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VOL. LXIII, NO. 82.
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.Grand Jury in
42d Impaneled
• Convening for eight weeks, the
grand jurors for the 42d district
court were impaneled this morning
by Judge Milburn S. Long who
outlined for them, "as people of a
free country," their duties to a
• court where the "people have the
last say.”
Cases to be considered include
Eight Miles
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN THE SOUTHWEST PA-
CIFIC, Sept. 6.—(AP)—Vet-
eran Australian troops under
Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s
command have advanced
eight to 10 miles in a battle
plan which has already vir-
tually trapped and is design-
ed to destroy the Japanese in
the Lae-Salamaua area of
New Guinea.
The gains were scored Saturday
after Allied forces moved across the
Huon gulf in the strongest force of
men and ships ever employed in a
purely offensive operation in the
Southwest Pacific theater.
LAND ON HUON GULF
Protected by formidable forma-
tions of air and sea craft which
beat off a determined Japanese aer-
that of Norman McGehee and Mar-
vin Johnson, arrested in Fort Worth
on charges of the robbery of the
lal challenge and blasted the en-
emy's coastal defenses, the Aus-
tralians gained beachheads on the
north shores of Huon gulf. The In-
DA
1
Crowell Jewelry store in
Charges of forgery, child desertion,
burglary, check swindling, theft
and other also are to be investigat-
vasion force immediately struck in-
1941. land to cut the enemy’s land links
ed.
"We- are fortunate in that we
have no murder charges," Judge
- Long observed, "and have not for
N some time.”
connecting the main chain of Jap-
anese bases in Northern New Guin-
ea from its southern anchor at Lae.
An Army spokesman said the Aus-
dle • “fvredethe recently complet-
ed county audit to the Jury for study
and recommendation. It was con-
tralians encountered ground resis-
| lance at only two points. Japanese
troops showed some opposition in
the vicinity of one of the two beach-
heaas when were established Sat-
DS
Associated Press (AL)
FIRST IN
WEST TEXAS
EVENING
FINAL
Umtea Press <1. ,, PRICE FIVE CENTS
C Santo Stefano NaTic Clear Chact
juinea Fans 3,000 Nazis Clear Coast
Are Captured Ut Southern France
FAMILY PORTRAIT. WARTIME STYLE: Nelson Stoffel (left) and his wife, Dorothy Stof-
fel, work together as welders at the Carrier corporation plant, Syracuse, N. Y.
BULLETIN LONDON, Sept. 6 —(PP)— German 1 into Poland and carried out the
LONDON, Sept. 6—(UP)—DNB, military authorities, apparently break-through at Sedan in France
the official German news agency. 1 fearful of an Allied invasion thrust in 1940. has his headquarters at
reported today that Southern Cala- into Southern France, were report- Montpelier, where he said to be di-
bria, the province comprising the ed today to have cleared all civilians reeling the anti-invasion prepara-
toe of Italy, baa been evacuated by from a 50-mile strip of the French lions.
the Axis. coastline between Narbenne and It is believed that an Allied land-
DNB said British invasion troops Montpelier and to be rushing the
were moving slowly through i ala- construction of additional fortifica-
bria, apparently fearing ambush, tions in that area.
and hence “the evacuation of Sou- The cleared area, extending back
them Calabria could be carried out 10 miles from sea, is in a flat,
by German and Italian military sandy sector 0( the coast which
authorities according to plan and would lend itself naturally to land-
in complete calm. - MADRID. Sept. 6—(UP)—Unconfirmed advices from Rome said
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS today that the American Seventh army left North African ports dur-
ing the night, striking out across the Mediterranean for an unknown
destination.
It is believed that an Allied land-
ing in Southern France, however,
would draw quick support from
some 200,000 Frenchmen who al-
ready are armed and waiting for
the word to strike.
* * *
LONDON, Sept. 6—(UP) — Rome
IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 6.
—(AP) —British-Canadian in- — --------——-----
vading forces have pushed ings operations. ! radio said today that more Allied
slowly surely along the ‘ In addition lo the measures being landings on the Italian mainland
Slowly and surely along the taken in this area the Germans are almost a certainty" and ac-
coast road of the Italian toe were said to have sent 5,000 to 10,-
and cut a salient 10 miles in- 000 engineers to Marseille and Tou-
land to Santo Stefano d’As-
promonte, it was announced
today from Allied headquar-
ters.
Three thousand prisoners have
Ion to strength fortifications in
those ports.
Field Marshal Gen Karl Rudolf
Gerd von Rundstedt, 67-year-old
German commander-in-chief in
Western Europe, who led the Naris
been taken by the forces which have । ------—— --
knowledged that the Italian people
Want an honorable peace at the
earliest possible moment.
A report that the Italian fleet
has sailed from Taranto in South-
eastern Italy was broadcast by Ra-
dio Algiers, but was not confirmed
in any other Allied quarter.
sidered earlier by the 104th grand
jury.
a I. W. Hoover was appointed fore-
* man of the grand jury, and a sec-
retary was to be elected from the
12 later today.
Jurors are Tom W. Carpenter,
1803 Belmont; D. C. Swindle, Tus-
cola, Clyde Bartlett, Merkel; R M.
■ Fielder, 1124 Glenwood; T. G. Ham-
* ner, Trent; George Swinney. 1109
Sayles; Sterling Wooten. 845 Sayles,
J. P. Keith, route 3; R. J. Marshall,
Ovalo; M. E. Lanford, 1182 Glen-
wood, B. K. Brookerson, Buffalo
Gap; and Hoover 534 Sayles.
$ Judge Long will oset his criminal
docket at 10 a. m. Tuesday.
Harvard Awards
< Churchill Degree
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Sept. 6— (PP)
—Winston Churchill, British prime
minister, was awarded an honorary
doctorate of law today by Harvard
D university, alma mater of President
Roosevelt.
In bestowing the degree on the
prime minister, Harvard President
James Bryant Conant said:
Winston Leonard Spencer
a Churchill, doctor of laws:
” .“An historian who has written
a glorious page of British history;
a stateman and warrior whose ten-
acity and courage turned back the
tide of tyranny in freedoms dark-
eat hour."
$ Advance announcement of Mr
Churchill's Labor day whereabouts
had been confined to a statement
that he would make an address
from "an American city" in fulfill-
ment of "a long standing engage-
p ment."
Bob Hope Back
NEW YORK. Sept. 6—(P)— Bob
Hope, radio and movie comedian,
was back in the United States to-
y day following a 10-week tour en-
tertaining troops in Britain and
North Africa.
urday and also near Singaua plan-
tation, which is approximately 10
miles east of Lae.
Progress likewise was being made
in the Salamaua sector, 15 miles be-
low Lae.
ALREADY NEAR SALAMAUA
Last week Australian and Ameri-
can ground forces firmly set the
lower jaw of a trap when they
drove within rifle range of Sala-
maua—after a long drawn out and
bitterly contested series of thrusts
The Australian landing on the New
Guinea coast between Lae and Fin-
schhafen on Saturday sprang the
LONDON, Sept. 6— IAP — An
Imperial headquarters commun-
ique broadcast from Tokyo to-
day declared six Allied trans-
ports and a cruiser were sunk
during the new Allied landings
near Lae, New Guinea. The re-
port, recorded by Reuters, was
not confirmed by Allied sources.
upper jaw of the trap which has
caught the Japanese in the sector
they he held and developed for
18 months.
In the Salamaua area Allied
units occupying the south end of
Kila ridge, near Tambu bay over-'
looking Salamaua Isthmus, were "In
contact with the enemy and pro-
gre was being made as well on
the north side of the Francisco
liv
In the Hukruk area, a few miles
to the south, ' he eremy developed
a circular defense around the vil-
lage on a two-mile radius. The Al-
I attacked this position with de-
termination.
THE WEATHER
r. 8. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER at REAU
(This information must not be broadcast
by radio.
• ABILENE AND VICINITY Cooler this
afternoon, tonight and Tuesday forenoon:
W WEST TEXAS: Cooler this afternoon
• Continued cool in Panhandle and cooler
elsewhere tonight. Continued cool Tues-
Accused Colonel
Pleads Not Guilty
SELFRIDGE FIELD. Mich . Sept
6—(AP — Seven charge, of violating
the articles of war were lodged
against Col. William T. Colman,
former commander of Selfridge
field, at the opening of a general
court martial against him today. He
immediately pleaded innocent on all
counts.
One of the charges accused him
of fraudulently obtaining the trans-
fer of eight members of the military
personnel. including Lt. Benson
Ford, grandson of Henry Ford, to
Selfridge field.
Another charge against Colonel
Colman accused him of assault to
do great bodily harm in the shoot-
ing of Pvt William R. McRae, 24,
negro soldier - chauffeur. Colonel
Colman was relieved of his com-
mand after the shooting of McRae
on May 5.
day forenoon Fresh to occasionally strong
winds today and tonight.
EART TEXAS east of 100th meridian)
Scattered thundershowers in east and
south portions this afternoon and in. South
portion tonight and near the coast and
in extreme south portions Tuesday fore-
F noon. Cooler in north portions this after-
noon, north and coast portions tonight
Cooler Tuesday Fresh to occasionally
strong winds on upper and middle coast
late this afternoon, tonight and Tues-
day forenoon. Fresh winds in interior.
Precipitation for 24 hours ending 7:30
a. m Monday. 41 Inch.
a Total since first of year, to 7:30 a
$ m.]Monday 13.67 inches
Total amount for same period last
year, 17,30 inches
Normal amount since first of the year.
17.83 inches. 1
Airport precipitation for 24 hours end-
ing 7:30 a. m. Monday. .70 inches. । , . , . . ------.
Highest temperature Sunday: City office, and perfected plans for a unified
9 “LoWERths morning (to r»e ., m.y: command and the supply of war
" City office, 72, airport, 73. materials.
Greek Guerrillas,
Officers Confer
LONDON, Sept 6—(P)—British
and Greek staff officers, traveling
by secret routes in one of the most
daring exploits of the entire war
have conferred with Greek guer-
rilla and patriot leaders In the
heart of Axis held Balkan territory
Eleventh Armored.
Finishes Move Here
By BRUCE FRANCIS
Movement of the colorful 11th
Armored division, commanded by
Maj. Gen. Edward H. Brooks, to 1
Camp Barkeley has been complet-
ed and the divi-heans ». . -
sion now is en-
gaged in the us-
ual tedious task
of getting located
4a strange sur-i
roundings.
Activated more
than one year ago
at Camp Polk,
La., the division!
came to Barkeley
from that station
where it only re-I
cenay completed GEN. BROOKS
extensive field exercises.
t’s Labor Day,
But Not Holiday
The traditional idea that Labor
takes a holiday on the first Mon-
day of September doesn't hold true
this year—except in the case of
the banks and offices of the city
are fixtures in this section of the and county here, where the help
great outdoors that is West Texas isn’t labor with a capital L.
nave proved particularly pleasing There were no special flag living
to the men who for 13 months nave
lived in the low and suldry sections
of the neighbor state of Louisiana.
WELCOME SIGNS
on the other hand, Abilene has
done its best to properly welcome
nor celebrations planned in Abi-
lene The rationing panel had its
doors closed to the public but work-
ed on inside, as did many other of-
fices. People crowded the stores
to shop as usual
the new residents of its Army camp In a Labor day message, Presi-
- ---------i j dent Roosevelt appealed for in-
creased production "To make time
1 which sprawls oyer some 3,0
acres
j to the southwest. Long before most |
of the 11th arrived there were wel-
• come signs in evidence everywhere
1 and from all reports the citizenship
Jar a whole has tried to make the
I new corners feel at home
• * 1
[ Arrival of the armored out-
fit at Barkeley has changed
Advanced -units of the 11th Ar-
mored came to Barkeley several
weeks 00 to make preparations for
the ruartering of the division at
its new training station. Cr an i-
ing tie advanced detachment was
Bi Gen. Charles S. Kilburn,
commanding officer of Combat
Command A of the 11th.
General Bron’s, commander
of the ar- ored outfit since its
activation Aug. 15, 1942, arrived
in Abilene Saturday and was
given an official welcome to his
division’s new home station
Monday morning.
The move beg n 00 _.
ago, last units of the 11th rolled
into camp Sunday, closing the tre
mendous undertaking ol transfer-
ring an entire armored division,
along with all its modern fighting
machinery, a distance of more than
500 miles
the general appearance of the
camp, and for days has given
three who spend their days at
camp something of interest—to
sold.trs and civ.-.ans alike.
From date of the unloading of
the first armored vehicle un-
til the last one made its arrival,
residents of Barkeley, both mili-
tary and civilian, have been
amazed by the gre.t number of
there armern giants, to say
nothing of their apparent po-
tency as weapons of battle.
Throughout the camp are parked
and thus save lives and suffering,
our American workers, employers
and farmers will need not only to
maintain their production pact but
to increase it."
At Dallas, workmen stuck by their
Jobs as did union members and oth-
er workers in Fort Worth. In an-
swer to the President's plea. San
Angelo’s labor unions marked the
traditional observance as a casual-
ty, but business houses were closed.
Houston reported full production,
launching the Liberty-type vessel
Erastus Smith.
Midland expected overflow crowds
I for the world championship call
I roping and rodeo and in Corpus
Christi the last performance of the
I Texas Roundup rodeo was to be
I given.
| the hunch. of vicious looking
medium and light tanks, the heavily
... ioarmored, self-propelled 105mm. ho
. days witzers, assault guns or tanks, self-
prop-iled anti-tank (37mm.) guns,
armored has acks, reconnaissance
cars - even armored ambulances
I Anywhere one looks, to.-' are guns
' and lore guns—guns that today
Officers and enlisted men al-
most as one, have expre sed ex- |
treme pleasure at being stationed
at Camp Barkeley and at being near
"the beautiful and modern little
city of Abilene." Ever present
breezes (at times a little strong,
perhaps) and the cool nights that
are giving Hitler and is little play-
See 1ITH HERE, Pr. 9, Cal. s
Guadal Vet to
Hundreds of war plants over the
nation, with an estimated 80 per-
cent of war workers agreeing to
forego their day of rest, were turn-
ing out undiminished quantities ol
planes, ships, tanks, guns and am-
munition.
Escaped German
Officers Hunted
TRINIDAD, Coll . Sept. 6—(UP)
—Dr uties and state highway pat-
rolmen searched the high mountain
country along the Colorado-New
Mexico border today for t-o young
German a my officers, both of
whom speak excellent English, who
escaped from a war prisoner intern-
ment camp near Trinidad Saturday
night.
SERVICE EMBLEMS
If there is one or more
members of your family
in service, come by
the Reporter-News
and get o '
• service emblem
tree of
charge
They will
be mailed anywhere
in the U. S. for
only 5c. These
emblems have blue
stars on white back-
ground with a red
border and can be
obtained with either
one, two, or three stars
The Abilene Reporter-News
Speak Tuesday
As a further preliminary to open-
Quake Recorded
NEW YORK, Sept 6 -(P)—The
Fordham university seismology ob-
Ing of the Taylor county Third War
Loan campaign, men and women |
workers in the drive Tuesday will |
hear from Denver B Pentecost, j
boatswains mate second class, U
S. Coast Guard.
Pentecost, a veteran of the Guad-
alcanal invasion forces, will speak
at 4 p. m. in the city hall audi- 1
, torium, giving the viewpoint of the
fighting fronts toward war bond
purchases
The public is invited to hear him.
said C. M. Caldwell, county cam-
| paign chairman, in announcing
Pentecost’s appearance.
He will have other appearances
during his stay in Abilene, acord-
| ing to Frances Budd, yoeman third
class, local recruiter for the Spars.
Pentecost is a New Orleans man
: being rent on tour by the Coast
servatory reported today recording
of an earthquake shock described
as "very severe," and located about
10,000 miles from New York, in the
general direction of the Dutch East
Indies.
STOP and THINK
Guard.
We are getting away from the
•tilted things outlined in books.
—Brig.-Gen. Lucien K Trus-
eott. In Sicily.
And further, by these, my
son, be adminished: of making
many books there it no end: and
much study is a weariness of the
flesh. Let ks hear the conclusion
of the whole matter Fear God,
and keep hit commandments:
for this it the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes 12:12-13.
advanced eastward of Bagnara on
the Tyrrhenian shore and beyond
Melito on the Ionian shore, if was
stated, while the inland spearhead
has reached the gaunt precipices
of Aspromonte—Bitter mountain—
the great elevation of the Sila
range.
MORE VILLAGES TAKEN
A number of villages fell into the
hands of the Allied forces, Including
Calanna, San Roberto, Flumara,
Santa Lucia, Rosali, San Rocco,
Musuala, Laganadi and Santo
Alessio,
Among booty falling into British
hands were three locomotives and
100 railroad cars, all capable of be-
ing used. X *
Santo Stefano, northeast of Reg-
gio Calabria, is lo miles inland from
the Calabrian coast in mountain-
ous territory.
The communique said the ad-
vances yesterday were carried out 1
"In spite of very extensive demoli-
tions" left behind by the retreating
enemy.
’The mountainous nature of the 1
country is also of great assistance |
to the enemy in his defensive, par-
ticularly in the center of the front,"
the headquarters announcement
Reds Thrust
Near Stalino
MOSCOW, Sept. 6—(UP)—Red army columns have driven to with-
in "much less" than 15 miles of Stalino, and the fall of that Doneta
basin industrial capital is imminent, front reports said today.
(Russian sources in London said one group of Soviet troops was only
three miles east of Stalino.)
(A Bern dispatch to the Stockholm newspaper Nya Dagligt
Allehanda raid the Germans had begun evaruatii g Sanno. ’
The newspaper Pravda reported that more than half the Donets
basin had been Uberated and the mass expulsion of the Germans from
the Ukraine was progressing with mounting momentum.
Tile Red army was reported sweeping forward on five major fronts—
in the Donets basin, south of Bryansk. In the Konotop sector, west of
German Factory
Cities Smashed
Kharkov, and before Smolensk.
“The roar of the cannonade al-
ready is audible on the banks of the
gray Dnieper at the gates of the
ancient Russian capital of Kiev."
Pravda said
Pravda said the greatest progress
was made in the Donets basin and
said.
Columns faning out in both di-
sections along the coast have oc-
cupied more than 40 miles of shore- . . ___,--------.-----,--
line.probably 700 or more four-engined I ul Soviet spearheads striking
HIGHWAY SEIZED giants carrying 1,000 to 1.500 long
A headquarters spokesman an-tons of bombs turned the twin — —
nounced that the inland highway war-factory cities of Mannerheim enemy defenses."
from Reggio Calabria to Santo and Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, The Russians had cleared almost
Stefano has been brought under into smoking ruin last night, and all the main railroads in the South-
control of the invading troops, "giv- the Berlin radio reported that
Ing the liberating forces an effec- American bombers were following
the Northern Ukraine, "where a
LONDON, Sept. 6— (P) —RAF large number of enemy centers of
bombers in "very great strength"— resistance were crumpled bv power.
resistance were crumpled by power-
in
several directions simultaneously
after driving deep wedges into the
tive salient in this, area."
Still pounding away at the enemy
communication lines, Allied heavy
bombers bombed the Viterbo area,
about 50 miles north of Rome. in
daylight sweeps yesterday.
At the same time, medium omb-
ers with long range fighter ‘escort
made new attacks on airfields in
Southern Italy.
I up with daylight attacks in South-
western Germany.
The channel sky was filled all
morning with large formations of
aircraft as the Allies began their
fifth successive day of around-the-
clock assaults.
The Berlin broadcasts said the
American bomber formations were 1
1 attacked over Northern France by
ern Donets basin, reducing German
means of withdrawal to a danger-
ous degree.
While the investment of Make-
evka and Stalino was almost com-
pleted. a Soviet force fanned out
northwestward to sieze the strategic
towns of Artemovsk and Dzerzh-
Insk, accelerating the threat to
last German bases in the northern
part of the basin.
Light bombers returned to the | German fighters and that heavy
Russian Landing
Naples area again last night and hit losses were inflicted on the raiders .
the railway yards at Villa Literno The overnight RAF raid on Man-| Attempt Reported
PALMI THREATENED nheim-Ludswigshafen was the third
The Northeast African air force | successive night assault on Ger-
also sent raiders into Southern
Sardinia Saturday night, the air
communique said, to attack radio
installations and an airfield
A Naval communique today said
that the Strait of Messina has now
been fully opened to Allied naviga-
tion and that "maintenance and re-
inforcement” of the invasion army
See ITALY, Pg. 9, Cel s
many and w as carried out in force.
The Rhine.and and airfields in
Northern France and Belgium also
were raided by the night force, and
an enemy motor torpedo boat and a
minesweeper were destroyed in the
channel.
Thirty-five planes were lost
by the British, 34 of them bomb-
LONDON, Sept 6 (UP) — A Ber-
lin broadcast said today that Soviet
naval units attempted a landing at
4 a. m. on the Gulf of Finland.
Major forces" made the attempt
at Ruchi on the east shore of the
Luga river, about 70 miles west of
Leningrad near the former Eston-
ian border, but they were driven
off with heavy losses, the broadcast
said.
FIRST TO LAND ON TOE OF ITALY were these Allied troops pictured in a radiophoto
from Algiers to New York. They are shown leaving their shallow-bottomed landing barges
and wading through surf to the beach in Italy. They carry equipment to be used in crush-
ing Axis defenses.
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