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OH. WASHINGTON MERRY -GO: it ROUND ty DREW PEARSON ik OPA Ration Board Denies Leon Henderson New Tire For Jallopy; So He Suffers From Robber Situation Against Which He Warned; Washington Needs Stenographers, Finds Them Hard To Get; Byrnes To Give Tacit Support To Opponent Of Cotten Ed Smith. Allies Plyoqe Inland Allied Airmen Hit 7-VesseI Convoy In Guinea Attack Scilfia After Taking And Reggio Cala Allies Blast Rail By International News The Nazis were reported Friday night to be fleeing north from southern Italy following the Allied landing on the Italian mainland just across from Sicily. An Algiers radio broadcast said the Germans arc repeating their performances of North Africa and Sicily leaving their Italian partners in the lurch. The Allied-controlled station added that the Nazis are seizing all available trucks, tanks and cars in which to make their getawey.

The impression was given in Axis circles that not much fighting will be done in southern Italy. The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm paper Allehanda quoted a Nazi spokesman as saying "strategically the German and Italian positions (in southern Italy) are unquestionably unfavorable." Washington Leon Henderson, two-fisted father of the Office of Price Administration, recently had a tire blow out on his 1938 jallopy, filled out all necessary papers for a new tire, took them to his ration board. There, the OPA. which Leon 1 created, turned his down. "There are Just too many tire certificates already outstanding," OPA explained, "and not enough tires.

You'll have to wait until there are some new tires." This means that what a lot of officials long have worried about, has now happened. The hiatus has arrived between exhaustion of our carefully conserved rubber stockpile and the beginning of synthe- tic rubber production. Last year, Henderson tells friends, the OPA warned Rubber Czar Jeffers not to be too generous with new tires, that we would reach a vacuum at the end of 1943 before the new synthetic tires began to roll. Henderson also urged Jeffers to manufacture more tires from reclaimed rubber, thus saving new rubber. But Jeffers listened to political- ly-minded Jesse ones who was devoutly anxious to prove that he was not so wrong on rubber.

So now the man who advised caution can get no tire for his jallopy Note: There is also no rubber for the heels which Leon Henderson now advertises on the air. Help Wanted: Female The Government wants more stenographers thousands of them for work in Washington. The Civil Service Commission has sent agents into the field, beating the bushes for new recruits. Any one of the major war agencies could use several hundred more girls today. But they Just aren't to be had.

Trouble is that girls have come to Washington for the thrill of working in the Capital, and have tound that there is less thrill than hard work, and no place to hang up your stockings to dry. They live in what they call "the-C more-the-merrier apartments," (Continued on page Ten SENATOR Earle S. Richardson, hplnvpd Mississirmi lawver and beiovea Mississippi lawyer ana legislator, who died suddenly at I his home in Philadelphia late Mon day He iS pictured above engaged nig favorite hobby carving cedar wood. This hobby earned for him first the title of "whittlin' judge," when he was circuit judge the Eighth District; and then as Line To Germany U.S. Torts' Hit Brenner Pass By NOLAND NORGAARD Allied Headauarters In North frica.

Set. 3 UP) Allied air power broke the vital German re inforcement railroad from ue Brenner Pass and blocked rau milt lMnniP in rrinnliner ore- Irctracirm Vilnurc t.nrfnv At. t.hft Same 1 time, thunderous waves of Allied planes supporting their ground xor- ces smashed at the enemy on tne toe of Italy continuing assauiis. The Brenner Pass Is the funnel for Nazi troops rushing into Italy, U. S.

Flying Fortresses cut the ran line neiow it yesteraay, wrecs- ins the tracks and bridges at Bol zano and Trento 35 and 65 miles south of the strategic gateway, at least temporarily halting traffic It was their deepest strike 1, 500 miles round trip to Italy, and other formations blasted the freight yards at Bologna on the 1 t1r.r. knlnm tho ocC Mitchell medium bombers shat- tered freight yards at Cancello, graphs showed that "all lines to ixapies, baierno, xorre Annunziata, Canua and Benevento had been uiocea. xweniy mree axis i rr-i a i planes were shot down at Cancel- lo in a fierce air battle, and 10 P-28 LtehtninErs were lost- Allied air formations were thrown across Messina Strait con tinusouly today to bomb and ma chine-gun Axis positions ahead of invading Allied troops, and blast the enemy in the hills farther north. They gave constant protection to landing forces, meeting no en emy planes, and one pilot said. 3ntciprQtim THE MR By HAMILTON W.

FARON New demands from the Italian people for an end to the wnr rprtninlv will foil nw f.hp I there is no peace in sight. or even ii iuarsnai biee-otiate a surrender it would fail to prevent larsre-scale By C. YATES McDANIEL In Southwest Pacific, (Saturday), Sept. 4 IT) Three 7,000 ton Japanese freight transports were sunk and a destroyer and a fourth transport out of a seven-ship con voy were set ablaze by Allied planes in a raid Thursday morning on the harbor at Wewak, New Gumea. Today's communique, reporting the raid, said the Japanese tried frantically to protect the ships, sending in 35 fighter planes, of which 12 were downed lor certain and 13 others probably destroyed or damaged.

They also reported a balloon barrage. The presence of the convoy and the Japanese efforts to shield it were taken to indicate the enemy intends to hold to Wewak, 350 miles above his tottering garrison at Salamaua, as a major operating base. The balloons were aloft and the Zeros and twin-engined fighters were in the air when the raiders came in at mast height through a curtain of Japanese anti-aircraft fire. The convoy had arrived dur lng the previous night. This was the first mention In months of Japanese convoys in the vicinity of northern New Guinea where the enemy has relied almost entirely recently on barges for supply and reinforcement.

At Salamaua, headquarters said there was little change in ground positions but that the Japanese had suffered heavy losses in fighting south of the airdrome. Last definite reports on positions placed the Americans and Australians in control of the south bank of the Francisco river except along the coast where it empties into Bayern Bay. The river, which has been crossed island to the north bank' by the Australians, flows just before the airdrome. Fighting there has raged as near as the southwestern edge of the field. The convoy, consisting of five transports and two destroyers, were attacked in the Wewak harbor where they had arrived with reinforcements and supplies for the enemy garrison there.

Mitchell medium bombers with a strong escort of Lightnings made the attack. I Two Huge Liberators Crash Near Fort Worth; Seven Men Are Killed Fort Worth, Sept. 3 (INS) Two huge B-24 Liberator bombers collided in midair today, bringing sudden death to five army officers and two enlisted men. The accident occurred two miles northeast of Birdville in Eastern Tarrant county. Four men perished in one of the four-motored planes.

Their burned bodies were found under the WTeckage. Bodies of the three other victims lay some distance from the second ship. Names of the dead were withheld temporarily. in vi etr-ait- ra con? h.mJNazis on the plains of Northern Soviets Recover 400 More Towns Fall Of Nazi Base Of Stalino Nears By JAMES M. LONG London, Saturday, Sept.

.4 W) A conquering Red Army overran more than 400 villages yesterday in smashing 12-mile gains that threatened early seizure of the Donets steel center of Stalino and the northern Ukraine citadel of Konotop, Moscow disclosed officially early today. A four mile 'lunge on the central front also carried the Russians over- the bodies of 4,200 enemy troops to a point 40 miles of "the major base' of Smolensk whence the Germans tried to take Moscow in 1941. The Germans apparently were in headlong retreat in the Donets ba sin, but also were being hurled back at other major points along the 600-mile front, Moscow said in a communique recorded by the Soviet Monitor. One Russian unit was only 200 miles east of Stalino, after captur ing Zuevka, and other Soviet forces had spilled across the network of railways radiating from that hub. "Essen of Russia" The Germans captured Stalino Oct.

21, 1942. then triumphantly terming it the "Essen of Russia," and comparing its importance with the once great, but now battered, Krupp Armament Works in the Ruhr Valley. In the Ukraine the Russians reached a. point only 14 miles north of Konotop. The Germans, perhaps preparing the homeland for news of the fall of Stalino, long Hitler's headquarters for southern front operations made the unusual announcement (Continued on page Five) More Than Third Of Jap Shipping Sunk Knox Says U.

S. Subs Bag 77 Per Cent 'Washington, Sept. 3 (INS) Sec-i etary of the Navy Knox announced today that American and Allied sea and air forces, in 21 months of war in the Pacific, have destroyed more than one-third of Japan's merchant The naval secretary said that of the total of Japanese shipping sent to the bottom, 77 per cent had been accounted for by i States submarines. Pointing out that all of Japan's war-gained territory must be reached by overseas means, Knox declared that the constant and successful attacks on enemy 1 routes and lines of communication have "impaired the use that Ja pan can make of its war loot." It is estimated that Japan had 6,368,891 tons of merchant shipping at the beginning, of the war on Dec. 7, 1941, and has acquired 250,000 tons since by new construction or by seizure of foreign vessels in east Asiatic waters, a to tal of 7,618,891 tons.

With one-third of this total 2,539,600 tons Destroyed, accord ing to Knox statement, Japan to day Is left with only about 000 tons of cargo shipping, or more than a million tons less than it possessed at the outbreak of war. (Continued On Page Seven) Clarksdale Wreck Fatalities Rise To Four Killed Clarksdale, Sept. 3UR Toll of a car crash south of here early Thursday was up to four today with the death late yesterday of Miss Louise Hunsucker, 21, Clarksdale. Two army officers and another Clarksdale girl were killed almost instantly and two others were injured. "Mississippi's whittlin solon." He served intermittently for 15 years in the State Legislature.

Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Fri day at the Presbyterian8 Church in Philadelphia, and interment was in the Cedar Lawn cemetery Lieut. Gov. Dennis Murphree headed the delegation of state officials attending the last rites for Senator Richardson. Allipf? invasion nf Ttalv.

hut isaaotnio government couia least 10 and maybe more Ger- equipped and placed for bitter Churchill Has Busy Day At White House Matters Of Supply Are Discussed Washington, Sept. 3 CD Hour, by-hour advices from the War De partment kept President Roose velt and Prime Minister Churchill informed today of Allied progress cn the Italian mainland, but brought no interruption to their conferences in other phases of the war. Mr. Churchill, in fact, had one of his busiest days since his arrival here and the positions of the individuals with whom he talked suggested strongly that matters of supply were the central subject. The White House made known his conferees included Bernard Ba-ruch, special adviser to the Of fice of War Mobilization, Lt.

Gen eral Brehon B. Somervell, head of the army's service forces, and Admiral Ernest J. King, commander- in-chief of the fleet. Together these three represent war production, the army supply service and the navy which must transport and guard munitions and material moved overseas. In addition, there were other callers at the White House, but for reasons of security their identities were not disclosed with two exceptions.

Mr. Churchill had a meeting with Brendan Bracken, British Minister of Information, and Mr. Roosevelt received Hen- rik de Kauffmann, the Danish minister. Kauff man's visit gave further (Continued On Page Seven) U. S.

Planes Bomb Number Of Points In Occupied China Chungking, Sept. 3 Ml -Ameri can planes striking at widely-separated targets in Japanese-occupied China and Indo-China bombed a number of points Tuesday includ ing the airdrome near Hanoi, Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's head quarters announced today. Medium Mitchell bombers at tacked a new enemy air field at Ichang and P-40's dive-bombed and left sinking a 450-foot ship off Hongkong, the announcement said.

Targets along the Canton-Han kow railway south of Hankow also were severely bombed. One plane failed to return from he day's operations. V'-v TAX SALES Prentiss, Sept. 3 S. G.

Ma- gee, sheriff and tax collector. Jef ferson Davis county, is advertising certain delinquent lands for sale or taxes on the. third Monday of September. By EDWARD! KENNEDY Allied Headquarters In North Africa, Sept. 3 OT) British and Canadian troops landed successfully on the.

toe'" of Italy before dawn today on the long road to Rome and plunged inland under Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's order to- "knock Italy out of the war." (Scilla and Reggio Calabria, Italian ports 12 miles apart, already had fallen, the Berlin radio indicated. A Rome broadcast in phrases reminiscent of the Axis debacle in Sicily also said: "The enemy's invasion now is In full swing. The enemy has set foot on the Italian mainland and is taking full advantage of his materia! 7th Army Folsed This was the first of several expected invasions of the Hitler-held European continent.

The American Seventh Army of Lieut. Gen. Goo. S. Patton.

was not yet in action. Other powerful American and French forces were poised in North Africa. Hours after the assault at 4:30 a. m. across the narrow Messina Strait from Sicily, there was no official word of the progress of the strong Allied forces involved.

None (Continued on page Five) 206 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Madang Allies Win Control Of Skies InGuinea Allied Headquarters hi The Southwest Pacific, Sept. A (Satur day) Ur) American and Australian airmen apparently have won the battle for control of the air over northeastern New Guinea and most of the Solomon Islands. Allied planes, following up the record breaking raids of August, opened Septemoer with the heaviest attack ever made in this area and without encountering a single fighter in the air. The, Friday communique of Gen eral Douglas MacArthur announced that 206 tons of explosives were dropped in the region of Madang, 550 miles from Salamaua. Raiding Liberators and Mitchells found only one grounded plane on the entire trip.

It was destroyed. A month ago the Japanese had hundreds of planes in New Gui nea, but during August they lost at least 584 bombers and fighters. The enemy still offers strong opposition to American airmen in the northern Solomons but seldom penetrates to the. southern Solo- (Contlnued On Page Seven) Abe Martin Few things make us feel finer than ham' our judgment vin dicated. Young Lafe Bud says his wife spent a hundred an eighty dollars last year practising on new recipes.

Mm Western Europe Gets Heaviest Pounding 'Forts' Hit Paris Suburbs Hard- London, (Saturday), Sept 4 LW Flying Fortresses blasted Hitler's airplane factories near Paris by daylight yesterday, and after the powerful fleets had returned great force of RAF night bombers thundered out toward the continent to resume the 24-hour triphammer blows at German war production. Axis radios began leaving the air last night soon after the British bombers streamed across the chan nel, indicating that Germany itself might have been the target for the night raiders. The Caudron-Renault aircraft factory on Paris' outskirts and an assembly plant nearby were the targets for the daylight raid by the big four-engined American bomb ers. Marauders and fighters also swarmed across the channel yes terday to give western Europe one of its worst bomb-lashings of the war. Last night, the Berlin, Cologne and Calais radios were silenced soon after southeast coast observ ers reported hearing the RAF armada head out over the coast.

Then the Prague, Toulouse, Breslau and Vichy radios left the air to make the blackout almost a record one, and indicating that the RAF raid was possibly widespread. It was the third night attack for the British bombers this week. They rained heavy bombs on the Kmneiand Monday night and on Berlin Tuesday night. Five airfields in norUiern France were drubbed by the heavy and medium bombers in a furious two-ply blow against Nazi air strength in roaring accompaniment to the invasion of Italy and 29 enemy planes were shot from the skies during the day. The fortresses, ripping through determined clouds of enemy defenders, shot down 23 and planted heavy bombs on the important Caudron-Renault factory and the assembly plant at Meulan Les Mu-reaux northwest of the French capital.

The last raid on the Paris area was a fortress attack on Villacoublay airfield Aut. 24. Renault factories were attacked by fortresses last April, and by the RAF last year. Few German fighters challenged the other fleets hitting the five (Continued Oh Page Seven) WEATHER Little temperature chant todart scattered thunderihowers in afternoon. Jackson 93 12 73 75 63 68 71 72 71 75' 64 72 Atlanta ....80 Birmingham 87 Chicago .,84 Denver.

Jacksonville 89 Little Rock ,.98 Memphis 80' Meridian .13 .48 Miami 89 Mobile 82 .34 New Orleans 90 New York 69 Vicksburg ,92 MISSISSIPPI 5.7 6.3 8.5 City 6.0 St. Louis 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.8 0.8 0.0 fall rise ris; fall fall fall fall fall Memphis Helena Arkansas Vickburg 4.1 Natchez Baton Rouge 5.0 ....3.9 Donaldsonville New Oreans 2.1 OHIO 0.7 fall on Italian soil. At man divisions are Italy, i iigntlllg. I I llltlvl 1U1 VO llia.V JKs VAWVbWWv to fight all way up the boot to northern Italy. There is every, in- dication they will make a final stand to prevent valuable air fields from falling into Allied hands.

The Nazis don't want those fields made a means of bombing hitherto-unreached industrial sec tions of Germany. A campaign that, if 100 per cent successful, could bottle up the Italy IS UnOer WayWlin Allied air planes pouring bombs on to Bren- per Pass and other escape routes tnrougn ine Aips. yuiuviu, uuwcvci, hardly likely to succeed It could at the, osy aelay ine supplying ot nwi uuu, ui sibiy eventually 'hanaicap a retreat, because bomb to tne passes' Dnages ana a could be oeyond repair Dy cTmcc. 1UU, Italian boot appear logical, and Plans for such thrusts may have prompted a decision, to hold back American armies from the Messi na crossing negotiated by British and Canadian troops, it seems rea sonable that; American troops, if sent into the Italian mainland campaign, will move on to the (Continued On Page Seven) Funeral Riles For Senator Richardson Murphree Attends Services Philadelphia, Sept. 3 Fun eral services lor State Senator Earl S.

Richardson, 63, who died sud denly at his home here late Thurs dav were held at 4 n. m. todav at the Presbvterian church, oniciat hnsr ministers were Rev. J. C.

Wat son, former local pastor, but now in Whitehaven. Dr. Walter Johnson, pastor of the First" Bap- tist Church here, and Rev. H. C.

Castle, pastor of the local Method 1st Church Interment was in the Cedar Lawn cemetery here Senator Richarason was born in this county (Neshoba) May 29, 1879 He was a lawyer by profession, and became XMesnooas iirst county attorney in 1911; was elected to the senate in 1916; was circuit Judge of the Eighth District by appointment of Governor Bilbo 199- SO; was again elected State Sena tor in 1932; was elected to the Sen- in 1939, and would have con eluded that term next January, at which time he would have trans- lerred back to the House of Representatives because he had been nominated Neshoba representative without opposition this summer. He was a National Democratic con- (Continued on page, Five) Milk Consumption May Be Frozen Vashington Sept. 3 (INS) The War Food Administration reveal ed tonight that a program is drawn up to "freeze milk consumption 'at present levels in a final effort to avert rationing this winter. Details of a plan will be announced soon, it was stated, whereby the milk industry will be charged with carrying out a voluntary "ra- tion" program to curb any further Increases In the use of milk. The step was declared necessary to eliminate a threat to adequate supplies of butter, cheese, evapo rated mus ana other milk products for civilians.

The food agency emphasized that the plan will not call for coupon rationing at the consumer level nor any curtailment of milk consumption below recent levels, but js directed at further in creases In sales. The proposal will call for a co operative check on distribution by the milk industry itself, the WFA (Continued On Page Seven) Axis Says Invasion Is "No Surprise" London. Sept. 3 The be leaguered Axis called the Allied invasion of the Italian mainland today "no surprise," but reaction as expressed through the two pro paganda macmnes ranged from silence In the first few hours to nervous professions of optimism. Both Rome and Berlin seemed to have a tough time explaining satisfactorily how the Allies succeeded in setting foot on the ram parts of Adolf Hitler's "Fortress of Europe." The Berlin radio gave details of me invasion, emphasizing all the time that the storming of Italy had been expected.

Rome in a carefully worded communique told the Italians that the conquerer had come. In an apparent attempt to rouse Italian soldiers to genuine resistance Df the Allied forces, the Rome radio in a broadcast recorded by Fne Associated Press said: "A new period began for our rountry today when the enemy set foot on our peninsula. It is our duty to match our heroism with theirs. It is our duty in face of the growing enemy to strengthen our unity of spirit." The broadcast added that Italians must "become a marble rock jf energy and concentrate all our mergies in order to take up the lefense cf our land and our hon-)r." Rome added that national inde-(Continued on page Five) Cenrfal High School Holds First Mid-Summer Graduation Under Wartime Program nf rrnft rtartincr tn onH frn n- mniPstPd Another airman scribed it as "like the changing cf the guard at Buckingham pal- ace" as new patrols arrived every 50 minutes to provide cover. Aerial reconnaissance after the fortress raids on Bolzano, Trento ntiH Rninfrna chmrPH that i artery of German reinforcements whirh hav hopn niHn intrt Ttaiw is now clogged with wreckage at least temporarily." a headquarters announcement today said.

This railroad snaking down from Brenner Pass carries half of all raffic between Germany and Italy. 95 per cent of the oil needed for the Axis war machine in Italy, and 80 per cent of Italy's steel and coal requirements. Only one fortress was lost in the ong unescorted plunge, described officially as "perhaps the best day the fortresses from North Af rica ever had." Purposes He enumerated the purposes of the accelerated program under which the' class completed the schedule in a third of the normal time required, as two fold: "We are training for war to learn io inms quicKiy ana accurately," and for the, purpose of "moulding of our minds-to prepare us for reconstruction and citizenship in the new post-war world." f. w. McEwen, principal of Cen- tral High school then commended tne class and presented it for graduation.

After deliverinsr th dinlomas Kirbv P. Walker, stmerintenrient of ritv schools nraispd th ornriiiatps for their seriousness of nurnnse and nromot acceDtance of resnon- sibilities. Members of the First Summer Graduating Class: Benjamin In- man Trotter, president; Hugh Vernon Pierce, vice-president; Walter Bryghte Godbold sec retary-treasurer; Thomas Benjamin Abernathy, Albert Taylor Anders, Howard Theodore Barnett. Roy Jerome Clark, William W. Correll, Nolie Virginia Crawford.

Margaret Ruth Franck. Nina Bess Goss, Goodman Gunter, Johnny Haddad, Reba Sheila Hart. Harold Alvin (Continued on page Five) "ve, central's first summer graduating class, decided to 'get tnings done," and to do so we struck a new tempo in our cduca- tion. We have shortened our edu cational program to help shorten our war," spoke Ben I. Trotter Jr.

president of the precedent-setting Summer Class of '43. These words set the keynote of the memorable commencement pro gram in which diplomas were de- ivered to 37 students two in ab sentia, already helping to shorten the war directly. Seated on the outdoor platform erected at the front entrance of Central High against a simple back ground of ferns, with the audience stretching back on the lawn, the senior class received diplomas after brief exercises. The Central High School Orches tra, directed by Alvin J. King opened the graduation playing the traditional Overture from "Norma by Bellini; beginning the March rom Aida by Verdi as the grey cap-and-gowned seniors filed onto the platform.

Dr. P. Fagan Thompson, asso ciate pastor of Galloway Memorial Church, spoke the Invocation fol- owed by Class President Trotter who pledged strength from himself and his classmates in the "great tasks ahead.".