Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - March 16, 1942, Reno, Nevada A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of THE FAMILY Nevada's Greatest Newspaper SIXTY-SIXTH 64 RENO NEVADA MONDAY MARCH 16 1942 FOURTEEN PAGES METALS Bar C I lent New York Val 12.00 export II 25 V St St York 24.00 20.00 JAP RAIDERS BLAST DARWIN PORT Russia Ready For Attack By Japanese Million Men Set In Siberia if Tokyo Moves In LONDON March 16 sia's well-armed Siberian forces and naval bases arc ready for instant action a Japanese attack which ices in Chungking in- be launched m the near future British reports said BATTLE ORDERS A dispatch from Stockholm to the Daily Mail said the Soviets had issued battle orders which can bo put into mutant operation at the Sea of Japan from the Japanese coast and j about hundred miles up the coast at the mouth of the Amur river opposite the northern Russian-owned half of Sakhalin The Daily Mail quoted the ish as reporting that the anese army in Manchukuo had been increased to more than one million men and said that Soviet authorities in the Swedish capital laugh at even a million constituting a serious menace to the independent far eastern Soviet army normally a million and a half men Russia her Siberian army to three million front line troops and nas huge reserves in training the Daily Mail said ing military circles On the other hand there been reports for some time that Russia has rii av n upon her Siberian j Downfall Hearing for Hitler Says Secretary Welles WASHINGTON March 16 new importance of Adolf Hitler's speeches ing secretary of state ner Welles told a press con- ference today lies in the fact there is implicit in every word and every phrase ler's own recognition of his downfall Wells added that it was only natural that Hitler in his latest speech should have referred to the kind of world in which President Roosevelt and the American people wish to as a new able alien world The kind of a world for which the American people and their government stand Welles asserted is a world of international y a world in which men and men freedom of ship freedom of thought and freedom from fear Hitler Appeals For Sacrifices Hard Struggle Lies Ahead Says He army to bolster the forces fighting the Germans m the west THREE FACTORS A Reuters dispatch fiom king cited three factors as ing an early Japanese against They 1 The recall by Japan of Lieut Gen Tatekawa as to Moscow and his re- placement by Naotake Sato 2 The return to of Gen Jiro Minami Japanese governor general of Korea 3 The visit to Japan of Chang Ching-Hui head of the controlled Manchukuo government The influential Chungking paper Ta Rung Pao regards Sato s appointment as a smoke screen and suggests he was sent to Russia be- cause Japanese militarists believe his conciliatory manner can be used to great advantage in ing Japan's war plans Reuters said The Daily Sketch meanwhile said Premier Stalin of Russia was preparing to recognize the Free French national committee in don as a full and added the main reason was that Vichy had given its official blessing to a French legion now preparing to take part in the spring offensive against Russia BERLIN From German Maich 16 ler appealed to the German people for new sacrifices and warned them a hard struggle lies ahead but promised a ing victory over Soviet Russia ing the coming summer Speaking at memorial exercises for war Hitler also predicted the ultimate defeat of what he called President attempts to build a able new alien world He acknowledged frankly that the German armed forces had met unanticipated obstacles in Russia after achieving victories which he said had no parallel in history Winter for instance he said came weeks earlier than expected But one thing know Hitler The Bolsheviks who could not defeat German troops and their allies in one ter will be defeated by us the coming summer Russia's only hope of ultimate Hitler said vanished when her armies failed to inflict upon Germany a Napoleonic defeat in the snow and cold of a winter he described as the worst in 140 years Hitler assertions that Jewish and capitalist tors had caused war and laid much of the blame upon President Roosevelt United Nations Hope to Stage Drive to Japan Air Headquarters Being Set Up By U S in India Johnson Named Envoy to India Personal Minister Named at Capital WASHINGTON March 16 Louis Johnson former assistant secretary of war the White House announced today will be a al representative of the president with the personal rank of ister in India There was no explanation of the meaning of personal rank of ister except that Johnson would have an unofficial rather than an official title It was announced last week that Johnson would head a United States mission to India Three Men Perish In Explosion WICHITA Kas March 16 UP men were burned one fatally in a fire which followed an explosion in the paint shop of the Cessna Aircraft company last night Sparks from an electric drill ig- paint on the floor Damage was slight Garden Parties Are Cancelled WASHINGTON March 16 Franklin D Roosevelt said today that due to the war all garden parties at the White House including that given for veterans had been cancelled just as the traditional Easter Monday has been called off She also told her press ence that the White House houses would be demolished to make room for a defense project so they would get along with fewer flowers U S Submarine Sinks Enemy Ship WASHINGTON March 16 The navy announced today that a United States submarine had sunk an enemy freighter in anese waters and that a enemy gasoline tanker had been sunk by undisclosed means in the Philippine area DELHI India March 16 -A United Slates air quarters has been set up in India one step in fast developing toward the avowed goal not only of stopping the Japanese in Bui ma but also of gracing I be offensive in a drive into the home lands of Japan BRITON TO HEAD This was disclosed yesterday by Air Marshal Sir Richard the lormer chief of the RAF bomber command in Britain who has been assigned to head the air front in India The quietly confident air shal told in a press conference a story of growing aerial might and of determination to make it help turn the tide of war on the Asian mainland from the to the offensive for the United Nations We are going to cary the war the enemy's country into Japan he asserted We are not going to be content to put up an and sit underneath for the enemy to come to attack us At same time the colonial of I ice in London announced Brit- ish steps to shape up the defense Of Cejlon the so-called back line against Japanese inva- sion of India naming Vice Ad- miral Sir Geoffrey as com- mander in chief of all British forces on the Indian ocean island PLANES ARRIVE It said Sir Geoffrey former commander of Britain's China station would di- naval military air and ilian defense operations in other words all measures necessary to safeguard the island Actually according to a ters report from Colombo capital of Cej Ion Sir Geoffrey assumed his new post a week ago but has not intervened in the civil ad- ministration of Governor Sir An- drew Caldecott The arrival in increasing bers of the latest models of ican and British warplanes was announced by who gave this estimate of the air Reinforcements are coming through faster Our plans are being accelerated As far as the enemy air forces are concerned aircraft for aircraft the British and ican types are superior Man for man I don't think we have any fear of the enemy If we can meet him on anything like equal Treasury Renews Objections to Sales Tax Plan Five Per Cent Levy Would Yield Big Sum Says Report Turn to page 10 col 5 U S Soldiers Are Prisoners 400 Americans Taken in Java TOKYO From Japanese March 16 dred American troops were cap- tured by the Japanese at Bandoeng central Java and one hundred more in eastern Java a Domei dispatch said today All are now prisoners of war it was said War material seized from the Americans included ninety-three automobiles eight field guns teen machine guns 390 automatic and regular rifles and eighty sand rounds of ammunition the dispatch said Brand New Tire Rolls into Yard But It Proves Wrong Size PORTLAND Ore March 16 UP Never spurn a gift says George Hibbard An automobile wheel with a new tire rolled into his yard Hibbard went up the mil to investigate No auto in no dismayed motorist Hibbard grinned happily for a moment The tire he discovered was the wrong size for his car Now he's considering its value as a ing medium WASHINGTON March 16 The treasury department mated today thai a general five per cent retail sales tax with no exemptions would retail 000 000 in new revenue but re- its objections to that type of levy FIGURES GIVEN A sales levy has been suggested by the National Association of Manufacturers and was proposed today by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce At the specific request of the house ways and means committee Randolph Paul tax adviser to gave tee members statistics on various types of sales taxes and said in a For a variety of reasons any type of general sales tax would not affect all taxpayers uniformly Even though levied on all items at a uniform rate a sales tax of whatever form is unlikely to affect all prices equally Ways and means committee members have been considering the advisability of resorting to some form of sales tax to help raise as an tive for Secretary Morgenthau's recommendations for creased individual and corporation taxes STATISTICS VARY Paul's statistics One per cent retail sales tax Ten per cent retail sales tax One per cent manufacturers sales tax Five per cent manufacturers sales tax Ton per cent manufacturers sales tax He estimated that if sales to federal government were ed the five per cent retail sales yield would drop to 000 If exemptions also were given to food medicine clothing fuel sales to states local governments and to war contractors and to items now subject to excise taxes the yield would become 000 Later statisticians for the joint congressional internal revenue committee submitted tables ing comparable bases for taxes which would produce these Five per cent over all retail sales tax Five per cent over all sales tax The treasury and joint estimates were about the same on the manufacturers sale tax but were far apart on the re- tail sales tax because the treasury attached greater importance to sales to federal state and local governments James F Stiles jr Chicago vice president and treasurer of Abbott Laboratories proposed a new method of computing ate taxes by applying a one dred per cent excess profits tax on base determined by subtracting from the net profit after normal tax the fixed ratio between Turn to page 10 col 1 RAF Fighters Cross Channel A SOUTHEAST COAST TOWN in England March 16 Small formations of RAF fighters swept across the English channel today in the direction of France ently seeking combat or targets for their machine guns Two Spitfires were seen flying homeward shortly after the crashes of an anti-aircraft barrage was heard from the vicinity of Calais Fighter Plane Sinks Freighter BERLIN From German March 16 The high command announced today that a German fighter plane in the tral Atlantic sank a British merchantman Two American Warships Sunk in Battle of Java The United States cruiser Houston and the American destroyer Pope along with ten other warships of the United Nations were su nk In the battle of Java the United States navy de- announced British Bombers Smash At Axis Base of Rhodes By CLYDE A FARNSWORTH Associated Press War Editor The British smashed at an Axis base on Turkey's Mediterranean flank over the weekend indirectly underscoring the prospect that if the Germans do not get going in Russia they may try to turn Turkey into an invasion route to the middle east Whether there was any overt threat to Turkey at that Axis base the Italian island of Rhodes could not be ascertained from the British report of the raid which spoke only of objectives bombed at two places on the island Turkey a non-belligerent ally of the British is under able German pressure to join the new order m Europe without a fight Rhodes lies only about teen miles from the nearest point of Turkish territory Berlin reports ot the war in Russia was marked today by an admission that Germany's central front had been cracked arily at one point Coinciding with the striking German admission of the Red army's driving power was a Mos- cow report via Stockholm that Russian parachutists had captured fortified behind the War Profits Limit Sought Would Suspend Maximum Hours WASHINGTON March 16 Legislation to limit profits on war contracts to a maximum of six per cent and to suspend eral prescribing maximum man lines near SmolensK and had hours of work was in taken two towns in the sector east of Smolensk German attempts to up the ists had failed a Swedish cor- respondent wrote Over the weekend British ships and planes according to the Italian communique attacked the island of Rhodes easternmost Mediterranean foothold of the Axis just otf the Turkish coast The RAF at Cairo following up Turn to page 10 col 1 USS Nevada Ensign Honored Heroic Deed At Pearl Harbor WASHINGTON March 16 Secretary Knox acting on behalf of President Roosevelt presented a navy cross today to Ensign Thomas H Taylor of Lima Ohio one of the heroes of Pearl harbor Taylor now on duty at the navy yard here received his medal in Knox's office and heard the tary read this For distinguished service in line of his profession Extraordinary courage and disregard of his own condition during the attack on the fleet in Pearl harbor Territory of Hawaii by Japanese forces on De- cember Having assumed control of the port anti-aircraft battery of the USS Nevada he continued to direct efficiently that battery throughout the attack although wounded by shell fragments burned and ened due to broken ear drums His presence of mind in playing a hose on the ready ammunition boxes that were becoming very hot due to the proximity of fires prevented and heavy to the battery the house today by Representative Howard Smith D-Va and man of the house naval committee Their action followed reports on the floor by nearly a score of that they were ing thousands of letters from their constituents demanding immediate action on labor legislation Smith is the author of a approved to ban strikes in de- fense industries which was passed before this country's entry in the war and which is still pending in the senate The declaration of policy said that in the prosecution of war work there should be no limitation by law or by contract upon hours of work and no vidual should receive at the ex- pense of his government sation in excess of that paid as straight time under prevailing law The declaration also said that it is the inherent and inalienable right of American citizens to work without being required to maintain membership in or pay tribute to any person association or organization No company it continued should be permitted to make ex- profits on war contracts and added that all laws customs contracts and agreements which violate the policies above set forth must in the interest of national security be suspended during the period of the existing war U S Bomber Attacks Japs Enemy Planes Are Destroyed WASHINGTON March 16 An unescorted heavy bomber of the American army flying on re- connaisance patrol east of New Guinea attacked a Japanese air field on the island of New Britain and destroyed at least two enemy planes on the ground the war de- reported today Apparently assigned primarily to look for any further attempts of the enemy to concentrate forces for a against Australia the American plane at- tacked the airdrome at Rabaul damaged the runways with several well-aimed bombs and scored a direct hit on ese aircraft parked on the field A department communique said the bomber returned to its base undamaged The action carried out on March 13 was the third attack on Japanese objectives in the New Guinea area to be reported by the war department in recent if Save Motorists Told WASHINGTON March 16 office of price tion asked filling station operators today to impress on motorists the necessity for draining and saving the from their ators for use next winter A successful campaign against waste will save millions of gallons of at a time when gallon of alcohol is needed to make OPA said in a letter to oil distributors Australian City Again Target of Bombing Planes American Aussie Fliers Attack Invasion Points March 16 Ti Japanese ers smashed at Darwin today sub- that north to its fourth air war swept to he Pacific DAMAGE Early of the raid said that some resulted and that there but details were lackum Darwin a base for Allied nations was mass 1 by than one hundred bombing and fighting planes for the first time February 19 Many es and some military ago resulted and n civilian ation was ordered The Japanese carried out lesser raids the following day and on March 4 Australian and American airmen struck return blows today at anese invasion bases including Dill in Portuguese Timor a sible for the attacks on Darwin Heavy American bombore were reported to participated in the broad sweeps by the Royal Australian Air Force Complementing the nir blows was the announcement that a United Nations submarine had sunk 60.000 tons of Japanese ping in a foray through Indonesian Philippine and an waters SURVIVES ATTACKS The nationality of the ine which looked safely at Perth after surviving several attacks with depth and aerial bombs during its voyage was not disclosed The official announcement of the raid on the airdrome at Dili about 150 miles northwest of Port Darwin indicated that ex- damage had done All bombs fell in the target said a communique The Japanese announced ruary 20 that their troops had landed on Timor to oust Australian and Dutch troops dispatched there last December The Australians have bombing attacks on Japanese shipping off Dili and Koepang capital of the Dutch half of the island but have made no pre- vious mention of the establishment of an enemy air base at Dili At Rabaul and Gasmata in New Britain American and Australian raiders dodging through fierce anti-aircraft lire were said to have plastered runways hangars and grounded Japanese airplanes with bombs m daring low altitude attacks These bases which help the Japanese control the vital waterway leading southward be- tween New Guinea and New Britain are some eight hundred miles from the Australian land RAIDERS Dispatches from Port Moresby Turn to page 10 col 6 Chemical Plant Explosion Reported NIAGARA FALLS Ont March 16 persons were re- ported killed and several injured today in an explosion at the land Chemical company plant seven miles southwest of here Son Is Expected to Carry on Hobby of CHICAGO March 16 When Allred of suburban Schiller Park entered the marine corps he was expected to carry on a hobby started by his father Cecil during the last war collecting shoulder lapels of war prisoners The elder Allred who was a ber of a Canadian Mounted Rifles regiment boasts a collection of fourteen shoulder lapel straps en from German prisoners he self captured Debt Limit Given Approval Senate Committee Favors Program WASHINGTON March The senate finance unanimously approved legislation today which would boost legal limit on the federal debt from to The measure has passed the house with a limitation of but the senate com- added and voted to make the limitation apply to indirect obligations such as the bonds of government corporations guaranteed by the federal ment This amendment was proposed by Senator Byrd and Under Secretary Daniel Rell told the com- the treasury had no
