Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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36TH YEAR, NO. 2Z—54 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1942
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SUB SINKS JAP CRUISER
India Demanding Own War Leaderl^^^^^^J^
^ '5 More Ships
No Sign Yet of Unifying Plan As Japs Approach
\Shearing of the Sheep
Gandhi Warns Britain Of 'Hostility' Unless People's Government Is Granted Country
Cardinal Asks God's Blessing
Boston, Anril 4. (UP)—Wiiiiam Cardinal O'Connell, dean of the Catholic hierarchy In America, tonight asked God's blessing on Preaident Roosevelt and victory for the United States so the peace of Christ might once again
New Delhi. India, April 4. (UP)— Great BriUin's eCforts to enlist ladia's millions in the war acalnst Um Axis reached a new impasse to- ¦Ight when All-India Congress rest on the esrth. leaders, in conference with Gan. Sir i„ ,„ Easter message, the 82- Archibald Wavell, stood firm in year-old Archbishop of Boston their demands for a native defense „|„j u,,^ thg President may minister. { "gee his sacred duty and be given
Mohandas K. Gandhi warned that • the strength to perform it." "the  house  is  on   fire"  after  Na-       The    Cardinal    begged    God'a tlonalist   leaders   of  the  Congress   assistance In "our nation's strug- had sought his guidance on "a lead i gle  for   her   rights   and   posses- te the country In case of a Japa-' sions."
I nese attack" upon India. j ^_^^^_______—^—_—
Without referring specifically toj
I the danger of a Japanese Invasion {
[which  held  the  concern  of  otheri
I Congress   figures   tonight,   Gandhi j
I indirectly    warned    Britain    that India's   leaders   "feel  the."   cannot
I prevent hostility to Britsin unless the masses feci that the war Is a
I peopUs' wsr and th* government Is;
IA peoples' government."
I Offer rails Short
He mad* it clear that BriUin'i
offer of post-war dominion status
' U far short of the NatienalUt de-
[ mand   for  full   independence   and
I thst Indian sympathy for the AI-
t mm tMm^mntnci b* <ii*taln*d
' unless til* pfJiilm ar* permitted to
mak* their own defense decisions,
through a native defense minister.
The frail little spiritual leader ofi
the masses approved a  ststement
CeOF7DEAD lAFTERMOF JFLYINGmSS
Found in Sagebrush Of Southern Idaho: Search for Sth Man
Mrs. William Prescott, Red Cross volunteer worker, cuts cuff frem
her husband's trousers to put him in "war style."   Red Croaa will
gather the cuttings, sell them to mills for reworking and usa the
money for their war work.
China Says Japs Tell Reds To Leave Manchukuo Border
OhnngMng, April 4. (CF)—The nawapsper Ta Kung Paa aald today ilapMi's reported demsMid that Kasslan troopa be withdrawn ffom the MaaehukiM bonier meant a Kusso-Japaiiese war "is no laager aToldaMe."
"Japaa will be unable to aarry aut her East Aala pellnlpa while Wberia menaces the proTlneea ef Manehukuo," It aald.   "This area wwUd serve as an Intermediate baaa fer America's eventoal attaclu on Japan." UMilCAL. TIME l<X>R ATTACK
The newapaper said .lapaa believed new was the logical time t« attack Siberia beeause neither Britala nor tba United States was able to launch a large-scale eauBter-offenslTc.
Should sueh an attack be made. Tk Kung Pao aaid. Chineee troops immediately weuld aid Kossia aad ^tha United Slates would use Kuaaian air aad naval baaea for direet attacka on Japan.
FRESH RED ARMIES
HURLEDB)[NAZIS
Russians Report 'Millions' of Men Continue Advances
Battle of Burma Depends On American Airplanes
Flying Tigers' Head Says Jap Superiority 'Won't Continue'
Navy Announces Four Torpedoeings in Atlantic
By BOBEKT P. MAKTIN
Chungking. April 4. (UP)—Amer¬ ican air oflicers mapped out an emergency campaign tonight to wrest aerial superiority from the Japanese and break up reinforced enemy land and air offensives in Central Burma. Control of the air, they emphasised. Is the key to the enemy's advance against BrIUsh troops on the Prome front and may decide tbe growing threat to India.
With the Japanese commanding' models.
Kids* Bikes Still for Sale
(UP)-
Waahlngton, April 4. The War Production Board said today that sale of children's bi¬ cycle* is not prohibited under ita bicycle freezing order.
The order, effective yesterday, bans the sale only of models hav¬ ing a measurement "from the center of the crank to the top of tha saddle staff post of more than  1» inches."
Although dealers may sell their present  stocks  of  children's  bi¬ cycles,   there   will   be   no   new Production   henceforth.
By HIUIAM B. DICKINSON
London, April 4. (UP)—Russian radio reports said tonight that "milliona" of fresh Red Army re¬ serves, thrown into action In an¬ ticipation of a heavy Cierman spring offensive, were crushing des¬ perate enemy counter-attacka which have coat the Nasi* S.OOO men in the last 48 hours.
The Russia reservists were aald to be highly trained specialists, many of them machine-gunners and trench mortar crewmen, who have "now passed their test in in¬ tensive fighting." Reda Claim Transport*
In the Barents Sea off the port of Murmansk, chief port of ar¬ rival of war supplies from Britain and the United States. Russian ahlps aank two enemy transports, of 7,000 and 3,800 tona, a communi¬ que said.
Twenty-three     German
ere destroyed loss of only three Soviet planes, it was added
(The British radio, broadcasting
Torpedoed
Daring American Subs Laid Trap South of Java
STALKED ALL DAY
Boise,  Ids..  April  4.   (UP)—The
New Orleans.  April  4.   (UP)—AI medium-sized  American  ship  tor- bodies of seven armv  fivers were """"   Norwegian   merchant   ship j pedoed off the Atlantic Coast Tues- ef warning to the BritUh as Preai- ,„,,,,rt ,„d-.. ,„ ,u. ...r-ckase of a'*" to'P'd'xd ¦•«' »'">'' March 6 > day were rescued and brought safe- dent   Maulana   Abul   Kalam   AsadIJPj^.i'n'','y°^^J.VJIJ,;;"^^^ ?r.!^5. 5.';I!^'?"^••..fi?J*...^°!';:.'» P"'''•"•''*¦""''¦'''***'' "*
and Jawaharlal Nehru of the All ; India Congresa conferred for an ihour with Wavell. British com- [atander-in-chief in India.
The conference was arranged by ' Bir Stafford   Cripps.   British   war
...       .     ¦,   „_ ..u^ .. where a aister ship wss sunk four dsy.
Idaho,  snd  an  Army  crash  crew!,„>, .„„„ ^ .^^v 'when the torpedo struck near the
crew   member   was   killed laano.   ana   ...   "'¦™/   """¦¦""" j trict announced  today. '•J'"'!."'.u''""u" '"w.', "^      believed     .^he veasel wss sunk without loss aboard  the  huge  ship. |„, „,, ,„j „ „, ^^^^ 33 .urvivorsj    For eight men on the ship, crew
»..  „....„ru   ,...vi-,   "    —.     C«PtR-8-0">bs, public relationa I were   brought   here.    The   others | members said,  it was  the  second
cabinets   envoy,   who   hoped   thst *»*"''. ",P^**"    ^        .,.*". "jI"**"   •>«''«*'«'  '«•  *>ave  been  sent torpedoing of the war. Six of the iW.vell would  he Ible  to convince "«'«„''   h«d   not   b deter^^^^^ York City     Ten  of  those eight were members of a gun crew
the  Indian   leaders  of the  British ''•"""•J'^  'i" r-u     "     ^^„»..   a^i"*"". Tf   "."".^u"'   »"" .t*''"'- -board a ahlp which waa aunk sev-
contention that It would be a gravel^'   •""""u       I    r.KfC^w "*''*¦ '""" """''' "" ''"''"'" '•'"'• I •''»' ""y" before.
mistsl<e   to  put   full  authority  for:p«t'"^,^!^   '^'iuf'.  ^rtwi"*^" ''"^^^ **"'*¦     ^*^^     "'     Frankewin.
'- took   off  laiit   nleht   on   a   routine I    The ship sailed from port March jTenn^. w«»«tanding up in the fore- ^j^^^^       g^,j„     „p      ,„^^„      ,„
India,   have   already   struck   their ^••t Meet  Wavell  Again .board. Gibbs  said,   hia  body  may
. «*?.^n"'u-"i"'"-.'.'l*.''.°":f"""  be  pinned  beneath  the  wreckage,   wljen'two torpedoes atruck witliout marine.   We abandoned ship in an
warning at about 10:20 p. m.   One orderly    manner.    Three    lifeboats hit the engine room and the other were   launched.   We   pulled   away
Friday after a flerce all-night battle acalnst enemy Infiltration forces, withdrawing to a new line about  IS miles  north of the  Irrs
the skies, pressing northward fromj ih, WPB has ruled, wiil bo only
Prome against th* w*stern Allied! two adult models, one for women
flank and massing huge reinforce-; a„d on* for men.
m*nta at Toungoo on the eastern
flank, the fate of Burma hangs in
the balance.
Tiger Bom 0*nf klent
But the wiry commander of the American "Flying Tigers," Col. Claire L. Chennault, remained op¬ timistic.
"This Japanese air superiority won't continue," he told his col¬ leagues.
Chennault Indicated that the arrival of American Flying Fort' resses and fighter planes in India meant United States aerial re¬ inforcements soon would be bat¬ tling the Japanese over Burma.
American bombers under Brig. Gen.  L.ewl8  H.  Brereton.  chief of
Makes Grand Total Of 193 Jap Ships Sunk or Damaged
Washington, April 4 (UP) —United States submarines, striking hard at enemy naval forces in the Southwest Paiflc have sunk one Japanese light cruiser and damaged and probably sunk another, the Navy announced today.
The subs also damaged five otlier enemy siiips.
The new report, the Navy said, brought the total of Jap¬ anese ships of ail kinds sunk or damaged by U. S. naval forces to 132. In addition, ac¬ cording to unofficial compila¬ tions, U. S. Army forces have sunk or damaged 61 Japanese craft, planes I bringing the grand total to 193. were destroyed Friday, against the!in f„ f^^^ struggle
The lateat blowa by \j. S. naval forces were struck in the same broad   theater   of   war   In   which
a report from Ku byshev, said the three veteran American warships Russians had taken a strategic,were lost to the enemy between town in the Leningrad sector and peb. 19 and March 1. These Amer- gained control over the enemy's |c.„ losses were announced last main supply routes.   In the Staraya n|.ht,
Russa  area   continued  attacks  on      ._   , .        , ,     ... ,
enemy airdromes were reported. , ^'"•''•'•n submarines In their The hroadcaat. recorded in Newl"*'"' ''"'^f^.'^.T?'"!' ""T, ">•" York by CBS, also said Moscow re- | '»•<'• "P «'"' their destruction of ported 24 Junkers troop carrlers'f"*"'}'""!:"" »''•"«"? '°^'be»'nl«• destroyed   on   the   ground   and   12i'"«   ?'   'be   U.S.   aircraft   tender
waddy River city.   Here the forces ,.„   _ „  ..„„....  „..„   ",,.... „ j
of  (Jen.  Harold   R.  L.  G.  Alexan-jmore  enemy  planes  shot  down  In  Jjf"^!L,^!_,." "7".      "'^ der,   British   commander,   plan   a air combat.)
i the Naval tanker Pecos.
r at Wavell's headquarters that little     ^jie big.  four-motored plane left ! If any headway had been made to- Qowen field laat night on  a train
I ward a compromise on the thorny in^ f^^g^^^_ ^fter refuelling nt Ogden'struck lust aft of It '•"«>»»> the ship and left her afloat
hr;:"^::'"l'"" J*''?."-  '"1!^'' began the retum  flight but loat     The  irew   took  to
lifeboats and;I don't know yet whether she sank the   submarine   then   rose   to   the or  not."
surface.    It   fired   six   shella   Into j    Glenn FIroff of Vermillion, S. D the   Hating   vessel,   sinking   it. said   the   crew,  members    drifted
Wollert Johanncscn, 23. was cer-[about  two   houra   before   a  naval
leaders  indicated  that  the  British  r,di„   contact    with    the    ground
i. .!"x, u"*   "?L   "l"". •¦"l'»«">'y  about 10 p. m. MST, officers said. yand Nehru told  the United Press , Jthat   he   would   have   no   further *•»«« Found Dead fmeeting, with Wavell. The wreckage first  was  sighted t.irhiriif^boa^'could^VCeTe'ac^'edA'e'Mel  pIckertK;m";"pV
Aiad,   he   said,   will   meet   with by I>ewlsGimmels of Bridge, Id,',,,,„j ^.ij,,^yj ^^^j^j^^^^ ,,„^p ,b,„ 	
ICrlpps   again    to    seek    London's on the rolling prairie sbout 10 miles    .^     , ^ ^ ,„^j    ,,j I
l-finar    reaction    to   a    Congreaa from the Utah-Idaho boundary. Hei ^,j,/^  ;^j,   ^.^^   ^jg^^j   „p   h, BA I! LING MALTA UUWNb P*Utement   rejecting   the   post-war "Ported   the   crash   to   civil   aero- ,^1^   ^^     ^„,j ^^^^  ^  ^„„   inpnilD   GERMAN  PLANES dominion   statua   offer   as   It   was  »"«>itlcs   authorities,   who   In   turn jj ^ .^^^ ,^ „.,      1^,^^^        b^,. TWUR   UCnmMn   Tl-HniCO
j brought to India by Cripps   Some ">"««• Gowen Field
I Congress quarters said that unless (Continued on Page A-22)
Uibbs said the seven dead were: (Continued on Page A-10)
dayi 'a reacue craft.
picked up The crew Included
first blow for Burma's relief by bombing a Japanese cruiser and three troop ships of an invasion fleet off the Andaman Islands In the Bay of Bengal
The Allied air situation In Bur¬ ma is rapidly approaching a crisis. Chennault, his American Volunteer Group pilots and the Royal Air Force face the arduous task of combatting a superior Japanese air force recently supplemented by the arrival of hundreds of planes from conquered Malaya and the Nether¬ land East Indies.
Today's   India-Burma   command
communique, issued at New Delhi,
(UP)^! reported  a  hospital  was  set  aflre
Viar (Jobs) Holptd This Time To Brighten the Easter Parade
one'^Enlr^fshn^n"'" """""* '"" GeTmw'div^^mbe^rUttlcked the j during a heavy Japanese bombing -^hi.i^i. .i,!fn,,Mh t„rnedoeln» harbor area in wax-e. today, but ac- attack on Mandalay, the tempo- This was the fourth torpedoeing ^^^^^ anti-aircraft fire  destroyed; rary   Burmese   caplUl   200   miles
announced today, and the 12th thia week.
One of the new victims was a medium-sized United States mer¬ chant vessel torpedoed off the At¬ lantic  Coast.
I   Despite  war,  the  nation's  tradl-i creased buying, however, especially :AtThlD"'^nd*a''siJ^ir'canaXn i"'«-^ " '    "^^  communique  said  a  Briti:ih
|«inal Easter parade tomorrow will in  woolens,   waa  attributed  to the [^„"hant  craft   "ere  torpedoed  Ini    ^"¦"'"K **"«b the enemy lost 59,rear   guard   had^ withdrawn    sue
at least three Junk«rs-87s and one,north of Toungoo. No military Junkers-8S and damaged two damage reaulted from the Manda- others. lay raid, the communique said, and
One Junkera-S7 also was shot only slight damage was caused In down Fridsy evening and two'Japsnese attacks on two other others were  damaged  by  ack-ack; towna in Central Burma
(•port more flnery than It has for fear of shortages, ,leveral peacetime yeara, sharply In-i    Seattle,    with    an    increase    in creased   shopping   throughout   the population  of 80.000 and a  payroll country Indicated Saturday. boost of 116.000.000 from prime war
It was indicated thc Easter, Production contracton*. reported promenade would feature more new " "«'•* Increase of 49 per cent. «ults than ever because woolen-' '^^ boom, however, was not conscious men rushed to buy before ! confined to industrial centers. «uffs were removed from trousers. 1 Agricultural North Dakota report- Tbe threat of a wool shortage af- •<* retail sales Increases as high '•cted sales particularly along the »» «) per cent as the result of Intern seaboard doubled   farm    Income   last   year.
Um...      . Throughout    Minnesota    and    thc
""'•• » t-uaury - I Dakotas, Easter shopping  waa re- „~.virv
There   will   be   few   of   the   cus-i ported   to  be   the   best   on   record.'By JA.MES JlcCABTNEl
th. <-...ii,h.,n «».« the Naw ,,id I planes over Malta and probably lost cessfully from Prome, completing the Carbbean Sea, the Navy aaid. L3 „„^, ^ ^„ announced. The | the evacuation neceasltated by the Lano   !Mir»i»-«rB I Royal Air Force fighters accounted advance of an estimated two Jap-
From   Sunken  Ship [fop  31   cerUins   and  28   probables, j anese  divisions  and  at  least  4,000
Norfolk.    Va.    April   4.    (UP) —jand the  ack-ack guns got 20 cer- Burmese traitors,
Forty-one of *2 persons aboard a tains and three probables.
The    British    abandoned    Prome
A Sea of Blackened Faces
Last Survivors Just Slid «ff into Waters
new atand in defense of the Minhu oil  flelds  100  miles  to  the   north.
onCH FOBCES AT CURACAS ANO AKUBA tJNDEB UJS. AD»intAI.
Sydney, April 4. (UP) —The re¬ sistance of Netherlands Indies guer¬ rilla forces is continuing with such auccess in Java that the Japanese have not been able to develop south coast harbors as posaible invasion ports against Australia, the Aneta news agency reported tonight
Guerrilla bands have been ex¬ ceptionally active in thc Bandoeni; and Jogjakarta areas and south of Bandoeng Australian units arc co-operating with the Dutch, Aneta said.
The Germans appeared to be' Operating In the Java and Indian making a series of counter-attacks,! seas, the submarines sent one Jap- to hold key Russlsn points from' anese light cruiser to the bottom which to launch their spring of- near CHirLstmas Island south of fensive. j Java, the Navy reported.
Penetrating Near SmolMisk Stalked  All  Day  by Sub
From Moscow, an offlcial com-] Another light cruiser received a munique reported that Soviet 1 direct torpedo hit In the same gen- troops had hurled back the en'my, eral region and was seriously dam- on   four   fronta   and   were   driving aged.   The   submarine    stalked ' it
deeper into thc area around Smol ensk.   former  winter   headquarters of Adolf Hitler.
(T'he London radio, in ila Ger¬ man language broadcast, was heard by the United Press In New York reporting that, according to Moscow, the Russians are ad¬ vancing in the area around Tagan
until the following day. the Navy's communique said, and then sent a second torpedo crashing into its side.
The second direct hit, the Navy said, "Is believed to have reaulted in her sinking."
Near the iaiand of Bali, captured
War  SummarT
rog,   on   the   Sea  of  Aiov.   and  Iniry.'*"*  J«P»ne"  f  "   prelude   to (Continued  on Page A-10) I'^eir assault   on  Java,   U.  S.  aub-
[marines atruck at two seaplane tenders, leaving them damaged, and at one barge transport and another unidentifled ship.
The   last   two.   thc   Navy   said, "were dsmaged by one torpedo hit
Ithe   crowded   deck   of   thc   Pccoa
Jomary  Easter  lilliea  on  display- "Scare Buying" Helped !    An Auatralian Port, April 4. (UP) *'j"^"'"", •'fP""'"  dive-bombers
P>«y normally come  from Japan-      Pittsburgh   reported   Easter   de-  -"Behind,  for some   15  miles, lay "'"«•¦ ^JP'?*'!,*" 'or four hours, out florists from coast to coast re- partment   aales   had   Increased   20 g greasy .stretch of oil and It seem-      h     /    ' J! t" ¦*"?""
nnrljt/l   BH     ,,-.   .    .^     ...    '^ .       ™. _    .    .  .L    ._j    "   n^^n^J   -^^t   '«alH     that     IhA     PffpAfl     rhllffecd     Oil
bombers appeared and dived on us.
The threat from Japanese forces Langley and Navy tanker Pecos In moving closer to India'a land and!* 50-hour battle with Japanesi^'each." fcea frontiers appeared to be caus- f''"", ?""lh "' ''"^^ .^''b ^eavj- The fifth ship damaged. In ad- In. ^..»., .V„r.i,.™i«n .,„„n^ '"" "' '"'' '^'" ""'*' '" '°'"'' *"' dition to the two light cruiscrs, ln» greater apprehension aniong|te„j Saturday evening by the an- waa a supply vessel attacked ne*; some leaders of the All-India Con- nouncement that U. S. submarines Lombok Island on the east tip of gress, but new Delhi dispatches have achieved another major vic-i Java. Indicated that Wavell had been tory over Japan's naval forcea. 'n-i.. r>— s..k »—» unable   to  overcome  Congreas   de-i ;<*"'>  **"• *"•• *^*
mands for a native minister of' The American submarines, a The American submarines pre- defense. Success or failure of the communique said, have sunk one sumably were from the Asiatic negotiations depend upon how fariJapanese light cruiser, damaged Fleet or from the naval forces the British will go in giving the and probably sunk another andj baaed on the Hawaiian Islands. Al- Indians  a  voice   In   home  defense, damaged five other enemv ships in though   U.   S.   submersibles   have
the .Southwest Pacific. This brought operated in  some  Instancea almoat
The     defense     of     India     was (^ J32 thg nun,ber of Japanese ships I within   sight   of   Yokohama,   thu* strengthened   by   the   Flying   For- „, gH  types  sunk  or  damaged  by (Continued on  Page A-22)
tresses    which    have    joined    the u.s. Naval forces while U.S. Armyi Allied forces In a stirring victory in forces, mostly bombers, have sunk I their first attack  on the Japanese ^r  damaged   another   «I   Japanese In   defenae   of   Burma—and   Indl- craft -a grand total of 193. rectly   In   defenae   of  India.    They
attacked a Japanese Invaalon fleet The sharp-shooting gunnera of in the Japanese-seized Andaman the U.S. fortress of Corregidor. Islands In the Bay of Bengal under dominating the entrance to Manila command of Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Bny and under almost constant Brereton. siege,  were  credited wilh  bringing
down two more Japanese bombers.
The Japanese air force mean- The Bataan Peninsula drive of while delivered heavy attacks on Japanese Commander Yamashita. Mandalay.      two      other      Central conqueror  of  Singapore,   remained
Didn't Sherman Name Wars in *64?
They made three runs. On the first,' ^"fma   towns   and   British   forces stalled,  however, bomb   hit   the   ship   to   star- ^''''•b have taken up new positions
board   but   fortunately   it   did   not
north  of abandoned  Prome  in  de-      Farther  to  the  soiillicust  In   the fense of thc Burma oil flelds. While Pacific the air war at thc northern
Washington, April 4. (UP) — Americans have suggested se many names for the war that the White House aecretarial staff to¬ night considered turning them over to a joint board of Army and  Navy offlcers.
President Roosevelt at a press conference yesterday aaked the public to pick a short deacriptive
_. .   , —     f-    w              --   a K><^n.3j .-.fc......... w. «.. —-- .- »«.»...  I      .....    .,       T^ 1 ....A    ....  t»Hi».. .1... U1-.U  «..,.»..  #..ai  BK»a...i    leHSP or mc nurma 011 neias,  wniie  * av;iiii; mt hit \v«r at mc nunnern name   for   the   war.    He   doesn't
ported an unusually heavy boom In per  cent.   Store officials attributed ed that all the way to the horizon,""'^   "'*',,",''   f^K*" u    /n*H   ,h^t Hnv!vlr  f^Jf, .?^h^h in th. .-rJo the  British  appeared  to be  falling  approaches   to   Au.itralia   likewise Hke "World War II," "TheSecond
.„mV- ^" California, Easter lilUea 90 per cent of thc gain to the war! blackened faces were bobbing about I ""^er  a   hail   of   bombs   and   tl^^at However  fires started in the cargo ^ northward from Prome was in a lull.  Melbourne dispatches World     War'     or     "The     War
•old for 75 cents last year, this year boom   and   10   per   cent   to   "scare  („ the water --" «;b="  ^''^''"f^7'^'.,        ^f, .nH'nr..i°H    nL^i„   'M?h.   H,.u   «nrt "ttemptlng  to  avoid  being  cut  off speculated  on   thc  probability  that Again.st the Axis."
U^^ey  were  bringing  $2.76.   FlorisU  bu.vin2." |    Thus, did a survivor of the navaljj';^"" j"»t slid Into.J^.e water an^ Japanese    air    force's    heavy       Telegrams    suggesting    names
Inf*.^f'""'»'^""««"'"'"'« ••o*" "     I"   'be   nations   capital,   depart-j tinker Pecos, which was sunk after''''   'he   current   carry   them  a»y,expl^^^^^^ ^^^   cMnene   armies   on   the losses    around    thc   New   Guinea, began    arriving    at    the    White
•ubstitutes. nient store salea for the week end-1 it had  reacued  750  men   from  thc I" '!)« banker plunged to the  bot- two "ye-inch guns. Thcy set »»8ht .^^^^^^^   ^^^^^   ^.^^^   ^^1^   ^^   ^^ Timor and New Britain approaches House a few houra after the presa
Much   of   the   Increase   in   pre- ed March  28 were  up 50 per cent^u.S. Navy aircraft tender Langley.: t"."?*.-     ,. ,,     .   ,,,„   „„..      ..d.i.u »i....VJ.-h 1,, .u-,..„~i«„ striking back in  counter-attacks.     »n<l   bad   weather   were   al   leasl conference.   A flood of telegrams
*^ter   buying      as   attributed   to over the corresponding period last.dg^^ibj his aecond sinking in sev-     ,*' /be   ¦PPr'»'^h   of   the   most       Brisk fires star ed in the w00^^ partly  responsible. and letters followed today.
greaipr    an,..!!.. ._. j    . v.ar    Much   of   thc   increase   was . .1 ,1.... critical    stage   of   the    battle    for superstructure while another bomb     on the Euroocan  front  the war .
•reaier    emploj-ment    and    larger Jff^r.^   M;.'ch_ of__lhc^_mcrcase J^_M ^^ ,_^_^__^    M,.   r«n<rlev   left   an   Aus-  wrVcked   the   elevator  shaft.   Fires ,_.V".A,.°'^!?".."°I]._L^^^^^^        On  th^  Rn»«lnn  frnnt  "m)lli„n."i      Among tho suggestions were:
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payrolls. inumbcr    unspecified—are    in    this '^'¦""»" P"''' ^"b » ''°"^°>' "' ^us- now were blazing fore and aft ana ,ity with a strong force of Brit iah of   Red   Army   reserves   were   re-l      War for Freedom, War of Frea
Dallas,    the    southwesfs    "style    ". tralian   ships,"   he   said.   "At  mid- on   the   flight   deck.  The   ahlp   be- bombers and lighters sweeping over Ported   going   into   action   against!  Peoples.   War   of   the   DicUtors.
' center"'reported   increasea   of   10 r     ' night   on   the   first   night   out,   we gan   to   list   because   near   misses Northern   France   in   bold  daylight Germany's    threat   of   an    all-out    War   of   All   Nations.   War   for
Ito   12"' per   cent   in   purchases   ofl*"*'*'"'*  ""*•'*•"">"«• received    orders,   along   with   two caused underwater explosions  next attacks,  during  which a  series  .jf spring    offen.sive.     The    Russians |  Democracy,   Liberty   War,   Civil-
! quality  produtcs. i    The Langley waa bombed and aet escorting destroyers, lo proceed to  to the hull. The llat Increased  be- ^Ir battles were fought.    The Briliah continued to deliver heavy cyunler-]  ization's  Last   Stand.   Battle   for
I    Tho    Milwaukee    Association    of     "'      "      ' Commerce    reported    "some    hys¬ teria   buying"   and   said   shoppers were   "more   Irritable"   this   year. Birmingham.   Ala..  repc-tcH   f'-i many   women    were   planning    to
cause   of   the   tremendous   topside .admitted the loss of 11 planes and blows in the Smolensk and Kalinin:  Freedom, Total War, Global War, weight on the deck.   To relieve it, aald   that   flve   Nazi   flghters   were sectors of the Cenlral  Front    ¦''^-'  '*^'--  -'  '•'"   '^—•••-—•-    »"-"..»
afire by Japanese planes at an un- a certain  point.
named   point   In   the  Southwestern Sighted by Jap Plane weight on the deck.   To relieve It, aaid   that   flve   Nazi   flghters   were sectors of the Cenlral  Front.   The
Pacific off Northwestern Australia      "We were 80 miles south of that the men  began  pushing  the  cargo ,j,ot down In the wide-ranging al- German  radio said that Luftwaffe on Feb. 27 and later waa sunk by point when we were spotted by  a overboard." lacks  which  struck   principally   at bombers,   attempting   lo   cul   Rus-
Amerlcan  destroyers to prevent Its Jap   reconnaissance   plane   and  we Langley Abandoned and Sunk railroad communications. »'"'*'    supply    route   from    Britain
plane.« and  equipment from  falllnfr figured  the ship's  luck  had  played      Ernst said  the boiler ard engine and  thc  United Stales,  h.id  struck
wear  civillpn   defense   uniforms   in into rjicmy hands. out  at  last. rooms by then were flooded and it!    The Navy's ilisilonurc of tliesinlt- again   at   supply   ship.s   in   Russia's
the Euater parada. The   TSO survivor*   srouuhed   on    "Sur*   enough,   a   formation   ot (.Continued on Page A-8; ' lng  ot  the   U.  B.  aircraft   tender ice-free Arctic oort of Murmansk.
War of the Continenta, All-Out War, Evervbody'a War, War to End War, War of thc Hemi¬ spheres. Universal War. Evil Madness, Rat Killing. Totally Totnlilartan War and War of tha Uolvarsa.