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VOL. LXIII, NO. 198
A TEXAS 2 NEWSPAPER
ABILENE, TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3J, 1943 -TWELVE PAGES
Associated Press (AP) United Press (U.P.)
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ALLIES CONFIDENT OF VICTORIES IN THE NEW YEAR: GERMANS GROW GLOOMY Forts Blast
by the ruining of 100 places for A
every German place ruined." PAT A T
Promises at a secret weapon | I l VO
again were advanced.
Field Marshal Hermann Goering
to a New Years order to the luft-
waffe declared "the front and home
truly excelled themselves’ to a
"year of heavy struggle for Ger-
many’s freedom, greatness and
honor." He said Germany embark-
ed on the New Year "conscious of -
the tremendous power of the Reich, spearheaded a mighty Allied
filled by unshakable confidence and aerja] assault on Germany's
uplifted by the high sense of re-
sponsibility for the civilized exist-
ence of the continent. The path to
front of us is clearly outlined: vic-
tory or defeat are the alternatives.”
Bv the Associated Press
Prospects for the New Year of
world conflict brought from Allied
military leaders declarations of con-
fidence and victories in mighty im-
ponding blows against the enemy,
while Nazi spokesmen offered the
German people only gloomy predic-
tions of more hardships in 1944.
The Allies are "closing to upon
the enemy" and the coming year
lives every promise of being a year
or deliverance.” declared Lt. Gen.
Jacob L. Devers, who is going to
the Mediterranean theater as deputy
commander of Allied forces.
Bevers told graduates of the
Royal Military college at Alder-
tot, England, that they would par-
ticipate in "what well may be the
most stirring and far-reaching
events in the annals of the world."
In Washington, Admiral Ernest
J. King, commander-in-chief of the
U. S. Navy, said he concurred with
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, new
European invasion commander, that
Germany may be defeated in the
coming year, and asserted that a
tremendous offensive against Japan
is planned in 1944. The "main
lines of attack" have been set, and
“unremitting pressure on Japan will
be continued and increased," King
declared.
The American commander in the
South Pacific. Admiral William F.
Halsey, declared that "never have
we been so ready to strike killing
blows in so many places, simultan-
eously. We propose to strike these
blows again and again."
Halsey, in a New Year’s mes-
sage in the forthcoming issue of
the American magazine, said
“We aim to fight our way
along the straight road to To-
In San Juan. Puerto Rice. Maj.-
Gen. William E. Shedd. U. S. Army
commander to the Antilles depart-
ment. told his troops that "we now
look with confidence to important
victories during 1944.” He disclosed
that one unit of Puerto Rican troops
Russians in Moscow, preparing to
celebrate New Year's as the biggest
man army might hold off the Rus-
unofficial holiday
of the
year.
everywhere expressed hope that 1944
would see the end of the war. As-
sociated Press Correspendent Eddy
Gilmore said General Eisenhower,
whose prediction that Germany
would be defeated In 1944 was wide-
ly published by Soviet newspapers,
had suddenly become a very popular
figure.
The New Year's preview as palnt-
ed by German newspapers reaching
Stockholm was sharply different,
already was 1 nthe European the- Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter
ater. I could only offer hope that the Ger-
sians, and warned it could mean
defeat if the Nasi armies are forced
to withdraw within the German
border. Reviewing 1943. It acknowl-
edged only Russian gains—not men-
tioning bombings. North Africa,
Sicily or the fall of Italy—as It
declared there "has been no decisive
change in the military situation."
Heinrich Himmler's weekly
Das Schwarze Korps said the
bombings had made “hundreds
of thousands of Germans thirst-
ing for revenge,” and that the
Germans would not rest until
revenge by "the killing of 100
persons for every German killed.
WAR AT A GLANCE
With Bombs
LONDON, Dec. 31.—(UP)
—American Flying Fortresses
invasion defenses in France
today, and Axis radio reports
indicated the giant USAAF
raiders had loosed their bomb
loads on the Paris area.
Swarming to the attack at
Reds Hearing Poland
5th Leap-Frogs Up
Italy’s West Coas1
Nazi Ukraine
UM Wall Crashes
f By United Press
The Bari radio reported from Italy today that the Fifth Army
had captured San Vittore, key village six miles southeast of Cassino,
junction on the inland road to Rome. ‘ *
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Dec 31.—(P)—Fifth army troops
Drried out a large scale raid along the west coast of Italy north of the
Garigliano river yesterday, and seized the initiative from the Germans
along the long stalemated and water-logged front rn that sector. Allied
headquarters announced today. . . .
The announcement confirmed at least in part German broad-
easts that the Allies had made an amphibious leapfrog attack in
that area and had established a bridgehead. .
A The attack by the Allies countered a heavy two-day offensive by the
German Tenth army in the Garigliano sector aimed at the town of
Ponte Flume at the mouth of the*
river.
Headquarters gave no additional
information about the drive of
Onerican troops to take San Vit-
tore, last fortified village In the val- i
ley leading to Cassino. Bitter fight-'
ing has been raging there and the
town has been reduced to rubble by
Allied artillery, advices from the
Pont said, but the Germans were
dug into the cellars underlying the
town where it was difficult to reach
them with artillery fire.
The communique said that action
elsewhere on the Fifth army front
was confined to patrol activity ex-
Xpt for German shelling of Mig-
nano
On the Eighth army front the
hard-fighting troops of the Ca-
nadian First division plunged
another mile northward from
— Ortona, putting their lines -at
& about two miles from the city,
and front-line dispatches sold
they had established advanced
positions within about nine
miles of the vital port of Pes-
rara.
0 Their drive was concentrated at
a German-held emplacement on a
hill overlooking the Adriatic sea
near the mouth of the Tesore river
and controlling much of the ground
over which the advance is being
“@d . ..
The weather on both fronts was
cold and clear, making ground ac-
tion uncomfortable but providing a
perfect day for aerial operations
and the Allied air forces made the
of it A
"For the third straight day Flying
Fortresses of the 15th U. 8. air-
■ force, with an escort of Lightnings,
bombed the railway yards at Rimini
on the coast in northeastern Italy
and other Fortresses smashed ware-
mouses, repair sheds and railway
Tracks near Padua and Ravenna.
Reporter-News Will
Observe New Year’s
MOSCOW, Dec. 31.—(UP)
—Russian mobile units which
by-passed the beleaguered
Ukrainian rail hub of Zhito-
mir to the north were report-
ed advancing swiftly today
toward. Novograd Volynski,
only 20 miles from the pre-
war frontier of Poland. •
ZHITOMIR TOTTERS
4 Ballinger Men
On Wounded List
BALLINGER. Dec. 31-iSpl.) —
News that four Ballinger men have
been wounded to action has been
received ny their families here
within the past few days.
Mr. and Mrs. R E White have
been informed by the War depart-
ment that their son, Denman, was
slightly wounded in action in Italy
Dec. 5. White, older son of the Bal-
Unger couple, was with the local
National Guard unit when it was
mobilized His younger brother.
Quentin, is taking specialized train-
ing to Texas A and I at Kingsville
Another Ballinger boy. Pfc Noel
Neely, son of Mr and Mrs. Joe
Neery, has been slightly wounded to
action in Italy. He was a former
National Guardsman. War depart-
ment message rave Dec. 3 as the
date of the action to which he was
wounded
Mr. and Mrs Bilbrey receiv-
ed official word yesterday that
their son, S. Sgt. Charles M.
Bilbrey, 25, was seriously wound-
ed Dec. 7 In Italy.
Another son. Pfc. Carl Bilbrey
was killed in action Sept 9 at Sal-
erno The Purple Heart, posthu-
mously awarded him was recently
presented to his parents here.
Pfc. Dee Bilbrey Jr . their young-
est son, is thought to be overseas,
and Petty Officer J. W McClain,
husband of the Bilbrey’s only
daughter. Is serving in the South
Pacific Mrs McClain lives at Mc-
BALLINGER, Pg. 12, Col. 4
Soviet field dispatches said Gen.
Nikolai F. vasutin’s First Ukraine
army had broken the German de- __________________________
swrepiw'in^phtn^^tw^on WOUNDED EVACUATED OFF ARAWE—United States soldier* wounded during the in-
an arc of nearly 300 miles, vasion at Arawe, New Britain, are carried aboard a LC-T (landing craft, tanks) to be
Fierce fighting was reported at transported to a hospital at an advanced South Pacific base. (AP Wirephoto).
the gates of semi-enveloped Zhito-
mir, where the Germans fought des-
perately to delay the greatest single
Red army advance of the war.
Field reports specifically men-
tioning Novograd Volynski as in the
path of the Russian vanguard
stampeding northwestward beyond
Zhitomir said advanced elements
were "within 40 miles’ of the old
Non-Ops Refuse
FDR as Referee
ZiS
By The Associated Press
ITALY — Fifth army raids
west coast of Italy.
EUROPEAN AERIAL — Al-
lied planes bomb suburbs of
Paris in daylight
RUSSIA — Soviets continue
toward Bug river.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC-
Marines capture Cape Glou-
cester airdrome.
New Year's Set
The Reporter-News will take a
holiday Saturday morning and Sat-
urday afternoon. New Year's Day.
Mas a means of conserving newsprint
paper sufficiently to stay within the
Kuota alloted by the War Produc- |
Don board, the management has!
Amounced.
Dunce most business is suspended
M the city and surrounding towns
K New Year s Day it was deemed
advisable to select this as a way of
guarding against any future short-
age Publication will not occur on
three or four other holidays during
1944.
€ The Sunday morning edition will
“appear as usual.
This Is
The
Last Day
Of Special
Yearly Rates
On The
Reporter-News
(Close Midnight Dec. 31st)
daybreak, hundreds of Allied
bombers and fighters shuttled
across the narrow Dover straits
for hours in a .haltering as-
sault on the French channel
coast that observers interpret-
ed as the opening gun to an
offensive to blast a path into
western Europe for the Anglo-
American armies.
Hours later, a big formation of
America heavy bombers supported
by U. S. and RAP fighters, thun-
dered out over the continent to bat-
ter a target officially identified only
as in France.
Polish border.
(The British radio, reporting
the flanking of Zhitomir, said
that "if the town has not fallen
yet. It can not hold out much
longer.” A Stockholm dispatch
to London said the Germans
were abandoning Zhitomir.)
(A German communique acknow-
ledged heavy fighting "of undimin-
lalied ferocity" to the areas of Zhit-
omir and the White Russian bastion
of Vitebsk )
Vatutin’s right wing now was ad-
vancing west of the Zhitomir-Ko-
rosten-Ovruch railroad on an un-
broken front while foremost spear-
heads drove through the retreating
German units.
One spearhead has scored a deep
penetration beyond Chervonoar-
meisk, 22 miles northwest of Zhito-
mir. and had paralyzed the high-
way and railroad between Zhitomir
and Novograd Volynski._________
FDR Goes to Bed
WASHINGTON. Dec 31—(UP)-
The White House announced today
that President Roosevelt’s head
cold had developed into a case of
grippe and that because of his con-
dition. Rear Admiral Rose T. Mc-
Intire. had ordered him to stay in
bed.
(Background Story on Poge 3)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—(P—
The 15 ’ railroad non-operating
unions today rejected President
Roosevelt’s proposed basis for arbi-
trating their wage dispute, and In-
sisted they were entitled to a ruling
on overtime independent of every
other consideration.
A letter in reply to one from
the President yesterday »ald
“we do not agree to arbitration
on the basis you propose.”
They said the sliding scale of in-
creases of four to ten cents which
they have accepted was allowed to
correct sub-standard conditions and
to preserve wage rate relationships
and asserted; er
“Certainly sub-standard wages do
not depend on rates paid for over-
time. To now suggest the possibility
that the non-operating employes
should directly or indirectly pur-
chase time and one-half after 40
THE WEATHER
V. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BI REAL
A BILENE AND VICINITY Fair to
partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and
Saturday: little change in temperature.
Highest temperature yesterday: City of-
fice. 60; Airport, 60
Lowest this morning: City office, 18
Airport, 26
EAST TEXAS- Fair to partly eloudy
north, mostly cloudy south with scatter-
ed light rains in extreme south portion
this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. Lit-
the change in temperature _
WEST TEXAS Fair in the Panhandle
and South Plains, partly cloudy elsewhere
this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. Lit-
tle change in temperature this afternoon
and tonight, slightly warmer Saturday
afternoon. Lowest temperatures tonight
20 to 25 in Panhandle, 25 to 30 in the
South Plains and near freezing upper
portion Pecos Valley. TEMPERATURES
Viernov
A VICTORY
1 BUY.
Marines Overwhelm
Jap Cape Airdrome
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- •Utter's advanced headquarters.
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec. 31
—(P)—Strewing the jungle with
hundreds of dead Japanese, United
States Marines captured savagely-
defended Cape Gloucester and its
airdrome four days and a few hours
after a seaborne force from New
Guinea invaded that northwest
New Britain strong point Today
the surviving Nipponese faced en-
trapment.
On the last day of 1943, U. Oen.
Walter Krueger, of the U 8 Sixth
army, proudly announced "I have
the honor to present the Glou-
cester airdrome to the commander
in chief as a New Year's present -
General Douglas MacArthur
heard Krueger's report at the
together with word that 700
Japanese were killed on Cape
Gloucester Wednesday and
Thursday alone. American loss-
es, said Krueger, were "unbe-
lievably light.”
The irresistable manner in which
The Paris radio, however, reported
that Allied planes raided objectives
in the Paris area shortly before
noon.
The Fortresses last attacked Paris
on Sept. 3. and since then had con-
-centrated the n.ainewo'ghe or their
daylight offensive on enemy indus-
trial and shipping targets in north-
western and western Germany
Allied military spokesman, main-
tained a tight silence about the
objective of the terrific cross-chan-
nel bombing assault, which brought
cut one of the most impressive dis-
plays of Allied aerial might ever
paraded over the occupied contin-
ent.
There was every indication,
however, that the long-expect-
ed bombardment to soften up
Germany's Atlantic wall in pre-
paration for the opening of a
second front had begun.
Five hundred British and Ameri-
can medium and fighter-bombers
set the pace for the intensified as-
sault yesterday, RAF raiders fol-
lowed through last night and big
formations of mediums picked up
the attack soon after dawn today.
The weight of the bombardment
of Germany’s network of guns,
pillboxes and other Installations
along the French channel coast al-
ready had surpassed that launched
by the luftwaffe against southeast
England Aug. 8, 1940 in prepara-
tion for an invasion of Britain
As Prayer Day;
Traditions Kept
In addition to the traditional
New Year's eve and New Year’s
Day celebrations, Abilenians will
mark the beginning of 1944 in
church worship and prayer ser-
vices.
Following s traditional estab-
lished in 1885, Jinks McGee,
and s group of oldtimers, will
be st South First and Chestnut
at midnight to welcome 1944.
Mr. McGee will fire the pistol,
originally used by Chief John J.
Clinton when he established the
custom in 1885.
Annual dance will be held at ths
Wooten hotel ballroom by the Abi-
lene club and various entertain-
ment is scheduled to the USO's.
Ministers -iano ar Abilene S
sponsoring a Union Prayer hour W.
10 a. m. to the First Presbyterian
church. Dr. Millard A. Jenkens is
to be in charge with the main mes-
sage brought by the Rev. Cal C.
Wright, Methodist district superin-
tendent.
A day of prayer will also be ob-
served to the Episcopal church of
Heavenly Rest with communion
services at 10 a. ‘m., the Rev W. P.
Gerhart announces.
Masses will be conducted to the
Sacred Heart Catholic church Sat-
urday morning at 6:30, 8:30 and 10
o'clock, according to Rev. Fr. Hen-
ry Felderhoff.
Three services have been ar-
ranged far MRTC personnel at
See NEW YEAR'S. Pg. 11, Col. 7
hour* by giving up part of the over .II C ,
time or reducing the meager wage f hchnim XTAI ITC
rate adjustments granted by Sta- ClISnOIT SCOUTS
bilization Director Vinson would to VIIIJI TUTTS - -
our opinion be a gross injustice and . ...
no violence to the prevailing wage f l A MnAl
determination policies." AT Ann Ua MAPI
The President had lumped to- Jul Al IIIUUI 1 IVVI
gether the sliding scale Increases
and the overtime, but the unions Annual meeting of the Chisholm
contend the sliding scale increases Trail Boy Scout council was set for
have been removed from the arena Jan. 13, in the Hilton hotel, st a
of arbitration by their acceptance — ------—-----—
of them
Abilenian Alternate
For Naval Academy
meeting Thursday of the Executive
board, Charles Rutledge, area scout
executive, announced today.
With President George Barron,
presiding, the meeting included a
report of the budget committee say-
ing they would have the 1944 budg-
et ready for adoption at the Jan.
13 session and the nominating com-
mittee announced they would re-
Louis Cohen, son of Mrs. Fannie
Cohen 1509 North Fourteenth, has port in a few days,
been named first alternate to ap-
pointments to the Naval academy at
Annapolis, according to an an-
nouncement from the Washington
office of Senator W. Lee O’Daniel
made through Associated Press this
Officers will be elected and
the 1944 budget will be adopted
Fri-Thurs Thurs Wed
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Sunrise this morning: 8:40,
Sunset tonight: 6 43.
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morning.
Neth Lowe Leachman Jr. and E.
Y. Holt Jr., both of Dallas, were ap-
pointed with Cohen as Holts first
alternate and William S Spurlock
of Brownwood, other first alternate.
during a business session from
4 to 6 p. m., on that day. The
six committees, organization
and extension, finance, ad-
vancement, camping and active
ities, health and safety, and
training, will ari objectives for
the coming year.
At 7 p. m the annual banquet
will be held for the scouters and
their wives. Officers will De in-
stalled and an appropriate speaker
is being secured, Rutledge says.
Attending the meeting Thursday
Cohen. 19. Is now at home on va-
cation from his junior year at Tex-
as university. He is a geology ma-
jor there and a member of Tau -------
Delta Phi 'fraternity. He was grad-, were Barron, C. M Caldwell, George
uated in 1941 from Abilene high Foster, Albert McAlister, Ed Stew-
school where he was a four-year j art. Nib Shaw Otho Polk, Rainey
member of the Eagle band. Owen and Rutledge.
the Marines burned their way
through pillbox defenses with flame
throwers, brilliantly supported by
artillery and bombing planes, to
complete the occupation Thursday
of the base's two airstrips won
praise from Cen. MacArthur.
• • •
The Leathernecks, who are at-
tached to General Krueger’s army
landed upopposed Sunday at Bor-
gen bay, on the east side of the
cape They crossed beaches clear-
ed of Japanese by naval and air
bombardment and cracked en-
trenched Jungle positions to get to
the airdrome Now they are mop-
ping up survivors who, at any time,
may come under fire of another
Marine force, landed Sunday south-
west of the cape
The enemy’s only hope of escape
lies in taking to circuitous jungle
trails around the base of 6,600-foot
Mt. Talawe.
Capture of Cape Gloucester cuts
the New Guinea - New Britain sea
supply line along New Britain's
north coast Just as the capture of
Arawe. 60 miles to the southeast,
on Dec 15 to the initial Invasion
of the island cut the south coast
route. Cape Gloucester in Allied
hands poses an air menace to near-
by bases to the Bismarck archi-
pelago and places to an ever-grow-
ing defensive role the sea-air fort-
ress of Rabaul, 280 miles away on
the northeastern end of New Brit-
ain
that never came off
While Allied air fleets devot-
ed increasing attention to the
Invasion coast, 1,500 American
heavy bombers and fighters hit
southwest Germany — neutral
sources said their target was
the chemical center of Ludwig-
See AIR WAR, Pr. 12, ol. 4
G. C. Allen Jumps
Gun on ‘44 Bonds
On Jan. 1 the first war bond for
1944 to Abilene will go to Mr. and
Mrs George C. Allen. Ml Grape
street, to denomination of $1,000.
Allen left his check for $750 in
the postoffice yesterday, requesting
the first bond of the year be made
out to him and his wife on New
Year s Day. __.
With only today left for purchas-
ing bonds for the December quota,
thea month’s total amounted to
$239,902.50. Thursday's sales as
reported from the two banks and
the postoffice were to all $7,068.25.
To meet Taylor county's quots.
today's figures must st the lesst
reach $6,737.50.
Hearing on Bond
Fixed for Suspect
An application for reducing the
$10,000 bond set yesterday for
Jerry DeWcody, wanted for ques-
tioning on a bank robbery to Louis-
iana, was to be heard this after-
noon by Judge Milburn S. Long,
DeWoody’s lawyer, Letcher King,,
said
The bond was set in Justice
of Peace W. J. Cunningham's
court after a writ of habeas
corpus was heard and passed
on. A fugitive warrant was
sworn against DeWoody, and a
Louisiana bench warrant nam-
ed him as a suspect to the
Christmas eve robbing of the
Sulphur branch of the Cal-
casieu-Marine National bank in
Sulphur.
The second writ of habeas corpus
setting forth that the bond was
excessive and to' an amount such
ss could not be nade by DeWoody,
was secured by King following yes-
terday’s actions.
H. A. Reid Jr. sheriff of Calcas-
leu Parish to which Sulphur Is lo-
cated, brought with him to Abilene
the bench warrant charging De-
Woody with armed robbery.
The robbery was committed by
a lone bandit who entered the
bank the day before Christmas and,
at the point of a gun, crammed
520 000 into a paper sack and es-
caped. He was disguised only by
a pair of dark glasses
Dismounted Cavalry
Men Lead Invasion
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-
QUARTERS. New Guinea Dec 31
- PP)—A headquarters spokesman
said today that Texas cavalrymen
opened the invasion of New Britain
—on foot.
He disclosed that the American
army troops which invaded Arawe
on the southwest coast Dec. 15 were
elements of a "dismounted Texas
rivalry unit." He did not elaborate 3
NO REPORTER-NEWS
JANUARY 1 —
Jonuory I morning and evening editions of The Reporter-News will
NOT be printed
These editions ore skipped to conserve newsprint which is strictly
rationed under the new orders effective January 1.
Subscribers will receive their Sunday morning poper January 2 95
usual.
The Reporter-News Business Office will remain open
throughout New Year’s Day to accommodate subscribers
and advertisers. Jy____1
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