Abilene Reporter News (Newspaper) - May 13, 1942, Abilene, Texas MORE WAR IN WEST Abilene 3l^porter-i^vn^ OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT MORE WAR ' VOL. NO. 327. TEXAS WEDNESDAY MAY 13, 1942 Frena World 8errle PreM FIVE FOR KERCH PENINSULA Tallies First Time in St. the Associated creeping closer to the shores of the western hemisphere from Canada to have violated waters impregnable in the last world first submarine attack ever reported in the St. river between the United States and Canada was announced Tuesday by the Canadian navy who revealed that a freighter had been sunk by the who have feared such prepared to put into effect special combative plans prepared long survivors of a British ship revealed that a submarine attacked them within a mile and a half of an Atlantic the explosion bringing hundreds of people to of at least two ships sunk in the Gulf of Mexico that this body of harboring vital supply and industrial been dared by the axis undersea Charles E. in charge of the navy's the house naval committee in Washington that there was great deal of submarine activity off the coast of Florida and some in the Gulf of Mexico Mexican navy ministry also took notice of the German operations in gulf waters by their merchant ships to keep lights burning at night and the Mexican flag flying by One Mexican newspaper reported that a tanker naet a German submarine in the gulf and the nazi ship with iis flag and the salute was the Associated people of east gassed up in one final splurge Tuesday amid scenes and comment like those which preceded that last great period of citizens went for the greater portion of 17 eastern states from Maine to Florida motorists trooped to their local rationing boards to make their pleas for gasoline cards which would entitle each to a trickle or a tankful according to his legitimate plagued by earlier tire rationing and the problems of wartime just gave up in disgust and put their jalopies on stilts for the the opera said she had done just that with her Rolls Royce and all she needed was an gallons a get her to the railroad station at in her station Gene the singing decided the minimum was all he needed so long as the government start rationing his Eleanor who gets found the gasoline rationing not too great a She said in Boston she has found she could still ride a bicycle and that she could attend to many tasks about her Hyde Park residence on She added that while the family beach wagon was all other Roosevelt cars are restricted by Favors Pay to Passenger Saves 10 Mnt army naved his own and 10 other lives in the of n Airlines transport which fatally injured three airline the plane smashed inro half a mile beyond tlie air and burst into as it came to Sgt. Carl Dinlus of Miles City battered through a while Alfred Allen of and two civilian at the planes jammed the was able to open the Lieutenant Allen pushed through and with Lous Hallan of helped all the Given May 12A big raise for buck privates and apprentice seamen to bring their pay to a month was voted tentatively by the house today but final passage of measure increasing the pay of the fighting forces was put off until passed by the the would have raised the pay of private and seamen to a month but the house 102 to 40. an amendment by Rep. Rankin boosting this figure by The amendment also provided that first class privates and class seamen receive a more than the senate privates now receive a month to staru after four months and apprentice seamen get Tlie present pay of first class | privates and second class seamen NO BIKE taking is off ihe you will ' roll call - ( notice at the left pretty young While the house changes are or BELIEVED DEAD IN EXPLOSION IN COAL W. May 12</P> A terrific blast deep in a big West Virginia coal mine apparently took 53 lives with bodies recovered and the word of rescue workers there was almost no hope for 50 others trapped men escaped death when they fled from the rescuers coming out of the mine reported the operation badly shattered near tlie center of the explosion and said it might be many hours before more bodies were brought E. U. S. bureau of mines acted as spokesman Christopher Coal that there were 110 in the pit the disaster occurred about 2:30 p. three whose bodies were recovered members of four mine rescue hi shifts at tlie task of clearing away coal and found near the main best estimates were that one entire section of the mechanized one of the biggest producers in northern West was bodies removed were identified 23. address about 35. of 28. of is so delightful in A former she has a studio stock to 9 roll call vote tomor members of the military committee indicated they would not seek one on the theory that the members would not record themselves as op- ' posed to the expressed they could restore the senate figures later when ' the goes to Forces Taking Part In Miry 13 fighting raged through the night In the Kerch peninsula with the Germans throwing masses of tanks and infantry formidable Russian forces defending that narrow gateway to the front line dispatches reported early army troops under who recaptured the port of Kerch from the Germans last De- were battling the onslaughts in the eastern Crimean struggle but results of the fighting were not learned here Informants here the outcome be apparent In a few CLAIMS AXIS Rome radio broadcast i dispatch from an Italian news on the eastern front which claimed successes by troops on the Kerch This account said the were positions from which they launched their fighting on the peninsula resumed yesterday In a renewal of the giant struggle Ih which the already announced officially the destruction of 102 nazi planes in two a Monday night lull In the nazi drive toward the Caucasus oil wells the narrow Kerch the Soviet's midnight communique May 12 on the Kerch peninsula severe battles took place with the other sectors of the front there were no significant NAZIS DRUBBED IN supplement to this communique said that reinforced German units on front northwest of Moscow beaten off by Soviet troops with heavy casualties to the troops commanded by Comrade the into a bog and almost completely annihilated the communique said in describing that RESUMED IN RUSSIAN on the southern Russian front between Kharkov and Kerch where spring has firmed the has been as preliminary to a German offensive The primary object was to conquer open the way to and attempt to flank the British in The first drive but last night it was reported bitter fighting had been On the northern front the Russians said they expected a new drive on Too stage for parade the Sea Battle Awaits Jap May 12 to postpone an invasion at- because of damages of the the | for government payments to deed by the allies In the Coral sea the invasion force was believed tonight to be lurking In Island hideouts north of waiting for seaborne plane fleet particularly the was believed comparatively observers added that It probably was well dispersed but ready to reassemble organizations from county While The major goal of the the Abilene colleges and the preside at this mornings break IS to take care of privates and i schools marched for a good service men in the i cause last and SCHOOLS PRESENT SHOW it also would benefit of- cheered as the 1942 by increasing their rental funds campaign was subsistence It ed with a downtown rally the marine i The general campaign will coast and geodetic gin with a kickoff breakfast public health service and at the North Fifth street USO club nursing provides base pay boosts for men up to and including lieutenants and the in- being j e. W. said | in pay and a small boost he confident an In- public And floats and KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Churchill prediction that end the m seems verified 48 hours chairman May said the military committee would follow up blood-drenched i the pay boost with the 7:30 before the field for the drir county Last to si I the a street I ed an early The Hardin - Simmons university Cowboy band and with coeds and Texas on the white the McMurry college the Abilene Christian college and rat band and Kitten and Acreage ' pendents of fighting Some door to t h e I committee members said the two bills together would remove many first German ' of the objections against drafting blows have married men with That | Federal Security Administrator cates also the Paul V. endorsing this o f told the committee that many allied ob- i financial care of that it ' pendents was federal failing oil re- 1 which * He that more liberal dominate ' duction of men with families may Hitler strategy | be and hold the fight for the to the May 12 feint or the actual beginning of | The German new German attempt to sweep in France arrogated to and and the USO lets the the Rostov there today vast power over French labor i boys know the people at home are no question that the j and coincident reports were behind Black of red Herman 1 OF IN on the whole 2.000 mile front is i mich mopt with Chairman taking a and New Mexico will lo defend that mign meet Assume Rule Over French night he was confident tensive campaign of a few May 12(AP)The Japanese who have The bau of 102 nazi planes Burma surged back and forth curred Sunday and and in desperate battle with the Chinese along the tortuous of them were i ma road in western Yunnan province todav and met another drive toward in the nazi sprinc offensive in the area on then the unforeseen resurgence of the Chinese and afternoon tersely said furious stand of the British both appeared to be either thai increasing threat to infantrymen were holding their dia as the Japanese quickly after a Monday night lull up reinforcements for in that vital main on infantrymen said to and western forks of have broken the first German lunge ' ana western to have sent the nazis to their original in early In the but one sector of the 12 - mile that the main force column which had of the destroyed i penetrated Yunnan through Chinas | planes were identified as be- | been driven of ' Company B. 10th battalion Texas Defense subscribed to the USO funds campaign at the Tuesday night drill Their attention called to the start of the campaign today by Capt. B. R. their company the 52 men present quickly made un the cash Watson and T. A. Hackney the with the AHS Eagle doing their popular manual of arms directed by Raymond T. Before the federal plaza Director Marion B. McClure of HSU led the massed bands in a group of popular and patriotic to Uie 77th nazi air Red airmen swooped down oi nazi airdromes camouflaged u the Interior of the Black on the Burma but a later communique acknowledged that the Japanese had brought up reinforcements and were renewing Red Fleet said that German planes attempting to raid an unnamed southern front line presumably apparently was In the region between Chefang and 25 and 55 miles inside respectively There the Chinese had heavily Army Corps Measure to their oversubscribe the an open air rally last following a Ed of urged the and radio to creating the USO and help all the in volunteers ui m R. district at- i capacity with the troops at and the father of six sons ann abroad awaits only in praised the high morale j s signature the finest army in the 12'i- women's 150.000 and that 20 planes brought by Red ground 6 force May 12 representing the three states of weekend for Washing ton to present a West Texas ber of commerce plan for of the 1942 cotton to meet emergency war needs for increased cotton committee is composed of J. Thomas Davis of president of the D. A. Bandeen of business George Simmons of cotton farmer and industrial and an Oklahoma yet to be committee was appointed by an executive committee of the Tri-State Cotton Acreage formed at a mass meeting here today of representatives from West eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma to discuss the acreage reallotment plan of the West Texas towns of three Interested states were In the executive committee of the Tri-State Cotton Acreage as at the arc Hay radio commentators hint at a nazi turning movement impending on the Military lookers in Bern that Hitler has mustered 2,000.000 men for a effort to break through into the discounts that Churchill himself that Russian and allied staffs still lacked twy days ago any positive Information as to where and the test would come have Tiot so far seen any of those great concentrations of German masses which usually precede their large scale he may have been successfully concealed or may not yet have been launched But it Is now the tenth of and the davs are WEATHER FAVORABLE Weather conditions In the Crimea and northward tb Kharkov have been suitable for two weeks or more for By every It Is along 81AIPSON, Pg. 12, Col. 1 involving relations with the United States and ber future course in the Otto von military commandant of occupied promulgated the decree by which authority to Increase hours in French plants was taken Into nazi hands under which all employers were ordered to turn in the names of as a result of these longer would be for other la The was passed today by the on a 38 to 27. introduced by Rep Edith Nourse Rogers the same was approved bv the 249 to last Smashes Bogus War Stomp May Smashing of the first attempt to sell thr American people bogus war savings stamps was claimed by secret service today with the arrest of six men on charges of conspiring to counterfeit stamps worth had they been James J. them back 30 miles from their deepest near in the arrival of reinforcements apparently this Japanese rear guard reasserted as an advance Chinese spokesman that 'The enemy will not be to rest or consolidate his positions praised the recent work of the AVG and RAF and expressed that this essential support would continue Wrecks May 12-k;p>Red Cross workers labored today to rehabilitate citizens left homeless by a tornado and hailstorm which slashed the village ot In San Jacinto early this damage was estimated at No one several persons Hits Highest in Eight 93-degrce reading lopped by a single degree the previous seasonal heat high of 92. recorded on May 2. Lower temperatures are In prospect for the city with the official nicht forecast calling for cooler tothe that everyone in the audience had friends in the that most of them had that not many knew where their boys a USO knows where they Is serving them In their off i Abilene s temperature reading of duty degrees at 4 p. to is the spirit I recorded here wars said Dr R N i Green and veteran of the first world men must be trained to light by army and navy but civilians can play a major role in the will to We can make a valuable civilian contribution through the to give the boys a of and it Ls a program we can all get Dr Richardson of a major gifts Wilmer Sims said the advance response to the drive quota is every indication the campaign will go over of the New York division of said that sales of the alleged counterfeit manufactured in 25-cent not yet been started but that he had no doubt the ring them on a Chinese forces which had been in central Burma und which last week recaptured were continuing to exert pressure on the Japanese B. R. campaign with Wally and Tom ' eral sessions Selected to Try Former May 12li-)Sc-lection of a Jury to the fate of Madeline 28-year-old Ell Shonbrun and John D. charged with the strangulation slaying of Mrs. Susan Flora was completed today before Judge Jonah J. Goldstein in BUT ITS GREAT TO GET UP IN THE Mr. Blokley of 1542 Merchant St. response to the following Wont porty finding this tire the Wont Ads ond notified the advertiser early say it's lost until you look for it with a Want Chungking spokesman said the Chinese now were seeking to the Japanese and the Japanese were trying to encircle the showed the Japanese In an nrc linking and Bhamo upper Burma with Wanting In another force extended from Lollem in Burma to and a third Japanese line from eastward toward on the Salween river near the lines interlock with these invader so that it possible for either opponent to encircle the other at several Admits Killing N. May 12ov>State Highway Patrolman H. W. Rathrock said tonight that George Clyde Hengy 16. of Corpus admitted that he shot his mother to death last but did not know why he did it. body was found last Friday in the family home on fashionable Ocean drive in Corpus The youth and hL 3-year-old Zina boy and girl were Involved traffic accident near here J. B. Rainey and wore brought to Roanoke Rapids by Patrolman was placed in Jail and the little girl was cared for at the home of William Christl officers said the youth was charged with Juvenile Tlie charge did not specify an official of a construction company working on a project at the naval air station at Corpus said tonight he was and relieved that tlie bov and his sister were said soon after the body of wife was found that the boy had been a patient in a Galveston Post Its Crest ot May 12 and railroad noting that Trinity river watera virtually have ceased during the past twelve expressed belief the of the flood would have been reached by s. or footer neur cooler In not MArm 8:2S*
