Abilene Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - July 2, 1942, Abilene, Texas BUY WAR FIRST IN WEST TEXAS Abilene Reporter WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH TOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT BUT MORNING NO 277 A TWAS ABILENE TEXAS THURSDAY MORNING JULY 2 PAGES rm m PRICE FIVE CENTS GERMANS CLAIM SEVASTOPOL Waterfront Ablaze Says Berlin Radio By thr Associated Frets BERLIN From German July capture of Dan's Deti to Lee Intrigues Voters Bj Associated Press Texas voters following the hot U S senate campaign were Itching Wednesday for an answer to one question What will happen In Lubbock Thursday Tire of the leading dates Sen IV Lee O'DanieL reflection Moody Austin attorney have dates She HUtb plains capital Moody challenged to Debate on of he O'Daniel has not yet replied Moody announced he would cam Army Plane's Crash Kills 21 WELCH W Va July State police reported tonight the bodies of 21 men liad been ed from the wreckage of a bound arm which ed In flames afler losing a wing a 500 feel Trooper Tom Harrison said that 10 more bodies were found late this afternoon and that a search of the mountains in the area was bring conducted to ascertain If any others had been aboard the craft All of the bodies were brought here tonight to await identification by army officers Eight stale troopers were i ing the plane Identified by I ings as a former American j which crashed Her In the day in a victory garden i plot owned by miners in village of Premier three miles from Welch Lieut F B Crawford said the I troopers remain on guard until soldiers arrived from an army i post in Ohio 1 WPA Lops off Nine District Offices out his speaking engagements there over a radio station at p m and i public appearance p m There was still no announcement late Wednesday in Lubbock from as to the hour he wir speak At Vernon meanwhile Moody Wednesday issued another lenge to for a debate in else he tor wants to meet me Moody told the Vernon crowd that if I am elected to the senate I will try lo keep the office on tie highest plane of statesmanship pos sible PLEDGES ALL TO WAR EFFORT I do know there U a war To successful prosecution of that wai in sight of God and man I my life my soul my all At ed his on what he termet labor and declare that he was the only one of senators with courage enough t arise on the floor and try to something about strikes O'Daniel campaigning Jointly with Hal Collins gubernatorial spoke In Big Spring Wednesday night James V Allred another candidate was the principal speaker nt war bonds and stamps rally Wednesday He stressed the importance of subscribing to the purchase of bonds and stamps and America today is fighting for its very existence The war is not ROing lo he over tomorrow or next week or next even next we can believe the experts Moody's Campaign Expenses Highest BOTTOMS TO THE SE the leadership f Lieut Comdr W L Hamilton of dive bomber Squadron of the Lexington in the Coral ea held their tint shore reunion t Corona do Calif and toasted up to the Japanese Nary her are credited with many bomb Its on the Nipponese carrier iku to Lieut Comdr W L Hamilton Lieut J H Newell Atlanta Ga Lieut Ralph W Evanston 111 Lieut F lenry Butler Mo Lieut Jack Sheridan Cal Lieut H I Bass Beaumont Tex Lieut G 0 Wood Gait Cal R B Buchan Chicago 111 Lieut C B Connally Tex Lieut P J Knapp Mason Lieut Robert P Wish Lieut 1 J Ball El Paso Tex Ens A J Behl Monroe Center Lieut A A Simmons Portales N M Lieut S W Clarke Long Beach Cal Ens Don Wakeham Anaheim Cat Ens J A Riley N D Lieut W Miss Era Toledo O Lieut H B Shorik W H Downs Ku Lieut R H Minn Simpson's WAR Views British Armored Forces Making Stand in Egypt By KIRKE t SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst A rampart of empire Infinitely great Soviet stronghold hailed by the German besiegers as the most pow- land and sea fortress in the world was announced night by the German high command after a siege ol ly a month The entire waterfront at Sevastopol Is In from a lire started by bombers the German radio said Docks were reported blazing ly and the harbor region was ob- by smoke A special communique broadcast from the eastern front ters of Adolf Hitler wilh the tomary fanfare of trumpets ed that he Soviet port which in effect has been under siege since last Nov 7 fell to German and Rumanian troops at noon today The number of prisoners taken and the amount of war material seized can not yet be NAVY COMPLETES GREAT BASE IN NORTH IRELAND the special communique added The remnants of the beaten iet Sevastopol have fled lo the peninsula Pressed e waves than lost Singapore was within the close to the same fate as esl UNITED STATES NAVAL BASE Londonderry Northern Ireland Thursday July U S navy has completed a giant ating base here guarding the em approaches of Britain In critical battle ot the Atlantic Londonderry In this war has be- come the counterpart of town now In neutral Eire which during the first world war was base for as many as 92 United States warships at one time The Londonderry base is designed to refit repair and supply ers ann other light craft on At- convoy duty It was com- missioned Feb 5 but Is Just now receiving Its finishing Job virtually completed seven months afler U 8 entry Into the already has lifted t great more vital to Britannia's rule of the 1 night closed down over the desert with an axis ar- mored spearhead admittedly in two days march of Alexandria that the crisis in Egypt was close war K burden of the convoy said Commodore Ross Stewart com- mander of the adjoining British naval establishment Actual construction of the big base was started last year with funds and more than Irish and American laborers under direction of American engineers headed by Commander Henry P Now hundreds of United States marines and bluejackets operate machine shops supply bases docks control rooms a hospital movies barber shops All thti Is spread over hundreds of acres security prevents relat ing details of the Intricate inech of the establishment but I Is ready to repair or rebuild any rom t typewriter to the big gest American destroyer ANTONIO July 1 Elimination of nine of the twelve offices of WPA In Texas in line with reduced tion for agency projects during the fiscal year was announced today by W P Drought stale tor Detailed reorganization plans arc expected lo be completed by July 15 District officers to be closed are at Marshall Laredo San Antonio Amarillo Lubbock San Waco Austin and H District offices will be ed at Dallas Fort Worth Houston it was announced and Commander Predicts Rocking Offensive PORT Mich July allied offensive In the not loo distant that will rock the enemy back on their heels was today by the com- manner ol ill-fated aircraft carrier Rear Admiral Frederick C Sherman AUSTIN July Candidate Dan Moody led list of democratic candidates In spending through June 25 expense accounts on file today in office of of State William J Lawson showed Reporting no contributions listed expenses of Sen W Lee reported butions of and expenses of including for Ing expenses The report of James V Allred candidate for the senate ated received including ey borrowed and disbursements o Gov R report cd expenses of including for radio time used and 025 01 contracted radio lime Con- to Stevenson's campaign totaled Hal H Collins another listed expenses of Including for newspaper advertising and ly and for traveling costs Collins reported he had received no contributions Alison Soldier Crash Victim MARCH Caiff July army bomber crashed and exploded on the top of low knoll near here today killing men The huge ex- with a roar heard for miles round the first reports were thai i load of bombs were detonated by he The army announced after a preliminary that the ship was on a training flight was not carrying bombs so far as was mown and that the explosions were caused by its gasoline tanks There were two separate sions The First Robert K Murphy 25 Twin Falls Ida the pilot Second Lieut Jack W Green 24 Kansas City Kans co-pilot Staff Charles H Davis 27 New Boston Ohio Staff Sgt Norman S Anderson 25 North Dakota Sgt John D Rice 25 Higbee Mo L ringing battle order to h I s Imperial troops reflected it He told them the battle was not over nor would it be Even though meager and conflicting ish and axis counts afford no pattern of the struggle by which to measure Ihr odds of tory or defeat that der has definite meaning It ranks the famous Haig order to British troops in France in the of a call for a sland against the kaiser's juggernaut Britons flood then In World War I as they now must stand in Egypt to save Alexandria That stand a quarter century ago in France proved no- only the mark the German war effort of that ray but the point at which can troops entered conflict to turn the scales finally In allied favor It pointed the way hly to Nov 11 and German der There are even In the more thoughtful of Italian and man appraisals of the situation In Egypt lhat the speed with which Rommel has raced eastward lo one tank attack all tut through the narrow Egyptian corridor could prove his undoing may hailed a trap for his foe Is re- axis analysis sec space they are facing The peninsula b i spit of land just outside ily of the Crimean peninsula CREDIT MANNSTEIN The of Sevastopol the Germans Col Oen Frits Erich von a Prussian who has been operations on the Crimea since last September when the German Col Gen Eugen Hitter was killed in action Hitler time to his custom handing out promotions ly upon announcement of the tories raised von to the rank of field marshal general said The high said the man and Rumanian troops com- manded by VOT were supported by Hie of Gen Baron von Richthofen a cousin of late World War ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen who is an expert on carrying by towed gliders Acknowledge German Advance MOSCOW Thursday July Russians officially axis troops had In advancing in fierce fighting for ol but German claims lhat the port had fallen were not here The defenders of huge met as many as 20 an assaults on a single position n their last-ditch and the of hundreds of enemy men ere left on the field the Soviets Stamford Awaits ing of Reunion July The colorful Texas Cowboy Reunion rodeo opens Thursday Founded In tumultuous de- Lightning Kills Rowena Youth CORPUS July Kenneth Dryer Jr 18 of Rowena was killed today when he was by lightning on a farm near Allied Bombers Roid Dutch Celebes ALLIED HEADQUARTERS tralia Thursday July lied bombers In a long flight attacked dari In Dutch Celebes Wednesday General MacArthur's headquarters announced Other allied units dropped ex- plosives on grounded Japanese craft in Portuguese Timor at- tacked banacks Jellies at Lac and in New Guinea and targets at and ville In the Solomon group far to the northeast of Australia Corp Harry Scuffos Jr 19 Spartanburg So Carolina Pfc James R Stephens 32 ington Va Pvt Jack Hearell 29 Eldorado Kans Pit Rosier 27 Anson Tei Rosser Brother Of Two ANSON July killed in the army bomber crash Wednesday near March Field Calif was the fait of Mrs O V Rosier of Anson He was sent to March Field for training as a bombardier after joining the armed forces in ber 1941 Other survivors are two brothers Sam and Jerry Rosier of and a sister Mrs Fred of St Louis Rosser was graduated from An- son high school in 1927 Relatives said the body ly would be sent here for Nazi Reply Doesn't Please Argentina BUENOS ATRES President Ramon S Castillo who has followed a policy of strict in the second world war Indicated tonight that reply lo Argentina's protest against the torpedoing of the freighter Rio Tercero was nol to this republic However negotiations were said lo be continuing between both countries to reach an agreement on Uie facts In the torpedoing reasonable explanation ol British retreat into the cor- between the Mediterranean the depression without i die-hard stand was said In parliament In bitter tion nf Churchill's win ship would be com- lo the storm he must face if Alexandria falls London com- even picture tion of the Suez canal behind a British fleet If the worst Axis sources spread rumors that fleet already has fled Inlo the Red sea A naval withdrawal from Mediterranean would b 1 confession of utler weakness m Dorne out the Auchinleck orde Its implications It would be an open Invitation for an axis air borne invasion thrust at Cyprus or Syria Desperate as th British position In th dwindling defense corri It Is no vet to as t warrant a retreat of the fleet o to Mock the Suez axis Pending nf tlw pitcht i attic in the first day of In London war debate had lllll Churchill's answer to his critic Thursday may prove more ting He could have averted th to his leadership at a moment by a mere lure He disdained that probably he has io not to alone but t of and the world as of his mo recent conferences with Presiden Roosevelt days the annual will be presented in times of even grealer turmoil Despite the handicaps under which this year's performance Is being presented in- point to a number of entries and ticket ales aro In history A total of 231 cowboys have ready entered the events a surprising number In view of the large of boys from the ranges In the fighting forces of the nation Twenty-six cowgirls were on hand tonight for the sponsor contest and number is The at the cost ol ius losses succeeded In advancing the announced In heir midnight communique The struggle for the city which he Germans announced they had at noon Wednesday d through the day ol heavy yesterday while far to the north the red army WAS reported beating off constant waves of man infantrymen n the Kursk area 300 miles south of Moscow A supplement to the regular com- said grim Sevastopol Regardless of enormous losses the enemy continues his fierce storming of Sevastopol The gallant defenders of the city arc fighting with self-sacrifice against forces of Hitlerites One Coloradoan Dies in Shooting COLORADO CITY July A Key was In the Root plUl tonight In a very serious con- dition as the result of several shots fired into his body by Lee Carter 33 prominent furniture coaler here John Wood of the Colorado Cits police department said Carter according to Wood Key eight or ten times at the residence and then went lo his home and In the presence of his daughler Gwen sho just under the heart Car ler died about 15 minutes later t the hospital Besides his daughler Carler Is survived by his wife The police volunteered no Intor malion as lo the cause o the shooting ed to be swelled to 35 by parade me A late survey showed 35 horses In the official show of the Quarter Horse ion R L Underwood of Wichita alls vice of the was one of the early A number of have animals In the quarter orse show Including Earl J rs frank W Austin Mary Jane Austin Phil and Gib lefer There were wagons on the rounds from the Pitchfork anch at Matador anch at and the SMS al Spur and Flat Top A steak dinner was ed for the early arrivals While the books do not close un- 11 Saturday morning 10 battle Joined At El Alamein CAIRO July main armored forces bolstered reserves linally locked arms day with the axis col- inuis in Egypt In a last-ditch ort to pinch off the hostile ad- vance In the desert bottleneck west at El only 10 from he Nile delta The Immediate stake was the great British naval base of anria and for the British all their holdings In the Middle East were NEWS SCANTY Just before midnight available scanty dispatches Indicated the battle area still remained Just west of El Alamein and extended 30 or 40 miles Inland from the There was no positive news of the course of the churning desert fight because the commanders as yet too busy to report detailed action It Is known that the Ing has been very hard with ored mechanized infantry es at each other with their modern power The forces of Marshal Erwin lommel driving with peed the torrid sands ward Alexandria and the key my of were en- aged this morning In a battle that iad developed by tonight to great Just Inside the mouth f the bottleneck First reports of the British stand o reach Cairo told of heavy ng all the way down the ment For the British It was the st thing to a last-ditch lUnd gainst the roving vehicles of hat Hommel which have been en- only on a hit-and-run basij the fail of Tobruk WANT BARRIERS However between the axis forces and the lush valley of the Nile stand several lines of defense com- of soldiers and Kindreds of and teamed with are other allied units harassing the enemy flanks while allied planes strike from overhead As the crisis Gen Sir Claude newly In The Weather r s or M Thn R id U 12 f Military Court to Try Accused Spies WASHINGTON eight men accused of landing on the cast coast from German sub- marines for the purpose of com- sabotage probably will be tried by a military commission next week It was learned today and the death penally will be sought officials have been reluctant to discuss the case be- cause of numerous legal lies and Us Importance However some information come from the Joint meetings of war and department officials which Kan Monday and ran through day had already entered the The contest will be held Hie closing day SPECTACULAR PARADE One ot most events ot the will be the grand parade which will open celebration at 11 a m of ler days and of the great cattle ranches of the southwest lie cession always the larges crowd during the three day reunion The will be by the Stamford high band While renting business firms and organizations always form a color lul section of the parade the west ern atmosphere Is fostered other feature One ot Hit distinctive features o parade reminiscent of days Is an old stage coach always carries a group of people pressed in keeping with forme years Thi coach Ir property of Ih reunion parades will be held 01 each ot the two other days active command of the British eighth army issued a confident order of the day The battle is not over yet and will not be over until we have de- enemy and defeat we will Tlie main enemy force was mering its way ahead In one big with smaller grounds ing olf on side expeditions in the battle aimed at extermination as well as prime Imperial Pays Lasting Debt GRANGEVILLE Tdi July 1866 Mr and Mrs Henry John bought 5168 of ies from J W Crooks a grist mill operator The and Crooks became separated before the could be paid This week Hubert Sprule a son met Mrs Wyatt of bird when she visited and learned she was Crooks ter He settled tab and added three percent interest Ing Hope Raised for Abilene JAPS REPORT SURVIVORS OF CRUISER HOUSTON PRISONERS mil and Utl nUM I hi laM 13 First 1942 Bolt RAYMONDVILLE July The Lasara cooperative git turned this afternoon Its first bale of 1942 locally ax the ginned bile of cotton In the world The weight was 425 pounds and Mie cotton was grown by John Wilde is in Willacy county loner Rio Grinde valley WASHINGTON July navy spokesman today that the Japanese In a propaganda broadcast had declared that 1.000 survivors oi iiic missing American cruiser Houston and Australian Perth were sale In an In- camp tn Batavin Wednesday thai two Abilene boys may not been lost with sinking of the U S cruiser ton Among 1.000 men aboard were S G Sparky Gentry former high school football player territory I M- a ot The spokesman said that while I marine corps contingent all Americans will understand thai broadcasts originating from enemy sources can not be regarded ns there be reason for the Issuance of M In- formation on this subject by the Japanese It was emphasized that the navy had no official Information about men missing from Houston Unreliable as U may be Japanese supplied flimsy hope by vessel In a Maith 14 announcement of the sea disaster In which 12 or 13 allied warships were sunk by the Japanese navy department said no hope was held for personnel of the Houston or the destroyer Pope both of U S fleet Gentry's parents are Mr and Mrs S G Gentry 610 Peach street while Trice is trie son of Mr and Mrs W R Trice South street
