San Mateo Times (Newspaper) - January 9, 1943, San Mateo, California TWO MENTIONED AS BLOOM SUCCESSOR News Behind The News McClure When You Phone SAN MATED TIMES WASHINGTON By Ray Tucker Revolutionary Rear Admiral Harlan can probably owes his promotion to the fact that his frank speech made a hit with Stalin at tho dinner the Soviet leader gave to Wendell in Jack's friends are calling him the At the close of the banquet the Russian Premier rose and I want to offer a toast to the men who not permitted to or drink I refer to the members of Gay-Pay-Oo and the American naval and military It is their patient worl which will make possible a United Nations The guests began to leave th figuring the affair had when Admiral then a captain and naval attache at our replied in toast the intelligence but why don't you do something about 1 have been here for several months and haven't seen a thing I want a look at your Baltic and Black Sea fleets and your naval William H. Standley stood by while Mr. Willkie roared with Stalin left the head place and steered directly for the brash who was born in but now lives in the Communist chieftain like I like your You pick up my Com- of Naval Affairs at nine o'clock tomorrow morning and then come to the When Jack arrived at t the sub- the official was in full dress and worried He figured that he was to be purged or He had not seen the big boss for more than a But the iron man in the del was all smiles when the two showed mind about my Baltic and Black Sea he have more important to reveal to take Cap- tain Duncan down into the vault and show him the blueprints of that the Germans are building at Admiral Duncan's detailed report j v with enclosure of plans was the first word Washington had of the revolutionary ible that Hitler is So about two weeks ago the 1018 Annapolis graduate was given his big stripes unusual honor for a man of his 31831 Thin telephone number will connect von with any department FULL LEASED UNITED PRESS DIRECT WIRES AND FEATURES BUY STATES AND STAMPS VOL. 39, No. 33, 29TH BIGHT PAGES SAN JANUARY 9, 1943 60 PBK PEB MONTH Russ Capture Three New Towns Jap Bases in Solomons Blasted by Fortresses Barleycorn Of facilities by wine and beer interests has precipitated vere criticism among tion insiders and on Capitol For some reason Joseph B. has been unable to check the grape magnates or the big Regardless of the shortage of oil and gasoline on the Atlantic several hundred tank cars which could carry more commodities arrive in this area weekly with full cargos of the The industry has turned over about fifty per cent of its normal shipping but it is thought here that the rifice should be total until the ity of fuel is relieved by the com- ing of milder Huge vehicles loaded with rels and cases clog the roads ing liquor from production to con- sumption Freight cars from such cities as St. Louis Milwaukee scoot around the tiy to distant although most every community makes its Critics argue will eventually be in the ling uf drinkers shouli lie required to depend upon Prohibitionists have seized this isue to renew demands for j It is not a tion nf white at merely a common sense problem of revising methods of But unless these and similar evils connected with the trade are died quickly John Barleycorn may be Rent to a concentration Mrs. Oveta Gulp the ing Texan who heads the has been subjected to good-natured joshing about the gal who joined up and later tried to capitalize on her martial from Page But Hobby rather the kidding and from the in- cident has coined the most comment on her she have a better motto than the Theirs is the navy and see the Ous is the and show the The head of the feminine outfit enjoyed over the holidays her first visit home in a long She found that her six year old daughter has been reading all the patriotic gans her mother and others have IMMI writing and sending out the The youngster hung her ing before the fireplace on mas Then in a childish hand she lettered a Give until it When Wendell Willkie the lace gave him an oriental welcome climaxed by a civic dinner at the mayor It. had only I against thirty but it. was a up Air Blanket of World Urged as Peace Objective SAN Jan. president of Transcontinental and proposed today that the States start at once a program to cover the globe with millions of airplanes ranging in size to world-circling giants carrying 2000 Such an air Frye would guarantee the nation permanent security for she would be so powerful no nation or group of nations would dare He encouragement of private flying so that America ld be prepared to man the fleet He said begun the program realized within 15 to 25 years after the Military Arm The proposed fleet would con- sist 1. A military aviation branch equipped to utilize the most ad- offensive means that can 2. A fleet of several hundred planes ranging n size from feeder line planes useful loads of perhaps five ten up to mammoth ships possibly 2000 Air Infantry 3. A fleet of several million vately owned and operated aircraft which would by then be capable of immediate conversion to what is now called These planes would have cruising ranges of 4000 to 6000 carry two men and the equivalent of the cal iber machine gunr ammunition and a 250-pound proposed program is by far the most ambitious yet ad- He said p the obje security was to be Hut an economic cushion to absorb lions of Americans dislocated by the war would be realized as a prod oct. New Frontier should addition provide a new frontier for pioneering by the American people for the next 25 01 50 inspire and uplift the spirit and to Page 2, Column 7) Ban Accused Draft Evader Fasts LOS Jan. Worker Guy A Anthony today began the tenth day of a hunger strike agains us arrest for draft evasion which he said my protes against my government being around by the nose by laboi Continue intend to he il congress or the president care of our internal When do I'll join the Anthony had worked for thre ears at North American builders of the planes tha He joined th union after going to he but quit paying dues when he ob to leadership of the North American is the plan seized by the army in 1941 on orders President Roose after a strike over Tli international union declared th walkout constituted an strike because it had not bee but thn workers wo their demands Appa ently Anthony was referring 1 settlement of that Discharged He WHS discharged from th plant under terms of a war labi board order providing of membership in the tlv Turn to 3, Column 3) Aids frazil Navy A few months ago Frank B. In- was practicing law in Sar a quiet civilian with of the sea or methods of ea Now he is teaching the Brazilian ivy how to run a The par cular ship on which he is an in is a submarine chaser hich he was assigned after finish ig an intensive course of train ig in After entering the naval service ith the commission of ensign last he went into training which e completed not many weeks n the boat on which they e was appointed executive means he was second in com- Ingersol told his experiences i a letter to Attorney Ernest A. his former office The San Mateo ensign had not een chasing submarines long when is vessel was given to he and other officers had to egin instruction of the Brazilians i the operation of the His know only a little English nd their teachers do not under- tand had grown up in the and so is a master of and the close relationship of Spanish and Portuguese enables lim to cary on the work and act as interpreter for Allan Krowning Seen For Bloom Job to Caucus Next Week On Making Appointment Two candidates appeared in the field today for the joint of city purchasing agent and tax collector following the tion of Frank Bloom become San Mateo county projects director for the eral Housing They are Councilman Allan F. Hunt and Granville manager of the ber of Councilman Hunt said he had asked by civic leaders to seek the consider a appointment for Bloom's elective term as which expires in 1944. He said he would not be a candidate for election as treasurer at the tion of that Browning is also reported ing the appointment and telephoned Councilman Hunt last night to dis- cuss the possibility with Hunt Air Pressure Increases on Axis in Africa Jan. 9. The motorized driving force driving northward from Lake Chad has captured 350 miles southeast of a communique at Fighting French headquarters said Mayor George said the council would hold a caucus next week to discuss possible Occupied China Wars on U.S. Jan. D. recorded by U. P. at San The Japanese con- national government of China at Nanking has formally de- clared a state of war exists be- tween the national government and the United States and Great Brit- it was announced The state of war was declared formally it 10 a. m. today by President Wang Ching S. F. Apartment Man Gets 6 Months in Jail SAN Jan. jury today convicted Stanley W. San Francisco inent house on 17 of OPA price ceilings am Judge A. P. St. Sure sentenced hilt to six months in the county jail am fined him who con ducted his own the OPA with am claimed the control law Tree Discloses Murder Victim SANTA Jan. body of Helmuth Sonoma county rancher has been missing since last 30, has been and le district attorney's office said murder would be filed District Attorney Toland C. said the complaint be filed against Ray Cor- one time foreman at the eld t who is awaiting trial n charges jf forging his former name on three ie has served two prison wife and a 1G year old on were held in technical custody or questioning body was found in grave less than 250 yards from the anch investigators A anch who knew something bout redwood furnisher he clue that led to the noticed something that clump of the Julius said 'The sprouts came out of the at an It's Seefeldt was said to have been a of Author Jack Registered Here The selective service No 105 today reported that SO hoy who have reached the of 1 years shire arc included i the sixth com the Snn Mateo city hut ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH Jan. bomber in one of their busiest days of the Tunisian campaign ed heavy raids on Axis bases yesterday and shot down eight nemy Five American planes are Striking through holes in eavy Boeing flying for- raided the region iree Light and medium struck at an rolled railroad in the eastern edge f Tunisia and bombed the airdrome t Hit One of the targets lie Bizerte region was t the southern end of Lake pilots reported many hits in lie dock Another force of fortresses truck at the Bizerte naval mt the results of the bombing were lot Jan. hammered the Axis armies t both ends of the North today and 35 miles of the big Germai lase at Tripoli toward which the of the Afrika Korps American pressure from the u Axis bases and communications i Tunisia increased lo Page 2, Column 4) 34 Move Into Crowding in wherever able find living 3-1 new fain Water Rate Cut Urged Here for Victory Gardei A suggestion Victory gal den workers in San Mateo be Rive the advantage of a lower water rate was made to the California water service company today by City Manager William D. The suggestion was made in a letter to Manager A. J. Tt was ed out that San Francisco has established a low water rate for growers of Victory gardens during the war There the ralo of cents per one hundred foet has been cut lo cents for Victory The San Maleo rate is 2n A portional for Victory garden UHU hero would be 30 ilies moved into San Mateo durin the first week of as com pared with a weekly average of new arrivals during Ibe last quai ter of This is recorded in the weekl list of newcomers buying or ing homes as announced day by the local chamber of com- The report indicates a ably larger number of it was for the weekly listing gives merely the number of new homes and a new Reds Closing On Caucasus Rail Centers Jan. 9. Russian their tum and striking impact in- creasing drove throughput night Rostov and Salsk and closed in on the two key railroad centers in the dispatches and the noon communique reported In the area of the southern Don and below the Russians three towns and villages uring the night in fights to the eath against desperate German and in the Caucasus they rove through the Germans to torm and capture a new inhabited Trenches Taken Northwest of in a ew flare-up of offensive Red army assault troops cap- ured 40 German trenches in a night ight and threw back a counter- Hack by Germans supported iy 20 killing 500 enemy disabling five cap- uring 20 machine guns and takini the noon communique In the lower Don area there was i battle of many hours around two before the Rec men stormed them Ing 400 sacrifice troops and cap- Lured their objectives and the noon communique northern Caucasus the retreated and suffered heavy the noon communique said Dispatches said the Russians ivere advancing through dense fog and heavy Red the army newspaper reported German resistance hac been broken on all important lines in the railroad area and the Germans were falling back leaving sacrific troops to make a stand and to attempt counterattacks in hopi of slowing the Russian Keod Captured They routed a battalion of 100' German infantrymen in sector and captured n large suppl of food which the enemy had loote from the civilian On the the Rus sians during the night consolidate new gains and killed 200 German in repelling counterattacks They shot down fiv German The noon communique nole that in the Leningrad area within throe days had killed up t to Page 2, Column 2) TWELVE ZEROS SHOT NO U. S. LOSS Jan. The Navy announced today that U. S. heavy and medium bombers have attacked enemy areas and in- on Bougainville Islant d on the Island of anla Isabel in the Twelve Japanese Zero fighters tacked Flying Fortresses over and two were shot a Navy communique o U. S. planes were lost in this The communique said that fires ire started by hte attack at Re- la that two enemy float pe planes were Two S. planes were shot down by anti-aircraft fire in this Both attacks were earned out on e morning of Jan. 7 In the north Pacific heavy bombers have dropped on enemy positions at at results were not This also ocurred on Jan. 7. residence may man and wife be occupied by a their children and other relatives or friends who move j in with it was The last official census of the city of San Matoo in 1040 gave population 10.-I03, and an check on th swiftly ing population in the bay area last summer gave this city upwards of individuals at that or an of so mo In the six months tho population has to and another census survey ia 100 Billion War Budget Monday Jan. President Roosevelt is expected submit to congress Monday a w budget of at least short of tl record-breaking expenditures Ihe 10 years since he look Members of the house appropri lions committee warned today th every item in the will to justified by ood Shortage Pledged Jan. Gerald P. N. ad- critic and member of the agriculture said today he would ask ic committee for an immediate of the food shortage ml food have been made iat can't begin to be filled ut tremendous sacrifices on the art of American he Nye has introduced legislation such an a that won the endorsement of Burton K. Mont latter has predicted a ood crisis this and n investigation of the entire ease Secretary Agriculture Claudi R. Wickard appealed to farmers for an increase in 1943 corn and barley acreage to meet greatly feed requirements am bus bolster human He said acreage goals ast month already are out of date and that an upward revision of production plans is t meet constantly changing estimate of war One of Convoy Bound f or Lae Escapes GEN. Jan. 9. plane's attacked the beaches Lae fires and killing after the third of four transports in a bound Japanese aging the fourth and destroying or damaging 73. enemy planes in a three-day and attack bomber planes led the attack against the one crippled two cruisers and four destroyers which had reached Lae after suffering one of the biggest aerial attacks of the Few Land troop elements as were inded by the enemy are believed have been Gen MacArthur's communique Mac returning to his headquarters after lly directing the victorious in New The dead of Bataan should ittle easier He issued an order of the he campaign citing 12 high ers of his southwest Pacific six Americans and six for marked efficiency and pre- isc execution of and awarding them the United States Army Distinguished Service 'the highest decoration at my dis- Awards Honors cited also the United States 32nd and 41st uade up largely of men from to Page 2, Column Youth May Die for Attack Attempt SAX Jan. 20-year-old civilian seaman was arrested by San Francisco and military today in connection with the attempted attack on an army nurse while she was asleep in hoi room at The seaman was identified by authorities as John 20, an Police said he was trailed to his ship by blood dripping from his hand after he jumped from a second story held in city faced a possible maximum penalty of death before firing squad if WHO HOLDS YOUR If your home is financed bj the Peninsula Federal Sav ings Loan you are dealing direct with the com which originally madi and holds your mortgage your assurance of full coop oration should become It is equally important tc where your savings art kept and how they are Invested with your money will be used to finance San County Your savings insured up to by an of the U. 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