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Jf tlft V' 0 -x i I. 9. VOLUME XL UNITED FEATURES UNITED PRESS McCQMB, PIKE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1943 No. 304 1 fprtllllljl BY CHARLES B. GORDON lzzzj ana lZJ C3 i cizzi A i rm rTcn MAY HAVE BEEN "CRACK" LOOK HERE oiets Overrun Germans At-Will Along wge-Front Gut Into Heart Of -JV wiV.

October Total Run To 1,059 Jap Planes 1 OVER, THE RIVER German soldiers, among first taken prisoner by Yanks on Volturno front, are brought back to Allied lines by this pontoon ferry hauled by a rope. American soldiers carefully guard them, for are members of Goering's crack Panzer Grenadiers. Five years ago in The Daily Journal. Nov. 1, 1938: Harmony Aces, Ottis Wood, Xavier Lenoir, James White and Rodney Kelly, get pictures in paper.

Taylor-Leggett nuptials told. Tigers beat Crystal Springs 7-0 Friday Poplarville walloped Pilots 12-7; Magnolia beat Hazlehurst 7-6. Mrs. Mattie Allen death victim. Victims of bus-car crash near Byram, in which several persons well known locally died, are held.

Howard Dunaway dies in auto wreck. Hunt on in State for Charles Chapman. Henry B. Brock, James Daniel Ferguson pass away. State Drivers Licenses to go on sale soon.

We hope Manville's unquestionably5 tender feelings aren't hurt, but the Reno (Nev.) Journal although Reno "makes its living principally from 1 divorce mill has editorially invted Tommy to send his ex-wives-to-be elsewhere when a legal breakup is desired. They just don't want Manville's kind of trade. Henry McLemore, now in the Army, is regretting the columns he wrote trying to be funny about the making-up of an Army bed. He has found it the most serious undertaking ever faced by a mere man. "A man who would make light of (it) would scatter sneezing powder at a funeral, or give a counterfeit note to the parson who married him to an heiress," Henry points out.

1 Something like a year ago, Herr Goebbels' propaganda artists tossed off this boast over a German radio station: "Stalingrad will fall because the German high command wishes it. We have come to know that everything the Fuehrer wants is out." Hows about it now, Joe? World's Press News, English counterpart of the U. S. Editor (Continued on Page Two) Merry UNE A By DREW PEARSON KING CAROL TELLS DREW Pearson He's Eager To Serve Democracies; He's Waiting1 To Play His Part In Turning Rumania Against Nazis; Vinson Turned Thumbs Down On Illinois Mine Pact For Extra Pay; House Committee Makes Heavy Cuts In Deficiency Appropriations. WASHINGTON Forthright Ambassador George Messersmith, first U.

S. diplomat to report the real lowdown on Hitler, has sent some confidential reports to the State Department about the wholesome anti-Nazi influence King Carol and Madame Lupescu, now in Mexico City, could exercise over Rumanians. Rumania with its tremendous oil supplies, has become one of the key military spots in Europe, and the Allied high command is anxious to get it out of the war. This, plus the real friends King Carol has made among the U. S.

Congressmen and officials visiting Mexico, has led to a move to bring him into the U. S. A. Previous opposition was based on Carol's and Lupescu's relations. However, the King is now married to the woman he always loved, has been faithful to her for 20 years.

CAROL'S MESSAGE Meanwhile the Rumanian King has sent this with his personal views on Nazism, which he consistently fought, and his hopes for democracy: "For three years and a month I have seen history go by my door as I have lived awaiting the day when I would be able to serve the cause of democracy and the Allied Governments. I had hoped long before this that I would have been invited to play a part (Continued on Page Five) villi's iOd Columns; RUSSIANS ROLL TO BLACK SEA COAST EASILY Two-Thirds Of Steppes Above Crimea Are Occupied BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Nov. 1 Soviet advance guards by-passed Perekop from thte north today and raced on to the Black Sea coast to seal off the Crimea and trap upwards of 90,000 German troops. The Red Army, overrunning the Germans at will in every direction, completed occupation of more than two thirds of the No-gaisk steppes above the Crimea and smashed ahead toward Kherson at the mouth of the Dnieper. Soviet armored and motorized spearheads cut deeper and deeper into the heart of the fleeing Germans, leaving behind tens of thousands of Nazi stragglers to be mopped up by the cavalry and infantry.

The battle of the Nagalsk steppes appeared slated to go down in history as one of the most disastrous defeats ever suffered by the German army. Kharkovka, the main crossing of the lower Dnieper, also was by-passed by the speedy Soviet advance toward Kherson, but another Russian column was moving toward the city from 15 miles to the east. The Russians were almost within sight of the, entire left bank of the Dnieper from a point below Nikopol to one below Kha-kovka. The only escape for the Nazis stall remaining in the Crimea is by sea. The Germans were reported to have built piers along the Crimean west coast for just such an emergency, but their use probably will be neutralized by the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the Red air force.

The Germans attempted one counter-attack to stem the Soviet tide, but resumed their retreat at greater speed after losing 1,000 men and 16 tanks. Nazi troops abandoned their weapons in wholesale lots in their race to escape Russian flying columns that cut them down by the thousands. Soviet tanks and Cossack cavalry spearheads by-passed scores of German garrisons and' straggling columns in striking for key objectives, leaving them to be mopped up by infantry. One front dispatch said the battle had entered upon a phase of extermination such as the German command once had "dreamed of imposing upon Russia." The Russian dash to Chaplinka pinned thousands of additional German troops against the Sivash Lagoons also known as the Putrid Sea between the Perekop Isthmus on the west and the sea of Azov on the east. Many waded across the waist-deep lagoons to the Crimea, but the speed of the Russian advance toward the Perekop Isthmus indicated that their death or capture was only postponed.

Man Wears Bars, Can't Recall Why INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) Arrested in the lobby of a local hotel on a charge of illegally wearing an Army captain's uniform, a 43-ycar-old man explained that he "couldn't recall" how he happened to be wearing it. PARATROOPS IN STRUGGLE FOR GHOISEUL ISLE Friday Raid On Rabaul Netted Americans 45 To 63 Jap Planes BY DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Pacific, Nov. 1. Allied bombers smashing Rabaul anew with 115 tons of explosives destroyed 45 to 63 Japanese aircraft at the big base Friday to run their October total to a record 1,059 enemy planes wrecked or damaged, a communique reported today. Striking to keep the enemy's air 'arm busy while American paratroops clashed with the Japanese on Choiseul Island in the Solomons, the Liberator bombing force and strong fighter escort lost only four of their.

number. The month's record for the South and Southwest Pacific was almost double that of SeptemWsr and brought the total for the last four months to 2,566 Japanese planes. The October mark was set with only 17 Allied losses. A headquarters spokesman said the attack on Rabaul, on New Britain Island, and new blows at Bougainville, in the Northern Solomons, could be viewed as direct support to the ground troops who ran into resistance frbm the Japansese on the southeast coast between Va-gare and Voza, about three miles south of the point where they were landed by ships Thursday. There were no details of the figkting but the enemy was believed to have between 1,500 and 2,000 trcopg on Choiseul.

There also was no report from the Treasury Islands, where' American and New Zealand forces landed to outflank Bougainville on the southeast approaches to Rabaul, some 300 miles away. Raiding Rabaul the fourth time in a week, the planes shot down 25 to 38 intercepting enemy planes, destroyed 20 to 25 aircraft on the ground and demolished an ammunition dump. Their objective was Vunakanau airdrome, 8V2 miles south of the main base. Medium bormbera followed up with a night raid Tobera airdrome. L.

A. BAILEY GETS BIBLE AS REWARD FOR CHURCH WORK Mr. L. A. Bailey, 109 North Liveoak Street, was agreeably surprised Sunday when the Senior and Junior Bible Classes of the East McComb Baptist Church presented hist with a beautiful Schofield Bible.

The presentation, made by Mr. E. L. Smith, came as a complete surprise to Mr. Bailey, who has been a member of the East McComb Baptist Church I siuce 1902.

He expressed himself I as being deply touched end ap preciative of the gift. i Telegrapher Takes Wire Of Son's Death COLOMA, Mich. (CNS) William H. O'Brien, telegrapher, sat down at his key to take the first message of the day. When the i message was finished he blinked, I then delivered it in person.

It was to his wife and it said that their son, Pvt. William H. O'Brien had been killed in North Africa. Men Of Region Get Promotions In S. Army Numerous men who are from the McComb region, or are well known here, were included in a list of promotions released by the War Department over the week-end.

This list included To Lieutenant Colonel: William Herbert Hale, Natchez; Alton Parker Wilkinson, Meadville. To Major: Wallace Atkinson Cotten, McComb. To Captain: Marvin Dan Carughi, Centreville; James Charlie McDaniel, Summit. To First Lieutenant: Floyd Charley Caulfield, Centreville; Versie Luke Wilson, Brookhaven. To Second Lieutenant Thelda L.

Mullen, Greenville. BOGUE CHITTO ACE GIVEN AWARD FOR 50 COMBAT TRIPS Included in a list of Mississippi-ans who have been given awards for gallantry in action, released by the War Department over the week- I end, was: First Lieutenant Carey J. Wooley, Bogue Chitto, who has received an oak leaf cluster in lieu of a second Distinguished Flying Cross for the completion of 50 operational flight missions in the Southwest Pacific area. ATLANTA PAPERS FORCED TO RAISE SUBSCRIPTION RATES ATLANTA, Oct. 31.

The Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Constitution announced tonight that effective Monday, November 1, subscription rates would be raised from 25 to 30 cents a week. Increased cost of production and newsprint restrictions were given by the papers as the reason for the increase. 111! IN BY UNITED PRESS CHINA-BURMA: U. S. China-based planes wreck Jap zinc smelting plant in Indo-China; Burma-based planes attack Jap communications, airdromes and supply centers for four day; Myitkyina takes heaviest beating; Japs suffer heavy casualties in artillery duel on Sal-ween front.

AIR WAR: London has air alert Sunday night; Air Ministry reveals Wtestern German industrial town of Kassel destroyed for all practical purposes in two big RAF raids. Fighter-escorted bombers pound enemy airfields and communications Sunday in Northern France. BALKANS: Partisans occupy town onlv 37 miles from Tirana, capital of Albania; Bulgarians open offensive against Mikhailovitch's men in Southern Serbia. MIDDLE EAST: RAF hit Herak-licn airdrome, Crete, shooting down six German planes. WESTERN EUROPE Allied bomber fleets pound Cherbourg docks.

Repatriated British prisoners say German people sullen and "horriblv" frightened by air raids. Nazis impose curfew and fine upon Copenhagen after restaurant bomb blast killing four, injuring 40. FAR EAST 14th U. S. Air Force bombs key Jap base to support Chinese on Salween River front; raid shipping off Hainan Island for second time in 24 hours; enemy admits sl ip and' plane losses.

Tokyo reports leading Jap industrialist and parliamentarian commits hari kari. British House of Commons to debate India famine at next sitting. BRIEF VETERAN WAR VET Thomas Billie Harris, 14, of Deriver, has agreed to seek annulment of his marriage to 13-year-old bride. He has already seen action in the Pacific and was discharged from both Navy and Marines after true age was learned. SPEAR! LITTLE ROiHL-LINE SET UP Fifth, Eighth Register Advances Up To Five Miles In Italy BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent A I ED HEADQUARTERS, ALGIERS, Nov.

1 Advances up to five miles by the Fifth and Eighth armies thrust two spearheads into the outposts of the little Rommel line across Italy, posing a flanking threat against the Nazi anchor on Missico Ridge, it was announced today. Lieut. G-n. Mnrk W. Clark's Fifth army lacs "'rA Teano, important road junction iUu: and a half miles north of Francolise, and were fanning out to the northeast and northwest.

Plunging ahead two to three miles on either side of the Isernia road, the Eighth Army occupied Cantalupo, on strategic high ground five miles northeast of Bojano. Development of the wedges into the German defenses would turn the Massico Ridge stronghold on the Nazi west flank and imperil the main fortifications before the Allies and Rome. The American flank of the Fifth Army rolled up the greatest advance of the day, some five miles, to capture the eminence topped by the town of Vellagricola, in what was described officially as "a very fine performance." Bad weather still impeded Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth Army, particularly in the northern sector of the line.

A communique said resistance in some sectors of the Fifth Army front was "strong, but further progress was made by our troops." "The recent heavy rains are making movement very difficult in the coastal sector," the communique said. The capture of Teano, adjacent to the vital Capua-Rome highway and Cantalupo, on the equally, vital Bojano-Isernia road, put the Allies into valuable new high ground from which their flanking maneuvers to the northwestward can be developed. t' 4 I I I i 1 Ieads in 1 i Of- 5 5 Bookter Returns After Successful Revival Meeting Rev. Fred B. Bookter, pastor of the Central Baptist Church, has returned to McComb, after conducting a very successful series of revival services in Baton Rouge.

The meeting was lield in the Monte Sano Baptist Church where Rev. Charles Lamb is the pastor. The services began Monday, October 18 and closed Thursday, October 28. The attendance in the meeting was very large and the church experienced a genuine revival. There were 34 new members received into the fellowship of the church during the meeting.

Twenty-four came on profession of faith ten by letter. The Monte Sano church has a membership of 600 members and is located in one of the best residential sections of the city. CANNESTiSoET of american Heavy planes BY WILLIAM DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 1. Mediterranean-based Flying Fortresses knocked out the Antheor viaduct near Cannes on the vital coastal railway linking Southeastern France and Northern Italy at least temporarily with a series of direct hits from 20,000 feet, it was announced today.

Renewing the Allied aerial squeeze on Axis Europe, the Northwest African Air Force Fortresses flew more than 1,100 miles round trip for their second raid of the war on France, an announcement at Allied Headquarters in Algiers re vealed. A few hours later RAF Mosquito bombers from Britain raided Western Germany. The Fortresses swept across the Mediterranean to Cannes, on the French Riviera half way between Toulon and the Italian border, without escort, but encountered neither enemy planes nor anti-aircraft All returned The 540 foot-long viaduct carried a double-track railway which the Germans had been usina to capacity to supply and reinforce their garrisons in both Italv and France, Cannes is five miles to the northwest. 4 ii i --5f INTERESTING IN ONE RAGE IN DISTRICT Highway Commission Job Sought By Five In Tuesday Election The principal interest in the general election to be held Mississippi Tuesday oenter3 in the five-cornered race for Southern District Highway Comcnission- I er, a position made vacant by the death of Hiram J. Patt arson of Monticello, who was renamed to the office in the first pirary of August 3rd, only to di in an automobile wreck five days Otherwise the election probably will be the usual formality Ttftere-in an -estimated .100,000 voters, about a third of the state's normal voting strength, will ratify the Democratic, nominees from the two August primaries, from governor down.

Republican opposition in Mississippi, considered a minor factor, has not developed menacing strength this year. The -five candidates contesting for the position are Mundell Bush, Hattiesburg, appointed by Governor Johnson to serve Patterson's unexpired term; W. L. Busby of Laurel, former Jones County Chancery Clerk; C. C.

Garner of Bay St. Louis; D. Foi-est Simmons, Purvis, one of Patterson's opponents in August, and Roland B. Wall, Brookhaven, former state WPA director. Others On Ballot Gov.

-designate Thomas L. Bailey of Meridian, who takes office in January succeeding Governor Johnson, defeated former Gov. Mike Conner in the second primary by 17,000 votes. Along with Bailey the voters are to approve Fielding H. Wright for lieutenant governor; Walker Wood, secretary of state; Greek L.

Rice, attorney general; Newton James, state treasurer; Bert J. Barnett, auditor; J. S. Vandiver, superintendent of education; S. E.

Corley, commissioner of agriculture; Carl N. Craig, tax collector; Guy McCullen, land commissioner; John Sharp Williams III, insurance commissioner, and state public service and. highway TIGERS BATTLE BR00KHA1EN TO 7-7 DEADLOCK Panthers Fail In Best Chance Of Years To Wallop Locals BY JOHN B. ROGERS With both teams showing up as considerably weaker Friday night than had been expected, the arch-rivals of Southwest Mississippi, the McComb Tigers and the Brookhaven Panthers battled on fairly even terms to a 7-7 dead- lock in the Lincoln County capital. A number of McComb fans made the trip to Brookhaven with the Tigers and were" relieved, at least, that the Panthers failed to overcome the jinx of several years standing to defeat the Tigers.

The Panthers, admittedly, had their best chance of several seasons to trim the locals, but did not rise to the occasion despite several threats of more or less seriousness to the Tigers. The game was marked and marred by repeated fumbles, with pass interceptions also frequent. The Tigers tumbled four times with the Brookhaven boys being successful in recovering the pigskin each time. After a scoreless first quarter, the Panthers drew first blood when they drove inside the McComb ten-yard line in the second frame. Taylor Tatum, panther tailback, playing an outstanding game in.

his last appearance for Brookhaven before leaving for U. S. Army induction Saturday, plunged over for the score and Foster drove across for the extra point, giving Brookhaven a lead of 7-0. Bill Stuart, substitute fullback, played probably the best game for the Tigers, with Paul Love and Benoist Wall also doing well. The Tigers began their scoring drive in the third quarter on a pass, good for a first down, from Bill Tucker to Buck Stuart: Paul Love plunged for another first down to the six-yard stripe.

Benoist Wall drove to the two, then Bill Stuart plunged for another yard, diving across on the next play. Sonny Carr dropkicked beautifully for the extra point to tie the game up 7-7. The Tigers got on the move late (Continued on Page Three).