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WASHINGTON. Feb. 14 - —
Administration supporters in con-
gress lined up today against any
drastic shakeup in the army and
navy high command during the
present grave days of the war.
There was sharp senatorial crit-
icism on the nation's war policies.
But leading administration senators
said the onward march of Japan
in the Pacific and the German At-
lantic threat. Immeasurably great-
er through revitallzatlon of the
1 Nazi fleet, made the situation too
| serious for any sudden change now.
I NO TIME NOW
Turning aside * suggestion by
Wendell - L. Willkie that General
MacArthur be brought back from
the Philippines to assume over-all
leadership of the military effort.
Senator Hill (D-Ala), the majority
whip, told reporters he thought
this was no time to replace the
men now directing the army and
navy in their far-flung activities.
Hill said that no recognition
would be too great for Mac-
Arthur. He added, however,
that He military genius was
needed en Bataan peninsula
as much as any place in the
world.
Senator Van Nuys (D-Ind) said
any change in the command would
•be likely to result in delays while
Ja new man was surveying the sit-
guation to determine what course to
(follow. .
’ But Senator Vandenberg ‘R-
Mich) declared it would be the best
I thing that could happen to the
[country if MacArthur could be
■ made supreme commander of the
armed forces.
MILITARY SYMBOL
•MacArthur is the only symbol
we have left of military efficiency."
Vandenberg said.
Criticizing the administration's
conduct of the war. Senator Tyd-
Ings (D-MD) asserted in the senate
yesterday that the struggle could
|not be won by remaining on the
'defensive; that the United States
and our allies must take the ini-
tiative to carry the fight to Japan
and other enemies
This could best be done, he said,
by "taking a chance" and sending
a heavily guarded convoy of troops
to reinforce MacArthur's men or
the British in Singapore He want-
ed no political direction of the
war. Tydings said. He said he
thought General MacArthur and
Admiral Stark were doing a good
job. but that there was a feeling
in the mind of many that American
admirals and generals were being
told what to do. Instead of them-
selves doing the telling.
Laura Ingalls Held
WASHINGTON, Feb 14—(PP)-
Laura Ingalls was held in federal
jail today, convicted as an unregis-
tered. paid agent of Germany and
awaiting sentence that can be as
high as two years in prison and
(1000 fine.
LANDED IN JAVA
CHUNGKING, Feb. 14.—(Official Chinese broadcast re-
corded at San Francisco by United Press)—A commentator
speaking in English said the Chinese people “are happy to-
night at the news that American expeditionary forces have
arrived in Java.” _
(There has been no announcement of the arrival of an
American expeditionary force in Java.)
The Chinese also were cheered by news that the new allied naval
commander-in-chief in the southern Pacific "has expressed great confi-
dence in the ability of the Increasing naval forces under his command to
soon be out attacking the thin lines of communication of the enemy in
the South Seas.”
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Start the week off right—by using
REPORTER NEWS WANT ADS get
some of the money which other people
are making
Abilene voters will go to the
polls Tuesday, March 1. to register
final verdict on the municipality’s
projected $311,000 school expansion
program.
Friday afternoon, city commis-
sioners adopted a resolution calling
election on that date on the ques-
tion of a $125,000 school bond is-
sue, after receiving notification
from the Defense Public Works ad-
ministration of approval of a $186,-
000 grant for the school expansion
program.
The grant is contingent on the
city’s paying remainder of the
school project cost—$125.000—end
municipal officials sald bond Is-
sue is the only means by which the
sum can be provided
The amended school project ap-
plication approved by DPW calls
for constructing two junior high
schools, one on the north side at
corner of North 12th and Merch-
ant. and the other on the south side
at South 14th and Jeanette, and a
four-room addition to the negro
school, also on the north side.
FIVE VOTING PLACES
The bond election will be on the
issuance of (125.000 in bonds, bear-
ing Interest of 3 and 1-2 percent
annually, payable semi-annually,
with maturity not to exceed 25
years, and of providing a tax levy
for payment of the bonds.
Balloting will be at five places:
the courthouse, with Z. D. Halley
as presiding judge; South Fifth
and Butternut fire station. C. C.
Sellers; women’s building at Fair
park, Mrs. Martin Metzger; and
Central fire station. North Fourth
and Cedar. A. J. Leighty.
Commissioners took’ a second
step in the school program yester-
day afternoon by rejecting all bids
received Jan. 13 on the negro
school addition, and advertising for
new bids. Decision to reject all bids,
as result of the withdrawal of the
low offer by Fred Gartside, local
contractor, was made on recom-
mendation of U. Stevens, acting
regional DPW administrator, Fort
Worth.
The new bids are to be opened at
2 p. m. Friday, March 6, and com-
missioner* indicated contract will
Philippine Artillery
Dueling Is Resumed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—•Sh-
Heavy artillery dueling on the Ba-
taan peninsula in the Philippines
and resumption of Japanese siege
firing on. the Corregidor fortifica-
tions were reported today by the
war department.
On the Bataan fighting front, a
communique said the enemy was
active.
The siege guns, again firing after
a two-day lull, inflirted no material
damage. It was said.
be awarded immediately. Wage
Kale for the project was revised
slightly, with electricians and iron
workers receiving higher rates, but
specifications for the structure were
not altered.
The commission voted to open
bids Thursday, March 5. on a sec-
ond PDW project—for Improve-
ments to the Lake Abilene filtra-
tion plant Wage scale for that pro-
ject also was adopted yesterday.
Commission Opposes
City commissioners went on record
Friday as opposing proposed canali-
sation of the Trinity river as "Im-
practical and detrimental to the
business interests of Abilene. Tay-
lor county and West Texas."
Resolution to that effect was
adopted unanimously after W R.
Daniels, general agent of the Texas
& Pacific railway, and C. O Sav-
age, sales manager of the J. M
Radford Grocery company, had
voiced opposition to the rivers and
harbors bill now before congress,
which appropriates $15,000,000 for
immediate start of the canal pro-
ject and requested the municipal
government to oppose that provi-
sion of the bill.
Daniels said both the Abilene
chamber of commerce and the Tay-
lor county commissioners court al-
ready had approved resolutions op-
posing the project.
“Business Interests of Abilene
will be discriminated against In
favor of Fort Worth and Dallas if
the canal provision is enacted,"
Daniels declared.
Savage reiterated a prediction
he said was made several years ago
when the issues first arose that "if
Fort Worth gets water freight
rates, my company probably will
have to close several houses in its
eastern territory and open a house
in Fort Worth to serve that terri-
tory." *
Commissioners directed copies of
the resolution be sent to Rep. Sam
Russell and to Senators Tom Con-
nally and W. Lee O'Daniel.
OPA Has No Plan for
Gasoline Rationing
WASHINGTON, Feb 14—(PP—
The Office of Price administration
does not have a gasoline rationing
plan ready yet. Leon Henderson has
revealed.
Questioned concerning the possi-
bility of gasoline rationing in the
East — reported by authoritative
sources to be sn early probability—
Henderson said. "We do not have
a plan to install the rationing of
gasoline." He acknowledged, how-
ever. that OPA would be ready to
act if the War Production Board
called for rationing.
Deputy
Friends filled the Highland
Church of Christ this morning to
pay final tribute to Wade Willis.
Taylor county's singing deputy
sheriff who fell in line of duty
Thursday night.
The morning also found all of-
fices of the Taylor county court-
house, where Willis had been a
popular member of the “official
family" for five years, closed in
order that fellow officials and
courthouse employes might join the
silent throng at the funeral serv-
ice.
The Abilene quartet, ef which
Willis was a member, sang Its
tribute—with Willis’ place fill-
ed by Stanley Webb Other
members are Silas Clark, J. H.
(Peewee) Sibley and Preston
Williams.
The rites were conducted by Don
H. Morris, president of Abilene
Christian college, and by Dr. E. B.
Surface, pastor of the Central
Presbyterian church.
Pallbearers were Sheriff Sid Mc-
Adams, Deputies P. A. Diltz, Jess
Edwards and Ruck Sibley, and
County Judge Carl Hulsey and Roy
Skaggs, district clerk. Burial was in
Cedar Hill cemetery.
Willis was fatally wounded by a
point blank bullet from the smug-
gled gun Rex Beard, convicted rob-
ber, used in a futile jail break at-
tempt.
Beard's Condition
Remains 'Critical'
Rex Beard, 19-year-old gunman
wounded in a Thursday night jail
break attempt. sUU was clinging to
life this morning at Hendrick Me-
morial hospital.
He spent a "fairly restful" night,
but his condition remained critical.
At the county jail, two men ac-
cused as accomplices in Beards
futile break, were being held with
bonds set at $5,000 each.
The complaints charging con-
spiracy to help Beard escape name
Cecil K. Williams, Abilene cavalry-
man home on leave from Fort
Bliss, and Carl Lowrie, Camp
Berkeley construction workman.
Both are 20 years of age
They were arraigned before Jus-
tice of the Peace W. J. Cunning-
ham yesterday afternoon.
Dist. Atty. J. R. Black sald Wil-
liams had signed a statement ad-
mitting he was paid 5170 by Beard
to buy and deliver the bandit a
weapon, and sald William* impli-
cated Lowrie a* his companion in
purchasing the revolver and divid-
ing Beard’s money.
With the gun smuggled into the
jail, Beard fatally wounded Deputy
Sheriff Wade Willis, only to fall
himself a short time later in a rain
of bullets from the guns of Police
Chief T. A. Hackney and Sheriff
Sid McAdams.
Beards most serious wound is in
the side, his right lung and liver
punctured. Both his arms also are
broken.
Rites Sunday for
Local Carpenter
Funeral for W. C. Barksdale, 64-
year-old carpenter who had been
employed for the past 14 years at
the Abilene state hospital, will be
held at the Anson Avenue Baptist
church at 3 p. m Sunday, with the
Rev George Sullivan, patsor, offi-
ciating.
Burial will be in Cedar Hill ceme-
tery, under direction of Elliotts
Funeral home.Pallbearers named are
Lee Curry, Jack Griffith, Woodrow
Griffith, Elvis Montgomery, How-
ard Clark and Elmer Sparks of
Sweetwater.
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his room at the hospital.
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against Sumatra, a major island of the Dutch East Indies,
came today when Japanese parachutists landed in the vicin-
ity of Palembang (E-10 on the indexed map above), vital oil
center. At the same time it was announced British imperial
troops had been sent as reinforcements to Batavia, for aid
in the defense of that capital of the United Nations (B-11)
on the island of Java.
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Imperials Declare
By L. P. ATKINSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
CALCUTTA. Feb. 14.—(UP)-
British Imperials defending Singa-
pore "are determined to die" rather
than yield to the Japanese tank,
aerial and artillery onslaught, the
Singapore radio sald today.
The voice of the Singapore
broadcast, coming defiantly from
the center of a furious last-ditch
battle on the island, calmly told the
Asian world that every inch of the
battleground was being contested
and that the defenders still were
counter-attacking the overwhelm-
ing Japanese forces.
(In London, a war communi-
que said that the Japanese
were being fought every step of
the way toward "the heart" of
Singapore town but that enemy
attacks were being intensified
on the eastern half of the Is-
land and had progressed to the
Paya Lebar sector, about three
miles north of the city, appar-
ently after having over-run the
reservoirs In the center of the
island and captured the naval
base on the north coast.)
The radio announcer then read
the official communique, which
told of shelling of the city and of
ceaseless attacks by artillery, high
level bombers and dive bombers on
the British troops
"We are determined to maintain
our positions," the broadcast sald.
"The British are offering heroic
resistance and there is ample indi-
cation that the Japanese are not
finding It easy to progress."
There was a break in the bread-
cast as received here but then
the announcer was heard closing
his remarks with this sentence:
“The people of Singapore are
wandering when II will come.”
Reservoirs Still
Held by British
BATAVTA. Feb 14 —(— The
Singapore radio said tonight that
the reservoirs on Singapore island
are still in British hands Singa-
pore's communiques on the position
of the battle lines had indicated
that at least part of these central
basins of fresh water were in Jap-
anese control.
“Our troops counter-attacked at
one point at least and established
a new line,” the announcer said.
"The reservoirs are still in our
hands.
“Johore causeway under the fire
of our guns was rendered Impass-
able last night."
•The reference to the causeway
indicated that the Japanese had
made efforts to fill in the breaches
in this mainland connection of
Singapore Island which the British
imperials had blasted upon their
retirement from the Malayan pen-
insula.)
Russian Women
Are Mobilized
MOSCOW, Feb. 14—(PP—Mobil-
ization of Russian women to step
up production of war materials and
construction work has been decreed
by President Michael Kalinin of
the Soviet union, the Moscow radio
announced today.
The Weather
v. a DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Weather Bureau
ABILENE and Vicinity: Rain and cold-
er tonight
WEST TEXAS: Intermittent rain this
afternoon and tonight.
EAST TEXAS (east of 100th meridian):
Rain tonight, little temperature change
except colder extreme northwest portion:
fresh occasionally strong winds coast this
afternoon and early tonight.
Precipitation for 24 hours ending 7:30
a. m Saturday, 06. inch. >_
Total since first of year, to 1:30 • m.
Saturday, .14 inch
Total amount roc same period last rear,
2.18 inches.
Normal amount lines first of the year,
1.46 inches
Airport precipitation for 24 hours ending
7:30 ■ at Saturday, 06 inch.
Highest temperature yesterday: City br
fice, 67; airport, 66. ...
Lowest this morning: City office, 50;
airport. 50
Temperatures ------
Sunrise
Sunset :
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Success of Flying Tigers
ited to Former Texas Schor
WASHINGTON, Feb 14.—(P)-
The spectacular triumphs of Amer-
can volunteer filer* over the Japa-
nese were semiofficially credited
today largely to their leader, “one
if the hottest acrobatic pilots ever
io kick around an air corps pur-
wit ship.”
Brigadier General Claire L.
Chennault, tall, taciturn, onetime
Texas school teacher, was said by
he army air force newa letter to
lave supplied the spark of military
genius for the volunteers' ten to
me victories in defense of the
to get their opponents with a sin-
gle, accurate burst of fire.
Helled as "the Flying Tigers" by
the Chinese, the American Volun-
teer Group had destroyed at least
135 Japanese planes in the air by
the end of January, and wrecked
another 50 on the ground, while
losing only 11 of their own pilots,
by reports compiled here.
On Christmas Eve and Christ-
mas day alone they clawed down
40 enemy planes Describing new
tactics they used, the army pub-
lication thus related circumstances
fore Christmas. A Tiger squadron
of 18 planes sped up to 18,000 feet,
swooped down to make the Inter-
ception and send their first vic-
around an air corps pursuit ship,
and four years of observing the
Jap air force In action."
Now 51, Chennault was jolted by
the first World War from a teach-
tims spinning into the jungles and
rice paddies around Rangoon.
The Tigers darted at the heavier_____.___.____. ___
Jape in wide weaves from above and four years. He joined the aviation
below instead of making the con-
ventional side approach The Jap
formations broke and fled with Ti-
gers hunting them far Into Thai-
land, x x x
“The tactics that enabled the Ti-
In* career in Texas, where he had
been a high school principal for
section of the signal corps it
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and became one of the army’s
Burma road *
With frontiersmen * economy, the
American pilots have been trained Rangood at 15,000 feet the day be-
of one air battle:
Sixty Jap bombers roared toward
gers to hang up this remarkable
record were developed by Chen-
nault during 1g j-ears as one of the
hottest acrobatic pilota ever to kick
greatest pilots
As leader of a spectacular “three
men on a flying trapeze" group
which startled spectators at nu-
merous peacetime air shows, he
taught and performed formation
acrobatics which the army pub-
lication asserted have never been
equalled A textbook he wrote in
1935 on "the role of defensive pur-
suit" is still in use st the air corps
tactical school at Maxwell Field.
Ala
Chennault’s flying career ap-
peared at an end when he was re-
tired for physical disability In 1937,
with the rank of captain But he
was pursuaded by two of his tra-
peze team partners, Lieutenants J.
H Williamson and W. C McDon-
ald. to help the Chinese battle the
Japanese
In China he taught pursuit tac-
tics to the little Chinese air force
REINFORCEMENTS
SENT TO JAVA AS
SINGAPORE HOLDS
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Japanese parachute troops struck into southern Sumatra
today in a menacing thrust toward Java, the heart of the
rich Dutch East Indies, while in the siege of Singapore, Japa-
nese troops reported they had captured the $150,000,000 Sele-
tar naval base on Singapore island.
Simultaneously, an Australian radio broadcast reported
that Australian and other British imperial troops had landed
at Batavia and “are taking up positions for the defense of
Java.”
It seemed clear that with Singapore apparently doomed,
the battle of the Indies was now fast developing into the
of raids while Japanese bombers
are (till warming their engines
Last summer Chennault was
made a brigadier general in charge
of Chinese air force combat unite,
and proceeded to form the volun-
teer group from American flier*
who resigned their commissions in
the army, navy or marine corps
They went into action In the mid-
dle of December.
The .Tigers, the news letter said,
have been handicapped by short-
ages of spare parts, ammunition
and fuel, and many of their plane
losses have been due to overworked
engines rather than enemy bullets
and helped organize an air raid
warning system which has enabled------------—.
Chinese headquarters to be warned been trained to nail their foes with
To conserve ammunition, they have
main struggle of the Far Pacific theater.
Dispatches from Batavia, the capital of Java, said Japa-
nese parachutists dropped from the skies near Palembang
and swiftly launched a big-scale attack on that vital Suma-
tra oil center, only 250 miles from Batavia.
An N. E. I. communique said Dutch defense forces were
putting up furious resistance and killing the air-borne Japa-
nese troops by the dozens.
More than 100 Japanese transport planes guarded by
fighters opened the attack, the communique said.
“Palembang itself is not threatened and there are no Indication* that
parachutists dropped close to or entered the town,” Dutch headquarter*
said, but they acknowledged that the air-borne invaders dropped at three
places in the Palembang area.
“Our troops have done excellent work and it may be assumed that
the situation is not unfavorable." ,
A special bulletin at 6 p. m., Java time (6:30 a. m.. Eastern war
time) indicated that the fight was sUll going on.
It was the first land invasion of the 1,000-mile-long island of
Sumatra, which stretches from a
point off the central Malayan
coast, 150 miles north of Singa-
pore, to the westernmost tip of
Java.
With the thrust into lower Suma-
tra, the Japanese now had three
gun muzzles pointed directly at the
heart of the Indies on an arc extend-
ing through Bandjermasin, In
southern Borneo, to Macassar,
chief port in southern Celebes is-
land
The Dutch command acknowledg-
ed unofficial reports that Japanese
troops had captured Bandjermasin,
only 300 miles north of the big
N.E.I. naval base at Soerabaja,
Java.
MACASSAR BATTLE
Fighting continued around Macas-
sar, but the Dutch implied that it,
too. had fallen to the invaders, de-
claring that Dutch defenders had
put it to the torch and that "the
enemy will not find anything of
use to him” there
In the flaming climax of
Singapore’s defense, British im-
perial troops were reported still
fighting grimly against seem-
ingly hopeless odds while the
Japanese said their dive-bombers
were raining havoc on a fleet
of 30 rescue ships In Singa-
pore harbor.
"Our troops—British, Australian,
Indian and Malayan-are disputing
every enemy attempt to advance
further toward the heart of Singa-
pore town," a late bulletin declared.
The communique Indicated that
casualties among the city's 750,000
population were high, under a con-
stant storm of bombs and shell-
fire.
Calcutta picked up a Singapore
broadcast declaring that "all (Brit-
ish) positions on Singapore Island
are holding "
Domei, Japanese news agency,
said rising sun warplanes set two
10,000-ton transports aflame and
scored direct hits on “numerous
other vessels” in the harbor.
AIMED AT AUSTRALIA?
Meanwhile, the Mikado’s sea-rov-
ing armies were apparently on the
move again as the Melbourne (Aus-
tralia) radio reported that a num-
ber of Japanese warships and sup-
ply vessels had been sighted last
night off the coast of Australian-
mandated New Britain Island, just
east of New Guinea.
A southward thrust from New
Britain might be aimed at Cape
York, on the northernmost top of
the Australian mainland, of through
the Torre* strait toward Timor and
Java in the Dutch East Indies
archipelago.
WHAT WAR
News Means
(This dally feature, conduct-
ed by DeWitt Mackenzie, Wide
World war analyst, is written
today by Fred Vanderschmidt.)
The first German spring offen-
sive has started and 1* proceeding
according to plan.
The battlefield is Invisible, for
the offensive is a thunder of whis-
pers in both this country and in
Britain, designed to wreck the
Anglo-American alliance on the
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the first bullet burst, and reports
show that eight of ten Japanese
downed thus fall.
Chennault was said to have
trained his men like a college foot-
bell team, keeping them in shape
by sports and calisthenics, and
safeguarding them from Oriental
mated lea.
"Aa fine a fighting force as had
ever left the ground." the volun-
teers have given the Japanese air-
men their worst licking of the war
In less than two months they have
driven enemy bombers from the
vital Burma road, parried heavy
aerial thrusts at Rangoon, and
blasted Japanese bases in Thailand
and Indo-China,
shoals of mutual suspicion.
This Nazi offensive has almost
every characteristic of the obscene
"Britain will fight to the laat
Frenchman" propaganda which
rotted the morale of the Maginot
line long before the panzer* broke
through on the Meuse.
JOKES AND RUMORS
The offensive Is sped by the Nazi
radio, although hardly any Amer-
icans or Britons get H that way.
Instead it is spread by clumsy writ-
ten and spoken jokes, by cynical
sneers, and by occasional false ru-
mors of disasters. It fattens on Ir-
responsible, tenth-hand gossip and
on well-meant, but thoughtless,
speech-making and interviews.
In America the Nazi idea is
to spread the belief that all
Englishmen are unspeakably
decadent and that they cannot
or will list fight Every advan-
tage has been taken of the
tradegy of Singapore to build
up thia lie, although the valor
of the thin red line which still
holds at Singapore is plain
enough.
In England the Nazi offensive
mainly spreads the falsehood that
America Is In the war only for
greed; that we intend to pick up
the pieces of the empire as they
fall and never give them back.
The Nazi "radio news service"
which by day and night poura
thousands upon thousands of words
upon the world in many languages
is not only the courier of the of-
fensive: It is also the mirror.
FIFTH COLUMN STUFF
Some of this poison, date-lined
Stockholm and attributed “to neu-
tral sources,” geta here under the
name of Guenther Tonn.
Few Americans remember Tonn,
although he was an important and
faithful fifth columnist He was the
furtive and rather shabby German
"journalist" who finally was ar-
rested in New York last spring and
shipped back to Germany after a
real or pretended suicide attempt
on Ellis Island. The Nazis reward-
ed him for his valuable work in
this country by foisting him off
on the Swedes, who probably feel
they are in no position to protest.
Here Is one of Tonn’s typical
pieces of poison, served this week
by Trans-Ocean, the Nazi radio
propaganda agency:
“Stockholm — The fall of
Singapore, according to reports
received from the V. S. ef
America, Thursday has resulted
in a feeling of deep depression
in the United States.. To all -
appearance, the failure of the
British defense at Singapore
has made an awkward impress
sion in the United States where
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