Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 192, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 25, 1942 Page: 1 of 16
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Appraiser Looks
Favorably On FHA
Prospects In City
Judge .1. A. Haley, of Lubbock, inspector-appraiser for the Fed-
eral Housing administration in a 41-county district, has complet-
ed a check on lots in Sweetwater available for defense building
work under Title VI plan.
Judge Raley looked favorably upon many sites offered, and
agreed with a local committee,
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1942
NUMBER 192
Archbishop Quits
H. A. Walker, P. Edward Pond
er, Don Smith and Mayor Lee
Langley. tlfat Sweetwater should
share in the building program
of this defense area.
Homes that are not started at
this time cannot obtain prior-
ities on materials unless they
are for defense workers; but
priorities have not been impos-
ed and may not be for some
time.
M. C .Alston has contracted
with three owners here alrea-
dy for construction of three
homes ranging from $4,0()0 to
$5,000. and is planning to erect
foul' others on East 12th street,
' ranging from $3,500 to $4,000
I under Title VI, or defense uro-
visions. Foundations have been
poured for one of the series of
three homes, and construction
See INSPECTOR Page 8
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Pan-Am Nations
Be^in Breaking
Ties With Axis
MctcArtKwr Lines Penetrated
By Terrific Japanese Attacks
February Second
Will Be 'M' Dav
e>
In Sweetwater
2,200 Volunteers Needed
To Take Care Of Civilian
Defense Needs In City
Purchase Of '80'
Right-Of-Way Gets
Citizens' Approval
Preliminary plans for mobili-
zation day in Sweetwater to reg-
ister workers for the various
civilian defense units, were out-
lined Saturday by the commit-
tee recently authorized for that | |T*1 • P I' P i
purpose by the Sweetwater Civ-II 11CS I Or
ilian Defense council.
There are 16 different units |
I with only a skeleton organiza-
tion so far which will be unable
i to function until volunteers are
j secured to fill the ranks, it was
pointed out in the meeting. It
Sweetwater and Nolan county citizens went all-out for defense
and unanimously approved a petition to the commissioners' court
approving the purchase of necessary right-of-way for the improve-
ment of U. S. highway 80 through Sweetwater and Roscoe at a-
cost of $30,000. Already $1,040 has been spent in the securing
— $ , of the abstracts and the deeds.
The petition was the result of
Heavy Losses Are
Admitted During
Counter Attacks
Defenders May lie In
Serious Difficulties As
Battle Nears Climax
Second Appeal For
Aid Sent As Jap
Forces Take Rabaul
By Brydon Tavs
United Press Htuff Correspondent
MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 24—(UP)—The government
speeded mobilization tonight of all home defense forces to full
fighting strength as official dispatches confirmed that the Japa-
nese had invaded Rabaul. on New Britain Island, in a drive to-
ward Australia.
Eleven enemy transports—indicating many thousands of Japa-
nese troops—as well as cruisers. — ~ '
aircraft carriers and fleets of w r 1 C
airplanes participated ir the riCaUS IjCOUt
landing at Rabaul. according to i'
Whw -" Council Again
By Harrison Salisbury
WASHINGTON. Jan. :
14—(UP i
not definitely mention any
sistance.
The fate of the garrison at
Rabaul, from which civilians
had been evacuated by ail', was
unknown but earlier reports had
said they were believed to be
fighting inland in the hills.
About 75 pel- cent of the home
defense forces were said to be
mobilized by tonight, after the
war cabinet had sent a second
urgent appeal to the United
States and Britain to rush aer-
ial and naval reinforcements as
—Terrific Japanese attacks sup- the only method of turning back
ported by naval vessels and air- the Japanese.
craft, have driven wedges into j
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Bat-:
aan lines and captured some po-
sitions on the west coast of the
"To make way for a younger
man," the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, (lie Most Hi'vvrt'tiil
ami l{ij lit Honorable Cosmo-
Lang, head of the Church of
England, lias resigned.
Russian Drive
Threatens To
lit Germans
; By Kverett l{. Holies
CP Staff Correspondent
RIO DE JANEIRO. Jan. 24 — j
(I P) — Pan-America began j Was estimated that it will take
j breaking diplomatic relations j 2200 workers to properly do the
i with the axis today as Brazilian j job with as manv more as it 1
I minister Oswaldo Aran i js possible to get for other emer-
ha disclosed how Germany. | sondes.
I Italy and Japan vainly attempt j n j* the plan of the commit-'
ed to influence the conference of i tee to start registrations on
j foreign ministers. j Monday, February 2, which has;
Peru was the first to break j been designated as "M" day in
| relations under a resolution Sweetwater. Various strategic lo-1
! unanimously adopted by thej cations have been selected;
f conference, but Brazil announc j around the city as points for j
j ed that its government had j volunteers to register. It is hop- i
; "practically broken off related to get the majority of the
j tions" and would make the ac I registrations over in one day |
I tion formal early in February. Ujas time is short and defense!
was also reported, however, that! plans in Sweetwater are behind j
j President Getulio Vargas may! those of other communities,
i summon a cabinet meeting to | Other methods to get registra-!
| consider a decree for the rup ! *ions .include distribution of reg-
I turo of relations j titration cards to various bust-1
Aranha. in an official state |
I ment, said that last Wednesday
j in the midst of a deadlock ove.
i the resolution calling for a dip
1
a citizens meeting Saturday call-1 peninsula, the war department
ed by Delas Reeves, county reported today.
judge for the purpose of con- "Heavy' losses were inflicted
. , upon the Japanese, the commu-
-tdumg .he matter due to the nique said, but for the first time
recent delay in the project on j since the war in the Philippines
orders from the federal govern-! started it was admitted that
inent. After considerable discus- the American defenders also
-ion which included brief talks! suffered "heavy" losses—losses
by Ft. M. Simmons. H. B. Allen. | they could ill afford.
C. C. Johnston, J. H. Beall. jr.. j MacArthur's men. weary from
Irving Loeb, Ed Mays, M. H.i continual fighting and outnum-
Pior and several others, the con- bered by the powerfully reinforc-
ensus was to go ahead with the I ed Japanese troops, launched
project in order to be in readi- j counter-attack after counter-at
ness when the highway project
Official sources said .lapa-
n,"se forces on New Britain
were in position to bomb
Queensland and if the infil-
tration continued in the sur-
rounding islands—landings
have been made at the Solo-
mons and probably on New
Guinea—the enemy would
have good airfields to com-
mand lb," sea lanes north of
A ust ralia.
CHAKLHS K. I'A A TON
ness and industrial organiza-
tions; for employes to sign: to |
schools for children to take I
home to their parents; to church-
lomatic break he received per-1
| es where they will be passed out i
congregations; to civic
By Ctiiled Press
Russian force
I I1IU1H3 I M-cun. «n. | |llt,
j m r-, letters from the German,, organizalion^ a£ as part of their !
I hnn ;-nd Japanese ambassa , * ^ other institutions.;
were reported or- I he letters sat. that in j The committee meetlng with!
today to tie approaching the ot the fact that their j^n,, Roth. chief of volunteer!
main Leningrad - Vitebsk - Kiev i countries' relations were friend- | i-egjyii-ation lor civilian defense
railroad at a point more than 250 y lor s? .,r!an>' yea.rs' a"d work included R. C. Hoppe, city1
miles west-northwest of Moscow | causre of r,s,,.ng tension 111 t le | manager: Bob Cooke. Spurgeon
, j conference they earnestly ( Raskin and George Bennitt.
' !>«>].!( " that nothing will be | _____ v
■ "no by Brazil "to disturb these i
Aianlia" also informed the Lewis Stickill^
ambassadors that Brazil's post-
man front a great In.' vhicii I tion was clear before their let-
threatened to split Hi i man j llutl heen received.
northern and central armies un-j v
less the enemy could establish
"I'll hale to1 be the first .lap lo
get in front of his giinsights."
Thus spoke liis lieutenant as
Corp. Leum Wee, "21, first \ni- j attend,
erican-('hlnese to be appoint- ! gGth
ed a flying cai!i"t at March
Field, Calif., was li-ansferred
lo an Army basic flying
school.
again came up for consideration.
In their discussion it was point-
ed out that the importance of
the highway to Sweetwater and
the county as a whole was such
that the purchase at this time,
although no immediate aetion in
construction wa
sible, was good insurance for
the future. Some speakers re-
marked out that it could be
bought cheaper now than some
later date. S. J. Treadaway, dis-
trict highway engineer who was
scheduled to tt lk was unable to
The gravity of the threat to \
Australia was emphasized by!
Prime Minister John Curtin and
other cabinet ministers but they
also reiterated that a desperate
t£iek ' ^ttie would be waged from ev- ]
The counter-attacks succeeded 01 - NiilaSe and city.
in recovering some of the lost | Australian air reconnaissance •
positions but others, it was ad-; Pilots reported the enemy land-
mitted, remained in Japanese j 'nS at Rabaul. which had been j
control: | cut off from direct communica-
The communique indicated for; tions since Thursday.
the first time that MacArthur It was suggested unofficially; ed jiresidr.rft of the Buffalo Trait
perhaps pos-jmay be in serious difficulty to that Japanese paratroops had | council. Boy Scouts of America,
maintain his lines on Bataan aided in the invasion, but the when the annual meeting of the
peninsula. The climax of the big big guns of the enemy fleet j council was held at Big Spring
Japanese drive appeared to be, made it difficult if not impos-! last Week.
| sible for the small Australian | Serving with Mr. Paxton on
garrison to put up any serious j the executive board for the new
resistance. It was believed tM?! year will be the following offi-
I defenders had fallen back into cers an,| chairmen, also select-
the jungle and the hills to fight I ^ at the meeting-
in guerrilla fashion.
Paxton Chosen
For 12th Time As
Scout President
For the 12th time Charles E.
| Paxjon of Sweetwater was elect-
more than 00 miles which prom-
ised to eclipse their victory a
Mozhaisk.
Tirelessly attacking. Red arm
troops had driven into 111 ■ • fi"i
I To Unity Demand
a firm' line at once or elected
to make a general retreat.
There were unconfirmed re-
ports that the Russians already
were storming Rzhev. 135 miles
west-northwest of Moscow, after
Caution Urged
In Burning Grass
; WASHINGTON. Jan. 24—(UP)
—John L. Lewis stuck with his
i demands for CIO-AFL unity to-
!day in the face of the adoption
! by leaders of the two labor or-
jganizations of President Roose-
| volt's suggestion for establish-1 also t*> serve two year
Three Prisoners
Taken To Abilene
Three men recently sentenced
to serve prison terms by Judge
A. S. Mauzey, in 32d District
court here, were taken to Abi-
lene Saturday by Sheriff Tom
Wade, to start their trip to
Huntsville.
Milton Marshall, sentenced to (
serve thief-' years on a nlea of |
guilty to attempted murder inj
a cafe shooting here; C. D. Clark,
check swindler who is to serve
two years, and A. G. Patterson,
made up
approachinj
"Though fatigued from
constant fighting," the com-
munique reported. "Aniieri-
can and Philippine troops
continued their stubborn re-
sistance, contesting savage-
ly every advance made by
the eneiny.
"The enthusiasm, courage and
devotion are undiminished."
See MacARTHUR Page 8
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County Judge Reeves
and Commissioner Bob Jordan
stated flatly that the approval
for purchase should include the
entire length of eight miles and
not for a portion as was consid-
ered by some. The commission-
ers were to act officially later, j
Money for the purchase will:
be raised through the sale of i my , n |
refunding bonds to be paid out [^|£JVy jLllIltS olll)
of earmarked money from the \ J
county road and bridge fund ov- H/f„„ D * H/l .
er a period of 5 years. Commis-1 MenaCe DClUg 'Viet
sioner Jordan reminded the I C
group that it would very likely I WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—(UP)
mean in increase in county val- —The navy, by rerouting ships
Australian mobilization ap-
plies to the militia, a compul-
sory defense force, and to certain
home garrisons.
There has been no direct com-
munication will Rabaul since
Thursday, when the radio sta-
tion there closed down. Many
if not all women and children
in the endangered islands have
been removed. Normally there
were about 700 Europeans at Ra-
baul. 300 at Waau and 400 at
Bulolo.
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uations
-v-
ing a wartime "cabinet'
Fire Chief A. C. Forgay Satui
the advanced forces had passed day urged residents to be cau-j tain industrial peace.
it by. and that they had left1 tious in burning grass, suggest-1 Lewis, in sticking to his uni-
Vyazma in their wake, to lie re- ing that two or three feet of fication proposal, brought his
duccd similarly at leisure, in j grass nearest houses be cut be-1 dispute with CIO President Phil-
a drive fur Smolensk. 210 miles fore burning. The warning fol-, ip Murray to the point of an
west of Moscow on the Warsaw i lowed two alarms Saturday af- open break.
road. , tcrnoon. Several minor fires, i Lewis wrote Murray declining
The main Russian forces ad- j none of which caused more tlufln ; an invitation to place his propo-
vancing westward from Moz- slight damage
haisk were reported to have cap-1 Friday.
tured Gzhatsk. 10 miles east of |
Vyazma, after th" Germans had'
lost a motorized brigade left as I
a rear guard.
Unconfirmed Stockholm re- >
ports described a nightmare hat-j •
tie at Rzhev, asserting that the [
Germans were putting the city
to the torch, preparing for a
retreat, while Russian Stormo-
vik planes rained bombs on
them and Russian shock troops
drove into the city with the bay-
onet.
I V
caused
alarms sal before the Clt)
See LEWIS Page (i
to main-1 the. trio. They will be held at
! Abiiene to join the next group
being sent to prison from that
area.
Ray Prince, indicted here for
alleged forgery, was taken to
Colorado City earlier. Me is
wanted here on a similar charge.
Lamesa authorities also wanted
custody, but will have to await
proceedings in Colorado City.
executive
Good Offense Best Defense
Jeff Williams Tells Rally
but a native of Texas, Fiiday
night urged more than a thou-
Dish washer Faces
Charge Of Theft
John 'Littlejohn" Llo.vd, a
former dishwa tier at the Bank
head cafe i -Sweetwater, is
under an In Brownfle'd.
Texas, ,-v aig return to this
city to ,ce a robbery charg
He is alleged to have stolen
*37 at the cafe, according to
the charge filed in county
court by Chief of Police J. A.
Bland. The theft took place
shortly after New Year's day.
Lloyd, a negro, will be brought
back to this city by a sheriff's i lo anybody on his ranch was
deputy from here to drop everything and kill a
Stressing the fact that a good rattlesnake whenever it showed
offense is the best defense. Jeff | its ugly head," Williams said.
Williams, inimitable Rotary club
speaker from Chlckasha. Okla.
And that is what we of Am-
erica must do. Just drop every-
thing and kill the rattlesnake
that threatens us now in war."
Williams, who came here for
sand residents of Sweetwater | the patriotic rally sponsored by
| community to "get at the ene
' mies 'broil.I threatening our na-
tion. nd to make them like it.''
Inu. persing his hour's talk
at the municipal auditorium
with numerous personal inci-
dents and jokes he kept his au-
dience alternately laughing and
serious.
lie told of his "lawing a case"
In a rural part of Oklahoma,
noted for its rattlesnakes The
man he stayed with showed him
a hatchet, available for only one
purpose—killing rattlesnakes
.'He told me that his ordar
the Sweetwater Rotary club, ap-
pealed for individual war prepa-
rations. "shoulder to shoulder,
just like you are sitting here
tonight," to win this war.
"Talk getting after the Japs,
and not just defending our-
selves." he said. The sage of
Chickasha closed with a plea
that all unite, stop bickering and
personal fights long enough for
an all-out war effort.
He was introduced by Charles
Paxton. Dr. E. B. Pool, local
Rotary president was on the
platform also.
The Hardin Simmons Cowboy
band played a half hour before
the address of the evening, their
program including excellent vo-
cal solos and marimba numbers.
They were encored frequently.
Rotarians and their wives met
for a dinner session before the
program at 8:30. Williams spoke
a personal message to them as
a director of Rotary Interna-
tional. At present lie is chair-
man of a group looking out for
Rotarians who have become ref-
ugees in warring countries, lie-
cause, as Paxton later said at
the general meeting, "he want-
ed a job like that for personal
service."
Tickets issued numbered !'52,
but many were given tickets as
they entered. No one was turn-
ed away from the meeting. The
ticket count was reported by Ai
Jordan, who assisted the Rotar-
ians In that phase of the ar-
rangements.
Malta Is Taking
Aerial Pounding
By United Press
"Our air forces again raided
Malta day and night."
Buried in nearly every Ger-
man and Italian communique
for the last seven weeks have
been these nine words announc-
ing the aerial pounding of the
little Mediterranean island of
Malta.
Thousands of tons of incen-
diary and explosive bombs have
been dumpted from Axis planes
flying high over Britain's island
possession in a sustained effort
to hammer U50.000 civilians and
a small defending garrison into
submission.
But the population refuses to
yell "Uncle."
The Maltese islands are lo-
cated strategically between Eu-
rope and Africa in the central
channel which connects the
eastern and western basins of
the Mediterranean.
The British regard Malta as a
vital operational base from
which to lend aerial support to
north African troops and harass
Axis positions in Sicily and Tri-
poli. In the event allied forces
should launch an invasion
against continental Europe from
the south, Malta's strategic val-
ue would be increased by a large
natural harbor.
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2 .'.VPS PLANKS DOWNED
RANGOON Jan. 24 — tOUi-
cial broadcast recorded by UP
at Chungking) — American anu
British pilots today shot down
all oi a squadron of seven Jap-
anese bombers vainly striking
at Rangoon and also destroyed
nine Japanese fighters. The 10
enemy craft were downed witii
loss of one allied plane.
and destroying or capturing Ger-
man submarines, was "taking
care" of the shipping situation
along the Atlantic coast today.
More than 48 hours has pass-
ed since the last navy announce-
ment of a shipping loss. While
that does not mean that there
have been no attacks, it is a
distinct improvement over a
few days ago when reports of
attacks were being issued ;>lmost
daily.
Six vessels were sunk or dam-
aged in the week before the pres-
ent lull.
Six vessels were sunk or dam-
aged in the week before the
present lull.
A navy spokesman late Fri-
day confirmed that "some of
the recent visitors to our terri-
torial waters will never enjoy
ML K. Stevenson
On Draft Board
B. Reagan of Big Spring,
George Abel of Midland, R. H.
Bell of Pecos and Tom Picker-
ing of Odessa, vice-presidents;
R. W. Simmons of Sweetwater,
treasurer: Wayne Boren of Sny-
der, commissioner: M. L. Atkin-
See PAXTON Page 8
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Imperials Destroy
Japanese Tanks
On Malav Front
SINGAPORE, .'ail. 24 —(UP>
; —British imperial troops, fight-
ing against a savage Japaneso- -
c. r .i ! drive on the central and west-
Malven k Stevenson, of the crn fmnls ,
J H Doscher Co. here wil , anese lank3
take his place as a member of, an(J a
the Nolan County Selective Ser-
vice board at tlie meeting of i
the board next Tuesday night. _
He was named to the post by ' ] planes, backing up
Governor Coke Stevenson, and ! , 'jard-pr«M.-ed ground forces,
all necesary papers have been J l!(;k against the Jap-
filled out. anese along the main Singapore
Henry T. Marshall, who has i highway north of the central
ern fronts, have destroyed Jap-
alid other vehicles
holding on the eastern
front, a general headquarters
served since Oct.
the return trip portion of their i passing on himself if he remain-
voyage." ed on the board.'
250 Expected For
Methodist Meeting
10. 1040. re front' attacking troops and
signed recently owing to the fact i transport.
that he is in the combat age j They bombed roads, causing
bracket that will register Feb. j casualties and damage to trans-
10. He said he would be placed
in the awkward position of
Bishop Ivan Lee Holt will pre-
side over a two-day area plan-
ning conference of Mtthodist
church officials and workers at
the First Methodist church Mon-
day and Tuesday, it was announ-
ced by the pastor, the Rev. T.
M. Johnston.
An estimated 250 churchmen
from the four conferences in the
Dallas area will attend.
The first session of the con-
ference will begin at 10:30 Mon-
day morning.
Dr. Harry LeVore. superin-
tendent of the Dallas district of
the North Texas conference, will
preach at the First Methodist
church Sunday evening to open
the series of programs associat-
ed with the conference and
Bishop Holt will preach Monday
evening.
Four conferences are embrac
ed bv the Dallas area. Thev arc
port, the communique said, and
iow flying planes machine gun-
ned Japanese troops.
All planes returned to base,
it was asserted.
The Japanese were everting
powerful pressure on the Bat a
Pahat sector of the west coast,
60 mile- above the Tehran
Strait which -operates (Singapore
from th mainland, the commu-
nique disclosed.
It was in this area and in the
Paloh area, on the central front
t 0 miles north of the strait,
tha the imperials struck ba.'ic
at the Japanese and knocked
the North Texas conference, the 011 ^ehiclcs.
Central Texas conference, the1 t Paloh is only H miles up th
Northwest Texas and the New laiiroad from Kltiang, whicn
Mexico conferences. All district < Cuard lias made hi- licadquart-
superintendents, chairmen ol and from which lie had
major boards, conference lay motored up to the front. Guard
leaders, presidents of Women's noted in an earlier di.-patch
Societies of Christian Service that he hail deckled late ves-
aml executive secretaries of
Women's Societies of Christian
Service and executive secretar
ies of Christian education are
required to attend the sessions
while pastors and laymen gen-
erally arc invited, the Rev Mr.
Johnston said.
A number of outstanding
church leaders and speakers
will appear on the two-day pro-
gram
terday to return to Singapore).
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IHTCH SCO It K HITS
BAT AVI A, Jan. 24 — (UP) —
Dutch army boml>ers again to-1
day attacked Japanese sea in-j
vasion forces striking at east-1
ern Borneo and -cored direct
hit- on a warship and twoj
transports, one of which capsiiz- j
ed
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