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British Falling
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Uncover Nazi
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Held as Aliens
8 Killed as Mine
Planter Sinks
Fire Destroys
Minden Stores
30,000 Japs
Trapped, Face
Annihilation
Will Fight to Last
Against Massive J ap
Blow Expected Soon
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and husband of the former Hoyt
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prominent Salt Lake City banker.
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With FD, British
Official Declares
F. B. 1. Chief Describes Wartime Operations
As "Undramatic But Intensely Effective”
Chinese Already
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Nazi Positions in
Crimea Threatened
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the last to hold off the attacking
enemy.
Already they have exacted a
fearful cost in casualties and war
material upon the Japanese. A
War Department spokesman said
today that American casualties,
in contrast have been comparative*
ly light.
This indicated that MacArthur,
employing all the tactical skill
for which he is famed, has mar-
shalled his small troops virtually
WASHINGTON. (UP)—Director J. Edgar Hoover of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that spy and
sabotage activity against the United States has been virtual-
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Exact Fearful Cost in Casualties on Japs
WASHINGTON. (UP)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur r,-
ported today that his forces stand ready to meet “with skill •
and courage” a final grand Japanese assault which appears
about to be launched with the aid of strong enemy reinforce- .
ments.
MacArthur, cooly awaited the massive Japanese blow
which may fall at any time, reported that morale of his U. S.
and Philippines forces is notched high.
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“REQUIRED” READING FOR SENATORS—Shirt-sleeved
Sen. Walter George (D., Ga.) chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee and who has had ample experience in budget mat-
ters, wrestles with the largest project faced to date, the
President’s $59,010,000,000 budget for fiscal year 1943, be-
ginning July 1, 1942. (NEA TELEPHOTO)
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Eight civilians were reported kill-
ed and only the master was res-
cued when the junior mine planter
Arnold sank suddenly in a gale
early today while being towed to
Portsmouth.
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"There are indications of enemy
infiltrations east of the Selan-
gore area (north of the key city
of Kuala Lumpuro) but otherwise
the situation is unchanged," the
communique said.
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ethen to abandon the Crimea or
risk the danger that their entire
Crimean army, including its Ital-
ian and Rumanian auxiliaries,
wotid be cut off.
ihe Netherlands exile govern-
ment radio Orange, broadcasting
to Holland from London, asserted
•hat in the Donets river basin,
vhere the Russians are reported
to be developing a big drive on
Kharkov, the German 71st, 98th
und 107th Infantry regiments and
the 37th Chasseurs regiment had
been wiped out. The official
Russian newspaper Izvestia was
cited as authority.
A British military commentator
asserted today that the claws of*
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forces in Malaya fell back on the
lower Perak front following pene-
tration of defense lines by Jap-
anese tank attacks, a communique
said tonight. vdv # # N 4
lec, Lord Privy Seal, speaking in
the House of Commons said todav
that America's entry into the war
had determined its ultimate re-
BANK ROBBER—J. L. Pin-
nick, 20, of Denver City, Yoa-
hum County admitted to Ft.
Worth police that he and a
partner robbed the Sudan Na-
tional Bank in Lamb County
of $5489 early Monday. Pin-
nick was arrested as he left a
Ft. Worth Tavern after a
spending, drunken spree left
him with $936 of his share of
the money. (NEA Telephoto)
BULLETIN
CHUNGKING (UP) (Official
Broadcast recorded by the Unit-
ed Press in San Francisco) — A
Chinese war communique today
claimed Chinese successes over
Japanese unifs on four widely
scattered fronts, including the
main theater of action near
Changsha.
BULLETIN
MOSCOW. (Official broadcast
recorded by United Press in
London) — A special war com-
muniue said tonight that in the
first six days of January more
than 180 localities were recap-
tured by Russian troops on the
southwestern front and more
than 8,000 Germans killed.
The Army, In disclosing the ac-
cident. said the mine planter Baird
; disabled (nine planter in tow,
in Russia, pox sibly to the Smo-
lynsk-Dnieper river line* and to
evacuate Norway, which has been
oi no use to the army.
“At home they will take over
all the government posts, they
would ‘liquidate’ all the important
members of the Nazi party with-
out Jrial. and a new government
of generals would tom to “he
world with peace proposais."
Japanese Tanks
Penetrate Lines;
Seeking to
Flank Defenders
message that Amerii
RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil—
(UP) — Officials listed 28 persons
killed and 38 injured today in the
city’s “worst storm in 40 years,”
.with rescuers toiling through the
wreckage of collapsed buildings in
search of still other victims.
Heavy rains caused the struc-
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The radio station is described
a the "Gustav Siegfried" which,
I he report says, “pours out con-
tenpt and hatred for the Schutz-
tuffel and Hitlerism."
“It is obvious that the army
Icaders mizht have to face a
re cions social disturbance if they
sitempted to, take over control in
Germany, but our informants in-
sist that they will try when a
serious defeat is suffered," the
review said.
“Should present conditions on
the Russian front continue, an
army putsch in Mip • matter M
an interview with the United
Press.
“If President Eamon de Valera
were to agree to grant the bases
tomorrow I don't believe it would |
do any good,” he said. “It would
only disunite the Irish people. It
would be almost certain to put
Eire right into the war.
“The people in my country have
found that their policy of neutral- |
ity has been best for them. They
don’t want to get into the war.
The only way in which they will
get in is if they are attacked as
as you "ere.
“Then, if they are attacked,
they will be, as you are, united. 1
That would be the best for every-
body concerned. I don't think any-
thing would be gained by insist-
ing on the bases now.”
The suggestion that the United !
States might try to persuade Eire I
to grant the bases came from Lon-
don after President Roosevelt
Congretss in his State of
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. still were buried beneath debris.
The storm, striking Tuesday
. night, tied up traffic and cut off
: power in the center of the city,
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penetrated our defenses. i
forces then were withdrawn
south of the Slim civer.
would arrive here late this after- . , c., ~
noon with the lone survivor. Capt . Dutch Sink German
William H. Chasteen of Water-
He indicated plainly that he* •
and his men are ready to fight to
DETROIT (UP)— Agents of the
Dies committee charged today
that a big Nazi propaganda organ-
ford. Conn.
The Arnold a 98-foot craft went
down in heavy seas and a snow-
storm about 50 miles off Fort Con-
stitution which guards the en-
trance to Portsmouth Harbor.
The Arnold left the fort at noon
yesierday to go to the aid of an
L-boat a smalr’army mine planter
which had beecome disabled in
delay — every hour
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MINDEN (Spl.) — Fire early
this morning destroyed three
frame buildings owned by Elmer
Barefield, housing a garage, gro-
cery store, the U. S. post-office
and barber shop.
The buildings and their contents
were a total loss. Amount of dam-
age was not estimated, but it
probably will run around $5,000.
The flames first were discov-
ered around 1:05 a.m. today, when
the entire roof of the Barefield
was operating out of
EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy
and not quite so cold, but still
freezing.
said they and Detroit
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HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 8. 1912
WASHINGTON. (UP) — The
use of pressure by the United
States to induce Eire to give
naval and air bases to the Allied
forces would be a “grave mistake.”
Robert Brennan, Irish Minister to
the United States, said today in
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intact into their strong final posi-
tions in Bataan Province and
Fortress Corregidor awaiting all-
out Japanese attack.
The communique today report-
ed that the Japanese, who prob-
ably outnumber MacArthur's com-
mand at least four or five to
one, are rushing heavy reinforce-
ments up to the front “probably
preparatory to a large-scale gen-
eral attack.”
As each side jockeyed for posi-
tion preparatory to the decisive
battle there was a momentary lull
in the Japanese air attack qf
Rocky Corregidor and the strong
positions in which MacArthur has
emplaced his troops on Bataan
peninsula.
The Japanese instead sent over
reconnaissance planes, the com-
munique revealed, apparently to
determine the extent of damage
inflicted upon the powerful gun
positions and rock-protected posi-
tions of Corregidor.
The communique made plain
that the lull in the air was not
accompanied by any cessation of
ground pressure.
"Fighting of varying intensity”
was reported along the Luzon
land front, presumably consist-
ing of punches by Japanese forces
at MacArthur’s short, tight de-
fensive line in an attempt to
locate weak spots at which the
final assault may be directed.
Assistant Secretary of War
John J. McCloy reported that the
War Department has had no com-
plete report on casualties on either
the American or Japanese side.
MacArthur. he Indicated, has
b< cn too busy fighting to furnish
the department with detailed bul-
letins on the progress of the bat-
tle. However McCloy said that
indications were that American
casualties! have not been "unduly
heavy" and that Japan has lost
“considerably more” troops than
has MacArthur.
MacArthur himself, McCloy
said, is in the field at the aide of
his troops, directing their opera-
tions in person. He declined to
indicate whether MacArthur's
headquarters were on the Bataan
peninsula or deep within Corregi-
Henderson’s coldest weather of
the year arrived this morning, on
the 54th anniversary of “cold
Friday," most frigid day Texas
has ever known.
The temperature today went
down to 18 degrees, far above
the Jan. 8, 1886 mark of three
degrees,, lowest temperature ever
rocorded here.
The weather forecast for to-
night indicatd partly cloudy
weather, with possible milder tem-
peratures, still in the freezing
zone. There was no direct pre-
diction for the eastern sector of
East Texas.
Ground was frozen to a depth
of, approximately four inches
this morning, farmers reported.
This is an inch below the previous
freezing mark.
Scattered flurries this morning
hi ought a belated promise of
snow, but skies began clearing .o
some extent around noon. Traffic
conditions, extremely hazardous
during the past few days, were
SALT LAKE CITY. (UP) -
• "And there will be no relaxation
of the intense program vhich has
given us this favorable position in
meeting the threat of devastating
secret warfare,” he said.
He said this hidden challenge
against peace and security long
had been anticipated and planned
for. He described FBI wartime
operations as "undramatic but in-
tensely effective."
, "The less the foreign agent
knows about these operations, the
. more insecure he feels,” he said.
Rather than follow the usual
' procedures of law enforcement in
meeting the threat of secret war-
fare, he said, the FBI and cooper-
ating agencies have engaged in
। counterespionage.
LONDON, (UP)—A German
ubmarine has been torpedoed and
Sunk by a Dutch sumbarine in the
Mediterranear, the Netherlands
Admiralty said today.
The Dutch submarine, operating
with the Royal Navy, picked up 12
officers and ratings from the Ger-
man U-boat and landed them at a
British port.
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When war broke out in Europe
in 1939, he said, President Roose-
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WASHI NGTON ( UP)— German
army officer- are working in
direct opposition to Adolf Hitler,
even using an underground radio
station to attack him, and the
trmy plans to take over “when
the moment is propitious," ac-
voiding to unofficial reports cir-
v dating here today.
The reports are accorded pro-
vainence in the weekly review.
"Foreign Correspondence,” pub-
lished by Sir Willmott Lewis,
I andon Times correspondent, and
Edward Weintal, a Polish jodP-
nahist.
i planes—and guns.
Hit the enemy with a $25
Bond. Hurt him with a $50
Bond. Help to blow him sky-
Three Austrian skiing stars- two
of them married to American heir-
esses have gone from America’s
winter playgrounds into intern-
ment because they were regarded
as questionable aliens.
Weeks after rumors began cir-
culating in the mountain region
that Prominent German and Aus- | "It is often more advantageous
trian skijers had. been, taken into 1 to keep under su1 veillance a
custody, the Federal Bureau of In- . known or of spies
vestigation at Washington con-lpotentia saboteurs than it is to
firmed last night that three were make premature arrests, » he said
being held. They were: "Surveillance permits observation
Frederick Friedl Pfifer, director of their contacts methods of com-
of the Sun Valley, Ida., ski school munication; sources of informa-
tion and permits warding off any
overt act."
Defense
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sul without a shadow of doubt,
and that the visit to Washington
or Prime Minister Winston Chur:
chili had resulted in a degree of
unity and co-operation which
could niot possibly have been
achieved by any other means.
In a tribute to President Roose-
velt’s gigantic arms program, he
added:
“It shows that the full power
of American industry is going.
LONDON (UP)—Fresh Russian
divisions driving the Germans
back from Moscow "turned the
tide" of fighting on the eastern
front, Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden said today in telling Com-
mons that "the German army in
Russia today is not, the German
army” of six months ago.
Eden’s statement was made as
news dispatches told of a power-
ful Russian drive that threatened
the entire German position in the
Crimea and of intensified attacks
•in German lines all along the
eastern front as far north as
Leningrad.
The combination of new Russian
divisions thrown into the Moscow
front and of the "wearing down”
of the Germans resulting in turn-
ing the trend of battle, Eden said.
“This does not mean that there
is any guarantee against further
setbacks in the future,” he added.
"It does not mean that the Ger-
i man army is not still very strong.
‘ What it does mean is that the
German army in Russia today is
r ot the German army of last June
22 (when the Nazis invaded
Russia.) ”
An Exchange Telegraph Stock-
holm dispatch, quoting Swedish
advicts from Berlin, said Germany
expected further troop landings
on the Crimean coast and recog-
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TOKYO. (Official Japanese
broadcast recorded by the
United Press in New York) —
Capt. Hideo Hiraide, press chief
of the Navy section of Imperial
General Headuarters, challenged
the American and British navies
today to "come out and fight" in
the Pacific.
“The sooner the better for
Japan because such a battle will
end the struggle at once," Hi-
raide Mid in a nation-wide
broadcast.
police had seized six large boxes
containing records of the National
Workers League and tracts de-
"scribing the defeat of the United
States and Britain as a "foregone
conclusion aind President Roose-
volt and Prime Minister Winston
Churchill a. “Jew war mongers.”
The agents summoned Parker
Sa c, treasurer of the league, to
testify before the committee,
either here -pr in Washington.
They said they wanted to find out
CAIRO (UP)—-Imperial troops
pursued the main Axis North
African forces today after Gen
Erwin Rommel abandoned his last
hold in Cyrenaica and under cover
of a dense sandstorm retreated
mto Tripolitania, leaving rear
guards and mine fields to protect
his withdrawal.
Rommel, his Afrika Korps and
tattered remnants of a defeated
Italian army were moving from
Agedpbia, 90 miles south of
Benghazi, into ‛ territory already
penetrated .by British imperials,
British general headquarters for
’lie Middle East said in a com-
munique. The withdrawal of the
Axis troops started the British
on the second lap of a drive
which, it was hoped, would carry
them through to the Tunisian
border before Rommel again can
make a stand. '
Coldstream and Scots Guards
led The pursuing force.-.
Military' experts believed that
even more important than Rom-
mil’s abandonment of his Age-
dabia position was the fact that
the British again had the main
Axis forces on the move, afford-
timne. The generals intend to sal-
ynge as much military conquest
as possible.
"Their plan is to withdraw the
German army to a horter front
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This war calls for every ounce
of energy every dime and dollar
I we can muster for ships—and
Hsueh Yeuh, commander of the
80,000 Chinese troops who sound-
ly trounced 120,000 Japanese try-
ing for the third time to take
Changsha, said today that 30,000
Japanese Were encircled 20 to 30
miles northeast of Changsha, fac-
ing "..dhUaUu... Jr1
Approximately 85,000 casualties
already have been inflicted on the
Japanese army.
Gen. Hsueh received newspaper
correspondents at a victory cele-
bration attended by - Lieut. Col.
David Barrett, assistant Ameri-
can military attache at Chung-
king. Col Darrett toasted Gen.
Hsueh ai eneralissimo’ Chiang
Kia-Shek.
Gen. Hsueh said the Japanese
who were encircled northeast of
Changsha had no chance of break-
ing out of a carefully planned
Chinese troop disposition. They
will be unable to cross the Mile
river, 40 miles north of Chang-
sha. because all the crossings are
held by Chinese forces. All other
dicated that the Japanese were
attempting to wo:k through the
jungles in the middle cf the Ma-
layan peninsula in an effort to
envelop or flank the British lines.
The town of Slim is on the rail-
road approximately 50 miles north
of the Kuala Lumpur.
The withdrawal in the Slim
river sector was a continuation of
retirements almost every day this
week in an effort to establish a
strong front In defense of Kuala
Lumpur, an operation which the
Japanese had been attempting to
prevent by flanking attacks.
“The enemy infantry and tanks
maintained heavy pressure
throughout Wednesday on the
lower Perak front.” the com-
munique said. "At one point tanks
immediately after a spokesman in
high quarter.-. in an astonishingly
frank criticism of the entire
British defense, in Malaya, said
of Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert
Brooke-Popham, recently replac-
ed as commander in chief:
“The only comfort I have, and
I do not' apologize for my langu-
ige, is that I am glad dnincom-
poop of that kind was promptly
replaced. by Gen. Sir Archibald
Wat ell.”
Of the position in Malaya,
Atice said the British Empire
forces had now withdrawn to a
line about 60 miles north of Kuala
Lumpur, J. 260 miizs north of
Singapore.
Discussing the Washington con-
ference, the official spokesman
revealed that one of the main
topics discussed by by the Pres:
• ident and Prime Minister Churchill
was the appointment of a Supreme
liar Council.
He said he was unable to
amplify his statement in the ab-
sence of Mr. Churchill.
Attlee announced, regarding
the Washington agreement for
unified Allied command in the
Pacific, that the command of Gen.
Wavell, the Allied generalissimo
on land, did not include Australia
or India.
He said Wai ell’s command
covered Burma, excluded French
Indo-China and extended to north
of the Philippines, thence down
to a line drawn to thF north
coast of Australia and around the
islands of the Malay Archipelago.
He emphasized that the com-
mns established in the Far
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