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Men 20 to 44 Register
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Vichy Faces
New Crisis
War Today
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Mercury Drops to 17 Below Zero At
Beaver; Woodward Gets 4-Inch Snow
County Board
Draws Rules
London Savs Manpower Is Big Need
Now to Block Advance by Japanese,
So Chungking Is Filling the Gap
At Least 700 Japs Die
In Futile Assault
State draft headquarters will
register some 145,000 men be-
tween the ages of 20 and 44
years February 16, Clive Mur-
ray, state director, estimated
Monday. Local draft boards
will function as before, he said.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—(R)—The
government asked manufacturers of
jars and bottles Monday to conserve
war-essential raw material! by sUnpll-
gene Rice, federal judge
also assessed a fine of $10,-
000 against the Country
Club Corp.
MUSKOGEE, Jan. 5.—
(P)—Gust Maggos, presi-
dent of the Country Club
Distributing Corp. of Alton,
III., was sentenced Monday
to serve 18 months in the
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Oklahoma, Harry Wahlgren said Monday, as the mercury tumbled
to 2 above zero here and reached an unofficial low of 17 degrees
below zero during the night at Beaver in the eastern end of the
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LONDON, Jan. 5.—(PP)—Veteran Chinese troops are
believed to be on their way to Malaya to help block the Japa-
nese drive toward Singapore, British sources said Monday.
These sources said such an assignment for Chinese
forces is a likely first step of the unified southwest Pacific
command under Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell.
Enemy Trap is Failure
General MacArthur reported
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Chinese forces already have bolstered the British in Burma,
' on the flank of the Malay front.
Military observers said British troops in Malaya had been
forced to retreat not by more efficient Japanese fighting but by
superior numbers and their inability to defend a wide front.
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Oklahoma and Kansas. Eu-
zens of the nation between 20
and 44 years old, who have
not registered previously.
Men in this age group will
be subject to military service.
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lamation. It made no mention
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pulsed a Japanese attack with
heavy enemy losses, estimating
that at least 700 of the enemy
were killed.
American-Pilipno losses were de-
scribed in a communique as relatively
small.
The war department said "this was
one of the most serious reverses suf-
fered by the Japanese invaders since
the war began"
The Japanese attack took place
northwest of Manila.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 —(P— Japanese forces, flushed with
initial successes, massed their strength Monday to storm the last
American redoubts in the/Philippines, but there were sinultaneous
I indications that the allies might be ready to take the offensive
against the enemy on the Asiatic mainland.
As far as could be deduced from dispatches from the far east,
the Japanese were in feverish haste to complete their conquest of
the Philippines in order to release large number of troops for ma-
jor oprations elsewhere. And as far as the evidence went, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur was giving the enemy no co-operation.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—(P)-Eu-
gene D Millikin. Denver Republican,
was sworn in Monday as new senator
from Colorado. He succeeded the late
Alva B. Adams, Democrat.
Philippine force escapes trap,
repulses Japanese with 700
dead for invaders; Corregidor
beats off another air raid,
downing four Japanese bomb-
ers.
MALAYA — Chinese expedition-
ary force believed on move to
bolster defense of Singapore.
Anti-axis forces are reported
gathering in Burma for pos-
sible Asiatic mainland offen-
sive. Japanese press British
back across Perak river, some
280 miles north of Singapore.
/OKLAHOMA CITY was embarked
U upon a "keep 'em rolling" cam-
paign Monday which made package
carrying while riding on street cars
or busses—or turning the family
chariot into a delivery truck—defin-
itely stylish.
Department store, milk, laundry,
grocery, and other delivery services
were being curtailed as rapidly as
possible in an effort, as one offi-
cial explained it, “to have any de-
livery service left at all by the end
of the year."
"We're doing everything we can
to save rubber, but. In the final
analysis it is the customers who will
determine how long we'll be able to
make absolutely necessary deliver-
ies," said E E. Barbee, manager of
the Oklahoma City Retailers' asso-
ciation.
Both department stores and gro-
cery stores put into effect curtailed
delivery plana Monday,
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Classes at the Putnam City consoli-
dated highschool will be resumed at
9 a. m. Wednesday in the Baptist
church and in two rooms of the grade
school, officials announced Monday.
Even as arrangements were being
made for resumption of classes, insur-
ance adjusters and architects were in-
vestigating the still-smoking ruins of
the two-story brick building destroyed
by fire Sunday night. Loss is esti-
mated at *100.000.
A general highschool assembly will
be held in the church at 9 a. m. Wed-
nesday and a faculty meeting will be
held an hour earlier in the Junior
highschool cafeteria. Oren Terrell,
highschool principal announced.
Definite schedules for pupils will
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west of Manila, In escaping an at- Establishment of a new time system
tempted enemy trap,                 (that would put all states east of the
The Japanese, MacArthur said. un- Mississippi river in the eastern stand-
dertook to crush the greatly outnuin- ard time zone was proposed Monday
bered defenders between two Invading by Representative Donald H. McLean,
forces operating as a pincers from (R.. N, J). as congress prepared to
north and south. But he added that consider President Roosevelt's request
when the trap was closed "American । lor national daylight saving time.
and Philippine troops were not in the i Chairman  Clarence F. Lea (D.,
Jaws."                                   | Calif. I said the committee will con-
The communique said that Japanese sider the matter Tuesday. The com-
In spite of the extreme cold, there
were no new records in Oklahoma ex-
cept as to individual stations.
The all-time low for Oklahoma is
27 degrees below zero set both at Vi-
nita and at Watts, while the lowest
reading in Oklahoma City was 17 de-
grees below zero to 1899.
Ardmore was the "warmest" spot in
the state Sunday afternoon with a
high temperature of 19 degrees, while
Oklahoma City was the coldest with
a high of only 11 degrees.
The reading of 3 above here early
Monday, equaled the reading on Jan.
18 and 19. 1940. The coldest Jan-
uary 5 on record here was 1 above
in 1924.
South is Cold, Too
Coldest official temperature report-
ed in the nation was 24 below zero
reported at Havre, Mont. Bismarck
and Williston, N. D . and Ballentine,
Neb., reported 23 below,
Jackson, Miss., had 23 degrees, and
Montgomery, Ala., had 31 degrees.
Houston had 32. San Antonio 30 and
El Paso 27. Even Atlanta, Ga., was
cold with a reading of 29.
Monday it had added more stations to
I its lines during 1941 than in any year
since 1929, with a net increase of 107,-
034 against 92.205 in 1940. The in-
I crease in 1929 was 166,000 stations.
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Laundry operators were meeting
Monday afternoon, while dairymen
will meet Tuesday. Bakers were
studying a plan but no definite ac-
tion has been taken as yet.
Watson Rogers, secretary-manager
of the Oklahoma Retail Grocers' as-
sociation, announced that all stores
have agreed to make only one de-
livery to any one customer a day.
About 85 percent of the stores to
the city now deliver groceries, said
Rogers Only about 50 out of more
than 700 definitely are cash and
carry.
"We believe that grocery deliv-
eries. If done economicaly, will save
more rubber than if we required all
customers to come after them," said
Rogers. "We re starting with a one
a day program, and it may be a
three a week, or only once a week
soon. But there ll be no more de-
Public transportation companies
reported a constantly Increasing
business, whether due to Christmas
traveling or rubber saving.
"We ean't say for sure,” said
Charles Hoopes, secretary-auditor of
Oklahoma Railway Co. "Our busi-
ness was increasing so rapidly al-
ready that we had everything we
have to service.
"We have ordered 11 more buses
for next month. If we get them,
then we can increase our service.
It we don't, then we'll just do the
best we can with what we have."
C. B. Warr, whose bus serves
Warr acres and a large area on
West. End avenue, and Northwest
Tenth street, said that travel had
Increased "25 percent within the
last week. *
"We’ll increase service i( we can
find another bus," said Warr.
"They're standing to the aisle now."
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(Evenine Edition oi rhe Daly Okianoman I Entered at the Okianoma City, Owia noma Postortice at second class man matter under the act of March 8. 187».
SIXTEEN. PAGES-500 N. BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA~~CITY, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1942
(Details on This Page and Page 8.)
17-Year-Olds Register
LONDON, Jan. 5.—(P— Britain’s
Thete Cardent, by Any
Other Name, Preferred
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 5.—(P— The
WPA gave the name "Byberry gar-
dens" to a 300-unlt housing project,
but the board of commissioners says
it wont do.
"The name has too many connota-
tions, ” an official complained.
For years, "Byberry? has been the
unofficial name for the Philadelphia
state hospital for mental diseases.
by tire dealers and tire wanters
who were trying to find out how
John Q. Public will go about get-
ting a motor car tire.
V. P. Crowe, speaking for the board,
said that as a general proposition John
just wont get any tires.
Inspectors Get No Pay
All applications for new tires must
be in writing on forms which are fur-
nished by the government and which
will be in the hands of tire inspectors.
Following a government recom-
mendation, the board said inspectors
will be appointed from among tire
dealers and repair men who are
equipped to do reconditioning work
and who thus are qualified to give ex-
pert opinions on whether a tire is be-
yond redemption.
Those inspectors who will serve
without pay were to be listed Monday
afternoon.
Tires Must Be Examined
John Q. Public will get his applica-
tion blank either from an inspector or
from one of the two permanent paid
secretaries of the rationing board who
empt from service with the
armed forces under present leg-
islation.
The registration, expected to enroll
9,000,000, will apply to all male citi-
zens and some non-citizens born on or
after Feb. 17, 1897, and on or be-
fore Dec. 31, 1921. It is to take place,
not only in the United States, but also
in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico,
between the hours ol 7 a. m. and
9 p. m.
Provisions were made for registra-
tion before February 16 and after that
date in exceptional cases through ar-
rangements with selective service of-
ficials.
The president urged all employers
and all government agencies to give
workers sufficient time off to register.
Officials explained that those to be
registered February 16 were men 20
years old, those who have turned 21
since the registration last July, and
men between 36 and 44.
Revision of Standard
Time Zones Proposed
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temporarily will have an office in
room No. 1 at the courthouse. An In-
spector then must examine the old
tire. The application blank carries a
certificate of necessity which must be
signed by the Inspector.
The mere fact that an inspector is-
sues a certificate of necessity does not
mean that the applicant will receive
a tire. The board will have a monthly
allocation of tires and must stay with-
in its ration It also is prohibited
from releasing more than a certain
percentage of the tires each week.
The board will meet at least once a
week and oftener if necessary to act
on applications.
s0-Cent Dismounting Charge
While inspectors can receive no
compensation for actual inspections,
the regulations provide that if it is
necessary to take a tire off a rim the
inspector can charge 50 cents for
handling the tire. From the attitude
of dealers at the meeting Monday
morning it appeared that they would
consider this payment.
The board made it clear that it has
no jurisdiction over used tires which
are identified as tires which have run
1 000 or more miles. Anyone may pur-
chase a used or retreaded tire provided
he turns in his old tires at the time
of the purchase.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—(UP) —
Secretary of State Hull Monday de-1
scribed as "monstrous" the reported
Japanese discrimination and death
threats against white civilians of oc-
cupied Manila, but added he was
awaiting further confirmation of the
reports.
Hull said he had not learned to
what extent reports of the terrorizing
Japanese measures had been con-
firmed. It was indicated; the state
department was awaiting information
from diplomats of Switzerland, which
is handling United States interests in
Manila.
A formal protest may be made after
such information is received.
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A major crisis in relations J
between Vichy France and
Germany arose Monday,
heightened by the death—ap-
parently at the hands of an
assassin — of an important’
pro-Nazi official of the
French interior ministry.
The official was Yves Parin-
gaux, chief de cabinet of the in-
terior ministry. Like his supe-
rior, Minister Pierre Pucheu, Pa-
ringaux was a warm advocate of
closest possible co-operation of
Germany and France.
Marcel Deal, pro-Nazi editor of
Paris, outlined the crisis bluntly in a
radio address over the German-con-
trolled Paris radio. He declared that
France is threatened with loss of
North Africa and the remainder of the ।
French empire unless Vichy Imme-
diately ends its procrastination and
agrees to play ball wholeheartedly
with Adolf Hitler.
It was the first time the Germans or
the pro-German French clique in
Paris had utilized broadcast facilities
for such plain talk.
What effect Paringaux's death
would have on Franco-German rela-
tions was not immediately clear.
Earlier reports that Pucheu also had I
been killed were later denied by the
German news agency which originally
disseminated them.
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the south Pacific, has given no hint
that such a big flanking operation is
in prospect. On the contrary, before
assuming his new command he cau-1 At the same time the garrison of
tioned that "the situation may become I Corregidor fortress shot down four
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tioning hoard in its i .       - Sub-zero readings were numerus, the lowest official tempera-
ing.on, thevsixth. 11o0 .oathe ture being 12 degrees at Waynoka, while Gage and Woodward
had 2 below. In addition to 11 be-
low Woodward reported four inches
of snow.
Wahlgren said skies here will re-
main clear to partly cloudy, but fore-
cast more light snow to the pan-
handle during the afternoon and
night.
He said mercury readings will prob-
ably go below zero again in the west
and north, about 5 above zero here
Monday night, and possibly near 10
above zero in the extreme southeast-
ern part of the state at 3 p. m. Mon-
day, the temperature here was 23.
At least one state death was at-
tributed to the cold, the United Press
reporting that the frozen body of Mrs.
Mamie Martin, 56 years old, had been
found on the front porch of her home
at Picher, in northeastern Oklahoma,
Authorities believe death was caused
by exposure after she collapsed.
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minimum temperature Tuesday mornins
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STATE—Fair, exept licht anew in
panhandle and weal portion; not qvlU
so cold tonight.
SHIPPERS—Minimum temperatures
aero tn 5 degree* in north portion, sera
to 10 degrees in south.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
strategy thus failed in this instance,; mittee is opposed to a blanket grant
necessitating the frontal attack which of authority to Mr. Roosevelt. Mc-
likewise failed.                        Lean's plan would keep Oklahoma in
The attack on Corregidor, like the
onslaught of the previous day in which
four enemy planes were shot down,
failed to inflict material damage and
casualties were said to be slight.
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Hull Calls Jap Manila
Terrorism ‘Monstrous’
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica,
Jan. 5.—(P):—Police, Mon-
day arrested 50 Germans
on charges of espionage and
subversive activities, in-
formed circles said they
might be sent to the United
States for internment.
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BERLIN, Jan. 5.—(A)—
The Berlin radio Monday
broadcast the following dis-
patch. datelined Vichy:
"The St. Pierre and Mique-
lon affair has been settled,
it was officially announced
here (Vichy) Monday. It
was declared that the Unit-
ed States authorities saw
to it that Admiral (Emile)
Muselier and his forces
evacuated both islands.”
legend is that he was having a casual This raised officially reported enemy
1 cocktail in Cairo when the zero hour plane losses over Corregidor to 15
came for the Libyan push.
ANKARA, Jan. 5. —
(UP) — Travelers arriving
from Bucharest Monday re-
ported that typhus fever had
broken out in Rumania and
was threatening to reach
epidemic form. Deaths were
said to he heavy, particu-
larly among soldiers and
peasants.
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The below-zero mercury readings
extended both east and south of Okla-
homa City, with Tulsa reporting 1
below, and McAlester 2 degrees below
zero. Bartlesville and Chickasha also
The communique said four addition-
al Japanese planes were hit but their
destruction was not confirmed.
; NEW YORK, Jan. S_I_me New attack, which continued three hours. bp.made Details on" Page jssembly
I York telephone company, largest mem- Both the land battle on Luzon Island
| ber of the Bell system, announced and the latest air raid on Corregidor
took place Sunday.
RANGOON, Burma. Jan.
5.—(P)—Six fighters of
the American volunteer
group guarding the Burma
road were reported Mon-
day to have battled a large
formation of Japanese
planes which staged a day-
light raid on Rangoon Sun-
day. The Americans, great-
ly outnumbered, were said
to have lost three of their
planes, but all the pilots
were reported safe.
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liveries of a loaf of bread someone
forgot."
Meanwhile, department stores put
in a "one a day" delivery plan with
merchandise purchased one day de-
livered the day following. If a cus-
tomer insists on a sime day delivery
charges have beent set up of 30
cents in the city. 50 cents in Bush
Hills and Nichols Hills, and 75 cents
for West End, Britton, Bethany, and
Warr Acres.
Don A. Hoover, secretary of the
Oklahoma City Dairy Council, said
plans are being considered to reduce
milk delivery mileage 50 percent
within the next 45 days.
But local dairies probably will
cease early morning delivery which
in many cases duplicates daytime
delivery routes Drivers will de-
liver. solicit. and collect on one trip.
Plans also are being considered to
deliver a two-day supply of milk,
and make deliveries only every
other day.
They said the call on Chinese manpower was for aid in a crisis .
I until Britain and the United States can rush men and arms to the ' registration of all male citi-
far east. It probably was worked out during the recent visit to
Chungking of Wavell and Major Gen George H. Brett, United
LONDON. Jan. 5.—(P)—
Two daylight aerial blows
by the R. A. F. were report-
ed by the air ministry Mon-
day in a communique cred-
iting an American-built
coastal command Hudson
with two square hits on an
enemy supply ship in a con-
voy off the Dutch coast and
a fighter patrol with an at-
tack on a factory in north-
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RUSSIA—Helsinki press sug-
gests Finland ready to quit
war with Soviet. Russians an-
nounce recapture of Belev,
putting Nazis 100 miles back
of high-water mark of drive
on Moscow.
LIBYA—British launch attack
to mop up last axis islands of i
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J were concentrating there and inten-
sive allied air activity was noted, with
the Japanese coming off decidedly
second best, according to a Rangoon
communique.
Would Offset Jap Bases
In allied hands, Burma represents
! a major potential threat to Japan’s
j plans for domination of the South
Pacific. A smashing drive eastward
would cut across the top of Thailand
and French Indo-China, placing the
allies squarely in the rear of the
Japanese forces now driving south-
i ward down the narrow Malay penin-
I sula toward Singapore.
It would also put the allies in a po-
l sition to neutralize the Indo-China
bases which have played such an im-
portant role in Japan's South sea suc-
cesses to date.
Wavell Keeps Silent
General Sir Archibald P. Wavell.
leader of Britain's first victory in
Libya and the newly designated su-
preme commander of allied forces in