Olean Times Herald (Newspaper) - December 24, 1941, Olean, New York Remember win pear during the of War information of UM u Southwestern New York and Northwestern Traffic Record 3 Injured 70 VICINITY Accidents Dead Injured t (I o VOL. No. 302 WEDNESDAY DECEMBER FINAL CENTS i 1 Maui Port A Defending F j Match Japanese B British Military In Washington British military like their chief Winston are in Washington to speed the joint war effort discuss formation of a united war left to Sir Colville Admiral Sir Charles Little and Air T. President And British Premier Halt War Talks For Peace Wishes SMITH nit i-d SUM WASHINGTON dent and Prime Minister Winston Churchill took time out from the war today to wish peace on goodwill to Conferences leading to unity of action against com- of new assaults in the rumors of a new Hitler thrust go into the background while the leaders of the nations walk out onto the south portico of the White House and help light Christmas Despite extraordinary war of the White House the public will be mitted to enter the lower portion of the Executive Mansion front lawn for the traditional tree V. When the crowd has on the rolling green es down toward Potomac the President and the Prime will stroll onto the portico overlooking the vast expanse of shrubbery and THOUSANDS PRESENT the President will press a button that will transform an pretty tree growing on the White House lawn into the glowing counterpart of Christmas trees all over the The President arid the Prime Minister both will address the their remarks being re- layed throughout the world via domestic broadcasting companies and the British broadcasting com- Maybe Mr. Roosevelt will read part of The White House grounds were to the public four the Secret Service and local police estimate that by five when tree services 30.000 persons will be The program begins with a con- cert by the Marine Band and as the and the Prime ister come onto the portico choil of 100 voices and the entire ence with aing to the After an invocation and duction of the President and the Prime the will light the tree and deliver his ad- to be followed probably by the remarks of Mr. The program will dote with the qf Christmas by the and the presidential Navy Announces Wake Island Has Apparently Fallen To Japanese Army Purchases Battle Ration Army prepared for use of its newly developed battle ration today by making its first big purchase of emergency food for troops en- gaged in The Chicago Quartermaster De- pot announced the purchase of cans of the field 7'ation developed in the Army's subsistence research laboratory Contracts totaling 000 were awarded to and deliveries were before January 15 and 21. Gen. Joseph E. commanding officer of the a large portion of the food probably would be shipped to the Far where it would the acid test of actual battle con- ditions for the first Naval Base At Brest Attacked LONDON British bom ben I- another attack last two German it the Brent Naval occupied France while Royal Air Force planet at- at Cologne and to an Air Ministry MM Inductions Will Drain Industry must be ready where possible to replace employes of oge with men workers or by men above tiie age for induction into military Selective Service Director Ames T. Brown said industry should be- come conscious that it will soon need for employes affected by the new law to in- clude men between the ages of twenty and twenty-four in military Island apparently has fallen to the anese after a heroic defense by a United States The Navy announced today that communication has been cut with the isle and that Wake Island's capture Announcement of the probable loss of Island came at a time when Christmas already had arrived at the Pacific Wake Island is across the tional Guam was taken by the anese on December 13 and with the apparent fall of only American outpost between Hawaii and the still is Fourteen by and by were made against the Wake Island One by until fought off the Japanese taking a toll of four enemy warships and cral Yesterday the landed on according to a but the continued to resist in of the great military and naval sieges of American Shortly before the Navy an- the loss of AVake an Army communique said the Japanese apparently are ing new landing operations at about sixty miles south of from Manila said the American forces had repulsed the invaders at The Japanese landing attempt at Batangas was part of an en- emy plan to thrust three columns at heart of the One southeast of in the the second west of the and the third from the Lingayen west of British Troops Inflict Terrific Damage To Foe In West Malaya Imperial holding a front forty miles wide and twenty deep on the WMt cout of are in- terrific on attete who are attacking in In a ntw from the front said troops were re- In the ot rifle and machine gun fire In an w far to the line and rapture UM key town of 28S milea north of Entire of Japanese were being wiped ky fire of empire dia- M but the con- to attack without It WM MM authoritatively that of UH plane machine gun bullet wounds and barbed wire planes were raiding the railroad extending south to Singapore and trains were Fighting on the west coast Empire and Japanese were battling through thick jungle hills north of The were attacking In large and amall in a stretch between the River and the main The area which the Empire held bounded roughly by Port and Kuala oh the north nd Batu and Ipoh on the There tn a range of hills between the River and tna and cultivated areas ex- tended tha with mti and ing Moves In War 1.01'IS F. Umk A fresh of has broken out in It may be just that or it may indicate a new move by Hitler in a direction which London is frantically trying to determine The many rumors current in London and when that i if Hitler is planning to it is in the direction of the ranean and NorUi After the Axis is in difficulty in Libya and it would be logical for Hitler to attempt bold stroke to put tiie British back on the de- fensive and avoid being chased out of Africa t The of would be to wrest control of the French licet and African bases from If Marshal re- has resigned in favor of Admiral that would to Jt is known that Petain has resisted Hitler's insisting on oring word that French would not be used against London believes that Dalian would have no such OXK OK The report about Petain only ono of many and it is given more credence than Others include a- report that German troops are moving in France towards inan to Greece and that submarines urc in the and that new troop movements have been observed in that German troops ready have entered Spain from France are heavily discounted in If it is true that they are on the move within il is not impossible that they be routed through France to embark from Marseilles for in French which adjoins That would be more logical than new operation like a move through Spain to storm take French West Africa and haps Portuguese island bases off the const for Atlantic Such a move would be of no diate help to the Axis forces in possible Mediterranean operations depend to a great ex- tent on how ninny men and planes he has been able from where he is on the sive a vast The sian campaign has been by mi stabilized for the In view of the German retreat and the fury of the Russian it that Hitler can spare much from the east if he is to establish firm winter lines to the rear of present COULD TROUBLE With the French fleet in his Hitler could the British serious trouble in the western and French submarines could be used to disrupt British sea com- Surface working with could im- prove Axis communications with At the British timate that sixty per cent of Axis supply ships transports never reach Hitler might even try to strike a body blow at British naval strength in the central ranean by a sea and air attack on the British island base between Sicily and it. by London might be accompanied by para- chutes from in an attempt to duplicate capture of Union Protests Layoff In Shops ALBANY Union lives charged today that an ex- of the force at the New York railroad was the of recent pay to rail The Capital District Federation of Railroad Shop protected to the Office of Production that the railroad an ultimatum wir to working overtime The statement the company had given no- tice that the Albany would for ft VMM taa tlM chanm A Vital Far East Fortress American Commander Commits Forces After Enemy Reveals Tactics Douglas Commander of U. S. forces in the Far took tho field assuming personal command of American and Philippines forces all-out Japanese air and land assault this capital and bastion of American defenses in the I Mac Arthur sent into the battle i on the Lingayen Gulf 135 i miles north Manila and on the i eastern Alimona area Ml is the harbor and city of British that .is the key to the Fur Soviet Army Gathers Momentum Despite Resistance By Germans By Or ern gathering momentum despite German is hurling two forces against massive enemy de- fense linns in a new drive to lift the siege of Red Army dispatches said From the important railroad city of one force commanded by Gen. A. drove westward fifty miles in sub-zero German cades tiie water barrier seventy miles from Leningrad connecting Cakes Ladoga and A j northwestward from recaptured miles from to trap the outer German lines around the in- Dispatches said this force already had crushed an entire German division in a movement while com- mand of roads to was said to be ing a relentless the German fortifications along The organ Red Star said his troops yesterday recaptured eighteen bringing to 130 his total for ton Desperate Gorman resistance and fierce failed to halt the Red Army advance along the Moscow defense A com- said strong attack units yesterday recaptured the key way junction of neighboring forty southwest of Aircraft Firm s Increases T H U R S D A Y December 2.3. UMl c: 11 Jt s T M A s u A v a no of will be published Pay BUFFALO Christmas money totaling more than and wage increases re- to 2 was ed today to employes of the Boll Aircraft Corporation's two plants at Buffalo and Niagara Payment of the sum re- from the recent merit in New York of the between the Roll management and bargaining agent for conv pany Asks Return Of Questionnaires New York and truck who have not completed and returned for the commercial tor inventory today were to do so before January 1M2. WPA Director Unter W. for of nn estimated 1W.OOO vehicles been returned un- der War sored contains on and State Finances In Good Shape ALBANY New York financial surplus at I he cud of year on June will more than Abbot Low Moffat of the and Menus Com- The put the of the slate at the of present fiscal at compared with the figure of 57.- at that timo by Governor were made the new distributed by the The publication other things contains u compilation of all appropriations made during the last fiscal Chinese Capture Important Town five distant the of Uis announcement was taken to indicate that battle i of the Philippines has now been TICK Muff forcements of fighter and bomber pianos have armed from the the Army revealed that the sneak 1 not I moved an expeditionary force estimated at 80.000 to 100.000 the approached the east with a force possibly naif thai started a con- air attack on Manila thai save this capital four air alarms between dawn and a waiting until the full strength and tactics of the Japanese had been had refrained from com- his main forces to The lie to front to take personal command of and GHQ are to IDs line clearly pointed to a major in. which the fate of the may lie AUK aids of numbers were on the 01 the They appear to have sent the Island of Luzon alone a force of 130.000 Jn tion to the major landings at payen and there were smaller forces landed at and Tho MZC of army is a military secret U. communiques re- ported that American the far most vital since it broad valley and easy -are outnumbered by .la par esc. j On was the of intend communications and a central which enables him to shift troops from front to front Japanese attacks in wore on the perimeter of the without direct contact be- tween the separate Chinese captured fifty miles north of on the im- portant the Chinese News Agency id today is the next station north of the It was taken j the aircraft Monday by Chinese troops offensive against Japanese on the mainland opposite Hong The Chinese attacks were designed to relieve Japanese pressure on the British Crown on December 7 had their opinion of Japanese planes pianos and their pilots arc superior in every They said the enemy's success was due only tu initial surprise and illustrative of American the fact only fourteen American planes got into the air from they shot down twelve to fifteen Japanese Only two American planes were lost in we had had any it would been cause our equipment so super- officer lie said American out- maneuvered and the whoso machine WHS Japanese motors and copies of American he Many pianos did not have ible Many had World War Lewis suns fired from rear The officer said they used a rr type greatly resembling the old American and wrecked planes appeared to have built in or 10-10. They looked ho and after folded to just hanft there Our had to pull the throttle back to keep from over Tho Army took a group of cor- respondents in command cars to Hickam and Fields and Barracks to the ress that had been made IK re- pairing Hickam Field been considerably up I saw it during mi 7. HANNAHS Officers said the which attacked while swooped on came from out at They bombed a of then to the left toward over the leaving a second group of ars and the control lower un- There was considerable even of unoccupied The Japanese first the air then it. the officer started destructive a nil bent girders and did considerable the ex- I the depot were mostly had since De- He said a of at- tacks between eight AM and noon left the runways They concentrated largely on hangars and and the barracks were badly London Says Petain Quits Rather Than Submit To Demands Of Nazis confirmed man were moving through Fiance toward Spain reports Europe Henri Philippe Chief of SUtt of Vichy to quit in of vice Admiral Jean FrancoU Thew Informants wild they reliable information that iir force had been tent to Greece and Crete German had appeared in the tml Belief that Adolf Hitler ed to MM in toward Mi tkat the a can naval with the aid of parachute troops who con- quered There were strong indications that a critical period in Gennan had arrived and that Petain had reached hts limit of with the It developed today that German envoy to was in Rome announced that Italy was to send Gino Puti Italian special Circumstantial reports had come from the Continent that Petain had stoutly refused to extend Vichy co-operation with sources that tar to atari a AX MacArthur's decision to take the field also may be linked with the announcement by authorities Manila may Declared as open city to spare it. if from repeated Japanese bombing The Air Force was In to Manila area ob- the Japanese attempted to bomb Clark near Fort northwest of One of three attacking down by The town of Mascota in cavia was bombed were Xo great i or casualties were re- in these i RESISTANCE declaration that i an city would mean that it i would be established as a purely civilian area and would not be de- fended if the Japanese reached A communique of the ters of United States forces in the Far heavy fighting continued on the northern and In both areas our The enemy continued to land order to spare Manila any possible air or ground consideration is military to Manila an open in the case of Rome during this CASH United already and facing M the Japanese landed in east and struck at in Numerous a eluding I
