leasing news is-likely to be propaganda.
Axis claims should be credited only
whan confirmed by American or Allied
toureei>
TOKIO (from Japanese broad
tasts). Feb. 9 (£»).—Japanese bomb
ing planes carried out extensive
raids on the Rangoon airfield early
today as well as on military objec
tives at Martaban at the mouth of
the Salween River, Domei dispatches
reported.
More than 50 planes were de
stroyed in raids over Sumatra Feb
ruary 7, additional dispatches said,
when Japanese bomber and fighter
formations attacked "in complete
defiance of the N. E. I. airforce” at
Pelembang and Pakanbaroe.
"Winging their way over the sea
toward Pelembang,” Domei aore
spondents said, "Japanese raiders
shot down four out of six Blenheims
which attempted to intercept them
over Berhala Island, 125 miles south
of Singapore.
"Japanese aircraft then brought
down 15 Hurricanes, 2 Lockheed*
and 6 Blenheims over Pelembang
after which they dove down on the
airfield destroying 16 Hurricanes,
' Blenheims and Lockheeds on the
ground.
"Concentrating their bombs on 14
other planes on the ground, the
raiders set fire to at least six other
planes. Meanwhile, another Jap
anese squadron which swooped down
on Pakanbaroe the same day de
stroyed one Lockheed and two
Blenheims by machine-gun fire.”
Domei, Japanese news agency, re
ported today from the Burma war
front that Japanese warplanes had
bombed and wiped out a large Brit
ish force retreating along the west
bank of the Salween River, north of
Moulmeln.
Domei In a dispatch from an
undisclosed base reported that Jap
anese Navy planes sank "a large
type enemy vessel” yesterday In
Gasper Strait, between Bangka
Island and Billiton Island off South
east Sumatra.
The Tokio newspaper Mlyako an
nounced It was beginning a drive
for funds to purchase and trans
port Japanese cherry trees to be
planted around memorials to Jap
anese war dead in newly occupied
southern territories.
Fraternity Initiates 3
Mew members of the Alpha Chi
Bigma chemical fraternity initiated
Saturday at the University of Mary
land are Dr. Leason H. Adams, di
rector of the geophysical laboratory
of the Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington; Dr. Ferdinand O. Brick -
wedde, cryogenic laboratory chief at
the National Bureau of Standards,
and Dr. Irl C. Schoonover, research
assistant at the bureau.
ESCAPES GUNFIRE—Delbert Richardsdn, 34, points to a hole
in the seat of his plane made by one of a volley of shots fired as
he circled near a restricted defense area in Alton, 111. Beverly
Ann Keith, 15, and Delbert Henson were passengers. The latter
was critically injured. The plane was hit seven times.
A. P. Wirephoto.
3 Americans and Jap
Plead Innocent to
Alien Agent Charge
Four Accused of Acting
As U. S. Propagandists
For Tokio Government
!
Pleas of innocent were entered by
three Americans and a Japanese
alien at their arraignment today
before Justice T. Alan Goldsboro ugh
In District Court on charges of con
spiracy to violate the Foreign Agents
Registration Act.
The defendants are Ralph Town
send of Lake Geneva, Wls., former
editor and contributor to Scribner’s
Commentator; David Warren Ry
der and Frederick Vincent Williams,
San Francisco publicity men, and
Tsutomu Obana, former secretary of
the Japanese Chamber of Commerce
in San Francisco, who has been in
a detention camp.
Representing Mr. Ryder as coun
sel was Joseph A. Cantrel, who said
that Elisha Hanson, attorney for
the American Newspaper Publishers’
Association, would be an associate
counsel. Samuel Beach represented
Mr. Williams, while Mr. Townsend
had no counsel. Attorney William
A. Porter told Justice Goldsborough
he had been requested by San Fran
cisco attorneys to obtain counsel for
Mr. Obana. /
The three Americans are at lib
erty on $5,000 bond.
The Government charges that the
four defendants distributed propa
ganda In this country on behalf of
Japan. They are accused of work
ing in connection with Japanese
Committee on Trade and Informa
tion, with headquarters in San
Francisco. This committee was the
agent of the Japanese consulate
general in San Francisco and re
ceived more than $170,000 from the
consulate, it is charged.
Representing the Government are
Special Assistants to the Attorney
General Albert E. Arent and Arthur
B. Caldwell.
Food
(Continued From First Page.)
Ing to the thousands of Polish civ
ilians who arrived in Iran from Rus
sia in dire plight.
There are about 200,000 other
Polish civilians in Southern Russia
and negotiations are under way with
Moscow to get relief to them. Many
of them, it was reported, had to sell
their clothing to get food.
U. S. Weighs Vichy Reply
On Aid Reaching Axis
An explanation from Vichy of re
ports that French aid is reaching
Axis forces in Africa in various
forms was under consideration by
the United States today.
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles said at a press conference
that a reply had been received from
Vichy to an official inquiry made by
this Government on the basis of
published reports that the Axis
African campaign was receiving
effective assistance from the French.
He said, however, that he could
not discuss the matter any further
beyond saying that it was under
consideration.
British Destroyer Sunk
LONDON, Feb. 9 (A5).—The de
stroyer Matabele has been sunk,
the Admiralty announced last night.
The 1,870-ton Matabele carried a
normal complement of 190 and cost
about $1,800,000.
Ingalls
(Continued From First Page.)
pare this country for the new order
of Adolf Hitler.”
He said she was constantly In
touch with Hans Thomsen, former
German charge d'affaires in this
country; Fritz Wiedemann, former
German consul in San Francisco
and intimate of Hitler; Fritz Wagner
and his wife, Bemhardine Wagner,
minor attaches of the German Em
bassy here.
Intermediary Named.
Often Miss Ingalls visited with
the Wagners here, the prosecutor
charged. Miss Julia Kraus of 2829
S street S.E. often acted as inter
mediary between Miss Ingalls and
officials of the German government,
he said, and Miss Ingalls sometimes
stayed at Miss Kraus’ apartment
in Washington and through her re
ceived money from the embassy.
"During the time she was receiv
ing money, she was malting speeches
under the auspices of various organ
izations throughout the country,”
said Mr. Andrews. “She would talk
on whatever issue the organization
was interested in, interspersing her
speeches with quotations from ‘Mein
Kampf’ and otherwise spreading
German propaganda.”
Selection of the jury for the trial
before Justice James W. Morris con
sumed the morning session. Both
Mr. Andrews and Defense Counsel
James Reilly questioned prospective
jurors closely on possible connec
tion with isolationist or anti-isola
tionls organizations. Several jurors
disqualified themselves with the ad
mission that they were "prejudiced”
against Axis powers.
Mines Bureau Urges Use
Of U. S. Manganese Ores
By the Associated Press.
Secretary of Interior Ickes an
nounced yesterday that the Bureau
of Mines had proposed a $38,000,000
program to utilize the low-grade,
domestic manganese for America's
war-time steel industry.
The Nation normally imports from
Southern Asia, Brazilian and Cuban
ports more than 90 per cent of its
manganese requirements, officials
said, adding that they feared a re
duction in shipping might result
in a deficiency in 1943 without ad
ditional processing of domestic ores.
Pointing out that approximately
11,500„000 tons of domestic ores
could be produced annually, the
bureau proposed that either pri
vate industry or the Government
immediately build 12 plants in
eight Western ahd Midwestern
States to apply newly-discbvered
processes for utilizing the domestic
output. All of the plants, the bureau
told Mr. Ickes, could be in opera
tion at the end of the year, and
many at the end of nine months.
Capf. Carlos Grevemberg
Is Buried in Arlington
Capt. Carlos E. Grevemberg, 52,
of Rose Hill, Port Tobacco, Md., who
died at Emergency Hospital Friday,
was buried today in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery, following mass at
10 a.m. at St. Matthew s Cathedral.
Capt. Grevemberg was stricken
with a heart attack Friday while in
a store in La Plata and was brought
to the hospital here.
He was an Army engineer in the
First World War. Some years ago he
acquired Rose Hill, ancestral home
of Dr. Gustavus Brown, one of the
physicians who attended George
Washington in his last illness. Capt.
Grevemberg carefully restored the
estate.
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Bullets Cripple Plane
Near Defense Plant;
Passenger Wounded
Girl, 15, and Pilot Also
Imperiled by Volley
In Illinois
B7 the Associated Press.
GRANITE CITY. 111.. Feb. 9.—A
burst of gunfire ended the first air
plane ride of Delbert Henson and
15-year-old Beverly Ann Keith,
leaving Mr. Henson critically
wounded.
He waq given several blood trans
fusions.
The plane was flying near the
restricted defense area at Alton, HI.,
which houses the vast Western
Cartridge Co. plant.
Soldiers from Jefferson Barracks,
Mo., and company police patrol the
area. Lt. J. A. Vilhauer, in charge
of the Army guards, and company
officials refused to coment.
Investigation Ordered.
Army authorities at Jefferson
Barracks said merely that a report
of the shooting had been sent to
7th Corps Area headquarters at
Omaha and an Investigation would
be made there.
Delbert Richardson. Oranlte City
flying Instructor who was piloting
the plane, gave this account of the
Incident:
Mr. Henson and Miss Keith, tak
ing their first plane ride, asked him
to fly over the girl's home at Alton.
He refused because he feared lt was
too close to the restricted area.
He then turned the plane at an
altitude of 1,100 feet at a point he
believed was 8 or 10 miles from the
restricted sone.
As he banked, the first of seven
shots hit the ship. One pierced
Mr. Henson's hip and stomach. An
other penetrated the gasoline tank,
forcing Mr. Richardson to switch
to an emergency supply.
Flies Back to Airport.
Mr. Henson slumped against Miss
Keith groaning. Mr. Richardson,
fearing another salvo, decided
against an emergency landing
despite his passenger’s Injuries and
flew his crippled ship back to the
airport.
Seven of the bullets struck the
plane's under carriage, wings and
fuselage. One of them pierced the
pilot's chair, only an inch from Mr.
Richardson’s body.
Russia
(Continued From First Page.)
said the Rumanian captives fought
German prisoners. They com
plained that the Oerman com
manders had assured them of artil
lery and Oerman Infantry support
which did not materialise.
Detachment Kills 179.
On the Kalinin front northwest of
Moscow, a guerrilla detachment led
by a "grandfather" attached a Oer
man rearguard detachment, killing
179 officers and men, capturing five
anti-tank guns and other material.
The Soviets claimed they cap
tured an order of the day of the
290th Oerman Infantry regiment
which said:
“Lately a number of instances
have accurred showing a decline in
discipline and a lowering of morale
of the unit. During fighting, posi
tions are surrendered prematurely
without good reason. In addition,
arms are abandoned and wounded
are left behind. On march, men
singly and even in groups have been
leaving the marching column with
out permission, abandoning their
arms. Officers must put an end to
this situation by all means at their
disposal.”
The Russians were using Ameri
can-made planes against Oerman
battalions whose massed artillery
has lost its sting.
Operate in Various Areas.
The American-made planes were
said to be operating on various sec
tions of the long-snowbound front.
(The British radio, heard by
C. B. S., quoted a Russian broad
cast announcing the Red Army
had recaptured the town of Kras
nograd, 60 miles southwest of
Kharkov and an important Junc
tion of the Kharkov-Dnlepero
petrovsk and Odessa Railway.
This report Indicated another ad
vance for the Russians driving
westward in the Donets area
toward Dnieperopetrovsk.)
The assertion that the celebrated
Oerman artillery no longer was a
factor in the Donets and Ukraine
fighting came from Col. O. Nadysev,
who said the ammunition furnished
each battery had been cut down
until the mass fire which usually
preceded an infantry attack had
been eliminated.
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Broad Power Given
President Declared
Handicap to Detense
Agency Failure Seen
In American Council's
Survey of Emergency
Br the Associated Brest.
A study of “presidential powers
and national emergency” made pub
lic last night by the American Coun
cil on Public Affairs declared that
the concentration of powers in Pres
ident Roosevelt’s hands during the
defense emergency had handicapped
the Nation’s armament program.
The study found that although
“specific authority originally dele
gated to the President by Congress
has been sub-delegated to various
agencies, ultimate control resides in
the hands of the Commander In
Chief.
“His reluctance to relinquish au
thority and place more responsibility
upon his lieutenants.” it continued,
“resulted in such wide span of con
trol as to jeopardize efficiency of the
defense effort."
Year’s Research Made.
The study was made for the coun
cil, a private research organization,
by Dr. Albert Lee Sturm of the
University of Michigan faculty. Dr.
Sturm conducted a year’s research
here under a co-operative fellow
ship of Duke University and Brook
ings Institution.
‘‘Threats of economic disaster
during the early years of the Roose
velt administration prompted the
passage of legislation by Congress
vesting broad powers in the Presi
dent,” the study said.
"The outbreak of war In Europe
In 1939 resulted In the delegation of
additional powers to the executive
for the purpose of strengthening
national defense.
Greatest Power Granted.
"These grants, supplemented by
the constitutional authority and
previous delegations to the President.
place more power in the hands of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt than has
ever been possessed by any of his
predecessors in time of peace.”
Dr. Sturm distinguished between
what he termed “constitutional dic
tatorship” and the methods of con
temporary European dictators, but
held that "a long period of ab
solutism would tend to cause the
formation of new habits and render
restoration of constitutional gov
ernment more difficult.”
Thomas McKean Dies;
Author and Playwright
Br th« Associated Press.
VILLANOVA, Pa., Feb. 9.—Thom
as McKean, 73, socially prominent
author, playwright and descendant
of Thomas McKean, signer of the
Declaration of Independence, died
Saturday at his home.
One of Mr. McKean's plays, “The
Main Line,”- depicted suburban
Philadelphia society life. He also
wrote the novels, “The Vortex,”
“The Master of Influence,” "The
Mercy'of Fate” and "The Wife De
cides.”
Missing Persons
Those having information
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
with the Public Relations Squad
of the Police Department, Na
tional 4000.
Warren Webb, 9, 4 feet 4 inches,
90' pounds, blue eyes, blond hair,
scar over left eye, wearing blue and
gray lumberjacket, gray trousers
and black shoes, missing from S34
Eighth street N.E. since Saturday.
Edna Ashby, 15, 5 feet 2 inches,
135 pounds, hazel eyes, blond hair,
wearing brown shirt and shoes, red
sweater and blue coat. Missing from
707 Fifteenth street N.E. since Sat
urday.
Jackie Jones, 17. 5 feet 10 >4 inches,
135 pounds, black eyes and hair,
three-cornered scar on palm of right
hand, wearing green corduroy jac
ket, green wool trousers, grayish
green hat and dark tan shoes. He
is driving a 1939 Ford coupe, Mary
land tags 495-959. Missing from
Hyattsville since Saturday.
Marjorie Catherine Chamberlain,
17, 5 feet 3 Inches, 125 pounds, brown
eyes and hair. Missing from 500
Third street N.W. since yesterday.
Sarah James, 70, colored, 5 feet
4 inches. 125 pounds, gray hair,
wearing long coat, missing from S16
First street N.W. since Friday.
Robert Wilson, 14, colored, 6 feet
6 inches, 120 pounds, wearing leather
lumber Jacket plaid in front, green
trousers and gray cap, missing from
909 New Hampshire avenue NW.
since Saturday.
Annie Wallace, 30. colored, 5 feet
wearing black chinchilla coat
trimmed with white fur, black dress
and green hat, missing from 1221
Fourth street N.W. since Friday.
Raeder Reported Balked
In Seeking French Fleet
£9 the Associated PriM.
LONDON, Feb. 9.—Grand Admiral
Erich Raeder recently had a secret
three-hour Interview with Admiral
Darlan “in an attempt to gain lull
use of the French fleet” for Ger
many. but Admiral Darlan ‘‘re
iterated Petaln’s refusal,” the Dally
Mail reported in a dispatch from
its Madrid correspondent yesterday.
The meeting occurred in s »m»U
provincial French town while Ad
miral Raeder was Inspecting Ger
man bases on the coast, the cor
respondent said.
Former U. S. Employe .
Found Shot in Head
Suffering from a gunshot wound
In the right side of his head, Jacob
C. Eamhart, 60, of 323 Eleventh
street N£„ esrly today was taken to
Casualty Hospital where attendants
said his condition Is critical.
He was found by his wife, Lottie.
In the bedroom of his home about
7:30 o’clock this morning, according
to polloe, who said Mr. Eamhart
formerly was a guard at the Smith
sonian Institution and had been
suffering from a nervous breakdown.
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101st Enemy Plane
Credited to Americans
Fighting Over Burma
Wreckage of Bomber Hit
By Colorado Flyer Last
Week Is Found
By tht Associated Brass.
'RANGOON, Burma, Feb. 9.—The
American Volunteer Group — the
“flying tigers’’ of Burma's air de
fense*—was credited with It* 191st
confirmed victory over the Japanese
Air Force today with the discovery
of a wrecked bomber which Robert
Keaton of Manzanola, Colo., at
tacked February 3, but was not sure
he had even damaged.
Keaton, former Colorado College
fullback who left a naval bombing
patrol assignment at 8an Diego to
Join the volunteers, had been de
tailed to the ferry service in Burma
until he got the feel of the Toma
hawks which he had not piloted
previously.
Tried to Save Plane.
When the Japanese raided the up
country field, Keaton jumped into
the cockpit of a lone Tomahawk
to attempt to save It from destruc
tion. He took it aloft and cruised
for half an hour in a high altitude
without helmet or oxygen equip
ment. He felt himself losing con
sciousness and began to descend.
On the way down he saw the only
remaining Japanese bomber 2,000
feet below apparently engaged In
photographic reconnaissance. He
switched on his firing mechanism
and dived at the enemy with all
his guns shooting.
Texan Is Killed.
Bob Neale of Seattle took over
command of a squadron of the
A. V. G. today, succeeding R. J. San
dell of 8&n Antonio, Tex., who was
killed in an accident crash two days
ago.
Sandell was killed after chalking
up seven victories over the Japa
nese, five in two days. His Toma
hawk fighter plane had been dam
aged when a Japanese flyer com
mitted suicide by diving onto the
plane s tall more than a week ago.
It was parked on an airfield at
the time.
The plane had been repaired and
Sandell took it up for a test flight
when it crashed.
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Pacific War Council
Will Sit in London,
Curtin Declares
Australia Considering
Strengthening of
Representation Here
LONDON, Feb. 9.—The Ex
change Telegraph Agency re
ported from Canbarra today that
Australian Prime Minister John
Curtin announced the establish
ment in London of a Pacific war
council.
Mr. Curtin said Sir Earle Page,
Australian representative In Lon
don. would be the dominion's mem
ber for the present.
Consideration is being given, he
added, to strengthening Australian
representation In Washington to
provide an adequate link with the
combined Chiefs of Staff Committee
functioning there.
Informed sources in London were
puzzled by the meaning of Mr.
Curtin’s announcement since there
had been no Information of the es
tablishment here of such a council.
In fact, it had been understood that
it would sit In Washington.
His statement that Sir Earl*
would represent Australia tempo
rarily was taken as an indication
that he might be referring to con
ferences of the British war cabinet.
Mr. Curtin said the establishment
of the council in London had been
agreed to because of the urgency
of the Allied position in the Pacific.
“I am gratified to learn that air.
Churchill has adopted a more ap
propriate title suggested by the Aus
tralian government,” he added, “and
to receive the assurance from Mr.
Churchill that It will deal not only
with the A. B. D. A. area but with
the whole Pacific situation.”
Ulster Prime Minister
Conferring in London
By the Associated Press.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland. Feb.
9.—Just a month after his visit to
London to arrange for the landing
of United States troops in Northern
Ireland, Prime Minister John Miller
Andrews is again in the British
capital conferring with members of
the British government.
Details were not disclosed.
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