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TWELVE THE LINCOLN A A JANUARY 29, 1 942 MacArthur's Break Attacks Lengthening Shadows On Malaya (Continued item SHORE EVAC the latMt flfhtinK, ovrr tanKlpd Junxlp, and KHamiM, the found the use of difficult. In a Mincle day fifhtinff Australians 24 Jap tanks until the attarkers stopped sendlnf them In. Yet Slnxapore prepared for a as it moved its rivilian population hark from the northern shore which fringes the strait of Johore, and of PershlFig the evacuation of civilians was exprcted to be completed by General Patrick, First Chief Of Air Corps, Deac Enemy Ships Sunk Or Damaged Macassar Straits Now 38 WASHINGTON, Jan. of Gen. Douglas durable little army in the Philippines has inflictcd heavy losses and played havoc with Japanese infantry plunges at its said a war department communique today which which also raised to at lea.st 38 the number of enemy ships sunk or damaged in Macassar straits.

was the word the war department used to describe the desperate and unsuccessful Japanese attacks against MacArthur on the Batan peninsula of the island of Luzim, losses the que added. Jap Toll One Japanese transport in the Borneo harbor of Balikpapan was destroyed, another set on fire, and two enemy fighting planes were shot down by five American bombers which returned safely to their base, the department said in describing a Macassar action which apparently was the same of yesterday at Batavia. developments made the total listing of Japanese ships iiunk or damaged in the straits definitely at least 38. Japanese terrible losses in the straits were put even higher in a broadcast by th Sydney, Australia, radio. The spokesman there figured the total at 46 warships and transports, the latter carrying 25,000 invasion troops, rommuntque No.

81. The text of the communique, No. 81 of the war, based on reports received here up to 8:30 a. C. S.

today: rnemy inrantrjr aiixitults on thi right Ifft flanks of our troops In Batan peninsula werr broken up by our artlUery fire. Enr.Tiy were heavy. of hostile xlrrraft was limited to reronnalsance Netherlands A third attack by American on shlpplnB on Macaa- Rtralts reaulted In the destruction of an enemy trannport In Ballkpappan harbor Another transport was set on fire. Two enemy planes were nhot down and a third damaged rive of our partlctpati'ri In the attack and all returned Kafely to their base. There was nothing to report from other areas." John Westover Dies; Ex-Husker was riday.

The Japs were pushing down the west coast toward the highway junction of Pontian Besar, toward Johore Bahru, directly opposite Singapore island. MASSING GREAT was one dispatch from the provisional capital. Japan was reported to he massing an armada of 100 to 300 naval ships and 100 planes at the southern tip of Hainan island, which Is 700 miles west of Luzon in the Philippines. Hainan recently was occupied by the Japs in the South China sea. The concentration may he a prelude to an Increasingly heavy attack on General MacArthur's forces or a bold stroke southward into the Dutch East Indies.

ACTION IN spite of hrilllant air and sea victories for the Americans, the Dutch, and the Australians, there was other disquieting news in the Pacific. Sea-borne and Jap land forces landed at Pemangkat and launched a double-headed drive Into Dutch West Borneo, threatening Pontianak, the principal city of that region. That Is great rubber country. Throughout the Dutch East Indies the Japs were striking heavily from the air, with Dutch naval planes striking back against Japenese sea units off the Borneo west coast. Dutch land forces were offering resistance to the continued march of the Japs on the east coast of Borneo and the Kendari area of the Celebes island.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 29 (AP) Maj. Gen. Mason Mathews Patrick, 78, first chief of the air corpF, died today in Walter Reed hospital after a illness.

A classmate of Gen. John J. Pershing in the West Point class of 1886, Gen. Patrick during the first World war served as chiet engineer for communications, supply, construction and forestry wt rk in B'ranee and latei was made chief of the air service there. After the ovei air service was begun by former Brig.

Gen. William Mitchell in 1921, General Patrick was assigned the task of reorganizing the entire air corps. He miide himself an expert on all problems of air traffic, learned acrobatic flying at the age of 58. and after retirement in 1927 lectured at army and schools. Gen.

Patrick built the first improved roads in Cuba as chief Eastern Gasoline Situation Tight, ekes Declares Rationing Of Fuel Is Forthcoming Maine in Havana harbor. YANK FLIERS KEEP PEPPERING JAPS (Continued from SEA AND air and the waves were aflame with combat member of the board of engineers throughout the entire Pacific. British torpedo boats bagged a supervising the raising of the Japanese destroyer and damaged a second in a running sea battle off the east coast of Malaya. One British destroyer, the Thanet, was lost In the engagement. Melbourne announced that new Australian aerial attacks upon the island of New Britain had resulted in one Japanese ship being hit and probably another in the harbor of Rahaul.

Fighting continued on the outlying island of New ilulnea, with little change In the situation there. The Japs reported destruction of a large number of airplanes, while the Dutch high command at Batavia said that a German whose commander had been credited with sinking 60,000 tons of shipping, had been sunk. It was around Rangoon that the heaviest fighting in the air took place. American volunteer bombers brought down 10 Japanese raiders Thursday and damaged nine others. Earlier they accounted for seven.

NEARLY IIAI.F THE FI.EET—Fresh outbreaks in the battle of Macassar straits added to the total Japanese losses, which have amounted to 46 warships and transports, the latter carrying 25,000 troops. MORE MacARTHCRf) we really need is more MaeArthurs. The Japs in Luzon opened up a new attack against his defending forces on Batan peninsula and under the hall of vicious artillery fire got set back upon their heels with heavy losses. It was the first large-scale engagement since MacArthur carried out a demoralizing counter offensive last Sunday. engin 'er with the Cuban pacifica-j several weeks tion army 1909 and was a Churchill Wins A Confidence Vote (Conllnutd horn our acf ount to be sent direct on the other side of the In a 42-minutt summation for his as the house toward a vote of confidence, Churchill indicated ap-i p.

1 j- i pointmciit of a British counterpart Ueclines tO Freclict 1 hat to the United chief of war production, Donald M. Nel.son, and disclosed that Singapore had been steadily reinforced for a fight to the finish. High Spots. These were Churchiirs high spots: The AEF in the United Kingdom it the wishes of the American people and leaders of that republic that the large mass of trained and equipped troops they have in the United States should come into contact with the enemy as close and as soon as War reference to appointment of Donald M. Nelson as chief of the war production board in the United States: similar office, not exactly with the same scope but with similar scope, must be created cannot tell how the Johore battle or the attack on the island of Singapore will go but thvre has been a steady flow of IVestopcr, One Of U.N.

Football Immortals Had Great At Climax port told of giant guns so powerful their would bur.st car drums at 100 yards and knock pictures from walls within a ra. dium of several mile.s. But as the hour of crisis neared, it remained to be seen whether the great built as an defense bastion against attack by have become out-moded under modern conditions of aerial warfare. Meanwhile, invasion hordes launched a new two- pronged drive into Dutch Borneo, sharply threatening the chief city of Pontianak, south of the kingdom of Sarawak. Pontianak In Danger.

Captain Pontianak lies 400 miles east Once again sharp- i across the China sea from Singa- fthootlng artillery men sent the Japs reeling backward. And at I pore and about 500 miles north' east across the Java sea Irom Batavia, the Dutch Indies capital An E.I. communique said borne Japanese troops landed at Pemangkat, 85 miles north of Pontianak, while Japanese land forces struck down from Japanese-occupied Kuching, the capital of Sarawak. Notwithstanding firm resist- the same time American heavy bombers In the third attack upon the Japanese convoy In Macassar bagged still another transport. Two Japanese planes were shot down and a third damaged without the loss of a single American craft.

VOTE OF Churchill Thursday received a smashing vote of confidence in British parliament, 464 to 1, io his conduct of the war. It came while the German radio was from Page One) and not an opponent, one of which was Mimiesota, scored against the Scarlet and Cream. Greatest Thrill Against Gophers In a letter to Sherman, sports editor of the Star, when Mr. Westover was in business in northern Kansas, he told of his greatest thrill at the university of 30 years before. It was that siime Minnesota game of 1902, in which Nebraska put across the winning touchdown.

The Huskers were meeting the Gophers for the third time and first success. Mr. Westover related that it was a third down, with a yard to go for a touchdown. The teams were lined up close to the left side of the field, Minnesota having shifted to the Husker right, anticipating a play toward the goal piists. However, the home boys played a mass on their left tackle.

Johnny Bender hit the line, to be stopped momentarily, but young Westover and another player boosted him over with such vigor he rolled to the gym- rasium wall. Game on Luzon The Lincoln first game was in 1897, with Kansas. The following season Mr. Westover down in Luzon, where on Chrismas day he played with company of Lincoln against com- claiming the recapture of Bengasi by Axis troops, which, If true, the Japanese are obtaining would be a heavy blow, but for which London had no confirmation. The sole dissenting vote c-ame from the Independent labor party In the house.

It was the largest vote of confidence Churchill ever received. THUMBS TURNED Washington the house naval affairs committee by a vote of 14 to 6 wisely decided against conducting an Investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster. SUBMARINE was becoming more submarine conscious. The seriousness of the situation off the Atlantic coast was emphasized by the fact that at least one submarine broke water in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the oil ports of the Texas coast. Military and civil leaders were hopeful that the new warnings may make all Americans buckle down to the task.

Congressman Van Zandt, of Pennsylvania, said there were about 80 German submarines prowling off the Atlantic coast but the navy was doing a good job in taking care of them. The fact that Van Zandt. a naval commander, has just returned from active convoy service In the Atlantic, and the fact that the navy officially approved warning, added force to It. game, he related, at 100 in the shade, but company won. bolstered by the presence of a number of university and Lincoln high players.

In the same reminiscensces, Mr. Westover said that in the Miss- uori game of 1901 every man on the Cornhusker team scored a touchdown. He even traded positions with Koehler at center so he could get in his share The game was called 15 minutes short, as the men were practically exhausted. The next year Miss- uori came back to give the Huskers one of their hardest games, of the season, according to Mr. Westover.

Nebraska won 12 to 0, playing at St. Joseph, but thej score was as simple to rt)U up as the previous conflict. In thej Northw'estern game, the Evanston men had orders to go after West- over, but while they were work- ing on him, Nebraska made two touchdowns. Operated Steel, Iron Works After leaving the university Mr. Westover owned and operated the Westover Steel and Iron works for many years.

For the last five years he had been inspector for the state department of roads and irrigation, giving up his work only when his health became so bad. Mr. Westover was a member of Kappa Sigma at the University of Nebraska and of Sigma Tau, honorary engineering group; and local successes, while Pontianak is being the Dutch communique said. important objectives on the spot have been destroyed by Stubborn Resistance. Official dispatches Dutch troops continuing stubborn resistance against other Japanese forces which landed earlier at Balik Papan, big oil port in east Borneo, and near Kendari, on Celebes Island.

Celebes lies across the narrow Macassar strait from Borneo. On the Malay frmit, a British spokesman indicated that hard- fighting imperial troops were still holding their lines intact, witn no important changes overnight, amid heaviest Japanese pressure. An official Tokyo broadcast said Japanese troops by Tuesday night had penetrated to a point 12 miles southeast of Ayer Hitam, bringing them within 36 miles of Johore strait. The broadcast said Japanese forces were hammering incessantly at British mechanized units in the w'est coastal marshes Jap Destroyer Sunk British airmen, outnumbered but ever dangerous, gave what aid they could to the Australian, British and Indian forces aground on the zone which ran roughly from Rengit, 40-odd miles northwest of Singapore, to the town of Jema Luang, 55 miles above the naval base. A naval battle off Endau, 85 II wui- I miles above Singapore, in which i the encircled city of Rzhev was expected to fall wit British destroyers spurned the HEAVY LOSS OF appeared that the sinking of the Canadian steamer I.ady Hawkins may have resulted in the loss of 245 passengers and crew members.

Corpus Christi had an air warning last night and a blackout, believed to have been a precaution against submarine attack. It was apparent that the Germans had decided upon total submarine warfare in their attack. Military expcrU expressed the belief that mines were being used by the submarines along the coast In their campaign of destruction. All Texas cities and southern coastal points were on the alert. REDS MOVE FORW the Russian front the Red armies continued their advance, while the Soviet fleet reported successes.

Another German transport was reported sunk in the Barents sea, bringing to 40 the total destroyed since the beginning of the war. West of Moscow, Soviet forces succeeded in breaking through and time. One Russian column was reported to have reached Velikiye and Lukl, and now was only 80 miles from the Latvian border. In the Ukraine, Russian cavalry were punishing the Nazis heavily. Still another Russian column was said to have advanced to within 100 miles of Smolensk.

But Germany said that it has cleared the Crimean peninsula along the south shores of all Russians. UNIFIED AIR of War Stlmson Thursday said that the air command was being unified In the development of the new American were numerous shifts in assignments President Roosevelt was represented as being anxious for stronger measures against espionage and sabotage In Angeles three people In a swank home In Beverly Hills were arrested under accusation of sending valuable military Information to Ger- odds and sank a Japanese destroyer and damaged another in a flotilla of three destroyers and a cruiser was announced by the British admiralty. The British acknowiedged that one of the attacking destroyers, the 906-foot Thanet, was lost in the engagement Monday night, one of a series of blows to restrict the flow of Japanese reinforcements into Endau. The British Far East command arranged for the erection of pillboxes to supplement the work of heavier guns in the defense of Singapore island against a crossing of Johore strait, W'hich sep- many And In Ran Francisco federal Indictments were returned Singapore from the main- agalnst two men for failure to register with the state department ----------------------------as foreign were wide-spread RAF attacks upon, tp western Germany and the French-occupied coast with the loss of vilven Year 6 British Francisco was considering moving its alien WEST POINT, Jan. 29 Japanese forces inland as a defense measure American troops Charles H.

Sass past." In summation of his defense after three days criticism and reply in general debate, Churchill said: offer no apologies. I offer no excuse and make no promises. I avow my confidence was never stronger than at this moment that we shall bring this conflict to nn end in a manner agreeable to the interests of our country and in a manner agreeable to the future of the world. Landslide Approval. have finished.

Let every man now in accordance with what he thinks is liis duty in harmony with his heart and The landslide vote followed, surpassed in measure only by the unanimous 381-to-O vote he was given when he assumed office in May, 1940. Last May when the government mked support for Its decision to on the Ill-fated Oreek campaign the vote was 447 to 3. When the vote was announced there was a tremendous outburst of rheerlng and Churchill nrose, smiling, and left the house, followed by other ministers. The people the publl cgallerles, contrary to all houxe rules, alAO applauded. The prime mlnslter said that the land- i Ing of the American troops northern Ireland a part of the United Kingdom which shares a land frontier with Eire cannot do Mr.

De Valera any harm and It might do him good; It offers a measure of protection to southern Irleand and Ireland as whole which she would not otherwise enjoy." Prime Minister Eamon De Valera has protested that the Americans landed in northern Ireland without prior consultation of his government. Answers Criticisna. Turning to criticism of setbacks In the southwest Pacific, Churchill said that If Britain had reduced her help to Russia slie would have bee nbetter prepared In Burma and Malaya But," he adde did not make such a reduction and I believed that the vaat majority of opinion In the house and country endorses our decision now even after the events In the Far East have taken place. cannot tell how the Johore battle or the attack on the Island of Singapore will go, but there has been a steady ilow of reinforcements for several weeks Churchill said that the battleships Prince of Wales and the Repulse, sunk off Malaya at the outse tof the Japanese attack there, had been sent Into action without air support against Japanese bombing there was no available aircraft carrier to accompany the two "The suggestion that the naval staff desired to send an aircraft carrier and WPS overruled by me Is as mischlevlous as It Is untrue Churchill said at the time, with the exception of an aircraft carrier In home waters, not a single ship of this kind was available through series of accidents, some of very slight consequence. All of them except this one with the home fleet weer under repair." Nininger Awarded Highest Decoration Killed In Philippines WASHINGTON, Jan.

posthumous award of the congressional medal of honor to second Lieut. Alexander R. Ni.n- inger, the first time this highest United States decoration has been authorized since the war started, was announced today by the war department. Nininger, an officer of the Philippine scouts, was killed in action; Short, Jan. 12 on the Batan peninsula The citation was for conspicuous gallantry and interpidity above and beyond the call of duty.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur recommended the award, reporting that Nininger, whose own company was not in action, voluntarily attached himself to another outfit engaged in fierce fighting against Japanese snipers and sharpshooters w'ho, posted in were halting a counter attack in which the Americans sought to regain lost positions. With rifle and hand grenade Nininger fought his way forward, killing several enemy snipers and destroying several groups of Japanese troops in the fox holes before he himself was killed. When the positions finally were retake by troops. body was found with a Japanese officer and two Japanese enlisted men dead beside him.

The medal will be presented to father, Alexander R. Nininger, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. WASHINGTON Jan. Secretary Ickc: today the petroleum situation in the ean, where rationing last summer, was and getting tighter" as a result of ship tanker singings and diversion of such vessels to war scrviti The secretary, who also is petroleum co-ordinator, declined to predict that gasoline rationing was forthcoming, but indicated he might reopen a proposal to build a $80,000,000 pipeline from Texas to New Jersey. Asked about the New Ennland coal situation, Ickes said the supply situation was getting The situation has resulted, he said, apparently from and regulations imposed at New York and New England coal receiving The secretary the regulations and that he did not believe the navy knew about them.

He expressed confidence that the conaition would be rectified. Canada to Ration Gasoline. OTTAWA. Jan. users in Canada w-ill be allowed between 300 and 380 gallons of gasoline a year for nonessential driving when gasoline rationing becomes effective April 1, Munitions Minister C.

D. Howe announced today. He said this would be enough to drive 5,400 miles" and added that is no guarantee that the rate of consumption by owners of private cars may not be still further Drivers of some 1,125,000 vehicles will be affected. It was emphasized that the announcement today covered only the ration for non-essential or pleasure car use, and that an allotment for drivers in other categories would be made public within a few days. MILITARY CHIEFS (Continued from Page One) present minister, Wilhelni BY SIIKR.MAN.

No wtHifi fiHitball moleskins at the UnivtTsity of Ne- I braska contributed more to the building of the ker I than John Westover, who died Thursday in the federal hospital at Sawtelle, C'alif. John deods on Cornhusker gridirons followed I his service with the First braska regiment in the Philippines in the campaign in which Col. Stotsenberg killed in action. Returning from the Orient in 1899, Westover enrolled at the university and at once qualified as a varsity regular at one of the tackle stations. He was again on the football firing line when Walter C.

Booth camv from Princeton university the fall of 1900 to take over the coaching reins. Twice a Husker Captain. Klected by his teammates to the i captaincy of the 1901 Cornhusker the flaming spirit which won him recognition as one of the uper tackles in Nebraska U. annals brought him a re-elettion to the captaincy of 1902 the I of all in Husker history. The Scarlet and Cream thwarted all opponents, sota U.

included, in their efforts to either cross the Nebraska goal or score a single point. The Huskers W'on every game. After rounding out his career on the varvity, Westover was installed by Booth as first assistant coach, a he fulfilled with credit until the ton man retired at the end of th: reason of 1905. In years, nil time ivsiding in Lincoln, We.st- over as at the head of a and iron foundry, op rating a gravel pit in northern Kansas. More recently, Westov WHS affiliated with the highway dippartment at the capitol.

The illness which resulted in his pa? ing the culminatmn of a heart weakness. by a paralytic stroke. He had been confined at the Sawtelle hospital for several month.s. ouraReous the It was no longer ago than early last week that I at at Sawtelle. On I the cot was the wasted figure one of the most courageous men it ewr has been my privilege to know.

The rugged, indomitable foot- I ball battler of his younger years was only a mere shell of his I former self, yet in him still burned the untjuenchable fire of thr fightvr who, when death was I only a few days distant, refused I to either ask or give quarter to I the Grim Reaper. glad to see you. he mumbled. be out of here in a wvek or 10 F.ven when death was so near, the fighting spirit of his football dtiys still was in knew not the meaning of W'ordi, Lutheran Merger Group Is Namec Unite 8 Bodies the Frick, reaches retirement age and form an unofficial civil war to instill the in the w'hole nation. Frick will be 65 on March 12 Fedor Von Bock.

Karl Rudolf Gerd Von Rundstedt and Wilhelm Ritter Von Leeb, each a field marshal general, have figured in reports of a shakeup in the German command. On Jan. 20 a Swiss press dispatch from Berlin said that Von Bock had succeeded the late Field Marshal General Walter Von Reichenau as commander in the Ukraine. Von Reichenau had Berlin apoplexy. Asked To Be Relieved Von Rundstedt appears to have shared W'ith Von Reichenau the command of the German armies on the southern front and rumor once had it that he had asked to be relieved of his command.

How'ever, Von Rundstedt remained in high standing that ho was chosen to represent the fuehrer at Van funeral. Von Leeeb has been commanding the German forces in their siege of Leningrad. He, too, has been reported asking to be relieved of that command. Of possible bearing on the lineups of commanders on the Russian front was a dispatch from Stockholm which sai that Gen. Nikolaus Von Falkenhorst, who since last June had been in command of German-Finnish forces on the far northern front, had returned to Oslo, resuming command of German forces in Norway.

landing in North Ireland were reported by Winston Churchill to be fully equipped. Alliance; C. Edward, Chicago; Raymond, New York City; and Dick, Lincoln; and four grandchildren. Funeral arrangements have not had been a member of Sesostris, completed. temple of the Shrine.

---------------------------Surviving are his father, N. Westover, Kimball; daughter, WidoW loWQ Editor WHo Mrs. Kramer, who was the first Supportod Bryan Dies for several weeks. The funeral mass will be offered in St. cathedral at 9 a.

m. Saturday. She was the w'idow' of John S. Murphy, for many years editor of the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald and a close friend of the late William Jennings Bryan. took Chester S.

White, Emporia, to the state penitentiary to- Youth Questioned After day to begin a three year sentence given him by District Judge Adolph Kenke for forgery. White pleaded guilty to passing a forged check in Cuming county two weeks ago. He was arrested at Norfolk, woman graduate in engineering at the university; three si.sters, Mrs. Olive Peach, Laramie, Wyo; Mrs. Katherine W.

Jameson, Wood Lake; and Mrs. Hazel El- w'ell, Kimball: four Fred, DUBUQUE, Jan. Anna Maria Murphy, 94, mother of the late United States senator Louis Murphy, died here today. She had been seriously ill Board of trade will vote 10 on a rule chance whereby No. 3 yellow grades of soybeans would be deliverable on contracts at a differential of 4 cents under tha contract price.

No. 1 No. 3 yellow would deliverable mi the contract Try Injury Suit. of the $10,000 personal injury suit of Mrs. Stanhope against Henry Ames opened in District Judge court Thursday.

Mrs. Stanhope, a pedestrian, was injured in an accident on July 28, 1940 at 18th and Striking Parked Car Charles Melroy, 22, of 735 was questioned Thursday after he had admitted to police that a car he was driving late Wednesday night hit another car parked on Washington. The accident occurred between Thirteenth and Fourteenth about 12:30 a. m. Thursday, when Melroy struck a car belonging to the Bankers Life Insurance Co.

A bullet case can be made by a lipstick case company but bullet case has to be more carefully put together. Practical College Courses Now Hastened by the emergency, demands are growing over the state and nation for universities to give the student something useful and objective in two years, Prof. Nels A. Bengtson, director of the university junior division, told members of the Knife and Fork club Thursday at the Y. W.

C. A. There is a challenge whether to continue four year college courses, he said. Plans for shortening some courses are now under advisement at Nebraska university, he said, indicating action may be taken soon. many parents and young people cannot afford four year courses he said, with rising taxes, people are saying that if the school can do a good job in less than four years, it are no reasons many courses cannot be shortened and the same high standards he pointed out, some outstanding schools already have done it.

There is much drag of conservation and tradition associated with the four year course, however, which will have to be Youth Found Dead NEBRASKA CITY, Jan. Beccard, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beccard of near Syracuse, was found dead of a bullet wound the heart a half mile from his farm home last night. Sheriff Carl Ryder said single shot rifle w'as found hanging from a strand of barbed wire near tbe fence where his brotlier, Oliri, discovered him.

PITTSBURGH, Jan. national Lutheran council, representing the eight largest Lutheran groups in the United I States, named today a committee W'hose ultimate goal will be the drafting of a plan to create one. unified Lutheran church. First function of the committee will be promotion of united action among the groups in wartime activities. Members are the dents of the eight sections, the United Lutheran church, American Lutheran church, Norwegian Lutheran church, Augustana synod.

United Danish church, Lutheran free church, Danish church, and the Suomi synod. Removal Of Senator Langer Is Demanded (Continued from Page One) began preparation of its formal report. In it, the committee told the senate that charge of moral turpitude against respondent has been proven beyond all reasonable Langer, the report said, had by conduct which was direct and challenge to the orderly function of forfeited hi.s right to become a senator. Use For Law and A separate minority report was ex- to be llled later. The majority report pictured Langer as a man with of havina throughout career uVe for law and order," and one who had been the recipient of ITie report reviewed two trials of Langei before Federal Di.sirict Judge Lee Wyman of South Dakota on a charge of conspiracy to obstruct the orderly operation of an act of congress, and a perjury trial before the same Judge.

Langer was acquitted of both charges. The report emphasised testimony as to payment of money by Langer to Gale Wyman, the Judge's son, and the late Chet Leedom. close of the Judge, for services during the trial. The committee termed this relationship Ishuance of a proclamation of martial law in 1934, on the eve of his ouster from the governorship by the Supreme court, and his participation In a of Independence for North also were dl.icussed by the committee which expressed belief I.anger Invoked martial law and prevented the service of civil processes his own Immediate protc- tion The committee deacrlbed as the culmination of "continuous questionable conduct" over a period of years, a 156,800 sale by Langer of farm lands to Gregory Brunk of Des Moines, who profited from bond transactions In North Dakota during term as governor; and sale of Mexican Land Finance company stock to Thomas Sullivan of Chicago, an attorney for the Great Northern railroad In 1937 and 1938 when the railroad sought a reduction In tax assessments from a board headed by Langer. Langer testified that the stock was never actually delivered to Sullivan although a payment of 125,000 was made for It.

175.000 Negroes To Be Inducted Into U. S. Army In 1942 WASHINGTON, Jan. Secretary Stimson said today that the war department and selective service planned to induct approximately 175,000 negroes into the army this year. Stimson told his press conference that a negro division would be reorganized and that groes would be distributed also among the various arms and services.

Capture Of Bengasi Is Claimed By Axis (Continued from Page One) scored a new advance to within 16 miles of British-held Bengasi, on the Gulf of Sirte. The British said Gen. forces suddenly veered to the west and northwest in the last 24 hours after being stalled for two days in an eastward thrust. The new assault carried the axis troopg to Regima, inland and jusf east of Bengasi. 99-Ml1e Advance.

On the Russian front, soviet dispatches reported a 99-mile advance by Marshal Semeon armies somew'here on the southw'est (Ukarine) front, along with the recapture of 80 populated places. Russian naval dispatches declared in a summary of far north operations that submarines had been playing havoc with nazi transports attempting to supply German forces above the Arctic circle. The dispatches said red fleet submarines had sunk, among other ve.ssels, 45 troop and supply ships totaling 200,000 tons and that if nazi troops in Finland and Norway were suffering from lack of food, clothing and ammunition, it was due to soviet naval activities. Withdraw From Poland. Following the withdrawal of bulk of German troops in Finland, a Stockholm dispatch said, their commander.

Col. Gen. Nikolaus Von Falkenhorst had been returned to his old post as chief of German forces in Norway. Churchill-Roosevelt conversations in Washington were declared by a communist party spokesman in Kuibyshev, Prof. Gavrilov, to support fully the plan to strike a death blow at Adolf regime by end of 1942.

A Briti.sh raid upon northwest Germany last night was officially acknowledged in Berlin with a statement that one raider was shot down. There were some civilian casu- alities, the announcement said, and residential quarters were damaged. The British said Muenster, in Germany, Boulogne, in France, and Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, were raided. They said six bombers were missing. Birthday Ball At Coliseum Tonight from Page One) Probe Of Pearl Harbor Tragedy Is Turned Down WASHINGTON, Jan.

house naval committee re- fu.sed today by a vote of 14 to to undertake a congressional inquiry into the Harbor disa.ster. The vote came on a motion to i the documentary evidence collected by the commi.ssion headed by Justice Owen in studying the i tragedy. diamond birthday anniversary of President Roosevelt. Contributed by the Cornhusker Lincoln hotels they w-ill be by Auctioneers Forke and Hombuckle. Promptly at midnight Lloyd J.

Marti will speak in tribute to the president, for having established the paralysis fund drives. E. U. Guenzel, chairman of the Lincoln campaign announced at noon that the Traction Co. will operate extra bu.sses on the agricultural college line, leaving Thirteenth and 0 every 15 minutes.

Transfers from other lines will be honored, enabling pa.ssengers to go within a half block of the coliseum. Parking of automobiles will be under the direction of the police department. Although tickets to the ball read each will admit a Guenzel said. MUSCULAR RHEUMATIC PAIN and Stiffnats You need to rub on a powerfully inK like teroie to quickly relieve neuritin, rhmi- matic and Better than a mustard plaster to help break up painful local.