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Published in the HEART of the BRAZOS VALLEY
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NAVASOTA, TEXA8, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1942
VOLUME XLVII
NUMBER 32
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“The Australians and the Dutch
have been warmly co-operative from
the beginning, but there have been
Remington-Nazi
Arms Pact
UNITED STATES ARMY HEAD-
QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Apr.
18,—General Douglas MacArthur has
received from Washington a directive
clarifying his authority as commander
in chief of Allied forces in the'south-
western Pacific and the extent of
hi* control/, it was understood today.
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details to work out,” he added.
) Stimson said General MacArthur
had the same type of command as
(1) Formulate plana and programs
for the protection of life and prop-
erty against war hazards, such as
air raids, including the mobilisation
and training of civilian auxiliaries-
the latter to be undertaken in co-op-
eration with state and local author-
ities.
(3) Mobilise the maximum possible
civilian effort in the prosecution of
the war, including the enrollment of
volunteers to help with the program.
Landis, a presidential executive or-
der said, would keep in touch with
from
the industrial and military measures
incident to the war, and secure the
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story, t
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bridge is completely dostroj
ground to distributing sticks of dynamite to be placed all over the bridge
to play havoc with Jap troops, if and when they come.
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. Nickels and dimes from tiny tots
; as well as large contributions are
swelling the,Texas Navy Relief
Society fund toward its $210,000
quota. Three-year-old Ellen Wag-
ner, whose father serves with the
navy on foreign shores, gave her
contribution to Yeoman Bill Slaugh-
ter at headquarters.
RAJ. Attacks
ugh. We fought to
re planes and hewly-
exercised previously by Britain's
General Sir Archibald Wavell in the
southwest Pacific and had the same
general powers in the area as grant-
ed in another area in 1M8 to Marshal
Foch. wj- g.-
Stimson said whether New Zea-
land was included in MacArthur’s
B
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• from correspondents in upper Bur-
ma said, moreover, that trucks jam-
med with 35 or 90 Chinese troops
or four horses were rolling south-
Westward over the Burma Road to-
ward the battlefronts, and that the
road, no longer an artery of com-
merce since the Japanese hold its
sea-heads, was taking on the grim
' aspect of an important
' thoroughfare.
The troops were said to be newly
uniformed and equipped with mod-
ern weApons.
SAN FRANCEDBOCK Apr. 18 —There
will be flying Dutchmen once more
over the Netherlands East Indies if
iMaj. pen. L H. Yan Oyen has his
way.
The general, now arrived here
from AustsaU* en route to Wash-
ington, expects to establish a unit
of Dutch flying cadets somewhere
in the United states-youngsters who
were being trained in Java when
war came, and who were evacuated
ahead of the Japanese.
"We did the best we could in the
Indies,” he told interviewers. "We
fought as hard as we could, but it
situation was grave, with their for-
ces depleted by two months of hard
fighfing, and the Japanese newly re-
inforced to a total of about 75,000
men. .
British forces in the Taungdwingyl
area farther east ,stmwere protect-
ing the right flank of the Chinese ex-
peditionary force.
Chinene Kill 1,000
The Chinese high command com-
munique, covering developments up
to Wednesday, said tre Chinese, un-
der U. B Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stil-
well, had inflicted more than 1,000
casualties on the Japanese in in-
crfaaingly heavy fighting on the Sit-
tang front, roughly 30 miles north of
Toungoo.
Besides the danger to their right
flank, the Chinese still were men-
aced on the east by the Japanese
offensive into the Shan States from
puppetized Thailand. The invaders
reached a point 16 miles from Lo-
kaw, capMai of the Karenni Tribal
State, but there were reported to
have taken a severe beating, leaving
many bodies on the field.
Another Japanese column trying to
reach Loikaw from Toungoo was
bogged down.
More Chinese on Way
Chinese news agency dispatches
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O’Connors ahd O’Toole
To Enlist in Navy
NEW YORK, Apr. 18—Uncle
Sam’ navy will be glad to learn that
three O'Connors and an O"Toole are
going to enlist.
Patrick, Roderic, and Owen, sons
of Andrew O'Connor, the late sculp-
tor, and James St. Lawrence O'Toole
of the O"Toole Galleries. are giv-
ing up art for war and will don uni-
forms at the dose of a current ex-
hibition for the benefit of the navy
China Losss OU ' :? (
Destruction of the Yenangyaung
wella cutsaf an important source of
oil for China. ,‘2
' BUrma’s oil production in 1941 was
7,700,000 barrels, compared with
United States' production of 1,400,-
000,000 barrels and world production
of 2,216,236,000; but its proximity to
the battlefields made it important.
The British acknowledged that the
WASHINGTON, Apr. 18. — Pres.
Roosevelt established a board Thurs-
day to advtoe and assist James M.
Landis in the direction of civilian
defense activities.
Landia, who has headed the office
of civilian defense, since the resigna-
tions last February of Maj. Fiorello
H. LaGuardia bf,New York and Mrs.
Roosevelt as director and assist-
ant director of that agency, will serve
as chairman of the board.
To the board, the president named
Secretary of War Stimson, Secretary
of the Navy Knox, Attorney General
Biddle, Director Paul V. McNutt fo
the office of defense health and wel-
fare, Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of
(Boston, Earl D. Mallery of Chicago,
executive director of the American
Municipal Association; Norman H.
Davis, chairman of the American Red
Cross, and Gov. Harold Stassen of
Minnesota, now serving as a lieuten-
ant commander in the navy.
The step was revealed in a White
House statement which said the
board was intended to integrate OCD
activities more closely with those of
other war agencies and to ‘gear its
program to. he war effor.”
He and Mrs. O’Hare plan to go to-
gether to Washington, D- O.
O’Hare had nothing to say about
his experiences but the story al-
ready has been told in full—by oth-
ers. The intrepid flyer was alone in
the sky above an aircraft carrier
somewhere in the Pacific when nine
Japanese bombers were sighted. .
Others took off to help him, but
Outlining the functions of
board, the White House said
would:
WASHINGTON, Apr. 18. — Sec.
Stimson said Friday that General
Douglas MacArthur was in complete
charge of the “strategic direction”
of the United Nations’ war effort in
the southwest Pacific and the "prac-
tical co-ordination" of the campaign
in that area to. defeat the Japanese
invaders.
The war secretary told his press
conference that General MacArthur’s
authority had been fully agreed to
by the Australians and the Dutch,
and the agreement embodied in a for-
mal directive signed April 3.
St.maon said he was "frankly sur-
prised” at statements credited to
MacArthur’s spokesman in Australia
that MacArthur's authority had not
been fully defined.
' He termed “a tempest in a teapot"
what he described as a flurry result-
ing from the statement.
I "From the very beginning when
‛ the President authorised General
MacArthur’s transfer from the'Phil-
ippines to Australia, there had never
been a moment’s question that he
would have the over-all strategic
command in that area,” Stimion
'ought to be plain to the
of the nine and th. others fled.
Downtown as Navy
Relief Drive Opens
Campaign Starts
Throughout
County Next Week
The Navy Relief Society arive in
Navasota will open with martial mu-
sic Monday.
For Director M. H. McNeely's
school band w# play downtown at
10 4 m. Monday to announce the
beginning of the campaign to raise
Navasota's part of the $525.00 coun-
ty quota.
Mrs. J. M. Quinn, chairman here,
has appointed the following commit-
tee of solicitors in Navasota: R. A.
Patout, Larry Jacobs, Lou Herten-
berger, W. H. Koehn. H. N. Sandall,
and John F. Scott.'
Over the county other committee
chairmen are launching similar
drives, County Chairman Gerald C.
Fahey said, and th* campaign will be
intensined from Mondy Until May 1.
Grime's county's contributions " will
go toward the $5,000,000 fund the
Navy Relief Society hopes to secure
throughout the nation.
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Government Cotton
Consumption May
Effect Civilians
DALLAS, Tex. Apr. 18. — Govern-
ment consumption of cotton for war
purposes will be so great that its
effett will be evident in civilian sup-
piles by the end of this year. C. K.
Everett, director of merchandising of
the Cotton-Textile Institute, Inc.,
New York. said.
Everett, addressing a group of re-
tail buyers, said cotton is being pro-
cessed at the rate of a million bales
a month and the government is take
ing about half that amount.
The raining supply is less than
enough to satisfy civilian needs in
1941, he said, adding that the govern-
ment will probably require greater
amounts of cotton later on and that
the nation will have used up Ito
surplus by the end of the war.
Farmers will produce much larger
crope to meet the demand, he pre-
dieted.
LONDON, Apr. 18. — The Nether-
lands government here said today
that it had recognized General
Douglas MacArthur as in command
over all Dutch forces in the south-
west Pacific ever since his arrival
in Australia.
A spokesman said there had been
no specific action by Queen Wilhel-
mina accepting MacArthur as com-
mander, inasmuch a* this was re-
garded as unnecessary. It was
pointed out that two days ago a
spokesman for the government said
Hero of Aerial
Battle at Sea
Returns to U.S.
BAN FRANOISCO, Calif., Apr. 18.—
Lt. Edward OTHare, she navy’s one-
man air force who shot down six
Japanese bombers and sent three
others scurrying for home, 1* back
in the United State* and was head-
ing for Phoenix, Ariz., to join Mrs.
O’Hare
The lieutenant, who holds the rec-
ord for the moat planes bagged by
an American flyer in a’ single en-
gagement, arrived here on a trans-
pacific clipper after a flight from
the war zone.
Met by a detail of navy officers,
the smiling, modest officer was
strictly uncommunicative and thought
only of making connections for ths
continuation of his journey to
Phoenix.
Germans Busy
Many Nazis Held
•On Defensive
During Raids
LONDON, Apr. 18. — More than
1,500,0® German soldier* and civil-
ians are "fully engaged in defense
against the British air offensive con-
ducted by the bomber and fighter
commands,” the air ministry news
service said Friday.
“In effect,” (he news service said,.,
"the bomber and fighter commends
are compellng the enemy to main-
tain a long and purely defensive
western front.
At least 750,000 Germans were be-
ing kept busy in passive defensive—
as wardens, fire, watchers, demoli-
tion and bomb disposal squads and
ambulanee and hospital staffs, it was
estimated. Another 750,000, virtually
all regular soldiers or airmen, were
said to be engaged in the immense
German active defense system.
A searchlight belt 200 miles long
and 20 miles deep in places, with
batteries of 10 to 20 searchlights
every five miles, was said to be
stretched across northwestern Ger-
many. In addition every large Ger-
man city has its own searchlight*.
> “Antiaircraft guns are in their
thousands," the news service added.
“Between them the guns and
searchlights keep upwards of 600,00
troops busy in the west. At least
20,000 men are needed for the ob-
server corps, 15,000 for air raid com-
munications, 20,000 of the most skill-
ed for night fighter squadrons, and
60,000 for* headquarters and admin-
istrative staffs."
Besides this diversion of German
strength, the news service said, RAF
fighter sweeps over northern France
and the low countries “are respon-
sible for keeping half of the fighter
strength of the German air force
away from the Ruasian front.”
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Board Named to
WASHINGTON, Apr. 18—A justice
department attorney told the aenate
patents committee today that an in-
ternational cartel agreement between
German interests and the Remington
Arms Co., controlled by E. I. Du
Pont de Nemours & Co., had at one
time impeded Americam sales ot infT-.....
Itai y ammunjtion ’ to England and
other parts of the British empire.
I Allen Dobey, special assistant to ..
the attorney general in the anti-
trust division, recited to the com-
mittee from a 34-page statement mat-
ters which he said , impeded American
ammunition sales to Britain for war
use, but then noted that in the last
few days Remington and the British
purchasing commission had supplied
more information.
"In fairness to Remington,” Dobey
concluded, "... we do not believe that
Remington’s agreement with R.W.S.
(the German interests), not to sell
military ammunition containing tet-
racene to the countries of the British
empire has in fact operated to date ;
as a serious, impediment to the Allied
war front."
Dobey testified that thf agreement
permitted sale of ammunition to
England "for shooting grOuse, quai,
ducks, and for target practice. But
Remington may, not sell ammunition
containing tetracene to Great Brit-
ain for the purpose, of shooting Ger-
mans."
The witness explained that tetra-
cene was a priming composition for
firearms and munitions and as-
serted that an agreement involving
the German patent on the compound
produced these results:
1. Prevented sale* of tetracene-
primed ammunition to the British
purchasing commission unti} recent-
s
2. Gave a German company access
to military information through Rem-
ington Arms Co., royalty payments
to the German company.
3. A German company may collect
royalty .on ammunition sold to th*
United States' amry:
Dobey’* charge* surprised: mem-
ber* of the senate committee and
Sens. Lucas (Dem.) of illinois. La
Follette (Prog.) of Wiseonsin, and
Bone (Dem.) of Washington asked if
the agreemnt still was operating.
The anti-trust lawyer said coun-
sel for Remington Arms informed
him they had broken the agreement
not to sell to England and other
parts of the British Empire in re-
cent days.
Earlier Chairman Bone of the
committee had said
"We’re going to blow the lid off, if
we have to, to get all the industries
to work winning the war."
He said that was his answer to
"suggestions" that the committee
drop its investigation* of American
tie-ups with axis-controllea business
interests.
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Famous Names Lend
Help for Crazy Quilt
l CHICAGO, Apr. 18. — President
Roosevelt's necktie, th* Dionne quin-
tuplet’s dipers, the late Jan* Ad- . t
dam's dress cloth, a piece of one of
Mae West's gowns— sew them all to-
gether and you have a section of Mrs.,
Ethel Sampson's "historical crazy
quilt.”
Ten years ago, Mrs. Sampson, who
lives in Evanston, II, got the idea
of making a crazy quilt out of per-
sonal clothing of the world's great.
She began by writing letters to
celebrities all over the world, and
received a surprisingly Urge num-
ber of responses.
♦ The greatest number of items do- ‛
Hated to the quilt were neckties.
Among the donor* were Vice Presi-
dent Henry Wallace, Douglas cWrong-
Way) Corrigan, form er Chier 9^
tice of the Supreme Court Charles
a .. 91813F od K, ______ • T / .
NEW DELHI, India, Apr. 18.—
British, sappers burned and blasted
6,000 West Burma oil wells Friday
while a , gallant battalion of the
King’s Own Yorkshire light infan-
try fought yet another uperb delay,
ing action against the Japanese un-
til the wells were ablaze.
The vastly outnumbered York-
shiremen withdrew and rejoined the
main British imperial force* after
inflicting severe casualties.
A communique placed the positions
“north of Magwe," indicating the
fighting men were \ even now amid
the ruined well*. Magwe 1* the south-
ern gateway to' the field centering
around Yenangyaung, 20 miles north.
The British communique said the
Yorkshire force "distinguished it-
self in this gallant action with great
determination and bravery and suf-
fered very uttle lo«*.’’
RAF Takes Toll
Of 10,000 Planes,
Halifax Says
DAT J, AS. Tex., Apr. 18. — British
^mh*—dnr Halifax disclosed that
the Royal Air Force has "torn out
of the skies 10,000 enemy plan**”
■Inc* th* start of th* wr and that
80 per cent of all British war pro-
duction is being sent out of Britain.
He spoke at a dinner sponsored by
Dallas civic organizations.
' Lord Halifax, on a tour of Texas,
I further disclosed, that every British
Boldier for whom there is shipping
l space is being sent outside the Brit-
I fob Isle* to strategic battlegrounds
around the globe.
He added that Britain constantly
has oo duty no leas than 600 naval
vessels. patrolling and fighting the
bzis in all the worid's waters.
' The tall envoy added:
. "Britain has never lost a war—ex-
cept to the United States—so with
the United State. and Britain fight-
ing on the same side th. eventual
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Nemir, Lucile. Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 32, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 18, 1942, newspaper, April 18, 1942; Navasota, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1383050/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Navasota Public Library.