The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-02-12
FOSTER GILRoY
panpoon Heavily Bombed

Rangoon Heavily Bombed
ponuoou, Burma-This key city
sss BURMA Road, China's vital
.rnlv line. is now under almost con-
sa ~ 'sonn1bing. Aircraft of the Unit
s .sNations, in which U. S. flyers and
!. .s.,r american ships have taken an
IN. 1.-TWO mart. have brilliantly defended
:. eity and it's approaches, with a
large loss in Jap planes
Big Ore Carrier Sunk
uaw York City-The 15,355-ton
cvadish ore-carrier Amerikaland
Was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine
, r 200 miles of the entrance to
Now YORK Harbor. This was the
fourth sinking in two days, and is
tha largest ship yet bagged in the
r-boat campaign off the Atlantic
seaboard. Twenty-seven of her
crew are missing.
Overall Censorship Decreed
washington Speeches by Admin
;stration mouthpieces even up to
cabinet rank must hereafter be
cleared through New Dealer Arch
;hald MacLeish, Director of the Of
flee of Facts and Figures. The
White House explanation is that it
is an effort to bring about a uni
formity of expression where Presi-
Dental policy is involved.
House Boils Over
Washington-No censorship, how
ever, was noticeable in the House
Of Representatives when angry
members held up a deficiency bill Of
$4,000, 600 while they told the coun-
try what they thought of the en-
ployment of Hollywood movie
actor at $1,000 a year and a female
dancer sponsoring the Eleanor
Glide" at $4,000 a year to lend CLAM
or to Mrs. Roosevelt's Office of CT
william Defense. Both of the perform
ers are protegees of the Presidents
wife and neither has had any ex-
perience in matters of national de-
Tense. Their salaries as entertain
ers" is far in excess of the pay of
important ranking officers in the
army and navy services.
Macarthur Fights On
Washington-Army advices from
the Philippines indicates that Cen
eral Douglas Macarthur is not only
holding his line across the Bataan
Peninsula, but completely annihil-
sted suicide" battalion of 300 Japs
that attempted landing in his rear.
In the House of Representatives,
Rep. ]. Parnell Thomas of New Jer-
sey asked that Gen. Macarthur be
awarded the Congressional Medal of
Honor. the nations highest military
decoration, for conspicuous gallant
y and intrepidity above and beyond
the call of duty"
War Time" in Effect
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the ma
uon over were advanced one hour
Ms week, when the country went on
war Time to provide another hour
Oh daylight for defense industries.
Sub Sunk With 80
Fanama - The U. S. submarine
30 carried 80 of her crew to death
u $40 feet of water off this port
snen rammed by another U. S. Navy
'essei. The identity of the latter
vas not given, nor were the circum-
stances Of the collision revealed. Six
ufefs were flown from Washing
"a, out working at a dangerous
usptn' they received no signals of
Nc from the wrecked sub.
Another High Nazi Dies
serlin-Added to the mysterious
sa'ns OF half dozen of the high
~ ranking generals in the Nazi
p es IS that of Major General
N loot, creator of the widely &C
ws i'eu system of German high
a s' As in other deaths of i'm
+ .aat German officers, no reason
sven beylond the announcement
-. Lot ne met death while carrying
So ~ a military mission" 1t is widely
,so throughout Europe that
ts ese top officials, having outlived
sva W usefulness to Hitler or failed to
NJ: MS disastrous Russian cam
n, are murdered in cold blood
y 0faers of Hitler himself.
morgan Has Public Partners
=. new York City-After rs years as
ho,. uioSI powerful private banking
since the days of Rothschild
~, (. Morgan & Co., now an incor-
my eu company, has sold a limited
n. OF its shares to the invest
NM public at s2OS per share. Nearly
sb.tp private investors snapped up the
anc. Immediately upon its appear
s... vi the market. The original
psrs OF the house, headed by J
trI ut Morgan n, remain in con-
~ OF the corporation.
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