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THE BORGER (TEXAS) DAILY HERALD
Wednesday, January 8, 1941
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Italy's Last Major Defense Base Official Call Nos.
In Eastern Libya, Port Of Tobruk, Mailed Out Today
Reported Cut Off From Rescue Today
By The Associated Press
Italy's last major defense base
in eastern Libya, the port oí To-
bruk. was reported cut oft from
rescue today — "another Bardia"
—with its garrison of 30,000 Fascist
troops caught tn the tightening
trap of the British army of the
Nile.
Sea blockade and tank encircle-
ment of Tohruk, 80 miles west of
the Egyptian border, were said to
effectively bar any large reinfor-
cement
In the aerial siege of Britain,
the Germans reported a Nazi com-
bat plan sank a heavily-laden, H.-,
000-ton merchant ship 300 miles
than 14,000 Italians taken prison-
er by the Greek* since the war
began.
Premier Mussolini's High Com-
mand gave no hint of the dawn-
ing slice of Tobruk, with the
daily Fusilst war bulletin declar-
ing merely that "patrol and ar-
tillery actions were reported be-
tween Bardia and Tobruk.
Official British reports said the
British had captured El Adem, 1ft
mile- seuth of their new objec-
tive. ana British mechanized units
were said to have shot past To-
bruk to block the road from the
| west
"Our planes torpedoed an en-
west of Ireland this morning, l,mv deslr. ver near Salum, Egypt,"
blowing the vessel to pieces in lht' Italian High Command said,
three dive attacks. I "Patrols, fighters, and assault
Hitler's High Command report- I>1 '>ck machine-gunned and bomb-
ed also that a tone German speed- «*t *"«•«"> mechanized forces with
boat, boldly raiding the English J shrapnel^ bombs.
east coast near the mouth of the "" "
Thames river, attacked a British
convoy strongly protected oy des-
troyers and sank a 2,500-ton mer-
chantman.
In another attack, a Nazi scout-
ing plan was said to have scored
several hits on a ship of a British
The Fascist communique ack-
nowledged an RAF raid on Trip-
oli, in western Libya. In which
four were kilted, 10 wounded.
On the Greek front, the Italians
asserted, "heavy losses" were in-
flicted on counter-invasion troops
from the Aegean kingdom and
Hl« — 1278. C L. Nolan, Gen.
Del., Phillips, W.
817—2177, Henrv Franklin Bolls,
3073 1st. Phillips, W
818 — 2745, Laurence Clarence
Hooper, Box 320, Phillips, W.
819 — 1339, William Edison Wat-
son, 1021 N. Harvey, Borger, W.
820 — 52. Cleave Charles Jus-
tice. R F D„ White Deer, W.
1121 — 760, Lamaster Clifford
McGill. Box 604, Phillips, W.
822—397, Orlando Muyfield, Box
963. Borger, W.
823 — 1945, Allie Bell Cecil,
722 Deahl. Borger, W
824, — 718, Leeroy Wright, Gen.
Gel., Borger, W.
825 — 1570, George William Fin-
ger. 115 S. Main, Borger, W.
826 — 2143. James Aswell Ricks,
Box 1745, Borger, W.
827 — 770, Joseph Norman Sar-
gent, 606 Weatherly, Borger, W.
828 - 1164, Loren I^ec Barger,
Box 1073, Phillips, W.
829 — 214, Raymond Eurl Byars,
Box 523, Phillips, W.
830 — 182, John Edward Gil-
man, Box 157, Sanford, W.
minesweeper flotilla in the North th'w Greek planes were reported
Sea and left it in a "burning, sink
ing condition."
German's mass troop movement
into the Balkans was partly dis-
rupted when a Nazi munitions
shut down in flames.
On the basis of estimates that
94,000 Italian troops have been
captured, killed or wounded dur- 1
ing the British offensive which ¡
German Munition
Train Explodes
In Balkan Wreck
train exploded after crashing into started Dec. 9, British
another train on one of the
three main lines from Hungary to
Rumania.
On the Greek-Italian war front,
the RAF command reported Bri-
tish bombers, flying through snow,
sleet and rain, delivered a fiery
attack on the mid-Albanian town
of Elbasanl, key Italian supply-
base.
"High explosives and incendiary-
bombs were seen to hit several
military stores buildings, causing
a number of fires," the RAF com-
munique said.
Red Cross figures listed more
Epidemic Of
Cold Symptoms
666 Liquid or 666 Tablets with 6«(¡
Salve or 666 Nose Drops generally
relieves coiu symptons the first
day. —Adv.
BUDAPEST, Jan. 8—(/Pi—'The
sources explosion of a German munitions
placed the strength of the To- train which crashed into another
bruk pían ¡son as less than 30,000. train one one of the three main
The Greeks fought on toward lines from Hungary to Rumania
the southwestern Albanian port
of Valona, from which a Greek
spokesman said 35,000 Italian sick
and wounded had been shipped
heme
In the Far East, undeclared hos-
tilities between Thailand 'Siami
and French Indo-China took a tier before Rumania ceded Tran-
more critical turn as unconfirmed | sylvania to Hungary, and is about
reports said Siamese invasion for- 1 midway between Pospokladany
ees hat! penetrated 20 miles into and Nagyvarad. 'This route has
Indi -China to the town of Siso- been used by the Germans to have
damaged u large port of the town
of Berettyo Ujfalu today and
wrecked the tracks.
Repairs probably will take
weeks.
The town is near what used to
be the Hungarian-Rumanian fron-
phon.
Dispatches from Hanoi, French
Indo-China, said Siamese bombers
had made heavy bombing and ma-
chine gunning attacks on six Indo
China communities, including
three main border cities.
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heavy troop reinforcements, re-
ported as high as 600,000 men.
through Hungary into Rumania.
The number of casualties was
not learned Immediately. Hungar-
ian censorship clamped down on
further details of the accident.
RETURNS FROM VISIT
Mrs. Lon English has returned
from a two weeks visit in Los An-
geles, with her son, Harvey Sparks
and daughter, Mrs. C. R, Kiesling,
both of whom returned with her
for a short stay. Mrs. English also
visited another daughter, Virgin-
ia Sparks.
Mrs. Kiesling and Harvey will
return to Los Angeles next Mon-
day, where the latter will begin
training for a year.
During November, 1940, inter-
national air travel in Argentina
totaled 2442 passengers as compar-
ed to 2395 ocean-going boat trav-
elers.
German Press
To Answer
FDR's Speech
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER
BERLIN, Jan. 8 —(/P>— The
German Press, replying to Presi-
dent Roosevelt on behalf of the
German people, will call his Mon-
day message to congress "arrogant
beyond description and, as com-
pared with his fireside talk, even
less dignified, more abnormally
nervous and more fraught with
historical inaccuracies," it was au-
thoritatively reported today.
The press also, it was said,
will assert that, no matter what
aid Roosevelt may decide to give
Britain, it will be too late.
There will not be any offi-
cial German reaction on the
grounds that the president's mes-
sage to congress Monday
"brought" no new viewpoints
which make It worthwhile to take
official cognizance," the same
sources said.
It was said that the Press would
hark back to the slogan "Don't
let yourselves be provoked," used
by the Nazis when, before 1933,
they "used to be insulted, egged
and stoned" during their propo-
ganda marches.
It was reported that the press
would say:
"The German people can only
shake their heads at the President
who says the American people
should keep their hearts soft but
their heads hard — they'll wonder
how the president's own head
looks inside.
"The message constitutes provo-
cation to Germany. Italy, Japan
and Russia."
Roosevelt, the press wos expect-
ed say, completely misunderstands
and misreads historical and terri-
torial processes in Europe, yet
"with an arrogance that simply
cannot be excelled" tries to deny
these processes and paint the Ger-
man people to his American peo-
ple as their enemy.
"In former times," the press
was expected to comment, "the
American president's message to
congress used to be something
which attracted attention of the
whole world, but now our German
people will simply shake their
heads."
It seemed likely that German
editors would make an extensive
effort to show that America owes
so much to German contributions
that the president has no right to
adopt a "holler than you" attitude
toward Germany.
Roosevelt alone, it was said such
papers would declare, is look-
ing for military bases in Latin
America or the United States, and
no other nation has such designs.
POLLY CRIED "HELP"
IT WAS A FIRE
Babes in the Capitol Woods
S °i ne new, 90,,8res8 ore theso two 26-year-old
Representatives—Hale Boggs. left, a Democrat from Louisiana, and
William G. Stratton. Reoublican. of Illinois.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 8 —(/Pi— Be-
fore dawn today, one Richard
Sprey, heard Polly, his parrot, cry
his crow, bark "Yelp! Yelp!"
He rolled out of bed In scanty
attire, and right next door discov-
ered a fire.
Without much ado he let out a
shout, and firemen came and put
it out.
BANDIT DONATES DIMES
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8—(/P)~r
Ralph Rosenbaum, 40, a quick-
tongued auctioneer, told police a
man accosted him demanding
"Gimme your dough."
"Shuck, I'm broke and was just
going to ask you for a dime,' Ro-
senbaum countered.
The holdup man handed over
two dimes.
Two newcomers to the nation's Capital are pictured as they met
when the 77th Congress got under way for its current session. Neva^
da's new Senator Berkley L. Bunker, left, and Mrs. Bunker, greet
Joseoh H. Ball, freshman Senator from Minnesotaa.
Another Bankhead Goes to Congresi
There's a new Bankhead in the 77th Congress, producing the un-
usual circumstance of a father and son both silting among the
nation's lawmakers. They are pictured above. Senator John H.
Bankhead, of Alabama, left, welcomes his son. Representative Wal-
ter Will Bankhead. who succeeded his uncle, the late Speaker of
the House William B Bankhead
Founder Of Boy Scout Movement
Dies At Age 83 In Kenya Colony
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BRISTOL, Conn., Jan. 8—i/P>—
"How about a plate of beans on
t < house, bud?" asked a stranger
to drifted into a main street
ostaurant.
Counterman James Parsons, who
H'-es to be a good guy, found
t.ie chef was out of beans, and
passed the stranger a bowl of
soup.
"I asked for beans, not soup,"
he said, stalking out into the cold
night.
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NAIROBI, Kenya Colony, Jan.
8 —(/Pi— Lord Baden-Powell,
83, a veteran soldier who spent
the last 30 years of his life work-
ing for peace as the founder of
the Boy Scout movement, died
today at his home in Nyeri,
Kenya Colony.
He had been in precarious health
since last November when he
suffered o serie at severe heart
attacks,
A linerl descendent of the early
American settler, John Smith.
Lord Baden-Powell hud visited the
United States on numerous occa-
sions — the last time in April,
1937, when he delivered a radio
address to the Boy Scouts of the
World from San Francisco.
He was a guest of President
Roosevelt at the White House in
July, 1935, while in Washington to
Inspect the site for the first Na-
tional Jamboree of the Boy Scouts
of America.
Lord Baden'.Powell founded the
Boy Scouts in 1910, following his
retirement from the British army,
to "promote good citizenship in the
rising generation" and to further
peace through the advancement of
International understanding.
He had resided In Nyeri since
1937, when "a tired heart" forced
him to abandon his active life in
London.
At the time of his departure for
Nyeri, he told friends:
"I've had a long inning—I'd
rather dies in Africa where my
heart is than anywhere."
Baden-Powell, a veteran sold-
ier and a retired Lieutenant—Gen-
eral, had served with the British
armed forces in Africa during the
Boer war and participated in the
famous defense of Mafeking.
His home at Nyeri, where he
spent his last days, was n bunga-
low on the slopes of Mount Kenya,
where he was able to live much In
the open air — a practice which
he had long recommended as the
secret of good health.
He underwent two serious oper-
ations in London in 1934, but his
vigorous constitution speeded his
recovery despite his 77 years.
In 1937, before his departure for
Africa, Lord Baden-Powell was
on the Coronation honors list, re-
ceiving the order of merit from
the new-crowned King George
VI.
Although known best for his
work with the Boy Scouts, Baden-
Powell also founded the Girl
Scouts, of which his widow is the
British head.
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Greenville Suffers
$60,000 Fire Loss
GREENVILLE, Tex., Jan. 8—i/P)
—Three buildings in the business
district were destroyed and an-
other was damaged by a fire that
caused an estimated $60,000 loss
here early today.
The fire started from the explo-
sion of a gas stove in the South-
ern Cafe, quickly spread to a la-
dies ready to wear store and an
empty building.
Offices of the Rialto theatre
were damaged.
McGaughey and Jones owned
the vacant building and the oth-
ers were property of the W. H.
Bush estate.
The buildings were insured ad
the ready to wear store, where loss
to fixtures and stock was heavy,
was partially insured.
All buildings were two-story
structures but upstair spaces were
unoccupied.
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Chuck Wagon Style Dinner
And Hillbilly Music Planned
For O'Daniel's Inauguration
AUSTIN, Jan. 8—(/PI— Gov W.
Lee O'Daniel, the flour merch-
ant who charmed Texas voters
with hillbilly music, is going to
have them all down for dinner —
chuck wagan style — when he is
inaugurated for a second term.
But it's to be a co-operative uf-
fair.
No one has to bring his lunch
ulong — In fact, every Texan has
been invited to uttend a free bur-
becue just across the street from
the Governor's Mansion. But any-
one who can send some livestock
on the hoof will make quite u hit
with the Inaugural committee.
The committee has $2,000 to buy
10,000 pounds of meat on the hoof
which will be dressed down to
5,000 pounds. But when this is
done and all the flxin's provided,
they wonder if it will be enough
for the anticipated ten to twenty
thousand folks expected for the
Jan. 21 blow-out.
So the committee, headed by
Muvor Tom Miller, is usking con-
tributions of mutton, beef and
pork.
Everything received will be
cooked and if there is any sur-
plus after all have partaken, or-
phanages or other institutions over
the state will receive the overflow.
Rex Fowler, Austin detective
captain and veteran ut cooking out
of doors, will supervise some 300
men in preparing and serving the
huge barbecue.
Rows of pits will be dug on a
tract of state-owned land with a
hundred locutions set up for ser-
ving
Not over half as ma my people
are expected as attended the first
o'Daniel inauguration «it was held
in a football stadium so there
would be enough room but It pro-
mises to be quite u day when
"come and get it" breaks off the
oratory of "my friends—"
Industrial General Staff Chosen
As Americans Set To Speed Defense
Be?.,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -OPi—
Four men, chosen by President
Roosevelt as an Industrial general
staff with sweeping powers to
complete the arming of the nation,
called today on all Americans to
subordinate everything to "the
necessity of defense."
President P.oosovelt set up the
new and powerful defense group
when he signed an executive or-
der late yesterday establishing an
"office of production management"
and named William S Knudsen
director general; Sidney Hillmun
associate director general, and
navy secretary Knox and War
Secretary Stimson as members.
Stripped of detail, their task is
to put the full drive of industrial-
ized America behind the defense
program which has been lagging in
several important phases.
Even before their formal com-
missions were signed, the new
board members joined in a state-
ment during the cooperation of
capital and labor ontl of "every
man. woman, and child in the
United State.-, if we arc to make
this arsenal in America adequate
to the successful defense of de-
mocracy and freedom."
The President's order creating
the agency gave the four the
broadest executive powers. Includ-
ing authority to "formulate and
execute in the public interest all
measures needful and appropriate
in order to increase, accelerate,
and regulate the production and
supply of materials, articles and
equipment and the provision of
emergency plant facilities and ser-
vices required for the national de -
fense."
That power is sufficient, Mr.
Roosevelt said, to permit the OPM
to commandeer the plants of ram-
bunctious manufacturers.
Although the board is an adjunct
of the presidency. Mr. Roosevelt
said the members would come to
him for a final decision only in
case of a policy disagreement. He
added that he expected such in-
stances to be rare.
The existing national defense
advisory commission of seven
members, including Knudsen and
Hillman, the latter as labor mem-
ber, will continue to function as
before, the president said, with
some personnel shifts to complete
the new set-up.
The OPM will have three ad-
ministrative divisions — produc-
tion. headed by John Bigger*, Ohio
glass manufacturer who has been
an assistant to Knudsen; pinchas-
es, headed by Donald M. Nelson,
a Sears. Roebuck official and for-
mer priorities administrator; and
priorities, headed by Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr.
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