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Editorials
West Of Midway
Borger. Texet
Thursday. June II. 1942
Page 2
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Peace Objectives
It is a sign of the times, on evidence of our increas-
ing optimism, that almost everybody is talking again
about the kind of peace we should make after this
war.
Up to the moment President Roosevelt signed the
Lease-Lend Act, putting this country into the war in
fact though not in name, a majority of Americans
were asking bluntly why we should fight—what there
was in the conflict for us.
Their question was sensible, and neither provincial
nor selfish. They were not inquiring, most of them,
whether we should demand money or territory or spec-
ial privilege for ourselves. All they wanted to know
was what reason we would have—If we financed an-
other World War and sent our best youth to die on
foreign battlefields—to suppose that a victory would
be any more substantive and secure in the 1940's than
was the ''peace'' of Versailles.
Once the die was cast, for the moment such ques-
tions became academic. We were at war, then. Like
it or not, it was our task to beat the bejeebers out of
Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito, and then make
the best terms we could to safeguard our children and
our children's children.
We haven't beaten the Axis yet. A cold-blooded
balance-sheet reckoning would show us badly in the
red. But we have stopped the seemingly invincible
Nazi war machine, slowed or stopped the little brown
heathen, and arrived at a point where we can see day-
light ahead.
Naturally, then, we recall the Atlantic Charter,
which is our only real semblance of a specific internal
postwar objective, and we begin to ask how the four
freedoms actually can be made effective.
What about Germany? Shall we limit criminal
blame to Hitler and a few topnotch Nazis, or shall
we consider that only a mad dog race would have
played the brutal game as Germany has? Shall we
seek to eliminate friction by giving her a more gen-
erous place in the international sun, or destroy her as
a world power and confine her like a maniac?5
What about all the unstable, uneconomic, bicker-
ing little nations carried over from World War 1 /or
set up thereafter?5 Shall we restore them by duress, or
force upon them a sensible economic regrouping that
will satisfy none of their peoples?
Are we prepared to insist that the occidental na-
tions shall concede the four freedoms to China, which
has done a swell job on our behalf? To India, which
we want freed just now, when her help would be use-
ful?5
These specific questions merely outline and high-
light the monstrous problem which everybody, from
President Roosevelt down to youngsters in high school,
are pondering gravely.
We can't settle them yet. We can't settle them al-
one. We're just one of the United Nations. But all
the forethought we can give will be so much rich grist
for the mill, when the time comes.
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Knox Says United States
Should Not Try To Force
Our Way Upon All People
Be Reasonable
While some hang back and do nothing without pre-
ssure, others of our people carry patriotism to an ex-
treme, and do as much harm as good. We shall have
to sacrifice a lot to win this war. Why, then, make our-
selves unnecessarily miserable?
For example, we're limited to half a pound of sugar
for each person each week. That amount was fixed
by experts, who say that half a pound is needed, and
no more. The man or woman who uses more is a
chisler. The person who uses less is depriving his body
of nourishment it needs particularly when, as now,
nervous stress is considerable.
Canada's Choice
Many Canadians arc said to be worrying lest the
close economic ties welded by the war may lead,
eventually, to annexation of the Dominion by the Un-
ited States.
We believe we speak for the overwhelming major-
ity of Americans in suggesting that if ever Canada is
joined to the United States, it will be by free choice of
the Dominion's people. On such a basis, probably most
United States Americans would welcome Canadian
Americans into o homogeneous North American na-
tion We like them, we admire and respect them. We
go no further.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 11.
Frank Knox said today that this
nation, in the post-war period,
should retrain from attempting
to enforce its system of Democ-
racy on all the peoples of the
world in order to insure their
freedom.
“Democracy, we think, is the
best possible soil in which to cul-
tivate human freedom, but that
is not necessarily so,” he assert-
ed in a prepared address at Hur-
ard’s 291st commencement after
he and Secretary of War Stimpson
had been awarded honorary de-
grees for their part in the war
effort.
“All that we can do, all that we
should attempt, in the fateful
years which will follow the con-
clusion of the war,” Knox said,
“is to help create an era of tran-
quility; to foster a wholesome ec-
onomic order; to elevate living
standards and reduce want and
privation; to promote the spread
the education and understand-
ing to rebuild, with all of the wis-
dom we can command, a fabric
of International Law, and to com-
pel its observance, if necessary.”
“Given this,” he added, "the
peoples of the world must first
develop and maintain by their
own eforts the freedoms they
would enpoy."
mufflers,” she mused.
She repeated, "If it hadn't been
for the Red Cross, 1 just don't
know whether we’d have been viously expressed
here at all or not.”
1942 Action On
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States, whom Molotov succeeded
as foreign commissar in April,
1939; Harry Hopkins, key adviser
to the President on supply prob-
lems; General George C. Marshall,
chief of staff of the army; Admir-
! al Ernest J. King, commander-in-
I chief of the navy; and, in the non-
military zone of conversations,
Secretary of State Hull.
Soldier's Pay Bill
Ready For President
WASHINGTON, June 11.—(IP)
—Only perfunctory Senate ap-
proval was needed today to send
to the White House legislation
providing for minimum monthly
pay of $50 for members of Uncle
Sam’s fighting forces.
Ending a month of controversy
which saw the bill sent to con-
ference. the House voted 363 to
0 yesterday to adhere to its pre-
determination
not to accept the original Senate
proposal of $42 a month.
Since the Senate finally in-
structed its members of a joint
conference committee to accept
the $50 figure, the formal approv-
al of that body was considered
certain.
The British have held the fort-
ress, Rock of Gibraltar, since
1704.
Nazi Attack
(Continued From Page ONE)
aircraft guns downed 20 more
German aircraft.
The Soviet information bureau
announced that Field Marshal
General Fedor Von Bock’s army
had taken the initiative in the
shell-torn region of Kharkov,
Nazi-held steel center iri the Don-
ets Basin 400 miles south of Mos-
cow.
Beyond saying that “a battle
took place. ’ its midnight commun-
ique reported no details.
Visitor To
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Jap's Face
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Among the other hardships of war, consider the
plight of the yeggs who used to make a living robbing
gas stations.
to the mainland. Mrs. Hudspeth
remained in the States during her
husband’s absence.
Praises Red Cross
‘We were working so fast and
furious taking care of the injur- I
ed and dving I didn’t pay much
attention to the work of any cer-
tain ergamz.ation. but we would
have frozen to death on the boat
if it hadn’t been for the Ameri- !
can Red Cross,” she declared.
She said Red Cress sweaters—
seme of them were probably knit-
ted bv Burger women—were dis-
tributed and "we were tickled
to death to get them."
Seven babies were bora on the
The Japs attacked Midway and Dutch Harbor. They KJTn H C£TJZ ,S
got midway at the latter; they got in Dutch.
were gone "we
babies in Red Cro
iust wrapped j
s sweaters and j
Air raid wardens warn citizens to remove false
teeth during an air raid Also, don't put them in your
hip pocket and bite yourself.
You may as well not try
they'll give you is the air.
to get tires, because all
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A Fine Selection
Of Gifts For
FATHER
>r the guy who does the nice
things . . . for the one who
foots the bills . . . June 21st
is Father’s Day. select from our
assortment of shave sets . . .
smoke sets . . . leather goods
and attractive cards.
KASSEL'S
5c to SI.00 Store
have sunk two 19,900-t.on Ameri-
can aircraft carriers, one trans-
port and to have shot down 135
American planes'.
Vice Admiral Ichiro Sato, a
i member of (he Japanese naval
I general staff, blandly asserted
! that Admiral Yamamoto’s fleet
bad made "a decisive advance to-
ward absolute mastery of the
sea" by inflicting smashing
blows” on U. S. naval forces at
Midway and Dutch Harbor.
But the Japanese people were
not told that their fleet, batter-
ed and broken, was limping to-
ward the refuge of a base.
Coincidentally. Japan's repu-
tation for veracity appeared to
have slumped even in Berlin as
the German radio broadcast
Stockholm reports discounting
the Japanese boasts of victory
in the battle of Midway and
Tokyo hints that Japanese
troops had landed in the Aleu-
tian Islands off Alaska.
July 4 Stamp
KWA
★ Wao ★
UNITFD STATES POSTAGE
Tliis is a reproduction of the
special “win the war” stamp to
be issued July 4.
Allies Destroy
Jap Submarine
And Warplanes
ALLIED HKAfKjt’ARTERS.
I Australia, June !!. -i/l’i Allied
j airmen listed a Japanese subma-
rine and a number of grounded
1 planes today as fresh victims of
their southwest Pacific operations.
A communique from General
MacArthur’s headquarters an-
i noumed that a reconnaissaince
unit "seriously damaged and
probably sank an enemy subma-
I line off the coast.” Eight others
I are known to have been destroy- i |
cd in Australian waters recently.
Allied bombs fell again yester-
I day on the airdrome of Japanese-
occupied Rabaul, New Britain.
Queen Mary Lcnch o Hand
Price Hike
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words, the 25 cents a barrel that
would be paid on crude would go
in the main to people who already
own oil properties and would be
a bonus to them for which the
government would get practically
nothing.”
Representative Ted Johnson 'D-
Okla.i told the same committee
that independent oil operators had
been called upon to drill from 3,-
000 to 5,000 additional well to
make certain that there is no
shortage of oil and that their
drilling costs were considerably
higher than in 1937 when, he said,
the price of crude was consider-
ably higher than it now is.
Henderson said he had granted
three increases in the price of fin-
ished petroleum products. John-
son maintained that while those
increases had helped major oil
companies which refine as well as
produce oil, thousands of small
producers had received no in-
England’s Queen Mary at 75 helps soldiers clearing land for culti-
vation near her wartime home.
Peace Officers Meet June 16ih,
To Study Defense Investigations,
And To Hear Colonel E. A. Simpson
Law enforcement officers and
executives have been called for
another conference on national
defense investigations to be held
at Amarillo, Texas, June 16, 1942,
at 2:00 p.m., in the Municipal
Auditorium. The conference has
been called by the Federal Bu-
Huich ison Citizens
(Continued From Page ONE)
crease in the price of their crude I reau of Investigation through A.
petroleum. j P. Kitchin, Special Agent in
“Where there is one small in- 1 Charge of the Dallas Office of the
dependent producer making mon- 1 F.B.I.
ey,” said Johnson, “there are ten j The Amarillo meeting, designed
of them who must abandon their to include the counties of Dallam,
stripper wells unless you grant ! Sherman, Hansford, Ochiltree,
some kind of relief. And if you j
will examine the record in Okla- j
homa and parts of Texas, you will ‘
find there are literally hundreds
of small oil wells that have been ;
abandoned within the last few
months because they are unable
to operate at the present low price
levels of crude. . , .
"Many of the independent
operators have refused to sban-
don stripper wells because of
their patriotic desire to help in
this war effort. They can not
keep that up and, unless they
get relief, practically every
stripper well in the United
States will be sold to major
companies for a song or else be
forced to be abandoned.
"And when those wells are
abandoned, salt water will come
in and ruin 9 out of 10 of them.”
5-B CLASSIFICATION
IN DRAFT DEFINED
DENISON. June 11.—UP)—
George Knaur. chairman of the
Denison selective service board,
says the latest draft classifica-
tion is S-B, which means, bald,
bifocais. bulges, bunions and
kridgework.
ONE SENATOR
MAY BE VITAL
BIG SPRING! June 11.—<VT*>—
“The destiny of the nation may
depend on the influence one real
United States Senator can wield,”
James V. Allred said last night
in a speech here.
Allred criticized Senator W. , ... ...
. _... , , . , officers, but to ackquaint the pub
Lee O Daniel for what be called ,
Lipscomb. Hartley Moore, Hut-
chinson, Hemphill. Oldham, Pot-
ter, Carson, Gray Wheeler, Deaf
Smth, Randall, Armstrong, Don-
ley, Collingsworth, Parmer, Cas-
tro Swished, Briscoe Hall and
I Childress, will be featured bv a
i speech by Col. E. A. Simpson, of
j Amarillo, who has been promin-
i ently identified in national de-
| tense work. The officers present
can expect Colonel Simpson to
i provide his usual outstanding in
| formation on current activities of
| defense work so important in
law enforcement duties at this
time.
Mr. Kitchin pointed out that
I invitations had been issued to all
| officers in the counties listed
merely as a means of designating
i tire areas to assure a complete |
coverage throughout the state
by the several meetings that will
be held. However, it was pointed
out that all law enforcement of-
ficers will be welcome even
though they do not reside in these
counties, and prefer to attend this
conference instead of the one
listed for their area.
The coordination of national de-
fense information and the cooper-
ation of local, state, and federal
law enforcement officers have
never been more important than I
today. The F. B. 1., designated |
by the President of the United
States as the coordinating agency
in matters relating to national
defense investigations, has spon-
sored these quarterly conferenc-
es throughout the United States,
not only to assist and consolidate
the work of the law enforcement
is being rendered and it is our
sincere hope that it will convey
to the official, of the Phillips Pe-
troleum Company (he greatest
possible compliment from their
friends and neighbors in Hutchin-
son county.” Button concluded.
Advertising copy should be
submitted to the Herald no lat-
er than midnight Friday of this
week. The paper goes to press
Saturday night and will be dis-
tributed Sundav.
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"INDIA
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Rough again — Tough againl
O’Daniel’s
Senate.
obstructionism in the
"Belter Show Than World Series,
And No Time To Be Scared, Pilot
Of B-17 Bomber Describes Fight
//
J. Ross Bell
(Continued From Page ONE)
each r>f the 46 counties of this
district are acquainted with me
and know my qualifications both
as a man and as a lawyer. M.v
qualifications for the position I
now seek have not been question-
ed.
"The present emergency will
prevent my seeing many of the
people of the district but the sup-
port of all will.be great!*' appre-
ciated and is respectfullv solicit-
By CLARK LEE
GENERAL EMMONS HEAD-
QUARTERS. Territory of Hawaii,
June 11.—</P»—"A better show
than the world series," was the
way crew members of one of the
army’s big B-17 bombers describ-
ed the battle of Midway.
Pilot Captain Charles E. Greg-
ory of Houston nudged his co-
pilot and fellow Texan, Lieut.
Robert O. Pate of Dallas, the
first time they saw anti-aircraft
hells coming up at them.
“We felt so good to lie in ac-
tion." the captain recalled today,
"that we just laughed at those
shells.”
That’s the way the whole crew
felt, from bombardier Lieut. Hen-
ry H. Fitts of Macon, N. C., who
sat in the nose and saw his
bombs hit a Japanese aircraft
carrier, to tail guner Corp Mel-
vin E Lomax of Wichita. Kansas,
who during the fight called to
Gregory over the interplane ra-
dio. “Hey, captain, slow down and
let that Zero 'Japanese fighter
plane' catch up with us!”
None of the crew had much
time to think of being scared, al-
though navigator Lieut. Yale H.
Lewis of St. Louis. Mo., comment-
ed. "The first time I saw those
Jap bullets flying past. 1 began
thinking awfully hard about my
girl and hoping I’d get back to i
Desert Weapon
lie with direct, timely informa
tion on existing conditions. Ev-
ery citizen should assume a |ier-
sonal responsibility for reporting
all information valuable to our
national defense either to the
| F.B.I. direct, or through their lo-
1 cal officials.
All officers are urged to at-
j tend the meeting at Amarillo and
| lend every effort to complete the
annihilation of un-American ac-
I tivities in their respective dis-
tricts.
THE SAME THING!
PORTLAND. Ore., June II —
—You're driving down the street.
Suddenly vou spy four new tires,
just fallen from a delivery truck
.....and they’re the right size
for your car, too.
What would vou do?
R. J. Snowden of Portland did-
n't. He turned them in.
STATE
l.asl Day! 2-10c — 2 25c
"Fly By Night"
Fri. - Sat.—9c-17c
WILLIAM BOYD »
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• REX •
PHILLIPS
-THEATRE-
THURSDAY
In the Libyan desert water Is a
weapon of prime importance.
Here it is poured into tested tin*
after foraging trucks had brought
supplies of the precious liquid
back from desert water holes.
These men all came back
out a scratch and with their
undamaged by Jap bullet
shells.
BUTE GEORGE
DAVIS BRENT
limit Lie
Fri. Sat.
'Million Dollar Baby'
-and-
"Three Sons 'O Gun"
Last Day! 2 19c--2 25c
"So Ends Our Night'
F. March - M. Sullavan
Fri. - Sat.
Judy Canovo
"Slcepytime Gal"
and "Royal Mtd. Patrol"
ggrai
Last Day! "Blondie
Goes To College"
and "Man At Large"
Fri. - Sat.—9c-17c
Double Feature
Hugh Harbart 'Hello Sucker
— And—
’Where The Trail End* ”
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Phillips, J. C. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 173, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 11, 1942, newspaper, June 11, 1942; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736410/m1/2/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.