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SAN llll! llll MIGUEL If If At alloon Soviets Celebrate Killing LOS Three Jap Transports Hit In Crucial Fight Off West Indies SANTA WORK OR FIGHT LAW SOUGHT ANGELES Of 12000 Troops Near Leningrad dpt mam Hllillil ROSA cruz ii CxSAN SKY CHALLENGE SEEN KEY GERMAN BASE Two Separate' Flights and Balloon Sighted By Wardens Police USE SEARCHLIGHTS US BROADENS COAST SEARCH FOR JAP U-BOAT LONG TO AID DEFENSE War Labor Board" Seeks BEACH Sandstorm Slows British Australia Plans Defense As Thrusts Loom At Homeland IS Mm SANTA PACIFIC -OCEAN To Eliminate Labor Stoppages In Attack on Axis In Libya By The Associated Press Russia proclaimed a smash PlifsAN Southern California Area Blacked Out Against Danger of Raid WASHINGTON Feb Mexico Joins in" Hunt for Marauder Attacking California CLEMENTE ing new victory over Adolf (AP) Drastic "work or fight" legislation may soon I SAN DIEGO Hitler's battered invasion armies today even as the WW be sought by the administration to give the war labor board a strong hand in its fuehrer announced that the bitter snows of winter were melting and that he had completed preparations for the MILES task of eliminating all stop pages in arms production By ARTHUR WHITNEY LOS ANGELES Feb 25 (UP) Unidentified aircraft were reported over the Los Angeles area early today causing heavy anti-aircraft firing from widely separated batteries and a five-hour blackout here and in other An informed source predicted "final struggle" this spring By The Associated Press Smashing victories by the allied fighting forces were reported today Secretary Knox disclosed at Washington that during January and February American forces made 56 attacks on enemy submarines and that at least three had been sent to the bottom In addition he said four were damaged Knox added that 53 Japanese vessels of all kinds were known to have been sjunk in the Far Pacific war In addi-tionrseven were believed sunk and five others damaged- Allied fighters scored heav-ily on Far Eastern battle- today that this request to congress was likely and indications were In- Moscow Russians celebrated a communique reporting that the triumphant red armies had crushed that it would command strong THREATENED AREA Anti-aircraft guns thundered over the Los Angeles metropolitan area early today for the first time in the war as unidentified aircraft were sighted by police and air wardens The California coast area (map) above was also menaced when an enemy submarine believed Japanese appeared off Goleta and fired 25 five-inch shells at an oil refinery This morning's interlude was a military secret but the army officially announced that no bombs were dropped and that no planes were shot down The alarm caused a five-hour blackout in Los Angeles and in several other southern California coastsal cities shown on the above map Lsouthern California coastal support especially since President Roosevelt called on Americans in his Monday night radio address not Germany's Sixteenth field army shattering three divisions and killing 12000 troops in the Staraya Russa sector 140 miles below Leningrad Key German Base to stop work a single day ENTERS lames Envelop amen Staraya Russa had been a kev Overman base guarding the -south Proposals for such legislation were said to have originated with officials charged With responsibility for all-out war production President Roosevelt has repeatedly stressed the need for uninterrupted production but the arms program PRICE BATTLE SANTA BARBARA Calif Feb 25 (UP) and naval authorities widened their search today for a Japanese submarine off the California coast to guard against further raids on shore establishments or attacks on merchant vessels A 300-mile stretch of coastline from San Luis Obispo to the Mexican border was placed under an alert from eight until ten-twenty-three last night to watch for another possible appearance of the oversized craft that fired 25 five-inch shells at the Bankline oil refinery 12 miles west of Santa Barbara during President Roosevelt's fireside chat Monday night Confirm Destruction Authorities 'recalled that one or more Japanese subs operating off the California coast last December covered a 500-mile stretch between Eureka and Long Beach before SACRAMENTO Calif Feb 25 (AP) Telegrams demanding the Immediate evacuation of aU Jap aliens and citizens poured Into Governor Olson's office after the submarine bombardment of Goleta Monday and the appearance of a mysterious aircraft over Los Angeles today ern flank of the nazi armies before Leningrad A decisive break As Tanker Torpedoed through by the Russians would gravely endanger the whole north fronts today ern arm or the German invasion and presumably force a hurried American volunteer fliers FORT PIERCE Fla Feb 25 The survivors of nevertheless has lost hundreds of thousands of man-hours because of labor management jurisdictional withdrawal of the nazi siege forces and A pilots struck one cities Police in Long Beach Huntington Park and Ingle wood all war production centers reported planes were overhead No bombs" were dropped and no planes jwere shot down the army announced Anti-aircraft -batteries sent up a barrage In Los Angeles county and Orange county Shrapnel from bursting anti-aircraft shells rained down in some districts and at least three "dud" shells felL Cities Blacked Out The official announcement from the fourth army with headquarters in San Francisco said: "Cities in the Los Angeles area were blacked out at two twenty-five a today on orders from the fourth interceptor command when unidentified aircraft were reported in the area "Although reports were conflicting and every effort is being made to ascertain the facts it is clear Restriction of Sales in Farm Commodities Hit By President and other controversies the torpedoed American tanker Cities Service Empire shuddered today when they envisioned their crew mates burning and screaming in a lake of blazing oil of their hardest blows at the Japanese air strength on the Burma front destroying 30 The 8103-ton Cities Service Em-f pire was torpedoed three times in As outlined by one influential Democratic senator the legislation probably would include provisions for the immediate drafting into the armed forces of any striking workers who was subject to military service but who had received deferment because of employment enemy planes and carrying the Atlantic ocean south of Fort out effective sweeps over Pierce on Sunday Seven imen were known dead and four were missing and presumed dead Thir ground positions along the SHIP SURVIVORS REACH CITY around Leningrad Soviet front-line dispatches also reported important new Russian gains during the past 48 hours on the southwest front presumably between Orel and Kharkov in the with the slaughter of 2250 hazis African War Slowed Land and air operations on the Libyan front have been so hampered by a severe sandstorm the British announced that even for patrol operations visibility was too poor to effect contact with axis forces On Monday night the communique reported a patrol "surprised Sittang river front ty survived and of them seven in an essential war job Under tentative plans workers not subject to the selective service Allied warplanes blasting at Ja were in hospitals for treatment of pans sea-borne invaders were credited officially with sinking who went on strike would be blacklisted and their employment banned three transports in the crucial bat tie for the Dutch East Indies burns and other injuries One of the 23 survivors who escaped Injury was Herbert Wall Twin Falls Idaho an oiler One of the injured survivors was Dan Marley Price Utah a Dy any plant working on a govern ment contract Meanwhile a Tokyo spokesman acknowledged that 26 Japanese WASHINGTON Feb 25 President Roosevelt stepped directly into the senate dispute over farm prices today with a letter protesting that a pending bill represented "selfish Interests" at a time the very existence of the country was at stake The chief executive In a letter read at the opening of the senate session said that a proposal to restrict sales of government-held stocks of farm commodities would do "irreparable damage to the war effort and farmers of the countryV Protesting that the original bill to restrict such sales might add $1000000000 to living costs Senator Brown (D-Mich) urged farm state senators to accept his amendment intended to keep market (Continued on Page Ten) (Column Six) no planes were shot down was a considerable amount of anti-aircraft firing "The all clear signal came at seven twenty-one a See Planes Clearly Labor Stalemate WASHINGTON Pfh 5S fTiPV and inflicted casualties on a party transports had been sunk or dam aged In the far Pacific Japs Face Challenge John Walsh 24 a wiper of The A of and leaders today presented President Roosevelt' with a mint wn laKnr As the day wore on it was be- South Boston Mass had to abandon ship twice The first time he left in a lifeboat The oil burning on the sea set it on fire and he had to go back The second time (Con tinned on Page Two) -(Column Seven) or the enemy north of the Tmimi-El Mechili trail without loss to itself" Two large merchant ships were declared by the German high command to" have been damaged heavily in an aerial attack last nitrht policy statement covering the mat ters oi wages and the mobilization FMNIi oi industrial manpower The statement was submitted he got away on a painter's stag Mr Roosevelt when he met with on a British convoy in the North sea north of Cromer England The Italian air force continuing violent attacks on the British the labor leaders who comprise the labor "cabinet" which he has set up to maintain peace between the A and for the Police reported they saw planes clearly at the intersection of powerful searchlight beams Planes were reported as far inland as Inglewood on the outskirts of Los Angeles proper United States army airplanes were in the air at dawn Witnesses saw one squadron of P-38 pursuit planes traveling inland over Los Angeles and another group of four pursuits was seen over Los Angeles Four deaths were reported to authorities Mrs Beulah Klein 48 Arcacia was killed during the blackout when the automobile driven by her ing "I was asleep when the torpedoes hit three of them for there were three shocks" he said "I rushed up on deck and helped get one of the lifeboats over the side The deck was a mass of flames "Four or us got a boat and slid down a rope into it but it caught island base of Malta in the Mediterranean reported that important war's duration A President William GrPn military objectives were hit and they were driven off or destroyed An army communique confirmed the destruction of one of the raiders after 10 vessels most of them oil tankers had been torpedoed One ship was sunk Army planes augmented the navy patrol that sweeps 600 miles to sea in combing the Santa Barbara channel and sealanes far to the south and north In search of the elusive submersible Mexican army and navy authorities cooperated in the hunt and placed their sea air and land forces under special alert throughout Lower California One Oil Well Hit The attack was the first assault on the continental United States since World war when a German submersible fired shells at a string of barges off Cape Cod A survey of the Bankline lease and adjoining area near Goleta showed only minor damage to one well and splintered planking on a dock Yet the Tokyo radio broadcast an imperial lieadquarters communique asserting that a Japanese submarine had bombarded "military establishments" along the California coast and that "the raid (Continued on Page Two) (Column Five) and President Philin Mur JAPS ABANDON BATAAN BATTLE several enemy planes destroyed in day and night operations against the island ray announced presentation of the A boy from Eureka Utah was statement after conferring with on the air this morning from fire I jumped out and grabbed Mr Roosevelt for an hour Tokyo having been allowed to the rope again and some fellows The two maior labor oreaniza- broadcast to his mother 44000 Nazis Slain LONDON Feb 25 (UP) The pulled me back to the deck tions also conveyed to Mr Roose husband crashed into a milk truck I saw our captain on a life raft Russians now engaged in a full- BALTIMORE Feb 25 Six haggard survivors of the torpedoed Norwegian freighter Blink today-told of their superhuman efforts to make port alive in a harrowing 66-hour lifeboat journey on the Atl ntic during which 17 of their companions perished Sixty-six hours in a lifeboat waist deep in water but not a drop to drink 66 hours without food but with sharks hungrily waiting for the next man to die 66 hours in' a lifeboat that capsized twice and was righted by weakened men In a gale-torn sea 66 hours without even an oar to row or steer the boat Most men don't live through such an ordeal Only six out of 23 lived through this one the most amazing tale of the seas to come out of the submarine warfare along the Atlantic coast The Blink was a 2701-ton tanker owned by the Manitowoc Shipping Co Ltd of Oslo Norway It was built at Bristol England in 1920 by Hill Sons Its home port was Oslo The living six arrived here February 17 but it was not until today that they told their stories They have been at the marine hospital here where they were treated for exposure and shock There were 30 members of the Blink's crew The survivors screamed for watel: when rescued but for hours were too weak to drink more than a few drops All food every drop of drinking water all oars and" an emergency sail were lost the 'first day out when the lifeboat capsized the first time Birge Lunde one- of the survivors told of the agony the men suffered before they died of thirst hunger and exposure He said he was one of the ma velt tneir agreed opinion in sup port of legislation to provide fed WITH GEN MACARTHUR ON rines held as prisoners and so far Jesus Aleiez Los Angeles was injured fatally when he walked into the side of an automobile Henry Ayers 60 who was He and some of the other men were on it and the current was sucking them into the burning oil Hedged offensive along almost the entire front have slaughtered THE BATAAN PENINSULA Feb eral unemployment compensation his treatment was all that could aia zor workers temporarily dis more than 44000 Germans official be expected in fact was good 25 The battle of Bataan appeara to have entered a definite (Continued on Page Two) (Column Six) located because or war conversion and unofficial reports said todav This was the second meeting of Marshal Seymon Timoshenko'a tne ooard tireen described it as forces pushing ahead in the Pol That checks with the Red Cross report from the men from Wake island who were made prisoners stalemate with the Japs abandoning at least temporarily their hitherto costly efforts to crack Gen Douglas MacArthur's line across the peninsula "very satisfactory" tava region were reported to have Weber Officer killed 14000 in recent battles The soviet Fifteenth division on the Donet3 front was said to have an Gets Assignment There are at present no Indica SELECTS Whatever was the treatment of Chinese it seems the Japanese have decided to give the Americans different consideration tions whether the Japanese are nihilated 18000 Germans in fh four months SALT LAKE CITY Feb 25 (AP) Mclntyre Weber county commissioner and president of the awaiting reinforcements planning attacks against Bataan and the island fortress of Corregidor from new directions" or whether they are content to tighten their en NEW GENERAL Utah State Association of County Officials will represent Governor driving a load of ammunition in Los Angeles for the California state guard died of a heart attack while the blackout was in full force and anti-aircraft fire was piercing the sky Police Sergeant Engebret Larson 55 of Long Beach was killed in a head-on collision In Long Beach while en route to the police station for emergency duty Several persons were injured The Long Beach police said they saw planes in the cone from army searchlight beams and that after penetrating a few miles inland from the ocean they veered to the south and disappeared They said they saw either two separate flights or the same one twice Inglewood police said they too saw unidentified planes in the searchlight beams as anti-aircraft (Continued on Fage Two) (Column Five) OGDEN HIGHWAY UTAH RECEIVES HOUSING ORDER It may be they are acting wisely for their own good realizing that when the tide of battle changes they will be forced to bow down to American mastery and will be asking for leniency Maw at a civilian defense meeting in Washington March 9 and-10 circlement in an attempt to starve the American -Filipino defense forces Into eventual capitulation WASHINGTON Feb 25 (TJPW Mclntyre will be accompanied by PLANS MAPPE President Roosevelt todav nomi when supplies and provisions are Harold Wallace Salt Lake xun- exhausted ty attorney Officials of the state hie-hwav nated Brigadier General James A Ulio as adjutant general of the army to succeed Major General Emory Adams who is retiring Ulio will have the temporary rank of major general Los Angeles Late to Work engineering department Salt Lake City were meeting this afternoon WASHINGTON Feb 25 The war department today authorized construction of housing facilities "for a military installation in Utah" to cost under $1000000 No details were disclosed However it is encouraging to get word our marines and others held in the Japanese prison camps are not being mistreated When a German submarine attacked shipping in the West Indies and set fire to two tankers in a harbor the crews were between the devil and the deep sea with city and county commission The president nominated for the ers and chamber of commerce lead WaMitg All Clear Signal rank of lieutenant general Major General Joseph Stilwell who ers to formulate a program of early improvement of ImDortflni- roar! a In LOS ANGELES Feb 25 Airplane Plant Triples Output Ogden and vicinity has been assigned to a special mission by the chief executive The chamber representatives in Time clocks ticked merrily on today in scores of offices and fac John Cannon Salt Lake City was nominated for promotion from cluded officers directors and members Of the road committee hearierl a colonel to a brigadier general by Lawrance Farr Chairman SANTA MONICA Calif Feb 25 (AP) Douglas "Aircraft company we wm -try to assist in the one of the big-Pacific coast plane construction at the earliest possible time of roads necessarv to elimin 'Blackout1 Candles producers reported today it boost NOTICE to SUBSCRIBERS Effective March 1st 1942 the subscription price of The Standard- Examiner ivill be increased 5 cents1 a month "All our equipment has been ordered out' but it will take several hours to get back to normal" Only private 'cars permitted to move were those with blackout permits and zealous wardens halted them as often as three times in a single block The wardens proved generally a cross-section of the population Most of them were courteous a few arbitrary and even profane in their demands to pull over Driving at snail's pace was comparatively easy in places however since the city obligingly left traffic signal lights flashing in all ed output to $180940110 in the fis ate automobile wrecks in and near Ogden" said Mr Farr Ready In Chicago To attempt to escape the sailors were faced with two dangers One was the flames of the burning oil on the water and the other was the barracuda a voracious pikelike fish often six feet long with teeth that rip and tear known as a man killer Down through the Malaya jungles where there were man-eating tigers the Japanese fought the Australians to Johore strait (Continued oti paga Two) (Column Thret) tories but nobody was there to punch them Except for a few hardy souls who elected to stumble through blacked out streets all Los Angeles was latefto work Late homegoers were trapped from two-twenty-five a to seven-nineteen a as air raid wardens lined cars against curbs Street cars stopped in darkness in the middle of streets bus traffic likewise halted "It's tremendous" said a street railway official of the crush which followed the all clear signal cal year ended November 30 1941 from $60970774 in the preceding TWO DIE IN BLAZE ABERDEEN Feb 25 AP) Two persons were burned to death and at least seven others were CHICAGO Feb 23 (UP) "Blackout" candles were put on the market today They will burn nine hours and stand without a candle holder year While tripling output as measured by dollar value of sales the company lifted net profit to $18176691 from $10831971 Earnings per share rose to $3029 from $1805 missing in a fire that destroyed the Sandhill hotel early todajr.