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VOLUME 52
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 25, 1942 (SIX PAGES) NUMBER 154
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Proposals for such legislation
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Bledsoe’s next-door neighbor told
stolen the tires and wheels from
Bledsoe’s automobile.
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Plans ‘Struggle’
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entered a definite stalemate, with
By The Associated Press
exhausted.
positions along the Lngayen gulf
It came 32 hours after a sub-
• For almost 11 hours her body
cast congressional action if the
dly
farmers of the country.”
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to restrict such sales might add
one billion dollars to living costs.
lay unidentified in the morgue un-
til an uncle viewed it and said the
victim was Dorothy Broc, 17, of
suburban Berwyn, daughter of a
Theatre Patrons Mistake
Fatally Wounded Girl’s
Scream for Part of Show
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‘Work or
Fight’ Law
Fuehrer Says Russian
Drive Has 'Collapsed
Miserably’ in Message
"Our enemy then hoped to inflict children who are not required lo-
on the German army the fate of the cally for the war effort.”
Nine Nippon Bombers
Forced to Flee From
Java Objective*
Three Japanese Transports Sunk;
Spokesman Admits Heavy Losses
the Japanese abandoning at least
temporarily their hitherto costly
effort to crack General Douglas
MacArthur’s line across the pen-
insula.
There are at present no indica-
tions whether the Japanese are
awaiting reinforcements, planning
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generally to counter-battery fir-
ing.
Congress May Give War
Board Power to End
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refineries last night.
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TAKING NO CHANCES
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Fred
darned its Hights first at 2:25
a, m San Diego, just 17 miles
from the border did not receive
its lights out order until 3:05
a. m,
Unofficial sources said army of-
ficials at Riverside, 40 miles east
of Los Angeles, ordered the black-
out.
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later they were treated to a gi-
gantic Fourth of July-like display
as huge searchlights flashed along
a 10 mile front to the south, con-
Merging on a single spot high in
the sky.
< Moments later the anti-aircraft
By CLARK LEE
WITH GEN. MacARTHUR ON
THE BATAAN PENINSULA,
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25
(AP). — Drastic “work or
fight" legislation may soon
be sought by the administra-
tion to give the War Labor
board a strong hand in its
and a woman, were seized by
police at the beach city of
Venice on suspicion of signal-
ing with flashlights near the
There was speculation the un-
identified object might have been
Protesting that the original om out in attemptea landinps on the
FOB THE CUSTOMERS.
SALT LAKE CITY.—Merchant
Edwin Q. Cannon is asking the
city to ease its ban on sidewalk
obstructions to let him put a bi-
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35; high for year, 78; low tor
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People
Their idiosyncrasies,
Their Joys and Sorrows.
attacks against Bataan and the is-
land fortress of Corregidor from
new directions, or whether they
are content to tighten their encir-
clement in an attempt to starve
the American-Filipino defense
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ing President Roosevelt’s war ad-
dress to the nation Monday night
Buy Defense Bonos and Stamps
Choose 8 Jurors
To Try Mrs. Barr
DALLAS, Feb. 25 (AP).—Com-
pletion of the jury in the trial of
Mrs. Juanita Barr, charged with
murder of Mrs. Blanche Woodall,
night club worker, was expected
today.
When the court adjourned yes-
terday, eight jurors had been se-
lected. Mrs. Barr is the estranged
wife of a former Dallas newspaper
columnist,
District Attorney Dean Gauldin
said yesterday a so-called mystery
man in the case knew about as
much about the material facts sur-
rounding the killing as * resttsi
motorist driving by on the day of
the shooting.
Ever since the slaying there has
been much conjecture regarding
the man sitting in a parked car
in front of Mrs. Woodall’s apart-
ment 45 minutes before the shots
were fired.
Gauldin said the man was mere-
ly a casual acquaint!unce of Mrs.
Woodall and had been asked to go
by her home and take her to a
party to be attended by mutual
friends. Gauldin said the man ar-
rived at the apartment and found
Mrs. Barr was a visitor. Mrs.
Woodall informed him she would
be delayed and he drove away.
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axis—Germany and Japan—detail the courses of conquest which President Roosevelt saw as _
United States fail to keep open world-girdling supply routes (broken lines) to make possible a united natiol
fensive. : ’ ______
Senator Brown (D-Mich), uged
farm state senators to accept his
amendment intended to keep mar-
ket prices of cotton, corn and
wheat near present levels.
Bay Defense Bonds and Stamps
TOKYO, Feb. 25 (AP). — The
navy ministry announced today
that Rear Admiral Shusaku Shi-
buya had been killed in action
February 14 off Boreno.
Boy Defense Bonds and Stamps
JAIL FLOODED
STINNErr, Feb. 25 (AP).—A
few more hours and Stinnett citi-
seas would have had a flood on
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (AP).
President Roosevelt stepped di-
rectly into the senate dispute over
farm prices today with a letter
that a pending bill represented
“selfish interests” at a time the
very existence of the country was
at stake.
The chief executive said a pro-
posal to restrict sales of govern-
ment held stocks of farm com-
modities would do “irreparable
damage to the war efforts and the
a. m. (9:19 a. m. CWT). were said to have orginated with
Mrs. H. G. Landis telephoned po- officials charged with responsibili-
lice that fragments of metal fell ty for all-out war production,
about her home and a “chunk of President Roosevelt has repeatedly
something” dug a hole in her back- “tressed the need for uninter-
yard. An arms expert said the frag- rupted production in numerous
ments were from an anti-aircraft speeches during the last year, but
shell । the arms program nevertheless has
A ____ . _ _ ._ lost hundreds of thousands of man-
A newspaperman at San Pedro ; hours because of labor-manage-
said airplanes passed over the Los ment, jurisdictional and other
mucusue . zenuruuu zriguuua wu ‘ Angeles-Long Beach harbor area. troversies.
2 sheriff’s deputies somebody had The craft were not identified,
stolen the tires and wheels from There were no reports of any
contract
Congress May Act
The president’s call for uninter-
rupted war production brought
predictions in congress, mean-
while, that if the war labor board
failed to find a formula to keep
all of the industrial wheels turn-
ing wiahout stop, congress would
act to see that the job was done.
Senator Hill of Alabama, the
Democrtatic whip, said he felt
that some legislation might be
necessary to give the board broad-
er authority to prevent strikes.
"It Just isn’t in keeping with
any all-out effort to win a war
to have anybody stop work,
even for an hour,” Hill told
reporters.
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AU Fronts Quiet unique in history,” Hitler declared subjects from the embattled Indies
AU fronts have been relatively in a message to nazi party follow- to Australia may already have
quiet, with artillery action limited era. started, “particularly women and
’ ma., g.2 u__> .. .. _ blacklisted and their employment
, Firing, first heard shortly, after banned for a period of time by any
3 m..0eased suddenly at 3:30 Plant working on a government
a. m., after the object disappeared
Anti-Aircraft Guns
In Los Angeles Area
Thunder During Night
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 (AP). — Anti-aircraft gun
thundered over the metropolitan area today for the first time
in the war, but hours later what they were shooting at re-
------------------------—•mained a military secret.
wammuum An unidentified object mov-
ing slowly down the coast
from Santa Monica, was van-
ously reported as a balloon
and an airplane.
eme Some observers claimed to have
922 2 seen two planes over Long Beach
Eed Army intelligence, although un-
aMKddMk V2 communicative scoffed at reports
E8eug 22 of civilian observers that as many
Ed •as 200 planes were over the area.
m 5 WEMA There were no reports of bomb-
E 2594 ’ A ing. but several instances of dam-
Edsmmdk A aged property from anti-aircraft
E88 shells.
5 'Mp 2 Wailing air raid sirens at 2.25
E * a a. m. Pacific war time, awakened
Eppd most of the metropolitan area’s
E ■ ? i 3,000,000 citizens. A few minutes
south of Signal HUI, at the east
edge of Long Beach. Anti-aircraft
guns fired steadily for two minute
periods, were silent about 45 sec-
onds. and continued that routine
nearly half an hour.
Large Area Blacks Out
AH of Soothers California
from the San Joaquin valley to
the Mexican border was
blacked out. Los Angeles
WLB failed to guarantee the un-
interuupted production the presi-
dent wanted.
This action might come, sug-
gested Senator Taft (R-Ohio), in
the form of legislation to freeze
the open and closed shop status
of war industries and to link
wages to the cost of living. Under
the latter provision, he said, wages
would advance only as the cost of
living rose.
Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps
New Industry for
East Texas Talked
GLADEWATER, Tex, Feb. 25
(AP).—The government is willing
to spend $10,000,000 for building a
federally-operated plant producing
of synthetic rubber in thia area,
J. O. Newberry, manager of the
Gladewater chamber of commerce.
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craft gunners reported seeing un- ■ Monday night radio address not to
identified planes. stop work a single day.
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the guns of Corregidor and other
fortified islands have been intensi-
fied. The Japanese have fired
hundreds of shells against Cor-
regidor. ,
real estate man. She finished
high school this month.
Police obtained only a vague de-
scription of the youth who stepped
across her bleeding body, sprinted
up an aisle and escaped in the
confusion late yesterday.
Noisy with pistol shots and
girlish screams, "Hellza-Poppin,"
had finished and a companion pic-
ture, “Sealed Lipa,” had started
building its mystery plot
in the nearly empty balcony,
Dorothy was sitting with a young
man. Suddenly she cried:
"Help, oh help me! He’s got a
gun!”
Those nearby heard her but as-
sociated her cry with the zany
antics of the picture just ended.
A scene in the crime feature, a
fight in a prison mess hall, had
the sound amplifiers roaring a per-
fect cover for the shot that fol-
lowed by a few seconds. .
-Oh. get that man! Ta shot!”
_ -__.0. ._ - the defenders of the southern front
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items ta gen in rads DY Japs Land at Martaban
her= included binoculars, : A German brnadraat said a Jap-
mas armada of 60 ships had
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miles west of Los Angeles proper. Inot subiect to the selective sery- Feb. 23 (Delayed) (AP).
Observers said the object ap- ice who went on strike would be battle of Bataan appears to have
peared to be 8,000 feet or higher. —*—J - Hefimit- ---•- —"*h
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A WORLD AT WAR AS PICTURED IN ROOSEVELT TALK—Black arrows extending from the primipals of the suit planes intercepted a formation
— — possibilities, should the Of nine Japanese bombers es-
* counter-of- corted by 14 fighter planes over
m Java and forced the raiders to
forces into eventual capitulation Bataan front, which is dominated
when supplies and provisions are] by American-Filipino artillery, the
■ ' Japanese have abandoned medical
As outlined by one influential
„t+n + n- .-democratic senator, the legislation
attempttohombthissareafromtheprohabiy would include provisions
air although many war- vital tac for the immediate drafting into
a blimp. —
• An official source which declined task-of eliminating all stop-
to be quoted directly told the asso- pages in arms production,
dated Press U. S. army planesi An informed source predicted
quickly went into action. Just be- today this request to congress was
fore dawn, another official said no likely, and indications were it
U. S. craft had gone in pursuit be- would command strong support
cause of danger from their own especially since President Roose-
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enemafentimlpandscehstodrym Eorced enemy forces" had forced
at the Japanese, who in the early --5 W-t ,
days of the Bataan fighting used T- “ -- *ken--—
and had hidden the tires and ODet followed. tary service but who had received
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based at Java yesterday.
I Dutch headquarters acknow-
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By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Allied warplanes blasting
at Japan’s sea-borne invaders
were credited officially today
with sinking three big enemy
transports in the critical bat-
tle for the Dutch East Indies, •
while a Tokyo spokesman ac-
knowledged 26 Japanese
transports had been sunk or
damaged to date in the Far
Pacific.
The , spokesman. Commander
Itaru, Tashiro of the naval press
section, said Japan expected even
heavier losses because the united
nations had more than 1,000
planes in the war zone and 40 to
50 submarines.
A U. S. War department bulle-
Douglas MacArthur’s forces
on the Bataan peninsula, was
credited with machine - gun-
ning 16 Japanese in one hot
bit of action at Abucay Ha-
cienda early in January. At
^Clarendon his half-brother,
• 7 Roy, received news of the
feat with “Sixteen of ’em,
g huh? Yep, I guess that’s
pretty good.”
IRON OONFERENCE EELD4
DALLAS, Feb. 25 (AP).—R. EL
Letourneau, Minois
at developing an fw industry in
•ITTT- guns opened up throwing a sheet
MACHINE-GUNNER— JU- i of steel skyward.
lius Stewart, Jr., of Claren- Three Japanese, two men
don, Ark., a private with Gen.
'flee.
The bulletin said one Japanese
bomber and one fighter plane were
shot down. Four other enemy
bombers and two fighters were
damaged, without loss to the
Americans.
Japs Claim ‘Mortal Blow®
• Word of the allies’ new aerial
counter-punches came as imperial
Tokyo headquarters asserted in an
English-language propaganda
broadcast Japanese planes had de-
livered a “mortal blow to the Brit-
ish and Dutch air forces” with the
destruction of 68 allied planes
Japanese aerial activity also has Napoleonic retreat. This, attempt A bulletin from N.E.I. head-
decreased, although the Japanese has collapsed miserably” quarters said united nations planes
' still control the air and period!- Tn Mcgrow Russians celebrated sank two Japanese transports near
cally receive additional planes, a communique reporting the trium- MacassarranuthemEelehaseisland.
prObadly wer""brougntsby"ahp attacke an airdrome’ nea!
from Formosa and landed some- throe divisions and killing: 12 000 anese-occupied Palembang in low-
where in northern Luzon. troops in the Staraya Russa sec- er Sumatra
in various areas of Luzon Amer- tor, 140 miles below Leningrad. •aP Fleet Sighted
anese-held towns and picking off flank of the nazi armies before strong. Japanese war feet had
Japanese in small groups. Leningrad. A decisive break- been^sighted off Dili, the capital
It is generally believed the Jap- through by the Russians would o Portuguese. Timor, 400 miles
anese high command is preparing gravely endanger the whole north- northwest of Australia and JaP.
for further assaults against Gen- era arm of the German invasion anese parachute troopz hadlanded
eral MacArthur’s Bataan post- and presunmably force a hurried nea, Koepane,,caPita ° the
tions, but may delay a major drive withdrawal of the nazi siege forces Dutehihalt ftheisland I. ,
pending the arrival of reinforce- around Leningrad. .JapaneetransportsinDiuihar-
ments released from action in the soviet front line dispatches also bo: howevert.werkreported,amire
Malaya and Dutch East Indies reported important new Russian and.presumably. this a.resut
areas where their main strength gansduringthelast 48 hours on o.biows, st ruck.by, the Putch-
is atpresent occupied. _ _ g?souther front _ presumaby Australian Karrinon.ofathePortu-
Temperature: High yesterday, Eprgnterdn. ana Stamps
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Waddell of Longview and H. F.
Richardson and C. E. Wharton of
Gladewater were named by the
refiners as an engineering commit-
tee to determine what facilities
were needed.
Chamber of commerce managers
from Longview, Kilgore, Tyler and
Gladewater comprise another com-
mittee that will determine how
much the government is willing to
help in obtaining crude.
Newberry said Washington of-
ficials, the War department, the
petroleum coordinator and the
United State Rubber Reserve cor-
poration told him 15,000 gallons
daily of crude would have to be
MAIL DEFT
L ALBUQUERQUE, N. M—
Pvt. Harry I Meek. has one
of these long, long letters.
It’s from his Antigo, Wis,
Pals and runs 75 feet long on
adding machine paper.
AMUSEMENT OURFEW
ROCKFORD, HL—At 9p.m.
blackout of all business establish-
ments, taverns, clubs, dance halls
and amusement centers "to con-
serve electricity to aid war pro-
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CHICAGO, Feb. 25 (AP).—"Hellza-Poppin and Sealed Ups.”
Those words on the marquee of the downtown Palace theatre sum-
mariwi today a real life mystery more intriguing than the movie crime :
story a young high school graduate was watching when her companion
Agreeing with this viewpoint, shot her to death in the balcony darkness.
It came 32 hours after a sub- Senator Ellender (D-La), a mem- ~ "7 - "
marine fired 25 shrapnel shells at i ber of the labor committee, fore-
the Ellwood tidelands oil field dur- eaet eone-eesienel eintin- ie *he
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between Orel and Khafkov, in the Fuesesaresearonniudtrstinnsypr
Ukraine-with the slaughter of X- rhe5j apanesegained“a Eothola
0nazis. .... J__. in both the Dutch and Portuguese
Htler asserted the coming spring sections of Timor last week.
struggle would be "a settling up Japanese raiders who flew at
with that conspiracy which was feet killed one person and
hatched in the banking bouses o injured five yesterday in dropping
the plutocrats and extended to the 70 bombs on Port Moresby, south-
vaults of the Kremlin." ern New Guinea island outpost less
. 4 . ,___ Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps than 400 miles off the north tip of
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PLENTY OF EVIDENCE
BEDFORD, Ind. — An Indiana
motorist must show his last year’s
property and poll tax receipts be-
fore he can get an automobile li-
cense.
'4 , Farmer Bert Underwood, apply-
ing for his plates, took no chances.
He had with him tax receipts for
4 40 years.
WELa, PREPARED
KENT, Conn.—This town of
1,200 population has a fire-
fighting crew numbering 500.
Robert Nisbit, artist, who
had a large part in organizing
the force, says "it’s none too
Mg because incendiary bombs
could start destructive wood
fires.”
. Virtually all the volunteers
sleep with boots, buckets, _
" brooms and other equipment
at their bedside.
FISHERMAN’S LUCK
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-
John Beard, his 11-year-old son
4 and E. C. Fitzgerald found a
school of throw-back size perch
nibbling at their hooks so they de-
cided to quit fishing.
- They picked up and left—min-
s utes before a shell from an enemy
submarine splintered the pier
where they’d been sitting.
. RIGHT THIS WAY—
DENVER.—In his induction ex-
amination of a draftee, an army
doctor asked:
“Who is Tojo?”
. The youth’s answer:
"The dog-faced boy.”
f He’s in the army now.
CAUGHT HIM
(3 HOUSTON, Tex.—A Christmas
Ucard mailed in Houston last Dec.
• 11 has caught up with the ad-
dressee, James L. Abney, after
more than two months in Houston.
The card followed Abney, an as-
sistant to the U. S. district at-
torney, to the Panama Canal Zone,
where he was on a tour of duty
with the navy. He left soon and
it followed him home.
The sender, a German, was
picked up by the FBI as an enemy
alien the day the card arrived.
_________________j bitter snows of winter were melt- damage wasirslight."’
and eastern Lzon, fearing Amer- temporary stendsUll the series of t"in 3£ondon, ^n^oTOcia^'^okes-
can forces will land behind them, victories of the German army, man hinted evacuation of British
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A East Texas: Warmer tonight,
Becasional rata late tonight in
west portion.
Oklahoma: Somewhat warmer
northwest today, not quite no cold
heart.
The show went on and most of
the audience that filled the main
floor was unaware of the tragedy
above. Patrons continued to enter
and leave the theater and police
believed the Mayer walked out
among them. An alarm system
mowed no emergency exit had
been need.
A man seated about 25 feet
from the couple said the killer was
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