Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 168, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 14, 1941 Page: 1 of 20
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Wartime Aid A ppe<
Campaign For
$4,000 Starts
Off With Rush
Proclamation By Mayor
Calls On Citizens To
Share Sacrifices
Wartime work of raising $4,-
000 asked of Sweetwater and
Nolan county, as this area's
share of a new $50,000,000 Red
Cross war aid fund, started with
a rush Saturday; and leaders
stated confidently that people
of this district will raise the
fund in a short time as one defi-
nite way to help America's sold-
iers, sailors, airmen and Marines
in the Pacific and on the Ger-
man front. Mayor Lee Langley
issued a proclamation calling
upon citizens lo aid in the drivp.
Proclamation
Whereas I he people of the
United States of America
have been attacked by the
forces of aggression with
the a\ wed intention of de- q
straying everything held
sacred by so great a people,
' and
Whereas the young man-
hood of our country have
responded and are respond-
ing so nobly to the defense
of our land, laying their
very lives on the alter of the
homeland, and
Whereas, The Great Am-
erican Red Cross has taken
unto itself the task of
throwing every possible
protection around these
boys of ours and to extend
in larger ways its many
other humanitarian activi-
ties.
Now, I do hereby appeal
to the people of Sweetwat-
er to aid in everyway pos-
sible in the forthcoming
campaign to raise the fifty
million dollars now being
asked of the people of the
United States in this crisis.
May we all give that we
may, in a measure, share th,o
sacrifices being made by
those boys who are leaving
home and everything they
hold dear to see that our
way of life shall not perish.
R L. Langley, Mayor,
City of HwCjCtwater.
Delas Reeves, county judge,
has accepted the chairmanship
for the drive, and today is con-
tacting his chosen leaders for
every town and hamlet in the
county. Carl Anderson, after con-
ference of city leaders in the
Rotary clubrooms Friday night,
See CAMPAIGN Page (i
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SWEETWATER. TEXAS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1941
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
NUMBER 16#
Joint Committee
Approves Huge
War Fund Bill
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -
(UP) — A joint congressional
conference committee today ap-
proved an aopropriation hill
carrying funds and contract au-
thority of ;ibout $10,500,000,000
to carry on the war.
Sen. Kenneth McKellar, D.,
Tenn., chief of the senate con-
ferees, told reporters that the
house had agreed to "practical-
ly all" of the senate amend-
ments.
Chairman Clarence Cannon,
D., Mo., of ihe house appropria-
tions committee, said that the
house would act on the measure
Monday. He explained that "one
or two" minor items — includ-
ing a provision to grant each
senator a S4.500 a year research
assistant — would be taken back
to the lower chamber for a
vote.
McKellar predicted that ac-
tion would ho completed by both
chambers Monday.
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More Italian
Warships Sunk
LONDON, Dec. 13—(UP) —
British and Dutch destroyers,
striking before dawn today in
the central Mediterranean,
knocked out all of an Italian
naval squadron consisting of two
cruisers, a torpedo boat and a
motor speed boat.
The admiralty said that one
Italian cruiser was sunk, a
second was damaged heavily and
left ablaze from stem to stern,
the torpedo boat was severely
damaged and the motor speed
boat (known as an E-boat) sunk.
The action followed an offi-
cial report yesterday that an
Italian cruiser had been sunk by
a British submarine in the
same area.
The British destroyers attack-
ed the Italian cruisers with
gunfire and torpedoes.
"The leading cruiser burned
fiercely and then blew up," the
admiralty said. "The other, when
last seen, was blazing from
stem to stern."
By Ernest Barcella
UP Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 —
(UP) — Guam probably has
been captured by Japanese for-
ces but the two other mid Paci-
fic United States outposts
Wake and Midway — are con-
tinuing their resistance, the
Navy announced today.
This was revealed by navy
communique No. 5 after the
army in its seventh communi-
que disclosed that Japanese
focres are trying "to secure im-
provised air bases" in the frin-
ges of the Philippines.
The navy said it "is unable
to communicate with Guam
either by cable or radio," and
that "the capture of the island
is probable." It revealed that
the U. S. force there comprised
155 marines and fewer than 400
navy men.
"According to the hist re-
ports from (iiilini, the is-
land had Ih-cii 1m>nt 1>«-<I re-
peatedly and Japanese
troops had landed at sever-
al points on the island,"
tin* navy said. "Wake and
Midway continue to resist."
The three islands together
constituted a chain of stations
between Hawaii and the Philip-
pines. Guam is the westernmost
of the trip, lying south of Jap-
an amidst many Japanese man-
dated islands from which the
enemy operations presumably
were conducted.
The navy communique was
issued at 1:30 p. m., on the bas-
is of information received uo
to 0:30 a. m., army communi-
que No. 7 also was based on
reports as oT 9:30.
The army report said the es-
tablishment oi air fields was
tne "now clearly revealed" pur
pose of Japanese landing at-
tempts on the northwest,
and north and southeast coasts
of Luzon — principal island of
the Philippine group. Previous
communiques disclosed that
most of these landing attempts
had been beaten off. The new
communique said the most re-
cent enemy ground activity of
Luzon was "sporadic and unim-
portant."
The communique also
told of Japanese bombing
a 11 aeks "in m e d I u in
strength" on Clark Field,
army air base near Manila,
and on the city of Cebu,
which is on the island of
Cfhu south of Luzon.
American defenses are con-
centrated around Manila. The
enemy effort is to improvise
air fields outside this strongly-
held area, and to use them as
bases to supplement the present
seaborne attacks.
1.54 Inches Of
Rain Recorded
In Sweetwater
Rainfall in Sweetwater and vi-
cinity Wednesday apd up to
early morning Friday has been
a total of 1.54 inches, which is
total for the month of Decem-
ber, so far.
Wednesday's sustained rain
was measured at .85 and the
rain beginning Thursday night
had reached .09, with Friday
prospects for continuing precipi-
tation.
Thursday's temperatures were
35 low and 45 degrees for high
and on Friday morning the low
mark reached was -12.
Up to Wednesday the total
rainfall in this area stood at
29.31 inches. With the new
precipitation, the total for the
year to date has reached 30.85
inches, considerably more than
the average rainfall for the dis-
trict.
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HKKK RATE INCREASE
WASHINGTON, Doc. 13 _
(UP)—Increases of 10 per cent
in passenger and freight rates,
with certain exceptions, were
asked today by the Association
of American Railroads In a pe-
tion filed for class 1 railroads
with the interstate Commerce
commission.
ENEMY'S ISLAND
9|yJapan«s« Base* Russian Bases
Cities in capital letters have
more then 1,000,000 population
TOKYO
Nikolaevsk
SAKHALIN
RUSSIAN)
rChiba
Tokyo BaySz
Nayoshi
SOVIET RUSSIA
Nuto
Kisarazu
KARAFUTO
• Khabarovsk
Tomanoro
okosuk
Kururl
Hon to *
Scale of Miles
akkanoi
Nayaro
bcdss
L&Kushiro
Otoru
HOKKAIDO
MANCHUKUO
(JAPANESE)
Ominato
achinohe
Hirosaki
Antung
oshin
MorToko-^
Pacific Ocean
Sendai
Seaoijapan
KOREA
EES J tFuKushima
Takada
HONSHU
*Takooka
Konazawa
INDUSTRY
TOKYO
NAGOrA^*^r~~:
:Ye//ow Sea
tu nay
Chingkoi
Mt..Fujiyama^
Pop.: 6,600,000
Area about same
as Chicago's
INDUSTRY
Fusan
oppo
OSAK
Wakoyamo
°H AMA
Shimonoseki
him a Strait -
Soseb
SHM<OKU
KYUSHU
Nagasaki
Kagoshi
Scale of Miles
en >trail .
oneqoShimo
IMPORTS 'many now cut off) :
cotton, wool, oil, mochinery,
iron, beans, rubber, coal
EXPORTS: Silk, cloths, fish,
yarns, potteries, toys
JAPANESE ISLANDS
Population: 105,000,000
Areo: 260,644 square miles
Dutch Subs Send
4 Jap Transports
To Ocean Bottom
4,000 Nippon Troops
Lost; British Draw
Hack In Malaya
On these islands, in flimsy houses, live the people of Japan, self-made enemy of the United
States. If blockaded, this island nation has only ricp, fish and a few fruits and grains to live
on, little metal and fuel for war. It is vulnerable to air attack, less than 200fl miles from Phil-
ippines, 2MHi from Alaska.
Huge Naval Program
Add 900,000 Tons To
Will
Fleet
SINGAPORE, Malay, Dec. 13—
(UP)—The sinking of four heav-
ily loaded Japanese troop trans-
ports off southeast Thailand was j
officially reported today, but it i quarters said:
was acknowledged that Japa- j "Several air fields were at-
nese armored spearheads had | tacked by enemy aircraft. Re-
forced a slight British withdraw- j ports so far are meager but it
is believed that our losses are
slight. Some Japanese planes
| were destroyed but the number
is not yet determined."
Antiaircraft guns in the har-
bor shot down at least one Japa-
nese bomber.
Nichols field, near Manila, was
attacked but most of the dam-
age done was to a civilian area
which had been evacuated. Cas-
ualties were believed light.
Both big bombers and light I
bombers attacked in the Manila
area but met strong opposition
from antiaircraft guns and de-
fense fighter (
Filipino civilians aiv fight-
ing with the Unlte.d States
and Philippines forties I
against Japanese landing
forces in the Aparri area of
Northern Luzon island, dis-
patches from the front re-
ported today.
Dispatches said townspeople,
villagers, farmers and fishermen
went from their homes to aid |
the defense forces and with theii
bolos, the wicked Philippine'
knives, beheaded many of the i
Japanese soldiers on the beaches
as they landed.
Recruiting stations are crowd j
ed throughout the island and ;
youths of the reserve officers \
training corps are enlisting be
cause they are too impatient to :
await their commissions.
Filipino morale is high anc ;
the people are tranquil despite ,
heavy Japanese aerial bombing
of the Manila area.
There was a dawn air raid
tiee JAPS Page 3
By Frank Hewlett
United Press Staff Correspondent
MANILA, Dec. 13—(UP)—American defense forces today turn*
ed back the main strength of Japanese land and air attacks.
Enemy bombers again roared over Manila and struck at de-
fens" bases on Luzon Island but with decreased effectiveness, ac-
cording to military reports. Several Japanese craft were shot down.
Japanese invasion forces, which landed on three sides of
Luzon, failed to make progress and in some sectors, including
Vigan and Lingaycn bay on the west coast, had been beaten off.
"The situation on land is unchanged," a spokesman said.
(A war communique issued at Washington said that ground
activity on Luzon today was unimportant, with the Japanese
chiefly attempting to secure air bases—especially in the northern
Aparri sector.
(A National Broadcasting company report from Manila sad
that in northern Luzon the area j ——
had been entirely cltared of Jap-
anese, while Columbia Broad-
casting company reported that
the Lingayan sector was being
mopped up after the Japanese
there had been disposed of.)
A spokesman at army head-
al in northern Malaya
(About 4,000 Japanese lives
were lost in the sinking of the
four transports by Dutch sub-
marines off Pantani, a commu-
nique issued at Batavia said).
A communique tonight said
fighting continued on the Ke-
dah front in northwest Malay
"with little change."
The British lines in the
See SUB Page 3
CALLING ALL
GOODFELLOWS!
Goodfellows, let's see that no |
child in Sweetwater is forgot-
ten at Christmas. The quota to
insure 125 families a cheerful
Santa Claus has been set at
$750.
Saturday afternoon the fund
lagged far below the half way
mark. All donations will be ac-
knowledged in the Reporter. R.
M. Simmons, general chairman,
and Charles Paxton, secretary,
of the Goodfellow committee, re-
ports these additional donors:
By John L. Steele
UP Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec .13. —
(UP)—The senate naval affairs
committee today prepared to
draft a long-range naval build-
ing program to outstrip the ax-
is powers on the high seas by
increasing the navy's combatant
strength by 30 per cent — or
900,000 tons.
Immediate authorizations and
appropriations, however, will be
limited to 300,000 tons since the
budget bureau has advised that
more cannot be handled "a*, the
present time."
One of the largest programs
in shipbuilding history, it en
tails Ihe eventual construction
of 150 vessels to'bring th? total
fighting strength to 3,01'1,I80
tons. The over-all cost has been
estimated only at "much more '
than $3,000,000,000.
The navy would be allowed
complete felixibility in the
types of ships to be construct-
ed. Chairman David I. Walsh,
l>., Mass., announced yesterday
in proposing the program to a
startled senate, however, that
it may Include seven or eight
new battleships, six qr seven
aircraft carriers, 27 or 8 cruis-
ers and some 127 destroyers
and submarines.
He told reporters it would
offset "whatever losses and di-
munitions in fleet strength
were incurred in recent opera-
tions at Honolulu." The admin
istration has confirmed the loss
See NAVY Page 3
Stimson Urges
Enactment Of
Draft Measure
By Gilbert \V. Stewart Jr.
UP Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 — j
(UP) —Secretary of War Henry
L. Stimson today urged enact-
ment of the proposed vastly-
expanded draft law "to provide
a framework into which we can
steadily and solidly build, stone
by stone, the structure which
will accomplish victory."
He made the plea in a letter
read before the house military
affairs committee shortly after
the army recruiting service ap-
pealed for air corps volunteers
—at least 20.000 men between
20 and 2'i monthly for training
as pilots, and an additional 150.
000 other volunteers between IS
and 35 for ground services.
Stlmson's letter was read by
Committee Chairman Andrew .1.
May, D., Kv., as the commit-
tee opened brief hearings on his
bill which would provide a has
is for a draft army of 10,000,out)
men. '
The bill would require the
registration of all male residents
of the United States from 18 to
64 years of age, inclusive, mak-
ing Ihose from 10 to 44, inclu-
sive, subject to actual military
See STIMSON Page 3
Weather Forecast
WEST TEXAS — Increasing
cloudiness in Big Bend country
and El Paso area with occasion-
al rain Sunday, elsewhere clou-
dy Sunday with drizzle or occa-
sional light rain in south.
EAST TEXAS—Partly cloudy
to fair weather Sunday; rising
temperatures in west portion
Sunday.
Dr. Albert Brann
... $5.00
Dr. P. T. Quast
. . .. 1.00
Blue Bonnet
Coffee Shop
... . 2.50
A. R. Norred
. . . 3.00
Dr. A. J. Wimberly
. . . 5.00
Western Windmill Co..
. . 10.00
Levy Bros
... .15.00
C. S. Boyles, sr
. . 1.00
Gulf Oil Corporation
. . 25.00
Sweetwater Cotton Oil.
. . 25.00
H. M. Simmons
.. 10.00
M. J. Lykins
... 1.00
Munroe Buchanan ...
... 1.00
J. D. Shackelford
. . . 1.00
Mrs. Jack Patton
. . . 1.00
Delas Reeves, jr
. . . . 1.00
A. R. Kendrick
. .. 1.00
Carlton Parker
. . 1.00
Mrs. Carlton Parker .
. 1.00
James Ault
. . . 1.00
W. P. Freeman
. . . . 2.50
Albert Payne
50
A. C. Smith
. . . 1.00
Peter Fox
. . . . 2.50
Jim Barnes
50
John Embry
1.00
W. G. Davis
. . . 2.50
Tom Beene
1.00
T. S. Montgomery
. . . . 2.50
R. L. Marchant ......
. . . . 1.00
Mrs. Edward Lohmann,
jr. 1.00
G. W. Rozar
1.00
Total . .
$128.50
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Previously reported .. 114.00
Total
Local Midi School
C
Again Ranks High
For the fifth consecutive year
the Sweetwater High school re-
cently was elected to member-
ship in the Southern Associa-
tion of Colleges and Secondare
schools without any adverse
Jriticism whatsoever
Membership, without criticism
on standards and curricula, is
taken to indicate constructive
and progressive leadership in
the public schools, according to
J. W. O'Banion, chairman o
the state executive committee.
The local school was admit
j ted to membership again at a
I meeting of the organization at
$242.50 ■ Louisville, Kv., Dec.
l -o.
Red Army To Fight Until
Hitler Destroyed- Litvinov
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 —
(UP) — Soviet Ambassador
Maxim Litvinov told a press
conference today that the "Red
army intends lo smash back at
Hitler until he is destroyed."
The newly-appointed envoy's
statement was taken as an ans
wer to suggestions that the
Soviet Union might make peace
with Germany. He referred t >
Japan as well as Germany as
the "common enemy" of the
Soviet. Britain and the United
States, but indicated belief the
Soviet could make her greatest
contribution now by continuing
to concentrate her efforts again-
st Germany.
Hitler but us," he said, "We I up a far
would not be helping the allied
cause if we were to relax our
efforts in this direction just
now."
He said he was convinced
that Germany was exerting ev-
ery pressure possible on Japan
to cause her to open a front
against Russia in the Far Ea.->t.
He said that the Japanese army
had been massing troops for
many months along the Man
chukuan border but did not es
timate the number available
there.
While denouncing Japan as
"one of a common gang," he
gave no intimation that the
eastern frontier itself.
In his statement that Russia
was doing a job none other
could do on the German-eastern
front, he gave the impression
that Russia had no desire to to
obliged to divert forces to the
Far East.
He denounced the Axis pow
ers as "international gangster-'
who plan to plunder and en-
slave their peoples."
"I am sure a complete under-
standing exists or will lie arriv
ed at on which country shall
place its effort in each sector
and will be based on mutual in
Red Army Still
Driving Germans
From Moscow
Hastily Formed Nazi
Reserves Unable To
Halt Soviet Advance
MOSCOW, Dec. 13— (Official
broadcast recorded by UP in
London)—The Red army contin-
ued to "fight fercely" in an ad-
ance on the Moscow front, a
communique said tonight.
The towns of Lyvna and Ef-
remov, on the western and
-outhwestern sectors of the cen-
ral front, were captured by the
Russian troops, according to
he communique.
Seven German planes and two
Russian craft were destroyed
nd Red air force attytok* de-
stroyed 20 enemy tanks. 360 ve-
'ticles, 10 field guns and 60
•;ars.
An enemy regiment was
reported wiped out as Rus-
sian forces "pursued the re-
treating enemy." One force
under General H^lo captur-
ed 1!) villages.
Dispatches from the Kalinin
ront northeast of Moscow to-
;ay said the Germans had
hrown hastily formed reserves
nto an attempt to halt the Red
irmy offensive, but had been
forced to yield additional
Ti'ound.
The German forces, according
0 a Pravda correspondent at
he front, repeatedly counterat-
icked but were repulsed and
forced to retreat in several sec-
•ors.
One Russian unit, in a four-
lay battle, drove the Germans
rom eight villages, after which
"he enemy fled and abandoned
vounded men and huge sup-
plies of arms and equipment.
REDS CLAIM MAJOR
MILITARY VICTORY
KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Dec. 13
—(UP)—Russia claimed one of
ihe' greatest military victories
.n modern history today, as-
serting it had definitely smash-
ed an offensive on Moscow by
1 German divisions, upwards
f 750.000 men. and that the
Germans were fleeing.
It was disclosed that the Rus-
sians started a cour.teroffensive
ne week ago today and after
«- ttL-b A KM; : igfc a
Axis Troops In
uln a Encircled
oljeves German
CAIRO, Dec. 13 _ fP) _
xis troo'is wh-ch fed the To
■ ruk-El Adem areas have been
encircled at AIn El Gazala, 40
; miles west of Tobruk, British
general headquarters for the
i Middle East said today.
, "The British advance in Lib-
ya is continuing westward and
j more axis prisoners and mate-
rial are being captured," a
spokesman said.
"The British are continuing
, an encircling movement against
! Gen. Rommel's forces east of
j A in El Gazala."
Gen. Envin Hommel is com-
mander of the German and Ital-
ian troops in North Africa. Ain
El Gazala is 40 miles west of
Tobruk.
British troops annarently
were rushing across the desert
south of the coastal road to
meet the sea south of Benghazi
to prevent an eventual axis
"We feel that none can smash Soviet Union intended to open
terest. We are all together in withdrawal into Tri|>olitania
one boat against national in fumy and barbarity."
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