Envoy warns U.S. people
’Move swiftly or war will be lost,’ asserts Dutch Minister
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Tanker survivors tell how mates perished in sea of flames
Seven dead, four missing off Florida
23rd ship is attacked by enemy submarine near Fort Pierce
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Former countess arrested by FBI
Erica von Haacke reported as enemy alien
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Sees health vital to war
Wilbur blasts waste of U.S. power through loose thinking
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Complete realism necessary for morale, educators told
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U.S. Civil Air Patrol awaits orders on defense activities
26,000 will be assigned to war work
May fly over spotters’ headquarters to test observers’ skill
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (February 26, 1942)
Rubber shortage blame disclaimed
Washington (AP) – (Feb. 25)
Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones today irately disclaimed responsibility for the rubber shortage and declared that neither he nor anyone else “expected we would lose entire control of the Pacific.”
He told the House Interstate Commerce Committee that the country had about 650,000 tons of raw rubber in storage, and that the nation would be producing a maximum of 500,000 tons of synthetic rubber by the end of 1943 – four-fifths of it in plants to be built under contracts let this year.
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’Work or fight’ law is forecast in near future
Demand is made in Congress to end 40-hour week for war
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Los Angeles barrage laid to false call
Knox declares no planes found, no bombs dropped
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Jap ships sunk by Navy reaches 53
Rate dooms enemy, if kept up
Three more Axis subs destroyed in Atlantic; Army fliers add toll
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Rangoon ablaze as British apply torch
Natives, fleeing by thousands, blocking roads
Nipponese parachutists reported landing north of city to cut off retreat of Imperial garrison
By Karl Eskelund, United Press staff writer
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Japs encircle Java, cutting off Australia
Dutch say control could be gained with more planes
By Harold Guard, United Press staff writer
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Officer gets highest honor
Congressional Medal for hero in Philippines
Washington (UP) – (Feb. 25)
A War Department communiqué today announced that the Congressional Medal of Honor will be given to 1st Lt. Willibald C. Bianchi, 45th Infantry, Philippine Scouts for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action above and beyond the call of duty” in the Philippines.
Bianchi, whose home is New Ulm, Minnesota, personally silenced a Japanese machine gun nest with grenades, and afterward, although wounded, climbed atop an American tank and manned its anti-aircraft gun. He was wounded three times.
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BULLETINS!
Batavia, NEI (AP) –
Maj. Gen. Henry Gordon Bennett, commander of the Australian Imperial Forces in Malaya, has reached Batavia after escaping from Singapore in a large Chinese junk, which required four days to reach neighboring Sumatra.
Madrid, Spain (AP) –
The Foreign Ministry today denied reports that German submarines operating in the Caribbean were using bases in the Spanish Canary Islands.
Moscow, USSR (AP) –
The Moscow radio said today that Norwegian patriots had destroyed two new German military depots near Trondheim, setting fire to large quantities of munitions and fuel.
Chungking, China (AP) –
Chinese puppet troops in Suiyuan in North Shansi Province, northeast of the Yellow River, mutinied a week ago, killed their Japanese officers and advisors and then joined Chinese forces attacking Japanese positions, a communiqué said today.
Batavia, NEI (AP) –
Lieutenant-Governor Gen. Hubertus J. van Mook told the Dutch East Indies’ people last night in a broadcast that:
The foreign troops which are here will remain and will be maintained through a regular stream of reinforcements… the time for holding out and attacking has come.
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Patrols fight on Bataan line
Clashes in Philippines of minor character
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Eyewitness accounts of naval battle
U.S. destroyer kept attacking despite damage, casualties
Doughty American seamen take heavy toll of Japanese ships and forces in engagement off island of Bali
By William H. McDougall, United Press staff writer
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The CAP is awesome, I love there colours too.
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Meeting called by defense board
Washington (AP) – (Feb. 25)
The Inter-American Defense Board, expected to play a major role in providing convoys for hemisphere shipping, has been called to meet in Washington March 30.
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Boys like ringside seat at battle with invaders
West Coast youngsters learn quickly to accept war at home
Momentary fright gives way to keen interest in getting details of brilliant spectacle for school composition
By Hubbard Keavy, Wide World staff writer
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Truxton and Pollux survivors’ total now raised to 168
Story of heroic rescues from two U.S. ships told in Newfoundland
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