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>AY AFTERKOON, JANUARY 28,1H2
NO. 143 *
VOL. XL!
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Meet as “Yanks” Land in Ireland
American G*
i
German Off Coast
New Blows at,
v
A
ery time.
in
BANK BANDITS
Joining in the
Dallas
session
One end of that long line, which
First in Ireland
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Bor-
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lame. *
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ndite escaped tn a
rest said he b
papar money,
MEXIA. Jan. 99.-4*wnto hm-
**wt Basil h National Bank was
in toe b<
director.
UCANS BUY
5S LIABLE TO
NEW ORDER
vwmif ewa tvaiui.i OCOiMUll
January 29 of the annual tri-city I
sales congress of the Texas Aaaoci-
Seek 85 Per Cent
Parity Price
Level for Corn
34 Miners Die
In Colorado Blast
Grand Axis Flan,
To be sure, the Asia drives at Li-
Russia Reports
Recapture of 79
Additional Towns
EVERYTHING
AT STORES BI
said one 0< the bodies <
imUfied aa that of An- <
today
... losses
dead and prisoners In the in*
to fan bask wpew that a
Mart. This setise *
■Mfto that the pe
eUli was being
submarines as a distress signal)
The captain was unable to ac-
count f„ 2 1 “
than through the possibility of
22. above, of Hutchinson. Minn.,
who was the first soldier of the
new A. E. F. to set foot on Irish
•oil as the first contingent lands
to take over prepared bases.
The
its power drive -4** along the
Rzhev rail line toward Velikie Luki.
nan Wilbur C. Drawdy.
odied Beaman John D. Ax*
ijtor- ■ ■ • ■
- BIO OB JANEIRO, tott’M—tto
—President Oetaile Vargas today
signed a decree breaking BrastTs
dfatoamUc and osnuhenlHaMr
lions with Germany, Italy and Ja-
pan.
1 4p
I w
NHB ®
vault
ORB.
•one and the
JtoTto'*knoe
mptoytaAThey
by name and
came in re-
fa tort Br*
not* employed
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Wipe Out Third of 40-Plane Enem
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X
as wavering British defense llnm
executed a new withdrawal, less
than M mUee north of the *400,000,-
000 island stronghold, amid the
heaviest fighting of the Malayan
... I
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
Those locked in the vault were
resident J. Sandford Smith; Ma
Ml “ FfctoMw* B-S-Smith;
g Son. Port ttnith. su-
ed all highways tn
MMl^tjkto^ and *
‘ d aa
in W» "
German defence system,
ward completion, ooosii
lines of defense
a mile and .a
other.
Despite a stiffening of the Ger-
as was re-
J i
l
UB NEAR
) 'ft* y. -
*
“Everything is going
over our way," said Ho
of Krum,
of tha *
.they
single day and bread sells ♦
----Jib a loaf, the Journal de ♦
♦ Geneve reported todafF— ■ ♦
120,000 LOOT
TAKEN BY MEXIA .
Major Gen. James E. Chaney,
sell P Hartle as the latter art
London. (NBA Cablephoto.)
u don’t believe it, try it on
I, or your neighbor, or any-
0 might think you aren’t an
rtlcal genius. It’ll work ev-
♦ —(F)—Famine conditions in ♦
♦ Greece are so acute that 3300 ♦
♦ persons died in Athens alone ♦
♦ foi\uT
_ »
which would
mean victory for the Axis—Egypt,
the Suez Canal, the Middle East.
For wrath kiUeth the foolish man,
and envy slayeth the silly one.— [
Job 0-2.
Anger is momentary madness, so '
control your passion or it will con-
trol you.—Horace
Chinese Report
Many Japs Killed
CHUNGKING, Jsn. 2».-UP)-An
ofltoial Chinese tabulation ( *
placed at MAM the Japanese 1
Jk l——2 ^.2---2_ 22_
vadera’ third lacing battle
Changslta.
Planes And Ships Scour Gulf For This
And Sister Boat; Supposedly On Texas
Coast to Attack Oil Tankers.
t" , y
14. .. *■j
by* and
arete o|
ment of .
pean and the
WASHINGTON, JSa.
Treasury tax experts told senators
today they were stadying the entire
sabjert of restricting er roeapttor-
tag large proflto from anuameait
contracts but mmd delay stocks
recommendaUon*
■ ■ .i ■ son
Formation Over Rangoon, Burma; Eight
American Bombers Engage in Hard Blast
uro raiders struck
perl of Emmahaven.
of a great pincers movement, cal-
culated to be coordinated in the
harbor were ordered to remain in approaching spring with a German
port and
ation of Life Insurance Under-
writers. Denton life insurance sales-
men will hear an address by Her-
bert A. Hodges of Kansas City,
secretary of the National Associa-
tion of Life Underwriters, It has
been announced by Joiui P Cos-
tello, president of Uie Dallas Asso-
ciation.
them to the bank.
V waited toittt other
ported tor wook, lined
up ^aod^l^ked them J** —-
which will
Tho
Radio Operator Guy Devons.
second M*te William^ Hughey
had beonktaUfii
hwrtn HtoBB -
NMons In the develop-
le strategy '
Ithe OB?
[ SfpiS^’rl^twtoc; the part*
’ • *-r'- • "• ■ >• ■
observed, “seems Inevitable."
Signature of the price fixing mea-
sure will not necessarily mean an
Immediate H<xkI of price-fixing or-
ders. said one of Henderson’s lieu-
tenants who. declared that situa-
tions will be met as they arise.
Relying almost entirely up to
now on voluntary arrangements
and orders without the specific sup-
port of law. the GPA has fixed price
ceilings on 72 commodities ranging
from washed cattle-tail hair to
'Imo and Oelrtm Utond.
Krnmy Land to Ttap
An N. K I. communique acknowl-
edged that the Japanem had appar-
ently occupied the burned out oil
cantor of Batik Papan, Bast Borneo
port on Macassar Strait.
It was apparent, however,
ly trap. set by the butch morelhan I ably ITO pounds and irare a'gng
-a- wtofc- agw whew thsy eaaewasn |
that Balik Papan's great oil fields
had been destroyed and implied
that land defenses had been with-
drawn.
> In accepting the ’Invitation,’’ the
Japaneee armada unwarily sailed
into a hornet** neat of allied sub-
marines. bombers and surfaee war-
craft. No immediate estimate waa
I”*.
the thouMbnds.
MMiWflNr; the teller. Mr*. HMM
Luca*, and a former employe. Whi-
ter Womack, who happened to
come In.
Forrest said Walker wto abto to
open the vault and free the group.
The robber* taft shortly before
• Am. -----------
from th* Kluang meter, to Central
Malaya, were preeslag the nearest
threat to Singapore.
On the west coast, British. Am-
tiaiinn and Indian Imperials were
bIMMng fiercely mar Sanggarang.
only to a*flee above Singapore, af-
ter a la-mile retreat from Bata
PalMB.
TWODtv-ooron Japaneee bomber*
returned to tte StoMlt on Singa-
pore iteeif, attacking a suburban
area.
Other Ji
heavily at „
on the west coast of Dutch Suma-
tra. acrom the narrow Malacca
Strait from Malaya, aelltm two
comTnunicAtloTi with the city of
Krndart, OH the southe«At coast of
Oelebes Island, but-declared that
' strong roatotanee was being omM
WASHINGTON. Jan 28 -OPA-
The Agriculture Department today
nought. In effect, to place a price
ceiling on com at about 88 per cent
of parity.
Taking cognisance of recent ad-
vances in future markets that car-
ried the price above thia level, the
department announced It would use
every means at Its disposal to stab-
ilise corn and other feed grain
prices at around the 88 per oent
parity mark.
man resistance, pi
ported Ato Oto Bv
conquer campaign.
Russian cavalry on the South-
western front recaptured nine
strongly held town* and left 900
were roughly handled," Gen. Wav-
eU'i headquarter* said. "Two were
shot down and one was damaged.".
Japan's invasion hordes drove
■ry Seaman P. O. Lawson,
wain Chester K. Emelgh,
Eugene Drawdy,
oy Andree GarciUa,
MOSCOW, Jan. 28 Recap-
ture of 79 more towns was report-
ed today to dispatches from the
Russian front which said the Red
army was smashing fotward North-
west and Southwest cf Moscow at
the threshold of a double defense
line to which the Germans were re-
tre*Un«- brought Mhore last night.
(On the basis of p’eviowi Infor- *«—- «---■---
mation on the Soviet forward posi-
tions. that Nasi line apparently ex-
tends from near Velikie Luki to the
Vyasnia region, thcn-c to near Bry-
ansk—and already is threatened
seriously at both flanks.)
Soviet reports indicated that the
d to-
__ *wo
worth, one about
half behind the
Lom in--------
Two Firet Here
Ttoo fires rawMta^ in sltoht toms
PW DepariaMRk Tutohy evenias
One was In a bale of cotton whM
had beta temporartty stored to th
AAA ofltoe, *mt Hickory street
. .
V
i fl till I
ntritWi tiiii uai
■AST TEXAS: Uttie
JHRUlmBMrhLtaBb. BBS L______
west perifoa, H<tht free* to eart-
eentral partien ereepl ew eoaet te-
nigM> — / ’■
WEST TEXAS: Warmer <
torseoB, art guMXs eeM
as Uwt a^hi........
a six-shooter,
lives, which presumably ran into • they wore goto
UWtate th*lDutah listed only M)jhomo until*al
Japanese troopships and warships ‘ ‘
sunk or badly damaged. American
accounts put the flve-day toll at
M. including a battleship.
Dispatches from Batavia did not
disclose whether the battle In the
shark-infested strait still contin-
ued after yesterday, smashing
LA FAZ. Bolivia. Jaa. Mz-VP>—
Informed sources said today that
Fuyitarte Irie, J span see charge
d’affaires, had delivered a note to
the Bolivian foreign offlee hinttag - . . . — —-----—
Japan might MediUe the Bowdl kttemptod to intercept OV MtaMN
American coast aad halt Beltvta1*
overseas trade tf rite severed rota-
tions with the Axis.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20^-0P>—The
British radta heart by CBS today,
reported that TOMtt to MAM Jap-
anese are said to have been dreww-
ed already" to the United Nations*
ate* aad sea adhrtm on
troop tro nop oris and 1
the Htratt of Macassar.
agatast the invaders there.
N. X. I. planes again bombed the
airdrcmeaad storage
'W&^ta^^»SSlo^rfteLrtw*k.
part of British Borneo, It was an-
nouneed.
Major attention was restored to
the MaHtyan theater of the Pacific
by manes at the British center
and Mt flank which caused a
iwa) also on^the^eartcaM^
I KtaStTa mESd tSm fated
(See U. & JlYBfl, tags »
rector for Port Arthur.-------
"The exact site was latitude 27
degrees and 46 minutes North and
longitude 96 degrees and 48 minutes '
West.”
The notice was
shipping interests.
The vessel was seen submerging.
Commander Ferguson reported.
There were no other details.
Near Naval Station *
(Port Aransas is a small <
on T"
25 mill
site of
est air training station.
(It is a famous sport fishing cen-
ter, and through Its nearby pass,
an outlet to the Gulf of Mexico,
I.Ka rUl_rwrw4itr»Hvm 'TVvms Flitlf ’ • . . .. g ins
and put another claw on the pin-
cers.
Hitler may be expected to strike
at Russia again in the spring, and
one of his main objectives will be
to break down into the Caucasus.
If he can’t achieve that readily, he
may attempt to drive his way
through Turkey Into the Middle
East.
Whether the Russians, and the
Allies in the Middle East, will be
abel to hold the attack will depend
mainly on the amount of equip-
ment available to tham.
The robbers, amed with a pis-
tol and a shotgun, SNPP WkOrtld to
have antarod th* Porrwt hems
early today, looked Mrs. Forrest in
-
■VT
„ Mart to Ksm*
Forrest said the men entered hi*
home al Ml Bouth Wall Street
about 4:80 a. m.
were beside my bed. he contin-
ued. "On* waa armed with a saw-
ed-off shotgun and the sMr had
— - — —ay told mo what
do ”
ed at the Forrest
_ •:•• a. m. when
they placed Mr*. Formol to a elemt .
and locked the dooes end windows
of the houee.
IBen they drove with Forrost -to
the bank and waited until the
employes arrived.
Forrest said the men forced him r;
MOUNT HARRIS. Oolo.. Jm>
28.—(A*)—Thirty-four miners per-
ished ip an explosion to the Victor
1 American Fuel Company coal mine
late last night Only four men es-
caped alive.
Black damp,
oxide gaa filled the shaft after the
Mast and impeded the work of res-
cue crew*, unable to reach the vic-
tim* for nearly six hours
Nearly every family in this small
mining community 900 miles north-
west of Denver had relatives em-
ployed in the mine.
t Mine Huperintondent Hefiry
Johnson said the 94 men were trap-
ped about 5300 feet Inride the tan-
nel of Ete falng,
The four who escaped were work-
ing nearer the entranee. They
hoard th* blast and flocL . ..._w ,
.....< ■
• A '
fa addition, tt was reached vol-
untary price agreements with about
Ito Individual producers, froaen
' some prices, and listed others at
what it considered "fair"
In all. about 35 per cent of the
total value of wholesale goods is
already under price control, as is
Atarnri hatf the Arid of metals and
metal produuU
scope^pcice cgntroMs on-
provision*.
A single administrator 1* author-
ised to fl« price maximums on se- Is
1 whenever he S
CORPUS CHRISTI, Jan. 29.—(AP)—Capt. Alva Bern-
hard, commandant of the Naval Air Station here, said to-
day that a submarine, “doubtlessly German” had been sighted
about 15 miles from Fort Aransas this morning and there
was a probability that another was nearly.
Planes and ships from the sta- j
lion are now seeking the craft, lie
said.
•The
Commanding *11 U. B force* on the British Isle*, greet* Maj. Gdn Rue-
hl a Northern Ireland port with the ’'second AEF". Photo cabled from
. ■■ ■ ■ ----------
I Broad Triple
Squeeze Develops
hard said j s •
ip submarine was sighted by a AXIS otnitCgV
By DeWITT MacKKNZIE
Wide World War Analyst
From die battle amidst Uie swirl-
ing sandstorms of the great Libyan
desert, eastward to the fierce strug-
to ■ ■
IF - "Hl “Jr;* «"V<‘W!WTO'
CORD-CI*
become a by-word in the kitchens. 1941. charges as a standard, also
comer store*.end office* of Amer- [coulA.be ordered to -crowded de-
**- !<MI«kNgS.
Further rationing, the WPB board Buyer* and sellers of all rommod-
itiea affected by price order*, except
fanners and fishermen, would be
licensed. After one violation and
a warning, the administrator could
ask the courts to suspend a license
for as long as 12 monUrs
Criminal penalties up to 95.000
fine and two years in jail also are
provided for violators------
Appeals could be taken from OP A
orders, either to the administrator,
* special court of federal judges.'
or the Supreme court.
12 Survivors On
Tanker Landed
NORFOLK. V*.. Jan 29—VPN-
Twelve survivors and the body of at
I least one crew member of the tor-
pedoed tanker Francis E. Powell
have been landed at Chincoteague
and will be brought to Norfolk this
afternoon, the Fifth Naval District
announced today.
-- ted for at least 90 of
Powell's normal com-
plement of 39 men. The tanker
was torpedoed off the east coast
eariy Tuesday. Seventeen were
U_.^A_a «L.^A .-XaJtoX
Coast Guardsmen picked up elev-
en of the survivor* and one body,
naval officer* said, while an addi-
tional survivor and another body
were brought In by fishermen.
“JU'
k —-JLttl Of nOmfwQ
Public relations officers at Nor-
folk issued thia list of 11 survivors
(for whom no addresses were avail-
able hm tmmedistaly):
Chief Engineer William K
Chance.
gram
Except as to farm prices, the
levels between October 1 and 15. j
1941, would be used as standard,
parallel price rises Before farm prices could be Um- i
iveral bnfid'n dollar* ‘itod, they could rise to lie per eent - Ptm ois*. Pvt MUburn Henks.
’ “ - ——of parity, the average price between i “
1919 M or the level on Oct. 1 or
Dea 15, 1941. Farm price orders
would be subject to approval of the
the price administration post: secretary of agriculture. The ad- |
the Buet Canal, the Middle East. "r ~ f wulJ ^11
the vast Indian Empire, and control ecutive order. The added ntionlng couMtuxilUM to stimulate prodtw-
of the Burma Road upon which authority, given him with Mr. tion and control prices, and would
China is dependent for war sup- n^velt’s approval, virtually i have the power to check profiteer-
pile* The idea seems on the gran- guaranteed that the name of Hen- Ing and hoarding •
dlose side at first glance, but it's not person in the next few weeks would I Rent maximums, with April 1.
<__—i_____- 1 become a bv-word In thr kitchens 1041 chArses ar a AtAiidArd aIkti
ranker of Mgenes* ahtoa
totgiirt fa sh>4fa W-
ear BtraR, roadway to Java.
Jtere of Gen Sir Archibald
will start this week to Pullman.
Washington, where they will visit
their daughter, Mrs. V. A. Leonard.
SAN JUAN. Forte Biea, Jaa. «L-
(FN—The terpedetag of aa allied
steamer waa reported today by a
■hip captain who announced on bls
arrival here that he had rercwed 71
of tee crow and passage** bot ta-
dteated that more than 9M peroeae
were mtaaiife
By BOGKR D. OBXENX
American fliers were officially credited today with strik-
ing furious new blows at a Japanese invasion armada trap-
ped in Macasaar Strait, where 25,000 to 80,000 Japanese
were said to nave drowned already, while U. S. “Flying
Tiger” volunteer pilota wiped out one-third of a 40-plane
Japanese formation oven Rangoon, Burma.
A Dutch Bast Indios communi-
que mid giant four-motored U. B.
bombers sank a big Japanese tram-
port. left another in flames and
straddled a cruiser with sticks of
bombs in the 400-mUe Macasaer
Strait north of Java. —— ———
A War Department bulletin said
a formation of eight U. 8. Army
bran her* engapad to tha attad
which one of the bomber* waa
A direct hit was scored on the
crui»er. • - , '
Pounding home Japan'* greatest
naval disaster of the war. United
a
■•J
There were nine degrees differ-
ence between the minimum temper-
ature* of Tuesday and Wednesday
morning. Tuesday morning the
low was 42 while Wednesday morn-
ing It lacked only one degree of
freeaing, with 33, at the Experi-
ment Frt-m
submarine is doubtlessly :
German and it probably sneaked in '
during the night with the inten- j
j tion of attacking oil tankers." Bern-
hard said
| The --:-----
I naval air station plane on patrol,
Bernhard said.
I “It is possible that the second
submarine Is also In the vicinity
WASHINGTON. Jan. 38. —Uto—,'*ta*l.
Everything that Americans buy at
the stores became liable to ration-
ing today, and legal price fixing
was only one short step away.
The War Production Board dele-
gated to Acting Price,Administra-
tor Leon Henderson full power to
ration retail commodities, only a
short time before the Senate com-
pleted qongreeaional action to a
chine.
Within the claws of this huge
crushing machine, if they could be
PORT ARTHUR. Jan. 28—</P>— ' closed, would lie the resources and I
The Navy announced today a sub- [ the military power which would
marine had been sighted 15 miles
Southeast of Port Aransas at »
a. rn ,
"It was not determined whether
it was an enemy submarine but it
I is presumed it is," said the re-
port from the office of Command-
vssikica nuu vngiuM» , r
bills would extend Pr » R F^guson Navy Port Di-
__ ___ i iwt/ir for Pvm*4. A-rtmtr ----------
Foiio* Moo
sEsa
attempt to Im
Ona nBM
weighing about 140 ,
late 40** and wearlm
coat and gold-rtmm
It was apparent, however, the ' was slighter t:
invaders had been lured into dead- , about 99 year*
Brady I
the following j
published at ■
works out as
Mr*. Rom Baaiaf. another es*>
loye, came to late and heard the
group cam* out of tt»
Forreet said ho Art
found hh wtf* wm 1
The robber* apnea
the namea Of the «
called the proeldent 1
when the bookkeeper
Harry Schwenker of the
Standard clipped
from the New Era.
f.Bogus Springs. It
Take your age
Multiply by 3
Add 5 2-
Multiply by 50
Subtract 365
Add the loose change in your
pocket (under one dollar)
Add 115
And the first two figures in the
answer are your age and the
last two the change in your
If -
Complaints have already started
about bicycles having no lights on
them which makes riding bicycles
a hasard both to the riders and
the automobile drivers One Den-
ton man said. “I barely mlseed run-
ning a bicycler down the other ‘
night, as he had no tail light on
the machine and I didn't see him
«rJl I Was nearly on hhn.” With
mor* and more bicycles getting on
Uie streets of Denton, as well as
| other cities. every piecaution
slioukl be taken for safety, and
Surely a ,light U nec
! tectfin. .
| - jn »<te W~-o.
Increased legal protection against
theft of that most valued article of
civilian and military use—the rub-
ber tire—la the subject of propoa-
al* to the Nation’s Congress and
10 State Legislature*, the National '
Highway Users Conference reports
to a summary of pending bills With
the current rubber shortage and
stringent federal rationing, the au-
tomobile tire has skyrocketed from
a station of commonplace utility to
one of the rarest and most sought-
after articles of commerce with a
new attraction for thieves
Measures to Increase penalties for
tire thefts by making Uie offense [
a felony or imposing prison sen- ,
tencea up to 10 years and heavy ,
I fines have been introduced in Illi- j
I'noU. Kentucky. Maine, Mississippi. [
New Jersey. New York, Rhode Is- i
land, Bouth Carolina and Virginia
Some of those ——,J ——
the penalties to theft of other au- |
tomoblle accessories in addition to ;
tires. One Illinois proposal would
provide for registration by owners
and dealers with county clerks and
assignment of a certificate of own-
ership upon sale by the dealer to
Uie consumer.
SEEK NAZI
During 1941 railroads performed I ——x-.—— ———
5.1 per oent more freight service, : ,
measured in ton-miles, Uian they . | I •
J did to 1929. They also have per- ( 9* w* w> I I XS A J ZS X*1
^tM^T^tT/101081 <*rart dgiigvgo
as great as in 1929. Yet their gross '
earning* from the performance of j
these services were nearly a billion
doitere leu than in 1929, due u> the 1
reduction* in average freight rates
and passenger fare* in Uie inter- )
vanfag twelve yean.
Some of the boys and girl* are
I doing pretty well with fishing this
week, and by Saturday luck should
I attend those who trek to the lakes
I or streams. And. too. the first four
days of February should find the
I fish biting rather freely.
L.John M. TYiompson, »clux»l-bus
driver of Argyle, brought in some
six hundred canceled stamp* for
the slum hospital box at the First
State Bank Wednesday "We've
boon taring these stamps for some
time, and we’re glad to put them
to a good use,” he said. At Christ-
mas time. Thompson, instead of
giving candy as heretofore, gave
each of the fifty-three student* who
ride with him a ten-ccnt Defense
Savings Stamp in the regular fold-
ers supplied for that purpose, and
ne aays that some of them have
I filled the folders or nearly so.
pretty weU
■ way," said Horace McGee
j. “From what I bear most
je grata men want rata and
believe a big part of the late
have been killed." Amos Brew-
er of Barter said, "I'm going to
replant part of iw oats, as they
have been either killed or dafnaged
pretty badly. We’re needtag rata
oh the grain ” John Whitley of Pi-
lot Point said. “AU of the grata
I non around to our section are
^nw - j,. ta Den-
preparihg to enlist ta
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--------.,<w «|—rae
DENTON
distributed to
WBIHUU Mb rviv ruwiui, maau taiv uiuwwi . Din -- - _/ ~'^.4.* - - ~
nearly 300 miles distant, of the they also are to my view the flanks | i
presence of the craft.
Bernhard said all ships in the j
port and warnings were sent to drive down into the Caucasus or
all vessels expected to arrive within the Middle East towards the oil and
the next four days. other supplies which Hitler must
A blackout of the CorpUs UHHstT'have to maintain hie fighting in*-
area, including the air station, was
ordered for tonight.
Shipping Notified
PORT ARTHUR,
said.
The Red army also was said to
be continuing mile after mile ta
Rffwv rail Moe
< much-amended price eoulrol MU
and sent it oo to Frarident Boag* .
*4ww*ffert*e sew- | volt. —
•- ’ Democratic leaders said they e»-
for the Euro- ’ pected the chief executive to sign
theater But •thc measure, although some of its
| be distasteful to him. He had ask- ; believes prices arc excessive and j
■ ed for the legislation more than 1 threaten the war production pro-
I six months ago. as a check against
Inflation Living costs have risen
more than 11 per cent since Sep-
tember. 1939, government econom-
ists say, and - - -
have added several
to the cost of the nation's arm-
ament program.
The capital generally conceded
that Henderson would be retained
in U— ____ ...v
he now holds by virtue of an ex- mtaistrator also could buy and sell
operatione, but are closely and vi-
he (liscloMd are patrolling an area ot the same world-wide war. They
extending 250 mile* North of the
border East of Corpus Christi
While on patrol duty, the officers (
in Uie planes give navigation in-
struction to students. Bernhard ’
said the plane reported the sub-
, marine and that he directed it to
"maintain contact" wiU> the under-
sea vessel. The navy plane was un-
armed. he .said.
necesaarv for uro- ' e*M*ktly frightened the sub-
1 **?■ marine because it submerged."
Bernhard said
First word of the submarine
came when the Navy Department
warned shipping at Port Arthur,
“t-"!* 1? 8 J McP“" ...........- - ... — ____-
S!I -Sr
i and shortly after the submarine
1 was sighted a smoke bomb appeared * gle tn the wet heat of the Malayan
out of the water four miles South ' jungle north of Singapore, is bet-
’ of it.” I ter than 85 hundred miles as the
Possible Distress Signal crow would fly.
(Smoke bombs, released by sub- : One end of that long line, which
marines, rise in Uie air like a rock- reaches a quarter way around the
et before settling back on the wa- j 8^ it* source in a vital war-
. . .u.---— ..—*___—1
1 othkr rests on a key position of the |
allied defer** th* npw nf
for the smoke bomb other I the Orient.
____. -------\ T its; I-’" *
indicating s second craft. ‘ 11*°
Bernhard said the submarine was
w.. - a on
o'clock this maiming.
marines, rise in the air like a
ter. They irequenuy are used by *P®t of the western theater
___._____<____ ___ _ >■ ■ - ■ < - . ntVlhr rwstji nn a lr«kv >v*ltlmi
allied defense in the new battle of
It's a far reach between these
scenes of conflict, and It take*
__ a stretch of imagination to realise
spotted" by" a patrol “plane at 8:30 they are not only wholly separate
o’clock this manning. operations, but are closely and vl-
Patrol planes from toe station, , aaeociated as part and parcel
cannot be dissociated or treated a*
distinct unite for military purposes.
So closely are they interlocked
that it strikes me we can see in
them the beginnings of a grand
axis strategy which envisages a
vast triple squeeze against the al-
lied defense that stretcher from the
Mediterranean to Uie Western Pa-
cific.
so far-fetched as might appear
and there can be no doubt Uvat Uve
Nazis and Japs are working towards
thpt ultimate goal.
Wants Libya
Hitler's efforts to maintain a hold
on Libya Iravc several strategic
reasons back of them, but hi* chief
I purpose is to secure a base from
I which to strike again from the west
I at Egypt and Uie Sues Canal. This
... operation would be synchronized
,, , T1 . with a drive into .toe Middle East.
Mustang Island^spproxknately | lhus creatlng , plncera movement
? OorpJ“ ?',rUU' on Egypt and the Canal.
tfie Navy* newest and larg- Hlu„ maneuverlng to
carry out that scheme ever since
Italy came Into the war and made
Libya available as a ba*e. Now the
entrance of Japan into the conflict
the oil-productive Texas Gulf |
Coast. It is one of six principal en-
tries from the Gulf to bay* along
the Texas coast.
(Port Aransas is approximately
34M> miles Southwest of Port
tour.)
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