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Newspaper Page TextTWO ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY II, 1940. ATTACK m AMERICA ! Stori.'Inz Expose o? U. Z. Lack of Defense By GENERAL AHED WHITE WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S HAPPENED ! CAPTAIN. UICNMNO, (lining V. ' S. InMliyi'iK-e otriccr tiles lo WnKhiitRtnn from Mrtxtto City will) ! tntoiiiiaUon ui plunn for u .Mcxicim ! Invasion of llm I'lilted .States. VAN HASSKK. mitHUT of .Mexl- can foieo. opuiuteH thioiiKh j IUIZ, tllrtiiliM' of Mexico. Van llaHHiik's Huit'liLal. The whole nimy and navy ikiiitinniiiH me u1 jjL'oliive f atiaiiuul aciivity. ; GKNKUAI- JIAdHK Ik chief of! Htiitt of the t'ntti'd Siiiios army, j CH Al'TKIt VIII At Toil Sain Houston, on the outskirts of San Antonio, Lieutoit nnt Colonctl fi;irt, corps arcu i-2 Clliof I'Wl'iVMl U (ilrttUlblllK bit Of Inlonnation lain in tho day. Short ly utter KiuiHi't a formal ion, i I 1 1 -tilled us bom hern, had mnsufl over the liio (iriuidi at 11 point wpsi of Urounsvllle, beaded north. HiM-t had telephoned the vill- age of KhiKHvillti, Gregory, Hklti uiore, Iteevllle and Kennedy to the north of the border, In Texas, without picking up any further re port of I he fllftht, from which lie coneludcd that the "bombum must have lukun out across the (Julf of Mexico. He had alerted Galveston umi New Orleans, but an tint evening passed ho reports vnnw from ttiose cities. Neither Kelly field nor Kaudolph Held had any plmin out. A query to Washington brought (he response that no American bombers were known to be In the lower Texas region, or along, the Gulf or .Mexico. Colonel .Mngulre, corps area chief of staff, was Inclined to the be lief that Mexican bombers bad been making a test flight and bad turned bark across tho Gulf of .Mexico on finding themselves north of the Hio Grande. Hut he directed that all regular forces In Wfaaf Are We Waiting For? 1940 looks good. Let's get ready for it. Look your tractors and ma chinery over and let us put them in shape--or make you a trade. "SEE US FIRST WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY" DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-op. Exch. ROSEBURG, OREGON Texas and throughout the corps area keep on the alert through the nb;hl, particularly along the Itio Grande. The reported bomber expedition hud followed a series of reports . during the afternoon that had put General Id 111 and the whole corns ' area utalf on tho jagged edge. A Mexican bad brought Into Laredo I the report that heavy motorized divisions were upending the day In screened bivouacs In Coahulla and Nueva Leon. Colonel Hart had spread his net I to the north and east to Georglu land the Carolinas. Shortly after J len the field telephone rang from rthe 11th Infantry ut Laredo. Col- one) I; en n or that outpost regi ment had an unconfirmed report that an unidentified plane had been shot down by Mexican anti aircraft in the vicinity of Mon-' clovu. Half uu hour later came news from Colonel Henu that was not to be Ignored. "Four flights have passed over I .a redo within the past I if teen min utes," Jlenn said. "If my ears know an American plane these were not American, They were headed due north, and traveling high and past." General Drill calmly made hu own estimate of the situation. Parked In the grounds of Fort Sam Houston were the sixteen hundred shining new trucks of the second division. The second, ulerled and uitli all leaves suspended, was In barracks and camp ready for em ergency. At Kelly and Jtandolph fields, near-by, were the planes and supplies used In training u small new army or pilots fur an expanded ulr service. "Have the second division get their trucks out of here as soon as possible," be directed bis chief of staff. "They'll also .disperse their artillery. Notify the mayor of San Antonio and suggest that he have all llghti cut oft. Notify the Hy ing fields of our Information. No tify Kagle I'ass and Fort Hllss." j lie paused to receive another re ; port from Hart. "Sir", third army rieadijuurterti ' Just called In from Atlanta. They've a report from Charleston of bomb ers flying high over that city at 10 : )7 o'clock, headed north by east." "Get Gemiral Hague at Wash- : iugton on the wire lor me iinme- ' diately!" the corps urea comman der directed. j In a few crisp sentences, his voice unaffected by excitement, General Drill retailed his report; to the chief of slul'f of the army. ; "I don'1 waul to be an alarmist, I Hague," Drill said, "but my per sonal opinion la we're ull In fur bell before much longer. Frankly, I've lelt It in my bones all day. 1 hardly need tell you 1 must have more troops down here and nup plies. J have less than three day of fire stocked up for my artillery, not much moro than that for the ir. fantry." I directed Old nunc? to send you seven hundred tons, today. Drill. Tbut'll supply your second division for two or three days, and in the meantime the situation ought to clarify, ond way or an other, I'll report what you told me Immediately to the president. IMease keep me posted of any de velopments. We'll arrange a spe cial wire for you at once." Outside there was orderly com motion. Troops were pouring out of barracks and bivouac camps al ready, (he first drivers were mov ing their trucks out of the fort. Another report from Colonel Heiin. Tho colonel's voice now cracked with intensity. One of his Intelligence wmiim. disguised las a Mexican peon, hud the word from friendly Mexicans that a heavy motor column waa moving north from the vicinity of Palo J I In n co. Another column was re ported moving by night through Ta maul i pas toward Hrownsville and a third was said lo have paused MesrniJtn. In 1 Conhiillft. headud In the direction of Eagle i'uss. An hour Inter the second divi sion's trucks, filled with men, were whirring out of the-fort, rubber-tired artillery was shilling Its light and medium caution out of the zone of possible danger. The aiurni had spread Into Sun Antonio. A' local stution . was broadcasting the report of planes on the way up . from the Rio (jraude. People 1 were cautioned not to display lights, to avoid hunching Up In crowds ft) event un ulr attack developed. At the sume lime, the broadcaster reas sured them that the flight, of- air craft might not have hostile pur poses. ,' An aide; whom General Drill had sent out Into the garrison to ob serve, burst into headquarters, breathless, hie face stripped of color, 'Sir, airplanes" he panto;!. "Fly ing high you you can hear them coming!" General Drill left his staff at their itliulud jo bo und on I out aide with his tide. The garrison was dark, headquarters worked behind drawn shades. The roar of motors filled the air as trucks and artillery continued to roll out of the garrison. Rut above that he caught the sharp whine of high-powered engines far over head. The 69th antiaircraft artillery had got its fcuns In position, but was withholding its searchlights pending development. Suddenly a small plane zoomed down over the garrison and dropped a flaro that turned night into duy. Drill . stood, calmly observing. He knew that flare was the first violence of an invasion of the I'nlted States. He knew that In ti few minutes I ho bombers would circle over their target of Fort Houston and let drive. He knew, too, that there was nothing he could do to prevent what was to follow. A hissing shriek caught Ills ears. Involuntarily he raised himself ou his Ines and planed his finger-tips at his ears. A savage flash of yel low flame leaped from the earth Into the heavens. The ground un der him shook with volcanic in tensity from the savage wrath of a heavy bomb. Long fingers of light leaped In to the sky from the liJHh's search lights. Another bomb detonated, :hifi time In the field from which the trucks were whirring. Brill caught. In the momentary flash of light, the grim ti-agedy of shatter ed men and material. Above the din he heard the cries of wound ed men. Another bomb crashed and another. HJb antiaircraft re handful of guns were almost lost In the din of titanic thunder that crashed from the sky. (To be continued) Elliott's Beauty SHOP Henninger's Mart Creaion Bldg. Special for January 12th to 19th Oil Permanents $1.50 and up Telephone 522 for Appointment JYewJar-JSTew Leaf- WhyNotNewCar? THE slate's clean, the past is past, you're making a new beginning on a new year you hope will be happier and finer and richer how about doing the job up right? You spot the fun possibilities in this brilliant and buoyant Buick just by watching it flash by, but have you been in to try it? 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