1: 48 PI i The Most Widely THE WEATHER Read Newspaper in THE SPRINGFIELD UNION Continued Cold Western New England Today VOL. LXXIX No. 49 MORNING AND PUBLISHED EVENING SPRINGFIELD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1942 16 PAGES TWO CENTS JAPANESE INVADE BALI AS A STEPPING STONE TOWARD JAVA TOKYO TROOPS ALSO SAID TO LAND IN TIMOR Nipponese Attack 'Paradise' Islands and Portuguese Colonial Territory STRONGLY OPPOSED BY ALLIED FORCES Invaders Are Reported to Suffer Heavy Losses DATAVIA. Netherlands East Indies, Feb. 20 (AP) -The Japanese, again extending their immense.
South Pacific offensive, invaded the flowering little island of Bali today and Allied warships, planes and fighting men closed with the enemy in supreme and savage effort to cast him out of the beachheads thus gained almost at the very shores of Java. Land on' Timor ha landings enemy the half likewise claimed Portuguese-halt two Dutch island of Timor lying to the cast and just above Australia, alleging that his one purpose WitS to ollst the Australian-Dutch garrison which had been holding the P'ortuguese half against just such incursions. but of this second thrust the Netherland: authorities had no information. On Hall, a small. scented and langorous demi-paradise lying across just one mile of water from' Java itself, the wild struggle was for more than that little tropic bit of coral and beach.
1t Was for the control of the eastward approaches the great Allied naval base of Sperabaja on Java lying about 120 miles from the scene of action--the last such major lane short of the Australian mainland. Successive communiques from the (Continued on Fourteenth Page) ROOSEVELT WILL SPEAK TO NATION ON WAR MONDAY Radio Speech Is Scheduled for 10 p. Likely to Give World Summary WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, (AI') P'resident Rooserelt's Monday night radio speech is to give at picture of world at war. -the White House said today, and will endeavor to show the effect of battles fought thousands of miles away upon ouch little American community.
Oceans Not Barriers In addition, said Stephen Early. the President's secretary, "it will be cach of our coast lines 110 longer made very 'clear that thee oceans 011 the saviors or the protection, of the country they were some not so long ago." This statement followed assertions by both the chief executive and See. retary of War. Stimson that attacks www. American unexpected.
cities Stimson and said towns protec- were tion could not be given because the Nation's forces must be Inassel for offensive, not scattered and weakened. In the face of these expressions, three influential senators Walsh Byrd (1)-Va.) and John(Continued on Ninth Page) JAMIES F. OWENS OKLAHOMA CITY. Feh. 20 (AP)Junes Francis Owens.
63. chairman of the board of the Oklahoma Gas and Filectric Company, died today from AN heart ailment. ON ARMY DUTY SENATOR HONEY CABOT LODGE LODGE ON DUTY WITH AN ARMY COMBAT UNIT Mass. Senator, Captain in Reserves. Is Ordered Into Service by War Dept.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 Senator Lodge has left Washington to join an Army combat unit for a tour of duty, his office Hides disclosed today. I- Reserve Captain lodge, Army reserve captain and it member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. left last night.
The length of his tour of duty and his destination were not made known. However it was understood that his service would be confined to the United States. In a statement issued by ailes it was said Lodge was ordered by the War Department to a tour of duty and that Chairman Reynolds (D-N. Committee. endorsed.
this a and of the Senate Military Affairs "appreciates the benefits that will accrue to Congress from first hand contact with actual operations and from valuable liaison between the Army and Congress, Last summer 1.0dgp served more than three months on maneuvers with the isiana Second and the Armored Carolinas. Brigade in Lou- MRS. ROOSEVELT LEAVES OCD TO PROTECT AGENCY Acts So That Civilian Defense Office May Be Free of Attack WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt resigned from the office of Civilian Defense today to protect that agency from criticism by those who. sho said, "wish to attack me because of my beliefs." P'raised by Landi, James Mi. Landis, OCD director, ac. repted her rosignation with a letter praising her for a "vision and energy" that had enabled OCD to carry out its tasks and make citizens everywhere aware that they have war to perform.
It the hoight of the recent con. troversy over what many termed the frills and furbelows of OCD, Landis succeeded Mayor LaGuardia of New York as director, and Mrs. Roosevelt announced she woull withdraw as (Continued on Fourteenth Page) Many Men Die Building Assam Route Into China: Thousands Killed in Chiseling Road Over Himalayas; India's War Goods Duty-Free NEW DELHI, India, Saturday. Feb. 21 -The Government announced today that defense supplies will be permitted to move duty-free from India to China.
Well-informed quarters expressed the helief that now with the Burma load threatened and Rangoon port mined, India soon would become the main route of supplies to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek's Chinose armies. China Has Three Possible Routes NEW YORK. Fob. 20 (AP)-China has three possibilities of maintaining contact with the outside world and drawing in United States lend -lease supplies now that the Burma Road is impractical. On is a combination of the "Red route" running through Northwest (hint into Siberia, along which A trickle of Russia supplies has reached for the last four years, the Soviet's Siberian railway systems and new Allied route from the sian Gulf to the Caspian Sen and Siberia.
by which United States and British supplies now are reaching Russia. Details of how such shipments 10 China would he routed after reaching the Soviet rail system through Tran or. Iraq would' depend somewhat on Russia's 011 11 transportation, needs. German Fleet Is Said To Be Moving to Cut U.S. Supply Route to Russia Three Big Nazi Warships Are Reported Steaming Northward Along Coast of Norway, to Tie Up British Naval Forces LOX DON, Saturday, Feb.
21 Three big German warships, the 35.000- ton battleship Tirpitz, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer and the 10.000-ton cruiser Admiral Hipper wore reported today steaming northward along the Norwegian coast apparently ax part of A plan 10 cut Amerivan British supply routes to Russia. A Stockholm dispatch to the Daily Express reported the movement of the ships toward Trondheim sitid: "Their job is to keep British naval forces tied up in the North Sea and raid convoys 0l1 the Murmansk route to Russia. The battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the cruiser Prinz Fugen. which escaped from Brest to Helgoland, "probably will join Ag soon A they have been re'paired." the dispatch added. Submarine Which Batters Freighter Off East Coast Said to Be "Pocket Size" Brazilian Vessel's Officer Estimates Length a as 69 Feet; Believed Too Small for Crossing Without Refueling NORFOLK.
Deb. 20 Shelled into it battered. flaming wreck. the Brazilian freighter Olinda WAS sunk off the Coast afternoon by an Avis marine described by the shine crew 08 pocket size' and as being 100 small to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean without refueling. Crew Landed The Fifth Naval District announced the after sinking the of there 4080 ton members ship were tolanded here by a rescue vessel which picked them un after 20 hours afloat in two life boats.
Capt. Jacob Benemond. one of 23 men aboard the Olinda, who were mitted to the 1. S. Marine Hospital! at Norfolk for treatment for exposure, said the submarine opened fire on the Olinda at a distance of about a mile and a half.
The captain said about 11 shells were fired at the ship before the crew abandoned the vessel, and that the submersible then circled the Olinda and 1. fired about 20 more shells at the ship. captain said ho thought the freighter also was torpedoed, but he 1'83 not sure. Suffering from wind-burned eyeland swollen feet. the captain related that the first shell hit the making it impossible for the radio operator to send calls for assistance.
(Continued on Fourteenth Page) Nazi Attack on North Sea Convoy Held Off by British Two Enemy E- Boats Sunk, Bomber Squadron Wrecked, Admiralty Declares L.ONDON. Feh. 20 (AP) -The Navy and Air Force have beaten off a strong Nazi air.and sPa altask a British North Sea convoy without a single loss in warships, aircraft or sinking two enemy motor torpedo boats and wrecking 2 squadron of bombers, the Admiralty announced tonight. Reassuring News It was reassuring news to a British public alarmed a week AgO by the successful passage of the Nazi Scharnhorst. Gneisenau and North Sett from Brest to Helgoland.
D'rinz Huger through Channel anti The battle began before midnight last night and at the start a force Boniton Paul Defants. British twopater fighter planes believed to ho the fastest of their class in the world. charged into SIN enemy bombers oft SOME NEW CARS ORDERED BEFORE JAN. 1 'UNFROZEN' Rationing Changes Affect Business Concerns, Governmental Agencies Special to The Springfield Union BOSTON. 20-Business conand governmental agencies who maintain purchase order records will be able to obtain delivery of automobiles ordered prior to Jan.
under revised OP A "unfreeze order" mute public today by the State Rationing Board. Two Types of 1 idence Two DU types of evidence will be admitted 1.8 proof that such orders Wore made in good faith prior to Jan. when the auto freezing order went into effort. For buyers who are able to supply the new types of evidence, it will not he necessary to produce receipts showing they paid $23 down on their cars 48 has been required up to now. OP.A has extended the time during which such purchasers may apply to vounty seat rationing boards.
for delivery certificates, from Feb. 26 to March two new types of acceptable evidence follow: Order Book Entry 1. Entry in 211 originally bound order book or serially numbered purchase order regularly used by the huger showing 211 order for an automobile applied for, entered 011 or hofore Jan. 1: or 2. Entry on order form, regularly use by buyers, dated on O1 before 1, for automobile applied for, that under this the buyer also produces a signed statement of the manufacturer that this order was also entered on the manufacturer's books 1111 Ol lofore Jan.
1. The order book or purchase orders referred to do not apply to records kept by the automobile dealer. l'urchase order records of the car dealer do not satisfy these alternative provisions. Affects State l'urchases The State Rationing Board tonight estimated that the new regulations would approximately 1200 passenger cars in Boston alone before March 2, the final date. Various state departments will be able to zet about 90 passenger cars which they contracted for in 1911.
SHOPS TO CLOSE SIN. FRANCISCO, Feb. 20 (A1')- Max Lowe. employer spokesman, said today some 200 fabrication and machine shops in the San Francisco Bay area would be closed Monday despite the request of Donald Nelson. War U'roduction Board chief.
to keep de. tense industries operating on Washington's Birthday. 1 1 U. S. MAY MOVE ALL JAPS FROM WEST COAST; ARMY IS GIVEN WIDE AUTHORITY Oil Deliveries For Homes, Industries in East Are Restricted by U.S.
Government Acts to Insure Equitable Distribution; Tanks Cannot Be Replenished if Stock Is in Excess of 14 Days' Supply WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -'The East felt tonight the first pinch of enemy sinkings and war diversion of tank shins, as L'etroleum Co-ordinator Ickes formally announced that fuel oil deliveries would be restricted immediately for homes, industries. and commercial purposes. Oil industry sources estimated that over 1,250,000 dwellings use oil for heating in the affected area. including states and the District of Columbia.
The plan, Ickes said, would spread available supplies to prevent a laition where some consumers might have more fuel oil than they could use while others had none. Another effect, according to the announcement, would be to make an estimated 3.000.000 barrels additional available for East Coast consumption from now until April 1, a period of peak heating demands. The restrictions provide: 1. No marketer shall deliver fuel oil to any consumer for uses other than for domestic heating, if that (Continued on Fourteenth Page) Repairs to Five Schools Given Board's Approval Property Committee Also Seeks Estimates for Work at Four Other Buildings In A meeting last in City Hall. the City Property Committee accepted the recommendations of William WV.
Davis, superintendent of public buildings, to make repairs to the exterior of Washington, Lincoln, Hooker, Sumner A venue and Chestnut Street Schools and at the sale time requested Davis to seek estimates on the cost of repairing the interior -of Buckingham, Classical. Fast Union and Howard Street Schools. Other The committee also Voted: To make it mandatory to have six police officers and two firemen on duty at every function held in the Municipal Auditorium. To instruct the Water Department' RUSSIA SEES CRUSHING OF NAZIS IN 1942 Announces Flow of Supplies From Allies Is Increasing MOSCOW, Feh. 20 (AT) -Red Star.
voice of the Russian army, announced today that All ever-increasing flow of war materials is being received from the United States and Britain. and predicted that the gathering forces of the three powers would crush the Nazi war machine this year. Efforts Growing The receiving newspaper from said our Allies "the is help grow- we ing continuously," and added that "no doubt simultaneously the military ef(Continued on Fourteenth Page) INFERIOR TYPE OF BOMB USED BY JAPANESE Incendiaries on Bataan Give Hint of Possible Shortage of Materials WASHINGTON. Fob. 20 (AT) The War Department reported today that Japanese planes had dropped inforior, relatively harmless incendiary bombs behind the Bataan Peninsula defense lines, stirring speculation that the l'hilippine invaders might be hatpored at least locally by a shortage of some war materials.
Phosphorus as Filler 'The missiles were found to contain white stance credited phosphorus with as a only filler, a fraction sub: of the destructive effectiveness of the bombs dropped by the Nazis 011 Lon. don, They foll on military installations such as ammunition dumps and stores of equipment, and presumably any fires they started were readily extingnished, although a day communique WAS silent on the damage. Chemical experts said water would put out phosphorus fire. 'The chemical usually is usel to create smoke screens rather than in incendiary bombs. Informed observers incline to the belief that the phos.
phorus missiles. were used in an attempt to set fires because magnesquin aml thermite bombs were nut immediately available on the Bataan front. Japanese shortages of other essential war materials have not been reg ported otherwise in the Southwest Pacific march of conquest. Meanwhile fighting described Ag "positional" continued on alt sections of the narrow peninsula front, with the foe still withholding the full scale offensive against lien. MacArthur's little army that has been threatened for days.
JOINS FOREIGN LEGION VICHY. Feh. 30 (AP) 28. brother-in-lan: of King Leopold of the Belgians, has enlisted for A five-year period in France's Foreign. Legion, it was learned night.
r. DIES AT 93 WILBERT R. LOOMIS WILBERT LOOMIS, OLDEST MAN IN WESTFIELD, DIES Farmer, 93, Was Affiliated With Albert Steiger in Store Days WESTFIELD. Feh, 20-Wilbert R. Loomis.
93, this city's oldest man, died evening in his Mundale home after 1 brief illness. Most of Life in Westfield Born in Granville. July 9. 184S. sol of Milton D.
and Eliza If. (Gillett) Loomis, he came 10 this city. when six. spending most of his life here. After working for a time in stores in Easthampton and he went to work for the late D.
I. Gillett in Westfield, and later affiliated with Gillett and Steiger in this city hofore Albert Steiger moved to Springfield. He retired in 1SS5. 1 member of the First Congregational the Boston l'ost cane. Fhurch; ho the local holder of After retiring.
Mr. Loomis took un farming on the place belonging to his uncle. John Gillett. His wife. Julia Strong of Southampton, was a direct descendant of Caleb Strong, one of the early governors of Massachusetts.
Mrs. Loomis died in 1916. He leaves a daughter. Mrs. Archie Williams.
and wO grandchildren. Archie Gillett and Edgar Loomis Williams, The funeral will be at the FirtionHollister funeral home in School Street. Cowles Sunday will at 2.30. officiate, Rev. and Edward burial will be in Pine Hill Cemetery.
RATIONING PLAN FOR '42 CARS TO START MARCH 2 Details Expected to Be Announced This WASHINGTON. Feh. 20 (AT') A rationing program covering 1912 automobiles will 20 into operation on March officials of the Office of Price Administration disclosed today. To Channel Autos Details of the program. the aim of which will be 10 channel such cars into the hands of buyers whose need is deemed urgent from the viewpoint of the national interest, are expected.
be announced Sunday. On Jan. 1 the OPA issued a freezing order the effort of which was to prOhibit all sales of 1912 automobiles, by dealers or private citizens, except 10 dealers. Until March 2. the effective date of the new rationing plan, persons who bought cars before Jan.
1 but did not obtain delivery may apply to rationing boards for release of their automobiles. In another move today, the OPA re. laxed the freezing order to permit se. lectres and Army and Navy volunteers to sell their 1912 autos to any one until March 9. provided they first apply in writing to local rationing boards.
HENRY A. YOUMANS WAUKESHA. Fob. 20 Henry A. Youmans, 4T.
of the Waukesha Daily Free. man since 1930, died today following an operation. War Around the World International Summary of Day's Developments on the Fighting and Political Fronts By The The fateful struggle appeared last night to have begun for Java the last and strongest Dutch Fast Indies island not yet violated, the only major base remaining to the Allies in the South Pacific save for menaced Aus. tralia for the invader had invested Bali and stood across only 3 mile or SO of water front Java Strike at Timor It appeared, too, that he had struck at Portuguese Dutch Timor. to the east and lying to the northwest of the Australian mainland, for Tokyo claimed as much and the Netherlands authorities wore without information from that distant strand.
On Bali, 3. hot, shining and Aromatic little dot of sand and coral, a CAN TAKE SAME STEP ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY But War Dept. Not Likely to Act Except Along Pacific Coast IS AIMED AT THOSE OF JAPANESE DESCENT I This route would he between 3000 and 7000 miles from P'ersian Gull port to China's military depots. But also there is the Assam load. Nome 400 miles north of the Burma Road, which is being chiseled out of the cliffs of the limalayas and flung across some of the greatest rivers of to Assam in the northeastern corner of India where it tapa the Indian railway system to Calcutta 2300 mics by motor, ani river steamer or railway.
Presumably in's i4 the one Chiang Kai shek plans to UNP. In the dream stage is the use again of the age-old caravan trails across Turkestan VER Crumchi and to the Pamir mountain passes at the northern tip of India in Central Asia. The Assam Road dwarfs even the Burma load in its miles of wild, remote. impassable mountains, the difficulty its engineering. and the toll of lives it already has taken in its building.
The Chint Information Committee in New York recently reported 120.000 them busy since 1939, and said 330 coolies at work to on this road, some of miles, or about third of the motor highway, had been completed. Spanning as it must at least three large rivers and chiseled out of the and higher rugged praks of the' Himalayas, the Assam route still appears the most feasible of any (Continued on Ninth Page) Order Can Apply to Any Enemy Alien, However WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (AP)In a drastic move aimed primarily at the Japanese problem on the West Coast, the Army was given sweeping authority today to remove "any or all persons" from "military areas" or to impose strictions on them. Executive Order The authority was conferred by an executive order based on the President's in-chief. war time powers as commanderAtty.
Gen. Diddle. who had given a formal told opinion on the legality of the A press conference that "this is a Japanese problem," and the did not now contemplate any action except on the West Const and except with respect to Japanese and Japanese- Americans American born persons of Japanese descent. many of whom have dual citizenship. Biddle explained, however, that the order was "very simple and very broad," and that.
the Army could act anywhere in the United States in the of New York, if it wished. However a practical matter, he said, it was not intended that Americall citizens other than those of Japanese descent would be affected. He said that there are about 60.000 such citizens in California, in addition to 39.000 Japanese -aliens. 52,000 Italian aliens and 19,000 German aliens. No military areas have yet been (Continued on Fourteenth Page) that because.
of the need for additional office space the department would have to give up three or four. offices in City Hall. To instruct the Water Department that hereafter it will pay for its own telephone service. To instruct John I. Tehan, custodian of city real estate, to keep proporty in his care in a clean, safe condition.
The order was the result of al complaint received from Inspector John Mac of the Fire Department that property at 2067-2075 Main Street, under the care of Tehan, constituted a serious fire hazard. Needed at Once In recommending that the com(Continued 011 Fourth l'age) the British cast coast, destroyed one land damaged four others, 21 The plane was. a Dotnier. (Continued on Fourteenth l'age) CASEY IS SAID TO BE IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR U. S.
Representative "Logical Candidate," Democratic Leader Burke Says Special to The Springfield Union BOSTON. Feb. 20-Rep. Joseph Casey of Clinton. representative in Congress of the Third Congressional District, is candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, it is reported hoie.
Popular in State The Clinton congressman, now serv. ing his fourth term in Washington, is popular in district which tends into Palmer. Monson Ware. and throughout the state and is re. garded as the strongest candidate the Democratic Party would be likely in put up in 211 attempt to wrest the Commonwealth from Republican control.
Reached in Washington today, Rep. Casey declined to comment on the report. 110 Was equally emphatic in declining to deny the report as he 4:14 in declining to confirm it. Mr. Casey woull not predict as to when he would make known his intontions with respect to the gubernatorial campaign.
Backed By Burke Questioned regarding Casey's Teported candidacy. William I. Burke. chairman of Democratic State Committee, went "all putt" in express. his support of the Ciinton con(Continued 011 Fourteenth Page) Water Poured at Fire Impedes Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE, Fob.
20 breaking out in the loft of the Baltitore Sun building WAs quickly brought under control tonight but water pouring from the coiling impeded operation of the Morning Sun and Associated Press bureau. Smoke filtered through the newsrooms from the blaze freding 011 papers and other materials stored in the loft of the four -story building. Sally Rand, Awaiting Stork "Provisionally," Hopes for Twin Boys IDAHO FALLs, Feb. 20 (AT)Sally Hand hopes it will be twin boys if there's to be an addition to the family. The fan dancer "provisionally" confirmed that she and her cO'boy nd.
Turk Greenough, were expecting an addition, but addled: "You never can he sure, though. It's a little early." She and Greenough were marriod Jan. 6. LAURA INGALLS, STILL DEFIANT, SENT TO PRISON Aviatrix Says She Is Truer Patriot Than Those Who Convicted Her WASHINGTON. Feb.
20 (AP)-Maintaining a defiant attitude to the end. Aviatrix Laura Incalls was sentenced to prison today for failing to register as an agent of the Reich when sho took German money to make antiwar speeches last year. Two Year-' Maximum Justice James W. Morris fixed the penalty at eight months to two years. Miss Ingalls was convicted by a jury (Continued on Fourteenth l'age) CHINESE TROOPS SAID TO PREVENT RIVER CROSSING Most Successful in Defense of Burma Against Japs Reported CHUNGKING.
China, Feb. 20 (AP) Chinese troops in one of their most successful actions vet in defense of Burma have hurled back de Japanese troops attempting to force A river west of Chiengson, A a town in the northernmost tip of Thailand, a nese communique announced tonight. Site Not Located The official statement failed to say whether the action occurred on the Salween River. which is 25 miles inside Burma in this area. or on 0110 pt the he numerous small rivers feeding the Mekong River.
Chicngsen is on thA west bank of the Mekong itself and tributaries flow into the stream from both west and east. The point at which the thwarted Japanese thrust was aimed was identitied as Moneyuen, town not shown on maps available here. Japanese troops are known to have been marching toward ('hiengsen from some 123 miles to the southwest. mai is the terminus of the railroad from Bangkok and has been the objective of heavy Allied air raids. The British have stated that the Japanese have been gathering strong parachute and air-borne infantry forces at Chiengmai in preparation for an' slaught against Burma.
Five Navy Nurses on Guam Feared Japanese Prisoners Announced in Supplemental List; Six Additional Army Men Also Believed Taken WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (AT) James B. Rex. Philadelphia: Set. ErThe Navy announced today that five nest (:.
Rogers, Saltville, Navy nurses who were serving at the Ariz. and Capt. Henry S. Wilson, Douglas, Island of Guam, captured hy the Japanese early in the war, are ese." likely to be prisoners of the Japan- The Weather Names Given Out FORECAST -For Massachusetts supplemental list to the pris- and Connecticut: winds. continued In 3 cold today; fresh oner list made public yesterday, the ALMANAC -Sun rises 7.38, sots Navy identified the probable women 6.30.
Light all vehicle lamps prisoners as: at 7.00. Marion R. Olds. chief nurse. Chi- TEMPERATURE -Maxinm 27.
cago: Lorraine Christiansen. nurse, minimum 7. (. S. Armory Gunnison, Utah: Virginia J.
Fogarty, figures Tor 21-hour period end. nurse, Akron, Leona Jackson. ing at 1 111. Friday.) Union. and Doris M.
Yet. ter, 'She nurse, War Philadelphia. Department also an- News Index nounced the addition of one officer City Pages 2. 3. 1, and five enlisted men of the Army.
Chicopee l'age 5 who were on Wake Tsland when it West Springfield Page was captured by the Japanese. to the 1'aul Mallon Article. 6 list of those who presumably. are Social 00 prisoners of Japan. the Page 6 Army Men Listed Radio Amusem*nts Programs l'ase 13 3 The Army' prisoners, with their Cartoons, Features 16 home addresses, were: 12, 13 Sat.
Carl IT. Dilks, Bridgeton. N. Sporting 10. 11 N.
Staff Sergeant Ciifford I'vt. Paul F. Futtrup, Bloomville, State House 9 Hotchkiss, Cincinnati, Sgt. I Associated of the unlikely arenas in all kind of Shangri la to many and one the world for the opening of such 3 grand test in. martial history, the Japanese enemy had won strong beachhead-.
Ashore his troops were being met by. stout Allied resistance and in the air and upon and under the surrounding seas Allied planes and warships were inflicting heavy casualties but vet he continued to land. In preliminary reports of the running action, the supreme Allied command announced from Gen. Air Archibald 1'. Wavell's headquarters on Java that one or more enemy cruisers 4 (Continued on Ninth Page) A 4 2.
