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If' -m I Li Pass the Guns Help our fighting Yanks pass the ammunition. Your bonds buy guns and bullets to keep the allies on the offensive. Back the attack with your dollars. Buy bonds every payday. Volume SO 3 SECTIONS 36 PAGES AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1943 Number 118 teers Crush Stettinius Is Appointed Top Allies Crack Finschhafen Defense lackland 0) fi ote duo ryev pener, 65-6 Aid for Hull Crowley Named Head Of Economic Program, Lehman for Relief Job By WELDON HART Amprics-n-SUU'sman Sports Editor The Blackland AAF Eagles were too big to run over, so the Texas Longhorns ran around them at Memorial stadium Saturday for an inaugural football victory surprising only in its magnitude 65-6.

Some 9,000 slightly sprinkled citizens saw D. X. Bible's young- sters get 10 touchdowns at the ex Shaw Wonders if Humanity Shouldn't Completely Vanish Bayonet Point Battle Rages Across River Japs' Planes Trying or Heavier Dut oiaer ana Thomas Released; pense odds of if-. LONDON, Sept. 25.

(UP) George Bernard Shaw believes Germany may necessarily disappear as a nation after her defeat, but wonders whether the whole human race would not be more sensible if it vanished from the surface of the globe. Shaw, still bright, active and witty as ever despite his 87 years and the shock of his wife's death a few days before, posed for pictures and answered questions readily on the fate of the world and whether any good could be expected from the hu-marf" race. The first question was whether he believed the World War ultimately would produce lasting good for the world. Shaw replied: "Until a war has produced its final results, no one can tell whether if has been worthwhile or not. Wars always are wasteful, cruel, mischievous, destruc- SHAW tive, demoralizing and detestable to every human instinct.

G. B. WASHINGTON. Sept. 25.

(UP) Pres Roosevelt acted decisively Saturday night to streamline the state department into a hard-hitting, tightly integrated agency and to bring into a single unit all agencies having economic dealings with other countries. The president appointed Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius, to undersecretary state and named Leo. T. Crowley to head new agency controlling this nation's far flung and vast foreign STETTINIUS relief and economic enterprise.

At the same time Mr. Roosevelt appointed Former Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York, heretofore director of the office of foreign relief and rehabilitation, as his assistant to complete plans for the United Nations relief conference starting Nov. 9.

He made it clear that this country will nominate Lehman to beirector of the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration. Blames Wife's Health triple-barreled announcement climaxed a period of controversy over state department administrativ organization and foreign policy which started early in August when It was rumored that Unc'er Secy, of State Sumner Welles would resign. Welles subsequently did resign, but Mr. Roosevelt did not announce his departure until Saturday night. He said the 51-year-old Welles, his Groton-Harvard friend of other days, was leaving his post after 28 years in diplomacy Decause or rus wife's health.

Stresses Economic Side In naming Stettinius, a man of big-business background, to a post second in importance only to Secy, State Cordell Hull's in the formulation of this country's foreign policy, the president. appeared to be emphasizing the economic aspect of international operations to come. Artinff the frnmewnrlc of policy established by St-ttinius will irntinnow nn i. oM si Japanese Navy Horns as Allied In South Pacific 1 Allies' Toll At Corsica of Germans Increasing Smolensk Falls To Smashing Soviet Drive Reds Tackling Job Of Dnieper Crossing At Several Points LONDON, (Sunday) Sept. 26 (UP) Red army assault troops bat- tied the Germans Sunday in the suburbs of Kiev, Russia's third largest city from which nazi detachments already were reported in flight, while the battle of the Dnieper river raged along a 300-mile front after Soviet forces had captured Smolensk.

The Russians were consolidating their positions at Smolensk, until Saturday Germany's greatest Eastern front bastion, whose fall was announced in a triumphant order of the day issued by Premier Marshal Josef Stalin. Smolensk Fight Fierce Moscow described the action in which Smolensk was liberated Saturday night after several days of heavy fighting. Soviet troops finally broke into the northern outskirts Saturday and fierce street fighting ensued. Driving the Germans back block by block, the Russians gained control of the whole northern part of the city in. a few hours and finished the conquest after dark.

The Soviet command's midnight communique announced that at least 4,100 of the enemy had been killed in the last 24 hours, including 1.000 in the successful battle for Brovari, 10 miles east of Kiev. Fifty-nine German tanks and armored cars either were knocked out or captured and 60 planes were captured in the fighting on the Smolensk-Roslavl front Go Into Power Cities South of Kiev, Soviet forces bludgeoned their way into the suburbs of the power cities of Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhe, where successful crossings of the swift-running, wide Dnieper appeared imminent. North of Kiev, between the Ukraine capital and Smolensk, Gen. (Continued on page 12, col. 4) U.S.

Planes Hit French Air Field LONDON. Sept. 25. (UP) Marauder medium bombers cf the eighth United States air force attacked the Longeuenesse air field at St Omer in North France Saturday, the third day of an intense offensive against nazi bases in Western Europe. A joint communique of the U.

S. army and the British air ministry said all planes returned safely. German coastal artillery in France shelled the Dover area at intervals during the morning. A German communique said allied nuisance raiders dropped some bombs in Northwest Germany during the night British Beaufighters attacked a large German convoy off the Dutch coast torpedoing a medium-sized merchantman and raking the escort with cannon and machine gun fire. Two Beaufighters were missing.

Aviation Cadet Dies Of Plane Collision Burns GREENVILLE, Sept. 25. (INS) A-C Raymond C. Kennedy, son of Mrs. Mary E.

Kennedy of Madison, died Saturday in Majors army airfield hospital, of burns received when two planes collided Thursday. Lt Raymond D. Wyngarden of Miami, pilot of the other plane was injured, but was reported at the hospital as improving. Houston Bank Clearings Set All-Time Record HOUSTON. Sept.

record for Houston bank debits and clearings was set for the week ending Wednesdav, Allen TCincr manjmr ho Wnnctrm Clearing House association. nounced Saturdav. Bank debits totaled $141,082,563. and clearings were 5125.718.241. (The Moroccan broadcast, reported to the OWI in New York, quoted the Yugoslav communique and said heavy fighting was in progress around Gorizia and Ljubliana.

The nazis were said to have used tanks in an attack at Ljubliana without succeeding in breaking the patriots lines. (The communique alro reported that German attempts to land forces on the islands of Sipanj and Ml.iet in the Adriatic had been re pciled and one German troopship and a supply vessel were sunk by the juerriliasJ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific-Sept. 26. (AP) The Japanese navy has pulled opposition. It was not a of Texas' merit when the speed and condition are even.

Third Stringers Play The first string, playing a bit more than half the game, scored six touchdowns, the second team one in part of a quarter and the third string three in the last period. It's a tipoff to note that Texas scored 45 points in the last half, after Jake Schuehle's winded hefties had given their all. Big Eagle linemen made a game of it for the first few minutes, looking as if they might manhandle the youthful Steers rather severely. They had a momentary thrill, and showed their only burst of speed, in the second quarter when Jack Russell took a pass off a would-be interceptor's fingers' and completed a 76-yard scoring play with a 50-yard gallop on which he ran away from Max Munn, one of the fleeter U.T. operatives.

That made the score 14-6. and it (Continued on page 9, col. 1) Downey Expects Not Many Dads To Reach Front Senator Says Nazis To Flop in 4 Months Unless Surprise Rises WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. Forecasting the collapse of Germany within four months.

Sen. Downey (D-Calif.) predicted Saturday that many of the married men scheduled for induction this fall never will see combat. He saw one possible exception development by Hitler's ordnance experts of some new anti-aircraft weapon to thwart the allies' aerial blasting of the reich. Declaring enormous damage already has been dealt Germany's munitions works, refineries and synthetic rubber plants, Downey maintained it is a cold mathematical fact that Berlin and other nazi cities could be leveled by our bombers. Meanwhile, in the face of apparently insuperable opposition, Sen.

Wheeler (D-Mont.) prepared for a last-ditch fight in the senate next week for his bill to defer the induction of pre-war fathers for the remainder of 1943. The debate will start Tuesday, only two days before the Oct. 1 deadline set by, the war manpower I commission for beginning the general draft of married men with children. Opponents expect to send the bill back to committee by Thursday. Slow Rain Helps Austin Gardens A slow rain falling gently on the Austin area Saturday afternoon and night yielded a total of nearly half an inch.

It made football-going messy and uncomfortable 'and played havoc with freshly-done curls and new fall clothes of college girls. But growers of fall gardens were optimistically expecting early crops of turnips, onions and carrots. They felt the slowness of the downfall had enabled the earth to soak up most of the moisture. The weather bureau reported that the rain was general over the Central Texas area. No more rain is predicted by the weatherman Sunday.

Wills Point Man Killed In Car-Bus Collision TERRELL, Sept. 25 Reynolds 52. of Wills Point, was killed early Saturday 15 miles west of Terrell on highway 80 when the car he was driving east and a Sunshine Trailways bus were in collision. Sweat When He Get Him to East port, which he had planned to pick I up in d.Muiifcum. Army and navy planes are not available for civilian use.

except when they are wrapped in red tape. Nevertheless, Dobie managed to get priority on a Braniff plane leaving for Washington at 7:15 a. m. Sunday. This took many hours, and be of a of a during recent weeks of the allied offensive in New Guinea and the Solomons.

Enemy warships, which once dominated the area, have be "Yet was is not always avoidable. Often it effects social changes which occur only under its terrible pressure." "The war 1914-1918 made an end of four empires which might have endured for four centuries more aV peace. Whether it was worth the bloodshed and devastation which it cost depends on whether the new republics make their citizens better than the old empire did. "Eut if they do, if still remains true that it would have been wiser to make the changes reasonably rather than violently." Asked whether he felt Germany was destined to disappear as a nation after her defeat, he replied: "Perhaps. Perhaps also the human race ought to disappear as a species.

But as there is no likelihood of their doing anything so sensible, the question is an idle one." Berlin Claims Planned Retreat On Russian Front German Radio's First Use of Word 'Retreat' Believed Significant By TnitfH Prfsn The Berlin radio denied Satur day night, without saying who had so asserted that "the German army on, the Eastern front has been decisively beaten and is in a state of dissolution, as the allies believe." "The German retreat is not a real retreat," the nazi broadcaster said. "German resistance is very strong. It is carried out according to plan." It was noted that the nazis had resorted to the word "retreat." Previously, they had been soothing their followers with such obscure terminology as "shortening the line" and "taking up better positions." Reasons Cited Conceding that "at first sight it is impossible to understand why the German general staff carries out large scale evacuations just at the moment when the rainy season is imminent," the commentator went on: "It is obvious that the German divisions would have been strong enough to maintain their positions for some days or weeks until the rainy season sets in, barring a further Russian advance. "But the aim of the general staff is to prevent the situation this winter from developing as it did during the first two Russian winter camoaiEns." I Winter Program Devised He said the general staff devised plans for this year's winter line as soon as the scope of the Russian summer offensive became apparent, and the aim of the German troops movement now is to attain this line before the rains set in. "It is true," the broadcaster said, "that the winter line in the southern part of the front seems to have been chosen very far from the positions held by the German.

army last spring." But the aim of the high com- in) iae Vi -i tK and secure good1 commumcaUonM lines i The new line there was ng hint Of Where it Was be more lavoraDie Tor tne uerman army than were the lines during the last two winter campaigns," the radio said. I were repulsed with 300 Germans killed and two tanks destroyed. I On Writ Of Habeas Corpus Texas Supreme Court Hearing on Contempt Case Set for Oct. 20 Found guilty of contempt of court by Judge J. Harris Gardner in 53rd district court Saturday afternoon.

J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers (C.I.O.) was released from Travis county Jail Saturday night on a writ of habeas corpus granted by Texas Supreme Court Justice James P. Alexander. Saturday afternoon Thomas was dent to jail and fined $100 and costs hv Judee Gardner in connection I with a charge of violating a court I restraining order banning inomas from soliciting memberships for 1he oil workers union Thursday night during an address to the workers at Folly. Leaves For Dallas Earlier Saturday evening a hear ing for Thomas had been sei tor Sunday morning, but Justice Alexander reversed his stand a little later and granted the writ.

Justice Alexander said the hearing in Thomas' case had been set down for Oct. 20. Thomas was released from the county jail at 8:10 p. m. on $1,000 bond.

Thomas planned to leave here Saturday night for Dallas where he intended to catch a plane Sunday morning for Washington in time for a conference with Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. army chief of efaff Mnnflav.

Application for the writ of habeas corpus was made by Atty. Goodman Vf Detroit Judge Gardner first ordered Thomas committed to custody of the (Continued on page coi, 6) Bodies Taken From Mine Trap POTTSVILLE. Sept. 25. CUP) Rescue workers late Satur-Viy recovered the last of 14 bodies rapped in a 1.000-feet-deep tunnel the Moffett Schraeder anthracite nAVPrimrnsf Three of bodies were dismembered be-Vath thousands of tons of rock iid slate.

Identification of the bodies was l-iot complete, company omciais Mid. -rv, -r trannM in an fTtplosion of mine gas i naay on If '-e fifth level of the mine, about and a half miles from the entrance, survivors saia me was followed by a of debris and a roaring sheet flame which sent nine men to hospital with severe burns, last bodies were removed fW state miners officials cleared tunnels of black damp, a deadly gas, and supervised new goring to support tunnel roofs and i'lls weakened by the blast (UP) tigat- the crash of a navy training tyne in the Gulf of Mexico near oarlv Ihis week from which 1 me men were reported missing and was known dead. 'i'lissine include: Bruce M. Rey tie niMatinn nrrfnanrpman 3-r. L3; Sandy, Texas; Wayne G.

O'Neal, ation ordnanceman, 3-c, ttill- Texas. SD. Urges, Extra Bond purchase To Build Ships VASHINGTON. Sept. zs.ips Roosevelt appealed Saturday every American to purcnase an Ixtra war bond Monday in oo- trvance of victory fleet day and us become "a builder of ships.

bobe Gets Into Plane Space To J. Frank Dobie was dropping Olina to see irn'nos rnudv, say- he thought he'd be pulling out England right shortly, but some news reached him Satur-iy morning and for a while he asn't so sure he'd be pulling out shortly or net Saturday morning notified that if he wanted to go to -igland as guest professor at Cam-idee university, he'd have to be New York by Tuesday noon, ot e. Dobie didn't even have his pass- fVo Texans Missing In Hash of Navy Trainer I EY WEST. Fla Sept. 25.

II To Break Up Attack Are Chased Away ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, (Sunday) Sept. 26. (UP) Allied troops cracked the Japanese defense line before Finschhafen and drove southward across the Bumi river toward the strategic enemy base at the eastern tip of the Huon peninsula in New Guinea, it was announced Sunday. A communique indicated that Australian forces met stiff opposition as they fought, sometimes at bayonet points, to within 1,000 yards of the town last Thursday. Japanese planes also tried to break the attack but were driven off by allied fighter planes supporting the ground operation.

Japs Jettison Bombs Nine enemy bombers, accompanied by 30 fighter planes, tried to attack th 2 allied troops but were forced to jettison their bombs harmlessly before reaching tne target. One Japanese fighter was shot down and another probably destroyed and two allied fighters were lost in the air battle. An allied spokesman said the Bumi river crossing was affected "somewhat inland." It was believed that the stream had been forded. Enemy resistance was expected to be tougher as the Aussies approached the town and Langemak bay to the south. Heavily Outnumbered The force of American P-38 Lightnings that fought oft the Japanese planes was heavily outnumbered.

The air battle Friday afternoon marked one of the few times that Lightnings had not shot down more enemy planes than they lost in this theater. The invading force had landed (Continued on page 8, col 1) Pulls in Its Offensive Steps Up (Sunday), in its horns MacArthur May Get Higher Job Army-Navy Journal Hints Better Position WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. (UP) The army and n8vy journal declared Saturday night that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's successes in the Southwest Pacific, despite great difficulties, justify his appointment to a more important command in a uni fied campaign against Japan lnis attitude, expressed editori- ally in a publication widely and respectfully read in the armed services, focused new attention on de mands from some quarters that MacArthur be appointed command-er-in- chief of all allied forces fighting Japan.

Mass In Burma One of MacArthur's chief supporters for the top command is, Sen. A. B. Chandler (D-Ky). who recently conferred with the general in the Southwest Pacific.

Chandler, a member of the senate military affairs committee, has said he will urge amalgamation of all Pacific and Asiatic theaters under MacArthur. Allied forces under Lord Louis Mounlbatten, meanwhile, are massing for the officially promised invasion of Burma, expected before next spring. See Offensive Soon Preliminary offensive however, probably will be undertaken before the end at this year, it was believed. Mountbatten's push from India, some observers predicted, will be coordinated with a series of powerful allied blows in the Pacific designed to force the Japanese to scatter their strength. Rabaul.

key Japanese base on New Britain island in the Southwest Pacific, would be an early allied objective. MacArthur forces in the Central Solomons and New Guinea are now preparing the way for such a drive. 6 Killed in Plane Crash AVON PARK. Sept. 25 ijfl Six members of the crew of an army bomber were killed in a crash at the Avon Park bombing range Friday night, officers announced Saturday.

Germans Work On New Set Of Peace Rumors LONDON, Sept. 25. (IF) While the breath of military disaster blew cold upon their necks in Russia Saturday, the Germans went to work on another propaganda campaign featuring peace rumors from many quarters. Highlighting the nazi-inspired web of rumor was the report from neutral Spain that the satellite Rumanians had sent representatives to Turkey to negotiate an armistice with the allies. Try To Frighten Allies The main purpose of the weekend campaign appeared to be to frighten the allies into the belief that some sort of nazi peace with Soviet Russia was possible.

A report that Germany itself was throwing out peace feelers ''in every direction" was brought to London by a traveler from the Mediterranean area. The London Daily Express, under the heading "Goebbels starts new peace lie," reported that the Germans had begun to whisper in the Balkans that they were withdrawing from Russia by agreement with the Soviet government. Called Fantasy Having withdrawn to a short line between Russia and Poland so ran this German story Hitler would be in favorable position to talk peace with Premier Stalin and draw 2,000,000 men out of the east to confront the allies in the west and south. This was described here as ''sheer fantasy." There was not a single bit of information suggesting the existence of any genuine German peace proposal to anybody. Deny Hungarian Change In the Balkans, where the fighting Yugoslavs have opened a major military campaign against the Germans, Hitler was playing a less obvious game.

There the nazis abetted the circulation of the Rumanian peace rumor, in an apparent effort to cover up the steadily worsening situation in Hungary. The German radio elaborately denied rumors that changes shortly would be made in the Hungarian government as the result of an increasingly strong and aggressive democratic movement U. S. and British Troops Smash Way to Plains Growing Toll Taken Of Troops Trying To Get Out of Corsica ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. Sept 25 American and British ground forces have smashed their way to the mountain tops guarding the smoke-filled plain ot Naples, announced Saturday, as allied airmen took a growing toll of German troops attempting to flee by plane from Corsica to Italy.

The American fifth army pressed its onslaught day and night against the strong German mountain defense line. The total of nazi prisoners taken since Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's forces landed at Salerno rose to well over 2,000.

Allied Going Slow The going was slow for the allied attackers, who sweated tip steep hillsides with mules carrying guns and ammunition where neither trucks nor tanks could travel. But the soldiers who toiled on, rooting out German strongholds as they went, had the satisfaction of looking down from the mountain tops Saturday on low country where the enemy will lose the defensive advantages he now possesses. Nineteen big Junkers-52 transport planes carrying German personnel from Corsica to the mainland were shot down Friday by allied fighter squadrons, which had downed at least seven such craft the previous day. At least a dozen more of the heavily-laden transports were damaged in the past two days as RAF Beaufighters kept up a vigilant patrol over the route between Corsica and the mainland. French Troops Four In A French communique said increasing numbers of French troops had landed on Corsica and were cooperating with the patriots and Americans in exerting heavy pressure on the entrapped Germans.

(Continued on page 8, col. 3) U. French Sign Aid Pact ALGIERS. Sept. 25 (UP) The United States and the French committee of national liberation Saturday signed a lend-lease agreement formalizing the arrangement whereby America now gives the French war materials and receives in return such services and the use of facilities as are available in Northwest Africa.

The pact, aim of which as described as permitting a maximum mutual aid between the two countries without being hampered by immediate financial considerations, was signed by Robert Murphy, for the United States, and Rene Mas-sigli and Jean Monnet, foreign affairs and armament commissioners respectively for the French committee. A similar agreement is to be concluded in the near future be- tween Britain and the Algiers committee, it was stated unofficially. come so scarce 'that no mention of the sinking of any of them has been made in the communiques of Gen. Douglas MacArthur since Aug. 7.

During September bomb hits have been reported on two Japanese destroyers but both were well back of protecting bases in New Guinea and New Britain. This! contrasts sharply with the numer- ous naval engagements during the first-month of the twin-pronged i American and Australian drive which started last June 30. Stick to Bases American warships and airplanes sank five or six enemy cruisers and 13 or 14 destroyers during July at cost of one cruiser and two destroyers. During the first week of August another Nipponese cruiser and two destroyers were sent to the bottom. Since then the enemy units apparently have remained in the safety of bases removed from the battle zone.

In recent weeks the Japanese have resorted almost entirely to the use of barges to move supplies and reinforcements instead of cargo ships convoyed by warcraft Sink Barges by Hundreds Hundreds of these barges have been destroyed by allied planes and naval boats. More than 200 have been sunk or damaged so far this month. Although the Nipponese have been conserving their sea power they still are risking their aircraft in large numbers. Heavy reinforcements have been brought into the northern Solomons and central New Guinea to replace losses, which allied headquarters set as 584 for August alone. Almost 350 more have been destroyed during September.

Fails to Find on Time Dobie is "in for it" when he gets to Cambridge in at least one respect. He found out. he said, that he would have to wear an academic gown to eat in every evening, with the students and the "dons' over there. He apparently had started training for this ordeal Saturday, for he showed up downtown in a busi German Attacks on Yugoslav Guerrilla Posts Near Split Repulsed With Heavy Nazi Losses LONDON, Sept. 25.

(INS) in the town of Susak. across the Yugoslav underground sources re- rivr 1t0 the vital port of Fiume. vealed Saturday that German at- I he radio station. Patriot forces near tacks on guerrilla positions near Jdna. a town across the border in the Adriatic port of Split on the) Italy which was captured by the Dalmatian coast have been repuLsed I Jrictay- were said to have thrown German tank column into with heavy losses to the nazis.

a rmjt The sction. announced by the; (Radio Maroc at Rabat was heard "Free Yugoslav" radio, centered in by U. S. government monitors re-the area where the Germans had I porting that powerful German tank claimed Friday that they captured forces attempted to break through a seaport near Split. the Yugoslav lines near Split and "Paneho" didn't know definitely ness suit, as compared to his ac-whether the trip was on or off until customed garb of rough clothing, 4 p.

m. Saturday. cowboy boots and anch-style hat. He will crass the Atlantic in a He even had a necktie on. But navy plane.

it was on crooked. Violent street fighting between the Yugoslav! and German forces.