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FORECAST: Fair and continued cold this afternoon and tonight with temperatures this afternoon about.12; lowest tonight zero to five above.
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 257
MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1942
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FDR Sets Feb. 16 As Registration Day For Men 20-44
U.S. BEATS BACK JAPS IN LUZON
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ELIGIBLES FOR | First Photos of U. S. Reinforcements Reaching Pacific War Zone
MILITARY DUTY WILL BE BE LISTED
Army Will Add Another 10 Million to Reservoir Of Manpower.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (U. P).—|President Roosevelt today ordered | registration on Feb. 16 of men between the ages of 20 and 44, in- | clusive, for selective military service “to insure victory, final and complete, over the enemies of oi United States.” The 17,500,000 men who registered | under the previous 21-35 law will not be required to enroll again. The new age groups—the 20-year-olds and the 36-44 group—will pro- | vide a reservoir of about 10,000,000!
_ more men made eligible for active]
service under the amended act. Those ordered to register include all who have not reached their 45th birthday on Feb. 16, 1942. Men whose birthday falls on the registration day are excluded. Others to Register Later
However, in the 20-vear bracket |
Lining the rail of a giant anspor; U.S. soldiers, _— and civilian technicians watch a fellow transport and its accompanying destroyer in the distance as they head for “Somewhere in the Pacific.”
Waving cheerfully to those below, servicemen with a U. 8S. convoy arrive in the war zone.
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These photos.
are the first released by Navy censors showing dispatch of reinforcements to the Pacific area.
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700 INVADERS DIE AS PINCERS ATTACK. FALS
Telling Blows Are Thrust “Against Axis Forces by ~ Chinese, Reds.
BULLETIN MELBOURNE, Jan. 5 (Official Broadcast Recorded by United Press in San Francisce).—~Radio Melbourne today predicted “come ing Allied Naval reinforcements” to the Malayan theater of war and a strong threat to the Jape anese there.”
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor American, Chinese and Russian armies hammered home telling blows against the Axis today. Fighting doggedly in the hills of Luzon Island in the Philippines, the American dee fense forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur killed at least 700 Japanese, frustrated
the birthday date is Dec. 31, 1941.| Those who had their 20th birthday | after Dec. 31 are not required Ay register under today’s proclamati TAKE SHAN HAI
The amended Selective rm Act also provides that men of 18 Food Shortage Critical as Writer Fled; Americans
and 19, and 45 to 64, inclusive, are| subject to registration for Ail military service. A later date will be set for Togisuening these age groups. Every male citizen residing in the | United States, Alaska, Hawaii and| Harshly Treated. Puerto Rico who falls in the age| Karl Eskelund of the United Press backets for the new registration | staf in Shanghai has reached free must present himself between 7| China after a dangerous five-day trip a.m. and 9 p. m. Feb. 16. | through the Japanese lines south of . . i { Shanghai. Here he gives the first reThe new registration will follow) port of {he Japanese occupation of the same procedure used in the two| ShanghWi and cvents in the international previous ones when men between metropolis since Dee. © By KARL ESKELUND wele enrolled Oct. 16, 1940, and United Press Staff Correspondent those who reached 21 in the interim | KINWHA., FREE CHINA. Jan. 4 were registered on July 1, 1941. | (Delayed).—The day before I escaped Selective boards, already set up from Shanghai Japanese gendarmes will register all eligibles on Feb. 16.|suddenly arrested about 10 promiThe President called upon these|nent British and American citizens, boards and governors of states and SPreading a wave of nervousness up to that time had been treated | with surprising liberality by the | Japanese.
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| Those taken into custody included
of the executive order. Potential Army of 7,500,000 The President's proclamation pro-
vided that registration before the J- B. Powell, Editor of The China|.
fixed day may be permissible if ar-| Weekly Review who has been on rangements are made under local the Japanese blacklist for years, board rules. If a person is prevent-| | Victor Keen, correspondent of the ed from registering Feb. 16 “by cir-| New York Herald-Tribune, and cumstances beyond his control or eight other important members of because he is not present in the Anglo-American colony. the continental United States, UP to that time the Japanese ocAlaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico,”|cupation had been marked chiefly He may present himself at a later 0Y 2 critical food shortage and a
date. Delayed registration, how- | alent anti-foreign ever, “shall be as soon as possible] campaign. after the cause for such inability Rice is Almost Unobtainable
C ist.” eases 10 exis The Japanese took over the In-
<Q ative an cial have, ternational Settlement without serilous incident and until the sudden
age groups a potential army of]
7.500.000 Class 1 men can be built. | wave of “arrests just before I left { foreigners had 'been surprised at
| the comparative absence of restric-
REVERSES BRIDGES |uons oe : DEPORTATION ORDER i, meticens and British —
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 (U. P).— they did not “spread malicious re-|
The Immigration Appeals Board to- ports” but the Japanese had started | day unanimously reversed the lo confiscate short-wave receivers.
order by Examiner Charles B. Sears Ihe Japanese Navy took over all for the deportation of C. I. O. lead- {British and American banks but! er Harry Bridges. | ordered the staffs to remain at their |
and continue The board held there was no evi-| : (Conti Pa dence that Bridges, a subject of! nly A ge 1)
propaganda
| posts
| its long drop to-1 degree above zero
operations. [i was 26 degrees below—which is |
Skate Outdoors? Sure, of 3 Spots
ICE, STRONG and smooth, beckons to outdoor skating enthusiasts . 4t. three. spots .in Indianapolis, H. W. Middlesworth, city recreation director, said today. Supervised skating has been arranged tonight at Garfield Park, South Grove Golf Course and Lake Sullivan, he announced. Lighting at Garfield Park and Lake Sullivan will make night skating possible, with the <“curfew” tentatively set for 11 p. m,
GOLD SETS RECORD;
STRONG DEMAND
Annual Message Set for
I'S TO STAY, TOO.
''1 Above Was the Lowest;
Firemen Get 23 Calls.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES" 12 (Midnight) § 7 8 a.m... 9 aw 10 11 12
This, needless to say, ‘was the coldest day this winter.
At 5 a. m. the mercury completed
—and it just settled there for more
Tomorrow: May Hint On War Plans.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (U. P.) — President Roosevelt will deliver his annual message to Congress in person at 11:30 a. m. tomorrow (Indianapolis time). This was announced by Leader Alben W. Barkley before the second session 77th Congress convened. Thi President's message is exrel to be a fighting one, revealing the highlights of the strategy | land supply arrangements worked with with Prime Minister Winston | Churchill. The President may reveal something of a British-American agreement for a supreme command for]. the Atlantic and for creation of an allied supply board. ‘All radio chains will Broadcast the message. It will be carried by short wave to foreign countries. There has been no indication what, if any, recommendation he will make concerning taxes, It was learned from a reliable source that the Budget Bureau has been urging him to put in his message a recommendation for some form of direct
Senate shortly |- of the
than three hours. The Weather Bureau predicted “continued cold.” The previous low for the winter was 17 above. for Jan. 5 was 25 below set, in 1884, La Porte, near Lake Michigan, reported the lowest in the State— 10 below. Richmond and Washington re(ported zero, and South Bend 6, above. The State Highway Depart-| ment warned that driving was dangerous inthe Vincennes and Seymour highway districts. Indianapolis firemen followed the temperature drop closely, making 23 {runs in a 24-hour period." In Rochester, Minn. the tempera-
nothing new up there.
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Australia, had been a member of an organization advocating the overthrow of the Government by force or violence, Mr. Sears had held that bridges| had been affiliated with Communist | organizations and that, as an alien, was subject to depo¥tation. The Féport is Subject to approval by Attorney General Francis Biddle. If he approves it, the proceedings will end. He can order a new hearing.
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| hara-kiri. I was ready to do it. knocked out—"
with great - earnestness. Now he turned to our interpreter, Maj. Frank D. Merrill, former American miiitary attache in Japan, and asked anxiously: “Tell me, is it a disgrace in the | American Army if you become a | prisoner before you commit seppuku?” When the major assured the captive flight sergeant that, of course, officers of the American and Brit- tors. ish armies could honorably become
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Captured Jap Pilot Glad Now He Didn't Commit Hara-Kiri
By LELAND STOWE Copyright, 1942. by The Indianapolis Time; d The Ch RANGOON 5— All the way down in my parachute I thinking as soon as I land I must kill myself.
I was I must commit seppuku
Then I hit the ground so hard I was
The Japanese prisoner, the pilot of an Army~87 fighter which Was shot down in the Christmas Day battle near here, was speaking to us
crash who are sharing the same steel-barred hospital room with him, the pilot's head is close cropped, his features plain. He looks as it he would have made a good chauffeur or mechanic 3 peacetime but was certainly muc below the level of intelligence averaged by British and American avia-
Bit he was haw last to meet
facturers’ tax.
| But the record low
consumption tax, probably a manu-
VICHY-BERLIN CRISIS RISES WITH SLAYING
'Pro-Nazi Aid of Ministry Found Dead.
By UNITED PRESS
A major crisis in relations between Vichy France and Germany arose today, heightened by the! |death—apparently at the hands of | an assassin—of an important proNazi official of the French Interior Ministry. The official was Yves Paringaux, chief de Cabinet of the Interior Ministry. Like his superior, Minister. Pierre Pucheu, Paringaux was a warm advocate of closest possible co-operation of Germany and France. Marcel Deat, pro-Nazi editor of Paris, outlined the crisis bluntly in a radio address over the Germancontrolled Paris radio. He declared that France is threatened with loss of North Africa and the remainder of the French Empire unless Vichy immediately ends its procrastination and agrees to play ball wholeheartedly with Adolf Hitler. * It was the first time the Germans or the pro-German French clique in Paris had utilized broadcast facilities for such plain talk. What effect Paringaux’s death would have on Franco-German relations was not immediately elear. Earlier reports that Pucheu also had been killed were later corrected by the German news agency which -| disseminated them.
FOR T0 ADDRESS Long War, or Early Victory?
By Easter We Should Know
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS United Press Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5~What
happens between now and Easter—
perhaps in the next 30 days—may decide the whole future course of
the war. So the experts here are
saying. That is, it will determine
whether the war will last for years or end in an allied victory within
12 or 18 months,
The two decisive areas are Russia and the Pacific southwest, where,
over the week-end, Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell took
mand.”
“supreme coms=
If the Nazis can hold on to something like their present lines until spring, it is said, and if the Japanese can take ,Singapore or ring it round ‘with captured bases in the Dutch East “ndiss, the United Nations will simply have to make up their minds to battle on indef-
initely.
But if the Red Army can beat back the frostb tten invaders and the Nipponese can be stopped in the region around iingapore, some of the ablest military attaches I know declare that the Axis crackup may be nearer than it might appear to be.
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WHAT HAPPENS in the Philippines will not have a very great
effeét on the war's ultimate outcome.
The fall of Manila and occupa-
tion of this Far Eastern Archipelago were discounted years ago. What happens to the Dutch East Indies and to Singapore, how-
ever, is of vital importance.
If Japan gains. control of those strategic bases she can cripple or nullify the Burma Road and virtually seal up the whole of eastern
Asia. “Almost the only means of eastern Siberia, and Russia is not her oriental neighbor.
getting at her then would be via now disposed to go to war against
.The real tug of war is now at hand between Soviet Russia and Germany. The Nazis have gone back as far as they had intended to go, and in some sectors even farther than they liked. It is now clear that they intend to hang on to their positions—if they can. If the Russians now dislodge them and push them back another hundred miles or so, it will indicate something like the beginning of
the end.
War Moves Today
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE
United Press War Analyst Hitler's grave and perhaps fatal blunder in attacking Russia. becomes more apparent every day as the Russian counter-offensive continues to push
Interior |
Today, it was learned that Marshal Henri Philippe Petain of Ae
the Germans back.
Geographically, the Russian gains appear small
in comparison to the vast segment of Soviet terri
tory which the Germans took since the start of their
invasion last June 22. However, the Germans took almost six months to reach the peak
of dheir advance.
sian pressure, Since \ Hitler undertook personal direction of the war, German losses have increased and the troops have fallen back from positions which Hitler had intended to hold as a winter line.
There is ho telling how far the|
Russians may drive the Germans back. It requires time to prepare defense positions for an army in retreat. It is not impossible that Hitler may have to fall back west of the Dneiper before the retreat is halted. Full credit for the turning of the tide against the Nazis should not be given to the weather. The military skill of the Russian generals, the Russian superiority in manpower and the flow of equipment which the Russians have somehow managed to maintain have played the greater part. It -is a question of how long the Russians can Keep up their pace, of manpower, there is no doubt. Equipment is another problem. British Foreign Secretary Eden,
The Russian drive has been in progress only a month. The important thing that the Nazis are in steady retreat. no signs of slackening of the Rus«|
| by the Germans in the early months
There are
of the war,
This will be increasingly supplemented by the British and Amercans, which seemed to have agreed that Japan is a secondary goal and can be crushed at will when the primary object of putting Hitler out of business has been achieved.
The part being played by the weather cannot be minimized. The Germans are facing the bitter months of January and February.
At the moment, a wave of intense cold has swept down from the Arctic and has the Russian steppes in a grip of death. The Germans are not equipped for it, and the Russians are, The final outcome of the war may be decided on the battlefields of Russia. Few oh the Allied side expect early victory, but this winter conceivably would mark the turning point for Hitler, and the beginning of his gradual decline. Generalissimo Chiang Kal-Shek observed that Japan, in attacking the United Statse, had swallowed her
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MAP GHANGE TO ARMS OUTPUT
Auto Industry, Labor and Government Meet on Speedy Switchover.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (U. P.) — More than 200 representatives of the automobile industry, labor and Government met today to plan speedy conversion - of peacetime auto-making machinery to production of war weapons. Price Administrator Leon Henderson opened the closed conference with an explanation of the Government's automobile and light truck rationing program. The Government has asked the industry to deliver between $5,000,000,000 and $6,000,000,000 worth of finished weapons to the Army, Navy and’ allied forces this year, it was announced as the meeting opened.
Doubles Output
The industry. which previously had been scheduled to deliver only $2,500,000,000 worth of weapons, now is expected to more than double its war output. The 'new, stepped-up delivery schedules will require new plants— to be operated by the industry— and conversion of most existing facilities which have been producing passenger automobiles and light trucks. An Army-Navy plan to place immediately approximately $5,000,000,000 worth of new contracts also was outlined to the conferees by the Government. In addition to Mr, Henderson, OPM Co-directors William 8. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman, Undersecretary of Navy James V. Forrestal, Maj. Gen. C. M. Wesson, Chief of (Continued on Page Two)
LOGAL RED TAPE GUT
IN RATIONING TIRES
Expert's Diagnosis of Need Motorist’s First Step.
The Marion County Tire Rationing Board took a healthy whack at red tape today as it met to decide who is to share the county's January quota of 1311 new tires and 1097 inner tubes. The board officially opened its headquarters on the second floor of the Chamber of Commerce Building. There according to OPM operators of autos, trucks and motorcycles wanting new tires were to start the first Step toward getting them, The second step was to be a trip to a place of inspection, where it is to be determined whether the tires currently on a vehicle are still good enough. The four-man board, headed by Irwin R. Brown, decided to cut out Mie fie Sen Be aay, it an= nounced, Applicants for new tires ‘go direct to a oh Jesignated place of Ke bred here the proper forms
a big-scale enemy pincers ate tack and inflicted on the ine vaders one of the most seri« ous reverses of the war. | The operations apparently were in the Bataan-Pampanga sector, northe west of Manila, where action gfns tinued, according {60 an American war communique, Japanese airplanes continued bombing attacks on the American island fortress of Corregidor, at tlie entrance to Manila Bay, where 15 enemy planes have been shot down so far. Corregidor Bombed Again Fifty-two Japanese craft attacked the fortress on Sunday for mores than three hours but four of ‘them were brought down and four others: were damaged. ! The action in the Philippines was particularly important because it was aiding a sturdy Allied fight to prevent encirclement of the great British naval base at Singapore. Developments on the world fronts included:
Axis sources reported that Amere ican warships, co-operating ‘in the defense operations in the Hast Indies, had been bombed by Japae nese planes off Java, but that was not otherwise confirmed. Aided by growing air power, particularly in Burma, the antie Japanese forces sought to. block’ Japanese efforts to consolidate bases on the periphery of the South Ching Sea and the Malayan Peninsula. On the Malaya front, about 200 to 250 miles north of Singapore, the Japanese claimed to have taken Kuala Lampur, according to Axis reports, but this was not confirmed by British dispatches. In China, the armies of Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek reported a great victory over the Japanese in fighting at Changsha, where the enemy was estimated to have lost 50,000 dead as a result of a Chinese counter-attack that crushed their drive into Changsha. In Russia, the Red army ree ported that heavy casualties about 4000 in three engagementsws nad been inflicted on German, Re manian and Italian troops in the Crimea and that perhaps 100,000 other: Axis forces were doomed in the Mozhaisk sector of the central front, where a Russian pincers drive is aimed at Vyazma and Smolensk. On the Libya front, a large force of British bombers, assisted by a Free French squadron, successfule ly attacked Axis positions at Hale faya in preparation for a mop-up drive against isolated enemy forts near the Egyptian border. R. A. F, planes also attacked Ax® units south of Benghagi. The broadest field of allied operas tions, however, was in the Far Bast, where air reinforcements apparente ly had arrived to aid in blocking the Japanese efforts to consolidate positions for envelopment of Singapore ;
American Pilots Active A half dozen times in the ‘last eight days the Japanese have sent planes over Burma in force in an oovious attempt to knock out Allied air power to protect their rear and probably as a preliminary to all-out bombing of Rangoon and a bases. In each encounter British ang