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A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Continued warm, possibly showers. 36TH YEAR, NO. 27—4^ PAGtiS WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1942 PRICE TEN CENTS CHINESE REPULSE JAPS To Slash Railroad Service for War Duplicate Runs to Be Eliminated May End Luxuries, Stop Some Lines; Plan tc Care for Industrial Worlcers Br JOHX A. PABRM London. May 2. (UP)—Adolf Hit¬ ler has drafted 2,500,000 enforced laborers from the occupied coun¬ tries and threatens to conscript Washington, May 2. (UP)- women in an effort to overcome _,, , ., 1 . , ,, J . •" acute labor shortsge slowing Elimination of high-speed dupiicat-, down German war production, ac- Ing railroad services on competing cording to Allied intelligence re- Iln s and probabls •limlnation ofiPort* reaching London tonight, all luxury rail equipment for the! Germany's tremendous losses of Hitler Raids Europe's Labor May Conscript Women from Captive Lands; Food Scarcer lAnother Airliner Smashed Against Peak duration ia "rapidly approaching". Director Joseph B. E:astman of thc Office of Defense Transportation ssld tonight. Eastman saA that rail schedules manpower, war materials and munitions in the winter warfare on the Russian front were said in these reports to have created an; acute situation, compelling Hitler! ta speed up production not only in' ... . . ., ^ , ^ I Germany but in every occupied' would havc to bc readjusted with country. I the result that aome communities; The British rsdio tonight quoted might lose ail railroad service and the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher have only bus transportation. The zeltung as saving that the food action waa necessary, he said, so gnustlon in Germany slowly but that essential military and civilian .teadily deteriorates" and thst the travel weuld net bc impeded. j Germans are finding it •impossible I^onger Tralna—Mere Stopa |lo replace German labor with for- Wliere Next?> Japan Seems Veiling Plan cign labor." The lack of foodstuffs Other restrictions on passenger, ..t-u. i. i. .> • A.m . ^ travel would Include lengthening' J^',.'"^.»/ '.'>'«'«'"«• '" «" of fast train schedules to Include j;"^'""*"'^. ,?«''»i^ '"J" "" mor. stops and posaible reduction''•"'«"'°'''' '"c Zurich news, or elimination of such hiaury J!.*P*' "'", \ equipment ss privste, club, lounge, I *-*" * "•* Enough parlor or sleeping cars. ! ractorics In these occupied coun- In a statement on thc entire '"¦'•¦ which have been converted passenger transportation problem,!'"'» war production centers are Eastman aald that public carriers' working night and day, manned by hsd more than SO per eent addi- the "enforced labor" and Nasi tianal cllenU since Pearl Harbor, •uthorities wer* said to be devising; This division, he said, was due te "'w mesns of conscripting * man- the gasoline and rubber shortages, power. { Esstmsn will discuss the passen- Thousands of Dutchmen have ger servire problem at the con- heen taken to Germany, according | ference of governors in Washing-,to the reports reaching London, ton Tucsday. {hut they are not enough and it is Hc explained that Ust y.ar high- '"•P"'^*'' '''"' "?• Germans have Seventeen warned that unless Wreckage of a big transport plane In which 17 died when it crashed into mountain peak near Salt Lake City Friday night. This Is the srea which has be¬ come a death trap for passenger planes, with SO there in the last —Acm Ttitvlitt* lives claimed five yeara. 4th Plane in Five Years lAUSTRALIA FEARS To Crash Same Mountain Washington. May 2. (UPi — Expert opinion was divided to¬ night over the significance of various unofficial reports that the Japanese are preparing either for an assault on Australia or a grandscale attempt to sever Am¬ erican supply lines through the South Pacific. Some military experts detected evidences of a "wsr of nerves" focussed on Australia tn veil a drive in some other direction. perhaps against Russian Siberia or Alaska, or possibly Hawaii. Navy Is Beady Other* contended thst Indica¬ tions of a forthcoming attack on Australia or the Allied supply routea are the "renl thing." They pointed out that recent reports havc indicated the presence of a powerful Japanese fleet con¬ centration in the Marshall Islands. From there, the Jap na\'y could strike in several directions—at Auslralia or its flanks, or westward srross sea lanes traversed by U. S. supply and troop ships. Exponents of Ihe "war of nerves" theory said the Japnn- nese appear to be following the old Axis strategy of portending action In a certain direction and then striking elsewhere. Berlin Aiding Tokyo They pointed out Berlin Is aid¬ ing th. Japanese in these tnctics. A German broadcast, quoting a Shanghai dispatch, reported that the Japs "apparently" ar. pre¬ paring for an attack nn Aus¬ tralia. This dispatch said tension was increasing In Northern Australia because it was evi¬ dent .lapnn diil nnt Intend 'o wail for an Allied attack on t le territory it has occupied in thc Southwest Pacific. Possibly, these experts said. Ihe Japanese mny be attempt- ting to ncutrnlize rerent reports from Australia that an Allied nffenslve was nearing reality. Perhaps, they suggested, the eneniy is seeking to influence a change from an attack tn a de¬ fense psychology in the minds of Ihe Allied command in Australia. It wa.s not unreasonable to be¬ lieve, they added, that the pres¬ ence of two enemy planes over Townsville. Australia, may be part of such a scheme. Furthermore, these observers believed Jspan soon may be called upon to contribute tn its Axis obligations by moving against Russia, although there are no official indications nf in- rrcssing Russo-Japsne.se ten.'ion. Such a move, they feel, would be timed to coincide with the long- antirlpated German spring drive in Russin. But even if the drive dors not materialize, they said. Germanv may In.sist that .lapan strike nt Siberia tn relieve Soviet pressure on the F.tiropean front, shopping, was not touched. 5 Aid Reaches^ Stillwell Just in Time' Japanese Stopped With Heavy Losses 40 Miles from China CLAIM MANDALAY Exhausted British Are Forced Back; Supplies 'Too Few' By JOHN .MOBBIS I New Delhi, India, May 2 i Japanese mobile columns. Again—All Dead, 17 in Latest; No Hint of Cause Report S Dead in Oklahoma Tornado Salt Lake City, May 2. (UP) — bodies were brought wsy busses traveled about 18,000,- ,'""^",r° i"-' ""less more "volun- down the muddy slopes "' En»'f" OOoW Intercity passenger miles i*?;:'" '^'""« '""'*•'•<' ^'^''^h women Peak today ss United Air Lines and railroads approximately 2S,0(X).. 000,000. Private automobiles car-, will bc conscripted and sent to the o*cials sought to determine the Reich. cause of last night's crash In the The Germsn radio today carried Wasatch Mountain range north of a proclamation by Hitler to Ger- this city. | man workers calliiu; on them for Inspectors of the Civil Aero- "fanaticsl" efforts fo increase pro- nauties Authority were enroute duction and promising them that from Washington to join the in¬ lf their industrlousness Is main- vestigatlon. The crash was the tslned at the peak "there will be fourth in five years In this moun- vlctory for our entire people." tsin region. More Than .Million Poles The big Mainliner. enroute from Of the tremendous number of S"" Francisco to New Yorl<. plowed workera conscripted in the occu- '"'" ""* ""'¦"' *"'• "' ""' P"** pied countries the Germans have ''"""« ". "''V '""';'" '"•''^ "'«?" than """""" after thc pilot radioed the ried about six times as many per¬ sons as the passenger carriers combined. The ODT director said that t: el ever public carriers had increased from 40 to 60 per rent sinre the ,war began. Additional increases during the' travt! and vacation season arc expected unless re¬ strictions arc imposed. Must f^re fer Warkers "Equipmegt unsuitable for heavy, drawn on Poland for more ...... „ ,, , , „,. ..,..,. high-speed trains will have to b. one-third of the total -more than »¦" Lske C^ity airport that he was used wh.ra possible in local shuttle 1,080.000 Poles according to the "ming in for a landing He was servic. to transport war worker.' reports received in London. L", "°,nt°" """"«• CASUALTY REPORT Pawhuska, Okla., May 2. (UP) —A tornado swept through a resi¬ dential section of this North- Central Oklahoma town late to¬ day. L. L. Elliott, county iailer. said he had received reports of flve dead. He said approximately 15 per¬ aons were Injured and that "25 or 30 homes in the southeastern resi¬ dential section" were destroyed. The highway patrol reported they had Identified nne nf the persons killed as Jackie Carter, 9-year-old schoolboy. The tornado struck at approxi¬ mately 4:45 p. m. The business district of the town, where a large number of persons were JAPANESE FORCES ARE MOVING NEAR India for Non-Violence Even If Japs Invade I Scouting Planes I Seen in Northeast Thought from Carrier By BBVDON C. TAVES General MacArthur's Headquar¬ ters, Australia, May 2. (UP)—] Appearance of two unidentifled { planes, obviously Japanese, over Australia's vulnerable northeast! (UP)— led by tanks and fnr-ranging bombers, I forced exhsustrd British troopa back at bomb-\vrecl<ed Mandalay I on the Burma front tonight but ¦were repulsed with hea\-y lo-sscs by Chinese reinforcements in a battle norlh of Lashio. within 40 miles of the China front' -r. The fall of fabled Mandalay, which wa.s claimed in a Japanesa communique, was not officially acknowledged by the British. A Burma communique said, hew- ever, lhat British forces were bc« ing withdrawn from position* north of the Irrawaddy River and that bridges hnd hccn destroyed on thc Myitnge River in miles south of Mandalay. implying that de« fense of the ancient <'apital o( Burmese Kings was hopeless If not already ended. Aid Beaches StillueU On the Northeastern Burma front. Chungking reported that tha Chinese were fighting strcngly with the aid of reinforcementa against « Japanese column that 1 pushed 40 miles north of Lashls and beyond the town of Hsenwl, I where the Chinese under Lieut. JGen. Joseph W. Sf Iwell, U. S. A., I repulsed them. I (A communique Lsiued at Chung¬ king said the Chinese hsd repulsed Japanese forcea with heavy lossea Allahabad. India. Mey " (Delay-1 Nehru, speaking before the com¬ ed* (UP»—Mohandas K. Gai mittee, described himself as "a Indian spiritual leader, scored a'wayward who is unable to advise as they advanced north of Hsenwl, major victory in the All-India Con- others what thev should do . . ."and that probably 1,3.V) easualtlea gress (majority) party today when I.,eft lo myseif. I would have had been Inflicted on thc Japanesa I the working committee accepted done whatever possible for China in the Taunggyl sector, far behind his resolution committing the party and Ru.«sia," he said. "We are not the Japanese advance spearheads. :to a policy of non-violent non-co- so helpless. We can resist sny in- Chungking reported thst thc Chi- I operation against any aggressor, 'vader and show whnt we can do." nese in the Taunggyi area hsd in- The resolution, adopted by a vote xo Befuse Jap Bribes tercepted Japanese reinforcementa I of seven to four, also rloscd the ^ ^he re.solutlon took note of the *" """"l* to Lashio. |[door to further negotiations with steadv advance of Japanese armies (Chungking ssid also that Amer- .I Britain. The action signified Gan- tnward India's frontiers and said Ican volunteer fliers had destroyed dhis return to party leadership infij,,, resistance could only take 14 Japanese Zero fighters over coast indicated tonight that enemy ""'' ^'" "•""¦'If''^*f ¦ P'""""! the form of "non-violent non- Lolwing last Tuesday.) warships may be moving up to l^'"'"''^ ?r' ? J J«waharlal within striking distance of the ^'^ru, left-wing leader, and C R. invasion-threatened continent. . Rajagopalrhari. Madras liberal. Too Few The high-flying planes success¬ fully ran a gauntlet of flre over Nehru Opposed Move It was known Nehru had asked HOW TO DETECT FAKE ro-operalion." It pledged India lo y^^ Few refu.se any enemy offers or bribes "even If we have to die in our "The story of Burma was too efforts to rcsi.st lhem." few tanka, loo few anti-tank guns. Following the usual trend of too few arlillery batteries and too resolution few airplanes," a high Allied Townsville. 700 miles north of Brls- the Gandhi faction to withdraw Oandhi's uttrranres the ,,, , „»i„, ...^ ,..i,.„ v,. r.M.-n.rt f,nm .,. X..,. ^^^ informed quar- said world peare demanded thai officer said when he returned from to and from urban tones." Eaatman said. Washington, May 2 <UP>-Call- „gggu|t a climax and that a big Japanese industrial! The Belgians have contributed ^"^ ; 198.000 workers, the Czechs 160.000. M Have Died on Mountain "Essential military and eivillsn'^'^D"''''' "''•,2S?'/^ "'""'"'i'^" The bodies of the victims-14 ,„, .,,.„., „.,„.,..,„h ^ „t ¦> trsvel must not be Impeded. It !?»•«»• ""/"r* ^T*^' ^'""''' '•'^' passengers and three cr.w members '"« «"•""<"' to a hoax perpetrated nent. will be necessarv to readjust sched-,\'"'**>; •^•<'<'<'. ""'' Denmsrk 30,000. _„.ere brought down from the peak on a Philadelphia mother, the War n,,! May Be Xear ules. Thli undoubtediv will call In addition there are a >ut 371.000 [„, jo-wheeled army truck. Rutted Department reiterated tonight bane, while United Nations leaders Ithe resolution warned that the alr war off Aus-iters characlerir-ed the vote as an tralias northern flank Is nearing;Indication that Nehru's seems "certain rnd immi- Britaln must abandon her hold on the front. "Tired men fought Influence India. bravely and without thought of "The All-India Congress commit- quitting but they were hopelessly Maulana Asad, Congres party '<"" i» eonvinred that India will outnumbered." president, remained neutral and,be able to attain her freedom Allied forces still are flghting did not vole. (Continued on Page A-10> was weakening. for fewer tnries and trains in some It was the first time that planes i districts, and perhaps tern- 2,'*'.*1 '°,"'f".,*°'''l."A.'f\'."^."'* •nf' muddy roads made travel hy that notification of all Army cas- had reached the northeast cMstaV l,VaB« VianSIMsai^V ordinary vehicles impossible. The ...,.,„ ... .._, .... ;., f,.i„„„ „f A„.t,..ii„ „.i,i„v, i. ^^,, »W Ur i"9UIIIUB«ai Reich. Allied forces still are hard at Monywa. almost 60 milea northwest of Mandalay, and else¬ where In Burma but thc enemy ini'tiidinir '•7'> nnn Ttalion* "'"j" --.-."¦•— .. •-, i„n[ noiiiicBiion OI an «riiiy IHS- naa rearneo me normeasc coasiai mw !»¦• ^ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦! IS I'V advances have created renewed be« ., , ... .^,^, HunSns-CiO Swiss K^^^^^ «re aent by commercial fringe of Australia, which is more! ^^ ""^ ^"'""'"' 7 lief that Japanese thrust will b« the complete elimination of trains '^^'"^ Rumanian, l-snooRuleaHsn,; ''?^'" T'" "J^ntlfied Immediately , * than 1.000 miles from the nearest ——^¦^^— attempted into Southern China tc used for pleasure and other non-| ^'^'y""""'""''^^^^ «f mortuaries here. One was that '•'•8''aph. Japanese land bases, and specula-l Japan claimed the capture of occurred on fhe Kalinin front 125 ward the supply renter of Kurn- euentisi travel. Lengthening fast-|'"'"^ , ,, , ,V, "l " °' * year-old boy. Mrs. Mary Amato, (1433 East ,ion arose that they had taken offlMandalay Saturday night but her miles northwest of Moi5cow, and ming and into India if the mon- run schedules with more stops willjBoys of 10 ¦Inrluded The crash brought to more than Passyunk avenue, Philadelphia' from carriers. This would meanlforces moving up thc Burma Road around l^eningrad 1,500 Germans aoon rains in the next two weeka it possible to tske care of| A German decree Friday set up 50 the number killed in crashes on told the department she recently that an enemy fleet was within to wilhin 40 miles of Chinas border were said to have been killed in do not interfere. <A Japanese alr by motoria progrsm whereby boys of 10 the range In the last five >•"". j telephone call purpor* '""^'nif distance of the continent^werc halted bv hard-hattling recent fighting. raid on Akyab. West Burma port make it possible to tske care ofj points form.ly served by motoric progrsm whereby boys of 10 the range In the last five bus or by local trains." |ycar8 and upwards will be forced^All of the major commercial plane '='-="'"¦ " leiepnone ihu, puipuic- ^^^ ^^^^ ^.^^ American forces on*Chinese who inflicted heavy lo.sses only 75 miles from India, When communitiea have theirito do farm work until next Nov.'accidents in this area have been 'ng to be from Army officiaLs.'^„]| ^.^^ footing here soon may on the invaders. ' Foreign nowstaper correspon- ported today.) nen communitiea have thein train serviee discontinued, they must be served by bus, E^astman •sid. This will require a general Karrsngement of passenger trans¬ portation Involving close co-ordina¬ tion of railroad and motor bua lacllitles, hs added. Army fo Call Men front 2nd Draft Next Month 15. Younger boys will work some- similar In that the planes were de- notifying her that one of her sons have where In the neighborhood of tlieir mollshed and all aboard killed. Vaa killed In action homes so lhey msy return esch Th. two-motored plane struck the authenticitv of the call, she called "'*//".,'* °^ t 'T"" J'"',""'' telephoned her" boys al liieir sta- caUed exploded and burned. Wreckage ,i„^ ^^ ,„^,„^ J^^y „.„p ^„,, Nevertheless the experience made her III, she said. Notifications of abroad are sent out by partment in Washington. . a.^,.™.- u„.oih ties at home are reported by the .'as r«« their first test in battle. I day. But what the decree "classes 5 and fl of middle and (Continued on Page A-10) waa strewn over a wide area In sight of the airport. Airline offl¬ cials said the peak was directly on 1 thc plane's scheduled courae. Rain extinguished the flames, soon after the crash, but the | wreckage, twisted so badlv It was..., .».,. „„.<«.. difficult to Identify, siiil was'""' "' "»"°" '''>"•"'»"''" smouldering when rescuers srrived. ,„^„ ^ , „ denl-s reluming to Moscow by (^n Indication that the Japanesa Questioning Australian offlcials, regarding the' """" '"« battle of Burma ap- plane after four months in Kulby- ^jjo might bc planning action threat to the nation as acute, said 'P'""*'"'^""' "' clamix in a serie.t of shev, Soviet allernalc capital, re- thal all measures of defense have «»vage encounters there were grow- ported an abundance of new spring' been taken <biit that there is urgent '"8 indications that a grand-scale] weapons and banners in the streets need of more men, more pisnes Jspanesc assault might soon be proclaiming Josef V. Stalin's May experience maae ^^^ more shell.f to withstand an unleashed against Australia, ba.se Day statement that "the war must attack auch as the Japanese soon °f the Allies' ultimate offensive in be decided In 1942." casualties ^^^y unleash the Southwest Pacific. A .smash lhe De- ,;„,,„^ n r«... r'„r...«„„„,u„f "o" indicated by the intensified The diffiiullics which Hitler ('asual- ,,}i".lL'^''^..r.!;*L\...?,?."*"?°."*'^"! war in the air. know.s will face him on the Rus- arivnnceri American alr hase raclnB ai, u .i ii . .u t *'"" ''"'"•"ffonts this spring ami Ankara. Turkcv. May 2-(Delay» rhcTaDane,rhcld 'iifvasron i,S Should they go all out the Japa- ,ummer were reported in Allied ,j, ,up,_ An announcement froS o the no'fh said that American !'h ¦" aT.^ ¦ 1 t t "•.""'J dispatcher and hinted at in Axis (Jerman-hcld Belgrade said tonight to the norlh. said that American the Allies advance base at Port ones- to have taken up a argc j^at an undetermined number of (Continued on Page A-10) BRITISH PARACHUTE AID TO JUGOSLAVS, TURKEY REPORTS Wuhington. May 2. (UP)—Maj. t.en. Uwis B. Hershey. director Of Selective Service, said Jn«t numbers ••f*d last tonight of men who regis- Peb. 16 would be in soldier Persuaded to Fly OPA WARNS LANDLORDS ['^''^c; and fighter pilot, believed Moresby on" the '.ouThern" New ;a;rof"'hi.rtwo.darralir*wirh MuV- '^Tk^ 5:;^„,„, „m,„„ ,„d British "If th. first age group (men Among the victims was Marvin ABOUT RENTS EVICTIONS build?:; up lo a^^lrce blow-o?f i?,"!"!" '^?l'i',Ji' '^^f ''T''^^''''^'.'^\^"'^!^"'^<'J'''.''°711^t'l "XP-^.S had dropped by par.chuta registered In October. 1940. and in Shapiro, Chicago, who was flying '_ 'Their chief subject for spe July, 1941) has been exhausted," home on leave from the Army to ,.,.,., ,.„.. „ ,„„, „,,_ ,,„„., „,h r.n»rrt of ih^ Amerlmn ZealAnrt on Au.stralia's Hersliev Instructed slate Selective visit his mother. Shapiro hesitated Washington, May ^ (UP) — ..„ „ ... ... .Service director., "thc call .should when his molher telephoned him at ¦*'*'"'"'»^'"«'°'" ^"" "°"'^''"''" '°''' P''°'*' *"cted Into the army next jnonth.lbe made only upon the aecond San Francisco that she had per- "ley will be included in the June.age group (registered last Feb. 18i. suaded airline officials to give him Calls of every locsl board in tho If the first age group is not ex- a seat nn the sold-out plane sn that bntion at the request of the War hausted, thc local board »ill call he might have more time at home. ^'•psrtment, Hershey said. upon each group In proportion to He had never flown before. el,H j*^**"' ^' registrants, who In- lhe -number of Class 1-A regis- "Xone of that, now." hia mother ""(led men in the 35-to-45 age trant. remain.^ In each." ,,1^ „„ the telephone. "You're a group, will be distributed propor- How many ot the 38-to-45 men g^jdier gnd must be courageous" iionately^,tha„, ,.A registranu, actually will be '-ducted nexti commdr. John Giles Burrow and , .. . ,„ h..? ^'¦''' K™"P "'"•'"'"»'•¦'"" ""'""'¦ " *¦¦' <"'P'"««d. depends Lieut. Claire Sheldon Tucker of the: '"¦?'..^;"* ^'' "•first two registrations, it was upon the situation In each local, j^^^.^ ^.„„,j „ot have been aboard " ¦nnounced. [board. If a local board, for ex- Price tion." said Guard of the American Zealand on luinea "-: — -•' —; ,--- -" I'"". "¦ ¦"¦•< !.»>¦-"¦".> t...... ,>.,... .....o- ^,g„ Jugoslav olticials ane -off P,"'"!* ""^"a '7"" a"os.s the solini at Salzburg. The Rome radio ^^ ^.^ dropped bv p o"- Islands leading down to Free said Italv will ru.sh more troops to j„ t|,e vicinity of Sarajev ecula- French New Caledonia and New the Ru.s5ian front, presumably an- gi^via. o, Jugo- eastern swering Hitlers demanda for addi- '? '« Today'a iaaut JlwlHed .....IZZ. »-W •<«'torlal o-S •*'«vles . A_l« ~^'» „ A-17 '*celal .. Story ;;¦¦ ""¦ Sports ~....!Z1"I!!!!!!™!! A—IS B—a smple, has 100 Class i-A regis¬ trants remaining from the fir.t age group and 50 from the new. selectees from each group would be Inducted in thc ration of two to one. In most Instances, It was .tald. local boards will have more eligible selectees remaining from thc firsr age group Ihan it has new ones in the second group, I slavia. Two Britishers and several Jugo¬ slavs were said to have been ar* rested. (The announcement did not stata whether the British experts wera military leadcr.s nor did it Lndicata whether lhey were attempting to join the anti-Axis freedom army opposing the Germans and Italiana In thc Balkans. The high Jugo¬ slav offlcinls might be representa- to evict tenants urday bonnbed JApanese '^irdromeii --^^¦';IY;:' -;.--- ^^^^^ T^t^TaeTHMtra l^^nl "^^ "^ ""• ""^^ government in new ones at higher and mstal lation., at Gasmata on „^ damaged in the space of 72 to h.crease hTs U-b^t^ "^^^^^^ .1,- 111 f.t.rt .hio t^...-. u t. . renta a. New Britain Island yesterday on, * ,.° i " . !1 ,?„,„,„, .,,J!ul „n SImultaneouslv, reliable quartera the ill-fated snip were it not for , .. tv,. .i„n, a... _» .« _...i.i n»»or,.i..« " '• spring and summer attacks on , _ . j .». . .i. ¦ a - their thoroughness In their ivnrU "We will not permit the wsr pro- tne sixth dsy of an aerial offensive, AHierT simnlv lines '" Turkey reported that the leader Thev had taken reservations Z <'"<="»" program to be sabotaged extending over a 2.5O0-mile front. | On the Russlsn front, heavy •*'"*'* ""PP'* """' of the Balkan freedom army, Gen. plane leaving Reno. Nev.. Thurs" "y « few Isndlords who have the -—--——; flghting was reported In the tri- m ,he Philippines, .lapanese DrajaMikhailovitch. had laun(;h- day but cancelled them to apend '"'''^*'*''" notion that they^ "" "ilTT . ^^V, * .!!r .... «"«'«; f<"'nie<lj'>' Or«'. Bryansk and pUnes again bombarded Corregidor fd a^big ^prlng campjiign hy rald- another diy investigating the sibility of establishing a is not whether, but where,' flank, or <3i strike frontally at tional manpower, landlords tonight that he would the Japanese will strike and they A' ralla Itself .ind seek to seize not tolerate "wholes.ilc evictions of warn that it is a mistake to as- air bases In the thinly-populated Britain's big aerial offensive was war workers'" in a "futile and un- sume the Allies have yet attained northern regions. slowed down by h ' weather after patriotic" attempt to evade maxi- superioritv in the air." . night atUcks in - * li direct hits mum rent regulation.,. ^he air war at the northern ap- ,,^;---^-'' Tl^lt^.Z'^Z^ :;"^Nor;^y•'" s^nd^''^d^omerTn ccl'ld ToX'^trTJL^'t t-h^ rnTrce:\nr h^uHnSn'¦»--»-«•---" ^•''-«^'-inK^ .e^e bombed. The British 302 dcfen..,c rental areas designated bombers, it waa announced in Mac- it had island on the sixth day of attacks air ministry reported that recent . t A . ... . , , o . .extending along a 2,500 mile front raids on Germanv's biggest subma- earlier thl. week that a few land- Arthur's regular communique Sal-;^„^ p^^*,,,,^ f„„,„ed to 62 the i Hnrengine rork^l-K^aTd In A^^^ of enemy planes destroyed! burg, had retarded Hitlers plans damaged in the space of 72 to increase his U-boat fleet for i spring and summer attacks on 2.5O0-mile front, j On the Russlsn front, heavy •*'"*'* ""PP'*' """' In somehow wiggle outside of the es- Philadelphia. May 2. (UP)--The Kursk southwest of Moscow. Fortress **, j sentlal war-time program." Hender-, weather bureau said today that yes- where the Russians are said to be traininir station at Pvramirt f^u" "O" '"'d- "The new tenants will terday was the warmest May 1 massing reserves for a big offen- Maj. Gen. " *.' r^ "**¦ not be required to pay. nor will the since the bureau hegan tn keep sive aimed at breaking The pHot was Capt Dnn Brown, landlords be permitted fn collect, records. The merturv rearheri 89 northern flank of 3_, ^... ir . » ing Axis garrisons and supply basea in Bosnia. Maj. Gen. Russell L. Maxwell. During Friday night raid., thesa thc rhief of the U. S. Norlh .\friran quarters said. Mikhailovitch'a troopa . .„,,„.„...= .... r- - ••• .^.^-.«». ...,= ............ Germany'-! miaslrin revealed In Cairn <hat invaded thc headquarters of % San Francisco, a formcr second rents in rxrer^ of that collected on degree., at 1:10 p. m. The previous southern push toward thc riches Amrriran troops arc in the General Kwaternik and killed • (Continued on Pag« A-10; the maximum-rent data." >record was 83, set in 1930. 'of Caucasia. Sharp fighting also Mediterranean war rone. dozen high Axis offlcers.
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 27 |
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 | 1942-05-03 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
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Month | 05 |
Day | 03 |
Year | 1942 |
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 27 |
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 | 1942-05-03 |
Date Digital | 2009-08-13 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
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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. |
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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Continued warm, possibly showers.
36TH YEAR, NO. 27—4^ PAGtiS
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1942
PRICE TEN CENTS
CHINESE REPULSE JAPS
To Slash Railroad Service for War
Duplicate Runs to Be Eliminated
May End Luxuries, Stop Some Lines; Plan tc Care for Industrial Worlcers
Br JOHX A. PABRM
London. May 2. (UP)—Adolf Hit¬ ler has drafted 2,500,000 enforced laborers from the occupied coun¬ tries and threatens to conscript Washington, May 2. (UP)- women in an effort to overcome _,, , ., 1 . , ,, J . •" acute labor shortsge slowing
Elimination of high-speed dupiicat-, down German war production, ac- Ing railroad services on competing cording to Allied intelligence re- Iln s and probabls •limlnation ofiPort* reaching London tonight, all luxury rail equipment for the! Germany's tremendous losses of
Hitler Raids Europe's Labor
May Conscript Women from Captive Lands; Food Scarcer
lAnother Airliner Smashed Against Peak
duration ia "rapidly approaching". Director Joseph B. E:astman of thc Office of Defense Transportation ssld tonight. Eastman saA that rail schedules
manpower, war materials and munitions in the winter warfare on the Russian front were said in these reports to have created an; acute situation, compelling Hitler! ta speed up production not only in' ... . . ., ^ , ^ I Germany but in every occupied'
would havc to bc readjusted with country. I
the result that aome communities; The British rsdio tonight quoted might lose ail railroad service and the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher have only bus transportation. The zeltung as saving that the food action waa necessary, he said, so gnustlon in Germany slowly but that essential military and civilian .teadily deteriorates" and thst the travel weuld net bc impeded. j Germans are finding it •impossible
I^onger Tralna—Mere Stopa |lo replace German labor with for-
Wliere Next?>
Japan Seems Veiling Plan
cign labor."
The lack of foodstuffs
Other restrictions on passenger, ..t-u. i. i. .> • A.m . ^ travel would Include lengthening' J^',.'"^.»/ '.'>'«'«'"«• '" «" of fast train schedules to Include j;"^'""*"'^. ,?«''»i^ '"J" "" mor. stops and posaible reduction''•"'«"'°'''' '"c Zurich news, or elimination of such hiaury J!.*P*' "'", \
equipment ss privste, club, lounge, I *-*" * "•* Enough parlor or sleeping cars. ! ractorics In these occupied coun-
In a statement on thc entire '"¦'•¦ which have been converted passenger transportation problem,!'"'» war production centers are Eastman aald that public carriers' working night and day, manned by hsd more than SO per eent addi- the "enforced labor" and Nasi tianal cllenU since Pearl Harbor, •uthorities wer* said to be devising; This division, he said, was due te "'w mesns of conscripting * man- the gasoline and rubber shortages, power. {
Esstmsn will discuss the passen- Thousands of Dutchmen have ger servire problem at the con- heen taken to Germany, according | ference of governors in Washing-,to the reports reaching London, ton Tucsday. {hut they are not enough and it is
Hc explained that Ust y.ar high- '"•P"'^*'' '''"' "?• Germans have Seventeen
warned that unless
Wreckage of a big transport plane In which 17 died when it crashed into mountain peak near
Salt Lake City Friday night. This Is the srea which has be¬ come a death trap for passenger
planes, with SO there in the last
—Acm Ttitvlitt*
lives claimed five yeara.
4th Plane in Five Years lAUSTRALIA FEARS To Crash Same Mountain
Washington. May 2. (UPi — Expert opinion was divided to¬ night over the significance of various unofficial reports that the Japanese are preparing either for an assault on Australia or a grandscale attempt to sever Am¬ erican supply lines through the South Pacific.
Some military experts detected evidences of a "wsr of nerves" focussed on Australia tn veil a drive in some other direction. perhaps against Russian Siberia or Alaska, or possibly Hawaii. Navy Is Beady Other* contended thst Indica¬ tions of a forthcoming attack on Australia or the Allied supply routea are the "renl thing." They pointed out that recent reports havc indicated the presence of a powerful Japanese fleet con¬ centration in the Marshall Islands. From there, the Jap na\'y could strike in several directions—at Auslralia or its flanks, or westward srross sea lanes traversed by U. S. supply and troop ships.
Exponents of Ihe "war of nerves" theory said the Japnn- nese appear to be following the old Axis strategy of portending action In a certain direction and then striking elsewhere. Berlin Aiding Tokyo
They pointed out Berlin Is aid¬ ing th. Japanese in these tnctics. A German broadcast, quoting a
Shanghai dispatch, reported that the Japs "apparently" ar. pre¬ paring for an attack nn Aus¬ tralia. This dispatch said tension was increasing In Northern Australia because it was evi¬ dent .lapnn diil nnt Intend 'o wail for an Allied attack on t le territory it has occupied in thc Southwest Pacific.
Possibly, these experts said. Ihe Japanese mny be attempt- ting to ncutrnlize rerent reports from Australia that an Allied nffenslve was nearing reality. Perhaps, they suggested, the eneniy is seeking to influence a change from an attack tn a de¬ fense psychology in the minds of Ihe Allied command in Australia. It wa.s not unreasonable to be¬ lieve, they added, that the pres¬ ence of two enemy planes over Townsville. Australia, may be part of such a scheme.
Furthermore, these observers believed Jspan soon may be called upon to contribute tn its Axis obligations by moving against Russia, although there are no official indications nf in- rrcssing Russo-Japsne.se ten.'ion. Such a move, they feel, would be timed to coincide with the long- antirlpated German spring drive in Russin. But even if the drive dors not materialize, they said. Germanv may In.sist that .lapan strike nt Siberia tn relieve Soviet pressure on the F.tiropean front, shopping, was not touched.
5
Aid Reaches^ Stillwell Just in Time'
Japanese Stopped With Heavy Losses 40 Miles from China
CLAIM MANDALAY
Exhausted British Are Forced Back; Supplies 'Too Few'
By JOHN .MOBBIS
I New Delhi, India, May 2 i Japanese mobile columns.
Again—All Dead, 17 in Latest; No Hint of Cause
Report S Dead in Oklahoma Tornado
Salt
Lake City, May 2. (UP) — bodies were brought wsy busses traveled about 18,000,- ,'""^",r° i"-' ""less more "volun- down the muddy slopes "' En»'f" OOoW Intercity passenger miles i*?;:'" '^'""« '""'*•'•<' ^'^''^h women Peak today ss United Air Lines and railroads approximately 2S,0(X).. 000,000. Private automobiles car-,
will bc conscripted and sent to the o*cials sought to determine the Reich. cause of last night's crash In the
The Germsn radio today carried Wasatch Mountain range north of a proclamation by Hitler to Ger- this city. |
man workers calliiu; on them for Inspectors of the Civil Aero- "fanaticsl" efforts fo increase pro- nauties Authority were enroute duction and promising them that from Washington to join the in¬ lf their industrlousness Is main- vestigatlon. The crash was the tslned at the peak "there will be fourth in five years In this moun- vlctory for our entire people." tsin region.
More Than .Million Poles The big Mainliner. enroute from
Of the tremendous number of S"" Francisco to New Yorl<. plowed workera conscripted in the occu- '"'" ""* ""'¦"' *"'• "' ""' P"** pied countries the Germans have ''"""« ". "''V '""';'" '"•''^ "'«?"
than """""" after thc pilot radioed the
ried about six times as many per¬ sons as the passenger carriers combined.
The ODT director said that t: el ever public carriers had increased from 40 to 60 per rent sinre the ,war began. Additional increases during the' travt! and vacation season arc expected unless re¬ strictions arc imposed.
Must f^re fer Warkers
"Equipmegt unsuitable for heavy, drawn on Poland for more ...... „ ,, , , „,. ..,..,.
high-speed trains will have to b. one-third of the total -more than »¦" Lske C^ity airport that he was used wh.ra possible in local shuttle 1,080.000 Poles according to the "ming in for a landing He was servic. to transport war worker.' reports received in London. L", "°,nt°" """"«• CASUALTY REPORT
Pawhuska, Okla., May 2. (UP) —A tornado swept through a resi¬ dential section of this North- Central Oklahoma town late to¬ day. L. L. Elliott, county iailer. said he had received reports of flve dead.
He said approximately 15 per¬ aons were Injured and that "25 or 30 homes in the southeastern resi¬ dential section" were destroyed. The highway patrol reported they had Identified nne nf the persons killed as Jackie Carter, 9-year-old schoolboy.
The tornado struck at approxi¬ mately 4:45 p. m. The business district of the town, where a large number of persons were
JAPANESE FORCES ARE MOVING NEAR
India for Non-Violence Even If Japs Invade
I Scouting Planes I Seen in Northeast
Thought from Carrier
By BBVDON C. TAVES
General MacArthur's Headquar¬ ters, Australia, May 2. (UP)—] Appearance of two unidentifled { planes, obviously Japanese, over Australia's vulnerable northeast!
(UP)—
led by
tanks and fnr-ranging bombers,
I forced exhsustrd British troopa
back at bomb-\vrecl |
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Month | 05 |
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Year | 1942 |
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