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DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY X, ItMZ
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Australian Sea
Future Warring
WASHINGTON,
May
•|
president did not
I .
battle of
dar year 1943 "
-
■ •■•ia
moment," Curtin said, and left a ) ferred, a sales tax or lowering *x-
—»« . « **__* ■ — till__i _* _ , "anlixl *"T rlzxr*’* 111** rei _
U. 8 aircraft
the battle.
presumably after
night
He was from Wisconsin
*
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R
reported
forces
were
Red Star sate that 14 raids were
airport in the North last month and
LONDON .May <47— The VI-
the adjacent
BERLIN (Freni German Broad-
V
ed, made it impossible' to dispatch
told his press confer-
y c
_
,w
■
»
BPS.
iue said
had an-
te-
Six Killed in
Louisiana Crash
Wickard Urges
Big Extension
In Synthetic
Rubber Program
Private Killed at
Perrin Field
Could Probably Get
Many Okays to This
Second Nazi Attempt to Drive Into
Soviet Russian Territory Smashed by
Counter-attack With Heavy Losses.
Motorists on
East Seaboard
Due to Get
Little Gasoline
MAY BE MONTHS BEFORE ,
PHILIPPINE LOSSES REVEALED
income tax exemptions
High administration sources said
the good ’uns.
the winners
Laggel
were
invasion of Australia.
United Nations communique* de-
miles from the nearest road
The officers killed, with the rest-
I
units operating
front sectors
tOO Germans tn
Encircle Unit
(The German common
Nail and Finnish troops
nihilated an encircled enemy unit
in Lapland after several days of
I
German camps at the end of 1M1
was 1JUAML These ineladed abate
55.6M aosigned to labor at the tress*.
I ent wrote.
Red Star reported that generally
along the Karelian front Russian
troop* were moving forward stroth
Uy
"a
...■sSS
r
0
Of the more than 50,000 American
and Filipino troops and Naval and
M.' ■ • ■
He later hinted that the regula-
tion planned after July 1 would
be even more stringent
As he SLSlS. Bureau of
'-WbA&V*. zt’ r
I
..&a
’ To I
"He's go
than he's i
situation.
J
3
suggested today
before
in the philip-
ratee te-
—'
Requirement It
Necessary at That
■ s •" t ’
that battlefield.” the mid-day commu-
Following up an announcement
that a wdge. bad Cz.
tween two Invasion arm'
present program for butadiene pro- 1 'n wll<^ Northern tundra.
, duction from grain alcohol so as to '
at the I
seaplane tender and a cargo ship
These figures included Japanese
losses announced late yesterday in
a Washington communique covering
the opening phases of the battle
Monday off the Solomon Islands.
| In which United States forces sank
eight Japanese ships with the loss
of but three planes
Fighting Continues
A Tokyo communique said the
five United Nations warships were
' Heavy
continues.
"Our own lasses are not repbrt-
iedT:..... ..... .....
quoted the newspaper Yo- "left more than 100 bodies on the
today aa reporting that battlefield." the mid-day commu-
will
soon, Dr. F
—(- Th
yeatenday that far families day that
believe their soldier husbands ecteed as
is Crippled by
. Gunners;
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!
.-'.V JU
' J
W Ortmann.
; Edward N
Walters, 23. co-pilot, Odebelt, la.;
George S. Edwards. 25, Lubbock.
Tex.; Thomas 8 Gllam, 27. States-
ville. N C.; and Charles T Wil lock
Jr.. Wintrop, Mass.
The sergeant was Thomas
Numbers. 26. Glendale. Calif;
WALLA WALLA Wash . May
8—(47—"The Society for Elim-
inating the Stranglehold of
Convention on Mankind," has
solicited President Roosevelt's
support for its first official act
The organization submitted
this unanimously endorsed reso-
lution :
"Elimination of necktie wear-
ing in the summer would save
wool, cotton, silk and rayon,
and ties thus made useless could
be reclaimed."
ports of the battle—but he did not
specify whether he referred to last
night's announcement of Monday's
successes or to the second and
greater phase of the engagement
Australia. Satur- *
-<47—Little news ♦
A»<odat«l Prow Lnwd Wire . EIGHT PACKS
CHICAGO, May 8.—(47— A
Red Cross food and nutrition
class instructor gave members
a questionnaire, on which was
this query:
"What, if
background
home
had?"
One woman answered: Have
been eating for many years “
the Japanese fleet*
Silence in both Washington and
Australia, after the initial an-
nouncement. shrouded the progress
of the fight President Roosevelt
canceled his morning press confer-
, t 7 ■
tion of Admiral Chester W Nlmitz's I
main Pacific fleet, stationed at |
Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, was engag-
ed in the battle
If so. this was the first news that
States' great Pacific
At this writing the American,
down the cost of 'living British and Australian units already
today on the heels of a I are reported to have sunk or dam-
aged other Jap xhi|>« in this flve-
As against tills
DENISON, May 8.—(47 —Pvt
Gus A Woynofsky Jr., 19. of Hub-
bard. Tex , was killed last night in
■ n airplane collision at Perrin
Field. The pilot of the other plane,
which was damaged slightly, es-
caped injury.
dt*
rtMri-WWM - Bnd BatlUm
Japan—A Reuter* (BrlMsh news ** permanently listed a* mlaa-
For weeks the War Department
haa been obliged to respond to
thousand of Inquiries from families
of officer* and men by saying that
no Information was available.
Undersecretary Robert P Patter-
son said “this anxiety is easy to
, „„ understand" and assured that any
the tip of invasion-threatened In- tafennatom as to casualties «F
British military quarters said the
(See NAVAL BATTLE, Page 4)
driven
les before long-besieged Lett
the Moscow radio said the
nampaign had enabled the Russian
army "to make disposition for full
development of its own offensive.”
“Spring is more likely to witness
a general offensive by the 1MM
States. Britain and the Soviet Un-
ion on all fronts rather Chan any
with 46,000 tank cars being used to
deliver 040.471 barrels a day. ,
Th* was 13.4 per cent over the
504.710 barrels delivered daUy in
the prevolus seven-day period.
ied his five-yea
Jeannell. Sheuse of motor vehicles to inn serve
tires, and also anticipated the ef-
fect Of restricted deliveries of gas-
oline to distributors tn the Bart
and Pacific Northvwt.
Meanwhile, the office of Petro-
leum Coordinator Ickes reported
that rail movement of oil to the
1
LONDON, May L—<47—Tha Ne-
therbMids new*
ask Congress for a cut in personal day-old conflict.
' Tokvo claims the sinking of five
United Nations vessels, including a
_> and two
of our aircraft carriers, the Sara-
toga and the Yorktown
Australian Prime Minister Cur-
tin today declared that this engage-
ment is of crucial importance to the
whole conduct of the war In the
doubled social security Southwest Pacific That seems like
a fair statement of the position,
for while we do not know the size
— - - ■ * IUMy r«stiy
be that they are large enough so
that domination of the Pacific may
be bound up in the issue That is
Futile Offensive
Germany is pressing a futile aeri-
al offensive against Russia's Par
Northern rail and water communi-
cations in an attempt to isolate the
Soviet Union from the outside
• world, the army newspaper Red
Star said today, and a communique
declared that 500 Nazis had been
wiped out in the northwest
For six weeks, the newspaper said.
German Northern
executed repeated
raids, but the effects have been
I emptlons, replied, "I don't like ei-
| ther." ’ •
! Rep Knutson (R-Minn ), arcto-
_________ I er committeeman. said. '7 You (fen
dared a Japanese aircraft" carrier, bank on it" that Congress would
a heavy cruiser, a light cruiser, I v°l* for a sales tax in preference
two destroyers, four gunboats, a to^ the low exemptions. Rep Reed
transport and a supply ship were ■
—> ■—«i—
Another Japanese aircraft carrier 1
was described as so badly hit that |
a total loss, and
~
Germans Repulsed
at Finland Frontier
“From present prospects we
should have a fine fruit crop." said
Lee Ball. “There is plenty fruit on
the trees now and if everything is I the United
favorable from now on, 1
County should see a good peach
crop."
E P Craig, captain in World Wai
No 1 In the Ground Aviation Divi-
sion. ha* been called for service He
was a Reserve Officer He will
leave Monday for Miami. Florida
where he was ordered to report to
the Ground Aviation Department
patch
minri w _
among the United States officer* | nique reported,
captured In the fall of t'orregidor
Jonathan M.
George F.
commander,
and Brig. Gon. Lewi* Beebe, chief
of Wainwright's staff.
told the committee
iT itettng an
determined.
MMrted that -thii
eeDMtlonal itate" but
WASHINGTON, May (JF>—
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son said today that motoriate on
the Eastern Seaboard, uaing their
car* for non-eeaentlal driving, could
expect no more than three gallon*
of gasoline a week under a govern-
ment rationing system
-I am going to say two, with no
prospects of getting it above three,"
Henderson told newsmen just be-
fore going before the Houee inter-
state commerce committee to tes-
tify on the gasoline and tire situa-
tion
He eaid that thia would apply
to approximately one-third of the
cars—"the car* not used for work
purpoeM.”
Henderson
that the rationing pr
between May U and .
four groups—A, Bl, B
the basic group. A.
amqunt of about 3 1 ,
although he eaM the exact amount
nad not b«n<" ' '
Henderson asserted
might be the eematto
-eaid te would effort ak
of all paaeenger cars in the ral
ing area. He said it would ■
only to those care that are not
"for voeattonol dr n*r*aeery
roeee" and eetimated that •
13 per cont ort all available ng
near Doug!
and fatally
daughter, (
today.
WASHINGTON. May 8—(45—
The long Japanese delay In report-
ing the names of American prison-
ers taken in the early stages of
' the war suggested today that
a menace capable i months may elapse before those
.. captured or killed
nln» *
i In the latest stages. Allied war-
ships were officially credited with
sinking a Japanese aircraft carrier
and a heavy cruiser and badly
I'*-
would go to that claeoiftratfcio.
Under questioning by committee
members as to tee need far cutting i
"non-eseential" motorists to two
gallons a week, Henderson suddenly
i the basis of 15 miles
Wholesale ai'd retail grocerymen
of Denlot County will meet this
Friday night at U>e City Hall audi-
torium in response to an invitation
of the Ration Bea d Explanation
and discussion of the sugar stanjl»
and certificates will be given Wil-
burn Pearson and Bill House of the
Monroe-Pearson Wholesale Grocery
Co. attended the meeting In Dal- .
las this week when a general dis- I
cussion of the rationing was had I
and they'll be present at the meet- I
ing to tell what they learned at
tiie Dallas conference
i--------------------------------
Many Drastic
Proposals As
Inflation Bar
i Made in Capital
WASHINGTON, May 8. -0F>- A I sia
i host of new and drastic proposals
! to keep
emerged
| sudden decision by the treasury to
Outcome Unknown
Information made public up un-
til noon today certainly gave no
basis for any conclusion as to the
outcome
The running battle apparently
started Monday off the Solomon
Islands and swept westward to the
Coral Sea. flaming across hundreds j
of miles ofathe South Pacific
First reports indicated it far ex-
ceeded in scope i
Tills was the second enemy at-
tempt to drive into this sector of
Karelia. In the first, near the out-
break of the war. a Finnish bat-
talion of 1,200 men supported by
two German companies crossed the
frontier in the same general region
| but were driven back to Finland
by a Russian counter attack
Pravda said the sector remained
! relatively quiet throughout the win-
ter The new thrust. Pravda said,
apparently was left entirely to Oer-
■ man troops.
Tlie Communist party paper said
the Nazis sprung' their new assault
At Least I 3 Jap Warshipi
British, Australian, U. S.
Tokyo Claims 5 Allied Ship Losses.
— --------------— fo(tw to that
dq new* to good newa.” - ftteCttekyi
■-•i- ' ■g’’* - •• -L., . . - . . . . Zk.. .
substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of I
things not seen - Hebrews 11-11
AU I have seen teaches me
— ’ I .... - ... . ....__, __MIS* rwu UWVCUICUI IM UU W MW
States bitter fighting, killing 1,400. Other a record tart wort-
t;— 1 *>•—-force* were reported ----- -
lined in the Csribbean ares, the smashed on the Murmansk front.
Navy announced today, and surviv- the official German account said.)
nr* have been landed at an East , Red Star Mid that 14 raid* were
Coast port. I carried out against five German
airport in the North last month and
„ that the bombing* were contlnu-
chv radio reported fighting still was in«- In the last two days, 43 Ger-
I . . _ I -«-------—AS—wuw rt- B
strayed in the Northern fighting
alone
.. „ , United States and British sup-
liner Drottningholm plies have been flowing in increa*-
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press W*r Editor
Allied and Japanese warships fought to the death to-
m | day in a tnammoth five-day-old liattle in the Oral Sea, north-
N e w s, east of Australia, in which American, British and Australian
I gunners have already sunk or crippled at least 13 enemy war-
I chi riu
i'll' i 0 »■■*>*
••
DENTON RECORD-CHRONICL*
"I don’t know what's happening
up at the gas and oil well." said
Henry C. Taliaferro, one of the in-
terested parties in the development ence and the War and Navy De- j
in the Bolivar area "Every time
we thought we’d get to work, the
rain stopped us. and it's still mighty
muddy around the test."
sunk or damaged May 6. 7 and to- !
day ; vausr QI me crusn was noi imme- '*ns iirni.ii n uum, mivaiv w >*“
Gen MacArthur's headquarters. Stately J^ned. The plane struck the Nipponese conquests Not only
spectacular
Mac Arthur s »■... •
reporting spectacular American 1 Bn.d burned In a spot two
successes in the second phase of ■
the bctiJc. presumably after it
reached the Coral Sea yesterday. | fences of their fathers. wereSecond ,
announced: ’* * ** *' **
naval and
clear implication that an Allied de- I
feat might well lead to a Japanese i
invaxirm nf AiiKtraHa
MOSCOW, May 8.— (AP)—A German spring offensive
intended to smash across the Karelian frontier from Fin-
land at three points has been repulsed, battlefront dispatches
rejiorted today.
A dispatch to Pravda “from the
said the German.*
Russian territory
FATAL
♦ she was
and perhaps rivaled in magnitude cruiser, a light cruiser, a 9.000-ton
the historic battle of Jutland, on ' ' J --J -
May 31 1916 between the British
and German grand fleets
(■aim five Losses
Imperial Tokyo headquarters
claimed a toll of five United Na-
| tions warships, including the slnk-
J ing of a U. S battleship of the 32,-
1 600-ton California class, the 33.000-
ton U S aircraft carrier Saratoga
and the 19.900-ton " ~ '
carrier Yorktown
In addltipn, Tokyo asserted, a
British battleship of the 30,600-ton
Warspite type was heavily damag-
ed. perhaps sunk, and an Australian
WIRE BRIEFS
WASHINGTON, May A —UP>—
Two medium-ateed United C_.
merchant veaael* have been terpe- Russian
area, C— . —
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Crowder of
Cleveland. Ohio, were in Denton
Wednesday en route to Abilene, to
be present at the Golden Wedding
Anniversary of his father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs L. F Crow-
der, which will be celebrated Mon-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Crowder, for-
mer Denton residents for many
yean, left Denton in 1907 for Abi-
lene. where he was and still is in
t)»e cotton business For many
years, he was a cotton merchant
in Denton.
Ted Crowder left Denton 18 years
ago. moving to Cleveland. Ohio,
where he is associated in the pic-
ture show business and has been
active in that line of work for a
good many years. He recalled with
pleasure toe “old D. A. C. Days",
and enjoyed seeing some of the pic-
tures of those oldtimers Mr*.
Crowder to a native of Ohio, and
hag lived in or near Cleveland all
her life.
Ted said, "There are eleven liv-
ing children In our family, and I'm
in hopes that most of them can be
preeent; however, come are serving
with the U. 8. forwe and I f—
they wont be home for the cele-
A new family recently moving to
Denton Is that of Mr and Mrs
Arthur T Curl, who came here
from Dallas, and are living in the
Dr. Bert E Davis home at 2020 Bell
Avenue Mr. Curl is a representa-
tive of the Griffin Grocery Co of
Dallas and will make Denton his
headquarters
-It appeared that at least a sec- "7O .lr " r^'yr
; . j . i .. . damaging anotner aircraft carrier
♦ Inn r\f Admiral ac ♦ ***■ V1J Mimiiv'c
| and a heavy cruiser.
• While the Allies appeared to have
I won a decisive edge so far. the
I Japanese navy office claimed its
j navy had scored “brilliant achieve-
I ments in the Coral Sea east of Aus- I
I tralia on an Anglo-American com-
| captured In the 1
i were Lieut. Gen.
Wainwright, PMBl .
er; Major General
Moore, 4'orregMor
“What did you think of the big
fight last night. Bill?" asked the
sailor of his pal
"Fight?" returned Bill, scorn-
fully. "If the missus and me had
put on a show like that on a Satur-
day night, the kids would ave
boo'ed us."
inres area rather than having the
bus stop to pick them up at Just
any old place, it will help the traffic
situation mightily Thq^*ns have
It wax also the biggest naval en-
i gagement in all American history
»4»»44♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦4
I SYDNEY.
♦ day, May 9
♦ of the great naval battle being ♦
♦ fought in the .seas east of Aus- ♦
♦ tralia can be expected until ♦
♦ the engagement ends. Austral- ♦
+ lan quarters said today. Allied ♦
♦ headquarters lias had only ♦
♦ brief flashes from the United ♦
♦ States sea forces on which to ♦
♦ base its communiques thus far. ♦
♦ but these have been enough to ♦
♦ show that enemy concentre- ♦ sunk.
♦ tions suffered heavy damage ♦
J from tile American navy ♦
* -'
The tournament committee of the
Denton Country Club announced
that an eighleen-hola blind tour-
nament will be held at the Club
this coming Bunday afternoon,
starting at about 1:30 o'clock All
members are invited to take part in
this tournament, as it will be a
handicap affair, thereby giving the j cruiser of the 10,000-ton Canberra
poorer players equal chance with j type was damaged and may have
Prizes will be given \ gone down
In London, the admiralty quickly ;
----- | denied that the Warspite or any
’ other British battleship had been
sunk or damaged in the Coral Sea
Use Honolulu Fleet
On the basis of the Japanese
claim — which completely lacked I
confirmation from any Allied source |
quest for comment: "Government
official* are much elated over the
preliminary report* and are eager-
ly seeking every fait relating to
(he entire battle which ha* been
raging between the opposing fleets."
sei was sunk and two others were
damaged
The fateful struggle, still raging,
I appeared by all accounts to be the
I great naval battle of the new
I World Wai
*..c ui .us .uvua-Hi irmiuiM 8Bld Or ,<*en PW 1«M UtaO ttta •«-
nlane fl e mite, w h of p*,lun‘ °f Genn.n offenalve tual demand in May tart N*r .
Tex was dtectored tart night T?^ evidenced by toe arrival tai* The ertimated tecreroe, to. ta-
aeddent occurred late Wednertiay week 1 ’**“ r«*rtct«1
night He was from Wisconsin 8*™ from the ice-free Arctic port use of motor vehicle, to COOWW
of Murmarwk..
= GREAT NAVAL BATTLE RAGES
I ...... *
' HERE'S A PROBLEM FOR SERI-
OUS CONSIDERATION .
4 TOPEKA. Kan., May « —-(Ju; ♦
4- —State Sugar registration offi- ♦
♦ cials seriously are considering ♦
♦ u Lebo farmer's request for a ♦
♦ new ration card. ‘ZZ, ___Z
I ♦ the first one." said a nbte ac- ♦
I ♦ companying the request ♦
partments announced there would
be no morning communiques The
words of Prime Minister Curtin in
Australia, that loss of the battle
would not decide the war, were
open to two Interpretations—that
he was warning hi# country of the
possibility of a greater fight against
an Invader, or that he was prepar-
ing the ground for later announce-
ment of bad news. .
More Jap Strength
For the week, the Allies had a
preponderance of victorious claims,
but for the period since their de-
feat of Monday the Japanese made
claims of successes which. If true,
might mean they had brought up
great additional strength and, in
the later stages of the battle, was
recouping
The Japanese claim of three cap-
ital ships sunk, one damaged and
possibly sunk and a crutoer damag-
ed or sunk. If verified, cast a grave
shadow over Allied hopes in the
second phase of the battle.
The British side of toe available
jficture lay tn the reliable British
admiralty'* denial regarding the
Wamplte and in toe fact that Jap-
anese claim, of ship sinkings, m-
pecially with regard to aircraft car-
riers, have proved totally fata, time
after time.
The only wort from Washington
fear was a statement by Secretary Hull
—** * that American officialdom was
“much elated" over preliminary re-
the four sides of the square and to
the bicycle racks, saying. "If bus-
riders will get on or off the busses
at the various stops around the bus-
1 badly damaged a non-combat ves-
W ASHINGTON. May 8.—i4’e-
„ Secretary of State Hull said today
been placed for that purpose and I he and his colleagues in the gov-
11 the riders will cooperate there eminent were “much eisted" over
" ' —;---‘i which have
come to them on the great naval
battle of the Coral Sea. He made
Carrollton: Hubert Lagget and
Miss Sue P McKainy were mar-
ried here Wednesday, Elder J
Myers officiating — Dallas
Fifty year Ago Column
Glen Lanford, Traffic Officer of ! ships.
the City Police Force, directs at- I United Nations headquarters an-
tentton to toe bus-stop sign* around I nounced that nW Japianese war-
. were KUng including an air-
I craft carrier, two cruisers, two de-
stroyers and tour gunboats
Four other enemy warships were
WASHINGTON. May 8 -(47— state border"
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard withdrew from
urged today a sharp extension in i with heavy losses
Hie government's program of mak- I
Ing synthetic rubber from grain al- |
cohol produced from surplus wheat '
and corn
Suggesting the use of at least |
80 000,000 bushels of grain, he said
this quantity would make about
200.000.000 gallons of alcohol, which
in turn would produce sufficient
butadiene to make about 240,000
tons of synthetic rubber, or about
one-third of normal needs of the
country.
Wickard's recommendation was
made before a Senate agriculture
subcommittee Investigating uses of
farm crops in the production of al- , last month,
cohol and synthetic rubber
Telling of research activities, the j
secretary said:
"After full discussions with mem-
bers of my technical staff, I am
convinced that Immediate attention J
Yesterday's maximum tempera-
ture was only 66 with a minimum
54. A year ago the maximum was
twenty degree higher with 86 and
a low 54
going *on In Madagascar at 7 p. m. tnan plane* were estimated as de-
tonight, | **■ ■" *-•-*«
WASHINGTON, May <47— :
Thf* MwmIIbIi l* _ ** •—« — I
wan on II* way to Liston today with 1 ing quantity into Murmansk in re-
more than M4 Axis official* and *
national* to be exchanged for
North and South American official* ; North western
and national*.
Location* Unnuned
The specific location of the battle
on the long Karelian border was
not disclosed The terrain was de-
_._v , scribed, however, as covered with
should be given to expanding the ! RwafnPa lakes and hills, apparently
present program for butadiene pro- ' Northern tundra.
• - . ... | Three German battalion* re port-
make”po(rtbie*gre'ater production of I *0 to have penetrated acrom the
synthetic rubber during the calen- j
dar year 1943 "
Wickard *akl large stocks of grain 1 th«y entered Russian territory, toe
were available 1 “•'<
"Tn fact, it is likely that thou-
j sands of bushels of w.ieat will be
By l>eWITT MacKENZ.IE
Wide World War Analyst
The great naval battle which is
being fought between Allied and
1 Japanese fleets across the Coral
Sea east of Australia is still too
young for us to Judge of its |xxs-
i sible effects, but we can see the
fundamental strategy which preci-
' piloted it— that 1* to nullify the
i effectiveness of Australia as a Uni-
ted Nations base and thereby pro-
tect Nippon's conquests in Indone-
any, educational
in nutrition or
economics have you
to the low exemptions.
iR-NY> agreed, remarking. "You
1 can get too low on exemptions and
! possibly ruin a segment of society."
i Doughton said it was not likely
heavy ! that any major decisions would be
damage was inflicted on heavy j reached today "We might pray
--- over this Saturday and Sunday."
he remarked
Marine Corps personnel estimated
to have been captured, met death or
suffered wounds, specific reports
have been received thus far on only
a few hundred __ —
Two list* of American prisoners sued heer today said the number
and interned civilian* forwarded by of French war prisoner* told ta
toe Japanese thus far through the “ “ - - ——
International Rad Crow commit-
tee at Geneva total but 339 None
was listed as captured in the Phil-
ippine*.
Radio communications that were
“strained to toe utmost” by mili-
tary neceaaitie*. Patterson explain- era had
mrd Id iw*n^toU< dlamaix*^ t ao
inquiries to military headquarter*
on beleaguered Corregldor a* to
whether any Individual was safe or
otherwise.
Patterson
Nullify Power
It seems doubtful to me that the
Japanese were bent on wholesale
j invasion of Australia The probabil-
ities are that they have been alm-
I ing (1 > at the Cutting of American
| communications with Australia so
a* to prevent our delivery of sup-
plies and troops, and (2) i
possible occupation of some strate-
gic points on the north coast of
i Australia, or at least rendering the
positions impotent These opera-
tions would tend to nullify Austra-
lia's striking power against the
Japanese left flank in the South-
west Pacific and permit the Nippo-
nese to consolidate their widespread
’ civilian need7 for rubber. Wickard
; said that unless tires were avail-
able. particularly next year and
thereafter, crop production would
j tie considerably hampered and the
i movement of farm product* to
processors and consumer* would be
seriously threatened.
| The secretary "“.id the process of
converting 95 per cent alcohol to
butadiene was technically estab-
lished. although to hl* knowledge
I it had not heretofore been used on !
a commercial basks in this coun-
try •
VICHY. France. May 8—<Jf>-
Figure* «f Gsriaan arigin but ta-
the reinforced
squadron* had
pwiiHw Htlf IHm
slight and 64 enemy
MacdUl Bomber
Missing on Flight
TAMPA. Fta. M*y 3.—VW-A
MacDUl Field ha*vy bomber with
10 Army men aboard, two at them
passenger*, was listed as missing
today by MacDUl Field officials
The plane left MacDUl Wsdnew-
day morning on a routine training
flight.
The crew included:
Second Lteut Hugh W. Mfln*,
23. pilot. Houefeon. Texas.
EXPLODING^GASOLINE
grad, pouring into his car at hie ta
influential admin -
—: uiuthioii leader*, before President
“'YJ.. * Roosevelt sent his “cost of living
' tnesuge" to congress last week. The | to say. should either side suffer a
' president did not mention these dlsasterous defeat, it might mean
. items, but promised further tegls- the passing of naval control to the ,
I lative recommendations, "if nee- oilier
essary." , |
That promise started to take
shape yesterday when Secretary of
f Henry Morgenthau.
reversing a previous stand, asked
the House ways and means commit-
tee to cut personal exemptions. He
suggested that the Income exemp-
tion for a single person be cut from
*750 to *600 for a family head
I from *1.500 to *1.200. for a depend-
ent from *400 to *300
1 Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of
of the engagement will be at this - toe committee asked which he pre-
Coral Sea Struggle
Now iri Fifth Day
, . ---- J
1
' 1
parlkulu c—nnan" It
■Md. _______________ • - ;.
Arrest Soldier
At Camp Shelby
I tote*gMlssseed to droth far r .
mu* cate* ta Amaterdasa
" ' * CAMP BHRLBT, Mtaa, May 3z-
MaJcr James OsateeL provost
——mu— returning from a furlough.
. ■
A sharp upward trend In Texas
business will likely be resumed
Buechel, assistant 1
director of the University of Texas '
Bureau of Business Research, pre-
dicted
Industry and trade in Texas con-
tinue at a high level noted over a
period of many months, .he ^aid,
but the interruption of the sharp
upward trend first shown in Feb-
ruary would continue through
March. The composite index of |
the Texas business picture ax drawn
by the Bureau increased slightly |
from February to March. Dr Bue- I
chel said, with all components ex- i
cept runs of crude oil to still and !
electric power consumption show- I
ing gains Compared with March. |
>1941, the index rose more than 28 1
points, or 26 per cent
will cooperate there eminent were “much elated"
will be less congestion in the bust- | preliminary reports
ness areas Too, some of the boys '“ “ “
and girls are not using the bicycle
racks, but just go off and leave this reply to a pre** conference re-
their bicycles on the sidewalks or 1 ‘ '
lawn. I ask each bicycle user Io
put his bike In the rack "
frontier were hurled back onto Fln-
i nish soil within a short tone after
1 they entered Russian territory, the
, dispatch to Pravda said
"Thus, inglorloualy. ended this
- ------- W1„ spring visit in which toey placed
lost through lack of juitabh stor- , _Y?pe"'' ’*«*«»•* correspond-
age space unless they can be put
to use quickly.”
Emphasising the war a.* well as
I VICTORIA. May 8 -(47 —The
death of Richard E Jacques, 21,
aviation cadet at Foster. Field, in
will this base in time become l»}e crash Of hl. advanced training
strong enough to foster an all-out. [
major offensive against the Jap- !
anese. but it already has established
a menace to Japanese sea commu- ;
nlcations between the mother coun- '
; try and the occupied territories
As Rear Admiral Harry E Yar-
nell. U S N.. (retired), remarked j
' yesterday In a speech in New York. )
1 Japan's greatest vulnerability is
these sea communications Not only !
are the lines terribly long, but the ■
Japs are very short of merchant. [
shipping and every vessel sent to
the bottom is a real victory for the '
Allies. Already the Allies have taken :
a heavy toll of Japanese transports '
and cargo ships
conquwtte
Of course a Japanese victory in
the sea-battle now waging might
bring about a complete change In
Japanese tactics They might be
encouraged to undertake operations
which up to this Juncture haven't
been feasible, including a major In-
vasion of Australia
Consolidate Empire
However, prior to the opening of
this battle of the Coral Sea the in-
dications were that the Japanese
I were pursuing the logical course of
I trying to consolidate the vast new
empire which they had stolen. The
I Jap Is wily, and Is quite aware of . . ,
the danger of letting greed per- /iVUltlOn (Xldet
suade him to keep on reaching out
for new territories until he ha.* !* >//>>// sv*
__________________________'over-extended himself IV II Oft in irUSIl
sergeant from Esler Field died ye.*- j Japan's greatest worry has been: ------
it
' ’ | Lieutenants Nerton
air fighting ^3. pilot, Clinton. Wis.;
• Ufnllne. OO Z*
Battle Crucial to
"My goat ate ♦ I
cent week*
Red army
on
ixorwiweavem iron* aocMm have
wiped out 500 German* tn two
| days' fighting, and a Nasi oounter-
attack on toe adjacent Kalinin
cart*). May A—(47—A Tekyo dto- front was repulsed and toe enefay
a German
chargee at taoMat tote a feefl-
emrirei sffiee.
' ____________ '' *
Pee-te* Froasi, May L
va toetage.atator
flaaffi far
ALEXANDRIA. La . May 8 —(47—
Five second lieutenants and a staff
ox-tgvaiiL num rjrtiri F iria Ult*a yrs- ueipeui B gtcatrav wuuj UM uvrii
terday in the crash of a bomber 12 the rapid growth of American pow-
miles east of here : er in the Australian base, for this
Cause of the crash was not imme- has created a direct threat to all
t more
of toe
BIIUBUOO. tin me ouu or 10 mure
, —.—-------, planes have I to a gallon he can drive 30 miles.”
| been destroyed or damaged over —- •-*— *-*—‘‘ **---
Murmansk alone.
! The Russian air force ia striking
back heavily and ha* forced toe
Germans to shift their northern Mine* e*t(meted that total demand
airNbMM 10 for?motor furi^to May^would^be^at
or seven par oent, leee than toe ac-
Denton I squadron had set out to challenge J
j blned fleet.”
Imperial Tokyo headquarters said
Japanese warships "discovered and
caught" a powerful Allied naval
force on May 6 southeast of New
Guinea Island.
Cripple Cruiser
"Attacking them May 7. they in-
stantly sank a United States bat-
tleship of the California type and
seriously crippled a British 'A' class
cruiser of the Canberra type and
heavily damaged a British battle-
ship of the Warspite type." the
communique said
“The attack is still being con-
tinued."
Tokyo made no mention of the
earlier action off the Solomon Is-
lands.
“Thi* battle will not decide the
war.” Prime Minister Curtin said.
But, he added, "it will determine
immediate tactic* which will be
pursued by ourselves and tjw com-
mon enemy.
“Invasion is l _ , -
hourly of becoming an actuality " | c*Ptored or killed
Other Development* i P'™* ytl1 ” known
Other major developments in the . Many who fell in the heroic
world-wide picture included: | f*^°f ..Bnd.
ub^isui--o (svuvvio koasvaoas uvwo i
agency) dispatch from Chungking i „ z
reported that toe Japanese were
rushing troops into Manchukuo and
were preparing to attack Russian
Siberia some tone next month.
India -With the battle of Burma
virtually etided. London dtecloeed
that. British reinforcements have
landed on toe Island of Ceylon, off :
that since one of the purposes of | United States battleship
the anti-inflation program was to
"soak up" excess purchasing power
that might be used to bid up prices, i
consideration had been given to '
such ideas as a Federal retail sales
tax tin addition to all other tax
increases >.
taxes, and compulsory purchases of I
war bonds
These steps were advocated pri- 1 of the fleets involved, it may easily
vately by some
istration leaders
the great battle of the Java Sea. | ” " T.”
two months ago. in which Ja;>anese |
successes paved the way for the
conquest; pf Java
All Australia waited tensely for I
news to be flashed on the outcome,
realizing that the fate of the com- i
mon wealth may hinge on Allied vic- the Treasury
tory or defeat -------■— - .
Australia's Prime Minister John )
Curtin declared gravely that the l
action was of crucial Importance to
the whole conduct of the war in j
the Far Pacific Zone commanded
by Gen Douglas MacArthur
Presihle Jap Invasion
"Nobody can tell what the result
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