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for a camel ride while off duty wave God-speed as a Flying Fortress
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over the Chesapeake and Albermarle Canal near Norfolk, Va., was
open. Hence a Southern freight locomotive ended up in the canal
like this when it plunged through the open bridge and into the wa-
ter. Three trainmen were injured, the engineer critically.
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2 NOTES COMPARED AFTER FLIGHT — After alighting from
their planes—their bombing mission completed—pilots and crew
members compare notes at their African air base. Left to right, they
are: Lt Oscar M. Coe, Houston, Tex., the bombardier; LL John L.
Pitts, Glen Ridge, N. J. pilot; Capt. Thomas K. Taylor, St Louis,
Me., pilot, and Lt Edward R. Neff, Miami, Fla, pilot
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number of tanks destroyed in
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Ilmen a Gedman offensive opera-
tion made in order to shorten the
front reached prearranged ob-
jectives in spite of difficult ter-
rain conditions”
(The communique said that
quiet prevailed yesterday on the
southern and central sectors of
the front.)
Scouting Operations
Soviet fighters on the western
front pushing slowly into the
German positions on the distant
approaches about Smolensk,
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Republican, said the gift vr"
made in appreciation of servisee
Phillips had performed the state
armed and alone in Jap territory,
I met one of Tojo’s favorite ma-
ri ne shock troopers at a distance
of 10 feet,” Roger Tower, 29, navy
pharmacist’s mate, wrote his par-
ents from Guadalcanal.
“I borrowed his rifle and bay-
onet ...”
He inclosed a picture of the Jap
flag he took from the body.
Would Ask Probe
Of’Senate Election
OKLAHOMA CITY, Mar. 31 (P)
State Senator Bill Logan intro-
duced in the senate today a reso-
lution asking congress to investi-
gate the election of United States
Senator E. H. Moore.
Logan said congress would be
requested to look into Moore’s
campaign expenditures and de-
termine whether the federal cor-
rupt practices act had been vio-
lated.
Former Governor Leon C. Phil-
lips testified before a legislative
investigating committee Monday
that Moore, whom Phillips sup-
ported in his senate race, gave
him $5,000 last December, a
month after Moore defeated the
New Deal senator. Josh Lee. He
said it was for work yet to be
done.
At Washington, Moore, an anti-
New Deal Democrat, elected as a
Allied Bombers Off
New Guinea Coast
tax year beaten
ted majority of
“threw the
Axis Airdrome Attacked
Light and medium bombers
from the desert air force also
made a heavy attack on El Maou
airdrome to the north near Sfax.
Night, bombers were reported
particularly active in the north
where they attacked enemy de-
fense positions.
Spitfire squadrons shot down
two Messerschmitts, and War-
USO Building
Contract Awarded
WASHINGTON, Mar. 31 (A—
The Public Buildings administra-
tion today awarded a $76,422 con-
tract to the United Construction
company of Dallas, for a recrea-
tion building and equipment at
Gainesville, Texas.
The project is to be completed
in 100 days.
(The building is to be used for
USO activities.)
land, and
irook of Gainesville, raid.
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would end the session at the 120th I
day, the constitutionally sug-!
gested length.
The rules committee has a sec- J
ond adjournment proposal for
May 1 but has not acted upon it.
then lost in bad
statewide proration hearing to
receive testimony upon which to
base the May oil order, will be
. By CHARLES MOLONY
WASHINGTON, March 31 (A)
-Tens of thousands were brought
closer to military service today
under a seven-point, semi-com-
pulsory manpower action de-
signed primarily to relieve a
shortage of 50,000 dairy workers
but capable of being extended’ to
all agriculture and essential in-
dustry.
The program, announced by
President Roosevelt late yester-
day, hinted broadly at the pos-
sible drafting of farm-experi-
enced men now deferred because
of age or minor physical dis-
abilities if they refuse dairying
jobs.
It also changed the system of
releasing soldiers 38 years or old-
er so that in the future they can
be channeled into and kept at
jobs in essential industry and ag-
riculture, subject to recall by the
army upon request of the War
Manpower Commission.
To Avoid Compulsory Control
The president’s announcement,
coming as draft boards were
poised to begin, tomorrow the re-
classification of registrants still
in non-deferable jobs, gave em-
phasis to his recent declaration
that he would seek to avoid di-
rect and compulsory job-control
as long as possible.
Spring Thaws
Keeping Soviet
Front Inactive
Almost Week Has
Gone By Without
Big Scale Operation
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, March 31 (P) —The
spreading spring thaw has
brought still worse weather con-
ditions to the long Russian front
and the Soviet midday commu-
nique today again opened with
its monotonous keynote: “No es-
sential changes occurred on the
fronts.”
Almost a week has gone by
now that do major-scale activi-
ties have been waged in the bat-
tle areas, although there still are
repeated sharp clashes in vari-
ous sectors.
(The German high command
stated today that Russian thrusts
on the Kuban bridgehead and
southwest of Vyazma were re-
BOMBS FIND THEIR MARK—Flying Fortress cameramen re-
turned to their North Africa base with visible proof of damage
wrought by U. S. bombs on the docks at Palermo, Sicily, a vital sup-
ply port for the axis forces in Tunisia. The docks were jammed
with supplies and the basins with shipping. The docks are approxi-
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WASHINGTON, March 31 (A
The navy announced today that
United States army bombers had
again blasted Japanese installa-
tions at Kiska in the Aleutian is-
lands. This was the 29th raid of
the month on Kiska. All U. S.
planes returned safely from the
PORTLAND, Ore.
Minn.) GOP strategy chief in the
tax scrap, said Republicans
might swing in behind a compro-
mise to abate a substantial por-
tion of one year’s taxes.
And in the senate, a small bloc
—reinforced by fresh charges
supplied by organized labor-
Dressed anew for a probe of the
Maritime Commission despite an
overwhelming 70-vote approval
of President Roosevelt’s nomina-
tion of Commission Chairman
Land to a new six-year term.
Some of the parts of a torpedo
must be accurate within a limit
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Proposal Adopted in
House Monday Only
After Heated Debate
AUSTIN, March 31 (P—With-
out debate, the senate today ap-
proved a house resolution invit-
ing Senator W. Lee O'Daniel to
address a joint session of the leg-
islature at his convenience.
The house approved the resolu-
tion inviting the former Texas
governor, 89 to 30 Monday after
heated debate. No record vote
was taken in the senate.
Passed 24 to 0 by the senate
was the house resolution submit-
ting a constitutional amendment
to authorize commissioners courts
to reallocate county taxes by
changing the rates.
The reallocations must be ap-
proved by the voters of each
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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 31, 1943
the allies lost seven aircraft, the
communique said.
(The Italians, in their commu-
nique, admitted that "violent
new attacks” had been made, by
the allies yesterday, but the Ger-
mans said the attacks had slack-
ened somewhat in' view of deter-
mined resistance.
(Round about reports, how-
ever, suggested that Rommel had
no intention of stopping his re-
treat for a good many miles. One
such report by the London Daily
Mail's correspondent in Madrid
said that Rommel had ordered
the destruction of Sfax harbor,
70 miles north of Gabes, and that
many installations already were
in flames. There was no con-
firmation of the report, however-
(Another report from the Al-
giers radio last night said the
British navy had put a force
ashore at Sfax to cut off Roru-
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, March 31 (AP).—With the Rumi plan
rejected and Maritime Commission Chairman Emory S.
Land's renomination confirmed, congress took a back seat on
the capital stage today—leaving the spotlight on post-war
problems, new manpower regulations, rubber and food pro-
duction and farm and truck prices.
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"fence on current and post-war
issues was projected into the
very near future by President
Roosevelt, although any spe-
cific data as to where or when
it will be held and who will
attend remained undisclosed.
Mr. Roosevelt made it dear
that he and British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden, in
consultations which ended
yesterday, had cut the pat-
tern for additional talks
among various members of
the united nations.
On the same subject, some
members of a senate foreign re-
lations subcommittee expressed
puzzlement at what they called
comparative public apathy to-
ward post-war issues as they as-
getting as much of one year’s
taxes abated pulsed. South f Lake Ladoga
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The commission also announced
that R.. L. Westbrook of Cooke
county, had been named deputy
supervisor of the railroad com-
mission’s Midland office.
Westbrook, who has been em-
ployed in the commision's Pam-
pa office, will succeed S. Ross
Carr, resig
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the communique said, despite
the hastily erected defenses that
had been encountered.
The Americans of Lieut* Gn.
George S. Patton, Jr., battering
their way eastward into Rom-
mel’s flank from their Gafsa
base, continued their advance
through minefields, the commu-
nique announced.
Prisoners were taken in the
smash through Gen. Jurgen Von
Arnim's northern positions.
Sedjenane Recaptured
The recapture of Sedjenane
marked up an advance of nearly
14 miles for the British from
Djebel Abiod. Sedjeanane is only
about 35 miles from Bizerte, the
Tunisian naval base.
Allied air power continued to
be exerted strongly, the commu-
nique said—following up the an-
nouncement of the British and
American air forces yesterday
that it would follow “non-stop
annihilation tactics” once Mar-
shal Rommel’s lines break.
Light bombers, fighters and
fighter-bombers continuously at-
tacked concentrations of Rom-
mel’s troops and vehicles and
made a severe attack on La Fau- -
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Land Confirmed as
To Be Sunk Maritime Chieftain
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Reports from the field indi-
cated the actual attack had been
carried out by a single fortress
which had used flares to light
the target
The Japanese have used de-
stroyers before when hevy al-
lied air opposition made employ-
ment of merchant vessels too
costly.
The location of yesterday’s at-
tack was in the same area in
which allied fliers blasted a 22-
ship Japanese convoy—10 war-
ships and 12 transports—in the
first week of March, sinking the
entire flotilla with a loss of 15,-
000 Nipponese troops.
Finschhafen is on the Huon
peninsula of northern New
Guinea, 60 miles above Lae, an
important Japanese base.
Finschhafen Attacked
As a sequel, allied heavy, me-
dium and attack planes began an
assault at dawn on Finschhafen
which caused heavy damage and
many fires in the dock area, the
communique reported.
The official report, of the con-
voy attack, declared the Japa-
nese war vessels were last seen
steaming away from this objec-
tive, and added: .
“It is believed that any at-
tempt to deliver supplies failed.”
•The air base at Lae itself was
bombed by allied heavy units
and the town area of Salamaua,
the biggest Japanese base in the
area, 25 miles to the south, also
was bombed, the communique
said.
The bulletin also reported that
a single allied heavy reconnais-
sance plane over the Bismarck
sea between New Guinea and
New Britain, to the east, was at-
tacked three! times by Japanese
squadrons numbering up to nine
planes, and shot four of them out
of combat in running dogfights
while returning safely to its
base.
A wide ranging series of at-
tacks on Japaneses positions.in-
eluded the dropping of 1,000-
pound bombs on runways and in-
stallations at the airfield at Ga-
mata. New Britain, and mi at-
tack on the Madang area of New
Guinea, where barges and per-
sonnel were strafed.
Jap Planes Damaged
On the Burma-India front,
RAF fighter planes were re-
ported to have damaged 13 of
22 Japanese bombers and fight-
ers attempting to attack an al-
lied air base in Bengal province,
India.
At least five of the enemy
planes were listed as “probably’
destroyed.
RAF bombers flying from In-
dia attacked the Japanese along
the Bay of Bengal, north of the
big enemy base at Akyab, a com-
munique said.
R. L. Westbrook
Goes to New Post
The program gave dairy work-
ers a preferred claim on draft
deferment exceeding even that
recently established for essential
farm workers generally, which
resulted in such a strong back-to-
the-farm movement that some
war plants are complaining of
losing workers.
But it also provides that ex-
perienced former dairy workers
between 18 and 28 who might
have been rejected by the army
for physical disability might, if
they refuse to return to dairy
work, be put up for reconsidera-
tion and acceptance for limited
service.
Furthermore, it provides that if
the dairy worker shortage is not
“adequately” relieved otherwise,
dairy workers who have taken
jobs in industry will be “urged”
by the draft boards to return to
dairying.
“It is not deemed wise that this
be done at this time because
within the last ten days there has
been a back-to-the-farm move-
ment due to the Tydings amend-
ment (giving farmers a preferred
draft deferment status) said a 1 hawks got four Focke-Wolfes
memorandum supplied by the and five Messerschmitts. Another
president. , I Messerschmitt was shot down in
Two of the programs seven the north for a total of 12, while
points provide for former dairy
connerie airfield in Patton’s
Maknassy sector, the commu-
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as governor.’ I
Gov. Robert S. Kerr told a
press conference yesterday, he be-
lieved Phillips had "sold out the
Democratic party.” Kerr, a New
Dealer, is Democratic national
committeeman for Oklahoma.
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RATON, N. M. (JP)—Everyone
got into the spirit of the auction
at the war bond dinner.
The prize, free extraction of
two teeth, offered by a local den-
tist, was sold to the High bidder
who bought $3,100 in war bonds—
And he hasn’t a single tooth.
OUT OF SEASON, TOO
GREAT FALLS, Mont (A)—
“There’s a time bomb in my
yard!” an excited woman tele-
phoned the sheriffs office.
Deputy Sheriff Mike Quealy
cautiously approached the
hedge where she said someone
had thrown the bomb.
He pulled out a football.
MUCH ADO
VENICE, Calif. (A)—Speeding
to a fire, a hose wagon and a
pumper truck collided, spilling
firemen across a street intersec-
tion. Four were injured.
Another crew put out the fire—
with a hand extinguisher.
JOBS FOR WOMEN
SALT LAKE CITY (P)—Fif-
teen of the 21 candidates for Uni-
versity of Utah student offices
April 16 are coeds.
Jarring note: Both nominees for
president are men.
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Flying Fortress was reported
today to have attacked a
squadron of four fast Japa-
nese destroyers attempting to
reinforce'enemy positions in
New Guinea, scoring a direct
hit and probably sinking the
largest of the vessels and
driving the others off toward
the north.
An allied communique said the
convoy was located by allied
heavy bombers off Finschhafen,
New Guinea after first being
spotted near Kavieng, New Ire-
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mel's retreat.)
Naples Blast Is <
Fatal to 72 Persons
By The Associated Press _ .
The Berlin radio broadcast a
report from Rome today that an
ammunition depot blew up in
Naples last Sunday, killing 72
county at a general or special' and wounding 1,179 civilians and
election. The changes and real- soldiers.
locations if approved will remain These casualties included seven
in force for six years from the | Germans killed and 31 Germans
date of the election. I wounded, said the broadcast re-
A proposal to adjourn the gen- corded by the Associated Press;
erai session on May 11 could not, Admiral Domenico Cavanari
overcome house opposition and • has been directed tn etermin
was sent to the rules committee I cause of the accident, the Be
for study. May 11 adjournment lin radio added
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First Army Takes
Metouia; Americans
Advance on Axis Flank
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TERS in North Africa, Mar.
31 (AP).—The British Eighth
army has captured Oudref, 12
miles north of Gabes and di-
rectly in the Gabes gap, and
the British First army in the
north has taken Sedjenane,
an allied headquarters com-
munique announced today.
The sweep of Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery’s forces in chas-
ing Marshal Erwin Rommel
northward also took Metouia,
eight miles north of Gabes, in its
ne:. #.
The pursuit was taking place.
Temperature: High yesterday.
76; low last night. 60; noon today.
75; high for year, 84; tow for
year, 2
East Texas — Cooler in north
and west central portions to-
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announced by the president—
brought tens of thousands of
Americans closer to the war it-
self. Designed primarily to re-
lieve a shortage of 50,000 dairy
workers, the program appeared
capable of being extended to all
agriculture and essential indus-
try. It gave dairy workers pre-
ferred claim on draft deferment,
but hinted broadly at the possible
drafting of farm-experienced men
now deferred because of age or
minor physical disabilities if they
refuse dairying jobs. It also
changed the system of releasing
soldiers 38 years or older so they
can be channeled into and kept at
jobs in essential industry and ag-
riculture.
Davis’ Authority
Another phase of the general
farm and food program was the
question of whether Chester C.
Davis, the new food administra-
tor, is to have full authority over
farm prices. It remained unan-
swered as his assistant puzzled
over a problem posed by congres-
sional refusal to vote $100,000,000
for war crop incentive payments.
Heads of four national farm or-
ganizations who—accompanied by
Davis and Agriculture Secretary
Wickard—went to the White
House yesterday, said they came
away without a commitment on
the price control, question.
Food production, however, got
a boost from the rubber program.
Convinced that synthetic rubber
production is progressing well
enough to permit curtailment of
guayule planting, rubber officials
prepared to turn some of their
acreage over to food production—
but warned against over-opti-
mism on the rubber outlook.
War-inflated prices provided
the impetus for another of the
day’s developments. The Office of
Price Administration set maxi-
mum prices for used trucks, am-
bulances, buses and other com-
mercial vehicles—in some cases
only a fraction of current market
quotations. Effective April 25,
the new regulation sets the top
legal price of any of these vehi-
cles at a percentage—ranging
from 26 to 97—of its original de-
livered price. OPA said the ac-
tion was “expected to halt the ac-
tivities of speculators which have
resulted in some instances in
prices which are 200 per cent or
more over Rhe normal value.”
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