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8 THE COURIER. JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. MONfiAy MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1942 SECTION 1 Russians Say Troops Advance To 60 Miles From Smolensk Japs Give Singapore Heaviest Air Bloivs Sir! "THANKS, rCMIMnDAll MILES -si Stikmvin heart of Johore State a bare 55 miles from Singapore and strategically important as the crossroads of the east-west, coast-to-coast highway and the TIM MS THE MEM(" Sffii KALININP.DMITROV. SkMOSCOW rs. tl 1 A ICL srw Ja RYAZAN I 4 V.

1 a SXIEV, KHARKOV RUSSIANS CLAIM entrance into Mozhaisk, site of farthest German advance on Moscow; recapture of Polotnyany-Zavod farther south; partial encirclement of Orel; launching of attack on Kharkov, Ukraine industrial city. 7 ,121,.. 'U Jap Planes Bomb Indies At Both Flanks Bf International Nfi Srrvirc. Batavia, Jan. 18.

Japan is lashing repeatedly through the air at both flanks of the Netherlands Indies archipelago. with frequent raids against the eastern island of Amboina, athwart the sea route to Australia, and Sumatra in the west, opposite embattled British Malaya. The important naval and military base of Ambon on the coast of Amboina was subjected to an attack by four Japanese bombers today in the course of several raid alarms that kept the strategic port constantly on the alert. A Batavia communique said this latest of a series of raids on Ambon inflicted no damage nor casualties. Berlin Claims Japs Land.

(A Berlin broadcast quoted a purported dispatch from Tokio claiming that Japanese expeditionary troops had landed successfully Sunday on Amboina Island and captured its seaport capital after overcoming "brief resistance." The landings, according to this unsubstantiated Axis claim, were effected after two days of preparatory aerial bombing and a shelling of the island by a Japanese light cruiser.) Though containing comparatively little natural wealth, Amboina Island is regarded in Batavia as of strategic importance due to its geographic location in the Banda Sea between the Japanese-invaded island of Celebes to the west and oil-rich Dutch New Guinea to the east, as well as its position in the center of one of the main sea lanes to Australia. At the opposite extremity of the East Indies, Japanese bombers Saturday morning staged an hour-long raid on what was officially described as "an airdrome in middle Sumatra." Casualties Admitted. Although full effects of this attack were not yet known in Batavia, the communique acknowledged that "some people were killed and thirty were injured" while "some damage was inflicted." On -Friday, it" was announced, Japanese bombers executed two raids on the port of Medan, small town on Sumatra's east coast and Dutch Wrapper tobacco center. It is recognized in Batavia that the danger to Medan and the entire Sumatra coastal region adjacent to the port has grown great since the Japanese captured the British Malayan west coast down to the Muar River. The northeast coast of Sumatra, second only to Java in importance among East Indies islands, is barely 100 miles across the Strait of Malacca from the Japanese-occupied Malayan coast.

11 Farm Units Rap Roosevelt Washington, Jan. 18 (U.R) Eleven national and regional farm organizations, claiming to represent "three-fourths of the nation's organized farmers," today denounced Mr. Roosevelt's opposition to the farm parity amendment to the price control bill and -branded as "false" and "ridiculous" his contention that it would cause farm prices to rise 25 per cent and create automatic demands for industrial wage increases. The organizations also defended the Senate amendment authorizing veto powers for the Secretary of Agriculture, declaring that "farmers are solidly be bureau said, a Russian guards unit captured twenty-seven guns, thirty machine-guns and an anti-aircraft machine-gun installation. They turned the guns into position and shelled the Germans with their own ammunition.

More Reserves Ready. Guerrilla units operating in the Crimea were reported to have killed 1,800 Germans, taken forty-one prisoners and destroyed considerable German equipment. The first contingents of new Drive Reported Coolly to Nazis Continued from First Page low Mozhaisk, and had partly encircled the large Nazi forces centered there. "The break-through of the 1 1-emy defense lines in one of th important directions of the front is completely asserted the Red Star correspondent on the Moscow front. "Our troops re widening the gap nnd pursuing retreating German units." The midnight communique broadcast from Moscow declared Soviet forces, enemy resistance," continued "their advance Sunday, recapturing several additional inhabited places including the town of Polotnyany Zavod on the Moscow, central front eighteen miles northwest of Kaluga on the railway to Vyozma.

At the same time, the Russian radio announced that during Saturday and Sunday the Red army recovered 142 villages on the Moscow front. In two small sectors of the central and northwestern fronts the Germans were tvaid to have lost 1,900 dead. 0 Flank Move Made. Sunday's first communique reported the capture of Shahov-skaya. twenty-two miles west of Volokolamsk, and Lotoshino, twenty-three miles northwest of Volokolamsk, at the northern edge of the Moscow sector.

The drive to Vereya represented a flanking thrust from the south and rear of Mozhaisk. Vereya is about thirty miles northeast of Medyn, which the Russians previously had captured, and is on the Protva River which the Russians must cross to reach Mozhaisk. Official German news agency reports said the Russians were attempting to break into Kharkov, industrial center of the Ukraine which has been under Soviet artillery fire for several days. Capture of Kharkov probably would necessitate a general readjustment of the German lines throughout the southern front, for it is a vital railroad and supply center. The German reports emphasized that German counterattacks had driven the Red forces back several miles to the southeast of the city.

Orel Almost Encircled. Frequently of late, however, the news of powerful Red army activity has been covered in German reports with accounts of repulses. Orel is about 200 miles south of Moscow, and for several days has been reported almost encircled by Red army drives past that important city on the Moscow-Kharkov railroad. Russian sources gave no fresh reports on fighting in the Crimea or at the extreme southern part of the front. Tfie Soviet Information Bureau broadcast accounts of guerrilla activity there, and some British observers believed Russian strate gists aimed to conquer the Crimea first.

By threatening the German rear through the Perekop Isthmus they probably could force a Nazi retirement from all the positions to the east around Taganrog, Mariupol and Melitopol and elsewhere in the Ukraine and Donets Basin, it was pointed out. British experts, meanwhile, discussing the long-range aspects of the Soviet winter offensive, stressed the heavy toll that is being taken of German manpower and materials. These quarters said the tremendous drain may net prevent the Germans from launching a terrific new drive in the spring, but ultimately it may prove to be as fully disastrous as those which ro Ludendorf's armies to the breaking point in 1918. Tass quoted to Izvestia reporting a Russian assault in which a whole German infantry regiment was wiped out and a number of Nazi tanks destroyed. This report said the German 23d Infantry Division had last ,1,500 men killed in the last five 'days.

Own Guns Turned On Nazis. The Russians reported shooting down fifteen German planes yesterday and losing only two themselves. In one section, the information U. S. Continued from First Page killed in their initial encounter with Australian forces on that front and that no new major attack has been attempted against the fresh, jungle-toughened Aus- sios in four days.

An official AuslralnBn report declared the enemy lost heavily in tanks as well as about eight-to-cne in manpower but that stronger air support and sufficient reserves were essential to the defense. Gcinas is the inland end of a short Japanese line stretching westward to Tninpin, in Negri Sembilan State just above the border of Malacca. Japs Aim for Kluang. A British broadcast speculated that persistent Japanese pressure at Gemas indicated the invaders' next major goal is Kluang, in the Bpdies of 9 Victims Taken Off Mountain Dental Rocorils Help Identify Miss Lombard Continued from First Page obliterated crashed plane I have ever seen." T.W.A., the Civil Aeronautics Authority and army inspectors, after tentative study of the instrument panel, said it appeared the pilot, Wayne Williams, had no been able to switch off the ignition before his plane smashed into the sheer stone wall of the peak. They said the pTane apparently was at full cruising speed when it hit the mountain.

The impact was so terrific the plane's nose was imbedded in the solid stone. Efforts of the salvage party to pull it loose were fruitless. Tire Finir Profits Are Double 1910's Akron, Ohio, Jan. 18 (A) General Tire and Rubber Company today reported net profit of for the year ended November 30, 1941, compared with $595,916 in 1940. Earnings for 1941 were at a rate of $2.05 a share as against 86 cents a share the previous year.

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McLean for a piece Tof blue ribbon, which everyone stuck in a button hole. Back then lhOTre ttages, no booths, stand nor floral hall. The premiums totaled only $999. But everybody had a by cracKy- The fair had been in existence only two years when it formed an importing company to bring fine cattle from abroad. These imported cattle did much to im- prove breeds on Kentucky farms.

Through the years the fair. which serves Mason, Bracken and Robertson Counties, added av building here, another there. And new it has no end of buildirgs. a mighty gooS fence, and will to carry on. ness.

They exact a costly toll from each Japanese attack. "General MacArthur reports that all governmental functions in the occupied areas of the Philippines have been taken over by the Japanese. Commonwealth offices have been closed and Filipino judges have been directed not to try cases. Rigid military rule by the invading army has been substituted for the self-government formerly enjoyed by the people of the Philippines. "2.

There is nothing to report from other areas." Falling observers take shelter from the 88th Germantown Fair Planned Come What May Soiclal to The Courier-Journal. Maysville, Jan. 18. The famous Germantown Fair hasn't been nicknamed Old Reliable for nothing. The board of directors voted to hold the fair next August if it's humanly possible; come what may, Japs, Huns or anybody else.

Oldest in Kentucky, the fair Soon there was a fairground, has been held annually 4. for inclosed by a rail fence. Admis-eighty-seven years despite sion was had by paying 10 cents north-south railroad which runs throtigh Gemas to Singapore. A Tokio broadcast said a Jap mechanized column was within thirty-five miles of Singapore island. Uritish bombers, stepping up their assaults on Japanese lines of supply and reinforcement, renewed their heavy attacks at CJemas and on the Muar River, on whoseX south bank the Japanese have won a foothold, the communique announced.

British Admit Reverse. At Gemas, it said, many freight cars appeared to have caught fire in a heavy bombing attack on railroad yards and motor vehicles were damaged in aerial machine-gun attacks on surrounding roads. "Other aircraft bombed and machine-gunned barges laden in supplies in the Muar River," it added. In the Muar area, near the month of the river on Malacca Strait about 90 miles from Singapore, toe Uritish conceded that the Japanese had gained but gave no details and said only that they had made but "little further progress." Japs Use More Tajiks. Eight enemy tanks were destroyed, the war bulletin said, and belief grew that the Japanese, having pushed through the Malayan jungles to the open country in the southern part of the peninsula, were now throwing mere and more armored forces into the push toward the approaches to Singapore island.

South of the Muar River, it was said, the enemy's use of mechanized, armored weapons is favored by open plains and paddy, fields firm footing at this season for the last 100 miles. The British here still were silent cn whether air reinforcements had reached Malaya and informed sources said it was possible that the increasing power of the R.A.F.'s blows was due to the smaller area in which it was called now to operate. NEURITIS tlLIIVI PA I IN I MINUTII To relieve torturing pain of Rheumatism. Neuritis, Neuralgia, or Lumbago in a few minutes, get NUR1TO. the splendid formula, used by thousands.

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in old Kentucky." rauis, wars and depres- 5, sions. E. T. Currens Was Booster. It was started 'way back in 1854 when Franklin Pierce was President when folks wondered if the slavery ques- tion would ever amount to much when Lazarus W.

Powell was Governor when milady wore a hoop skirt and hizzoner sported sideburns. The chief promoter was E. T. Currens. a public-spirited citizen, who consulted folks all around, urging that a fair be held.

Be fore long a fair association was lormed. Antnony Kiigore, a promment livestock breeder, was named president. F. A. Savage was secretary.

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I Please deliver copies in bulk to Enclosed is to cover all charges. Ordered by. Address Continued from First Pagre rounds only," we crouch behind the sandbags watching the plane. The big guns crack, and the shells scream sky- 3Some pray audibly, "Get him, knock" him dfwn!" The first shell bursts within fifty yards of the plane, and the pilot does not tarry to do more observing. He has seen enough.

He dives sharply and streaks for home. Says I. MacDaniels, Air Forces first lieutenant, attached to the battery as an observer: "He's sure as hell got some shrapnel to pick out of his tail." This battery got one Japanese plane yesterday' for sure, and probably another. The confirmed hit blew the plane into infinitesimal pieces. Air Raid Alerts Continue.

These anti-aircraftsmen actually pray for enemy planes to come, partly because of the fun of shooting them down, mostly because every plane de-stioyed is one less to harass the U.S.A.F.F.E ground forces. They realize that pending the arrival of American airplanes, anti-aircraft is the U.S.A.F.F.E.'s sole means of defense against air attack. All morning long we get alerts. Once it is a twin-engined, twm-tailed bomber on an observation mission. Usually the planes are single-motored, two-seated 97-dive-bombers.

One of the latter comes close enough for our battery to fire, but another battery opens simultaneously and the pilot dives out of range. So Captain Abston orders ours to cease fire. Lieut. J. D.

Kwiatkowski reluctantly records the number of rounds fired and gives his mates a friendly bawling out. "Quit wasting those shells. Think of our average. If you keep missing it will be back to the infantry for you." mid-morning sun in the dugout where we swap the, names of our home towns. Captain Abston is from Tuscaloosa, Kwiatkowski from Pittsburgh, Peterie from Kinsley, Kan-, MacDaniels from Jackson, N.

Verdi from Netcong. N. Wheeler from Comstock Park, Wright from Montrose, Rio from New Britain, Grahsm from Lincoln, Neb. Information Does Work. Captain Abston explains that the remarkable score of anti-aircraft is "90 per cent information, 10 per cent in using information.

"We are just part of a smooth-working antiaircraft defense organization which supplies us information. We happen to be in a good spot to get a crack at the Japanese." As he talks he keeps looking at his watch and wondering where "Tojo's big ones" are. Just after noon the radio phone flashes, "Noise of many motors heard in direction." Without waiting orders, the boys jump to battle positions, grinning a little and nodding, "This is it." No one hides his disappointment when the planes turn back when still far distant. Throughout the afternoon Japanese planes fly in the general vicinity, but the big bombers do not appear. As I leave the post, the gunners extract a promise to revisit them "when something's really popping." In farewell, they call out, "Keep 'em flying," and I reply with the anti-aircraft gunner's slogan, "Keep 'em falling." They grin, "We sure will." POSTCRIPT: With the U.S.A.F.F.E.

on Luzon Island, Jan. 17 (Delayed) VP) they kept their promise. The official report just received said a Japanese dive bomber plunged in flames a few minutes ago. Captain Abston's battery downed it with, less than a score of shots. GREYHOUND.