Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - April 17, 1942, Waterloo, Iowa Remember Pearl Buy War Savings Bonds and Stamps FIRST ESTABLISHED 1854 WITH THE NEWS WATERLOO IOWA FRIDAY 1942 TWENTY PAGES The Weather Continued cool Complete forecast lor Iowa and M states on J PRICE THREE CENTS ALLIED OFFENSE NEAR STIMSON Open Iowa Annapolis Uniformed naval officers stand at attention before the flag during colorful ceremonies at Iowa City la when the new tion preliminary flight training school is commissioned at the University of Iowa Just to left of flagpole is Maj Bernie Bierman of he marines former Minnesota football coach now head of physical education at the training school Several thousand dent are expected to be enrolled for fundamental flying in- struction at the school the navy said In background is the fieldhouse where much of the activity will take place British Bomber Squadrons Extend Hammering Blows Large formations of Britain's second front air armada bombed French targets until twilight day in the sixth consecutive day of an offensive that the air ministry credited with enemy soldiers and civilians tied up in defense of western Germany By SIDNEY J WILLIAMS bomber bv extraordinary clouds of fighter back and forth across the English channel Friday battering nazi targets with bomb loads that shook the French coast for the sixth day German airplanes retaliated by bombing two southwest tOWnS Friday when they encountered fierce few casualties but no dead A church was hit end the altar knocked down The British some American Eagle appeared to be the largest numbers Been over the channel since the war began indicating that the RAF steadily was stepping up its day and night aerial offensive Many more than the 400 planes that attacked northern France ob- Thursday were reported in action Attack in Relays The German radio reported that the Luftwaffe had bombed ampton on the south coast of land over night after shooting down seven RAF planes in Thursday's fighting over France British bombers and fighters were attacking in steady re- lays and almost continuous ex- plosions would be heard along he French coast indicating that airdromes and industrial areas as well as coastal positions were attacked A United Press correspondent on the southeast coast said the area from Boulogne to Calais was at- tacked heavily by planes that roared over at feet and then dived down into heavy anti-aircraft fire The formations later wore seen returning over Folkestone at the same time new British squadrons raced toward France One Eagle Scores One American Eagle Pilot Officer Leo Nomis 20 of Los Angeles who was accompanied by Pilot Officer John L Lynch 24 of Alhambra Cal shot down a kers 88 Friday morning on a tine convoy flight Friday's first daylight sweep of the French coast followed an apparent tapering of Hie ex- tremely heavy raids bombers have visited upon Germany it- self four nights of the past en Thursday night according to a communique of the air ministry the bombers attacked the submarine base at Lorient on the French coast the docks at Le Havre Fighter pianos attacked enemy airdromes in Holland and ern France Tho the communique made no mention of the bombers having Germany the Berlin radio said that British planes had attacked western Germany during the In one of the attacks over ern France night the communique said British planes intercepted and destroyed a man bomber Two were missing Tokyo's Denial of Raid Comes Before Reports San Francisco Japanese radio strangely denied Friday that three American planes had bombed Tokyo It was strange because radio Tokyo went to great lengths to deny something that ly nobody had reported A Reuters British dispatch that three American planes bombed Tokyo was again the center of a joke among nese nationals a cast recorded by the Columbia Broadcasting Just to turn the eyes of the public the Chungking ment thru Reuters has been desperately spreading the most laughable false propaganda that the Japanese capital was bombed As far as could be mined Reuters had never re- ported the bombing of Tokyo News Feature Index Page Believe It or Not 8 Brady's Health Talk 4 Cedar Falls News 10 Church Services Sunday V City In Brief 7 Classified Ads Comics if Editorial Farm News Markets ig in News 4 Northeast Iowa Events II Parsons Movie Lives 4 Radio Programs Serial Story R g Theatre 15 Uncle Corner 8 Uncle Winched on Broadway 10 I Leahy Called Home from Vichy Darlan Resigns Posts Only to Take Chief Command Over Forces MOVES PUSH FRENCH TO GERMANY Washington D C AP Ambassador William D Leahy has been recalled from Vichy for consultation Acting tary of State Welles said day because of information that the new Vichy French government would be ed by axis collaborationist Pierre Laval President Roosevelt ordered Leahy to return immediately Welles told his press conference because of events of the last Jew days and Laval's emergence However Mrs Leahy is from an operation and their actual trip home will be deferred until she can travel Welles said The counselor of the United States embassy in Vichy will be left in charge there Rejects Rejection In answer to questions Welles said the United States had ed Thursday's communication from Vichy because it was a cation which had been submitted to and received the approval of German authorities in France be- fore it was sent This communication was the Vichy government's angry re- of an American note explaining establishment of a United States consulate al in Free Equatorial Africa It also stated in broad terms the policy of the United States toward France and the French people Laval Takes Over Vichy al presented to Marshal Henri ippe Petain Friday afternoon a new cabinet list in which the ister of war was understood to be Gen Henri Dentz who fought a bitter campaign against Allied forces Syria It was reported Dentz was al's first choice for the war try but that the selection was not definite because General Bridoux also was considered for the post Laval leader of French efforts toward closer collaboration with the axis prepared to assume full ex- power with personal con- trol over foreign and interior and propaganda The German radio said al would succeed Petain as president of the council of and that Petain forth would be limited to duties as chief of state Laval presented the names of his ministers to Petain at 1 p m day immediately after the ministry of Vice Premier Jean Francois Darlan had collectively re- signed Darlan Changes Titles Darlan resigning separately as vice premier minister of national defense and secretary of state for foreign affairs war and navy at once assumed on ion the ne of commander in chief of land sea and air forces with the rank of admiral of the and the right to be on active duty for life It look but half an hour for he Darfan cabinet at a ing under Petain to write its resignation and retire in favor of Laval who now has greater power than any French leader except Petain has held since the collapse of France Back in power after 16 months of political eclipse after his summary dismissal as vice premier in De- cember 1940 he came to Vichy day morning from his nearby eldon Chateau under heavy guard to resume consultations Recall Earlier Laval was heavily guarded by police who were mindful of the rious wound he had received at the hand of an assassin at Paris last summer Well-informed quarters said that under the new regime Petain re- his rank of chief of would abandon the auxiliary title Continued on page 2 column 1 Fire Razes j Three-Story Building Fire destroyed n three-story brick building at 818 Sycamore street the ground floor and basement of were by the Sycamore Food market day afternoon with loss estimated at by Fire Chief Ray Tiller The occupied for- merly for many years by the Parsons Music House was a Waterloo landmark Chief Tiller said the fire on the third floor which was unoccupied He said the cause was undetermined The alarm came at 12.58 p m and by all the floors and part of the walls had fallen in Tiller of the los on the building and the rest on the store stock Ben Bars who operates the food store is also owner of the building He bought the building and moved in two months ago While crowds watched firemen played water on the blaze and prevented its spread to an ing house at Sycamore used as a warehouse by Barg The building erected in was carried on the assessor's at It had a frontage of 32 feet on Sycamore street and ran back 92 feet Barg estimated his loss at to and said it was only partly covered by in- surance He said there was a considerable stock of coffee and canned goods on the second floor He hazarded a guess that a spark from a railroad engine had ignited the roof British Claim Sub Torpedoed Sank Transport London A British sub- marine has torpedoed and sunk a large Italian transport in the Mediterranean the admiralty an- Friday The communique did not state when the attack occurred The British Near East com- mand in Cairo announced day that RAF planes had attacked a large axis convoy in the central Mediterranean and caused heavy damage to several ships Last week the admiralty an- sinking of a Italian of three Italy had a British sub- marine in the Mediterranean Locate French Ships of War French warships now are at Toulon in- the battleships Strasbourg and Dunkerque and probably the Provence it was revealed in don Friday The fleet also includes seven cruisers 19 big destroyers and about 15 submarines The battleship Jean Bart is at Casablanca and the Richelieu at Dakar U.S Co Couldn't Sell British Washington D Assistant Attorney General Allen Dobey charged Friday that because of an agreement with German in- Remington Arms Co was prevented as late ns January 1941 from selling to the British certain military ammunition primed with a special composition Iowa Pilot Dies in Plane Plunge Des ip Lieut H Bryant jr 26 of Moines has been killed in an plane accident in the Panama Canal Zone the war department informed family here Friday Survivors include his parents his widow and daughter all of Des Moines SAVE A LIFE IN Traffic Toll In City of Waterloo This Year and Last Same Jan 1 Date JW Number of accidents 157 Number of injured 40 49 Number killed 1 5 L i e u t Jeremiah Flaherty chief of the Washington D C homicide squad said that year-old Richard L White above led police to the body of a young woman religious worker who had been slashed and beaten to death and later admitted he killed the woman Army Newspaper Features Pvt Brown Guitar London The Stars and Stripes the army's paper for soldiers away from home rolled off the presses Friday bearing little blance to its world war parent of a quarter century ago It is a tabloid with news features ahd lots of pictures On the front page were tures of President Roosevelt and General George C shall but Private Roy A Brown Waterloo la graphed off a troop transport with a guitar under his arm got a bigger space than the president Hedy picture made page three Sergeant Richard Griffith of Norfolk Va posed at the ual of Westminster Abbey's organ was on four and Joe Louis and Billy Conn got onto the sports page The first two copies were mailed to the president and his presidential secretary Stephen Early who was on the nal Stars and Stripes staff The newspaper carries the lar news reports from the Press and Wide World United Press and International News services 35 Are Shot in Occupied France Vichy Unoccupied France German authorities an- Friday that 35 hostages had been shot in occupied France in reprisal for attacks against German occupying troops A first group of 15 was shot April 14 according to a German announcement published in the newspaper Courier Do Pas De ais published at Calais This owed attacks on railroad lines the night of March 25 A second group of 20 was shot the same day in reprisal for at- acks against German soldiers at Mericourt and near Lens the announcement said Capital Police Continue Raids Des of 43 more slot machines by Des Moines police late Thursday brought to 27 the total number of such de- vices taken here since publication of the federal tax lists last week Forty-two of the machines were seized in a raid on a gamge they were in storage and he other was confiscated at n avern George W Murray 36 tavern operator was arrested in the latter He was released under 5200 ond after pleading innocent ore Municipal Judge C S Cooler Scorched Earth Decision Made to Prevent Japs Seizure NIPPONESE INCREASE TEMPO OF ASSAULT Chungking A Chinese communique re- ported Friday night that two Japanese drives have heen halted with heavy enemy losses on the Burma battlefront where the British have destroyed of the rich yuang oil wells in scorched earth tactics New The Brit- ish sacrificed the rich west Burma oil fields at yaung Friday to keep it out of the hands of the Japanese who unleashed the fiercest onslaught of the Burma campaign in a new effort to crack the of the allied line and split the Chinese Fifth and Sixth armies from the British Fighting a still stubborn holding action while the destruction by torch and dynamite was completed at the badly out- numbered King's Own Yorkshire light infantry fell back to the north of Magwe gateway to the oil fields a communique announced The war bulletin added that er British forces still were holding their positions In the area of the Pegu Yoma foothills midway between the British waddy front and the Chinese tang river front to the east Double Despite the determined effort to hold the Allied front intact the Japanese advance up the dy already was exposing the west flank of the Chinese positions near 30 north of goo The Chinese front also was menaced from the east where a Japanese offensive was ed aimed into the Shan states from the bulge of Thailand Observers in London openly re- this offensive ae a serious threat o allied communications in the north particularly the rail link that was into the northern Burma supply route to China from India when the old Burma road was cut off north of Rangoon London sources said oil wells in the west Burma fields were destroyed by British engineers Strength Is Sapped British defense forces ly were depleted after two months of intensive jungle fighting against the Japanese who were said to have poured in fresh reinforcements un- til their strength mounted to five divisions of some men The baltie line now extends from somewhere north to we half way from Rangoon to and the Bengal road to India southeast thru to Chinese tions in the hills north of Baya The positions there where the Chinese have been facing their attacks guard the way to up the rail line to dalay From the area the battle ine angles northeast to the steeper mountains between Loikaw and the frontier Japanese Hasten Washington D INS fearful the recent daring raid by American bombers from Australia may be renewed with even more devastating effect the Japanese Friday speeded up their invasion time-table with against another important sland outpost which hitherto had not been occupied by the enemy Latest strategic Philippine island o feel Die hand of ruthless is the island of 200 miles southeast of nila and on wnich a tiny Filipino force is reported to be re- sisting the advance of a Nipponese army estimated at men Garcia Corina Dutch IOC Harvester San 60 Fear on Bataan Have Fallen Washington D Thc war department that more than troops and been ported for more than a week on Bataan peninsula and were presumably in the hands of the enemy This figure included ly combat troops about sick and wounded a number o supply and other troops and some civilians a communique reported No reports of casualties in the last few days of fighting have been received the communique said but it was believed likely that losses were heavy on both sides There were 68 army nurses on Bataan and all of them were to Corregidor island on Apri 9 along with a relatively smaL number of troops the communique said PUDGE II 19 Confederation Heads Are Hit in Shakeup tBu the United The biggest purge in the de- clining career of Premier to Mussolini is sweeping out some of the highest officials of the fascist party private ad- vices from the continent said Friday Hundreds of fascists are in- and it was indicated they include ministers and especially presidents of Italy's 19 confederations Some were caught in black market operations and war speculations Others it was reported were purged for or outright frigidity toward Italy's nazi partner First symptoms of the purge last summer it was said when a number of prominent fascist newspapermen were and Achille Starace tough leader of the party replaced But lately it has grown in proportion and is sparing none advices said Italian newspapers reaching neutral countries do not give the names of replacements which are made in the deepest secrecy Fair and Cool Iowa's Outlook Des change in temperature is forecast for by the weatherman for day night and Saturday forenoon except slightly warmer in the northwest and extreme west lions Local showers may hit the state late Friday night or Saturday morning in the extreme southwest portion of the state it was pre- State high Thursday was re- ported at Davenport where rose to 80 degrees with a low of 30 at Mason City and Decorah ANOTHER MERCHANT SHIP IS TORPEDOED Washington D navy Friday that a British merchant vessel had seen torpedoed in the Atlantic off he West Indies Survivors have seen landed at a port on the Gulf if Mexico Sell Your They arc easy to sell at this time of the year if you run a Classified For Sale ad This ad brought calls and a several FISHING nnd Hunting Boat 12 Ft complete with car carrier ally new Ph 8734 COURIER CLASSIFIED GIRLS 7711 MacArthur's Status Cleared After Tempest in pot Fuss MARSHALL HOPKINS URGING SPRING MOVE Washington D C Secretary of War Henry L describing as a pest in a teapot the over the extent of Gen Douglas MacArthur's com- the army is ty near to the stage of being ready for an offensive ever difficult it may be I am now more than ever convinced that we are to get on the offensive and do so at the earliest practicable Stimson told a press conference His statement lent strength to re- m that George C Marshall U S army chief of staff and Harry L Hopkins were urging British officials there to take strong offensive measures on the European continent this spring Without Authority An army spokesman at Arthur's Australian headquarters told newsmen Wednesday that lack of instructions from Washington had prevented the eral from setting up his supreme command and that as a result he was still only in charge of US forces in Australia and the west Pacific Stimson said he questioned whether the spokesman had been authorized to make the statement He repealed that MacArthur was in supreme strategic com- mand of all United Nations forces in his specified theatre SLimson that he had been m frequent communication with MacArthur and that the latter had never raised any question of diction with him He MacArthur has strategic Stimson said and while the administration and tactical leaderships of the troops and fleets of the various interested nations are retained by them the practical co-ordination of effort and its strategic direction is a matter for Gen MacArthur and Gen Arthur alone Forces I recognize that the flurry In the press on this matter is caused by the concern of the people in the effective handling of all of our forces in the Far East from the standpoint of proper co-ordination It is in that spirit that 1 tell you there need be no con- cern The forces are ordinated Stimson would not say ly whether MacArthur's command includes New Zealand a point which has been raised on several occasions He added that the exact ies of MacArthur's command are a military secret A great deal is being made out of very Stimson said There has never been from the beginning when Gen MacArthur was ordered by the president to move headquarters from Corregidor to Australia any idea except that he would have over-all strategic command in that area Tells of Problems Stimson in discussing the proach of a possible offensive by the United States armed forces re- viewed the course of the war and he problems which faced military eaders at the the movement of men around this continent to plug loopholes and avert any surprise blows HR said thai since this nation has been strengthening key points In our armor and making sure that our resources and arms plants arc protected against any interruption which would hold up or damage our defense And when it is a world war with powerful enemies attacking us all around the globe our key points of defense run far out Into distant quarters of the world where some friendly is holding a post that is vital to Slimson said That Is what we been try- ng to do during theae difficult months and the task not yet Outlook But I think I can lelt ymi today that to wo in my In the war department be- to move and to in the right direction Ha 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