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FIERCE BLOWS DELAY JAPS IN MALAYA FIGHT
Allied Forces Smash at Invaders by Land And by Air.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
| Japanese held the offensive ‘against the United Nations in the | Far East today but took stiff coun-| ter-punches. | i From the Philippines, Gen. Doug-
[las MacArthur reported that the | : . enemy again was driving behind Women’s Civilian Defense Regi
Daylight Saving Time in Women
Entire Nation Begins Feb. 9
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today signed legislation placing the entire nation on Daylight Saving Time, effective at 2 a. m,, Monday, Feb. 9. : The statute, which placed clocks one hour ahead, will continue in effect for the duration of the war and for not more than six menths thereafter. It can be nullified in the meantime by Congress, however. The bill provided for Daylight Saving Time to become operative 20 days after formal enactment of the bill and with the President’s signature today, the effective hour and date was thus made 2 a. m., Feb. 9, according to the White House. The purpose is to achieve greater efficiency in this country’s industrial war effort.
Register for Defense
stration Day in World War II: Mrs. Alfred L. Hartridge, 530 N. Central Court (left) and Mrs, Ferd-
The War and You—
ASKS 300 MILLION T0 HELP JOBLESS ime Yn
. | Pennsylvania St. (center) registers aerial attacks at the center of the ihand Jehle. 3055 N. Meridian St. {
Bataan peninsula line, but he said threes planes were shot aown and | that U. 8. Army bombers sank an 1 3 DIE IN FIRE cruiser and fired a tanker) AT LYNN, MASS. | danao Island about 33 miles north | | of the big port of Davao, which the ‘enemy sought to use as a base for Many Screaming Occupants invasion of the East Indies. Of 5-Story Apartment
| Allies Take Heavy Toll On the Malaya peninsula, the | Leap From Windows. LYNN, Mass, Jan. 20 (U. P).—/|
Rritish reported increasing enemy attacks on a front south of the Muar Rit, go DR Aieg | A® least 13 ‘persons were killed hs po tensified | SAY today in a fire that destroyed
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Roosevelt Seeks Relief for Those Unemployed While Plants Are Being Converted; Fight Opened on Gasoline Price Increase. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt
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Mrs. C. Severin Buschmann, 3419 N. |
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SINGAPORE—Australian counter attacks and increased Allied aerial forces, apparently including American planes smashed at the Japanese on the Malaya fighting front, about 75 to 85 miles north of Singapore, but it was of« ficially acknowledged that the Japanese invaders are putting increased pressure on the defense lines.
On the War T0 HOME | FRONT
Rush Due Late Today as Housework Lets Up.
Women's registration for civilian defense in the City and County was light this morning. The reason: Housework,
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MacArthur Fights Increasingly Heavy Battle On Bataan; ‘Forgotten Force’ Holding
Out on Southern Island.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—American bombers—striking with fury in the southwest Pacific—have sunk a Japanese cruiser and set a tanker aflame, the War Department reported today, while Gen. Douglas MacArthur's men fought an increasingly fierce Japanese attack in Bataan. Gen. MacArthur reported that a “forgotten force” of Philippine troops on the southerly island of Mindanao is still holding out aganist Japanese assault and now is engaged in “sharp fighting” against Japanese forces about ' 35 miles north of Davao, which the enemy has converted
into one of his principal bases for the attack on the Dutch
Indies. |
FOURTH TANKER SHELLED BY SUB
The sinking of the Japanese cruiser was the third blow
‘reported struck by the Amere ican air forces in the southe west Pacific within the past 124 hours. The attack occurred off Jolo, a
small Philippines island just southe | west of Mindanao at the northern
aerial attacks were taking a heavy!® five-story apartment building in
toll for invader gains. The Japanese offensive toward Singapore—which some Axis reports claimed had penetrated to southernmost Malaya—was concentrated in two columns. One column, which forced its way across the mouth of the Muar River, was pushing down the coast toward Batu Pahat despite heavy losses as a result of Australian counter-attacks and R. A. F. bombing. The other column was fighting to advance down the center of the { peninsula along the main railroad |line, but had encountered strong |vesistance and appeared to be | stalled. i
the center of the Lynn business district, Five more were listed as] missing. More than 25 were injured, most of them by leaping from windows into the street. One of the injured was Chief John Adams of the Marblehead Fire Department who fell from the roof to a fire escape several floors below and was carried to a hospital. The condition of 14 others was critical. The fire spread so rapidly that when firemen arrived they shouted to occupants of the building's 60 apartments to lock their doors and wait until they could be rescued!
PHILIPPINES—U. 8. bombers sink a Japanese cruiser in southwest Pacific, set a tanker afire, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces continue to hold the Bataan Peninsula; U. S. bombers also strike at Sungei Patani, Japanese airdrome just north of the Thailand-Malaya boundary and aft an enemy airdrome at Mandano,
RUSSIA—Red counter -offensive seems on verge of important new successes all along Nazi winter line.
LIBYA—British columns still attempting to dislodge Axis
Registrars at the elementary and high schools in the City and County expected a rush of volunteers this afternoon after housewives had finished housework or made lunch for the youngsters. Those who did sign up for defense work, however, asked for the difficult jobs. Many women offered their services as switchboard operators, detailed office work, stenography and -bookkeeping. There were mothers who said they had no special skills but knew how to look after children. And there were women who proudly signed up as cooks.
Practical Nurse Signs
forces in El Agheila sector, 350 miles inside Libya.
At School 2, 700 N, Delaware St.
entrance to the Celebes Sea.
The American planes scored seve eral direct hits on the cruiser, sinke ing it, the War Department advised. A Japanese tanker was also hit and
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Makes Port After Attack Lasting 90 Minutes
Off East Coast. set afire,
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Jan. 20 The cruiser was the 40th Jap. (U. P.).—The Navy struck back with anese ship to be sunk by American
all available warships and airplanes|armed forces since start of the war, today to eliminate the German TWenty-nine have been sunk by submarine menace along the At-|naval and marine forces and 11 by
lantic seaboard which within six|the army. days has cost the Allied nations, New Drive In Bataan four oil tankers—three sunk and . one damaged by shell fire and tor-| 1ne Jolo attack presumably was pedoes. jailed: on oy Amerissh bombs | ; «wa. craft based in the Dutch Indies. Tne'reientiess Ceripsp uhderwa {These U. S. planes have carried out {ter campaign, almost within sight : : ‘ [four other attacks around the Ce= of the Atlantic shoreline, appar-|
3 » > today asked Congress for an emergency appropriation of £300,000,000 to relieve thousands of workers who will Jose their jobs in the next few months during the period of conversion of American industry to war production. Mr. Roosevelt made his ve : guest in a letter to Se SKIP ELECTI N Sam Rayburn which was read| on the House floor. Federal security officials estimated VERSION S 4k ARD that between $450,000,000 and $600,000,000 would be required to relieve RR all dislocated industrial workers! but the request was cut to s300- Supreme Court Judges Ask 000.000 after Congressional leaders! iis questioned the advisability of as-| Attorneys About Politics suming Federal responsibility for all economic casualties of the war, In New Law. No Gas Price Hikes WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U. P) —The Government will set ceiling prices on petroleum products and gasoline at service stations and other retail outlets if prices rise above last Nov. 7 levels, Price Administrator Leon Henderson said todav,
Indiana's skip election law. which would postpone all mayoral elections except in Indianapolis until 1943, was challenged in oral arguments before the Indiana Supreme Court today. ! Three theories were placed before the court by five attorneys. One held that the law was invalid, saying all cities would have
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British spokesmen no Leap Through Windows Japanese {troops were 5)
| miles of Singapore. | Screaming and shouting, wer DIES GROUP QUIZZES Singapore again was raided by pants leaped through the windows MUNCIE PUBLICIST
tion clerk. Two other business)
an estimated 30 enemy planes and while flames puffed out around some damage to military establish- them. Firemen brought scores
ments were acknowledged. down ladders. United States bombers shot down William J. Fuller, crippled by in-
{a bookkeeper, also offered their] | services. The going was slow this morning
one 22-year-old young woman em- enily is directed at the fleet of oil 1 ployed downtown offered to work tankers plying the sea lanes be-| : nights as a receptionist or informa- (ween Caribbean and Middle At- that the Japanese assault upon his
lantic ports. Other ships in the
(women, one a typist and another vicinity of the latest attack were Other climax.
not fired upon, survivors said. The latest victim of an enemy submarine was the tanker Malay, an 8206 ton Gulf Oil
American
CINCINNATL O. Jan. 20 (U. P.) —Cincinnati cops may wear |
nine Japanese fighters in heavy fantile paralysis, threw his crutches vaids on the enemy at Celebes from a window to attract attention, Island in the Dutch East Indies but when firemen reached him, he
to elect mayors next November. The second held that the law (could be construed by the court as
Nazi Tone of ‘The X-Ray.’
| Court Asher Asked About at Warren Central High School, but In ad-
the enthusiasm was there. dition to the women, one man volunteered and although it was he was
patched pants at night next summer. But not in the daytime when the patches would show. Police officials today relaxed their rule against patched wuniforms explaining that there's a shortage of cloth used for police uniforms,
Men’s Style Note
CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (U. P) —War threatens sartorial repercussions for male fashionplates. It may deprive] them of vests, pocket flaps, pleated | trousers and trouser cuffs, and it even may put them in shorts.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (U. P)— Price Administrator Leon Hender-! son brought a ray of cheer to gloomy automobile dealers today by! announcing that the Administration’ had no plans “now” for rationing] used ear sales or commandeering private vehicles.
CANCEL STICKERS ON |
WORKS BOARD CARS|
The Safety Board voted two to one today to cancel two traffic violation stickers that had been placed on Board of Works automobiles near City Hall After a livelv debate about indiscriminate enforcement of traffic laws the Board took a vote and
| interrupted questions.
{involved political considerations.
(from the skip election law's provi- already have taken the town of
and on Sungei Patania airdrome | insisted that they rescue his moth-
in Malaya. Two American craft are er first. She having been rescued, missing. 'he was taken down a ladder.
valid. A third claimed that it could be
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY women’s registration day,
Times Staff Writer not refused.
made valid by the striking of a clause, “excepting Indianapolis,” thereby forcing all cities to elect in
Dutch bombers struck at the Jap-, Eva La Vesque, who was injured, 'anese in Kuching, the capital of said she was awakened by a loud 1043 Sarawak on North Borneo, starting knock oh her doer. tre Question Political Aspect ‘big fires, while the enemy again It all happened so quickly that hr {raided Sabang (on North Celebes) I don’t know how I got out,” she
All of the five judges frequentiy and Siebolga, on western Sumatra. said. “Next thing I knew I was the attorneys with, lying on the street and some people It appeared that some Defense Stiffening were helping me.” of them were attempting to deter-! The general effect of these op-| mine whether the Legislature had erations was a stiffening of Allied] Sofie Pall DF Ledoes valid and reasonable cause for ex-| resistance so far as dispatches dis- She apparently jumped from a cepting Indianapolis from the post- closed developments along scattered Window. When firemen arrived, ponement or whether that move fighting fronts in the Far East, but|they found many tenants clinging
‘all dispatches emphasized that| to window ledges at the back of the
Indianapolis has a Democratic there was an ever-increasing need building and calling for help. Some
Mayor while Republicans control| for reinforcements, especially air- Were unable to hold on until nets the majority of the other cities. planes, to oppose Japanese blows Were spread and fell The controversial skip law was en- aimed at many sectors in an ef-| Fire apparatus from six towns acted by a Republican-controlled fort to diffuse Allied strength. and cities subdued the flames after Legislature last spring. The Japanese were reported two and one-half hours. The third L. Russell Newgent told the court by Chungking to be preparing for and fourth floors collapsed and the
that elimination of Indianapolis a major blow at Burma. where they Walls were in imminent danger of | falling, so firemen had to cautious-
ly conduct their search for the
sions made the law invalid because Tavoy. on the long narrow neck of | bodies of victims.
of “discrimination.” southeastern Burma. Cost Is Protected William Miller, a Republican attorney, contended that the law is
invalid because its repeal clause “eliminates all machinery for hold-
‘Kokomo in a silver-painted air-|Coy of Indianapolis, liaison man ‘plane, said he ran the paper prin- of the OEM, was mentioned today
(in the United States years ago,
Loer Offers Plan to Ease Left Turn Congestion
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Court At Technical High School, regis‘Asher, well-known Muncie, Ind, [tration also lagged, but one prac- | publicist and former D. C. Stephen. | tical nurse signed up. : Registration places at all City and
‘son lieutenant in days when the, ; Ku Kiux Kian rode high in In-[00uty schools vill be open until
diana, was questioned by the Dies Nasi - Fascist and anti semitic| COY MENTIONED AS DEPUTY OF NELSON
Nazi - Fascist and anti- Semitic | Times Special
propaganda appearing in his weekly WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Wayne
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paper, “The X-Ray.” Mr. Asher, who once flew the former Indiana Klan grand dragon to
cipally for legal ads. He said the as a possible deputy for Donald material the committee deemed|Nelson, now in charge of the wai Nazi-inspired and anti-Semitic| production setup. came from a Count Cherep-Spiri- Mr. Coy said he knew nothing dovich of 9 Sheriff St.,, New York about the matter, City. The question arose whether Mr. Count Spiridovich, he said, was Coy was a Nelson selection for the the adopted son of a former Czar- post, or was being put in for White ist major general of the same name House purposes hy his sponsor here who is alleged to have disappeared —Harry IL. Hopkins, the “Col. | House” of the Second World War.
| Co. ship. But it was more fortunate (than the other three. It survived a 90-minute submarine attack off the coast of North Carolina carly Monday and limped into port here early today. One of its crew of 33 was dead; four others were missing after attempting to launch a lifeboat. Singled Out Tanker Survivors told naval officials here how the submarine had singled out the Malay from a group of “several” other ships, subjected her to merciless shellfire and then sent a torpedo crashing into her bide almost amidships. The pattern of the attack was the same that sent the tankers Norness and Coimbra to the bottom off the coast of Long Island last week and sank the Allan Jackson off the North Carolina coast Sunday. There was no warning when the first shell crashed into the bridge of the Malay before daylight. Counter measures being taken by the Navy against submarine attacks were a military secret. But the assumption was that every available naval vessel was scouring the waters (Continued on Page Four)
NEWS OF PACIFIC
ing a municipal election in Indianapolis in 1942” Floyd Mattice, a Democrat, and Joseph McDaniels, local G. O P. leader, said the court could con-
New regulations designed to relieve Indianapolis’ left turn traffic jams were being considered by the Safety Board today.
strue the law on legislative intent so that Indianapolis could elect this ‘year and the other cities in 1943. They pointed out that if the capital city did not elect this year, the additional cost to local taxpayers to elect in 1943 would be more than $100,000. Edward Knight, Indianapolis City 15 Corporation Counsel, urged the ‘court to strike out 17 words in the 12] contreversial law, thereby making SRT possible to hold elections in all M cities in 1943.
decided to cancel the tickets.
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Under the new plan, submitted to the board by James E. Loer, City traffic engineer, motorists no longer will go around to the right of the center of an intersection before making a left turn. Instead, the left turn line of cars
ter of the street after through |traffic has passed. | “This will eliminate the usual |tieup when several cars from both /directions attempt to turn around ithe center at the same time,” Mr.
Loer explained. “Cars become hope-'
{lessly locked against each other in
will cut in at the left of the cen-|:
The left-of-center turning has) been adopted in the universal traf-| fic codes and is now being used in
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| the present right-of-center turning.”
Mr. Loer said his recommendations most of the larger cities where for the change would not affect, the, traffic.
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traffic, problems are the same as in
Accompanying the recommendations sent to the Safety Board is a diagram of left turn lines that will be painted on the streets at all busy intersections. The yellow lines will guide all motorists making left turns, keeping them clear of the left turn cars coming from the opposite direction. Under the left-of-center plan, any number of cars turning left can move freely into the next street as soon as through traffic has passed. The present right-of-center left turns has worked all right so long as no more than two or three cars are lined up for turning but longer strings deadlock each other in turning. Many Indianapolis motorists have reported they were “bawled out” in other cities when they attempted
Indianapolis, he said,
to make left turns around the right of a traffic officer. |
legal at all ladianigplis coraers.
The Safety Board was expected to approve a resolution for the new regulation and introduce an ordi-
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nance before the City Council soon, making the new left turn plan
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East Indies Official Reports After White House Call.
WASHINGTON, Jan, 20 (U. P.) — Lieut. Governor-General Hubertus Van Mook of the Netherlands East Indies said after a White House conference today thai he has received “a lot of good news” from President Roosevelt about regarding efforts made “to strengthen” the
cific. Gen. Van Mook, accompanied by Netherlands Minister Dr. Ajm Loudon, conferred with Mr. Roosevelt for about 45 minutes on the general war situation in the southwest Pacific theater. i
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Allied position in the southwest Pa-|
ches Sea in the past 10 days. Gen MacArthur's report indicated
| Bataan lines is building up to ane Heavy Japanese pressure, pare | ticularly at the center of his lines, (was admitted, Japanese planes | were supporting the attack. Three |of them were shot down in the past 24 hours. The communique said that the “enemy has renewed the attack” on the Bataan positions after more than 24 hours of relative quiet. ¢ Bombers Down Ship The communique offered no geos graphical details of the Bataan fighting. A Japanese propaganda broadcast claimed that the Amerie can lines had been pierced somee where in the vicinity of Abucay, an east Bataan town about three miles north of Balanga. This report—if correct—would indicate the Japanese have progressed about one-third of the distance down the
narrow peninsula. The report that fighting is still going on in Mindanao island was the first word of conditions there in many days. The Japanese OCe cupied Davao more than three
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Malaya Map Rio Conference Local Defense Plans. ....ie00000s Churchill's Speech Russian Fighting U. S. in Charge of Burma Road. .10
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EUROPE—
What is going on in Gere many and in the incredibly impoverished countries = of Hitlerized Europe? David M. Nichol, famous war correspondent, has just returned after 16 months on the continent. His first artis cle of a new and noteworthy series starts tomorrow in
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