THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
Tuesday April 7, 1942
JAPS ADVANCE IN BATAAN DRIVE
TANKS SUPPORT NEW TROOPS IN ATTACK
Dive Bombers Strike Front Lines; Causalities Heavy;
Hospital Hit
U-Boat Attacks Off Atlantic Coast
Declined Last Week, Knox Reports
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL
Tuesday Morning, April 7, 1942
Japs Make Gains in Furious Assault on Bataan
IU. S. Submarines Sink 3 Enemy Ships in Pacific
Waves of Troops Thrown At Wainwright's Army In Third Day of Drive
American-Filipino Forces Inflict Severe Losses
On Enemies; Yamashita Apparently Attempting
To Cut Defenders' Line, at No Matter What Cost
WASHINGTON, April 6 (AP)—The Japanese hurled
wave upon wave of assault troops at Lieut. Gen. Jonathan
Wainwright's American-Filipino forces Monday, and
gained ground in the third day of fierce fighting on the
Bataan peninsula.
Congressman May Favors Shooting Short, Kimmel
Chairman of House
Military Committee
Speaks on Army Day
DEFENDS PRODUCTION
Says Those Declaring
War Program Failing
Are Aiding Hitler
P1KEV1LLE, KY. April 7
(AP) — Congressman A. J.
May (D., Ky.), chairman of.
the Mouse military affairs
committee, declared Monday
that "When Gen. Short and
Admiral Kimmel come up for
court martial I'm in favor of holding
a shooting match.''
Then turning to newspapermen
seated on the stand from which
he addressed some 5000 Army Day
celebrants, he said "You can quote
me on that, and if it-gets back to
Washington, that will be all right
too."
Says Warning Given
May asserted that the deposed
commanders of American Army
and Navy forces in Hawaii received
repeated and ample warnings
to take every precaution because
war was imminent and that
they had not heeded these warnings.
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