Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 215, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1942 Page: 4 of 12
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. CALCUTTA, Feb. 20-CUP) —
A Rattle of show - down fero-
city see-sawed, alon the Bilin
river of Burma today with the
Japanese hurling possibly two
divisions of 30,000 men at a de-
fense line which had been bent
back toward the Burma road.
The Japanese had crossed the
river and were hammering at
the imperial' right flank in an
effort to envelop and smash the
entire line.
A communique broadcast by
the Rangoon radio said counter-
attacks from the imperial middle
sector were keeping the enemy
at bay but that -fighting is con-
tinuing fiercely.”
At one point, at least, the Jap-
nese were between the town of
Bilin and the railroad town of
Kyaik-To, only 25 miles west
of the Rangoon-Mandalay rail-
road portion of the Burma road.
(An official spokesman in
Chungking said the Chinese re-
fuse to concede that the battle
of Burma is lost and have started
operations to relieve the pres-
sure on the defense lines in the
south. Striking from northern
Burma, the Chinese were pursu-
ing defeated Thai forces "toward
Chiengmai, Thailand, 80 miles
from the border.)
Air battles were reported all
along the Bilin sector and Am-
erican Volunteers, who have
won spectacular victories over
the Japanese, were participating.
Both the RAF and the
AVG (American Volunteer
Group) we pc bombing ene-
my concentrations and
troops in the line—“the ene-
my is being given little re-
spite,"
Japanese attempts to cross the
Bilin at its mouth, on the coast
of the Gulf of Martaban, were
beaten back. Ground attacks on
the right flank (northern end)
of the defense line likewise fail-
ed.
The Japanese break-through
occurred north of the river
mouth, and the situation in
<that area appeared to be chang-
ing hourly.
Indications were that traffic
on the Rangoon-Mandalay rail-
road was approaching a stand-
still—at least as far as supplies
for China were concerned.
Chungking officials said yes-
terday that the Chinese were
arranging to have materials
transported to China from In-
dia.
Rangoon's Sea approaches are
being mined, it was said, and
the Burmese capital is being
abandoned as an importation
center for military supplies for
the Chinese.
NEW TRANSPORTS
SIGHTED
CHUNGKING, China, Feb. 20
—(UP)—Newspaper dispatches
from Kunming. Chinese termin-
us of the Burma road, said to-
day that large number of Jap-
anese warships and transports
had been sighted off tile Burma
coast.
It was asserted that the ene-
my fleet was approaching a flat
sandy and undefended part of
the coast.
Dispatches said it was believ-
ed the Japanese might try sim-
ultaneous troop landings at
many points on either side of the
Irrawaddy river delta.
The British were reported to
have mined the mouths of the
Irrawaddy, which empties at
the southeast corner of the Bay
of Bengal, and the Rangoon riv-
er which empties a little to the
east, at Rangoon, into the gulf
of Martaban.
A landing of the sort and
scale anticipated in ihe Kun-
ming reports would be a deadly
threat to the British Empire
forces defending Rangoon and
the Burma road.
The .Japanese forces which in-
vaded Burma and thrust across
the Salween and Bilin rivers
had come overland from Thail-
and.
A landing by troops in the
Irrawaddy delta would put a
new army west of the British
forces defending Rangoon and
threaten them with a trap un-
less they abandoned the entire
coast in that area.
Bringing Former
Resident’s Body
Back For Burial
Funeral services are being
held in Odessa Friday for W. H.
Flowers. 75, a former Sweetwat-
er resident, who died at his
home in Odessa Thursday morn-
ing following a long illness.
The body was brought over
'and to Sweetwater for burial at
2:30 p. m., Friday at the city
cemetery.
Before moving to Odessa about
six years ago, Mr. Flowers lived
in Sweetwater many years."
He is survived by two claugh
ters, Mrs. Henry McIntyre,
Odessa and Mrs. Mamie Stalz-
man, Detroit, Mich.
Yates Funeral Home directed
local arrangements.
Courthouse News
Warranty Deeds
Walter L. Boothe to El Roy I
Stroman, et ux, 89000, Sec. 57,
Blk 21, T&P Survey.
F. M. Bawcom, et ux to Mrs.
Lois Wilson, $1750, Lt. 7, Blk |
17, Bradfori Addition.
No la Gray Scott, et ux to Ber-
ry O. Wilkins, et ux, $9, 100, I
22-1.70 A. W. Sd. Sec. 29, Blk 23,
T&P Survey.
H. T. Tims, to B. S. McBride, I
$1500, Lt. 16, Blk. 6. Eastridge
Addition.
Kate Barbee, et vir to Claude I
B. Beall, $50, Lt. 3, Blk. 12, East-]
ern Addition.
Rex Ragan to G. L. Davis, $75, |
Lts. 1, 2, 3, Blk. 51, Southern]
and Western Addition.
Nola Grav Scott, et vir, to Ber-
ry O. Wilkins, $9,100, Sec. 29,]
Blk. T&P Survey.
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Mrs. Leo J. (Bill) Foster, 1r.,
who in recent months has been
living at Everett, Wash., where
her husband, Lieut. Foster has
been based as instructor .in" the
U. S. army air corps, will ar-
rive in Sweetwater Saturday
for an indefinite visit.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Rogers, sr., drove to
Amarillo Friday to meet her.
Lieut, and Mrs. Foster were
married June 23, 1940, soon after
he received his commission at
Kelly Field. Since he has been
based at Hamilton Field, San
Francisco, Salt Lake City, Boise,
Idaho, and Everett. On assign
ment to Randolph Field, he
landed at the Sweetwater air-
port Thursday for a brief visit
with the Rogers family.
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Crop Insurance
Meeting Saturday
,A meeting of all farmers in
Nolan county interested in crop
insurance of the federal govern
ment are to meet at 1:30 Satur-
day afternoon in the office of
the AAA, in the courthouse.
Demp Kearney, local represen-
tative of t!;e AAA, said today
cards notifying the farmer peo-
ple of th« meeting had been
sent out from the office.
MOSCOW, Feb. 20— (UP)— So-
viet storm troops pressing west-
ward on the northwest front are
approaching or may even have
crossed the Latvian border, front
dispatches indicated today.
A correspondent for the Com-
munist organ Pravda reported
that “a number” of guerrillas
operaiing in western Latvia had
arrived at Soviet army headquar-
ters with “important informa-
tion regarding Gentian posi-
tions.”
■(Radio Moscow, heard in Lon-
don also broadcast the reported
bolder crossing, but did not iden-
tify the sector in which the
crossing was made.)
The Pravda correspondent
quoled other guerrilla forces as
reporting that scores of persons
were being sentenced to death
daily in Riga, capital of Latvia.
“Food and clothing have been
confiscated in Riga,” he said.
KILLED HIS NEIGHBOR
BROWNWOOD, Tex., Feh. 20
—(HP)—For killing his neigh-
bor over disputed water drain-
age, Farmer Edgar Prater of
the Cross Cut community must
serve 15 years in prison. That
verdict was returned in district
court last night in the 56-year
old farmer’s trial qfn: charges
of shooting to death Cecil
Moore, 28, owner of an adjoin-
ing farm.
Texas Women Pay
$675,000 A Month
To Retain Beauty
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 20 —(UP)
—Texas women spend approxi-
mately $675,000 a month to be
pretty, State Comptroller Geo.
Sheppard discovered today.
The figures were based on
collections from May 1 through
Dec. 31, 1941, under the new
state tax on cosmetics. Cosme-
tics were valued at $5,412,558,
and the two per cent tax
brought $108,251.
The report showed radio sales
totaled $5,146,621, and the two
per cent tax netted $102,932.
The (ax of five cents per pack
on 310,651 packs of playing
cards yielded $15,532 in state
revenue, ,
Total from these new state
taxes was $230 849.
One-fourth of the taxes go to
public school support and most
of the rest to social security.
Any balances after social securi-
ty requirements are fulfilled go
into the state general revenue
fund.
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cal warfare service and he was
not just being whimsical when
he talked of ray guns.
"!We have the rays right
now”, he said referring to
mammoth cyclotrons, “but a
400-ton atom smasher can’t be
carried around like Buck Rog
ers’ ray pistol.”
Barker’s function is to exam-
ine and encourage the produc-
tion of ideas by chemists .phy-
sicists and mechanical engineers
for the creation of new weap-
ons and materials of war.
Schooled in the history of war-
fare, he knows that it is not
beyond the realm of possibility
that this conflict may produce
a weapon as surprising to those
against whom it is turned as
was gunpowder to the- armor*
ed knights who witnessed it#
effects for the first time 596
years ago in the battle of Crecy.
Barker conceded that an in-
ternational race was in progress
to determine which belligerent
would be the first to harnes#
the atom for purposes of war.
Japan, for example, has long
maintained a central military
scientific Institute whose offi-
cers, Barker said, have beeru
searching for secrets of nature#
which might be turned into in-
struments of death.
He believes, however, that the
next genuinely revolutionary
weapon of this war, when it
comes into being, will probablj#
he an old one “revitalized”. The
tank was just such a weapon, a
modern version of the old
knight in armor. ,
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