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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 10 MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1942
Hawaii Calling... We Need More Men And Planes!
contained, fortified, armed and on \ 24-hour alert. The spirit, the morale and the courage of the people, in the face of an ever-present bombing menace, is superb. The Dec. 7 blow at Pearl Harbor is no longer viewed as an unmitigated disaster. Rather it is accepted as a price, probably inevitable, to be paid for democratic lack "of military-mindedness. It is accepted as a 1941 Bull Run required to shatter national lethargy. So far as Hawaii is concerned, the Pearl Harbor debacle is past history. There is no military or naval wailing in these islands. On the contrary, their spirit is reflected in the frequent expression, “Thank God, the serious damages of the suprise attack were focused chiefly on battleships, and what good have battleships been to anyone in this war anyway?” Naturally, many in the navy do not dismiss so lightly the value of the lumbering battlewagons. They feel that, though the big ships have not done so well to date, their importance in finally deciding the issue is not. to
By ROY W. HOWARD
HONOLULU, March 23.—Hawaii calling! Today it is no broadcast of an alluring song of the islands or of soft green seas. It is a call to the mainland and to Washington for quick and realistic appraisal of Hawaii's defense problem. The problem is national, not that of the islands alone. No one here believes there is need to add a Hawaiian chapter to the allied war drama of “too little, too late,” but the situation will not remain static. The tragic chapter could be written. To forestall this the Hawaiian islands are trying desperately to focus public interest on the strategic and military significance of this island bastion, which they believe is of as vital importance to London and Chungking as to Washmgton.
There, with the full co-operation of the civil, military and naval authorities, he checked the facts against the flood of rumors which developed las an aftermath of the necessary censorship. :
This is the first of three articles from Hawaii, written by Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. The writer, long familiar with the islands, their military, political
and racial problems, flew to Honolulu a few days ago.
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HONOLULU'S NEWSPAPERS and public men are combining their efforts to get the full significance of the situation to the attention of the president and the
A trio of powerful flying fortresses of the Hawaiian air force bomber command fly in formation over Uncle Sam's vital Pacific outpost.
fundamental right of self-preservation. They say that any program that is too little or too late for Hawaii will
coast states. They believe that a successful defense of the islands is as essential to victory over the Japanese as
war cabinet.
be equally so far Alaska, British Columbia, the Panama
defense of the Middle East is essential to victory over
be minimized. ” n on on on ” DEVELOPMENTS TO DATE in the Pacific seem
to justify the popularity of the lighter fleet units. It
seems reasonable to believe that there may be a considerable time lag before the battleships of either the allies or the axis will be called upon to play any deciding role. There is justification for believing that, before such a (Continued on Page Two)
canal, Latin America and for the entire white race in Hitler. the Far East and the south Pacific. They hope especially for congressional recognition and support from western representatives and senators
because of Hawaii's defense importance to the west
Their demand for consideration does not spring from fear or jitters. It recognizes the strident world-wide demand upon Washington for men, machines and munitions. But it urges that operation of the lease-lend policy must not go so far or so fast as to short-circuit Hawaii's
RAIDERS SINK 11 AXIS SHIPS
4 British Subs Strike Heavy Blow at Troops and Supplies on Way to Near East; Attack Within Sight of Italy.
LONDON, March 23 (U. P.).—Great Britain disclosed today that four submarines had struck within sight of the! Italian coast and had sunk 11 axis ships carrying troops and supplies for an expected offensive in the Middle East. | This blow to the axis Mediaterranean forces was one of | the boldest forays of the war as it. took the British underwater craft into the narrow —
straits of Messina, between GETS BONUSES the lower tip of Italy and
Sicily.
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THE ISLAND OF OAHU, on which are situated Pearl Harbor and Honolulu, is no Luzon. Oahu, the key defense point of the Hawaiian situation, is today self-
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FIERCE BATTLES TO CONTROL AIR ~ RAGE IN BURMA, OFF AUSTRALIA
o FAIR GROUNDS Succeed Hinks BOMBERS [ ASH ‘DECISION NEAR PORT MORESBY
With only two more weeks | Board Expected to Reply, Allied Airmen Destroy 28 remaining before the registra- | | To Army’s Request Plane ; Paratroops |
Grounded
Boy's Tiny Wagon, Used as Second Leg, Is Lost.
THE WORLD LOOKED dark todav to 5-yvear-old Maynard Willoughby who lost his right leg | soon after he learned to walk. Now Maynard has lost his little wagon, on which he depended to get around “scooter” fashion. It is believed that Maynard's wagon w a Ss stolen yesterday when he stepped out of it near his h.o m e and tried to play | with bigger | boys. “Maynard will get his wagon back,” Patrolman Lawrence Gi- | gerick assured the boy's mother, Mrs. Leonard Willoughby, 980 W. Washington st, “If we can’t get tne same wagon, we will find him another one.” 3 The Willoughbys have four boys. | Maynard is the eldest. The |! | youngest is twp months old. Maynard lost his leg because of an infection after stepping on a rusty nail.
3544 DRAFT QUIZ IN MAILS
Registrants Asked to List ‘Ways They Best Can Aid War Effort.
(Questionnaire Page Three)
[Registration Is Slow in County |
Registration of voters for the 1942 elections is lagging far behind previous years, County Clerk Charles Ettinger
tion deadline Mr. Ettinger reLater Today. Land Near Toungoo.
ported that only one third of the expected voter transfers and new registrations have been filed. A war department request for use By JOE ALEX MORRIS “Unless registrations - in- | |Of the Indiana State Fair grounds United Press Foreign Editor crease in the next few days we i to extend its Iya Sells Hes Allied and Japanese air are considering closing = the jJeing considere y the sta air dr 4 batt] £ pranch offices that have been | board today and a decision was ex- squaarons: presse atties ior set up for the remainder of pected this afternoon. control of the skies over Austhis gosuil Ms Biinger said. [ole ima Desig was ( § tralia and Burma. Branch offices w e open apt. ollan : y . today and tomorrow at the | [Ohio river division engineers with mn Re 0 Ads following places: jog on Sincivazl Je folie attacks in which enemy bases at JUS, ys Drobos Koeping and Dili on Timor island (members and indicated that from were ‘battered and + total of 23 1 500 to 1000 men would be stationed Jagnleone altatalt des osen overiie Week end.
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[wo Italian submarines, {wo supply ships, six schooners and a motor vessel carrying troops were sent to the bottom. some of them
far inside the mined Italian coastal Former Air Corny Worker waters that the action was witnessed from the shore. Paid $12,320, He Tells Probers.
Subs Return Safety The largest and newest types of) WASHINGTON. March 23 (U.P). —A former $2300-a-year army air
British submarines staged the raids] corps empioyee told the house naval
Indiana State Selective Service headquarters today was te send lo‘cal draft boards enough questionnaires for each of the draft registrants in the 35-44 age group. These questionnaires, which will be forwarded immediately to the registrants by the local boards, are designed to determine how each man can contribute most efficiently to the war effort in an occupational
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which struck a crippling blow at the axis at a time when dispatches from
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both sides told of intensified prepscale fighting the Middle East
arations North generally. All of
Derna.
for
big Africa and
the have returned safely to their bases, the admiralty statement at London said, and dispatches from Cairo in-' dicated that the British were preparing to strike new and hard blows} at the enemy in the Libyan desert.! The British 8th army in North| Africa. driven back from the Benghazi sector after its winter offensive, fook the initiative again over the week-end and smashed at the Ger-,; man and Italian forces in the Martuba sector, on the north coast near
British submar
Batter Axis Airdrome
American-built the airdrome at Martuba during a heavy sandstorm and then British mechanized forces raided the Axis
planes
battered |
affairs committee today that a war contractor by whom he was employed last Nov. 15 has paid him bonuses of $12.320. His salary from the firm also has been raised from $3600 tn $4800 a vear.
The witness, Harry E. Yoxtheimer. is assistant controller of the Jack & Heintz Co.. Cleveland. He testified that he had received bonuses of $11,000 last December. He had been employed by the firm for 46 days by that time.
Employed at Wright Field
On March 5. he told the committee, he received another bonus of $1320. Previously, he said. he was an army air corps employee at Wright Field. Dayton, O.. at a starting salary of $1800. later increased to 1 $2300. He had worked there a vear and a half.
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base, taking 150 prisoners and bat-
tering the enemy an effort to render the base useless to Axis aircraft. force planes
Roval over Lyvbia,
air
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tack forces that the
rian coast.
The current visit of Nazi Ambassador Franz Von Papen to Berlin may decide the next move to be.
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installations
the Balkans
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ranged Greece and Crete in! widespread raids on military objec-| | committee's first public the week-end. Other indications that intensified | war was due soon the Middle East! came from Syria and Turkey, both! of which reported that the Germans were strengthening their at-
He added he had started at Jack & Heintz on Nov. 15. 1941. at $3600. Later he was raised to $4200 and ‘now earns $4800. Yoxtheimer testified at the naval hearing
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into” war profits. Charges Huge Profits
Before presenting witnesses. committee counsel Edmund H. Toland ‘put in the record data showing that certain firms were making profits up to 119 per cent on jwar contracts so far this vear. The method of calculation of the profits was not explained. Rep. Toland said the Jack & Heintz Co. now had $58.000.000 {worth of war contracts and had | reported profit on past business of |10 per cent. It was organized in | November, 1940, with an orginal | capitalization of $500; later this | capitalization was increased by | $150,000.
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14 HURT IN MINE TAYLORVILLE, Ill, March 23 (U. | P.).—Fourteen miners were injured, in Peabody Mine 8, Ianglevville, several seriously, today when a cage
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" lift taking the men to their work! ‘near here, dropped 20 feet. None of the 14, however. was hurt fatally.
BOMBER TOLL REACHES 6
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 23 (U! P).—Toll of a bomber crash here! Saturday reached six today with the death of Technical Sergt. R. F.
4 5 Gemeim, Chicago, who died of a
. 8. 7 fractured skull. Sergt. Gemeim had
12 beén unconscious since he wads 10 dragged from wreckage of the] er bomber Saturday when it crashed
‘today that their vessel was shelled
way. Eventually, each registered male not in the armed forces will
be sent a questionnaire. END DOUBLE TIME, The forms are four-pages long and “very complete,” draft head- IS NELSON’ S PLEA
quarters said. After they have been | Closed Shop Issue Again
| He also told the board that all of| the available building space would | he needed Sid storage and for
10 MIDDLESWORTH
mitories iD "will accommodate Becomes Athletic Director about 1500. : For Duration of War. |
filled out and returned to the draft boards, the forms will be divided | rig Le Se | If the army’s request is granied| H. W. (Wally) Middlesworth, city | | service another to the statistical : i | ihigre. Will hese more ice skating Yecreation director, today wal division of the Selective Service and) Debated in Capita : or ‘hockey games at the Coliseum, named Butler university athletic | the third will be filed by the local N. ch 23 (U.P). fair board members said. director for the duration of the | bonds. : WASHINGTON, March 23 ( Capt. Shields told them that army war. Check List of 200 Jobs | —War Production Chief Donald M. officials had studied the grounds The appointment was > | Nelson today asked labor to suspend and found it impossible to fence|the executive committee of the for the duration what he called the on the Coliseum to permit hockey Butler directors on the recomthe questionnaire is a check list of | | f getting double-time pay| and other programs to be held! mendatior. of Acting President M.| 200 occupations, ranging from bab- P Fivilegs of geving Foes. 0. Ross and is contingent on the! beer, deep sea diver and policeman for work on Sundays and holidays. Arthur Wirtz Jr., president of the expected request of Paul D. (Tony) to parachute rigger, construction es-| Speaking before an emergency Coliseum Corp. which holds a 10- Hinkle for an extended leave of timator and airplane pilot. .
FRICTION HINTS JAP BLOW AT RUSSIANS
Strike Fr East May Be Timed With Nazi Move.
WASHINGTON, March 23 (U. P.). —There were increasing signs today that spring may find the Soviet Union under large-scale attack on! two fronts—in the east by Japan and in the west by Germany. High diplomatic quarters have * received reports that the strange peace between Tokyo and Moscow may be near an end. Military experts have cautioned against banking too much upon Japan making her next great drive in Australia. She may be trying to divert attention to that area, they said, while preparing for a grand assault in Siberia. These reports stirred demands nere that all possible aid be given to the Red armies. There was growing belief that, despite the importance of Gen. Douglas MacArthurs task in Australia. the battle of Russia holds the key to the antiaxis strategy for the spring and summer.
No More Hockey
made by
The most important feature of Every meeting of C. I. O. leaders, Mr. Nel- year contract and $80,000 worth of ahsence to serve in the physical skill listed is needed in war indus- son also said the nation’s need for equipment for use in the Coliseum! fitness program of the U. S. Navy. tries. greater production must not be used attended today’s meeting. At present, Mr. Hinkle is on a| Registrants are asked to check ‘as a cloak to put something over May Take Over April 1 temporary leave until he is granted | every job listed which they have on labor.” la commission in the navy. ever held, indicating the length of He assured 500 representatives of The army indicated that if nego- , graduate of Shortridge high time at each job, and there is space C. I. O. locals that no essential tiations are completed they will (}, 01 and a former star athlete at for mention of any. job not listed. rights of labor will be abrogated un- take over the grounds April 1 and gytler, Mr. Middlesworth’s coachThe section concerning profession- less the needs of the country for begin a repair and improvement ing experience includes five years | al and scientific workers includes 36 victory demand it. Drogeam ; i at Indiana university as assistant occupations ranging from budget! OWever, several programs on the c55ch, He served as I. U. assistant | analyst to sociologist. Debate Longer Work Week Coliseum schedule through May football coach under H. O. (Pat) | Registrants also are asked to in-| Philip Murray, C. I. O. president, will not be disturbed, it was ex- ‘Page and assistant basketball and | dicate “the job for which you are said in introducing Mr. Nelson that pected. baseball and fresnman coach under best fitted” and “the job for which | the 5,000,000 C. I. O. members “have Board members pointed out that|myerett Dean. now coach of the you: are next best fitted.” |established an unparalleled record the buildings already were used for ‘Stanford Indians which Saturday In Washington, Senator Theodore [of production” and are “100 per storage by automobile and other night won the western division inG. Bilbo (D. Miss.), today id behind the government in the firms and new arrangements would tercollegiate basketball championduced legislation to empower Presi- | War effort.” have to be made for this. dent Roosevelt to assign all Ameri-{ The meeting coincides with the If negotiations are concluded suc- | can citizens, men and women alike, Opening of another week of con- cessfully the army will probably pay | to essential war tasks either in the |troversy in congress over pending $1 a year rent as has been done in armed forces, war industries or legislation to outlaw the closed Supa similar case in Illinois.
home defense. (Continued on Page Two) TTT
AVOID RAL TRAVEL, GERMANS WARNED
ship. Upon graduation from Butler in 1924, Mr. Middlesworth coached for | one year at Jowa State Teachers’ (college, Cedar Falls. He assisted | Mr. Page as Butler coach for a | year before accompanying him to! Indiana university. 1931 Mr. Middlesworth was] appointed recreation director here | and for the last eight years he has|
USE MACHINE GUN TO SAVE TORPEDOES
NEW YORK, March 23 (U. P). —Thirty-seven survivors of a small united nations’ merchant ship sunk in the south Atlantic March 5. said
Japs Assemble in Rose Bowl To Begin Coast Evacuation
flight of Oklahoma and Texas dust Harsh Decree Hints Nazis SO (0 antist Mr Hille.
4 for three months each football seaand machine-gunned for nearly a half-hour by an axis submerine in. LOS ANGELES, March 23 (U. an obvious attempt to conserve its P.).—A great caravan of cars and precious torpedoes. trucks resembling the Oakies’ migration fleets nearly a decade ago {left Pasadena today in the first |large scale evacuation of Japanese | junkyard. { from the Pacific coast. Dozens of travelers dashed up to More than 600 Japanese aliens] 'the assembly point at the last mo- | appeared today to indicate not only | he had resigned as chairman and| {and their American-born male ment. There were family reunions, gpa Germany had started to pre-| director of the Bendix Aviation | children piled into 350 motor ve- with wives and children who had pare in force for the spring offen- Corp. which he founded, to devote] hicles, many of them: ramshackle, | come to see their menfolk off for! sive it must essay against Russia! his time to the field of mechanical! Jona headed out of the strategic the camp at Manzanar, in the Owens put a fuel shortage had hit all development. y : {military and industrial areas to-|Valley 230 miles north of Los An- | . vice- j= Cia! Srican Sons round-up, | ward the army's new reception ' geles. Re Eien transport ministry E. RB. Brescn, 8 former vice-prost Sa Re ian Naseuel), rcenter east of the Sierra Nevadas. = The government hopes to make ordered the people not to use rail- succeeded Mr. Bendix as president. Bockey and horse reding * The Japanese assembled before the Manzanar camp virtually self- roads for anything but absolutely General Motors owns nearly 20 The editions were sold out |¢awn in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl, ‘sustaining by next spring by hav- essential travel “because of military per cent of the stock of Bendix quickly (scene of the annual New Year's day ing the hundreds of expert Japanese and civilian transport by the Ger-| Aviation Corp., which is actively en- > | | fotball classic in pre-war years. [farmers begin work at once on the man ra to an extent never|gaged in the production of war dm of the 6000 acres of fertile valley land, before ie 6 * goods, F {
FOUNDER OF BENDIX A sharp Nazi warning that all QUITS AS CHAIRMAN
unnecessary railroad travel in Ger-| NEW YORK, March 23 (U. P.) el ‘many would be punished harshly, Vincent Bendix today disclosed that!
bowl refugees to California, the] Japanese piled their household be- | longings on their automobiles and trucks, many of them ready for the |
Set for Offensive.
By UNITED PRESS
Yanks' Extra!
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS. Australia, March 23 (U. P.).—For the first time, Australian newspapers today published a spe-
dent of General Motors Corp., has
taken part-time leaves-of-absence|
The Japanese sent 19 bombers and fighters against Port Moresby today in the heaviest attack of the war on that vital New Guinea base and also attacked Wyndham on the northwest mainland coast. Attack Burma Bases
In Burma, the Japanese were ‘launching heavier aerial attacks on allied bases in an effort to knock lout the American volunteer group land R. A. F. fighters, which Chung= king said needed quick reinforcee ment, Enemy squadrons of 40, 80 and 90 fighters and bombers attacked ale lied air bases in central Burma on | Saturday and Sunday while land forces were massed for expected heavy battles in the Toungoo sector and south of the Prome oil fields. Japanese parachutists were reported active west of Toungoo.
Smash at Port Moresby A New Delphi communique said that Chinese forces were fighting south of Toungoo (which Tokyo had claimed was captured) and that Japanese artillery fire against their positions was ineffective. Air fighting strength and United States reinforcements in Australia were among the subjects discussed {Continued on Page Two) n n
On the War Fronts
LONDON: Admiralty announces four British submarines sank 11 Axis ships in daring raid off lower Italian coast; Jap battle for aerial command of Burma fore= shadowing renewed land assault toward Mandalay.
MOSCOW: Soviets penetrate Gers man positions around Kalinin and Bryansk; reveal Red air force will use American-built pursuit planes In spring campaign.
| CANBERRA: Japs stage heaviest raid of war on Port Moresby, New Guinea and Wyndham, in north west Australia; allied planes bomb Dili on Timor island as week-end total of enemy planes destroyed reaches 24.
CORREGIDOR: Jap ultimatum dee manding American surrender exe pires, but no sign of new enemy offensive reported.
CAIRO: British raid on Tmimi and Martuba indicates imperial forces may be planning new large-scale desert offensive against Axis.
NEW DELHI: Sir Stafford Cripps arrives to open negotiations for India’s total war effort, discuss Indian independence
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