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ROMMEL PANZERS TRIPPED
City’s Winter Coke Supply
Definitely ‘Frozen ’ By WPB
Sweetwater citizens and raini-
er,s in this vicinity who have
been accustomed in the past to
securing their winter fuel in the
form of coke from the local Gulf
refinery, have been put in a
tough spot this year. This situ-
ation 'has arisen due to a freeze
order received by .John Schriev-
c-r, refinery superintendent, ear-
ly last fall. Meanwhile the stock
piles out at the refinery are
growing with no relief in sight.
The matter was taken up with
Marshall Pior. chairman of the
Nolan county War Price and
Rationing Board. The following
exchange of telegrams took place
without any apparent success:
SWEETW ATKK. TEXAS
DECEMBER !), 19-12
DIRECTOR OK OPERATIONS
WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
WASHINGTON. D. ('.
ORDER NUMBER TWO TWEL-
VE FREEZING COKE MAKES
SERIOUS THREAT TO
HEALTH IN THIS DISTRICT
STOP Gl.'LF REFINING COM-
PANY HAVE ON HAND THIR-
TEEN THOUSAND TONS
COKE STOP NO WOOD YARDS
IN NOLAN COUNTY STOP FOR
YEARS PEOPLE HAVE DE-
PENDED ON FUEL SUPPLY
FROM 'I'll IS SOURCE STOP
REQUEST YOU RELEASE
TWO THOUSAND TONS IM-
MEDIATELY FOR FUEL PUR
POSES.
WAR PRICE AND RATION-
ING BOARD NO. J77
1912 DEC 16
DBMS 55-53 GOVT NL
WASHINGTON DC 15
MARSHALL If. PIOR
WAR PRICE AND RATION-
ING BOARD NO 177
SWEETWATER TEXAS
THIS REPLIES TO YOUR LET-
TER DECEMBER EIGHT AND
WIRE DECEMBER NINTH RE-
GARDING PETROLEUM COKE
STOP BY DECISION OF AP
I EA LS COM \! ITT EE NO GULF
S WEETW A TER I ’ETROLEU M
COKE CAN BE RELEASED
FOR USE AS DOMESTIC FUEL
1 See SWEETWATER Page 5
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I II|.;i lull TilKIK .1015—Al'ci -.entiling tllei r fleet in Toulon harbor, these French .sailors
are inarelieil iimi) to a German concentration camp. Vote German troops on motor cycles
at the eighi of the marching column. I’liolo radioed from London and passed hj eensors.
(NKA Radio-Telephoto).
Most Of Anti-Tank
Artillery Said To
Be In Units Cut Off
By Edward \V. Beanie
LONDON, Dec. 18 (UP Hi British Eighth Army chased
the German Afrika Kuril- 90 miles west ol El Agheila today, and
front line reports indicated that most of Marshal Erwin Rommel -
anti-tank artillery and the 15th Panzer division were among the
forces trapped in the Wadi Matratin sec to i
British planes, tank.- and infantry slushed at the trapped troops
while other units of the Eighth Army raced m ahead to pursue
Germans and Italians toward Tripoli.
British observers -aid the (
Eighth Army probably would!
‘U. S.M ousters’ Ripped Nazi Tanks To Bits
Secret Weapon
Called Biiiirest
Surprise 01 War
Rommel's Men Couldn't
Relieve Anything
So Devastating
Kj Kiel’ml II. McMillan
(Copyright 1912 by CP)
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 —(UP)
—The biggest surprise of tiie
war came to the Germans one
day along the El Alamein front
when there was a series of terri-
fic flashes and big armor-pierc-
ing shells ripped and withered
the Nazi panzer divisions
An American secret wea-
pon, destined to turn the
tide of buttle in the desert,
I id gone into action for I be
♦ irst^ime. , -
Marshal Ln in RC-vumvl wo-
approaching A. •xonitria, a, d the
British Eighth Army held a
narrow front 'between the Med-
iterranean and a large marsh
when the new weapon was
thrown into the battle. It is a
Sweetwater Reporter
IU!Y IT IN SWEETWATER
’West Texas’ Leading Newspaper”
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
German-Italian
Tanks \nd Men
In 30-Mile Tra|
45TH YEAH
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, I KIDAY. DECEMliER l«. 1912
NI VIBEK .>
1943-4 Texas Budget Pared
Americans Lse
New Bombs On
Enemy At Mamba
Renewed fighting Taken
To Presage Allied
Push In New Guinea
GEN. MacARTHURS HEAD-
Henderson Can Do
As He Pleases Now
BALTIMORE. Md.. Dec. 18— • dinner after first being invited.
(UP)—Leon Henderson is not: Fhat action apparently was
povverfuUliittmg, self-propelling QUARTERS, Australia, Dec. 18
anti-tank gun mounted on the __(pp)_Renewed allied patrol!
chassis of a General Grant tank. artjvity around Salamua. key j
It* was manufactured hastily in Japanese base, and highly ef- j
t t1 United States and was ship- use of a new parachute
ped to the Middle East with fragmentation bomb against the .
such secrecy that few officers ,.noinv at Mamba indicated to-j
See SECRET WEAPON Page 1 t|ia, a new allied drive was |
' i _____ in the making In New Guinea, i
Gen. Douglas MacArthur j
awarded the purple lieart decor-
ation to Lieut.-Gen. George ('. |
Kenney, commander of allied I
i air forces in the southwest Pa-i
Ciiic in recognition of meritor-!
; ions service in inventing the j
new bomb.
ll was repealed that bun-
deeds were dropped from
levels as low as "•* feel, on
Japanese barges and land-
ing points in Hie breaking
up of the enemy landing at-
See AMERICANS Page 5
'taken bv the rationing board
: pleased about bin resignation ds which gave the “smileage rat-
j price administrator. j j0nint;" dinner for Henderson.
lie made tliat plain here Jast But Henderson himself ang-
night where he “sang” his swan | rib turned away from report-
song at a! ers afterwards and told them:
John Lee Smith
Savs Senate Has
Pledged Economy
Tj J
I0-.Million Slash Will
End Prospects For
New Taxes
>
Rommel Might Turn His
Fleeing Columns To
Aid Periled Units
LONDON, Dec. IS—(UP) — j
Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery
poured reinforcements into his
Wadi Matratin trap in western !
Libj'a today- hoping to destroy j
the scores of German tanks and
thousands of men. pick of the
| not know the full extent of its |
success at Wadi Matratin while
1 the fighting still swirled, and it i
was conceded that some of the j
'German force- might have,
eluded the trap or fought their |
I way through. But it was em- j
j phasized that prospects of the
I trapped troops were gloomy,
i In Washington, the navy an j
. nounced that Flying Fortresses
j and Airacobra fighters attack-
ed the Japanese base of Munda i
; in the Solomons for the seventh j
consecutive day of raids in that i LONDON. Doc. Is—lUP) —
area. \ Continuing its offensive on Ax-
There \va.- nothing in the com s. olyiec-tivc- de-pit" difficult
! inunique to belie previous indi- conditions. the RAI- bombed
cations that the only Japanese northwe.st Germany last night
i naval forces in the vicinity oi i j,. rainstorms and low clouds.
I the Solomons are light ships, i, ut Iost is plane-1,
i leading to belief that the ene- | The pjgp ioss resulted from
my is preparing for a new blow ‘ )(ud weather. The pilots battled
RAF Loses 18
Planes Bombing
North Germany
Bad Weather, Rain And
Low Clouds. Blamed
For Heavy Toll
in the Pacific—probably else-
where.
(United f’rc-- stall cor-
respondent Don < a-well re-
ported from “somewhere in
Vew Guinea” that a Japa-
nese counterattack support-
ed by mortar and artillery
fire bail been beaten off by
American forces south oi
Kuna Mission, where the en-
emy is fighting bard to re-
tain his a toehold in Papua.I
( \t lea-t 20 Jap .....6 were
vaunted Afrika Kerps, whom he u ____
j had boxed into a 30-square milej killed' and one prisoner wa.-
1 area of the desert. | taken before th< attack wa-
; The situation in the Libyan ^
battle area was that the British ”hange e)sewhero around Buna,
advanced force- had caught u]j ' j;ut Australians operating we t
• with the rear guard of Rom-1 of Gona routed an enemy de-
tachment, killing 15 Japanese'
rain • tomv- river lb" continent
: nd had to fly at fairly low al-
titudes, enabling Nazi search
light crews to make them easy
targets.
Heavy low clouds prevented
observation of the results of the
bombing, second for Germany
this week and fourth this month.
See BRITISH Page 2
Siilc <)i* Gasoline
Slopped loSiAPii
Million In Last
meatless, cof-
A
6 SHOPPSNG DAYS
S * TO *
I Christmas
PG
. / -rife
llfel
M
m
Allies Make Gains
On All War Fronts
l»v United Press
The British Egilitli Army in
its advance toward the big axis
base of Tripoli reached a point
90 miles west of El Agheila to-
day, and what is left of the Ger-
man Afrika Korps speeded up
its retreat.
A good portion of the German-
Italian army still was trapped
in the Wadi Matratin region,
about 60 miles west of El Aghei-
la. The Eighth Army, assisted
by British and American plan-
es, was cutting the trapped for-
Surirical Dressing
c c?
Volunteers Hope
To Make Quota
Volunteer surgical dressings
workers scheduled to work at
the rooms in the Doscher build-
ing Wednesday. Thursday and
Friday of next week are ask el
to join the Monday and Tues-
ces to pieces. There appeared to j,|;1V workers instead, in order
be little chance for the corner-1 lhat fui| complement of we-
ed Germians and Italians to es-
cape annihilation or capture.
The allied army in Tunisia al-
less and but-
terless m e a 1
with rationing
board 234. To
that board he
prod a i m e d
himself a “pri-
vate citizen
who doesn't
have to be nice
to people any
more.”
The first
Henilcrson step in tile u-
ually genial Henderson’s isola-
tion campaign came when re-
porters were barred from the
Post Oilin' Rush
Now \\ ell In Hand
A continued rush of out-
going mails continues at the
Sweetwater postoffice, with
extra clerks handling a vol-
ume of parcel post packag-
es, letters and Christmas
greetings.
A. G. Lee. postmaster, said
mi far the situation i- well
in hand, with no congestion,
due to the morning Texas
and Pacific trains running
un schedule.
.Mail dispatched to Sweet-
water on the Santa Fe, out
of Houston, has_ been late
reaching the office at inter-
vals. Except for delayed
trains every person will re-
ceive Christmas packages
and mail per schedule.
Weather Forecast
S\\ EETWATER Tempera-
men will he oil hand to complete j tUrc-: high yesterday. 70: low
next week's quota. | today. 15: at 31:30 a. in. today,
I’ve gotten to tl
feeless, sugar-1 See HENDERSON Page 5
Odessa Elliott
^ ueca(lueen Al
AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 18 —
(UP) - State department and
instiution heads today began
place now ; figuring on reducing their ex-
penses as the state board of
control filed a two-year budget
of 804,939.930. which is $10,310,-
J
V
■w man I nneeil
Coronation Climaxes
Musical Event: 8750
In Bond-Stamp Sales
319 less than they had to oper-
ate on for tiie current biennium.
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson, who
also submits a budget to the
legislature, proposed additional
saving. His estimates totaled
863,651,670 but are not com-
plete and may be increased if
additional court expenses are
added.
Neither budget is binding on
Odessa Elliott. Newman high legislators, but Lieut. Gov. Elect
school senior, was crowned j0hn Lee Smith said all sena-
; queen of Yucca Gloriosa Thurs-1 , „ -.
| da.v evening at the Municipal bee bMITH Page J
auditorium in a Victory Con-
test. presenting the vocal and
instrumental music departments
of the school in the sale of war
stamps and bonds.
The sale, held in cooperation
j with the state-wide affiliated, -n,.,™,,, .. ,, 1U
I high schools of Texas, grossed WASHING ION. Dec. is i
| approximately $750. Of this | CUP) — Army flying fortresses,
amount 8550 w as in bond- and accompanied by cannon-firing |
! .$200 in stamps. Every person Airaeuhra fighters, attacked the j
; paid admission by the purchase j at Munda on.
; of a stamp or ibond. which they 1 . . . . :
' kept. No profit was a>ko-] by New Georgia Island m the so!-;
m-:
—v-
Fortresses Lash
Jap Base 7th Day
Tremendous Drain On
Supplies From Africa
Front Brings Ban
The Soviet army revealed that |
it hud driven on the central
front to within 85 miles of Smo-
lensk, pivot point of the whole J
German campaign in Russia.
A special communique said | WASHINGTON. Dec. 18 —
the Red army was fighting in — Tremendous military
the vicinity of Bely. 55 mile.-,, neefjs for gasoline on fighting
north and slightly east of Smo-, fronts ux!av forced the govern-
lensk. and 60 miles west of , mont stop sale of gasoline to
the Rzhev-Vyazma railway line, i tht. 7 000,000 private motorists
The Russians were making j in "j- ,.tat(,# along the Atlantic
rapid progress. I seaboard.
_-v--President Roosevelt, explam-
RICKENB ACKER mV- conferenci
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 - | P1^ th« ;.... ba ; Psale 0f
IN l '
:. 18 —|Presy , . ..
(UP) — Capt. Eddie Ricke^ | neAo any m. dorists except
■ could be
backer has returned to
mainland, it wa slearned today,
after narrowly escaping death
when ids plane was forced
down in the Pacific nearly two
months ago.
the school,
Coronation oi the queen
climaxed tile well arranged
program of I lii Ltmas mil-
-ic, novel!iev, favorite cur-
rein song hits, and patrio-
tic tunes. Mrs. Rufus Walk-
er was coronation director.
j onions for the seventh consecu-
tive day of raids in that area,
tiie navy announced today.
The latest attack was made on
gen. ERWIN ROMM El, —
Americans are handing this
fellow. Hitler's “I'ov or far
Desert" a Christinas present
not to his liking. His army
split yesterday b> the British
8th Army aided by Ameri-
can air units, Rommel and
his men can expect little but
a heavy pounding of bombs
and shells avenging past Av-
iv; atrocities. He looks a bit
down at the month.
t Hl lK HILL COMING?
LONDON. Dec. 18- GT-
Official quarters refused to com-1
ment today on Sw idLh report'|Ji
that Prime Minister Winston jn
Churchill h;nl left for Washing-! a
ton to confer witli President ' <i
Roosevelt. ^
commercial vehicles
See GASOLINE Page
Cuhs Give Food
For Nolan Vrdv
Bov at
>hn R 1 -ew
,ib p:
of
ck 3 of the
nl today do-
d and pack-
0 Herring
county wcl-
Meat Ration Going
Below Two Pounds
Intel's army, and was pursuing
Thursday (Island Time.) Ke- ,ui>elv their tank and armor-
suits were not reported. 1 ......* —*-*
WASHINGTON. Dec. 18
’ i (Up! —-Auric. lelMrtn'n
Si
__________ said today that the
At the same time the navy j "T* *-f1. L‘L‘l,nil V’n‘
said it was in error in announc- \ - • rqm^EL Page 5 >nmntion of meat to oo ouia-
With pomp and splendor, the ing yesterday tiiat a group of ‘ ^ a
e ODESSA ELLIOTT Page 5 flying fortresses had shot down
Taxi Driver Firs
lo ^romi Man
n“fyh ofN^tTcJS. 2(1 Reclassif ied
B\ Board lo I-A
all 12 of a
; in tiie vicinity
V correction received from the
South Pacific said the number !
actually shot down was three, j
--V
bring the average below two
pounds before formal meat
rationing goes into effect at
a date still undecided.
Other action on meat prol
a week was only a preliminary. lcnis included:
move, ana that further cuts may ! l. Henderson authorized pack
bring consumption to less than . ers to begin deliveries of 194
two pounds a week after the j meat quotas Dec. 20 to ‘met
There wlil 'be no work after
so stepped up the tempo of its
operations. The U. S. army air
force went on a round-the-clock
basis in its attack on axis bas-
es airdromes, communications,
troops and ships.
Walter Logan. United
staff correspondent at
African headquarters, reported Monday and Tuesday
that ajlied airdromes in Tunis-1 rj e output of Surgical Dress-
ia were drying out rapidly and ings now is above 18,000. The
that the British and Americans consignment of smaller dre.ss-
were enabled to increase their iugs was completed early
air pressure on the enemy. Thursdav aftenu«>n. and all
58
Tu^tey next week owing to the , unsettl;H, and not much
Christmas period, but 48 wo-
men will be required to fill the 1
tables and complete tiie quota |
according to Mrs. C. A. Rose-
i brough anti Mrs. E. B. Pool,
Press chairman, who have asked the
North weekend volunteers to help
An allied headquarters
spokesman in lauidon re-
vealed that Lieut.-Gen. Ken-
neth A. N. Anderson's Brit-
ish first army in Tunisia
-'ee ALLIES Page 5
shifts now are working on the
larger ones.
There are 24 chairs at each
of the two work tables, regular
time will be observed the first
two days of next week
first of the year.
A rising demand for meat for
' in Jl'l;1:, 1. f'V-1 ■ .
I , . . v used Food \dinin-
Seiectivc Service Hoard of No- fUli; \v„ K.irJ :
■Ian county this week reclassifl- order a 12 3-2 per cent reduc-
'd! '>0 registrants into 1-A cla^s-. t ion in civilian deliveries for
| ification. the first quarter of 1948
They are Tiiomas Goodman. Left untouched by the oi del.
I Humberto Calderon, Esteban M. issued by Price Adndrn-irati
HOUSTON Ttn Dee is—I Torrez. Kelton Green. Gordon' Leon Henderson at Wi.ward.-
UP) A bottle of champagne— IL. Beyers. William A. Hollis, uimtu-n. were deliverms ;
n,ing water — Burl C. Bryant, Gilberto Ague- beet, winch pi."""a ',h™1 t
Marvin O. Vernon, Lisso | per cent of the meal supply. Ot-
S. S. Farliart
Christened
FORT WORTH. Tex.. Dee. 1.3
increasing cloudiness some; j leaM
t unsettled, and not much uha, (UU, of th told
tange m temperature. state Director Mark McGee in
I., | „i|(.,| Austin the oth'-r dtix
EAST TEXAS Wartper The remark w< - vie isioned
tii is afternoon. Moderate temp-! "ben McGee complained lo tiie
eratures south portion, colder driver for driving around a not Kansas
um-tii n,irrion late tonight block in order to deliver Me- christened the Kansas-sponsor-1 ro, • **• s-. - -- -—- i . ■ t, . t , .
Iravzttg in mith ««• an.....- M>» |, W s S Amjto Earlurt in the , “"I!?"' Tmlt “7 cfL be kVlklol ........ini cut-
ti »ii loniiiiu- incro wing wind.s tiri\t*r innocent of the identity Md named for the woman hero- Chester Gambrell, Ira C. Guf j
i^ n.irtr Mrtion toniZ, Liv^ i of his passenger. “We've got to fher went down the ways. fith. Walter E. McGovvan. Aud- lamb and veal.
i nl warnings m northwest use up lots of gesotlne or our Tiie bottle of champagne was rey H. Burnett. Barty A 1 a>ne.
8 nortnwest wju ,K. ,.ut llext , swimg ,,v a pretty Kansas Volunteers listed are Dur-
pottion tilm. school teacher. Miss Irma Ellis, j ward T. Kelly, William E.Tho-
WEST TEXAS — Mild temp- Even Scarlet doesn't adequate- of Lyons. Kan., who held the | mas. Jack P. Norris. _ Robert
eratures this afternoon. Little h d scrilie the hue of the Ixittle firmly and gave it a lusty | Pietzsch. Dennis J. Kennedy,
e ange in temperature tonight driv er's face. McGee .-ays. when swing to break it over the ship’s | Marion D. Flanagan and Harold
except colder over Panhandle, he learned "ho McGee was bow D Stevenson.
would
WickartI said the order
would nit the average per
eapita civilian consumption
from the present 2 1-2
pouuiL a week to two
pounds three ounces. The
coming restrictions wonia
Uee RATIONING Page 4
■siMl'J.E 8IMON MET t
I'ERSON WHO WISHED TO
•01.1. His W VRES
Said Uimple simon to tiie
person, “Why don't you ad-
vertise through Reporter
Want Ads? Why. I’ll bet
you could sell everything
you have at such a low cost
you would never miss the
money. You can run a fif-
teen-word ad for three
straight daxs for only 75e, 5
and these classifieds are
really on the beam, broth-
er.”
Yes. you ion can sell, buy,
trade, or find job through
Reporter Want Ads. So why
not advertise today in
The REPORTER WANT A lit*
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