The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune from Chillicothe, Missouri • Page 17

CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 1942 TWELVE PAGES TWO SECTIONS SHIKLEY UNIMPROVED Qntftditinn Cooper street, is unimproved Mrs. Shirley has been ill two weeks. WOMUKG AT BOMBER PLANT 088 Solomon, employed at North American bomber plant in City, left this morning after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

A. J. Solomon. She had been in Chillicothe since Monday ABLE TO RESUME WORK Mrs. Martha Jacobs to be to resume her work as cashier the J.

c. Penney store, Friday. Mrs. Jacobs has been absent about three weeks because of illness. She underwent an operation at Chillicothe hospital November 14.

WILL ATTEND GAME Miss Mary Frances Ormsby and Jay Hedrick Ormsby will be in Columbia Thanksgiving Day, accompanying their father, N. A. Ormsby of Kansas City. They will return home Thursday evening after the Missouri-Kansas game. i RETURNS TO WORK Mrs.

Ila SummerviUe, city clerk, will end a two-week vacation the day after Thanksgiving. Mrs. Sum- raerville has remained in Chillicothe during the time. John McBride has substituted for her as city clerk during the vacation. KEATH ON WDAF W.

G. Keath, food rationing officer of the Kansas City area, will give a talk on coffee rationing, over station WDAF Friday morning at 8:30 o'clock. Mr. centiy drafter to Keath was re- the position of AWED FORCES ARE IN Of TUNISIA TODAY Clashed Occasionally With Enemy Patrols in Short Engagements. FIGHTERS ROAM SKIES Sought Out German and Italian Concentrations, (ttw Me Afitociatct Prett) LONDON.

Nov. said the Morocco radio in a broadcast tonight reported that a German column has been thrown back 2 miles south of Tunis and that Lieut. Gen. Kenneth A. N.

Anderson, commander of a British-American army, is on the point of launching a huge scale offensive against Tunis and Bizerte. Another in Alaska (By the Ataoctotci LONDON, Nov. 25 American, British and French forces were reported roaming the length and breadth of Tunisia today, clashing occasionally with enemy patrols in short but violent engagements and preparing the ground for a final and bitter reckoning with the Axis in Africa. Long-range American P-38 fighters ranged the skies above the ground troops, seeking out German and Italian concentrations, attack-j ing troop columns and trains and occasionally engaging Axis planes. Assigned to the often cold and dreary job of guarding the Alaskan coast with the IT.

S. Army is Cpl. Lloyd E. Figg of Hale. He has been stationed at Kodiak, Alaska, for the last 16 months, so the corporal probably knows more about Alaska than many Alaskans.

Before he was moved to Kodiak, Cpl. Figg was at Camp Haan, Cal. Lloyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ollen Figg of Hale, was graduated from Tina high school in 1936.

CHIU1COTHE FACES A MILK SHORTAGE AND ITSRATKNING So Many Dairy Herds Sold and Dispersed There Is Less Milk. BUT NOT YET ALARMING However, Dairymen Predict Situation Can Be Worse Unless Remedied. The quart of milk at the front door this morning may be only a pint tomorrow, agree Chillicothe dairymen in recognizing a milk shortage here. There positively is a milk scarcity in Chillicothe and it is going to grow worse as more soldiers arrive to go to school here, a poll of dairymen disclosed here today. Already several dairies have joined the ration parade and are dividing their milk among their- customers as best they can.

This means in some cases that customers who bought four quarts a day can have only two now. The customer on the milk route then hurries to town to purchase the difference from the SERVICES THURSDAY Thanksgiving Service at Christian Science Church. Chistian Science Society of Chillicothe will hold regular Thanksgiving services at their church, 916 locust Street, Thursday morning at 10:30. The public is cordially invited to attend. "Thanksgiving" is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ.

Scientist, on Thursday (Thanksgiving Day), November 16, 1942. Golden Text: Psalms 69:30. I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. Food Rationing Officer by the Of-' Britlsn observers said that both the British eighth army in Libya and the Allied army in Tunisia have built up their forces for a crushing blow at both ends of the extended German lines which could be launched at any minute. flee of Price Administration.

THANKSGIVING SERVICE St. John's Lutheran Church will hold its annual Thanksgiving Service at 9 a. m. Thursday morning. The senior choir will sing "We Praise Thee, The pastor will speak on.

"Jesus, Continue Thy Mercy Unto The public is most heartily welcomed. COMMANDER A gift to their commanding officer. Clark McCown, now in the Army, was presented last night by members of Company State Guard. It was a fitted case for traveling. McCown leave Friday for Ft.

Leavenworth, where he was inducted tost week. ON A WEEK'S FURLOUGH A THANKSGIVING PROGRAM IS GIVEN Presented by the Academy Students at Assembly This Morning. The significance of Thanksgiving as a historical festival and as a situation before it reaches the crit- grocery stores and that has the effect of reducing the amount available to those who buy only from the grocery. But do not fear, mother, dear, your child is not likely to go wailing from want of milk. It is not that! bad.

And dairymen are trying tolltfav Yin figure out something to relieve the Would Postpone Gasoline Rationing: for 6 Month Period BUNA-DONA AREA STRUGGLE APPROACHES ITS CLIMAX STOP DELIVERY OF WHIPPING CREAM War Production Board Ends Distribution of Dairy Product. ON THANKSGIVING war production board acting to conserve fluid milk for consumer use and for manufactured dairy products, today prohibited dairy pro- WASHINGTON, Nov. spe- ducer from distributing whipping House committee recommended I cream to household consumers, re- fc day a six months' postponement of gasoline rations in all or at least Part of the presently unrationed area "to see what voluntary tire saving will accomplish." group also suggested that studies of the office of petroleum coordinator and office of defense transportation be utilized in an ef- tailers, restaurants and other institutions. Coffee or "light is not affected by the order. Clyde E.

Bearosiee, cmer of WPB's dairy section, said the order would I help relieve the most critical butter shortage in 10 years and fluid milk shortages in most sections of the country. American and Australian' APIIMMM Troops Gripped in a Bitter UNION SERVICES Close Quarter. Battle With Japanese. ALLIES USED ALL THEIR AIRPLANES Bombers Added High Expto- to the Confusion and Death Below, It Is Announced. fort to make sure that "our transportation system throughout thei Oftuntry does not suffer a sudden Under tne order no dairy producer tttre and forced gasoline rationing, other food stuffs any having ja milk fat content exceeding 19 cent heavy or whipping cream the AnKm-iutF-t WASHINGTON, Nov.

Navy announced today that a Marine patrol on Guadalcanal in the Solomon islands had killed 70 Japanese and captured 5 machine guns in an enemy encampment southwest of the American-held airfield. The action was carried out Monday, Guadalcanal time, against an encampment near the village of Mambulo on the upper reaches of the Matahi- kau river. national holiday was the theme of the program presented by the Academy students at their annual Thanksgiving assembly held this afternoon at 1 o'clock. They stress- jed the fact that Thanksgiving Day is of more than passing notice this ical stage. They have only this to defeat: Shortage of help.

Where to make up for milk supply reduced by farmers' sales of dairy cattle. The weather. Owners report herds affected by the changing on Monday, Nov. 30 i Rep. Kill Receives Invitation From Alumni Assn.

State Teachers College. much as cent mak admittedly tough assignment. same days as that proclaimed byj Uncertainty in a cow makes for jGeorfe Washington and Abraham i ep iwoducttan. American puracnute troops guard-! Lincoln. Background of the in 01MMV ing an, airfield in the south, engaged' The program consisted of a panel an Axis column of mechanized discussion, a talk, readings of presi- troops and took a number of pris- dential Thanksgiving Proclamation, oners, a spokesman at Allied head- songs.

For the opening number, quarters in Africa said. 'The Ger-(Agnes Zosso and Dorothy Reilly mans have been patrolling through-1 sang a duet, "Thanks be to God" by I means that a farmer cannot apparent shortage lies in sale of jnany dairy herds which formerly supplied Chillicothe tables. The farmer who cannot hire labor for his herd usually sells. And gasoline and rubber ra- out the country and most of the! Dickson-O'Shea. make as frequent trips to haul milk clashes have resulted from the sud- i le nel discussion was ied by a den and unexpected meetings of' BU1 McCoy and participated in by Another contributing factor is a The legislators elect their own fat.

Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Colliver of Brookfield visited friends rela- i tives here today.

Mrs. Colliver is i remembered here as Mildred Gay. Representative Randall R. Kitt of nf Tiroa ii Chillicothe has been invited by the OU1CKS OI 1WeS 'Alumni Association of Northwest I Missouri State Teachers College to be its guest at Maryville on Nov. 30.

Express Office Way is a biennial occasion when the association asks twenty-six persons representing Northwest Missouri in the General Assembly to come to the college to discuss with each other and with the heads of departments and commissions, State Car Owners Who Did Certify "Extra" fins Asked to Do So. There is a store room full of rubber tires that nobody will get paid for unless the owners return to the Governmental problems. Pvt Brooks Anderson came to-, Algerian coast was bombed day from Oklahoma City where hejnjgnt by is stationed at the Army Air Depot. heavy Pvt. Anderson, who has been sta-iBone ttoned at Ft.

Francis E. border Wyoming, was recently transferred to Oklahoma City. He will visit his mother, Mrs. W. R.

Anderson, and these forces. Radio Morocco reported that the Allied occupied port of Bone on the last despite Dick Saale, Joseph Young, and Louis Potts. In an interesting way they traced the origin of Thanksgiving back to the Old Testament powdered milk plant at Trenton which has a government contract and is buying milk "all over." chairman, plan their own program, and no outsider can present a pro- iblem or bill. L. L.

Livengood, lawyer festivals and the ancient harvest! situation is a raise in price of milk his sisters. Mrs. I. W. Waffle and Mrs.

Frank Fisher. DALGHTEK ENROLLS (By the Associated Frctt) LONDON Nov. 25 A Reuter's dispatch said today that a mammoth German transport sea plane, capable of carrying up to fully equipped soldiers, was shot into the of sea yesterday of the eastern coast of Pattonsburg enrolled this week for a course at the Jackson School of Business. She will begin her business training in January. The Rev.

B. A. Wagenknecht, former pastor at Ludlow and now pastor of the Methodist Church in Pattonsburg, England. They gave vivid de- jscriptions of the first Plymouth celebration in 1763 and showed how Thanksgiving finally developed into a national holiday. The panel dis- What might occur to remedy the and chairman of the Legislators Day Committee, says that newly elected members and State Government of- ficals, have always come with many questions to ask of veteran assembly members and officials.

farmer dairyman and (Continued on Page 2.) ters from Malta. The dispatch called the craft a Vlohm and Voss, a high new type by the makers of flying boats which the Nazis used cussion ended after the reading of the Thanksgiving proclamations of our first President and of Abraham Lincoln by Robert Brennan and Pat Conway, respectively. The whole assembly then joined in the singing of "America." Other presidential proclamations were read by James Englert, John! German Losses In Dead and Captured Alone Has Rocketed Close to 100,000 As Russian Counter-Offensive Gained Railway Express office where they I left them and fill out transfer certificates. Approximately 150 shipments, of three to four or more tires in each, are gathering dust and taking up storage space in the express office. These are tires turned in while the Railway Express was out of acceptance forms.

The company kept the tires so that the owners could apply for gasoline ration books for I which they had to swear they had no more than five tires for any one car. "It will help us if the owners will come in and certify the tires so we can ship them to the government," agent E. A. Snead asserted. "We accommodated them; now we hope they would help us." (liy the AHtncintrtI I'rcxn) GEN.

Mac ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia. Nov. American and Australian troops were gripped in a bitter, close-quarter battle with a "last stand" force of Japanese on the beaches of the struggle in the Buna-Gona area approached its climax. Every plane the Allied forces could muster was sent over the Japanese positions with machine guns and cannons blazing. Bombers add-' ed high explosives to the confusion and death below.

On the-ground Allied troops, who have surrounded the Japanese on three sides, closed In slowly. The heaviest fighting was taking place on a coastal strip 12 miles long between Buna and Gona. At Buna, both Australian and American units were reported attacking an airfield in the face of stiff artillery, mortar and machine gun fire. Davis, Victor Gier, Paul Bleir, Donald Schneider, and Billy Smith. Earl Slattery then told the audience how and his wife were here Monday with esc erunentaU for ni ht across tne he sees Thanksgiving in 1942.

The their daughter Atlantic before the war. climax of the program was reach- Soldiers to Have their daughter. The enrollment was made now before the rationing of gasoline goes into effect. KINDERGARTEN CLOSES Tiny Tot kindergarten. 905 Washington Street, closed after this morning's classes to remain closed until Monday, conforming with thei public school Thanksgiving vacation.

Mrs. C. W. Robinson, who conducts the kindergarten, will go to Kansas i City today with Mr. Robinson.

Mrs. I Armv Air Forces Clerical Florence Tiberghien of Des Moines i School here, with classes continuing of the program was reached when Leo O'Brien read this year's Thanksgiving proclamation, in which President Roosevelt exhorts the people of America to make this Thanksgiving as well as New Year's Turkey and All the a day of prayer. Theconclud- mings to Be Served to Clerical School Force. Although Thanksgiving will not i a holiday for the men attached I ing number was, Land," sung by chorus. "God Bless Our the Academy joined them here at noon to accompany them to Kansas City where tbey will be guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Donald Tiberghien through the remainder of the week. Mrs. Donald Tiberghien is the former Elizabeth (Continued on Page 2.) THE WEATHER as usual for the soldier students, turkey and all the trimmings will be served at the noon mess. The menu will consist of Roast turkey oyster dressing Mashed potatoes creamed peas Giblet gravy cranberry sauce Fruit salad Celery pickles Pumpkin pie Coffee milk The assembly was followed by an all-school party, sponsored by the girls of the Mission Club.

MISSOURI: Colder north and west by evening, colder tonight, much colder north with a hard freeze, light scattered showers north and west today and in southwest early tonight. Twesday'c Temperatares Maximum 58 Minimum 36 SCHOOL CLUB ELECTS At a meeting of the school club of Garrison school today, Freddie Doxey was elected president; Paul Lewis, vice-president; O. Hughes, (secretary; -Margaret Brown, corresponding secretary, and Anna Bell, Register Gasoline Dealers Dec. 1-2 Certain Information Is Required in, a Ration Application. i Registration of gasoline dealers will be held at the Livingston County Rationing office Dec.

1 and 2. Dealers, intermediate distributors and licensed distributors should all register. Dealers and intermediate the a Reuter's dispatch from MOSCOW, Nov. German (Moscow estimated by the traditional losses in dead and captured ratio of three wounded for every alone had rocketed close to soW1 1 wiled, that the wounded to- 100,000 as the Russian coun-; 1 11 1 120 000) ter-offensive gained momentum and squeezed the invaders escape corridor to a width of .30 miles, battle front dispatches reported. From Stalingrad the Russians reported rolling back a Nazi wedge to the Volga, clearing another avenue for supply and reinforcement of the garrison which already is lashing out and beating back the Nazis, street by street.

Northwest of the city the Russian offensive penetrated 18 miles into the German defenses within the great Don bend and to the southwest the Russians had stabbed 65 miles into the invaders' lines, the jaws of the nutcracker still were closing. A communique added 34,000 more German dead overnight to the toll The Russians reported yesterday that they had shoved a column down the Volga from the north to effect a junction with Stalingrad's garrison in the northern part of the city and cleared out a wedge that the invaders had driven between this sector and the main part of the town. Red Star said it was impossible to count the spoils which fell to the advancing Russians. Automobiles, tanks and even airplanes were left behind. German forces arrayed before Stalingrad still were destribed as strong and Russian dispatches said the Nazis showed no signs of falling! club Women Operated Booths on back although their case grew more desperate hourly.

Typhoid 'Shots' to Co. State Guard The Troops Are Inoculated at Charge of State; 6. I. Clothing, Too. Members of Co.

I of the Missouri State Guard are wondering at the care the state is giving them. Lately furnished with warm overcoats, new arms, and boots with soles an inch thick, the state last night had Dr. R. J. Brennan inoculate the Guardsmen against typhoid.

Those not inoculated last night will get their "shot" next Tuesday evening. Meanwhile in Berlin the German radio said today that the -Russians have succeeded in "temporarily in the Stalingrad'Don bend sector penetrating" German positions on alone, raising the official count of' the Rzhev front west of Moscow. the killed to 44,400 in six days and A broadcast said the Russians WOMEN SOLD STAMPS Housewives for Victory Day. Aiding in "Housewives for Victory Day" yesterday were club women of the city who sold war stamps and bonds from booths in three Chillicothe stores. In the booths at the Scott Store distributors will receive inventory battlefront dispatches said the tally broke through after three assaults Pariow Hovt Mrs coupons equal to their unfilled stor-' possibly is close to 50,000.

ion th age space. The communique gave no specific treasurer. Committees President Doxey at a later date. be named by ion the German lines. The high command said that the Russians continued their attacks southwest of Stalingrad and in the as to the total capacity of gasoline vious total of 36,000 now, too, was Don bend but that the Red Army For the registration dealers and)figure on Germans captured over- distributors will need information night but dispatches said the pre- storage facilities and the amount of gasoline on hand as of the close business November 30, 1942.

probably closer to 50,000. (No official figures were given on the number of Nazi wounded but In' bombers. was suffering heavy losses from the iKinnison, Mrs. Aaron Gale and Mrs. Earl Bradbury.

At the J. C. Penney store were Mrs. G. R.

Reynolds, Mrs. Ben Wheeler, Mrs. Earl Stepp and Mrs. Earl Bailee. At Woolworths the were by Mrs.

Henry Boehner, German defense and its supporting Mrs. Zoe Wilson, Mrs. Manuel Drumm and Mrs. Herman Shiflet. Will Be Held at Elm Street Methodist Church at 8 a.

m. Thursday. The annual union Thanksgiving service will be held at the Elm Street Methodist Church, Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. The be preached by Rev. Kenneth A.

Kuntz, pastor of the First Christian Church. His subject will be "No Contentment." The program for the service follows, i Call to in Minor" (Chopin), Miss Lilie Belle Banes Hymn Country, Tis of Thee" Salute to the Andrew C. Preston A. H. Sargent Ask Peace" (Miles) Responsive 641, Rev.

Olive Fay Gloria Patri New Testament John F. Hazlett and Charles Greenwood Violin Dorothy Daily Hymn Ye Thankful People, Rev. Kenneth A. Kuntz Hymn All Thy Mercies" P. Andrews (Dennis-Ashford).

Will Honor Local Men on Furlough Movies, After This Afternoon, Be Free to These Men. Heavy fighting was reported to have erupted again on the Gona end of the battle line. The Australians entered the village Monday and found 100 Japanese dead. Other dead and wounded Japanese were scattered along the beach near the) community. The Allied airmen made more than 100 sorties over the uattle area yesterday, dropping hundreds of bombs and spraying many thousands of rounds of machine gun Movies, after this afternoon, will be free for Livingston County service men at home on furlough.

The free movies are made possible by Legionnaires, anxious to do all they can to make the furloughs of service men- enjoyable. Co-operat- bullets on the trapped Japanese positions. The aerial action was particularly intense on a six-mile stretch between Gona and Sanananda. No Japanese planes appeared to contest the air with the Allied flyers, it was reported. the American Legion is the local theatre management.

Every service man of the county, when he is at home on furlough, is asked to register with William Zirkle in the office of the county recorder, second floor of the court house. Without this registration, which began this afternoon, the men are not eligible for admittance to the theatres without charge. Parents and friends of the service men are asked by the Legion to assist by reminding any service man of this registration. It cannot be made by anyone but the man in the armed "It is merely a courtesy to these Legion Auxiliary Makes Party Plans lfeUows tne said c. c.

Cooke, who, with Zirkle, is serving Will Entertain Mothers of the on toc Legton conunlttce We Men in Military Service, Saturday. Plans are completed for entertain- tainment of mothers of men now in military service at a party to be given by the American Legion Auxiliary Saturday afternoon from 2:30 until 4 o'clock at the Legion Home. Legion Auxiliary committee in charge expresses the hope that all mothers of the service men will attend. A short play, "Mother Buys a Bond," will be given by Junior Auxiliary members. Mrs.

Harriett An- want them to have as good a time as possible white they are back home on Returns to K.C. for a Residence Mr. and Mrs. Patrick McKeever Have Lived in Cream Ridge Twp. 40 Years.

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick McKeever. who have lived in Cream Ridge township for over forty years, left today for a residence in Kansas City, "Mo, their former home. They drews, junior activities chairman, recently sold their farm on which and Mrs.

F. C. Fay are directing the they have lived all these years to play. There will be a musical pro- Mr. and Mrs.

Harry M. Thomas. 8 rwn also Mr. McKeever was was born near The entertainment is being given Portadown county of Armagh, Ireby the Auxiliary in co-operation und, and Mme to COU ntry to with Minute Women at War week. Mrs.

Bill Melvin is chairman of -the entertainment committee. Other members are Mrs. Charles Schuch, five years old. he was twenty- Although he is past eight-eight years old, Mr. McKeever has managed and operated his Miss Faye L.

Stewart, Mrs. Herb farm through all these years and Parsons, Mrs. "Edna Timberman, says he has never been sick a day Leo Englert, Mrs. Earl Sallee, since he moved to Livngston County. Constant representing the Auxiliary.

Mrs. C. C. Cooke, and Miss Lillian Before coming to Livingston Junior County he was motorman on the Kansas City street railways..