Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
That Covert War
Trouble is a lot of people trying
to reap a rich harvest from some-
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it should be, put a “p” in front ol
it and try again.
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work. They go to sleep beside it,1
RAF Reich Blitz Forecast of Invasion;
Hoover Urges Greater Power for FDR;
Soviets Push Ahead on Kharkov Front;
U. S. Outlines Pay Deduction Tax Plan
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I NAZI FOOD RATIONS:
To Be Smaller
Uncle Pk'd?y
S>ay5:
There’s the Rub
You don't lose friends by lend-
ing them money. You lose them
by expecting to get it back.
The amateur gardener calls it ft
day: from daybreak to back-
break.
Man can fly like a bird, but,
alas, he cannot always alight liko
one.
U. S. Sub Brings Home Golden Bacon
Gains Freedom
This photograph, released in Washington, shows the actual delivery
of the treasure snatched out of Corregldor (before the arrival of the Japs)
by a U. S. submarine, whose commander and crew were honored by the
army. Stealing Into Manila bay under Jap batteries, the sub brought In
a cargo of shells and loaded up with gold, sliver and securities.
New York’s Gas Rationing Begins
Earl Browder, V. 8. communist
party leader, shorn of his mustache
during hla 14-month Imprisonment in
the federal penitentiary at Atlanta,
Ga., shown in his Atlanta hotel room
shortly after his release. Browder’s
four-year sentence was cut short by
President Roosevelt “In the interest
of national unity."
Chief of WAAC
The thanlu of a grateful nation and the Congressional Medal of Honor
pinned on his breast by President Roosevelt were the rewards received by essary because
Brig. Gen. James Doolittle for his valor In leading the bombing raid on the crop outlook,
mainland of Japan, including Tokyo, a few weeks ago. Above, left to right,
are Lieut. Gen. H. II. Arnold, chief of air forces, Mrs. Doolittle and Presi-
dent Roosevelt congratulating America’s newest hero, General Doolittle
MARSHAL GOERING
"It’s a hard war."
Following stories of conditions in
Axis countries by diplomats and
newspaper men released from in-
ternment in Germany and Italy
came an announcement by Reich
Marshal Herman Goering, war time
Nazi economic commissioner, that
“a temporary reduction in the food
rations" of Germany would be nec-
of an unfavorable
A little less than one-third of New York city’s 900,000 motorists regis-
tered for gasoline rationing on the first day of the three-day registration
period. Registration in the city took place in 753 public schools, and
waa particularly for motorists whose last names begin with A to L. Photo
shows • clerk registering an applicant.
Eagle’s Nest Afloat Again
Mrs. Oveta Hobby of Houston,
Texas, who has been appointed di-
rector of the Women's Army Aux-
iliary corps by Secretary of War
Stimson. She is the wife of Former
Gov. William Hobby of Texas.
‘Pleasant Dreams’
The British aircraft carrier Illustrious which was damaged in a sea
battle is now in service again, after having been repaired and refitted at
an American shipyard. Photo at top shows the ship as she rides at
anchor at a British port. Bottom photo shows crew members of the
Illustrious running to their stations as an alert is sounded.
Leatherneck’s Balloon Barrage
Quarters are rather cramped
aboard submarine because of the
amount of machinery she must car-
ry. These bunks may seem tight to
the landsman who is used to lots of
room in which to toss, but sub-men
find them comfortable.
Sniffing Death
You have seen V. S. marines In many roles. Now you sec how (he
versatile “leathernecks” handle their barrage balloons. At the marine
base at Parris Island, S. C., barrage balloon base group 1 operates its
stable of great gasbags. The balloons arc captive, flown on steel cables.
Above, a quartet of balloons la being Jockeyed into position by marine
ground crews.
To enable students to learn vari-
ous gases by sniffing—safely—Rev.
F. Hickey, head of physical chemis-
try at Providence college, Provi-
dence, R. I., has manufactured
“sniff sets" of five noxious gases. He
is shown above with one of the sets.
DOOLITTLE:
Secrets Well Kept
Three questions remained un-
answered when President Roosevelt
pinned the Congressional Medal of
Honor on the breast of Brigadier
General Doolittle in an unheralded
White House ceremony commemo-
rating the recent history-making
American bombers’ raid on the Jap-
anese mainland.
Where did daredevil Jimmy
Doolittle’s squadron take off
from? Where did the Yank fliers
land after they bombed Tokyo
and sowed a whirlwind of fire,
death and destruction in their
wake? By what route did Doo-
little reach Washington?
While the mystery remained a
well-kept secret, Doolittle, who had
won international renown as a
peacetime speed flier before his lat-
est exploit made him America's No.
1 hero, revealed some significant
tacts.
The Yanks outflew and outfought
Japanese planes and retired without
losing a single plane. They “hedge-
hopped” over Tokyo low enough to
see a ball game in progress. Yankee
bombers played havoc with vital
Japanese industrial areas 40 miles
long and S to 20 miles wide. They
scored direct hits on a battleship or
cruiser under construction near To-
kyo and scattered incendiary bombs
over airplane factories in Nago.v
In extending Doolittle the na-
tion's thanks. President Roose-
velt announced the award of 79
Distinguished Service Crosses
for the 79 volunteers—pilots,
machine gunners, bombardiers
and radiomen—who participated
In the raid.
Speaking over the radio following
his decoration, General Doolittle de-
clared that the April raid over
Tokyo was only the beginning of
many more.
HOOVER URGES:
More Power for FDR
Former President Herbert Hoover
urged that President Roosevelt be
given additional “dictatorial eco-
nomic powers” as a means of win-
ning the total war.
“There must be no hesitation
in giving them to President
Roosevelt and upholding him In
them," Mr. Hoover said in an
address before the 26th assem-
bly of the National Industrial
Conference board.
Economic dictatorship, however,
must, not encroach on civil liber-
ties, he declared. “From a philo-
sophical viewpoint,” he said he
would like to see the “sixth colum-
nists given a little more liberty.”
“Criticism of the conduct of
the war is necessary If we are
to win the war,” he added. “We
want the war conducted right
. . . Democracy can correct mis-
takes only through public ex-
posure and opposition to them.”
Mr. Hoover did not define specif-
ically the new dictatorial powers he
advocated for President Roosevelt.
He said, however, “We must start
our thinking with a cold, hard fact;
that the economic measures to win
total war are just plain Fascist
economics.”
STEEL WORKERS:
To Be ‘Missionaries’
As his conflict with John L. Lewis
for control of millions of American
workers tightened, Philip Murray,
president of the CIO, urged dele-
gates who attended the Steel Work-
ers’ Organizing committee conven-
tion at Cleveland, Ohio, to become
"missionaries of national unity.”
“I do not want internal strife in
this union nor in the CIO,” Murray
said. “Men’s minds must rise
above internal bickering when the
nation is embroiled in a world war.
INVASION PRELUDE:
RAF Blitzes Reich
While Royal Air force bombers
blasted war factories and chem-
ical plants in Germany and blitzed
Nazi submarine bases in France and
enemy airdromes in Holland, the
Churchill government announced
that the RAF's heavy air offensive
was a prelude to an ultimate inva-
sion of continental Europe.
Sir Stafford Cripps, lord privy
seal and government spokesman in
commons said:
“These bombings are, In our
view, of material assistance to
Russian resistance and the best
way in which we can give as-
sistance until such time as we
are able to make a carefully
planned attack on the continent
of Europe, which we intend
to do.” >
The accelerated tempo of Brit-
ain's air offensive was seen in the
performance of one detachment of
bombers which unloaded 40,000 fire
bombs over the city of Mannheim
in southwest Germany, second
largest inland port of Germany and
the site of a number of important
chemical, armament and engineer-
ing factories.
NEW TAX PLAN:
Collect at Source
To help Americans pay heavy in-
come taxes that would affect mil-
lions of workers in the small-income
group for the first time and to com-
bat inflation, the treasury depart-
ment outlined to the House ways
and means committee a “collection-
at-source" program.
Under the new plan, employers
would withhold on behalf of the gov-
ernment part of the pay of single
workers making more than $11 a
week and childless married persons
making more than $26. The amount
deducted would be used as a credit
against income taxes.
Increased individual income sur-
taxes ranging from 12 per cent on
the first $2,000 to 80 per cent on
taxable earnings exceeding $200,000
yearly were written Into the pend-
ing war revenue bill.
The ways and means committee’s
plan did not incorporate President
Roosevelt's suggestion that no
American’s Income should exceed
$25,000 a year after payment of all
taxes.
REDS VS. NAZIS:
Soviets Still Ahead
Stubborn battles on which the de-
cision of World War II appeared to
hinge still persisted on the Kharkov
and Kerch fronts.
On the Kharkov front the Rus-
sian armies under Marshal
Timoshenko continued their ad-
vances in the face of stiffened
German resistance and sharp
counterattacks. On the Kerch
front, the Russians denied Nail
claims of a clean sweep to the
gateway of the precious Cauca-
sus oil fields.
That the Red army was keeping
alive its offensive in the Kharkov
sector at a swiftly rising cost to the
Nazis in men. heavy weapons and
supplies was indicated by the latest
war bulletins.
“On one sector near Kharkov,”
said a report, “our troops annihi-
lated 1,650 German officers and men
and destroyed 27 tanks, an ammu-
nition dump and a gasoline dump.
Booty captured included 37 guns,
57 mortars, 10,000 shells, 40,000
rounds of ammunition, three wire-
less stations and other material.”
In commenting on the situation on
the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea,
a communique said Russian forces
were barring the way to the Cau-
casus in a way that resembled the
long American defense of the
Bataan peninsula in the Philippines.
Addressing 137 war workers as-
sembled at the chancellery in Ber-
lin to be awarded service crosses
for the first time in history, Goering
said:
"Three extremely hard win-
ters are behind us. The ele-
ments have not been kind to us.
Last year’s harvest was bad.
Now, however much we enjoy
the warm sun, we are longing for
rain to bring what the farmer
needs.”
Goering termed the present war
“the hardest Germany has had to
fight.”
“The winter campaign has been
terrible. The Fuehrer suffered deep-
ly for his troops, but he knew he
must not yield. There was no ques-
tion of giving up our front positions
because behind us there was only
a heap of ruins.”
EARLIER VICTORY?:
Maybe, Says Hull
Secretary of State Cordell Hull's
cautious indication that increase of
United Nations’ striking power
might bring victory sooner than was
formerly expected, brought comfort
to many an American family and
generated new optimism over the
war effort In official Washington.
Mr. Hull had been asked at a
press conference whether develop-
ments in recent weeks on the home
and foreign fronts encouraged him
to believe in an early victory. In
reply he pointed out that the powers
and facilities of the United States
have been developing on a more and
more massive scale, not only for
offensive-defensive operations, but
for outright offensive war.
Making no effort to disguise
the fact that he was increasingly
impressed by America's grow-
ing power, the white-haired sec-
retary suggested it was only
natural that calculations as to
the duration of the war should
be made in the light of this fact.
Observers pointed out that a num-
ber of factors re-enforced Secretary
Hull’s views. Among these were the
steady rise in armed personnel, un-
precedented increases in production
from factory production lines, grow-
ing air and naval strength and the
uninterrupted flow of men and ma-
terials abroad.
GAS RATIONING:
Looms for All U. S.
Restriction of gasoline consump-
tion by the 20,000,000 car owners
outside the East and the Pacific
Northwest to a point where pleasure
driving would be almost completely
banned before the end of the sum-
mer was predicted as a result of
coriferences between Defense Trans-
portation Director Joseph B. East-
man and Price Administrator Leon
Henderson.
New emphasis to the seriousness
of the nation’s rubber shortage was
lent by Mr. Eastman’s disclosure
that the United States may not
have a sufficient supply of synthetic
rubber “in short of three years and
perhaps not then.”
Disclosure of impending steps
toward universal gas limitation fol-
lowed an indication by President
Roosevelt that rationing might be
extended to other parts of the coun-
try outside the East and the Pacific
Northwest where it is already op-
erative.
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Australia: Gen. Douglas MacAr-
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and Brig. Gen. Hugh Casey, his
chief engineer In the Philippines,
were made honorary members of
the Australian Institute of Engi-
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