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On the Weather Forecast Light mow extreme northwest portion this afternoon continued moderately cold today Local Data on Page 6 ijjTOKIIJ Agriculture SI Radio 25 Amusements II Religion 14 Comics Science 26 Editorials 12-1S Serial Story 17 International 2-4 Sports IS-19 Industry 21 State-City 6-10 National 5 Women Obituaries 14 MW 92dYear Entered January 28 1903 at the Post Office Richmond Virginia as Second Qau Matter Richmond Virginia Thursday January 22 1912 Dial 8-1242 Calls The Times-Dispatch 3 CENTS IN CITT Ekeuher 4 Crate Two More Vessels Are Torpedoed Off Carolimas Pam America 'Unites om Pact to Break With Axis Darden Asks Revision of 2 State Agencies Liquor Tax Cut 45 in Crews Arc Missing In Attacks City of Atlanta Lost Near Cape Small Loan Rate Slash Is Advocated War Keynotes Talk Ciltvaira Pictured From Navy Plane After Torpedo Split Latvian Ship AP Wlrcpbetoa City of Atlanta Reported Sunk by U-Boat and Most of Crew Lost Food Riots Reported In Four French Cities BERN SWITZERLAND The food situation in France was reported last night to have led to riots in at least four cities In the Mediterranean city of Sete between Marseilles and the Spanish border -dock workers seized the city hall after some demonstrators had been arrested They withdrew only when the Mayor promised to release the prisoners and do all he could to relieve the food shortage Other demonstrations occurred in Nimes Montpellier and Agde all in the Marseilles area Details were not available but Vichy au thorities were reported seriously concerned lest the disorders spread nuM DARDEN AND TUCK TAKE Colgate Darden Jr of Norfolk and William Tuck of South Boston became Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia respectively in inauguration ceremonies Interested spectators (lower picture) were Mrs Darden and her mother Mrs Irence duPont of Wilmington Del Argentina Chile Adopt Compromise 4-Point Program Agreed al Talks RIO DE JANEIRO (AV-Argentina and Chile swung into line with the 19 other American republics last night in a declaration of intention to sever diplomatic relations w'ith the Axis Argentina considered from the very start of the current conference of foreign ministers as the most likely obstacle to unanimity behind such a declaration accepted the compromise plan with' out reservation The wording of the all-important agreement however indicated that acceptance nevertheless would have to be ratified by the Argentine Congress It was recalled that the Argentine foreign minister said even before the conference began that any agreements he made would have to be approved by his con' gross foreign minister Juan Bautista Rossetti however made the reservation that he would have to consult his government From the start he had insisted that special geographical situation affected her position Talks Settle Differences A four-point statement was threshed out in a series of talks among the conference leaders the climax being a session in the office of the Brazilian foreign minister Oswaldo Aranha at which adherence of the two reluctant powers finally was won Besides Aranha and Rossetti those attending were the United States undersecretary of state Sumner Welles the Argentine foreign minister Enrique Ruiz Guinazu and the Peruvian foreign minister Alfredo Solf Muro The first two points of the formula reiterate the long-standing declarations that any act ol aggression against an American republic by a non-American state is an act of aggression against all of them and that all 21 nations will co-operate for their mutual protection Two Points In Question The third and fourth points embodying the question which has occasioned all the negotiations with Argentina and Chile are: American republics consequently declare that in the exercise of their sovereignty and in accordance with their constitutional institutions and powers provided that these are in accord they cannot continue diplomatic relations with Japan Germany and Italy since Japan has attacked and the others have declared war upon a country of our hemisphere American republics finally declare that before they reestablish relations referred to in the previous paragraph they will consult together in order that their decision may be collective and Backers of Rupture Elated Despite the Chilean reservation and the careful wording of the third article backers of the diplomatic rupture were elated An American observer commented is a real and that the conference alreadly could be called a success even though it had four working days remaining The agreement still required the approval of the foreign ministers or chief delegates of 16 other American nations assembled at this third consultative Pan-American conference' These included the sponsors of the original rupture resolution Mexico Colombia and Venezuela but approval by all was not expected to be difficult For example Alberto Guani foreign minister of Uruguay had said before the agreement was reported that a unanimous rupture of relations with the Axis not be delayed too The agreement with its qualification was not all that was wanted by Welles and the bloc or northern countries solidly behind the United States They would have preferred a flat agreement for an immediate severance of relations with the Axis but what got was considered much better than nothing It was regarded as going a long way toward showing the world in general and the Axis in particular that the Americas were effectively united against aggressors Sympathy Offered The foreign ministers earlier unanimously adopted the defense committee's resolution expressing sympathy for Axis-occupied nations and assuring recognition to their exiled governments Many delegates began grumbling about waste of and showed their disappointment over Tuesday declaration by Continued on Page 4 Column 4 Darden Will Appoint Combs Compensation Board Head Gilmer as Comptroller WASHINGTON Two more ships in American coastal waters the 5269-ton City of Atlanta and the 3779-ton Latvian steamer Ciltvaira and 45 more seamen were added yesterday to the known toll of enemy submarines prowling off the Atlantic shore The? vessels were beset early Monday morning off the Carolina coast and the Navy made public the details yesterday when 33 survivors reached port The City of Atlanta was sunk the Ciltvaira torpedoed amidships was abandoned by her crew in a flooded and sinking condition After reporting recent attacks on four tankers off the Atlantic Coast three of which were sunk the Navy Department announced in a communique Tuesday that those sinkings been accompanied by attacks on other vessels within the territorial limits of the United referring to the "Atlantic Unknown Whether the City of Atlanta and the Ciltvaira completed the roster of these subjected to attack was not stated Hie two developments brought the enemy score to at least four and probably five ships destroyed in its recent campaign In American waters with one other damaged Twenty-one members of the crew were set ashore at Charleston by an American tanker Nine officers and crewmen aboard a second rescue vessel the Bury of Brazil were enroute to port Two men of the crew were reported dead Bury Reaches New York The Navy reported later that the Bury had docked in New York with the survivors Of the roster of 46 officers and men on the City of Atlanta only three were known to have survived the sinking Two were in a New York hospital One was known to be dead and the 42 others were classified as missing Line operators of the City of Atlanta said in New York that the dtfad man whose body was brought there Tuesday was John York of Clayton Ga Crew From Savannah About 95 per cent of the crew the line said came from Savannah report of casualties raised to 74 the number of dead and missing In the week-long raids by Axis submarines off the Atlantic coast Previously four ships had been attacked three being sunk and one damaged with a loss of 29 dead and missing The Navy described the City of Atlanta as a steamer 3775 feet long and 49 feet in the beam She was built at Chester Pa in 1904 and was operated by the Ocean Steamship Corporation with Savannah as home port Two Cling to Wreckage Although the Navy Department indicated there were only two survivors in the crew of 46 aboard the City of Atlanta CL Seaman marine superintendent of the Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah operators of the line said in New York that three survivors were landed at Hoboken Tuesday by a rescue vessel He said they were Tavelle second officer and Fennell an oiler who were injured slightly and taken to St Hospital Hoboken and Earl Dowdy able-bodied seaman who was not injured All are from Savannah They were picked up by the Texas Seatrain Fennell and Dowdy were found clinging to wreckage 12 miles from where the ship was attacked The Third Naval District at New York said the Cityof At- Continued on Page 3 Column 1 in the 2900 block Griffin Avenue and iti lone occupant got out and grabbed her The man hurled her to the sidewalk clapped his hand over her mouth to stifle outcries and struck her on the head with his fists The woman told police she bit his fingers with such force he removed his hand and she was able to scream Her cries attracted nearby residents and they turned on a porch light The man ran to his parked car Continued on Page 8 Column 2 By James Latimer Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr formally began his four yean as Governor of Virginia yesterday by calling for major overhauling of two State agencies repeal of the 10 per cent liquor tax a 50 per cent reduction in the small loan interest rate and a score of other governmental and administrative changes compatible with the war effort Standing bareheaded on the temporary rostrum at the south portico of the Capital the youthful former congressman from Norfolk took the oath of office from Chief Justice Preston Campbell of the Virginia Supreme Court at 32:24 A moment later he began his brief Inaugural address which took the form of a message to the 1942 General Assembly convened in session to perform yesterdays inauguration ceremonies In Ipss than 25 minutes the new Governor had finished his a closely-written document into which he packed specific recommendations at a pace of better than one a minute His keynote was that the war us to subordinate all undertakings not necessary for defense' and that the time has come to lay aside all petty Into this background he wove a warning that war tasks -will be an appeal-to guard against overconfidence and a declaration that only single all-embracing war would lead to victory Ceremonies Simple The war which dominated his speech likewise had its material effects on the inauguration proceedings Forsaken were the tra-distional military parade the men who usually participate now have more pressing business and the 19-gun salute so that the gun powder could go to sterner purposes Instead of booming cannon the bell in Capitol Hill's old watch tower tolled out 19 strokes ond the crowd cheered to give Mr Darden his first salute as Governor It was a chilly cloudy day with the sun breaking through the clouds faintly at occasional intervals The crowd of some 3000 Assemblymen guests of honor and spectators interrupted Mr Darden only twice with applause when he called for the small loan interest cut and again when he paid outgoing Governor James II Price a compliment In addition he was accorded a sizable ovation at the end of his speech Mr Darden's recommendations of most immediate impact on existing State departments would abolish the Unemployment pensation Commission as such and transfer its duties to a single a change which he predicted would bring substantial savings and would divide the functions of the present Division of Motor Vehicles and place them under two separate officials responsible to the Chief Executive The State police would go under' a separate superintendent while the licensing gasoline tax administration and other duties would all come unde another official Compensation Act Changes An estimated 125000 workers in the State would be benefited by changes Mr Darden proposed in the Compensation Act He suggested that employers of three or more workers be brought under compensation-only employers of 11 or more now are subject to the act: that maximum compensation be raised from $16 to $18 a week: and that employers of four or more (instead of eight or more at present) be covered by the unemployment compensation law Mr Darden coupled his request for repeal of the 10 per cent liquor tax to a recommendation that the sale of fortified wines be restricted to State ABC stores Tax repeal would help reduce the high price of legal whisky he said and would aid the fight against vast illegal of bootlegging Unless strong wine sales are restricted he asserted the whole ABC system be gradually undermined and ultimately First in Mr compact list of recommendations was quick enactment of legislation to organize civilian defense the full authority of the Commonwealth behind Regretfully he said he had to defer recommendations he had hoped to make on a building program for State hospitals and Continued as 6 Column 1 Counterattack Ousts Japs On Luzon Line Guerrillas Wreck Enemy Airport WASHINGTON A smashing counterattack which drove the Japanese with heavy losses out of the positions they had won from General Douglas Mac-Arthur's main force and a daringly successful lunge by Filipino guerrillas against an enemy airport were added yesterday to the saga of the Philippine defense One of General guerrilla bands swept out of the mountains of Northern Luzon in a savage raid on the airport at Tuguegarao in the Cagayan Valley Taken completely by surprise the Japanese fled in confusion leaving 110 dead on the field About 300 others were dispersed said a War Department communique and only slight losses -were -itfered by the attacking force On principal front on the Batan Peninsula American and Philippine regulars launched a fierce attack against Japanese who by infiltration and by frontal assaults on the center had succeeded in penetrating the defending lies 8 Casualties Slight Describing the fighting in this sector is particularly savage the communique said that forces hurled the enemy back recapturing all the positions they had lost to- the Japanese and inflicting very heavy losses ofti the invaders Casualties among the Americans and Filipinos were relatively moderate the department reported Although the attack on the Japanese-held airfield at Tuguegarao was merely a raid with no indication that the attacking force caught or destroyed any planes and with no apparent attempt to retain possession of the field it was the second official report in two days that resistance of Philippine-American ground forces was not confined to the determined Continued on Page 2 Column 4 In each case a young blondhaired man seized his victims both stenographers threw them to the sidewalk beat them with his fists and a blackjack nnd attempted rape In each instance his victim got 'away before he could accomplish his purpose In the last attack he fired a revolver shot at the fleeing woman The first attack occurred before 9 The first victim a 26-year-old Griffin Avenue woman was walking home from the movies when an automobile drove up beside her Johore Drive By Japanese At Standstill Singapore's Guns Down 13 Raiders SINGAPORE British artillery firing point-blank over open sights appeared last night to have beaten the Japanese offensive to a halt in northwest Johore State and A A batteries and fighter planes shot down at least 13 enemy raiders in the best work yet for the defenders of this base The A Ff too was in heavy and effective action against the invader's principal air bases Kuantan and Kuala Lumpur having been especially hard hit and left alight with flames Only on the eastern and far less critical side of the Malayan peninsula was there evidence of Japanese progress of consequence There the British command acknowledged that the imperial outpost at Endau about 85 miles above Singapore had fallen back before superior enemy force One Contact With Jape On the western anchor of the British line however British headquarters reported that there had been only slight contact with the Japanese in the area of Batu Pahat about 60 miles north of Singapore the farthest previous point of enemy penetration In the area of Bukit Payong a hill nine miles north of Batu Pahat and below the Muar River said the British communique artillery inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy at short range over open sights Heavy fighting continued there and in the near-by Bakri vicinity A' Japanese newspaper reported that Allied warships were operating in the Malacca Strait along the west Malayan coast bombard ing Japanese troops The Japanese news agency Domei claimed that advanced Japanese units stood within six miles of the Strait of Johore which separates Singapore from the Mainland Kuantan Bombed Twice The struggle in northwestern Johore was a wild medley of artillery aerial and infantry action with Japanese dive-bombers heavily assaulting the British forward troops British bombing attacks were delivered twice overnight on Japa- Sese-occupied Kuantan Fires were st off in Japanese hangars and direct hits were scored on enemy aircraft At Kuala Lumpur at least three Japanese planes were left aflame In these three raids only a single British plane was lost sharply improved aerial defense was in large part attributed to antiaircraft batteries which brought down nine enemy planes to four destroyed by British fighters Others were damaged raids on the city made by 90 heavy bombers escorted by killed 64 and wounded 154 persons Japs Thais Third of Way Across Burma Struggle Is Raging On Mountain Slopes RANGOON BURMA UP) air and ground defenders effected a strong co-ordinated defense last night in heavy fighting against mixed Japanese and Thai invaders who had struck almost a third of the way across lower Burma toward the Gulf of Martaban An intense struggle raged on the mountain slope near Kawka-reik 20 miles inside the Burma-Thailand border and about 45 miles east of the city of Moul-mein on the tideswept gulf almost directly opposite Rangoon British aircraft were in the battle itself and British bombers with fighter escorts struck hard at Thailand's Rohaing (Rah eng) airdrome east of the battlefield No British planes were reported lost Swarm Through Passes This second major enemy incursion into Southern Burma was first reported Tuesday and for a time the British held the invaders in check near Myawaddi border town in the Dawna mountain range But the enemy finally swarmed through the mountain Continued on Page 2 Column 2 at the pleasure of the Governor In serving as compensation board chairman and as clerk of the Senate at the same time Mr Combs will be in virtually the same setup as he occupied before Governor Price's term except that his earlier dual role combined the comptrollership with the chairmanship When Mr Price came in in 1938 Mr Combs went out both as comptroller and chairman Out of Mr Combs' banishment and Governor effort to choose a new chairman for the compensation board grew the first open battle between forces of the and supporters of Governor Price in the 1938 Assembly It was precipitated by the now famous "Coleman a measure denounced by Price followers a a at Mr Price Governor Price moving to establish one of his own followers as a full-time chairman asked the Legislature to increase the salary from $2400 to $4500 But the organization leaders in the House of Delegates swung behind an amendment offered by Tinsley Coleman to strike out of the budget the salary provision and to make the attorney-general a member along with the State tax commissioner and State all three to serve with- Continued oir Page 8 Column 6 Governor Darden announced yesterday afternoon a few hours after taking office that he would appoint Combs clerk of the State Senate to the chairmanship of the State Compensation Board a job held by Mr Combs along with the State comptrollership prior to the Price administration The appointment of Mr Combs who would continue to serve as clerk of the Senate will be sent to the General Assembly today Mr Darden said His salary as compensation hoard chairman is to be fixed by the Assembly as an item in the new budget bill Announcement of Mr Combs' appointment followed the disclosure by Mr Darden earlier that he was making Henry Gilmer of Wise as State comptroller and Ralph Wilkins of Portsmouth as secretary of the Commonwealth rre-Frice Lineup Restoration of Mr Combs who long has been a leader in the Democratic headed by Senator Byrd will put the compensation board back into the same political line-up which it held in the pre-Price days Martin A Hutchinson chairman of the board during most of Mr Price's term had submitted his resignation to Governor Darden on Tuesday Yeterday also brought another resignation by a Price appointee that of Robert Harper press secretary Mr resignation is effective Two Young Women Are Attacked on Streets Here Within 20 Minutes Blond Man Held Nelson Revamps Whole Setup Of War Industry Organization Police early this morning arrested a man listed as Julius A Denton Jr 23 of Portsmouth formerly of Richmond on two charges of attempted rape The arrest was made at a bus terminal and the man was taken Immediately to headquarters for questioning He denied any connection with the case Two young Richmond women were attacked last night within a period of 20 minutes on dark North Side streets WASHINGTON Wl Asserting that were out Donald Nelson generalissimo of American war production announced a revised war-industry setup yesterday with key men given sweeping authority to the job He called it at a press conference a genera! of the old production organization but still an subject to change as experience may demonstrate that change is necessary Essentially it consisted of pass ing on to his subordinates the power which the President gave him as chairman of the War Production Board relieving himself of administrative detail so that he may function as general director of the program For instance and Nelson stressed it as typical he announced that Ernest Kanzler an old associate of Henry Ford had been made head of a committee for the automobile industry charged essentially with convert- Gontinued on Page 21 Column 2 4 I.