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[Scuires —wowarnl]l VOLUME 53—NUMBER 271

JAPS BEATEN BACK IN LU

Japanese Air Fleets Rai

FORECAST: Continued mild temperatures this afternoon and tonight.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1942

NELSON ENDS OPM IN NEW

ARMS SETUP

Duties Transferred to War Board; Officials Kept In Key Positions.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (U.P) — War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson today abolished the Office of Production Management as a

war agency and tied directly to the War Production Board the main operating divisions of OPM. Mr. Nelson also announced creation of an overall Requirements Board which will match war requirements and available raw materials. Its chairman will be William L. Batt and members will represent the Army, Navy, Economic Defense Board, Lend-Lease and Maritime Commission. From the old OPM, Mr. Nelson transferred te the WPB the Divisions of Purchases, Production, Materials, Labor and Civilian Suppiv. He created a new Division of Industry Operations which will inciude the former priciities system. | Mr. Nelson also eliminated OPM’s Division of Contract Distribution which had been under the direction of Floyd B. Odlum. That division's future functions will be carried out principaily by the production division. Mr. Nelson said. He added that Mr. Odlum had suggested the change and will remain as an adviser to him

An ‘Interim’ Setup

Nelson termed the present setup as principally “an interim”! organization. He said he wasj| making but one approach to the re- | organization—"to get the maximum! production of war material in the shortest possible time.” He also created the following new divisions to speed the war effort: | & 1. A Progress Reporting Agency] under the direction of former OPM | Statistician Stacey May to follow the development of “all items in the war program.” 2. A Planning Division which, Mr. Nelson said. can be called a “brain trust.” It wou id do a lot of “thinking” on SY the war effort may be impro

Mr.

New Faces Are Few

New faces in the reorganization are relatively few. The Purchas-| ing Division remains under the | direction of Douglas Mackeachie: | the Production Division, under William H. Harrison: the Materials] Division under Mr. Batt: the Labor Division under Sidney Hillman, and the Civilian Supply Division under] Leon Henderson. J. S. Knowison. former Deputy OPM Priorities Director. was appointed to a new important Divi-! sion of Industry Operations. | The function of the new Industry Operations Division, Mr. Nelson sald “will be to get as much conversion of industry as quickly as possible.” | Auto “Czar” Named

Emest Kanzier will be head of! the new automotive branch and be “clothed with every authority need-| ed to get conversion in the industry as quickly as possible.” son revealed. Mr. Kanzler will have supreme authority over conversion of the automobile industry from peacetime! to war production, he said. The new automotive “czar” will have labor, industry, Army and Navy advisers, and will have his office | in Detroit to “make decisions on] the spot.” i Mr. Nelson cited his decision to] appoint an automobile chief as a “typical method” of accomplishing all-out war production. If other industries are concentrated in one, industrial area, Mr. Nelson said.! other mdustry branch chiefs of the! WPB will be moved to the field.

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NICHOL

bewilders the world.

David M. Nichol has just returned after 16 months in war-tossed Europe. Here he begins a series of articles on the Nazi riddle which

EUROPE IS CAUGHT today in the grip of the most

efficient plunder machine the

world has ever evolved.

The process is applied impartially, to enemy and ally alike, but the result is precisely the same and its object solely the support of Nazi Germany's effort to bring the entire globe under its domination. It has made Europe a

continent of loot and slavery.

In detail it is an undramatic account, the story of little people suffering endless hardships, of hunger and disease, of ceaseless migrations and broken families, of stoves without fuel and homes without light, of Italians without spaghetti and Swiss without cheese, of living reduced to its lowest subsistence levels. In its total it means the decline of every standard, the exhaustion of every resource that continental Europe

has built over decades.

It means the ultimate defeat of

Hitler if the allied armies are sufficiently strong to block

No locust plague has ever done a more thorough job of looting.

him from new sources of supply and to build a mighty dam behind which their own productive capacity can bring its full weight to bear. = » = TI WATCHED THIS destructive whirlpool for 16 months in the heart of its expanding orbit while it engulfed one after another of Europe's countries. During that period the technique of looting was hrought to incredible perfection. No locust plague has ever done a more thorough job. Two channels serve to syphon off whatever there is of value in the continent. One is the German Government and its agencies. The second is the German soldier and tourist. The first operates through the official requisitioning commissions and economic staffs of the eccupying armies, through the “trade missions” dispatched to Allied countries and the ruthless

Europe . . . the story of little people suffering endless hardships.

bargains that are forced on the few remaining neutrals.

” n 4 ITS RAMIFICATIONS are endless and extend to every phase of Europe's existence. Nazi panzers need grease with the result that the trains pounding through Switzerland — vital arteries for Italy — are improperly lubricated and continually breaking down. All the continent's rolling stock has been scrambled into one gigantic pool, heavily overburdened alike by the absence of any trucking and the demands of the armies, and depreciating steadily because there is neither labor nor replacements. Reports of wrecks were so frequent that the Germans stopped their publication wherever they could. Every bank of importance, every

insurance company has been brought under the control of central German institutions, With the banks came predominant interests in many industries. Most of Europe’s steel and armament works have been incorporated directly or indirectly into the huge Hermann Goering Wereke. I. G. Farben has taken over most of the chemical concerns, one of the newest branches being “Francolor” which went into operation at the beginning of the year combining three principal French organizations. E » ” A CENTRAL HOLDING company in which the German banks and the German Government participate directly has been estab-

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SLOT MACHINE CLEANUP LOOMS

state to Use U. S. Tax List. To Enforce Statute, Stiver Says.

The State of Indiana will use the U. S. Government's list of persons

paying taxes on slot machines to en(force a State law which prohibits possession of such devices, Don F.

Stiver, Superintendent of State Police, said today.

| Payment of the Federal tax of $50! a year does not protect the posses-

sors from arrest under the Indiana

istatute enacted in 1935, Mr. Stiver

said. Meanwhile, Sheriff Feeney said he would continue his “365-days-a-year campaign against slot machines.” Chief Morrissey promised a statement later.

The names of 60 possessors of slot ‘machines in Indianapolis appeared |

1U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue

| for Indiana. The names were those! of organizations as well as indi‘viduals, including many clubs and) | American Legion posts. All those on the list had paid | three-fourths of the annual a of $50. The fee of $37.50 per slot | machine covered the three quarters | from Oct. 1, 1941, to June 30, 1942. The Indiana law makes ‘posses-!

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300,000 NAZIS SLAIN, RED OFFICIAL SAYS

MOSCOW, Jan. 21 (Official Rus{sian Broadcast Recorded by the) United Press in London) —S. A.|

| Scherbakov, first secretary of the |

| Moscow Communist Party, said today that 300,000 Germans had been i killed in Russia between Dec. 6 and ry 5. exclusive of those wounded | or captured. Scherbakov said that during the same period 1100 German planes

had been destroyed and that the |¢ ralian officer. Red Army had captured 4801 guns, |

2761 tanks, 3071 trench mortars, more than 8000 machine guns, armored cars, 33,640 trucks and 2,000,000 shells.

He made his statement at a meet- |

ing marking the 18th anniversary of Lenin's death. Premier Joseph

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Japs in Indian battle garb.

deserted. The next day the Japa-

12 Boys, 8, Admit Attempts

To Wreck Trains Near Fort

Attempts by two 8-year-old boys to wreck New York Central Railroad trains neer Ft. Harrison within the last four days was revealed |

today. The boys today remained in th their ages made arrest unreasonable.

got the idea for the train wreck from an adult.

“I heard a man talking about it,” he told railroad police. The first attempt was made Saturday. Pieces of railroad ties had been fastened with a wire cable to the tracks half a mile west of Lawrence The crew of an Indianapolis-to-Cleveland train discovered the obstruction shortly before “The St. Louis Special” was scheduled to pass that point. The Cleveland-bound train stopped, and a brakeman flagged the St. Louis Special before it reached the danger spot. The ties and cable were removed and the second train proceeded to Union Station. Monday afternoon. a woman living nearby saw two boys piling,

Mr. Nel-/ on the records of Will H. Smith, pieces of Ses on the tracks “near | gether at Lawrence.

e custody of their parents because One of the youngsters said they

the same spot. She notified Lawrence authorities and the FBI. The obstruction was removed shortly before “The Knickerbocker” passed. The boys readily admitted they put the ties there Monday, and hae fastened the cable around the ties) Saturday, authorities said. They| were hazy about their reasons except one of them repeated that he had “heard a man talking about it.” Capt. E. F. Cline of the railroad’s police is endeavoring to find that adult. One of the boys is the son of a cook at Ft. Harrison. The other is the son of a mechanic living at Lawrence. They attend school to-

Kilts Next for Jap Soldiers? Singapore Won't Be Surprised

By GEORGE WELLER

| make their next attack dressed in kilts and playing bagpipes.

The invaders have masqueraded plain nudists and their range pres not exhausted. The Oriental master-mind, who with Malayan-front strategy, de-|~ vised a cunning but somewhat naive plan to precede an attack by the

Upon the Tokyo radio's English program, the master-mind caused an announcement to be made that several hundred Indian troops had

inese attacked in Punjab dress crying, “Do not fire we are Indians.” They were mowed down by fire directed by an unconvinced Aus-

Hoot mon, dees yon skirling of mean the Samurai are

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mes and The Chicago Daily News. Inc. will be surprised if the Japanese

so far as Chinese, Malays, Indians of fancy battle-dress is apparently

attempts to blend Tokyo broadcasts

MUSTACHED YOUTH SOUGHT IN ASSAULT

A youth, about 20, dark-com-plexioned and with a thin mustache, was sought today for the criminal assault of a 17-year-old Shortridge High School girl in a field off N. Arlington Ave. before sundown yesterday. The girl said the man ordered her, at the point of a revolver, to go to the field, and also compelled her to tell him her age and address, and the name of her school. “If you report this to police, you will get hurt,” he told her. The girl went to her grandmother’s house on N. Arlington

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URGE GURB ON WAR PROFITS

‘House Group Reveals One

247 Per Cent Return;

Raps Firms, Labor.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (U. P.).— The House Naval Affairs Committee today recommended enactment of legislation to stamp out profiteering, charging that industry and labor alike have attempted to enrich themselves with defense contracts. “Excessive and unconscionable” profits of American industries—some ranging up to 247 per cent and “many of 50 per cent or more,” was a highlight of .a report of the committee’s investigation of naval building. An “astounding concentration of wealth” in labor unions—with 117 unions reporting assets of $82,594,359, an increase during 18 months of $19,679,294, was also cited. The committee recommended Congressional action to block methods by which corporations and labor unions have fattened their treasuries at the expense of the taxpayer. Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) planned to submit legisia> tion to the House soon.

Dissent to Report

The report was signed by only 14 of the 27 members of the committee. Seven signed a dissenting view on the “conclusions and statements regarding labor.” Another member, Rep. Joseph B. Shannon (D. Mo.), filed a separate minority report demanding that all of the report dealing with labor be eliminated. The committee recommended: For industry—“That some methed of profit limitation should be adopted to eliminate profiteering on defense contracts . . . to prevent excessive and unconscionable profits.”

Urge Registration of Unions

For labor unions—“That suitable legislation be enacted requiring all labor unions to register with a suitable Government agency and to furnish pertinent information concerning their officers, members and financial condition at periodic intervals.” It recommended passage of a law to curb strikes which the

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Malaya Land Defenders Hold in West, Fall

Back in East. By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign Editor Japan hurled a big scale, but costly aerial offensive today against

front guarding Singapore and the East Indies. Apparently seeking to offset a crushing defeat of Axis forces by the Red Army west of Moscow, the Japanese sent big fleets of bombers and fighters into action from Malaya to the Dutch Island bases, and eastward to the British outposts

AND E. INDIES }

New Navy Hero

a 3500-mile United Nations defense|®

Lieut. John D. Bulkeley was today’s new U. S. naval hero after the small torpedo boat he commanded, slipped into Binanga Bay in the Philippines to torpedo and sink a 5000-ton ship. (Details and another photo, Page Eight.)

northeast of Australia. These operations were costly for the Japanese, however, and about a score of enemy planes were destroyed, including 13 at Singapore and three others in Mid-Malaya where the R A. F. pounded heavily at Japanese-held airdromes, starting a number of big fires.

New Malaya Withdrawal

The fiercest fighting of the Malaya war was reported in progress on the Malaya front, 60 miles north of Singapore island, where British artillery inflicted “heavy casualties” on the enemy by firing at close range over open sights. The British officially reported that heavy Japanese attacks had forced a defense line withdrawal on the east coast. in the Endau River sector, but the west coast positions appeared to be standing arm. New Japanese thrusts into Burma during the next 10 days almost certainly may be expected, an official announcement at Rangoon warned today. Burmese territory already has been penetrated by both Japanese and Siamese forces.

t Expect War on Burma

Great Britain is expected to declare war on Thailand soon, it was said in London, and well informed sources there forecast that the United States would do so also, because Thailand troops are taking part in a Japanese attack on Burma. It was said that British and American officials now discussing Thailand's position. On the Malaya front, the Japanese sent waves of bombers against Singapore in indiscriminate bombing of residential areas in an effort to soften up the civilian population.

; Paratroops Sieze Minahassa

In the Dutch islands, Japanese paratroops had occupied all of Minahassa on the northern tip of Celebes island but “paid dearly,” the Dutch communique said. The Dutch forces still were fighting on Celebes as enemy planes renewed attacks on Borneo and Medan port, on Sumatra. Eastward in the British islands north of Australia, the Japanese

answer,

HINTS BLIMPS

AID SUB WAR

FDR Reveals Likely Use!

In Clearing Coast of ‘Rattlesnakes.’

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (U. P)). —There were indications today that the Navy's newest weapon for de-

ense against submarines—the blimp

—was meeting with important successes along the Atlantic Coast.

President Roosevelt gave the first

hint of the importance of blimps at his press conference yesterday. A questioner had suggested that, in view of recent attacks upon tankers along the Eastern Seaboard, it might be wise oil pipelines.

to construct more

Mr. Roosevelt instead 0 build blimps.

replied that the of pipelines, was The Navy recent-

ly placed into service its first squadron of lighter-than-air craft and many officials expressed the opinion that they would be of great value in destroying submarines.

All Types of Defense The Navy’s announcement that

“strong counter measures are being taken” by units of the East Coastal Command indicated that American

uthorities were pressing large

numbers of all types of ships and aircraft into the search for the marauders.

While the Navy made no specific

mention of the work being done by

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ROMMEL CITED. FOR

‘DEFENSIVE VICTORY’

BERLIN, Jan, 21 (Official Ger-

man Broadcast. recorded by the United Press in New York)—Adolf Hitler has awarded the oak leaves with swords on the knight's cross of the iron cross to Gen. Erwin Rommel, commander of the German

at Kawieng on Bismarck

Madang on New Guinea.

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Russian fighting ...

sent a fleet of about 100 bombers (which yesterday suffered loss of three to six planes in attacks on Rabaul) into action again, striking island, Lorungau on Admiralty island and These attacks, carrying the enemy air of(Continued on Page Two)

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Pacific battle analyzed...ceceeees

Afrika Korps, for his “defensive victory” in North Africa, the fuehrer’s headquarters announced today. (Gen. Rommel now is making a stand in the El Agheila area of the Cyrenaica-Tripolitania border after having been pushed 359 miles across the hump of Libya by British Imperials.) Hitler thanked Rommel for his “excellent action by which in cooperation with our allies (the Ital5/ians) you once again succeeded in 9 |frustrating Anglo-American plans |by defensive victory.”

REPORT RIO REACHES FORMULA FOR UNITY,

Plan Enables Argentina to Enter Solid Front.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 21 (U. P.).—The conference of American foreign ministers was reported today to have found a formula whereby ali 21 American nations could take united action in breaking relations with the Axis. It was understood that the formula was drafted by Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil, with the approval of the United State delegation, to enable Argentina to participate in the solid American front and approve the resolution calling for a break in

ions, whioh he Sas Miherol uiore

South China Sea.

bombers, ton yesterday.

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Enemy Losses ‘Very High’; Filipino Guerrillas Strike

Behind Foe’s Lines. By HARRISON SALISBURY

United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.— Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported today that savage counter-attacks have re-es-tabished his Bataan province defense lines with “very heavy Japanese losses and revealed that Filipino guerillas far behind the lines have carried out a “brilliant” attack

on an enemy airdrome.

Gen. MacArthur's report of the guerilla success was the first to ine dicate that his efforts to establish organized behind-the-lines fighting on the model of the ‘successful Russian tactics against the Germans are beginning to pay dividends. The American general revealed that a guerilla force, operating in the Cagayen River valley of northeast Luzon, carried out a surprise raid on a Japanese-occupied aire drome at Tuguegarao, just south of Aparri.

Taken By Surprise "

“The Japanese were taken come pletely by surprise,” said the come munique, “and fled in confusion, leaving 110 dead on the field. Approximately 300 others were put to flight. Our losses were very light.” Gen, MacArthur gave no indica« tion of the means by which he maintains contact with such guerilla bands, but his reports have indicated that despite his withe drawal into the Bataan fastnesses he left behind him an extensive and well-organized system of espionage and anti-Japanese elements. The scene of the guerilla action was some 200 miles north of Gen. MacArthur's line.

Jap Losses Heavy

Presumably the guerillas swooped down on the Tuguegarao airdrome, routed the Japanese and then dise appeared again into the jungles and mountains where they maintain headquarters. On the main fighting front in Bataan, the communique indicated, some of the most savage fighting of the war has been in progress. The American communique ade mitted that the Japanese had first succeeded by persistent pressure and weight of forces in occupying some American positions and penetrating the U. S. lines. “The Japanese, by infiltrations and frontal attacks near the center of the line,” said the communique, “had gained some initial successes. Our troops then counter-attacked and all positions were retaken. Enemy losses were very heavy. Our casualties were relatively moderate.”

No Positions Revealed

The communique described the fighting as “particularly savage.” No place names or specific posie tions were revealed in the come munique. However, it appeared that the Japanese may now control the bulk of the northern third of Bataan penisula. Gen. MacArthur's defense lines presumably cut across the waist of ‘the 13-mile wide province, possibly a few miles north of Balanga on the east coast, running (Continued on Page Two)

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War Moves Today

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst Strategists of the United Nations are agreed that increased air power within the shortest pose sible time is the real answer to stopping the Jape nese before they entrench themselves solidly in the Dutch East Indies and multiply the difficulties of eventually defeating them. This is no new thought. It was recognized at the start of the war with the sneak attack on Pearl

It naturally works both ways, as

demonstrated by the sinking of a

cruiser by American announced in Washing-

apanese

Harbor and the sinking by aircraft of two British battleships in the Now it is becoming even more apparent with the

increased range and ferocity of Japanese aerial attacks.

Japanese planes are covering an . incredible stretch of territory. They are currently active in Burma, Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, Bor=

Unfortunately, the Japanese have|noe, Celebes, the Philippines, New

a heavy preponderance in planes,Guinea and the Bismarck and Ade and are working them to the limit|miralty Islands my. ie Bi oan tralia, " Contianed oa Fags Ta the

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