America at war! (1941– ) (Part 1)

Völkischer Beobachter (January 11, 1942)

Die Hauptstadt der Malaienstaaten gefallen

Eine wichtige Barriere vor Singapur durchbrochen
Eigener Bericht des „Völkischen Beobachters“


Zeichnung: „VB.“

dr. th. b. Stockholm, 10. Januar
Von der Malayafront kommt soeben die Meldung, daß Kuala Lumpur gefallen ist. Die britischen Truppen haben damit einen weiteren sehr schweren Schlag erlitten. Kuala Lumpur ist die Hauptstadt des Staates Selangor und gleichzeitig die Hauptstadt der vereinigten malaiischen Staaten. Sie hat etwa 150.000 Einwohner. Kuala Lumpur ist der Mittelpunkt des Kautschukhandels auf Malaya. Auch zahlreiche Zinnbergwerke haben dort ihren Verwaltungssitz.

Die Kämpfe um Kuala Lumpur müssen nach Informationen von der Malayafront als die schwersten Kampfhandlungen seit Beginn der dortigen Operationen bezeichnet werden. Sie fanden in einem für die Verteidigung außerordentlich günstigen Gelände statt. Der Feind hatte seit-langem starke Stellungen vorbereitet, teilweise sieben Linien hintereinander, die mit Minen. Tankfallen und Geschützen schwer befestigt waren. Aber all dies hinderte die japanischen Truppen nicht, den Vormarsch unentwegt fortzusetzen.

Nach einer überlegenen Umfassungsoperation, bei der der rechte japanische Flügel vorgezogen wurde und dann in südöstlicher Richtung auf Kuala Lumpur einschwenkte, mußte die britische Verteidigung zurück, wenn sie nicht rettungslos eingeschlossen werden wollte. Die japanischen Truppen wurden durch die Luftwaffe dabei wirkungsvoll unterstützt, die auch in Kuala Lumpur selbst den feindlichen Widerstand heftig bekämpfte. In allen Teilen der Stadt wüteten ausgedehnte Brände. Der größte Teil der Einwohner hatte fluchtartig die Stadt verlassen.

Nach englischen Meldungen spielte sich die entscheidende Schlacht um Kuala Lumpur in dem Dreieck zwischen den Flüssen Slim, Bertram und der Stadt Kuala Lumpur ab. Die Japaner haben hier zum erstenmal Zwölf-Tonnen-Tanks eingesetzt, während sie sich vorher nach englischen Meldungen auf den Einsatz von Zwei-Mann-Tanks beschränkten.

London: „Die Lage sehr ernst!“

„Mehr Soldaten und mehr Flugzeuge, die Lage wird unhaltbar!“ Mit diesen Worten schließt der Sonderberichterstatter des „Daily Herald“ in Singapur seine letzte Meldung. Auch die übrigen Berichte in der Londoner Presse bezeichnen die Lage an der Front als verzweifelt, und im Londoner Nachrichtendienst wurde mitgeteilt, daß zwar noch keine amtlichen Meldungen vorliegen — wahrscheinlich zögert man, den Fall von Kuala Lumpur einzugestehen — daß aber nach allen bisher vorliegenden Berichten die Lage als sehr ernst angesehen werden müsse.

Japanische Flugzeuge, so heißt es in einem Londoner Bericht des „Aftonbladet“, schwärmten durch die Luft und würfen ihre Bomben unbekümmert und ungehindert ab, da so gut wie kein Schuß fiele. Vor den Bomben gebe es keinen anderen Schutz mehr, als sich in den dichten Dschungeln zu verstecken. Ein Berichterstatter der United Press, der sich an der britischen Front befand, gibt folgende dramatische Schilderung: „Ich habe einige Tage auf einem vorgeschobenen Posten in Selangor verbracht und war Zeuge des verzweifelten Kampfes britischer und indischer Soldaten gegen die Übermacht. Die Soldaten mußten in der mörderischen Hitze Übermenschliches ertragen. Überall sieht man bei den Zinnbergwerken zerstörte Maschinen und bei den Kautschukplantagen niedergebrannte Häuser.

Hals über Kopf geflüchtet

Auf den ausgefahrenen, staubigen Straßen wiegt sich ein Strom von hysterischen Menschen, die Hals über Kopf geflohen sind. Viel konnten sie nicht mitnehmen. Viele haben Räder bei sich, die bis zum Brechen beladen sind. Kleine Autos, mit Kindern, Hausgeräten und Konservenbüchsen voll bepackt, versuchen, in lebensgefährlich schneller Fahrt vorwärts zu kommen. Die Angst vor einem japanischen Blitzangriff ist sehr groß, und alle möchten noch schnell nach Singapur kommen. Bei meinem Aufenthalt in den vordersten Linien habe ich mit einem englischen Artilleriehauptmann gesprochen, der mir erzählte, wie plötzlich die japanischen Tanks in den Kautschukplantagen auftauchten, in denen die Japaner jeden Schritt und Tritt kannten. Vielfach wurden die englischen Abteilungen von ihren Verbindungen abgeschnitten. Das Hauptquartier, das ich besuchte, war so schnell verlassen worden, daß die Pfeifen und der Tabak der Offiziere noch auf den Tischen lagen.“

Englands Zerstörungswerk

Das Zerstörungswerk auf der Malaiischen Halbinsel ist das Werk der Engländer, die gleich zu Beginn der Kämpfe nach bolschewistischem Muster den Befehl gaben, alles dem Erdboden gleichzumachen und sich dieser Barbarei in den Berichten aus Singapur noch rühmen. Auch Kuala Lumpur sollte, wie United Press aus Schanghai meldet, niedergebrannt werden. Hier aber kam es zu einem Aufstand der Malaien gegen die britische Polizeitruppe. Die Malaien bewaffneten sich und eröffneten auf englische Polizisten und indische Soldaten, die sich an der Vernichtung der Stadt beteiligt hatten, das Feuer.


Eine Heldentat aus der Kolonialgeschichte der USA
Roosevelt „befreit“ die Philippinen

Eigener Bericht des „Völkischen Beobachters“

vb. Wien, 10. Januar
Nach der Eroberung Manilas durch die Japaner, die praktisch den Zusammenbruch der amerikanischen Herrschaft auf den gesamten Philippinen bedeutet, hat Präsident Roosevelt, wie berichtet, an die Bewohner der Inselgruppe ein gefühlvolles Telegramm gerichtet. Er beklagte von tiefem Herzen, daß die USA außerstande gewesen seien, dem japanischen Angriff erfolgreichen Widerstand zu leisten, versprach jedoch den Filipinos, daß Amerika sie zu gegebener Zeit „befreien“ werde.

Wir möchten bezweifeln, ob die Filipinos sich nach dieser Befreiung sehnen. Nach den Erfahrungen, die sie mit den USA gemacht haben, ist das wenig wahrscheinlich. Die Geschichte der amerikanischen Herrschaft auf den Philippinen füllt wirklich keine rühmlichen Seiten im auch sonst nicht fleckenlosen Buche der amerikanischen Vergangenheit. Feuer und Schwert standen am Anfang der amerikanischen Machtergreifung über den Inseln, plutokratische Ausbeutung am Ende. Am Anfang und am Ende aber stand der Name: Roosevelt.

Die Philippinen waren früher bekanntlich spanischer Besitz. Als die USA gegen Spanien in den letzten Jahren des vorigen Jahrhunderts einen Krieg Vom Zaun gebrochen hatten, der zunächst der Eroberung von Kuba galt, wuchs ihr Appetit mit dem Essen, und sie ließen sich von dem besiegten Gegner beim Friedensschluß auch die Philippinen abtreten. Damit waren die Inseln wohl Eigentum, aber noch nicht Besitz der USA geworden, denn die Einwohner zeigten keine Lust, den neuen Herrn gegen den alten einzutauschen.

Es ist nie besonders erfreulich, in der schmutzigen Wäsche anderer Nationen herumzustochern, und so verzichten wir darauf, mit unseren Worten eingehend zu schildern, wie die Amerikaner die Philippinen „befreiten“. Wir geben das Wort dem bekannten amerikanischen Schriftsteller Mark Twain. Er war einer der wenigen Amerikaner, die sich innerlich über die Methoden der Kolonialpolitik ihres Landes empörten. In seiner Selbstbiographie (Neuyork und London 1924) schildert er im 2. Bande auf Seite 186 ff. eine der übelsten Greuelszenen der amerikanischen Kolonialimperialisten. Sie spielt, das verdient Beachtung, im Jahr 1906, also nach acht Jahren, nachdem die Amerikaner auf den Philippinen Fuß gefaßt hatten. Mark Twain berichtet über die „Schlacht von Jolo“ wörtlich folgendes:

„Montag, 12. März 1906. Ein ganzer Stamm dunkelhäutiger Eingeborener, sogenannter Moros, Männer, Weiber und Kinder, hatte sich in der Tiefe eines erloschenen Kraters verschanzt, wenige Meilen von Jolo, und da sie uns feindlich gesinnt und wir seit Jahren darauf aus waren, ihnen ihre Freiheiten zu nehmen, war ihr Aufenthalt dort für uns eine Drohung. Unser Befehlshaber, General Leonard Wood, schickte einen Spähtrupp vor: der stellte fest, daß die Moros sechshundert an Zahl waren, Weiber und Kinder eingerechnet, und daß ihr Krater sich zweitausendzweihundert Fuß hoch über dem Meeresspiegel in dem Gipfel eines Berges befand und für weiße Truppen und Artillerie sehr schwer zugänglich war. General Wood ordnete einen Überfall an und ging auch selber mit, um sich die Ausführung seines Befehls anzusehen.

600 Filipinos erbarmungslos abgeschlachtet

Unsere Truppen erklommen die Höhen auf gewundenen und schwierigen Pfaden und nahmen auch Artillerie mit. Was für Artillerie, ist nicht näher angegeben, aber an einer Stelle, einer scharfen Steigung von etwa dreihundert Fuß, mußte sie durch einen Flaschenzug hinaufgewunden werden. Kaum war man am Rande des Kraters angelangt, so begann die „Schlacht“. Unserer Soldaten waren fünf hundert und fünfzig. Zu ihrer Unterstützung waren ihnen ein Detachement der von uns in Sold genommenen einheimischen Polizeitruppe und ein Marinedetachement beigegeben, deren Zahlen nicht angegeben sind. Allem Anschein nach war aber die Zahl der Streiter auf beiden Seiten ungefähr gleich: sechshundert Mann auf unserer Seite oben auf dem Rande des Kraters, sechshundert Männer, Weiber und Kinder unten in der Tiefe des Kraters. Tiefe des Kraters fünfzig Fuß.

General Woods Befehl war: Die sechshundert töten oder gefangennehmen. Also die „Schlacht“, wie sie amtlich genannt wird, begann, die unsern mit ihrer Artillerie und ihren todbringenden modernsten Handfeuerwaffen in den Krater hinunterfeuernd, die Wilden das Feuer von unten herauf wütend erwidernd: Wahrscheinlich mit Steinen, doch ist das nur eine Vermutung von mir, da die Waffen, deren sich die Wilden bedienten, in dem Kabeltelegramm nicht genannt sind. Bis da- hin waren bei ihnen nur Messer und Keulen und unbrauchbare Schießprügel, wenn sie welche hatten, in Gebrauch gewesen.

Der amtliche Bericht stellte fest, daß die „Schlacht“ auf beiden Seiten mit ungeheurer Energie ausgefochten worden sei, daß sie einen und einen halben Tag gedauert und mit einem vollständigen Sieg der amerikanischen Waffen geendet habe. Die Vollständigkeit des Sieges wird durch die Tatsache, daß von den sechshundert Moros nicht einer am Leben geblieben ist, der Glanz des Sieges durch die Tatsache, daß von unseren sechshundert Helden nur fünfzehn ums Leben gekommen sind, außer Zweifel gestellt.

General Wood war dabei und sah zu, sein Befehl war gewesen: die sechshundert töten oder gefangennehmen. Unsere kleine Armee hat dieses „oder“ offenbar so aufgefaßt, als habe er es ihr anheimgestellt, ganz nach Belieben zu töten oder gefangenzunehmen, und ihr Belieben war dasselbe geblieben, daß es bei unserer Armee dort draußen acht Jahre lang gewesen war: das Belieben christlicher Metzger.

Der amtliche Bericht, wie sich das gehört, strich das „Heldentum“ und die „Tapferkeit“ unserer Truppen heraus und vergrößerte sie noch, beklagte die fünfzehn, die umgekommen waren, verbreitete sich über die Verwundungen der zweiunddreißig Verletzten und beschrieb deren Beschaffenheit auch noch bis ins einzelne genau, alles zum besten zukünftigen Geschichtsschreiber der Vereinigten Staaten.“ Soweit zunächst Mark Twain. Er schildert dann weiter, wie dieser Bericht von den amerikanischen Zeitungen mit riesigen Schlagzeilen gebracht wurde und wie der damalige Präsident Theodore Roosevelt, der Oheim des gegenwärtigen nichtswürdigen Franklin Delano, dem General Wood folgendes Dank- und Anerkennungstelegramm sandte: „Wood, Manila. Beglückwünsche Sie und die Offiziere und Mannschaften unter Ihrem Befehl zu der glänzenden Waffentat, durch die sie die Ehre der amerikanischen Flagge hochgehalten haben. Theodore Roosevelt.“

Den Kommentar zu diesem Telegramm überlassen wir wieder Mark Twain, der folgendes meint: „Roosevelt wußte sehr wohl, daß es keine glänzende Waffentat war, 600 hilflose und waffenlose Wilde in einem solchen Loch wie Ratten in einer Falle einzusperren und sie anderthalb Tage lang von einer sicheren hochgelegenen Stelle aus Stück um Stück zu massakrieren. Er wußte sehr wohl, daß unsere uniformierten Meuchelmörder die Ehre der amerikanischen Flagge nicht hochgehalten, sondern das getan hatten, was sie acht Jahre lang auf den Philippinen zu tun gewohnt waren: daß sie die amerikanische Flagge entehrt hatten.“

Roosevelts Rüstungsprogramm


„Sei nicht so undankbar — du siehst doch, was sich der Onkel für Mühe gibt!“


Mit unbekanntem Ziel ausgelaufen:
Die britische Flotte verläßt Singapur

Eigener Bericht des „Völkischen Beobachters“

rd. Rom, 10. Januar
Die aus Saigon kommende Meldung, daß die englischen Kriegsschiffe, die bisher vor Singapur tagen, den Hafen der britischen Festung im Morgengrauen unter mörderischem Feuer der Flakbatterien gegen nicht vorhandene japanische Flugzeuge verlassen haben, wird in Rom als eine der nicht nur militärisch aktuellen, sondern geschichtlich bedeutsamsten Nachrichten seit Ausbruch des Krieges im Pazifik bezeichnet.

Das Geschwader hat britischen Angaben zufolge Kurs „auf einen unbestimmten Punkt“ genommen, um sich dort unter den Befehl des amerikanischen Generals Hart zu stellen. Vermutlich heißt der unbestimmte Punkt Surabaya auf Java, wo sich auch die Reste des USA-Ostasien-Geschwaders zu konzentrieren suchen.

Über die Gefühle, mit denen man in England das bisher noch nie dagewesene Schauspiel der Übernahme des Oberbefehls über britische Flottenteile durch einen nichtbritischen Admiral beobachtet, hat die letzte Unterhaussitzung mit den in den Vereinigten Staaten „als wenig elegant“ bewerteten Bemerkungen Sir George Geoffreys genügend Aufschluß gegeben. Die andere Seite des Vorganges der Flottenflucht aus Singapur ist nach römischem Urteil das Eingeständnis Londons, daß es fürchtet, die Festung könnte bald auch zur See blockiert werden. Singapur wurde gebaut, um den plutokratischen Flotten in Ostasien eine Basis zu geben, nun wird Singapur eine Basis ohne Flotte.

Nach der gleichen Quelle haben die Engländer, um die japanischen Bomber irrezuführen, mit Lichteffekten, die den Stadtplan der britischen Festung nachahmen, im Norden der Festungsinsel ein „zweites Singapur“ in den Dschungel gebaut. Die Japaner haben den Engländern aber nicht das Vergnügen bereitet, auf diesen Trick hereinzufallen.

„Tokio Asahi Schimbun“:
Das Empire zerfällt

dnb. Tokio, 10. Januar
Zu der letzten Sitzung des britischen Parlaments meint „Tokio Asahi Schimbun“ ironisch, es sei wohl reichlich spät, jetzt über die ungenügenden Verteidigungsmaßnahmen in Malaya zu debattieren. Die politische Verantwortung für die Überschätzung der eigenen Kräfte, die Unterschätzung der japanischen Kampfstärke und das Vertrauen auf die USA-Hilfe müßten die britische Regierung, das Parlament und die englische Presse schon gemeinsam tragen.

Australiens Haltung verursache in London anscheinend besondere Kopfschmerzen. Wenn England nicht Kraft genug besitze, um Australien als Mitglied des Empire zu schützen, so sei als natürliche Folge damit zu rechnen, daß sich Australien künftig nicht nur militärisch, sondern auch politisch an die USA anlehne. Das Verhältnis zwischen USA und Australien zeichne den Weg vor, der vor dem britischen Empire liege, nämlich der eines unaufhaltsamen Auseinanderfallens, während gleichzeitig die USA die Nachfolgerschaft anträten.

Noch im letzten Jahr sei Churchill voll Stolz und Siegeszuversicht von der sogenannten Atlantikkonferenz zurückgekehrt. Es bleibe abzuwarten, mit welchen Gefühlen er diesmal von der Washingtoner Besprechung nach London zurückkomme.

Das Hauptquartier der Marine gibt bekannt, daß bis zum 8. Januar aus dem Hongkong-Bezirk folgende Meldungen über vernichtete, beziehungsweise erbeutete feindliche Schiffe vorliegen:

Versenkt: Ein Zerstörer, vier Kanonenboote, sieben Torpedoboote, ein Öltanker, zwei Minenleger, acht Patrouillenboote.

Erbeutet: 110 größere und kleinere Handelsschiffe.

Ernstlich bedrohte Versorgung

Eigener Bericht des „VB“

dr. th. b. Stockholm, 10. Januar
Major Lloyd George vom englischen Ernährungsministerium erklärte, daß der Krieg in Ostasien zu einer fühlbaren Einschränkung der Lebensmittelversorgung führen werde. Amerikanische Dampfer seien jetzt den gleichen Angriffen ausgesetzt wie britische. Die Bevölkerung werde sich mit dem Gedanken vertraut machen müssen, den Riemen noch enger zu schnallen.

U.S. Navy Department (January 11, 1942)

Communique No. 27

CENTRAL PACIFIC – The Naval Station at Tutuila, Samoan Islands, was shelled shortly after midnight Sunday, January 11 (Samoan Time), by a small enemy vessel. Fourteen shells of light caliber landed in the naval station area. The only casualties were three slight injuries to personnel. There was no material damage to the Naval Station itself.

There is nothing to report from other areas.

The Pittsburgh Press (January 11, 1942)

Foe sweeps around key Malaya city

Fluid British lines pushed nearer Singapore; capital may be lost
By Joe Alex Morris, United Press war editor

The Japanese drove nearer Singapore in the jungles of the Malay Peninsula early today in what was described as an “infernal caldron” less than 200 miles from Singapore.

The British were believed to have taken up new lines south of Malaya’s second largest city, Kuala Lumpur, and Tokyo claims said that the Japs had captured an airport two miles from the city and were attacking that capital of the Malay States from the south after outflanking scattered British units. Unofficial Tokyo reports said the city already was in Jap hands.

Singapore dispatches presented a picture of hand-to-hand fighting in a triangular area near Kuala Lumpur and said that the defenders were battling in small groups, with British Commandos bearing the brunt of increasing Jap pressure.

Let natives ‘loot’ stores

There has ceased to be a front. British Intelligence Headquarters admitted it is unable to keep up with the confused situation after Kuala Lumpur was thrown upon to British troops and natives to take what they wanted from the deserted stores.

In the Philippines, American and Filipino forces opened up with artillery in reply to big Jap guns which raked Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s field fortifications in Bataan Province.

The U.S. War Department reported that each side was engaged in intensive patrolling, feeling out opposing lines in preparation for the climactic land battle.

Luzon offensive claimed

But Tokyo propaganda broadcasts claimed that the general Jap offensive has started and that heavy artillery has breached the first American lines in Luzon.

Indications that the Japanese again were seeking to open major operations against the Dutch East Indies were seen in reappearance of “a considerable number” of Jap ships off the coast of Mindanao Island, where U.S. bombers recently blasted enemy warships and transports. The Japanese seemed to be preparing for a thrust toward Celebes or Borneo.

Mindanao is 500 miles south of Manila and the warship concentration may also be aimed at the Philippine island of Cebu which still is in communication with the United States.

85 Nazi trains blasted

The Allied position was far different in Russia. The Axis armies were reeling under Soviet land and air blows from the Baltic to the Black Seas.

Russian fliers reported smashing 85 Nazi troop-laden trains and blasting 32 railroad stations in attacks on railroad lines in Lithuania and Latvia.

The Axis forces also were on the run in Libya. A military spokesman in Cairo described Axis mechanized units as fleeing “hell for leather” from the Agedabia battleground to fall back on El Agheila, on the frontier of Tripolitania-Western Libya. They retreated so fast British mobile columns could not keep up with them.


To raise money for war…
U.S. taxpayer may pay two levies in 1942

Wage deduction planned in addition to regular income assessment

‘Jiffy’ tax blank figures all for those with small incomes


This is the “jiffy” income tax return for thousands of small taxpayers ($3,000 or less income) who are being confronted with income tax blanks for the first time in their lives. Simple as ABC, Form 1040A can be filled out in six quick, easy steps – compared with a minimum of 21 entries on the standard Form 1040. As shown above:

1) Write in your name, address and occupation.

2) Enter your dependents, except husband or wife.

3) List your income for 1941.

4) Subtract your credit for dependents.

5) Check your family status.

6) Read your tax directly from this table on the back of the form. In the case illustrated, the tax is found in Column B – for married men and heads of families.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UP) – Adoption of the proposed salary withholding tax as part of the new nine-billion-dollar war revenue program would mean that Americans would have to pay two tax bills at once during the last half of 1942.

The withholding tax would probably go into effect July 1, the beginning of the 1943 fiscal year. In addition to paying this tax on current earnings, Americans still would have to pay the final two installments of the tax on 1941 income.

Taxes on incomes for both 1941 and 1942 exceed by far any previous ones. Pyramiding them would have the effect of more than doubling income taxes for the final six months of this year.

Strain considered

The Treasury has not decided upon the exact form of the withholding, or “at-the-source tax,” it will recommend, and is taking into consideration the terrific strain that any double payment of taxes will have on family budgets.

“It is tough to have to pay two years of taxes in one year and we are trying to get out of it as much as possible,” Randolph Paul, a New York attorney who was drafted to work out the Treasury’s tax program, said.

He added that “no particular hostility” to a withholding tax had developed in conferences of Treasury officials and congressmen.

Studies proposal

The Treasury is studying several proposals for a withholding tax. One provides that income taxes be increased 5 to 15 percent, with the increase only being collected at the source. Under another proposal, income taxes would be increased an undetermined amount and the entire tax would be collected at the source.

Most talked-of withholding tax rate at this time – though not necessarily the one that will be adopted – is 15 percent of net taxable income, which would be superimposed on the normal income tax. Here is how it would work if you are a married man, with no children.

Your employer would estimate your yearly earnings for this year deduct $1,500 for personal exemption and perhaps 10 percent of your entire earnings for taxes paid, contributions, etc. The remainder would be your net taxable income from which he would take out 15 percent in equal installments each pay day, sending the amount to the government. This would be collected in addition to your regular income tax.

But the following year, 1943, when it came time to compute your regular income tax in the regular way, you would deduct from your total income the amount of the withholding tax paid out in 1942. That amount is tax-free.

Would lower exemptions

One proposal under consideration would lower personal income-tax exemptions to $500 for single persons and $1,000 for married men without children.

With his lowered exemption, the addition of a 15 percent withholding tax would cost a married man without children, earning $2,000 annually, approximately $135 a year, or $2.59 a week. The regular income tax, computed at present rates, would be about $73.

The administration also is considering raising the employee’s Social Security tax from 1 to 3 percent – which would be $60 a year on the $2,000 income.

The wage-earner getting $2,000 a year, or $38.50 a week, thus would pay a total direct federal tax of $268 a year, or $5.15 a week – more than 13 percent of his gross income.

The most pressing taxation problem before Americans is not the question of future taxes, however. The first quarterly installment of income taxes on last year’s earnings is due March 15.

This will be the first income tax paid under the 1941 act, passed last September, which sharply increased rates and lowered exemptions to include many additional thousands of wage-earners.

Must file returns

All single persons having gross incomes of $750 and all married persons with gross incomes of $1,500 must file returns.

The Treasury estimated 22 million returns will be filed.

The normal income tax rate on individuals remains at 4 percent. The surtax rate has been increased to a graduated scale from 6 percent on the first $2,000 of income after exemptions, to 77 percent on incomes exceeding five million dollars.

Indicating how much the income taxes have been hiked, the married man without children earning $2,000 a year, will be taxed $117, nearly three times the amount he paid last year.

Task made easier

Only in one particular has the task of paying the tax on 1941 income been made easier. The Treasury has simplified computing of the tax.

Persons earning less than $3,000 may fill out a single form and pay a tax calculated by the Treasury on the basis of average deductions for gifts to charity, interest paid and similar items.

The form for other taxpayers has also been simplified. Persons whose income is entirely from salaries and other compensation for personal services, dividends, interest, rents, royalties have to fill in only two pages.

Tax plans cause friction in capital

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UP) – The huge war financing program, which is expected to take more than one-fourth of the 1942 national income, was complicated tonight by increasing friction between the administration and congressional tax committees.

Influential members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees nurse a grudge against the administration because of last year’s fight over mandatory joint return and excess profits issues, were angered by the Treasury’s reported attitude on a general federal sales tax and the excess profits levy.

Members of the Ways and Means Committee were taking these views tonight:

  • The Treasury is trying to maneuver Congress into enacting a general sales tax without its being labeled an administration measure – which would permit the administration to tell labor and low-income groups that it had nothing to do with the tax.

  • The Treasury is attempting to force Congress to accept an excess profits proposal that was rejected last year.

Unless immediate steps are taken to establish harmony, some congressional leaders fear, the projected nine-billion-dollar revenue bill will be a more complex hodgepodge than any previous tax legislation.

Chairman Robert L. Doughton, D-North Carolina, of the Ways and Means Committee and Chairman Walter F. George, D-Georgia, of the Senate Finance Committee were reported to have flatly informed Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. at a preliminary conference that they would not consider extension of Social Security taxes as part of the regular revenue bill.

Treasury officials and bipartisan fiscal leaders of Congress are to meet again Monday in an attempt to reach agreement on a war tax program before it is made public by the House Ways and Means Committee.


On Philippines…
Guns herald Jap assault

Cannon ‘softens up’ fort as prelude to attack
By Harrison Salisbury, United Press staff writer

Allies lose bases, miles in Orient


The loss of Manila and Hong Kong, the only Allied bases on the China Sea, puts the Allies under additional distance handicaps in the Orient. The map shows how only part of Japanese territory is within Allied bomber range unless Russia grants use of Vladivostok and other Far East bases.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UP) – Japanese big guns raked Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s field fortifications in Bataan Province tonight and a major Japanese effort to overwhelm the American and Filipino forces and launch an offensive against the Dutch East Indies seemed imminent.

Tokyo propaganda reports claimed that a general offensive against Gen. MacArthur has started and that heavy artillery has breached the first American lines in Bataan. The Japanese were said to have captured an important American position after storming it under heavy fire and to have thus gained a position of their own to drive deeper into Bataan.

The Japanese air force was described as blasting at the lines along which Gen. MacArthur’s forces are falling back. The capture of six U.S. guns and a store of ammunition was claimed.

It has been eight days since Manila, the most important point in the islands, fell to the Japanese.

Tonight, the official U.S. War Department communique reported that Japanese ground batteries are laying down brisk fire, particularly against American gun emplacements. The U.S. guns are replying with equal vigor.

Each side was engaged in intensive patrolling, feeling out opposing dispositions in preparation for the big land battle.

East Indies next

These moves were accompanied by ominous indications that the Japanese are preparing to utilize their new and important base at Davao, 500 miles south of Manila on Mindanao Island, for the initial blows of an attack against the Dutch East Indies.

The Army communique reported the appearance, off Mindanao, of a “considerable number of enemy vessels” which were expected to land on Mindanao, greatly strengthening the already apparently large forces the Japanese have put ashore there.

Davao is about 400 miles due north of the Celebes group of the Dutch Islands and about the same distance northeast of the eastern coast of Borneo, where the Japanese already have footholds in Sarawak and North Borneo.

Troops concentrated

Since the fall of Manila, Gen. MacArthur has concentrated his small but well-equipped and hard fighting troops on short, stout defense positions in Bataan Province – a mountainous peninsula, the approaches to which are protected by swampy low country and a series of small rivers.

Gen. MacArthur’s lines of communication run south about 35 miles from the northern Bataan border to the port of Mariveles, only four miles across Manila Bay’s north channel from Fort Mills on the fortress island of Corregidor, where he is expected to stage his last stand. Adjacent to Corregidor on another small harbor island is Fort Drum, another position well equipped for withstanding long siege.

The Japanese, after four days of almost continuous bombardment of Corregidor and strongpoints on Bataan, have for the past 72 hours been bringing up powerful land reinforcements toward Gen. MacArthur’s Bataan lines in obvious preparation for a grand assault.

Jap claim unconfirmed

There was no confirmation here of their claim that the outer American lines in Bataan have been broken or that an important U.S. position has been captured.

It was assumed, however, that the initial Japanese drive into Bataan would be directed toward Dinalupihan and Hermosa, two towns just across the northeast Bataan border.

Hermosa is the more important of the two, located on the direct road to Mariveles about 35 miles north of the fort. It is protected by two small streams, the Culo and Cules Rivers, and there was no doubt that Gen. MacArthur would fight hard to defend the position.

Should he be driven back from Hermosa, the next big stand in Bataan might be made at Balanga, 15 miles to the south and about 25 miles by the winding coast road from Mariveles.

Mountainous terrain

Because of the mountainous terrain of the interior of Bataan Province, the Japanese drive would probably be forced to follow the coast road and might be subjected to devastating fire from American batteries and machine-gun posts mounted in the hills that flank the highway.

Reports by the Japanese that they have engaged some 500 Japanese residents of Manila in the task of clearing Manila Harbor of mines and other obstructions may indicate that the Japanese hope to reinforce their attack on Bataan with landing parties, probably pushing off from positions around the bay and attempting to get a foothold to the rear of the U.S. lines under cover of light.

Precipitous cliffs

Such an endeavor, however, would probably be extremely difficult and productive of high casualties as long as the bristling guns of Corregidor continue to command Manila Bay.

Japanese landings on the west coast of Bataan would be possible but unlikely because of the precipitous cliffs along the shore and the difficulty of moving their forces southwestward toward Mariveles.

There have been indications that the Japanese bombing attacks on Corregidor have been directed extensively against anti-aircraft emplacements and other more or less exposed positions above the rock surface.

Japanese claim capture of Bataan defense lines

TOKYO, Jan. 10 (Official broadcast recorded in New York by UP) – Japanese press dispatches tonight reported that Japanese forces were seizing or crushing American key defense lines on the Bataan Peninsula of Luzon Island, in the Philippines.

Japanese troops, supported by artillery, first opened a new attack on American and Filipino forces on the peninsula, northwest of Manila, while Japanese warplanes operated to prevent withdrawal of American forces to new defense positions, according to Japanese reports.

Picked Japanese troops then took American first-line positions in Bataan, the official Japanese Domei News Agency said. It reported the capture of six American artillery pieces, along with ammunition, and said the Japanese had turned the guns against the Americans.

The American positions were taken under heavy fire, Domei said. It added that an important key position, from which further attacks can be made, had been captured.

Commenting on other fronts, a Japanese spokesman said Japan had no intention of pushing Thailand into war against Great Britain despite British aerial bombardment of Thailand. Of next week’s conference of American republics at Rio de Janeiro, he said Japan wanted nothing from South America except continuation of the friendly relations which had existed for many years.


Sober-faced Rooney weds

Film star, 21, actress, 19, kept plans secret

SANTA BARBARA, California, Jan. 10 (UP) – Mickey Rooney married Ava Gardner, actress from Wilson, North Carolina, today entirely without benefit of the cockiness and hair-brained antics which have helped to make him the leading box office film star for three consecutive years.

The 21-year-old cut-up of the screen remained quiet throughout a simple double-ring ceremony at the Presbyterian Manse in the isolated town of Ballard. The famous Rooney grin was absent from the beginning of the wedding march through the “I do’s” to the “I Love You Truly,” played by the wife of the minister, Rev. Glenn Lutz.

Keeps details secret

Rooney, who became 21 on September 23 last, had been careful to keep details of his wedding plans a secret to avoid crowds. He arranged with an accommodating county clerk to meet him with the marriage license at Montecito, a suburb two miles east of here, to save a trip to the county courthouse.

He and Miss Gardner, 19-year-old recent arrival at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot where Rooney had been the leading revenue producer for years, drove alone to Ballard. A small group of friends and relatives met them at the Santa Ynez Presbyterian Manse.

Out of character

The solemn ceremony that followed left the public’s Mickey somewhat out of character since he has portrayed comedy roles ever since he made his debut at the age of 11 months in a burlesque routine with his father and mother.

Fifteen years ago, he was a cigar-smoking toughie of Mickey McGuire two-reelers, and more recently he has starred as the youthful hero of the Hardy Family series. But those roles were not in evidence as the studio romance of only a few months culminated in marriage.

Acts as best man

Leslie Peterson of MGM acted as best man and Beatrice Gardner, the bride’s older sister, was maid of honor. Present were Mrs. Nell Pankey, Mickey’s mother. and her husband, Fred Pankey; Joe Yule, Mickey’s father, and Eleanor Stewart, actress friend of the bride and bridegroom.

After the ceremony the newlyweds drove to Del Monte for a brief honeymoon.

Rooney obtained the license under his real name of Joe Yule Jr.

He will register for the draft on February 16.


Farm curb teeth left out…
Senate votes price bill

Rural provisions may hike food cost 25%; administrator and rent control authorized

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UP) – The Senate late today passed and returned to the House price control legislation embodying farm bloc amendments which administration forces said would result in increases of about 25 percent in food costs.

The powerful farm group beat down administration resistance to special provisions benefiting agricultural commodities in a fight in which President Roosevelt took a hand. But on final passage, both sides joined to pass the bill, 83-1, with Sen. Gerald P. Nye, R-North Dakota, the lone dissenter.

The Senate bill, which differs somewhat from the House measure, excludes wages from control, but permits fixing of rent ceilings in defense areas.

It provides for the appointment of an administrator who is empowered to set ceilings on commodity prices but restricts his power over farm prices. One of the amendments gives the Secretary of Agriculture equal jurisdiction over raw farm products.

After overriding Mr. Roosevelt’s express wish by voting to divide authority over farm prices between Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard and Price Administrator Leon Henderson, the farm bloc wrote two additional farm provisions into the bill today.

One, sponsored by Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney, D-Wyoming, would establish a new definition of parity price – taking urban wages into account – which would have the effect of permitting farm prices to rise to 120 percent of present parity before price ceilings would be imposed.

The other, by Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Georgia, would prohibit the fixing of a price ceiling lower than the average price of commodities from 1919 to 1929.

The estimate that the O’Mahoney amendment would mean a farm price increase of approximately 25 percent from the prevailing rates of December 10 came from Sen. Prentiss M. Brown, D-Michigan, floor manager for the bill.

Provides licensing

Before the Senate adopted it, he warned that with it there would be “absolutely no power to fix industrial prices” since, with a rise in farm prices, industrial prices would have to go up and the “various spirals of inflation” would continue.

But after the fight was over, Sen. Brown told the Senate that its version of price control legislation was “not nearly as badly shot up as the House bill” when the latter measure was approved November 28, prior to the outbreak of war.

Enforcement would be through a licensing system. For a second violation of price regulations, the administrator could revoke the license of a dealer.

Farm curbs restricted

As the bill was returned to the House for further action, restrictions written into it by the powerful Senate farm bloc included:

  • No farm price ceiling could be fixed lower than the parity price under a special definition which would have the effect of placing a floor of 120 percent of the present parity average.

  • No farm price ceiling could be fixed lower than the average price that prevailed for the affected commodity during the years from 1919 to 1929.

  • No farm price could be fixed lower than the market price of October 1 or December 15, 1941, whichever was higher.

  • The Price Administrator could not fix farm prices without the consent of the Secretary of Agriculture.

Wickard’s power limited

The farm bloc first administered a setback to the administration Friday when it rejected President Roosevelt’s personal appeal for defeat of the so-called Bankhead amendment to give Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard veto power over farm price ceilings proposed by Mr. Henderson.


Jehovah’s Witnesses leader dies in West

SAN DIEGO, California, Jan. 10 (UP) – Judge Joseph Franklin Rutherford, founder and leader of an estimated two million Jehovah’s Witnesses, died at his palatial “King David’s” Mansion here yesterday, mortician Harvey Lewis Jr. revealed today.

News of Judge Rutherford’s death did not leak out until today when Mr. Lewis revealed that the body was being held at the funeral parlors awaiting instructions for burial.

Judge Rutherford was 72 years old.


Axis radio admits widespread disease

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (UP) – The Axis-controlled Hungarian radio at Budapest tonight tacitly admitted the existence of serious epidemics in Eastern Europe, where German troops have been reported widely stricken with typhus, NBC reported.

The Budapest radio blamed the situation on “the complete lack of the most elementary sanitary facilities in territories formerly under Russian control.”


Lord Halifax has flu

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 – British Ambassador Lord Halifax is suffering from an attack of influenza “which will confine him to his bed for several days,” the British Embassy said.

Farm curb teeth left out…
Senate votes price bill

Rural provisions may hike food cost 25%; administrator and rent control authorized

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UP) – The Senate late today passed and returned to the House price control legislation embodying farm bloc amendments which administration forces said would result in increases of about 25 percent in food costs.

The powerful farm group beat down administration resistance to special provisions benefiting agricultural commodities in a fight in which President Roosevelt took a hand. But on final passage, both sides joined to pass the bill, 83-1, with Sen. Gerald P. Nye, R-North Dakota, the lone dissenter.

The Senate bill, which differs somewhat from the House measure, excludes wages from control, but permits fixing of rent ceilings in defense areas.

It provides for the appointment of an administrator who is empowered to set ceilings on commodity prices but restricts his power over farm prices. One of the amendments gives the Secretary of Agriculture equal jurisdiction over raw farm products.

After overriding Mr. Roosevelt’s express wish by voting to divide authority over farm prices between Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard and Price Administrator Leon Henderson, the farm bloc wrote two additional farm provisions into the bill today.

One, sponsored by Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney, D-Wyoming, would establish a new definition of parity price – taking urban wages into account – which would have the effect of permitting farm prices to rise to 120 percent of present parity before price ceilings would be imposed. The other, by Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Georgia, would prohibit the fixing of a price ceiling lower than the average price of commodities from 1919 to 1929.

The estimate that the O’Mahoney Amendment would mean a farm price increase of approximately 25 percent from the prevailing rates of December 10 came from Sen. Prentiss M. Brownl, D-Michigan, floor manager for the bill.

Provides licensing

Before the Senate adopted it, he warned that with it there would be “absolutely no power to fix industrial prices” since, with a rise in farm prices, industrial prices would have to go up and the “various spirals of inflation” would continue.

But after the fight was over, Sen. Brown told the Senate that its version of price control legislation was “not nearly as badly shot up as the House bill” when the latter measure was approved November 28, prior to the outbreak of war.

Enforcement would be through a licensing system. For a second violation of price regulations, the administrator could revoke the license of a dealer.

Farm curbs restricted

As the bill was returned to the House for further action, restrictions written into it by the powerful Senate farm bloc included:

  • No farm price ceiling could be fixed lower than the parity price under a special definition which would have the effect of placing a floor of 120 percent of the present parity average.

  • No farm price ceiling could be fixed lower than the average price that prevailed for the affected commodity during the years from 1919 to 1929.

  • No farm price could be fixed lower than the market price of October 1 or December 15, 1941, whichever was higher.

  • The Price Administrator could not fix farm prices without the consent of the Secretary of Agriculture.

Wickard’s power limited

The farm bloc first administered a setback to the administration Friday when it rejected President Roosevelt’s personal appeal for defeat of the so-called Bankhead Amendment to give Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard veto power over farm price ceilings proposed by Mr. Henderson.

Axis radio admits widespread disease

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (UP) – The Axis-controlled Hungarian radio at Budapest tonight tacitly admitted the existence of serious epidemics in Eastern Europe, where German troops have been reported widely stricken with typhus, NBC reported.

The Budapest radio blamed the situation on “the complete lack of the most elementary sanitary facilities in territories formerly under Russian control.”


Lord Halifax has flu

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 – British Ambassador Lord Halifax is suffering from an attack of influenza “which will confine him to his bed for several days,” the British Embassy said.

In the Philippines –
Guns herald Jap assault

Cannon ‘softens up’ fort as prelude to attack
By Harrison Salisbury, United Press staff writer

Allies lose bases, miles in Orient


The loss of Manila and Hong Kong, the only Allied bases on the China Sea, puts the Allies under additional distance handicaps in the Orient. The map shows how only part of Japanese territory is within Allied bomber range unless Russia grants use of Vladivostok and other Far East bases.

Washington – (Jan. 10)
Japanese big guns raked Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s field fortifications in Bataan Province tonight and a major Japanese effort to overwhelm U.S. and Filipino forces and launch an offensive against the Dutch East Indies seemed imminent.

Tokyo propaganda reports claimed that a general offensive against Gen. MacArthur has started and that heavy artillery has breached the first American lines in Bataan. The Japanese were said to have captured an important U.S. position after storming it under heavy fire and to have thus gained a position of their own to drive deeper into Bataan.

The Japanese Air Force was described as blasting at the lines along which Gen. MacArthur’s forces are falling back. The capture of six U.S. guns and a store of ammunition was claimed.

It has been eight days since Manila, the most important point in the islands, fell to the Japanese.

Tonight, the official U.S. War Department communiqué reported that Japanese ground batteries are laying down brisk fire, particularly against U.S. gun emplacements. The American guns are replying with equal vigor.

Each side was engaged in intensive patrolling, feeling out opposing dispositions in preparation for the big land battle.

East Indies next

These moves were accompanied by ominous indications that the Japanese are preparing to utilize their new and important base at Davao, 500 miles south of Manila on Mindanao Island, for the initial blows of an attack against the Dutch East Indies.

The Army communiqué reported the appearance, off Mindanao, of a “considerable number of enemy vessels” which were expected to land on Mindanao, greatly strengthening the already-apparently-large forces the Japanese have put ashore there.

Davao is about 400 miles due north of the Celebes group of the Dutch East Indies and about the same distance northeast of the eastern coast of Borneo, where the Japanese already have footholds in Sarawak and North Borneo.

Troops concentrated

Since the fall of Manila, Gen. MacArthur has concentrated his small but well-equipped and hard-fighting troops on short, stout defense positions in Bataan Province – a mountainous peninsula, the approaches to which are protected by swampy low country and a series of small rivers.

Gen. MacArthur’s lines of communication run south about 35 miles from the northern Bataan border to the port of Mariveles, only four miles across Manila Bay’s north channel from Fort Mills on the fortress island of Corregidor, where he is expected to stage his last stand. Adjacent to Corregidor on another small harbor island is Fort Drum, another position well equipped for withstanding long siege.

The Japanese, after four days of almost continuous bombardment of Corregidor and strongpoints on Bataan, have for the past 72 hours been bringing up powerful land reinforcements toward Gen. MacArthur’s Bataan lines in obvious preparation for a grand assault.

Jap claim unconfirmed

There was no confirmation here of their claim that the outer American lines in Bataan have been broken or that an important U.S. position has been captured.

It was assumed, however, that the initial Japanese drive into Bataan would be directed toward Dinalupihan and Hermosa, two towns just across the northeast Bataan border.

Hermosa is the more important of the two, located on the direct road to Mariveles about 35 miles north of the fort. It is protected by two small streams, the Culo and Cules Rivers, and there was no doubt that Gen. MacArthur would fight hard to defend the position.

Should he be driven back from Hermosa, the next big stand in Bataan might be made at Balanga, 15 miles to the south and about 25 miles by the winding coast road from Mariveles.

Mountainous terrain

Because of the mountainous terrain of the interior of Bataan Province, the Japanese drive would probably be forced to follow the coast road and might be subjected to devastating fire from American batteries and machine-gun posts mounted in the hills that flank the highway.

Reports by the Japanese that they have engaged some 500 Japanese residents of Manila in the task of clearing Manila Harbor of mines and other obstructions may indicate that the Japanese hope to reinforce their attack on Bataan with landing parties, probably pushing off from positions around the bay and attempting to get a foothold to the rear of the U.S. lines under cover of light.

Precipitous cliffs

Such an endeavor, however, would probably be extremely difficult and productive of high casualties as long as the bristling guns of Corregidor continue to command Manila Bay.

Japanese landings on the west coast of Bataan would be possible but unlikely because of the precipitous cliffs along the shore and the difficulty of moving their forces southwestward toward Mariveles.

There have been indications that the Japanese bombing attacks on Corregidor have been directed extensively against anti-aircraft emplacements and other more or less exposed positions above the rock surface.


Japanese claim capture of Bataan defense lines

Tokyo, Japan (UP) – (Jan. 10, official broadcast recorded in New York)
Japanese press dispatches tonight reported that Japanese forces were seizing or crushing American key defense lines on the Bataan Peninsula of Luzon Island, in the Philippines.

Japanese troops, supported by artillery, first opened a new attack on U.S. and Filipino forces on the peninsula, northwest of Manila, while Japanese warplanes operated to prevent withdrawal of U.S. forces to new defense positions, according to Japanese reports.

Picked Japanese troops then took U.S. first-line positions in Bataan, the official Japanese Dōmei News Agency said. It reported the capture of six American artillery pieces, along with ammunition, and said the Japanese had turned the guns against the Americans.

The U.S. positions were taken under heavy fire, Dōmei said. It added that an important key position, from which further attacks can be made, had been captured.

Commenting on other fronts, a Japanese spokesman said Japan had no intention of pushing Thailand into war against Great Britain despite British aerial bombardment of Thailand. Of next week’s conference of American republics at Rio de Janeiro, he said Japan wanted nothing from South America except continuation of the friendly relations which had existed for many years.

Telephone all news of war victims to Press city editor

In view of the announcement by the Navy Department that casualty lists would not be made public, and the announced intention of the War Department to adopt the same policy, news of the death or injury of men in the Armed Forces can come only from their relatives.

President Roosevelt suggested at his press conference Dec. 12 that individual newspapers might obtain such information from relatives after the next of kin had been notified. The government is withholding casualty lists because their compilation might be of value to the enemy.

Persons in the Pittsburgh area who are notified of the death or injury of a member of the country’s Armed Forces are requested to communicate this information to the city editor of the Press.

The telephone number is Court 7200 or Court 4925.

U.S. Navy: Just wait

Blasting Japs to take time, Navy advises zealous sailors

Honolulu, Hawaii (UP) – (Jan. 10)
The Navy took a hitch today in the fighting zeal of its men.

The following notice was printed in the Pearl Harbor Navy recreation bulletin:

Notice to embryo naval strategists in your midst who are raving and ranting that our fleet should go out and blast hell out of the Japs on 10 minutes notice:

Our advice is, “Keep your pants on!” You know and we know that both in quantity and quality, man for man, ship, plane for plane, our Navy is superior to the Jap Navy.

We are very much in accord with this hell blasting idea, but long years of service have taught us that naval operations are not begun in such a short space of time. If we all remain calm, cool and collected, we will not only win this war but will also be on deck personally to enjoy the fruits of victory when the battle flags are again furled.

Conference to settle Daylight Savings Time

Washington (UP) – (Jan. 10)
Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D-CO) indicated today that Senate conferees would insist on their version of the Daylight Savings Time bill which will be taken up by a Senate-House conference committee soon.

Mr. Johnson, a member of the Interstate Commerce Committee handling the legislation for the Senate, said the Upper Chamber’s measure was superior to the House bill because it permitted “constant adjustments” in time standards for various sections of the country.

The House bill, passed yesterday, provided for mandatory Daylight Savings Time, advancing clocks one hour throughout the country for the duration of the war. The Senate bill grants the President authority to order clocks advanced or retarded for as much as two hours. It also authorizes him to order time changes in any portions of the country he sees fit.


American flier killed

London, England – (Jan. 10)
Jack Gilliland of Pittsburg, Kansas, a member of the American Eagle Squadron of the Royal Air Force, has been killed, it was announced today.

Art treasures sent to guarded places

Washington (UP) – (Jan. 10)
Some of the nation’s most valuable art treasures – including more than 100 “irreplaceable” objects from the Smithsonian Institution and the National Art Gallery – have been stored in bombproof shelters or otherwise safeguarded against damage from air raids.

Books, documents and paintings are also being removed from the National Museum, National Zoological Gardens and the Phillips Memorial, Freer and Corcoran Art Galleries.

Some will be stored in bomb and fireproof shelters in the capital, others moved to Midwestern cities where they will be displayed, and still others may be stored in post offices and depositories in other sections of country.

Stewart named sergeant pending call as Reserve

Moffett Field, California (UP) – (Jan. 10)
Actor Jimmy Stewart was promoted today from corporal to sergeant in the Army Air Corps.

Sgt. Stewart last week was awarded a commission as an Air Corps Reserve lieutenant, but he can’t wear lieutenant’s bars until he is called to duty in that capacity.

Pending that call, he is officially Sgt. Stewart.

Draper: How to ‘watch the clock’ correctly in following war news of Far East

Knowledge of why Tokyo and Pittsburgh are 14 hours apart helpful in interpreting dispatches
By Arthur L. Draper, Buhl Planetarium Director

Time marches on from International Date Line


This map is intended to help you follow the war news from the “time angle.” Days change at the International Date Line, indicated by the broken line. When it’s 11:00 a.m. here on Wednesday, it’s 1:00 a.m. Thursday in Tokyo. The Philippines are in the time belt east of that of Tokyo, but since the islands went on “fast” time at the start of war, it would be 1:00 a.m. there, too.

The war in the Pacific and the daily reports from the Far East have brought to many peoples’ minds lately the interesting question of what time – and what day – it is in Japan or in the Philippines when it is Sunday noon, let us say, in Pittsburgh.

The most confusing part of the problem unquestionably is the presence of the International Date Line running from north to south through the Pacific – the imaginary line where the day is thought of as beginning, whether that day is Sunday or Monday or Tuesday.

Let us begin with the fundamental fact that the earth spins around on its axis once in 24 hours and that as a result, the sun seems to make one complete journey about us in that period of time. We count one day as the length of time the sun takes to move from its noontime position back to that same noontime position again.

Actually, as we know, it is the earth which is moving, not the sun. And due to this rotating of the earth, we in the latitude of Pittsburgh are being carried continuously toward the east at a speed of about 800 miles an hour.

Imaginary trip

Now let us imagine that we had at our command an airplane capable of attaining that speed, 800 miles an hour. Suppose that at noon on Wednesday, we leave Pittsburgh and head straight westward. In about an hour, we reach a point not far from the longitude of Chicago; in another hour, we will be near Denver; in still another hour, San Francisco.

It is evident that it will be Wednesday noon as we arrive at each one of them – and all places in between that we pass – for we are traveling in our place westward just as fast as the earth beneath us is turning eastward. We will be traveling at perpetual noon, with the sun holding its same position in the sky.

Suppose we continue our rapid journey all the way around the earth. Night will never come for the sun will not set for us. There will be no midnight for us.

Day changes

Will it still be Wednesday noon when we arrive back in Pittsburgh? On our arrival back home after our 24 hours of travel, we will be told, of course, that it is Thursday noon. So – where did the day change?

By common consent, the change of day takes place at the 180th meridian from Greenwich, England, this meridian having been chosen because there is comparatively little land near it and very few people are inconvenienced.

When it is noon at Greenwich, it is midnight on the 180th meridian. And if a ship traveling westward on the Pacific reaches this meridian at midnight of Wednesday, after crossing that meridian it will be a bit after midnight of Thursday. One complete day is dropped.

Another example

Or let us have the ship reach the 180th meridian (the International Date Line) at 4 o’clock on Friday afternoon, traveling westward as before. After the line has been crossed, it becomes a few moments after 4 o’clock on Saturday. Again, 24 hours has been dropped.

Should the ship be traveling in the opposite direction, toward the east, the change would be just the reverse. If, for example, the ship reaches the Date Line traveling eastward at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, it immediately becomes 10:00 a.m. Tuesday upon crossing it.

In actual practice, the Date Line is not a straight north and south line, but has been bent arbitrarily a bit here and there to avoid inconvenient complications. Instead of splitting the Aleutian Islands in two so that some of the islands would have one day and some another, the Date Line has been bent around to miss the island chain and thus avoid the resulting confusion.

24 time belts

As for figuring the time of day in Japan, for example, at some certain instant, the first step is to refer to a map of the world showing the standard time belts, of which there are altogether 24, of course. Each belt or zone is one hour different in time from the adjoining zone. Thus, when it is 12 o’clock noon in Pittsburgh (which lies in the Eastern Standard Time Zone), it is an hour earlier or 11:00 a.m. for all points in the Central Time Zone, but it is 5 hours later than noon, or 5:00 p.m., in London.

Now just as Eastern Standard Time is five hours slower than Greenwich Time (because we are west of Greenwich), so Japan, being west of us by 10 hours, would have a standard time slower than ours by 19 hours if it were not for that change of day at the Date Line. But because of that, the Japan Standard Time is 24 hours in advance, minus 10 hours slower – that is, it is 14 hours in advance of Eastern Standard Time. Its time is faster by 14 hours than is Pittsburgh Time.

Add 14 hours

Therefore, if it is 11:00 a.m. in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, just add 14 hours to that to get the time in Tokyo. Answer: 1:00 a.m. on Thursday.

Or if it is 2:00 a.m. Wednesday in Pittsburgh, it is 4:00 p.m., also Wednesday, in Japan.

Notice that the Hawaiian Islands and Midway are east of the Date Line, but that Wake, Guam and the Philippines are west.


U.S. State Department (January 11, 1942)

Meeting of the United States and British Chiefs of Staff, 4 p.m.


Roosevelt-Marshall meeting, 5:30 p.m.


Meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill with their advisers on war production, 9:30 p.m.


Roosevelt-Churchill meeting, evening

U.S. War Department (January 12, 1942)

Communiqué No. 55

Philippine Theater.
A heavy artillery battle is in progress along the entire front. Ground activity is increasing as fresh Japanese troops move into frontline positions. Enemy air attacks are being renewed on defensive installations and fortifications.

Gen. MacArthur reports that Japanese troops occupying Manila are attempting to suppress the use of radio receiving sets by civilians. This is apparently designed to prevent the reception of broadcasts from the United States and England, even though the action also prevents reception of propaganda broadcasts from Tokyo.

There is nothing to report from other areas.

The Pittsburgh Press (January 12, 1942)

LUZON FORCES HURL BACK JAPS
Big guns roar in assault in North Bataan

MacArthur beats off first full-scale assault; Jap battleship hit
By Harrison Salisbury, United Press staff writer

Japs open new theaters of action on Far Eastern front


1. Dutch battle Japanese landing at Tarakan Island as enemy invades East Indies from Mindanao in Philippines.
2. Japanese make three landings at points on Celebes.
3. U.S. bombers blast Jap battleship off Davao.
4. MacArthur hurls back powerful Japanese thrust at defense line.
5. Japanese continue to push British forces back toward Singapore.
6. Rangoon bombed again as more Chinese forces pour into Burma.

Washington –
Japan today stepped up the fury of her attack on Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s men after U.S. and Philippine troops rolled back the initial full-scale Japanese assault on their stout defense lines in Bataan Province.

Japanese forces had rolled big guns into position along the short front Gen. MacArthur is holding on the northern Bataan border and today sent a constant rain of high explosive shells into the American lines.

The American big guns spoke back and the War Department’s communiqué reported “a heavy artillery battle.” Powerful Japanese infantry forces were still moving up for a new attack and the Japanese Air Force zoomed overhead blasting at U.S. defensive installations in Bataan and Corregidor fortress.

Jap battleship hit

The big Japanese attack was timed to coincide with the launching of a Japanese assault across the Celebes Sea against the Dutch possessions of Borneo and Celebes Island.

The attack on the Dutch Islands was persisting despite intervention of American airpower in which U.S. heavy bombers scored a hit on another Japanese battleship, possibly the fourth blasted since the start of hostilities.

Gen. MacArthur’s report today made plain that the big Japanese attack which was launched yesterday is increasing in tempo despite repulse of the Japanese in their initial attempt to storm U.S. lines at Bataan.

Aim at communications

Today’s communiqué reported that “a heavy artillery battle is in progress along the entire front” and said “ground activity is increasing as fresh Japanese troops move into frontline positions.” The communiqué said, “Enemy air attacks are being renewed on defensive installations and fortifications.”

The chief Japanese pressure, it was indicated, is being directed toward Hermosa in Northeast Bataan about 30 miles above Mariveles, the port through which Gen. MacArthur’s communications with Corregidor are maintained.

The War Department had no confirmation of a Japanese report claiming the capture of Olongapo, the secondary U.S. naval base on Subic Bay near the western anchor of Gen. MacArthur’s short defense line. There has been no previous indication that Japanese troops have been driving down the western Luzon coast toward Olongapo and the mountainous terrain appeared to make such an operation unlikely.

The Japanese, after five weeks of war, today were engaged in three major offensives. These were the reduction of Gen. MacArthur’s hard fighting forces in the Philippines, the opening phase of an attack on the Dutch Islands, and the No. 1 Japanese offensive down the Malayan Peninsula toward Singapore.

U.S. bombers hit Japs

U.S. planes and fighting men were in the thick of it and the Dutch reported from Batavia that U.S. warships may shortly be expected to shoot their way into action in defense of the East Indies.

The big news was the second major assault by forces of U.S. heavy bombing planes, upon the large forces which Japan has assembled at the base she has established at Davao, 500 miles south of Manila, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.

U.S. bombers, despite low visibility, attacked a large Japanese fleet concentration in Malalag Bay in Davao Gulf.

Jap battleship set afire

A Japanese battleship was set afire. This appeared to be the fourth enemy battleship blasted by U.S. airmen since the start of hostilities.

It was possible, however, that it was the same one on which U.S. heavy bombers scored three direct hits six days ago. Both attacks occurred in the Davao area and it was possible that the battleship hit Tuesday limped into Malalag Bay and was hit again. If four battleships have been hit, the United States has damaged about one-third of Japan’s known capital ship strength since the start of the war.

Because of poor visibility, the bombers were unable to report the full results of their attack which was directed against a Japanese fleet that included the battleship, six cruisers, two destroyers, eight transports and 10 smaller vessels. An anti-aircraft battery ashore was hit in the attack. All U.S. planes returned to their base undamaged.

Reinforcements hinted

The fleet against which the Jan. 6 attack was directed comprised a battleship, five cruisers, six destroyers, 12 submarines and 12 transports.

U.S. bombers also attacked a Japanese cruiser and two large transports in the Celebes Sea.

The increasing intervention of the U.S. air arm in the Far East was emphasized by reports from Rangoon that 26 Japanese planes were destroyed in attacks by U.S. and British planes on Japanese air bases in Malaya – a move obviously designed to relieve the growing Japanese pressure on Singapore. And from Singapore itself came hints of Allied air reinforcements which might mean that U.S. planes will come to the aid of that increasingly endangered British bastion.

Luzon casualties small

The Japanese threw in a “tremendous force” yesterday against Gen. MacArthur’s right flank.

The War Department communiqué said:

U.S. and Philippine soldiers defending previously-prepared positions repulsed the attack with heavy enemy losses. Our casualties were relatively small.

Hostile aircraft resumed bombardment of fortifications of Manila Bay and defense positions in that vicinity after several days of inactivity. The bombing attack was relatively light and did no serious damage.

Manila reports heard

The War Department indicated that despite the large Japanese forces which have now been established between the American lines and the city of Manila, the American commander is still receiving reports and information as to Japanese activity in the Philippine capital.

Gen. MacArthur reported that Japanese occupation troops are “attempting to suppress the use of radio receiving sets by civilians” in order to cut them off from hearing broadcasts from the United States and Britain. The action was said to have been taken despite the fact that it also keeps them from hearing Japanese propaganda broadcasts.

The Japanese shelling yesterday of the U.S. naval station at Tutuila was apparently of the nuisance type or may have been designed to test U.S. defensive strength in that key outpost of the island chain to Australia-New Zealand.

The Navy said a “small enemy vessel,” probably a submarine or destroyer, shelled the naval station shortly after midnight Sunday (Samoan Time). Fourteen light caliber shells landed in the naval station area with only three slight casualties and no material damage.

Tutuila lies 2,276 miles southwest of Honolulu. It is the chief island of the Samoan group.

Olongapo taken, Tokyo reports

Tokyo, Japan (UP) – (broadcast recorded in U.S.)
Imperial Headquarters said today that Japanese forces “completely occupied” the important Philippine naval base at Olongapo, about 60 miles northwest of Manila on the Bataan Peninsula, on Saturday.

Olongapo was described as a submarine base of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, equipped with floating docks capable of accommodating warships of 12,000 tons.

A dispatch to the newspaper Yomiuri said Japanese land and air forces were ceaselessly bombarding fortified U.S. positions on the Bataan Peninsula, despite desperate resistance.

A Shanghai report said Gen. Douglas MacArthur notified the War Department in Washington Saturday that the remaining forces of the U.S. 31st Division were “doomed to be totally annihilated by Japanese encirclement” and that he had been “deprived of all possibilities.”

Senate price bill labeled ‘farm relief’

Roosevelt holds parley as Wickard demands dual control measure

Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt conferred with his Congressional leaders today about Congress’ refusal to follow his advice on wartime price control legislation.

Administration Senate leaders have described the bill passed by the Senate late Saturday as “farm relief” legislation rather than price control.

The Congressional leaders expressed belief after the conference with the President that differences in the Senate and House bills on price control would be adjusted satisfactorily.

Sees agreement

House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack (D-MA) said the price control bill would require “a lot of ironing out,” but he believed conferees could reach an agreement acceptable to both Houses.

Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley (D-KY) also attended the White House conference.

One of the Senate bill’s provisions – giving Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard veto power over any farm price ceilings fixed by Price Administrator Leon Henderson – was approved over the express opposition of the President, who had asked in a letter to Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley, that there be no division of authority.

Wickard wants control

Mr. Wickard, in an interview today, said he still wanted control of prices as well as production of farm products, contending that they should be administered jointly to assure the Allied nations adequate food supplies.

The legislative problem on price control legislation is a knotty one. The Senate and House versions differ radically on important provisions. Senate-House conferees are expected to begin work tomorrow or Wednesday in an effort to reach a compromise.

Bills outlined

Both Senate and House bills are alike in these respects:

  • Both center price-fixing authority to an administrator and advise him to try to keep price relationships generally in line with those prevailing from Oct. 1 to 15, 1941.

  • Both exclude wages from his price-fixing authority.

  • Both carry authority to put ceilings on rents in defense areas.

They differ in these important respects:

  • The House bill prohibits the fixing of any farm price ceiling below the highest of the following: (a) 110% of parity; (b) the market price of Oct. 1; or (c) the average market price for the period from July 1, 1919, to June 30, 1929. The Senate bill prohibits the fixing of any farm price ceiling below: (a) a special definition of parity equaling about 120% of parity as now figured; (b) the market price of Oct. 1 or Dec. 15, whichever is higher; and (c) the 1919-29 average price. In addition, the Senate bill would require Mr. Henderson to get Mr. Wickard’s consent for farm price ceilings and to consult with representative industry committees before issuing any orders.

  • The House bill provides for an administrative board of review to which appeals could be taken from Mr. Henderson’s rulings and thence to the Circuit Courts of Appeal. The Senate bill has no board and permits review by any court handy.

Omits items

In two important respects, the Senate bill carries provisions which the House bill omits completely. They are:

  • The Senate would permit the administrator to enforce his price regulations by requiring dealers in commodities to take out licenses. Although licenses could be had for the asking, the administrator could revoke a license for a second violation of the regulations, preventing the dealer from handling the commodity further. The licensing feature was offered in the House but eliminated on the floor.

  • The Senate would permit the administrator to buy, sell, store or use commodities – except strategic wartime materials – if such action is necessary to prevent price increases.

Under either measure, the government would not be forced to act with respect to any prices, but would have authority to do so as soon as they got out of line, with the exceptions noted in the case of farm products.


Wickard demands control of farm prices, production

Washington (UP) –
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard said today that both prices and production of farm products should be controlled by him in order to assure the Allied nations adequate food supplies.

He has opposed administration efforts to give all authority for farm price ceilings in the new price control bill to Price Administrator Leon Henderson.

President Roosevelt does not approve Mr. Wickard’s stand, having expressly asked the Senate last week not to divide price control authority. The Senate, however, passed a bill late Saturday giving Mr. Wickard veto power over any price ceilings established by Mr. Henderson.

Mr. Wickard said he has not changed his position since he told a Senate committee 120 days ago that the Secretary of Agriculture should have control of both production and price ceilings of farm products.

He said:

What worries me most is that people are not worried about the food situation.

Food will play just as important a role in the war as guns. Supplies are adequate for probable needs this year, but neither supplies nor demand can be foreseen beyond that.

If I thought Henderson would work with us to give farmers a square deal and permit us to carry through programs that would encourage maximum food production, I wouldn’t ask for separate control.

He hasn’t consulted with me and the result has been some confusion on the part of farmers as to just what they can expect. How can they plan to increase production of vitally-needed food, at added cost, if someone might come along and reverse our promise of fair prices?

Church drops services in German language

Services in the German language at St. John’s Lutheran Church which had continued uninterrupted for 100 years were discontinued yesterday.

Rev. Leonard Hess, pastor of the North Side church, said the services were being eliminated to demonstrate the congregation’s loyalty to America. The church had conducted both German and English services for a century and did not change its program during World War I.

WAR BULLETINS!

Adm. Hart in East Indies

Somewhere in Java, NEI – (Jan. 11, delayed)
Adm. Thomas C. Hart, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and Supreme Naval Commander for the United Nations in the Southwest Pacific, authorized the United Press today to reveal that he had arrived in the Dutch East Indies by submarine. Adm. Hart arrived in a U.S. submarine more than a week ago.

Finns say they’ll fight on

Helsinki, Finland (UP) – (official broadcast recorded in New York)
A broadcast over the Helsinki radio today said that Finland would continue military operations against Russia.

Japs claim victory at Tarakan

Tokyo, Japan (UP) – (official broadcast recorded in San Francisco)
Japanese Imperial Headquarters today announced the capture of the Celebes port of Manado and surrender of Dutch East Indies forces on the island of Tarakan off Borneo.

British torpedo two Axis ships

London, England –
British submarines have torpedoed a supply ship and a transport loaded with troops in the Ionian Sea, striking a blow at reinforcements for the hard-pressed Axis army in Libya. An Admiralty communiqué said the troopship was sunk. The supply ship was severely damaged.

British planes attack Brest

London, England –
British planes attacked Brest, on the French coast, during the night and returned safely, an Air Ministry communiqué said today.

Japs reported 125 miles from Singapore

London, England –
Radio Berlin, in a broadcast recorded by the Exchange Telegraph, quoted Tokyo advices today that, at points, the Japanese were only 125 miles from Singapore. It said that the bulk of the British forces south of Kuala Lumpur were retreating, but were expected to make another stand north of Malacca, 125 miles from Singapore.

French ‘scapegoat’ trial date set

Vichy, France –
The Supreme Court at Riom today set Feb. 19 for the start of the long-delayed trials of French political and military leaders held responsible, by Vichy, for the collapse of France.

Sweden insists on neutrality

Stockholm, Sweden –
King Gustav, opening a new session of Parliament, said today that it was his firm resolve to pursue a foreign policy aimed at preserving the peace and freedom of Sweden uninfringed. The King’s speech might be interpreted as an indirect answer to recent powerful German-Italian pressure intended to force Sweden to adopt a pro-Axis policy.

President due to name War Labor Board

Chief of expiring NDMB expected to head new 12-member unit
By Edwin A. Lahey


William H. Davis

Washington –
An executive order creating a 12-man War Labor Board was expected at the White House today. Labor, industry and the public will each be represented by four members on the board, which will supplant, but not differ in function from, the National Defense Mediation Board.

William H. Davis, chairman of the expiring NDMB, will be chairman of the new board, according to reliable reports. The other three representatives of the public will be George Taylor, University of Pennsylvania professor and permanent umpire between General Motors and the United Auto Workers; Wayne Morse, dean of the University of Oregon School of Law; and Frank Graham, president of the University of North Carolina and one of the original members of the NDMB.

Woll, Meany named

The four representatives of labor will be Matthew Woll, first vice president of the American Federation of Labor; George Meany, secretary of the AFL; Thomas Kennedy, secretary of the United Mine Workers of the CIO, and R. J. Thomas, president of the CIO Auto Workers.

The names of industry members, who were selected by Secretary of Commerce Jones from nominations submitted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, were not learned.

No provision is made for breaking tie votes on the board, it is understood, but it will have the power to refer difficult industrial disputes to arbitration.

Difficult decisions ahead

The labor conciliation work of the OPM and the Army and Navy will be abandoned when the new board begins functioning. All disputes certified to the board will first be handled by the conciliation service of the Department of Labor.

The first disputes to be dumped into the lap of the board will be difficult ones. Among the early arrivals, it is expected, will be the unique case of the Carter Coal Company of West Virginia, a family-owned corporation which operates the only coal-mining properties in the county not under union ship contract, although 100% organized. The corporation as a matter of principle has steadfastly refused to sign the union shop clause otherwise universal in the industry, and so had remained a minor thorn in the side of John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers.

Steel dispute one

Within a few weeks, a major dispute involving union security and wage increases in the steel industry will be brought before the board. The Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO will shortly resume negotiations with “Little Steel,” and ask for a new wage hike on the basis of increased living costs and steel industry profits.

Union security will also be a demand, with the steel workers probably making a minimum demand for “manufacture of membership” in the mills of Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Inland Steel.

CIO president Murray and AFL president Green joined in opposing the appointment of Mr. Davis as chairman, but their objections were ignored by the administration.

Ford: Race and religious hatred weakens U.S.

Campaign against Jews is ‘distinct disservice’ to country, motor magnate writes

New York (UP) –
Henry Ford, who has been accused for years of being an antisemite, categorically denied the charge today and assailed “antagonism against any Jewish fellow citizens.”

Mr. Ford’s statements were contained in a letter dated Jan. 7 to Sigmund Livingston of Chicago, founder and national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Jewish fraternal organization. The letter was made public here.

Mr. Ford’s letter said antisemitism was “prevalent” and was “weakening our national morale,” adding:

I do not subscribe to our support, directly or indirectly, any agitation which would promote antagonism against any Jewish fellow citizens.

Advises citizens

Mr. Ford urged citizens to refrain from aiding any anti-Jewish movement and expressed his “sincere hope” that:

Now in this country and throughout the world when the war is finished, hatred of the Jew and hatred against any other racial or religious group shall cease for all time.

Mr. Ford’s letter recalled his letter to the late Louis Marshall in 1927 when a million-dollar libel suit was pending against the industrialist. At that time, Mr. Ford sought “forgiveness for the harm I have unintentionally committed” to Jews in a series of articles in his magazine, The Dearborn Independent.

Articles, interpreted by many as antisemitic, continued after 1927, however, in The Dearborn Independent under the title “The International Jew.”

Calls letter ‘fine’

Dr. Leo M. Birkhead, head of the Friends of Democracy, which has assailed Mr. Ford as an antisemite, said the letter was “fine,” but added, “It won’t go far enough until he stops the publication of his ‘International Jew.’”

Mr. Ford wrote Mr. Livingston:

I consider that the hatemongering prevalent for some time in this country against the Jews is of distinct disservice to our country and to the peace and welfare of humanity.

Mr. Ford explained that he had ceased publication of The Dearborn Independent and “destroyed literature prepared by certain persons connected with its publication.”

Sees dereliction

Mr. Ford wrote:

I am convinced that there is no greater dereliction among the Jews than there is among any other class of citizens. I am convinced, further, that agitation for the creation of hate against the Jew or any other racial or religious group, has been utilized to divide our American community and to weaken our national unity.

I strongly urge all my fellow citizens to give no aid to any movement whose purpose it is to arouse hate against any group. It is my sincere hope that now in this country and throughout the world, when this war is finished, the peace once more established, hatred of the Jew, commonly known as antisemitism, and hatred against any other racial or religious group, shall cease for all time.

Retread ceiling fixed

Price effective Jan. 19; government moves to halt widespread profiteering

Washington (UP) –
Widespread profiteering at motorists’ expense will be halted by the government’s decision to fix prices on retreaded and used tires, price officials said today.

The Office of Price Administration said some dealers boosted prices of second-hand and retreaded tires as much as 100% following the OPM order banning sales of new tires and tubes. Some tires which normally sold for $3.95 were said to have cost motorists – “overnight” – about $7.

To offset “gouging,” Price Administrator Leon Henderson issued an emergency price schedule on “retreadable” tire carcasses and retreads which are used for passenger cars, trucks, buses, agricultural implements, industrial machines, motorcycles and other common vehicles.

The schedule will not be effective until Monday, Jan. 19, as the OPA is printing thousands of the schedules which will be posted by all sellers of retreaded or recapped tires or shops where that work is done.

Mr. Henderson said a price ceiling over used tired prices will be imposed.

All tire carcass prices, acceptable for retreading or recapping, were set at $1.50 for passenger cars. Here are the following prices you will pay after 8:00 a.m. EST Jan. 19 for having your tires retreaded or recapped (two grades):

Passenger cars

A B
6.00x16 $7.50 $6.45
6.25x16 $8.25 $7.10
6.50x16 $8.70 $7.50
7.00x16 $10.35 $8.95
5.25x17 $6.55 $5.55
5.50x17 $7.10 $6.05

Trucks

A B
6.00-20 (30-5) (6-ply) $7.60 $6.75
6.00-20 (30-5) (8-ply) $8.85 $7.80
6.50-20 (32-6) (8-ply) $12.45 $10.95
6.50-20 (6-ply) $10 $8.80
7.50-20 (34-7) (10-ply) $16.20 $14.25
7.50-24 (38-7) $17.15 $15.05
8.25-20 $21.85 $19.15
9.00-20 (36-8) $26.35 $23.15
12.00-20 (11.25-20) $43.95 $38.60
12.00-24 (11.25-24) $47.45 $41.75
9.00-36 (11-36) tractor $34.50 __

If you need a new retreaded or recapped tire, just add $1.50 to the price given for your size either in Grade A, the most expensive grade of camelback, or Grade B, the second expensive grade.