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Allied Air-Sea Blow Hits Dutch East Indies
Gatinesbille Mailg Registex
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(EIGHT PAGES) NUMBER 201
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 20, 1944
VOL. 54
Reds Beat
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defense installations,
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Herbert reported that the navy
"Having acquired the right to
invest still further,
resulted from a
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The Weather
allies in the air.
ABILENE, April 20. (P—-A
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LONDON, April 20. (P—The
turkey
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Bonham Nurse Returns Home After
Dodging Nazis' in Albania 4 Months
First Attack on Jap-
Held Islands Since
serted American bombers sank
the Swedish Red Cross snip Em-
bla yesterday off the south coast
of F rance. There was no confir-
People
Odd Glimpses of Life
In Town and Country
March, 1942.
The attack was made just
four days after Admiral Lord
;e during a snowstorm.
»y Friendly Family
Continues
6,000 Planes Loom
9,000 Tons Explosives
On Nazis in 36 Hours
City Blasted by RAF in Ss
a____—----1 Large Scale German
Non-Combat Duty for
4-Fs Not in War Work
Proposed in the House
WASHINGTON, April 20. (P)—Complaining of “a conspicuous ab-
sence" of planned effort to direct qualified 4-F’s into essential
work, the house military committee recommended today that men
rejected for full military service be inducted for non-combat duty
if they fail to seek essential war work.
■ -------• The committee approved a rec-
33 Block
r Sea
Burgas
Temperature: High yesterday,
71; low last night, 49; noon today,
60; high for year, 84; low for
combination of circumstances that
may occur in spite of the best laid
and most meticulous planning.”
Sofia’n
\garia
For a long tune they were hid-
den in the home of 4 friendly
Fall in March, 1942
Sabang and Lhonga Airfields in Northern
Sumatra Are Bombed; Numerous Hits Scored
On Dock Yard, Power Station, Hangars
By THOBURN WIANT
SOUTHESAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Cey-
lon, April 20 (AP).—A powerful allied fleet of aircraft car-
riers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines at
dawn yesterday struck the first air-sea blow against Japa-
nese-held Dutch East Indies since the fall of the islands in
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Flooded Tomato
Market Foreseen
DALLAS, April 20 OF) — The
War Food Administration expects
a flooded tomato market and is
ready to step in and support
prices, says Distribution Director
L. J. Cappieman.
A 72 per cent increase in Rio
Grande valley tomatoes is fore-
cast and the East Texas crop will
be far above average, Cappieman
aasserted here yesterday.
* TEXAN HOME WITH ‘LUCKY 13’ ON HER NOSE, BUT VIC-
TORIOUS—Piloted by Ensign Edward G. Wendorf of West, Texas,
the Grumman Hellcat “Lucky 13” come in on her nose on a car-
rier deck after a strike at Kwajalein Dec. 4. An anti-aircraft shell
knocked out the plane’s radio and damaged its arresting gear, but
she came in—and downed two Jap Zeroes on the way home.—(AP
Wirephoto from U. S. Navy.)___________________________________
Fighters which escorted the
bombers shot down three Japan-
government.
A. Patrick Flood, state salvage
manager, has issued a call to all
J ip all the
felt, bur-
Stimson Says Nazi
Resistance Weakens
WASHINGTON, April 20. UP)—
Secretory of War Stimson said to-
day that “our aerial invasion of
Germany is continuing, the pres-
sure is increasing and enemy re-
sistance on the whole is decreas-
ing.”
He thus summarized the Eu-
ropean aerial offensive in a press
conference during which he also
stressed the heavy blows by allied
aviation against Japan in the Pa-
cific and in southeast Asia.
Discussing the effectiveness of
the big-scale raids on German
fighter plane factories, Stimson
said that the enemy’s production
of this type of plane had fallen
off an estimated 20 per cent since
January.
The enemy’s reserve of planes
therefore will not come easily,
Stimson said, but he cautioned
that “critical periods” are ahead
in the air war.
The secretory said that allied
air operations from Italy have
reached the point “where they al-
most overlap” Soviet air opera-
tions. As an example, he noted
that the Russians have raided
Galati, Romania, only 100 miles
from Ploesti where American
bombers have attacked.
In the Southwest Pacific allied
air power “meets practically no
resistance,” Stimson said.
He said there is “no occasion
ALLIED AIRMEN MINE DANUBE, TRAFFIC HALTED-,
Symbols indicate course of Danube river between Budapest and
Bucharest, 300 miles of which has been mined by Allied airmen,
halting traffic on the stream which is Germany’s primary heavy
shipping route in southeastern Europe.—(AP Wirephoto.)
quired from the British in the
50-destroyer deal was recom-
mended today by a house naval
subcommittee.
The bases are now being used
Loss of 10 More U. S.
Planes Shot Down by
Allies is Confirmed
WASHINGTON, April 20. (P)— The war department has confirmed
the loss of a second group of American planes, shot down when
allied as well as enemy anti-aircraft guns were turned on them by
mistake, bringing the total losses in such incidents to 473 men and
34 planes. ®
Kansas Reaches
Red Cross Quota
ST. LOUIS, April 20 (P)—Kan-
sas alone of 17 states in the mid-
dlewest and southwest reached
its American Red Cross war fund
campaign quota in 100 per cent
of its Red Cross chapters, the
organization area headquarters
announced today.
Nebraska was’ second, with
only one of 100 chapters not at-
taining its quota, giving the state
a 99 per cent score.
Other states, with the percent-
age of thir Red Cross chapters
to reach their quotas, included:
Arkansas, 83.5; New Mexico,
62.6; Oklahoma, 73.2; Texas 86.6.
Four-Year Miners’
-KEw YMKA_Mrs Muriel
Shaffer, an animal lover, threw
caution to the wind to descend 10 i
feet into a sewer to rescue a
struggling maltese tomcat from
the water.
She made no complaint when
the unappreciative feline clawed
her last pair of nylon stockings.
In fact she offered to pay expen-
ses for treating the cat.
used to ride horseback and liked
to jump her pony over paper bon-
fires. I guess she got plenty of
adventure in Europe."
“Nothing ever bothered her,”
Mrs. Maness remembered. “She
always was as calm as a post”
Lieutenant Maness probably
needed steady nerves in her flight
across Albania. Once she and her
two companions were only min-
utes ahead of the Germans. An-
other time they crossed a moun-
housewives to round u]
old rags, bits of wool 1
lap bags and ends of manila rope,
which they turn up in ‛ their
spring house-cleaning.
Rags are needed by both the
army and navy as well as war
plants, said Flood and now is the
time for housewives to put them
to good use in helping win the
war, by turning them in to their
local salvage station.
3
ommendation of a special sub-
committee headed by Represen-
tative Costello (D-Calif.) that no
new legislation be enacted at this
time dealing with the 3,500,000
men class 4-F—rejected for serv-
ice because of disabilities. Exist-
ing law, the committee said, pro-
cides ample authority for han-
dling such men through adminis-
trative procedure.
The committee made these spe-
cific recommendations:
That selective service reclassify
4-F’s into groups doing essential
work and those not in essential
jobs.
That selective service and the
war manpower commission pub-
lish a list of occupations which
would entitle a 4-F to be reclass-
ified into 2-AF or 2-BF (occupa-
tional deferment).
The 4-F’s in approved jobs not-
ify their local draft boards and
receive a certificate of approval
before changing jobs.
That 4-F’s in approved jobs not-
notify their draft boards of will-
ingness to take such jobs.
That failure of a registrant to
notify his draft board of willing-
ness to do essential work shall
subject him to induction.
That men refusing to take es-
sential work, when it is available,
be inducted immediately for as-
signment to non-combat duty, and
not be charged against the com-
bat strength of the army and the
navy.
That failure of the prescribed
precedure to provide necessary
manpower be followed by similar
procedure in the cases of men
already discharged from service
and then, if necessary, apply to
men between the ages of 38 and
45.
The committee said it believed
existing law gave the army, the
navy, the war manpower com-
(Continued on Page Five)
DALLAS, April 19. (A) — A others. They hoofed it across
tanned and titain-haired army snow-covered Albanian mountain
nurse, Second Lt Ava Ann Man- ranges to get out
ess, was taking it easy at her Bon- . Glad To Be Home
ham, Texas, home today after "Im so glad to be back,” Lieu-
four months of dodging nazis in tenant Maness said, smiling hap-
German-held Albania. | pily at her family who had come
The toll, 32-year-old lieutenant; to the airport to meet her.
looked fit when she landed at: The family included her tall.
Love field airport here yester- lean father, John H. Maness, who
day, inspite of the nerve-wrack- i has his home in Bonham but who
ing experiences she had under-: is now working as a carpenter for
gone in Europe. She was one of a trailer manufacturing company
a group of 13 nurses, 15 enlisted in Dallas; her step-mother,. Mrs.
men and two air officers to get John H. Maness; her brother* six-
back to allied soil after losing foot three-inch Don Maness, 17,
their way in bad weather and of Bonham, who has his eye out
Tank and Infantry
Attacks Repulsed
LONDON, April 20 (AP).
Large-scale German tank and
infantry attacks have been
beaten back in the southeast
corner of old Poland after
fierce seesaw fighting, Mos-
cow announced today in a
communique which also told
of the capture by Russian
shock troops of Fedyukhiny
Heights, formidable barrier
guarding the approaches to
besieged Sevastopol.
The Nazis, apparently in an ef-
fort to save their big communica-
tions center of Lwow, launched
the heavy counter blows east of
Stanislawow, 70 miles southeast
of the base, and “some populated
places changed hands" before the
assaults were repulsed, the com-
munique said.
The Soviet bulletin said a large
force of German bombers and
fighters appeared during the bat-
tle, supporting an earlier Moscow
news dispatch which described
the nazi offensive as apparently
strong, well-coordinated and sys-
Negro Soldier is
Pay Plan Accepted Sentenced to Hang
SURPRISE
VERNON, Ind. (P) — For a
few moments .this Jennings
county seat thought it had been
bombed.
As military aircraft appeared
overhead an earth-shaking ex-
plosion was heard and a house
began burning.
A large fuel tank had ex-
ploded while being soldered.
pn,"
WOOLY GUEST
GARY, Ind. UP) — The little
stray lamb that Gary police
found wondering in the streets
has been on a liquid—milk—diet
but soon will be switched to
greens when it is placed on a
farm.
The lamb still will be under
police custody, however, and will
remain a problem until somebody
calls for it
The police do not have a per-
mit from the OPA to sell the ani-
mal, nor a license to slaughter it
government’s four-year plan for
fixing miners wages was accepted
______ - by union leaders and owners’ rep-
Albanian family. They played resentatives today, and is ex-
three-handed bridge, smoked Al- pected to be effective by next
banian cigarets, ate rice, figs, weekend. It is designed to solve
"— ---hihe .—i—. such disputes as led to the recent
I coal field strikes.
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h-go
WINS NAVY CROSS WHILE
AWOL FROM ARMY —William
B. Murphree, 26, of Old Hickory,
Tenn., went AWOL from the
army and joined the Marines to
win the Navy Cross in the Pa-
cific, army officers said.—(AP
Wirephoto.)
The slaying occurred at a dance showers; slightly warmer tonight
at a camp service club. 4 i Increasing winds Friday.
... . .2c. /
Twenty-two Japanese planes in-
chiding six large transports; were
destroyed aground at Sabang.
Several Japanese planes also
were destroyed on thel Lhonga
airfield. ,
One allied plane was forced to
land at sea but the pilot was dra- |
Louis Mount batten had
Ask Exemption
Of Wood Cutters
SAN ANTONIO, April 20 (A)—
Congress will be asked to ex-
empt the wood cutter from the
draft as an essential worker with
the country facing a shortage of
more than 3,000,000 tons of paper
in 1944, Sig A. Harpman of Okla-
homa City, declared here today.
Harpman, . president of the
Southwest Paper Merchants’ as-
sociation which is in two-day
annual session here, said experi-
ments conducted in the north
and east of using prisoners of
war were unsuccessful. The pris-
oners accomplished less in a day’s
time than a good wood cutter
could do in an hour’s time, he de-
clared.
Arthur Chamberlain, New
York, secretary of the National
Paper Trade association, and Phil
Howard, New York, publisher of
the American Paper Merchants
magazine, were to address the
convention at a closed session
late today.
The convention closes tomor-
row with election of officers.
taken, the Russians said.
The communique added that
Russian warships and planes con-
tinued to smash up German evac-
uation attempts.
On the Bessarabian front, the
Russians said they enlarged their
bridgeheads on the west bank of
the Dnestr in the Chisinau area,
taking several localities.
we feel it
Electric Shocks
Reduce Sneezing
MEMPHIS, April 20 UP) —Mrs.
Albert Sanders, who sneezed al-
most constantly for 12 days, has
been cured by a series of electric
shock treatments.
The 28-year-old Jonesboro,
Ark., matron returned to her
home last night after her sneez-
ing had been negligible for three
davs. Doctors said her condition
was caused by a nervous illness.
The latest accident reported oc-
curred at Catania, Sicily last July
13-14. Ten transport planes were
shot down and 44 officers and
men lost. The war department
said it was estimated that 50 per
cent of the loss was due to
“friendly” anti-aircraft fire.
The first such known instance
occurred July 11, off Gela, on the
southern Sicilian coast when 410
men and 23 transports were shot
down as they flew into the range
of enemy and allied fire in the
wake of enemy planes. Allied
anti-aircraft fire which was
turned dn the planes in this in-
stance was said to have come
from both land and naval guns
but in the more recent loss the
navy emphasized that the fire did
not come from U. S. naval ves-
sels.
Accident Total Six
These were the two major inci-
dents in a chain of accidents
which now totals six.
The others were:
February 22 — Thirteen men
killed, 45 wounded in the acci-
dental shelling of three landing
boats by an American destroyer
in a landing assault on Parry is-
land in Eniwetok atoll in the
Marshall islands. “Restricted vis-
ibility,” and “difficult conditions
of navigation” were blamed.
March 31—An American trans-
port plane, operated by a civilian
contract air crew was shot down
accidentally by British carrier-
operated fighter planes protect-
ing an allied convoy. Six men
were lost.
In addition, it was reported by
General MacArthur, that late in
March, three P-T boats were ac-
cidentally bombed by land-based
planes in the Southwest Pacific,
in two separate attacks.
War Secretory Stimson, in com-
menting upon the first group of
transport accidents at a news con-
ference last month said:
By AUSTIN BEALMEAR
LONDON, April 20 (AP).
RAF Italy - based bombers |
raided the railway center of I
Plovdiv, Bulgaria, today in a I
continuation of the powerful
allied offensive in which
6,000 planes loosed 9,000 tons
of explosives on Hitler’s Eu-
rope in the 36-hour period
ended last night.
Crewmen returning to their
Italian bases from the daylight
strikes said bomb flashes spotted
the target area in Plovdiv, which
lies 80 miles southeast of Sofia
and is an important point in the
rail network of southeastern Eu-
rope.
Britain-based bombers were
inactive last night.after the un-
precedented allied assaults on
Germany yesterday, but nazi
raiders struck at England for the
second successive night and
loosed bombs along the south-
east coast.
A communique said that only
slight damage and a small num-
ber of casualties, none of which
were serious, had been reported.
One nazi plane was:zhotdow.
No Bombs in London
The alert lasted about a half
hour in London, but no bombs
fell in the city.
There also were no indications
of any large scale British-based
allied operations over the con-
tinent this morning.
Mysterious explosions on the
French coast again shook English
coastal towns in the Dover strait
area for 40 minutes after mid-
night. Residents said they saw
great flashes of light so powerful
they lighted up the whole coast-
line.
One possible explanation was
that the explosions were caused
by allied delayed action bombs.
Another explanation was that
the Germans were blasting out
new defense positions.
A Vichy broadcast said that 750
persons were now known to have
been killed in the Paris area and
1 200 killed and more than 2,000
injured in Rouen and its vicinity
during raids Tuesday night.
A noon broadcast said the cen-
ter of Rouen was in ashes with
the fires not yet completely under
control.
A Paris broadcast, which raised
estimates on the dead at Rouen
to 2,000, said time bombs were
hampering rescue work.
Rags Are Needed
By Army and Navy
AUSTIN, April 20 UP) —“Rags,
rags, any rags today?” The fa-
miliar cry of the old peddler is
now a wartime appeal from the
Permanent Use
Of Western Bases
By U. S. Proposed
Recommendation Made
By House Naval Group
year, 9. 1
East Texas: Mostly cloudy.
_________ ___ (-, showers tonight and Friday and
Camp Barkeley negro soldier,' in east and south portions this
Pvt. Fred Hurse, 25, was found afternoon. cooler in norfbeast
guilty and sentenced to be hanged portion tonight.
yesterday on a charge of slaying • West Texas: Partly cloudy this
Pvt Eugene Pinckney, another afternoon and tonight; Friday
negro, on March 22. | mostly cloudy with scattered
took off from the carriers some-
where in the Indian ocean and
carried out a sui prise raid on
Sabang and Lhonga airfields in
northern Sumatra.
(The admiralty announced in
London that Sabang also was
bombarded by the warships.) ,
A communique said heavy
bombers also struck the targets
(Presumably these came from
land bases and coordinated their
attack with that of the sea-borne
expedition. As far as is known
heavy bombers have never been
flown from grriers.)
Sabang is a little island just
off the northeastern tip of Su-
matra less than 1,000 miles from
Mountbatten's Ceylon headquar-
ters and has an important harbor
which the Japanese have been us-
ing for sea operations toward the
west. Lhonga is a few miles away
on the mainland tip.
With the expedition directed
by Admiral Sir James Somerville,
commander-in-chief of the British
eastern fleet, the aircraft scored
numerous direct hits with heavy
bombs on the dock yard, power
station, wharf, barracks, hangars,
workshops and radio station at
Sabang, on the northern tip of
Samatra, leaving large fires blaz-
ing in the area.
Merchant Ships Hit
The aircraft also scored hits on
two Japanese merchant ships,
each of 4,000 to 5,000 tons, while
two enemy destroyer escort ves-
sels were shot up and set afire.
TURKEa
tematic.
Lwow itself was heavily
bombed by the Russians Tuesday
night, the communique said, with
many hits observed on trains
loaded with troops and equip-
ment.
The battle for Sevastopol ap-
peared yesterday to be develop-
ing into a siege, the bulletin re-
porting that the enemy, “pressed
back to the sea, was putting up
stubborn resistance.”
The Germans counter-attacked
in the area of the Sevastopol-
Simferopol highway, but were
thrown back to their initial posi-
tions and many prisoners were
RUSSIA
Dnes,,
ese torpedo bombers which ap-
proached the fleet after the raids.
Predicts Much Action by the United States under a 99-
Recently Air Chief Marshal Sir year lease agreement.
Richard Pierse, Mountbatten s air | The subcommittee, which made
commander, told the RAF and । the recommendation in a formal
RCAF men in a speech at Colom-I report on an inspection of hemi-
bo that “the enemy is increasing sphere defense installations, i.
activity in the Indian ocean and headed by Rep. Herbert (D.-La)
the Bay of Bengal. We soon will — — • T
have plenty to do.”
The statement was made soon ......... _____ ....
after Prime Minister Churchill' has spent more than $130,000,000
disclosed that powerful naval un- j at the eight bases acquired from
its had been placed at Somerville s Britain in exchange for the deliv-
disposal. j cry of 50 over-age U. S. destroy-
The Sumatra raids indicated ers, announced by President
that Somerville probably intends Roosevelt on Sept. 3, 1940 The
to go after the bases from which subcommittee report stated:
the Japanese could launch any
naval offensive westward.
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for mystery” concerning the fight- mation
ing in the Burma-India area, add- i
ing that the British have a su-.
periority in troops and there is a ’
“distinct superiority” held by the
50,*
■ ""*) ^IA
shifted his operational head-
quarters to Ceylon from New
Delhi.
Allied bombers and fighters
Gasoline Supply
Is Threatened
By ‘Hot’ Coupons
Estimated 2,500,000
Gallons Being Traded
Daily in Black Market
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 20 —
“Hot” coupons are threatening
the nation’s civilian gasoline sup-
ply. Shad Polier, director of
gasoline rationing enforcement
for the Office of Price Adminis-
tration estimates that 2,500,000
gallons daily are being traded by
“black market” operators and
that if the, black market is “al-
lowed to grow, it will become a
serious threat to the whole war
effort.” Chief trade is in “C”
coupons, at 50 cents each.
Overalls
A bi-partisan group of senators
joined today in demanding that
overalls, the traditional uniform
of America’s farmers and indus-
trial workers, shall not vanish
from the earth. Many legislators
have been receiving complaints
that work clothes are no longer
available in sufficient numbers.
The situation is so bad, says Sen-
ator Butler (R-Neb) that farm-
ers “have to wear their dress
clothes while they do their
work.”
Lend-Lease
Chairman McKellar (D-Tenn)
of the senate appropriations
committee promises an early
public report on the committee’s
investigation of lend-lease ex-
penditures. Senate approval of
extension of the program is vir-
tually assured. The house yes-
terday voted extension by 334 to
21.
Coal
Approximately 70 percent of
the soft coal operators are ex-
pected to ask War Labor board
permission to pay miners an
agreed $40 per man as back pay
for underground travel time. The
remainder of the industry, rep-
resented by the Southern Coal
Operators Association have taken
the underground travel issue to
court.
western hemisphere bases ac-
In Report on Inspection
NOT LADIES
INDIANAPOLIS. (A)— Women
jury members aren’t ladies,
they’re gentlemen, says the In-
diana court.
It so ruled in dismissing a case
in which the appellant contended
the trial judge had instructed
only half the jurors when he ad-
dressed a jury of six men and six
women as “gentlemen of the
jury.”
Mother of Tom
Gooch Is Dead
DALLAS, April 20. 0P)—Mrs.
Mattie Taylor Gooch, mother of
President Tom C. Gooch of the
Dallas Times Herald, died last
night She was 89.
Mrs. Gooch was the grand-
daughter of Mrs. Mabel Gilbert,
the first white woman to come to
Dallas.
Funeral services will be held
here tomorrow and burial will be
landing deep in Albania last No- for a berth in the army air forces,
vember 8 while on a routine 'and her aunt, Mrs. J. M. Caviness
flight from Sicily to Italy. Lieu-1 of Paris, Texas.
tenant Maness and two other | “She always was adventurous,”
nurses became separated from the i Maness said of his daughter, "she
and includes Reps. Cole (R.-
N. Y.) and Hess (R.-Ohio).
would be a mistake for the
United States to ever abandon
the bases, even at the end of 99
years. Steps should be taken im-
mediately by our government to .
have the bases changed to in per-
petuity.”
The subcommittee report, filed
with Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga )
of the full committee made these
additional specific suggestions:
1—The “most cordial rela-
tions” worked out with Bra-
zil should be extended mili-
tarily to as many South Amer-
ican nations as possible. A sur-
plus of shipping after the war
should be made available to
these friendly nations rather
than permit deterioration or
scrapping
2—A new study of the entire
Caribbean sector should be
undertaken by the navy now
because requirements there
have been substantially al-
tered.
3—The Latin-American coun-
tries should be encouraged to
send candidates to the U S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis
as another step towaid build-
ing up their navies for mu-
tual hemispheric defense.
matically saved by a submarine Immediate steps to make perma-
which rescued him under shore nent American possession of
battery fire. All other planes re-
turned to the carriers.
CLAIM SWEDISH SHIP SUNK
LONDON, April 20 t/Pi — To-
day’s German communique as-
0 •
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Italian Troop* Are
Now Stationed at
Ft. Francis Warren
CHEYENNE, Wyo. UP) —
Italian troops are stationed at
nearby Fort Francis E. Warren,
it was disclosed today by a
newspaper advertisement.
Publication of the circum-
stances of the troops assign-
ment there was not permitted
immediately by censorship au-
thorities, but this much was
disclosed by the ad—which ap-
peared in the classified col-
umns of the Wyoming State
Tribune:
“Wanted. Men with knowl-
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