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PARIS, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 5, 1942 FINAL EDITION Uf( T' I This Day And Time By W. N. F. The Fleet Is Busy OF AMERICAN flee and air operations in the Pa cific have stirred optimistic hope in the minds of many in this coun try. They hope these reports are a prelude to the one report thej have longed for since Decembei that American units have attacked Tokyo and the principal island cities comprising thi Japanese empire.

Of course, the value of such an attack now can easily be seen The Japs are stretched from Tokyo to Australia. This means that of necessity the Jap defenses are spread thin, unless they have fart more such defenses than has even been imagined by the most conservative of United Nations strategists. This should mean that an attack on Japan proper wouM be easier to execute now than at any time since the outbreak of hostilities. Understand that this surmising is not necessarily the whole truth, but is based on the assumption that the Japs are spread thin, and therefore are more vulnerable at home. An attack on by this is meant more than a token raid of half a dozen planes drooping a few hundred small have a devastating effect on Japanese morale.

It must be conceded that the United Nations command knows this as well as anv arm general in the United States, ijfherefore the assumption may be Kraade that the reason such an attack has been impractical from a tactical standnoJnt. It obviously would be unwise send and air raiders into the Jan islands without beinc able to offer both' the full support needed. In sneli a ca'sp. it would be a two-sided woblem. planes would have to establish air paneriority that surface raiders could move in dose enrnijrh to assist in the attack.

Furthermore, the Nations would havp to bring in enough carriers to furnish' sarv flpMers and 'bombers These carriers would, in Kave to lie nrotectert land based bombers. fighters and tnroedn nlanes so 1hat thev could Isimrh their Reds Report Grim ReversesForNazis 36 7 000 Germans Of Trapped Army Said to Be Killed; British Revitalize Empire Armies By The Associated Press Soviet front-line dispatches re ported a series of grim and bloodj reverses, lor Adolf Hitler's battl against, Tokyo, ff'thnt were the object of the main 'Must Suooort Without the necessary support at sea and in the air, the attack' would fail. Surface ships from the air would be easy game for the Japs. This has been proven too conclusively already. And since the air support for these surface craft would have to be supplied as just explained, it can be seen that the problem is no simple one.

On the other hand, a hit and run attack on the principal Japanese cities would have little more than a nuisance value. It would have to be carried out from aircraft carriers far out at sea, and the same problem of defending the carriers would arise as if they were in the immediate vicinity of their Jap target. Usually in the case of such hit and run raids, the casualties to attackers run high to make them of any real value, in Thus it can be seen that the problem of bombing Tokyo is not a question of sending planes over- he.ad.Lto do the job. There is the question of Tokyo's own defenses to be taken into consideration, for example. Any nation which is as thorough in its preparations as the Japs have exhibited themselves to in readying for this war cer- mly could not be expected to to take adequate protection for the defense of their capital city.

As a matter of fact, it is known that the Japs have been having air raid practice for more than two years. Dummy bombs have been dropped, and the grim routine of a real air raid has been practiced. On at least one occasion, the practice went on for four days and four nights, with bombs exploding and lights going on and off while street corner encampments of soldiers directed the citizens in the "defense" of their city. So it can be seen that wiping Tokyo off the map will not be accomplished as easily by bomber planes as some have imagined. There is much more to the Tokyo preparedness than has been mentioned here, but the idea readily gathered that Tokyo will be ready to cope wlih raiders when they come.

This is not to say Tokyo can't be successfully raided. Instead it is intended as a word of caution who think the Jap cap- could be wiped off the face of he rnkp in an afternoon. When the time comes that the United Nations command thinks it is ready to strike at Tokyo, it will strike. Rest assured of that. But the operation won't be airtutlit training flight for the Swindlers' Ring Is Broken Up By County Officers As They Enter Third Consecutive Day's Work On Case Breaking up oi a ring of Paris swindlers was revealed Thursday by the County Attorney's offio and the Sheriffs Department as the law enforcement agencies entered their third consecutive daj of work on the case.

Swindling charges have been filed in Judge U. S. Logue's Justice Court against Victor V. Vickers and similar charges are pending against several other men, Negroes, the County Attorney's office said. Six men have been arrested and other arersts will be made, the Sheriff's Department revealed.

According to the investigating officers, has confessed to lis participation in the swindle, which netted the participants 'several hundred dollars" from the Box Factory of Paris. Officers said 'Vickers, recently employed as a sealer at the Box actory, admitted making out alse records which showed some of his confederates had brought umber to the factory to sell. The onfederates, officers said, then presented these records to the actory cashier who paid them for tie lumber which Vickers said hey had sold to the factory. The officers Thursday said the ase is. so complicated and appar- ntly involves so many-persons and.

that they have ot completed the case, although hsy have worked two days and nights on it. Several of the others involved in the case also have confessed to their participation in the swindle, the County Attorney's office said. First Purchases Of Cars Allowed Ration Board Also Approves Applications For Tires Here ed armies Thursday, declar 1 that the Russians had killed 000 Nazis in the 18-day-old battle of Staraya Russa and were now "destroying the remnants" of the trapped invaders. Nazi prisoners captured in the Staraya Russa sector, where the 16th German Army of 96,000 troops has been encircled, were quoted as saying they had gone See 5, Col. 3 Bids For Housing Contract At Camp To Open Thursday To Take Place At District Engineers' Denison Office Bids for the housing contract for the Lamar County Army cantonment were scheduled to be opened Thursday afternoon at the district office of the U.

S. Engineers in Denison, it has been learned. Neither names of bidders nor any of the details of the bid requirements could be learned here Thursday. It is not known whether one large contract is to 3e let sor whether the housing construction work is to be divided into several smaller contracts. Meanwhile, civilian housing activities near the camp area continued at a rapid oace.

Jack Nolan, former publisher of the Messa Daily Bulletin Thursday told The Paris News that he to erect some type of lousing, facility on a tract of 18 acres located across Highway 271 from the Engineers' field of- ice. It also was learned that a iouse to accommodate 100 men being built in the same vicin- ty. These facilities are in addition to trailer camps which already are under construction in the area. Work of contractors at the 16 Workmen Dead After Ordnance Plant Explosion Occurs At TNT Unit; Is Second In Less Than Three Months BURLINGTON Ta. An earth-rocking blast ihat jarre the countryside 20 miles aroun tailed at least 16 workmen, an injured 42 others shortly befor midnight Wednesday night at th Iowa Ordnance Plant.

The explosion, which demolish ed a TNT melt unit in the shell loading plant, was the second-in less than three months for th sprawling 20,000 acre munition factory. A similar blast claimed the lives of 13 women. Major J. H. Edgerly, chief production control, said the-dis aster was due to an explosion amatol, a mixture of ammunition nitrate and TNT.

Coroner R. O. Giles announced the following 10 of the 16 dead had been identified: Hartzell Popejoy, 36, Fairfield la. Harold Klontz, Ollie, la. Kenneth N.

Van Sickle, 34, Rock Island, 111. Pearl Clifford Carver, Mount Pleasant, la. Harold Wyatt, Keokuk, la. H. L.

Murray, East Moline, I1L Grover C. Keith Cedar Rapids, FOURTEEN PAGES site continued Thursday on underground work and on a new ccess road being built from Highway 271 fficc. to the Engineers' Office of the U. S. Engineers Thursday released the following names: Reid Smith from Wichita Falls roject, Russell L.

Haeber, John M. Hall, Billy E. Halliday, Lester 3. Hamilton, William A. Hanna, Llody E.

Harrison, John H. Harison, Dow L. Hartwell, M. O. layes, James Healy, Carleon H.

Heinke, George C. Hob- ood, James E. Hobgood, Arthur i. Holmes, Foster H. Irons, John First certificates allowing the I F.

James, Walter T. Jones, Wil- purchase of automobiles to be granted since the auto rationing order became effective were issued Wednesday by the Lamar County Rationing Board. The Board granted permission to the City of Paris to purchase two new cars and issued a certificate for one car to Dr. E. Goolsby.

According to a previous announcement by Mayor J. Morgan Crook, the two cars for the City of Paris will be police squad cars to replace the present cars. The Rationing Board Wednesday also granted purchase tires to permission to 18 applicants and gave one applicant, Ernest Short, permission to retread three truck tires, which marked tne first time permission has been granted for retreading. The Lamar County tire quota for March included 38 auto tires and 32 tubes, 142 truck tires and 160 tubes, and 61 truck tire retreads. However, following the Rationing Board's action Wednesday, the quota now includes 30 auto tires and 23 tubes, 106 truck tires-and 126 tubes, and 58 truck tire retreads.

Tire applications approved Wednesday included: City of Paris, six auto tires and eight tubes; Frank Parkinson, one auto tube; P. and E. Construction two auto tires; C. T. Helm, two truck tires and tubes; Community Public Service two truck tires and tubes; Southland Cotton Oil two truck tires and tubes; Honey Krust Bakery, two truck tires and tubes; Stag Distributing two truck tires and tubes; Austin Road four truck tires and tubes; Parrott Oldt three truck tires and tubes; ffdgar Cunningham, one truck tire and tube; M.

S. Kimball. four truck tires and tubes; Loyd Cunningham, two truck tires and tubes; Ideal Baking two truck tires and tubes; Sam Atkins, two truck tires and tubes; Ross Braden, two truck tires and tubes; and Kuykendall's Food Products, two truck tires Rationing Board officials Thursday said the sugar rationing books for Lamar County have not been received, although the books are expected here soon. Ham T. Key, Roland E.

Kimbrough, C. W. Knight and Ernest A. Kouri. DENISON, E.

D. Yarcho, member of the Denison District U. S. Engineers recently sent to Paris as area engineer on the Paris Army camp project has been given an active Army status with the rank of major. Major Yarcno previously held the rank of major in the reserves.

He will continue with his Paris assignment as a regular army officer. Major Yarcho, previously in charge of the Denison Dam relocations section, has Jerry Bowen as office manager at Paris. Passenger Cars Off Rubber List Henderson Says "Not One Pound" Of Crude Available For Them WASHINGTON. Leon Henderson told the Senate Defense Investigating Committee Thursday that "not a single pound of crude rubber" would be available for new tires or retreads on the upwards of 50,000,000 passenger cars now owned by the ordinary citizen in this country. Tile director of civilian sup- rjlics.

who is a War Production Board member, testified that this was the "most, significant single statistic" among a maze of details on the rubber situation which he would offer later before the Senate inx'estigating group. Henderson said that present calculations of supplies for the United Nations "did not allow a single pound of rubber either for new tires, or camel-backs for any of the passenger cars in this country." Chairman Truman (D-Mo) Interrupted the defense official to ask an explanation of "camel-back." "Thnl's the 'rade name for strips used for re-caps or re-treads on worn automobile tires," Hender- said. la. Andrew Jackques Voorhees Rariton, 111. William Buford England, Colusa, 111.

Herschel H. Goddard, Oskaloosa, la. More than 30 injured are in hospital "here. The blast blew apart the three- story brick, steel and concrete building on Production Line 3 of the shell-loading plant shortly before midnight Wednesday. One workman said he was but a few hundred feet away when he heard the blast, and saw debris, fire and smoke shoot high in the ah-.

"Like "It looked pictures I have seen of volcano; eruptions," commented. It was the second such bias, in less than months at the 20,000 acre shell-loading plant The first, Dec. 12, brought death to 13 workmen. Witneses said the explosion was accompanied by a sheet of flame 300 feet high and a terrific roar that resounded through Burlington five miles from the plant, and surrounding countryside. The concussion was felt at Fort Madison, 20 miles away.

Sleeping Burlington people were awakened by the noise and all fire department equipment and city ambulances were rushed to the scene. Officials said an Army investigating board was scheduled to leave Washington for Burlington Thursday. A similar board inquired into the first blast but its report was not made public. The disaster occurred at approximately 11:50 p. m.

(CWT) when shifts were being changed, Police Sergeant Hurley Eland reported. About 50 men were in the building on the No. 3 production line, he said. ESTABLISHED Dutch Official Expects Allied Attack "From Another Side" REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE IN NORTH IRELAND Laden with their fighting equipment and duffel, soldiers of the second, contingent of the American expeditionary Force disembarked at a port in northern Ireland. The picture was radioed from London.

Jury Asks About Short Sentence, No Suspension Mrs. Barr Panel Sends Question to Judge When Out 12 Hours WPBAccused Of Disregard For Copper Conservation House Committee Disapproves Construction Of Rea Lines In Texas and Arkansas DALLAS, in th trial' of" Mrs. Juanita Barr, charg ed with murder of Mrs. Blanch Woodall, night club dancet, sen a note of inquiry to Judge Henrj King Thursday morning asking if a penalty of from two to fivi years could be returned withou recommendation of a suspended sentence. The jury had been out more than twelve hours when it sen in the note.

Mrs. Barr, estranged. wife of Eddie Barr, former Dallas newspaper columnist, allegedly shot Mrs. Woodall to death in her apartment last April 12. The note to Judge King read "Can we find the defendant guilty, as charged, and assess a penalty of from two to five years without recommendation of a suspended sentence? Does it have to be a set number of years?" Judge King dictated to his official reporter this answer: "All of the law in this case is contained in the court's charge.

I refer you to that charge." Britain Extends War Registration Thursday LONDON, Britain accelerated her mobilization of manpower and womanpower for total war Thursday by extending ser- vic registrations for both men and women. Men 41 to 45, inclusive were made liable to military service while registration of women was broadened to take in girls of 16 and 17, who will be listed for training. Houston Woman Gets 25 Years For Murder HOUSTON. O'Keefe was given 25 years in the penitentiary by a jury in Judge Frank Williford's district court which found her guilty of murdering her employer, J. C.

Franklin, on November 12. Stimson Says Air Aid Sent To Java "Material" Numbers Of Planes Go to Help Defenders WASHINGTON. of War Stimson said Thursday that "material" air reinforcements had been sent to Java in the last week. He told his press conference that the shift of General Sir Archibald Wavell from the Southwest Pacific command had not altered in any way the American or British attitude of "intense support to the Dutch in the present battle." "Not only has that support net been diminished by withdrawals, but in the past week we have increased our air support materially," he said. WASHINGTON.

officials of the War Productions Board were accused by a House committee Thursday of "reckless disregard" for conservation of war-needed copper in 'allowing construction of Rural Electrifica'- tion Administration transmission lines in Texas and Arkansas. Chairman Donald M. Nelson was not spared in the report, which the House Military Affairs Committee submitted to Congress. It charged WPB Power Chief J. A.

Krug had indicated to the committee Krug war was "not amenable to Congress." It said also that the committee members were "not favorably impressed" with WPB Chief Counsel John Lord O'Brian's attitude toward constructing the lines, allegedly duplicating private facilities. The report was based ucon hearings by a subcommittee headed by Representative Faddis CD- Pa), one member of which. Representative Fitzgerald (D-Conn) asserted in a minority report the sub-committee was "subjected to a lot of wild and careless statements by the power trust which the majority report readily accepted as correct." A third report, embracing the 'independent views" of Representatives Sparkman (D-Ala) and Brooks (D-La) who said it would be signed by four other members of the full committee Thursday, criticized the subcommittee for not calling Nelson. Texas Projects Talked The other phase of the hearings lealt with construction by the Brazos Electric Transmission Cooperative and the Farmers Elec- Generating Corporation of a line from Texas' Possum Kingdom dam, west of Fort Worth, to Garand, Texas, site of two defense slants, and another from Garland a proposed generating plant at "rilmer, Texas. The majority ials and generating and manufacturing equipment." The report recommended a nation-wide survey and investigation of all proposed power projects, public and private, and de'clared: "If there is no other way to curb the conduct of the Rural Electrification Administration and its wastage of copper at this time than to repeatedly bring it to the attention of he public until it is aroused to the point of demanding a cessation of its acts, this committee will do just that and feel that it is serving this nation at a time of sore need." Sec 5 Col.

3 report, approved by 17 members of the full committee, charged all three opera- ions duplicated existing private acilities, and urged cancellation of the recently-started Arkansas ine, which it said would "waste )ver three quarters of a million pounds of copper," charges disputed in the other reports. The Texas lines, the one to Jarland from the dam virtually omplcted, entail, the majority harged, a wastage of "close to 5,00,000 pounds of copper and vast mounts of other critical mater- Qualitatively, American Ships And Men Said More Than A Match For Nipponese By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, experts said Thursday that thrci: months of sea war in the had produced positive evidenco that, qualitatively, American and men are more than a match for the ships and men of Japan. Every engagement in which surface and air units of the United States fleet have participated to date, it was said, has furnished proof of the American edge on ship-for-ship, man-for-man basis. Because of this evidence, the experts said, the big question no longer was how U.

S. forces would stand up in the en- emy, but rather how quickly Japan's numerical superiority can be equalized or overcome in the Western Pacific. This in turn is a production problem for the nation's ship builders and armament who are working on it, accordins: to the best available indications, at a speed better than they attained last Fall before the Pacific war started. At that time they had trimmed approximately a yeat off the original 1946-47 schcduk- for completing the two-ocean fleet, program. Before the war started wai general acceptance in naval.

circles of the belief that American officers and seamen were better trained than the Japanese, American guns were more effective, that American ships were tougher and could hit harder. Since Dec. 7 the Navy High Command has mndc- exhaustive 1 studies of combat data to discover whether and to what extent that belief was correct. Despite the fact that the Japanese with their overwhelming have been able to advance the Predict Churchill Will Be Unseated London Source Says Cripps to Replace Prime'Minister BT DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, W-An extremely reliable and well-informed political source, commenting on the failure of recent Cabinet changes to quiet public and parliamentary cnticjsm of the government, said Thursday there was every likelihood that Sir Stafford Cripps would replace Winston Churchill as Britain's prime minister. This source went so far as to predict that the doughty Churchill.

whose speeches pulled Britain together in the bitter summer of 1940 and made him one of the modern world's greatest figures, would be unseated within three months. After bitter parliamentry debates it must be emphasized, this source said, that while Churchill is Vastly popular in the United States he has steadily lost the strength of his hold on the British masses since the fall of Crete last June. In addition to desiring Churchill's downfall, the opposition was declared by the political observer to be eager for the finish of Admiral Sir Dudley Pound as First Sea Lord. The contention is that Sir Dud- Icy has been antagonistic toward the RAF and the fleet air arm, to Britain's cost. A 5-minuto talk with the average enlisted man, taxicab driver or dock worker, the opposition also asserts, will indicate that these classes are fed up with a policy of "preparing for future offensives," that they would prefer a dangerous effort which might help end the war this year.

This feeling is said "to find an echo not so much among the middle class, but among peers and members of Parliament, conservative, liberal and laborite, who have protested for months against pe- Marshal Reeves Mi destrian progress of the war effort. Is Cheering Note As Java Seems Doomed, After Japs Gain By ROGER D. GREENET Associated Press War Editor Hubertus J. Vatt Mook, of the Dutch East Indies, declared late Thursday "it may expected that at any moment on the enemy will be launched from another side" by the Allies, even as Japanese invasion forces imminently ened to overrun the United. Nations' stronghold of Java.

Dr. Van Mook did not explain what he meant by "another side" he referred to embattled Java or another sector of the far Pacific theatre. As he spoke, the Japanese had captured at least six key towns, sharply endangered both he abandoned capital, Batavia, and the Allied headquarters at Ban- doeng, and bombed the last possible harbor at which United Nations reinforcements might arrive. Starkly summarizing the crisis, a bulletin from Dutch. Headquarters acknowledged that the enemy was 'advancing continually" with fierce: battles now raging "all over the Island." The communique said Rising sun bombers were also attempt-' ing to knock out the port of TJil- atjap, on the Java south coast, to prevent- either reinforcement or escape of the island's defenders.

Against the grim backdrop of the tragedy in apparent sequel to Hongkong, Malaya and Douglas MacAr- tnur Headquarters in the Philippines reported a heavy blow to Japans armies of conquest. Gen. MacArthur said thousands of Japanese troops were believed drowned In the surprise raid earlier this week of his little air force on Subic Bay, north of the Bataan Peninsula fighting front, where three big troop-loaded transports were bombed and sent to the bottom. Overrun Island A bulletin from N. E.

I. headquarters indicated that the Japanese invaders were virtually overrunning the 622-mile-long island of Java, advancing in many sectors despite "heroic and courageous resistance" by American, British, Australian and Dutch soldiers. Official reports placed the enemy within 10 miles of Batavia, the capital, which the government had already left, and within 25 nines of the new government seat at Bandoeng. The communique said the Japanese had numerical superiority both on the ground and in the air and that a regular front no longer existed because of Japanese infiltration tactics. While the Dutch made no mention of a new landing, British military quarters said Japanese reinforcements had arrived on the west coast, presumably in a thrust toward the partially destroyed capital, Batavia, and that Allied troops immediately launched fiery Marshall Reeves Warns Of Rabies Possibility Of Mad Dogs Evidenced In Treatment Reports Possibility that there may be some dogs in Paris suffering from rabies was voiced Thursday by City Marshal Jack Reeves when he revealed that the children of one family, which recently moved away from Paris, now are receiving the Pasteur treatment after playing with a rabid dog here.

"We are urging everyone to be cautious about strange animals and to see a physician promptlv if bitten by a dog," Marshall Reeves said. The official revealed that treatment now is being given the children of E. R. Bedinger, who recently moved to Denison from his N. 29th St.

home here. "The treatments were started following receipt of a report from State Health Department in Aus- 1 tin that a dog which the children had played with, and which reportedly had bitten one of the children, had rabies. "We have received other reports during the last few weeks that there are 'mad' dogs in Paris and we are reminding people to take every precaution they can," Besides the Times London, i Laura Jean Hosle, daughter of ari Mrs. E. H.

Hogle, 40 N. which is said always to have evi-j31st. St. was reported resting denced a certain distrust of well Thursday after having taken Churchill, and Leslie Hore-Belisha, serum for a wound received last former War Secretary whose pub- week when she wa? bttten by a lie following is large, great num- whole length of the China Sea. bens of younger Army," Navy and conclusion has been that Ameri- RAF officers "are listed among the can forces have proved themselves! elements out of tune with the Qualitatively juperior sea Prime Minister.

mad dos. The dog was atid its head sent to Austin from where a report was receh Wednesday that the dog rabid..