Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - March 11, 1942, Zanesville, Ohio THE ZANESVILLE SIGNAL 100! Costs with an accumulated t of more than through school members ot the education today inced plans to solicit the a committee in its budget for the nt personnel of the committee t announced according for the board members t economy In view the and that It may he to curtail some T this in they ad- a citizens committee is con- i essential board at a re- executive discussed for the present out did not make public gures or the financial con- of the school this year will 551685023, It Is understood s will go for IP figures were not made jle all a of 57614 exists In the c it was learned ibers of the board meeting acted on routine natters session of the board Is id to be called within a time to make a detailed of financial Nurses Leave Zanesville to Join Army Corps I Moresby 5y Invasion four young all of the hospital arc shown just before they boarded a and O. train yesterday afternoon for where they will Join the army Left to they Margaret Eleanor Mary Helen Wylle and Ann Cech Miss Wylie's home is at while the others are from i Lifeboats ising at Sea b got away In three after the Brazilian r was w Jersey coast Sunday were today and it was feared ad perished sinking was last by four passengers and 22 rs of the crew landed here rescued after spending rs In a tossing con- In peril of being swamped e additional new sinkings were reported and In still another case at was to have been ay American planes and d of its prey A total of 77 Nations have been ed attacked the east South America sulking three miles New Jersey shore sank the on Gulf Oil Corporation early yesterday i members of the crew it to New York by rescue said two lifeboats had cap- ind they 18 of their ites had been lost In them Ivors of the 7932-ton T tanker Hanseat and the on Merchantman by the Lykes Brothers company of New landed at West Indies Both vessels had been I and shelled aboard the Hanseat were 22 of the said 16 of their shipmates Cripps Is Being Sent to India LONDON An official spokesman disclosed today dia would be a base for an eventual Allied against Japan and that Stafford Cripps was going to discuss with Indian leaders a war cabinet plan for lution of the Indian freedom lem must remember also that Is one of the bases from which the strongest counter blows must be struck at the advance of tyranny and he It was understood that the past promises of dominion status if Indian factions compose their the result of careful consideration of military and all including United opinion and the position of e Rescued After Days in Mine COLO little mule bleached gray by ears waddled the coal mine his own today and d In the faces of weary 10 have dug around the clock ne to rescue him from eln rimed miners fho finally through nn 80-foot wall of nd coal after con- r In shifts of two a ago cheered little animal toddled down rison tunnel and Into the fit I was the unexcited Mine W Robertson said around nuzzling a few men and acting as if he long vacation a little weak but he let on After he made the of his pals he started for something to eat plan agreed on by the war cabinet goes much further than previous proposals and belief that it might be a leaving most com- with what one observer called a slightly empty feeling The spokesman said an ardent advocate of Indian would go to India for dis- Without revealing he re- called that in August 1940, the government had tacitly promised lhat as soon as possible after the war India would get Dominion tus under a constitution framed by the Indians themselves will be sent to fy himself on the spot by personal consultation that the conclusions on which we have agreed and which we believe right and just are the final solution which will their he said He made it clear that Cripps would consult not only Indian specifically the Hindu but the Moslem and er minorities some of whom dis- agree radically with the in an attempt to bring a lution nearer and get India fully Into the war Cripps he said would consult Gen Sir Archibald chief in India and regarding the military tion in addition to discussing one of the most momentous political problems which the mother try ever involving India's people crisis In the affairs of In- arising from Japan's has made us all wish to rally all the forces of Indian life to free her life from the menace of the he said he made his Lord viceroy of said in a message to the people of India that whatever their politics or creed they would be Invited ing the next few weeks to enroll themselves on the national war land In which we live Is threatened with the vice- roy is a call to action for every one of Close ranks and stand shoulder to shoulder against the Make good defense of the country today and go forward to victory An tutorial Nothing to Oy Hitler would like nothing better than a chance to con- vince every American citizen that the U. S. A. is about ready to up and that business Is going to the He convinced a great many people in some of the European countries he lias overrun And he has managed to undermine the spirit and confidence of some few Americans But not we are glad to report Take the typical case of for instance It's true that people as everywhere In the been rationing and other restrictions which have been necessarily imposed due to the No one should be to a as policy and every true citizen is ready to make his share of the sacrifices which the war fias compelled howlers who would have us believe that business has arc the kind of people Hitler would like to have helping him at this stage of the war You have probably heard n few of these chronic be- wail the way in which the war aas affected They will tell you the old home town is on Its last legs because we don't have any big defense But what they won't tell yoti Is that many of Zanesville's existing factories are filling war and after r temporary slump due to the present they are tain to get more They also won't tell you that a majority of cities of this size are rain not so i portion Mrr portion HELD AS 26, of was arrested by eral authorities as a selective and taken to bus to await arraignment In exactly the same boat and a majority of them are keeping their chins up in the patriotic American way Facts are the best weapon with which to answer the professional And here are a few facts to throw at the fellow who tells you everyone Is leaving Zanesville for a job In some war Industry or that business Is ing a serious decline 1. Spokesmen for the Ohio er company and the Ohio Fuel Gas company said that neither the number of consumers nor the demand for sen ice has shown an appreciable decrease here 2 The telephone company sent out 200 more bills in February than In And there were 500 more bills sent out in February of this year than In April of 1941 3 Postal receipts for the first two months this jear were higher than a year ago 4 The postoffice also reports that there are no more changes in address than Do these facts make it like we should turn our backs to the wall In or haps commit mass Well hardly It's not American method to on the home front or In the Grandfather Says Small Boy Prayed to Become a Bandit The prayers of a 12-year-oW sad to apparently are being answered This was revealed today at police headquarters after the youth ad- mitted to police that he recently stole from a street vice station and also made off with a candy vending machine at a West Main street nation Grandparents of the called to for about the were able to throw tome light on the youth's budding of other the father heard a voice In the boy's room so I to the The boy was the grandfather listened The child his with this re- quest a big Draft First Lady Urges tion to empower President velt to order all men to civilian service vital to the war was introduced today by Percy interpreted his as acted 24 hours after Mrs. velt said in her daily newspaper column that of men and should be drafted for an all-out war The language of Priest's broad enough to authorize the president to assign present draft-exempt men to war industry civilian defense or any service that he deemed to the He said he believed separate would be necessary to the drafting of war since women are not now registered under the selective ice act. Mrs. advocacy of universal draft aroused speculation whether the administration consider or adopt her drafted conceivably might serve u a vehicle for broader legislation include women with the non- military draft Mrs. Roosevelt's active and effec tive interest in government affairs causes most persons here to and listen to her public statements with careful attention ing that there had been an Inter- esting discussion at the House Sunday on the question o the attitude of the people during the war she wrote in her column appearing in numerous newspapers today as follows to saw very that SB us ta the mem he drafted and tott what the job we to It seems me that there a f ot of profits mad ft be She argued that so long as the civilian war effort Is on a teer it Is bound to be ful It appears that the discussion took place Sunday in the presence of the Mrs. and two of their sons and that It centered around the over-all freez during debate of the price con trol It Is understood that Mr did not express an ion during the Sunday discussion Mrs. unqualified en of the universal draft and the freezing of wages profits and prices is attract considerable attention here to renew the effor for legislation to make conditions static for the Rep Albert author of the for profits and wages which was rejected by the read Mrs. Roosevelt's plan and He read the column to the House without Some 400 county officials ing here yesterday Independently adopted a part of program with resolution proposing on all farm and commodity prices Their objective was to avoid inflation DESCRIBED The early phase of the bat tie for Australia day on the island of New Guinea and Great Britain hastened efforts to turn India nto a powerful base for a United Nations still lacking official strong naval forces were the Guinea ol Port just across the Strait from at series of shattering attacks on enemy transports and Seven to nine enemy ships were or sunk off northwest Ni In any Australians ed an immediate Japanese effort to establish a base at Port which the enemy has bombed every day this for an at- tempted invasion of the only 330 miles away The Australians were fighting back with all the strength they could muster and counting on strong allied especially from to defend their northern coast But the United Nations high command also was concern ed with of India and the bolstering of allied lines in Burma following the of Rangoon and the southern tip of the Shan The importance of India as an offensive base was emphasized by a London naval ment that the Japanese al though suffering severe not weakened seriously and tha the enemy's command of the sea and air permits him to move in any direction desired On other fighting Java American and T fighting with Dutch in of Java and Sumatra against to Pao Japs Turn Eyes To Madagascar Berlin dispatch to the newspaper Social Demokraten said today that pan had presented to the government concerning the French island o off the southeast coast The dispatch said that Berlin quarters reported they had w information of Japan's plans bu that it was recalled that Japanese demands preceded the occupation of French Vichy published an official de- nial yesterday that Jacques Be- vice minister of state for had said In an interview with anese newspaper men that accord had been reached for common defense o similar to the accord for the defense of The denial said that the report was completely false and ten WASHINGTON that the Ing proposals made In Congress important Madagascar will not be permitted to fall unde Axis control have been received re- cently from the Vichy Acting Secretary of State Sumne Welles said today Welles made the statement a press conference question regarding In reply to reports tha Vichy might be willing to Japanese aid in defending the In dian Ocean which lies the southeast coast of her hi Ms PORT CLINTON Fire early today the Beach Bar Night club at Asher's Beach on Route 2, with a loss estimated at The building housing the night club was the oM Knights of bus hut at Camp Perry during the first WorM War It was to Beach later Its latest owner was William Gabel The club was operated by William Heavy Explosions Heard Off Jersey N Five explosions from off the Go to Ales dent today congrew that 441 worth of American tiore and supplies im to United the past the public on its our presently might indeed be president war can ha contact with the i attack upon That for the United more and still more Success at the of United mwt into the heart of the tain the entire strength that Admiral Ernest J. King takes full power in U. S. Navy chief of naval operations and of Single Command Policy Disputed Despite President to unification of command proposals and his assertion that the military and naval working gether very in present state of sentiment persisted In a merger and Jap Offensive on Bataan Awaited WASHINGTON day apparently We their for an anticipated all-out offen on Bataan an ominous hill wen senators that the tration is studying the problem and to have hand forced by asked at bis press conference to reports that a unified command war under said he thought it makes little ference whether the armed forces operate under two or three departments because they are all working together very Mr. Roosevelt said be doubted that one knew exactly what the term supreme command latest move to merge the war and navy departments came in the where Sen Bennett C. introduced a biU proposed by Gen. Johnson in a re- cent magazine article Sen. Lister D said he favored an staff in which would coordinate and rate the of the fighting sea and and the grand strategy for the employment of this chine Into one mighty er that will concentrate the est force at the enemy's weakest Hill have a chief who ought to have the power to issue orders and en- his RAF Planes Raid Ruhr Valley Again planes attacked the German Ruhr valley for the third straight night during the an air ministry com- said today and It was ad- mitted that four of the raiding planes were It wms understood that a con- weight of bombs was on the a center of war but poor visibility made observation of results BY AUTO trian Identified as C G. 99. of was killed by a hit-skip motorist the to malos the occupied by along the 15-mile front from the to Manila Bay have become stabil new Japanese commander In-chief in the Lieut. Gen. be- to be awaiting the arrival of aerial reinforcements be- fore unleashing his offensive against Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Quiet has prevailed on the Ba- taan front for 11 days since Arthur's recent offensive the exception of an Amerl can artillery bombardment over last week-end that blasted an enemy infantry regiment of abou men moving up to tha fron north of Abocay in 90 MacArthur's guns destroyed 29 o the trucks and of their Russians Keep Up Unrelenting Attack R struck hard blows at the Germans on either end of the long front killing them by the hundreds and seizing huge piles of war Soviet evidently maintaining their attacks on most all but were unleash Ing the most terrible fury on the trapped German 10th army and on Germai forces in trying to hold a springboard for an offensive in to the Methodically continuing the de- struction of the Germans around the ported they had two more The position of the Germans said to be deteriorating dally as Red anti-aircraft batteries pursuit planes down the gian transports with which the Nazis were trying to supply the remnants of the 18th New successes were on the Leningrad north The Russians report ed to have taken 17 holds on that sea shook buildings windows throughout and rattled today The following In id occurred about 10 a m Officer Weldon Polhemus of the police the sions heard as plain as day came off the he uc don't what caused them Polhemus said there was no csU damage from the dent today sent to the senate the promotion at Maj. Brehon the new army to the rank of Navy Ate Sharks to Keep Alive Three fliers whose bomber was forced down at sea and who ed floated 34 on a rubber life raft toM today who they had bed fish and sharks with their pocket knives and eaten them raw to keep The filers Chief Machinists Mate HaroM F. 41, of tne and Seamen J. 24, of and D. 23, of Mo. The 9mrth Seas sun them almost sad they were wesk and from lack of food and They were s scouting mission last Jan. bat they had On the fint moot U For obvious s fourth did not 90 taste on Hems to at United One showed that of all I tod per eat 34 per cent and 37 per cent were president frankly while tbs sf aid was an abstract tt far short trf what to auM to the exact Or items so far many have therefore the quantity of military turned over has the hard fact is that m hi need the has to of the time fort required to revolutionise industrial and to volume of ot an effective arsenal of Lend-lease tanks cannot bt hased In the market The bulk of aid must upon the tooling of pressing needs of our own Corces the construction sf MSW ships to carry the oos to our completed It. were unable to locat the ship from which they had tak en off The bomber anc they were able to save only the life not a pound of food or drop ot water Thirty-four days after iag hundreds of in they were washed up on was like s Dorothy South Seas It was a ws the His smid re- had kept Dixon ssM mot the first failed to Father Persuaded To Admit King ace Leo 5L caiM in Us five told them he their tat asked them what he I could make It harder Csr cops by not he Four boys and a hi age from eight to 15, stood him the them The others While a tire w left alone in a room at State's At- torney Max Weston's ton and police the cosy from an adjoining Turner called them in killed he shot her because she didn't live I want her to ruia body He toW authorities they must wait until another daughter ed from home st before he would a After she arrived at the with Deputy Sheriff William C. Turner toW them be had rowed a 12 gauge shotgun from Robert 41. go county and drove a truck to the William Mitchell dence on the outskirts of Sunday His Mrs. Margaret 32. had boarded there for several after a violent quarrel with Turner crept up to parlor Weston and saw his wife on a Davenport tag while William 28, strummed a Turner admitted he shot her through the window sad Aid gua fc a ssid hsm at took MM to sheriffs tor 1
