The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 104, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 28, 1941 Page: 1 of 84
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"WITHOUT, OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES”-Byron.
ABILENE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1941— EIGHTY FOUR PAGES IN SIX SECTIONS
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FIVE RED ARMIES Italian Losses Sol
Up for Month
LOST, NAZIS SAY
By Associated Press
The first anniversary of the Ger-
man - Japanese - Italian tripartite
[out permitting even small units to
escape encirclement
665,000 PRISONERS
pact was marked yesterday by Ger-
man announcement that five Soviet
armies had been annihilated east of
Kiev in an “unparallelled" victory:
Japanese claims to capture of
Changsha, stubborn capital of the
United Press (UP)
SUNDAY
PRICE FIVE CENT3
ome Visitors to Greatest Westex Fair
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(Photo of Abilene at night by A. T. Owen, former 45th division photog-
ALEXANDRIA Egypt Sept. 27.
—PP—September was Italy’s dark-
est month at sea since the battle
of Cape Matapan last March, with
29 troop and supply ships sunk.
30 others damaged badly, and the
I , rapher, taken from city water tower on Walnut street.) •.
er Killed in SeSme PALOMINO SHOW
-----------------S FIRST EVENT
iree-car Crash
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 27-
J (Pr—The steel workers organizing
j committee (CIO) voted by acclama-
tion tonight to close the vast steel
mills of the Tennessee Coal. Iron
and Railroad company in the Birm-
ingham district at 11 p m (CDT).
This action was taken at a mass
1 meeting at the Fairfield CIO hall
and followed the reading of a tele-
appeared that Jones, who was driv-
ing. attempted to apply the brakes
and his right Foot became entagled
in the pedal and steering wheel
column, dragging him to his death
when his body fell out the door.
SWEETWATER Sept 27—(Spl.)
—Pvt. Duane L. Jones, about 21, of
u . Camp Barkeley, was killed and Leo
in the course of operations car | flow o( axis reinforcements across
ried out with the closest collabora-the Mediterranean to North Africa | Wagnon. about 45. Sweetwater, was
critically injured in a three - car
curtailed sharply, a compilation of
British war bulletins showed to-wreck on highway 80, seven miles
night east of Sweetwater at 7:30 tonight.
British and’ Netherlands subma- - Five others, including Pvt. George
rines—sometimes raiding into gun- Apple, also of Camp Barkeley. and _ . .
fire range of Italian harbors—and 1 1 an . i ra and stopped
bombers of the Mediterranean fleet John Easley: Wooten hotel, Abilene, Jones, whose home is in Okla-
lion of the army and air force, a
total of 615,000 prisoners were
taken 84 tanks, 3.718 pieces of ar-
tillery, and unsurveyable quanti-
I Chinese province of Hunan and
Italian decision to ration bread,
raise taxes and weed out lukewarm
fascists.
TURNING POINT?
The gigantic German claims over-
i shadowed all others, official nazis
heralding this as the turning point
of the entire continent-wide conflict
which has been in progress for 14
weeks
The red army told of successes on
a more modest scale on the central
ties of other war material were
The automobile did not turn
over, but traveled about 75 yards
after hitting Mrs. Dudley’s car be-
fore it ran into an embankment
The big show is ready:
Curtains on the 1941 version of the area s greatest exposition—the
West Texas fair—will be pulled at 1 o’clock this afternoon when gates are
opened to the public.
It's a splendid array of exhibits that awaits visitors this year, there
being an overflow of entries in the agricultural, livestock and poultry de-
1
%
captured or destroyed.
The opponents’ bloody losses
again were very high 1___.. ....________________----------
Thus a victory was won which arm wcre credited with sinking one were Uken to the Sweetwater hos- homa City, was a member of the
is unparalleled in history. The ex-
ploitation of these successes is in
gram froms Governor Dixon in which partments. Practically all of the community and educational booths in
the agricultural building have a National Defense theme this year, lend-
front and before Leningrad, which
a Russian spokesman said never
would be taken no matter how
many tens of thousands of Germans
fell there
London saw increasing indi-
cations that British farces were
moving to help defend the
Caucasus in the south.
Official Berlin sources, however,
contended British and American
help for Russia already was too
late because the Soviet union had
been all but knocked out, basing
full swing "
The German radio blared forth
the communique with a flourish of
trumpets, and the press rolled out
its blackest headlines. The Ger-
man public listened and read with
stolid faces
Informed Germans said the in-
vasion had reached to the source
of the Volga river 200 miles south-
east of Leningrad
A Russian communique reported
more than 4 000 enemy soldiers
slain on the .approaches to be-
leaguered Leningrad with M plan-
es and 34 tanks captured or de-
troyed, as well as local successes
on the central front, scene of re-
peated Russian counter-attacks.
Authoritative military quart-
ere in London said a German
their assertions on this special com- !
munique from Adolf Hitler's field
headquarters
"The big battle near Kiev is fin-
ished In a two-sided encirclement
of a tremendous region we succeed-
ed in uprooting the Dnieper defense,
destroying five Soviet armies with-
STOP and THINK
The most powerful forces In
the universe are not always the
most vocal.—Rev. Dr. Joseph R.
Sizoo, N. Y.
And, behold, the Lord passed
‘ by, and a great and strong wind
rent the mountains, and brake
in pieces the rocks before the
Lord but the Lord was not In
the wind: and after the wind
an earthquake; but fhe Lord
voM not in the earthquake and
alter the earthquake a fire; but
the Lord was not in the fire-
end after the fire a still small
voice.—I Kings 19:11-12.
attack on the Crimean penin-
sula was developing into the
biggest assault possible In the
confines of the Perekop isth-
mus.
They expressed belief the Ger-
mans could not take the penin-
sula without destroying, the Soviet
Black sea fleet, however, and the
Russian spokesman in Moscow, S
A. Lozovsky, said the Germans
had not yet been able to set foot
in the Crimea
The British Commander-in-chief
for India. General • Sir Archibald
P Wavell, arrived in Iran Per-
sia! Saturday on a mission of an
admittedly urgent and secret na-
ture. Having already conferred
with the commander of the Middle
East and with the British general
staff. Wavell was expected to dis-
cuss defense plans thoroughly with
the Russian military leaders in
Iran.
FINLAND WARNED 1
, The British moved to help Russia
In another way by publishing a
warning to Finland that she would
be considered hr enemy If she car-
See THE WAR, Pg. 2, Col. 4
and damaging two of every five pital for treatment Also brought 1
Italian ships which tried the Med- to the hopistal were Mrs Wagnon, talion. 179th infantry.
iterranean crossing during the Mrs. Jessie Dudley of the White Arnette. Okla, was of Company C.
month. Flat community, and her six-year- 179th infantry. Wagnon is an em-
These were the sinkings, totaling old son. Leon plove of the U S Gypsum company
200.000 tons, listed since sept. 1: According to Constable A. C. and manager of the company's
Four liners of more than 20 000 Cook, who assisted in the investi- softball team which won the city
tons each, and each capable of gallon of the accident. It occurred championship here.
carrying 5 000 German and Italian when the car in which Jones, Ap-
troops:, 23 troop and supply ships ple, and Easley were riding struck | r |
of 3 000 to 8.000 tons each: and the rear of the car driven by Mrs.-vr
two destroyers. Dudley, and was thrown into the | LAC
Besides 30 troop and supply ships path of Wagnon’s automobile The
reported damaged, the British accident was at the crest of a hill
said a 10,000-ton 8-inch gun cruis-AT TOP OF HILL. (i. u 1
Cook said apparently the door on
the soldiers car swung open when JIUIIIIvl U
and damaging two of every
er was torpedoed.
England Increases
Tank Production
It hit Mrs. Dudley s machine It
the governor refused to withdraw
state guard troops 'stationed earlier
today at the entrances to the Ensley
works.
ing a touch of patriotism to the fair.
(See page 3, section 3 for full program).
While the regularly scheduled fair doesn’t open until Monday, there
— ‘-----------------... ------.. — .------..... this afternoon
the state guard was sent to Ensley when the 200 beautiful Palominos from four states parade. Judging of
to prevent bloodshed and preserve halter classes in this great all-Palomino show is scheduled to begin
order and will be kept there until at 1 p. m.
these results are assured. Judging will be suspended at 2 30 o’clock to allow the regular all-
Palomino horse show to be presented That show has 10 highly enter-
-------------------------------— twining events, including Texas un-
Headquarters detachment, first bat-------------.-----------■___-■___—
Apple, of . In his telegram, Dixon declared will be a feature attraction in front of the grandstand
e Ends
Nazis After Oil to
Use Against Britain
—--uu-us STAMFORD Sept 27 - (Spl 1 -
Was Out of My Mind, Ed J. St John of Austin was ele-
vated to the presidency of the Texas
State Exchange clubs in that or -
ganization’s final convention busi-
MOSCOW. Sept 27 P—The
weekly Moscow News, published
for English-speaking people in the
Soviet union, said today that Ger-
many was attempting to seize Rus-
| sia’s Caucasian oil fields quickly in
order to be able then to turn against
England.
Walker Trial
LONDON, Sept 27-IPBrdsh Says Accused Killer
tank factories increased their best
previous production by ten percent NEW ORLEANS, Sept 27 (P) _ _________..
during the past week when all Police Captain Fred Williams said the Texas Cowboy Reunion grounds
tanks built were pledged to Russia, he had filed a charge of murder this afternoon
informed tonight against Charles N. Ney 55, r _______________________
James C Hayden, leally will become a member of the
• board of control.
the ministry of supply ____________
Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky to- also known as .
night after the man had identified the
The ambassador replied with * naked body of a woman stuffed in
statement of gratitude to the Brit-a trunk with a rope around her
ish tank workers on behalf of the throat as that of his wife.
Soviet people and Red army, Williams said Ney offered no ex-
------------------------------planation of the wife’s death in the
TODAY'S EDITION
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Produces for Defense Number is
on edition which you will want to
send to your friends and business
ossociates. A limited supply is
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Wrapped, addressed, and mail-
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fashionable uptown residence where
they had rented an apartment
Wednesday, but merely said, "If I
| did it, I must have been out of my
mind.”
Chinese, Japanese
Battle Over City
SHANGHAI, Sunday, Sept. 28—
(P Conflicting Chinese and Jap-
anese reports clouded the outcome
of a huge scale battle for Chang-
sha early today with Japanese field
headquarters declaring the Hunan
province capital captured and Chi-
new saying their troops still held
the city.
ness session at the Bunkhouse of
The Weather
He succeeds Ben B
Scott of Greenville, who automat-
Other officers elected were Roy
Arledge, Stamford, vice president
George Knight, Dallas secretary:
E E. Bewley, Fort Worth, reelected
treasurer
The new board of control is com-
posed of Scott. Jack Bissell of Wich-
ita Palls. Gray Browne of Abilene.
Harry Weaver of Houston, J. W
Waltrip of Beaumont; W. Hume
Everett, San Antonio’ Clayton A
Rystrom, Corpus Christi
The, 1942 meeting will be held in
Greenville The Grover C Cole at,
tendance trophy, for highest reg-
istration covering the most mileage,
was awarded to Dallas at the Amer- |
icanism banquet at the mess hall
U. a DEP T OF COMMERCE
WEATHER RI REAL
ABILENE and Vicinity: Considerable
cloudiness Sunday and Monday , occasion-
al showers and cooler late Sunday after-
Is Postponed
Trial of Mr? Jean Walker for
the murder of Elizabeth Parsons|
was indefinitely postponed Satur-
day by Judge Milburn S Long aft-
er he had received word from a
physician in San Angelo that Mrs.
Walker had undergone major sur-
gery and would not be able to be
der six flags. Esquadrille dance, calf
roping, stock horse contest, gaited
horse class and many others.
ALL SPACE TAKEN
Exhibition space in the livestock
barns was at a premium last night
as result of a last, minute rush
by some of the state’s leading
Hereford breeders to enter their
animals in the West Texas fair.
With 150 Herefords already on
the grounds and every inch of
space in two barns taken, the Har-
risdale farms of Fort Worth were
limited to five head yesterday The
farms have shown extensively
present for the trial, through the Mkidle West this fall
Special venire of 100 men called and wanted to bring the entire
show string of 15 head. Included
in the string is the grand champion
bull of the Iowa State fair.
for jury duty Monday on the case
RAMTAPay elonds, senttered has been excused Judge Long said
showers and cooler in extreme northwest that attempt would be made to con-
portion sunday: Monday partly cloudy,
scattered showers and cooler in north and
tact all of the veniremen, but that
west central portions: moderate to orca-
demal fresh mthrasterly winds on the
WEST TEXAN: Considerable ridiness
Sunday and Monday: eelder over Pam-
handir Sunday
LOL ISTANA: Partly cloudy Sunday:
Monday increasing rinndiness.
in any event, it would be unnec-
' essary for the men to report.
Judge Long said yesterday aft- i
ernoon that he had conducted an
TEMPERATURES
Sat.-Fri.
A.M. HOUR
independent investigation as to
Mrs Walkers condition, and that
Hereford exhibitors include:
White Hat ranch, Blackwell: Er-
next Grissom and Hardy Grissom,
Abilene: G. P Mitcham & Son,
Cisco: Brown & Davis, Throck -
morton; Noodle Hereford ranch,
Merkel: Largent & Stevens, Mere
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Among resolutions adopted was „ ***** Am ‘serwdmTmnrahte a
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Sunart yrsterday #:29.
at Stamford Arledge field Saturday
night.
one encouraging the state Exchange
clubs to foster civilian morale in
this emergency.
Sunrise today A It.
• Sunset today 6 28.
** .r. there was no doubt that she had
as .
.. 85 - 80
M . SI
had the operation, and that he had
been 'advised it would probably be
at least a month before she would
be able to appear in court.
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First Aid School Set
MIDLAND: Sept/ 27—(Spb—Oc-
tober 14 was the date set for a first
aid school here at Omeeting of the
first aid committee of the Midland
County Red Cross Chapter this
week.
kel: D. H. Jefferies, Abilene: Brooil
Hereford ranch. Brady: Jim Her
ing. McGregor: A. E Fogle, Tuse
cola: R. L. Wheelock, Corsicana:
Arledge Stock farms, Knox City:
Turner Hereford farm, Sylvester1
Lee Smith, Knox City; Chas. Lewis,
Sweetwater: and Harrisdale farms,
Fort Worth. ' /
The number of chickens entered
was expected to .pass the capacity
mark of 800, Seventy-five dairy
rattle have been entered and Texas
Technological college will be the
principal exhibitor of sheep. A
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