The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 1

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ALEXANDRIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1944 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPY VOTE FOR GOVERNOR BY PARISHES Pets. Total Caldwell Clements Davis Lanier Leblanc Mrgn. Morsn. Mos. MORGAN STATEMENT EXPECTED; DAVIS 8,722 AHEAD, GAINING Tariff Acadia Allen FIFTH ARMY CAPTURES 3 ITALIAN VILLAGES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Jan.

20. iP) troops of the Fifth Army have enlarged their i'ridgcliciuls above tlie Garigliano river to three miles in ioptli at capturing three villages, ami at last re- ii vlnrinini- tlir rtnt cl' irt a if Minlm-nn Assumption (C) German Airfields Beauregard Bienville Bossier Calcasieu Cameron Orleans Faction Makes Tentative Decision to Enter Ticket in Second Primary NEW ORLEANS' Jan. 20. P) Governor 1070 of 1867 i precincts: Davis 99,079, Morgan 90,357. I NEW ORLEANS, Jan.

20. (P) Governor 1014 pre-icincts of 1867: Davis Morgan Morrison 380; Caldwell LeBlanc Clements Mose-' Icy Lanier 1,124. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 20. P) Leaders of the "Old Hraduiiartcrs announced the advancing forces had villuirns i.t's the 0 V.

AH'1-'- I Rouge DeSoto Fast. Baton F. Feliciana Grant. Iberville (C) Regular" Democratic faction, after a late night parley, made tentative decision to accept the challenge of a second primary in Rome Area Hit by Allied Planes A FIFTEENTH AIR FORCE BOMBER BASE, Italy, Jan. 19.

(Delayed) (I') The Fifteenth air force, having temporarily cut off Rome from rail communications with the north, hammered the most important German airfields in the Rome area today. Heavy attacks were directed against the north and south Ciam-pino airdrome just outside the Rome city limits and also against the nearby Cintrocelle airfield. Liberators with fighter escorts also dropped a dozen bombs on the runway at Perugia airfield, eighty-five miles north of Rome, and despite a heavy flak barrage scored many hits in the landing area. Allies Repulse Japanese Attacks in West Burma America -Trained Chinese Continue Eastward Advance notwithstanding the I ead of Lafayette LaSalle Lincoln Jimmie H. Davis in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor.

Feeling was strong among them that Lewis L. Morgan, their candidate and second man in the In Pets. 7 30 35 38 507 4 907 509 87 73 3 18 67 257 239 2 I 14 11 6 13 20 60 16 1197 4 34 255 1502 34 14 14 22 7 872 5 16 129 1015 11 4 32 2 13 169 71 114 127 3 0 3 28 17 233 82 7 16 16 61 10 1 20 29 438 38 1495 13 61 972 396 51 16 28 505 42 1088 9 22 675 386 181 82 97 4943 294 G662 22 66 2114 918' 604 1 37 54 382 2020 2138 28 742 1103 656 83 1 10 3 22 70 1 33 5 6 12 25 369 16 822 1 3 579 129 58 14 25 180 19 703 0 13 360 119 56 i 54 71 1110 160 7349 31 155 2289 3302 949 1 12 .3 0 9 0 0 11 2 1 15 24 208 79 993 4 118 1031 371 34 6 23 35 32 805 7 531 382 414 31 15 15 94 68 1239 10 40 753 1317 51 6 23 130 73 2040 54 42 552 1110 17 20 29 66 989 1833 60 1300 581 321 3 27 38 89 229 2156 10 3601 1015 212 49 1 28 1 27 1 1 5 5 1 0 2 18 56 0 169 0 2 160 100 9 8 10 516 7 532 2 13 154 161 12 26 37 634 37 1252 3 102 1750 637 109 .262 262 4351 984 37196 445 664 53184 7804 408 50 54 2238 126 3946 16 48 1719 1630 356 13 15 91 5 443 0 26 1374 270 1 fi 17 45 23 834 2 29 215 640 17 28 67 312 339 1752 1 265 1388 399 101 15 16 261 101 761 7 27 1170 534 65 22 36 440 55 990 2 15 890 238 9 .2 9 20 6 380 1 5 247 101 1 .29 11 5 231 2 2 46 '252 1 .4 6 28 38 519 13 15 389 383 15 .6 11 25 1 593 2 15 163 817 12 .46 5 4 578 1 4 60 379 5 14 20 12 15 1065 4 1516 1190 148 13 12 16 47 12 1513 9 265 380 458 35 .11 17 184 13 718 6 109 2380 353 17 20 43 132 18 1460 197 55 503 1917 42 i 15 27 103 37 1067 14 49 392 1307 53; 1 21 23 2 84 0 3 48 31 1 ..25 33 361 42 1354 18 4519 1066 272 21 25 36 357 531 737 38 66 986 683 15 31 35 187 432 2960 31 66 2690 1757 87 11 24 403 34 631 5 14 566 276 62 .9 9 37 9 540 5 24 165 479 74 .4 9 35 10 501 2 2 169 142 20 20 28 143 35 302 4 19 781 156 46 1008 1867 19723 7169 94516 1102 15402 86883 33670 3838 Natchitoches Orleans (C) Ouachita Rapides Red Riv Secret German Parley Preceded Bolivia Revolt Held in Count Von Luxburg's Home Is Report MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan. 20.rP) A secret conference at Buenos Aires in the home of Count Karl von Luxburg, former German minister to Argentina, lAnrento, tilo ana mho, tne rapture of Tul'o carrying the AU.IKO IIF.AIXjUARTF.nS IS ALGIERS, 20. The American Fifth army in Haly enlarged its bridgeheads above the Garigliano river to a depth of two miles in places after capturing three vlh'crs.

In addition the Germans broadcast Hiat they had ibandoiied Mmlurno, strong-. i-nlfl alongside the Appian iv. thrust across the Appiar ancient road to Rome a mile and a half of Min-Jr itself. A was report- jjing for Minturno. Ge man opposition was reporter, severe all along the front, of at in seven miles where the Brit ii-gan their drive with a night i Muiulay.

the area north of Cassino wander fire of American aril try, Yank patrols again eross-V. 'tie Rapido river to probe out German defenses there. Still far-inland French troops of the Army made contact with It enemy, but no details were Garigliano Crossing; The British ci-ossing of the the first action on this it dor in two months, was 0. T.Oden, Naval Air Cadet-Dies in Accident NEW DELHI. Jan.

20. (VP) Allied forces holding new advance positions on the Arakan front- of western Burma have fought off Japanese counter attacks again, a Southeast Asia communique said today. In northern Burma, Lieut. Gen. Joseph W.

Stilwell's American-trained Chinese troops continued their eastward advance along the route of the new Lcdo highway by capturing the rnemy-licid village of Gumga. in the Hukawng valley, and pushing 'on across the Tanai river. St. Bernard St. Charles St.

Helena St. James St. John St. Martin St. Mary St.

Tammany Tangipahoa Terrebonne Union Vernon ceded the Dec. 20 revolution in Bolivia. The authority for his report, whose identity must remain sec Result of Plane Crash W. Feliciana NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 20.

Lieutenant governor: 972 precincts of 1,867: Lan 102,004. J. Emile Verret, Frank IS. Ellis, 53.286, Gladder. Harrison Sam Tennant.

Carl T. Jean-soime 2,921. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30. (P) Attorney General 354 precincts of 1867: Joe T.

Caw-thorn Fred S. LeBlanc 5L6C8; Eugene Stanley Incumbent, K. K. Kennedy 19,126. race, could beat Davis, the "reform" standard Dearer, in a two-man race.

A statement from Morgan that he would accept the challenge of another fight rather than withdraw to cinch the nomination of others on his ticket, was expected hourly on the basis of word from his headquarters. One member of the "Old Regular" group, who could not be quoted directly, said after the meeting that three considerations led to the tentative decision: (1) The strength of the "Old Long state ticket (so far leading in nearly every statewide race except for the governorship); (2) The impressive vote polled by Earl K. Long personally in his campaign for the lieutenant governorship on the basis of a return to (NOW TURN 10 PAGE Tl.N CHUNGKING. Jan. 20.

iPi Mitchell bombers of the Fourteenth United States air force attacked targets in French Indo-China Tuesday and Wednesday, hitting at the dock and railway areas of the port of Campha and bombing and strafing Japanese barracks at Mon Kay. Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's ret, said that information on the Naval Aviation Cadet O.

T. conference came through at least Oden, 21 died at 1 p. m. yes- two different diplomatic channels, terday as the result of an airplane i Bolivian revolutionary leaders accident, several miles from Kit- were' in contact with Argentine gore, Texas, according to a tele- nationalists at this meeting, these gram received by his father O. T.

informants said, and Victor Paz Oden. of Wocdworth. The mes- Estcnsboro. finance minister In the Total NOW Tl'tlN TO PAGE I IVt) japs Clamp Down I communique said heavy bluek 1 smoke spiralling from one of the buildings struck at Campha indicated that oil stores had been hit. Smoke was visible for ten miles as the result of the Mon Kay at-i tack.

All aircraft returned safely. on Dutch Indies WASHINGTON. Jan. 20-MV-punese in the Nether- East Indies are droonine I Election Law Amendment Suggested by Town Talk to Speed Up Returns Amendment of the Louisiana election law to speed up the collection of returns in state and parish primaries was suggested today by the Town Talk and given the hearty endorsement of J. F.

Beaman, Rapides parish clerk ot court. "The conditions in Rapides parish were duplicated more or less in every parish in the state, with the exception of Orleans," Mr. Beaman pointed out. "The returns available have been slower than in any state snge follows: new Bolivian regime of President ''Deeply regret to inform you Major Gualberto Villarroel, was that your son. Oscar Tinsley Oden, reported to have received "some aviation cadet, U.

S. naval re- millions of Argentine pesos." serve, died at approximately 1 The informants said this data p. m. today, result of airplane ac- was included in information ex-t cident. Please telegraph immed- changed between 18 American re- iatetly resident naval officer CAA publics in connection with the I WLS School, Kilgore College.

Kil- question whethe recognition 'gore, Texas whether you desire should be accorded to the Villar- remains entered in the navy or roel regime. national cemetery or sent home. I So far. Argentina has been the Escort will accompany remains if jonly nation to grant such recogni-I requested. Sincere sympathy is tion.

lie mask of smiling cooperation t-d resorting to stricter measures fc- domination, according to Japa- i Ofse-controlled broadcasts quoted my by the Netherlands infor- I ition bureau. Half of Qualified Voters in Ward 1 Cast Ballots Voting in Ward 1, Alexandria, proved to be only slightly more than half as largo as it would have been if all the qualified voters had cast their ballot. These figures were obtained unofficially today from complete returns for the city's twenty precincts. The largest number of votes (in an office where only one was to be elected) went for the senatorial race, where 5.739 ballots were added. Sheriff Grady Kelley amassed the largest number of votes for an individual, as he obtained 4.773 from Ward 1 in his race for reelection.

UNION BACKS FDK NEW YORK. Jan. 20. Pledging its full support, the national council of the National Maritime Union (CIO) urges that President Roosevelt seek a fourth term. extended to you in your great loss.

Drimarv in mv experience. We ine bureau cited two steps an-Jo-nced recently: l) Planned induration nf a compulsory labor frv'ce in next month and Dissolution of Poetera. an or-f Nation set up bv 1he Japanese have been worried to death and our hands are tied by the elec AMLStMl.NTS DON Crav House The Mm in Her Life UAl'BEH Action In the North Allan- Grove Stafford Leading Brister in Senate Race Washington io rally indon lesian sup- tic. I HAUBP.R ANNEX Slightly tion law." One simple amendment of the election law was suggested by the Town Talk and approved by Mr. Beaman.

The law, at present, requires that the tally sheets be placed in an envelope addressed to the clerk of court and locked inside the box. The amendment (NOW MRS TO PAGE 1HRI.E Americans Land Behind Nazi Lines STOCKHOLM. Jan. 20. (tV) The Berlin correspondei of the Swedish newspaper Afton-Lladet said today that American forces vcrc being 'anded at a number of points along the Gulf of Gacta( behind the German line on the west coast of Italy.

There has been official confirmaton, and as a similar unconfirmed report mated enemy sources Tuesday the Aftonbladet correspondent's dispatch may have been a delayed version of that Reds Threaten to Circle Leningrad's Great Siege Army of 250,000 Nazis! Senator Grove Stafford led T. C. Brister by 1,287 votes according to unoffvial returns from 56 of the 67 perjincts at noon today. Vance Thompson had a lit UlifcAV fKAKbUN lililor Hobert S. Allen, jo Acttvt Duly i total of 1,487 votes from these in- i Alaska Eskimos Pledge 100 Per Jan 20.

(IT) Gen. Leonid A Govorov's offensive, rolling across fields wet with a January 3,500 San Juan Victims Cremated SAN JUAN, Argentina, Jan. 20. Authorities announced today that 3,500 bodies have been cremated since the devastating earthquake last Saturday. This toll was expected to be increased by the finding of additional victims as the work of clearing away debris continues and by deaths among 300 persons known to have been critically injured.

fhrcatcncd with encirclement a great German siege Cent of Tribe's Funds for War Bonds Tribal Chiefs Offer Gov. Gruening $15,000 as Token to Uncle Sam Conservatives Put "Parlor Pink" Maverick Into Important W'PB Job. FDR's Advisers and Other Democrats Opposed New Deal's cx-Battler. complete results. Senator Stafford's sum amounted to 4.941 while Brister had 3,654.

Complete but unofficial returns from Ward 1 showed Senator Stafford with 3,336 votes while Brister had 1.521 and Thompson. 882. These results were announced by Democratic Chairman Lamar Polk but were pointed out to be Officer in Charge." Information reaching Mr. and Mrs. Oden from a spectator of the crash, revealed that the plane in which Cadet Oden and his instructor were flying, went into a spin.

Both of the men bailed out. The officer's parachute failed to open and he was killed. Cadet Oden's parachute opened, but when he reached the ground he was dead. Supposition is that he had been struck and fatally injured by the falling plane. Bolton Graduate Cadet Oden.

a native of Rapides parish, graduated from Bolton high school in mid-term of 1940. He attended Louisiana State University for one year and Louisiana College a year. He enlisted in the Naval Air Corps during July of 1943 and was taking his basic training at Kilgore, Texas, his first station. He was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church. His remains will, arrive here at 12:30 p.

m. and services are to be bed at llixson Brothers Chapel at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. Dr. B. C.

Taylor of the First Methodist church will officiate in the of Dr. -Charles R. Shirar. Interment will l.e in Greenwood Memorial Park. Cadet Oden is survived by his father and mother, Mr.

and Mrs. O. T. Oden and a brother, Johnny Hunaps men jug jnto a vasf honeycomb ot u'Cnses to hoM th which formerly. thra A --i-i 1 1 Ul Mail 11110 aced the landward approaches of the ci ity ot Peter the isiffJj crn Rec! army grabbed the bulk of the specially' i-i; ranSe Suns which had hurled steel and death and r5'n into the former i capital of Russia for The War a Year Ago Today January 20, 1943 Fighting French joined the British Eighth Army in the advance toward Tripoli.

Chile broke relations with Axis powers. London reported that in three days British ships in the Central Mediterranean destroyed 14 Axis vessels. Moscow said Red forces in the Ukraine had. gained 17 miles in their drive toward Kharkov. "Let's All Back the Attack" 4th War Loan man two years of you are thinking twice about how much money you should invest in government bonds, consider the experience of Gov.

Fi nest Gruening of Alaska. Some time ago. Gov. Gruening visited St. Lawrence island, a long narrow strip of land in the Bering sea so near Siberia that you can look across on a clear URN IO PAGE MM I.IQI OR PRICE CONTROLS WASHINGTON, Jan.

20. (TP) Price controls on sales of Puerto Rican and Virgin Islands spirituous liquors to importers f- o. b. port of arrival and on tales by non-importing dome-tic bottles were re-imposed by the Office of Price Administration (OPA) forces after Senators Discuss GOP Reorganization WASHINGTON. Jan.

20. OP) Possible reorganization of Republican party machinery in the Senate came up for discussion today before a conference of the minority members. The illness of Republican Leader McNary operated on for a brain tumor laj-t November, has switched leadership duties to Senator White of Maine, the secretary of the Republican conference. on Rl'BBER FOOTWEAR PRICE WASHINGTON, Jan. Rubbers, antics and other types of waterproof rubber footwear will cost more at retail as result of increased substitution of synthetic rubber for reclaimed and crude rubber in these items, the Office of Price Administration (OPA) indicated today.

KING RECEIVES EISENHOWER LONDON, Jan. 20. Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower and An Chief Marshal Trafford L. Leigh-Mallory, his invasion air commander, were rccehed in audience by King George at Buckingham Palace today.

two powerful (l1 feil iliu nnrl th'p iii I JAP MERCHANT SHIPS SUNK, 5 It was expected that his colleagues i oden of Atlanta, Gn might give him the title of acting! leader and mstrucTions to carry on until McNary can return. i Fair Weather WA GED IN ALLIED RABAUL RAID Forecast Here n. Jne Sivil ti i Election 'Dope 1 Refused Reporter, Wrong Election Downs nominated Representative on Face of Returns in Rapides Unofficial returns from 59 Rapides precincts indicated at noon that C. H. Downs is nominated for the House of Representatives.

These tabulations show Downs as the only candidate of the l4 in the race who maintained a majority. Eight precincts were not reported when these figures were counted, however, and all counts were unofficial. Judging by these returns, there will be a run-off between Carl Close, John Hunter, Jesse F. Lucas and Lawrence Fuglaar. None of these men i v'onat5imp-t Son Harbor tv A 1 and divti- one torpedo plane.

Besides the three ships which v. ere ren to blow apart and sink, two other? were left hunting and probably sinking while three more were seriously damaged, the communique said. Some returning pilots expressed belief six ships were sunk. Pitching their attack at low level, the Allied, planes hurled to three bijr mo reliant ships dain.U'C fivo more in Simpson harbor Now More than 100 enemy planes tangled with the raiders in the assault Monday, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique said today.

Eighteen of the Japanese Alexandria: Fair this afternoon, tonight and Friday; little temperature chair lowest tonight. 37. Louisiana: Fair this af'er-noon, tonight, and Knd'iy: bt-tlp teo'prratui'f cha.ige. I ir winds on the coast this aft-r-loon. LOCAL WEATHER Recorded by the rniy Air Force weather station.

Army Air Base, fur the 24 hours ending at 6:30 a. today: Maximum temperature Minimum temperatuie ...32.4 Precipitation 0.00 The importance of a gov 'Dor's election is a matter of ininoi consideration when a high school queen's ballot is "on your mind." Thus the Town Talk and a Bolton High school teacher conversed and querried each other with the right questions and answers, but the vron, ideas in Tuesday hen a Town Talk tc-rorter called the -chool to find school's (Hvcincl, ar instructor came to ibe t( lephonp. The instructor to the reporter the dope" on the election "It's against the rules," she explained. The reporter, perplexed, perhaps, cited tiir rules she knows the law. if you Still no hick.

Tiie instructor had the Oueon's election in mind ihe reporter had the state and MJNei'f-rl by GO for 11,000 and 2.000-pound bombs to planes were knocked down secured a majority, on the face v'alue of these incomplete returns Downs, Close and Hunter were top three in the representative's trace, according to Town TalK tabulated returns at noon today. Downs was in the lead with votes while Close had 4,846 and Hunter, 3.540. Complete but unofficial returns from Ward 1 VNOW JIBS 10 1AUE lURlt) a tnroueii d.v sure and probably lii more, Mhcd 1 score hits on every vessel in ine Hive-' harbor. The planes came from losses were 10 fighters, one bomber destroyed by ack ack and vsow life.N 10 paoe eiohu how voting was "going'' in the parbh tickets in mind..