Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - February 28, 1942, Oakland, California THE TRIBUNE your Tribune does not phone TE 6000 before p.m. Paper will be sent at DELIVERY SERVICE IS GUARANTEED UNITED F RESS H O ME EDITION VOL. 5c DAILY D FEBRUARY 28, 1942 12c SUNDAY NO. 59 Canned Food Prices Fixed By Henderson Fifteen Ten Fruits Pegged By Price Administrator Feb. Price Administrator Leon son placed 10 canned fruits and 15 canned vegetables under gency price ceilings to halt price increases which he said would lead to profiteering and probably hysteria The temporary 60-day will freeze prices of the products at highest levels prevailing between February 23 and 27. Only canners and wholesalers are but Henderson declared that retail prices also would be frozen if Canned fruits covered by the der are apple fruit fruit pineapples and Canned vegetables involved are all dry lima snap tweet mato catsup and tomato Henderson reported that prices of canned fruits bles at the in- creased about 20 cent since last August while had per cent hi the same Sugar Hoarders Will Be Ration Books Feb. 28. of Price Administration announced today that sugar ers possessing more than two months supply would be denied sugar ration books until their stocks have been lo At the same it was disclosed that the registration for sugar probably late in and would require the services of 000 and the facilities of public Teachers will act as under supervision of local rationing Approximately 130.000.000 ration boois will be issued one for every woman and child in the United except of the armed inmates of institutions persons temporarily or in book will be given to any son stock of sugar requires removal of more than eight ration stamps at the time of OPA Each stamp will permit a citizen to buy one week's 12 though it has been reported that officials were considering reducing the weekly ration to eight STANFORD I IS SUICIDE By FREDERICK J. MONTEAGLE PALO Feb. shrouding the February 13 out of P. Leighton 28, Stanford University in- was dispelled yesterday as a shrewd county detective the bizarre manner in which ihe man took his life and a jury returned a suicide verdict within 20 So convincing was the manner in which Robert L. the county illustrated how Ballinger held the faulty caliber target revolver in his right hand and struck the hammer with the receiver illon ui a to lire the fatal that Santa Clara County DisL Atty. John gerald said he would drop the in- is no question that the case was one of Fitzgerald and his chief Allan P. Lindsay who aided in the Chief Deputy Coroner Harry E. whose suspicions touched off Continued Page 3, Col. 7 Polo Alto Woman Is Freed of Charges BED WOOD Feb. Mrs. Edith Palo Alto was freed today of charges of murdering her for which she Was Superior Judge Maxwell McNutt dismissed murder charges upon the recommendation of Deputy District Attorney Louis B. Dematteis after three different juries failed to DeWitt Prepares 3-State lap Ban Foe Children Face From Coast Regions Final revisions were be- made today by Lieut. L. Western defense on a sweeping proclamation which may ban enemy aliens and their from portions of Oregon fnd i ana West Coast alien held a. lengthy conference last night J Some believed Ihe which would be issued under presidential might be so stringent that enemy aliens and their descendants would be barred from coastal States AIMED AT NATIONALS the ing move was aimed against anese Nationals authorities are the fountainhead for much sabotage and fifth column German and Italian Nationals have been forbidden to enter 111 strategic military areas in the three States since February 24. The Japanese problem entailed not only whether to move them but wants Rep. John H. Oakland said in an interview at where his congressional committee is con- ducting hearings on the alien INLAND OPINION JELLS has merous expressions from inland areas to that This attitude typified by the statement of Sheriff John Loustalot of Kern who don't want any Japs in this Two Hurt in Wreck Of Passenger Train Feb. trainmen were injured when Fe from for was wrecked three miles north of here The locomotive and two man coaches A broken rail was suspected as the Pope Indisposed Feb. Vichy broadcast today said the Vatican re- ported Pope Pius XII was slightly adding that is no cause for but doctors have advised His Holiness to avoid all Jap Fleet Routed In Java British Paratroops Raid France Radio Station Garrison Hit Sea-Borne Infantry Also Takes Part In Attack Which Deals One-Two Punch to Force or German Guards Feb. British parachutists and sea-borne infantry combined today in a destructive attack on a German radio detector post in the first sizable incursion of the Northern French coast since the fall of Under cover of Royal Air Force fighters and with Navy assistance the raiders then Timed to the the parachutists dropped out of the Feb. 28. Trials by court-martial were ordered today for Walter C. Short and Admiral Husband E. commanders in charge of Hawaii at the time of the successful surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of Navy Knox made the Stimson said in a brief ment uu Ihe basis of the findings of the Roberts inquiry he had directed the preparation of charges leging dereliction of This was the charge made against Admiral Short and Kimmel have been clouds to form hastily as an assault group against the man garrison at the same time that ferried across the English landed on the Joining the which a military spokesman said could not be assumed to be dealt a one-two punch to the Nazi force while demolition squads wrecked the radio RUIN RADIO TOST Then they departed as quickly as they had leaving behind a ruined location post and a dispersed force of German London quarters viewed the and raid as possibly the first of a series planned to harass the Germans at various points in the thus forcing them to keep strong garrisons in the occupied In ii the British turned from defensive Although an official spokesman declined to give the the length of time the operation took suggested the radio station might have been on the western tip of the Brittany in the Brest one of the most distant points on the channel Early this afternoon a military spokesman in said it was not yet known whether ships ing the raiding parties back had yet landed in The spokesman said the bility of a major air battle between German bombers dealing an aerial and the ers not be this meant that sibly German bombers might be at- tempting to destroy the ships ing the troops in j the English Channel and were ing stiff opposition from British fighter MORE RAIDS LOOM Some British sources predicted that this feat by hard-bitten para- chutists and infantry might be the opening gun of a series of slabs against the exposed flank from the Arctic Circle lo the Bay oi The against a radio post which presumably was used to de- tect British bombers crossing the was the first major British raid on Northern Europe and also the reported use of ment would move them away in- far from any place they would do any damage to the National de- fense effort our country we have one of the Nation's biggest oil a main artery and other important National defense adjuncts that the Japs would like very much to blow if they are in a up SIGNIFICANT FIND Underlining this estimate nese was the disclosure by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents that in the effects of who was arrested at they found a newspaper map apparently used in conjunction with President Roosevelt's recent Continued Page 3, Col. 8 Today's Talk Italy February 14. 1941. The raid apparently was on a large scale since the were mentioned specifically as and not as It was the first time regular British ndu been in i ranee since the last of the left Brest June 13, 1940, a few days before the French SECRETLY TRAINED The use of an air-borne division suggested that the British might em- ploy this had been trained secretly since the fall of a of extended raids on occupied The formation of an air-borne di- vision first mentioned officially in a House of Commons speech by Sir Archibald air Following German successes with parachute Britain has been building up a parachute Army Subject Page Classified Advertising 14 Churches 4 Comic Strips 9 Crossword Puzzle 7 Editorials and Fashions Features Schedules and Spoilsmen Wood Scones Statistics 13 7 10 14 6 18 6 7 8 12 8 17 8 By CARLE ENNIS Silly glanced across to the desk where the and bete noir of the Weather Bureau staff pored over a are you my holstered he studying said now trying to out whether i; a lar or a plural don't have to look in a book to find that said the look at The upper part is singular and the lower part Is Give me a hard the Colonel back and thrust his thumbs in the armholes of his vest equipped with the most modern The all are Ten mpn ran 2 plane in six or seven Axis Bases Dies Japan Use Stations Close to Congressman Says Full Dies report found on Page 12. Feb. 28. Reports that Japan and Germany are using air and supply bases close to the American continent reached the Dies its assertion that the West Coast and Panama Canal still in the gravest from Japanese Location of the secret enemy out- posts was not disclosed but informed sources said they were strategically placed either for direct action against the Americas or for ing vital supply Committee after ing public a report summarizing its evidence of Japanese espionage in Hawaii and the Canal called on Government agencies lo intensify their campaign against the these there no longer should be any question as to the urgency of very vigorous efforts to remove all Japs and Nazis and Fascists from all coast de- fense centers and other places where they could disrupt the war program or endanger our declared Chairman Dies of the House committee to investigate un- American PROMPT ACTION URGED Representative Voorhis another said that the promptly should select con- centration points for the The committee's report was heavily documented traced the Japanese campaign to the United citing elaborate maps and plans for sudden fifth column work in conjunction with the attack on Pearl Made public while a resolution for continuance of the committee from April 1 to January 3 was ing on the House the re- port said that much of the information was available lasl Fall but was withheld at fhc of tne State and Justice ments of President the report committee's evidence was made available to the appropriate agencies of our The military intelligence has gone over all of DANGER STILL EXISTS Asserting that the Nation has much to learn on the operations of the fifth column in the United the said it had decided to present part of the dence it had obtained guised that our West Coast and the Panama Canal are still in the gravest peril from Japanese age and Japanese The report submitted evidence and documents intended to show detailed of j strategic centers and of Pearl in the past PRESSURE INCREASED Increasing Red Army pressure at both ends of the long indicated today in reports of the Red On the where the soldiers of Leningrad are laboriously ing down the offensive fortifications virtually gun by a broadcast said 1140 more Germans had been killed and an artillery battery and six more pillboxes de- Two Axis German 113th and the Rumanian routed on an undisclosed sector in the south and 7500 of their soldiers were Soviet information bureau NAZI POWER LAGS reaching London In- the Germans were con- equipment and Canal and the Philippines were with deepening worries over KIMMEl SHORT MUST FACE COURTS-MARTIAL without since they were ordered relieved from their posts by President 10 days after the surprise raid on the Pacific out- Short's application lor voluntary retirement was effective condonation of any offense or to any future disciplinary Kimmel's retirement likewise has been effective March 1. TRIALS AWAIT The It was will not be held until public interest and Secretary of War announced today the effective ruary 28, 1942, of the application for retirement of Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short condonation of any offense or to any future disciplinary Secretary of War announced at the same based upon the findings of the report of the Roberts he had directed the of charges for the trial by court-martial of General that the trial upon these charges would not be held until such time as the public interest and safety would The Kimmel action an- in Navy communique No. 47, which secretary of the Navy an- today the tive March 1, 1942, of the tion for retirement of Rear Ad- miral H. E. U.S. condonation of any offense or to any dis- NAVY CHARGE BASIS secretary the Navy an- at the same time based upon the findings of the re- port of Roberts he had directed the preparation of charges for the trial by court-martial of Rear Admiral alleging dereliction of The secretary of the Navy made it that ihe trial upon these charges would not be held until such time as the public interest and safety would 60, was born in Ky. Under naval retirement regulations he will receive a retired pay of a pending the outcome of the a native of 111., will be 62 on March 30, and his rank and Enemy Masses For New Drive Huge Armada Hurled Back From Island Naval Landing Great Sea Retarding i By WITT HANCOCK Feb. of the United Nations flung back today attempt by a huge fleet of ships and transports to storm the naval base and invade but tonight the armada was believed reforming somewhere in the Java Sea for a second Battered and scrambled in a the nese warships and their Japs Report Wake AM oi The to retirement with annual pay oJ Secretary of War made it Nazi Rescue Smashed by Russ Big Transports Speeding Fresh Units To Save Trapped Army Are Shot Down By EDDY GILMORE Feb. Russians reported today that they were shooting down big troop transport planes jammed with Nazi soldiers fresh from training in Germany for a Spring but were rushed to the front in a desperate attempt to reinforce and save the trapped 16th German Army near raya Dispatches declared that Russian gunners and fliers frustrating repealed Nazi efforts to get such troops through and to drop supplies and ammunition to more than Germans virtually within the tightening Red Army A German was broken in this The German position was Im- periled further by an outward thrust from the Red Army's position Leningrad and by the activity of there who were said to have killed Canisters containing as well as the Panama Continued Pipe 2, Col. Si Continued Face Col. 1 Continued Page 2, Col. 7 Nelson Orders War Production Stepup Washington Silent As Tokyo Admits Damage By United Press Japan reluctantly revealed today that the United States Navy had attacked Wake where a small band of heroic Marines held out tor of many transports retreated and at p.m. a.m. the cial Aneta News Agency said may be stated with absolute tainty there has been no landing ot Japanese troops anywhere on Action at sea stiE was being joined late this but informed United Nations sources here said bulk of the invasion fleet I apparently was reorganizing for a tempt to land probably in tht vicinity of the naval British news said the Japanese had sent two expeditionary fleets against one which headed for Batavia on the western end of the island and the other aimed at Soerabaja on the east. dispatch said the Soerabaja thrust was understood to be in con- JAPANESE MASS TROOPS FOR NEW RANGOON DRIVE Feb. anese are massing troops for a re- smash toward anc the Burma front situation is a British commentator knowledged He admitted that reports Iho anese had cut the road and north of were 1rup and emphasized the strength of the imminent Japanese onslaught against British troops holding the lines west of the Si Hang The Japanese infantry suffered 2000 casualties in a series of like rushes against a small British force holding a bridgehead across the the commentator Another British cut off when the Japanese enveloping movement in the north flanked fought its way back to the present lines after davs of severe The battle of the bridgehead was a small but gallant It was believed that of the Duke of Wellington's infantry and the King's Own Yorkshire light infantry In greatly superior the Japanese battered at the bridgehead garrison for two Despite heavy the British held and on February 23 drew ncross the river as engineers blew up the The military commentator said there were no reports of indicating all the Japanese 2000 Japanese aerial and sea The attack occurred last the Japanese communique It revealed that it had been carried out with considerable spokesman for the Navy De- said today in Washington that the Navy had no information on the Tokyo report of an American naval attack on Wake HINTED FOR DAYS For Japanese propagandists had hinted that there had been a clash between United States and Japanese armed presenting a number of contradictory Only today was it acknowledged that American forces had swooped down on the scene of the valiant and hopeless battle of American fighting The Japanese communique ad- mitted only that a Japanese patrol boat had been that military facilities on the island had been thai there had been a THREE CLAIM Its claims of successes against the American forces represented a de- diminution of the soaring claims of tilt It that one attacking cruiser was set afire and one destroyer heavily damaged by a stern hit by short artillery and another cruiser aged and five planes shot down by Japanese planes when the American force The attacking force was said to have been composed of one aircraft two cruisers and six A detachment of fewer than 400 Marines under Maj. James S. Devereux held out at Wake Island from 7 10 December 22 despite everything the Japanese could bring to AIR RAIDS REPELLED The approach of the Japanese sea force was preceded bv repeated air raid alarms at but each time approaching enemy plants were driven off by anti-aircraft fire before any bombs could be The Dutch said tens of in the continental equivalent to were in the strongly protected first scattered and then pursued by the Allied Unspecified losses on both were quoted by the United said the Japanese reported to have lost several ships and five transports in the naval action off MOST CHEERING NEWS The first unofficial reaction Ja Bandoeng was that the communique was the most cheering since the battle for therefore for the Netherlands East Indies Twice before the United and Dutch fleets have teamed to inflict resounding defeats on Japanese sea Macassar Strait and in of Lomboi off The Dutch said there were losses on both sides in the Java Sea which began late yesterday and raged into the But early accounts said not give the In other the communique reported Dutch successes in fighting in Southern northeast ftf in Central where the Japanese are attempting to consolidate their positions for MI assault on Western and on island nf The Dutch said their troops 1 THRUST INTO INDIA TO CUT SUPPLY JAPAN'S AIM NEW Feb. 28. Japan's broad strategy apparently calls for a westward strike into the Indian Ocean in an effort to loot cut the United ply routes to the Red Sea and sian and finally establish a junction with Germany somewhere in the Middle East. This ambitious one of real peril to the Allied was gested today by the Tokyo Foreign Office the Japan Times and which pointed out that Singapore's fall put Japanese warships in a position to prey on U.S. and British shipping northward irom the Cape of Good Hope and Feb. 28. The War Production Board set forth today on a campaign to increase military production at once and to stepping it up further as the The continuing drive on the basis of an appeal by President Roosevelt who said in a letter to Chairman Donald M. son of the that the months just ahead were the months of the and that victory de- pended in large measure on the expanded production the tion would Ret iiy the Spring and Summer of this hai been done fcr wratt be the President is total We are all under fire soldiers and civilians No one is a we are all To must said the new drive his board undertaking aimed to increase production immediately in plants now having war contracts and to convert other plants to war production as speedily as He said ihe campaign would Greater utilization of plants now producing war aimed bringing us tg close tht theoretical hours work per week lor every machine in those and awards outstanding industrial ment both by management of c plan for labor-management was plant Continued Tune 3, Col. 1 47 More Jap Planes Shot 7 Damaged Feb. 28.-UP) Destruction of 47 and damage to seven others that Australia Rations Tea Feb. 28 rationing started in tralia The Government all held by had been killed destroy the whole Anglo-Soviet plan ot material The reference to was curious because Japan is at peace with although many do not expect the peace to situation in the Indian the Tokyo newspaper and British shipping can no longer sail those waters Tne immediate snag to a big Japanese push westward is the flanking threat of Japanese submarines long ago were reported operating in the Bay of the upper eastern part of the Indian and Col. Alaska Held Up Feb. President Roosevelt said today he was waiting for a positive from the War ment before taking action on the construction oJ a row have struck 350 miles southwest The fall of Rangoon already abandoned as a port tor supplying the would pose 660 air line Singapore only 1650 miles from but off the west Malayan is even In ftp Continued Fage t SUBSCRIPTION ANNOUNCEMENT Due to substantial in our production of which wages and taxes constitute the chief the subscription rates of the Oakland Tribune after March I will be increased Id cents per A tial percentage of this amount will go to the carrier The new rates will be as By carrier or per including daily and single copy pricti 9e 12c only by
