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THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
IN FIFTY-SECOND YEAR
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 3, 1943
MEMBER UNITED PRESS
No. 285
BERLIN BLASTSED AGAIN BY RAF
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Report Says ‘Big Three’
Passed Ultimatum For
Complete Surrender
Marine Raiders
Kill 200 Japs On
Bougainville
$7,500 Ennis
War Fund Quota
$22,000 Ellis
War Fund Quota
Texans Generous
In Purchase of Red
Cross Xmas Seals
confirmation
was present-
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Esther Biggins, 38,
Makes Statement
Confessing Guilt
War Correspondents
Missing After Raid
Over Nazi Capital
Lt. James Mulkey
Arrives Safely At
Overseas Station
Thurs.
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Loaded Transport
Sunk By U. S. Planes
In Bismarck Sea
Relative Of
Ennis Lady Died
In Missouri Wed.
Held In Iran For
Convenience
Premier Stalin
Powerful Blows
Against Japanese
Expected Soon
Ankara Paper Says
Historical Meet
Now Under Way
The southern tip of South Amer
ica. is farther south than the sou-
thern tip of Africa.
Sea sickness is caused by the ef-
fect of the motion of the boat on
the semi-circular canals of the in-
ner'ear-
The Senior Class met Wednesday
December 2, 1943. Plans were made
for a Christmas party in the gym
on December 14. It was decided to
bring gifts; these will be given to
the Empty Stocking Fund.
Paper is organic matter, having
been produced from pulp - of liv-
ing trees.
New York
March __
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COTTON
Cotton closed 11 to 13 points
down.
Hundreds of RAF heavy bombers swung back over Ber-
lin last night and set the Nazi capital blazing anew With
1,200 to 1,500 tons of bombs, amid increasing speculation
that the United Nations leaders are drafting an ultimatum
to Germany to surrender unconditionally or face total de-
struction from land and air.
Resumption of the fog-bound bombing offensive on Ber -
lin came as Allied armies sent the Nazis reeling in retreat
from their broken winter line below Rome and powerful
Soviet forces smashed into the German defenses in White
Russia and the Dnieper Bend.
The RAF night raiders, returning to the attack after a
five-night lull imposed by bad weather, lashed out against
Berlin under a bright bombers’ moon that spotlighted their
sprawling target clearly and at the same time cost them
their heaviest losses of the current bombing offensive.
Swarms of German night fighters and hundreds of anti-,
aircraft batteries slashed at the British Armada all the
way from the North Sea to Berlin and back, shooting down
41 of the 600-odd bombers ’involved in the main assault
and in subsidiary light attacks on Western Germany.
Early reports indicated the raid had added heavily to
the devastation created in Berlin during the past two
weeks. During that period, the German capital has been
hit by 7,500 tons of blockbusters and fire bombs—a de-
structive tonnage equal to that dropped on London during
the 11 months of; the 1940-41 blitz.
CLOSE-UP OF A FOXHOLE: A foxhole is a place where there’s very little between life and
death—often as little as five bullets. One tablespoonful of your used kitchen grease will fire
five bullets!
Connally Speaks Negress Held For
On 3-Power Meet Arson In Connection
Now InProgress Burning House Here
J.—
Old
Senior Class Plans
Christmas Party At
Meeting Wednesday
Huon peninsula, directly opposite
U. S. Britain May
Use Soviet Bases
As Bomber Fleets
The Hindenburg was the first
airship to make regular trips be-
tween the United States and Eu-
rope.
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C. W- Ballew, 85, brother-in-law
of Mrs. W. H Wheeler, died at his
home in Glasgow, Mo., Wednes-
day, Dec. 1, according to a message
received here.
tributions to further
work in Texas.
One letter from a
to print a book in England-
The nautical pronunciation
“leeward” is “loo-ward.”
William Caxton was the first
three Allied leaders might offer
safety guarantees to the German
people should they join in over-
throwing Hitler, Connally said:
“Well, that’s pure speculation.
We’ve got to break the spirit of
these people. They have joined
Hitler with their militarism. I be-
lieve we ought to occupy their
country for sufficient time to al-
low us to work cut our peace plans’
London, Dec- 3 (UP).—Three war
correspondents—Lowell Bennett of
International News Srvice, Nor-
man Stockton of Australia, and a
third whose name and nationallly
were not immediately disclosed—
were missing today in the Royal
Air Force night raid on Berlin.
treasurer to
fill the unexpired term of John
Horan who is now in the Armed
Forces of our country.
Games and refreshments were
planned also, and pictures were tak
en of the Senior home rooms.
Within less than four months
after her home at 204 S. Owens
Street was in smoldering ashes
Tuesday afternoon, Esther Biggins,
38, Negress, was being held for
questioning by City officers in con-
nection with the fire that destroy-
ed another residence and damaged
three more. . . ,
After being held while the in-
vestigation was being conducted
for two days the negress yester-
day made a written statement to.
Assistant District Attorney F. L.
Wilson and Ciy Marshal Hugh
Fitzgerald in which she admitted
setting fire to her home. Charges
of arson were filed against her and
she is now in the county jail at
Waxahachie. Bond was fixed at
$1,000.
The suspicion of the officers was
aroused when neighbors of the
negress reported having seen her
carry furniture and clothing from
her residence to a vacant cuthouse
, on the lot preceeding the fire- The
articles stored away were found by
the officers, who say that prac-
tically everything of value belong-
ing’ to the negress had been re-
moved from the residence.
In her statement she said she
had started the fire by pouring
kerosene on the walls and lighting
it. The residence was the joint pro-
perty of the confessed arsonist and
her sister, both of whom occupied
the house. A dispute over the. divi-
sion of the property began several
years ago soon after they inherit-
ed it. Burning the property and
collecting the $400 insurance was'
the negress’ opinion of how a just
and amicable division could be
made, she said.
The residence of Alice Trept was
destroyed by the fire and the An-
nie Carroll residence as well as a
vacant house all adjoining the Big
gins residence, were damaged. The
home of Lee Bohanan, on S. Mc-
Kinney, was also damaged when
the roof caught on fire.
The arrest of the negress was
made by City Marshal Hugh Fitz-
gerald and City officer Jack Lum-
mus.
Allied Headquarters, Algiers,
Dec- 3 (UP)—A big formation of
American Liberator bombers
probably knocked out the main
railway link between Germany
and northern Italy again yester
day with a pinpoint raid on Bol-
zano just below the Brenner
Pass, it was revealed today.
attorney read: “Herewith I gladly
enclose you two dollars to coVer
Christmas seals mailed me. It gives
me pleasure to contribute this
small bit to such a grand cause. I
hope that in the use of these seals
at Christmas time I may arouse in
some tired person’s heart a child’s
hope, faith and love—in this war
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Meet Secretly To Huge R-A.F. Bombers
Map Out Plans Tn D_:
London, Dec. 3 (UP)—An Istan-
bul dispatch passed by the British
censorship said today that Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and Premier
Stalin, in conference in Iran, were
drafting an ultimatum to Germany
to surrender unconditionally or suf
fer total destruction by bombing.
The dispatch, bearing the cen-
sorship notation, “passed for public
ation',” was carried by the British
exchange telegraph agency an
said that, according to news from
Ankara, the “Big Three” had be-
gun their historic conference at
Tabriz, 350 miles northwest of Teh-
ran and only 60 miles south of the
Russian border.
A broadcast by the Nazi Vichy
radio also said the meeting had
begun at Tabriz and asserted that
Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill were
accompanied by Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery, commander of the
British Eighth Army now in Italy.
There has been widespread spec-
ulation that the three heads of
states wond disenss details of an
Allied squeeze on the Balkans with
British and possibly American
troops hopping off from Italy, the
Levant or Africa and-the Red Ar-
my thrusting from the east. Mont-
gomery’s troops now hold Bari and
Brindisi, the two main ports in
southeastern Italy from which It-
aly began her invasions of Jugo-
slavia, Albania and Greece.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, su-
preme ccmander in the Mediter-
ranean, presided over a meeting of
some of his Mediterranean staff
in Egypt immediately following
the Roosevelt- Churchill- Chiang
conference, but there has been no
Herttenberger, Sgt. Louis
Beno Herttenberger, father,
Glory.
During the meeting
East Texas—Mostly cloudy with
occasional thundershowers near
the coast and extreme south por-
tion; partly cloudy and cooler else
where today; partly cloudy near
the coast; generally fair in inter-
rior; cooler tonight; temperatures
4 near freezing northwest and ex-
5 treme north portion; Saturday part
ly cloudy, cooler south portion.
Allied Headquarters, Algiers, j
Dec. 3 (UP)—British troops, over
coming desperate German rear-
guards near the Adriatic, have
captured Castelfrentano, a com-
munique announced today, while
the Allied Fifth Army advanced
on one sector of its front in It-
aly against mine fields and bar-
bed wire entaglements.
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With Eighth Army, North of the Sangro, Dec. 1 (UP)
—Scared-looking German stragglers, bedraggled, cold
and helpless, streamed in today to surrender to the
advancing Eighth Army as the main Nazi force re
treated from its smashed lines above the Sangro River.
Allied guns and bombs created more wreckage than I
have ever seen in a battlefield or a war-torn village and
turned into a hopeless task the enemy orders to hold
their main defense ridge above the Sangro at all costs.
Allied Headquarters, Algiers,
Dec. 3 (UP).—Allied troops have
pounded out hard-won gains on
both flanks of the Ttaliari front,
it was announcep today, with :
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
ery’s Eighth Army capturing the
strongly-fortified town of Cas-
telfrentano in a 24-hour battle
and lunging on against bitter
German resistance.
The minuet, a dance once fa-
mous in the courts of Europe, was
made popular in America by Geor-
ge and Martha Washington.
By United Press
A secret conference between
Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Au-
stralian Prime Minister John Cur-
tin foreshadowed a major turn in
the Far Eastern war toady as allied
attack forces battered the Japan-
ese from end to end of the vast
Pacific battle line.
Disclosure of the conference, fol-
lowing the Cairo pronouncement
that Japan would be crushed and
stripped of her war-won empire,
revived speculation that powerful
new blows against the Japanese
are imminent, at least in the Sou-
thwest Pacific and probably thro-
oughout the Far East.
"The war effort of Australia is
now entering upon a new phase,”
Curtin said on his return to Can-
berra from the conference. “The
defensive stage has passed and the
initiative has been gained from
the enemy.”
Curtin made it clear that his
meeting- with MacArthur had cov-
ered “important” decisions affect-
ing the Pacific war which would
become evident as the Allied bat-
tle plan unfolds.
As they met, American and Al-
lied forces struck devastating new
blows against the Japanese on New
Guinea, New Britain and Bougain-
ville islands and powerful units of
the U.S. Pacific battle fleet were
reported massing off the Gilbert
Islands to meet a possible Japan-
ese counter-offensive in the mid-
Pacific.
MacArthur’s communique reveal-
ed that Allied bombers had ripped
again at’the newly-reinforced Ja-
panese air base at Wewak, New
Guinea, while other raiders blast-
ed enemy installations on the .wes-
tern coast of New Britain in a pos-
sible prelude to the invasion of
that island.
Australian ground troops simul-
taneously closed in for a frontal
assault against the remaining Ja-
panese troops on New Guinea’s
Austin, Texas, Dec. 3—The first
ten days of the 37th annual Christ-
mas seal sale to finance the fight
against tuberculosis, “once again
proves that Texans are the most
generous people in the world when
it comes to support of causes they
believe in,” according to Pansy
Nichols, executive secretary of the
Texas Tuberculosis Association. •
As evidence of the interest peo-
ple in this state are taking in the
campaign against tuberculosis, Miss
Nichols picked out a few letters
from the thousands enclosing con-
King, Pfc. Charles L.—Mrs. Mar-
5 tha L King, mother, Boyd.
, Ledesma, Pfc. Domingo S.—Mrs.
- ‘ Guadalupe Ledesma, Mother, San
Antonio.
McNeeley, 2nd Lt. Jeff—Mrs.
Bessie M. McNeeley, mother, Idal-
ou.
Sprague, Capt. John F—Mrs.
Minna Sprague, mother, Dallas.
Tatum, 2nd Lt. Jack M.—Mrs.
Bessie M. Tatum, mother, Wichita
Falls.
Killed in the Pacific area, Texas:
George, Cpl. Raymond G—Jessie
S. George, father, Hylton.
that Montgomery
Moscow, Dec. 3 (UP).—Gen-
Konstanjin Rokossovsky has
driven the Germans from a com-
manding road junction north-
east of Zhlobin and pinned them
back against the Dnieper in a
strategic victory presaging the
capture of the White Russian
rail . hub, front dispatches re-
ported today-
Fort Worth, Tex,, Dec. 3 (UP)-—
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill car-
ried the Tripartite Conference to
Soviet’ Premier Josef Stalin “be-
cause he is actively directing his
armies in the field,” Sen. Tom
Connally, Dallas, Texas, chairman
of . the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said last night.
Connally, who had stated in a
radio speech earlier that a meet-
ing of /‘great significance is re-
ported taking place in the Mid-
dle East,” was informed of ap-
proved dispatches listing the con-
ference site as Tabriz, Iran.
The Senator admitted that he
had expected the sessions to be
held in Tehran, Iranian capital,
but presumed the altered plans
were made in order to make the
meetings more accessible to Stalin.
“They carried the conference to
Stalin because he is actively di-
recting his armies in the field and
it was necessary to make it as
handy as possible to his headquar-
ters,” Connally said-
In his radio address, Connally-
said: '
“As a result of these confer-
ences, the armies of Russia will
be strengthened, her campaign
will be buttressed and fortified and
the United resources of the Allies
will give added strength and weight
to the brave Russian people to
expel the invader. The world is
witnessing a tremendous drama
upon the global stage.”
He added that he hoped the
United States would retain for it-
self the right to bases in all oceans
“for the defense of our own land
and for preservation of the peace
of the world.”
Commenting on a rumor the
Cattle: 1200, calves 800- Fairly ac
tive and fully steady, medium and
good slaughter steers and yearlings
11.50-14.00, cutter and common
lots 7.00-11.00. Beef cows 7-50-10.00
canners and cutters mostly 4.00-
7.50. Bulls 6.50-9.50- Good and
choice fat calves 10-50- 12-00, com-
mon and medium grades 7.50-10.50,
culls 6.00-7.00- Most stocker calves
and yearlings 8.00-11.00. About 25
per cent of receipts cows.
Hogs: 1500- Active and steady on
all weights. Top 13.65, packer top
13.55; these prices paid for good
and choice 200-270 lb, butchers.
Good and choice 170-195 lbs- 12.50
13.45- Good and choice 145-165 lbs
10.25-1215. Sows 11.50-12.00. Stock-
er pigs 5.00-10-00
Sheep: 4700. All classes fully stea
dy. Good and choice fat lambs
12.50-13.50, common. and medium
lambs 7.00-11.00- Yearlings scarce-
Medium and good slaughter ewes
5.75-6.50. Common ewes 5.50 down
few culs 3.50. Feeder lambs 9.00
down.
Washington, Dec. 3 (UP)—Ar-
rangements for American and Bri-
tish bomber fleets to use bases in
the Soviet Union for their steady
blasting of Nazi' targets may log.
ically be one of the first concrete
developments of the recent Mos-
cow conference and the current
Roosevelt- Churchill- Stalin meet-
ing, tome observers believed today.
The western Allies, with, air
bases in Britain and Italy, now are
closer to most of the important
German and satellite targets than
is Russia. But the Red Armies are
surging closer to the boundaries
of the Reich and the time is not
far off when Adolf Hitler’s highly
touted European fortress—whose
glaring weakness has been describ-
ed as the lack of a bomb-proof—
will be more easily accessible by
air from Russian or Russian-held
territory, it was said.
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Mr. and Mrs. P. V. Mulkey have
received a letter from their son,
Lieut. James Mulkey, stating that
he has arrived safely in India-
Lieut- Mulkey left the States in
August, and this is the first letter
received from him. A cable was
received over a month ago, but
did not state where he was.
Ankara said newspaper Ulus, or-
gan of the Republican people’s
party, was speculating that the
Anglo- American- Russian confer-
ence would have “even greater ec-
hoes” than the Roosevelt-Church-
ill meetings at Casablanca and
Quebec.
“The President of the United
States has come a long distance
to Tehran,” it said. “Stalin has
gone outside his frontiers for the
first time. Neutrals as well as bel-
ligerents await with the greatest
interest the decisions likely to con-
cern them.”
Neutral Turkey might be drawn
into the war by an Allied request
for the use of bases from which
to bomb and perhaps invade Gre-
ece or Bulgaria.
Ulus said that it was probable
the Roosevelt- Churchill- Stalin
meeting was “at this very mo-
ment in session” at Tehran, rath-
er than Tabriz.
The Germans, anticipating a pos-
sible tri-power demand for their
surrender, already were warning
that they never would give in to
the Allies.
Allied Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific, Dec- 3 (’UP)—U.S. Marine
raiders killed 200 Japanese in a
daring foray on Bougainville, a
comunique disclosed today, and
Liberators possibly exacted a toll
of thousands more by sinking a
loaded transport and hitting two
destroyers in the Bismarck Sea.
Using the Empress Augusta Bay'
beachhead as a springboard, a
picked force of 600 Marines land-
ed three miles behind Japanese
lines, Sunday, whipped twice their
number of enemy troops and
smashed big military stores at the
enemy’s Koiaris supply concentra-
tions.
The 40-hour “hit and run” at-
tack cost the Marines 15 dead and
71 wounded, Admiral William F.
Halsey’s Soigbh Pacific Headquart-
ers said. (This raid may have been
the one which Tokyo radio several
days ago described as a new land-
ing on the Northern Solomons
stronghold.)
Another was from a mother who
purchased seals in the absence of
her son to whom they were ad-
dressed : “My son and his wife
are in the army, he is in the Air
Corps and she in the WAC. I am
sending you a dollar to pay for one
sheet of seals- Wish I could do
more, but just don’t have the mon-
.ey.”
A business firm wrote: “Enclosed
find our check for $10 in payment
of the $3 worth of Christmas
seals sent us. You may send seven
more sheets. This is a worthy cause
and we are very glad to contrib-
ute.”
From a West Texas community
came this letter written by the
brother of a soldier to whom the
seals were addressed: “My brother
is in the service, stationed in Cal-
ifornia. So I am sending you two
dollars and will send the seals to
him. ”
Many very old people are reg-
Observers believed air chief mar-
shal. Sir Arthur T, Harris, chief of
the RAF bomber command, now is
comitted to a series of 1,000 to
1,500 ton raids against Berlin un-
til the capital has been knocked'
out.
Unofficial reports said a stern
warning of that impending des-
truction will be delivered to the
Nazis by President Roosevelt,
Prime Minister Winston Church-
ill and Premiei' Stalin at a war
strategy conference that may al-
ready be in progress in' Iran.
One report said the British 8th
Army’s Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont-
• gomery was attending the Iran
meeting, suggesting the possibility
that his veterans in Italy might
London, Dec. 3 (UP)—A huge
British air fleet, resuming an of-
fensive to level the surviving two
thirds of the smouldering Nazi
capital, turned Berlin into a sea
i of fire last night with 1,200 to 1,-
500 tons of bombs.
be used for an invasion drive a-
cross the Adriatic into the Balk-
ans.
Montgomery’s army, meanwhile,
raced northward along the Adri-
atic coast in pursuit of a badly-
battered German army which had
abandoned, the eastern flank of
' its winter line after a savage, four
day pounding by the British ar-
tillery and infantrymen.
The Nazis were pulling out swift
ly toward Pescar, about 18 miles a-
bove the present fighting lines,
leaving only suicide rear guard
units to slow the British advance-
The 8th Army assault centered
against the Nazi-held town of La-
nciano, perched on a 900 foot ridge
dominating one of the main lateral
roads behind the battle line, and
all reports indicated the fall of
that bastion was imminent.
Some British patrols were re-
ported operating north of Lancia-
no, stabbing to within little more
than 10 miles of Pescara, where the
main lateral road to Rome begins.
United Press Correspondent
Richard D. McMillan reported
that the Allied artillery and aerial
bombardment of the German lines
had wrecked the entire area, and
said dazed, frightened Germans
were 3 surrendering in increasing
numbers.
The Anglo-American 5th Army
also improved its positions on one
sector, driving ahead slightly thru
minefields and barbed wire.
Allied1 warplanes hammered un-
ceasingly at the German positions
all across the 80-mile Italian front,
while a force of American Libera-
tors ranged far to the north to
blast Bolzano, near the entrance to
the Brenner Pass, in a raid that
probably knocked out the main
railway link between Germany and
Italy.
In southern Russia, the Red Ar-
my, hurled a new offensive into
the Nazis in the Dnieper bend
and broke into the northeastern
suburbs of Znamenka, a strategic
railway hub whose capture would
leave the Germans only a single
Washington, Dec. 3 (UP)—The
Navy Department announced today
the names of 47 additional casual-
ties among the Navy, Marine Corps
and Coast Guard.
The list included, Texas:
Fields, James Henry, Fireman
1-c, USNR. Missing. Mother, Mrs:
Mary Annie Fields, Palestine.
Hay, Winfred Byrd, Machinist’s
•Mate 3-c, USNR. Missing, Sister,
Mrs. Audrey Jackson, Taylor- Bro-
ther, Lester O. Hay, Marlin.
Sandlin, Lawton, Boatswain’s
Mate, 2-c, USNR. Dead. Mother,
Mrs. Della Sandlin, Abilene.
President Roosevelt, Prime Min-
ister Churchill and Premier Jo-
sef Stalin are drafting a sur-
render-or-die ultimatum to Ger-
many, dispatches from Istanbul
said today, and some observers in
Washington believed the three
statesmen were prepared to en-
force their threat by basing An-
glo-American air fleets in Rus-
sia and devastating Germany by
shuttle bombing-
London, Dec. 3 (UP).—The
Royal Air Force swarmed back
to Berlin last night and, crash-
ing through intense German op-
position, dropped 1,200 to 1,500
tons of bombs which, according
to neutral reports, left the sur-
viving two-thirds of the capital
“completely paralyzed.”
mm Our boys must keep on fight-
#5 ing—we must keep on buy-
E# ing WAR BONDS until vic-
Y. tory is won. Keep on BACK-
"x ING THE ATTACK.
Washington, Dec. 3 (UP)—The
War Department announced today
the names of 224 United States sol-
diers killed in action.
The list included, Texas:
Killed in the European area:
Atkinson, 1st Lt. Challen p.—
Mrs. Howard M. Atkinson, mother
Premont.
Killed in the Mediterranean a-
rea:
Texas:
Gailey,' Pfc. James W—Mrs.
Frankie Pauline Gailey, wife,
Sherman.
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