The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 147, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 5, 1942 Page: 1 of 6
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GOOSE CIEEK. TEXAS.
EBAY.
IR BLITZ AG
assigns Cross Don South Of Stalingrad
W Drive S\L . I Wet Grid Awaits Lee, Reagan
I
;w Drive
jpon Rostov
Launched
udden Stab bv Shock
Lops Is New Threat
po Nazis Facing Trap
,w Dec. 5. (UB-Rusalan
„ troops, lashing out sudden-
l„ * new direction southwest
Stalingrad, have crossed the
,er half of the Don river bend
the west bank at three Imoor-
it nolnta and have driven their
taeaiis ll» nnles beyond the
^special dispatches reported
la their new attack, shifting
spearheads westward, the
ns were driving along the
id toward Rostox at the
ith of the Don. key to the
is, 240 miles southwest of
•ad. :'?-V: Afcr’"-'
Phase
Their sudden Jhove had pu*
dr battle for the annihilation of
e treat Axis armiss trappeu he-
wn the Volga and the Don into
I completely new phase.
j Already, dispatches said, the
L ssians had driven through a
jiber of heavily fortified vil-
froday's noon communique said
southwest of Stalingrad the-
had overrun several
fortified positions and
Strayed 10 dugouts and 40 pill
'at The midnight communique
I reported the recapture of a
_„lified village and 30 dugouts.
I In;their overnight operations the
* •"•• destroyed five eqemy
Bi-Distrct Tilt Is Played Here Joday
'Primed to battle each other to
the last ditch—and beyond that
If necessary—the Robert E. Lee
t Genders and the John Reagan
Bulldogs collide here at Elms field
at 3 pan. today. .
Rain that began pouring down
at 7:30 n.m. and which contin-
ued to fail in spurts during the
- Jtioming, left little doubt the
game would bo played on a soggy
field The weather was expected
to hamper the Gander speed mqr-
upon wide open offenses that
would go best on sound footing.
Advance sale of tickets last
night had reached the 13000-mark,
and an almost capacity crowd is
expected. There still remain good
setts, and tickets .will be avail-
able at the stadium gates for 31.10.
Dates at the field will swing
open at l p.m., and all ticket
holders, regardless of where their
asked by
In the weat end tone
seats are, have been
■ aoBWB-WpirtrtienilMit
chants and at the same time add of schools, to cet to their seats
to the chances of the heavier early.
Reagan ball carriers. Only 75 of the 1600 tickets from
.The wliBW.cops the bi-distrlct IWugton were returned last night,
championships of districts 13 and They will be sold here, and thoy
14/A and with it the added as- ar« good forr seats in the North
signment of meeting the Austin stahda ar ‘ ‘
Maroons in a quarterfinal game softs,
next week. ' ■ ' :
Negotiations for that contest
likely"will be completed immedi-
ately after the game here this af-
ternoon. Austin coaches are ex-
pected to witness the same.
The teams are both ready for
their crucial game, but they have
not been conditioned to fight the
weather too. Both teams will rely
squabble between Port Arthur and
Beaumont. In 1938 Reagan won
from Port Arthur. In 1939 Stephen
F. Austin defeated South Park,
Jeff Davis declsloned Port Arthur
in 1940,'and Lamar defeated Lee
last year. •
"We're not depending very
stiongly on the law of averages,”
Coach Stallworth said this morn-
ing. "The only chance we have to
win is to stop Wilton Ferrell and
then to play our best offensive
game of the season. Reagan will
be our sternest foe of the cam-
paign thus far.”
The Gunders met in the Lee
gymnasium at 9:30 a m. today and
went immediately to the Baytown
Community building whore they
stayed in seclusion until 11:30.
■ «... IP'After a lunch at the Bayto.vn
j eagan and Lee will be mttt* dormitory, the squad moved back
inf for the fourth time in the hfa- to the dressing room and began
tory of the two schools. Reagan the task of wrapping ankles and
won each of the other three donning their uniforms,
games, once in 1928 and again in
Port of
In _ .
Fighting In Ti
Patrol Activity by British Near El Agheila
Seen as Indication Attack To Be Launched
„ _v. j _ SSSv >' -■
LONDON. Dec. 5. CR> -Allied air forces oj
on southern Italy with a heavy daylight
reinforcement port for Africa, it was annot
Allied armies in Tunisia rushed up reinfo
0,1 Tpiane«nof^h“rMiddle Eastern command, probably !
fiiates Flying Fortresses, attacked and other
' ' vl
a Cairo
nXTW
*
THIS MAP
>WS the main
IP SHO’
in their auftinm offensive
Red army is reported to have
“ - to the north. Slaughter of trapped
ts of attack by the Russian*
DO miles of battle line. Th«*
the Germans from Rzhev and
German forces before
1931 and 1933.
Lee-'will be trying to win the
rst decision for district 14 since
36. In 1937, there was no cham-
on in the district due to the
Stalingrad continue* as theiwsSans advanced in still another
drive southwest of GroM$..
'
Outstanding Man
Will Be Chosen
Reagan moved into the Tre-
aties just before noon and wf*.'<
quartered, with Coach Lamar
Camp in the visiting dreasing
room on the first floor of the
gym 'V-
Goodfellows Have One Job
* fv
To Give Needy Tots Christmas
THIS SANTA ANNA is flght-
?( ing under the American fin*.
A direct descendant of Gen.
yesterday,
revealed.
Mention in the
the first time In
activity along the Aids
line on the Libyan coaat
srastirASs. ,
apparently was making final
pa rations for attack there,
renewed offensive aimed at driv-
ing the Afrlka Korpa back
Tripoli and Tunisia, 47#
westward.
Genoa Closed
iwbrciless attack* extending to the
Touth from the new Allied posi-
tions in north Africa.
Heavy bombers based on Brit-
ain attacked Turin
night, before the
Sunday night, after ...
the attacks on southern Italy
had begun. ; 4 ‘
. With Genoa cioaed to shipping,
according to reconnaissance re-
ports as the reault of
— it, Napiq*
sued on unt-
in Saturday
Ttk si
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Biggest News in History
1942 Unparalleled in?World Events
* and 24 field gun* and killed
,l 1500 new —
‘ Forces. Page 3) has b
iix Members of
i of Ruling
a,K£aiwv'p«i»" ape*
asSs-SS tr 27£*mmw
- m "ten biggest” stories of 1042. j, American invasion of North
I* UsiMA I AlinPlI INcver before has the succes- Africa, the rout of Rommel, and
IV ildlllc VUUIILII sive crash of events put such an scflttHrig nf French fleet.
hour-by-hour strain on repor- 2 japanege conquest of Phil-
, T , ngutaf ‘°d
dy To Be Selected : 3. iw
Six members of- it<: m~‘ •• ' *-■-*- ----- *'
■1 Scout council
Monday in the regular lunch-
and business meeting of the
Mrs. R. W. Pipkin, mem-
chairman, announced to-
!*• "Wr'
The meeting will be held at
:3° p. m Monday at the Waf-
‘ Sh°P in Baytown , and Mrs.
. C. Farrar, commissioner, will
Four members of the council
terms expire are Mrs.
Jones, camping chairman,
Chester Rogers, publicity
Jaycees Lay Plans for
Annual Honor Award
A committee of Tri-Cities men
today was commissioned by the
- Tri-Cities Junior Chamber of
**£sr»« fsrxsz
inter-related and many of Tri-Cities.” ,
V-
NeriMMlr acknowlodged *23,05
at all stores, cafes, filling tpr
Priscilla Am, Morris 1.00 stations and other public places. Aril, is taking pre-night traln-
Instrument Dept. T " . ' You can leave a nickle^or a dhae jlag at San Antonio. . ■
_ ,.«otured u" ,l* hid become the
Houston. Avta^n CmA Though apparently the United
m
^av« sonrnthiiig.
R. “Bob” iBgertaU.......... MO
Or a buck.
iIIh
States
' of.ite
(Sec
MW*
Tri-Cities.’
Names of the committee, like
the Identity of the young man
to receive the Junior Chamber
of Commerce gold key In recog-
nition of achievement, will not
be revealed until late in January
when the annual meeting of the
organization la held., •
The Jaycees are now laying
plans for the election of new of-
ficers at the second Monday in
January and the intallation ban-
quet at the second Monday in
’ “11
“SS Manpower Punle Unsolved
you must understand just wnat SjL Prl.cilla Am Mowis^'™?nd RoOSeVelt MlifTl Oil NeW PrOgrdW
the Goodfellows do every Christ- Billy Bounds. Thanks to
mas to be willing to help-and, folkf:-
By CHIEF GOODFELLOW
-
fare League, the Parent-Teacher
Thrift Exchange, to all school of-
ficials and to everybody in gen-
eral and 'say: 1 ‘ *''
‘There are a
lot of kids around
Raid Warning
Test Monday
mtf '
5. i|t.r» _ nounce the new manpower set-
• " during
s belief
his press conference,
was based largely
d <&i$*
aald hi ha* abandoned
Tri-OUea whtehTere "of" such vital ^ beginning with its stand at ^t month. The award will be Chrtetmas morning and not havj
£££. zaw“' *ysa. ^ bee* — n. VS£2£{XZ£rm
and Immediate concern to
many people."
He paid tribute to the UP’*
corps of war correspondent*
“who are doing their work under
fire at the various fronts with
painstaking devotion to accuracy
and fairness.”
Because of the uncommonly
large number of big stories
Yount, who received it last year,
was the second.
pairman, J, ft
ira
and the other domestic. Some
were chosen for their dramatic
fin- "o'* ‘
impact
ijHnpi
4. Battles of Coral sea and
Midway which repulsed Japanese
^American offenaive at Guad-
alcanal in the Solomon island*. The Jaycees also have laid
6. Allied air attacks on Ger- plans for the installation of an
man and Italian cities, which honor plaque to bear the names
marked Joss of air superiority by of Tri-Citians who have died in
Axis in Europe. the Current war. A committee
7. Doolittle's raid on Tokyo. consisting of Jack Stoltz, H. H.
involving U. S. Bardin and A. M. Goul, has been _ _ _ |
named to complete plans for the Jive ring them-but It also is a lot
plaque, decide it* location and to of pleasure. And it’s a pleasure
work up the list of names. Stoltz you get a chance to enjoy all to
Eddie Rick- has asked that any person, whe- yourself—and just once a year,
Jwho' has iosi WR* In this -
2. Republican gains in off-year war, contact any member of the
pnrtment Xmas club, C. R. Inger-
soll. Priscilla Ann Morris, and
•II you ^
Raid W,radar, . ^
rCA8kedf°at arn°pUre”mconference X’labinri^and^on Green's com-
whether there was anything he ment.
# could report on the manpower v. -
The communications set-up In situation, the president said no
East Harris county's civilian dc- L~‘ --------- u,‘ ......."*
fense organization, particularly «u«b um >»»«"".| - —
as ti pertains to air raid warn-
ing, '
1 •
thfe town who could wake
Monthly Oil Hearing
To Be Held Oet.^
which broke In 1M2, the UP ^ Dtepw'riel Involvi
made two lists of the “ten big- -aMd Canadian troops,
gest,” one covering foreign news Fallure ot Cripp,
______ A Cripps mission
and arrest of Gandhi.
Former Resident Here
Is Dead hi Houston •'1W.gryaa » ”
•- Infonhaton^concernlng anf tpl-
Zlng* .‘1!"' u°l MS! SS to Jhe Sun office, or dron
_
tions that something would
statewide action in which the C ^dmintetraUon a b
'ZTZT^Lrt/Z theaVe^nt0was reminded ToLy Zr^considToil
call^ilf'be^rete^d^^o^the com ^^S^SS^SVvt STfiX."* ^
^“SeCri sr;s „^f,ru;U““ryur2s;
pass it on to the members of his „v ^ly." The commUsloa also issued to-
unus' Mr. Roosevelt said he hoped
No alarm wilt be sounded and so, but that he was not rr< sk-
tbe public will not be asked to ing any proms
take part, George L. Keene, civ- to discus* the
ilian defense- coordinator for- Titfere had ..........—-
bottle being placed East Harris county said. that Mr- Roosevelt might an- production.
ery ont ; of these youngsters gets
something.”
That's all there is to the Good- ;
fellowi, -
Of course, it’s a lot of work
making bags, buying toys, collect- !
iog money, packing bags and de- *
A am coranuMiw«e w
day schedule* listing the various
fields with gas-oil ratios and as-
fl^S
;4
. -1
aaa,
Nresses aie Army Post Offices
Nmbered from 827 to 835 must
we their contenu listed with the
of each article shown . . .
rfW Roc helle is not io hot on
Wiz' answers . . . he
-, on two tunes on a Cali-
Cr« broadcast appearance the
^.r ni«ht . , Gander fans ccr-
n|y expended considerable en-
ty last night in art work only
m°st of it nullified by this
''ng s heavy dew . . . Jimmie
being hunted by a stranger
‘ out of town . . . Jess Fayle
ring he gave away 3000 to-
“ Plants last seasqg . . . Har-
8iZ". entering with vigor into
“sion on the price of pe-
Nr*- A. E. Drew finding
tin - Hatt Place to park in the
ii«-a4 „By the way. folks, the
» ir® Gander fund tubs will be
p ball game this afternoon
C, gardiess of what happens,
k iiM,reward the youngsters for
, ^e"done ■ • • Wln-
'5 d«w- they still are the
or L bays in the nation ...
o Rochelle making his way
wwn for- business reasons
„Jones admitting a trip
veaar Bayou yesterday to take
Ho ,f * sick frtend.
Porte: Irby Boone never
Nor
that she would fight unless we ment consistent with our princi- demonstrate
gave her what she wanted. Japan pies. So the talks began
wanted, as the price of peace, Ambassador Kichisaburo
Miss Elizabeth Woerner, exe-
Mive secretary of the council, ,
a* recently returned from Dal-
where she attended the con- ... ___ .—,— ,..
*e Girl Scouters, Page 2> subsequent
__ 'Ter,™ ,„d r-r, or
WD TOWIJ Sl.orie, Ta Riinn fiarrienn
'VSStXTS.iz To Buna oamson E„m)R,N0TCi
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J. T. Conely, two daughters, Mrs. for armed service and registra- Q AITrERS, A , • forwd u^n u» in the Pacific. It complete political, economic and mura, supplied with three trunks-
ssfJrJBJ'cjS i-sjsSoSisfs ^•mssr- SAasaafa:
affs4r?Bii.,s our j&tcaraftK
brothers, E. J Berthe of Goose tour nHes bv Zrachu^ on He Buna tion ^ inside develop- persuade China io come to peace mura and expressed hope that
Creek and Jesse Berthe of Hous- 9. War bond and scrap metal n»tita of the so-called “peace ne- with Japan, on Japan's terms. the ambassador had something
ton a cousin, Mrs. P. C. Wade of campaigns. « hm, Guinea coast Gen Doualas Mac- 80,1*tions" of hut year in Wash- The United States refused. constructive to offer. Nomura
Goose Creek: and four grand-chll- lO Prime Minister Churehdls Gtama coast Gen Douglas Mac |^,on Tinoughout those touch-and-go talked of liberalized desire for a
dren. visit to A^rica r^, d“ U8‘ AX bTaTawnese Zncs with months, Secreta.y of State Cor- peaceful settlement of Pacific
earller_residenU o, « with President Ro.se %i$£222Sl del. Hub labored with honor and " *
about 100 bundles of supplies ^T(^^nd'n‘) _ .
yesterday morning over the WASHINGTON Dec 5 ilJP-A
Buna mission area while 14 year ago .todaj.^ Japanese airplane
25ero fighters watched for an
Allied challenge.
It was Indicated, however, that
the planes dropped their supplies
and fled before Allied fighters
the area.
One of the
the Tri-Oties, Mrs. Conely was a
member of the Grace Methodist
church and was active la both
the Priscilla Sewing club and thf
Goose Creek Garden club.
m
Striptease Blackout
Ordered on Broadway
NEW YORK, Dec. 5. Cl)—Pro-
ducers of several Broadway
shows were “cleaning up” their
lines today in fear they may be
next in a purity drive that clos-
..r t'Wi
Paraguay Under Martial
Law After Army Revolt
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 5. tli.Ri—
Usually reliable reports said to-
day that Asuncion, capital of
Paraguay, had been under near-
martial law since Sunday fol-
lowing thef arrest of several
army and nflvyLiu*1 was apparent that the enemj
leaders of the ' forces were In serious position,
can party, who opposed exten-
sion
could get to — ----- ..,v
YAt least four and probably
five of six determined Japanese
attempts to get reinforcements
to the garrison hemmed )n at
Gona and Buna had failed. It
that the enemy
For a year Japan talked peace
and made preparations for war.
of the presidency of Hlr-
ginio Morenigo.
Chief of Police Mushuito VH-
lasboa reportedly ordered the ar-
rest of two cavalry majors, Quin-
tin Parlni and Rafael Cristaldo,
after they protested Morenigo
appointments.
Churchill Warns War
Tenshm Nears Climax
ed the show “Wine, Women and
Song,” and placed its producer
and managers in jeopardy of
jail sentences.
The theater where burlesque
Queen Margie Hart and fan dan-
cer Noel Toy did their stuff,
was dark last night following
the decision of a jury of seven
men and five women that their
show was indecent. . “
t^verct* Pe ‘:
The prefect of the port of
Asuncion, a naval captain named
Paez. also was reported arrest-
ed,’ while rebellious jarrisons at
Checo and Campo Grande were
l-WMSPSW.,,
UftLl
SSSfl
ERADFORD, England, Dee, A
Minister Winston
ressing worker*
a war factory, said today
the war was approaching
moat tense period, warning that
the “hard core of Nazi reatet-
" had not yat
, ,~‘
carriers were sliding stealthily to-
ward Pearl Harbor for the Dec.
7 attack. This treacherous on-
slaught had been carefully
planned, and. it now can be re-
vealed that Japan long Intended
to fight us if we would not give
in to her,demands.
>r a year
made pr<.
As the showdown neared her tone
became openly ominous.
Japan made it clear in Novem-
ber of last year that she was be-
coming impatient: that If she
were preferred to do it soon.
Japan told this government on
Pec. 1, 1941, that she felt she
must either surrender to the Unit-
ed States or fight us.
Six days later Japan struck at
Peari Harbor.
Haute. But he offered no concrete
shining patriotism to avert what plan. ; '
tlfc Japanese war lords were fore- On April 18, Hull gave Nomura
ing upon us. :i four-point statement of princi-
But on Dec. 1, 1941, hte patience pies to which Japan's agreement
ealea
demonstrate peaceful intention*
by withdrawing troops from Indo-
china. The troops were not with-
drawn. On July 26 the United
States took a sharp counter-meas-
ure by freezing Japanese assets
in the United States.
Trade between Japan and the
Urated State* virtually ceased.
On Aug. 17 President Roosevelt
returned from his Atlantic
ter conferenc ' " “ '
ter Wit
discussed
ill
H firm I
SK2
iflcd
Tre
shows that
a* far back as January
thin after the War talk from Ja-
pan's emissaries and after Japan
had violated peaceful assertions
by massing troops in Indo-China,
Hull told the Japanese:
“We will not allow ouselves to
be kicked out of the Pacific.”.
In January, 1941, private soul*-
es brought informally to the
American government a sugges-
tion that Japan would welcome
an opportunity to shift away from
her Axis ties and modify her at-
titude toward China, with whom
she had been at war since July,
1937.
But the United States embassy
in Tokyo, through channels re-
garded as reliable, also heard that
Japan intended to strike without
warning at Pearl Harbor if the
United States would not become
a party to Japan’s t
a Far Eastern over
The United States,
was desired
1. Respect for territorial integ-
rity and the sovereignty of na-
tions.
2. Support of the principle of
nttn-interference in internal af-
fair* of other countries.
3. Support of the principle of
equality, including equality of
commercial opportunity.
4. Nor.-dlsturbance «f, the sta-
tus quo in the Pacific, except as
it might be altered by peaceful
moans.
Nomura came-back on May 12
with a proposal that the United
af- veil from
noye. who i
figSLT SPifiSf
patently would he unacc
L, the Chiang Kai-Shek ,
j
ideas of In
r sequence, ticai Of Japan s
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Pendergraft, W. L. The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 147, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 5, 1942, newspaper, December 5, 1942; Goose Creek, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1100590/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.