The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 198, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 7, 1945 Page: 2 of 32
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Sunday Morning, January 7, 1945
Sunday Morni
INTERPRETING
THE WAR NEWS
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WESTERN
FRONT
Byrnes Order Floods USES Offices
at Austin - with reports on
hand from Houston, Dallas, Fort
By the Associated Press
Liege
By KIRKE-L. SEMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst
The battle in Belgium, going into
its third week as a major Allied of -
fensive instead of a stalled but still
dangerous Nasi counter attack, cent-
ered attention at the weekend be-
cause of the tremendous effect it
could have upon the duration of the
war in Europe
British and American troops were
disclosed belatedly as fighting
______________shoulder to shoul-
FA1 der on the north
rim of the bulge
under overall
British field com-
mand to match
the hard-driving
American Third
Army thrust from
Churchill and Marshal Stalin set
for such a time as to have any re-
lation to the immediate military sit-
uation on European fronts.
There has been some speculation
that the Russian attack in Poland
was waiting on Russian capture of
Budapest and investment of the
Danube gap approach to central
Germany. To some military stu-
dents, also, the Russian campaign in
Hungary has looked like a further
diversion effort to draw off Nazi
forces from the Polish front just as
the Allied invasion of France aided
the Russian drive to the Vistula. If
so, the German counter attack down
the Danube corridor for the relief
of Budapest, now besieged by the
Russians is serving Russian purposes.
Moscow said the German troops and
armor involved were drawn from
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Last week found United
States Employment Service of-
fices over the State busy with
an influx of applicants and ap-
plications for war jobs and re-
ferrals from non-essential to
war-needed employment.
The increase came upon the heels
of a proposal by War Mobilization
Director James F. Byrnes that would
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draft 4-F> in non-war jobs for
military service. But some employ-
ment officials attributed their step-
ped-up trade to the serious turn
on the battlefronts as well as fear
of tightening manpower controls.
War Manpower headquarters
reserves in central Germany._.
Beyond the Pacific Japanese eva-
cuation of northern Burma was fur-
ther advanced with close British
approach to Mandalay and capture
of Akyab, the northern Bay of Ben-
gal anchorage of the Nipponese de-
ployment in Burma That ended the
last Japanese threat to India. It
accept uue a.._______could prove a stepping stone to ag-
fight It out on some sel- gressive Allied action in the South-
Eastern Asia Command theater.
By every criterion, however, the
rVu ...>..-,_______most immediate and gravest threat
main Red Army wint- confronting Japanese war lords was
about to be in the Philippines.
the south___.
Snow and freez-
ing cold added to
natural terrain
barriers rendered
any estimate of the time it would
take for the conflict to reach its
• crisis merest guesswork. There seem-
ed no question that the foe had
elected to accept the Allied chal-
lenge and J "-------eel-
ected line in Belgium.
There were German intimations,
unconfirmed from Moscow that the
.orscreniaivte stroke was “
launched in Poland. , ,
While The nature of Russian-Al- a uTuFCCrC
Bed interchanges of military infor- 60 WITNESSES
mation since the Teheran Confer- OU TTIIIILJJLJ
ence are unrevealed, there has been Call In DV (TATE
much to indicate that London and ( A H) BY
Washington have been largely in the I LALLLU DI JIAIL
dark as to Russian plans. Certainly
the timing of attacks now in pro-
gress or impending in the east, west
south could not have been de-
cided at Teheran. Nor is the forth- • LAMESA, Jan 8 — — The dis-
ermine new meet ing bet ween Presi- 1 trict attorney has summoned 80
Set Roosevelt, Prime Minister witnesses for the retrial here Jan-
-, den_______________—---------uary 8 of Jim Thomas, charged with
_. . murder in the death of Dr. Roy
Hunt, Littlefield' physician.
A special venire of 100 has been
summoned. Kilmer B Corbin, Daw-
son county judge, will appear as an
attorney for the defense.
Thomas’ case came to 106th Dis-
trict Court in. Dawson county on a
change of venue from Hale coun-
ty, granted by Judge C. D. Russell
of 64th District Court ‘at Plainview
last November 27. The trial, which
grew-out of the October 26, 1943,
slaying of Hunt, was called origin-
ally in Lamb county and the venue
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be election of a Speaker. The House
will be called to order by Secretary
of State Sidney Latham. No oppo-
sition has developed to the candi-
dacy of Representative Claude Oil-
mer of Kerrville as Speaker.
Worth, Waco, Beaumont and
San Antonio — said traffic to
USES offices jumped to per cent
foliowins the Byrnes announce-
ment. Reports from all areas of
the state, however, had not been ,
received.
State War Manpower Commission
director C. E Belk said comulative
incentives brought about the up-
surge. He said he believed an ur-
gent appeal from Governor Coke R.
Stevenson, the war situation, and
local campaigns, as well as the By-
rnes suggestion, had prompted more
Texans to seek war jobs.
w: L. Ezell USES official at Beau-
mont, reporting a “noticeable" in-
crease in war-work applications, sald
he considered it a “case of patrio-
tism in some instances and a fear of
more stringent manpower controls
in others.”
"It to reasonable to believe,
however,” Ezell said, “that hav-
lag been shown the need for
more war workers here, the men
of the community are respond-
ing."
At Lubbock, USES mansger M W
Waldron said the office had been
swamped by farm-deferred workers,
4-F‘s and non-essential workers
since the Byrnes proposal. And the
Lubbock draft board reported that
should ths war mobilizer’s. proposal
turn Into a directive 750 Lubbock
county 4-F‘s — excluding those dis-
abled and in essential industry —
would be swept into the draft.
Traffic through the Wichita Falls
USES office increased with the ma-
jority of applicants wanting trans-
fers to war jobs. Manager R. E.
Favre said more persons sought help
at the office last week than at any
other period since last July when
ths referral program became effee-
tive. ------*
..J. E. Berry, WMC director al
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TODAY’S WAR MAP—The U. S. 7th and 9th Armies come
to the aid of the 1st and 3rd Armies to push the Nazis bac)
steadily on the Ardennes bulge front. German forces are said
to have gained slightly in the Saar area. (NEA Telemap).
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Abilene, said traffic had to-
creased 40 per cent in the office
there. More applicants were in-
terested in war production joha
in the five offices of the area-P
at Abilene, Sweetwater, Big
Spring, San Angelo and Brown-
wood — he added.
At Marshall, w. M. Pollard, USES
manager, said there had been “no
enormous amount of activity notice-
able here as a result of the Byrnes
4-F proposal.” Most applications, he
said, were for work on construction
of a local war plant.
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changed to Hale.
At the first trial Thomas was cone
DALLAS, Jan. 16—(PP)—Small
plants have’ done a $97,542,000 war victed and given death. Judge Rus-
job in Texas, Oklahoma and Louis- sell granted a new trial September
iana in the last year. Morton Har- 22. A convict on parole, Thomas
risen, regional smaller war plants was arrested at Galveston the day
corporation director, announced to- after the bodies of Dr Hunt and his
day.
Texas topped the little manufact-
urer’s output with almost half the
business- $40,475,000 to 572 con-
tracts, Harrison said.
The plants, he said, ranging in
size from those with two employees
to firms with 500 workers made
everything from parts for a two-ton
blockbuster to peanut candy bars
for the armed forces. They turned
out uniforms, ammunition boxes,
tank p t . lese pic sur tents SUPREME HEADUARTERS AL-
shells, prefabricated berracks. tents LIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,
orwenes:
which have, their facilities regis *
tered with SWPC for use by Army *
and Navy procurement agencies. Ardennes.4
Harrison reported. :On the contrary, it was made
' in Since te.SWPC./rNT, known that General Eisenhower
in Sept 1942 522-000, the himself regards the commanders in-
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per cent of all the applications for of the German onrust and the
assistance set at $25,000 or less.
Of the total 72 per cent of the
money was loaned with banks par-
ticipating Guy L Woolley regional
loan agent, said..Command guessed wrong Corre-
wife were found in their Littlefield
home. '
Allied Generals
Escape Sacking
By DAVE CHEAVENS
AUSTIN, Jan. 6—(P)—The 49th
Legislature faced on all sides with
controversial issues that could erupt
in its opening hears, meets in regu-
lar session at noon Tuesday.
Topping the list in potential ex-
plosiveness was the University of
Texas situation and with it possible
repercussions of the Democratic
party split that kept the state in a
turmoil during most of 1944.
Entirely lacking was any tangi-
ble statement on just what form a
University of Texas fight could
emerge.
Governor Coke Stevenson had
not yet come out with his ap-
pointments to the University sf
Texas board of regents and it
was a good bet that he was mak-
ing every effort to avoid a eon-
teat when these and other ap-
pointees come before the Sen-
ate for confirmation.
Also high on the list of possible
controversies was Labor legislation.
Passage of the Manford Labor Un-
ion control law-still under court
scrutiny—generated much of the
steam in the last regular session.
commanders now cracked down on
Field Marshal Karl von Runil-
stedt’s salient as having turned in
a remarkable military job
Admittedly, somewhere the Allied
and an effort will be made to re-
peal it. There will also be an effort
to repeal the O'Daniel anti-strike
law passed by the 47th Legislature.
Any efforts to enact legislation
further regulating labor will meet
strong opposition, already well-or-
ganised. -
Representative M. A. Bundy,
of Wichita Falta annorneed to
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% ing for a to per cent increase
r in the salaries of State emer
ployes who currently are, re-,
ceiving less than $175 monthly.
Thus employee to this bracket
would have their raises Imme-
diately effective and through
August 11. There has been al-
moet universal pre-session sen-
spondents were told a counter-at-
111 A C... tack was expected, but not a coun-
W. G. White Serves ter-ofrensive , -
U. I" 201′0 I It had not been thought by Army
Av W/:L t_ officers, considering the forces at •
Years With firm von Rundstedt’s disposal that he
I vvi J ‘ .....- i would take as great a gamble as
W. O White. 68..completed his that."
40th year’s continuance service with I Instead of, trying to put a finger
the Walker Smith Wholesale Oro- on where the fault might be in that
cery company last week . wrong gurus, the Allied Supreme
The veteran grocery salesman, who Command was represented as much
began work with the company in more inclined to wait a few weeks
Brownwood Jan S. 1905, has seen and see whether von Rundstedt may
many changes in the business but have made an even more costly
claims rationing is the most drastic | guess.
Although he has the responsible It was Lieutenant General Court-
lity of collecting ration points for ney H Hodges’ veteran First Army
every rationed item he sells the re- that was hit by the counter-offen-
tailers, he goes about his work un- sive through its loan, -thin right
complainly. flank while itsleft flank was beat-
Mr. White began in the shipping ing toward the Roer river Some
department of Walker Smith home rumors had been heard that there
office at the age of 18. For two years might be a change in his com-
be worked as a shipping clerk and mand. ■
for three years in the warehouse. But these reports were met at
- He was then transferred to the Headquarters with a flat and auth-
coffee department where coffee was oritatice denial and correspondents
roasted, and worked there until 1909 were told that Hodges was re-
when hewent on the road selling garded as having worked wonders
candy and peanut butter, in the difficult switch from offen-
His area included San Angelo, sive to defensive.
Ballinger, Sweetwater, and Abilene—
He traveled on trains and in bug-
gles, with the goods shipped by
freight wagons.
— At that time, Mr White said the
retailers bought enough of some sup-
plies to last six months whereas
today they bay small amounts st a
time
In 1911, he was transferred to
Sweetwater, selling groceries in the
surrounding territory before coming
to Abilene in 1917. For seven years
he worked the surrounding terri-
tory and since that time has servic-
ed Abilene retailers.
He has worked under three dif-
ferent general managers, who are
located in the home office, Brown-
wood.
A number of friends in Abilene
and the teritory requested a part in
honoring Mr. White and presented
him a handsome gift at a surprise
party.
He and Mrs White reside at 1101
Pine. Their oldest son, Garnett W
White is a seaman first class in the
Coast Guard, stationed—at Long
Beach, Calif. Another son, Allen
Walker, 18,is awaiting draft call
and the youngest child is Gene Boyd.
11. who is a Reporter-News paper
carrier boy. The other two also
* for the Abilene Reporter-
ed a real hardship on employes in
the lower wage brackets. Bundy
commented in support of his plan -
There has been no general salary
increase for State employes in many
years.
Bundy emphasized, however, that
he was not in favor of letting the
bars down on State expenditures, -
despite the State's currently healthy
financial condition. The former
chairman of the House Appropria-
tions Committee said he remained
conservative in the matter of spend-
ing the State’s money.
First order of business when the
House of Representatives meets will
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timent for increases to pay for
State employes under terms of
the appropriation hills for the
next biennium, beginning Aug-
ust 31, but Bundy’s propers 1
would make the boost for the re-
mainder of the current fiscal
period.
Increased living touts bars work-
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