The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 166, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 27, 1944 Page: 1 of 6
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER
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By Roy
bson Sees 10 Per Cent Business Slump
<inversion To Increase Every Month During 1945
I0CF.R ", BABSON
‘Busliii-.'* '
mi ago the United States
rt Index of the Physi-
e of Business register-
. today it registers 138,
’ my forecast of a year
Canadian Babsonchart
the Physical Volume of*,
registered 206,9 a year
todav it registers 197. 1945
Aow “a reduction of more
jO per Cent both in United
Wd Canadian business,
re, most of the follow*
ents apply To both coun-
^bad<dUandnthUaIreduction fr™ war to peuce business will
which expect to benefit from forro-convcrsionwUl not be as
war with Japan will be dis* great a* most people believe.
lH ‘ 4. Inventories quoted at their'
Ih* re-conversion of industry price values, rather than volumes,
■JCx
Tlri MBNAlL (H TLtMJK FOR 1915
Look for these developments: Fanners* cash Income will approxi-
mate that of 1944, which was 20 billions. Both bituminous and
anthracite mining will run 5% below a year ago. Petroleum out*
put will be tipped %%. Iron and steel will decline 10$. A simi-
lar drop is in prospect'for chemical manufactures. Lumber out-
put will increase 5$. The paper and shoe industries will Tun
*. along on the same levels as during 1944. Industrial employment
will be 7$ less and factory pay rolls will decline 10$. Greatest ','n-.
glc expansion will come in The construction and building group,
which will show an increase of 25$ from the low levels of 1944’s first
six months. Look for a sharp drop in retail trade, cspecialy in lux-
ury items. Electric power output Will be reduced 5% as war con-
tracts arc cut back, For basically the same reason railroad freight
ton milage will fail 15$.
-I'TU.
Into Nazis'
South Hank
about 700,000, but the birth of new
babies will fall off somewhat
Retail Commodity Price*
Rationing -will continue
through the most of 1948. During
the early part of the year, I ex-
pect to see further restrictions
especially in connection • with e ” _TsY i>> " t •
meats, canned goods, etc. ‘ From Meuse River Line
7. The retail prices of most
German Spearheads Are
Halted Four Miles
will continue, as a whole, during
1945 about as during 1944. Raw
material piles iylH’be larger, but
manufactured goods will be small-
©r.*:
5. Popular increases In the
United States during 1945 will,be-
Pi
necessities and some luxuries will
be higher during 1845 than at
present. The prices of some of the
luxuries, Such as furs, have al-
ready collapsed. . ! T:
8., Steel prices of goo.dx needed
foe peacetime manufacture should
be a little higher; but prices of
the heavy war goods will decline,
This applies also, to the heavy
chemicals,
9, The wholesale prices of raw
materials fri gcneral may dScIlhe
during 1945,' but most consumer
(Sec Babson Predicts, Page 6)
nek Factions Hold Talks
YOU'RE-QUITE A HECOmhl
DEAR BOY, THERE WAS (til
TROUBLE AT AIL 6ETBN6 1
THE BAND (0USH-6USH)-|
ESPECIALLY, AFTER 11
MINDED THE DIRECTOR Ti
IT WAS WE WHO BOUGHT |
THEM THEIR UMIF0
Mill Warns
roups To End
Civil War
4S Delegates Arrive
Sr Talks During Truce
ENS, Dec. 27 (RBI—Greek
ttnnal leaders today resumed
Ir peace conference called By
Be Minister Winston Churchill
let a-semi-truce which ELAS
•i forces broke by firing on
hips and naval installations at
HIS.
Borted by Churchiil to cease
- civil war and establish a
tion government, the Greek
jates met for the second ses-
of the conference after an
• to cease fire for 45 minutes
certain streets permitted
i representatives to enter
■Atrai Athens. v
|ChurchilI warned that if tfie reb-
ifail to come to terpis, Britain
11 feel bound to aid Premier
Jlge Papandreou’s government
i “rescuing Athens frhm anarchy
“(I the miserable conditions now
“miling.”
““hprities announced that 10
es after the beginning of the
1-truce incident to the confer-
s yesterday, ELAS guns hurled
)7J-milHmeter shells, into Pira-
• One landed neat the navy
w and the second in the har-
ipween the house and a war-
Soviet Tanks, Troops
Lunge Into Budapest
MOSCOVV, Dec. 27. —(U.P.)— Russian tanks and infantry
stabbed, into the heart of flaming Buda; western half of
Budapest, today in an attempt to reach the Danube and
split the encircled enemy garrison.
A front dispatch to the government newspaper Izvestia
said the Germans were blowing up ammunition dumps and
dpamitinf and setting fire ^n railway yards, public build-
ings and private dwellings as they slowly gave ground un-
der the powerful Soviet as-
PARIS, Dec. 27. — (U.P.)—
American forces today jab-
bed the Nazis to a halt four
miles east of the Meuse, re-
capturing the town of Celles,
and front reports said the
American drive into th$
southern flank of the Ger-
man salient was “making excel-
lent headway,"
.With two mril' 'perhaps three
German arnjlcs pouring men and
armor Into the spreading offen-
sive front 'the situation still was
regarded as grave, but headquar-
ters spokesmen said the two Ger-
man spearheads closest to the
Meuse had definitely been halted.
There is no immediate danger
of a Nasi breakthrough across the
Meuse, the spokesman said.
, The statement, obviously based
on later information than that
contained In the delayed com-
munique, was taken to mean
cither that substantial American
reinforcements have been thrown
Into the imperiled center of the
First afmy front or that the Ger-
mans finally have run into serious
THIN, TUB FIRST I’KTI'RE of the bombing of *
the Mitsubishi Air, raft plant at Nagoya, Japan,
by B-TF* based In Saipan, shows smoke pouring
from more than 40 direct hits on the important
Nip aerial industrial target.
Superforts Again Plaster Tokyo Plants
B-29 Attacks Are Still In 'Experimental Stage'
I 1
* • • ■
■ - ■ •
J British had agreed to re-
from ai r attaeks to enable
delegates to go safely to
' Conference site, (Where the
I Creek Factions—I*ago 2)
|£' & & MIH8IS81NEWA is
shown here as she blew up and
burned with a towering billow
oT black smoke, * result of-ene
emy action in the (Central Pa-
eifie. With 50 men lost, 80 per
Opt of the fleet oiler's crew
were saved from burning to
death by the pilot of a scout ob-
servation float plant and emer-
gency crews. The oiler was the
234th U, 8. naval ship to be list-
ed By the Navy as sliunk by the
(^Japanese, :'.'■■■■
round town
[jjj Tri-Cities—Keeping up
^•Cities boys in service . . .
■ ®rvin Thibodaux writes that
«Wdress now is Co, D, 80th D.
i.Bn,, Camp Howze, Texas . , .
p , transferred to the infantry
I’Tames T, Crump has ndd-
**! Mk leaf cluster to his air
and Staff Sgt, Hairy M,
admnistrative eleik at a
®ase in England, recently
n 4 v‘»it from Rep. Paul J.
from the sergeant’s home By UNITED PRESS
fa San Antonio. . . the pro- g«ost of Texas went about
of Julian Headley from
Rain, Drjzzfe
■ A-i •»> .. •
Covers Most
Of Texas
1 to first lieutenant has been
Med . . . Lt: Headley Is the
"*ur on a B-17. he writes
‘ Pvt Emilio B. Bara-
’ P|ne. is pushing forward
8tn Infantry Regiment of
Division in Fiance or
I e ■ : his oqtfit moves
Jn action in France when
«ad about the results of
V otiv*. - . „ Sgt; Thomas
j,,, tnailed a Christmas*Card
South Pacifig!to make a
W Rm'hLml8hty &»»*.• • ■
. K. Jileber sends a note
. i.e ^°uth P»cific saying
,«# feveral Tri-Cities boys
i s! ,i,lnnd with him, and
h* would like to hear
its
work under Jaw-hanging clouds
today with little prospect that the
damp, dismal; weather would
break- Before tomorrow — and
even then niore of the same was
reported moving toward the. state.
Only in the .Panhandle, where
high seattesgd-‘Clouds were re-
ported, was theit Any relief today
from several days of drizzle,, rain,
fog, sleet or snow. ,
Elsewhere over the state pre-
cipilatjon was general, but not
heavy, during the past 24 hours,
with continued cloudy weather
forecast. . . '
Kilgore Named
Board President ?
Of Hospital Here
Group Ready To Accept
Land Purchase Gifts -
John M. Kilgore, pioneer resi-
dent of the Tri-Cities area, was
named president of the board of
trustees of San Jacinto Memorial
hospital at a meeting of the trus-
tees yesterday.
I Other officers are Thomas W.
Moore, -vice president; Hugh
Echols, Jr., treasurer, and Robert
Matherne, secretary. „
This was the first meeting of
the board since the hospital was
granted a charter last week in
Austin, and a gift of $509,000 by
the Humble Oil and Refining
company was announced.
The meeting was held primar-
ily to elect officers, to accept
formally the gift from the Humble
company, and to organize and get
into a position to receive any gifts
any person or business firm may
care to give in 1944. No other
; business was transacted.
' ‘ “We know several persons have
asked about giving some money
" towards the purchase of land
now," said Joe Reid, one of the
Trustees,“ aiid-wc want the public
to know we will accept any: gifts
that might be offered now.” 4
The board plans at a later date,
to canvass the entjre area for
money needed to purchase land.
(See Kilgore Named, lrage 2)
U. S. Sub Sinks
Jap Plane Carrier
WASHINGTON^ Dec. 27. —
(U.P,)— A., large Japanese
Aircraft carrier and 26 other
enemy vessels have been
sunk by U. S. submarines in
their" mounting offensive
jagainst enemy sea .power,
GSJecretifry of the Navy James
Forrestal announced today.
• • < -
supply difficulties.
The German high command^ re-
ported an increase in the intensity
of the fighting in southeast Bel-
gium and central Luxembourg. It
said 70 American tanks were
knocked out or captured In a big
armored battle on the northern
rim of the German salient above
Laroche.
The Americans 'surged blck tn-
to Celles Christmas day after a
thin panzer spearhead had brok-
en into that town four miles
southeast of the- Meuse river
stronghold of Dinant,
Bitter Seesaw Fight
C’cllca changed Hands repeated-
_ ly in a bitter seesaw- fight that
load of German" officials attempt- S*** ‘^tiph ,*»>« »**«t»
ing to flee to the Reich. " P>ristmas day and into the night,
but by yesterday morning the
Americans had driven the Nazis
back and smashed a substantial
part of their armored force.
sault.
Great columns of smoke
were rising over the apparently
doomed Hungarian capital, Izves-
tia - said. Red army forces were
said to have , captured a train-
The bloody battle Inside Buda,
that part of the capital lying
on the west bank of the Danube,
appeared to be developing on the
Stalingrad pattern. All govern-
ment buildings are in Buda.
German regiments believed to
be among tne best in the Wehr-
macht were entrenching them-
selves in the ruins of the city's
stone houses and the process of
cleaning u,p Buda may be difficult
and protracted unless a sudden
collapse comes.
Field reports said the Russians
were stepping up thtf intensity and
weight of thbir attacks In Buda
almost hourly. Siege guns were
-being brought up In a solid ring
around the city, ready to pound it
to pieces .unless the enemy -*ur»
renders.
Red air force planes maintained
- a constant air umbrella over
Budapest and pilots reported the
squares appeared deserted, except
for occasional Germans, scurrying
from building to building.' <. l
Texas Farm
Production
Near Peak
AUSTIN, Sec. 27. --(Ob--Texas
farmers, despite labor problems
and crop planting difficulties, har-
vested in 1844 the largest acreage
in recent years, the U. S, agricul-
ture department said in its an-
nual crop survey today.
Wheat, sorghum and rice pro-
duction set new records.
Total 1944 harvest was 29,179,-
000 Acres for cropes, 2 per cent
more than the IMS acreage and 8
:per cent more than 1933-42 aver.-
"age. ■■■'/-;; V
Combined hay and roughage
At the same time, another
(See Americans Job—Page 2)
■Germans Attack
On Italy Front
Surprise Blow Forces
Americans To Fall Back
ROME, Dec. 27. -C.K) The Gcr-
mans have launched a surprise at-
tack in the western .sector of the-
Fifth -army - front; striking Hi -
strength in the Scrchlo valley
-area, 15 miles Inland from the
Ligurian coast, headquarters an-
nounced today.
TW attack, made in one of the
few Italian front areas not
blanketed by snow arid preceded
by artillery fire, was aimed at the
town of Gallicano, a half mile
from the Sefehio river. A com-
munique said Americans were
forced to withdraw from outposts
to prepared positions. •
tiiK fireT thfcl&nJc";* ^ »mmW***!*&
WASHINGTON,.Dee. 27
Supcrfortresscs. 5o to 70 strong
by Axis accounts, resumed their
aerta| bombardment ;of fokyo in
Daylight today, presumably again,
hitting the big Mu#«shino aircraft
wofks in the western suburbs of
the capital.
The attack, the fifth In strength
on Tokyo, inaugurated,the second
month of the mounting B-29 of-
fensive against Japan from Sai-
pan bases. Some 1,500 toiyi of
bombs were unloaded on the Jap-
anese homeland during'the month,
endc^Dtc 24, an average of Do.
tons a day. . . • '*■■■■■.+■ n •••'•■»•*
A Japanese communique said
50 of the huge raiders participated
In the attacks. A German trans-
ocean dispatch from'Tokyo, how-
ever, estimated Hie number; of
bombers at 70.
A brief war depatmemt an-
nouncement said only that the
.Superforts bombed “industrial
targets in the Tokyo area,” but *
two of the previous four raids
were directed against the Mtisas-
ino works, among the most impor-
tant in Japan, and other targets
were chosen only when visibiity
was poor. „ . i
Brig. Gen. Hey wood llansell.-jr.,
chief of the 21st Bomber command
at Saipan, acknowledged in a
press statement yesterday that re-
suks so far af the Musashino
plant had been ‘'inconclusiye”
The Japanese Dome! agency
said that B-29s dropped exploaive
-ami fire bombs at scattered points.
in the Tokyo area shortly after
that the 2l«t Bomber command
had dropped an nverage of 10O,0OO
pounds 50 ton* — of bombs a
day on the Japanese homeland
during the first month of opera-
tions from Saipan, Nov, 24 to Dec.
24. - •
“That is, in all these raids, we
have dropped more than 300,000,-
000 pounds — 4,500 tons •• of
bombs dn "Jt^aBr h"e' *xro.~r" ._
“Japan is bleeding internally
now and while the cause of this
critical ailment !»-- earily -dhtg*
nosed, there is no cure for It that
the Japanese can devise until the
war with Japan is ended.”
Hansel said the first
operations had been
ing, but , . . far'from Ql
dgrds of perfection”
"We have
exactly where we wanted to put
them and therefore are 'not—by
any meamt- -actlafled
we have done so-far,“'l
an still hr our gariy i
tmpt* ' *. ■ t
"We have much to learn and
many operational and other tech-
nical problems to solve. 1
Water District Vote Jan. 27
$297,000 Bond Issue Faces Residents . ;
January 27 has hecii set as the
date oh which Baytdivn property
owners wlH vote on the issuance
of $297,900 in revenue bonds by
the Harris County Water Control
and Improvement District No. 7
for purchase of tire holdings of
Baytown Utility corporation and
improvements to the existing
water and sewer system at Bay-
town. '., _
On January 9, Baytown resi-
dents will elect a board of direc-
tors for the water control and im-
provement district. The terms of
the. incumbent directors expire in
January. ..........T..... _l-------------------
The bonds wduld mature seri-
hSarW ';nHy. w;«Um.rwl»h. mwtrn-period
.claimed “no effective damago" had
been done.
HanscTl’s statement Hilsclqsed
Freezing Rain
Strikes Midwest
By UNITED PRESS
A freezing rain and snow that
of 35'years, bearing interest at a
rate not to exceed 4 per cent, and
the net revenues of the water and
sewer system would be pledged
for the payment of the principal
and interest on the bonds, - • “
George Crawford, secretary of
The board of directors of th«
water control and improvement
district, gave the following break-
down on the estimated expendi-
tures for which the bonds are to
be issued:
Purchase of existing
water and sewer system $102,447.14
Construction of addi-
tions to water and sew-
er system, —........ 193,502.85
Miscellaneous or- .
ganization costs ....... 1,000.00
. .
$297,000.00
Both elections will be held at
the fire station in Baytown, and _
oificers for both are J R Read,
presiding judge. ,R D. Martin, as*
atftant-Judge,* Mrs; C.-Ti Com-
mings and Mrs. J. O Huggins,
clerks, -
Voter* must live within (hr dis-
trict, must own property within
thc; district whiqh has been ren-
dcred for taxation, according to
Crawford.
- ' . .
and planes dropped anti-personnel,
bombs behind "Fifth army lines
below Bologna. ^
UP War Writer
Killed In Action
EL CENTRO, Calif., Dec. 27. -
CD— Jack Frankish, 30, a United
Press war correspondent, was
killed Saturday on the western
front, the War department Inform-
ed his widow, Mrs. Barbara
Frankish.
No details were given.
moved into the midwest today In
the wake of the season's worst
cold wave Which invaded the east'
and northeast,________-.-----
The rain, which swept across
the central states from northern
Texas through Arkansas,. Miss-
ouri, Kentucky and Tennessee,
turned intouuowpathe north cen-
tral states whet(e a fall of two or
three inches was anticipated A
fall of one inch was reported at
Madbn -aty, la. »
■' " A,L ..... ■ ■
Stocks Close Today
Japs Rush Planes To Luzon
Nips Expect American Invasion Soon
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
tcytfc" JMA St: The Jap-
anese were believed today to have
rushed air reinforccments from
thelf homeland to bolster the fal-
tering defenses oi| Manila, Gen.
Douglas MacArthut s ultimate ob-
jective in the Philippine*.
American plane* were meeting
increasing aerial opposition in
4hilr almost daily attacks on tar-
gets in and around Manila. Some1
production (all tame hay, wild hay! j. Frankish, a veteran of 10 years
and sorghums) for forage and sil-
age was 6,609,000 tons, 12 per cent
In excess of 1943 production.
Rep. J, R
should
and Robert L.
us of Ute
,”’L °f the “workii
SS^oSST'
T*l“ ‘“W* ” b'1"* *t
the holidays or That) cuseed. Members-elect vary In Harry P. Jordan, Waco.
1 rtally had ^‘MHy Jor his views *■ m,lch a* people y»« agitation and publicity
One firm gave all Its might question on a street corn- Should stop as soon as possible,
rinB mn ainti Hartey Sadler, Sweetwater
Ask a member vrhat he th'nks ‘Turn the squabble over to the
should ‘ be done'jabout tee Uni- appropriations committee. They
vereity of Texas and you will get can settleJt definitely,” Rep. Will
thrae answers:' . " .....
"Select a new board and a new
president," suggests Rep. F H.
Leslie of Hillsboro.
"Get a brand new president aa
Wcinert,
necessary," Sen. R. A.
Scguln ....PN
"Most legislators so far contacted
by United Press want to await
with the .United' Press, went
abroad ldst spring to help cover
the allied invasion of Europe. He
was the second United Press war
correspondent tost In a little more
than a" jponth — John Andrew
failed to return from a Superfort-
reas missien ln Soutbeast Asia.
early in Novdnslrer- and thy fifth
to die In wafxavefage. Two others
arc prisoners of war.
Frankish jvas the 48th war cor-
respondent reported dead of miss-
ing since the start of the war in
Europe. Previously listed ae dead
Courtesy Cttiseas National Rank • Trust Go.
....21 North American Aviation ,10
... 11W Ohio Oil .................. 17H
Packard Motors.......... .. ' *'
Premier '
Allied Stores . .*...........
American" Radiator
American Telephone
Anaconda Copper ....... sn* premier z
Berkey and Ody .........V-. IN Reed Roller Bit UK
Bethlehem Steel '..... S3% Republic Steel >18%
* ; Pustteei Steel ‘, —.ITIk
Sinclair*-......'.........15»-
Southern Pacific .......... 40%
Snerry Corporation' ........ 2fl't
Standard Brands .....*8
*• S' h'ts:::::::: 2*
... 375* Sun Oil 54%
62% Runny OM ..... ... ...... $%
Oiryaler Motors ....
Cities Service. Mb
Commercial Solvent . ...... 15V*
CMMtidatad Ahrtraft. ,18%
Curtlss-Wiight . ... 8%
Electric' |
General Electric
General Motors
......
L. Smith. Beaumont
"The authority to run the unl-
veralty should be Vested in the
board of regents. Present laws
.rtM}n«r«.)v provide such authority.
Therefore, no change in laws re
' . ■ ' ....
If you take an caster question,
like abolition of the alate advai-
orem tax, varying replies still KANNAS <Tn- INDt HTRIAL
C0*”* ' . AREA THREATENED BY FIRE
- Consensus of opinion seems to KANSAS CITY. Mo, Dec. 27. -
►be that if the ad valorem tax is q-pi_|£ansas City's entire fire
abol.shed something must take Its fighting facilities were called out
(place. on a general alarm here today
Senator Wcinert suggests that whep a wax company warehouse
the state ad valorem tax might be caught fire and threatened the*
abolished if a sales tax were en- sprawling north side industrial
(See t^glktalore Has—Page *>------'dkttricf.----------ir —
'■ Oq£am;
t Paige
Ho. Ugbt and Power ......M*i
Houston Oil ..........11%
■
80 fighters intercepted an Amcr
wan raid, on Clark field Christ mag
day. but escorting American fight-
er* shot down at least 39 of (hem.
The bag brought the toll of Jap-
anese planes shot down In tfih'
Manila area to between 72 and 81 -
in two days, while American losses
for the 48-hour period totaled six
fighters.
American Liberators fought
thgir way through the ejiemy
fightter screen and dropped 44
tons of bombs on the Mabatscat
runway at Clark field on Christ-
mas day. The almost ceaseless
round* of attacks on the Manila
urea was believed designed to
soften its defenses for ah event-
ual American landing on Luzon.
American fighter patrols also
swept installations on Batangaa
airdrome in southern Luzon and
a reconnaissance plane shot down
an enemy transport plane off the
west coast.
Juoanese planes stabbed only
lightly and ineffectively at Amer-
ican installations in south*
Mindoro, only 145 miles south
Manila. Two raiders were
down.
On Yeyte. 315 miles
of Manila. American i
mopping up the enemy held north-
Humble Oil 4S%
Jones and Loughli*. 26
Kroner Grocmy .....30 •
MriSf .,. -,* * ..,. 7%
Louisiana Land ............ #44
Lorillard .................... 18%
Murray Corporation .......12%
Nash Kelvlnator ..........##^
National Dairy ............ 25
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"
warns. Corporation ..f ,„. 4Tte west corner of the isla,,u .
^Itef^aUdh '■- rn ^nHheorn^riSSd.8ydbrinrr'
Tidewater Coiporotion w h on uinstmas daj, orinj
T-P Land Hnd Trust ....., MM----------- •*“ :~
T-P Coal and Oil .........
United Aircraft —.......
United Corporation ........ 1% wounded,
Uriited Cns New .......... 10% aspokesman said tep remaining
United States Steel ........ 53% ^Japanese on Leyte were - -*»->
WalwflWh........ 8% tered and “
Western Union ............ 43% were being
White Motors ....MriT. 25%r
Wilson Company .......... 10%
^.....
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