Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - December 6, 1941, Zanesville, Ohio prints the News THE ZANESVILLE SIGNAL Tells the Truth fnu if if NtA VOL No O SATURDAY EVENING DEC 6 TWO NEW CRISIS SEEN IN ORIENT Senate May Soften Strike Control House Due for Many Modifications WASHINGTON tial forces In the senate today to replace the drastic approved strike curb n milder measure next week strong indications lhat the senate labor committee retain only the of the sponsored by Rep Smith and substitute for contents a much less sweeping introl proposed by Sena loi R Minn The Ball plan for establishment of a of mediating de- f MSP labor disputes and In addl- non outlaw strikes over the rinsed shop question Senator Morris de- the Smith goes too fai labor and said he tlie hearings on the measure enough to give congress a cooling off period before it does hysterical Tho Smith approved by the house Wednesday would require c ret balloting before strikes could be called would outlaw s m p a t h y and strikes require registration of union ban picket line violence pud establish the defense tion board as a statutory agency a closed session of the committee for Monday Chairman Thomas D- told reporters he personally uas opposed to holding hearings on iho Smith measure If the com- mute reported out a bearing thi house number parliamentary explained the senate approve such legislation as a laired and avoid delays In ting it before a conference com- nf for -ni oT deferences Ire neU move appeared to rest wilh by Senator Byrd D- H i ij act speedily in the inter- of fair play to the house and to the public Nazi Raider Sunk In South Atlantic LONDON The admiralty announced tonight that the British cruiser Dorsetshire had caught and sunk a German commerce raider in the South Atlantic It said the raider tried to escape leaung behind five boats laden oil and provisions which had been observed alongside her The Dorsetshire was cited in nn admiralty communique in May when she was credited with the final three which sank the German Bismarck The Dorsetshire also was one of throe British cruisers which caught the German freighter Wakama April a few hours after It had sailed from Rio De Janeiro The scuttled As In the case of the sinking of another German commerce raider In the South Atlantic No 22 by the cruiser Devonshire the admiralty vild the presence of sub- marines nearby prevented Dorsetshire from picking up v The communique did not Identify the German vessel describing her only as a converted merchantmen of 10.000 tons pit s ENVOY BUDAPEST Dr Carl Rohr Swiss specialist and cian to the Romanian royal ily to Bucharest from Switzerland today to examine United States Franklin Molt Gunlher who Is seriously 111 Fair end W In couth mitral and In norUi with InK In CMr SJS Tl MM El Two Kanna MUml -51 Onr jo FOCKT JB 27 Pt PL 77 t JO W 72 FU M Swot Oot -I a Tor 34 boors enOM m tnr pf ihr Sunn and 7 1 Saved Chicago men a blind black-haired terrier that fell into the Chicago river from an open bridge British Claim Gains in Libya units infantry and artillery Inflicted heavy losses on four Axis columns in the Libyan desert ground front and surrounded enemy try In the Sol urn sector on the Egyptian border a general quarters communique said today Reporting that strong pressure was maintained on all sectors in Libya during the last 48 hours the communique said that Axis prisoners had been far The fighting was on a wide fluctuating front without definite battle lines except at Tobruk and on the border The Royal Alr Force pounded enemy tions reporting destruction of many vehicles The enemy suffered heavy In the fighting the com- said while land forces shot down five enemy dive ers In addition to the 7500 prisoners counted many others have taken the statement said been COUNCILMAN CANTON O Wilbur Cooper will have to serve Uncle Sam before he represents his con- on the Canton dty cil The elect is expected to be drafted Into the army before he takes office on the council Jan 1 Forgotten Sentry Found After Traffic Duty at Baltimore Rail Crossing a bit bleary-eyed Private Victor Colas who obeyed orders literally and be- came a forgotten soldier through 30 hours of traffic directing will ride hone in style No bouncing convoy truck for him thanks but a bus or a train to Camp Edwards Mass with the United States army footing the An army truck dropped him at a railroad crossing here at p m Thursday with orders to stay there directing a convoy until you are picked up And Private Colas Company H 104th Infantry Camp Edwards stayed His whole unit rolled by He stayed More trucks came Colas stayed It rained He stayed Gelas broke out nil iron rattans of meat and vegetable stew and ate while wide-eyed children watched The night dep- ened More rain Colas built a fire On Friday morning children brought Colas felt he had been deserted At nightfall after 30 hours duty he reported to military learn the army thought he had deserted An army captain declared Colai shouldn't have been so then demanded where was Colas when M looked for him at a m Friday t Colas he'd stepped Inside a railroad con- trol tower to get warm Military police gave him a for his first sleep in 42 hours and sought to reach his unit nearly home now to determine Colas should be sent back by rail or by bus Nazis Claim Advances in Moscow Area Furious Fighting in Of 31 Zero Fighting on the Moscow front raging amid tures 31 degrees below zero Fahrenheit swirled to a new peak of violence today as Adolf Hitler's invasion armies claimed the capture of seven towns while the Russians were reported to have broken through German lines in the Kalinin sector 90 miles northwest of Moscow A German military spokesman said Nazi troops had taken 57 miles west of the capital and Klin SO miles northwest Nazi dispatches also reported new zalos In Kursk midway between the COW front and the Soviet drive in the Ukraine declaring that five towns had been captured In an arc 60 miles east of Orel The towns were listed as Arkhangelsk between Orel and Kursk miles south of Moscow Mtsensk and Chern near Orel A Reuters British news agency dispatch said the Russian counter- offensive in the Kalinin sector was continuing and that the Red army had inflicted a heavy blow on two German infantry captured an im- portant point Dispatches to the Soviet paper Pravda said the battle south of Moscow was Increasing in ity with the Germans attacking constantly north of Tula 100 miles below the capital aAd cutting the highway at several points Large German tank forces are taking part in the Pravda reported In the north around Leningrad Hitler's high command acknowledged the spread of Soviet but declared the Russians to break out of Ton Pace Heads New Pottery Lawton Gonder above heads the Gonder Ceramics Inc which will begin operations shortly after the first of the year in the old Zane Pottery company plant at South ville Gonder a former dent of this city was tendent of the Florence tery company at Mt which recently was destroyed by fire Senate to Vote appropriation ed by member of the house as carrying body blows for Mr waa ready today for senate action The supplemental defense sure passed the house yesterday 309 to 5 It was designed to double ment production and if enacted in- to law will bring the defense ex- and contractual ity up to which would be twice the amount of money the United States spent in the World war The measure set up 246 for lend-lease purposes and the war department was to transfer an additional worth of supplies on a lease basis if necessary Rep Case said that be- cause congress had approved the lend-lease program be saw no son for pulling our punches now and that the carried the body blows for Mr Hitler In addition to for the war department and lend-lease purposes the measure Included for the navy Fight Looms Over Yates Appointment Try to Mock His Selection to Civil Service loard Political foes today laid plans for a battle in city cil against the confirmation of J E Yates appointment to the civil service sion It is thought that the matter will come up at the next council meeting on Dec 15 At least one councilman is ready to ask Mayor Tom V Moorehead why he appointed Yates in view of the fact that the latter re- signed from the board four years ago after a set of six charges had been filed against him However friends of Yates ed out today that the ouster charges were a part of the mary jockeying which an ing administration frequently tt control of That Yates resigned was not an tion of guilt they he stepped out of office merely to save himself the time and expense of a battle which in the long run be was sure to lose In view fact that the bulk of political in- fluence was arrayed against him His second appointment wai temporarily blocked by council last Monday when the matter was referred to City Solicitor John P Baker for an opinion Yates was named to the commission last week by the mayor to succeed At- torney W Herbert Holbein and the appointment was submitted to council for confirmation In referring the matter to the solicitor Dr E O Dennis council president quoted section 227 of the dty charter which provides Ton to Page TO SHOTS CANTON Production of shot for shells soon will be made at an old TImken Roller Bearing Co ing on Savannah avenue lation of the equipment was an- yesterday Officials said approximately 300 persons will be employed by Jan 1 Aerial Warship Burns Giant new Martin Mars is shown burning after trial flight Damage was heavy but crew of 16 escaped Probe Accident Tof lying Boat BALTIMORE OP Glenn L Martin company officials today be- gan a very complete tion to determine the and of an ant Ore that Mara for Slayer of Girl TERRE HAUTE Judge John W Gerdink today sen Cozzie Merril Jones son of a West Terre Haut minister Imprisonment in Polar Explorer Writes First Story Of His Flight In Search Of Santa North Pelt Trip Way Hnr Utt Ttm fcr r K n voUr rotorer nt win dam lor MO BT ENROUTE TO THE NORTH We are making splendid progress and Mrs and I are delighted with the trip so far After taking off Saturday morning we flew almost directly north and have kept steadily at As K an she has taken her turns at the controls and we have rotten our rest The cabin of our plane we have to call the Santa Claw Special is fo rowny and able thai we have been In treat As I am lending this we are Hying about feet above Canada and Borland In of The air ready very cold and we are for- In having ow Eskimo kas made of reindeer us We ran bito a heavy snow storm Old the ed and howled all about us Thf snow whirled and the of our cabin and the whole and Ml In the terrific wind We In Tm U Pate F E K to the Hw his patty set Xew of Edith Idelle Barton a neighbor girl Jones convicted of second-degree murder stood mute and Gerdink passed sentence Officers planned to take him to prison later today A jury that required four days to seat with no admitted toward the death penalty needed only 31 minutes last night to con- vict Jones of second degree mur der for which the statutory penal is life Imprisonment He ha been charged with first degree The girl a neighbor drowned In Sugar Creek April 20 on a Sunday night date at a lonely spot near iVest Terre Haute where Jones lad taken her In the automobile o his father the Rev C M Jones The indictment charged Jones had raped the girl and deliberately et her drown after she fell into the Her nude body found the next morning and he arrested the same day near Paris m On the witness stand in his day trial the dark-haired dant testified they had been mate but with the girl's consent ie the fied from the bile at the approach of another car saying she feared her father was coming for her She stumbled into the creek he said and drowned before he could reach her Plumbing Inspector to Retire Henry Bohn veteran dty Ing inspector announced today that be will retire on Jan L after 26 years service ni health was given as reason for his retirement He ta considered the bean of Zanesville plumbers having entered the ness 57 years ago It was understood that Bohn had planned to retire several months ICO but he was persuaded by Kayor Tom V Moorehead to re- main for a time because of the in securing a suitable In addition to his Bohn is licensed by the state to plumbing hi public here He lives at 1113 wood oMer Weather Wave The heat which had prevailed here for the last 10 days gave way early today to more seasonable weather with the mercury dipping to At the same lime the cold snap put an end to the dense fog which this part of the state for the past week Strong winds last night were the of the in the weather found the mercury soaring Into the tow yesterday afternoon this ad- to Th largest flying boat as it started water tests The ship went suddenly out of control and beached in shallow wa- ter with one of its four engines ablaze as Ken Ebel Martin test pilot taxied the mammoth ship over creek late day One propeller blade ripped through the ship's side Injuring one man flames scorched the plane's side and the power engine was turned into twisted wreckage Company officials said they did not believe there was any of sabotage The crippled ship was towed back to a huge shed on company property for the examination and repairs Railroads Seek Rate Increases CHICAGO INS A move by railroad management to seek an increase of at least 10 per cent In passenger and freight rates throughout the nation was ed today The railroads will ask the inter- state commerce to approve the Increases to offset wage increases estimated at a year which granted In the recent settlement of fhe rail wage dispute The wage settlement was for- mally ratified by leaders of the Big Five operating hoods in a Chicago meeting last night and orders were tent out today calling off a nationwide strike which otherwise would have gone into effect at 6 a m sw While the labor leaders were meeting traffic executives held a dosed session In another Chicago hotel The executives revealed un- after the meeting that J J president cf the sociation of American Railroads would be instructed to ask for the rate in The calculated that per cent increase In ares would add a year to the combined revenue of an the nation's railroads In order to fully offset the wage increases cording to these it would be necessary to rates somewhat more than 0 per cert h for fair and wanner service officials are dans to reclassify deferred for reasons of to provide additional for the army hi of an It today Present war department can for ii army by next April This will be attained nr induction of after Jan 1 as announced Britain Calls Men to Posts At Singapore Australia i By The Associated Great Britain suddenly called all her fighting men to their poets at Singapore today as the Far East citato hung in delicate balance and a British broadcast that Australia had arranged to send tank troops to hefe defend the Dutch East Indies in the event of war Officers and men of all Singapore fleet air and army report immediately at completing a state of Britain's Gibraltar of the Trucks and other dispatched to downtown points am MANILA etf aU to the etty It i central Singapore to men to their Atlas and army posts There was no the order new emergency Simultaneously were Dispatches from Manila fought had ate of all civilians other Philippine cabinet compulsory evacuation low The Japanese hostility against the Ui with the prominent declaring that event of American billion people Become bombs against Britain sssi the United States The newspaper that the States playing to toe km flat crisis but warned that st to think the States was sticking to a Other rapid-fire paced the It The Mr company Nippon YUM called home the and Bombay 2 Without recalled two of anese embassy in Wa The German radio identified 1 military attaches Co and Many Japanese then had Hive Maru Australia secret already 4 by cooperation with her the United States Britain Dutch East Indies ta on their km possible Ja C I OVl t peace hung over the Pacific the United States waiM far n to mate Its or farther i conquest of the Far East The Ja were la of Tokyo's Hull Japan's ent Roosevelt's French K Informed nothing toward the situation The Japanese explained the to a SANTA MONICA airplane and menu today to the After taw or almost atx accepted front tht and would next month n o permanent hi Field Dayton
