Nelson demands ‘sweat and action’ to increase war output
168-hour week proposed for plants
WPB chief emphasizes need of planes, tanks, guns and ships
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Nelson demands ‘sweat and action’ to increase war output
Navy hunts free talkers
First arrests reported on West Coast as campaign starts
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Reading Eagle (March 4, 1942)
Japs gain in Java and control air
Allies shake fists at foe from ditches
Defenders fighting bravely despite apparent collapse of support by warplanes
By W. H. McDougall
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More AEF thousands land in Northern Ireland
Most of new arrivals are Midwesterners like first contingent sent to Ulster
With U.S. troops in Northern Ireland, March 4 (AP) –
Thousands more cheering, husky United States fighting men have arrived in a Northern Ireland port to augment the force that has been in Ulster for more than a month, it was announced today.
Details of the landing of the fleet of transport and supply ships were withheld until the soldiers, their guns and their other fighting equipment had been scattered to the secluded spots throughout the six Northern Ireland counties and the ships had left port.
Like the first contingent, most of the latest arrivals are Midwesterners who had been in training in southern Army camps for a year. But there are some representatives of every part of the country.
They came in full field equipment and with their guns ready.
The white-haired troop commander was a colonel from the Midwest, a veteran of artillery campaigning in World War I and five years commander of the same unit, which was with the Rainbow Division.
Colonel first ashore
First ashore from the first shipload, the colonel saluted Maj. Gen. Russell P. Hartle, U.S. commander in Northern Ireland, and said:
Glad to be here, sir.
The honor of being first man in the ranks to land was given to MSgt. Dorrance Mann, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, who served in World War I with the colonel commanding this contingent.
In the contingent were 16 nurses, six Red Cross field representatives and three women assistants.
Helfrich has quit post, London hears
Resignation of Allies’ sea leader reported
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Sugar ration books ready
342,000 in court house may be distributed to two weeks
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Tax battle lines drawn
House committee bloc favors sales levy; cool on pay cut
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Roosevelt opens tenth year as President with church visit
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MacArthur airmen blast Jap vessels
18,000 tons of enemy ships destroyed in Subic Bay raid
Dock stores fired
U.S. Navy gunners bag 16 Nipponese bombers in Pacific thrust
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RAF to resume raids on Nazis with U.S. aid
American dive bombers to join in offensive against Germany, Sinclair says
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San Juan blacked out
San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 4 (AP) –
This territorial capital was blacked out today from 3:05 a.m. to 3:40 a.m. There was no immediate explanation.
U.S. War Department (March 5, 1942)
Communiqué No. 135
Philippine Theater.
Further details of the surprise raid on Subic Bay by Gen. MacArthur’s Air Force disclosed that a 12,000-ton Japanese vessel was sunk, in addition to the previously-announced losses. This brings the total of enemy shipping destroyed in this attack to more than 30,000 tons.
Gen. MacArthur’s HQ Staff has compiled some interesting statistics relative to Japanese soldiers held as prisoners of war by our troops.
The average weight of the Japanese prisoner is 125.8 pounds. The average age is 23.9 years. The youngest prisoner is 19 years old, and the oldest 31. The average length of military service of the captives is 1.5 years.
65% of the prisoners taken belong to the infantry. Approximately 70% of the prisoners have the equivalent of a grammar school education and about 15% have completed training of high school standard. In the range of occupations, farmers constitute 30% of the prisoners, mechanics and skilled workers 25%, and clerks 20%.
There is nothing to report from other areas.
Communiqué No. 136
Philippine Theater.
Gen. MacArthur reports that the three large enemy vessels sunk in Subic Bay by our surprise air attack on March 4 have been identified as transports, loaded with Japanese troops. It is believed that thousands of enemy soldiers were drowned when the vessels sank, or were killed as a result of explosions of ammunition carried on board the ships. None of our aircraft was damaged. It was the first time since the wear began that no enemy aircraft was present during an action.
Hawaii.
A single enemy plane dropped several bombs near Honolulu. The missiles were dropped from above the clouds and did no damage. The plane is believed to have come from a Japanese vessel west of the Hawaiian Islands. Unfavorable weather conditions, with poor visibility, hampered the search which was immediately undertaken by our aircraft.
There is nothing to report from other areas.
The Pittsburgh Press (March 5, 1942)
Editorial: Wake up, America – it’s late!
The nation needs to awaken to the full gravity of the peril that confronts it.
It needs to appreciate how badly we have been defeated in three months of war.
It needs to understand that it is possible for the United Nations and the United States to lose this war and suffer the fate of France and that this possibility may become a probability if the present tide does not change.
It needs to realize that there is grave chance of the Japanese pushing through India and the Germans driving through the Near East, to join their armies and resources in an almost unbeatable combination.
It needs to get away, once and for all, from the comforting feeling that while we may lose at the start we are bound to win in the end.
Only when fully aware of existing perils will the United States do its utmost. Pray God that awareness will not come too late, as it did in France!
Production Director Donald Nelson appeals for vastly increased industrial output on a 24-hour, seven-day basis – 168 hours a week. In short, MAXIMUM production.
Can we get it?
Not on the present basis – not under the psychology of recent years.
Not until we quit thinking in terms of less work for more money.
Not while there is greater concern about overtime pay than overtime production.
Not while farmer politicians are more interested in grabbing higher prices than raising more essentials.
Not while government bureaus – created to meet a depression emergency that is ended – continue trying to grab for themselves money needed for armaments.
Not while an army of federal press agents clamors to promote and perpetuate activities that have no present need or value.
Not while Congressmen try to put over useless canals and river schemes and take up the time of defense officials clamoring for factories and contracts as if war were a great gravy train.
Not while WPA, despite a shortage of labor, seeks to carry on projects which it doesn’t have the men to perform or the need for performing.
Not while CCC and NYA stretch greedy hands for funds to pamper young men who ought to be in the Armed Forces or war plants.
Not while strikes hamper war production, despite a solemn promise that they would stop.
Not while the life-and-death need for uninterrupted production is used as a weapon to put over the closed shop.
Not while double time is demanded for Sunday work which is only part of a 40-hour week.
Not while a man can’t be employed on an Army project or a war plant till he pays from $20 to $50 to a labor racketeer.
Not while criminal gangs control employment and allocation of men to work on the Normandie and the other ships along New York’s vast waterfront.
Not while fifth-columnists are pampered and enemy aliens move freely in defense areas.
Not while the grim job of preparing our home communities against air raids and sabotage is gummed up with a lot of highfalutin, boondoggling, social service activity.
Not while pressure blocs clamor for bigger benefits, bounties and pensions.
We will not get maximum production, in short, unless first, we fully realize our awful peril and, second, get over the “gimmes” of recent years:
Gimme shorter hours, gimme higher wages, gimme bigger profits, gimme more overtime, gimme less work, gimme more pensions, gimme greater crop benefits, gimme more appropriations and patronage, gimme some plants for my Congressional district, gimme fees and dues to work for Uncle Sam, gimme ham 'n eggs, gimme share-the-wealth, gimme $30 every Thursday.
France had the gimmes, too – had them till the Germans were close to Paris. Then everybody went frantically to work – too late.
France has no gimmes today – except gimme food for my baby, gimme a place to lay my head, gimme death.
Will the United States wake up too late?
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U.S. may take civilian tires to fill needs
Nation will lack rubber for 30 million cars, Henderson warns
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MacArthur scores again –
U.S. planes hit 3 troopships
Tiny air force on Luzon takes heavy toll
By Everett R. Holles, United Press staff writer
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Tokyo has raid alarm
Tokyo, Japan (UP) – (broadcast recorded in the U.S.)
Tokyo had its first air-raid alarm of the war today when unidentified planes appeared over Japanese waters, but they were identified as Japanese aircraft.
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Sugar R-Days announced –
Housewives must sign up for ration March 17-20
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Nazi-type intimidation charged –
German alien is arrested for alleged swindle here
Radio equipment seized as detectives raid office of William Johann Adams
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Wavell maps new strategy –
Drive on Japs from India may turn tide for Allies
By John R. Morris
John R. Morris, Far Eastern manager of the United Press, has just completed an extensive aerial journey from Java and across India with General Sir Archibald Wavell, British commander in India. The views expressed in this dispatch are based on conversations with high officials who cannot be quoted directly.
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Divided we fall –
Greatest verbal ‘blitz’ by Axis seeks to split U.S. and Allies, propaganda expert declares
By Edmond Taylor, author of The Strategy of Terror
To his sorrow, many a good man in many a good land has “fallen” for Axis propaganda. The same old poisoned baloney in some intriguing new wrappings is being served up to Americans now. To be on your guard, read the two articles which have been written for the Pittsburgh Press by Edmond Taylor who, since the publication of his widely-read book, The Strategy of Terror, last year, has come to be regarded as America’s foremost student of German propaganda methods. His first article appears below.
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