Show ---- --- Zhe 5tallt 1tonday Morning hips Press on Indies as Singapore Falls Japs Thrust At Burma Railroad City de 4 MALAYA Dv ANN I Hi!SARAWAK :"z al ANAMILAII 'Celebes Sea PEMANG 0 EQUATOR 9P1"riP I PONTIANAK "1 British—(Of tidal) ' BORNEO dm r41- :?45A SUMATRA " MUNTOK -0 '' KUCHING 'NSeINGAPORE 1 TTARAKAN ISLAND Martaban Gulf Battle Nears Decish e Phase 4m- ' :iX111ALIK A tKETAPAN 1 (CELEBES' -- -- IfF:::1 ii'!i POSO PALEMBANG By Aaeociated Preget RANGOON Burma Feb 15— Ja paneme forces struck bloodily Om 4Td - f-c- 404 - BANDJERMASIN 4'4'‘ c 4 0 from two direction' Sunday night i ss rrA:"1 at Thaton 40 mile' northwest of TELOEKBETOENG ele4 ea ACASSAR Irire 'Jay tN) Itartaban on the Rangoon rail1 1 'ebt : road and the battle for the east : : enaat of the Gulf of Martaban BATAVIA : -tra reared its decisive climax 011 SEMAIM0d: were The invaders "" attacking : V A above A aeaaide from 16 landing points MANG fLORES captured Martahan as well as : from st deep salient thrust from Indian v4147 'Ocean it Li :i!i: their SalWeen river bridgehead at WA SOEMBA Paan 'unofficial reports said 300 term A army communique I MILE( merely said: AT EQUATOR "There has been no further landed in Java (4) American bombers attacks on the SFthA'Pert front but British admitted loss of Singapore (2) Sunday The to foothold establish struck at near is Japs the indicate preattempted enemy port of Alacasenemy shipping reports atound German Sumatra area sar of Japaan in forces Paleinbang for the attack (3) (5) paring broadcast of Tokyo dispatch said flaps have nese have occupied Anambas Islands (1) of Duvinzeik-Thaton- " 1!: : -- 1 Q203::2:0 i : I I I Dutch-acknowledg- Bomb Supply Dumps British bombers accompanied heavily by American fighters bombed enemy supply dumps at Pun and Martaban and swept d terriwide over tory on reconnaissance flights Canadians piloted two of the Blenheim bombers which blasted a Japanese and machine-gunneat Martaban and troop camp river craft ana motor vehicles The Blenheime flew' with a fighter screen of American and British fighters and pressed home two heavy attacks Saturday Some defense fire was encountered but all allied planes returned safery The Japanese have established bridgheada over the Salween both It Paan and Martaban and it was enemy-occupie- d there that the British bombers concentrated Flares Into Battle l The front flared into bloody battle again Sunday 24 hours after bombers had thinned the enemy lines so grievously that fighting had ded away Both sides suffered heavy losses Burma was free of air attacks and the allied fighters roamed the skies at will on reconnaissance missions over enemy-hei- d terri tory Certain that heavy Japanese reinforcements will be coming from the Singapore front shortly the British hastily strengthened their positions in this great crown colony which is the gateway to China and the barrier to India Veteran Chinese troops to take Up positions in the rugged northern a jungles border-lo- g and- Thal French land both puppet states of the jInvader Burma's cosmopolitan riverside !capital of Rangoon now is semi- : deserted tiVillan evacuation to y the moved apace but two English daily newspapers continued to publish A few :of the larger stores in this city cl' a half million were reported Tlanning to rove northward as lspanese columns deployed within : con-Unti- - Indo-Chin- Sun---da- ry i Fri Throughout January flights of rind:ans who comprise about half 11angoons population were officially discouraged Doek La bo re ra To keep Rangoon funetioning as lit and port for the Burma 'road to China require a only a few 'thousand dock laborers and auto- he inobile maintenance crews Now military authorities have realized that the departure of frightened civilians not essential to the war effort would bolster Ihstead of weaken the allied armed t or( es broadcast heard here from f road reported that l'andit Jawaharlal Nelirti told a tsresm conference that "even If the road were cut it would not A all-Ind- (Continued frtItti Page Two) when a long line of 'Japanese crossed a ridge a short distance ahead "I worked them over with my and got at least 30 tommy-gulike ducks in a Coney Island shooting gallery" he raid Fivi Filipino scouts patrolling road heard the shooting and joined Wermuth Together they killed 50 or 60 more of the enemy The following day with a marine Carl Sheldon who was visiting the front lines on a pass and a few acouts Wermuth crawled 2500 yards through the enemy lines into the foothills and located nearly 450 Japanese in bivouac Sends Runner He sent a runner back to notify a: near-b- y artillery battery Wermuth and Sheldon crawled back a little and the big American guns poured high explomives squarely Into the bivouac Returning to his lines Sheldon wounded a Japanese officer They left him for Kal-she- The unsuccessful Japanese at- tempt was clearly aimed at the oil refineries which produce 4200000 tons a year but the Dutch went otie step further They announced n out "thorough destruction of all vital pt4ints in the vicinity of Palm- - Sinday they had they hadn't heard us" Wermutn related "It was time to leave so we crawled into a trench and there we saw the Japanese officer still alive and limping slowly I threw at him It was up the tomnly-guempty but I didn't know it until I glanced at the clip "I shouted 'Sheldon come here and get the gun on hilft' Sheldon n did" Capture Captain The two returned with a Captain as prisoner In Wermuth's dairy you read that "nothing much happened" a Crawling on a patrol he got he in his knee but sniper's slug to the dressing stawalked back tion "Snipers are beginning to be a bad nuisance to all of us" he said On January 14 he volunteered town of to burn the enemy-helSams! He crawled through the dawn with Japanese lines before and walked five gallons of gasoline behind the shacks where the g He Japanese were sleepin sprinkled the gasotne and threw a lighted match because their aracranino-five minutes me only gave tillery after they saw the first smoke' he said lie wtoi 200 yards beyond the three-blocsquare town When Japanese guns opened up from the other side "That was one of my lucky d d k England Loses U Remember 41 Izt EJ HER BIRTHDAY With— S Cutter sunk The communique said: "The board of the admiralty regrets to announce that H M S Culver (Lieutenant Commander R: T Gordon-Duf- f RN) an coast guard cutter has Next of kin of casualties have been informed" State24 been sunk Save Up Grease to Fry UNOWII0 Says Akron 15 UP) — AKRON Ohio Feb Housewives here are saving Sfp or Phone YOUR FLORIST mAk snolenne Happy Sund FlowerR Today! fat to fry the Jape The Akron Junior Fire Fighters' to Clubs has launched gather 3000 discarded coffee cans The to collect cooking grease cans will be painted red and distributed to all sections of the city carried bing" This meant at least part of the huge refining plants with their in- -stallations storage tanks railroads loading docks and extensive administration buildings had been blown to pieces to prevent them from falling into Japanese hands ' (The British radio commenting on the possibility of complete de- struction of Dutch relineries in the Palembang area said it would be "the greatest material voluntary in world destruction history dead "We were crawling away when Sheldon called 'Captain captain come here' I looked over the knoll and there was a Japanese field kitchen just below us but luckily y One) even key! greater rificé of the Dnieperi points") irtirtail Chinese assistance" "Chma has developed her own War production which functions days" he smiled Spqrt from the new supply roads 7rTAbeing built" the Indian leader said HP met with Chinese Genk Sralissimo Chilang for a fourth time Sun-daat New Delhi Ex-in a further effort to weld the 7on000000 Indians and Chinese LONDON Feb 15 ()P1—The adthat trto a common front miralty announced Sunday coast the fOrmer United States guard cutter Culver had been - ed Bataan Forces Dutch Blast 'Vast Oil:Center Laud Deeds In Path of Jai) Drivel of Chicagoan (Continued From Page airdrome "and other than the Russian the Grease collected will be sold to the government to be used in making explosiveS February 16 1912 44ke sac- - dam") Dutch troops fending off the in- tended "vertical ienvelopment" from the air "did a good 'job and made short work of the invaders the Dutch asserted Two of the points of attack were mopped up quickly in savage fighting and the Japanese attackera slaughtered The high commandi claimed that at the third point we have the situation fully in hand" adding that only "a few score" of the Japanese sky troops still remained 'hand-to-han- d alive The parachute landings were preceded by bombinglraids on the Palembang airdrome In which two Japanese bombers and two escorting fighter planes were shot down it was learned Sunday The Japanese dropped both high explosives and incendiary bombs Roosevelt Tells Pastor Takes Boys' Class Canada of U S Backing To Destroyer Launching Praises Neighbor Nation's Effort In Waging War (Continued From Page One) born that we speak to each other in these eventful days but as partners in a great enterprise which concerns us equally and in which we are equally pledged to the uttermoat sacrifice anti effort "In an atmosphere of peace four yeara ago I offered you the asaurance that the people of this by country vvouid not stand idly Anil If domination of Canadian were ever threatened by an aggressor Your prime minister responded with an intimation that Canada whose vast territories flank our ntire northern border would man that border Against Any attack upon us These muthal pledges are now being implemented Inatead of defending merely our shorea and our territories we now are joined with the other free peoplea of the world against an armed conspiracy to wipe out free institutions where-eve- r they exiat "Freedom -- - our freedom and yours—is under attack on many fronts You and we together are on engaged to resist the attack can any front where our strength best be brought to bear "The part that Canada is playing in this fight for the liberty of man is worthy of your traditions and ours We your neighbors have been profoundly impressed by reports that have come to us setting forth the magnitude and nature of your effort as well as the valiant spirit which supbe ports it If that effort is to almeasured in dollars then you ready have paid out in two years' more than twice as much as you spent in the whole four years of the last war Notes Air Training "Moreover these reports show that one Canadian in every 21 of your entire population is now in the fighting forces and that one in every 29 is a volunteer for service anywhere in the world It Copyright New York Times WASHINGTON Feb 15—The considered judgment of responsible officials in Washington is that the fall of Singapore larks the darkest moment of the war for the united nations Even the anticipation of the &vent and the rhetoric of Win-io- n Churchill did not minimize the feeling that this blow may te decisive in the southwest Pac!fic and may vitally affect the outcome of the conflict in China and the near and middle east If there were any confidence In the fate of Sumatra with its rich oil fields and coastline bordering on the Malacca straits the feeling here would not be so pessimistic but it is virtually too conceded that Sumatra must inevitably fall cutting the united nations off from their main supply of oil in the southwest Pacific and leaving the Japanese free passage into the Indian ocean from where they can raid the allied supply lines to China Suez and the Persian gulf U S Planen Arrive The only bright spot in this dreary picture is some indicetion that more United States aircraft have arrived in Java though deliveries to the Nethrlands East Indies from the United States are only About of what the Dutch have ordered The number of aircraft involved in these recent deliveries cannot be disclosed but there is reason to believe that enough were landed to give tht Dutch some chance of sending itlew planes into the air against the invaders 'Also there was confidence among united nations' representatives here that the battle of production will bring the tools of war with which Japan'a gains can be won back So long as Java holds it is felt here that the united nations will always have the op portunity to regain the initiative in the southwest Pacific but if it falls it is conceded that the united nations will not only have difficulty regaining a foothold in Malaysia but may not be able to supply and build up the force they have now started In Australia Importance of Java For the conquest of Java by the Japanese it ix conceded would give the Japanese control of the four main straits through Indies Into the Indian ocean one-quart- er Soenda Lombok and control of these in turn would enable them to extend their Attack until they had controlled the Fiji islands and New Caledonia which straddle Malacca ''orres----an- our supply routes to Australia Coincidentally the fall of Java would take from the united tions their last source of ready fuel necessary to any future offensive operations Though the oil in Java does not compare in quality with that In Sumatra it could be used find If it were lost it would be necessary for the united nations tei bring oil across the Indian ocean or to bring it 12900 miles across the -- Pacific" Thus it was clear Sunday night that there was every intention here of doing everything that could be done to save Java Air power it 1A118 admitted Waft the key to that problem therefore the immediate fate of the Island seemed to depend not only on our ability to get fighter planes there but also to assemble the planes now there fast enough to get them into operation against the Japanese who have already been pounding the Javanese oil and other mili- tary targets Surprise Over Churchill There was no tendency here to condemn Winston Churchill though it is known that his predictions on the fate Of Singapore were far more optimistic than the facts have !Justified There was some surprise at his lack of any attempt explanation of what happened there in recent days and something more than" surprise at his failure to Mention the passage of the German warships through the English channel last week1 But in spite of thiS it was generally felt that it was useless to throw stones st the prime minister unless there were someone to take his place and the tendency here was to leave criticism of the Churchill government to the British and to 'concentrate on our own short- comings - The people here who know what happened on December 7 at Pearl Harbor know the full extent of our own resporisibility for the whole catalogue Of catastrophe that has overtaken the united nations in the southwest Pacific Therefore these people are not wasting their breath on recriminations against the Brit- Aircraft Soviet Troops Bag 20 Axis Meet Fresh Foes in Libya Nazi Reserves U S 00-- (Continued From Page One) aerachmitts An antiaircraft batvictim tery added a twenty-firs- t Two axis victims earlier In the week were confirmed as shot down and three other planea were added to the growing toll of Ma' lta's antiaircraft batteries movOn land the enemy started "considerable- mechanized ing and armored forces east of the main British lines between El Mechili and Tmimi and it appeared that they might try to Tobruk : by-pa- Coaxial Road A good coastal road parallels the Cirenalcan coast some 30 mike south of the Mediterranean from El Mechili to the Egyptian frontier ut events d dive-bombe- Russian—(Official) d t4 Launching of Battleship Creit s Prepare 35000-To- n Giant at Norfolk PORTSMOUTH Va Feb 15 ics crew nf 1600 men hegsn work Sunday night in the forest of timbers under the battleship Alabama to ready the arintin-tnvesel fnr her launching at the Norfolk navy yard Monday The men held R dress rehearsal Saturday night to coordinate the intricate steps which must be taken to send the navy 's! newest n p shing into the dreadnought Elizabeth river on schedule and without a FtfMOVA Obstacles miahap At 10:30 p rn SundAy night exactly 12 hours before the aponsor Mrs Lister Hill wife of the senator from Alabama' is to ar3as1i a bottle of champagne against th prow of the $S0000000 ship this workmen began a systematic and precisely timed removal of shores and other timbers holding the 700- foot vessel on the ways A- checkered flag will be flying and only a few remaining cribs will have to be removed when the party of high government officials and navy yard workers assemble for the launching The preparations have been studied closely here for days by representatives from the nation's other major ship yards and ways and they will be tense observers Monday to glean all possible information on the ticklish job of launching these giant hulks The job was considered so dangerous years ago that condemned criminals were used for launching large vessels and given their freedom if they survived Knox 1111 Speak Chief speakers Monday will be Navy Secretary Frank Knox and Governor Frank M Dixon of Alabama Other 'witnesses to the first launching of a capital ship here n since the war will Include Justice Hugo Black of the United States supreme court Gorernors Colgate W Darden Jr- of Virginia and J NI Broughton of North Carolina: seven United States senators 20 representatives high naval officers and a delegation of Alabama citi- 1 - By Associated Press MOSCOW Feb 15 — Russian d troops driving against entrenched positkn lof the German army have come in contact with fresh reserves but have advanced 30 miles in one sector dispatches from the front said Suhday night In many sectors Russian troops are confronting Germany's basi The communique winter line issued by the soviet bureau of inof German formation spoke counterattacks in some sectors with the Germsns throwing In their first reserves Nazi Planes Downed The communique said sever!' German planes were shot down Saturday Ibringing the total for the first 14 days of February to 269 against 83 lost by the Russians Three Germsn planes were shot down "near Moscow" Sunday Red Star the red army newspaper said fortified advance positions had been pierced by the soviet vanguard and now it can be said our troops have come into contact in: many sectors of the basic German fortified lines which have in the rear the last few months Hitler' s generals realize the jumping off place for- the spring offensive i&slipping through their been-buil- fingers" Red Star added - Spanish-America- zens The Alabama fourth naval vessel to bear the name of that state wax authorized by congreas in 1934 but the keel WAS not laid until February 1 19441 It took s Of labor to 12225421 of de- this latest engine oen prroldrei man-hour- Divklon 'Routed i On the northwestern front army Jeports said the Fifty-sixtregiment of a division of reservists just arrived from France had been routed In the Kalinin sector the advance goes on front dispatchen reported and In the mouthwest 15 important German gun positione were destroyed The ''X" division of the red army on the southern front wart said to have killed 800 Germans and wounded more than 1000 Snipers were reported active around Sevastopol Heralding the contact with the German linea Red Star declared Russian troops are now Anding "continuoua chains of resistance destruction of which is one of the most important factors determining: the advance through the depth of the defenses" Knife Fortifications This chain consists of groups of connected firing pointa which the Germans depend on to hold the front while aviation and artillery operate from established bases the army organ said This was the first evidence that the red d army is knifing into the 'fortifications of the h long-prepare- Fire Damages Plant PITTSBURGH Feb 15 (7PI — A fit wrecked the tank room of a United States Glass company plant On Pittsburghs south side Sunday destroyed 27 tons of molten glass and caused damage eatimated by Fire Chief two-alar- - Edward Kerr at $1(1000 P d 1 -- - HI I 7Rio--Ercfii-d- e Prospector 1 1 carefully-engineere- foe From the western front came news from recent German CH ptivra that conditions were bad a mOng their units Sttppers who said they Were froni'-- ' the Second pia toon of the First cOmpany of the 229th sapper battalion reported they had V ' "11W not eaten for three days L 011QTtight Dlogti PoworStramlitted IN t":11 It t 4 f:X Zb '1 e tv SALT LAKE CITY Ar DENVER Lc DENVER At SALT LAKE CITY 14 ittA '11241('- ow1 p :0 100 PM 800 AM 100 PM 100 AM Pettorvent711 trko-t- -- rcxET orna So Main St Phone 46551 CITY 44P 24 t 1 Evety 4e! :r of N : k(('i N () 0- II V7t 4 11 4 jr$ r rit v t - ' ish Some Don't Know Nevertheless it is also true that a great number or people in Waahington do not know what happened at Pearl Harbor and therefore cannot understand why we lost command of the Pacific and were not able either to reinforce General Douglas MacArthur or protect Singa'pore which always depended on mea power for its defense A The enemy columns were disshould give us all new strength so that British arand new courage to learn that in persed was widely to unable them tillery the swift mobilization your army effectively but patrolsengage hurried oilt has increased nearly tenfold your to harass the enemy contimmusly navy lifteenfold your air force The P A F communique spoke of We rejoice to twenty-fivefolBritieh troops in the Acroma reknow that the air training plan did not make clear but gion which you commenced to organize two years ago is now the main whether the battle lines had been back to that point If so source of reinforcements for Brit- pushed would it axis within 90 ain's air force and that its grad- miles of place the Egypt and represent and uates are fighting on almost every front in the world Other reports overnight advance of 30 to 40 in equally Impressive miles disclose effort which Behind Lines terms an !Canada is making in the common Movements behind the Gorman ciuse on liberty that Rommel posh "Yours are the achievements of lines indicated a great nation They require no sibly was "working up to an ati tack" a military commentator praine from me—but they get that said me I nevertheless from praise "I imagine both sides would understate the case when I say he added It depends that we in this country contem- to attack" and entirely on what Rommel reckons plating what you have done done we have And what he reckons he the spirit in which you have Neither side will just sit it are proud to be your neign- has down if they can help it" bora The Germans now have between'Forward Together' 200 and 250 planes in Crete and "From the outset you have had southern Greece- - bases within our friendship and understanding reach of the north African hittle- These with machines in: and our collaboration on an in- fields and southern Italy constH Sicily creasing scale We have gone forward together with increasing un- tute the axis Mediterranean airi derstanding and mutual sympathy fleet under th command of Air and good will Albert Kesselring who have conducted air operations over NorMore recent brought us into even closer align- way And who directed the pulveriz-- ! ment and at Washington a few ing attack against the English city weeks ago with the aasistance of of Coventry Britain's prime minister and your own we arrived at understandings North of axis-helBengaal Berwhich mean that the united nalin said sank a bombers German enand tions will fight and work 9000-toand damaged dure together until our common two notherstransport 15000 tons se) totaling purpose is accomplished and the sun shines down once more upon badly that they were considered The Germans said the ships a world where the weak will be lost were sailing in two British consafe and the strong will be just "There is peril ahead for us all voys and that two light crulaers and sorrow for many But our two destroyers and a large merCause is right our goal is worthy chant ship were hit by))ombs The our strength is great and growing Germans also said they British columns in the Let us then march forward toA n el Gazala region gether facing danger bearing Rome claimed the axis forced a sacrifice competing only in the effort to share even more fully British retreat east or In the great task Iaid upon us all and t ha t German and Italian colLet us remembering the price umns continued intense activity to that ()rile have paid for our sur- the rear of the enemy Tobruk bombed and five Curtiss VIVA make mir ilWri contribution 1A'AS worthy to lie beside theirs upon planes were shot down in dogthe altar of man's faith" fights Rome added all-o- Capital Sees Singapore 1Fall As Darkest Event in War (AP)--Sunday school class of their pastorpassed up Sabbath texts Sunday for a lesson in democracy at the launching of the $6000000 destroyer Meade fleet sisier of the Bailey and Farenholt "This is an inspiration to the children" said the Rev Clark L Van Auken pastor of the Sommerlield Methodist church on Staten Island "The launching to me contains a righteous lesson sadly needed at this time" Snow fell on a gathering of 100 persons who watched vessel glide down the ways of the Staten Island the 1620-to- n of the Bethlehem Steel company the third deshipyards to leave the yard in three months stroyer The Sunday school class was given permission to attend the cerernonies by Rear Admirali Adolphus Andrews commandant of the Third naval Alstrict who told Rev Van Auken that he agreed with him that "our children should realize the sacrifices being made for them" The pastor told his class that the destroyer would make a contribution "to the preservation of the American way of life which means freedom of worship of speech of assembly and of the press" NEW YORK Feb 15 10 boys and Navy Readies': V 1 U I LI 1 I MO114 U61-t- 4oitti41 ( is ' (oil 5 LftT 1P 7177' - ei p - 'I 1111b" " rs11':) 7e'-:- '' r eil C"L771' 044 dim I 0 : |