Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - February 14, 1942, Zanesville, Ohio Always First The Times Recorder Always Fair Vol No 39 ZANESVILLE OHIO SATURDAY FEBRUARY TEMPERATURE TODAY TERRIBLE DEFEAT FOR BRITISH at prize 11.1 Reverses Anger Britons Allied Naval Chief New Guinea Latest Japanese Objective it A view of the harbor of Port bv capital of British New Guinea This port is about three hundred miles from the Australian mainland The Japanese bombed Samarai at the tions against Australia itself Criticizes Conduct of War Asks Reinforcements for MacArthur WASHINGTON Feb Senator Tydings roundly criticizing the administration's con- duct of the called on to speed a heavily guarded convoy of reinforcements to General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines or the British at Singapore This war cannot be won on the he shouted Japan is in- ferior in manpower in ity in planes in weapons and in her navy But she is on the sive and she is winning thousands of miles from the Japanese islands themselves He proposed that Wendell kie be given a high government place because he has shown an Interest in this war and called for admirals and generals Two Killed Five Injured In Collision Two persons one a six-year-old er for the Hern family severe girl were killed and five were in- jured early last night when the car in which they were riding col- with a pickup truck on the old road two and a half miles west of the Frazeysburg road Dead Marlyn Mae Hern six and nis Hartley Jr IS both of the Adamsville road The Injured L M Hern 48 of the Adamsville road driver of the car and father of the six-year-old girl cuts and bruises about the face and body his three daughters Laurel Hern IT cuts on the nose and other minor injuries Mildred Hern 14 cuts and bruises on the legs and and Bonnie Hern nine fractured left shoulder and Mrs Pearl Hartley 41 mother of Dennis Hartley and Nazis Flout Boasted Might Of England LONDON Feb Allies faced a bitter figh for control of the North Atlantic tonight after two German battleships and a heavy cruiser battered but menacingly afloat had gained the safety of Helgoland after a dash through the English channel and the North Sea that ed more than a century of British naval history Fears were expressed openly in London the Scharnhorst and and the cruiser Prinz Eugen now at safe anchor at the end of a fighting race from their bomb trap at Brest would rendezvous with a Nazi Atlantic fleet strong enough to go wherever it likes the Orkneys to Long Island Coming as it did on top of the battle of Singapore and a the British reverses in Africa the humbling of British navy a and air force in their own waters measurably swelled the roar of criticism of the present cabinet Some persons thought Prime Minister Churchill himself might have heavy going to stay in- office But against this was the belief there was no one of his stature to take his place At Less Them Yards The battle involving hundreds of planes and warship was broken off after an almost suicidal attack by British destroyers off the mouth of the Netherlands Scheldt Thes destroyers pierced the strong screen of the big Nazi war than yards then escaped loss of a ship The man on the street realizes a second-rate German navy has turned the English channel into a highway for Nazi ships He knows also that Britain must match the battle fleet and he wants to know why He was told today that the German squadron steamed for three hours in misty daylight yesterday before it was sighted and that it was almost under the noses of Dover s cross-channel guns when it finally j Appeals for Army Emergency Fund cuts on the hand and knees According to Deputy Sheriff Bernard Burrier who investigated the truck driven by Leslie Leon Lucas 28 of Elden near Quaker City was headed east on ery road while the Hern bile was traveling west The machines collided on a curve and the truck bed sheared off the left side of the automobile The car spun out of control in- to a ditch at the side of the road Burrier said young Hartley was in the rear seat holding the mall Hern girl on his lap Both probably died instantly it was aid The Hern family Mrs Hartley and her son were enroute to over to spend the evening visiting with Mrs Hartley's daughter Mrs Ruth McGrath Lucas ed by R F Long of Quaker City were enroute to their homes from Delaware where they hauled a of logs yesterday afternoon Both Lucas and Long escaped in- WASHINGTON Feb P Patterson undersecre- tary of war appealed tonight for contributions to the army gency fund which is used for temporary relief when come army men For many years to families of service men who will stand up to President Roosevelt if they feel any grave errors are being committed Told What to Do There was a feeling in the minds of many he said that our admirals and generals were told what to do rather than themselves telling those under them what should be done The Tydings said know what they want to do They are willing to take a chance to do it And even though they are our foes they are fighting with great tenacity to do it The nations op- posed to them do not quite seem to know what they want to do what their plan is and they are fighting defensively to beat inferior sition Senator Lucas broke in to say however that in view of the Pearl Harbor disaster he for one was willing to wait a little while before he condemned anyone for present strategy Tydings accused the tion of lack of courage to deal with pressing problems He said the government had become an over- grown monstrosity with an ex- wasteful bureaucracy that was hampering the war fort Assails OCD One example of this he said was the so-called physical fitness gram projected by the Office of Civilian Defense a program which Turn to Page Seven Please Vice Admiral C E L Helfrich above of the Royal Netherlands avy has been named chief of dried naval forces in the Western succeeding U S Admiral German Fleet Now Menace In Atlantic By The Associated Press The imperial British banners yet floated last Friday night over Singapore city a core of fire in an island of lation and while the last decision for that tortured position was again postponed the struggle in the rest of the Orient was cast into the background by a new Axis menace on the other side of the world Somewhere in the historically British waters of the North Sea a German battle fleet was loose the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and the big cruiser Prinz Eugen and many smaller craft having run the Dover Strait from southern France under every gun and bomb that England could bring to bear to challenge the entire Allied position in the North Atlantic They were believed to have Pacific succeeding mra Thomas c Hart who requested the strong German naval base of Helgoland ott VIP hp relieved command 3 an aft i hat he be relieved 61 command lecause of his health 11 ic an western Germany and to be in position for an attempted rendezvous with other Nazi warships Atlantic Supply Line Threatened At best for the Allies this would mean a dangerous di- version of naval power at the expense meantime of the North Atlantic supply line to hunt the down and at worst might open the way for a large-scale attack on the position at Iceland or for an at- tempt to enter the Baltic in support of the expected German land offensive against Russia in the spring It not only was a terrible defeat for the British in terms Near In County To Register Zanesville's four Selective ice boards along with more than 300 other boards in the state are in readiness for the registration of all unregistered men between the military ages of 20 to 45 years j Registration held in modern history The Germans lost 18 planes by e British account seven according to Berlin's story along 11 v j of probable future grand strategy but 42 British planes were lost of the great swarm that tried in vain to hold the Dover Strait against this most audacious breach of injured were brought to jury The Good Samaritan hospital where they were treated and dismissed The of the Hartley youth was removed funeral home to at the Thompson White Cottage of I with the slogan The army cares for its have maintained a dief fund Ordinarily money fo it is raised through thov f ments and similar methods not practicable during war Patterson explained that the fund would not be an while the body of the Hern girl was taken to the Trimmer eral home The injured were re- moved to their homes in the man ambulance The drivers of the machines were unable to explain the cause told Burrier crash Both tn other vehicle hut the accident glared angrily as c of the federal government mrt would have a civilian board i of governors General John J i is the honorary i dent Saying lhat the fund not curred before they knew what happened Burrier said he was holding no one but would continue his investigation today The deaths marked the third j and fourth traffic fatalities in j Muskingum county during 1342 Hern is a veteran employe of the i Find Laura Ingalls Was Nazi Agent WASHINGTON Feb Laura Ingalls speed flier and self- styled international Mata was convicted by a federal district court today on a charge that she acted as a paid agent of the man Reich without registering with the state department The jury of ten men anu women deliberated only a little more than an hour before re- turning the verdict The mum penalty for the offense is two years in prison and a fine Miss Ingalls who admitted to money from a German Burrier lomat she was promoting of the neutrality last year juror in- was discovered It was last seen in the North Sea Their actual speed through the Strait of Dover yesterday beneath a vast canopy of at least 200 Nazi fighter planes was 28 to 30 knots Fear Control of Atlantic Lost Shocked apprehension lest lied control of the North Atlantic would be ended for a dangerous period was general in London These fears were matched by in- demands in the press for a grand inquest into why Brit- ish air power despite the loss of 42 planes could not with support kill the Nazi squadron in the narrow waters beneath the white cliffs of Dover Don't Like Dive Bombers Certain informed civilian sources ascribed the failure of the i RAF and fleet air arm to j cate the Japanese Malayan cess against the Prince of Wales and Repulse to the fact that the RAF has a long-standing against use of dive bombers ers said the effective German with one patrol boat British Press Critical of Churchill LONDON Feb full fury of a bitter editorial barrage against the fell for the first time day upon Prime Minister Churchill himself on the heels of the German fleet's dash through the channel and one newspaper suggested bluntly that Britain had been hypnotized by the force of his three days today from noon to 6 o'clock Sunday noon to 6 and Monday from 7 a m to 9 p m Every male citizen and every male alien residing in the city and county other than persons ed by the selective training and service act of 1940 as amended is required to present himself for and to submit to registration on one of these three days if he has not registered previously and if such person has attained the 20th of the day of his birth on or before Dec 31 1841 and has not attained the anniversary of the day of his birth on or before Feb 16 1942 Registration should be made at a designated registration place of the local board area in which the registrant has his permanent lorne or in which he may happen o be during the registration hours Anyone who is unavoidably away from his home may register at the registration place most convenient but all registrants are urged to make every effort to register with their own local boards to avoid sible confusion in the future Any person who must register away from home is warned to carefully specify his home address so that his registration card may be for- Shock to British Public The to the British public was such that some London observers thought that even Prime Minister Churchill's position might be endangered unlikely as this seemed Whatever the reason whether it was against the drive bomber as some claimed was simply a complex of poor visibility and to r German plane strength plus some such F whether it ly superior fighter support was the real rea son the Nazi ships eluded tion by the British planes Lord Evening Standard asked angrily if the RAF i was wasting its money on big i high-level bombers and demanded the fullest possible effort to tress with effective air power henceforth It was believed here that the Germans now could throw a tle fleet of six heavy ships and a strong protective screen into the battle of the Atlantic at a ment when the British and ed States fleets are heavily in- in Mediterranean and rhetoric The prime minister who fore has had to defend only his colleagues this time found himself one of the main targets of an at- tack which was the most severe since he took office in May 1940 The News Chronicle His methods of government must be recast quickly and with warded promptly to his own local us a single aim in to retrieve as dangerous and humiliating a situation as any that yet board Nearly from Muskingum county and over the state are expected to register during three days There are just nine questions this time and the registrant will pet a two and one-half by three and one-half inch green tion card That is his proof he is not a draft dodger His name age address telephone on British informant thus summed up for the extreme The Germans have a good chance to unite a superior fleet in the North Atlantic a fleet strong enough at least for sometime to go wherever it likes from the Orkneys just north of the Brit- ish Isles to Long Island Still Hold Singapore As to Singapore the British rison shaking its fist at its destiny of defeat was creating one of the great military epics of all time and it became more and more evident that the city's fall might be in- definitely delayed At 10 o'clock last night Malayan time or 11 a m yesterday Eastern War Time the city itself still held Turn to Last Page Please ed us Have we not been hypnotized by Mr Churchill's personality by the force of his rhetoric by his hold in the house of commons Have we not been drugged by phrases hy reiterated assurances into a frame of mind in which we've lost our grip on The Herald remarked we look pretty foolish and added the Brit- ish public now feels apprehension about whole strategic direction SUMMARY His name age number place of birth name and i Escape Of German address of a person who always t Strait of fl t thrOugh Strait of ver to Helgoland in face rf place of all resistance Britain COUla e all that are necessary offer is another grave re- Local boards offices win take verse for Allied cause This person who always i ana S i Turn to Last Page Please inai 4 substitute for pensions Armco plant hero might be explained that n e used for to tide over BY I rmy widow in the period between 1 the death of hor and os AKRON O Feb W the death of hor anu 43 a fireman for the of her right to a Akron canton Youngstown Mon road today was the victim of a fatal hit-skip automobile accident STAMPS President Will Deliver Radio Address Feb 23 on Canton road WASHINGTON Feb President Roosevelt will make a radio address to the nation at 10 p m EWT on February 23 His press secretary Stephen Early said today the speech would n m last about half nn hour Ho a m two ago that president would nn m Inte in would j Slin rl Important to sny i Monn i The Weather temperature FRIDAY'S TEMPERATURES 20 4 p 8 6 p 21 S p 10 p tn T 12 n 6 -n m- of Sunday Joe in his popular Outgoing Mail column writes touching to General MacArthur and his men Four hospital nurses will soon leave for army service which will be shown at th benefit bridge party at the V C A are the saddest Which no mere formal and that this would be a events will remove however thoroughly conducted The Mirror Is it any longer true to say we trust the prime minister though we do not trust his He can not keep it much er it continued if he and his loyal friends continue to rely on past services This war can not be won on gratitude are all that are necessary Local boards offices wil registrations during the Turn to Page Nine Please Life Sentence for Slayer of Gambler Commerce Local Defense college and tells for Seal fraternal order starts survey to determine how many war two experiences aboard the ill-fated I a test news bulletins from all over tho world pases of the world's greatest Thr Nickel's Worth in Town mighty enemy fleet is now in position to menace the Atlantic supply line to Britain and to open way CLEVELAND Fob through Baltic for support of spring land offensive against Russia DUTCH EAST INDIES Dominic Marzano 25 today was sentenced to Ohio penitentiary for life by three judges who ated only five minutes over his story of how he murdered ael Mickey Nester West Side gambler You're getting a break re- j Dutch garrison fires harbor district of Macassar on Celebes island which Congress to Reconsider Pension WASHINGTON Feb Bombarded with angry protests from all corners of the country seemed ready today to repeal the law under which it granted pension privileges to its own members the president and other government officers Senator Barkley the majority leader termed the sion act untimely unwise and and in the general senate debate which followed the consensus appeared to be that both house and senate had made a take There were protests however that the act had been stood and an acrimonious ex- change between Senator Byrd D- who opposed the pension from the start and Senator honey O'Mahoney asserted the tors had been held up to unjust ridicule and declared Byrd to continue to smear the members of congress I have never smeared the bers of Byrd replied heatedly I resent the tion I have told the truth about this pension and I'll continue to tell the truth A bit later Byrd told the senate that questions that he was completely ig- of this legislation Still later Byrd inquired anese attempt to into base for attack er O'Mahoney was accusing him that Mr Common Pleas Judge The Daily Skotch said that Mr Merrick as he read the Churchill must bo brought by one and means or another to a clearer recognition of some essential truths Does he take too much upon Should he not it the numbers of his war cabinet and improve its Lord Daily Ex- press came to Churchill's defense the horse Churchill is pulling a heavy load up hill What do we do to that Beat him with Or get be- 1 hind the wagon and give him a that ve might have used those A m 6 r i C a n words he hart yJ Judges Samuel Samuel M The Daily Express also put in a word of caution against rolling in thf sand knowing all the tacts and Kramer mother collapsed in the courtroom j and was carried out by deputy sheriffs The judges apparently ed story that his ver went off accidentally while Nester was defending himself against attempted up Marzano returned from Ohio penitentiary where he was sent last December on his plea of ty to auto theft said he was trying to recover 590 he had lost in a dice game operated by Nestor The shooting occurred last September gunners bring down two s Japanese at- wrong impression tacking American Filipino line in Bataan British was fatal today ers still battling attack y UK ART ATTACK FATAL SPRINGFIELD O Feb j Fred G King 61 Republican to hold great naval base representative from Clark which appears doomed Soviet armies con- advance and large patrols are now above and county since 1928 He served as county recorder for 19 years Rites will be Sunday below Smolensk TO DEATH HAMILTON O Feb the victim of a fainting t e vcm o British lines heavily Eldon Haddix 33 fell to his rane In the on a attacked by Japanese and death today from a crane In the fighting is inconclusive I Machinery Corp foundry
