Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - February 25, 1942, Zanesville, Ohio Always First Vol No 48 CRISIS Always Fair COLD The Times Recorder ZANESVILLE OHIO WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25 1942 BATTLE FOR BURMA Lose 189 In Naval Wrecks U S Navy Nurses Held by Japs Lieutenant at 19 Forecasts More Grief LONDON Feb i somber picture of wrath to come Prime Minister foreshadowed further defeats anii disasters in the southwest in a frank but gloomy speech fore the house of commons i He warned that the Allies are outnumbered by the on the sea on the land and in air that reinforcement will be because of a most increase in shipping losses in the last two months and that Britain's smoke-grimed navy flotillas which convoy troops and guns from part of the empire to another strained to the utmost The house mollified by the prime minister's reorganization of the government into what he a compact snd more tensely Naval Chief And Supply Ship Sink ST JOHN'S Newfoundland Feb a swaying I chair slung over a cliff men from the United States destroyer Truxtun and the U S j naval supply ship Pollux were rescued after their vessels were smashed to bits against the foundland coast in a raging storm While at least 189 other seamen j perished in the pounding seas at i the foot of the tall bluffs residents j of the shore village of Lawrence the 43 to safety from j ledge just above the water to which the survivors were clinging This is a recent photo of Rear Francis Rockwell com- mandant of the Sixteenth Naval district the senior officer fighting with Gen Douglas MacArthur on Bataan peninsula Adm men are using artillery and other equipment the Cavite naval abandonment salvaged base from Stronghold Of Rangoon In Effect Lost By The Associated Press The Allied position was imminently menaced last Tuesday night in the whole of southern Burma and Rangoon itself the capital of that crown colony and bridge between China and India was in effect already gone as a British stronghold Sharp and immediate was the crisis so much so that the Japanese enemy's stealthy maneuvers far to the east in his slowly developing invasion of the key Allied South Pacific bastion of Dutch Java were all but over- shadowed and it was officially recognized that the battle for Burma had now become actually the battle for the outer defenses of itself Nineteen vear tru a braced cabinet heard him Chicago has com- Mm missioned a second lieutenant in through without learning from him a single word concerning India at whose doors the Japanese are knocking by their advance in Eur- the XT S Army Reserves and will WASHINGTON Feb a T A iOne tne worst sea disasters in a toward states naval of a destroyer a supply ship and officers and an- Hunt Sub in Attack on soon be directing training of ies more than twice his age today by the navy Here are four of the five U S navy nurses who serving on the Island of Guam in the Pacific when it was captured by the Japs The navy department announced that they are likely ers of- the Japanese Left to right top Doris M Yetter of delphia Pa Olds of Chicago HI bottom Leona Jackson gf Union p and Virginia J Fogarty of Akron O Muskingum Allotted 85 Cars in Rationing Plan Eighty-five new 1942 eligible persons The rationing biles may be sold in Muskingum gins Monday March 2 ma As To India But in the house of lords Lord the new colonial tary referring to the India visit of j China's generalissimo Chiang Shek announced that the British j government is in favor of India's political freedom He conditioned the ment however by explaining that a satisfactory solution in India pends upon Indian leaders getting together and devising a scheme of I j j government which is all Churchill's preoccupation w i t h the Pacific situation was taken by informed quarters as an tion that Britain's war effort will be directed more and more toward defeat of the Axis in the Far East is showing his certificate pointment to his old girl friend Betty Stone in a tragic account of e and destruction on the j I 11 I aM coast of Newfoundland Seldom have ships been battered Unto wreckage by the deliberate This was signalled by the fact that the British before for India General Sir Alan Fleming I ley was made responsible as well for Burma operations a step that was understood to have pleased the Chinese who must be depended upon in great measure to help hold ern Burma at least as a link between the two greatest ples of the Asiatic world British Burn Immovable Stores Rangoon the sea head of the Burma supply road to China was being abandoned while the American SANTA BARBARA Calif mission sweated to get out one last shipment action of enemy guns more The enemy submarine thousands Of tons Of Supplies for the Chinese the British the Sd shells tato an themselves were reported burning ail immovable military lW A ier Pollux were dashed to pieces last in the Srst attack 1 stores Mfc T Lend-Lease i wind and jupon United i And even in these times wholesale losses of men and war States soil in caused damage Jon the high seas all over 1 world naval veterans here Oll saddened by the loss today officials estimated land sea and the the heroic but mostly futile struggle kept sharp vigil for a county during March April and May under the automobile ing system it was announced The Office of Price tion in Washington announced Tuesday the state and county quotas for the rationing of new passenger automobiles to House Votes Repeal of Pensions WASHINGTON Feb mood first angry then boisterous the house rolled up a whopping 389 to 7 vote today for repeal of pensions for congressmen making virtually certain that the law which had plagued it for weeks soon would be wiped off the statute books Actually the vote was on a technical motion which will lead io repeal but they considered that the effect was the same and called out a loud aye Tien the long-sought record the first to be taken in the house on the Under the program Ohio's new passenger car quota is and the reserve 668 The actual quotas total 120.000 cars but an additional vehicles were placed in state and national County quotas were arrived at WASHINGTON Feb The White House announced today that Great Britain and the United States had signed an agreement setting forth the general principles sea craft described by as monstrous The attack occurred during President aground in the storm Those Lost From the Truxtun seven including the captain fireside war chat After- tenant Commander Ralph the submarine disappeared in Russia and in the Middle men were fho the Post economic th with less emphasis upon the thesis 38 of Washington D C and 90 men were lost Three additional deaths were expected to be re- that Germany and the Axis can the settlement of ported later The Truxtun ally carried a crew of around 145 One officer and 91 men from beaten only by invasion of i accounts It is aimed at making effec ern Big Army Churchill announced that a huge charter through the elimination of it is aimea aL malting live the provisions of the Atlantic Pollux perished The skipper army had been lost in Singapore The he said international trade barriers and re- duction of tariffs with the as about at the beginning pose and largely on the basis of 1941 new car registrations However in many counties the extent of local war and defense activity was an important factor in establishing j both quota and reserve Price Administrator Leon i son said The cars to be released amount to 43 per cent of the new vehicles to DC sold to essential users in the next 12 months and 3 per cent of the total supply of about new cars left in the of the Malaya employment and jof this vessel whose name was and some others of were saved forming a voyaging t t Turn to Page 1L Please and consumption the distribution of goods along the south Britain it was specifically stated that all other nations may become I participants Wendell L Willkie the 1940 j presidential nominee was in his praise for the igram and called it the most significant and beneficial under- made between nations in I the last many years A direct and Permanent organization of step toward the Forgotten Road Meet On Friday were coast of foundland near St Lawrence Bav While the pact was signed only at the mouth of Placentia bay the states and Great the mishap occurred the reported Whether they had or were going to the United Turn to Page 11 Please in the darkness headed southward Today airplanes the skies ail along the coastline ready to drop their deadly bombs should the undersea craft surface again Land batteries also stood alert Army and navy authorities ed however to discuss the extent of preparations Approximately 25 five inch shells from the deck gun fired from an angle mately one-half mile off shore raked the beach and grounds of the oil field seemingly intended for two huge storage tanks The j ern Burma would be able to come only object hit however was in time In an offensive strengthened by the arrival of more and more reinforcements the Japanese had beaten forward to and over the last natural defense line east of Rangoon the Sittang river and in apparently overwhelming force were smashing at the British imperial forces for 100 miles up and down the Sittang The invader stood within 60 miles of Rangoon itself and within 20 miles of the rail leg of the Burma road and the intervening terrain was less difficult than that he already traversed The Japanese casualties and had been still they came on All of southern Burma It could be saved only material help and of this there was no real prospect so poor are communications from India There was nothing to indicate that Chinese troops standing in hands of manufacturers j Association of the trade areas of the ence ofj tors by residents of and a recognition of Road area and others economic and dealers when the motor industry closed down for comp Turn to Page 5 Please i interested at the Scott in a i cottage five miles north of Zanesville city limits on State Rt j modern Reds Destroy Nazi Army oi Men Submarines Sink Tankers Off Florida WEST PALM BEACH Fla Feb submarines ing with destructive fores at ican shipping off the Atlantic coast torpedoed two tankers with an parent toll of 12 lives the navy re- gear housing in one f today ing machinery that readily can be j ulc Seven men including the cap- In the Dutch East Indies tain were killed and four others It struck hv a ot Japanese still taking no known were missing and presumed lost la first to reinforce their hard-won when the tanker Cities i ricocheted about 150 hit beachhead on Bali sent bombers to Service Empire of New York was U on the Lo her raid Bandoeng the site of hit Twenty-nine survivors from the beam on the end of pier then plowed into tbo oil well i machinery Army authorities who j examined the fragments said all j evidently were from high type shells They were con- the Allied for the southwest Pacific In an attack that was more spectacular than Ten bombers assaulted the city flaming wreckage of the were brought to shore at largely in a 300 dropped only light projectiles Find Slain Body of Man in Canal The document stated at the MOSCOW Wednesday Feb The handful of votes in- cluded that of Majority Leader McCormack of Massachusetts The others were Representatives Bo- land Casey and Rogers D- MIDDLETOWN O No 666 Friday evening at 8 o'clock set j Sponsors said last night I plans for such an organization I were nearly complete and i expected formal organization election of officers would body of W concerning the Faber veteran New York Central-way railroad conductor of Cleveland O The purpose of the implements as can be I r t nA lyard area of One shell fragment slightly i pipeline which serves j one of the large storage Others tore down a section of er lines j Company officials said to the oil well would not exceed i This Nazi and that would cover When the war is encircled in the vital remainder Turn to Page 11 WAR SUMMARY district 140 miles south of vas found in debris against i will be to fight present and turned to this country shall be re- Leningrad and 270 miles a of the hydraulic canal future plans to remove the u the States of MOSCOW and suffered one solvine the of from the state road system ithem bacn Otherwise the of the most crushing defeats yet disappearance his train unannounced yesterday that Sn upon Adolf Hitler's J Boone of j the Ier county said a me a brief with the state highway bat promote Flaherty Moser Mitchell The crowded chamber got off to rear ne false start ns Rep Martin J interposed an oh- The horiy was to the complicated noon by Jacob situation in which the as performed knife apparently used in the department protesting the attack and that with left lung plated abandonment of 1 lapsed from the injury Faber the state and its return to the either dead or riving when he highway system cast from a dead-head coach on thei Bryce C Browning secretary of of his district said the anri express run brief will be forwarded to State inflicted gions So complete was the rout of the Germans that they left be- hind and still uncounted economic relations be- the road them the betterment of booty Guns bv the world-wide economic relations thousands more than motor him and within an hour he withdrew his objection was set Then posed that house members and the was found shortly Highway Director Hal G Sours at Contacted cy telep f Girl In Theater CHICAGO Feb vehicles railroad rolling stock tanks munitions and horses by 1 the hundreds into Soviet Identification was based on of the meeting held today as she sat in and week OR the of the Palace theater watch Faber's blue uniform he had collected from one occupied abandonment coach immediately ahead of the deadhead car The train left of at officially as smashed were the Infantry division of the Second Germany army -A corps the Infantry division death of the 10th army and a division the picked blackshirt S S te Guards p m Dec x Escape Bomb an hour and five f into Thrower Is Killed ing a mystery movie William Schiepan an attorney who sat near the scene of rail to Bid snooting reported he heard the victim He's got a gun mint congressional committee on mi minor naval be instructed j it pulled retain a senate rider calling fori o near nere he pension repeal It was that that the house finally The senate took similar for last week by a vote of 10 Of Schiepan said a man then ran boulevard today toward the back of call vote of but both the ambassador and his i and apparently mingled with the hy which the escaped minor shock crowd attending the to T today for On Road Project COLUMBUS O Feb Calls Sub Attack Political Warfare i WASHINGTON Feb j President Roosevelt today sed the shelling of a California re- finery by a submarine last night las an example of political i telling a press conference er that it might react in a way opposite than was intended j 1 Asked for comment on the sub- appearance near Goleta i Calif while he was making a address to the country said the best comment was what somebody had ied early this it was jan excellent example of warfare I It was too he said then might not be i did not vessel Fort Prince Seven of them were ed or otherwise injured and they were admitted to hospitals at un- disclosed points Earlier the navy revealed here that the Republic of Houston Texas was torpedoed off the Atlantic coast with the loss of five lives eight survivors were brought jly to shore Can't Go i FDR JT UEl Japanese to further attack O eral MacArthur's forces un- WASHINGTON Feb 24 til more reinforcements Supplementing his speech of last rive President explains it is impossible send bomber support to to get aircraft that the reaction urkey Feb bomb thrown at Franz Von Papen the Gorman ambassador exploded 50 feet away from i what was expected He on thai point Shortly afterwards there was a Contractors who were Mr Roosevelt answered in the muffled shot Schiepan said and discouraged by shortage of negative a question whether he and rising labor costs failed had any information from the navy to bid today on a state highway Ion what had happened to the sub- project for paving 5.597 miles of marine Grinning he remarked military access road at tne probably it was under water the girl I'm shot I'm shot Schiepan said a man ordnance plant Under water a The Weather i m I Noon f i congressmen on record to i Qre to repeal of pensions for announcement said Continued rather apparently was the occasional snow flurries Krie 33 31 7 51 i rises IM r m 6 p m 26 1 P m c 32 v m m PT OS m ear Democrats er Davis Harter Holbrook er Imhoff Kirwan Secrest Thorn Young Baurr Bolton Brown Clove piston Jones S Vorys soon jn vicinity a carlier carrying a packa Two young girls audience crowd attending the big Loop picture house Police squads rushed to theater blocked the exits and gan a systematic search for slayer There was little panic in at G Sours highway director j reporter inquired said the present estimated cost of j Probably he replied would be raised job readvertised DEFEAT TAX INCREASE j A scheduled letting of two AKRON O Feb roads to Wright anri city charter amendment to terson Fields in Greene county increase property taxes in an until water lines in fort to end municipal deficit the the adjacent villago of Fairfield and bond refunding was it was impossible reinforcements to General Douglas MacArthur's ar- because OI on peninsula Of landing fields At a press conference a i XT T T c er called to his attention a dis- I JX U I fj patch Associated Japanese bombers correspondent on Bataan Bandoeng on Java site MacArthur's men were the supreme Allied setting a fund which to mand but the attack that more Spectacular than anyone tell him how a ier was to be gotten in there they it i could certainly have it i he whole Of Someone suggested it be Burma and Rangoon it- flown in and the president i self the capital of the it was to be landed An- I ony and bridge between I dia and China is in the i lost as a British clent questioned whether if so it for Jons Direct communique earlier in i On Australia Or New day reported a lull in the i land is expected and fighting on Bataan with no ground i tarv and leaders troop activity on either side for i i f 24 hours Meanwhile Japanese confer on plan of action planes a considerable RUSSIA Soviet armies incendiary bombs be- anri the showing of __._._.__ the continued as a precaution The highway defeated today to thrown to the among the nr authority to move according to complete spectators Sour said returns Smolensk triangle and are DUFFY AGAIN CANDIDATE inflicting casualties COLUMBUS o Feb nn S Duffy of Columbus an- today his candidacy for S ATLANTIC attorney general on the cratic ticket and obtained tamper from the of sunk by torpedoes one tern s Axis submarine attorney general in f
