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•Three More File To Contest All City Commissioner Places
NEW ENTRIES
INCLUDE TWO
BUSINESSMEN
Three places on the city eom-
aiission will be contested at the
rpecial election April (!, it de-
Special election April (!,
veloped today following filing
of three more candidates after
newspaper publication lime yes-
|prday. Three had filed earlier
ALLIED DRIVE IN AFRICA MAY BE DNDER WAY
Army Will Assign Troops To Save Vital Crops ;^EN AS PER^ TO 2D L^0NT
in the day.
The city comptroller and
clerk, VV. 11. Whaley today was
having the ballots printed, list-
ing for each place the name of
Tiie candidate first filing his re-
quired petition.
J. Harvey of the Cull
Oil Corp. is one of the trio
p filing late Tuesday. He will
contest Place 2 with I*. L.
L'llom. The other two are
A. B. Crowder, hardware
merchant, entering a race
with C. C. Johnston for
^ I’laee 5; and Paul W. Coniol-
li, Sweetwtater Moral Co.
operator, w It o competes
with A. K. Norred for
Place J.
Like the first three men sub-
mitting petitions, the second trio
fulfilled legal requirements, eacli
petition carrying more than the
minimum of 25 names required.
There was more dissimilarity in
names than there was on the
.Vst three petitions.
All signers on the six petitions
were checked as to eligibility by
Whaley before arrangements
were made for having the bal-
lots printed. »
" Voting will take place Tues-
day, April (i, at the municipal
building.
TASK FORCE
BOMBARDS
VILA JAPS
17
WASHINGTON, March
«.MT) — In an apparent attempt
to knock out important enemy
bases at both ends of the Pacific
battle line, an American naval
task force has bombarded Vila
ni the Central Solomons with
•good results", while our air-
men heavily bombed Kiska in
tiie Aleutians six times in a sin-
gle day.
A navy communique today
"Tiers carried out five harrass-
ing raids on Vila and four other
Japanese bases in the Solomons.
One of these was Munda. which
was hit from the air for the tilth
free TASK FORCE Page 0
WASHINGTON, March 17 —
(UP) — The army will under-
take to assign troops as units
to assist in agricultural emerg-
encies when vital crops are in
danger, hut will not furlough
individual troops for agricultur-
al work, the war department
announced today.
On Feb. 23, however, the de-
partment announced that*troops
would be assigned as units to
harvest cotton in Arizona. This
plan later was abandoned and
Secretary of War Henry T,.
Stimson said further investiga-
tion had shown use of troops in
Arizona was not necessary.
Tiie department said this pre-
cedent has now involved into
the following announced poli-
cy:
Sweetwater Reporter
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Sweetwater, Texas, Wednesday, March 17, 1943
Number 70
“Tin- mui- dc|>■■-1(110111 is
fully aware tliut certain em-
ergency situations may de-
velop In which vital crops
may become endangered be-
cause ol' critical shortages
in local agricultural labor.
In such (uses military units
may lie employed' under
command of their own offi-
cers to supplement the local
agricultural labor until the
crisis is relieved.
"Troops thus employed will
be housed and fed by the army
and continue subject to military
control at all times. Requests
for use of military units for ag-
ricultural purposes will be
transmitted to the war depart-
ment toy the chairman of the
war manpower commission.”
Tiie policy against furloughs
does not affect the plan already
in effect under which soldiers
38 years of age or older may be
discharged from the army to'en-
gage in essential work, includ-
ing farming, spokesmen said.
Soldiers under 38 may be dis-
charged for agricultural labor
in cases of extreme emergency,
tiie department said. A soldier
must apply to his ’commanding
officer, and submit documen-
tary evidence of existence of
the emergency. His case must
be approved by bis local selec-
tive service board.
Fight On U-Boats
First—Churchill
ALGIERS SAYS
ALLIES READY
TO ATTACK
LONDON, March 17—(UP)—The Germans reported today that
the British Eighth Army had attacked in force in South Tunisia.
Although confirmation of the Nazi report was lacking here, there
were abundant sign:- of big .wale action brewing in Tunisia. Au-
thoritative air sources called for more and more American Flying
Fortresses and Liberator- in the Britsh theater to build up a
pool for the opr riing of a second front and softening up the Europ-
ean defenses with their pinpoint daylight bombing.
In another of a long series of forays against German ioastal
nhipping, British light naval forces raided Floroe island in south-
western Norway, torpedoing two merchant ships.
A Stockholm report that the Russians were within seven and
| one-half miles of the northern Finnish port, of Petsamo hinted
, that the Red army had undertaken an Arctic udw-ntuiv and was
making progress.
In south Russia the Soviet fori - -tiffened 'after a setback
i and were reported to have taken the initiative at several points
[along the Donet river line, pushing the German- back in some
sectors.
ALLIED FLIERS IN ACTION
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa, March 17—(UP)
- Allied planes are blasting away
at Axis positions along the Ma-
reth line in an attempt to soften
up, the enemy for what appears
to be an imminent push to drive
By Harrison Salisbury
IP Staff Correspondent
TODAY S
LONDON, March 17
— Rapidly accumulating ev
idenee indicated today that tb
lull dress allied campaign t
drive Axis force- ft in Tunisi •
is shaping up or already ha
WAP
MOVES
Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika j pjegUn
Korps into the sea. Both allied and Ax report
Allied pilots have made a hea-
vy attack on the Axis base of
Gabes in what apepars to be the
first move in an all-out offensive
against Marshal Erwin Rom-
mel’s Afrika Korps.
(Allied and axis radios agreed
that the Eighth army was about
to start an assault. The German-
controlled Paris radio said a
See ATTACK Page 6
HOUSE ASSAILS
DAILY TEXAN'S
'RED' ARTICLES
(UP
Bought Own War
Tank In Russia,
3\nd Get To Use It
LONDON, March 17—(UP)
—Radio Moscow reported to-
day on ihe all out war effort
_ of Ivan Bukyo and liis wife.
* Bukyo and his wife were
workers in an armament
factory, building tanks. Af-
ter helping to build one,
they used their life savings
to buy it.
* Radio Moscow said they
had received Premier Stal-
in’s permission to take their
tank to the front and fight
it.
French Buying
American Cars
On Instalments
O STOCKHOLM, March
LONDON, March U
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill told commons today
that the task of overcoming the
U-boats lias been given first pri-
i rity in all British-American
plans.
“Tiie destruction of U-boat bas-
ts is an essential part of this
strategy,” lie said, in answer-to
: question regarding allied at-
tacks on French ports. “The
heaviest blows already have
been delivered by the RAF and
the USAAF against U-boat bases
in both Germany and occupied
France.
“We’ve repeatedly nrged tiie
French population to leave
coastal areas. A large part of the
civil populations of Brest and
Lorient have been evacuated.”
Churchill said the Germans
have attempted to conceal the
severity of the raids from Ger-
man crews expected to use Lo-
rient.
ST. PATRICK can well be proud of the sons of the old soil on this March 17—for thousands
of them arc participating heroically in the tight for world freedom, A few of America’s
many Irish heroes include (apt. Colin Kelly, who sank a Jap battleship; Yilnil. Daniel Cal-
laghan, who was killed on the cruiser San Francisco; Lieut.-tnnlr. Edward O'Hurt*, one our
first multiple Jap plane baggers; Maj. James Patrick Dcvrraiix of Wake Island fame; ( apt.
Mike .Moran of the Boise; Licut.-Cmdr. John Rtilkclcy of the PT boats; and the Sullivan broth-
, ers who went down together on the cruiser Juneau.
He Got 'Em On His
Report Card, And
Sill! Gets 'Zeros'
DDT FREEZES SCHOOL BUSES
AND OTHER PUBLIC CARRIERS
17
Weather Forecast
WEST TEXAS — Warmer to-
night except little change in tem-
perature in Panhandle.
EAST TEXAS' — Warmer
I north portion this afternoon;
j warmer tonight except little |
SEALY, Tex.. March
(UP)—A South Texas fath-
er has cabled congratula-
tions to his backward son.
Through school, the young
man made consistently low
grades.
Recently, the father recei-
ved a cable from Gen. Doug-
las MucAt'tliur in the Suutli
Pacific, where his son is
now a flier.
.Said the cable: “Your son
got three Zeroes today.”
The father cabled the
son: “Happy to note you are
still getting Zeros.”
Tola! Of 198 Jap
Ships Knocked Out
(UP) — The Swedish telegraph
(bureau reported from Paris to- j change in temperature in
See FRENCH Page 6 1 treme northwest portion.
WLB PLANS TO BEAT LEWIS
TO PUNCH AND NIP WALKOUT
WASHINGTON, March 17
(UP) The tally sheet of Am-
erican submarine successes in
the Pacific today stood at a to
tal of 198—137 Japanese ships
sunk, 23 probably sunk and 38
damaged.
This new total was disclosed
by a navy announcement yes-
terday that our undersea craft,
operating in the Pacific and in
Japanese dominated waters,
said; four more enemy ships,
indu ing a destroyer and a
See TOTAL Page ti
School authorities of Nolan
; icunty, where school buses are
proving essential for bringing in
j students from outlying districts
I to Sweetwater and to other
j towns are relieved by 'freezing'
j of all school vehicles in service
! if they carry nine or more per-
sons.
Today's order of Defense
Transportation Director Joseph
B. Eastman applies to till buses,
street cars, trolley coaches,
truck converted for passenger
use, ferryboats and other ves-
sels except combat equipment
of the armed fofees.
County Superintendent Ed F.
| Neinast said this morning that
five Divide bus drivers had re-
signed positions this
wl ere four buses are being op-
See ODT Page 3
TED ARMIES CUT
VITAL RAIL LINE
IN SMOLENSK PUSH
AUSTIN, Tex., March IB —
(UP)—The Texas house of rep-
resentatives today adopted a res-
olution calling for closer faculty
supervision and censorship of
articles published by the Daily
Texan, University of Texas stu-
dent newspaper. The vote was
97 ayes to 25 noes.
Incentive for the resolution
was an editorial in the Texan
headed: “Russia Wiping out Sev-
en Sins for Bright Future.” The
“Seven Sins” were listed as
“Drunkenness, prostitution, po-
verty. begging, insecurity, race
differences and religious.”
Rep. L. W. Flewellen of Rang-
er, author of the resolution, said
the Texan editorial “expresses
and condones theories against
religion which are definitely
contrary to principles upon
which this state and nation were
founded; and the expression and
great prominence of the edi-
torial constitute a disgrace and
embarrassment to the Univer-
sity and citizens of Texas.”
said the British Eighth arm'
was poised for a full scale offen
sive aimed at rolling up th
Axis positions in South Tunisia
North African headquar-
ters reported that the west-
ern desert air force was
blasting the Mareth Line
across south Tunisia in an
apparent prelude to land as-
sault on .Marshal Erwin
Rommel's southern flank.
Axis broadcasts said flatlj
that a big scale offensive
was imminent.
At the same time the battle
of the Atlantic, which the Allies
5y Louis F. Keemle
Ynited Press War Analyst
The anti-submarine campaign
being drafted by American. Brit-
h and Canadian experts in
Vashington is directed at coping
with the only weapon still, avail-
ble to Hitler with which he can
hope to win the war or cause
a stalemate.
The supply problem is one of
he biggest, confronting the Al-
lies because of the great dis-
tances which have to be covered
by sea to reach Europe, Africa
and Russia through dangerous
waters, if the supply system
breaks down, victory in Africa
or a successful invasion of Er
rope would be impossible. '
Hitler evidently is banking,
must win to supply a second heavily on his spring and sum- ‘
front offensive, appears • to be j See WAD MOVES Page
increasing steadily in intensity, j ----------------y.-------
The latest Ngzi , , jinu* to
- nking more than 500,000 tons
of allied shipping in the first
l.r days of March undoubtedly
were exaggerated, according to
the typical Axis propaganda
technique.
On the other hand, there was
no tendency in any allied quar-
ter to minimize the severity of
the sea battle, into which the
Germans were expected to throw
increasing masses of submarines
with each passing week.
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RES CRO
r
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iTEADILY
Red
WASHINGTON. March IB
(UP) — Tilth government today
is maneuvering to beat John
L. Lewis to thhe punch on ids
Great to order 150,000 men from
Tie soft coal pits on April 1.
President Roosevelt backed
down under Lewis-called strikes
in 1911. But this time the ad-
ministration gives every evi-
rymee of digging its toes into
11ic to Lewis and to beat him—if
possible.
Chairman William H. Davis of
l he war labor board, who has
been licked by Lewis before,
Apparently intends to force a
*owdown on the issues involv-
ed in the United Mine Workers’
82-a-day increase demand before
it actually rvacUes Ills buafd.
if the board decision Monday
is to compromise just sufficient !
iv to maintain the support of
A FI, and (TO members, il would !
he in a strong position against j
| Lt-vvis. He would find himself!
opposed, not only by the war
labor hoard but presumably by
the two major labor organiza-
tions whose leadership lie lias
equally denounced and despis-
ed.
At stake are Mr.'Roosevelt's
anti-inflation program and the
war labor board, itself. Lewis
junked the national defense me-
diation board, predecessor of the
of the WLB, in tiie captive mine
dispute of 1941 and evidently
intends to junk the WLB this
time,
General Marshall
Stops Dual Jobs,
Of Solon Soldiers
AUST IN, Tex., March 17
(UP) — An end of dual service
in t1 e state legislature and the
army was seen here today when
the adjutant general’s office fur-
nished Gov. Coke It. Stevenson
a copy of an order to that effect
from Gen. George C. Marshall
in Washington.
Tiie order was issueil Feb. 25.
No explanation was given of its
delay in reaching Texas.
Section four of the order
S« GISti Jl.Sl'JjU.VEi. Page 3
Mystery Radio
Says Hiller To
Use Poison Gas
purport
15,v United Press
A "mystery” radii
ing to broadcast from Germany
in behalf of German labor, war-
ned today that Adolf Hitler was
ready !o begin gas warfare on
the eastern front and appealed
to its listeners to prevent it.
The -broadcast reported that,
since Jan. IB. two trains nave
been leaving daily between 3 a
m. and 5 a. m. from Mannheim
in the direction of Minsk, in oc-
cupied Poland
MOSCOW. March 17 —(UP)
— Red armies cut the important
Nikitinka spur railroad at a
point B5 miles northeast of
iGuolensk and gained new
ground in two other drives to-
ward that key axis bastion on
the central front today.
The capture of the railroad
town of lgoryevskaya, announc-
; eil in the Soviet mid-day comniu-
! nique, isolated Nikitinka, five
! miles to the north, and opened
| the way for a Russian advance
on Durovo junction. 23 miles to
the sooth, where the spur line
; joins the main Vyazmu-Sinolen-
k railroad.
Tiie fall of lgoryevskaya fol-
lowed the smashing of a hastily-
built German defenes line to
j the east, the mid-day communi-
que said. \ number of other
I towns were overrun in tiie all-
iance.
Tyiit ty-two inhabited towns
were seized by Russian forces
i driving southward from Bely,
in the Donets basin, tile Sov-
iets not only had stemmed the
tierce German counter-offensive,
| but in some sectors had passed
I over to tiie attack. The inhabit-
i ants of one village armed them- j
j selves with hammers and pitch-
'Victory' Tires
Available April 1
Additional pre-Pearl Harbor
anil “Victory" tires will be made
available April 1 for motorists
holding “B" and "C” ration
cards.
The new tires may be obtain-
ed under rationing to replace
those worn beyond the recap-
pable stage.
An OPA order makes it pos-
sible for a driver with a mile-
age ration of more than 204 mil-
es monthly to get grade two
casings, of lower quality, which
previously were restricted to
persons with a monthly mileage
of more than 500.
Coming To Sign
Specialists For
U. S. Marines
Contributions to the
Cross War fund drive continu-
ed to add to the total today. Ad-
gas," the
•Their sealed wagons con tail ! forks and aided the Red army
broadcast in routing the enemy, the mid-
I day communique said.
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko’s
northwestern forces knocked
out 869 enemy pillboxes and
blockhouses, killed 1,000 Ger-
man troops and captured a
number of villages and towns
in a continuing advance on tiie
stronghold of Staraya Russa be-
low Luke IltHc::.
blue crus;
said.
“There is but one way to save
the population if Hitler start.-
gas warfare—immediate evacua-
tion of all cities and industries, ’
tiie broadcast continued. Hitler
must know that tiie moment lie
starts gas warfare his entire
war industry will come to a
bait,”
RATION ( ALLNDAR
MARCH 21 — Stamp 25,
Book 1, for one pound of
coffee, expires.
MARCH 21—Second eight
coupons in A mileage ra-
tioning books expire.
MARCH 31 — End of first
period for processed food in
War Ration Book No. 2 (48
points per person.)
MAY 31—C mileage book
holders must have second
official tire inspection.
JUNE 15—Stamp 17, Book
1, good for one pair of shoes,
expires at midnight.
JUNE 30—B mileage book-
holders must have second
official tire inspection. T.
bookholders must have sec-
ond official tire inspection
in 60 days after Feb. 28 or
every 5,000 miles, whichev-
er comes fjrst,
Lt. Robert M. Bandy of tiie
United States Marine corps
will be at the Blue Bonncto^
one day only—Thursday — to
interview men who arc interest
ed in a commissi m in thi mar
ine corps.
In previous .ear- officer
had to receive promotions thru
rank. Lt. Bandy stated Now the
Marines need specialists ami
for am mail who can qualify
they will commission him on the
spot.
There are no vacancies in the
administrative field, only in the
highly technical fields. Listed
among those professions the ilia
rine corps is seeking: Ha liu en-
gineers. aircraft warning serv ice
technicians, telephone special
ists. civil engineers, motor spe-
cialists. Japanese linguists, art-
illery engineers, ordnance offi
cers and photographers.
Tiie Marines also need electri-
cal, radio, communications tech-
nicians. mining engineers, met-
erologists, diesel engineers and
many other specialists.
Lt. Bandy is asking any men
interested to see him at the
Blue Bonnet Thursday.
Gita
anal doi
tors are:
B
Com
hs SI. J. C. Loving
SI.
T
( (
.'aHan SI. Tipton Oil
Co.
S3.
M.
Foster Si, L. C. Als-
ton
S10
. and C. E. Barnett $2.’
J.
M.
Kri
>pp SI. I’crnie Callan
SI. 1
lys 1
•Tint 50c, Robert Rice
M.
Hat
Tis 50c, J. C. Brown-
ing
50c
Eri
nest Corley SI, R W.
Jon
es SI. Ci
alvin Critz 50c, Ruby
Hie
:h ten
i,ver
25c, Mack Harrell S2,
Mat
\V 1
Hard
well $1, Vera Lee
Dod
!son
S J
Luella Gayler SI. La
Yob
m F
inbe
rts Si, Jitnmie Mae
Bunto
$1.
Webb Bramblett $5,
and
w.
B. Rice SI5.
G
H.
Cht
(stain $2. C. C. Smith
H. ’
vV. Barbee SI, Oscar Har-
per
$1.
50.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus
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RED (
’ROSS Page 4
ArtrJess G:r! Gels
Dentistry Degree
HOUSTON, Tex.. March 11
(IP.
—A
[though she has no
arms.
prett
y Margaret Ethel Jo-
nes, c
>f Osc
:eola. Ark., anil Huu-
ston,
will
receive a degree of
doc toi
ental surgery at corti-
nienc.
eineni
l exercises of the
Texas
night.
; Den
til College Monday
,s Jones, w iio lost both her
in an accident two years
will be the first armless
person in the history of Amer-
ican dentistry to receive such
a degree, ‘""ai dentists said.
Mi:
arms
ago.
Only F:»e 01 15,080 japs in Convoy
Got Out Alive, Elmer Davis Reveals
WASHINGTON, March 17 —
(UP)—War Information Direct-
or Elmer Davis said today five
Japanese soldiers were the only
I survivors out of 15,000 aboard
tiie 22 ships destroyed by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's bombers
in the Bismark Sea recently.
Davis told a press conference
that latest reports indicated
about 100 Japanese soldiers got
ashore in landing barges and
1. M<
month l
bv suin'
looks like a bad
Hied shipping losses
le attacks.
2. A possible serious menace
to allied northern convoys is
created by reported German
battle fleet concentrations in
northern Norway.
3. Tiie Germans probably with-
urevv from 11 to 12 divisions
ftom western Europe to launch
their counter-offensive in Rus-
small boats but that all but five sia.
subsequently were l’ounded up “January
started out badly,”
and disposed of. he said, "but inking fell off
He summarized other high sharply • the end of the
lights of the military situation month that it eventually prov-
es follows " led one of the best so far.”
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