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Corregidor and Other Philippine Forts
FiBmer Constant Pounding by Japs;
taw "SBpply~RoufM' Safeguard
By Allied Occupation of Madagascar
U. S, Scouts in Guiana's Jungles
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To David Fairfax Oyster, 18, of Chevy Chase, Md., went the honor
of' being- the first (and youngest) high school cadet accepted in the
navy's aviation program. He is shown being sworn in by Secretary of'
the Navy Frank Knox, the first cadet to enter navy's Class V-5 by whlcl
high school graduates may Qualify for commissions in the air force.
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CORREGIDOR:
Chapter Ends
Even' as the first British Comman-
dos were tending on one important
island (See Column Two—Madagascar:
A Coup), American troops were en-
gaged in their last stand for the
Philippine island fortress, Corregi-
dor, in Manila bay.
For almost
fighting had
American
a month since the
ended on Bataan,
forces commanded by
Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright
had been holding this fortified rock
against a terrific air aricj artillery
pounding by the Jap's, thoroughly en-
trenched on Luzon, across the bay._
The Jap's final assault ended after
about two days of constant hammer-
ing from big gun^and aerial bombs.
When the first Jap'landings on the
island itself were reported',"''military
fee end was near.
It was from Gen. Douglas, Mac.-.
. Arthur's headquarters in Melbourne,
Australia, that the blunt announce-;
-mpnt finally ramp:. • iGeneral-r-Wain-
wright has surrendered, Corregidor
and ather fortified islands in Ma-
■ nils .harbor." The, other island
Strongholds in addition to Corregw-'
. dor are Fort Mills, Fort Hughes,
Fort Drum and Fort Prank.
Then from Washington, the war
.• department^ reported that it had
. . received -a fnessage from
Corregidor that resistance of our
7 troops"has been overcome.' Fight-
ing has ceased and terms are being
r ange«ff'efing the capitulation
of the . island forts yuM-pnila Ibay."
toward these countries. On the oth-
•RUSSIAN FRONT • er-hand, the Japanese will empha-
~'A Til 7 • ' • size that the Uriited States has been
A rledge , * " gfe.c.dy in her international trade re-
If. the Russian soldier can fulfill lations and has imperialistic designs
-his-pledge.,Lo: Jpsef Stalin, 1942 will I on Cetttral and South America.'
see the final defeat of Adolf Hitler's I In '.launching this propaganda at-
military might. For from Moscow , tack *Japan has instructed her
--came the report that Russian f"1- j agents to.rdo everything possible to
AUSTRALIA-?
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For over. a month the United 'NaV"
tions had been lettingworld*
know, with Japan "Included, thht
their strength in Australiai was as-
suming increase# • proportions.
American troops'in large numbers
have been poured on to this conti-
nent to aid in its defense and to
participate in the expected ofTensive
actl6Tr~te~j^capture the East Indies
and the Philippines.
Evidence of tfiTs——increased
strength has been Indicated by the
- news dispatchof hardrfought a.r
■ ...battles off the coasts of-this imp.or
tant ouxpasi. In one week-end,.. Al-i,
lied headquarters reported a toll of
20 Jap planes destroydd^apd four
Jap ships blasted"by., p}ane&~«fr.scat- _
tered battles to the north and north-'
east. In "one thrilling 35-minute
fight a four-matored Jap flying boat
was severely damaged. _
This activity added iinp«tu^ to4fee,
reasoning projected by military
strategists to the effect that Japan
wai concentrating naval forces pre-
, paratory to a flank attack on U: S.
communications in the Soirthj?aclhc.
Jap~Sn must cut these vital lpies
if she would stall the threatened
offensive against her. With the U. S.
occupation- of the French island of
New Caledonia these communication
: lines of the United Nations have
been further secured.
5 Alarmed by this news, Japan's
opening moves were seen coming
ftoni the -Marshall Islands either
through the Gilbert. and Ellice is-
lands or through the Solomon islands
■nd the New Hebrides. Added to
V these developments was the earlier
r. report that strong-Jap' naval forces
which bad gathered in the Bay of
_• Bertgal as a threat to India had
§ :«.■ ... suddenly disappeared. Only the Japs
knew where tney were headed, but
file United Nations expected next to
MM them., along -the Jea. Janes be-
tween San Francisco ahd Sydney, .
'§WAH IABOR SUPPLY: .
.eaches High Peak r
irman Paul V. McNutt of tke
iwer commission has es«
that the number of men em-
in war work by thfe end
may reaeb 17,800,000, corii-
1911.
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MADAGASCAR:
A Coup
When British' troopsjanded on the
French island of' Madagascar to
forestall an expected coup by the
Japanese the United States state de-
partment was not long in announc-
ing that this country was iri sym-
pathy with the move.
British sources explained that the
move .was made after the Laval
French government in Vichy bad
played host to visiting Japanese of-
ficials en route to Berlin. And thus,
continued this story, the Vichy, gov-
ernment was very unlikely, to put
up any opposition to a movement by v
the Japs to seize 'the-impgytant' js-1,
land which is con-sider&faVital base
for guarding the sea iifies in the
Indian ocean off. the east coast ot
Africa.
..^Retaliatory -action
was to- be- considered as an act of
aggression against the entire group
of the UnitejiJNations, a^corHing 'fo
the U. S. state departmfe'rff and this
country,—with- -B«4ain~f^dged.-.to--r Sa-
turn the stwitegic island to France
after the war.
Washington, D. C.
ALASKAN HIGHWAY
After all the hullabaloo about the
ritally- needed military highway to
take....at/least two years, perhaps
nearer three years to build it. One
trouble is there is stiil an argument
abouUthe route. ■ -
To date the army has picked a
route by way of Edmonton, cenj^r
of the-prairie stale uf.Arfcer'ta, which
is longer than the route advocated
by Alaskan territorial ©ft'uj-ials.
Th<* Alaskan official/ propose a
shtift"quick route straight up from
the state of Washingto'fi to Prince
George, then on™to White Horse.
Part of this—about .400 miles to
Prince George—.already is built. And
if interned German, Italian and Jap-
anese prisoners were put'to work on
the remaining link, it might be
finished before;winter.
However,' both the army-and the
Canadian government favor the
longer route via Edmonton. .Thii
would follow- the chain of Canadiac
airports to Alaska. These airport!
af^operated by the Canadian. Pacii -
tc raftyOad^which may be one. sig
nificantreasoo why'the Canadian}-
want a road to link them up.
The army origihally 'picked
this route because last summer
iome of its planes, en route 1o
Alaska with green pilots,, got
lo^t and cracked up. So it was
suggested that a highway link-
ing the airports would serve as
a guide to airmen. The^ army
also favored this route in order
"to send" gasuline and supplies by
truck to air bases. The war
may be just aoout over." how-
ever, before this interior high-
way is built.
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JAPANESE PROPAGANDA
Inside intelligence information'!!
that Japanese propaganda agent)
are now marshalling their forces foi
a concerted attack jugainst the Unit
e'd States in Latin America, wit!
Argentina, Brazil, and Chile as foca
points.
japap. will resort to a number o
typical Axis methods to sway neu
tra'l countries away from coiJabora
tion wUh the'United States, ineiud
ing the Axis-worn tactics of makinj,
o veTHIr «fT^an 9™ ^"gTVTil g!" ' ass U r Site e S
that she has no imperialistic aims
Protected from. hordes of ferocious mosquitoes by vell-trlmmed helmets, a party of U. S. troops is shown
(left) scouting in the tough jungle country of Surinam, better known as Dutch Guiana, one of the places where
we now maintain foroes to protect American .Interests. Right: A U. 8. army lookout high in the trees of the
Surinam brush. The keen eyes of the -observers posted there spot any strange activity in the jungle.
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Students Go A-Far^ning at Farmingdale, L. I.
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when you
that
tiext J$h
die'rs all along "the 2.00ff-mile" Ger-
tTTiaV'front had taken an oath" te
ma'ke this the final year of'the" war.
Meanwhile other Russian' dis-
patches told of a strong drive by
■Marshal -Timo?henko's Red army oi
solicit the good-will of-Spanish and
-PorUigiwM^'representatives in "Lat-
in American countries.--
In addition to propaganda
agents and diplomatic reprcscn-
tatives. Japan has recruited
agents in commercial firms
throughout both Eurqpe and the .
American countries to propa-
gandize persons of Latin culture
and Catholic faith. In this con-
nection, plajj,SLjtiave been made
to "go even so far as to try to
exploit his holiness, the pope.
Already $50,000 has been forward-
ed to JapaneSF^YepresentativCs in
Chile t'o be used -in,, attempting to
bribe goverfthient officials.
/One of the most audacious phases
cut' ' 0f the fa!'anc-^e P'an is the ,,n(> lh l
,, K,r . . , r> calls, for an attempt to induce a
the Nazi position in the Donets, hi- I ■ JT .. . e. . . ,
'dust-rial. basin. .Tfis- wedge would ! revo ut,°" ,n the United States b?
offer an effective- obs^cle^to^he ^h^ctiona^gfoups
German offensive athe the COuntP' anAd gating dis-
of the Caucasus. "' • r sensu,n among lhe P®6ple by sn'P'ng
at the Roose\'elt administration.
i There is a threatened shortage of farm labor this year. ..In upstate New York alone 25,000 men and boys
I ire needed this summer, and some ,7,000 boys from city high schools have' enroUed- for farm training. Many
of these are being trained at the State Institute of Agriculture in Farnaingdale, ,X< I. At the left you see
students at'work in the dairy section of the institute. Right: Som^-of the students who are taking a course
In farming.
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• It li a good habit to form, fet
of consulting tho odV*rtiMn«nli •
time wo jnako a purchau, I
bo'vo already decided just «hilj
want and where we are going fck
It. It glvos us the most prlc*l«s|
In tho worldr the feeling i
adequately prepared.
• When wo go Into o store, p
beforehand with knowledge «fi
offered and at wKat price, we pi
an expert buyer, filled with Mlfa
dene*.It If O pfea«antT *n
the feeling of adequacy. Mori eftj
unhopplneu Inlhe world con bet
to a lack'of this feeling. Thw«
tiling shows another of Its I
facets—shows Itself at an oMt
maklngall ovr fejjjinea
more securo and pleasant.
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Marshal
Timoshenko
RESOURCES: -
Strong opposition to ^fie* war de-
ment's ^plan to lower the draft
age toT8 or 19 was seen in congress
aj Louig B. Hershey, national selec-
tive service---doctor, instructed
state draft directors to. include men
of the '20 to 21 and 36 to 44 groups
in the June calls.
At present the army and navy both
are accepting voluntarjrenllstments
of 18 and 19-year-old youths. Lower-
ing the minimum draft age would
make approximately 2,500,000 young
men eligible for conscription.
An alternate plan was suggested
by Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida.
Xhij would call for the pre-draft
Military training for those less than
20 years old. Success of either pro-
posal depends largely upon the war
department's ability to convince the
hOuse and senate milit^tjL ^orhmft-
tees^thrfT-thfey have exhausted mill.
tajx-n «n power*"resdurces in the 20-
46 age bracket;.
feowe^er, Paul V. McNutt, chair-
mafi of the War Manpower commis-
sion, stated that- nb^tifaft or, regi-
mentaUon of workers is contemplab
JUGOSLAVIA: :-
Harassing tiitler'
Out ot Istanbul, Turkey, came a
report that the Nazis were being
labor;
here on the eve of Otrmany's spfing,
offensive Wet good news to the Rus-
sians. ■ /-
ROOSEVELT EAMJLY DINNERS
In the usher's' office, just inside
tRefrt t door, an old-fashioned .call-
board is hung, to indicate when
guests are in or out. There is space
for JSp Dames, but on a reCent day
it Carried oriTy the names of Mrs.
Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins and Lore-
na Hickok, long-time friend of* both
the First Lady and Hopkins, who
often stays at'the White House. (The
President's name is never entered
on_the board j
A year ago it was possible to^drive
alo.og Pennsylvania avenue,.turn in
at the White House gate, hand
calling card to the' footmaft sit the
front door and eventually receiVe an
invitation from Mrs. Roosevelt td
come for tea. . " -
Today,# the gates are closed and
heavily guarded. The two-* ve-
nues flanking the White House are
barred to traffic entirely. "Never in
100 years has the White House been
80 heavily guarded. The teas ana
receptions ace camreffred for the du-
ration. and the normally democratic
residence of the Chief .Executive
stands- cold an4 alo«f.
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Fire, Life ami Auton
Lioehsed Real. Estate
Protection is as strong
' Company behind the Ptf
Service is as rt-liable as J
•individuals who provide I
"V Geo. E. Mayes,
Every year millions ef-.berrlng have .swarmed np the Taunton river'
to spawn at the headwaters'iftftt^ Middleboro, Mass., and have been
caught by-Indian traps and white men's nets. This year, tfie C. 8. army
ha^ pnt in Its order. Photo-shows hundreds of herring being pulled ta
with a ^dragnet. In this spot tiie dally catch runs up to 1,000 barrels.
Mold It, GoodfellowsT
Salter S^menov, 27,' af Riga, Lat-
via, was a bandy crewman to have
on the lifeboat of a torpedoed U. 8.
ship. He is showt^g how he. rigged
a sail of blanket^ He steered -the
ship by the stars and made a oam-
era . record of their three-day u)n<
rience. *
'Land qf the Free'
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NAZI RACKETEERS
Hitler's semi-hysterical demand
that his stooge Reichstag vote him
more dictatorial powers—which it
authorities in
praja Mlkhailovitch's Serbian army.
the -light of secret.information con-.
Guerrilla warfare and sabotage * MCent ,candal hi«h
" been sweeping the area in to- N#21 circ-lMv " v
ting degrees"Since the passim Accordlng to a confidential report
rner mff iwdihl oTNainofces 4iMovcr?d 11181 4. well-organ-
mM racket, protected (by big-shot
•Nstis, was looting the food supplies
of U-boats when at their home ports.
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Avisiiai cadets at GoodfeUow Field* San Angelo, Texas, grapple ni.u
a billowing parachnte on a windy day. You'll appreciate the difficulty
of their task If you have eVar opened up an umbrella In a gale.
Lord Halifax, British ambassador
to the U. B., pays his first Visit
to the Statue of Liberty. Here he
gasea at the symbol of freOdom from
tbe boat that took him te Bedlee'g
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CROWDING 75, the genial 1
A./qAyres, of the Federill
commission, has to safef
eyesight, under the terrific I
reading through the piou
■ accumulation of -ftases on Mil
In-this wais« the commission'ij
tions have been narrow^ e
price controls o^bread,
and a few othcflFrommo
its operations arc stilT"-higl
portant. t-JPop^lO years, Mr
was in congress from
was appointed to the cpr
1934, and reappointed in
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Curry, W. M. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1942, newspaper, May 15, 1942; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth243272/m1/2/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.