Show WEEKLY Y NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne navy reveals damage to jap isles senate again acts on price control laguardia quits OM OCD landis new head normandie creates problem for navy EDI EVIT TOIlS NOTE wien WI en opinions opinion are a pressed in these columns they and nil not cot necessarily of 1 this abl newspaper are re those at t the h news new analyst relented released by western newspaper union RAID on laps japs after two weeks ol of censorship the pacific fleet command allowed news men to disclose the amount of damage inflicted by the U S na navy vy in their spectacular attack on the japanese marshall mai shall and aid gilbert islands those these reports indicated that with the loss of only 11 U S aircraft plus a minor bomb hit on on one e cruiser and with a small loss of life units of the american fleet accomplished the following destroyed four military air bases destroyed two military villages destroyed four radio stations sank at least 16 jap ships including a modern cruiser two submarines and a ton liner damaged at least eight other jap ships in addition to an undetermined number destroyed on the ground the japs lost 38 aircraft including fighters and bombers described as almost perfect timing and executed with speed and daring the raid was the first big answer to the often asked question where is the fleet CONSUMERS face living costs it was apparent that the price control bill which had prevented inflation of certain farm prices was going to be subject to changes that might bring a big rise in the cost of some items the senate agriculture committee had unanimously approved a bill i A 1 tb 6 1 I av afi k 4 A e ai F CLAUDE R making tise of surpluses which sought to prevent secretary of agriculture from using surpluses to keep certain prices down passage of th thia isbill bill had been predicted and it would prevent from taking action with surpluses unless the price of wheat cotton and corn had reached 10 per cent above parity i it had been the presidents plan to hold these prices down to enczur age livestock production the bill sought bought to prevent this action OCD LANDIS result 0 of protest the resignation of laguardia as head of OCD and the success succession iod to the high command of civilian defense of james M landis onetime dean of harvard law school and former head of the securities and exchange commission had closely followed nationwide nation wide criticism of boondoggling in the organization focal point of the objections to the OCD management had been rather centered on the division headed byars by mrs eleanor roosevelt than on La LaGua Guardias idlas civilian defense ac 1 tIvI tIes but the resignation of the little flower had long been expected laguardia was supposed to have plenty to do organizing the defense of new york city let alone saddling himself with the problems of an entire nation lie ile announced that he would devote his full time to these problems in the future criticism as landis took charge of OCD continued chiefly leveled at the health entertainment and social uplift activities of the organization it had crystallized into the adoption by the house of an amendment specifically forbidding the spending of government funds for fan dancing street shows theatrical performances or other public entertainment in the program of civilian defense the amendment had been bee tacked onto a bill passed WWII which provided for the purchase of gas m masks asks auxiliary fere fighting equipment and other protective goods to be e used in the protection of the population against air raids the senate had been elpe expected acte d to go 90 along with the house in lt it effort n u s A V x 1 A I 1 I 1 V JAMES NI LANDIS succeeding little flower to weed the frills and furbelows fur belows out of the program senator byrd virginia keynoted keynotes key noted this move by demanding that the OCD send his committee a list of all OCD employees getting over a year and outlining their specific duties LUZON planes continued efforts by the japanese to land on bataan had been turned back by general MacAi MacArthur thurs si highly ly mobile artillery forces inthe generals last ditch fight to keep the american flag flying over the philippines ip the antiaircraft anti aircraft fire of macar thurs men had continued good the bag of seven planes in one day comparing favorably with other fronts where chere the united nations had many more ser serviceable vi ceable air aircraft cr f than did the defenders defender of loizon Li izon 4 1 captured prisoners and titer methods of gaining information ie revealed that five japanese divis divisions loni had been identified as taking part in the battle which would bring the estimated strength of the japs actually I 1 on the front battle line at close to men other divisions were on the island keeping communications communication n s open and it had been reported that reinforcements for the japs were constantly arriving thus steadily stia dily increasing the pressure on the american fill fili pino army NORMANDIE job whether carelessness sabotage or fate was responsible the ton N Nor or mandle mandie former luxury liner and now the naval auxiliary lafayette lay on her enormous enormous beam ends in 40 feet of water and 12 feet of mud I 1 at herdock her dock in new york an salvage job for the U S navy twenty two hundred men were at work inside of her changing hir her over from peacetime to wartime uses when a welders torch started a fire within minutes it was out of control SINGAPORE water pincers i X A new tactic in warfare the water pincers movement utilized by the japanese in malaya ltd had brought singapore to her knees spreading gloor gloom in britain arid and making the defense of the east indies a nearly superhuman job I 1 general commander of the jap forces in malaya had won the order of the golden rite kite and the order of the rising sun for his success in driving the defenders out of malaya for sm smashing aang into the island of singapore 4 first t tune time in history that the historic port had been tested in battle the long narrow peninsula of malaya difficult terrain had apparently presented enormous invasion problems the japs had solved these by using small boats many of them commandeered or captured and sending small well armed and highly mobile detachments first down the east coast then down the th e west making landings by night and infiltrating behind the defenders each time the british were able to 0 make a swift withdrawal and to salvage their main forces but each time they lost ground until they were finally driven back across the causeway onto the singapore island r literally literally scores of bites ha had d been taken out of each coastline by this japanese technique during the their ir advance southward at the same time the japs had sent another large laree force to drive westward from the top too of the peninsula in an effort to cut off the burma road but more important por tant to protect their own rear SPY RAIDS on irest coast 1 I j TWO BUDDHIST PRIE PRIESTS TAKEN ferent always praying more and more japanese continued to be caught in the nets spread along the west coast by the FBI the spy raids were being carried out almost daily by the G men who in one raid rai d got 20 alleged spies and saboteurs sabot eurs and a truckload of ammunition and weapons chief concentration of the raids was W as in pacific coast counties where there were large military establishments at salmas salinas calif following the questioning of several japs taken into custody at a large lettuce farm one of them turned out to be a former chief of police p olice in tokyo another was form formerly erly a high official in the same police force A raid on a buddhist temple in monterey county yielded three priests all ali of them had been in this country only a afew few months in a sporting goods store about to purchase firearms a former japanese bootlegger with a police record was taken into custody it was here that a whole truckload 0 of f ammunition rifles shotguns etc was seized together with the proprietor a japanese in 45 places searched the yield was among other things rounds of ammunition TEA panic buying A new U S agency had been formed to handle the tea situation which developed after grocers were appalled to find customers ordering tea in five pound hound lots the panic in allying followed similar lines to that in sugar and which had resulted in the setting up of a sugar rationing plan As more or less a natural outcome of the news new s from the tea grow grov ing areas began begaii to get reports of five pound tea buying f from ro in all sections of the country and it was regarded as essential that rationing be adopted if the buying in g panic had not been stopped voluntarily unta rily in the sugar situation cases of prosecution began to pop up one chain store manager manager trying to make a sales record for himself having disposed of pounds of sugar allegedly to illicit still operators he was fined DUTCH complaints Complain ti from the netherlands east indies command that too much of 0 the ae naval force of the united nations was engaged in 1 non combat ant nt work came as the Dutch faced a anc pincers ers efio movement against soura paya baya and the fear of a frontal attack on java generally it was evident said the dutch le leaders aders that a giant pincers move was being directed at java when the japs landed in forgeon for force ceon on celebes island which formed the tip of the right flank of the javanese defense line at the same time axis sources had reported that the japanese were demanding the surrender by the dutch of oil all the east indies together with their oil supplies in return for which the would be technically left a as dutch possessions dutch sources said however that no japanese proposal would be entertained and they continued their scorched earth policy of destroying all oil installations before abandoning any property to the japs despite the costly losses looses inflicted on the enemy in strait last month the japs evidently had been able to make successful sf ul landings there chief hope at present of the dutch in captured territory was the re alor port of successful guerrilla action which hadi had really been the answer to the joss by japan of any real victory in the ward war with china one dutch authority had said nowhere do the japs feel safe our men behind their lines ore are picking them off two today ten tomorrow biow and the tyll toll is mounting and steady this guerrilla war var is being fought in an incessant downpour of rain 00 I 1 CLOSER draw lines ol of h ar i though there was little evidence of a slackening of the general japanese advance through the island empire of the southwest pacific it seemed that as the days wore on the main battle lines were drawing closer together arrival in new zealand of the first units of admiral leares naval forces forces heralded according to newsmen who abc acc accompanied 0 the fleet tb the e establishment of a supply line fo for r the united states |