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BUY
WAR BONDS
NOW
Hmtljam Daily jFaanrtt*
BUY
WAR BONDS
NOW
OLUME 51
BONHAM, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 1942
United Press Service
NUMBER 62
IRECT HIT IS
CORED ON JAP
ARGO SHIP
Heavy Ack-Ack
Fire Uncounted
Over Rabaul
GEN. MACARTHUR’S HEAD-
QUARTERS, Australia, Sept. 25.
(UP).—Allied heavy bombers pro-
bably sank an 8,000-ton Japanese
cargo ship with a direct hit yes-
terday in the harbor of Rabaul, New
Britain Island, while medium bom-
bers were pounding Buka, north-
ernmost of the Solomon Islands,
for the fifth time in nine days, it
was announced today.
Other planes ranged far and wide
over New Guinea Island, striking
at Japanese supply centers for the
11th straight day.
In the area around the native
village of Ioribaiwa, 32 airline miles
from Port Moresby where the Ja
panese have been held since Sept.
16, a communique from Gen. Doug-
las MacArthur’s headquarters again
reported no change in the general
situation.
An Allied reconnaissance unit
bombed a medium Japanese cargo
ship in the harbor of Dilli, on Ti
mor Island 500 miles northwest of
Darwin, with “unknown results”
fee communique said.
'The raid on Rabaul, 520 miles
northeast of Port Moresby, was the
seventh in ten days and was made
during the early hours of yesterday
morning, presumably U. S. Ar-
my Plying Fortresses.
The Allied planes raced through
heavy anti-aircraft fire and scored
a hit amidships on the cargo ship.
It cased an explosion and fires and
probably sank the vessle. the com-
munique said. All Allied planes
returned safely.
At Buka, the medium bombers
attacked an airdrome, scoring di-
rect hits on dispersal centers and
setting fires.
A strong formation of fighter
planes meanwhile ranged up and
down the native trail leading from
the Japanese New Guinea beach-
head at Buna, 55 miles across the
island to- Kokoda. They strafed
the trail and the Kokoda airdrome.
Halts containing stores and equip-
ment were left in flames, the cam-
munique said. Another farmation
bombed the bridge at the village of
Wairopi with unobserved results.
It was the third attack this week
on the bridge, which is 20 miles
north of Kokoda.
Allied attack planes, with a fi-
ghter escort, bombed and strafed
Japanese concentrations around
Mubo, in northeastern New Guinea
near the Lae-Salamaua area.
A headquarters spokesman, elab-
rating on the communique, said
‘there has been considerable ship-
ping activity a.t Rabaul harbor in
recent weeks by both cargo and
warships.”
But, he added, “this does not
mean the number of ships there
has been increased.”
{The heavy bombers made their
fetack by moonlight through scat-
t U clouds and encountered no
J^_«iese aerial opposiion althou^i
tl Wanti-aifcraft was heavy.
V said Allied and Japanese pa-
trols still were maintaining con-
tact around Ioribaiwa. The bridge
which the Allied airmen attacked,
the spokesman said, “constitutes a
Japanese bottleneck over the nar-
row, swift deep Kumusi river. The
Japanese repair it and we attack
it daily.”
Meanwhile, pilots of the trans-
pacific ferry command revealed
they were speeding delivery of
heavy -bombers to strengthen Mac-
Arthur’s Air Forces.
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Loss Is Heavy As
Fire Burns Tires
And Automobiles
HENDERSON, Texas. Sent. 25
(UP)—Damage estimated at be-
tween $75,000 and $100,000 was
caused today when fire gutted two
business buildings, destroying 20
automobiles and several hundred
auto and truck tires.
Fire started in the Flanagan
Tire Company, which lost a ton
and a halt of camel back recap-
ping rubber and tires—about 440
of them belonging to customers.
Fire spread to Ross Iliff Motor Co.
which suffered auto loss.
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CONVOY REACHES RUSSIAN PORTS
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Administration Appears Victor Parity Row
COMPROMISE
AMENDMENT
GAINS VOTES
Final Vote Will
Be Delayed
Until Monday
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UP) —
Senate Democratic Leader Alben
W. Barkley of Kentucky said to-
day that the administratis had
sufficient votes for adoption of its
compromise farm amendment to
the anti-inflation bill.
“The compromise/’ Barkley said,
“does not have the vice of at-
tempting to rewrite the parity for-
mula.” President Rosevelt already
has expressed “unalterable oppo-
sition “to any rewriting of pari-
ty.
Barkley said that no vote is ex-
pected today. He said a number
n! senators still want to speak on
the bill, and that debate will con-
tinue until Monday.
The House Thursday adopted
the amendment to the anti-infla-
tion measure calling for the in-
clusion of the cost of farm labor i
in figuring parity and the farm
bloc was believed, late Thursday,
to have sufficient votes to pass
and adopt the House amendment.
Sen. Prentiss Brown (D.-Mich.)
and other administration leaders
immediately began a campaign to
switch votes and it was admitted
that several senators who had
originally favored the farm bloc’s
amendment were now in favor of
the administration compromise.
The compromise amendment
will givve the President the power
to change far prices if he so de-
sires.
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REDS ADVANCE, j Tired. Aching
BEAT OFF NAZI Backs Fail To
COUNTERBLOWS Stop Pickers
Desperate Battle
Rages In Streets
Of Stalingrad
MOSCOW, Sept. 25. (UP).—Rus-
Farmers Welcome
Students In
Cotton Patches
Tired and aching backs,
STALINGRAD
FIGHTING
FAVORS REDS
Willkie Visits
Front At Rzhev
During Day
m-! By United Press.
Sian troops have advanced again1 burned necks and sore fingers ac- j The British today reported a
northwest of Stalingrad under co-! quired in their first experience | major victory over Nazi forces at-
ver of Volga river warship bar- j as cotton pickers Thursday didn’t tacking a big Russia-bound convoy
rages after beating back seven keep an estimated 209 Bonham j and on the the vital Stalingrad
German, counter-attacks, and they high school students out of the! front a Soviet commentator believed
are holding' their positions in street fields again Friday as they did tbe initiative was slowly passing to
battles inside the besieged city,1 their bit in helping >Fann county’s' tIs* Red Army. *
The convoy victory was report-
ed by the Admiralty which reveal-
HOLD YOUR HORSES—This brief but eloquent notice, posted by Australians at edge of No
Man s land near El Alamein, Egyptian desert, warns that the road from this point on is strictly
not for pleasure driving. Photo flashed from Cairo to New York.
Nazi Sub Base
Blasted By RAF
Heavy Bombers
Severe Damage Is
Done To Base
At Flensburg
LONDON, Sept. 25 (UP)—RAF I
heavy bombers pounded the Bal- j
tic submarine building base of j
Flensburg last night while Dutch i
fliers of the coastal command!
crippled three enemy ships off
their native coast, it was an-
nounced tonight.
Ten bombers failed to return
from the 750-mile round trip to
Flensburg, the air ministry re-
ported, indicating on a basis of
five per cent loss that some 200
feur-motored Lancasters and Stir-
lings participated.
Distinguished ,
Flying Cross
Is Given Texan
LONDON, Sept. 25 (UP)—Wil- j
ham Baker of Temple, Texas, aj
member of the Third American j
Eagle Squadron, has been awarded !
the RAF’s Distinquished Flying
Cross, it was learned today.
hundred feet and some dropped
to 50 feet to machine-gun ^trer^
man searchlights and gun posi-
tions, the air ministry said. Many
ice-burdened planes flew back
across enemy territory little above
rooftop height.
Flensburg, one of the busiest j
German U-boat yards, lies at the|
head of the narrow, steep-sided! flce Qf price
Flensburg Fjord on the Danish | prepare foi.
border. From Flensburg, the new j «*wjthin two
submarines hug the Baltic coast j
base of Kiel where they are dis-, ge^;
patched on raiding missions in
Fort Worth
Livestock Market
FORT WORTH, Sept. 25 (UP) —
1600, calves 900 steady,
and yearlings 8-13.50 Fat
75-9.75. Cutters 475-7.50
7.25-12.50,
1100 steady, top butchers
3ood butchers 13.70-14/70,
sows 13.25-13.75, .
Secretary Navy
Knox Is Visiting
Panama Canal
Washington Office
Calls It Routine
Inspection Tour
BALBOA, C. Z„ Sept. 25 (UP)—
Secretary of the Navy Col. Frank
Knox arrived in the Canal Zone
today on what was announced in
Washington as a routine inspec-
tion trip.
He landed at the Coco Solo na-
val base and, following a recep-
tion at its club, w«s flown to Al-
brook Field by Lieut. Gen. Frank
M. Andrews, U. S. commander of
the Caribbean area,
Knox arrived from the United
States in a huge flying boat. He
was accompanied by Rear Adm.
W. O. Spears, Oapt. Frank Beat-
ty and Rawleigh Warner.
At Albrook Fied Knox was
greeted by . S. Ambassador to
Panama Edwin C. Wilson, Maj.
Gen. Davenport Johnson, com-
mander of the Sixth Air Force,
and other officials. There he re-
viewed a guard of honor.
Knox then was driven to the
residence of Rear Adm.. Clifford
Evans Van Hook, commandant of
the 15th Naval District. He dined
at Van Hook’s home and was to
spend the night there.
The secretary will inspect naval
installations and meet President
Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia of
Panama. He also will hold a press
conference and then have lunch-
eon with Van Hook and Nelson
Rockefeller, co-ordinator of Inter-
American affairs.
WASPS Join List
Of Women Serving
As Auxiliaries
GREELY Colo., Sept. 23 (UP)—
Add the WASPS to the growing
list of nicknames for groups the
ladies are joining these days to
help win the war. ^
Chief of Police C. C. Hunter of
Greeley is organizing a special
women’s police unit which he will
call the Women’s Auxiliary Spec-
ial Police Service—or WASPS.
--o-- East Texas—Little temperature
Consumer expenditures for com- change this afternoon, tonight—
modities during 1942 is estimated intermittent rains in the extreme
by the Department of Commerce south tonight.
Meat Deliveries
To Retailers Will
Be Curtailed
Civilians Askd
To Reduce
Consumption
CHICAGO, Sept. 25 (UP) —
Claude R. Wickard; secretary of
, agriculture, asked civilians today
Seveie icing and electrical storms j ±n 2jmj^ meat consumption to two
Raced the bombers down to a fewj anci a paif p0unds a week to meet
a 21 per cent reduction in whole-
Naval Officer
Says U. S. Is Still
Complacent
Declares We Are
Losing War
At Present Time
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (UP) —
Ralph A. Bard, assistant secretary
of the navy, today assailed the
“pre-Pearl Harbor egotism” of the i
the high command announced to- : hard-pressed farmers get their
daY- ' | crops in before it is too late.
Earlier front line disjp.tches said1 All of the students who went out ed tbat at Ieast 40 Nazi Planes and
Marshal, Semyon Timoshenko’s for-j Thursday were out again Friday' pr°bably considerably more were
ces northwest of Stalingrad had and more joined them to swell the shot down in a f°ur-day running
been heavily reinforced and that small armies in the fields. Some battle which ended with arrival of
they had crashed through the first' of the boys and girls, reporting oni the buIk of the convoy at Russia’s
German defense line on their wayj their first day’s work, declared it! Ar^ic. por*s*
south to relieve the city. “isn’t a picnic, but I’m going I NaZ1 SUbs jomed the battle and
iriie midnight communique said, back until we get through.” ! tW° Were sunk. and Possibly four
Red Army forces “advanced some- One group of boys, none of' the AdmiraRy revealed. Bri
what” in the northwest sector and! whom had ever picked before had' * "aval loSses included the De
that they destroyed 45 tanks and a bale on the way to the gin’by 4 2f°yf ,S°mah and a minesweeper
wiped out a battalion (500 men) I o’clock Thursday. The farmer!
of infantry in repulsing seven coun- \ had been unable to get hands and' u TJje ?°11V0y was spotted Sept. 8
ter-attacks against a height that ; he and his two small boys were1 T reao”nais®ance Planes and
the Russians had captured a short; doing their best' to harvest the1 k° dayS later the runnmg battle
lime earlier. ! crop j Degan-
The Volga river flotilla, joining I Though many of the pickers1 JT of ships that
in the bombardment, destroyed failed to °-et m0re than inn > I;,n tlle Na/1 attach was not
eight German field guns andX! poundstherirstdaysomeD0tS tUmlmlty alr^dy
large group of enemy troops, the'tial skilled ......1____ ______ ____ i 113 sal** tlat the “great majority”
communique said
The high command gave only a
meagei report of the struggle rag-
ing inside the once great indus-
trial city . It said all enemy attacks
were repulsed, that Russian shock
troop guardsmen, armed with, mor-
tars, slew two battalions of Ger-
pickei s were discov- i Df yje convoy
eiecl^as one empryo picker turned Russian ports.
Dispatches' from
vessels docked at
in 120 pounds for his morning’s
effort. Others neared 300 pounds
for the day—good picking at any
time.
Farmers were well pleased with
the spirit of the boys and girls.
United States and called on the j tanks.
, ....... , | “They make up in spirit and num-
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200 Germans and destroyed three! “"t
Moscow indi-
cated the trend of fighting at Sta-
lingrad and adjacent fronts was
running in favor of Russians.
No important Geman gain has
been recorded for a week or 10
days, it was indicated, and front
appeared to be more or less stab-
ilized in ruins of the city of Stalin-
to see so many! grad.
people to start “saying that we I Earlier dispatches, however, re-1 H W(fde11 Willkie returned to Mos-
are losing the war and realizing vealed that the Red Army often-! f l f ' i eally gone at j cow from a visit to the Rzhev front
sive northwest of the city routed 1th b deten™nation that i where he watched the Red Army
the Germans from one village,! S?eSkS WeU for them’ They’re; in action and got so close to the
rimvo ti-mm honir iw +i™ ! Q01n£ a good job.” j actual battle that he could hear
In addition to the boys and; artillery ffire and had to step
girls from town who have gone! around the bodies of fallen soldiers
that we damn well mean it.”
Addressing the Industrial Un-
ion of Marine Shipbuilding Work-
ers of America (CIO), Bard as-
drove them back in the vicinity of j
two others, and was making such;
sailed the idea that Americans are| progress that military experts be
the “peculiar children of for-
tune,” warned that the Axis na-
tions will fight desperately to the
death, and called for a return to
a “standard of democratic ideal-
ism, which means tolerance, hu-
lieved Adolf Hitler might have to-1 !ftC the C0tt0n fields’ the more! r'ot yet amoved
revise
his plan for planting an! tlian 200 rural students in thej Willkie was described as impress-
army on the Volga for the winter.! blgh scl:i001 are setting the pace
These observers said the Germans! f01 cotto--n Pickers. They are
' m their own fields and as they
complete the work there, they
will have to start digging in at j
winter bases by mid-October.
The Germans fared little better
nationwide__coupon meat ration-
ins: _
The reduced deliveries were an-
nounced by the food requirements
committee, which, Wickard as
chairman said, has asked the of-
I capture one populated point in
the Mozdok are^f near the Grozny
oil fields the midnight communique
revealed. At nearby points, Rus-
, mility, sacrifice and understand- .
ale deliveries during the next | 0f the meaning of human dig- \ln Caucasus, although, they did
three months in preparation for \ nity.”
“We government officials have
told you and other groups in re-
cent months that we could lose
the war,” Bard asserted. “But I
suspect that our native
had accepted this line of thought
administration to | as traditional advertising tech-
coupon rationing i niqu.e, the kind of message which
or three months.” I sells hair tonic and cure-alls,
Immediate curtailment of civil- \ full of terror in the first part of
ed with the skill and youth of the
Red Army commanders.
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move into a neighbor’s fields!
and the number of bales of cotton!
going to the gins daily is being |
boosted rapidly.
It was estimated that 100 bales J
were added to the day’s total on
sian artillery and trench motar! Thursday through the work of the
high school boys and girls.
miles south to the great U-boat j jap consumption is needed to off-; the ad, and reassuring in thej
the increased purchasing
power gf the war worker and to
open water by way of the Kiel
canal or the Skaggerak and Kat-
tegat.
Flensburg was last bombed in j meat
July, when RAF planes attacked | said,
its shipyards en route to Danzig! Wickard estimated
prevent deep inroads on the pres-
ent meat supplies now moving to
market which would result in
shortage next summer, he
windup—the ads which say you
are most certainly damned, but
our product can save you.
“It seems to me that our pre-
Pearl Harbor egotism had such
momentum that it is with us to-
| day in distorted and * dangerous
the present i form. We go around saying ‘we
on one of their longest daylight | per capita civilian meat consump- j can lose the war. but—’ we may
flights of the war, involving aj tion at between 140 and 150! as well admit it—every time one
1,750 mile round trip. j pounds annually, or slightly less j of us says we can lose the war
The German radio reported; than three pounds a week,
high explosives and fire-bombs | The American meat institute in j part of the old pep talk,
were dropped on several places in; a statement issued after Wickard’s! “How about, for a change, just
north Germany and Denmark last, nnouncement said the reduction j saying that we are losing the war,
night causing “losses to the popu-
conceit! fire inflicted heavy losses on them,
it said. A single gun crew destroy-
ed 12 German tanks at close range
and one unit of french mortar
men wiped out two battalions of
enemy infantry.
Nine more light German tanks
and a platoon of enemy infantry
were destroyed in the Sinyavino
sector near Leningrad, where win-
ter is fast closing in, the com-
munique revealed.
On all fronts, Russian planes
were credited with destroying 10
German tanks, 15 trucks, two mu-
nitions dumps two field gun bat-
teries, eight anti-aircraft batteries
and part of an infantry battalion
Dispatches from the Northern
Chairman Calls
On Citizens To
Purchase Bonds
State Director
Asks For All-Out
Cooperation
Frank Wright, county chairman
of the war bond and stamp com-
mittee, Thursday received a wire
Ravenna Closes
The Ravenna schols, according
to Luke Wells, one of the school
board, have decided to clase, com-
mencing Monday, to allow the
students to assist in gathering the
money crop of the South—cotton.
Other schools, no doubt, will fall! from Frank Scoffield, war bond
in line with the program adopted! administrator for the state of Tex-
by the Bonham high school, and
soon the cotton crop will be out
of the fields, through the gins
and into bales, ready for the buy-
er.
™ “LTofThisTs pure rhetatej cauca^where" me GeLaTdHves' One CfCW Member
lation.” The Germans also report-
ed 10 planes downed.
The Dutch pilots, flying Amer-
ican-built Lockheed Hudsons,
were believed to have
heavily three medium-sized freig-
hters off the Dutch island of Tex-
el despite brisk fire from escort-
ing anti-aircraft ships.
Three German raiders provided
the frst enemy activity over Brit-
ain in three nights. One was, , „ . .
, , . .. , , .. | veal. 95 per cent of the
shot down as it approached the [
coast. The other dropped a few
incendiaries on the northeast
coast, causing slight damage and a
few casualties.
in meat consumption would! period,” he continued, “and real-
emeunt to an average of “lessjizing that we damn well mean it.
than a bite a day,” and that the j period.
per capita consumption would bej “Such realism, no doubt, would
only seven pounds less per year j be a heart-racking plunge into
damaged than in 1941' i cold water, but it would probably
Wickard said that orders for thej give us an idea of what we are
restricted meat deliveries by pack- j up against.”
err. would be issued within a few| —-o-■
davs by the opA. i 33 Army Trucks
WEATHER
Butcher shops in the next three
months will have only 80 per cent
of the present supply of beef and
present
lamb and mutton and 75 per cent
of the pork.
Will Help Move
Scr?p In Dallas
DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 25 (UP) —
Thirty-three army trucks from
‘The reduction in consumption ] Camp Wolters arrived today to
is not greatly below that of; help assemble the piles of scrap
1930.” he said. “The problem is i. metal and rubber collected by 28
to cut down the abnormal con- civic serpice clubs,
sumption brought about by greater' Members of these clubs this
purchasing power during the war ” | weekend again will tour the streets
This year’s record production.es- i picking up scrap from house-
it.imated at 24.000.000.000 (B) pou-! holders. It is being deposited in
nds must be divided between civil-! 88 school yards.
ians, the U. S. armed forces and i -o--
lend lease, g Euy War Stamps Today.
lagged both before Grozny and on t T * (* ' i
the Black Sea coast below Novo-j LOSCS I ilTB ,/\.S
rossisk, said the Germans were
withdrawing from several occupied
positions in the towering moun-
tains, and that they might aban-
don their plan to force a decision
on that front before winter.
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Strikers Vote To
Return Work In
Aluminum Plant
CLEVELAND, Sept. 25 (UP) —
Strikers at the Aluminum Com-
nany of America plant voted to-
day to return to work pending
settlement of a dispute which
caused a three-day interruption of
production.
Alex Baline, district director of
as, urging him to exert every ef-
fort to send Fannin county over
the top in the purchase of bonds
and stamps for the month of Sep-
tember.
Mr. Scoffield pointed out that
reports as of Sept. 15 indicated
that Texas might fall short of its
September bond quota and called
on Mr. Wright as county chair-
man to exert every effort to put
the county over the top in the
September sales.
Mr. Scoffield said “May I have
your all-out cooperation and as-
surance that your county will not
be the one to fail at this critical
was killed when a medium-! point. Our boys on the battle
United States cargo shlp[ front are not faltering in doing
their duty and certainly we must
strengthen our forces on the home
front and let the nation know
that Texas has met it quota 100
here. per cent.”
Four of a crew of 54 also were Mr. Wright called on Fannin
lost when a submarine torpedoed! county citizens, who have not
and sank a medium-sized Pana-j made their purchase of bonds
manian freighter in mir-Atlantic during September to do so at
Ship Torpedoed
AN EAST COAST PORT, Sept.
25 (UP)—One member of a crew
of 49
sized
was torpedoed and sunk in the
North Atlantic last July, the
Third Naval District announced
j today. Survivors were landed
last August. The attack came
just before dawn, survivors said,
and a rescue craft picked up the
crew almost immediately after
the ship was abandoned.
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once and urged those who have
pledged to buy bonds to do so at
once so that they may be includ-
ed on the September quota.
“The purchase of bonds should
increase now with cotton money
coming in,” Mr. Wright said. , r,
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prs union |(CIO) said the strik- trucks aggregating about 700,000,00' Don’t hoard. Don’t overbuy,
ers would . jegin returning to work miles from growing areas to mar- That is what the enemy wants you
on the 3 p. m shift. fcet. to do, - i
The 1942 crop of fruits and vege-
the mine, mill and smelter wor- tables will require a movement in
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