Del Rio News Herald from Del Rio, Texas • Page 1

Under Flood Waters Japanese twin-engined 1 'on Attu were shot down by United A ttof off the in which UMWMV bomb- WEATHER Cooler tonight. NUMBER INDUSTRIAL DORTMBdfti FINANCE ttw OeJferaUb ttw wortong eoavUttM; vtatt ThoM wprttaf incjikto )he lol- Orowr O. Bwn H. Walk tad JM. C.

Wetta the tiwy Hunnicutt wtd o. D. audit cwwnlttte. to cnlilr nun John Row- iWd Kwnillo Otortft. CapUUu rrauk HMrton, ft BY GHIALDC.MANN or attorney general of the State of Texas, will delMw the" address for the com- awnoeawnt of the Class of Del Bto High School, Wednesday Valxiicuxy, Mary Virginia Tin- nln; Commencenient Address, Gerald O.

Mann; presentation of diplomas, W. president of the school board; awardinj ot benediction, W. tVawn; receasionaL Mary EUU Buoton la the class sponsor and Marion Russel, director of 'music, First Lady Advocates All Poll Tax Repeal May JEleMwr Roosevelt tonight advo- csted repeal of all poll ''i good the cqtored Decide, but for all here at the inauguration second annuaJ This is an airview 4 of Webbers Falls near Muskogee, Oklahoma Which fa entirely under water. The view is from the Arkansas" River looking southwest. atrip at right is where cars used to park at tfic west end 'of the' Arkansas River bridge.

Webber Falls has been completely evacuated and nearby Muskogee was without water aa the water stations were completely flooded. Telephoto). (Army Air Corps Photo), May '24 F. Woodward, sportsman and former oil man, died today as the remit of injuries suffered in a train- automobfte collision Saturday night. His wife was killed instantly In the Roane Waring Brands John L.

Lewis Traitor' FOURTEEN DIE IN NEW JERSEY TRAIN WRECK DELAIR, New Jersey, May 24 WV-The crack Pennsylvania railroad train carrying 1,300 era was wrecked on a'curve near hear last night, killing 14 and injuring Cause of the worst in PHOENIX, -May 23 Roane Waring. Memphis. national o( tlw Amor- lean Legion, left for! alter addressing ral-i ties in Tucson yrslcrday and Phcc- nix today. "The tUnc 'come," Waring declared "for our officials to put Mlde aU pecondary considerations and 'make every man and woman injthli or know reason wbs." Hq described John 1 Lewis, president cf the United Mine. Work- V-' AU i here traLV travelling 'around a sharp curve when the accident occurred.

The engine and! buried them-. selves in the 1M feet from the track and along a steep embankment near the intersection pf River Road and Derousse Avenue. Two passenger cars ripped up the tracks, one coming to a stop partially atop the engine, A third passenger car telescoped into the second, stopping beside the tender, and a fourth slid underneath the thrid in the tangled heap of wreckage. Two other cars remained on the right-of-way, tiled grotesquely, but did not overturn. traln madc of 15 former I Pullman cars converted into cft tnc tracfe 2i000 fect from control point known as -Jersey Tower" in Cauiden County and dose to the Deiawarc River Bridge, PANTELLERIA POUNDED DY U.

S. FLIERS Precision Leaves Waste, Wreckage In fiombers Wake ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 24 United States bombers end fighters attacked Pantellerla three times yesterday, carrying on the, assignment with precision that left waste nnci wreckage in their wake. British bombers followed with night block-buster attack against that fortified island. Though no enemy air opposition was encountered, two Allied planes were lost. Three Allied plane formations also raided Sardinia, hitting Carloforte Harbor, attacking the zinc works at Iglcsias and spreading havoc with bombs and cannon fire.

Cairo reported a bomber smash at San Giovanni, Italy, Saturday night, and an against enemy shipping in the Aegean Sea off Grenne. No aircraft was lost this sweep. ADDITIONAL .03 OF INCH OF RAIN SUNDAY An additional .03 of an inch of moisture fell here Sunday between HT'L; siolyneux. United weather fe- jm-ted Monday. A trace of rain was recorded at 7:30 pjti, Saturday but too light measure.

The rain early Sunday morning brought to 3.03 Inches the rainy Southwest Pacific Assembly Line Air Force Photo From NEA) Mass production comes to the southwest Pacific as American Army mechanics put War'machines together in assembly line fashion at a base "somewhere down under." Here a truck that was shipped in sections is assembled in rush-order time. Governor Or Arizona Hears Special Committee On Problem Of Released Japs From Relocation Center House Opens Way For Vote On Anti-Poll Tax Bill Tomorrow voting 388-110 today to discharge its rules committee from further consideration of the anti'poll tax measure, tne House opened the way (or vote tomorrow on that legislation. fTo Take Thirty-Nine Of Fifth Air Force Are Decorated ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN May 24 General O. C. Kenney, commander Of Allied air forces In Southwest Pacific, has decorated 39 men of the Fifth Air Force who have 1 been operating big transport planes in the Southwest Pacific carrying! supplies, troops and equipment to! forward areas and removing the i The men were honored for par- tlcipating in 50 operational miss-; ions each in transport planes.

.1 was presented to 22. The other 17 previously had been awarded the DFC, so they were given Oak Leaf i Clusters in lieu of a second cross, i PHOENIX, May 23 Governor, Sidney P. Obsorn was told today by a special committee he appointed to study problems growing out of the release of Japanese from relocation centers that "Arizona must be determined to repress -a developing Japanese community within the very heart of our fertile valleys." The committee, nothing that the government's program provides for relelse of week from 259 per week 'from' two centers which house 30,090 of the that "already the Japanese populations' In Arizona far exceeds 'the Japanese population before the war." Arizona faces grave danger of "racial antagonism 'and economic disaster through settlement of its irrigated areas by large numbers of Japanese," the committee reported. Declariny "it is apparent that the states from which they were evacuated have no intention of taking back the Japanese after the war" and that the evacuees have no desire to move on to the Middle West because of distaste for the climate, the jeport said: "Arizona not only faces the threat of habiny 30,000 Japanese brought here by the War Relocation Authority thrust permanently upon the state, but 'Other evacuees in distanct relocation centers are today trying to buy irrigated acreage-here." Japanese aliens under long-standing statutes' are not permitted -to own land In Arlsona but, the rc- (-headed niadtfi Its'; report Before Governor Osbbrn left for a Colorado River conference in Denver. The executive made no comment.

possibLlity of the devolpment in Arizona's irrigated farmlands of a duplicate of Los Angeles' pre-war Little Tokyo. "This problem is not an insignificant or a temporary one. It no origin in narrow race prejudice or rancor or It Is, however, a solemn problem affecting our entire population." The committee of prominent IMPORTANT NAZI CITY POUNDED Site Of Industries Shifted From Essen Fired LONDON, May 24 the greatest air attack in history, the Royal Air Force dropped more than 2,000 tons of bombs last night on Industrial Dortmund and raided 'other targets along Germany's water-logged Ruhr Valley. Scores of four and two-ton bombs and tens of thousands of incehdair- ies kindled vast blazes in Dortmund, which had a population of 500,000. The city's might air defenses all but subsided under the terrific hammering.

Thirty-eight bombers lost. Dcrtmund's importance has been increased recently as many war industries have been shifted there from bomb-battered Essen. The night raid on Germany followed daylight attacks yesterday on Belgian coke ovens at Zee- brug'ge. The BAP Had kept its bombers away from Germany Saturday night after three consecu- tibe Mosquito attacks on Berlin RITES HELD FOR GEORGE P. WOOD, SHOOTING VICTIM BLUE STAMPS HANDJGOOD THROUGH JUNE 7 Processed food stamps and may be.

used through June 7, E. K. Adams, chairman ol Val Verclr, Comity's War Ration Board, announced Monday. The stamps were originally planned to te valid until midnight of Muy. 31 but the extension inak.es them good through June 7.

At the same time, Adams announced, he been advisee! the stamps KL and for processed foods will be good from May 24, Monday, through July 7. "Both dates are inclusive." Adams said. Mexican Foreign Minister Lauds U. S. Universities i MEXICO CITY, May 25 ftoreUm Minister Ekequiel Padilln, thanking the University of Southern California for an honorary degree, today took occasion to pultural activities -which are dtsptte the ww, formal statement the Statesman said tlw University 1 Pf major prWt port noted, "a widely practiced subterfuge of Japanese Is to purchase farm acreage In the names of American-born children, but acquiring complete control as though the property were purchased direct by such aliens," "It is easy to foresee in tha not distant future, a grave menace of serious conflict if the present program is not immediately and effectively the report continued, polntlnjj to the imminent LIVESTOCK MARKET Killing eliwp of, sheep were active and fully with feeders on tht Worth market spring ttm The extension was made to eliminate the buying to us up stamps encountered by grocers before and to "level off distribution," Adams explained! Production At Rubber Plants Resumed AKRON, Ohio.

May 24 was resumed today at two of four rubber plants tied up by work involving CIO unionists jprotesting War Labor Board wage decision, Between and per cent of the ahlft workers, returned to Qoodyear pUnt and (nil day complement at' tlw General Thrf Oompsmy, Bixtatn HuwMnd Wrestone and 14.0M Ooodrich are sUll the Corner Fruit Stand, were held Monday at io i'n the chnpel oJ the Angelus in' SaH Antonio, Rev Bt-o. Bill Guild of Church Around the' Corner "officiated. and burial was made in Roselawn Burial Park Wood died early Saturday morning of gunshot wounds suffered shortly after midnight. The Dal Bio produce man died in a San Antonio hospital after being shot four times on South Flares Street. San Antonio police apprehended an employe, Raymond "Buddy" Cummings, and charged him with murder In connection with the fatal shooting.

Wood had produce stands 'in Uvalde, Brackcttville" and- Del Bio and trucked produce to'towns west fjf here. He had been here for. more than a year. 'Survivors include his widow. Mrs.

Effic Moore Wood; two children, Georgia Mae and Bay Kay Wooci; his parents, Mr. and' Mrs. J. Wood; three slstern, Hassle Maloiie, Mi's. Amanda MG- Call and Mrs.

Estelln StUfcinlrc; two brothers. James R. and Joase 2 3 4 5 10 1I1S 13 14 IS IS 1718 It 10 II 22 SUGAR-Stamp No- 13 in Ho, good for five pounds fr 'March 16 until midnight May 1943. STE-Stamp No. 33 Book No.

1 (for those 14 or qldegfj on the date the book was good for one pound from AjrrU 26 until midnight, May 30, NO. in No, good for one pair of through June is, K9IBI4! OIL8, (including.