The Neosho Daily News from Neosho, Missouri • Page 1

NEOSHO DAILY DEMOCRAT VOLUME St. NBO1HO. MO- MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1942. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS NUMBER 118. FAMOUS WOMAN WRITER, FOOD AUTHORITY HERE To Lecture at Camp Crowder on Food and Nutrition and Proper Use of Coffee.

Neosho has had more than her share of nationally known parsonages pay her visits of recent months, but one of the most interesting among the list is spending today and tomor- rom at the Big Spring Inn, on a trip over the country for the purpose of visiting Uncle Sam's army camps as a representative of the Brazilian government. The lady is Mrs. Ida Bailey Allen, who is noted as the author of the syndicated column "Get More Out of Life," which runs in some 400 newspapers, and a radio feature which is broadcast over the air from some 82 stations. Mrs. Allen is a famed home economist and is an authority of food and nutrition, having written and published 36 cook books.

Mrs. Allen's present trip is being sponsored by the National Coffee Department of Brazil, which country sells a major portion of the coffee used by Uncle Sam. It is the purpose of the Brazilian representative to see that the coffee sold in this country is used to its best advantage, and one of the subjects to be covered in Mrs. Allen's lecture at Camp Crowder today and tomorrow will be how to make good coffee. She also will cover various subjects regarding food and nutrition in the series of lectures which will be made before Camp Crowder mess sergeants, cooks and student cooks.

While here Mrs. Allen and her party will visit spots of interest in Neosho for a part of her work includes radio broadcasting during which program she will tell of interesting observances in and around the camps she visits. On Wednesday she will deliver a radio address over WMBH, Joplin, and it is likely she will tell some interesting facts regarding Neosho. Mrs. Allen is accompanied by Charles Premmac, known as the singing gourmet, who fills out th? radio program and acts as master of Temonies.

The tour is made possi- iie thru the courtesy of the U. S. Quartermaster Department, and thru the cooperation of the USO, Mrs. Allen being a member of the Women's National Committee of the USO. PLAYGROUNDS REGISTRATION TOMORROW All School Students to Meet Either at Stadium, Park, Benton or Field Schools.

Registration of all students in the Neosho school system for summer athletics and proposed playground will take place tomorrow and Wednesday at the high school stadium. Big Spring park, Benton school, and Field school. All boys over 11 years of age interested in soft ball are to register at the stadium for afternoons and the games will be played between 1:00 and 4:00 o'clock. Showers will be provided for after the games. Morning athletics at the stadium will include volley ball, aerial darts, horse shoes, croquet and various dodge ball games.

These morning games will be carried on at all the other play grounds thruout the day. Soft ball for boys 11 years or younger and girls of all ages will also be offered. Tennis may also be added at the stadium if enough interest is shown. Supervision of the play grounds will consist of at least two women and two men, possibly more. These people have not been designated as yet to certain play grounds, but will be placed after registration U.

S. FLEET PURSUES JAPS WEST OF MIDWAY AXIS FORCES RETREATING IN LIBYA (By the United Prettt The British are moving forward in the most savage tank battle of the Libyan war. Both sides are pouring reinforcements into the furious struggle now raging west crossroads. of the Knightsbridge The situation is confused, but it's clear that the British, attacking with thousands of armored vehicles supported by infantry, are forcing the battered German and Italian tank forces to fall back. British General Ritchie's advance forces control Bir Harmat, a strategic outpost six miles below Knights- bridge.

Still farther west, British and Indian troops have established toeholds inside the axis positions, and have fought off every attempt to drive them out. Free French forces still hold the southern anchor of the Birtish line at Bir Hacheim. Nazi General Rommel is at the front trying to halt the tide against the axis. General Ritchie reports that the fighting is worse than the 1940 battle of France. The crash of shellfire was so terrific it even affected the weather.

The detonations induced a brief thunderstorm something al- on the desert in THE MASONIC SERCICE CENTER During the day yesterday over 1,000 service men visited the Masonic Service Center on the east side of the square. Mr. Joyce B. Webster, field agent, is in charge, and is certainly doing all he can to welcome and entertain the hundreds of visitors who call at the Center. Fourteen of these centers have been established up to a recent date and several more are being considered.

Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Stanley, of Neosho Heights, are leaving for Salina, Kansas, where Mr.

Stanley will be employed on a government project. He has been connected with the construction at Camp Crowder for some time. CRASH INJURES TRUCK DRIVER N. O. Leonard, Webb City, route 1, 57 years of age, was in Sale-Bowman hospital today as a result of an accident about noon Saturday as he was hauling chat from Granby to Camp Crowder.

Mr. Leonard is an employe of the Interurban Chat company of Pittsburg, and was on his way to Granby, we are told, when another car driven by J. E. Stretch came out of a side road. In attempting to avoid a collision, Mr.

Leonard said, he swerved too far off the road and went into the ditch. X-Rays are to be taken today at the hospital to check on any possible fractures, but so far Mr. Leonard's known injuries consist of a 6- inch gash on the left side of the head and bruises to the side and back. DEATH OF MRS. GENE CONWAY Mrs.

Dessa Conway of near Goodman, passed away about 1:30 p. m. Saturday, at her farm home. Deceased was the wife of Gene Conway former Neoshoan. Funeral services were scheduled for 3:00 o'clock this afternoon at the Oakwood church.

Bob McKnight is confined to his home by illness today. 24-Hour Seivlce. 32 Cab. Co. tt READ THIS The Federal Government postively PROHIBITS US FROM MAKING A SECOND CALL for collections, we will have to collect upon delivery.

This is our Government's order. 31-fp. Neosho Steam Laundry Set you sights high IN BUILDING up a bank balance, aim high. The goal you set for yourself might at first seem beyond attainment, but this very fact will make you strive the harder for it As the foundation of your thrift plan we recommend an account at this bank, with the maximum possible amount deposited every pay day. We have a certificate issued by the Foderal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, authorizing this bank to sell United States Defense Savings Bonds, and we have them ready for delivery.

Von should have a Savings Account if possible, even If yom do not need a regular Cheeking Account. MONET TO LOAN All applications for loans given prompt consideration. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Neosho, Missed Member Federal Reserve System Russian bombers raider a nazi base and destroyed 43 planes on the ground, damaging an additional 20. Another eight German planes were reported shot down when they tried to raid soviet warships anchored in the Baltic. British night fighters defied bad weather and raided occupied France and Holland.

They started fires at a Dutch airdrome that were visible for 45 miles. The British radio has warned all residents of the occupied French coast to evacuate immediately. The broadcast said the British want the ground to be cleared for what was called "coming military operations." It's an electrifying message but it does not necessarily mean the allies are planning an imminent invasion of the continent. It may mean the British want to avoid the nazi reprisals on French citizens that followed the Commando raid on St. Nazaire, when French patriots helped the raiders, or it may mean that the British are planning to make some thousand-plane bombing attacks on the coast There's still another possibility that the British got wind of nazi preparations for an invasion try against England, and want to take counter-measures.

For whatever is coining, the British are doing their best to avoid THE WEATHER- Scattered showers and thunderstorms south and central portions to- today; little tempera- change. HAND-TO-HAND STRUGGLE RAGES AT CHUHSIEN (By the Unitrd Preta) The Chinese are fighting desperately against five major Japanese offensives from inner the Burma frontier. Mongolia to The most violent fighting is going on at Chuhsien, in Chekiang province. FOG SHROUDS BATHE OFF DUTCH HARBOR Japan Suffers Greatest Defeat in Her Naval History. United States naval forces are in hot pursuit of the crippled Jap fleet as it flies westward from the Midway island area, but another battle is reported in the vast 1600-mile stretch extending from Hawaii to Dutch Harbor in Alaska.

There, dispatches indicate, American forces are battling other units of the Jap navy. There are no detailed where the defenders are holding out reports on the fighting, inside the walls of the city against I American forces, after losing con- 100,000 enemy troops. tact with the enemy Saturday night. The Japanese have captured the now axe believed to be harrying the most unknown June. Most fronts are relatively quiet in Russia except at Sevastopol, where Russians still hold out against a third major axis assault.

The Soviet's magnificent stand at Sevastopol, now in its 219th day of iege. rivals their stand against the' British and French during the Cri- it also represents the biggest step Chuhsien airdrome, which was a major menace as an allied bombing base against Japan's home cities. But Chungking says the Chinese are resisting stubbornly in hand-to-hand fighting to hold the city itself, although the situation is grave. The enemy offensive in inner Mon- mean war. Then, the Black sea gar- held out for 349 days.

The Sevastopol defenders are fight- forward for the allies in seizing the initiative in the war of nerves. Such a warning by the British is bound to ng against superior forces, but, the nazi defenders the invasion ed by the soviet Black sea fleet, and I jitters. the Red air force, they've turned! Before the evacuation warning was jack large-scale attacks, inflicting issued. British planes blasted a 400 mile stretch of the invasion coast. Bad weather giounded the big bombers, but fighter planes and light coastal command bombers were in the air.

They set fire to a nazi air- icavy losses on the enemy. Violent fighting has been going on for the iast three days. At the other end of the 1800 mile front, on the Karelian front, heavy air battles were fought when nazi Manes tried to raid the Russian rear- ine positions. The Tass news agency says four Russian planes tackled ten German, dispersing the enemy after shooting down one. Later, says Tass.

main Japanese fleet. They evidently are seeking to sink its many damaged ships and knock others out of the battle, and the chase is not expected to end until the running battle nears the limit range of American land based planes. The Pacific fleet commander. Admiral Chester Nimitfe golia was started Saturday on the in announcing the apparent with- Ordos plain. Japanese forces crossed the Yellow river at Paotow, and moved south.

Other offensives have been renewed in Chekiang, Yunnan, drawal of the Jap fleet from the Madway the Yanks had fired some parting shots. A Jap destroyer has been sunk, and Kwantung and Kiansi provinces. In additional damage has been inflicted Yunnan province, facing Burma, on two enemy cruisers. One United Chungking says the Japs are rush- i States destroyer also has been sunk, ing reinforcements to their but Admiral Nimitz said most of the troops and predicts an enemy offensive with tanks from Indo-China. Allied bombers have struck again seamen had been rescued.

As it now stands, two possibly three aircraft carriers and a des- at enemy bases in the Australian in- troyer have been sunk in the blazing vasion area. They raided Timor Is- four-day battle, and American units land, scoring hits on a bridge and liave damaged three battleships, one a dock at Ermcra. and on barracks' ot two aircraft carriers, four to six cruisers and three tansports. It appeai-s more and more certain that Japan has suffered its greatest at Atamboea. In Australia itself, defense authorities have ordered a blackout for a 1200-mile coastal strip in industrial in its naval history, but naval New South Wales.

The order is a se- observers in Washington caution that aes. orcesse- drome in Holland. They attacked I quel to the Japanese nuisance shell-i des heavy Japanese losses. an enemy shipping off the Frisian is-1 ing nrobablv bv submarines i eventual attack on Hawaii still is lands, and scored one direct amidships on a medium-sized enemy ship, and they blasted French railroads and freight yards. ing probably by submarines nit against Sydney and Newcastle.

The Possible. U. S. TO PRODUCE 10,000 PLANES A MONTH NEXT YEAR; GOAL OF 5,000 A MONTH THIS YEAR ALREADY REACHED (By the United Preit) Big decisions are in the making in Washington today. Decisions on A super War Production board pooling the facilities of all the United Nations.

On whether ration cards will go to all of America's motorists. On extra dollars for American fighting men. But one decision has been carried out the one made five months ago when President Roosevelt called for an output of 60,000 planes this year. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma reveals we now are making more and better planes than the axis. They're rolling at the rate of 5,000 a month now, and it's going to be 10,000 a month next year.

Thomas says "the enemy cannot stand before us. No nation or combination of nations can hold up against United States power from this time on." Plans to pool all the production facilities of the United Nations soon may be announced. British production minister Oliver Lyttelton has been conferring with American officials on the setup of this international war production board. These two countries have taken the lead as the only ones producing in excess of their own needs. One goal of the super WPB is the standardization of equipment so that parts for American weapons could be replaced by England, Russia or Australia, for example.

President Roosevelt will decide this week whether to extend gasoline rationing to all 48 states, to save dwindling supplies of rubber, but the President first must deal with a revolt of congressmen against the proposal. He will confer with congressional leaders on this problem this morning. Later he will hear the objections of the rebellious congressmen. The Office of Price Administration is putting the final touches on its plans to start the permanent rationing system for the Eastern coast next month. The OPA will crack CAMP CROWDER SOLDIER DIES Private Lawrence P.

Traphagen, 29 years old. No. 39387981, Company 26th Battallion, a trainee in the Signal Corps at Camp Crowder, was dead today of Cerrebral Hemorrhage. Private Traphagen's home is given as Billings, Mont. The body was taken to the Knell Mortuary, Carthage.

enemy fired blind and failed to cause They say the Japs still may be able any military damage. In fact, a wind and rain storm did more damage. However, authorities were taking no chances. They ordered the blackout in effect to a depth of 100 miles inland along the entire coastal strip in the vulnerable area. CONVICTS ESCAPE STATE FARM (By the United Prete) JEFFERSON CITY.

June Two short-term convicts escaped I from a Missouri state prison farm 1 last night. The run-aways are Jack Adair. 24- years old, formerly of Tulsa, who was serving two years for burglary from Jasper county, and Mos- to reorganize, get reinforcement and have another try at what now seems to have been their objective Hawaii. Japan realizes, these observers say. that Hawaii ds the keystone of our Pacific defenses, and they'll take most any risk to knock it out.

The American fleet commander, Admiral Ernest King, thinks the Japs threw the bulk of their naval forces into the big Midway but he said American forces won't pursue them too far into their own waters, and he added: still have a lot of shore, bas- as they found we had ell Roberts, 19-years old, serving two years for grand larceny from Pemiscot county. the Coral sea victory and at Midway." In Chungking, the official Chinese news agency sees the big battle as "the beginning of the downfall of Japan." And in London, the Times suggests that the Japs may have been trying to gain a base to strike at the Amer- jican continent itself. Jim Bill Anderson, who has been General MaxxArthur has rWired his today. Said Mac Arthur: "My own pride and satisfaction is boundless." uiiii oiii nnucisuu, wiiu nas Deen puircu iu The service man died June 6th, at! confined to his home by illness the' congratulations to Admiral Nimitz. 11:50 p.

and the nearest relative I past week, is somewhat improved is given as his father L. F. Traphag- en of Pompey's Pillar, Montana. Relatives were notified and directed that the body be shipped to Hardin, Montana, according to the Pub-' lie Relations office at Camp Crowder. ROOSEVELT BOOSTS ARMY SUPPLY BILL WASHINGTON, June 8.

(U.R> President Roosevelt today asked congress for a new war appropriation of almost $39,500,000,000. It is the largest apropriation request in history. This would boost the money to be spent on the war over $200,000,000,000 mark. Mr. Roosevelt asked that the funds be voted as part of the regular army supply bill for the 1943 fiscal year, which begins July 1.

In January Mr. Roosevelt asked for a 1943 army appropriation of only $6,300,000,000 with the understanding that it would be increased before the House Appropriations committee reported the army bill. MAN FOUND IN STUPOR SUNDAY MORNING A man said to have been Joe Bates was found on the lawn on the north side of the courthouse about 11 o'clock Sunday morning in an uncon- down on filling station operators who scious condition and was rushed to try to evade the restrictions. They must keep full and daily records, and violation will be punished by a $10,000 fine or a year in prison. Today may see the showdown on the fight to increase soldiers and sailors pay, at least in the senate.

i Supporters of the $50 a month rate may try to force a record vote on the issue in the belief that not many senators would come out on the record against the higher rate. A senate-house conference commit- I tee has agreed on a $46 a month minimum scale, but the senators and congressmen favoring the higher level refuse to compromise. the Sale-Bowman hospital by Thompson ambulance. According to reports, he remained in a stupor for over an hour and was dismissed from the hospital later. There was no in-1 dication of foul play or intoxication.

FIRE DAMAGES BUZZARD HOME Fire damaged the garage at the home of J. Buzzard, on West Spring street Saturday afternoon at 4:30. The blaze was thought to have started from spontaneous combustion and was brought quickly under control, with only slight damage. Thompson's ambulance. Phone 47 Curtains done reas.

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