San Antonio Express (Newspaper) - March 17, 1942, San Antonio, Texas ASSOCIATED PRESS STREET FINAL EXCLUSIVE IN SAN VOL. NO. YEAR SAN TUESDAY MARCH 17, PAGES PRICE 5 1865 i N ORDER to conserve the U. S. Will Ring Japan With Submarines Australians Reveal Blockade Intentions Waters Surrounding Nippon Prove Perilous for Enemy Shipping Both in Warcraft and Those Engaged in Transporting Supplies Express Pacific War Summary Speculation that the United States is organizing a powerful submarine fleet which will strike out at Japanese troop ships and cargo vessels in the very waters that surround Japan was printed in Australian newspapers The source of this was not but there was new evidence during the day of progress in the sustained war of attrition on enemy shipping in enemy The Navy announced that another enemy freighter had been 80 million motor dent Roosevelt has urged State governors to co-operate in Ing the maximum speed to 40 an hour and frequent Both con- servation and safety tions necessitate that ernor Stevenson has replied that Texans should follow the dent's suggestion for economic if nothing so civilian life may be less disturbed by the lack of adequate tation Doubtless that proposal will be among the many emergency problems to be con- by the Fourth Annual Texas Safety in Dallas 13 and SESSIONS on trial safety will be aimed specifically at Texas covering such matters as protection under war conditions American submarine in those industrial health labor building safety into new wartime industrial the Safety engineers from private industry and experts will direct the The latest techniques In under war con- and how to adapt the emergency scheme Into the State's long-range will be considered in sions attended civic leaders and A T THE ANNUAL award quet the mayors of Del Highland Temple tnd Terrell will receive for outstanding safety records in the 1941 Texas Traffic Safety Members of the 47th will be honored for enacting improved Plaques will be presented to the presiding officers by the 30 State organizations with Texas Safety Association in soring ing both the urgency of the lems involved and the standing of the authorities participating in the this year's ence deserves a at- it was disclosed that a Jap tanker had been sunk in the Philippine In the various theaters of war in the Far Pacific the only visible struggle remained the struggle for the American and Australian pilots were in virtually continuous Here's war situation summarized from Press British troops seized the initiative and captured the They later There were reports that the Japs were withdrawing large units of which gave rise to speculation that they were being sent into Burma where they might be used against the British in any assault the latter might launch with India as a Darwin in Northern where the Allied Nations are building a naval was heavily bombed by 14 enemy Damage apparently was The War Department said three enemy planes were destroyed Saturday north of Australia by nine American fighter planes which attacked an enemy formation which was greatly superior One of the Jap planes destroyed was rammed by an American which also was American airmen struck at northwest of where every bomb fell into the target NEW single United States raiding a air field at smashed at least two enemy planes aground and returned safely to its DRAFT TRAVELS Bernard of hands the historic goldfish bowl drawing draft numbers in the first World War to Edwin W. the tional Selective for its third trip to Washington this Liberty Bell in Independence shows in the The howl will be filled for a drawing Story on Page Wire E TEXAS Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring Sweet Potato Consumption Week The increasing importance of the sweet in Texas agriculture is reason for making the observance j As the regional chamber s Enemy Airplanes and Warships Fall Victims to Allied Attacks In Widely Separated Regions March sinking of two destruction of at jeast five enemy warplanes Texans Offer to Kill War Strikers 500 Organize To Wipe Out Ringleaders Russ Battle Germans In Blizzard By Associated Press March the heaviest fighting of the year on the Russian the Red army was delivering mighty blows out of the swirl of blizzards Monday against three of Hitler's encircled bases and striving hard to draw the strings on caught Union Opposes in Wartime Plants As Protests Flood Congress I By Associated Press March International Executive Board of the j Automobile Workers Monday unanimously endorsed j a report by the union R. J. opposing strikes in I strike now will weaken the war effort and will lay the labor movement open to attacks by its Thomas said in his report to the quarterly It is true that management not fully on defense nor in peacefully ad- justing labor Thomas is no reason why labor should not give its full tion to It means only that labor must carry double the food element ported Monday by the War and Navy t to cood health Homes An American engaged in extensive operations in hotel and Japanese enemy the Navy announced ta a are urged to serve potatoes each day in the Texas organizations are proposing that sweet potatoes be and a Japanese gasoline was sunk inj i the Philippine waters by naval action of an undisclosed consumed more extensively the armed forces and by the Surplus Marketing lion as well as in lend-lease ments in dehydrated While considerable progress is achieved in uses for the sweet through These sinkings brought to more than 150 the total of Japanese ships destroyed or damaged by United States forces since the war Army communiques j that nine American j pursuit planes and one unescorted Continued on Page 5, Column 5 Japanese Bomb Port of Darwin As Allied Planes Attack Islands value Continued on Page 5. Column 4 Pearl Outsiders Aidi Seven Convicts To Flee Farm i By Associated Press March 16. Seven long-term convicts escaped March Japanese state inland i Om Slate its primary a healthful food should to heavy aerial assaults upon the northern mainland be being developed as an Allied naval and the Allied air late Monday after two out- A NOTHER raw material in which the United States may become self-sufficient as a result of lessons driven home by the is bark of the cork It is used for cold-storage shoe and many other From the University of Texas A. and M. College has obtained seedlings for tal The California ex- periment yielded pounds of cork in 1940, and American Continued on Page 5, Column 2 j struck back at the enemy above this continent in the fateful struggle siders drove up and disarmed two slowly developing for the mastery of these Far Southern three times this time was struck by 14 enemy bombers although the details were not available it Continued on Page 5, Column 6 Map showing points where American and Australian pilots blasted airdromes on islands north of Australia pears on Page 5. Japanese Die in Surprise Raid By Indian and Burmese Troops By Associated Press March Indian and Burmese stabbing across to the east bank of the have slaughtered more than 400 Japanese and traitorous Burmese in three villages which they recaptured then Maj. W. D. manager of the prison said the two men who made the delivery first cut the telephone lines between Midway and the Ferguson Farm two miles away in Madison Co. said Maj. the Continued on Page 5, Column 5 Rising Tide in Texas March 16.- Continued on Page 5, Column 3 Pearl Scouts fell Of Shooting at March party of 20 Boy Scouts and their Army Pvt. William returned here this evening with a story of ing been barricaded in a box canyon three miles below Boulder Dam since Saturday afternoon by two brown who fired at U.S. Ready To Take Over Struck Road By Associated Press March 16. By Associated Press March was informed Monday that 1500 Terry Co. citizens were ready to kill ringleaders in both labor and I who are causing j strikes and curtailing war I i The was telegraphed also to Sen. Tom Connally and Rep. George boys who their lives Pearl Harbor and others are at scattered combat points Government seizure and op- will give a good r 4.1. rp i j count of themselves if given of the and Western Railroad imminent night unless George president of the heeds last-minute appeal of President Roosevelt for tration of a dispute with two railroad The White House disclosed that Roosevelt had written planes and other modern ment to fight we hear of strikers and M on a ay factories running flye days a week it makes us so mad that ready to kill or we only we are murder knew whom to are sure you are in session of the information to whom these ringleaders iri both labor and and if Congress will pass to told Charles F. N on Saturday requesting him the Reclamation I chief ranger for Service who is in charge of the that fired 24 bullets from his caliber automatic pistol in an exchange of shots with the two whom believed to be Mexicans or Italians and not The scout master declared his bullets hit one the men and that the victim fell into the rado Japan Is Wiped Off the Map Of Texas by Southern Pacific By was wiped off the map It's just such news everybody has been waiting to but Japan in this case is a loading station on the Southern i 24 miles of Continued on Page 5, Column 7 Clapper in Cairo Raymond whose dispatches from Washington have absent from col- of San Antonio Express the past few has safely arrived in Cairo and the first of his from the Middle pears in this newspaper on Page 1-A. READ CLAPPER IN Continued on Page 5, Column 4 6 States Struck by Twisters Mississippi Suffers Heaviest Loss With 69 Persons Dead By Associated March 17. Unconfirmed re- ports reaching here early day placed at about 100 the dead in a disastrous which struck Grenada and late dreds were reported Wires were down in all tions and confirmation was unobtainable at an early By Associated Press A devastating of tornadic winds sweeping through six Southern and Midwestern States reportedly killed 117 injured approximately 700 and destroyed thousands of in Seventy-three persons died in Mississippi and more than 500 were Illinois listed 19 dead and 170 counted killed and 11 Kentucky had 11 dead and a in- two died .in and more htan 30' suffered Missouri reported no The Mississippi storms swept diagonally across the central to northeast parts of the First confirmed in some said the death list included 19 at 13 at 10 at Grenada and 5 at ford and 6 at Michigan 7 at 5 at 5 at Water Valley and 3 at Michigan all in The disaster zone in first reports was at least 150 miles wide and about 100 miles Calls went out for all Continued on Page 5, Column 1 f Eight Perish Hits Bridge On Ohio River By Associated Press W. March 16. Eight or nine persons were be- to have perished Monday in the sinking the Kate Lyons in the swollen Ohio One body was washed ashore several miles downstream at Thirteen persons counted for in hospitals here and at after the towboat crashed into a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge pier five miles below time of sinking was fixed at p. in. Nearly two hours later the body of a man came ashore at and an undertaker at eight miles to the Workmen began dragging the stream in the for others believed to have lost The sank within 10 while the ing steel from broke away and floated Petticoat Corps May Get Postwar Privileges By Associated Press March tackled late today to create a woman's army auxiliary corps of with sentative Nichols serving notice would offer tomorrow an amendment tQ give the women benefits as that provided for With passage of the measure apparently Nichols said his proposal would provide women the same rights and as the soldiers at whose side they will He con- tended that the as now would give the women only civilian disability benefits if The introduced by Rep. Rogers and backed by the War would set up the corps along much the same lines as the British army's feminine Its members would many of the army's ranging from M aircraft to In army
