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Yanks Beat Off
Heavy Assaults
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—(PP)— American and Allied advances in the
Solomons and New Guinea battlefronts had crashed headon into sud-
denly stiffened Japanese resistance today with enemy troopa paying
heavily for unsuccessful efforts to regain lost ground.
Lodged between two Nipponese forces awaiting a chance to spring
on the American-held airbase in Guadalcanal, U. 8. Marines and
soldiers beat aff several strong enemy assaults from the west, the
Navy reported last night.
The Americans clung to their land gains obtained in an offensive
that was started last Sunday, the Navy said, and repulsed the counter-
* attacks west of Matanikau river with "heavy leases to the enemy.”
East of the airfield near Koll point where the fee twice succeeded tn
landing reinforcements for a Japanese concentration in the last few
days, the battle lines remained unchanged. Further attacks, however,
were expected hourly.
The Japanese attempts to stall
the Army-Marine offensive in
Guadalcanal occurred the night of
Nov. 4-5, the Navy said, and drew
withering fire not only from U. 8
ground forces but from American
planes as well.
FIGHTING IN GUINEA
Hold Home Front
The Allied advance in
New
Guinea to; the west of the Solomons
also collided with Japanese ground
troops and presumably a fierce bat-
1 tie was raging about 50 miles south
* of the enemy's coastal base at Buna.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Aus-
, tralian command announced today
(South Pacific time) that the Al-
lied troops which have pushed the
Japanese back more than half way
across the island from their drive
on the Port Moresby base had en-
countered strong resistance near
Olvl.
Allied bombers for the third suc-
cessive day raided enemy-occupied
towns in Portuguese Timor, north-
west of Australia, dropping explos-
ives on barracks and supply instal-
lations and starting several fires.
Japanese casualties in the three-
months old Solomons campaign
were estimated by Secretary of
% Navy Knox at more than four or
five times as great as the Ameri-
can losses.
GOP Chairman
\ Martin to Quit
WASHINGTON, Nov 7—)-
Rep. Jos. W Martin of Massachus-
etts, minority leader in the house,
announced today that he would
resign as chairman of the Repub-
lican National committee at a
meeting to be held in Bt. Louis
Dec 7.
Martin made the announcement
In a press conference at which he
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AFTER INFANTRY CLEARED PATH-
McMurrians Told,
"Like Napoleon’s drummer boy, Armaror PIAur R aunornmm
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has survived its trials and conUn- •
ued to conquer.” These were words
spoken this morning at the 19th
annual Homecoming assembly by
Anthony Hunt, son of the fouder
of the college.
"The courage and eelf sacrifice
of the faculty members has been
a constant source of inspiration,”
Hunt contiued, "and since the
founding of McMurry, the spirit
and loyalty of the student body has
never wavered."
Hunt told Homecomers that
between 350 and 400 of McMur-
ry’s exes are new in the arm-
ed service of the United States
and that it was up to those who
remain on the home front to
keep faith with these men. He
stated further that the eellego
was now facing the most crit-
leal hour of its history and he
presented to the group a three-
fold program for the support of
By RICHARD D. MeMILLAN
BRITISH BATTLE HEADQUAR-
TERS, In The Egyptian Desert,
Nov. 7, Noon,—(UP)—It is now
of the southern sector of the 3
possible to give a step-by-step ac-
count of how Lieut. Gen. Bernard
L. Montgomery and his polyglot
Eighth army, aided by a vast as-
sembly of British and American
airplanes brought about the col-
lapse of Field Marshal Erwin Rom-
mel's highly touted Afrika Korps
and its reinforcing Italian columns.
The original attack the flrat night
of the battle was launched by the.
Mat Division of Australians, New -
Zealanders, and South Africans ।
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Associated Press War Editor
the school.
Lena Catherine Morrison, presl
dent of the ex-students, presided
for the program and introduced
Hunt. After the address by Hunt,
Miss Morrison turned the assem-
bly program to Elmer Watson,
president of the student body A
pep rally was led by Kendall
Young. Helen Jo Hundley and Bam
Conner.
Following the chapel program,
the ex-students held a business
session in the auditorium and the
Mothers and Dads club met in
the library.
Other events on the Saturday
slate include the football game at
3 p. m with the Indiana playing
Southwestern university in Medley
stadium; the IHR chill supper in
the gymnasium at 6 p m . the
second performance of Jane Eyre
al 8 p. m.; and the Homecoming
dinners for the Kappa Phi, the
Gamma Sigma and the Ko Sari
social clubs
against the north end of the Ala-
main line, supported by heavy con-
centrations of tanks.
DOUBLE ATTACK
Simultaneously, other British di-
visions including the 44th and 50th,
plus Indians, Free French and
Greeks, attacked along the center
mile-long line.
The purpose was to contain the
Nazis’ 21st panzer division
After nine days and nights of
continuous fighting, these forces
had driven bulge# into the Axis
lines, one running parallel with the
Alexadria-Matruh railroad near the
coast, the other eight miles to the
south, which, more or less joined.
Three days later. Infantry sapper#
had sufficiently cleared these bul-
ges of mines and had dug in with
positions, to permit Montgomery to
launch, his tanks in full force.
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armored units, including Amer-
can-made General Sherman,
General Lee and General
By this time, Rommel had
brought up his 16th armored divi-
sion from the South In an effort
to form a solid ring of steel with
his 16th division, while the Italian
Arteta division held the British
southern flank.
In the corner salient on the
north around Bidi Abd El Rahman,
the 19th Axis light division, which
only recently had come into the
battle, tried to advance along the
coast road.
The derman line was broken in
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JOSEPH W. MARTIN Jr.
declared that the increased Repub-
lican party strength brought about
by Tuesday’s elections would have
“a beneficial effect" on the nation
"It will serve notice,” he said,
"that the government will have to
get down to the business of win-
ning the war." -
What the American people want,"
he said, "is Io have the war con-
ducted efficiently They want less
bungling They want less Ineffi-
ciency They want less politics.”
Martin said that he was resign-
ing his party chairmanship because
or his increased responsibilities in
the house.
WASHINGTON Nov. 7.-(UP)-
Matthew Smith, national secretary
of the Mechanics Education Society
of America (Ind.) which called a
“holiday" of an estimated 7,000 De-
troit machine tool workers, today
told the War Labor Board the men
would return to work provided they
would meet with no "physical dan-
ger."
In a telegram to the board, Smith
mid he agreed that peaceful solu-
tions should be sought wherever
possible In labor difficulties but
when our members are beaten, slug-
ged and ejected forcibly from a
plant we feel that action of some
kind Is justified to remedy such an
ugly situation.” His telegram was
in response to a WLB demand that
the men return to work.
Bus Signs Bring Complaints to
City Commissioners’ Attention
Complaints about the location of
some of the City Service Bus com-
pany stop, signs came to the city
commission in the Friday Moton
C R Pennington, who lives at .
3425 South Seventh, facing the dead natural
end of Riverside boulevard, said one
or the signs had been placed in the
center of a 7-foot strip of lawn, and
i that passengers have to wati on the
grass and get off on the grass.
.He explained that he had written
• , W. O. Kemper, bus company owner,
asking that the sign be placed eart
of the driveway, and that the bus
stop so that passengers load and un-
load in the Penningtons double
concrete drive
"I would much prefer that the.
bus stop be moved to the corner of
Ward drive, but I don't want to be
unreasonable and offered the use
of my driveway, It certainly would
be better than wet grass. The sign
* 7 is in the parkway, which
belong to the city, but it certainly
spoils the appearance of the la wn.
I received no reply from Mr. Kem-
per and came io you.”
Commissioner G L. Jennings said
a woman living on Hickory had
contacted him aobut the placing of
a sign “almost in front of her door •
Mayor Will Hair stated that he
was going to require Kemper to
show the government regulations he
See Commission Pg. a, Col. 1
Grant tanks, with the heaviest
artillery support, delivered a
blow between the center bulge
and Tel El Acaquir which par-
alysed Rommel’s defenses.
Matruh railroad and enabled Brit-
ish tanks to get through Rommel’s
remaining screen of M mm guns
and start wrecking the enemy’s
rear.
STALIN PROMISES NEW
BLOWS AGAINST ENEMY
MOSCOW, Nov. 7.—(P)—The Hungarians. Italians and Finns"—
Russians celebrated the 25th anni- would feel the force of fresh Red
versary of the Bolshevist revolu-
tion today with encouraging reports
from defense fronts and the assur-
ance by Premier Stalin that new
Soviet counterblows soon would fall
upon Hitler's battle-depleted ar-
mies
"We can and must clear the Hit-
lerite filth from our Soviet soil,”
Stalin declared in an order of the
day.
He said more than 8,000,000 In-
vaders already had been put out
of action and that the day was not
far off when the German legions
—-“watered down with Rumanians.
army blows.
Following up a statement yester-
day that the Allies would open a
second front "sooner or later," Sta-
Un gravely acknowledged gains
made by the Germans since June
through the concentration of forces
ITALIANS POCKETED
As the British cut through the
enemy's armor and mine screen
they cut off Italian forces in the
south, where they are now being
cleared up. This was the simplest
part of the campaign, because it
was only a matter of cutting the
main tracks to the south.
The 19th Light division, which
had taken a terrific pounding try-
ing to stem the Australian advance
along the coast, now joined up
with remnants of the 15th and
31st Axis armored divisions
They tried to protect the rear
guard of the retreating columns of
enemy transports, trucks, troops
and anti-aircraft guns, which were
being pounded in relays by Allied
planes
These Axis divisions, or what was
Boe BATTLE, P. #, Col. 1 '
Reds Advance
In Stalingrad
MOSCOW, Nov. 1.—P—The Red
army threw the Germans from two
fortified position# in a factory area
of Stalingrad today and held firm-
ly from the Arctic to the deep
Caucasus against Nazi efforts to
crock the defense lines.
Grey-uniformed dead eontin-
med to pile up before Stalin-
grad gunpits. The Russians
were reported to have handed
Ml heavy punishment to the
invaders on the Black sea and
Nalchik Ordzbonikidze fronts.
About a company of German In-
fantry fell before the counterat-
tacking Red army troops at Stal-
ingrad, the noon communique said.
Further Nazi fortifications were
reported wrecked by Soviet shell-
fire on the steppes northeast of
the city, now “ in its 75th day of
siege.
About 1,000 of the enemy were
declared to have perished in vain
efforts yesterday, to expand their
holdings in Stalingrad, falling back
to their original line# despite tank
and plane support
A tank-supported infantry bri-
gade struck at Russian defense po-
sitions before the Caucasian slopes
southeast of Nalchik, but was driv-
en off with heavy losses, the com-
munique mid
Mopping up operations progress-
ed northeast of Tuapse and booty
was reported captured Soviet
troops destroyed an enemy group
which fought on despite encircle-
ment, killing 170, the communique
said.
against Stalingrad and the Cau-
casus. •
"The Red army is carrying the
full weight of the war against Hit-
lerite Germany and Its accompli-
ces." he said. "By its self-sacrifice
ing struggle against the Fascist
army it has won the love and re-
spect of all freedom-loving peoples
of the world."
President Roosevelt in a message
to President Kalinin of the 25th
anniversary of the Russian revo-
lution praised the "Incomparable
heroism" of the Red army which
he said was bearing the brunt of
the German attack, and assured
the Russians that “the steadily
growing power of the United States
has been, and will continue to be,
dedicated to complete victory.”
THE WEATHER
THE WAR
TODAY
Li DEWITT MACKE—
(This column, conducted as
a daily feature by DeWitt
Mackenzie, is written today by
Glenn Babb Mr MacKenzie,
touring the war zones, is trav-
eling)
The Russian people celebrate to-
day the quarter-century anniver-
sary of the Bolshevist revolution,
an even which history may show
to have left a more lasting Imprint
than any other of recent times. To
a considerable portion of humanity
it is the mightiest occurrence not
merely of these times but of all
time.
Anniversaries invite comparisons.
Last night Joseph Stalin compared
Russia’s war situation of a genera-
tion ago with that of today to
U. •. DEPARTMENT nr COMMERCE
WEATHER BU REAL
This information must set be broadcast
by radin. |uo wILT UAL or togAI” t
ABILENE and Vicinity: Little temper-show how, at the moment, the
Ature change this afternoon and tonight; •—■-- —I— *--41- —— ha—
light local rains BT drizzle today
WEST TEXAS Occamonal rain or driss-
te over Pecos valley east ward this af-
ternoon and over all of West Texas except
Pecos valley tonight; mild temperatures
EAST TEXAS (east of 100th meridian):
Little temperature change this afternoon
and tonight; light local rains or drizzle
Russian armies face the most ffor-
Mar
Precipitation for 24 hours ending 7:0 %.
■ Saturday, er Inch,
Total since first er year, to 1:30 a. •
Saturday, 25.19 inches.
Total amount for same period last rear.
47 35 inches
Normal a mount since first of the year.
22 M inches
Airport precipitation for 24 hours end-
ing TM a m Sat. O inch.
Highest temperature yesterday: cur of-
fice U: airport, se __
Lowest this morning City effice, M.
airport, 52.
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BVICTOKY
in
he this morning
as tonight 5.45,
81—.
midable for they Lave known No
exception can be taken to the grim
realism of the picture drawn by
the Soviet leaves. y
But the difference between
the Russian situation of today
and that of 1917, ue rather be-
tween the character of the
Russian nation of 1942 and
that of 1917, form one of the
brightest features, perhaps the
most heartening of all, in the
prospects of the United Na-
tions.
The generation which is doing
most of the fighting in this war
is too young to remember the feel-
ing of doom that settled over the
Allies of that other war when the
Bolshevists took over. Although
Britain’s victorious Egyp-
tian armies were reported to
have captured or trapped 100,-
000 German and Italian troops
today, crushed a desperate
Axis attempt to rally and
swept ,100 miles across the
desert nearly halfway to the
Libyan frontier.
ITALIANS AWAIT CAPTURE
More than two-thirds of the total
Axis forces of 140.000 troops were
said to have been eliminated from
the battle, with the British In swift
pursuit of the broken enemy
A British communique said 20,-
000 Axis troops already had been
captured, along with 350 tanks and
400 guns. Six Italian divisions were
reported cut off, without food or
water, meekly waiting to surrender.
The crack Italian Trieste and
Bologna divisions were reported
among the beleaguered Fascists
waiting to be picked up when the
British could get around to them.
"The advance of the Eighth army
continues,” British headquarters an-
Bounced
Latest dispatches said British
armored columns had new
pushed beyond Matruh, 104
miles west of the old El Ala-
mein battlefront and nearly
halfway to the Libyan frontier.
Lieut. Gen B L. Montgomery's
field headquarters sold British
troopa were mopping up “abandon-
ed Italian divisions,” left behind by
the fleeing German panzers. In the
southern sector of the battle area.
Six Italian divisions, totalling
perhaps 80,000 troops, were reported
left in the lurch by their Nazi com-
rades, with their communications
cut and facing annihilation or sure
render
Remnants of the panzer army at-
tempted to hold our advance on the
Fuka-escapment," the British com-
mand announced, "but after vigor-
ous attacks by our armored forces
they were driven further west."
AIR FORCE ACTIVE
Wave after wave of low-flying
American, British and Allied planes
were reported strafing and bombing
the - enemy "west of Matruh,"
churning their tanks to prevent any
attempt to regroup
While German troops tilled into
available trucks and raced for the
Libyan border, the Italians were
stranded in the desert for lack of
transportation. The British said
"many thousands of vehicles" were
captured as the Nazis fled
Countering Axis claims that
Rommel's forces were out-
numbered British quarters in
Cairo said the Allies half only 15
divisions In the imediate battle
area against 12 Axis divisions.
Moreover, Rommel had four
armored divisions against three
British armored divisions.
CRIPPLING BLOW
The capture of 350 tanks and
"many thousands of vehicles" was
a crippling blow to the Axis army
- See AFRICA, Pr. 5, Cel 5
LONDON, Nov. 7.—or-Britain s big, home-baaed bombers revisited
Italy last night for the fifth time since late October, showering Genoa
with fire and explosives which, by the Italians' own word, inflicted
"notable damage” on Italy’s most important supply port for the Axis
armies in North Africa.
The air ministry called the attack "concentrated and effective”
and the Italian communique itself Mid that "particular damage was
reported in the center of the town, and in the eastern part notable
damage was caused "
The long haul to and fro over virtually the length of continental
Europe and twice acriss the Alps was made in bad weather, the British
communique said, but the night skies opened over Genoa and the
British bombers were able to unload on clear targets.
Casualties so far counted are 20 persons killed and 50 wounded, the
Italian communique said. Both it and the British bulletin placed the
RAPs losses at two planes "
The air ministry said photographic reconnaissance showed great
damage inflicted on Genoa in earl-
ier attacks and that reports on last
night's assault indicated that at
least as much was done agMn
It was the third night In three
weeks that British "block-buster"
bombs have fallen on Genoa which,
besides its importance as a port,
also is the site of the Ansa Mo war-
ship building yards.
Although there was no Indica-
tion from the British of the size
of the raiding force, a DNB broad-
cast that wave after wave of planes
passed over Vichy after midnight
and that the return flight lasted
45 minutes suggested the attack
again was on a scale of 100 or more
planes.
The RAF’s heavyweight battering
of Italy, whose people have shown
signs of panic in the air assaults,
apparently Is coordinated with the
offensive in North Africa. Rome's
communique specifically compli-
mented the Genoans’ discipline un-
der air assault.
RAF LoSsts ALIGHT
Genoa also waa the target on the
opening night, the eve of the Eighth
army’s offensive in Egypt. That was
Oat. 22. The next night, big Brit-
ish bombers again blasted Genoa,
causing such a scramble for shel-
ter that dozens were reported killed
in the crush, and also hit Savona
Allied Convoy
Steams
7
LONDON, Nov. 7.—(—The Ger-
mon radio reported that a large
Allied convoy, previously assembled
at Gibraltar, was steaming eastward
through the Mediterranean on a
myterious mission, accompanied by
a strong escort of warcraft, includ-
ing the British battleschip Rodney.
(There was no confirmation of
the reported ship movements from
any Allied source).
The convey was said to In-
elude transports, freighters and
tankers, and there waa some
speculation in Axis circles
whether the ships were headed
for Malta or some point in Afri-
en.
According to the Axis reports,
and Turin Milan was hit fn day-
light of the same day. Oct. 23, and
again the following night
Last night's attack was the flrat
night raid on either the Italian or
German homeland since then
That onlv 11 RAF planes have
been downed in all five assaults was
hailed by British sources as remark-
able in view of the massive num-
bers involved, the enemy's oppor-
tunities for interception over the
long continental skyway and the
fact that one of the blows was
struck in daylight.
Auto Is Recovered,
But Tires Missing
Recovery of a 1942 Dodge sedan
stolen from Henry Juergens. 1643
Sycamore, was reported Saturday
by the sheriff’s department The
car stripped of wheels and tires was
found about six miles from Abilene
near the Colony Hill school Depu-
ties Tobe Hilburn and Stuart Logan
found the wheels minus tiros, scat-
tered along the road to Abilene.
the convoy left Gibraltar Thursday,
covered by a heavy pmbrella of
fighter planes DNB, official Ger-
man news agency, previously had
reported in a dispatch from La
Lines, Spain, that 125 war rascals
and other craft had assembled in
Gibraltar harbor (These reports
likewise were unconfirmed by Allied
sources 1
The German-controlled Scandina-
vian Telegraph Bureau suggested
this Gibraltar was being made the
springboard for a new United
Nations offensive of some sort. The
bureaus Madrid correspondent ad-
ded that recent reinforcements
reaching Gibraltar were “quite un-
necessary for its defense.". . .
The Reuters correspondent in
Tangier#, meanwhile, said Axis dir-
cles there believe the war will spread
soon to French territory in Aries
with Allied landings in French
Morocco or at Dakar.
President Roosevelt, Anthony Ed-
en and other leaders of the United
Nations join today in felicitating
the Soviet union and especially in
extolling the heroism of the Rus-
sian army and people the October
revolution (so called because it „_w______------- ...___-------- ,.,, , -.-.-- ------
came on Oct 25 of the old Julian of , British officer, in tku official British picture, after his
GERMAN GENERAL CAPTURED—Gen. Ritter von Thoms,
commander of the German Afrika Korps and third of the top-
flight Axis leaders in the African desert war, walks ahead
See ANALYSIS, Pg. A Col. 3
capture. (AP photo from Cairo by radio M New York).
Bulletins
LONDON, Nov. 1—(AF)-
TheGerman-controlled radio
at Hilversum, The Netherlands
said today “there is no doubt
i Berlin that the British aim
i to capture North African
ports in order to set up a see-
ond from from there."
CAIRO, Nov. 1. (AF) —One
large tanner was destroyed and
a medium merchant vessel was
hit directly several times in
attacks on Axis Mediterranean
supply lines by heavy bombers
or the United States Army Alr
Force, of the Middle East ye
terday.
BERLIN ore m German
Broadcast). Nov. 7—(AP)—The
battle of Egypt is continuing
with -great fierceness” east *
the port of Matruh, the Ger-
mans announced officially to-
day. Axis counter-attacks were
said to have inflicted tank
losses on the Allied fore
Merritt Seeking
118th District Seat
SNYDER, Nov. 7—p-o A
Merritt, king time resident of the
Pleasant Hill community, who for-
merly served 13 year# aa represen-
tative of this district, has announce
ed his candidacy for representative
of the 118th district to replace Pat
Bullock incumbent, who la in the
lead for state senator * the 24.8
district.
A special election is due to be an-
nounced for filling the 118th dis-
trict vacancy. The 115th district”
composed of Scurry. Borden, Dick-
ens, Garza, Stonewall and Kent
counties. ______________
Turkey Price Frozen
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7(r
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son today issued new price controls
on potatoes, onions and turkeys,
which will mean somewhat higher
retail prices for onions and some
potatoes, and leave turkey prices ai
substantially present levels.
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