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VOL. XU
NO. 207
Sea and Air
Concentrations
Boost for Axis
the
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according to Ber-
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for County
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large acreage of cotton and pea
Europe
field* at
and
top of the poles Heavy damage to
United Staten
that
quota
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The Jury panel called for
day
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87th Birthda
Lake Dallas
A ’ •' fails
India Rejection
Of British Offer
India Gives British
Many Volunteers
District Court
Jury Dismissed
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
REDS WARN JAPS TO FOLLOW
YEAR-OLD NEUTRALITY PACT
pines, the all-out attempt to reduce
the Corregidor fortress and deeper
cncr<>achment on the Burma Road
to India, Was relieved only by the
continued offensive showing of Al-
lied aerial defenders of Australia
in the western part of the town
Motor boats were removing others.
■dor. Ad-
*. were in
r creden-
Theerfore all things whatsoever
ye would that men should do to
you. do ye even so to them: for this
la the law and Ute prophets.—Mat-
thew 7-13.
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for
Ire-
muddy and
been done
Mustache Price of
U. S. Citizenship
rus of
Royce
ton OC
cloaca that Berlin and
been sending "frantic
an effort to swing the 1
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mr»-
tte war bi
repudiated
sion of Ru
cow on Eat
calls that
to facill-
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Pittsburgh, April it.—<*>
-One mustache was the price
Shields Manson paid to become
an American.
Manson, a native of Scot-
land, was clean-shaven when
he filed his cltisenshlp applica-
tion and photograph. Since then
he sprouted a mustache. To ob-
tain his final papers, he had to
look like the original photo-
graph.
So Manson shaved his way to
cltisenshlp.
WIRE BRIEFS r
LOME (Erem 1 Lallan Brnadeasl Kain
MIDLAND. April 13 (*)
Army announced today that
men were kf *
crash of a
five mllee a
bombardier ■
The dead:
Hamilton. C
was on the western
M which to defended
erial troops. On the
■ . . , he Chinese were last
reported standing their ground
along the Mttang River. M miles .
T Tbungoo. Their only aer-
luct of the peculiar char-
i of the German race He
sal boas of Germany, al-
nr-r- iy»iu
small Idea of whet modem war-
fare can mean, for conflict since
Telephone service across the river , tlie days of swords has ()asaed them
Sunday’s low temperature was re-
corded at 54 and the maximum was
88. A year ago the readings were
09 and 79.
It may be the ’clocks’ that are
causing all this rain, as both the
Court House and Denton County
National Bank clocks liave been out
of order for several days, which
makes it klndo difficult for some of
us boys who have no watches to
keep up with mealtime
“Water is going across at Fish
Trap, but the road is being used to-
day." said Mayor Redding of Cross
Roads. "Clear Creek is about three-
fourths bank full at the Aubrey
crossing," said Jim Bingham, "and
we’re all in hopes that the banks
keep it, as we’ve already had suffi-
cient floods out our way.’’ Jim Pol-
ito of Lewisville was at the Monday
morning meeting of the fireside
dub. He said, “I’ve been having a
time with my ear. but it’s much
better.”
v for
Woman?
at Lake DaDaa
'By Associated Press)
KUIBYSHEV, Ruwia, April 18.—The German air force
accelerated its activity today in support of light counter-at-
Carl Smith’s "Don”. English set-
I ter and Tim Skiles' pointer. ’Pat’s
Pango Patsy", carried aff honors at
| the Port Worth Kennel Show Sun-
| day in competition with dogs from
i several states Carl brought home
I five ribbons and Tim one. "Don"
I won first prise in local setters; first
I in American Bred; Best of Wln-
I ners; Best of Breed, and Reserve in
I sporting dogs ’’Pat’s Pango Patsy”
I won second place in the Open Class
I for female pointers
ted arrived at G
damaged by attack
aooounta of <
ta and an
with five aircraft carriers, a num- | - - ♦ - — •
ber of light and heavy cruisers and (leftI is turning and 1
1 as ‘burning fiercely'
NEW YORK. April 13. —(*>—
Twelve officially announced ship
sinkings on this side of the Atlantic
last week brought to 127 the ac-
knowledged total of losses in the
area since Pearl Harbor. Nino of
the victims were American vessels;
the others one each of British,
and the cruisers Doretshlre
Cornwall, constituted an I
admission that the Japanese had
won dominance in the Bay of Ben- |
gal
The gravity of this situation, co-
inciding with Japanese occupation
moat unlikely.”
He said he baaed his belief on the
statemenu of German prtooners Of
•rar sstoea the qwatay n< rein-
forcements the Germans have sent
up. consisting "mainly of very
young, half-trained men or semi-
invalids. deaf and one-eyed, or of
wounded not quite recovered.”
Believed Ready
1 o Support
Invasion of India.
week it
snowing."
returned
last
covered
«v CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH
Associated Press War Editor
With at least a fourth of its
total strength in battleships,
perhaps half of its aircraft
carriers and forrniadbie con-
tingents of supporting and .
covering craft, the Japanese ;
imperial fleet has seized ef- j
fective control of the Bay of
Bengal in the war’ strongest
challenge to the United States j
and British fleets.
Prime Minister Churchill gravely (
disclosed in the House of Commons I
today that at least three Japanese
battleships, Including one of 32.720 I
France, and airdromes
and the low countries.
Tbs British acfcnowle
loam, and the German
mand put the cost of I
hours of RAF offsn *
Europe at M-1S <
and nine by night.
The Gorman air
its pace on the R
day, when four children and W
grandchildren visited ’ ter at ter
home. Her children BN J. A.Hon-
for French eoHteoratten. nr LewtovWe and Mmes. B«i
ring the British warships Repulse
i off Malaya Dec 10 The Repulse
while the Prince of Wales is de-
n. Picture passed by Russian apd
According to the thunder-proph-
et. Jim Reeves, Denton should, have
a cold snap on April 15th and some
say also on the 16th., as loud thun-
der was heard here on February
15-16. Reeves said, "You can most
always depend on thunder in Feb-
ruary bringing a cold spell on the
corresponding days in April." But
the big thing right now about the
weather is to get the moon-man
straightened out on that predicted
drouth.
4bpportttntty -for many to replant
' corn which will be necessary after
CHUNGKING, China, April 13.— the downpours and washing
(4’|—The “Flying Tiger*" of the ------
JESS’ S-k.'SE Sabine River
Eastern Burma, al 3 p n>. yeater- At High Point
day and aet on fire three Japanese (By p,efU))
that we should understand this in
trying to assay the present crisis.
north of Prome,
having passed Binbaungwe on the
east bank of the Irrawaddy about
55 miles short of the Ysnangyaung
oil fields of inner Burma.
A London source said the Japa-
nese probably ted reacted otter
oil fields across the Irawaddy from
Allanmyo, 40 mites north of Frame.
Thia gettoa —---- —
wing of the I
by British ire
eastern wing
• ->
k <|
te the ml'____ _______,, _
though I daresay the things that
are done in his name are not all
done with his knowledge.”
The glnbaKsador left here
_ gpend
aS
held tn bondage as an inferior
race One of the deep-lying causes
of the Nationalist bitterness to-
. wards Britain, as I know well from
study of the situation at first
I hand. Is the Indians’ claim that the
British never have treated them as
equals There is a very definite ra-
cial problem there, and it Is well
The Jul/ penel called for the
seventh week of the District Court
was dismissed Monday until fur-
ther notice, and Judge Ben W.
Boyd continued two cases until the
June term of the court. ------. '
In the civil case. Service Mutual
---Daniel et
Industrial
riation for
» absence
ton, the attacks
enemy lorosa,* jk,-
Ray Vaughn, east of Denton,
surely has reason to be proud of
hte part with the United Stated
forces, as he has four sons and one
step-son in the army and navy.
Cecil Vaughn and Arvel Vacghn
are in the Navy and Wilbur Vaughn
and Wilson Vaughn are in the
Army. Janies Morgan, step-son. is
also with the Army
CORPUS CHRISTI. April 13 -(4’>
—India Is giving British arthles in
the East 1.250,000 volunteers, where-
as before the war with Japan there
were not more than 150.000 native
Indians in the army, Lord Halifax.
British ambassador to the United
States, said last night.
The ambassador. In an Interview,
said the failure of the Sir Staf-
ford Grippe mission to India was
the failure of a political mission
and not a military or strategic set-
back Tor Great Britain. He said Be
felt there was no hope for immedi-
ate solution of the Indian problem,
but that His Majesty’s government,
would continue to hope for better
luck in the future
Hitler, Lord Halifax declared,
"has the capacity—I might say the
genius—for mesmerising his people
They are solidly behind him. I am
sure. However, I am firmly con-
vinced that a Hitler could not have
existed among people like our own
—like the people of the United
States.
“We would not tolerate the at-
tributes of a diotatorship We would
not have our decisions made for
us. our liberty hamstrung. Hitter
is a product of the peculiar char-
on Corregidor during the past 24
hours, making a total of 22 in two i
days." the communique went on. i
"Our anti-aircraft batteries again
kept, hostile bombers at a high al-
tit tide and our Installations sustain-
ed only minor damage There were
so casualties."
Communications between Corre-
gidor and the invaded island of Ce-
bu were out.
The War Department also an-
nounced the loss of the freighters
Liberty and Meigs, of the Army
transport service, the first by sub-
marine torpedoing Jan. 11 off Ball,
without loas of life, and the other
by bombing in harbor at Darwin.
Australia, on Feb. 19. with two fa-
talities and eight other casualties.
Not until Prime Minister Church-
Ill made this disclosure today was
the threat to communications with
India—If not the direct threat to
India—known to be backed so pow-
er wully Earlier estimates of the
enemy’s power In the Bay of Ben-
gal counted at most a cruiser force
and a pair of aircraft carriers with
supporting craft.
Battle Uncertain
Whether the ‘British fleet would
take up the challenge to the full
was not at once apparent, although
last week when the Japanese
strength there was not so fully pic-
tured, It was reported that His Ma-
jesty’s warships were sssking the
Japansse for battle.
The British naval situation is one
of thinly spread forces in the At-
lantic. Mediterranean and otter
waters where they have thousands
of mites of lifeline communications
to guard.
The official statement in London,
said that the Japanese battleships
in the Bay of Bengal Included one
of the modernised Nagato type
mounting IB-inch guns, the air-
craft carrtera have been reported
to Include at least one ef the new-
er MjDOQ-ton ve—ii capable of
ton and R. B. Harvey of.
flhe tea been a Den-
r resident for 45 yean.
.1 I wp
Insurance Go. «a. T, M.
al., to set aside award of
Accident Board, the appl
continuance because of tl
of a material witness was sustained.
As the defendant’s lawyer was ill,
the case of the State of Texas vs.
J. P. Hampton, Involving alT
acceptance of a bribe, was
continued.
Three Men Die
In Texas Crash
SIX PAGES
----- 1 11 -------is—
Germans Seek to
Feel Out Depth
Of Russian Front
- u -tm-ihe
--- three
teat night ta tte
a-engined boaster
of tte Midland
' sonool.
,iTSS.lteiJrm£:
h com- wm-lt
last M terweea ate
on over "Psees River. WT_—
tenmmi ate teflgte
suae as yesterday a
tart aighL
METHODIRT MINISTER
HUCUUMBH
FORT WORTH. April 13 — (JPf—
Funeral services will be held at 11
a. m. tomorrow for Rev. M. K. Lit-
tle, 89, dean of Methodist ministers
in the Centra! 1¥xas Conferenoa, I
who died yesterday after suffering j
a stroke.
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DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
DENTON, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 13, IMS
force increa
... .. Mfon front,
support of light coimtor attacks'
Infantry and tankrta a general
10 Charged wniwiw, IB.—i/r r—■ nr- «.r f y-T efR
Amba-wulor ministry announced today that RAF 1 jhilTCR (jOIlllCll
LONDON, April 13 - <7P>- Vidkun ,
and shot down one enemy fighter Quisling, head of the Nail-sponsor- j
without Imw. ed government of Norway, has es- j
... - tablished a church council with i
BERN, Hwltserland. April 13.—(An I himself In control to replace the 1
—France’s demarkatlon line fren- . Assembly of Bishops, a Reuters .
1 tier, separating the occupied and dispatch said today It said its in-
unoccupied terrlortlea, waa reported formation came from a DNB. Ger-
eloKCd today awaiting expected de- '• c»..
velopmento from Vichy on collab-
oration conversations between Mar-
shal Petain and pro-Axis former AND SO MacARTHUR STILL IN
Vice-Premier Pierre Laval.
Mr and Mrs. 8. A. Dowdell leave
Tuesday for Portland. Oregon,
where they will be with their
daughter for the next seven or
eight months, and. as Sy says,
"maybe well make that our home.”
(By Associated Press)
In apparently growing conviction
that the Red Army holds the whip-
story of tire man ww
rar three times before
Denton: The Denton Lodge of
the Ancient Order of United Work-
men was organised J. P Knox. J
B. Watkins. R H Bell. George Kin-
caid. J C Colt, F Fulton. J A
Han. Sam H Smith. P C Withers,
H. B Henry. G H Blewett. W C
Pratt and J C. Chapman were
elected officers of the order Fifty
Year Ago Column, Dallas News.
"In Kansas City last
wasn't raining; U was
said F. B Huey, who
from a business trip there
week. “Everything was
With snow when I left there.”
The Sabine River continued ris-
cd tod^y. ' jng sjowly today after reaching a
LONDON. April 13. —(/Ps— The peak of 29 feet, highest in 25 years
British government will knake no at Gladewater
Between 100 and 200 persons had
Nazis Accelerate Air Activity, As Warm
And Slushy Weather Prevails; Red Army
Believes It Holds Whiphand.
| _______________________________________
April 13.—<A’»— A returning Italian
submarine was credited by Um
Rome radio today with sinking fiv<
ships totaling 31,799 tans In quid
micceasion off the American coast.
Reds Believe
ice< in standing on their own j Whiphand Held
n Tice of invasion by barbaric r
i; the people of Hindustan
have been afraid to die. Still,
statement on Sir Stafford Cripps’ Between 100 and 200 persons had I ln afrajd that the folk of that v.._v 1>w- w,
mission to India before he returns, been evacuated from their homes still largely primlUve country have i hand on Russia’s European front.
Japanese Fleet Seizes Control
Of Bay of Bengal in NewlThreat
--------------- ' r- rr ■ "
and Air ^ainera Catches Sinking of Reptoise and Wales
The annual stockholders of llie
Denton Country Club will be held
thia Monday night, 7.30 o'clock, at
the Club House. President Norris
Russell and Secretary Clarence
Milter urge each member to be
present as matters of importance
will be considered at the meeting
and directors will be elected The
directors will then elect the officers
for the coming year.
“BATAAN"
‘ ♦ SYDNEY. Australia, April 13 ♦
' ♦ —OP)—In tribute to the men ♦
+ he led in the Philippines. Gen- ♦
♦ era! Douglas MacArthur baa ♦
. ♦ named his Australian head- ♦
. ♦ quarters "Bataan " Persons ♦
1 ♦ telephoning his headquarters ♦
I ♦ now are greeted with: “Ba- ♦
I ♦ taan speaking." ♦
bfit I wonder why
s It four times and
ggt back to where hie clothes were."
Traffic Oop says. ■
>HM) man who drives sixty snd
seventy mllee per hour right along
Jrtfl he »jwcuwtan won.
By EDDY GILMORE
KUIBYSHEV. Russia. April 13.-
(A> Striking at what waa called
’’blabbering" in Japanese “military
and fascist cliques" about war in
the north. Soviet Russia today ob-
served tte first anniversary of the
signing of the Japanese-Russian
neutrality pact by warning Tokyo
to live up to all ramifications of
tte agreement.
Tte pact, world shaking in Its
Implications Ilka tte non-aggres-
slon accord reacted by Adolf m<
ter and Joseph Stalin jurt before
.. ---------n in 1939 and later
’ tte German inva-
l. was signed ta Moe-
r Sunday, ot Mat jmt.
f ' .
' one of the leading mouthpieces of
Russian policy declared sharply to-
day that Japanese -blabbering''
about Invasion in the Russian east
"might damage, first of all and
moet of all. Japan herself.”
Thus Pravda, newspaper organ of "'
the Communist Party, oddly ob-
served the first anniversary of the
signing of the Japanese-Russian
neutrality pact, tte baste of tte un-
easy peace between the two powers
and striking in similarity to tte
RtiMlan-German non - aggression
l»act which Germany voided by in-
vasion of the Soviet Union last
June. i
Pravda firmly warned Japan to
live up to all ramifications of tte
agreement.
"It is necessary." the editorial de-
clared. "that tlie Japanese military
and fascist cliques who are dtasy on
military successes should under-
stand that their blabbering about
war and invasion in the north
might damage first of all and most
of all Japan herself ."
Siberia Is north of Japan.
The anniversary snd the edito-
rial came white the new Japanese
ambassador, Naotake Sato, and tte
new United States gw “
miral William H. St
Moscow to present
tlate.
How much of Russia's confidence
depended on tte possibility of a ssc-
ond European front was a question.
There have been repeated
tte Axis thus be diverted
tate Russian's position
Germany.
Nada Take Precaotiew
Neutral advices from Berlin via —•• «
WMtaiilSHd teta that Osruffiii fossa estebretod
at an allied offetwive ant “
man-occupied Western Bui
PWPtad German renewal
tialibfls f„ “____ ________
Marshal Petain and former Vice
Premier Pierre Laval have confer-
red thrice since Saturday, It was
reported.
Tte RAF smashed at. Axis arse-
nate in Germany and Italy during
tte night
Not a bomber waa reported lost
on tte IJOO-mQe round trip foray
4, j against Turin, a munitlona-maklM
center af Northern Italy. MR M
least 10 bombers and one fighter
BERN. Switzerland. April 13.—UP) I
—Marshal Petain and former Vice-
Premier Pierre Laval were report-
the Indian Ocean with the Japanese cd today to have conferred three
occupying an Intermediate position times since Saturday in an Axis-
between tire two It is possible to prompted renewal of negotiations
use large forces qn one eide and I ^or Increased French-German col-
small forces on the other, or vfte laboration which neutral dispatches
versa." from Berlin said were inspired by ' ... ..— , . . „
Japanese Dominance ‘ fetr* <*“•» Allied Offensive and Norwegian registry.
His statement, covering the Eas- asa'n*' German-occupied Western
ter day bombing of Colombo and , Etrnye.
Trincomalee. strong points on Cey- Informed diplomatic sources said
Ion, and the subsequent sinking of
tacks with infantry and tanks as tha Germans sought to feel
out the depth of the Sovie front.
Warm and slushy weather—prob-
ably the warmeet thus far this year
prevailed in the fighting areas.
A dispatch from the front said
the German aviation arm still was
strong, but asserted that Soviet
fliers were overtaking the slower
Nasi planes and beating them -
with machine guns, cannon and
ramming.
Three German counter attacks
were reported on the Bryansk front
south of Moscow, but Soviet reports
said they definitely were not a ma-
jor operation.
Russian sappers, extracting all
possible aid from nature, were re-
ported today to have changed tte
course of floodwaters and washed
tte Germans out of a fortified vil-
lage In one of a aeries of triumphs
recorded by Soviet Russia during
tire week-end.
Just as the waters swept over tte
Germans in this village, so is a
wave of confidence in ultimate tri-
umph sweeping over the Soviet un-
ion
Optimistic Russians give
reasons for their confidence:
1.—They believe the expected
spring offensive will be their offen-
•ve.
2They are convinced the Ger-
man army will be smashed on Rus-
sian soil this year.
3.—If the worst should come, they
are prepared to fight on. in the
Urate of Siberia
Bolstering the first point, a So-
viet brigade conuntesard broadcast
from the front that “a German
The stairway in the Court House,
the criminal stairway which war,
supposed to have been used, but
probably never was, to take prison-
ersi from the Sheriff's office to the
District Court Room, is being tak-
en down. It was placed there when
the Court House was built in 189«:.
and in recent years it has not been
used. The hallway will be made
into a private office for Sheriff
Roy Moore.
tempt to fssl out tte depth of tte
Red Army's positions. Wann WM-
tter and slush prevated ta "
priAipal fighting arete
Russian sappen at one point
wore reported to have diverted tte
course of flood waters from tte
spring thaw, washing the enemy
out of a fortified village. Roesiana
voiced the belief that the next of-
fensive would bo their own, so that
tte German army would be ■nasb-
ad on Russian soil this year or, U - d
the worst came, that tte Red Army
would continue tte fight in the
Urals at ■folrts.
Aeknewtodge amtiAt
Tte German high command ae-
fl
knowledged Russian attacks at ece-
eral potato, but named only Kerch
Peninsula, in the Crimea, where It
said tte Russians, weakened by
losses Saturday, wore repuleed Sat-
urday. .7^
In the other sectors, the attacks
were by
likewise i
iln.
Motartoed infantrymen were
credited with killing IjBOO RiiNtalto
and taking 60 priooners ta a Ger-
man attack.
German bombers were reported
by Berlin to have struck again at
iMutxsr lismUmatioiu Bt Murmansk,
I Russia's far northern port of en-
try, where a roundabout report
from Moecow said a big convoy of
American, British and Dutch ships
had berthsd.
Tte war in Africa and tte Med-
iterranean war marked by a Ger-
man report that a British or
had arrived M
»d raidsen'
____ elainTKK
ptanes ted forced a withdraw:
British advanre unite eouthew
El ItabllL U
The Italiano said that six Curtiss
planes wore downed by German
fighters yesterday over Libya.
Tte Briteh said merely that
heavy dust storms on tte- Libyan
desert reatrtoted operations to pa*
trollng.
Japs Advaaee ta Berwm
In Burma, tte Japanese were re-
ported to be advancing up a main
road ?• mites
I Jack Seagraves has been promot-
1 ed to Staff Sergeant at Victorville
I Field. California, and Mac Sea-
I graves Ls taking basic training I*1
I flying at Curtiss Field. Clayton
I McGinnis, son of Prof A C Mc-
| Glnnis, who has been in the service
l of the United States for five years,
I is now stationed at West Palm
I Beach, Florida, where he is a radio-
I technician, a few days ago. ac- |
I cording to a letter received from i
I him, he saw a big bomber light on
I the field and it waa in need of
I some radio repair When the pilot
I came out. McGinnis found that W
I J. McCray, Jr. was the pilot, so
I they had a fine two-hour visit in
I the bomber “J" is doing ferry-
I flying for the U 8. forces.
uomcoiii^, uiciuuiug one oi ss.isu ..... .........’ . 1 ".I1
| tons mounting 16-inch guns, along j This picture, radioed from Moscow to New York, is described as show
[ and Prince of Wales under attack by Japanese planes which sank tiMBt
L *777-17^ leaving a trail of smoke and a great white wage
several destroyer flotillas are op- scribed as “burning fiercely" while four bombs explode near ter Sfon
eratlng there at the front door to ' U. S censors. (NEA Radiophoto.)
Indl» | ____________________________________________ X
The size of the force indicated -n.... — ■ ■ ■ ■ mi B
to Britain that it had been sent 1 a a z \ ' -----------
to support invasion of India With VlrlV ( f TWlIl I ZU
such a force. London military ob, , J O
servers said the Japanese could \T* 1 f i
shield the seaward flank of tend! V H'hV lOF F TPDCh
forces descending from Burma, j T 1 1 VMVll
across the Upper Bengal border A • 1 . / ’
into the Ganges basin A 1(1 t() GCnnailV
Broadly suggesting a strategy to w 1
meet the challenge, with a possible j
Implication of the need for United
States naval participation. Church-
ill said
We have the Pacific Ocean and
’The Reich government, especial- i
ly the army command, would like
! to be assured of a protected rear
; before starting an offensive in the !
east, a neutral dispatch from Ber- R*den (Princel D>ekinan DjajWIn
lin said. I ingrat, former Javanese director of
Tire Germans apparently muster- j education al Batavia and now corn-
ed all their French collaborationist mtaaloner of the Netherlands East I
aides in the new attempt to push Indies government in Australia and
was disrupted ax water rose to the by
. . .. ■„ « 4 Hardly Realise Helplcooneos
They can scarcely realise that
their civilian hoot* would be of no
----------- | aVai] whatever against mechanised
Crops were further benefited by Japan** forces and aerial power.
I lurther rainfall during the night. Nehru recognizes it and apparent-
i I>lay to planting was not consld- iy dont Bu he can to show
ered serious, according to the State j his people the light
Agriculture Department At the same time we mustn't
Corsicana reported a .53 inch rain ' forget that there are two sides to
which was not heavy enough to I this age-old quarrel between Brit-
cause a rise m creeks ain and Hindustan Nehru said that
Other rain reports Dallas 62. a fundamental factor in India's at*
The vehicle of the warning to-
day was an editorial In Pravda, or-
gan of tte central committee of
tte Communist party.
Although not belligerent in tone,
the editorial spoke In firm phrases.
"It la ooooMary.” Pravda -.aid,
"that the Japanese military and
faactet ciiqoM who are dlrey on
military succMggg gtmuld under-
stand that thefi’ btabtartac About
war and Invasion in tte north
might damage first of aU and most
of all Japan teixolf "
The editorial came while both the
iHpnnrxe ambnxxiidor, Naotake Ba-
te, and tte new United states am-
bMsador, Admiral William H-
Standley, wore ta Moecow to pre-
sent their crodeottau .. 4.
■ , ' v vr • ,
, . l
• < • . » : v ■" .-’J
•It was too dry for crops and
now it’s too wet," mid Bam HuUl-
van of Sanger here Monday
"Bumn’n has just got to happen so
v,e can make some crops this year,
ft sems to have rained more In
Denton this time than around 8»n-
y* • 'H-
I Jimmy giggled when the teacher
read the U’ *
swam a river
breakfast.
“You do not doubt that a trained
■Wimmer could do that, do you,
Jimmy?"
••No. ma’am, t
te didn’t make
Bv DeWITT MacKENZlE
Wide World War Analyst
Hie Indian rejection of Britain’s
i offer of dominion status, in exs:
! change for support in the war ef-
fort. certainly is porridge and cream
j for the Axis bowl, since this lack of
co-ordination In defense of one of
1 the strategically vital bases is a
I grave threat to the Allied cause.
Pandit Nehru, political leader of
the All-India Congress (Nationalist)
party, who is said to have been one
of a minority of the leaders fa-
voring acceptance of the offer, dis-
‘ o have
•Is" in
ts away
from Britain. Utua tte rejection
; of tte plan gives tte unholy bro-
therhood of Germany and Japan a
: chance, no matter tow unwarrant-
ed. to stick another feather in its
bonnet and claim a diplomatic suc-
cess.
an official xpokesman declared to-
day.
LONDON. April 13.—</T>— Reuters
said today that the Steckteta o, „„ „„„
newM»P<T Dagerv, Nyheter publish- I oll‘ roafls
was feared. Oil wells I
rd a Mowow radio annouuresnent wrre serviced by boat Live-
that a hiK convoy of AmerieaiVBrIL s|ork WM removed
ish and Dutch ships had berthed | r ~ - - -
i at Manii^nek. - furtrier rahifalj dtiring the JiiCht. | Nehru recognises it and apparent-
MELBOURNE. April 13. —(/Pi—
north of Toungoo Their «
ial support, the American _
teer Group, or "Flying *!■*•»."
raided Japanese air fields at Toun-
goo yesterday, setting fire to three
bombers.
County Exceedt 42
Navy Relief Quote
;_______
AUSTIN. April II. m teWMW
General Gerald O Mann, state
chairman of the Navy relief drive. 1
reports that although tte campaign
has not officially opened, RoekwaU
County has already raised its quota
and "to going Strong." «
Governor Coke 8tev
proclaimed April l»-» I
at which time ‘
for the
Ion, and the subsequent sinking of ^he aged marshal and his pro-Axis
the British aircraft carrier Hermes former ““Lstant met for the third
• - and tlme toda>' ln preparation for what
indirect German dispatches said might be - . . i
• - reorganization of the Vichy govern- | botnbers, Chinese dispatches re port-
ment. probably tomorrow “* •“*""
Their conversations, these dis- ,
patches declared, concerned fresh
efforts by Laval, aided by German
of Bataan Peninsula In the Philip- , Ambassador to Paris Otto Abetz. to
— ..---1. —. ---. .---->— I get back into the French cabinet,
revise procedure of the Riom trial
j of responsibility for France’s milt- !
‘ tary defeat and reduce Anglo- |
I American influence in Vichy, par-
nUo,._..n Ucularly before Germany’s long-
and the sinking of several small aWfdted spring offensive against
Japanese boats in Manila Bay I <
A War Department communique j
covering reports up to this morning j
diecloxcd that shellfire from Cor- |
regidor and other forts In the bay I
had shattered a number of light, j
craft and set fire to several others
tn Mariveles Harbor ,
It appeared, although the com- I
munique did not so state, that the i ----- —rr’"'; " r;— , m-— ■"“• ■«*. i a ninaamenw iscwr in maw n »v-
Japanesc might have been prepar- L®’al Jn’’° “ cabinet position New Ae*ton4h s*to to<tay Japanese Plalnvlew n yesterday. Borger 65; ttludc la "dtatrurt or dislike of tte
Ing for an overwater assault on^r >,>>^r firsteffort met stubborn rta^ztohave e^turylrnuehn^ 8herman 83 British government"-an attitude
Corregidor. Peta‘" April 3 . J? ----------------- which call, short sighted and a
•n^re were 10 Japanese sir raids , I]’” hit toose new at-j F-rfeet lie. ff ■>«//« r’stave sentiment "
on Corregidor during the past 24 i *-*cks on American diplomacy in irtsrnoN s>rti n (tr»— n,. >ir y/aiSI-ing tieatlS . Berhaps we might better say
hours making s total of 22 in two i Unoccupied France and charged London. April 13.—pr>—The air . , „ ... that manv Indians feel thev are
Lv. " wJS ^ jthat United States Ambassador miniatry announced today that RAF i‘j,hurt'll (-millt'lF
' William D I«ahy had "ruled i fighters made a large wale day- .
I France through intermediaries for U»ht sweep over Northern France
' 18 months." a"d shot down one enemy fighter
44^
Lock British Loyalty
Indeed, white tte Indians abhor
i the idea of any foreign overlord -
(ship, be it British or Japanese,
there still remains a widespread
feeling among them as regards
these two nations that, as Nehru
puts it, "one to really as good or
bad as the other." Nehru himself
i declares that he cannot tolerate
i this concejjtion, but the fact that |
It exists most certainly hurts the
A rainfall which not needed wm Brttteh position and makes the Axis
recorded Sunday night at the State
Experiment Station here, measur-
ing 1 23 Inches. Because ol the
heavy downpours last week, total- I
lag nearly five inches, fields were
much damage had
by washing Farmers
riod of dry weather to plant the the British and of organtotag fhair
•- own opposition to invasion prob-
ftute due to be_»eeded, and to glve ^>y ,»» hgtfavr mcouragenrent to
ganized and confitettaff 'defense
must hamper Its own ends
America sympathises with tte In-
dian desire for Independence, since
our own country went through a
similar crisis And one must admire
the Indians’ courage, however, mis-
taken they may- be in the present
Instant
feet In
hordes;
never I.
I'm afraid that the folk of
going easier.
Whether the Japs will seise upon
the weakness produced- by the
BritLsh-Indlan imbroglio and at-
tempt an invasion remains to be
seen, but the situation is an Invl-
tatlon to them The Nationalist
were hoping for a considerable pe- ldca of refraining from acting with | offensive this spring appears to be
_______Al A- __A AA. - fha RHttaH anil ref re«wmnlal*to IKaA* tgviMtemlw ”
own opposition to invasion prob-
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