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City Facing
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Japanese Land
New Troops On
Swedish Red Cross
Will Relieve Greeks
Some Jap Troops
in Burma Trap
Public Clamor Pulls
United Operations
Four Highways Are Still Closed at Five
Points in State; Warmer Weather Due
Britain Reveals
Plaint to Vatican
No Planes Reported;
Shipping. Industrial
Regions Are Alerted
Growth Through War
Industry Focuses Need
Of Service Expansion
Larger Families
Urged to Insure
U. S, Prosperity
Parade to Be Held Unless Rain Is Falling
This Afternoon; Box Supper, Dance Tonight
Ex plosion S access fu l.
But Power Line Breaks
preparations for possible war against
Soviet Russta, including heavy rein-
Police Chief May
Be Kansas City’s
Sole Traffic Cop
Guthrie and Okemah
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Japs Intensify W ar
Measures Near Soviet
CHUNGKING, China, April 21 — (P
nical and skilled jobs which are being
robbed by war activities and construe-
The weatherman wasn’t doing
as well by the occasion as he did
53 years ago when he gave the
89ers a hot sun in a cloudless
sky, but Oklahoma celebrations
municipal needs.
The garbage department has fared
a little better, but applications for
new trucks suitable for garbage haul-
ing also has fallen victim to priority
regulations.
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At least two new fire stations will
be necessary, one to serve the fast
growing northwest section, and one
Five formations of Japanese planes
made raids over a wide area Monday.
They centered their attacks in Kiagsi
province and bombed at least four
Blackout Bicycles Illegal
TEMPLE CITY, Calif., April 21.-
(P—Bicycle riding in blackout* is
illegal. Sheriff’s Capt. J. M Burns
issued that warning Tuesday, He said
several pedestrians reported they had
narrow escapes from bicyclists in last
week's blackout.
ics, said the nation's birth rate must
be Increased to escape the fate of Eu-
ropean countries which found it nec-
essary to transmit wealth by govern-
donation of Japans treacherous and
unprovoked attack."
Cherokee Folk
Place Blame For
Flood on Mikado
headed by Ralph R. Luddecke, New
York City.
hours after he left, a letter reached
his home granting him an additional
month leave.
transmit wealth and hand down the
cultural heritage of our fathers "
Doctor Baker declared that "it does
not take any more to raise a child
than to own an automobile."
pect the red, white and blue Insignia
of U. S army bombing planes in the
sky any day now.
Nearly all aviation correspondents
of British newspapers have been spec-
BLUE SPRINGS, Mo., April 21—
(P)— The explosion was a success, but
it shut off the electric power to 220
homes at Lake Tapawingo for an
hour.
A WPA labor crew was dynamiting
rock to lay a water main A charge of
a half stick of dynamite was set and
heavy rope mats were laid over it
to prevent a shower of small stones.
The blast hurled one of the mats GO
feet in the air to break a power line
of the Missouri Public Service Co.
rial spokesman said Tuesday negoti-
ations were proceeding through the
Swedish Red Cross for relief of the
starving Greek population.
The Swedish government, he said,
had declared itself ready to furnish I
war, is expected to swell attendance
at the Guthrie and Okemah observ-
ances.
Celebrations at Cheyenne and Cor-
dell were held over the weekend and
i Oklahoma City's big "run" from Cap-
itol Hill was set for Tuesday after-
noon.
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dustry.
Dispatches of the Chinese Central
News agency said the Japanese planes
concentrated on air fields
than now "
It was announced in Tuesday's dis-
closure that the outline of an organi-
zation for joint war planning, or a
chief's of staffs committee would be
Issued later Tuesday or Wednesday.
U.S. ARMY HEADQUAR-
TERS IN AUSTRALIA,
April 21.—(P)—The Japa-
j nese have made a new land-
ing on Panay at San Jose,
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As Flooded Streams Recede
tion work in all parts of the country. I Plane sjust before going aloft for a jump. (Wirephoto.)
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reported Tuesday in his first
communique for the south-
west Pacific area.
• tin commenting, state depart-
ment officials said they had no
knowledge of London reports
that 50,000 tons of ships had
been turned over to Japan. Lat-
est London reports put the fig-
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Before Laval Took Over
Caney river out of its banks.
Cimarron River Falling
U S. highway No. 75 was closed
both north and south of Bartlesville,
but traffic was going through by de-
touring three miles east. The high-
way was also closed at Owasso.
U. S. highway No. 64 was closed at
Leonard. Tulsa county; state highway
No. 11 closed at Skiatook, and state
highway No. 18 was closed by a bridge
washout at Asher, south of Shawnee.
The Cimarron river, carrying off a
flash flood from Kingfisher creek at
Kingfisher, which drove more than
200 families from their homes there
Sunday afternoon, was falling rapidly
as the flood reached the deeper and I
broader channel of the river near :
Oilton.
Deep Fork Out of Banks
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ently for the nation’s war program.
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Capitol Hill's 89er celebration opened Tuesday morning, with
clouds still threatening plans for a huge "victory" parade sched-
uled to start at 2:30 p. m.
Some entries in the parade were already canceled due to the
Osaka, the heart of Japanese war in-
The rain is over, at least temporarily. Harry Wahlgren____
Tuesday as Oklahoma began cleaning up after flash floods, check-
ing roads and highways for damage and relaxing somewhat the
close watch kept on flooded streams.
tion of the three fighting services has tered the oli
steadily gained ground in the present
fields after the British
demolished the fields last week
Soldier's Luck Remains
Unknown to Him—Tough!
KANSAS CITY, April 21—(P——I
Private Dexter J. Johnson only knew!
Johnson. home on furlough, started i
hitch-hiking to California where he
was due to report Friday. A few
further confidence of the French people"
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war and was never more widely held
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City’s 89er Program Opens;
During the last three budget Weather Is Only Sour ^lote
making periods. $10,000 was set up •
each time for the northwest, station
LONDON. April 21.—(UP)—Free French diplomatic
sources said Tuesday they had confirmed that the Vichy
government had turned over to Japan 60,000 tons of mer-
chant shipping in French Indo-China for use against the
United States and Allied Nations.
They said the arrangement had been completed five or
1 six weeks ago, at about the time French supplies were going
to German forces in Libya, adjoining French Tunisia in
north Africa, for use against the British.
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personnel, particularly in the tech- title of "Jumping Chaplain.” The former rector of St. John’s
Weeks ago Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt
said the Yanks were coming. Last Saturday Gen. George C. Mar-
shall, U. S. army chief of staff, reaffirmed the American decision
to join In Britain’s offensive against German bases in Europe.
United States and her forces were
perpetrating "terrible barbarity" con-
trary to all international law.
Ted ran. but as the train neared
lio leaped 15 feet into the water He failed
I finally swam to shore, his leg broken American families, he said, are fall-
from striking a plank
was stated that the reported
basis of trustworthy Swiss advices
that members of I aval’s government
believed Marshal Petain would retire
soon "for a rest,” and reports had
come from Paris that Petain would
retire permanently and transfer all
power to Laval,)
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60 More to Die?
'London reported that the Germans
intended to shoot 80 more innocent
French patriots Thursday unless those
responsible for the train wreck were
arrested
(Thirty-five hostage had been shot
at Calais last week, and thus the total
of new killings, In a German repres-
sion campaign, was brought to 85
with Ro more facing death.)
Laval went to Paris by motor car
He left two hours before Jean Fran-
cois Darlan, admiral of the fleet, gave
his first order of the day to the
powerful French fleet which he still
controls as commander-in-chief of the
armed forces, responsible not to Laval
but to Marshal Henri Philippe Petain
Policy Statement Expected
It Was believed that Laval on his
return would make a public statement
on foreign policy with special refer-
Wahlgren said the mercury will climb a bit and will be in the
low 50s by early Wednesday, compared with the 48 recorded here
at 8 a. m. Tuesday. Rain, if any, will be confined to a shower here
and there as the storm moves eastward.
Four highways were still closed in---——-----------------------
five places with the worst flood still
ulating on their imminent arrival. The
first were expected to be heavy planes
capable of flying the Atlantic and go-
ing into service quickly after mechani-
cal tuneups and establishment of base
facilities, most of which have been
provided ready-made by the British.
To follow will be medium bombers
and possibly dive-bombers, which some
commentators have long regarded as
a need of the British air force. The
' R. A. F. now has some on order in the
(B» the United Press)
Fire-fearful Japan had a new
series of air raid alarms Tues-
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communique of the Philippines’ Ma-
nila bay theater.
"Harbor defenses registered hits on
enemy troop movements."
Aggressive action was said to have
taken by American-Filipino patrols on
the southern island of Mindanao.
Daily Communique Planned
Two Japanese planes were said to
have been shot down and at least two
damaged incident to the weekend raids
against Japanese shipping. wharves.
' airdromes and transport services
Col Le Grande A. Diller, press re-
lations officer, snid daily communiques
are planned to cover the entire opera-
tions area and replace various Aus-
tralian communiques issued hereto-
fore.
England Rations Fuel
LONDON, April 21.—(P— A British
spokesman said Tuesday the govern-
ment had decided to institute house-
hold fuel rationing with the hope of
reducing domestic consumption of
coal by 10,000,000 tons a year. Coke.
forcement of Japanese garrisons in
Inner Mongolia
They said the Japanese were build-
ing defense works in Inner Mongolia,
had transferred all departments of the
Chahar provincial government from
the capital to south of the great wall
and were holding air raid precautions
tests throughout north China.
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Wartime Meetings
Of Towns Encouraged
WASHINGTON, April 21.—(—
The office of civilian defense is "en-
couraging with smiles" versions of the
old-time town meetings that officials
hear are "mushrooming in different
sections of the country" to discuss
war problems as they affect the local
community.
E. A Sheridan, assistant to the
OCD director, said that this Saturday
five towns—Hannibal, Mo ; Simsbury,
Conn.: Amenia, N. Y.: Ontario, Calif ,
snd North Port, Ala —were holding
such meetings. They are generally
being called town meetings for war.
to serve the Capitol Hill area. Both
cities— Yushan, Kian.
reproduce themselves, to
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manager of
60,000 Tons of Shipping Declared
I tu ned Over to Foe in Indo-China:
I. S. Sends Strongly-Worded Protest
Homes of 100 Aliens
Raided, Radios Found
LANCASTER, Pa April 21—(PP)—
Federal bureau of investigation agents
raided homes of nearly 100 enemy
aliens Monday night In what was de-
scribed as the largest raid ever made
in Lancaster county.
An 18-tube short-wave radio set.
several smaller short-wave sets and a
quantity of firearms were reported
seized.
actions when
Oklahoma City Times
(Evening Edition of The Daily Oklahoman.) Entered at the Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Postoffice as second class mail matter under the act of March 5. 1879.
Paid Circulation Greater Than Any Other Evening Newspaper Published in Oklahoma
ments at $1,471,000 for sanitary lines
alone, without considering enlarge-
ment of the two disposal plants, or
rectifying the hot weather stench
from overloaded downtown storm sew.
ers.
The current fiscal year ends June
30. and consideration of the new
budget is expected to begin between
June 1 and 15. Department heads now
listing a few of the items they will
request will turn their figures to H.
E. Bailey, city manager, within the
next 20 days.
From that point until adopted, the
budget will be his headache, and the
\azis Slay 20 in
Reprisal for Raid
VICHY France. April 21_/Up_
German1 military authorities have exe.
Nted2o more French hostages at St.
Bazaire reprisal for the recent
British commando raid on the im.
portant submarne base there, It was
made known Tuesday
observance with an amateur rodeo
and novelty show. Highlights of the
Guthrie observance comes at 11 a m.
Wednesday with the pioneer day
parade
Okemah's second day of celebra-
tion had another "run" on the sched-
ule—the Okfuskee county track meet,
but it swings back to the frontier day
idea Wednesday with the annual pa-
rade. rodeo and Indian dance.
Absence of the El Reno celebration.
Sells Furniture!
Several pieces of used furni-
ture including a chair, studio
couch. bed and a couple of
dressers were offered through
a little Want Ad Every piece
was promptly sold at good
CASH prices and the woman
placing the Want Ad was cer-
tainly well pleased with the
response obtained from her of-
fer to sell. She said that her
Want Ad .investment paid off
in needed CASH!
A little Want Ad of your own
will bring you this same brand
of profitable RESULTS! Take
one to raise EXTRA cash by
selling used articles which you
no longer need. Just phone
3-1211 for Want Ad service
right NOW!
Tuesday afternoon, Tokyo time,
and the all clear had been
sounded in central Japan at 5
p. m. (3 a. m. Oklahoma time).
Jap Industry Alarmed
This meant presumably that w
western Japan, where the Japanese
navy has its strongest bases, the alarm
still continued.
Berlin did not say whether any
hostile planes had appeared over Ja-
pan Tuesday.
Central Japan, where some alarms
were sounded, is the heart of Japan's
war industry.
Bomb Air Fields
city equipment also was seen
hampering the city's facilities
operation.
Sewers Major Problem
repair, and build new sewers sets the forward Tuesday,
probable amount of needed improve- co . . .
P ' Sodden skies gave promise of clear-
ing late Tuesday morning as Guthrie,
bedecked in its frontier and cowboy
attire, prepared to open Its two-day
—Chinese reports Tuesday
the Japanese were making
The buyer was
bottling works.
I hey'll Have a
HOLLYWOOD BEACH, Fla.. April
21—P— Larger American families
were urged Tuesday by a Washington
economist addressing the National
Council of Catholic women.
Dr O E. Baker, senior economist
of the bureau of agricultural econom-
gas and electricity will also be af-
fected.
“Soon at airdromes all over Brit-
ain there will be gathered the force of
planes that will make this country the
world's greatest air base," said the
London Dally Sketch.
“To augment the already powerful
bomber striking force of the R A. F.
will come hundreds of United States
aircraft—giant bombers, medium bom-
bers and dive-bombers—flown by
American air erews."
It is expected that the planes will be
completely serviced by American me-
chanics, whose proficiency particularly
impresses the British.
cot, gets a welcome drink from
Billy Bordens of Stephenville,
Texas. Willie was captured in
the surrounding jungles by
members of the airport's ground
crew. (AP Photo.)
First rumblings of the
city's annual budget making
storm were heal'd Tuesday as
city councilmen started re-
viewing the city’s present
condition in light of recent
expansion.
A population increase of at
least 70,000 persons is expected
within the next 12 to 18 months
as a result of war industry.
Facilities to increase city
services have been impossible
for lack of funds.
Unless funds can be provided in a
systematic manner of budget appro-
priations for annual outlays on capital
improvements, some kind of improve-
ment bond issue will be necessary.
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physical dangers of the men he is with and so he has won the record breaking rains had thrown the
London air observers say they ex-* .--
United States. The shorter-ranged
craft must be sent by ship and will
take longer to deliver.
Drink for Willie
At an airport cleared in
Panama jungles, Willie
Coon, airplane squadron
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KANSAS CITY, April 21.—)—
Police Chief Harold Anderson is go-
ing to find out May 1 whether he's
still an executive or takes over as
Kansas City's one-man traffic force.
It's all because one of his patrolmen
handed Darrell Cspshaw, a police
courier, a ticket for parking in a re-
stricted zone.
Capshaw appealed, arguing the
chief of police Is the only officer car-
rying a commission and consequently
is the only one with authority to tag
a traffic violator.
The police board’s defense is that
portable commissions aren't required
and that the board has taken care of
all needed legal formalities.
Meanwhile, Chief Anderson is
awaiting that municipal court hear-
ing with more than accustomed in-
terest.
TWENTY PAGES—500 N. BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1942
Guthrie. farther up the stream. but
little damage was expected
in Okmulgee county Deep Fork
flooded bottom lands during the
night but this stream was falling, too.
and all highways in this area were
reported open
An approach to a bridge on the
Cimarron river was washed out north
of Buffalo. In the extreme northwest
part of the state, but the damage was
caused by a shifting current and not
by a particularly high flood, said ob-
servers.
Washita Damage Slight.
The Washita river also was lapping
over its banks in southern Oklahoma,
but damage apparently will be lim-
ited only to the extremely low and
frequently flooded areas.
Oklahoma City's rainfall for April,
including .30 Inch recorded Monday,
totals 7.79 inches, a new all-time rec-
ord for the month, and breaking the
record of 7.67 inches which has stood
since 1922.
Official rainfall reports for Mon-
day included Muskogee .17, Tulsa .71.
and Guymon .60
CHEROKEE April 21 — IP— Resi-
dents of this city have another reason
for hating the Japs.
They blame the Nipponese for the
civic wet feel they suffered over the
weekend when a three foot wall of
water spread over highway 64 and
fire whistles routed merchants and
citizens out of lied to sandbag build-
ings in an effort to prevent extensive
damage
Cherokee has $75,000 in its city
treasury earmarked for flood preven-
tion. Among the needs for the work
But Hardly as Planned
HUTCHINSON, Kan , April 21 -
IP- The No. 2 district of Rice coun-
ty is going to have a new school, but
not exactly as planned.
Residents of the district voted $20,-
000 for a new school building The
basement was completed, then the
WPB put a ban on further materials.
A roof has been placed over the base-
ment. and classes will be held there.
sufficient Swedish tonnage for food In. I •
shipments and the British. United UVCr jap riHVOY
States and Canadian governments had I ‘
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before it accepted the credentials of 21 ~ IP.w J. Beach says his cat,
a Japanese envoy, that acceptance Bunny, must have read the paper
would be widely interpreted as being An Associated Press story in the
the result of axis pressure and a con- Palm Beach Post told about a cat in
■ - - Castleton, N. Y.. that had brought in
three baby rabbits. That same day
Bunny walked In. carefully carrying a
new-born rabbit. Like those in Cas-
ence to French-American relations in
view of the United States war with
Japan and the axis nations with
which Laval. in a declaration of policy
Monday, aligned himself and his
regime
i London quoted the German con-
i trolled Paris radio that Laval in-
tended to employ an “iron hand" pol-
icy in France "in order to regain the
This Fish Story is
Almost a Tragedy
SALT LAKE CITY, April 21.—(P_
Ted Heath wishes this fish story
wasn't true.
The 12-year-old youth was fishing
from a tram bridge when he heard
, a locomotive whistle.
transfer of Vichy merchant ships in
French Indo-China was maneuvered
before Pierre Laval took office.
Allied leaders were openly anxious
over the possibility that in some war
i Germany might get hold of the
French fleet.
They suggested also that Germany
might use its secret police in an at-
tempt to get French crews to man the
"•hips, threatening reprisals of the ges-
tape type against families of navy
men who refused
Hope Held for Revolt
Twns recalled that when France
collapsed, threats against families of
Eren ch fleet crews caused many war-
ships to return to French waters al-
though others went to British ports.
thefav» ef hope held here was that
the Laval regime would harden the
F revolt °P unti they were ready
Pass to Honeymoon
FORT BLISS, Texas April 21.—(P
—A cavalryman proudly showed his
buddies the pass given him by his
company commander. Minus the
usual time limitations, It read, “per-
mission to visit, El Paso and get mar-
ried."
Hostilities Continue In
Philippine-. Says First
MacArthur Message
One Son Born, inother
Dies on the Same Day
CHICAGO April 21 (P Mi and
Mrs. Paul Larsen received congratula-
tions on the birth of their second
son and condolences on the death of
their first—all on the same day.
The first born, John, 2 years old.
who fractured his skull in a fall last
week, died in the Norwegian Amer-
ican hospital where two hours later
for which a site already has been
purchased. But each time, the appro-
priation was transferred for some;
more vital need before the fiscal year
ended.
Truck Shortage Cited
in 1913 when G R McAlpine joined
the fire department, the city had 9
fire stations, and a population about
half its present size. During the 29
years which have elapsed since 1913,
only 3 new stations have been added.,
Even the city's application for per-
mission to buy additional fire trucks
and equipment is being held up in
Washington pending surveys of equip-
ment on hand in manufacturing
plants, and tabulation of probable |
Guinea, aver the weekend.
Jap Raiders Driven Off
Meanwhile, reports from Port Mor-
esby, United Nations’ base on New
Guinea, said nine heavy Japanese
planes escorted by six fighters made a
ish government had pointed out to I LONDON, April 21.— (P—First units of a United States aerial
the Vatican that its official recognl- j striking force which will fly side by side with the R A. F are
tion Of Japan had not been revealed j already being ferried to British operational bases, reliable sources
until japan was plotting against the reported Tuesday
News of the executions was received
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Yukiang and Pans at 5 a m to contact the “Ger
mans on his collaborationist program.
Fluty hostages had been shot at
Rouen Monday in revenge for the de-
tailing of a German troop train in
which 44 German soldiers were killed
The hostages, completely Innocent
of the bombing, were taken from a
concentration camp at which Free
French sympathizers and alleged
Communists" were held.
weather threat, officials said.
' Motorized army units from Will
Rogers field are expected to lend a
military atmosphere to the patriotic-
pioneer procession. About 15 bands
are scheduled to march.
The parade will form on Harvey
avenue near Southwest Twenty-ninth
street and will move east to Robinson
avenue and north to Grand avenue.
It will loop a block east on Grand to
Broadway, then north to Main street
and west to Walker, where the units
will disperse after turning north to
Civic Center.
Open house at the celebration head-
quarters and livery stables at 2700
South Robinson avenue was sched-
uled all day Tuesday, regardless of
the weather. A romping, stomping
good time is expected at a box supper
and square dance scheduled at 7 30
p m. in the Capitol Hill highschool
cafeteria.
These infantrymen infiitrated into
(hr area from the southeast and cut
off the British rear guard south of the
oil fields Now these British troops
have been united with British tank
forces and Chinese from the north
and seek tn smash the Japanese.
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Insurance Man Sells
First Horse Policy
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind April 21-
I, It was bound to happen what
with rubber tire rationing and (he
like.
Bert L. Sieb, Michigan City insur-
ance agent for the first time in his
21 years in business sold a properly
damage policy on a horse
Yukan
Yushan is only 1.375 miles from
LONDON, April 21— (P) —Prime
Minister Churchill has approved a battle is racing around Yenanayaung.
plan to organize a combined oper. in the center of Burma's ruined oil
ations staff, an official spokesman . fields, as British tanks and infantry
said Tuesday, and a Chinese rifle regiment seek to
Agitation for such a general staff, annihilate isolated Japanese troops, a
which would integrate Britainis army military commentator said Tuesday
navy and air force as one huge com- The situation w as described as "eon-
bat team, developed tn influential fused " by the commentator He said
London cireles with con tinued.rre- i he lacked confirmation of Monday's
verses in the Pacific war. The influ- Chungking announcement that Yen-
ential London Times declared only anguyaung had been captured by Chi-
. last week nese forces
"The conviction that something is The Japanese troops cut off in that
fundamentally lacking in co-ordina- area are part or a force which
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tieton. the tiny rabbit here is thriving
on food given it with an eye-dropper.
(The United States state department Monday night
made known that it had sent a strongly worded protest to
Vichy concerning reports that the French had put several
I west coast low,, 40 miles west merchantmen atJapan’sdisposal in Indo-China.
of Iloilo, and hostilities con- , ,
tinue on both Panay and Ce- it ovf I PH trill
bu, Gen. Douglas MacArthur " " 91 “u
Japan Have
Allied airmen were said to Raid Alarms
have made far ranging attacks
from Australian bases against
Koepang. Dutch Timor. Rabaul,
New Britain and Salamaua, New
raid there Tuesday, but that their for- day.
mations were broken up by anti-air- Berlin radio reporting a dis-
craft fire and R A A F fighters: patch of the official news agen-
The enemy continued intermittent sin 20 . ,
shelling and bombing of Corregidor > sal the dread alarm had
with negligible effect; enemy artillery Deen sounded in various areas
action is abating," said the official of western and central Japan
LONDON, April 21— P— A furious
Hungry Convict (>ets
Greens for Dessert
DENVER, April 21 —(P- Elmer
Woods got hungry left his fall work
gang and made for the nearest res-
taurant.
Elmer ate three pork chops, two
fried eggs, three pieces of pie, two
cups of coffee, and signed Police
Capt. William J Armstrong's name on
the check.
Elmer was detained while the pro-
prietor called Captain Armstrong
Elmer now is back with his old
gang—digging dandelions.
4pm
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Industrial Alcohol
Advisory Organized
WASHINGTON, April 21.—(Ah—A
traffic advisory committee on Indus- The spokesman said Britain had
trial alcohol, intended to advise the been informed by the Vatican that
government on the transportation of negotiations for establishment of dip-
molasses. Industrial alcohol, and bev- lomatic relations with Japan were
erage alcohol which is being redls- opened in 1922 and It was decided to ,
tilled into 190-proof industrial alcohol, \ establish, relations "In order to safe- ro j • » t . c .
aaengg “transporadavnoy tne ottice or Roman Catholic order." of theU. S. Air Units Soon to Join
The eight-member committee istion’sholdhalhotVbticrngaratdthiscon- pp:p.1A p
nected with temporal interests" or A. A. F . Un KUKtS UVCr LltrOl
in any wav due to outside pressure f
The spokesman admitted the Brit-
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