FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
U.S. Hits Jap Lines Of Supply
Washington, March 13—(UP) —American naval and air forces today were striking telling blows at Japan's long supply lines in strategy designed to put the enemy on the defensive and gain time for bolstering Australian defenses.
American bombers and submarines have sunk at least six ships and damaged five others in attacks reaching from waters around Japan down along her 1,800-mile-long supply line to New Guinea and the northern approaches to Australia.
Heavy offensive attacks, carried out in conjunction with Dutch, Australian and British forces, already have sunk, destroyed, or beached 13 Japanese transports. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, just returned here from command of the United Nations naval forces in the southwest Pacific, said two days ago that the growing Japanese ship losses were bound to be of "great future concern" for the enemy.
Maintenance of the long Japanese supply line requires hundreds of ships and the stepped-up sinkings of the past few days are certain to have important effects upon the enemy's strategy, naval experts said. Japan's capacity to replace lost ships, such as transports, is limited and cannot begin to match that of the United Nations.
Japan's Capacity Limited
More important is that the Japanese realize that unless they can maintain the momentum of their drive, the advantage is lost, since it has now been revealed that important American convoys are moving into the southwest Pacific, and American aerial forces, including flying fortresses, are based on Australia.
The latest American assault by submarines, announced by the Navy late yesterday appeared to give support to a statement by Hart that flanking attacks against Japan constitute the favorite strategy of American naval forces at this stage.
Allies Would Slash Supply Line
Naval experts interpreted that statement as meaning that the United nations eventually would move in great force through Japan's mandated Pacific islands and slash at her supply line—right up to the China coast.
The latest attacks, it was believed, may force the Japanese high command in Tokyo to decide now whether it will push on with further offensive against Australia or perhaps India, or whether it will halt and consolidate its hastily-won prizes.
The situation, according to Naval experts, has reached the point where Japan, by striking at Australia or India, would not directly menace the storehouses of British or American power, whereas if the United Nations should take the initiative Japan's key centers and arteries of supply would be in danger.
Palmer's Composition Heard on WIBW Sunday
"Sonata for Piano" by Robert Palmer, instructor of piano in the School of Fine Arts, will be played before the Twentieth Century Music Club of Philadelphia next Thursday by Walter Hendl, concert pianist.
One of Palmer's compositions for violin solo and small orchestra will be heard on the aid over the Milestones of America program Sunday, March 29. The broadcast will be heard in this area over station WIBW of Topeka.
Jap Invasion Pincers Strike Solomon Isles
Melbourne, Australia, March 13—(UP)A Japanese thrust into the Solomon Islands despite many Allied aerial counter-blows today indicated an attempt to cut supply lines from America and spread a huge pincers around northern Australia in preparation for an invasion.
Earlier Air Minister Arthur S. Drakeford announced today that a Japanese naval force had been reported off Buka Island, at the north end of the Solomons, three days ago but it was not known whether it had landed troops.
Australian planes sighted the fleet in the vicinity of the island, Drakeford revealed.
Radio Melbourne, recorded in London, said Allied airplanes met Japanese bombers and fighters off Port Moresby again today, and Australian planes raided enemy bases on New Guinea and New Britain Islands. No details of either action were reported.
Abolishes Admission Charges
Olivet, Mich., —(UP)— Olivet College, in keeping with its belief that college athletics should be as non-professional as possible, has abolished admission charges at all its intercollegiate basketball games.
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Feuermann never lets his his $35,000 Stradivarius out of his sight. And since cellos are too cumbersome to leave in train aisles or to crowd into the same berth with one's self, he of necessity has to book an upper and a lower.
It's a two-man job getting the instrument into the upper but the cellist feels safer with it above him because no one can easily lift it down during the night without awakening him. Daytime travel finds the cello in a Pullman chair. When the cellist is at home in Scarsdale, N. Y., the cello "sleeps" in a bed. Feuermann's instrument is often called "The Last Cello" because it was the last instrument of its kind made by Stradivarius. Experts have pronounced it one of the finest examples of the work of that master craftsman.
Has to Be an Aryan to Eat
Sacramento, Cal. —(UP)— Mrs. James Gallatin Powers, American citizen, now living in Rome, wrote city officials to try and find a copy of her birth certificate. She says her food supply in Italy depends upon her being able to prove that she is a full blooded Aryan.
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