Abilene Reporter News (Newspaper) - April 21, 1942, Abilene, Texas PEARL WEST or with offense to friends or foes we sketch your world exactly as it PEARL NO. 305. TEXAS TUESDAY APRIL 21, 1942TEN World FIVE MEN SEE SOLUTION TO April 20(/HSolution within R few of the axis oil transportation problem for Texas was forecast today by a member of the state petroleum production regulatory Texas railroad commission member Just returned from a conference of slate oil regulatory authorities In told oil company representatives and operators attending a statewide will be some months before the oil business in Texas is back to normal and we ought to quit bickering about it In my the situation is not going to remain lad for Texas mentioning that rangement of pipe lines was under the commissioner asserted he believed appointment of MaJ. J. R Parten of Houston as director of transportation for the office of petroleum coordinator was the independent producers had received OPPOSES CONNALLY He added that he would testify before congressional including the than approve any federal measure which would mean bankruptcy for a large of independents and that he opposed Sen Tom Connally's L. Wide World War Analyst Coupled with the mystery of the origin of the American air bombers which Tokyo reported as having blasted Japanese cities is the significant Nipponese action in broadcasting the Tokyo broadcasts coincided with strong indications from Russia that Hitler had launched a widespread L. HITS RIVAL army resistance to They came also to independents he they would lead to federal Chairman Ernest O. Thompson reported nominations lor purchases of Texas crude during Mav totaled 1.563.287 a decline of 77.809 from Current actual production was estimated at 1.065.008 barrels a day as compared with the OPC of 1.160.623. operators that they had received requests for more crude than permitted under present allowable schedules and two company some Allied saw a Japanese thrust against | sia to match the German attack as the strategic Japan itself Is as open on all sides to air attack as Tokyo reports say has been It Is a reasonable deduction that Japanese war lords have no present intention of braking the flimsy truce with Russia to help Had they been so the bombing raids Tokyo and other Japanese would have been credited to British Take Burma April 20. infantry and British tanks teamed up in a bold counterattack to score their first offensive success in Burma by driving the Japanese from in the center of the ruined oil fields by a headlong it was announced tanks smashed through the jungle ahead of veteran Chinese infantry to erase the most dangerous Japanese penetration in and the RAF scoured the Arakan coast of west Burma looking for signs that the Japanese were fore- I attempting to employ the tactics of infiltration toward small the United Russian air bases in Siberia are less than half as far from as are any known American in the Pacific from which bombers could have off. Even air fields In the Philippines still in control are more distant than FOR INFORMATION aside from setting up a credible excuse for failing to go to Hitler's aid by attacking probably is fishing for It that production Japan delay grade lubricating oil crudes Case -ine Is north Burma port behind the British 200 miles of the the planes not only bombed airport and on the lower but also smashed barges and launches at and m Gwa 50 miles to the American Volunteer of against whom two other liquor charges are pending in county court and one contempt charge In 42d district was fined nnd costs by a county court jury Monday after he | the 26omUer'nor^^^^ of had entered a plea of guilty to was the first in which possessing beer for purpose of sale The conviction was third F I C AT FOR RAID STILL still a mystery from where came the planes Flying were Japanese cities for the first time in This map shows airline successfully defending their I to Tokyo from points where United bombers might have set either by Burma base by shooting doTO two air or JOINT attack at forces Gen. Harold Alexander ana troops der U. S. Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. O Rear on liquor law violation | 3tilwcll have cooperated in a single said County Attorney I Penalty for a third Planned some time the is a fine not less than attack probably was nor more than or a i tended to nip off the Alien Train Heads for it came from where off not exceeding four pointed complaint to which plead guilty was lodged against which threatens to turn their line from the main blow was delivered from the Returns today April 20A' of enemy aliens brought 10 the United State; which a ber of Latin American loaded onto a 19-car train and left tonight for an camp in which j to lure the that a formidable American naval task force has punctured the Japanese island screen undetected and stabbed deep into waters where the main strength the current of the Japanese fleet is certainly The escort for the riers almost certainly would j dude not only and i but operation could be another hit-and-run task force It might also represent an attempt Japanese jury resulted other charges have been against since and remain on trial docket term of the I near in i a Chungking i the recapture said several thousand British troops trapped to tiie south had been British operated in the ] into action to take advantage of arrived today with 525 j the fact that Important Japanese reported fo include many and ese ond German diplomatic and i have been reported ed to the Indian RISE CONTINUES AS 34-YEAR HIGH the Santa Fe to the Cotton three-forked Trinity river i and the Rock Island to Fort Worth Monday nicht to its highest were under Katy was spreading its I ing traffic over Texas Pacific waters over a wide area in | tracks to Fort three lives have force in that tinti oil * * April 20 Besieged Corregidor struck back furious artillery onslaught loosed thus far by the Japanese in their attempt to batter the Philippines stronghold into new on the abandoned Bataan peninsula and on the south shore of and great damage inflicted on farmlands and Red Cross summoned to care for hundreds of I forced out of their homes 125 in the Worth water mark was recorded at the Dallas weather at 9 p. m reading was 44.3 fret and still though at a slower At hour tJie rise was of a foot per and the weather bureau estimated that the crest would not arrive for about 20 Red Cross estimated that of 1.000 families would need flood was a result of torrential rains poured overnight Houston meanwhile a fairly heavy rain fell At Beaumont the fall was over two inches and it was raining at Vivian drowned near Dallas after her husband could no longer lier they clung to a The body of Charlie Collin county was found in a tree near his home after his barn 42d court today on a liquor hoard complaint charging him with of court for allegedly violating a permanent injunction granted by the court which restrained him from possessing intoxicating for purpose of other persons were for intoxicating for purpose of and for driving while intoxicated in opening session of the current court exception of Lizzie a negress charged with possessing beer for purpose of all entered guilty Tlie former was convicted by jurors after 10 and fined and a total of Hays was sentenced to jail for 30 Moreland fined 5122.80. and John Alvarez and Margarito were given 10 days m jail each on liquor Bejil was assessed an additional 10 days for driving while and his license pended six Louis Ferrell and Jack Charles Newman were lined with driving privileges revoked six months on like AT persons were for at Fort Worth after two surged down Marine creek and marooned scores in second floors of buildings for four 8.45-inch overnight deluge was the heaviest of drained by the Elm I Downpours ranging East forks of the Trinity and TO 60 FEET Stout levees along the Dallas banks ran take up to 60 feet of the weather bureau rise was the latest development In a series of county floods which since Monday morning have taken three lives and driven hundreds frin Damage was tentatively put at several millions of FARMER DROWNS body of C. L. 32. a Rockwall was found caught against a fence near Highway 67 between Garland and Apparently he had abandoned his car to nc the Dallas weather bureau said that the would hardly continue at its present rate for long. Levees around Rockwall on the cast fork were the bureau and Highway 80 there under warnings have been broadcast today to lowlands residents along the river to take care of their livestock and their removable railroad lines from Dallas temporarily The north from fell at other north Texas The Red river was Bonham reporting that it was washing away farm Calls for Pooling of Harry L. just back from a mission to London with General George C. emphasized today the need for effective pooling of United Nations shipping to speed the war of the problems he discussed In he was the of the use of the whole question of supplies from our two countries to various United particularly supplies to because the oil fields already were hundred Japanese were and Chinese losses were placed at 100 by quarters said the counterattack had won a breathing for the wearied and defenders faced by about five Japanese Fliers Bag 40 Jap STATES ARMY April 20 of 40 grounded Japanese planes ni two weekend raids on Rabaul was reported today as Gen. Douglas and Prime Minister John Curtin discussed operations of the Pacific described the barrage as intense and the first time since the loss of enemy dive bombers joined high flying warplanes in the onslaught on the last remaining major center of resistance to the Japanese of Corregidor and the lesser Manila bay forts struck effective blows in Three additional enemy batteries were silenced and one bomber was giving a reply to periodic Tokyo assertions that the defenses had been a distant area of the on the southern Island of one of the isolated forces which have been successfully harassing the invaders scored agaui by ambushing two busloads of Japanese troops near casualties were Gen. Jonathan M. report of the opening of tije latest phase of the siege was in a morning communique which failed to disclose how the bay fortifications withstood the Military officials said the artillery hammering unquestionably was the most intense experienced thus Hills Above Pearl TROOPS HEW LINE OF DEFENSE IN WENDELL which hot THE M O U T A I N more lonely IN April 20 toughest soldiers in ihc have hacKed a potent defense line out of and hills high above Pearl troops of mountain have to be tough just to Mich hidden more than detachment .so road and trail from are certainly Japs Still the apparently still trying to learn how Tokyo and Three other of their greatest cities were bombed suggested Monday that planes came three United States aircraft and then sped on to havens in raising this imperial Identified the planes as North American which s army bombers to have been launched from the short flight decks of REACH to support the Japanese the Reuters news agency in London quoted in Chungking as saying United States planes which raided Japan had arrived safely at their Chungking had said previously the raids were not launched from Skipper One of Four Given April 20-(/P) An American submarine homeward bound from patrol deep into Japanese waters recently torpedoed an enemy undersea the navy reported today in a fresh accounting of some of the daring raids which U. S. subs nows are constantly carrying official report said the Japanese submarine was but naval experts speculated that it may been Since three torpedoes were fired at one must have struck home In order to damage it and no submarine ordinarily can withstand such an U. S. submersible was commanded by Lieut. Elton W. 38. of N. and it was announced that he had been awarded the navy Three other sub skippers also were decorated for successful the four undersea craft had sunk six enemy ships totalling 45,000 Counting the Japanese submarine which Grenfell torpedoed as the announced total toll of U. S. subs carrying on the war of attrition against Japan now stands at 36 ships 12 probably and II officers awarded Navy crosses in addition to Grenfell were Lieutenant Commanders David C. 38. of San Lewis S. 40. of and Stanley p. 38, Fort already had met with some success in his having sunk a 5,000-ton when was advised while enroute back to his that Japanese submarines were in his changed course to intercept them and soon afterward took his boat up to periscope depth to have a look There dead ahead and presumably only a few hundred yards off was a Japanese To have been spotted so quickly it must have been cruising on the Grenfell loosed three torpedoes and got It may be that the Japanese never knew what hit Holding Dairy Day April 20(Spll Members of the agriculture and Washington or other capitals of ' committee of the United Nr tions were silent as 8cr Board of Community Japanese accounts continued cooperating with contradict and to John A. Barton and J. M. imply that Japanese and high school morale had In ad- i agriculture in to the damage In i 2.500 captain feet plateaus ideal for para- i u was almost troops and into which and down that whole enemy battalions could dis- main brush and There hacked into solid imperial headquarters communique Monday unit centering three aircraft carriers appeared April 18 at a distant point off the eastern coast of Japan but fearing Japanese fled without approaching Japanese the same day 10 enemy aircraft of the North American type appeared over 3 and other flying in 'The hostile planes which of j being downed to have escaped to caused was MATHEMATICS MEALS within hiking distance coming through the trees to i have time for but two I jy meals a the last at 2;30 p. m. an annual Dairy Day In the first show scheduled for to Honor Butch O'Hare April 20(iPl Lieutenant Edward who shot down six Japanese bombers in an air battle off the Gilbert will be decorated by President Roosevelt Postpones Labor Debate April 20 senate debate on the explosive labor issue today to await a to and a accounts had said nine ' subsequent radio talk next And the whole served by pack is connected by precipitous trails iron which many a mule has plunged tc its now are at a detachment i way down in a FLOODS CAUSE HEAVY DAMAGE IN STOCKYARD six hours caused by torrential arose from Marine creek in North Fort Worth to devastate a 20-bIock area in the heart of the stockyard There were no lives lost hut the toll in livestock and property damage is estimated at well over a million This photo was made on East mule for the fter an exchange of pleasantries with one doughty we chose to then on we met Corp. George W. Walters of Indian life was Just one weary foot after was up on the trail the Misses Mary and Ida to the world m Uie most lecherous and eternally damned animals that ever climbed a caught up with him just as his climactic blast of vocal disdain seemed to lift animals and their of lumber clear off the trail This effort put them over the top of the hump and the was Divans Are on Way April 20i/DThe next thing be sacrificing for may be a springy seated chair or meeting here gave warning of that Steel for springs now goes intc more lethal objects than chair they When the present supply of furniture manufacturers will offer divans and chairs with a wooden base padded with the planes which raided Tok Kobe and Nagoya were shot Tlic Japanese said another was forced down in the of central Japan and its crew of five there were only 10 as Japanese communique would account for all of and leave to to the same communique as Tokyo three carriers were they would be to launch many more tlian 10 said the damage was but Berlin broadcast the Japanese government was making grants to rebuild factories and structures in the Tokyo Committeemen Drop April 20The Republican national committee tonight demanded that the nation an uncompromising war until with victory Is attained and declared that the United States should assist m bringing about cooperation among the countries of the world in the resolution embodying those sentiments was approved by the committee at its first meeting since Pearl and Wendell the 1940 commented quickly that it represented an of nicht by President Roosevelt national policies for combating the rising cost of Job at was begun yesterday at Camp on a building contract which calls for four Construction is the The contract calLs for two motor repair one in the medical replacement center training the other in the Eighth corps area service command detachment of the two will be the 240 feet long and 78 feet It is being built at the northeast corner of the The other 61 by 90 is at the west end of the camp parade ground and opposite the area occupied by tlie corps area command other two buildings be used for dental One is being built and adjoining tlie American Red Cross building near the camp guest house and service The other wiU be north of 45th Infantry division headquarters in the temporary tent also has a for installation of additional water pumps at
