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THE HENDERSON DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, AUG. *1, 1942
FAGE TWO
Is Requested
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back with
and probably six
more
Frank Bea-
Bombardier Lieut.
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reported to Horton and Horton,
of Houston, owners of the
MARKETS AT A GLANCE
Open High Low
9
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
FORT WORTH GRAIN
Open High
although it was on the ecge of
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Selected Stocks
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eninsula north of the bay, where
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losses have been
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MIDCONTINENT OIL
foot tide had rolled in.
Green
the bay 200 yads away.
NEW YORK CURBS
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Most of the inhabitants
FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK
Matagorda peninsula
CAIRO, Aug. 81. (UP)—United
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teat and above (10-
vanced
of the northeastern
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More Active
Role in War
Spots closed nominal at 19.78.
changed.
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Should Be
4 Axis Ships Hit
In Mediterranean
US Planes Set
Tobruk Aflame
Motor Production
To Start Tomorrow
States
fires
1883
1902
Tyler Man Reports
Loss of $20 Bills
Morrow Whitson of Tyler late
1918
1925
1930
in Brazoria county( said that at
least half of the county's $10,-
1896
1912
1917
diets had been evacuated hours
before the storm struck, was bad-
ly damaged, but no one there was
Close
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1889-90
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1907
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1921-23
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parts,
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| ni< at ion had been established with
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cations
down.
the storm.
He reported
ground.
The fact th t most of the coast-
al residents had been warned far
ahead that the hurricane was go-
ing to strike, and had evacuated
their homes, kept down the toll
of fatalities.
Low
1862
1879
dreds of refugees poured into that
battered city from Port Lavaca
and Port O'Connor.
Galveston, scene of the disas-
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31 (UP)
Cotton closed steady.
Cities Serv 2 8-8
Duval Texas 7 5-9
ulf OU 321-8
Humble Oil 52
Sun Ray 11-2
red tough 126; 2 hard tough 1191:
3 hard tough 118J; 3 mixed 122.
Corn: 1 mixed 84); 1 yellow 84-
85; 2 yellow 834-85; 3 yellow 83-
842: 4 yellow 822-84; 5 yellow 81;
4 white 103.
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FORT WORTH, Aug. 31. (UP)
Cash grain:
Wheat: 1 hard 126)-1313.
Com: 2 white 112-113; 2 yellow
98-99.
Oats: 2 red 60-61; 3 red 59-60.
Barley: No. 2, 77}-78): 3 . 77-78
Milo: 2 yellow 140-150; 3 white
138-144.
Kaffir: 2 yellow 136-140; 3 white
134-138._______________________
enemy territory.
A pre-war civil aviator and air-
Swedes Investigate
Army Fifth Column
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 31 —(UP)
—The commander-in-chief of the
Swedish army has been ordered
by the government to investigate
immediately reports of fifth col-
umn activity within the army, it
was announced today.
The order directed Gen. O. G.
Thornell to "rapidly investigate
the existing rules for protection
and security so members ofJ the
efense personnel whose attitude
does not inspire confidence may
be deprived of the possibility of
damaging the defense."
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Tobruk last Friday and Saturday
nights that could be seen for 90
miles, it was revealed today. ,
The United States air force,
working in close cooperation with
the RAF, took advantage of the
perfect desert moonlight to give
Tobruk, chief port of supply for
the forces of German Marshal
Am Rad & SS 4 3-8
A TAT 119
Anaconda 25 3-4
Avn Corp 3
Bendix Avn 32 1-8
Beth Steel 53
Chrysler 58 7-8
Cons Oil 6 3-8
Curtiss Wright 7 1-8
Gon Elec 26 1-2
Gen Mot 38 1-8
Goodrich 19 3-4
Goodyear 18 7-8
Houston Oil 2 7-8
Int Harr 46 1-4
Lockheed Air 17 8-4
Mont Ward 30
Am Avn 111-8
Ohio Oil 8 1-4
Phillips Pet 38 1-2
Pure Oil 9
Radio Corp 3 1-4
Sears Roe 55
Shell Un Oil 13 3-4
Socony Vac 8
Stand Oil NJ 38 1-2
Texas Corp 35 3-4
Un Air Corp 28 3-4
U S Steel 46 1-2
West Elec 69 1-4
2 Above (24-28) 90-95c; No. 5, low
r cold test (18-22) 85-90c; No. 5. 15
Ecold test and above (18-22) 85-90;
No. 6 low cold test (10-16) 85-90c,
No. 3
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BY M. S. HANDLER
United Press Staff
ON THE RZHEV FRONT AT
POGORELOYE - GORODISC H E.
Aug. 31. (UP)—American medium
tanks and U. I. trucks have play-
ed a leading role in the Soviet of-
fensive toward Rzhev, I learned on
an inspection visit to the front to-
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REYKJAVIK, Aug. 31.—(UP)
—A German plane dropped two
bomba today on Nes, a village in
the extreme northeastern section
of Iceland, but they fell in a po-
tato patch, U. 8. Army headquar-
ters announced. Two Icelanders
were knocked down by the force
of the* explosion.
The bomber also flew over Rau-
BOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND,
Aug. 31 —(UP) — United States
Flying Fortresses have scored
at least 70 per cent hits in their
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"Some remnants of the enemy
forces were probably saved from
destruction by evacuation by naval
warcraft under cover of darkness.
"All enemy heavy supplies and
equipment including tanks were
lost.”
Since the enemy troops landed
last Wednesday morning Mac-
Arthur has given no hint of what
was in store for them.
He blandly reported the land-
ing, said Allied patrols were in
contact with the enemy, reported
heavy fighting and then reported
the arrival of the cruiser-destroyer
force Saturday night, when the
weather was so bad Allied planes
could not attack them.
All this w: I part of MacArthur’s
trap. It was impossible to advise
the worried Australian public of
the true position without tipping
off the Japanese. Hence by mid-
morning today, anxiety had risen
higher, than it had been at almost
any time since MacArthur took
command.
eration Chairman George Mar-
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t Natural gasoline: 26-70 grade
Oklahoma, 3|c flat per gallon; 26-
70 grade. North Texas 3c.
h Kerosene: 42-44 water white 4}-
at Velasco were closed down when
workers weie unable to get to
work because of high waters. It
was reported that 400 small homes
Oats Oats: 3 mixed 494-50;
boat, that the tug, New Bruns-
wick, had sunk but that the men
were safe.
Chester Evans, editor of the
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plane worker, Beadle
that debris was
All over
Palacios had gone to higher
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Camp Hulen, from which sol-
Spots closed steady at 18.90, Up
6 points.
HOUSTON, Aug. 31. (UP)—
Middling cotton closed here today
at 18.61, unchanged.
gan sighting. We kept getting
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four-engined bombers set
in the Axis-held port of
die, 24, Grand Rapids, Mich., is
credited with dropping the first
Fortress bomb of the war on
tides smashed the coast from Port
Arthur to Corpus Christi.
Damage to physical properties
and crops in the area could not be
estimated until all farmers had
reported their losses, but it was
expected to run far into the mil-
lions of dollars.
From many sections came re-
in the area had either been blown : ‘
down or inundated by the high, n "
day.
Soviet staff officers told our
party of newspapermen that the
American tanks aided in the break-
through of the attaek which has
now carried Russian forces into
the northern outskirts of Rzhev.
We could hear the violent can-
nonading of the Russian attack on
Rzhev, 25 miles to the west, as we
inspected the Nazi strategic line
Guinea.
To the east of New Guinea,
.......1 heavy bombing planes
yesterday attacked a Japanese
eruiser and a transpoil off Ra:
baul, New Britain island, but bad
visibility prevented observation of
theft.
Whitson said the money could
have been lost or stolen either in
Kilgore or Henderson. He had the
money, wrapped with a rubber
band, in a side pocket of his trous-
ers.
ly reduced. His
heavy.
farhofn, about two miles from
Nes, the communique said.
German bombers, presumably
coming from bases in Norway,
have flown over Iceland several
times in the last three weeks, and
once bombed and machine-gun-
ned Iceland fishing boats.
yesterday reported the loss of 14 l ilied
820 bills, either by accident or '
was bom-
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Dutch Ship
Sunk by Sub
A GULF COAST PORT, Aug.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. (UP)
Brig. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, the
American Minister to New Zea-
land who also is a fighting man
from Oklahoma, wants a more ac-
tive role in the war.
Hurley, who accompanied Prime
Minister Peter Fraser of New Zea-
land to this country, said today
that the only job to concentrate on
now is to win the war and that he
wants to be sent where he can con-
tribute more toward that end.
Hurley, former secretary of war
who is now 59 years old, was sent
to New Zealand when that area
was in th ethick of the Far East-
ern war. He also was given the
job of getting supplies to Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's beleaguered
forces in Manila. He performed
both jobs with credit.
His immediate future is Indefi-
nite and depends upon whether
President Roosevelt decidea to give
him a broader field.
dead, with the windshields shat- 'em we could really do it," he
tered, with parts of their wings said. "I was in the nose, and I
and tails shot off. I felt sort of funny when I looked
It is estimated at this fortress | ahead and saw the anti-aircraft
CAIRO, Aug. 31. (UP)—British
bombing and torpedo carrying
planes have hit at least four Axis
ships including a large tanker in
attacks in the Mediterranean and
have attacked their escorting war-
ships with cannon and machine
gun fire, a communique said today.
Thee ships were hit off the Liby-
an coast and two of them were set
afire. The tanker was attacked
elsewhere and was left burning
from end to end, the communique
said.
Snrimp boats were piled high
on the waterfront where an eignt-
their eighth operational flight,
over the North Sea, they met be-
tween 20 and 25 Focke Wulff
fighters without fighter support
of their own and shot down three
12-foot tide. No casualties were
reported.
All the communities on the
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shall charged that “for four years
Dies and his committee have,
through vigorous campaign of di-
version and suppression, obscured
the activities of the Nazi net-
work, the fifth column in the
United States.
Marshall recalled Vice Presi-
dent Henry A. Wallace's state-
ment that “the effect on our mor-
ale would be less dangerous if
Dies were on the Hitler payroll"
and said Dies "must not be allow-
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Two Tire* Stolen
Ray Waggoner, Jacksonville
road, Sunday reported theft of two
tires. The loss was discovered
Sunday. No clues were available.
Freeport, where it had been
thought the storm would strike
hardest, suffered some damage.
North of Freeport, the Dow
Chemical Company’s two plants
CorpuscmrisouthrGithutonoto Victoria Advocate, said that hun-
When the news began to seep
1 out, it was of utter destruction in
B eluded:
Gasoline: U. S. motor, 72-73 oc- i
tane (regular) 52-6c per gallon: | Ipu e
63766 octane 5-5; 60 octane and [ °
2 below 5}-5ic.
seven raids in two weeks on Ger-
man occupied territory to be-
come the kings of bombers, crew j hardier of the first Fortress in
members said today I the raid on Rouen with which the
Some planes have landed with | attacks of great army bombers
*11 their instruments smashed, | started Aug. 7.
With two of their four motors “It felt damned good to show
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struck, said that the damage in
that area was the worst since
the 1900 hurricane which levelled
Galveston, Tex.
Red Cross representatives al-
ready had arrived in the area and
were taking over direction of re-
lief work.
Old timers said it was the worst
storm to hit Matagorda section
of the Texas coast since 1919.
Winds blew up to an estimated
100 miles an hour and record
Silver Delivery
To Release Copper
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. —
(UP)— Treasury deliveries of its
“free" silver to war plants, al-
ready being made, ultimately will
release 40,000 tons of copper for
war uses.
Secretary Henry Morgenthau,
Jr., said last night that the treas-
ury was making every effort to
put all available silver to urgent
war use.
FORT WORTH, Aug. 81. (UP)
Livestock:
Catle 6200; calves 2000; steady: M
steers and yearlings 9.00-18.75; fat
cows 7.85-10.15; cutters 5.50-7.75;
calves 7.00-13.50.
Hogs 2200; 15 to 25 lower; top
butchers 14.15; good butchers 5
18.40-14.10; packing sows 13.00.
Sheep 12,700; steady to 25 cents
lower; yearlings 11.00-12.00. ri
zone, successfully completed the
transportation of equipment ear-
marked for construction work
which the Japanese found wait-
ing for them.
United States medical services
also have been spreading out
from Port Moresby toward Port
Milne, constructing improvised
hospitals at positions where they
could aid advanced allied units
defending the road against the
Japanese attack which Gen. Doug-
las MacArthur knew would be
attempted soon or late.
The Australians who did the
fighting moved into selected posi-
tions along the U-shaped bay
which is 24 miles long and 7-%
miles wide and flanked by moun-
tains which rise forest-clad to
3,000 feet, just in from a nar-
row coastal strip along which
native hamlets are built on the
peculiar "iron sands."
It was indicated that the Japa-
nese landed along this strip, in-
tending to tight toward the wider
alluvial plains at the head of
the bay where they found the
Australians waiting for them at
Falls river.
The victory was won in a bat-
tle ground which contains breast-
high undergrowth more treacher-
ous than barbed wire and in rain
which falls sometimes several
inches in one hour.
lines had been blown , bv the State Highway Depart-
Engineer* Helped
Set Trap for Jap*
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRA-
LIA. Aug. 31—(UP)— United
States army engineers and ser-
vice units helped to lay the trap
into which the Japanese invasion
forces at Milne Bay have fallen,
it is possible to reveal today.
Nearly three months ago, these
engineers, whom I saw’in the ad-
The average span of life on
Pacific Coeat is 63.4 yean, al
A year longer than on the Atta
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attacking, it was believed possible
ihat they had sensed preparations
lor an Allied offensive threaten-
ing their entire position in New
NEW YORK, Aug. 31. (UP)—
Cotton futures closed unchanged to
30 cents per bale net higher todagen
after a reaction from extrem
gains ranging to 81.66 per baleer
NEW YORK, Aug. 31. (UP)--
Cotton closed steady.
A Houtson newspaperman re-
without looking out.
Crew members said that Beadle
could drop a bomb in Hitler's lap
if he had the chance.
He said that at Abbeville, the
Fortresses had wiped out the air-
plane dispersal area, smashed 40
grounded planes, and blown up
ammunition and fuel dumps. That
was the second raid. In the raid
on Letrait about one-third of the
harbor slipways were destroyed.
At Letrait, a bomb sank a new
German submarine and another
sank a cargo ship. A third hit
at the intersection of five roads.
A fourth hit an oil refinery and
blew it up.
At Abbeville a stray bomb blew
up an anti-aircraft battery. Two
stray bombs struck the Abbeville
airdrome runway and destroyed
two Focks Wulff fighter planes
which were taking off.
owscel
ed to centime his campaign
against unity and victory. He
must not be allowed to give aid
and comfort to the Axis, to cod-
dle and protect Hitlers fifth col-
umn.’’
The document supported a mes-
sage by Marshall earlier this
month to William Power Maloney,
special assistant to the attorney
general, who has been handling
the special grand jury investiga-
tion into subversive activities--
an investigation which resulted
in the indictment of 28 persons
on sedition charges last month.
Hurley Wants American Tanks in Leading
Role of Drive Toward Rzhev
through which the Russians burst
in the first days of the 9ffensive,
aerial batterings administered
since the enemy gained control
there last spring.
The Friday night raid was
directed against supply dumps,
jetties and shipping in the harbor.
One cargo ship was hit squarely
and left burning in addition to
the fires started on ground in-
stallations. The next night the
Americans with their Flying For-
tresses and Consolidated Liber-
ators went back and attacked
Axis landing fields as well as
targets around the harbor.
The planes, working hard to
knock out Rommel’s supply lines,
met anti-aircraft fire but were
not challenged by enemy fighters.
All returned safely to their bases.
Landing grounds at Matruh also
were battered by heavy and
medium bombers.
The raids must have destroyed
untold tons of Rommel’s desper-
ately needed supplies.
First Lieut. Leed Holloway of
Montgomery, Ala., was the pilot
of Burger’s plane. Another of
the bombers was flown by Lieut.
John H. Germeraad of Billings,
Mont., and his bombardier was
2nd Lieut. Harry J. Weiss of
Broheadsville, Pa.
Weiss said he set his sights on
an inland supply dump and saw
the first string of bombs burst
right through the middle. While
still over Tobruk the entire crew
of Germeraad’s plane saw the
bursts on the dump swell into a
mass of flame covering a square
mile. The flames lighted up the
area and the men could see a half
dozen buildings being destroyed-
The direct hit on the cargo
vessel was scored from a craft
whose young pilot officer was
making his first operational flight
as captain of a bomber.
solve our problem. America still
wastes steel. We still wear out
rubber unnecessarily. ‛
“This must stop.
“It must not be forgotten that
we are losing the war, that we
will continue to lose intil we
unite, unselfishly, until each one
of us here on the home front is
guided in his every thought and
action by the same spirit that
Inspires our soldiers dying on the
hattlefront.”
Mr. and Mrs. Gernando Hermen-
dez, off Laredo, who were work-
ing as cotton pickers at Gregory,
near Corpus Christi, and George
Kain, 76, of Matagorda.
The Hermendez couple was kill-
ed when their house toppled over.
Kain was found dead in his soggy
bed. He apparently had been
drowned while he was sleeping in
his home.
The storm struck with all its
fury in the area from just north
of Freeport to south of Port
O'Connor AU along the coast
between those points the winds ap-
proached 100 miles an hour and
at Palacios the hurricane raged
over 100 miles an hour from mid-
night until 3 a.m. Sunday.
For more than 18 hours, it was
impossible to obtain a clear ac-
count from Palacios of what had
happened, because all communi-
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. —
(UP)—The Justice Department
today was asked to investigate
Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex.,
of the House committee on Un-
American Activities, on charges of
"shielding" Axis agents.
In a pamphlet outlining the
congressman's alleged activities
in protecting Firth Columnists,
the National Federation for
Constitutional Liberties accused
Dies of protecting the agents oy
“superficial investigations” whicn
“whitewashed” them by “sup-
pressing important evidence of
their activites."
In a foreword to the book, Fed-
49c per gallon; 41-43 water whtie
- Domestic fuel oil: range oil 4 ahout 20 miles to the 'east, the
L -ic per gallon; No. 1 white 3 -41; I wind did tremendous damage. The
.No: 2 straw 38-32 No. 3 low cold j peninsula, low-lying and exposed.
test 3-33. was the first part of the main-
industrial gas oil: Zero (32-36) land to be struck by the full
I *1-3| per gallon; ordinary (32-36) force of the winds
l’ort Lavaca was reported just
_ Industrial fuel oil: No. 4 low l ns bidly hit as Palacios, but at
E cold test (24-28) 81 05-81.10 per' an early hour today no comm-
MAbarrel; No. 4, 15 cold test and
piled high on the boulevard paral-
leling the East beach, a fishing
pier was badly damaged in a
playground was “torn up from
one end to the other."
Several barracks at an army
post were damaged and scores
of homes in Galveston were sur-
rounded by water on the west end
of the island.
State agencies started relief
measures before ascertaining full
extent of the storm damage. Dr.
George W. Cox, state health offi-
cer, sent a force of sanitation of-
ficers to the coastal area and a
supply of typhoid fever serum
to combat any post-storm epi-
demic.
How badly the causeway at
Port Lavaca was damaged nad
not been ascertained early today
munique said.
Front-line dispatches indicated
no slackening of battles anywhere.
Having failed In their initial
attempt to storm Stalingrad, the
Germans apparently had regroup-
ed to at cck again from both
north and south, still without
overcoming steadily stiffening re-
sistance.
Although the Russians were
confined to a narrow area, with
the shallow Volga their only
means of communication, they
managed to stem the enemy’s
spearhead and make a series of
counter-attacks which improved
their positions.
In the Kletskaya area. the Rus-
sians still were entrenched on the
south bank of the Don.
31. (UP)—A medium-sized Dutch
merchantman sank in the Atlantic
Ocean several hundred miles off
the east coast of South America
late in June after it was torpedoed
and shelled by an enemy subma-
rine, the Eighth Naval District
announced today. The entire crew
of 43 was saved.
The blacked-out ship, zigzagging
•cross the Atlantic, was atacked
without warning early in the even-
ing. The first torpedo ripped into
the port side, heavily damaging
the vessel and rendering its guns
useless. Engines were knocked
out of commission and the vessel
began to drift. Within a few min-
utes it sank.
The crew—37 seamen and a six-
man armed guard—abandoned ship
in two lifeboats and were landed at
U. S. Ports.
er for several hours and a few of
the towns still had no electricity.
The cotton crop in Nueces coun-
ty was reported badly damaged
and Wharton reported that crops
there were 33 per cent destroyed'.
Victoria, about 25 miles inland,
also felt the brunt of the storm
when it started across the main-
land. The wind velocity there
reached 76 miles an hour when
power failed and the wind record-
er stopped. It was estimated
that the storm raged over 80
miles an hour.
The storm was the worst there
since 1886 and felled trees and
poles all over the city. Plate
glass windows in downtown Vic-
toria were broken and the debris
scattered over the streets. Many
houses were unroofed. Several
garages were caved in and auto-
mobiles damaged.
The Houston-Galveston Bay
area escaped what earlier had
been feared would be the center
of the storm, but officials in all
the towns and cities in tills sec-
tion made preparations for any
ask Washington to give the petro-
leum coordinator authority to
handle the problem without inter-
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Erwin Rommel, two of the severent oil heat wherever possible.
talion commanders gathered In-
formation nad a* San Antonio.
Major Henry Bodet ordered his
men out to assist local police af-
ter the storm unroofed houses in
many parts of the city and up-
rooted hundreds of trees
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson sent a
representative to Port Lavaca
and surrounding territory after
State Rep. Howard Hartzog had
radioed a message from Port La-
vaca saying that every building
there had suffered damage and
help was needed to clear the
wreckage.
State police radio cars toured
the storm area communicating
with a department two-way radio
truck that was stationed at Vic-
toria.
Ray Barrows American Red
Cross disaster relief director. was I
sent to Victoria to direct relief
operations from there.
Soldiers from Camp Hulen were I
reported to have been moved to
Wharton, and considerable dam-
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 31—(UP)
—Production in the Garland plant
of Continental Motors Corpora-
tion, Texas division, will start to-
morrow morning. Finished parts
will be coming from the machine
Unes within two weeks. Jack
Reese, president of Continental,
announced today.
The recently-completed plant
has been operated by the Guiber-
son Diesel Engine Company but
that company released the plant
when the War Department an-
nounced its desire to secure a
greater number of gasoline en-
gines for medium tanks.
White 52); 3 white 48 50; 4 white
471-48; 4 white 471-48; 4 white
heavy 47); 4 mixed heavy 47): 1 |
red special 51; 1 red special heavy
51); mixed grain 44
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years, as a monument to our de-
termination to work and fight
until the time comes when the
human race shall have that true
health in body and mind and spirit
which can be realized only in a
climate of equity and faith.”
Mr. Roosevelt praised the work
of the "brave and skillful men
and women of the Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery,” who have
reduced the cost of American
life. He also urged that greater
efforts be made to reduce the
number of casualties due to
accidents among the civilian
population.
In tracing events since this
country was "infamously attack-
ed” at Pearl Harbor, the President
said that "in the months that
followed—months without victor-
ies—our enemies taunted us with
the question, ‘where is the United
States navy?’”
"Today,” he answered, “those
enemies know the beginning of
the answer to that question. They
learned in the Atlantic, they
learned in the Coral Sea, they
learned off Midway, they are
learning now in their attempts to
recapture that which was taken
from them in the Solomon is-
lands.”
Then Mr. Roosevelt himself
poseT the question, “Where is the
United States navy?”
“It is there where it has always
been,” he said. “It is in there
fighting. It is carrying out the
command to hit osr enemy, and
hit him again, wherever and
whenever we find him.”
Conceding that Pearl Harbor
was “the darkest hour in our
navy’s history,” resulting in more
than 3,000 men being killed or
wounded, the President reminded
the nation that “battles cannot
be fought and won without cost—
and the cost may be heavy in ships
and men.”
a dead duck bombing run. I be-
many of these shortages. Perhaps
we were not realistic enough.
“But now that the shortages
r R are near, choking our victory,
smothering our every attempt to
win, it is not yet too late to
closer. Then I could pick out the
target clearly. I aimed at the
freight yards, stuck my head
against the side of the plane, and
saw by bombs go down. I saw
them go right through the yards
and blow up freight cars and
eveyrthing.
“’Bullseye! we got ’em dead.,'
I shouted. I was pretty excited
and I was yelling so much that
I forgot everything except that
I had hit the center of the target."
Beadle works with Navigator
Lieut. Levon Ray, Toolville, Tex.
Ray didn't see much. It is his
job to keep on with his work.
merit The high water had pre-
vented a thorough examination.
Forces were sent to repair and re-
open the road between Port La-
vaca and Seadrift and the one be-
tween Freeport and Houston.
The storm gave the Texas De-
fense Guard some service. Bat-
planes have come I shells bursting It gets you sort
nacK wiui 1,030 shrapnel holes ' of mad and you want to hit them. j
in them. One had more than 2,000 | “The plane stretched out for
holes in it.
The planes have taken every-
thing the Germans could give and
not one has failed to return. In
US Force* Ready
For Jap Challenge
HEADQUARTERS, UNITED
STATES PACIFIC FLEET, Aug.
31. —(UP)— United States forces
in the Southern Solomon Islands
—marines, warships and land-
based planes—are ready to meet
any Japanese challenge, well In-
formed quarters said today.
Informants said the American
forces unquestianably had won
the first two rounds of the Solo-
mon battle.
There was no over-confidence
here but it was said that the
United States forces had held
superiority ever since their first
landings were made Aug. 7.
Now, informants said, the Ja-
panese might be plotting to hurl
fleet units into an attempt to
dislodge the marines. It was in-
dicated that the United States
fleet command had foreseen this
possibility and was prepared to
meet it
One of the most significant
points in the Solomons was that
they had proved American superi-
ori^ta tea* to tend and guarll-
emergency. Houston cared for
approximately 15,000 refugees
ports that all bolls had been blown from the stricken areas.
from cotton stalks and Angleton,
The Soviet troops stand on a lins
about five miles east of Rzhev, a
astride the Moscow-Rzhev railroad. •
They have cut the Rzhev-Veliki-
Luki railroad and have cleared the
Germans from the north bank of
the Volga.
I watched streams of American-
made Dodge trucks carrying up
supplies to the attacking Russians
over bumpy corduroy roads of logs
and dirt.
There is no indication of the
number of medium U. S. tanks en-
gaged on the Rzhev front but ev-
erywhere we saw trucks, hauling
heavy loads to the fighting line*
We saw American jeeps, too, be-
ing used for the most part by Red
Army officers for rapid visits to
headquarters in important sectors
of the front. The tough little
jeeps don't bother with the log
roads. They skirt through the
muddy fields, racing past all the
rest of the Soviet ground trans-
port.
turning from Galveston said that
000.000 rice crop had been devas- the island resort city had suffer-
tated. I ed ' a terrific amount of damage”
The hurricane fatalities were
B I
I ’
—
the gulf coast town, site of Camp
Hulen, Army training base. Every-
where houses were blown down
or had gaping holes where .oofs
had been whipped off. Many
other houses were crushed in by
fallen trees, and several business
houses were wrecked.
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 31—(UP)
—E. B. Germany, chairman of
the Democratic State Executive
Committee, believes the state con-
vention a week from tomorrow at
Austin should study a recom-
mendation calling for the re-
port of all money spent in behalf
of a candidate for public office.
Germany said today that he
believes all candidates should re-
port all expenditures known to
them, whether they personally
were responsible for the expen-
ditures.
age to the camp was expected ns
there was much water in the
camp at last report
The storm struck inland to hit
San Antonio where winds of
“near hurricane velocity” unroof-
ed many houses, blew down trees
and broke plate glass windows in
the downtown district.
Seventy-five planes staked
down at the new municipal afr-
TULSA, Okla. Aug 31. (UP)-
The refinery market in the mid-
continent area maintained a firm | 1tonally-famous
tone today with demand strong for I Inn was sliced into two
the main products such as gaso : "no part having been washed into
line, fuel oils and kerosene
Published spot tank car prices
lees taxes and handling charges in-
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May _ 1912
July .... 1917
from their moorings. Many were
overturned and damaged. No
hangars have yet been provided at
the field. No damage was report-
ed from Army air fields near the
city.
The winds were called the worst
to hit the San Antonio district
since 1899 but apparently only
the fringe of the storm hit the :
city. Damage, however, was ex-
pected to run into millions.
Electric power failed yesterday
afternoon and it was hours be-
fore linesmen repaired circuits
leading to residential districts.
The San Antonio health depart- .
ment warned residents to boil
drinking water to guard against
the possibility tt ‘ it had been
contaminated by overflowing
sewers.
Only fragmentary information
came through from Port Lavaca.
At one time Howard Hartzog,
state representative, radioed the
Governor’s office for assistance
in handling the situation there and
at Rockport. Highways were
closed in the area and buildings
were ripped apart.
Twelve men who had been ma-
rooned on a dredge boat in Gal-
veston Bay near Redfish Bay
were found safe after they rode
out the storm. The Coast Guard
trous 1900 hurricane and tidal
wave, took emergency precau-
tions. For several hours the
storm appeared to be'heading di-
rectly for the city. Police were
on emergency duty and schools
and the city auditorium were
op _ned to refugees. But the storm
veered again to the west.
However, the city was pounded
by high winds and heavy tides.
Traffic was halted completely
from midnight on Saturday and
it was not until late yesterday
that automobiles were able to get
through.
All air traffic was grounded
and the railroads were unable to
send trains across the Galveston
Causeway for hours. Driftwood
piled high on the beaches at Gal-
veston. Many resort spots were
damaged badly and water back-
ed up into the city through sew-
ers. Power was cut off in sev-
eral sections of the community.
Police estimated that 15,000
refugees sought the safety of
schools and other buildings. The
wind approached a velocity of
about 60 mile, an hour in Galves-
ton.
In Houston emergency precau-
tions were ordered Satu day
night when it appeared the storm
would hit the city. Four battal-
ions of Texas Defense Guardsmen
were ordered to emergency duty.
Schools and fire department build-
ings were thrown open t care for
refugees.
Although tie storm spread
eastward along the coast there
was little or no damage at Bay
City, West Columbia and Brazo-
ria. Some trees were uprooted
and shingler sent flying, but that
was about all. Bay City was
without power for some time and
communications systems failed,
but all utilities were restored la-
ter.
At Clute, near Freeport, a mo-
torist was trapped when rising
water blocked the road around
him. Unable to get out, he was
forced to weather the hurricane
in his car, witli the water rising
rapidly as the winds forced gulf
waters across the low-lying land.
He was rescued st before the
water reached the Interior of the
car by patrolling guards.
already have reduced gasoline
production and increased fuel oil
production approximately 20 per
cent and undertaken overland
shipping of oil products from the
Middle West and Southwest at
additional costs of approximately
8350.000,000 a year.
He said that not more than
1,000 tank cars formerly were
engaged in hauling to the Atlantic
seaboard and that 64,264 were so
employed by July 31 this year.
Movement by tank car has in-
creased from 60,060 barrels to
830,820 barrels a day, he said,
and it was expected shortly to
reach 950,000 barrels.
To accomplish this increase in
tank car shipments, the Midwest
has substituted trucks for tank
cars in all local and semi-local
movement, Phillips said. It has
given up nearly three-fourths of
the tank cars it formerly was
using.
Phillips said that shipments of
crude oil from distrio two, which
comprises 15 north central states,
averaged 190,000 barrels a dav
and that more than one-fifth of
the gasoline, kerosene and fuel
oils manufactured in the district
was going east.
"This sharing has been made
possible in part by the decline in
midwestern demand for gasoline,
amounting to 19 per cent at
service stations in July,” Phillips
said, attributing the decline to
curtailed driving and slower
speeds.
Phillips said the most effective
way of solving the eastern oil
problem would be to support the
project for a pipe line from the
coast to connect in southern
Illinois with a line already under
construction, to work for fair
price adjustments to compensate
for extra transportation costs, to
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results. ’
A Japanese dispatch broadcast
by Tokyo radio, indicating the
completely changed picture of the
situation in the northeastern zone,
asserted this morning that “British
Australian” attempt to land a
small naval force in New Britain
island had failed when a sub-
marine transporting the troops
had been sunk.
How suddenly the changed
atmosphere as regards New Guinea
came was shown by newspaper
headlines. The morning Melbourne
Sun was still on the news stands
with its headline “Milne Bay
Situation Grave: Nine Warships
Aid Invaders,” when the after-
noon Melbourne Herald extraed
with the headline, “Australians
Hurl Japanese From Milne Bay;
Remnants Rescued by Sea.”
The good news was announced
in communique No. 140. In it
MacArthur recalled that weeks
ago, the Japanese failed to make
good offensive plans to reach
Port Moresby, the Allied base on
the south New Guinea coast, from
the Salamaua-Lae ' area, on the
Allied left flank. 1.
Failing in that, the Japanese
tried to attack Port Moresby from
the sea with a large convoy force.
This attempt was broken, Mac-
Arthur revealed, in the battle of
the Coral Sea, Japan’s first big
defeat in the Pacific war.
Then the Japanese tried to push
troops through the center, from
the Buna-Gona base to Kokoda
and on across the Owen Stanley
mountains.
They found Australians waiting
in sufficient force to prevent
them from crossing the 8,000
foot pass.
Then they tried the attack on
the Allied right flank from Milne
Bay. But MacArthur had out-
smarted them. He had sent secret-
ly a strong force of some of
Australia’s best troops under
Australian Maj. Gen. Cyril Clowes
to wait for them.
The fact that the Japanese
landed their men only six miles
from Clowes’ main force showed
the completeness of the surprise
which awaited the enemy.
Clowes let them land their men
and all their supplies, tanks,
artillery and everyeng else, and
then gave them the works.
The story was told in one of
MacArthur’s informally worded
communiques:
“Gen. MacArthur has issued the
following statement:
"The Milne Bay area is rapidly
being cleared of the enemy.
"Australian combat troops, ably
commanded by Maj. Gen. Cyril
Clowes and brilliantly supported
by American and Australian air
units have thrown back the enemy
into the narrow confines of the
CHICAGO, Aug. 31. (UP) —
Grain futures lost fractions or a
cent on the Chicago board of trade
today.
Wheat closed 1-4 to 1-2 cent
lower; corn was 3-8 to 1-2 cent [
lower, oats up 1-8 to 1-4 cent low-
er; rye down 1-4 to 3-8 vent; soy-
beans 1-4 to 1-2 cent lower.
CHICAGO, Aug. 31. (UP) —
Wheat: 3 red tough 126-1271; 4
gru-
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