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The general was leaving for his new headquarters at an undisclosed place. He said he was deeply sensible of the honor done him and that he was conscious “of the grave responsibility resting in me after the treacherous attack by Japan which has given them the initial advantages.”
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‘ We can’t expect to reverse our position with a single blow. Our position is parallel to that which existed in the middle east for Great Britain after the collapse of France. We will hold on to what we have until the time comes and the forces are collected for a return blow.”
He said the combined allied strength “cannot fail in the long run to oust the Japanese freebooters from the places they temporarily seized.”
Plane Delivery Reveals Gain
FARMINGDALE, N. Y., Jan. 4.—
(U.P)—Deliveries of combat planes to the army by Republic Aviation corporation in the last quarter of 1941 increased more than 700 per cent over the first quarter, company President Ralph S. Damon announced today.
Damon said the increase was characteristic of the rise of armament production throughout the nation in the past year, including production of $1,500,000,000 worth of military aircraft, a figure tripling 1940 production. He said Republic now is embarking on a program to bring about a production expansion in 1942 of similar proportions to the 1941 increase.
The company’s current products are the P-47 “Thunderbolt’’ and P-43 “Lancer." both army pursuit types, incorporating super-charged air-cooled engines.
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Eden Reports Moscow Trip
LONDON, Jan. 4.—(U.P)—Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, reporting on his trip to Moscow, said today that Russia now “has Germany’s measure,” and that the recent British-Russian talks “went further than any political or military discussion that has taken place between the two countries since the last war.”
He said the figures on Russian war production are now climbing again to an extent that astounded him, and that the output of British and American factories was being put to splendid use on the Russian battlefields.
Eden spoke on a British Broadcasting company program, giving a report to the nation on his conferences with Josef Stalin during the last half of December. He returned from Russia last week.
“The talks have convinced me that closer political collaboration between us could and would be realized,” he said. “There is a
Severe Cold Wave Sweeps Over Europe
VICHY, Jan. 4. —(C.E)—A cold wave sweeping from north Russia gripped entire central, west, and south Europe today, causing the winter’s coldest weather; snowfalls were abundant.
Spain reported 3.2 degrees Fahrenheit, the Italian Riviera 17.6 degrees and Hungary 22 degrees below zero.
The temperature has been 32 degrees or below for more than a week in France, reaching 11.2 degrees below zero in the Alps.
The cold wave has increased suffering, particularly in cities, where there is no coal and little focd.
contrast in the forms of government but I will never accept that this need divide us.”
The Soviet Union, he said, “is determined upon the utter defeat of Germany; so are we. The Soviet Union is determined to do all in its power to ensure that Germany cannot launch further wars upon the world; so are we.”
“Out1 of untold human suffering in the present war the Soviet Union wishes to gain a lasting peace for all people; so do we,” Eden said.
“For these common objectives we must work together to win the war and win the peace. With the experience of my Moscow talks fresh in mind, I am convinced we can do both.”
He began with a description of
Nippon's Bombers Do Little Damage in Rabaul Attack
MELBOURNE ( Australia, Jan. 4. —(UP)—Long range Japanese bombers struck twice today at the airdrome at Rabaul, former capital of Australian New Guinea, causing some casualties among natives but little damage, a Royal Australian air force communique announced.
(Rabaul is about 800 miles from the northern tip of Australia, and about the same distance from the Japanese-mandated Caroline islands which were bombed by Australian planes last week.)
The first attack was made about noon, the communique said. It was not sustained, and only a few bombs were reported. No Europeans were injured, although there were some native casualties.
how British warships took him to Murmansk, from where he traveled inland by rail. He said his talks “fell naturally into two parts.”
“In the first we dealt with the conduct of the war,” he said. “You won’t expect me to tell you a great deal about that. Events will speak for themselves, I hope.
“We talked over what must be done to prevent any German aggression in the future.. We talked over conditions of peace and the machinery for keeping it. Obviously, the Soviet government and ourselves alone could take jio final decision at our meetings.
“Intimate consultations with the governments of the dominions, with the United States and with our other allies will be necessary in the months ahead. We must move forward together but it will be all to the good that a start has been made in the discussion of these questions between ourselves and the Soviet government.”
Amando Alonso Offers Lectures
Dr. Amando Alonso, noted author and authority on Spanish literature, will be heard in a series of two public lectures tomorrow and Thursday at 4 p.m. in Bowne hall.
Sponsored by the Del Amo Foundation, the first lecture in Spanish will feature the “Latest Tendencies in Spanish-American Poetry,” with the second to be given in English on the subject of “The Evolution of Gaucho Poetry.”
Formerly a director in the University of Buenos Aires and professor of literature and philology at the University of Chicago, Dr. Alonso is an author of books on South American dialects.
He also was a member of the Centro de Estudios Historicos of Madrid and editor of the Revista de Filologia Hispanica. During the 50th anniversary celebration of the University of Chicago, Dr. Alonso was conferred with the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa as one of 35 frontiersmen in science and letters.
Russia’s Siberia Troops Withdraw, Say Italians
SAIGON, Indio-China, Jan. 4.— (Official broadcast recorded by U.P. in San Francisco) — Italian sources said today it would be impossible for Russia to make war on Japan now because all Red army forces have been withdrawn from Siberia.
The Japanese secretary of information here said:
"Relations between Japan und Russia have never been as cordial as they are at present'.”
Japanese sources claimed 700,000 tens of Anglo-American merchant shipping have been sunk by the Japanese off the American coast.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. —(U.E) — The United States has embarged on a vast and costly war “that cannot be won with spare change,” Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau said tonight in a radio appeal to American workers to buy defense bonds in huge quantities.
Morgenthau directed his appeal particularly to the 40,000,000 Americans who earn regular pay.
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“This is a people’s war,’ he said. “This is not a token war. It is not a two per cent war. It is not a war that can be won with spare change. Each of us will have to figure out the very most that we can set aside ; to buy defense bonds, for our own good and for our country’s good, as long as the wa? may last.” Morgenthau, citing “proof that the country remembers Pearl Harbor,” said that defense bonds sales in December produced more than $528,000,000, a record total and twice as much as the average for the previous seven months of oreparation for war.
BOND SALESINCREASF “We iust couldn’t print the bonds fast enough after Pearl Harbor,” he said. “In Honolulu while the smoke still darkened the sky the citizens of Hawaii replied to the bombs by buying bonds 10 times as fast as before.”
The bureau of engraving and printing has been placed on a 24-hour basis, he explained to keep up with the demands for bonds, but there must be more sales because in December the government spent about four times as much on its war effort as the total bond sales, or about $2,112,000,000.
U.S. Warplanes Aid RAF Post
RANGOON, Burma, Jan. 3 —
(delayed) — (UP) — American warplanes shattered a force of Japanese fighter planes attempting to raid a British Royal Air Force station in the Moulmein area, on the Gulf of Martaban, 100 miles east of here, this morning, destroying seven of them.
Three Japanese planes were shot down in battle near Moulmein, and the rest were chased back to their base in Thailand, more than 70 miles away, where four more were destroyed while trying to land, it was announced. The RAF station suffered no damage and no RAF planes were lost.
(American pilots have been helping protect the Burma road, but the dispatch did not say whether the American planes which took part in the Moulmein battle were piloted by Americans).
News of the arrival of Chinese troops in Burma has had an exhilarating effect on the population, which believes that an allied offensive will not be long delayed. The Burmese remain calm but their hatred for the Japanese is increasing.
Mediation Board Awards Pay Boost to Truck Drivers
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. —(Ui?) — The national defense mediation board, serving in the role of arbiter, tonight awarded increases of 10 cents an hour and four-tenths of a cent per mile to approximately 50,-000 “over-the-road” drivers in 12 midwestem states.
The board also approved a six-day vacation with pay and recommended that fair geographic and state differentials be established and maintained by agreement between management and labor.
The dispute came before the agency when the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL) and the central states employers negotiating committee agreed to submit their differences to arbitration.
The walkout would have affected a total of 225,000 employes of 800 trucking firms and would have tied up over-the-road transportation in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana,
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Economic Body Calls Contest for Students
A nationwide contest for a first prize of $1000, a second prize of $500 and eight preliminary Driz^s of $50 each has been announced b7 the American Economic foundation, 295 Madison Avenue, New York. All universities and colleges of liberal arts have been invited to participate and the final debate for the above prizes will be broadcast over the Blue network of the National Broadcasting company.
“Does Youth Have a Fair Opportunity Under our American System of Competitive Enterprise?” is The question for debate. The purpose of the contest is to encourage interest in and understanding of American economic institutions under which students must conduct their lives as citizens of our country, during and after the war. REPRESENTATIVES CHOSEN
Each participating college and university will, by competitive selection, choose as its representative an undergraduate student, man or woman, who is pimping a full-time course ii; liberal arts leading to tne bachelor's degree. F.ich student will then file a 5Q0-* ord brief with a panel of judges, who without knowledge of the writer will select the eight best affirmative briefs and the eight best negative briefs. To each of these 16 contestants the Foundation will award a cash prize of $50.
Four radio debates over local stations of the Blue network will then test the ability of the candidates before the microphone and will reduce the number to four affirmative and four negative speakers.
BRIEFS SUBMITTED
Full briefs from these eight contestants will then be submitted without identification to a fresh panel of judges who will select the finalists—two affirmative and two negative—for ihe general broadcast on May 10. The championship prizes of $100 and $500 will be awarded by judges cf national prominence, who will represent both the studio and the listening audience.
On Sunday from 3 to 4 pjn., EST, the foundation conducts a weekly radio forum over the Blue network. On May 10, the entire hour will be devoted to the final debate for the national championship. William F. P^lrc*:, chairman of the board of trustees of the foundation and formerly president of Kenyon college, will have general charge of contest.
L.A. Air Factories to Move, Say Japs
TOKYO, Jau. 4.—(Official Japanese broadcast recorded by U.P. listening post in San Francisco)— A Berlin dispatch said today President Roosevelt has ordered immediate removal of airplane factories from the Los Angeles area and Seattle to the east coast ‘’‘due to the widespread possibility of air raids along the Pacific coast.”
It - was announced four ships were damaged heavily in Hilo, Hawaii harbor when they were shelled by Japanese naval forces.
Reports from a Japanese air base said an American destroyer operating off the northeast coast of the Celebes sank an American submarine by mistake.
Japanese naval fliers, in reporting the incident, said they attacked the American destroyer while it was zig-zagging.
“Suddenly an American submarine surfaced. Without' ascertaining its identity, the destroyer released a torpedo which