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WEATHER
Wf.ST TLX AS: l.ilflt temperature chun;*
thi* afternoon and tonight; icettered ihoweri
In Dal Rio-Eagle Pa»» araa thi» afternoon.
Jtofoer Sttilj) Jteratb
THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Buy War
Bonds And Stamps
Vol. 17—No. 198
Associated Pr#««
N|A 0
Berger, Texes, Monday, July 12, 1913
< Six Pages today)
Price Five Cents
Syracuse Falls As Americans And British Take
Nine Other Major Ports And Towns In Sicily
Enemy Tank Attacks
Repulsed As Allies
Take 2,000 Prisoners
Phillips Lions Club To
Hold Installation Of Invasion Moves
Officers At Picnic
Sicily — Here We Come
Tension Mounts As
Rome Secs Attack
Upon Mainland
It Takes These
"Okies" To Catch
Those Big Ones
TALIHINA, Okla., July 12
—(/V)— Baba Hines and Bill
Peel called off a three-day
fishing trip on the first
morning.
In one night on the Kiami-
chi. south of here, they got
more fish than they could
use:
Eight Catfish—five weigh-
ing 49, 46. 44, 39 and 36
pounds, respectively—and an
eight-pound Drum.
Civilians To Get
Less Butter, Milk
Cheese This Year
Phillips Lions Club will hold
ilit liiStcilliiliuii Lit inw ui i ill-1 »
and directors when they enter-
tain families and guests with u
chicken barbecue at 5 p. m. to-
day on the Production Picnic
Grou lids.
New officers will be installed
by outgoing President Joe L.
Briggs. Officers lor the new
year are R. E. Vaughn, presi- 1
dent; G. E. McKenna, lirst vice-
president; C. P. Stanley, second
vice-president; J. N. Perkins, third
vice-president; L. B. Wood, lion-
tamer; Robert A. King, secretary; ;
R. E. Porcher, treasurer; R. C.
Davidson, tailtwister; Joe L.
Briggs, director; and Dr. H. M. ;
Hamra, director.
There will he games, music, j
food and entertainment for all
at the picnic grounds, located
north of the Canadian River on ;
the Stinnett Highway. . . . just
follow the marker-.
Phillips Declares
Quarterly Dividend
WASHINGTON, July 12—(>P)—
The War Production (WFA) an-
nounced today that for the 12 _
months beginning with July civ- ! The board nf dirwt0rs of Phil.
ilians woulcl^ have to get along j lips. Petroleum compary today de-
clared a regular quarterly divi-
dend of 50 cents per share. Pay-
able September i to stockholders
of record as o toe close of busi-
ness August 6.
Company officials estimate that
net earnings for the first six
months will exceed $1.60 per
share compared to $1.51 per share
for the same period of 1942. This
favorable increase in earnings per
share takes into consideration the
additional shtres of common
stock now outstanding, which in-
crease resuited from recent con-
versions of a portion of the com-
pany’s convertible 1 3-4 per cent
debenture.
with less butter, cheese, and most
kinds of processed milk.
The butter cut will be 40 mil-
lion pounds under the previous
year with the supply reported at
1.670.000. 000 pounds, compared
with apparent civilian consump-
tion of 2,074,000,000 in the pre-
vious 12 months.
The armed forces have been
alloted 1112 pounds out of every
10 pounds of butter produced
and the Russian rfrmy will re-
ceive V4 pound leaving approxi-
mately 8 of every 10 pounds for
civilians.
Civilians will get 508000,000
pounds of cheese, 5*a out of ev-
ery 10 produced, and the re-
mainder will be divided among
the armed forces, countries re-
ceiving defense aid, the Red Cross
and U. S. territorial possessions,
with the allies getting the larg-.
est share. The apparent civilian
consumption last year was 838,-
000,000 pounds.
Of the 69,000,000 cases of eva-
ported milk expected to be avail-
able during the next 12 months,
30.000. 000 or 4 1-3 cases out of
ten have been allotted to civ-
ilian use. The apparent civilian
consumption last year was 2,-
301.000. 000 pounds while the al-
lotment this year is approximate-
ly 1,305,000,000 pounds.
Forces Defending
Sicily May Total
Twelve Divisions
»y EDWARD GILLING
Representing the Combined Brit-
ish Press (Distributed by The As.
sociaied Press)
AN ALLIED COMMAND POST
IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
AREA, July 10—(Delayed—OP)—
Allied sources said today that en-
emy forces defending Sicily may
consist of 12 divisions.
(The total thus would range up
to perhaps 144,000 men. London
sources on Saturday placed the to-
tal Axis forces on Sicily as rang-
ing upwards to 400,000 men.)
Two of these probably are Ger-
man, the remaining ten being five
Italian coastal divisions and five
Italian infantry divisions.
"Jinx" Plane Found
To Be Safest After
32 Bombing Missions
AT A U.S. BOMBER BASE IN
ENGLAND. July 12 (/l1).—Once
labeled a jinx plane, the Flying
Fortress “We the People” which
led Saturday’s raid on Caen has I
turned into a miracle ship with »
it naic'n mumi unequalled in inis |
toughest air theater.
On 32 bombing raids against :
Europe—a new record in itself 1
for a single Fortress—she never
has had a man wounded aboard
her and has never sustained any
worse damage than a motor
knocked out and a wing shot up.
She began acting like a temper-
amental jinx ship as soon as she
was christened the Snafu at the
Syracuse, N.Y., airbase on Sept,
j 30, 1942 by her original crew
I headed by Lt. Clifton Pyle of
I Marshall, Tex., who piloted her
I on 18 of her missions and Who
now is a major and en route back
to the United States.
BERN, July 12 (/P).—'The entire
fortress ol Europe was on the
alert today i i new lightning
Allied thrusts as Axis leaders in
Germany and Italy anxiously
watched the progress of the bat-
tle lor the Mediterranean island
of Sicily.
Dispatches reaching here today
from Berlin and Rome conceded
that the Allies had established at
least four bridgeheads in Sicily
and looked ahead glumly to a day
not far distant when they expect
invasion barges to grate upon
other shores along the Mediter-
ranean.
Of the two Axis capitals Berlin
took the news ol the invasion
more calmly, pointing out that it
had long been expected and de-
claring that advance Allied para-
chutists and airborne units had
been annihilated or surrounded
and captured. Axis sources gave
lew details, however, on the pro-
gre.:. ;.! the fighting in Sicily.
There was mounting tension in
Rome and on the mainland of
Italy.
One dispatch from Milan said
that Premier Mussolini and King
Vittorio Emanuele had made a
point of being seen publicly in
Rome, where the "atmosphere is
heavy," and private sources re-
vealed that Mussolini had presid-
ed aver a cabinet meeting yester-
day.
It was also reported that there
had been further expulsions in
the Fascist party in an effort to
bolster crumbling morale and
Italian newspapers were enlisted
in a campaign to whip up enthu-
siasm for the lighting ahead.
(The London daily mail report-
ed that Mussolini had appealed to
the king to address the Italian
people in an eff rt to ease the
tension which followed reports of
the Sicilian invasion.)
Another factor which appear-
ed to weigh heavily in depressing
the Italian state of mind as the
crisis approached was a steadily
worsening food problem brought
about by the relentless Allied air
attacks on Italian railroads.
While private sources in Italy
said the Italians had accused Ger-
many of failure to send reserves
to the Sicilian theater and were
instead maintaining a guard at
the northern frontier, the Nazis
thciTiSilVcs vu'if piepulillg for an
attack in the Balkan area.
German leaders, pointing to
the heavy bombing of Crete, sug-
gested that the Balkans might be
the next stop listed on the United
Nations timetable.
Bill Increasing
Dependents Pay
Awaits Solons
WASHINGTON, July 12-(/P>—
Left behind in the rush of Con-
gress to its summer vacation was
the proposal to increase allowanc-
es to dependents of servicemen.
It will now have to wait at
least until mid-September.
The* proposed iegisiaiu n was ap-
proved by the Senate on the last
day before the recess, but it
wasn't acted upon by the House.
However, there had been every
indication that the house would
give speedy approval to this par-
ticular proposal, which had the
] backing of the services.
Now two other possibilities are
I noted:
j Congress may spend more time
on the matter, perhaps give still
higher allowances. Several Sena-
tors have had plans for further
I increases.
Congress may wait to see whe-
j ther the ban on general drafting
| of fathers is lifted—in view of
the speculation here that fathers
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
July 1 2- < AP)—The British army swept into the An-
cient port of Syracuse, a city of 53,000, last night
while Allied forces mopped up nine other major ports
and town in Southeast Sicily, repulsed seven counter-
attacks
Kiska Relief
Ships Blasted
By Bombers
-(/P)—
WASHINGTON, July 12
American bombers, battering four
. Japanese cargo vessels apparent-
may be deferred indefinitely, per- | iy attempting to supply the en-
haps for the duration. One of the i emy base at
Tank units in Canadian forces participating in the Sicily inva-
son land on the shores there and immediately moved into the at-
tact . They left their special tank carrying ships exactly as shown
here during maneuvers which prepared them for the Sicilian at-
tack. This is the Canadian Commando units first chance to get at
the Axis forces since the raid on Dieppe. (NEA TELEPHOTO)
Germans Secure Only
Minor Gains Against
Reds Despite Losses
Roiarians To Hear
Of Agriculture And
Demonstration Work
Ceiling Prices
Available At
Ration Board
Cub Scouts Of
Den 1 To Sell
Bonds And Stamps
Den one of the Cub Scouts
started selling war stamps and
bonds this morning for one
week. They will be in a booth on
Main street. Den Chief Ronald i disclaimed all responsibility for
Senn will be in charge at all j the sinking. The ship was the
times. The Cubs say, "Buy more j first American vessel to be torpe-
bonds and stamps.” I doed and sunk in this war.
JAYCEES DIRECTORS
MEET TONIGHT
New and old directors of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
will meet at the Southwestern
Public Service offices at 7:30
p. m. today.
Presidant Weldon Jolly urges
all members of the board to
be present.
GERMANS ADMIT
SINKING ROBIN MOOR
Bulletins have been received
by the foods department of the
local rationing board concerning
ceiling prices of all retail foods.
Rationing officials ask that all
retail food store owners and man-
agers call by the office to pick
up a bulletin for each store.
All retail stores must post their
selling prices for food items list-
ed at or near the place where
such food item is offered for
sale, and in a conspicuous place
in the store, a list of the ceiling
prices for such food items must
also be posted.
and J.
menu.
By WILLIAM McGAFFIN
MOSCOW, July 12—(/P)—Field
Marshal Guenther Von Kluge’s
armored columns began the sec-
ond week of the Kursk offensive
today on much the same ground
where it opened July 5.
After seven disastrous days of
battle the Germane have succeed
ed only in minor gains with the
loss of 2,500 tanks and 1.068
planes, according to Soviet op-
i rational communiques.
There are few details available
on the present situation in the
Belgorod breach at the southern
end of the 200-mile cent Ml front
l id the Russians have reported
that they repelled a Nazi attack
by more than 100 tanks including
the new 60-ton Tigers. Red army
I artillery and aviation protecting
destroyed 34
arguments for increases had been
the reported imminence of general
drafting of men with families
The plan which the Senate pas-
sed would:
1 Have the government pay the
full amount of the first month’s
allowance—without any deduc-
tion from the serviceman’s pay.
2. Increase the government’s con-
tribution for children.
3. Substantially increase the al-
lowance to parents if such allow-
ance is their "chief” support, as
differing from those cases where
jit is the "substantial" support
j specified in the present law.
4. Permit enlisted men in the
S first three grades (master ser-
geant or chief petty officer; first
or technical sergeant or petty of-
ficer first class; staff sergeant or
petty officer second class) to
choose the family allowance plan
Continued on PAGE TWO
FATHER OF MRS. VAN SANT
SERIOUSLY ILL IN TUCSON
MRS. John S. Van Sant left
today to see her father who is
seriously ill at his home in Tuc-
son, Ariz.
Kiska, sank one Jap-
anese ship, left a second in a sink-
ing condition and badly damaged
the other two.
The navy, reporting this today,
said that army heavy and medium
bombers and navy patrol bomb-
ers intercepted the cargo fleet 280
miles southwest of Holtz bay, At-
tu island. That location would put
the ships on a direct line from
Japan to Kiska.
The navy also reported a new
bombardment of Japanese posi-
tions at Gertrude Cove on Kiska
and on Little Kiska island during
uSnday morning.
The enemy did not return the
lire from the guns of a single
United States surface vessel.
The sinking of the one cargo
vessel and damaging of others,
raised to a total of 60 the number
of Japanese ships sunk, damaged
or probably sunk in the Aleutians
campaign. That total includes 17
sent to the bottom, seven probably-
sunk and 36 damaged.
; Chapin Hall, 65, member of the
I Los Angeles Times editorial stall
| for 36 years, is dead of a heart
attack here.
NEW YORK, July 12 </P).—The
Berlin radio acknowledged today
that the American merchant ship
Robin Moor, which was torpedo-
ed and sunk in the South Atlan-
tic on June 9, 1941, was sent to
the bottom by a German sub-
marine, CBS reported.
The Germans previously had
Woman Wields
Feather Dusler
To Slay Husband
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. July
12 —</P>— Attractive red-haired
Mrs. Dave A. Holloway was held
in jail today awaiting grand
jury action on a charge that
she beat her 54-year-old hus*
band to death in thair home with
the handle of a leather duster
after a quarrel
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Reed are the
Parents of a 6 pound, 12 ounce
son, born at 11:45 p. m. July 10
at the North Plains hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Carlton are
the parents of a 7 pound, 6 ounce
son, born at 2:15 a. m. yesterday
at the North Plains hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. II. W. Keck are
the parents of a 5 pound ! 1 ounce
son, born at 1:48 p. m. yesterday
at the North Plains hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Petty are
the parents of a 6 pound, 2 ounce
son, born at 12:40 p. m. yesterday
at the North Plains hospital.
Agricultural and home demon-
stration work in Hutchinson
County will be di.a“usscd for Rn-
| tarians at tomorrow’s meeting
I when Marearet Moser nmmy
I home demonstration agent, and W.
I S. Bennett, county agricultural
j agent will speak.
Films of the Rotary barbecue,
j June 6. will be shown by Jack
Allen is time permits. The movies
were made by Jack Allen at
the barbecue held on his ranch.
Committee chairmen for the
day are J. C. Phillips, program;
! Dr. W. G. Stephens, fellowship; ! infantry
i. I hillips will select the ■ tanks and dispersed the remaind-
er. the Russians said.
-------_-------, Altogether the Russians sav
they have repelled ten German
attempts to advance on the Bel-
gorod sector.
While still working hard to
break through in the Belgorod
area, the Germans attacked
strongly in the Orel-Kursk sector
at the northern end *>f the Kursk
salient.
Up to 400 tanks and a large
force of infantry attacked on one
narrow sector. The Russians re-
potted many tanks destroyed and
more than 2.000 men killed. At
another position on this front
Soviet aviation broke up a Ger-
man attack before it could get un-
der way and the Soviet infantry
followed up in a counterattack
which dislodged the enemy from
two settlements.
Soviet tanks, following the fav-
orite tactics of digging themselves '
into the ground and fighting from i
ambush accounted for a large ,
number of 162 tanks which the i
______ Germans were said to have lost i
.. i «, ,, , , , yesterday. The Nazi air force lost
Mr. and Mm Wayne Yarbrough !„, pliinK V(,s„,(1,u, smallK,
number since the offensive began.
Patton And Montgomery
Are Commanding Troops
^lacliina Tkrniiflk
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1/-HW
VIVII J
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Crippled Railroads
Slow Up Shifting
Of German Troops
LONDON, July 12 </P).—'The
inadequacy of Axis railroads, bat-
tered and disorganized from sys-
tematic pounding by Allied air
fleets, was seen today by observ-
ers as an obstacle to German ef-
forts to rush troops into Italy to
prop up the weakest corner of
the European fortress.
British military observers esti-
mated it would take at least live
days to move four divisions—60,-
000 men—into Italy and some
doubted that Germany would risk
taking them from the Balkans
with the ever-present threat of
a new Allied blow.
The only other place reinforce-
ments were available was in Ger-
many itself, and there are only
two main railways from Germany
to the toe and heel of Italy. All
key points on those lines are
VALLETTA, Malta, July 12—
UR)—Lieut. Gen. George S. Pat-
ton, jt\, is commanding United
States forces in Sicily while Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery is
commander in chief of the Brit-
ish forces, an official statement
said today.
The full iist of senior officers
commanding the present combin-
ed operation in the Mediterranean
under General Dwight D. Eisen-
hower follows:
Commander in chief of the Med-
iterranean—Admiral Sir Andrew
Browne Cunningham.
Naval commander—Admiral Sir
Bertram Ramsay.
Deputy commander in chief, Al-
lied forces—General Sir Harold
Alexander.
Commander in chief, British
forces—General Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery.
Air commander in chief, Medi-
terranean air command—Air Chief
marshal Sir Arthur Tedder.
Commander, United States naval
forces—Vice Admiral Henry K.
Hewitt.
-*■>'» °< Aiuei, i,
A large number of Italian
troops are believed concentrated
in the Balkans, with estimates
ranging from eight to 30 divisions.
Withdrawal of any across the
Adriatic to Italy would be com-
plicated, however, by active sabo-
tage of guerrilla forces, which
have made railroads their favorite
targets.
are the parents of a 7 pound, 8
ounce daughter, Jo Ella, born at
6:30 p. m. yesterday at their
| home.
BUY U. S. WAR BUNDS!
Beer originally was dispensed
in copper tankards from wooden
casks.
Gen. George
Patton, jr.
Commanding general Northwest
African force—Lieut. Gen. Carl A.
Spaatz.
Commanding Northwest African
tactical air forces—Air Marshal
I Sir Arthur Conningham.
Commanding general, strategic
j air force—Maj. Gen. James 11.
! Doolittle.
Air officer commanding North-
west African coastal air force—
Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh P.
| Lloyd.
by enemy tanks
and took 2,000 prisoners,
mostly Italians.
Licata, 80 miles to the west on
the south coast; Gela; Pachino,
on Cape Passero at the extreme
southeastern tip of the island;
Avola and Noto, midway be-
tween Syracuse and Pachino; Poz-
zallo, site of an important air
base on the south coast; Scog-
litti; Ispica, and Rosolini were
among the captured places list-
ed in today’s allied headquarters
communique.
American troops in the Gela
area beat off counterattacks by
the Italians’ fourth Livorno di-
vision and 45 tanks in the hea-
viest of all the seven enemy
counter-blows.
The 54th Napoli division was
driven out of Syracuse by the
British—a lightning blow at the
end of the second day of the
allied invasion which appeared to
be a serious handicap to the
enemy in bringing up reinforce-
ments to meet a rapidly swell-
ing penetration into the interior
of the island.
The civilian population "seem-
ed more pleased to see us than
they had been to see the Huns,”
said one observer.
The swift occupation of the
string of ports and towns along
a 100-mile stretch of Sicily’s
southeastern coast was accom-
panied by a furious air action
yesterday in which fleets uf fast
new American A-3U fighter-
bombers smashed at least 400 en-
emy vehicles endeavoring to rush
up troops and supplies for coun-
terattacks, and heavy blows by
four-engined and medium bomb-
ers at Catania, on the east coast,
the Sicilian airdromes of Milo,
Sciacca and Gerbini and two
other airdromes at and near Reg-
gio Calabria on the Italian main-
land.
Flames from Catania’s railway
yards gave off smoke visible for
140 miles at sea after a Flying
I* nrtress forruutiuii roared home-
ward, leaving fires raging in oil
dumps.
With the Italian fleet still notic-
able by its absence, allied naval
forces continued large-scale op-
erations of putting ashore more
and more allied troops and equip -
ment, although the allied com-
munique said the enemy’s air
opposition was increasing.
Swarms of allied fighters pa-
trolled the beaches, protecting the
operations, however, and 45 en-
emy aircraft were shot down yes-
terday. Nine allied planes were
lost.
Casualties among the allies con-
tinued much less than might nor-
mally be expected in such a
sweeping offensive, it was said
at allied headquarters, and a
number of hospital ships were still
waiting in reserve.
One allied hospital ship, which
was fully Lighted and anchored
three miles off the Sicilian coast,
was sunk Saturday night by en-
emy bombers, but the 400 wound-
ed were successfully transferred.
As a result of the swiftness
of allied action, it was said at
headquarters that the enemy was
being compelled to regroup his
forces and most of his counter-
attacks up to now had been com-
paratively weak.
Most of the Italians, especial-
ly, were reported fighting poor-
ly, and most of the 2,000 prison-
ers taken were Italians.
An allied headquarters com-
munique said:
"Few details are available of
the work of the navy during
the past 24 hours,
"The task of disembarking
troops and their supplies on all
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