Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1942 — Page 1

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| WASHINGTON. Jan. 9 (U. P) — “he Government believes it is more i to have the armed forces properly clothed than to have the m and boys at homie have twotrouser suits, vests. double-breasted sz and bell-bottomed pants.

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A Hero, but He's Still 1A

EMPORIA. Kas, Jan. 9 (U, P) —A Class 1A draft registrant appeared before his draft board to report a change of marital! status. “I married four children.” “That was a brave deed.” said a member of the draft board, “but vour classification will remain unchanged.”

NEW POLICY ON DRAFT STUDIED

All Men Fit to Fight, cluding Arms Plant Workers, Face Call.

State draft officials today studied the war-time draft policy toward persons engaged in non-war and war industries as announced yesterday in Chicago, preparatory to

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MEN OF COUNTY SIGNUP SUNDAY ON HOME FRONT

‘Register at Nearest Legion . ration of oats Or V. F. W. Post: List |

Women Jan. 20.

By RICHARD LEWIS

The men of Indianapolis and] Marion County will step forward | Sunday to man the home front. | They will register at American | Legion and Veterans of Foreign | Wars’ posts nearest to them from] § 9a m to6p m | & | At the same time, women of the § Legion and V. F. W. Auxiliaries will | § register. General registration for |} | women in the City and County, how{ever, will not be held until Jan. 20. {On that day, all women who wish | § |to volunteer for civil defense will go | | {to the nearest public or parochial i school. | Men who work in defense industries should not register, Maj. | Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, County De|fense director, said. All their energies will be needed in vital war production, he said. | Tasks to be assigned to men in [civil defense include chiefly auxiliary ‘fire fighting and police service and | air-raid warden duty. Variety of Jobs For Women More than 30 varied jobs will he assigned to women—ranging from group cooking to bicycle and motorcyvele messenger service. i Plans for men’s registration were perfected last night at a meeting of Legion and V. I. W. defense officers at the Forty & Eight Chateau. Women's registration arrangements

Old Barry gives the ized milk wagons the

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laugh. While their owners must beg for a ration of tires, Old Barry is sure he will get his

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CONFLICT INTO TOKYO WATERS

‘Ignore Propaganda Efforts of Allies to Exploit Sub Attack on Vessels Off Yokohama,’ Tokyo Warns

War Moves on Inside Pages Shakeup in Civilian Defense Setup 31 Days in ‘No Man's Land’ of China War Moves Today Russians Lift Sevastopol Siege........... MacArthur Reports Lull in Philippines ,., Stoneman Predicts Hitler Spring Offensive

By UNITED PRESS Allied counter-blows striking ever closer to Japan ape peared today to have prompted Tokyo threats of action against Hawaii, Australia and the United States mainland, The war was carried into Japanese home waters for the first time when an Allied submarine, believed to be Amere ican, torpedoed and sank or damaged the 2250-ton freighter Unkai Maru No. 1, off Izu Peninsula, within close striking distance of Yokohoma.

‘Pay No Attention,” Say Japs The peninsula is just southwest of the biggest Japanese

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naval base at Yokosuka and Tokyo's concern over the attack so close to home was indicated : by a broadcast warning the 3. An interview given to Chilean

| ’ newspapermen in Tokyo by Masay= Japanese to pay no attention ui Tani, chief of the government

The horse, who landed with William at Hastings in 1066, carried

: | illi to efforts of “Allied , _|press bureau, su gesting that “ace were mapped in conference With ,,. cyysaders to the Holy Land, charged, 600 strong. with the Light Gives France Millions of propa- g &

issuing instructions to the local [tion” might be taken by Japanese

Before the war is over—if OPM draft boards.

guggestions are adopted by the hing industry—elothing styles of the male population may hark back to the early 1900s. At an ‘nformal OPM meeting with men and boy's clothing manufacturers, the was that wool could be conserved by simplifring styles. New wool restrictions this year are likely for al] civilian production Other possible changes discussed at the meeting were elimination of atch pockets, pleats and cuffs. All boats would be made shorter and trousers narrower. i

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Beginning Jan. 26, a new kind of tamp will go on sale at the Indianapolis Post Office—automobile “use” stamps, required by Federal The tax becomes effective

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law, Feb The “use” tax amounts to $3 a year, and since the fiscal year for the Government begins July 1, these first stamps will cost each purchaser $209, and will be good until June 30. Then it will be necessary to buy a $3 stamp for the next 12 months. At the time of purchase, the automobile owner will be given a postcard to mail. addressed to the Rureau of Internal Revenue. This is to determine the extent of compliance with the tax. The penalty for failure to have 3 stamp after Feb. 1 will be $25 fine, or 30 days in jail, or both. »

Doubts Seizure of Civilian Cars

WASHINGTON. Jan. 9 (U. P) - The Government does not intend to commandeer either new or used cars from the public, Price Administrator Leon Henderson declared today. He had said at a press conference Jan. 2 that commandeering of civilian cars was “one of a number of remote and unpleasant possibilities that a prolonged war might bring about.” In his statement today he said “I did not indicate that such action is likely or necessary now or in the foreseeable future.

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Alley Oop.....25 Movies ..... ...12 rose to 7 degrees above by midnight. | . 7 And from midnight until 6 a. m.

Clapper Comics Crossword Editorials Mrs. Ferguson. 16 Financial Homemaking ..18 Schools Inside Indpls..15 Serial Story...2¢ Jane Jordan.,.18/ Society. .17, 18, 19 Johnson ......18/ Sports ... 20, 21 Millett .osaeis 18 State Deaths

15 Obituaries

Real Estate .. 11 Mrs. Roosevelt 15

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ganda” to exploit the attack.

forces against Hawaii and Australia

The new policy. as announced by City and school officials in the War giioade and blazed the trail of America’s manifest deetiny from Bunker,

Lieut. Col. Joseph F. Battley of the War Department, is that all men fit to fight, regardless of their present of eventual service with the armed forces, Lengthy Task Seen Men now classified in 2-A (deferred because of essential emplovment in non-war industries) are to be reclassified and men in Class 2-B (deferred because of employment in war industries) are to be reclassified

| as soon as replacements, chiefly old- \

er men, can be trained.

State draft officials said there

would be no wholesale reclassifica-

tion immediately of men deferred because of having jobs in war i dustries but that it would be drawn-out process, with men who are fit being taken as soon as other men can be found to take their jobs.

Military Needs First

Lieut. Col Robinson Hitchsoek. State Selective Service director who

jobs, must face the possibility

Memorial yesterday. Hill to the Presidio, assumes a new Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, County woman's division director, issued al call for additicnal women volunteers’ to report to the War Memorial office immediately for duty as regisi tration interviewers.

200 Trained as Registrars Approximately 200 women so far

Tanks,

FIND § CHILDREN IN HOME WITHOUT FIRE

under Mrs. Charles E. Buschmann, Feet Frozen After Mother's but that is t enough, Mrs. Arn-| . olter said, | Two Weeks' Absence.

holter said. Men may go to any Legion or >. F. W. post they choose to| Six children, the youngest 3, the register, Legion officials said. | eldest 17, were in the hospital ward Maj. Gen. Tyndall and Mayor|q¢ the Juvenile Detention Home to(Continued on Page Four) day because the home fires were not

Sg kept burning. Their mother was in jail, charged AID IS PROMISED {with child neglect. T0 AUTO DEALERS The father who said he had been . : . jaway at work was back at his job, w ASHINGTON., Jan. 8 (U. PO.— trying to earn enough to provide ‘Automobile dealers who

Suffer rood and fuel for the children’s financial loss as a result of Govern- | turn.

ment orders banning sales of new | mpeir feet frozen because their

attended the meeting of draft offi- Government aid. Price Administracials in Chicago, said that “the tor Leon Henderson said today. draft policy is that after military Appearing at a round table disneeds, production for war equipP- cussion with representatives of the

cars will receive some form of ,,,ce was without even a kitchen fire, the children were found hud{dled together when deputy sheriffs | went to the home in the 5000 block jon Minnesota St. last night. The

{have some left, and they likely will

war-time role.

“jeeps” and airplanes do his old jobs of reconnoitering andj

smashing the enemy's lines. | But the Second World War has a chore for Old Dobbin, all right.

Copies of Message of

Hope to ‘Captives.’ WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U. P).—

{ The White House disclosed today | He takes his place in a forward that the United States, with the aid

Other developments included: if they “interfered with Japan's 1. Renewal of a series of raids by|liberty” in the Pacific. British and American fliers on Jap- The sinking of the Unkai Maru {anese war bases in Thailand and|No. 1 in Japanese waters was pere alaya, especially at Bar gkok. {haps the most important psychoe ¢. A propaganda article ir. the logical blow yet struck at the Jape

going back to the milk route, pull-|started a campaign of dropping SUB8ested that an invasion of the| From the naval hase at Yokosuka

| bees y . : . i ‘echelon of economic warfare. He is of the British Royal Air Force, has L0KY0 newspaper Times-Advertiser anese.

{ing a steel-tired wagon, and thereby saving gasoline for those tanks, rubber for the wheels of those ‘jeeps” and the landing gear of those airplanes. Old Wagons Resurrected

Dairies supplying Indianapolis with milk are looking around for {the right type of horse, and they are pulling the old milk wagon out {of sheds, hay lofts and other places ‘which became the repositories of such relics. An executive of the Polk Sanitary Milk Co. said that his organisation lost several such wagons in a fire some time after it expanded its motorized delivery service. “We'd be glad to have those wagons now,” he said. “We still

be going back into service.” Expect Some Difficulty

leaflets on occupied portions of France stressing “the historie friendship” between the French and American people. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said more than 2,000,000 American pamphlets had been dropped on Nazi-occupied portions of France by the British. The campaign will be continued in other occupied portions of Europe, it was inferred, No. 1 Leaflet

The pamphlet was designated as ‘U. 8. Leaflet No. 1 to the people of occupied France,” and bore pictures of the American flag. The R. A. F. dropped 1.380,000 copies of it in the Paris area and

more than 600,000 copies in the Lille

area this week. Mr, Early said the President had received a report from an R. A. F. official in London saying:

{United States was “by no means it is only 50 miles to the end of the impossible” because purported Izu Peninsula. The great cities of | losses suffered by the American|Yokohoma and Tokyo lie only a |Navy had made the threat of land- | few miles farther away and in the /ing on the American mainland a same sector Nagoya, one of the bige | real one, |gest industrial cities in Japan, | |

Sevastopol Siege Is Ended: Report Lull in Philippines

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

| The United Nations struck at the Axis from Japanese waters to Russia and North Africa today but Japan's full-scale general offensive pounded with relentless fury against the outer defenses of Singapore, An all-out general offensive on the Malayan Peninsula and further preparations for a similar attack on American orces holding out in the | Philippines indicated that the Japanese were throwing every thing pos(sible into the Pacific operations.

ment must be unimpeded. | Nati ; ; < 3 Draft officials pA are DrEbAl: National Automobile Dealers As-| moss said the mother had sold th rokif Sera PIPDAIINg sociation and the Senate Commit-|qne of two stoves in the house. to notify draft boards that the only, tee investigating the plight of small ere was a small stove—but no instructions they are to follow will pysinesses, Mr. > § S

Henderson assured | fac ; be the official bulletins issued from, gealers some aid (Tuel—in the kitchen.

“U. 8S. Leaflet No. 1 was acclaimed everywhere in the R. A. F. land the fliers felt it was an honor [to be couriers of America and to

The Polk spokesman said his organization has a fairly good supply of horses, now sharing with the cows the forage and the pastures

MALAYA-—Japanese dive-bomb-ers and heavy tanks led @#n offensive against Kuala Lumpur, despite a heavy toll taken by British guns about 250 miles north of Singapore.

RUSSIA—The Red Army lifted the siege of Sevastopol and battled to throw the Germans back from Leningrad, where London said hopes

national and state headquarters.

would be furnished | Juvenile Court investigators found

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meet storage costs and assure mal profits on new cars now in the hands of dealers.

There has been a lot of confusion yor among local draft officials because of newspaper. radio and word-of-mouth reports concerning the draft

{the mother with a man in a cheap | boarding house in another section of the city. The children said she had been gone two weeks.

on the farms where the milk is produced. A. J. Wells, sales manager of the William H. Roberts & Sons Dairy, pointed out that Indiana milk deal-

which are in no way official, they

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COLD SNAP ON RUN; MERCURY UP TO 11

Rises One Degree an Hour

| Starting at 6 A. M.

| LOCAL TEMPERATURES | (Midnight). 7 7a m. . 8 a. in. Sam .. Mam Ham... 12 (noon)... 1 po oi

Winter was on the run in In-!

| dianapolis today.

The mercury, which had tumbled

(to 7 degrees below zero vesterday

teday, it stayed at 7.

Then the temperature rose one 6 degree an hour, reaching 11 degrees

by 9 o'clock.

| At Municipal Airport, a low of 5 14 degrees was reported this morning. It was 18 below here on Jan. 9, | people still

| | 1875. Back in those days were talking about igh Warn

The mother was brought before Judge Wilfred Bradford of Juvenile Court. He oraered medical atten-

JAPS LEAVE DEAD IN PILES AT CHANGSHA tion given to the children

CHANGSHA, Hunan Province. | China, Jan. 8 (U. P.) — (Delayed)— | Bodies of Japanese soldiers were| | heaped in piles of from 15 to 70] THE DALLES, Ore, Jan. 9 (U. (outside Changsha today. lp) —The instructions seemed sims Correspondents and foreign mili- ple: Only physicans and others who {tary attaches who toured the bat- render public service shall be altlefield on which Chinese troops|lowed tires. routed an attacking Japanese army| But the tire-rationing board went talked with peasants who saw thelinto a huddle before rejecting the Japanese cremate as many as 300 application of Abe Showaway, an bodies at a time before they re- Indian. {reated. “I'm medicine man,” he told them.

ARGUMENT DEFLATED

Times Carrier Boys to Sell Defense Savings Stamps

In the interest of national defense, the full carrier boy organization of The Indianapolis Times tomorrow will start selling defense savings stamps to their customers.

The carrier boys, operating under a pledge as agents of the Federal Treasury Department, will take orders for stamps and deliver them later. >

As soon as you have pasted $18.70 worth of 10.cent stamps in the little album that will be given you, you ma swap the album and one 5-cent piece for a defense bond that will be worth $25 at maturity—$25 in cash for the dimes you have invested through your newspaper carrier boy,

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ers might experience some difficulty in obtaining suitable horses when tires now on motorized milk trucks become worn out.

“A milk route horse has to be of a certain type,” he declared. “If the animal weighs less than 1400 pounds, it is not strong enough to pull a milk wagon. If it weighs more than 1500 pounds, its feet won't stand up under the strain of working on paved streets,

Most Are of Heavy Type

“Most of the horses raised on Indiana farms are of the heavy, draft type.” The Roberts dairy has one driver who now can laugh at the 12 electrie trucks which displaced as many horses. He is Lee A. Peters, 3815 N. Butler Ave, who yesterday rounded out 22 years of service with the company. During all that time he has worked steadfastly with horses. The 12 electric trucks may be without rationed tires before long. But Mr. Peters’ horse, Old Barry, will be just as good next year as he was six vears ago, provided he gets his usual ration of oats.

SUB SINKS BRITISH CRUISER LONDON, Jan. 9 (U. P).—The admiralty said tonight that the British cruiser Galatea hed been

and sunk by a German

carry so stirring a message.” Lafayette Recalled The leaflet carried pictures of the Statue of Liberty, given to this country years ago bv the French people. Mr. Barly said the leaflet bore a message “of hope to the French people still residing in occupied France and clearly implied that a very different kind of message would be carried to the enemy in due time.” Mr. Early said the pamphlet contained liberal quotations of Mr. Roosevelt's address to a joint session of Congress on May 20, 1834, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of the Marquis De Lafayette, Revolutionary War hero. It was in this address that the President reminded the world that during the First World War “2,000,000 American boys” went to France to repay “the debt of gratitude we owe to Lafayete and at the samg time they were seeking to preserve those fundamentals of liberty and democracy to which in the previous age he had dedicated his life.

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS BILL BEFORE HOUSE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (U, P.).— The House today takes up the controversial issue of daylight saving time, The principal dispute centers around President Roosevelt's request for authority to decree time changes in any section of She ome)

were held that the siege could be broken.

FRANCE—The United States,

Big-scale air attacks on Singapore are expected; Tokyo broadcast said British resistance near Kuala Lumpur was “collapsing.” with the aid of the R. A. F., started PHILIPPINES—Japanese still are a leaflet campaign in France, emmassing reinforcements for a big| Phasizing the “historic friendship” attack on American lines in Bataan of France and America.

peninsula, LIBYA—British land, air and sea CHINA—Four columns of Chinese | forces hammered at retreating Axis are reported attacking Canton in|forces; the British shot down seven heavy fighting. enemy planes.

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‘Japanese Die in Swarms, But Keep Coming Like Bees’

By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH ADVANCED FORCES ON THE WEST MALAYA FRONT, Jan. 9, 12:40 A. M.—Japanese heavy tanks, crashing through the jungle over the bodies of Japanese dead, were thrown against the British lines today in a general offensive. As they hit the Empire lines, swarms of Japanese dive bombers swept over the jungle and hurtled down in furious support. The attack was launched in the Slim River region, north of Tanjong Malim, or about 50 miles north of Kuala Lumpur. Heavy tanks came with cannons blasting and machine guns spite ting ‘into the thin-held line of Commando and other British troops holding the advanced positions. Couriers from the fighting lines reported that the Japanese were suffering almost incredible casualties. At times, the attackers were held off hour after hour as each succeeding Japanese shock force was wiped out by the ¢ool, stubborn defenders with concentrated machine gun fire.

2 ” os # s * WOUNDED 'STARTED coming in, saying that they had seen ne such fighting in other areas. . . ’s