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TT TirX-5 UHHTfTrafKTP-STRTX TT Uood morning BAY'S SMILE CRtCES, X. March I AIM District Attorney Martin ywEWSPAPER Themselves to Pay for 'Em. eet mhsed his first District rt opening in nine year Tuea Reason: lie couldn't talk well mse of dental work in prog Cnlerad Mcontf elan nttwr Albuflutrqu poilotftc undai tct of CongrtM il 62nd Year 3 Wednesday Morning, March 4, 1942 Volume 252 Number 63 TTT) CENTS IN ALBUQUEKQUE Fltt Call ClwvMr J. So Fleet Dow 16 of 18 Attacking Beatei Aire rack ii Java mvasion ir orces British Bomb War Factories, Airdromes in Paris Suburbs American Flyer Bags Six as Navy Task Force Battles Air Assault Warships Escape Damage in Fighting Near Gilbert Islands; Two of Our Planes Shot Down, But Pilot of One Is Saved WASHINGTON, March 3 (AP)A thrilling account of an attack by 18 Japanese heaw bombers on a United States aircraft carrier and other warships in which 16 of the enemy planes were shot down six by a single, doughty fighting plane pilot from the carrier was told by the Navy Tuesday night. A lieutenant junior grade, Edward H.

O'Hare of Louis, was the hero who took the heavy toll. The other 10 bombers were accounted for by other fighting planes, from the carrier, two of which were lost, and by antiaircraft fire from the warships. The carrier itself and the other ships cruisers and destroyers suffered not a BRITISH COMMANDOS search German prisoners during a surprise parachute raid on Nazi radio station near Lellavre, France. The commandos escaped across the channel with their prisoners in small boats, (Acme Radiophoto) 11 Survivors of Sunk U. S.

Destroyer Tell of Attack Two Terrific Explosions Shattered Warship, Sailors Say; More Than 100 Men Lost Published Every Morning day and the men were landed at the naval air base here later the same day. Two are still in a hospital. Tarry for Coffee Despite the fact that the first torpedo demolished the bow of the boat and the second set off depth charges, blowing the stern to smithereens, some of the survivors from midship related how they had stopped to don three suits of heavy underwear before abandoning ship. Others tarried long enough for coffee. When the mids-hip section went under, three raftloads of survivors were close by and a third terrific explosion swept some of the occupants overboard.

Many loopholes were left in the Suspends Bidding On War Contracts Nelson Plans to Aid Small Firms WASHINGTON, March 3 Donald M. Nelson Tuesday night suspended competitive biddini on military contracts for tlv: war's duration, in order to speed delivery of planes, tanks, ships and equipment and to get more war contracts into the hands of small manufacturers. The chairman of the War Production Board his "directive number 2" with the announced objective of insuring the "widest possible placement of war supply contracts and a much greater ultilization of small plants and factories." Four Provisions The directive, effective immediately, set forth these four pro visions as mandatory guides for Army and Navy purchasing hereafter: 1. Effective at once, all military supply contracts arc to be place.) by negotiation instead of by competitive bidding, unless the direc- OaatlBM fin Trm MEXICO SPEEDS PAVIMi MEXICO CITY. March 3 (T'i- Governor Ansclmo Maclas Venzuela reported to President Avila Camacho Tuesday that the state of Sonora hopes to finish paving the Hermosilla-Nogales road this year with state funds.

He also reported his government was co-operating closely with that of Aruona in defense Tr5 Movie With a Moral Cures Boy of Crime WOODBURY, N. March 3 A movie with the moral that "crime never pays" led Ira Beckman. 19, of Pitman, X. to surrender to police Tuesday. He told Police Chief James Lynch he had robbed 10 homes in Woodbury and Glassboro within the last month.

He slept in movie theaters, he said, and Monday night saw a picture that persuaded him to surrender. State to Aid in Japs' Internment Miles Asks Precaution; Capital Camp Enlarged SANTA FE, March 3 Gov Miles assured the Federal Government Tuesday of participation "to the fullest extent" in any plans for internment of enemy aliens in New Mexico, but urged adoption of "strictest methods" to safeguard citizens of the state In a telegram to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, the executive took official cognizance of increasing evidence that abandoned New Mexico CCC camps were to be used for the internment Conlinurd an Income Tax Raise To 9 Billion Seen VVould Double Levy on Nearly All Persons WASHINGTON, March 3 The Treasury asked Tuesday that the income tax payments of most citiens be doubled next year as part of a steep general tax increase designed to raise "War is never cheap," said Sec retary Morgenthau, presenting the program to the House ways and means committee, "but it is a million times cheaper to win than to lose." Felt In Every Hume The "new taxes," he said, would "be severe" and their impact "felt in every home." They contemplated extensive increases not only in individual income tax payments, but in corporation income levies, together with new or higher excise taxes on a list of 15 such items as soda pop, candy and cigarettes; and increased levies on estates and gifts. Also included was a increase in social security taxes, details of which will Continue en rf Two U. Brazil Sign Resources Pact WASHINGTON, March 3 The United States, the manufacturing arsenal of democracy, and Brazil, the world's largest storehouse of strategic materials, signed Tuesday a multi-million dollar series of agreements designed to develop the tremendous resources of the South American country for the use of the United Nations.

Simultaneously, and as a new enemy submarine attack was reported in the Caribbean, the United States expanded its lend-lease aid to Brazil so it can strengthen its defenses. ORE REPORTED FOl'NW SANTA FE, March 3 Discovery of a manganese deposit in Dona Ana County, running from 20 to 30 per cent pure, was reported Tuesday by the state land office. Clark Hust, Las Cruces, filed a mineral claim on territory which he reported contained a vein 10 to 20 feet wide. 05,000 Bond ue Submitted City Voters torm and Sanitary ewers, Return of Loan For Airport Included lUMBENTS BOOSTED ingley Hopes Oden, Wvlie. Mosier Will Seek Re-Election ond issues totaling 3,000 will be submitted he voters at the citv elec- April 7, but city officials Tuesday night that our present rate of increase aluations and the amount of lis we're retiring each year.

new indebtedness should no increase in taxes." iree city commissioners and Jpolice judge will be chosen at election, which was called u. Ordinance passed by the City mission at its meeting Tues-night. iley for Incumbents multaneously with the ap- al of the ordinance, Clyde plcy, chairman, said at the ting he hoped Clyde Odcn Mosier and William T. Wy- (he incumbents, would run for ection. you do," said Tingley, who most powerful figure in city politics, "I'll do everything anly possible to help you." Hen was absent, confined to lome with a cold.

Bond Isurg bond issues which will be butted at the election are: orm sewer extension, of loans from the Finance Board for addiiion- nds and improvements at the icipal Airport, nitary sewer extension, reef openings and improve- ts. $29,000: irks and playgrounds, fire truck, $14,000. storm sewer program for $198,000 is needed will llcte the Highlands system, runk line of which was built year, A PWA grant once ap ed for the project later was drawn, forcing the city to fi-e the job. The withdrawal following a PWA regulation projects must be "self dating." Ie work now needed consists lying feeder lines up streets ie Heights to carry off the cn waters of rainstorms. ey I'sed for Air Base money borrowed from the finance Board was irom tate defense fund and went the purchase of several tracts nd adjoining or near the air-which in turn were leased to Continued fai Two Damages Smelting Jit at Vanadium LVER CITY, N.

March 3 A fire caused $3000 damage ie U. S. Smelting, Refining Mining Co. plant at Vana-i Tuesday and threatened to pd over company operations re being brought under con- blaze started in the change- and spread to an adjoining house where some supplies destroyed. The company's ptions were only slightly in- pted, according to General pger J.

B. Knaebel. CAMPBELL RESIGNS LNTA FE, March 3 WV-The nation of Dr. Nancy Camp-as maternal and child health ultant for the Las Vegas dis- was disclosed Tuesday by Health Director J. R.

Scott. Campbell also was acting dis-health officer until provi- hl appointment of Dr. W. W. inson.

lather Forecast ILBIQIERQIE and NEW XICO: Cool Wednesday rning with some warming ing day, but afternoon will be as warm as Tuesday, hdy during late morning and rnnnn. Full I', S. Weather Bureau ort on Page Ten) iky 'VTj a to in in Allied Defenders Seek to Push Foe Back Into Ocean Defenders Report Seven-Mile Gain In One Sector TAKING HEAVY TOLL Bandoeng Hard-Hit By Invaders' Planes; 60 Attack at Once BANDOENG, JAVA, Wednesday, March 4 (AP) The Dutch and their Allies have driven infiltrating Japanese invaders back seven miles in an important sector, it was disclosed Wednesday, and ere beating forward in a supreme counter-offensive 8'med at casting every one of the enemy into the sea. The push, location of which was undisclosed, followed a three-day stand during which the Allies had yielded no ground since the Japanese invasion began. Allied bombers and warships likewise were in heavy action against the enemy's ships and sea lanes.

'Well in Hand' An upward turn in the fortunes of Allied forces afield already hadi been indicated by an announcement of the Dutch command that not a single one of the enemy's three initial beach heads had been extended, and by the declaration toward midnight of an authorized spokesman: "It can be stated without reservation that the situation remains well in hand on all fronts." (This degree of optimism was not shared in London, however. There Dr. W. G. Peekema of the Netherlands colonial ministry announced that the N.

E. I. government had been moved from Ba-tavia to Bandoeng and declared his opinion that Java could not hold out much longer unless reinforcements, particularly aircraft, arrived. (Allied military informants in London also expressed the belief that a Dutch withdrawal under overwhelming enemy force might soon be necessary probably to the Bandoeng plateau for a defense comparable to General MacArthur's prolonged resistance in the Philippines). Bomb Jap Bases Great and violent air action was proceeding.

American, British and Dutch bombers were hitting Contlnutt ff Tw Navajo Is Held In Indian's Death Killed Companion in Fight, Say Officers The death of two Navajo Indians and the arrest of a third on manslaughter charges was disclosed Tuesday with the filing of a complaint before U. S. Commissioner Sam Dazzo here. Kee Etcitty, Navajo from Pueblo Pintada, was charged in a com-plaint filed by C. B.

Win-stead, FBI agent, with assaulting and causing the death of Martine Castillo, also of Pueblo Pintada, near Jemcz Springs Feb. 21. Hearing: Set Today Dazzo said hearing had been set for 9:30 a. m. Wednesday.

The other dead Navajo, Salomon Sandoval, entered the case only indirectly since it was determined his death was by natural causes, officials said. Gilberto Espinosa, assistant U. S. attorney, who will conduct the Cnnlinurd on Pi 1 1 Million State Acres Are Leased to Stockmen SANTA FE, March 3 Stale Land Commissioner H. It.

Hodgcrs Tuesday announced that sta-titicians had completed a check of state grazing leases showing that 11,019,255 acres were leased to stockmen. Ual Servlse, head of the land office statistical department, reported that 10r.733 acres of state land were leaded for agricultural purposes to 371 levees. Vichy Announces First Attack Since French Armistice NEW RED GAINS Russian Parachute Troops Hit Far Behind Nazi Lines VICHY, Unoccupied France, March 3 (AP) British planes bombed air dromes and factories in suburban Paris for two hours Tuesday night and there were "victims among the civilian pop uiation, a terse communique taid. Authorities would not permit the naming of the suburbs bombed or the extent of the damage. The first bombs were said to have started falling at 10 p.

Paris time. (The RAF raided the Renault works at Brillancourt, southwest of Paris, Tuesday night, it was announced authoritatively Wednesday in London. The announcement added that the Renault works "have become the out standing symbol of collaboration with Germany," On Paris Outskirts (The Renault works is a largo establishment on the bend of the Seine on the outskirts of Tans.) This was the first announced bombing of Paris since the pre- armistice German raids on June 3, 1340, which caused more than 1000 casualties, including 251 dead. (It is known, however, that British raiders have made occa sional bombing attacks on mili tary airfields in the Paris area since the Germans took over the city. Before the French surrend er the capital was declared an open, undefended citv and thus escaped virtually undamaged aft er the June 3, 1940, "token bomb ing." (The German-commandeered plants in the Paris area have been the source of vast supplies for Adolf Hitler's war machine.

and all were turned over to the Nazis virtually intact. (Among the better-known establishments are the Citroen, His pano-Suiza, Potez, Renault and Regnier motor works. Other industries converted by the Nazis to their own purposes include railway shops, metal, chemical, leather and food factories. (Paris is only about 150 airline miles from the closest point of the British coast within easy bombing range. The British are believed to have refrained from attacks on the city heretofore because of possible repercussions Contlnutt Roosevelt Starts I Oth Year in Office First Inauguration Was March 4, 1933 WASHINGTON.

March 3 W- Nine years ago Wednesday Frank lin D. Roosevelt was first inaug urated as President of the United States. The anniversary will find him pondering the problem of pro secuting a war around the globe, just as March 4, 1933 found hiir. struggling with the peace-time problems of a great depression Since that first oath-taking, the date of the inauguration has beer, changed by constitutional amendment from March 4 to Jan. 20, so that Mr.

Roosevelt's three terms in office will fall a little short of the full 12 veers. scratch. The brilliant action occurred "in the course of recent naval operations west of the Gilbert Islands," a Navy communique related. The carrier and the undis closed number of cruisers and destroyers of the Pacific fleet were operating as a task force at the time. Alonr Supply Route The location lies along the main supply route from the United to New Zealand and Australia.

Whether the task force was convoying transports to the Western Pacific fighting theater or whether it was a force which participated in the foray on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands Jan. 31, when Japanese land bases and New Jap Attacks In Philippines Apparently Trying To Extend Control By the Associated Press A renewal of Japanese attacks in an apparent attempt to extend control over southern and central islands of the Philippines was reported Tuesday by the War De partment, with particular em pnasis on the landing or enemy troops at Zamboranga. This important port on the southwest tip of Mindanao was in flames, a Department communique said, and troops were being landed from four transports, which were escorted by a cruiser. These transports may have carried a total of 400U soldiers. At the same time, ships of the Japanese navy 'ere reported to be shelling several coastal towns on Cebu and Negros islands, north of Mindanao.

Apparently no effort was made to put troops ashore at these points, but the army said a cruiser and destroyers participated in the attacks on Cebu City and Argao on Cebu; Misos, Tolong, Dumaguete and Marcia Bong on Negros, and Bugo on Mindanao. Already Hold Davao The Japanese already held Davao, principal port of Mindanao and former United States naval Commit Put Ttirtt U. P. Pacific Limited, Santa Fe Work Train Collide in California SAN BERNARDINO. March 3 Two dining car cooks and half a dozen passengers on the Union Pacific's Pacific Limited were injured, it was stated at Santa Fe railroad offices here Tuesday niht, when the engine of the Limited and the locomo tive of a Santa Fe work train sideswiped at Bryam, 10 mile: north of Victorville.

Oliver P. Anderson, 32, a cook, of Ogdcn, Utah, was brought to a hospital here. A woman passenger was taken to a Los Angeles hospital, and six or seven otner passengers were said to have been cut by flying glass. S. B.

Chambers, engineer of the Santa Fe train, was slishtly injured and was removed to his home here. C. R. Stout, conductor of the work train, was bhaken up but not seriously hurt. 16 enemy ships were destroyed, was not disclosed.

The fleet units which raided the Marshall and Gilbert Islands presumably operated out of Pearl Harbor, 2000 miles away to the northeast. The fact that tile action reported Tuesday night took place west of the Gilberts on the' Australian instead of the Hawaiian side appeared to indicate that the ships were on a different mission. The Gilbert Islands, mandated to Great Britain but seized by the Japanese, are approximately midway between Pearl Harbor and Australia and southeast of the Japanese-mandated Caroline Is lands. The attacking bombers may have operated from bases in the Carolines. Attack in Waves Adroit dodging by the aircraft carrier helped baffle the attack ing Japanese bombers, which operated in two waves of nine each.

"Only three enemy planes of the first formation reached their bomb release point over the aircraft carrier which avoided all bomb hits by split-second ma-' neuvering," the Navy related. "The leading bomber of thii group attempted a crash landing on the carrier and was shot down by heavy close-range anti-aircraft fire when barely 100 yards from its objective." Two U. S. Planes Lost In the second attack, the Navy continued, only five enemy bombers reached the bomb release point. In the two attacks two American fighter planes were lost.

The pilot of one was recovered. The communique said that despite the severity of the Japanese attack there was no damage to the American surface forces. Lieut. (J. Edward H.

O'Hare, one of the Navy pilots from the aircraft carrier to en gage the enemy, personally accounted for six Nipponese bombers. O'Hare, who lives at St. Louis, is a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy and has been on duty with Navy flying squadrons since July, 1940.

Half Hour Apart The incident was described in Navy communique No. 51, which follows: Central Pacific: In the course of recent naval operations west of the Gilbert islands a task force of the Pacific fleet consisting of an aircraft carrier, cruisers, and destroyers, was attacked by 18 heavy bombers of the enemy operating in two groups of nine each. "These attacks occurred in the late afternoon and were timed about one-half hour apart. "The Japanese formations were closely and vigorously engaged by our carrier fighter planes and by anti-aircraft fire from the ships of our task force. "Only three enemy planes of the first formation reached their bomb release point over the aircraft carrier which avoided all bomb hits by split-second maneuvering.

"The leading bomber of this group attempted a crash landing on the carrier and was shot down by heavy close range anti-aircraft fire when barely 100 yards from its objective. "In the second attack only five bombers of the enemy formation Ciauaita CAPE MAY, N. March 3 Eleven men, presumably the only survivors of the United States destroyer Jacob Jones, torpedoed and sunk by an Axis sub marine, have been landed here, the Navy disclosed Tuesday. Eleven others lost their lives as they fought against darkness, cold and the Atlantic Ocean aboard lifcrafts. All others apparently perished in two terrific explosions which tore bow and stern from the World-War destroyer.

Although the Navy did not announce the number missing, there may have been as many as 145 officers and men aboard the Jacob Jones. The ship was torpedoed somewhere off Cape May early Satur Murder Charged In '13-Bair Death Tortugas Youth Held in Slaying LAS CRUCES, N. March 3 A murder charge was filed Tuesday against Genovevo Molina, 20, of Tortugas in the "13-ball" killing of Marcus Aguirre Monday outside a Tortugas pool room. Aguirre's body was found beside the "13" billiard ball. Thirteen persons were questioned in the case, and all released except Molina and Martin Ponce, a material witness.

Deputy Sheriff John Ault found a bloody knife, thought to have been the weapon with which Aguirre was stabbed to death, on nearby building. Underestimated Japs, Australian Declares SYDNEY, Australia, March 3 WL-Major General Henry Gordon Bennett, the Australian commander who escaped from the Japanese after the surrender at Singapore and made his way back Australia, said Tuesday in an interview, "we under-estimated the strength of the Japanese army." This strength, he added, "lies not so much in its soldiers as the simplicity of its methods." Discussing the lost Malayan campaign, General Bennett said the difficulty for the British ond Australian forces was "the complicated system we have evolved our army which makes rapid "-ordination How About 'A Cuppa Java? SOERABAJA, Java, March 3 American doughboys who have oecn coming here in increasing numbers to fight the Japanese have changed the menus of Java restaurants. Hot dogs, hamburgers and apple pie have become standard items on the bills of fare. When tfie first United Slates troops arrived they said they liked the food except for two deficiencies-sweets and traditional American dishes. Though the Javanese do not have the sweet tooth that characterizes the Americans and British, Java hotels and restauranti swiftly set about remedying the situation.

Dutch and native chefs learned to make American-style pies in many luscious varieties, to fry ham and tjjgs, and to srind meat Icr frankfurters and hamburgers..