Denton Record-Chronicle (Newspaper) - January 17, 1942, Denton, Texas ROUND ABOUT TOWN DENTON VOL XLiI NO 134 DENTON TEXAS SATURDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 17 1942 Associated Press Leased Wire SIX PAGES not the world neither the ngs that are in the world If any n love the world the love of the lier Is not in him For nil that Is the world the lust of the flesh lust of the eyes and the pride of Is not of the father but is of I John you believe must influence at you are What you are de- what you do nnd what you determines your value here and John Tudor Secretary of the Navy Frank has lidded a word of caution ling to the similar comments of official observers In regard to stories coming out of countries telling of In- nal dissension Knox declared t lie believes stones are ly intended to take the edge American efforts to up an that there is no need for li tremendous outlays ol war j crack a Germany that cracking bout the only truth coming out Germany Is that Us forces are ring before Russian onslaughts Secretary Knox points out that s retreat is far from a rout and it Germany still lias the greatest machine in the world The atest mistake the Allied nations ild make would be to assume t since Russia is pushing Hie Japs Report Break Through Australian Line Near Singapore Now Only 50 Miles Northwest of British Stronghold Enemy Claims Major Battle in Malayan Jungles back and Chinese I ire handed the Japs a few blows t By ROGER GREENE Associated Press War Aii official Tokyo broadcast asserted today that invasion armies had broken through Australian defense lines In the sector only 50 miles northwest of Singa- pore and il was apparent that a crisis was near in the fate of Britain's stronghold Another Tokyo broadcast ing dispatches with anese forces on Peninsula Luzon declared that U S Army defenders of the Philippines were in general retreat toward the coast of Manila Bay ly hoping to find shelter on nd Changsha the Axis powers the freezing point yet is some ice on streams yet shaded places in the Intry two banks the First Itc and the Denton County lial will be closed Monday in of General Robert E I's birthday time is Hearing when you not bo able to get a poll lax for year The poll tax receipt ft be scoured this month else will not be able to vote against political enemy or for your friend or other matters may be before the electorate year And too you men and of Denton city who have plied the age entitling yon to the south bank of the strategic Muar 90 miles north of hare Strait which separates Singa- pore Island from tlie mainland Singapore dispatches said a major battle was developing in the layan to the northwest Busy in Philippines In the Philippines a War De- bulletin reported that a heavy Japanese attack Is now in progress against the right flank of Gen Douglas defenders on Batan Peninsula across the buy from nila Tills attack Is well supported by aircraft and artillery the com- said The assailants greatly ber the defenders our soldiers are stubbornly contesting Good News German Panzer Equipment Lines Road to Abandoned German guns and armed vehicles of all types line both sides of a road to Moscow In the Klin area Wheels on machines and brake on gun at extreme right are characteristic of German makes v British Capture Stronghold At Pass in Libya Germans Claim Sevastopol Attacks Repulsed Knudson Due to Put Full Results In Auto Industry By Associated Press without payment of poll tax attempted advance secure an Exemption from Tax Collector C c Orr pic living In towns of less than thousand population do not to secure an Exemption Malacca An official Tokyo broadcast ed dispatches as saying Japanese Mad completely occupied Malacca the capital of and Mrs W C Boyd arc In Malacca Straits Settlement 130 Falls to visit their two j miles north of Malacca Ben and who are at i had already Ground advance Division Tlie boys can't deep into Malacca reporting that I as often now as they RAP bombers smashed heavily at I before the twenty-four hour Japanese transport columns between work went into Boyd Malacca and Tanjong 10 miles Boyd so we're visiting them these lie political boiled once this when u L Calhoun an- his candidacy for County from Precinct No lid hir name appears In he announcement column lime ol the closed lye In a flame of glory while others went out like a flash night but all lie hunters le that they've had a tine with quite a few birds nml hunting weather Pole hunting with Ray got his even though be I to take four shots at one J In a tree He broke Jum Por- tr's record of three I've of people having the Pete said but I've never of though T know away Par to the north other Japanese invasion columns were reported Chief of President Roosevelt's new War Labor Board is liam H Davis former chairman of the National Defense tion Board Churchill Due To Report Visit To U S Soon LONDON Jan Minister Churchill stepped striking Into British t ally from a train this afternoon fended by mixed forces of 1 home from a visit are massed is at Pass on the frontier 300 miles behind the main battle tor as the hold-out garrison of gateway lo a narrowing German corridor to Smolensk 210 miles west of WASHINGTON Jan j President Roosevelt's appointment of William S Knudsen as a tenant general In tlie army was re- Apparently referring to the great j In the capital today as and perhaps decisive battle at dispatches to Red Star the 5500 German and declared troops laid down their arms that Russian troops had broken through lines in from water and other Ure now in unconditional surrender Cut off supplies the garrison hoisted the white flag amid a sault by British ar- tillery and gims of the British fleet The fall of the tadel announced by British Middle East headquarters wiped out the last Axis resistance in the Egyptian border area and gave the one sector and lessly pressing the enemy and widening the breach Red Star said German infantry launched twice In two hours only to be repulsed Our men continued their ad- vance over the bodies of the at- Red Star said ing finally solved the grave lem of putting the entire bile industry to work on war duction As Donald M Nelson formally took over the chairmanship of the new War Production Board with the broadest powers to expedite tho production of war material for this nation and the other ers commendation Knudsen's Moan while non belligerent can aviators Chinese and British imperial an attempt to cut oil China's backdoor route of war Dispatches Rangoon the Burmese capital said contact was made with Japanese at hi a broad volley 12 miles inside Burma In conceding the dangerous new Japanese thrust toward Singapore British declared aircraft delivered a attack on launches and barges laden with troops near the mouth of the River One of the launches blew to the United States and alter having flown the Atlantic from Bermuda to Plymouth Tho prime minister and four of chief lieutenants made the long Jump from the Western Hemisphere in the engined flying boat Berwick of the British Airways which was skippered by tho veteran pilot Capt J C Kelly Rogers It was expected that Churchill would broadcast a report lo the Empire night soon possibly tomorrow Tlie prime minister looking fit up i after the long flight said the party when attacked and heavy i had a comfortable trip and inflicted on personnel in i cd 3.287 miles in 18 hours in the the barncs s Advance in Hs were so nervous I Illy get shells Into my gun who been In the Is most also agree that there loll for the crop which should be heavy conditions arc right the summer and fall I T and family who have living at 1100 North Elm Jet Saturday moved to their 222 Bolivar Street which bought recently Ick Wood a of the War and who I in the Boxer Revolution in fa to sing a Jap song but does he warble that tune of the children have sing it he said but afraid to sing any Jap song but I do wish I was youns to get up and at em Hucy long time a figure in hotel affairs of j Is still a sufferer from an happened near his homo ID was going to his work at the Hotel where lie lias II and for a years Fred Rayzor of the Hotel says that he Jake will not be able to rt all his work probably only elevator Jake in the old i used to meet the trains as J came In and his cry to the men telling of his hotel me quite famous and Jake ably knows as many traveling las any man In Texas d it in trying for that bird My The communique also edged a Japanese advance Into slate reporting that British artillery heavily pounding j anese troops in rail junction town 110 miles i At Singapore itself the Island col- Dying boat His departure from Troops Cairo military quarters elated over the capture pointed out that British troops engaged in the faya siege would now be able to reinforce the main Imperial forces pursuing Gen Krwin Axis armies along the Gulf of Sirte Premier Mussolini's high com- mand made no mention of the faya garrison's capitulation bijt knowledged th a t d ifi were growing and that British ships and RAF bombers were ily bombarding the pass On the Soviet war front Adolf Hitler's high command asserted I that German and allied Rumanian troops had thrown back repeated Russian attacks on the Sevastopol front in the Crimea and declared that Nazi forces hod also scored a local success east of Kursk 300 mites southwest of Moscow Kursk is one of tlie main defense anchors on Hitler's new winter line The high command said Russian casualties in the Sevastopol ing were heavy and that German coastal batteries hod forced Soviet vessels to withdraw from tlie mean west coast Hitler's headquarters made no report on fighting near Simferopol 40 miles north of Sevastopol where the Russians were said to be at- tempting to cut off the retreat of German troops Counter Attack The Nazi communique again cd heavy defensive fighting on Plymouth the central Moscow and land oft the coast of West Africa I the world I The Madrid Armed with tho production per reporting the raid in- ledge which made of that Spain may already General Motors nnd with the liave made the seizures a authority to get things done Ic Issue and warned Spanish Knudsen was expected to have armed forces would fight to prevent a recurrence of such Incidents Carole Lombard 20 Others On Wrecked Airplane LOS ANGELES Jan loving Carole Lombard actress wife of Clark Gable and 21 other passengers Including her mother and 15 army fliers apparently perished last night in IHo explosive crash of a TWA luxury airliner near Los Ncv were sighted from he air soon after the accident and there was no indication of lire Jan Carole Lombard fun loving wife of Clark Gable and 21 other gers Including 15 army fliers were presumed killed last night in the crash of a Transcontinental and Western Air transport near Las Vegas Nev The Army Corps ferry com- mand at Long Beach Calif said the army fliers aboard the crashed luxury liner were members of a ferry command returning to the Pacific coast for new assignments TWA they boarded the plane at Albuquerque where four other passengers were put off to make room for the pilots The Douglas Sky made a brief stop at Las gas and took off at p in CST About p m workers at the Blue Diamond mine saw a Mare and To Zm Further For Liquor Ban I WASHINGTON Jan 17 K 1 senator said war production un- New Strategy Of Pacific Needs Be Understood This dally feature ed by DeWitt Wide World war analyst Is written today by Fred Winston Churchill is back in England having got there In a flying boat and not as the Axis had It In a submarine via tar His first duty is to give the people of England new heart as to the dire developments in Malaya and one may be sure he will lose no time It Is quite understandable that the English are far more aghast over the swift and Immediate ace to Singapore than were the people of this country over the loss of Manila To most Americans nils was remote foreign arid how unreal To the Briton apore has been what the Line was to tho an un- breakable fortress of empire It Is moreover almost as much a part of England as tooting Broadway England has beoh called a tion of shopkeepers I have often thought of It as a nation of retired army officers and civil servants barely past their prime living In small and comfortable villas in places like Hammersmith and Green surrounded by layan curios arid nostalgic les of their pleasant years iri apore or To these people a Japanese oping under the old setup Didn't Work Failure of the administration to obtain conversion of the automobile day he would maintain as one of his legislative goals the banning of Intoxicating liquors from all military and naval establishments Unsuccessful yesterday in an fort der the old OPM was one of the chief points of complaint In the senate Investigating committee's re- port Thursday Much of the lag has been attributed to division of duties among various agencies and was held up about 20 minutes un- en Leningrad fronts but tll a missing large black ted details tents found rail junction I i orth or Singapore the Island col- ony underwent two daylight raids j T 1 as 70 Japanese planes bombed the VS L urea leaving 150 killed and J Be Cop says t skid around the corners It tires out faster and Is Ms mo the lady Yes 1 was singing Well might I ask you to bang on that top so Tlie men have knocked off i already it for the cd One Japanese plane RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil Jan was shot t to the third down two others probably j consultative conference oT foreign strayed and two damaged I ministers of the 21 American RAF Ilicis struck back with at- I publics put their heads together on Japanese shipping olf 1 day in many hotel room chats which Malacca inflicting heavy damage on small craft and bombed Japanese transport columns In the area in the north Malaya's dread malarial jungles were acknowledged to be ing the invaders DNB the cial news agency quoted Tokyo reports that 10 per cent of the Japanese troops In Malaya were suffering from malaria or other aliments Dispatches from said Japanese bombers renewed attacks on the bis Dutch East Indies nir base ut Soviet dispatches knowledged that the Germans had launched bitter on establishments the senator said he might try again soon to obtain Senate on the measure Tlie was introduced last ruary by the late Morris Sheppard of Texas predecessor Orders in District Court manufacturers to meet them but he had no compelling authority over cither side Under his new as production director for the war department he will have broad powers within Hie army Itself and will be the voice of the army In dealing with Industry War orders already have started piling up for automobile factories Robert P Patterson tary of war announced last night i that the department had placed Two more orders have been en- contracts with the Industry for on District Court civil i hi military supplies since els by Judge Ben W Boyd the Pearl Harbor attack Dec 1 the present special court term Officials said Knudsen's old of- Onc gives Judgment for plaintiff flee in OPM might not be filled at It's a TWA plane and I can't find any signs of Cheney Crashes en Mountain Tlie plane crashed more than 000 feet up Table Mountain In the rugged Charleston range The ground Is covered with several inches of snow Doctors in two ambulances and searchers in 25 automobiles left Las Vegas for the scene Supt W T McMillan of the Blue Diamond mine eald the searchers would have to use packhorses for nearly 20 miles of the Journey in- to the Charleston range which rises from the Mohave Desert floor Miss Lombard 32 was ing from Indianapolis with her mother Mrs Elizabeth K Peters and Otto publicity man for studio She had gone there to help sell de- fense bonds in the trespass to try title action of H E Roberts and wife all and eventual dismemberment of that agency likely If a new director Is named by Nelson the central front lashing out with j Bradley et al the other picked divisions In heavy righting transfers to Young County district lit was said the agency he will before 57 west of court the ex proceedings for I reel will be vastly restricted In lls Moscow where Nazi troops j adoption of Charles Leon Miller operations Axis Dead in Libyan Desert probably will decide how far tlie rest of the Americas will go lo help I Uncle Sam whip the Axis powers The day was listed on the parley's calendar as social but most of the leading delegates took advantage of the lull In ness to exchange opinions and seek support for their points of view Eight resolutions submitted at the first business session yesterday included one which might make or break the proposal for unanimous rupture of relations with the Axis It Introduced by Gabriel ned two nearby places and bombed j bay Colombian ambasador lo im airdrome in the Celebes Arrival of a shipload of Japanese war prisoners at Calcutta India from Singapore last night gave dence that British resistance in the phases of the Malayan had borne some fruit The prisoners were said to total a large number Veteran Chinese troops dispatched by Generalissimo Chiang backed the British efforts in ma Australian imperial volunteers bolstered the Malayan defense line established more than 100 miles north of Singapore by Lieut Gen Sir Henry Pownall British East commander In chief Far Evidence that the Japanese had taken tlie initiative in crossing the Burma received by in- formed by informed quarters In London with the comment that the war was warming up In that area i Details ot the combat were not closed on behalf of bia Mexico and Venezuela Those governments already have broken with the Axis NEW TERM OF COUNTY COURT OPENS MONDAY County Court will open a new hero Monday No contested trials are prospective for the opening week and no jury panel will be called Judge Gerald Stockard said Suits on the civil trial docket will be called and given trial dates Monday and the civil appearance docket called and set Tuesday Dale for setting of criminal cases has not been decided County At- torney Earl L Coleman said but that docket probably will be set for toe third week at coutl SI Hal on Board LOS ANGELES Jan TWA said these passengers were on its airliner which crashed near Las Vegas Nov last night home addresses of enlisted men ed by Capt Wayne Williams pilot Morgan A Gillette co-pilot Alice Getz hostess Carole Lombard Hollywood Mrs Elizabeth K Peters Miss Lombard's mother Otto Winkler publicity man Hollywood Lois Hamilton Sgt A M Braddock Pa Corp M B phia Second Lieut K P Donahue First Lieut Hal Browne Jr Second Lieut James c Barham Second Lieut S L Swenson has penetrated Johore state is humiliating Mitch Change Conception Americans may get some Idea how they feel by juggling phy and transplanting the Western Pacific war zone to our own bean surprisingly in miniature In this rough juggle Key West becomes Singapore ttu Bahamas supplant tha Cuba and the West Indies the East Indies Archipelago The South American continent can resent Australia and you can for- get about the land connection be- tween North arid South Americas For the English Churchill must change the whole conception of Western Pacific defense In this riod of tribulation and preparation to paraphrase the prime minister himself Singapore no longer Is the heart and soul of empire defense It must for the time become a sort of The real fight of the united nations is being prepared on the broad north i and west In Burma Free China and south and east In Hie Dutch Indies and Australia This preparation means an im- mediate defense of the lanes of supply on both these flanks ened specifically now on the wast of Singapore by the new anese stab in Southern Burma ward the Quit of Martaban in the Bay of Bengal and on the south and east by Japanese landings and vicious air attacks along the whole curve of the Netherlands East In- dies Pvt Nicholas Bronx N Y The Second Lieut Charles D Nelson Staff Sgt David c Tilghman Snow Hill Md Sgt F p Cook N C Pvt Martin W Tellkamp III Lieut Robert E Crouch Staff Sgt Edgar A bar Pa Sgt F Nygren First Lieut Frederick J Bureau Chairmen For C of C Named Tills unusual picture of fallen Axis soldiers and British desert warriors was made by a Movietone News cameraman during the British attack on Sollum Egypt which fell to the Empire forces Jan 10 The cameraman was focused on the two dead Axis soldiers when UID two British men dashed past J Edwards Ben Ivey from Movietone Neva and national defense Inauguration of the working up of the Chamber of Commerce for 1942 is announced by W C Orr new president in the appointment of bureau chairmen through which the chief activities of the will be carried on The chairman will select members to serve on their bureaus The bureau chairmen announced are as J P Patterson ic C E Hastings Industrial L A McDonald publicity and ment Homer 31 Curtis ship and finance E N agriculture W W King education Connette Called To Army Service Earle assistant sor of music at Teachers College has been active duty with the United States Army President W J McConnell said Saturday Connette who holds a captain's reserve commission in the try wilt be Baited Into the army with that rank He will report to the Camp reception ter near Mineral Wells Jan 28 Plans have already been marie for taking over his work in the sic department at Teachers Col- lege President McConnell said He had been been a member of the N T S T C faculty since last February Connette has been a commissioned officer In the reserve for the past 11 years His last tour of active duty with the army was in 1639 at Ky EAST Warmer in portion cooler In extreme west portion tonight WEST Colder in the Panhandle and South Plains No rain Indicated Cooler this afternoon scattered southeast cooler and
