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BUY
WAR BONDS
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BUY
WAR BONDS
NOW
VOLUME 51
BONHAM, TEXAS', WEDNEDAY, NOV. 25, 1942
United Pres* Service NUMBER 1 I 3
3-MONTH SIEGE
OF STALINGRAD
BROKE BY REDS
Axis Casualties
Mount To 157,000 j
In Fierce Battles
MOSCOW, Nov. 25. (U.R)—The
Red Army broke the three-month
siege of Stalingrad yesterday when
it smashed into the city from the
north in a developing offensive
that has cost the Axis 157,000 cas-
ualties in five days.
Front line reports said 41,000 of
the enemy had been killed, 36,000
taken prisoner and an estimated
80,000 wounded. I
The high command said the
sweep forward on a 200-mile front
had averaged 15 miles a day, with
some units gaining as much as 25
miles in a single day.
Russian troops, forging deep into
the big bend country of the Don'
and shredding the flanks of the
German wedge jutting into Stal-
ingrad, captured a dozen towns and
villages on the fifth day of their
drive. 1
“Our troops advancing north of
Stalingad. having occupied the in- J
habited localities of Tamilinsk.
Akatovka and Natashanka on the.
bank of the Volga, joined hands'
with the troops defending the j
northern part of Stalingrad,” a,
special high command communique
said.
Thus Adotf Hitler’s most am-
bitious and costly venture of the
year was frustrated. At the same
time his whole expedition beyond
the Don verged on disaster as the
Soviet offensive gathered momen-
tum like an avalanche.
The Russians slaughted anoth-
er 15.000 Nazi troops yesterday, the
special communique said, and took
12.000 more prisoners, running
their toll to 41,000 killed and 36,-
000 captured in five days.
The high command’s Tuesday
midnight communique said the
Russians were on the offensive in
Stalingrad after being relieved by
the break-through. They .‘ad-
vanced slowly,” capturing several
dozen dugouts and blockhouses.
On the southern outskirts of the
city, after an artillery and mortar
barrage, the Soviet troops struck
suddenly, seized a strategic height,
and wiped out about three German
battalions numbering possibly 3,-
000 men.
Far to the west, northwest and
rxnith of Stalingrad, the Russians
were swarming through German
positions. Surovikino, railroad
town 74 miles west of Stalingrad
in the heart of the Don bend, fell
to Soviet forces which evidently
had swung southeastward
recaptured Chernishevskaya.
On the opposite wing of the Sta-
lingrad front, the Russians captur-
ed Sadovoe. 104 miles below Stalin-
grad and 17 miles from Tundutovo
taken a day earlier.
'" Several villages on the west bank
of the Don’s northeasternmost arc
fell like duckpins to the Red Army
surge, among them Sirotinskaya.
Nizhi Perekopka and Trekh-Ostrov-
yanskaya.
After a fierce battle southwest
of Kletskaya, a German army
group surrounded by Soviet troops
capitulated, the high ’
said. The German
their strength evidently
far below normal, according to to-
tal captures announced—were tak-
en, together with their generals
and staffs.
In another sector the Russians
broke into a German-eld airdrome.
The blow took the Nazis by sui -
prise, and they had no time to
-NAZI GRIP ON VOLGA THREATENED
Fled Prison Farm Aid Wife Facing Death
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COWBOY HENRY
IS CAPTURED
IN BEAUMONT
Serving Long
Term In
Texas Prison
BEAUMONT, Tex., Nov. 25 (U.R)—
Claude “Cowboy” Henry, escaped
murderer confessed after his cap-
ture here today that his sole pur-
pose in fleeing prison was to try
to deliver his wife from jail in Lake
Charles, La., where she awaits ex-
ecution scheduled Saturday.
“You don’t think I did it fori
myself,, do you,” Henry replied to |
effices who questioned him about j
the motives of his break from Cen- |
tral Prison Farm at Sugarland i
Monday.
“Publicity won’t help me now.” |
Henry remarked in refusing to j
elaborate on his plans in the hi- j
zarre escapade.
In the strongest cell in the jail
atop the 14-story courthouse here,
the burly former boxer was pacing
nervously, though he was calm and
resigned when he was captured, j
Fact is, he was so calm he chided j
capturing officers for appearing j
nervous. j
Seven wasn’t a very lucky num-
ber for for the cowboy. That is
the room in a small hotel her*
from which 15 heavily armel po-
lice flushed him early this morn-
ing. He had hitch-hiked here last
night from Houston, he told offi-
cers.
SEEK ESCAPEE
Bonham city police and members
of the sheriff’s department were
maintaining a watch today for
Claude Byars, who escaped from
the Central Prison Farm, Sugar-
land, Monday.
Prison farm officials notified
Bonham officers late Tuesday to
GOT SIX OF 'EM—When battle-scarred U. S. cruiser Boise moved into Philadelphia Navy
Yard dock for repairs, ship carried on bridge silhouettes of six Jap warships she sank in 27
minutes, near Guadalcanal. Above, crewmen cheering as ship comes home. For a while, in
battle of Oct. 11-12, ship was afire and apparently doomed. But Captain Moran and crew
brought her through._ _ _ ____
Fannin Sailor
Ready To Get
Back In Action
Eld ridge Caylor
Has Seen Plenty
Action In Pacific
NO PAPER THURSDAY
There will be no Daily Favorite
issued Thursday. TDe office wiill
close in observance of Thanksgiv-
ing.
Nazi Admiral In
Charge Of Sub
Campaign Fired
LONDON Nov. 25 (U.R)—The Eve-;
ning Standard reported today that j
Heme after a year of active ser-| Admiral Karl Doenitz, in charge of
be on watch for the escapee here: y-ce aboard a destroyer in the j German submarine operations, has
after a piece of paper bearing a; southwest Pacific, Eldridge Cay-j been dismissed for failure to pre-
Bonham address was found in; jQr gon Mr. and Mrs. W. L. 1 vent the Allied invasion of North
clothes abandoned by the escapee.1 Cayi0r, Ravenna Rt. 1. is ready to I Arfica and giving the German ad-
it was determised that the man j gQ back and do his part in com- ] miralty misleading figures. on IT-
had been in Bonham only a short j p|e^ng ^ie task 0f running the j doat successes,
time before officers received the japs 0ld 0f the pacific. j--o-—
message but he had not been locat-j Caylor, Wh0 has an electrician’s!
rating, has been serving an a de- j TYj crdnl
stroyer .but when he reports back; S./IELJ OS 1111- ££3
after a well-earned furlough, he’ll i _ „ ray -■ |
be assigned to a mine sweeper. j j^00(J W OFjXL
“We’ll furnish ‘ ^
command
divisions— ,
reduced j
ed during the night or shortly af
ter noon today.
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High Profits Of
Shipbuilders
Draw Censure
Commission Is
Urged To Cancel
Or Renegotiate
WASHINGTON , Nov. 25 (U.R)— i ^07kout before it goes into action
Two congressional committees in the war zone
have urged the Maritime Commis
, wcu x ui mo,, a much smaller ;
. target, but we won’t have the guns |
to fight back with that we had on j
the destroyer.” he remarked. He i
added that when a task force went
[ into action on a raid, the mine
} sweepers went ahead to pick up
any mines the enemy might have
planted around their positions.
The mine sweeper to which Cay-
lor has been assigned is a new
ship and will be given a good
Rotarians Told
Business Houses
Close Thursday
For Thanksgiving
Union Services
Will Be Held
Tonight
t
As is the usual custom, all busi-
ness concerns in Bonham will close
their doors in observance of
Thanksgiving, H. A. McDougal,
manager of Retail Merchants As-
sociation, said today. Mr. McDou-
gal stated further that he had not
interviewed all merchants of Bon-
ham, but every man he taked to
said that the city should observe
the national holiday. He expressed
the opinion that there should be
i some general Thanksgiving ser-
i vire in the city where all people,
regardless cf religious belief would
meet and thank God that we are
living in the land of religious free-
1 dom, but it seems that no partie-
I ular program of this character has
; been arranged. However, united
Thanksgiving prayer meeting will
be held at the First Baptist church
HAND-TO-HAND
BATTLE RAGES
IN NEW GUINEA
. Aussie, American
Troops Hold
Japs On Coast
GEN. MAC ARTHUR’3 HEAD-
QUARTERS, Australia. Nov. 25CU.R)
— Fierce hand-to-hand fighting is
raging in Northeastern New Gui-
nea where American and Austra-
lian troops are battling against the
| inner defenses of the Japanese line
j along a 15-mile stretch of beach
between Buna and Gona. it was
j announced today.
Heavy land and air fighting la
raging in the area, said the mid-
day communique from Gen. Doug-
las MacArtliur’s main headquar-
ters here as the British struggle
entered its 12th day todav. A
headauarfes spokesman and front
disnatches added to the picture,
describing the righting in the
swarms and jungles where hun-
dreds of Japanese dead littered
the beaches, plantations and un-
dergrowth.
The Allied advance was slowed
up in the narrow sector because
the Americans and Australians
were pounding directly against the
last Japanese defense line protect-
inf- the coastal area.
Fierce fighting at close quar-
ter;- raged along the entire front.
The opposing forces in many areas
were only a few yards apart.
At Gona, which Australian
troops entered Monday and then
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HEW JOB — Lieut. Colonel
Elliott Roosevelt, son of the
President, now in North
Africa, continuing his work
with a photographic recon-
naissance outfit of the U. S.
Army Air Forces. En route
to a forward area, he was
enthusiastic about his new
post.
Land Activity
On Guadakana
Gains Intensity
Japs Step Up
Fighting In
New Sector
TWO SOVIET
COLUMNS ARE
CONVERGING
Little News Is
Received From
African Front
Bv United Press.
Germany’s grip on South Rus-
sia and the Nazi foothold in the
Caucasus was threatened today by
a Soviet offensive that was splint-
ering the whole web of German
defense posts and communications
from Stalingrad to the great bend
in the Don River. 100 miles to the
west.
Three separate army columns
were knifing through the area dis-
rupting both rail and highway
connections between the Don and
the Nazi siege force before Stalin-
i grad. German casualties were es-
j timated at more than 160-thousand
I men and thq army of 350,000 on the
j Stalingrad siege lines was threat-
| ened with encirclement,
j Twin Russian columns were con-
! verging at the Don River bend
j about 100 miles west of Stalingrad
| in a position from which they
! could strike southwest toward Ros-
j tov is an effort to isolate the Nazi
! army of the Caucasus.
I The beleaguered defenders of
1 Stalingrad were storming from their
i barriedaes in buildings and shat-
j tered streets and thrusting the Na-
| zis back at several points while
I from the north a Russian column
broke through the Germans on the
west back of the Volga and con-
tacted the city’s defenders.
Both Russian and British sour-
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (U.R)—'
Japanese activities in a new sec-!
began mopping up operations, new *01 of Guadalcanal, possibly pre-;
fighting flared up again. The tiny saging an artillery attack on vital' cejT credited the Allied offensive in
mission town was reported still Henderson airfield, were reported ( North Africa with opening the way
not entirely in Allied hands but by the Navy today as Secretary for sudden Soviet blow,
hundreds of Japanese dead were Frank Knox told a press confer-1 London reported that heavy
found in what defense positions cnee that he believes kely transfers of Nazi planes from Rus-
the battle-hardened Austrlians did the enemy will be able to get ad-; gia tQ tde threatened Mediterran-
oanture. citional reinforcements on the is-: e£m were underway.
Many other Jap dead were strewn land. j Reports from the African fight-
in all parts of the battle area— Details of the new Jap activity! ing front were scanty.
among the wildest country in the in a mountainous region overlook-; However, it was apparent that
world. ing the airfield from the ’south- j major efforts were underway by
Artillery was reported in full west, were lacking but it was likely j bcdh sjdes to bring in air reinforce-
swing on both sides, with thunder- the enemy was drawing up field, ments preliminary to the Allied at-
inf; barrages churning, up the en- artillery preparatory to shelling ’ tack to drive the Germans from Bi-
tire area.
Allied planes—North American
Billy Mitchell medium bombers,
Douglas “havoc” attack bombers
the airdrome.
Farther advances by American |
troops on the west of the airfield !
were reported in today’s navy com-
zerte and Tunis.
Gas Rationing
Will Start On
ion to cancel or renegotiate ns
Liberty ship contracts with the
Caylor, a graduate of White-
wright high school, was on a de-
stroyer just about 100 miles om
jugun 0***1-' --------- bllU.yGi juov ---
. South Portland, Me., Shipbuilding i Qf pearl Harbor the morning the
send off Their ^'planes. Twenty-five ' Corporation to eliminate “exorbi- Japs struck. He said his force went
were destroyed, and 17 captured in
tant” profits and halt “needless”
expenditures of millions of dollars.
The recommendations were
made by the special Senate war
investigating committee headed by _____
Sen. Harry Hruman (D.-Mo.) and I .<they really messed it up”.
working order.
Below Stalingrad, “Soviet troops
successfully developed their offen-
sive and liberated a number of
populated places from the German
invaders,” the midnight communi-
que said. •
One Red Army detachment pur-
suing the retreating enemy anni- j commission’s order revoking the
hilated up to three regiments of; Liberty Shin contract of Andrew
German infantry. Fifty-four Ger- j. Higgins,
man tanks were captured, along; builder.
with 91 field guns. 57 trench.mor-j Turman’s committee said a na-|
tas and other material.
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on into Pearl Harbor, refueled,
took on supplies and headed back
out to sea almost at once.
Young Caylor didn’t say much
about Pearl Harbor other than
Individual Must
Discipline Self,
Speaker Says
A man to be successful must dis- this evening at 7:30 o’clock and all
cipline himself and confine him- churches of the city including the
i self to one course rather than choirs will participate. The sermon
switching back and forth among will be delivered by the Rev. B. B.
several choices, Raymond Ottens- Kail, pastor of the First Methodist
raeir of Denison told members of church, and from 7 to 8 o clock
the Bonham Rotary Club Wednes- Thanksgiving morning appropriate
dav noon . services will, be observed at the
M, Ottensmeir was introduce,
by Ralph Porter of Denison and puwic
a special House subcommittee,
appointed to study conditions at.
the Maine yard as well as the
Ship contract
New Orleans
boat-
He participated in the task force
raids on Maikin. Gilbert and Mar-
shall islands.
He said that on one mission, the
lookout spotted two torpedoes head-
ed for their destroyer which was
screening a carrier.
services.
As is
Czar Jeffers Says
No Opposition Can
Halt Program
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (U.R)—
Nationwide gasoline rationing, de-
tlie usual custom, the
of Bonham will be closed
was presented by Roy Owens, pro-
gram chairman for the day.
The speaker pointed out that the ^ and Friday. The post-
world faces the necessity of disci-, J remain open and busi-
pline today and that we must ex-, ^ ^ ^ carried on as usual.
ercise discipline internally oi face. ,g fQr the convenience of war
a dectatorship. ! jndustry concerns in Bonham. Your
“In any nation-large or small-. Sam does not intend to re-
vJien chaotic conditions arise, the, , incoming 0r outgoing mail of
situation calls for discipline,” he. kind that will interfere with
raid. “It takes the form of dis-| ^ war program> There will be
cipline from within or discipline;-^ city delivey in the morning.
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Hitler Expected
Strike Through
Spain At Allies
MEXICO CITY.
High military and naval experts of Orleans shir//ard to prevent un-
the former Spanish loyalist govern- necessary loss to the government ”
merit predicted today it was al- Higgins has announced he has
most inevitable that Adolf Hitler contracted with the armed forces
would strike through Spain at Gl- to build large cargo planes, but
braltar in a desperate effort to there has been no official confirm-
stem the new Allied offensive ation.
threatening all of Nazi-dominated, o
Kllrcp{!. i Glass for bottle-making
__o--- posed chiefly
Read today’s ads for bargains. Ume,
~ -i.j .. i . . . i I
‘Our captain immediately noti-j forced on us by a dictator,
torwide survey indicated the! fied the carrier and we didn’t make | “Am erica today is facing one or,
South Portland yard “had the I a move to doge those torpedoes the most fateful periods m its hi - hfOlilkC
highest number of man-hours per! untii the carrier made its turn., tory.” he said. , 1
pefshHf” ^It said^the ^Nhiritime j ed^y^u^on the side] working j are^narow^Nothing gets anywhere' -gocks HoilSCS
con mission “should consider on a large searchlight and had; when it is loose. A horse is.
whether it should not cancel the! donned my lifejacket,” he said. | worthless until he is harnessed.;
contract and enter into a new | Eldridge has two brothers, Duane, Red river has not produced one.
comoetens and W. L. Jr., both graduates of ; kilowatt of power during all th«;
1 Bonham ,high school, who are ini time it has been running wild but; • MEXICO CITY,
the navy and are on duty with the; Gnce it is harnessed and made to; An earthquake whicn raatled win-j
Pacific fleet somewhere. j run in a narow stream, it will; dows and startled residents in the
Eldridge’s only complaint was| prove valuable to us. ; federal district Tuesday night, wa~
that “it certainly has ruined fish- , “We find two nations, both of; reported by the federal seismo-
which were insignificant a few! graphic laboratory to have had
Mexico City
and Bell Airacoboa and Australian munique,
Eeaufighter planes—attacked al-j Knox said American naval ano
most incessantly yesterday, front air forces are maintaining such ai
reports said. j tight, round-the-clock patrol of'
Tn support of ground operations’ the island that it is “improbable”] 1
they made over 100 sorties, bomb- ] the Japs will be able to put addi- j "CLulIllJUl X.
ing and strafing Japanese anti- tional troops ashore, even at night, j
aircraft positions, artillery em-| The area of new Jap activity—i
placements and machine-gun in the Mambulo and upper Ma-,
nests. j tanikau river region—is some three;
Nine separate raids, in which miles inland and has an elevation j
hundreds of bombs were dropped,; of about 1500 feet, It would make;
were reported made on the Jap- an ideal gun emplacement.
ane.se still holding out a Gona. j The Japs apparently planned tojspite powerful opposition, must go
They also poured thousands oil attempt with their field guns what! int0 pffect as scheduled on Dec.
rounds of ammunition into the' their boirbers and warships have! p Rubber Director William Jef-
Japs at Gona. The Japanese coun-'j been unable to do-Ynock out the] Ier& Eaid today as Secretary of In-
tel ed with strong anti-aircraft. airport which is the ‘ key to Amer-j terior Harold L. Ickes revealed
fire but no Japanese planes were' ican defenses in the Southern Sol-i p-lans for a second pipeline to
encountered—apparently the re- | onions. ] n;0„e oil from the southwest to the
suit cf devastating aerial bombing; Meanwhile, American planes] rortheastern seaboard area,
and strafing in the past two days] based at the field pounded awayi jeffers told a, House interstate
which might have immobilized Jap, at Jap positions on the island. At-.; ccmmerce subcommittee that ex-
airfields in the area. j lacks were carried out late Sunday j tension 0f gaSoline rationing must
MacArthur’s Flying Fortresses, night and early Monday. ; gn through as planned in order to
helped in the Buna-Gona besieg-j Knox offered a brighter picture] conserve rubber for military pur-
ers by blasting the Japanese air-1 of the situation, indicating the, poses and for essential driving.
Japs now are virtually cut off ] Ickes told the same grov.p that
from reinforcements and supplies] P(? hag appiied f0r authority to
as a result of the smashing Am-; blldd a 20-inch pipeline capable oi
encan naval vistory a fortnight, carying 200,000 barels of oil daily,
ago and constant patrol of the] I. would run from the southwest
aiea. 1 t0 the Nev/ York-Philadelnhia
He pointed out that American arpa
forces have widened their area of] He reveated> too, that he.is hav-
control to about seven to nine’ ing difHCUlty obtaining priorities
miles west of Henderson field and] f(jr construction of the 24-inch
that the distance between the] Djpe]ine now ^eing built from Tex-
eastern and western American j a$ tQ Illinois and sChedeu\ed to he
tor plane— the first successful j lines now is more than 16 miles.] extended to the New York - Phila-
night interception reported in the | Before the Americans launched, area sometime next year.
Darwin area —and the other was] tbeir land offensive, their area was] Another problem, he said, is man-
shot down by antiaircraft fire.
a more
contract with
management.”
It also urged immediate utiliza-
Nov. 25 (U.R)— (ion of the unfinished Higgins New
drome at Lae, 10 miles to the
northwest, by night, dropping
thousand pound bombs on the run-
ways and plane disperal areas.
The Japanese made their first
aerial attack on the Australian
mainland in alrrost a month, send-
ing 18 bombers against the Port
of Darwin under the cover of dark-
ness. Two were shot down and no
damage was caused. One was
bagged by a Curtis P-40 Intercep-
Nov. 25 (U.R)—
ing.”
years ago. turning the world top-. its epicenter about
is com-
of silica, soda and
Estimated United
penditure lor war of — ,
dollars during the fiscal year n‘
over one-third the total mone-
tary cost of World War I to all
belligerents, the Department
Commerce reports.
250 miles
States’ ex-]sy_turvy today because they have] southwest of here, “probably m
77.5 billion! directed their efforts to that one; the state of Oaxaca,” and was de-
began at
aim,” he said. ! scribed as “seveie.
Visitors were Joe May, White-] The temblor, which
wri*^t; Joe Loy, Wesley Farmer,l 7:18 p. m„ Mexico time, and eon-
of f Ensign Billy Hancock, USN, and tinued for 11 minutes, apparently
I Louis Woosley. did no damage in che capital.
FORT WORTH
LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, Nov. 25— (U.R)—
Cattle 3700, calves 2300 strong,
steers and yearlings 9-14;- fat cows, in the air
8-11; calves 8.50-12.50.
Hogs 2200. 10 cents lower; top;
a strip of coastal land
live miles long.
If—as the communique implied
—the Japs are getting ready to
bombard the airfield from v the
southwest, a new hazard would be
presented. The Americans, how-
ever. would have tfle advantage
scarcely; power which has been “kidnapped”
by Henry J. Kaiser, Pacific Coasi
shipbuilder.
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WEATHER
butchers 1370;
13.
packing sows 12.75-
Buy in Bonham and save.
An electrical transformer said to
be the largest in the world has
just been installed as part of
Sv.eden’s hydroelectric system,
says the Dept, of Commerce
EAST TEXAS—Warmer in the
east and south portions this after-
noon and near coast tonight. Cold-
e” in west and north portions.
Temperature near freezing in ex-
treme northwest portion tonight.
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