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1IM2 JAM'ARI FKIIIIUAIIY T. LOU1 STAIR TIM II 21 31 41 51 I 7 Editorial Section a a a 4 a i a i IX 12 13 i is i IB 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2B 27 73 23 30 31 MARCH 14Z 5 i a i a 10 11 11 11 14 IS 18 17 18 19 20 21 23 23 24 2ft 26 37 28 29 30 31 Today's Quotations: For sin shall not have dominion over yon: for ye are not under the law, but under grave. -Romans 6:14, I fear no foe with Thee at ha.id to bless; Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness. Henry Francis Lytc. 1 oiiornTf2TiTii 2iiai2sT2ir7Tia THIRTEEN ST.

LOUIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1942. 1 Living Costs Continue Former Monti fPt Library BPics 'Unbelievable Carelessness' In Defenses A5" Malay Dr. Bostwick Dies; Librarian For 28 Years Taken By Death At SI In Baptist Hospital; Had Been Refugees Assail British No Need To Worry, English Insisted To Rise In U. S. NEW YORK.

Feb. 13. (U. Living roMs of the avrroRe was" earner and lowrr-solarlrd clerical worker continued upward in January, largely because of rising food and; clothing prices, according" to the monthly report issued today by-the Division of Industrial Eoonom-T ics of the Conference Board. The: board's index in January was placed at 94.5 per cent of the 1923 average an increase of 1.4 per cent over, December, 9.9 per cent over tr January, 1941, level, and 12.5 per." cent higher than in the last pre-; war month, August, 1939.

white man out," tives. Keep the these signs read. Leaflets also were dropped, and they read: "We will be in Penang for your Christmas dinner." Retired Four Years ,1 VICTORY VALENTINE HEART 2.45 i-a un, iff JU 0 JrS. pi. sJS' 250 Sweet Violets wHh a Red Rose If cenfer, boaulifuily pacled in hesrt-sHeped bcx with a Victory warships Repulse and rrinre of Wales sail into the harbor, they believed that "nothing can happen to us now." When the destruction of those ships was announced, the people were stunned, Mrs.

Hanna said. Hard To Convince. "They couldn't believe it at first and some of them still can't believe it." she added. Women whose husbands remained at Singapore included Mrs. Dorothy Stevens of Akron, Ohio; Mrs.

Carleton Lester of San Francisco, and Mrs. Edward Gracie of Oakland, who brought back her 6-month-old son William. Mrs. Lester was advised on arrival that her husband had reached Australia. Also ir the group were Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Benson, educational missionaries for the Seventh Day Adventists, who worked in Japan for thirty-six years. They left last March because "we felt we weren't wanted any longer." Benson said that although many Americans in Japan felt that war was inevitable, it was "still hard to believe." 15 Selected RED ROSESO OC in a Bed of Golden Acacia tell the whole story, however, they asserted. Simpson said there was not a single anti-aircraft gun in Penang. He charged there was no attempt at camouflage and the red roofs of the fire houses "stood out like beacons," and acted as guides to Japanese bombers.

In the last ten years Simpson has made twenty-two trips to the Far East. He left Penang on December 16 when he heard the British were evacuating their nationals; Simpson telephoned the American consul, Robert Streeper, and was advised that the United States consulate had not been notified. Later, Simpson said, Streeper reported he was unable to learn officially of the evacuation, but apparently it was taking place. Seattle Woman In Group. Another member of the group was Mrs.

J. G. Hanna of Seattle, who left her husband, a dentist, in Singapore when she departed with their young daughter, Carol Ann. "When I left Singapore I had no more idea that Singapore would be taken than I have now that New York will be taken," she said. The first bombing of Singapore was on December 8, but the British took that with complacency, she said.

Mrs. Hanna quoted British residents as saying, "Don't worry, they'll never get down to Singapore." When the people saw the British NEW YORK, Feb. 13. (U. P.

If the British lose the war in the Far East it will be due to "pure and unbelievable carelessness," Elliott H. Simpson, an official of a crude rubber importing company, said today when he arrived with twenty-seven other American refugees from Pen-ang and Singapore. Simpson and others in the group of men, women and children first refugees to return from the Malay States were convinced that if Pen-ang had been defended by the British, Singapore never would have fallen. "I think the truth should be known and I am going to Washington to give them the whole picture as I saw it myself," Simpson said. "I don't know what we are going to do about it, but at least the American people should know what is going on there." Simpson was staying at the Crab Hotel in Penang when the war with Japan started.

Critical of Britain. The refugees were particularly critical of the British defense of the Malay Peninsula and their treatment of Americans. They all heard Cecil Brown, Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent, in his recent broadcast and they said they agreed with his criticism of British defensive preparations. He did not tell or was unable to Tcleqraph FLOWERS Coast to Coast GRIMM GORLYJJ: 712 WASHINGTON CE. Dr.

Arthur E. Bostwick, who retired in 1938 after twenty-eight years as librarian of St Louis Public Library, died in the Missouri Baptist Hospital today. He was 81 years old. Cause of death, the attending physician said, was a heart ailment. Dr.

Bostwick had been ill for approximately a year and a half, being away from his desk since October, 1341. Author, science editor and teacher. Dr. Bostwick served as associate librarian after retirement. Dr.

Bostwick went to China in 1325 as an "intellectual ambassador" at the invitation of the Chinese Association for Advancement of Education. Four years later, he attended the International Librarians Conference in Italy. Dr. Bostwick was born at Litchfield. March 8.

1860. He received his A. B. degree from Yale University in 1881 and his PhX. in physics in 1883.

when he became an instructor and proctor. For the next two years he taught in the Montclair, N. high school, then was sent to the staff of Apple- THE "NEWEST OF THE NEW British Left War Goods. I Dr. Arthur E.

Bostwick. Writer On U. S. Ship In Jap Raid Praises Sailors Simpson asserted that the British neglected to destroy war materials in Penang. Before he left, he said, he saw 5.000 tons of tin and 7,000 tons of crude rubber on a pier.

"I have no doubt the Japs got it because nothing was done to disturb it." Simpson reported that Japanese flyers would drop large cardboard signs on Penang at night. In the morning the signs would be tacked on walls and trees, apparently by fifth columnists. "This country belongs to us na F. D. R.

Denies Hart Got a 'Rough Deal' WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. (I. N. j.

ami Dr-Cooke Admiral Thomas Hart, who is Hepburn Denies Saying Jap Navy Is Better TORONTO, Feb. 13. (U. Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario denied today that he said in a speech yesterday that Japan has a better navy than the United States. He said he did say that "Japan has naval supremacy in the Pacific" and because of that "the United States Navy is in hiding." ill, is returning to the United States ton's Cyclopedia of American Biography until 1883.

He became, in turr, assistant editor of The Forum, associate editor of the Standard Dictionary and office expert in physics and chief librarian of the New York Free Cir-culatinsr Library. Dr. Bostwick used to recall how he had, while at the New York library, incurred the wrath of George Bernard Shaw by rejecting one of the bearded sage's books. -The New York newspapers," he said, -made a great deal of it, and before long I was getting sarcastic cablegrams from Shaw. Needless to say.

I haven't rejected a book of his since." Dr. Bostwick is survived by his son. Andrew L. Bostwick. His wife died in 1930.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed. as commander-in-chief of the Asiat ic fleet, President Roosevelt stated ill V-l a ship and bomb fragments splashed over the stern, fatally wounding a marine on the main mast." No Panic on Ship. There was no panic aboard the vessel. Wheeler said, even during the height of the attack. It was the first time under fire for every man on the ship except two officers who served in World War I.

"I should like to testify that even in the worst of it when it didn't look as though we were going to pull through, I saw no man give way to panic, try to desert his post or cease to fight. "Our nation owes the best it can give these kids it sends out to do its fighting, especially when they do it magnificently as these did. I don't know what constitutes a hero, but if it's a guy who has pride enough to look almost certain destruction square in the face and keep on punching then these kids fill the bill." Wheeler counted seventeen at- GIFTS today. He said reports that Hart had gotten a "rough deal" were typical of many unfounded rumors in Washington. Roosevelt said the admiral had not been well for some time and was coming home but coming home as commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet.

The President denied the Asiatic fleet had been abolished. He said for joint operational purposes in the southwest Pacific the combined units are known as the fleet of the southwest Pacific. WILL BE tacks by an estimated twenty planes. At least forty-five bombs were dropped, but the ship returned with only a gaping hole on one deck. All these attacks were made after the warship had staged a successful assault on Japanese shore batteries and installations on Taroa Island in the Maleolap Atoll.

The Japanese attacked the ship only by air, Wheeler said, because all their other weapons had been CHERISHED FOREVER smashed. lib BY WILLIAM TYREE. PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII, Feb. 13. U.

The time 8:21 o'clock on the morning of February 1. The place aboard an American warship in the thick of the fight during the raid on the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Keith Wheeler, correspondent of the Chicago Times who was aboard the warship and who thought for a while that he never would live to tell this story, said today: "An extremely persistent Jap got a bomb into us. There was a splintering, rocking crash. The ship heaved and hot fragments rained over it.

It blew pieces of decking as high as the navigation bridge and cut through steel bulkheads as if they were butter." Then the bombers came over eight two-engined planes that dropped their stuff from a high level. Didn't Expect to Survive. "They came up beautifully," Wheeler said, "and cut loose with nineteen bombs weighing 850 poinds each. I know I didn't expect to survive when they got into their bombing run. Only the skipper's calm and the ship's speed saved us." The ship on which Wheeler was quartered was the most heavily engaged of any American vessel in the raid.

For two hours and three minutes, he said, the Japanese hurled bombs at the vessel. "The Japs were right In every calculation except two," Wheeler said. "They misjudged our speed a knot or so and they didn't know that the skipper was waiting for them to unload before he pulled the stern around sharply." The Japanese bombs, Wheeler explained, fell just astern "right where we would have been had not the skipper changed his course." "As it was, spray blanketed the C. I. 0.

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O. committee polled only 435. The independent union received 435 votes, while thirty-eight employes voted for neither union and twenty-five ballots were voided. Al Kojetinsky. regional director cf the organizing committee, said today the C.

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