The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-29
FOSTER GILROY


WASHINGTON A five mai
..,rd of Investigation headed by As
.s.;ate Justice Owen Roberts of tint
8 supreme Court, found Admira
,.,ehand Kimrnel and Lieutenant
General Walter Short responsible fol-
:. unprepardeness of Pearl Harbol
.asn the japanese attacked on De.
s.rher 7tfn with heavy loss of life
Inns and planes. The two Officers
rere respectively in command OF the
naval and army forces of the sup
osed 4inlpregnible" Hawaiian base
ADMIRAL Kimmel having been adj
vanced in seniority over more than
hundred other officers by Presi-
dential order. While the report made
mo recommendations, it is believed
certain that the two, who were re-
lieved of their commands immed-
iately after the attack, will face a
co1rt-martial for derelection of duty
II was pointed out by the investi-
gators that even though a Jap sub
marine was sunk by a u. S. destroy
or off the harbor entrance a full
hour before the plane attack, no pre-
cautions were taken by the higher
command of the station.
Jap Transports Sunk
Washington-An official navy re-
mort announces the sinking of five
and possibly seven japanese trans
ports by Admiral Harris Pacific
Fleet operating in Macassar Strait,
With an estimated loss of 5000 troops.
This completes a total of 48 Jap
transports and warcraft sunk by the
US. in seven weeks of the war. The
Dutch announced the bombing of
two Jap cruisers trying to effect a
binding in the Netherlands Indies.
Mac Arthur Counter-Attacks
Washington-Army communicates
announce the smashing success" Of
& er-attack by General Mac
Arthrr's hard-pressed Philippine
army defending the Bataan PENN
sula against the Jap assault on Ma
Mia. .a.
Another Tanker Sunk
Atlantic City, N. J.-Three flashes
visible off the South Jersey coast
marked the sinking of a Norwegian
tanker by one or more enemy sub
marines operating along the ATTAIN
tic sea lanes. Her crew of 40 were
saved and landed at a resort South
Of here. This is the sixth sinking
close in q. s. costal waters in the
past two weeks. L:
Nazis Hold Americans -
vehy, France-It is reported that
Germans in Paris are holding as
hostages 200 prominent Americans
al residents of occupied France.
Iney have been sent to concen-
Mton camp almost entirely with
M comforts as a guarantee against
ne mistreatment of Germans under
slest In the o. S. In the past week
i've Frenchmen have been shot in
rams Tor activities favoring the
enemy while in Rumania $50 lead
ing atizens have been seized by the
VANS 10 blot out threatened upris-
ing against German rule.
south American Unity Grows
mo De Janiero, Brazil-As the
0'aefence OF Foreign Ministers
a = to a close, it appears certain
aas ~ South American nations will
sesef relations with the Axis DOW
as With Argentina alone holding
~ against the q. s. proposals to
saa al German activities in this
asnlspnere. "A powerful secret ra-
- ~ oroadcasting German music
s.aaketed scheduled speech before
= ~ san-American Conference by
20 Under Secretary of State Sum-
neiies, who has taken a Leading
- s1s % the negotiations here. Co.
pia has already closed schools
~ coieges where Hitleris doc
a4aes we're taught.
kitain's Big New Ship
.h;n, SlON-Prime Minister Chur-
+ a saie return to England made
n.y. sslo.e to announce that his
- is visit to the U. S. was made on
~ ~ us.seship Duke of York, newest
an. - I'VE 34,000-ton craft launched
No.. ale beginning of the war. Al
s,ns snip the Prince of Wales. was
), :. on Malays before She could
jsDa n.o major action against the
seiresentative Shocks Voters
hs aN YORK CrTY-William T.
,sn,. a native Texan elected
srs sasauVe in 1910 from a New
sdds. uistrlct that had been gang
hs so,. .or many years, surprised
annla. s'iuuents by sending them a
Cone record of his first term in
slscsso sss. Representative Pheiffer's
psts H as a Republican was a COM
bad ,Sersal in his district, which
ssr 9as been represented by a
Deal whea1-