Corsicana Daily Sun from Corsicana, Texas • Page 1

THE WEATHER East Texas: Considerable cloudiness, occasional rain or drizzle in south portion, not so cold tonight except little change in extreme northwest portion. (Complete Weather aeport on Market i'asel Thermometer Readings 9j 10 I 11J 12 1 I 21 3 27 28 29 30 32 33 33 (to rstca Home of the OaftvSbn andSemMMcdtly Morning Ug FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE MARKETS AT A GLANCE NEW TORK. Jan. trrerruiar; profit eterne recovery. Cuban in demand.

Foreign Exchange narrow, renerai ly Cotton, uqutdattnn: and trade baying-, Sugar, quiet: small trade nuyittr Metals, steady copper control Wool Inacuve. Wheat, firm, higher with Corn, lower hog active to 10 lower; top Cattle, and yearlings steady to lower; other Higher. VOL. XLIV. NO.

32. CORSICANA, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6 1942. TEN PRICE FIVE CENTS ULTIMATE VICTORY IN BLOODY PROMISED DY PRESIDEN: JAPANESE PLANES ATTACK PHILIPPINE DEFENDERS IN FORCE HEAVY AMERICAN BOMBERS SINK JAP DESTROYER AND HIT BATTLESHIP Of Volunteers For Civilian Defense Jan. 6 least seven enemy were hit by terrific aft fire from the ns of Manila Bay 'our hour air at- war department today. ress of Corregidor Island orces of General Douglas ur were attacked by 50 yesterday the department Registration of volunteers for civilian defense work in the northwest sector of Navarro county will be held in the re spective communities next Saturday, January 10, according to a decision reached at a meeting held Monday night at Blooming Grove.

Chief Warden W. E. McKin- TOKYO SLIP MAKES IT PLAIN JAPANESE PROGRESS CHECKED GREAT STORE OF WAR MATERIALS PROMISED IN MESSAGE CONGRESS NIM1TZ HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE (By The Associated Press) Imperial Tokyo headquar- let slip what seemed an ney reported the county had been Ton divided into four units, and Sec- admission today that Jap- tion A includes the territory be- anese troops have made lit- tween Corsicana and the Hill county line east and west and be-; tie progress in tween Emhouse and Emmett £0 drive Gen Douglas MaC- of Blooming forces hack into Grove, presided at the meeting gaf p. Peninsula, and more Monday night with some 100 newB came with the reported representatives present arrival of American aerial Raleigh, Navarro Mils, forcement9 the Philippines con- material damage and caa-1 Dresden, Barry Blooming Grove, fUct to the defenders were call- I 11 remained for President Roose- ht, nfficial regfstriuon day and I veil to depict the crushing flood- text of the communique, i of registration a I tide cf vengeance in store for Jaber 47, and based on reports spec pin community, i pan and her axis allies, Germany to 9.30 a. m.

Eastern for tbs and Italv eived up Time; "I- Philippine Theater: The fortifications of Manila May, including Corregidor Island and Mariveles, were aagin heavily bombed by enemy planes yesterday. The bombardment continued for four hours with 50 planes participating. Material damage and casualties were light- At least seven enevy planes were hit by our anti-aircraft fire. While ground activity was considerably less than on the previous day, enemy pressure is continuing on all American and Philippine outposts. "2 There Is nothing to report from other U.

Bomlwrs Active The hard hitting reappearance U. S. bombers over the South Pacific gave the capital double grounds for elation fresh blow had been dealt units of the Japanese fleet and it offered evidence that American aerial reinforcements were arriving in the Far East, There was a definite feeling that the United Nations soon would be in a position to give a better account of themselves in the sky fighting This expectation was encouraged by London reports irom Burma crediting the American Volunteer Corps there with a two- day bag of 66 enemy planes at the cost of four of their own. jFor results, the No. 1 exploit reported in the final U- S.

commun iques yesterday was the work of the army bomber flight which blasted an enemy desaroyer to the of Davao Bay in the ones and scored three direct hits on a battleship in the waters All the bombers got back undamaged to their secret base. The big thriller, however, was the stirring battle put up by the U. S. S. Heron, a small seaplane tender, which fought off a seven- hour attack by 15 Japanese bombers in the Far Least The doughty little ship destroyed one four-mo- See GENERAL WAR, Page 2 GERALD C.

MANN BE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER AT JAYCEE BANQUET Cards were distributed for the work at the meeting. Chief Warden McKinney outlined the purpose of the meeting and also gave instructions for the registration procedure. Judge E. D. McCormick as county coordinator, explained the duties of the district wardens and the necessity of prompt completion of organization, and was followed by Sheriff Cap Curington, who congratulated the people on their response and alio urged speed in preparedness.

Fred V. Bluch- and Italy In a grim-worded message to congress. Mr. Roosevelt pledged that and offensive actions must, and will be taken in proper and disclosed a gigantic twe-year program of production so that in: shall produce 60,000 planes, 10,000 more than the goai set a year and a half 45,000 tanks, 20,000 anti-aircraft guns, and 8 000,000 deadweight tons of merchant vessels GERMAN LINES IN SEVASTOPOL SECTOR REPORTED BROKEN RED TRANSPORTS DECLARED ATTEMPTING TO LAND TROOPS BEHIND NAZIS Program Next Fiscal Year Will Total $56,000,000,000 Bv The Associated Tress. WASHINGTON, Jan.

6 Roosevelt, assuring the nation of ultimate victory in bloody Russia's 1 besieged told Congress today the war program for the next garrison at Sevastopol ap-j fiscal year would require $56,000,000,000, to help peared to have broken Ger- duce 185,000 airplanes and 120,000 tanks by the end ot man lines around that key 1913. Black Sea naval base To hit the enemy and when ever we can while Soviet transports reach Mr. Roosevelt said American armed forces 'boldly attempted to land would operate all over the world, including the British troops on the Crimean west Isles and the Par East coast 40 miles to the rear of the Nazi siege armies Front line dispatches said Russian troops had sallied forth from Sevastopol, advancing at a number of points to smash German outposts and destroy fortifications. At the same time, the Berlin radio acknowledged that the Red armies had broken German main before Moscow referring to the vital Mozhaisk sector, 57 miles west of the Russian capital, where Germans have concentrated er explained the duties of the air 1 i Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-m-chief of the Pacific fleet, cr.e -nti-aircraft guns, ana ru, ccnfereriCB hald aboard a Hun.wiúly to Finish War 1 submarine at Pearl Harbor.

Left to right (facing Capt, W. "The militarists in Berlin and w. Smith, assistant chief of staff; Admiral Nimitz, and Rear Admiral Tokyo started this the withers, oommander submarine scouting force. President said sternly. the massed, angered forces of common humanity will finish U.

S. anti-aircraft gunnerg were officially reported to have hit at least seven Japanese planes during a four-hour aerial assault yesterday upon Corregidor island fortress and Mariveles, Mariveles lies at the southern tip of Batan Peninsula, near Corregidor Island at the entrance to Man- A war department communique DRIVE LAUNCHED FROM THE FRESH JAPANESE ATTACKS in the attacks but that FORTRESS MONDAY JOINED BY LAND, SEA BRING ADDI WITH OTHER CRIMEADR1VES ED DANGER TO MALAYA ground activity was con- raid wardens and Joe M. uob.oOU "tons of ships of tp phaaps fire' prevention and first aid. Others attending the meeting from Corsicana included Travis Fullwood, Wilbur Thompson and J. Mack Jones WAR EFFORTS TAKE WIDE RANGE ACTIVITIES TRIO TEXAS COLLEGE PRESIDENTS TOLD NEW BUILDINGS MAY HAVE TO WAIT SEVASTOPOL NAVAL BRITISH SINGAPORE BASE GARRISON IN DEFENDERS FORCED ATEACH ON GERMANS TO YIELD GROUND siderably less than on the previous See INTERNATIONAL, Page MOTOR INDUSTRY OF NATION IS STARTED ON WAR PRODUCTION (By The Associated Press.) Texas growing war actitittes today ranged from a drive to teach everybody the words of the national anthem to vigorous support for aid to China.

Menwhile, to a citizenship confused by a multitude of new bans and restrictions came this shaft of illumination from Dr. John Har-j riman of Washington, chief priorities specalist, divison of civilian AUTOMOTIVE m1' COMMITTEE LOS- be kept going. Other services will ING NO TIME NEW PROGRAM be pared down to the bone. The public has only begun to --------feel the pinch of tanaltion to war WASHINGTON I in the Southeastern part of production, Dr. Hardman declar- Crimea, already have reached ed.

Tire rationing and new auto- started. BeR Azov. cutPng LABOR-MAN- MOSCOW, Jan. 6 Units of By YATES the Sevastopol naval base garrison Jan. 6 'Die in the Crimea have advanced at a 0f rolling down the number cf points, smashing Ger- Malayan pennlsula, crept nearer to man outposts and destroying their Singapore today as hardpressed fortifications, the correspondent of British forces yielded further Izvestia reported today- I ground at both ends of the ill-de- The drive launched from the for- fined front under fresh Japanese tress yesterday was coordinated; attacks by land and sea.

with other Russian offensives in Qn the eastern side of the Penin- the Crimea, and is continuing de- 8 Uja communique disclosed British spite stubborn German resistance troops were fireed to withdraw and stormy weather, the correspon- yesterday from Kuartan, only 190 dent said. miles from Singapore, Black Sea fleet fulfills with Qn western side, the Malayan credit Its he added cryptic- war front moved southward into ally. another, the sixth, native-ruled Soviet troops on the Caucasian gtate ns Japanese forces filtered front of the Crimea captured a down the Malacca Straits coast number of populated places yester-; t0 Selangor. day, he said- Japanese appearing in the area commit- Troops which landed at Feodo- 0f Buala Selangor, 240 miles from an Cheered time after time in the delivery of a message to a joint session of the house and senate, the president told of vast production plans which, he remarked grimly, would give the Japanese and Nazis little idea of just what they accomplished in the attack on Pearl planes 10,000 more than the goal set a year ago), 45,000 tanks, 20,000 anti-aircraft guns, 8 ,000,000 deadweight tons of merchant shipping. 1943 planes, 75,000 tanks, 85,000 anti-aircraft guns and 10 000,000 tons of shipping, powerful forces.

1 Cabinet members in the president's audience were a bulletin from Adolf Perkins labor: Jones, commerce; Wickard, field headquarters, indicating Stim- that the Rustians are now in fun agriculture; Knox, navy; Morgentnau, treasury, atim command of the Black Sea wat i a 0T1 Attorney General Biddle and Postmaster Genera around the Crimea, Ger- eral Frank walker. Will Give It All Back Admonishing the tense legislators and others gathered in the crowded House chamber that America may suffei further setbacks in this war, the president assert- iseck to trap ed that American fighters will it eom- it seemed clear that the pouno the axis. an already over-running the page bov, sitting in the aisle, led his elders In en- Eastern Cdimea a appjause as the president asserted that the Japanese had failed in their plan to stun the American they could trap the Ger- by the gneak attack on Pearl Harbor. A noisy demonstration came when he said that the Stais and Stripes again would fly over the Pacific isles of Wake and Guam. The first outburst of applause came early In the speech when Mr.

Roosevelt said that the spirit never a He of sacrifices to come and said that it would appear in budget message that war program for the coming fiscal year will cost fifty-six billion dollars or, in other words more than one-half of the estimated annual national Taxes and Hands. means taxes and bonds and bonds and Mr. Roosevelt asserted. means cutting luxuries and other non-essentials. In a word, It means an war man warplanes bombed Soviet troop transports off Yevpatoriya, 40 miles north of Sevastopol.

The communique said three of the Russian transports were dar- aged and a protecting speedboat was sunk. Seek to Trap Germans, counter-invasion, were peeking gain a toehold on the west coast Japanese where they could trap the Germans by cutting off the escape route north to the narrow Pere- kop isthmus. Dispatches to the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia said Russian troops which landed at Feodosiya, in the Eastern Crimea, had reached the Sea of See EUROPEAN WAR. Page 2 NEW DIRECTORS NAMED REGULAR MEETING OF COMMITTEE FOR NOMINATING OF OFFICERS ENSUING YEAR ALSO SELECTED Nine new directors were for two-year a recom- i mendation adopted for an in 'crease In the number of mem- the mobile freezing were shocks, ne I entire Kerch Peninsula, the dts asserted In an interview, and patch reported. sonally, I would like to see some government orders patch repor The Germans, attemptinj transfer part of their force to for officers for the ensuing i Singapore, were believed intent up their positions farther the Perak river The British said these Japanese year named at the regular flanking the British out of of of north along (rs Chamber of fcVMUWO1 Commerce Tuesday morning, which was adjourned in time for those present to hear the ad Final arrangements for the sec end annual Junior Chamber of vleaners will Tnanagement, labor stepped showered with Cot) banquet were mads at a machines or va six into a new and significant role In from ionK range naval and cosxt- ial meeting of the board of di-; be avuiiahle for the mimary production scheme homt.s from the fectors of that organization at the lnonths be ioned a that of a of management SftH naval nir the ac- YMCA Mondav night, stated.

Radios may be ratronca aj Jn a war relationship count 8flki Gerald Mann, attorney gen- year from now. With the government. (The German high command in- erai of Texas, will deliver the prin- can look for eurtaumeni, Fjve men from earh Slde the that the are In clpal address he sa'd, industries wmcn rai induatry'a economic fence were command of the sea at least Chairmen of the various commit- into either of these two classinca nftmed 0 the group which will de- about the Crimea, said its air force tees in charge and others met with tons. Civilian lines which con- veiop pians to pool tool and plant had bombed Russian transports the directors to include the ar- scarce materals; civilian resources fo production of planes, off Yevpatroyia. 40 miles north of rangements.

The banquet w'ill be lines which have plant space tanks, ordnance and war-essential Sevastopol, where it was probable held Wednesday night, Jan 14. In I. the Russians were attempting new detachments apparently were si uiuisr ut iu part of the force which landed Qf president Roosevelt on along the lower Perak, 60 miles north of Kuala Selangor, on Jan. 2 and which then moved southward along a coastal footpath. Air Threat to Singapore Kuantan, 190 miles from Singapore, on the east coast, is connected with Central South Malaya by a single poor road through tate of the nation.

President E. Butler called the meeting to order and the minutes of the last session were read and approved. J. Speedy reported plans progressing rapidly for the annual membership meeting to be held on February 12, and the the cafeteria of the senior high TEXAS AT WAR, Page 3 i See MOTOR INDUSTRV Page 3 landing operations to cut off most whlf fighter escorts to apore est jungle Infested with (principal speaker would be James tigers arid crocodiles. jr.

Gheen of New York. Special military commentators entertainment and musical num pointed that possession of the parB will aiso be provided, and airport of Kuantan now would per- FORTY THOUSAND JAPANESE CAUGHT IN CHINESE TRAP FORCE ATTACKING SHA HAD ALREADY LOST 30, 000 MEN REPORTS INDICATE the conflict, but he declared that CHUNGKING, Jan. 6 GD and offensive actions Forty thousand Japanese troops must and will be taken in proper are caught in a Chinese trap on the plains between the Laotao and The consolidation of the united I.ieuyang Rivers northeast of total war effort against Changsha in Hunan province and our ocmmon enemies is being Chinese forces ate confident of achieved, the president said wiping out most of them, a Chi- That was the purpose, he nese spokesman said today ed, of conferences which have been Estimating that the Japanese held during the past two weeks had suffered 30,000 of the original here, in Moscow and in Chungking force of 100,000 had escaped to- and was the primary objective of ward their jumping off point at the declaration of solidarity signed Yoehow, 100 miles to the north. in Washington at the start of the The spokesman's estimate of new year by twenty-six nations 000 casualties was a reduction from united against the axis forces previous estimates of 62,000 in Berlin and The Japanese had retreated more Tokyo started this the chief than ten miles from the Hunan executive charged sternly. province capital, dispatches said, the massed, angered forces of rom- Tlre third major Japanese defeat rnon humanity will finish It." at Changsha in three years was The war cannot ho waged in a attributed to their Inability to move defensive spir it, the president heavy armament south of the Milo glared, adding: River because of wafer filled rice fields and obliteration of the roads See CHAMBER, Page 2 Shall Carry Attack to Enemy "As our power and our 4c CHIN ESI 0 beginning at 715 of the tickets will be 99 cents, Julius C.

Jacobs, local will preside as toastmaster. The elcoming address will he made by I ycee President Paul Mitchell. A "peeial musical program Is being arranged for the occasion, Other business matters, ached -1 tiled to be discussed at the special session, deferred. Including' plans for the sponsoring of an avia -1 tion cadet night school for youths TAKES CONSIDERABLE ARGUMEN TO CONVINCE SOLDIER KILLED IN BATTLE THAT HE IS REALLY DEAD the German force in the Crimea rald To the north, another Izvestia infiltrations inland orrespondent reported that Red ajonK this road, official quarters army units which had routed the said ajrfiady had with Germans from Tim, 40 miles east British troop movements westward of Kursk, some days ago, were vancing rapidly. The road in this sector, 280 miles and had resulted in casualties on both sides From Kuala Selangor, good roads south of Moscow.

Is littered for run and to the railroad 15 miles with German corpses, mu tillated machines and vehicles, he said. DALLAS. Jan. It desiring to enter the Air Corps but a bit of argument to convince a re disqualified to due educational soldier killed In battle that he is dead. Dr, Rogers, president of the Theosophical Society of America explained it this Tom way last night in a lecture here.

consciousness does not black out when his body I dies reqftirements. Committees In charge of the ban- quet arrangements are listed follows: General Eady, R. E. Reid, and J. C.

Cal- lowa Program -Dr. E. Waters, An artilieryman may mentally 1 and Fmbry Fer-j g0 through with his gun routine 1 for seevral minutes before he notices any change. A machine gunner knows guaon Ticket sales Isadore Goldberg, ney Bobkoff. and Deen Allen, c.

Jacobs, loe Farmer, and Robert Cason. ini doesn't know mediately that wrong, But he A Vaughn, Allen what. He gets a shock when he 7dens, Coe. David discovers his hand will pass hnny McKlssack, and Clyde Hal-1 through the gun, but he hag to i told that is dead. Soviet Successes On Leningrad Front Dr.

Rogers is a national lecturer for a society founded by a Russian woman in York In 1875 Theosophists believe, he I said, that life and death are the constant shifting of conscious KUIBYSHEV, Russia Jan. 6 ness back and forth between Red army troops hacked bv the physical world and the astral, American-made fighter or unseen, world which were reported today to have rt rounds and permeates the earth apuired 300 square of ter His description of a ritory on the Leningrad front iu death, the lecturer declared, five days of counter-attacks af- came from the late Bishop i ter checking a German offensive Charles Leadbetter, a man Soviet gains In the frozen "equally familiar with both the of the north came with worlds, i announcements of further get their informa- roads against the legions of tion from scientf- Adolf Hitler at the center and In fieally developed," Dr. Rogers the south. the south which connects with Kuala Lumpur, second largest and most important city in Malaya still See MALAYAN, Page 2 CRUCIAL STAGE OF RETREATING GERMAN ARMY RUSSIAN FRONT BELIEVED RAPIDLY APPROACHING Bv DeWITT MACKENZIE, iclures that the Russians a VVIde World War Analyst of depriving the Germans The crucial of the Ger- of all advantages they now pos stated, adding that Bishop Lead- Sec SOLDIER, ft. Russian dispatches RUSSIAN, 2 tha Red Cross Asks All Employes To Make Donations AH huai ness firms In the city having more than five are asked to make collections for the Red Cross War Relief Fund, aille general chairman, announced Tuesday.

These should made and turned In to Mr l.evy by Saturday when he to complete the drive. man retreat along the ice-bound Russian front is rapidly ing, if indeed It hasn't already been reached, and Herr Hitler Is now at eastern army headquarters struggling to stabilize his retreating lines, which in precarious position One hastens to add that we jump to conclusions because of the dangers confronting the Nazi chief It cannot yet he said that he will be unable to meet this threat. However, it he said that he can meet it, and an important fact The Soviet army newspaper "Red i sums It up well whin it da- chance does exist There could he no greater indication of the plight of Hitler's armies than his two urgent appeals to his people one for all possible warm clothing and other for skis. The significance of this is, of course, that the Nazis have been caught terrlbis unprepared to fight In the Russian snows. ft Is now clear that It was this unpreparedness, and the consequent perils, which brought about the split between Hitler and his high generals and forced him to as surne command himself Cornman- See THE WAR, TODA.Y, 5 are fully mobilized, we carry the attack against the enemy -we shall hit him and hit him again wherever and whcneve we can reach him must keep him ti nr from our shores, for we Intend t( bring this battle to him on his own home grounds Wherever in the wor id It advisable to engage en forcee.

Mr. Roosevelt said. American armed forces must be used, operations In some cast are to he defensive and In other offensive with a view to oomph encircle- merit and tc dal defeat" of the foes armed for ces will at many in the Far the chief ex ecu ttve said "American armed for i will he on ail the oceans help! ng to guard the essential comm riions which are vital to the United nations. In British "American land and air and sea forces will take atatl ons in the British Isles, which ct institute an essential fortress In this world struggle. American armed to protect tills tmml will help sphere and I HOOKEVELT, 2.