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BRIGHTON IA J) I EVENING RECORD Stooeboro Citizen THE RECORD-ARGUS flouanw NINETY-FOURTH 10 NEWS OP THE FULL MARKET REPORTS GREENVILLE, TUESDAY, JAN. 13, 1942. COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE! REPORTS ESTAI ALLIED HELP MAY HEARING FAR 12-Man Setup Has Authority to Requite Binding Arbitration. LONG PROCEDURE PROVIDED FOR Hope Is Expressed Body Will Be Able to Prevent Work Stoppages. WILLKIE AN UMPIRE By Tha Associated Press Washington, Jan.

1 3 President Roosevelt has selected Wendell L. Willkie, the man he defeated for the presidency in 1940, as one of a number of umpires and arbitrators to assist the new 1 2 man War Labor Board. Stephen Early, presidential secretary, indicated Willkie had not definitely accepted the position, and said the list was incomplete. The President discussed the job with Willkie today. By The Associated Press Washington, Jan.

13 A 1 2-man War Labor Board, headed by William H. Davis and armed with authority to submit labor disputes to binding arbitration, superseded the Defense Mediation Board today in the job of settling disagreements between workmen and management, anywhere in the nation's gigantic industrial machine. The new board, created yesterday by executive order of President Roosevelt, will absorb all of the functions and most of the employes the board it replaces. The War Labor Board is an outgrowth of the recent industry-labor conference in Washington which Plan Justice To Hit Aggressdrs Governments in Exile Recount Woet of Their Invaded Countries and Call for Slaughter of Oppressed Populations Is Related at Meeting of Exiles in London. London, Jan.

governments of eighl Axis-occupied nations an dthe Free French pledged themselves today to post-war punishment of occupation officers and their accomplices for what Anthony Eden, British foreign secretary, described as the "oppression and brutality" imposed on Europe. "The Quislings also have little reason to look to the future HALT TRAFFIC FUNERAL TIE GUNS OF FORT DRUM IN MANILA BAY agreed to end strikes and lockouts during the war and to settle all disputes by peaceful means. Davis, the New York patent lawyer who also headed the Defense Mediation Board, will be one of four men representing the public. Industry and labor will be represented by four each, with labor's representation divided equally between the CIO and the AFL. Members aside from Davis are: Public: George W.

Taylor, pro- Bessemer Pays Tribute to Dead General Superintendent. All activity operating department of the Bessemer railroad was halted for two minutes yesterday at the funeral hour of Edwin J. McGeary, general superintendent, who passed away Saturday. All officials and employees in the whole op- crating system ceased work for the two minutes and all trains halted to honor the memory of the head of the transportation department and veteran of a long and notable career in the Bessemer service. The funeral services were conducted by Rev.

David R. Jones of the First Presbyterian Church and took place in the Loutzenhlser home for funerals. Burial was made In the Shenango Valley cemetery. The services were largely attended despite the fact that friends In great numbers both from Greenville and from out of town had called to pay their respects prior to the funeral. A special train brought the friends from the Pittsburgh region.

Representing 1 the Bessemer Lake Erie Railroad Company were E. C. McHugh, assistant to president; F. Snyder, vice president and general manager; C. S.

Leet, assistant gen- oral manager; Edward Campbell, traffic manager; R. S. Wolford, general freight agent; J. J. Robinson, assistant general freight agent; B.

Krlchbaum, passenger representative, and L. W. McCoy, general auditor, all of Pittsburgh; J. A. Loutzenhiser, train master, North Bessemer; R.

W. Loutzenhiser, general yard master, Butler; F. W. Mc- Nalr, retired yard master, Curtisville. From Union Railroad Company, R.

C. McTntyre, general manager, East Pittsburgh; from Pittsburgh West Virginia Ry. C. O. Dambach, superintendent, Pittsburgh; from Pittsburgh Limestone Corporation, Alexander Chambers, sales manager, Pittsburgh; from Mc- any hope," Eden asserted at their conference opening session in St.

James' Palace. Eden said the session, convened on the Initiative of the governments In exile, would show that tho "German so-called 'new in Europe is a sham." "Today's meeting," he said, "is also a message of encouragement sent out to the oppressed populations of Europe." In a solemn ceremony the governments-in-exile of the Netherlands, Belgium, Yugoslaia, Norway, Poland Czecho-SIovakia and the Free French committee laid the groundwork for post-war machinery which may someday doom Axis officials and soldiers judged to have behaved contrary to the "accepted ideas concerning acts of war." Prime ministers and foreign ministers bitterly assailed Germans and Italians for mass executions, mass expulsions, execution of hostages and massacres in their respective countries. Each then signed a resolution pledging his government to try responsible persons and their accomplices. The resolution mentioned articles of the Hague convention of 1907, which lists collective punishment of occupied countries as contrary to international law, as a guide for the trials. The United States, Britain, China and Soviet Russia sent observers to the conference but did not participate.

The resolution pointed out that Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt already had placed themselves on record on the subject. It said the Russians views were outlined by Foreign Commissar Vya- cheslav Molotov on Jan. 7 when he (Continued on page 2) Raise for Clerks in County Offices Employes of the county recorder's and prothonotary's offices were granted a 15 per cent wage increase by the Mercer County salary board at a brief session this morning. The increases, which had been requested by the five employes In the recorder's office and two in the pro- State Head Agrees with Proposal to Shorten Course Period. SAYS LEGISLATURE TO BE CONSULTED Present Plans Involve Only Schools with Junior-Senior Setup.

By The Associated Preaa Harrisburg, Jan. 13 The possibility developed today that three-year Senior High School courses may be cut to two years to speed graduation of youths needed in defense industries or entering colleges. Dr. Francis B. Haas, state superintendent of public instruction, expressed favor with the proposal of Philadelphia's superintendent, Dr.

Alexander Stoddard, but added there were possible legal obstacles which might require action by the Legislature. A three-term year, instead of two, is considered in Philadelphia, In favor of adapting any length of high school course to meet any need of defense," Dr. Haas said, "but I'm not sure It can be done without legislation. We are making a study of the matter and if any change in the law is necessary it will have to be submitted to the Legislature." A special session of the Legisla-: ture is expected to be called the near future, to act on a congressional roapportlnnment bill and any defense matters which Governor James deems necessary. The state superintendent said the plan would apply to any city which has itj secondary education organized with Junior and Senior High Schools.

Some towns have eight years of elementary school and four of High School, while others have six elementary years with junior and senior terms of three years each. Carl D. Morneweck, chief of the Instruction department's Bureau of Child Accounting and Research, estimated roughly there were about 60 three-year Senior High Schools (Continued on page 2) London Expe( Some Good Ne "AtAnyMomen Jap Invasions Have Spread Forces Which May Bt Open to Counter-Blows; Mac Arthur Reports tense Army Force Japanese Back After ft Artillery Duel; Dutch Garrison Overcome at kan Island, Japs Take Other Island Points; Forced to Retreat Again Toward Those 14-inch rifles firing in target practice are located on Fort Drum in Manila Bay and must be captured before the Japanese can use Manila's harbor. Fort Drum literally is a concrete battleship, -biillt" In bedrock and is one of a series of island fortresses guarding the entrance to the bay. HAS POSTOFFICE TOP YEAR'S INCOME By The Associated Press Dutch bombers were reported slashing today at a ese invasion armada off the Japanese-conquered islands ol akan, Dutch North Borneo, as cheering word spread that glo-American reinforcements were en route to the new Faf battle zone.

British dispatches declared cryptically that an announcement could be expected at any moment "which change the Malayan situation considerably in Britain's Washington military observers pointed out that kado's invasion hordes, striking Malaya, China, the Philipf and the Dutch'East Indies, had now spread out dangerc mf thin and become vulnerable to a concerted Allied stroke. Good news came, too, from Gen. Douglas beleaguered defenders in the Philippines. A War Department communique said artillery fire, blasting back at Japanese guns in a 24-hour had silenced 1 1 enemy batteries and "shattered and, columns of Japanese tanks, armored vehicles and large infantrjij forces. The communique said U.

S. marksmen "proved superior" to the Japanese gunners and forced mem to 4from their earlier positions: at approaches to Batan Gets Broken Leg In Fall on Ice fessor of economics at the Univers- Cready Sand Company, William Me- thonotary's office, are based on their AUTO DEALERS TELL TROUBLE ity of Pennsylvania, who will serve as vice chairman; Frank P. Graham, president of the University of North Carolina and, like Davis, a member of the Defense Mediation Board; and Wayne L. Morse, dean of the University of Oregon Law School (Continued on page 2) ICY COATING COVERSROADS No Accidents Reported Here, But Crashes Occur in Pittsburgh Area. County roads were Ice- coated this morning as the result of a freezing rain in the night.

Both foot and motor traffic was hampered and delayed, but Greenville police received no accident reports. Pittsburgh, Jan. rain coated streets and highways with ice in the Pittsburgh district today, causing several accidents in which motorists were injured. Highway travel was dangerous within a 75-mile radius of the city, the Pittsburgh Motor Club reported. Three women were hurt in a three- car collision on Sawmill Run Boulevard and a women driver was trapped tor several minutes when her machine skldde! and overturned Into a cemetery near the Greensburg Pike.

An automobile collision on Church Avenue In Ben Avon injured Arthur Wosthiewica and Hersel G. Hall, both of Beaver Falls and occupants of one machine, and P. Stanizzo of Pittsburgh. Wosthlewicz and Hall, both unconscious were taken to Suburban General Hospital, Bellevue, where both were reported suffering from head injuries. Cready, Pittsburgh; from American Rolling Mill Company, David S.

Brown, traffic manager, Butler; also R. E. Garber, Butler. Other Bessemer men attending were C. M.

Fitzmartln, Unity; J. C. Kendlg, Albion; A. J. Andre, Conneaut, John Connelly, George existing salaries.

The board reconvened this afternoon to consider similar requests by employes of other offices. Brothers Die In Crossing- Crash New Kingston, Jan. UP) brothers returning from a W. Stoner and Green, Butler; i cattle sale were killed last night as J. W.

Johnson, Pittsburgh; J. C. their automobile was struck by a Bakley, Grove City. Among others In attendance were D. J.

Maley, general manager Erie railroad, Youngstown; Wm. M. Johnson, former general superintendent of the Bessemer, now residing at Wept Point, N. Bert Appeal for Relief House Committee Small Business. to on Hill, road foreman of engines, Erie railroad, Meadville, and Mayor Fred Whipple of Meadville.

Pennsylvania Railroad freight train at a grade crossing here. The victims were Samuel I. Ritter. 61, and Benjamin Ritter, 51, of Me- chanlcsburg, R. D.

The former was thrown from the car and the latter was dragged in the wreckage for 700 feet. Both died of fractured skulls, said Dr. E. A. Haegele, berland County coroner.

DEALERS LOOK FOR USED CAR HITCH Ban on Sales Expected to Come Soon, Local Association Told. SIG DEMAND FOR CARS REPORTED Automobile dealers here are momentarily expecting to receive word that a ban has been placed on used car sales, it was announced following a meeting last evening of the Greenville Automobile Dealers' Association, of which T. L. Camp is president. It was pointed out by an association spokesman that the ban is anticipated inasmuch as the government expects the used cars manufactured in January, together with the new and used automobiles now in the dealers' sto ks to last for the duration of the war.

The dealers' organization said that if the expected ban does not materialize in the near future the present stock of used cars will be exhausted as buyers are busy picking up used autos to insure their transportation through the months ahead. Some have bought several used cars, explaining that they must have transportation and that parts will be difficult to obtain, it was stated. When the present stock of used cars is sold it is unlikely there will be any used cars for sale as the ban on new automobiles stops people from trading in used cars to dealers, the association pointed out. Washington, Jan. automobile dealers told a House committee today government orders curtailing the production of automobiles and freezing sales of cars and trucks constituted a death sentence for their business, unless relief Is provided.

Their case presented by Ray Chamberlain, of Washington, executive vice president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, as the special House committee created to study problems of small business opened Its hearings. Several hundred dealers from throughout the nation, and close to 100 members of Congress were present as Chairman Patman (D-Tex) started the hearing. Chamberlain suggested that the government permit the delivery of all bona fide orders dated prior to Jan. 1, 1942; that if new car prices are frozen, a formula providing for a handling charge and a freight mark up be used; that prices be fixed to enable dealers to "retrieve a fair return" for handling, and that all cars and trucks produced except those for military service be handled through dealers regardless of their ultimate destination. He further proposed that all care (Continued on page 2) airs.

Beatrice Irwin, of Jamestown, sustained a fracture of the right leg yesterday in a fall on the ico near her home. Mrs. Irwin was admitted to the Greenville Hospital at 3:45 p. m. and was discharged to her home this afternoon.

H. L. Clark, of Hndley, was given 1 emergency treatment at the hos- I pital at 10 a. m. today after he was injured at the- Chicago Bridge and Iron Company.

Mr. Clark was accidentally struck above the left eye with a hammer. His forehead was lacerated. Receipts for 1941 Reported by Postmaster Moser as $59,172.46. BIG INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR The past 12 months were the busiest in the history of Greenville Postoifice, Post- COUNCILKEEPS OLD EMPLOYES Ship Torpedoed Near Nova Scotia An East Coast Canadian Port, Jan.

A large steamship has been torpedoed and sunk by a submarine 160 miles off the Nova 'Scotia coast within the last 36 hours and survivors reaching here estimated today that 94 lives had been lost. Eighty- nine were saved. i The sinking was nearer the North American coast than any hitherto reported. i Of those rescued 66 were Chinese and 23 were white, four white crew- men and about 90 Chinese crewmen and passengers were lost. J- and Fire Dept.

Personnel Retained. Greenville fire and engineering department employes were re-elected on the usual probationary basis at borough council's first regular meeting of the new year last night. For the first time council did not have to consider the matter of pol- borne and parachute troops Ice officers, who now come under northwest of Manila, American and Filipina losses described as "relatively light," spito violent attacks by. dive-bombers. Dutch East Indies Batavla rison at Tarakah" led to surrender in the whelming odds, but said Ji conquest of the tiny, oll-richf of the northeast coast of was "very costly to ithe A small part ot the garrlsotf caped, it was announced.

Authoritative quarters sald small Dutch garrison "fought ly for two Japanese; Civil Service -regulations. ly overran the i 20,000 Japanese were said Employes retained were: En- i have been thrown into" gineering P. I sault Clarke, borough engineer; James C. The garrison's chief function. master Fred W.

Moser closed today. Postal receipts reached an here during 194 master explained. This figure sistant chief; Clare J. Saylor. se- piped Brown, superintendent of supplies, quarters said, was to bold the ttojr IT, i /A.tUj Flre E.

Callahan, island long enough to wreck ttr-SfcVs the post- Carl Zimmerman, first as- wells, whose product la so rich A' does not take into consideration bond sales, money orders, cond assistant chief; John DeArment use. and William Shepard, drivers; Percy i Imperial Tokyo headquarters which also have been ex- extra driver and Japanese troops also captured ceedingly heavy. The post- Council directed Its secretary -to kas airdrome at Menado, office servqs between 3,300 and 3,400 families. During the previous year, local postal receipts totaled $56,005.71, or $3,767.75 less than last year. Except during 1940, postal receipts have climbed steadily in Greenville over a period of the past several years.

For comparative pur- The Greenville Hospital has been i midway' Council directed Its secretary -to write to district W. P. officials Mlnahassa Peninsula, CelebiB'tts Insisting that First Avenue, between i land, across the Celebes Sea (Continued on page 3) Borneo. The Japanese thrust into ColptuNC a part of the fabulously rich Dtttoh Indies archipelago, indicated th4t Tokyo's war lords may be an early invasion of Australia, with the stepping-stone Island of Hospital Runs High on Twins Burglars Raid Sharon Grocery Burglars ransacked the Montgomery grocery, 46 South Water Avenue, Sharon, during the night. Entrance was gained through a rear window.

Store accounta and other papers were strewn about the room Plan War Garden Setup for State I Harrisburg, Jan. steps were taken today for establishment of a statewide organization for adoption and supervision of a war garden program which Agriculture Secretary John H. Light said is meeting 1 with considerable favor throughout Pennsylvania. Representatives of various state horticultural groups, state depart- ments of public instruction and health, federal agriculture organiza- tions and Defense Council Director Dr. A.

C. Marts made tentative plans to create an executive committee to direct the program. A permanent organization will be set up at a meeting Jan. IS. poses, the receipts for recent years are appended: 1341 $59,172.46 1940 1939 1935 $55,659.04 1937 $55.068.79 1936 $52,883.76 1935 $49.474.53 1931 $49,896.18 1933 $47,963.80 During tho last quarter ot 1941 a (Continued on page 2) experiencing a run on twins.

The twin son and daughter born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Chrlstman, 19 Morgan Street, were the third set born at the hospital during the past two weeks. On last Saturday Mrs. Paul Grant of Jamestown R.

D. gave birth to her second set of twin sons in four years, while about two weeks ago twin daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Darrell Chase of 305 Clinton Street, THE WAR TODAY nf the progress of i laration that the Japaues Pacific is a rerun won't be allowed to dist Army Transport Burned Near Alaska, All Saved Washington, Jan.

army transport Clevecion has been destroyed by fire in Alaskan waters, but the War Department is awaiting additional details of the incident bo- Core placing the responsibility. "The Ship and cargo a total loss," said a communique issuuil late yesterday. "All of the personnel arc- safe. The Clevudon was a lion passenger and freight and a small amount of money taken I 7.3U tons. The causo pi UK tno id from the register, 1 i By DEW1TT MACKENZIE Wide World War Analyst Today's rvjjurt the battle of the of yesterday's continuation of Japanese success.

The sum-total ot this is that the Mikutlu's fitrt'es gradually are extending their island liases toward Java ami Sumatra anj the chief prizes which they peeK at this are gettiu'j tet for a major onslaught on these objectives. If the Japs gain tluese goals, they will have fresh sinews of war which are likely to carry them far. The crucial Allied weakness in the air becomes more marked daily. We are told that both American and British reinforcements are oa way to Far East, but whether they include the vital wurplanes isn't disclosed. IX'spitt- this temporarily gloomy picture, uric of the most reassuring Uients of recent Jays id of the Navy Knot's uec- se assault distract this country's attention from the first business at destruction of Hitler.

"Tliat done," says Colonel Knox bluntly, "the whole Axis fabric will collapse." Probably the colonel, being a two- fisted individual himself, would be the last to claim that this medicine is easy for our people to take. They want retribution for the barbaric murder of American civilians and fighting tnen. Still, like it or not. the secretary is giving thg commun- aense of the view bald by all the Allied military commands. Colonel Knox's statement comes at a time when Hitler's difficulties might encourage a popular for a diversion ot Allied forces to the Far East.

That is what the fuehrer is praying wo will do. takes (Continued tralia, as the next objective, British troops seeking to cheek the eight-mile-a-day advance of paneso invaders Malaya on a new defense) line 150 north of Singapore under ing: by Rising Sun bombers. The new line was hinged nortfc Seremhan, 35 miles southeast Kuala Lumpur, capital of erated Malay States, which tbfl Ish had left shrouded In the of a scorched earth retreat, A correspondent of Ish news agency, described moval of men and Kuala Lumpur as "one of the magnificent feats In the history this nine-hour lob- accomplished "almost without hap." RUSSIANS CLAIM OREL Russia's armies were reported to have recaptured rail city of Orel, 300 miles soutlk of Moscow, where a force of Germans was believed virtually circled by tbe southern claw Of giant Soviet pincers aimed at ensk. Tbe British Exchange Agency quoted Berlin saying Adolf Hitler already bar moved his field Smolensk, 310 miles of Hosetm, city in southern Russia, A London broadcast Mint tfce BE "understands vlat troops bad retaken (Continued on f) Wei Western tj i..