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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Sunday. Morning, December 3, 1344
Sunday Mor
FAENZA POSITIONS FALL
TO ALLIED PUSH IN ITALY
SHARKS GRAB MEN LEAPING
FROM SINKING GAMBIER BAY
ROME. Dec 2.—(PP——Two positions
north and south of Faenza have
fallen to Allied armies, headquarters
announced today, as the German
withdrawal through the mountains
toward the Po plain continued in
the face of threats against the
enemy’s eastern flank
Indian troops of the British Eighth
Army seized strongly-defended Al-
hereto, a village five miles northeast
of Faenza, capturing 100 prisoners
The U. S. Fifth Army, swinging
across the Lamone river which
blocks the approaches to Faenza.
occupied Monte Giornetto, 11 miles
west, southwest of the city.
This appeared to be a dividend
of the German withdrawal from the
Apennines’ bulge between Faenza
and Bologna to prevent entrapment
should the British break across the
Lamone river on the east.
The Germans threw in a steady
series of small counter-attacks in
the vicinity of Bombiano. 25 miles
southwest of Bologna, but these
were beaten back.
Fighter-bombers, pursuing a cam-
paign to keep the Brenner pass
blocked as a route of supply, breach-
ed a dam, knocked out a bridge
north of Verona and cut the same
line in three other places.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2.—(PP——:J.:
Sharks grabbed two men as they "Fire control of the Jap ships
leaped from the doomed escort ear- stinks They should have got us a
rier, Gambier Bay long time before they did."
Other men were so sorely tempted The other survivors were from the
by thirst as they bobbed in the destroyer* Hoel and Johnson and
Philippines sea that they swallowed the Destroyer Escort Samuel B. Rob-
" erts which also were lost.
The battle off Samar was one of
sea water sickened and died.
Some injured in the fight with a ‘Aue uovu vss --** --- —- - |
numerically superior group of Jap- three segments of the second bat-
anese warships off Samar, in the tie of the Philippines sea and was
Philippines, Oct. 25 breathed their j the one in which the bulk of the
last on rocking rubber rafts and American losses occurred.
THAT FIT
WARM WINTEk
INTO YOUR BUDGET
Alsace-Lorraine Fairly Oozes
Wat Strong in Its History
PVT. LANVIL L. GILBERT
Private Gilbert,
Rotan, Wounded
were buried at sea.
But 730 Uved to teU of stirring
experiences. Many were among
1,200 survivors of the famed sea
battle off the Philippines who ar-
rived in San Francisco yesterday.
The Gambler Bay, among a group
of American escort carriers and de-
stroyers which were confronted by
enemy battleships and cruisers off
Samar, was hit by shells at 8:10 a.
NEWS
VIEWS
ROBES
FOR CHRISTMAS MORN!
ROTAN, Dec 2.—(Spl)—Mr. and m., was ordered abandoned at 3:50
Mrs. John Gilbert of Rotan have and went down at 9,
received a message from the War de- Some survivor* were in the water
partment stating that their son, more than 40 hours before being
Pvt. Lanvil L. Gilbert, was wound- picked up from the rafts 40 miles
Some survivors were in the water
ow Countless infantry command ed in action in Germany Nov. 14. from the Philippines
FRONT, posts have been located in these The last letter his parents received
basements Above those basements from him was written in Belgium
buildings have been torn down twice dated Nov. 6.
By KENNETH L. DIXON
ON THE WESTERN
Nov. 27. — (Delayed) - P-- You
wouldn’t have to read history to
know that Alsace-Lorraine has been
the scene of many ar house only or some of the more ancient rest- in 1942. He attended John Tarleton
It’s like a haunted here college before going into the army
more so. It seems a perfect setting dents hense people have rebuilt Oct. 2, 1943. He received basic
for mass murders the forts their homes and business estaolisn- training “ Pt. Benning, Ga. He
First there are
You have read of the Metz fort-
resses how long they held back the
attackers, how they finally fell one
to and how they combined the nave UCCI picparcu aus mac uscau was. , _
modern and ancient machinery of . The countryside itself has many o An older brother. Pre. Stanley L.
those are, not the only features, both natural and man
and small they made which seem designed for de- Cubert 20, is the medical divi- --------..
resser. ereeuan the country- fense. There are hills, razor-back- sion of the army, and is attending for the raft so we took turns riding
scattered thronslously bastions ed slopes and forests for conceal- medical school in Galveston. A 1941 and hanging onto the edge."
enmetimes obviouslyment. You find countless rivers graduate of Rotan high school he Lt. W. F. Cordner, Cranford, N.
and canals, and they must be
bridged anew after the old spans
are blown up by retreating forces.
Too, there are dams which can I
Some eyewitness glimpses:
Capt Walter V. R. Vieweg, of El-
............__________________mira, N. Y., Gambier Bay command-
by war during my lifetime alone. Private Gilbert, 19. was born to ing officer who corroborated ac-
and several times during the span Rotan and finished high school here counts of sharks killing two men:
* ... 44 *"I acted as doctor and chaplain
for my group lof rubber rafts). We
| buried some of the men at sea, men
who died of injuries received in the
their homes snd business establish- training, at Pt Benning Ga. He
ments on the same sites. They have attended ASTP at North Carolina
improved potential living condi- State college, Raleigh N. C.: then
tions to the basements and thus received advance training at Ft.
have been prepared for the next war. Jackson, 8 C n* was home in April
Mars.
fortresses.
side, sometimes obviously bastions
but more often seemingly something
else Hundreds of private homes are
veritable little fortresses. They
are thick-walled for defense and
high belfried for observation.
Under these houses the people
of Alsace-Lorraine have dug
their grim philosophy deep. They
may have hoped for peace, but
they planned for war—they and
their ancestors. 4
Almost every building has a base-
ment of stone or concrete, thick
walled and heavy ceilinged Some
are new but even those obviously
centuries old still can withstand
most of modern warfare’s methods.
be blown to flood the countryside
in front of an advancing army. The 1
road system also seems to have been
planned with an eye to possible
military traffic While the secondary
roads soon give way at least par-
tially to weather and become rib-
bons of mud, still even they man-
by
Eez A. smh
I never was much of a student in
school (as though you didn’t know)
—but I remember to the early days
when men went out to war the king
and the nobles footed most of the
bills. But those were penny-ante
brawls compared to the one that
Hitler and Hirohito forced on us.
Everybody’s paying for this fracas
Cheers and good wishes won’t win
a war—it also takes a little of that
________.__.._________.... treasury confetti to keep war Indus-
fight We recited the Lord’s Prayer tries rolling. Right now the Sixth
in unison." War Loan Drive is on and all you
Lt. (J.g.) Henry Pyzdrowski, Pitta- 1 folks who are earning a few extra
burgh. Pa., whose plane was unable dollars have a chance to) invest that
to take off:
"I swam for an hour until I came
to a raft. There were too many of us
Fifth Procedure
Is the Standard
age to hold some semblance of
solidity underneath. The main high-
ways seem to stand up miraculously
under the grinding streams of mod-
ern military wheels. Many of these
roads were built literally hundreds
of years ago.
There’s plenty of evidences
of previous wars besides the
fortresses and basements and
read systems. There are
trenches, shell craters and ruins
still here from the last war.
Even all-healing grass has failed
graduate of Rotan high school, he
completed two years work at John
Tarleton before enlisting in the
army June 4, 1943 He took basic
training at Camp Maxey; then en- |
tered Cornell university, Ithaca, N.I
Y., to complete his pre-med work .... ........... ..... ..............
He was then assigned to Brooks today that the cabinet of Premier
General hospital, Houston; then to Konstantin Sanatescu had resigned
medical school in Galveston, but that the present ministers
The youngest of the Gilbert sons would remain at their posts pending
to John Tarleton, 16, a senior to the formation of a new Romanian
Rotan high school and editor of the government.
year book He was Rotan’s repre-
sentative to Boys’ State in Austin
last June.
Cabinet Resigns
By The Associated Press
The Bucharest radio announced
Sgt. and Mrs. Edwin L. Heoper,
Stettinius to Add
741 Locust, are parents of a son
born at 4:43 a. m Saturday at
Hendrick Memorial hospital.
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I noticed an ad in the paper
about a pigeon farm for sale. It
sounds all right if you can’t
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when M comes to selecting ap-
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won’t have a bit of trouble if
you make Rex A Smith’s, 1056
No. 2nd St., your headquarters
for Christmas shopping. Our su-
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perfect answer to your gift prob-
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Abilene’s Oldest Established
Jewelry Store.
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FIFTH ARMY FRONT, Nov 28.-
(JP—.Delayed:—One third of the
officers and men of the Fifth Army
fight the daily battle of logistics
feeding and supplying our troops
faster and better than the enemy
can supply his—and have won such
a smashing victory that their tech-
niques have become standard pro-
cedure for American armies on
every Allied front
Supply problems have been enorm-
ously complicated to Italy by the
terrain.
Whatever the terrain, an Infantry
division still uses 400 tons of supplies
a day. An armored diviison uses
20.000 gallons of gasoline daily at
rest and up to 50,000 in combat.
When the Fifth moved to Rome to
June ft was burning 400 gallons
every minute.
Brig Gen. Ralph H Tate of Owos-
so. Mich., is responsible for supply-
tag the Fifth He uses tens of
thousands of Americans, British,
Brazilians. Poles, South Africans
and Indians and whole units of
bakers, truck drivers, tank repair
men and mule skinners. They are
the unsung who fight the battle of
logistics
Take Pvt. Glenn J Funk of Stone-
burg Tex., or Adrian Menges of
Fort Scott, Kans Last May they
were helping operate an ammo
dump on a muddy hillside before
the Gustav line when the 85th In-
fantry division sent back an emerg-
ency order In the next 24 hour*
they and their company of M men.
Including every cook and clerk,
handled 4.430 tons of ammunition.
Loading a continuous line of trucks
all night in a total blackout.
te cover many of the sears.
There are cemeteries. Somehow
armies always seem to fight near
cemeteries Last winter in Italy
some of the boys actually moved
into vaults snd crypts near grave-
yarda in order to keep dry snd
warm.
Two New Divisions
WASHINGTON, Dec 2 — () -
Secretary of State Stettinius is
working on plans to bring the for-
eign economic and Latin American
war agencies into the state depart-
ment.
Incorporation of the office of
Foreign Economic affairs into the
department, has been urged by Leo
T Crowley, FEA administrator.
Wilder Foote, chief of the FEA in-
formation division, la scheduled to
come to the department as s special
assistant' to Stettinius.
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Marks Anniversary
Jaycees in Dallas
DALLAS. Dec 2.—(P)—U. 8.
Junior Chamber of Commerce offi-
cials, en route to an inter-American
work Congress at Mexico City, were
to arrive Sunday for a two-day pre-
liminary work conference at Dallas
Early Christmas
DALLAS, Dec 2-(PP)—Christmas
came early to 1,705 families in the
southwest
The Eighth Service Command
said today that at least that many
Army men came back from overseas
on rotation furlough to make pre-
Christmas visits to their homes in
Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Ar-
kansas and Louisiana.
First anniversary of the Bowman
Lumber company in Abilene is being
celebrated this week, John Clary,
local manager, and H J. (Jim)
Hanks, district manager have an-
nounced.
It was on Dec 10. last year that
Sam C. Newman of Lubbock, nephew Fla-LA
of the 1889 originator of the Bow- mow Elected
man name in the lumber business in
——- CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—()—Gov.
Texas, announced the purchase of Herbert * Max of was clect
the Musser Lumber company here Herbert “ May « Utah was elect-
This made the fifth of a string of
yards operated by Newman—in Lub-
bock, Ban Angelo, Carlsbad, N M.
and Artesia. N. M
Hanks, an Abilenian long identi-
fied with the lumber business, took
his first job to this field with Bow-
man, back to 1919. He had been
with Musser for 1* years
Clary sold a business of his own
to Eden to come here as local man-
ager of the Bowman yard. He
brought with him his wife and three
children. They purchased a home at
ed president of the Council of State
Governments today, succeeding Gov.
Leverett B Saltonstall of Massa-
chusetts.
Meteorologists have figured out
that about 16,000,000 tons of rain
and snow fall on the earth every
second.
1202 North 16th.
Bowman Lumber company here is
located at 902 North Fifth. During
the year, new Unes have been added
In an effort to make available all the
buildins materials and supplies to
be had in wartimes, said Clary We
also are laying the foundations for
the post-war era when we feel that
Bowman Lumber company has an
important role to play in Abilene
business and the peacetime pro
gram.”
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As taxpayers, we finance our water supply, our sewers, police and
fire-fighting forces, our public schools and their teachers.
Hendrick Memorial Hospital and other non-profit hospitals are not
tax supported Not only that, they give away hundreds of thousands
of dollars in charity service during the course of a year.
Moat of us pay our own way as patients when ve go to the hospital,
but unless we have helped by our gifts to build and equip the hos-
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