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U. S. Marines’ Amphibious
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Slashing Attacks on Foe
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ANOTHER TACOMA TIMES EXCLUSIVE
By DAVENPORT STEWARD
Tacoma Times Special Writer
ATLANTA, Ga.—They don't call them American Com
mandoes, but that's what the men of the U, S Marines'
Amphibious Corps really are. These Marine landing parties,
trained not for defense, but for slashing attack, are virtually
the same type of troops as the famed British Commandos.
To a public hungry for news of
what our armed forces are doing,
the U, 8. Marines point with un
bashful pride to their amphibious
organizations. Ever since the Pres
ident announced the state of lim
ited emergency in 1940, the Ma
rine Corps has been training spe-|
eial troops as an assault torcc’
Today they're ready,
These “American Comman- *'
doa” are tough—make no mis- |
take about it. They're teain- |
ed in everything from jiu- !
JMsu to the toughest major '1
offensive. i the enemy 1
doesn’'t want to play sccord- |
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YORKTOWN, Ind.—~Nine men were injured Friday, three critic
ally, when a troop train carrying 309 soldiers from Camp Perry, O,
to Jefferson Baracks, Mo, crashed into a switch engine near here,
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ABERDEEN, Wash.—High winds late Thursday blew down the
shipway covering the Grays Harbor Shipbuildiag company yards
and caused other minor damage In this area,
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SAN FRANCISOO-—Federal district court Friday gave the navy
permanent possesion o fTreasure lsland in San Francisco for a
naval base,
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WASHINGTON —A medinm-sized British merchant vessel has
been torpedoed in the Atlantic the navy aanounced Friday. Sor
vivors have bheen landed at a port on the Gulf of Mexico,
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RIO DE JANEIRO-—Three bombers turned over to Brazil by the
United States, crashed between Natal and Belem, killing all crew
members. it was announced Friday., The planes were part of a fleet
of 30 given to Brazil, It was not known immediately how many
persons were Kkilled,
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BERLIN —A Trans-Ocean Agency dispateh from Tokyo Friday
said the fall of Corregidor was expected soon.
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WASHINGTON —The War Production Board announced Friday
that 500 war plants have set up voluntary labor-management com
mittees and launched greater production drives. The 500th piant
to enroll was the Douglas Aircraft company of California,
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TOKYO- 0t was announced Friday that the total number of
prisoners taken in the Bataan peninsula following the surrender of
American forces sxceeded 50,000 men, including more than 9,000
Americans.
British Bombs Shake French
Coast for Sixth Straight Day
LONDON Large formations '
of Britain’s “second front” air |
armada bombed French targets
wntil twilight Friday in the |
sixth consecutive day of an
offensive that the air ministry |
eredited with keeping 1,500,000 |
enemy soldiers and civilians tied
"taflandwc-tm(in-:
many. ‘
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LONDON British bomber,
squadrons, protected by extraordi
nary “clouds” of fighter planea,l
Mobilization
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Of All Russia
Is New Order,
KUIBYSHEY, Russia Tot.t‘
mobilization of Russia’'s 193.000.000"
people against Germany's antici- |«
pated apring offensive was ordered |
Friday in official decrees muster
ing all manpower for industrial|l
and farm production
The decrees providing for a
speed-up of agricultural pre- |
duction apply to all men and |
women and children as young 31
as 12 years. 11
The decrees were issued as dis
patches from the front toid off:
heavy but unsuccessful German
land and air attacks apparently
designed to regain strong pomtn;‘
and air superiority for a new of- ]
fensive attempt. ,:
Severe Soviet attacks were said |
to have cut into German lines on ‘
the central front and on the south- '
ern front the Red air force broke
up large-scale luftwaffe attacks, it .
was reported ]
Two decrees mobilized all ‘(
available wurban and rural |
populations for work on collec
tive and state farms, agricul
tural stations and tractor cen- ]
ters. !
Previous decrees had mobilized |
eity populations to work in war
industries and Friday's orders!
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ing te Marquis of Queensherry
rules, then the Marines will
play his way—only better. For
close-in fighting, they're
taught te use either razor
edged knives or bayoneis;
they're tanght te use knees,
thumbs and feet If no weapons
are left to them. ‘
“There’s nothing the British
Commandos have that we haven't
got.” declares Major Meigs O
Frost, Marine Corps public rela
tions officer for the South, “In
fact, a substantial share of Ameri
can-made landing party equip
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’mumod back and forth across
the English channel Friday, bat
tering Nazi targets with bomb
loads that shook the French coast
for the sixth straight day.
German alrplanes retaliated
by bombing twe southwest
England coastal towns Friday
afternoon. They encountered
fierce antiaireraft fire. There
were few casualties but no
dead. A church was hit and
the altar knocked down.
The British formations—includ
ing some American Eagle pilots—
appeared to be the largest number
seen over the channel since the
war began, indicating that the
RAF steadily was stepping up its
day and night aerial offensive.
Many more than the 400 planes
that attacked northern France
objectives Thursday were reported
in action.
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Victory Farms
ry 1
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To Be Operated
Victory Farms, Inc., organized
by farmers and business men of
Pierce and King counties, sought
federal financing Friday to curryl
forward a plan of insuring the
uninterrupted operation of farms
owned by Japanese
The organization, believed
unigue in the nation, was mcor-i
porated at Olympia. The incor
porators declared they would
operate on a non-profit basis and
that if any profit might sccrue it
would be given 10 the United
States treasury
Incorporators are Frank Cher
venka, Sumner, bulb grower and
farmer; Raiph J. Pommert, Pa
cific, a bulb grower; J. A. Oliver,
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Bl bt
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Demands Wooden Ships
WASHINGTON - Rep. Martin
F. Smith D, Wash., Friday re-|
newed demands for construction
of American merchant vessels of
wood, rather than steel. ,
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Vol. 39, No. 102, Tacoma, Wash., Saturday, April 18, 1942, Three Cents in Tacomo
Leahy Recall
Widens U.S
‘Widens U.>.,
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France Rift
Ambassador
Is Instructed
To Leave Vichy
1 WASHINGTON President
Rooseveit has instructed Ambas
sador William D, Leahy to return
from Vichy for consultations, it
was announced Friday by Acting
Secretary of State Sumner Welles,
[ Welles said that Leahy
| would not be able to leave
| his post immediately because
the ambassador's wife had
heen operated on four of five
. days ago and s not able to
travel at this time.
(The American embassy in
Vichy said Leahy probably would
leave there in two or three weeks). ‘
Welles also revealed that he re
jected a Vichy representation
brought to him by the Vichy lm-l
bassador here, Gaston Henry-
Haye, Thursday night |
l Pinckney Tuck, the counsel- “
' Jor at the Vichy embassy, will ‘
~ remain there as charge
~ d'affaires when Leahy leaves,
. Welles said.
. The ambassador's return for
'comuluuon is not equivalent to a
break in diplomatic relations but
represents the most serious breach
' yet in U, S.-French relations,
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Cabinet Aides
. VICHY, France - Plerre Laval
presented to Marshal Henrl
Philippe Petain Friday a new clb-’
inet list in which the minister of |
war was understood to be Gen.
Henri Dentz, who fought a bfltor'
campaign against allied forces in
Syria '
Laval, leader of French ef
forts toward closer collabora- |
tion with the axis, prepared to
assume full executive power,
with personal control ever
foreign ministries and propa
ganda.
(The German radio said that
Laval would succeed Petain as
president of the council of min-|
isters and that Petain henceforth
would be limited to duties as chief |
of state.)
Laval presented the names of
his ministers to Petain st 1 p. m.
(4 a m. PWT) immediately after
the ministry of Admiral Vice Pre-|
mier Jean Francois Darlan had |
collectively resigned, |
DARLAN IS ADMIRAL l
Darlan, resigning separately as
vice premier, minister of national |
defense and secretary of staie for |
foreign affairs, war and navy, .li
once assumed, on Petain's invita-|
tion, the new post of commander
in chief of land, sea and air|
forces with the rank of admiral of |
the fieet and the right to be on |
active duty for life .
It took but half an hour for '
the Darlan cabinet, at a meet
ing under Petain, to write its
resignation and retire in favor
of Laval, who now has greater
power than any French leader |
except BS-year-old Petain, has i
heid since the collapse of
France.
Back in power after 16 monthe
of political eclipse after his sum
mary dismissal as vice premier In
December, 1940, he came to Vichy
Friday morning from his nearby
Chateldon chaleau, under heavy
guard to resume consultations ,
lLaval was heavily guarded by
police, who were mindful of the!
serious wound he had received at
the hand of an assassin at Paris!
last summer ]
Well informed quarters salid!
that under the new regime Petain,
retaining his rank of chief of state,
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Washington Man
Meets Death in
Amphibian Crash
Amphibian Cr
NEW YORK The entire crew
of a coast guard amphibian plane
was believed Friday to have per
ished when it erashed at sea Sat
urday off Martha's Vineyard, near
the MassachOsetis coast.
The body of Willlam A. Boutil
lier, 28 the radioman, of Walla
Walla, Wash, washed up on »
nearby beach, along with a wheel
and a pontoon, Third Naval dis-
U trict officials here said,
’ | The others aboard, Robert James
‘| Lafferty, 28 of Port Washington,
LIN. Y., and Steven Tarapchak, 37,
' |of New York, were missing. |
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More Houses
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,In Tacoma \
, Simultaneously with announce
'.Jmnt from. Washington, . C,
Friday that the National Housing
Agency has approved part of Ta
[ coma’s pecond wartime housing
project apblication, two men from
| that agency arrived in the cily
|to make definite selection of .
‘uu. |
l As announced from the
capital, the project approved
s for 1200 demountable
houses now, and 400 later,
The understanding here, how
ever, as expiained by the visitors,
was that funds aiready have been
allocated for 1600 houses to be
bullt now, 400 deferred, and that
the decision has not yet been
{mudc as to how many shall be
lpormlnfnt and how many tem
| porary, to be torn down after the
| war.
‘ The city applied for 2,000 houses,
Beeking a site were Edgar Bis
| santz, project adviser for the fed
lonl public housing authority, and
IJ. 8. Whitney, the authority's
{land appraiser, both from San
| Francisco, Joshua Vogel of Seat
| the, representing the Puget Sound
Regional Planning council, and
John Schiarb, jr, executive direc
| tor of the Tacoma Housing author
{ity and Wartime Housing com
mittee.
| With a huge nerial photo map
|of the city they were studying
!penuuo Sites with the city eoun
(el Friday morning and planned to
| spend the day visiting the places.
,(:Mcf considerations will be trans
| portation to the industrial area,
| sewer and water connections and
. school facilities !
Tacoma's first wartime housing
project, to be bulit in the 35th and
Pine s, district, in ready to go as
| soon as final revised plans arrive
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Smitley Resigns
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From Draft Board
| George A Smitley, former
mayor of Tacoma, has resigned as
‘rhmrmn of Tacoma Draft Board
| No. 2, it was reported by Adj Gen |
Walter J Delong. state director |
of Belective BService, at Comp‘
' Murray Friday i
| His successor will be chosen by |
other members of the board, as i/
customary when such vacancies
ovcur, Gen. Delong said AR
Whitman and H. O. Bcofield are |
the other “two members of the
board Theodore Northstrom s
the board's attorney. |
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British Torpedo
Italian Transport
LONDON—A Brilish submarine |
hag torpedoed and sunk a lu.a‘
|Mtalian transport in the Mediter- |
| ranean. the Admiraity announced
Friday,
The Admiralty's communigue
did not gtate when the atlack oc
curred,
U.S. Army
Will Strike
Going to Start
In Near Future.
War Chief Asserts
BULLETIN
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERSK, Auwstralia—An im
portant announcement will e
made later today (Saturday)
clarifying Gen, Dougias Mae-
Arthur's position and Hating the
staff personnel of his supreme
! command in the southweat Pani
| fe, it was stated authoritatively,
. »
: \\'AAIIINO.ION -« Becretary of
| War Henry L. Stimson, describing
A% a “tempest in a teapol” the eon
troveray over the extent of Gen.
Dougias MacArthur's command,
sald Friday the army W “prelly
near 1o the stage of being ready
for an offensive, however @iffioult
it may be.}
“1 am ‘o' more than ever,
convinoed that we are geing
to get on the offensive and 4o
so at the sarfiest practicable
moment,” Stimeon teld & prese
conference,
Hia statement lent strength to
reports in London that Gen, George
i«“ Marshall, U, 8. army chief of
| staff and Harry L. Hopkine m‘
urging Hritish officials here _b{
take strong offensive measures
on the European continent this
spring.”
QUESTIONS AUTHORIZATION
An army spokesman at Mae
Arthur's Australian hesdquarters
told newsmen on Wadnesday that
lack of instructions from Washing
ton had prevented the American
general from setting up Ma su
preme command and that as a re
suit he waa still only in charge
of 17, 8 forces In Australia and
the Southwest Pacific.
Ntimson sald he questioned
whether the spokesman had
been authorized te mahe the
statement. Me repentied that
MacArthur was in suprems
sirategic command of all
United Nations foress in his
specified war theater. Nl
son added that he had boen o
frequent communication with
MacArthur, and that the ot
ter had never ralsed Any gues
tion of jurisdiction with him.
i “He (MacArthur) has over-all
strategic command ” Stimson said,
“and while the sdministration snd
tactical leaderships of the troope
and fleets of the various interested
nations are retained by them, the
practical coordination of effort and
s sirategic direction s & malier
for Gen. MacArthur, and Gen. Mae-
Arthur alone
“I recoguize that the Nurry
in the press on this matier s
cauned by the concern of the
prople in the eoffective ban
dling of all of our forees In
the Far East from the stand
point of proper courdination,
“It e in that spirit that | tell
you there need be ne mi
The forces are coordinated ™ |
Baseball Finals
AMERICAN LEAGUE ‘
Ronton ... 800 008 0064 & |
New York .. 000 1000021 & .
Judd and Conrey, Peackook;
Bonham and [Dickey.
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Permit Canadian Ships
To Aid Alaska Travel |
WASHINGTON —Canadian ships
have authorization 1o earry pas- |
sengers Detween Alaskan ports o
Alieviate the war shortage of |
American ships in Ltha! area, Capt,
H E Bweel of the customs
bureau sad Friday ‘
The lreasury lesued the lullfil-’
ization under provigiors of the
recently-enacted second war!
powers act, y
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Here ore the Y Burma, oil wells thot the Jops hed hoped te selme sa one
of the spoils of war, But, the imd\ were reported Friday to ‘"1; d » d i%"i
clustered os thickly as ony in Oklohoma, as the desperote Jops up the ineweddy
river on the west Burma front, (quo to The Tocoma Times) ot L
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Burma Oil as
BULLETIN :
CHUNGRING —~ A Ohinese
commmique repevied Priday
night that twe streng Japances
drives bave been halled, with
heavy enemy losses, on ihe Bur
ma battiefront whete the Bett
ok have dentroyed 6.000 of the
rich Yesangyuang o wells I
“scorched sarth” tacties.”
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CHUNGRING, (hins - Britsh
forces have desiroyed the rieh
Yenangyuang ofl fislds before the
desperale Japaneme drive up the
Irrawaddy river on the west Bur
ma fronl, & communigue of the
Burma command ssid Friday,
The Britieh bigh command
ordoved destruction of the
Inst remmining ssurce of ol
n the entire Burma thealer
undey e storn soorched sarth
policy after the Japaness had
foread o further withdrawal
of the exhamsind British Fne
north of Magwe.
Japanese forces were altarking
furiously, the communique e
vealed,
Lad by the king’s own Yerk
shire Nght infantry, which for
days had made & gallant fght
along the lrmawaddy, the
British forcen had beoy hold
ing their line »t the You
channg river, only 14 miles
south of the Minbu refineries
st the entrance to the off fields,
when the Japansse slaried
their new stisck,
Jt was understood that 6,000
of the 8.000 wells had been de-
Mroyed or disabled, and that the
other 2000 had been mined and
would be blown ug i the Japa-
Bese advance eomtinued
The refinevien which foo
merly handled the o fow
were destroyed in the Rangoon
aren before the British shas
donad that sity.
It was estimated it will Lake
fromm six monihs 1o & year ore
econdition and operats the welis
. The Brilish were sl holding
north of Magwe, but the Japanaes |’
were dangerousty near Minbu and ||
had already reached ithe west end '
of the wesl-east rond M§
acroas the mouniains ufc.o-{‘
thinn on the l‘n._-w]"
malirond which the OChiness are
holding, and this brought & Bew
threatl 1o the Chinese rear, “‘
it
New Superinfendent
OLYMPIA . Pinance Direstor
David E. Lockwaod announced rn”
day appointment of Bert O Webb !
of MeNeil Island prison as -w’.-‘
intendent of the stale Wlflmi'l
st Walla Walla, effective Apri} 20. | 1
He repiaces Patrick E, m,'t
who resigned afier serving since |
the dealh of Warden Jameg Me- |
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Tacoma's populstion Nee -
ereased o much ds 10,008 since
the 1940 federal etnbus, an analy
sis of recent indicative Ngures
showed Priday,
| Bueh population mdenes 88 the
villings of ity lght customers,
new home constructions and ab
sorption of the housing veeancies
found in the ity & fow monthe
age would make it apparent that
the number of persode within these
eity limils has grown (o or past
the 120,000 mark,
The themsands of war work
ovs whe hove trind s fad
places o Hive in Tocoma have
beon taking & Tranlle consme
of thelr awn during the past
bv-'fl-.-bhoh‘lb
ceams
mml-=-
workers find houstng.
They report the vasancies of A
yoar or sp ago, whith ran to nearly
2,000, are all but gone now,
The number of plases for Bew
somerg o live in Tacoms was de
areasing at slarming speed At the
same time lovsl bullders were pul
ting up #3l new residentiai units
during 1940 and PlB more in 141,
Whes the sensun fahors fin
ally arrivad ot a lotal n 1040
they gave Tasoma sa oifeinl
popuintion of 100,400
One coriain gein i populstion
‘ean be shown, In 1940 and 1041
& total of 1509 uails was
lunul*mm
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Crazed Man Attacks Woman
" Burns House, Then
Shoots at Seven
' An spparently arased WAR
Burned a 4 new home v the
round on the Seattie Taooma
highway Thursday might, sitack
of & woman with sa ak snd
fired seven shots through 'he
window of saother residence be
fore be was subdusd with s chair
and a evowbar,
Sinte palrvimen i o
gave his namme M Gewge
Marsh, 40, » Seattie street do
partmeni empioye, wha aa
aliss. Ne was trented 8¢ King
County hespital snd taken to
the counby juil in Beattle. .
Police said the man appeared |
at the home of Mrs. Mabel Learned |
near Soven Gables inn and insisted |
upon enlering and giving M |
Learned a drink. M. Learned
told officars he suddenly saw &
double-pitied ax. I
L Yl ‘_,
| While the pubiie -.?“*
| misstonsr sat mute and "
[ the windew of hwm
mal letter thet every vestige of
the eity's snmmordialined vine e
Mnn‘bmfl‘%
| Cuin loft the impraming ,
[banning of this oty (s o 8 erey
imen are hanging = the balnace.
[ though he sald theve Rae Boen =0
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| ond | Gwehad, resning for
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Mz, snd Mrs. Charies K. )
. Lensmed hame, which
| e the ground, hen et
| the NHilsen howne flfi
. theough windons with & W
- Seven oscupenis of the '
The gun amply. M
window with a ecrowber
started maide, A ehaly
with his own crowbar hafose poll
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