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Germany Losing Production Race
Hitler Passes Peak Of
Nazi Warmaking Power
By R. E HUNNEI.LE
iOnUUN, July 2 < AP) Strained by nearly four
years of total war and hammered day and night by
Allied air power, German industry has lost the pm
duction race essential to victory, although Germany
still has plenty of fight '
left, reliable British and
foreign sources indicated
Cigarcts Smoked
Annually, per capita,
In 1? Representative States
ft
today.
Figure's gathered by these
sounv.s suggest that Germany
has postively passed her peak as
a warrrt.iking power and now is
on the downgrade because of n
production decline. More conclu-
sive evidence of this will appear
within the year.
A steady fall in steel produc-
tion, a narrow margin of oil re-
serves, an inability to replace
vital railway equipment, reduc-
tion in tank and plane produc-
tion and other important symp-
toms of industrial deterioration
appeared in the available figures,
the sources said.
Steel production, which was
approximately 25.000.000 tons
in January. 1942, fell to 92.5
per cent of that peak by the
first of this year and was down
to 89.5 per cent in May, accord-
ing to the figures here.
Tied in with reported electric
emphasized that is all he is like-
ly to have to counter a prospec-
tive Allied invasion, since prodiu
tion is said to be just about keep-
ing ablest of consumption.
According to the best inhuma-
tion, the Reich now is getting
around 5,000,001) t ns ol natural
oil yearly from the Rumanian
fields and between 5,000,000 and
(>,000,000 tons from synthetic
plants.
But one of the catches in pro-
duction of synthetic gasoline,
the sources here said, is that
the present output requires at
least 15.000.000,000 kilowatt
hours of Germany's available
80.000.000,000 kilowatt hours of
electric power.
Every increase in production
of synthetic gasoline, synthetic
rubber, or other ersatz products
means just, that much less power
available for steel and armaments
industries.
Locomotives are another weak
spot in Nazi war production. Sim
plified utility model- e* 1 >:r,
power difficulties, which were I turned out at
CORPUS CHRIST!, July 2
Members' of the Texas state fe-
deration of labor ylosed their
(invention here yesterday after
unanimously endorsing a fourth
term for President Roosevelt.
The move was suggested by
William M< ran, Kl Paso labor
leader, who said Mr. Roosevelt
had given more encouragement
to labor and supported it more
strongly than any other president
in the history ol the nation.
Members voted to seat delegat-
e's of tin' united brotherhood of
carpenters, local 14, of San Anto-
nio, di'spite instrutiens from A.
F. of L. President William Green
that the local should not be ac-
r< 'ldetl representation.
Warningd elegates that their
action could result in suspension
of the state organization by the A. |
F. of L., state executive secretary
Harry Acreman predicted:
"We will be suspended within
a week.”
Andrew S. McBride, ol Hums
about 300 monthly, I tl>n, veteran Texas labor leader.
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be given in cash to
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the two pri
scores
Although rio admission will be
charged to w itiu s the exhibition,
,i V) IuuL.pv vullei tu>ii v> 11 lx
tacn fr m the gallery Proceed-
from this collection will go to
the army relief.
"We should see some very line
j golf in this match,” said Houck,
who is in charge ot the exhibi-
tion. "It is a good wav to help
the war effort, and also witness
some real goll talent in action."
Houck invites spectators to
bring their lunches and to have
a picnic on the club lawn alter
the match. Newcomers to Borger
are especially invited to come
and see one of the best recreation
spots in the Panhandle.
Businessmen and Borger firms
contributing bonds to be given the
golfers are Jake Stahl, Bub Grim-
i es, Walter David, Gordon Burch,
i the Diamond Shop, and the K. C.
: Store.
By MUHLIN SPENCER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS in AUSTRALIA, July
? (AP1 Artillery shelling of the big Japanese air
□ase at Munda in the Central Solomons, destruction
jf id enemy planes and the consolidation every-
where along a 700-mile front of Allied gams under a
of bombers and [
a | missing ’
Balance-Faisi area.
magnified by the RAF’s destruc- ! but normal wear is estimated to
tion of the Moehne and Eder j force discard of between 150 and
dams, was an oil shortage.
The best sources estimate that
Germany normally needs 12,000-
.000 to 13,000,000 tons of oil year-
ly, and Italy 2,500,000, while a
comparative lull in fighting ex-
ists. Major operations naturally
send this consumption skyrocket-
ing.
Germany’s present oil reserve is
estimated at 3,000,000 tons and
the British and foreign sources
SSjdfiSV
200 monthly and in May alone the
RAF shot up or destroyed some
150.
Plane production is reported to
have dropped sharply this year, j
Up to last year it was estimated
that the output was 2,500 to 3,000
monthly, half of them bombers.
Now, according to the best infor-
mation, the monthly output rang-
es between 1,700 to 2,100, ol
which two thirds are fighters for
defense. Italian production also
is said to have fallen—from 1,200
monthly last year to 600 or 700
now.
The sources said also it ap-
peared that the Reich is turning
out between 600 and 1,000
tanks monthly compared with
a much higher production a
year ago.
Only in submarine production
is Germany on the upgrade, the-e
sources said. Between 25 and 20
are being launched each mouth,
compared with 16 to 19 a year
ago, but better Allied defensive
measures are said to be taking
care of that increase. ; can
was returned to the presidency
of the federation for tho ninth
consecutive year, winning over
B. A. Gritta of Galveston.
Aireman, of Austin, was re-
turned to office as executive sec-
retary. also for his ninth conse- ;
cutive term.
Federation officers said it was
the largest convention in history.
Vice presidents chosen and dis-
tricts they represent included J. j
R. Stubbs, Austin, 1; VV\ S. Echols,
Corpus Christ), 2: Roy Jones, Abi-
lene, 3: George Webber, El Paso, U1U((I1U
4; C. R. (Jack) Sears, Amarillo, I i3r;UKh_
5; A. L. Bailey, Fort Worth, 6;
j C. A. Swink, Denison, 7; W. L.
Holst, Beaumont, 8; Don Ken-
nard, Houston, 9; Miss Emily Jor-
dan, San Antonio, vice president
at large; E. J. Bettencourt, Gal-
veston, reading clerk; L. M Bar
in i, El Paso, sergeant at arms.
Chart shows New Englanders are the nation's leading cigaret
smokers, with Connecticut smokers consuming nearly 2000 tiga-
rets pci person between March 1942 and February 1943, as com-
pared with lowest use Ol 519 per capita in Arkansas. Figures are
based on study by the Federation of Tax Administrators. _ _
Congress Puts Cash Curb F•!)-»-
On Elmer Davis’ Office Vetoes
Of War information qqq gj||
By JAMES MARLOW
And GEORGE ZIELKE
WASHINGTON. July 2—(/P)—
Elmer Davis’ Office of War In-
formation 'OWL suffered a no.,
chill today and, although con-
gressional physicians were still
working on it, its recovery never
will be complete.
Diagnosis showed the domestic
that part of OWI aimed
at Americans only—was badly
mashed. The overseas blanch —-
beaming news and propaganda at . ...
the rest of the world—appeared 1 ...
Jap Says
(Continued From PAGE ONE)
at Salamaua, New Guinea.
Australian patrols also imping
toward a junction with the Amer-
icans killed 26 Japanese and j
wounded many others en route,
a communique said.
Elsewhere in the global war:
Mediierranean—Allied bombers
pound Cagliari, capital of Sardi-
nia, and renew assault on Sicili-
Personals
Bob Barrow, Jr., of Hamlin is
a house guest of Miss Maedean
Malxiiy. Mr. Barrow is waiting
the Naval Air Corps.
Clad In Spoiled Jungle Suits,
Young, Well Trained Americans
Swarm Ashore In Great Offensive
• Our soldiers arc sure glad to
get FLIT — and all our other
super-slaying insecticides.
They're real weapons of war ou
many insect-infested hattle-
fronts.
Their spray of death kill* many
foul fureign insects just as FLIT
blitzes your household pest* here
at home!
FLIT has tlie highest rating
established for household insec-
ticides by the National Bureau
of Staudards ... the A \ Rating!
Insist on FLIT ... the
double-A killer. Buy a
Lottie — today!
|/ii | r> motqutloci, flies, mothi, bedbug*,
nlLLv* rod'bet, orli, n >d jth«r noutehold prift.
By J. NORMAN LODGE
WITH UNITED STATES IN
VASION FORCES IN THE NEW
GEORGIA ISLANDS, June 30—
(Delayed—(/P)— Combined army,
navy and marine forces today
swarmed into Rendova island in
the greatest American offensive
yet undertaken in the South Pa-
cific.
A multitude of all types of
planes provided an umbrella for
the activities of the ampribious
forces, which rushed various
beachheads and immediately be-
gan pushing the Japanese north
ward.
The invasion began at dawn
with a number of simultaneous
landings on Rendova island, irom
which the Japanese airfield at
Munda on nearby New Georgia
island will be stormed.
Thousands of young and wcll-
trained Americans took on the
job of wresting valuable airfields
rum the Japanese and of driving
them toward Bougainville island
aid eventually out of the Solo,
tnons altogether.
Clad in spotty jungle suits and
equipped as well as any military
men in the world, the invaders
planned to war from tlien vari
ous Rendova landing places to-
ward Munda. There a huge land-
ing field awaits the successful
termination of the large-scale of -
tensive—a landing Held the en
_ emy has been unable to use for
j some time because of constant
i night and day attack by our large
bombers.
Here’s Fun
Every Saturday night you can enjoy an
evening of fun and entertainment at the
Moose Hall. The outstanding tunes of the
season are presented by Marie Hetrick
and her all-gtrl orchestra. Dancing 9:30
'til.
Admission 55c Per Person
THE BORGER DAILY HERALD
Published at 205 North Main Street, Borger, Texas, every evening
except Saturday, and on Sunday morning by Panhandle Publishing
Company, Ins.—Publishers.
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cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise.
Suggestions Made
To Mainiain The
Health Of Youth
AUSTIN, July 2—{A’)— The
state department of health today
took formal cognizance of the re-
cent increa: ed incidence of infan-
tile paralysis in Texas with three
suggestions to health units and
parents:
1. Attention should be turned
to improvements in local snnita-
tation for measures which may
aid m the control of this disease;
2. Children should not be sub-
ject).''' t undue strain ti stress;
3. Early and eaieful therapy is
indicated fot the individual cases
In making tlie lit p m i. t'v
department nut< 1 that the n n
nor of transmission of this disease
is not definitely
There was an mfteased md.
donee during the week ending
June 26 in infantile parulj is
with 39 cases reported: dysentery
401; meningitis 12; pneumonia
1 272; typhus 26; whooping cough
566.
The seven year median ol in-
cidence for the corresponding
week in each instance was infan-
tile* paralysis 3; dysentery 137;
meningitis 1; penumonia 36; ty-
phus 12; whooping cough 274.
"The reported incidence of poli-
omyelitis (infantile paralysis) has
shown increases, particularly dur-
ing the past two or three weeks,”
-aid Dr. George W. Cox, state
health officer.
With the coming (f warm
weather, tins disease
intact.
It was that domestic branch
which had 111 11ii'ix■>■ I Ameni m
thinking probably in more way
than most Americans are likely
to realize off-hand because its
news, information, pud, urging,
did not always carry a label.
When you saw a poster showing
a German soldier staring out
above the slogan "lie's Watching
: You,” that was OWI. When you
saw Norman Rockwell’s "Four
1 Freedoms" reprinted on posters,
that was OWI
When you saw an advertise-
ment or heard a radio voice urg-
ing you to save your fats cr eat
the right food, that was OWI, too,
speaking for some other govern-
ment agency which wanted to get
an idea across.
It spread its news and inhuma-
tion through the press, radio, m<>.
tion pictures and in its 12 months
of life set up 58 regional and
branch offices in 43 states.
It made some admitted errors,
! had internal explosions, was ac-
I oust'd ol trying to fore all gov-
ernment news through an OWI
sieve, got many a rap. Davis fin-
ally did rapping of his own.
A newspaperman himself once,
ho accused Washington newspa-
permen of playing up administra-
1 tion bickering at the expense of
I war production news although all
production n e w s comes only j
through OWI.
When Davis asked congress for j
8 million dollars to keep his do-
mestic branch in full bloom, the
house said no funds at all, the
senate said only $3,500,000.
Last night conferees of both
houses agreed to make it only
$2,750,000. The overseas branch
was docketed for 24 million dol-
lars, enough to keep going.
No matter what happens now
in congress, OWI’s domestic
branch can get no more than that
senate $3,500,000, may get less.
Because he knew it. Davis yoster-
day ordered the branch and re 1
gional offices to close by July
15.
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shows an increased incidence."
Earlier in the week, the health
department emphasized that there
no need for alarm as the situ-
d.oa now stands.
London—Big new American,
Canadian troop contingents reach
!.'• i it.iin v. it hoot a loss in two
months.
Russia—Soviet warplanes ham-
mer Germans on both sides of
Kerch strait, Moscow observers
forecast Russian drive to blast
Nazis from last foothold in Cau-
casus.
China—Chinese report Japa-
nese lost 55,870 troops in two-
rnonth campaign on upper Yang-
tze river front.
In the Solomons campaign, Ad-
mit al Halsey's headquarters an-
nounced that U. S. Marines cap-
tured Viru harbor on the main
island of New Georgia after light-
ing their way through a jungle
against "medium” Japanese re-
sistance.
The entire operation in the
Rendeva-Neu Georgia sector was
described officially as “succes-
t'ul" and "proceeding according
to plan." “Four forces are well
established,” it was announced.
With the Japanese apparently
wary of risking their warships
in a show-down battle, big A-
merican Liberator bombers
heaped new punishment en the
enemy's air strength by drop-
ping 22 ten? of explosives on
airdromes at Rabaul, New Bri-
tain. In two days, 45 tons of
bombs have been dropped on
the enemy's three airdromes
there.
Rabaul is the main Japanese
base m the New Guinea-Solomons
theater and ma> be the major ob-
jective in the developing Allied
offensice. It lies 450 miles north-
east of Salamaua.
Waxes of Allied attack planes
and bombers also raked Japanese
forces in the Salamaua area in
support of American ground
troop:, machine-gunning enemy
troops and installations.
WASHINGTON, July 2 (P).—
Declaring it to be “an inflation
bill," which would sot the soldier,
wc rker, and unorganized consum-
er "at war with the farmer,”
President Roosevelt vetoed today
a bill which would extend the
life of the commodity credit cor-
poration and also junk the ad-
ministration's plan to whittle
■ down food prices by subsidizing
processors.
Tn one of tho most acid moss-
agge> he ever transmitted to Con-
gress, the chief executive said
that tDo measure was nut one to
continue the CCC but to "ham-
string” it.
! "It places new and unwarrant-
1 ed restrictions on the use of its
funds,” he asserted, "and on the
powers heretofore given to the
administration to stabilize the
cost oi living. These restrictions
would prevent our giving the far-
mers the assistance they need in
carrying out our new food pro-
duction programs, . . . They would
make it impossible for us to stop
the rising cost of living.
"As the measure now stands,
I this is an inflation bill, a high
curst of living bill, a food short-
age bill," he said in his veto mess-
age to Congress.
In his lengthy and critical
message, Mr, Roosevelt said
thal he had tried to translate
a part of the bill "into common
sense English" and frankly did
net knew what it meant. He
said reputable lawyers had ad-
vised that one section nullified
another.
canopy
fighters were announce
today as successes in the
as yet young Pacific offen-
sive.
Never before ill this war has
this ana witnessed such coordi-
nated blows of power, speed and
surprise struck by the navy,
ground troops and airplanes un-
der the supreme command ol Gen.
Douglas MacArthur.
In the two sectors of action,
New Guinea and the Solomons,
the most immediate progress was
reported for the eastern arm <>1
the two-pronged drive.
Today's communique disclosed j
that the United States tones ;
which landed Wednesday on Ren- :
dova Island hud destroyed the
small Japanese garrison there by |
midday and within two hours at- ,
tei debarking Irom barges were :
11ring shore batteries at the Mun
da air base five miles away.
Seizure of the only harbor in j
the New Georgia sector, Viru, 30
miles from Muda, also was an-
nounced. Hard lighting preceded
capture.
The Japanese attested con-
cern for this new menace pos-
ed net only at Munda but at
air bases in the northern Solo-
mens and at Rabaul, New Bri-
tain, by pouring medium bomb-
ers, dive bombers, torpedo
planes and fighters at the land-
ing parties and at Allied ship-
ping.
"Latest advices do not indicate
the total number involved in the
action but 101 enemy planes were
destroyed in the air combat and
by anti-aircralt lire," the com-
munique said.
"Seventeen of our planes are
Allied casualties t date n the
b a mom. i lUtion. wire said
by a spokesman for General Mac-
Arthur to be light.
In heavy support of the Solo- ;
units and planes blasted the ene-
mons cperatiens, Allied naval
my air bases at Vila and Munda
while other surface craft moved
even further up the Solomon
chain t" Hit the Japanese in the :
On New Guinea near Salamaua,
lighting was reported without a
clear indication of the progress.
Amem an I'urn which landed .it
Nassau Bay, 12 miles down the
l,wist ft'tn Salamaua, alter being
tossed about in the treacherous
reefs so ci mpletoly surprised the
enemy that they did not lose a
man getting ashore.
Australian patrols in the Sala-
maua area were reported to be
seeking a junction from a point
inland with the Americans on
the beach, twelve miles south ot
Salamaua beach.
Continuously striving to pin to
the ground the enemy’s potent
air strength at Rabaul, New Mi i-
tam, Allied Liberators sent 22
tons of bombs down on its three
airdromes Thursday, following
up an attack Wednesday in which
. a 'iis w ci e i u opped.
Swarms d Boston attack planes
and Mitchell medium bombers
likewise afford effective support
f( r the Salamaua invaders, ma-
chine-gunning enemy installations
and troops.
ARMY NAVY
PBY—Catalina
CONSOLIDATED PATROL
Twin engine, parasol-wing am-
ph.h. n with square wing tips, re-
ha d.iig h> .o , win be fit-
ten w ith wing floats. The slow but
•turdy Catalina is the backbone of
da Navy air patrol fleet, has
sei ved in China Sea, and dive-
bombed Jap slops in the Aleutians
n one occasion Grew of 7, car-
le- 15,000 lbs load, mounts six
50-i al machine guns. Flies 195
m p h , with 4000 mi. range and
vi r 15,000 ft. ceding. Army vcr»
ii.'.’i UA-10 used for transport*
DAVIS & SMITH
ROOFERS
Expert Workmanship.
Quality Materials.
Every Job Guaranteed.
Estimates cheerfully given.
PHONE 34
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(Continued on PAGE FOUR)
been attacked by American fliers
on previous occasions, was de-
scribed by a naval spokesman as
a native village about three to
live miles east of Munda airfield.
Vila, which is several miles t >
the northwest ot Munda and on
Kolombangara rather than New
Georgia island, is one of the ko\
positions in the Munda area—a
port village as well as a defensive
base
Pressed wood is being used to
make refrigerators, saving more
than 100 pounds »T steel per unit
A throe 1 h hummingbird flap
normally jt.< wings 200 time: a second.
Huber Golf
Tourney
Ju ly 4th.
Seme of the best professional
golfers of the nation will be seen
in action here Sunday, July 4,
when the Huber Golf club stages
an exhibition among five out-
standing golf professionals.
The play to start at 2 n.m. will
have Rod Munday, formerly one
of the nations better known pro-
fessionals and at present a mem-
ber of the armed services, top-
ping the list of exhibitionists.
Munday, formerly ot White
Plains, N. Y.. and later T Toledo,
Ohio, is now stationed at Camp
lfowze, Gainsville.
Other professionals scheduled
to take part in the exhibition are
Todd Houck, Huber golf pro;
Henry C< tello, Hobbs, N. M.:
Charlie Akey, Lubbock; and
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*‘Yes, I’m alraid there’s no denyin’ it, Judge
...jeeps and trucks and other kinds of motor-
ized equipment have taken the place of the
good old hotse in modern warfare."
"It’s true of lots of things in this war,
Eben. Every day we hear of new tactics and
requirements and new uses of products. For
instance, take the alcohol that is used for
war purposes. In World War 1, this vitally
needed product was used mostly in making
smokeless powder, chemical warfare materi-
als and medical supplies. Today it must do
far more... it must provide the base for such
indispensable products as synthetic rubber,
shatterproof glass, lacquers, plastics and
many other of our requirements so essential
to victory.
“As a result hundreds of millions of gal-
lons are required every year., .half of which
is being produced by the beverage distilling
industry. Bet you didn’t know that, Eben ”
"As a matter of fact, I didn’t, Judge.
That s a mighty important war contribution
that had escaped me completely.”
Conftrtnet of Alcoholic tonnage Industiiei, inc.*
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