Pampa News, The (Newspaper) - November 23, 1943, Pampa, Texas HE EWS 41 8 PAGES TODAY NOVEMBER 1943 RATION REMINDER brown G rood through 4 stamp L valid B and r in book 4 gaud 29 In book 4 valid for 5 I stamp 18 good Indefinitely stamp 1 rm of book 3 good MIDGET SUB SERVES ALLIES of the Kalian fleet at Toronto gave Allies use of several new in this Except for the the liny vessel closely resembles n motor torpedo hoot in its FDR Asks Benefits For Service Forces 23 fP President Roosevelt sent congress a formal request today that it do something now about providing unemployment allowances and social security cred its for men and women in In he urged the legisla tors in a message to enact without delay a measure setting up an un employment insurance system for the merchant The congress will I anr Roosevelt we must have plans and legislation ready for our returning veterans Instead of waiting until the last it will give notice of Backs Campaign For Directors of the Pampa Chamber of Commerce promised ed support to the WAG recruiting campaign at a meeting last night in the city President Carl Bene Emma recruiting attended the directors meet called at her and out lined the need for more WACs in are over 200 eligible wom en in and about a dozen juston the verge of Lt Yukna All they need is public support of civilians around town to urge them to Yukna announced that a WAC field day would be held next Sun day at Bampa Army Air with special transportation being ar ranged for all women interested in visiting the field to see living quar offices and to learn in detail about the duties of WACs who would be stationed in Members of the board were urged to encourage all eligible women of their acquaintance to attend the field day next A commit tee was appointed to contact the civic clubs in Pampa to encourage the WAC Tom Cox was appointed to contact members of the Pampa Rotary Floyd Imel to contact the Lions and Collins to the Kiwanis Dan chairman of the army hospitality called attention to the 43K cadet parents will come to at the end of next 3 and He announced the Texas coffee will be held Saturday at Pampa High school at and invited all directors to A letter from Bob Clark of the Shamrock High school football was which asked if Pampa would be interested in hav ing the regional playoff Class A game provided Shamrock and Phillips are matched to play this championship The board voted to extend an invitation to these teams to play in pro vided they reach the and Fanis Oden was appointed chair manof the committee to cooperate the visiting teams should they decide to play school officials have already been contacted and have offered the use of facilities at Harvester Jack Hanna reported on the avi ation clinic held at Oklahoma City 12 and and tlie visit to Pampa of Civil Aero nautic Administration BUY VICTORY STAMPS Eleanor Doubts Elliott Captured Roosevelt takes with a grain of salt a ner has been shot down over enemy ter I heard from Elliott not so long ago and he said everything was all she stated last night after attending the premiere of March ing with musical show sponsored by the national CIO war relief committee The presi dents wife was the guest of Philip CIO I Button Sohill instructing a group GIs and struggling artists in the USO Mon day using Miss Carolyn Surratt as their charged In your car while you Motor to our armed forces that the peo ple back home do not propose to let them The steps which he specifically requested of congress today were part of a program of minimum as sistance for those serving their country which the president out lined in a radio address to the na tion last This time he omit a proposal he made then that persons in the merchant marine be given For those in the armed he the pay should be uniform and reasonable and should be paid in monthly install rather than in a lump at the time of honorable discharge or return to inactive The chief executive mentioned no def inite leaving that for con gress to For service personnel unable to get jobs within a reasonable time after they become civilians Roosevelt unemployment allowances should be provided until they can reasonably be absorbed by private Asserting that state unemploy ment insurance laws give inade quate coverage to members of the armed the president said that about half of them would have no protection whatsoever when they doff their Benefits for others will vary widely and in many instances will be he so congress ought to set up a uniform system of with a fixed rate of benefit for a fixed period of Noting that railway workers had been covered by mi unemployment insurance act since the chief executive said a similar act for maritime workers was long over He expressed belief that such legislation would be the most ef way of protecting them against postwar Roosevelt reminded congress that members of the armed forces receive no credit for their period of military service under the federal and survivors insurance law and suggested that such credit be The burden should be carried by federal he which would be uniform for all in service irrespective of Emphasizing tlie need for plan See KDR 8 Six brothers and two sis to death today as roaH ing flames balked their parents heroic attempts to rescue them and burned to the ground their frame farm home near suburban Chicago Fire officials expressed belief that the bodies of the rang ing in age from 18 months to 15 were burned beyond None had been recovered sev erall hours after the The father of the John succeeded in res cuing a seventh throwing out the second story window into the arms of his Their eighth and eldest then The two children who escaped were sleeping in afront room on the second floor when the fire broke The six who perished were in rooms on the same while their parents were on the first a truck suf severe burns in his futile ef forts to save his while ills wife suffered cuts and bruises and from Both were in a BUY VICTORY STAMPS Phil Owner Ousted For Belling on Games dent William Cox of the Phila delphia National League was ousted from organized baseball today by Commissioner for betting on baseball games in violation of a major lea gue Landis ruling declared Cox per ineligible to hold any of fice or employment with the Phil lies or any other club or league party to the major league agree ment or league agree The commissioner said Cox ted placing bets on AP Full Loosed Wire Service PRICE FIVE CENTS Central Third Island Forces Hy Tho Tress Landings by American Marines on three islands in the Gilbert sroup were described by Secretary of the Navy Knox today as the beginning of a new campaign Japan from the Central Pacific on a much more direct route toward He said two principal strategic ob were ahead in the first to drive the Japanese out of the mandated islands and second to shorten by hundreds of miles Ameri can supply lines to the Southwest When the Marines gained control after battling the Japs from Tar Makin and the sup ply Knox can be drawn on a much shorter and more direct The effect of the shortened sup ply he will be the same as adding many ships to the job of carrying men and supplies to the Southwest It will enable the ships to make a quicker turn thus increasing the number of trips each can Japanese preoccupation with a foe grew in intensity today as the United States widened its invasion front in the Central Pacific and Allied forces kept up the ceaseless assault on the enemy elsewhere in the vast battle Army troops of the 27th infantry division and Marines of the second division who stormed the beaches of three atolls in the Gilbert islands gained ground over strong Jap and Ihe cli max appeared certain to come be fore Admiral Chester com mander in chief of the Pacific told of landings on the third atoll his second commun ique on the Gilberts invasion which began On 80 miles southwest of and 25 miles north of Tarawa the war bulletin said our troops have improved their The capital of Chinas rice bowl faced an advancing Japanese but on New New Britain and Bougainville the Nipponese fell back before the Allied or suffered punishing air Allied communiques of Sec PACIFIC Page 8 Patton Apologizes For Slapping Soldier PATTON By EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED Algi was disclosed officially today that George Patton had apologized to all officers and men the Seventh Army for striking a soldier during the Sicilian At the same time Allied head quarters said that correspondents might reveal all of the facts they knew of the incident which since last August has been one of the main subjects of discussion among soldiers in this While Patton was not relieved of his command of the Seventh Army and was not given a formal he received a castigation from Dwight Eisenhower such as has seldom been administered to a commander of an Today disclosure came 1G hours after an official headquarters state ment saying Patton is com manding the Seventh has Sec PATTON Page 8 United Nations High Command Developed By JOHN Plans are being completed for clos est coordination between the Rus sian high command in Moscow and the AngloAmerican staff to be heard by General George Marshall in Perfection of these which may be followed by formal an OPA Bows io Gray Draft Board Washingtons crowded condition reflected in a minor degree here today when two boards sought to occupy the same space at the same While the Lubbock OPA district board of operations Vance was conducting a meeting here of chief clerks and price pan el secretaries from 22 Panhandle counties in the seldomused district court the draft board needed the room for another sendoff of a group of draftees to Lubbock The OPA bowed to selective serv ice and recessed their meeting while the draft board took over for the business of sending a of more than 50 draftees to the induction station at Significant of the inroads made on the drafting of single men was the number of married many of them who were among the draftees in todays HUY Girl Acquitted In Stepfathers Death Mary Catherine Du was acquitted of first de gree charges yesterday in the slaying of her 43yearold step Charles she forced her to have er relations with him since she was She collapsed in her mothers arms as the jury foreman read the the girl told the jury she was forced to submit lo Durant under threats he would kill her and her Norman Cabot companies ordnance plant electri cians was electrocuted early yesterday afternoon while at work at the plant 5 miles west of Pampa on Highway First aid was given by chief clerk of Cabot and by Tom first aid but their along with those of Fire Chief Ben White and Firemen Bernard Smith and Earl failed to re vive Assistance in giving artificial res was given by Chief White and his who stayed at the plant until a physician had pro Clemmons Death was clue to Chief White Clemmons had been a resi dent of Pampa for 10 years and with his wife and their 2yearold daugh La resided at 805 besides his widow and are his and Joe Clemmons Woody of Las and Lester of Pampa and six Lucille LeFors Joe Eva Rockledge Ruby Lee LeFors Bet ty and Naomi Clemmons of Funeral services are to be held at 2 Wednesday at the Assem bly of God Burial will be in Fairview STAMPS WEATHER FORECAST cloudy this uml G Tuday 7 R D 10 11 311 38 40 40 42 12 Noon 44 1 Yesterdays 63 minimum Pneumonia Fatal To Song Writer NEW The death of Lorenz Larry has parted one of the most suc collaborations of the Amer ican the songwriting team of Rodgers and Hart which had turn ed out such hit tunes as My Heart Stood The Blue The Girl and With a Song in My who wrote the lyrics while Richard Rogers the mu died last night of The two men had worked together since writing more than 25 musical shows and BUY VICTORY STAMPS CHARLES RAY DIES Charles who gained na tional fame for his portrayal of bumpkin roles on the silent died at today aft er a long of Marshalls appoint ment to the unprecedented Allied leadership position is one of the ma jor current accomplishments in United Nations measures for the global prosecution of the Another accomplishment is be to be an impending action to bring China more fully into the forefront of United Nations thereby emphasizing the nature of Allied world organization as out lined at the recent Moscow confer This impending development may take the form of participation by Generalissimo Chiang in the widely nowhere of President Prime Minister Church ill and Premier The delay in making announce of Marshalls selection for the top command may be explained this way President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill desire co present to the world a finished product with respect to the high command or and a picture of whole hearted unity with There is every expectation in Washington that Marshall will be at work in London well before the end of the Considerable credence also attach ed by observers here to reports that when the Italian campaign has reached a satisfactory point General Dwight Allied Medi terranean will take over as American chief of suc VICTORY STAMPS 1 Paul McNutt described to day as so steamed up that he will quit as manpower commission er unless President Roosevelt vetoes the new father draft The sent to the White House by the senate on a voice vote yes strips McNutt of authority over selective It also is de signed to slow down or halt the draft of prewar fathers but indicated it would not bring a bout any radical changes in present McNutt formally told the sen ate that the legislation sabotaged sound One senator declared he had heard the manpower chief was so up about this that he has indicated he would resign if the president signs the McNutt declared in his letter to the senate that the would seri weaken he manpower pro gram by divorcing military and civilian manpower BUY STAMPS NEWS PROMISED Ad miral Chester comman of the Pacific has directed development to the ut most of the presentation of news of the Pacific Secretary of the Navy Knox said Garage 600 S Cuyler Ph 51 Two Fronts rty The Germans widened their main zone of counterattacks in the Uk raine along a 20mile font between and today as frozen earth on tlie Russian front facilitated the maneuvers of increasing numbers of mobile Less but still strong tacks were reported at other prin cipal points of contact from the White Russian sector at to the river bend southwest of The army newspaper Red Star said the mul which had bogged the roads had been dried completely by the first frosts and fastmoving enemy units were prodding from soft spots in Ihe Russian lines trying to open flanks to attack by main forces of the Nazi The German high command com said the Germans had withdrawn southwest of Gomel while north of that they had secured a defensive victory against re Russian it asserted Rusian thrusts northeast of Kerch had The Swedish newspaper Svenska said the Russian air force had begun a new heavy bomb ing offensive against the Baltic ports of and Windau in Estonia and These raids were directed strictly against Ger man shipping and harbor A strong German force has laun ched a sharp counterattack on the British Eighth Army lines northwest of but was beaten back aft er two hours of official reports fro front in sector of the Eighth Army was captured Sunday by Sir Mont At the same other Eighth Army units chased the enemy from more high ground overlooking Al from Hie southeast in rugged inland United States troops attacked and wiped out a German position northwest of also without loss to them The Allied communique said that less rain fell in he last 24 but the battle front was still a sea of mud and rivers rendering most operations HUY Lebanon Regains Original Powers acting French delegate general in announced to day the reinstatement of the Leb anese chamber of deputies and re peal of the principal sections of the ordinance which had suspended the constitution of the little The announcement followed the action of the French committee on national liberation in ordering re instatement of President Bechara Khoury and promising to negotiate the question of full Khoury was arrested with several cabinet ministers after steps taken by the Lebanese government to at tain full sovereignty had aroused French HUY STAMPS Court to Review Liquor Case 23 The supreme court has agreed to review a decision that the ma officials had no right to seize alcoholic beverages transported from outside the state and consign ed to the Fort Sill military reser located within At issue specifically was the seiz ure by Oklahoma City and county officials of 225 cases of wine and liquor which the Yellow Transit was transporting from East to the FAS officers club at Fort The tenth federal circuit court ruled that the officials had no right to confiscate the liquor since the military reservation was under the jurisdiction of the fed eral there was no transportation into Oklahoma for delivery or use VICTORY STAMPS FACTORIES SEIZED Nazis have seized 230 factories in Germany textile for conversion to munitions plants because of the rate at which the reich is fallig behind in the battle of it was re ported RAF With Small Losses the heaviest aerial bombardment in the RAF engulfed Berlin last night with fire and explosives thundered down from More than tons of high explosives and diaries were dropped on the worlds largest it was officially stated This surpassed the previous rec ord of tons dropped in the raid that helped lay waste to First hand accounts from Berlin correspondents of Stockholm newspapers told graphically how destruction ran through the heart of the wrecking government buildings and foreign Berlin never can recover from this the Afton tidningen quoted its sources as areas stil burning from the heavy raid last Thursday night were smash ed Strong formations of daylight bombers roared across the English channel to add further weight to the growing Allied effort to wreck the reich by aerial as Reports reaching Stockholm said the mighty blasting of Berlin was heavier than even the greatest raid ever launched on demolished Ham The great avalanche of bombs landed on a city parts of which still were smouldering from the big raid of last All the districts of the city of as well as the suburbs were damaged and particularly heavy devastation occurred in the center of the capital near unter Den Lin Alexander Platz and Friedrich said a Zurich dispatch to the Stockholm Twentysix bombers were lost in the great Berlin raid and subsidiary operations which included Mosquito bomber attacks on western Germany and in enemy The tonnage of bombs cascaded on the German capital probably ex the long tons dropped on Hamburg in the last big raid on that city in Returning pilots said despite a solid cloud overcast they could see for 70 miles the great sea of flames and explosions in Berlin today is covered by a huge black cloud of Swedish cor respondents We have had horrible hours messaged the Stockholm Afton bladet correspondent from Berlin burned throughout the Great sections of dwelling including are a flaming sea of A great num government buildings were Returning pilots reported the cloud cover over Berlin was so thick See BERLIN Page 8 as Dies Last Night The senate today mourned the death of Warren New Jersey opponent of Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City mil thread manufacturer and onetime amateur heavyweight box ing who was succumber to heart disease last night after a brief illness in his Washington His death followed within 24 hours the fatal injuring of William Ditter in an air plane crash and the death from heart disease of B Steagall Barbour was appointed to the senate in 1932 to succeed the late Dwight Defeat ed for reelection in he was re two years later for the unex term of Senator Harry who resigned to become gov ernor of New It was in this election that Barbour defeated the candidate sponsored by He subsequently was elected in 1940 for a At the age of 22 he had fought as an amateur boxer and was billed as the Millionaire His coming so closely after that of Ditter and recalled the warning of George capitol physician a few weeks ago that congress was overworked and and that it was severely tax ing its health by not taking a re BUY VICTORY STAMPS Panhandle Officer Gains Promotion 23 The war department today an temporary promotions of Texas including 2nd to 1st Panhandle Alfred Masons Lemons Box By GLADWIN HILL AT AN RAF BOMBER BASE IN THE was a great sea of flames and explosions which even through a solid cloud overcast could be seen for 70 miles by fliers returning last night from what was probably the Allies heaviest attack of the The some of whom went through the London blitz and were getting their first chance to give it back to the German com that they didnt see how the city could hold out under many such And their success in the despite what once were re garded as impossible pointed to only one thing Tho raids are going to be continued probably in force until Berlin and the Germans are The rentable pathfind er system by which he bombers ar rived over Berlin to find their tar get plainly outlined in flares drop ped by advance planes turned the clouds to The were so thick that the Germans apparently were unable to get their off the ground the boys returning here didnt see a single German plane and the enemy must have figured it useless even to try a searchlight All Berlin could do was to cringe and take tossing up a great bar rage of From a force number ing possibly a thousand or more bombers it took a toll scarcely more than would be expected from en gine trouble or other The bombers hit Berlin at about 8 in one of the earliest at tacks They took off in late afternoon from fields all over Brit forming a loose proces sion across the then tightening up over the heart of to deliver a solid knockout All the destruction was rammed home in about half an It was midnight when the static of the control tower ra dio came a hoarse but cheery voice U for Uncle U for See PILOTS Page 8 Students to Get Holiday Pampa public schools will dismiss classes tomorrow afternoon for the Thanksgiving L Sone said Classes will end at 4 Wed and students will have Thursday and Friday returning to school on Monday A majority of Pampa in those who signed the agree ment last will be closed all day Todays Best LAFF SPECIAL REDUCTION SAN Ralph Ruthe received an order from a soldier overseas for a ring Just the size of tlie circle on this But obtaining the correct wasnt as simple as that the jeweler The soldiers letter was on re Just Look Ladies We have Na tional Pressure Lewis Hardware
