Hutchinson News Herald (Newspaper) - September 25, 1943, Hutchinson, Kansas The Weather Nice THE HUTCHINSON Saturday Streamliner 84 SEPTEMBER 1943 SINGLE 5c Battle River Opens Jap Airdrome Captured OFFICE WORKERS affected by a walkout of Rockefeller Center maintenance employes wait be fore the 70story RCA building In New York for elevators to hoist them to their Only two of the 40 elevators In the building were in French Dispute Flares Again Over Command Kansas State Fair To End The 1943 Kansas Slate Fair came to an end at midnight last night as the final carnival spiel was made to the crowd coming out of the Yesterdays crowd was the larg est and most lively with weather Attendance was down this year because of the polio scare which kept many parents at home be cause they did not want to take their Thursdays early morning rain hurt that day with horse races Slates Editors Here fair officials believed they presented an excellent considering all handicaps of gaso line few machin ery Kansas editors were entertained at dinner at the Wiley tea room and at the night show by the fair board last Scores of editors The crowd in the and people all over the city saw mili tary aerial maneuvers staged by 24 bomber a squadron of 12 from Strother near Win and a similar squadron from the Coffeyville army air The grand champion award to Ihe demonstration team making the highest score in the 4H club contests went to two Atchison county Rubia Bechtold and Betty in their conservation Each girl will receive a gold watch and the Atchison coun ty club council receives a trophy from the state board of Reno county won the American Royal Beef trophy for the best general 4H club exhibit of beef on a display of ten head of good quality Sedgwick county had a larger eleven but not quite as the judges New York correspondent In Friday night quoted reliable sources as saying that a dispute had flared between Generals Giraud and DeGaulle over the Corsican campaign and that DeGaulle cried You stole my Corsica and tried o have Giraud ousted as French Hollenbeck said DeGaulle was said to have been particularly incensed at what he feels is unfair attitude toward the Italians on The correspondent quoted re liable informants as saying that Giraud is accused of slighting Ihe real contribution made by the Italians towards the success of the present drive against the German and has given them credit inly as labor The Weather change In Dear folks The state fair is over and now lets have rainy weather all over the state for a soaking Signed Joe the Hutchinson temperature range Furnished by CAA Fridays high at Low at At 0 H lor It noun at p m bullion Chicago lies Dodge City 79 Hi ii 73 82 Worth 82 city Rock Now Orleans Oklahoma Oily Louis 42 4U 45 00 09 41 47 M 711 40 70 Ray Hockaday Recommended Hollenbeck reported that in indicated the Corsican campaign began entirely as a home grown staged by patriots who had no par interest in either The moment the uprising be came known in Algiers Giraud rushed a battalion of soldiers to he and was immediately accused by DeGaulle of trying to a The correspondent quoted in formants as saying the disagree ment came to a head during a stormy meeting of the French committee of national The NBC correspondent said according to impartial the Italians on Cor sica were the really decisive fac tor in the uprisings He added that those of the garrison of Italians who did not fight actively turned their equip nent over to patriots who and that the Nazis promptly rec the uselessness of at empting to defend the island and to withdraw at once be hind Hollenbeck said the reappear ance of the old row between the wo generals meant that hoped for unity in the committee has Laken a bad kick in its first real test in Personalities still seem bigger than France to the men who are trying to win France Hol lenbeck Admiral Standley Back In Washington Washington William ambassador to Mos arrived in Washington to re port to the state The state department announced that Standley was returning for consultation about the ing talks in Moscow among Amer British and Soviet diplo matic officials on war and post war preliminary to the contemplated meeting of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with Premier There have been reports that Standley would not return to his but would resign for sonal Three Men Killed In Crash Of Pratt Bomber Pratt men were killed In the crash Thursday of a bomber from the Pratt army air the public relations office The crash occurred a half of Those killed Jack of Greens the Robert Cunurd of Clyde Stephenson of aerial Ray Hutchinsons acting postmaster since has been recommended by G Democratic national committeeman for Kan for the permanent appoint ment for the Fink told The by letter he bad heard nothing from the Hockaday postmastership since he sent in the The department never writes him about anyone he has recommended unless there is some In the he Fink did not say why the in cumbent had been kept on tempo rary status so it is understood here the permanent appointment was delayed for both political and routine A civil service official told local persons the investigation of those who took civil service examina tions was delayed last year be cause of press of Harry florist and former county entered the race actively and petitions were circulated for winning sig natures f r m many precinct com a Hockaday supporter some of the committeemen reported they did not know Hock aday seriously wanted to keep the and turned their support to Hockaday is understood to have the support of in the Hockaday has stressed courtesy and service in the post office since he took following Ralph Clerks are told to say it with a and a welcome sign is on the postmasters Under the law of the per manent postmaster is appointed without Formerly it was for four Lyons Woman Burned Lyons Eugene Smith was seriously burned Friday morning when she lit the gas in the She was attired only in her This was burn ed off in the flash of fire Eleven Killed In Mine Blast At least 11 men were killed in an explosion in the fifth level of the Moffett Schrader mine near Allies Close In On Port Of Finschhafen Allied Headquarters in the South Pacific If The airdrome at New has been captured by Australian vet erans of desert warfare who now arc within threequarters of a mile of investing the Japanese coastal base Douglas MacArthur announced The who overran the third air base to fall into Mac Arthurs hands since the Salamaua airdrome was seiz ed on that Lae five days are exchanging fire with the Japanese across the Bum river just north of Finsch These Aussies landed under warship and bomber six miles north of their objective and headquarters dis closed that they coolly ran into Japanese mortar and A half hour later they had wiped out the opposition and held a strong Then they moved steadily south and put Finschhafen under ar tillery While pressure was being in creased on Mitchell medium bombers flew low in a sector some 70 miles to the west to hammer the rear door of the Markham valley where enemy remnants may be trying to retreat after the fall of Lae and Many tons of bombs and 000 rounds of ammunition started fires in enemy exploded ammunition dumps and silenced antiaircraft Much of this damage occurred in the vi of about 80 miles northwest of Encountering no enemy fighter all the Mitchells re Patrolling attacked a Japanese destroyer in the Bis marck sea in the New Britain vicinity 23 and cargo ves sels south of Cape New Results were not 2 Southwest Counties Over Topeka more south western Kansas counties went over the top on their third war loan becoming the fifth and sixth counties to exceed their Gray county topped its quota of and Stevens county bested its quota of Coun ty Chairmen Wooden and Gish reported to stale fi nance committee Earlier Rawlins county in northwestern Kansas became the fourth county over the Service Production Survey Croup Named Washington fP President Roosevelt created a joint produc tion survey committee of four high ranking officers to advise the joint chiefs of staff on changes in the procurement pro grams of the armed services in the light of war production progress and changing military The President in a formal state ment said constant attention is re quired to insure that our mili tary programs are kept in step with altered military and that production programs are changed in accordance with les sons from the battle fields and the assembly With critical shortages in ma terial and he declar we must see that we produce only what we need and that the waste unavoidably present in is kept to a COAST guardsmen ami members of a navy beach line the tround on the beach at as a bomb from a German plane drops behind Three shrink into their helmets while a fourth head shows the tenseness of the moment on his face as he lies on a beach traction American Army Pushes Slowly Toward Naples Bombers Blast Nazi Industry London A big fleet of RAF night bombers hit four big Ger man industrial the important twin cities of Mann Ameri can Marauders again raided Ev airfield near Paris in carrying the Allies latest large scale aerial assault from Britain into its third straight A British authority announced that during the day RAF Mitchells and Typhoon bombers attacked airfields in northern France and Brittany as well as the railway center of Other German night targets were historic Aachen also known as near Co logne and Darmstadt near Mann Nazi night strongly on he again used the tac tic of dropping myriad flares ilong the ingoing and outcoming jomber making the night almost as bright as one pilot Mannheim on western German border at tiie junction of the Rhine and the is an important point for supplies to Darmstadt is on the key supply line to Hitlers Belgian coastal Atlantic The quadruple night assault was another blow in the new drive against Nazi consumer goods and as contrasted with those plants which do first stage processing of raw materials for the war Mannheim Ludwigshafen has been cited by the British ministry of economic warfare as a typical inal stage manufacturing center urning out diesel engines and At Darmstadt are the Merck chem ical one of leading drug and medicine pro At Aachen consumer terns like pins and needles were made before war in factories which now the are ikely converted to important small war Would Delay Policy Talk Allied In Nuth Africa American Fifth in full t Naples behind a violent artillery and air stout German moun tain positions and blocked enemy roads just behind the bitter and severe Bonifacio and Porto main towns of southern fell to French patriots and American Rangers who were steadily herding the Germans to the northeastern corner of the Irom which they were trying desperately to escape by nir and The vulnerability of the Ger Balkans to Allied attack across the Adriatic demon by a bold raid of motor torpedo boats which sank a loaded ammunition ship and another ves sel in the Albanian Buy of They damaged two marc and escaped without damage or casual ty before coastal guns could find their British Mop Up Area Tlie American and British troops of Mark Clarks Fifth army exerted so much pres sure before Naples that the Brit ish Eighth army was able to mop up virtually all Italy south of a line east of Salerno to the Adriatic above Impeded only by army cap tured 42 miles north west of and 10 miles south of An arm of the Fifth army scooped up the mountain town of 24 miles cart of Associated correspondent with the American Fifth said slow but steady gains were made in the bat tle for the mountain leading into the plain of with the in and routing the Germans from one defile thus tightening the sure on The United Nations radio at Algiers said The Germans have Three Polio Cases Develop Three more infantile paralysis cases were admitted to Grace hos pital within five hours Friday aft and evening and all were from All are They are Caroline daughter of end Marvin 414 East admitted to the hos pital at 7 Richard son of Ross 427 East ad mitted to at Maynard 210 East admitted to hospital al Little Caroline while at her grandmother in where tak en by her days ago to escape danger 1 Guy was so at the hospital Friday night had not had time to study lie openin Works But Algiers said The Germans have in I I 1M v 1 been compelled to regroup their 111 I HIS family in J forces in Answer Call In another broadcast the radio said Italian officers answered the appeal of Premier Badoglio by re appearing in parts of Italy to lead patriot forces in open fighting against the German army and sabotage Nazi The broadcast said these efforts to lib erate Italy were now going on at a far greater scale than at any time since the Italian armistice was and were hampering seriously German attempts at re An air force statement said London if Wartime employ ment lias reached the saturation point in this British family ev erybody but the baby ia in commons Malcolm McCord told bow a workingman permission work at R to arrive at of 7 be American Mitchell bombers cause he had to dress the baby and take him to his Asked why the mother couldnt tend the baby replied she bad to get up at to go on 0 oclock Asked why 1he grandmother couldnt up a little earlier to look after the baby he explained she didnt get off the night shift Reds Reach Stream At Many Points London for the Dnieper river defense line began Saturday as the Russians surged forward in force along a 300mile front on the eastern bank and knocked at the gates of Smolensk the north and Kiev in the Moscow German reports said the Rus sians had tried to crous the Dnie per only one mile above Kiev where the Desna joins the Dnie per but tile Soviet communique made no mention of a nor an attempt to Tlie Soviet Incorrectly transcribing a Moscow broadcast of the first said the Dnieper had been crossed in the Gomel sector but later changed its version of the communique to tell of a crossing of the some 70 miles cast of the At Uiver the ac cording to Moscow already at the river in many places and Ihe Germans themselves men an attempted Soviet cross ing below Gomel at a point where the Pripet river enters tiie In the fighting for Smolensk the Soviets announced the capture of seven miles northeast of Hitlers former headquarters and on the northwest they tighten ed another tentacle that may soon throttle that big rail center The high road also was capital of Ihe heard Ihe thunder of approaching Soviet guns at 17 mijes to Ihe The Russians had already swept through 18 Abandon The communique told of Tf Germans in many retreating so rapidly they were abandoning armaments and enemy is compelled to abandon ono position after A So viet formation pursuing the Ger mans advanced nine Break ing down enemy resistance our troops successfully forged As they the Germans aban don the communique A Moscow radio recorded by Reuters said the roads leading to the west are jammed with German transport offering excellent tar gets to the Soviet airforce which is holding enemy in the rear under a steady hail of Dark Painted Other flid army the German backing up to the Kerch on their last feeble in the German broadcasts painted a dark picture of the plight in von German front correspondent whose dis patch uas broadcast by Berlin ra dio and recorded by the Associated said that oh the Smolensk the wore favored in their bringing up by the fact that unfavorable wea ther conditions prevented the em ployment of the German Luft waffe so that the Ger man ground troops had to bear the brunt of the hard defense The German formations here were faced with the extremely difficult task of holding their posi tions against the numerically su At only a tew did the Russians in gaining Washington VP backing of Chairman With the Connally Another Baby For Alice Faye Hollywood Actress Alice Faye said she is expecting a baby next She is the wife of Bandleader Phil The first Alice Faye was born May Christmas Greeting Cards To Be Short Because Of More Buying Indianapolis can get that holiday mailing list out of the bureau drawer and strike off two thirds of the says Carl wholesaler who predicted a shortage of 1943 Christmas On the basis of present orders the demand will be from two to three times greater than in 1942 which was a record Increas ed purchasing power has created a new the wholesaler he ex thousands of service men and women will be in no to say merry Christmas in Government regulations limit the use of paper for cards this year to BO percent of that used last Austin but he ex that production was be ing maintained through manufac ture of thinner a strong move develop ed within the senate foreign re lations committee to delay action on pending declarations of post war foreign policy until the views of Americas chief Allies have been sounded Without mentioning either the forthcoming tripartite meeting of Allied foreign ministers or the possibility that President Roose Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin may get together before the end of the Con nally declared the committee has no desire at this time to afford an opportunity for intemperate and troublemaking debate on the floor of the he might produce irritations or vex ations at a critical period in the prosecution of the It is known to al ed men that the utmost freedom blocked roads and hit targets until 7 ud behind the enemy lines near San and Sarno 10r miles east and slightly Naples on the cast side of V San is miles north of Artillery Back Indicating that th had been tu move onc friends in m1 an ew Kr artillery back from their original advocate of a second front in the air force bulletin western returned to Prim cabinet a had pummeled gun positions west t lord Pnv seal a road junction 16 miles sleet announced a north of Salerno and 25 of j This suggested Clark was Tin Becomes More Scarce To Be Taken From US List Washington DNC is drafting a aimed al stripping the federal payroll uf of draft luge and steering them into the i armed Tiie veteran North Carolina leg said proposal would be offered next week as a for the Wheeler to postpone induction of Harbor fa until January Bailey said his would for bid on occupational grounds of bachelors and married men without children in the gov and cancel 10 Downing now in effect except m cases of I where superior officers can offer of hurling his main weight toward Avellino in a wide flanking movement to the ens of Naples and The volcano com presses the main highway irom Salerno to Maples into a narrow cuasta Washington IP Tin is so the agriculture department that it the war lasts another or civilian supplies of canned fruits and vegetables may to be cut sharply present rationed For Egual Freight Kates Washington UP Congressional action to put the markets at the south and west on a freight rate equal with the res of the country was recommended by u Nations Birth Rate In 1942 Highest In Sixteen Years below board uf and re search created by the 1040 Trans portation Letters Washington first full year of World War the birth rato was the 1041 and counting war casualties numbered u decline of m tnm lhe of debate is in 10 years ana the death senate Connally It the lowest on The hMh is further known tha senators dol The census bureau so population was the highest since not hesitate to avail themselves of I Births totaled an inl while the death rate of that unlimited i ace of pir over lowest COMMANDERS DODOE COFFEYVILLE FIELDS Dear Comms Nice show your fliers put mi fur Kansas State fair vis Yours
