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consignees, buyers and employes came a total of $150.55 of yesterday’s
receipts-the largest so far from any individual, firm or group.
Encouraging interest has been shown for several days. But with just
one week—six business days—before buying must be started in prepara-
tion for the Christmas Eve visits to homes of the suffering and deserv-
ing needy, daily total of gifts during this week must average $171 If the
amount needed—$2,000—is in the fund next Saturday night.
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PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 11—(PP)— United States bombers resumed to-
Adlay their time-table blasting of the strategically situated Marshall
Islands.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced 7th Air Force Liberators shot
MOSCOW, Dec. 11 —(AP)
—Ruslan forces battling west
of Kiev in one of the greatest
struggles of the war destroy-
ed 103 German tanks in 24
hours and in a successful
counter - thrust detained a
mighty German offensive
reaching toward the Ukrain-
ian capital, it was announced
tonight.
The Germans again failed
to make a break-through and
faced the prospect of a pro-
tracted engagement.
Couth in the Dnieper bend the
Russians had the initiative and*
captured 12 more towns, Including
the rail station of Sakharnoye.
The scale of the battle in the
Kiev area was second only to the
fight for Kursk last July when the
Germans failed to break the Red
army line. In addition to eight
tank divisions which the Nazis
hurled originally against the Kiev
salient, a front line dispatch said,
the enemy is throwing in constant
replacements brought from reserve.
Eddy Gilmore,
Associated
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timely drame
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down four and possibly seven Jap.
anese Zeros Thursday in their third ' fa • D..1
raid in two days on Mili Atoll ALIA FyTAnO
The raiders apparently returned MuJVD LAPIC
“No a daily schedule Wednesday,
when Mili and Jaluit atolls.key
Nipponese outposts, were twice
bombed.
Hold On Huon
In the latest attack the Lib-
erators dropped 15 tens of
€ bombs. Twenty enemy inter-
ceptors rose to meet the four-
engined bombers, compared
with only 10 on the previous
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED
Bulgaria Between Two Fires 138 German Planes
“Allied headquarters in Algiers
reported that wave upon wave of ]
American Liberators hurled tons of
LONDON, Dec. 11— (PP) —Bul-
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day, indicating Japanese rein-
forcements have been earning in
. to meet the threat of an amphi-
• bious invasion.
Four of the Zeros were definitely-
shot down Three more were prob-
ably destroyed. Admiral Nimitz re-
ported, and another was damaged.
" Against this, all of the United
facing the prospect of her third
national defeat in 30 years, pon-
dered intently tonight the chances
of moving closer to Russia, her tra-
ditional friend, and cutting loose
from the tobogganing fortunes of
Adolf Hitler.
Diplomats watching Balkan de-
velopments closely, however, ques-
tioned whether growing demands
of opposition elements for a switch
away from the Nazis were likely
to find expression before Allied
They pointed out that the
Bulgarians as well as other sa -
tellites have the example of
Italy before them-a reminder
of the German Army’s capacity
for inflicting punishment on
“deserters.”
On the other hand some British
press comment on the situation
stressed the strength of hitherto
underground pro-Russian groups
now moving into the open.
bombs yesterday on Sofia and re. Aownor
turned scot-free, pointed reminder I FUT 1 IE1 I 111
to Hitler’s wavering satellites of LUYTTTO 1
what Allied Mediterranean air "*""= *
power has in store for them if they
remain in the war.
nting
LONDON, Dec. 11—(AP)—American Flying Fortresses
and Liberators and accompanying Lightning and Thunder-
—__________bolt fighters attacked the German North Sea port of Emden
an hour and 45 minutes, shooting by daylight today and in carrying out their mission shot
down 11 of 40 Nazi fighters and at-down 138 German planes, scoring a great victory in one of
tempting to intercept them. It was the most intense aerial battles of the war.
_________________________________Seventeen bombers and three fighters were lost in the attack, which
left Emden with flames roaring over a half-mile-square area and tower- -
The heavy bombers escorted by
long-range fighters, pounded rail-
way yards and barracks areas for
the third raid on Sofia in a month.
Advances On Cassino
ing columns of smoke dwarfing a feeble, wind-scattered ground screen
miles below with which the Germans tried to obscure the American ob-
jective. 5
A total of 117 of the German planes fell to the crack American heavy
bombers and 21 to the doughty fighters that went the whole 375 miles
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-
giers, Dec. 11—(AP)—The American
Fifth Army has increased its threat
to the Germans blocking the road
to Rome in the upper Garigliano
valley by a mile thrust that cap-
tured an important height, and the
British Eighth Army, In fighting
as bitter as any in the Italian cam-
paign, has taken San Leonardo on
the north bank of the Moro river,
Allied headquarters announced to- For the first time. Italian troops
day. ; I were in the fray as organized units.
One section of Lt. Gen. Mark W. They advanced into the hills north
Clarks Fifth army was battering! V
its wav toward Cassino from the of Mignano on the Fifth army
to the target and back in Intense |
combat that saw infuriated Ger-
man fighters machine-gunning boys
who parachuted out of crippled!
United States bombers.
east. Others of his troops were
fighting their way toward Cassino
from the south. These units ran
into a roaring battle for San Pie-
tro, fortified village southeast of
Cassino.
. „ . But Emden, one of the Germans
of Mignano on the Fifth army most important ports since the de-
front. but were hurled back by a struction of Hamburg—a point of
counterattack of units of the Her- entry for vital Scandinavian iron |
mann Goer ing airmored division ore and timber and the site of im-
BOARD I ORDERED TO POSTPONE
INDUCTION OF 20 TAYLOR MEN
Although already ordered to re-
port, Induction of about 20 Taylor
county men in non-deferable oc-
cupations has been ordered post-
poned, as a result of instructions
received here Friday by Clint Ste-
wart, secretary of the local board
No. 2. from the state selective ser-
vice office in Austin.
The telegraph received read in
tank battles on the Don steppe be- part: “The Senate bills amending
the selective training and service
1940 has become a slaw.
Amendments of regulations arid ap-
Press correspondent in Moscow,
called the Kiev bulge conflict
“one of the most serious battles
of the war”
“There is a stretch of battlefield
south of Malin which for violence
of tank against tank and mobile
gun against mobile gun out-rivals
anything since the days of the big
plicable local board memorandum
to place provisions of this act Into
effect will reach you in a few days.
Pending receipt of such details you
will take the following action:
“Postpone induction of all 1-A
(available for immediate service).
and lost ground.
Detailing bitter fighting on
the Eighth Army’s sectar of the
front, the Allied communique
said “a second bridgehead has
been established over the More
river despite considerable oppo-
sition.”
After fierce action lasting all
night the new bridgehead was de-
clared firmly established at dawn
yesterday in the area of Frisa, four
and a half miles from the Adria-
tic
German counterthrusts were
beaten off. At Orsogna, important
inland town guarding the road to
Chieti, a heavy tank duel took
place. Orsogna has changed hands
twice within a week.
portant U-boat yards - was thor-
oughly plastered with high explo-
sives and incendiaries.
fore Stalingrad,” he wrote. t
The Germans have prepared for
this drive for weeks and have i 1
addition to 1,700 tanks in battle -
several hundred more in reserve.
The Moscow communique told of
the latest action in which the Rus-
HEADQUARTERS, Sunday, Dec. 12 sians "launched successful
—(P) — Australian patrols swept
aside light enemy resistance along
the coast of New Guinea and inland
from Wareo Thursday and Friday,
further extending their grip on
Huon Peninsula.
Advancing over high ground
Thursday, one Australian unit cap-
tured Bazuluo village a mile and a
half due west of recently-seized
Wareo. In the coastal sector their
comrades killed 21 Japanese in pa-
trol clashes.
Today's ocmmunique from Gen-
eral Douglas MacArthur’s head-
States Army planes returned toquarters reported minor ground and
their base, despite the Japanese air activity in the Ramu valley sec-
. .. • .. .. tor, northwest of Wareo.
fighters attempt to bring them I Liberator bombers, escorted by
P-38 fighters, attacked the Cape
Gloucester area at the southwest-
down with aerial bombs, machine-
@guns and cannon.
Mill, like other key points in the
Marshalls, was bombed almost daily
preceding the American invasion of
the Gilbert Islands, south of the
Marshalls, United States carrier-
sborne planes made a devastating
raid on the Marshalls last Satur-
day.
Besides the bombing of the far-
shells, American warships teamed
with naval planes to blast Nauru
Island in the wide ocean corridor
gleading to the Philippines and oth-
er planes daily pounded strategic
New Britain island of the South-
west Pacific.
ern tip of New Britain, while Mar-
auders and Mitchells, covered by
Kittyhawks bombed enemy supply
routes in the Ramu valley.
In the Solomons sector.
weather was reported for the third
straight day.
Mention of considerable barge
activity indicated the Japanese
were moving in supplies One Amer-
engage-
Hankow Thrusts
ments against enemy tanks and in-
fantry" in the Malin sector. The
toll of German tanks claimed was
the greatest yet taken in 24 hours
of fighting in the area.
In the Dnieper bend the Rus-
sians captured Novgorodka, 19
miles southeast of Kirovograd. In
an eight-mile advance for the day.
The new capture represented a
thrust west of a railline which the
Russians had been following south
and indicated a budding attack on
Kirovograd from the south.
Lear Lashes Out
AtMe-Firsters'
DENVER, Dec. 11—(P)—Lt. Gen.
Ben Lear, former commander of
bad the Second Army, lashed out today
at “ me-first' pressure groups’ on
the home front and declared that
ican reconnaissance plane flew
halfway between Bougainville and
the “superb fighting job" abroad
by our soldiers is drawing only
“half-hearted support” at home
The general, now on a secret
war assignment, came to Denver
the big enemy naval base of Truk today to be made a Knight Com-
Wednesday. delayed reports stated, mander of the court of honor in
to attack six barges at Kapinga- Masonic ceremony
marangi.
Children Parish
In Orange Blaze
ORANGE. Dec 11—(P)— Katle. 3
and Robert L.. 2. children of Mr,'
and Mrs. Robert Earl Merrett, per-
eished tonight in flames which de-
“stroyed the family residence here. |
The children were in bed and 1
Mrs Merrett had gone to a neigh-
bor's two doors away to make a
long distance call when the fire
started Origin of the blaze had
4not been determined.
On her way home, Mrs Merritt i
saw the fire and rushed to the
house, only to find the children
hemmed by flames She started to 1
run for help, fell and injured a
whip, and was taken t« a hospital.
Fourth-Termers
General Lear said fighting men
abroad have written him to ex-
press "annoyance X XX against
groups of me-firsters at home who.
MILWAUKEE, Dec 11—(PP)—The our soldiers are beginning to think.
Wisconsin state Democratic con -1 have the attitude. Sure, I'll help
vention endorsed President Rocae- the war along—after 1 get what I
velt today for a fourth term. I want." *
THE WEATHER
r. s. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
4 WEATHER BUREAU
• ABILENE AND VICINITY: Partly
cloudy and warmer Sunday and Monday.
EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy and warm-
er Sunday and Monday,
WEST TEXAS: Partly elondy to elondy
and warmer Sunday and Monday. berg n-
ing relder in Panhandle Monday afternoon
Fresh to strong winds in Panhandle and
- South Plains.
A TEMPERATURES
Bat. AM Fri. HOUR sat PM Fri.
.38 38 1 45 — M
*3 — 37 .......2......46—4
35 — 87.........3......48 — 40
33 — 36... 4......Bt — 41
as — 36........5........81 — 41
49
« - n .......12.......— 30
High and low temperatures to 9 p. m.
—si and si.
High and low same date last year: —
se and 31.
Sunset last might: 6:35.
, Funrisa this morning: 8:30.
Sunset tonights 6:8,
ARE YOU LOOKIN’, SANTA? Young Dickie
1-A-O (objector of combat ‘duty),
or IV-E opposed to combat and
non-combat duty) under provisions
ot the section which lists non-de-
ferable activities and occupations - -- —-
which has now been rescinded, un- notably west of Filignano and on
less order number has been reach- ridges near San Pietro. 1
ed in due sequence of order num- ------------------------------—
The Fifth Army also encounter
ed the stiffest kind of resistance.
The bag of IM German
fighters was the greatest since
the great Oct. 14 raid on the
Schweinfurt ball-bearing fac-
tory when 186 enemy planes
were shot down and M Flying
Fortresses were lost.
The Bremen radio and another
in the Netherlands went off the air
tonight, possibly indicating more
RAF night raids.
The Germans tried a new tactic
in swarming in four and five
abreast, returning flierssaid, but!
they gave indications of inexpert-
ence and lack of eagerness, and
between their own lethal bursts the
American gunners watched Nazi
planes exploding in air and crash-
ing to the ground at the rate of
seven for every American ship
downed. . .
Attempted U
Raid Costly
LONDON, Dec. 11—UP)—In a fur-
ious 48-hour day and night battle
in the North Atlantic. British and
American planes and warships beat
off a pack of at least 20 German
U-boats recently, sank five, dam-
aged three and brought two valu-
able convoys through virtually
without loss
Eases Changteh
CHUNGKING, Dec 11—(-
subbing straight for the heart of
Japanese domination in central Chi-
na, Chinese troops and American
planes have hit at the great metro-
politan area of Hankow in order to
relieve pressure on the struggle
around Changteh. it was revealed
today.
A communique said that Chinese
troops had advanced within 30 miles
of Wuchang, a large city across the
Yangtze river from Hankow, while
the tactile for Changteh still was in
progress and had caused much dam-
age with their raiding activities, es-
pecially at Tutiung on the Hankow-
Canton railroad.
It was the first time the high
command has spoken of any thrust
against the Hankow sector and be-
cause of slow communications from
that strongly-held Japanese zone,
the information annouheed today
concerned the location of the Chi-
nese forces as of last Sunday night
—four days before the Chinese re-
captured Changteh to climax the
bloody, six-weeks battle in the vi-
cinity of Tungting lake
A communique from the 14th U 8.
Airforce today said that Mitchell
bombers had attacked both Han-
kow and Wuchang Thursday night,
starting many fires, and thus indi-
cated that the harassing of the big
Japanese base had not been halted
immediately.
ber in his category.”
Such action does not effect local
board No. 1. as no induction orders
have been given for immediate call.
Beth Duff, secretary, said last
night.
Tito Recognized
By Red Government
Operators, Miners
Are in Agreement
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 — () —
A subcommittee of soft coal opera-
tors and the United Mine Workers
agreed today on the terms of a con-
tract substantially matching the
wages and working conditions of
____the Ickies-Lewis agreement under
LONDON, Sunday, Dec. 12—(P)| which the government is now oper-
—The Turkish Radio said in a ating the mines.
broadcast early today that the So- The new agreement must cross
viet government had decided to several hurdles before it becomes an
recognize Marshal Josip Broz (Ti- effective, binding contract, but it is
to’s) Partisan Yugoslav government the first step toward restoration of
as the legal representative of that the mines to their private owners
country instead of King Peter's re- I and the termination of the nine-
gime.
The broadcast came amid in-
creasing signs of British and Amer-
ican aid to the Partisan leader,
already the recipient of the bulk
of Allied supplies going into Yugo-
slavia, as against his rival, Gen.
Draja Mihailovic, war minister un-
der King Peter's government.
Marshal Brozs peasant army,
which has breasted for a week the
full shock of a heavy German of-
fensive. was reported holding firm
in the most important area of Slo-
tenia athwart the enemy's Flume-
Trieste supply head in the upper
Adriatic.
Meanwhile, a broadcast from
Tito's headquarters urging all Yu-
goslavs to leave enemy-held towns
and localities 'as the Allied sir
force is helping the operations of
Yugoslav unite' focused attention
on the slow but steady rise of this
Balkan “third front" to a more
commanding place in the whole
Allied grand war scheme.
months-old wage dispute.
In addition to the terms of the
Ickes-Lewis agreement, the accord
reached today provides for the pay-
ment of $40 to each miner as a re-
troactive settlement for underground
travel time Operators say this in-
demnifies them against claims for
all back pay for travel time.
Abilene Prisoner •
Of War Is Listed
The War dpeartment announced
today that Pvt Jose S Torres, son
of Mrs Gregoria Torres of Abilene,
is a prisoner of war of the German
government.
No information was available last
night to determine if Pvt J B
Torres is the same as Pvt. Jose A.
Torres, whose picture was carried
in The Reporter-News in January,
1942, as a member of Co. C, 142nd
Infantry, 38th division.
The combat score of today’s great
raid compared with previous ones
reflected an intensified but none-
theless vain German effort to stem
the Allied attacks.
Against 20 American and 138
German planes downed in combat
today were scores of seven Ameri-
can and 40 German aircraft losses
and two American and 19 German
in the last two of four previous
American attacks on Emden, re-
spectively.
Today's assault broke a week's
lull due to weather in the
heavy bombing campaign from
England, and indicated that
the heavy, trip-hammer round-
the-clock blows against Berlin
and other Nazi centers might be
resuming.
The Germans meanwhile belied
their own secret weapon reprisal
propaganda with a light foray Into
England Friday night that cost
them five of 30 bombers sent over.
Nazi Fighters
Thought Rookies
A U s. FORTRESS BASE IN
ENGLAND, Dec. 11 — (P) — Some
airmen returning from the raid on
Emden today which produced one
of the most intense aerial battles of
the war received the impression that
the Nazi pilots who opposed them
were rookies.
"They (the Germanas) must have
been new pilots for they seemed
very skeptical about the whole
thing.” said Lt Norman Stutzer of
the. Bronx, N Y. navigator on the
"Lady Bedlans.” "A lot of them just
hung around out of our range mak-
ing sweeping turns as though they
were afraid to come in.”
Pilots scoring double kills Includ-
ed Lt. Robin W. Roberts of New
Boston, Texas.
"We did about 130 miles-an-hour
going over and 295 coming back."
reported Lt. Alexander Nemer of
Palestine Texas, s navigator. "We
covered Emden with bombs."
The submarines fought back wild-
ly with their newly-installed anti-
aircraft guns, forcing down two
Allied planes, but a joint admir-
alty-air ministry communique said
“more than 99 per cent of the to-
tal number of escorted ships reach-
ed the harbor in safety.”
British destroyers and corvettes
escorting the convoys escaped with-
out a single casualty. Most of the
crews of the Sunderland coastal
patrol plane and Liberator bomb-
er were rescued
It was the third time within re-
cent weeks that German U-boats
have r tried costly mob raids on
Trans-Atlantic convoys, one an-
nounced on Dec. 5 costing them six
submarines.
in the moot recent engagement
Iceland-baaed Liberators joined
with coastal command bombers
and between them sank three U-
boats and damaged at least three
others
Guardian Angel
Was Busy Here
A U.S. BOMBER BASE IN ENG-
LAND, Dec. 11—(PP)—An American
bomb fell on a Flying Fortress
over Emden today, stuck in a wing
without exploding, and the Fortress
brought it back safely nearly 400
miles.
The pilot, Lt. Edward A. Martin
of Greensboro, N. C., said "Some-
one must have been praying for
us."
-We were directly over the tar-
get." he explained. Apparently
something happened to the bomb
release of the ship ahead and
above. One of its bombs came
down late and landed on our wing
just behind the number 1 engine.
The ship lurched down and I
thought the controls had been hit.
Then I saw thia bomb, live fuse
and all. stuck in ths wing
"Why it -didn’t go off with the
impact or ignite from the heat of
the engine well never know."
1
Carrying Tales to
Gestapo Doesn't Pay
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Dec 11
—(AP—Three Danea were hanged by
Nothing Like a -
Lion For a Pet
AUSTIN, Dec 11--Bill Ricks,
transfer company operator, had a
lion on his hands tonight.
He said he roped It near the
railroad tracks here Monday night.
The railway express company had
an empty crate which, the company
said, had held a lion in transit from
Oklahoma City to New Braunfels,
Tex.
Ricks said the express company
had asked for the lion.
But, explained Ricks, be doesn't
knwo whether the lion he roped
came out of that cage or not.
Danish patriots in a park at
Copenhagen for tipping off the
German Gestapo to details of the
operations of the Danish under-
ground, the Free Danish press ser-
vice, reported today
The report said the three were
executed after a summary trial by
a patriot secret court Two other
Danish informers were said to have
been shot this week.
Reporter-News readers
are remnided to too about
their subscription.
Because, it's renewal time
by the year, just this
month of December.
PACKAGE PACKIN’ MAMA It Mrs. D. G.
Stuart, 316 Mockingbird Lane, who carted
Kirschman, son of Capt. and Mrs. R. H.
Kirschman, 540 Merchant, apparently has . .... ,___. . ,
spotted something very intereating in a toy home a big load of presents for members of
window. “ / her family and for friends.
her family and for friends.
[ I (Reporter-News staff photos)
CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS were plentiful downtown Satur-
day afternoon as this scene at North Second and Pine re-
veals. With ten more shopping days until the big day, Abi-
lene stores reported heavy sales.
Inducement
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 - ( -
Recruits enlisting in the WACs
between now and January 1 will
be granted pre-induction furloughs
so that they may spend the holi-
days the home, the Army announc-
ed today.
Recruits may express preference
for assignment ,to the Army air
forces, the ground forces or the
service forces.
Subscribers who pay
by the year save
10%, either by cor-
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Suu about it the first
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