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Enemy Aliens in Wisconsin BSurvives Torpedo AttackHandle Groups Taken in£Illinois, Michigan and'SWisconsin.COLORADO WILL TAKE WEST COAST EVACUEESChicago — (UP)— Maj. Gen. J. M. Cummins, Sixth area army commandant, announced Saturday that the permanent internment center for enemy aliens apprehended in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan hasbeen established at Camp McCoy, near Sparta, Wis.He said a '‘suitable enclosure lt;. . tor safe detention of aliens had been built at the camp and that groups of alien, enemies are now being received and housed.No information as to names and numbers of enemy aliens in custody has been made public, Cummins said, but those now at .the camp have had hearings ^and-f'haye^.been ordered interned permanently by the federal governmentThe aliens in custody were arrested under federal government powers, approved by . President Roosevelt, Dec. 7 and 8.The presidential proclamation ordered summary arrest and detention of any Japanese, Germans'and Italians over the age of 14 who are deemed dangerous to the public peace or safety” . of the United States, .Colorado to Take Evacuees. Denver, Colo.—(INS)—As its contribution to the war effort, Colorado will accept Japanese and other axis aliens being evacuated from the west coast, it was announced Saturday night by Gov. Ralph L. Carr.He made his announcement in face of vigorous protests from farm, labor and civic groups thruout the state.A survivor of the torpedoed tanker R. P. Resor wields a washcloth on himself after being landed at Manasquan,. N. 3. The tanker was torpedoed at night off the New Jersey coast. This survivor said he saw a motor lifeboat carrying about 30 men clear the ship and the flaming oil that surrounded it.Navy Presses U-Boat HuntWith 2 More Tankers SiGov. Carr termed the evacuees as “unwelcome guests” but added that Colorado could control them, saying:“We announce to the world that a million, one hundred and eighteen thousand red-blooded citizens of this state are able to take care of thirty-five hundred or any number of enemies, if that be the task which is allotted to us.”Gov. Carr was the first chief executive in the mountain states to ior-maily open the way for the acceptance of the aliens.Not Wanted by Others. Governors of other stales in the region indicated to Rep. John T Tolau (D-Cal), chairman of the congressional committee investigating the alien enemy problem of the west coast, that they did not want the evacuees.As many as 3,600 Japanese workers can be used handily in Coloi*ado agricultural work this summer, according to Dewey J. Harman, state chairman of the U. S, department of agriculture war board, who checked up with canners, farmers and other employers- of agricultural labor thruout the state.“The coming of these evacudes will, of necessity, give rise to social problems, to business and labor questions and similar vexing issues,” said Gov. Carr.‘‘But surely we possess the brains, the resources, the solid American character which will enable us to solve those problems properly and intelligently.“Let us remember that, we have a job to do Answers which would be correct under ordinary circumstances do not apply when we are at war.The job should be done as quickly as possible so that our boys may come home and we may return to our American way of life.Tolan Hearing Continued. Seattle, Wash.—(INS)— Arguments for evacuation of Japanese from the slate of Washington and the strategic Puget Sound area in particular were beard Saturday by the Tolar, congressional committee as it neared the end of its study of alien removals from the Pacific coast,Gov. Arthur B. Langlie declined to make any definite recommendations himself but urged that “public safety should be the first consideration,Mayor Earl Mi Hi ken of ScaHlcInternational News ServiceThe navy intensified its ef f qjt'S.^^eoptt-,the.:. raenace do shipping along the Atlantic moreAmerican oil tankers fell prey to enemy submarines, with the probable loss of 76 lives.Since Jan. 14, when the axis U-boats began their daringraids, 26 ships have been acknowledged by the navy to have been, sunk or damaged. Of these 17 were tankers, laden with war-vital oil.The heavy toll of tankers has increased the possibility of gasoline and oil fuel rationing for the east-ern states.Latest victims of the enemy submarine offensive were the 7,451-ton R. P. Resor ana the 10,227-ton W. D, Anderson.The R- P. Resor was torpedoed early Friday 18 miles off Manasquan, N. J., less than two hours’ sailing time from New York harbor. •An easy target on the moonlit sea, the tanker was staggered . by the explosion, which started a spectacular fire. •When last sighted, the R. P. Resor was drifting northward near the spot- where the Morro Castle burned with a loss of 124 lives in September, 1934.Only two of the Resor’s crew of 43 were known to have been rescued.The W. D. Anderson was sunk off the Florida coast last Sunday night with only one survivor of a crew of 36, the navy disclosed.The lone survivor, Frank L. Terry, 23, of Lansford, Pa,, told of escaping oil fire by swimming to sea for more than an hour.“Several of us we:e talking on the aft deck when suddenly there was an explosion. I went to the starboard side and dived.“Just before I hit the water therePatrol Actions Mark Fighting in Philippines(Continued on page 2, column 3)(Continued! on page 2. c umn 61News Feature IndexPage“Afterthoughts” ................ 6Believe It or Not ............6 jBoys’ and Girls’ Page ......... 28Brady’s Health Talk ..... 4“Bugs” Baer Comment ..........29Cedar Falls News ....... 15City in Brief .................. 11Classified Ads ...............20-21Comics ....... 30Editorial ....................... 4Farm News ....... 18Markets ...................... 19Merry-Go-Round in News .... 4Northeast Iowa Events ....... ]4Northeast Iowa Editors ........ 6Parsons’ Movie Talk Ifi* 4 . .Pictiihe 'News ‘ ;.... 22Trivalc Lives 15Radio Programs ............... 16Serial Story ...... 6Society ............. 8-9-10-11Sports ......... .23-24-2.5-26iStamp Stories ........ 17Theatre: Entertainment .....16-17Uncle Ray’s Corner ...... 6Uncle lVlggily ................ 6Waterloo News ................ 13Wlnchcll on Broadway ..... 27Washington, D. C. —(fP)—- Patrols from each side cautiously tested out the main battle lines oh Bataan peninsula Saturday, but there was .little general fighting on that Philippine front.The war department’s communique said the tiny army of General Douglas MacArtbur held the advanced positions they gained by sudden attacks during the week.While these advances had carried the forward positions of the Americans as much as five miles in some instances it has been made clear that the drives did not penetrate the main, lines of the enemy.Training Plane Crash Kills TwoSan Antonio, Tex—(INS)—Second Lieut. Benjamin H. Sherman, jr., 25, and Cadet William H, Rahling. 22, _ were killed late Saturday when their BT-D training plane crashed near Seguin highway,Bodies of the victims were held at Randolph field, where Lieut. Sherman was an instructor, pending funeral arrangements.Lieut. Sherman was the son of Dr. and Mrs. B. H. Sherman, Hollywood, Cal., and Cadet Dahling was the son of John Henry Dahling, Norwood, O.SAVE A LIFE IN 19421Traffic Toll tn City of Waterloo This Year and Lost.Sine* Sum* Jan \ Dale (*** lfc*4!Number of accidents ____99 9fiNumber injured .........25 27Number killed ............0 2FACE TRIALS BYFormer Navy-Army Command ers at Pearl Harbor Now on Retirement ListDATE OF TRIALS NOT SET; MAY BE AFTER WAR ENDS*Decorah Youth with29 Midshipmen to Join Marine CorpsAnnapolis, Md. —(JP)— Twenty, nine naval academy seniors have been selected for appointment to the U. S. marine corps upon their graduation in June, marine corps headquarters announced Saturday.The 2D midshipmen are members of. the class of 1943 which will be graduated a year ahead of time under the academy’s accelerated academic course,Upon graduation, the group will be commissioned second lieutenants in the marine corps and will be given advanced training before going on active duly.The list includes Roger J, WomeJ-dorf, Decorah, la.Marlin, King Edward. Isabela, 2 for 8c. Emerson, • San Felice, El Verso, 6c cigars, (advertisement iWashington, D. C.—(UP)— Pear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Walter C. ►Short were ordered Saturdaj1’ to stand trial by court martial on charges that their “dereliction of duty” at Pearl Harbormade possible the success of the Japanese attacks on that bastion last Dec. 7.Pending their trials, which may be delayed until after the war, the two former commanders of the joint army* navy defense establishment in Hawaii were retired on salaries of §6,000 a year each.Kimmel and Short previously had applied for such retirement. Court martial proceedings wereordered simultaneously, but in separate announcements, by Secretary of Navy Frank Knox in Kimmel’s case, and by Secretary . of War Henry L. Stimson In Short’s.Charges Made in Report.The charges on which they will be tried were contained in the report of the special presidential commission, headed by Associate Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, which investigated the circumstances of the treacherous Japanese assault on the mid-Pacific fortress.The report charged Kimmel and Short with “dereliction of duty” and cited evidence that from Nov. 27 until the day of the attack, Dec 7, the two commanders had failed to consult on preparations for defense in the event of such an attack.Both Knox and Stimson specified that the courts martial were not to be held “until such time as the public Interest and safety will permit.”That was taken as an indication that the trials may not start until after the war, since many of the officers and men who would be subject to call. as witnesses are now serving at scattered stations on the various war fronts.No “Condonation,In granting the applications of Kimmel and Short for retirement on three-quarters pay, the secretaries of war and navy specified that they were acting “without condonation of any offense or prejudice to any future disciplinary action.”It was not disclosed whether Kimmel and Short, both of whom were relieved of their commands after the Dec. 7 attack, had applied for the trial by court martial.They are technically entitled to do so in an effort to clear their names.Short’s retirement was made effective Saturday, in contrast to Kimmel’s, which becomes effective today.While both are under the statutory retirement age of 64, Kimmel and Short have served more than 39 years each, and are entitled to retirement.Under navy regulations, a court martial must consist of not less than five and not more than 13 members, of whom half must be of a rank as high or higher than the defendant.An army court consists of a minimum of fix'e members, but usually has 13 in cases involving officers of high ranks.Convictions in either a naval or army court martial are subject to review by the judge advocate generals of the services involved. The president passes finally on the recommendations of the courts,CADET, INSTRUCTOR KILLED IN AfRPLANE CRASH NEAR SCHOOLOntario, Cal.—(INS)—An army air corps instructor and a flying cadet were killed Saturday in the crash of their two-seater primary training plane near the Cal-Aero academy. The instructor was Jack Leedy, 24, of Sacramento, and the student Chase Andrews, 22, of Flushing, N. Y.. who had been in training only a few days.To Get MedalThe name of Lieut. Willibald C. Blanchi (above), of New Ulm, Minn., was added to the list of Congressional Medal of Honor winners for performing conspicuous gallantry in action Feb. 3 in the Philippines. Gen. eral Douglas MacArthur rec- . ommended the award for Bi-anchi, a member of the Forty-fifth Infantry, Philippine scouts. Biattchi, who personally silenced. a Jap machine gun nest, was wounded three times.Blasts Breakin LCairo —(U.fi)—• British air and ground forces broke the lull in theLibyan war with a vengeance, theMiddle East high command revealed Saturday, blasting axis supply ports in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, attacking transport concentrations and scattering axis patrols.Improved visibility in the desert dispelled the quiet that had prevailed for several days in Libya.Royal air force attacks on Tripoli harbor and Benghazi last Thursday were disclosed in Saturday's RAF communique.IBritish columns, supported by fighter planes, shelled and dispersed “strong'’ German-Italian patrols that in one case included tanks, it was said.In a vicious attack' on the harbor at Tripoli, capital of Tripoli-lania (west Libya), one vessel was directly hit by a bomb, after which a violent explosion, followed by a series of lesser blasts, was heard.At Benghazi, the much-cap-lured, much-attacked capital of Cyrenaica (east Libya), bombs were seen to explode close to two ships In the harbor.British fighter planes Friday raided enemy motor transport concentrations in the Mekili area, inflicting casualties.It is in that region where reconnaissance planes have reported large numbers of axis troops.POPE REPORTED BETTER.Rome (from Italian Broadcasts) —(tf*)—The condition of Pope Pius XII, who had been reported slightly indisposed, was said Saturday lo have improved. Vatican quarters said he would resume his usual work Monday.Thanks •for theQuick Sale—said Bernard Boesen. He ran this ad for a trailer last Sunday morning and had 8 calls before 9 a. m,2-WHEEL/ED Trailer. Top Box, Good condition. Good bitch, Ph, 2-5246 after 5 p. m.Run an ad if you have a trailer to sell: we will help you prepare the copy,COURIER CLASSIFIED GIRLSPhone 7711,P-Selectee Tried to Prove He's ToughAlbuquerque, N. M.—(fP)—Daniel Jones told Federal Judge Colin Neblett he had heard the army needed tough men—and he wanted to be a sergeant.That's why, Jones explained, he falsely wrote in his selective service questionnaire under felony convictions;“I murdered a man.The judge placed Jones on probation with the stipulation that if the army took him, charges would be dismissed.
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