Albuquerque Journal (Newspaper) - May 14, 1942, Albuquerque, New Mexico I'S SMILE VH May IS at the Rl liase walked over to a fountain pulled a 11 rushed several fire Naval the fire alarm handle In- and fountain handle EH MEXICO'S LEADING NEWSPAPER Good Morning Krle Weather Bureau Director at Ft M Hack Here un a Visit Probably fur Some Decent Weather Thursday Morning May 14 1942 Entered as second class matter Albuquerque N M under act of congress 1870 Price Five Cents Forced Back in Bitter for Kerch Gains A N 1C Assailed r Eyring Head Practices Against School EN REPLIES lard of Education Requirements Ir Teacher Certificates FE May is AP state Board of aCter hearing fiery of unethical against Eastern New College Wednesday led its teacher certification Ilions to increase the re- for graduates of un- litcri colleges I charges were made against liege by Dr Edward Gyring lent of Highlands described the lion as he only Ing Institution in the state I was not accredited by a agency I Eyring accused the college in bogus claims increasing its by accepting credits by stale in- lons and general Ids that threaten the of education in New cck Records the charges Dean D Golden of E C of the criticism where icd deals with past ad- dded that since he had not lie charges before they were lied to the state board hn need lime to check the col- before replying to g's lengthy list of specific ccs of allegedly unethical ccs taking its Ihc board I was not passing on either the char or the but deplored any un- 1 practice on the ot any c in the stale if such new amendment ng teacher certificates re g four years of college ng provided that now the fall of graduates i unaccredited college in to receive this type of must in addition to ng all requirements of the Hoard of Education meet he requirements for jf the College of Education ANY GAS TODAY Senators C Wayland Brooks Illinois Robert F Wagner New York and Carl Hatch New Mexico left to right registering gasoline with Mrs John Lyle in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington D C Telephoto End to Partisan Politics Urged Legion Committee Submits Program SANTA FE May 13 executive committee of the New Mexico Department of the ican Legion has recommended lo ils slale convention in que June tlic adoption of a resolution calling upon ment of partisan politics for the duration It was one of several suggested resolutions and prepared by Ihc com- i al ils meeting last week and made public Wednesday by j Donovan N Hoover department commander Tlie proposed a lution declaring that politics in the partisan sense must be ad- until the war is but lhat politics in the higher sense ot the proper conduct of ment should and must be aged Denounced Conduct on Ihc part of of he Government and of private citizens inimical to the prosecution of the war should and must be the Recovered Mine 15 More ht by Crews W Va May 13 bodies of explosion us recovered and 15 slill to mud rescue workers toiled night clearing away hiding tile remaining men to have been trapped in coal company's o 1 mine of the 41 bodies recovered been identified before nd the company released a f the 15 they believed buried i falls in Uic of the area e rescue crews hauled three s to the surface Tuesday 38 others to accompaniment of from grief-stricken widows children who stood among of spectators around line mouth expressed themselves there were 15 more in the mine after linking check but all were in the hard-hit section affected by the blast Is Bertha Caldwell lias been acting postmaster at fourth-class station in County Icr J A Werner announced Wednesday airier Forecast AND NEW Cool again Thursday warmer during n than Wednesday IJ N Bureau irt on Nine continued or action based upon Criticism bias or and criticism or action prompted by selfish personal or partisan motives should he dis- continued and if in violation of law suppressed and punished and whether the criticism or lion be upon he part of those in or outside the The committee likewise mended that a Distinguished Service citation of the American Legion be awarded to the New Wage Scales Set For Jap Evacuees SAN FRANCISCO May 13 W wartime control administration Wednesday an- wage scales for Japanese evacuated from Pacific Coast areas to inland centers would range from to Slti a month This will he in addition to food shelter clothing and medical care which are without charge The wage scale will affect tens of thousands since the ber of Japanese aliens and zens lo be evacuated from fornia Oregon Washington and Arizona numbers around The scale was set at conferences in Washington between Secretary of War Stimson and Milton hower director of the War calion Authority application remain of be ils Ceremonies Planned At Navy Recruit Station SANTA FE May cn or more to be sworn in here Sunday at public ceremonies opening the new slate naval office They will be reviewed by Gov Miles LI Commander Roy Cook Slate Guard units Military De- officers and Lt 15 G Mauley office commander The new officer will allow New Mexico recruits to take final ex- and bo inducted out going lo stations states in other Soft Wood Freeze Is Ordered Military Projects Need Materials WASHINGTON May 13 The War Production Board applied a freeze to all sales and deliveries of soft wood construction lumber by large producers except to fill ders uf the Army Navy and Mari- time Commission The order effective ately halts producers sales of about 70 per cent of he country's soft wood lumber output but docs not affect stocks in yards which are lo be to supply defense housing and essential civilian needs ing the period The sales prohibition applies particularly lo limbers boards commonly used in building con- and farming items Officials said the order was de- signed lo conserve supplies of soft lumber for military purposes pending a system of allocation under which definite quantities would be allotted to both military and civilian uses Free to move in customary trade channels are all hardwood lumbers and soft wood factory shop and box lumber The producers affected arc whose mills turned out 3000 feet or more board measure in an average eight-hour day's con- operation during the flu days preceding issuance of the der WPB said present and an- demand situation in lumber was a military but Hoard Chairman i Donald M Nelson declared the shortage for military j and war plant construction was critical USO Drive Meeting With Good Response Alamogordo and Hobbs Already Reach Goal The statewide USO fund drive was reported heading ward its quota in Lea and Otero Counties Wednesday while co-operation was the term applied to the campaign at Fc Justice T J Mabry slate man called state headquarters from Alamogordo to report the goal already reached there ing he was certain the rcn of County will raise its quota Strauss Baker chairman of the drive in Hobbs told here lhat had been obtained there in five hours work and pre- Lea County will greatly exceed its quota W J Barker Fe County chairman said businessmen in Santa Fe had responded lie said canvassing will start Thursday House Committee Votes Deep Cuts In Tax Exemptions New Figures Set At Per Couple for Single Persons SURPRISE ACf ION Earned Income Credit Retained Higher Rates Discussed WASHINGTON May IS AP Unexpectedly the House ways and means committee decided day to slash individual in- come tax exemptions to for single and for married sons in an effort lo raise billions of dollars lo finance the war fort By a vole of about 2 lo 1 members abandoned present levels of 750 and The tion would bring millions of new taxpayers to the collection with the single man who earns about a week The committee coupled with the reduced exemptions tion of the earned income credit which the Treasury Department had proposed to abolish The lowered apply to both normal and surtaxes Consider Higher kales Chairman D N C said committee would ceed Thursday to consider higher normal and surtax rates Until the rales are determined there can be no of what enue the lowered personal credits would produce The Treasury has asked for more taxes from individuals Wednesday's action brought to a decision the question of whether a sales lax would be laken to the House for a ote Two proponents of that levy said lhal the dipping into the low income probably would on Four Suspects Arrested Here Nabbed Few Minutes After Arriving Four men allegedly wanted in Angeles on a charge of armed robbery were rounded up night by Sheriff Ed and his deputies within 15 minutes after the in the city The men arrested at the re- quest of Sheriff E W Biscailuz of Los Angeles Counly were booked al the counly jail as Al Goodman Ollie Nelson Ryan Donald W Balch and Alfred Johnson They ranged in age from 18 lo 22 Sheriff said the four denied they had committed any crime but their names tion and the car in which they were riding corresponded in all lo information provided by Sheriff Biscailuz The men were spotted through their sedan which horc a California license at a West Central Avenue restaurant said The four had just arrived in town refueled their car and were sitting down lo cat when and his deputies arrested Warned lo Use Caution Sheriff Biscailuz had warned men were carrying guns ing use caution in apprehending said the men were un- armed when inlo custody but a quantity of 22 and -IS bre ammunition a small axe and a knife were found in the car The Los Angeles sheriff said Raich and Goodman were under Held Hostage By State Convicts Big U.S Bombers Pound Jap Base In North Burma Blast Enemy Planes At Myitkyina In Daylight Raid MORE JAP TROOPS Chiang Directs Defense Of China Border Army Mrs Photo Woman Legislator I ells of Experience SANTA FE May 13 Griego young slate from Rio Ar- riba County described vividly Wednesday how she was held tage and threatened with death by a group of New Mexico convicts Visiting the prison last week with her mother Mrs Gilbert of El Rito Mrs Griego w held on Hie second floor of the infirmary for some 20 minutes before her seven cap- tors succumbed to tear gas and surrendered The older woman also seized at was released al the be- hest of a prison inmate Mrs Griego told how an ice pick had been placed al her heart how she averted possible death by asking her captors for and how a friendly Negro convict had given her a soaked piece of sheeting o hold over her face when the tear gas bombs exploded the women escaped from their experience unharmed Now that it's ail said Mrs Griego I think they treated me as well as they could Rut 1 agree with Warden John Me Manus that it svill be a long before f visit another pen In the By the Associated Press A United States squadron in a ing daylight raid attacked the drome at Myitkyina in far j northern Burma Tuesday and set ire to Japanese planes parked i on runways a communique from New Delhi India ed Wednesday The communique Gen bombers again smashed at the Japanese air force May 12 when the Myitkyina drome was bombed Hits were observed on ed aircraft selling them on fire Runways were by big bombs The raid was led by tall haired Maj Donald M of McComb O First Attack This was the first daylight at- tack and like night attacks in the was without fighter Meanwhile veterans of the na wars under the personal tion of Generalissimo Chiang shek braced their lines day night against a reinforced Japanese penetration of their soil while isolated exhausted Chinese and British forces held ly lo the last few bits of Burma After suffering a but bloody setback the Japanese ad- lers announced early Thursday vance guard on the Burma Road I Other Allied air units surprised was reported in a Chinese com- from Chungking lo have at least 50 miles in- London Reports Laval Agrees to Immobilize Martinique Warships Russians Ridicule German Claim of Captives and Aver Battle Continues Malta Tells of Letup of Axis Aerial Assault By the Associated Press Admitting they had withdrawn from advanced on the Kerch Peninsula because of superior Nazi strength Soviet officials early Thursday denied gant German victory claims Fierce fighting still is going a Russian com- issued shortly alter midnight stated Berlin announced Wednesday night German arid manian troops have broken a fortified Soviet line across the neck of the Kerch Peninsula in the Crimea capturing prisoners and annihilating encircled groups of Red soldiers Pursuit of the remnants of the beaten enemy is being continued incessantly the communique said in de- scribing the break-through Hit Japs in Indies Ship Is Stink and 2 Set Afire at Amboina ALLIED May bombers in a mile round trip above northern Australia sank a Jap ship at the Island of loina and set two others afire General side China's backyard at and to have pushed on towards Paoshan miles deeper inside Yunnan province The major Japanese at New Britain Island dropping bombs on anese bombers drawn up on a runway blowing up three of them and severely damaging many communique of his drive supposedly I The raids occurred Wednesday Albuquerque Man Dies in Accident Division To Be Organized SAN ANTONIO Tex May 13 first division of this war will be organized of- Friday at Fort Huachuca Ariz Third Army said Some of its officers will be white men including Maj Gen Charles P Hall commanding general The reactivated unit will be lie Infantry Division In Uic World War the division con- National Guard troops from New York Ohio Il- linois Connecticut Massachusetts Tennessee Maryland and the Dis- of Columbia U S to Buy Frozen Copper Brass Stocks WASHINGTON May Approximately 13 lous of copper and in slocks of companies throughout the be purchased or requisitioned by the ment for munitions War duction Board said Wednesday Elaborate machinery for ery of Ihc copper left idle by conservation and limitation ders has boon established il was learned including formation of a new Finance Corp hail on the armed robbery j subsidiary Copper Recovery charge i Corp in New York City W H Stillwell Killed by Rail William II Stillwell 70 of 410 Apache Trail was killed day morning in Canyon northwest of Pueblo while attempting to remove a rail from abandoned railroad bridge Sheriff J G Zambrano of val County said According to the sheriff weli a man named had attached a block and tackle to the rail and the men were using a learn to it Hope was driving learn snd was the rail night In the only Japanese Big Canadian Force Lands in Britain LONDON May 13 largest Canadian overseas gent in history has arrived safely in Britain afler a trip cross the Atlantic it was officially an- Wednesday night All brandies and services represented including infantry artillery medical and ordnance The Canadians also brought hundreds of thoroughly trained airmen It was also announced that fresh New Zealand forces ing naval air and forestry units had arrived in England Congressmen zn a Dither Over Gasoline Ration Cards WASHINGTON May K An X card entitles the holder lo Gasoline Wednesday I yawn and loll gas-pump man had Congress in a dither the like of which has not been seen since tile lawmakers later selves for al their special in the Capitol many had asked and received X cards lo fill her up The voting public might gain a vivid picture of Its tives at the capital exercising the privileges of an unlimited line su ply In he Kast lhat voting public is strictly rationed on gasoline And the country over wartime self-sacrifice is popular All but a tew of the House members and a third of Uic ate are seeking re-election this year And well voles are uncertain things at best and the situation is one that could only make some of members shudder Distinctly not these however was Senator Downey D He keeps no car in Washington He announced he would ask the Senate to vote Thursday on a resolution of self- abnegation in which it would foreswear he use of gasoline or on Inv CHUNGKING May Headquarters of the of Kharkov approximately 300 miles north of the Crimean the Russians under Marshal meon Timoshenko were engaged in a mounting offensive against the Germans and there the Red army forces were successfully according to the Soviet communique A possibility that a third im- portant sector of the front may be opened by the pel haps as part of a general of- fensive was seen in a brief Radio report that the bugs total of transport planes and 37 fighters were de- in the past few days in the region about Hussa south of Leningrad and northwest nf Moscow long a tested area Aid Trapped Army The presence of so many man transport planes indicated a further Nazi attempt lo bolsler the trapped 10th man army south of Lake Ilmen The Nazis recently claimed they had cut a ground corridor through to that army The Crimean front meanwhile continued to rock with battle The Soviet communique During May 13 our troops op- posing numerically superior forces of Germans retired to new positions The German communique claim that the battle of Kerch resulted in a German success and lhat they captured many tanks and guns and took a large ber of prisoners is nothing but a lie Our troops are retiring in good order and inflicting heavy losses on the ers Reds Take Offensive fn the Kharkov direction of tile front in the Donets Basin our troops took the offensive and are successfully advancing On other sectors of the front nothing of significance took place On May 12 -13 German planes were destroyed Our losses were 17 Soviet ships in the Barents Sea sank an enemy transport of tons In the whole of the European theater other than Russia Vichy's plots and intentions ed the chief Laval Sends Note The Vichy government of the Nazi creature Laval in effect trying to take over the tions concerning which the United States had been conducting directly with the island's French authorities an- the American ment had raised grave tions and thai a note concerning those questions had been sent to Washington Vichy look the lhal American representations to the Martinique authorities and these representations were de- signed to make certain that did not fall inlo Axis Continued on Two an attempted raid on Port Moresby by six Japanese planes two enemy craft were shot down and one damaged The long overwater thrust against the erlands East Indies was first by bombers operating under eral MacArthur in Australia Aside from the one sunk the communique said direct hits on two oilier ships one of 3000 tons and one of 2000 tons set them afire Docks at the former big Dutch naval island base which the Japanese occupied in early ruary also were left in flames AVG FLYERS SMASH 15 JAT PLANES RAID AT HANOI 13 American Volunteer Group issued this com- Tile American Volunteer Group bombed tiie main airdrome at noi the afternoon of May 12 Fifteen Japanese planes ing bombers one large transport and two-seater and single-seated fighters were burned on the ground Two bombs hit the tion building At least 25 more planes were damaged One of our pilots is missing Two Named by TWA Board KANSAS CITY May 13 Two new were named Wednesday by the board ot directors of Transcontinental Western Air Inc following the departure of two of executives into military service John A Collings 41 tendent of operations was elected vice-president in charge of ations succeeding L G Fritz re- cently granted a leave of absence to become chief of operations of the U S Air Forces Ferrying Command President Frye announced Ihc board created a vice dency for Clarence E Fleming 51 who has been an assistant lo the chairman Col T 13 Wilson now on active duty wilh Army Fleming also is assistant of airline Berlin Residents Get Out Gas Masks LONDON May 13 lors dispatch from Stockholm Wednesday quoted the newspaper Nya ns saying that Berliners were getting out the gas which they had put away seems to think the next few days will settle the question of a gas war or no Kas a story from tile paper's Berlin correspondent said
