Denton Record-Chronicle (Newspaper) - January 21, 1942, Denton, Texas ROUND ABOUT TOWN Bo not deceived God not mocked for whatsoever a man em that shall he also is a perfume you not pour on others without getting a Jew on Emerson In n little more than two weeks American citizens will go to bed thc time Sunday night February 8 set their alarm clocks for the new daylight savins time and wake up Monday morning February 9 nn hour earlier than usual They'll start to the store or office in the early dawn if they wish to go to work at 8 o'clock or before and will be through that while the sun is yet high in the heavens In many cases the electricity that is saved in the long evenings will be by the consumed in the mornings When summer comes the saving will be flue in this part of the country and what Is more im- portant will give more working hours in centers of the States DENTON VOL XLI NO 137 DENTON TEXAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 21 1943 Allied Warships Shelling Jap fm Forces Along Malayan Coast Associated Press Leased Wire BIGHT PAGES daylight the Industrial eastern United While this daylight saving is au act of Congress and officially plies only to Federal offices and it Is expected that all others will follow suit and adopt thc daylight saving hours Tlie banks railroads post offices find others associated with the federal government will comply and those who don't may and themselves completely out of step with the tempo of the days The first deep test on the ity Farms near Slidell put down by H L Hunt and associates has been plugged Tlie test was drilled to feet where pipe was set and several unsuccessful tests were and in the foot tests only mud showed There is still another deep test going down in that general area as Hunt Co is drilling on tlie Ed Forrester ranch about two miles east and a little south The last report had this test down to 980 feet S Victory Map in Far East Tlie first of the Golden Glove meets held at the T c gymnasium night was well nt tended and those who saw em say that there arc quite a few lads In the tournament who can hand it out mighty hard There were fourteen at Tuesday night's and It K expected hat there will about as many in in which is rov Tuesday night Some Dallas and Port Worth fighters It is understood will be here for the next bout to a bit Thc last I bouts will be seen on the night of February 3 prior lo the winners being entered in nia Foil Worth Golden Glove Contests I nickels that we've long known but they'll buy thc nickel's worth The nickels In the past been made of three-fourths and i nickel but to save per and nickel the nickels will con- one-half copper and J Now 60 Miles From Singapore Tojo Says Britain And U S to Be Brought to Knees Associated Press Allied warships re- ported shelling Japan's j sion armies down the Malay jungle coast 60 miles north of Singapore day and the united nations were further heartened by President Roosevelt's sure that tlie Yanks are com- with A E F guards already in action or en route Lo battle zones Singapore's defenders shot down 13 Japanese raiders over the apore island citadel today and BAP bombers were officially re- ported to have launched heavy Map shows United States military scores In the Par East m TT and successful attacks against a Japanese tanker 2 U S fliers down nine airfields NEA AH official Tokyo broadcast I TO ri -i confirmation Hail fOF DUTCH EAST INDIES sink a Jap cruiser nnd fire Hacking Japanese positions on Celebes spearheads had thrust within six miles of hovo Strait water rier to and that large Japanese forces were moving up for a direct assault on the island stronghold British headquarters however A gigantic war production plan for j agricultural for a common 1C In- j war resources The United eludes abolition of all trade State will supply tlic capital and establishment ol a common currency for all nations and use of United states naval and air units to convoy hemispheric Hemisphere Introduced at Rio Meet WASHINGTON Jan resources mineral and lor was still many miles raging In Northwest Stale in tho Bakri nnd areas where British artillery inflicted bloody losses on the invaders in firing Allies Thrown Back Japanese news said thai British and defense battling a coastal strip were disclosed today by a high Commerce Department The program drawn up by thc United States was expected to be nt the American es and Unit itself was I ference of foreign ministers non- In under incessant aerial assault j session at Rio de Janeiro Thc The British admitted a rising I commerce official who declined casualty toll in Singapore with 54 i use of his name predicted it would persons killed and 154 wounded in j be applied to all nations an attack yesterday by 90 Japanese ing to tlie plan silver Sounds like better silver listens good TIs possible that before many days the dimes and quarters will be changed and maybe some of the will recall the ter money Yeah we may sec per dimes nnd quarters yet The following item or in was clipped from ington Mr and Mrs M Portwood of parents ol Mrs A L left for their home after spending a month visiting here with Mrs lln and her Mr Portwood WHS In charge of the Nowlin wholesale business while Mr and Mrs made a business trip to Chicago and thc Great Lakes region In the Philippines a War De- bulletin said Gen las valiant defense forces had driven back the Japanese invaders with heavy losses In particularly age on tho sula communique snid loops had joined some Initial I economic wild lie Axis successes by Joint If Argentina Chile or any other nation does not enter the hemi- spheric collaboration plan he said they will be ignored and the plan will be pursued by thc remaining American republics Argentine and Chile were edly holding back on one of the major aims of the tal severance ot diplomatic and frontal attack near cento- of the Hue U S back and ground The as Uic Joint Now thc wildfowl season Is closed there arc many ducks on the lakes and of ty It Is In Big Elm below tlie dam there ure literally hundreds and hundreds of ducks while before January 1 there were very few ducks in this section or state before war production be in g out- forces hurled them j lined at Rio by Undersecretary of recaptured all lost Stale Simmer Welles Assistant I Secretary of Commerce Wayne O Taylor and Warren Lee president of the Export-Import Bank Major provisions of plan of all barriers In- tariffs import duties toms and oilier regulations or strictions of any character which anese airfield at prohibit or delay the flow of 110 enemy troops and putting necessary munitions war or civilian Enemy losses very heavy the communique said Our ties were relatively moderate Par north of the main battle sector in Upper Luzon Island thc War Department said a guerilla band of Gen forces staged a surprise raid on a technical personnel for thc plants necessary to thc conversion of these war supplies United States will vide a standard International for- HE'S STRONG FOR RED CROSS WORK AUSTIN Jan Travis County farmer walked 12 to Austin carrying a sack of chickens sold the lot and gave the the Red Cross for collecting tabulating and distributing economic commercial and financial Information Tills agreement will be for a five-year period and calls for establishment of V Pan American Ion The signatory Latin American j that Japanese advance detachments nese Report Wearing Johore Jan 21 Official War claimed today MORE AMONG MAN SOLDIERS LONDON Jan Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told thc House of there has been a marked increase of typhus on the German side of the slan front and In Eastern and Southeastern Europe Way to Far-Flung Points of Battle WASHINGTON Jan Tlie vanguards of new A E were m route lo the Jar flung tle lines or already in action today as the tuition on the home front took the final step to convert the huge auto industry exclusively to war production The size of the troop movements and destinations In various parts of the world were military Thc same held true thc supplies that went with them But together they represented a trickle at least of tlie great flood to come and the news heartened the other United States larly the Dutch and Chinese The first official disclosure that Yanks are coming originated with the commander In chief self Franklin D Roosevelt knowledging that reinforcements and supplies being sent to the South Pacific war zone the dent reported excellent progress in this exacting operation to his ly press conference yesterday Tlie president's remarks on tho Pacific theatre were in response to a question but earlier the chief executive assured thc reporters that United States already was con- tributing to the war against the Axis In every part of the earth Omitting any details that would be of value to the enemy he that staff talks were covering the offensive and defensive all the continents and seas war supplies nnd the movements of things ships and human irom one part of the world to another Official confirmation that fresh American troops were battle bound engendered no false optimism or of major victories over- night in n capital settling down for Ions hard war Americans And Filipinos Drive Back Japanese WASHINGTON jail Russians Celebrate st War Victory In Fall of Estimate Germans Forced to Withdraw Toward Narrowing Gap Hitler Had Ordered Town Held at All Cost By Associated Press celebrated her greatest victory of the war today as the Red armies drove six miles beyond fallen miles west of Moscow in pursuit of Adolf Hitler's battered invaders tho Napoleonic road of retreat to Smolensk London military quarters ed that Germans had been forced to withdraw toward the rowing Gap ns a result of capture Is about halfway between Moscow and Smolensk Simultaneously a bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters edged broken that Soviet troops had through German lines on the Upper Donets ably in the fierce battle for the big Donets River steel city of- kov Russia's Pittsburgh In the command asserted Russians Take Important Point East Threat Ukraine The high however that Nazi had thrown tho Russians back No hint of thc defeat on the tral Moscow front was given thc Gorman nation Germans View While Hitler's armies fell back along tho wide escape corridor from holsk threatened by Russian ing thrusts on both sides the lin radio broadcast this version of the Tlie German line on the eastern front reaching Irom the sea of Azov to encircled Leningrad is in- tact In spite of many nnd heavy Soviet attacks These attacks resulted in heavy losses being suffered by the Soviets out without achieving the tion of any important points Tlie fall of climaxed bloody street in tho glare of burning buildings was announced in four words by the Russian The forward ler's winter defense front was agree to adopt such a within u i m AVII umi Y formula so that the auditing and n i Tlle Vyar Department said today by triumphant Red ui water barrier to of reporting of statistics to the assets and liabilities of each country wiU be uniform and speedy The United States will vide the capital and make the necessary organization United States agrees to finance and complete certain major projects of value to all signatory nations in an all-out war and hemi- spheric defense program This I south Included completion of the Pan American Highway construction of of Johore water barrier to fortified Singapore and said Japanese forces were moving up for direct assault on the British stronghold The newspaper Asahl said the By Wide World War Analyst The Russian recapture of opposite Moscow is a tory of major Importance and one which may well expand Into ther great successes In the diate future which sits astride the railway has been the anchor for the center of the Nazi winter The mans had fortified this key tion heavily and were depending on it mightily for their spring of- fensive which would be calculated to make an early capture of the Soviet capital With thc fall of ever the whole German hundreds of miles of the line up and down the Moscow will be forced to pull back to a great depth In order to straighten the front for town lay at- the of a great the invaders had driven into the Red defense In- deed Muscovites report that the Hitlerites are retreating along the Smolensk road tragic memories Withdrawal of a big army under enemy undertaking It Is when It has to be engineered 11 and Philippine troops In savage fighting on the drove back thc Japanese I with heavy losses by the enemy A department communique said west coast The Japanese claimed gains In international transportation tems processing and refilling storage warehouses and special conversion industries In return the Latin American tries agree to forego their property rights under private ownership lows The United Slates agrees that such properties can lie acquired by tlie governments or zens at the purchase end of 10 years by 300 others to night the Russian army newspaper Red star estimated that about American and Filipino native troops wove ing Japanese in Luzon supplies between tile American nations They will he eliminated for tlie duration of the war of n free tional exchange currency to tate flow of goods mill delay NAZIS TWO FRENCH CJ IT I KENS VICHY Unoccupied Prance Jan tion of two French of aiding tlie enemies of Germany announced In Hie Paris press today Tlie men were Pierre or La Rochelle and Albert I am most hopeful about thc grain said Will Stuart I've examined tho roots of the on my feel they'll come through all right I recall two years ago when the crop looked as1 though It had been killed but it through and made the best crop we had had in several years Fred Freeman said I have not examined the grain since the ti I am o the opinion that grain will come through Miss Jane McElroy daughter of Mr and Mrs E C McElroy of ton has accepted a place as teacher hi the Alamo School in Wichita Falls J E Park former Denlon teacher Is principal of the school And thinking of E C McElroy I calls thai he appeared on r street with several days growth of 1 whiskers and when asked the why i he replied Well I I'd be pay my luxes and save money on the whiskers Ill the old days or Denlon County a quail dinner served by thc losers In n hunt was not nt all unusual but in recent times it seems there have been no such meals The son of on quail may see a dinner of that kind as tis under- stood that Ray who went through thc past season without I killing a single bird lias challenged Minor Ben Wren and Pete each a bagger to i a and tlie man who kills thc least number of birds on single day's hunt the day to be is to be host to the other three at a quail dinner Traffic Cop says Watch traffic and traffic so as to minimize starting An Tokyo broadcast i hi transactions It would be on a of Ollen Paris that Allied warships had en- Bold basis and in addition to tlie tered the critical battle ol American nations Great Britain apore even as Japan's navy i China Netherlands India and Vice Admiral ail British dominions would enter mada boasted that the Japanese the agreement A pool of allied gold navy virtually commands the holdings would be created The from Malaya nnd tlie Indies lo the coast of the United States To Real Down Allies On the same exultant note Pre- mier Gen Tojo asserted that planned increasingly vigorous operations in the nnd would continue fighting until the United States and Britain were Latin American countries would agree to peg their national cies into the free international ex- change currency of an emergency bor program for thc hemisphere whereby skilled labor would be lowed free movement between countries and whereby any hemi- spheric labor shortages would be MOLOTOV MAY FAY VISIT TO LONDON LONDON Jan foreign commissar Vyacheslav M Molotov may come to London soon to repay the Moscow visit of For- eign Secretary Anthony Eden the well Informed diplomatic of the Yorkshire Post wrote today Burma and dive bombers porting heavy offensive operations aimed at and Rangoon Domel said British and lian defense forces south of the River In southwestern laya were being pushed back ward Singapore and were suffering heavy losses in their desperate re- sistance Singapore itself was said to be under virtually continuous attack by Japanese planes The Japanese bombers also were said to attacked and on the Thalland border BO miles northeast MAN KILLED IN CRASH NEAR CAMERON CAMERON Jan vey Williams pi Corpus postal clerk was killed in an auto- mobile crash nt 10 miles southeast of Cameron late day BAYLOR IS TO DISCONTINUE DAILY CHAPEL SESSION WACO Jan save the cost of heating the huge Baylor University auditorium thc old Baptist school has decided not to continue compulsory daily el but to hold the service on call only said battle rings of the Rising Si were advancing southward along the west coast in spite of gunfire from enemy ships in the Strait of which lies between tile Malay Peninsula and I lie Dutch Sumatra Indies island of brought lo their knees met Establishment of an Japanese dispatches civilian workers Is planned so new war Industries can bo set up throughout thc nent return for the pooling of hemispheric shipping the United Stales will take the responsibility for transportation of war supplies find essential exports olid Imports Tills will include convoys with al and air protection Tlie United States will underwrite warehouses and collect the war essentials for marine movement This try also will repair and operate the ships if the subscribing nations are unable to do so To Nationalize Air Lines American nations will nationalize all air lines and air vices not now nationalized for n in return the United States will underwrite the cost and maintenance of lines and pledge reduction of Inter- national air freight rates and place a celling on International ger rates United Slates guarantees the basic essential exports required to sustain the internal economy of each Latin American government Those nations agree to pool all British military quarters ed that Japanese ly arriving In small boats which hugged the to land along the Malay coast during the last 24 hours striking ahead of the main Japanese Invasion army lo harass the British west Japanese pressure also Sank Strong was reported against a British communications highway running southeast from tlie Muar River tor 90 miles north of Singapore where British Australian and Im- Indian troops were gling to halt the main Japanese onslaught It was in this sector that British were kyo asserted trapped A Tokyo broadcast said See WARSHIPS page 4 WAR FATTENS NATIONAL INCOME TO NEW HIGH TOTAL and also rise WASHINGTON Jan 21 War fattened the national income to the record-breaking total of In 1941 or an age of government estimated today Tills was more tlinn and even more than the fabulous year of 1929 In 1942 It Is due to be more How much more depends upon the ex- tent of growing war expenditures upon now much prices The experts figured that about one-third of the Increase in tional Income last year was pated In the higher cost of things Taxes saving campaigns credit controls price fixing and other de- vices are counted on to remedy this trend toward soaring costs of living Wages and salaries accounted for the biggest part of the national in- come which was 9 per cent more than In Farm Income dividends profits from un- incorporated businesses and types of Income also gained Manufacturing industries by a large number of new defense factories and defense ders for many old ones produced of the national In- come In order the next biggest contributions were made by the retail and wholesale trade service establishments such as restaurants and theaters culture finance transportation and construction Military of the United States and British ments here represented about or 18 per cent of the total President Roosevelt has set the nation a goal of spending an amount equivalent to half the tional Income for tills purpose in the future In terms ol Jobs the higher tional Income meant that workers Increased 000 In number and reached a total of Retail sales one of thc best indicators ot thc general Income rose 17 per cent to a total of before the defending troops ter attacked and retook ail tions American nnd Philippine tics were described as relatively moderate Raid Jap Air Field At the same time thc ment said n guerilla band of troops operating in Valley in Northern zon achieved a brilliant local cess staging a surprise raid on a Japanese air Held at Tuguegarao taking tlie enemy completely by surprise killing 110 Japanese and putting 300 others to flight Tlie uy ti tu forces at a m I throuSh deep snows and In sub- C S T Sunday it had weather particularly tured by the Germans Just three are such months ago In the heyday of their now broken offensive against he shelter winter drive which Hitler H n claimed would be the last great the death-dealing winds of the decisive battle of 1941 v posing is One which party losses suffered only slight There were apparently no planes on the ground when thc raid was made since did not mention the destruction of any In his report to the department Text of Communique Thc lext of thc communique No 68 of tlie war based on reports re- here up to a m GST In fighting on the Ba- tan Peninsula American and pino troops drove back the enemy and lines which pre- had been penetrated The Japanese by infiltration and tal attacks near the center of the line had gained some initial cesses Our troops then counter- attacked and nil positions were re- taken Enemy losses were very heavy Our casualties were moderate One of MacArthur's guerilla bands operating in the gayan Valley in Northern Luzon scored a brilliant local success In a surprise raid on a hostile airdrome at Tuguegarao The Japanese were laken by surprise and fled In confusion leaving 110 dead on the field Approximately 300 others were put to flight Our losses were Is nothing to report from other AGENT 4-H BOYS NOW Maintaining H schedule of ing demonstrations and with boys organizing their 1942 Clubs was keeping County Agent G R Warren largely In the field this week Leaving his office Wednesday thc agent satd work of organizing and officers for the boys clubs was progressing rapidly and that first reports of those elections ably would bo made by Thursday or Friday Programs for the boys for the ensuing year are expected to be chiefly bulll around tho ment's lor needs Fresh Soviet Troops Beady In London Soviet quarters de- clared that the fall of would signal a titanic tion of the baltle and that tlie Russian army now had hundreds of thousands or completely fresh reserves ready to hurl into a giant offensive along the entire front Tass the official Soviet news agency said the Germans suffered tainly holds potential disaster for the Nazis It depends on whether the Russians are able to exploit their capture of before thc are able to retire to fresh positions and re-establish their line New Jap Thrust Yesterday I recalled your tion to the threat in the Japanese capture of the of Tavoy in British then com- Japanese and Siamese Thai forces have struck toward the mese port of though the British report thai the drive was checked near the frontier town of Now the extension of the anese attack to Burma is most dis- quieting As pointed out In day's column were the Japs able to gain control of Burma they would at once have cut the Burma Road and thereby fairly well Iso- lated China from the outside world and would have gained a powerful base for operations against India Loss of the Burma Road ly would be a catastrophe for tlie Allies in the Far East since It would cut Chinese off from their main supply And today the Chinese press Is appealing to United States and Britain for huge quantities of war materials But beyond this there is small doubt that the Japanese are getting set for a possible wrest the Indian empire from Britain That has been one of Nippon's night at the Denton Hospital where dreams for long years It's been one of Germany's for that at all costs Tass said Red anny ing Into the city after smashing forte 60 to 100 yards apart found a scene of otic destruction and carnage Even before the capture of wounded and German troops were reported to have been moving to the rear at a rate of five to six dally Hitler's high command sized the bitter lighting In the Donets basin that the Russians lost killed in one battle and asserted that n tal of Soviet prisoners hod now been captured at Feodosiya ill the Crimea Four Injured in Auto Collision Four victims of an accident on the Dallas Highway about 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon spent a restful they were taken following what was understood here to have been a head-on collision of two automobiles two miles north of Lewisville Injured most seriously was C D Evans of Athens who suffered a fractured right leg He was alone in his automobile it was believed Mr and Mrs Tony Quails of both severe lacerations about their faces and bruises on bodies as did Jesse Knight of Dallas These three with Mrs A J Knight and infant daughter neither of whom was Injured were driving from Dallas to Tioga when the accident occurred Highway Patrolmen E J Banks and Allen were gating the accident Wednesday Aviators Killed KAUFMAN Jan In- and student from the RAF school at Terrell were killed today Jn the crash of their plane miles northwest of here on the Vlo Osborne farm The Instructor identified as Troy was to be an American Tlie uaine was Johnnie Hanson matter There Is no reason to suppose that the British aren't holding Burma In strength They also have a large standing army of natives fn India However if the Japs should succeed In getting hold of Burma It would present a serious menace to India proper The Hy of this situation would be ly Increased If the Nipponese should airo capture Singapore for that would give them a sea route be- tween Singapore and Sumatra to reach their base In Burma EAST Little change In temperature tonight frost In portion except on coast WEST this afternoon and not as as last night change In temperature today and tonight ex- cept slightly warmer In s portion tonight
