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WEATHER
WEST l"F,XASr Little temperature thnnqe
thi* afternoon, tonight and Tuesday forenoon,
Stofger Itoil® IXeralb
THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Buy War
Bonds And Stamps
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Afler Month Of Invasion
AsiOCiuieu Press
NEA Service
Borgcr, i exos, Monday, October 4, IV45
6 Pages Today
Price Five Cents
Yanks Take Calore River Crossing
While British Drive Up Adriatic
Morgenthau Wants
$10,500,000,000
More War Taxes
Today's war man oictur«3 Italy aft«r ?. nv'nth of invasion—Allied
forces have seized the key city of Naples and Foggia and are ad-
vancing up the boot two-thirds of the wav to Rome. (NEA TELE-
MAP)
“Hellzapoppin” Adds
Interest To Crowning
Of Phillips Bond Queen
By W. C. DOUCE
Rivaling tin- better stage -.hows
of the year in entertainment, a
thoroughly enjoyable show was
presented Saturday night to an
over capacity crowd in the Phil-
lips High school auditorium as a
climax to an intensive and very
successful bond selling contest
among the employees of Phillips
Petroleum Co. It was followed by
the long awaited and very im-
pressive announcement and
crowning of the Queen of the
War Bonds.
The contest cooperatively sta-
ged by the various Phillips de-
partments was a heated one with
the interest great and the bond
sales far exceeding all expecta-
tions. After four weeks of strain
and suspense, the winner was de-
clared to be Miss Louise Glide-
well. Miss Glidewell was declared
winner over the several other
young ladies representing the va-
rious departments of the company
in the county by virtue of having
been sponsored by the group
(warehouse department' selling
the greatest amount of war bonds
per capita of employees.
The following young women
were presented on the stage as
winners at their respective de-
partments:
Louise Glidewell, warehouse de-
partment.
Martha Kennedy, butadiene de-
partment.
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(Continued on PAGE SIX'
World Series
Facis And Figures
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (/P)—Facts
and figures on the 1943 World Se-
nes opponents — St. Louis Cardi-
nal.-, ' N. LML vs. New York Kan-
kros <0. L.i
Winner — Club which takes
fou’' games oulof seven.
Favorite — Yankees at odds of
7 to 10.
Schedule — Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday at New York; Sun-
day, Monday, Tuesday and Thurs-
day at St. Louis.
Time of Games — 1:30 p. m.
local time.
Probable Pitchers, first game—
Cardinals — Max Lanier «15-7*;
Yankees, Spud Chandler (20-4).
Probable Attendance — first
I game — 70,000.
Broadcasi — Mutual Broadcast-
ing System.
| Last Year's Result — Cardinals
i beat Yankees, four games to one.
Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Walters are
the parents of a 7 pound 9 ounce
daughter, born at 2 p. m. Friday at
the North Plains hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Haddie Presslery
are the parents of a 8 pound 4
ounce daughter, born at 1:50 a. m.
Saturday at the North Plains hos-
pital.
Rotary To Hear
Their President
Rotarins will hear a recorded
message tomorrow noon from the
president of Rotary International,
diaries L. Wheeler oi San Fran-
cisco, and “News to Noon," by J.
C. Phillips.
Wheeler is vice president and
general manager of the McCor-
mick Steamship company and is
well known in Rotary circles.
Honor guest at the meeting will
be Capt. J. D. “Jerry" Collings-
worth.
Charles A. Lovett is program
chairman for the day and the
menu will be selected by Dr. Sam
Archambeau. Serving on the fel-
lowship committee will be Dr. W.
G. Stephens, J. C. Adolphus and
G. W. Westerfield.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hilton are
the parents of an 8 pound daugh-
ter, born at 11:14 a. m. yesterday
at the North Plains hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Crutton are
the parents of a 7 pound 14 ounce
daughter, born at 3:16 p. m. yes-
terday at the North Plains hospi-
tal.
At the same time Mrs. J. W\ Pol-
kinghorn of 813 Kentucky Street.
Amarillo received word that her
husband had been promoted to
the rank of Captain, a wire was on
its way to him. somewhere in North
Africa, that he is now the father
of a 7 pound 13 ounce daughter,
Sharron Kay, born at 11:52 ai m.
Saturday in St. Anthony hospi-
tal, Amarillo.
Captain Polkinghorn is former
advertising manager of the Burger
Daily Herald and Mrs. Polkinghorn
nee Kathryn German is former
bookkeeper for the Herald.
First Aid Classes
Being Organized
If you are interested in first
aid and wish to take training in
this field, you are invited to at-
tend the organization meeting in
the Rod Cross rooms of the city
hall tonight at 8 p. m.
Mrs. C. C. Tate, instructor, will
be present to explain the course
and take enrollment. The course to
he offered will be a 20-hour stan-
dard first aid course.
President Roosevelt has asked
that there be a first aider in ev-
ery American home. If there is
not one in your home this is yoi.'X
opportunity to take advantage of
this instruction to be offered by
your local Red Cross chapter and
, join the millions now qualified.
Mr .and Mrs. Paul F. Umph-
fres and baby Paulette of Pampa
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
j Umphfres and famly.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 4 (/PI—
Secretary Morgenthau asked con-
today In provide :oi ndrii-
lv iu;l S10,500,000,000 a year in
wartime taxes, taking $8,500,000,-
000 of this huge sum from indi-
vidual incomes.
Repeal of the Victory tax which
Morgenthau said would “relieve
9,00(1,000 hard pressed families
from tax on their incomes,” was
included in an administration
program which embraced also big
increases in corporation and ex-
cise taxes.
In brief, it proposed:
1. Individual incomes — raise
r:ites and lower exemptions so as
to gather in an additional 56,-
500.000. 000 annually. Merge the
Victory tax with the income tax.
Lower the exemptions for mar-
ried persons from $1,200 o 51,100;
dependents from $350 to $300 and
retain the $500 exemption for sin-
gle persons.
2. Corporations — raise rates so
as .o raise another $i, 100,000.000
with small corporations given
"special favorable treatment." I
3. Excise taxes — still increases
in the taxes on so-called luxuri-
es — including liquor, beer, to-
bacco, travel, pop and gum—for
nn added government income n{
$2,500,000,000.
4. Estate and gift taxes—re-
duce the exemption for estate
taxes from $60,000 to $540,000 and
increase estate and gift taxes
throughout the scale, to yield
5400.000. 000 additional.
Ot the Increased take from in-
comes, Morgenthau proposed that
between $2,000,000,000 and $3,-
500.000. 000 be made refundable
after (he war.
At the same time however, the
secretary head suggested broad-
ening of the social security sys-
tem to increase job insurance ben-
efits and provide payments for
temporary disability and hospi-
talization.
“A substantial increase in the
social security payroll taxes,”
Morgenthau said, “would be of
immediate service in diminishing
the thieat of inflation.
"If payroll taxes are increased,
the income taxes should at that
time be made substantially low-
er than 1 have suggested to avoid
an excessive burden on the lower
(Continued ..n Page Six'
Rains firing
Seasonal Lull
On Red Front
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
MOSCOW, Oct. 4 (^.—Activ-
ity on the Soviet-German front
was confined to Red army at-
tacks in the Gomel and Mogilev i
sectors of White Russia today as 1
autumn rains prevailed over most
of the long battle line.
The Russians kept up sharp
scouting activity and long-range
artillery duels elsewhere along
the front where Red army lines
were ledgd against the German
defenses on the Dnieper and up-
per West Dvina Rivers.
A lull in military operations
is customary at this time in Rus-
sia when the rains create virtual-
ly impassable bogs ot vast stretch-
es of the country.
(The German communique in-
dicated a considerable slackening I
of activity along the entire east- j
ern front, reporting only local j
Soviet attacks in the Kuban pen-
insula of the Caucasus and scat- i
tered clashes with the Russian |
troops which had forced cross- j
ings of the Dnieper.) *
Last year’s Russian winter of-
fensive did not begin until Nov.
19.
The line generally appeared to
have been stabilized until the
early winter frosts freeze a new,
hard track tit for campaigning, j
Some further advances, howev- i
er, were still being made today I
in White Russia toward the east |
bank of the upper Dnieper. Most ‘
progress was being made toward I
Mogilev where the Red army !
yesterday crossed the Pronya Riv- I
er 29 miles east of Mogilev. The |
Russians pushed more slowly j
through the strongly-defended
populated points near Gomel. I
Stiffer German resistance at j
the points of attack was indicat- |
id by estimates in last night’s
Soviet communique that 155 en- j
emy tanks were destroyed or
damaged Oct. 2. This was the I
highest figure since August.
Fighting Yanks
Turn Thoughts
To World Series
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Al-
giers, Oct. 4 (/Pi. — The World
Series fever hit the American
army in North Africa hard to-
day—so hard that Lt. James A.
Burehard, former sports writer
for the New York World-Tele-
gram now a reporter for the
tars and -.tripes tore off some
nostalgic verse for the troops.
This is what he wrote:
Balter Up
The air man climbs into his ship
and speeds towards Axis land
He dropped his load of calling
cards with pool and practiced
hand.
But as the bombs crashed far
below on railroads, guns and
tanks
The airman’s thoughts are far
away, he's doping out the
Yanks.
British
Capture
Termoli
A sailor on an LST is blasted
off the deck
He flopped into the water from
a twisted flaming wreck.
This doughty tar went under
twice; Yes, he was damned
near drowned
He murmured as he slid below
"Will ('handle!- take the
mound?”
The grimy doughboy crawls along
a hillside raked by shells
Big Jerry guns have made his
world the hottest of all hells
But, as he races to the charge,
What due;- this dnugboy do?
He hollers at a buddy "50 lire
on St. Loo.”
Now even in the German lines
where Aryan blood runs purer
The Wehrmacht talks of baseball
and just ignores thier Fueh-
rer.
The Cards to them are strictly
Greek, but states if that be
true
“Heii anyone who beat the Yanks.
It’s more than we can do.”
German
Toehold
Slipping
Third Polio
Germans
Land On
Coo Isle
Ger-
the
base Reported
Hutchinson County's third case
of polio was reported just before
press time today by Dr. Larry
Henson, county health officer.
The third case is Perry Lewis,
age 14, of Phillips, who was tak-
en ill about a week ago and tak-
en to an Amarillo hospital on
Wednesday. Dr. H. M. Hanna
was the attending physcian here.
CAIRO, Oct. 4 (/P)—’The
mans landed in strength on
island of Coo in the Italian Dode-
canese and secured several im-
portant points in fighting with
the British garrison, the middle
1 east command announced today.
“The lighting continues,” said
the communique.
The enemy’s boats off Coo were
attacked from the air all day yes-
terday, however, and many hits
were scored, with Beaufighters,
Baltimores and Hudsons all join-
ing in the firce assault.
Four-engined Liberator and '
Halilox bombers of the RAF also I
outvied the fray by attacking air- i
fields at Caltto on Rhodes island {
Saturday night in an effort to up-
set the enemy’s plans for air op-
erations over Coo. Similar bomb-
ing. were carried out last night
against Heraklton airfield in
Crete, another air-support base
for ilic enemy’s operations.
Two German dive bombers were
shot down over Coo, while the
British lost six planes.
The German offensive was the
first serious countermove against
Allied infiltration among the is-
land stepping stones of the Aege-
an.
BERLIN CLAIMS
JAPANESE SINK
ALLIED TRANSPORTS
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 </P>.—'The
Berlin radio said today that fivi
Allied transports, a cruiser and
ten planes were destroyed Fri-
day during a Japanese aerial at-
tack on a convoy off Vella Lavella
in the Central Solomons Islands.
There was no Allied confirma-
tion of such losses.
Battered Body
Of 16-Year-Old
Girl Is Found
PENDLETON. Ore.. Oct. 4 f/Pl—
The bruised body cf June Reiman,
16, a high school girl, her clothes
partly torn off. was found last
night a few hours after she had
gone squirrel hunting alone. Sher-
iff R. E. Goad reported today.
When the girl did not return
home, a searching party was or-
ganized. The body was found in
underbrush about a quarter of a
mile from her ranch home.
LONDON, Oct. 4 (/P)—German
troops were threatened with the
j loss of their last tenuous toehold
in the Caucasus todav as th<- T?.>,(
army drove them back from Sta-
ro-Tamanskaya on the Taman
peninsula, while on the upper Dni-
eper river the Nazis fought furi-
ously to block a Russian flank-
ing movement aimed at Mogilev.
The announcement of the fall
of Staro-Tamanskaya was made
by the Berlin radio, and the full
extent of the German collapse in
the Caucasus was indicated in a
Russian communique last night
which told of the sinking of a
number of troop-laden ships
winch apparently were attempt-
ing to evacuate the remnants of
the shattered German army across
the narrow Kerch strait to the
Crimea.
On the central front, Moscow
raid, more than 2,000 Nazis were
1 killed as the Russians stormed
across the Pronya River, 28 miles
east of Molilev, (o occupy 70 vil-
lages in a maneuver which threat-
ened to turn the German flank in
that sector.
South of Molilev the Russian
columns advancing on Gomel
found their assaults slowed up by
the Germans, who launched nu-
merous counter attacks all of
which the Russian communique
said were repulsed with German
losses of more than 1,200. The
Russians advanced from 3 to 5
miles and captured 20 villages.
The Russians were apparently
stalled at the Dnieper river bar-
rier in the vicinity of Kiev and
Dneproterovsk to the south, and
the Soviet communique told only
of reconnaissance and heavy ar-
tillery fire.
11 was apparent that the Russi-
ans were preparing a major ef-
| fort to hurl the Germans out of
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press War Editor
British troops striking nearly
halfway up the Italian Adriatic
Coast have landed at Termoli,
thrusting the eastern prong of
the Allied invasion spearhead 17
miles farther north of the Fortore
River mouth.
The new landing, in another
sea-borne outflanking hop, was
announced today us the Germans
were retreating in Central Italy,
and after American units of the
Fifth army had reached Beneven-
to 32 miles northeast of Naples
and crossed the Calore River. The
Calore feeds into the Volturno
River, forming what was the Naz-
is’ first potential water line of
defense above Naples.
Cutting behind German rear-
guards the British landing at
Termoli beat off counter-at-
tacks, took prisoners, and later
formed a junction with other
Eighth army units diiving up
the coast. General progress of
the Fifth and Eighth armies
continues, the Allied communi-
que declared.
Half a dozen towns had been
enveloped in the advances in the
center and along the Adriatic
-—the historic invasion route —
with much slower work in the
West in driving north of Nap-
les. Allied planes knocked out
the Germans’ retreat bridge at
Capua over the Volturno.
Swept up in these advances
were Motta, 28 miles northwest
of Foggia, Montemiletto; 11 miles
southeast of Benevento; Castel-
franco, 20 miles northeast of Bene-
vento, and other towns, extending
Allied holdings father in the cen-
tral sector. Termoli is 50 miles
above the air center of Foggia.
Previously, the Allied line had
run from the Fortore River south
to Frigento, and then west 45
miles to Naples, with a widen-
ing bulge northward toward
Benevento.
As the land armies punched
deeper, the Allied air arm from
Britain spread widening havoc
over Germany itself, with Fly-
inq Fortresses smashing by day-
light today at the industrial
city of Frankfurt 91 miles south-
west of Kassel which was
pounded lasl night by RAF
heavy bombers.
Powerful Thunderbolts escort-
ed the Fortresses in their strike
at Frankfurt, continuing the day-
and-night non-stop aerial offen-
sive.
Twenty-four RAF bombers were
lost in the raid on Kassel, and
attacks on Hannover and other
objectives. Damage was “very
I heavy” at Kassel, (population
200,000) which produces planes,
locomotives and kindred war ma-
chine. During Sunday, U.S. and
RAF medium bombers hit air-
fields in France and Holland, Ihe
RAF pounded Munich Saturday
night, and Fortresses slashed at
Emdcn in Germany by day Sat-
urday.
The Russians were driving
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French Enter Bastia
As Enemy Resistance
On Corsica Collapses
By Noland Norgaard
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ALGIERS, Oct. 4-<AP)
—The British Eighth Army with the support of Allied
Naval forces which penetrated the Adriatic have
landed and clinched positions at Termoli, on the Ad-
riatic coast almost midway between the Italian heel
and the mouth of the river Po in northern Italy, official
frontline dispatches announced today.
Simultaneously, United States troops of Lt. Gen.
Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army, have surged forward
from Benevento in their march on Rome from Naples
and have captured an important crossing of the Calore
river, thereby threatening to turn the flank of any
water defense line which
the Germans may attempt
to hold along the Volturno
river.
Escaping
Germans
Blasted
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers, oct. 4 (/P).—The fi-
nal collapse of German re-
sistance in Corsica was mark-
ed today by the entry of French
forces into Bastia.
Moroccan goums of the French
forces were the first to enter
the city at the northeastern tip
of the Mediterranean Island
which now becomes a threat to
the German forces on the Ital-
ian mainland above Rome.
Remnants of German forces
were still scattered on beaches
at isolated points both north and
south of Bastia, but these were
being pressed by French troops
and American rangers.
Borgo, the site of an airfield
10 miles south of Bastia, Ves-
covato and Casanozza, farther
south on the east coast, also were
taken and Moroccans wiped out
a pocket of fierce resistance at
Furian in the central sector.
Troops looking down from
hili positions saw French artil-
lery blowing up ships and
munitions at the docks and
beaches where the Germans
were trying to get away.
Phillies Lions
*
Hear Address On
Freedom Of Press
Phillips Lions heard a discus-
sion of "Freedom of the Press"
by J. C. Phillips, Herald editor,
at their noon meeting today. Bob
Grimes, jr., was in charge of
the program
Special guests at the meeting
introduced by President Bob
Vaughn were Naval Lt. A. H.
Crowell and C. F. Crifs.
CARDS NAME PITCHERS
• Hospital Notes
North Plains
F. C. Stretch is a surgical
patient.
Martha Sue Vinvard is a surgi-
cal patient.
Mrs. E. E. llarber is a medical
patient.
Mrs. Lonnie Tve is a surgical
patient.
Clyde Ballard is a medical pa-
tient.
Casa Serena
Johnnie Perry is a surgical pa-
tient.
VV. J. Patterson is a medical
patient.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 <7P).—Lefty
Max Lanier of the St. Louis
Cardinals and Spurgeon (Spud)
Chandler of the New York Yan- .
kees were named today as start- I
ing pitchers for the opening game !
ot the World Series in Yankee
Stadium tomorrow.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgo-
mery’s advance up the Adriatic
coast—along the historic path of
conquerors low.-mi 1h>' Emilian
way, which leads to tire Po valley
—likewise threaten to turn the
defenses of German Marshals Rom-
mel and Kesselring which may be
centered about Rome and the Ap-
pennines.
His march was advanced great-
ly by the leapfrog tactics of Am-
phibious landing forces which seiz-
ed Termoli by surprise, beat off
German counterattacks, took an
undisclosed number of prisoners
well behind the enemy’s rear and
then made a junction with the
main body of the Eighth army
wh'.h continued to pound up the
coast.
Allies Play Leapfrog
Once again the Allied forces
resorted to the leapfrog practice
that first proved successful in
Sicily, particularly along the
northern coast.
The communique also announc-
ed the occupation of Montimiletto,
t illage in the center of the line
11 miles southeast of captured
Benevento, where Fifth army for-
ces are cleaning up the Melfi Sa-
lient from which German troop?
yesterday were said to have with-
drawn.
British units also swept inta
Motta, 10 above Foggia, the an-
nouncement said.
On the west coast, Allied air
forces concentrated on enemy front
formations north of ^Topics unci
knocked out a vital bridge at
Capua, over which withdrawing
columns of enemy troops had been
moving across the Volturno river.
The communique also announced
that the Fifth army had crossed
the Calope river which flows into
the Volturno to form the first like-
ly German defense line north of
Naples.
Termoli is 17 miles ahead of the
previous Eighth army line on the
Adriatic coast—the mouth of the
Fortore river.
General progress of both the
Fifth and Eighth armies continues
up the Peninsula, the communique
said.
Termoli is 50 miles north of
Foggia, the airbase city, and ap-
proximately 17 miles north of
Gen. Montgomery's previous po-
sition at the mouth of the For-
lore river just north of the
"spur of the Italian boot.
Termoli is a small seaport with
5,000 or 6,000 inhabitants and is
some 10 miles behind the moun-
tainous ground which breaks in
I he selection of Lanier, who to ^ coast ring F0ggja
has won 15 and lost 7 this sea- , plain. It is about 215 miles up the
son, was announced by Manager coast frt)m Otranto on the Italian
Billy Southworth aboard the train ; heel and 190 miles south of Rimini
carrying the Cardinals toward
New York this afternoon.
PITCHERS NAMED
NEW YORK. Oct. 4 (,?>.—•
Manager Joe McCarthy of the
New York Yankees announced
today that Spurgeon Chandler
definitely will be his starting
pitcher against the St. Louis
Cardinals in the opening game
of the World Series hero to-
the Caucasus and trap, if possible,
the remaining Nazi forces concen-
trated in the Crimea.
Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Gross vis-
ited in Spearman yesterday.
whore the Po plains begin.
Already there was evidence that
the crossing of the Calore by the
Americans was forcing the Ger-
mans to withdraw from the Vol-
turno line where they might have
hoped to halt their retreat.
The Calore, which the Ameri-
cans reached with the capture
of Benevento. flows info the Vol-
turno which turns northward at
Amorosi. 26 miles northeast of
Naples.
Immediately north of Naples,
Fifth army patrols with strong
British armor support, stabbed re-
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