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* CILCI AE CINC A DADI Here Are Some of theMen and Guns Joinedin Final Effort,o Hold
I ON • MILUL Ur OINUAT URL United Nations' Fat Eastern Bastion Against Attacking Jap Horde
ebruary 2, 1942
JOBS
that “a strike in
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erican lives are at
ale."
Malayan seamen inspect spiked floats of the “boom”
defenses guarding channels into Singapore harbor.
Machine gun. pillbox is
•entry in Raffle* Square.
Deep underground a carrier takes a loaded shell from a
storage room to one of the British citadel’s big guns.
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PACIFIC 'GIBRALTAR'
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Tough Australians leading
Singapore's defenders.
A big gun fires a salvo. These steel giants must hold the
Jap hordes across the Straits of Johore.
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EVENING
FINAL
BATAAN LANDING
TRIES SMASHED
WASHINGTON, Feb. J— UP)-
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces
on lower Bataan peninsula have
smashed two more Japanese at-
tempts to land shock troops for a
knockout assault on Corregidor
fortress, an army communique said
today ----.
Under the pounding of MacAr-
thur's artillery, machine guns and
ths bombs of low-swooping U. S.
pursuit planes, the attempted land-
ings on the west coast of the pen-
insula were completely crushed,
with heavy enemy losses, the com-
munique said.
At dawn a number of shat-
Chinese Thank
U. S. for Aid
CHUNGKING, Feb. 3.—(UP)-
China has received enough war ma-
terial from the United States to
last for a year, a Chinese govern-
ment spokesman said today.
Expressing China's gratitude for
new -American and British loans,
the spokesman said that much of
vast quantities of American lease-
lend supplies had not been dis-
• tributed because of inadequate
transportation facilities. He said
even the possibile fall of Singapore
, would not immediately affect Chi-
na's war effort because of the?
• quantities of supplies on hand.
New American and British loans
to China will be used to stabilize
the currency, for economic recon-
struction and In part for collateral
abroad, the spokesman said.
He sald that Chinese troops in
Burma had not yet been In action
against the Japanese but suggest-
ed that contact might be establish-
ed soon.
"The allies have thrown all their
possessions into a common pool
from which will emerge a joint
victory under the leadership of the
great President Roosevelt.” it was
said
tered Japanese barges, some
ablaze and others bullet-rid-
dled and adrift, were seen slang
the beach.
It was evident thst the Japanese,
using their best troops including
the "Tatori,” which correspond to
the famous British commandos,
were making a deaperate and cost-
ly attempt to drive MacArthur’s
American and Filipino forces from
their last foothold on the Philip-
pine mainland.
A war department communique
Monday told of the shattering of
a “desperate ” double-barreled Jap-
anese offensive, unleashed on both
the east and west coast of moun-
tainous Bataai about 17 miles
north of stubbornly resisting Cor-
regidor in Manila bay.
THREE TRENCH LINES
On MacArthur’s right flank, pre-
sumably in the Pilar area of the
east Bataan coast, American and
Filipino troops surged upon Lieut.
Gen. Nara's 65th Japanese division
and swept across three lines of en-
emy trenches, capturing "consid-
erable equipment."
The counter-attack was un-
leashed in the rugged region
where Nara's crack forces had
attempted by means of a fron-
tal attack to drive a wedge be-
tween the American forces.
The American counter-assault
apparently was designed to regain
full possession of the important
highway junction of Pilar.
The attempted Japanese landings
from "a large number of barges un-
der naval escort" along the Bataan
west cosat began under protection
of darkness
STOPPED BY ARTILLERY
The first assault was carried out
by special shock troops but their
attempted landing was "frustrated
by our artillery fire," the war de-
partment said.
"A second and more serious at-
tempt was made at night,” it was
related. "A large number of barges
under naval escort approached the
coast. The rsid was discovered by
a few of our night flying pursuit
planes which Immediately attacked
the convoy with light bomba and
machine gun fire.
WHAT WAR
News Means
Da All" III ill I 1
Big Allied Movement Underway n
CAP PRICE FIVE CENTS
Far East,
. 1. ,
===== Australian Army Minister Savs in Broadcast
war a decisive turn in our favor ■ TMOtE CHITS 1 I 11 1 1 1 J 1 CITE l Ww Toll WI VUWWL
will do well to check up again, for ■ ■ - *
the signs seem to Indicate that we --:_______________________________________________________________________
are in for a cosiderable spell of
are in for a considerable spell of
battle of the Pacific
That doesn't call for pessimism.
But as this column emphasized
yesterday, over----------------
optimism is bad IB
for the blood
pressure—and we
certainly must ex- 1
pect some upsets’
before things get
a lot better.
We of the gen-
eral public are in -
the position of,
"going over the
top” with our
fighting men, an
expression which
had considerably MacKENZIE
more significance
in the days of trench warfare
In the last conflict but which still
means entrance into battle. And
in a mUd way we must experience
the emotions of the trooper.
A lot of you men will remember
leaning up against the muddy
trench in the darkness just before
the dawn, waiting for the skipper
to give the signal when the crawl-
ing hand of his wrist-watch reach-
ed the zero hour. You aren't likely
to forget your feelings in those
trying moments.
RACE THROUGH HELL
You knew you were going to
reach your objective—never doubt-
ed that—but you also knew that be-
fore you got there you had to
race through the hell of a no-
man's land which would be hearing
with the explosions of great shells.
And then the hand-to-hand busi-
'No Hope' for
Abilene Flier
Scant hope tor recovery at 1st.
Lt. Max Chenoweth from injuries
received in an automobile accident
in the Panama Canal zone Jan. 14
was held today by the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Chenoweth. 1801
Pine, after a telephone conversa-
tion with the superintendent of
Gorgas hospital, canal zone.
In answer to a question from
Chenoweth. "Is there any chance
for his recovery?” the hospital
superintendent, a Major Bradford,
replied, "No ”
The Abilenians learned for the
first time that Max, an army air
corps pilot, had received a fracture
of the spine and that he, was
paralysed from the waist down.
Information previously received
by Mr. and Mrs. Chenoweth from
the War department was that he
had suffered a cerebral concussion
and a fracture of the arm, out did
not mention the fractured spine
"Max is conscious and rational,”
Major Bradford told the Abilenians.
"The broken arm will not give any i
trouble.
"But paralysis from the waist
down usually results in paralysis
of the bladder," he continued.
"There la no immediate danger, but
if he should live, he would always
told Low.
British Try to
Halt Rommel
By the Associated Press
British North African troops,
thrown back 225 miles in less than
two weeks, were reported attacking
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's ar-
mies "wherever found" in western
Libya today in an attempt to check
the head-long Axis counter-offen-
sive.
A British spokesman, empha-
sising the prime necessity of
destroying the enemy’s forces
in desert warfare, declared:
“Area is not important. Tanks
men and trucks are.”
ness.
House Group Okays
New Chinese Loan
WASHINGTON, Feb 3.—P—An
authorization for a $500,000,000 war
loan to China was approved lunan-
imously today by the house foreign
attain committee -. %
Members said the action was
taken in s few minutes—snd with-
out dissent—immediately after four
cabinet officers told them behind
closed doors that the loan was
necessary to help China prosecute
its war effort.
Speaker Rayburn had predicted
the fast committee action
The Weather
U. •. DEPARTMENT nr COMMERCE
ABILENE and vicinity: Warmer to-
. "'kast TEXAS Orel or 100th meridians:
N Warmer north and extreme east, little ter*
perature change southeast and south W^
tra! portions tonight, light rain or drizzle
southwest portion and near lower coast
this afternoon and tonight
WEST TEXAS (west of 100th meridian):
Mild temperatures this afternoon with lit-
the change in temperature tonight; scatter-
ed showers late thia afternoon or tonight
over Del Rio-Eagle Pass area and Big
Bend country
Highest temperature yesterday: City of-
fice, 66: airport. 65
Lowest this morning: City office, 40;
airport, 36.
, Temperatures
Sunk Sub’s Survivor
Tells Story of Loss
HORTA, The Azores, Feb. 3.—VP)
—The only known survivor of the
German submarine destroyed by
two destroyers off the Azores yes-
terday, told his story today.
A sub-lieutenant, he said the
submarine was on the surface about
four miles off Plco island when
dawn broke Two destroyers sight-
ed it. As it dived one destroyer op-
ened fire. Hit. the submarine had
to return to the surface.
Approximately 15 men of the
submarine's crew had climbed
through the conning tower onto
the deck when the destroyer scor-
ed s direct hit which practically
cut the submarine In two, the sub-
lieutenant said
All of the Germans dived into
the sea and the sub-lieutenant, a
strong swimmer, struck out for
So we’re going to reach our ob-
jectives all right. But first we've
got to go through no-man's land
and then get at clone grips with the
enemy.
The immediate great test lies in
the siege of Singapore, and the
peril of this vitally strategic base
is very great. Can it hold out? No-
body can answer that question now.
It may pull through if it gets suf-
ficient air reinforcements quickly.
The way things now stand, how-
ever, the Japs have supremacy in
the air and it's difficult to argue
against their belief that they will
be able to blast their way ashore
We’re in the no-man's land of the
Singapore show, and we must
await the hand-to-hand work.
FIGHTERS NEEDED
1- be paralyzed.
‘ "He is not transportable to the
United States at present, but if he
becomes so, the army will send him
back home," he assured the parents.
"We have made an exploratory ex-
amination, but with no avail.”
The parents assumed that since
he was conscious and rational he
had recovered from the head injury.
Lieutenant Chenoweth has been
in the Army Air Corps two years,
all in the Panama canal zone. He
received his flight training at
Randolph and Kelly fields. San
Antonio. He attended McMurry
college, and was graduated from
the University of Texas.
FOR DEFENSE
B UY
n- shore where he was taken into cu*-
I tody for internment by Portuguese
UN authorities.
It’s good to see American war-
planes taking a hand in the de-
fenses of Singapore and the Indies
Yankee bombers definitely sunk two
more Japanese transports, snd prob-
ably sent a third to the bottom.
If an attack in Macassar strait off
Borneo. That’s a fine contribution
to the allied defense.
Singapore’s great need right now
is a fleet of fighter planes to stand
off the' Jap bombers which are
dumping mountains of explosives
on the island and will be used with
devastating effect when the Nip-
ponese attempt a landing. And
fighter reinforcements are the
most difficult to move to Singa-
pore quickly, because they can't
be flown the long distance and
must be transported either by sir-
craft carriers or in sections on
See ANALYSIS, Pg. 3, Col. 4
Japs Go Thirsty
Now in Hong Kong
CHUNGKING Feb. 3.-(UP)-
An escapee from Hong Kong said
today that the British defenders,
before the stronghold's fall, threw
Mon-Sun Tues-Mom
P. M. 4. M.
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Guardsmen to Feast
At Clubhouse Tonight
Approximately 250 Texas Defense
guardsmen ere expected to gather
at the Taylor County Veterans
clubhouse in east Abilene for a
supper st 7 tonight. Capt. Jesse
Warren said.
Companies A and B, Abilene, will
have as their guests the head-
quarters detachment of the 10th
battalion and the aviation branch,
he continued. Warren is captain of
Company A. and B R Blankenship
of Company B.
All guardsmen must be in uni-
form, Capt. Warren said.
WHO TOLD YOU" — Miss
Berding Miller of Port Ar-
thur, Texas, charter member
of the “Who Told You” club,
a rumor-spiking, non - dues
organization originated by
Dick Harding of Port Arthur.
It is Harding’s hope that the
club will become nationwide
and do'a great deal of good in
tracing down rumors of ship
sinkings, shortages etc., which
obviously are started by en-
emy propagandists. Miss Mil-
ler points to the club sign.
(NEA.)
Grand Jury Called
Back Info Session
Second meeting of the term for
42d district court grand jurors has
been set for Thursday, to Investi-
gate new, criminal cases, including
six complaints filed Saturday. I
Three of the new complaints are
for felony theft, the other three for
receiving and concealing stolen
goods All of the defendants were
in county jail today in lieu of
bond.
Named in the complaints are
Willie Pierce and Jack Lewis, for
theft from a parked automobile;
Louie Long, for automobile theft;
and Rov Cawthon, W J. (Bill) Sin-
clair, and Henry Murfee, negro,
for receiving and concealing stolen
automobile tires.
Poll Tax Total of
Cairo headquarters indicated
that General Rommel’s vanguards
had reached the vicinity of Sionta,
105 miles northeast of Bengasi and
22s miles northeast of El Agheila.
highwater mark of the British
January offensive.
While the British said they now
were taking the initiative, the Ger-
man high command gave this ver-
sion:
Tn Cirenaica (Libya), the re-
treating enemy again was
brought to battle and dislodg-
ed."
Premier Mussolini’s high com-
mand also asserted thst German
and Italian motorised columns con-
tinued to advance eastward "de-
spite enemy resistance," and indi-
cated that Axis spearheads had
knifed more than 110 miles beyond
newly-recaptured Bengasi.
On the Soviet front, Russia’s ar-
mies were declared to have Inflict-
ed heavy new losses on the Ger-
mans and beaten off Nazi counter-
attacks launched in a vain attempt
to halt the Red armies’ advance.
In the Ukraine, the German high
command acknowledged fresh Sov-
iet pressure northeast of Nazi-held
Taganrog on the Sea of Azov, but
asserted that elsewhere on the
1200-mile battlefront German
troops scored local successes despite
"stubborn enemy resistance "
=====A
WARNING — Private Joseph
L. Lockard, 20, above, of Wil-
liamsport, Pa., was recom-
mended for citation for
sounding a warning of the
approach of Japanese planes
at Pearl Harbor. His report to
• superior was disregarded.
Russians Near
away 800,000 bottles of whisky.
Mrs Liang Hant-Sao, wife of the
secretary-general of legislature,
said the "scorched earth" move was n .
carried out at the suggestion of 8,300 Is Sighted
women, who were afraid of what -
the Japanese might do to the ci-
vilian population if they had whis-
ky.
Taylor county's collection of poll
end property taxes continued to
grow today as office deputies work-
ed through mail receipts poatmark-
British Lose Ace
BERLIN Feb. 3. — (Official
broadcast recorded by the United
Press in New York)—Wing Com-
mander Robert Roland Stanford
Tuck. 25, one of the most famous
of British sees, has been shot down
and taken prisoner, the official
news agency said it had learned
from military sources
Tuck was captured unhurt, the
report said.
Dnieper River-
By M. S. HANDLER
United Press Staff Correspondent
MOSCOW, Feb. 3.—(UP)—Mar-
shal Semyon Timoshenko’s Uk-
raine army was reported advancing
steadily today toward the Dnieper
river line despite intervention of
exceptional numbers of Nazi dive-
bombers. level bombers and fight-
ers seeking to halt the Soviet at-
tack.
Front report* disclosed heavy
air, fighting over the south-
ern front. The Luftwaffe was
reported attempting to regain
air supremacy over a wide area
in an effort to halt the Soviet
advance.
However, Soviet bombers were
described as pacing the advance of
Timcshenko’s men, carrying out
Airliner Shot Down
MELBOURNE, Feb. 3.—(uP)L
Japanese fighter planes shot down
an Empire Airways flying boat en
route from Port Darwin to Koe-
pang, in Dutch Timor, killing 13
persons, official dispatches said
today.
ed before midnight Jan. 31.
Poll tax total of 7,815 at the close
of business Saturday night was ex-
pected to increase to approximately
8,300, while approximately $25,000
la expected to be added to the prop
erty tax payment list.
Assessor -Collector C. O Patterson
said the tally would probably be
completed sometime tomorrow
STOP and THINK
The only thing this country
cannot afford I* idleness.— Dr.
Alvin H. Hansen, Harvard
economist.
Slothfutness casteth into «
deep sleep; and an idle soul
shall niter hunger.—Proverbs
19:15.
Ribbing Solons for Voting Selves Pensions—
'BUNDLES FOR CONGRESS' CAMPAIGN GEIS BACKING
SPOKANE, Was., Feb. 3—(UP)
A 'bundles for congress” to
"keep ’em laughing” campaign
swept merrily along the West
Coast today bringing forth
contributions of rat nests,
wooden legs, glass eyes, false
teeth and moth balls.
i Residents rummaged through
Trattics and cellars for “presents"
for their senators and represen-
tatives at Washington. D C.,
and articles of svery size, shape
and description deluged the of-
ficial “bundle headquarters" at
the Spokane Athletic Round
Table office, where the stunt
originated to rib congressmen
who voted pensions for them-
selves
A large corps of women work-
ers were far behind in their
wrapping and packing chores,
but said they hoped to catch
up by Wednesday when a special
truck leaves Spokane to carry
the “bundles” to Washington.
Round Table members, dumb-
founded by the reception ac-
corded their plan, said they had
been swamped with telephone
calls from cities along the line
of march. Many asked permis-
sion to add a truck to the
caravan and other municipali-
ties said they would have the
mayor and town band escort ths
trucks through town.
Other Round Table “bundle-
quarters” were set up in Ban
Francisco, Los Angeles and
other western cities and a coast-
wise campaign was opened in
newspapers. One advertisement
read:
"Bundle* for congress.
“They need help back in
Washington. Forget Pearl Har-
bor and the war. Mail a bundle
to your senator or the other
fellow* congressman. 'Keep 'em
laughing.’"
pounding attacks on railroad Junc-
tions. troop trains, supply columns
and rear concentrations.
One Russian bomber unit in a
week's work reported the destruc-
tion of 230 freight cars, three mov-
ing trains snd several railroad
junction point*.
TANKS COUNTER
Soviet fighter planes were cov-
ering land troops as they advanced
In order to fight off Nazi dive-
bombers. Increasing numbers of
German planes were reported
thrown into the fight as the Rus-
sians advance gained momentum.
German tank units were reported
launching counterattacks on the
southern front but were unable to
halt the Russians.
Fighting was said to be reaching
new heights ct ferocity as the Rus-
sian and German armies engaged In
a "race against spring.” The Rus-
sians were seeking to shatter or
cripple ; German offensive power
before the Nazis can launch a
spring offensive. The Germans were
throwing counterattacks to prevent
the Russians from achieving their
objective and enable the Germans
to reach their second and third
defense' lines which the Red army
organ Red Star said were being
hastily constructed.
Urges Troops
To 'Hold on'
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Australian Army Minister Francis
M. Forde declared today that “a big
movement by the allies is underway”
to counter Japan's sweep in the Par
Pacific, even as Japanese dive-
bombers struck violently at Singa-
pore and a Tokyo military spokes-
man said that a direct assault on
the island stronghold wss immin-
ent.
In a broadcast to the Australian
imperial force at Singapore, Forde
declared that each hour Japan's
siege armies were held st bay per-
mitted the massing and deploy-
ment of more reinforcements and
the accumulation of more weapons.
“It does net need my words to
Impel you, therefore, to hold
on," he said.
Forde "did not specify the na-
ture or direction of the big new
allied movement.
A Chinese army spokesman in
Chungking sald Japan's bloody
losses in the eight-weeks-old con-
flict were forcing her to draw
heavily on manpower reserves snd
thst the bodies of 10.000 slain in
the Malays campaign alone had al-
ready arrived at Saigon, Indo-
china.
The spokesman reported that ■
huge Japanese convoy, including 41
warships and 38 other vessels, had
been sighted steaming southward
in Formosa strait, carrying troops
to make up for casualties. These
might be headed for Malaya, the
Philippines or the Dutch Indies.
Singapore's rig defense guns,
ranged along the mile-wide Johore
strait, thundered intermittently
above the scream of air-raid sirens
st Japanese troops In the jungles
on the opposite shore of the Malay
peninsula.
RAF scouting planes reported a
heavy movement of Japanese troops
southward. Indicating that the in-
vaders were massing in full strength
on the lower tip of the peninsula
before launching a direct assault on
the $400,000,000 island fortress.
Sir Shenton Thomas, governor of
the straits settlement, worked to
shirt sleeves along side native cool-
ies, laying hose to battle the flames
set by Japanese bombs.
"Enemy air activity over Singa-
pore has been considerable during
the last 24 hours, high level sad
dive-bombs attacks being carried
out and causing some fires," British
headquarters reported.
"Military casualties hsvs been
slight”
STRIKE AT JAVA
Other Japanese warplanes struck
for the first time st Java, heart
of the Dutch East Indies, raiding the
big Soerabaja naval base.
Java is the headquarters of Gen.
Sir Archibald P. Waveils supreme
United Nations command in the
Far Pacific
Besides attacking Soerabaja, the
Indies' chief naval base, a torma-
llon of 26 Japanese bombers,
strongly escorted by lighter*, also
pounded towns in eastern Java in
what may have been the prelude to
an invasion drive A communique
reported considerable damage " and
casualties.
CONVOY ATTACKED
Meanwhile, General Wavell’s
headquarters announced heavy new
blows inflicted on the battered Japa-
nese invasion armada in Macassar
strait, between Dutch East Borneo
and Celebes Island.
United States warplanes twice
attacked the enemy convoy yes- —
terday off Ballk Papan, General
Wavell’s command reported,
sinking tire transports and
probably another.
Combined Dutch and United
See THE WAR, Pe. S, Col. S j
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