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ZBufaef Paili) Herald
Vol. 17—No. 124
NEA Service
Associated Press
THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Borger, Texas, Friday, April 16, 1943
(Six Pages Today)
Price Five Cents
BRITISH ADVANCE TOWARD TEBOURBA
Pattern for an Axis 'Dunkirk'
Three Jap Ships Crippled
By Mac Arthur’s Warplanes
Bombing Of
Tokyo To Be
Celebrated
By The Associated Press
With a pledge of greater aerial reinforcements, Gen.
Douglas Mac Arthur’s warplanes pressed home the attack
on a nine-ship Japanese convoy off northern New Guinea
today, after crippling three vessels in the opening assault
and pounding other enemy targets across a wide expanse
of the 2,500-mile South
Seas battle arc.
Spotted at dusk yester-
day off the base of Wewak,
the enemy convoy consisted
of six merchant vessels, a light
cruiser and two other warships.
In swift waves, U. S. Flying
Fortresses pounced on the enemy
with these results: Am 8,000-ton
cargo ship left sinking; another
8.000-tonner floating lopsidedly,
and a 5,000-tonner beached.
"We are continuing the attack,"
Allied headquarters said.
Buoyed by War Secretary Stim-
son’s promise of a constantly in-
creasing flow of planes and other
war supplies to the southwest
Pacific, Allied fliers reached out
across the seas to blast three ma-
im' Japanese air bases — at Ra-
baul and Gasmata, New Britain,
and Lae, New Guinea—and raided
enemy-occupied Trangan in the
Aroe islands, bombed coastal
shipping off the Tanimbars and
strafed a Japanese-held village on
Timor island
In addition, swarms of A-20 at-
tack planes swept low over Japa-
nese troops in the Mubo sector,
below the enemy’s big Salamaua
base in New Guinea, bombing and
strafing the invaders 11 times.
Meanwhile, Allied headquar-
The axis exodus from Tunisia will be different from “Dunkirk” in
that the evacuation routes here are far longer than the short chan-
nel crossing the soldiers of England made in 1940. Allied air and
eeo supremacy in this section of the Mediterranean will make it
tough going for German and Italian forces who seek to flee to
Sicily, Sardinia or Italy via routes shown on map.
By J. REILLY O'SULLIVAN
WITH U. S. AIR FORCES IN
CHINA. April 15—Delayed)-—f/P)
—With their bombers pointed for
the Japanese capital—“to blow
Japan open to the outside world
again,” one flier said—a little
group of Maj. Gen. James H. Doo-
little's volunteers of last year is
preparing to celebrate Sunday’s
first anniversary of their bomb-
ing of Tokyo and other points in
Japan. i
“We an* eager lo get going and
hope to be the first again over
Tokyo; when our orders come, I
better hide, Hirohito, hide," one
of these veterans said today.
They feel sure that their bomb- |
ers, such as “Tokyo Joe,” are des-
tined to carry them over Tokyo
again but they leave the Japa-
nese militarists to guess as to just
when these and many others are
taking off for a much bigger sur-
prise than that of last April 18.
“I think I’ll christen mv bomb-
ters disclosed that Japanese cas- j er .‘Commodore Perry’ 'because
the New Guinea cam- we re gom* to blow JaPan °Pen
Aid In War Effort,
Think Of The Future,
Buy War Bonds—Price
By BYRON PRICE,
Director, Office of Censorship
(Wrillen for the Associated
Press and Borger Herald.)
The first thing any of us
should be thinking about to-
day is the winning of the war
!i youi extra doliar.- .i, i.
victory b,\ even a fraction of a
second, they will be well - pent.
The second thing we should
be thinking about is security
after the war is won. A war
bond is your government’s pro-
mise to help you in the uncer-
tain years of readjustment alt-
er the victory. It • is a promise
to pay you—with interest.
You serve your country and
yourself by buying war bonds.
British Infantrymen Battle Germans
Within Sight Of "Promised Land"
_ 4 ----*-----
Inquiries Made
Regarding USO
Club In Borger
By WILLIAM B. KING
CHAOUACH VILLAGE, NOR-
THERN TUNISIA, April 16.-I/P)-
Artillery-supported British infan-
trymen battled the Germans to-
day in a range of hills from
which the promised land of Tunis
and Btzerte is visible on a clear
day.
The Djebel Tanngoucha, a con-
ical peak jutting above the rugged
highlands stretching northeast
from Oued Zargua toward Tunis
and the high smooth hills of the
neighboring Djebel Ang were
gained by powerful Allied attacks
this week, and then yielded tem-
porarily yesterday before Ger-
man counterattacks.
(The Friday communique from
Allied headquarters said the ene-
my fought fiercely 'throughout
the day for the high ground in
that area, north of Medjez-El-
Bab, “but all his counterattacks
were eventually beaten off and
the high ground remains in our
hands.”)
The steep forward slopes of the
Djebel Tanngoucha were pricked
by white bursts of Nazi mortar
fire. Allied shells screamed high
overhead and crashed in black
bursts behind the hill’s crest.
There was the crackle of small
arms fire and machine-guns.
That is the way the fight ap-
peared from a neighboring hill Ifc
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Inquiries were made yesterday
at the Chamber of Commerce
meeting as to the advisability of
establishing a U. S. O. service
center here to take care of the
recreational needs of the war in-
dustries and community.
Roy H. Fruend, district repre-
sentative of the U. S. O. from
San Anionio, explained i’ne wink-
ing of the United Service Organ-
izations in war impacted com-
munities. He stated:
“I am only here making in-
quiries, and my visit should not
be construed to mean that a U.
S. O. center will be established
in Borger.”
Before throwing the meeting
open to questions and answers
Fruend explained the activities
of the U. S. O. in war industrial
centers. The service organiza-
tion acts as a stimulus in plan-
ning recreation for adults and
children through supervised lead-
ership.
“It’s gamus of activity is very
wide, icluding every phase of
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unities In
paign up to April 1 totalled 38.-
000. mostly killed, against 10,531
Allied casualties. American cas-
ualties were listed as 2,175 killed
or missing in action and 2,144
wounded.
Imperial Tokyo headquarters,
the fount cl repeated myths,
came up with a belated version
of Wednesday's 100-plane Japa-
nese attack on the Allied base
at Milne Bay, in southeast New
Guinea, asserting that 11 Al-
lied transports were sunk and
44 planes shot down.
The Tokyo communique said
the only Japanese losses were
five planes which "crash-dived
into enemy objectives."
By contrast, Allied headquar-
ters said only three small Allied
ships were damaged while the
Japanese lost 30 planes.
On the Burma front, British
headquarters announced that
Field Marshal Sir Archibald P.
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to the outside world again,” said
brick-topped Maj. Everett Hol-
strom of Tacoma. Wash., who was
one of Doolittle's pilots and now
is a squadron leader.
Veterans of the raid who will
attend an anniversary dinner will
include Capt. Caltyon Campbell,
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Carpenters Buy
4 $1,000 Bonds
The local Union 1201 of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners, has authorized its finan-
cial secretary, Ben Yates, to pur-
chase four $1,000 bonds.
Application has been made and
the "Victory bonds” will arrive
from Dallas in a few days, ac-
cording to Bob Gaiser, recording
secretary.
MOOSE MEET TONIGHT
Moose members will meet to-
night at 8 p. m., according to C.
E. House, secretary.
The meeting will feature initia-
tion of new members.
Baldwins Receive Encouraging
Letter From Son’s Co-Pilot
Encouraging word that loads
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Baldwin
of near Stinnett to believe that
their son, Captain “Billy” Bald-
win, is a prisoner of war, was
contained in a letter received yes-
Jim has mentioned his co-pilot,
Gilbert.
I’m afraid that this is the let-
ter that all mothers have been
fearing since the war started. We
don’t know whore Jim is! Per-
terdav by Mrs. Baldwin from the haps the government has inform-
captain’s co-pilot.
Reported “missing in action”
since March 13. Baldwin was
pilot of a B-24.
His co-prlot and pal wrote the
following:
March 15, 1943
India.
Dear Mrs. Baldwin:
You probably don’t remember
meeting me in a hotel in Albu-
querque last summer, but maybe
ed you of this before my letter.
We are still hoping to see him
walk in one of these days or hear
that he is safe in enemy hands,
but until then, all we can say is
that he is “missing in action.”
Until within the last six weeks
I have been his (I believe you
call him Billy’s* co-pilot, but for
the last few missions we have
been separated because I was giv-
en a crew of my own. I was not
in the flight which he led against
a target near Rangoon last Satur-
day, but the men who flew on
his wing say that the flight was
attacked by pursuit over the tar-
get, and in the first attack two
of Billy’s motors were knocked
out so that he could not hold alti-
tude. and his ship was finally
seen to land on the water.
Three men were believed to
have gotten out, and one waved
as another ship circled to do what
little they could. Thev were
about 25 miles south of the mouth
of the Triwaddy river and may
have hern picked up by the Jap-
anese, which we all very earnest-
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Germans Burn
Monster Tank
Before Capture
_ |
By NOLAND NORGAARD
WITH THE BRITISH EIGHTH j
ARMY BEYOND SOUSSE. TU- j
NISIA, April 14 -(Delayed'-(/R)-
The crew of a 60-ton German VI
Tiger tank hastily set fire to the j
heavily armored machine and fled
on foot when a spunky British |
armored ear charged with its only j
machine-gun blazing.
The story ot the unequal en- j
counter and its surprising ending
was told today by a sergeant
from Bath, the commander of
1he seven-ton car which took on
an opponent nearly nine times its
size as the British Eighth army
charged north through Tunisia.
“We poked the nose ef our ear
over the edge of a hill and saw a
Mark VI sitting there with its .
heavy gun trained on our troops '
to the east," the sergeant recall- i
ed. “We left our other cars and
skirted around to the other side j
and then came at the tank and
directed our machine-gun against !
the crew, who for some reason, ;
had dismounted from their ve- i
hide.
“Two of the four crewmen got
afire. They must have some de-
vice ready for such a purpose
because they were able to destroy
it very quickly. The fire seemed
to come from flic motor instead
of the spot where they were.
“Then the Germans jumped out
again and hit the ground to avoid
our fire. We captured them and
another of our cars captured the
other two who tried to get away.”
The armored car was part of a
famous cavalry unit which, in the
same action, captured a field
workshop with 34 Italian tanks
and five 105-millimeter guns in-
side.
Compromise On
Tax Forgiveness
May Be Reached
By FRANCIS M. LeMAY
WASHINGTON, April lt>. </»’i
House Republican leaders sup-
porting the skip-a-tax-.vear plan
and Democrats o p p using it
launched a joint effort today, un-
der the leadership of Speaker
Rayburn (D-Tex>, to reach a com-
promise on pay-as-you-go income
lax legislation.
The bi-partisan effort to settle
the issue developed at a morning
conference in Rayburn’s office at-
tended by House Republican
Leader Martin of Massachusetts,
Democratic Lealer McCormack of
Massachusetts, Chairman Dough-
ton (D-NC) and members of the
house ways and means commit--
tee.
Rayburn said afterwward:
“We're going to try to forget
the Ruml plan (first to embody
the skip-a-year idea) and all
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Allied Air Attacks Sap
Strength Of Retreating
Axis Armies In Tunisia
By WES GALLAGHER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
April lb (AID—First army infantrymen drove to with-
in lf» miles of the key road junction of Tebourba yester-
day in some of the fiercest fighting of the Tunisian cam-
paign. it was announced today.
In a series of local attacks east of Medjez-El-Bab, the
Allied mountain line advanced to points between 25 and 80
..miles from Tunis. Tebour-
Japanese Are
Stronger Than
Ever In North
Bv EUGENE BURNS
A FAR WESTERN BASE IN
THE ANDREANOF ISLANDS,
Alaska, March 31 DelayedMAh-
Thc Japanese are "stronger than
ever .m Kiska and Attu,” return- I
ing army pilots reported after
In rnbing the enemy bases in the
Aleutians for the 30th time in
March at 2,500-foot elevation.
This thirtieth raid boosted the
all-month high to 320 tons of ex-
plosive dropped on Kiska and
Attu during March, eleventh
bomber command figures showed.
March heralded the opening of
a mighty spring offensive to erad-
icate the Japanese from the Am-
erican islands.
The Japanese have dodged 2,-
500.440 pounds of explosives since
they occupied Attu and Kiska
early in June, 1942.
A returning pilot who has flown
over Kiska since last July, said
"the Japanese heavy and light
gunfire was the heaviest yet.
More lead was thrown into the
air at us today than a month
ago and it was more deadly.”
A minute study of aerial photo-
American bombers battering Ja- I f aPhs shcw ,hat l,hL‘ JaPanese
panose oos.tions in the central have m, re gun emplacements m
Solomon islands Thursday de- 1 K:fa an« Attu today than they
stroyed a building believed to be UI<A Jtt 1 ’
generating station and As lhe Liberators returned
from yesterdays bombing, men
Thomas, chief rat exterminator
at Burlington, N. C., aircraft
plant, reports for the night
shift displaying ins identification
badge as he passes through the
front gate.
Japs Blasted
In Solomons
And At Kiska
WASHINGTON, April 16.-</P)-
Homes Use Program
Clinic In Amarillo
Clinic to explain the functions
of the Home Use Program, a sub-
sidiary of the National Housing
Agency, is being held in Ama-
rillo today.
The Homes Use Program is de-
signated to expedite the alloca-
tion of critical materials to the
National Housing Agency.
The meeting was called by :
Preston L. Wright, regional rep-
resentative of the National Huns- ;
ing Agency.
I a power
j sank an 80-foot \es.sei, the navy
i announced today.
In the north Pacific, meanwhile,
heavy raids on Kiska island con-
tinued. A communique said that
the enemy base there was attack-
ed eight times Wednesday and
hits were scored in the camp
area, damaging an airplane run-
way and revetments built to pro-
tect aircraft on the ground.
Navy Communique No. 345
said:
“South Pacific (all dates are
east longitude'
"l. On April lath:
“(a» During the morning, Aven-
ge! torpedo bombers (Grumman
T-BF) escorted by Wildcat fight-
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at this airdrome ran to the win- |
dows. The snow was streaking ;
horizontally.
"Do you suppose they will \
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Last Military
Rites Held For
Phillips Hero
Americans Celebrate
Hitler’s 54th Birthday
By Buying War Bonds
ba, once held by the Allies
in the eastward push last
fall, lies 18 miles airline
west of the Axis-held cap-
ital.
Allied bombers and fighters
continued their assaults upon
Axis air fields' in Tunisia, al-
though the weather was bad, and
it was announced that RAF Wel-
lingtons struck effectively Wed-
nesday night at enemy airdromes
in southern Sardinia.
Only patrol activity was report-
ed on the Enfidaville line front,
where Gen. Sir Bernard Mon-
gomery’s Eighth Army is again
massing strength for a climatic-
push to the north.
The First Army, led by Lieut.
Gen. K. A. N. Anderson, by a
series of infantry attacks in (he
mountains, gained the highest
ground in northern Tunisia, over-
looking the plain to Tunis.
The Germans, in two savage
counter-attacks yesterday, tem-
porarily regained the 2,000-foot
Djebel Ang, eight miles north-
west of Medjez-El-Bab, but Brit-
ish infantry launched a counter-
;fssault of their own and not only
retook the peak but ground be-
yond it as well.
(Axis communique broadcasts
recorded by the Associated Press
said heavy artillery duelling and
bitter local fighting marked the
Tunisian front. A Transocean
dispatch broadcast from Berlin
declared Allied attacks in the
hills were repelled and a large
number of British troops were
captured while Nazi counterat-
tacks “attained scheduled objec-
tives.”
(Transocean added that the
supply of Axis forces in Tunis-
ia involves difficulties, but it
said that on the whole they
"are receiving what they need"
—i n c 1 u d i n g reinforcements
moved across the Mediterran-
ean by both sea and air.)
French forces who stormed for-
ward Wednesday to capture the
Djebel Sefsouf. seven miles above
the village of Karahhoun on the
southwestern rim of the Axis
lines before Tunis and Rizerte.
also were hard pressed by the
Germans, but held their ground
and captured more prisoners.
The Eighth Army, pulled up be-
fore the Enfidaville line, about
50 miles south of Soussc, contin-
ued to patrol its mountain front
PFC. JAMES STROTHER
GRADUATES FROM COURSE
AT SHEPPARD FIELD
Private, first class, James W.
Strothers, son of Fred Strothers
of Stinnett, has graduated from a
mechanics course at Sheppard
Field near Wichita Falls.
Before entering the school, he
was trained at one of the basic
training centers of the Air Forces
Technical Training Command.
By JAMES D. WHITE
WASHINGTON, April 16—VP)
—Next Tuesday is Adolf Hitler’s
54th birthday, and the people
backing the treasury’s second war
loan drive figure there’s a good
way for Americans to celebrate
the occasion fittingly—by buying
war bonds.
Americans have raised more
than one-third of the $13,000,000,-
000 goal of the bond drive.
To push it further toward the
goal, Editor Austin V. McClain
of the Washington. Pa.. Observer,
suggests that any American can,
by buying bonds, make Hitler a
birthday present of almost any
military item he chooses.
A new bomb, for instance.
Authorities on birthday pres-
ents who also have a slight knowl-
edge of ordnance will tell you
that you might look a long time
before you find a more appropri-
ate birthday present for Adolf
Hitler.
There’s such a wide range of
| Spot.
| The whole idea is: You can buy
! any size bond and have at least
a share in a birthday gift to a
personality which has presented
the world with untold misery and
suffering.
The treasury, however, asks
that you buy during April just as
much out of current income as
you can afford—and maybe some
besides that. It’s to finance a
war that is costing the United
States 6 billion dollars a month,
and to keep the home front safe
from one of its deadliest enemies
—inflation.
What the treasury is after,
among other things, is to get
loose money out of circulation—
money that forces prices up by
bidding against itself, even on a
black market.
There’ll be some $45,000,000,000
of such loose money knocking
about in 1943, it's estimated.
The treasury thinks it is high-
ly important that 13 billion of
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRAL-
IA, April 14.-(Delayed>-Ameriean
soldiers Killed on scattered Pacific
island fronts were buried today
in the* largest mass ceremony of
its kind in Australia since the
war began.
The flag-draned coffins were j while awaiting artillery to blast
brought to the cemetery near a
north Australian town in keeping 1
with the army policy of having a
j few large well-kept places for
| soldier dead instead of many small
j ones.
I Three American chaplains par-
ticipated in the ceremony atterid-
| ed by a large group of Americans
i and Australians.
I Officers reinterred in the cere-
mony included 1st Lieut. Lucius
Penick, Phillips, Tex.
the Germans from their positions.
Air operations over Tunisia
were restricted by bad weather,
the communique said, but modi- *
(Continued on PAGE TWO) ,J
Reds Increase
Bombing Raids
On Nazi Targets
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, April 16.-UP) - The
Red army is throwing a mounting
force into the bombing of German
MRS. MATHENEY
RETURNS TO WORK
ON RATION BOARD
Mrs Joy Lee Matheney, who
has been in Dallas with her hus- . .... , , ..
band, fcnsign Orville Matheney, ™1,ta7 objectives and cities the
1 latest teat of Russian fliers being
announced as a raid on a German
has returned to Borger and is
back at the rationing board us
chief clerk.
Mr. and Mrs. Fluvd Price are
the parents of an 8 pound 15P*
ounce son, bom at 8:10 p. m.
yesterday in North Plains hospit-
al.
selection, for one thing. You can I these loose dollars be invested in
get anything from an incendiary war savings bonds as soon as pos-
to a two-ton block-buster. j sible.
The army will deliver it free | Of this, it hopes to sell about
of charge to the most appropriate (Continued on PAGE TWO)
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Casity, upon
arrival of a 6 pound li-4 ounce
daughter, at 12:22 a. m. today in
North Plains hospital.
airdrome on the Leningrad front
where 13 German planes were
destroyed on the ground.
The noon communique told of
the exploits of a band of Russian
fliers who bombed and strafed the
German airfield, setting fites to
buildings in the area as well.
The raid came on the heels of a
Russian long-range attack on
Kcenigsberf, the third bombing
of that East Prussia city, and an
assault on Danzig, the first one
this year.
In land fighting, Soviet troops
struggled ahead in the Kuban
area of the Caucasus, capturing
another German stronghold and
dominating the position in the
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