Abilene Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - December 1, 1942, Abilene, Texas BUY WAR FIRST IN WEST TEXAS rr VOL NO 168 JUO WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS Oft FOES ABILENE TEXAS TUESDAY MORNING DECEMBER J 1942 PAGE WORLD EXACTLY AS IT WAR MORNING INTERPRETING THE WAR NEWS By EKE L The Russian thrust at the backbone of the whole Nazi eastern Ironl the north-south rail and road system Is not only deepening In Lovat valley but widening northward by Nazi official report Red attacks westward from the area presumably aimed the at gateway Berlin reported ed There Is as ye I no mention in Russian a d vices of a winter offensive laking shape in that There was no Russian admission of trie V clinic LuMe drive which has already ed 1 li a t vital junction however until several days after Berlin had disclosed able Red on that front Jng that nil had been contained or thrown back GREATEST With Red feelers stabbing along the Lovat west of Luki toward Nevel It seems wholly probably however that a Russian drive to knock at the Pskov gateway lo Leningrad as well as the door lo lensk and Moscow will conic if it has not already Marled ed but physically connected Jian advances loward the old sian border between the upper bend of the Dnieper west of Smolensk end the Peipus lakes just northwest of Pskov could prove even more gerous to Hitler's whole position In than the astounding events recent days west of Stalingrad In the Don loop Just how close to Nevel on thei Leningrad Odessa railroad system the column which bypassed Luki may be Is not Indicated COW claims three railroads feeding not only the northern flank the center of the vast invasion pocket still before Moscow fast of the Dnieper have been cut If that true it cannot be Ion before compelled either to withdraw his Imperiled advance forces on a wide front west of Moscow possibly to the line or pour in Jar heavier t reinforcements in the center than norm mm PRICE FIVE CENTS orm mm m-i E CENTS Underground Party in Italy Calls for Civil O JJ i -I f A ft l ITAM Minister Churchill's warning to the the will be carried J not hitherto dreamed of points up apparent first in Allied knock c throush a separate British Isles will continue air attacks which Churchill said would be scientific and western the pincers has wedged between Axis Tunisian st of Tunis and and the British Arrays prong In Libya on El will a Into Southern Churchill warned Russia's two new I coincide drives also help lo put Italy and Germany on the spot railroad cul or threatened the Nazi east front In center established Usl winter after the would oc virtually cut n rr Indications are fhe ncf wesl Gf now IMS than 75 miles from the border The danger lo J tiMl main system feeds not only the center or the but also the south of front ln is Russian pressure from Lake he plateau toward Pskov may be designed as act to prevent shifting Ot father than as a drive Immediately f o dose the Pskov gate behind the loc The and magics of the upper Lovat inter- vene between the two operation o make movement of troops one sector to the for either side a business The Russians are obviously laking full advantage ot their over-all in manpower lo deny the expected advantage ot his interior communication lines i Whether have also the guns and other equipment lo c a r r v through in winter so vast sn Hon as a two pronged effort to drive foe back of the Dnieper off K slow and roundabout Gasoline Drouth Arrives But With Every lank Full pas conserve rubT bdr and not the In United Stales Tuesday Thai the war measure finds most all motorists forearmed at least lo the tune of a filled sus lank Is due to their eleventh hour last minute run to their favorite service station Or just any station WASHINGTON Nov 30 Undersecretary of War Patterson deploring opposition gasoline program effective morrow asserted tonight that wr can not and will nol deny our soldiers finest ment In order to to whims Of those who don't to realize that country Is at war The run really began last week as the registration for basic A and supplementary ration boots got un- der way Its proportions grew us the week moved along Elmer Davis the of War Information said not to Sunday speeded the rush to fill irk The race for a full tank really pot good Monday There lines at the filling stations where you looked Sometimes the lank was nearly mild lake a big drink At other times the tank was almost full There was me man for Instance who drove up to the station at Third and Cedar It's almost lull the man said to the attendant But let's put In whal It will It's the re- plied after he had pumped in just tire cents worth of gas Another sale a bit earlier had for Just 13 cents Adding to of business everywhere Monday was the ly payday at Camp Payrolls for officers and enlisted men and for civilian employes long ago passed a month The amount might be nearer another p jv u Oil Russian soil into Latria is yet to be revealed It is there however between the Dnieper and the lakes that all Russia's roads o Berlin He IHt XK j 1 5 S- IJ 3 II n I 1 21 RATIONING HITS WHOLE STATE COKE TAKES IT STILL KICKING By the Associated Frowned on by Gov Coke enson and the Potter County Price and Rationing Board rationing of gasoline went into effect in Texas Monday mid- night The Teller County board the Globe voted to reject age applications by all stale and federal agencies agencies which board In tion with private concerns were to be denied preferred rating board decided Applications by Internal Revenue Farm Security representatives as well as those by of the stale office were rejected In Dallas regional OPA Director Max McCullough said he had not been officially of tcr County action bul added thai boards laboring under may have forgot the applications With tanks filled up on the eve of rationing the average with four gallons ly allowance from Dec 1 through Jan would gallons roughly UO miles of travel Gov Coke Stevenson opposing ANNUAL BARGAIN RATE BY CARRIER DELIVERY EFFECT TODAY SAVINGS UP TO Rote Well then or not tut bt new ond nt yttr HI Subscribe Circulation Department THE ABILENE 30 IN gasoline as a rubber con- servation measure and favoring a voluntary reduction In mileage that communications sent lo him overwhelmingly opposed of gasoline Texas Meanwhile many of motorists had driven to gasoline stations and chorused fill Vr up Dealers trucks shuttled back and forth and storage tanks to dis- to meet the nm on gasoline supplies No major ages had been reported although in sonic places drivers lined no nt station driveways awaiting their turn at the spigots Laie Monday major oil com- panies in Dallas Houston and San Antonio reported that no major shortages had developed and ex- pressed confidence in their ability abreast of the demand About 100.000 motorists in the the figures were V downtown stores stayed night The Service n thriving tll a late hour ran out gas Sometimes operators and were so busy it wasn't to have other services formed It was gasoline everybody The shortage when ran out because there gasoline It was a ter ot and transport sale declared All gasoline dealers required t Inventory at the close or business last night may mike application for deaK er it the north enil of the floor halliray of the poitoffice building at All dealers must take and all must register VV p Military Defeat Sighted in Paper LONDON Nov underground socialist party In flaly has Issued a manifesto calling for a campaign and is circulating secretly lie slogan Enough of Enough of the diplomatic of Reuters British news agency said tonight The correspondent said he had obtained Ills information from copy of the manifesto which had reached England added that It was being distributed in factories and war service centers Military defeat U In It said report was published a few hours after Secretary ol State Cor- ciell Hull In Washington had stated nt a press conference that he would not be surprised to hear cf explosive developments in Italy such as mutiny and disorder and while BBC was slill the Italian people Prime Minister Churchill's warning of Sunday that a shattering aerial offensive would be directed against them unless they broke with their leaders and sought a separate peace Churchill's warning was punctuated last night by the second successive attack on oy British bombers which crossed the Alps to deliver their deadly cargoes en that Industrial city Although the raiding force was smaller than the before because ol unfavorable weather it carried a good weight of destructive ex- plosives and found fires still raging from the that were dropped night before The Italian high command acknowledged thai great damage liad been done in the Saturday night raid and 15 persons were killed and 22 injured It said no damage of importance was caused last night The British tost two bombers in the Sunday night raid Hull Forecasts Turbulent Turn WASHINGTON Nov of Slate Hull said today that an explosive turn of events would net be surprising In Italy which U an aerial ol broadcasts and bombs designed to take her out of the war Hull made his observation at a press conference when asked to com- ment on reports cf serious and internal disorder among and Incipient mutiny hi the Italian Army He said he was still assembling the latest reports oji that situation and would prefer lo com- ment later but added that one should not be surprised to hear of such developments as those mentioned In recent news dispatches To Prime Minister Churchill's plea to the Italian people to break with Mussolini and save themselves from bombing by for separate peace the hope that the people of Albania now would rise against their Italian conquerors and exterminate The subject of Albania came up when Hull's attention was called to anxiety expressed by some friends of Albania us to the future of that country He was asked if he considered Albania one of the countries to be liberated by Allied forces In reply the secretary recalled how the innocent people of Albania were and without pretext attacked by Italy In 1939 and how the Italian authorities set up a puppet government there In these he said It ought to be the high duty of every Albanian and every other good citizen to diool on sight every Italian soldier he could find in that ruthlessly Invaded country Hull disclosed thai he had listened to Churchill's speech yesterday with the greatest interest and satisfaction He did not comment specifically on tlie prime minister's advice lo Italians to sue for peace but the whole address as a magnificent presentation of the vital phases of the general military and International situation BRITONS SEIZE TUNIS AIRFIELD executive secretary of the county war price and rationing board emphasized Auxiliary panels to pass on for supplemental llons will continue In session each day this week at the North and South Junior high schools and at Hellene High School Beards for Issuance A rations will likewise be In session st the south end of the third floor of he postoffice building At county courthouse In the jury room en the second other boards will be In for registration for fleet trans- put and gasoline FIRK VICTIM Charles Buck Jones cowboy star of lie movies died Monday of hums suffered in the day fire in conut Grove club For news of fire sec Page Gas Equations In One Lesson Know your ABC's of may mean the difference be- Land Inch French Vote Wai By RICHARD Associated Press War Editor British parachute Croups seized opposition an airfield in the environs of Tunis in advance of U S and armored Hie Tunisian capital a dispatch from Allied headquarters in Africa said Monday night The Allied ground forces were said to he picking their way cautiously through German Axis airmen swept over them in strafing attacks but the Allied pace con- methodically The German radio quoted dispatches that the Allies were menacing tion links between Axis forces in Tunis and Bizerte The Russians raised their estimate of German killed and captured before Stalingrad to Monday night as their sweeping advance relied on and then announced tiie slaughter of another Germans in several villages on the cold white plains northwest of Moscow Some new German corpses were reported strewn on the frozen steppes where the Russians advanced up lo siz miles This raised the enemy deaths to 67.000 and the captured to 66.000 as reported in special Even the Germans acknowledged their plight by implication The of strong Russian attacks repelled between the Volga and Don on the Moscow front in the Lake Ilmen region below Leningrad and in the Caucasus The Russians said 300 Nazis already had died In the new offensive from Moscow The First Army ad- closer than 12 miles to Tunis while the Eighth Army In Libya was reported by the Germans to be striking tanks at El riding walking Passenger drivers ail have A books each IT rcom ons worth four gallons Each off the district courtroom fourth of this basic mileage U out the Mediterranean falling on Turin in northern Italy Tripoli Bi- Tunis and Sicily Two French submarines reached Algiers from the graveyard ol the fleet at courthouse will meet again Wednesday Frank E man of all the gas rationing com- said lake gallons or more on the even ot rationing At Texarkana however several stations reported they had sold out during the day All reported best business in tory Offices of the Miller and Bowie Comity rationing boards were scenes of wIldrM the Gazette said crowds of men and women milling trucks for I etc Onr up tn a Matlon her gut lank filled brimful then produced a gallon can out of the rear of the car anr old the station Till IMs up too to replace tht I In down Down In Iho Rio ley reported Hiat enl had sent swarms ol motorists across the Mexico to stock up on into Mexican Nails Eight Jap Ships Near Shore PEARL HARBOR T H 30 enemy ships locating submarine most of them only a short distance from the i Japanese shore Lieut Commander good tor two months Contrary o a popular im- one coupon must not be week from an A hook Ml may be cashed Tuesday the first day of If the holder desires mar be saved until Jan SI the last rlay of the first quarter period if he prefers Or they he used at u is required Drivers o The Japanese were further com- pressed on New Guinea in the U S forces I Guadalcanal pressed the I Chinese supported by U S Flying Dragons attacked j defending the northeast sub- tald Thomas day Four ships aggregating lo 25.000 Ions were ed he fold Interviewers Lieut 37 whose wife resides nl Matoo is receive the Navy Cross from Admiral Chester Pacific licet The sinkings lie related occurred n T for the most pan In lull vicwincocl 100 Busy lo Get A Book of the v large lap cities One transport was sunk In a habor entrance dates were nol specified Asked Just how close hh sub- marine approached the Japanese shoreline replied with one we watched the races for an hour big ships were sent to the botlon in one hour re- Day Brings Lone Goodfellow Gift i I Despite f wake up lene Goodfellows rallied slowly Doris Bankson was to respond and her SIO from a contributor wa the only addition to tne an- fund that brings Christmas Joy and cheer lo families where otherwise there might be The was opened by tom on Thanksgiving Day with In gifts already reported ol Since only 540 has been given In Indian Ocean Joined SIO lo I the the Jibuti bowl the to farrison of Somaliland The club is who reported to imc gone annual collection of toys and in grunted Jo Britain the firemen will recondition toys possess B or C i The latest official word of with other gifts and books Here again each New Guinea front Tuesday's distributed by the coupon has a valno of continuing I The Abilene havr B books are rood over periods heavy In the Buna arc a I never fallen down on the job of rcm three lo 12 months in- Allied airmen still pounded at providing for the neediest by the expiration dates the Japanese pinned the families since the movement was en the covers The c books arc coast Of 12 Japanese here years ago and there over a three-month i swept over the area seven were seems reason why In this year at a loss of only two especially they should do so now the communique Mid It fd that boin Allied Stand Fire i how ever I German to newer VCT Russian in the North street resulted in loss and ty Tlie was by George Jeter operator of the slore for his Calvin Jeter now in thr Army Air Forces at Miami Fla Firemen received the alarm from a box at p m Five pieces of equipment rolled lo the scene ftom Butternut NEW YORK Nor forces landed In Africa Germany demanded I that France declare war on the Allies and unite with the the French cabinet by the vote of 8 to 6 U was learned day A French diplomat whn was in active service ot the Vichy re- gime until the French fleet scuttled fl Toulon gave the ed Press somewhere In Europe a first-hand account of events in France following the American into French North Africa The Allied landing caught Vichy and Berlin by com- plete surprise and In all negotiations Berlin tip occupation nf Toulon German rave the French definite Impression did not know lo do in Trance Ibis informant said Tlie Laval regime likewise was at a loss fcr a plan of action This French described a turbulent bewildering Vichy cabinet meeting where the German demand tor war was re- despite the urgings of Chief Laval while even then German hordes were swirling around the former unoccupied zone BAYS Of INDECISION Previously he said German had seemed reluctant to occupy the rest of France sufficient troops and tho reaction of the people Orders to proceed however came from Adolf Hitler himself Upset by this sudden un- See FRENCH Ff n Col 7 OS In the B books arc IS Str GAS Pf U Col J I than at but the Remember thai quip Russians said counterattacks about everybody's bul and resistance broken The dM M cobbler's having It Is wily by Frank r Smith ol the Tavlor County gas bcstffcd en side by for waked up late Monday to find he hadn't applied lor the basic A book to operate his personal car Despite tlie the elung tn bh In the trap threatened his 500.000 men near lie Volga Most German supply routes had been snapped by columns driving See IHL WAR Tf U Col S U S Buying Supplies For North Africa WASHINGTON Nov Tlie United Slates disclosed today it Is buying millions of dollars worth civilian supplies for to French North Africa where the Kazi stripping technique has created shortages even In tural products Instead of normal surpluses administrator Edward Jr announced that more than worth already have been purchased am that ad- purchases will amount lo many that value DAYS LEFT
