Olean Times Herald (Newspaper) - January 2, 1941, Olean, New York THE WEATHER Rain and warmer tonight Rain changing to snow and colder Sun sets Sun rises Edited for Southwestern Hew York and Northwestern GEORGE Resolve to use the Want Ads instead of the attic this year for unwanted or outgrown ar- ticles VOL Daily Entered as Second Class X THURSDAY EVENING JANUARY 2 1941 PRICE THREE CENTS feat Britain Indicated Power Studied oves M In War Today An understandable explanation ot what at the front and what they portend by military critic By J W I United AVar Expert Mussolini's first public admission that Italy not meet the British and Greek offensives unaided came today with the cial Rome announcement that German air squadrons will proceed to Italy for operations in the ranean basin It is not to be expected ever that the Italians in Albania and North Africa can regain the offensive through strengthened air power German help will necessarily limited because of Hitler's preoccupations elsewhere At the same time there are difficulties in Albania and North Africa seriously ere with air operations In both areas there has been little mention of intensive at- tacks by Italian planes despite the fact that Italy's air force is understood to exceed planes The bombing f Creek cities early in the figl ling has been the only conspicuous tion action by the Italians MUCH INTERFERENCE When fighting developed in the Albanian mountains the Italian air superiority over the Greeks did not make a serious sion The peaks and deep narrow valleys through the mountains greatly interfered with airplane activities It is difficult to of impossibility for an air force to work great damage against an enemy force operating in terrain The coastal road through Albania is practically the only open target for planes except the Adriatic ports which have been subjected to British and Greek air ment The new German planes will find the same difficulties in the Albanian mountains that have confronted the The Nazi airmen have had more ence than the Italians in air combat and should make what better showings They might protect the ian coastal centers better than the Italians but it will be prising if they can have any de- influence on Greek tain operations The Germans will find Albanian flying conditions different from what they were in Belgium and northern France where the tide of battle was largely turned by Nazi air CONDITIONS BETTER In Africa conditions of the terrain are much better for the German airmen than in bania The problem of Libya however is different It concerns both the limited supplies of oline and oil and the presence of- dome of the best British fighting planes The British captured large of airplane fuel and lubricants during the Italian rout from western into Libya These supplies must have been they had been con- for the Italian sive which was waiting only for the arrival of mechanized vehicles from Units To Italy By JOB MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Germany to day rushed powerful air units to her beleaguered Axis partner Italy in a move which may presage new winter in the Mediterranean theater of Avar The German action and the re- call of several hundred Fascist warplanes from the English Channel front coincided with the publication by the com- mand of a recapitulation ing that nearly pounds of bombs had been ed on Britain in the great series of air attacks which started Aug 3 The Germans claimed the ratio of German bombs on Britain was over British bombs on many and claimed that an age of three Royal Air Force planes were destroyed for every Nazi craft lost MUCH LOST Berlin claimed also the sinking of tons of merchant shipping of 000 tons and the sinking of 000 tons of British warships in the last six months of 1940 man losses were stated to be in- Neutral Eire reported spread activity by officially un- identified planes which dropped bombs killing three persons At least one of the bombs identified as of German igin The plane activity accompanied increasing anxiety over tus of Eire The British are eager to obtain Irish naval bases to use in protecting sea lanes against German air and naval attack Ex- tension of the navicert system to Eire exports was announced in FLY ACROSS ATLANTIC Lord Beaverbrook British ister of aircraft supply told American correspondents that United States bombers are being flown across the Atlantic to Brit- ain in a steady stream and that British airplane forces now are at an all-time high Reports from the Jugoslav frontier said that Greek artillery now had the central Albanian bastion of Elbasan under fire and that British planes set fire to an Italian ship in the Valona harbor The British reported widespread air action in North Africa and an ring around be- sieged Bardia Turkey ordered German nurses and to number several leave the country Death Toll Is Heavy NEW began the New Year by contributing more than half the victims to a holiday death toll of at least 226 persons At least 142 persons perished iu traffic accidents on New Eve or the first day of 1941 Despite the heavy holiday traffic and rain over the country the National Safety Council saw indications that motorists were paying greater pleas The Council said the New Year holiday traffic ed range 100 victims under the Christmas holiday toll on the basis of early surveys Fire and suicide were other principal causes of death New Year's Day taking than thirty lives Airplane accidents shootings and crashes accounted for other fatalities Four members of a mountain skiing party in Utah were be- dead under an avalanche of snow and rock but they wore not included in the list pending a report of rescue ers digging for them in sub-zero temperatures California led the states in fatalities with a total of four twelve in traffic had a toll of twenty-three twenty and Pennsylvania thirteen Child Slumbers For Day ALBANY Shook six-year-old sleeping sickness victim began tier day of unbroken slumber today and physicians said there was no change in her condition The child was brought to bany Hospital from nearby mansville Aug 11 1030 Two she lapsed into a coma from which she has never awakened Dogs Unlucky New Year's Day BUFFALO Year's Day proved an unlucky day for the local canine world Four dogs were killed by while a like number was injured In addition Agent bert Potratz of the Erie County SPCA reported calls from nine dog owners requesting that their ailing pets be destroyed Dies Committee Charges Bund Fully Military much be considered a severe handicap to any future air operations in Libya either by ians or Germans The British con- trol of the eastern Mediterranean should make impossible any im- portant replacements by tankers while only moderate shipments can be- flown across the ranean from home bases In to thia difficulty whatever German air force is sent to Libya will have to meet the British in open combat The light fighting over Great Britain last year showed the British have no reason to fear the outcome of encounters with the Germans American Burid is described by the Dies Committee as a com- organization patterned after the efficient machine set up in many by Adolf Hitler The made public what it was an exact trans- lation of the official confidential manual of the Bund which It of- as fresh proof of the un- American of the Asserting that while its years of Investigation had established the Bund's con- to Germany the tee asserted This was the first time the Bund's military ter hnd been exposed Tlie document according to the committee was obtained after it had been taken from the personal effects of G Kunze Fuehrer of the Bund Tho military service of the Bund was shown to be governed by minute regulations governing drill commands and The signal to was as three long blasts dn a and the instructions OD men the Bund's storm troopers off duty and the roller command attack The Roller Command is a detail of members to remove disturbers The document also shows the absolute loyalty which la de- manded of the in the German-American Bund a loyalty which comes before else and extends to the minutest details of the life the committee statement said Here's Senate House lineup as Congress opens Democrats are in power for the fifth consecutive session as the Congress convenes in Washington shows political lineup of members in both houses Democrats have three more seats in House than in session three less in Senate 66 2 British Fliers Retaliate Being STRUGA un- confirmed frontier report today said artillery has been mounted on tain five miles southeast of basan and has started to shell that important Italian garrison in Central Albania The report said that despite bad a Greek column op- west of the Mali Mountains succeeded in crossing the River and pushing up to the peak of the Mountain The Greeks were said to have dragged mountain guns up the peak and to have opened a light artillery bombardment of sail The Greek guns also were re- ported to be firing on the village of six miles away on the main road from Elbasan to Lin twelve miles north of Pogradec The Greeks have been fighting hard around Lin Greeks operating to the east of the Mali Mountains said to be moving along Gostima River Valley Charges Man Power Wasted that Brit- ain's man power is being grossly wasted in war industries ed in newspapers today together with criticism of a transport muddle which it was asserted was further hampering the war output The Industrial Correspondent of the Daily Herald Labor Party organ Thousands of men in all im- portant aircraft works are marking time He asserted that a Similar obtained in other branches of the engineering industries and If the reason is what I then there will need to be drastic purges among highly placed personages Areas In Eire Bomb Targets DUBLIN Bombs from uni- planes crashed several Eire areas last night and today killing at least three sons and injuring several Three persons were killed and two were injured seriously when bombs crashed at near County erable damage was caused two bombs were ped on Park In near Dublin and two houses were demolished and eral an official state ment said It snld officially that an found near the Curragh Race had been Identified as Ky 1 Press Big formations of Royal Air Force bombing planes rained incendiary and high ex- plosive bombs on Bremen durug the night in retaliation or day night's five raid on ancient City it re- ported today Great fires were reported in the town as th result of what appeared from first available information to have been one of the most British raids on a German city The Royal Air Force paid the Germans back in their own coin for the fire raid the Press reported and dropped quantities of fire and explosive bombs on the important Bremen area In addition to the Bremen Royal Air Force planes opening their New Year offensive gram attacked numerous sub- marine bases invasion ports and other targets in Gorman and territory It was understood that the greater part of the raiding planes centered on Bremen It is there that the tory is reported to bo turning out a new fighter as well as the Condor planes which have been raiding British shipping in the Atlantic It was the first raid on en in two weeks The city has been bombed more than fifty times since the start of aerial warfare The RAF headquarters at Cairo announced raids during the night of Dec on Taranto Italian naval base at the en- trance to the Cotronc on the Adriatic coast No pies Torre on the henian const just below it ermo Sicily and Valona bania Naval units were bombed at Valona and a chemical tory was attacked at Cotronc British planes also bombed the Bardia area in Libya and Italian bases and troops in Italian East Africa Death Hits In Various Forms ALBANY death struck in various forms New Year's day but highway mishaps as usual were responsible for the of the twelve violent deaths New York A Cambridge farmer Chester Wood sixty-three died of injuries suffered when he was by n bull and Fern sixty was killed when he was ned under a falling tree Edward Mutter fifty-eight Rochester burned to death when flames swept the academy where lie was em- ployed John Jr six Rochester died apparently accidentally of carbon monoxide in his automobile in the of his homo Flames Sweep Falls Building NIAGARA FALLS N Y Fire Department officials today sought the origin of h stubborn New Year's Day fire which swept three stores and four apartments in the M e K e n Ji Building here damage The fire which apparently started in the basement of the building finally was controlled after n four-hour fight by men No lives were endangered and a fire wall prevented the flames from spreading to the ad- jacent Rohrer Electric Building Locomotives To Go To Germans BUCHAREST Rumania A government decree authorized the State railroads today to send about 100 locomotives to many for general repairs Newspapers displayed news of the decree prominently ing- the notice that the tives would move free of toms duties going to and re- from Germany Monetary Change Urged At Expense Of U S Treasury Democratic Leader Alben Barkley today he would cull for a final session of the Congress wt 11 tomorrow an hour before the Congress is to convene Barkley's action would assure that the present record length can never be exceeded S I Stuff quarters indicated today that American cargo ships will bo loaned or leased to Britain as one of the first steps in President Roosevelt's program of material aid for Axis foes The sources said that if the plun is carried out there is some likelihood that the United Stales may compensate for the loss of vessels by acquisition of most of the 333 ships owned by occupied countries and now tied up in American ports Legal aspects of such i course were being studied but there was no indication that government planned to take over German and Italian refugee vessels as well as those of oilier foreign tries Germany and Italy have said that seizure of their ships would be viewed us a warlike act This new move came as Mr Roosevelt continued work on his annual message to address which is expected to give details of his plan for up delivery of war supplies to Britain and Greece and Unless there is a prior announcement be also may dis- close the merchant ship lease plan at that time Britain's urgent need for ships was placed in the forefront again by dispatches from London ing- of a proposed plun by which American would take over for the duration of tho British trade routes in an tensive area of the Pacific thus releasing British merchantmen for the more vitally important Atlantic Mediterranean vices KM First reaction to the British proposal hero was lukewarm Officials said that this country could not afford to upset ils normal foreign trade development by guaranteeing it would return to Britain after the war Official sources said that the British proposal appears to be similar in most respects to one made over a year ago Nothing came of it then because officials here were unwilling to guarantee a return of trade routes They pointed out that American ships now carry only about 40 per cent of this foreign trade the remainder foreign toms While there is no disposition to kick the British one official said it would not be fair for us to enter into any ment which might hurt our normal trade There is a chance for us to extend our trade in the Pacific If we can do that in i normal way why should wo to giving up of it when the war's Greek Defense Works Bombed Italian Tanks Captured In Battle Near ROME Artillery and patrol activity was noted in the Bardia area of Libya in a High Com- mand communique today On the Albanian Front it was said there were operations of local and Italian planes ed Greek defense works British planes caused only slight damage In raids on ian landing fields in Libya the communique said and one Brit- ish plane was shot down Italian planes bombed and machina gunned numerous British units sald and returned safe while Italian troops captured arms munitions by n British detachment in the Oasis area The sal detachment been claimed the ATHENS Italian tanks were captured or destroyed in fierce fighting northeast of on the south Albanian coast on New Year's Day a government spokesman today Although snow storms reduced activity hi most sectors the Greeks were said to have ed new fortifications around Hura on the southeast front in- air raid that the Italians had dug in solid rock A said 12 cannons 13 machine guns and thousands of smaller arms had been captured in recent action around rid deepening snow kept both communique There were cal operations prisoners two puns and material were The Public curity Ministry reported quiet on all Greek and British soldiers leave celebrated the New Year gayly here At one famous crn British Royal Air Force of- and Greek privates sit gether having a hilarious time singing and drinking though they not understand each er's language An orchestra moved the crowded tables playing ens new war song Oh lini What a Nasty Man You and R favorite Valona Blues Occasionally it a Greek love wng for the benefit of two couples sitting the shadows holding hands Someone recognized a Greek naval officer sitting hte wife in a corner and there wild cheering He was Capt commander of ii submarine that sank three ian transports Uy A Staif Cur respondent dent Roosevelt and tary of the Treasury Henry M o r s e n t h a u Jr today studied the Federal Reserve System's p r o p o s a 1 to in- crease its power over tlie nation's monetary setup at the expense of the Treasury and the Chief Executive Presidential Secretary Stephen T Early said that the proposal forwarded to Congress by Feder- al Reserve Board Chairman riner S was the full knowledge of Mr Roosevelt Asked if that that the President had approved it Early Before he'll give it his proval he'll study it Early said also that the White House had assisted Eccles in the timing of his proposal which threatens a tug-of-war between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System DECLINED Meantime told a press conference that the Eccles recommendations were under consideration He declined ther comment lie did say however that he wouldn't bo surprised if 1 date were set within the next week for submission to Congress of Treasury proposals to increase the present statutory debt limit of to sources revealed that Eccles recommendations to COn- first time the Board has sent a report to Congress had boon announced with the knowledge of A conference attended by and Currie assistant to Mr Roosevelt and a former reserve board economic adviser the day before the re- port was announced was inter- here a-s an attempt by to have certain re- visions made in the MAY COMPROMISE Although the first conclusion was that position was one supporting Morgenthau some sources hinted that he agree with Eccles on many points and seek a compromise be- tween the factions Treasury officials admitted that they would oppose virtually all of the Reserve but war ted the disagreement over basic fiscal policy brought into the open for discussion The Treasury's position was outlined by these officials as The should re- tain the to revalue the lar because tho probability ot post-war economic emergencies Some of fiscal controls the Board recommended repealed are not needed now when the omy is rising toward jtv but the trend may shift and it would be helpful if the Secretary of the Treasury had the powers cans his in tho closet ESSENTIAL are living in a chaotic world said one treasury it is essential that the hold his monetary authority which U a powerful economic weapon that may have to be used swiftly when the war is over It's true that tbc power mav not have to be invoked these days major world powers have exchange control But the time element will be when peace comes and tlie will authority disputed the Reserve contention that it could handle monetary and credit control more effectively the Treasury The urv they said would resist any attempt by the BoaM to over the which so far they added has handled its monetary authority efficiently and to the public Treasury officials said they would object seriously to re- peal of the Thomas amendment Continued on II
