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WEATHER
W*»t T*xm: Little change in tampemtorr
thi» afternoon and tonight except slightly
colder in Del Hio Engle P*** area tonight. Oc-
casional rain in Del Hio Eagle Pats area.
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Vol. 17—No. 43
NEA Service
THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Associated Press Borger, Texas, Tuesday, January 12, 1943
(Six Pages Today'
Price Five Cents
Flying Fortresses Strike First Blow
Into TripolitanJa, Blasting Romms!
Hornet's Gunners Shot Down
59 Of 64 Attacking Planes
Sign of the Soviet
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12. — (/PI
- -Gunners aboard the aircraft
carrier Hornet shot down "ap-
proximately 59 of the 64 Japanese
planes" that attacked her before
the order was given to abandon
ship, nicmbei ■ oi her crew said
hero today.
Two shattered enemy planes
crashed on her decks, the seamen
said in statements released by the
fourth naval district.
One exploded on the flight deck
neai the bridge, “starting a furi-
ous fire," and the other dived un-
der the flight deck into a row of
officers’ staterooms, its controls
shot away as it attempted to
swerve after launching a torpedo.
The Hornet was identified by
the navy yesterday as the carrier
previously announced as lost in
the battle of the Santa Cruz is-
lands last October 26.
The story of her fighting death
was told by Gunner’s Mate Alvin
Grahn, of Roseau, Minn., and
fellow crewmen now in this navy
yard base, the attacking planes
came in waves. Grahn said
while th«' Hornet's attack plane
and other units of a U. S. task
force were defeating a Jap force
northeast of Guadalcanal.
"Our guns were all manned and
ready,” Grahn related. "It was
just like the pause before a foot-
ball game when everyone is Ti>t
ening for the referee’s whistle for
the kickoff. And suddenly a shout:
‘There they come, commence fir-
ing’.
"Some of us had never fired at
enemy planes and the boys were
making bets of the chances of
getting a crack at dive bombers
and torpedo planes. Within sev-
en or eight minutes, whe had shot
dwon 50 of the 54 which came
over in the first attack."
The first wave, however, scor-
ed repeated hits and other ves-
sels in the American force rang-
ed alongside her with fire hoses
going to help put out the fires.
Then the second combined dive
bomber torpedo plane attack be-
gan. Grahn related.
The Hornet's bakers, Freder-
ick Plath of McAllen, Texa.,
and Joseph Laino, of Brooklyn,
said "We had 10,000 doughnuts
and 5,000 mince pies cooked
and ready to serve to the men
during any lull in the battle,
but there just wasn't any lull."
Friends Hear Of
Maxwell's Death
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I„ B. MAXWELL
L. 14. Maxwell, druggist and
pinner But can, was found dead
in his rooms on Christmas Day,
i according to word received today
) through Mrs. 1. J. Killion.
Mrs. Killion is in receipt of a
letter from Maxwell’s youngest
! sister, saving that burial was be-
side his parents in the family plot
at St. Joe Missouri. He is survived
• by his three sisters who reside in
! Los Angles, California.
At the time ot his death, Max-
well was emph vod at the Victory
j Pharmacy in Dallas.
Daniel
Elected
Speaker
Dowsisd
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12—W—
Four Japanese zero tighter planes
were shot clown and one American
Wildcat fi"liter was lost, the navy
announced today, when the Japs
attacked a flight of our dive
bombers in the Central Solomon
Islands.
Navy communique number 249
said:
“South Pacific (all dates are
east longitude)
" 1. On January 11:
"• A • A force of Dauntless dive
bombers • Douglas S141> escorted
by Wildcat fighters 'Grumman
F44> w. s attacked by 12 Japanese
Zeros between Santa Isabel island
and New Georgia island. Four
zerc s were shot down and two
others were possibly destroyed.
One Wildcat failed to return.
"<Ui A force of Marauder Med-
ium bombers 'Martin B-26> with
Airacobra 'Bell P-39' escort at-
tacked Japanese positions at
Munda. Clouds over the target
areas prevented accurate bomb-
ing and made observation of re-
sults difficult.”
The four zeros shot down raised
to 08ft the numbei of planes the
Japanese have lost in the Solo-
mons campaign according to
navy < ommuniques.
>BATUM
•T.Uis
/ TURKEY 1
MILES
0 100
I • Russian Thrusts
Striking with hammer-like blows in a sickle-shaped offensive,
Soviet soldiers are forcing their Nazi enemies back all along the
no:"1', '..u'. ■ f> • j. t fi oni Tu. p • t<> Millerovo. Main target of
the drive: is Itosiov, with addition.d aim of trapping German
hoops m Stalingrad and Georgievsk regions.
Silver Beaver Scout
To Address Scouters
I ortight /
ips
Texan Rides
Bomb Down
To Earth
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 12—(/P)—
Two American airmen returning
from a raid on the Tunisian port
of Gabes yesterday by B-26 Mar-
tin Marauders had the unusual
experience of riding a bomb back
home, an airforce spokesman dis-
closed today.
“On the way home," he said,
Lieut. William Powell Watkins, of
Galveston, Tex., the navigator,
and Sergeant M. Muzyla, of
Cleveland. Ohio, discovered that
one of their bombs had not drop-
ped, and it was bouncing around
on its ohlder in the bomb bay.
“Watkins and Muzyla sat on
the bomb to hold it steady until
the plane could land and ground
crews removed it.”
By The Associated Press
j AUSTIN. Tex., Jan. 12—(.Pi-
Rep. Price Daniel <>1 Liberty was
unanimously elected speaker of
the house ol the 18th legislature
as both house and senate swiftly
dispesed of preliminary business
to come to grins with the state’s
war problems.
LRuit. Vernon Lemons, senator
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 12. —(/P)
The army makes a difference.
Answering the first roll call in
the House, Rep. Choice Moore
of Bonham, a soldier respond-
ed when his name was called:
"Here, sir.”
from Waxnhachic, was unanim-
ously chosen as president pro
tempore of the impel house, suc-
ceeding H. L. Winfield of Fort
Stockton.
Daniel was not opposed for the
speakership.
(Continued ON PAGE TWO)
Texas University
Sponsors Courses
At Wichita Falls
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 12—(/!’)—
Four new engineering, science
and management war training
courses will go into operation at
W ichita Falls within the next 1ft
days. (’. R. Gtiinberry, University
of Texas director of the emer-
gency training program, said to-
il a.v.
Sponsored by the University in
o.-ojn-i .ttioi'i with Hardin Junior
College at Wichita Falls, the
courses will embrace in engineer-
ing drawing, interpretation of 1
aerial photography, industrial
physics and mathematics and
foremanship and supervision.
HARVEST TRAIN LEAVES
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 12—(;P)—
A special train with 562 Mex-
ican workers left yesterday for tiro
United States border at El Paso,
Texas. From there the workers
will proceed toward the Imperial
Valley, where they will help with
the harvest.
U. S. Warplanes Stage
Daylight Raid On Naples
With a Silver Beaver Scout as
the main speaker, annual banquet
of the Adobe Walls Council will
be held tonight at 7:30 o’clock, in
the Phillips Grade school cafeteria.
George R. Angell of El Reno,
Okla., public relations representa-
tive for the Rock Island Railroad,
will be the evening’s orator. Al-
though a busv#man in his railroad
capacity, Angell has found time !•■
devote to Scouting and through
his efforts he has been awarded
the Silver Beaver, the highest
award that can be bestowed upon
a Scouter.
Each Scouter is expected to bring
a guest, which will bring tonight’s
attendance upwards to a hundred.
M A. Graham of Pampa, presi-
dent of the council, is urging a
large attendance He points out
thatloda.v, as never before. Ameri-
ca needs Scouting and Scouting
needs every adult it can grasp.
Anyone interested in becoming
a Scouter and attending tonight’s
banquet is asked to contact C. R
Berrien of this city.
^Hospital Notes
PANTEX
Mrs. C. R. Stahl is a medical
patient.
NORTH PLAINS
Mrs. W. B. Farrell is a surgery
patient.
Rogenna Youngblug underwent
a tonsilectomv this morning.
Mrs. JoAnn McCaffertv of Pan-
handle, underwent a tonsilectomy
this morning.
Buy U. S. Defense Bonds today.
CAIRO, Jan. 12— (/Pi —Four
engined Liberators of the United
State.- Army’s ninth air force
bombed Naples by daylight yes-
terday, hitting harbor installations
and shipping, a communique an-
nounced today.
The attack was the 38th of the
war on the hard-hit Italian sup-
ply port and the first attack of
1943 afer repeated December
raids.
(An Italian commuivque said:
“Damage is slight. In the collapse
of some civilian buildings, the
population suffered losses which
as far as has been ascertained
are 23 dead and 75 injured.”)
The Allied report said “heavy
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
Child Dies Alter
Kissing Picture
Oi Captured Dad
LONDON, Jan. 12—</P)—Three-
year-old Doris Watson didn't
know quite what it meant that her
father was a prisoner of war in
Germany, but she did know he
had been gone a long time and
decided to kiss his picture on the
mantelpiece.
She died with his picture in her
hands when she climbed on a
chair to reach it and her night-
gown caught fire from an open
gas heater. j
Roosevelt Approves
Two Money-Raising
Campaigns For Year
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12—' V)—
President Roosevelt approved to-
day a plan for two major money-
raising campaigns for relief act-
ivities this year, one in the spring
by the American Red Cross and
the other in October for “A Nat-
ional War Fund.”
The latter will replace the var-
ious individual campaigns for the
Unit e d Service organizations,
community chest and council,
those of certain state war chest
organizations and the drive of
major foreign relief agencies.
The formula for the two cam-
paigns wa presented in a report
of the war relief control board
ol which Joseph E. Davis, form-
er ambassador to Russia and to
Belgium, is chairman.
Davies said that Winthrop Aid-
rich of New Yoi k had agreed to
assemble a group of organizing
trustees foi the national war
fund. He said they would be “the
focal point from which the 48
states, the 600 community chest
cities and the many unorganized
counties are to be approached in
the formation of a central and
national voluntary and civic or-
ganization,”
Jaycees To Meet
Thursday Nigh!
To Hear Sheppard
Junior Chamber of Commerce
members will meet Thursday
night at 8 p.m. at the Black Hotel
Coffee Shop to listen ot the ad-
dress of State President John
Ben Shepperd, opening the “.Tim-
or Chamber of Commerce Week”
in Texas.
President Shepperd is broad-
casting from San Angelo over the
Texa: State network.
This year marks the 15th anni-
ver.- try of the state organization
and the 23rd year for the national
group Trie week «>l January 11
> 21 has been proclaimed national-
ly "Junior Chamber of Com-
, morce Week." and Governor Coke
: R. Stevenson has signed the Tex-
: as proclamation.
President Shepperd’s 15-minute
! radio talk is scheduled to begin
at 8:15 p.m.
Wavell's Columns
Meel Strong Jap
Forces In Burma
Hirohito Pleads With
Nio Workers To Catch
Up With U. S. Output
By The Associated Press
Field Marshal Sir Archi-
bald P. Wavell’s British im-
; rial leg-i n!-- driving hack
int i Burma from India were
reported meeting stiffened
Japanese resistance today,
while elsewhere in the Pa-
cific c o n f lict Australian
warplanes were credited with ,
probably sinking a Japanese |
cruiset or a light destroyer.
A brief communique from Brit-
ish headquarters in India said 1
Gen. Wavell’s columns met I
“strong” Japanese defenses in i
their thrust down the Mayu Pen- i
insula along the Bay of Bengal.
The communique said then1 was
no important change in the Rath-
edaung sector, 25 miles northwest !
of the big Japanese base at Akyab,
where other British troops were
reported battling the enemy.
RAP’ planes engaged in a con-
centrated "softening up" campaign
ag,tiiist J a panic c military targets
in Burma were reported striking
in widespread attacks, blasting
enemy rail and water communica-
tions.
Japs Threaten Japs
Meanwhile, the Japanese gov-
! eminent invoked the prestige of
Emperor Hirohito in an attempt
to step up Japan’s lagging war
production and offset Ihe gigan-
tic output of American supplies
as disclosed by President Roose-
; veil.
A Tokyo broadcast said Thsmi-
kado planned to send imperial
aides-de-camp to scrutinze the na-
tion's war foundries, and, and
premier Gen. Hideki Tojo called
on the workers to “set his imperial
1 majesty’s mind at rest—-by exert-
(Continued On Pago Three)
Louis Seliger Tells
Jaycees Why We Are j
Fighting This War
French Troops
Drive Nazis Out
Of Mountain Pass
By WES GALLAGHER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Jan. 12.— (AP)—Flying Fortresses, in their first full raid
into Tripolitania, struck a heavy blow at Marshal Rom-
mel's forces by battering the fort at Ghadames, while
French troops in Tunisia drove the Germans out of a
mountain pass 2.”> miles north of Pont Du Fahs and cap-
ftured at least 180 prisoners.
Ghadames is deep in the
desert, 450 miles south of
Tunis, at the juncture of the
frontiers of Tunisia, Algeria
and Tripolitania.
A spokesman for the French
high command said French
troops had attacked north of
.Tebel Boudabous, northwest of
the Moslem city of Kairouan,
which is 35 miles inland from the
New U. S.
'Punch'
On Way
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12. — </P)
—Recent state department con-
ferences with members of the
Senate and House foreign rela-
tion. committees brought from
Chairman Sol Bloom of the House
P'oup a broad hint today of a pos-
isble new diplomatic or military
thrust at the Axis.
The conferees, who met most
recently with Undersecretary of
i State Sumner Welles last Satur-
! day, have been pledged to se-
crecy and Bloom’s explanation
was this:
“When you’re going to take a
(Continued On PAGE TWO)
Russian Troops
Led By Cossacks
Roll Over Nazis
Reds Push Info
Kuban River Area
Of West Caucasus
LONDON, Jan. 12 — (/P) —
Fighting French headquarters
today that General Jacques
Leclerc’s army of the Chad had
captured Murzuk, capital of the
Fezzan district of Southern
Libya, and that advance units
also had occupied Sebha, 100
miles further north.
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
MOSCOW, Jan. 12. —
(AP)Led by Cossacks slash-
ing their way triumphantly
back into their homeland,
the Red Army has rolled
the Germans back into the
Kuban river region of the
western Caucasus between the
mountains and the Don, the Rus-
“We are going to fight this war
bemuse we do not want to tight.
We are lighting for a peace bas-
i d cm the future and not on al-
liance1.-- and treaties as the last
peace was based upon.”
i So declared Louis Seliger, 19,
the first topp-ago selectees
from Borger, who addressed the s'ans announced today.
Junior Chamber of Commerce
at their meeting yesterday noon
at the Black Hotel Coffee Shop.
"We must look to the future
for our peace because vve cannot
go back and correct the mistakes
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eastern Tunisian port of Sousse.
Germans and Italians in the
valley there were surrounded, the
spokesman said, and fighting is
continuing.
Land fighting on the northern
| sector of the Tuinsian front was
j confined to patrol activity,
i There were active engagements
j between Frnch and Axis troops
i in the mountain chain running
south of Pont Du Fans. 30 miles
southwest of Tunis and at the
southern flank of the Modjez-El-
Bab front.
“Our troops made quite sub-
stantial gains at Karachouan,
] south of Pont Du Fahs,” the
| spokesman said.
Further south the French re-
ported beating off a German at-
tack and destroying three tanks.
The Flying Fortresses took a
hand in the Libyan battle with
! their raid on the German and
Italian force at Ghadames which
was reported left enveloped in
smoke after a high level b<>mb-
, ing.
German fighters approached
the formation of Fortre ses, but
confined their attack to the es-
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
Red Star declared that the Ku-
ban region was penetrated after
tiie Caucasus Provinces of North
Osotia and Kabardina Kakaria had
been freed from the Germans in
the continuing Russian winter
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
Sales Tax Plan May Be "Explored
As Means Of Raising 16 Billions
By FRANCIS M. LeMAY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. —-(AP)— One baffling
question — how to raise an additional $16,000,000,000
this year for war purposes? — overshadowed all else one
capitol hill today.
Some prominent legislators mentioned a federal re-
tail sales tax, combined with increased compulsory loans,
as a possible answer.
Other developments i n
congress:
1. The senate foreign relations
committee may call on Mayor La
Guardia of New York for the
background of a grand jury in-
vestigation into charges, later
dropped, that New York City
materials and labors were used
to pave the courtyard of Edward
J. Flynn's estate if the commit
tee decides to hold hearings on
the price ceilings on potatoes,
beans and dairy products will con-
front Leon Henderson's successor
as price administrator. President
Roosevelt’s nomination of former
Senator Prentiss M. Brown of
Michigan for the job is expected
to receive speedy senate confirma-
tion.
3. A special house committee on
airplane accidents predicted in its
final report that the peacetime
future of aviation will be limitless
Flynn’* nomination to be minis- , A ,
ter to Australia. Nomination of ;m(*ur?e" appointment of standing
the retiring democratic national
chairman aroused a storm of re-
publican protest, with Senator
Bridges IR NH) calling it an "in-
sult" to Australia.
2. Agitation for an increase in (
Troy Halford
Dies Following
Short Illness
Troy Patric Halford, 24, died
early today following a short ill-
ness.
Halford was an employe of the
telephone company and moved
here six weeks ago from Amarillo.
He is survived by his wife and
three year old daughter, Sharon
Jayne; father. J. P. Halford, Pres-
cott, Ari/., anti an aunt, Mrs.
Anne Daugherty, Hereford.
Funeral services and burial will
be in Hereford. The body is at
Carver Funeral Chapel, pending
word from relatives.
False Rumor Of
Rationing Clothes
"Going The Rounds"
Just another one of those
rumors going the rounds, that
clothing was going to be rationed
starting January 15, seems to have
had its start in some beauty shop
or pool room.
It does not have the authority
of having come from rationing
officials.
“I hear baby milk is going to
he rationed,” a worried mother
told a local rationing official.
“I hope it is,” he replied, “so
your baby will get plenty of milk,
the same as the rich people are
able to afford.’’
The startled mother soon saw
the point, that under rationing
everyone would share and share
alike, and people with money
will not be allowed to “nig” while
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
• Congratulations
Mr. and Mrs E. R. Warrington,
upon arrival of a 6 pound 7 ounce
daughter, at 3:50 r>. m. yesterday
in North Plains hospital.
committee to study its develop-
ment.
4 A special senate committee,
informed that the petroleum out-
look is “gloomy,” asked the rnay-
(Cnntinued on PAGE TWO)
The entire solar system is mov-
ing forward as a unit through
space in the general direction of
the star Vega at a rate of 12 miles
a second.
C. OF C. TRIPPERS
TO MAKE REPORT
Chamber of Commerce mem-
bers at their luncheon tomorrow
noon will hear a report on con-
dition in the East by Borgans who
have recently ictumed from an
extended trip, according to Mar-
vin J. Paul, manager. Paul urges
100 per cent attendnee.
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