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WEATHER
W#«t [>H*ai Little temperature rh«nge thia
afternoon and tonight except slightly warmer
in Panhandle tonight
burger iDailt) Herald
Vol. 17—No. 63
NEA Service
THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Associated Press Borger, Texas, Thursday, February 4, 1943
(Six Pages Today)
Price Five Cents
Titantic Showdown Battle Looms In Pacific
Peace
Move
Seen
LONDON, Feb. 4—(/Pi- The be-
lief that Adult Hitler may be pre-
paring another peace offensive
was expressed today in neutral
quarters in London who said
action might be initiated through
Spam 'a Sweden or both
These s< urces, which insisted
on remaining anonymous, said
there have been strange develop-
ments in Berlin since the Casa- i
blanca conference which suggest
an impending move for a negotia-
ted settlement in spite of the un-
solicited denials from the Span-
ish embassies in Argentina and
Chile that Generalissimo Franco
had been designated a g< -between.
The Spanish denial evoked
c nsiderable speculation concern-
ing its motive especially in the
absence of any wdely circulated
reports that Spain had been
chosen as a peacemaker.
There weie reports in London
recently that Hitler’s new am-
bassador to Spain, Dr. Hans Adolf ;
Von Moltke, carried to Madrid a j
proposal that Franco act as an j
intermediary, but these lacked |
any substantion and attracted lit
tie attention.
Seniors Making
Graduation Plans
At a meeting of the senior class
of Borger High school, committees
were appointed to make plans for
commencement, baccalaureate and
kid day.
The seniors ai iheir meeting
this week also arranged for grad-
uation cap and gowns, and made
additional plans for spring actl-
vit ies.
Here Is How American Planes Score
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This dramatic air shot made from a U. S. Army Air Force plane flying a mere hundred feet
off the ground at Lae, New Guinea, shows a A-20 plane skimming the road in a strafing attack
on Jap planes. It has just passed over a disabled enemy bomber. Under trees, right, lies wrecked
Jap Zero while another lies at edge of clearing, upper right, two more enemy planes are visible
near the house at top center,—(Army Air Corps Photo From NEA Telephoto)
Thousands Of Axis Troops
Face ‘Black Sea Dunkerque*
BUENOS AIRES. Feb. 4—</P»
— Diplomatic quarters casrt
about today for the reasons
which impelled the Spanish
government to instruct its em-
bassies in Rio De Janeiro and
Santiago to deny last night that
Adclf Hitler had asked General-
issimo Francisco Franco to act
as intermediary in a peace
proposal.
Some observers saw the move as
an indication of apprehension on
the part of Spain lest her prestige
in South America be compromised
by suspicions that she was ready
to serve as a Nazi catspaw.
The statement issued by the
Spanish embassy in Rio De Jane-
iro and distributed by the Brazil-
ian government news agency said
merely:
A report that Hitler is prepar-
ing a peace offer to be made pro-
bably through General Franco
having appeared in the press of
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Skip-A-Year Tax Plan
Hits Snag In Congress
WASHINGTON, Fob. 4.— (AP)—Chairman Dough-
ton (D-N.C.) of the House ways and means committee to-
day vigorously challenged contentions of Beardsley Ruml.
sponsor of a skip-a-year tax plan, that his idea would im-
prove the “financial well-being of the government.”
Doughton, voicing opposition to any plan for all-out
forgiveness of a year of tax liability for individual income
taxpayers to put them on a pay-as-you-eam basis, asked
Ruml who is chairman of the f’
New York federal reserve
board, who if his conten-
tions were correct “you
don't sell that to all business
people and have them can-
cel debts by their custom-
ers?”
At. his daily press conference
later. Speaker Sam Rayburn of
the House said he favored adop-
tion of pay-as-you-go tax legis-
lation, but emphasized that he
did not mean that he advocated
the Ruml plan.
Ruml had just completed a plea
for his plan when Doughton fired
questions.
By ROGER GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Axis troops by the tens of thousands were apparently
on the verge of a “Bkuk sea Dunkerque” today and some
reports declared that Russian warships and planes were
already smashing at German transports as the invaders
attempted a sea-borne escape from the Caucasus to the
Crimea peninsula.
Latest Soviet dispatches said upwards of 250,000
•German troops and their
satellites, jammed into a
narrow coastal strip in the
western Caucasus, were in
imminent danger of being
split apart by Russian col-
umns driving toward the
Sea of Azov.
Soviet headquarters reported
that the Rod armies were now
only 30 miles from the great Gor-
man base at Rostov, whose fall
would cut off the land “escape
corridor" of Hitler’s Caucasian ar-
mies, after capturing the town of
Kagalnitskaya on the Salsk-Ros-
tov railway.
Other major developments in
the global war saw Britain's
giar.t home-based bombers, per-
haps 300 • trong, blast the Ger-
man North sea port of Ham-
burg. whde Allied planes and
submarines took a toll of at
least 14 Axis ships sunk in the
Mediterranean.
British undersea raiders alone
dcPMiintbd fnr nine A vie cnnnlv
ships and an anti-submarine ves-
sell sunk, two others probably de-
stroyed and one damaged, the
London admiralty announced.
On the Tunisian front. Allied
headquarters reported that
British troops had captured a
hill eight miles southeast of
Bou Arada, in the bitterly-con-
tested Pont Du Fahs sector 35
miles below Tunis.
An official bulletin described
the gain as “a limited success,’’
indicating that there had been no
major break through the tough
Nazi perimeter of defenses guard-
ing the Tunis-BIzerte zone.
To the south, German military
quarters reported that Nazi van-
guards near Sencd, 165 miles'be-
i low Tunis, had fallen back “to
parry an enveloping thrust by
superior American forces.”
The Germans alse declared that
U, S. troops struck in a daylong
I attack on both sides of strategic
! Faid pass, 50 miles north of Sen-
ed, after bringing up “a new di-
vision equipped with the most
modern weapons, supported by a
; tank brigade.’’
■ Dispatches from Allied head-
quarters had previously describ-
j ed an Allied operation around
Faid pass ns being unsuccessful.
! American troops have dug in
astride a railway one mile east
of captured Sened after a swift
| 20-mile advance.
While Lieut.-Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower’s headquarters re-
mained virtually noncommittal on
Axis reports of a developing Al-
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Major Jarvis
Cited For Raid
Over Wake Isle
Word has been received here
that. Major Billy Jarvis, son of Mr.
and Mrs. O. W. Jarvis, North
Plains ranchehs, has been doing
some great work in the Pacific
area against the Japanese.
Of Major Jarvis, whose brother
Raymond, served in Borgei on
th( Fair Association committee.
Colonel William Matheny, com-
mandng officer, writes the follow-
ing:
Subject: Letter of Commenda-
tion.
To: Major Billy Jarvis.
1. By your conscientious, hard !
work and ability and your com-
plete willingness to submerge !
your own personal comforts and j
desires to further the common J
cause, you were highly instrumen- ,
tal in the recent completely sue- i
cessful operation of this Group j
against the Japanese held island
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Mrs. Ann Haley,
Pioneer, Dies
Mrs. Ann Haley, 58, well known
hotel proprietor and pioneer Bor-
gan, succumbed in a local hospital
last night from pneumonia.
Only immediate survivor is a
son, Loren, who is here from
Oltcn, Okla.
Funeral services are scheduled
for 4 o’clock this afternoon in the
chapel of Powell Funeral Home,
with the Rev. H. J. West officiut- j
ing.
The body will be sent to Joplin, |
Mo., for interment.
Farley Sees
Victory By
End Of '43
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 4—i/Pi —-
The end of the war in 1943 was
forseen today by former Postmas-
ter General James A. Farley who
expressed hope in an address to
the. Texas legislature that the 1944
presidential election may be set-
tled on domestic issues only.
Farley, en route home on a
business trip to Mexico, declared
that he was speaking as an Amer-
ican who was not in touch with
the Washington scene.
“1 arr convinced as any man
can be that we are going t settle
the war before the calendar year
ends,” he said.
“There is evidence on all sides
that something has happened in
Germany. The Russian victories
and the full weight of America’s
efforts will defeat Germany be-
fore the end of the year.”
As to the post-war period the
former cabinet member said he
assumed responsible persons were
studying the needs ol that time.
He added the hope that not too
much govenmental aid would be
necessary for the switch from
wartime to peacetime activities.
“I hope that with the war back
of us we can decide the next elec-
tion on domestic issues without
becoming involved in foreign af-
fairs," Farley continued.
“If so, I am sure the people can
make the decision that is best
for the future”
He declared he had complete
faith in the ability of the people
to make the right decision.
Warns of War
Washington Indicates
Armadas Not Yet Joined
In Decisive Sea Fighting
$975.72
In Ball
Fund
This morning $975.72 had been
realized from the Infantile Para-
lysis campangn and not all of the
financial reports had been turned
in, according to Chairman Ralph
F. Bavless.
"Tin s still ,- lot of jars out,
in addition to the Moose donation,
which will probably run the figure
up around the thousand dollar |
mark or over,” Bayless said this
morning.
"Hospital Notes
NORTH PLAINS
Mrs. Mattie Hart Comer is a
medical patient.
The big. jovial banker, contend-
ed that putting the tax clock one
year ahead, and skipping one year
or liability, would bring more
money into the treasury than the
present system does.
He had also told the commit-
tee that "much confusion" had
hern caused by discussion of
"forgiving" a year's taxes. He
contended his plan would not
involve "forgiving" as the word
meant that there would be a
year when taxpayers made no
payments and the treasury got
no revenue.
“Nothing could be further from
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Mrs. Floyd Tougaw is a medical
patient.
Mrs. H. M. Rood is a surgical
patient.
American Food
Keeping Reds
In The Fight
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—(/P)— j
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
told the house foreign affairs com-
mittee today that American food J
is keeping Russia in the war and 1
contributing to the victories of the j
Soviet Army.
“It is the men—Russian men— !
who are winning the all-import-
ant battle there,” he said. “But if
the supplies of American food
which are going to these men,
fraction though it is of the total
supply, were to be cut oil to-
morrow, they would almost surely
have to stop fighting.”
Wickard, as food administrator, j
testified in connection with legis-
lation authorizing continuance of
the lend-lease program for an-
other year.
“To me it is highly significant,”
he said, “that in the last few
months our shipments to Russia
have been greatly increased. In
December, for the first time, wo
shipped more to Russia than to
Great Britain.”
Urging continuance of the lend-
lease operations, the secretary said
Russia had not asked for any
appreciable help in reeding her
civi ban populations.
Gen. O. G. Thoernell, com-
mander-in-chief of the Swed-
ish army, has ordered his troops
to act on their own initiative li-
the event of a German blitz at-
tack, now feared by the north-
ern neutral.
Nation To Draw
On Manpower
Pool For War
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—</P)—
Chairman Donald M. Nelson of
the war production board told the
senate military committee today
the nation would draw upon a
“pool” of 6,400,000 persons this
year to meet growing demands
of the armed forces and war in-
dustry.
This pool, Nelson told the clos-
ed session, will be made up of
2,700,000 workers drawn from less
essential industries, 1,900,000
women, 800,000 boys and older
men, 500,000 employes, including
physically defectives, not now
working, and 500,000 persons
made available by 48-hour work
weeks throughout essential in-
dustry.
Nelson’s figures were disclosed
to reporters by Senator Lodge <R-
Mass.) when the committee recess-
ed.
By The Associated Press
American and Japanese warships were reported ma-
neuvering today for a titanic showdown battle in the Sol-
omon islands area, involving perhaps the fate of the
whole southwest Pacific, and U. S. Army troops register-
ed new gains on Guadalcanal and Flying Fortresses smash-
ed at the big enemy base of Rabaul.
Military secrecy hid the critical developments at sea.
the navy declaring merely
that the operations consti-
tuted a “reconnaissance in
force” — the same term ap-
plied to the opening phases
of the great battle of the
Coral sea.
In terms of utmost restraint,
Washington official quarters said
air and surface engagements “are
continuing” and indicated that the
two big armada had net yet join-
ed decisive battle.
U. S. naval spokesmen said both
sides were “sparring for position.”
Tokyo likewise had little to say
about the continuing operations,
and its latest report, as broadcast
by the German radio, fell back
on a totally unconfirmed claim
I that a Japanese attack on “enemy
naval forces” south of Santa Isa-
bel island last Monday resulted in
the sinking of an Allied cruiser,
heavy damage to another cruiser,
and the destruction of 33 planes.
Santa Isabel island lies north of
Guadalcanal.
A Tokyo broaden -t had nrevi-
| uosly asserted that Japanese
Hamburg
Bombed
By RAF
AXIS PRISONERS
HEAD ACROSS VOLGA
MOSCOW, Feb. 4— (/P)—Prav-
dan reported today that the tatter-
ed German army of Stalingrad
finally was crossing the Volga—
plodding east across the ice in
seemingly endless captive col-
umns, headed for prison camps
far behind the battlelines.
LONDON, Feb. 4—(A>)—Royal
Air Force bombers heavily attack-
ed Hamburg last night in a raid
in which 16 planes are missing,
the British Air Ministry announ-
ced today.
The communique said that
“large fires were left burning.”
The North German seaport pre-
viously had been bombed only
last Saturday night.
The British losses indicated a
force of upwards of 300 bombers
on the presumption that they were
on the order of five per cent.
An authoritative British state-
ment said:
“Hamburg was heavily attacked ^orr>hers last Friday started at-
by cur bombers last night. Six- : ^■ac)<s on American warships
teen of our aircraft are missing.” | resulted in the sinking of
Meanwhile there was slight I two battleships and three cruis-
enemy activity over coastal areas ers Rennell island, 100 miles
of northeast England early last sou*b Guadalcanal,
night. U. S. naval quarters declared
Bombs were dropped at scatter- ■ that these Japane.se claims were
ed points but it was stated auth-
oritatively they caused only slight
damage. No casualties were re-
ported.
A German radio report on last
night's RAF attack said it was
directed at “a north Gorman
coastal area.”
The Germans claimed that 12
bombers were shot down “by con-
centrated German defense.”
The United States during 1941
produced 73,000,000 pounds of
mustard seed.
'Teen-Age Gir! Accusers
Accused Of Acts Subject
To Criminal Prosecution
Aubray Washington underwent
a tonsilectomy this morning.
Betty Ruth Beck is a surgical
patient.
Otis Lummas, rubber plant em-
ploye, is confined with an eye
injury.
" Congratulations
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Emmert,
whose 6 pound 12 ounce son ar-
rved at 8:50 p. m. last night in
North Plains hospital.
There are only 193,565 mules in
Missouri, while Texas has 537,801.
Mrs. Rougeau
Dies Following
Acute Illness
Mrs. Bessie Rougeau, 24, wife of
H. R. Rougeau, died this morning
in a local hospital following an
acute illness.
Only immediate survivors are
her husband, and her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Theo Landers of Eunice,
La.
The body, in charge of Powell
Funeral Home, will be taken to
Euince, La., for interment.
The vanilla vine is a species of
orchid.
REPORTER HONORED
TULSA. Okla., Feb. 3—(/P>—
Oil men paid tribute to a report-
er here tonight when 150 leaders
in the industry participated in a
party for Paul S. Hedrick, honor-
ing his 20 years of service as oil
editor of the Tulsa World. Tele-
grams and letters were read from
many oil men who were not
present.
Earle P. Halliburton of Dun-
can, president < i the Halliburton
Oil Cementing company, was host
at the party.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4—</P>—
Errol Flynn's lawyer today re-
sumes his argument for the actor’s
acquittal after charging that the
two ’teen-age girls who accuse
Flynn of statutory rape had them-
selves admitted acts for which
they could be prosecuted, and thus
had found it expedient to testify
for the state.
Defense Attorney Jerry Giesler
yesterday ripped into the testi-
mony of Betty Hansen, 17, former
Lincoln, Neb., girl, who charges
Flynn was intimate with her in
an upstairs bedroom of a Bel-Air
house last Sept. 27 after a dinner |
party.
“Betty Hansen testified that she ’
admitted before the grand jury j
acts of sex perversion. She knew ,
it was a crime, and had hopes of j
net being prosecuted,” Giesler '
said.
He declared her testimony was j
so "weak, flimsy and absurb” |
that Flynn’s prosecutors “knew |
they had to have Peggy Satterlee
or they couldn’t get to first base.” |
Miss Satterlee, 16-year-o 1 d j
Hollywood showgirl, accuses the
actor of molesting her twice on
his yacht during a cruise to Cara- !
lina Island in August, 1941.
He said Miss Satterlee, too, had
a motive in testifying.
"Before she was taken into pro-
tective custody last October— and
since then pampered, petted and 1
coddled—she knew she had part- j
icipated in a criminal act," said
Giesler, referring to the prosecu-
tion’s stipulation during the trial
that she had an abortion in the
summer of 1942."
Lions Members
To Meet With
Ration Clinic
Lions club will not meet Wed-
nesday, but will meet with other
civic organizations at. the Ration
Clinic Tuesday noon, it was voted
yesterday at the club’s meeting.
C. R. MeCollough of the Phil-
lips Lions club spoke on “The
Changing Times," bringing into
his talk that “everything has its
day, including the reigns of the
Axis chieftains."
On the musical program were
two high school students from
the dance orchestra. Paul Post, ac-
companied by Ferris Lucas played
two saxaphone numbers, and
Lucas played a piano solo. Mem-
bers of the high school orchestra
will furnish entertainment and
music for the men stationed at
the Amarillo and Pampa Air bases
in the near future.
“grossly exaggerated” and that
the enemy had suffered both nav-
al and aerial losses.
U. S. Flying Fortresses struck
at Rabaul itself for the fifth con-
secutive night, flying through
heavy clouds to pound the base
and harbor where strong forces
of Japanese warships and other
vessels have been reported mass-
ing for several weeks.
One of the Fortress planes on
a reconnaissance mission was at-
tacked by 15 Japanese fighters
nt shot down two of them and
lew safely back to its base.
On Guadalcanal, Lr. S. Army
froops smashing through stiff
'ananese resistance were official-
• reported continuing their ad-
ance west of Henderson air field
ifter crossing the Bonegi river
and killing 60 enemy soldiers.
Other far Pacific war develop-
ments:
Burma Front — British head-
quarters reported that Field Mar-
shal Sir Archibald P. Wavell's
legions, chiving back into Surma
from India, were maintaining
st?sdv pressure on J2.p2r.csc
at. Rathedaung, 25 miles northwest
of the big enemy base at Akvab
on the Bay of Bengal coast, and
at Dondaik.
RAF bombers and fighters heav-
ily attacked the enemy at Rathe-
daung and set fires in a night at-
tack on Akyab.
China — A Chinese Army
spokesman declared that Japan,
hit by a manpower shortage an 1
alarmed at Allied successes, was
sending additional "gun-fodder
Thai troops” to reinforce three
Thailand divisions on the Yun-
nan-Burma frontier, where fight-
ing continues.
MRS. FILER ILL
Friends received word today
that Mrs. E. E. Filer of Groom,
is confined to St. Anthony's hos-
pital, Amarillo.
Mrs. Filer is well known in
Royal Neighbor orders here.
Lieut. Smothers
To Interview
local Women
Acording to a wire received this
morning from the district recruit-
ing office in Lubbock, Lieut. Rose
L. Smothers will be in Borger
this afternoon from 3 p. m. and
all day tomorrow to interview any
women interested in enrolling in
the VVAAC.
Her headquarters will be the
Southwestern Public Service Co.
Sgt. John Delameter of Fort
Worth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walt
Delameter, is home on a short
furlough.
Kathleen Palmer, a student at
Texas Tech in Lubbock, visited
her parents, Mr. and Mr W. H.
Palmer over the week-end.
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