Piqua Daily Call, The (Newspaper) - January 13, 1942, Piqua, Ohio THE PIQUA DAILY CALL YEAR No 73 tonight what colder In east south portions PIQUA JANUARY 13 1942 BATTLE TO HOLD BATAAN LINES NEARS CRISIS TODAY FOR ISLAND DEFENDERS Arctic Stepping Stones form Shortest Route to Japan bam too for from Japan for round U 5 time only northernmost Jap Islands from Alaksa Hitler Flees From Smolensk as Relentless Red Army Pushes On Allies Striking in Coordinated Attacks BY JOE ALEXIS MORRIS V f Foreign Editor A closely coordinated Allied com- kiand struck heavily today at the In the Par East united Allied battled to seize air control Jrom Japan renewed bombing at- lacks on the enemy fleet the East Indies where the loss Tarakan island was and held a line 150 miles lorth of Singapore in heavy ng In Russia Adolf Hitler was re- ported to have abandoned his quarters at Smolensk and moved southward as the Red Army sive hammered forward southwest of Moscow south ol Leningrad on the Arctic coast in the Par north and in Crimea on the Black Sea In Egypt the British Imperials captured the Axis fortress of Solum on the Egyptian border and took 350 prisoners while advance forces far across the Libyan desert ed pressure against the enemy in the El sector On all war fronts except Russia AVERAGE MARRIED MAN IS FACING SERVICE CALL Be Summoned to Do His Bit for Uncle Sam Anytime Between Now and the End of the War With One or More Children Not to Be Called for the Present the Allies still were forced to dis- tribute their strength to vital tors in an effort to oppose Axis strength hut there were indications that the new united high command in the was getting results In the Dutch East Indies it was acknowledged that anese forces estimated at had taken Tarakan Island off the east coast of Borneo after a hard tle Some of the were removed to the mainland Details were lacking but it was un- that the defenders ed all oil facilities on the island Later Japanese air fleets opened an attack on the central Celebes coast and Ternate island in the lucca group which is 150 miles farther east This appeared to be a possible prelude to another invasion stab designed to give the Japanese control ol island bases that endanger the American supply line to the East Indies and Singapore Thirty bombs were dropped on Concluded on Page Two Columbus O Jan 13 verage married man who has been Ief erred from the draft because of may be called to do his lit in Uncle Sam's army anytime now and the end of the far Under changes promulgated iraft regulations affecting claim or dependency thousands of led men in Ohio will be required to WANTS REVENGE o Jan 13 John Pill of Youngstown a snips cook who was injured in the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor said today that he is anxious to get back to active duty and get revenge fill who is spending a week's furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs George Fill was In- jured in an explosion the first three minutes of the attack He his bten in the Navy 11 years and this is his first visit home in two years tell their local draft boards all over again the which they believe entitled them to deferment from army service Reconsideration of classifications of married men who have been placed in is not imminent State Selective Service officials be- lieve but will come some time Right now our local boards arc too busy preparing for the Feb 16 registration to go through their fites and reclassify Edward S Neese chief of Slate Draft In- said But when the registration is completed you can expect local boards to begin of Individual cases Married men with one or more children were assured yesterday by Brig Gen Lewis B Hershey tional Elective Service director that they would not be called for army service until an army of to has been built He said the purpose of married men had been to protect the home and he added he did not see why we should stop now WAR BULLETINS WINS THE OPENER JAPANESE RAIDS ARE INTENSIFIED DUTCH BOMBERS GET IN ACTION Jan 13 UP bombers roared out all in the first BOMBINGS REPORTED BY BRITONS CRUCIAL TEST FOR FEDERAL BOARD IS BELIEVED NEARiNG Showdown on the Closed Shop Issue May Face Group Immediately Washington Jan 13 new National War Tabor Board may be plunged immediately a cial test on the closed shop issue it was learned today One of the first disputes to be placed before the board whose members were named last night by President Roosevelt may be the one involving union demands for a union or closed shop at the Kearny N J plant of the Shipbuilding Company a Navy of- said The Navy at the direction of Mr Roosevelt took over the Keamy plant last fall after the National Defense Mediation Board failed to settle the dispute between the com- pany and the Industrial Union of Shipbuilders It returned the management to the company last week Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox Concluded on Page Seven ARGENTINA FACES ISOLATION IF IT OPPOSES PROGRAM Rio De Janeiro Jan 13 gentina may be forced Into isolation from its American neighbors if It opposes a joint severance of diplo- matic relations with the Axis powers at the third consultative meeting of American foreign ministers ning Thursday reliable sources said today A formal break between all erican nations with the exception of Argentina and Germany Italy and Japan was almost certain of proval at the opening session of the conference n Tiradentes Palace WILLKIE MAY BE NAMED ON BOARD Washington Jan 13 dent Roosevelt is considering the appointment of Wendell L 1940 Republican presidential date as a member ol al board of umpires to assist the new National War Labor Board the While House said today WORRY FOR ADOLF London Jan U seeping out of Berlin today that Germany was calling up army reservists and had started recruiting campaign to He forces on the eastern front while Adolf Hitler sought vainly for leaders to replace 25 field marshals and generals so far involved in a merciless army A Berlin dispatch to the nos newspaper La Prestia said many men were being called for army service some on only 24 hours notice A German man was quoted as admitting this but saying it was nothing unusual in war Imc GALLS CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS PRICE CONTROL OVER U.S President Summons Com- Members to Iron Out Existing Differences Washington Jan 13 dent Roosevelt intervenes a second time today in the Congressional fight over price control legislation which has involved two of his ranking officials He has summoned members of the House conference committee which was appointed to iron with the Senate to a While House conference He U ex- to repeat to them hU desire for a that would vest price con- trol in a single administrator The Senate and House have passed two very different bills and brought into the open a dispute be- tween Secretary of Agriculture Claude R Wickard and Price Ad- ministrator Henderson over i control of farm product prices Wickard wants veto power over j any price ceilings Henderson might NAZI HEAD RUNS AWAY FROM CITY Swiss Reports from Berlin Today Say That Dicta tor Seeks New quarters BY ROBERT DOWSON V P Staff Correspondent London Jan 13 Adolf Hitter has fled from his new headquarters at Smolensk 230 miles of Mostow before the relentless of Russia's Red Army Swiss re- ports from Berlin said today A Zurich dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph quoting unquestionable Berlin sources Hitler had ief Smolensk key town of the Mas cow front for a new ers somewhere in southern Russia Russian forces were known to have teen within lit miles o Smolensk on the tragic road upon which Napoleon's grand army diet after capturing It was plain that the new quarters which Hitler established there just before Christmas when he assumed the supreme of the army in pursuit of an in- ner call were not threatened A United Press dispatch rom said the Russian advance had been accelerated all along the Moscow front and that 157 ed had been recaptured In Concluded on Page TINY NETHERLANDS GARRISON FINALLY HELD BY JAPANESE Overwhelming Odds Against Defenders Re- sults in Surrender to Enemy BY R MORRIS U P STAFF CORRESPONDENT Jan 13 tiny Netherlands garrison on Tarakan the rich oil field off neo surrendered to the Japanese today but only after inflicting heavy casualties on the invaders A small part of the embattled garrison which had bravely but hopelessly for three days against overwhelming odds managed to fight its way to Borneo in face of merciless fire from para- chutists arid sea-borne troops and Japanese ships offshore The official statement said the Netherlands troops had capitulated only in face of heavy odds after in dieting casualties which made thi congest very costly to the In- vaders The men who escaped will con- the fight which was expected soon to spread to the Netherlands part of Borneo Reports indicated that before they were overwhelmed by Japanese parachutists and troops Concluded on Page Seveni Concluded on Page Seven Under Civil Service Columbus O Jan 13 Director Charles L wood said today that for the first time in Ohio's history practically all of the state and county employes administering public aid programs are under the classified civil service Auto Victim Columbus O Jan 13 Jr 5 ran into the street while playing with his dog last night An automobile stru BRITISH SHIP IS SUNK CLAIM NAZI SOURCES TUESDAY Jan 13 Berlin radio said today that a German U-boat had sunk the British ship Barham off Solum on the north African coast The Barham Li of tons built in 1914 The ship had a mal complement of officers and men Canned Milk Ruined By Blaze at Toledo Toledo O Jan 13 URI Meat mined between 10.000 anil 17.000 cases of government-owned canned milk when a fire broke out in merchants and warehouse yesterday The Directs Auto Conversion Phm Cyras vice president ot United States Rubber Com- pany heads OPM subcommittee handed vital job or converting automobile plants into 100 per cent war materials producers SWETTENHAM GIVEN UP BY BRITONS AS JAPANESE ADVANCE Imperial Forces Abandon Port As Yellow Hordes Maintain Steady Drive BY GUARD V P StafT Correspondent Singapore Jan 13 Im- forces have abandoned Port 40 miles of Kuala Lumpur on the Strait of Malacca it was made known today before a Japanese drive which became steadily more as the climactic phase of ilic battle for Singapore approached ft had been admitted previously that the Japanese had entered Lumpur yesterday to find tripped of everything they could use Japanese planes Interrupted their heavy attack on the Singapore area during the dark hours but people were awakened today by the roar of Imperial bombing and er racing Into the opal dawn Fky This imperial activity was In sharpest contrast to the situation a month ago everybody was ing where he British planes were H was reported that at least 11 Japanese planes were shot down Concluded on Page Seven LEAP FROM WINDOW KILLS DAYTON MAN Daylon O Jan 13 wid today that a World War veteran assaulted his wife with a milk bottle and then committed by Jumping from a third floor window The husband was William jan R resident of the National Military Home for the last 18 months His wife Anna Mae 45 ay in condition in Samaritan hospital She received deep scalp hard and face lacerations bruises Police Mrs Baying her husband became violent during R quarrel over whether she drive him back to the military lome a visit to Dayton apartment yesterday AIR REINFORCEMENTS TAKE ON MAJOR ROLE IN OTHER WAR ZONES Aid Is Arming In Fight for and Dutch East Indies But There Are No Hints Given of the Route by Which Warplanes Are Reaching Far Pacific Front Burma Sector Active BY PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT Washington Jan 13 Douglas MacArthur s battle to hold his lines in Bataan Province neared a crisis today but American air reinforcements assumed a major role in the fight tor Singapore and the Dutch East Indies Already American warplanes are striking forcefully against the Japanese on two Far of the Netherlands East Indies and Burma Japan's concentration upon Singa- pore and the Dutch Indies aroused some ion that the Japanese hove left forces to deal with MacArthur while driving with full vigor against the major British and Dutch objectives On the Singapore front there was a hint in a British statement that air control over will be wrested from the Japanese within three days and Iliac U S warplanes may be about to go into action there There was no hint of the route by which American planes are the Fnr Pacific front ever it was reported that the main Japanese battle fleet taken up positions in the Caroline and Marshall Islands ready to strike at any effort by American Concluded on Page Seven RETRIBUTION FOR GERMANS IS PROMISED BY NED RUSSELL U P STAFF Jan 13 I tives of nine denounced Germany and her Axis partners today for shooting plundering and starving the populations of occupied countries promised that retribution will be swift and complete after war Is won They met to draft plans for ishing the gu ty and to make tain that none guilty of committing or ordering an atrocity shall escape Their purpose was enunciated in declaration which promised to exact retribution of every one re- or nationality who is ty ol perpetrating atrocities in pied countries Gen Wadislaw Polish Premier in exile chairman of the meeting said the declaration's immediate practical significance would be a warning to all ing or to oppress civilian populations that there can be no crime without punishment Concluded on Page Seven 91 LOSE LIVES AS VESSEL GOES DOWN AFTER TIRE RATIONING BOARDS FUNCTION Charleston W Va Jan 13 State Defense Coordinator Carl G said today that tire boards have been organized in 20 counties including Brooke Calhoan Harbour Lincoln Mason Mercer Monroe Ohio Tucker Wayne Wood V j me aoout him and he died an hour laler was valued In excess of survivors said doing of a freighter miles off the i Retired d coast of Nova Scotia was revealed b today with the arrival of survivors They said Dl persons aboard the vessel their lives The hit the freighter about 7 p m Sunday night the Fire Chief Stricken Springfield O Jan 13 Samuel F Hunter 74 retired Fire chief organized the Ohio Chiefs Association in 1904 nied last night IMPERIALS ADVANCING IN SECTOR Capture Solum and Forces Proceed on El in Relentless Drive Today BT WALTER COLLINS V P SUff Correspondent Cairo 13 British Imperials have captured Solum on the frontier and are advancing with considerable ress on El on the aica border where main Ails forces tcr withdrawing from of a high com- mand communique said today Capture of Solum where 350 about half of them German were taken leaves only Pass in Axis hands in caster Libya Discussing the major British south of Benghazi 350 miles across the desert from Solum the communique said British columns had made considerable progress wards El Advance elements the Concluded on Page Seven RENEWED UNREST IN LABOR FEARED Washington Jan 13 dent Roosevelt was reported to have told members of the House banking committee today that adoption of Senate farm bloc amendments to the price control would bo likely to cause renewed labor unrest that would haner the nation's war effort The President met with five bers of the House committee for 15 minutes today One member that Mr Roosevelt's pre- diction of labor unrest was based the belief that the Senate would permit a substantial further increase In food prices Tne five who met with Mr Roosevelt will represent the in the conference to com- promise differences between the price legislation passed by the chamber and the Gas Ban Is Lifted Liverpool O Jan 13 plants in the East Liverpool district resumed capacity tion today with the lifting of the sail on use of gas The ban kept ceramic I for he days during the cold snip
