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quest of the Ph.uppines.
Yamashita’s first blow, ev
though it was Lot a major oa
fell after MacArthur was giv
command of all U'nited Natiot
forces in the Stutiiwest Paci?
That includes the Philippine*, E
Wainwright will have the “on t
spot" job of continuing the hen
repistance on Batann Peninsula.
A War Department commu
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U. S. Soldiers to Qet
Training in Desert
Preparing “Wallop to Insure Victory
Throughout World,” Army Leaders Say
WASHINGTON. (UP)—The U. S. Army soon will in-
augurate its first large scale training of troops in modern
desert warfare as part of a broad program to produce “a
wallop to assure a victory throughout the wrld,” high ranking
officers revealed today.
The announcement was made ---------
Hhenerson Hailu Rews
WEATHER—Warmer tonight.
HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERN'N, MAR. 18, 1942
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Russians Take Allied Planes
13 Hours Required
For Draft Lottery
Order in Which Men May Be Called
Into Armed Forces Is Determined
WASHINGTON. (UP)—The first World War II draft
lottery ended at 6:08 a. m., CWT., today, determining the or-
der in which 9,000,000 more men will be classified for mili-
tary service with armed forces that are spread from Ireland
------- Australia.
awaiting aerial reinforcemanta,
possibly from the Dutch East In-
dies front, before unleashing what
is expected to be an all-out od-
Take Big Toll
Reveal U. S. Submarine Overdue, Presumed
To Be Lost; Two Others Were Destroyed
WASHINGTON. (UP)—United States and Australian
warplanes have sunk or damaged 23 Japanese ships, includ-
ing 12 warships, at the northern approaches to Australia
where Gen. Douglas MacArthur is preparing for a showdown
in the battle of the far Pacific, it was announced today.
The smashing aerial assaults, adding up to the greatest
Allied air-sea victory of the war in the Pacific, claimed two-
for-one vengeance for the Japanese victory over the United
Nations’ fleet in the battle of the Java Sea three weeks ago.
dent* were permitted to say that:
MacArthur, safely in Austra-
lia after a perilous 2,000-mile
flight over enemy-held arrn-,
has assumed command of ag-
gressive Allied forces that in-
cude the best types of Ameri-
can war planes as well as fly-
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the Red army was "brgaking
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Kalinin Front
Entire German
Defense System
Endangered by
Smashing Action
MOSCOW (UP)—Russian for-
ces smashing forward on the wide
Kalinin front northwest of Mos-
cow were reported today to have
hurled back strong German coun-
ter-attacks and captured a vital
resistance center controlling five
highways.
Dispatches did not name the
captured position, but indicated
it was in the general' area of
Rzhev, 125 miles northwest of
the capital, which the Soviets by-
passed in their westward surge.
More than 1,000 German troops
were reported killed in the action.
The entire German defense sys-
tem in the area was imperilled by
the latest Russian success, the
dispatches said. The system was
said to be based upon inhabited
points defended by two infantry
regiments, one regiment of heavy
artillery and “many” units of
anti-tank guns, mine-throwers and
flame-throwers.
’ It was the first mention of
German flame-thrower* since the
early days of the war.
Other dispatches and reports
described renewed Russian attacks
and advances along the 1,800-
mile front from Leningrad to the
Sea of Azov. The Soviets refrain-
M’Near Denied
Talk With FD
WASHINGTON. (UP I The
White House today rejected a re-
quest by George P. McNear, Jr.,
president of the strike-bound To-
ledo Peoria and Western Railroad,
brings sorrow and anguish, but
more often pleasant emotions.”
He touched briefly on the sad-
ness which comes with memory
of the blast, which took 294
lives, and then urged that every
bereaved relative take new cour-
age and inspiration, letting the
memory of the victims “keep us
at our tasks more worthily”
Bereavement has resulted in
many notable accomplishments, as
memorials to departed ones, hd
said. Notable examples are the
Taj Mahal in India, built to the
order from the National War
Labor Board to submit the wage
dispute between the railroad and
its 104 employes to arbitration.
McNear wired Mr. Roosevelt to-
day:
"Greatly appreciate if you will
permit me to present in person our
letter to you in response to your
letter of the 14th which reached
here Monday. Can be in Wash-
ington Friday morning if this is
convenient. Would thank you to
let me know time to be at your
office.”
An executive order authorizing
the government to take over the
railroad has been prepared, it was
learned.
a sudden raid on Bataan lii
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JOPLIN, Mo. (UP>—Three men
were in serious condition here to-
day from gunshot wounds follow-
ing a minor automobile accident at
which police attempted to arrest
{ one of the drivers.
I Deputy Sheriff Tom Kinneman,
30, his brother, William, 28, both
of Galena Kans., six miles west ot
here, were reported by hospital au-
thorities to have been wounded ser-
iously. Jess Laizure, 30, also of
Uruguay Asks
Convoy Setup
Montevideo. (UP) — Uruguay,
angered by the sinking of the 5785
ton ship Montevideo—the first
Uruguayan vessel torpedoed by an
Axis submarine—will seek an in-
ter-American convoy system, it
was learned from reliable quarters
today.
Angry crowds, mostly students,
paraded the streets almost until
dawn, shouting "reprisals against
the Axis!" and "Fascism?. No!
Democracy? Yes!”
Police saved German, Italian and
Japanese establishment* from be-
ing wrecked completely, but re-
ported windows of four shops were
broken, occupants of one residence
were attacked and one person was
wounded. Authorities said a num-
ber of those suspected of breaking
windows had been arrested. The
German Embassy was under heavy
guard.
The government seized the 8269-
ton German freigter Tacom in re-
prisal for the sinking of the Mon-
tevideo off the coast of Haiti, with
the loss of 18 lives.
tion of No. 2,885.
Hershey and his aides conferred
and discovered that Nos. 2,069
and 6,342 were missing. They also
decided that one of the 2,885’s
should have been 2,385.
To straighten out these errors,
they cancelled the first 2,885
which was drawn as the 742nd
number and let the second one
stand. Then they placed the three
numbers—2,069, 6,342 and 2,385
—in the bowl and drew them out
in this order:
6,999th—6,342.
7.000th—2,069.
7.001st—2.385.
Actually, the list will be revised
and all numbers after the 741st.
will be advanced one number and
the corrected list will end with
7,000 instead of 7,001.
The first number—3,485—was
drawn by Secretary of War Henry
L. Stimson at 6 :05 p.m. last night.
The last number came out of
the historic goldfish bowl shortly
after sunrise today as thousands
of government workers hurried to
work.
TOTAL DEAD UNKNOWN IN TWISTERS—Leaving a trail
of dead, injured and missing and damage estimated into the
millions of dollars, tornadoes shrieked through five states in
the South and Mid-west. Top photo shows a demolished
warehouse near Champaign, Ill., in which Raymond Bushue,
25, lost his life. Below is all that remains of the office of
the Granada Plywood Box Co., at Granada, Miss. The ad-
joining factory in which 100 workmen were at their jobs was
also destroyed. (NEA TELEPHOTO)
Army in Australia is j
Massing for Offensive
MACARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Australia. (UP)—
The Allied Armies of Australia, led by Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur and sparked by growing numbers of American fight-
ing men and machines, massed its maximum striking power
against the Japanese today to defend this embattled conti-
nent and eventually turn it into a springboard for a smashing I
counter-offensive.
Rayburn Says
Criticism Saps
US War Effort
Speaker Refuses
To Amplify His
Statement; House
Talks Labor Bill
WASHINGTON. (UP)—Speak-
er Sam Raybum in an unusual
press conrerence statement warn-
ed today that the American people
are permitting their war effort to
be sapped by a growing tide of
criticism against management, la-
bor and government.
Rayburn called newsmen into his
office a lew minutes ahead of reg-
ular press conference time and an-
nounced that he had a statement
to make tor the record.
He observed that on March 17
there were between 7,000,000 and
7,500,000 men in the United States
at work in war industries and few-
er than 100 on strike.
Rayburn was asked if he intend-
ed his statement to be interpreted
directly as in opposition to the
drastic Smith war labor board bill
now before two house committees.
He declined to have his statement
expanded.
The speaker said Congress was
being swamped by letters and tele-
grams from every section of the
country, "not from Republicans
or Democrats’ but from the peo-
ple.
Indignation meetings have been
held and are being scheduled thru-
out the nation, he said, which us-
ually are resulting in mass criti-
cism of the efforts of management,
labor and government in the war
AUSTIN (UP)—Opinions hand-
ed down today by the Texas Su-
preme Court held:
That J. C. Penney Co. was en-
titled to take nothing from H. E.
Whittenbuurg and others for a
■hare in the cost of a wall erected
at McAllen. Tex., as part of a mer-
cantile building and later used as
part of another building.
That a suit for partition of land
must be held where the land lie*
if trial there i« requested. The
ruling answered a question certi-
fied to the Supreme Court by the
Dallas Court of Civil Appeals in
litigation between Tidewater Oil
Annual memorial services for
victims of the New London school
explosion, which occurred just
five years ago today, were in
progress at Pleasant Hill cemetery
this afternoon.
Services were to start almost
simultaneously with time of the
blast, at about 3:20 p.m. March
18, 1937.
The’ Rev. Herman T. Morgan,
pa. tor of the Overton First Meth-
odist church, made the memorial
address. His topic was “Memory.”
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Enthusiasm, Says FD
WASHINGTON. (UP) — You
can’t legislate a man Into increas-
ed production, according to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, but the chief exec-
utive thinks he knows what will
step up a worker's enthusiasm.
Parades, bands and flag-waving
will accomplish what abandoning
the 40-hour week won't, Mr.
Roosevelt told his press conference
yesterday. Men working at their
jobs day after day sometimes taper
off a bit, he said, but parades and
bands will pep them up again.
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A "mighty river" of supplles
from America is rolling into this
continent.
American soldiers in uniform
out-number Australian soldiers as
much as three or four to one in
some cities.
The battle for Australia, when
it gets into full swing, will be
largely an American show.
Train load* of reinforcements
have moved up to the potential
battle-field* and tremendous work
ha* been done in transforming des-
date Australian wastes—formerly
almost defenseless— into a fort-
ress from which the most devas-
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Crash in Storm
LIMA, O. (UP) — Four Army
pursuit planes, flying blind in a
"terrific snowstorm,” crashed
and burned six miles east of Lima
today.
The burning wreckage of one
plane was found on the farm of
Byron Hefner. Hefner and his
wife reported they heard a plane
circling above their home and
then "suddenly nosedived.”
At the farm of I. H. Lutz, one-
half mile east of the Hefner place,
the wreckage of two planes which
apparently collided in midair then
burned was found.
The remains of a fourth army
plane was found in a heavily
wooded area a mile south of the
Hefner farm.
Ben Arquitt, manager of the
Lima airport, reported he heard
a plane circling over the airport
as if searching for a place to land.
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■nd Carlos Bean over property in Mid today that a display of so-
Ruak county. The au was filed daritv behind inerehseG wat pro-
“Memory usually is that which
serious । blesses us with happy recollec-
Ilion*,” he Mid. "Some tuns it
forward slowly and taking tactic-
ally important resistance points.”
The dispatches gave this picture
by sectors:
Leningrad front—Three Ger-
man battalions, supported by
tanks, forced to withdraw, leaving
450 dead and wounded on a battle-
field. Nearby a Russian Guards
regiment killed 250 Germans in
repulsing an attack.
Central front—Main road be-
tween Vyazm and Smolensk still
under. constant Soviet artillery
fire. In three day* fighting, Rus-
sians claim capture of five new
points with 1,250 German casual-
ties.
Southwestern front—Big battle
reported developing south of
industrial Kharkov as Germans
send fresh reserves and new
supplies of tanks and planes into
action.
when the last one was drawn only
| 6,998 had been accounted for.
Near last Saturday, asking him । Earlier there had been a duplica-
to comply immediately with an ” - ----
wholesome effect, and that until
action has been taken to insure
full-time production, citizens'
meeting* should be held.
The Mme sentiment prevailed
in other part* of Texas today,
re the state showed no sign of
sluckening its drive for a national
"work or fight" order, from Wash-
ington on down.
The clamor mounted, If any-
thing. It joined a roar of approv
al over the appointment of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur as supreme
commander In Australia. It min-
In the Jaya Sea bat ' the Al-
lies lost 12 warships, Including the*
10,000-ton U. S. cruiser Houston
and the destroyer Pope.
A Navy edmmunique ar mounced
the shattering of the 2" Japanese
ships in New Guinea ports which
are "springboards" for a threaten-
ed enemy invasioi. of Australla.
But it also disclosed that the U.
S. srbmarine Shark "presumably”
has been sunk in the Far Pacific
and another American submarine,
the Sea Lion, was destroyed to
prevent its 4 g into enemy
hands, and that the damaged U.
S. destroyer Stewart was demol-
ished in dry dock at Soerabaja to
prevent her capture.
The Sea Lion was damaged at
the Philippine naval base of Cavite
south of Manila and was "destroy-
ed to prevent her capture” before
the Japanese seize the former
base of the U. S. Asiatic fleet on
Jan.
Tha 23 Japanese ships were
sunk or damaged nea the New
Guinea ports of Salamaua and
Lae, on Aus* lia’s northern nk,
It was the third lottery under
the present selective service law,
but the first since Javan attacked
Pearl Harbor. Three similar lot-
teries were held during World
War I.
The drawing of all the capsules
from the goldfish bowl took 13
hours—“a half hour earlier than
we expected to finish," according
to Selective Service Director Lewis
B. Hershey.
There were a couple of hitches.
There were supposed to have been
7,000 caspules in the bowl. But
WASHINGTON. (UP) — The
Navy Department announced
today that two additional U. 8.
Merchant vessels have been
torpedoed off the Atlantic coast.
ELKINS, W. Va., (UP) — A
U. S. Army bomber, attempting
to'land in the Monongahela Na-
tional Forest, crashed today and
caught fire, trapping at least
two crew members in the flam-
ing wreckage.
MELBOURNE. (UP)— Amer-
ican troops on Bataan are “more
than holding the Japanese and
are liquidating them every time
they attack," Staff officers who
accompanied Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur here from the Philip-
pines said today.
WASHINGTON, (UP)— Rep.
Joseph C. Baldwin, R., N. Y.,
today introduced a bill to re-
quire all women who are citi-
zens and are between the ages
of, 18 and 65 to register for
civilian or military service.
CHUNGKING. (UP)— Amer-
ican Volunteer Group bombers
made a surprise attack on Jap-
anese airdromes at Moulmein
and elsewhere In Southern
Burma at dawn today, setting
fire to nine enemy pursuit
planes, four bombers and two
transports. Two other planes
were riddled by machinegun fire,
a communique said.
at a press conference with Lieut.
Gen. Lesley J. McNair, new com-
mander of the U. S. ground
forces, and Brig, Gen. Mark W.
Clark, his chief of staff.
They said the new training pro-
gram also stresses development of
specially trained task forces for
any required operations overseas,
mountain warfare, air-borne
troops, armored warfare and joint
ground-air operations.
Clark told reporters that high
ranking armored force officers al-
ready had selected a site "west of
the Colorado River” for the desert
warfare training. The latest mo-
torized and mechanized equipment
and troops will be sent there soon,
they said.
Other points stressed by the
ground force commanders were:
1. The Army has decided tenta-
tively not to hold large scale ma-
neuvers this year such as occur-
red last summer and fall when
entire field armies participated.
Because of the war and time fac- i
tor, the games probably will not
consist of more than a corps in
sibe, ranging from three to five
divisions. Cavalry, motorized in-
fantry, armored, air and other
units will participate.
2. The Army proposes shortly
to expand to 11 corps instead of
nine to provide for a program call-
ing for 32 new streamlined infan-
try division* of 15,300 men each
this year. The Army expects to
reach 3,600,000 men by the end of
1942.
3. The expansion program calls
for three new infantry divisions
this month, two in May, three in
June and four each month after-
ward.
Not Alter Bataan Fight
WASHINGTON. (UP)—The Japanese have learned that
the transfer of Gen. Douglas MacArthur to Australia will »
make little difference in the stiff resistance they will meet
on Bataan Peninsula.
Galena, suffered similar
wounds, it waa reported,
ghed-’uuude
Against the heavy toll of Japa-
nese ships th Australian End
American air forces lest o one
plane.
The ene toll inc! .:
Six Jt net war-hips and five
[ army was “breaking | y S.' *nd Japanese dinvayon
tounter-atacks, ovingtt,npeairmeds medjapahea in around Salamaua and I
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The enemy, probably having*
heard of the change of command,
tried out the Bataan lines yester-
day with a raid—the first ent my
activity Lt that area since March
8. The answer came quickly and
waa simple—more of the same,
the Mine sort of death dealing re-
pulse that the Bataan forces had
been dishing out under MacAr-
thur.
The latest Japanese raid was
"easily repulsed" by men under
the new Philippine Commander,
Maj. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright,
58-year-old hard-bitten cavalry of-
ficer who, his friends My, is from
the same "hell bent for leather"
school of military strategy aa his (
boss and close friend, MacArthur.
The enemy action wm the first
since Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita,
the conqueror of Singapore, re-
placed Lieut. Gen. Masharu Hom-
ma, reportedly a suicide, as com-
mander of Japanese forces in the I
The newest and fastest Ameri-
can fighter and bomber planes
were taking a leading role in the
battle for air control over the is-
land approaches to Australia, in-
cluding a new Allied bombing at-
tack on the Japanese-held base of
Koepang on Timor Island and an
enemy bombardment in the Solo-
mon Islands.
Apparently renewing their
thrusts toward the American sup-
ply line to Australia, Japanese fly-
ing boats in groups of three and
14 bombed Tulagi and Florida in
the Solomons without causing im-
portant damage. Two or three
natives were reported killed at
Florida.
But developments emphasized
that the Japanese were attempt-
ing to put on still more speed for
an all out attack on Port Moresby
and the north Australian coast be-
fore rapidly mounting American
fighting power can turn the tide.
The extent of that American
striking power—previously hidden
by military censorship—was in-
dicated today when correspon-
Massed bands of Henderson,
London and Gaston high schools
will participate in the patriotic
rally to be held here Friday, it
was anounced today.
Meanwhile, a group of men
were engaged in distributi n of
thousands of circulars advertising
the meeting, covering all of Rus
County.
Recent developments in Wash-
ington have had no effect in the
sentiment of Rusk County citizena
crisis.
Raybry gugested tha nad E
of these "hid.-nation” meeting* I
which grab the headlines in Ber-
lin and Tokyo it would be better
for the nation’s security if they
were turned in*- " varades."
Tb" xpended
at th “would
be better appneu co the work
necessary to win this war.”
Referring to the few men on
strike in war industries, Rayburn ;
said: ,
“It appears that stoppages in •
production have been about re- ,
duced to zero regardless of what
is said by some writers and some
speakers.” '
He said that last Sunday "it
came over the radio that in one
state” some war industries were
operating only at 40 per cent of
capacity.” The inference, he said,
was that failure to operate at
full capacity was because of
labor disputes.
Raybum’s statement came as
the House Military and Naval Af-
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FIRST CAPSULE, THIRD LOTTERY—Secretary of War
Henry Stimson draws first capsule (T-3485) in the Third
Selective Service Lottery in Washington, D. C. Col. John D.
Langston, right, who did the blindfolding before Stimson
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emy sea 'anes shot down.
The great si .ess of the Allied |
warplants brought to at least 174
the num r of Japanese ships
sunk or destroyec actio:’ in
which f‘ d States forces have
participated since t start of th* 3
war in the Pacific.
Previo to oday’s nnounce-
ment U. S. Naval and A ” rt-
tacks had be n list unofficially
as sinking 90 Japanese lips—64 ;
by naval action and 26 by the
army- and damaging 61 others.
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