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BUY
WAR BONDS
NOW
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WAR BONDS
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VOLUME 51
BONHAM, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCT. 27, 1942
United Presa Service
NUMBER 88
GERMANS GAIN
GROUND IN
CAUCASUS AREA
Soviet Black Sea
Naval Base Is
Endangered
MOSCOW. Oct. 27. (U.R)~German
forces have stormed close to Taupse
on the Caucasus coast in a drive
menacing one of the last havens
for the Soviet Black Sea fleet, but
in Stalingrad the Red Army has
erased the third Nazi advance in
36 hours with fierce counter-at-
tacks, it was announced today.
Mentioning Tuapse, the second-
ary naval base 80 miles below No-
vorossisk for the first time as an
area of operations, a Soviet com-
munique said that in fighting nor-
theast of there an attacking Red
Army unit wiped out up to a com-
pany of German officers and men.
Tuapse lies at the head of a
railroad from the great oil port of
Batum, 250 miles to the southeast
near the Turkish border, and is
on a branch of the trans-Caucasion
railway ■ from Baku on the Cas-
pian.
Tuapse’s usefulness was greatly
reduced when the Germans cap-
tured the Maikop oil fields and the
pipeline junction of Amivir to the
east but is, still virtually the only
good Red feet harbor north of
Batum.
Attesting to the detennised Ger-
man drive on the port and the bit-
terness of the Red Army defense,
the Monday midnight communique
quoted captured German Alpine
troops as saying 1,000 of the 1,400
men in their unit had been lost
in the area.
Large German tank and infan-
try forces launched fresh onslaughts j the Aleutians,
in North Stalingrad and in a fierce! Numerous raids on the Kiska
five-hour battle deepened their! base have badly damaged the
„wedge ir, the factory area. It Japanese installations there.
'Ved a costly and temporary -*.--
as the Russians destroyed! Q O
tanks, five trench mortars, [ uClMtOF
seven machine guns, and killed ‘ j
to 750 German officers and'
MAJOR SEA BATTLE IN SOLOMONS
Jap Submarine Base At Kiska Is Bombed
TWO ATTACKS
MADE ON JAP’S
SOLE HOLDING
Nips Abandon
Bases On Two
Other Islands
WASHINGTON, O ct. 27 (U.R)—
Army bombers have blasted at
the Japanese submarine base” at
Kiska in two raids on the enemy’s
sole position in the Aleutians-
the Navy announced today.
These latest attacks occurred on
Oct. 23 and 24 and they were op-
posed by “active” anti-aircraft
fire but no enemy planes were
seen.
Although the Navy previously
mentioned the presence of Jap
subs in Kiska harbor, this was the
lirst time it called it flatly a
“submarine base.”
Continued air attacks on the
Japanese positions on Attu and
Agatu apparently caused the Jap-
anese to abandon these islands as
possible bases for their action in
,en in forcing the retreat.
Northwest of Stalingrad the Sov-
iet relief army driving down from
the bend of the Don destroyed up
to three companies of Nazi infan-
try and wiped out four dugouts and
pillboxes and 15 machine gun nests,
the communique said, but it re-
ported no advance. Nine German
planes were destroyed in that sec-
tor.
In the Voronezh area of the up-
per Don Soviet troops broke into
German trenches and beat off se-
veral counter-attacks, 'the com-
munique announced.
It reported that another 400 Ger-
mans were killed on the Leningrad
front which already covered by
the winter’s first snows. Nearby,
planes of the Soviet Baltic fleet
sank two German transports to-
taling 12,000 tons in the Finnish
Gulf.
Earlier dispatches said the Ger-
man infantry and tank masses,
their footing restored by a shift of
the weather, had slammed through
to the edge of a factory in North
Stalingrad taut that Soviet artill-
ery had begun whittling down the
salient with decimating fire.
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Nine Texans Are
Included On Navy
Casualty List
DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 27 (U.R)—The
15th naval casualty list covering
the period from Oct. 1 to Oct. 15
names three Texans dead, four
wounded and two missing.
For the entire nation the list
totals 408 casualties—194 dead, 142
wcunded and 72 missing, and
brings navy department casualties
since Dec. 7 to 15,814.
Texans in the latest list include:
(Enlisted Personnel)
Dead —Edward Peter Bode, Jr.,
aviation radioman 3d class, USN.
mother, Mrs. Eyalyn Fatier Bode,
(3912 El Campo) Fort Worth.
Wounded — Orville L. Adams
corporal, USMC, parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Orville L. Adams (5223 Ben-
ton Drive) Dallas.
James Thomas Scribner, seaman
2d class, USNR. father Claude J.
Scribner, Grapevine.
Dillard F. Walden, private, US
MC, mother, Mrs. Cora B. Murplw
(215 Alamo plaza) San Antonio.
Missing — William R. Proffitt,
corporal USMC, mother, Mrs. Es-
sie Tutt. Longview
American Losses
Heavy Over Tokyo
Dieclines Give
Source Of
Information
PHILLY MILKMAID—Here's another sign of the times. Amy
Elizabeth Hatfield, 18, is one of first milk route drivers in
Philadelphia. Men drivers have gone to war. Amy learns to
swing bottle basket, while Old Dobbin waits.
27 (U.R)— j
R.. Ind., j
that the j
BEDFORD, Ind., Oct.
Sen. Raymond Willis,
charged Monday night
Doolittle raid on Tokyo last April
was made at the expense of “ail
but one of the planes involved”
and added that the U. S. Navy is
“almost out of commission in the
Pacific.”
Lashing at government censor-
ship of war losses, Willis told a
Republican political meeting that
the administration was showing
distrust of the American people
by withholding news of military
naval disasters
The junior senator from Indi-
ana did not divulge his source of
information in making his state-
ment regarding the Tokyo raid
but asserted its truth “despite
news dispatches indicating that
no planes were lost.”
Willis also declined to substan-
tiate his assertion regarding the
current Pacific situation with fig-
ures or data. Nor did he name
the source of his information.
He demanded that
be restricted to “those happenings
necessary to the success of the
war program” and suggested that
Gen. Douglas MacArthur be plac-
ed in full charge of the war ef-
forts “as Pership was in the last
war."
U. S. Naval Losses
In South Pacific
Continue To Grow
Criminal Cases
Will Be Heard
Begi
inning Monday
Other Cases Will Be
Set As Grand Jury
Votes Indictments
Aircraft Carrier,
Destroyer Lost;
Others Damaged
Germany Sees
Little Of Value
In Willkie Talk
WEATHER
BERLIN — ENEMY ORIGIN
PROGRADCAST, Oct. 27 (U.R)—
The German Transocean News
Agency said today that Germany
considered Wendell L. Willkie’s
speech as “lacking seriousness.”
Berlin circles described the
speech as a ‘pitiable result.”
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Trial of criminal cases for the
October term of 6th District court
will begin Monday, Nov. 2, it was
announced today by Louis Woos-
ley, county attorney, as cases |
were set down for trial on Mon-j
day, Tuesday and Wednesday. !
Mr. Woosley indicated that oth—
censorship i er cases would be listed for trial
' Thursday and Friday as indict-
ments ere vowted by the grand
jury now in session.
The October term grand jury
was empaneled Monday morning
but recessed until Tuesday morn-
ing to allow members of the court
and others to attend funeral serv-
ices for w. R. Foster at Leonard
Cases listed for trial next' week
are:
Monday—
State of Texas vs Aubrey Free-
man, burglary, three cases
Tuesday—
Murry Cooper, burglary; Charles
Jones, burglary; Arnie Argo, theft
of chickens.
Wednesday—
Louis Briggs, murder
—-o--
"ort Worth
.ivestock Market
EAST TEXAS.—Slowly
temperatures tonight.
-o-
FORT WORTH, Oct. 27 0J.R)—
Cattle 5600. calves 2800, slow bare-
ly steady, steers and yearlings
8.50-13. Fat cows 10.75, calves
6-12.
Hogs 2000. steady to 10 cents
rising\ lower. Top butchers 14.40. Sows
‘ steady, 14.
-o—-—
President's goal of 60,000 military
airplanes in 1942, or more than
it has produced since the birth of
aviation.
Nazi Saboteur
Arrives Chicago
As Witness
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. (U.R)—A
great land, air and sea battle is
raging in the Solomons, with both
U. S, and Japanese battle fleets
suffering heavy damage, it was an-
nounced Monday night by the
Navy Department which earlier
had revealed the loss of the new
and speedy U. S. aircraft carrier
Wasp in that area six weeks ago
while covering reinforcement op-
erations.
The communique reported the
American land forces holding ag-
ainst renewed Jap assaults on
Guadalcanal Island, but said that
in a naval engagement northeast
of the island on Monday (Solo-
mon time) the USS Destroyer Por-
ter was sunk and one of our air-
craft carriers severely damaged,
while two enemy aircraft carriers
sustained undetermined damage.
In this engagement, the com-
munique said, other U. S. vessels
reported lesser damage.
Details of this sea battle, pos-
sibly one of the largest of the
Pacific war. still are incomplete.
In other operations in the last
two days, U. S. planes bombed
and damaged three enemy cruisers.
The Japs appeared to be rurling
all their might into a gigantic ef-
j for to regain positions which they
j lost Aug. 7 when the Marines
stormed ashore on Guadalcanal
and nearby islands.
I The latest land attack against
I the soldiers and Marines occurred
! early on the morning of Oct. 25
j and was the eighth futile Jap as-
ALLIES, JAPS |
SWAP AIR RAIDS
IN BATTLE AREA
Jap Positions On
New Guinea And
Timor Attacked
GEN. MACARTHUR’S HEAD- j
QUARTERS, Australia, Oct. 27. j
(U.R)—Allied war planes lashed out
yesterday against Japanese bases
and supply lines on New Guinea
and Timor islands and the Jap-
anese struck back with weak
raids on. Darwin, port Moresby,
and the Milne Bay area of south- j
eastern New Guinea, it was #*.f1
neunced today. i
It was the first time since a
week ago yesterday that Allied !
bombers had not attacked Ra- i
haul and other Japanese bases
menacing American operations in
the Lower Solo irons. j
For the second* straight day the
mid-day communique from Gen.;
Douglas MacArhtur’s headquar-;
ters announced no change in the
ground lighting in Owen Stan-
ley mountains of New Guinea.
The latest reported position t f
Australian forces carrying ‘ out
that offensive was south of Alola,
which is eight miles from the
major Japanese stronghold of
Kokoda. )
|
“Desultory fighting” is continu-
ing there, the communique said.
A headquarters spokesman said
the Australians were maneuvering
to obtain better positions from
which to disladge entrenched Jap-
anese forces.
“The Japanese still are offer-
ing stubborn resistance near Al-
ola and continue to throw mortar
fire at our troops,” he said. “We
certainly haven’t lost any ground
and probably are developing some
advantage of position." !
The widespread Jap aerial at-
tacks made by the light of a bright
moon, were said to he evidently
an effort to divert Allied forces
from the Solomons battle.
Lae and Salamaua, 150 and 130
miles northwest of Kokoda, were
attacked, however, along with sup-
ply lines between Alola , and Ko-
koda. At Lae, an Allied medium
bombing unit attacked the Jap
airdrome runway and plane dis-
persal areas. An Allied armed
reconnaissance unit bombed and
machine-gunned Jap Installations j
at Salamaua and attack planes, I
escorted by fighters, bombed and!
strafed the Kokoda trail.
An Allied medium bomber unit!
attacked the Jap airdrome at Koe-
♦ :
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n
NEIGHBORS STUDY WARFARE—Major Eduardo Beas of Chile
and Major Francisco Aued of Panama prepare to fire 4.2-inch
chemical mortar, as 31 Latin American Army officers from 16
countries study chemical warfare at Edgewood Arsenal, Md.
Other Latin American officers in the background.
Willkie Reiterates
Demand Opening
Of A Second Front
Many Prisoners
Taken By Allies
In North Africa
Breaks In Nazi
Lines Are
Being Widened
CAIRO, Oct. 27. (U.R)—Allied
troops swarming through widening
gaps in the north, central and
Declares U. S.
Has Failed To
Keep Promises
NEW YORK, Oct. 27. (U.R)—Wen-
dell L. Willkie, in a report to the
American people on his recent
world tour, Monday night reiter-
ated his demands for second fronts
in Europe and Burma to relieve
enemy pressure on Russia and Chi-
na and urged American leadership
of a post-war world in which all
nations will be freed of “economic
injustices” and “political malprac-
pang, on Tiir.oi Island, 5?5 miles south sectors of the Egyptian front, I tices.”
Sts0 Dai Win. Wlth Un°bserVed; have captured 1,450 Axis prisoners, i In a radio address broadcast j
Three Janane<4 bombers atfne1- ' routed Nazi tanks in the fu'st ar- throughout the nation and the;
inree Japanese bombers attack- mored clashand are pulveizing the world thp form._ Rprmhliran nvp |
6d “JSL0!* “J -emy Ur, with the greatest
sive day. Strking at night,
the com-
they, tsh artillery blasts since the bat- ^at “jn a military sense we can
tie of the Somme in World War I.
it was revealed tonight.
American tank crews, which held
one sector of the front line, were
win this war” despite the fact j
that, so far, “in many fields we \
are not doing so.” .,
I
Throughout his address Willkie j
indicated the deepest sympathy for
Russia and China, describing the
VICHY, Oct. 27 (U.R)—The French
Ministry of Colonies charged to-
day that a British plane had raa-
, sault on * the American, positions j chine-gunned civilians in the
j on Guadalcanal in the last eight \ streets of Fianaranfsoa, a small
j town in the southern part of Mad-
Vichy Charges
British With
(
Mistreatment
j days.
j This time, however, the Japs tried
CHICAGO, Oct. 27 (U.R) —Heavi-| to find a soft spot in the American
lv manacled and guarded closely,) southern flank. The previous sev-
Ernest Peter Burger, one of the) en attacks were directed against
eight saboteurs who landed in the* the western flank.
United States from a German sub-j m the air. Japanese and Ameri-
marine. arrived today from Wash- ; can fliers waged a furious duel
ington to testify in the treason* which has cost the enemy 22 more
trial of six German-born TT S. I planes.
citizens.
T‘he six
are charged with aid-
An Illinois village with no ing and abetting Herbert Hans
crime problems donated 12 tons Haupt, another of the saboteurs
of cell metal from the local boose- and one of the six executed at
gow to the salvage drive. Washington on Aug. 8.
This raised to at-least 408 the
number of Jop planes destroyed
since the Marines invaded the is-
lands.
A communique describing the cur-
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caused minor damage,
munlque said.i
Port Moresby had its first raid
since last Thursday when two
Jap planes j dropped bombs near j presumed to be in the thick of the
the airdrome. They caused no battle.
damage. j German Field Marshal Erwin j
At Milne Bay, where a Jap in-! Kommel’s frantic efforts to rush peopl“ * cpup*t™s “ our
vaslon force was routed some j reinforcements and supplies across ( supel J 1 ln® a les'
weeks ago, a small flight of en-1 the Mediterranean cost him fur-i ne condemned censorship, uiged
emy planes dropped eight bombs | ther heavy losses as Allied planes! greater use of “the whip-lash of
harmlessly near the beach. It was! ghot down four Junkers-52 troop-i public opinion to force the ad-
tile first raid there since Friday. I carrying planes and damaged sev- j ministration and its militaiy lead-1
—*--°--:-- ! eral more, and blew-up a munitions j ers to more vigorous action, and;
ship near Tobruk, a port so vul- j deplored the fact that “we have j
nerable to air attack that Rommel i made great promises” to some of!
would not use it unless his needs j our allies presumably Russia and;
were desperate. China—which so far have not been)
(DNB, official German news ag- J satisfactorily fulfilled,
ency, quoted military circles in j Willkie emphasized that he spoke
Berlin as saying that the Allies j as a free agent and said that while
are using 1,000,000 men 1.000 tanks' he performed “certain specific
and “enormous numbers” of planes i tasks” for the President while
in the Egyptian offensive and that! abroad he was free of official fet-
the urning points of the war will ■ ters.
be reached on the El Alamein line | Some of his criticism of the ad-
in Egypt and on the Stalingrad: ministration was extremely blunt,
and Tuapse fronts in Russia.) J “If I v/ere to tell you how few
Tanks made in the United States bombers China has received from
and Britiain. and British, Indian, us you simply would not believe
Australian, South Affrican, New me,” he said. “If I were to tell
Zealand, Greek, and Fighting you how far Russia feels we are
French troops are storming ahead from fulfilling our commitments,
side by side through the breaks in you would agree with me that we
the Axis bdrbed wire and mine have little reason to boast about
fields under artillery barrages that our performance.”
>rock the buildings of Alexandria, The question of when American
L\0 miles away. Offering protection supplies will begin reaching our
overhead are U. S., RAF and SAAF allies in sufficient volume, he said,
aijr forces that completely rule the "depends, I think, on how quickly
(skies. we, and our leaders, can begin to
r>nr tanks following the infan- think and act offensively, can be-
See PRISONERS Back Page See WILLKIE Back Page
agascar.
Later, the communique .'•aid,
British forces rounded up the
population of the town and forc-
ed them to march in »front of
armored cars, clearing the roads}
destroying obstacles and reestab-
lishing communications.
The communique acknowledged
the' British had made further pro-
gress in their southward drive
from Tannanarive, the capital, by
capturing the village of Ambo-
hinanga in Ambosltra region “aft-
er stiff fighting.”
BOTH SIDES
SUFFERING
HEAVY LOSSES
Outcome Of Major
Engagement
Still In Doubt
By United Press.
A major Japanese-American na-
val struggle was in progress in the
Solomons area today—possibly the
biggest of the Pacific war—and the
outcome was not yet clear.
it was apparent, however, that
both sides had suffered severely
and that the battle was not yet con-
cluded. On the outcome hinged
the fate of the American drive into
the Southern Solomons and pos-
sibly control of the vital sea lanes
along which the Allied supply line
luns from Hawaii to Australia.
Sec. of Navy Frank Knox as-
seted that the outcome of the coii-
flict isn’t “yet clear.” He said the
Japs had massed “a lot of strength”
in the Solomons area and that the
American fleet is putting up one
of the gamest fights in its history.
Accounts of the battle thus far
available from Washington and
from Japanese propaganda sources
indicated the U. S. fleet probably
was engaging a considerably sup-
erior Jap force.
Known Japanese losses are two
aircraft- carriers damaged and three
cruisers hit by torpedoes or bombs.
The Japs admitted damage to the
carriers and one cruiser but claimed'*,
the ships still were able to stay at
sea and fight.
Known American losses are one
aircraft carrier severely damaged
and one destroyer sunk. The Japs,
additionally, claim the sinking of
four carriers, a battleship and an-
other warship and damage to an-
other battleship, three cruisers and
a destroyer.
Reports made clear the battle
isn’t a continuous action.
In Egypt, the Imperial 8th Army
was slugging its way forward
through Axis minefields. The chief
armored forces of Marshal Erwin
Rommel had not yet been brought
into action. Allied air forces were
ruling the sky over the desert and
ever adjacent Mediterranean, com-
plicating Rommel’s difficulties of
transport and supply.
In Russia, fighting apparently
was slowing down in Stalingrad
proper, although Timoshenko’s ar-
my approaching Stalingrad to re-
lieve the beleaguered city was re-
ported making satisfactory gains
through the German fortifications.
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Much Damage Is
Done Hongkong,
Airfield In Raids
Jap Planes Are
Shot Dbwn In
Burmese Raid
CHUNGKING, Oct. 27. (U.R)—Un-
ited States Army bombers blasted
Hong Kong Monday for the sec-
ond time in 48 hours, destroying
a power station, while other Am-
erican planes attacked the great
Japanese-held White Cloud air-
field, northwest of Canton, it was
announced tonight.
Meanwhile, a British communique
announced that four Japanese
planes were shot down yesterday
when the enemy attacked the Chit-
tagong airfield in Bengal and oth-
er airdromes in Assam. Japanese
broadcasts, warning that the Nip-
ponese air force “is ready to attack
British forces in India at any mo-
ment,” urged the Indian popula-
tion to move away from areas of
military importance.”
The communique from Lieut.
Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s head-
quarters said that no American
planes were lost in either of today’s
raids despite fights with Japan-
ese interceptor planes. A heavy
explosion and many fires were .
started on the White Cloud air-
field, which with other Jap-held
airfields near Canton has been re-
peatedly attacked by Allied flyers
since they took to the skies in Chi-
na in July.
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