Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - January 29, 1942, Joplin, Missouri THE warmer KANSAS AND warmer in east portion Thursday FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS Final Edition VOL. NO. 148. Office in East Fourth Street THURSDAY JANUARY 29, 1942.-TWELVE Every Morning Monday PRICE FIVE DECKS CLEARED BY BRITISH FOR Civilians and From Strip Opposite North Sliore of PICKED JAP TROOPS INTO BATTLE Murder Victim and Accused Brother Clash With Defenders 40 to 50 Miles Above City Raided in Bright New Jan. 28.-(^)-The British in a broadcast heard tonight by reported enemy raided Singapore in bright and pre- dieted that big day of assault is Jan. 28.-(.ff')-The British command cleared the terrain tonight for the battle of Singapore ordering complete evacuation of civilians and livestock from a strip along the southern tip of Johore directly opposite the north shore of the This evacuation of the area across a single mile of water from the first defenses of this fortress was described as a The civilians and their chattels must be out of the area by Friday In Furious the Indian and Australian troops in hore fought another furious round of their struggle with the picked Japanese troops who have been thrown into the struggle between 40 and 50 miles above Across the Johore line the British communique said the situation On the fighting has taken place around south of 40-odd miles north of this Japanese imperial guards were in On the the Hitam area there is no change in the but enemy air activity continued day and This is about 50 miles from On the yesterday contact was maintained with the enemy in the Jema Luang area miles from There have been no reports of further enemy landings at Endau Jema The most cheering news in the communique was at the considerable number of British and Indian troops who were cut off in the Batu Pahat area now have rejoined the main These it duplicated the feat of the Australian lost battalions who cut their way back through jungle and Japanese from the same west coast sector last Although the new British line was described as better calculated to prevent an earlier report said one enemy spearhead of the Japanese Fifth in the had made a considerable south of the railroad center of Spearhead Pushes A military announcing a forced British withdrawal in Leila Welsh who was slain in her Kansas City home in 1941, and her George W. who yesterday was indicted on a charge of killing The murder was one of Kansas City's most baffling The girl was found slain in bed by her mother on the morning of March 9. Her throat had been slashed from ear to ear and her skull smashed by three terrific The Indictment said her brother beat and struck his sister with a hammer and He pleaded VOTES TO BUILD 33,i0 PLANES PRICE MEASURE LEILA BROTHER ACCUSED OF HER MURDER TWO MEN ROB TEXAS BANK OF Unmasked Bandits Abduct Cashier From Home and Force Him to Open Knife Slaying That Shocked Kansas City Comes 10 Months After Jan. 28. Two pleasant spoken bandits robbed the - I National bank of in ' today after abducting m w. G. Forrest from his home and forcing him to open the The unmasked who entered the Forrest home before locked Mrs. Forrest in a closet before taking her husband to the There they lined up other employes as came to work I and locked them in the The robbers fled about 9 a. m. in an The employes escaped from the vault 20 minutes Police blocked central Texas highways and used two-way radio in an effort to head off the Mrs. freed by her was not SUB SINKS CANADIAN 250 ARE DEAD OR JAP TRANSPORT SENT DOWN PLEADS TRIAL SET FOR MAR. 9 Uncle of Accused Says Charge Is Jury Had Probed Six SENATE PASSES 13-BILLION AND SENDS IT TO WHITE that did not specifically locate the Japanese but said it had made the closest approach yet to Along the eastern where Japanese reinforcements previously had landed under heavy British a major test appeared to be although action was as yet relatively light Tlie Japanese again were strongly active in the A flight of 27 enemy bombers loosed their explosives over a suburban Singapore area almost simultaneously and made off at The R. A. F. and Royal Australian air force likewise stepped up There were signs that with the arrival of British Hurricanes the Australian arm had been able to spare planes to protect the c front line troops and escort bombing This was another cheering feature of the although thQ Japanese still held numerical superiority in the Jan. 28.-(>P)-A measure to provide 33,000 planes for the army was sent to the White House today after the senate passed it with only 27 minutes of Funds in the measure will finance the production and equipping of 23,000 fighting planes and 10,000 trainer Also included was for the construction of Douglas dam in Tennessee and for state department foreign service transportation Lieutenant General Henry H. chief of the army air told a senate appropriations subcommittee recently that the of the planes contemplated in the would be used by American although some would go to the Cost Per Plane Put at Senator estimated that the average cost per plane would be before It was ready for Senator La said he favored the but expressed the hope future measures would not be called up for consideration before testimony at committee hearings was available for The senate passed the before the testimony was appropriations already are reaching astronomical La Follette only power congress does not have to surrender in wartime is its control of the purse and that power will be nothing but an empty phrase if we appropriate more money than can be spent in a reasonable Arnold's testimony before the senate subcommittee disclosed that the war department was drafting plans for a 24-hour day and a seven-day week in the aircraft the general the department was nearing the production of 1,000 heavy bombers twice the number previously The enacted he would maintain the present production pace of trainers until 1943, of tactical planes through December 21, 1943, and of heavy bombers through 1944. Except for heavy this schedule does not take into consideration an industrial which would result from the a r o u n he Funds in the production of flying be he when plans are completed for the An even greater appropriation proposing in cash and contract authority for the now is pending in the senate after being approved by the PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO ISSUE STRONG STATEMENT CRITICIZING DESIGNERS EXPECTED TO SHORTEN SKIRTS Jan. 28.-(^)-Shorter skirts and slim silhouettes will be the fashion trend this experts of the war production board hinted Representatives of the women's and suit industry suggested the board that patch pockets and linings in be eliminated to save wool and officials came back promptly with the proposal that designers steer away from flared balloon sleeves and long SAM M. FILES FOR CONGRESS IN SIXTH Jefferson Jan. 28.-UP)- Sam M. former Greene county prosecutor and long active in state filed his today for the democratic nomination for congressman from the Sixth Missouri The post now is held by former Lieutenant Governor Phil A. a republican elected two years Wear was chairman of the state democratic convention in 1936 and had an active voice in the 1938 and 1940 Jan. 28.-(>P)-^President Roosevelt was reported authoritatively today to have decided to approve the much amended and at the same time issue a strong statement saying that it does not go far enough in its intended control of wartime Well-informed sources said that Mr. Roosevelt had no choice but to sign the even though it differed materially from the legislation he recommended to congress last They said that the president probably would suggest that the restriction placed around farm price ceilings might hamper the whole The on which the senate completed congressional action would forbid the fixing of ceilings on agricultural products below some of the highest levels in Defects Are Democratic Leader McCormack of Massachusetts gave the house a hint of what was to come when he said on the floor Monday that reports that the might veto the were unfounded and I were to express an he think the president probably would state that the does not go the full distance it should and that subsequent legislation will be necessary to correct some of the defects which exist in the present A congressional friend of Mr. Roosevelt said today that once the had the basic power to fix through an he would be in a much better position to ask for strengthening A he pointed would only reopen the six-month Ceiling The as approved by would authorize a price administrator to place ceilings on any prices which threatened to become disproportionately high and impede the war The base period for all such ceilings except on farm products would be from 1 to October 15, 1941. No agricultural ceilings could be fixed at less than the highest of one of the 110 per cent of the average market prices 1919 to 1929 or the October 1 or December 15 market Parity is a price which would give products the same power they had in 1909-14. the prior approval of Secretary of Agriculture Wickard would be required in order to establish a Business could be licensed to help enforce the with the licenses revokable only after two violations of The measure provides also for rent control in defense CIVILIAN DEFENSE FUND APPROVED BY F. D. R. Jan. 28.-(i?)-President Roosevelt approved today an act authorizing a civilian defense fund with which OCD Director Fiorello H. LaGuardia may provide services and supplies for protection from bombing sabotage or other war Kansas Jan. 28.-(^)- George W. Welsh her own good-looking was accused today of the shocking murder of 24-yearA)ld Leila Adele The 28-year-old brother quickly pleaded innocent to the grand jury indictment returned in the real-life detective story His trial was set for March 9, anniversary of the day their mother found the girl's mutilated body in her bed in the family's modest southside The brother has insisted he was asleep on a davenport in the adjoining living room while his sister was slashed and Heirs to Wealth and family prominence added interest to the crime of Welsh and his sister were heirs to a real estate For six the grand called by Circuit Judge Marion D. Waltner in suburban Independence into evidence already exhaustively investigated by both city and county Young who frequently had offered his help to investigating was called before the jury soon after his return for the Christmas holidays from Los Angeles where he had been working as a hope they unearth he said Today Edgar J. uncle of young Welsh and the slain described the indictment as family thought they had suffered the limit of grief from Leila's he this preposterous charge against coming on top of is almost more than they can Many Clews it closes the door to following up clews and the real solution we have always hoped Myriad clews were found after the Cigarette a butcher knife stuck nearly to the hilt in the earth outside the bedroom and footprints of what police to be a small man were among Lear B. then police told of a bold initial in blood on one of the girl's Recently in writing a series of newspaper articles on the he said for the first time that the letter was The investigation developed heated rivalry between officials of the dominated by remnants of the old T. J. Pendergast political and the state controlled Once Judge in a supplemental to the criticized Reed for his attitude toward the He also criticized the manner in which Reed investigated the Reed had appeared only a few minutes before the but later he was closeted with it for several Reed resigned several months ago to enter private Short Jury The returned after a short special session with James E. assistant attorney charged premeditated It said that young a mortgage company employe at the beat and struck his sister with a hammer and The Welsh slaying was one of Kansas City's most baffling An abundance of clews led investigators through a maze of conflicting Police found that the girl's throat had been slashed from ear to Her skull had been smashed by three terrific Her pajamas were cut and her right hip a piece of flesh had been The body lay on its the right arm extending ward the edge of the On the floor near the bed was a track a kind of hammer used by railroad From the throat wound police took a man's white later identified as one a neighbor had near his A of In an open window of the girl's half a pair of draperies lay on the hanging partly Reed said the draperies had been deliberately placed there a sort of of by the The mother told police that when SECOND SET AFIRE BY U. S. CRUISER IS HIT AUSTRALIANS SMASH 4 JAP TRANSPORTS VESSEL Ships Wrecked In Air Attack Capital of New Britain GERMANS BUILD FORTS FAR BACK Action Takes Place in Macassar Where Great Battle Has Raged for DEFENSES UNDER CONSTRUCTION HUNDREDS OF MILES FROM RUSSIAN Jan. 28.- troops were reported pushing with such strength toward the west today that the Germans were beginning the construction of defense lines which reach all the way back to Professor Mihail a communist party said at Kuibyshev that the Germans were fortifying the old 1939 still some hundreds of miles behind the battle and were preparing defense lines along the which separated Germany and Russia in 1940, and along the the natural frontier between Germany and Poland in 1939. Victory This Year Red Reiterating Soviet declarations of their intention of striking a death blow at Hitler this Gavrilov cannot postpone for two years the liquidation of Hitler and Hitler United States and Great see a solution of their problem in 1943," he but the plan of doing away with the aggressor in the Pacific in 1943 is due to the special character of the theater of war in the The conversations in Washington support the aims we intend to carry out in 1942," he Soviet military dispatches said 79 villages had been recaptured on the front west of Moscow in the last two with 2,980 Germans killed and 40 others taken and that the Red army was to advance with overwhelming Little additional detail came from the but in general the Russians were aiming at driving the Germans back behind and were reported exerting pressure upon two strong points north and south of that Heavy Pressure on One was 130 miles northwest of which was reported practically The other was 200 miles south of Moscow and a strategic railway center on the Capture of a key point on the would clear the Russian lines for a push in force toward Velikie which is on the same railway and only 80 miles east of the old Latvian The Russians already are in possession of part of the railway between Rzhev and Velikie A drive in that sector would threaten the Germans not only around but also in the northern Leningrad German communique said German troops carried out successful local attacks at numerous points along the capturing and destroying tanks and It that Russian reinforcements landed on the southern coast of the Crimea had been beaten back and almost wiped ONE AMERICAN PLANE LOST IN ATTACK Jan. 28.-(^) attacking occupied capital of New Britain island some 800 miles off the northern have j 15 Of wrecked four of the 11 Them Picked Up at Sea and Taken to San Lull Continues on Luzon Island With Invaders Apparently Reorganizing for New N. E. Jan. 28.-(JP)- America's flying steadily sapping the strength of a Japanese armada off Dutch sank another big transport left a second in and planted several sticks of explosives around a Japanese the nations command announced These powerful bombers ' also Japanese terrier planes nipping at their shooting down two of them and damaging a the communique our aircraft returned it This action in Macassar strait apparently occurred off Balik the East Borneo oil port occupied by Japanese troops after the Dutch destroyed worth of wells and equipment More Aid on By Dutch the Japanese now have suffered a known minimum of 30 ships sunk or badly presumably with the loss of thousands of Japanese sailors and Nineteen of these ships were transports and 11 were Of the the Dutch believed their bombers had sunk one Japanese and a United States submarine was credited with torpedoing and probably sinking a vital Japanese aircraft These costly casualties were inflicted on the invaders while assurances came from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill that more allied aid was on the PRAYED DURING FIVE DAYS IN LIFEBOAT Crew Had No Chance to Send Out S O Heaviest in U-Boat Raids Off East transports lying Army Minister Francis Forde announced Two of the three ships attacked Monday were set and a fourth was wrecked in a previous he Other ships were reported There was no word from Australian militia last reported fighting the invaders in the hills south of the port. Australian government circles do not share Prime Minister Churchill's doubt that the Japanese will attempt an invasion of the it was said Although no official reaction was issued it ' San Puerto Jan. 28. was learned on good authority that ' hundred and fifty leaders regard the invasion of including were outlying islands as a definite j dead or missing tonight to the their officially m Montreal as the 7,988-ton Lady I sunk 11 days ago I Kill I HI Atlantic by an axis sub- I ll I LiJ attacking without Seventy-one 17 of them who had prayed and hymns in their tossing Ul 1 I were brought to this outpost today by Captain aboard the New Rico steamer He found them last Friday five days after the sinking of the smashed by two Twelve From St. i- T on What few details were available corpus Jan. 2.- tonight indicated that this was by navy report of submarines far the heaviest loss of life yet lurking in shipping lanes off Port in the axis submarine offensive Aransas in the Gulf of Mexico United States i. J of the rescued Americans day sent airplanes and warships 12 of them from on a hunt for the first enemy AIRPLANES AND BEGIN SEARCH AFTER SUBMARINE IS on page 3) 1 2 111., 11. U. 111. fi a. 111.. 7 11. 111.. S 11. 111.. 0 a. 111.. 1(1 11. 111.. 11 a. 1 u. 111. Hit Scored on Jan. 28.-(j*?)-Continuing announcements of the details of the great battle of Macassar straits credited American bombers today with sinking another Japanese big one-and scoring a direct hit upon an enemy This word came from the army here in a communique which also revealed a prolonged lull in the fighting on Luzon with the Japanese invaders apparently resting and reorganizing tov another assault upon General Douglas unyielding defense One American plane was lost in the attack on the enemy transport and It was one of eight swinging in toward the Borneo spotted the the transport in the river at Balik Papan and the cruiser outside the The attack raised the total of Japanese ships reported sunk and damaged in the Macassar battle to 36 or Of at least 12 are considered definitely Confer at White further tightening the unification of strategy and President Secretary of War Stimson and top ranking officers of the army and navy were in conference at the White House with highly placed officers of the British For the American the conferees consisted of General George C. the chief of Lieutenant General H. H. chief of the army air Admiral Harold R. chief of naval and Admiral Ernest J. commander in chief of the United States The British representatives were Field Marshal Sir John Lieutenant General Colville Air Marshal A. T. and Admiral Sir Charles on the I President Roosevelt a republican of I Patrick J. to be to 3,^^^ New an important post in 1)^ 111!.'!!!!!!!! i the far Pacific battle holds a reserve commission in 2 a. I on page 9) boats to menace the gulf Captain Alva com- Another resident of St. David was one of fiva persons who died froin exposure in mandant of new naval air the lifeboat before the Coamo ' ' ' ed up Survivors said station ordered a blackout of the Corpus Christi area and the first torpedo No. 2 hold on the id of the e second wrecked the engine was sighted j room and doused all by a patrol plane about 15 miles The ship went down so quickly warned all ships to remain in port i smashed into port side after reporting that a j there was no chance of sending an S. O. they About 321 persons were aboard at the a crew of 109 and some 212 Five Died in Chief Officer Percy A. Kelly the lifeboat which the in during the night with the Coamo It was built to action of attacking oil the i commodate 63 but 76 en- I tered it. Five of them later commandant r j i- I praying for The original report on the gach time a person died ence of the U-boat came when the Marian a missionary navy department issued a warning I whose husband apparently went from Port fishing village on Mustang Second May Be Near Bernhard said another submarine possibly was near submarine probably sneaked HOURLY TEMPERATURES Somewhat warmer weather is forecast for today in Joplin and the After dropping to a morning low of 28 mercury climbed yesterday to a degrees at 4 p. m. and low readings a year ago yesterday were 28 and 22 Hourly to shipping at Port 300 miles distant on the upper Texas Bernhard said the undersea craft was sighted by a plane from the naval air station at 8:30 a. and that he directed it to with the evidently frightened the because it he is possible that the second submarine is also in the since it is known that thoy have been operating in pairs Shortly after the submarine was a smoke bomb appeared out of the water four miles south of It was explained that smoke released by undersea rise like rockets and frequently are used as signals of The pass into the Gulf of Mexico adjacent to Port Aransas is one of the principal Texas shipping 1 111. 2 n. m. 1 3 m. -I p. m. p. m. 0 11. 111. 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CONNALLY BELIEVES NAVY HAS SUNK NUMBER OF SUBS Jan. 28. - - Chairman of the senate foreign relations told a press conference today that he had no doubt that the American navy had or destroyed a number of which had attacked shipping off the Atlantic feel sure that our naval vessels are watching the submarine operations off the coast and are taking the best possible measures to protect our he have no doubt that they have sunk or destroyed a number of Connally said these attacks apparently had been by the axis powers in an attempt to affect the morale of the American He is nothing the situation to generate down with the led the funeral Each day she directed the singing of hymns in an effort to keep hope A 2-year-old child was among the Janet daughter of Albert a British foreign service and Mrs. These people had lost all their possessions in the Before that had abandoned other belongings in the flight from before the German occupation Food Officer Kelly rigged up a sail on the and directed the careful rationing of what food there was Each person was fed daily a a tablespoon of canned and two ounces of The who praised Kelly for his and courage during the five-day vigil of said they soon lost sight of other lifeboats lowered from their sinking David Schoonover of St. died of exhaustion in one five hours before it was picked Survivors From St. Carl Charles Charles Leland Orland James William Vincent K. William Edward G. William Earl Withdrew and Desmond Sawson of Thomas 111.; Frank Mound and George Los Calif. St. Jan. 28.-t5>J- Forty-four St. Joseph men were among the on the steamer reported sunk by torpedoes in the Atlantic January 19. The men were in the three groups recruited here in t last two months to help build American naval base In the The men were laborers in concrete constructional 8326 57049620
