Laredo Times (Newspaper) - May 7, 1944, Laredo, Texas 63rd YEAR No. 282 26 PAGES MAY 7, 1944 PRICE 5c 1 Catholic Leader Commencement Speaker NEWS Behind The NEWS TUCKER Chinese authorities in Washington have informed this Government and the British that their country may be forced out of the war within a few months unless we can provide them with more soldiers and especially planes and heavy This will be President Roosevelt's No. 1 problem on his return to For the first time since Pearl Tokyo is giving direct and definite aid to Berlin in its present offensive against Generalissimo Shiang The Japs aim to bring its great Oriental enemy to its knees simultaneously with or soon after the Anglo-American invasion of It is global warfare on a grand * * Chungking's troops are hungry and lacking in many kinds of modern They are fine as the well-equipped units under Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell have But they cannot stand up against the Japs unless we can furnish them with and so far they have received only Another danger is the terrific inflation throughout The American and millons have been flown in by is the equivalent of only on Page 13.)- STATE K OF DEPUTY TO HERE J. State of the Knights of and prominent Texas will be the 1944 Commencement speaker according to an announcement made by Superintendent William P. Galligan and J. W. principal of Laredo High Commencement exercises and the awarding of diplomas and various honors will take place on May 26, it was Strauss has a long record of fraternal and public He is at present serving his third term as State Deputy of the Knights of Columbus and his first term as Supreme At various times he has held the offices of State and State Secretary of the Knights of He was also for four years the president of the Catholic State Besides holding these fraternal offices Strauss in a member of Archbishop Lucey's Executive Committee for the National Council of Catholic Chairman of the National Catholic Community Service in a member of the Operating Committee of the and Catholic of the Conference of Christians and Jews for the on Page 8.) Mail Move Over Bridge Today Postmaster Jennie R. Goodman announced Saturday that the closing of the international bridge Sunday would in nowise delay the transfer of mails from the Laredo to the Nuevo Laredo postoffice and that the international mail would be transferred as The truck carrying the mail from the Laredo postoffice will leave on schedule times Sunday and at the bridge the usual tolls will be offered and the mail carried to the Mexican The truck bringing the international mail from Mexico will operate from the Nuevo Laredo postoffice as Assumes Command FOR May 6-^)- Maj. Gen. Jacob E. Ficke arrived here today to take temporary command of the AAF Training Command headquarters in the absence of Lt. Gen. Barton K. regular who has departed on an undisclosed mission Major General Fice is commanding general of the AAF Training Command's Eastern Technical Training with headquarters at St. Mo. We Congratulate New Members Of The Stork Club and Mrs. Manuel of 2321 street announce the birth of a son at Mercy Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Paulson of 1807 Guerra avenue announce the birth of a daughter at Mercy Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Manuel de Llano of 819 Chihuahua street announce the birth of a at Mercy Hospital Mexico Transfers Alien Prisoners May 6 Germans passed through here today enroute to the Mexican Penal Colony on Tres Marias The three were brought under guard from the Alien concentration center in and placed aboard a prison ship The Interior Ministry announced recently that a group of Germans were being from to the Island Colony because they had caused trouble among the other Yank Downs 28th German Plane May 6.-UP}-Wing Commander J. E. Johnson downed his 28th Nazi plane over France becoming the leading ace among RAF pilots still Wing Commanders J. R. D. Braham and J. H. are tied for second with 27 planes Flight Lt. George a Canadian who destroyed 31 recently was transferred from the RAF to the RCAF and now is in Canada on flying training Daily Washington M err o own By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the KING'S ACCOUNT QF SINKING OF HORNET LEAVES OUT SIGNIFICANT B O M B E RS FROM CARRIER WERE SENT OUT TOO LATE TO FOIL THE JAP DELAY OF TWO HOURS FOLLOWED MESSAGE ENEMY FLEET HAD BEEN SLOWNESS OF COMMUNICATIONS AT THAT TIME ALSO BLAMED FOR OUR King's recent report on two years of T U. S. naval warfare contains an interesting reference to the sinking of the airplane carrier He tells how U. S. planes from the carrier going to attack the Jap actually passed Jap dive bombers going the other way to attack the But those who actually lived through that battle know that Admiral King leaves out a lot of the One minor but unique Page 8.) Gal 4 r n' - - r r 1 Interesting Wright At recent annual party of New York Police Benevolent coppers chose comely model Mickey as They Would Most Like to Maverick Writes Letter To Judge Following is the copy of a letter to Judge R. Wright of the 49th District Court from Maury head of the smaller war plants divisions of the War Production It shows how highly the son of Judge and Mrs. Wright and brother of Mrs. Virginia W. is regarded hy the War Department and has other interesting Laredo Honorable Ralph Wright Criminal District Court Of * mm Dear Head tO We were visited last night by your Captain William who is the friend of our 1st. Lt. Maury of the United States who is in the South Although your son served around the Pacific area near Maury all during that they never saw each We were very pleased to see your We never saw a finer young He is polite and and we considered it an honor to have him in our He did not expect but we had a good old Laredo supper for We had chicken the mole had been sent to us by Ed I wanted to offer him some which was on Page 6.) PERISCOPE And let's all clap while Charlie Bichter Jr. smacks the on his And more congrats to another good Lion with a birthday Dr. F. And Mrs. J. C. very proud to receive notice her son somewhere in has been promoted to Here George Spence who had a nice visit in Little Rock witli the Major Ted And best wishes to a fine R. O. former executive officer of the 58th Cavalry on his new station with the 4th Army at And Waydell home on making every moment count until he has to leave * And Mrs. Tom who may be the next first lady of the was reared in the in Oklahoma with Mrs. Travis And Lieut. Commander formerly stationed now in Inc. To Be Sentenced N. 38 ed for will be sentenced during the June 5 term of Sullivan County Court on his second degree murder conviction in the 1037 slaying of Walter Brooklyn loan The returned yesterday by a carried a minimum sentence of 20 years to May 6 Mercy Hospital To Distribute Penicillin An Associated dispatch from Washington Saturday afternoon announced that Texas hospitals selected by the chemicals bureau of the war production board to serve as hospital depots for civilian distribution of penicillin included Mercy Hospital at GUS J. STRAUSS Diplomat Passes BUENOS May 6- de Paula Rodriguez Brazilian ambassador to Argentina for six died today of a He was 60 years He was a son of the late Brazilian president Francisco de Paula Rodriguez Allies Make Gains In India And Burma But Lose In China BY LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Allied might ruled the skyways of the Pacific and the drove the Japanese back in India and but the Chinese command admitted yesterday that invading armies had driven through a 30 mile breach to within nine miles of ancient capital of Chinese smashed at Negro Unit Awarded Medals May 6-tfP)-One hundred one of the 140 men in squadron 464th Army Rir Force base all negro Air Force unit in the won the army good conduct it was The other 39 haven't been in the army the required year to qualify for the Baseball Results The Associated NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh at Chicago - Boston 4, New York 1. Cincinnati 2, St. Louis 0. Brooklyn 10, Philadelphia Nipponese columns but were unable to halt flanking forces bearing down on gateway to the invasion route to American and planes scored seven to one victories in air fights over hit Tokyo's two largest outposts in the Central and raised havoc with Japanese installations along a 1,4000 mile aerial front in the South Pacific from Kahili in the northern Solomons to the Schouten Islands off the western end of New British and Indian troops captured several important positions in their general offensive around designed to wash out the Japanese invasion of India during the forthcoming torrential Other successes were reported by British jungle fighters spreading out to the north and south from 60 miles below The actions are designed to dislodge the invaders from strong points and leave them floundering in quagmire and soaking jungles the starts a week Allied forces driving to make their own positions secure before the tropical rains reported small gains in north and southwest In Burmese skies American and British fighters emerged from two air battles with a score of seven Nipponese planes shot down to only one Allied The major land battles of the Orient wore being fought in north Tank supported Japanese infantrymen were reported yesterday to be advancing in three Three columns drove toward the railway junction of Loyang in Honan To the southeast two powerful forces of invaders were methodically closing in from both directions on the 40-milc strip of the railway still held by the Another Japanese army advanced westward from captured in neighboring These troops are conquering the section of north China closest to Japan that isn't already patrolled by invading OIL CONTRACTOR PASSES May 6-UPh~ Samuel T. 71, prominent oil well drilling died today at his home in Lake Relatives and business associated here were Bombers Hit Ponape Isle 1. AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 3, St. Louis 2. New York 4, Boston 3. Chicago 4, Detroit 2. Washington 5, Philadelphia 0. May 6 tering Ponape Island with 87 tons the town and dock areas base in the eastern Caroline The Navy reporting the action said large fires were started and explosions were caused by bombs pounding down from the Army On Friday other Seventh Army Liberators struck again at principal enemy base in the They encountered only light anti-aircraft Results of that raid were not The Navy also of other bombers pounding enemy in the eastern part of the Marshall with 47 tons bombs which struck coastal anti-aircraft positions and magazine areas on at that Japanese held Islands Thursday Nuevo Laredo Customs Duties Hit High Mark Customs duties collected by the Nuevo Laredo during the month of April amounted to 14,000,000 pesos according to official report made Three and two percent of these duties go to the Junta Federal de Mejoras Materiales of Nuevo Laredo for continuing of civic improvements in that the junta beine headed by Customs Collector FORTS HIT 5 ROMANIAN CITIES ALLIED May 6-(AP) Liberators and Flying Fortresses perhaps 500 to 750 strong hurled explosives into five Romanian cities slamming rail targets and an aircraft factory in a assault on the The big bombers and their fighter escorts struck through a screen of German hammering rail yards and an aircraft plant at 75 miles north of site of oil storage and railway yards 10 miles northwest of rail on the Romanian side of the and Pitesti and rail cities on the line about 70 miles northwest and 120 miles west respectively of the Romanian It was the first attack of the war on Pitesti and Immediate reports on damage and Allied losses were Some enemy aircraft were shot The heavy daylight blows quickly followed up heavy overnight RAF assaults on Romania and Friday's daylight attacks on Balkans targets and the spectacular breaching of the Pescara Dam In Tito's Forces Slay 900 Nazis May 6.-(/P)-Marshal Tito's Yugoslav forces ed more than 900 of the enemy yesterday in extensive operations topped by a strong new German tank and plane offensive in eastern a Partisan communique said The communique said that the Nazi offensive had broken through to 35 miles northeast of and that enemy reinforcements inn brought up around miles east of tempt to surround In the eastern Bosnia the bulletin said that 400 Nazis were accounted for by Yugoslav and another 15Q killed as the swooped into western were 75 in an Refug Walk had To Mexico City MEXICO May 0-Sevcntecn refugees from a cent abortive revolt in Salvador said today they walked here from El Salvador after the rebellion was The led by Lieut. Roberto Moran included students and They said they fled El made their way on foot over the mountains to Guatemala ond then The revolt against president Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez on April 2 was crushed after two days of DETAIL FOR TODAY Police Detail POLICE DETAIL has nothing to do with but consists of a military advance upon a given of all cigaret candy wrappers and material that is foreign to the By means of these frequent POLICE soldiers become amateur some of them even being able to tell you exactly what part of the post they merely by looking at the After being in one for three or four can usually cite the location of any given pebble ft Between Two Cities 24 Hours If Without the international bridge midnight Saturday to isolate Laredo and Nuevo Laredo for the first time since floods of WJi and 1922 made foot and vehicle traffic As clocks clanged midnight on both sides of the lights went out and several carloads of United States customs guards drove to the middle of the wheeled their cars around and placed them in position so that no vehicle could Customs guards took their places on the pedestrian traffic Customs officials said that the ban would continue until midnight tonight Those who will be allowed to cross today A. R. assistant customs will be military authorities of the United States and Mexico on official business and high government authorities of both Doctors from both Laredo and Nuevo Laredo will be able to cross on emergency The mails from both countries will also be allowed to move as will all war Kahn Seven buses of the del Norte plying between Laredo and Nuevo Laredo daily will not be allowed to move during the 24 hours The last pedestrian to cross from Nuevo Laredo to Laredo as the midnight hour struck was Domingo Cantu of 418 Clark The last car to to Laredo from Nuevo Laredo wad Mexican License An estimated 21,000 crossed the bridge from 7 o'clock Saturday morning until midnight A large group of spectators on both the Laredo and Laredo side of the bridge was present at midnight An expected truce between the bridge company and government did not develop and stood the government contending the bridge company should pay the expense of officials necessary to the bridge open and the bridge owners contending this was the government SUFFICIENT AMMUNITION May 6-Sufficient and caliber ammunition to kill six times population of the earth was supplied to fighting men by the Army Ordnance Field Service during 1943, according to Gen. Edward F. Russian Air Units Sink 19 r Axis Ships Near Sevastopol May 7.- Soviet high command announced last night that Russian units had sunk eight more Axis ships near Sevastopol in the making a total of 19 in two and said Red army troops repulsed local counterattacks in former w * 4 Two hundred Germans were killed southeast of in the area between the Upper Dniester River and the Carpathian said a midnight bulletin telling of the only land activity reported by Russian airmen also attacked a German field in that The German high command said Axis besieged at Sevastopol since mid - again had beaten off heavy Red army infantry and tank attacks supported by Axis broadcasts located the most violent fighting as long the River on the northeast side of Berlin also reported collapse of Russian assaults east of the middle Siret River in but Moscow was silent on these operations as the land front lull entered the third Pensive Captures Kentucky Derby CHURCHILL May 6-(JF)-Pensive, the horse that almost didn't get to come to the Kentucky struck from in the final eight of a mile today to the 70th and richest of all in the silks of Wright's Calumet cloth was second and Stir Up Pensive returned and across the board with Broadcloth paying to place and to The show price on Stir Up was Sut Up was fourth and Brief Sigh finished A. - - Marshal Rommel Tells Germans Invasion Of Homeland BY RUSSELL LANDSTORM May 7-UP)-Field Marshal Er win Rommel told Germans in their bombed homeland yesterday that an Allied invasion of Europe be reckoned aa and one Nazi commentator said the and Britons would hurl 2,000,000 men into action using 100,000 landing Dr. Erich a writer in the was quoted by the Berlin radio early today as saying that the main Allied blow would be across the English with another hitting southern France and possible diversionary thrusts at Denmark and The German commentator declared the main Allied landings would be made under of an air and will so powerful it will be impossible to prevent establishment of the fate of the invasion will depend on battles between the invasion forces and large reserves Rommel pictured German soldiery as with new and for the and he asserted in a German broadcast that the Allies would up against a great many Woody Woody EAGLE PASS ARMY May 0' your wife's ton Post once asked employee Samul E. was appling for a field ids of said not her growled 8th of her first her Flanagan entered It ST birthday M name on the application then i the first asked her maiden ngan said Woody to Flan - J mean her full name is 8th of May Woody beamed Stalin Priest To Declares 1 May 6-(AP)-The Rev. Stanislaus Polish-American priest concluding a 12-day visit to declared today after a second audience with Premier Joseph Stalin that the Soviet leader is friendly disposed towards the Roman Catholic church and that religion of our forefathers shall be the religion of the Polish In a formal statement as he departed for the United Father significantly said that events will Stalin's friendliness toward the Catholic The priest described his own prediction as but gave no hint as to what he thought the actual events might The whose trip has criticism in the United declared that Stalin wants a democratic and that has no intention of meddling in the internal affairs of Apparently highly satisfied with his Father praised the Russians as wonderful and Stalin Foreign Commissar as He with the two leaders at the Kremlin On Pago 8.) - Louis Langston Missing In Action Staff Sergeant Louis E. whose wife and son reside at 1202 San Agustin is reported missing in action since April 18. according to a telegram received by wife from the war department - He was a gunner on a of the Eighth Air Force have been bombing since Sergeant volunteered for service in army in 1941, and his gunner's wings at the do Army Air Field on August 17 and was sent overseas in He expected to his missions before v
