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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS - By Edward C. Wayne Russ Situation Grows More Serious As Nazis Move New Troops to Front; Jap Pacific Supply Lines Endangered By Increase in U. S. Naval Activities BATAAN:' Aftermath of Historic Battle The final loss of the battle of Bataan, even though Corregidors heroic garrison disdained surrender, and continued to lob shells over the Japanese positions as long as they could man their guns, left the United AIR CRASHES years ago a kid cams Notes of on States a little, more chastened, a litOVER of40Bucknell university who war With the tremendous expanInnocent Bystander: tle more grim, still vitally deterwas better known as a football star sion of the and air ' navy army mined to win the war. The Story Teller: Because of than any baseball wonder. He was branches has come an accomwar-tim- e (EDITORS NOTE Whca pfnlona ir expressed In these eelemns, they economic difficulties, some One result of the Japanese victory blond who hamof not of a new those this the are newspaper.) big, knock-knee- d neceeserlly frequency of press reports soslyst ud at long last over the legions of mered lines and kicked field goals. mags have ceased publishing. One panying fp ia by Westers Newspaper of These crashes by fledgling pilots. of the regrettable casualties is The Filipinos' and American soldiers But he turned out later to be a stories have brought a flood of worLiving Age . . . The Nations In ried 1 who had fought so bravely and de- pretty fair country pitcher. His authorito inquiries Washington The Wind Dep't is its zippiest featerminedly side by side for more name was Christy Mathewson. Mayties. ture . N . World Digest reports there than three months was the lifting of be you remember him as Old PerRelatives of aviators have exare five thousand press agents in the veil of secrecy about what had centage or of concern over the number Big Six. pressed America . . . And twice as many been going on. of accidents these and the adequacy the Matty of 1902 . wastebaskets, thank goodness It was revealed that the forces on to Turning fromYork Yankees the training programs. Spud the New Back in June 1931, Genl MacArthur Bataan had been less than 40,000 The WASHINGTON wrote a piece for a vets mag sug1942, it suddenly ocof Chandler has investigated both matmen; that they had no air force; how few college football gesting a draft of 4 million men for ters. For that strong efforts had been made curred reasons detailed military had stars ever taken a firm grip or army training. Naturally, nobody figures cannot be disclosed. But to succor them, to open to them a , on big league baseball fame. listened. Hoover was President grab the following generalizations can be supply line; that of the ships which Wm. B. Ziffs new book, due in June, There have been a few Matty of had been sent there, two had been is called The Coming Battle of published: Bucknell and the Giants, Orvie Over1. That the U. S. percentage sunk for one that arrived. every We hear it is dynamite, Germany. of accidents is less than that of It also was learned that the only all of California and the Cubs, Frank designed to tumble an avalanche unFrisch of Fordham and the Giants, the British and appreciably regiment of U. S. infantry on the of brass-ha- t thinking. Duell, Sloan Cochrane of Boston univerthe der best available German Mickey island had been the thirty-firs- t; that and Pearce will publish. Ziff is and the Athletics, Lou Gehrig The rate sity figures. among casualty there two been had battalions only the one responsible for the reand the Yankees, Sam Columbia of Nazi trainees is reported to be of tanks, and the rest of the gloomy instatement of the late Billy Mitchell of California and the Athto limited traindue Chapman quite high was of insufficient forces picture . . . The Murder That Rocked letics, plus a few others. But not ing facilities, personnel and all told. (the Arnold Rothstein Broadway so many in a roundup. equipment. Another dividend had been the affair) in the current True Detective Juan Antonio Rios is shown taking the oath of office as president of Joe McCarthy said, While C. S. accidents have I. "Chandler, is our favorite murder story. Chile at Inauguration ceremonies in Santiago. The event was attended by filing from the safer walls of Cor is one of the rare exceptions. Foot- increased numerically because artiof of feature 40 foreign ambassadors and various dignitaries of the Chilean congress regidor pictures, of the greatly increased number cles telling of the closing phases of At left is Dr. Jeronimo Mendez, former vice president. At right is Dr. The Editorial of the Week: (From of men in training, the percentthe battle, material which had been senate. Chilean of Florencio the Duran, president the Memphis Commercial-Appealinage of accidents has not heaped up and refused to pass the Sedition laws need immediate recreased. Today it is about the censor, but now could be told beNAVY: OUR RUSSIA: examination for the purpose of giV' same as the ratio in 1940. This cause it no longer would be of aid ing them teeth. There is desper fact is of key importance, since Serious Situation and comfort or information to the Busy; Building ately needed a policy of government demeans no it there has been in the . Despite the published details of enemy. arrived had Spring officially which will lump all traitors, sedi terioration in the basic quality United States with the opening of the the losses of the Java sea and at Americans saw pictures of nearly tionists, and subverters, whatever of the army and navy air trainbaseball season, but It was Pearl Harbor, also the heavy losses wartime naked Jap prisoners, saw the types their citizenship status, into one ing systems despite speed-up- s hardly far advanced on the Russian of merchantmen in the Atlantic, also of faces and bodies of the nations In a total war where category and other war factors. front, though warm enough in the the occasional ship reported miss' internal attack is a chief technique prime enemy, saw them herded to 3. The present training syssouthern ing and presumed lost in' earlier the rear by American boys in uniportion. we cannot expect survival from the tems are far superior to those But the Nazis spring drive was actions, many believed that the navy form, saw the Filipino soldiers lying incongruous and piddling policies of the World war. Trainees and the Russians, keeping them- was doing a big job, particularly in wounded side by side with our own on, dealnow Government follows in the are selected more carefully and selves highly on the alert, had never the Pacific and doing it well. doughboys, realized perhaps for the ining with those who seek its defeat given much more and better so active, and were attemptseemed One recent report told of activi first time what the fightirig on or overthrow . . . George Chris struction before they get their ing to continue to beat the Germans ties of submarines in points as far Bataan had really been like. tians (of Chattanooga) a crackpot coveted wings. to the punch. removed from each other as near and a fool? Once they said that of The reaction and aftermath The question of allowing military Kuibyshev and Moscow reported Bali (right off Java), and in Japthe Nazi paperhanger, who has en- air crashes to be reported has been throughout the nation had been twoon constant German posiattacks anese waters, probably close to fold; a renewed determination that gineered the greatest revolution and a subject of inner circle debate for was admitting breakthe coast of Japan. bloodiest conflict in all history . the war should be won, and a powsome time. Some authorities con- tions, Berlin here and there, with huge Lets swap the kid gloves for Four more Jap ships had been erful demand that the future news tend this is valuable information to throughs tank attacks, and the Reds werq sunk, bringing the total since De pair of brass knuckles! the enemy, and cite the fact that bring us victories and offensives declaring that much Amerproudly cember 7 to 217 ships sunk or damrather than further defeats and has Britain banned such press ican equipment had arrived. withdrawals. aged. stories. The Front Pages: Editor & PubBest report tending to show the This was a toll ar enough in adThe President, however, has not In the meantime the Japs conIf lishers thumbnail editorial: Russian situation was serious had vance of our own to make any lay this with He view. SPUD CHANDLER tinued to move into other islands, entirely we agreed cant its anything print, you from neutral sources, and man realize that a battle with such emanated is against publication of totals or had attacked Cebu with a force of shouldnt be talking about it! . said that Hitler had begun to move Newsmen who used to see convicted percentages but sees no objection to additional troops from occupied unequal results could have only one 12,000 men, undoubtedly released ball players carry away too many ending. from the rear of Luzon once the kinks in shoulder, knee or ankle Nazi agent Viereck in Washington press reports of individual mishaps. France, probably from other occuThose who chafed against a navy front had fallen. to be good ball players. And too say that he acted as though he were This is the policy being followed but pied countries onto the beleaguered which could not muscle-bounwipe the Japs off above and beyond arrest, that he the question is still under discusThe attackers met resistance, but many are also Russian front of weeks, and a matter seas in the sion. rated himself invulnerable. it was generally conceded that the I With Georgias Best If true, and it might well be, which, in the only two large engagein with tied be General this might ments lost heavily, were forced to battle for the Philippines was lost, Buy Defense Bonds Chandler was a star back and a Marshalls talks in London, hinting admit that in actual ship and ton for the time being, just as its loss star kicker at A notorious Sixth Colyumist Georgia around 10 SPRING AT THE WHITE HOUSE that the time was ripe for invasion. the Japs were doing had been conceded by most leading years ago. He went north with three argues that writers who pen losses, nage Outside the White House fence observers from the beginning of the malicious things about women Perhaps, on the other hand, Rusbadly. Georgia teams that beat good Yale war. march soldiers with fixed bayonets. sians were claiming continued vic- very in public life deserve to be shot And there also was the realization teams three years in a row. His But inside the tall, iron fence, defy- tories in hopes of convincing fence. . , What a fraud! That from that once fleet supremacy was esteams also made it two oat Georgia MARSHALL: to she the that ought ing changes wrought by war, sitting England the Americounterfeit, who has tablished in the Pacific, the Japof three from N.Y.U. when Chick is the perennial transfiguration of cross the channel. made a career out of malice. anese supply lines, and therefore Invasion Hinted Meehan had the Violet at a violent were that events all At there signs spring. He has written dozens of distheir conquest, must fall immediGeneral Marshall, our chief of tide. Those were among the best The grass is a soft green, and the the German spring offensive was honest pieces about persons in ately because of its own weight. teams Georgia ever turned ont. staff, and Harry Hopkins, President also and in beds of started and Russia, have pansies jonquils fairly public life, including Mrs. Roosein Also the who believed those Roosevelts personal representative, nowhere fast I was lucky, Spud said. burst into bloom in colorful bril- that it was getting I was velt, whose politics bis boss opjob the navy was doing pointed with with some others had made the never hurt liance. The flowering shrubs and we played tough although poses. Like a shady lady, he can to thousands the of and troops pride long hop from the United States to schedules every year. I didnt take trees were never lovelier the mag- BRITISH: be hired for an hour or a weektons of supplies transported to AusLondon in a bomber, and this led and that ever cracked a nolias, japonica, of forsythia. end. Every one his attacks Dark Still with a single loss, of the other many to believe that an American-Britis- h any battering tralia Jays On the or strained a muscle. ligament Pennsylvania avenue side, on Axis enemies in the U. S. is offensive on the continent From the unsuccessful mission of thousands of troops and huge supthe magnolias are making a gorNow at the age of 32 It would not repeated over the short-wav- e was plies sent to England without loss was not far distant. Sir Stafford England Cripps geous showing, supported by the be circuits from Berlin, Rome and any too surprising to see Chandto the admission that her The longer it was delayed, the Japanese transports have been forsythia and japonica bushes, all. forced If he had any inteller into his best season. Tokyo indeed. continued dark more likely many believed for it Laststepping sunk, but our troops were getting at their best. The same three faith- days lectual honesty hed shoot himseason, although pitching well, Britain had the galling reminder to their destinations safely. That fuls are on display near the fountain he dropped his first four starts. Then self. of fleets was she that to not a was be denied. keeping large superiority in the South garden. These are the he won his next ten straight two best show places in the White naval vessels in the Indian ocean; Many felt that this move had won The Georgian, now living at Moulwere her fightthat in an war the and troops bravely Scrambled Eggs: important victory House grounds. trie, has a husky son who is just that Japan, afraid of our link with No matter how little you have The only scar in the scene is ing in Burma; that she was suffernine months old. the construction work on the East ing heavy losses on several fronts, Australia, had definitely turned aside youre rich if you envy nobody . . Laughing, he wakes me every The Indians who sold Manhattan for grounds, where sewers and conduits and that India was blandly talking from a real effort of invasion of that conditions while the continent and would live on the hope morning at six oclock, Spud says. 521 werent such goons. It didden are being laid for what is officially over post-wa- r He laughs all the time. Japs were at her very gates. that the Allies could not develop a belong to them! The island had to described as a remodeling operaof the real winning offensive from that terloss In after the Which shows in these times what fact, be bought back again from the real tion. a wonderful thing it must be to be Hermes, an aircraft carrier and two ritory. The colors seen best by the Presiowners If I owned the paper cruisers in the waters off Ceylon, nine months old. Id tell my editorialists, colyumists dent from his desk are those of the word came that the British were AMERICANS: Gen. Marshall After the football-basebal- l arguHopkins and staff: Harry Before you write any jonquils and pansies in the rose garto send a punitive fleet for ment planning had subsided, someone opened den ask thing always yourself the quesjust outside his office window. and to a in northern be clime. The Gera final showdown with the Jap navy Up Doing another debate, namely, what is the tion "Will it be anything Hirohito, There is a touch of irony in the in the Far East. Speaker Sam Rayburn of the mans evidently thought it was comeasiest job to handle on a ball club? Hitler and Benito would enjoy read- fact that some of the best color is But Britain was having a tough house had reviewed the situation as ing through occupied France, which Bill Dickey picked right field. At A Nipponese in origin the Or hearing? ing? Japanese time in Libya, in the Mediterranean far as the present attitude of Amerwould have many advantages geowhich scholar tells me that the style Time magnolias, and the japonicas, which point some Indignant right-fieldn and the threat to Aus- icans toward the war outlook was graphically for the uses in part isnt so modernist- are otherwise known as Japanese generally, named catching. Words flew forces. tralia was a serious one indeed. concerned when he revealed pertiIn various directions until the final ic. That some of Times literary quince. The failure of the Cripps mission nent facts about the armed forces Others thought a juncture with verdict acrobatricks are patterned after pointed directly at third had been handled by Bernard Shaw, and their progress. Russia in the far north and a sweep base. Buy Defense Bonds Homers Iliad. to He pointed out that America now down through Norway might be the speaker, as Mel Ott, who has played many HULL AND WINCHELL have been expected, but the rank had on foreign battlefields, six times plan. jobs, voted for third. So did Jimmy Cordell Hull, dignified, austere and file of England didnt feel that the number of men we had in EuThe friends who are most deservBut there had been more than a Foxx who has also caught, played ing of your favors are those who secretary of state, sat gazing out way about it, nor did Sir Stafford rope afterlight months of the last hint of a spring invasion on a large first and third. Their angle was that were your friends before you were over the Atlantic ocean recently himself, who left India a grim and war. and General Marshall didnt at third scale, from a Miami Beach cabana adjayou either do or you dont in a position to do them any . . He declared that planes were besadly disappointed man. deny it Its either a hit or an out. His last word to the Hindus had ing turned out at the rate of 3,300 Nobodys ever perfectly content cent to the cabana of turbulent, The toughest play a third base-The poor man is often bored, the Broadway news-sleut- h been that Britain naturally would a month; that Garand rifles were Walter Winman has to make is handling a but man chell. blase. rich have to withdraw her proposals, far ahead of production schedules, swinging bunt Bill Dickey said. Next time anyone complains about For two months Mr. Hull has that she would not withdraw from with already enough on hand for "But there are not so many of those. cuffless trousers remind him that been absent from Washington; there attempting to defend India, but every soldier in uniform to have when they come off they are And, they dont wear em in the Army has been speculation whether he would do her duty whether the In- one; that tanks were ahead of Washington: The army had comWin-che- ll hits, anyway." generally and Navy, either . . . The only ac- would return. So news-sleut- h dians helped or hindered. schedule, with one factory turning mandeered 85 more air liners for tual talent possessed by many celebMany believed the breakdown of them out at the rate of a trainload use in transporting troops and supput the question bluntly to his The Rebuttal the conferences had laid the groundrities is the knack of getting their cabana neighbor: a day; that the building of merof all plies, taking over civil or revolution This final decision failed to lift any names in the papers Mr. Secretary, are you going work for possible If the late chant ships would catch up with the air liners now plying the comwar within India, either of which schedule by midsummer, and other mercial lines. cheers out of the third basemen in William Rhodes Davis, the oil pro- back to work? The secretary of state replied in would surely seal her fate If the items of like importance. moter (he tried to interest the State sight. A third baseman has to be set Dep't in a peace with Hitler) were the affirmative. He said that after Japs (as they certainly would) Rayburn felt that the temper of London: Beatrice Lillie, Lady for alive would he be in the headlines? he had had sufficient rest in the should move in with a strong inva- the people was such that no lessenthe two opposites. one of them Peel in private life, received a telesion force. . . . Whatever became of Verne South, he was going back to work. ing, rather an increase of this said. Either a smoke ball or a of the death of gram probable her As to friendliness with the Japs, good work would be demanded. He Note One of Winchells friends Marshall, the Cedar Rapids editor, bunt. The majority of those balls Sir son, Robert in Peel, felt that Indians the believed few who said Davis was his backer in reproached him for putting such a said that on one recent day 100 men action on a driven down our way leave a tail of ship on which he was The No Foreign War Committee blunt question to Mr. Hull. Replied way. The Japanese smacked too had been on strike In all war in6econd-clas- s seaman, as she was fire behind. They are moving In a gag? One report had him in a sani- Winchell: Tve gotta ask questions. much of occidental civilization and dustry, and added that was 100 about to sing before a rural And we have to move in a English hurry. to kill Thats my racket. tarium mentally upset, etc. thinking to suit the Indians. men too many. off the hit. hurry audience. She finished her concert Some Americans were puzzled by At the same time we have to RAF: A Ton a Minute HOME FRONT FLASHES Joan Edwards says that what the be ready to come in fast on bunts Finally the British had hit a tempo the demands, in view of our producNew York: A federal judge deDonald Nelsons appointment of a of bombing Germany which was tion, that all country needs most right now to win balls. We havent the army rifles, clared that General Motors high of- or slow-hi- t to boss the rubber inthe war is a blockade around Japan or a second base-ma- n catching the imagination of the man the Springfields and the Enfields of ficials had mismanaged bonus time a sho.-tstoand fewer blockheads around Wash- dustry is the first of a number of in the street the last war, all that were fit to has. And we have a longer had made an unauthorized funds, Others ington . . . Comes the real blackout similar industry rulers. throw to make a throw that often In one raid they had dropped a Are, at least, be turned back to the distribution of stock in the company, has to he what happens to guys carrying slated to be named will be co- ton a minute in high explosives, war department for shipment to othmade in a hurry. ordered and four, Alfred including torches? . . . : ty crack by a ordinators for textiles, food, aircraft sending thousands of tons of bombs er members of the United Nations. P. Sloan, Junius S. In that football-baseba- ll debate we Morgan, George draftee: This was to include a highly conWell, s long. Any mes- metals, ores. across the channel in a single overlooked Eddie Collins, a good and Donaldson Whitney to Brown, . . . What Attention draft registrants! You squadron. troversial point, the recalling from reimburse the sages for MacArthur? company by more quarterback at Columbia before he we need, too, are more editors like can write it down as certain that went to the Athletics. Some of the squadrons had totaled the 48 state guard organizations, all than four millions of dollars. Jack Caricy of the Memphis Commecongress will enact allotment legisas high as 300 planes, a figure which their rifles. But such crack football players as rcial-Appeal. The way he laid it lation providing government aid for the British compared with the estiThey were to get shotguns, as Sammy Baugh, Ernie Nevers, HarThe WPB said Washington: Coo-Coon that Chattanooga who dependents. That means those exmated 400 which Germany had sent were the military police, and the government expenditures for daily war ry Ilopp, Jim Thorpe, Dixie Howell patterned himself after Hitler . . . empted on dependent grounds will over during the height of the air war war department announcement addand many others couldn't make the March averaged purposes during ed that is all the arms they need. Boy, how they are being dealt with. be reclassified. on one day over British objectives. grade. They couldnt hit. $114,900,000. MERRY-GO-ROUN- X D m ): ... 7 , ... lMI ... ... ... er British-America- ... one-four- th old-sty- p o, 4! 4. |
