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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Saturday Evening, June 17, 1944
Superforts Doom Jap Plan for West Wal
Drives Aimed at
Checking Allies
• By RAY CRONIN
Associated Press War Editor
The great flying range of Amer-
ica’s super sky battleships, the
B-29s that hit Japan’s homeland
Thursday night (Tokyo time), has
without doubt partly upset the stra-
tegy of Nippon military masters
who had envisioned a "West wall"
of defense against the Allies.
Odds in Bitter CITY SELLS PROPERTY, LEASES
Biak Battle in ACREAGE FOR OIL EXPLORATION
The Japanese launched multiple
drives in north, central and south
China some weeks ago along vital
railway lines. Military observers
quickly sensed one of their purposes
was to drive Chinese forces from
the eastern coastal region and pre-
vent establishment there of Allied
air fields from which Liberators and
Flying Fortresses could reach Nip-
pen-proper.
Then along came the B-29
and the dream of a Japanese
West wall against aerial strikes
into the heart of Nippon fell
flat. The sky giants make a
- West wall look like-a low-hurdle
as they wing in from distant
bases to smash Japan.
Indications are that with B-29s
roaming the skies any effective
Japanese aerial defensive West wall
would have to be many hundreds
of miles westward in the wild
Chinese hinterlands rather than in
the railroad zones which parallel
China’s eastern coast.
The Japanese threw heavy
forces against three distinct
Chinese zones as they dreamed
of a West wall. First they hit
westward in Honan province
along the east-west Lunghai
railway. Then came blows down
the northern end with Chang-
sha, capital of Hunan privince,
the main objective.
Later they drove northward up
the railway from the Canton area.
The Tokyo radio, lacking Ameri-
can confirmation, said the B-29
raid on Japan’s steel industry was
“presumed" to have started from
Sian, in Shensi province. North
China.
Gas Coupons Taken
Wendell Gaines reported to po-
lice yesterday the theft of gasoline
coupons amounting to 640 gallons
from his Conoco station, 2019 South
1st, sometime Friday morning.
Yanks’ Favor
By ASANEL BUSH
1 ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-
i QUARTERS, New Guinea, June 17
I —(P)—Relentless American drive
i and the superior weight of equip-
1 ment—notably artillery—are win-
1 ning the battle of Biak island.
I Complete victory on that islet
I off northern Dutch New Guinea
I seemed doubtful for a time in
I earlier stages of the campaign,
I but now it appears as a certain
I eventuality.
I After spending nearly a week on
1 Biak I was impressed with the rug-
: gedness and determination of Amer-
I ican infantrymen in combatting na-
ture and a Japanese garrison which
+ has staged a wily, tenacious fight.
. 4 % *
Abilene’s commissioners in ses-
sion Friday afternoon voted to sell
two pieces of city property and ac-
cepted a bid for an oil and gas
lease on another.
Bid of $700 by the Locust Street
The board. Mayor Hair report-
ed, had $16,685.14 income during
the fiscal year ending last May 1
and expenditures of $23,267.13. Bal-
ance at May 1, 1943 was approxi-
mately $8,000.
Church of Christ, presented by
Hollis E. Swafford, for two lots at
6th and Palm was accepted pro-
vided title can be secured. The
commission the Friday before had
refused a bid of $600 by A. W. Geist- -----------------,— .
man for the two lots which carried board is some $18,000 yearly.
$878.59 delinquent taxes not in- The board has indicated it would
cluding penalty, interest and col-want a $25,000 budget this year, it
lector’s fee.
Seven cents of the tax levy gees
to the parks board. During the com-
ing year this is expected to be ap-
proximately $16,000, Mayor Hair
said, and some $2,000 is expected
from other sources. Payroll for the
STEEL WORKS AT YAWATA, Japan—A view of the steel mills at Yawata on the Japa-
nese Island of Kyushu. Radio correspondent Roy Porter in an eyewitness account of B-
29 raid on Japan said the new Superfortresses left masses of wreckage at the Yawata
mills. (AP Wirephoto).
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BOMB TARGETS NAMED BY JAPANESE—Underlined
cities, all on Kyushu Island except for Shimonoseki on Hon-
shu, have been named in Japanese radio reports as the tar-
gets of the attack by American Superfortress bombers. (AP
Wirephoto). 1
Speed Urged on
Conversion Bill
WASHINGTON, June 17.—) -
Spurred by the increased war tem-
po and warnings from elder states-
man Bernard M. Baruch that speed
is paramount, the house today call-
ed up for final action legislation es-
tablishing machinery to terminate
the billions of dollars worth of out-
standing war contracts.
Backers of the measure assert
that industry needs to know now
how these contracts are to be
woundup so it can make its plans
for conversion to peacetime pur-
suits. Termination of such con-
tracts in world war one was not
decided upon until Oct. 15, 1918,
less than a month before the ar-
mistice.
General Craig
Directs Troops
Directing field maneuvers
In
PLENTY OF
SWEET MILK
SINGLE CREAM
BUTTERMILK
BUTTER
IONGHUPN
which the 12th Armored division
and other combat units partici-
pated this past week at Camp
Barkeley was Maj. Gen. Louis A.
Craig, commanding officer of XXIII
Corps with headquarters in Brown-
wood. -
General Craig, a 1913 graduate of
West Point, is a brother of General
Malin Craig, former chief of staff
of the U. S. Army. He is an over-
seas veteran of World War I, serv-
ing with the First and Fourth di-
visions and on the Second Army
staff. He was awarded the French
de Guerre, the Belgian Croix de
Guerre, the French Legion of
Honor, and the British Distinguish-
ed Service Order.
Before being assigned to com-
mand of XXIII corps General
Craig was commanding general of
the 97th division.
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While there was complete
agreement on the principle in-,
volved, the house was sharply
divided on one question—the
role of Comptroller General
Lindsay Warren in the termi-
nation activity.
Chairman May (D-Ky) of the
military committee led a fight to
write into the law a provision that
would make the comptroller general
the final arbiter of a terminated
contract. The bill gives Warren a
voice in the proceedings only where
(Headquarters reported today an
American encirclement movement
to clear the way for an advance,
after three tank-supported Japan-
ese counterattacks were smashed
Thursday. The assaults, aimed to
interrupt the entrapment move and
crush defenses north of American-
held Mokmer airdrome, cost the
Nipponese 160 dead and two tanks.
(The Japanese have concentrated
most of their forces in hills north
of Mokmer, and the counterattacks
were launched from these positions
onto flatlands adjoining the air-
strip). *
The enemy on Biak is not a
foolhardy fanatic, madly sac-
rificing his life for his emperior.
He has played a clever waiting
game; seldom attacking but
yielding ground when necessary
and then only foot by foot, at
the maximum price he could
exact.
The American answer to these
tactics is to maintain pressure at
every point where the enemy is en-
countering and press forward when-
ever a weakness is found. This
strategy is bulwarked by field ar-
tillery, naval bombardment, heavy
mortars, rocket craft and aerial
bombing and strafing.
The battle has taken a course
which promises inevitable American
victory. But the character of the
Japanese defense of this islet-
which scarcely could be considered
even a secondary key point of his
western Pacific stronghold—may
portend an increasingly fierce
struggle from here on.
THE MARKETS
Germans Execute -
Air Force Officers
LONDON. June 17.—(P)—The Air
Ministry said Friday it had learned 1 fraud is concerned.
that three more Allied Air Force
officers had been shot by the Ger-
mans.
These were in addition to the 47
who Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden reported previously had been
shot after a mass escape from a
war prison camp near Dresden on
March 25.
Texan in Charge of
Sino Airfield Work
UNITED STATES AIR B AS E,
Western China, (By Mail)—(A)-
Construction of this key base in the
new western China network of
American airfields was supervised
by a Texas expert on irrigation,
drainage and water conservation,
Capt. Brewer F. Witmer, 45.
Witmer, from McAllen, Texas, in
civilian life also was a rancher and
grapefruit farmer. He was resident
engineer for the base.
Offices of United States Commis-
sioner Ida M. James will be closed
Monday, open again on Tuesday.
Mrs. James is leaving Sunday for
Plainview to visit her mother, Mrs.
Fred Ott, and her sister Inez Ott,
clerk of Hale county.
CHILD-
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ed police.
9
Chief Virgil Waldrop, accompa-
nied by Mrs. Gutzkow, visited the
building and Mrs. Hinajosas and
the child were brought from the
upstairs room to a downstairs
apartment where the mother and
officer were waiting.
Janet ran to her mother, crying,
while the mother also cried.
Mrs. Hina josas told the mother
she had taken the child to the store,
as promised, and had purchased the
girl something to eat.
"When I went back to the
park you weren’t there,” she told
Mrs. Gutzkow.
She said she had started out to
hunt for the mother and to return
the child when she was stopped at
the outer door of the building.
Schooley, employed by the Repor-
| ter-News as night telegraph editor,
said he recognized the child from
the picture furnished police and
which he saw shortly after midnight
while gathering material on dis-
appearance of the youngster.
Mrs. Gutzkow is the wife of a
soldier of the 12th Armored divis-
ion. The Gutzkows live at the Pal-
ace hotel.
YANKS-
(Continued from Page 1)
attack in force.
The first period, he said, was
when the doughboys fighting their
way ashore in the central beach-
head were encountering a rein-
forced Nazi division. This was where
the First division and supporting
elements of the 29th fought their
ristoric beach battle.
The second critical time was when
American forces were trying to make
their junction of beachheads secure
north of Carentan. This was a soft
spot at the time because it was a
junction point between the Ameri-
can Seventh corps on the Cher-
bourg peninsula and the Fifth
corps on the central beachhead.
The general declared emphati-
ally that he thought the enemy
cally that he thought the enemy
had lost his chance to drive
the Allies back into the sea and
that the beachhead now was
absolutely secure.
Since their landings, American
troops have captured and evacuated
8,500 prisoners, Bradley said.
Bradley estimated the number of
German divisions in France to be
in the middle 60‘s, with 16 divisions
or elements fighting against the en-
tire Normandy bridgehead.
The general declared the enemy
would be unable to move all his
divisions in France into the Nor-
mandy front because defenses must
be manned in other parts of the
country, and garrisons have to
maintain control of the civilian
population.
Bradley also gave high praise to
the navy’s support of the assault
troops, recalling that some warships
ran to within 500 yards of the
beaches pouring shellfire into enemy
strongpoints. He also lauded the
air forces which kept the enemy’s
reserves from forming in front of
the assault waves.
Livestock
FORT WORTH
FORT WORTH. June 17.—(AP)—Cat-
the 250; calves 50; mostly medium and
low grades at nominally steady prices;
no good fed beeves; a few common to
medium grade slaughter yearlings 8.50-
12.75 butcher cows 8-10.50; fat calves
8.50-13.50; stockers scarce.
Hogs 200; steady; good and choice
180-270 pound butcher hogs 13.55; good
and choice 150-175 pound averages 9.75-
Sheep 7.500; good and choice spring
lambs 13.50-14.50 or steady; remaining
supplies in the sheep yards consisted
of 44 decks of shorn lambs carried over
to Monday’s market.
Three calls were answered yes-
terday by the local fire department.
A short in the wiring of a cabin in
Landau courts called the depart-
ment out at 10:59 a. m. The blaze
was out on arrival. At 12:41 p. m.,
they were called to 3425 South 7th
to extinguish a trash fire and at
6:30 p. m., they answered a call
on North 8th where a Yellow cab
had caught fire. The blaze was in
the carburetor, fireman reported.
The church plans to erect a
new building on the lots, Swaf-
ford said. Motion to accept their
bid was by Commissioner A. H.
Pool with second by Commis-
sioner W. E. Beasley. The vote
was unanimous.
A counter offer to accept $450 for
40 by 200 feet of land near the
abattoir, site of the Fonville Pack-
ing company, was accepted by J. D.
Fonville. The council had refused
Fonville’s original bids of $450 for
a 40 by 515 strip or $300 for a 40
by 300 foot strip. The city’s counter
offer was on motion by Commis-
sioner Tom Bacon and second by
Commissioner T o m McWhirter.
Fonville indicated his cceptance in
a telephone conversation with Com-
missioner Bacon.
Approximately 160 acres of land
in section 78, old D. S. Kaufman
land, was leased to John Byram for
$2 an acre the first year, $1 delay-
ed rental. The land is east of Fort
Phantom hill lake and lies near
the head of the lake. Under the
terms of the five-year lease, one-
eighth royalty retained, the west
line will be 100 feet fr om the high
wat mark of the lake. The lease
will contain usual provisions about
water pollution.
Only negative vote to Commis-
sioner Beasley’s motion to accept
the lease bid was by Mayor Will
w Haid who explained that he
did not think it proper for the city
to lease any land on a watershed
for oil and gas purposes since salt
water, if it were struck in drilling,
would damage the water supply.
* * *
Councilmen voted yesterday to
cancel the nine taxicab permits
held by the Black and White taxi-
cab company and issue the nine to
Bob Sanderson, owner of the Safe-
ty Cab company. Joe, D. Pride.
Black and White owner, appeared
before the commission to request
the action. Sanderson is seeking an
ODT permit for another taxi,
which will mean a total of 10 more
for the Cafety line. The council in-
dicated its approval of the addi-
tional car and directed Sanderson
to post the proper notice.
The city parks and recreation
board, faced with a $384.06 over-
draft June 15 and with some five
months to go before new revenue
starts coming in, received a $4,000
loan from the city yesterday to be
used for operation expenses.
was said, but no official, action was
taken to increase the amount of
its revenue.
“Abilene has waited too long
for park improvements, but
this does not seem a proper
time for large expenditures”.
Commissioners Pool said, “since
labor and materials are very
expensive now.”
Any revenue increase would have
to wait until the city knows just
how well money for the fiscal year
is coming in. Mayor Hair said.
The $4,000 loan is to-be repaid
out of board income. Similar action
was taken two years ago when the
city loaned the board $4,000.
* * *
Lawson Howard Good win, who
hrs been working in the police de-
partment by the day for some three
or four months, was put on the
regular payroll as a student police-
man at $125 a month. His applica-
tion was presented by Police Chief
Virgil Waldrop.
A. L. Vinson and Clifton Teague
were added to the regular payroll
as drivers for the sanitation de-
partment at $125 a month to re-
place Luther Barfidl and A. D.
Furk resigned.
* % -
Police bond renewals, $1,000 each.
were approved for J. E. Dumas,
Tom Sumners, Lloyd Burks, L.
Irvine, Henry F. Wyatt, Charles
Harkey and Stephen Blake Cox.
Plumber’s bond for Elmer R. Hitt,
plumber; and gas fitter’s bonds
for Elmer M. Tate, plumber’s and
gas fitter’s bonds for David Vickers,
company, and plumber’s and gas
fitter’s bonds for Wade J. Blake
were approved.
Street Commissioner McWhirter
was directed to submit costs of
graveling all or part of North 7th,
east from Walnut to the railroad
crossing.
A petition signed by 22 residents
asking a street light at South 12th
and Cherry was turned to McWhir-
ter for investigation.
* * * C1
City Attorney E. M. Overshiner
was authorized to notify Banner
Creamery to muffle engine noises
at their plant, 14th Butternut, in
accordance with city regulations.
A first payment of $40,000 on the
new filter project has been received
from the federal government. May-
or Eair said. Contracts have been
let on the work but construction
has not yet been started.
* * * 2
J. A. Greer, 342 Elm, was given
permission to widen aroom one
foot on a house within the fire
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