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VOL. LII. No. 89 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1942 Z-323
PRICE FIVE CENTS
U. .
Fleet
Batters
Jap
Convoy
Off
Java
..
V
Yank
Vanguard Lands In
Ireland
33
Enemy Ships
Australians
Stop Fierce
JapAttacks,
Invaders Hurl More Men
Against Island Defense
Chain As 'Aussies' Hold
Civilians Removed
From War Areas
MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 26.
-(P)-Japan hurled more troops
against Australia's vast island de-
fense chain tonight as authorities re-
moved civilians from threatened cit-
ies and Prime Minister John Curtin
warned that "the enemy thunders at
our very gates."
Australian militiamen fighting in
the hills south of Japanese-occupied
Rabaul, capital of New Britain Island,
were reported to have repulsed 11
Japanese attacks in two days despite
their inexperience and numerical in-
feriority. Japanese forces there were
estimated to number at least 10,000.
New Ireland Attacked
Australian defense units also ap-
parently were in action on the neigh-
boring island of New Ireland in the
Bismarck Archipelago, 800 miles off
the mainland, and on Bougainville
in the Solomon group to the east.
The Japanese had landed at Kavieng
in New Ireland and at Kieta on Bou-
gainville.
Prime Minister Curtin told his peo-
ple in a nation-wide broadcast that
negotiations were under way to gain
a place for Australia on the Pacific
war staff of Gen. Sir Archibald P.
Wavell.
Tulagi Abandoned
Civilians abandoned Tulagi on
Florida Island, south of Bougainville
in the Solomons, and also Madang
and Lae on New Guinea which lies
400 miles west of New Britain. All
three cities have beenabombed inter-
mittently by the Japanese, and the
coastal town of Wewak, northwest of
Madang, was reported under Japa-
nese aerial attack today.
On the mainland, the cabinet or-
dered the immediate registration of
men up to 60 years old for both the
fighting ranks and industrial ranks.
The enrollment of women is expected
to follow shortly.
U.S. Is Declared
No"-~Bel1igere'tQ
At Rio Meeting
Welles Praises Americas'
For Passing Resolution
Calling For Axis Break
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 26.-(/P)-
Nations of the Western Hemisphere
-clared the United States and its
American allies non-belligerents to-
night, and claimed as their own peace
aims those of the United States as
expressed in the Atlantic Charter.
The stand, taken by the political
committee of the Pan-American Con-
ference, went further to state that
"specia'l facilities may be conceded to
those countries that in this emer-
gency contribute, in the judgment of
each government, to the defense in-
terests of this hemisphere."
This action and the earlier unani-
mously adopted resolution recom-
mending severance of relations with
the Axis prompted U. S. Undersecre-
tary of State Sumner Welles to de-
clare tonight that the conference
more than accomplished its objec-
tives.
"The most far-reaching and prac-
tical steps ever before agreed upon by
the American republics have been
taken for the preservation of the de-
fense and security of the Americas,"
he said in a CBS broadcast to the
United States.
Besides the United States, the re-
publics of Central America and the
Caribbean are at war with the Axis.-
Irish Cheers
Greet Arrival
Of New AEF
Troops Escorted By U.S.,
British Fleets; Sinclair
Extends Welcome
By RICE YAHNER
WITH THE AEF in Northern Ire-
land, Jan. 26.-MP)-Several thous-
ands of steel-helmeted Yanks-"all
pepped up and rarin' to go"-landed
here safely today as the vanguard of
United States troops dispatched to
Europe in the second World War.
Escorted safely by the U.S. and
British navies, their commander,
Maj.-Gen. Russell P. Hartle, '52,
stepped ashore to the strains of "The
Star Spangled Banner," and waves
of cheers from those lining the dock.
After the General came First Class
Private Milburn Henke, 22, of Hut-
chinson, Minn., whose German-born
father's parting words were: "Give
'em hell."
Most of the huskies were from the
Midwest, seasoned regulars and
drafted men. Women nurses also
were in the convoy, and the Navy
described the crossing as "a routine
operation."
The American troops marched
down the gangplank, formed ranks
under the stock-taking gaze of Bri-
tish, Irish and American officials.
Look Out, Hitler
"Your safe arrival marks annew
stage in the World War, and a
gloomy portent for Hitler," said. Sir
Archibald Sinclair, British Air Min-
ister, who welcomed them.
"Your welcome arrival here today
reveals part of one great plan to
smash the dictator powers wherever
they may be found.
"Its significance will not be lost
on General Tojo."
General Hartle said: "It's a pleas-
ure to be here."
There was no flamboyant welcome.
The secret apparently was well-kept,
and the curious who had gathered on
the docks appeared to sense the evi-
dent grimness of the stiff-lipped
doughboys who came down the gang-
plank.
The Atlantic crossing I made with
troops on a 20-year-old ship was un-
eventful, broken only by well-dis-
ciplined deck drills in case of sub-
marine attacks.
Tars Are Reassuring
"The Navy never lost a troopship,
you know," the old tars reassured
soldiers making their first sea trip.
No uneasiness was apparent among
the men throughout the voyage.
The Irish port suddenly loomed
out of the mist, and the soldiers
leaped to the rails. Few ragged
cheers could be heard from ashore,
and also the identical strains of
"God Save the King" and "America"
played by the Royal Ulster Rifles'
Band.
As our ship drew alongside the
dock this band switched to the "Star
Spangled Banner." The men silent-
ly awaited their turn to land. There
were few waves of the hands, orders
were snapped and the men landed in
the gray chill without much fan-
fare. That came later when the town
generally got word of the arrival.
Hoosiers Hand Wolverines
Year's Worst Defeat, 64-36
Zimmer, Denton Lead Indiana Quintet In Scoring;
Cartmill, Mandler, Antle Share Varsity Load
(Special to The Daily)
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 26.-
Two Hoosier 'hot shots' exploded all
over the court here tonight as a once
mediocre bunch of Indiana cagers
caught fire long enough to hand
Michigan's punchless Wolverines a
64-36 trimming, their worst of the
season.
Capt. Andy Zimmer and center Ed
Denton hit the hoop from all angles
as they garnered 31 points between
them and paced Indiana to a 23-15
halftime lead.
Capt. Bill Cartmill, Jim Mandler
and Buck Antle split 21 points be-
tween them to monopolize Wolverine
scoring while Mandler also turned
in some sterling play on the defensive
backboard.
Coach Bennie Oosterbaan's boys, as
may be gathered, looked like a dif-
ferent team than that which handed
Ohio State a licking Saturday night,
missing shot after shot from the field
and hanging on principally through
accuracy from the foul line.
The Hoosier coach, Branch Mc-
Cracken, used the superior height of
his green team to advantage at all
times, and their effectiveness on the
backboards was largely responsible
for the overwhelming score.
Michigan was never in the lead as
Zimmer and Denton started pumping
in shots from the opening tip-off,
and after halftime Hamilton and
Hoffman took over to lead the Hoos-
iers in a 42 point scoring barrage that
completely submerged the Wolverines
despite the defensive play of Doyle
and Gibert.
McCracken used 13 players in pil-
ing, it on, and ten of these hit the
basket at least once as the boys from
Bloomington could do no wrong. Den-
ton, who got 17 points to lead the
way, is the same junior who fought
off the after effects of an automo-
bile accident to win the center job on
this team from the hotbed of Amer-
ican basketball.
Oosterbaan's oft-revamped line-up
again failed to click either offensively
or defensively as time and again the
race-horse style of play developed and
used by the Hoosiers penetrated the
Michigan defense for deadly one-
handed shots.
The game was hard-fought and
rough as 28 fouls, were split equally
between the two squads. The only
player ejected from the game was
Hoffman, the Indiana substitute
guard whose work on the backboards
and under the basket was a thorn in
the side of the Maize and Blue most
of the evening.
The game marked Indiana's third
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'U' Orchestra
To Give Third
Concert Today
Thor Johnson To Conduct
Musicians In Mahler's
Symphony Number One
The University Symphony Orches-
tra under the direction of Thor John-
son of the School of Music faculty
will present its third concert of the
season at 4:15 p.m. today in Hill
Auditorium.
Featuring the Symphony No. 1 of
Gustav Mahler, the program will
also include the Serenata Notturna
by Wolfgang Mozart and "An Out-
door Overture" by the contempor-
ary American composer, Aaron Cop-
land.
While the principal work of the
afternoon is the Mahler symphony,
the Serenata Notturna will occupy a
place of no small importance as it
will be graced by the solo playing of
four members of the orchestra.
It is scored in the manner of the
concerto grosso, with two orches-
tras; one consisting of two solo vio-
lins, viola and string bass; the other
for regular strings and timpani. The
soloists will be Italo Frajola, first
violin; Thomas Wheatley, violin; Ed-
ward Ormond, viola and Clyde
Thompson, string bass.
Concerning the Serenata Notturna,
Jahn has remarked in his biography
of Mozart, "such admirable use is
made of the contrast and combina-
tion of the two orchestras, both of
the solo and tutti section and varied
sound effects . . . that the slight
work acquires a highly original col-
oring."
Thor Johnson, who is one of the
youngest conductors in the country,
also conducts the University Little
Symphony, and has appeared with
the Berkshire Center Symphony Or-
chestra, Tanglewood, Mass..
SunkDamaged
Aircraft Carrier Is Reported Torpedoed
As Major Sea Battle Continues
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
(Associated Press War Editor)
The greatest American victory at sea since Dewey sank the Spanish
fleet in Manila Bay 40-odd years ago still was being extended last night,
with the strong aid of the Dutch allies, against a Japanese invading fleet
in the Macassar Strait on the water approaches to Java in the Dutch
East Indies.
Already, it was the greatest defeat yet suffered in the Pacific war by
the Japanese enemy-a defeat more than over-balancing his slow, continued
progress down the Malayan Peninsula upon Singapore and the rising men-
ace of his incursions upon the outer islands of Australia's defense chain-
and it fell by coincidence on a day that saw the arrival in the British
Isles of a second American Expeditionary Force.
This force, thousands strong, landed in northern Ireland, without the
loss of a man, 24 years after "Tipperary" and "Over There," to cast a
lengthening Allied shadow against the Western European flank of the Axis.
A possible subsidiary effect of this landing was to show the De Valera
government of Eire that cession of naval bases to the Allies would bring
ample strength to defend them and Eire itself.
The still unfolding story of the battle of Macassar-which lies between
Borneo and Celebes and leads down to the head and center of the Allied
war effort and the site of supreme Allied headquarters on Java-disclosed
that scores of Japanese transports and warships had been sunk or damaged
by strong and coordinated American and Dutch naval action and that
uncounted thousands of enemy troops had been flung to death in the Strait.
By late in the day, at least 28 Japanese vessels were known to have
fallen victum to this heavy and concentrated Allied fire and all the avail-
able information had indicated in fact that the number was no less than 33.
Then, the U. S. Navy announced that in continuing action a Japanese
aircraft carrier was torpedoed and believed sunk by an American submarine
and that heavy hits had been scored by American forces on an unstated
number of additional enemy destroyers and transports.
All the circumstances-the extraordinary size of the Japanese invasion
train and the tremendous losses it already had suffered-clearly indicated
that this now broken maneuver was the enemy's strongest single thrust by
sea since he leapt upon the Philippines and Malaya.
Only in Malaya were the Japanese still winning, and here the victory
was small and hard bought.
The British command acknowledged that the Imperial left anchor at
Batu Pahat, some 60 miles above Singapore, had been broken and that the
defenders had been forced to fall back in that most vital of all Malayan
sectors.
On all other fronts-about Kluang, some 50 miles north of Singapore
at the center, and on the east side of the Peninsula along the Mersing River
-British troops were holding their ground.
Libya Force
Driven Back
By Rommel
Imperial Grip On Bengas
Now Seen Threatened
By Axis Counterattack
Retreat Continues
In Desert Fighting
CAIRO, Jan. 26. - (') - Counter-
driving Axis forces have shoved the
British back about 150 miles in four
days, it was acknowledged today, in
a drifting battle of tanks which has
not yet been fought to a decision but
is a growing threat to Bengasi.
German General Erwin Rommel's
armored columns already have over-
run Zouiet Msus, 40 miles northeast
of the Agedabia-Antelat-Saunnu tri-
angle, scene of heavy tank fighting
over the week-end, and reached a
point only about 70 miles southeast
of the British-held port of Bengasi.
The British thus have lost about
150 of the hard-earned desert miles
between there and El Agheila, the
limit of their westward push around
the Gulf of Sirte.
Situation Is Grave
No attempt was made here to mini-
mize the gravity of the sudden turn,
but neither was there any indication
of panic.
It was accepted that Axis forces
recently have been bolstered substan-
tially by overseas reinforcements. The
British, however, said at least a week
must pass before the first of new
tanks and troops landed at Tripoli
over the week-end from a battered
Axis convoy can reach the front.
(The Admiralty announced in Lon-
don today that British submarines
had picked off four more Axis ships
in the Mediterranean, sinking two
fully-laden tankers, a medium-sized
transport and a salvage vessel.)
Communiques from the front were
indefinite, but Rommel's forces evi-
dently had swept into territory east
of Bengasi, seizing roads and air-
dromes and, possibly, gasoline so re-
cently used for British raids.
Good Tank Terrain
The terrain presents an admirable
field for the Axis' plunging tank tac-
tics. The ground is flat and the
spaces so wide that tank traps easily
can be sidestepped.
Rommel's pace, however, has
slowed down since the first two days
and he is tangling now with the main
body of troops and tanks so that the
battlefield is spreading out on the
flanks almost as fast as it is moving
backward.
British sources declared the battle
could not develop much further with-
out a conclusion, but the possibility
of further withdrawals was indicated
by the fact that there is no suitable
defense area until well east of Ben-
gasi, where mountains limit the oper-
ations area and make it possible for
guns and tank traps to come into play
against Rommel's steel divisions.
League
loters
Of Wom en
To Discuss
Policy At Conclave
In an attempt to define what
America's foreign policy should be,
local chairmen of the Department of
Government and Foreign Policy of
the Michigan League of Women Vot-
ers will meet here today and tomor-
row.
The conference will get under way
at 1 p.m. today with registration and
a discussion of techniques, to be held
in the Rackham Building. Leader of
the discussion will be Mrs. Haskins,
state chairman of the Department
of Government and Foreign Policy.
Prof. J. K. Pollock of the political
science department will lead a panel
group in a discussion of "Our Out-
lying Possessions" at 6 p.m. today in
the League. The program tomorrow
will include individual conferences,
the presentation of a paper on world
organization and a question program.
A luncheon meeting at 12 a.m. will be
open to the public.
Allies Inflict New
Losses On Jap Convoys
BATAVIA, N. E. I., Jan. 26.-(,P)-
The Allied air and naval arms, falling7
with terrible power upon invading+
Japanese convoys in the Macassar
Strait, have exacted the highest price
yet paid by the enemy in a singe op-
eration since the Pacific war began.;
Dutch bombers and submarines
and American flying fortresses, cruis-
ers and destroyers by today had cer-
tainly sunk at least ten Japanese
transports and one destroyer and had
certainly damaged 17 other vessels,
including a warship, five cruisers, two
destroyers and nine transports, for
a minimum score of 28.
A recapitulation of communiques
coveringthis great running action
since Friday-an action defending
the water approaches to Java, the
keystone in the East Indies arch and
the site of headquarters of the su-
preme Allied command of the south-
west Pacific-indicated that at least
five additional enemy ships had gone
down, and possibly more.
So widespread was the action and
so tremendous the Allied successes
that it was yet impossible to tell the
whole story. Nor was it possible as
yet to estimate precisely the thous-
ands of Japanese lives lost.
The known successes were divided
to date at a ratio of about two for
American and Dutch bombers to one
for a dogged group of destroyers and
cruisers of the fleettof the American
admiral, Thomas Hart, the Allied sea
commander.
Incomplete accounts from the
headquarters of General Archibald
P. Wavell, the Allied commander-in-
chief, credited U. S. destroyers with
the known sinking of one enemy
transport and the probable sinking
of another in their initial foray:
jap Aircraft Carrier
Torpedoed By U.S. Sub
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-(R)-The
Navy reported today that an Ameri-
can submarine had torpedoed a Jap-
anese aircraft carrier in the contin-
uing battle with 'enemy convoys in
the Macassar Strait, western Pacific,
and that the aircraft carrier "is be-
lieved to have sunk."
The report did not specifically
identify the carrier as to type but of-
ficials here expressed belief that it
was one of the regular fleet carriers..
The navy also reported that heavy
hits on additional enemy destroyers
and transports had been delivered by
United States units in the battle of
the strait, which lies between the
islands of Borneo and Celebes on the
route to the Dutch East Indies.
"While it is still impossible to es-
timate total damage inflicted by our
combat vessels," the Navy communi-
que said, "the known results are sub-
stantial."
Further, the communique reported
that a second motor torpedo boat
raid into Subic Bay along the Japa-
nese-held shore of the Philippine Is-
lands, had resulted in the sinking of
a 5,000-ton enemy vessel.
Final Date Set
For Hopwoods
Freshman Entries Are Due
At 4 P.M._Wednesday
Freshmen planning to enter the
eleventh annual Hopwood contest are
requested to submit their manu-
scripts by 4 p.m. tomorrow, in Room
3227 Angell Hall.
Eligible contestants may enter
more than one division if desired.
Prizes will be given for the best cre-
ative work in the fields of poetry,
prose-narrative and essay, with "the
new, the unusual, and the radical'
given preference.
Names of the winners in this com-
petition will be announced in The
Daily early in the second semester.
Hostile Sub
R/
'Lightship Masquerade'
Spells Destruction For U. S. Ore boat
NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 26-(UP)- -Mas-
querading as a lightship to lure her
prey closer for the kill, are enemy
submarine shelled and torpedoed the
American ore carrier Venore off the
North Carolina coast earl, Saturday,
leaving the ship floating on her side
and 22 members of her 43 man crew
unaccounted for.
Allen Harte, able bodied seaman of1
Baltimore, Md., one of 21 survivors
brought ashore at Norfolk by a ves-
sel which picked them up after theyt
had drifted for 38 hours in a life-
boat, told newsmen that "those1
Boches are certainly smart . . . they
fooled us completely."
"I was in the crow's nest on watch
when we sighted a light," Harte re-
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circled us that time, didn't signal
with her lights as if she were a buoy.
She didn't fool us that time and
when the second torpedo struck us
we were ready for it as much as you
can be ready for such a thing."
Some of the survivors said they
saw the sea swamp a lifeboat carry-
ing 19 men and saw a third lifeboat
with two men in it but reported they
were unable to go to the aid of the
others because their own boat, with
21 aboard, was overloaded and ship-
ping water.
The Venore, which was carrying
22,000 tons of ore, was the tanker
Charles M. Black prior to her con-
version to an ore carrier. She was
loo was "cool as a cucumber." Other
crew members said the masters only
chance to have escaped was to have
launched a life raft on the deck.
R. L. Garrett, first assistant en-
gineer of Christian City, Fla., said
Duurloo ordered the men not to
launch the lifeboats while the ship
was running toward shore at full
speed. Some of the men, however,
became panic stricken, Garrett re-
lated, and lowered three boats, one
with 19 men aboard. This boat was
swamped as the ship moved ahead at
about 10 knots kicking up the sea,
Garrett added.
Garrett related that "when the
shell struck us we didn't know what
Superior Jap
Forces Take
Malayan City
SINGAPORE, Jan. 26.-(R)-The
valiant but weary defenders of Sing-
apore dropped back tonight along
the west Malayan coast, abandoning
the anchor city of Batu Pahat, but
on other fronts they staunchly stood
their ground against superior num-
bers of Japanese invaders.
The loss of Batu Pahat placed the
Japanese less than 60 miles from
the great British naval base, key-
stone of the defense of the entire
southwest Pacific. The British said
the town was lost after "severe fight-
ing."
On the east coast, the enemy was
quiet and the Imperials held their
lines on the south bank of the Mer-
sing River 65 miles from Singapore.
Perhaps the Japanese were awaiting
reinforcements, because the Royal Air
Force spotted a convoy of two mer-
chant ships, escorted by naval forces,
off Endau some 20 miles farther
north.
Furious fighting raged near Kluang
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Churchill Leadership
Faces First Challenge
LONDON, Jan. 26.-(R)-Prime
Minister Churchill tonight faced the
most serious challenge to his leader-