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A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Snow flurries, colder, wind*. 66TH YEAR, NO. \5-44 PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1942 PRICE TEN CENTS DUTCH BLAST4 JAP SHIPS Lehman: Not Cuilty, AH Counts'^LTXsTm^Z Verdict - Astounds Valley Cleared of All Charges In Death Of Mrs. Fields; Sensational Trial Air Force of 2,000,000 Department announcement Weat Point cadets will be trained to fly at the academy. Flight instruction at Weat Point wili apeed training of piiota for the expanded air force aince flying courae.1 previoualy have not been open to cadeta before graduation. In the paat, Weat Pointera have Waahlngton, Feb. 7. (UP) — The gone to one of the Army's regular Army, disclesing plans for expand- •'¦' '"fid" for pHot training, if they .u. _i. «..«. »» . >..f.i n» qualified after graduation, the air force to a total of ¦• ,,_j._ .^_ _"„.. ,ygtem, West Point Adds Course In Flying that year. Pilot training'course* will be¬ gin at Weat Point immediately. For AU Cadeta Cadeu graduating in Juna ean finiah elementary instruction be¬ fore graduation and get their wings aa piiota by Nov. 10. Cadets in following classe* will complete their flight training befor* grad¬ uation. Flying inatruction will be avail¬ able to all cadeta who can pas* tha physical examination*. Begin- 98fens8 Dancers' Pay Opposed Swedish Motorship Down ^ff Uglteras; ,^ , 2 Lifeboats Missing New Tork. Feb. T. (UP)—The Swedish motorahip Amerikaland wa* torpedoed and aunk 30 milea off C^p* Hatteraa on the night of Feb. 2, the Mth known victim of Axia aubmarinea operating in At¬ lantic coastal waters. It waa dia¬ closed today by 11 sur%'ivors who were landed her* from an Allied rescue vessel. The Amerikaland. a l!t.SSS-ton easel leaaed by tha Bethlehem Ore , .. , . . . . 1 . «"""•¦>=" "..<:. t,............... -".¦,. ,.« «. V...... "..- 1 _.„ . n I • ^"^ carried a crew of 31». It «•*.» ing the air force to a total of ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ system, West th* physical examination*. Begin- Bill fOr SalariCS; believed the ether 28 had 2,000,(X)0 OfBcers and men, today Pointers mav become pilots a year ning with the claas that graduatea . u-,,,. UnnriaM- '"•'' added flying Instruction to the Weat sooner than in the past. In June, IBM, each cadet must 'f nUUae lYIUIIUdy, Plekad l'p eff Handy Hook Point curriculum. Beginning wilh An air force of 2.000.000 officera complete 10 hour*' training as an ConOreSS AllOrV Survivor* were picked up 170 the 1945 clasa, all West Pointers and men complements Preaident aircraft obaerver during hi* sec- **" " '^^ 1. ¦""•¦ »" Bandy Hook, where they must qualify aa aircraft obaervera. Roo.sevelt's program for making ond year aummer camp. •:. v « /nrt. r> ''"'' heen carried by the gulf The case of "The People VS. The War Department said the the United States the dominant Lieut. Col. J. M. Weikert. an Waahlngton, Feb. 7. (UPi-ton- ,(„,„ ,„„ th, point of the tor- Jame.<( Lelinian" was won bv "i"" '<>''" «'"' comprlae l.OOO.OOO power in air warfare with a con- Air Corps officer, wt i assigned to ditions within the Office of Ci\nlian pedoing. a few houra after their *!,- ill .-^o.. n.\A Vouinun r„ino "fllcers and men by the end of struction program of 185,000 planes the West Point faculty, te auper-, Defenae should be "cleaned up by „.,ter had given out. They had me ^U-\eai-Oiai>ewtown mine j^.^ y^j^j. ^„j ..jjj^yp jji^j ^^jjj^^^ jjyj..^!^ jj^^ ^^j jg^3 ^.^^^ ,H^^j training. I President Roosevelt. Rep John' b^.n f,v, jgy. „„ th, water in worker last night, a Luzerne jater on." Details of the expsn- Th-Xnvv InaUtt-eek announced it "The new pilot* from Weet Point Taber, R., N, Y., *aid tonight in , leaking lifeboat, which required countv court jurv of ten men sion program were not announced, will push expansion of ita air arm'wilTcarry with them into thia en-; the lateat outbur«t ofcongreaaional Vonatant bailing to keep afloat. Will Speed Training by leasing facllitiea at four unlver- larged Air Cerp* th* leaderahip criticism over the OCD, of which One ef their nurSber died the aec- and two women giving a ver- diet of "Not guilty on *" peTll,'nn1rwa*. counts" at 9:40 oclock—ex-i actly 35 hours after receiving! the charge from Judge J. Harold Flannery on Friday morning. A stunned court room heard the verdict read byi Court Clerk Kenneth Morgani and fully a minute passed be- j fore the import of his words wa.s gra.sped by anyone, in¬ cluding the murder case de¬ fendant. He was on trial for the slaying of Myrtle Fields, 40-year-old Kingston domes¬ tic, and a verdict of no less than second degree murder had even been hoped for. | Judge Flannery toft the oeurtj room abruptly and witheut eem- ment, giving n» ¦apparent atvn ef hi* feeling*, tubman beamed with pleasure aa he was clasped In the arma nf hia aiater. His wife, the mother of hia three children, stood at his .llde. Several friends stepped up to congratulate him while his attorneys were congratulated by officers of the court, including at¬ taches of the district attorney'; office. "Ne tJomment," Schwarta Aaked whether Lehman could br released immediately to Join hi.« family. District Attorney Leon Srhwarl/. told Attorney Edward F. McGovern that he had to be re¬ manded to the county Jail until Sunday, upon the advice of Judge Flannery. Another judge, it was Inferred, would sign the releaae. "I have no comment to make," said District Attorney Schwartz. "Lehman will be held until I de¬ cide what la to be done about the other caaea." The Newtown mine worker waa one of four defendants arreated for the murder of the Kingston domeatic on the mountain bacli of Aahley the night of Sept. 14. Other defendants are Andrew Tomko. who la acheduled to go on trial tomorrow: Edward McGee of Luzerne nnd .Io.<ieph Mails of Gil- ligan atreet, city. While unqueationably diapleaaed with the verdict, Schwartz inti¬ mated to Defenae Attorney Mc¬ Govern that it would be uaele a for him "to try Lehman on a lesser charge thaiv«thls." He congratu- \~\ii. !.rhinan'a lawyer on the de¬ fenae offered In behalf of hia client. Attorney Thomas Moore, rounael for .Toseph Malia. and Attorney Morria Glazier, both of whom have (Continued on Page A-ll> air force's goal in aities for giving preliminary train-1 and aplrit of Weat Point,' revealed in a Wai 1 ing to 30,000 proapectve pilots a Department said. Survivors of Sunken U.S, Submarine the War I Mrs. Elanor Roosevelt is aasociate I director. Taber's atatement cam* aa he an¬ nounced the probability ef a Re¬ publican motion to recommit th* $160,000,000 deficiency appropria¬ tion bill to a Houae committee next week. The plan to recommit, he aaid, i» to make certain that none of the JIOO.000,000 (XID appropria¬ tion. Including fund* for gas maak* and fire fighting equipment, shall be u*ed to pay aalaries of dancers, actors and other entertainera In ,,,... ^ . j OCD administrative posts. •""'":"". '"'boat was showered _..„_, •« _» with flaming ell by fhe second tor- TeM te "Pipe Dewn lp,j„ explosien, which ripped into Taber charged that th* OCD haa the Amerikaland as the lifeboat become an "anti-defenae outfit. ^.„ rounding ths veasel te seek As a reault of hia outspoken other aurvivora. Taber revealed the firat torpedo struck about 8:20 p.m.." Spent aaid. "I had only my ..V-'CUvJiiia^kA'' ¦'' ''.I ..A'^oir.^ ^(.i< alwaya expected, even (hough the engineer told me h* waa going tn aleep in pajamas that night, just for the luxury of it. He said we were too cloae to shore to be tor¬ pedoed and, anyhow, the auhs would not try to aink an empty ahip. He waa one of those we have not heard from. Jacket Saved Life "I put on my ahoea and leather jacket-I think tha jacket aaved' my life—and made for the life-' boat I waa aaaigned to. We low- > ered it and went around to loo'k for others. I aaw another llfe-> been hoat lowered with 18 in It, and' jthey tell me another waa lowered ' but I did not aee it. I "Th* aecond torpedo atruck and a great maas of flame went up.! We took a shower of oil and water and the explosion waa ao great that I thought it was all over with us. Saw >lrn on Suh "When we pulled away from the ahip we tA.v the sub. Three men were in the conning tower. Every¬ one in th* lifeboat bucked down, becauae w* were afraid they would ahell ua, but they merely approach¬ ed the Amerikaland and, I suppose, took Its name. Then they sub¬ merged and that waa the laat we saw of a boat until we were res¬ cued. "We discussed whether to row or put up sail, but there was quite a rough sea and so we pulled nn the Totals 40 Ships Hit in Macassar; Dutch Score Is 59 SURABAYA BOMBED end day out. Six survivors were taken to Swedish Hospital, Brooklyn, from the rescue ship and five othera were brought to a New York hotel. They were not certain whether twe er three torpedoea atruck the ship, aome believing « third ex- ploeion which they heard was caused by fire in the engine room. Showered hy Flaming oil Gunnar Spent, chief steward, aald It waa remarkable that all aboard | ears for about three houra to keep the veaael were not loat, for the headed againat the sea. Next morn¬ ing a gale atarted to blow and we did not dare put up aail. Sat WlHi Feet in Water Japs Hold Bases For Java Attack; Tokyo Claims Denied By JOHN R. .MORRIS Batavia. Feb. 8 (Sunday). (UP)— Sturdy Dutch aea and air fightera hammered new blows at the Japa¬ nese invaders tpday. blasting four more enemy ahipa. Including two cruisers, and boosting their ffl»»1 bag since start of the war te M — almost one a day. But it wna admitted that despite the terrible drain on Japanese manpower through the sinking of tranaports and warships that tb* eneniy has plowed forward. The Japanese now hold most of the key bases from which direct aa¬ aault upon the islanda of Java and Sumatra and fhe vital naval baae of Surabaya ia expected seen to be launched. Ijiteat Dutch naval exploits In¬ cluded the sinking of a Japanese cruiser of undated tonnage near criticiam of OCD, that he had received anonymous telegrams and telephone calls urg- j ing him te "lay off" and "pipe, dewn." He said the me*(a«a* wer* authored by peraona whe deoeribed ! thameelvee aa frlMtd* ef empler*** ef OCD. •Thev don't bother me," Taller, *aid. '"They are indicative of the kind of a gang that would raid j the Treasury." I "The situation ought to be cleared up. Congress ought not to have to do It. The executive should do IL" Comes'up .Monday The bill Is scheduled for further consideration Monday and the House already has criticiied ap- "I wa* reading in my bunk when i "We covered the lifeboat with Amboina and the damaging of an- canvaa to keep out the aeas. I dUs- "'her cruiser and a aubmarine in covered a leak caused hv hea>-y "'« ""'"•' waters. A large Japa- iContinued on Page A-IOi Moat of Blaming Oil May Protect Singapore Gung Blast Small Japanese Ships; Defenders Have Men, Need Onl.v Planes; Thousands of Chinese Ask for Arms By HAROLD QIARD Singapore. Feb. 7. (UP)— Biasing ' **" "¦*•—which may yet play a part pointments of Movie Actor Meivyn i )„ Singapore's defense against Jap Shown with the officer In charge of rescue operations at¬ tempted at aite of the accident are the three aurvivora of the United States submarine S-26, lost off Panama when rammed by an escort vessel. Left to right, they are: Lt. Rohert M. Ward, Lt. Commander Earle C. Hawk, commander of the lost sub; Cap- —Ttltffhtn* PhtU tain T. J. Boyle, In charge of rescue operationa. and Seaman Joaeph B. Hurst. (Story on Page A-8.) Douglaa and Dancer Maria Chaney, ^„,,g attack -raged on the north n protege of Mra. Rooaevelt. who i ^^^^ j^^^ ^j,,,^ Britina big guns has been held reaponaible for their , ^i^.j^^ .lapanea* batteries on the appointments. : Johore shore into alienee and blew The Houae tentatively adopted'aome amall enemy ships out of the an amendment designed to prevent | water. use of deficiency funds for their (The Vichy radio broadcajit a [aalaries. But Taber said thst fur-1Tokyo report that the British are I ther scrutiny of the appropriations pumping oil onto the waters of the ne<>e transport waa bombed and left In ainking condition off tha West Borneo roaal. The communi¬ que did not make clear whether th* Dutek attack en the twe Jkpmmw erulaar* and the Nbrnarine «M carried eut by eurface or air unltl of the Dutch f}A^•y. M Sunk ta .^facaaaar Thl* brought the total of Japa¬ nese merchant and warships dam¬ aged, lunk or probably sunk hy th* Dutch to A9 in 63 days of fighting. It raiaed the score of .lapanese ships aunk by Dutch and American {force* since the opening of the naval base on the north coast of battle of Macasaar Straits two the island because of the impossi-'weeks ago to approximately 40. billty of utilizing the baae now that' However, with the opening of th* It is within eaay range of Japanese 10th week of war In the Southwest guns across the Johore Straita. Pacific it was evident to Dutch Pcrrival emphasized tiiat "we are ofHciala that even fhe huge toll ef not being abandoned by the navy, losses Inflicted at Macasaar Strait* There is n lot of work to do around haa only momentarily slowed th* these shores and it'a being done." A momentum of a vast Japanese of- high ranking military official aaid fensive. flatly that "this position la not go- It was admitted her* that the ing to get less difficult but our po- Japanese are rlosing ever nearer committee is deslr?d. Johore Strait and setting It afire U,S, Planes Get Three Japs Downed Near Bali; MacArthur's Lines Hammered Again; Assault Expected -Amer- Allied Pacific Washington, Feb. 7. (UP) lean pursuit planes have shot down three Japaneae craft near romantic Ball, the War Department reported today, while Japan intenaified an artillery and aerial offenaive against American poaitlona on « . -n. • 1 J . .u . forcea in the Australian-New Bataan Peninsula and at the gate- J"""^" "' "'" "" , „ ^ land area, way of Manila Bay, ^^ ^^^ ^.^^^ .^ ^^^.^^,^j j^.j y,^. It waa considered likely tjiat the Admiral Willinm A. Glassford Jr. The Houae yeaterday became eo'fo prevent any Japanese croaaing. annoved at the Douglaa and Oianey The straita are only half a mile to appointments that It even knocked a mil* wide and such tactics might Donald Duck, Walt Dianey'a quack- be feaaible proWded aufflclent oil ing hero, off th* Treaaury Depart- etorea are available. Th* Brltiah ment "payroll" a* an Income-tax are presumed to have amassed huge payment stimulator. oil atocks at Singapore's iinder- Th. Treasury Department al-l«'"°""') '•eservolra for us. by the readv has paid for a Donald Duck!»""»" "••'*• cartoon to be shewn In movie j Need Only Planea houaes in connection with th* 1*42 Behind the Brltiah big gunawait- wsr Incom* tax program. Final de-jed masses of Australian. Brltiah ~~ 'letion from the bill ef the $80,000 land Indian troopa—many newly Waahlngton, Feb. 7 (UP)—The staff ef the commander-in-chief of allocation for th* cartoon would arrived—who frankly aald they had Navy lat. today announced a re-! the U.S. fleet After **rvinB a* ad- "i"''* ^^e Treaaury ttpenditure never *een a fortreaa ao heavily (jrganizatlon of Allied naval.viaer te tha Argentine nai-y ¦¦-- "*' sition is definitely not too bad Thia official admitted that the .Japanese "have got plenty" to back up their assault on the Island. Japa Fa4^ Colossal Taak However, when this correspond- (Continued on Page B-ll) to Java and Sumatra, using their air arm heavily in an attempt to soften up the Dutch defenses pre¬ paratory to full-scale invasion ef¬ forts. The great Surabaya naval baae (Continued on Page A-10) American Put in Charge Of Anzac Naval Forces War l^iiiiiiiiarT forces of the blows for the defense of their In Singapore, treaaure-jammed Indiea. They sank a Japaneae cruiser, damaged an¬ other, damaged a submarine and tranaport. strength in the Pacific which' partment at Buenos Aires and aa ' . _.„... »_ .x.. .,,,.._ , ._..,j Douglas, who waa named to the placed Vice Admiral Herbert F. commander of tha USS Maryland ^^.j, di^^,io„ af the OCD, would be Leary, United States Navy, in com- h* wa* placed In command of the p^ij on a per diem basis at the mand of combined United Nations' Yangtze patrol of the Asiatic fleet, rate of $8,000 a year Zea- Lehman Verdict Amazes Valley The Sunday Independent had a rush of telephone calla lasl nijsht which was even worse than fhat met after big football games. They were all seeking informa¬ tion on the (lei'ision of the Jury debating the outcome of the trial of Jamea Lehman, arcuaed of fhe murder of Mra. Myrtle Fields. The filth which CHme out of the trial, aa uaual, added to the ex¬ tent of Ihe "Intereat". It can be reported also that the majority of I hoae Informed of the outcome of the rase-"acquittal on all counts"—expressed amnze- Jr.enl, lo pul il mildly. One man said: "That aetlles It. There's a couple people I don'l like. Now I'll juat ellminRte them. It will mean only a few moder¬ ately unpleasant days in a court room and then all will be over. .They'll be dead and I'll he free." new assaulLs against lien. Duoglas MacArthur's valiant Bataan de¬ fenders and the American island fortresses at the bay's entrance rep¬ resented the start of a supreme Jap¬ anese effort to crush American re- aiatance before next Wednesday, the great Japanese national lioli- I day-National Foundation Day. r-40s in Action i Ball figured in the Southwestern j Pacific hostilities for the first re- I corded time when the War Depart- I nient morning communique told (how eight American P-40 pursuit planes successfully engaged a greatly auperior force of enemy hombera and fighters, downing at 1 least three Japa and possibly dam- i aging others. One American plane Iwas destroyed and another is miss¬ ing. Increased activity of .lapanese dive bombers over MacArthur's Bataan linea and enemy artillery I action on the peninsula and from I across Manila Bay appeared to in- 'dicate that the Japanese were tun- ling up for their attempt to give now commands units which form¬ erly constiluled th. U. S. Asiatic fleet. The name given to his com¬ mand is "U. S. Naval Forces, Southwest Pacific." Inder Harl, Wavell Both Leary and Glassford's com- TOKYO RADIO CLAIMS MORE BORNEO GAINS Tokyo, Feb. 7—(Official Japanese previously i would receive t4,W)0 annually as defended. One hard-bitten Tommy, a veteran of the Battle of Britain, said: "Why, Singapore Is more closely manned than the most dangerous Mlaa Chaney ''*''"'• "" *''• Brltiah coaat. All The embattled United Nations Burma, the Dutch Indiea and the Philippines braced Ihemseives Sat tiirday night against an all-out probably aank Japanese aaaault which may come at any time. the'oCD's children's', "o far we want Is more and more planes.' an offlcial In the OCD's children's , "" '"r the alege of Singapore diviaion 1 *••" largely a duel of big Taber sought unsuccessfully yes- «""•""<' '""['¦r" •'''¦""' '*''"'"': terdav to amend fhe deficiency bill "-""^ Johore Straits and a battle of ,o that none of ita funds or money P>""" "^f'""''^ ^^'i. "j^"!?'' T"*,' ppropriated fo fhe OCD l"*!!""/'^^'""' "*"'*' 5=' f"" '"'' „""'-.—; • ¦""¦""• '~\7':'. could be uaed to pay aalaries suchi'"<"''•'•<'• ^"Z""'"' j*""' with Jap- Broadcast Recorded by United ^^ ^^^^^ ^, Douglas and Miss,•""• f""» «»»'•«» P'^* **:!: ^'"*f" -" - J«P«n"« Chaney but he waa blocked on ,Pore airdrome under flre the main — . _. 'British air aupport must be based rutslde the iaiand. May Baae Plahes In Ruriiui For the moment fhe aweeping enemy assault which haa carried the Japaneae through Malaya, to the brink of conquest of the Philippines, through the outer barriers of the Dutch Islanda and lo th. Salween River in Burma waa pausing. But. high military leaders on each of the vital fronts admitted that the relative calm only precedes a storm probably unequalled in intensity. The Japaneae air force a^aln at- tacl<ed widel.v. The Dutch admitted that the Japaneae have almost com¬ pletely overrun their secondary naval baa. on the iaiand of Am¬ boina despite small scale Dutch guerilla resistance which continuea. Press army Jan. 31 captured Tanahorogot, ence Cannon, D., Mo., of the House mands are subordinate to Admiral,Eaatern Dutch Borneo lown about appropriations committee. Thomas (.'. Hart, who remains «„ „;, ., . ., D„iii, T>....n Later, however, an amendment A dispatch by Harold Guard, United Press staff correapondent. revealed that the massive In New York) units in a surprise sttack p^int ^f order by Chairman Clar naval ba.se at Singapore, keystone of the empire's Far Eastern de- (Thls may mean that the British fensrs, now stands deserted and naval commander-in-chief in the."" """"¦ ••""'¦••¦"'='"¦ "• ""¦¦¦¦ - .-i-—. ^,^.^^1 adopted tentatively to prevent propose ,to maas their chief air at least temporarily abandoned. Southwest Pacific under British '^vhlch the Japanese occupied Jan. ,.,e of any funda in the pending;atrength In Burma, to strike at the British naval ships have been General Sir Archibald Wavell. io. the official Domei news agency hill to pay CXTD aalaries to persons rear of the forces besieging Singa- evacuated and. the diapatih in- fonlght in a Borneo dispatch, 'n physical filneas programs as pore, and in Sumatra, from where dicated, moal of the stores and American fighter planea aiding In the defense of Bali, shot dowa' three Japaneae planes with an ap¬ parent loaa to two V S. aircraft (5en. Douglas MacArthur reported that Japanese guns emplaced on the south side of .Manila Bay ha^ opened up againat the American forta at the harbor mouth—while British Japaneae dive bombers attacked the United States positions ea Bataan Peninsula. 60 milea southwest of Balik Papan, The uniflration of the -J. United said Nation.s' forces in the Austraiiit- Another either removed or de- , . .. Hotured '''")'"•''¦ ""'' '*" dancers and also they can atrik. across the Malacca equipment v-.,„ Tnaio.iH >ri» fli. in «.uh th. force, It sai , r p psrflclpanla in street ahowa and Straita agalnat the Japanese flank.) atroyed. ^^^":.?^. !" .u"? ...!! '^..'J,-'^ I."!* coastal Lahad Datu. 50 milea north theatrical performancea generally.' P.rcival said that ''certain per- of Tawao on the eastern coast of The amendment la subject to a sonnel and stores" have been re- In F.urope the Rus.^lana moved British North Borneo. ilafer roll-call. 'moved from the maasiv. British powerfully to release completely ''h'l-- northern metropolis of Lenin Brltiah do- cloaely-knit equcsts of those two millions for a more wnr organization. Leary'a command will be known tui the Anzac Forces. His war¬ ships and those of Glassford will be divisions of Hart's command. Vice Admiral Glassford waa born Mt Sail Franciaco on June 6, 1886. snd waa appointed to the Naval Academy from New Mexico in 190;. Saved .Ship After CoUlslon In 1918, aa commander of the GIVING Something to YOUR Uncle Sam In Today's Iaaue CUaaiflrd Editorial Movie* Ra«llo Soetal Sport* Btery B—II C—5 their people at home, suffering uSS Shaw, he was awarded the under the deprivations forced upon Distinguished Service Medal for them by the war lords, something meritorious conduct following a col- to celebrate on the anniversary of lision between hia ahip and HMS their nation'a birth. Aquitanla. He brought the-Shaw- One of the Japanese dive bomb- into port after her bow had been ers attacking the Bataan defenrler.s sheared away and the vessel had was shot down bv American fighter been still further endangered by [planes, when two nf the latter en- fire and a threatened explosion of igaged four of the eneniy planes, ammunition (Continued on Pag* A-10> In 1934 Glaasford aarved en th* Tho <'hri*tniaa Seal Idea may atart something of invaluable aid to the eountry. If lhe sugges¬ tion that the io-cent Defent-e Htamps (higher onea If jou »1»hl be uaed In the name way ever become* a nallon-» Ide fad. It will mean hundreda of thousand* of dollar* to the I nited Slates' »»r effort. The Idea here, of course. Is to buy theae War Stantpa. paste them on envelopes «here the.v will be cancelled and I hen Ihe money whleh bought them. In¬ atead nf being a loan to I'nele Sam, becomea a gift It wlU be neresaary, of rourae, lo paste them up near the postage ¦tamps, so the cancelling niarhino will hit them. Otherwiae the re- ripient rould take them off, rash thrm and I ncle Sam would be helped not a whit. It should NOT he understood that the Defense Stamps can be uaed Inatead of postage. They will NOT aerve the same purpose any more than do the Chriatina* Seal* of the Tuberculosis .Society. •lust aa theae Christmaa Seals aerve only to show that some¬ one la trying to help Ihe needy, ae alae wiU *imllar u*a|e e( Defense Stamp* Indicate better than an.vthlng else that people are helping the greatest cause this rountry ever knew. Perhaps one thing needed is to make the Defense Stamp* a little eaaler to get. The i'hriatinaa Seal*, having ne Intrinsic value, are just mailed eut In Ibe hopei those who grt them will aend in the money. Since Defense Stamps have a raah value, that rannot be done. Try It annietime. See how it feela tn give your rountry aome¬ thing Instead ef Juat lending the mnney. prad from the Nazi grip while in Africa Axis forces atill drove for¬ ward and British fears of a aprini (ierman offensive toward Suez an<i the Caucasu* were mounting. I At Singapore the British were dug in for a hard flght. Big Japan¬ ese niorlara on the Johore aide From Australia came significant reports of "many great" Allied war movements of undisclosed nature, preaumably movements designed te -strengthen and reinforce the United Nations' position* in the Southwest Pacific. Chine** troop* In increasing numbers moved Into front lin* po*l- tiniLs on the vital Burma front and American and British fighting planes hooated their total of Jap- ane.se planes ahot down In thia theater to 122 planea at a cost of five to themselves—a sensational record. British military experts believed lobbed shells into residential areas "!»' Ormany may have decided te and big British guna smashed back, "bandon the long salient at tha But Japanese planes still droned northern end of th. Ruasian front which half encircle* Leningrad and fall back to positiona in Estonia and the frozen Kholm marshes. Tlie move would be designed to end a supply problem which heavily burden.s the German army and te prepare for the concentration ef German armed forces in the south for fhe expected apring driv* t»" atill droned over Singapore, bombing fhe de¬ fenses in an effort to soften lhem up. Air power to meet the Japan¬ ese, it was indicated, is being maas- fd on the .Tapane.«e flanks Burma find pnasihly the long island of Sumatra. The Dutc'h, flghting stubbornly '•gainat a stronger foe, atruck new,ward th* (jaucastia.
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 15 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1942-02-08 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
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Month | 02 |
Day | 08 |
Year | 1942 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 15 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1942-02-08 |
Date Digital | 2009-08-12 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
Digital Specifications | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archival Image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from film at 300 dpi. The original file size was 29725 kilobytes. |
Source | Microfilm |
Language | English |
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Contact | For more information, please contact the Osterhout Free Library, Attn: Information Services, 71 S. Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Phone: (570) 823-0156. |
Contributing Institution | Osterhout Free Library |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text |
A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Snow flurries, colder, wind*.
66TH YEAR, NO. \5-44 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1942
PRICE TEN CENTS
DUTCH BLAST4 JAP SHIPS
Lehman: Not Cuilty, AH Counts'^LTXsTm^Z
Verdict -
Astounds
Valley
Cleared of All Charges In Death Of Mrs. Fields; Sensational Trial
Air Force of 2,000,000
Department announcement Weat Point cadets will be trained to fly at the academy.
Flight instruction at Weat Point wili apeed training of piiota for the expanded air force aince flying courae.1 previoualy have not been open to cadeta before graduation. In the paat, Weat Pointera have Waahlngton, Feb. 7. (UP) — The gone to one of the Army's regular Army, disclesing plans for expand- •'¦' '"fid" for pHot training, if they .u. _i. «..«. »» . >..f.i n» qualified after graduation, the air force to a total of ¦• ,,_j._ .^_ _"„.. ,ygtem,
West Point Adds Course In Flying
that year. Pilot training'course* will be¬ gin at Weat Point immediately. For AU Cadeta
Cadeu graduating in Juna ean finiah elementary instruction be¬ fore graduation and get their wings aa piiota by Nov. 10. Cadets in following classe* will complete their flight training befor* grad¬ uation.
Flying inatruction will be avail¬ able to all cadeta who can pas* tha physical examination*. Begin-
98fens8 Dancers' Pay Opposed
Swedish Motorship Down ^ff Uglteras; ,^ , 2 Lifeboats Missing
New Tork. Feb. T. (UP)—The Swedish motorahip Amerikaland wa* torpedoed and aunk 30 milea off C^p* Hatteraa on the night of Feb. 2, the Mth known victim of Axia aubmarinea operating in At¬ lantic coastal waters. It waa dia¬ closed today by 11 sur%'ivors who were landed her* from an Allied rescue vessel.
The Amerikaland. a l!t.SSS-ton easel leaaed by tha Bethlehem Ore
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ing the air force to a total of ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ system, West th* physical examination*. Begin- Bill fOr SalariCS; believed the ether 28 had
2,000,(X)0 OfBcers and men, today Pointers mav become pilots a year ning with the claas that graduatea . u-,,,. UnnriaM- '"•''
added flying Instruction to the Weat sooner than in the past. In June, IBM, each cadet must 'f nUUae lYIUIIUdy, Plekad l'p eff Handy Hook
Point curriculum. Beginning wilh An air force of 2.000.000 officera complete 10 hour*' training as an ConOreSS AllOrV Survivor* were picked up 170
the 1945 clasa, all West Pointers and men complements Preaident aircraft obaerver during hi* sec- **" " '^^ 1. ¦""•¦ »" Bandy Hook, where they
must qualify aa aircraft obaervera. Roo.sevelt's program for making ond year aummer camp. •:. v « /nrt. r> ''"'' heen carried by the gulf
The case of "The People VS. The War Department said the the United States the dominant Lieut. Col. J. M. Weikert. an Waahlngton, Feb. 7. (UPi-ton- ,(„,„ ,„„ th, point of the tor- Jame.<( Lelinian" was won bv "i"" '<>''" «'"' comprlae l.OOO.OOO power in air warfare with a con- Air Corps officer, wt i assigned to ditions within the Office of Ci\nlian pedoing. a few houra after their *!,- ill .-^o.. n.\A Vouinun r„ino "fllcers and men by the end of struction program of 185,000 planes the West Point faculty, te auper-, Defenae should be "cleaned up by „.,ter had given out. They had me ^U-\eai-Oiai>ewtown mine j^.^ y^j^j. ^„j ..jjj^yp jji^j ^^jjj^^^ jjyj..^!^ jj^^ ^^j jg^3 ^.^^^ ,H^^j training. I President Roosevelt. Rep John' b^.n f,v, jgy. „„ th, water in
worker last night, a Luzerne jater on." Details of the expsn- Th-Xnvv InaUtt-eek announced it "The new pilot* from Weet Point Taber, R., N, Y., *aid tonight in , leaking lifeboat, which required countv court jurv of ten men sion program were not announced, will push expansion of ita air arm'wilTcarry with them into thia en-; the lateat outbur«t ofcongreaaional Vonatant bailing to keep afloat.
Will Speed Training by leasing facllitiea at four unlver- larged Air Cerp* th* leaderahip criticism over the OCD, of which One ef their nurSber died the aec-
and two women giving a ver-
diet of "Not guilty on *" peTll,'nn1rwa*.
counts" at 9:40 oclock—ex-i
actly 35 hours after receiving! the charge from Judge J. Harold Flannery on Friday morning.
A stunned court room heard the verdict read byi Court Clerk Kenneth Morgani and fully a minute passed be- j fore the import of his words wa.s gra.sped by anyone, in¬ cluding the murder case de¬ fendant. He was on trial for the slaying of Myrtle Fields, 40-year-old Kingston domes¬ tic, and a verdict of no less than second degree murder had even been hoped for. |
Judge Flannery toft the oeurtj room abruptly and witheut eem- ment, giving n» ¦apparent atvn ef hi* feeling*, tubman beamed with pleasure aa he was clasped In the arma nf hia aiater. His wife, the mother of hia three children, stood at his .llde. Several friends stepped up to congratulate him while his attorneys were congratulated by officers of the court, including at¬ taches of the district attorney'; office. "Ne tJomment," Schwarta
Aaked whether Lehman could br released immediately to Join hi.« family. District Attorney Leon Srhwarl/. told Attorney Edward F. McGovern that he had to be re¬ manded to the county Jail until Sunday, upon the advice of Judge Flannery. Another judge, it was Inferred, would sign the releaae.
"I have no comment to make," said District Attorney Schwartz. "Lehman will be held until I de¬ cide what la to be done about the other caaea." The Newtown mine worker waa one of four defendants arreated for the murder of the Kingston domeatic on the mountain bacli of Aahley the night of Sept. 14. Other defendants are Andrew Tomko. who la acheduled to go on trial tomorrow: Edward McGee of Luzerne nnd .Io. |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
FileName | 19420208_001.tif |
Month | 02 |
Day | 08 |
Year | 1942 |
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