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Texas' Second Oldest Daily Established by Texas Democrats July 26, 1871 Tbe Friendly Crfj" Tfc5pai Home Edition Warmer Saturday TO TALK tie ustfa Statesman AUSTIN, TEXAS, 17, 1943 Strgthen Beaehnaadl PRICE FIVE CENTS' Tovnnc nnA New Britain I t. Sink 8 Vap RAF Follows Damaging American Raid on Bremen With Heavy Berlin Attack LONDON, Dec. 17. (UP) Hundreds of the RAF's biggest bombers resumed the knockout offensive against Berlin with a blockbuster assault that spread fire and ruin through the nazi capital Thursday night, and the German radio revealed invasion Friday that American Flying Fortresses damaged Bremen heavily National Leaders Gather At White House to Greet Roosevelt on His Return WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.

(UP) Pres. Roosevelt returned to the White House Friday from his Cairo and Teheran conferences and was given a loud welcome by virtually every important figure in the government. The first thing Mr. Roosevelt did after shaking hands with the raiders laid their target indicators squarely on the capital. Thirty miles from their objective the black-winged raiders swung into a path of flares dropped by enemy nifht fighters and followed those flaming beacons right to the heart of Berlin.

Tens of thousands of high explosive and fire bombs hurtled down on (Continued on Page 17, Col. 6) VOL. 73 NO 81 Subs More Bodies Still Locked In Wreck LUMBERTON C. Dec. 17 The toll of known dead in the southeast's worst railroad disaster rose to 70 Friday as wreckers worked with little success to pry apart four telescoped passenger cars that still blocked the Atlantic coast line's double-track mainline from New York to Florida.

The body of an unidentified civilian was recovered from the wreckage early Friday. Red Cross and railroad officials here reported eight more bodies were believed locked in a section of one of the cars which had -not been entered. The four steel cars, stacked one on top of the other, were so jammed together that they were little bigger than one car is normally. The wrecking trains were able to move the pyramid coaches only six feet all night. The double pileup of the two crack flyers produced a death list just short of that in the wreck of the congressional limited in Philadelphia last September when 80 persons lost their lives.

The southeastern seabord's worst previous rail wreck occurred at Rockmart, in 1926 when 20 were killed. The biggest wreck toll in the nation's railroad hitsory was 115 killed at Nashville, July 9. 1918. Workers toiled throughout the night and continued Friday in 12-degree weather to clear the tracks and remove the dead. Enough of (he mass of telescoped cars and twisted rails was expected to be moved Friday to permit resumption of normal traffic over the trunk A.C.L.

lines. Some civilian dead were still unidentified. Witnesses said a few victims were so dismembered it would be difficult to establish identify. Names of the soldier dead were withheld pending notification of kin. -A broken rail, A.C.L.

officials said, caused the first wreck the derailment of three coaches of the Florida-bound Tamiami west coast champion. Only one person, 1st Lt. Roy A. Griffin, a student chap-plain Harvard university, was killed in this wreck. This was at 2:10 a.

m. Five minutes later the northbound Tamiami East Coast champion ploughed into the derailed coaches of the first train. The disaster occurred on the coldest day of the winter, in 10-degrees weather, and it was two hours before some of the injured and dying could be tended. Magazine Publisher Wood, a passenger on the first train and eye-witness of the second wreck, said five cars of the northbound train "leaped the track and folded together like an accordion." "It was like a bad dream, filled with screams, and in the dark you couldn't see wbat had happened," he added. He told of an expectant mother, whose legs and thighs were badly mangled and who kept saying.

"1 won't lose my baby. God help me, I won't." "She had more spunk than I've ever seen in a woman before," he said. "Later a doctor came up and examined her and gave her a sedative and told her that her baby would be born. Thank she said." First arrivals at the scene told of the injured crying "shoot "kill me!" and beggtng for help and water. The trains were crowded with holiday travelers.

Scattered about the wreck scene were packages in Christmas wrappings, and broken Christmas toys. After the first derailment, some of the passengers built bonfires of newspapers to stop two southbound freight trains. They frantically endeavored by the same means to warn the northbound engineer, without succeeding. Yanks ALLIED ADVANCED HEAn QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec. 1 (UP) U.

S. sixth army vanguard opening an offensive to smash pan's "Little Pearl Harbor's, at baul, were reported officially be consolidating their Arawe beach head on the south coast of Ne-Britain despite vicious enemy, attacks. Though resistance by enem ground forces appeared to be co! lapsing on the southwestern end New Britain, the Japanese time ar again sent waves of planes again' American jungle troops, mostl Tcxans, fanning out from their ne beachhead some 250 miles south! west of RabauL an official report Gen. Douglas MacArthur's heaH quarters revealed. Allied fighters and anti-aircra guns successfully repelled each si attack, the renort said, but the raid were continuing.

An earlier communique froij MacArthur disclosed that the Amen lean invaders under Brig. Ge Julian W. Cunningham of San An tonlo, Texas, had seized the entirj Arawe "coastal section," while frorl report said the troops had capture the three-mile-long Arawe penirl aula and the island network off shore in the first five hours alnr (Washington sources said th whole Japanese defense positio in the Southwest Pacific appearei to be crumbling and asserted ths Rabaul already had been render" useless as a major operational basol forcing the Japanese to relv -oJ Truk, 800 miles to the north. How ever, a stiff camoaign appeared it store, since the Japanese were be lieved to have at least 40,000. troop there, Washington informants said Front reports indicated the Amerl leans were advancing at a stean rare through the shell-pockf palms on the southern approach? to the mountain backDone or tr Island, wining out isolated pneke' of resistance in their path.

Over head roared swarms of allied planr that bombed and strafed all exposed enemy positions. However, there had been no def nite word of the extent of th invaders' progress since aproxima they eight hours after the nr. landing, when the Americans wer said to be moving up the high palm-studded Amulet plant? tion ridge behind the Arawe pr ninsula and moving eastward to ward the jungle village of Umtin galu. The advance on tmtingalu a a march of vengeance, for lt wj, there that a Japanese gun crt.M killed nerhans 80 of 155 commai dos who attempted to paddle ashor in rubber boats in a diversionar raid nearly two hours before "tn main landings. The invasion, covered by a migb ty sea and air bombardment i which warships alone fired at leaf 315 tons of shells, "completely sur prised" the Japanese.

MacArthur communique said, and put the allie (Continued on Page 19, Col. Guerrillas Inflict Losses On Germans LONDON, Dec. 17. (JP)K spec a i Viair, inflirtnrt rv FRIDAY, DECEMBER Ships Enemy Loss To Undersea Crafi 524 WASHINGTON. Dec.

17. (UP) American submarines, back-stopping allied offensive operations in the Pacific by striking at the enemy's supply lines, have sunk eight more Japanese ships. The navy announced Friday that the latest bag by U. S. submarines included two large transports, two large tankers, three medium freighters and a small fregihter.

These sinkings raised to 524 the number of Japanese ships hit by our submarine so far in the war. This included 374 sunk, 36 probably sunk and 114 damaged. Secy, of Navy Frank Knox said recently there was definite evidence that the Japanese are growing desperately short of merchant tonnage and are being forced more and more to rely on barges for transport and supply. Text of navy communique No. 490: "Pacific and Far East: "1.

U. S. submarines have reported the sinking of eight enemy vessels in operations against the enemy in waters of these areas as follows: "Sunk: "Two large transports. "Two large tankers. "Three medium freighters.

"One small freighter. "2. These actions have rlbt been announced in any previous navy department communique." 2 U-BOATS DESTROYED IN SUBMRAINE PACK LONDON, Dec. 17. (UP) Two U-boats were destroyed by joint British air-sea assaults on a submarine pack which prevented a prospective attack on two westbound convoys in the North Atlantic recently, it was announced officially Friday.

A joint admiralty and air ministry communique said the U-boats were operating in the vicinity of the convoys. They were subjected to sucii relentless assaults by warships and coastal command planes that they were unable to launch even a single attack, it said. Palman Asks World Bank WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.

(P) Rep. Patman (D-Texas) has introduced a bill (HR 3854) calling for establishment of a gigantic world bank. The bill would approve creation of a United Nations bank for postwar reconstruction and development, with an authorized capital of 10 billion dollars. The United States would appropriate "such amounts as may be necessary to enable it to subscribe for such number of shares as may be apropriate. taking into account the national income and international trade of the nation and other relevant factors." The bank would be established by the United Nations and the nations associated with them.

Patman's bill provided that the bank be established and operated as suggested last month by Treasury Secy. Morgenlhau before the house banking and currency committee. Nazis Escape From Hood CAMP HOOD. Dec. 17.

(Officials hunted Friday for two German prisoners of war who fled from a work detail at North Camp Hood. Two others who made the break Thursday afternoon were captured soon afterward about a mile from the point where they escaped on the camp reservation. The North Camp Hood public relations officer said those at large spoke English fluently and identified them as Johann Wiickens and Leo Zuda, each 22 years old. He stated that "Zuda is thought to have relatives in Dallas and Corpus Christi with whom he has had correspondence. He is considered to be a dangerous man." Canteen Corps Austin women, often without the credit that should go to them lor it, have been doing a lot of fine work in the war effort.

Not the least of these good ladies are the ones who've served so faithfully in the Red Cross canteen corps. In addition to operating the lunch room at Red Cross headquarters, Ihey serve fliers that come in at the airport on brief stopovers. Then, too they are prepared to get food into any area of the county that might be struck with a disaster like a flood or a storm or even a bombing. Next week they'll be on hand to do a job that's going to make many a soldier who's on the train Christmas week glad that his route was through Austin. Beginning Monday night, Tuesday and Wednesday, or as long as the food lasts, they'll meet the trains that come into Austin with a bag of fruit, for the service men on them.

Ring leaders in the project will be Mrs. Everett G. Smith. Mrs. A.

W. Kinser, Mrs. J. D. Willard, Mrs.

Cecil Cabaniss, Mrs. Claude Wild, Mrs. Flo Joyce, Mrs. H. A.

Glass and Mrs. Walter Fisher. These ladies, as well as the 100 or more who'll help them distribute th 4.000 bags to train-riding service men, really deserve a big hand. More Names Some names of contributors to the cigarette fund we hadnjt gotten to before: Cntfe Hub. Jonn Swift.

Mfn' Bible rlm First Mthndist church nf Refugio, Msrvln Hall. Clud C. Wild. Helen W. Snd.

W. E. Long. Llewellyn Rose, Senior class Kyle. hiRh school of Kyle.

Jamie Plant. Mrs. Carl A. Hohhs, Kath-erine E. Macken, C.

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Col. 3) Mann's Action AffecisTwo Major Races By RAYMOND BROOKS Gerald Mann's surprise resignation as attorney general wiped off the books the prospect of the only major state political race next year that had developed so far, and did much to knock out a secondary race of importance. It appeared obvious that Mann's sudden retirement from state office now meant his withdrawal from state political affairs for the present. No other logical deduction could be made, in the light of his recent statements. Mr.

Mann, about a month ago, declared that if he continued In public office after this term one more year to go it would be only as governor of Texas. That predicated a rare against Gov. Coke Stevenson, whose purpose to seek a second elective term is well established. Later, Mr. Mann said lawyers had been urging him to make a race for associate justice of supreme court, and he left the implication he might consider that race.

But the springboard of any major political race is an active position in public office in some of the offices "on the road" to the major places. The attorney generalship always has been regarded as the take-off spot for governor, even more so than lieutenant governor. Only recently, a lieutenant governor has run for attorney general, giving up his first office fo make that race. Pan Moody, James V. Allred and numerous others have moved in from attorney general to governor.

Mann's retirement to private law practice meant he will have assumed obligations to clients, as well a staking himself out of the spotlight of public affairs. It is precisely the reverse of the course anyone would follow who planned to seek other public office, even in the judiciary. There remained, without any expression from Mr. Mann himself, one possibility that he may turn to another line of political effort. This is that he might make a race for congress from his home district, Dallas, against incumbent Cong.

Hatton Sumners. Whether such a race might be possible in the 1944 contest, or come on later, is matter of speculative interest only. With Mr. Mann in private life, no other outstanding contender for a possible race against Gov. Stevenson Is in sight now.

Lt. Gov. John Lee Smith already has declared that he himself would not oppose Gov. Stevenson for chief executive. Mann had indicated he in any case would retire from the attorney generalship next year.

That left open a race for this important legal office, which has a $10,000 annual salary. Judge Sellers, who had been serving as first assistant attorney general, was considered a probable contender along with various members of the state senate and two or three East Texas lawyers. The appointment of Judge Sellers as attorney general gave him a substantial advantage in the race. He hasn't had time to comment on future plans, but his appointment, and acceptance, were strong indications that he will be a candidate for a full elective term after filling out Mann's final year of this term. This may reduce the importance of the attorney general's race next year.

MANV HAS NO PLAN'S EXCEPT LAW PRACTICE MARSHALL. Dec. 17. (INS) Gerald Mann, who resigned as attorney general of Texas Thursday afternoon, had no plans Friday except to return to Dallas to re-engage in the private practice of law. Reached at Marshall soon after his resignation was announced he said he had no political plans to announce and when asked regarding possible military service replied: "When Uncle Sam calls, 111 answer 'Here'." He said he would remain in the office of attorney general until his successor qualifies.

in a raid on mat port inursaay. The German radio announcement was the first disclosure that Bremen was the target of Thursday Fortress raid. The nazis admitted "heavy destruction" in the big port city, which previously had been pounded six times by the American heavies and more than 100 times by the RAF. The great armada that struck at Berlin Thursday night fought through thick cloud formations that blanketed northwestern Germany, but Pathfinder planes that preceded Big Bombers Blast Enemy Along Alps ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. ALGIERS, Dec.

17. iff) French troops, entering the war on the European mainland for the first time since 1940, have scored outstanding successes against the Germans in mountain fighting in central Italy, it was announced Friday. The French have been in forward positions alongside British and American soldiers for some time, but their presence was not disclosed until Friday's communique from allied headquarters. They are the same troops which fought alongside the allies in Tunisia, but since then have been completely re-equipped with American uniforms, guns and materials. Soon after moving up to the bat-tlcfront the French participated in a series of local attacks, capturing several Important German hilltop positions and taking a number of prisoners, who expressed surprise at finding the French in action.

Striking at enemy communication lines through the Alps for the second consecutive day, allied heavy bombers blasted railway yards Thursday at Padua in northeastern Italy. Thr far-rnn2inC bombers, which smashed enemy rail junctions two days ago on both sides of the Brenner Pass and enemy airports near Athens the day before, also pounded a rail bridge and tunnel at Dog-na, Italy. Thursday on the rail line leading northeast from Venice to Vienna. Padua itself is only 18 miles west of Venice on the secondary German supply route to he Italian battleground. This rail link to Germany leads through northeastern Italy and across the Austrian border to Vil-lach where one branch turns northwestward to Munich and the other sweeps on to Vienna.

Except for one major attack on a junction immediately outside Venice, this route has been comparatively free from bombings. Padua also is the Junction point for a rail line leading south from the Brenner Pass. This Brenner spur connects at Padua with the main east-west line across Italy, Aground. New Zealand troops with the Eighth army on the east-em section of the battlefront carried out a successful attack, headquarters said in its daily communique. Eighth army forces also beat off two determined German counter-attacks, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.

The Fifth army captured more important hills and repulsed an enemy counter-attack west of Venafro. Fierce hand-to-hand fighting was reported in the San Pietro area. In the Adriatic, British destroyers sank one small enemy vessel in night actions this week. A tug also may have been sunk, a naval communique said, and a lighter was damaged. Allied light aircraft continued attacks over a wide area Thursday.

Their targets included German positions, motor transport and communication points on both the Fifth and Eighth army fronts and shipping off both coasts of Italy. A number of ships were hit. The harbor at Civitavecchia on the west coast of Italy above Rome again was bombed, hits being scored on ships and warehouses. Light bombers ranged across the Adriatic in support of Yugoslav partisan forces both Thursday and the day before, making attacks on German communications in the Si- I benik and Dubrovnik areas. policy, the committee labeled private enterprise as "the surest and soundest choice" for developing the world's oil resources.

At the same time, it requested that the government "take those steps to discourage the efforts of the nationals of the United States to maintain effective and serviceable oil industry in foreign coun- i tries. countless old irienas was 10 noia a quick conference with his congressional leaders and inform them that he will not be able to report directly to congress on his trip until he delivers his annual state of the union message in early January. The president did indicate, however, to the congressional leaders that he would devote some of his Christmas Eve address to a discussion of his conferences. As Mr. Roosevelt stepped from his automobile under the south portico of the White House he was given a tumultous welcome by leaders of both parties in congress, cabinet members and agency heads Mr.

Roosevelt looked extremely fit after his long journey. He wore a rumpled gray suit and a loud plaid shirt. Watching the photographers as he got out of his car, he said: "I would have dressed for the occasion if I had known about this." Mrs. Roosevelt, her daughter. Mrs.

John Boettiger, and three grandchildren, Sistie. Buzzie and little Johnny, met the president at the point of his arrival in Washington and rode with him to the White House. The first person to greet the president at the White House was his secretary. Grace Tully. The presi-(Continued on Page 19, Col.

7) No Action Due On Tax Bill This Year WASHINGTON. Dec. 17. WP Senate leaders all but slapped a don't-open-until-Ncw Year's label Friday on the new $2,284,000,000 tax bill. The hasty final blessing given the measure by the senate finance committee Thursday apparently came too1 late to permit its enactment by Christmas.

Majority Leader Barkley anticipates a congressional recess from the middle of next week until about Jan. 4, precluding early action on the bill. Finance Chmn. George (D-Ga) said legislative draftsmen could not possibly whip the measure and its accompanying report into final shape before Monday or Tuesday, and indicated he would agree to postponement if special legislation could be worked out to cover an anticipated freeze in the social security tax rate. First Plane Has White Anniversary MANTEO, N.

Dec. 17. iff) Kill Devil Hill, virtually isolated from the rest of the world, proceeded nevertheless Friday with celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first airplane flight, even though on a sharply reduced scale. The worst snowstorm in this section in 26 years blanketed the highway from Elizabeth City to the outer banks and the island' six-foot snow drift, making bus and automobile transportation all but possible. Only a single telegraph line connected Kill Devil Hill with the outside world, and up to Thursday afternoon even that didn't exist.

The hill was the scene of the history-making flight in 1903. Bus Drivers Out In Tennessee Strike ATLANTA. Dec. 17. A strike of drivers and maintenance men caused suspension Thursday of all service by the Southeastern Grevhound bus lines on routes south of Nashville and Chattanooga.

Tenn. W. E. Arington. regional manager in Atlanta, said the "strike apparently is soreading." as he disclosed that 700 drivers and maintenance men had walked out.

The line emDlovs aDDroximately 2,5001 drivers and maintenance men on its 10.000 miles of routes. Prank Suspends School for Day LODI, N. Dec. 17. 'UP) Students received an unauthorized holidav because Patrolman John Clause, taking the word of a boy he met on the street that classes were suspended for a day, ordered the town siren to sound the "no school today" signal.

An "unfortunate "incident." said school i John Brady. Legal Figure. Dies at 74 John Brady, 74, once one of Texas' most brilliant legal figures, died Friday at 7:45 a. m. at Seton hospital after a long illness.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 9:30 a. m. at St. Austins church with the Rev. John Overend.

C.S.P., officiating. Rosary services will be held Friday at 8 p. m. at the Cook Funeral home. Burial will be at Mt.

Calvary. As an assistant attorney general. Brady led the prosecution of the Waters-Pierce Oil company for violation of the state anti-trust law, a suit which resulted in what was at that time the largest judgment ever awarded the state approximately $1,800,000. Brady later was associate justice of the third court of civil appeals at His trial for murder in connection with the stabbing of an Austin stenographer brought him a sentence when the case was moved from Austin to Dallas on change of venue, and Brady served part of a three-year sentence. Since his return to Austin, he had engaged in law research.

He was recognized widely -as one of the outstanding men in that field. Survivors are Mrs. Brady and two sisters, Mrs. Fred Wilder of Los Angeles arid Mas. Helen Brady White of El Paso.

Husband oi 3 Signs in Draft KANSAS CITY, Dec. 17. (UP) Thomas Robertson, who marked his 18th birthday Thursday by hearing a praying jury find him guilty on two counts of bigamy, registered Fridav for selective service from his cell at the Wyandotte county jail. Saturday he will return to the district court of Judge Harvey J. Emerson for a hearing on a motion for a new trial.

If that is denied, he will be sentenced. It has been a busy week for the slightly built, Philadelphia-born Robertson, a youth who learned to sing in church choirs and went on from there to croon through with love" to win three brides. He listened in court while the first two wives said they were through with him. that they had filed suits for divorce. The third wife, Mrs.

Nina Robertson, 17. said she would wait for him. And Robertson Thursday testified anew as to his love for Mina, the wife who could dance. But it was the second wife, Mrs. Lucille Miller Robertson, who wept when the iur returned its verdict.

Mrs. Mina merely chewed her fingernails and stared straight ahead-. Before the jury of eight men and four women began deliberations. Robert V. Crum offered a brief praver for guidance "to help us arrive at a just decision." After eight or nine ballots, the jury agreed on the verdict 4 I OFFICER CARRIES CARFARE IN EARS KANSAS CITY.

Dec. Passengers on a street car stared when an army officer, with his companion, entered with a wintry blast, tipped his head to one side, then the other, and extracted a carfare token from each ear. Depositing the fares, he drew on his gloves. morning and temperatures near 60 by Saturday afternoon. The intense cold, gripping most of the nation, was slowly moderating, though the southeastern states still experienced unusually low temperatures Friday.

Texas was coming out of a freeze dating back to the norther arrival Wednesday. Brownsville, which was the sole point not frozen Thursday morning, had 46-degree weather Friday. It was 37 at Corpus Christi and 32 at Galveston. Wichita Falls reported 18. Amarillo and Fredericksburg 21.

Abilene 23. Palestine 24. Fort Worth and San Antonio 25. Waco 27. Laredo 29, Del Rio 30, EI Paso 31.

Soviets Get Upper Hand West of Kiev Bv HENRY C. CASSinV MOSCOW, Dec. 17. (P Grn. Nikolai Vatutin's first Ukraine army appeared to have firmly established the upper hand west of Kiev Friday after more than five weeks of desperate fighting against heavy German Infantry and tank attacks.

Russian counterattacks dislodged the enemy from several settlements in the Teterev river sector 55 miles west of the Ukraine capital for the second successive day Thursday. Russian communique said, enabling Vatutin's columns to "resume their drive northwest of Radomysl. Nazi Marshal Fritz von Mann-stcin's hold on that important stronghold, lying between the Ko-rosten-Kiev and Khitomir-Kiev main highways, is now seriously threatened by the Russian gains, dispatches from the front indicated. Meanwhile Gen. Ivan S.

Konev's second I'kraine army, 200 miles to the south, pressed Its attack below raptured Cherasky toward the rail Junction of Smela and repulsed fierce German counterattacks launched from the partly-encircled industrial city of Kirovograd. 65 miles southwest of Kremenrhug. In these twin drives on Smela and Kirovograd. in which red army airmen participated by blasting the Smela railway station and blowing up an enemy train and other transport, Soviet troops killed 900 Germans, captured a number of villages and picked up considerable stores of abandoned war material, the Russian war bulletin said. (The German radio, admitting strong Russian counter-drives west of Kiev, announced at the same time that at least three Soviet offensives were now under way in White Russia, one south of Nevel, a second west of Krichev in the Mogilev area and the third southwest of Zhlobin.

Berlin said heavy fighting was taking place on all three fronts, but that the Russians have failed to achieve material gains.) Churchill Reported Improved LONDON, Dec. 17. (INS) Prime Minister Winston Churchill, battling against his second attack of pneumonia in 10 months, continued to improve Friday under the care of top-flight British army specialists somewhere in the Middle East An official bulletin reported tersely that the premier's "improvement in general condition has been maintained." It added: "There has been no spread in the pneumonia," indicating that the battle to hold the disease in check is being won by the premier's physicians. Henderson Airport's Completion Assured HENDERSON. Dee.

17. (UP) Congress included $200,000 in a deficiency bill for the completion of Henderson's airport. Rep. Lind-ley Beckworth wired local officials Friday. The action followed recommendation from the civil aeronautical administration that the airport, half completed when war conditions halted work, be finished.

Containing more than 500 the airport includes three feet runways. acres. 4.000 Army Air Cadets Killed at Pampa PAMPA. Dec. 17.

(INS) Aviation Cadets Donald Merton Farnam and Harrell Weslev Hulett were fatally injured Thursday night when their twin-engine advanced trainer crashed shortly after the takeoff. Farnam, 23. was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G.

Farnam of Fra-zce, Minn. Hulett, 21, was the son of Mrs. Pearl Daniels of El Cajon, Cabf. IHLLUrtT UClCBi. lion unit the latest German "annihilation offensive against Yugoslav guern'f las, a special war bulletin from thf headquarters of Marshal Josip Brer (Tito) said Friday.

jL- The broadcast victory commim que said that nazi and satellite forces everywhere had suffered de 5 feats, and that thenemy had bee thrown into retreat in numerou sectors. jt Nazi forces which achieved om bre -through into liberated tern tory and then embarked on a cam; paian of burning and looting arcj- expending men and tanks ly in an effort to break the rising tide of Tito's fiercely-fighting guer" rill a forces, the bulletin continued Tito's announcement of the sues--, cesses of his forces came after the regular daily gave first details of the nazi set4 t. Cairo reports had indicated previously that Tito's forces, aided Texas Sun Gradually Takes Arctic Tang From Norther allied aerial blows, are engaging -are pinning down as many Ger' man divisions as are being tied by allied armies in the Italia campaign on the other side of th- Adriatic. These specific successes wer'2 listed in Tito's war bulletin: Complete defeat of enemy force with heavy losses in Rogatita: large nazi column partly destroyed and thrown into retreat in Croatia an enemy defeat "which will cor.j siderably influence his further op erations'' in western BosmR, am heavy German losses in a battl still raging in the Livno-Duvnf Private Control of Foreign Oil Recommended to PAW A mass of artic air that wandered south is being "Texanized," the weatherman said Friday, explaining the gradual breakup of a sharp norther that still had temperatures down to 28 Friday morning. In other words, the visitor is just naturally losing its cold nature the longer it stays and by Saturday afternoon it should be a beaming, friendly 60-degree Texan, Hoye S.

Dunham, weather bureau chief, promised. His forecast was for fair weather i with moderate daytime tempera- tures through Saturday; a low I reading near 32 degrees Saturday WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. (INS) The foreign operations committee of the petroleum administration for war recommended Friday that American private industry alone should control developments of this nation's foreign oil resources in the post-war era. In a report to PAW Admr.

Ickes. on a proposed American foreign oil sector; two German columns del feated and supplies captured nea Znebovi and Kogatica in eastor Bosnia; German evacuation of Kb danj in central Bosnia, and the rV struction of nazi supply and cam: munication lines in many sectors Yugoslavia..