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President to Set January Date to Register Men 18-65
Congress Fixes
20 to 45 Age for
Military Service
Bill Awaiting Signing
by Roosevelt Due to
Liit 22 Million
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__ WASHINGTON. Dec. 2L Corn
jfie.ss today sent 10 Pres.der'
Roosevelt for signature a bill nam
ing all men between 120 and 41
ycirs of ag» inclusne sublet tn
military service, and ordcimg
registering of ail men between s
and 65.
The House having originally
voted to make lie r iturmim draft
age 21 years and the Senate, 10
conferees representing the two
branches quickly reached a com
ftromise of 2'T and the Ser re m i
louse immediately thereafter
adopted the report late yesterday
without debate or record vote
House and Senate also passed n
rapid-fire order hills to appropriate
$.102 .000.000 for war purposes, in
cluding funds to holster civilian
defenses in the embattled Philip-
E'nes and to rush foodstuffs tn
•wan.
President Roosevelt and the war
and navy departments had urged a
draft age range of 19 to 41.
DATE TO BE SET
The commander-in-chief "as
expected to issue shortly a proc
lamation naming a date for the
registration of the nation < man
power. Congressional leaders said
they anticipated the President
would name a day in January.
Passage of the new draft law
will place the names of about 40.-
000.000 men on the registration
rolls. About 17.500 000 men in the
age range. 21 to 35. already have
been registered, leaving about' 22-
500.000 more to join them in the
pool of man power.
War department and selective
service officials have indicated
that their plan is to comb the ex
isting registration roll tor the first
increases in the army and navy.
4 MILLION UNDER ARMS
An army and navy of about
4.000.000 men appeared to be in
jught riu' to bills recently passed
or introduced by administration
leaders and likely to be passed
ftnUnn a few days.
Included in the draft measure
Is a provision directing that any
man in the armed forces totally
disabled after Oct. 8. 1941, shall
receive $5,000. An allowance of
$5,000 for dependents of those sol
diers and sailors who have di«*d
sinre that date or who die in the
future during the war, aKo is
provided.
Men inducted into the armed
forces are permitted under the
bill to take out up to SIO,OOO each
in government war risk insurance.
Million in State
Due to Register
Ttm*« Staff Correnpond^nf
'LANSING. Dec. 20. - Michigan
will register from 900,000 to
1.000.000 more men as a result of
Congr css’ new bill extending the
registration to men 18 to 61 said
Deputy Director of Selective Serv
ice Col. Samuel D. Pepper today.
“We registered 715,000 mm
between 2! and 36. under the
old law.” he said. “According to
figure* we get from Washing
ton, there are an average of
1.000,000 men In each age group
and Michigan has .5 j>er cent of
them."
Using this formula. Colon*! r* p
pr> est imated liable for mili
tary duty ages 20 to 44 would
total .1 200 000 The of course
would include those already reg
istered. classified and in rvice.
He said work had already be
gun on plan.* for a new legisla
tion.
“District* have alreadv been
aet up." he ra i "and we will
•oon begin enlisting volunteers
to help us with registration"
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Washington Dee. 20 gvs
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area, announced his organization
will not accept the findings.
"The diversion pf milk from
Detroit by our producers."
Hayes said "will continue. We
are not satisfied with the find
ings and we want no part of
the base and surplus plan."
The UDF is demanding a fiat
price of $3 a hundredweight !(>Y
'milk without regard th its ulti
mate use. The organization's
viewpoint was partially concurred
in by two members of the nine
man board. Prof. Edward W. Mc-
Fariand and Charles C. Lockwood,
who submitted a minority report
condemning the base and surplus
plan and charging the consumer
was not given proper considera
tion by the arbitrators.
DIFFERENCE IN PRIC E
The base and surplus plan,
sponsored by the Michigan ■ Milk
Produce! s Assonation, an organ
ization of lti.ooo farmers, pays
producers one price lor milk sold
in fluid torm and another for milk
used lor by-product purposes.
As th«* CDF strike went into its
fourth day, meanwhile. 48 more
state police were assigned to ihe
Macomb County rural areas
where widespread violence has oc
curred sporadically since
Wednesday.
Reinloicement of police guards
came aftei mobs bent on spilling
mdk headed for the metropolitan
dislrict ignored police convoys at
tacked officers with black tacks
and red pepper and. in many cases,
landed in tail.
Capt. \V. \V. Babcock, in com
mand of police in the* milk war
areas issued an order which would
bar all picketing at key milk re
ceiving stations
Despite claims of effective "di
version" made by UDF chieftains.
Fred \V. Meyer, president-manager
of Hie larger and older MMPA,
said the combined poundage of
"nnlk withheld by members of th**
rebel group withheld hv MMPA
member* because of intimidation
b.v PDF rebels,-or dumped along
loads by I’DF marauders has not
had any serious effect on Detroit
milk supplies "
After stating that local dealers
will be unable to absorb the addi
tional <ost, ttic board's report
read
•‘Mliile this hoard I* not em
powered to recommend retail
prices for milk it believes that
the people of this ritv should
understand that the price thev
are now paying for milk of high
est grade and quality is lower
than prices paid in any other
major American city.
"The hoard believes that in no
other ritv in the I tilted States
is th* quality and safety of the
milk supply more adequately
protected. According to tile evi
dence there has not been re
ported a case of communicable
disease traceable to milk In
this iitv in more than T 5 years.”
t. 5 AH BESTED
A * ' l of 15 person* have boon
).to-'ci /»• iho nqlK war opened
W.dr< 1 and approximately
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’ ;mijx <1 / During phv sk al <lashe>
'i/i run. rr.u.v. Mr* May J
Torisrink It of lx*nox struck
v't.iU Tro.>p* i pa* I >ot/ler of tho
FPs'kford State Police P»e-t, in the
' f if] will a rtom.-made black i »ck
Spe was arrested along witji
twr* other wooden and lour inpn
M's. Tor-r ink is (roe on S> cmM
bail. The clash occurred mai
,
Emmons Curbs
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Aliens in Hawaii
Bv Kl< It AKD HALI.EK
|ntl Vf»J service stalf lurreapumlrnl
HONOLULU. Dec. 20 - Lieut.
Gen. I)e|os (\ Emmons, new com
mander of the army forces ini
Hawaii and military governor of j
the islands enforced strict meas
ures today to prevent any {>ossi
bility <if fifth column activity.
I As his first official act in his
new post , General Emmons placed
all resident aliens of enemy or
Axis-dominated nationalities under
rigid restrictions.
j He published severe penalties
for violations of the regulations
and warned a I aliens against hos-j
til' acts or giving aid or comfort
to the enemy.
The general demanded that
aliens surrender liiearms, wrap-,
ons ammunition, bombs, explo-l
sives. shortwave and receiving!
sets signal devices and numerous
other devices to authorities.
The aliens were forbidden 1o
change their places of residence
without official approval.
They also were forbidden to
travel in airplanes and must carry
their registration card* of identi
fication at all times.
Chinese Raiders!
Jab at Kowloon
(Continued from rage One)
overwhelming Japanese forces,
military authorities said today.
The colonial office said that Sir,
Mark Young, governor of Hong
kong. reported by telegraph today
that operations were proceeding
on the embattled island, strategic
British Far Eastern naval base
and crown colony.
But London remained ignorant
of the exact territory in Hongkong
occupied by the Japanese,
i i A Reuters dispatch quoting
: the Tokio rad to said the Japa
i ne.se claimed a British warship
anchored in Shamshui Ray south
of Hongkong was sunk by Nip
! punosp planes >
London circles admitted that
loss of Penang, off ihe western
Malayan coast, was a strategical
.disaster.
They said the Japanese were
• likely, to make the earliest jmssihle
use of Penang Island as a sub
mu me base. Penang also may be
ijs<(i a< an air ha*e for .lap opera
tions over ihr Indian Ocean.
Miimxti IT, S\V JAPS
T<>KIO Dec. 20. ißy Official
Japanese Wireless) <INS> -.Jap
anest advices claimed today that
Nipponese forces on Hongkong
Island now' are "mopping up"
Hi lisp troops defending the rhain
of fortifications between Mt. Davis
and Mt. Sywan.
The Domei (Japanese) news
,agenv nevertheless admitted:
"British troops which re
treated to point* around Vic
toria Uitv and Stanley Point
Hre said to be still resisting.
"I he \ ietoria Park Fort i*
replying intermittently to Jap
anese batteries which have been
hammering away since yester
day.
"Meanwhile, huge fire* are
reported blazing in vnriou*
parts ot \ letoria City."
T| i' new-p;q*or Nichi Nielli as*
• Tit *1 »K\t ilic Japanese had <'a|>
tiired 22 gigantic nil reset voir* in
tPn Kow loon • mainland i section
i of Hongkong All the reservoirs
we.e filled with American oil, if
• was claimc'i.
DETROIT EVENING TIMES (THOSE CHERRY SS00)
Nazi Transports
in Arctic Sunk,
Moscow Claims
3 Fully Laden Troops Kips
Torpedoed as Reds
_ Seize More Villages
MOSCOW. Dec 20 (INS).—De
struction of three lully-laden on
envy transport ships in the Arctic
Oct u « i anno uu ed by the Rus
sian high command today, while,
on the land front charging Soviet
forces leeaptured towns and vil
lages by the score.
A new communique said:
"A Soviet submarine sank
three enemy transports totaling
2.5,500 tons in the Arctic Ocean.
"The transports were fully
loaded and escorted by destroy
ers and patrol boats."
TAKE 30 MI.LAKES
At the same time the Commun
ist newspaper Pravda said Soviet
1 1 oops recaptured 30 more villages
on (hr front southwest of Moscow
yesterday and "annihilated” 1,600
enemy troops.
Prior to this report, the Red
army vvas credited with recapture
of 39 other villages and two im
portant strong points on the Mos
cow front as the Russian forces
smashed still farther westward.
Meanwhile the high command
announced an entire German divi
sion of about 15.000 men had been
massacred in a single lightning
stroke. ,
The 134th division of the broken
armies retreating from the Moz
haisk central front before Moscow
was abruptly encircled by cavalry
men galloping swiftly over the
frozen snows and sturdy ski
troops The trapped Nazis were
slaughtered "to the last man. in
cluding even the general," Soviet
reports said.
PINCERS EXTENDED
The pincers lines about im
portant Kharkov, south in the
Ukraine, and Volokolamsk, on the
llattlv of Hrituin
NEW YORK. Dec. 20—(INS)
- In a broadcast heard by NRC,
the BBC today quoted an article
hv Nazi Propaganda Minister
Paul Joseph Goebbels in which
he said:
"Now flint the Russian front
is stabilized. Germany Is turn
ing her attention toward her
principal enemy—Britain."
Goebbels, warned, however,
that the "gigantic British em
pire" would not he conquered
in "a few days, weeks or even
months."
the Mozhai<k front di
rectly west of Moscow, were re
(xvrted extended.
The newspaper T/vestia said
violent street fighting preceded
the Russian capture of Ruza,
about 65 miles due west of Mos
cow. The paper said battles were
"fought in every house" and that
the Germans "stubbornly clung to
the ritv regardless of casualties
and losses in equipment" before
they finally were thrown out.
Kaluga, the big railroad junc
ture 90 miles southwest of Mos
cow on the Brvansk-Kiev line, was
claimed recaptured in a fierce on
slaught.
tThe Russians "now are at
tacking along almost the entire
Russo-Finnish front" and Fin
nish reports said British airmen
are aiding the attack, the
, British radio said today in a
broadcast heard by URS.i
The Finnish lines, strung be
tween Lakes Ladoga and Onega,
land on the Karelian front, were
reported buckling as ihe Russians
!hurled ski troops, cavalry units
and "winterized" guns and tanks
iat them. N
Ban Shipbuilding Strikes
WASHINGTON. Dee. 20 (INS).
As President Roosevelt's labor
management conference failed 10
reach a final agreement to pre
vent work stoppages in defense
industries and suspended meetings
until Monday, the maritime com
mission today announced a com
plete no - strike accord in the
shipbuilding industry.
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ANY NFCISSARY CHANCE OF
ADDRESS CAN RF M ADI SAMF.
DAY Ot NOTIFICATION
IN THE NEWS
things 1 Bant to say to the
folks.
“The clipper lea\es in about
six hours atfd pay clay is next
week. All I have is enough
money for this one and by
NEXT WEEK THE WAY
THINGS LOOK NOW. there
may not be any more clippers.
“It is all up to the Jap who
has gone to Washington to
talk with Hull.
“Personally I think it just a
STALL to get more troops
into Indo-China. They are
putting them in there every
day.
Ift
“Thanks, a million, Aunt
Virginia, for the letter. It
makes me feel kind of warm
inside when everything out
here for us fellows in the sui
cide fleet looks too damn
black.
“\\ e are ten thousand miles
from home in a strange land,
among strange people, and to
get a letter from home means
more to 11s than all the gold
in the world, even if you just
say hello.
“It takes mail over a month
to come by ship, and then we
are usually out to sea, and it
is weeks before we get it.
Your letter took fifteen days
to get here—usually it only
takes eight days hut this is
the typhoon season and the
clipper wa s grounded in
Guam until the weather was
clear enough to get to the
Philippines.
“I am writing this letter to
you from tlie main radio sta
tion here in the navy yard—
the only communication we
have with the good old
L. S. A.
“It is ten o’clock at night
and all the circuits are busy
so I may have to change type
writers any moment to let
some guy in.
“Just ten minutes ago I was
listening to the news from
the Domei news service in
Japan and from the reports
we are getting, it doesn’t look
s<£ good.
“Only a miracle will stop it
now. Japan has only two
ways to go—-one is to stop the
war and that means the end
of her, and the other is to hit
Thailand and cut off the
Burma road, and if she does
that it means that I will be
fighting her navy. All of us
are waiting for it to come.
“It is her only chance. If
she can knock out Hongkong
and Singapore before the big
fleet gets here, then she may
have a chance. The other way
Japan is through.
“The countries have her
out off from all supplies that
she needs for war and she
must get them. She needs oil
and metals desperately so if
you were Japan, what would
you do?
“It may he hours, days, or
weeks. It won’t he months.
We, who are right here in the
middle of it, sitting on the lid.
| and who have seen what is
going on, give Japan no longer
than TWO WEEKS. AND
THAT IS GIVING HER A
LOT OF TIME!. It will prob
ably come in the week com
ing up.
“Bight now my ambition is
to get the guys that are doing
ail the striking hark home
and (nit them aboard the
ships out here, and let them
go with us.
“If they want a fight, this
is a DAMN good place to get
it. Maybe if they saw what it
was like out here, they would
get busy and give the guns
we are going to need to save
their hides.
“It’s a good thing that I
have something more to fight
for than those birds or there
wouldn’t he any fight.
Say hello to everybody for
me and tell them not to
worry. Just remember the fa
mous words:
"‘Sirrr ht it hr sniff
that they fitr fjnt n good
American doun.’
(Continued from Pnge One)
“It will take a lot of tho»e
yellow, slant-eyed baby kill
ing dogs to get me, and there
aren’t that many in Japan.
“When 1 think of you and
the folks, and Roger’s little
Judy, I can fight like hell, and
there ten thousand other
sailors out here besides me
who are thinking of their lit
tle Jud>s.
“They will have to kill
every one of us to get through
and that is more than they
can ever do.
“It’s damn hard to kill a
man who has something to
fight for.
1* ft
“I’ve been to Shanghai and
have seen the poor little Chi
nese kids that have been
blinded an d crippled by
bombs that they were help
less against. While I was
there some of us bought
clothes for them.
“1 got a little girl who had
lost one of her arms, held her
in my arms, and thought
while I lived and could fight
no one would ever do that to
an AMERICAN KID.
“All the fellows out here
felt the same way.
"Just to see her pitiful little
face broke my heart. These
poor Chinese people look on
the American sailor as if we
were God or something be
cause we don’t bow to the
Japs.
“Whenever a Chinaman
passes a Jap soldier in Shang
hai he must bow. If he doesn’t
he will be killed. If that is the
idea of the Japanese East
Asia co-prosperity sphere,
then I don’t want any of it.
Every time I see it I see red.
ft ft
“The way those poor people
are shoved around is terrible.
In all my life I have never
seen anything like it. The way
they keep coming back for
more, they show no feeling
at all.
“They are helpless against
the Jap’s bombing because
they have no air force, and
what they do have is busy
trying to protect the Burma
road—the life line of China.
“I have talked with fellows
who have come down from
Chungking that were on the
Tutuila, and they say they
have seen one C hinese plane
go up against as high as
thirty Jap planes, and that
takes guts.
“They are fighting for the
real thing, and it will he a
pleasure to fight alongside
them. They said the way they
keep the Burma road open is
a ming le. It is bombed every
day hut the Chinese fix it up
again, and that road isn’t on
a plain where you can drive
around the bomb holes. It is
all in the mountains and is
tough going. But still they
keep going, i he Chinese have
been known to attack small
Japanese wars hi p s with
wooden juaks. «
ft ft
“I probably won’t be able
to send any cards for Christ
mas so I want to wish Mom
and Dad, and you and Uncle,
and all the rest of the rela
tions a Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year, and I
hope that by that time it will
he over, and it will really be
a Happy New Year.
“Tell to wish the gang
the same and tell Mrs.
that I hope to get home soon
to eat some more of her fa
mous baked beans.
“I’ll get a nice picture taken
at one of the studios in Ma
nila and send it just as soon
as I ran.
“The boy thumbing a ride
in the bathing trunks with me
in the picture is a Jewish ref
ugee from Germany and
speaks English better than
I do.
® "Well, it is almost time to
go on watch, so must close.
“So long, and keep ’em fly
ing.
“Your Affectionate Nephew
and Sailor Boy."
Saturday, December 20, 1911
British Realign
Their Defenses
On Malay Front
Garrison at Penang
Withdrawn Safely;
Lull Comes in Fighting
By S. A. WYKES
Inl'l Vrwi servlet Staff Correspondent
SINGAPORE. Dec. 20.—British
forces took advantage of a tem
porary lull on the Malayan fronts
today to reorganize their defenses
following safe withdrawal of the
British garrison from Penang.
A communique issued by the
British eastern high command said
merely that the situation was quiet
on both the northwestern and
northeastern Malayan fronts. It
added air force reconnaissance
operation* had been carried out
over enemy terriTbry «ind the
China Sea.
1 The London Daily Herald re
ported from Singapore that the
light weight of Ihe equipment
carried by Japanese troops in
Malaya was one explanation of
their rapid advance.
• This account said the Japa
( nrso who invaded ihe Kota
Bharu region poso«*ed only their
uniform*, rifles and ammunition
Oil for
BERLIN. Dec. 20 (INS).—
The German wireless today
quoted Japanese sources to the
effect that Japan has sufficient
oil supplies to la'-t a long time,
j "especially *inee the occupation
of Borneo has ojiened additional
oil reserves."
- and lhat the rifles were excep
tion;! Il\ light
J • Some of the Japanese al*n
were reported using a new type
of lightweight trench mortar
1 which the Herald *aid i« proving
highly effective for jungle war*
; fate.)
I In addition to losses sustained
in heavy fighting, frontline ad
vices *aid. thousands of Japa-j
ncse soldici s were drowned in the
rice field' of Kedah and Northern
Perak when the Muda River dam
(burst.
GEORGETOWN WRECKED
I BBC reported that the first
shipload of evacuees from the
. island of Penang has arrived in
Singapore Most of the civilian
population and all military per-j
sonnel and equipment w ere brought
away safel>, the British radio
stated.
• A dis|>atch from Batavia
said that many British subjects,
“mainly women and children, w-ho
had witnessed the first Japanese
aerial assaults on Penang, have
arrived in the Netherlands East
Indies capital. An official spokes
man said:
"They told us the business
section of Georgetown, the only
city on the island, is a smoking
ruin. They said also that the
Japanese airmen «!rop|»ed propa
ganda pamphlets which declared
Japan was at war with Britain,
not the Asiatics. And they said
that as the curious people picked
up these pamphlet* they were
machine gunned from the air.")
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British
Occupy
Derna
CAIRO. Dec. 20 (INS).- The
middle eastern high command an
nounced today thaj British force>
occupied the Lihynn towns of
Derna and Mekili yesterday" with
out opposition "
Derna lies on the Libyan
nearly 200 miles from the Egyp
tian frontier. Mekili is 60 mile
southwest of Derna.
(BBC reported that the Brit
ish found 72 German planes un
touched. on the Derna airdrome,
and "that the Germans retreated
I so fast that they had no time
either to fly the machines away
j or destroy them.’’)
i (Another British broadcast
j heard by CBS said "many more
prisoners" were taken in Libya
| and that "the Poles alone took
I more than 1.000.")
GENERAL ROMMEL FLEE*
LONDON. Dec 20 (INS).—The
Daily Express military correspond
ent reported today that Gen. Erwin
Rommel. German commander in
Libya, escaped by boat from
Bomba, southeast of Derna on the
Mediterranean Sea.
SAY 5.000 ITALIANS DROWNED
NEW YORK Dec. 20. BBC re
ported today that 5,000 Italians
were believed to have hern
drowned a Week ago when Britain
attacked an Italian convoy. Quot
ing a Tunis message, the British
broadcast heard by t'BS *aid that
two cruisers one destroyer and
three transports were sunk.
ITALY ADMITS RETRE \T
ROME. Dec 20 iRy official Ital
ian wireless) INSi Axis for< s
have withdrawn to new positions
west of Derna under pressure r-f
heavy British in Libya,
the Italian high command admit
ted- s bxtav. nrtrtmp’
"\n Italian naval -<|ua<lmn
escorting a convoy in the Medi
terranean contacted a British
naval squadron of battleship*,
cruiser* amt destroyers. After a
short shelling the enemy escajied
In darkness, employing smoke
screens, while the British de
stroyers attempted to attack thr
Italian squadron.
"The British destroyers wen
repulsed bv the fire of Italian
warships. One British unit 1 -
sunk, and sinking of anothe
Is probable. Italian ships r<
reived no hits."
MacArthur lb
To Full Gensrc-!
WASHINGTON l>e ?0 p
Pmidnu Roi
vated Lieut Gen limit: i* A M
Arthur. United States command *
-in-chief in the Far Last, 10 the
rank of full general
I Acting unanimously. the Son.ro
immediately confirmed the a< 1 1< n.
regarded a< a preliminary move
to MacArthur s possible appoint
ment by President Roosc\< It ,is
commanding general of United
States armies in the field the po
sition held by Gen. John J.
• Pershing in World War I