Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C Wayne Java Defense Gains New Strength As Dutch Troops Get Reinforcements Tanker Losses Indicate Boat U-Boat Drive Against Eastern Petroleum Supplies H I When NOTE Wh D opinion are a r ll In th Ihen o column thor thoy he ate are Iho thorn t of the news new n yet rid And n t I r y of lb Ih new newel pr pe n H e se II 11 y s I I 1 I 1 JAV JAV Ih lf f nse Impre ne ner p pF F r 11 v ng tie Ire U e fall of ol re reW rl W I lIt t r it t i r y t f It tI t tai l-ar I 6 1 t I b u C cs es ha 1 1 arrive I i r re resit lI e esl at 51 I 1 b s in ui J IV rv v 1 w rr ed cd ver the Cate fat 1 c 1 11 fir cir i r en cn v lid 1 id been left be be bet bet beI t I f 1 II I t all f tl i e n 11 were high highly I i l res rL r S t c i v w th U ap 5 P nt n t d ii I Cl ci U tt e I deft t f U 13 ti tl vi vl VII i t There 1 here was every r ce cc tha t tI I Java whether It g t si st Tit lent re I icen cell eats cuts r r I t w uld bL b ade ly defended by the f t not now Ul m the island rue fhe Dutch n t only were all their own man power their th lr ship and planes but It was plain U at a athey they had son some American reinforce reinforcements meats largely belle cd belle cd In n this country COWl coon try to be constituted of the very ver vital anti aircraft guns and men to toman ti timan toman man them The fight that still had railed around Ball Bali was a good curtain raiser for what the Japs Japa could expect ex eJ expect when they moved In on Java Javi Itself with Its 40 population and the concentrated strength o of everythIng the Dutch and the other ollier United Nations had which had been beer salvaged from other fronts I Churchill had said that the tote total Japanese land strength In the Far Fal East was estimated at 26 20 divisions There were many who that it would take half hall that number to conquer Java alone provided It l was properly defended and man many believed the Japs Japa could not spare that many troops nor transport them to Java Some military authorities believed I the Japs would not even try but would content themselves with wit I bombing military installations and I with surrounding the Island bland with wit naval forces thus rendering It Incapable in inI incapable incapable I capable of ol taking part In East Indian Indian In Indian dian defense while concentrating I most of the Jap lap forces on an in invasion invasion Invasion of Australia The news of the day had not so at sotar tar far borne out this contention however how however however ever for tor the Japanese landings on Sumatra to the west and Bali Ball to the east had been In considerable force WASHINGTON Cleaning Up The national capital which was un tin under tinder under der lire ever since the Douglas Douglas-Chaney Douglas Douglas-Cha nay ney boondoggling fight started with the OCD as a central point had started the job of ot self-cleaning self with President Roosevelt taking a leaf out of 01 his hia own notebook and finding that 18 16 agencies were engaged in housing activities alone The senate and house had not been idle In the self-cleaning self matter ei either either elther ther for tor they had repealed the pension pen sion alon ion bin bill which already had been signed by the President The President had not signed It a such but it had been a rider on another bill and thus had become effective But the national outcry had been terrific and the congressional repeal re repeal repeal peal had followed with but few congre con of either bouse house willing wilting to put themselves on the spot as vat vot voting voting ing pensions for tor themselves after themselves the outcry Representative Reed of New York was perhaps most frank trank tor for while most congress congressmen congressmen congressmen men had said they had voted Ilor for the ilie previous IDea measure sure without considering ite It e much if it at all all ail said I was not called away by a telephone call I 1 Iwas was wag not out eat j tl iS ing log a sandwich sandwich- w wI I was not talking L with a constituent Reed Ip Rep P at the time time-I tIme I was in favor of the bill blU blUHe He was not however recorded as voting against repeal The OCD still was the center ot of attack Senator benator Byrd of ot Virginia having sa an d that his investigation fj f fj fI j I bs pay nt re over 2 In the OCD included actors baseball players football coaches track men tennis players newspaper and m e writers social w a army and navy officers doctors engineers nurses ex public officials 1 lawyers and c there In every walk of lift Many hid h Quit after Mrs Ro Ho so- so se elt ell Celt s res but it was eVI eVIdent evident evident dent that t the rest re t of them were under tire fire with the se late on the firing line lint r N Bomber Campaign Perhaps d I rather I g sly hum rhad r rhad rhad had been sl own In the di tr fr m Bataan that the men of 01 General MacArthur s 5 c m nand acre ere cre l I lin hn linning linning ning to take up a collect col on from their own pay to hate ha ha e a bomber sent them It Would have been a II or lT day story It if the newsmen had no aken it up at President Roosevelt s a con conference conference conference ference The Prescient said If It anybody will wiD tell me how I U Uee see ee ee that tha t they are sent tent I Awl I f i do i N t i r ly Iy It U Ut t i rn an t ri Toes loel b t u I lit 11 It All AliI u rr tit tic st al rn h hc hI dt d dt c t I kir kr kt k rIll r t 11 II f Ar ric n ship shipp ng ngIt 11 It c t f i t t that in 30 dd vessels tor J Ld t j 1 i ur coastwise shipping n 11 n rt tl it dr ar half had been tankers sl al wi 1 I that the U L b bits LItS its hid hd their rs to trey I rey on r c astal astir pt pL tn tit leum sui ply This attack it was con conceded conceded conceded ceded could do no w re than ac aci 4 i r the oil sh she on the east eastern eastern ern eni sa ser b bard and ard as the installations of of oil afir and tank farms had suffered no attacks nor had the big petroleum producing fields But the storm which cast two American naval vessels up on the rocky coast of Newfoundland took lives and provided the worst wont naval disaster of the kind In history The destroyer Truxton and the naval na naval naval val cargo auxiliary Pollux were lost and by a quirk of fate they hap hap- happened happened happened to go around where foot cliffs cUtts jutted up straight from the ocean The vessels pounded on rocks al almust must Immediately disintegrated and their crews had to scramble ashore dF i a q yaz t A Aw w ii v I IGo Go GoL i L COMM HICKOX Skipper Shipper of 01 the he U 1 1 Flawn as best they might They landed ona on ona ona a rocky coast where half halt their number nun num number bar ber were battered and dr with willi without out a chance Approximately men were rescued fro from the two wrecked ships BURMA India All-India Command The closing of Rangoon though much better defended and bitterly contested than had been Singapore had given the Japanese a long stride toward the demobilization of the Burma road Though the Chinese were believed already to have developed another line Une of communication partially jf not nOI c ruining this objective obJective Live tive for the Japs It was proof of the he fact that something drastic would have to be done about the reinforce reinforcement reinforcement ment of the British defense of at India In iia dla or more territory would fall Call CallI into the Nipponese hands I the Chinese were h Id ng rig the I northern sector but Ih the British h hay hav havIng haying havIng Ing been driven back from trum the BlI Bil n river fortifications 1 I lad ad to fall backan back backon backen on en Rangoon and the work of de all military goods in the city ity which could not be m ved was Ute he signal for the closing of the port It was a tough 48 hours f t r the military n fission the the-etor there tor or It was the r duty to see sec that the trial final shipments of the thi usI us 11 I ds of t ns of t American lease lei ter d I ode st at in ed cd on its rail journey up the Burn a road to the Chi iese lese before thi J I ps rot got In Some of ot this it ha i beer beel ref faced aced destruction and am ng whit could not be moved were h of f American n ade tn tit which had hadnot hadnot rot not been assen bled i t fU r sh h p pl PI nl n The British had made their last stand at the river and therein there thereIn theren In n good I 1 one ons they c I vered vred tI tic L final removal of lease lei let d g K olst f I Brit sh h ater pi el a t id ie n I RUSSIA RUSSIA- I Guerrillas in Neu Nett f J fOne One by product of ot the Russian vic tortes tories over the Germans on the east front had been the contacting by the Red armies of the partis in inS or guer i rifles rillas who had been buried but active back of the Nazi lines lilies More and more of these intrepid bands had been bLen unc one vered and the I I news rep were beg nning to tc toI I get to them and to 10 send to U tl e w rid their st ries des of heroism and f de deI I strut strUl- tion Also Alo o a by I 1 i of ot tI tie e a advance had been mount r r g stor es of brutality out by the NazIs to Russian civilians most of them based whether true r n t on the activities t I 1 f these same guerrillas Thousands of civilians eyewitness reporters had hod cabled had been slain by the Nazis N aXIs wh Ie le other thousands had died of freezing or starvation herded in t freed fined fLed mal matches ches after their clothing had been p Raged The b bands were able by hiding in woods wood ar al and d mountains tD prey upon German communications which by very necessity of tempera temperature lure ture aid ar d topography had been chained to the few w t-w Russian roads The guerrillas were g Germans destroying not only trucks but tanks as well and slaughtering such of them as fell tell into their handsOne handsOne hands handsOne One leader of such a bard bar bal d told a newsman that he and his fellows had blown up two large German trucks and that three members offe of fe the trucks crews had been shot to death by their own superior officer for per permitting permitting the trucks to be destroyed The Russian guerrillas had ranged In age from 10 to 35 LABOR N Not 01 So Quiet I abor troubles which had been aim st at nonexistent after Pearl Harbor Har Harbor Harbar bar bor had hurled the nation Into war began cropping up somewhat over the n though the federal gov governo erno ent was not delaying to have them settled as rapidly and forcefully force forcefully forcefully fully as possible Congress too was having It its la labar labor labor bar bor difficulties A I i rop sed wartime suspensIOn of the 40 hour week caused heated debate with charges I of labor desp being hurled by ay Representative Cox of Georgia I Later in answer S labor ch ef of of oC the war production board said enactment of ot the prop pro prop proa p a sal al alII would II uld result in confusion contusion and lea den i r Not ble 11 i i i i T g U ti t e a difficulties lad had beer beci 01 or e c n t St t Lou s where had p 7 t I mi ml y employees el e i a strike which would la ase e tri l- l i I Ie i a v wt vIe I Ie le defense In lusty al ran len lenAn An dd sir tr k ke Ice at San SanI I I s ten t err Crt tl II tie tle e e n TI Steel I ml mi v Y YI was I as building bulldog 81 W a f desir de tr ers for tor tl tt e r I avy avyn avyn I n rl n 11 en d d n t wilk w out but butt tl t t cy y Y s T kd c e lt t l h r rs id i id then I q l I t h I nh ni r t b k kt t v rk rk again at attl attl tl l e I I It t I e a r rd r g t v work ork 10 t ur u r I Its rt s s sly I l y s c I 1 tt ti tie e cot tor i 1 ido I dt do n it i I ITi Tl Ti r ils 15 t I 1 11 I k t eo ee 1 t sl es r tl ti e I We West t c I st I tl ti t l r I r I be bers rs cI 1 1 iI U us lad I nd Hr n f s I 1 to work ork r I Us tt st 1 gt i 1 s l t II 11 I 1 v y th gh i te e fl 11 lly lIy r i f fcc i t cc i tit t i t the l e dayn day 11 1 t l r Su u 1 I y b t i r fact act rI 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