Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 190, Ed. 1 Monday, October 27, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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that French troops were resisting). part of the state.
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R.A.F. Bombers
Blast Hamburg
Dock Workers
Go On Strike;
Jap Airdrome
in Indo-China
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Japs Attacked
Soviet Patrol
No Casualties
Reported After
Incident Along
Siberian Frontier
Connally Calls
For Repeal of
Neutrality Act!
Says US. Can No
Longer Submit to
“Hitler Dictates;’’
Asks Free Shipping
Connally told the
our ships are being
the brutal and murderous doctrine
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36 Hurt in Bus Crash
in Mo. Recovering
NEOSHO, Mo. (UP)—Most of
the 36 persons injured in a high-
way bus accident were recovering
today, but 14 of them still remain-
ed in a hospital here for additional
treatment and observation, and six
still were in hospitals in Joplin.
The accident occurred yesterday
morning when the bus, a Crown
Company coach bound for Kansas
city, failed to make a curve on U.
S. Highway 71, five miles north of
Neosho. The highway was wet and
the bus skidded, overturning five
times.
Norman Key, the driver, from
Joplin, suffered a serious back in-
jury.’/The bus was fully loaded
with one passenger standing.
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For 3 Lost Planes
Frenchmen are still fighting and Frenchmen are still dying—fighting and dying that France may hold her head in to
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"50 lives for one” decree.
Navy Frank Knox urging expan-
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EAST TEXAS — Fair, colder
tonight; Tuesday fair continued
cool.
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waters.
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of an army of
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The dead at Hamburg were: I
Shelby Jordan, 26; Mrs. Shelby
Jordan, 23; Shelby Jrdan, Jr., 5;
Ulius Walker, 46; Mrs. Ulius Wal-
ker, 40 ;x dayton Walker, 20, their
son; Mrs. Darlie Kelly, 65; Mrs.;
T. R. Collins, 50; Travis Sawyer,
26, and his three-year-old son, and
a negro named Robinson, 30.
Raymond Stephenson, Monticel-
lo funeral director, said ”30 or 40
others were injured, some of them
seriously. They were being treat-
ed in Hamburg and Gossett hos-
pitals and in the hotel at Ham-
LONDON. (UP)—Authoritative
quarters, reiterating denials that
British and Free French forces had
invaded French Somaliland, said
today that an uprising against the
Vichy government by tribesmen in
Northwest Tajura might have
given rise to the reports.
(An Anglo-Free French invasion
of Somaliland was reported last
week by Vichy,, which announced
President to Deal
CIO Leader Unless
Coal Strike Ended
SAN FRANCISCO (UP)—Snow
today hampered the aerial search
for three Army planes and their
pilots and officials feared that the
mantle of white would blanket the
missing until spring.
The snow fell throughout the
Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi
Mountain area here a squadron of
19 P-40 fighters was lost in a fog
bank Friday. The other 16 ships
were accounted for but those pi-
loted by Lieuts. Jak C. West, Leon-
ard C. Lyndon and R. N. Long
were still unreported and army of-
ficers held little hope they had
landed safely.
Lieut. W. H. Birrell of Warren,
O., was killed when his ship crash-
ed. Lieut. J. H. Pease, Boise, Ida.,
parachuted safely from his
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An official check of the work
list showed that 58 men on the
early shift were at work when
the blast occurred.
Cause of the. explosion was still
a matter of “guess work,” he said.
State mine inspector Moss Pat- l
terson was reported en route to
the scene and federal engineers I
were expected from the U. S. Bu-
reau of Mines station at Vincennes,
Ind. ।
Rescue squads worked to clear •
a way into the section of the mine
where the explosion occurred. All ,
15 men still in the mine were be- ,
lieved to have been very near the :
blast while the 60 who were
brought to the surface were re- ,
ported to have been working in a
shaft some distance away.
The mines is the property of 1
the Sterling Coal Company of
Senategthat p Shiya Armi ngike
sunk "under To Hasten United
Death Sought; 7
Seriously Injured
CLANTON, Ala. (UP)—-Rela-
tives and friends of missing per-
sons crowded two funeral parlors
today as police sought to identify
victims of a bus disaster in which
15 persons burned to death and
seven were seriously injured.
The death toll was placed at 15
after authorities searched the bus
wreckage and reported no trace of
other victims. Patrick Alton, bus
driver, had muttered before he
died that there were 27 persons
on the Montgomery to Binning*
ham bus but line officials said a
check indicated there were only
22.
The only passenger victim iden-
tified 12 hours after the accident
was Mary Eleanor Finney, 24, of
Buffalo, Ala. Miss Finney was
head of the physical education de-
partment at Montevallo State Col-
lege for Women.
The bus side-swiped the wall of
a culvert and the gasoline tank,
mounted along its side beneath its
body, ripped open. There was an
explosion and in a split second
flames were leaping through the
floor, between and around the
seats. Only those passengers who
had been seated at windows which
happened to be open, escaped. The
others perished in the gasoline-fed
inferno.
Authorities believed they had
established that no other machines
were nearby when the accident oc-
curred and suggested that Alton
may have dosed at the wheel.
The bus was enroute from Mont-
gomery to Birmingham. It be-
longed to the Alabama Greyhound
company. When it left Montgom-
ery it carried 28 passengers, but
in the 100 miles from there to
Clanton it discharged and took
aboard many and there was no
conclusive count of the number
WASHINGTON. (UP)—Con-
gresslonal foes of John L
Lewis today demanded prompt
Federal action in the captive
coal mines strike, in which Pres-
ident Roosevelt apparently was
headed toward a national de-
fense crack-down on the labor
chieftain.
sia’s part of Saghalien island. They
asserted that the Japanese forces
in Japan’s southern half of the
island had been reinforced and ex-
pressed belief that the Japanese
might believe they could seize the
valuable oil and fisheries proper-
ties in the northern part, on the
ground that Russia would not fight
unless attacked on the mainland.
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• •ure
T itself of neutrality act restrictions
on American shipping.
Opening Senate debate on the
administration measure to rei “
sections 2, 3 and 6 of the act, Con-
nally said such action is a move
for defense, and not toward war.
Sections 2 and 3 now bar Amer-
ican ships from belligerent ports
and combat zones. Section 6 pro-
hibits of merchant vessels.
Administration leaders inform-
ed the President that they expect-
ed the Senate to pass the bill in 10
days or two weeks despite the
hard fight that isolationists plan
against it.
: “When America’s earnest en-
deavors to contribute to general
peace among nations have been
rejected by the aggressor nations,
when a world wide campaign to
overthrow international law, to
subjugate unoffending and peace-
ful nations, and to enthrone the
sword as the ruler over a ‘new
order,’ the United States, with its
great traditions and its historic de-
votion to the principals of free-
dom and constitutional govern-
fleet of dimensions
wu ua w •w«w7 _____ heard of, the natie
Total Defense Day,” the President Navy Day. There w
om once more, 1—
t their ruthless • might
man Tom Connally, D., _ Tex., of
the Senate Foreign Relations com-
mittee said today the United
States can submit no longer to the’
"dictates of Hitler’’ and must free
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UP) — Tor-
nadoea struck at two widely-sepa-
rated points in Arkansas last night
and early today, leaving at least
17 persons dead and causing exten-
sive property damage.
Eleven were killed at Hamburg,
Ark., where the Wind swept in
from the southwest, levelling
homes as it cut a wide path thru
the southeast Arkansas communi-
ty of 1,500.
Six others died at Dardanelle
and New Bethel when another
tornado ripped into the Arkansas
River valley in the northwestern
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note for observance of Navy Day
today with a call for "total de-
fonsa” and "willing sacrifice" so
that the United States can halt
the “forces of evil” and remain
Keynote for Navy
Day Soundedby FD sw
WASHINGTON. (UP) —Presi- M- -m-- 4- --k-
dent Roosevelt sounded the key-
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CHUNGKING. (UP) — A Chin-
ese military spokesman reported
tonight that Japanese were build-
ing an airdrome in Indo-China
within striking distance of the
Burma road and that large-scale
maneuvers would be held near the
Thai border shortly. The airdrome,
the spokesman said, would ac-
commodate 300 bombers.
He quoted unconfirmed intelli-
gence reports as saying that the
Japaneses were sponsoring a
movement in Indo-China to over-
throw King Annam and replace
him with an uncle, who presently
is residing in Japan, "hoping
thereby to diminish French in-
fluence.”
The airdrome, according to in-
telligence reports quoted by the
spokesman, is being constructed
in northwest Laos Province
whence it would be possible to
bomb the vital Burma road supply
route to Chungking and other
points in Yunnan Province.
He reported also that 5,000 In-
do-Chinese had been transferred
to Mainan, where they are being
given military training by the
Japanese. He quoted intelligence
reports as saying the Japanese
planned to hold army maneuvers
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ment, should reagsert and resume
our rights as a -overeign nation.”
Connally said.
43 Other Workers, Trapped byExplosion,
Brought to Surface Unharmed, Supt. Says
jNVILLE, Ky (UP)—T. fl. Rhodes, /assistant
mine superintendent, said 43 miners trapped by an explosion
at the Daniel Boone mine early today have been brought to
the surface unharmed, but 15 men are unaccounted for.
Rhodes said no contact had been established with the
NEW YORK. (UP) — A strike
affecting 5,800 employes closed
the Brooklyn yards of the Robins
Drydock end Repair Company to-
day and halted repair work on
several torpedo-damaged British
merchantmen.
Members of Local 39 of the In-
ternational Union of Marine and
shipbuilding workers (CIO) walk-
ed out to enforce demands for im-
mediate payment of wage in-
creases aggregating $10,000 a
week. |
Between 10 and 15 ships, many
of them British, are being repair-
ed in the yards.
Joseph Burge, regional direc-
tor of the union, said the pay in-
crease had been agreed upon after
10 weeks of negotiations but that
"the question is—when are we go-
ing to get it.” He asserted that the
closed shop was not an issue in
the current walkout.
“If the navy asks us tb get out
any ship that is needed urgently,”
Burge said, “our membership
stands ready and willing to resume
work on these ships.”
Company spokesmen refused to
make any statement on the strike.
“The union will have to do all
the talking,” one said. "The issue
is one of a closed shop.”
' Picket lines at all six entrances
to the plant, which covers four
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WASHINGTON. (UP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt apparently was
moving today toward a national
defense crack-down on Labor
Leader John L. Lewis unless Lewis
promptly orders resumed produc-
tion in vital captive coal mines.
The strike of 53,000 miners was
called for last Saturday midnight.
Since normal mine operations
cease over the week-end anyway
the strike began today.
Mr. Roosevelt awaits Lewis’ re-
ply to his second urgent request
for continued production in the
mines owned by steel companies.
In that request, made public at
the White House last night, Mr.
Roosevelt told Lewis, who is presi-
dent of the CIO United Mine
Workers of America, that "there
must be uninterrupted production
of coal for making steel.”
He called on Lewis and other
mim workers officials as "loyal
citns" to avoid a shutdown “in
this crisis of our national life”
and to continue working the mines
pending a final settlement of the
dispute.
"That is essential to the"pre-
servation of our freedoms, your
and mine; those freedoms upon
which the very existence Of the
United Mine Workers of America
depends," Mr. Roosevelt wrote.
There will be tremendous pres-
sure on Mr. Roosevelt to deal
drastically with Lewis if the strike
is not quickly ended. If prolonged,
it may materially affect steel
making within 10 days, and a
steel failure would break the
back to national rearmament.
There was the further threat
that is might lead to a walk-out
of the 400,000 miners in all pie
soft coal mines in the Appala-
chian region. Local UMW offi-
cials at Uniontown, Pa., called
upon Lewis to call a general strike
of miners unless an agreement in
the captive mine dispute is reach-
ed "within a few days.”
Mr. Roosevelt first asked Lewis
last week to continue production
pending settlement of the captive
mine dispute which has narrowed
to a question of an open or closed
shop. Lewis refused Saturday in
a letter tartly worded with ridi-
cule of National Defense Media-
tion Board methods and charging
responsibility for them to Sidney
Hillman, his one-time political
and CIO ally, who now is asso-
ciate director general of the Office
of Production management
The President's second appeal,
e.a
of unrestricted submarine war-
fare.”
"It represent? the sublimate1!
tyrannny, the sublimated murder,
the sublimated doctrine of force
and might against law—human,
divine, national, and internation-
al,”, he said.
As debate opened, Sen. Chan
Gurney, R„ S. D., announced that
he intended to press for a vote on
an amendment, which he intro-
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LONDON. (UP) — Waves of
British bombers blasted Hamburg,
Germany’s second city and largest
port, during the night and ham-
mered other objectives in North-
western Germany, the Air Minis-
try said today.
The bombers struck at Nantes,
France, presumably in reprisal
for the mass execution of French
! hosteges there by German ocupa-
tion authorities.
The Air Ministry said, however,
that the Nantes raid had no con-
nection with the executions and
pointed out that it had been bomb-
ed four times previously.
The Sunday Express demanded
editorially only yesterday that
* British bombers carry out a large
,, scaue raid, inflicting the heaviest
possible damage and casualties on
the German military occupants of
the Nantes area.
Many squadrons of bombers
were used in the attack on Ham-
burg, Germany’s most bombed city,
the Air Ministry said. The docks
and other targets were subjected
to a heavy pounding. The attack
was aided by good visibility, the
Air Ministry said, “after a difficult
passage across the North Sea.”
The RAF was reported to have
struck also during the night at
targets from Cherbourg, France,
where harbor installations were at-
tacked, to Egersund in Southern
Norway.
The Air Ministry listed four
bombers missing.
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Rebelled in Vichy
SHANGHAI. (UP) — A Ruslan
official news agency dispatch re-
ported today that more than 20
Japanese soldferscrosse the SI- ’
berian frontier last Saturday and
attacked a Russian frontier patrol.
No report of casualties was made.
The dispatch said the Russians
were guarding a hlU and the Jap-
anese apparently had hoped to
seize them end take them back to
Japanese territory, .“
Japanese army informants sala
they had received no word of the
clash.
The Russian report came as for-
eign military quarters showed in-
creasing anxiety over Japanen
fleet activities, and speculated on
coast, or make a big-ecale attack
on China’s Burma road from
French Indo-China
Experts said the Japanese navy
had abandoned its important stra-
tegic base off Foochow, china;
that 5,000 more Japanese troops
had been landed at Haiphong, In-
do-China, last week; that Japanese
were recruiting Chinese here for
service on Hainan Island, off the
southeast China coast, promising
them insurance and high wages,
and that there had been a sudden
increase la Jepenese cargo and
tanker ship movements off the
coast
WASHINGTON. (UP) — Sec-,
retary of State Cordell Hull be-
lieves that although the arming of
American merchant ships “might
be called a step leading to war,”
the fact of the “situation is that
probably we won’t be in any war
until Hitler decrees that we shall.”
Hull conveyed those views in
testimony before the Senate For-
eign Relations committee during
secret hearings on the ship-arming
bill. Portions of his testimony
were made public today.
In response to questions, Hull
also said that "there will be no
purpose or intent to rush out
somewhere and get into a real
war. It is all-important, however,
that we defend our rights'bn the
Atlantic against any avowed
movement of force and lawless-
ness.”
He described Hitler as a man
"who delights in misery and hu-
man suffering."
“I read every day or two of the
most inhuman acts against old
people and sick people, babies and
mothers, by these (Nazi) soldiers
who are exercising unconscionable
government over all these popula-
tions,” he said. “It is that kind
of danger that we face.”
"We cannot sit back, we can-
not sleep easy at night” while
Hitler’s movement to dominate the
earth goes forward, he said
Hearings before the committee
were secret, but the censored tes-
timony was released today as the
bill to revise the neutrality act
went before the Senate for debate.
Hull told the committee that the
rules of neutrality are superceded
when the law of self-defense in-
tervenes and, in asking for repeal
of vital sections of the neutrality
act, asserted that the act was in-
tended to apply to wars where a
“program of subjugation” was not
contemplated.
He claimed that the program of
m the Soviet Uni
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On the Far Eastern front th
Russians reported—and Tokyo G
nled—that Japanese troops ha
crossed the Siberian frontier 1
what presumably was a test punc
on a minor scale of the Soviet de
fenses, which had been reporte
weakened by transfer of pssibi
500,000 troops to the west.
The fighting front, arc betoi
Moscow, has shown little chang
in approximately two weeks, al
though battles have raged a
fiercely that the Soviets reporte
around 50,000 Germane killed 1
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VOL. 11-NO. 190 HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERS
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WASHINGTON. (UP) — <
centrated populations have «
plied the dangers of a high
of influenza cases this wii
public health officials said to
Public health service doctor
not believe in predicting j
things as epidemics, especially
influenza epidemics which a
mild or severe, localized or v
spread, of short or of lonz/9
tion. But they do say;
"Conditions are such that
reasonable to assume that Um
cidence will be high this d
dut to large numbers MMR
around industrial and12988
areas.”
The differences in "flu .
demies can be seen thtot
comparison of last winter’s i
and the epidemic of 1918. I
year, the number of cases «e
ed a peak of 120,000 in'anj
but the death rate war not a
ed at any time during the wii
But in 1918, a lot of peoyle
veloped pneumonia following
fluenza and the mortalitz rata
high.
Already, the incidence of '
is higher than it was at the i
time last year. Betvenkno#
1,000 cases are being reps
weekly now, compared with a
700 a week for thejegrrezpot
periods of last year and ns
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