The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 106, Ed. 1 Monday, May 4, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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nsolidated with Daily
lazette July 28, 1924.
SULPHUR SPRJNCS, TEXAS. MONDAY. MAY 4, 1942.
44—NO. 106.
BUY WAR BONDS and STAMPS
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
t With A
ss New Gi
Salt Lake Death Trip Claims Another Airliner
With nn approximate total of
1173,000 iti War Having Bond*
and Stamps sold in Sulphur Spgs.
in the first four months of 1942,
Hopkins County has n long way to
go in the next eight month* If the
county quota of $001,600 is met.
The figure* on sales represent
maturity value of the various
bonds and stamps sold which com-
prise wales of the banks nnd the
post office.
HeavyDamagt
Jap Forces In
:my follows
P MINDANAO
ISLE LANDINGS
(By Aaammtat Pry I
i Australia, May 4,—On island
ffont, North Australis, Allied
fighter plane* intercepted an at-
tack on fort Moresby yesterday
General
Ify twelve Japanese bombers and
■as MacArtbur's headquar-
Imnoum ed today that Corre-
8 is still taking artillery fire
[serial bombardment, but the
pns of the fortress are thun-
(4? back defiance at the Japa-
8 It was announced that the.
leae are continuing opera-
(in Mindanao Island (South-
Philippines), following up
Irecent landings on the north-
dcoast. 1
ban esc broadcast* estimated
Alnited States and Philippine
js holding out on Mindanao
fered about 80,000 men.
eight fighters. They shot, down
three bombers and one escorting
plane. The communique described
tie battle as "brilliant."
Fifteen other Japanese planes
were reported downed In other
scattered battles during the week-
end. United States and Australian
fliers damaged three Japanese
transports,
Oft of $48,000 per month in pur-
chase of bonds und stamps.
Many persons in this county
have sot up their own plan fur
regular purchase of War Bonds
and Stamps and many others sign-
ed pledges lust week for systema-
tic investment of a certain per
cent of their incomes in the gov-
ernment bonds. Teiyn* of men,
working under the County Sales
committee of which Charles F.
Ashcroft is chuirman, contacted
the 982 salaried persons in this
city.
dropped on the target. One caused a large explosion
fire resulted on the middle dock area."
Chinese force* reported holding Taunggyi, 100
southeast of Mandalay on a flank of the Japanese e<
which drove north of Lashio and the Burma Road. 1
dicatlon as to whether they were cut off.
A Chinese Army spokesman emphasiaed that
nese troops, under Lieut, Gen. Joseph Stilwell, still
in the fight. It was declared only that part of the Cl
Expeditionary Force in Burma had been in actual «
with the Japanese so far.
(tty A me cm Sot)
Allied Headquarters in Austra-
lia, May 4.—United States and
Australian bombers struck bard
at the main Japanese base at Ra-
haul in New Britain, hitting a
transport directly, damaging an-
other and (-uprising a tender while
in scattered air battles the Allies
accounted for fifteen enemy
planes, General Douglas Mac Ar-
thur’s headquarters announced.
than 160 miles from the Bengal £$#!
bordsY:' ' '
A British military commentator
described the Japanese thrust Up *
severed Burma Hoad toward
hungking as the heaviest asOMit
of the Japanese campaign.
(By Amoyut SfiM. '
London, May 4.—A Reuters
dispatch from Chungking said the
Japanese launched a fierce 01*
sault on Chineee positions sixty-
five miles north of Laahlo, south-
western terminus of the Burma
Auetralia, May 4.—The threat
of a Japanese overland smash to-
ward Port Moreaby from Lae on
the northeast coast Is being close-
ly watched.
Crashing into mountains of the Wasatrh range withi* eeven mile* of Sait Lake City, Utah, a United
Airlines Mainlincr was completely destroyed, its*crew V>f three and fourteen passengers killed. Top
photo shows the members of the crew, left to right, Capt, Pilot Don Brown, St ward ess Neva Cantwell
and Co-Pilot Harold Miner; below, the tangled mass of metal that was once their ship. (NEA Tele-
photo* l.
About fifty farmers were pres-
ent Saturday afternoon in the
District Court-room here when A.
J. Peek, entomologist from Little
Rock, Ark., discussed a poison
program against cotton insects
this year.
Tentative plan* to order poison
were advanced, similar to the
plan used last year. Joe Tom
Wood, chairman of the Hopkins
County Farm Council, presided at
the meeting.
(By AameitttB Bryl
Chungking, China, May 4.—
The Japanese campaign in Burma
is developing swiftly into a stark
Invasion threat against China from
tile south and India from the east.
The enemy has pushed Chins’* ex-
peditionary army to within thirty
miles of the Yunnan frontier. The
buttered British troops are leas
(tty A»».,f(»c«4 Pram
'Pendleton, Ore., May 4.—Two
bombers crashed on training
flights in the Pacific Northwest
Sunday, killing nine Army fliers
and injuring' three others.
One cracked up near McChord
Field, Wash., carrying three oc-
cupants to death, and seriously
injuring a fourth,
The other, a four-motored Boe-
ing flying fortress, smashed into
the wooded Blue Mountains 20
miles southeast of here, killing
six of the eight men aboard. The
aviators, from Pendleton Field,
were returning from a flight to
ism Vegas, Nev.
gninarried to Walter Wright
[a preceded her in death several
She was a member of the
| 1 odist Church.
I tiprvivors include two brothers.
Wi)le* Boyett and William Boy-
t both of Houston; two sisters,
Naomi Waidrip, Tecumseh,
j1>r, and Mr*. R. P. Froneber-
_ Mines, Okla.; and several
, *» and nephews of this city.
' jnerai services will be held at
’ x Rock Church at 2:30 p. m.
■ slay, burial to be in the Sher-
jCemetery.
< Continual on paf«
(tty AuMorfat** Prig*
London, May 4.—In a battering
exchange of blows at sea power,
the British declared today that the
RAF left Hamburg's docks and
shipyards ablaze and pounded n
Nan submarine nest at St. Nax
am* last night. The Germans said
the Nazi air force raided Alexan-
dria. British eastern Mediterran-
ean fleet base.
The RAF struck back over the
English Channel today. Thirty
German bombers attacked the
southwestern English town of Ex-
ter last night. The British say five
of the iaider* were shot down.
Weather
East Texas—Little temperature
change, slightly cooler near upper
coast.
West Texas—Warmer this aft-
ernoon in the Panhandle ami tile
South Plains.
(By Aento«sM4 Preyll
Beaumont, Tsxas, May 4.—
The motor vessel Capa Porpoise
was launched at the Pennsylvania
shipyards Sunday, the sixth type
CIA all-welded cargo ship to be
sent down ths way* In the local
shipbuilding program.
(By Atmrata* P'y)
Washington, May 4.—-Pah
um Coordinator Harold Ickaa
a congressional committee ti
that "non-essential motoring,
ing and boating must be cut i
through the bone into the
marrow" to preserve the nati
petroleum stocks. He said
neceswjry that we give first
Seamen, first class, in U. 8.
Naval Service receive $54.00 per
month base pay.
Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
Metal Star Ik To Smelter#
Mounted S<
(lit AawitttA Press!
Kearney, N.J., May 4.—Four
slim destroyers slid down the ways
In clocklike perclslon Sunday In
l | (By Ay—naltt *»im
-«w York, May 4.—A move to
wanne the government of
!3n, to include Conservative
ggent* opposed to greater col-
•fation with Germany ami
f, is under way in Madrid
already has produced a series
anti-Axis demonstration* and
i attempt to assassinate the
Axis Minister of Labor, ac-
,ing to private advices reach-
New York.,
a mB*» launching acclaimed by
hiderulion to needs of the
Governor Charles Edison as the
equivalent of a splendid naval vic-
tory-
forces and war Industries,
iekes named two problen
Transportation of oil to meet i
mantis, and acquisition of oil
build up depleted stocks.
Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
(By I tmr.tu4 Praati
London, May 4.—The elusive
I German battleships Gneisenau and
I Scharnhorst and the heavy cruiser
Prins Kugrn are definitely out of
j action and most undergo exU-n-
I »iv*- repairs, the British announc-
ed officially Sunday- A heavy
blow has thus been dealt to Gcr-
man-Italian-Japanese hopes for a
l gigantic, tumuitaneou* world wide
attack against the fleet* of the
United Nations.
Breaking the very great reserve
they had shown since the three
ships challenged the British navy
by sailing through the English
Channel in February, the Admiral-
ty and the Royal Air Force said
the Nazi warships had been griev-
ously hurt by torpedo and bomb-
ing attacks in the channel fight,
by mines laid by British plane*
and by British submarine action.
'. S. Has Already Spent
s Much In Present War
,s In The Last Conflict
With schools here and else-
where in the county observing a
holiday, thousands of citizens be-
gan applying for War Ration Book
No. 1 which will eiftHie them to
purchase sugar.
Elementary school* were scene*
of consumer registration end
teachers began the tremendous
task of registering every man,
woman and ohild residing In Hop-
kin* County.
In Sulphur Springs, residents
with last names beginning with
the letters, A, B, C, D, of E, reg-
istered Monday morning, and
those with initials through M
Monday afternoon.
Tuesday morning those perse
with last names beginning wi
N. O, F, Q, B, or S will regiri
here and Tuesday afternoon
the Others will sign up for r*tl
booklets.
School rite administrators
charge are to phone or bring
daily reporta to the office of
K. Brim, or the local Rati
Board, every night and final i
port is to be in by 24 how* aft
registration is completed.
First registration applies
sugar, bat will apply to any *41
articles wM*li the gevernnw
may later rotten. J
(By AmrmmM Pryi
/**hington, May 4.—Fiscal of-
sls disclosed today that the
ted States already ho* spent
nuch in this war at for the
t World War.
he first war cost the United
c* $26,729,000,063, including
u to the Allies. This wsr since
ft 1940, has cost about $26,-
.000,000. The present rate of
Hding is running over $3,000,-
,000 (billions) per month.
(By /twrdta Pram
London, May 4.—Aircraft rang-
ing over Copenhagen, capital of
German-occupied Denmark, drop-
ped bomb* on that city and caused
antiaircraft batteries in Denmark
to fire for 45 minute*, it was re-
ported Sunday.
A Paris, Texas, junk man, lenders, sits on the fender of a truck being loaded with scrap from his
junk yard which was ordered to be sold by the WPB. Lander* had refused three offer* for the mete!
and was finally ordered to sell it to the highest bidder and the removal was supervised by the Army
Ordnance Dept. (NEA Telephoto). sv
Mg War Bonds and Stamps.
Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
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Bagwell, Eric. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 106, Ed. 1 Monday, May 4, 1942, newspaper, May 4, 1942; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth825843/m1/1/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.