Current Events May 25, 1942; 10 CORREGIDOR NURSES SAVED:

London Hears Position Of Soviet Army Around Kharkov Is Critical

The Port Arthur News

PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 25. 1942.

WPA BUDGET NEEDS CUT 187 MILLION

SHORTAGE OF LABOR IS CITED BY PRESIDENT

Organized Migration Looms

In Some War Work

Still Are Many Unable To

Get Private Jobs

WASHINGTON, May 25' .

(AP) Slashing approximately

$185,000,000 from the total

Because war conditions permit

, President Roosevelt asked

congress to appropriate $280,000,000

for work relief in the year starting

July 1 plus $2,767,000 for administrative

expenses.

JAP AIR LOSSES ESTIMATED

Nipponese Production Is Set

At 80p Per: Month

LONDON, May 25 (INS).—Japanese

aerial losses since the sneak

-attack on Pearl Harbor last Dec

7 have reached the high figure of

5400 planes, high British circles

said today.

This figure b based on a study

of United Nations communiques

which placed Jap losses at 1350.

Authoritative quarters say twice

that figure would be a conservative

total.

10 CORREGIDOR

NURSES SAVED

Flown Out By Navy Prior To Fort's Fall

By Frank Hewlett

. MELBOURNE, May 25 (UP).—

Ten. American army nurses, rescued

by plane from Corregidor, at a

formidable dinner here today,

had their hair done and went to see

Walt Disney's movie, "Fantasia."

They were offered "Dive Bomber"

alternative entertainment but

declined unanimously.

Flee 5OOO Miles

Rescued by daring American

navy aviators seven days before

the fall of the island fortress In

Manila bay, the nurses came 5000

miles through Japanese infested

territory in a crowded navy patrol

bomber to join Gen. Douglas Mac-

Arthur's forces.