Japs intensify assault against lower Burma
Imperial defenders fight with backs to Rangoon-Mandalay Railroad; battle for air supremacy
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MacArthur fund may pay his taxes
Woman starts campaign after Treasury notice
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 27 (UP) –
Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the news at home: Mrs. W. A. Marsh wants to pay the general’s income taxes.
Irked by a Treasury notice that MacArthur would not be required to file a return next month – but would have to catch up when the war was over, she said:
I’m starting the MacArthur Income Tax Fund with $1. Now let’s see how many appreciate what he and his men are doing.
A three-week old lion cub at the Oklahoma City Zoo has been named after the general because:
MacArthur fights like a lion and the lion already fights like MacArthur.
Mrs. Leo Blondin, wife of the zookeeper, said:
MacArthur is in a foxhole right now, but he’ll dig out by spring. My, what a fighter!
It used to be the graveyard shift in the three shipyards at Oakland, Ca. Now it’s the “MacArthur shift.”
Employers agreed on the new name, despite the fact it involved reprinting of thousands of forms.
Washington, Feb. 27 (UP) –
Only President Roosevelt’s signature was needed today to change the name of Conduit Road in this city to MacArthur Boulevard, in honor of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
The Senate yesterday completed action on legislation authorizing the change, and sent it to the White House.
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Prices for bicycles to stay at January level
Washington, Feb. 27 (UP) –
Price Administrator Leon Henderson said he has notified all bicycle manufacturers that until a definite price program is developed, they should make no increases above the price level of Jan. 15.
The request covered retail as well as wholesale prices. Henderson asked that proposed price lists for the new “victory” models – simply designed wartime styles – be submitted to the OPA for approval:
…well in advance of the planned introduction to the trade.
Henderson pointed out that substantial increases have been made in retail bicycle prices in recent months.
He said:
It is of great importance that these prices remain stable particularly since bicycles are important for civilian transportation.
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Discharged selectees may get travel pay
Washington, Feb. 27 (UP) –
The Senate has unanimously passed and sent to the House a bill to authorize travel pay for selectees and reservists who have been honorably discharged or releases from duty, covering costs of the trip back to the locality in which they were selected for service.
Present law limits travel pay in such cases to the trip from the place where the selectee was last on duty back to their induction station. In many cases, this station is far distant from the locality where they were selected.
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Litvinov asks United Nations to ‘beat’ Hitler to spring push
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World’s biggest business in '41 was government payrolls
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U.S. Navy Department (February 28, 1942)
Navy Communiqué No. 47
The Secretary of the Navy announced today the acceptance, effective March 1, 1942, of the application for retirement of Rear Admiral H. E. Kimmel, USN:
…without condonation of any offense or prejudice to any future disciplinary action.
The Secretary of the Navy announced at the same time that, based upon the findings of the report of the Roberts Commission he had directed the preparation of charges for the trial by court-martial of Rear Admiral Kimmel, alleging dereliction of duty. The Secretary of the Navy made it clear, however, that the trial upon these charges would not be held until such time as the public interest and safety would permit.
Navy Communiqué No. 48
Far East.
On February 27, a major action occurred in which combined Dutch, British, Australian, and United States naval forces engaged a much larger enemy force of combatant vessels covering 40 transports attempting a landing on the north coast of Java.
From fragmentary reports received in the Navy Department, American naval forces participating in this action consisted of one heavy cruiser and five destroyers.
A landing on Java by the enemy was not effected.
The Japanese heavy cruiser Mogami and three enemy destroyers were put out of action in the attempt. When last seen, enemy transports were retiring to the northward.
None of our vessels suffered heavy damage in the initial phase of this battle for Java, and our forces are still intact despite the overwhelming superiority in numbers of the enemy naval forces.
Further action can be expected from this area.
Reports from U.S. submarines operating in the Far East are as follows:
On February 23, two torpedo hits were effected on one large ship of the enemy.
On February 24, two torpedo hits were effected on one large enemy auxiliary vessel.
On February 25, one torpedo hit was effected on an enemy transport and one torpedo hit on a type unknown.
In addition, date unknown, one of our submarines registered a torpedo hit on an enemy transport.
All of these ships of the enemy are believed sunk.
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Reading Eagle (February 28, 1942)
2 more sinkings place East Coast toll at 41
U-boat with running lights aglow, sets tanker of fire in daring raid 20 miles off Jersey
New York, Feb. 28 (AP) –
The list of announced ship sinkings in the Atlantic coastal waters where Axis submarines prowl totaled 41 today with Navy disclosure that two more American tankers have been torpedoed.
Simultaneously came reports of the sinking of a huge British merchantman by a submarine in the North Atlantic with the probably loss of 56 lives and the torpedoing of the 7,224-ton British freighter Scottish Star about 650 miles east of Barbados, a British Caribbean island. 56 men were missing from the Scottish Star’s crew of 72.
An Axis U-boat, its running lights aglow, turned the loaded Standard Oil tanker R. P. Resor into an inferno with one torpedo hit early yesterday, 20 miles off Manasquan, NJ, in one of the war’s most daring raids. Billowing flames were visible from fashionable seashore resorts and the fate of 38 of the Resor’s 41-man crew remained shrouded in the haze of the smoking wreckage.
Only one survivor
Only one survivor, Frank Leonard Terry, 23, of Lansford, Pa., reached shore from the Atlantic Refining Company’s 10,227-ton W. D. Anderson, which was smashed by a torpedo and burst into flames off the Atlantic Coast. Others in the crew of 36 were believed lost.
As the fire-scarred hulk of the 7,451-ton Resor drifted out of sight of shore watchers, occupants of a small fishing boat reported seeing four blackened bodies floating in nearby waters. Rough seas and the…
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1,225 enemy aliens registered here
Deadline for enrollment arrives at 1 p.m.
Up to 1 o’clock this afternoon, 1,225 enemy aliens had applied at the Post Office for identification certificates.
At that time, the registrars under the direction of Postmaster Walter A. Ringler stopped receiving applications, in accordance with the deadline fixed by the U.S. Attorney General, and hereafter subjects of Axis nations who are unable to produce such a certificate are liable to internment for the duration of the war.
The program has been underway in 40 states since Feb. 9. Ringler said instructions from the Attorney General’s office were that the deadline is to be extended only for persons who can show that they were ill or furnish proof that they…
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Mrs. FDR won’t take any more U.S. jobs
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Fighting eases off on Bataan front
Gen. MacArthur’s forces stabilize advance lines
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Wake attack by U.S. bared
Japanese reluctantly reveal that American Navy hit island
By the United Press
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British take over Rangoon
Move made at request of Burma Governor as Japs press on
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Axis using bases close to America
Dies group reveals new perils to United States
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Order court-martial for Kimmel and Short
Late bulletin
Washington, Feb. 28 (UP) –
Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short, who were the commanding officers at Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, were ordered today to stand trial by court-martial.
They will be tried on charges of dereliction of duty as alleged by the report of the Roberts Commission which investigated reasons for the success of the surprise Japanese attack on Hawaii which started the war.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox ordered the two former commanders to stand trial. Their decisions were revealed in simultaneous announcements by the War and Navy Departments.
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Japan seeks links to Axis
Nippon paper reveals strategy plan to cut Allied aid
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West Coast may extend alien prohibitive zones
Early reply foreseen on Jap problem
Removal of nationals further inland seen in new proposals
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Burlesque ban renewed
Showmen blast action by New York
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U.S. plans trade pacts
Administration paving way for agreements following war
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Wallace assumes peacemaker role in farm price agreement
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