Ames Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - January 8, 1942, Ames, Iowa VOL 75 NO 162 Ames Daily Tribune N I V E K S A L IN THE AMES TERRITORY WEATHER FORECAST Amis ami vicinity Partly cloudy with Lowest forecast here tonight 5 3 p 111 Thursday 3 a m 1C 2 p aa 10 United Press Wire Service AMES IOWA THURSDAY JANUARY 8 1942 Official Ames and Story County Paper THREE FT STOTSENBURG se NICHOLS FIELD S forces destroyed base facilities before abandoning this area CORREGIDO Fort Mills JAPS MASSED FOR DRIVE ON ISLANDS On a rugged mountainous peninsula and a heavily fortified island American and Filipino troops are making their final stand against Japanese invaders of Luzon Map shows the Bataan area where U S and Jap forces clash At Least One Cant Call It A Mere Drop in the Bucket The United States is about to spend in one year to assure victory in a world at war That amount in one dollar bills stretched end to end would reach 5706225 miles The mean distance to the moon is 238857 miles That amount in silver dollars would make a pile 845000 miles high The Empire State building is 1250 feet high That in either dollar bills or silver dollars would take 341591 24hour days to count counting 120 dollar bills or silver dollars a That number of days equals 930 years Tire Rationing Program Is Started for Story County Inspection Centers Ready The tire ration program in Story county was under way today with approval oE board members by Roger B Adams state tire admin Details of the plan were released by Story officials The Story county quota for Janu ary has been set at 34 tires and 2S tubes for passenger cars light trucks and motorcycles and 11G tires and 96 tubes for heavy trucks This quota is apportioned between the two boards of the county one operating at Ames and the other at Nevada D D Reynolds chairman of the Ames board explained that both county boards agreed on the ter over which each will have jurisdiction The Ames board will serve the four west townships in the county Lafayette Franklin Washington and Palestine Each board will have jurisdiction of all vehicles garaged or normally sta in the areas The other two members of the Ames board are Herman F Cole Ames Building and Material com pany and Prof E G McKibben ag engineering Iowa State college Quotas Each Month The OP A office will determine the state quotas and the state tire rationing administrator will deter mine county quotas Quotas for each month following the present month of January will be made known on the 20th of each month It was explained that the board may not exceed 25 percent of its monthly quota by the end of the seventh day of the month 50 per cent bythe end of the 14th day of the month or 75 percent by the end of the 21st day of the month Draft Boards Preparing to CHICAGO LIE Draft boards in states prepared day for strict reclassification of men deferred rom military duty on occupational grounds Lieut Col Joseph F Battley War Council Discussed chief of the war department liai son division informed selective ser vice occupational officers from 11 count of persons eligible for new tires Included were vehicles op by physicians surgeons visiting nurses or veterinaries and then only for professional use Also included were ambulances fire fighting services police ser vices vehicles having to do with Continued on Page Two Increase for Shown Here Total Money Received Is Up 384 Percent A 47 percent increase in mem and a 384 percent increase in the amount of money received recorded in the November 1941 Red Cross roil call of the Ames chapter and Its branches H R Martin treasurer announced today Tbe roll call whack is conducted to obtain memberships for Red Cross is separate from the Red War Relief Fund drive now being conducted in Ames lor cash A total of 6402 memberships with a total of was ob in the 1941 the 25th annual roll call The 1940 figure was 4355 members and 5508391 obtained Of the amount collected will be sent to national ters and retained for use iu the branches and the Ames chap Continued on Page Two Iowa State Ranks 25th In Enrollment Figures compiled by a national educational magazine show that the University of Iowa and Iowa State college ranked within the Tribune Carriers Sell Worth Stamps Carrier salesmen for the Ames Daily Tribune have sold a total of worth of defense stamps since they began their campaign three weeks ago They will continue filling ord ers from customers to whom they have already delivered books until these books are filled V Ida Sauvain Dies Thursday Mrs Ida Margaret 79 254 Campus avenue died early to day in her home following a brief illness Born in Boone county Jan 29 1SG3 she had resided in Boone and Story counties her entire life Her parents first came to the locality in a covered wagon from Indiana She was a member of the Colleg iate Presbyterian church In 18SO she was married to Albert Sauvain in Boone county Funeral services will be held Sunday at p m in the Adams chapel with Rev W E Barlow Collegiate Presbyterian church presiding Burial will be in the Ogden la cemetery Surviving are one son Lester E Sauvain a granddaughter Donna Sauvain one sister Mrs Minnie Dixson and a half sister Mrs Lu ilia Fisher V first 25 schools in the United States Lindy At in enrollment in the fall of 1941 j WASHINGTON UE Charles On the basis of fulltime Lindbergh arrived here today cuts the University of Iowa is presumably in connection with his with an enrollment of 6115 j offer to serve iu the army air for 24th place and Iowa State colJ corps Aid corps officials said that lege is credited with 6099 for had not appeared at any of the 25th place i services offices here 25th Annual Roll Call of Ames ter of American Red Cross FTP lax Wins Favor In Congress To Be In creased One Way Or Other WASHINGTON EP Congress appeared today to be in a mood to give careful consideration to a general sales tax as a means of increasing the federal governments revenue this year by 9000000000 One congressional leader ed that such an increase bring ing total tax collections to 000000000 was an impossibility without a sales tax Chairman Rob ert L Doughton D N C of the house ways and means committee and other committee members have shown increase interest in sales tax proposals If a sales tax is proposed and de that doesnt mean the of the average taxpayer wont he increased in 1942 It definitely will be increased but the method to be used in boosting the revenue re Britain Scorched Policy to Malay LONDON flip Appointment of a supreme war council of the Allies states Wednesday that liberality I was one of the principal topics in interpreting the selective service act is definitely over The bombs which dropped at Pearl Harbor Dec 7 blasted prev ious draft policies to bits Battley said Reclassification will apply to reg in class 2A deferred be cause of essential employment in nonwar industries and to men in class 2B employed In war indus he said 2ieh in class 2B be re classified as soon as replacements can be found for them he said All men in class 2A are being re classified Immediately Battley ioJd officials that cretion allowed local officers in the past has been cancelled and hereafter no man who can possibly be replaced can win occupational deferment The war department spokesman said many men in war industries could be replaced by women or by men disqualified for military ser vice by physical disabilities He said employers were responsible for training such replacements V discussed by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Chuchill at Washington Clement Attlee lord privy seal told com mons today In a broad discussion of the trend of the war Attlee answering criticism asserted that Britain had ruthlessly applied the scorched in Malaya and other far keep oil put bands ot Japan Confidence of eventual victory was expressed by the government spokesman in regard to the far Maurer Is Winner of Top Award Past President Of Junior Cham ber Honored C W Maurer Attorney C stepped down Wednesday night from the presidency of the Ames Junior Chamber of Commerce and moved up to the pinacle recognition as the owner of the distinguished ser vice award for his contributions to the civic advancement of Ames His retirement and promotion featured the annual dinner dance meeting in the for installation of new the civic organisation composed of the young business men i reports that Italian troops About SO members wives and j had been ordered withdrawn from Most News From Fighting Fronts Good For Allies BY UNITED PEESS Axis battle lines were driven back in Libya and today but the Japanese army in the far east still hammered at British lines in Malaya and enemy reinforcements massed for a drive against American lines in the Philippines There were that the British were waging a strong battle about 250 miles north of Singapore in defense of the key Malayan city of Kuala Lumpur but Axis sources reported that a Japanese general offensive was developing with armored units leading new attacks A Singapore communique said Japanese tank attacks on the Malaya front about 50 miles north of Kuala Lumpur and 200 miles north of Singapore had forced a new British retire ment south of the Slim river Japanese forces also were re ported infiltrating eastward in an apparent attempt to flank Kuala Lumpur Allied reinforcements including American airplanes ap to be increasingly active however and the Axis ack that royal air force Italy Fears Invasion Axis Prepares For Attempt bombers had raided Japanese held Bankok capital of Thai laud In the Philippines there was j fighting of varying intensity on all sectors a war depart ment communique said but reinforcements are being brought up to the front LONDON UE Reports that and indications point to a re the Axis was preparing against of the the possible British invasion of Italy as a result of the trend of the war in Atrip were received to day in responsible sources The Die published in London re enemy east although Christopher friends attended son labor leader in the j W S publisher of the lords had attacked Air Chief Marj Ames Daily Tribune in shai Sir Robert j the Junior Chambers Highest an Douglas re ported that the morale and de de se high and ousted commander in the far east as a nincompoop gave the following pic ture in progress of the war 1 Withdrawal of empire forces to a line about 60 miles Continued on Page Ten Federal Tax Its supposed to be warmer to night but dont expect the snow to melt The special Ames forecast pre pared for the Daily Tribune hy Weatherman Charles D Reed at Des Moines says it will be only five mains to be determined by con gress One thing is certain This years income tax on 1941 income the largest which is duo March lu will not be increased further President Roosevelt a consistent opponent of sales tax legislation in j thermometer registered the past said in his budget mesat 7 oclock last night sage to congress yesterday All through the years of the depression I opposed general ex cise and sales taxes and I am as convinced that they have no per manent place in the federal tax Chapt degrees below zero here tonight Compared that with the low of 21 degrees last night and one reaches the basis for saying it will be warmer tonight The agronomy farms official 21 below Then the mercury started a slow climb to 15 degrees below at 1 oclock this morning And it wont be too long now until the city has all the streets and alleys open to traffic The sub system In the face of the present ero is no comfort to financial and economic situation however we mav later be com we to reconsider the ary of such measures Ames chapter city workmen but She continued fair weather makes i possible forthem to hauling he gl from traffic routes Congressmen believed he might j approve a sales program ns a temporary necessity Two features of the tax pro gram Mr Roosevelt discussed were not as well received as the 1040 Memberships Amount Received Business district 1084 Residence district Iowa state highway com 118 College campus 53G Fraternities sororities dormitories home man agement homes board Received 127So 1941 Members hi ps A t Received 1345 oj 1S07 201 177 sales tax hint They were The sliding scale income vith on Page Ames Youth One Of 300 lowans in ing clubs Ames Teachers club Suburban Inc Ontario Miscellaneous Branches Gilbert Huxley Kelley Roland Slater Story fitv 100 17 Total Branches 125 21ii 100 26 S1 C 10000 1730 8000 104 or 2C170 104 4748 12S 170 lM 4 7 S 0 04uli Total ROLL CALL ft 1 ht I raining FIELD Fif ty Iowa youths are anois the rOO future American flyers who have been sent into actual flight training from the air replace i men t center here 13000 Following five wrs at Kelly j field they have been assigned to flying school Ten weeks later ho sent to basic schools and then after more weeks will re advanced training which leads to pilot wins I Among the in this sroup j are II Burma Ames lot 61770 ES This wen Continued on Page Ten Start Ian 26 V 1 WASHINGTON HE The new federal tax stickers price each will go on sale for the first time at postoffices and offices of collectors of internal revenue Jan 26 treasury officials said today The stamp will expire June 30 A stamp costing 5 will be sold later for the 12 months beginning next July fiscal year 1943 The routine of buying is simple There is no application form Just go to the closest postoffice or in ternal revenue office pay and a clerk will give you a sticker and a card You will be asked to list infor mation identifying car on the card and to mail it to the collec tor of internal revenue Deadline for purchase of the stickers is Feb 1 Driver of an auto a use tax stamp after that date will be liable to a fine of 5 and 30 days imprisonment The stamps are green 1i in by 2 inches and are tc be dis in reasonably conspicuous places on autos The price is tile same for nil moor vehicles award paid particular tri bute to fect ail honorary efforts to per membership nf older businessmen to with the Jaycees in promoting projects designed to benefit the city and immediate surrounding territory As president of the Junior Cham ber of Commerce Maurer was dir responsible for the success of all projects sponsored by the organization Including a home im provement show Easter egg hunt for the children Christmas light ing and decorations Christmas baskets of food for the needy and the Americanism contest for school children New officers installed by Cecil Continued on Page Ten they could be expected to make a strong stand in defense of the the Balkans to the Italian peninsula and Corregidor land and forces island them Allied forces were pressing Responsible sources then offensives in ed reports that Hungary had main armored dered complete mobilization forces were driven back on Jri the newspapers dis patch Reports ku said Adolf Hitler had arranged for Hungary to lake over the unruly Balkans and permit Italian troops to go back to Italy because the Germans cannot spare forces from the Rus sian front Observers here noted in connec and in Russia where the Red army offensive continued to make gains from the Crimea to Leningrad In the Mediterranean reported one of their submarines i had sunk a German submarine Most 01 the news from the ac tual fighting fronts was more fa for the Allies Japanese still were a Todays War Moves By LOUIS F KEEMLE Of the United Press War Desk crumbling invasion o Russia the entry of the United States into the war nnd the of nations the Axis is striking a blow at mori and kindling the spirit revri amons the conquered nations o it is indicated by the es information ii Berlin is patiently uneasy abou Nazi ability to keep conquered in line One is u cam started by Marshal for closer tion on the nations who lii not cooperate in the German new order with ex o rev u r Another is measure in Norway France and other court Vichy France Germany is no as us expected after Gen was hooted out of and Marshal seemed to knuckle tirder Something the of the world not Swedes Turks Steadfast Sveden Turkey refuse to and their at apparently has been eil iy the German reverses iu Rus sia Kin land seems inclined to de sert the Axis ind male with ho soviet if can Continued on Page Banks Close For Stafford Rites Friday The three banks of Ames and the city hall will close Friday for the funeral at in the Congregational church of H W Stafford who died Wednesday i Tho Ames Trust and Savings bank of which Mr Stafford was president and the city hall will close at noon Tho Union Story Trust and Savings bank and the College Pavings bank wii close at p m V Dairy Meeting Is Scheduled for Friday meet ins devoted to feeding and management to obtain best result iron milk cows wil be Isold here Friday in ihe Story hotel starting at a m R Porter dairy husband ry extension Iowa State college will information I dative to the discussion According to a county agents re port cows lire beins milked u story county has asked for a four percent in crease in dairy production and it is the is possible with better and rare V Italian Papers Limited Official broadens recorded by the United Press at York from Rome unlay that Italian newspapers hui been limited to four pastes V Germany was reported to speeding u assembly at Jan ports of small slv for SM The pans ship pal to Germany tion with the Die asser tions that sources reported the ar rival in Budapest of German For eign Minister Joachim Ton Rib sources reported that the Hungarian parliament had into extraordinary ses sion British announcement j defense positions that Axis forces in North Africa south of Benghazi were withdrawing from j into Tripolitania This was link s ed with reported Axis fears that I a complete British victory in Libya j I would pave the way for a British i attack on the Italian mainland high drive toward Singapore In North Africa the British of fensive smashed the main Axis forces back out of Cyrenaica east ern Libya and into Tripolitania with the crack Coldstream and Scots guards in hot pursuit The remnants of the ed which had been holding at attempted to Ames Legion Buys The Ames post American Le gion has purchased a 1000 Uni ted states Defense bond from mon ey in its building fund This fund was built tip the past few years from proceeds from re sold at Iowa State col lege football games It is planned to buy more defense bonds with fu ture earnings and savings The Legion is opening its club rooms to all men now in military service who arc welcome to use its facilities at any time Mine Planter Is Sunk Killed PORTSMOUTH X H Flight civilians were reported kill ed and only tho master was when th junior mine ArroM sank in i sae firy today while being towed to The in iie nine im which had the Arnold mine pi an lev in tow would arrive here lite this after noon with the Capt H of foci Conn The a craft in heavy seas and a SPOW orr miles off Fort 0 n v guards on i to harbor escape during a sandstorm but rear guards were brought to battle at some points by the British British advances of 20 to 40 miles were reported in tha first phase of the new westward surge j despite many enemy mine fields and hope was expressed that ihe drive might now carry on through ail of Libya If it does the will be in a position to strike at Italy from close range Reds Increase Fury In Russia the Red army was with increasing fury at che Axis lines from the Crimea to Continued on Page Ten Recreation Class For Boys Girls Will Be Resumed Recreational activities for junior high boys and girls between the aces of 12 and 15 will be resumed ir the field house on Lin coln way The activities are conducted every Thursday from to i m y tho Ame Recreation com mission Xo activities were held tho past two Thursdays because of vacation An average of 125 children have previous play nights at the field house according to Ray who with Reba Carey and Kenneth Page conducts the program Max limes of Central junior high school was the winner of an ama teur contest conducted at IU a solo will take iu the bsi 30 of each eves ami winners will compete in a final contest A varied of Rumes is i
