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o) jfn Ml ffr if Y.r VOL. CI LI NO. 37 32 PAGES TWO CENTS FRIDAY, FEB. 6, 1942 ar Marriage Boston MM it 12 tssing ATLANTIC CITY, N. Feb.

6 (UP) The 8327-ton tanker India Arrow was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine Wednesday night off the New Jersey coast, the Fourth Naval District announced today. i jt Everett dances at the Seamen's 5 -I. i jL I -'v -r they were picked up by a cod fishing boat this morning. The rescued men, who were in lifeboat No. 1, said about half of the missing men had gotten into another lifeboat.

The fate of the others was not disclosed. India Arrow Continued on Page 14 patrol craft had carried out bold night journeys along the Malayan coast since the siege began, pushing as far north as the Batu Pahat sector where a number of Imperial troops had been cut off. About 2000 soldiers who had held out Twenty-six members of the crew were reported missing. Eleven others and the captain were rescued by a motor boat and brought to the United States Coast Guard station here. The India Arrow, 8327 tons, SINGAPORE, Feb.

6 (UP) Battering air and artillery attacks along the straits of Johore intensified the siege of Singapore today, but British defenders were bolstered by the daring naval rescue of 2000 troops that F. D. Wants 0) V) mi (0) tmf Vm IwiMd Boom in ENGAGED Muriel Palmer of A. Marsh. Records of the Boston Municipal Court show that nearly as many marriage law waivers have been issued here during the past month as are 'normally issued, in the course of a year.

Most of the bridegrooms-to- be applying for waivers of the "five-day law" are in the military or naval services. It is a dull day in the life of a Municipal Court judge when he does not lend a sympathetic ear to the appeal of at least one lovelorn couple. Romances started in all parts of the country are reaching their climax here. The other day a sailor obtained a waiver to marry his schoolgirl sweetheart from Ohio, while another donned the bonds of matrimony with a girl who came all the way from Texas to meet him here. Most of the bridegrooms-to-be are in the military service, but a good many of them are sailors in the Navy or merchant service.

Young Charles MacDorald of Wichita, falls in the latter category. Perhaps you've heard of Mac-Donald before. If you arc in the habit of reading your newspaper, you have. He was the heroic young radio operator on the S. S.

Rochester who stuck to his post in the radio shack until the last possible moment before his shipmates who waited for him in a lifeboat as the torpedoed tanker slowly settled beneath the waves. MacDonald is only 20 years old, but he is a graduate of the Gal-lups Island Merchant Service School. At a party in the Seamen's Club of Boston at Battery-march and Milk sts. last night, he announced his engagement to of I the the ten Storm Closes Schools in Many Places Near Boston Who Back Their Government A steady drizzle following in the wake of a five-inch snowfall closed. schools in nearly a score of.

Greater Boston communities today, coated highways with a slippery blanket of slush and caused numerous automobile accidents. Weather Bureau officials at the East Boston Airport predicted that the rain, which began shortly after midnight, would continue until noon. Little change in the WEATHER Tonight: CONTINUED MODERATE i8 (Report on Pae Red Streak Final (Closing Prices Net Changes) In Tonight's Globe Amusements ..24 Comics 29 Cross-Word .28 Death Notices .30 Editorial 18 Financial .20, 21 Radio Serial Story Sports 22, Victory Forum Women's 30 29 23 10 23 GENE MACK CARTOON What, No Spinach Page 23 in the jungle after the enemy; forces pushed southward to Johore Bahu were rescued and brought safely to Singapore to reinforce the island defenses. Singapore Continued on Page 7 temperature and gentle winds were forecast for today and early, tonight. Pedestrians on their.

way to work early this morning sloshed and slipped along sidewalks cov-y ered with an ankle-deep blanket of slush. All during the night state and local Public Works Department crews plowed highways and sanded slippery Storm Continued on Page IS Marblehead class were heavily damaged by Japanese naval planes in the Java Sea, Japanese headquarters claimed today. This was the score in a sea and air engagement reported in a communique broadcast by Domei several hours after an earlier communique was broad-1 cast listing one Dutch and one I American eruiser and a 5000-5 ton vessel as sunk in the fight. Sea Continued on Page 7 Big Guns Batteries 1 i' in Racing Results HIALEAH ARK it! DAILY DOL BLE Wise Bab and French Ham pal 4 $47. FIRST RACE ctaimlnc.

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New Trick alto an. Mi fr" escue was 458.3 feet long with a beam of 62.7 feet. She was built in 1921 at Quincy, Mass. The craft, operated by the Socony Vacuum Oil Company out of New. York, was the 18th ship attacked and the 17th sunk in the U-boat campaign off the had been isolated behind Japanese lines of the Malaya Peninsula.

On the seventh day of siege, Japanese planes swept low across the mile-wide strait to smash at British defense positions and Congressmen tion of a Congress hostile to the Administration's war program would be the equivalent of major military defeat The President, asked for comment on the Flynn statement, said that his feelings about members of Congress were without regard to party affiliations. He said he had not read Flynn's statement, and relied on a newspaperman's version. Tonight's Globe Pensions (or Congress Repeal Urged (Page 17) Ask $100,000,000 for Civilian Defense (Page 17) were something new in Marblehead For women and girls of all ages they have become practically a uniform. Everybody wears 'em, in the home, on the street, out visiting and in the chain store, trying to buy suear. From 6 to 60 and maybe older, a Marblehead maid, matron or spinster is positively out oi style in a skirt.

No preachers have thundered from the pulpit at this fashion. In fact, slacks in Marblehead have taken a recognized place in society. Women wouldn't think of giving them up. any more than they would think of going back to kerosene lamps. Slacks Continued on Page 7 F.

D. Has Cold WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 (UP) President Roosevelt reported today that a cold which confined him for twn rfavs has imnrnvpfj nnrl Vip now feels much better. tWUtii start th lit aa actotitt aamt tkrvtgi tat 10th.

ft. anl atny INSUIES tack lull ilS.000. JSMTaK mumI tw1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UP) President Roosevelt, commenting on a recent statement by Democratic Committee Chairman Edward J. Flynn.

said today that when the country is at war we want, regardless of party. Congressmen who back up their government and have a record of backing up their government. Flynn said recently that the elec Other News in Washington Considers Bigger State Guards (Page 10) U.S. Flyers Help British Bag 10 Japs in Burma (Page 5) HERO AND HIS BRIDE-TO-BE Rita Yosten and Charles R. MacDonald.

He was radio operator on torpedoed tanker Rochester who stuck, to his post. Japs Claim 2 Dutch Cruisers Sunk Off Java Atlantic seaboard. Only one tanker, the Malay, was able to reach port after being attacked. The attack on the India Arrow occurred at about 7 p. m.

on a clear moon-lit night. The survivors were afloat in a lifeboat for 36 hours before British artillery resumed heavy bombardment of enemy lines and positions on the Johore mainland coast. British fighter planes shot down one enemy craft and, damaged three others. Naval sources disclosed, that Somerville Baby Suffocated While Mother in Hospital Evelyn Marie Simick, 17-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Simick of 10 Pearson Somerville, was pronounced dead from suffocation at Somerville Hospital early today after the child had been taken from her crib. The little girl's mother is a patient at the Central Hospital, SomervLie, where she recently gave birth to a son. Police said that the little girl was staying at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Sie-bert, 357 Highland Somerville, where the accident occurred. Members of the family had seen the child at midnight when she appeared to be normal, but a 3:30 a.

m. check-up revealed that she had died face down in her sleep. Radio in Nazi Embassy Seized by Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 6 (AP) Brazilian authorities seized a powerful short wave radio transmitter in the German Embassy Building today in what was declared the first step of a drive to smash a web of wildcat radios operating throughout Brazil for communication with Axis ships and directly with Berlin. IN SLACKS AT LAST Ann Adams, Marblehead High School senior.

BALINESE ROOM 1 IN THE HOTEL oOHIEHofcT SONGS BY ELEANOR FRENCH PIANO ANTICS BY ROLLY ROLLS MARSH ARB'S MUSIC I y'lt "t' Iff fej" Hrri i jLi I i I fv I i I I -y 5 Club with her fiance, Harold War Fund Now at $6,019,818 Mark 26 State Departments Over Top Approximately $6,019,818 has been realized toward the goal of $7,600, COO in the Greater Boston United War Fund, it was announced today as the drive swung into the final six days. Pres. James V. Toner of the Boston Edison Company and Secretary Ken neth I. Taylor of the Massachusetts Federation of Labor were the speakers at today's Dutch treat report luncheon of fund workers at the Boston City Club.

John Boles, stage and screen star, was invited as special guest. War Fund Continued on Page 10 The Army in Hawaii HALLETT ABEND writes the story of the defense of -the islands in 'Japan Unmasked' Today's Editorial Page Miss Rita Yosten of 125 West Adams West Somerville. He is the latest of a long string young sailors far from home who have found their future wives here. Mrs. Wallace M.

Leonard of Newton, executive secretary of Seamen's Club of Boston, could tell you of many more young men who have come from far corners of the country find the Eirl of their dreams right here in Boston. Immediately preceding MacDonald were Harold Marsh of Allentown, and Hugh T. Jones of Gaston. Ore. They and their betrothed attended the party honoring MacDonald and Miss Yos- last night.

Wt Romances Continued on Page 7 Girls Wear Slacks at Marblehead School, Ending Rebellion but Not Argument WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (AP) The Navy Department said today it had "no information here" concerning Japanese claims that a United States cruiser of the Marblehead class had been heavily damaged Feb. 4 in the Java Sea. I (From Japanese Broadcasts), Feb. 6 (AP) Two Dutch cruisers" were sunk and a third Dutch cruiser and a United States cruiser of the Correffidor's Silence Jap WASHINGTON, Feb.

6 (UP) Big guns on American island fortresses in Manila Bay have destroyed Japanese artillery emplacements opposite Corregidor, but new enemy reinforcements are arriving to strengthen forces opposing Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur, the War Department reported today. A communique caid that the Japanese artillery positions presumably were designed for an attack against Corregidcr, key fortress guarding Manila. The department said also that nine Japanese transports are debarking troops in Lingayen Gulf to reinforce the already "very large" enemy concentrations in Bataan peninsula and other points on Luzon Island. The gulf is north of Bataan peninsula.

Philippines Continued on Page 7 TREASURY BALANCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (AP) Treasury net balance, custom receipts, $3,288,068. Defend Your Country and Your Community Give to the United War Fund Don't Wait Attend to the Matter Today. Give" to the United War Fund. Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps.

Save Your Waste Paper, Old Rags, Metal Other Than Tin Cans and Razor Blades) and Rubber Goods By HENRY J. COLLINS MARBLEHEAD, Feb. 6 For the first time since the arrival of the orieinal settler of this town, who lived all Winter in a barrel girls were allowed to attend high school today attired in slacks. Today's event was news in the old town. The permission came just in time to prevent a brewing rebellion among the girls, who have been freezing their shins ever since Winter set in.

Stockings are short and so are skirts, and the average juvenile limb in Marblehead has been well-turned blue. The situation, however, is by no means adjusted. Today's permission to wear slacks was a limited rrmission limited to seniors and limited to today. What will happen Mnv' That ur to George P. Campbell of the High! illWllwui mr i School, who is givng me matter of slacks versus cold legs his pedagogical attention.

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