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THE FIRST DETAILED IN THE PORTRAITS and IMMORTAL PAINTINGS BIOGRAPHY EVER COMPILED ON ON THE LIFE OF 11 With Interesting New Discoveries About Our Greatest Hero in A Thrilling Lift Story Entitled "MAC ARTHUR, THE MAGNIFICENT" by Bob Considine, Starts in Saturday Symposium Feb. 13, 1942. Mr. W. R.

Hearst, Wyntoon, McCloud, Calif. Dear Mr. Hearst: A REMARKABLE COLOR NEWS 'ti i 1 1 i 1 EXAM I i I MONDAY ITE AMERICANS seem to In- sist on learning the facts of CC AMERI (Z 22 ySc. jffu life the hard way. That'g why we don't appreciate our new air rr'i wardens.

They are the rcnl I For reasons of national defense, publication of weather forecasts and reports has 1 of Wis iter of modern warfare. The un known heroes. ftrnWrsTny been discontinued. Motinrclt of Sail i.o..at. or.

PAT VOL. CLXXVI, NO. 52 CCCG SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAYFEBRUARY. 21, 1942DAILY 5 CENTS.

SUNDAY 12 CENTS 30 SKE AIR RAID WARDEN They laughed at him in London Till the bombs began to fall. He wore no gallant uniform, This mouse-like chap, so small. Too old for active service Roosevelt Decreet BIG GERMAN Battle Allied Ships, Troops WARSHIPS DASH FOR ATLANTIC To Hurl Japs From a One could easily only badge of honor Sets Up Army Rale Of Citizens, Aliens Was the kerchief on his ritish Hit Back in urma Fleet Steams Up Norwegian sleeve. They laughed at him from doonvays Coast, Supposedly in Move to Cut Soviet Supply Line As he trudged his daily beat, LONDON, Feb. 21 (Satur day).

(AP) Three big Gcr Summary of War On All Fronts Military Gets Power to Oust Or Bar Any One From All Strategic Sections AIMED AT COAST JAPS Tokio Claims 2 Landings On Isle of Timor man warships, the 35,000 ton battleship Tirpitz, the 10,000 Great Fight Raging on Banks of Bilin AIR GAINS ton pocket battleship Admiral Scheer and the 10,000 ton cruiser Admiral Hipper were reported today steaming 'The most urgent phase of the Pacific coast's BIG LOSS BTAyjA; The Japs stepped up their invion of the South Pacific with an invasion of Bali, which is separated from Java by only one mile of water. Tokio claimed Japanese had landed on Timor, Portuguese-Dutch island 400 miles above Australia. Severe fighting followed the Japanese attempt on Ball with Allied troops, planes and naval craft making a desperate effort' to halt the invader's sweep toward Java, last Allied stronghold before Australia. (Page 1, Col. Jl.) complex alien problem received drastic treatment But silenced was their laughter When the shrapnel swept the street.

Incendiary bombs were things He seemed to understand He sprinkled them with water or Just covered them with sand. They called him a "Pied Piper" "Till the air raid sirens blew, And then he really played the part. He knew just what to He marched a hundred frightened kids To shelters safe and sound. And now the neighbors cheer when yesterday when President Roosevelt issued an execu By DANIEL DE Ll'CE tive order virtually establishing martial law. The order directed the War Department to set up RANGOON (Burma) Feb RANGOON: A savage bntt.e was hemg rougnt on tne wesernj rtu.

ah northeast of By WITT HANCOCK Associated Press Staff Writer. BAT A VI A (Netherlands East Indies), Feb. 20. The Japanese, again extending their immense South Pacific "military areas," wherever the entire Nation it deems fit. 20.

British imperial troops as British and Allied troops and planes battled to hold off the. and to bar or remove from those areas any persons, whether northward along the Norwegian coast apparently as part of a plan to cut American-British supply routes to Russia. A Stockholm dispatch to the Daily Express reported the movement of the ships toward Trond-heim and said: "Their Job Is to keep British naval forces tied up I the North Sea and raid convoys on the Murmansk route to Russia." The battleships Srharnhorst fought on desneratelv todav k'J' "M' 'or Burma Road supply I i line to China. '(Page Col. 3.) in their positions on the west- inrDD Tne Australian Cabinet met In an extraordinary! citizens or alien, whose presence therein might be regarded as inimical to national defense.

Although the order, mentioned neither snecinc areas ern shores of the Bilin River, ssion to "complete final plans for the defense of the ron-joffensive. invaded the flowef-ifl an area some eighty miles tinent. It was admitted that Japanese bombers had done severe. ing little island of Bali today damage to the port of Darwin Thursday when 100 enemy bombers! northeast of. Rangoon, and BURrel ibut important (Page Col.

0-7.) jand Alllcd warships, planes nor specific persons, official Washington tacitly admitted Their air warden comes around! Nick Kenny only fifty miles short of theiyigjjjQ'ro. The War Department said that a numbcrand fighting men closed with Rangoon-Mandalay railroad of harmless raids were made on American forces holding Bataan.the enemy in a supreme and that it was directed almost solely at Japanese on the Pacific coast. The sweeping order highlighted a day which produced island by Jap planes. The bombs. General MacArthur reported, and Gnciscnau and the cruiser; I O.

Box, 901, were of an inferior grade. This led to the belief that the Japanese Prinz Eugen which recent leg of the Burma supply road to China. Counterattack after counterat- the following developments in the increasingly difficult alien situation in the Philippines may running low on some war materials Page 4, Col, escaped from Brest to Helgoland 'probably will join them as soon Watsonville, Cal. February 11, 1942" Hon. William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon, Cal.

Dear Mr. Hearst: tank a. hm-w thn VlOm The Russians were believed holding back news of as they have been repaired," the 1 Congressman John Tolan, arriving in San Francisco to open Congressional committee hearings on the 1irt miAi-f inn eciirto(l Tim TQlfi tnact fc (1 0 i Tl 1 i 1 urn- linJhiir successes until Monday, anniversary of the creation of the savage effort to cast him out of the beachheads thus gained almost at the very shores of Java. The enemy likewise claimed two landings on the half Portuguese-half Dutch island of Timor lying to the east and just above Australia, alleging that his one purpose was to oust the Australian- dispatch added. WHILE Congress debates pen- ttllC11 in dancer dancer from attack and danger from fifth ICed Army, (rage oi.

j.j LONDON! announced that a convoy had successfully crossed the British North Sea in the face of a determined Na.l sea and air attack. (Page 1, Col. 4.) sions for their highly paid sions for their highly raid RAF BEATS OFF selves, in the well protected halls column activity. We are here to find out what the Pa CONVOY ATTACK of the Capitol, we are calling; upon probably would force a withdrawal thirty miles to the west for the next naturally strong defensive area that of the Sittang River. U.

S. FLYKRS SMASH I OK. The RAF and American volunteer pilots continued to hold air By The Associated Press, millions of young men in the LONDON, Feb. 20. Roal Navy and Airforce have beaten prime of life to give up their home life and jobs for a pittance of S21.00 a month, or some other Dutch garrison which had been holding the Portuguese half Australian Parliament Meets in Secret Talks off a strong Nazi air and sa cific coast wants to do about it." Discovery of a huge cache of ammunition in the hands of a Japanese alien, a directory of Japanese on the Pacific coast, and Japanese-contrived signal devices pointing out an air school, convinced San Joaquin Valley authorities of the existence of an organized fifth column in that area.

(Details on Page 5.) nominal pay, while others who against just such incursions, but stay at home, are receiving wages of $50.00 and upwards a week, superiority on the Burma front and were getting in telling blows against the invaders. The open nature of the country made it and striking for more. of this second thrust the Nether lands authorities had no information. JAPS STILL LANDING. On Bali, a small, scented and How can we expect of these CANBERRA (Australia), Feb.

21 (Saturday). (AP) Enemy nlnnea which raided Bathurst Island near Darwtn, Australia, on attack on a British North Sea convoy without a single loss in warships, aircraft or men, sinking two enemy motor torpedo boats and wrecking a squadron of bombers, the Admiralty announced tonight. It was reassuring news to a British public alarmed a week boys loyalty and devotion to their Long feared outbreaks of anti-Japanese violence easy for the airmen to included several bearing the swastika symbol, an RAAF 3" flag and country, how can we ex flared in Stockton, where a Japanese hotel operator good targets. pect and ask that they give up communique declared today. languorous semi-Paradise lying The British command's late afternoon communique thus all, even to life itself when they read of such practices in the daily papers? across just one mile of water from Java itself, the wild struggla was for more than that little ago by the successful passage of the Nazi warships Scharnhorst, summed up the urgent situation: What must General MacArthur (Map on Pa gm 4) By The Associated Press.

CANBERRA (Australia), Feb.Hhan 100 Japanese planes, but if Parliament of this! said that no vital service, installa- was destroyed. eravelv menaced Dom nion ol i Yr'J I Total casualties were fifteen British Empire met today in the dpad and twenty-four injured; Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen fhrough Channel and North Sea was mysteriously killed, and near Rio Vista, where Filipinos raided a Japanese camp and seriously wounded one man. (Details on Page 5.) I The County Supervisors Association, meeting in Sac-f ramento, demanded immediate evacuation of "all alien Japanese and their descendants" from California coastal areas and pointed out that American born Japanese are in danger if they remain in such areas. tropic bit of coral and beach. It was for the control of the east from Brest to Helgoland.

The battle began before mid and his valiant band of men think when they read that Congress Is debating pensions for its members while they are fighting and dying on the battlefields of the Philippine Islands without the airplanes and other necessary night last night and at the start closest secrecy and heard from; nine being 'killed and eleven in- Prime Minister John Curtin ajjured when a bomb hit a trench a force of Boulton Paul Defiants, British two seater fighter planes ward approaches to the great Allied naval base of Soerabaja on Java lying just 120 miles from the scene of action the last such major base short of the Aus President Roosevelt's executive order giving the Army frank review of Australia sshelter at the post office in the "Fierce fighting has eon-tinned during the past twenty-four hours behind the Bilin River. Allied forces made repeated counterattacks throughout yesterday. "Successful (British) air action yesterday had a considerably heartening effect on our troops." USING RUBBER BRIDGES. "The enemy is reported to be believed to be the fastest of their absolute power over all persons in all localities it might con equipment that would enable danger of invasion and her half-finished town, chances of survival. I HOSPITALS BOMBED.

(Continued on Page 7, Col. 1) them to wipe out the Japs oppos lng them? sider "strategic," was said in Washington to be so close to a declaration of martial law that the distinction is hard to Dtd Amtrlcu Ivy lombcrtf To guard the proceedings of Several hospitals were bombed two hour joint session, Curtin in- and machine-gunned and one Sending men into battle with Deadlocked Carbo find. voked the national security act: patient was killed. out proper equipment when the tralian mainland. Successive communiques from the Dutch high command and from the headquarters of Gen.

Sir Archibald P. Wavell. the supreme Allied commander for the southwest Pacific, 'made plain that as The order would, of course, apply to citizens of German and made it an offense for any Damage to airports was de- money to provide such equipment has been wasted or "boon Jurors Dismissed LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20. (AP) member to disclose what wasiclared not serious, although some and Italian as well as those of Japanese extraction Australian planes were smashed said.

or for that matter, to all citizens, regardless of birth or doggled" Is dangerously close to Deadlocked after fifty-three ancestry but official Washington conceded its objective hours deliberations, a superior is Pacific coast Japanese. of late in the day the enemy was suffering great and bloody losses but that his troops still were court jury in the trial of Frank using rubber bridges (probably pontoon spans) for conveying motor transport across the river," an Army spokesman said. "These are not expected to be of much use in the swiftly flowing current." on the ground. Most women and children had been evacuated from the town before the raids began. (The Japanese listed as destroyed In the Port Darwin raids "It Is utterly impossible in view of the requirements of security that there be a public discussion," said Curtin.

The session was convened in an hour when Australia, the first being wholesale murder. How would some of these Congressmen who voted themselves pensions like the job of fighting on the battle front at $21.00 a month, with Japanese planes. It directs the Secretary of WTar, and all military com Carbo, charged with the gangster swarming ashore. slaying of Harry Greenberg here manders he may designate, to "prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as they may determine, from 1939, was discharged today. an auxiliary cruiser of 6,0110 tons; VITAL POINTS FIRKD.

Bv that time, at least four of Jurors said the last vote was British Dominion ever to be The RAF remained In heavy Ima ilp.trnpr unit a snhmarinp machlnegunning them fro which any and all persons may be excluded, and with respect above, and no planes on hand to tn hirh the riirht of nnv nersnn in enter remain in nr leave 10 to 2, but did not "indicate threatened with conquest by action, assaulting enemy posi chaser: nine transnort shins "Knur pmiu-s io superior force, was not only un tions, stores and transports over whether the majority favored a verdict for first degree murder or fight hack. twenty-six Australian aircraft. ter the enemy's invasion cratt from Allied bomber fire had been shall be subject to whatever restrictions" military authori der direct air attack but con the Bilin area. and said a destroyer was dam cquittal. Carbo, held without Yours verr truly, VOL LOCKE ADDON.

fronted with a tightening circle of ties may choose to impose. bail, was ordered to appear next (Story of Chin $uccti in J- The order is designed to protect the Nation against of Burma on Pag 4.) aged and three hangars, a naval knocked down, one or more enemy headquarters and an adminlstra-k'Uirs had been squarely and tion building on the quay ere 'Ptedly hit, two direct hits had fired or damaged.) bcpn scolod on oncmy transports. Wednesday for setting of a second trial. aggression from the East Indian Islands just to the northwest of the continent to the Solomons on the northeast. (Continued on Page 5, Col.

7 February 9, 1912. Mr. William Randolph Hearst, Dtftnd Amtrlca luy Dear Sir: Two Hospital There was a third air raidji'Snier romos naa louna uu-u JAPS 400 MILES AWAY. Supplies to China targets on an enemy cruiser ana a rerding your very In alarm in Port Darwin today, but AFTER teresting i The enemy announced today Destroyer a fSuieide: Stops Torpedo to Save Troopship articles regarding no attack. transport, and eight near misses had rocked and possibly put out landings on both the Dutch and the people the Orient I am Made Duty Free NEW DELHI (India), Feb.

21 Portuguese sides of the island of The legislators who met today, two weeks in advance of their normal session, were presumed to prompted to send you my reac of action an enemy' destroyer. There was no report of a single Allied loss aloft or on the surface Timor, barely 400 miles west of tions after a visit to China and (Saturday). (AP) The Govern a study of her history. Port Darwin, North Australia's fortified outpost which already have heard from Curtin all the details of recent decisions of their or utiderseas. ment announced today that defense supplies will be permitted If we want to make the world safe for democracy, why not be From Bali itself, wnrre for gen has been battered by mass Japa Strafed hy Japs Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia, in a statement broadcast over the Canberra radio and heard in San Francisco by short wave last night, charged the Japanese with bombing a hospital ship and machine-gunning two hospitals in air attacks on Darwin.

"The Australian people now know the type of enemy they face," the Prime Minister was quoted. to move duty free from India to China. nese raiders. Farther west the LONDON1, Feb. 20.

(AP) Under the heading "This Was their Sacrifice," The Evening Standard published today the story of a destroyer which sailed Into the path of a U-boat's torpedo In order to save a troopship bringing hun erations the world's tourists had strolled amidst the tropical sweet, ness, there arose the sharp and Dutch Island of Bali likeV.se was own w-ar cabinet and many of the strategic plans of the L'nited Nations. Regulations invoked by the Australian Government for full and navigators to Britain from Canada. The destroyer and all hut seven of her crew of more than 100 were lost But the troopship with her valuable cargo of airmen, each of whom had had at least a year's flying In British and United States Army schools and In Canada, sailed safely Into a Scottish port. Well informed quarters ex under invasion. pressed the belief that now with more closely allied with China? China has a fifth of the world's population and her poopie are the freest in the world.

It Is said that they have too much personal! freedom and should sacrifice some acrid smoke left by the torches of A Royal Australian Airforce the Dutch in destroying th mobilization of lives and property the Burma Road threatened and Rangoon port mined, India soon would become the main route of communique acknowledged that several ships were hit and island's few vital points. of the commonwealth's 7,000.000 "Naturally strong action, tri wharves and buildings damaged! persons were put Into full effeefc dreds of RAF pilots, wbservrrs supplies moving to Generalissimo on Page Col. S) 1, Dutch command wl'J in two raku Thwsday by nxwCtoday. Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese armies; I cr.