The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-04-16
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world Faces Grave Crisis
neIhi. India-The All-India con-
r-osc nj Hindoos and MoslemS have
Elected the plan for midas free
dom offered by Sir Stafford Cripps,
ranresenting the Churchill govern
ment AS usual, both native religi-
o,s clioues demanded supreme con-
troll while they were arguing, Japs
sank two British cruisers and an air.
craft carrier in the Bay of Bengal.
There is little doubt throughout
the Empire that India will be in
vaded within a fortnight. AS at
Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaga and
other so-called British "strongholds'
IN the Far East, India will doubt
less be found lacking in leadership,
man-power and material sufficient
to block Japanese conquest of the
few remnants of the British Empire
remaining in the Orient. Few more
dismal records of military incom-
petence have ever been written, and
If Australia is salvaged at all it will
be due to the many thousands of
troops and millions of tons of sup
plies sent there from the us. to
make a final stand for Democracy
in the South Pacific. - -,~7-
Bataan Finally Falls
washington ancient fortress
Of Cmregidor at the entrance OF
Manila Bay remains the last US.
possession in the Philippine Islands.
The Bataan Peninsula, defended for
months by the supreme strategy and
courage of General Douglas Mac
Arthur, finally surrendered to SUI
perior forces of Japanese. On Cebu
Island, 400 miles south of Manila
and one of the most densely popu-
lated in the Philippine group, the
Japs landed $4,000 troops, enough
to overrun the remaining islands in
the archipelago. IF the Japanese
strategy in the past is any indica-
tion, the Philippine Islands have
definitely passed to Jap control.
GIN "Insiders" Trapped
New York City-A Federal court
Judge here directed eight present
and former high executives of the
General Motors corporation to dis
gorge sums aggregating So, 400, 900 al
legedly misappropriated from the
corporations bonus fnuds for the
benefit of themselves and other Elm
siders.' Three minority stockhold-
ers brought the suit, and among the
unsuccessful defendants were Al
fred P. Sloan, Jr., chairman of the
board; George Whitney and Junius
s. Morgan, of the Morgan banking
interests: Donaldson Brown, Sew
ard Prosser and other prominent
Wall Streeters.
Gotham Cops Shaken Up
New York Caught by a
special grand jury investigation into
gambling and prostitution racket
tnat yielded New York's vast alien
underworld $1OO,00O,0O0 a year local
police officials face the greatest
Shake-up in the history of the de-
partment. Following an original in
dlctment naming "a police officials,
commissioner Valentine shifted ten
OF the highest officials in the depart
ment and sent 300 detectives back to
Uniform patrolling beats. Testi-
mony showed that with police pro-
lection of 100000 a year more
IMAM 100000 day flowed into vice
ana gambling centers in the motor
lous Brownsville and Lower East
Sloe sections of the city. -.,~..s.e.
Civilization at Crossroads
New York City-The ultimate fate
OF Western Civilization in the Orient
may be decided in less than a month.
The Jap is in command of the East,
N the air, ON land and on sea from
ne Bay of Bengal to Wake Island.
Inere energies little hope in that
sector Of successfully challenging
Japanese naval and military SUI
ptemacy since no leader has yet dar-
co 70 initiate an offensive. The
french and Scandinavians are pros
uate and helpless, betrayed by their
so-called liberals; England has
saved off invasion, but for how
nng, only the Germans and their
french stooges know. On one front,
and one front only, has the mill
,ary brains been found to stop Hit
er and his Huns. The Russians
alone have developed the ability to
out-tnlnk, out-gun, Outright the
u,oSt murderous banditti ever loos-
gu upon peaceful world. It is along
1is russian front that the Ger
a.an oaroarians must be forever
ssopped. 1t may be worth considering
y s.iat while the Pollyannas of the u.
=, and other sob-sisters of ter
tAeo world are busily discussing
~ saat our world is going t. be after
- e war" AIN energetic Soviet realist
~ MOSCOW named Joseph Stain is
os snls MS plans for slaughtering an
e sr DIVISION or two OF German
rs ala"s, thus solving the problem of
Al IA his world is going t. oe to-