Delphos Daily Herald (Newspaper) - February 5, 1942, Delphos, Ohio The Latest Telegraphic News United Press DELPHOS HERALD colder to night snow flurries In northeast ending by PRICE THREE THURSDAY FEBRUARY SAY JAPS AT Won Id Repeal Congress Pension Plan NO REAL GAWS i Hfe FOUR SENATORS SPONSOR DRIVE Count on Public Pressure to Aid Drive for Repeal of Newly Enact ed Feature of Civil Service Retire ment Law No Plan for Immedi ate Action Hope for Public Re action to Make Task Easier 5 UP Senators seeking repeal of the peu feature of the Civil Service retirement counted on public pressure today to their four senators sponsoring tho Harold Josiah and Ed they did not plan to press for immediate in hope that public reaction would shortly make their task plans to make a senate speech on the sub ject Byrd was the author of an un successful senate amendment which would have required senators and representatives to make five years back payments the fund before becoming eligible ton its Johnson and Burton both voted for Byrds and Bailey was recorded as not It was defeated 34 to The act permits members of con gress up for reelection this yean to wait until after election before deciding whether to apply for in in its A member necessary age and service requirements might even enter the system on 31 retire on payment of or 5 of one days The Civil Service Commission said it not believe any congressman would do such a Burton said that while the idea of pensions for elective officials had congress should vote it only for those In these days when congress is called on to pass so many pension it has a peculiar responsi Burton Already the Townsend pension organ is using the act as ammunition in its drive for a universal old age BEGIN PENSION PLAN DRIVE 5 Francis Townsends old age using con gress recent enactment of a retire ment benefit plan for itself as am has begun a drive for enactment of a national pension program this year for those who are not able to make their own Townsend organization cir with a pub a letter from James to President Under the headlines Congress Passes Pen sion Law for All the publication commented The long awaited event has happened And the president has signed the So now it is a The congress decided to include its own members in a pension There is wrong in that Town send was one of the first to advo cate but he wanted it only a part pf a fair and honor able retirement for all of our senior combustion engineer for the Republic Steel to day was appointed dean of the eve ning engineering school of Youngs town Wat of was crushed to death when his truck over turned 14 near East Pal estine and him TO MAKE DIES REPORT PUBLIC 5 UP A Dies committee report soon to be made will describe opera tions of a Japanese nationalistic organization in this country and whoso members were po spies before the Pearl Har bor it was learned A spokesman for the committee said investigation of the central Japanese association was begun last year and that the was dedicated to the advancement of the Rising In the group was an espionage agency fcr the Japanese accord ing to disclosures made during the Rain Shells of All Calibre on Jap Truck and Ob servation Posts Blast Japanese Field Guns into Silence Jap Troops Pouring Down Peninsula for Expected Frontal Assault on By HAROLD GUARD 5 UP Singapores big guns thundered to day in a murderous bombardment raining shells of all calibre Jap anese truck and observation and blasting into silence Japanese field in new had peppered the north shore of this besieged the thick black smoke ofa naval oil tanker which was still blazing after 48 hours since Japanese planes set it the guns hurled their deadly shells at positions all the sul tanate coast as reconnaissance planes reported Japanese troops pouring down the peninsula for the frontal assault on It is possible for me to say now that Singapore is It has the biggest garrison in its Possibly it has more men than the empire had in the entire Malaya peninsula a few months and the men are using every day and preparing for a finish As the Singapore guns opened and the Japanese field pieces made their ineffectual re on the defense lines in the strait side of the island opposite Japanese plane in darted over to intensify their attacks on all The planes bombed and ma chine gunned civilian and military targets and started an attack on shipping in the British Hurricane hur aloft to intercept shot down one and probably two planes of one big Japanese formation anid damaged a Aside from the intensifying ar tillery the air raids con to be the main feature of this opening iphase cf the but the enemy respecting the antiaircraft guns and the British usually flew high and bombed BORN MOTHER DIES 5 UP The successful delivery here of twin girls five minutes after the death of their mother was described by physicians today as one of the most unusual births in medical The mother was Helen of Placed in an the postmortem caesarean operation last the two weighing 6 were given an excellent chance to Pawnee Dies Gordon Lillio Gordon bet ter known to the world as Paw nee is dead in on the eve of his A famed he was later associated with Buffalo Many persons of early today recall the thrills experienced see ing Buffalo Bills Wild West and Pawnee Bills Far Eastern PROFITS TAXES Higher Excess Profits Taxes Plan Recommended Instead of Flat Profits limitation Objective of Both Plans to Limit Corporations Reasonable Profits Would Differ By GEORGE 5 UP Two members of tihe senate com investigating national de today recommended higher excess profits taxes instead of a flat profits limitation to out rageous and unconscionable profits in the war While the objective of both plans would be to limit corporations to reasonable the methods would differ Chairman Harry and Ralph of the investigating com said in separate interviews thiat to put a limit on profits from contracts would not accom tlhe They contend ed that only by taxation would all firms be subject to equal treat I would be in favor of finding fair to determine normal corporations profits then tak ing away 80 iper cent of every thing above Drewster That they could make the government could take away enough to see that profits are Truman said a flat profit of six per cent of the cost of each as proposed by Chairman David of the senate naval commit would permit seme firms to make more money than they should and would drive others to the i j A six per cent profit on a contract would amount to But the same percent age of a small contract would yield little profit and in some cases might represent a Truman Brewster cited the testimony of Washington repre of the Todd Shipbuilding before the senate naval affairs He Ibis organization would nave an estimated worth of contracts this year would be permitted ia maximum profit of 10 percent of The Todd corporation has invest ed in its repair Brewster and consequently the profit would amount to 50 per cent its in So the 10 per cent profit very quickly becomes a 50 per cent he Police Rope Off Downtown Spokane Streets as Newsreel Photograph ers Film Climax of Bundles for Congress Nearly Bundles Packed into Three Trucks Trucks Leave for Wash ington at trained 5 UP Police roped downtown streets today and cameras for the cli max of the Bundles for Congress which began as an idle prank andi grew into ia national Nearly bundles were packed into three of cracked dental wooden glass broken phonograph old fem inine tires and The trucks left for Washington at noon along an itinerary as un planned as the campaign ihas Perspiring employes of the Spo kane Athletic Round sponsor of the worked through the night addressing packages to such persons as Burton At Last Ive Get a Pension Homer roses are violets so you can keep out of heres a Bundle far Tried the Into one bundle went a cracked phonograph record with the title Were in the Money on cne side I Cant Give You Anything But Baby on the The Roundtable Club launched its campaign last week to badger congressmen for passing a mak ing themselves eligible to partici pate in the governments pension It was overwhelmed by the response from a nation for humorous diversion from wartime NEW captain of an American passenger liner re ported today on his arrival here that the incredibly swift response of three huge patrol bombers to his radio appeal for help frightened away three submarines which had broken the surface close to his ship shortly after leaving a Southern WASHINGTON famine of proportions has caused in Greece by who have stripped the country of Undersecretary of State Simmer Welles said at a press conference WASHINGTON sen ate completed congressional action today on legislation authorizing in financial aid to the Chinese PRISONERS SEEK SUICIDE JOBS 5 UP Warden Frank of the Ohio penitentiary states that he has received hundreds of letters from prisoners offering to ride torpedoes or serve as pilots with the armed Weve received lots of kites since war was Hender son he is a prison term for a letter to the warden that expresses high hopes for Henderson said prisoners who military training and were qualified would be paroled to the army after completing a course in He added that be used in prison Quits Quakers Charles Deciding that he was not a con objector and would fight if called to combat Charles a Quaker by has resigned from that His was sent to prison for refusal to register for selective ZONES Federal Authorities Tighten tions on Enemy Aliens Curtail Movements in California Barred from Defense Areas in Oregon and SAN 6 UP Federal authorities tightened re strictions on enemy by curtailing their California and barning them from defense areas in Oregon and Wash Establishment of curfew zones along nearly twothirds of Califor nias coastline and at some points threatened aliens in night jobs with unemployment and struck at the pocketbooks of tav ern and restaurant operators and other amusement industries in alien districts of Within those enemy aliens may not leave homes between 9 and 6 and may not travel more than five miles from their Tho curfew zones were designated in addition to 97 Cali fornia areas which aliens will be barred A Justice Department order is sued last night will bar aliens from 31 vital areas in Washington and including eight square miles around the Grand Coulee a strip on both sides of the Columbia river near the Bonneville dam arid areas around the Diablo and Ruby dams the Skagit river laud tho Long Lakes hydroelectric plant on the Authorities said they could not estimate how many aliens would be driven homes by last nights but they believed there would bo only a More half of German and Italian aliens in the eight states the western defense command live in The curfew aones in California include vital defense works and fertile farm lands of the to and San Joaquin Culbert Ol son of California announced that general plans already have been agreed upon between military and civilian officials to move the en tire adult Japanese and to set them up at and useful employment under such surveillance and protection for the state and the na tion as shall be Governor Olson warned in a radio talk that Japanese residents of the state had triad to aid the enemy by communicating informa tion and had shown indication of preparing for column activity and because of this it was necessary that sive and effective measures be tak en for security against possible REPORTS ON SALES CHANGES 5 UP Greatly increased purchases of furniture and other dur goods brought increased re tail sales tax revenues to the state last month despite a sharp in according to State Don Receipts for the month totaled compared with 084 in Housewives are stocking up with household needs in anticipa tion of the uncertainty of jhe fu Ebright pointing to re of furniture and radio sales compared with 463 received in Opou New of Attacks on Japs Concentrated at May be Main Attempt to Cross Stream and Launch Drive on Burma American and British Pi lots Man Fighter Planes Protect ing By DARRELL BERRIGAN 5 heim bombers along the turbulent Salween river today ia new series of attacks on Japanese troops concentrating at 30 miles north of for what may be their main attempt to cross the stream and launch a drive on the Burma Tho bombers attacked twice dur ing the following up a heavy aerial assault on the con centrations last They were protected by fighter planes manned by American volunteer and Brit ish Unofficial reports said the enemy was being heavily An official communique had said that there was unceasing skirmishing in the Paan Any Japanese thrust from the situated between two ferry probably would be aimed directly west at Thaton on the railroad and would have but 25 miles to go to reach that A successful drive might British troops in a pocket on the west side of the river as well as endanger the 85 first link in the Burma road to Up and down the the Jap still stalled after five were attempting with artillery fire to soften the British defense lines and were probing with forays for weak A civil defense communique re ported minor civilian damages and no known dead from Japanese atr raids on the east suburbs of the capital and a village across the Rangoon An RAF communique said Jap anese bombers twice attacked an in central Burma yester but there were only slight dam PLANES GO INTO ACTION 5 UP The War to day that American army fighter planes had gone into action ever Java in the Dutch shooting down two Japanese aircraft with tho loss of only one of The announcement was con in a communique telling how a small formation of Curtiss fighters encountered a great ly superior force of Japanese bombers escorted by of pursuit In the ensuing combat one en emy bomber and enemy pursuit were shot tho com One of our planes is IN THREE DAYS Outnumbered Troops Succeed in Stemming Fury of Des Jap Offensive haa in Progress Three Weeks Battle Night and Day Japs Re ported at Standstill Everywhere Along Weaving Line on By EVERETT HOLLES 5 UP General Douglas out numbered troops have succeeded in stemming the fury of a desperate Japanese offensive that has slashed pounded American and Filipi no lines on Bataan peninsula for three official accounts indi Battling night and day against Japanese shock troops landed naval craft and in vasion forces were to holding the enemy at a standstill almost everywhere along a line bisecting the thumblike peninsula on the island of striving urgently for a knockout blow to drive the Amer and Filipinos from island and back upon Corregidor the Japanese appeared on the basis of War Depart ment communiques to have made no real progress for three Japanese support has fallen off notably recent in contrast with the early phases of the offensive Directed by Masaharu er of the Japanese 14th when Japanese blasted the Advance units of Japanese jen circled mopped up attempt to land fresh reinforcements on the west coast has been shattered artillery and aerial Everywhere across the peninsula the War Department the Japanese been sharply re pulsed or routed in determined Military experts said that al though on the mountainous trails tangled jungle undergrowth were up a valiant fight and taking a heavy toll of the best of Japans odds were so great that it be im possible to delay for long final chapter cf the battle of General who is the Jap anese armys expert on the west ern world which he frequently vis as a champion of good will and may have re his offensive in order to re group his forces to a new Since 17 when MacArthur reported that a enemy drive down Bataan peninsula hiad been the Japanese hava been trying to reach fortress and its four about 17 miles south of Mac Arthurs front The heaviest Japanese blows have been the west coast where MacArthur has routed two seabourne invasion The Japanese strategy apparent ly is to attempt to sweep across peninsula from the with f rental attacks the east coast as a hopes of trapping the American and Filipino troops and cutting off their retreat to FIRE CAUSES HEAVY DAM AGE 5 alarm fire more damage to a large warehouse Boston today but u brick wall the flames from stores of and chemicals in tlie samja stru Fire the smoking may have caused which was after from tour aud u half in
