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The Indianapolis Times,

VOLUME 53—NUMBER 262

Japs Claim Malaya Capital; Unrest Worries Hitler

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FORECAST: Fair this afternoon and tonight; not so cold tonight with lowest temperature about 10 above.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1942

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GAS KILLS 2, OVERCOMES 2,

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Hands and Feet Are!

Baby's Frozen: Mother Brought Out on Ladder.

Two persons died today in a gas-filled building closed tightly against the sub-zero temperatures. A 17 Jear.cil expectant mother and her 1l1-months-old baby also ere overcome their apartment the southwest corner of Madison 1d Troy Aves. he dead: ROBERT GRAY, a filling station on the first floor of the building. WILLIAM ed at the Those

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Found By Friend

The tragedy was discovered by Harry Toney, 410 Troy Ave, who came to the filling station to learn why Mr hadnt called for him to take him to his work at the Bridgeport Brass Co. He found the door of the filling station office unlocked and Mr. Stevens dead in a chair. He called upstairs for Mr. Gray and, receiving no answer, ran across the street to a restaurant operated by his wife, Mrs. Ethel Toney, and called the Sheriff's office.

Mother, Baby Overcome

Then Mr. and Mrs. Toney returned to the filling station, ran upstairs to the Gray's "apartment They found Mr. Gray dead on the floor in one room. In the bedroom they found Mrs. Gray on the bed and the baby on the floor The room was cold—the mercury out had dropped to 3 below gero—and the baby’s hands and feet were fon, Mr. Ton the wi indows t Smelling”

the baby led across the st estaurant. Police and sherifi’'s squads worked or several minutes with inhalators on both the mother and baby. Mrs. fGray was carried down by firemen "vho used ladders because the stairway was too twisting. They were taken to City Hospital. |

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The cause of the tragedy was not getermined immediately. Authorities gaid it might have been caused ther by fumes from a gas Ai6abEr

in leadi ing to tl y Ward, deputy coroner, sheriff's , Police Sergt. Golden Reynol ds ¢ an ni Gas Co. officials were investigating Mr. Stevens was employed as a Sabor er part-time, but had been iving Mr. Toney to work every norning. He had his ters in the basement of the filling gtation. Surviving Mr a ay, besides his wife and baby, are his are on, Mr. and Mrs Bramblett Gr 2152 Ransdel! St.; three sisters, ise Grace and Mary Ann Gray, and a brother, Richard Gray

TRAFFIC LIGHT URGED

Sheriff Feeney today recommended to County Commissioners that they erect a traffic light at the iftersection of Morris St. and the Holt Road. He said that traffic had greatly increased at the intersection due to the activity at the Bridgeport Brass Co. and nearby Stout Field.

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TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Churches Clapper 1 Comics 13 Crossword 11 Editorials 3 8 ? ®

Movies Music Obituaries Pegler ......i. 8 Pyle Radio “n Mrs. Roosevelt 7 Serial Story . . 8 Side Glances 3 Society .... 7 Sports 8 State Deaths . 6!

Mrs. Ferguson Financial Forum Homemaking In Indpls. .... Inside Indpls.. Johnson ......

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IJan. 20 at the schools. Only women lof the Legion or V. F. W. auxiliaries

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|tioh at its annual convention t= {day voted to cancel all four of its

A Weekly Size-up by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Jan. hr Presidents production program;

10.—Washington has its fingers crossed on

is waiting to see whether he will

tually reorganize bottleneck production agencies.

General feeling is that the program can't succeed with the pres- |

ent setup. Congressional mood, reflected from home, is for quick, ruthless cleanup, new faces, new mode of attack.

Reorganization of OCD can be sure. If FDR doesn’t act soon, same tion of a supply ministry; =

LOOK FOR great activity on field,” in Washington. It's New York but will help elsewhere.

chalked up to Congressional presmethod may be used to force crea-

or at least to eliminate Knudsen-Hillman.

Mayor LaGuardia's

part “in the |

little interference with Landis’ administration of OCD affairs a typical Roosevelt face-saving move; won't placate

Same method may be used with Knudsen.

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uiet Congressional fury:

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State Department is insisting on having old neutrality proclamation

remain in effect.

Proclamation asserts our desire to stay out of war—and makes

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KNOW NEIGHBOR IS DEFENSE PLEA

He May Be Be Appointed as Your Air Warden, Gen. Tyndall Says.

By RICHARD LEWIS

The man next door may be the] air raid warden for your block. | Know him? Why not get acquainted, | if you don't? From here on in, youre going to work with him and the man across the street as well as those people} at the corner whose dog kept bark-| ing last summer and annoyed you. | “Get to know everybody in re neighborhood,” Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, County Defense Director, | advises. “Everybody is going to work | together. Know the people who are in your community.

asd Register Tomorrow

“It’s one of those little things that count so much in civilian defense.” Tomorrow beginning at 9 a. m.} vour neighbors and probably you are making it a point to register for civil defense before or after church. All men volunteers will go to the Legion or Veterans of Foreign Wars post nearest them between 8 a m and § p. m. Any Legion post designated will do. Women generally will not register until

will be registered tomorrow by their own members. The War Memorial office will be open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Sun-

day for registration also.

25,000 Expected To Sign

After Sunday, any person may register for defense work Mondays and Saturdays from 9 a. m. to § p. m.; Tuesdays to Fridays inclusive 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. and on Sun-| dav from 9 a. m. to 12 noon. | Approximately 25000 men are expected to sign up for defense) work, Maj. Gel. Tyndall estimat-| ed. Every man is eligible, including] those who feel they may be drafted for military service soon. | Defense workers need not register because their services are needed primarily in the production of the tanks, guns and airplanes) {Continued on Page Two)

CANCELS 4 MAJOR GOLF TOURNAMENTS

Hold Medal Handicaps.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (U. P)— The United States Golf Associa-

major championships for 1913--IHE, National Open, National Amateur, | Public Links, and Women's Ama-| teur, Instead of the four champion-

ued existence of National

Munitions Control Board. Board is a Lend-Lease fifth wheel, but members want to keep jobs and the State Department wants to see what munitions are being sent from the country. Congress learned we were still “neutral” when Munitions Board asked that its regular report be waived. 2 » LJ HOARDED rubber tires won't do truckers and others any good. OPA has power to investigate, requisition surplus; will use it. Report here says one company bought 50,000 tires just ahead of the deadline. 2 ® s LOOK for sugar rationing almost at once — but rationing of dealers, not consumers. There's no

| shortage, but hoarding continues

by soft-drink makers, other businesses, housewives. OPA wants to make sure of supply for production of commercial alcohol, needed

for war.

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THERE'S NO unity on new taxes. Congress doesn't like the Treasury's excess-profits tax any better than it did, probably will

| defeat it for the third time. Ways and Means Committee members

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This Weather's A Corn Belt Plot

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TODAY'S frigid weather was chiefly a Corn Belt proposition, The corn state of Iowa, where it was 20 below, sent its cold breath to the corn state of In-

diana and the mercury dipped to 5 below here.

But the Weather Bureau said 5 “rock bottom” for to- |

below was day with rising probable for today. Lowest temperature today was 11 below zero at Milroy and MeCool. Four to six inches of snow was reported on highways in the LaPorte district and in the section

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north of U.S. 30 and east of State |

Road 43. There was ice on the roads in the extreme south Seymour district. Others in the State are clear.

WITHHOLDING TAX ON WAGES UNDER STUDY

Reduction of Exemptions To $500 and $1000

Also Is Considered. WASHINGTON, Jan.

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--Treasury and congressional tax!

{said today. In simple figures enactment of the combined income and social security tax proposals that have been tentatively advanced would take nearly 14 per cent of the gross income of a family of two earning $2000 a year—a deduction of about $5 from a $3850 weekly paycheck. Explore Possibilities

There is nothing certain about any tax proposals at this point. The Treasury will not send its recommendations to the House Ways and Means Committee before Jan. 20. However, among the possibilities discussed sat yesterday's conference among Secretary of Treasury Hi nry Morgenthau, and Chairmen rt L. Doughtort (D. N. C), of the House Ways and Means Committee and Walter F. George (D. Ga), of the Senate Finance Committee, were these:

May Reduce Exemptions

1. A 15 per cent withholding tax on’ individual incomes. This would be collected at the source from the salary or wages of any person earning enough to make him subject to income taxation. It would be computed on income earned in excess of personal exemptions, and deducted from each of the wage earner's checks during the year. It would start soon after enact-! | ment, perhaps some time around June of this year, and would be levied in addition to regular income taxes. The Treasury estimated it might yield $5,000,000.000. { 2. Reduction of individual in-| | come tax exemptions from $750 for) | single persons to $500, and from] (Continued on Page Two)

‘RECALL DUFF COOPER FROM FAR EAST POST

LONDON, Jan. 10 (U. P).—Alfred Duff Cooper, cabinet minister representing the government in the Far East who is now at Singapore, has been requested to “wind up his missicn and return home,” it was announced officially today. It was explained that the new {Allied plan for unified command | “necessarily” ended the mission. Well informed quarters suggested | thet the government desired to make the position of Gen. Sir | Archibald Wavell, Commander-in- | chief in the Far East under the new | plan, unchallenged.

BURNS FATAL TO WOMAN BLOOMFIELD, Ind. Jan. 10 (U. |P.) —Mrs. Ella Stanfield of near | Ridgeport, died yesterday of burns received when her clothing caught (fire while she stood near a stove.

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CHINESE DOWN 7 IAPANESE PLANES

Pursue Remnants of pry Fleeing Changsha.

CHUNGKING, Jan, 10 (Official| | Broadcast Recorded by United |

Press at San Francisco).—Chinese {

airmen shot down seven Japanese|

[pistes and damaged four others in| a dogfight over the Changsha front in Hunan Province, a Chinese war) communique said today. On the land front coolies were digging. two “tombs for the unknown invaders” while Chinese soldiers pursued the remnants of a Japanese army which suffered a crushing’ .defeat in an attempt to take Changsha. The tombs were for the bodies of innumerable Japanese scattered through the suburbs and the countryside. Correspondents taken on a tour of the late battle field saw many * piles ' of bodies, containing 15 to 75. Japanese corpses each. Gen. Li Yutang, who conducted the tour, . estimated the Japanese |casualties at 21,000 for the immediate environs of Changsha. The Chinese had 4000 casualties here,

SUGAR INCREASE 0. K.'D WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (U. P.) — Modification of the OPM sugar conservation order will provide additional supplies for retailers who have been limiting their customers to specific purchases because of de{pleted stocks, defense officials said today. Ceiling prices for refined cane and beet sugar will be increased by 20 cents per 100 pounds, it was announced.

By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent

West Malaya Front Is Infernal Cauldron; Fight Hand to Hand in Snake-Filled Jungle

the few remaining natives to take | what they need from the deserted

WITH THE BRITISH ON THE shops.

WEST MATAPA FRONT, (Delayed) —The west Malaya front {has turned into an infernal caul-

jdron in which countless Empire land Japanese troops fight hand to ; hand, individually, in small groups,

Jan, 9

As far as military meaning goes, there has ceased to be a front. 1t is a battle of independent commands. Some imperial troops are | facing north, some west, some east, some actually south, in a gallant

stand in which their hope is to|

ships the U. 8. G. A. will c0-0p- | and in organized bodies, immedi- | slow a Japanese advance they have erate with the Office of Civilian ately north of Kuala Lumpur, 200 not been able to stop.

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The Empire and Japanese troops are fighting along the main railroad, along roads and jungle trails, in

of both, in the streets and homes of villages, on bridges and through the swamps and crocodile infested streams. : Sometimes they are fighting in the burning tropic sun, sometimes in the frequent tropical showers with the rain coming down as if dumped from giant buckets, but | fighting day and night as the Japanese tanks come on and the seemingly inexhaustible flow of the robot troops pour South-

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cycles, tritycles, radios, coffee pots, washing machines, hardware, scooters,

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Stoves! Bicycles! Radios! Coffee Pots!

. Clothespins, a tennis racquet, perhaps a bicycle?

They Con f Sell New Buicks, So Buick Boys Add Sideline

Indianapolis auto dealers may be down at the moment, but nobody's They're relying on the initiative that i their businesses to keep them doing business now So it comes to pass that the boys at Monarch Buick Whe aren't

are selling refrigerators, stoves, bi-

sleds, suitcases, blankets, vacuum cleaners, gas heaters for chilly bedrooms, ping-pong sets, badminton equipment, handy scales for check{ing the weight and a deluxe assortment of clothespins.

Service Calls Mount

aks mest dealers around town are still in the motor car busitoo, when there is any busiand they're up to their ears with service calls. “It's very convenient,” said W. P. |Hanna, floor manager in charge of auto accessories and home appliances. “You pull in to get service for your car and while you are here, you can pick up a few handy items you might need around the house. “This flashlight, for instance. Everybody needs a flashlight, or a lock for the garage. Then you can load your purchases in the car and away you go. No parking problem at all.” Mr. Hanna grinned. “Of course, we've been taking a razzing. But it sells and it helps us. Why, we could even open a grocery over in that corner over: there.”

Somewhat Surprised

W. R. Krafft, Monarch Motor Co. president, ordered in the new stock about a month ago. He and the

boys figured the automobile business was going downhill, although they didn't expect the freeze order | on new cars which took Sveryone, by surprise. Mr. Krafft was determined ta keep his sales organization together and the business going. So you| can buy spare auto parts, spare ax, handles and spare ping-pong balls; at Monarch Buick now. | The only thing you can't buy is

FIREMAN KILLED IN ENGINE BLAST

PIERCETON, Ind, Jan. 10 (U. P.).—Bill E. Hatfield, 21, Ft. Wayne, fireman on the westbound Pennsylvania Railroad Liberty Limited, was killed today, and Enginéer W. H. Carrier, 53, Ft. Wayne, was injured in an accident west of here. Railroad officials believe a crown sheet—the plate which forms the top of the fire box-—let down, and the resultant rush of steam blew the men in the locomtive cab backwards. Pierceton residénts heard a loud explosion and found Mr. Hatfield He died en route to the hospital. Mr. Carrier received burns.

R. A. F. ATTACKS BREST LONDON, Jan. 10 (U. P.).—The Royal Air Force attacked docks at Brest on the Channel coast again last pus, it was re

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GIVE JAPS REAL AIR OPPOSITION

U. S. and R. A. F. Fliers Smash Eight Planes at

Their Base.

By LELAND STOWE

RANGOON, Jan. 9 (Delayed).— American and British fliers in Burma are carrying the aerial war to the Japanese air force with a vengeance and have forced a complete change in Nipponese raiding tactics within two weeks of their first atacks on Rangoon. It was confirmed today that the second American fighter squadron, in its second daylight strafing raid on a Japanese air base just across the Thailand border, Thursday, destroyed eight out of nine enemy pursuit ships on the ground. This brings the Yankee bag of Jap fighters to 14, or possibly 15, in two attacks while only one American plane and pilot are missing. Meanwhile, a reconnaissance plane returning from Bangkok reports that the docks of the Thai capital were still ablaze more than 30 hours after Wednesday night's devastating attack in which the Royal Air Force bombers dumped five tons of explosives from only 1000 feet. : : At last the Japanese are beginning to get a generous taste of real aerial opposition and everything points to the fact that they will get | lots more of the same. The British and Americans are fighting with inferior numbers but are repeatedly proving the superi-

| ority of their pilots and equipment.

Carriers to Sell Defense Stamps

In the interest of national defense, the full carrier boy organization of The Indianapolis Times today 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 stdmps in the iittle album that will be given you, you may 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 news. paper carrier boy. Please help him help his Government, ;

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WALL OF BLOOD FAILS TO HOLD, BERLIN ADMITS

Allies Expect Major Attack Soon on Dutch Indies From Mindanao.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

The Axis appeared to be smashing toward a major vietory in the outer defenses of Singapore today, but Hitler's war machine reeled under heavy blows on the Eastern Front, \ Signs of trouble for the Nazis also were mounting in Germany and occupied Europe, according to Al lied reports to Londen, but the extent of Hitler's difficulties at home was still uncertain. Dispatches from the world-wide fighting zones showed: RUSSIA—Berlin radio admits the Russians, advancing in ‘successive waves,” have. broken through a German “wall of blood” at several points on the Central Front; Kuibyshev says the Russian air forces, raiding behind the Nazi lines as tar as Lithuania and Latvia, smashed as many as 85 troop-laden trains and 32 railroad stations: Soviet news agency reports Germans start 1 tosthrrender in mass due to rapid loss of morale; Hitler reported flying reinforcements to front to prevent | entrapment of tens of thousands lof his soldiers.

MALAYA: Japan's offensive down the Malaya Peninsula = progresses some 200 miles north of Singapore where Tokyo broadcasts say the Japanese have occupied Kuala Lumpur, capital of the Federated Malaya States. Dispatches from Singapore seem to substantiate Tokyo version, indicating British take up new lines farther south. Kuala Lumpur correspondents say it is questionable how long military lines can hold in that area.

OCCUPIED EUROPE—Germans instruct Swedish correspondents to deny reports of precautions in Berlin and other German cities against the danger of an uprising; London sources hear that Rumaniai sole diers returning home are threate ened with death for refusal to give up guns; Italian losses in Balkan occupation policing are gieater than on Russian front; Moscow reports Hitler instructed Gestapo to watch Marshal Herman Goering because of fear he is plotting with ousted Army leaders.

PHILIPPINES: American and Filipino forces brace for a big-scale Japanese assault on Bataan Prove ince where Axis says first American defenses have been seized. Washe ington says action limited to ine tensive patrol and artillery firing, Imminent blow to Dutch East Ine dies indicated with reappearance of “a considerable number” of Japas nese ships off coast of Mindanao island. A thrust toward Celebes or Borneo is feared.

CHINA—Chinese forces thrusting at Canton after scoring one of greatest victories of war in battle at Changsha. LIBYA—Axis forces smashed back into western Libya speed up retreat until British pursuers are unable to keep pace; Allied planes, including Free French, bomb enemy positions at Halfaya (Hell Fire) on Egyptian frontier.

Germany Uneasy at Least

Although the Japanese obviously were hammering steadily ahead in their drive toward Singapore, there were indications that one of the biggest breaks of the war might be building. up on the Russian front as a result of the furious Red Army offensives al! along the line. The extent to which the Eastern Front reverses had shaken the Nazi home front still was highly uncers< tain, but the tremendous losses in men and machines which have been suffered in Russia appeared for the first time to be causing grave une easiness—if nothing more—within Germany. Developments along this line in cluded: 1. Hitler's reported split with. (Continued on Page Two) ” ” »

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