Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - December 20, 1942, Miami, Oklahoma KW on Rationing Tough Rick Nof to Agree Hero Tells for First Time of His Hat rowing Experiences in Pacific Jap Ground Are Hardest He Has Ever fly HAMILTON Back from the South Pacific where a young soldier died in his where he saw American soldiers in hell holes of where he had floated 21 days in an open Edward declared today objec to rubber and gasoline ra seem Captain as he prefers to be slightly ner vous and talked swiftly and at a press f calling for greater production of I our hardships will be a stimulus to the people back home to drive on to greater effort be without the materials they are producing those boys out there Cant do their ho Rick told for he first lime of the harrowing 21 days he and sev 9 en spent in rubber plane was forced out of in the He an inspection trip through the South Pacific as rep of Stimson and of his conviction that the qual ity and experience of Japanese pilots is going down hill while that of American fliers is increas ing Jap Pilots Are Grcen fj It is quite he de that the great majority of l and Telling of Guadalcanal in the where soldiers and ma have been battling the Japa nese since he said If only the people back home could know what those boys are doing for what they are put up I think they would take this war more Japanese ground he are the hardest he had ever known RUSSIANS CLAIM GERMAN SOLDIERS SLAIN Soviets Also Report Of Men Since Third Drive Began By EDDY UP The third great Russian winter offensive within a month has struck deep into German defenses along the Don in the Voronezh and have Been killed and the Soviet information bureau said in special communique to the northwest four days Russian forces southwest of Moscow opened a breach in German lines 60 miles while another army in Voronezh region chopped hole 12 miles wide and advanced to the 200 The two spearheads advanced from 30 io 31 miles after the hardest capturing more than 200 populated places and a array of enemy fighting the communique The offensive patently threatened the extended German flank which has reached from the region of Kursk down to Stalin The lower end of the flank al had been dented by a scries of salients driven across the Don bend and from southwest of Stal ingrad in the offensive launched Now the Russians are striking at the upper ing to bear down in the Rzhev regions northwest of Mos Getting Heads Together fo of Nazi Troops Axis Force Speeds Westward Flight Allies In Burma By LEWIS HAWKINS British Eighth army in swift pursuit of Marshal Erwin Rommels remnants pushed its spearhead 120 miles west of El 35 miles behind the Germans and Italians whose main force reached the Sirte 240 miles short of despite intense In flight Mussolinis last African colony the Africa corps abandoned Zauta En a natural de fense without a fight but leaving thousands oT mines and booby traps to slow the pace of Sir Ber nard The Morocco radio said the most advanced elements of the Eighth army had reached a point 19 miles from which is 155 miles beyond El but there was no confirmation from any other The British made no mention the Axis said to number todays nine Axis ships Seven who were shorn line their pates up at the Army Ait Forces Flexible Gunnery Tyndall with excellent results J nese flying gunners evidently feel theres victory in the MISS HERLIHY IS FOUND INNOCENT Jury Clears Wife of Army Captain After 37 Minutes 6t Deliberations Margaret Herlihy was acquitted tonight of the murder of David 27yearold Fort Huachuca antitank who was fatally shot in the girls last The of miners and ranch out pniy The 21yearold cow where a second offensive of Edward Herlihy of Fort and a former commander of infantry at Fort where he was started Are Killed In the three accord ing to announcements of the Soviet information 380VM German and satellite sol Carrs superior waited in the surrounded by members of her family and army in the latest Japs have no regard for their own They wont be If you want em you have to kill em and our boys are doing it very It was the story by Continued On Page Four Allies Capture Area And Sink Ship ALLIED IN Allies ground troops in Guinea have captured Cape to the east of Buna vil lage and Flying Fortresses have sunk a Jap cruiser near Douglas com reported A third triumph announced was the mopping up of enemy remnants in the and Kumusi river sector some 40 miles above Buna where the Japs last Sunday achiev d landings despite bloody Since the Allies recently cap 1 tured Jap resistance in that sector has been split between a I group to the northwest at Cape i and another group in fortified among the roots f and logs of the jungle around Cape and Buna I On the right in a local I troops broke through a belt of I field fortifications and cap if thc Cape Ithe communique 1 We have mopped up enemy remnants near the and Kumusi river One hundred and ninetysix enemy dead have al been buried there by our troops and many more bodies await fs j THE WEATHER Prohibited r OKLAHOMA Freezing rain I north vain or drizzle I south portion except rain ending in the Panhandle by Sun day Little change in temperature except colder south east portion i MISSOURI Freezing rain south and freezing rain of snow north portion KANSAS Freezing rain or i enow south and in east portion diers have been killed total of inj Miss an expectant eluding the killed and mother next as the verdict was but otherwise remained Her over and patted her on the Colonel and both The offensive is in two said the special communi the northwest in the sector of Novaya and Of whom had testified in their and from the east daughters the mother in the area dramatically demonstrating on a Having pierced enemy defenses Negro lieutenant how Carr was fa in the sector of Novaya and over a dis tance of 60 miles and in the area of over a distance of 12 our four of tense fighting overcame enemy resistance and advanced n distance of 30 to 37 In thc advance nine infantry di visions and n brigade were shat tered and thrown back in while four other infantry divisions and a tank division were severe ly Captured booty included 84 tanks 508 mortars and while destroyed included 88 tanks and 120 it was Meanwhile on the central front where general frost is becoming amore powerful ally of the Rus sians every the Russians cut through barbed wire ments and captured a few more German advance Embittered fighting also took place southwest of On all these old fronts the Germans were attack Continued On Page Five Solution For Meat Is Found By Local Rancher Warren owner west of decid ed to help relieve the meat short age recently by killing one of his buffalo herd bulls on his range The kill was carried out on in Western hunting with a heavy caliber did the his Juel of Com shot with a movie camera to the event to The inspected and bled by city veterin was taken to the Williams Ice and Storage Locker where it will be ready for sale on public market about pounds on the the buffalo scaled about 825 pounds after tally were unmoved the As the were they filed by the counsel table and shook hands with the girl and wished her Thanks thc Jurors I dont know how to thank Miss Herlihy told the She was smiling through tears as she John county who the girl also con Had I been a juror I would have done the same he The thing for you to do now is to go home qnd get some The few women among the small crowd of spectators gathered Herlihy family to offer well Colonel Herlihy disclosed that he had been reassigned to Fort Huachuca temporarily and had ap plied for foreign Carr Once a Reporter The Carr was a Nebraska school teacher once worked as a reporter in New was born on a military res at Fort They Continued On Page Five Gas Discontinued Six of Citys Largest Buildings As WPB Order Directs Usage of Standby Fuel Use of natural gas for heating purposes in six of Miamis largest buildings has been manager of the Gas Service company disclosed with a WPB di rective requesting use of standby fuel The six all of which converted furnaces to are the Coleman theater Hotel Hotel Security Bank and Trust First National bank and Baptist Holland Furnaces in the Miami senior high school building were being equipped Saturday to heat with coal he and the junior high school Mining Exchange building and DelMar laundry convert their furnaces as soon as coal grates All schools in except the high school are now heating with The issued to gas companies in 17 will not af fect thc present domestic usage of gas in the Miami man ager Conversion of large buildings to coal burners was created an unprecedented de mand on of the Cities Service which operates in Okla Missouri and Ne is a distributor of Cities Service Holland The switchover from gas to coal in the citys larger buildings is ex to cut the companys com and industrial load cubic which can be released for the maximum daily de REDS ANNOUNCE ENEMY WAR CASUALTIES BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Russians in the past of winter have officially announced the death or capture of German and Rumanian sol diers as the toll of three major In a special communique the Soviets said that between winter offen sive began in the Stalingrad and 11 some officers and of them Ru were killed and others were The same communique said Germans were killed and were captured on front between 25 and The special communique early today of groat winter offensive in the Don claimed that Ger mans have been killed and captured thus far in the new fight Blast Aboard Plane Fatal to 2 Texans UNI T E D STATES ARMY explosion of depth changes and ammunition aboard an RAF patrol bomber was dis closed to have killed two Texans and an Englishman and wounded eight other two Gas Sales Will Be Resumed in East With All Coupons Good Only Three Gallons By RICHARD TURNER Price Administrator Leon Hender son announced today that gasoline sales would be resumed in the East at with the coupons of B and C ration books good for three In the case of the B and C books this is a reduction of one At the same he reported a bootlegging and blauk market prob lem had arisen and promised to deal with it A total of 190 dealers have been 10 of them he and fu ture deliberate violators will get the suspension for the duration which means they will be out of Byrnes Calls Meeting James thc di rector of economic stepped abruptly into the gasoline and fuel oil He asked Petroleum Administra tor and Transportation Di rector Eastman to submit reports showing what way machinery had proved inade together with tions for remedial Byrnes said he would confer with the three Monday The day also brought action Continued On Page Four Law School Dean Urges Fight Upon Union Racketeers John dean of the University of Oklahoma law suggest ed today that the nations lawyers open an internal front to combat union Addressing the Tulsa County Bar Hervey declared that labor was under the leadership men devoid of a sense of social not concerned with the welfare of leaders have ridden roughshod over the rights of the public and of the And in so doing they have had the con and the cooperation of some of the Hervey said it was gratifying to know that States has taken the offensive on the war fronts but he warned that the attack from within is more If you think am a mere alarmist stirring up he you need not go outside of Oklahoma to prove my Labor union leaders have slow ed down the war They have refused to permit workers to pro duce the utmost of their They have hogged defense pro and required all workers to buy their Unless we establish another front wage an Her vey organized labor will have the votes and the funds to a Fascist program after he UNIVERSAL BOOK TO RATION FOOD OPA Reveals Printing Job Greatest in History Avail able Next Month Distribution to consumers of the universal ration book should be completed during the Of fice administration re ported added that the job of printing such books was the biggest in Eighteen printing firms in the country turning out the books at a in some of a Each book was 192 i i ai c illion which the Nazi from were said happens to exceed 12 years I credited by the admiralty with continuous production of all three more Axis vessels on postage stamps used in the United j thc Tunisian sea route and Admiral Sir Andrew The books are printed on paper Browne Allied naval which will prove a real headache chief in North declared to anyone foolish enough to try tni that the enemy is losing an aver counterfeit ration the OPA age of a ship a day in desperate While thre OPA intends to sia and the books to consumers next it is mindful of the delays reported trapped between Marble Arch and the Wadi indicating thc Germans might have broken the block and enabled at least some to continue their flight west with the main body o Rommels Berlin Issues Comment The Berlin radio declared that Rommels rear in high fighting has linked up with the main body of the Axis heavy in another damaging raid on the big Tunisian naval base of Bizerte were reported to have hit an en emy warship and to have shot three enemy At below Turns on the coast of Tun other allied craft scored hits on a railroad station and other tar In five Axis fighters and an Italian bomber were re ported destroyed lit day 3 as against the loss of Sub Hit Axis Supplies British continuing their ceaseless warfare against the efforts to bolster forces in Tuni which recently caused some gaso line books for western areas to for days in airport freight rooms because military goods got priority on plane caigo a shipment of sup plies needs the freight train that is loaded with ratio OPA un loads and even if it means postponing a rationing it Since the government presses could not possibly have handled the huge printing job within the GO days allowed for printing and the government print ing office hunted the country for plants able to d o the perforating and numbering A compilation showed with have been destroyed in the last equal the of the last week in November when vessels went the siege laid to Axis ean supply Eight Vessels Torpedoed Another eight vessels were known hut their fate was not weeks list of ships sunk included a antisubmarine a large three supply and one smaller supply The British and air forces based planes on a new advanced air field yesterday and carried out successful attacks on the retreating enemy in the Sul tan 30 miles west of Zauta en Fighting in Tunisia was confin ed largely to patrols actions and air Bombers of setting fires and pausing large Two Transports Downed Two t ransport planes were shot down over Sicily and the Axis bases at Trapani and Marsala there were Marsala is a seaplane base and at both the British many planes were Four transport planes flying north fram the Trip oli coast were fell and the others were This hinted that Rommel might be mov Continued On Page Five Inland Fleet Will Move Oil To East NEW Washington authorities have ap proved construction of a huge fleet of more than a thousand craft to transport petroleum through inland and intracoastal waterways to re lieve the oil shortage on the East ern it was announced here today at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Valley Flood Control Chester president of the Inland Waterways corpora said the fleet would consist of 120 new tugs and towboats and 900 wooden barges for the trans portation of oil from the produc ing TOM ELIOT TO TELL ALLIES ABOUT AMERICA Young Tom a with a New England cul ture who has championed the cause of the working was assigned today to the job of giving Great Britain a clearer of this its people and its war ef Eliot was appointed by War In formation Chief Elmer Davis as head of the OWls British A Democratic repre sentative from he failed of reelection in November after the dominantly Republican legislature realigned his Nazis Are Forcing French to War Jobs Germany has abandoned the pre tense of seeking French teers to work in Germany since the invasion of unoccupied France and has begun taking men by vio Fighting French ters here said Based on reports received from the the Fighting French said the principally between 20 30 years were seized in large numbers and trans ported to the Reich without notice and without opportunity to inform their Part of Army Advances About 40 Miles in Newest Allied Offensive By The Associated Press NEW part of the million man army of Sir Archibald Wavell has passed to the attack after months of preparation and has advanced about 40 miles into Burma in the first phase of an offen sive to reopen the Burma road to A cautiously worded communique telling of this lat est addition to the list of worldwide United Nations of said During the past few days some of our troops have advanced southward from the Arakan border into western Burma and occupied the area about 60 miles northwest of The who had been in occupation of this area since our withdrawal from Burma and had prepared withdrew without of fering and are about 40 miles south the Indian a small seaport and air base on the eastern side of the Bay of is to the south down the Mayu No Hint As to Scope the restraint of the an gave no hint as to the scope of the observers noted the reference to some oi our troops and wondered if other parts of the huge army which Wavell has drilled and equipped in India might not be ready to strike Ever since Joseph Stilwell came out of Burma at the head of a few score men and American officers from his Chi nese army with the acknowledge ment that he had taken a hell of a the recapture of Bur ma and the restoration of the sup ply link with China has been high on the list of objectives of United Nations Aerial Support Cited Thc thrust down the difficult jungle shore of Northern Burma through a land inhabited by red skinned Naga headhunters was ac the communique by aerial sweeps in which the vil lage of slightly more than half way between and was bombed thc Mayu river swept clear of Japa On Page Four Nazis Lose Three Planes in Attack On English Coast out of six which tried sneak raids over the southeast coast of England today were shot down and the re maining throe two se Thc first group of four came in a cloud lighters shot one fire destroyed another and holed the other An hour later two more tried to cross the coast near fly ing almost at sea fighters promptly destroyed and the badly streaked for the clouds and got All the fighters returned Some damage was done bombs in one but nobody was seriously an official an CHAPMAN IS NOMINATED OKLAHOMA state election board to day certified the nomination of Fred as the Democratic nominee for state sen ator in Carter
