Delphos Daily Herald (Newspaper) - January 31, 1942, Delphos, Ohio the Latest Telegraphic News United Press DELPHOS HERALD The Latest Telegraphic News by United Press PRICE THREE SATURDAY JANUA RY H FORCES WITHDRAW TO ISLAND Japs Open Attack On Dutch AS BRITISH LEAVE ME ATTACK Gets Ducking Jap Invasion Fleet Steams South ward to Coast Cruisers and De Join Attack Under Cover of Darkness Greatest Invasion Attempt Against Netherlands East f i By JOHN MORRIS BAT AVI 31 anese invasion forces have opened a full scale attack on Amboina in the Moluccas east of on which is the most important naval and air force base in the Netherlands East communique of the Netherland Indies command announced As they bombed and machine a Japanese invasion fleet steamed southward to the coast and under cover of darkness Japanese cruisers and destroyers joined in the covering the troop Japans greatest invasion against the Netherlands Indies announced in a re leased through the Netherlands In dies news WILL BACK FDR TO THE LIMIT Enrique Ar gentine foreign escaped only a ducking when his private plane pancaked into the at Rio de Janeiro as he left city to return to Buenos Aires following the last session of the PanAmerican conference Two persons were By SANDOR KLEIN N 31 submarines the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to as soon as the attack was started preparatory destruction of vital town and its vicinity was carried out by demoli tion revealed that a Netherlands warship in a action had destroyed a Japanese submarine with depth This brought to 55 the total of Japan ese transports and supply ships as sunk or damaged by Neth erlands forces in 55 ship a their new invasion the attacking in the the Netherlands were 140 miles from New Guinea and only 660 miles from Port the important base on the north coast of the Australian con Australian royal air force planes had seen the invasion fleet north of the island the Netherlands forces had anticipated the men anid two children were killed and two men and four wo men were seriously by Japanese bombings of ou the northeast coast of Sumatra on the Isle of off the northeast coast of island off the Many were Netherlands troops aided by guerrillas were fighting still in other invasion areas of especially at Balik It was believed that Netherlands forces Were resisting the Japanese stubbornly and with success in the area of chief of Dutch northwest on which the Japanese were driving in two one landed up the coast and another sent overland from British Sarawak to the on the equa is called the hottest in the Netherlands Newspapers quoted an oil com pany who witnesses the destruction of oil well installations at Balik that the fire was one the biggest the world has Civilians were evacuated under plan and then all oil was set The entire city was the oil men but the troops went back to defending the streets the ruined buildings and ships so essential to the American war The tanker Rochester was the latest submarine Although the navy did not disclose whether the ship was there were indica tions that it had suffered an ex tremely if not mortal Addition of the name to the casualty list in American territorial waters of the Atlantic did effect the total of ships sunk or One of the ships previously listed as the tanker Pan sailed into an Atlantic port last night and of its crew reported a sub marine periscope had been sighted but that hazy weather apparently had saved the ship So authorities have con firmed the actual sinking of five four other in the passenger liners Lady Hawkins and the 01 ty of The if would raise the total of tankers to One other the tanker was torpedoed and but reached the safety of an Atlantic Indications that the Rochester was net expected to survive the attack appeared in the an that five minutes after it was the ship was An undisclosed number of ors was expected to be put ashore at ACCUSES 31 A CIO spokesman accused of the plane fac tory in Columbus of deliberately attempting to create a labor dispute in order to cover up their ciency in producing a plane on Nicholas assistant tor of the aircraft division of the United Automobile Workers union made the charge in tele grams to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson in connec tion with union claims that Cur has refused to the discharge of three union stew ards at the 31 UP Minority Leader Joseph of the house of repre pledged Republicans to support President Roosevelt to the limit to win the war and as signed them a duty of construc tive criticism to see that the vic tory objective is It did not make plain enemy forces had yet succeeded in men anywhere on the which is 30 miles by 10 AWAIT GRAND JAP ASSAULT American and Filipino Troops Await New Reports of Fresh Troops Moving Up Along Narrow Bataan Peninsula Front Forces Still Unmoved by Attacks and By HARRISON SALISBURY 31 UP American and Filipino troops to day stood together awaiting with courage resolution a grand Japanese assault against the fox holes of Bataan and Corregi dors Douglas MacArthur reported that the Japanese Masaharu is moving up strong forces of fresh troops along the Bataan peninsula forces were un moved either by frontal Japanese 31 Douglas MacAr thurs forced on the Bataan peninsula frustrated determin ed enemy attempts to infiltrate through the American lines some Japanese prisoners were war communique announced attacks or a Japanese propaganda crudely designed to sep arate the Filipino and American Burden of the propaganda dis seminated by leaflets by Japanese that if the Filipinos gave up their fight they could erect your new Philippines for and by the The MacArthur advised the War has occas much mirth the Fili pino The Japanese appeal appeared to be vitiated by the actual treatment accorded the Filipino population by the conquering Reliable vices from the islands said that actually the Japanese have intro a type of rule comparable to the worst meted out by the Ger mans in occupied Americans in it are being allowed clean and fairly comfortable quarters but have been provided with little food because the Japanese occupation army of troops or more is the Both civilian stores and homes were said to have been loot Mcst of the Americans in it was have been gathered in ancient Santo Tomas University They have been given fairly decent living quarters but only few handfuls of rice per person per day Norman chairman of the American Red said that information regarding held American prisoners of probably will be forthcoming short He said he had been that Japan has accepted a delegate from ths international Red Cross and is ready to the central infor mation concerning prisoners oC war on the basis of Plans are also going forward for shipment by the Red Cross of food seme types of and other comforts as soon as anticipated Japanese consent is Comes to Buy Talks White House by Radio to Parties Through out the Ration Parties to Bone Jit Infantile Paralysis Victims Makes Announcement Re garding Assistance to Children of Men in 31 deut told thousands cel his sixtieth birthday an night that the fact that could look aliter the health of iif people wlule engaged in the war meant that the United definitely expected to in through to a sound radio from the White to about par ties the country to raise for the president he had been authorized by the trustees of National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis to a special announcement that county chapters may use part of this years funds to give special as sistance to the children of sailors and marines who may fall victim to the That will be good he and a well deserved boon to the fathers who are serving their flag on land and on sea in many parts of the and to the at home to do their brave part to carry Roosevelt delivered his thank you for generous donations to the drive after an intimate birth day with a group of close friends at the White He had been additionally he said by the fact that parties and celebrations were be ing held not only in this country but in many sister American re For the the address climaxed a day ci hard work ou war duties amid a constant stream of arriving greetings from crowned heads and just plain from the far corners of the earth and from American cities and One message was a salute from MacArthur and his in the fox holes of The president found great sig in the fact that this years campaign for funds to help crip pled children had been carried out despite the world Even in time of war those na which still hold to the old ideals of Christianity and democra are carrying on services to hu manity which have little or no re to torpedoes or guns or ho That means very that we have an abiding in tho future a definite expectancy that we going to win through to a peace which will bring with it con progress substantial success in our efforts for the se curity and not for the idestructiou of There had been countless greet ings but never such a one as that from General Douglas Mac Arthur resolute men of his braced in the faroff Philip against overwhelming en emy January the of your men the marks of rise from the fox holes and the batteries of Corregidor to pray reverently that God may bless immeasurably the President of the United 100 Elyria city employes will receive salary increases of a mouth under an ordinance signed by May or Joseph who said that the council must find means of raising additional Lieutenant Ansaldo Here to join the Argentine armys purchasing commission in the United Juan An aaldo is pictured as the Uru guay docked at New The commission buys civil and mili tary supplies for Argentina in the United Industry Heads Swiftly Toward Aft tion to be Suspended Next Job to Go AllOut on MultiBillion Dollar War 31 UP The automobile industry is headed swiftly toward the zero hour when all civilian production is cd and vehicle lust until after the off the assembly Its job now is to go all out on a multibillion dollar war supplying a large portion of tho with which to beat the Industry is to cease all passenger car and light truck output as of Sat the war produc tion board has given car and tiuck manufacturers an additional 10 in which to clean up inven The anticipated Feb ruary 9 or will be the first in history for tho roots of back to 1892 when startled residents Of with tho first gas motor vehicle developed in Two years later Henry Ford built his first Tho first to halt all passenger car production was the Dodge divis ion Chrysler which closed Its final assembly lines at 11 All Chrysler divisions tire expected to follow by Pontiac builds its last car at mid night but other divisions of General Motors will carry on until next week along with Ford and Although there may be as many as idle auto workers in Michigan after February tho governments wartime coordinator of tho Ernest has predicted that defense areas will experience a shortage of labor early next Detroit he will employ many of them by WILL BRAND 31 Firestone Tire Rubber company distributed branding irons tor the stamping of sidewalls of tires to The electrically heated irons would print the ini tials or of owner on tires aa a safeguard against British Empire Forces Beaten Back by Overwhelming Japanese At tack Withdraw to Island Dur ing Night Under Cover of Rear Guard Naval Forces and Planes Aid in Covering Troops Japs Make Little Attempt to Interfere with MAYOR TO SEEK FIFTH TERM By HAROLD GUARD 31 UP British Empire beaten back by an overwhelming Japanese at withdrew from the mainland of Malaya today and the battle for Singapore The Australian and In dian troops who had fought for weeks with impossible odds against more than Japanese shock withdrew to this island during the night under cover of the cause way across the and a bom by all guns of the island garrison which could be brought into Naval at the naval base the northeast side of the and planes of the British and Au air forces aided in cover ing the The general headquarters com announcing the withdraw al said Today we stand beleaguered In our island Our task is to hold this fortress until help can come as assuredly it will pursuing mmo over whelming numerical s t r e n g t made little attempt to interfere witli tho As the last man crossed demolition squads of the royal aided men of the royal made a breach in it oC sufficient extent to prevent a Japanese and the Island was under For nearly two months the im fighting in the lines until they wore often cut Off and forced to fight their way through jungle and plantations back to their own had hold back the hordes of Japanese troops including the crack emperors They had fought under the con stant attack fleets of Jap anese and fighter which swept down ou them posed except for occasional machine gun a tew British and the fire of the scanty supply of an guns the imperial forces had at their It is now possible to say that the with their few their lack of and Japan ese command of the had hoped only to fight a gallant delaying action which would hold the Jap anese and impose the greatest num ber of while were started toward Now they proposed to hold this island under the attack of Japan ese planes and land and pos sibly of The communique announcing the withdrawal said Last night in accordance with a prearranged plan our forces which had been operating in south ern Johore sultanate were with drawn into tlie island cf Singa A statement by Per general of command of Ma said The battle of Malaya has come to an end and the battle of Singa pore has For nearly two months our troops have fought an enemy on the mainland who had the advant age of great air superiority and considerable freedom of movement by Our task was both to impose losses on the enemy and gain time to enable the forces of the Allies to be concentrated for this struggle for the Far Today we stand in our island Our task is to hold this Island fortress until help MARTINS 31 serving his 4th term as mayor of Martins announced that he will seek the Republican nomination for 18th district Lawrence of is the Democratic in Former Congressman Earl of is expect ed to seek the Republican nomina tion in opposition to The district includes Columbiana and Harrison LIST OFF LIMITS ZONES 31 UP The Fifth Corps Area Army com compiled a list of bus iness places and areas Kentucky and Indiana that have been declared off limits for sol Soldiers entering the off limf its zones will be guilty of a mil offense and will be subject to punishment prescribed by superiors accord ing to the nature of the of Military police will enforce the FORWARD REPORT 31 UP A War Department representative has to Washington a re by the federal employment service expressing concern over the labor supply the Ravenna ord nance plant arising from a hous ing shortage The written by Wade director of the employ ment service in was forward ed in a telegram by Fur man War Department la bcr supply liaison to the un of IS ASSIGNED NEW COMMAND 31 James now on at headquarters of the 5th Corps Fort was assigned to command of the armys quartermaster depot in the quar motor transport school at William Van Au who has been commandant of the motor transport waa assigned to be assistant command TRUCKS WILL CARRY DISPLAYS 31 UP State Director Roscoe Terry of the war production board an today that two trucks car displays designed t acquaint manufacturers with war work will leave Cleveland 9 for a state tour of 25 One of the trucks is to naval ordinance parts for subcon and the second carry parts needed by prime can as assuredly it will This we are determined to carrying out this task want the active help of every man and woman in the is work for all to Any enemy who sets foot fortress be dealt with ii The enemy within our fifth columnists must be weeded There must be more talk or rumoi Our duty solve and fixed win
