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Great Japanese .
Air Fleets Sent
Against Outposts
Definite Reports Received
Of Enemy Landings On
Strategic Islands
By Brydon Taves
UP Staff Correspondent.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan.
23—(UP)—Australia sent outly
ing defense forces into action
and appealed urgently today
for American and British rein-
forcements against Japanese in-
vaders striking in force at stra-
tegic Melanesian Islands north
east of this embattled continent.
Seeking control of vital allied
, supply lines in the southwest
Pacific and a base for invasion
of Australia, the Japanese sent
big air and naval fleets into the
Ne\v Guinea, Bismarck and Sol-
omon Island areas commanding
the approaches to the whole East
Indies defense front.
War Minister F. M. Forde,
confirming an official report of
a Japanese landing in the Solo
mons, declared that "we will re-
sist and we will fight back to
the uttermost of our capacity.
We are a tough people and will
not be intimidated by Japanese
threats that they will show no
mercy if we resist."
A definite report of a
landing at Kieta, harbor on
tviwgainville Island in llie
Solomons, was announced
officially and other landings
were reported in New Guin-
ea and the Bismarcks.
Official communication lines
wth the Australian Island out
posts in the Melanesia group
were disrupted and the govern
ment said there was no definite
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'Ultimatum' To
Argentina Will
Expire Today
By Everett R. Holies
l*P Staff Correspondent.
RIO DE PANE1RO. Jan. 23—
(UP)—A virtual ultimatum that
Argentina join the other Amer-
ican nations in breaking diplo-
matic relations with the axis or
sit out the war in isolation,
without benefit of the defense
measures of her neighbors, ex-
pires today.
The deadline is this after-
noon. The coordinating commit
tee of the emergency confer
ence of American foreign minis-
ters will confer at 4 p. m. CST.,
after which the main political
committee was scheduled to act
on the relations-breaking resoi
ution, with or without Argon
tina.
Every other republic, inolu
ing Chile, was ready < 1cm. . *
authoritative source di ■> ed.
Chiie's enthusiasm was cool for
a week, but the Chilean govern-
ment yesterday authorized its
foreign minister, Juan B. Ros-
setti. to accept the redrafted
resolution.
The Argentine foreign
minister, Enrique Ruiz (iuin-
had accepted the re-
draft — which provided
that each nation must have
the approval of its congress
or executive branch before
finally severing relations—
hut his government ordered
him to reject it. He had
been sent to Rio I)e Janeiro
with full powers which now,
apparently have been reduc-
ed.
Argentina balked at two words
in the revised resolution. it
said the American nations "can-
not continue" diplomatic rela-
tions with the axis because of
ts aggressions. The Argentine
government wanted it read: The
Americans nations "can discon-
tinue" diplomatic relation*.
Had the other nations agreed
to the rewording, their mergen-
cy conference would have been
for nothing because it was point-
ed out. any nation not under the
heel of the axis "can discontin-
ue" diplomatic relations any
time it wants.
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Weather Forecast
SWRETWA — Tempera-
tures: high erday 72; low to-
day 39- r' ;!0 p. m. today 72.
Cloudy. ,ettled and somewhat
coolei
WEST TEXAS—Warm this
afternoon, cool this evening.
Windy in Panhandle this after-
noon.
EAST TEXAS—Little change
In temnerature In northwest por-
tion tonight. Warmer in east and
south portions.
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SWEETWATER. TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1942
NUMBER 191
Green And Murray Accept Plan For
Labor Peace Proposed By Roosevelt
Friendship demonstrated in jthis greeting between Brazil's
Oswaldo Aranha, left, and Argentina's Enrique Ruiz (Julnazu
wasn't so evident as Argentina held up unanimous decision
by American republics lo wer all diplomatic relations with
axis nations. Foreign ministers are pictured at Rio de Jan-
eiro conferences.
Red Sweep Carries
Beyond Mozhaisk
By United Press
Front line dispatches reported today that Russian troops have
swept 20 to 25 miles west of Mozhaisk after trading heavy blows
with the Germans at Borodino, Napoleon's last victorious battle-
field in his 1912 march to Moscow.
The retreating Germans, putting up stiffening resistance but
1' still unable to stem the Russian
I tide, were reported in London to
| have razed Borodino.
London newspapers received
I reports that the Red army was
I advancing at the rate of six or
seven miles a day.
Two-Year Term
Is Assessed In
Swindling Case
c
C. D. Clark today was sen-
tenced to serve two years in
I prison, after he pleaded guilty to
jsw'ndling the Sweetwater
j i inch of Sears, Roebuck & Co.,
Sir5.55 Dec 14, 1941.
Clark did not. ask leniency or
make any statement when giv-
en the opportunity by District
Judge A. S. Mauzey. He is un-
der indictment in Abilene on
:;ee SWINDLING Page 3
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Situation Grows
More Grave Upon
^nlavan Fronts
Rv Stanley Jones
UP Staff Correspondent
SINGAPORE, Jan. 23 —(UP)
— The fighting front is surging
closer to this big naval base
and the public is talking tonight
of ""the battle of Singapore."
* The "battle of Malaya" still
is raging to the north where
imperial forces fought increas-
ed Japanese pressure on the
three main sectors less than 00
miles away and opposed an
enemy thrust inland from the
Batu Pahat area. (London re-
ported a general withdrawal on
all three sectors.)
The realization is now acute
in the public mind that the bar
tie of Singapore is beginning
gee SITUATION Page 8
The British radio broad-
cast that "the Russians al-
ready are more than 25
miles beyond Mozhaisk and
ar.e only 4< miles from the
Vyazma gap."
The Red army was on the of-
fensive in a wide area. Stormo-
vik dive bombers were report-
ed attacking German fortified
positions around Vyazma, 135
miles southwest of Moscow, in
preparation for the next Red
See REDS Page 0
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Japanese Lose 26
Planes At Rangoon
CHUNGKING, China, Jan. 23
—(UP)—American, British and
Chinese fliers were reported of-
ficially today to have dropped
20 tons of bombs on Japan's In-
do-China base at Hanoi and to
have shot down 19 to 26 out of
an estimated 70 enemy aircraft
vainly attempting to raid the
Burmese port of Rangoon.
The aerial defense of Rangoon
and the Burma road by planes
of the American volunteer group
and the Royal Air Force was
said by the Rangoon radio to
have struck one of the heaviest
blows of the war at the Japanese
air force.
Nineteen enemy planes were
definitely shot down, the radio
said, while seven others were
probably destroyed. If all 20
were knocked out, the allied
| fights would have inflicted a
j prohibitive loss of more than
135 per cent.
Joint Committee
Would Funetion
Throughout War
Uniting Of Rival Union
Organizations Not
Provided In Proposal
By Fred Bailey
UP Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 —
(UP) — Presidents William
Green of the AFL and Philip
Murray of the CIO accepted a
labor peace proposal today ad-
vanced by President Roosevelt.
Under the president's propo-
sal a joint committee will be
established, comprising three
representatives from each of
the labor organizations, to main-
tain peace for duration of the
war.
The plan does not provide for
uniting the rival organizations,
as did the proposal put forward
by United Mine Workers Presi-
dent John L. Lewis a week ago.
Murray was said by CIO offi-
cials to have advised Mr. Roose-
velt of his acceptance, al-
though formal announcement
may be withheld until after the
CIO executive hoard meets to-
morrow in New York.
Green likewise advised Mr.
Roosevelt that the AFL would
cooperate in the plan. Green and
George Meany, AFL secretary-
treasurer, made an unannounc-
ed call at the White House late
yesterday.
Labor officials said Mr. Roo-
sevelt probably will announce
terms of the agreement in a
day or two. However, he made
no mention of it at his press
conference this morning.
It is understood that the AFL-
CIO committee will work with
Mr. Roosevelt toward formulat-
ing agreements to . prevent ju-
risdictional disputes for dura-
tion of the war. Mr. Roosevelt
would, in effect, be a seventh
member of the committee.
Engineer Will
Give Status On
1)0 Construction
S. J. Treadaway, district state
highway engineer, will appear
before the county commission-
ers' court at 10 a. m. Saturday to
give the commissioners the sta-
tus of U. S. Highway No. 80
paving and overpass work.
Since the war department did
not call for bids on the Sweet-
water-to-Roscoe project, the
commissioners have been up in
the air on what course to follow.
The jury of view, a group that
has worked several months to
completely line up the right-of-
way for the new highway route,
has recommended to the com-
missioners that they obtain and
keep the right-of-way intact by
purchase, so the project can be
put through quickly when the
armv gives the word. It is felt
See ENGINEER Page 8
Nelson And Aid Examine New WPB Chart
Biggest Battle
Since Argonne On
Bataan Peninsula
Japanese Tactics Involve
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Continuous Assaults On
Inferior Forces
By Harrison Salisbury
UP Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 —
(UP)—Gen. Douglas MacArth-
ur'. forces axe stubbornly blast-
ing back at continuous, "ex-
tremely heavy" Japanese at-
♦acks and have inflicted a large
casualty toll on the enemv
•roors. the war department re-
•ored today.
The communique reported
that the battle — the biggest
American war action since Ar-
gonne—has raged for the past
24 hours as the reinforced Jap-
anese troops smashed again and
again at the <hort American pos-
itions on Bataan peninsula.
Japanese Josses were report-
ed "heavy" anil the U. S. troops
were said to have beaten off
■very attack thus far launched.
The communique revealed
'hat the Japanese have appar-
ently placed their offensive on
a 2 I hour continuous bas s hop-
ing to wear down the Ameri-
can and Filipino troops by their
superiority in numbers.
The war department sa:d also
that Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell,
supreme commander of the
southwest Pacific for the Unit-
ed Nations, has sent MacArth-
ur a message "warmly congra-
Kee MacARTHUR Page 4
Donald Nelson, seated, chairman of the new war production hoard and William H. Harrison,
director of war production examine the chart descriptive of the new setup for personnel as
they plan "all out" production of war materials. (XEA Telephoto).
Only Few New Registrants
Likely To Get Early Call
By John 'M. Mecklin
I'P Staff < ^respondent
V XSHINGTON, Jan. 23 —
i UP) )nly a few of the 9 000.-
<;00 mc it who will register for
selective service on Feb. 10 are
likely to be called to the colors
soon, officials indicated today.
The bulk of the manpower in
the immediate future will eome
from the 17.500,000 already reg-
istered, selective service auth-
ority said. The number of men
over 30 "years of age who will
be called to complete this year's
.%000,000 man army will l>e
"proportionately very small," it
I
was said.
Although definite plans have
not been made, a new order
list probably will be created
to determine how the new age
groups—20 to 21 and 30 to 14
—will be called up.
Sources available for new se-
lectees, exclusive of the men reg-
istering next month, were list-
ed as follows:
1. Approximatly 1.000000 men
from 21 to 2S who already have
been classified 1 A and are avail-
able immediately.
2. An estimated 200.000 ta
400,000 whose 1 B classifications
' probably will be changed to 1-A
of
under a war-time relaxation
physical requirements.
3 Approximately 800,000 men
of 1-A caliber who were defer-
red under the policy of exempt-
ing men' between 28 and 35
wherever possible.
4. Approximately 50,000 men
who were classified 4-A and
deferred because they alreadv
had received military training.
This totals about .1,100,000
men which is 200,000 more than
would be necessary to reach the
1942 goal of 3,600 000. Secretary
of War Henry L. Stimson last
week set the army's present
strength at 1,700,000 men.
H. D. Reed One
Of Three Named
For Scout Honor
Highest honors that can be
given to scout leaders of a Boy
Scout council were conferred
upon three men last night at a
| big scoutleaders' meeting in Big
Spring. The recipients were' H.
D. Reed of Sweetwater, H. L.
Wren of Snyder and Tom Pick-
ering of Odessa, who had been
selected by a special committee
as having led in the develop-
ment of character and citizen-
ship in boys of this territory.
The list of deeds done or the
reasons for the selections are
never published but it is gener-
SEE H. D. REED Page 6
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$12,500 Million
Plane Bill Put
Before House
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 —
(UP)—The house appropriations
committee today placed before
the house for immediate action
a S12 500,000,000 bill to provide
33.000 new military planes, but
warned that much more money
will be needed to achieve Presi-
dent Roosevelt's goal of 185,-
000 new planes in 1942 and 1943.
The huge measure is the lar-
gest single war spending bill in
history.
The war department, the com-
mittee reported, already is
wo -king on further supplemen-
tal requests to carry out the
objective set by Mr. Roosevelt
in his state of the union mes-
sage — production of 60,000
planes this year and 125.000 in
194°,.
The 33.000 aircraft contem-
plated under the bill would
bring the total number of
planes appropriated for since
the start of World War II to
about 100,000, including those
financed from lend-lease funds.
The new air force appropria-
tion carries authority for trans-
fer of up to S4 000.000.000 of its
funds to the lend-lease admin-
istrator to aid America's allies
at the discretion of President
Roosevelt.
Axis Libyan Force
Springs Offensive
By Walter Collins
United Press Staff Correspindent
CAIRO, Jan. 23—(UP)—Axis forces have reoccupied Agedabia
)0 miles south of Benghazi, in a sudden thrust from the salt
marshes of El Agheila on the Cyrenaica-Tripolitania border, British
general headquarters for the Middle East said today.
The enemy columns which recaptured Agedabia, from which
Gen. Erwin Rommell's Africa
Donations To Red
Cross Continue
^ itli Slow Pace
Dutch Warplanes
Score Hits On 8
Japanese Ships
i . E1XLETIX
BATA VIA, N. E. T., Jan.
23—'CP)—Dutch war plan-
es. striking from secret jun-
gle bases, intercepted a Jap-
anese invastion thrust tow-
ward the oil-rich east coast
of Borneo today and blast-
ed eight enemy warehin*;
| and transports with a dozen
direct bomb hits. Heavy
damage and loss of life was
j reported as a result of the
*iirnri«e attack in which
i 'Mitfh and American-made
t>'.ivv bombers struck one
<>i the most fur'ons blows
of the war aeainst the Jap-
offensive into the
Fast Indies.
corps recently withdrew under
cover of a raging sandstorm,
were "strongly covered by Ger-
man and Italian bombers with
fighter protection," a communi-
que said.
Operations which gave Ageda-
bia back to the Axis began sev-
Donations to the wartime Red
eral days ago when German and Cross campaign in Nolan coun-
Italian armored forces, covered j t.v continue at a slow pace with
by bomber and fighter planes, only $499.25 reported by the
organized in three columns and chapter president, Dr. Albert
6 , „ , , , , Brann, for Thursday and Fri-
moved eastward from El Aghe-t fj;lv Total col lections a re
ila, where Rommell made a
stand after pulling qut of Age-
dabia.
Yesterday's Cairo communique
10 miles east of Mersa Brega,
which is between El Agheila and
Agedabia. The communique said
British light forces had with-
emy.
The
Axis counter-thrust
described officially by the
ish the worst in 10 years.
Brit-
day. Total collections are $3,-
204.09 toward the quota
of S4 -'
000.
Friday's donors.
Community Xat. Gas Co
§30.00
! Ed Gabler. Highland
1.00
j Mrs. J. D. Whitworth
2.00
| Mr. and Mrs. Med Swain
2.00
i Chester Arthur Swain
1.00
1 Employes of International
Harvester:
Jim Baugh
.. 1.00
1E. N. Norris
. 1.00
! W. M. Reynolds ........
. . 1.00
F. P. Cox
.. 1.00
j Mrs. L. D. Coppage
. . 1,00
j Tom Headriek
.. 1.00
! W. R. Johnson, jr.
. . 1,00
| Kro-Knit-Em club
5.00
i Emelio Carranza school
1.25
Total
S49.25
Previously reported
$3154.84
Total
!M204.09
the movement of British forces
over areas heavily mined by the
enemy.
(In London British military
commentators speculated as to
"what that tricky devil Rommel"
is up to in his sudden sortie back
to Agedabia. London conceded
that his purpose was not known
there. It was believed German
and Italian aircraft had been
pulled out of Russia and rushed . .
to North Africa to give Rommel f NGK1NG Jan. 23 —(UP)
the aerial protection he needed I Hanoi, capital of French Indo-
Chinese And U. S.
Planes Raid Base
for his counter-thrust. It was
not believed that Rommel had
been able to receive much tank
reinforcement through the Brit-
ish blockade of the Mediterran-
ean and for that reason it was
not expected to full scale attack
would lie continued beyond Age-
dabia.)
China, was the target for Chin-
ese and American planes in the
first attack made hy the Chin-
ese a'r force on a Japanese base
outside China, it was disclosed
officially today.
A communique said 57 planes
—27 Chinese bombers, 15 Amer-
See CHINESE Page 6
~v intin R Morris
Stuff
PATAV7A (TTP)
,,tf>h warolan^s scored direct
bits on eight Japanese warships
• <' transports 'n a smashing
■:-i1 aft^cl' n*-* nnpnv vpcqels
■«-> the ctf^jt^ between Borneo
n i Ce'.ebe- Ts'andc an official
•atenvnt disclosed today.
Big fW-' ourd bombs were
'tnnped. on the warships in th^
strait, of Mac.As=ar as the pin-
feet apparently was strik-
at east coast of Borneo,
'-here the Japanese already had
•!ken Tarakan a^d were expect-
to attempt to invade Ballk
"^ran. a big oil port.
Tw"h'o direct hits were scor-
ed on the ei^ht e"'~mv ships.
The Dutch aeral attacks were
w'ieved f0 have been carried
out from -=ome of the 50 secret
airdromes built in the jungles of
r'ornpo in preparation for coun-
ter blows against an invasion. It
was not definitely indicated
•hat American built flying fort-
resses took nart in the opera-
tions, although some of the big
Vor^borc ar^ known to be in
the Dutch East Indies.
' Direct hits were made on a
'arge warship (presumably a
battleship or aircraft carrier), a
heavy cruiser, a smaller cruiser,
a destroyer and four transports,
•he communique said.
According to the Netherlands
East Indies news agency, dive
bombers took part in the attack.
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Crop Insurance
Set-l p Planned
Plans are being made to per-
fect county machinery by which
farmers of Sweetwater and No-
lan county will be able to take
advantage of cotton crop insur-
ance provided by the govern-
ment.
Demn Kearney and four oth-
ers have returned from a two-
flay conference at Big Spring
where methods for taking anpll-
cations were ful'v outlined. J. B.
Cooper, chairman of the county
AAA group: C. L. McLeod, vice
See INSURANCE Page 8
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