Show r4APAAAWAARAtger410 f'1041PPAlikomAKAAAl : - rays r 3' It 311tehril t wish theysit Never tarttNI tido war I tuy Bonds and Stampa" fern 1 15 No 'I 11 C I: Ski 1041111111: Vol - 1 3 11 1 po ( - 8 1 ft1'' li - A (10141 7 NsI i i t o - -- 'oot 1 0i i1 ' i 1 t - i 1:i r Silver (domestic) Silver (foreign) Copper electrolytic delIV ''' '''''''''I -1 :!' ! orotl I I ieta I Cfmnovtirtitvaliely of Enlisting Experts to Will Be Utilized To Aid War Effort of Nation Nippon Belittles Bombing Airs Convert Industry to War Work WASHINGTON April 21 CP) —Donald M Nelson complained Tuesday that congressional criti- By Associated Press WASHLNGTON April 21- -President Roosevelt Tuesday a plan to seize any useor controlled ful enemy-owne- d ed patents and apply them to America's war effort regardless t5f technical legal obstacles By defining patent rights - as property he said it could- be done under' his wartime emergency powers To this end he told a press eonference he has directed Leo Crowley the alien) property custodian VI conduct an exhaustive survey of thousands of enemy 1:latent holdings and to take any stens necessary to make them available for war production Should Take Everything We should take everything we reed the President said because the first thing to do is win the 'WS T Furthermore he made it plain that the seized patents are not to revert to their foreign owners when the war is ended Patents were seized during the first World war and afterwards were let slip hack to their original owners he said and a recurrence of this should be prevented Take Thousands As enemy property custodian Crowlev has already came into possession of many such enemy owned or controlled patents Mr Most of these Roosevelt saki were in the chemieal and pharmaThe next few ceutical field months he added will see several thousand more come into this custody Crowley interviewed later said the program was already in operation—patents are being examined to see if we want them and whether additional research would make them valuable in prosecuting the war Artificial Rubber Among the types of patents under examination he said were those having to do with artificial rubber artificial fuels artificial foods and fabrics together with all kinds of drugs a long list of biological patents and patents on s electrical equipment and Already Crowley has seized artificial rubber and gasoline patents held by the I G Farbenindustrie commonly called the "German Dye Trust" Several compaMee in the United States and their patents have been taken over Among these are the Magnesium Development company New York and the Schering corporation cism of dollar-a-yea- r men sketched for the senate defense investigating committee a picture of rounded activities he said were keeping the assembly lines moving at such it pace that a few months would find the axis on the short end of military equipment scales "America England and Russia are 'producing war material In much greater quantity than our axis enemies" he declared "I believe we are over the hump on production Everything we have is in production and we are getting increased quantities" These increases he added promise to wipe out within a very few months the advantage which rested with the axis powers which had built up reserves of equipment for several years In anticipation of war In this connection Chairman Cannon (D) Missouri of the house appropriations committee told the chamberthat "we have now outdistanced the enemy in production and are producing as much war materiel as Germany tam is making it so difficult to obtain business experts to aid in converting industry to war work that it might become necessary to draft them Chairman Truman (D) Missouri of the senate defense investigating committee before which Nelson testified promptly declared that he saw no reason why such business executives could not be drafted Nelson replied that the matter was a question for congress to decide and that until such a step was taken less criticism might help Aside from his complaint that criticism made - congressional business men hestitate to take dollar-a-yejobs however the war production board chairman reported happily that military production wasa"over the hump" big black pipe Puffing on the husky war production chief ar n Peace 'Feelers' CHUNGKING (UP)--Mor- 400--0 Axis---(Offi- Radio) cial Via Associated Press Central and western Japan were held under new air alarm Tuesday afternoon the Berlin radio reported but the Japanese themselves confined their broadcasts to deprecatory reports on Saturday's raids on four great cities and to hints of a peace offensive In a lengthy account of prayers by Japanese Christians for an early peace The ' (Continued on Pxge Six) (Column Five) German report said that alarms sounded between 4 and 5 p m Japanese time (I and 2 a m mountain war time) and that "for central Japan the sounded about 5 p m while the alarm remained in force for western Japan especially for Kyushu" Many Steel Mills Kyushu is the most southern and westerly of the four main Japanese islands nearest China It has many steel mills the great Sasebo naval base and the important port of Nagasaki The German broadcast said nothing of planes or bombs so the alarms may have been precautionary or nervous reaction to the raids Saturday on Tokyo Yokohama Nagoya and Kobe made several The Japanese broadcasts about those raids One said various ministers reported to the cabinet Tuesday that Japanese life had been affected only in a few instances and to small degree and that the transportation system was hardly disturbed Another in French told of two planes'being attacked Saturday by Japanese interceptors Picked Up Enemy Plane "Shortly after 1 p m (Saturup an enemy day) they picked plane which seemed5 to be of the type flying North American at less than 1000 meters" said the broadcast Antiaircraft fire caused the all-cle- President Eys Martin Visions Broad Plan to Fight Avert Inflation Fiscal Policies Predicts Nornar Spending Will Be Campaign Issue Considers General Price Ceiling Consumer Rations CHICAGO April 21 April 21 (UP) non-wconsideradministration's is Roosevelt Roosevelt —President conwill a form prime spending ing a general price ceiling sumers rationing salary limita- political issue this year Chairman tions and an almost confiscatory Joseph W Martin of the Repubex6ess profits tax as part of his lican national committee predicted forthcoming antlinflation program Tuesday as he looked ahead to a Informed senate sources revealed "poor man's campaign" for house and senate seats Tuesday night "The people are willing that we The overall plan as outlined by all that is needed in the spend the president to his close advisers war effort but they are getting reportedly contemplates a limita- fed up on other expenditures" he tion of $25000 or $50000 on Indi- stated at a press conference vidual earnings along with a 99 "They are demanding a reduction of normal governmental expenses per cent excess profits levy and they want nonessentials cut The program is expected to call out" Such outlays he added would for: I A general ceiling on all re- develop one of the principal issues tail and wholesale commodity in the forthcoming interparty prices and the licensing of retail fight Martin told reporters the party and wholesale dealers 2 General rationing of consumnever was in a better financial position and related that it was virers' goods 3 Excess profits tax schedules tually free of debt whereas it was requiring corporations to pay to "$1500000 in the hole" in 1937 "We have very little money on the treasury 99 per cent of their earnings in excess of 6 per cent hand however and we'll run a of their invested capital poor man's campaign" he related 4 of individual In- "But I think we'll be able to get Imposition Bloomfield N J a pharmaceuticome tax rates that would make enough money for a moderate cal enterprise It impossible for any taxpayer to campaign" He disclosed that contributions retain more income for his own Hearings Conducting uses than a fixed maximum The were "well up" to those of other The senate patents committee has not yet decided off years and onannounced that a Page Seven) has been conducting hearings on president (Continued (Continued nn Page Eight) (Column Two) (Column Threes a bill by Senator Bone (D) Washington to give the government sweeping patent seizure powers Roosevelt indicated President however that he already had certain seizure powers under the first war powers act The senate hearings have seen justice department officials testiST PAUL April 21 (AP)—Electron medicines probable fy that by entering into patent with German miracle drugs of the near future were described to the American pool concerns some American corporations have created monopolies in College of Physicians Tuesday by a group of physicians from the some fields which are proving University of California home of the giant cyclotron which detrimental to the war effort Mr Roosevelt announced his makes these sensational new remedies The therapeutic effects come patents seizure plan without waitNo other part of ing to be questioned by reporters mostly from electrons which the iodine lodges The correspondents immediately substances emit Some do what the body is affected Two other electron ray remedies began raising questions as tolegal no medicine ever did before going obstacles that might be encoun- directly to the sick part of the are doing remarkable things One tered body and nowhere else radiophosphorus gathers mostly They mentioned such possibiliThe report the first general in bone marrow Marrow ties as foreign-ownepatents that presentation based on hu- - duces blood corpuscles One teahave been technically transferred man cases was made by Dr Wil- spoonful of radiophosphorus stops to American citizens and bona liam J Kerr head of the depart- for months sometimes a disease fide patent pools through which ment of medicine Dr John Law- known as polycythemia which is American and foreign concerns rence assistant professor of med- excess of red cells This disease have lumped their patent holdings icine and Dr Joseph G Hamilton may be fatal because the excess for their mutual advantage of California medical red cells form clots Mr Roosevelt replied that it was University school and the Crocker radiation Leukemia Treated not a matter of legal technicalities but of what America might laboratory For treating leukemia which is Most remarkable is radioiodine need to win the war Seized pat- used of toxic goiter excess of white blood cells on cases four ents would be available to all the is doing as well as recovered goiters united nations he said answering The four arewith not than but It is better their poisonous gone along another question a treatment however simpler He had not read the Bone bill products The other remedy is radlostronhe said Easy to Take tium This substance prefers to All these patients had to do was settle in the hard outer portion to take a few drinks of a slightly of bones instead of in the marrow salty pleasant tasting liquid— Therefore it is being used on a water containing a little of the type of bone cancer multiple new iodine myeloma which affects only the Used Virtually every bit of the radio-iodi- hard outer part of bone concentrates in the thyroid only on hopeless cases radlostronVALLETTA Malta April 21 un —P A F fighters shot down five gland Not only that but it goes tium has stayed the course of the snore axis aircraft Tuesday bring- almost exclusively to the part of disease These three are only a start ing the total of enemy planes de- the thyroid which is overactive stroyed over Mina in two days to and responsible for the toxic The cyclotron has made 290 dif16 an official announcement said goiter ferent radioactive substances and Twenty-eigThe electrons emitted by the new the end of the new things is not other planes were damaged in the two days eight of Iodine travel only one millimeter in sight Each is a form of matthem so seriously they probably Therefore they destroy only the ter unknown in nature unless posdid not reach their babes portion of the tissue where the sibly in the hot interiors of stars WASHINGTON -The ar ' Electron Medicines Perform Miracles in Curative Field pro-medic- d radio-phosphor- X-ra- - ne us ar B-2- (Continued on Pace Two) (Column Four) Diesel-engine- Malta Defenders Bag Five Planes 1Vednesday e than 50 April 22 Japanese bombers blasted airfields in eastern China Tuesday for the second time in 24 hours apparently in the belief 'that American planes which raided Tokyo last Saturday were based there the Central news agency reported Vk'ednesday Laval Expected To Concentrate On Home Front — Pierre VICHY to the devote Laval is expected collaborahis of months few first tionist rule primarily to domestic problems political circles said Tuesday These circles said that improvement of the food supply and solution of other dire problems might permit Laval to overcome what he has described as "superficial reticences" toward his government and that such efforts would do nothing to increase American opposition to his rule: Cordell Hull Secretary of State in Washington called attention to one of his previous statements that it remained to be seen whether the French people would attempt the preposterous role assigned to them by such men as Laval and said Washington's policy toward April 21 Vichy is now on (11') a day-to-da- y New AS E-tirop- (Aid 1ffisoks ft 5010 o- Nazis Drop Bombs In South England - F On e S IV:LESor 1'TEJr-7- Russian--(Offici- al) By Associated Press KUIBYSHEV U S S R April 21—The Russians reported Tuesday that Adolf Hitler's once bright hopes for a spring offensive by d the admission of his own officers have all but vanished under the haunting fear n of a thrust in the west Soviet authorities said their own predictions that the threatened nazi offensive would come in the summer instead of the spring—if it comes at all—had been borne out by statements of a Major Bittnercaptive Germam transport officer Fear Double Trouble The Russians said this officer related that the specter of double trouble—war on two fronts—had seeped into the German high command itself and that nazi hopes of big spring operations were growing dim Prisoners seen by foreign correspondents and information gathered by the Russians show that the main force of the German army whittled down by the red army's winter operations now is made up of reserves who are family men over 30 instead of the youths originally thrown into the battle-o- f Russia On the fighting fronts meanwhile the Russians were reported Gerattacking Smolensk center ofcover man military power under of an artillery bombardment with the nazi defenders floundering in swampy forest areas (The German high command said that on the central front a "fairly 'weak" soviet group had been encircled and annihilated) The Russians stepped up the tempo of assaults against Finnish lines on the Aunus isthmus with fresh troops from Siberia (Stockholm advices quoted the Finns as saying the heaviest fighting of the war was in progress there) 'Getting Nowhere' (In Helsinki a Finnish military report said the Russian offensive —now in its tenth day—still had gotten nowhere and that during the day six soviet attacks were repulsed) The army newspaper Red Star related that "new reserves" to bolster the red armies were flowing to the front along roads "full of marching companies" It carried an article by a guerilla warrior named Arkadi asserting the day "is not far distant when the red army will tear Pskov from the chains imposed on the city by Hitler gangsters" Pskov is on the northwestern front near the Estonian border and was the base for Alexander Nevsky's armies which defeated Scandinavian and German invaders in the thirteenth century soviet-capture- British-America- Wife of Envoy To Vichy Dies VICHY April 21 (UP) — Mrs William D Leahy wife of the United States ambassador to Vichy died of a blood clot in the heart Tuesday at the Rosary clinic where she underwent a serious op-- eration 10 days ago Doctors said she had made a remarkably swift recovery from the operation and had been expected to be able to leave the clinic soon Death came within 15 minutes after she was stricken A car was sen for Ambassador Leahy and he arrived at the bedside in his wife's last moments Mrs Leahy was the former Louise Tennet Harrington daughter of a San Francisco banker William Pearce Harrington She was married to Leahy on February 3 1904 They had one son William Harrington Leahy ir Tr ° Australia Bares Destroyer Loss vetmei 71110 351250 170 0 l'tle it d&0110? basis (Washington had no confirmation of a Free French spokesman's report in London that Vichy has turned over a large number of a to the Japaships in nese and is bargaining for more tonnage to go the same way (Laval himself left Vichy to spend some days in Paris said the German radio which also reported that Admiral Darlan chief of defense would take up residence there in Elysee palace former residence of the presidents of the French republic) In an order of the day te the fighting services Admiral Darlan declared: "You can rely on me as MELBOURNE Wednesday I rely on you to proceed further 22 (UP)—The Australian along the path of honor and to April destroyer Vampire has been sunk defend the empire" in recent operations in the Bay of Bengal during which she and a British destroyer attacking a superior Japanese force sank one Japanese destroyer and damaged another Prime Minister Curtin announced Wednesday LONDON Wednesday April 22 A communique issued by the (1P) — German raiders dropped prime minister did not make clear bombs in two areas of southern whether the Japanese vessel was but sunk during the action in which England early Wednesday-there were no casualties or dam- the Vampire a 1090-to- n ship built in 1917 was lost age Indo-Chin- Copp Of inn no Price Five Cents Hopes of Hitler For Early Push thi Russia Upset a-- 4ititi solowwetts rtores 1)00 Salt Lake City Utah Wettnemlay Morning April 22 1912 U S Decrees WPB May Have to Draft New Air Raid Business Men Says Nelson Scares Keep Seizure of Alien Patent Asserts Congress Gibes Hamm Task Japs on Jump ht vsy - - i - Local Melia 3i itritetot I I A 1 its(---1- -- - 4k 4 c'r----- 1 0 2L1710 r T inN 7 'i kj) 1 Big Bombers to Britain LONDON April 21 (AP)—Heavy bombers of the U S air force the first of the striking units'which will soon fly wing to wing with the RAF against the nazi continent are being ferried to British operational bases it was reported reliably Tuesday night Any day now the British expect to see the red white and blue star insignia of the U S planes and air correspondents of the national press are saying that the planes and their American crews will make Britain "the world's greatest air base" This fruition of plans for joint air action is the most noticeable consequence of the visit here of General George C Marshall the U S chief of staff Late Saturday before he flew back to the United States General Marshall said that U S air force units soon would be- at fields in all parts of Britain and that U S troops in the British isles would participate in commando raids on nazi-hel- d European coasts The first U S planes—to be flown and probably serviced by Americans—are understood to be big bombers capable of flying the Atlantic and going into service quickly after and establishment of base facilities mechanical tune-up- s which will be provided largely ready-mad- e by the British To follow by ship will be medium bombers and possibly which some commentators long had regarded as the R A F's greatest need Ar the receiving end of this imminent combined offensive patrol the German forces in northern France the Netherlands and Belgium were reported by Dutch sources Tuesday to be building up a bicycle army to combat invasion thrusts from the British isles Dutchmen escaping from the- Netherlands said cycle factories in the low countries and Denmark are working at top speed on German army orders They said also that the German officers and soldiers are extremely jitteryover allied invasion prospects - rs - Stream of War Torpedo Boat Callers Keeps Hero Bags President Busy Jap Warship Reviews Situation On All Fronts Of Global Conflict Daring American 1Aa(1S Foray on 'Cruiser Near Cebu WASHINGTON April 21 (A)— In an unusual series of conferences which included the fourth meeting of the Pacific 'Cvar eil President Roosevelt Tuesday reviewed the war situation from the thawing plains of Russia to the far reaches of Australia Besides the Pacific council composed of representatives of the seven nations battling Japanese aggression 'these xinited nations' representatives called upon Mr Roosevelt in almost unbroken procession: Litvinov Calls Russian Ambassador Maxim oLitvinov the Chinese foreign minister Dr T V Soong accompanied by Lieutenant General Hsiung chief of a military mission to this country: Minister Alexander Loudon of the Netherlands with Lieu- IN—- - U S— ( Of ficial ) By United Press WASHINGTON April 21—The - navy Tuesday night recorded another heroic exploit by Lieutenant John Bulkeley the "torpedo boat terror" while the war department reported the sombre tidings that only 107 of an estimated 3000 AMerican national guardsmen got away from bloody Bataan Bulkeley scourge of Japanese mariners and the man who piloted the torpedo boat which brought General Douglas MacArthur safely out of Luzon was revealed to have bagged a Jap cruiser in recent action near the southern Philippine island of Cebu Reach Bastion Meanwhile the army revealed that 104 'enlisted men and three tenant Governor GeneraL Huber- officers 9f the 200th coast artiltus J Van Mook of the Dutch East lery Mexico had reached Indies the comparative safety of CorregiBeaver-brook Between times Lord dör fortress from now fallen BaIn charge of British supply taan But fellow guardsmen from activities here and Harry L Hop- New Mexico Wisconsin Ohio kins war supply adviser to the Kentucky Minnesota Missouri president lunched with the chief California and Washington—perexecutive haps as many as 3000—" are believed to be in the hands of the Council Hears Hopkins enemy" Hopkins also appeared before Led Foray the war council and later members described his report on his recent The Japanese were revealed to visit to Great Britain as "inter- have relaxed their pressure on beesting and encouraging" Hopkins sieged Corregidor but they poundand General George C Marshall ed away at the island of Panay army chief of staff returned to and forced the defenders to fall the United States Sunday after back at two points two weeks of conferences with In the recent action of Cebu on cm Pnge (contimii (Column Fl‘to Pngoi Six) (Continued (Column Pour) Two) Roosevelt Solves Jap Bombing Puzzle---Bas- e Was ShanoTi La WASHINGTON April 21 UP) —With a grin President Roose- velt said Tuesday that American planes reported to have bombed Japan last Saturday came from a new 'secret base in Shangri La a fictional Utopia In Tibet Seriously speaking the president would not throw any light on the reported bombing would not even confirm that it occurred "How about the stories of the bombing of Tokyo?" he was asked The only thing he could think of in reply he said was the story about a sweet young thing -- that was a generic term—who was a dinner guest at the White House and wanted to know where the bombing planes came from and where they went He said he told her they came from Shengri La A reporter started to ask him whether this sweet young thing was the same one whom he told weeks ago that General Douglas MacArthur had escaped from the Philippines by rowing a boat all the way to Australia The question was interrupted by roar of laughter and Mr Roosevelt said the lady was not the same adding again he was applying a generic term —he said I '43 - 1 T ' 4 Germans Bolster Forces in Scandinavia Area U S Air Force Ferries dive-bombe- 00ms By Associated Press The belief in some responsible quarters that a second active front will be opened in Europe this spring was strengthened Tuesday night and Scandinavia appeared the most likely arena of the initial action—possibly an allied attack on occupied Norway but more likely a German thrust against Sweden intended to take physical possession of Hitler' s semiexhausted associate Finland Such an eventuality which already had been taken seriously into account was supported by reports from the Norwegian telegraph agency that several additional nazi divisions one of them armored had arrived in Norway in a continuing major movement of reinforcement and by a variety of other circumstances Big Bombers- Ferry Across These included: A London disclosure that heavy American bombers assigned to fly with the R A F as an force — a force which with the R A F would make of the United Kingdom "the world's greatest air base"— already were being ferried over Plain and accumulating indications that the Finns on Hitler'S northern flank against the Russians were under sustained soviet attacks of great power especially on the Aunus isthmus between Lakes Ladoga and Onega The Finns themselves acknowledged that a major Russian offensive was now in its tenth day although claiming that it had made no progress Finnish Lines Periled If as was reported independently from Stockholm the Russian assault forces were made up of fresh Siberian troops it was be- Pyond question that the Finnish kines were in great peril In any event it w a a certainly beyond question that they were very tired and not overly enthusiastic Fitting into all this picture were reports that the Germans in northern France Belgium and the Netherlands were creating' a' mobile army of cyclists whose aseignment under such circumstances obviously would be defensive And in the same connection the Russians during the day stated on the authority of captured German soldiers that Hitler's forces in the soviet uliion were n o w mostly family men above 30 and that there was among the German army generally a growing fear of two fronts this spring Consolidated Front In Burma the recapture of Yenangyaung by the British and the Chinese allies under the American General Joseph W Stilwell was followed by the creation of a consolidated middle Burmese front stretched from the Irrawaddy river eastward some 40 miles to Mount Pope and here at least the allied position was considerThe Chinese reab:y improved ported that 7000 encircled British troops had been liberated in the operation The allied flanks however were still in peril The day's news from the Philippines again told of unavoidable reverses for the stubborn American-Filipino defenders on Panay island There they were forced to fall back from two positions on the west coast As to Corregidor and the other forts in Manila bay the war department's morning communique reported that the enemy's violent artillery fire against those heroic positions had lessened American Naval Success An American naval success in Philippine waters was announced Two:11 S torpedo boats attacking a Japanese squadron of five warships off Cebu island seriously damaged an enemy light cruiser and left it in sinking condition One American torpedo boat was forced ashore and possibly lost in the action the navy said announcing also that a second such small vessel had been destroyed to keep it out of enemy hands during the Japanese invasion of Cebu city Whether word of the successful attack on the enemy cruiser duplicated earlier announcements was not know for certain the belief was that it did not At - i a ' |