Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 230, Ed. 1 Monday, September 27, 1943 Page: 1 of 6
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YANKS SNAP BACKBONE OF NAZI HILLTOP DEFENSES
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Kiev Surrounded As Reds Battle On West
British bur
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The Fifth Army has snapped
the backbone of German resis-
tance in the steep hills south of
Naples.
General Mark Clark's soldiers
have lunged forward all along
*their 20-mile front, pacing off
gains of up to 11 miles. The
greatest advance has been scor-
ed on the right flank where the
Nazis have been shoved out of
two towns—Calabritto and Cass-
ano.
The main German force is
staggering downhill into tho
plains before Naples. And only
1 Nazi rear guards are holding an
allied sweep into the broad flat-
lands around the city.
The hillside fighting north of
JSalerno is described as the fierc-
est since the Eighth Army broke
the line at El Alamein and be-
gan its historic march westward.
But the Allies have hammered
out new gains on the east as
well as the west coast.
^1 The British Eighth army is
bearing down hard on the great
Nazi air base at Foggia. After
fording the Ofanto river, it
moved on 12 miles before run-
ning into any resistance. And
•low the Tommies are only 22
miles from Foggia with its 13
airfields.
The capture of Foggia not on-
ly would mean the strategic Out-
flanking of Naples, but would
provide the Allies with excellent
airfields to smash deep into Nazi
Europe.
Middle-east based planes alrea-
dy are smashing the Nazis in
Greece. Allied Liberators and
rflalifax bombers touched off two
'deafening explosions in a raid
on an airdrome near Athens.
All in all, the Nazis have their
hands full—not only with allied
invasion armies and air attacks
^but with the Jugoslav guerril-
las. The Algiers radio says the
partisans have captured four
more towns in the Triehte area.
And the "free Jugoslav" radio
adds that the whole Istrian pen-
Jnsula now is firmly in guerrilla
•hands.
Italian guerrillas also live act-
ive. The London radio says they
have attacked German communi-
cations through the Brenner
~Pass. It says that patriot resis-
tance continues in several nor-
thern provinces.
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Number 230
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And these U. S. troops on Kiska never realized it. more
filthy, poorly constructed shack that the Japs ^ged as a
more bonds you buy, the sooner these boys can
(U. S. Navy Photo From NEA)
than they do now. They're bunking in a
hospital until better quarters are set up. The
come baqk to the comforts of home.
£ CHICAGO
Me
Forts Blast
The American air force execu-
ted a change-of-pace in one of
its biggest operations of the
war against Nazi Germany.
Our big Flying Fortresses -
built and equipped for daylight
precision bombing — shifted to
area bombing today in a thous-
and-ton raid on Emden — the
Nazi U-boat base in northwest-
ern Germany.
This newlyadopted technique
may sot a new precedent in the
air war over Europe. Up to now,
the day-and-night bombing of
Europe has been
area bombing for
nage RAF. and
bombing by the
a pattern of
the heavy ton-
precision target
Flying Fortiv.
The entire waterfront area of
Emden is believed to have been
hit by the American bombs.
The raid on Emden marks the
first time in three weeks that
American planes have bombed
Germany.
Available reports call it one of
the most successful shows the
fortresses have yet staged. Am-
HI
t he
called light,
ale of the of-
. exact number cf
sing has not been
eric
considorin'
fort. I'i" i
s mi
r.nrouiv:erl.
One j'liinty American co-pilot
shrugged off the achievement.
He called it just a milk run, ex-
cel it f°r the bitter cold. It was
11 below zero.
British fighter planes also
were busy ovel the continent to-
day and engaged in dogfights
with enemy craft. Nine Nazi
planes were shot down, and five
British planes were lost.
ATTORNEY IS
CHARGED IN
SON'S DEATH
PITTSFIELD, Mass. —(UP) —
A prominent Pittsfield attorney,
John Noxon, jr., was charged to-
day with electrocuting his six-
month-old son.
The baby, one of two sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Noxon, died Tues-
day.
Police recorded the death as
accidental when Medical Exam-
iner Albert England's prelimin-
ary report said it had resulted
from electrocution. But follow-
ing an autopsy police lodged a
first degree murder charge
against Noxon, who is 48-years-
old, a Harvard graduate and the
son of a former Berkshire coun-
ty district attorney.
Dr. England said that when
he went to the Noxon home,
Noxton told him baby Lawrence
had touched the exposed end of
an extension cord while Noxon
was repairing a radio. The medi-
cal examiner said he was told
that the baby was not norml
mentally.
Police said evidence indicated
a wire had been wrapped arouno
the child's arm and the electro-
cution occurred when the baby,
with wet diapers, was placed on
a metal tray.
Noxon made no immediate
statement.
Bank Of Dnieper
FALL OF CITY
EXPECTED AT
ANY MOMENT
Three-star Lieut.-Gen. Mark Clark wears a confident smile in this
aboard a landing barge as he led his U. S. Fifth
Army in the Salerno invasion. «
picture taken
(UP) — Sayed
lehren—who claimed he was
born in Egypt in 1811—is dead.
The self-proclaimed 132-year-old
man died yesterday in Chicago,
where he had lived since 1893.
* Mehren first attracted atten-
tion in 1937 when he had trou-
ble getting a social security num-
ber. He said he had lost his birth
certificate over a hundred years
before.
A Mehren said he remembered
♦hearing about Napoleon as a con-
temporary when he was a small
boy in Egypt. He claimed to
have gone to school at the Az-
Har university in Cairo, and
later to have worked as assist-
ant to the chief clerk of a Brit-
ish crew building a dam on the
Nile in the Sudan.
At that time, Mehren said, he
spoke Arabic, Italian, French,
Spanish and Latin, but he fell
,Qis lack of English was a se-
vere handicap. And because he
wanted to learn English, he came
to the United States in 1893
with the Egyptian party which
established the "Streets of Cai-
jjo" at the World's Columbian ex-
position.
After the exposition closed, he
made his homo in Chicago, and
in 1898 married a Chicago wom-
an, Fannie Wright. She died in
1925 at the ago of 69. Mohron
ffescd to chuckle that his wife
never knew how old he was.
He didn't, think it unusual
that he should live to be 132
years old, since, he said, he had
known a man 200 years old in
gypt-
"In Egypt we live better. We
prayed five times a day, which
is restful and helps rebuild body
tissues. I don't drink, I don't
smoke and I don't eat pork."
Mehren never wore glasses, nor
<P€arried a cane. He had a slight
stoop to his five-foot frame,
squinting eyes, a gray fringe
around his pate and a few deep-
set wrinkles in an otherwise
^live skin.
& "Self-harmony," he used to
say, "is the key to serene and
long living."
REPORT ON CITY
HOUSING COMING
AT BCD MEETING
A report on latest phases of
Sweetwater's housing projects
will be a feature of tonight's
meeting of the Board of City
development, at 8 in the Muni-
cipal building, while upstairs the
city commissioners will be
weighing a budget contemplated
for the ensuing year.
Milo K. Roth, secretary-manag-
er of t lie BCD spent the last half
of the week in Dallas conferring
with army officers on the hous-
ing matter. It is expected that
army action may bring renewed
action in the matter of providing
home facilities for expanding
army and labor personnel at Av-
enger field.
The conversion program has
resulted in addition of 12 family
units in this city. Twenty such
units had been approved for the
city, but HOLC men were un-
able to find eight more in build-
ings offered to the government
for conversion into apartments.
Hutments and FHA houses also
have been planned for
Sweetwater to relieve the con
gested home conditions.
Reports on the free turnip
seed and plowing project also
are expected. P. Edward Pon-
der, president of the BCD, said
at one time during , the drizzle
todav. that enough rain was fall-
ing to make prospects look good
for turnips.
The move to abolish Southern
freight rate differentials, now
penalizing the South'a industry,
also will be discussed, with other
matters pending on the BCD
calendar.
A budget hearing, open to the
taxpayers, will be held by the
city commission.
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BOSKNPKliD DUAD
NEW YORK — Dr. Kurt Ros-
enfeld, head of an anti-Nazi prop,
aganda organization, died yes
teruay after a long iilness
Pencillin Winning
Battle With Death
HACKENSACK, N. J. —(UP)
—Pencillin is winning another
battle against a blood disease
that attacks the white corpus-
cles.
The disease usually is fatal in
fourteen days.
Forty-year-old Morris Glass-
man has been hovering between
life and death for nearly two
weeks. His temperature has ran-
ged between 104 and 105 degrees
for five days. He rallied after
the first dose of penicillin. This
morning his temperature has
dropped to 100 and 101 degrees.
Hospital attendants call the out-
look now yery favorable.
Texas Real Estate Men
Are Getting $10 Refunds
AUSTIN — (UP) — Several
hundred Texas real estate deal-
ers are ten dollars richer. State
comptroller is refunding ten
dollars to the dealers after the
attorney general ruled that a
law of the last legislature levy-
ing an occupation tax against
them was invalid.
65 More Mexican
Workers Hired Here
Sixty-five Mexican cotton pict<-
ers were placed on jobs in th?s
area Saturday, L. . W. Keilers,
manager of the four-county U.
S. Employment office here said
today. During today's drizzle
about that many more were in
the city, but most of them went
on north; possibly hunting for
an area where it was not rain-
ing, and-where they could go to
work immediately.
Three U S. Employment Ser-
vice farm placement representa-
tives were due in Sweetwater to-
day to assist in the work of get-
ing maximum results from the
migrant labor, but they had not
arrived by midafternoon.
Mr. Kellers said farmers he
had talked with today had stated
the rain was doing little harm,
except by slewing the baf.YesU
County And Stale
Tax Collection To
Begin October I
The state tax department hav-
ing approved .the 1943 tax roll,
compiled in August by deputies
in the office of Raymond Bish-
op, county tax assessor-collector,
the collection department is rea-
HEAT BROKEN
AS DRIZZLE
ENDS
At long last the rains came.
Steadily a light drizzle fell Sat-
urday night and Sunday, but it
was not enough to register at
the Texas company's volunteer
weather bureau. One brisk show-
er falling about 5 p. m. soaked
gardens, shrubs and flowers and
lawns.
The low-threatening clouds
forming about dusk Saturday
sent the mercury tumbling
from summer temperatures to a
season's low of 58 degrees, to re-
lieve Nolan countians of the
most severe summer heat exper-
ienced here in 25 years. The cool
snap 'continued overnight and
all day Sunday with tempera-
tures rising only six degrees at
mid-afternoon. Coats appeared on
, the streets for the first time this
dy to open the four-months tax j fall an{1 fires burned on tha
paying period Oct. 1.
The state rate of 47 cents is a
reduction of 28 cents over last
year and one of the lowest in
history. Nolan county tax rate Is
60 cents, same as last year, with
a .04 tax placed on road district
No. 1 lying in Sweetwater.
$75,000 Short
TODAY'S
WAR
MOVES
.-I IWHUOIJ oc.AiAXAg . WUIlUtfriJlg Wilt?
ive Saturday night over KXOX | intend to call a
ised the county's total S3,375; j munist. newspaj
Discounts are allowed on state
taxes only. Payments received in
October, the first month, draw a
3 per cent discount; November
payment, 2 per cent; December
1 per cent. Deadline for current
taxes is Jan. 31. During the four-
month period citizens must
make exemptions and secure
polls.
The roll, compiled following
announcement hy commission-
er's court and the state tax rates,
totals $10,884,536, approximate'!,r
the same as last vers valu'tion.
ALASKA PIPELINE
FAIRBANKS, Alaska —(UP)
—A one-thousand mile pipeline
now is in operation between
Skagwav and Fairbanks — sup-
plying oil to American bases in
both Canada and Alaska. Althou-
gh in operation since January
its existence was first announced
today.
SAYS SUBSIDY SHORT
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Secretary Charles W. Holman
of the National Co-Operative
Milk Federation says the govern-
ment's milk subsidy program
falls far sliort of providing the
stimulant needed to boost pro-
duction.
on
grate.
M. B. Templeton, county agent
said that he had heard of no rain
on the farm belt in the county,
aside from the showers that wet
the top soil.
Demp Kearney, AAA county
administrative officer, who
See RAIN Page 4
Mrs. Roosevelt Lets
Men in on Conference
WASHINGTON — (UP)
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt broke
a precedent today. She let male
newsmen in on her White House
conference for the first time
since she became the first lady
back in 1933.
She did it. because she hai
some news from the men's an-
gle. She brought back the reac-
tions of our fighting men in
Pacific to events going on at
home. And here, says Mrs.
Roosevelt—who saw our boys
during a 25,000 mile tour of the
Southwest Pacific—is what they-
're thinking;
First, says Mrs. Roosevelt,
they're wondering if they'll find
jobs when they come home.
Next, they're not complaining
— but they do ask ques-
tions about anything that slows
up production at home.
And third, they think all the
furore over drafting fathers is
funny. Because about every oth-
er soldier in the Southwest Pa-
cific already is married — and,
as Mrs. Roosevelt says—is poten-
tially, if not actually, a father.
(Reg. I". S. Pat. Off.)
The land battle for Italy is.
in many respects, an extension
of the air battle for Germany.
Allied strategy, in the large
sense, consists of lana advances
behind a screen of air power.
After the Allies'were firmly set-
tled in North Africa, they began
to bomb Sicily. When the island
had been sufficiently softened
up. the land forces moved in.
Then our air power was focused
on southern Italy. And when
the toe of the boot had been
thoroughly be - numbed, again
the land forces moved in.
The cycle is about to start
again. A British Eighth army
column is striking out at Foggia,
which already has been aban-
doned by German planes. Foggia
is the hub of a network of 13
airfields with the most elaborate
system of run-ways in southern
Italy. From it the Allies could
focus their air power on almost
any sector of Europe to prepare
for the day when land forces
will move in.
Foggia long has been the main-
stay of Nazi air power in the
Mediterranean — a base from
which the luftwaffe kept the
British navy at bay. By captur-
ing it the Allies could—so to
speak—turn its guns in the op-
posite direction, toward Ger-
many. Based there. Flying Fort-
resses with a 750-mile bombing
range could batter the whole of
Bulgaria, Rumania. Hungary,
Austria and southern Europe.
The Germans lately have trans-
ferred many of their fighter
plane factories to the Baklans
where there are deposits of
bauxite and hvdro-electric pow-
er to turn it into aluminum. The
Vienna district and the Lodz
area of Poland also have been
sprinkled with aircraft plants
All of these areas—now beyond
the range of British based bom-
bers—could be attacked from
Foggia. A 750-mile arc from the
base also takes in the Ploesti oil
fields, Warsaw and Paris.
For the time being, the Allies
probably will use newly-won It
| alian fields to support ground
forces, rather than to send
^" i planes far afield. But air power
based at Foggia would be of tac-
I tical, as well as strategic, advan-
| tage. Because the Appennines
stretch like a knobby backbone
j up the peninsula, Italy's main
railroads run along the two
coasts. Planes from Foggia could
span these heights to cut sup-
ply lines behind the German ar-
my at Naples.
If the Nazis eventually are
pried out of the Lombardy
plains, the Allies would come in-
to possession of even more valu-
able air bases. From these fiel.ls
fortresses could attack Copen-
hagen, Denmark and Brest. They
could take on Berlin in an easy
500-mile hop.
British-based planes already
See WAR MOVES Page 5
A special football bond selling
dr
raise
out 't was reported today by
Chairman Grover Swaim that
the county ftill I:a - about $75.-
000 to buy befor^' me quota of
$909,300 is completed.
The football drive was sponsor-
ed by Murchison-Cramer Motor
Co.. Dodge - Plymouth distribu-
tors and Norred Motor Co., local
Buick distributors.
The chairman and com-
mittee members today urged
especially that prospective
bond buyers obtain them
through the stores, to en-
able the stores and employes
to meet their respective
• liiotas.
The individual workers, in-
cluding salespeople and merch-
ants, were urged to "use every
means possible," to get the
bonds coming in to assure vie-1
tory on the home front in the j
city-county part of the 3d War j
Financing campaign. All of the
employes and other retail peo-1
pie who sell over S200 in bonds
will be entitled to an E certifi-
cate of merit, indicating that
they had done all expected of j
them in the retail drive.
Schools and rural areas were 1
continuing to make bond and i
stamp sales this week, with the j
end of the drive scheduled for I
Oct. 2. No official report was re-
ceived today from Roscoe. but it I
was believed the Roscoe com-
munity had far exceeded its
first reported total of $75,000
on a $200,000 quota.
According to a United
Press dispatch from Pallas
Texans have bought only 72
per rent of the state's $420.-
000,000 quota The amount
raised is $'304,000,000, of
which 40 per cent was
bought by individuals.
The Nolan fund had consider-
ably exceeded the 72 per cent
average antl leaders were hope-
ful that this community so di-
rect,iy represented in the active
fighting of Italy through the [
city's Co. E, would be one of the I
first counties to go over the top.
Those who subscribed on the 1
football program are: J. Turner, I
$100; W. K. Roberts. $50; Opal j
and Ray A. Lowery, $25; W. W. j
Stephens, $50; Mrs. Albert Hrb-
acek, $25; D. A. Clark, $500; Mur-
chison-Cramer, $500; Mrs. L. B.
Allen, jr., $100; Western Wind-
mill, $1000; L. B. Scott, $25; Billy
Glenn Shaw, $25; Betty Tram-
mel!, $25; J. C. Pinson, $ 5; R
D. Greer $25; Andy Brown $100;
Thomas Greene, $25; Mrs. Berta
Browning. $25; E. B. Britton,
$100; Mrs. C. M. Davis, $100; Mrs.
Louie Hartgraves, $25; and Wil-
liam Oichard Norred, $500.
Judge Mauzey
Rotary Speaker
Necessity for a better under-
standing between Individuals
and peoples of the earth was
stressed at the noon meeting of
the Sweetwater Rotary club to-
day by District Judge A. S. Mau-
zey.
Speaking on vocational ser-
vice Judge Mauzey brought out
many points for improvement of
conditions in dav to dav busi-
See JVJXiE MAUZEY Page 6
MOSCOW — (UP) — The Ger-
man Dnieper defense line has
been cracked wide open and Red
army soldiers are battling for
toe-holds on the river's west
bank.
Russian forces have flowed
around the Nazi bastion of Kiev,
leaving the city a lost island of
futile resistance. Other river
cities are ripe for plucking.
Among them are Kremenchug,
Dnepropetrovsk, and Zaporo-
zhe.
Kiev may fall at any moment.
Soviet troops have forded the
river to cut in on each side of
the west bank city. At the samj
time a Red army frontal assault
is slowly pushing the Germans
back in the east bank suburbs.
Unconfirmed reports say the
Germans already have begun to
evacuate the city.
The London radio, quoting
Moscow, says the Russians also
have cleared out beachheads
across the Dnieper at other
points on the southern front.
And Red paratroopers are show-
front. Soviet soldiers are pour-
ing into White Russia through
great gaps ripped in the German
lines near Smolensk and Gomel.
The Germans now are being edg-
ed ever closer to the Polish bord-
er as the Russians close in on
the key base of Vitebsk.
In case the Germans may be
wondering where the Russians
halt, the Com-
per Pravda told
them today It said there would
be no pause until the Red army
seapluU>.A frontiers; and
the Germans are decisively beat-
en.
Oil!
SERVICE ACT
MAY BE NEXT
BOSTON — (UP) — Rear Ad-
miral Emory Land, chairman of
the maritime commission, believ-
es that a universal service act
maybe the next logical move.
It' the manpower plan of war
mobilization director Byrnes —•
now being tried in the west —■
should fail. Admiral Land belie-
ve- that such a move may be
necessary.
The rear admiral spoke before
th<• opening session of the con-
vention of the American Federa-
tion of labor metal trades depart-
j ment.
He said the labor shortage re-
I salted from the needs of the ar-
; med forces and the demands for
heightened production. He prais-
1 ed labor, and said that for the
i most part it has kept its pledge
i not to strike.
Communist Browder
Says Talk Of Bases
Is Harmful Nonsense
CHTCAG — (UP) — Commun-
ist leader Earl Broowder believ-
es Russia is neither able nor
willing to help the United Sta-
tes in the war against Japan.
Browder says all the talk
about the Soviet Union giving us
bombing bases in Siberia is—
to use his exact, words —"harm-
ful nonsense." He adds that such
talk has only one objective — to
try to get Russia to win tha
war in the Far East for us.
Browder asserts that Russia al-
I ready is winning the war in Eur-
; ope "for the United Nations, and
he believes it is too much to
: expect the Soviet Union to un-
>Wt?ke the add!tional task of
.tig down Japan.
Browder spoke yesterday at a
Communist rally in Chicago.
HI !>L l\ VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON — (UP) --
1 Secretary of State Hull has left
! Washington for a short vacation
1 in Virginia.
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Weather Forecast
I SWEETWATER — Continued
. cloudy, stormy and unsettled.
Low Sunday 58; at mid-afternoon
Sunday 64: at 10 a. m. todav 58.
EAST TEXAS — Not quite so
j cool but occasional rain this af*
; ternoon, tonight and Tuesday
i forenoon.
WEST TEXAS — Not quite so
cool this afternoon, tonight and
Tuesday forenoon. Occasional
rain this afternoon and tonight
and except in the panhandle
Tuesday forenoon.
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