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HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEB. 19, 1912
— PRICE FIVE CENTS
VOL. 11—NO. 289
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Up Before Singapore's Surrender to Japs
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Port of Darwin Twice
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U. S. Forces to Aid in Defense of Allied
Stronghold; Air Forces Already in Action
BATAVIA, JAVA. (UP)—Arrival of American troops.
BY HAROLD GUARD
United Press Staff
Flame Throwers
Join in Battle;
Resumption of
Knockout Drive
Defeated by
China Troops
Relieve Pressure
On Burma Road;
Thai Forces Flee
lo Cheing-Mai
CHUNGKING, China. (UP)
tile
Are Expected
Stimson Declares
Nation is Making
Every Effort to
Gain Offensive
for Home of the attacking planes.
Prime Minister Curtin had made
the first announcement of the
raid personally, from his sick bed
at a hospital, where he is recover-
ing from acute gastritis.
At that time it was known only
that a number of bombs had been
dropped.
Curtin said he would make a
front and in
Kharkov.
In addition
Hutchinson, admitted taking the
Jar which they thought contained
wine from a garage.
Burma and the Thailanders are
retreating on Cheing-Mai, an im-
portant base 80 miles on the Thai-
land side of the frontier, it was
announced officially today.
The veteran Chinese troops had
vy pressure.
For the fourth day the Japan*
Churchill May
Name Cripps to
Cabinet Post
Lord Beaverbrook
Probably Will Be
Dropped in New,
Smaller Set-up
LONDON (UP)—Prime Min-
ister Winston Churchill is expect-
ed to announce shortly the cre-
secretary of war in 1911, there was
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Enemy Attacks
On U.S. Coasts
had been sent to American Am-
bassador William Leahy in Vichy.
Today was the first time that
Welles had publicly discussed the
delicate Vichy problem in recent
water upon the Germans who ar-
quickly 'covered with ice, in the moved was destroyed.
Japs' Burma Offensive
RANGOON, Burma. (UP)—British counter-attacks of-
ficially were reported stemming Japan’s all out offensive to-
ward the Burma Road supply line to China today in a climatic
battle still raging on the Bilin River front.
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‘UNREQUITED LOVE’ BELIEVED CAUSE OF DEATHS—Curious onlookers cluster
about the car near Houston in which lies the bodies of Henry M. Griffin, middle-aged
Harris County cattleman, and blond, 19-year-old Mrs. Maxine Long, Houston carhop, inset
at right and also in car (arrow). Griffin apparently fired three shots into the waitress’s
body then two into his own chest. (NEA TELEPHOTO)
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SYDNEY, Australia. (UP)—A strong Japanese air
force of about 100 bombers protected by fighters heavily
bombed the north Australian port of Darwin twice today, in-
flicting considerable damage on military installations in the
vital Allied base. At least four enemy bombers were shot
down.
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including air units, to aid in the defense of Java was disclosed
' officially today as a Japanese bombing of a western airport
: indicated preparations for an early assault against this vital
. Allied stronghold of the United Nations.
destruction was virtually
plete.
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enough yet.”
American ground troops as well
as bomber and fighter pilots are
“now seen frequently in Java.”
according to the agency state-
ment.
naval forces already had been
‘operating in Java for some time
the waistline of Bataan was un-
derstood to be holding ruggedly.
Today’s communique carried
the first official disclosure that
the Japanese are using flame-
throwers, a favorite weapon of
their Axis allies on Che European
fronts, but the exteat of the en-
emy's employment of these fire-
spreading hoses was not disclosed.
Several flame-throwers and a
quantity of ordnance and signal
supplies an well a three pieces of
Japanese artillery were capturea
by MacArthur's men in a "rela-
tively minor local action,” the
communique said.
Apace with the shelling of the
American-Filipino lines, Japanese
guns on the Cavite shore across
Manila Bay continued to pound at
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heard in Calcutta reported that
British forces had been pushed
back by Japanese crossing the
Bilin River but had “maintained
our positions’’ by counter-attack-
ing, according to today’s commu-
nique.) '
British bombers heavilv attack
the Japanese along the river.
The fighting continued without
a pause throughout the night and
this morning after Japanese spear-
heads had thrust across the Bilin
Americans are often seen in
in Germany's secondary defense
line, the army newspaper Red
Star reported today.
Longview south.
Service was broken for over
an hour while a new circuit was
arranged to take care of the wire
traffic. The wire trouble was
responsible for curtailment of
regular market features of the
Daily News.
in three major sectors—
Jap Assault on Strong Enemy
Units Hammer
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Vichy Reply Trial of Five
To U. S. Not
The new war
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WASHINGTON. (UP) Strong
Japanese forces using flam*
throwers and supported by a non-
stop artillery bombardment ar*
hammering at Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur's lines in apparent prepa-
ration for "a resumption of th*
offensive" aimed at a knockout
conquest of the Philippines.
Today's War Department com-
munique, No. 114 of the war, re-
ported increasing pressure on
MacArthur’s thinly-held lines on
Bataan Peninsula and reported 9
ominously that the Japanese ar*
regrouping their numerically su- ,
perior forces.
MacArthur’s right nark anchor-
feated Thailand troops in northern Only small numbers of Amer-,
i lean forces have arrived, accord-
ing to a s • ament which author-
| ities permitted the Aneta News
the Burma Road of supply on
which a Japanese army to the
south was encroaching.
Persistent reports that the Chi-
nese had met the Thailanders
were not confirmed until this af-
ternoon when it was anounced
that a battle was now in progress.
It was asserted that the Thai-
landers had collapsed in the first
phase of the fighting, and that
the immediate Chinese problem
was one of pursuit.
A Chinese spokesman said:
"Chinese forces are moving up
for further penetration into the
enemy lines in order to • relieve
enemy pressure on lower Burma,
near Rangoon.
"We are moving into Thailand
troops advancing over the frozen
northwestern front toward Lenin-
grad have destroyed two enemy
battalions and widened a breech
have recently struck heavy blows
at the Japanese, especially in
aiding Dutch land forces which
are fighting stubbornly on the
island of Sumatra.
The foreign forces have receiv-
ed a heart y welcome from the
entire population, but authorita-
tive sources said that “their num-
bers are by no means large
| when I last sawjthe base Feb. 5.
I Eeor--the_pr was abandoned
American troops was disclosed
and some enemy planes were re-
ported over the city, but no
bombs were dropped.
American air personnel , and
had received detailed news.
An Australian Air Force com-
munique said Australian planes
had encountered Japanese fighter
plane opposition over the Bis-
marck Islands, northeast of the
continent, in their reconnaissance
flights yesterday. Japanese at-
tempts to "interfere with the
Australian planes were unsuccess-
ful, it added.
In attacking Darwin the Jap-
anese had extended their aerial
offensive 1,100 miles to the west
from New Guinea.
about 175 miles to the north in
Central Burma where Chinese
forces had been stationed.
(Dispatches from Chungking
said that Chinese forces on the
northern Burma sector had de-
feated Th iland troops and driven
them back toward Chiengmal, in
an advance "step by step” against
Thailand, but there was no infor-
mation as to an invasion of Thai
territory.)
The Japanese driving toward
Rangoon, which has been partly
evacuated, apparently had been
forced o t into the open paddy
lands oT the Bilin River front af-
ter a long period of attack by in-
filtering through the jungle.
The Imperial Air Force has
smashed with heavy damage at
the Japanese Chiengmal base in
Tailand and there were indica-
tions that the heaviest battle for
Burma might be developing.
United Nations forces now were
holding a front which appeared
to extend from the Gulf of Marta-
ban, 75 miles northeast of Ran-
goon, for some 230 miles due north
and possibly another 250 tiles
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Dog’s Barks Scare
Away Tire Thieves
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (UP)
—Mrs. Clara M. Woodford was
pretty peeved at the family dog,
Mike, when he set up a loud
barking in the middle of the night.
Today she was grateful to the
dog. An inspection of the garage
revealed that thieves had started
to remove the tires from the
family car.
The thieves had removed the
the United States that there had
been no change in the status of
Madagascar.
The Ambassador told him. Wel-
les said, that no demands had been
made upon Vichy for Axis use of
Madagascar.
Asked regarding reports that
German submarines in Atlantic
waters migh be receiving aid
from the French island of Mar-
tinique and Guadalupe, Welles said
that he had received no informa-
tion which would lead to such a
conclusion.
According to diplomatic sources,
Vichy’s representatives have ad-
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Agency to circulate, but the
presence of the United States
hub caps and some of the lug
nuts when the dog’s barking
frightened them away. -
Hhenerson Aailu Newg
WEATHER FORECAST—Not quite so cold tonight.
News* Wire Service
Curtailed by Fire
Leased wire service of
United Press to Henderson
Oil Quota for
March is Cut
AUSTIN (UP)—Jerry Sadler,
Texas railroad commissioner, re-
turned today from a Washington
conference with Federal Oil Co-
ordinator Harold L. Ickes and
announced that tentative recom-
mendation for Texas oil pro-
duction in March is 1,510,600
barrels daily.
Average daily oil production in
Texas last week, as reported to
the Railroad Commission here,
was 1,539,522 barrels.
The March recommendation is
85,400 barrels a day below the
February recommendation. Sad-
ler said that lack of transport
is the principal reason for the
reduction.
The remedy for that, Sadlerj
suggested, is to dig up pipe lines
that are not going to be used in
Texas during the war and use
the materia) to build pipe lines
from Texas to the eastern sea-
board. He estimated that two lines
of 12-inch diameter could be
constructed in this way.
If necessary, Sadler said, the
federal government could re-
quisition the material like it is
drafting men. Sadler said he told
Ickes there are about 14 Texas
pipe lines that could be used in £
this way.
Dispatches described
sage, under escort
Burma roar’ and roughly
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BULLETIN
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WILLEMSTAD, Curacao,
Dutch West Indies. (UP)- AS
Panama-registered tanker wan
torpedoed this morning off th*
Dutch Island of Aruba, th*
He said, however, that he did
not know whether the British
Command in Burma had ordered
a genera) invasion of Thailand
and it was not possible to say
whether the Chinese were starting
a large scale offensive to sever
Japanese communications in Thai-
land.
China’s move, while it was al-
ready fighting a long and bloody
war of its own against a great
Japanese army in China, had come
while its leader, Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Jhek, was in India in
the interest of United Nations.
The first battle had come in an
area less tha 80 miles from the
teries at Singapore were
pounders.
and port in the second raid were
downed. $u—,
Curtin’s announcement, made: , ,, - - . ---- -----
from a sick bed, said that the full announcement as soon as he
bombers had caused considerable
damage but that details were not
available concerning loss of life.
The Japanese planes in their
first direct attack on continental
territory, concentrated on Darwin
itself and on shipping in the har-
bor, the only north coast port, a
communique of the Royal Aus-
trlianAir —Feree said.----- ---------------
Details were not available, but
it was hoped here that the anti-
aircraft batteries which had been
rushed to the Darwin area as soon
as the war started had accounted
bassador, Gaston Henry-Haye,
cabinet, according the ambassador had told him that
association corre-he had been instructed to inform
Enemy Waters
LONDON (UP)—British plan-
es, apparently seeking to trap the
German battleships Scharnhorst
and Gneisenau and the heavy
u, un une na.. Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor
the southwest near of the Exchequer, and Arthur
Greenwood, minister without port-
tralian continent was made by
approximately 75 bombers, ac-
companied by fighter planes,
while 21 bombers participated in
the second raid this afternoon.
Prime Minister John Curtin
said that at least four of the 21
bombers that attacked the city
J400,000,000 naval base at Singa-
pore, British naval officers said
today, was blown up before being
abandoned to the Japanese.
Demolition of the huge install-
ations on which 15 years of effort
had been spent was in progress
steadily during the final days of
the Singapore campaign.
It” is a pump, driven by an Vast quantities of supplies and
electric motor, which squirts cold | equipment were removed by naval
teries and trading tons of steel
with MacArthur's guns, laid down
a bombardment of the American"
Filipino lines.
“Japanese troop movements be-
hind the enemy lines indicated re-
grouping of forces, preliminary
to a tesumption of the offensive," fl
the communique said on the basis . 2
of reports received from Mae-
Arthur up to 8:30 a.m. CWT.
Despite the constant bombard-
ment of his positions by the Jap-
anese guns and squadrons of
dive-bombers, many of which are
believed to have been shifted from
the Malayan battlefront following
Singapore’s surrender, MacAF-
thur’s main line of defense across
step by step in order to bring Al-
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MOSCOW (UP)
destroying the folio and a member of the war
aanse a
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warships and a big fleet of air-
planes, past the English coast.
cruiser Prinz Eugen in their ports, . . ... .. e..
laid mines “in enemy waters” । River within less than..50.mies
two enemy battalions near Lenin-
grad, Red Star said thp Soviet
storm troops had captured 15
cannon, 10 anti-tank guns and
a quantity of other war material.
On the Kalinin front, north-
west of Moscow, dispatches said
more than 1,600 Germans had
been wiped out during a series
of “stiff” engagements near an
important, unidentified town.
Heavy fighting and continued
Russian advances were reported
from an important but unnamed
sector of the southwestern front.
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Britain’s Feb. 10, naval officers said, the
Leon Blum, One
Of Defendants,
Attacks Legality
Of Proceedings
RIOM (UP) — The trial of five
men, once leaders of France, on
charges of failing to prepare their
nation for the war with Germany,
opened today and Leon Blum,
former premier and one of the
defendants, immediately . ttacked
the legality of the proceedings.
Blum, first popular front pre-
mier and first Jew in history to
hold the high post, demanded
that the court find itself uncon-
stitutional and unable to proceed
lawfully.
After Blum, through his at-
torneys, had made the demand,
Gen. Gustave Maurice Gamelin,
generalissimo of the Allied forces
until the fall of Dunkirk, an-
nounced that he would make no
defense against the government’s
charge.
Gamelin, small and grey, was
dressed in mufti when he and the
other four defendants were
brought into the old courtroom
through the damp underground
passageway from the Riom pri-
son.
The other prisoners were Ed-
ouard Daladier, Premier when
war was declared, Guy La Cham-
bre, Daladier’s air minister, and
Pierre Jacomet, feneal secretary
of Daladier’s War Ministry.
Gamelin read a lengthy state-
ment explaining that he would not
defend himself.
“I already have been condemned
politically without being allowed
to defend myself,” he said. "If I
defend myself today I must pro-
nounce French names which I
won’t pronounce.”
Blum's lawyer charged that
when former Premier Pierre Laval
obtained power from Petain to
write a new constitution he prom-
ised that it would be submitted
for public ratification before it
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Two Girls Dead After
“Anti Freeze” Party
HUTCHINSON, Kans. (UP)—
Authorities today investigated
the deaths of two oung women
who died after drinking a jar of
anti-freeze which they mistook
for wine.
The women were Mrs. Frances
Lemen Davis, 19, and Mrs. Cleo-
patra Davis Lemen, 18, sisters-
in-law, both of Hutchinson. A
third victim, Gerald Swisher, 19,
of Gypsum, Kans.. is near death
at" a hospital here.
At least a dozen others drank
from the jar, authorities said.
Some of them were made slightly
tn.
Police skid that Paut -Smith, 16,
of Hutchinson, Ray Tague, 20,
Nations supreme headquarters,
the city of Batavia and the big
naval base at Soerabaja.
The American air forces in-
clude flying fortresses and Cur-
tiss P-40 fighter planes, which'
Press Association said conference with the French am-
reached the Johore side of the
straits.
1 do not believe that any of the
great 15-inch and 18-ineh bat-
teries on which Singapore relied
for defense ever went into action.
They were point if the wrong
way. The British strategists nev-
er thought an t ck from the
land side was possible.
I never heard any of the big
guns fire. Outsides of a few guns
oi larger caliber, the main bat-
the battle after -6 hours of ease-
less attack and counter-attack, it
was reported, with the Japanese
attempting to mass large forces
at bridgeheads they established by
crossing the Bilin.
Enemy losses were reported un-
usually high as the Japanese pour-
ed reinforcements into the front,
including troops moved northward
from Malaya.
(A Rangoon radio’ broadcast
Thailanders
China.
The main enemy attack was di-
rected toward Kyaik-To, 25 air
miles from the Rangoon-Ma ida-
lay railroad at Pegu, but sec-
ond big ’ battle was in progress
ne th side of the island, was fitted
for repair and maintenance of
naval vessels. It had no defenses
of its own, depending for protec-
tion upon the great forts a id
guns guarding the sea approaches
to Singapore.
The only-guns at the base were
some anti-aircraft installations
and som light field artillery,
moved up when the Japanese
SAN FRANCISCO (UP) —
Nathan Clark Knalls, Jr., 26, of
Kaufman, Tex., held in Japan as
a prisoner of war, last night
broadcast over Radio Tokyo that
he was “safe and well.”
A pharmacists mate, second
class, U. S. Marine Corps, Knalls
addressed his message to his
mother, Mrs. M. C. Knalls.
“I am safe and well. Don’t
worry. Tell 'all of the family and
let Lois know this.”
Four other American prisoners
were allowed to broadcast mes-
sages to their families. The mes-
sages were picked up by the
United Press listening post.
ese, using newly-installed bat-
during the night, the Air Ministry
revealed today.
Though informants refused to
amplify the Air Ministry com-
munique announcing the mine
laying, the first so far as was
known in months, a German high
command communique recorded
here from the German radio said
British planes had appeared over
Helgoland Hay on the German
North Sea coast during the night
but had been driven off by anti-
aircraft guns.
Germany claimed, as the Air
Ministry admitted, that one Brit-
ish plane had been downed.
It had been reported that the
'German ships took refuge in the
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Satisfactory
WASHINGTON. (UP) - Un-
dersecretary of State Sumner i
Welles said today that answers
from the Vichy" government to
this country’s representations re-
garding the French aid to Axis
forces in North Africa were con-
sidered ‘unsatisfactory.
Welles said at his press con-
ference that fresh instructions
laud other foreign troops (includ-
. ,, .......... . . . ling Australians) shows that the
been thrown into action in a. vi- Netherlands “do not fight alone.”
tal urea in an attempt to protect Batavia had two air raid alarms
today soon after the presence of
spondent, probably will include
Churchill, Lord Privy Seal Clem-
ent R. Attlee, Labor Minister
Ernest Bevin, probably Cripps
and possibly Minister of State
Oliver Lyttleton.
The correspondent suggested
that Beaverbrook, who is minister
of production, would not be in-
cluded and that ministers in the
war cabinet would be relieved of
departmental duties in order to
meet demands for broader direc-
tion of war policy.
The war cabinet at present
includes Churchill and seven
। others.
ed in the vicinity of the highway
center of Pilar on Manila Bay was
- waiting rooms of the telephone said to be under particularly hea-
ed that land troops had been on exchange placing calls to their
the island for six or seven weeks, home towns, it added.
preparing for defense of United “Never in the history of the
Trans-Pacific telephone have so
many calls gone out over the
wires as from a certain East Java
town in the last six or seven
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American Troops. Air Units Arrive In Java; I
Chinese Go Into Action In North Burma
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WASHINGTON. (UP) — Secre-
tary of War Henry L. Stimson
. ) warned the nation today that it
must expect sporadic attacks on
our coasts, but he declared the
high command is making every ef-
fort to gain the offensive .in crush-
ing tile Axis.
Stimson told a press conference
tha tabout the only way to win the
war is to "take a vigorous offen-
sive against the enemy.” He said 1
that the surest way to lose the war ।
would be to yield to pressure by I
local groups for protection that
would divide the might of our
striking forces.
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox,
after an appearance before the
House Naval Affairs Committee,
told reporters that the Navy is
making every effort to guarantee
coastal security but that there is
"a lot of bread and very little
butter—it will have to be but-
tered very thin.”
Stimson made his statement in
response to questions concerning
the German submarine attack on
he Dutch West Indies islands of
4 Aruba and Curacao.
3 “All I have to say is that the '
possibility and probability of such
an atack had been foreseen,” he
said. "By arrangements wih the
Dutch Government we placed on
the island a force for its defense."
He said that the attack raised
the vital question that we have
"got to be prepared for attacks
not only at Aruba but all along our
coasts, and we have got to be pre-
pared aaginst pressure by the pub-
lic to strong out our defenses all
along the coasts and bases.”
"To yield to this pressure is the
surest way of losing the war,” । ation of a smaller war cabinet
Stimson said. possibly including Sir Staffed
He recalled that when he was ; Cripps but dropping Lord Beaver- weeks.
brook, the usually well-informed He said that during yesterday's
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