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24 Convicts Throw Qeorgia
Prison In Darkness And F lee
REIDSV1LLE, Ga„ April !C
—(UP) — Twenty-four convicts
led by two notorious escape art-
ists, Leland Harvey and Forrest
Turner, escaped to lay from Tat-
tnall prison here — Georgia's
"Little Alcatraz" — in one of
the greatest mass prison breaks
in state history.
One of the group was recap-
tured a few hours later when a
truck carrying 19 of the men
overturned near Lyons, Ga., 25
miles northwest of the prison.
The other 18 fugitives "scatter-
ed over the countryside" and
posses of state and county offi-
cers were attempting to round
them up.
The remaining five of tin*
original 24 fugitives were be-
lieved heading northwest to-
ward Atlanta in a coupe
which they commandeered
after they abandoned the
automobile in which they
lied from Tattr.tdi.
The break occurred shortly af-
ter midnight when 10 of the
cnvicts, housed in a fourth
floor cell block reserved for
what officials described as
"worst" prisoners, overpowered
a guard and locked him in a
cell.
The 10 proceeded to the thirl
floor of the prison where they
freed 14 of their fellows. The
group then overpowered a sec-
ond guard and several of them
went to the prison powerhouse
where a third guard was seize 1
and bound. The convicts wreck-
ed the dynamo, throwing the
prison into darkness for 20
minutes while they escaped.
Chairman Royla K. Mann of
the state board of prisons, who
came here from Atlanta imme-
diately after he was informed
of the break, described the fug-
itives tos "armed desperate and
NEARLY HALF OF 13 BILLION
WAR LGAH FUND SUBSCRIBED
WASHINGTON, April .10 —
(UP)—The second war loan
(•rive today was well on the way
to the half-way point of the
SI3,000,000,000 goal which Secue-
tary of Treasury Henry Morgen-
thau, jr., intimated yesterday
was no longer the "ceiling."
Morgenthau said subscrip-
tion-: not yet counted would to-
i l well over SO,000,000.000 but
lie warned that people should
not relax on the theory that
"the push is over."
"We will take all we can get—-
the more the better," was the
v.'ay he put it.
Only the banks will be held
to their 85,000,000,000 goal and
that already is over half sub-
sscribed, the treasury said.
Meanwhile, the nation's wom-
en were out selling bonds today
to outfit soldiers, sailors and
marines. Harriet Elliott, chair-
man of the women's division of
war savings, announced that
women of 17 states and the Dis-
trict of Columbia were "buying"
uniforms and barracks gear for
service men by selling bonds to
cover the cost of that equipment.
Women of the 18th State, Wash-
ington, were selling bonds for
Flying Fortresses, minesweep-
ers, pontoon bridges, parachutes,
and surgical beds.
See WAR BONDS Page
dangerous." ,
Prison officials describe 1 the
break as "very well planned"
and indicated it was Turner and
Harvey, well-known for their
criminal exploits and dozens of
escapes, who engineered it.
How the convicts managed to
throw the complete prison into
darkness and how long it re-
mained so could not be ascer-
tained immediately.
K'iiIc anil county authori-
ties throughout Georgia
meanwhile were organizing
in an effort to run down
the armed and desperate
men. The five fugitives who
abandoned the sedan and
comandeered a coupe were
believed heading toward
At Miita. There was no im-
mediate indication which
route the remaining con-
victs had taken.
Harvey probably is the most
notorious of the fugitives. He
has escaped Georgia prisons and
chain gang.-; more than a dozen
times. I lis most sensational
break can e on May 1, 1!):!:{, vhen
he and Aubrey Smith, his part-
ner in numerous escapes, saw-
ed their way out of the death
cell at the state prison at Mil-
ledgoviile. Ga.
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OYER FRANCE
By United Press
Spain's readiness to serve as
go-between in any move toward
restoration of ^orld peace was
announced today. London and
Washington met the gesture,
whatever it may have meant,
with an echo of the Casablanca
slogan aimed at .the axis — "un-
conditional surrender."
Rumors of some axis-inspired
peace move had circulated re-
cently. British sources were rea-
dy to take the Spanish offer at
fare value, but said there was
not the slightest possibility of
any negotiated peace.
Allied planes were engag-
ed in large scale operations
from Britain. A force of hea-
vy bombers swept over the
south wes* coast of England
and were gone more than
two hours, indicating an at-
tack on the French Atlan-
tic coast.
London had a brief air alert
v hen a German plane flew over
the Thames Estuary. Allied
planes swarmed over the chan-
nel in large numbers, and there
were signs of a major engage-
ment over the French coast.
in Tunisia, the British First
Army recaptured the strategic
height known as Djebel Ang
and pushed on.
'Adequate' Civilian Food Supply Assured By OWI
U-BOATS BRING GREAT
CHALLENGE TO ALLIES
FORTRESSES
WRECK 3 OF
9 JAP SHIPS
HOUSTON, Tex., April R —
—(UP)—The Nazis have thrown
between -100 and 500 submarines
•—so strongly built that a depth
charge "must explode within
15 or 20 feet of th_£? hulls" to
sink them—into the battle of
the Atlantic, Capt. Leland P.
Lovette, USN, director of the
navy's public relations told Tex-
as Gulf Coast publishers today.
In a speech prepared for de-
livery before the Sixth Annua!
Convention of the Texas Gulf
Coast Press association, the na-
vy officer, an author of many
naval books, warned that, "time
and genius will be needed to de-
vise and operate the means" of
eliminating the underseas threat
to our war effort.
"We have the challenge
of Admiral Doenitz (Nazi na-
val chief), who has just
hoisted bis Hag of the Black
cross, with the assertion that
submarine warfare against
the allies will yet win the
war for the Axis if it is
prosecuted with greater
rutblessness," Captain l.o-
.vette said.
"We accept the challenge."
Capt. Lovette promised the
nation's press that the navy de-
partment would give the public
all the facts of the war at sea
compatible with military secre-
cy which is necessary to keep
the enemy from learning our
plans.
He termed the Japanese ven-
ture in the Aleutians, "regard-
less of whatever has been print-
ed or said, as demonstrating the
greatest, failure of amphibious
warfare o't the part of Japan in
ell history and it has been the
grandest rat trap to catch vie
rats that has tver existed."
The navy Seabees. construc-
tion units, are building Mind
bases on many Pacific islanos.
he said, adding that "the Japa-
nese are going to be very sur-
prised some day to find that wo
have some very fine stationary
air craft carriers."
v —
kfces Favors Hike
In Crude Price
WASHINGTON. April 10 —
(IP) — Petroleum Administra-
tor Harold L Ickes told th^ Pat-
man small business committee
today he had recommended a
general average increase of l!5
rents per barrel on the price of
crude oil but that Price Ad-
ministrator Prentiss M. Brown
has not yet answered his letter.
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Weather Forecast
WEST TEXAS — Cooler in
the Panhandle, warmer else-
where tonight; ftesh to strong
winds.
EAST TEXXAS — Somewhat
warmer, scattered showers east
and south portions tonight: fresh
winds over the south portion
; nd fresh to strong winds over
the north portion,
GEN. Mac ARTHUR'S HEAD-
QUARTERS, Australia, April 10
— (UP) — Allied heavy bomb-
ers smashed anew today at the
remnants of a nineship Japan-
ese convoy seeking to reinforce
Wewak, New Guinea, for its
part in what Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur believes may be an im-
minent large-scale offensive.
Three of the six supply and
transport ships in the convoy
were wrecked in three mast-
height attacks from dusk to
midnight last night and new
relavs of bombers took over the
See'YANKS Pago 3
New Labor Bill
Passed At Texas
Senate Session
AUSTIN, April 10 —(UP) —
The Texas senate today passed
a new bill to regulate labor un-
ions and made it supplement:'!
; to the Durvvood Manford act.
The new bill freezes labor tin-
; ion membership charges at 10.30-
, 11 levels and punishes my • of-
ficer or organizer who makes
•'al-:- representations as to fu-
| turo employment in soliciting
members.
v"xt on the senate calendar
after Hazlewood's bill is S?r..
George Moffett's hill to eighten
liquor regulations. It was post-
poned 1 st Tttes 'ay after Sen.
Clay Cotten of Palestine had
made a spirited attack on the
liquor control board and oppos-
ed giving it any more powe.\
Third bill en the list Is Sen.
Karl I.ovelady's bill for state
regulation of intrastate flying.
Stripped of many of the orig-
inal provisions ant! hobbled to
be 'neffective until a year after
the end of the war, the bill com-
es up this time for final senate
vote.
The bill to license chiropract-
ors was put off until next week.
WASHINGTON, April 10 —
i UP) — The government told
civilians today that their food
supplies this year probably will
be three per cent greater than
the 1035-30 average but six pet-
cent under 10-42. when farm pro-
duction r ached a record high.
There will be adequate food
to , maintain .health, civilians
were told, but shortages from
time to time and here and there
will cause "inconvenience" and
"exasperations."
In a long-belayed and con-
troversial study of the nation's
larder, the OP A said that /'the
best judgement" as of April I
was that it would be difficult
to meet the original 1943 food
goals—eight per cent above 1042
See CIVILIAN Pagp 3
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DEDICATED TO SERVICE
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School Victory Concert Nets $31,454
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Pacific lines
15-Foot Python
Skin Exhibited
Joe, Randall and Hulen
Kirgan Friday were showing
. a 15 and half foot python
skin sent here by their sis-
ter, who had received it
from Africa. It had been
tanned in Africa by natives
before crossing the Atlantic.
The skin measured about
two feet across the center
of the snake.
WASHINGTON. April 10 —
(I'P) — American fliers con-
tinued to apply pressure to
.Japanese bases at both ends of
the Pacific battle front, smash-
ing at Kiska in the Aleutians
eight more times and sinking a
small enemy vessel during three
raids in the Solomons, the ,na- j
vy announced today.
These action were announced t
in a communique today as fur-1
thcr word was awaited from al-1
lied headquarters in Australia [
of a sustained American bomb-
ing attack on a Japanese convoy
seeking to supply the enemy's
air base at Wewak, New Guin-
ea.
The latest series of forays
against Kiska occurred on Wed-
ncs lay. The previous flav U. S.
fliers had conducted 10 air at-
tacks on that base.
As in Tuesday's assaults, the
land plane runway nearing eom-
pction on Kiska was again the
major objective of the Ameri-
can attacks. The navy reported
bomb hits on the camp area, on
the runway and the protective
works. Heavy and medium bom-
bers and fighters participated in
tre assaults.
Kiska has been hit from the
air 17 times this month, a rate
of bedU-r than two raids daily.
In the Solomons, installations
at the enemy's a:r bases at
Mun 'a and Vila in the New
Georgia group were hit. A struc-
ture believed to house a power-
gererat'on station was destroy-
ed at Vila.
The small Japanese vessel, an
80-fb0ter, was sunk in Rekata
Bay, the enemy seaplane base
on .'anta Isabel Island.
Russian Railroads
Under Army Rule
B.v United Press
Russia is placing all Soviet
railroads under martial law in
order to stamp out a lack |,r
discipline on the part of a small
minority of Soviet transport
workers, the official Tass News
age ncv reported today.
Tiie presidium of the supreme
Soviet (parliament) issued a de-
cree implementing the decision,
under which all railway em-
ployes wll be on a military foot-
See RUSSIA Page 0
BRITISH STH
THIRTY MILES
OUT Of TUNIS
ALLIED HE A DQU A Rt E RS,
North Africa, April 10—(UP) —
The British first army in a
night-time counter-attack recap-
tured the key mountain height
of Djebel Ang and advanced to
within less than 30 miles of
Tunis today after temporarily
losing the important 2.000-foot
Germans in one of
clashes of the Tun-
hill to the
the fiercest
i.- ian war.
All onem
counter-attacks on
the northeast Tunisian front
were beaten off on Thursday—
the first time that the British
First Army under Lt. Gen. K. A.
N. Anderson had successfully .and by
repulsed big-scale enemy efforts | or way
to recapture important positions.
Allied fighters, fighter-bomb-
ers and heavy bombers, mean-
time, defied unfavorable weath-
er to resume pounding attacks
on enemy front and rear posi-
Sce BRITISH Page 5
Pay-As-Yoa-Go
Tax Plan Being .
Drawn—P.avbiirn
WASHINGTON. April 10 —
(I P)—House Speaker Sam Ray-
burn, D., Tex. announced to-
day that bipartisan efforts are
underway among the house lea-1
dership and members of the
J ways and means committee to I
j work out a compromise pay-as- j
i yott-go tax plan immediately,
j flay burn said he met th?" iaor-1
i ning with Republican Leader Jo*
j soph W. Martin, jr., of Massachu-
setts: Democratic Leader John
W. McCorinack, also of Massa-
achusetts and six members of
tiie ways and means committee.
Martin said no decision was
reached at the conference, but
that Republican ami Democrat-
it representatives would reporf
to their delegations on the ways
and means committee later to-
day.
They're going to work imme-
diately," Martin said. "But no
time iimit was set. We all want
to get this thing settled as rap-
icily as we can."
The Victory concert by Sweet-
water High school and Reagan
Junior high school bands last
night, along with the sel'ing
drive by band members prec I-
ing it, neltel $31,451.55 for rst-
ele Sam, Ross Covey, superin-
tendent of the city's schools said
today. A large crowd heard a
fine program at the Municipal
auditorium.
Nearly 150 band members
"worked like beavers'' under di-
rection of Dirertor William Hob-
rick, but tre Reagan musicians
apparently worked the hardtv.
They raise I Si ".775 of the to' d,
and will enjoy a picnic a- re-
ward. with tiie i• i\ a 1 senior high
school band members foo:!ng
the bill.
Newman was credited v. i:h
SIC,375 in bonds, with gride
schools listed: Nolan S3.0S'.;.50;
Lewis $1,857.75 and Cowe:t,
$203.40. T. e Parent-Teachers or-
ganization co-operated with the
■student salesmen, who did "tin*
,actual selling and collection. \
jeep contest for selling more j
bonds and stamps in the seh >ois
the students is still und-!
and will end April 2ist..
Most of last night's givat j
crowd had bought their bonds j
or stamps before attending the ;
concert, but door sales contribu- j
ted 8153.70.
The 70-pieee Newman high j
band played 10 minutes includ-
ing novelties with sound effects |
end featuring singers and 12
twirlers.
A varied group of selections!
also were offered by the junior
high band, composed of 85 piec-
es.
The Texas Defense Guard |
Company F led by Capt. John
Darnell, presided for a formal j
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ROOSEVELT EN FACE
TODAY'S
WAR
MOVES
By ljonis F. Keejnle
t l War Analyst
The flurry of debate over Jap-
anese activity in the Southwest-
ern Pacific raises questions
about Japan's intentions in that
area which make it difficult for
the American public to form an
opinion, since there are two sid-
es to tiie matter, both convinc-
ingly presented.
The immediate issue i>. arc
the Japanese planning to invade
\u-:raiia or aren't they? Is
See WAR MOVES Page 2
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APRIL
1
12 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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Floyd Hamilton
Found Alive !n
Alcatraz Cave
SA.N FRANCISCO. April 16—
(I'P) — Floyd C. Hamilton,
member of the notorious Ron-
nie Parker gang, was found
hiding in a cave on Alcatraz Is-
land today three days after he
jumped into San Francisco Bay
with three other desperadoes in
a vain attempt to escape "tne
rock."
Once given up for dead, Ham-
ilton was found ''sick, sore, wet
and hungry," Warden James A.
Johnston announced.
"He never got far out, because
he couldn't make it," said the
warden.
APRIL 11—Red C stamps
valid, expire April 30.
A.PR1L 18—Red "D" stamp
becomes valid: expires April
30.
APRIL 25 — Coffee stamp
No. 20 in book 1 (for those
14 or older on date the
book was issued good for
one pound—expires at mid-
night.
APRIL 20—Tire inspec-
tion deadline for T book
holders. Inspection required
every 00 days or every 5,000
miles.
APRIL 30 — Blue D, E,
and F processed food stamps
(48 points) in War Ration
book No. 2. good for pur-
chases until midnight.
MAY 21—"A" book stamp
5 expires.
MAY 31 — Sugar stamp
12 expires.
MAY 31—C mileage book-
holders must have second
official tire inspection.
JUNE 15—Stamp 17, Book
1. good for one pair of shoes,
expires at midnight.
WASHINGTON. April 10 —
i (UP)-—President Roosevelt to-
I day faces the first major revolt
' of organized labor as the Con-
gress of industrial Organiza-
; tions prepared to join the Am-
• erican Federation of Labor in
| an attack on the "hold-the-line"
! order against inflation.
! AFL members of the war La-
bor Board denounced the presi-
1 cent's "freeze of gross inequities
and manifest injustices" last
i night as alien to "all concepts
; of American justice."
The AFL and t HI are abid-
ing b.v the no-strike, no-look-
out pledge made Dec. 23,
l!MI. but AFL members of
the board now charge that
I he new order is a "flagrant
violation" of that agreement.
Condemning the president's
VvLB may award wage raises
decision tha' henceforth the
WLP, may award wage raises
o;ily to correct substandards of
j living and cost-of-living malad-
justments in accordance with
| its "Little Steel" pay ceiling for
j inula, the AFL members said:
! "The agreement with the pre-
j Mdent was that all labor dis-
i putt s would be settled for the
jfluration of war by a tri-partite
I war labor board. Now we find
that wage disputes involving
i gross inequities and manifest in-
I justices apparently cannot be
■ settled by the tri-partite war la-
i bor board In which labor. Indus-
I try and the public have a vote."
Parents Meeting
Tonight To Plan
Girls' Program
A meeting has been called
; tonight at the U.S.O. at 8
p. m. for the purpose of dis-
cussing with parents and cit-
izens of Sweetwater the need
of a sound program for
girls.
National Field Advisor
Miss Alice Mulky will be
j present and will present
plans of the West Texas
Council of Girl Scouts, which
is being organized.
Parents, especially fath-
ers. of girls between the
ages of 7 and 18 are not
only invited but urged W
come. An open forum will
l)o conducted and questions
are welcomed.
HI LL AND I". 8. COOL
WASHINGTON, April 16 —
i (CP) — Secretary of State Cor-
dell Hull today answered a sug-
gestion that Spain was willing
to use her good offices to neg-
; otiate world peace immediately
l by asserting that this govern-
j ment has made its sole objec-
i tive is unconditional surrender
for the axis and her satellites.
BARCELONA, Spain-, April 10
'--(UP)—Foreign Minister Gen.
Count Francis®) Jordana an-
nounced todays that Spain is
ready to offer her good offices
in order to achieve a restora-
tion of wartd peace immediate-
ly •
Jordana said t,he Holv See and
netttrat 'countries "shftifjt! collars-
crate toward restoration of
: peace.
(Disptaches from London
, and Stockholm recently had
I again predicted some Axis-inspir-
i ea peace move would be launch-
j e-d through a neutral channel,
but there was no belief in Brit-
ish quarters that such a move
would meet with any success at
i present in view of the allied de-
mand at the Casablanca con-
; t'erence for unconditional Axis
i surrender.)
Jordana denounced commun-
ism as "the gravest menace to
; world peace."
TRIAL CONTINUES
IN AVENGER FIELD
CASE AT ABI> ENE
Trial of a conspiracy to de-
fraud case growing out of the
construction oi Avenger Field
proceeded in its -econd day to-
day in United States District
court in Abilene.
Victor J. Nelson, sub-contrac-
tor: Robert Young and E. T.
Nelson, all of Los Angeles have
pleaded guilty to the govern-
ment's charge. Others in the
j case. Joe B. Plosser, Charles A.
Prince and A E. Hrbacek of
Sweetwater: Elton Taylor, Big
•Spring: A. L. Leverenz, C. A.
i Carpenter and N. K. Marshall,
also of Los Angeles, pleaded
innocent to the charge:
Testimony Thursday develop-
i ed that Plo.-st r and Prince had
decided differences with Nel-
son over construction work at
Avenger Field and at Lamesa.
See AVENGER Page 6
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Allied Casualties
10,531, Japs 38,000
! GEN. MacARTHUR'3 HEAD-
QUARTERS, Australia, April 16
;(UP) — Allied casualties in
New Guinea up to April 1 total-
ed 10.531 including 4,319 Amer-
icans. while the Japanese lost
, an estimated 38 000, practically
ill of them killed, a spokesman
said today.
Of the allied casualties, 2,175
Americans and 2,379 Australians
were dead or missing, and 2,-
111 Americans and 3,833 Aus-
tralians were wounded.
The 4,554 dead or missing and
I 5,977 wounded for the allies in-
eluded the airforce casualties,
which constitute a substantial
portion, the spokesman said.
The Japanese casualties of
38,000 included an estimated
15,000 lost in the Papuan cam-
paign and 15.000 lost in the Bis-
marck Sea convoy battle early
last month.
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