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The Denison
.REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS DENISON, TEXAS Fill DAY, AUG 14th, 1942 WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. IX—NO 42
Jap Seaplane Base Taken By Marines
AMERICAN AIR CORPS NOW IN THICK OF BATTLE
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Loss Of Aircraft Germans Smash Closer To
Carrier Eagle And
Cruiser Is Admitted
Stalingrad and Natal Base
LCHpON, Aug. 14—The
Admirality today confirmed
that a furious sea and «ur bat-
tle has taken place in the
Mediterranean. F
Tlx- British announced that
in addition to the aircraft
carrier ,Eagle, J the cruiser
Manchester {has been sunk
while convoying reinforce-
ments to Malta- F
harassed the French coast. They
patrolled the Channel. And they
rose to battle marauding Germ-
an planes over Britain.
It's only what a spokesman
called a "beginners' operation",
j And probably only a few planes
j took part. But London boserv-
| ers see it as the first move to
J put our airmen on a 24-hour a
I day battling schedule.
Soviets Making
Gains Along A
Wide Arc Today
Fury Of Russian
Drives Admitted
By Berlin Radio
BLITZ-BUGGY ItlDK
Airdrome
Is Also In
U.S. Hands
——— | American bomber pilots also
^LONDON, Aug. 14—American j are champing at the bit to j;et in-
sflr corps fighter forces now are' to action- They had a taste >f
in the thick of action over Bur-1 it in the July 4th att-t'k. And
ope. The American command (now the British radio says our
announced that U. S. fliers have | flying fortress pilots are just
MOSCOW, Aug. 14—Th? C,<
many (have snwiHiicd their way
t j Stalingrad today and the Black
sea naval base at NovorcK3Ei.sk,
But tJwf Russians, in «n at.
, . .... i tempted diversionary assault, arc
struck at the enemy in thirty-one waiting for word to get back into! making important gains along a
separate operations, yesterday and (the middle of it. wide arc ^ thft Mwwv fr>rit.
today. They joined the RAF s Qreek Port Raided. * Anazi brnuk-fhroutsh in *h .
aerial second-front and attacked j • There also is news today of a I Kletskaya are-i, northwest of
Nazi targets in Holland. They big: American raid on the Greek Staingrad, carried the
^ ^ port of Navarino. A large force
ALONG THE
NEWS BEAT
BY THE EDITOR
of Yankee pilots from Egypt let
go with everything they had and
three out of four enemy cruisers
roced under their bombs. A di
rect hit Jfeet one afire.
The ftAF has staged the great-
est show, however. By parlaying
two 500-plane night raids in sue-
Out on the CampMigii Front , , , ., . . . J
As we have told the customers c®8S1®n- P'1"19 scourged ra(lio said Stalingrad
the key German rail center of; hombed in a
o
e ni n
to the Den river. The wi'ioJe of I
the Russian defense line pulled j
back and then launched a heavy
counter-attack. According to the'
Army newspaper Red Star, the'
asault was sucessful on the flanks,
but a big Nazi wedge held in the
center, where fighting still rages.'
The German-controlled Paris
has been
First Casualties
From Battle Zone
Land At Hospitals
DUTCH FLYERS who escaped from tht Netherlands East Indies art
in training for another rrac-k at the Japs.
At a southern airfield they are learning . 'isndle American planet
and equipment
Here threi trainees take time :f? •' •' !'tS f0r a ]eep of fun
before, we are enjoying making
this campaign for the Legislaeure,
place 1, and the many contacts
we have made, the numerous
homes into which we have been
so cordially received, and the var-
ious towns and settlements where
the people have seemingly eagerly
heard us speak our message, is a
thing which any man with any
kind of a heart would cherish
through the years.
To sit and talk with an
aged blind man and hear his phil-
osophy of life, listen to his sum-
mation of things, marvel at his
contact with current happenings
and his wonderful memory, is
something one carries away which
amounts to more than is brought
to such a person.
„ . „ bombed in a thousand-plane
Mainz. Thus t appears Britain s raj(J the ^ who]
citv-by-city attacshave added an-1 ,y unconfirmed
The German advance toward
.. . . . Novorossisk, stemmed out of the
lin acknowledges that damage is Krasnador reffion of the Cau8ca.
us. A Soviet communique said
city-by-city attacshav
other victim to Cologne, Essen,!
Bremen and the rest. Even Ber-
Dam Area Again To Be
Open To Public Sunday
R. R. Service Interrupted
NEW PELHI, India, Aug.
14 A eommuique said today
tfiat American Air Corps
heavy bombing plane# have
interrupted service on a 125-
mile stretch of the vital iMan-
dalay railroad. In addition,
the Americans have bombed
Japan's tlhree greatest bases
in florthern Burma in a two-
week offensive, i
^ on a large scale. And fires
Those sightless eyes do not hold said to be burning in the city ac
back a seeing soul and the shams cording to the Germans.
of life are made to look beggarly The Germans say they
while the solid things and fi
the Red Army withdrew to
positions.
Even Berlin admits the fury of
the Soviet drives which are under- months ago.
way on the Moscow front from
the Rzhev sector, northwest of
\Moscow, to Voronezh, only 300
miles from the Caucasus. The
German radio said the Nazi troops 7"? Y'c
are fighting some of the most bit- e °K
teT defensive battles of the war-
1/Moscow reports ground-gaining
— j for the Red Army in the Rzhev
are 1 and Bryansk areas.
The center of the Rhzev front
t fighting appears to be around
shot
The Denison dam site area will Atkinson company, Will not be
be thrown open to the public running, thus prompting engineers
new Sunday for the second time since to once more permit the public to
the zone was blocked off as a inspect the progress being made
safety measure some set en on the $54,01)0.000 hydro-eltr iric
project.
Visitors are asked to drive in
orderly fashion and follow the
same Baer's "Ferry road all the
way to the observation point used
urn was closfd to the
public. The area will be open
from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. and all
side-roads to the work area will
be blocked off.
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Shake-UpOrdered
In Army's Public
Relations Office
j WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—The
The dam site was opened to the War Depaitment today ordered a
public the first time on Sunday shake-up in its public relations of-
G E N , MACARTHiUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia,
Aug. 14—'United States Marines
are believed today to have cap-
tured the Japanese seaplane base
at Tulagi as well Kokum on
Guadalcanal island in the Solo-
mons. Kokum is the most valu-
able airdrome in the southern
Solomons-
In addition, the Marines are re-
ported to have driven five miles
across the grassy plains into
Guadalcanal. It seems almost
certain that nearly all of little
Tulagi—only three miles in cir-
cumference—is well in hand.
At the same time it appears as
if American forces have cleared
much of "Florida Island, and gain-
ed footholds of the nearby Atolls
of yMakambo and Gavutu.
Sensational Claims Made
'Navy headquarters in Washing-
ton, Pearl Harbor or New Zeal-
and have no late* word of the
fighting. But the Japs are
making new senational claims.
The Japs—through Berlin
claim the sinking of 30 allied na-
val vessels. And the damaging of
five more. But they don't repeat
their first claim that a battleship
has been sunk. None of the claims
are confirmed.
Allied reports indicate that a
huge naval battle is being fought
off the Solomons. U. S- fleet un-
its are believed to be driving off
j the enemy's, and naval planes are
battling tooth and toe nail with
Jap land planes.
It seems obvious that the Japs
are making possibly frantic ef-
forts to bring up reinforcements
to the Solomons. But Glenerais
MacArthur's planes are out day
and night lashing these reinforce-
ment fleets.
ILake Seliger, where the Russians Aug. 2, when automobiles, con- 'ice
character of the human race
(Continued on page four)
Perrin Cadet
And Instructor
Killed Thursday
to eliminate conflicting, mis- 16 Enemy Planes Downed
[Boeing flying fortresses and
medium bombers struck three
, rive, wmcn is ™ — | in the Bryansk area, southwest shunted from its age-old course, 1,1 «iuunv; iK mc • times at enemy transports and
most a new low record for large of Moj,cow> 'Red Anilv troops re. du& to throwinff a dike and a cof. tion, said it was decided upon be- .warships off New Guenia yester-
! scale attacks.
down four attackers. The Brit , say 3(000 Nais have been killed taining an estimated ^5,000 per- leadng statements.
Ssh air ministry adfits the lo?s oil in twn dRV(1_ thP Rod Riveri Secretary of W
Training Plane
Crashes O <-Farm
Close to Gunter
Convoy Sent Egypt-
Nazi planes raided Britain, too.
Suburban areas on the outskirts
of London were hit, and there
were three casualties.
The German raido claims 20 al-
lied ships, including the Ameri-
can aircraft carrier Wasp, have
j been sunk or damaged in air at-
tacks on a big alliedconvoy in the
western Mediterranean . The en-
emy repqirt says the Fasp and the]
British ciirVier Furious were dam-;
aged in the same action in which i
the British carrier Eagle was
sunk. The British have admit-j
ted the loss of the Eagle, but
have acknowledged no other cas-
ualties. The Germans claim
three of the other ships allegedly
captured several localities. On fer dam aCross the stream to di-j fore *be first air force released a
this front the army newspaper vert jt jnt0 ant] through the out- *tory °n Br°und markers which
said Russian tanks and planes led ,et works. I tuned out to be untrue. But,
the assault, and that air fighting , tl ! Stimson added, the incident
raged constantly. 0' interest Sunday will be the makes him happy that the step
These Russian offensives, ob- now siezable lake, the nucleus of js being taken.
viously are designed to sap the the giant reservoir to be, which The commanding general of the
strength of the Germans drives in has formed in the upstream side
the Caucasus, but there's no indi-of the dike.
cation yet that this objective has The heavy
been accomplished.
trucks of the em-
bankment contractor, the Guy F
Second Lieut., fames W. Clem-
ents, 21, instructor at Perrin Field
and Cadet vTohn R. Gray, 23, were
killed at 6:30 p. m. Thursday
when their plane, in routine f£
mation flight crashed four miles
south of Gunter, on the farm be-1 Although the Axis
longing to T. N- Odell. The
plane did not burn. A board of of-
ficers has been named to investi-
gate the crash.
Lt. Clements is the son of Mr-
and Mrs. John A. Clements of
Chicago, 111., and a former stu-
dent at Cornell University, and Two 'New Placement.
Colorado college, a member of; The two new
Sigma Phi. He received his pti- corded todaw by the Cban her of
mary training at Corsicana l*sic Commerce 'Homes Registration Of-
training at Randolph Field, nd- fice were:
SOLOMONS BATTLE HIKES
RECRUITING OF MARINES
Eastern Defense Comamnd, Lieut.
General Drum, now is investigat-
ing the army story which said that
the markers had shown
day. Bad weather interfered
with observation of the results,
but sixteen enemy Zeros which
rose to intercept the bombers
were shot down or damaged. And
All U. S- planes returned safely.
PAIjLAS, Tex., Aug. J4—Re-
claims are member Wake Island—and ^ ta
unified, they Indicate jliat
the allies have sent a large convoy
to Egypt. This may mean that
the middle-eastern front is about'
to flare up again.
Mr. and Mrs- Dave Burton
Dallas, U. S. Engineer equipment
division employee, 40 Parnell.
Mrs. Linnle Barker, Bonham,
vanced flying at Foster field, Vic-
toria, and received his commis-
sion May 20, 1942.
Cadet Gray was the son of ,..u
Mrs. Lulu Gray of Detroit, Mich.' U. S. Engineer junior clerk, 409tt
He was a former student of Al-.W. ( rawford
bian College, Albion, M!ch., a' . — — —
member of Sigma Social fratern- 11/ n *4 tp ii p n
ity and Delta Sigma Phi, honorary W L. A 1 M t, K
fraternity. lie had nxe'vod his DENISON AND VICINITY
j«-imary taining at Jones field. High temperatures tonight
Bonham. and Saturday
American can forget it—and how
American youths flocked to the
Marine Corps as that gallant lit-
tle garrison took such a heavy
toll of Japs ships and men be-
fore it was overwhelmed?
That same kind of a march to
the tune of "Halls of Montezuma"
is under way again. The news
this time if from the far south-
west Pacific, near the down un-
der land, where (Marines are
writing chapters of American
history against the backdrop of
the Solomon Islands-.
Lieutentant Colonel N- B.
Barkley, recruiting officer for
the Dallas district, said today
there has been a big influx of
men who—''Have come in to tell
us they want to get in there
where the fighting starts."
Barkley was with the Marines
in Iceland. He said that, in all
raiders the way to vital targets.
V
Minute Man Flags
; To Be Available
For L oca! Firms
probability, those men who knew j *■ ——_
the cold and darkness of an Ice-1 Prank Scofield, war bond ad-
land winter now are somewhere in niinistrator for Texas, in reply to
the Southwest Pacific, below the an inquiry of W. L. Ashburn, Jr.,
equator. Grayson county bond committee
The Marines already had a re- chairman, disclosed today there is
cruiting drive under way, in which a Minute Man flag available to
the Texas Defense Guard is co- employers or firms who have 90
operating. But now, Barkley de- per cent of their employees con-
clared the doors are wide open tributing at least 10 per cent of
and will stay that way. ^ their income to the purchase
The Marines want men to rein- 0f war savings securities.
force those hard-bitten fighters Mr. Ashburn said Scofield's
of the Solomons. And the 'Ma- letter disclosed firms reaching
rines are getting men in Texas, this goal are entitled to receive
too. He said a "Jap Extermina- and display«a certificate of award
tor" platoon of men will be which will be prepared by the
Reports from the battle zone
indicate that American pilots have
roared forth again at dawn car-
enemy rying on their day-night fights.
A grim note underlines the
fighting in the Solomons- The
first casualties from the battle
zones have been landed at base
and field hospitals in the South-
west Pacific. And more are on
the way. They'll be in the hands
of medical units from Johns Hop-
kins, Pennsylvania and Maryland
universities.
sworn in Sunday at Longview and
the Fort Worth TDG unit said it
will have 150 recruits—these be-
ing jus samples from the reports
to Barkley.
But the big influx on the heels
of news from the Solomons has
been inspired purely by Texans*
desire to get into the thick of the
fighting and not by any campaign.
state office upon notification of
attainment of the goal. Such cer-
tificates in turn entitle them to
display the Minute Man flag. I
He added that at the time the
cerificates of merit are issued
a price list, indicating names of
manufacturers from whom the
flag may be purchased, is furnish-
ed for convenience in ordering
Son-in-Law Of
O'Daniel Joins
Marine Corps
t>A|LLAS, Aug. 14—Jack D.
Wrather, Jr., son in law of United
States Senator W. Lee O'Daniel,
has been commissioned a second
lieutenant in the jMarine Corps
Reserve and has reported to
Quantico, Va., for a training
course of approximately ten
week's duration, the Marine
recruiting station here reported
today.
Lieut. Col. Newton B. Barkley,
in charge of recriuting here, said
ffjeut. Wrather had been com-
missioned as an aviation specialist
ground officer in the aviation
section of the 'Marine Corps.
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