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In the current fiscal year, he figured, treasury expenses would total
162 to be covered by borrowing.
1110,000,000,000.
maximum war production.
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good money and offered to prove it about $40,000 and was given a con-
The Weather
A Finnish war bulletin also re-
merchants in Hi
, Shanghaf’s
If Germany decides a transat-
portion this afternoon and to-
one defense official here said, the
and extreme north portions to-
by their lack of helium, the non-
inflammable gas which only the
snow today and to-
cotton, foodstuffs — everything
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Dutch East
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bay, and defenses on nearby Batan
peninsula were bombed again for
several hours yesterday, and the
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Men Near Here
Project to
Cost 30
Millions
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Rome Report Says
Thrust May Already
Have Been Started
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The bulletin also noted lively
aerial reconnaissance over the far-
flung archipelago—often the tip-
nazis a corps of experienced Zep-
pelin men. s
U. S. Forces Withstand
Heavy Bombardment
accept it without armed help.
As it gn^r increasingly diffi-
It also meant, he declared, that the people would have to do with-
out “many conveniences and luxuries” so that the nation may “shift la-
ditional release from Leavenworth
in 1938 after making a pauper's
oath.
y
Red Cross Funds
Are Pouring Into
Texas Chapters
Beaumont Leads With
$7,000 in Excess of
Her $30,000 Quota
Japan’s next goal is the
Dutch East Indies.
This appeared evident to-
day from a U. S. War depart-
ment communique reporting
that the Mikado’s sea-borne
invasion armies in the Philip-
pines have massed a powerful
striking force at Davao bay,
only 600 miles from Dutch
Borneo and 400 miles from
Dutch Celebes.
A Rome radio report heard in
London indicated that the thrust
may already have started, declar-
ing that strong forces of Japanese
parachute troops had landed on the
east coast of Borneo.
Simultaneously, Dutch East In-
dies headquarters at Batavia re-
ported that a formation of eight
Japanese flying-boats attacked
onet persuasion — to pass their
stage money they invented a new
twist.
Puppet Chinese governments
popped up to Tientsin, Peiping, and
Ho
35,
German Siege on
Leningrad Eased
By The Associated Press
Adolf Hitler's battered invasion
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The president, however, offered a little bright news to the general
public, too.
here today signed a contract
with Rollins and Forrest of
Dallas for plans and specifica-
tions for a proposed 35,000-
man army camp at Gaines-
ville.
If final decision to build the $30,-
000,000 camp is reached, construc-
tion contract will be awarded after
plannd specifications are fin-
ished Rollins and Forrest will
make headquarters here.
Remember Pearl Harbor
- McDon ald announces
AUSTIN, Jan. 7.—J. E McDon-
ald, state commissioner of agricul-
ture, filed, by mail to State Demo-
front east of Manila.
The fortifications on Corregidor
island. at the entrance of Manila
This meant that the World war spending peak of $18,522,000,000
will be passed this fiscal year and approximately tripled next year.
Initial Appropriation for War
• The president asked congress for an initial appropriation of $13,-
600,000,000 to get the huge new war program under way, and said he
would ask for additional large amounts as the nation moved toward
poured steadily into Red army
lines.
off of an impending invasion--
this week created a separate de- with the announcement that "ene-
fense section headed by E. J. Wan- my planes were observed over va-
in the current fiscal year, he figured, treasury expenses would total He said the nation's productive resources were enough in spite of
$30,675,796,162, including $23,996,525,400 for defense, and calculated diversions to war output to enable the people “to maintain a standard
that taxes would yield $11,943,993,000, leaving a deficit of $18,731,803,- of living more than adequate to support the health and productivity of
162 to be covered by borrowing. e our people. ... I do not at present propose general consumer ration
era, auxiliary police and medical
personnel in the darkening of the
island city. -
Dallas and Tarrant counties will
black out January 19 from 9 to
9:30 p. m., it was decided at a joint
meeting of officials of the two
counties.
■age to congress.. "Its magnitude and composition depend on
events at the battlefronts of the world.... Nothing short of a
DENISON, Texas, Jan.
(AP).—District engineers
with 20 100-pound bags of sugar.
“A ton of sugar—$110 worth I
and hard to get,” Levine moaned i
with justifiable heat. “How I’d
cards.”
While automobile tires are already rationed, he explained that °
“there are not as yet scarcities in the necessities of life which make ’
such a step (general rationing) imperative."
Non-military agencies of the government the president said, will
be cut more than $1,000,000,000 in their next year's budgets. He pre-
dicted work relief costs would go down from $942,430,000 this fiscal
year to $480,075,000 next year; that farm aid would decline from $1,-
117,082,000 to $854,050,000; that aid to youth costs (CCC and NY A)
would fall from $235,000,000 to $100,000,000. and cited other savings on
administrative expenses of other agencies and public works.
Roads not needed for defense, post offices, and other public works
considered non-essential would get no money, he said, unless they were
already under construction. He said he hoped congress would skip its
usual blanket road-building grants to states.
double Germany's annual war expenditures. It called, the president said
for a step-up in the rate of war spending from the current $2,000,000,-
000 a month to $5,000,000,000 a month.
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ROAMING REGISTRANT
BEDFORD, Ind. — William E.
Corder guesses he must be one of
the selective service system's ‘
roamingest registrants.
- Corder, from Hammond, is field
executive for the White River Boy
■ Scout council here.
He registered in Bloomington.
His certificate was returned to a
Hanmond board.
He filled out his questionnaire
in Mendham, N. J., took his pre-
liminary physical examination in
Bedford and took the army exami-
nation in New Albany.
Now in Class I-A, he'll be in-
FROZEN DUMB
CHICAGO — Running home in
subzero cold, Louis Sabatini, 14,
slipped on some ice and fell against
an iron light pole.
His tongue hit the pole and in-
stantly froze to it, so tightly that
he couldn/t even free it with the
"loss of some skin. With the cold
wind pouring into his open mouth,
he couldn’t breath warm air on the
pole to thaw his tongue loose.
F Policemen, called by Louis’ sis-
ter, brought hot water and thawed
apart the pole and tongue which
had been joined 20 minutes.
handed out every one in the
t supply room — including Ser-
geant Falagrady’s.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
DENVER —Winston Churchill’s
joined the armed forces of the
United States.
The coast guard signed up the
19-year-old youth yesterday.
the purses of the Reconstruction Finance corporation and other non-
budgetary agencies for war purposes.
The treasury budget called for total expenditures of $59,027,992,300
in the fiscal year beginning next July 1. This included the huge war
item plus $1,750,000,000 for interest on the public debt, and reduced al-
lotments for work relief, farm aid, governmental running expenses and
other non-military costs.
Tax Income of Nation Estimated
To pay for this. President Roosevelt estimated there would be $16,-
487,200,000 of taxes from existing tax laws, asked $7,000,000,000 of new
general taxes (not counting increased social security taxes, which do
area, suggested that blackouts dur-
ing moonlight are not satisfactory.
The moon will be almost full on
January 29.
“There are millions of acres in
Mexico where Japanese and Ger-
man air bases could be located
without Mexico knowing it,” Ster-
ling said, emphasizing that there is
Clyde O. Eastus of Dallas declared
that axis aliens who sell, give
away, lend or in any way dispose
ance.
Text of Co
“little Tokyo,” each asserting they
could not use it for purchases in
-In his tax'program, the president asked for approximately $2,000,-
000,000 of added social security taxes plus $7,000,000,000 of income, ex-
cess profits, estate and gift, and excise taxes. He approved of almost
any kind of new taxes except a general sales tax—and he indicated
that even that type of levy later might become necessary on a tempo-
rary basis.
Saying that taxes were important not only to finance the war but
also to prevent inflation; he asserted, “any tax is better than an un-
controlled price rise." ,
1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (AP).—The Japanese are repeating in the
Philippines the looting methods they developed in China — equipping
their troops with “carpet bags” literally stuffed with stage money.
From those “carpet bags” in every town and village the Japanese
swept through to China came an endless flow of paper money not worth
the poor quality paper on which it was printed.
With those scraps of paper the#----------------------;----------
War department said
of damage and casdal
( ing and increasing pressure but the
, soldiers of General Douglas Mac-
Arthur were making valiant resist-
dirigible in the first World war
for the express purpose of bomb-
tor New York.
$11 tip to a shine boy.
Pennick had $936 in currency in
his possession when arrested and
told officers the name of his com-
panion. State highway police were !
thought to be closing in on the
second man. »
Victim of the robbery was As-
sistant Cashier C. M. Furneaux,
who was confronted by two men
as he opened the bank doors at
Abilene filled its $10,000 the day
after Christmas and Taylor coun-
ty’s $12,300 has been oversub-
scribed by $1,638.
night ’ . 1
Oklahoma: Cloudy with scat-
Nazis May Use Zeppelins
To Bomb East Coast Cities
By STERLING F. GREEN
battal-
> heav-
Dallas collections are $203,630,
and the $220,000 aim is expected to
be realized in a couple of days. 1.
Houston’s receipts are $157,507
and the target $300,000.
San Antonio nears its assign-
fighting has been resumed
along the entire front with,
the enemy increasing pressure
on all points Front lines of
American and Philippine
troops are being continuously
bombed and machine-gunned
by enemy aircraft. Defending
troops are continuing their
steady and valiant resistance.
"The fortifications on Cor-
regidor island and installations
on Batan peninsula again were
bombed for several hours yes-
terday. The extent of damage
and casualties has not yet
been determined. It is esti-
mated that at least forty-five
bombers participated to this
attack. Several hostile planes
were hit by our anti-airraft
fire. "
“2. There is nothing to re-
port from other areas.”
A systematic allied bombing
campaign was believed imminent
to balk Japan's attempt to make
the Philippine port of Davao a
major base for a naval thrust
southward toward The Netherlands
Indies.
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This ship was the LZ-70, the
largest airship produced by the
reich in that conflict It had a
capacity of 2,500,000 cubic feet
Pennick was arrested by citiy de-
tectives last night 'during the
height of a spending spree that
was climaxed by the giving of an
Temperature: High yesterday.
28; low last night 24; noon today.
25; high for year. 39; low for year,
5. I
East Texas: Generally overcast
with freezing rain in north portion ’
this afternoon turning to snow to
northwest portion tonight inter-
maximum will suffice. I cannot predict ultimate costs be-
dause I cannot predict the changing fortunes of war. I can.
say only that we are determined to pay whatever price we
must to preserve our way of life.”
iggest Budget in World History »
He added at a press conference that it was the biggest budget in
the history of the world. Government estimates indicated it was nearly
President Calls for
Nine Billions
military objectives during the
, night on the island of Ambon ( Am-
boina), site of a major Dutch naval
base, 800 miles south of. Davao.
“The enemy dropped 20 bombs
and machine-gunned the island.”
. the communique said, reporting
that three civilians were killed and
• four persons wounded.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (AP) .—Bespeaking the nation’s
determination to “pay whatever price we must to preserve
our way of life,” President Roosevelt called today for a war
budget of $56,000,000,000 for the next fiscal year, $9,000,-
000,000 of new taxes on top of all existing taxes, and unprec-
edented borrowing that would send the federal debt above -bor, materials and faculties from the production of civilian articles to
«lin Ann Ahn non the production of weapons and other war supplies.”
, j j j L. Technically, the budget concerned only money to be paid out of the
This is a war budget, he said in his annual budget mes- treasury. However, in setting up the $56,000,000,000 war program the
sage to congress. "Its magnitude and composition depend on president said that beside an estimated $52,786,186,000 out of the treas-
ury, he believed that an additional $3,000,000,000 would be spent out of
that could be consumed or shipped
away to their impoverished little
islands—regardless of whether the
Chinese or foreign producers, mid-
dlemen or agents wanted to sell
for scrap paper.
In this method the Japanese
army was largely fed and clothed
on the countryside it conquered.
At a Japanese press conference
in Shanghai the Japanese spokes-
men questioned concerning the
avalanche of fake currency, vocif-
erously protested it was perfectly
The project is under the juris-
diction of Denison engineers, who
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (AP).—Responsible miltary ofifcials said
. today it is “definitely in the cards” that Germany may use her Zeppe-
lins in token raids on east coast cities of the United States.
The nazis, these sources believe,
still have the two dirigibles which*"
rious parts of the outer posses-
sions.”
Tokyo • imperial headquarters
said Japanese troops who landed
several days ago at Brunei in Brit-
ish North Borneo, adjoining Dutch
(Continued on Page Three)
23MT8eTumim
PRESIDENT ASKS FOR VAST PRODUCTION — Before an intent congress and a
crowded gallery, President Roosevelt (on rostrum) begins his speech to the joint session in
the house chamber, in which he outlined a tremendous production plan. Behind him are
[ In the East, navy aircraft ex-
perts noted, the tendency was to ____,_____- _____.
think of such a possibility in terms lantic dirigible raid is worth while,
of surface aircraft carriers, but ee ef--in *--- the
they recalled the well-authenti-
cated report’that Germany built a
A war-time call for Red Cross
funds is being heard and answered
today in Texas.
Beaumont leads the parade, hav-
ing raised $7,000 more than its
$30,000 quota.
At Wichita Falls the quota was
$19,800: contributions are $20,416
and still being received. Officials
said the Wichita county goal of
$23,000 will be passed today (Wed-
nesday). Smith county lacks less
than $1,000 to reach its desired
$16,800.
Japanese created a bayonet-
pointed inflation, robbed the Chi-
nese of millions of dollars and
stripped the country of practically
all movable property or produce.
By setting up1 special banks to
print more bogus money they
sought to wreck the entire Chinese
financial structure.
General MacArthur disclosed in
communique No. 48 that invading
Japanese troops are circulating
large quantities of paper money
imitating the color and texture of
Philippine currency but substitut-
ing the Japanese government for
the commonwealth government as
the issuing agency.
That’s an old story to the Chi-
nese. 1;
Every Japanese soldier who shot
or dubbed his way onto Chinese
territory was paid in special "mili-
“BUSINESS CAN WAIT
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — There
was a slight delay in milk deliv-
eries out this way.
> A patrolman, stopped Driver
Charles Colovin, Jr. “There’s a
phone call from across the Pacific
waiting for you.”
Colovin ran home and spent 12
have eased or possibly withdrawn
from the month-old siege of Lenin-
grad, Helsinki news dispatches in-
dicated late today. 1
Russian troops pouring out of
the old czarist capital are violently
attacking the Finns in the
The Helsinki corr
________ ._____ . The date was changed from Jan-
minutes talking to his brother, j uary 29 after Lieut-Col. W. W.
James, in the army who spent sterling, military adviser on civil-
$82.50 to tell him he was all right.. ian defense for the Eighth Corps
Galveston will black out tonight
in the first maneuvers of its kind
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland | on the Texas Gulf coast as Texans
man says he has been driven to it. hasten their efforts to comply with
He signs his name “Adolph (not — - - - -
Hitler) Goehring (not Goering).”
Galveston to Try
First Blackout
Of War Tonight
4,000 Volunteers to
Act in Various Home
Defense Organizations
By The Associated Press
More than 4,000 • volunteers will I pol to combat the threat at their
act as air raid wardens, fire fight-' rear.
_ • 49, based on reports received here
DALLAS, Jan. 7 (AP),—To b« up to 8:30 a. m., central standard
time, today:
“1. Philippine theater: Heavy
armies in retreat along the entire
1,200 mile Soviet battle front.
ment, having taken in $95,000 to-
ward $135,000.
Troops Equipped With Paper Money
Not Worth Paper It Is Printed On
(Lloyd Lehrbas covered the Chinese-Japanese war from its be-
ginning in 1937 until he flew across Asia and Africa to be in at the.
start of the European war at Warsaw in 1939. In those years he
saw at first-hand the “new order” methods Japan used to loot
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Good response is reported at
Fort Worth, where the campaign is
to begin January 22.
Three counties in the El Paso
area, El Paso, Hudspeth and Cul-
berson. have $5,664.25 toward a
quota of $45,000.
Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps
CAES DERA men
HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. 7 (AP).
All passengers escaped serious in-
jury when seven cars of the Texan,
including three passenger coaches,
were derailed 30 miles from Hous-
ton, between Spring and Conroe,
yesterday.
. - „ .. ... .. g the Stockholm newspaper Afton-
have made the transatlantic round , Russian front had been strength-
trip with ease without refueling- ened by reinforcements from Len-
Germany was beaten before the ingrad and were throwi
raid could be made and the shiplion after battalion into
tion. The veteran commissioner,
a native of Ellis county, eaid, “I
seek reelection on the merits of my
record as an agricultural official.”
To the United States armed forces and their allies, the president not count as revenues), and proposed borrowing of $35,540,792,000 from
promised that the budget meant "a crushing superiority in equipment” social security and other government trust funds and from the public.
To the public he said that it meant heavy new taxes because "a
fair distribution of the war burden is necessary for national unity.”
yet been determined.
At least 45 bombers rained ex-
plosives on the fortifications Sev-
eral hits on the invaders' planes
were recorded.
On the entire front, with the
American and Philippine defenders
Ac.. drawing their forces together in
8:30 a. m. Monday-. After opening 1 the peninsula west of the occupied
the vault for the two men, Fu - j capital city, there was heavy fight-
neaux was locked inside and the' - r " -*T-
robbers escaped in a car.
Remember Pearl Harbor
To Sell Stock for
Delinquent Taxes
Vice- President Henry A. Wallace (left) and Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex).
—iphoittihth-pttinuhhtliutttii.qiteiititili
Japanese Repeat Looting Methods
In Philippines, They Used in China
2 th. —-E-g ported that Russian troops had
could better the Hindenburg's penetrated Finnish on the
transatlantic crossing time of 55jeast front north of Lake Onega, a
hours; for it cruises at 70 miles;different sector, and that the Red
an hour and has a top speed of 85-army offensive was continuing
Moreover. years of transatlantic there.
dirigible operations have given the
Galveston has $18,000 and plans _
an intensive drive to reach $34,000. tary scrip,” good only in the cities
.cdis!
United States produces in quan-
-tity.
All engineer units will be under
the direction of Lieut. Col. W. W.
Wanamaker, district army en-
gineer.
Buy Defense Bonds andaStamps
Confesses Part
In Sudan Holdup,
‘ FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan1. 7
Armies at Sevastopol)
By The Associated Press
Sea-borne Russian troops striking back into the Crimea at
many points, were reported tightening a trap around Adolf
_ Hitler’s armies at Sevastopol today, while on the central
heatedntanapoizsenma inheaoesnn front, retreating nazi forces were said to have left 10,000
know where he’ll go from there. । dead on the battlefield and yielded 572 towns in five days.
---- At the same time, the Ger-
Nanking and prodaimeri the estab.
lishment of banks of issue which tend
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Gainesbille Daily Register
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In the Ukraine, Hitler’s field
headquarters admitted that the
Soviet counter offensive had
breached German lines northeast
of Kharkov but declared that
German troops counter-attacked
and succeeded in straightening out
the front
Meanwhile, diplomatic quarters
in Turkey said general mobiliza-
tion was under way in Rumania
and Hungary with the Germans
trying to muster all possible man-
power to check the retreat in Rus-
sia.
Soviet informants said Russia
expected to drive the invaders be-
। hind the Leningrad -Smolensk-
Dnieper river line more than 200
miles west of Moscow, around
February 1, “turning the nazi re-
treat into a military catastrophe in
the bitterest part of the winter.”
Advices reaching London said
rize
of their cameras, short wave* ra- pace of the Russian counter-sweep
dios, firearms or field glasses ex-1 was increasing as reinforcements
Aerial Reconna
sold late this month are 18,745
shares of common stock of the
True Oil company of Ballinger. I
Tex., for delinquent income taxes!
of Eldridge S. Price, internal reve-
nue agents said yesterday.
They declared Price pleaded |
guilty December 27, 1935, to eva- ,
sion of income taxes amounting to
WASHINGTON, January 7
(AP).-Assistant District Attor- (AP).—The War department
ney Stanley Bransford announced said today defenders of the
today that Jimmy Leroy Pennick,.. —A-
20, of Denver City, Texas, had Philippines are withstanding
confessed to him complicity in the continuous bombing and
$5,489 robbery of the Sudan Na- chine gunning on their tight
56 Billion Dollar War Budget and
New Taxes to Top All Existing Levies
THOROUGH
CHEYENNE, Wyo.— When
Supply Sergeant Joe Fala-
grady tells his assistants to do
something they get it done.
9 He ordered them to issue a
batch of overcoat* to newcom-
ere at Fort Warren. They
bore the swastika at the war’s
;' * outbreak — the transatlantic vet-
eran, Graf Zeppelin, and the great
LZ-130, sister ship of the Hinden-
burg which was destroyed by fire
at Lakehurst, N. J., in 1937.
Either dirigible could be fitted
to carry up to ten bombers within
easy striking distance of the At-
lantic coast and could hover off
shore while the planes loosed de-
struction'on the cities, experts
here said. Or the Zeppelins, them-
I selves, could undertake a suicide
mission and do their own bombing.
FDR Anticipates Attacks
N President Roosevelt, in his mes-
eage to congress yesterday, ac-
i Aknowledged that the enemy might
try air attacks on great population
fe centers in an attempt at “terror-
izing our people" and undermining
E 4 morale.
I v a wn ^9 g
12 2a 222 3
% ___ lm.2-
was destroyed. • iest fighting seen in eastern Ka-
The Graf Zeppelin, by compari- relig since lastSeptember.. This
son, is a ship of 4,000,000 cubic sgEested German, pressure on
feet, and the LZ-130 has a capacity Leningrad had eared.
of 7,000,000. The latter probably
HIEF SWEET, VICTIM HOT
HEMPSTEAD, N. Y.—Philip Le-' ________________
-f- Engjneerjng Contract Let for Camp
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eed.
22.
by making purphases in the com-
pany of several American cor-
respondents.
tapau ran Turn Dowa Scrip
Despite his rank, this Japanese
officer's “military scrip” was
turned down flatly by three Japa-
nese—not Chinese,, but Japanese-
and towns and countryside he
helped conquer. Chinese who re-
fused the spurious currency the
first time had ft offered to them
the next time at the point of a
bayonet^ora rtfle.
Jap—me carpet-baggers flockd
to China in the wake of the Japa-
neae invading armies with bales of
phoney money or restricted yen
notes. With it they bought all
available rice, tin and other vitally
GAINESVnJFCOOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, 1942 (SIX PAGES) NUMBER 112
ttcisi A
sgea-zged,y ' ■
Russians Tightening
Trap Around German
mans acknowledged a heavy
Soviet push in the Donets
river valley of the Ukraine
against the industrial city of
Kharkov, Russia’s Pittsburgh.
A bulletin from Hitler’s field
headquarters asserted* that Rus-
sian troops who landed from barges
at Yevpatoriya, on the west Cri-
mean coast, 40 miles north of Se-
vastopol, had' been wiped out “in
brisk house-to-house fighting.”
Countering the German version,
a London radio broadcast reported
that the Russians had established
a beachhead, that heavy fighting
is going along the shore at Yev-
patoriya, and that German forces
were moving north from Sevas to-
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