Hutchinson News Herald (Newspaper) - September 20, 1943, Hutchinson, Kansas flic Warmer THE HUTCHINSON Final City Edition 79 SEPTEMBER 1943 SINGLE 5c Hereford Wins Top Award On Yearling Steer The usual Monday free day for school children al the Kansas State Fair was a Very few children were because of the ban against children attending public But that was as A program was ns for the but there was no and only a few boys and girls were in the grand However those there sang God Bless America led by and applauded heartily when Eugene assistant superintendent of admissions of the fair gave them n little An entertainment program was staged by Dorothy Woods group of dancers and Slate Fair Program Tuesday of Percheron preparation judging 4H of Duroc and Berkshire improvement judg 4H of Jer sey and Guernsey of Hampshire and Southdown of Hampshire and Chester White of Belgian shearing stock exhibitors and 4H Demonstrators Demonstration contests Tues day at 4H club exhibit building stage Tuesday forenoon Sher man county conservation clothing foods foods foods foods home Tuesday afternoon La dairy products conservation health clothing conservation paint bind weed toods Mi News Congress To Guard Rights house for eign affairs committee wrote into the Fulbright postwar collabor ation resolution an amendment saying in effect that congress has the power to approve or reject any international arrangement to preserve the City Budgets Up Wichita of Kansas cities during 1944 will average between 15 and 25 per cent high er for all city the League of Kansas Municipalities was told today by its executive John The es he reported at the open ing session of the groups three day was based on city fiscal reports gathered by the Renovate Representative Hall Topeka will be gin this week redecorating repre sentative hall in the Lute Rogers said The legislature appropriated 000 for carpeting the large cham refinishing furniture and re decorating the speakers Oil Fields Handicapped Washington Ad ministrator Harold Ickes ex pressed grave concern over the manpower shortage in the oil which he said has delayed drilling of individual wells as much as 90 Storm Warnings Down New Orleans United States Weather Bureau here or dered all warnings down last night as a gulf which had threatened the Texas coast for two moved inward over southeast its intensity sharply The Weather Kansas Wanner in west and north central little change In temperatures lu southeast and extreme east tonight somewhat warmer Tuesday weather came In over the but it was warming up again Monday Frost threatened in lo Sunday but none was Ellis reported a Jow 34 two degrees above Light showers resulted from Sundays unsettled condi Weather Report High temperature Sunday 76 low Monday at inch Year ago low rainfall Municipal Airport By CAA Station I 801 3 831 51 6SI 51 ell 50 61 571 Today 561 55 58 60 58 But it was a beautiful day for a with tlie sun anc the weather and a fair crowd there to see the Championship Awarded Center of interest at the fair so far as livestock was concerned was al the club livestock pavilion where the judg ing of 411 sheep and swine was In Wilbur of Mul won the grand champion award on baby on his Here ford gold and with it watch presented by the the Hutchinson and also a silver trophy by the Kansas Hereford The was made by Jerry Mox of Council secretary of the for having the champion The reserve champion award was won by Elmer ol and junior champion went to Erwin of Ha Other champions in the 4H club show Shorthorn baby beef Bette champion Ralph reserve champion Angus baby beef Elmer Pel champion John reserve Hereford beef both champion and Shorthorn beef champion Sanford Angus beef heifers champion and re Holstein cattle Barbara Mor Sedgwick champion Dorothea Ayrshire Strick champion and re Jersey champion Robert Guernsey John champion and Brown Swiss Franklin champion and Milking Shorthorn champion Everett Sheep Awards In the sheep open Ted of larper county had champion market while Bluff won reserve champion In the 4H club sheep depart Ted Olivier also won first award on fat market lambs in the leavy while Wilma Hilde took first on light Captives Seek End To Hitler Moscow Union of Ger man Officers was formed here 12 by more than 100 generals and other officers from five Rus sian prisonerofwar it was announced with tlie im of bringing about the down all of the Hitler regime and the establishment of a peaceful and independent Calling themselves the gener als and officers of the Sixth Ger man Stalingrad they told their countrymen and army that faced worse isolation han in 1918 and con of the futile war might any day cause a na tional The Communist party organ Pravda devoted a full page to the announcement of tlie reprinted from the Free organ of the National Committee of Free Ger Artillery General Walter von who commanded the 51st Germany army corps at Stalin was listed as chairman of the officers union and man of the national The they will be part of the National Committee of Free Ger many which has been increased in Hungary they are certain to fall out of the war proving that Germany has lost the war and only Hitler and his regime are to It is now necessary to save all they We suffered the pangs of In we were given up for but we have been born again for a new We can not keep silent any The appeal was drawn up at a meeting In Moscow attended by General von Alexander Elder von Daniels and Generals Otto Korfes and Martin Latman in addition to 100 other including Walter leader of an SS Deaths Head di Added Attraction If they both dont back out there may be a chicken Ing contest at the state fair t this It started when of president of the state rashly asserted he could pick a chicken as well as any Harold prominent Reno county farm woman overheard him and called daring him to try and to name the date and And now Hi super intendent of the poultry de Is trying to rig It up as an attraction for his poul try Not Half Of County Bond Quota Raised Reno County Standing In War Loan Drive September Sales to Needed to fill The third war loan campaign is past the half way mark In elapsed but not up to the 50 per cent mark in Hutchinson has passed its mid way with sold toward but small cities and rural territory have more than a million dollars to with bonds sold toward their The countys per capita goal Is Thursday Big Day both organized and oth is going to work for the biggest sales of the September a half million for Axis Thursday this Three city members of the Firefighters got a headstart taking pledges for nearly in The bond selling firemen were John Melvin Bond and Ole Those who buy bonds Thursday will be given a free ticket for the midwestern premiere of Wallace new Salute to the to appear for one day only at the Fox Curley chairman of the Axis Pay day To Sell No Tickets No tickets will be sold for the to be screened at Fox thea tre either once or depend ing on the number of bonds Every bond sold at any of the lo cal issuing agencies during Thursday be accompanied by a whether the bond is for or If the purchaser of a bond wonts two he will have to buy two The show will start at There will be an outdoor show Thursday with a pa rade starting at oclock at Fourth and The naval air station band will Organiza ions are being invited to join the Miller asks to be notified at phone of the committee are Sam at Employment and Marvin Central Labor union pres at Central Fibre Products Special Entertainment The parade will go to First and and a show will be staged on the platform in front of Fox heatre at about 10 Sing ers from the Barnes and Car ruthers night show and other en will be Larabee Mills have purchased in City Chairman iVill Thompson reported Mon Barber Over Top Topeka War loan head quarters announced today Bar er county is the second county o meet its quota in the third oan drive opened 9Q Sales here have exceeded Wallace county was first to go over the top in less than a weeks State Chairman Laird Dean said several other are ex to meet their quotas with n tlie next 24 To Eat Cookies Alberta daughter of Bounty Superintendent of Reno county for a second straight will present the cookie jar to the gov ernor of Kansas when he visits he state fair Gover nors Her jar of cookies won the prize last year and she made the pres then to Payne Rat It was the intention of the state board to insert a rule in the catalog that no one could win this lonor two But they failed get it into the Miss entered And she won And so Wed she will present the gaily decorated jar to another governor of Andrew Schoep But this is her last Well have that rule in the catalog next remarked of su of the Domestic Sci ence 609 East won second Churchill To Report London fP Prime Minister back in Britain after a momentous visit to Canada and the United plunged into the task of preparing a war review to be presented shortly to the House of High School Grid Work Is Protested Reno County Medical society sent a letter to the board of edu cation Monday protesting high school football practice while schools are closed because of in Godwin said the board would meet sometime Mon day at the earliest pos sible moment all members could leave their business to dis cuss the medical society The board has cooperated fully with City Physician Guy Walk er in closing of but foot ball practice for boys 10 and older has been allowed to go The first with Stafford next was originally scheduled as a home but was chang ed to It the board should decide to ban football presumably the game would be Sailors May Attend Fair Hutchlnson naval air station relaxed its infantile paralysis rules an nouncing Monday noon that sail ors could attend the state A number of sailors were pick ed up on the fairgrounds Sunday night for violating the One One Suspect Another new Hutchinson case of infantile paralysis was report with Betty Joan 3 daughter of and 321 East in the iso lation ward at Grace Another Hutchinson youngster is under observation at the hos and a Bushton Lannie son of and Harmie is in the isola tion The Vater child is the 26th Hutchinson person to have been Fortynine cases have been reported counting those here from out of town for treat Keep Out Of Crowds City Physician Walker rel ated his warning to parents to keep youngsters away from Parents who called ask ing whether their children were still supposed to stay away from public events were told ically that they Walker expressed indigna tion at the attitude of some other He said there was little ban on attendance of events at which he asserted has lad three times as much polio as Walker was busy at one of he hospitals and did not attend the meeting of the medical so decided to protest ligh school He said the nain danger of the as he saw was the fatigue of the A number of high school aged oys are working as stagehands at the state Successes For Allies On All Major Fronts By Austin Associated Tress War Editor American Fifth Army already In of Italian terri tory extending at 11 miles east from the coast below have advanced 15 miles westward from that Tyrrhenian port and captured all the commanding of the Sorrento peninsula the Bay of Allied j Thus the Allied Mediterranean army and navy forces under Dwight having expanded the Salerno bridgehead in all directions by land and occupied the islands flanking the Bay of command the sea approaches and a mainland gateway to New Upsurge In State Topeka paralysis ases surged upward again last new compared with 48 the week loard of health reported Ten deaths were one childs death at Council Grove causing the closing of schools It looks like the epidemic is till declared Kin state spec that school openings in most counties may have been a factor in the Case total for the year was to the worst epidemic jince 1930 when 094 cases were shown for the entire Peak n the outbreaks usually is in Scp Seventythree of the 105 coun ies have reported Kin naman and six listed cases ast week for the first They are Finney and Must Fill Most Of Vacancies Detroit War manpower leads of the Detroit ap ealing for volunteers to the fac were saying in to day this one has to be on War industrys needs call for more workers by the time he new year said Mon ague director of the Michigan War Manpower Com And the he will have to fill of the jobs be cause the surplus of male em ployables has ceased to partly due to the For the remaining industry wants only Already an estimated are working in Detroits arms Maryland First State To Top Bond Quota Washington to day became the first state to ex ceed its quota in the 000 Third War the treasury The department quoted Hooper state war finance as reporting gross sales of at or per cent of the states Home Girl Booster Salt Luke City wonderful Thats what Edward home after a year in the South says about American New Guinea damsels They dont have any mod he And not much KEY SPOTS IN BATTLE FOR by the Allies of three more Italian coastal Islands and the report that two Italian divisions virtually had driven 1hc Nazis from have opened a new phase In the battle for Italy by affording strategic control of sea approaches to The Allies now have command of Penza and An Allied communique said Germans had fled and that the Nazi evacuation to Corsica was almost Blackened area Indicates territory controlled by Allies after victorious battle of with next major German stand foreseen before Berlin said Germans had occupied Island of Across the Germans were reported taking steps to oppose Yugo slav troops making bid for liberation along coast 1 from now In Yugoslavian patriot north to Italian city of Guerrillas were reported concentrated at just cast of with heavy fighting at Ogulin and In northwest Italy fighting between German and Italian troops was re ported at at In region of and with Turin Milan industrial area reported In Fighting be tween Germans also was reported along Brenner Pass rail line Steady Flow Of Manpower Is Necessary George warned congress By Jack Bell Washington Marshall against dimming the power of great Allied offensives by forbid ding the drafting of We are on the offensive the chief of staff It would 36 do anything that would dim the power of that of We very leavy fighting in front Testifying before the senate and louse military committees on the Wheeler to postpone induction of Harbor fathers until January Marshall apologized for expressing myself rather vig Must Meet Needs The general said that whether army quotas could be met without drafting fathers heretofore de as a question for the man power but he told Senator Austin that failure to ob ain the quotas probably would force us to emasculate some of our It would emasculate the tall end of our army and put us in a serious Marshall Even a postponement of such a draft by three tlie of staff would seriously in with the armys While youve got the other fel ow on the the more you do o cut lum down before he regains his the better it Mar shall Puzzled By Reaction Asserting that the American armed forces have readied their peak of training and are poised tor aggressive development all over tiie the chief of staff said he was puzzled by the reac tion at this It seemed to Marshall hat if congress stepped in to In the flow of men through selective all we can do a reduce our program and change our Marshall if you cut us we suffer a much greater loss than we an from the Germans and the With Admiral Ernest commander of the sitting reside Marshall testified be fore a jammed hearing To Fill Skeleton Divisions Marshall said that the army plans to activate soon between 430 and 440 new adding hat four divisions now had only men each and needed additional The general added that special troops including engi mechanics and signal corps were being shipped to Eng land this along with 600 jomber These he were not to increase the of bomber but maintain the operation of bombers already For the first time in Marshall trained men are on land for deployment on all the fronts of the We are just getting ready for our he adding that our operative person nel had been trained and placed that the basic establishment was a going and that now man power had become largely a mat ter of maintenance and replace ments of casualties and other Our can now be turned to the deployment of our ground army for the first time in he Politicians Of Army Are After Chief Washington OP Speculation over a possible shakeup in the army high command was revived in the wake of an editorial in the authoritative but unofficial Army and Navy Journal which declared that powerful interests would General George Marshall from the Washington Questioned by reporters while at the capitol testifying on draft Marshall declined to comment in any There have been recurring re ports for several months that Mar who has been chief of staff since might be sent to Eu rope as commander in chief of Allied forces in that These emanating from both London and have mentioned several possible successors for the post which he now includ ing Dwight Brehon commander of the army service and The Army and Navy Journal declared Marshalls replacement not only would but also shock would the na President Roosevelt of the val advice he has received on military activities everywhere from his present chief of The job of leading the European invasion could be ballyhooed as a reward for his the Journal but actually it would mean assignment to a single the ater of stripping Mar shall of the broad command he now holds over all army The powerful interests which the Journal said would like to see Marshall replaced by a more amenable officer were not iden Marshall is known to have held firmly to the conviction that west ern Europe should be directly from while oth er particularly those on the British side of the have frowned on The timing of the drive also is reported to have been a subject of some While his appointment as chief of staff was extended for an in definite period only Marshall was described by some of his aides as having been some what disturbed by the casual manner in which President Roosevelt announced during a White House news A new chief of the Army and Navy Journal would be compelled to earn the confidence of the the congress and the which General Marshall now enjoys to an extent without parallel In Twins Are Born In Different States Fort O Twin sons born Saturday to and William have different natal One is an Oklahoman and the other an They were born four and a half hours and 20 The first child arrived at 6 at the home of the parents near and the second at at a Fort Smith hos where accom by her had been in an Twin 1 was to be brought to his mother Italys second greatest Mark Clarks reinforced steadily by additional landings and by elements of the British Eighth Army driving up from the continued to pur sue the retreating Germans in the area of captured earli er along with All the headquarters were made against decreasing enemy To the British forces ad northward above the Italian heel have seized a road junction some 28 miles north of the inland road to the captured Adriatic Port of headquarters Germans Leave Sardinia An Allied military spokesman disclosed meanwhile all of the Island of Sardinia had been cleared of German troops by the two Italian divisions which drove the Nazis across the Strait of Bonifacio to Corsica on direct orders from Premier Pietro Bado now in Italian ITie spokesman said there were indications the Germans were making a full retreat from the Salerno bridgehead and that con columns of enemy ve des wen observed withdraw Many of them never will reach their for American airmen attacked one column of enemy vehicles traveling north from 10 miles east of and destroyed or damaged 240 of Russians Drive On Russias victorious armies sped on toward Smolensk and the two great German bastions on the Dnieper after cracking he gateway cities of and within 30 miles of Smolensk and reaching a point only 42 miles from capital of the Another Red army column was reported only 27 miles from the Dnieper bend city south of Hit Japs Hard An American aerial offensive designed to reduce Japanese de fenses of Bougainville Island ad into its second Me dium bombers made three sur prise night raids on the Kahili and airdromes at the southern tip of the big Solomon Island and dive bombers and torpedo planes returned to strike by day At Allied headquarters in North the military spokesmen declared that the Fifth Army had advanced north of Battipaglia in the face of stubborn opposition and that small gains had been made in the vicinity of He said units of the British Fifth Corps which captured Gioia ran into many minefields and booby but saw no British North There was little official news of the British Eighth which advanced 250 miles up Italys west coast to join the Fifth but a wilting yester day from the Salerno said Sir Bernard men were pouring in from the south by the thousands and pull Ing abreast of the troops under Clarks Other correspondents considered it possible that the German with reported by American air men near Contursi might have been hastened by the British Eighth Army cutting due north past the Salerno Naples lies just 17 miles across the water from the Sorrento within range of Allied ar tillery which also is presumably in position to shell the base of and the rail way town il Torre both on the lower elbow of the Vesuvius is only 12 miles from the Allied Not only does the seizure of the peninsula and the occupation of the Neapolitan islands add up to a flanking movement against Na marked by Clark last week as one of the next Allied object but the German withdrawal from admitted today by gives the Allies several po air bases from which to reach northern Italy and southern Slayer Sleeps Well Before Endless Rest Canon acting state prison hud to wake up John this morning to read him a death warrant and take him to the execution chamber at the scheduled Donahue said Sullivan no emotion and spoke to no a was exe in the gas chamber for the fatal stabbing of Mis Currie Cul bertson of Springs Italians Told To Fight Nazis Allied Headquarters In North Africa Marshal Badoglio told Italians In a broadcast that It was their abso lute duty to fight on the side of the British and Americans against the Germans and against the few senseless longer of such put themselves at their Tlie text of pica which was made from the new Radio on was released for publication after it had been flown here from the Italian The speech thus ranged leadership squarely against that of the former dic who on Saturday was quoted by tlie German radio as having made a broadcast urging Italians to take up arms again at the side of Germany and was described as the new official radio of the Italian government In the text released through official Allied military The who formed his government on July im mediately after Mussolini was thrown out of told his do not forget that all talk about unconditional sur render is out of date and vant to the changed conditions of We have intervened decisively against Germany fol lowing on tlie aggressive atti tude of the We are cooperating side by side with the who arc now accepting our assistance in the driving the Germans from the Allies May Be Ready To Hit Balkans By Ernest London An Allied war fleet was reported steaming up the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey stirring new talk of an imminent lunge into the Italian refugees reaching Tur key reported the presence of the large concentration of war vessels and London morning newspapers quoted them as saying that Allied forces had occupied the Island of most southerly of the Dodecanese group four miles from the Turkish coast and 90 miles east of These refugee reports were linked in London with similar accounts four days ago of Allied occupation of the islands of and Cos all in tlin Dodecanese north of and with the reported departure of Britains Ninth Army from Middle East Rhodes largest island of the was reported last week to be under German control after the Nazis overcame the Italian Page Column Please Border Sealed By Germans At the UP Tlie Ponte customs station on the Italian side of the where hun dreds of Italian troops and civili ans have been massing in an ef fort to flee the was closed Monday by German frontier cards and visas were invalidated and surne BOO persons who until now had crossed the border daily were de on whichever side of the border they were caught by the Nazi occupation authorities have completely suspended pas senger traffic into A few freight trains were to go Intercepted Letters HUTCHINSON ASSOCIATION CITY Cents Departure of of your membership military service leaves quite a cavity in the in
