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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Army 'Kickback' to
LEAVES FROM A WAR
CORRESPONDENT’S NOTEBOOK
------by Hal Boyle-----
HIGHER COURTS
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Thursday Evening, May 11, 1944
5a
THEY’LL PROTECT ALLIES FROM LUFTWAFFE—Long
lines of 40mm. Bofors light anti-aircraft guns stand nose to
nose on a field in Britain awaiting the day of invasion of
Continental Europe. (AP Wirephoto).
TODAY ant
SORROW
(Editor’s Note—The opinions expressed by Mr. Lippmann are not
necessarily those of The Reporter-News.) _
- By Walter Lippman
The Perspective of Battle
The point at which official reti-
, cence interferes most seriously with
adequate public understanding of
the war is not, I believe. In things
like the Patton incident or a tragic
accident like the shooting down of
the transport plana over. Sicily. It
is in not providing the civilians with
a reasonably clear picture of the
general military situation — of
where, in fact, the Japanese and
German forca are and of how the
United Nations forca are arrayed
to deal with them.
Naturally, the high command
can say nothing whatever about
the disposition of our forces.
Although the enemy may know
a good deal about it, he almost
-------certainly does not know all
about K. What is even more
important If he cannot be en-
tirely sure when his information
is correct and when It is not
he is beset with doubt about
even his correct information.
For reasons like this the censor-
schip is entirely justified in with-
holding information about military
movements which, it would seem,
must be known to practically every
one and certainly to energetic ene-
my agents. It is very useful to keep
the enemy command wondering
just how far it can rely upon the
report of each of its many agents.
In our own estimates of the en-
Lessen War s Lost
WASHINGTON, May 11—(P)—A | means a huge saving to the lax-
lessening of the tax burden in the
near future was envisaged today by
Rep. Snyder (D-Pa) as the result
of a $33,607,263,800 kickback” in
War department appropriations.
The turn of the war in our fa-
vor during the last twelve months
Athlete-Scientist
Is ASFTC Trainee -
Pvt. B. Thomas Snipes, 30-year-
old trainee in company B. 58th
medical training battalion, is one
of those one-in-a-million fellows
who has brains as well as brawn
and still manages to maintain his
equilibrium very nicely.
Back in the early ‘30‘s you would
have found Snipes performing ef-
ficiently as a blocking back for a
great University of Nebraska grid-
iron machine—a team that dropped
but one contest, and that to mighty
Minnesota—and when he wasn't
dumping enemy tacklers he was
playing guard on the Cornhuskers
basketball team—and in the spring,
just for a change, he played first
base for the Nebraska diamond
combination.
That should be enough for one
payers." said Snyder.
“By the amount appropriated
and not needed,” he said, “the
east of the war has been ro-
dneed and the reduction should
be reflected in a lowering of
taxes.”
The Army's 1944-45 budget, sent
to the capital yesterday by Preal-
dent Roosevelt, calls for an appro-
priation of only $15,676,652,700 in
new funds, plus reappropriation of
$33,607,263,800 of unobligated bal-
ances from previous appropriations.
The total compared with approxi-
mately $71,000,000,000 appropriated
this year, including about $12,000,-
000,00 in unobligated balances left
over from last year.
Deducting from the $71,000,°
000,000 the $33,607,263,800 net
used, Snyder explained, leaves
around $37,000,000,000 as the
By JOHN A. MOROSO, 3RD
(Substituting for Hal Boyle)
WITH THE U S. NAVY IN
BRITAIN Delayed)—(«—Cannon
cockers" in the Navy are the men
who load our plana with bomba,
fuses and ammunition.
At a naval air base here re-
cently an emergency came up
Thanks to Students
For Red Cross Gift
and the lads loaded 17 plana
1* less than three hours. In a
speed tat the boys at the same
field belted 50,000 rounds of .50
calibre ammunition in one day.
You don't hear much about these
crews because their job is not spec-
tacular but it is vitally important
and many a Nazi plane has been
shot down with bullets that were
carefully and lovingly loaded by a
boy who will never see page one.
—---------—
Vice Admiral Sir Bertram Ram-
say, boss of the Allied Deets massed
in Britain, is highly pleased with his
chief of staff and has only one
complaint about him. He cannot
read his handwriting.
Ramsay himself is an extremely
affable man, partly bald, of medium
CRIMINAL APPEALS
AUSTIN. May 10—(AP)—Proceedings
in the Court of Criminal Appeals:
Affi rmed:
Pauline Brown, Dallas.
Allen Murray, Denton-
Fred Gullett, Dallas.
Ex parte Battle Mae James, Jefferson.
George W. Curvin, Dallas.
James W Fuller. Dallas.
Dewey Butler, Bexar.
Willie Johnson, Fayette.
Charles L Gipson, Harris.
Appeal dismissed at request of ap-
pellant:
Reva Foreman. Tarrant.
Appellant's motion for rehearing over-
ruled:
Gene Rowe, El Paso
Earl Ewing, Moore. .
Appellant's request for leave to file
second motion for rehearing denied:
Francisco Ramirez. Cameron.
Submitted on brief and oral argu-
ment:
Jack Fields. Tarrant
Submitted on brief for both parties:
Roland Cothrum, Dallas.
Ostell Rice, Navarro.
Florence Lee, Wharton
Horace Jones, Dallas.
Submitted on state’s briefs
Nino Dominguez, Taylor.
Robert Lee Cooper, Dallas.
Alvin Stroud, Tarrant
Q
Case of Nine Domingues et Abi-
lene was submitted Wednesday 9
state's brief in the court of Crine
Inal appeals. Dominguez was con-
victed in county court last Nov.
15 on charges of carrying a pistol
and filed 4100.
Dr. R. L. Hobbs
Chiropractor
Office 474 Chestnut
Phones 9081 5948(,
against Japan when Germany is
defeated.
In the European theater the
Italian campaign engages only a
traction of the German Army. A
considerably larger part of the Ger-
man Army is drawn up in western
Europe facing the invasion forca
under General Eisenhower. The
greatest part of the German Army
faces the Russians
in the great battle which is
impending, the western allied
armies and the Russian armies
will be like the two blades of a
pair of scissors. Each blade sep-
* arately could do much dam-
done immense damage, our
blade, using its air power, has
done much damage. But to cut
down the enemy decisively the
two blades together are nee-
essary. It is upon the fact that
their action is to be combined
that all the allies rest their
hope of a decision.
%.• *
husky but Snipes wasn’t content
with just being an athlete. He was
--.-------------------expected
graduated from Nebraska in 1933, month.
cost of the war this year.
Two major items—curtainments
in requirements and reductions in
prices—accounted for the bulk of
the savings.
As Snyders subcommittee moved
ahead with consideration of the big
war bill, the house began debate
on the "G. I. bill of rights,” which
is expected to add an estimated
$3,000,000,000 to $4,000,000.000 to
overall war costs.
Passage of the bill—an omnibus
veterans’ benefit measure—is not
before the middle of next
and in 1937 received his degree in
absentia from Iowa state. At the
Though we all know this, we do
not always appreciate it. Nor do we
always take into account, as we
must if we are not to confront our
own men with desperately difficult
tasks, that if there were a stale-
mate, rather than a prompt deci-
sion. in Europe, we should almost
certainly find ourselves in a long
stalemate against Japan as well.
A stalemate in Europe would
mean not only that all the Rus-
erny position there is, of course.
bound to be some incorrect Infor- sian and British forces were pinned
mation mixed with correct info-
mation. If our estimates were pub-
lished the enemy would know at
once when we are discovering his
secrets, and this would soon tell
him how we were discovering them
and he would take steps to seal up
the leaks.
Nevertheless, the brood align-
ment and the proportion of forces
in the various theaters of war are
not much of a secret, and the cen-
sors do not, as a matter of fact,
prevent writers on military mat-
tera from talking about them. But
the lay public does not have the
general picture from its recognized
leaders. Yet many questions which
are debated and agitated by civil-
ians are unintelligible without a
general picture of the disposition
of enemy forca.
down in Europe but that our own
were also pinned down. Indeed,
there is reason to think that in a
European stalemate we should find
ourselves in a good deal of trouble
in the Western Hemisphere. Just
how we could then deal with the
main body of the Japanese Army
facing the Russians, the Chinese
and in reserve at home is not a
pleasant problem to contemplate
if we imagine Russia and Britain
pinned down to an exhausting
stalemate in Europe
The military situation is so seri-
ous. the interdependence of all the
theaters of war and of all the Al-
time he was an entomologist for the
Brazilian government.
He worked in Brazil four years,
battling malaria, yellow fever and
other tropical diseases and at the
same time headed the biology de-
partment at the University of Minas
Gerais. Prior to his induction Into
the army in March, Snipes was
serving as state entomologist in
Wyoming.
This army business is not new to
Snipes, either. He held a reserve
commission in the army for five
years, and did one tour of duty,
with the 17th Infantry at Ft. Crook,
Neb. in 1933. His commission ex-
pired while he was in Brazil.
Locust Pupils Get
Gardening Results
Locust elementary school victory
garden has become a reality for
the children and principal, M. M.
Sheffield, who Tuesday picked a
bushel of fresh spinach and some
mustard greens for the school
lunchroom.
Radishes from the garden are
already being used, beets and beans
have been planted and peas and
tomatoes will be planted next week.
Surplus from the garden will be
canned by the Parent-Teachers as-
sociation.
In the Pacific war, for example.
It is useful to bear in mind that
the British and American forces of ”
Mountbatten, Stilwell, MacArthur a
end Nimitz are in contact with
considerably less than half the Jap-
anese Army, thst the larger part
of the Japanese Army is facing
the Chinese, the Russians, or is in
Japan This may have a profound
bearing upon how a full military
decision over Japan is to be reach-
ed. It is also useful to realize that
in the number or enemy troops en-
gaged, the campaign in Italy alone
is comparable with the British-
American ground operations now
in progress against Japan. This
gives us some idea of what enorm-
ous forces can be released for use
lis is so great that we cannot now
afford to agitate recklessly and vio-
lently subsidiary Issues of trade,
lend-lease and disputed boundaria
They have to be discussed and they
must be negotiated and every con-
ceivable effort made to reach ac-
ceptable compromises. But to tear
.. passion to tatters over them is
to have lost all sense of proportion
and oT responsibility in the pres-
ence of the mightiest events in
which Americans now living have
ever been engaged.
Copyright, 1944, New York Tri-
bune Inc. ________======
Fire Lights Square
LONDON, May 11.—UP——Trafal-
gar square was lit up briefly, last
night more brightly than it has
been since the war began in 1939.
A huge haystack but, built near
the Nelson Monument caught Dre
and burned down.
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A letter of appreciation from a
child in an English hospital came
Tuesday to Locust elementary
school students. The letter was in
response to a Red Cross box sent
to the American Red Cross at
Christmas time.
Mrs. J. A. Ponder directed the
Junior Red Cross workers who pre----
pared the box with Mrs. H. S. Fath- American officers like him and the
erree the representative for Fair British officers around him.
Park and Locust schools.
The letter of thanks was from
Judith Cox, 9, and was written in
North Middlesex hospital, Edmon-
ton, London The parcel had ar-
rived Easter Sunday.
height and wearing row upon row
of medals and campaign ribbons. A
great factor on his side is that
Musicians Are Ready
LONDON, May 11.—(PP—A United
States Army band which followed
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower on his
victory, path through Africa and
Sicily has now reached London and
Director Thomas D'Arcy announced
it had come “to do the same in Eu-
rope—lead parades through Paris
and Berlin."
One of the most popular bands in
the United Kingdom is the Coast
Ounard's "Amphibians" and each of
the IT players is a bona fide sea-
man. These boys have been through
all the lighting in the Mediterra-
nean but they haven't let in inter-
fere with their jive.
/ Recently they have been tour-
ing hospitals and clubs near
their base which with their reg-
ular duty has put them on a 20-
hour-a-day working basis.
Leader and Pianist Allen P. Dud-
ley. Wellington, O.. says the most
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:: Shoo Shoo Baby."
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Reported Missing
Answers Prayers
ILION, N. Y., May 11—(IF)—A
letter from his brother, a fighter
pilot reported missing in action, has
answered eight-year-old Robert
Deming’s prayer.
This is the story, as related by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Deming:
At 10 p. m. Tuesday, the Dem-
ings were notified that their
son Richard, 23, a second lieu-
tenant, had been missing since
April 26.
Robert then knelt by his bed and
asked:
"Let us, please, have a letter to-
morrow from Richard dated April
At 11 a. m. yesterday the let-
ter arrived. It was dated April
29 and In It Richard wrote that
he was in a ban hospital some-
where in China, after raftering
a frectured left arm in a crash
landing.
"I just forgot about the 27th and
39th, but I guess Ill never forget
the 29th," Robert said when asked
why he chose ths date.
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