The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 179, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 12, 1943 Page: 3 of 36
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Sunday Morning, December 12, 1943
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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Associated Press War Analysis
Significant developments on all
battle fronts during the past week
must crowd Tokyo to new prodigies
mendacity and Berlin to grave
forecasts of impending Allied on-
slaughts.
Unquestionably attack spring-
boards, agreed upon at Teheran and
Cairo, are being carved out or
atrengthened everywhere in grim
"preparation for major offensive op-
erations in both war theaters.
Even before Roosevelt, Churchill,
Stalin and Chiang Kal-Shek, were
back at their home-front command
posts, the new impetus their jour-
Cheys to Egypt and Iran had given
their joint war efforts were every-
where apparent.
The world had the word of Messrs
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin for
it that in Europe those assaults
would came from East, West and
South alike. And within a week of
their terse announcement this is
how the situation stands:
RUSSIA: The battle of the Dnie-
per bend appears all but over. The
size and crushing effect of a Rus-
sian victory on Nazi morale and the
yyBalkan satellite*
Chtcontinued align-
,.., with Ger-
FxThmany are all that
Iremain to be
Four eihgauged. A vast
Red army trap
looms across the
base of the great
Dnieper bend.
Hundreds of
thousands of Nazi
troops there and
in the Crimea are
For Kiwanians -|
Stanley W Foran of Dallas, pub- 1
ficity director of the Texas state
war bond sales organization and
widely known after-dinner speaker, I
will address the regular meeting of
the Kiwanis club’s regular meet-
ing Wednesday. Dec. 15. |
on the Home Front will be Forans
subject.
A pursuit pilot in the first World
War, Foran is now an advertising
executive in Dallas. He has been
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"Mann Rules on
Diners, L-Funds
. AUSTIN, Dec. 11—(P)—Texas pure
Wood laws apply to dining cars oper-
ated in inter-state commerce, the
attorney general's office has held
in an opinion requested by Dr.
George W. Cox, state health officer.
Dr. Cox in seeking the opinion told
the attorney general "it has been
brought to our attention that un-
sanitary conditions exist on dining
cars.”
The attorney general also held
that a rider attached to the appro-
priation bill passed at the last ses-
Psion of the legislature would not
prevent the governor from making
a deficiency appropriation for the
state liquor control board.
A fight over the liquor board ap-
propriation. which was reduced, de-
_layed adjournment of the legisla-
Oture. The deadlock was broken
when Gov. Coke Stevenson assured
leaders of a group fighting the re-
duction that he would make a de-
ficiency appropriation if necessary.
—. , ,.__in desperate dan-
Kirke L simpler ger of the same 1
fate that overtook more than al %
quarter million comrades at Stalin- | 1
grad less than a year ago.
ITALY: Anglo-American forces,
defying deluging rains, seemingly
impassible German-held mountain y
heights and flooded rivers, broke the | %
back of the Garigliano - Sangro-
Moro defense system. The 8th(
Army was within eight miles or less |
of the Adriatic port of Pescara on I
the right. The Sth Army .in the 4
center is even closer to the Cassino | 11
key to the valley route to Rome. |
Capture of Cassino, now In range 1
of Allied heavy batteries, must flank ”
the enemy out of the Gaeta penin-
sula anchor on the Thyrranean
coast and expose the south end of
the Pontine marshes to Sth Army
•All Stonewall Schools
Equipped for Sound
OLD GLORY, Dec. 11—(HW) —
That Stonewall county high schools
believe in being ultra-modern in
their equipment is indicated by the
"fact that every high school in the
county, Old Glory, Aspermont and
Peacock, has an intercommunicat-
ing device
J. L. Hill, superintendent of
schools here, has effected this for
‘ the several high schools. In his
school he can cut in and hear the
conversation in every room, com-
municate his own instructions, and
switch all the rooms onto his ra-
dio and give them the programs
The cost to each school has been
• less than $150. At present Hill says
government priority prevents furth-
er installation in schools. '
attack.
That would open the third mam
route to Rome, the Via Appia on
the West coast of the Italian boot,
to Allied pressure.
THE PACIFIC: Impending decisive
crises seems more remote for Japan.
American Naval task forces, strik-
ing with invincible power, lunge
deep into the Pacific island screen
that guards the Truk key to Jap-
anese defenses of the East coast of
the Philippines and the southeast-
ern entrance to the China sea.
On Bougainville and in New
Guinea the American land-sea-air
team is clearing the last obstacles to
seizure of the Rabaul southern pivot
of the Nipponese Pacific outpost
front. When it falls and when Truk
is air blasted into impotency or iso-
lated and neutralized, a wide sea
highway will be open to deeper pen-
etrations, to Mindanao and the Sulu
archipelago approaches to the China
sea.
The developments, taken together,
portray the blackest weekend to date
for the Axis in both war theaters.
Sweetwater USO
Head to New York
SWEETWATER, Dec. 11—(SpD)-
Leroy Kellman. director of the
Sweetwater USO for the past sev-
eral months, left this week for New
York where he will be reassigned.
Kellman came here to succeed
Bertram H. Simon, transferred to
South Texas.’ A new director for
the Sweetwater USO is to be named
soon.'
STANLEY W. FORAN
captain for the past three years 1
commanding the original Texas 1
State Guard company organized in
Dallas county.1
The long list of civic activities
in which he engages includes mem-
bership of the military affairs com- |
mittee of the Dallas chamber of
commerce, chairmanship of the
American citizenship committee of |
the Dallas Lions club, membership
the Americanism / committee of |
Hella Temple shrine at Dallas I
membership on "the Americanism
committee of the American Legion
Texas department, and co-director-
ship of the Red Cross Fund cam-
paign of Dallas county last fall.
WPB Approves Big
Spring Locker Unit
BIG SPRING. Dec. 11—(Spl.)-
War Production board approval for
priorities has been given the appli-
cation of the Big Spring Locker
Plant. Representative George Ma-
hon advised Saturday. |
The unit will contain approxi-
mately «50 lockers, sharp freezing
unit and processing rooms. Mar-
vin Sewell, Big Spring meat buyer
and distributor, previously let con-
tract for *12,000 of improvemenu
on a building which originally was
designed for locker storage.
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put all the best Christmas gift sr valuable oil American "
triends TaYBonds! For things in freedoms the
States Wosmpasses 0 of our precious " War Bonds
offer, enco "assurance trying people. provoking,
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nearer. Pros War Bonds.
with gifts
Finn Declares War
• For 'Defense Only'
HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 11.—(P)
—A prolonged and heated debate
in the Finnish parliament last
night over the nation s foreign pol- |
icy brought an assertion from
• Chairman Valno Voionmaa of the
foreign affairs committee that Fin-
land was fighting only a ’defensive
war.” .
He made the statement in reply
to criticism from certain circles
which declared the nation should
C try to expand into East Karelia.
Cemetery Group Meets
WINTERS, Dec. 11—iSpl.l—Win-
ters Cemetery association plans to
_ meet Monday at 1:20 p. m. in the
* chamber of commerce office* in a
business session
Recently the association worked
out a plan to enlarge grave space
which was badly needed, by
straightening several drives in the
a Fairview plot, and by removing
large clumps of shrubbery.
THEY’RE
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Those Holiday Formals and Early Spring Fashions Our Buyer
Went to New York to Purchase
Yes ... the fashion* our Miss Adams bought on her recent New York
market trip . .. many of them have arrived. They're the very newest and
smartest styles our markets offer. . .
NEWS
VIEWS
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Rex A Smith
The Allied meetings in Cairo and
Iran apparently gave the Nazis
chills that can't be blamed on an
early winter. Churchill, Roosevelt
€ and Chiang met tn the spot where
Napoleon once gave his troops a pep
talk—in the shadow of the Pyra-
mids. The early Egyptians used to
bury their kings in the Pyramids-
this time the Nails probably buried
their hopes We got a lot of news
* about the plans of the headmen, but
there's probably more we don't
know—and the Sphinx isn’t talking.
I understand the meeting in Iran
was so chummy they were calling
each other by their first names-
as and calling Tojo and Adolf by any
* variety of names
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One subscriber writes in to ask
“What's the difference between the
girl of 1923 and 1943?" Offhand,
we d sat about 20 years.
I heard about a rookie who
was being issued one of the O. I.
uniforms—and his uniform fit
him so well that his sergeant
thought he must be deformed Of"
course, when you buy jewelry
from Rex A Smith, 1056 North
2nd Street, you expect it to fit
your needs perfectly in every
way That's why so many folks
are coming to us to make their
Christmas selections. We have a
large variety of appropriate gifts
at a price you can afford to pay.
Beautiful Evening
Dresses
. Afternoon and
Informal Dresses
Bouffant types . . . combining nets
with jersey bodice, gay plaid tof-
fetos, marquisette and satins rhine-
stone studded crepes . . . also long
and short sleeve dinner types in
slim styles ... ... 14.95 to 29.95
New sequins, bead and embroidery
trimmed dressy afternoon styles in
blacks and bright shades—also new
dresses for informal holiday occo-
sions in a beautiful selection
14.95 to 29.95
FORMAL SKIRTS to wear with Formal Blouses
Here are pretty new slim gored skirts in Faille Crepes, Brocaded Royons,
Lome Satins and Two Color Crepes—You can get many smart effects with
these evening skirts by wearing different blouses
Early Spring Suits
and Coats
Suit* in advance spring colors and blocks . . .
some with companion topcoats . . , and an
early showing of spring Chesterfield, Reefers
and Boy Coats ... of course, you'll want to
see these new fashions.
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Blouses 4.95 to 12.95
Skirts—10.95 to 12.95
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