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YANKS RETURN TO PHILIPINES— Yanks return to the
Philippines after 2-years and 4-months with results shown
in boxes. (NEA Telemap)
Philippine Puppets
Declare War on U. S.
By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor
• The Japanese-controlled Philippines republic has de-
clared war on the United States, Tokyo radio reported today,
as the aftermath of pre-invasion raids that knocked out more
than 740 defending planes and 262 surface craft in two weeks.
------*---------------------- Puppet President Jose F.
Potosi Sergeant
Listed Wounded
POSTI, Sept. 23.—Sgt Ottis B
Webb, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Webb of Potosi, was wounded In
.action in France and to now hos-
pitalized in England, his family
"has been informed. .
Sergeant Webb, whose brother.
Pic. Odell R. W
Webb was killed
in action in the
„Southwest Pa-
•elite Sept. 4. 1943,
has been award-
ed the Purple
Heart He wears
the Expert Rifle-
man’s badge.
• The sergeant's
wife, the former —---
Bertie Lee Fel- WEBB
ton. lives in Potosi with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Felton.
Brothers of the sergeant in serv-
dice are R Lee, stationed at Camp
Berkeley, Walter, now in England,
and Vernon. in the Navy at San
Diego.
A native of Potosi, the sergeant,
27, enlisted Oct. 11, 1940, and train-
ed in the infantry at Ft Sam Hous-
son.________________________
Weather Better,
Bombers to Reich
LONDON, Sept 23.— - The
Oreather improved over the straits
of Dover today, giving promise of
another aerial battering of Ger-
many such as that delivered by
1.500 allied airplanes yesterday.
The German radio already was
telling the people of the upper Dan-
Tube valley that allied bombers and
fighter# were on their way.
Laurel, who has been empower-
ed to conscript Filipinos to fight
for Japan, named Interior Min-
ister Teofilo Etoon as "com-
mander-in-chief of the forces"
and Nippon-approved provision-
al governors as commanders of
conscripts in the provinces.
Tokyo boasted that the forth-
coming American invasion of
the islands would give the Jap-
anese a chance “with one stra-
tegic blow” to “bring complete
destruction to the enemy.” The
broadcaster presumably meant
that Japan's elusive fleet would
at last come out to fight.
The fleet has been leaving all the
fighting to imperial ground forces
which are overrunning Chinese
armies on the continent and putting
up a bitter defense on Peleliu Island
in southern Palau, 600 miles east of
the Philippines.
A flotilla of seven Japanese bargee
trying to bring aid to the Peleliu
garrison, was demolished by an
American gunboat and carrier
planes.
“The enemy continued to re-
sist bitterly from heavily for-
titled defence positions on Um-
orbrogol mountain,” Adm. Ches-
ter W. Nimitz reported as the
invasion went into He ninth
U. s. carrier and land-based
bombers, ruling the skies south
of the Philippines, knocked out
eight Japanese vessels and rout-
ed a convoy of 12 small freight-
ers.
Only encouraging Allied news
from the Orient continued to come
from Burma where Chinese patrols
were reported operating seven miles
from the Chins border shout 25
miles southeast of the former Jap-
anese base of Myitkyina.
British troops captured Tonglang
in southwest Burms, 20 miles from
Tiddim, s springboard for Japan's
ill-fated invasion of India last
March.
Victory This
Year Becomes
More Remote
By WES GALLAGHER
WITH THE U. S. THIRD
ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept. 23
—(AP)—More and more it is
becoming clear that the Al-
lies have a gigantic task ahead
of them if they are to finish
the war this year.
The mad flight of the Ger-
mans and the sweeping gains
of the Allies of the past sum-
mer have halted at the Ger-
man border. There is no hid-
ing the fact that for'the last
two or three weeks the gains
have been small and won at
high cost.
There lx no doubt who is winning
the war. The Germane are being
beaten in every battle but they are
fighting with the tenacious fury of
trapped Tigers.
What the Russians did the Ger-
mans and Hitler’s followers now are
trying to do to the Allies. Every
house and every natural obstacle has
been turned Into a trap for any
harvest of death it may yield.
German soldiers know the
war is lost but they have been
convinced by Hitler that there
to we hope for them in uncene.
“ ditional surrender—that they
will be wiped out by the infurli-
ated peoples of Europe anyway
and that they might aa well go
down fighting in the hope of
making the cost of victory so
high the Allies will be willing to
compromise.
The German ability to wags
war has been dreadfully crippled
by heavy casualties on this and
the eastern front coupled with
air blows, but railing back Into
Germany baa given them ad-
vantages of easy supply with
stocks close at hand, of fighting
In friendly country and the
psychological spur of fighting
for hearth and homes.
These same factors enabled the
Russians to hold the Germans in
1941 and 1942 and military men feel
it would be stupid to rate the Oer-
mans any less courageous under the
same circumstances than any other
race.
Despite the split between the
Nazi and the German military
easts. Hitler is being obeyed.
German soldiers are fighting
and dying rather than give up
aa inch.
If Hitler were killed and the
Nazis thrown from power the
position might change evenilght
but If Hitler stays la power it is
an even money bet among the
men doing the fighting that
there never will be an armistice
such as ended the last war.
GALVESTON QUADS ENTER SCHOOL—So anxious were the Badgett quadruplets of
“Galveston, Tex., the country’s youngest all girl foursome, that they were the very first
to arrive at the “little red school house” the opening day. Born under war clouds on
Feb. 1. 1939 these golden-haired blue eyed girls have known all the attributes of patriotic
American children in saving War Bonds, entertaining soldiers, and even "adopting'’ four
members of the armed forces for the duration. They are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
eW. E. Badgett of Galveston, Left to right shown saluting the American flag are; Joan,
Jeraldine, Jeanette and Joyce. (NEA Photo) /
orts
Arnhem
YANKS HUNT GERMANS INSIDE THEIR HOMELAND—Infantrymen with machine
guns crouch beside a road as a tank (background) starts to open up with a gun on hidden
German position in the town of Roth, Germany, according to signal corps caption accom-
panying this picture. (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps) .
Pro-FD Electors On, Antis
Off Presidential Bal
Reds Crossing ANTINEW DEAL DEMO
Van Nats VOTE DEWEY ORELSE
Vistula, Nazis
Quitting Latvia
LONDON, Sept. 23(PRus-
sians are again crossing the
vistula at Warsaw and “heavy
fighting to going on in sectors
of the western bank where the
Soviet units are landing," a
broadcast communique from
Gen. Bor’s Polish Partisan
headquarters announced today.
The communique, made public by
the Polish government in exile here,
said Bor’s forces were attacking the
Germans from the rear.
Russian authorities have re-
mained silent on the operation, per-
hapa waiting until a bridgehead
within the Polish capital is secured.
LONDON, Sept 23.—(UP)-A
Nasi military spokesman today
reported German “disengaging
movements” — a retreat — in
Central Latvia, indicating that
the Germans were giving up
that Baltic state after the eel-
lapee of resistance in Estonia.
mosCOW, Sept. 23—W—Sovlet
minesweepers today started clearing
a safe channel for the Red fleet to
make its first combat crulae in the
Baltic in three years following the
capture of Tallinn, Estonian naval
base and capital.
While Marshal Leonid A. Govo-
rov’s triumphant Leningrad army
pushed without pause to clear re-
maining German pockets from Es-
tonia’s Baltic coast, other Soviet
forces battled within the outer de-
fenses of the Latvian capital of
Riga in an effort to cut off land
escape routes to the south The
pressure on Riga steadily increased.
Jobs for
Veterans
(Apply te War Manpower
Commission, 1141 North 2d)
Veterans placed since
Sept. 1 ..... .39
Veterans placed yesterday 3
Interviewed yesterday 6
Routed to other agencies
since Sept. 1 ...........3
Referred yesterday .... 3
Job# listed............175
AUSTIN, Sept. 23—(AP)—The Texas Supreme court to-
day directed Secretary of State Sidney Latham to certify
the names of pro-Roosevelt Democratic presidential electors
for printing on the general election ballot in November.
The State Democratic executive ----------------------------------
committee named at the Roosevelt
dominated state convention Sept. 11
had asked the court to issue a writ
of-mandamus to compel the secre-
tory of state to certify its Roosevelt-
pledged presidential electors for
printing on the November-general
election ballot.
The secretary of elate had
ruled that he would certify the
Democratic electors named et
the regular Mate convention
May 23. Fifteen of these mid
they would not vote for Roose-
velt and Truman because the
national convention at Chisage
failed to abide by conditions im-
posed by the convention from
which they stemmed.
In Texas it is the duty of the sec-
retary of state to make up the of-
ficial ballot, which he certifies to
county officials.
Chief Justice Jernes F Alexander
announced from the bench, thst be-
cause the deadline for certification
to so near (Sept. 25), no motion for
a rehearing would be entertained
Leaders of ths defeated anti-
Roosevelt faction of Texas embat-
tled Democrats, whose electors were
displaced by the Supreme courts
granting of the writ of mandamus,
said they would not announced Im-
mediately what their future course
would be.
The decision, by Justice Alexan-
der, held:
“It appears that petitioners
have a clear right to the writ of
Mandamus sought by them. The
writ will issue as prayed for.
and the Secretary of State to
directed ta certify ta the election
officials the names of the 23
nominees selected and approved
by the Democratic party at its
September convention, and no
others, as the nominees of the
party for Presidential electors.”
The decision continued:
“In the case at bar the same
authority which made the nom-
inations In the first instance,
the Democratic party, acting
through a regularly convened
convention, withdrew the nomi-
nations. No equitable righto had
accrued in favor of the nomi-
nees in the meantime. In the
absence of a law prescribing
when and how the nomination
should be made, we think li
necessarily follows that the
same authority which made the
nominations in the first In-
stance could withdraw them sad
substitute the names of other,
la their stead. The party was
free to handle the matter as it
saw fit, so mug as there was no
fraud or oppression and lbs
members of the party were giv-
en a reasonable opportunity to
express their views. Ts held
otherwise would force the party
to retain as its representatives
those who are no longer agree-
able to it.
“It does not appear that it was
any surprise to the members of the
party that the matter of recalling
the May nominations was taken up
at the September con ention. It
to a mattei of current history, of
which we take judicial knowledge,
that after the nominees of the party
had been selected at the May con-
vention, it became known that fif-
teen of them. If elected, would not
support the nominees of the Demo-
cratic national convention. It was
asserted that it was the will of a
majority of the party that such
nominees should support the nom-
inee# of the national convention
This became an issue in the precinct
end county conventions at which
delegates to the September conven-
tion of the party were selected
When the delegates to such Sep-
tember convention assembled, it was
found that It was the will of a
majority of the party, as reflected
through such delegates, that UM
nominees of the party should sup-
port the nominees of the national
convention. Thereupon the party,
acting through Ite regularly organ-
ised convention, through which It
had a right to speak, included to
withdraw the nominations of those
nominees who would not agree to
support the nominees of the nation-
al convention, and to substitute
others in their
Nazis Cut Off
Nijmegen Men
LONDON, Sept. 23—(AP)—British armor bolstered by
American parachute troops slashed through a six-mile Ger-
man barrier of blood and steel to the southern bank of the
Rhine branch opposite Arnhem today, and roared out with
artillery support for an isolated British Airborne division
holding on grimly north of the river.
But 25 to 30 miles south, German armor cut the “rescue
road" from Eindhoven to Nijmegen last night, and a swirl-
ing, see-saw battle raged along the relief route up which the
British Second army had pushed. * .
The breakthrough slicing to the Rhine below Arnhem was made in a
six-mile drive by one of Britain's finest tank regiments supported by
U. & airborne troops fighting aa infantry.
It already had linked up with another airborne force dropped as
reinforcements juat two days ago below the upper arm of the Rhine.
The drive vastly eased a situation which last night was described
as critical.
Juncture of the British ground drive and the sky soldiers over
the river weald open the Ruhr read to Berlin, but it was not disclosed
who now holds the strategic Arnhem bridge. Fierce German attacks
bent upon the pocketed British.
One German counterblow eat the Eindhoven-Nijmegen road near
Veghel, and the outcome of a pitched battle there was not yet known.
One front line dispatch later said the road had been cleared at
the point where Germans broke the supply line, and that the situation
was in hand again.
An NBC broadcast from Brussels sold there was no definite lata
news about the bridge at Arnhem, but that it was still intact last night.
The enemy command was hurling every Ml of fanatical SS
fighting power it had in the north into attempts both to break the
British second army supply stream across Holland, and to hold Lt.
Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey’s armor apart from tha sky troops in
the Arnhem foothold.
Germans fought and died in their tracks by the hundreds Even now
the road from Nijmegen 10 miles north to Elst below Arnhem was not
entirely free from counterattack.
While critical and perhaps decisive battles raged over Dutch soil,
three American armies were fighting heavily against Germans mak-
ing a backs-to-the-Rhine stand. Nazi resistance was ferocious and
desperate.
U. •. Firot army men nonetheless captured the town nt Stolberg
six mile# beyond Aachen after a Miter house-to-house struggle.
Doughboys mopped up little villages nearby, but were unable tn
advance farther east toward the Rhine city of Cologne, 28 miles
from the most advanced elements.
There was no news of any further advances in the Frum or Trier
wedges, where German resistance had stiffened appreciably. Supreme
headquarters said Americans were forced to give up some ground east
of Diekirch, 23 miles northwest of Trier, but declared the Americans
had not been forced back across the German border.
The American Third army smashed one German counterassault five
miles below Meta, and one of the biggest armored battles of the ine
vasion thundered into its fifth day on the Lorraine plain between Nancy
and Strasbourg its outcome yet untold.
Seventh army men meanwhile strengthened positions east of
Epinal, midway between Nancy and Belfort, wedged closer to the
highway town of Remiremont farther south, and held its crossings of
the narrow upper Moselle.
Melisy 11 miles northwest of Belford guarding a pass to Ger-
many was captured.
Along the Riviera, Seventh army units captured the resort town
of Menton, at the Italian border.
The airborne pocket la the Arnhem area rejected a German de-
mand to surrender. The last word from Iha heavily-beset force there
came in a radio message late last night from its commander.
“Morale is high We will bold out x x x”
Industrial Arnhem was itself a battleground, and it was not known
how much of the actual town the airborne soldiers held after fighting
since Sunday through flaming days and sleepless nights. Weather ham-
pered reinforcement
Paris radio said without confirmation that Arnhem had been cap-
tured by three soldiers landed frees planes and gliders. Berlin termed
Arnhem a smouldering ghost town.
On either side of Eindhoven 45 miles to the south, the British
gained a mile or so, widening the base of their supply and reinforce-
ment wedged to the north.
The Germans asserted the battle in Holland “will determine the
fete of the whole western front.”
Along the coastal flank Canadians wiped out the last German
positions south of the Leopold canal, boxing Nasi remnants into a
thin strip along the Schelde estuary between Zeebrugge and Terneu-
zen.
The last stronghold north and south of the channel port at Boulogne
fell yesterday with a total bag of 7,300 prisoners. Canadians apparently
were getting set for knockout blows against the last holdout channel
ports of Calais and Dunkerque.
Clearing weather today promised hope Of renewed aid to the Brit-
ish at Arnhem.
Ike Wrenches Knee
After Plane Crash
* LONDON, Sept. 23—()Gen.
24Dwight D Eisenhower wrenched his
knee In a recent air crash in a
marshy area in France but to fit
again, Merrill Mueller disclosed to-
day in a broadcast from Paris
Mueller, NBC correspondent, said
the Supreme commander’s plane
was forced down on a return trip
from the front lines and the gen-
eral wrenched his knee while giv-
ing a hand to members of the crew
trying to tow the plane off a spot
where it had bogged down
clearly ■ matter within the inher-
ent power of the party The suffi-
ciency of the cause for the with-
drawal of the nominations is not
4 matter for thia court to deter-
mine That was a matter that rest-
ed entirely with the party The
party has thus spoken its will, and
in the absence of a valid law to the
contrary. It is entitled to have that
will carried into execution
Breach of Gothic
Line Accomplished
ROME, Sept. 23—n—A breach
in the Nazis’ gothic line in Italy
has been widened by the capture of
Monte Citerna, Allied headquarters
said today.
“It is urged that It has tong
been the custom nt the party to
select its nominee for presi-
dential electors at the May con-
vention. This may be true, but
it does not appear that there to
any prevailing custom or estab-
lished usage by which the party
may not subsequently with-
drew Ha nominations when H
to found that the nominees pre-
viously selected by H are not
in accord with the will of the
majority of the party. Com-
pliance with the wage and cus-
tom speak through a properly
constituted authority and at the
same time when the members of
the party will here aa opporte-
nity to be heard. Both of these
requirements have been met in
this instance.
Five -West Texans
Sent to Navy Duty
Five West Texans, two of whom
are Abilenians, volunteered for the
Naval Reserve today and were sent
to Dallas for formal enlistment.
Chief Tom O. Gaston, officer in
charts of the local recruiting sta-
Hon. said.
They are James Odle Lee Siler of
Ranger, Wade Kenneth Orson el
Hamlin, Otis Ray Carr of Cisco,
Walter Eugene Alexander, son of
Walter Alexander, 2634 South 5th.
Abilene, and James Glen Cautney,
son of Mrs. Lola Artie Cautney, 1235
South 1st.
The Weather
U.S. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU .
ABILENE AND VICINITY—Fair and
cooler this afternoon tonight and Sun-
"‘Zimum temperature last M hours.
"imtmum temperature last is hour,
“EAST TEXAS-Party cloudy the an-
ernoon, cooler extreme northwest PSE
tion. Fair tonight and Sunday. Cooler
west and north portions. __
WEST TEXAS—Partly cloudy this
| afternoon except cloudy with thunder,
i showers and cooler Panhandle
South Plains Partly cloudy and cooler
tonIan "n sundey megrap*.
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