Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • Page 11

PEARL HARBOR! FIRST IN WESHEXAS LXI, NO. 270. "WITHOUT, OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT A TEXAS NEWSPAPER ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1942-TEN PAGES xJtlrif frttt Wont 8mk inn REMEMBER PEARL HARBOHI EVENING FINAL PRICE FIVE CENTS PLANE DELIVERS MACARTHUR TO COMMAND 7 1 Tornadoes'Toll Rises to 145 Dead RESCUE RAF PILOT PADDLING TO LAND LONDON, Mar. 11--W--On Friday, the 13th, RAF Squadron Lead- fr J. C.

Carver, whose Spitfire was rJamaged in a dogfight at 15,000 feet, radioed his mates, "Now I'm In a jam," and plopped Into the ita near the channel islands: At 3 a. in. yesterday a destroyer found him bobbing cheerily along in a tiny rubber boat on the pitching channel, alternately singing about mother's apple blowing on a little tin whistle. The sir ministry news service told the story of the cruise in which the 26-year-old pilot not captain and crew, but also navigator, propeller and ship's orchestra. "What the devil did you pick me up for? I'm OK.

I've got my course set for Portland Bill," Carver told bis rescuers, mentioning a point of land jut- tinr out from the English south coast. "I'd have been there by daylight anyway." The destroyer's navigator checked up. Carver was on his course, 15 miles from his destination. Since last Friday he had drifted up and down the channel with each successive tide. But, steadily paddling 'with his hands, he had made 40 miles in stratight llney chocolate ration, for jrod he round the tin wnlslle in his pock- "I whistled," he related, "and I tang.

I saiig a song about mother's apple pie because I got rather tired of' chocolate." Drawing Today In Draft Lottery WASHINGTON, March 17--(UP) --Approximately 9,000,000 men who registered for selective service last month will learn within the next 24 hours the order in which they will be examined lor possible in, duction into the armed forces. The first war-time draft lottery since Oct. 1, 1918--but the third In 'the last 17 months--was to begin at 5 p. CWT, In the departmental auditorium. With 7,000 capsuled orctcr num- ocrs to be drawn, selective service officials expect the 'lottery to last all night, as did the first two lot- Order and serial numbers of Abilene and Taylor county men who registered in the third draft will be published In the Reporter-News beginning Wednesday morning.

The names of all of the approximately 3,290 who registered with the tiro local boards will be published In both morning and an evening edition. The entire list will probably be carried in sections through (he next or three days. teries held under the selcclivc service act of 1950 on Oct. 29, 1910. and July 17, 1941.

Tonighl's lotlcry will determine the order in which men in the age groups 20 through 21 and 36 through who registered Feb. IS, will be called for cxamtnalion on their eligibility for the armed forces. Their serial numbers al ready have been made available by 6,500 local draft boards. However, none of these men will be culled to the colors until summer, probably In June, although many ol them will receive questionnaires as soon as local order lists ind other details hire been Seven States Lose Heavily By the Associated PWM Striking through warm spring air, tornadoes tore at seven Southern and Midwestern states yesterday killing 115 or 'more, injuring around 1,000 and smashing property worth millions. Terrific wlnas cut across Khe northwestern section of Mississippi where at least 73 were known dead, and approximately 650 others injured.

High winds also left a trail of death and destruction in Western Kentucky airn 1 struct south-central and north-central Indiana, and killed at least 20 in east-central Illinois. The lethal winds cut across the northwestern tip of Alabama, killing two near Florence, and severe storms 'were reported as tar west as Missouri. The toll of dead and estimated number of injured by states: flead Injured Mississippi 73 65t) Illinois 20 170 Kentucky is 20 Tennessee if. 1JO Indiana Alabama. Unknown.

(Mississippi, hardest hit, rushed available aid to the disaster zone, covering an area 150 miles wide and about 100 miles deep. The section, mostly rural with only a few scattered cities was without communication for several hours in many places. Torrential rains followed the high winds and washed out many roads! Nineteen were known dead and 206 injured in teflore county in Northwestern Mississippi, and at least 18 were killed'and 45 Injured in the vicinity of Water Valley, a small town in the north-central section of th'e state. Other Mississippi cotton belt towns reporting were Grenada--six dead, more than 100 injured; Baldwyn--four dead, injured, one missing; Avalon live dead, many injured; Oxford and Tula live dead, many others injured; near Michigan City--six dead; near North Holly Springs--two dead. The storms struck separately in Mississippi shortly alter 4 p.

m. (CWT), and targe groups of school children, en route home, narrowly escaped. At OTuckolofa, near Water Valley, a schoolhouse and teacher's home were demolished a few minutes after school closed. Supt. Edwin Vernon Fcrrell, 36, and a five- montli-old twin daughter were killed, while his wife and other twin escaped.

Two storms struck scattered areas in east-central Illinois. The first ripped through three eastern counties, and toe second blasted a trail about 100 mile? to the north and west. The first storm hit the center of Alvln, a iown of 339 leaving at least eight dead, and the second passed through Lacon, 1,600 population, where six were known dead and about 100 injured in that district. Tennessee's 20 known dead and more than 100 injured were reported from western communities in the rich cotton land bordering the Mississippi river. Plying glass injured twelve persons at the West Tennessee Slate hospital at Bolivar where damage was estimated by hospital officials at $100.000.

Nine persons were reported killed when a tornado struck Browdcr, West Kentucky coal mining community. Twenty others were In jured. Indiana's tornadoes struck freakishly in two areas about 150 miles apart. Two were killed at Goshen, a city of 10.000 in the north-central part of the slate, and at least 30 were injured. WHAT WAR News Means MacKENZIE By DeWITT MacKENZIE Wide World War Analyst Herr Hitler's memorial day speech in Berlin Sunday has received less attention in this country than any other he has delivered since the war began, and yet it strikes me being one of his most important utterances, I for it is a tacit admission a things are going a the' fatherland.

The unconquer- able Hitler finally has had to come before his people and admit in as euphemistic terms as possible the terrific beating which the Nazi armies have been taking at the hands of the bolshevists. It no longer is safe or wise to evade the truth. The'fuehrer blames his troubles un what he describes-jas the Russian winter in HO years. a long time, to go bait records, and. gives rise to trie suspicion that it's calculated to antedate the great Napoleon's disaster- ous retreat from Moscow in 1812 nd thus minimize the present mis- tortuncs.

Still, this thin sugarcoating to the pill cannot conceal 'he evil taste ol the. dose from the German public. The Nazi chiefs speech is fair indication that he is worried. Acting Secretary of state Sumner Welles goes even further and declares that, "there, is implicit in every word and phrase Hit- See ANALYSIS, Pr. 3, Col.

3. Bulletins NEW YORK, March survivors of an American merchant ship, torpedoed last Saturday off Atlantic City, N. hive landed at Slatcn island. Twenty men were reported missing. WASHINGTON, March United Stales and Colombia signed a lend-lease agreement today for reported SJO.OOd.OM to in war material for thai South American country strategically important because of its proximity to tbe Panama canal.

SANTIAGO, Chile, 17-- (11V-- Carlos Barry, one ol six Chilean journalists stationed in Japan, reported to his newspaper, El Chllcno, today that Gen. Ma- saharn Homma, who comminded tht Japanese forces in (he Philippines, had committed hari karj, as reported by Gtn. Douglas MacArthur. Deputy State Banking Commissioner Named AUSTIN, March poinlment of Jamison, former Port Worth and Brownwood banker, to be deputy state banking commissioner, was announced today by Commr. John Q.

McAdams of Winters. He will succeed J. T. McMillin, who will move to Fort Worth to be district examiner lor the department. Nazis Close Norse Ports By ROBERT E.

BIWNELLE LONDON, March by German authorities of all Norwegian ports from North cape to Aalcsund, a responsible source said today, makes "it appear ominously as though the Nazis gelling ready either for 'an assault on American-British supply lines to Russia or a move against Iceland." The source cited these other German naval and military moves as indicating ihe likelihood of a new major campaign in the north: Today's announcement by the Nazi high command of intensified fighting in Lapland, extreme northern area which at the Russian frontier is only 50 miles from the Soviet Artie supply 'base' ol Mur- mansk; Authoritative information that the Germans have sent strong'rein- forcement to their Norwegian garrisons; Massing of Nazi warships at Trondbeim, including the Tirpitz, newest, biggest and most dangerous of Germany's battleships: source said are 000 and 200,000 soldiers hi Norway, in comparison with the 100,000 reported there last autumn. Britain already had been warned that the Tirpitz now may be on (he high seas. The announcement by a British source that warship appears to have avoided" an aerial torpedo attack dashed British hopes that naval planes had knocked her out of the war, at least for a while, near the Norwegian port Narvik eight days ago. He said he had no information about the present whereabouts ol the Tirpitz, sistcrshrp of the Bismarck which sank the Brilish oattlecruiser Hood singlehandel in turn, was sunk when heavy British air and sea forces cornered her and pounded her to pieces last May The news had grave imnlicallons for the British, since a warship as mighty as the Tirpitz is so great a menace to sea convoys that strong British naval forces, including battleships, must be diverted from other work to meet her challenge Comp for Austin? WASHINGTON, March The war department announced today "the selection of a site for a military installation near Austin It did not disclose any additional information. The Weather V.

S. A OF COMMERCE Rorraa ABILKNK and Vicinity: Llllle lemncra- turt eliansc lonlgtjl. EAST TEXAS (tast o( IMlh i a i a Wills Itmptrawrc change wnlfht. WEST TEXAS: SCAitcrftl llftit showers ths Panhandle this afternoon Not quite as warm ITila atternoor; aa yesterday to lie PecoK valley and eastward. Slightly colder tonight In tht El Pa lo area icmptratiire City office.

70: airport. 73. Lowtst this i Cily i 37: airport, 32, Trmprralurfi Mon-Sun Tuts-Mon P. M. S5--SI Al--81 BS-Si 60--ei 7(1--RS 69--87 60--63 5R--76 JO-rl 13 63 Sunrise A.

M. IS--SI IS--57 13--5t iO--4S 38-17 37--17 11--50 5S-8I A9--63 DESERTED WIFE CLAIMS INFANT FOUND IN PASTURE Bm CDDfUTrt 17 IfZnl BIG SPRING, March --Disl. Judge Cecil C. Collins advised officers today lie was calling a hearing here Thursday morning lo act on Ihe pleas of a 24-year-old woman, who admitted lo being Hie molhcr of a "miracle baby" aban- 1 doncd al birth, and of seven'per- sons seeking adoption of the Infant. The baby was discovered'by pas- Ecrsby fn the Birdwell pasture of eastern Big Spring a week ago, parently only moments alter birth.

Taken to a hospital by police, the 'infant has continued to thrive despite its lack of natal attention. In the meantime, hosts of requests for adoption have been received, coming from a six-stale area and as far away as Lance Creek, Wyo. and Springfield, Mo. pleas that they be allowed to have ihe baby came from people in a score of Texas cities in addition lo numerous ones here. Sheriff A.

J. Mcrrick and Aclfng Polict Chief of j. B. Bnilon, said that the woman, who now seeks custody of the child, admitted In signed statement that she gave birth to the baby, unattended and alone in the pasture not far from Ihe laundry where she nad worked vigorously until minutes before the Infant's arrival. none there, picked up lowels scene.

ago officers quolcd her as saying, she went with relatival to live. But because of their dire circumstances, she was afraid to tell them she was e.vpecllng a child and kept postponing a decision until a week ago, while at work, pains seized her. Thinking a walk would relieve her, she said she walked out into the where she was forced to He down and give birth to the child. Putting it in a box and placing it In a tree, she said she went lo the home other relatives, find- a policeman was Ihere, and she ran away, frlghlened, she said. Officers had questioned her earlier in the week, but at (hat lime she did not admit any connection with the case, said Sheriff Merrick To avoid suspicion, officers said, the woman relumed to work ailer miss- Ing only part of the next day.

Felony charges of deserlion have been lodged against the woman, but no action is expected on this count pending the outcome of Irte custody hearing Thursday. OF PHILIPPINES, Gen. Douglas is on the job Australia now. He is pictured here at a field headquarters on Luzon, conferring wiih Maj. Gen.

Jonathan Wainwright (left), ranking field commander for Alar-Arthur Who teehind ort the.light for Baiaan. Four Abilenians Die In Highway Collision AUSTRAL! A WIFE AND SON GO WITH LUZON CHIEF WASHINGTON, March The arrival of Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Australia to assume the supreme United Nations command in that region was announced today by the war department. The assignment was requested by the Australian gov-- eminent, the department said, and President Roosevelt di- rooted MacArthur on February 22 to transfer his headquarters from the Philippines he has been so brilliantly defending to Australia as soon as the necessary arrangements could be made. MacArthur requested a delay until he could perfect arrangements within his Philippine command, and this delay was approved by the president.

MacAllhUT was nccomp'anled on Jhe plane (rip to Australia by Mrs. Mar.ltlhur anil cir 5 0 b) hl Ml Gtn cJ)lra Sulhriland; Brlf Gen. Harold II. George of (he air lorcesj and several olher staff officers. His thr Southwest Pic Kit reiion will Include the Philip.

Vine islands, the war Utpartmcnt said. Among tht rr.pn now under MacArlhur in Australia sre the "considerable minibus" maktr.g up the expeditionary force of American ground troops and air corps units announced yesterday by Secretary cl War i I Fear Armada Headed South SWEETWATER, 'March Abilene persons employed at a drive-In cafe were killed, a fifth injured gravely and a Dallas man burned and injured about 2:15 a. m. today In a colll- Uruguay Seizes German Vessel MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay, March that the 5.785- ton Uruguayan merchanbhip Montevideo hart been torpedoed off Haiti with the loss of 17 men.

the government toria.v ordered seizure of the interned, German ship Tacoma in reprisal. The 8.268-ton Tacoma was the supply ship for the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec, dc- str03'eri off Montevideo by Adolf Hitler's after being defeated by British cruisers in December, 1939. The Tacoma has been here ever since. The Montevideo, formerly the Italian Adamello, was sunk off Jcremic, Hniti. and only 32 of her crew of 49 have been accounted for, the government announcement said.

Public excitement over the sink- Ing caused authorities to throw guards, around properly ol a.xis nationals. Chile's foreign minister. Juan Hautista Rossclti. arranged conferences with German. Italian and Japanese diplomats today alter announcement of the torpedo sinking of the freighter Tolten-first Chilean vessel to be destroyed in tht war--off New Jersey early Friday.

Escapes LONDON. March British source said today a the German battleship Tirpitz "appears to have avoided" torpedo attacks from British naval planes (n the' vicinity of Narvik, Norway, March STOP cnr? THINK The (treatcr your sweat, Ihe fewer your Gen. Btn I.ear, commanding 2d U. S. anny.

And beta? in an agony he prayed more and his aiceoJ icoj as were great drops of blood failing down fo the in the Garden, SI. Luke slon on Highway 80 about 12 miles east of Swcetwater. The dead are: Horace Rccd IMson, 618 S. Sth street, described as manager of the Suy-Q cafe, lOlh and Pine streels. Johnnie Rpse, about 36, a cook al the cafe.

Betty Jo Phillips, 18, Suzy-Q waitress. Nej! Sarlin, jn employ al the cafe. In a Swcctwaler hospital were Mary Ann Rose, wife of Johnnie Rose; and T. L. Binsham, 29,.

of Dallas. Mrs, Rose was not expected to The Abilene people were en route lo Swcclwater when their car. which was reported by highway patrolmen to have leen owned by Dotson. was In collision with a large Iruck and Iraller driven by Bingham. who was driving east.

The truck caught lire and was destroyed. Bingham, driver for Braswell Motor Lines of El Paso, suffered serious burns. Highway Pntrolmcn Ralph Robertson and Herman Scale of Sweetwater arrived at the wreck scene before two victims had been removed from the wreckage. Vales Funeral home ambulance hrouihl Dotson. Mrs.

Rose. Rose and Sar- lln here and a motorist brought Miss Phillips. Patrolmen said all were unconscious when Ihey arrived and tlint they believed DoLson was killer! Instantly. of the dead except Dolson were former resldrnls of Swcclwa- ter. Sarlin formerly drove taxicab here.

Miss Phillips' parents reside here and Rose formerly cooked In a local cafe. The crash occurred on a curve just west of While Flat school. The Investigating patrolmen said the huge tires on the truck were saved. Elliott Funeral home was bringing the body ol Dotson here late Ihls morning. He Is survived by his wife, two sons.

daughter, i parents who reside 'here, and two brothers and six sisters. First Clapper Story On today's editorial riage you Kill flnrt the lirsl of Raymond Clapper's dispatches from Cairo and the Middle East--the story of Ihe amarlnjt Air Ferry Command which Is rlemonstratinR American enterprise anrl courajt, an enterprise thai may the difference bctnecn Tldory una defeat in this Turn the editorial page and rend Clapper's slory. Read these scintillating rtis- IWtches every day in Iht Rrpor- ttr-Wcws! Stimson. SUCCEEDS WAVELL MacArthur, since first reports, on Dec. 10.

of Japanese attempts to invade the Island Luzon In tl)e Philippines, his commanded thjtt. arnazlng fighting the numerically superior Japanese invaders to a standstill on Ihe peninsula of Bataan. In accordance with plans carefully drawn prior to outbreak of the war, MacArthur withdrew his principal forces "on Luzon toward Bataan, where (or weeks he has stalled alt attempts of the Japanese to destroy his forces or push them into the sea. MacArthur's predecessor as supreme commander in the Southwest Pacific was Brilish Gen. Sir Archibald Wavelt, whose reassignment lo command In India was announced on March 2.

At that time, no mention was made officially of the posslbllily that MacArlhur would succeed him, although Australian sources hatt suggested MacArthur from time to lime. Similar suggcsllons have been made by Wendell L. Willkle, the See MACARTHUR, Pj. 9, Col. I WESTTEXANS IN AUSTRALIA Indication that the West artillerymen believed lo have been in Java during the Japanese attack on that Island may now be in Australia was given here today in a telegram receiver! bj Mrs.

Roy O. Barlee, 1212 Soulh Seventh street, from her son, J. Bartee. The telegram was from Australia and said only "Still kicking, Australia, best wishes." Young Barlee was a member of the artillery bal- lery sent from Camp Bowk to the Soulhwesl Pacific war theater. Mrs.

Bartee said she had no indication her Mm hart been transferred from the battery. AmaeUiei Prew Unconfirmed British dispatches reported today Hist it Japanese invasion urmarts of cruisers, alr- fclnne carriers scores of destroyers was moving southward on Australia. London newspaper! printed dispatches saying the Japan, we were expected to launch their attack first against the Eastern Australian seaboard-the region of Australia's chief cities--instead ef attempting to land on the north coast and (Ighl their way across of miles of arid desert. Simullaneously, a British broadcast reported that "most of the Royal Australian Air force men serving against Japan in Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies arc now back Australia." A British broadcast reported today that "most of the Royal Aus- Irallan Air force men who have been serving against Japan in Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies are now back in Australia." The veteran Atisslc airmen, it was said "will added greally to the offensive spirit and fighting' power of the Australian squadrons taking the fight to Ihe enemy." CURTIN DENIES LANDINGS Australia's Prime Minister John Curlin said Japanese bombers striking ycslerday at the northern port of Darwin inflicted a loll of two killed and 12 wounded, but failed In their attempt to destroy grounded aircraft. "Contrary to rumors, there have been no fresh Japanese landings In the New Guinea nnd Papua area," Curtln said.

A Vichy (French) radio broadcast garbled Secretary Stlmson's announcement that strong United Slates forces had arrived In Australia. In what was presumably slip of the tongue, the Vichy broad- caslcr quoted Stimson as saying Japanese troops hud carried out PACIFIC WAR, Pg. 9, Col. Bio and Little Cheer Transfer By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent A surge of optimism thrilled the embattled United Nations today with announcement that Gen. Douglas MacArthur had assumed supreme command In Australia.

"That's wonderful!" said Wendell willkle In New York and his sentiment was echoed by the lltlle men In the street and statesmen In high places wherever the Hags of the United Nations fly. Out of the foxholes of Bataan had come the first real hero of the war in the Pacific to take the helm at an hour when Ihe fortunes of the United Nations' seemed near ebb tide. In London, Britishers were go- Ing back to the glorious days of Drake RnrJ Hawkins to find parallels to MacArthurV exploits In the Philippines. In Washington's swelling chorus of approval ran through congress. the far stretches of Australia there was no need to wait for reaction.

The cry: "We want MacArthur!" had resounded over far dominion since the hour of Singapore's doom. "There will be a real fighting man in Australia," was the comment of one grrmy little cockney who read Ihe newspaper bill that proclaimed the news in bold black- Idlers on London street corner. Over toward Whitehall where staff officers endlessly weigh chances for holding off the Japanese nnd balance the possibilities of Inking an offensive against Tokyo the reaction was that MacArthur not only should guarantee that Australia will be held but prepare? it as the base for the coming offensive they hope will strike back north across the P.iciflc. Chuckling Britishers told over again the massage which they like to believe MacArthur sent to the governor of California after the Japanese submarine shelled a Southern California oil refinery. That message, according to the exaggerated yarn told In London was: out 30 and I will send you rt- Stt OPTIMISM, Ff.

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