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FEATURES
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•ADVANCED ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS. New
Guinea, Sunday, Jan. 2-(AP)
—Marines, pushing a mile
»and a half beyond the air
Brome in-expanding their hole
on Cape Gloucester, New Brit
ain, have counted more than
1,000 Japanese dead and Gen-
eral MacArthur’s headquart-
ers said “the total • (enemy)
casualties are estimated at
many times this figure.
The estimates included wounded
removed to areas still held by the
Japanese and to slain troops bur-
Red the day the invasion opened a
week ago today.
The enlargement of the Ameri-
| can hold on that Northwestern New
Britain base was largely a defen-
asive move, intended to provide ad-
Thitional room in which to meet any
Japanese counterattacks. -
Offensively, the Fifth Air-
force struck a 253-ton bombing
blow at the Japanese North-
m western New Guinea base of
• Madang; the Solomons airforce,
which already has bagged more
than 100 enemy planes at Ra-
haul since Dec. 23, added M
more during a 39 ton bombing
of that Northeastern New Brit-
4 ain fortress; and 12 enemy
raiders were shot down during
. attacks on Arawe, the South-
west New Britain sector which
, the Allies invaded Dec. 15.
KING PETER II
Peter on Secret
Heights;
Near Pescara
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers, Jan. 1—(AP)—Amer-
ican Fifth Army troops, fight-
ing in the jagged hills east of
San Vittorio, have seized
three more heights, it was an-
1 nounced today, and the Can-
i adian spearhead on the Adri-
a atic coast has driven another
Mission; Expect
Balkan 'Break'
LONDON. Jan. 1—) King Peter,
youthful exiled monarch of Yugo-
slavia who has been disavowed by
the partisan, Marshal Josip Broz
(Tito), was reported to have left
Cairo for a “secret destination" to-
day and reports arose immediately
that some Balkan development was
imminent.
It was recalled that a spokesman
for "regular” guerrilla army under
Gen. Mihailovic probably would not
be thrown into the current battle
against the invading Germans un-
til an Allied army invades the Bal-
kans.
— The possibility was net over-
looked, also, that King Peter's
trip might foreshadow an effort
to settle the tangled affaire of
his kingdom. * ,
mile toward Pescara.
Headquarters also announced that
British raiders who penetrated be-
hind the German lines at the
mouth of the Garigliano river Wed-
nesday night had demolished an
important railway and highway
bridge which would have served the
enemy for a retreat to the Appian
way a few hundred yards north of
the river.
The commando tactics of the
British inflicted a number of
casualties on the Germans and
resalted in the capture of pris-
oners who were brought back to
the Fifth Army. W
The communique called it a
“daring raid." The headquar-
ters of Gen. Sir Harold Alex-
ander, Allied commander in
, Italy," gave no further details.
The plodding advances by the
Americans and Canadians were
made despite defiant German re-
sistance and almost intolerable
physical conditions. Miserable
See ITALY, Pg. 8, Col. 2
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AUSTRALIA
WAMPTU
YEAR’S GAINS AGAINST THE JAPANESE — Outstanding
gains against the Japs during 1943 were the American cap-
ture of Attu, Kiska, the Gilberts, most of the Solomons and
the Allied push up New Guinea culminating in the American
invasion of New Britain. Arrows indicate Allied drives, or
potential drives. (AP Wirephoto)
1943 Bomber Losses
Under Four Percent
Fall as Air
Although there was no definite
hint as to the purpose of his mys-
terious trip, it was reealled also
that Peter conferred with Allied
leadens during last month s historic
Cairo conferences Unofficial Yu-
goslav sources here said they doubt-
ed the monarch was returning to
a In the western sector of the Cape
“Gloucester position, Japanese coun-
terattacks were repulsed at Tauali.
A single plane Thursday night at-
tempted one of the few enemy air
raids made since the invasion.
Sixty miles to the southwest at--- .... -
-Arawe P47s tangled with Japanese Yugoslavia in an tort to unite,
“live bombers and fighters in num- the rival guerrilla armies
erous single actions, downing eight Presumably these sources based
bombers and four fighters for cer- their belief on the Dec. 22 mani-
the rival guerrilla armies
tain and probably two other fight-
ers No Allied losses were listed.
Nineteen Liberators of ths Solo-
tons airforce, escorted by fighters,
“were opposed by heavy anti-aircraft
fire and between 40 and 90 Japa-
nese fighters as they raided Ra-
baul Friday noon. Many fires were
started with the 711000 pounds of |
exposives.
• A spokesman for Adm. Wil-
Ham F. Halsey said 20 enemy
fighters were shot down for
certain and six others probab.
ly destroyed. His figures were
a based en reports received after
• General MacArthur’s communi-
que was issued today, listing 1*
enemy losses.
One raiding bomber was lost and
several were damaged but Nippo-
mese planes failed again to hit the
"liberators with aerial phosphorous
bomba
At the hour of the Rabaul raid.
- s=Selomon force of 18 unescorted
- Mitchells dropped72 light bombs
and many .ragmentation clusters
son Japan’s long inoperative Kahili
i airdrome on the south coast of
—Bougainville.
The 253-ton strike on Madang
their belief on the Dec. 22 mani-
festo of Tito’s national council of
liberation which "deprived" Peters
government of all rights and "for-
bade" the king to return until his
homeland had been liberated.
spread over gun positions supply -
and bivouac areas, was aimed at the
„next big Japanese New Guinea base
“northwest of Huon peninsula on
which Australian Jungle troops we
steadily advancing Those troops,
reported today to have reached a
point some 65 miles north of Fin-
schhafen, are approximately 100
miles from Madang but in the
Ramu valley another Australian
force is within 35 miles of that ene-
my shipping base. z
Both the United States and
Britain, however, still recognise
the exiled government although
most of the recent Allied aid to
Yugoslavia has gone into Tito's
armies because they have been
doing the heaviest fighting
■ against the Nazis.
* Contradictory reports came from
Berlin and Tito's headquarters on
the bitter fighting raging along the
400-mile Yugoslav front
Berlin, claiming the sixth major
Nazi offensive to crush thy guerril-
las' finally has turned to Berlin
victories, said that partisan activity
in Bosnia and Montenegro as well
as in Albania had been "thorough-
ly liquidated" .
Tito’s dally broadcast communi-
que gave no hint of defeat, claim-
ing instead that his partisan bands
were • maintaining their offensives
in Hercegovina, Montenegro and
parts of Bosnia and registering new
successes elsewhere.
To Release Cans
WASHINGTON Jan. 1 —-
' The War Food administration plans
soon to release about 440.000 cases,
or about 20,000,000 pounds, of can-
ned pork and beans for sale in civi-
Jian channels.
• This stock is to come from sup-
plies previously set aside for war
requirements.
Rod Journal Says
Jap Advantage Past
MOSCOW, Jan 1 (P)—The Soviet
trade Journal "War and the Work-
ing Class" asserted today that
"Japan has,lost the strategic in-
itiative” in the Pacific and her
"temporary advantage is a thing
of the past.” €
The article, reviewing. Japanese-
German relations, said Japan must
now recall the Oriental proverb
"He who mounts a tiger cannot
easily dismount "
“In any case," the article con-
tinued “Japan cannot count now
on effective assistance from Ger-
many."
The comment was the most out-
spoken yet made here on the Pa-
cific war in which the Soviet union
is neutral. ■
Quiet Holiday
For Abilene
Without much noise and fanfare
1943 bowed out of the picture in
Abilene and police reported “the
quietest holiday in several years."
One major accident marred the
year’s end night when Rita Turner
and Lt. Harold Lawson were struck
by an automobile on South First
street near the high school bulld-
ing.
Miss Turner was hospitalized at
Hendrick Memorial where attend-
ants said last night that she was
doing nicely. She is being treated
for fractures of the skull, and Jaw
and a chest injury.
Lieutenant Lawson is being treat-
ed at the Camp Berkeley base hos-
pital for a fractured leg.
According to police Miss Turner
and Lieutenant Lawson were mem-
bers of a party of four who had
alighted from a taxi and were
crossing the street
The car, In which a Lieutenant
Hoiles Lieutenant Long, Mrs. Holles
and Mrs Long, were' riding, was
traveling west when it struck the
pedestrians.
Lieutenant Holles reported the
accident to Abilene police.
Abilene New Years celebrants
were few, police said, with only two
persona being arrested for being
drunk.
Arrests of soldiers by military
police were also few, police said.
One group of soldiers were ar-
rested when they started to drive
away in a captain's car.
War Bond Salat Top
Quota for December
With war bond sales totaling $76,-
092.25 on the final day of the
month. Taylor, county surpassed its
December quota with plenty to
spare.
The December sales aggregated
$315,654.75 against a quota of $246,-
300.
C. M. Caldwell, chairman of the
county war finance committee, ex-
pressed his appreciation last night
for the way Taylor countians pitch-
ed In to make the monthly drive a
success
Caldwell said that he had not
been notified what the fourth war-
Loan drive goal in January will be.
THE WEATHER
MARTIN VAUGHN IS ‘ABILENE'S’
1944 STORK DERBY WINNER
r. a. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER ATREAU
_ ABILENE AND VICINITY: Cloudy
and rain Sunday. Partly cloudy and warm
"EAST" VEXAS: Cloudy, rain exeepe-sim
extreme marthwest portion Coole
lower * ------ -----
eloudy, warmer. Strong winds _
roast diminishing Sunday night and
I Martin James Vaughn arrived at
St Ann hospital yesterday at 2:39
pm to capture Abilene’s annual
New Year's stork derby.
Martin, son of Mr and Mrs M.
L Vaughn, 918 Blair, was literally
porn with a silver spoon in his
mouth in the form of many pres-
ents from Abilene merchants
The New Year's contest winner is
the second child In the Vaughn
family He has a slater. Sherry
Neal, 22-months old. -
J Hla father is an accountant at
Mead’s bakery and his” grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. R
Smith of Tye and Mr and Mrs. n
M. L. Vaughn. 333 Highland
The baby weighed eight pounds
and six and three-fourths ounces
He was the first boy to be born on
Mr. Vaughn’s side of the family in
24 years. 1
Second in the content was a boy
born to iMr and Mrs. Herman
Smith, 910 Cherry, at Hendrick
Memorial at 6:07 p.m. yesterday.
LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 2—(AP)—The Britain-based United States
Eighth Airforce destroyed 4,100 German lighter planes during 1943 and
dropped 55,000 tons of bombs on Nasi-ooeupled Europe at an ever all loss
of less than four per cent. Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker. commander of the
group, reported today before taking up his new post as Allied aerial
commander in the Mediterranean.
Stressing the rapid increase in the operation,- of the unit the Eighth
Air Force revealed that a new secret method of bombing through clouds,
thus over-coming bad winter weather, had enabled the Americans to
drop a record load of 12,000 tons of bombs in 10 raids during December.
This was more than double the weight dropped in November and rough-
Iv 30 per cent more than the total tonnage for the first six months of
1943.
General Eaker, in his-report which was broadcast to the United
States, said that in the last two raids by the Eighth Air Fares, ap-
proximately 1,500 planes were used—more than half of them four-
engined bombers. Underscoring the .growth of the farce the General
compared this number with 53 Flying Fortresses which raided Wil-
helmshaven almost a year ago, Jan. 27, 1043.1-5
1 Americans, he said, were the first to send fighter planes over Ger-
many itself and he declared pilots of the Eighth Air Force meeting the
Germans on their home ground had shot them down at a rate of 3 to 1.
Baker said the Germans had concentrated nearly 70 per cent of
their fighters in the west—more than double the number on the Rus-
sian and Mediterranean fronts combined— but he added “men of the
Eighth Air Force never have been turned away from their targets by
enemy action.”1 +,
The tonnage dropped during December constituted about a quar-
ter of the Eighth Air Force* tonnage for the entire year.
The American force year's activities include these accomplishments:
Established the feasibility of high-altitude, daylight precision bomb-
ing against the enemy's toughest opposition;
Blasted a half dozen main Nazi submarine bases, helping to win the
battle of the Atlantic:
Developed a powerful and unprecedented long-range fighter escort
system which helped drive home telling blows against German war in-
dustry and the Nazi air force—with 3000 German planes shot down to
the loss of about 1.000 American bombers and ISO fighters;
Transformed the Marauder medium bomber from the "ugly duck-
ling." criticised in some quarters as unsafe, to an effective short-
range. one-ton bomber with a record of less than sue per eeat la
losses;
Tempo brows
LONDON, Jan. 1—(AP)-
— The Allied invasion com-
mand worked with quiet ur-
gency and without a pause for
the holiday today, in line with
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
slogan promising victory in
Europe this year, as squad-
rons of Allied planes again
swept over the channel to
drop smothering loads of
bombs on Nazi defenses.
The invasion commander's con-
fident prediction was enhanced
further today by the promise of Bel-
gian Premier Hubert Pierlot that
his country would be liberated of
its Nazi invaders within “a few
months."
A steady procession of Allied
fighters and fighter-bombers went
over the “invasion coast” of Europe
today in a tactical follow-up of
yesterday's American strategic
bombing of two ball-bearing plants
at Ivry "and Bois de Colombes in
the Paris suburbs and two Nazi air-
bases pear Cognac in West-Central
France.
Some of the Invasion com-
manders have already arrived
here—notably Lt. Gen. Carl A.
SEEKS REELECTION —
Bascom Giles, ‘commissioner
of the land office Saturday
became the first state official
to file formally for a, place on
the 1944 Democratic ballot,
seeking a third term.
Sector Gets
Slow Soaker,
Inch Fall Here
Spaatz, who will command
American strategic bombing ef-
Europe——and are busy with
conferences and arrangements
for bringing In the other offi-
cers that will complete Eisen-
hewer’s team.
Shortly after arriving, Spaatz
conferred with L. Gen. Ira C.
Eaker, commander of the Brit-
aln-basod Eighth Air force who
is being transferred to the
—Mediterranean theater.__________
Contrary to what always had
been the practice in this theater
but in line with the practice always
observed during Eisenhower’s com-
mand of the Mediterranean, today's
air communiques dealt with opera-
tions of the day before.
One joint Air Ministry-U. S. Air
Force communique announced that
"strong forces” of U. S Marauder
bombers and RAP and Allied medi-
um. light and fighter-bombers at*"
See BOMBINGS, Pg 8, Col. 5
Nation Has Many
Violent Deaths
By The Associated Press
The nation's new year weekend
celebration passed the half-way
mark near midnight Saturday night
marred by at least 112 violent
deaths
Of the fatalities reported since
And proved that the revolutionary heavy P-47 Thunderbolt, the high- 6 pm., Friday, an Associ- ted press
altitude, long-range fighter, is better than any plane the Germans could survey showed that 79 were- the
send up against it, t . result of traffic, accidents and 33
The pace of 10 raids a month—two and a half times better than the from other causes, including fire,
number for December, 1942—was attained during only three previous gunshot, suffocation and drowning,
months and during favorable weather, showing that the American force' The normal toll for the three-
has conquered the seasonal weather problem as far as flying is concern- day holiday period would range be-
ed. Winter bombing results undoubtedly will be short of clear weather tween 225 and 275 lives lost in trar-
effectiveness, however. . -------—4 44 "
Twice in one month the Americans broke their record for the num-
day holiday period would range be-
fic accidents, the National Safe’s
Council estimated.
California, with 13 traffic deaths.
ber of both heavy bombers and fighters sent out on one operation dis- California, with 13 traffic deaths,
patching forces estimated at 600 to 800 heavy bomber* and nearly as led the nation In the number of
many fighters. * - - - " 1
During the year the heavy bomber force grew from little more
than 100 planes at four bases to more than 1,000 arrayed among 100-
odd fields.
TA weight of bomba dropped for every bomber lost—although that is Williamson Pions
not a conclusive evidence of success—more than doubled during the year. Canneration
The heavy bombers made S5 raids during the yeer just ended, bomb-Form PPP!
ing about 300 targets. *
During December the Eighth Air Force destroyed more than 3301
German planes at a loss of IBB heavy bombers.
highway fatalities. New York led
from all causes with 16 deaths.
Texas had a single fatality, the
result of a traffic accident
Vandegrift Takes
Command of Marines
WASHINGTON, Jan 1 —-
Century-old tradition, with a ser-
enade and toasts quaffed in hot
FEA Takes Over
Foods Program
Reds Only:
27 Miles 1
Of Border.
LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 2— %
(AP)-Red army troops—cap-
Vitalizing on the greatest Ger-
man military debacle since
Stalingrad — lunged to with-
in 27 miles of the pre-war
Polish border yesterday in
pursuit of demoralized Ger-
man troops who were throw-
ing away their guns, Moscow
announced early today.
Inflicting huge losses on the
Nazis, Gen. Nikolai Vatutin’s first
Following one of the driest years
in recent history in which only 18.49
inches of moisture was received.
1944 came rolling in on low flying
clouds which left 1.01 inches of
moisture to establish" a 58-year
record for New Year's day.
The precipitation, hailed as a
"million dollar" rain by many
farmers and stockmen, fell slowly
with almost no runoff and was
highly beneficial to small grain
crops and pastureland.
Stock tanks, however, were not
greatly benefitted by the soaking
moisture.
Nolan county received at least an
inch of tain yesterday and a good
rain was reported in Fisher county.
W. H Green, local weather ob-
servin'. said last night that yester-
day's rain measured 39 of an inch
more moisture than received on
Jan. 1 over a 58-year period. 1
In 1886 a trace of moisture was
received and another trace' was re-
corded in 1895. Forty-three one-
hundredths of an inch came in
1903 and in 1906 .02 fell. In 1926,
.19 was measured and damp days,
recorded as. “traces” was recorded
in 1917, 1930, 1936 and 1942.
Abilene’s yearly average rainfall
is slightly over 35 inches. •
In other sections of Texas slow
rains, which at some pointe turned
to snow or alternated with sleet.
Ukrainian army captured Belokoro-
vichi on the Kiev-Warsaw railway,
and also began an enveloping drive
on Movograd Volynski, a rail and
highway junction less than 20 miles
from Poland. Novograd Volynski .
Is the last German stronghold bar-
ring the way to a Red army smash
Into Poland.
As the advance of Vatutin’s
men threatened the possible en-
trapment Of 50 German divisions
In the southern Ukraine, Rus-
sian guerrillas operating behind
the Nazi lines were revealed to
be wrecking key enemy rail
lines and trains in the region
of the Rumanian border.
The Russian war bulletin, record-
ed here by the Soviet monitor, also
announced that Gen. Ivan Bagra-
mian's first Baltic army had swept
through 28 more villages west and
northwest of Nevel, reaching points
within 50 miles of the Latvian bor-t
der.
On the ninth day of the great
break-through toward Poland and
Rumania by Gen. Vatutin’s men ths
communique said the Russians had
captured 300 more 'villages and ham- ,
lets. Hundreds of Germans were J
being mowed down in flight or
taken prisoner, it added.
The Germans were abandoning
big guns, hundreds of trucks and
great stores of ammunition as the
Russians plunged on through gape
torn in a 200-mile stretch of the
German east wall. • -
With the capture of Belokoro-
vichi, an important rail center,
the first Ukrainian army had
advanced some 28 miles beyond
Korosten at the northwestern
end of the Kiev salient.
Vatutin's army also was mov-
ing on Berdichev, snother key
rah center 25 miles below cap-
lured Zhitomir
in all the war bulletin said 1,500
Germans were killed in the Kiev
brightened agricultural hopes by
bringing welcome moisture.
Rain and sleet fell at Denison:
rain turned to snow at Plainview
and at Amarillo, and- the Amarillo
weather bureau warned that live-
stock in that Panhandle section be
-protected last night (Saturday)
against slightly below freezing tem-
peratures.
The precipitation brought »3
moisture to the Plainview area.
Other readings were: Dallas 68, sional headquarters.
Fort Worth 52, San Antonio 87, Belokorovichi, a rail center, 1g 1B
Houston .16. Big Spring .44, San miles beyond Korosten and the
Saba 1.67, Electra 1 inch, same distance from the old Polish
Temperatures reported to the border. 4
Dallas weather bureau at 4:30 pm The communique also announced
Saturday ranged upward to the that Gen Ivan Bagramian’s first
high sixties from 13 degrees regis- Baltie-arniy had captured 28 popu-
tered at such points as Amarillo lasted, areas west and northwest of
and Pampa,
Ranges were put in excellent win-
ter condition by the rain at Big
salient
Front dispatches told of the Ger-
mans retreating so fast they left
decorated Christmas trees in their
quarters while the scope of the Nazi
demoralization was underlined by
the Soviet conun unique 11 reference
to the routing of a German divi-
Belokorovichi, a rail center, to 28
same distance from the old Polish
Nevel in a renewed drive toward
Spring. T
Other points reporting light rain
included Paris, Pampa, Wichita
Falls, Lubbock Waco. Austin, Cor-
Latvia. Other Red army units were
tightening their hold on Vitebsk be-
low Nevel.
DALLAS, Jan 1 - H‘H .-...„—____. ..__________
Williamson, recently appointed ag-I pus Christi, Beaumont, Sulphur
ricultural relations adviser to the Springs, and Texarkana, Clarendon
Office of Price Administration, said had light snow. —
today he planned to work with
farmers as much as possible through
farmer organizations and agricul-
tural educational agencies
"We want the farmers to know
Born in Different '
Years, But Twins
BALTIMORE, Jan 1 —(P—They
weren't even born the same year,
West Texans Win
Temporary Advance
WASHINGTON, Jan 1 — -
The War Department today an-
nounced temporary promotions of
officers, including 11 Texans, in-
cluding . .
CAPT. TO MAJ.
Denton-Robert Lucas, Conrod, TO
more about what OPA is trying to
accomplish and we want our outfit
to know more about the farmers'
__I problems,” Williams said “To do
WASHINGTON, Jan 1- <* - we are goina to use the farm _______.._________________
Ico T. Crowley’s Foreign Econom- facilities which already are in use, and Mrs Leo Rowan, made her de.
1c administration took over todayland we’re going to work with the but with just three minutes of old
, nv. .. -.-.- ~‘ 1943 left to run, and twin-sister
and buying operations formerly Williamson said he planned con-Mary Rowan followed suit when
handled by the Department of Ag-ferences sometime in February1944 was just three minutes old,
riculture’s Commodity Credit Cor-Win farm lenders of Texes and
poration and the War Food Admin- Ohio in Dallas and Cleveland.
istration, it was learned authori-1 —
tatively.
The FEA is expected to make an
official announcement of the move
Monday
buttered rum, was observed by the
Marines corps today as Lt. Gen all the foreign food development | " , NONAAs him "
Alexander A. Vandegrift became Ana w...—___... e..--t--1,I farmer Not for or A8AIDBE •
18th commandant of the corps.
It was in 1801 — or about that
time — that the Marine band first
stood before the quarters of the
commandant and playedstirring
martial music as a new Marine
_ chief took office.
northwest partion. Cooler on Vandegrift, who commanded
“^_*""4"_. Monday parti: troops which drove the Japanese
' " xe from Guadalcanal, and lead the
invasion at Empress Augusta Bay
on Bougainville, succeeded Lt Gen.
Thomas C Holcomb who imme-
diately. Was commissioned as ahl
general — the. first four-eta/'gen-
eral in the Marines. “
WEeT TEXAN: Pari, elond, kanda)
and Monday. Slightly higher afternoon
tempera tures
TEMPERATURES
Sat. AM m. HOUR "Ast PM Fri
48 — 34 1 .7.43 — M
45—, 23........2.4.4384
44 — 32 .......3 * ( 43 — A
I — 31.....4.43 - B1
41 — 0 #.....5 ... 43 - 54
40 — 29 .... • ...... — ■ .
so — 28.........7.......41 — ••
40 — 28 ......8....... 40 — e
M - 2 ***** •........40 — M
41 — *0,1* LZ ***** - a
High and low temperatures to 9 p. m
45 and 40
High and low same date last year:
and M.
Nemart last sitht: 6.46
Sunrise this morning: A:40.
Sunset tonight: 6146.
Continues Subsidy
WASHINGTON, Jan 1 - UP) -
The War Food administration an-
nounced today the continuation of
its dairy subsidy program through
January with a boost in minimum
rates to help compensate for a re-
cent nine-cent-a-bushel increase in
the celling price of corn.
yet they are twins
' Kathleen Rowan, daughter of Mr
E.
El Paco-Harold Chamberlain Stull
SECOND LT TO FIRST LT.
Amarillo - Lynn Carroll Tomlin-
Haggard to Edit
Amarillo Magazine
Attendants at St. Joseph's hos-
pital said it was the first case of
the kind in their experience.
son. Inf.
Selman City - Maurice Alton
Yowell, AC
Uvalde-Emmett Eugene Capt, Jr.
CE. .
Wichita Falls - Jack Bernard
Robbins, AC
The shift complies with President
Roosevelt’s executive order of Oc-
tober 6 which directed the change
but did not specify the date of
transfer
Buys Oil Company
DALLAS, Jan 1 - CJ _
Stoddard, independent oil operator.
Mid today he had purchased the
Circle Oil company of Houston and
its S3 wells in Texas, Oklahoma,
and Louisiana for a cash considera-
JOURNAL SAYS JAP ISLANDS
TO BECOME U. S. POSSESSIONS
WACO. Jan 1 VP—O. W Hag-
gard has resigned his position as
executive secretary of the Texas
Farm Bureau Federation and edi-
tor of its state paper the Federa-
tion office said today Haggard
early next week will begin editing I WASHINGTON. Jan 1- bR —
the Producer-Consumer magazine The Army and Navy Journal says
B. at Amarillo and take up work as ...... _______-2___—
educational director of the Tariiter
cooperatives which sponsor that
publication, the Federation an-
nouncement said.
that Allied leaders at the Cairo and
Teheran conference agreed that the
United States should get the Japa-
nese mandated islands in ths Pa-
tion of $1,500,000.
The transfer became effective st
midnight last night, said Stoddard
He said the properties had an esti-
mated reserve of 4,000,000 barrels.
G W. Haggard to a former Abi-
lenian, having taught journalism at
Abilene high school prior to accept-
Ing the position with Texas Farm
Bureau Federation.
cific after the war. 1
These are the strategic, former
German colonies of the Mariannes,
Marshalls end Caroline islands,
awarded to Japan by the League
i of Nations under mandate. She has
transformed some of the islands
into heavily fortified bales. ,__■
Ths Cairo meeting of President
Roosevelt, GeneralissimeChlang
Kai-shek and Prime Minister
Churchill pledged to strip Japan of
the ilsands, but the communique
made no specific reference of their
disposition. ” Japan was not men-
tioned IB the communique from the
Teheran conference, in which Pro • 1
mier Stalin of Russia, Churchill
and the President participated.
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