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UNITED STATES
HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAR. 2, 1942
—PRICE FIVE
VOL. 11—NO. 298
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Army Streamlined
To Take Offensive
Bars Let Down
To Get Officers
Mental Anguish of
Mrs. Barr Related
Enemy, Chief
Of Staff Says
• Manipulation
Of Commodity
Mart Attacked
House Committee
Flays FSA; Farm
Bill for Next Year
Is Slashed Deeply
U. S. to Sign New
Pacts With Brazil
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SCALE OF MILES
"I am unable to estimate
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furnished by the colorful
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tive military quarters believed to-
day that the fall of Rangoon was
Strange New Craft
Sighted in Raids
On MacArthur’s
New Defense Lines
chutists who destroyed the locator
to reach their embarkation point.
Within 10 minutes all the Ger-
mans in the fort had been killed
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e
So testified Mrs. John Puckett,
mother of the defendant, in her
daughter’s murder trial today.
Mrs. Puckett described in de-
tail (ter daughter's anguish con-
ceming the relationship of her
son-in-law, Eddie Barr, former
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their objective.
“It was by no means as fright-
ening as everybody had expected,”
he said. “You sat at a hole and
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Burma Railroad Is
Cut by Japanese
NEW DELHI, India, (UP)—An
announcement today said Japanese
forces had succeeded temporarily
in cutting the Burma railroad from
Rangoon to Mandalay at a point
north of Pegu.
(A London spokesman said Sat-
urday that the road probably had
been cut).
Reds Capture
Key Village
MOSCOW (CP)—Russian forces
have captured a key village strad-
dling 8 roads near Staraya Rus-
sa, where 86,000 Germans are en-
circled, and are pressing forward
on the southern front despite the
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LAST ALLIED BASTION—Java, last stronghold of the Allied forces in the East Indies, was in danger today as the tide
of Japanese invaders rolled toward the interior, despite heav y losses inflicted by hard-fighting defenders. Jap thrusts
are toward Batavia, capital of the rich island; Bandoeng, the mountain stronghold in the interior; and Soerabaja, the big
Dutch naval base. Java is a 622-mile cigar-shaped island, co vered with volcanic mountains, rich in rice, tea, coffee, qui-
nine, oil and gold. Tightly packed between hills and shores o f the island, no bigger than North Carolina, 47,000,000 na-
tives and 250,000 white residents are steeled for approach o f the Japanese.
Carry War to British Engage Nazi' Rangoon’s Fall
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The initial Japanese invasion forces won three bridge-
heads on the island—one near Batavia, one on the coast oppo-
site mountainous Bandoeng and one not far from the naval
base of Soerabaja. • •#ra
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Convoy f Sink Tanker Is Believed to
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NORFOLK, Va. (UP)— Three
enemy submarines striking at
midnight torpedoed, shelled and
sun une 0,410-ton Amercan
ore carrier Marore off the At-
lantic coast on the night of
Feb. 26, it was revealed today?
manding officer for appointment
to an officer candidate school.
If. already in the army, apply to
your present commanding offi-
cer.
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in cash and checks and escaped to-
day.
Ben Goldstein, the store mana-
ger, told police that the robber
herded employes into the rear of
the establishment while he forced
Goldstein to give him the money
from a safe.
HOUSTON. (UP)—An unmask-
ed gunman, threatening eight em-
ployes of a Main Street store, rob-
army administrative organizations
brought into three unified groups
under Marshall. These will be
the ground force, the air force
and the service of supply.
Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson termed the reorganisation
a “striking revitalisation” to
eliminate cumbersome procedure
and promote efficient direction
of army activities.
He appointed the following “big
three” commanders under Mar-
shall : .
Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold,
now deputy chief of staff for air,
The American aviators
weary, red-eyed and fighting
as they aided Dutch, Austr
and British defenders of
embattled island. They are <
a great job.
The censor declines to p
me to discuss the battle 101
superiority in detail but I
permitted to say that the A
leans and other Allied pilots
fighting against great obit
and that along the road tl
followed today I was surp
by the lack of Japanese f
planes.
But as I write this at
tonight a Japanese bomber 1
protected by fighter is atta
The Japanese are taking terrific
losses but they still are moving
forward.
A blistering attack by United
Nations’ planes on their landing
barges and sloops sank or dam-
aged a score of these light craft,
spilling Japanese troops, equip-
ment and tanks into the water
close to the Java shore and
drowning many would-be invaders.
In sea and air battles the
United Nations forces have sunk
or damaged upwards of 30 Jap-
anese warships and transports.
The air arm alone is credited
with scoring direct hits on 17
transports and 10 near misses—
explosions close enough to cause
damage—on 10 other ships in-
See NO. 9 on Page 8
perhaps but hours away.
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Natives in “many places" were
in rebellion, attacking and killing
Fleet; United Forces Resist Japs on Island .. 14
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Java. (Via Telephone)1 |
Tuesday. (UP)—Allied armed forces, including American
airplanes, Dutch armored wedges and British Imperials* •
struck crushing offensive blows against Japanese invasion i
forces today in a fierce battle for Java.
Official information was meagre and failed to make clear |
the trend of battle—admittedly grave for the defenders—
but early this morning the Aneta news agency circulated an 1
authoritative statement that “action is proceeding satisfac- ]
torily."
(A dispatch from Java to the London Star said that the 1
Allied counter-offensive was in full swing and that British 8
troops were advancing in extremely bitter fighting, although J
enemy penetrations were acknowledged at some points.)
“Hard blows have been inflicted on the enemy,” it was j
stated authoritatively following a call by Gen. Sir Archibald
Wavell for the Allied forces to strike at the enemy.”
American fying fortresses, which had damaged heavily 5
the Japanese invasion fleet in the first phase of fighting, '
swept out over the Java Sea again today to bomb a new force I
of enemy ships reported headed for this island.
Dutch official sources said that the enemy was believed 3
to be attempting to reinforce troops landed at three points on *
Java but there was no information early this morning as to 4
whether the U. S. bombers had succeeded in locating a new '
Japanese armada. The Aneta agency said that no new land-
ings had been made and that no word had been received of
a new invasion fleet reaching these shores.
The Japanese penetration of the island, largely by infil- '
tering methods that avoided the main highways, was serious |
enough to prompt the Dutch to begin destructions of install-
ations at Batavia, although it was asserted that the capital 8
was not menaced immediately.
The other enemy drives were directed toward Bandoeng
military headquarters and Soerabaja naval base.
It was an all-or-nothing battle in which the watchword
uttered by Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, United Nations’ Su- 4
preme Commander, was:
“Attack, not defense.” ,
Already virtually the whole Allied naval strength had
been thrown into.the battle, taking a toll of 82 or more Japa-
nese warships and transports. Allied aircraft smashed 20 .
Japanese landing barges and sloops.
Snub-nosed Dutch tanks, clattering armored cars, troop •
transports and fleets of light requicitioned private automo-
biles rushed Dutch, Australian, British and American forces I
to threatened points on Java.
The invasion advance guard already had pushed ahead
to points only about 30 miles from Batavia, less than 40 miles
from Bandoeng, military headquarters, and about the same I
distance from the Soerabaja naval base.
The Japanese light forces slithered through the planta-
tion country and jungles close to the coast, avoiding main '
highways where the Dutch armored wedges blasted at their
snipers.
American planes roared off to attack invasion force*
sighted off central Java. Military observers expected at any •
moment that Japan would attempt to put ashore the main in-
vasion army to back up the shock troops already afoot in
Java.
The U. S. planes report that the Japanese appear to be |
in great force off the north coast of central Java. The fleet
consists of a large number of transports protected by many
warships.
They are headed in toward Java, possibly to deliver the
main attack on this last United Nations’ stronghold in the
Dutch Indies. Ki
henerson ABailu ews
WEATHER—Generally fair, colder tonight.
INDIAN OCEAN
ment that Mrs. Barr "seemed of
unsound mind.”
"She sat around staring and
JAVA SEA
Blanche Woodall. pretty former
dancer, told Mrs. Juanita Barr, ac-
cused of killing her. two weeks be-
fore the shooting that "often
when Eddie (Mrs. Barr’s husband)
had been drinking, he would come
to me and I would take his clothes
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House appropriations committee
today denounced government
manipulation of commodity mar-
kets to control farm commodity
prices and accused the Farm
Security Administration of con-
ducting a program “which appears
, 'll to resemble the practice of col-
- lective farming in Communist
Russia.”
The committee’s view was set
forth in a report recommending
direct appropriations for the
Agriculture Department in the
fiscal year beginning July 1 of
$677,181,239. This represents a
reduction of more than $450,400,-
000 below the appropriation for
this fiscal year, and is $1,494,890
less than President Roosevelt’s
budget estimate for fiscal 1943.
The bill was reported in the
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LONDON. (UP)—British motor torpedo boats torpedoed
a German tanker and heavily engaged enemy escort ships
and shore batteries in an attack on a convoy in the English
Channel, the Admiralty said today.
The engagement, which occur------------------------------
from the fronts said today.
The newspaper Izvestia said the
Germans were forcing civilians at'
Staraya Russa and 35 surrounding
places to construct fortifications
to resist the relentless Soviet as-
saults. Belief was general here
that the fall of the strategic city
would be announced soon.
Supplies to the beleaguered Ger-
mans there were cut off—even by
air—despite German aerial rein-
forcements which may have total-
ed 1800 planes, military dispatches |
said. The 16th German Army was
known to be trapped at Staraya
Russa and scouts have identified
the Nazi 32nd and 123rd Divisions
among the encircled enemy.
The snow fields on the southern
front were becoming mire and
slush following heavy rains and
motorized units and heavy artillery
were bogging down.
The Soviet air force dispersed
many German reserve units before
they could reach positions on the
battle lines. Two Nazi divisions—
the 257th and 85th Infantry—suc-
ceeded in getting through to the
front lines, dispatches said, but
only after being badly mauled.
Near Leningrad, a Russian cav-
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WASHINGTON (UP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt today streamlined
the whole organization of the
United States army for offensive
operations which Chief of Staff
George C. Marshall promised
would carry the war to the
enemy.
The Senate meantime by voice
vote passed and returned to the
House a $32,762,737,900 army
appropriation—the largest yet in
the series of recent record-
breaking war bills .
Marshall’s views were expressed
in a letter which was read to the
Senate shortly after Mr. Roose-
WASHINGTON (UP)—Acting
Secretary of State Sumner Welles
said today that he will sign two
agreements tomorrow with the
Brazilian finance minister, Arthur
Souza-Costa, covering additional
collaboration arrangements be-
tween the two governments in
the interest pf hemispheric de-
fense.
One of the documents will be
a new lease-lend agreement and
the other will cover a development
project. The latter was expected
to expedit production of rubber
and other materials in the Ama-
zon river basin and elsewhere.
spring thaws and heavy rains MTTT T merewn
which have transformed that sec- • WJ MahaWa a
tor into a quagmire, dispatches
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Launch First
Texas Warship
ORANGE, Tex. (UP)—A de-
stroyer bearing the name of the
man who helped pave the way for
the first peace treaty with Japan
was launched here today with
government hopes that it soon
would be at war with the men-
acing Nipponese.
It was the U. S. destroyer
Aulick, the first ship of that kind
to be built during the present war
on the Texas Gulf coast. The
Aulick was sponsored by Mrs.,
T. A. Thompson, wife of the
commandant of the Eighth Naval
District.
The vessel was named for Com-
mander John H. Aulick who lived
from 1787 to 1873. From 1851
to 1853, Aulick commanded the
East India squadron and prepared
the way for the treaty with Japan
made by Commodore Perry.
During the War of 1812, Aulick
served on the Enterprise and
aided in the victory over the
Boxer on Sept. 4, 1813. After
bringing the ship to port, he was
commemorated by Congress.
Elaborate ceremonies in con-
nection with today’s launching
were held at the Consolidated
Steel Corporation, Ltd., shipbuild-
ing yards. An address was made
by Admiral A. H. Van Kueren,
chief of the Bureau of Ships of
the Navy Department, and music
Bombs Let Qo,
Jap Vessels
Came Apart
by w. ■. McDougal
United Prees Statt
WITH U. S. AIR FORCES IN
JAVA (UP)—“We let our bomba
go and those Japanese transports
simply came apart—they dis-
integrated.”
American aviators thus describ-
ed one of their Flying Fortress
bombing attacks off the coast of
Java today when I stopped at
their base enroute back from a
tour as close as permitted to one
sector on which Allied troops are
battling to crush Japanese in-
vasion forces.
Shore Guns on French Side of Channel
and I couldn't talk with her," the
elderly woman said.
Mrs. Puckett told of occur-
rences Sunday morning two
weeks before the shooting.
She said Barr left her home,
To Be Ignored
SAN FRANCISCO. (UP) —
Lieut. Gen. John L. Dewitt, chief
of the western defense command,
indicated today that the army
could not respect the wishes of
nine inland governors who an-
nounced opposition to their states
becoming “dumping grounds” for
alien evacuees.
Disclosing that the army soon
will designate additional strategic
areas which certain groups must
evacuate, Dewitt replied to critics
of th government’s alien control
policy and asserted that “military
necessity” must take precedence
over civilian wishes.
It was believed the new orders
might affect 200,000 enemy aliens
on the west coast and their Amer-
ican born children. A Presiden-
tial proclamation recently author-
ized the Army to establish de-
fense zones from which both aliens
and citizens could be barred.
Dewitt said strategic consider-
ations must dictate what persons
and what areas will be affected.
WASHINGTON (UP)—Strange
planes which “may have been Ger-
man-built" have carried out bomb-
ing attacks behind Gen. Douglas
MacArthur’s new battle line run-
ning across Bataan Peninsula in
the Philippines, the War Depart-
ment said today.
The Japanese are believed to
have some of these German-made
warplanes in reserve, a communi-
que said, indicating that the Nip-
ponese invaders were hard-pressed
for aerial strength and were mak-
ing use of Nazi reinforcements.
Recent communiques have indi-
cated that Japanese air squadrons
had been withdrawn from the Phil-
ippines for the Battle of Java and
the Dutch East Indies nearly 2000
miles to the southwest.
The planes suspected of being
German and which bombed Mac-
Arthur’s rear-line positions—with-
out inflicting damage—were three
twin-engined bombers wtlh “unus-
ual markings," it was said.
"They were painted black with
white crosses- on the wings,” the
communique said. "They may have
been German-built planes, some of
which Japan is believed to have
had in reserve."
The usual Nazi planes are mark-
ed with a black cross outlined in
white.
It may be possible, a War De-
partment spokesman said, that the
identifications were erroneously
described in the reports from the
Philippines and that the three air-
planes actually were German.
MacArtthur, with only a handful
of P-40 fighter planes, has virtual-
ly no weapons to challenge Japa-
nese fighters, heavy bombers and
dive-bombers in the air over Ba-
taan except his anti-aircraft guns
which have shot down many of the
enemy’s planes.
For the past 24 hours a lull has
prevailed on the Bataan front with
"practically no ground operations”
as the American and 'Filipino
forces dug into advance positions
seized from the Japanese in Mac-
Arthur’s surprise assault ol last
week.
A scattered army of thousands
of guerrilla wariors is playing ha-
voc with Japanese hopes of a swift
conquest of the Philippines, mili-
tary authorities revealed.
President Manuel Quezon, in a
stirring proclamation to Filipinos
over the week-end urged them to
battle the invaders behind his lines
as well as on the battlefront in a
"fight until death, and expel him
from our land.”
A small band of American and
Filipino troops—a "1st detach-
ment” cut off from MacArthur's
main army of Bataan 200 miles
southward—has achieved an im-
puortant victory in Northern Lu-
zon, a War Department communi-
que revealed today.
Fighting on from mountain lairs
and living off the land, the Ameri-
can and Filipino soldiers have driv-
en the Japanese from a 45-mlle
stretch of the Abra Valley between
Cervantes and Bangued in glerril-
la warfare.
On the Bataan jungle battlefront
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. midst of a bitter congressional-
administration fight over control
of farm prices and sale of
government-held farm surpluses.
President Roosevelt has denounc-
ed farm bloc legislation that would
prohibit sale of those surpluses
at less than parity prices.
The appropriations committee
gave the farm bloc another weapon
against administration efforts to
keep agricultural prices from
rising too precipitately by use of
government-held surpluses. This
new weapon was a clause which
would prohibit the Commodity
Credit Corporation from using its
funds for administrative expenses
“connected with the sale of such
(surplus CCC-held) stocks at less
than parity prices.”
The committee regretted the
recent “cloud of charges” con-
cerning the Farm Security Ad-
ministration and said the agency
was doing much important and
useful work. But it added that
the FSA’s collective farming ex-
periments were “wholly contrary
to the spirit and genius of the
American way of life,” and in-
serted in the bill a specific pro-
hibition against the spending of
any money for such projects other
than for the liquidation of those
already existing.
The denunciation of alleged
government market control pre-
sumably stemmed from recent
statements by Secretary of Agri-
culture Claude R. Wickard that
by the sale of surplus stocks the
government could prevent farm
prices from rising to 110 per cent
of parity—the lowest point where
price ceilings can be set for farm
products under the price control
act.
“The committee,” the report
See NO. 1 on Page 8
Dallas gossip columnist, with Mrs. ----
She said her daughter was so 1 Unmasked Gunman
overwrought the day Mrs. Wood- Robs Houston Store
all was shot to death in her apart-
British civilians, they said, and
Rangoon was described as "a hor-
rible place.”
“Foreigners risk their lives in
walking in the city, which is
completely in the hands of looters
and killers who are running
amok,” a pilot said.
He added that "a state of law-
lessness is existing in the major-
ity of Burma cities.
"The natives in many districts
have rebelled, killing unarmed
Britishers. The Burmese are as-
sisting the advancing Japanese
in every possible way. Some
armed Burmese have joined the
Japanese.
“All over Burma it is dan-
gerous for foreigners to move
around unarmed.”
The airmen asserted that “the
Britishers are feverishly evacuat-
ing all large Burmese cities, in-
cluding Prome and Mandalay."
They are being evacuated by,
planes and cars, he said, but some
have had to walk.
! raH Und^^ed
American Bombers Are Attacking Invasion ‘
«ura is
red last night, kept people awake
in a huge area near the Dover
Straits last night.
The Admiralty said that British
forces were heavily engaged by
German escort vessels and land
batteries but sustained no casual-
ties other than one motor torpedo
boat which was slightly damaged,
The southeast English coast
was shaken by the explosions
from the French side, and ob-
servers reported the Calais anti-
aircraft guns were firing fur-
iously.
The great German guns had
gone into action in mid-evening
with three rapid salvoes, followed
by three more.
A bombardment warning was
sounded in the Dover area after
the second salvo.
It was a little later when the
anti-aircraft guns went into
action on the Gorman-occupied
side of the Dover Strait.
It was the first big bombard-
ment in the Dover-Calais area
since the night the German war-
ships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and
Prinz Eugen made their, dash
through the strait.
A British official correspondent,
in a dispatch from a combined
operations ship yesterday, said
that the British parachute raid
on the Bruneval radio locator
Saturday was marked by a daring
charge of the Scots of the Sea-
forth Highlanders into machine
gun fire.
A Seaforth sergeant, yelling
regimental motto “Cabar Feidh”
(“the antlers of the deer”) led
the charge which quickly cleared
the Germans who had been hold-
ing the beach from a fortified
point, and permitted the para-
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or captured or had fled into ,
nearby woods.
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manded me parachutists in the ican airmen indicated that terror
raid, told how his men sang on was sweeping lower Burma.
their way across the channel to -
McCloy as the proper proc-dure
in applying for a commission off, put hinx toTbed and
~ were: Thead with wet cloths.”
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Marshall Wants
To Attack, Stop
Immobilization of
Troops at Home
WASHINGTON. (UP) — Gen.
George C. Marshall, army chief of
staff, said today that “the time
has now come to carry the war
to the enemy” and stop immobili-
zation of troops in the conlinenal
United States.
Marshall said he felt the na-
tion must expect “isolated air
raids" by a few enemy planes
“directed against us for no other
purpose than to create a public
reaction which will adversely af-
fect the sound military purpose
of defending America by engaging
and defeating the enemy in
theatres distant from our shores.”
The chief of staff made known
his views in a letter to Assistant
Senate Republican Leader Warren
R. Austin of Vermont. Austin
of Vermont. Austin read it to the
Senate during debate on the pend-
ing $32,762,737,000 war appro-
priation.
“The time has now come,”
See NO. 2 on Page 3
WASHINGTON. (UP) — Men
who can not support their de-
pendents on the pay of a private
and who want to serve in the
armed forces today may apply for
training for an officer's commis-
sion.
The new War Department
policy was announced yesterday
by Assistant Secretary of War
John J. McCloy in a radio address.
He. revealed that those who fail
to make the grade, and still don’t
feel that they can support their
dependents on the $21 per month
and up of a private, will be trans-
ferred to the enlisted reserves and
not called for service until their
deferred classification under the
selective service law is ordered
to duty.
This new program is part of a
plan designed to supply the army
75.000 new officers this year.
Candidates for the officer
course must be between the ages
of 18 and 45. have an intelligence
rating of 110, have same educa-
tion, a good record in civilian
life, and "marked qualities of
leadership.” McCloy said. Other
men going into the army— or al-
ready there— also have an "ex-
cellent chance” of becoming offi-
"cers, he said. The steps listed by
Terror Sweeping
Lower Burma as
Natives Revolt,
Slaughter British
AVG HEADQUARTERS, South-
west China. (UP) — Authorita-
DALLAS, Tex. (UP) — Mrs.
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