Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - April 8, 1942, Zanesville, Ohio Always First Times Recorder Always Fair N ol No 84 ZANESVILLE OHIO WEDNESDAY APRIL 8 1942 COLD Outlook In Philippines Grows Ominous One of China's Modern Rolling Fortresses The Chinese who have so gallantly withstood the assaults of the Japanese war machine with poor equipment are now getting a good of modern materials of war This photo shows one of the armored trains that protect Chinese troops and supplies from air at- tack Steel walls and revolving gun turrets make these trains able fortresses on wheels m the war on the Japanese invader Manufacture of Consumers Durable Goods To Halt by May 31 for Duration Nelson Says War Profits Is Modified WASHINGTON April modified measure for limiting war profits emerged from the senate late today attached to the latest appropriation Before it actually will apply to the billions of dollars of present and future contracts the profit re- striction faces further tion by a joint com- that must adjust many between the two chambers over the huge wartime The limited to authority to contracts which might yield unreasonable advanced as a com- by administration leaders to avoid an assortment of proposed riders dealing with wartime labor problems union dues the flat fa per cent profit limit voted by the house and the sliding scale limit of 2 to 10 per cent substituted by the senate appropriations Gol Behind Gun I WASHINGTON April 7 iThe steel order will not only manufacture of most consum PIS durable goods will be halted for the duration of the war by May 31 Chairman Donald M son of the war production board today in announcing two imminent new civilian construction and a ban on the use of steel in hundreds of articles These two actions added to the succession of production and stoppages which will be almost complete by May 31 are of equal importance to the ning of a major Nelson told a press conference The building order will suspend construction and stop the use in building materials of metals Nelson said Mbit the use of iron and steel ma multitude of common items but also will ban the use of other metals and scarce plastics as sub- Industry's Transition The normally cautious Nelson gave an unexpectedly optimistic To Use Inland Waterways WASHINGTON April 7 tP that plans were underway for greater use of the inland waterway along the Atlantic seaboard where Axis submarines have been active The chief executive suggested to his press conference that perhaps old shipyards in New England wooden schooners used to be built could be used to turn out wooden barges for use on the A-ater way From Jacksonville Fla north Mr Roosevelt said an 11 foot can be obtained but south of there the channel is only six feet deep That almost precludes the use of the southern end of the in- land waterway and necessitates a transfer of cargo at Jacksonville the president asserted While he cautioned reporters against starting a new controversy over a Florida ship canal he re- marked there was no way by wa- ter of getting across the Florida peninsula To deepen the six foot channel he remarked would take too long nnd require much valuable and he said up must do the best we can with uhat we have CIO Waives Premium Pay DETROIT April war conference of United Automobile Workers CIO delegates approved unanimously by voice vote an board that premium pay for week-end and holiday work be waived for the duration At the same time the delegates representing more than a half million workers in automobile and aircraft plants in the nation de- manded that of war material be compelled to maki equal Acceptance proposal to pay for Saturday Sunday and holi day work followed a sion which at times became terous when opponents displayed reluctance to waive premium unless excess profits were view of the speed and scope of in- transition from peacetime to the output of tie implements of war I am more pleased with the on version effort at this time than at any time since I've been on the he said The meaning of the transition to he average citizen is a sound but ean civilian economy the duction chief reported We don't enow how lean it can be but it vill get leaner and leaner as time goes on The consumers durable goods industries whose doom he sounded are those producing such elements of the American standard of living as automobiles The senate approved it 40 to 21 after hours of angry discussion and have too faster t- leaders can Senator Pepper b refrigerators washing machines vacuum cleaners and other President for Short Hours WASHINGTON April President Roosevelt's studies the efficiency of workmen have led him to the conclusion that a our week is more than war manufacturers by con- president Earlier President Roosevelt in a letter to the informed the that premium pay puts a brake on wartime duction and helps our enemies nd on the European continent ave shown he said today that a man working 60 hours produces ess than one working 48 That he old a press conference was a fact the American people should and get into their heads He added that Henry Ford after DEFENSE Peace Pledge by Union Chiefs PITTSBURGH April of the AFL and CIO ing together on a public platform for the first time since the split m labor's ranks m 1936 renewed night a pledge of labor peace that labor would stay on the job until the war is won and out against those whom they ibor Green of hp American Federation of Labor md Philip Murray of the Congress of Industrial Organizations were by Federal Security Paul V McNutt ment's representative at a joint rally in Syria Mosque McNutt deplored what he termed against labor and declared that labor by voluntarily waiving the right to strike has assured I ho nation of uninterrupted duction of war materials as far ns labor is concerned Renew Trade With France WASHINGTON April 7 In hue with the accord reached las month between and Wash ington limited shipments of non military supplies to French North Africa will be resumed the stat department disclosed Two French vessels now m York loaded with cargo for Africa will be permitted to leav simultaneously with the from North Africa of two ship loaded with materials for the Unit ed States The precise nature of the cargoes and the exact dates of the ship movements were not revealed but the state department emphasized Surveys here in Great Britain Turn to Page 5 Please All Brazilian Ships Armed RIO DE JANEIRO April by the loss of five ships and more than 100 Brazilian lives in two months the government was reported today to have decided to arm all Brazil's merchant ships and to order their skippers to defend themselves against Axis Brazilian vessels also will sail in blacked out at a shipping source said These protective measures were reported following the ment of the disappearance of the which sailed from Philadelphia Feb 14 with a cargo of coal There has been no word of her 55 crewmen Four other Brazilian ships had been sunk by Axis submarines lowing the last previous sinking rioters in Rio De Janeiro smashed up several German-owned business establishments dues on defense jobs and er the president to freeze all price and wages as of a certain date Over 18 Billion For Amiy Then on a voice vote the senat Japanese Also Make Gains In Burma By The Associated Press The Japanese enemy was making progress yesterday Tuesday in two major theaters dangerous progress m Burma and advances against the American Filipino line on Balaan peninsula in Luzon and despite a major concession the British appeared to be playing a losing hand in their attempts to reach a partnership with India Only before Australia was the Allied position good There American and Australian airmen maintained parent control of the skies beating at the Japanese tions about Lae in New Guinea for the third successive day and shooting down the single enemy plane that rose to challenge them The damages to the Japanese airdrome was apparently heavy it was left alight with fires On Bataan the war department reported late in the afternoon in the day's second communique to take such a grave tone the enemy still was gaining in powerful at- tacks supported by both artillery and dive bombers against the American line Prepare for Sad News From Luzon His offensive made possible by his cruel in the question had saic hat more than 40 or 48 hours vork a week did not increase the lumber of things by the workers The question of working hours has provided one of the hottest time controversies For weeks drive has on in congress to the suspend for the duration war the provisions of thi Brazil severed diplomatic tions with Germany Italy and an following the recent ican conference here and broke up a vast Axis spy ring with the arrest of 200 Axis nationals passed the appropriation Mor than of the funds would go to the army with most of this for expansion of the air force including additional airplanes Funds also were ed to supply and house an army of men by the end of this The profits provision adopted by the senate would grant the of war or navy or the maritime commission chairman to require that all contracts and subcontracts in excess of include an agreement for to eliminate excessive and retention by the government of part of the payments to cover any profit that might develop Similar authority would be granted on existing contracts for final payments had not been Turn to Page Five Please No Aluminum To Hoover Co mg Browning machine gun ready for installation This girl is a member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Force She has been trained as ar- morer to duti p s since ed on British RAF planes and the of the week and it became clear that the gun try must prepare for the possibility of sad news from Luzon turrets The gin is shown American and japanese casualties were heavy the anese again bombed a plainly marked American field pital the same hospital which they had previously ed in a raid for which they subsequently apologized Against the dark background of Bataan there was one bright spot for American the navy announced that a United States submarine had sunk Japanese cargo vessel and a cargo ship in the China Sea British Fall Back In Burma it was disclosed that Japs Make New Gains In Bataan WASHINGTON April 7 W Fresh troops thrown into the tle ol Bataan by the Japanese day clawed their way further into the stubbornly defended positions of the forces A late day communique from the war department reported that the greatly outnumbered troops under the British holding the Allied right had now fallen back more than 40 miles above fallen Prome once the anchor of their line to a point north of the towns of Thayetmyo and and only about miles short of the center of the Dispute Delays Jeeps WEST MEMPHIS Ark April 7 controversy between law compelling the pay ment of time and a half for more ban 40 hours work in a week DEFENSE Synthetic Rubber Production April production will Sees Cheaper Goods in Can WASHINGTON Synthetic rubber were attacking labor The words of William Gre that no military supplies of any character will go to North Africa It was also emphasized that bution of supplies arriving from the United States to the North rican consumers will be under the supervision of American con- attain a rate of tons an- by the end of 1943 arv of Commerce Jones estimated today he added that only the unpredictable demands of war could determine whether this out- jut would mean rubber for n tires Testifying before the senate de- fense investigating committee estimated that production would hit a COLUMBUS O April There may be a silvei lining to dark cloud of high prices on 1 canned goods m Ohio and the Charles W Hauck back in Ohio State university's rural economics trol officers In other words satisfactory ar- rangements have been made to in- sure that no United States supplies shipped to French North Africa for civilian uses will fall into Axis hands Recapped Tires For War Workers department after six months in th office of Price Administration a Washington expressed belief tha lower price ceilings on canned fruits and vegetables woul be established by April 30 There's every reason to believe OPA's permanent order setting ceilings on 15 varieties of canned vegetables and 11 canned truus rite bv the end of 1942 a will be lower in many instances probable of from than those under the temporary -00 to tons during this v ear I freezing order said Hauck who At the same time Jones been head s marketing WASHINGTON April 7 OT The Hoover company of North Canton O the country's third argest producer of vacuum ers today was prohibited by the var production board from cating or dealing in aluminum for a three-month period as a penalty for alleged priority violations At the end of a grace riod the company must cease all manufacturing operations for the use of aluminum WPE sais The board charged that the diverted pounds o secondary aluminum from the re of the war program In approximately the period 1941 the Hoove firm shipped pounds o aluminum under unauthorized agreements WPB said and in ad dition accepted delivery of pounds of scrap aluminum al though no preference rating ha I been assigned to these deliveries In the same period the concer made shipments of pound of aluminum which had been ap company improperly about half a million that the Corporation had overruled proved by the Office Produc tion Management on statement that num was to go into circuit the com the alum Lt Gen Jonathan M Wainwright desperately to hold their ne midway across Bataan ula were being forced back slowly Beginning the fourth day of most ceaseless pounding of the er Wainwright's line the nese were aided by tanks as well s intense artillery fire aerial and strafing Losses ere heavy today on both sides Concentrating their assault on he front lines and rear positions n the mainland the enemy left he fortified island of Corregidor ree of aerial attack for the fourth uccessive day but for the second ime m little more than a week combed a base hospital in Bataan a large number of wounded who were being treated here The attack on the hospital was carried out this morning by three flights of heavy bombers the de- reported After the same was bombed March 30 the Japanese command in the pines broadcast an apology but the department asserted that the ond attack on the plainly marked building tends to prove that both raids intentional Yesterday said an earlier com- the defending forces were subjected to a particularly severe aerial bombardment behind the lines and the Japanese aimed a concentrated air attack at the south coast of Bataan in an ent effort to shatter vital communications with dor two miles offshore DEFENSE BONDS major Burmese oil fields fields Turn to Page Four Please WAR SUMMARY Soviet troops recap ture 30 additional commun west of Moscow in fierce fighting which ha forced Hitler to his front line with troop intended for the delaye BUY OPA's freezing order was Actually went into motor of the defense issued last Feb 28 It forbade re- fi i in f h o-o hi End sion to President in to charge f for a annual those tion program contending that and bee prices higher program had been i principle at the een since carried out bases and small motor parts a for Defense Of Indies BALBOA C Z 7 Netherlands colonial ors warned of for the Dutch possessions in tho Western Hemisphere today is United Stales nnd Netherlands forces prepared n determined de- for the strategic and WASHINGTON April War workers will be able to get recapped automobile tires under April rationing quotas only when they can not get to their jobs without Price Administrator Loon Hendeison declared today In making a limited number of available this month to list the Would Restrictions On Truck Movements important marauding Hie West Axis j J Wouters of Dutch wax nod the U dilative council nt Curacao of tho possibility that the islands may be directly in new hostilities nnd saic I he government was taking possible military measures TWO AT ALLIANCE O killed Mrs f ami -I C Ulhor or secondary eligibles under v rationing program OPA was concerned only with thp of keeping war production Imps nnd other essential operations from Tailoring Henderson said Tho national interest and tho convenience of the war worker was tho factor It max well bo that in locations where means of travel arc avail able only retreads or recaps to war workers the local boards will very few passenger ca between became effective adopted m March 2 The permanent order is and April 30 1 During the period covered by tho freezing order OPA plans to complete studies designed to de- termine equitable prices for the products involved Hauck which ould had not full WPB said have been been Liberty Freighter Every Six Days PORTLAND Ore April Convict 33 Men In Lot Sales COLUMBUS O April A federal court jury tonight con- 33 of 35 men on trial for mail froud and conspiracy in the sale of Ohio cemetery lots The panel had deliberated a week after hearing six months of testimony The defendants were former of- spring offensive The Rus sians report 79 G e r m planes destroyed in fight ing Monday against a los of 19 Russian craft In nin days the Russians have de a total of 494 Naz planes U S sub marine sinks a Japanese passenger cargo vessel and a go ship in the China sea France's offer to sell ed States sugar from ion island in the Indian ocean has caused a bellow of rage from the trolled French press British forces de- fending right of Allied line in Burma fall back 40 miles under heavy attack The Allied left held by Chinese Arkansas and a transport any which had resulted in tying p transports hauling army jeeps vas settled today en request of rmy officials at Washington Chief Engineer W W Zass of he highway department who arne here to lead negotiations er ten motor transports loaded jeeps were stopped at a station said the trucks would be allowed to move within few hours Governor Homer Adkins has discussed the situation with the quartermaster general's office in Washington and they requested that the transports now enroute Zass said Release of the transports each loaded with seven new jeeps was subject to the condition they would not exceed a 35 mile per hour speed limit Zass said another condition was that future transports hauling the jeeps from a Toledo O tory to the army's quartermaster depot at Little Rock observe maximum load regulations During negotiations for the 430 other jeeps were held up at the Toledo factory DEFENSE Preacher Evaded Draft to Prison be RICHMOND Va April Straughan Lowe Gettier old minister at a Baptist church near here pleaded guilty today to a charge of violating the Selective Service act and was sentenced to serve three years in a federal penitentiary Gettier a former ministerial student at the University of mond told the court he had been an active pacifist for more than four years and that he was not using his religious convictions as i matoos dent Roosevelt indicated and peaches all produced WASHINGTON lay that during the intensively in Ohio trucks should be allowed to move moro freely from ono part of the country to the other The list included corn Liberty April 7 til tomato juice sauerkraut and Inc salesmen for Forest which prompted sale that's how fast one Remarking that he thought K c Mood Ol i o tucky had a drastic on I the size of Mr Roosevelt ho thought there should be somo emergency action and that he wonM tako up with tho state COLUMBUS O April Amused suits tenants who rent county officials asked the Office of Price tonight o establish rent ceilings was a shipyard is helping to build our bridge of ships to the For any shipyard in the United States that could be a proud record For the Oregon ing Corp it's an industrial acle Edgar Kaiser Oregon ing's head man never thought about building ships until the war in Europe was well under way He by declaring Franklin county ja rental area 1 request was made after W Penrod of Cleveland cold in north QPA representative told the The Weather and central colder in extreme AT CROSSING COLUMBUS O April Inmos H Weaver 55 professor mathematics at Ohio Stato killed when a in n railroad passenger struck his noni Sun south portion Wednesday show en in southwest portion by night TUESDAY'S 1 fid A p m Fair Rent committee that the problem was bobbing up F builder of and Grand Coulee Now he's ing veteran shipbuilders how to apply mass production methods to of rural plots in Forest Glen etery at Marion Glen Rest at and Glen Haven at field Those acquitted were Thomas H Malloy of Marion auditor for the firm and Gus F Briber of rus a salesman Among defendants found wero Marshall of Marion oral of Forest Glon and f W of Marion er president and counsel troops under the American General Stillwell is virtually ignored by the Japanese who are centering their at- tack on the British forces American and Australian airmen smash Japanese forces in New Guinea areas At Lae bombs were dropped on grounded airplanes a i drome buildings and ways Several fires were John G Ai mislead clerk of a local draft board testified Gettier reported for his first physical ex- amination but had notified the board not to expect me for the second A grand U S district court indicted him on the charge of failing to report for the second examination Gettier refused counsel taking the stand himself to give mony regarding his religious be- liefs Ohio Defense Council fti started and the damage in- was heavy I Staff Is Enlarged J a n a n e s e COLUMBUS o gaining at heavy COSt in Director Courtney Burton an- their industry The first launched at Liberty was Shipbuilding last Sept 27 Today No 26 slid into the Willamette river That total from an yard 10 p rl It Ohio resident U S Martime Com mission engineer municipal the rent -n handling INFANT SLAIN ASHTABULA O April Sheriff's deputies checked doctors offices and hospitals today in search of clews to the identity of a whose partly decapitated body was found buried in a sand bank at nearby Geneva Sunday Coroner C C said there Vas no evidence that the child had been given medical at- tention before death and returned a verdict of fierce attacks on tonight enlargement of Ohio defense council staff to Filipino forces in activities of county and local and because of the superiority in numbers fire power the ability of the jy to unify defenders to long withstand the attack is doubtful Offer of Indian de- fense minister fails to win The council is dividing the state of Brit- tnc samc as those ot India S acceptance ot the department so that ish plan for all-OUt support personnel and equipment of Allies against the bo used m emergencies he the entire state defense system for closer between local organizations and to prevent over- lapping he asserted ose his home at Milliards Moon
