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J-24 SPOTLIGHT IMGK SPOTLIGHT PAGE THE DAYTON HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1042 1 14 en Toil, Sweat. Bleed As SEiips Roll Off Ways To Join Fleet -r -CL" -W fi 'nV 4. yf rN i 13 If I 111 111 1 7 i 1 -1 "4 1 I Hf V1 jj i. Htm imii'tln TtniMiiHiui fniita ilnf ml rill miMinitf Hiil I 4 THE BIO SrLASII The last rivet has been placed, the engines tuned and the completed oil barge la launched. It's mission is to carry the oils that keep men, machines, ships in action against the A xis.

A TUG IS BORN The all-welded steel hull of a tug rests on the ways awaiting only the installation of the superstructure and engines before taking up its role in the defense of the nation. Lady-Birds On Oceanic Planes TOECH OF LIBERTV This welder, symbolic of America's human flames, applies his torch to a part of a massive barge. On Broadway DRIVE INTO BURMA IS REAL MENACE TO BRITISH LINES This America Of Ours It's Yours Also An estimate of the basit! militaru situation in Burma the on fourth day of the Japahese invasion of the Burmese panhandle adja cent 10 1 nauana, presented hereunth by an ace war correspondent. By WALTER WIXCHELL By LELAXD STOWE SPECIAL CABLE (Copyright, 1942, by The Pnyl.in llrrald nd hirano Dally News, Inc.) RANGOON, Jan. 23.

With their sudden incursion into Burma, now in its fifth day, Nippon's forces are embattled on fully half a dozen fronts in this part of the world. And the wonderment is that, regardless of that dispersal of strength, there seems to be no dimunition of Japanese aggression HOODED KNIGHTS These welders weld deck plates to a barpe as they complete their assignment' on the construction of the boat. in any theater. Supported by dive-bombing and Your America and Mine: Everyone Is an immigrant or a descendant of an immigrant in America even the Indians. They came here from Siberia many years ago America is the only country fighting in the last war that didn't Join the Bcramble for Epoils after it was over We wanted to give the Filipinos their liberty, but they wanted our protection.

Now they're putting up an heroic fight for us. The people Hitler "protects" would enjoy cutting his throat Germany has the highest 1 suicide rate in the world; America the lowest Our drafted soldiers average 2 inches taller and 15 pounds heavier than the draftees of 1917 No other nation has ever been as thoughtful as this and China has never forgotten it: We took an indemnity from China for the Boxer rebellion strafing planes, the Japanese have launched a two-pronged, full- tective mountain range. The pass between the pair of elevations is located at Suklo, the misty hollow behind it The Nipponese are concentrating their attacks to force this pass, after which the defense of Kawkareik would be much more difficult. From that town the terrain is much easier to Kyondo, where a river ferry is located, and Kyondo is only 30 miles from Moulmein, with both highway and river avenues of approach. Moulmein's defense, therefore, is likely to be decided by the present battle for Suklo and Kawkareik.

Open Sixth Front The extraordinary thing about the Japanese offensive against southern Burma is that the Nipponese armies have now opened up a sixth front in the Pacific and South Sea areas, and yet are still maintaining aggressive activities. Thi statured drive to cut off Burma's southernmost, elongated fintrer Observatory and capture Moulmein, important seaport of 70,000 population. If the Nipponese forces can slash between two peaks, Mt. Lwekhaw and Mt. Thasrva.

and Stockings Lure For Pilot Dates In Great Britain hTO uf mm Mi Lm tjhh Si Jig a v.J -i By JEKRV FOX and gave our share of the money Blue Stamp Plan To Be Stopped Dayton's blue stamp 4lief plan will end March 1 but the orange relief stamp plan will be continued, at least for the time being, city commissioners decided Thursday afternoon on recommendation of Earl E. Hagerman, city finance director. The local action coincides with national discontinuance of the blue stamp plan. Hagerman reported that he learned in Washington this week that the stamp plan may be dropped entirely by June 30 because of absorption of surplus commodities by the war emergency. The orange stamps will be given directly to relief clients, turned over by them to merchants and, in turn, credited at banks to the merchants' accounts.

They eliminate the necessity of the relief client obtaining a relief order to be presented to the stamp office, and the merchants. The other fronts are the Philippines, Borneo, the Molucca islands, Malaya and China, although the last is taxing them much less than across a 60-mile strip from the Thai border, they will have, with the occupation of Moulmein, a strategic new advanced airbase only 100 miles from Rangoon. Regardless of their very large forces which are tied up besieging Singapore, it appears that the Japanese are now sufficiently strong to undertake a simultaneous campaign to gain Moulmein and put their troops at the mouth of the mighty Salween river. From that point they would be a constant menace to Burma's capital and the Burma road, which is the main Allied feeder line to China. Thus, this new Japanese offensive is designed to strike directly at the key bastion in the Allies' Far Eastern left-central flank.

MAIXTENAXCE "3IEN" These three women are serving where men served before. They are the first women to work as "maintenance men" aboard a transatlantic clipper plane. Mechanically they fit the bill. the others. Nevertheless, wherever they are striking, the Japanese forces are showing great co-ordination and unquestionable drive and bold ness.

It is possible that the latest thrust against Moulmein is dic tated largely by the Japanese anx Try rincers Move iety to clear up the long strip of British-held territory which ex Priority rating for Americans: It hasn't been very long since the American women were fighting tooth and toenail at the department store counters to lay in a supply of silk stockings, because the rumor was current that soon there'd be no more and we'd have to wear the cotton variety. But the rush is gone and the scare is over, and women have settled down to worrying about other commodities. The attention focused upon the stocking rush, however, caused the men folk to sit up and take notice. They'd been noticing silk stockings before, of course, but apparently they weren't wise to the Importance attached to the things by the women who wore them. This apparently motivated the action taken by United States pilots who ferry our bombers to Britain.

As reported from abroad, girls are pretty in England, and silk stockings are scarce. Pilots lay in a supply of silk hose before taking off across the ocean. A pilot presents his English girl with ons i1 -V" tends down to the Malayan penin sula and so constitutes a potential rear guard menace while their 4 Methodist Youths forces are deeply involved in the siege of Singapore. On the other hand, Moulmein in Jap hands Schedule Institute After sending Thai troops Into Amherst province, south of Mya-wadi, Monday, the Japanese followed up the next day by strongly attacking from two directions to pinch off the first 15 miles of the only east-west road to Moulmein. The first Japanese thrust was directed at Suklo, slightly northwest of Myawadi and the second against Tiwakale, about 10 miles north of Myawadi.

Both British positions are hard-pressed, according to latest reports, while enemy planes are would be another forward position S3 from which the Allied essential stronghold, which Burma really is, could be menaced continuously. It would seem inevitable that the main British forces defending Burma be disposed north of Moulmein. But should the Japanese "Anchors In a Storm" will be the theme of the Mid-Year institute of the Dayton Methodist Youth Fellowship when it meets at Grace Methodist church Feb. 6 and 7. Rev.

Victor C. Pfeiffer will be dean of the institute with Robert Klipstine chairman. Speakers include Rev. Harold Kellogg, South Park church, Dayton; Rev. James G.

Ranck, assist dive-bombing and machine-gunning our infantry in several sec capture Moulmein it would then be essential for the British-Burmese American morning on ineir rlrjhj date, and promises her the oth5fi line along the Salween river to be tions of this area. The immediate objnrtive of the held with the greatest stubborn '-)S 1 Japanese is Kawkadeik, which is more southerly and inside the pro- ness in order to prevent an enemy breakthrough to the lowlanded Sittang river valley, where Ran or ant pastor at Grace church, Dayton, and Rev. A. Shcnefelt, goon and the Malay railroad are located. back to the Chinese! America is more self-sufficient than any other country Wnile dictators have called us soft, the enlistments in the armed services for this war have broken every American enlistment record And if anyone still talks to you about the softness of our democracy, tell him to remember Wake Island Here's a question: What's the most densely populated state? Nope, it isn't New York.

It's tiny Rhode Island Half of the marble in America is produced in Vermont. However, most of the marblcheads are produced on B'way Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was the designer of the Stars and Stripes not Betsy Ros3. An American worker can purchase with one hour's salary twice as much as an English worker, and four times as much as a German slave besides having the best and most liberal working conditions in the world We produce all the meats and cereals that we consume. Our population includes about 40,000,000 people of British origin While other nations roust fight for minerals, it has been estimated that in one state, New Mexico, there are undeveloped coal lands containing 382,000,000,000 tons of coal Want to see the oldest lighthouse in America It's at Sandy Hook, erected in 1764. Teddy Roosevelt's Words should be memorized by every American: "We stand for the cause of the uplift of humanity and the betterment of mankind.

We are pledged to eternal war against wrong, whether by the few or 'yy the mai.y, by a plutocracy or by a mob. We believe that this country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in, unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in" If you want to give yourself a little lesson in tolerance, read the names of the soldiers and sailors killed at Pearl Harbor names of every race and creed The Nazis have raped the small neighboring nations around them. In this part of the world, many of our small neighbors promptly declared war on Uncle Sam's enemies. This Tart I1 the World is continually proving what Europe is always trying to disprove. This: Different nations and different people can get along peacefully The FBI has done an amazing job of stifling spy and sabotage work in America rfr ine Japanese probably are Oxford.

Mrs. Grace Story Sim-onds, Middletown, will lead the group in fellowship singing and Rev. Alvin Ritts, Arcanum, will conduct the group in recreation. equally anxious to cet Moulmein in order to use its airport for aerial operations against Rangoon and The institute will open with H.i the vital first section of the Burma road. If they could base fighter registration on Friday, Feb.

6, at 6:30 p. m. and will close with a dinner meeting on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 6 p. m.

Howard Frye will be ICE-FUL AKTIST Dorothy Caley, Can3dianJorn figure skater, docs an Axel Paulson in the air as she previews the magic of her art. She's with the Hollywood Ice Kevue currently showing at Madison Square Garden, New York. craft in Moulmein, their bombers could be strongly protected in raids on the Burmese capital, its port toastmaster and Dr. Hazen G. Werner will be the speaker.

and neighborhood. For all these reasons, British re If minorities hurt a nation, as the Axis claims, how come America, the strongest and richest nation in the world, is composed of minorities? In the Last 100 Years shout 40,000,000 immirrants have come over hore And the best answer to the chumps who are always gassing about "pure" Americanism is this: 13,000,000 foreign-born and their 30,000,000 sons and daughters constitute one-third of the entire United States population. Seventeen congressmen are foreign born There are about 1,076 for-eign-1 publications, representing 38 languages, in the country In one city New York you can find colonies of almost every foreign group in th world In New York's Italian section, over 75,000 Italians dwell within the space of See, Hear And Speak No Evil if he gets a second date. In nelf defense: Some folks claim it is old, but it fell on our ears for the first time this week. Maybe you'll like it.

"When God gave out looks, I thought he said books, and because I can't read, I didn't take any. When He gave out noses, I thought He said roses; and I took a red one. When He gave out ears, I thought He said beers, so I took two big ones. When He gave out brains, I thought He said trains, and I missed mine. I'm in an awful mess." Film fart: A booklet just released by the motion picture producers and distributors of America presents a whale of a lot of statistics on the movie industry, which shows how movies have taken hold of this country in the last 20 years.

Gaging the Industry's growth on estimated average weekly attendance ia United States theaters, movies are attracting twice the number of patrons now as they did in 1922. These figures show that the weekly attendance In 1922 was 40,000.000, while that of the present year is 85,000,000. sistance at the eastern end of the Myawadi-Moulmein road is un Urges Registration usually important for the next Of Men At Work phase of the war throughout the Burma theater. A recommendation was offered Friday by Lem Markland, presi- dent of Local 801, United Elec 'li SPpi trical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, (UER and MWA) that arrangements be worked out by the draft boards to have workers register on their jobs in the coming draft registration so that defense workers would lose no time from their Jobs. While Arthur Garfield, international representative of the Con Clay Looms As Aluminum Source LEXINGTON, Ky.

(UP) Aluminum may be extracted from Kentucky clay if experiments being made at the University of Kentucky are successful. Arthur W. Hixson, of Columbia university, recently announced a chemical process for taking aluminum silicate out of common clays and has made his method available to the Chemical Foundation of the United States. The cost of producing aluminum from high-grade bauxite ranges from $30 to $40 a ton. Professor Hixson said the same grade of aluminum can be produced from certain types of clay found in astern Kentucky for $31 a ton.

gress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), with which the UER and Bar Association MWA is affiliated, said the recom- np VIf mendation was being considered I iVlccI TCO. six city jlocks Thirty-eight per cent of those in the American Revolutionary army were Irish During the World War, the Hindus living in the Imperial Valle; of 'California alone bought worth of Liberty bonds There are more Luxembourgers in the State of Iowa than there are in all of Luxembourg. (Walter Winch ell radio broadcast may be heard over WLW every Sunday evening at 9 o'clock. 'Xiy- vV -V ana ior us pracucaQiiiiy, 1 ine uayion tsar association draft board officials contacted i hold its annual meeting Feb. 3 A1 Friday indicated that no provisions 3 p.

m. in the court room of have been made in the instructions Common Pleas Judge Robert U. SILENCE IS GOLDEN These three aviation cadets at Maxwell field, epitomize the lesson taught by the three Chinese monkeys "see no evil; hear no evil; speak no evil." Their lesson should be taken to heart by every American. Acme photos. covering -the registration for; Martin, Ralph Gross, secretary, handling it in this manner.

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