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533—NUMBER 263 ye MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1942
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ADMIRAL HART ARRIVES IN JAVA; ALLIES BLAST AT INDIES INVADERS
6 JAP TRANSPORTS SUNK; HEAVY ARTILLERY DUEL IN
hi | { SCARE BUYING | Rescue BRINGS TALK OF ‘| Mother, 81, Helped |
| | U.5.T0 STRIKE From Burning Home AT RIGHT TIME, SUGAR RATIONS .. cc ce | Broad Measures to Con:
An 8l.year-old mother, awak- | KNOX PLEDGES serve Essential Commod-
ened by a fire in her home shortly | after midnight, aroused her son i —. ities Are Possible. By JOHN W. LOVE
who helped her to safety. Nimes Special Weiter
Harry B. Westcott, barefoot WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.~Grow- |
and pajama-clad, carried his mother, Mrs. Fannie Hurley out ing nervousness among consumers, | jand the trouble dealers are having!
of the burning house at 413 E | North St. Between their home and ‘| | 1 {in thew own informal rationing of | sugar, may lead to unexpectedly | broad Government measures for
friend's house door, Mr. Westcott fell, his mother | conserving some of the essential | commodities, |
escaped injury. After leaving her safely with | the William 8. Davidson: at 411 | E. North St, he remembered his | | Though enough sugar it in sight] [to supply the country almost in-| | definitely, grocers are putting their customers on two-pound and five- |
Enlist for the Home Front
Fleet on Job, Mayors Told; We Must Destroy Hitler First, He Contends.
On Inside Pages Details of Fighting ...... Price Control . Home Defense Plans ... German Unrest
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (U.P) — Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that the U, 8 Navy is i not idle and that it will strike | “where and when we are ready, | not before.” Speaking to the opening session
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insurance papers, rushed back to the burning house. He cut hit hands as he broke a window to get in. But the fire insurance policy could not be found, although a search uncovered his life insurance policies.
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Some retailers the
(pound allowances lof soft drinks in Washington, Pitts. {burgh and elsewhere find them- | [selves unable to buy all they can! | sell. | | One business forecasting service has told its clients that rationing of Isugar is on the way. Officials of {the Agriculture Department say the | possibility of a shortage is remote, | [but add, perhaps significantly, that
hook containing heirloom jewelry. A painting .given to her by | Harry's father more than 30 years ago was destroyed. It was an original oil entitled, “The Church in the Wildwood." “I have had many chances to | sell that picture but I could not think of parting with it." she declared. The fire was caused by an
of a three-day meeting of United States Conference of Mayors, Secretary Knox warned that there would be “other reverses” be-
| sides the “severe losses” suffered at
Pearl Harbor, The task of the United States and British navies, he said, is to have “effective fight« ing strength in all the seas, all the oceans.
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| | British Falling Back in Malaya; Reds
Smash Nazis.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
Allied armed blows crashed ‘against the Axis in Russia, North Africa and the Far East today, but failed to break the Japanese offensive aimed at the encirclement of Singapore. .
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Japanese forces today are invading the Dutch East Indies by landing on (1) Tarakan and Celebes Islands, thus enabling them by |
virtue of previous landings in
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{even if consumer rationing should] overheated oil stove. | “I would not be frank with you,” {be so ample nobody would feel house, covered by the missing |You could expect favorable, drapinched fire insurance policy, was esti« [matic developments of triumphant p r. West- {ments in the Pacific in the near will remember as the day they enlisted for the home front in a war | No authority here believes a A an Ne | future.” where the fronis are everywhere. Particularly busy was the Indiana | Scdreity of sugar could possibly ap-| ———— g i { ssarily wide distribu[1918 to 1920. At that time France and the necessarily w —— OR oH | American sugar industry was far| j what know you all wish me to 3000 Vv / S ki ; suggest: Early, conclusive show0 unteers A ng | without the great surpluses of to-! AT GREENWOOD day, Hitler Comes First —— | “But you know that by this I $350,000 Red Cross Fund cording to last week's Agriculture ” y y {Department report, were 2027000 Children Get Vacation as cific fleet is idle. . A far t} at Crocs . |from it again and again, when and rei Sead fhe tines a much ac in other re. [PELE 10 Be 680000 ton and the Classrooms Are Sought; h . r « nea TOSS CeaS Live UMes as muen as in other re-|yisible supply for 1942 is about 7.- 0) ! Loss Is $100 000 tions dictate. | : tha VAY A ¥ ab . * : ™ Sens and on the home fet Lo ~|will be available from continental He cautioned against thinking Already, approximately $180,000 has been subscribed by business Sources. . in terms of airplanes. vals stich hy WOrkels in the has been increasing since Pearl Har. damaged grade building, were given, He denounced the “foul treachlarge gifts division, under the lead- bor. evidently due to the publics ® Week's vacation today following fighting before the referee's bell The employees of four local busi- WABASH RIVER PLANT it ordinarily comes from the Ha.|School building. yaad rung” and while her “devious ness concerns have agreed to give a : “ reat is telling us that they did not want to . 8 : EC ,P®OPP | “Scare” buying lis being carefully Firemen from Indianapolis and 4 FOO S Hive, ral chairmat or V | vveank NY , of te PE] item, roy Up to 30.000 May Get Jobs watched here but no definite plans| Franklin were dispatched to Green. 80 into the fight at all” But he L REIE an « ANNOuN A UAKIR) . y no. { . ” g CO. the |perts doubt there is sufficient pur. [South of the Marion-Johnson coun-| “We know who our great enemy o he Shee I ee] {chasing power in the rill. to! t¥ border. The loss is partly cov-'is. The enemy who, before all othoosier 0. and tl horpe | : ) | CLINTON, Ind. Jan. 12 (U. P) oh John Daub ad hool not Japan, it is not Italy in iawn LE vanguard of an army of con-|!0ings at one time. I EE ON us | Nita hr Contributions in the downtowd Fr todian, discovered the fire shortly’ “It is Hitler and Hitler's Nazis, | district are being taken today BY.0499 or 30,000 was expected to come | i M group. which set out from ai into Clinton today for initial work Ihe public's rush to buy has been! F. R. Caldwell, superintendent of must destroy. That done, the whole ns h Auch Set ut ro - vision headquarters at 14 E Wash- Ordnance plant. [fore taxes), predictions of higher schoo! faculty of 12 teachers today|ing off of Hitler's satellites will pe No hiring of laborers has taken Prices by Government officers “un- | started a survey of the housing|easy by contrast. , , ."
he necessary, the quantities would | Damage to the contents of the {he said, “if I led vou te believe that | Civil Det Regiskiation Das. 1943: Yedd . : Different From 1918.20 mated at $400. The damage to |American, full-scale naval engagev ense Registration Day, t Yesterday was a day 12,000 | * Sell Tele! Legion Post No. 13% which registered citizens at the | PIOAch in severity the squeeze of The elements of distance, of time, smaller, and we entered the war! {down with the Japanese Navy, Stocks on hand a month ago ac-| do not mean to imply that the PaAn ammy of volunteers—3000 strong—ifook the field today to sO-{tons. The year's requirement is ex-| { where careful strategic consideracent campaigns to carry on its work on the battlefront, in devastated 730.000 tons. of which 2.450.000 tons! All school children in Greenwood. @bout naval distances and speeds concerns, corporations and individ- Consumer over-buving of sugar, including those enrolled in the un- ; HIRING T0 START FOR ery” of Japan who ‘chose to start ership of Arthur R. Baxter. knowledge that abou. 30 per cent of (Nir five which destroyed the high o Re : wailan and Philippine Islands. Loss was esumated at $£100.000. seconds were still in Washington, jay = pe to t e oss fund a\ pax 1e Rec t They are of the Tom Joyee T-Up seem to be afoot to check it. Ex. V00d, a community of 3000 just added: On Clinton Project. Shoppe, In permit serious hoarding of too many | ered by insurance. lers, must be defeated first. It is ono \ C. re . struction workers that may grow to , , L it a ¢ ad tn Some Hoard Canned Goods fafter 4 p. m. yesterday. | Hitler's Germany. It is Hitler we the me ropoeil an uvision, 8 womon the $33500000 Wabash River Delped along by rising incomes (be- schools, and the rest of the high| Axis fabric will collapse. The finishington St.
Mrs. David Weer is chairman and place yet, officials said. When em- 1088 the price bill is passed.” word facilities in Greenwood to arrange Raids Worry La Guardia is assisted by Mrs. Wolf Sussman, ployment begins, hiring will be Of the decline in the supply of ocean |for classroom space for the re- : vice chairman: Mrs. E Kirk Me-'handled by Federal Employment ships for civilian cargoes, admis- | mainder of the school year. In opening the Mayor's ConferKinney, Mrs. Ralph E Hueber, Mrs. offices at Terre Haute and Danville | Sions of shortages like the one in| Some of the high school classes ence, Civilian Defense Director FioStoweil C, Wasson and Mrs. Gus mv ‘| molasses, suspensions of futures may be held in the grade school ello H. La Guardia asserted that G. Mever. Rumors of discrimination, with the | trading in certain markets, and the building. The Polk Memorial Com-| no city in the country “has equipAt the same time, precinct com- Indiana-Illinois State line as the disappearance of a few things like munity House also may be utilized. ment to take care of any emergency mitteemen and committeewomen of point of demarkation, spread last|tuna fish and Japanese crabmeat. | Thousands Watch Blaze arising from an air attack,” and apthe two major political parties were week, but were denied by Eugene J.| Sporadic raids by shoppers have! The fire, of undetermined origin, pealed for immediate Congressional to contact householders throughout Brock, regional director of the been noted in pineapple juice. The Started in the basement beneath the abproval of a pending $100,000,000 the city and county. Directing them United States Employment Service. hoarding of canned goads in general! Nigh school gymnasium, The li- Civilian defense authorization. will be James L. Bradford and Ira The fact that the plant site lies in is almost as old as that of sugar, [brary, shop and home economics He warned that “an effective air P. Harmaker, Republicah and Indiana will not give preference to| Hoarding accounted for part of the | equipment, and the band instru- raid how might have very disastrous Democratic county chairman, re. Indiana men, he said. laddition of 1,000,0000 tons of sugar ments were destroyed. results. spectively Officials E. I duPont de to last year's sales as compared with| Thousands of spectators were at- Meanwhile Mrs. Franklin D. Joseph M. Bloch is chairman of Nemours Cu, United States War De- those of 1940. Soft-drink makers, | tracted to the fire. By 7 p. m., only Roosevelt, an assistant director of the industrial divisioh which will Pariment engineers and employment recollecting that they were shut & part of the brick veneer walls of the Office of Civilian Defense, told a! (heads began shifting offices today, down in the last war, are said to the building was left standing. |press conference she believes civil-| selling up permanent shop in Clin- have piled up 500,000 tons of sugar, Greenwood homes nearby were ian defense should be under civil- | ton from their temporary bases in in the last year or two, or enough to opened to firemen, who were served ian direction, but that she also be-| Terre Haute {last some of them three vears. hot coffee. [lieves purchase and distribution of | | Authorities here are looking to the] The building was completed in 88s masks, possibilities of increasing the output
——————— fire-fighting equipment | Fe 1928. Mr. Caldwell said the school and similar supplies BU LLE 1 IN | of southern cane and northern beet|bogrd will endeavor to get priorities under Army direction. sugar. Both can be greatly ex-
be | on materials for a new building by RANGOON, Jan. 12 (U. P).— panded, if farm labor is available. SEIBERT APPOINTED
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next fall. Royal Air Force planes ranged | over Thailand today and strafed a | . + } y all railroad station and an airdrome, | w /l H S w h “RN Last week's sub-zero weather be- ~ Where three planes were destroyed | ! ays o ar ! ® Carole in Defense Bond Rally,
came a chilly memory today as the! on the ground, and wrecked a | Will H. Hays, the Hoosier what 7 p. m, Thursday. Others taking
mercury stayed well above the moving train. freezing mark. 3 | it was two degrees EIRE FIGHTS ONLY IF i back-to-nor- part will be Carole Lombard, the! Machines, Booths. campaign after the First movie star, and Governor Schricker. | :
At T a. m. warmer than yesterdays maximum! managed Harding's INVADED—DE VALERA walcy } i" ! Mr. Hays will be guest of honor | The County Election Board toat a& luncheon at the Claypool | 48Y appointed Cletus Seibert” as
of 31, recorded at 3 p. m. |W ar, wi - DUBLIN, Jan. 12 (U. P).—Prime| orld War, will come back Thurs Thursday noon. He will be escorts | ehiief supervisor of the 1042 elec-
Minister Eamon De Valera said to- tay: $i | day that Eire intends not to enter | Democrats as well 38 Republicans, {the war “if we can possibly avoid will greet the ed there by Fred Bays, chairman tions, the May primaries and the it" and added “we will avoid it. , czar of the of the Democratic State Commit- general balloting in November movies who iS tee, and Ralph Gates, chairman of The board will meet again Th | TE ei te Republican State Committee. day to draft recommendations for
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pincers drive on (3) Java, Meanwhile, American bombers reported hitting a Japanese battleship off Davao (4).
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ns By HARRISON SALISBURY , United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan, 12—Japan today stepped up the fury of her| attack on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's men after American and Philippine | troops rolled back the initial full-scale Japanese assault on their stout| defense lines in Bataan province. Japanese forces had rolled big guns into position along the short
today sent a constant rain of high explosive shells into the American | from hearing broadcasts from the nes Avior oi oke| Cited States and Britain. ‘he American big guns spoke i VR . back and the War Department's| Other developments ‘in’ then Fa communique reported “a heavy ar-|Facific included: tillery battle." 1. A full-scale Japanese Powerful Japanese infantry forces'on the Dutch Fast Indies was were still moving up for a new at-| launched with enemy landings in the Japanese air force Dutch Borneo and the northern zoomed overhead blasting at Amer- | Celebes arm despite powerful in- | ican defensive installations in Ba-|tervenuion by the American and| taan and Corregidor fortress. Dutch air arms. Gen. MacArthur reported that| 2. A Japanese warship attackad Japanese occupation troops are|the U. S. naval station at Tutuila “attempting to suppress the use of | in the Samoan islands—a key poradio receiving sets by civilians in [sition on the island chain linking in order to cut them off (Continued on Page Two)
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Russia Trains Vast Reserve Armies at Doors of Japan
By UNITED PRESS ; Russia described in detail for the world today the training her | military reserves are undergoing in the vast Siberian areas facing Jap-|
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| Philippines | peninsula, probably 160 or 170 miles
Meanwhile, Admiral Thomas C. Hart, commander of the United States Asiactic fleet and supreme commander for the United Nations in the Southwest Pacific, authorized ihe United Press to ree veal that he had arrived in Java by submarine more than a week ago Admiral Hart's announcement of his arrival coincided with state ments by the Dutch defenders of the invaded East Indies islands that Allied forces were supporting them in striking at the Japanese by air, land’ and sea.
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Java, where Admiral Hart now has arrived, lies directly south of the Dutch islands which the Japse
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and Celebes, Bitter batles were being fought on oil-rich Tarakan and Celebes islands, off the northeast coast of Borneo. The Dutch announced the Allies
You will hear front Gen. MacArthur is holding on the northern Bataan border and had bombed two enemy cruisers and
four transports at sea. Two other Japanese transports were sunk in the Gulf of Siam. But Tokyo claimed that Tarakan's defenders and the Celebes port of Manado were forced to surrender
attack [and the Japanese offensives con-
island in ths the Malaya
Luzon and
tinued on on
north of Singapore. Developments included: DUTCH EAST INDIES — Enemy forces landed at three points on
Celebes and on Tarakan Island, off { the east coast of oil-rich Dutch Borneo. enemy cruiser, six transports and brought down seven enemy planes.
The Dutch blasted an
PHILIPPINES — Heavy artillery
baitles, increasing ground activity | by Japanese reinforcements and re
newed air attacks against American lines on Bataan Peninsula were ree ported. The Japanese claimed capture of the American naval base at Olange apo, 60 miles northwest of Manila, but U, 8. heavy bombers scored a
BALLOT SUPERVISOR
anese Manchukuo and the Japanese
Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinev held a long conference with
President Roosevelt in Washington
course, as to what they talked about.
task in the joint efforts of the United Nations is to deal with Adolf Hitler's German armies, but when spring comes, Manchukuo and Siberia, now frozen in the Arctic winter, will be suitable terrain for military action—from either side. The closest air bases to Japan are in Siberia. Russia had previously told of the new armies she was throwmg into the fight against the Nazis on her western front. Today she said the officers and men of her Siberian reserves know “the hour is not far when the honorable task of dealing a new and crushing blow to the © 5
(direct hit on an énemy battleship on a new raid against Japanese sea forces off Minando Island in the south. Other enemy forces were ate
islands themselves.
yesterday. There was no hint, of Russia has indicated that her
tacked in the Celebes Sea.
MALAYA-—Japanese armies, have ing taken the key city of Kuala Lumpur, smashed southward wer haps 30 miles behind strong tank attacks to open country north of Seremban. Axis broadcasts claimed the Jap= anese were within 125 miles of Singapore at one point but the
Fascist hordes will be assigned to them.” “The reserve units daily perfect | their training,” said a Moscow! broadcast heard by the United Press| in New York. “In peace time the Siberian mili-| tary area was considered one of the best in the Red Army in respect to! training on skiis. As present skii®| ;hain lines seemed to be at least have become still more popular Ma- 150 or 160 miles north of that city, chine guns, field artillery and mine, goUTH SEAS—A Japanese ship throwers are mounted on skiis. attacked the U.S. naval station at
“Much time is allotted to the mpytyjla, in the Samoan islands, bus study of methods of fighting enemy | 4iq 1ittle damage.
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War Moves Today
By LOUIS KEEMLE United Press War Analyst Speed is the essence of Japanese strategy in the southwestern Pacific. the war—reduction of Singapore and the Philippines—is yet to be completed, the Japanese are making preliminary moves in the second phase, which is occupation of all the rich East Indies. The new landings on Borneo and the adjacent island of Celebes are not in sufficient force to suggest the beginning of the major assault on the Indies. liminary, giving the Japanese another foothold as they inch from west and east toward Sumatra and Java.
tanks.’ Japan's prime immediate military objective still was Singapore, which the enemy is trying to envelop from three sides. Success or failure in stemming the Japanese attempt to sweep westward through the East Indies islands toward Singapore—about 900 miles away—will depend upon the ability of Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell to distribute Allied fighting strength at the most threatened points until reinforcements can are rive from America. On the Russian front, the Red Army still was rolling forward and the capture of Lyudinovo, 40 miles north of Bryansk, on the southwest Moscow front, was regarded in Lone
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lon as of spectacular importance. The Russian advance meant that the southern arm of a Red Army pincers had penetrated the ‘“sece ond winter defense line” set up by the Germans, In North Africa, British contine ued their pressure against Axis. forces on the Tripolitania border and at Halfaya (on the Egyptian frontier) but there was no importe ant e in positions, hi
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“If we are attacked,” de Valera! in Indiana do,
“we will defend oN : [R som e thing to Come Miss Lombard to Indiana | for polling places. The board also “ak, which was not strongly de-| themselves. One is the enormous : bring the pres- | Yhen she arrives at Union Station. will announce an appointment of fended. Then they made landings value of being firmly entrenched ! ? there had been any secret bargain ent war to a vie. Mayor Sullivan and Eugene Pul- Marion County delegates for the in British North Borneo, to the before the British and Americans, Fashions , T Questions ..... 9/to which Eire was a party or that! L_ \ torious end. | liam, executive chairman of the In-| 1042 state political conventions. ‘east, and now have descended on caught improperly prepared, can Mrs. Ferguson. 10 Radio .........11 he had been in any other country | i He will take diana Defense Savings Staff, also | The Marion County delegations to! Tarakan, on the east coast, If|bring their full weight to bear and Financial .....11 Mrs. Roosevelt. 9 recently. part in a rally Will meet her. |the State conventions will be much |they can consolidate this last posi-|stem the tide. The other is the Forum ....... ..10 Serial Story... 15] The Prime Minister said Eire was . to put the punch Miss Lombard will be whisked) larger than the 1940 delegations. At| tion, they are in a fair way to gain state of Japan's resources, strained . 7/Side Glances...10 doing its best to get arms “to de- Will Hays of Army tanks from the station to the Statehouse, the last Democratic convention|control of ths entire northern half by more than four years of major 3 Society ...... 6.7 fend our territory against any ag- into the campaign for selling de- where she will join in the ceremony Marion County had 25¢ delegates Of the island of Borneo in a short| warfare in China. Inside Indpls.. state 12,13 |gressor, no matter who he might fense bonds and stamps. The rally of raising the flag that flew over and Rep had 23 delegates) time. It is doubtful that Japan could
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please God, unless we are attacked.” | his old friends oe At 1:65 p. m, Mr. Hays will wel: /new voting machines and booths First the Japanese took over Sara- |
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