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ONE BRITISH SUBMARINE GETS 17 AXIS SHIPS Boat Dodges Depth Charges and German Planes TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1841. THE AMARILLO DAILY NEWS AMARILLO, TEXAS PAGI THREE ABOARD A BRITISH SUBMARINE DEPOT SHIP. July 20 (P) Officers of a submarine credited 17 Axis ships in the Aegean'. and Afediterrancan told today of frantic penman, Greek seeking clemency bad forced to pilot Maranta unfamiliar waters, submarine had just returned from patrol duty in the Aegean, where it- had sunk six German troop and provision ships. The vessel also sank the Italian tanker Strombo when 1t attempted to sneak out of Istanbul where it had been repaired aller Senate a previous torpedoing.
Four Getman vessels were destroyed by moonlight in one of the few re- one corded night surface actions in- ant volving a lope submarine. Itabian troop ship also was setit to the bottom. The commander's account of the 50 actions follows: the one morning we spotted our A convoy at two Italian ships her escorted by one destrover and aircraft in the Aegean. They obriousLy were troop ships. We fired torpedoes at each and the first, of LO about went down.
The other vessel was of about 2,500 tons. I don't believe we hit her. Speedily Slight Dose of Bismuth Speeds Handling of Stainless Steel HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE and F. W.
Fink, The bis- By NEW YORK, July 28. (P)-The discorery that. stainless steel is 1m- prored by giving it a little bismuth. chemical that man takes in medicine and which the feminine Lialf uses also in cosmetics, was cade public today. The bismuth, in amounts of to one-half of one per cent.
makes stainless steels which can machined twice ns fast. Machining weans sawing, cutting and boring, jobs that form a high the costs of finished stainless steel products. It is estinated that the machinThere is also an important costs will be cut by quarter. in handling, particularly in defense manufacture. The discovery was made at the Battelle Memorial Institute, CoJumbus, Ohio, by H.
Pray, R. S. I Peoples muth, they said. does not decrease the corrosion resistance of stainless metal, nor affect any other Important. properties, like strength! and toughness.
Bismuth is a lustrous, white metallic element. Why it! makes stainless steel easier to Battelle selentists said. Is not clear. The discovery was sponsored by the Alloy Casting Institute, a of a score of the nation's stainless steel foundries. Heretofore, where case in cutting was necessary, indusiry has used stainless, swphur.
steels But alloved rich, selen- these. the Batielle report stated, sacrificed 50mle corrosion resistance, white selenium in addition made welding difficult. Bismuth does not hamper welding. RUSSO-NAZI WAR HAS BIG PART IN BRITISH PLAN FOR VICTORY By DEWITT MACKENZIE The Russo-German war, which shevists not only holding the tine fighting machine but finding strength a mighty factor in the Allied Six weeks ayo world in Nazi boast that they would he in rapidly growing that the German army couldn't be stopped. Now.
howerer, euch day that the Reds heaving, straining Ine 1s a golden for 'the Allies. The Muscovites are bleeding the Eitlerites Britain couldn't have hoped to do for months to come. is adding rapidly to the amount of energy which Hitler is expending in mAnpower, materints and d. equipment--a matter of inimportance. And it inleases the that rapidly approaching.
winter will overtake the bleak plains of Russia da and kill all chances for the quick conquest upon which the fuehrer was banking. Dispatches Turker reiterate in greater detail, the Britain reported Cherman pinn to offer peaca soon quick Nazi victory had been achieved over Russia. Eitler would make the Allies large concessions, providing he was recounized as master of the continent of Europe. But this pian, which probably loomed large in Berlin six weeks ago, now must like A dim aloud on the far distent horizou. Then there is another aspect of the world turmoit which is being greatly influenced the fierce Russinn resistance.
That is the Japunese program of expansion. There can be small doubt that the Nipponese will be largely the governed in further mores outcome of the grent battle now being waged in Western Russia. If the. Nazis break the Red tory, on the Japanese may try take sition and surge forward to vicadvantago of the position for further expansion, Should the shevists increasc In strength, Tokyo is likely to sit very tight, and avoid; trouble with Britain and the United States. The Berlin and Moscow reports: RETIRED AMARILLO MERCHANT PRAISES HOYT'S COMPOUND Was Relieved of Kidney Distress, Dizzy Spells, Indigestion, Nervousness, and Severe Muscular Pains, Says Mr.
Mr. David Young, 512 Retired Amarillo, Texas furniture states: "For three years I had kidney misery, muscular pains, 'DAVID SIR. 'DAVID YOUNG dizzy spells and constipation. I had gas pains, bloating, belching. and nervous spells, I could not eat without A sour couldn't sicep.
for I had to get. up each night. The pains in my hack wyere terrible. "with Hoyt's Compound, I ex- Querienced relief from dizziness, and I no Jonger rise nt night, My muscles ache less often. I can eat anything.
My bowels are regular, and stomach sourness 15 gone, I got my sleep, and my nerves are back in Hoyt's Compound is soli by the Cretney Drug Store, and by all leading druggists in this area. The destroyer pursued 215 and "In the afiernoon of the same dropped depth-charges for about day, we met a schooner which hour but none was very close also was carrying approximately the remainder of the day was 50 German troopers. After the quiet. first couple of bursts from our guns "The following morning we en- she caught fire and sank. countered one craft carrying about -The Nazis tried to take to boats German soldiers.
We came to Lol I couldn't hang about to see surface and opened fire with whether any got away. 4.7-inch deck guns which sank "One her enrly, moonlit morning shortly. three or four days laier. we ran "She was the first of a series of into a convoy of three small craft craft flying the German flug pear the coaSt of Crete. One ancih we met in what appeared schooner was flying the German be an obviously small, but flag- of which I hare one with rather general.
reinforcement of me. We sank them all, one by one. German garrisons in Greece and before dawn. They were carrying Crete. petrol and some munitions which Confirms Philippine Army War Chest Russian Position Rapidly Expands From Shattering Ry KIRKE WASHINGTON, July 28 (P) The German command's Swift Senate action today clothed high Douglas former U.
S. battle of Smolensk seems premature; might mean the shattering of the MacArtbur, Chief of Staff, with the rank of exposure of Red armies to encirclement lieutenant general rommanding Army of the Far Fast, as the Presumably that is what the department moved to sian relieve Sal's Rus-1 intended to forecast. It strengthen the armed forces in efforts to "entrapped" comrades were beaten off; and troubled area. Berlin report ietls of the destrucOnly a few hours after the Presihad submitted Mac Arthur's Lion of a Russian dirision "east Smolensk." nomination. the single Senate dissent.
confirmed, Danger for Reds be asl However, if the Russians fail swift rote could taken endorsement of the hold Smolensk their to greatest south! dapger would seem to be the lion attitude toward Japan WAS known in view of the lack of debate. The elevation of Macarthur, who has been field marshal of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, was one of three moves with which the administration reacted Japan's push into French Indo-China. The, others were an order freezing Japanese assets in the United States land proclamation putting Philippine arined forces on virtually 2 war-time basis. Officers 'Fo Islands Clarifying the freezing order, the government made plain that for the present at least, 1t. as would not be applied in such a way to detain Jspanese ships in United States ports.
Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, the Japanesc ambassador. called al department seeking light on the order las it applied to ships. Sumber Welles, acting secretary of state, assured him that prompt clearance would be given, under present conditions. Besides Mac Arthur's nomination, the WAr department moved to strengthen Philippine defenses by ordering 16 officers, from second lieutenants to captain, to proceed there. Whether they would be accompanied by troops was ant disclosed.
Mcantime. the House passed an $8,063,238,478 defense appropriation bill, carrying funds for -expanding the army, navy and merchant marinc and for 8 new war departinent building described as twice as big AS the Empire State Building. The measure now goes to the Senlaic. In addition to the army nave funds, the bill carried $1,698,650,000 for the maritime commission for the construction of 541 new cargo vessels and for expansion ot shipbuilding facilities to step up the nation's merchant ship output to two daily by early nest year. Prorides for Crews The army's share of the total, $4.760,203,814, included funds for the complete equipment and ance of a combat status for one Alyear of 1,727,000 more than the present.
enlisted strengthand for so-called critical items of equipment for a 3,000,000 man land force. Critical Stems are those which require a long time to produce and which are not 'manufactured commercially, ouch AS artillery and anti-aircraft equipment. The navy would get including funds to increase its strength from 258,000 to 000 to provide crews for the rapidly expanding flcet and to boost the marine corps from 46,000 to 75.000 men. Naval funds also included $300,000,000 for construction and improvement of shore bases, many them OIL outlying Islands; for new ordnance production facilities and $160,000,000 for additional ship repair facilities. Liquor-Runners Take Lesson From the War OKLAHOMA CITY, July 28 (41- Charles E.
Dierker, U. S. district attorney. said liquor in Oklahoma aut of Texadopted convoy system which must huve got from reading the war reports. "Conroy cars, he explained, "drive of the trucks carrying the liquor.
Their drivers watch the highways closely for any sign of officers. If they get suspicious, they signal the trucks, which turn back and try to reach Texas." One such car was solzed, Dierker said. after federal agents confisTented an 30-case load of liquor. He said if he succcoded in having the car forfeited it would sel A precedent because it. contained no Ite expressed belief that the bulk of tax-paid liquor reaching Okiahoma is now coming from Texas since grand Jury Indictments AL Fort Smith, and Muskogen have plugged, at least temporarily, the flow of liquor from Arkansas land Missouri, AUTOMOTIVE HINT A driver who forms the habil of bringing his automoblic to a grad-: 1121 stop will get longer wear from his tires than one who stops abraptly.
ment increased approximalcly Deliveries to the per cent to 1612 the six-month period from July to December, 1040, went up in great bursts of fiame as result of our gunfire. Only one craft returned fire with a small anti-aircraft gun. "One schooner continued burning for more than three and a half hours. attracting German airemft, but fortunately did not locate us. were forced to board the last craft and force the soldiers off so we could place a charge in her hold and blea her up.
-When we went alongside, the German soldiers retlod: The capiain is Greek' I WAS sorry about. him but it. wasn't my fault and she had to sunk We Not Secure Encirclement L. SIMPSON prediction of quick victory in the but it cannot be ignored. 1t main Russian defense bastion and on a gigantic scale.
Hitler headquarters announcement is Brakeman Killed Near Dalhart DALHART, July 28 (Special)Hert Reaksecker, Rock Island; brakeman, was fatally injured in arejaccident at Exit Switch, 38 miles! sonihwest of Dalbart, at 6:20 o'clock this evening. Details of the accident are uDknown here except that the train crew was engaged in setting out car at the time. Both legs were severed, one the knee and the other immediately below the kuce. An ambulance and physician were called from Dalhart. Reaksecker died in the ambulance when within ten miles of the hospital.
Reaksecker was braking for Conductor Charlie C. Moore, on A train What left here at 4 o'clock this afternoon, Ho was 45 years old and had resided here three years, coming to Dalbart from Des Moines, GROWING The second United States census 1800 showed the nation had A population of 5.308,483, compared crease 3.929.214 ten rears carlier. The rate was 35.1 per ordered them 10 take to boats or be fired on. "Finally, had to send a party aboard to' force the Germans off. As my men climbed overside, one German tried or fire grenade at us, but before it ever left his hand aus Another urted to kill any number one man with rifle fire, but he suffered the sarre fate.
"We Then continued our patro! and we picked up the Italien tanker Strombo, altempung TO leave Istanbul. presumably for Kaly. We fired torpeders at her and scored two hits, finishing her for good." Commander der Wheeler Blasts Treason Charge WASHINGTON. July 28 (7)-- Wheeler of Montana declared today that Secretary 5tim-: son's recent statement that his ac-: tivities approached crenson wAS: "part of a program to terrify the: American people into submission-: to make them accept participation: in a war." the Senate floor On point of personal privilege, the Mon-! tanan declared that after Stimsou's! statement President Roosevelt! joined the wolves In their slander-: anjous attack" against him. Stimson made his statement after: two men in army camps had received cards from Wheeler urging: them to write President Roosevelt that they did not want this country to participate in the European war.
Wheeler, deliberate told the cunning. Senate Seciclary Lhat Stimson created the utterly false. atland spurious impression that I had: circulated ilis franked selectees card principally among -and that: It encouraged these American bors to resist any aliempi to keep them in service over a rear. "I denounce these attempts oil Secretary Sumson and war-mongering newspapers scek. as both deceptire vey such An untruthful Out Wheeler of a said.
million three cards were waited out, known to! have reached American soldiers. BUENOS AIRES (A') The government has asked Congress to! appropriate 4,701,000 pesos tabout $1.175,000) for a metetojorological plan to provide comand military aviation with frequent accurale weather No service You can't find four better reasons for taking your Ford car to your Ford dealer than these: FIRST: Mechanics who work on car your are experienced in Ford Factory Methods, SECOND: Modern Testing Equipment, developed especially for Ford cars, eliminates expensive "guesswork" and locates arty trouble quickly, THIRD: Any parts your car may need are replaced by Genuine Ford Parts, always best for Ford cars. AND FOURTH: Our prices are the lowest you can find for expert Ford work. ALWAYS TAKE YOUR FORD. CAR TO YOUR FORD DEALER! Get this Summer THESE Adjust brakes Adjust steering 2 and front Rearrange 3 necessary Adjust and 4 plugs 7 SERVICE Ciean fuel 5.
adjust gear summer wheel coe-in tires if 6 Adjust 7 Inspect clean spark clean DRIVE IN WALTER 205 Taylor Street Island Patrol In U.S. Army MANILA, July 28 4P) -The Philip-: inine off-sisore patrol was placed enthe jurisdiction of the Naval unstrict tonight, becoming the first unit of the Philippine armed forces to be incorporated zith United States forces as ordered by President Roosevelt, The nairo! comprases abou: 150: officers men, two torpedo boats and several such ships under conistruction. Infonned circles expected that the alr corps. most highly developed branch the arms. would be the next unit incorporated.
The air arm has than a hundred trained corebat pilots and an undisclosed could number be training planes which converied into pursuit. ships. Absorpuen of the Philippine arms. politica! circles pointed out, will lease the commonwealth government's financial difficulties and save the government st. least 000,000 annually.
It 'was nuderstood that incorporation of the Philippine forces would be dove gradually, eliminating mobilization. necessity of The air corps reports that the flying cadets require about 18,000 tons of fuel yearly. Air miles per month figuring six to the gallon sometimes reach 3,000.000. More airplanes for civilian use were produced in the United States 1940 than 1932, 1933, .1934. and 1925.
Approximately 6870 civil' planes were built last year, an all time record for any single country: one year. "THEY CALL ME 'DOC'" "When someone complains of indie I them one of MY Tablets' wrote dr. M. of Penn. 1t -Doc" met you he'd probably band TOO one! Ask your drussist today for Tablets and see DON quickly they reltere gas and Cretary Drug.
IN THE CAMELS! SO CAMELS SUIT THAT ME BETTER ALL EXTRA SMOKING LESS NICOTINE PER PACK IN THE IN CAMELS SUITS AND EXTRA MILD. ME TO A'T' on actual sales records from Army Post Exchanges and Sales Commissaries. Navy Stores. Ships' Service Scores, and Commissaries. THE SMOKE OF SLOWER -BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS i I NO rather than the east.
50 far A5 meager and confusing accounts of the situation now indicate, Russian lines behind the Dnieper River still intact from Smolensk westward to Orsha, thence Mogiler. i' This great triangle of the Dnieper bend centering at Orsha is the main north-central bastion of the Stalin line defenses for Moscow. Without question powerful Russian forces massed within it and complete Gerinan mastery of Smolensk would, threaten them with encirclement. The main highway to Moscow, st.Ill a long 230 miles! east of Smolensk, runs eastward slightly and from that function point. South southwest from Swoleusk, however, a trio of rall-! roads and highways fan out to Ros-.
tayl and Bryansk and, east of those junctions, to Ershovka and other points intercepting communications with Muscow from the whole Russian Dnicper front. Should the Red army defense at I Smolensk crumble, 4 luge Nazi turning movement southward far behind the Onleper front would bel possible. There are strong Indications that the original Nazi called for a simultaneous breaching! of the Dnieper line al Smolensk and! at Moglley. about as far south down the direr from the Orshs bend as Smolensk is east up the river from that point However, even by Berlin reports, that jaw of the trap has? beeu long stalled at the river. Artny Destruction Emphasized The German alternative in the event mi a decisive victory at Smolensk might be 8 vast southward turning movement toward Roslavl and Aryansk to get behind the Russians on the Moglicv-Orsha-Smolens' triangle before they could retreat.
Berlin commentators hint at such development. They arei stressing. for German Histeners, the that territory. the taking of Moscow means little in this war. The Hitler objective is destruction of the Red Army in the field.
they contend. And failure of that army to eling to the Dnieper crossings might well prove fatal to Russian hopes of a further general retreat in the center. New Destroyer Christened CHARLESTON, S. July 28 (J.P.) -A 1.700-ton destroyer. the OSS slid down the ways of the Charleston navy yard.
today after being christened by Miss Jean in honor of her uncle. William Merrill Corry, MAval aviator. Lieutenant-Commander Corry died in 1920 of burns received in an nttempt to rescue a fellow-flier from the wreckage of plane at Hartford. Conn. The new destroyer is the second named after Coury, The first was scrapped in 1930.
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Air Corps Mechanics, Write for our catalog. CLIP AND MAIL TODAY! Mojor W. F. long, Dallas Aviation School, Leva Field, Dalias, Texas. Without any obligation to me lend your catalog tor Addres DALLAS AVIATION SCHOOL AND AIR COLLEGE LOYE FIELD DALLAS, TEXAS LESS NICOTINE enters its sixth week with the Bolagainst the hitherto invincible Nazi, for counter-altacks, is increasingly expectations ni victory.
general wasu't inclined to dispute the Moscow by this time. 'the tradition was throw little light on the progress the fighting. and probably Aren't calculated to do so. The important fact to note in AlE this is that the German invasion has been retarded and that there apparently hes been break the Red line recently. Beyond that we shall be advised wait for further indications before making up our minds what the outcome of this greatest battle of all time is guing Lo be.
4 Texas Farm Loans Set New Record In connection with the wide celebration of the lending of the two-billionth-dollar in produc-tion credit association loans being staged in Newton, Town, last week, 3G associations have hit an and farmers during the first six all-time high in loans to, stockmen or 1941, according to word received by the Amarillo Produc-! tion Credit Association. Reflecting credit demands. for. seasonal operations and expanded farm production to meet national defense requirements, Texaus this year have borrowed $23,957,630, gain of 47 per cent over last year's first half total of $16,442.627. Loans during the period reached A total of gain of 2,991 members.
The a Amarillo Association hns made 152 Inans to stockmen and farmers for $1.056,486.24 in the period of January 1 to June 30, 1941, as compared with 127 loans for $514,271.49 during the same per- ion last year. Trucks Driven by Brothers Hit DALLAS. (I.P)-Two driven by brothers collided six miles south of Dallas early today. James Williamson, 22 years old, the younger was killed intreated stantly, Robert Dalias Williamson, 24, was ac a hospital for! superficial injuries and released. Police said the Williamsons lired! at Cushing, and mere working on: toad construction job.
James was driving north with a load of stone. Robert was driving south with another lcad. Wife Gels Only Dower's Rights will of WASHINGTON, July 28 (P)-The Edward B. McLean, former newspaper publisher who died terday, teft, $300,000 to Rose. Navies.
sister of oft Marion Davies, but cut his wife with only dower rights, Filed in district court here today, the will left $5,000 to euch of three children, two sons and a daughter. It McLean was dated June 19, 1931, before was adjudged lusane by al Maryland court. Ttie document provided that if Any of the heirs attempled to break the will that person would get nothing. In assigning the $300,000 to the sistre of the former screen actress. McLean said that Rose Davies given her association and attection." Why "BC" Relieves Headache Neuralgia So The effective, quick-acting Ingredients in the "BC" formula are readily assimilated.
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