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Editorials
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Over The Hump
If Admiral Stark's optimistic statement proves
correct, and we actually are bringing the submarine
menoce undei control in the Atlantic then the title
of this war has turned
No laymon is in position either to confirm or to
deny the admiral's disclosure. We don't know how
many ships were being sunk in the past, nor do we
know how many are being sent to the bottom today.
For military reasons, which we are obliged to
accept even thouh we sometimes guestion their sound-
ness, the public has been kept completely in the dark
both as to our losses and as to the retaliatory ven-
geance we have exacted.
We do know, from a long series of official state-
ments on both sides of the Atlantic, that shipping
is our worst headache. When we were attacked, we
had inadequate facilities for supplying our allies,
bringing raw material into this country, transporting
expeditionary forces to the fighting fronts and serv-
icing them while there.
Sinkings have exceeded launchings, so that as
of today we are worse off than we were last Decem-
ber. .
Experts say that one may speculate intelligently
that we have averaged a loss of at least two ships
a day. By the end of this month we expect to be turn-
ing out two ships a day, ready to go to sea with car-
goes. On that basis we would be just about holding
our own.
But two ships a day is only an intermediate point.
Our goal is to produce 750 vessels this year and twice
as many—an averae of four a day—in 1943.
If Admiral Stark is correct, even to the extent
that we can count upon holding the U-boats to their
present effectiveness, then By Decoration Day we shall
have climbed over the shipping hump and start coast-
ing down on the sunny side.
Nobody knows what the total will be. At the be-
ginning of 1941 we had 1 150 ships with a combined
gross tonnage of 7,078,000. Last year we built less
than we lost. This year and next we are adding 2300
craft with a gross tonnage of roughly 12,000,000.
So by the end of next year we shall have some-
thing fewer than 3500 vessels with a gross tonnage of
less than 19,000,000. At the beginning of 1941 the
British possessed 2664 ships of 16,806,000 tons.
Japan, third maritime power, had only 898 vessels
grossing 4,754,000 tons.
Knock off what you will for sinkings. Your guess
is better than any figure that has come through the
censorship. It still will be safe to say that—if Admiral
Stark is right and we have brought the submarines
under control—from the middle of this year thence-
forward we shall have begun to break the bottleneck
which is handicapping war production and preventing
us from taking the offensive against Hitler and Japan.
Obligation To Hitler
It is, as the French used to say, to laugh. Here
comes Pierre Laval, lecturing Americans about the
honor of the French government which he heads, and
about the obligations imposed in respect to that
honor.
Of course what Pierre means is his government's
pride. It has no honor, so long as he remains premier.
And the obligations which worry Laval are not to his
government's honor, or even to its pride. They are his
obligations to his Fuehrer, who forced him upon the
French people to do a job for Hitler's benefit.
It all depends on you whether anybody else can.
The hot weather we'll be kicking about in a short
Fire Coil Llvoi 0(
29 Texam In April
AURTIN, May 12 i/P' fir*
lout the live* nf 29 Texans in
April unrl boosted the year's toll
to 57
State Flu- Insurance C'ommi
iunci Murvin Mall reported II
tires in which two or more per-
sons burner! to death claimed a
total of 45 lives.
The breakdown of casualties:
January, 27; February, 24; March,
Gun Crew Dies
When Sub Sinks
Dutch Vessel
Texas Public School
Personnel Get Pat
On Back For Work
AUSTIN. May 12—(/PI—'Texas
public school personnel got a pat
on the back today for the gigantic
job of registering residents for
sugar and other rationing,
Leon Henderson, national price
administration director, asked
acting Governor H. L. Winfield
of Fort Stockton to pass along
his gratitude to school superin-
tendents, principals, teachers and
civilian volunteers.
fives denied that there is enemy alien trouble in the
plant. .
The Navy says the plants were not producing
finished planes. The union says the failure appears
Boy Scout
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R, Grocery, Carl Floyd Grocery,
Addington Service Station, Lati-
.........r- - , , , - . , , mer’s Grocery, Kearns Feed
to be due to inability to get necessary parts from sub-. store G G. Counts (Conoco
contractors. All agree that one reason planes have agent', Borger
not been produced is that the plant has been switched
to a new type of aircraft.
Perhaps there is some further important fact
which all parties concerned are conspiring to keep
from the public. If not, the Navy's action would
seem to be unusually drastic—and perhaps misdi-
rected. If subcontractors do not deliver, why not take
over their plants, if anybody's?
We want war production to the limit. But we
don't want a lot of cracking down just to prove how
tough some big boy is.
Nazi Narcotic
No wonder the German people are bewildered at
the salt tears which Adolf Hitler wept into his tooth-
brush mustache. They haven't had opportunity to
witness, like us, the wonders of Goebbels' propaganda.
The sad story which Der Fuhrer told the world
can't fool anybody who has followed the Hitler psy-
chology in action. He fooled the French into consid-
ering the Maginot Line impregnable, and then des-
troyed an unprepared country. He has tried to lull
us into somnolence, so we would relax our prepara-
tion in mistaken belief that Nazism was ready to fall
to pieces of its own weight.
We aren't having any of that narcotic. We'll in-
crease our military effort until Hitlerism is crushed.
Trouble is the one thing
nobody wants you to pay back.
you can borrow and
The person who continually
horse sense.
nags isn't using
If you want it to rain, drag the hose out of the
cellar and get all set to sprinkle.
Kites ore in season again—and one thing nice
about them is they always keep people looking up.
time is what we were looking forward to just a short
time ago.
Nazi Sappers
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A Bit Too Far
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg has been doing right well
for herself. A full-time salary of $7500 from the Social
Security Board, a consultant's salary of $6000 from
Nelson Rockefeller, $22,500 a year from two private
employers. Not bad.
In justice it should be said that Mrs. Rosenberg
has given full value for her salaries, notwithstanding
the demands made by unpaid trouble-shooting jobs
for the President and Mayor LaGuordia. Those who
should know say that no full-time director would have
handled New York's social security job better than
she has.
Yet Congress could not be blamed for feeling
that Mrs. Rosenberg carried multiple employment to
an extreme.
Brewster Crackdown
There would seem to be something very myster-
ious about the circumstances under which the Navy
has taken over four plants of the Brewster Aeronau- patch quoting Bucharest sources
tical Corporation.
There was no labor trouble Union spokesman
Taganrog on the Rostov.”
Red Transports Sunk
A German communique indicat-
ed that the Russians were attemp-
ting to land sea-borne reinforce-
ments to check the assault, re-
porting that German planes sank
two Soviet transports totalling
5000 tons and several small ves-
sels in attacks off the Kerch Pen-
insula and off the southeast coast
of the Sea of Azov.
A Nazi broadcast said the drive
was marked by the introduction
of new. improved weapons.
In this connection, Tass, the i
Soviet news agency, charged last
week that the Germans had used
poison gas shells for the first
in the Crimea; and British :
Prime Minister Winston Churchill |
sternly warned Hitler in his broad-
cast Sunday that Britian would at-
tack the Reich with poison-gas
bombs if Germany used gas against
Russia.
The London Star today pub- 1
lished a Vichy news agency dis-
Hitlerite clique.”
The communique said walls and
fences in Munich, the birthplace | bor.
of the Nazi movement, were plas- j
tered with such slogans as “down
with the criminal war!”
On other fronts in the world-
wide conflict, Allied prospects ap-
peared on the upgrade:
Burma—Chinese military quar-
ters reported that Japanese col-
umns driving up the Burma Road
into China proper had been thrown
back and had retreated to the
Burma-China frontier town of
Wanting. Other reports said the
Japanese had abandoned Wanting.
Motor Co., City
Welding Shop, W. C. Brooks
(Magnolia agent*, Phil Robinson,
Charley White’s Grocery, Ray’s
Radio Shop. Oscar Lipps, John
Kiekbusch, John Turpin, Vaughn
Jackson.
Plains Cafe. J. E. Morris. G. D.
Steakley, J. H. O'Neal, jr„ R. E.
Vaughan, Tom & John Phar-
macy, Borger Fire Dept.. Russell
Stationery Co., Dr. Chas. Staeh-
lin, A. L, Schmitz, Paul Potter
Agency. C. E. House Ins. Agency,
Klein Ins. Agency, Republic Loan
Co., Dr. Geo. E. Bear, Pete Schne-
ider, A. W. Nelson, Whiteway
Drive In.
Yows Bros. Grocery, Johnson
Bakery, Smith Grocery, R. E.
Penland, W. A. Haren. C. R. Mc-
Cullough, Thos. M. Underwood,
F. C. Huth, Robt. A. King, A. J.
* Pettigrove, Gerald A. Iback, B.
j M. Webb. Robert Freund, Rev.
j J. N. Hunt, Borger Battery &
I Elec. Co., Buck Richardson, Fern-
dale Motor Co., Rig Service Sta-
tion.
Bee Printing Co., Moser Jewel-
ry Co., J. W. Spivey, jr., J. D.
Pitman, Levine’s, Bill Coffee,
Howard Moore, Robt. L. Shuler,
American Boiler and Welding
Works, Post’s Tool Service and
Welding, C. H. Fraley Pipe Yard.
Borger City Bus Co., H M. Hood,
i L. M. Coburn, Homer Harde-
j man. Henry Leach, H. V. White,
j Bob Blair’s Orange Stands, City
Tailors and Cleaners.
O. K. Rubber Welding, Service
Cleaners, Chink-A-Link, J. O.
Ward, L. M. Davis, Big Heart’s
Cafe, M. E. Strom, C. R. Berrien,
R. S. Mauney, F. B. Elmore, Phil
Spidy, Ray Hetter, L. W. Smith,
O. D. Long, R. V. Mertz, Dean
Erickson, R. L. Grimes.
S2.50 Donations
Frank Davis Service Station,
Ben Stokes, Weldon Jolly, Her-
man C. Stewart, A. M. Minton,
E. E. Fuller, Continental Dairy,
Pastime Billard Club, J. A. War-
ren, J. G. Cabbell, Mrs. Victor
O. Shawgo, G. T. Yost, I. A. Ta-
Senale Farm Bloc
Relaxes Opposition
WASHINGTON, May 12. —OP)
—Senate farm bloc members of-
fered today to relax in part their
opposition to sale of government-
held farm surpluses below parity
prices in order, to release some ex-
cess wheat supplies for feeding
livestock and poultry.
Chairman Russell <D-Ga.> of a
Senate appropriations sub-com-
mittee considering the annual ag-
riculture department supply bill
told reporters he was “very hope-
ful" that an amendment could be
worked out which would allow
such sales of whea' under certain
conditions.
The amendment, he said, would
be offered as a substitute for a
House-approved provision which
was designed to prevent (he sale
of any government-held commod-
ities at prices below parity— a
level designed to give farm pro-
ducts a value comparable to that
of *he years immediately preced-
ing the world war.
Russel said that while he did
not expect the substitute to meet
entirely administration objections
to the House provision, he believ-
ed *he administration would ac-
cept it.
“It seems to me to be a pretty
fair compromise to everybody
concerned," he declared.
The amendment would be so
drafted, he said, as to prevent
wheat sales at a level which
would depress present corn pric-
es. approximating 85 percent of
parity. The proposal would per-
mit beiow-parity sales of wheat
only for feed, except that deter-
iorated grain might be sold more I
cheaply for manufacture of al-
cohol and similar uses.
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I,., |.v<l u p'.i led that one O’ch
whs killed, but ano'her got away
nftei hooting a policeman who
found them about to ct off dy-
namite along a railway neni
l’i ague
from Norway it was reported
lha» the German police had been
reinforced, especially at Stavan-
ger and Haugesund, where many
former members of the quisling
party were said *o have resigned
and attempted a demonstration.
A dissident group within the
party was said to have tried a
coup against Vidkun Quisling.
MIAMI Fla , May 12 <#>—
Fourteen seamen including a gun
crew, were trapped m their quar-
tet - when a medium sired Dutch
merchantman was torpedoed off
the Atlantic* coast, and they ap-
paren'ly went down with their
ship
The Dutch gunners hud no op-
portunity to reach their guns on
deck.
Those trapped below decks had
no chance to escape as the ship,
covered with flumes, sank rapid-
ly. It went down so quickly the
lifeboats were caught in the dav-
its and could not be launched.
The navy revealed *hat 20 sur-
vivors of the Dutch ship includ-
ing Capt. Johannes Peter Gilty
of Amsterdam, got aboard life
rafts and were saved by other
craft.
Late yesterday the navy an-
nounced that two American nterr| Wme^ ^ ^ Miller cautions
Trash Fire Brings
Warning From Fire
Chief J. D. Miller
A trash fire, which caught to
a fence was extinguished at Second
and Harvey streets last evening,
according to reports from the fire
chant ships were lost in enemy i
action off the coast. In one of these
cases a naval vessel fired on two
attacking submarines but appar-
ently both escaped because another
ships was in the line of fire.
There was no loss of life among
the 32 members of the crew of one . _
ship, but three lives, including
that of heroic assistant engineer Coach Hooks
P. Shera who stayed at his post
to cut off the engines after the
torpedoes struck, were lost in the
other attack.
those burning trash not t<* have
their trash cans close to any in-
flammable object.
"We're also asking citizens to
take as much civic pride in clear-
ing up their back yards as they do
their front yards,” he said.
Dissension
Spreads In
Nazi Europe
BERN, Switzerland. May 12. —
</P)—From Norway to the Balkans
came new reports today of sab-
otage and dissension which hin-
dered the effor*s of the Axis to
weld its version of a new Euro-
pean order.
From Vilna. in Poland, it was
Em-
Right Into Living
Room Of Policemon
CO LOR AIX) SPRINGS. Colo.,
May 12. —</P>— Eddie Wagner,
Colorado Springs High school
coach, hooked three successive
golf balls out of bounds.
Has'ening to retrieve the balls,
Wagner found two of them on po-
liceman Homer Beattie’s front
lawn. From the porch Mrs. Beat-
tie called:
“Here’s the other , one. It
bounced into the living room
when I opened the door.”
U. S. ARMY MAY
TOTAL 9,000,000
WASHINGTON, May 12—I/P)—
A United States military striking
force of nine million men is be-
announced that 16 persons had j ing considered in Washington leg-
been executed for working with
Russian secret agents in a plot to
sabotage German supply lines.
The group was said to have kill-
ed a policeman in resisting arrest.
islative circles.
Rep. Vinson <D-Ga), chairman
of the house naval affairs com-
mittee, said he believed the ul-
timate goal of the army would
An attemp* to blow up a Hun- be from 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 men
garian factory failed, said a Buda-
pest dispatch.
Unconfirmed reports said one
and that the navy would need 1,-
000,000. Vinson said these figures
were "unofficial."
Hundreds Of Oil
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54.00 Donations
E. E. Hatfield.
53.00 Donations
L. M. Adair, C. M. Edwards,
R. F. Smock, Megert Music Co.
Arthur Sweeney, Geo. E. Me
Kenna, Kenneth A. Anderson
Loren C. Skinner, Monte Clark
E. F. Copeland, C. J. Crump, J
C. Norman, David Curtis, A. M
Smith, Wagon Wheel Cafe, Play
house, Miami Beach Club, J. Gor
don Parrish, W. L. Bain, J. A
Crutsinger, Frank J. Shoup.
Smyers, Jack Cabbeli, E. H. Bend-
er and Ted Reno.
The reception committee is
composed of Ferd Sabourin, Earl
Blackburn, A. W. Paris, Jack
Oats, John Turner, J. O. Ward,
Gordon Burch, Bob Lindsey, J. C.
Phillips, David M. Warren. Frank
Paul, Ed Deahl, E. R. Nunneley,
S. B. Whittenburg, Amarillo, N.
D. Bartlett, E. J. Dunigan, Mel
Davis.
The general arrangment com-
mittee is composed of Hudson
Davis, Bob Lindsey, Eusie Tur-
ner, J. B. Williams, Herb Wilki-
son, George Finger and the Gill-
mans.
0nr Job b to Save
Dollars
Buy
War Bonds
Every Pay Day
OUR BOARDING HOUSE with MAJOR HOOPLE
OUT OUR WAY
By WILLIAMS
as declaring that a new type of
German land mine had deceived
, . , . i the Russians into believing the
proised the company s attitude toward employes. Both Germans were using poison gas
the Navy's new manager and the union representa- Actually, the dispatch said, the
] new-type explosive ’causes a con-
I siderable decrease in pressure and
] neutralizes oxygen in the air over
a radius of 300 yards.”
A German spokesman again de-
nied that Hitler's armies had re-
■ ------------- - >r\d to this outlawed form of
— Editor and Manager warfare, asserting that the coming
' 17 30 ba,lles would prove the Germans
) needed no gas.
Meanwhile, a Soviet communi-
que reported that a big munitions
j works in Munich. Germany, had
| been blown up and attributed it
j to mounting 'resentment of the
j German people to the criminal i
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