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THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
IN FIFTY-SECOND YEAR
MEMBER UNITED PRESS
No. 278
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contempt for the individual and ed an army newspaper reporter for
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Unitea We Stand!
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25,000 Germans
Reported Killed
In Berlin Raids'
Congress Ready
To Dispose Of
Patton Incident
Old Clothes Group
Named At Bristol
Meeting
Christmas Packages
Taken To Wounded
In McClosky Hospital
deas by the masses. Ideas in our for conduct which he himself term-
land are not the property of one [ ed unbecoming an officer, a high
sometimes
number
News to Take
Holiday On
Thanksgiving
Avalon Exceeds
War Fund Quota By
Largest Amount
Postoffice To Be
Closed All Day
Thanksgiving Day
Ration Value On
Principal Beef
Cuts Possible
bread and butter, all topped
by American coffee.
Reaction to Incident
In Sicily Guide
For His Army Status
Gilbert Islands in
Firm Grip of Americans
Says Admiral Nimitz
the figure even though they pub- dress to deny current rumors of
lished it. i forth coming cirgarette rationing.
The NYA Dagligt Allehanda used He observed also that OPA could
Snowstorm Takes
Lives of Nine in
New Eng. Area
Every Yank in
Italy To Have
Turkey Dinner
(By United Press)
Hundreds of RAF bombers visited Berlin again last night
to heap another 1,500 tons of explosive destruction on the
burning German capital, while on the Russian front power-
fully reinforced Nazi armies lashed back toward Kiev in a
costly but partially successful’ counter offensive.
Early reports from the Italian front indicated that win-
ter rains and mud again limited operations on both sides
to minor patrol clashes, although Allied planes continued
to bomb and strafe the Nazi rear lines.
An hour-long parade of four-motored British bombers
hit Berlin shortly after nightfall, guided by the light of
great fires still raging in the city since the RAFs record
raid Monday night—when upwards of 1,000 heavy bombers
dropped more than 2,300 tons of explosives and' fire bombs
on the capital.
Last night’s bombing force apparently fell short of the
1,000-plane mark, but it pulverized great areas of the city
and stoked new fires from the center of Berlin to its indus-
trial suburbs.
Only 20 bombers were lost in the attack, six less than in
the previous night’s raid, and observers believed the RAF
finally had launched its all-out drive to knock Berlin out of
the war.
While it was conceded 25 to 30 major raids might be re-
quired to achieve that end, there was little doubt that Ber-
lin’s life had been all but paralyzed, with water, electricity
and gas service disrupted and the city’s food supplies en-
dangered.
his suspicion of him has taken writing that U. S. soldiers took to
from the individual the freedom of foxholes when under heavy fire.)
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We’re thankful we live in the United States and for the ideals of liberty and freedom exemplified
in our form of government. We are thankful for our free institutions and our way of life. We are
thankful that we are able to buy War Bonds voluntarily, so that we may have a personal and direct
hand in bringing him back to us sooner. God bless him and keep him safe for us.
U. S. Trezsr* Department
The Ennis postoffice will be clos-
ed all day Thursday in observance
of Thanksgiving according to an
announcement made by postmaster
, George Barney.
“There will be no city and ru-
ral deliveries, but incoming mail
will be put into the boxes, and
outgoing mail will be ’dispatched
as usual,” said Mr. Barney.
the same estimate, but left ob-
scure the source of its information.
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Mrs. J. C. Rooker and Mrs. W.
R. Burris went to Temple today to
take Christmas packages, 110, to
the men in the McCloskey General
Hospital. These packages were con-
tributed by Ennis residents and
were given to these men who only
recently returned from the battle-
fronts.
George S.
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one field
speech. These tyrants like all op- i
Speaker For Lions War Be Determined by
Luncheon Today
not institute a point ration sys-
tem for restaurants “without go-
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV. 24, 1943
From World Battlefronts
$22,000 Ellis
War Fund Quota
I man. We live under the rule of staff officer said.
the people and under such bless- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. su-
ings the enduring wisdom of the preme Allied commander in the
great togethei with the puniest : Mediterranean, deplored the slap-
in the conquest of
East Texas—Partly cloudy this
afternoon, tonight and Thursday;
occasional light rain early morn-
ing in extreme south portion; scat-
tered light frost extreme northeast
if any—of Lt. Gen.
Moscow, Nov. 24 (UP)—More
than 100,000 German troops and
hundreds of tanks smashed at
Soviet lines in ceaseless waves
today in an all-out counter-off-
ensive that already has driven
the Red Army half way back tol
As is our established custom,
The Ennis Daily News force will
observe Thanksgiving Day as a
holiday. Therefore, no paper will
be printed Thursday, but will
be issued again Friday, Nev.
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Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Nov-
24 (UP).— Bad weather still pre-
vailing over Italy hampered aerial
operations yesterday, a communi-
que said today, but Royal Air
Force Spitfires ranged over Al-
banian roads, setting eight trucks
on fire in strafing attacks.-
Rain and winter kept other air-
craft on the ground, except for
patrolling and reconnaissance.
Reports of actions on the Italian
ground battle fronts were delayed
due to transmission trouble be-
tween Algiers and forward head-
quarters.
■ With Fifth Army in Italy, Nov.
24 (UP)—Come Hell or high water
and wherever he may be, every
Yank in 'Italy is going to get a
pound of Turkey dressed up in
cranberry sauce for his Thanks-
giving dinner tomorrow.
That’s on the word of Lt. Con-
rad Gilham of Pratt. Kan., one of
the officers in charge of the quar-
termaster refrigeration services.
“We are sending all the turk-
eys and all the trimmings up to
the front in special refrigerated
trucks,” Gilham said. “We are de-
termined that the front line sol-
diers wil have their turkey and
cranberry sauce, come hell or high
<wWter nnd wherever they are
fighting Jerry.”
Lt- Gen. Mark W. Clark made
the arangements for the troops,
even the men holding the front
line trenches and mountain tops,
to hlave complete Thanksgiving
dinners brought by muleback, on
foot, or however it could be man-
aged.
The menu, personally approved
by Clark, calls for roast turkey,
giblet gravy, stuffing, creamed po-
tatoes, rice, raisin cobbler, olives
and celery, fresh fruit and nuts
Patton, Jr.,
as America’s
commander, :
they recover from the initial stag-
gering blow but new reports show-
ed the U.S. Fleet sent to the mid-
Pacific was a strong one. At least
five American aircraft carriers
were believed participating.
Weather Hampers
Aerial Operations
Throughout Italy
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recahed here today that 25,000
Germans were killed in the last
two British air raids on Berlin,
but they were treated with con-
siderable reserve pending' more
authentic corroboration.
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Moscow, Nov. 24 (UP)—The
biggest armored battle since the
breaching of the Dnieper line
continued into its 10th day on
the Ukranian Plain east of
Zhitomir today with massed
German forces striving futilely
to lay open the south flank of
Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin’s Kieve
salient.
Washington. Nov. 24 (UP)—A
general reduction of one to two
points a pound in ihe ration point
value of principal beef cuts today
appeared possih e under the im-
petus of heavy slaughtering that
has threatened to glut a rigid mar
ket.
Price Administrator Chester Bow
les sidestepped the question cf
meat point values in a radio ad-
dress last night but said he would
tell “the full story” next week. By
that time, however, any changes
’ in meat point values for December
Axis Europe apparently rested with
the American people today.
The employment of “Old Blood
and Guts” will be determined, ob-
servers here believed, by the pub-
lic reaction in the United States
to the disclosure that he slapped
a shell-shocked soldier in a Sicili-
an Field Hospital, but subsequently
apologized to the whole Seventh
Army.
Neither U. S. soldier’s paper,
Stars and Stripes, nor the British
force’s publication, Union Jack,
published the Patton disclosure. It
was not carried in the three Al-
giers French morning papers.
Lt. Col. Egbert White, Stars and
Stripes publication officer, said he
had received no orders to with-
hold the news but did so on the
grounds Patton had been punished
enough and should not be embar-
rassed further.
Seymour Korman, Mutuar Net-
work correspondent, said in a
broadcast from Algiers that Pat-
ton once ordered a mule shot be-
cause it was on a military bridge
and ■ on another occasion had curs-
By United Press
At least nine persons were dead,
several were missing or injured
and many communities remained
isolated today in the wake of the
season’s first major snowstorm in'
upper New' York and New Eng-
land.
More than 20 inches of snow fel
in some sections during the two-
day storm, described as one of the
worst in recent years, and high
winds whipped up deep drifts that
blocked most roads.
Snow fighting crews had to con
tend also with hundreds of tele-
phone poles that toppled during
the raging storm and cluttered the
highways. Many schools in north-
eastern New York State were clos-
ed by the impassable roads.
Emergency crews strove to re-
store tiephone service. More than
3,300 lines still were down in the
Albany, N.Y., area. In New Eng-
land many Vermont and Maine
communities were isolated by pow-
er failures.
Allied Headquartlers, Algiers,
Nev. 24 (UP)—The future role—
against the Soviet positions in-
endless Waves, the Nazis ' surged
forward over mounds of their own
dead to drive the Russians .at one
point halfway back to Kiev.
Thousands of German casualties
littered the battlefield, but the
Russian salient west of Kiev was
smashed back to within 42 miles
of the Ukranian capital and front
reports indicated the Nazi attacks
were continuing, regardless of the
cost.
Soviet reinforcements streamed
westward across the Dnieper in an
effort to stem the tide of Ger-
man Marshal Fritz Erich von
Mannstein's counter-blow, which
threatened to wipe out a large
part of the gains scored in the
Red Army’s summer offensive.
On all other fronts, however, thes
Soviets continued their steady ad- :
vance westward. The Russians
widened their ' bridgehead across-
the Dnieper south of Kremenchug
and overran scores of German-
held towns and villages Plong the
southern and northern edges of
the Pripet Marshes.
The Italian rains hampered aer-
ial activity as well as ground op-
erations. But RAF Spitfires at-
tacked enemy transport in Alban-
ia and patrol planes ranged over
the German supply lines behind
the battlefrone below Rome.
Far to the north of the fighting
front, Italian regular’ army offi-
cers were reported down into the
hills to organize and lead partisan
bands against the Nazis.
Speculation over an imminent
Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin meeting
increased, fanning new second
front rumors. Competent military
obserers in London, however, be-
lieved the Anglo-American plans
for an invasion of Western Europe
already have been laid and that
the projected conferencce would
ideal only with peace terms to the
Axis and problems of post-war col-
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Washington, Nov. 24 (UP) —
Congress appeared disposed to-
day to order an investigation in-
to Lt. Gen. George S- Patton’s
slapping of a shell-shocked Am-
erican soldier whom the color-
ful army commander believed
was “yellow-bellied.”
War Department spokesmen
said1 military authorities were in-
clined to do nothing more about
the incident “unless there should
develop a great public clamor,”
pointing out that Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, had rebuked Patton
“mercilessly” and that Patton
himself had apologized to the
soldier and others involved.
Allied Headquarters, Algiers,
Nov. 24 (UP)—British Eighth
Army troops have occupied Al-
fedena, communications center
in Italy, a communique an-
nounced today.
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Rev. Hugh R. Bumpas, chairman
of the Ellis County Old Clothing
Campaign for the war effort, with
a group of interested workers, at-
tended a mass meeting of patrio-
tic citizens of Bristol Tuesday
night in Bristol for the purpose cf
adding impetus to the campaign.
A number of speakers were pre-
sented and discussed the projects.
Among them was Noble Willis, Old
Clothing chairman; Ed Bently,
chairman of the Waste Fats and
Grease; Mr. Moore, Scrap Metal
chairman; E- F. Secrest, Waste
Paper, and others.
Corporal Robert Kemp, who was
wounded in Guadalcanal, was
presented and made a brief talk,
urging the co-operation of the peo-
ple here at home in aiding every
war effort.
Musical ntmbers were furnished
by the children of the Bristol
school under me ‘direction of one
of the teachers. Miss Jordan, and
a quartet composed of Joe Scott,
T. A. Vines, W. D. Colvin and Mrs.
Bill Jett entertained with a num-
ber of religious hymns.
San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 24 (UP)
—Republican Wendell Willkie
moved into the second leg of his
swing through Texas today after
leaving a warning with Houston
Republicans that the nation faces
“individual regimentation” two or
three times as great as it is now
unless the government cooperates
with other nations.
The 1940 GOP standard bearer
who wants to try again in 1944 had
a full day of conferences and .en-
tertainment on tap in San Antenio
today before moving to Dallas
Thursday and Friday where he
will deliver the principal address
of his Texas tour Friday night.
Outlining what may be some of
the Republican party planks if he
is nominate, Willkie came out
for soldier rehabilitation in his
Houston dinner address last night,
and called for an enterprise sys-
tem which is “humanized” not to
make men rich, but to make men
free.”
Saying that the Republican par-
ty faces “the most magnificent op-
portunity ever presented any par-
ty to lead the world to peace, pros-
perity and well being,” Willkie
said that post-war necessities—
such as soldier rehabilitation—
would consume between 40 and 50
per cent of the nation’s - estimated
$85,000,000,000 income unless a pro-
gram was adopted providing for
world military cooperation and
and world stabilization of curren-
cy.
Cooperation militarily, he said,
would allow “cutting some of the
overhead on military,” while sta-
bilization of currency would open
trade and bring cooperation "eco-
nomically as wel as militarily.”
Radio Berlin railed at, what it
called the British “terror raids”
and promised “terrible vengeance”
for the destruction. Swedish sourc-
es estimated- 10,000 persons had
been killed in Monday night’s at-
tack, and thousands of Berliners
were reported fleeing the stricken
-city. - ■ .
Seme observers interpreted the
Berlin offensive as ..a possible pre-
lude to an ultimatum to the Ger-
man people from President Roose-
velt, Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stalin to surrender or face
even greater devastation.
While their capital disintegrated
under the weight of British
bombs, German armies rallied for
a powerful counter-drive against'
Kiev. Hurling more than 100,000
■ troops and hundreds of' tanks:'
Pearl Harbor, Nov. 24 (UP) —
Powerful American forces secured
victory in the Gilbert Islands to-
day and defied the Japanese to
stop their rolling offensive on the1
mid-Pacific Sea route toward To-
kyo.
Only 80 hours after troops storm
ed islets in the Coral chain on Ja-
pan’s outer line of Empire defenses
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pa-
cific fleet comander, announced
the Gilberts were in the firm grip
of the U.S.
“While it isn’t a rosy road to
Tokyo, we face the future with
complete confidence,” he said. “We
went preared to meet attacks. They
will not be surprises.”
American attack units will con-
solidate their positions for furth-
er operations, he said, adding they
were ready to meet the Japanese
fleet anytime.
(Tokyo radio quoted a Japanese
naval spokesman as acknowledg-
ing that the Islands were in Ja-
pan’s main defense line across the
vast Pacific, adding that the
chance for a naval “showdown”.
was welcomed. The spokesman pre-
dicted “tremendous” sea battles.)
Nimitz spoke to newspapermen
yesterday evening shortly after his
daily communique reported that
27th Army division troops from
New York had captured Makin A-
toll, that Marines were slowly but
surely cleaning out Tarawa and
that the situation on Abemama
was “well in hand.”
The communique also disclosed
that carrier-borne aircraft from
the big fleet which accompanied
the invasion forces were teaming
with army Liberators from the
South Pacific in continuous blows
against the Marshalls to the north
of the Gilberts. The Marshalls may
be net i - - n . objective.
The offensive so far, Nimitz said,
cost only light casualties on Mak-
in and somewhat heavier casual-
ties on Tarawa. Not an American
ship had been lost up to the time
of his report. The Japanese had
tried nothing but intermittent air
attacks.
When newspaermen asked him
to expand on the long-range as-
pects of the offensive begun 3,100
miles south east of Tokyo—to an-
swer the question “where do we
go from here?"—Nimitz replied
with a confident smile:
“Wherever the Japs are. The ob-
ject of the Gilberts offensive ‘Was
to establish contact with the en-
emy. We expect to have some air-
fields, probably one on Makin as
well as Tarawa. We have got to
have places to roost when we start
working on these peole. We' must
be prepared to meet the Jap fleet.”
Nimitz and his spokesman gave
the first detailed reports on the
Gilberts attacks which started with
the invasion of Makin, northern-
most of the islands, and Tarawa,
to the south almost on the equa-
tor, on Saturday morning.
Very few enemy prisoners were
taken and the Japanese defenders
suffered “very heavy casualties,”
Nimitz said. There were only 1,000
enemy troops on Makin but some
4,000 to 5,000 on Tarawa and ad-
jacent islands, which were attack-
ed by Marine veterans of the Solo-
mons.
On Makin, the Americans gained
extensive military installations, a
radio station, munition dumps, bar
racks, a seaplane ramp and several
piers into the lagoon. Some enemy
planes were destroyed. Snipers still
were being cleared out.
At Tarawa the Marines landed
on the western end of the 4,000-
yard long Betio Island, sweeping a-
cross to the eastern end where the
Japanese were cornered and being
“rooted out.”
The Japanese had erected a bar-
bed wire entanglement off the nar-
row sandy beaches of Betio on a
coral reef some 500 yards from the
shore. It was believed the airstrip
in the center of the island—bomb-
ed out by days of attack—was in
Marine hands. Some bitter fight-
ing still was in progress but the
communique said the island’s cap-
ture was assured.
The remainder of the Japanese
in the Gilberts “will be taken care
of,” Nimitz said.
Nimitz expected strong counter-
action from the Japanese when i
“Some Things We Should Be
Thankful Fer” was the Theme
of the address delivered by
Rev. Alfred Holman, paster of the
First Presbyterian Church who was
guest speaker at the Lions Club
regular luncheon-meeting which
was held today noon in the ban-
quet room of the Texas Power &
Light Company with Dick Kendall
a vice president of the club, pre-
siding.
J. R. McMurray, program chair-
man, introduced Rev. Holman, who
in his address said
“American of all people of the
world have a responsibility this
Thanksgiving Season to be express-
ing their appreciation, gratitude
to God for blessings received. We
owe God a debt of gratitude for
the leaders of our nation, and the
leaders of the United Nations- Our
Thanksgiving this year should in-
clude an appreciation expressed for
the fact that thc "Four Freedoms”
of the Atlantic Charter are ac-
tualities in our land. This coun-
try has beep the proving ground
for the practicality of the four free
doms. We must thank God for the
fact that we are the ones who
have the tested products of Free-
dom to offer to the world, rather
than having to be the beneficiar-
ies of them.
Freedom of speech is a common
blessing which we take for grant-
ed. We have the freedom to say
what we want without the fear
of being punished, provided we
stay within the broad limits of the
law of slander and libel. Hitler’s
$7,500 Ennis
War Fund Quota t
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m J. P. Griffith, chairman of the
4 War Chest fund in Avalon, has
* reported the collection of $323
which is $73 over their quota. This
is a splendid record made by this
comunity which was given a quo-
ta of $250 and this amount was se-
cured within a short time.
London, Nov. 24 (UP)—An hour
long parade of Britain’s biggest
bombers—only a few hundred
short of the 1,000 which hit the
city 24 hours earlier—all but par-
alyzed battered, burning Berlin
last night with another 1,500
tons of explosives in the third
assault of an offensive to smash
the Nazi capital.
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