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War Moves Today BILL SEEKS 12,200 By LOUIS F. KEEMLE IN WOMEN’S ARMY
United Press War Analyst
- | The battle for Singapore, hitherto fought mile WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U. P.). by mile down the narrow Malay Peninsula, now is| _The Army will recruit an initial drawing close to the island itself and signs point | force of 12,200 volunteers to form to early development of the siege stage. 'a women’s army auxiliary corps if : / It then becomes a question of how long the | enabling legislation recommended In Leningrad Sector; island can hold out. Its defenses are excellent. (by the War Department is ap- . If the resistance of tiny Wake Island and the!proved, Lieut. Col. Ira Swift, of the Report Other Gains. beleaguered forces of United States Gen. Douglas Army's General Star, told the | MacArthur on Luzon Island can be taken as a measure of comparison, House Military Affairs Committee LONDON, Jan. 20 (U. P.).—Rus- strong Singapore should be able to withstand a long siege. However, today. sian forees opening a major drive the “growing confidence” expressed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill Mr. Swift estimated it would cost on the Leningrad front have pierced in London over the situation in the $10,000,000 to get the program unthe German line at several points Far East did not refer specifically| planning an assualt on Burma. der way. east of the city, Stockholm and/to Singapore itself. The position] It would be in keeping with| Although he set the initial force other dispatches reported today. |of Singapore is somewhat différent | Japan's policy of speed to tackle at only 12,200, Rep. Edith Nourse A fierce attack has been opened from that in the Philippines. | Burma before the British, Indian Rogers .(R. Mass.), author of the on the key city of Schluesselburg, In the Philippines, the Japanese and Chinese forces being massed | bill, said the force probably would 20 miles east of Leningrad on Lake are much farther from base. The there get too strong. reach a total of 20,000 to 25,000 Ladoga, at the mouth of the Nevalaitacking forces were entirely sea Occupation of Burma would put!women in non-combatant posts. River. ‘and air-borne. Even so, Manila fell the Japanese on the bay of Bengal Earlier Gen. George C. Marshall, This attack was timed with a in a comparatively short time. | and the borders of India. It would|Chief of Staff, informed the Comdrive down the Volkhov River also cut China's line of supply. mittee by letter that the bill prevalley to the south of Leningrad. {Like Singapore, Burma is a vital|sented “a sound method for meetThe Germans dynamited the ice| In Malaya, the Japanese have an spot to hold. | ing military requirements.” over the river north of Novgorod overland route from Thailand. : in an attempt to stop the Russians There is almost no limit to the| long enough to permit the consoli- number of troops, tanks and guns! dation of a new defense line. {they can pour down the peninsula | It was indicated that Arctic to mass an overwhelming force, forces including ski troops were against the island. attacking Schluesselburg both from| They also have gained air fields, the land side and from frozen Lake closer to Singapore. Land based Ladoga. 'planes, flying only short distances, As this new threat to the German can blast at the island's defenses, line developed, Russian and German subject only to the strength of the! troops were reported fighting one British, American and Dutch alrof the fiercest battles of the war craft opposing them. at Mozhaisk, 60 miles west of The pattern of the Japanese camMoscow. {paign at this stage is clear. Their Stockholm dispatches painted a field of attack extends in a sweeping lurid picture of fighting in the arc from Luzon in the Philippines, streets of the burning city, amid through Borneo-Celebes to Singachoking smoke and flames fanned pore and up the Malay Peninsula to by an icy gale, after the Russians!Borneo. had thrust through German defences from the south and east. These dispatches were not confirmed here and it was noted that Russian official sources had not yet mentioned a fight in Mozhaisk.
Say Mozhaisk Doomed
But an official Russian claim to Vereya, 15 miles southeast of Moz-
TUESDAY, JAN. 20, ™ The Propaganda Front— They Too, Will ‘Man’ the Hom WAVELL TO QUIT
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Knows Resistance Vain, Rome Claims; Leaves | Singapore, Tokyo Adds.
By UNITED PRESS propagandists said today that Gen. Archibald P. Wavell. supreme commander of the United Nations in the Pacific, is about to, quit his post. | Radio Rome, quoting the Tokvo newspaper Nichi Nichi, said Gen. Wavell was “convinced of the impossibility of offering resistance” to the Japanese and was about to resign Radic Tokyo said he had “tendered his resignation after in-| specting ritish defenses north of Singapore and had left hurriedly for New Guinea.” Tokyo said Gen. Wavell would be succeeded by Sir Robert BrookePopham. recently ousted by the British as commander at Singapore
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ion County women opened registration for civilian defense. Here, at School 76, 30th St. and College Ave, Mrs. Don Bose, 3048 College Ave. extreme left, and Mrs. David N. Ross, 3020 Sutherland Ave. extreme right, are registered by Mrs. A. Lemke, 3131 Sutherland Ave. left, Mrs. Thomas Hindman, 42d St. and Franklin Rd.. standing, and Mrs. H. A. Milbern, 3446 Birchwood Ave.
DRIVE THROUGH Escapes Penalty for Futile Lie to Save Mate From Chair TURKEY WAITED a Jan. 20 (U. P.). —!spected, sartisalatte rr [The desperate lie Mrs. Camille husband was enamored of Mrs.
because her Rommel Renna, 35, told to save her husband |Celetano, and she had nothing to | from the electric chair was futile, |fear if she repudiated her story. {but authorities promised her today| Mrs. Renna was asked to draw a that she would not be punished picture of the murder scene. When for it. she drew a picture of a square oil Four hours before her husband,|can that she said she had tossed Arthur Renna, 35, was to have been!through Mrs. Celetano’s window, executed at Sing Sing Prison last| and Mr. Foley pointed out that it "and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. | Thursday, she “confessed” that she, had been a stone jug and that Mss. CAIRO, Jan. 20.—Operations jn not he, had set the fire that burned Celetanc had cut her feet on ils 5 : E i8 ai | Mrs. Rose Celetano, 32, and er|broken fragments trying to escape Cyrenaica, now drawing te a close, cece, Louise Viviano, 8, to deatn in|the flames, Mrs. Renna broke down. will be dwarfed in a few weeks by| 1038. She signed a confession that her big developments north and east! Governor Herbert H. Dy i oy. Jae i as ; > in ini ,! grant Renna a week's reprieve made by me in the hope a 5 Siz, roroiting bv Stweh dad ¥ 77 pir Bim Attorney Samuel J. might save my husband's life.”
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Japs Claim Allied Line in Luzon Cut TOKYO. Jan 20 (Official Broadcast recorded by United Press in New York and San Francisco) — Dispatches from Manila reported today the left flank of the Japanese attacking froces had pierced the Allied defense line between Abuke and Matuv mountain on the Bataan peninsula of Luzon Island in the Philippines. This advance, the dispatch said, fmperiled remaining American-| Philippine froces with encirclement. The Japanese expected to cut off the Americans retreat from Bataan Peninsula. Battle front reports from Malaya
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| Foley of Bronx County, New York| She only delayed his execution a It is pointed out that however city investigated her story. | week. Invitations were mailed yesgreat the temptation to plunge in-, He was immediately suspicious. | terday to 12 witnesses, asking them to Tripolitania after Gen. Erwin Finally he told her that her motives to be in the death house Thursday Rommel’s forces. the British mili- | were understood and her loyalty re-| night to see Renna die. tary are not going to lose sight! ’ of the tremendous potentialities of! f r P ® | + S Tukey. "It's a Privilege to Serve, The opinion is expressed here;
haisk, and the village of Kondrovo in the same sector, were regarded as dooming Mozhaisk and threatening the entire German army in the region, estimated to number 200,000 men. Stockholm dispatches reported that the German command was
trying to move the bulk of its forces out of the Mozhaisk area, and at
Malacca Strait, gateway to the In-| dian Ocean. It would facilitate] their advance on their great objec-|
The Japanese strategy has long been obvious. It is to throw in | everything early in the game while | | Japan stiil has the advantage in planes, ships and men.
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that Gen. Rommel is trying to lure; the British forces westward and | thereby dangerously stretch the] Allies’ already taut lines of com-| munications.
Mother Writes Sailor Son. same time was rushing forward
|picked armored units from SmoYou were born at 11:55 p. m. At|lensk to cover the retreat. POWDER 20.—A|1 o'clock mother placed a tiny soft| The Russians were believed to be bundle in my arms—you were so attacking the Germans frontally at son Jr. by his mother, in which she|{round and pink and soft, just like | Mozhaisk while cavalry and ski a /. 22) 4 Vo, oy or GCS told him how she felt about his|chiffon velvet, I thought my heart| troops attacked from the flanks and going off to war, gave him such a|would burst with love for you. Russian dive bombers heavily at- | boost that he wished to share it | “You were always a sweet boy tacked German communications to | with others. He sent it to the Mer from the time you were a tiny|impede the retreat. phis Press-Scimitar, a Scripps-How-!tot up to now. I hate so much for| Berlin broadcasts heard here relard newspaper, which printed it at/you to go so far away, but I am ported fierce Russian attacks along ‘his request. | glad and proud that you are. Those {the whole Donets River basin, cenMr. Morrison, who enlisted in the are conflicting emotions, aren’t|tering on Kharkov. Navy and has just entered training they? It is a blessed privilege to Attack All Along Line at Great Lakes Station, Ill, wrote serve one’s country, and I know you c i back to Memphis: 'will never let me, or your Uncle| Prof. Lindley Fraser, professor of “To me this letter is the best Sam down. oe political economy at Aberdeen Uni-send-off a boy could get. If every] “Don't forget ever to say your versity and special commentator for boy's mother in the U. S. A. felt like prayers. the British radio, said today in a my mother does about a boy going| “May God bless you, and keep |Proadcast to North America that reto war, it wouldn't be long before you, ‘My Wonderful Son.’ ports had been received that there the war would be over.” “Mother,” [Was street fighting in Kharkov as well as in Mozhaisk.
ou letter: “If that is true,” he said, “it ey a on 4 litle note 16 means that there is a Russian push tell you the things that I have not 8) slope the jeans and tiers tie . ere biohd 0 be Germans hold they will be unable SH ae oh A on take his to make a stand until they reach a fm : : place along with others who are I a aan %Ad Polish fon willing if necessary 2 re ial Other reports said the Russians very life Top our igri d oa were attacking the Germans on the I Sg yf wi Ss oy dear. east and west sides of Taganrog, on and your best is a gr = role the Sea of Azov coast, with the aid because to know you ar of light naval units which shelled capable of achieving your goal. {Nazi columns on the coastal roads.
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us. | “You may not know it, dear, you, MRS. EMMA Zwicker O'Shea, | house mother of the Delta |
are ‘my heart’ Remember you are| my ‘first-born son.’ I shall never forget the night you were born. Gamma sorority at Butler University, died yesterday following brief illness.
Our country was at war in that A native of Germany, she came
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and in the middle of the night I ! went down in the ‘Valley of Death.’ She lived in Chicago many years prior to the death of her hus-
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If they succeed, the Japanese] hope to establish themselves so! : {firmly in southeast Asia and the| | Indies that it will be a Herculean | [task to dislodge them when the; ; full strength of the United Nations! is brought to bear. Meanwhile, they would be fortifying themselves with the Indies’ resources. There apparently is almost no limit to Japan's ambitions in extending the field of operations, striking while the iron is hot, in| all directions. The latest exploit is the capture of a base at Tavoy, in the long “finger” of lower Burma extending along the border of Thailand. Coupled with the bombing of Mandalay and Rangoon, this suggests that the Japanese may be
WOMAN, 70, HURT WHEN HIT BY AUTO
Mrs. Sarah Schuchman, 70, was injured seriously today when she stepped into the path of an approaching auto in front of her home, 1231; S. Meridian St. She was taken to Methodist Hospital. Doctors said she received a broken hip and head injuries. The driver, George Fastes, 34, of 1757 Cruft St, was held blameless by police.
PLAN TO ATTEND RITES Several officers of Indianapolis] chapters of the Order of Jobs| Daughters will go fo Vincennes, Fya Ind.. tomorrow to attend funeral § | services for Mrs. Sarah VanWay, mother of Miss Carie VanWay, junior past grand guardian of the | NN Indiana Order. Mrs. VanWay died | Sunday at her home in Vincennes.
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Discloses Chum Went to Florida
ANXIETY OF the parents of Thomas E. Paul Jr. today caused Charles Sedan Jr. to give away his chum’s secret. Charles told Detective Fred Swego that Thomas had gone to Florida after taking a final fling at winter by skating on the lagoon in Garfield Park Saturday night. “He checked freight train schedules for three days,” the junior of the Sedan family, 305 E. Raymond St., said about the junior of the Paul family, 2460 Churchman Ave. The bovs, both 16, were schoolmates at Manual Training Hizh. When the boys went skating Saturday night, Thomas took along a pair of every-day shoes, | After saying farewell to the North by spinning around on the ice for a while, Thomas changed from the shoes with skates to the street shoes—anfl headed for Florida. Finding of the Paul boy’s skating shoes in a chest in the garage | at the Sedan home led to the questioning of Charles.
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North ; ; Bupa Survivors are a sister, Mrs. M ezzanine Minnie Z. Franke, and a brother, Frederick Zwicker, both of Indianapolis, Funeral services will be conducted at the Royster & Askin East Side Funeral Home by the Rev. Frank 8. C. Wicks of the All Souls Unitarian Church at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Jan. 20 (U. P.).—Work on $2,000,000 worth of Navy contracts was halted today as result of an explosion which leveled the power plant of the Chapman Valve Manufacturing Co. Five men were injured. The FBI was asked to investigate.
PROTEST G. M. LAY OFF
LANSING, Mich. Jan. 20 (U.P) — An estimated 3000 members of the United Automobile Workers of America marched on the State House today protesting layoff from the Fisher body plant of General Motors Corp. here. The workers face unemployment because of automobile production curtailment and lack of war orders for their plant.
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