Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 137, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 2, 1943 Page: 4 of 10
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Nation-Wide Dimout And
Curtailment Of Train
Services To Save Fuel
From Skyway To Highway In Tunisa
Solons Study
Last Big Bill
For Spending
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f WASHINGTON. May I •,Pi-
Immediate elimination of all un-
necessary railroad travel for tlv
6uration of the coal strike w.i.-
recommended by Fuels Admims-
Irator likes tonight
Ickes disclosed that prepara-
tion* were already under way for
a 25 per cent reduction in pas
sender train and locomotive mile-
age.
It was understood that a nation-
wide dimout also would be ask-?d
by Ickes to conserve coal list'd in
generating electric power
Ickes’ recommendation for a
transportation curtailment was
addressed by letter to Director
Joseph B. Eastman, of the Office
of Defense Transportion.
Pending resumption of mining
activity, the letter said, the coun-
try's limited coal supply must be
conserved in every way possible
lest we s<Kin see the complete
stoppage of work in many plan's
throughout the country now turn-
ing cut munitions and essential
civilian products."
The administrator recommend-
ed:
"The curtailment of passeng*
train and passenger locomotive
mileage to the degree that will
in effect displace all railroad pas-
senger travel which can be post-
poned or can be eliminated be-
cause it is not directly related to
the prosecution of the war or es-
sential civilian activities.’’
He said he understood "that the
Office of Defense Transportation
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is now -tudying ways and means
of curtailing 25 per cent of the
passenger train and locomotive
mileage on the railroads of th •
United Stater during the period of
this em> rgency.'
Reliable but unquotable sources
said Ickes already had prepared
a letter addressed to Chairman
Donald M Nelson of the War Pro-
ducts n B aid requesting a na
tii n-wide "dim-out" in electric
lighting. It was stated the letter
might be delivered to Nelson to-
rn' now, and Nelson wu: expected
to take prompt action.
Presumubi> the proposed order
would call for the extinguishing
of all ornamental illumination,
theater marquees, show windows
of stores and other non-essential
lighting.
Earlier today, Ickes said that
preliminary figures indicate the
amount of bituminous coal above
ground as of April 1 was approxi-
mately the same as on March 1,
when there were 76,627,000 tons,
or an average of 43 days' supply,
based on the February rate of
consumption.
An administration spokesman
said that exact figures will be
announced on Monday.
IN ,->aiu no figures weie uTinv
diately available concerning th'*
supply of anthracite, but that re-
cent production was at the rate
of about 1,300,000 tons a week, or
about the rate necessary to meet
this year’s anticipated need of
65,000,000 tons.
conference
hnuKi' voted
‘rating state
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Trucks were halted on the road toward El Ham ma, in Tunisia, while a "grasshopper" plane land-
ed on the highway, discharged a liaison officer and safely tcok off again, as shown above. The
plane was American, the pilot a New Zealander, the ground troops British—and the incident was
part of the big job of coordinating Allied forces in putting the squeeze on the retreating enemy.
U-Boat Sunk And
Crew Captured
By Coast Guard
Channel Guns
Exchange Fire
LONDON, May 1 — </P)—Big
guns engaged in a heavy ex-
change of lire across the channel
tonight.
British batteries opened up just
before 10:30 o’clock and the Ger-
mans replied shortly afterward.
After a half-hour the British
fire intensified and the firing was
continuing more than an hour and
a quarter after it started.
Some shells fell in the Dover
area and the flash of gunfire re-
flected against low clouds.
MIAMI, Flu., May 1—f/P)—
Lieut. Comdr. Maurice D Jestc.
veteran of 21! years of live-sav-
ing with the United States Coast
Guard, told today ul how flu*
cutter Icarus under his command
brought destruction of a maraud-
ing German submarine, capture
of 33 of its crew and death io
others.
The action flamed for 30 swift j
minutes off the Carolina coast j
several months ago, with depth I
charges smashing at the under- j
sea raider, a torpedo streaking I
at the cutter, and gunfire giding !
the coup de grace to the German '
naval craft.
One of the captured Nazis died
of wounds alter being rescued
from the water. The remaining
32, including the submarine's
U.S. AndR.A. F.
Bombers Attack
Across Channel
By RICE YAHNER
LONDON, May t—t/P)—Royal
Air Force bombers pounded th >
German industrial city of Essen
last night and Berlin said Amer-
ican four-engined heavyweights
attacked an undisclosed French
harbor across the English Channel
in daylight today in a resumption
of the pre-invasion aerial offen-
sive.
While the 8th U. S. Air Force
headquarters had made no an-
commanding officer, were placed I nouncement ot the daylight oper-
under guard in the Irani * ations several hours aitw coastal
Average weight of 11,000 hu-
man brains weighed was 1301
grams for man; 1230 grams for
woman.
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castle and were landed at
Charleston, S. C.
It was the first time the cap-
ture of prisoners from a Ger-
man submarine has been made
public.
Commander Jester, now assis-
tant Coast Guard operations offi-
cer in the seventh naval district,
with headquarters at Miami, told
| his story on authority from Wash-
ington.
j He was awarded the Navy
Cross for the action, the first
! Coast Guard officer to receive
| the medal in the present war.
The Icarus, said Commander
Jester, was on a customary pa-
trol when the submarine was de-
tected.
“We maneuvered into position
S for the attack," said the com-
i mander. “We located the target,
j dropped a pattern of depth char-
j ges and placed ourselves in posi-
tion for a second attack which
| was made.
“A torpedo was fired by the
! submarine at a range of 500 yards
but it missed its mark.
"It was apparent then that the
submarine had been damaged. It
attempted to surface, as was
plainly discernible by air bubbles
coming to the surface.
“Knowing we had made a kill,
I we maneuvered lo umsh oil the
| submarine.”
The commander then gave tins
vivid description of the last min-
utes of a Nazi submarine’s death
struggle:
“We dropped two single char-
ges to finish her off. She broke
the surface swiftly, depth-charged
to the top. There was a swirl in
the water, and her bow came up
at a 45 degree angle.
“At this point the gunfire be-
gan. The submarine’s crew at-
tempted to man their guns. The
Icarus, steaming toward the sub-
marine full speed, put all guns
into action. Our aim was so ac-
curate that the enemy abandoned
the attempt to man their guns
and jumped into the sea.
“The sub then sank slowly an 1
disappeared from the surface.
“We rescued all the enemy sea-
men who came to the surface. All
wore rescue lungs and inflated
life jackets. Two were wounded,
apparently by gunfire. One died j
before e reached Charleston. We
brought his body in for burial."
ations several hours after coastal
residents in Britain reported see-
ing American planes roar across
the channel, the Berlin radio de-
clared that a formation of U. H.
bombers “attempted a raod" on
a harbor in western France.
The German broadcast, record-
ed by the Associated Press, claim-
ed that eight four-engined bomb-
ers were downed when they met
“strong German fighter defenses
and anti-aircraft fire."
The direction the planes were
flying when they crossed the const
suggested a new attack on one of
the Axis U-boat bases on the
Brittany coast.
In last night's heavy raid, the
RAF heaped on Essen the distinc-
tion of being the most-bombed
city in the world.
The German industrial city
with a normal population of 654,
000, now has been the recipient
of more than 10,000 tons of bombs
delivered by the RAF on 55 mis-
sions, and bomb-wise Londoners
had to use but little imagination
to realize the destruction wrought
by concentrated attacks there.
Thirteen planes were missing
from the night attacks on Essen
and* the neighboring Ruhr dis-
trict. The RAF spread over tar-
gets in a wide area instead of con-
centrating on one patch such us
the great Krupp works, already
crippled and rendered idle fui
long post-bombing periods.
Tlu> Germans readily arlrnnwl-
edged last night's devastation in
these words from the Berlin com-
munique:
“British bombers last night at-
tacked several places in western
Germany, among them open rural
communities. Bombs dropped on
residential areas, especially in Es-
sen, causing casualties among the
population and considerable dam-
age. According to reports avail-
able so far, six of the attacking
bombers were shot down.”
Fighter Pilots
'Double Talk' As
They Down Japs
WASHINGTON. May l— (/p)_
Four United Stall's Army Air
Forces fighter pilots chatted by
radio in double oik a they shot
I down four bombers out of a
j flight ol 37 Japanese planes over
the Russell islands in the south
I Pacific reci rill\, the War De-
partment disclosed today
The American pilot- on Guadal-
canal had nicknamed imli other
after characters in Damon Run-
yon’s stories of Broadway. "Rig
Mig," "Harry the Horse," "Guinea
Mike," “Handaxe John," "Danc-
ing Dan" and "Sorrowful” were
some of the names used by the
pilots. They used these name;
even in ordinary conversation on
the ground, so they would be eas-
ily recognized as they came
crackling in over the radio high
in the sky giving directions for
a dog light.
These four Airacobras were on
patrol over the Russell islands
northwesth of Henderson Field,
Guadalcanal island, when then
sighted 12 Japanese dive bombers
and 25 tighter planes.
The Americans waited high in
the clouds until the bombers got
out far enough in front of their
fighter protection Then down
roared the Airacobr as piloted oy
Captain Jerome R. Sawyer >f
South Pasadena, Calif.; First
Lieutenant Isaac L. Lallonde, De-
fiance, Ohio; First Leutena.it
Wallace R. McClendon jr., of 2612
Arbor street, Houston, Texas, and
First Lieutenant Arnold M. Pat-
terson. Hyde Park, Mass.
$19,837,748 tor
colleges and univer-itic in 1944
45.
The house bill called for $94.
038 more than the senate bill,
necessitating conference action t<>
reconcile differences The other
major appropriations hills me
still being processed before being
reported back to both houses
Final enactment of the bills re-
mains as must legislation between
now and adjournment of the '
sion May 11.
As passed by the him e t lay
in its first Saturday meeting of
the session, the higher education
appropriations bill included an
amendment adding $428,208 to
the two-year appropriation for
the University of Texas main
branch. This boosted the univer-
sity’s main branch appropriation
from $3,472,010 to $3,900,218.
The lump reduction for all
schools, however, was $3,026,062
for the biennium as compared
with the current appropriation
Stephen F
Sul Hi
Suite Teai hei it
,503,380
Ti v.i. State Teach
dm ciiv $554,730
'll State Teach
ii hi- $402,858
. ui IV,'tehees at Al-
• t Texas
,li Teachers at
Texas College
Confers Degrees
HUNTSVI II... May 1—Id’'
The first he no ar decree evei
, : 11 ed - «. tin Texas State
:ei: rs colle » ivstem will be
awarded to the adjutant general
i! the Unit- ( Stall's Army an i
the command ic officer of the
WAACs at Sam Houston State
Teachers College commencement
exercises Ma 20.
The In no, ary de - :e I D >e-
1, t 1 aw 1 1! hi o nferred nn
Major Central J. A. Ulio, ad in
| tan' ^enei al and Colonel Oveta
Speaker of the House Price Culp Hebbv, director of the Wo-
Daniel urged members to act
swiftly on the bill and get it into
conference committee.
The bill recommended these
amounts by schools for 1944-45
Tex a.- A. and M ad lege $ *.
314,450.
John Tarletnn Agriculture col-
lege at Stephen vile—$400,282.
North Texas Agricultural col-
lege at Arlington—$437,344
Prairie View Normal and li
din trial college—$608,130.
University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston—f* °37.740
College of Mines at Ei Paso —
$400,520.
Texas State College for Women
men’s Army Auxiliary Corps.
Arrangements cull mr presenta-
tion ol Gi in .il Ulio by John E.
Hill of Amin I! nresicient of th.?
Teachers C He e B'-ard of Re
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by V A Collins if
in uird
Vjrnb. and
onel Hobby
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member
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Texan Awarded
'Silver Star"
SAN DIEGO, May 1—(/P)_The
Silver Star medal was awarded
today to Seaman Second Class
Homer Wilson Procter, 26, Route
3, Temple, Texas, for manning a
powder supply line aboard his
embattled ship despite serious
face and arm burns.
The resentation was made by
Capt. George C. Thomas, (MO,
USN, at ceremonies at the naval
hospital here.
Procter was cited for his ac-
tion during the battle to the
northward ol Santa Cruz island
on Oct. 26, 1942. He suffered the
burns when his own gun was de-
stroyed, the citation stated, but
remained in the powder supply
line at the engaged guns until he
was ordered to retire to the battle
dressing station.
In New Guinea, native cou-
ples dance with their noses lock-
ed together.
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Phillips, J. C. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 137, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 2, 1943, newspaper, May 2, 1943; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth771925/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.