Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - January 31, 1942, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Twenty-Eighth 8769 BEST offense is a good Want Ad Use them often you'll be money ahead Wisconsin Rapids Wis Saturday January 31 1942 MONEY help pay your fuel and taxes Let a Want Ad sell your don't wants Single Copy Five Cents SINGAPORE BESIEGED MOULMEIN EVACUATED Japs to Pierce Batan Lines AXIS MOVES IN MEDITERRANEAN ARE INDICATED By The Associated Press A hint of possible axis maneuvers to challenge British control of the Mediterranean on an unprecedented scale was contained in a report today that passenger train service will be sharply curtailed ir Italy tomorrow The report came through Ex- change Telegraph a British news agency from Zurich Switzerland and quoted Rome dispatches Nazi Planes in South Italy Restrictions on civilian railway traffic have frequently attended large troop movements within the lands dominated by Adolf Hitler British intelligence work already has disclosed an unusual concentration of German planes in southern Italy Mobilization aimed at knocking Malta out of the war would be ical development of axis strategy following the surprise successes of Field Marshal Gen Erwin in recapturing Bengasi and driving back the British from other newly Won Libyan bases Malta a fortified island lying be- tween Sicily and the Tripolitanian coast has been subjected to daily air raids for weeks The aim of the mans and Italians obviously is to neutralize the rock-sheltered naval and air bases of Britain fighting men there Reds Retake 46 Villages On the Russian front recapture of 46 more villages and towns wa reported by the red army in its drives against German lines in the center and south The Germans while officially dis- missing Nazi withdrawals as sequential adaptations to Arctic fighting conditions broadcast ings from Berlin to western Euro- peans on what a Russian conquest would mean A London Daily Mail dispatch new building at the Springfield Mass burned during a three alarm fire The building valued at was under Gen Gilbert Stewart arsenal commandant said plans for expanding arsenal operations would be delayed from seat of a Spanish government cooperating passively with Adolf Hitler had all his active divisions from France Belgium and Holland and replaced them with armies of occupation made up of boys from 16 to 18 and men over 40 This account of course may be intended to lure the allies into making a premature invasion attempt from the west Hitler proposes to use the active divisions as a nucleus of reserves for a spring campaign the dispatch said Xo Change in Libya On the North African front Brit- ish headquarters reported no change in the situation around Bengasi and said two columns of imperial Indian troops had broken through German ment lines to rejoin the main Brit- ish forces Premier Mussolini's high com- mand asserted that the British were continuing to retreat under heavy axis pressure with the scene of tle being steadily extended RELEASE CARS AFTER FEB 12 Washington The office of rice administration announced ay that new cars purchased but not prior to the government freezing order January 1 would be released after February 12 Begin Rationing Feb 26 Also the OPA said automobile rationing would begin February 26 instead of February 2 as had been planned At the same time Price trator Leon Henderson disclosed that the rationing up pending final determination of Senator Tells Fear Farm Prices May Not Reach Parity Russell of the farm bloc expressed fear today after a long session with Secretary of Agriculture Wickard that the new price control law might be so ad- ministered that farm prices would not get above parity and very not be able to reach gible re- lease of all cars in dealers hands by the end of 1942 except about 000 units which will be held back as a government stock pile It was estimated that dealers and manufacturers now have about 000 new automobiles in addition to the reserve supply which will be subject to rationing Henderson said it was felt that the problem of cars purchased but parity Dump Russell said he believed the department's policy edly was to dump large ties of cotton and other ties on the market He added that he was disappointed and charged that the department certainly does not intend to be guided by the dards of the price control It was in this that the bloc TO RELEASE STOCKS Washington The ture department was under White House instructions today to release government-owned stocks of cotton DEFENDERS TAKE SOME CAPTIVES ACTION SPORADIC Washington P General Douglas reported today his defenders of the Hatan peninsula in the pines had frustrated determined enemy attempts at infiltration through the lines in the past 21 hours The war department said in a morning communique that some Japanese prisoners were taken Fighting Sporadic Fighting on the peninsula where fresh enemy troops have been ar- riving amid apparent Japanese preparations for resumption of a large scale offensive was said in LITTLE TROUBLE With General MacArthur on Ba- tan Peninsula One of the masterpieces of official understatement comes from a Batan province official in the thick of a full-fledged war Starting his annual report he There is a little trouble in Batan which has caused some difficulty in the collection of taxes British Quit Malaya to Defend Island Fortress Until Help Can Come not delivered should be disposed of eorn and other farm before the actual rationing plan went into operation and that the period between February 12 and February 26 therefore was set aside to permit local Filling of Further Orders for Tire Retreads war duction board it was learned today has prohibited manufacturers of tire retreading and recapping chinery from filling any further ders except those accompanied by preference rating certificates The orders were issued by J S Knowlson director of the WPB in- dustry operations division as a re- sult of complaints from small tire dealers that large companies had bought up all available retreading and recapping molds Knowlson said the supplies had been distributed in such an uneven manner that many sections of the country were unable to meet their requirements for such machinery In addition to halting deliveries Knowlson directed the ers to submit by February 2 a list of all orders on their books ing customers names shipping ad- dresses and types of equipment dered The WPB will issue formal ders soon establishing a distribution system designed to assure equitable distribution of available supplies HAAS LECTURES MONDAY The Battle of the Atlantic will be the subject of the lecture to be given at Lincoln field house here next Monday evening by Grant Haas Madison conductor of the evening school public forum series Mr Haas has recovered from an ness which prevented him from here for the weekly Meeting last Monday boards to clear up that situation Must Show Evidence Under the OPA order persons who purchased new cars before of three rationing uary I must produce one types of evidence to the boards to obtain delivery They must show a title certificate or registration issued before ary 1 a sworn statement by a state or local registration authority that an application for registration was filed before January 1 or submit satisfactory evidence of a contract or of sale In addition to the latter a chaser must be able to show a celed check for all or part of the purchase price or some er evidence that the deal was ed Hies to other agencies of the to aid in the war effort President Roosevelt said day that he was issuing such in- in a statement ing that he had approved the price control inserted provisions permitting culture prices to rise considerably above parity could apply before price ceilings Boy 12 Hit by Car Both Legs Broken Friendship ner jr 12 suffered fractures of both legs here Friday night about 10 o'clock when he was struck by a car as he was preparing to cross the street on his way home from a basketball game at the high school A car driven by Dave Clayton of Adams hit the boy The impact of the car's fender caused the tures of both legs between knee and hip The boy was taken to the Adams-Friendship hospital where a specialist from Madison set the bones With Oscar were his sister and several other children It was re- ported they had waited for a line of cars to pass and did not see the Clayton car approaching Os On the other hand Senator head another of the bloc leaders who talked with Wickard for two hours said he the department's attitude was and certainly that the de- was going to be guided by provisions of the price control Bankhead Confident He pointed out that this disposal of surplus except under regulations of the agricultural adjustment act which limited the amount ner and prices by which disposals could be made Bankhead said he was assured that Wickard wanted farm prices to reach parity Senator Lucas sing the position of corn in relation to the price structure said that the was using surplus Group Record Navy Appropriation Washington T The senate committee approved a record-breaking navy fund of today after limiting presidential power to transfer ships of the navy Senator Overton said the committee agreed that leasing of any navy ships be restricted to smaller convoy vessels or landing ships provided for in the huge as emergency construction I think the limitation will be satisfactory to the administration and budget Overton said as he explained to reporters that the original budget bureau request for authority to lease ships had been so limited The measure largest single propriation in congressional history will provide funds for about airplanes for the navy the communique to have been only sporadic in nature Virtually no hostile air activity was noted The communique number of the war based on reports received up to a in CST 1 Philippine There was sporadic fighting on the Batan peninsula during the past twenty-four hours Determined enemy attempts at infiltration through our lines were frustrated Some Japanese prisoners were taken Practically no hostile air ity was noted 2 There is nothing to report from other areas Spurns Surrender Order Contemptuously ignoring a de- mand for surrender the general held his American and Filipino troops alert for a great new nese offensive He gave no cation of where he expected the full weight of the attack but his statement yesterday that it 9 By the Associated Tress Britain suffered two reverses in the far Pacific today as imperial defenders of Malay lell back onto Singapore island and far to the north British troops evacuated Moulmein across the hay from Rangoon Burma Burma is the gateway to the vast of India It is also vital to China as the backdoor of the Burma road of China's war supplies Our troops have withdrawn over the Salween river after removing all stores and equipment a British bulletin said adding that heavy casualties had been inflicted on the liver into the of Martaban at Moulmein 100 miles east across the of Rangoon Japanese dispatches said Moulmein had been left virtually a ghost city f i With the collapse of British resistance on the Malay peninsula authorities de- Japs Open Assault on Amboina Island Dutch Destroy Sub Batavia N E Japanese have opened a fifth iront in the battle of the Kasl Indies with a furious assault from the land and sou on Amboina island site of the second most im- portant naval base in this archipelago and the Dutch declared today the fighting was raging everywhere This morning at a m my ships and were shelling and bombing the island and the tle was the East Indies high com- mand announced in Singapore The siege of Singapore began today with the withdrawal of weary Brit- ish imperial soldiers to the island under cover of darkness and the British commander in Malaya called on every man and woman in Singapore to help defend this fortress until help can n come such a fashion bound to keep the price of corn somewhere near static In signing the price control yesterday President Roosevelt said 9 Build Model Planes Youths Asked of the Navy Knox asked the nation's high school youths to build aircraft models for the armed forces Knox told a press conference the navy and army urgently needed 000 models each of different types of fighting planes for ing personnel in aircraft recognition gunnery and range practice estimation in SHOT said it heard the Moscow radio declare day that Serbs had been shot in Yugoslavia in reprisal for the death of 23 mans Snow Hits Parts of State Flurries Here Snow flurries in this vicinity this morning were the only indication of a shift in weather which brought from three to six inches of snow to southeastern and northern consin counties today according to the Associated Press Superior reported three inches of snow the of the winter there Between five and six fell in Racine and counties All main highways in the snow regions are open but blowing snow made visibility poor In Milwaukee two Stevens Point girls were among five persons hurt in a collision They were Margaret Crummey IS who sustained a ture of the right leg and Jane man had a hend injury Ruth 23 of Milwaukee who teaches school at Point also suffered a head in the accident f Borneo kal Report Fire Destroys Part of Copenhagen Thc Rome radio quoting dispatches from Stockholm said today that a of hagen the capital of Denmark had been ed by The dispatch did not bring out whether the firr was started by incendiarism or at- tacks of British bombers which havo been raiding Danish military objectives a communique Destroy Jap Sub The high command also reported that u Dutch warship keeping up the Netherlands schedule of hitting the Japanese fleet and merchant ships at a clip destroyed a Japanese submarine in Indies wa- ters by depth charges The Dutch tersely announced that once again they had destroyed vital points in Amboina and carrying out on another island the declared policy of putting to the loich or blasting their riches keep them from falling to the nese Similar destruction was done to oil and other items when the nese invaded the Celebes Tarakan off northeast Borneo and even before the Japanese sailed against the important oil port of Balik Papan on cast coast of Borneo The also have in- the west nast landing troop at Shadow Jap Convoy The official announcement of the high command that the Dutch had shadowed for some days the Japanese convoy sent against Amboina and that on Thursday it became clear just the attack would be made Amboina about midway between the Celebes and Xew Guinea is in the Molucca about 775 miles south of Mindanao island in the Philippines the Japanese have a base at Davan and about 034 miles of Darwin Australia site of an Australian naval base Informed sources told the Aneta news agency that the attack on Amboina in addition to threatening the naval base also apparently aimed at cutting the allied supply route to It was announced that a transport German in- ternees from the lands Kast Indies to territory was sub- to Japanese action which caused a great many victims Tim ft It ft KKI I I Ul Wll I O QUIT MOULMEIN Rangoon tion of Moulmein was announced of- today by the British who said our troops have withdrawn over the Salween river after re- moving all stores and equipment Heavy Losses The announcement declared that heavy casualties had been inflicted on the Japanese by defense forces which beat off attack after attack until dawn today The Salween flows from the north and empties into the gulf of Martaban at Moulmein 100 miles the gulf from Rangoon The Salween had been ed as a possible first defense line for the British stand in Burma Japanese accounts of the on Moulmein said the city had been left deserted its es heavily mined A broadcast from Tokyo indicated that the principal attack on the city came from the east where Japanese troops Stand Beleaguered Today we stand beleaguered In our island declared a statement by A E the British commander who RAINSTORM BOON A report received by the army said today that a heavy rainstorm recently saved a large allied convoy which since has arrived at Singapore carrying planes troops and materials Sixty Japanese the re- port said appeared menacingly and it looked as if as they were ready to swoop down the heaviest rainstorm in weeks broke and the ships were blotted out in the river The flowing Still May Purchase Auto Use Stamps scar is a nephew of Mrs Fred Gee of consin RAF Hit Big Ship in Enemy Convoy London pianos scored two hits on the largest ship of eight in an convoy spotted off the Dutch an islands the air ministry an- tonight Survivors Hold Annual m Feb 7 and S Men of the U S army in the World war who saw their troopship the liner go down into the Atlantic on February 5 will gather here next week-end to recall that memorable event Annual Reunion They are the members of the tional Survivors tion scattered now throughout the nation who will hold their annual F may be secured through aboard the when the j of be the torpedoed speaker President Roosevelt German submarine her at o'clock of a gray winter evening A third survivor of the 2 m banquet 393 men aboard is Arthur D bins of Wisconsin Rapids convention and reunion in Wisconsin which w On the association's rolls are reunion ed 240 Wisconsin men Many of them will be present for the reunion trans- mitted greetings and good wishes to the men and expressed his regret at inability to the f headquarters at Ho Party entertainment at the R th b Dr and Mr Kelly were party are open to the public and Greetings from Governor Julius P Heil and Mayor Carl F of waukee who were invited to attend Commander Busy Fach year association has Wilhelm Meyer commander of the to the reunion Herr Mey fr is again in the German Legally day is the last day to buy bile use tax stickers A federal law requires that the stamps be on cars Monday But tho treasury admitted it had no systematic of enforcing the tax and would be to take me ney it comes in Congress rejected the bulk of a special appropriation that the treasury asked for enforcement of this tax The cost now The lax is a vear and the present stamps are priced according to the crossed small boats from the southeast joins the ween river at the eastern outskirts of Moulmein The enemy was reported earlier within easy artillery range of Moulmein outposts and the lion then was termed fluid Defenses Stiffened Since Gen Sir Archibald P ell united nations dei Burma the British de- fenses stiffened and prices have been demanded for every foot of ground relinquished The positions behind the Salween will much tougher to crack than Moulmein military observers said rose from the ranks to command the army defending this stronghold The British far east command an- that the short causeway from the state of Johore to the island was breached with the aid of the royal navy and the royal air force after the withdrawal of the British Australian and Indian diers had been effected last night The front yesterday had extended across the peninsula roughly 18 to miles above Johore strait The causeway ran from Bahru the first railway tion on the peninsula after leaving the island to the northern shore of the heavily fortified stronghold Lit He Interference v The British said the Japanese made little effort to interfere with the withdrawal to the island The statement by the general cer commanding in Malaya 9 time June left the fiscal ending The law provides maximum ties of and 30 day in jail for car owners failing to buy stickers but officials declined to say what will bo done about delinquents and i training submarine service recruits planes attacked and maua the island of Xew Guinea at midday today War Francis M Fordo announced There were no further details Local Receipts to Combat Paralysis May Reach Swelled by receipts from the Birthday Ball celebration at armory Friday evening and from coin collections and donations of organizations the local tile paralysis fund may reach G chairman of the campaign indicated today That figure he said is estimated on the basis of donations thus far The roundup of funds from all sources is not complete since many organizations have not yet had the opportunity to vote contributions The chairman said late donations will be welcomed as soon as they can be made Approximately 400 danced at the armory in celebration of President Koose COth birthday ending drive for paralysis fund here Mr reported receipts of from the milk bottle tion with the bottles for the ond third and fourth wards leading in ward totals The bottle col- lection was completed at the ory ball From the H wishing wells placed in downtown buildings the collections totaled about the hairman said School collections have not yet been reported Urge Road Program for Merrimac Area Madison 000 highway construction program to handle traffic to the site of the Badger ordnance works in the rie du area in Sauk county was recommended to nor today by William E Brien chairman of the state way commission The plan divided into two parts would Improvement of Highway 113 a black top road between Madison and Merrimac and construction of a bridge over the Wisconsin river to replace the Merrimac ferry which now handles traffic on 110 Construction of an additional two lane road of about eight miles which would branch off of Highway main route between Madison and by-pass Sauk City and Prarie du Sac thus avoiding the congestion of those areas O'Brien said that of the total cost the federal would pay and the state THE WEATHER For Colder this after- noon and snow rics this after- noon fresh winds ing tonight Today's Weather Maximum temperature for hour period ending at 7 a m 841 minimum temperature for 24-hour period ending at 7 a 241 at 7 nw 24
