Troy Daily News from Troy, Ohio • 1

WEATHER ONLY DAILY PAPER PUBLISHED IN TROY ESTABLISHED AUGUST 24 1909 15 CENTS PER WEEK 0LUME32 NUMBER 17 TROY OHIO WEDNESDAY JAN 21 1942 New Hero In Torpedoing of Jap Ship TREASURIES ATTENED BOS I land and At TAKEPHECfiUTIONS TO ARGENTINA AGREES TO COMPROMISEAGTION TO wm AXIS '(Please Turn to Page 2 Column 51 the IMITATION GASES ATAL TO 31 YEAR OLD ARMER Eleanor She pulled Help arrived an hour was taken to the hos before she was to a "government wit LOCAL ARMERS URGED TO'ATTEND LIVESTOCK MEET WATER SOTENER PLANT ENLARGEMENT URGED TO MEET NEEDS UTURE SALARY RAISES GRANTED TIPP LIGHT PLANT CREW ROY YOUTH WILL ENTER (MERCHANT MARINE SCHOOL PIQUA Jan Members of Paul Schnell post No 184 Ameri can Legion will take over the major responsibilities of four civilian de fense efforts including air raid warn ing bomb removal and cleanup work decontamination and messen ger service according to Post Com mander Kippart The post already is organized to function Instantly in case of dis aster and the defense duties will be assumed at the request of City Man ager Baldwin executive di rector of home defense QUOTAS OR TURES AND TIRES IN MIAMI COUNTY AREAS ARE PASSED OUT Editor the Phil Uncle WITNESS IN NARCOTICS TRIALS ORMS TORCH" DIES IN PLUNGE arning Is (Issued Owners Several Places Where Equipment ound Severance Resolution To Be Submitted To Congress In Each Country RETREATING GERMANS PURSUED Bl SOVIETS WITH KEY CITY TAKEN LEGION TO TAKE OVERMAJOR DEENSE DUTIES Engineers iremen and Maintenl ance Men Include In Boosts Approved By Council PREVENT SPREAD DE TYPHUS TO EMO Dorothy Sullivan Suicides Less Than Twenty Hours Before Case Is Called NGLISH CHURCH HEAD RESIGNING SO YOUNGER MAN MAY TAKE POST Lieut John Bulkeley (below) commanded small navy torpedo both which darted through Japanese craft in Susie bay Philippine Islands to sink a 5000 ton enemy craft Bulkeley returned safely from daring foray A small torpedo boat such as pictured here was used Note torpedo carried on side of water skimming craft Telephoto) Recommendations for a larger clear well of possibly one million gal Ion capacity at the city water soften ing plant to replace the present wellwhich has a capacity: of only 45000 gallons and the drilling of a new well to replace the number one well west of the Adams street bridge are made in the annual report of rank lin Ruck supervisor of the wa iter softening plant aS submitted to John Porter service director" Mr Ruck states the new clear well will be needed in the very near fu ture if the city water is to be treat cd efficiently lie further states the number one well has about out lived its usefulness and that at present the plant is the bottleneck of the entire water System' The clear well is the one contain ing the water which lias been chetn ically treated and is ready to be sent out through the' mains distribu tion1 Mr Ruck points out that asthe amount of water pumped is'in creased! chemicals should be in creased accordirfgly to a place where an equilibrum point is reached When the chemical cost will not fol low a denite trend with the water pumped efficencyof the chemicals is lost owing to the lack of proper settling time total pupipa'ge tn 1940 and 1941 has increased by approximately 10 per cent There fore Mr Ruck' states' this means (Please Turn to Page 7 Column 3) AUSTRALIAN PILOTS MAY RE RECALLED AS WAR NEARS SHORES Paralysis atal To ormer Member of Congress State Legislature Serious Situation 'Seen With Enemy Bombs alling On Nearby Islands MATERIALS ARRIVING IN DEENSE PROJECT WORK TO START SOON ARMERS ACE SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH LABOR SHORTAGE THREATENED MacArthur Strikes At lank of Large Scaled Japanese Land Air Offensive Drilling of New Well Called or In Report Pumpage At New High Last Year LONDON Jan Rus sia asserted today that its army was pursuing the Germans westward from captured Mozhaisk key city of the Hitler winter line and was blasting German strongpoints on the Leningrad front in a rapidly developing offensive As Russia jubilantly hailed the first major defeat for Adolf Hitler since he took personal command on the Eastern front and made Moz haisk the anchor of his line the parliament and government of the Ukrainian Soviet republic broadcast a manifesto to thq entire Ukraine promising it freedom soon and call ing on the people to rise in the German rear in aid of the Red army The Germans had been thrown out of Mozhaisk in hand to hand fighting Trtey had left enormous quantities of war material behind as they fled toward Vyazma and Smo lensk on the road along which Na broken grand army retreat ed in 1812 urther Retreat Mill (MY experts here believed the Germans would fee forced back to the Bryansk Vyazma Rzhev line 70 miles west of Mozhaisk But Russia already had reported 1 its troops within 60 miles of Smolensk and reports the Ttussians were throwing hundreds of thosuands of (Please Turn to Page 4 Column 2) Guerrillas Spreading Warfare In Islands As orces Are Slain In Surprise Attack On Airdrome Planes Ships Also Dealing Heavy Blows leets of Jap Bombers Lash Out Near Australia 7 INSPECTION THUR REVEALS MANY SLOT MACHINES OUT Nazi Strong Po'nts On Lenin grad ront Also Blasted In Big Drive BY ALEX MORRIS United Press oreign American defenders of ippines struck at the flank of a big scale Japanese air offensive against a3500 mile allied front guarding Singapore and the East Indies In savage fighting" on the Bataan peninsula the forces of Gen Douglas MacArthur beat back the Japanese and recaptured all positions with los ses to the enemy a war depart mentcommunlque disclosed But even more dangerous to the Japanese the communique said that guerrillas were going into action in ehemy held territory of Northern Luzon Island and had killed 110 Japanese and CHICAGO Jan 31 Dorothy Sullivah 27 her body a flaming torch plunged eight floors to her death 20 hours testify today as ness in the trial of two alleged nar cotics peddlers Miss Sullivan whose testimony helped convict Victoria' (Vic) Shaw: notorious vice queen on a narcotics charge last June was scheduled to testify today against Al Robbins and' George Neilson federal 'nar cotics authorities said Police said the door to the ad vertising' office room from which Miss Sullivan jumped was locked Inside the room they found an open can of benzine Two desks were partly burned and a Smouldering book of matches lay the window sill 4 They believed she struck a math to her benzine soaked lothing and jumped Police said Mirs Sullivan alias Peggy Evaiis had been convicted for at1 Dayton and Gary Ind in recent years I I Huge Profits Revealed: or irms With Unions Also Getting Large Cut 5 000 ton Japanese vessel in Subic bay in the Philippine island of Lu zon Even more remarkable actual torpedoing is the fact that Bulkeley and liiscrew escaped alive "This small bW carried out its difficult task while under fire of machine guns and three inch shore the nayy said It added that Bulkeley had been "commend ed" for successful execution of his mission Annapolis Graduate Bulkeley 31 was born in New York city He was appointed to the naval academy from Texas and was graduated in 1933 After a year of civilian life he was commissioned an ensign in 1934 and was ordered to the cruiser Indianapolis for duty Subsequently he served on the cftiiser Sacramento and the Sara toga In ebruary 1941 he was made commander of the submarine chas er division' Last August he was transferred to command of motor torpedo boat division 15 with ad ditional duty as commander of mo tor torpedo squad three WASHINGTON Jan 21 IIUPJ The house naval1 affairs committee today recommended enactment ol legislation to stamp out' profiteering charging that industry and labor alike have attempted to enrich themselves with defense contracts "Excesssive and unconscionable" profits of American some ranging up to 247 per cent and profits of 50 per cent or and an "astounding concen tration of in labor with 117 uniohs reporting assets of $82594959 an increase during 18 months of $10679294 were high lights of a report of the committee's investigation of the greatest naval building program in history Action Is Demanded The committee recommended con gressional action to block methods by which corporations and labor un ions have fattened their treasuries (Please Turn to Page 2 Column 5i COLUMBUS Jan 21 Ohio farmers to help feed Sam's hungry war machine and the vast civilian population busy at de fense work must make hay while their sons still can help with the chores With military needs standing first among all governmental demands the farmer whose sons have been his principal source of farm labor soon may be forced to sepd the toys to the army and his wife to the fields as his effort to help win the war He also may be asked to put (Please Turn to Page 4 Column 6) Walter Albaugh 51 1 Troy prominent Miami county at torney and a former member of congress and the state legislature died Wednesday morning at his home after an illness of several years resulting from paralysis the last stroke 'occurring early Wednes day morning from which he never regained consciousness Mr Al baugh had been confined to his bed since Jan 18 1941 his condition for some time having been a matter of grave concern to friends all over the county Mr Albaugh was a member of one of the oldest and best known fami lies of the county He was bom on Jan 2 1890 in Tadmore the son of Clifford and rances Anderson Albaugh' His grandfather and fath er were prominent nurserymen of the county the former having also been the first president of the Troy National bank World War Veteran Mr Albaugh graduated from the Bethel township schools and also from the Ohio State university re ceiving his degree in 1914 In 1918 he entered the World war and at its (Please Turn toPage7 Column 4) Disease Reported increasing Among Troops In East ern daring and re Americans will to her knees commander of I the tiny torpedo boat which under cover of night raced through the China sea a sea alive with Japanese MELBOURNE Jan 21 Ja panese bombs fell on island outposts within 275 miles of Australia today and stirred the commonwealth to realization that its defense fight now is close to home A downpour oficncniy bombs on New Guinea' Bismark arid the Ad mirally islands was followed by re I ports that war cabinet talks at Can berra next week may lead to the I recall to Australia of pilots and aii creWs attached to royal Australian air force squadrons in Britain tcl An RA communique announced 4 Not so cold tonight Light snow in north and central portions COLONEL ACQUIRED AB COURT MARTIAL TRIAL Supply Department To Open unc tions More Cots Blankets Pillows Needed A tour of inspection made Tuesday I Sheriff Cecil Maeshall indi ted that most of persons who had it machines on theie premises he re the vice drive in the county got ider way already have removed equipment from their places The sheriff yesterday visited ap oximately 18 places where slot previously had been in in only a few of these about cin all the machines still were on premises Sheriff Marshall said those still hrboring the slot ''machines were I tho'opinion that their federal tax lamps made them immune from ieure 7 These persons were warned that lie federal tax stamps held no au hority over statute and were ild to get rid of their equipment imediately This inspection is the first of a Ties which will be made in the unty Sheriff Marshall said He tided that the places inthe coun with the exception of establish ents in Troy and Piqua already id taken Steps to Bulkeley New Symbol of Courage To Americans Troy Set or ive Tires and our Tubes or Passenger Cars In ebruary krehbishop Lang ollows Ex ample of Predecessor In Office Since 1928 i COLUMBUS Jan A military 'court i today acquitted Col Kress Mphlenberg of all charges 1 arising from remarks he made before a Columbus flying club on Dec 17 The 10 colonels conducting the tliree day court martial trial delib erated only 39 minutes Muhlenberg had been charged with violating two articles of war by discussing mili tary and naval policy and criticiz ing the lend lease program in a talk before the Curtiss Wright flying ClUb The Verdict freed tlie 1 former fifth coips air officer frorn the he has been under since Dec 1 Wpnnpqnnv fnr fio Innal rafinmntj i boarcis in the cities and villages in Miami county' Robert DeWeese county tire co ordinator announced today The quotas Jn passenger tires for the forthcoming month is 34 The quota in passenger tubes is 28 Tires for trucks amounts to 74 and tubes for trucks total 126 The county quota is 14 tires and 10 tubes for pasesnger cars and 35 tires and 60 tubes for trucks and buses Piqua has a quota of seven tires and six tubes for passenger cars and 16 tires and 28 tubes for 'trucks and buses Troy's quota is five tires and four tubes for cars and 10 tires and 18 tubes for trucks and buses Other Quotas Given The remaining quotas broken down by villages' follow: Tipp City one tire and one tube fo'r pasenger cars three and five ties for trucks and buses' Coviagton one tire and one tube for passenger cars two tires and four tubes for trucks and buses West tire and one tube for passeng two tires (Please Turn to Page 7 Column 5) Enactment of Legislation To 'Stamp Out Profiteer ing Recommended WALTER HJILBAUGH ROY AnORNEY DIES 'ATER LILLNESS TROY DAILY NEWS Young Commander Displays Daring Resourcefulness As Tiny 'Torpedo Boat Carries Out Attack Under ire Of5 Machine Guns Shore Batteries Announcement was made' Wed nesday morning that materials are arriving for the local defense pro ject and that the work is to be started next Tuesday and Wednes day in Trinity parish house and continued thereafter each succeed ing week until all work is finished This is to be the supply depart ment for first aid stations for em ergency hospitals and for all trucks and ambulances to be used fo'rjocal defense All materials are' being purchased through the office of Paul Herr linger co ardinator for de fense and then turned over to Mrs Kurt Carl Becker chairman of medical supplies Mrs Becker has harried Mrs Ster rett aulkner and Mrs' Claude Southard as chairmen for Tuesdays and Mrs rank Humberger Sr and' Mrs Ora Hauenstlne as chairmen for Wednesdays Mrs Leo Gross who has been ap pointed 'publicity for the personnel to secure cots blankets and pjllows reports that so far only a few cots have been It is desired that 10 cots be secured for this pro ject Those in charge are making plea that persons having th'ese ar tlcles for loan td the defense pro' ject should get in touch with Mrs Gross at pneq COLDWATER Jan Wal Shockman 31 farmer living miles east of here died in Gib ns hospital Celina at 6:45 prm tesday having been overcome by mlgatibn gases while treating teat against weevils Shockman was found unconscious his granary at 4 Monday his wife I tn outside and he Early Tuesday the farmer ral but his condition turned unfav able during the afternoon By action of the Tipp City counv cil Tuesday night salaries of pow er plant employes Including those: of four engineers three firemen four maintenance men and the power plant superintendent were in creased Marion Hageman plant soperintenderft 'was allowed an in crease of $300 his salary having been raised to $2700 from $3400 Increases of $120 each were al lowed to the engineers RussellBlank Kiser Wysorig and A Yetter raising their compen sations from $1980 to $2100 The three firemen under the new ruling will receive $1740 each the increase amounting to $120 over the salaries The fire men are Clarence Medlar Carl dell? Bpd Rulpli STnltri i Emory Smith foreman of maintenance men was allowed an increase of' $1980 to $2100 while tjie three others employed on main tenance Ray Russell Harle man andTdmmy Jackson were also given! increases of $120 on the year LONDON Jan Health Minister Ernest Brown announced teday that the government had tak en special precautions agairt the spread to the British Isles of typhus the war scourge which is creeping through eastern and southeastern Europe and has reached North Af rica The war office made it known that it had consulted Russian spec ialists in London on means to check the spread of typhus Brown kaid that local authorities would be able to effect immediate large scale inoculation whenever ad visable igures Kept Secret An official spokesman said today: has been a marked in crease of typhus or jail fever on the 3) routed 300 others in a surprise at tack On Tuguegarao airdrome 50 miles south of Aparri This coupled with American resistance near Davao on Mindanao Island indicated that the threat to the Japanese flank was Increasing on land as well as at sea where airplanes and torpedo boats were striking effective blows Campaign Broadens The American operations in the Philippines were of particular im portance because of the intensi fied enemy aerial offensive against a broad southwestern Pacific front extending from Malaya to the British islands just north of Aus tralia and arousing increasing concern that a blow would soon be aimed at the North Australian coast Blg fleets of Japanese bombers often accompanied by fighter planes struck at the Bismarck and Admiralty islands British New Guinea the Dutch Elast Indies and Singapore which suffered a savage attack on civilian areas These operations were costly forJhe Japanese however and about 18 enemy planes were reported brought down including 12 at Singapore Realization of Australians that the war was surging close to their home front was indicated by in tensified defense preparations at the important north coast port of Darwin by proposals to recall lead ing Australian pilots from Britain and by plans to enroll every man woman and child In a new mobili zation of war power The Immediate danger to Singa pore also continued grave although British defense lines appeared to be standing more firmly against Japanese infiltration and flank ing maneuvers about 60 miles north of the big naval base Dutch Still Hold Out In the Dutch islands Japanese paratroops had occupied all of Minahassa on the northern tip of pelebes island but dearly" the Dutch communique said The (Please Turn to Pare 2 Column S) I LONDON Jan 21 Thei lost Rev Cosmo Gordon Lang 77 Nrchbishop of Canterbury and as uch head of the Church of Eng 1 1 nd and spiritual leader of its 30 30000 adherents announced today liiat he is make way for a younger He' told a joint of the houses of the convocation of Can terbury the parliament iriat he wanted his resignation to Become effective 'March 31 deem" It my duty to hand over Ly charge to some one younger in Bears and more vigorous in mind Rnd spirit who will be better able Bo prepare ndw for post war plans Biecause he may expect a Please Turn to Page 4 Column 31 itsi Huge Losses Inflicted As Philippine Positions Are Regained In Drive 1942 AUTOMOBILE TOLL (Troy and County) Injuries To Date It atalities To Date 2 "DRIVE Tire and tube quotas for month of ebruary were in the mail tjiat 49 Japanese bombers protected 90 fifrhtAr nlanpfl homhpd Kn wieng in the Blsinark group while three attacked Madang northern New Guinea and more than 50 bombers and fighters ranged down the Guinea coast to attack Sala ma iia and other' objectives The Salamaua airdrome was bombed Big flying boats and both sliore based Auid carrier fighting planes were used in the assaults Previously New Britain port I (Please Turn to Page 3 Column 6) PAY RAISED COLUMBUS o' Jan 21 flJ The Columbus school board' has granted a 2l4per cent salary in erfasp to public school teachers ef fefctire eb 1 The action restores salaries to their level of years RIO DE JANERIO Jan 21 Argentina was reported today to have agreed to a compromise on the resolution for a joint severance of all relations with the Axis nations by the 21 American republics The compromise it was under stood was drafted by oreign Min ister Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil with thee approval of the United States participate in the solid Inter Amen can front in spite of her strong po sition The compromise it was said would permit the American repub lics to submit the severance resolu tion to a referendum of the cabinets and congresses of their respective countries thus giving each country freedom" of action but achieving a unanimous vote on 'the measure in the conference of foreign ministers One conference source explained that actually the original resolution without such compromise provision's would have the approval of thq respective American govern Please Turn to Page 7 Column Mrs Tamplin received a wire Wednesday morning sent from hew York city by Mr Tamplin bear ing the" information that their son ibharles had passed an examination lhich he took Tuesday for entrance io a school maintained by the Unit States commission fo She purpose of supplying officers for he merchant marine I Young Tamplin who was gradu ated with the 1941 class of the Troy nigh school last June and was em ployed during the summer and au tumn on a freighter on the Great flakes will take a course in naval nstruction and after graduation rom the school will be classed as a lavalreserve officer5 He entered the jp coast 1 school' on Atlantic seaboard Wednesday morning' In Lieut John Benton Bulkeley com pvtmiar pt motor torpedo boat div I ision 15 I But to the American people the name of Lieut John Benton Bulk eley became a symbol today a sym bol of the courage I sourcefulness that Little Hope or Deferment I been or Majority CH arm 'Hands ndustry Labor Held Enriching Selves With leavy Defense Work Miami county stockmen and farm ers Wednesday were urged by Shnds county agent to make to atteridi the annual meeting of the Dayton Livestock Producers associ ation which will be held in theiYMr CA Dayton at 1 Thursday Jan 27 The program will Include am ad dress by HH Hulbert senior econo mist pf the United States depart ment of agriculture Washington who will be the mam speaker In I addition? the annual report of the association will be given WASHINGTON Jan ships and and torpedoed a the navy he is known merely as 7 f13 1 ft fiir'arnirr '7 piMhlt is 1 1 i.