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Allies Sink 9 Jap W
Tokyo Claims Three
. A QUESTION MARK loomed large before the United States today concerning the fate of this vessel, the Battleship Cali-
' fornia, or a similar ship, which Tokyo headquarters claimed had been sunk in the raging Coral sea naval battle. Com-
missioned Nov. 20, 1919, the 32,600-ton California is one of two American warships of its type. Its sister ships is the Ten-
nessee, likewise built in 1919. Normal complement of each is 1,480 men. (Official navy photograph.)
Veteran African Troops Reinforce Ceylon
_
1,500 JAPS SLAUGHTERED Half Century
BY STILWELL'S CHINESE
Allies Stronger
In Indian Ocean
By DREW MIDDLETON
LONDON, May 8 (P—The proa-
pact of a swift cleanup of Vichy-
ordered resistance in Madagascar
and the arrival of strong imperial
reinforcements in strategic Ceylon
put the United Nations in * better
position today for a rapidly near-
ing test with the Japanese on the
Indian ocean supply lanes to In-
dia. China and the Soviet unlon.
As weary British land forces in
Western Burma held back the in-
vaders, already close to the Ben-
gal border, long - range United
States bombers lashed out anew
this morning at Rangoon. Japan-
ese-won stepping stone for the
westward drive.
JAPS TAKE AKYAB
Maj. Gen. Lewis R. Brereton's
big warbirds plunged through Jap-
anese fighter plane opposition for
their eighth attack on the port and
returned safely to their bases- in
CHUNGKING. May 8. — (P) —
Claiming a smashing defeat over
two Japanese columns driving into
China along the Burma road, the
Chinese high command declared to-
night that one force of 1,000 Japa-
nese was "wiped out" and that half
of another unit 1.000 strong was
killed and the rest were trapped.
The scene of the fierce counter
blow delivered by Lieut. Gen. Jo-
seph W. Stilwell's Chinese troops
was given as the sector near Che-
fang, 2S miles inside the Yunnan
frontier from Burma.
(The communique might indicate
the destruction and pocketing of
the invasion spearheads which the
Japanese claimed had penetrated
past Chefang to Lungling, 25 miles
deeper into China.
The high command Mid the bat-
tle occurred yesterday afternoon
when the Japanese, moving up the
Burma road from the border town
of Wanting with truckloads of re-
inforcements, split into two units
and attacked the Chinese on both
flanks. in some cases penetrating
to the rear of the Chinese line.
The ensuing struggle was de-
scribed as "most ferocious." The
high command said that the rem-
nant of the attacking force—dwin-
dled to 400 to 500 men—itself was
being cut off.
Mother's Day Founder Tells
India, a New Delhi communique 1
reported. •
It was the Americans' third at-
tack on Rangoon in four days.
Mothers to Do Remembering
PHILADELPHIA, May 8.—(P)-
observance in every state and in
British military quarters, mean- The graying little spinster who
while, conceded that the Japanese founded Mother's Day suggests this
probably had won another base for t
operations in the Indian ocean, the year’s observance be reversed be-
West Burma port of Akyab, 360 cause of the war.
miles from Calcutta. "It will be up to the mothers
The announcement of the British themselves to do the remembering
reinforcement of Ceylon, off the on Sunday, “ Mid 64-year-old Anna
southern Up of India, said “season- -
ed fighters who took part in the M Jarvis.
Ethiopian campaigns of 1940-41"
had been sent to the island from
Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nya-
saland, Zanzibar and Northern
Rhodesia.
There was no immediate infor-
mation aa to the extent of resis-
tance on Madagascar after the col-
lapse yesterday morning of the
main French stand at the northern
tip of the 1 000-mile-long Island,
watchdog of the Indian ocean from
the west
. LIBYA SECURED
It was apparent that the British
would not rest, however, with con-
trol of the big Diego Suarez naval
base, but would make other land-
ings or inland drives to obtain
French air bases farther south un-
less the entire French defense force
came to terms 1
The British position in Libya
to secured for the summer by the
occupation of Madagascar’s Diego
Suarez naval base and Malta’s suc-
cessful defense against axis sir
attacks which evidently were In-
tended to open the way for In-
vasion. a well informed military
observer said today.
Capitulation of French forces in
the Diego Suarez bay area reduced
the Japanese throat to Indian ocean
more than 50 foreign countries.
"I have another message for
Mother s Day," Miss arvis said.
"Sons and daughter
better than to set.
arvis said.
rauld know
deir mother
flowers and candy. Back in 1910
when I began my campaign to
have the whole world honor moth-
era. I didn’t dream of this modern
commercialism.
"Perhaps one of our boys will "Instead, get mother that easy
fall on the battlefield. Then his chair she’s been wanting. Or have
mother would like to know there [a carpenter fix those steps she’s
been tripping over. Or visit her.
But in some way, make the day a
personal one between you and
mother.”
was a letter from home in his
pocket."
Miss Jarvis' love for her own
mother led her to persuade con-
gress in 1914 to designate the sec-
ond Sunday in Mey as Mother's
Day Since then, she had written
thousands of letters to promote the
Two ‘Tigers’ Killed
KUNMING, China, May 8(UP)
—A communique of the American
Volunteer "Flying Tigers' today
reported the death in action on
May 4 of Fllot Ben C Foshee of
Red Level, Ala., killed in an air
battle over the AVG’s Paoahan
base Pilot J. E. Plackburn of Am-
arillo, Tex, was killed during a
training flight here May. X
Nowadays, the Grafton, W Va.,
native rarely leaves the lonely
brick house that has been her
home for 30 years. Her health has
been impaired she Mid. by the se-
ries of court battles against "un-
scrupulous interests making ' mil-
lions out of my idea."
Miss Jarvis, who hopes for the
early return of peace so she again
can exchange cabled greetings with
Mother’s Day organizations In Ger-
many and Japan, has her own con-
victions about the war.
"Do you know why Hitler acts
the way he does’" she asked.
"It's because his mother died
when he was 16.”
PROSPEC
PAPA OF QUINTS
SEES SELF 'MAN OF DESTINY'
supply lines Dwindling of Ger- CULHAM Eng May 8.—(UP)-
man-Italian mass air raids within Pvt. Arthur John Woodley, whose
• the last two weeks has left the wife, Emily, is about to give birth
rock-based naval and air forces of to three or more babies, believes
, Malta still preying on axis convoys there will be five because he to "a
In the Mediterranean, man of destiny."
.-----...---.--------I “It’s just like a gypsy fortune
Abilene Hi Sprinter
Qualities at Austin
AUSTIN. May 8.—Jesse (Red)
Burditt, Abilene high school sprin-
ter. qualified today for the semi-
finals in the 100-yard dash at the
32d annual state Interscholastic
/ league track and field meet Fast-
' est time was turned in by Charles
Parker of Thomas Jefferson (San
Antonio), leading his heal in 10.1
seconds, i
teller told my sister years ago," he
Mid "She told my sister that her
brother Jack—that’s me-would be
very successful However, I admit I
never thought fame would come
this way."
Dr. J. H Fisher, the attending
physician, who is a young man, to
skeptical over his patient’s pros-
pects for becoming the mother of
quintuplets, though Oxford univer-
sity medical experts studying X-
ray plates of Mrs Woodley, be-
lieve there is a considerable possi-
bility that she will.
"It's triplets for sure and maybe
quads, but I’m afraid the possibility
of quintuplets to very slim, no mat-
ter how much the villagers want
them," he Mid
Supporting Dr. Fisher's skepti-
cism to the fact that Mrs. Wood-
ley's pregnancy likely will be of
normal duration. He had calcula-
ted that she should be brought to
childbed around May 28 and now
he thinks It will be around May 11
In all known cases of quintuplet
births, they have been several
months premature. Mrs. Woodley
normally weighs 178 pounds Now
she weighs 210 pounds.. That was
not enough increase in weight to
indicate quintuplets, though it
didn t preclude them.
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By ROGER D. GREENE
- Associated Press War Editor 1
Allied and Japanese warships fought to the death today in a mammoth five-day-old
battle in the Coral sea, northeast of Australia, in which American, British and Australian
gunners have already sunk or crippled at least 13 enemy warships.
United Nations headquarters announced that nine Japanese warships were sunk, in-
cluding an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, two destroyer's and four gunboats.
Four other enemy warships were badly damaged, a non-combat vessel was sunk and two
others were damaged.
The fateful struggle, still raging, appeared by all accounts to be the greatest naval
battle of the new world war, ---------------------------------------------------------
It was also the biggest naval engagement
in all American history and perhaps rivaled in
magnitude the historic battle of Jutland, on
May 31, 1916, between the British and Ger-
man grand fleets.
Imperial Tokyo headquarters claimed a toll of five Unit-
ed Nations warships, including the sinking of a U. S. battle-
ship of the 32,600-ton California class, the 33,000-ton U. S.
aircraft carrier Saratoga and the 19,900-ton U. S. aircraft car-
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30,600-ton Warspite type was heavily damaged, perhaps sunk,
and an Australian cruiser of the 10,000-ton Canberra type was
damaged and may have gone down.
In London, the admiralty quickly denied that the War-
spite or any other British battleship had been sunk or dam-
aged in the Coral sea.
On the basis of the Japanese claim—which completely
lacked confirmation from any allied source—it appeared- that
at least a section of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’s main Pa-
a r son reddent of moeecific fleet; stationed at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, was engaged _ _________________________
county more veerz died A in the battle. -, ships, were sunk Monday. From that vicinity the running sea
X If so, this was the first news that the United States’ fight swept into the Coral sea.
pital. Where he was taken Satur-great Pacific squadron had set out to challenge the Japanese --------------------------——.
day after suffering a stroke.
Resident Dies
Funeral services will be held at
10 a m. Saturday at Elliott s chapel
with the Rev. Dick Bright, pastor of
the Potosi Methodist church, of-
ficiating. He will be assisted by the
Rev. A O Haymes, pastor of St
Paul Methodist church. Burial will
be in the Potosi cemetery beside the
1 fleet.
The running battle apparently started Monday off the Solomon
islands and awept westward to the Coral sea. flaming across hundreds
of miles of the South Pacific , .__.
First reports indicated it far esceeded in scope and importance the
great battle of the Java sea, two months ago. In which Japanese sue-
cesses paved the way for the conquest of Java.
All Australia waited tensely for news to be flashed on the out-
come. realising that the fate of the commonwealth may hinge on Allied
victory or defeat.
Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin declared gravely that the
action was of crucial importance to the whole conduct of the war In the
far Pacific gone commanded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"Nobody can tell what the result of the engagement will be at
this moment." Curtin Mid, and left a clear implication that an allied
defeat might well lead to a Japanese invasion of Australia.
United Nations communiques declared a Japanese aircraft carrier,
grave of Mrs. Holly, who died Nov.
16, 1913.
Born May 10. 1862 at Blounts-
ville, Ala., Holly came to Texas
with his parents six years later.
The family settled in Ellis county.
Holly and Martha Jane Burns of, ---------------- .__- .__
Zephyr, Tex., were married Dec. 19. a heavy cruiser, a light cruiser two destroyers, four gunboats, a trans-
1888, in Brownwood. Holly and a port and a supply ship were sunk. _
brother. Joe Allison, came to Taylor Another Japanese aircraft carrier was described as so badly hit that
county in 1890 and settled in the she was a total loss, and heavy damage we inflicted on a heavy cruiser,
Potosi community a light cruiser, a 9,000-ton seaplane tender and a cargo ship
Holly engaged in stock farming These figures included Japanese losses announced late yesterday in a
and was active in church and civic Washington communique covering the opening phases of the battle Mon-
work of the community until mov-1 ------------------------------------------ day off the Solomer islands, in
which United States forc sank
ing to Abilene about 25 years ago.
One of the earliest members of the
Potosi Methodist church. Rolly
moved his membership to St. Paul
Methodist church after coming to
Abilene and had been .active in
work of the congregation since
In Abilene, Holly' was associated
with the late R. W. Maxwell and
Emmett Whatley in cotton ginning
business of West Texas Despite his
advanced age, Holly was active in
this business until about 1g months
ago, when his health forced him to
retire.
Holly is survived by four sons,
three daughters and 1) grandchil-
dren The sons are Edgar L and W.
Owen Holly, both of Abilene, and
Horace and '8. W Holly, both of
Antioch, Calif ; and the daughters
are Mrs. R. B Leach and Mrs D.
A Callaway, both of Abilene, and
Bess Holly of Dallas ____
Corpus Woman Slain
CORPUS CHRISTI. May 8.—(P) |
—Mrs. George Clyde Hengy was
found shot today in her home on
fashionable Ocean drive and offi-
cials Mid her son, George Clyde
Hengy Jr., 16, and her three-
year-old daughter were missing.
WHAT WAR
News Means
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
Wide World War Analyst
The great naval battle which la
being fought between allied and
Japanese fleets across the Coral sea
east of Australia is still too young
for us to judge of its possible ef-
fects. but we can see the funda-
mental strategy which precipitated
It—that is to nullify the effective-
ness of Australia mornu
u a United Na-
Jons base and
eight Japanese ships with the loss
of but three planes.
A Tokyo communique Mid the
five United Nations warships were
sunk or damaged May 6, 7 and to-
day.
ALLIED LOSSES NOT LISTED
General MacArthurs headquar-
ters. reporting spectacular Amer-
ican successes In the second phase
of the battle, presumably after it
reached the Coral sea yesterday,
announced:
"Heavy naval and .air fighting
con tinues.
"Our own losses are not report-
ed."
In the latest stages allied war-
ships were officially credited with
sinking a Japanese aircraft carrier
QUEENSLAND
AUSTRALIA
The Weather
thereby protect
Nippon’s conquest
n Indonesia.
At this writing
the American,
British and Aus-
tralian unite al-
ready are report-
ed to have sunk
or damaged ill
Jap warships and
three other Jap MaeKENZIE
ships in this Dre-
day-old conflict. As against .this
Tokyo claims the sinking of five
i and a heavy cruiser and badly
damaging another aircraft carrier
and a heavy cruiser
Coral
Sea
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START OF NAVAL BATTLE was in the circled Solomon is-
land area, where eight Japanese vessels, including seven war-
fight swept into the Coral sea.
German Offensive
Smashed by Reds
MOSCOW. May 8.—P A Ger-
man spring offensive intended to
smash across the Soviet Karelian
frontier from Finland at three
points has been repulsed, battle-
front dispatches reported today.
A dispatch to Pravda “from the
state border" Mid the Germans
withdrew from Russian territory
with heavy losses.
This was the second enemy at-
tempt to drive into this sector of
Karelia in the first, near the out-
break of the war, a Finnish bat-
talion of 1,200 men supported by
two German companies crossed the
frontier in the same general region
but were driven back to Finland by
a Russian counterattack.
Pravda Mid the sector remained
relatively quiet throughout the
Quezon, Family
Reach Frisco
C. B DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER at REAU
ABILENE and Vicinity Slightly war-
ner tonight
EAST TEXAS (east of 100th meridian):
Little temperature change tonight except
lightly warmer in northwest and extreme
north portions; occasional rains today
and tonight in southwest portion and near
lower coast __.
WEST TEXAS: Showers and scattered
thunderstorms in Del Rio, Eagle Pass area
and east W the Pecos river this afternoon
and tonight Warmer in the Panhandle
and South Plains areas
Highest temperature yesterday: City of-
fice, 71: airport, 67
Lowest this morning City office, sa:
airport. 54.
Airport precipitation for 24 hours end-
ing 7:30 •. az. Friday, .05 inch.
Temperatures
P. M. Hr. A. M.
‘hurs-Wed Fri-Thurs
United Nations vessels. Including a
United States battleship and two of
our aircraft carriers, the Saratoga
and the Yorktown
Australian Prime Minister Cur-
tin today declared that this en-
gagement is of crucial importance
to the whole conduct of the war
in the Southwest Pacific. That
seems like a fair statement of the
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position, for while we do not know
the size of the fleets Involved, It
may easily be that they are large
enough so that domination of the
Pacific may be bound up In the
issue That is to say, should either
side suffer a disastrous defeat. It
might mean the passing of naval
control to the other
It seems doubtful to me that the
Japanese were bent on wholesale
invasion of Australia. The prob-
abilities are that they have been
aiming (1) at the cutting of Ameri-
can communications with Australia
so as to prevent our deliver of sup-
While the allies appeared to have
won a decisive edge so far, the
Japanese navy office claimed its
navy had ecored "brilliant acnieve-
menu in the Coral sea east of Aus-
tralis on an Anglo-American com-
bined fleet"
CURTIN FEARS INVASION
Imperial Tokyo headquarters Mid
Japanese warships “discovered and
caught" a powerful allied naval
force on May 6 southeast of New
Guinea island
"Attacking them May 7. they in-
stantly sank a United States bat-
tleship of the California type and
seriously crippled a British ‘A’ class
cruiser of the Canberra type and
heavily damaged a British battle-
ship of the Warspite type, the
communique said
“The attack is still being con-
tinued "
Tokyo made no mention of the
earlier action off the Solomon is-
lands.
“This battle will not decide the
war,” Prime Minister Curtin Mid
But. he added. "It will determine
immediate tactics which will be
pursued by ourselves and the com-
mon enemy.
"Invasion Is a menace capable
hourly of becoming an actuality *
Silence in both Washington and
Australia, after the initial an-
nouncement, shrouded the progress
of the fight. President Roosevelt
cancelled his morning press confer-
ence and the war and navy depart-
, ments announced there would be
See ANALYSIS, Pg. 2, Col. 6 no morning communiques.
MANUEL QUEZON
- SAN FANCISCO, May 8—P
The army announced today that
Manuel Quezon, president of the
Philippine commonwealth, has ar-
rived In San Francisco. -
He was accompanied by his fam-
ily and executive staff
After resting here President Quez-
on will proceed to Washington, D.
C. to meet President Roosevelt
Quezon, his family and staff found
haven in Aust ralia M the Japs were
hammering at Philippine defenses.
Fortress Missing
TAMPA, Ma, May g.-(UP)—A
Flying Fortress carrying 10 men
has been missing on a routine
taining flight from MacDill field
since midnight Wednesday, the ar-
my announced today.
winter. The new thrust. Pravda
said, apparently was left entirety to
German troops
The communist party paper Mid
the Naito sprung their new assault
last month. •
Germany to pressing a futild
serial offensive against Russia’s far
northern rail and water communi-
cations in an attempt to isolate the
Soviet union from the outside
LONDON, May g_(UP) -
The Moscow radio today re-
ported the recapture of 345
villagee and settlements by
guerrillas in the Orel sector of
the Bryansk front. 225 miles
southwest of Moscow, and the
annihilation of more than 35,-
000 Germans in fighting ex-
tending from Leningrad to the
Crimea.
world, the army newspaper Rad
Star Mid today, and a communique
declared that 500 Nazis had been
wiped out in the northwest.
For six weeks, the newspaper
Mid. Use reinforced German nor-
them squadrons had executed re-
patted raids but the effects havo
been slight and M enemy planes
have been destroyed or damaged
over Murmansk alone.
The Russian air force to striking
back heavily and has forced the
Germans to shift their northern
air bases to more remote regions in
Norway and Finland, Red Star
Mid.
Failure of the German offensive
was evidenced by the arrival thia
week In Moscow of several passen-
gers from the ice-free Arctic port
of Murmansk.
(The German communique said
Nasi and Finnish troops had anni-
hilated an encircled enemy unit in
tapland after several days of bit-
ter fighting, killing 1,400. Other
Russian forces were reported
smashed on the Murmansk front,
the official German account said.)
United States and British sup-
plies have been flowing in increase
ing quantity into Murmansk in re-
cent weeks.
STOP and THINK
There will be no room for
selfish privilege or idleness la
England after the war.—Brit-
ish Ambassador Lord Halifax.
The ants are a people not
strong, yet they prepare their
meat to the summer; the conies
are but a feeble folk, yet make
they their houses in the rock;
the locusts have no king yet go
forth all of them by bands; .
the spider taketh hold with her
hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
—Proverbs 30:25-28,
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