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A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Warmer, followed by showers. 36TH YEAR, NO. 2Z—54 PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1942 PRICE TEN CENTS 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: Peyrolls, and sales reports from attrit?uted to swollen government' aur\ivora of the engagement— *»r production centera subsUnli " ' " «•<! the belief. Some of the in In Today'a Intu Java, On lhe Russian front "millions" QasBlfled editorial Moviea .. Radio . Soetal *tory .... *«H»rU «..,'. ...B—It .. .O—2 ....A—in ....K—Tl ...A—H ..A—18 ...A—1 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.
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 23 |
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 | 1942-04-05 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
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. |
Month | 04 |
Day | 05 |
Year | 1942 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 23 |
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 | 1942-04-05 |
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 29685 kilobytes. |
Source | Microfilm |
Language | English |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
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
Warmer, followed by showers.
36TH YEAR, NO. 2Z—54 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1942
PRICE TEN CENTS
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-
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Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
FileName | 19420405_001.tif |
Month | 04 |
Day | 05 |
Year | 1942 |
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