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There’s a critical shortage of the waste paper used
to make the wrappings and paperboard containers
in which food, ammunition and blood plasma go to
the fighting fronts. 2,000,000 tons extra are needed.
Right now about 25 paper-consuming war plants
are shut! Over 100 others are running part-time.
How soon will this affect the flow of vitally
needed supplies to some fighting line? How soon
will it cripple production of bomb rings, shell con-
tainers, and signal flare parts, all made of paper?
And as a result, how many American boys will be
reported “Missing”?
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works together, we’ll be sure that no American boy
will die just because paper collections lagged!
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Outside Country in 2nd War Year
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ENNIS DAILY NEWS, ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 7, 1943
Army records show the following
awards: 953 Distinguished service
Crosses with 28 Oak Deaf Clusters
222 Distinguished Service Medals
with six Oak Leaf Clusters, 1381
Legion of Honor Merit Awards
with 10 Oak Leaf Clusters; 77,947
Silver Stars with 379 Oak Leaf
Clusters, 9644 Distinguished Flying-
Crosses with 161 Oak Leaf Clust-
. ers, 1,792 Soldier Medals with 10 ,
Oak Leaf Clusters, and 33,518 Air a
Medals with 39,655 Oak Leaf Clus- 1
ters. They total 95,725-
The Oak Leaf Cluster denotes
the second award of the same
honor. The Air Medal is awarded
automatically for five aerial com-
bat missions.
No awards have been announc-
ed yet of two new decorations—
the combat Infantryman Medal
and the Expert Infantryman Med-
al.
Already the War Department has
added to the battle honors list "
of the Army 16 battles and cam-
paigns of the present war, as com-
pared with 13 for all of World
War I.
Do not wait until the last minute, when gifts
are scarce. Come in now and shop for the en-
tire family—from Dad down to baby. Select
your gifts early and get just what you want.
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By SANDOR S. KLEIN
Washington, Dec. 7 (UP).—The second anniversary
to their commonwealth. And with
good cause, because the Japanese
began pouring men and material
into the South Pacific. -But this
threat ended in a stunning disaster
for the enemy. Allied airmen under
command of Lt. Gen. George C.
Kenney caught a Japanese convoy
in the Bismarck Sea and sank 22
warships and cargo vessels and
killed an estimated 15,000 Japs-
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signs that the President might be
preparing for his most dramatic
episode thus far in his White
House career, the long-awaited con
ference with Churchill and Soviet
Premier Josef Stalin.
Mr. Roosevelt’s daily routine has
changed little because of the war
with the exception of longer work-
ing hours.. He awakes about 8:30 in
the morning, looks over the papers,
works out the schedule of engage-
ments for the day with his staff,
breakfasts in bed and usually is at
his desk by 10:30 or 11: o’clock.
Mr. Roosevelt usually lunches in
his office shortly after- one, and
often has a guest who kills two
birds with one stone by eating with
the chief executive and transacting
business at the same time. The
President leaves his office ordinar-
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Jap Ship Sinkings Total 861,
66 “Probable,” 845 Damaged
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Washington, Dec. 7 (UP).—In two years of war, the U. S.
Navy has lost 129 combat and non-combat vessels, the vast
majority in the Pacific. During the same period, the Jap-
anese have lost 231 warships defnitely sunk, 35 probably
sunk and 280 damaged. At least 630 Japanese non-combat
vessels have been sunk. --- - - -
In the year to come Mr. Roose-
velt must decide whether to run
for a fourth term. He must cope
with increasing economic clamor
on the home front. And he will be
called upon for climax decisions in
the global struggle to crush Ger-
man and Japanese military might.
His intimates say the President
has borne well the burdens of
commander-in-chief during the
strenuous two years following Pearl
Harbor.’ According to his physician
Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, the
chief executive’s health is excellent
marred only by an infrequent cold.
A heavy daily schedule of war-
time business prevents Mr. Roose-
velt spending as much time in his
swimming pool cr poring over his
map collection as he would like,
but he still squeezes in a few re-
creational hours each week. These
usually take the form of a movie
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, Dec. 7 (UP)—President Roosevelt today be-
gan the third year of the war full of two-fisted vigor for
the months ahead when he will have to make some of the
most difficult decisions of his entire career.
often holds private conferences
during the evening.
So far as the second anniversary
of the war was concerned, Mr.
Roosevelt planned to take no cog-
nizance of the day except through
hard work because he believes Dee.
7, 1941, was a day of infamy and
sorrow and should not be regard-
ed in any other light.
Today the war ledger is replete !
with entries on the credit side for
the United Nations. The Axis had
been ousted completely from Africa
the Mediterranean was under vir-
tually complete control of the Al-
lies, Sicily had been conquered and
Italy invaded. Italy had surren-
dered and its government had de-
clared war on its former partner-
In Russia, an abortive German of-
fensive had been turned back and
the Red Army had pounded Hit-
ler’s legions back toward the Polish
and Rumanian borders.
In the South Pacific, strategic
Japanese strongholds on New Gui-
nea had been crushed, a large part
of the Solomons regained and the
major enemy bastion on Rabaul,
Coast Guard Cutters (5)
Acacia, Alexander Hamilton, Es-
canaba, Muskeget and Natsek.
Sub-Chasers (3)
PC-496, PC-694 and PC-696-
Motor Torpedo Boats (7)
PT-34, PT-25, and five others
whose numbers were not announ-
ced.
Minesweepers (9)
■Bittern, Finch, Penguin, Pigeon,
Quail, Sentinel, Skill (minelayer),
Tanager and Wasmuth.
Miscellaneous Warships (15)
Asheville, Canopus, Cythera, Lan
gley, Luzon, Niagara, Mindanao,
Oahu, Plymouth, Utah, Wake,
Wilcox, YP-389 , an unnamed har-
bor patrol craft, and Moonstone.
Transports (11)
Colhoun, Erward Rutledge, Geo.
F. Elliot, Gregory, Hugh L. Scott,
John Penn, Joseph Lewes, Leeds-
town, ittle, McCawley, Tasker H.
Bliss.
Tankers-Oilers (4)
Kanawha, Neches, Neosho, Pec-
os,
Tugs (5)
Gannet, Napa, Nauset, Navajo,
Seminole.
Cargo (1)
Pollux
Misscelaneous Non-Combat (2)
Dewey Drydock, Redwing.
with old personal friends and an
occasional automobile drive.
The war seems to have increased
Mr. Roosevelt’s zest for travel. He
made trips outside the country on
three occasions in the first 10
months of this year, meeting Prime
Minister Winston Churchill at
Casablanca in January, President
Avila Camacho in Monterrey, Mex-
ico, in April, and Churchill again
at Quebec during August.
In addition, the President has
made two lengthy inspection trips
through the country since Pearl
Harbor, touring war plants and
Army and Navy training stations
to get a first-hand view of the war
effort in action-
The chief executive undoubtedly
finds the White House confining at
times and he has sought relief
from the rapid fire routine eV
Washington in trips to his home at
Hyde Park, N.Y. and a camp in the
mountains of Western Maryland.
Even as America’s second year of
war neared an end there were
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submarines embarked on a grand
New Britain island, was seriously campaign to smash the Allied At-
.threatened. The Japanese had been snni,, ines odav ,.p ..
’’Announced by the army.
The box score does not include
about 400 barges sunk in the Solo-
mons, New Guinea area, 15 river
boats sunk or damaged as an-
nounced in a Chungking commun-
ique last July, 25.000 tons of ship-
ping destroyed at Hong Kong on
Aug. 25, 1943, or 122 craft of var-
ing types destroyed or damaged
in Rabaul raid Oct. 14, 1943.
American
Battleships (1)
Arizona
Carriers (4)
Lexington, Yorktown, Wasp and
Hornet-
Cruisers (9)
Astoria, Atlanta, Chicago, Hel-
ena, Houston, Juneau, Northamp-
ton, Quincy and Vincennes.
Destroyers (39)
Aaron Ward, Barton, Benham,
Beatty, Borie, Blue, Bristol, Buck,
Cassin, Chevalier, Cushing, De-
Haven, Downes, Duncan, Edsall,
Gwin, Hammann, Henley, Ingra-
ham, Jacob Jones, Jarvis, Laffey,
Maddox, Meredith, Monseen, O”
rien, Peary, Pilsbury, Pope, Port-
er, Preston, Reuben James, Row-
an, Sim, Stewart, Strong, Sturte-
vant, Truxton, Walke.
Submarines (14)
Amberjack, Argonaut, Grampus,
Grenadier, Grunion, Perch, Pick-
erel, R-12, S-26, Sealion, Shark,
Tirton, Dorado, Runner.
lies are sinking submarines faster
than Germany can build them. In
the last six months at least 150
U-boats have been destroyed. And
the Allied convoys are pouring men
and supplies into the European
combat zones with little interfer-
ence from the undersea raiders.
Secretary of the Navy Knox said
recently that the United Nations
now control the air throughout the
world, the surface of the seas and
the sub-surface- And American
troops, together with their Allies
are demonstrating that on land
they are more than a match for
the battle-hardened German army.
But the tougher, bloodier battles
are still ahead, both in Europe and
in the Pacific. Germany - is re-
ported to have at least 400 divi-
sions in existence. Its air force is
still mighty, though widely diffus-
ed. Japan still controls much of its
stolen empire and is fighting the
Allied advance with a fanatic dis-
regard for men and materials.
- Already the United States has
an armed force pf 10,000,000 men.
The Army is nearing 7,700,000 The
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast ,
Guard combined have more than ,
2,000,000 men.
U.S. Fleet Largest
The U,S. Fleet is the largest in
the world, Two years ago the bulk |
of the battle force had been knock
ed out at Pearl Harbor. Today the
number of battleships in the, fleet
exceeds by at least four the pre-
Pearl Harbor total. Its aircraft-
carrier strength has more than
tripled despite losses.
Three years ago when The ce-
fense program began, the Navy had
a fleet of 1,076 vessels, including
383 battleships, carriers, cruisers,
destroyers and submarines. Now
the number is closer to 15,000 ships
And despite its war losses, the Na-
vay has more than 600 warships
The Navy air arm, which number-
ed only 1,744 planes on July 1, 19-
40 now has at least 20,000 planes.
On Dec- 7 last year, American
interest in the war centered on
the battle for Guadalcanal. Re-
peated Japanese attempts to drive
the Americans eff had been beat-
en back. A powerful Japanese nav-
al force had been smashed in a
battle royal hear the island with
naval forces under Admiral Wil-
liam F. Halsey’s command.
The Japanese continued attempts
to reinforce their Guadalcanal ar-
my through December but by
January U.S. Army troops and Ma
rines had grabbed the initiative-
Conquest of the island was com-
pleted on Feb- 9.
Shortly before that Gen. Douglas
MacArthur’s forces had won the
battle of Buna on New Guinea and
ended the Japanese threat to Port
Moresby.
Begin Pushing Japs Back
Then began the difficult task of
pushin the Japs out of their north
ernmost and southern anchors of
their vast Pacific defense line
American troops occupied the Rus-
sell Islands, just northwest of Gua
dalcanal, to provide an advance
base for the later drive into the
Central Solomons. About the same
time, other troops seized Funafuti,
an island in the Ellice group,
which provided an air base for at- i
tacks on the Japanese held Gil-
berts. In the North Pacific, Amer-
ican troops oc-cupied Amchita Is-
land, only 70 miles from the enemy
base on Kiska.
In Februray came the historic
Casablanca conference between
President Roosevelt and Prime I
Minister Churchill and their naval
and military leaders. Plans were I
perfected there for further offen-
sive action against the Axis. The
conquest of Sicily and the invasion I
of Italy undoubtedly were among I
the fruits of this meeting.
Things were pretty dull in the I
Pacific in the early months of this |
service and posthumously to all
ily around five or six o’clock in the killed in action.
afternoon, dines around eight and
driven out of the North Pacific and
their bases, one barely 1,000 miles
from Tokio, subjected to the
smashing attacks of far-ranging
American airmen. In a quick-open-
ing mid Pacific offensive our land
sea and air forces had taken the
Gilbert Islands from the Japs.
American submarines had destroy-
ed more than a third of Japan’s
America at war found the United States and its Allies defi-
nitely on the road to victory over the Axis. But, as all Allied
leaders have warned..the war is now entering its toughest
stage. It will be costly in men and material.
The situation today is in marked contrast to mat of a
year ago. Then, the offensive spirit was just beginning to
make itself felt. American troops were on Guadalcanal, but
they were fighting desperately to stay. American troops also
were in North Africa, but they had yet to meet General
Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps. Japanese garrisons still held
Attu' and Kiska in the Aleutians. There had been some air
and sea action in the South Pacific and some unopposed
American landings on some.Pacific isles, but the Japanese
threat to Australia was still present.
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Washington, Dec. 7 (UP)—Skunk
hunting Joe Foss of Sioux Falls,
S. D., stands at the top of the
steadily growing list of American
air aces at the end of two years of
'war. He shares the all-time top
( spot with Capt. Eddie Rickenbac-
ker.
The 28 year old Marine ma-
jor is officially credited with de-
stroying 26 Japanese planes. Foss
returned home last spring, but
the chances are that before the
war is over he will have an op-
portunity to better his record.
Although there is no official re-
cognition for an ace as such, it is
generally recognized that any fli-
er who has at least five confirm-
ed enemy planes to his credit is
entitled to that designation. The
armed services do not yet have a
complete file of aces in this war
because of delay in receiving re-
ports of individual performances
from the combat areas.
Here are the nations leading
aces, all of whom have seen com-
bat against the Japanese, and the
number of enemy planes to their
Keep pace with the “war
work” of your sons and
friends—Up your War Bond
buying today! .
Washington, Dec. 7 (UP)—They
are just scraps of ribbon and un-
impressive bits of metal, but into
the earnings of them went blood,
sacrifice and near superhuman va-
lor.
No magnate, nor Midas can buy
these adornments, but already
more than 100,000 among Americas
approximately 10,000,000 fighting
men have won the right to wear
these official badges of honor,
.granted by their nation.
Highest of the awards is the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
Thus far in this war the Navy
has bestowed this decoration up-
on 41 men, while the Army has
granted it to 19.
Other Navy awards to Navy, Ma
rine. Coast Guard, Army and men
of foreign nations total 6,031. They
include: Distinguished Service Me-
dal, 81; Legion of Merit, 432; Ar-
my and Marine Corps Medal, 636;
Distinguished Flying Cross, 817;
Navy Cross, 1,205; Air Medal, 1,357,
and Silver Star, 1,462.
The Purple Heart goes autcma-
tically to all person wounded in
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shipping and . seriously impaired
its communication and supply lines
That picture on this second an-
niversary of the attack on Pearl
Harbor served as the background
for Prime Minister Winston
Churchill’s recent utterance that,
the war’s climax should be reach-
ed in 1944.
Japs Quit Boasting
Two years ago Japanese Admiral
Yamamoto boasted that he would
dictate the peace terms in the
White House. He is dead and so
is his boast. Now the Japanese are
talking not of victory, but of sur-
vival.
Just about two years ago Hitler’s
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Capt. Richard I Bong, Popular
Wis., 21.
Capt. Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr.,
Detriot, 17.
Lt. Col. David L. “Tex” Hill,
Hunt, Tex., 16 definite, 20 prob-
ables.
Maj. George S. Welch, Wilming-
ton, Del., 16.
Maj. Thomas J- Lynch, Cata-
sauqua, Pa., 16.
.Navy
Lt. Stanley W. Vejtasa, of Cir-
cle, Mont., 9, 7 of them in a sin-
gle flight.
Comdr. Noel A. M. Gayler, Nol-
ita, Bremerton, Wash., 8.
Lt. Arthur J. Brasfield. Bron-
ning, Mo., and Lt. Hayden M- Jen-
sen, St. Paul, Minn., 7 each.
Comdr. John S. Thach, Fordyce,
Ark., Lt. Elbert S. McCuskey, Stutt-
gart, Ark and Lt. Comdr. Edward
H. O’Hare, 6 apiece-
Marines
Lt. Kenneth A- Walsh, Wash-
.NOW..
A comparative figure for the
number of damaged U.S. naval ves-
sels is not available, since the Na-
vy Department does not report all
such casualties.
A United Press compilation of
Japanese ship losses, based on offi-
cial communiques from all Pacific
theaters shows that a total of 1,-
772 enemy vessels—combat and non
combat—have been sunk, probably
sunk or damaged. That total in-
cludes 861 sunk,; 6 probably sunk
and 845 damaged. 1; . ..
According: to Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox, more than one-
third of the total Japanese mer-
chan fleet has been destroyed,
largely by U.S. submarines-
Here are the box scores of Japa-
nese and American losses:
Japanese
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ITALY OR WAXAHACHIE
Italy, Tex., Dec. 7—Sergt. Roscoe
Deatheridge of the Thirty-Sixth
Division wrote home from an Ital-
ian hospital that he had under-
gone an operation, naming the sur-
geon as Dr. Mayo Tenery.
When the letter was received C-
L. Deatherage, father of the ser-
geant, had just returned from a
Waxahachie, Texas, hospital where
he had undergone an operation.
The surgeon was Dr. W- C. Ten-
ery, father of the army surgeon
who operated on the younger
Deatheridge.
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