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anuary 18, 1945
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VOL. LXIV, NO. 210
The Abilene Repor
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Nazis Burst From Rhine
Bridgehead, Link Fronts
* SMITH CALLS ON FDR TO JERK
, MEN GIVING POOCH PRIORITY
AUSTIN, Jan. 19— (UP)—Texas’ outspoken lieutenant governor,
John Lee Smith, today had asked the President of the United States
to remove those responsible for giving Col. Elliott Roosevelt’s dog air
transport preference over service men.
• In a 350-word telegram to the White House, Smith said:
“I have seen peasants put off the train in Europe to make room for
persons of so-called royal blood but even there I never witnessed a
soldier having to give up his space to the dog of a prince.
“I am confident you will re-assure the American people on this
matter for this is no trivial affair. We who have sons fighting in this
gu (sons who do not have the benefit of White House connections in
order to obtain favors) feel very keenly about this.
“The American people are just, and even though this shameful oc-
eurence be true they will not charge you with the fault if the in-human,
unjust and unamerican regulation is promptly revoked. But if it Is not
revoked and if those responsible for its issuance are not rebuked and
removed from office, upon you must rest the blame and the shame.’’
MUZZLE GOES ON DOG MYSTERY
Tommies Win
longer; FirS
Army Stalled
PARIS, Jan. 19.—(AP)-
The Germana burst out of the
northern end of the Rhine
bridgehead above Strasbourg
today and linked up with oth-
er forces in northeast Alsace,
forming a solid front against
the U. S. 7th army along 40
miles of the Maginot line as
far west as Bitche.
The situation on the southern
front was regarded at supreme
headquarters as increasingly grave.
Into this potential springboard for
another attack, the enemy was pour-
ing a steady stream of reinforce-
ments over ferries and pontoon
bridges, thrown across the Rhine
from Strasbourg to Karlshuhe.
In northern Luxembourg, Lt.
Gen. George S. Patton’s Third
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—(P)—The muzzle was on today in the
mystery of who assigned Col. Elliott Roosevelt’s dog an airplane priority
“head of three servicemen, but Rep. Miller (D-Calif) had hopes of
getting the facts.
Miller stepped into the case because one of the servicemen affected
la a constituent. Seaman Leon Leroy of Antioch, Calif.
The congress member asked Secretary of War Stimson for a
“complete report” on why the - servicemen (with "C" priorities) had te
get off a cargo plane of the Air Transport command to make way
for high priority freight while the dog (with an “A" priority) was
flown on23
Maj. Gen. HaroldL. George of the ATChad said after a pre- . -...
liminary investigation that "an error of judgment” had been made, river boundary within six mile
an error that went happen again. His aides said the ATC did net * - - "
intend te discuss the matter further.
A Leroy, who has been serving overseas, was on his way home to his
"Tather’s funeral when he and the other two men were "bumped off"
army was on the move again
under fire of Siegfried line big
anna after breaking the Ger-
man Sure river line The
Americans were pressing the
enemy back against the Our
the plane at Memphis Jan. 11.
The dog, a handsome English mastiff named "Blaze," was the gift
of the President! second son to his bride. Actress Faye Emerson of
Hollywood.
Col Roosevelt told in London that he knew "nothing about shipping
the dog by sir" from Washington to Hollywood. Presidential Secretary
Stephen Early said that neither Elliott nor anyone else connected with
the White House was responsible for the priority arrangement.
of heavily fortified Trier. His
latest advances ranged to two
miles or better. The Third army
men fought in white camouflage
suits. Mending with the deep
snow.
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THESE AMERICANS WERE MASSACRED BY GERMANS—In a snow-covered field at
Five Corners, near Malmedy, Belgium, American soldiers check for identification the
bodies of fallen Yanks. A few Americans, who escaped, told of German shooting a group
of prisoners here. The dead were buried only by fallen snow. American helmet, (far right,
foreground) bore Red Cross insignia of an unarmed medical aid man. (AP Wirephoto via
Signal Corps Radio). _______________________
ENEMY LOSSES HEAVIER-
Nazis Fail to Upset
Allied Attack Plans
PARIS, Jan. 19. UP) Supreme
Allted headquarters today placed the
cost of the German Ardennes offen-
sive at 55,421 Allied casualties but
said 17 German divisions had been
smashed or badly bettered and that
the Nasis had failed “seriously” to
affect Allied plans and preparations
Nurses-" Draft
$60 Given WACs
Day Room Fund
a Sixty dollars of the $400 needed
to buy furniture for e day room for
enlisted women soldiers at Camp
Berkeley bed been donated this
morning but greeter response wes
hoped for both by the girls at the
%mp and the local legion post.
Commander R. M Fielder of Par-
ramore poet No. 57, said the poet
had donated $25.
Another gift of $15 had been made
by the West Texas Utilities compa-
hr and $20 by A. B. Barrow.
16 Chester V. Bogle, chairman of
the legion's committee which
has undertaken te help the girl’s
get their day room furnished,
appealed to other firms and in-
dividuals to give something
A quickly, that the furniture may
be purchased.
Unlike most all other groups in
t - camp, such as Medical Training
battalions, the women soldiers,
ebout 200 of them, have no social
venter Thla has caused s regret-
able condition which the legion-
naires feel should be corrected.
Those wishing to give to this fund
should make their checks payable to
American Legion poet and mall
them to the legion's post office box,
No. 1653, city
Also, anyone wishing to provide
magazines and books for the WACs’
day room is invited to bring them to
the Army recruiting office on the
third floor of the federal building
lobs for
.Veterans
Apply at United States Em-
ployment Service, 1141 N. 2d.
Veterans placed since
Sept. 1 ....... 304
Veterans placed yesterday 3
Interviewed yesterday.... 4
Referred yesterday......4
Routed to other agencies
yesterday .............
bbs listed..............
Churchill Licks
Critics, 340 to 7
LONDON, Jan. 19—0PAn at-
tempt to express censure of Prime
Minister Churchill's intervention-
ist policy to liberated landa was
beaten 340 to 7 today in the house
of commons.
Technically the vote was on s war
appropriations bill. Some critical
laborites announced beforehand that
although they opposed British pol-
icy in Greece and Italy, they would
not vote against the bill on the
grounds they might be accused of
impeding the war effort
Churchill himself was in the house
during the vote and was cheered
wildly as he left with Foreign Beo-
retary Eden.
23 Ask Jobs in
Casualty Branch
A total of 23 applications heve
been received here by Mrs Mery E
Stovall, specie! recruiter for the
Wer deportment from women for
work with the casualty branch in
Washington, D. C. Of these, 11 here
been employed.
Mrs Stovall is recruiting at the
local United Blates Employment
service office. Goal for the tenth
section of the Eighth service com-
mand. of which Abilene is a part, is
set at 480, she announced.
Compensation Bill
AUSTIN. Jan. 1#—(P)—On file
in the senate today was a bill by
Sen. T. C. Chadick of Quitman,
making occupational disease com-
pensable under terms of the state
workmen's compensation
The British on the north captured
Hongen, two miles inside Germany
in their thrust from the Dutch Pan-
handle between the Maas (Meuse)
and Roer.
, German stands on ths north side
of the bulge solidified within four
miles of St. Vlth.
Between those forces, I'. S.
First army troops were blocked
four miles north of St. Vlth,
Key to the road chain through
which field Marshal von Rund-
stedt first struck’ into Belgium
through the snowy Elfel and Ar-
dennes mountains. b
Hongen, which fell to the Brit-
ish Second srmy with American
artillery support is 38 miles from
Dusseldorf on the Rhine It lies
about eight miles from the Roer
river, along which the U. S. 9th army
held static positions within 26 miles
of Dusseldorf, an arsenal city of
540,000
All along the British front
curling from Geilenkirchen to
Roermond, German defenses
stiffened after the Tommies had
gained more than four miles
and driven the fee from at least
eight villages. The main Roe-
mond-Sittard read was broken.
The British cressed Ihst read
from Echt and fought into
Schilberg They also seised
seized Heide, a half mile north
of Echt.
Snow slanted down again on the
northern half of the western front
Rain fell in the south
Third army Infantry won control
of a third of the picturesque Lux-
enbourg town of Diekirch (Pop: >,-
700) in a pass leading four miles
into Germany.
Other troops of Lt Gen. George
8 Pstton's srmy pushed east to a
junction of the Sure and Our riv-
ers at the German border, just west
of the Siegfried line They fought
inside Erpeldange end Bettendorf
three miles on either side of Die-
kirch.
Inside Germany itself the enemy
recaptured Butzdor, 13 miles south-
east of Luxembourg city.
Birthday Ticket
Sales Launched
Yesterday's reported sale of tick-
ets to the President's Birthday ball,
scheduled for Feb. 3, totaled $193.80.
These sales were reported by only
two of the group of salesmen, Kay
Beall and H. H. Lamb.
First five tickets to the ball
were purchased for $25, although
regular price is $1.20 each ee
$2.40 per couple. Purchasers of
the first five were: Kiwanis
elab. Interstate theaters, Kay’s
OK market. Farmers and Mer-
chants bank and West Texas
Utilities.
Proceeds from the two dances to
be held here are divided to half
with 50 percent retained for com-
bating infantile paralysis in Taylor
county and the remainder sent to
the National foundation for Infan-
tile Paralysis.
Beall, Junior chamber of com-
merce chairman of ticket sales,
stressed the need for cooperation of
the entire city in reaching the ad-
vance ticket sale goal of $3,000.
Tickets may be purchased
from agents or at Sloan Drug,
box offices of the Paramount
and Majestic theaters from 1:45
p.-m. until closing time, at the
Smith-Crain pharmacy. North
8th and Hickory, the WAC re-
cruiting station, third floor of
the postoffice building er the
branch office of the Citizens’
National bank at Camp Barke-
ley.
Two balls are to be held, at the
Wooten hotel for civilians and of-
ficers and at the Hilton hotel for
civilians and enlisted men.
Coleman’s Stock
Show Postponed
COLEMAN, Jan 19—(SpD)—Cole-
man a annual livestock show, sched-
uled tomorrow, has been postponed
until Friday, Jan. 26, because of
inclement weather.
for future operations.
< The official Allied report on the
German counteroffensive said that
the operation was conceived by
Adolf Hitler and Field Marshal Karl
von Rundstedt "both of whom are
equally responsible for its failure."
The attack, said SHAEF, cost
the Germans 120,000 men, of
whom 80,000 were killed or
wounded and 40,000 taken pris-
oner.
Allied losses were 55,421, of whom
18,416 were prisoner.
(Prime Minister Churchill told
the house of commons American
losses were 60 to 80 times British
losses. This would mean that
American losses to the operation
were approximately 54,000 men—or
more).
Von Rundstedt's losses were
placed at four panzer divisions
smashed, four panzer and pan
zer grenadier divisions badly
battered, one paratroop division
destroyed, and eight Volksgren-
adier divisions reduced in fin-
fantry strength by M percent.
In comparison. Allied losses were
to the strength of about five di-
visions.
Allted headquarters said that
the German operation “has not
seriously affected Allied plana
er preparations for future op-
erations.”
Summarizing the Ardennes op-
erations from Dec. It to Jan. 11,
SHAEF pointed out that the enemy
held certain temporary advantages,
but that "certain advantages on
which he relies are transitory and
at best will last only during the win-
ter months”—apparently a reference
to winter's effect on grounding Al-
lied sir power.
Plywood Best Japs
Can Do for Vessels
Urgent, Army
Surgeon Says
WASHINGTON, Jan 19—-
The Army’s surgeon general said to-
day inadequacy of nursing care. In
the face of a 370 percent increase
in battle casualty patients, makes
it imperative that nurses- be draft-
ed.
Since May, said Maj. Gen.
Norman T. Kirk, “our patients
have increased from 260,000 to
450,000,” while the number of
Army nurses hae risen only
2,000.
Appearing before the houae mili-
tary committee, the surgeon general
gave all-out support to the nurse
draft proposal made by President
Roosevelt two weeks ago in his
"state of the union" message to
congress.
“We are new receiving in
Army hospitals of this country,"
Kirk testified, “30,000 to 32,000
patients each month, as cam-
pared with 8,500 tn the first half
of 1944. This is an increase of
270 percent.”
"Approximately 15.000 leave hos-
pitals each month. Thus those re-
ceived double those relieved.
“The increased battle casualties,
added to those requiring hospitali-
zation because of sickness and dis-
ease, has greatly enlarged the de-
mand for nurses. It la to meet thla
demand that I now favor the appli-
cation of selective service to fill Im-
mediately the shortage in the sup-
ply of nurses.”
12 Applications
Filed by Nurses
Twelve additional nurses applica-
tions for service with the armed
forces were sent this morning to
headquarters. Mrs. Fern Krutilek,
secretary of the Red Cross recruit-
ment committee, announced
TEXAS MAY BE EXEMPT FROM BROWN-OUT ORDER
The whole state of Texas may be
exempt from the Wsr Production
board's order for s brown-out of
outdoor lighting, to go in effect
Feb. 1. Price Campbell, president of
West Texas utilities company, said
this morning
“Texas may be exempt If It
can be shown the state is tak-
tag ears of Its own needs and
sending all the power te other
states the lines will carry," be
said.
W G, Moore, vice-president of
the Delias Power and Light, an-
- nounced yesterday that four Texas
11 utilities companies, the WTU, the
. .107 Dallas Power and Light, the Texas
Power and Light and the Texas
Electric Service, will present jointly
an application to WPB for exemp-
tion.
“Unless our customers want ua to
we will not specifically apply for
exemption in this area,” Campbell
said.
"The amount of energy or fuel
saved wouldn't make much differ-
ence in thla area aa It would In more
congested areas,” he said.
Much more would be saved by
going back to regular time, be
declared thus cutting the heavy
load la the early morning hours.
“We have our own fuel supply,
our own gas fields,” the president
said. “We have exclusive fields for
the Concho plant at San Angelo, for
the Girvin plant at McCamey and
the Pauline plant at Quanah We
have our excrusive gas and pipe
lines. In Abilene we have e con-
tracted gas supply from the Lone
Star Oes company
“We have no coal burning plants.
We now have more power reserves,
proportionately, than any other
company In the Southwest We are
taking care of our own customers
end sending all the power the lines
will conduct to Oklahoma end Ark-
ansas for defense Industrie. In those
states end for times of water pow-
er end coal shortages there. We still
have ample capacity left" <
By The Associated Press
The Japanese Domel news agency
reported today the flnit plywood
ship” had unloaded its first cargo
at Tokyo and hailed plywood craft
as "the bright hope of our war
maritime transportation.” The
broadcast waa recorded by the Fed-
eral Communications commission.
Body of Slain
Man Identified
BROWNWOOD, Jan. 19-
The body of a man found near the
Jim W. Phillipa home at Byrds waa
identified ee that of Manley Kellar.
60, of Blake, North Brown county,
by Sheriff Earl Stewart yesterday.
Mrs. Phillips told Stewart she
fired a shotgun after hearing a
noise outside her ranch home With
her were her daughter-in-law and
the latter’s two children.
Mrs Phillips added an attempt
waa made to start her car followed
again by a noise at the front door.
PAY YOUR POLL TAX
Poll tax payments
to date ........... 3,006
Total payments two
years ago ............1.7,600
Cost of poll tax .........$1.75
Deadline Jan. >1 far payment
of poll tax for April city elee-
tions.
Juggernaut Drives
Into Lodz, Krakow
LONBON, Jan. 19—(P—The Russians have captured Schloss-
berg in a new offensive In East Prussia, Marshal Staiin announced in
his third order of the day. Stalin said that Gen. Ivan D. Cherniak,
hovsky’s army had advanced up to 28 miles on * 37-mile front in
five days.
LONDON, Jan. 19—(UP)—Krakow, ancient
capital of Poland and administrative seat of the Gar-
man occupation forces, and Lodz fell today to a Red
army offensive which Moscow said had collapsed the
entire Nazi front across Poland.
Marshal Stalin announced Krakow’s fall in his second or-
der of the day. Earlier, he revealed that a fourth Red army
has joined the historic winter offensive, plunging forward up
to 50 miles through the Carpathian foothills of south Poland.
Soviet dispatches indicated that the sweep through Po-
land had carried across the border into German Silesia, and
the Nazi high command admitted that the battle of Germany
had begun with a violent struggle for the homeland’s “east-
ern provinces.”
Marshal Stalin, in one of his earliest special orders of
the day ever broadcast from Moscow, announced the opening
of the new offensive in the Polish-Slovak border area in con-
cert with the advance by the left wing of Marshal Ivan S.
Konev's First Ukrainian army. .
Gen. Ivan Y. Petrov’s Fourth Ukrainian army jumped
off from a springboard west of Sanok last Mor -
through a strongly fortified German defense system, and in
four days of bloody battles advanced up to 50 miles on a 37-
mile front. ..
Petrov’s force# drove across the Wisloka and Dunaje
river#, and captured more than 400 towns and villages includ-
ing Jaslo, 71 mile# southeast of Krakow and Gorlice, 15 miles
southwest of Jaslo. . . ,
Both Moscow and Berlin hinted that the battle of Poland
was turning into the battle ef Germany with an invasion of
Silesia, and second hand reports said panic had broken out
in the Silesian capital of Breslau and other cities in the bor:
der region fronting Poland. .
The German high command acknowledged that on the
entire front from the northern slope# of the Carpathinn# to
the Niemen river, the winter battle for the German eastern
provinces continues with greatest fierceness. .
The Moscow radio broadcast one of the most jubilant
Soviet pronouncements of the entire war, plainly indicating
that the Soviet command be-
lieved its fight of four and a 1 .| A
half years was nearly over It Youth Grave V
said: IVUHI UIMEVT
"The catastrophe which has be-
fallen the German armies in Poland
Is greater than that which befell
their central group of armies last
summer. The entire German front
in Poland has collapsed. Any fur-
ther resistance on the pert of the
German people is useless.
“The time new has come for
the German people to refuse
further obedience to Hitler,
orders. The bottle on German
soil is imminent. In headlong
flight the Germans withdraw to
the Reich border, with the Red
army hard on their heels. Only
immediate surrender could help
them new."
The Exchange Telegraph In a
Moscow dispatch quoted unconfirm-
ed reports that armored spearheads
of Marshal Ivan 8 Konev's First
Ukrainian srmy had plunged into
German Silesia and at least one
was heading for Oppelu, 23 miles
inside Germany, SO miles southeast
of Breslau, and 52 miles west of
Polish Czestochowa.
Hurt in Crash
COLORADO CITY. Jan. 19-
(Spl)—Bobby Butler, 16, son of Mr.
end Mrs J. E. Butter, farmers In
the Westbrook community, was
critically injured in en automobile
accident about 1:30 a. m. today la
Colorado City.
Attendants at Root hospital
where he was carried, thla
morning held little hope fur his
recovery. He sustained head in-
juries.
His father stated he waa driving
a borrowed automobile at the time
of the accident and waa accompa-
nied by another teen-ager. Bryant
Dawson of Colorado City. who was
uninjured.
They apparently hit a curve on
Chestnut street and the automobile
turned over three times.
Young Butler is employed as a
porter in the Crawford hotel.
Trio From Area
The Faria radio credited Stock-
holm with reports that panic reigned.
In Breslau, and that thousands of On List of
refugees fleeing the Soviet advance WASHINGTON Jan 19 —UP—The
- sene MeCullouch. Taster county l were crowding into Breslau and war department made public yes-
chairman, was advised yesterday other cities of industrial Silesia terday the names of these Texans
The same source reported that
Marshal Konstantin K. Rokor-
sovsky’s Second White Russian
army had reached the southern
border of East Prussia, putting
that German province under
storm from the south and the
Nineteen were sent last week
that Texas ranked third among the
17 stetes of the midwest division in
nurses recruiting last week
Leading the division was Illinois
with 540 enlistments, Minnesota
came second with 304 and Texas
third with 289. The states record-
ed 2,190 enlistments toward the 20,-
000 goal
Miss McCullough was advised by
national headquarters that "we are
proud of the outstanding recruiting
work done in Texas "
killed in action.
Franks. Pfe Rupert A — Marvin J.
Franks, father, route 1 Midland
Talbott, Pfe. Charles B Mrs.
Jackie E Talbott, Wife. Big Spring.
Russell. Pvt Ferrel: P —Mrs. Al-
lene J Russell, mother. Odessa.
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The Weather
U.S. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AMD VICINITY—Fair and
warm this afternoon and tonight cloudy
and colder Saturday
EAST TEXAS Fair this afternoon and
tonight Slightly warmer in south por-
tion tonight Saturday mostly cloudy.
WEST TEXAS fair this afternoon
Considerable cloudiness tonight and Sat-
urday Rain in Panhandle and South
Plains Saturday changing to snow in
Panhandle In afternoon »r at night
Colder in Panhandle South Plains and
upper Pecos valley Saturday. Fresh to
strong winds Saturday
Maximum temperature last 24 hours.
Minimum temperature las
32
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Sunrise this morning w..,.......8.3
Sunset tonight ...*#.......X........7:0
east.
The Red air force was reported
to have swarmed into the Soviet
offensive in perhaps its greatest
force of the entire war.
A Moscow dispatch said the Rus-
elans flew 30,000 sorties in three
days.
On WLB Board
DALLAS, Jen 19—() —A. Long-
ley Coffey, of Tulsa, yesterday suc-
ceeded Dr. T. O. Walton as vice-
chairman of the Eighth regional
War Labor board.
EVERY LIVING INHABITANT" OF
WARSAW EXILED BY GERMANS
LONDON, lu. 19—(P)Se-
viet Russia’s leading war corres-
pondent reported today that
the Germans had exiled every
living inhabitant of Warsaw be-
fore yielding the Polish capital
to the Red army.
Describing the newly seized
city as “one big ruin, smelling
of burning destruction,” M.
Makareonko wrote In Pravda:
.“No single Hrs human was
among this devastation. The
Germans had exiled all the in-
The Communist party news-
paper story was broadcast by
the Moscow radio and was re-
corded in London.
A graphic account of War-
saw’s capture was given.
“Soviet and Polish troops are
marching to the west along
wrecked streets,” the corres,
Ioeomine ack te a en whim
haa practically ceased te exist.
“During the abortive uprising
of last August the Germans
wrought destruction with sadis-
tie brutality, methodically tam-
ing street after street to ashes.
He declared all the mest
widely known structures to the
city were destroyed.
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