Clovis News-Journal (Newspaper) - August 9, 1942, Clovis, New Mexico CONSERVE WASTE MATERIALS FOR THE ARMY NEW MEXICOS CREATES NEWSPAPER BUY A BOND AND GIVE AXIS VOL 112 HEW AUGUST 1942 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WORLD WIDE SERVICE PRICE SIX OF EIGHT SABOTEURS ARE ELECTROCUTED I Y I I Platoons of the gineer Hamilton here went through maneuvers on Main Saturday which drew applause from of spectators on the Companies A and B of the vied with each other in intricate maneuvers which the intensive training of the The two platoons are shown above in Australians Get New Solemn Warning of vasion Dancer BULLETIN PEARL 8 States forces in the Southwest Pacific launched offensive operations in tho Tulagi area of the Solomon a communiques by Ad miral Chester com of tho United States Pacific said GENERAL Mac ARTHURS 8 Australians received a new and solemn official warning today that Japanese invasion was im minent as the pace of war in this theater notably Allied headquarters announced that in the greatest blow yet struck at Japanese base on the III northern island of New 15 tons of including pounders for the first were dumped squarely on the au Curing daylight Fri One allied plane was lost in this assault on the JapaV riese air base in New but seven out nese Zeros were Strike At Lae At the same time Allied medium bombers hurled bombs on the Japanese base at New reporting direct hits on tie This was followed Up by extensive allied harassing raids at On the New Guinea land where Japanese forces in the Buna gona area are within 60 miles of the allied base of Fort a headquarters spokesman said there was no A report reaching how said an Australian force had struggled Wirough waist deep mud jungle to reach the north coast of New Gui neu and score hits on a Japanese strong point with 38 out of 40 The Australians then made their escape by breaking through the thick jungle growths on a mountain as the Japanese called up seaplanes to strafe them and brought a j gun to shell Facing Danger Army Minister Francis in an warned his coun we are face to face with a great crisis in our and predicted the Japanese would try to knock this continental common wealth out of the war by an in Giving point to his words was allied announcement that a Jap anese submarine had shelled an allied passenger ship off the south 171 coast of Australia a few days This was the second and southernmost attack reported in the past Had A Breather we I have been given a breathing space tc which will make a big difference when the battle is join The Berlin radio Saturday quot ed Japanese imperial headquarters as saying there were allied troops now in Australia with 500 plus soldiers and 250 planes in New It quoted the Tokyo paper Nichi Nichi as declaring that with such forces it would be impossible to de fend so vast a country as Australia and describing the Japan ese operations in the Arafura sea northwest of Australia as a streng Japanese plans to attack the LEWIS FORT PLACE IN VEGAS Pat of and Tor of took first and second place respectively in the days calf roping at the Cow Reunion at Las Lewis was Bomber Crashes Into Bay With Four Aboard SAN 8 IP army bomber from Hamilton Field crashed anc sank in San Pablo Bay ap killing its crew of three air force officers and an enlistee Hamilton Field said the missing fliers were First Robert Holland of the pilot Minard of the copilot Sec ond Richard Longneck er of navigator and Roy Strett of Iowa The next of kin have The accident occurred while the was on a routine flight from its the plane ing and scattering debris over a considerable area as it struck the The wreckage has been located about two miles arid crews from Hamilton Field hoped to raise it at low Appointments of Health Officers Is Approved SANTA The State Board of Public Health approved today the appointment of Wr Elder as Albuquerque district health officer and that of Fennell for Los Aimong ed were of Rud Los and Las Vegas to enter military The resignation of Paul Capps Santa Fe dis health among sev The Weather NEW MEXICO Scattered late dr evening thunder higher elevations with tem Sunday about same as WEST TEXAS Scattered late or evening thunder Panhandle and Big Bend westward Sunday little in Ruidoso Grocer Finds Victory V Potato From a fresh sack of Irish pota groceryman Ike Wingfield drew a spud recently which was in tho shape of a victory is chairman of the lo cal National Defense He said Uhe V measured four Inches from top to boso on tho outside two and a half inches from Lop lo bottom on the Inside and an overall four inches across Uhe Canada Curtails Use of Rubber 8 Canadian Press Civilian use of rubber has been cut to between 10 and 15 per cent of Canadas normal munitions and supply department officials revealed in figures made public Gandhi Given Full Authority to Direct Resistance Campaign Against Britain No Indication Yet When Start Is to Be Made 8 mystic lead er of the Indian Nationalist move was handed full authority by the AllIndia Congress party today to direct a general cam of passive resistance and civil disobedience aimed at forc ing an end to British rule in I am pledged to the congress and the congress is pledged to do or Gandhi declared in con a address that wound up the meeting of the par tys general He we shall make every effort to see the viceroy before starting the but ad vices from New Delhi tonight said the government of India declined to negotiate with the congress on its Plan Incompatible The New Delhi statement said the government would regard as wholly incompatible with their responsibilities to the people of India and their obligations to the Allies discussions about a the acceptance of which would plunge India into confusion and anarchy and paralyze her effort in the common cause of Britains own offers of postwar Independence rejected by which is primarily and by the Moslem League and other ma jor elements of the mutually dis trustful and complex elements of Indias religious and politi cal Majority Present More than 250 Of the 360 mem bers of the Congress partys com were present at the voting here this afternoon in a canvas pavilion before about per spiring Only 13 raised their hands against adoption of a SEE 2 ATTACKS ON SOLOMON ISLES AND ALEUTIANS ARE SIGNIFICANT Woman Rescues Two Canadian Fliers 8 Can adian Roy al Canadian Air Force men by a housewife who paddled them to safety their plane crashed in the cold waters off Norway Is land in tho July was dis closed by two foresty officers who returned from a tour the d Wins Long Battle With Death GRAND 8 old daughter of and apparently has won her long battle with Several weeks ago she climbed a tree at her homo and came In contact with a high voltage It knocked her 25 feet to the but her fall was some what broken by intervening This week she was released from a Terrell MONTGOMERY TO RUN SANTA 8 ffl For mer State Senator ery of Santa Fe said today he lively would run for the Demo cratic nomination for lieutenant I shall file my declaration of candidacy early next ably Tuesday or he and ODaniel Start Intensive Campaign for The Nomination By The Associated Press The State Democratic Executive committee Saturday confirmed what practically everybody knew there was a runoff campaign for the United States the two candidates in the race emphasized it with vigorous bids for votes in the August 22 Both Lee ODaniel and James announced detailed speaking itineraries for next with ODaniel making six speeches and central Texas over a large section of Candidates for other state ces which were thrown into a off also planned to step up the tempo of their campaigns in the penultimate week before the sec ond finished his first week of campaigning in the West Texas oil and ranch promising to work for a reduction to three per cent in the interest on government ranch and farm and to seek a law setting the minimum price I for at 25 cents per pound 11 Ho also denounced isolationists a dav and from four to ODaniel scheduled a sweep across the state that will carry j have obstructed at every turn liim from the extreme northwest j he efforts of our commander in to southeast Alli made his final speech red will campaign in east of the day at Report Arrest of Indian With Gandhi BULLETIN 9 British News re ported today that a which it said apparently was from New heard in don reported that Mohandas Pundit Jawaharlal and Maulana Abul Kalan president of the AllIndia congress had been arrested In Bom There was no confirmation from any source of this Reuters in distributing the re port said it should be taken with all Didnt Know of The Draft M ents a wanderer who explained he was too busy composing poetry to road was brought Into Federal court today on a charge of foiling to register for Federal District Judge Foster Symes to fill out a registration Conn and was picked up last week by Glenwood Springs officers and turned over to federal He explained that he spent his summers in a shack near Glenwood Springs and traveled In the winter to New Mexico and He By JOHN MARTIN Associated Press War Editor Strong surface and air forces have struck the Jap anese In the southeastern Solomons off and the attacks are the navy department announced last Sal in bo the prelude to another Sea American naval forces also bombarded enemy ships and shore establishments at Kiska in the Aleutians on the Alaskan route to Siberian communique Moves Significant These actions at both ends of the Pacific had unusual The Japanese steadily have in creased their string of land bases northern and a similar southward push last spring led to the Coral Sea defeat of the In tho Alaskan theater the Jap anese hold three western Aleutian one of them Aside from this obvious to the related that with Indians in the Decision in Ray Case On Monday SANTA 8 Gov ernor Miles said today ho would announce a definite decision Mon day on the case of James Las Cruces slayer who is scheduled to die in the electric chair August convicted of first degree murder for the holdup killing of Salvador has been grant ed several reprieves since a day before his original execution date last Dempsey Announces Tour Itinerary SANTA 8 M John Democratic primary candidate for announced today the following campaign itin erary for next week Ojo morning Hot evening evening evening and Las evening resting at Albert Fall May Get Citizenship Restored EL 8 Albert wife of the former secretary of disclosed to night she had received from the department of justice application papers preliminary to tho possible restoration of her husbands citi The a cen ral figure in the Harding oil was convicted n 1929 of receiving a bribe from He serv ed nine months in New Mexico Now at Fort Bayard hospital in New he is seeking a Presidential pardon which will return to him full cit Fall said editor of a weekly paper in Men doza and a longtime friend of had initiated steps Loward her husbands She said he had worked for years that Fall was removed to Fort Bay ard hospital last month from Wil liam Beaumont in El believe tho Japanese to blOck aid to Russia iii case the Jap anese open a second front them selves tho Situation German strides toward the Cau casus oil fields and Stalingrad on the Volga made this Japanese threat an imminent Russias collapse would the United States fighting on the global rim of solidified Axis central posi Russia still was reeling under tho attack in the The Germans claimed their troops wore only 30 miles from the first Soviet oil at tho foot of the Caucasian after crossing the Kuban tiver and cap turing Armavir and Soviet dispatches did not place tho fighting that close to Maikop they did admit a major German breakthrough at Arma 60 miles northeast of and Red Star called the situation Sol no Gains Tho Germans also were acknow ledged to bo gaining in tho drive on Stalingrad from the southwest in the 95 miles from that Volga Else whore the Russians said arm ies were and oven counter attacking in the Voronezh sector far to the north of tho upper Thousands of Gorman reinforce ments continued to move into tho Caucasus in tho supreme bid to seal off Russia from her Allied connections In tho Middle Tho situation at Maikop so grave that tho Russians may already have dynamited those wells which sup SEE JJ Philippine Mail Leaves August 14 A boat sailing on August 14 will take mail to American prisoners In Japanese according to infor mation reaching James from tho wife of Ma jor Major Dorris and Hamilton are presumably prisoners in the Letters to the soldiers should be addressed to them as in care of the Postmaster at Tho mail will be censored in Chi The serial numbers of the men should he used in addressing mail to Britain Accepts Challenge of Indians BULLETIN 9 The British government of accepting the challenge of theAll India congress party in entrusting a f campaign of civil disobedience to Mohandas early to day began a roundup of congress leaders in the city of The government acted just a few hours after the full committee of the AllIndia congress party had handed complete authority to the mystic leader of the India Nationalist movement a drive aimed at forcing an end to British rule in Seventeen arrests had been made up to early hours today in Ahme They were the first reported after thg The government has placed a ban on more than five issuing the order under the criminal procedure In a statement at New the government reply to gross partys resolution said There is nothing the govern ment of India regrets more than this challenge at so critical a jun but on them lies the task of defending India that task the government of India will dis charge in the face of the chal lenge now thrown down toy the congress party with clear Dies Of Injuries Tho body of Harvey King Park Santa Fo brakeman who was fatally injured In an accident at Texico Friday was tak en to for burial Tho body was transported by Funeral Parker resided in The exact manner of hls injury was not reported but it Is presumed he either foil from a freight train or was struck hy He is survived by his He died In the company hospital here Friday morning at Despite severe head Parker was able to flag a passing motorist who brought him lo the hospital Two Sentenced to One for Other For 30 Years 8 AP Death by electrocution today snapped short the careers of Nazi men who sneak ed ashore from enemy submarines bent upon crippling the American war effort by ex plosion and Two adjudged equally guilty by a military commission of seven escap ed the death penalty fixed by the law of wai for their intended by tattling on the Because they helped the government pre pore its they were given prison one for the other for thirty hard f Need No Lessons in SelfConfidence SAN Army Jias found a couple of aviation cadets who wont need any lessons In In Mie space for data of public ity value on an information card issued San Aviation Cadet Cadet George of wrote space until 1 get Echoed of Please reserve space until I get a crack at Mechanics and Technicians to Be Recruited UP Army announced today an in recruiting to en ist mechanics and for Sig nal Ordnance Depart they were vitally once ito serve until schools out trained men in sufficient Physically qualified men 18 Jand 44 will be after obtaining clearance local To Tell of War Needs Today Aug ident Roosevelt and other leaders the war effort will tell the na tion tomorrow about the critical needs of war They will speak in connection witli a production award program on CBS from 2 to Eastern War Tho Presidents message will be eacl by Elmer director or the office of war er speakers Admiral William mak ng his first radio appearance he became chief of staff to President vice chairman of war production Robert of James tary of the Lieutenant General El speaking from Admiral Chester speaking from somewhere in the London Celebrates Anniversary Of Beginning of Air Raids 8 ft screamed and antiaircraft batteries boomed in the London area today on the second anniversary of the beginning of the battle of Britain which raged day and night for throe months and cost the Germans at least planes But all the today in tho capital was by a single Nazi plane making a token raid in daylight on a locality in one of the suburban home The lone raider dropped his bombs in the outskirts of county then from low tudo machinegunned the streets before taking to Iho clouds with British fighters In Some casualties resulted in the Near tho channel two Mes slipped out of a cloud arid shot down one of Dovers barrage balloons before they were chased home by a pair of Official circles announced late in the day that a few enemy air craft had appeared over Southern England and the homo counties afternoon and dropped bombs at a small number of Tho alert was brief in London Itself where large crowds of shop pers and moviegoers continued about their refusing to take At the first the agents of destruction to pay with his life was led from a cell at the District of Columbia jail to Its In grim succession the five others The six were Helnrich Harm Richard Edward John Her bert Hans Werner i Thiel and Hermann Otto Er nest Burger was to prison and George John Dasch was given a term of thirty Approved Findings Just before the White several miles an that President Roosevelt had approved the findings rec of the military mission and that the six had been ofi thp containing much important it would be sealed until after the f Two Months Delay two after of the eight men can their end They were one point ah appeal for writ of habeas corpus was taken to tho civil meeting in a hurriedly special the and constitutionality of the method of trial which dent Roosevelt had The military commission finish ed its work last the record of the the sentences imposed and the recom J for lenity to Burger and Dasch placed ti hands for Plans Were Evident It became apparent today that he had affirmed the commissions H verdict and and that at the jail preparations ress for the waiting outside the 2 ed building saw army and the Columbia oner After J possible lights In thell were J 1 extinguished Outside the jail a small t saw army ambulances enter f lall presumably remove J A group of young t huddled under umbrellas nearby could tho Tells Reporters Stephen the presidents called reporter to his ave them copies of V The president rer view of the findings and es of the military pointed by on July which triad eight Nazi sabo It i The president approved the of the military slon that all the were and that they be SEE the Heightened Talk Indicates Second Front Might Come In Siberia By KIRKE SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst Another bitter with de feat and retreat for Red closed with heightening prospects that a attack is im pending but it may be launched in the east and by Japan before Russias AngloAmerican allies are able to strike effectively in the If still without a decisive victory in bruised by Amer ican blows and at least checked in the southwest Pacific is to move at all against General hospital I under her axis the time seems Weather conditions for a Siber ian assault are right as they will not be again for a Chungking and London bristle with rumors of Japanese The Nipponese conqueror of Singapore and gidor now is reported in command in the Tokyo has called up all males from 18 to 50 years of age for military Drastic new dimout measures along the West Coast hint that Washington expects Japanese diver sion They might be der like the Japanese toeholds the Western to balk or impede American aid lo In If that front is Siberian bases could afford expanding Am erican air power opportunity to strike at Japan That possi still is the most powerful In fluence upon Tokyo not to jump on her traditional Russian foe Yet beyond a shadow of a doubt Tokyo has twoway commitments with her European mate cpn That the Japanese war lords are merely biding their time until Hitler and his Italian and Balkan satellites have fulfill ed their part of the 4 Proposed Tax May Be Rejected 8 vt There were signs the Senate reject a proposed sales tapf of Its it would meet the mand for a in the new revenue the i would tQ force ft an an canvass s ment preponderantly proposed levy both and in Senate iV This who be quoted by If proposal were the floor It fee a brief fight Two Of Ohio The passed a
