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Monday Evening, January 3, 1944
Seek Showdown on
Postwar Promises
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—(P)—Senators Hatch (D-NM) and Ball (R-
Minn) proposed today that the State department submit to Congress
an outlined of plans for the immediate formation of a United Nations
council to carry out the postwar pledges of the Moscow conference.
The two senators, members of a team which led a Senate fight for
“dong international commitments before the adoption of the Connally
postwar resolution, told a reporter they believed such action would
force a showdown on foreign policy that might clarify that issue dur-
ng the presidential campaign. *
"It’s time to get down to cases," Hatch declared. "Everybody is for
the formation of an international organization to preserve the peace
but the real test of their support of such a proposition will not come
ustcil some of the details are mapped out.” *
For himself, Ball said he hoped the State department soon would
move toward implementation of the
Moscow agreement, which recog-
nized “the necessity of establishing
at the earliest practicable ‘date a
general international organization,
based on the sovereign equality of
all participating states, and open
to membership by all such states,
large and small, for the mainten-
ance of international peace and se-
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FLYING FORT EXPLODES IN STORMY SKY;
SURVIVOR IS UNABLE TO EXPLAIN CAUSE -
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 3,-
(PP)—A thunderous explosion cracked
out of the stormy sky and thous-
ands of persons looked up to see a
four-motored army Flying plum-
met to earth in flames near Me-
Cleilan field, killing 13 men aboard.
One motor, a wingtip and other
parts littered a wide area, and
down from the thick overcast drift-
ed a lone parachutist—the only
survivor of the strange and tragic
ending to a Sunday flight from
McChord field at Tacoma, Dash.,
to Los Angeles.
Major James H. Wergen of Sa-
linas, Calif., commanding officer of
the Yucca (Ariz) gunnery school,
was the survivor. Before being put
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ALAN-CP ,.
under an opiate he told medical of -
ficers he had no recollection of
was struck by lightning or explod-
ed from another cause,
Wergen came down at high
speed on a cement aircraft
parking area and suffered a
possible hip fracture, lacera-
tions of the face and the loss
of four front teeth.
Witnesses said the plane, based at
Kingman Field, Ariz., must have
been a mile high when it exploded.
It seemed two minutes or solater
that it emerged from the low-hang-
ing clouds, “like a ball of fire com-
ing down,” and crashed at the edge
of McClellan field, ripping down
power lines. 7
The victims included Second Lt.
James s. Randall, whose mother is
10:
—- 4N MAJOR
CITIES
T(RATE PER 1,000 -
1 POPULATION)
DEC.1
APR.1
1 EXCESS OVER
NORMAL MORTALITY
ELU TOLL CUT—Striking re-
ductions from the weekly
mortality rate of the pre-
vious influenza epidemics,
compared with the present
one, are shown on this chart
prepared from -material sup-
plied by the U. S. Census Bu-
reau. Reduction is believed
curity.".
"We believe this could best be
done by the formation of a United
Nations council and the time to
set up such an organization is now,
before the problem is deposited on
our doorstep by the end of the war,”
Ball said.
The section of the Moscow agree-
ment calling for establishment: of
the international organization was
incorporated almost bodily in the
Connally postwar peace resolution,
but Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of
.the foreign relations committee
pointed out that the American,
British, Russian and Chinese for-
eign office representatives had speci-
fied that the action was to be taken
“at the earliest practicable date."
Connally said he doubted that
date had arrived.
The Army and Navy journal
reported meanwhile that the
Cairo and Teheran conferences
had produced an agreement
among Allied leaders that the
Japanese mandated islands in
the Pacific should go to the
United States after the war.
The Journal, unofficial service
publication, said:
“There was no doubt that China
would be willing to permit the Unit-
ed States to establish a base on
Formosa, but she would not be dis-
due to relatively mild form posed to make a similar grant to
the diseases has taken, and
improved treatment.
Maine Town Placed
Under Quarantine
YARMOUTH, Me., Jan. 3 P)
Russia or Britain. All leaders were
agreed that the United States should
- acquire the Japanese mandated is-
lands." i
These are the former German
colonies of the Mariannas, Marsh-
alls and Caroline islands, awarded
* The more than 2,000 inhabitants of
town were placed under virtual
quarantine today because of “the
prevailing epidemic of grippe-like
infections and other contagious dis-
eases.”
All school sessions, church gather-
ings, movies, lodge meetings, parties
other public gatherings were
forbidden. Parents were asked to
keep children at home and not go
out of town to attend movies, or en-
ter crowded busses. - -
The quarantine was ordered by
Health Officer Dr. William E. Free-
Man and Thomas Payson, member
of the town board of health.
As little as one-half part of zinc
- per million in the food of growing
plants makes the difference be-
tween abundant seed production
X lhd crop failure.
to Japan by the League of Nations
under mandate. It was announced
after the Cairo meeting that they
would be taken away from Japan
after this war, but nothing was said
as to their disposition.
Maniac Hunted as
Woman’s Slasher
AP Features -----.— 2: bor; 42 was the Year of the Horse—and Tojo was galloping
IF TOJO believes in signs, he might take a look at the Japa- along the war front. In ‘42, the Year of the Goat he was
nese calendar, which is based on the zodiac. For ‘41 was the butted around by the Allies, and in‘44, the Year of the Mon-
Year of the Serpent—and the Japanese struck at Pearl Har- key, he may find himself up a tree. .
AP’sProposed CHIANG FORECASTS JAPS
Judgment Filed FACE DEFEAT THIS YEAR,
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—(A)The __
Associated Press filed in United
CHUNGKING. Jan. 1—(Delayed)
—(P)—Generalissimo Chiang Kat-
States district court today a pro- ..
posed" form of judgment in the shek, declaring that the fate of the
Axis" was sealed in 1943. predicted
today that 1944 would see "thebe-
counsel said would clarify and make ginning of the decisive stage" of the
war against Japan and disclosed
that President Roosevelt agrees
government's anti-trust suit which
more specific previous suggestions by
the government.
A special court ruled Oct. 6 in a
two-to-one decision that the news
cooperative’s by-laws "in their pres-
ent form" violate the anti-trust
laws. Before entering its final
judgment, the court asked both par-
ties to submit proposals which, in
effect, would be interpretations of
what the court meant in its deci-
sion.--
They Department of Justice sub-
mitted its proposed form of judg-
with him that the Japanese peo-
ple should be allowed to choose
their own form of government if
they overthrow their military re-
gime. ,
“As to what form of government
Japan should adopt,” Chiang said.
Nippons Getting
ment findings of fact -and conclu- r. I T 1 HI
sions of law November 12. --. At tho War
The AP’s counter-proposals,
filed today, would make numer- -- "
ous changes in phraseology, in-
cluding specific designation of
the by-law regarding admission
of members which the court
has held is illegal.
The principal section of the
judgment, as AP lawyers suggested
it should read, follows:
By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH
WITH CHINESE FORCES IN
NORTHERN HUNAN PROVINCE,
Dec. * 29.—(Delayed)—(P)—Japanese
soldiers and civilians alike are sick
of the war and not at all sure of
victory, according to available Jap-
anese, prisoners.
Thus far, war correspondents
touring this Chinese front have had
an opportunity to question 19 pris-
oners, all Japanese except three Ko-
"A That the defendants, by pro-
mulgating and agreeing to observe
article III, sections 1, 2 and the last
sentence of section 3 of the by-laws
of the Associated Press, whereby
members of the Associated Press
publishing newspapers in the same
city and in the same ‘field’ (morn- gleaned from them were too few
ing, evening or Sunday) as an ap- for easy generalizations, it is worth
plicant, publishing a newspaper in noting that the Chinese produced
the United States of America or its | no officer prisoners and that about
territories, for membership in the
Associated Press may impose, or dis-
pense with, any conditions upon the
admission of such. applicant, and
whereby the defendants, in passing
upon an application of such appli-
cant for membership, may take into
consideration the effect of admis-
reans.
Apart from the fact that opinions
half the prisoners interviewed were
engineering or transport soldiers
rather than” actual combantants
from whom more fiery responses
might have been forthcoming.
All the prisoners seemed embar-
in a 6,000-word New Year's mes-
__-__-__Mrs. Laura S. Randall, Sylvania,
jumping or of pulling the rip-cord’o., and Cpl. Lloyd W Krohn, whose
of his chute. mother is Mrs. Elizabeth Krohn,
He could shed no light immedi- Scanlon, Minn. Most of the dead
ately as to whether the big bomber were from Washington and Oregon.
New Year’s lakes
Toll of 242 Lives
By The Associated Press
The nation awoke from another!
gay New Year’s weekend today to
find violent accidents had taken at
MINTER’S GIFT SHOP
, Announces A New Shipment—
ULTRA CALIFORNIA
TABLEWARE
sage to the Chinese army and peo- least 242 lives.
ple, "that question can better be During 54 hours preceding last
left to the awakened and repentant midnight 150 persons were reported
Japanese to decide for | killed in motor vehicle accidents,
Japanese people to decide for them-and 92 died in fires, drownings,
selves. | gas poisonings and other mishaps.
Gasoline rationing and other fac-
tors was believed to have kept traf-
fic deaths down considerably. The
National Safety Council estimated
the normal automobile death toll
for a three-day holiday period
would have been at least 225.
The President agreed with him
during talks at the Cairo confer-
ence, Chiang" said. that "all Japan-
ese militarists must be wiped out
and the Japanese political system
must be purged of every vestige of
aggressive elements."
Chiang stated that “with the re-
cent Allied landings in New Britain
and other strategic points Japan’s
second. line of defense in the Pa-
cific from the Solomons to the Bis-
marck sea had been broken.”
He said that the task of encirel-
ing the Japanese on the Asiatic
mainland would fall primarily on
Chinese shoulders because "in her
defensive war, Japan will have to
make the China theater her last
line of defense where she will take
her last, most stubborn stand.”
"If we prosecute the war in strict
accordance with the strategy we
have agreed upon we can certainly
defeat Japan in the Pacific ocean
to such an extent that either she
has to surrender unconditionally or
none of her forces will be able to
survive the impact of our pressure,”
Chiang asserted. %.
Colors:
• • Rosa :
7
• Blue
Highest death toll for any state
was that of California, where 39
persons were killed.
HIGH RATING GOES-
COLEMAN, Jan: 3—(Spl.)—Cole-
man high school has been accepted |
for membership in the Southern
Association of Colleges and Sec-
ondary schools for the current year,
according to a letter received by
City School Supt. J. T. Runkle from .
Joseph R. Griggs, chairman of the
state executive committee of the
state department of education.
"The action of the central review-
ing committee of the association in
extending the membership of your
high school in that body for anoth-
er year is significant in that your
high school in that body for anoth- :
• Green
• Yellow
in lovely
soft shades
Beware Coughs
‘Following Flu
After the flu is over and gone, the
cough that follows may develop
into chronic bronchitis i neglected,
freomulsion relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel germ
laden phlegm, and aid nature to
soothe and heal raw tender, inflamed
bronchial mucous membranes. No
matter how many medicines you
e have tried, tell your druggist to sell
a bottle of Creomulsion with the
understanding you must like the way.
it quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
‘‘ Couths, Chest Colds. Bronchitis
CHICAGO, Jan. 3—(P—A slasher
who police assumed to be a maniac
set upon a 27-year-old woman last
night in the laundry of her home,
beat her head against the wall un-
til she became unconscious, tied
her to a washing machine, and
then ripped her body with a razor
blade. ——
The victim, whose condition was
termed fair today by hospital at-
tendants, was Florine Henry, a
comptometer operator in the fed-
eral reserve bank.
Miss Henry told police that all
she was able to see of her assailant
was a “hairy hand," and gave this
account of the attack; - 1/3
The man clapped a hand
over her mouth as she was as- %
cending the stairs from the
laundry, and dragged her back.
He beat her head against the
wall, slashed her with a razor
across the abdomen and the up-
per part of her body, and then
tied her unconscious to the
washing machine. 1
She was found by her: sister,
Pauline, who summoned Detectives
Charles Egan and Raymond Cole
lins. The officers, terming the as-
sailant a maniac, said Miss Henry
had bitten him on the hand. but
could not identify him. She was
not raped, hospital physicians said.
th PETER PAN. * .
IM NG ON CHE $
dU PER exeRCIsE!
sion upon the ability of such appli-
cant to compete with members of
the Associated Press in the same
city and field,’ have violated an
act of congress approved July 2,
1890, entitled an act to protect
trade and commerce against un-
lawful restraints and monopolies,’
and
- * +
“B. That article rrr, section 1, 2
and the last sentence of section 3
of the by-laws of the Associated
Press, presently in force, are de-
clared and adjudged to be illegal,
and are hereby cancelled, and the
Associated Press, its officers, direc-
rassed over their predicament.’ None
showed bravado and none made pa-
triotic declarators.
All provided a prompt reply to all
questioning save one—cadaverous
little Superior Private Hashimoto
Miyoi; 24, from Fukushima, who
took his time about answering when
he answered at all.
Private Miyol gave us to under-
stand he wouldn’t have been here
if he hadn’t gotten a bullet in his
right thigh. A member of the 65th
artillery regiment of the 13th in-
fantry division, he carefully con-
sidered replies to questions concern-
ing his, outfit’s equipment.
He said his outfit had been pro-
moted from B class equipment to A
class before the November offen-
sive, but that the new equipment
did not reach the regiment and it
fought with mortars alone.
Miyol said in general that the
Japanese would be depressed if Ger-
many is defeated, that Chinese and
American air activity had little ef-
While he noted that the com-
bined efforts of the Allies had been
responsible to a considerable ex-
tent ‘for sealing the fate of Japan
and Germany in 1943, he declared
that “there is a more important fac-
tor to be considered."
"This. lies," he said. “in the tra-
ditional love for democracy and
freedom of the American people
who treat all peoples of the world,
as their equals. Their broadmind-
edness and far-sightedness have led
the American government to adopt
a just enlightened world policy and [
to translate that policy into action
with success."
er year is significant in that your
high school passes the review of
the committee without adverse
criticism,” Griggs wrote. "
demand
INSILINE
For QUICK .
‘ E RELIEF OF
JURE inHUKi
JUE TO COLDS
To set a colorful . . pretty table . . have a set of Ultra
California— offered in sets or separate pieces — priced
20c each and up.
The Cory
: Glass Coffee
Brewer
Tail Severed From
Plane, But Gunner
Continues to Fire -
For delicious coffee try the
Cory Glass Brewer... it
really makes good coffee.
MEN and
WOMEN.
for good jobs at
good pay to drive
STREET CARS
and BUSSES
3.40 to 4.80
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—(—The
War department today revealed the
story of courageous Staff Sergeant
Ben P. Colecchi of New Castle, Pa.,
a tail gunner who continued firing 1
at strafing enemy Zeros from the
severed tail of his bomber until it
disappeared in the ocean. . .
Witnesses on the September 11 in DALLAS
Paramushiru - Shimushu bombing " *
mission brought back the word.
The four engine bomber was at-
tacked simultaneously by two Zeros
and crashed. Fliers of the B-24 Lib-
erator formation said the tail sec-,
tion of the sinking plane broke’
_ away from the’ rest of the wreckage
Private Kiji Tomi, also 24, said he and remained afloat momentarily F
tors, agents, representatives, and
employees, and each of its members,
their officers, directors, agents, rep-
resentaives, and employees, be, and
each of them are, perpetually en-
joined and restrained from agree-
ing to observe and observing said
by-laws, and from promulgating,
agreeing to observe and observing
any new or amended by-laws hav-
ing a like purpose or effect in re- _______________
spect to admission of members to United States and Bristain most,
the Associated Press; provided, - _- _ _______-_______..,
however, that nothing herein shall felt - that Japan had done China Sgt. Colecchi, sitting in that tail,
prevent the adoption by the Asso- wrong. He entered the army only continued a steady stream of fire
ciated Press of new or amended by- last June 1 and was assigned to a at Japanese strafing planes until
laws which will restrict admission, transport regiment in the Ninth di-rthe-compartment went-out of sight,
provided that members in the same -
feet on his regiment, and that of
all her enemies Japan hates the
wrong He entered the army only continued a steady stream of fire
vision. He was a Tokyo power plant
city — and in the s a m e employe before the war.
"eld’ (morning, evening or Sun--------------------------
day), as an applicant publishing
newspaper in the United States of Cuudonic
- America or its territories, shall not IWO TuGeDTS KHEO
have power to impose, or dispense n
with, any conditions upon his ad- Dormitory 257
mission and that the by-laws shall I IIIIIUI y-DICLE
affirmatively declare that the ef-
He is listed as “missing in ac-
tion.” The Air Medal has been
---awarded him by order of—Major
General Davenport Johnson, com-
manding general of the. Eleventh
air force.
fect of admission upon the ability _____._________-...,___
of such applicant to compete with students at the Southwestern junfor
members in the same city and ‘field’, college here died when the boys’
shall not be taken into considers, dormitory was destroyed by fire
tion in passing upon his applica-early Sunday,
tion.” Sheriff Oran Smith” of Cleburne,
——.------------------— four miles west of here, said the
A.5 per cent increase in the boys were Virgil Dye, 17, of Phoe-
number of criminal cases filed in- nix, Ariz, and Leroy Birdwell, 16,
federal court in the past year was of Fort Worth.
attributed largely to prosecutions
of draft violators.
7
POPULAR EGG PLATES
Good pay while learning.
Steady and permanent
work in essential
industry.
Bus Cleaners and
Mechanics’ Helpers
Also Wanted!
For serving stuffed &
hard boiled eggs ..
large gloss plote with
indented places for
egg halves and cen-
ter for salad dressing
59C
ODea.
Entitles you to defense
housing (every help given
in this connection.)
Applications not wanted
from persons now engag-
ed in essential industries)
Minters
Approves Coleman
KEENE, Tex: Jan. a-Tw Housing Additions
COLEMAN, Jan: 3.-*(SpD)Re-
commendation that additional
housing be provided in Coleman
and an order that 21 men be per-
mitted to come to Coleman to work
have been made by E. C. Logsdon,
Abilene, area director for the War
Manpower commission.
Thus, two important steps - have
been made in local plans to pro-
vide more housing in Coleman
Next step, according to Johnnie
B Howell, head of the homes reg-
istration office here, is for a repre-
sentative of the Federal Housing
agency, Dallas branch, to make a
survey of housing conditions in
Coleman. .
The Cleburne Fire department
helped extinguish the blaze, origin
of which was undetermined. The
fire broke out about 5 a. m.
Ask yourself these
Questions when
you buy a laxative
: • .No injuries were reported among
Ques. What is the name of a lax- the rest of the boys. -
ative that has been a best-seller The college is operated by the
245 been * seller Seventh Day Adventist denomina-
a a 1 L over the Southwest with four gen-tion.
of Peter Pain tramples You with Chest- erations? Ans. Black - Draught. Keene is a Johnson county town
•.Ques. Is Black-Draught purely of nearly 450 population.
Cold Pain...Rub in BEN-GAY... Quick! herbal? and. Ye ana youn nna
it easy to take: Ques. Is Black- Withered Kingdom
PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 3.--
Ordinarily 70 boys live in the dor-
mitory but most of them were away
| for the Christmas holidays and only
16 were in the dormitory last night.
Write or see . .
Superintendent of
Employment
:4126Y2 Elm Street
DALLAS
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& TERMINAL
COMPANY
RELIEVES HEADACHES
GIFT SHOP-2nd floor .
Amazingly FAST relief-
and here’s why:
% Science, for many years, has depended
on two pain-relieving agents - methyl
salicylate and menthol. Every doctor
knows these two precious ingredients.
And ... Ben Gay contains up to 2%
times as much of both than five other
widely offered rub-ins. Actual labors-
Otory tests prove this. So insist-on the
“genuine Ben Gay next time Peter Pain
strikes! Get Ben Gay’s fast relief!
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HEADLINES often feature
hold-ups of cashiers or paymast-
ers. Is your payroll safe?
If your cashier or paymaster hand-
les much money you should have
insurance to assure its repayment
if stolen. See
Draught satisfactory in action? Ann.
Yes, it usually is, if you follow direc-
Queen Naomi Riordan, 17, and her
tions. That’s why it’s called “the six princesses sat in the royal box
while 68,000 “subjects” paid her
homage.
Now it’s bobby socks and back to
friendly laxative.”
Black-Draught comes in powdered
r granulated form. Many say
| granulated is even easier to take.
25 to 40 doses cost only 25c Caution,
| use’ only as directed Get Black-
Draught and have it handy next
, time a laxative is needed. - adv. |
school: the royal gown and crown
are back in the closet
Suppressing a queenly yawn, she
plunged resolute fingers into sudsy
dishwater. L *
The Tournament of Roses is over.
... and soothes Nerves upset by
Motz & Curtis
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The prescription-type ingredients
in the “B0” formula are readily
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extra-fast relief from headaches
neuralgia, muscular aches and
functional periodic pains.
Nerves ruffled and upset by minor
pains are also gently soothed by the
quick-acting “BC" ingredients.
Keep a 10c or 25c package handy
Use only as directed. Consult •
physician when pains persist.
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