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i I AMARILLO DAILY NEWS. AMARILLO. TEXAS TUESDAY. MORNING, MAY 19, 1942. THE Triple Blow at China From Thailand Opened PAGE TWO West Bank of Salween River Cleared of Jap by Fighting Chinese, Pressure on Farmers By Nazis Increased RAF Torpedoes Prinze Eugen pounds per year, but in 1941 consumption per capita was 165 pounds, according to German Truck growers increased their regetable acreage 45 cent in the first two years of In 1942 a Dear.

further increase of 25 per cent was decreed. At the same time farmers were ordered to plant at least 15 per cent of cultivated land in potatoes, reducing the planting for feed stuffs and brewery grain. Deliveries Delayed Goering called last winter the "longest, worst and most stubborn in more than a hundred years," and acknowledged that spring farm work was than usual" In addition to the extreme temperatures and late thaw, fertilizer deliveries were delayed during the winter because transportation facilities were tied up with war traffic. German farm experts said that the phosphorous fertilizer available was only 33 per cent of the amount used in 1933 and that nitrogen, supplies were only 76 per the amount distributed in 1938-39. The most serious difficulty, however, appears to be the shortage of labor and German sources estimated that at least.

600.000 laborers of were the needed. Already 1,000,000 2,100,000 foreign workers in Ger-! many are employed on farms and in forestry projects. In addition. 800,000 prisoners of war are used in agriculture. Farm labor is not at its full efficiency because, according to German figures, 53 per cent of the workers in farming and forestry are women, many of whom work in the fields only part time.

Various means have been employed to recruit farm labor. One! of Goering's decrees compels residents of country towns, including the wives of soldiers who have been living on government benefits, to go into the fields. Public schools are subject to sus-! INSIDE GERMANY BY DREW MIDDLETON (EDITOR'S NOTE: Ernest G. Fischer, Texas- newspaper- LONDON, May 18 (P) -The man, went to the Berlin bureau Day, powerful German cruis- I of the Associated Press in 1910, when Adolf Hider was making history in western Europe. Now, en er Prinze Eugene was regarded toroute bome after five months of internment, he tells here in one of night as knocked out of the vital the first dispatches to be sent without Axis censorship how the Ger- battle of the Atlantic perhaps for man farmer must increase production despite a variety of obstacles.

three months br the raping Fischer, 39 years old, was born of American parents of German ex- wounds of two or more aerial tortraction and knew German before he learned English. He has worked pedoes driven home before dusk on the New Orleans Item-Tribune, and several Texas papers, the last night: by an RAF fighterHouston Press. the Corpus Christi Caller, the Del Rio Erening News, bomber squadron which caught the News Messenger, and the San Antonio Express. He her slipping along the Norwegian joined the Dallas bureau of the Associated Press in 1937 and while coast. there wrote come 100 articles on Texas history which, as historical Reporting thas the aerial striking background on the current events, were widely used in the state) force reached Norwegian waters! while it still was light, the air minERNEST G.

FISCHER isary news service said attaci: By 18 (P--German farmers, who are at least three weeks was pressed home in the teeth of LISBON, May behind schedule on their 1942 crops, have been ordered to increase strenuous opposition from 2 large; production of regetables, vegetable fats and potatoes. At the same time, force of enemy fighters and heavy Reichsmarshal Herman Goering told growers that the 1941 acreages in anti-aircraft fire from ships." beers must be maintained. One attacking pilot said he sax weather, insufficient fertilizer, the shortage of man- a "great pillar of dirty black smoke" grain and sugar Unfavorable and tardiness in the delivery of seeds are obsta- rise from the superstructure of the power cruiser after he sent his and horsepower, cles delaying this program. torpedo Roads Closed pension at any time and anywhere, Destroyers Peppered home. with pupils over 10 years Although Nazi propagandists! to conscription, for farm work There were two large explosions claimed that Reich produces! wherever the situation demands seconds apart, the news tide ject 600,000 tons of butter.

Labor recruiting offices have been reported. It said another pilot saw approximately a sheet of flame leap up from the rearly, ranking second only to opened in the occupied territories, cruiser after he attacked. He added United States, Germany has suf-: especially in Latvia, Lithuania, Es- that he other torpedoes "runsaw fered from a shortage of fats Farmers also burdened by the ning well toward the ship." since. tonia and Ruthenia. before the war.

are Besides torpedoing the Prinz Euthe The overiand war with route Russia to the has Orient cut off by loss sitioned of for horses. military which use. were Goering requi- gene, the British planes peppered! told the farmers shat "requisition- four escorting German destroyers which Germany bad obtained with cannon and machine gun fire, blubber from Japan and sor beans! ing an admiralty account said. of horses for the armed forces! from Manchukuo. Whaling has fail- can only be compensated The attack was placed off Lister by the use ed to solve the problem because of manufacturers had Fiord, 60 miles south of Stavanger of the tractor." He promised the the long perilous voyage to the farmers that and little more than 300 air Of 185 margarine plants in Ger- Even at the time of whaling waters.

been rials for giren the additional production raw of mate- better line from northeastern many. 136 are closed because of the farming equipment. which put her on the Nazi navy's lack of raw materials. Goering promised gaso- temporarily useless list alongside the also that The demand for vegetables basi line for farmers heavily damaged battleships Scharnrations would be in increased when more tractors. be- horst and Gneisenau, the Prinz Euincreased because of available.

In the meantime meat, butter and eggs. Per capital farmers using teams made came vegetable consumption for the fire of one horse and one oz. some are years before the war averaged up Bomber Crash Fatal to Nine BARKSDALE FIELD, May 18-(P)-Barksdale Field suffered the worst crash in its history today when! a four-motored bomber crashed near the field killing its crew of nine. Army authorities announced the names of the victinis as: Second Lieut. Herbert W.

Frawley. 23 veers old. son of Warraat Officer and Mrs. H. W.

Frawley, Fort Monmouth, N. J. Second Lieut. James R. Everhart, 26, co-pilot.

son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Everbart. 16 Murray Avenue.

Uniontown, Pa. Lieut. August H. Tate, navigator, son of Mr. and Mrs.

A. A. Tate, 1004 South Boulevard, Greenwood, Miss. Sgt. Mansfield Crabtree, 27.

bombardier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Crabtree, Route 2, Meadowview, Va. Sgt. Louis J.

Kepler, 22, engineer, son of George Hepler, Valley View, Pa. Corp. Stanley C. Andrews, 19, guaner, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ammon Werley, 115 Redding Arenue, Shellington, Pa. Prt. Herman R. Sanneman. 28.

assistant radio operator, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sanneman, 507 Mm Street, Creston, Ia. Pvt. Rudolph McJunkins, 22, assistant engineer, nearest of kin.

brothex, Louis J. McJunkins, Saratoga, Ark. Lieutenant Frawley was a West Point graduate and received his training at Kelly and Randolph fields. His father is a warrant officer in the Signal. Corps.

Lieutenant Evernart received his wings at Barksdale, Dec. 7. The plane struck a tree and exploded near the south border of the reservation. The aerial bomber cleared the! field about four minutes before thei crash on a routine flight. The terrific impact and the explosions scattered pieces of the plane! over a wide area.

Two planes were in the flight. The second one landed safely shortly after the first one crashed. The two planes had taken off about 4:30 A. M. Names of the victims were withheld until the next of kin could be notified as required by army regulations.

German Red Cross Takes Over In French Internment Camp VICEY, Unoccupied France, May 18. (P) The German last week took over all Red Cross work in the internment camp for American civilians- at Compiegne, in Occupied France, where the work previously was done by the French Red Cross. belated advices from the occupied zone said today. The American Red Cross in France does not operate in the occupied zone, Service Insurance Sought WASHINGTON. May 18.

(P) The veterans' administration requested Congress today to enact: legislation to provide insurance protection to American military or naval forces captured. besieged or isolated by the enemy. Frank T. Fines, veterns' administrator. wrote Speaker Rayburn of Texas.

suggesting necessary" amendments to the present law, and saying that some present provisions were inoperable" because they were indefinite. The Farm Security Administration now administers approximately 150 resettlement projects. TO CHEEK ARIA IN 7 DAYS tale 666 I I I gen was limping back to a home port from Trondheim for repair of previous damage, the admiralty said. "The admiralty gave an indication of the intensity of the attack in its announcement that Beaufort torpe-13 do-carrying bombers, Hudson ers' Blenheim bombers and Beau fighters took part. While the Beaufors roared in close to loose their torpedoes.

fighter planes battled a swarm of Nazi planes and the other bombers strafed rise decks of the Prinz Eugen's four escorting destroyers with cannon and machine. gun fire, a communique said. It reported fire German ME-109 fighter planes shot down and said the attack cost nine British planes. The Berlin broadcast said between 30 and 50 British planes attacked. and 29, or purportedly more than half of the British formation, were soot down -seven fighters add 22 bombers.

Arctic Fleet Cut The temporary loss of the Prinzi Eugen and the intensified RAF "death watch" on Trondheim Fjord was believed by informed sources to reduce the possibility of an outright attack on Arctic supply lane to Russia by the Germans' Trondheim squadron. This consisis now of but three heavy warships, the powerful battleship Tirpitz, sister-sip the sunken Bismarck; the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, and the neavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, sister-ship to the Prinz Eugen. The Prinz Eugen, which made the daring dash through the mist of the Children Used On Farm Jobs CHUNGKING. May 18 (A)-Ise west bank of the broad, turbulent mountain-walled Saixeen barring the eastward adrance of the and the Burma Road has been cleared of the enemy and sis Japanese up have been wiped out or driven pack :0 Lungling, the Chinese columns announced today. Some 250 miles to the south, hoverer, extremely heavy fighting was in progress as reinforced Japanese attacked from three direc-: effort to drive up from Thailand between the reported tons in an apparent mighty Salween and Mekong 10: flank the Salween defenses.

fect upon a Japanese invasion of: The Japanese reverse along the India or China. Salween was announced after fierce (On the West Burma front, the! artillery fire had been exchanged opening phase of the battle for In-: for days across the formidable bar- -eta appeared near as British im-: Her which the Japanese did not; perial forces withdrew to less than: dare attempt crossing. were flung across the stream, and provincial border of Assam. The Instead, Chinese reinforcements: 20 miles from the rugged frontier in a bitter struggle main Japanese said their advance patrols anese forces were thrust back all were within four miles of the fromtine way to Lungling, 20 miles from ties. the river, and remnants which clung (The weary, diminished forces off to postdons at Mailaopu and Gen Sir Harold Alesander were be-: mushu were wiped a out.

(These ing replaced by fresh troops from places, not shown on available maps the command of Gen. Sir Archibald in New York, apparently were where P. Warell in India, bowerer, and the Japanese reached the river). the Japanese were coming within Fighting Intensified range of stronger air forces of the As a result, said the Chinese, Allies. Paoshan, 55 miles beyond the Sal- (The Allied air force hammered: ween by the winding Burma Road the Chindwin River crossing town and the next Japanese objective in of Kalewa in Burma, where the! that theater, is no longer menaced: Japanese were said to bare landby the northward movement from ed from river, boats.

smashing Lungling. waterfront warehouses, barges and In the south, where the Japanese river boats.) were attempting to drive up Jap Losses Heary treen the Mekong and Salween, thei In Eastern Chine, where the Chinese communique of greatly in- anese pursued an offensive in the tensified fighting three and four coastal province of Chekiang, days ago around Mong Hai and sumably with tine idea of seizing! Mong Lin, 30 and 45 miles south points which might serve as United! and southeast respectively of Keng- States air bases for the bombing of tung, itself 60 miles inside the Thai- Tokyo or Formosa, the fighting was; land frontier. intensified as the Japanese reinEach time, the Chinese said, they forced their columns and the Chithrew back the Japanese, but the nese attacked and inflicted heavy Japanese reported to have been re- losses everywhere. inforced, and the battle was said However the Japanese were able! to be continuing. to advance from Siaosban to the viApparently, too, the Japanese cinity of Chuki, in their push south were pushing columns in from the of the Chientang River.

One hard-! two sides, along the Mekong to the took place at Fehgh-1 cast and across the Salween from wa, birthplace of Generalissimo the west, Chiang Kai-Shek. The communique told of success- In a day-long battle another Chiful Chinese counter-attack at Mong- nese force engaged 1,000 Japanese battles still along the raging Mekong, and Kongkun of north Western of the Shansi. Chiwang Mountains, and Taikao along the Salween. erai hundred casualties. inflicting ser- These are all in the Shan states region of Eastern Burma.

Guerrillas Establisbed Far from abandoning Burma, Chinese military quarters said their forces were establishing new bases to the hills of Eastern and Northera Burma from which to continually menace the Japanese flank and conduct. guerrilla warfare against his bases and communications. The presence of these forces was! calculated to have. a powerful ef- a See 3 page You INSIDE GERMANY EDITOR'S NOTE: Free once more to tell the story of Germany at war. Angus Thuermer, of the Associated Press staff in Berlin, sends this account of Hitler's farm labor shortage from Lisbon where he has arrived en route home with other correspondents after internment at Bad Nauheim.

By ANGUS THUERMER LISBON, May 18 (P)-The chil-! cren of Germany -from 10 rears old! on up--will be drafted this summer and fall as farm laborers. By thousands they will be rounded up from the great German cities. herded, together in Fitler youth platoons and companies. and sent to camps in farm areas where they will be put to labor as hired May Leave Homes In a tremendous effort to break! one of Germany's greatest bottlenecks. labor for farms.

Hither's all-; powerful labor leader, Fritz Sauckel, I I I I asked for the child labor. He called upon Arthur Axmann, Hitler's youth leader, to send out his 8,000,000 uniformed children to piant potatoes, plow, weed, and harvest the crops for Germany's fourth winter of tine war. This duty afar from home, to which all' German children are Mable except those found physically unfit, has been designed 8 honor service." Since April 15 end on until 15 any German school child can bei expected to be ordered willy-nilly from his class into the field anywhere in the Reich to work a day or all summer. The most they have been promised, is a vacation of at least three weeks sometime during the swimmer work period. Sauckel and Auxmann arranged two types of this farm service for children: Short-term work on call.

or long-term work distant from home. Importing Children A farmer needing someone to keep weeds down in his potato patch will take his request to the village Nazi farm fuehrer who will order the necessary number of children out of their classrooms to do the job. In other areas where lack of farm hands is a general problem, whole battalions of children will be imported for summer-long work and will de quartered in youth hostels. Nazi party halls, barracks, labor camps, or singly in farmers' homes. Girls are not excused from the farm work.

They are expected to be helpful to farmers' wives in their nurseries and kitchens. The necessary movement of greati masses of youngsters will be. rected by the Nazi party evacuation division which beretofore has been engaged in sending children from bomb endangered areas. Senate Group Approves Allotment For Major Federal Departments WASHINGTON, May 18. (U.P) The Senate appropriations committee today approved a $425.703,235 bill for the of the state, which included $199,740,000 164 justice and commerce, departments, new airports and improvement of 266 existing airports.

French Commander Dies in Action VICHY, Unoccupied France, May 18. (AP) The death of Commander Marcel Fontaine, 41, brother of Admiral Jean Darlan's chief of in the battle for Diego Suarez at Madagascar was announced today. Fontaine commanded the auxiliary cruiser Bougainville which was sunk. THE COMPANY BY BOTTLING COMPANY Phone ARCTIC The Annial. DR.

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