Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Java Calls for Increased Aid From Australia as Japs Intensify First War Deaths on American Soil Caused by Torpedo at Aruba NOTE When opinion arc expressed In these they are those of the news analyst not of tills by Western Newspaper Goal of Japs The fall of Singapore represented the winning of a major victory for the but tactically it was considered the moving of the western end of a Jap pincers movement directed not so much at India as at For the entire capture of the East and with it the enormous oil production vitally needed by Japan to be regarded as the major with Java at its This had been proved by the events that had followed the triumphal entry of the Malayan army into Intensified Japanese attacks had started on Bali and islands to the east of as well as stronger movements to increase the Japanese hold on the invaders fanning out from Sumatra's largest Java's population of had been told enemy is at our and to prepare its defense the last ditch At the same time Java called for increased aid from but it was not immediately apparent what Australia could or would embattled as it was in a belated effort to straighten out its own Some commentators figured the Japanese occupation of and with it control of all the Dutch East Indies as matter of while others thought it might be a long and that substantial defense of the remainder of the East Indies was quite However that might Allied ranks would give a good deal to know which way the Nipponese cat was planning to jump as and when the East Indies had fallen to the Was it going to be an all-out offensive against India or were the conscious that an eventually winning Allied air and land attack could be launched against them from to turn their forces toward Cape Movements of U. S ships and troops seemed to Indicate that this country viewed the latter possibility as a and that as a base for our future Australia and New Zealand seemed to offer the best chance for a supply Contemptuous Spy As the Viereck trial had opened in the Nazi agent being tried for withholding information of his activities from the state he was painted as a by William Power Maloney said Viereck had used the Congressional Record to propagandize the United States to orders from his Teutonic and stated that many long excerpts in the Record from the speeches of the late Senator Testimony brought out that typical titles of books published by Flanders Hall in New Jersey SYLVESTER VIERECK by Teutonic by were Lothian Against Lord Periods in Irish and Happened all allegedly German propaganda Families Who Rule the sensational book much used in was published with funds from Maloney said the government would History Made The first war deaths on American soil occurred at the Dutch island of Aruba shortly after American troops had arrived there to take over its Two days after the arrival of these troops had been German submarines attacked the sank or damaged seven tankers with a loss of 59 and then shelled the big Standard Oil refinery on American planes took the spotted the subs and reported afterward that they had reason to believe at least one of them was sent to the Two days after the damage had been checked up and gone a dud 18 feet was found on the harbor Immediately identified as a German four Dutch officers were assigned to the delicate task of taking it In the midst of their work it killing them They were first casualties on land in the American In the meantime the in the Atlantic were continuing including the first sinking of a Brazilian ship in the present This was the liner a combination freight and passenger sent to the bottom off the coast of Virginia The sinking was not immediately announced in as it was the annual carnival and the government was afraid that serious rioting against Axis nationals might The ship carried 74 in the crew and 11 Two were 83 In Marshall Islands When an assault force of U. S destroyers and aircraft commanded by Vice Admiral William F. attacked Vice Admiral William F. commander of the U. S. naval force that carried out the brilliant raid on Japanese as he looks over the charts on which he plotted the action against the Japanese bases in the Gilbert and Marshall islands they caused substantial losses to the 38 one converted aircraft one light one two two naval auxiliaries and three fleet oil Damaged perhaps by U. S. attackers were three four auxiliary vessels and an old Both Sides Lose The destruction of oil installations in the East which had been carried out well by the Dutch as each more or less important spot fell to the had been terrific at where the entire countryside was covered with a pall of smoke when the refineries were blown up and wells Yet it was a two-edged the Dutch admitting that in about six with good the Japs could manage to repair much of the damage and begin to themselves with oil And in the meantime the oil was lost to the Allied which had been fueling from the Dutch supplies And as oil was the principal vital necessity for which the Japs originally had started the and as a supply of it would conceivably permit them to continue fighting or at least until a major defeat by the Allied the extent of the disaster in the Indies might be MAC Increased Bombardment Despite a number of strong appeals that General MacArthur be taken out of Luzon for a more important Washington had let it be known that no such move was While new heroes were being made the Congressional Medal of Honor having been voted to a Filipino mess Washington asserted that it was the general's own wish to remain with his faithful troops as long as it was possible to carry on the good The mess sergeant was Jose who received the highest award within the giving power of the The citation told when an American gun was put out of not even in that ran yards without entirely beyond his and under heavy enemy to the Arrived there he called for and himself organized a gun put the gun back into action and continued at his new post as long as the battle The fall of Singapore had evidently released many Japanese planes for the battle of Luzon quizzed as to why air reinforcements were not being sent to stated that of would have been sent we had any way of getting them Big Printing Job The government printing office had been presented its biggest job in the making of sugar rationing which should be in the public's hands on March Word was that the printing department was abreast of the and Price Administrator Henderson had been photographed looking over the first sheet actually to come from the While the GPO bit of the Washington was in charge of the it was farming out a lot of the The job takes into consideration the fact that there are people in the and a book and application form is being printed for The first big job was to get paper that would not make the job easy for It took six paper mills to do this part of the Three hundred and fifty printing firms bid on the press-work for the sugar Twenty-three firms were finally Condemned by Praising to the skies a front-page cartoon in the Washington Star which excoriated the peddling of rumors which tended toward President Roosevelt had told his press conference that this was a dastardly practice and one in which the city of Washington itself was the worst Type of thing he he included like will fight to the last and arm-chair generalship like ought to get out of the South we can't win and help the they'll turn on us The fall of Singapore and the escape of the Gneisenau and Prince Eugen from Brest to two major disasters that had befallen the had caused a storm of this It had been very much on the and facing the most severe press criticism of his who had coined the phrase a millstone around his neck and that he be cast into the than to create The biggest appropriation bill in 32 billions of dollars for the equivalent to all the money the United States put out during the First World war lumped into a single bill for immediate use in this went through congress without a dissenting It was interesting that the plans of Miss Frances secretary of to and the fact that congress was willing to repeal its own pension legislation were sort of of the |