Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - February 15, 1942, Oakland, California THE TRIBUNE If your Tribune does not phone 6000 before p.m. Paper will be sent at once DELIVERY SERVICE IS LAST EDITION VOL. 46 lOc SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5c DAILY 76 A-l TO 14 Registrants Face Speedy Draft Call r Class Men WilS Be Summoned With Those Waiting Service As men from week-end activities to register for the third draft call it was learned in D that some of the be called to service simultaneously remaining 1-A men from the 17.000000 already Registration were to be open all day today to accommodate those men unable to leave their j jobs esterday or latest first since the actually is for men be- UNCLE SAM SHOWS HIS GO WITH HARD BLOW A United Press dispatch from Washington late yesterday told ofj the plan to call up today's 1-A with the earlier but explained that the procedure doing so has not yet been PRECEDENT SET After the List on July 1 1941, affecting men who hadj turned since the first registration j on October W. 1940, the 750.000 were inserted in the original lists at in- tei of approximately 10 Officials said that this may be the system to be used this or a new order list may be set In the latter case men would be drawn from both lists at the same time Selective service headquarters asked War Department to re- scind its older prohibiting tion registration United Press SECRECY NOT ESSENTIAL This order has been criticized as on the grounds that any interested enemy could 1 the same information from Almanacs or publications of tne B LIU By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON census In two or three the service will complete its in- of the Nation's available manpower by registering men in the ui the ones not liable ice probably will civilian defense and war production career Guns of a U.S. aimed at targets on the are in Navy attack on Jap bases in the It was a of sold from pictures on Page 10.) Jap Ship Large Fire Set by American Sky Troops Invade Sumatra in Opening Stab at Java By JOHN R. MORRIS Feb. para- chute troops invaded Sumatra from 100 big aerial transports today in the opening thrust of a drive on key base of the Dutch into which the Allies are believed to be pouring increasing By H. 0. THOMPSON Feb. 14. Twelve American Flying Fortresses have attacked enemy shipping in the Macassar area and scored a hit on at least one large Japanese Department reported late Results of the attack were not completely As both sides raced against the the communique It was Press and Public Voice Demand for Cabinet Shakeup LA GUARDIA REPORT FAVORS FIRST LADY'S RETIREMENT Transfer of Her Duties to Permanent Govt. Division Recommended to President By JOSEPH L. MYLER Feb. Fiorello H. La Guardia of New resigned director of the Office of Civilian in a report to President Churchill that OCD activities now supervised by Mrs. Roosevelt be classified for l headed intn the worst storm of well have and perhaps eventually will have This registration is for men over 20 and under 45 3 NAVY PLANES HISSING ON 1UC50N 10 SAN DIEGO HOP SAN DIEGO Feb Eleventh Naval District announced to transferred to existing permanent divisions of Tbe pi ess and public platforms re- sounded with demands that he axe on dead LaGuardia less devoted only to total leave the protective activities foit for into high Inci easing mention was made of Sir Stafford quit his civilian defense where they belong a separate of closely tied in with the as to Moscow back home and spark the tary and naval war as a possible with local municipal man of the hour CHURCHILL SAFE th As associate OCD Mis So it Churchill's i Roosevelt has been in chaig of post prime minister is still the Division of Voluntary it was if he heeds fighter planes are on a Uhp storm nf and discontent routine flight from j caused by the German to of Dover which was set up to mote activities designed to sustain j Driven Into Nazi Line Soviet Troops Reported Across Polish 7 Transports Sunk Feb 14. The surge of the Red Army the National and to in Smolensk and ripped siege search is being conducted in the of his Mountains 5n miles east of San the Navy said The showdown was set for mid- when Churchill is expected to Sheriffs deputies CCC with his first public various defense lines around OTHER SUGGESTIONS The also proposed and Navy crash co-operated j statement upon Singapore and the nation plans and clarification of in the ground I Dover Earlier reports that and responsibility among from the North Island Naval Air would broadcast to the State and local defense Station explored the district from and j personnel in the live services be compelled to com- the British broadcast in the man heard by the United Press listening post in New claimed that Russian troops have crossed the old Polish frontier in the of Deadline for Aliens Near Those in California Must Leave Tonight Or Face Internment Japanese invasion loosed a full-scale attack great oil and trade center of Eastern defense mopped up most of itb skj invaders so swiftly that the situation was described officially as un- was put and dozens of parachutists were the Netherlands Indies com- mand itself is not At least there are no indications that para- chutists dropped close to or entered the REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVING reinforcements were re- ported pouring into the Netherlands East A Chungking cast said the Chinese people happy at news that ican units are in In ton the report was understood to refer to units of the American Air Force which have been in action The Sydney Sun said and other Empire and lied reinforcements are streaming into the Indies and moving up to defense positions The invasion of Sumatra extended menacingly the arc of bases which the Japanese were throwing around richest of the Dutch islands and seat of tno Allied supreme com- It was bulwarked by unofficial reports quoted by the Dutch high command that the Japanese had capital of Dutch Borneo which is 300 miles north of the big naval base on BILLITON RAIDED Other fleets of Japanese bombers were reported officially to A majority of an estimated enemy living within re- zones in ihe Western States designated by the U.S. Department of must be evacuated by midnight In California this deadline capital The were en route from to San 1DANGEROUS MOOD v v mood of lhe Public and training pi escribed by I apparently between Dvinsk day apparently House of Commons was before being to any the to that which benefits under the Federal Com- ceded the overthrow of the Act. The to Minister Neville established departments overcoming German con- of the pilots Sn fnr there in the event of iPTV nl Seven German transports were control of the immediate military sunk in Arctic Tne night communique broadcast from Moscow said the Red their fate is determined U.S. Takes Control Of 1942 Cane Sugar i Feb. j The Production Board assumed control of the entire 19421 demands for of i against be augmented was demanded on all sides handle protective activities now en- tamed air raids similar to those to in methods trusted changes in 3_Thal air raid wardens In this the and linued to advance Eleven German planes were reported de- in combat Friday with eight Soviet Radio heard proclaimed that Gen. Oregon aliens in 89 of the 80 restricted while the remaining 17 vital zones must be cleared of Axis aliens by February 24. All enemy aliens failing to meet the deadlines face possible ment for the duration of the As the deadline Thomas C. alien control for the Pacific hinted that even more drastic action will be taken to guard areas im- for defense TO WIDEN BAN Before departing from Los An- geles for Clark said he would removal from vital of persons inimical to the defense according to the United the Army and Navy say Japanese are I'll take them he numerous conferences with the and Naw military leave no doubt in my mind that they have a thorough understanding and the continued its roundup of enemy ing four arrests in the Bay area and 33 in Imperial Arrested here were four Christian ter of Edward and Alfred Voster of San and John of San 33 JAPS IN IMPERIAL 33 arrested in Valley for the first responsible CHANGE Churchill makes his who bo placed under the command of one positions in thr Smolensk Japanese aliens suspected of YV u j. i i j i j j n raw cane sugar supply as a further has in the In regaid to the voluntary conservation measure to his LaGuardia control already held over He has made a series l repeatedly stated that a addresses and assumed the role of of tiie refined and retail The also fixed allotments of raw swear for domestic re- Burden of finery for from January 1 lo September 30, attributing position has f v sound of Government that permanent agencies of i should take over il was said anti-American Soviet troops had made further ad- included in the restricted vances and liberating one to enemy aliens after night is the entire western portion Elsewhere along the line there bounded by Neptune were reports of Germans dying the Oakland the island of Billiton were blazing despite a rain Sumatra and and to have made broadside attacks and reconnaissance flights over different parts of the archipelago Netherlands Indies news said a large Japanese con- voy had been sighted off island and former treaty port of the southeast coast of and may be that this convoy is on its way to make the expected attack on the heart of the Netherlands East a is the stream of reinforcements which has already begun to be the agency hope is growing long enough to allow enough of this stream of war material to pour into so that the Japanese tide may be stemmed has been said many but perhaps should be if arrive soon it is quite likely that we can turn the LAND AT 3 POINTS The fleet of Japanese and than 100 plus a strong fighter dropped parachutists at places in the vicinity of Palembang observers believed the Japanese undertook the parachute invasion because of m- possible that considerable damage had been done since a large fire was observed sub- fho All of the dozen Army Flying Fortresses participating in the at- tack returned The bombing planes unloaded their deadly cargo near the Port of sar at the southern tip of Celebes in the Netherlands East That point is south of the area where United Nations planes and warships attacked a large Japanese convoy last sinking 40 enemy Macassar has been reported under Japanese pation and the communique that the Japanese invasion fleet was still being harried in der to keep it from the larger ob- of BATAAN GUNS DUEL In a morning communique ths War Department revealed that heavy artillery duelling and try skirmishing were in progress on the Bataan where Gen. Douglas was engaged in a heroic defense against greatly Air activity along the entire front and movement of Japanese forcements have led observers to predict a sustained Japanese sive mfm the near There was an Indication in the Department's terse com- that the troops had taken the offensive in some local The Japanese lusi southwest of Singapore I were reported to be entrenching the fort's big guns Lome of their as if dealing American BIGGER ATTACK COMING Japanese attacks thus far have failed m their Savage fighting in the Bataan jungles hat taken a heavy toll of Japanese Now that additional Japanese reinforcements have it was believed the next enemy offensive would be on a far greater scale than anything attempted thus Lieut. Gen. Masaharu the Japanese apparently is prepared to hurl wave after wave of his best fighters against the sitions which MacArthur's men have defended so valiantly and MacArthur reported earlier this week that movements of the anese reinforcements indicated Homma was planning some such FORTS SHELLED Bombardment of American de- fense positions in Manila Bay was resumed after a short the com- saying that enemy artillery fire from the across Manila Bay from Cor- i Fighting On Defenders Undaunted As Enemy Claims Further Advances By EDWARD W. Feb. men of defenders of this bastion of the British fought on tonight against the bombs and bullets that the Japanese invaders had brought to the They were fighting a battle that held not the slightest hope of tory but still they carried Each new bulletin from the em- battled island told of further anese Tonight the Singa- port corps had been compressed into Singapore town and the narrow ern end of the The Japanese claimed capture of the great Seletar naval base on which Britain lavished nnd 13 years of breaking TOKYO BOASTS CONQUEST recorded in San 01 tne residence and other government buildings in The Japanese were pounding ward the fortified of They had driven east of the two reservoirs some reports claimed the reservoirs still were in British upon which Singapore is de- pendent for to Paya three miles northeast of Singapore FORTS FIGHT BACK Probably now isolated and rounded by the the fort of Pasir Tokyo still raked the Japanese with shot Pasir Panjang is about three miles due west of Singapore town on the south city in the huge northeastern bastion of Changi whose guns were fashioned to beat off a battle the Singapore defenders fought Over the whole battle scene hung a black smoke from burning crude oil nci id cordite fumes from exploding high explosive the pungent wood smoke of burning OF Into the smoke clouds a tropical had been rain was A Japanese cor- respondent in a Tokyo dispatch slid the natives called the rain tears accessibility from the of 5G miles the city is The ground rocked under the ex- Undoubtedly American gunners were searching out the positions Of the Japanese batteries and ing to silence them as they had in the with the Strait of Bancka by j plosion of bombs and shells and The Japanese have gained a great tne ol tne artillery skill stretch is largely difficult rifles which the British turned Bataan Their own treacherous against the Ey day and The main objective of the attack i night Japanese planes droned in on Palembang was believed to some three miles to the bombing with the along the a refining center for the south Sumatra oil Continued Face 2, Col. J artillery adapted for use in China against positions defended only by infantry with light and heavy machine has undergone a sharp change in the Bataan rn L nnd caused by an from The 24 will t in the related fields of of the fighting nt the southern major of Oakland and lend of the but one that the entire extern portion lines had been pierced nnd ail of El respective For l slow 2.567.368 short tons her Struct inn Finance Ml inn it i f tn has to purchase the 1042, fhan two points southeast of Kharkov Cubar Continued on PaSe 10, 3 Activities in the Office of Civilian of was regarded Pittsburg and Aloft of the activities now as i Throe San Francisco are centered in the voluntary This would place the those HUNDREDS OF U.S. AND BRITISH AIRMEN REINFORCE JAP DRIVE CHECKED Sunday Tribune Index 1 will be By KAKL ESKELUND have led the AGAZINE Interest Fiction ana Features Old Time COMIC SECTION 12 Pases in Color AUNT ELSIE SECTION Aunt Elsie and Hollywood Pictures KNAVE MAIN SECTION Complete News Report Notes Financial Community Markets CLASSIFIED SECTION Classified Advertising Vital Statistics SOCIETY SECTION End of Street Cable Cars Stop Walter Zarle Ennss Comer Book Crossword Puzzle Frank Dogwatch Radio Schedules Boy Scout News Activities of or so early the fare charged on The last of the little green cars Franciscans They were Clay Street owned by p sitions and striking at tions and communications One while strong sweep was made over at I superior of the pushed formations earned out ex- Thc according the reconnaissance over enemy sources just arrived from The enemy drive through the the lare in sufficient strength to in- as in and aimed for the first time a ward the key railroad town of RIVER CROSSED United Nations challenge to the it but there was Reinforcements were understood have moved into the Paan sector in ihp few ths aid of R A.F. to have broken the main strength of the enemy i lion spokesman said at that crossed the s war communique The Chinese reinforcements Covers the Shops Arts Gin Scouts Your Schools Fraternal Calendar cvs Review DEVELOPMENT SECTION and Building Playground Activities Automobile State Seventy it case The first his running with six in forward positions and linr to the ni be explain defenders the Burma after heavy fighting have been in built and a uf vet. on the terrifying company They have special bolstered by air and the Pann it said The after two weeks of San as the city's hills or Clay Street hill low special land checked enemy casualties have the It WPS an foRsy and on the steep offensive with i hern very which now is in 1 At 7 am. the first of six chroniclers of the time casualties today and of casualties suffered and at but specially built green busies are The president the But they will never taVe I til IS itl i heavy casualties today and of casualties suffered and at the with battering air attacks on I our troops are not yet the ing over the route of the old S. himself took over the of the little old part of an the enemy spearhead west ol i The Royal Air was very j the delight of tourists for half job and ran the first something American volunteer group again in the last 24 the sector had broken up hit W to drive on toward t Many of tht 1915 Two copper cents about old San and British bombers were raiding the on
