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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1941
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STRY
: LAY:
The ‘Dead Return--
And Besieged Tobruk
Gets More Riflemen
A Troops of British African Rear Guard,
Long Believed Slain, Slip Back Into
Y. Hot Spot For Another Crack at Foe •
By J. H. YINDEICH
(Copyright, 1941, by United Press)
TXTITH THE BRITISH EMPIRE GARRISON BESIEGED AT
W TOBRUK, April 11.—(Delayed: via Cairo and London)-
Singly and by twos and threes, men long thought captured or
dead are straggling back to Tobruk, hungry, thirsty, exhausted,
1 grimed and seared by the biting sand and dust of the desert,
from British outpost positions all the way between Tobruk and
Benghazi.
, They, the men of the rear guard, were caught in the German
blitz that has forced the Army of the Nile back to the Egyptian
frontier and left us here, besieged.
They have come back afoot, in trucks and in warships which
picked them up along the coast when they waved.
They, and those holding back the Germans and Italians here, are
in high spirits. The men who arrive take a bath, have a meal and a
good sleep and ask to be assigned to duty, preferably where they
will at once "have a crack at Jerry.”
* * *
OFFICER TELLS DRAMATIC STORY
OF BRITISH REAR GUARD ACTION
, A JOVIAL’ fair-haired blue-eyed Australian officer from Sydney,
A his beard, of several days’ growth, still caked with dust and sand,
told me what happened at Benghazi when the German advance guard
arrived and met the rear guard of the Army of the Nile, left to cover
1 the British retreat.
I< "It was about 3:30 p. m. April 4,” he said. "We saw three armored
cars, apparently scouting, coming across the country into Benina
, Airdrome outside Benghazi. Then we saw the gray tanks with swas-
/ tikas painted on their sides, and trucks coming up behind. Other
trucks came up to the foot of the escarpment where we were stationed,
but they were out of range of our guns. They cruised up and down.
, "Then four armored cars came up the dried river bed leading to
our positions. A native had waved a gasoline can to them, apparently
as a signal.
FOUR TRUCKLOADS OF INFANTRY
BLOWN SKY HIGH WITH MORTARS
“IE spotted 10 truckloads of infantry parked along the road and
W blew four of them sky high with two Italian trench mortars.
"Bits of truck flew all over the place. The others scattered over
BRITISH RETREAT TO NEW LINE
Army and Navy Chiefs Join Civilian Leaders German Losses
For Dedication of Site for Bomber Factory ^ ympus
Are Terrific
4-Motored Bombers of
RAF Pound Heart of
German Capital
By I NITED PRESS
German armies led by picked
"blitz men" pressed Allied force*
High officials in both military and civil affairs converged on Fort Worth
today for ground-breaking ceremonies for the city’s new $10,000,000 bomber
airplane factory near Lake Worth this afternoon. Brig. Gen. G. C. Brant,
left, commander of the Air Corps Gulf Coast Training Center at San Antonio,
flew in from Corpus Christi at 11 a. m. and was met at the airport by Mayor
McCrary. Tulsa civic leaders, here to get pointers for a similar ceremony at
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Tulsa’s new air factory site two weeks hence, met some of the leaders at Fort
Worth Club prior to a luncheon honoring the visitors. In second picture, left
to right, are: William Holden, Fort Worth C. of C. executive; Col. William B.
Wright, commander of the air training center at Meridian, Miss.; Mayor C. H.
Veale of Tulsa; A. M. Hall, Consolidated Aircraft executive who will manage
the Fort Worth plant, and Clyde King, president of the Tulsa C. of C.
U. S. to Spend $20,000,000 Convoy Fight
On Building Giant Plant At Fever Heat
I wf ul HVOL
Visiting Consolidated Aircraft Officials
Says Operations to Start Early Next Year
I the airdrome.
"At 4:30 p. m. 500 Italian infantrymen with a stiffening of Ger-
mans attacked, with their tanks still cruising around. We stopped
that attack before it reached the escarpment.
"Next a convoy of trucks arrived at the airdrome with about 1000 uround-ureanans cercinumuco au tae mate ... cut .,.,....., pros------
men. Some small Italian tanks appeared but they stayed behind the bomber assembly plant attracted high-ranking U. S. Army and Navy
big German cruiser tanks. The German tanks advanced as far as the officers and distinguished aviation leaders here today in an atmosphere
escarpment and finally got on top of it. The German and Italian in- enlivened by national defense enthusiasm.
fantry with rifles and an abundance of machine guns started to sur- The gathering which centered the eyes of the nation’s military
round us and their light artillery began pounding us. on Fort Worth gained added sig- * * *
"It was getting dark when the infantry got to the top of the nificance as the word spread that G1 | As * 1
escarpment, which is about 200 feet high. They were within 40 or 50 the giant project will represent il ohoni
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than the original $10,000,000 es- .... .■ ..
timate. Withm Month
While no official announcement W
has been made on the revised cost P . **I*A ITIMIIMI
figures. It is known that the first
estimate was far too low and that
FDR Stresses
War Dangers
Says U. S. Slow
To See Threat
On American Life
All Taxpayers
To Dig Deeper
Under New Program
Every Person Will
Pay $26 More
1 By United Press.
WASHINGTON, April 18. —
President Roosevelt declared to-
day that the American public does
not appreciate the extreme ser-
iousness of the European war and
its implications concerning life in
the United States.
Public awareness of the signific-
ance of the struggle is gradually
increasing, but thus far has been
4 inadequate, the President said at
a press conference.
He refused to answer a question
t. as whether Allied reverses in
. Greece made America's position
I more critical in the great strug-
gle. He said that was a question
he did not care to answer.
The President made clear that
he is broadening the war aid pro-
gram under the lend-lease act so
as to send material aid to China
in its struggle with the Japanese
empire. He said that specific au-
’ thorizations for aid to China have
been made, but he was not certain
whether materials actually have
begun moving toward the Far
) East.
For information on actual ship-
ments he said he would have to
consult Lauchlin Currie, adminis-
trative assistant whom he sent to
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Wounded Man Billed
, For Fifer Burglary
The Tarrant County grand jury
today returned two burglary and
, repetition indictments against
r Clarence Thurman, 46-year-old
‘ Handley farmer who was wound-
ad by a White Settlement Rd. resi-
dent, Harry Fifer, when Mr. Fifer
encountered him in the hall of his
home at 2:30 a. m. last Friday.
Thurman was indicted for en-
tering the Fifer home, and also for
breaking into the home of J. M.
Ralph, 2815 Benbrook, on March
30. A shoe tongue found in the
Ralph home fitted Thurman's shoe
which was found in the Fifer
home, officers said.
% Of the 18 indictments reported
/ by the grand jury, one named Arb
Manning of Handley, about 35,
accused of drunk driving on High-
way 80 in Handley on April 1.
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- BATTLE STATUS UNDECIDED
AUSTIN, April 18. — Whether
R D. Battle, prospective state au-
ditor, lives in Longview or Shreve-
port still was undecided today so
far as official circles are concern-
ed. Governor O'Daniel withdrew
his recent appointment of Battle
"vending investigation.
Ground-breaking ceremonies at the site of Fort Worth’s projected
The gathering which centered the eyes of the nation's military
on Fort Worth gained added sig- ..* * *
the increased cost of steel and
other- materials, plus -changes in
plans, will nearly double the Jan-
uary prediction.
Main reception headquarters for
the visitors was at the Fort Worth
Club, where at noon the Chamber
of Commerce board of directors
was to entertain with a luncheon.
By United Press..
WASHINGTON, April’18.—Cor-
porations and individuals—partic- were set - _ with Cham-
ularly in the low and middle were set rem8.) Cham
brackets — today faced the pros- ______10 50 8______
pact of paying 25 to 50 per cent
higher taxes on this year's income | ...
and on cigarets, gasoline, and oth- nrnAnO 1 DuQlv
er taxable commodities beginning I UI IIUUU Luvulw
. Ground-breaking ceremonies at
’the bomber plant site, Lake Worth,
July 1.
The Administration has asked
Congress to raise $3,444,000,000 a
year in new revenue—the largest
tax program in history. The Treas-
ury suggested that it could be
raised in three ways:
I. A general increase In vir-
tually all existing levies by one-
quarter to one-half of present
rates.
2. New "nuisance” taxes in ad-
dition to increases in old ones.
3. Reduced credits and exemp-
tions in income tax schedules.
The Administration's goal is to
increase anticipated federal reve-
nue by one-third. Present spend-
ing plans call for the outlay of
$19,000,100 000 in the fiscal year
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Many Buildings
Missouri and Iowa
Towns Are Damaged;
Cloudburst Follows
By UNITED PRESS
Leaders Meet To
Talk Goal Stoppage
By UNITED PRESS
Hopes for settlement of the 18-
day-old work stoppage by 400,000
soft coal miners centered on a
meeting at New York today be-
tween the CIO United Mine
Workers Union and a bloc of.
Southern operators.
Under pressure from defense in-
dustries threatened by coal short-
ages, mediators hoped to reach a
compromise on the Southern oper-
ators' refusal to approve the
wage contract already accepted
by Northern operators.
Meanwhile 45 locals of the
United Automobile Workers Union
(CIO) began taking strike votes
at 61 plants of the General Motors
Corp.
Pension Checks $11.50
By United Press.
AUSTIN April 18. — May’s old
age pension checks in Texas will
be issued to approximately 135,000
persons for an average of $11.50,
Public Welfare headquarters an-
nounced today. The payment is
$7 less than the average need es-
timate and $2.85 less than the
average payment for April, when
there were 128,835 checks issued.
The reduction is due to lack of
greila ble funds. 1
Tobey Demands
FDR Put All His
Cards On Table
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, April 18,—
Sen. Charles W. Tobey, Republi-
can of New Hampshire, asserted
In the Senate today that he had
received "reliable information”
that the Roosevelt Administra-
tion authorized convoying of
merchant vessels by the United
States Navy “about one month
ago.” Tobey said “a Government
Investigator advised that he had
information from within the
Maritime Commission that con-
voys are being secretly employed
at this time.”
back to a new defense line in
Greece today as Great Britain ac-
cepted the Axis challenge to a
finish fight in the air war over
Europea belligerent capitals.
The Royal Air Force and
British patrols, meanwhile, re-
ported they had Inflicted heavy
losses on Axis troops in the To-
bruk and Sollum sectors of
North Africa.
The new Greek-British position*
in Greece were taken up after the
Germans had been reported sacri-
ficing large numbers of men in
steady assaults in the rugged
passes around Mount Olympus
and on the center of the defense
line, near Kalabaka. Rome news-
papers reported that German par-*
achute troops had been dropped
Downpour, Wind Cut Trail
Of Damage Across County
Livestock Drowned, Roads and Fences
Destroyed; Motorist Has Narrow Escape
Creeks in north Tarrant County were back in their banks today
as farmers and stockmen counted losses from drowned livestock, hail-
beaten gardens, washed-down fences and gullied fields.
Rainfall of six to seven inches within an hour flooded homes in
Haslet and washed an auto, occupied by Mrs. Dorothy Overstreet, 22,
from the Fort Worth-Haslet Rd.4-------------------.—_ |
She escaped without injuries.
Striking with April suddenness,
the thunderstorm was accompa-
nied by hail and wind which
blazed a trail of destruction from
Eagle Mountain Lake to near
Grapevine.
| Only .59 inch fell at the Weath-
er Bureau, where forecasters look
General Brant Says
He's Confident Of
Washington Approval
Construction within a month on WASHINGTON April 18 The six inches fell in 40 minutes, send-
|for occasional showers to continue
tonight and tomorrow.
At Keller, the rainfall was “the
hardest in more than 20 years,”
said J. E. Jarvis. He estimated
A tornado ripped through north- much as possible."
ern Missouri and southern Iowa
last night, destroying scores of
buildings in three towns and in-
juring at least seven persons. It
was followed by a cloudburst,
which flooded spring crops, worth
millions of dollars.
Two churches, 20 houses and a
hotel were demolished in Fillmore,
Mo., and damage was estimated
at more than $200,000, Two per-
sons were injured slightly, and a
score were cut and bruised. Tele-
phone and power lines were brok-
en, and it was five hours before
electricity was restored.
Victor and Kostza, Iowa, ham-
lets in the southern central part
of the state, virtually were lev-
eled. At Lehdo five persons were
injured, dozens were homeless and
a few reported missing.
A cold front approached the
stricken area and temperatures in
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school project here was foreseen voys for war shipments to Britain ---------------------------------
today by Brig. Gen. GC. Brant, was expected to precipitate heated tvoror
commander of the Air Corps Gulf debate in the Senate again today. EXPERT SAYS--
Coast Training Center. Sen. Charles W. Tobey (Repub-. ...*
Here for the ground-breaking lican. New Hampshire), author of Cahonic Noor
ceremonies at the Consolidated an anti-convoy resolution, charged OC IUUIS NECU
Aircraft Corp factory site, Gen- in a telegram to President Roose-**
eral Brant said his recommenda- I velt last night that "word-twisting!
tion to the Chief of Staff, U. S. phrases of avoidance and indirec-
Army, that a basic air training tion have been used to conceal
school be established at Lake rather than reveal” the Adminis-
Worth will go to Washington next tration’s position on convoys. He
week. j | called for a "frank, unequivocal,
He expressed confidence that and complete statement" of the
Washington will approve the Fort presldenfs policy.
Worth designation. . | Tobey indicated that he would
“No Time to Waste" discuss all phases of the convoy
"We feel that there isn't any question on the floor today, in-
time to waste in building up the eluding unconfirmed newspaper with life makes necessary school
air force," General Brant added, reports, which have been vigor-expenditure surveys such as is now
"and were making every effort to ously denounced by the White being made in Fort Worth. Dr
expedite the new. air schools as ■ (Turn to Page 4) Leo B. Baidsen, deputy superinten-
dent of schools of Stockton, Calif.,
said on his arrival here today for
General Brant said he has con-
suited with Major R. H. Fleet, Man FOPOC 7 Monthe
president of Consolidated, and Nidil 1 dvu0 I MVUIUIS
that the major approves heartily,
of the plan to establish the air in Tor CA iDoal"
school on the same field with the III Jall TUT D4 UEdI
bomber plant. *
His recommendation is that the
base here concentrate on the train-
Howard Terry Newman, 38, to-
ing of pilots handling bombers day- started serving what amount-
=====================
He said he had had his eye on c ustic or the R ace
the Lake Worth site "a long time messed him the maximum
and that Consolidated’s bomber in each of three cases and tacked
assembly plant on the same field on court costs totaling $48. At $3
makes the site even more desir- a day for time served in jail, this
able as a training base with twin- adds up to seven months.
motored equipment. | Newman was charged with ob-
Then, too, he added, there is the taining $2 each from Dr. W. C.
economy angle wherein the air Clark and J. M. Johnson and $3.50
school can use the same runways from Ted Johnson for advertising
to be constructed for Consolidated, in the "Southwestern Free Mason."
General Brant and his staff will Ted Johnson stopped payment on
go from here to Lake Charles, La. a check he sent to the man, so
Mo., several hours behind and Beaumont to inspect addi- Newman 'Just realized $4.
■ a run from north tional sites for air schools. City
Value From Dollar
Expenditure Surveys
Necessary to Keep
Education In Step
Failure to keep education in step
the North Texas State Teachers
convention.
Without direct reference to the
survey being conducted in the
sehools—here by Dr. John Guy
Fowlkes, of the University of Wis-
consin, Dr. Baisden pointed to the
need of more effective expendi-
ture of education dollars.
Get Money’s Worth
"We need to study ways of get-
ting 100 cents worth of education
out of a dollar,” he said.
Dr. Baidsen said that all school
systems face practically the same
expenditure problems, similar to
those of any big business concern.
"Every school system needs to
keep making a survey constantly
regarding its income and outgo,”
he declared.
Personnel Top Heavy
Dr. Baidsen said that he had
made surveys of the same nature
Senate Vacancy
Affects Taxes
Rush to Clear Way.
For O'Daniel to Run
Speeds Up Mill
Press Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, April 18. — Lobbyists
LOOK OUT, ROME:
By United Press.
LONDON, April 18. — The
government announced today
that Britain will bomb Rome
if German threats to bomb
Athens and Cairo are carried
out.
The announcement was
made from No. 10 Downing
Street. It said that in such
event strictest care would be
taken to avoid bombing the
Vatican City.
"It has, however," said the
announcement, "come to the
knowledge of His Majesty’s
government that an Italian
squadron is being held ready
in Rome to drop captured
British bombs on Vatican
City should a British raid
take place.”
behind British lines west of Moun
Olympus.
London was cheered today by
word that the Royal Air Force
had carried out their biggest at-
lack of the war upon Berlin,
employing powerful new Stirling
: four-engined bomber* and new-
type explosive bombs.
have cause to mourn the death of London accepted the attack as
the late Senator Morris Shebpard repayment to the Germans for the
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Senate would have been much “cultural” property was hit. The
smaller, and much longer delayed. Prussian state library, damaged
Political ambitions stimulated in the big British attack of April
9, was struck again.
House Revives
O’Daniel’s Bill To
End Death Penalty
By United Press.
AUSTIN, April 18.—The
Texas House today heeded a
personal appeal by Gov. W.
Lee O'Daniel and revived the
governor's bill to abolish capi-
tal punishment in the state.
By a vote of 70 to 56, the
House over-rode the unfavor-
able report from its commit-
tee on criminal jurisprudence
and ordered the bill printed
on minority report. The vote
was taken less than an hour
after O'Daniel had appealed
personally for passage of the
bill.
O'Daniel read an entire ser-
mon by Dr. M. E. Sadler, pas-
tor of the Central Christian
Church of Austin, condemning
capital punishment. To Dr.
Sadler’s remarks. O Daniel, in
part, added:
"We all know there have
been cases of innocent per-
sons being executed. Suppose
your son or daughter or other
loved one might be caught in
this net and pay such an aw-
ful price on account of this
New four-motored Stirling
long-range bombing planes
which carry tremendous loads,
made the attack. They dropped
a new type bomb of terrific de-
structive power.
Other planes bombed targets in
Holland, including Rotterdam,
, where there are great oil depots,
on Cologne, in the heart of the
industrial area of Germany, and
on a number of other places in
northwest Germany. Last night's
raids cost, in all, eight planes, it
was admitted.
The Balkan fighting lines to-
day apparently ran across mid-
Greece in a shallow curve. The
eastern anchor was in the vicin-
ity of Katerine, on the Aegean,
about 15 miles north of Mount
Olympus. The line bends a little
to the northern slopes of Olym-
pus then northwest about 15
| miles to Sarandaporan Pass,
just southeast of Servia,
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la w
now on our
statute
some sections may drop to near
freezing by tomorrow.
A bus driver who reached St.
Joseph
schedule after a ._______________.
Missouri, said water was more authorities today furnished him Fort Worth Masonic Employment [system has two and one-half peo-to get to work to pass in a hurry
than two feet deep on the high- with a City Council resoltuion and Relief Bureau, testified
Ralph Wynne, secretary of the
way.
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testified
knew of no such publication.
THE WEATHER
BY U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU.
PORT WORTH AND VICINITY —
Cloudy and unsettled tonight and Sat-
urday with occasional showers. Little
temperature change: minimum tonight
65 degrees, maximum Saturday 75 de-
arses.
books? I hope it shall never
come home to any of you.”
EAST TEXAS (east of 100th merid-
, inn).—Partly cloudy to cloudy, scat-
. vacancy at Washington tered showers in east portion tonight
"It has often been found that a have caused many state officials and Saturday.
1WEST TEXAS (west of 100th merid-
ian).—Considerable cloudiness with oc-
casional showers or thunderstorms in
southeast portion, elsewhere partly
cloudy tonight and Saturday except
few light showers in Panhandle.
Slightly, colder In Panhandle,
CAMP BOWIE * CAMP WOLTERS
Cloudy and unsettled tonight and Sat-
urday with occasional showers. Little
temperature change.
being made here and that he had
studied others with great interest.
by the
British Can’t Fire Fast Enough to Stop All Nazis
Elite Hitler Youth Troops March Four Abreast and Are Mowed Down In Great Masses
he ple doing what two people could a rather large tax bill. Some of
(Turn to Page 8) those working feverishly for the
Senate state affairs committee’s
$23,000,000 tax bill are tax con-
T"
servatives who under normal cir-
cumstances would have choked
By RICHARD D. MMILLAN
United Press Correspondent.
WITH THE BRITISH IMPE-
RIAL ARMY ON THE GREEK
FRONT, (via Athens) April 17.-
(Delayed).—German shock troops,
marching beside and sometimes
ahead of tanks, carrying sub-ma-
chine guns, are being mowed down
by Allied machine guns in the
valleys below snow-covered Mount
Olympus, mythical abode of the
ancient Greek gods, whose sides
echo the roar of the battle and
the noise of passing swarms of
fighting and bombing planes.
(The following' was filed by
Correspondent McMillan from the
front at 9:30 p. m., April 16):
The rugged roads and passes
are almost clogged with the bodies
of strong, bold, arrogant German
youths who called themselves
"blitz men,” and the wreckage of
the guns, tanks and trucks which
supported them.
But the Germans keep com-
traliah and New Zealand troops
are still holding the passes and
their front is firm, but a rectifi-
cation of the Allied lines is deem-
ed necessary because of a German
advance south of Orevena, near
the center of the line.
The battle is on a scale com-
tinguished by lightning flash sym-
several times before swallowing a
bill half that size.
O'Daniel told the House that ac-
Barometric Pressure (Sea Level)..29.76
tinguished by lightning flash sym-tion on five topics submitted by
bols and individual numbers on him would influence his decision
parable to the blitzkrieg in France.
Germany has thrown into it,
heedless of the cost, at least
three armored divisions, picked
Ing In such masses, a British
major told me, “that our troops Austrian Alpine troops and bri-
find it humanly Impossible to gades of youthful Hitlerian shock
fire quickly enough to stop
them all.”
troops or “blitz men,’
many still
in their ‘teens, recruited from Hit-
As I write this the British, Aus- ller Youth organizations and dis-
their sleeves. |to run for U. S. Senator.
No one can really see a battle The five topics: <1) Taxation,
of such magnitude as this. The (2) a constitutional amendment to
story of it would contain the in-prevent deficit-financing, (3) an
dividual experiences or impres-auditor-budget director bill, (4)
sions of countless thousands of abolition of the poll tax, and (5)
men. Here are a few I obtained abolition of the death penalty,
from: | Since Monday, the legislature
* * * has taken definite action on all
A BRITISH INFANTRY MA-five subjects:
A JOR: "The enemy infantry (1) The Senate state affairs
came on in waves, using sub-ma- committee reported the $23,000,000
chine guns. They marched four tax bill and the senate set it for
abreast, many lines deep. We consideration next Tuesday. The
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COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES
Time- YearAgo Yes’day Today
12 Midnight .... 49 71 70
2 a m.........48 68 68
4 a. m. ........48 68 69
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Run rises tomorrow 5.54; seta
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