Record-Journal from Meriden, Connecticut • 1

rtnv EIGHTY -SECOND NO 10 MONDAY MOENDie JANUARY 1M THRU CENTS U1 HJEBfffif WEE JAPANESE BATTLESHIP I Big Army Bombers Pound At Jap Ships Participating In Dutch East Indies1 Attack Wales deBussy ormer May or Dies After Brief Illness Price Ceiling Is Clamped On Retreading Of Tires Price Schedule To Halt Profiteering To Go Into Effect Next Week Government Appeals To Young Women To Enter Nursing Profession fop Battleship Sat Ablaxa Oil Davao From Whoro Invasion Of Indios Apparently Was Launched MacArthur's Army In Lasons Tarn Back Now Attack managed and worked ns community undertakings as wall as surpluses from horns gardens could used for school lunch project and emergency food needs Th retread price schedule becomes affective Jan 19 and was ordered Into offset Price Administrator Loon Henderson aald bo-cause profiteering In used and retreaded Urea had reached a point where It "cannot and will not be allowed to continue" government cannot permit price to determine who can afford end who cannot afford to buy second-hand tires In this time of war" he asserted "The public must be protected from For a 4 00x14 th aiae used on most lower-priced passenger th maximum permiaaabl charge for retreading or top capping when th best grade camel-back la used la (780 If don with second grade eamelback th maximum I 34 45 As defined in th order is the process of removinf old rubber down to tb fabric and application of new rubber to tha Vad surface and aide wells "Top capping" maans th application of (Continued on Second Page) Washington Jan 11 (AP) Heavy American army bombers set afire a Japanese battleship today and pounded at other enemy vessels supporting the current attempt of the Nipponese to seize the Dutch East Indies The war department in announcing the bomber attacks on Japanese naval craft and troop transports in the gulf of Davao and the Celebes sea between the East Indies and Mindanao also disclosed that General Douglas little army in Luzon had turned back a new attack by reinforced Japanese This engagement on Batan peninsula said ths communique resulted In "heavy enemy loass'' with tha casualties to forces "relatively small" Japanese bombers again pecked at Manila bay fortifications after several days uf quiet but did little damag Ths formation of big army bombers found tha Japanese battleship in Maialag bay more than 400 mile south of Manila and there seemed some evidence that it might have been the same capital ship hit three times by United State air forces in operations on January 5 Later ths same formation of heavy army bombers attacked au Batavia I Jan 11 armies -(AP) have Swedish Report Confirms Rumor Of Hitler Purge Nazi Spokesman Admits Changes In High Command GERMANS RESENT UNREST RUMORS British Claim German Air Force Ace Was Executed London Jan 11 (API-Wide-spread rumors that Adolf Hitler had carried out a purge among his army generals appeared strengthened by a Stockholm report today quoting a Oerman spokesman as saying that change la ths German army would be announced "at a suitable time" This comment according to a Reuters dispatch quoting Berlin reports to ths Swedish newspaper Social Demokraten was made specifically in reply to rumors that such a purgs had been carried out The Stockholm newspaper quoted the spokesman described as official as adding that the time of ths forthcoming announcement of change "will not be determined by foreign propaganda" List Of Purged The rumors that all was not going wall within Germany and particularly between Hitler and the army began to clrculata freely with the first Oerman setbacks on the Russian front alx weeks ago and they received impetus three week ago when Hitler auddenly dismissed his commander-ln-chtaf Gsn Walther Von Brsuchltech veteran leader and army aristocrat Oen Fedor Von Bock command of the central front la Russia and Col Gen Johannes Blaskowlts a Isadsr In ths Polish campaign also bavt figured prominently In these rumor The list of general rumored to have been dismissed or to have asked to resign Includes: Gen Oscar Von Nledermayer a close side of Von Brauchltsch Field MsYshal Wilhalm Ritter Von Leeb commander of the Leningrad front Field Marshal General Karl Rudolf Von Rundstedt commander of the southern Russian front and Gen Helm Ouderlan expert tank commander on the central Russian front Air Riper! Executed Today then cam a new twist Ths British radio broadcast a report that "rumor ar -If In Bar lln" that Gen Erast Udet quartermaster -general of ths German Air Fores "did not die as wsa of fieaity declared but has been Udet the BBT broadcast said (Continued on Second Page) Japan's Invading enemy cruiser and two large trann-struck by sea and air long-an p0rt tbe Celebes sea south of tlcipatai Invasion of ths Nether- tbs Philippines The results of this lands East Indies carrying th war attack were not determined the in ths Pacific to new battlefields I communique raid The attack reported repulsed by General ntrnotH-d fores northwest of Manila was made on th American-Phllippin right flank anchored In ths mprahes of the Pampanga river delta "with tremendous force" American casualtiea Vers said to be relatively small The communique based on in- but to Dutch islands' defenders ar putting up stern and costly resistance th Indira command an- nounced today Four footholds on th northernmost fringe of th Dutch archipelago on of th most coveted goals of Japanese Imperialism have been established by th Invaders Washington Jan (AP)-Ths government clamped price ceilings today on charges that may be mad for retreading tires and served notice that prices of used tires would be fixed within a few day to halt "serious At th same time two other major moves war taken bearing on the war effort on th home front Th nation's top-ranking medical Surgeons General Jamas Mags of th army Rosa McIntyre of the navy and Thomas Par ran of the public health service appealed for enrollments In th nursing profession Unless thousands of young woman promptly enter schools of nursing thty said In a statement a present shortage of nuraes will "grow mors critical" Th Office of Civilian Defense announced it was preparing a victory garden program such a a was carried out In World War I when householder were urged to grow their own food "The purpose of the program" the OCD aald to sponsor In every community victory gardens The produce from community garden divided Into plots and worked by Individual families would go to the families doing th gardening Produce from gardens State Consumer Board Named By Col Fisher Formed To Study Problems Arising From High Costs Hartford Oonn Jan (AP) stele-wide consumer committee was appointed today by Colon! Samuel Fisher stst defense administrator to aid In meeting consumer problems arising from increased costs of living including adjustment which may be required a a result of possible further rationing and as a result of pries controls isn they are stabitehed Professor Wesley A At urges of th Yale School of Law Is chairman of th commit tse which include represen tel Ives of etale agenda and departments labor organisations and volunteers from the public Th committee I organised so that state agenda concerned with assistance and protection of the general public with raprt to cbn-aumer goods and service will be supplemented by volunteer end members of consumer group whose assistance will be valuable to coping with the consumer problems which arise due to the war economy Through the cooperation of slate agencies and representatives of th public th state defense council hopes to maintain information on changing Inventories of supplies price and general condition affecting th distribution and pricing of consumer goods and services Appointed to th commute- by Colonel fisher beside Profeseor Sturges are: Mrs Chase Going Woodhous secretary of the te: James Lowell dairy and food commissioner Mr Norma Anderson public welfare department Mr Christine Beeck minimum wage division state department of labor Cartel on Klocker division of wslghto and measure state police department Samuel (Continued on Second Page) Charles MigUere Enlists In Navy Charles Mlglior 32 of 110 Lewis avenue was among those accepted yesterday at New Haven for service In th United State Navy Beside recruiting for th regular navy and Naval reserve college students art being accepted for th officer training program to go on duty when they have completed their college course The Navy yesterday signed 23 college men making total of 4 men In Connecticut joining for th officer training program It was disclosed la a series of special war bulletins One landing wa on Tarakan a small Island oil center oil th northeast coast of Dutch Borneo where th Dutch said th nMy pushed General line north-aahor by day and Bight from a west of Manila with tremendous strong rulrar-eseort fleet of force American and Philippine transports 1 soldiers defending previously ptr- Thie Invasion was met by the is- pared positions repulsed the attach land garrison and Indira army with heavy enemy lost Our bombers which were reported to casualties were relatively small hsv scored two direct hits on large aircraft resumed bom-Japanese transports and to have hardmsnt of fortification of Ms-shot down three enemy plan nils bay and defense position in Near misses also were scored on that vicinity after several days of cruiser a communique said inactivity The bombing attack The other thre invasions part- was relatively light and did no seri-ly sea-born and partly by para- ous damage Russians Put German Losses At6 1-2 Million "Ski Army" From Siberia Ready To Strike At Nazis ENEMY'S WINTER LINE BROKEN Moscow Reports Steel City Oi Lyudinovo Retaken Kuibyshev Jan (AP) A hug new 'ski army" from Siberia Is about to strike th Germans a "crushing amidst ths snows of th western steppes where the toll of German dead wounded and missing already ha mounted to 4-500000 Russians declared today They mad (has two reports a a the Soviet Information buraau announced from Moscow that th Russian counteroffensive continued to gain ground on a number of sectors of th centra) and southern fronts and a Red army broadcast announced the reoccupation of 40 populated places en to central front alone A spokesman on th Kuibyshev radio sstimated that to Germane had lost 1500000 In casualties including 300000 dead sine Nov 14 The tot) was thus placed at a sharply mounting total since tb Russian on Nov 11 estimated tb German looses at 5000000 Coincident with the spokesman's declaration that 15500 square miles of Soviet soil had been reclaimed from to Nasls th army organ Red War announced that drilling of hug reserve units Is to full swing In Siberia and that th time not far when th honorary task of dealing a new crushfng blow to Fascist forces will be assigned these a Weapons Ow 8M This asw army is a ski tore with not only Infantrymen but even artillerymen engineers and signal corps men taught to fight from runners Red Star said Their artillery mortar am machine gun ar mounted on skis th paper added Emphasis la QUd on night right tng In th drilling of the new fores as well as upon th tactics employ- ed to destroying tanks Red Star said and added that some of th TJ: TTTiI Lua! Cdlr to If mandtrs who have had actual perlenc at to front Th only detail vouchsafed by th dally communique concerning to continuing offensive said a Nasi stronghold west of Moscow was outflanked and captured and more than 400 dead Ormans left on th field Reported Hearing Smolensk (Th British radio quoting (Continued OB Fifth Pag' Rutherford Religious Sect Head Succumbs Lawyer Leader Of Jehovah's Witnesses San Diego Jan Joseph Franklin Rutherford 73 leader of end a foe of organised Christianity which called an "unholy alliance against th common people" failed to liv to see th arrival of to miltonlum he prophesied Head of a reHgiou movement wRh follower In many countries Rutherford dtod Thursday In th 30-room Spanish style house which built a few year ago King David when David return to earth" had occflpled th hous he said ss a caretaker A former Missouri lawyer Rutherford claimed a following of 1000000 person in 3 countrlra and urged hi adherents to live triotiy by hi biblical Interpretation Tall and portly severe and dignified In appearance a wrr of black string ties and spectacle carried at to nd of a long black ribbon Rutherford mad thousands of speech at gathering of the Witness mad numerou radio addroura and In to 1st 1930 claimed that had spoken over (Continued on Fifth Page) Leed State Guard Is Soaking Rocntits Captain William Thorp announced last night that young man are needed for to Connecticut Stats Guard AU those Interested are asked to call at th Stat armory on Monday or Thursday trainings between to hours of 7 and 10 o'clock ill Send As City's 9 Chid Emtathr From To 1939 WAS OFFICIAL OF LINES CO Became Aviator During Last War-Funeral Tuesday Wales Lines deBussy 50 of 169 New Hanover avenue vice-president of the Wales lines company and former mayor of Meriden and a member of the park commission died at his home at 12:05 Sunday morning after a short illness bora In New Haven on February 3 1891 the eon of Roger Baldwin and Mr Clara Line deBussy HI boyhood day were pent In Winchester Mass and he attended the schools of that place family moved to Mt Vernon and he was graduated from the Mt Vernon high school At the age of eighteen years hs entered the employ of the Wales Lines company of which his grandfather the late Wales Lines was then president and with the exception of his war service he had been with the company ever since After the death at Mr lines hs was elected president of the company In February 1937 and served in that capacity until October 1935 when Charle Phelps was made prssldent and Mr deBussy a vice-president War Record Hs enlisted in the service of the United States on April I 1917 three days before the United States entered the flret World war and wa In active service from April 15 1917 until February 4 1913 when he was detailed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for an eight weeks' course of Intensive training In preparation for the naval aviation service At the ctoee of this Instruction he was retained at the institute as an Instructor and on June 3 hs was commissioned an ensign In the United States Navy He continued at Cambridge until January 4 1919 when he went to Key Weet and Pensacola Fla where hs completed hi own study and practice and qualified- as a naval aviator Hs was discharged from the serv- (Continued on Second Page) South Pacific Naval Station Shelled By Japs Attack On Samoa Base By Enemy Ship Unsuccessful Washington Jan An enemy attack on the naval station at Tutulla Samoan Island In the south Pacific was reported today by the navy department A communique said a small enemy vessel shortly after midnight Sunday (Samoan time) fired 14 phells of light caliber Into the naval station area The only casualties were three slight Injuries to personnel The naval station Itself suffered no ma-terial damaifp Tutulla la the chief Island of American Samoa and Is 1274 mile southwest of Honolulu Pago Pago harbor In Samoa Is rated as the safest and beat harbor in the south seas tha navy said and the naval station Is an this sheltered waterway Samoa Is an outpost on the long south Pacific route to Australia and Singapore and had escaped attacks hitherto mads by Japanese surface and submarine forces on other Island stations The navy's communique suggest the possibility that the attack was madirlsy a submarine from the surface In the same manner as attacks on several Islands of Hawaii The communique based on re (Continued on Fifth Page) Two Fatally Hart In Guilford Crash Guilford Conn Jan 11 William Lodge 34 of Middle-town and Isadora Fillmore 41 of Durham wrs injured fatally about lam today when Lodge's car crashed Into a tree opposite the Guilford grammar school Lodge died in an ambulance en route to a New Haven hospital and Fillmore suffering severe head and chest Injuries died In the hospital about six hours after the fsccident Guilford police called to th scene by residents who heard th crash said no other ear were involved and that Lodge's machines apparently had skidded Both men employed in Middle (own factories were married and Fillmore leaves two children chutists occurred during th night in sections of Minahassa th long "orthem arm of to Ixland of Celebes Beyond this there wr no detail either of the six of th Japanese Invading forrra or their suc-cs in eattablishlng firm beachheads United State warships hsv been operating in East Indira waters and th Aneta new agency raid tt was assumed In Dutch quarters that they would join In misting tb tnvasion Tb long-vigilant Dutch wtr not caught off guard however and the communique indicated that if th Japan were In search of conven lent oil store and operating bases Wales Uses Administration Asks Compromise On Price BUI Plans To Make Some Concessions To Farm Bloc Washington Jan 11 With ths farm bloc firmly In control 4f congress administration Isadora today wars reported tasking a com promise on price control legislation which would make some concessions on farm commodity prices Indications war that ths administration's fight would bt centered on an attempt to eliminate an amendment sponaored by Senator O' Me honey (D-Wyoi directing that the Federal Reserve Board index of Industrial wages be used as a factor whan agricultural parity prices are calculated Senator Brown (D-Mteh) who handled the bill in the eenate for the administration sstimated that this would permit 35 pet cent Increase la farm prices since the btii prohibits a farm pries ceiling below 110 per cent of parity The effect of amendment It was explained is to boost parity about 10 per cent Parity Is ths pries which farm product has ths same purchasing power that It did in the 190914 period Hence It fluctuates with changes In prices of non-farm products Some legislators thought ths administration If It could secure elimination of this provision would not put dp a fight against an amsndmsnt forbidding any price ceiling on a farm commodity below the 1919-39 average price The farm amendments wera writ-ten Into the bill by the senate yesterday befors It was passed to The Job of reconciling different ee In ths price measures approved by house and eenaU will he undertaken by a Joint eommlttee Though unwitting to be quoted by name well-informed legislators said they thought there was littla Chance that President Roosevelt would veto the bill even If the flnul version Included farm provision strongly objectionable to the administration This proluction they said was based on the fact that there is tm- Continued on Fifth Page) Fire Barns Records In Japanese Bank San Francisco Jan 11 Fire of undetermined origin damaged records in the close Yokohama Spec bank today The bank has bean closed sine th government froxs Japanese asset before the war and treasury guards have beat) on 34-hour duty there Fire Marshal Frank Kelly said th building has not been occupied and th basement where the fir started was believed inaccesslbl to outsiders An Investigation will be mads to determine tf the fire was started was believed Inaccessible to ords written In Japan which th government Is examining Boy Hero Gets Delons Bead Scent Uniform Darby Pa Jan 11-AP)-A 335 defense bond and the promise of a complete new Boy Scout uniform were 15-year old Fred Schmitt's rewards today for plunging Into Ice-glaxed Darby Creak to rtscu Joseph DeGregorlo 5 Charle DeGregorlo 39 ths child's father gave the rewards tearfully saying never cried before but this gee" The younger boy hnd ventured out on the thin ioe and crashed through DeGrSKorio promised the uniform when Schmitt tflJd him he wanted to be a scout but wsa bashful about joining without being able to buy regulation clothing DeUer 3cHd" Temlu I British Forced Back By Strong Japanese Push Withhold Account Of New Reversal North Of Singapore Singapore Jan (API-British Imperials fought for Hingapor today along an irregular and fluid 'line varying from 140 to 300 miles north of this island stronghold: Fighting to regroup their tores after falling back before a tank-powered Japanese offensive sustained ky bushwhacking Japanese Infantrymen the British gave ns of Iflotal account of tb progress of the battle Todays communique devoted entirely to air activities said defending plane were engaging In continuous patrol and reconnaissance and that th Japanese airmen were busy blasting at railway centers and bases Th last official word on th British posit too was given in th communique Saturday which said th Imperials were falling bark after some of the bloodiest righting of th war along thg Sllrp river 40 mile above Kuala Lumpue-and 330 mile north of Singapore It was known however that th I Japanese had occupied or penetrated two-third of th Malay peninsula and had rolled forward approximately miles to th fifth week of the war Th Japanese paved the way for this mightiest push with strong bombing and strafing of roads railroad stations and rolling stock sup ply bases and ether vital points behind tbe British lines Then on Jan 4 they sent 13-ton tanks down th main roads straight into th Rrltlsh line Th British who heretofore had encountered nothing larger than th two-man Japanese tanks In these jungle restated bitterly and took heavy toll of the oncoming Nippon before they gave way While they were withdrawn slow- Continued on Second Page) Stiid Censorship In Dutch Indie Nw York Jan Strict censorship apparently was clampd down by th Netherlands East Indie government tonight following th landing of Japanese invaders at four points to ths Dutch Islands Th New York offtc of A nets Netherlands nsw agency which has been receiving dally telephone call from Its Batavia offle at 4:10 E8T received non tonight and was advised by th telephone company that the Batavia offle had reported this was because "thr la no news" Th local office interpreted this as Indicating enforcement of strict censorship Commissioner of Labor th Governor and Attorney-General Francis A Pallet tl among others reached a verbal agreement that national defense work was "necessary duty" and that It should bo permitted to continue unabated ven day a wk In hta letter to Pick erlag president of to Ansonia company Commissioner Danaher mad no mention of to conference and cited to provisions of General Statutes section 1453 which forbids manufacturing work on th holiday Having appealed to the Secretary of th Navy and th Governor's office at th same time Mr Pickering has bgen assured by the Governor that working on Sundays is not only permissible "hut an absolute dut" formation received up to 1 formation of heavy American army bombers again attacked Japan nava concntraton oif Davao on the island of Mindanao Despit poor visibility one direct hit was scored on an enemy battleship in Malatag boy In Davao gulf setting the vessel afire A bit was also made on an antiaircraft battery on shors All of the American planes returned undamaged to their base "The enemy fleet in and near th gulf of Davao consisted of on battleship six cruisers two destroyers eight transports and ten smaller vessels "Later our planes attacked an enemy cruiser and two large trs re ports in th Celebes sea with un report from II (AP' Wavell Nations Pacific declared danger has greater effort armed a to th him in responsibilities knowledge and efficiency of to extent of A false alarm at 918 o'clock Saturday night and a small firs at o'clock Saturday afternoon were activities of the fir department during tha week-end Several companies reseponded Is an alarm from Box 24 at Grove and Foeter streets which proved to be felee while Saturday after noon Engine company No 1 of Butler etreet went to 29 Norik First street for a minor fire Lott And Found Lady's wrist watch between Col on) street and Lewis avenue Reward Telephone S63-J Bank book No 1511 Application made for new book Puritan Rank A Trust Co LOST In Meriden Shepherd Dog Black Call Dr Itern'a offle pert Com and Tan and Whit Phone 395 LOST Between Broad St and Psltc Theater Brown Wallet containing money licenses and valuable receipt Liberal Reward Return to addraxa an License after 5:30 LOST Sterling Silver Rosary rinds Phorn 3113-1 ar for deeper Wow on th main dta-dels of Dutch defense they would find that "scorched earth" had left them nothing but desolation i JT I Wovll Aik India ft Mid briefly "while For GrffltSf Effort several destructions were carried i out entirely according to The Dutch fleet meanwhile registered two new triumphs against th Japan In distant waters th communique announcing that a Dutch submarine serving with the British fleet had sunk two enemy transports In th gulf of Slam Wher th Japan started from was not stated but It waa a likely surmise that Davao tb captured Philippine port on the leland of Mindanao may be tbe enemy brae Davao only about 375 mii by airline north of Celeb gives th Japanese a relatively short secure haul aero th Celebes sea both to that Ixland and to Tarakan Celebes and Borneo where the Japan previously had won a foothold in the British part of th Island II like the side of a triangle with th Important Dutch Islands of Java and Sumatra aa the hate determined results is nothing to other areas" New Delhi India Jan General Sir Archibald commander of the United force la the southwest today that "to corns closer and an ever Is required" of India's forces and war Industrie His remarks were embodied farewell order of the day forces which served under India go to my new greatly hexrtened by th I have gained of the spirit of the armed force Indian command and the th war effort behind added Falsa Firs Alarm Sant From Bax 24 i Negro Soldiers Engage Police In Street Fight 30 Persons Hurt In Two-Hour Riot In Louisiana Alexandria La Jan Negro eoldler were restricted to nearby Camp Livingston and Claiborne today by th Fifth Army Corps headquarter following a disturbance here lest night In which 30 persons were Injured Including 3 Negro soldier on woman and one stale policeman Four of the soldiera She in th tero-hour clash in th city's "LltOe Herlem" section were In serious condition army officials said A company of whit military police from Wisconsin after becoming Involved erlth tbe soldiera called for help and wa reinforced by city and state polios Chief of Police George Gray estimated 40 military police a score of city officers and ten state troopers took part in rounding up 3000 Negro troops dispersing 8000 Negro civilians and closing fifteen saloons and cafe In a four block are Practically all of th Negro troop Involved were from northern states principally New York Pennsylvania and IlUlnots officer said Fifth Army Corps authorities announced that th Negro soldiers were restricted to thsir camps but we- not placed under arrest Military polios today continued to round up Negro soldiers la th city explaining that these ersre mostly non-commissioned officers (Continued on Second Page) Charge Of Drinking Follows Auto Mishap Georg Muraskl 33 of 35 Hobart atrt was arrested on th charge of driving while under the influence of liquor at 10:30 o'clock Saturday night by Patrolman Ar-! thur Iwanlckl following a minor collision on Center etreet Muraekl is charged with having driven a car which struck a ma- chine owned by Edwin Stevens of 10 Olive street which as parked on Center street when Muraskl approached It from the north Damage to the car was listed as In txrejts of $25 Elk Pellet Sorter Toslte I Mt Governor Over-Rales Danaher Permits Sunday Defense (fork (Continued on Fifth Pag) Firemen To Study War Technique Hartford Conn Jan II Members of the Connecticut Fir Department Drlllmutere' association representing 15 cities and towns are scheduled to attend a meeting Thursday at th Hartford fir headquarters putting Into operation a system of regional firemen training schools Purpose of the training school will be to prepare regular and auxiliary fir department to fight firs under war conditions and to give thorough training in the technique and drills of flr fighting during both peace and war time Members of the association who also serve as Instructors In th firemen training course include Deputy Chief Arthur Harris and Lieut William Reilly both of Hartford Jan 11 Governor Hurley overruling advice given to operators by Labor Commissioner Cornelius Danaher Saturday gave Connecticut manufacturers sngaged In national defense work permission to work 34 hours a day seven days a week Th action resulted from a report received at the Governor's offle Saturday morning from th president of th Farrel-BIrmlng-ham Company Inc of Ansonia stating that Commissioner Danaher had advised that company that It was liable for prosecution' and fine If Its employes were allowed to work on Sunday It was pointed out by the Governor's office Saturday that few days after wr wa the 111 1.