The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, February 27, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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IE CROSBYtON REVIEW
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:WS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne
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Calls for Increased Aid From
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paused by Dud' Torpedo at Aruba
It's Not Such a Long Way to
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JAVA:
Goal of Japs
, • the,,fall df Singapore represeni-
STTiSFwInhing nl^armsjor fieB5fy
fatr the- Japanese, but tactically- it
was considered the moving of the
western end of e Jap-pincers move-
,. rtehi .directed- net so much at In*
I:-*.:
dla as at Java. -
For the entire capture of the^East
Indies, and with it the ^riaouir-oil
production...yita?ly needed by-japan
* had, perforce, to be. regarded as. the
major objective with Java at its
" center. .' . Xl'.£
This had been .proved by the
everits that had followed the tri-
umphal entry of the Malayan army.,
into Singapore.
Intensified Japanese attacks had
.started on Bali--end'islands to tjie
east of Java, as welL As stronger
movements to increase the Japanese
hold on Sumatra, the invaders fan?
ning" Tjilt from Palembang. Suma-
tra's largest city. ♦
Java's population of 40,000,000 had
been told "the enemy is at out
V-
History Made
The first war deaths on American
soil occurad at the;©utch island of
Aruba shortly after American troops
had -arrived there to take over its
defenses.
Two days after .the arrivals
troops had been, announced, German
submarines attacked the harbor,
sank °r damaged seven tankers with, Howev^. .^;s. naVal engineers
a loss of 59 Seamen, and then-shelled^ ,u„
t Washington. D. C.
HOODOOED NORMANDIE
There is not much consolation tc
be had.in connection with the virtual..
sinking of the S. Normandie—ex-
cept for one thjng.
, The French- had gone to a lot of
expense to build the giant vessel so
that she could .bp converted to an
airplane carrier in wartime. To this
-end, speciaF fonnelB-vwer« arranged
on the side of the deck, tp give space
fqr runways; especially large eleva-
were-Jnstaiied at each- end—of
the ship; and the top deck consisted
of the biggest "sports" deck in the
world. i -*s
.. .. „ decided that desplti ali^the. French
e big Standard Oil refinery on , preparatft>|fs, the Normandie's upper
?r ', , ! decks werinot'Stfbng enough to hold
Ptanes took the .lr , The F cb had
SLjife hile™ 21,'S •"TlWW-rei.teUniB.t. -beW Sot
gates," and to prepare its-defense- ploded, killing them all. They were
[J
"to the last ditch." At the same
time Java called for increased aid"
from Australia, but it was not im-
mediately apparent what Australia
could or would do, embattled as it
was in & belated effort to straighten
out its own defenses.
Some commutators ; figged the
Japanese occupation of Java, and
JKith j* control of all the Dutch East
Indie's ay "a1 matter of days," while
, others thought it might be a long
battle, and that substantial deiense
of the remainder of the East Indies
was quite possible.
However Ujg.t,.,.roigfit' be, Allied
rankp would' give a- good deal to
know Which way the Nipponese .cat,
was planning.to.jump if, as and When
the East Indies ha'd fallen to the
enemy.
• Was it going to. be an all-out of-
fensive against India or. were the
Japs, consc-ious that an eventually
winning Allied naval, air and land
attack cGuld be launched against
them from Australia, to turn their
forces toward Cape York?
Movements of U. S. ships and
troops seemed to indicate that
this country viewed the latter' pos-
sibility as -a- probability, and that
as a base for our, future operations,
Australia arid 'flf§j£"Zealand seemed
to offer the best chanced
life-line.
VIERECK:
Contemptuous Spy
As the Viereck trial had opened in
• Washington, the Nazi agent being
tried for withholding information of
his activities from the state depart-
ment/ he was painted as a "con-
temptuous spy" by William Power
Maloney, prosecutor.
" Maloney said Viereck had used
the Congressional Record to propa-
gandize the United States "accord-
ing te "orders from his Teutonic over-
lords" and stated that many long
excerpts in the Record from the
speeches of the late Senator Lun-
deen.
Testimony brought",out that typi-
cal titles of books pubMtlied by Flan-
ders Hall in New Jersey (financed'
bottom. -
Two days Tate]
had been checked up find gone .over,
a dud tOT^edo;—!® feet iorig, was
found on the harbor sands.. L
Immediately identified "as a .Ger-
man torpedo, four Dutch officers
were assigned to the delicate task of
taking it. apart i
In the midst of their work it ex-
the 'first casualties on land iijjthe
American hemisphere.
In the meantime the torpedoin^s
in the Atlantic were continuing
heavyf'including the first sinking of
a Brazilian ship in the present-wa^.
. This was the liner Buarque, a com-
bination freight and passenger^ ship,
sent to thejiottom off the coast of
Virginia. The sinking was not im-
mediately announcetfin "Brazil, as it
was the annual carnival - time, an'd
the government was afraid that se-
rious rioting against Axis nationals
might uccur. The ship carried 74
in the crew and 11 passengers. —Xvto
were lost, 83 saved.
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RESULTS:
In Marshall Islands
When an- assaul t force of ,U.. S-
cruisers, destroyers and aircraft
carriers, commanded, by Vice Ad-
miral William F. Halsey,' attacked
lor a supply
i
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, -■■■•ru,,. STLVESTER VIERECK " .
"Ordered by Teutonic Overlords"
by . Viereck) were "Lord Lothian
Againfet Lord Lothian," "Seven Pe-
44 Irish History" and "It Hap-
all allegedly German
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100 Families, Who Rule the
sensational book much
wpagauda; ww yubliiOied
ifewn Munich. Maloney
government would prove.
vjw ■ ; 'A
Vice Admiral William F. Halsey,
commander, of the U. S. naval force
that carried out the brilliant raid
pas-
senger' salons.
. As a troop ship the Normandie
r
ly so useful proportionately. as a
medium-sized vessel, such as the
Manhattan. Reason: big ships draw
so much water that they could not
efficiently carry troops to Dakar or
West African ports. Smalf boats
would be necessary to take soldiers
and cargo ashore. *
Also the Normandie was too big to
get through the Suez canal.
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SINKING U. S. TANKERS
Thenavy is being more hush-hush
than, usuftj regarding the -sinkingsrof
oil tankers, off., the Atlantic coast.
However, here are tf few important
facts about the situation which are
lot military secrets.
First fact~*is J encouraging.-- The"
tankers sunk were old, small and
slow. All. of them -were 20 years old
or over, and the largest. Standard
Gil's India Arrow,—was 8,327 4©ns.
On the surface, this would" indi-
cate that oil and gasoline losses or
,e East coast would not be heavy,
wwtver, this is not thF~case. For-
all of the big, new American tank-
ers' have been taken over by the
navy. This was under an arrange-
ment whereby the mafit'me com-
mission had leivt the oil companies
around $800:000 per vessel ^to build
fast modern tankers making 19
knots.-i .This is so fast that they
caiLaVoIcT submarines and also Sleep •
up wTUrUffi-fleef. ..
However, these new tankers, built
in co-operation with the navy, are
now with the fleet.
• —Buy Defense Bonds—
HEAVY LOSSES
"Two other factors indicate the im-
portance'of the sinkings on the At-
lantic coast. One is an announce- :
ment made by the $ptish.last week ;
that sinkings for the entire-Atlantic, '
including the East Coast of the Unit-
ed States, had been heavier in
Jl&nuary than ever before. The oth- j
er i^ the fact that comprehensive ra-
tioning of oil and gasolinfc top the
East coast is -now a certajnty. -Ir;
other words, oil and tanl r losses
have been very heavy. -3
Reason for these losses is easy to
when you wot
You will get first class <
and you will get if
promised, for having
done when promised it
of the rule# of this
If you prefer, send the u*
by mail or bring it to th« <
fice in person.-
An .historical occasion—the vanguard of the great American Expeditionary fores promised to Britain by
-President Roosevelt, lands at a North[Ireland port. At-left is a general view as first troops land. Right:
.Men of the first A.E.F. of World War II march through the streets of the unidentified Ulster city at which they
Umded, hfter safe voyage aeress [the Atlantic. Inset: The duke, of Abercorn,'"governor of. Northern Ireland,
raises his hand in salute as A.E.F. soldiers disembark. ..
It Blows Hot and Cold for Hitler's Hordes
Let Us Shaw Yi
IVhat We Can
Walt Disney has scheduled 1
Pan" as the feature-length
tion to follow ^'Bambi." Disney j
mators are also creating new i
acters for a series of films
Disney's recent trip to South,
lea. But Donald Duck goes rifUi
Way bacik in late November]
Maris began doing-something i
her Christmas vacation; "11
ah Angel" was keeping her
the M-G-M studio, but she put I
word in for a trip to New Yo
~rFr<v""TjoI id ays™"" "
South African troops of the British Imperial forces make a close examination fleft) of a huge German
Mark 4 tank captured on' the desert. Of especial interest is the huge short-barreled cannon mounted in the
side of the tank. By way of contrast, picture at right gives some idea of the intense cold of the Russian-
German battlefront. Red army/ machine gunners were photographed In the firing line as they slowly pressed
the German hordes back. / . I
Scanning Western- Sky for Hostile Wings ( Forced Landing
understand. It requires ,jpo ..official fj
on Japanese bases, as lie looks over . .explanation. As everyone knows,
the charts on which he plotted the especially thft, enemy, we had to
action against th^ Jips
Japanese bases' in the Gilbert and
Marshalf islands they caused sub- 1
stantial losses \o the enemy: 38 ,
gjrplanes, or\e converted aircraft
carrier, one 'light cruiser, one de- I
stroyer, two submarines, two naval I
auxiliaries and three fleet oil tank- j
ers. Damaged "and perhaps de- |
stroyed" by U. S. attackers were j
three submarines! four auxiliary ves< I
sels and an old cruiser.
OIL:
Both Sides Lose .
.The destruction of oil installations
in the East Indies, which had been
carried out well by the Dutch as
each more or le£s important spot fell
to the japs, had been terrific at
Palembang, where the entire coun-
tryside was covered with a pall of.
smoke when the-".refineries were
blown up and,, jwells "Blasted."5"
_ Yet it"was a two-edged sword, the
Dutch admitting. that in about six
months, with good fortune, the Japs
could manage to repair much of the
damage and begin to resupply them-
selves with oH.
And in the mearitime ihe oil Was
lost to the Allied fleets, which had
been fueling from the Dutch sup-
plies. • • •
And as qiMfras the principal vital
necessity for' which the Japs origi-
nally had, started the. war, and as
V supply of/it would conceivably
permit them to- continue fighting in-
definitely, or at least until a major
defeat bt the Allied forces, the ex-
ten| osf the disaster in the Indies
might be seen.
MM
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netos
i war cab-
p.%, —
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wKffQamRtr
a-jre- ...w
t The U. S. destroyer
Shaw, reported destroyed by the
Jtps at Pearl- Harbor, was suffl-
repair^l in two months to
nakf the Journey to West Coast
shipyard tinker her own poUver, and
" " Conditioned there.
tc Sale of H*ht aMahes
been restricted by WPB only to
navy and a lew other
As
thft, enemy,
fu^h various kinds of jhipping tc
the Pacific to replace the damage
done at.Pearl Harbor. "Also we had
a largg number--of...warships busy
convening vessels across the North
Atlantic.
Hence we have been caught short-
handed or\ the East co^st.
Note: Most people don't realize it,
but the oil shortage along the At-
lantic ^could be-relieved coneidera-
bly by a curtailment of tank car
rates op gasoline and fuel oil. Last
fall the rail Tates wjere reduced on
crude oil but not on gasoline or
fuel oil.
• • • -
. POLITICAL-GO-ROUND
Democratic insiders are predict-
ing that Gov. Herbert Lehman of
New York will be persuaded to rim
for a ,foi^th~term~thl8 yeffr. Lehman
has told party chiefs he doesn't want"
another term, but they urge4kim to
be a candidate again on the ground
of Wartime duty ! . . Meanwhile,
former District Attorney.Toin. Dew-
ey' is, busy behind-the-scenes organlz-
ing bis political fences for, another,
try at the governorship. This will
be' the springboard for a second shot
at the G.O.P. presidential nomina-
tion in 1944. .
Wisconsin's Gov. Julius Heil will
run for a third term this year to
get himself in-'position,to take on
Isolationist Sen. Alex Wiley when
he cpmes up for re-election in 1944.
BcitH are Republicansr but privately
no love is lost between them.
Fiorello LaGuardia's ambition al-
ways has tieen to become a U. s:
senator after-tw steps out as mayor
of New York city. *
' —Boy Defense Bonds—
MERRT-GO-ROUND
In Trenton, N. J., the giannGen-
eral Electric company will be rried
on charges of monopolistic control of
electrle light globe patents. It will
be one of the .most important anti-
trust triaHln history. If the govern-
ment wins the esse,- the effect will
hfvr far-reaching consequences on
all patent fcontrols.
, % • "e :
• The treasury department has or*
d«re& customs officials -to weai
black silk neckties with their new
uhiforms.
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LXJBBOCK, TEXAS
lltdlcal, S«rgical, '«nd DiaenutUs
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Dr. J. T. Kruejjer
Dr. J. H. Stiles
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Dr." JrfrHtltchi n so n
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ror the first time since the days of the Civil war, the Pacific coast,
the only part of the continental United States, so designated, has become a
theater of war. Throughout this district the'armed forces are on a con-
stant alert. Above photo-, showing 155-mm. gun, illustrates the activity.
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TOg for Second Attack on Hawaii
Two marine fliers escaped injury
when thi* low-wing monoplane, bnr-
ied its nise in the recreational area
of Falrlawn .park. Arpacostla, Wash-
ington, The' • aviators - were
Maj. R. D. Salmon and-Staff Sergt,
Andrew Marshall.
Mask the BusKman
This approved picture shows U. S. army tanks mantaverhig over the
rough terrain ofthe Hawaiian islands, as troops l« occupation prepare
fer fature eventualities. A hot reception is asstared for all comers—if
This photo, made in Australian
ieriltory, shows a native being In-
troduced to ihat blessing of modern
civilisation, the gas mask. The war-
rior teemed ettite nieased with !{,-
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Curry, W. M. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, February 27, 1942, newspaper, February 27, 1942; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth243261/m1/2/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.