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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26

q Detroit: The Michigan department
of the American Legion had before
it for consideration resolutions ask
ing President Roosevelt to GUST from
his cabinet Secretaries Hull, Slim
son, Knox and Perkins.
q London: The duchess of Kent, wife
of the younger brother of King
George, was expecting third
child. She is the former Princess
Marina of Greece.
q Leo T. Crowley has been desig-
mated head of the Office of Alien
Property Custodian, to have custody
of approximately $1,000, 100000 in
alien assets frozen in the u. S.
q President Roosevelt told press
conference he is studying the prob
lem of controlling wartime wages,
profits and prices, but has arrived
at no decision as yet.
q The Federal Reserve board add
ed bicycles, lawn mowers, clocks,
watches. Photographic equipment,
silverware and floor coverings to the
list of articles on which there are
instauInent buying restrictions.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26

sketchiest picture of what aid we
were sending to Australia to help
the Aussies get ready for their de-
tense against the Japs.
First hint that troops had arrived
there had come from Yates McDan-
iel, who had slipped into ''color"
story a report that Perth was literal
ly jammed with Americans in uni
form.
Next had come the story of a
London Daily Mail correspondent
who added giant figures to the tale
by picturing a convoy almost with
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26

jap Naval Success Off Jaua Credited Numerical Superiority
by Edward G. Wayne

would become more powerful and
continuous as the weather improved.
Extremely large forces of British
bombers were being used, it had
been reported, especially the Hall
faxes, Strings and Lancasters, the
latter a new and highly regarded
bomber.
Not so much mention was being
made of the use of American fort
ress bombers, and apparently Eng
land had her own plane production
in better shape now, or perhaps
since our entry into the war was not
getting so many flying fortresses.
At all events the British airmen
were getting in tremendous ticks by
day as well as by night, and the
Germans, beginning to feel the pinch
Of heavy bombings with little or no
return on their part, had begun to
send fighter squadrons over the
channel to attempt to break it all
up.
The first day these had appeared
the British said eight Messer-
schmitts had been shot down. ''None
Of our planes were lost" The
Germans broadcast Eight British
fighters were shot down over the
channel-no German planes lost"
1t was considered odd, however,
that the German radio which turned
fighter losses upside down rarely
claimed as many bombers shot
down as the British were willing to
admit having lost.
Some believed the Nazis were try
ing to minimize the number of
bombers Britain was using in the
raids by this means.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26
ATLANTIC:
Toll Growing

Though our navy, cooperating
with the British, was keeping supply
lines between Britain and the United
States open, coastwise shipping had
continued to yield terrific toll
The loss of American flag ships
alone had passed the half-hundred
mark, and the lives taken were as
Stunning important figures. Shipping
insurance rates were liked again.
There was no disposition to admit
Hitler's claims that Isl ships of a
total of 1,029,00 tons had been sunk
in the first two months of the war in
the Atlantic alone, but the total was
large and was constantly mount
ing.
The loss of so American ships in
two months was an average Of about
ship day, and with one shipyard
in the East launching two large YES
sells weekly, this was not necessarily
fatal loss, but other countries
losses were not being reproduced as
successfully as our own.
Despite the losses of u. S. ships,
it was pointed out that if the present
rate was not increased, or even
lessened, it would not be long be-
fore our merchant marine was ire
mendously greater. But if Hitler's
figure of half a million tons month
were true, then the picture was
less rosy, at least until we reach
our goal of 100000 tons a year.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26
DISASTER:
Battle of .JdUa

The world had known that there
had been a naval battle off Java
just before the Japanese moved in
with their full might at three points
on land, but until the announcement
was made that the Allied fleet had
been overwhelmed by superior
numbers" it had not been known
what the losses had been.
This, at long last, had been given
to the press in a more or less de-
tailed summary which showed that
the United Nations lost Is ships, not
apparently counting any submarines
that might be missing.
The United States lost two, the
10,OO0-ton sleek cruiser Houston, IA
vorite of President Roosevelt him
self, who had gone to Hawaii in her
in 1884, and frequently had been
aboard her; and the World war type
four-stacker" destroyer Pope, 1,190
tons, both presumably lost with all
hands, though there was some hope
that some survivors may have
reached shore somewhere.
The British were the heaviest
losers, having six vessels listed as
lost including the famous cruiser
Exeter, small but valorous, $500
tons, which had taken part in the
victorious attack on the German
Graf Spec off Uruguay.
The other five lost by the British
were all destroyers.
The Dutch lost their flagship and
chief cruiser, the DeRuyter, pre-
sunably lost with all hands, for she
was hit by torpedo and sank in a
few minutes at night on the first day.
at the height of the battle. They
also lost destroyer.
The Australians lost two vessels,
the cruiser Perth and the Yarda,
sloop, both missing and presumably
lost.
The japanese, according to the
same report, lost eight vessels, but
all details as to any actual sinkings
were unobtainable, probably due to
the unfavorable outcome of the
battle.
Included among the eight were
two cruisers, one of the 10,0O0-ton
class.
A study of the British and Amer
lean naval communicates seemed to
show that the most telling blows
were struck, not so much by the
gunnery of the Japs, as by their
submarines and speedy destroyers.
The Exeter had one of her boilers
blown up by shell, which cut her
speed so per cent, but she still es-
capped from the battle and was ap-
parently sunk seeking to escape
from Java to Australia. The same
was the fate of the Houston and the
Pope.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26
The appointment of Gen. Doug

The appointment of Gen. Doug
las Macarthur as supreme COM
mander of all United Nations
forces i'm Australia gave truth to
the many rumors which had
cropped UP in the past month.
Macarthur transferred his head
quarters from the Philippines to
Australia upon orders from Presi-
dent Roosevelt. He was given
his new post at the request of the
Australian government. His pro-
motion had long been expected as
the result of his courageous stand
on the Bataan peninsula.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26
BYRD:
Il Field DAY.

Senator Byrd of Virginia was hav-
ing a field day. at the expense of
the Office of Civilian Defense, or the
OCD in the Washington alphabet.
Almost daily the senator was I'M
covering things which he was pass
ing on to the public through news re-
leases.
Among the latest had been his
expose of unpaid physical fitness &C.
tivities of OCD, with particular en-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26

Focused attention on co-ordinatOrs.
phasis on the bowl your way to
physical condition" campaign start
ed by Bowling Co-ordinator Willem.
This leader, said Senator Byrd,
turned out to be an executive of an
advertising firm handling the ac-
count of nationally known concern
which, the senator added, "has
virtual monopoly on the making of
bowling alleys and equipment there
for"
OF a piece with this, he said, was
the naming Of Bernarr Macfadden,
the publisher Of Physical Culture
magazine, as walking and hiking
co-ordinator.
Jack B. Kelly, physical: fitness di-
rector Of the OCD, termed Byrd's at
tack on the eo-ordinators, who serve
without pay, classic example Of
boondoggling in congress instead Of
focusing attention on what's happen
ing in the South Pacific and in Eu-
rope"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26
AUSSIES:
Getting Help

The same rigid censorship which
had kept an official record of the
Java sea battle from getting to the
British and American public until
two weeks after it occurred and
nearly that time after the japanese
had announced the loss, for instance,
of the Houston and other vessels,
had given the country only the
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26

out end, on the way to Australia and
already attacked by Japanese naval
"spearheads.
Finally, Chicago Sun correspond
ent sent in a copyrighted story
which said that thousands of Amer
lean troops" had arrived safely in
Australia, but that he could not
say where they were being de-
barked.
And he had made the swing go
little bit higher by adding that they
were the "harbingers of more to
come"
So much had gotten by the CEN
sors, so the public presumed that
substantial aid was being sent But
on the same day that the Chicago
item was published, Premier Curtin
had asked for more planes, more
tanks, more substantial aid in the
emergency"
And he had sent a serious mes
sage to President Roosevelt appar-
emily telling the President that Aus
tralia, though British domain, was
looking toward the United States to
save her neck, not only on the basis
of self-interest for Australia, but
self-interest for the United States.
British broadcasts had intimated
that considerable assistance was be-
ing sent Australia from England,
but whether this was in the form of
return of Australian troops or
whether British expeditionary
force was being sent was not i'm
mediately clear.
The broadcast had stated that
"early in the war Britain's calls on
Australia had been heavy, and that
Australia had met the call with gen.
crosby. Now the time had come
for Britain to return the favor, and
ships were leaving England every
day bound for Australia with mill
tary aid"
Following the Chicago dispatch
positively stating that thousands
had arrived from the United States
and that the convoy had been I'M
successfully attacked by the Japs
en- route, official Australian dis
patches spoke more freely of Amer
lean participation in the defense.
Every day had brought reports of
nonstop bombing attacks by
American and Australian planes on
Japanese concentration points in
New Guinea, the Solomons and other
islands to the north of Australia,
with varying success.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26
OFFENSIVE:
OUer Germany

Britain, more or less held back
from bombings over Europe during
the winter season of bad weather
and worse visibility, had started an
about and continuous bombing of
German towns and industrial cen
tiers, also of vital ports in northwest
Germany.
From various sources close to
London came word that this was
definite part of the British Spring
offensive" and that the attacks
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26
ROUNDUP:
On Spring, ~

Official weather springtime starts
in late March, but wartime spring
was to start, according to a roundup
of AP correspondents in leading war.
centers when the ground dries up
in Russia" or in mid-April or early
May.
What that time would bring was
a puzzle to most military minded
correspondents, but they agreed it
would be offensive time" and
would bring battles on such scale
as to make the present wartime re-
ports seem like child's play.
Most unanin1ity conferred about
one probability, that the Japs and
Germans would try a concentrated
offensive in harmony with each 9TH
err. Some were inclined to think that
the Japs, after gaining control Of
northeastern Australia and estab-
fishing a front there would turn
their main attack through lightly de-
Tended India and attempt to join
the Germans at the Persian gulf.
Others thought this plan too am
bilious and saw the Japs stopping
with Bengal and China cut off from
Allied aid, and then turning into
Siberia.
In this way the Japs would pre-
vent Americans from taking over
bases which would permit bomber
flights over Japan; Vladivostok be-
ing only two hours from Tokyo.
Others believed that oil being the
Japs' sole objective, and being now
in their grasp, they would simply
attempt to inmobilize Australia and
spend their time redeveloping the
"scorched' oilfelds of the East In
dies.
Again there was a theory that
oil being Germany's primary need,
the Nazis' spring offensive would be
aimed at Rostov and the Caucasus.
Cairo correspondents saw Egypt
and the Suez canal as spring eff
fort on the part of RommePs army
If Russia's defense should weaken.
London'S AP man felt very dubl'
GUS over the chances of spring in
vasion of the continent by the Brit
ish and Americans, holding that
Britain was reluctant to try it unless
sure they could stay in Europe,
not wanting to 60 through another
Dunquerque.
But he expressed the opinion that
if a European front could be estab-
lished Germany could be beaten in
1912. Still another source saw the
British and Americans establishing
the second European front in Italy.
They were unanimous in one thing
that the biggest battles OF world
knowledge were in store in the
spring, 1912.
CRe.eased by Western Newspaper uuipn.g,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-26

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst, and not
necessarily of this newspaper.
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WAR BINDS.

A scout car is a low-slllng motor
car armored with heavy steel plate.
used to transport troops from one
point to another. 1t is OF low sill
houette and gives protection against
machine gun and other ground fre4
A scout car costs $1,000.
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Uaittiuodj, Sen 26. Nnsnit 1912

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beratlmg. Breis pro Seft 50 SIP.
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Evening star., 1942-05-07
Treasury Is Assured
I0f Goal in Sale Of
Open Market Bonds
| Buyers Take $533.656. 900
Of New Type Issue in
First Two Doys
Nv the ASsociated Press

By the Associated Press.
The Treasury said today 1t sold
$3.50, ,656,S00 Of its new type Of 2ia
per cent, 20-25 year bonds Monday
and Tuesday, the first two days.
Unlike other Treasury bond sales.
the offer of these bonds for sale has
been kept open for an indefinite
period, and this figure may be null
tiplied substantially before the sale
closes.
The indefinite offering is a new
wrinkle in Treasury war financing,
since ordinarily investors are given
only one or two days to buy a bond
issue and the amount is limited.
Intended For Banks.
For instance, on the same day
that the az per cent bonds were
offered to the public, Monday. the
Treasury offered $1,250,000 900
worth of 2 per cent, 7-9 year
bonds and terminated the offer the
same night.
This Offering. however, was in
tended primarily for banks, while
the 217 per cent bonds were de-
signed mostly for insurance COM
panies and other large investors.
while banks were prohibited specifi-
cally from buying them.
officials said that four big insur-
ance companies were responsible for
most of the big initial sale of the
212 per cent bonds.
Assured Of Goal.
The response assured the Treasury
Of meeting its goal of borrowing 81
100000 900 through open market
operations this month.
Besides sale of the two types Of
bond issues, the Treasury will bor-
row 100000, 900 per week through
the sale of short term Treasury
bills.
The first sales of the az per cent
bonds raised the total Treasury debt,
including guaranteed obligations of
Government corporations, to ST.
288, 1864, ,446. This does not include
the proceeds of the 2 per cent bonds,
whose sale will not become ofncial
until May IS.