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COOI (MORNING! ALREADY the Clty'i proposed pur-chaw of El Paso Electric Company'! power yslcm for $13,900,000. ii the subject of heated discussion. Let'f try to withhold judgment until facts In Ihe ca.se ire presented. There are a number of tilings which 1 Pasoani would mm 15. PEH COPT mm THE WEATnEK.

Fl Pj and Vicinity Slifhlly Mslrr and otcaMunal rains Friday. Nr MmIco. SHihllr hifhrr flrnril Irmprratlirra wfot and north Friday l.iltle chang, In (rmprralnre Friday rva nine, fttatlrrrrl Htiowrr and thundtr-Kirms writ and outh porliuni, line to know. 63rd YEAR No. 267' EL PASO, TEXAS.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1943 18 PAGES Full Lriwd Wire Report ef Th Annclatfd Pre (API The United Prrm (UPI International Nrwi Sfrvlre Central Presa mm mm mm if POLTAVA FALLS $15,900,000 Coast Guard Rescues Whales This Marauder Can Take It Utility Buy Up To Voters October 9 El Paso's qualified voters will go to the polls Oct. 9 to decide whether the City shall JwJl 'Huns Put Torch To Great Harbor To Foil Enemy Yanks And British Arrive i In Sight Of Blazing Citv I Allied Headquarters in North Africa, Sept. 23 (AP). German torch and dynamite crews demolished the Naples waterfront, scuttled 30 ships to block the harbor and wrecked industrial and rail centers in the great Italian metropolis in apparent preparation for evacuation as Allied armies lunged tonight within sight and sound of the wholesale destruction. I The battle for Corsica was in its final stage, French troops and African Rangers closed in on Bastia.

northeast issue revenue bonds for purchase of properties of El Paso Electric Company. The mayor and City Coun Red Lunge Sweeps Over Old Border London, Sept. 23 (AP). Russian forces were reported tonight to have swept into White Russia in lie Gomel region less than 150 miles from the Polish border as Marshal Joseph Stalin announced the fall of Poltava, hist major German ba.se above the Dnieper River bond. Thus, for the firsltinie since the early d.iys of the German invasion.

Red Army troops were iiihtum in the Soviet binder republic which Killer's legions first overran in their drive toward Moscow. Aside from the center thrust at Gomel, Russian troops were menacing Kiev, Ukraine capital, which is 145 miles from the old Polish border, and had overrun Vclizh at the edge of the upper White Russian border and only 115 miles from cil, after a week of negotiating with Donald Barnes, representative of the Engineers Public Service Company of New York, parent company, Thursday, set the date for the special election. Council will pass on a resolution calling for the election at a meeting at 9 a. m. Friday.

The council also will approve formally a sales contract giving the City possession of the properties on Dec. 1, provided purchase is approved by the voters. AGREE TO PAY $15,900,000 Only change in the contract late Thursday was a reduction of I II ii aVMuMWi Hi. na.i'i i i "i port or the island, and Allied navies and air forces clamped the Salerno area, 20 to 40 miles ion blockade, cutting off, south of Naples, was pried loose rinniv.n r. i Ml SI a vivii.

lien, i uiiauu, itiiiu luiucu iiiiiinu. ine American Poland. A Moscow radio broadcast told of the push toward Gomel, important rail center midway between QECOND LT. ROSS H. BVK of Hemdon, inspects damage' to the rudder of a B-26 Marauder at a bomber base somewhere in England.

The ship, "Idiot's Delight II," got that way during a mission over Germany. 000 from the previously agreed rOAST Guardsmen from the Kitty Hawk Beach, N. station, using ropes tied to the tail of this young whale, which with 10 others was stranded on the beach, get a little diversion from war duties by rescuing the mamals. However, this fellow resisted, snapping the rope with a mighty thrash of his tail. Later he was towed to water deep enough to permit him to swim away.

Smolensk anr' Kiev. The Dnieper price of $16,000,000, which was obtained by the City at last minute negotiations after it developed that rronru commander in cluer predicted that all Germans on the i island would be ousted or killed in "from 10 to 15 days." Advances of from 10 to 15 miles in central and southern Italy put 'great chunks, of land behind the Istr.iinlitenint; Allied lines. i The whole German left flank in I fifth and British Eighth Armies were advancing and forcing Marshal Albert Kesselring to draw grudgingly back on the interior approaches to flaming Naples. Ginosa, Avigliano and Acerno fell. i The British radio said Auletta (Continued on page 3, column 5.) the City would not be required to pay some tax items which previous ly had been included in the price.

Also, the reduction includes all expenses of closing the deal, which the Engineer's Public Service Company has agreed to pay. War Bond Sales Now $7,824,386 Marshall Mystery-Remains Unsolved Complete agreement on the pur chase of the utility has been reached with the exception of a few minor details which are not in dispute but require further clarification. They concern the settle El Pasoans Urged To Sell Useless Articles And Invest Money In Government Securities War Bond sales Thursday had reached a total of ment of Income tax payments in connection with a 10-year lease Yank Bombs Blast Nasi U-Boat Base London. Friday, Sept. 21 (AP).

A greal concentration of British bombers made a pulverizing assault against Hitler's west wall defenses between Dunkerquc and Calais early today while another strong: force roared out for a new and deeper assault within the continent. Great explosions shook the English coast 20 miles away. The roar of heavy bombers as they went out in. a long procession over Dover Straits continued more than an hour. River in that sector lies only 15 miles beyond.

The Suviet station quoted the Russian newspaper CITY FALLS AFTER HARD FIGHT Marshal Stalin's order of ihe day. addressed to the Kharkov army of Gen. Ivan S. Konev, said Poltava had fallen after "three days of fierce fighting." and termed the city a "powerful German center of resistance on the lett bank of the tVorskla) River." The capture of that, bastion gave the Russians possession of nearly the entire 280-mile length of the Lozovaya-Kiev railway paralleling the Dniper. The Germans hold only a small end directly east of Kiev.

Between Kiev and Poltava, however, other Russian armies had swung southward toward the middle Dnieper and were less than 15 miles from Cherkasi, rail key to the extensive network inside the Dnieper bend. A plunge across the Dnieper into Cherkasi would imperil huge Axis forces inside the bend on the eastern side of the river far to the east, and in the Crimea. Poltava, whose loss was conceded (Continued On Page 11. Col. 1) of the Martin Building, El Paso Electric Company headquarters.

386.25 in the Third War Loan drive in El Paso County. The lease was filed Thursday in the County clerk's office. War Secretary Refuses Comment On Status Of General As To Chief Of Staff Position Washington, Sept. 23 (INS). The veil of mystery remained tonight over the future of Army Chief of Staff George C.

Marshall. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson declined to comment today at his weekly news conference when questioned wheth- The building belongs to W. M. There have been 14,363 subscribers to date, Forrest M.

Smith, County War Finance chairman, said. The quota for El Paso County is $10,080,200. Jeep and Army tank rides will be given free to bond purchasers Friday afternoon and all Banner and heirs of the late M. D. Roberts, with whom the lease is made.

The leased quarters in the Martin Building include the space known day Saturday at San Jacinto Park PICKING DELAYED Marshall would be relieved of his chief of staff post if as the model kitchen on the main WHEELER FIGHTS floor, the basement, all office rooms on the second and third floors, (Continued on Page 3, Col. 1) Soaking Rain Helps Ranges In Wide Area London. Sept. 23 (UP). U.

S. Flying Fortresses struck four smashing blows at Nazi U-boat and air bases in western France today including a surprise double raid on Nantes-while smoke and flames still billowed over the great German Industrial city of Hannover, hit by one of the RAF's-mightiest night assaults of the war. Returning to the attack after a week-long lull imposed by the city at tlle rnte of more than b( tons a minute, a destructive av- weathcr. hundreds of RAF bombers nt TWO PAIR YEAR Favoritism To Beat Draft Is Charged Shoe Coupon Validity Date A slow, soaking rainfall that will delay cotton picking in the Valley Lire Fairyland Will Be Seen Here Tomorrow for several days, but will be of far iiiunuiu ill ICC ord 2300-ton attack on Hamburg last July 24. It was the 47th raid of the war on Hannover and the first since July 26 (Continued on Page 3, Col.

5) dropped an estimated 2000 tons of blockbusters and incendiaries on Hannover in a furious 30-minute raid Wednesday night. The raiders heaped their bombs Will Be Cut reaching value to stockmen, late gardens and lawns, fell in the El Paso area night and all Persons buying a $25 bond, or over, will be entitled to a free jeep ride, and those purchasing a $100 bond, or more, may ride in an Army tank free. Citizens ure urged to sell articles they no longer need for money to invest in War Bonds. L. J.

Reynolds of El Paso Electric Company first suggested this plan to Mr. Smith and other bond officials. SELL USELESS ITEMS IN HOME "By selling some household article or strategic metal that you do not need you Will not only be helping to bring the war loan drive to a close, but also will help the war effort by supplying those articles or metals where they can be of real use," Mr. Smith said. It has been suggested by bond officials that residents advertise the merchandise they wish to sell over the radio or through the classified pages of the newspaper, if they have not already a buyer.

Articles such as irons, refrigerators, ice-boxes, stoves, typewriters, radios and other articles, which can no longer be purchased new, were (Continued on Pace 13, Col. 8) Washington, Sept. 23 (INS). The day Thursday. El Paso rainfall between WedneS' Office of Price Administration to day midnight and 5 p.

m. Thursday was recorded by the U. S. Weather and when he becomes world commander of Anglo-American armed forces. left the While House the answer to the question which has been a principal topic of conversation in Washington for the past week.

Similarly Stimson refused to shed light on reports that the hero of Corregidor Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur is to be subordinated in the Pacific theater to Lord Louis Mountbatten, new Allied commander in south Asia. SECRETARY REFUSES COMMENT The Secretary of War confined his remarks regarding MacArthur to the statement he knew of no plans to recall the general from his Southwest Pacific command. But he evaded questions relating to Mac-Arthur's recent statement implying American strategists are relegating him to a minor spot in the war in the Pacific. Stimson said "no comment" when asked whether General Marshall will get any other post.

"Do you think General Marshall is doing the most good in his present job?" Stimson was asked. "In general," came the reply, "we don't put a general wheie we think he is not of the greatest possible use." He added: "I don't wish to comment on any individual case, but (Continued on Page 11, Cool. 4) Washington, Sept. 23 AP). Charges that some war plant officials made foremen of their sons to keep them out of the Army were placed before the Senate Military Committee today by Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.) as he fought against increasing odds to head of the drafting of fathers.

Wheeler interrupted his cross-examination of Bernard M. Baruch, War Mobilization adviser, to introduce several critical letters from labor organizations shortly after the counsel for a House sub-committee asserted 300,000 non-fathers' of draft age are working for the government. The statement brought Congres Bureau at .51 of an inch. Official rainfall reading at the airport was .75 of an inch. Highest temperature for the day was 63, lowest 60.

More rainfall, with contimnxi cool weather, was forecast for Friday. 40 Japanese Planes Shot Down In Bailie Willi U. S. Pilots Allied Headquarters In The Southwest Pacific, Friday, Sept. 24 (AP).

Australians who landed from the sea six miles north of Finschhafen, New Guinea, Wedneslay, reached the airdrome only two miles north of the base and have placed the coastal town under artillery fire. Allied Headquarters In The Southwest Pacific, Friday, Sept. 24 (AP). Forty Japanese planes have been downed over Finschhafen, New Guinea, enemy base now threatened Two high school bands and three military bands will furnish music for the Mother Goose Flag Day parade which will be held at 10:30 a. m.

Saturday in the downtown business section in connection with the Third War Loan Drive. Bands from B'l Paso and Austin High Schools and three bands from the surrounding Army camps will march in the parade. The Three Billy Gout Gruffs will be enacted by three young girls from White School in the parade. The rainfall was general between Phoenix on the west and the Guadalupe Mountains on the east The sional demands for broad Investi- One of the boys from White School tion of manpower, but Speaker Ravburn (D-Texas) told re will lead his own live pet goat with by troop landings to the north and Allied holdings to the his school unit. Milly iSowers.

porters he did not believe Con Transportation System Faces AlWnt Strike soumwest. todays communique reported. The envelopment of Finschhafen, within easy over-water striking distance of still more im- portant enemy holdings on Now I dressed as a clown, will ride his donkey. A band of gypsies, the Queen of Hearts, and other storybook characters will accompany the group. A Pan-American theme will be (Continued on Page 3.

Col. 2) Britain, has proceeded so swiftlv New Air Stab night increased the severity of shoe rationing, announcing that the validity period for the next shoe coupon probably will be six instead of four months. Beginning with stamp number one on the airplane sheet in Book Three, shoe rationing thus would be at a rate of two pairs a year, but consumers may be allowed more shoes than this if the present shortage is overcome, OPA said. Although shoe rationing has not been instituted on a yearly basis, the present rate of one pair a person approximately every four months means about three pairs of shoes a year for each consumer. The new airplane shoe stamp will become valid November 1 and while the exact date for expiration has not been determined the present supply picture indicates that stamp "probably will have to last six months," the agency asserted.

LATER RULING WILL BE ANNOUNCED A definite expiration date will be announced later on the basis of production, consumer purchases, and dealers inventories. Stamp 18, the currently used shoe coupon in War Ration Book No. 2. will not expire Oct. 31 as originally scheduled, OPA asserted, but will be extended indefinitely overlapping the next shoe stamp.

This change was decided upon, the Price Administration said, to permit full use of all shoe stamps by permitting families to plan purchases over a longer period and to eliminiate last minute rushes on (Continued on Page 11, Col. 4) tliat already artillery is pounding that base. Australian troops landed abov Finschhafen- Wednesday from the MANUS ISLANDS sea. Other forces have stood be (Continued on Pace 13, Col. 5) W.

II. Atherton Is Elected Legion Chief Omaha, Sept. 23 (APL Warren H. Atherton, Stockton, Calif, lawyer, who advocates a universal service act, was elected commander of the American Legion at its national convention today. Atherton, 51, a native of San Francisco, had served the Legion as department commander of California, national executive committeeman, and up to the time of his election as national commander was national defense chairman of the Legion.

Atherton was the only candidate placed in nomination fur the national enmmnndership and he was elected unanimously. Mexican Wages Ordered Frozen For Duration Los Angeles, Sept. 23 (INS). President Roosevelt's appointment of a special panel to study wage adjustments for Pacific Electric Railway employes showed signs tonight of having averted a strike set for 2 a. m.

tomorrow. gress would block the father draft, set for October. Wheeler produced a letter he attributed to a United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers Union in Flint, which said the sons of superintendents and other officials of one automobile plant now converted to war contracts had been made foremen "for the sole purpose of enabling them to evade being inducted into the Armed Service." Appearing before the Senate for the second day, Baruch feiterated his plea that the Army get all the manpower it requests, while spectators applauded his remarks. Under cross-examination by Senator Wheeler, Baruch told the com- (Continued On Pago 11, Col. 3) hjftVewak twecn it and Lae since they landed Sept.

4 to spring the pincers which resulted in I.ae's capture Sept. 16. Today headquarters announced that at least 6300 Japanese were slain in the Lae-Salamaua sector New Tax Legislation Will Be Considered Washington, Sept. 23 (INS), The House Ways and Means Committee arranged today for a special meeting tomorrow to fix a time for the start of public hearings on a hill in further boosting taxes. and that final estimates may place adang the figure much liishor.

Lac, an air base, S.ilamaua. an Meanwhile Rep. Robert Dough Kaiapit ton il). -N. C).

chairman of the! air and sea base, together with committee, described as "pretty Finschhafen bound the Kimn Gulf. j-ij-' Finschhafen Los Angeles, Sept. 23 (INS). It appeared virtually certain tonight that a strike tying up the vast Pacific Electric Interurban transit system would go into effect at 2 a. m.

Friday. As the strike deadline approached no action had been taken by government officials in Washington or bv the union in Los Angeles to sleep a proposal attributed to the Treasury to hike the present 20 periFirSt Lady RetUmS Mexico City, Sept. 23 (UP). President Manuel Avila Camacho tonight signed an unprecedented decree freezing wages throughout the republic for the duration. The decree grants wage increases of from five to 50 per cent to workers now making less than 10 pesos S2) per day before the freezing order becomes effective Oct.

1. All salaries above 10 pesos per day will be automatically frozen on that date. 25,000 Mile Trip cent withholding lax to AP. San Francisco. Sept.

Looking rather tired after her News From War Fronts avert the walkout. 23.000-milc trip to and about the South Pacific and Australia, Mrs. F.ler.nor Roosevelt told a press conference today she was glad to be home, adding don't think I ever worked as hard in my life." Guliof MORESByATMX Coral Sea Ab New York, Sept. 23 fAP). The seat of the "new Republican Fascist nor Roosevelt landed on each of them during her month-long tour of the Pacific war zone, she re El Pasoans Asked To Donate Games To Italian Prisoners She arrived from Honolulu by i plane today, just five weeks and (two days after leaving the country The strike will involve and prob-ably paralyze one of the two major transportation systems of the Los Angeles area.

The Pacific Electric operates rail and bus lines that link approximately 100 communities of the greater Los Angeles area. Thousands of war workers are dependent upon the system for transportation tit and from their jobs. In addition, the system transports large quantities of war government" set up under the prc-Imiership of Benito Mussolini is to I be established temporarily in I southern Germany because of war 'hazards in Italian territory, the. 9m Rationing At A Glance MEATS, CHEESE Book 2. Red stamps and pood through Oct 2: brown stamp A in book 3 good through Oct.

2. Brown stamp valid through Oct. 20. RATIONEIT COMMODITIES PROCESSED FOODS Book 2, blue stamp. U.

V. W. valid through Oct. 20. SUGAR Boo 1.

stamp 14 valid fur 5 pounds through October; ttamps'lS and 16 worth pounds each for home canning. SHOES Book Etamp IS good through Oct 31. GASOLINE Gasoline coupons must be endorsed immediately upon on the longest mid hardest of her vealed on her return here tonight. Guudacntial was bombed for the two nights preceding Mrs. Roosevelt's arrival there and Jap bombers raided another, unnamed.

Pacific island the night before she 0 IOQ STatuu mutts; many journeys. GUINEA other day." Mr. Harwell said, "and in the course of the discussion with the Farm Labor Commission said that one of the prime requisites of efficient work from war prisoners Is ample recreational facilities; that his experience was that where the men were given the utmost possible' liberties and were enjoying themselves, they responded with their Convicts Volunteer To Sub For Fathers McAlester. Okla Sept. 23 AP -Fighters.

the Oklahoma State freight. Berlin radio said tonight. On The Swiss-Italian Frontier, Sept. 23 (AP). Rome was betrayed; into German hands almost without' I a fight by "general unwilling to I resist and traitorous high a Milan dispatch to the newspaper London, Sept.

23 (VP). Axis re. ports said today that Allied forces Itulian war prisoners In the Southwest Livestock Exposition Building and Coliseum have excellent food, good quarters and fine treatment on the part of the Army, but no recreational facilities, Roland Harwell Said Thursday. Mr. Harwell has been appointed as middle-man between the Farm Labor Commission and the Army, and his chief concern is that the prisoners have some acUvity beside cotton-picking.

"Col. Louis A. Leadbctter, commanding officer of the prisoners camp at Lord.sburg, visited here the ARROW locates Kala- pif, where Australian troops landed bj American transport planes, have seized a foothold north of captured Lae, New Guinea. American bombers blasted (symbol) both Madang and Wewak, enemy bases. I.ihrra Stampa at Lugano said to night.

Living Cost Continues To Show General Rise New York, Sept. 23 (AP). It cost 4 8 per cent more to live last month than it did in August. 1942, and 19.5 per cent more than in January. 1941, the National Industrial Conference Board Mid today.

best efforts in whatever field of activity they might be." Accordingly, the commission ar had been repulsed in an attempted Penitentiary's band of war-minded landing on the Dalmatian roast at prisoners, orfered today to fight in Zara, an Adriatic port 95 miles place of pre-I'earl Harbor fathers, south of Flume. Deferment of fathers until accept- (able convicts have been taken was Washington, Sept. 23 (UP) The urged by the organization in letters Aigpiiline government has piumul- tu draft officials. Congressmen and (t (inlinued on Tag II, Col. 3) ulalc clemency authorities.

receipt Coupons A -8. gooa ror three gallons, now valid. and coupons expire according to date on individual book. Transport TT" coupons for commercial users gixjd until Sept. 30.

I San Francisco, Sept. 23 'UP). i Japanese, planes bombed two Allied ioutpobts the day before Mrs. Klea- ranged with Mayor J. E.

Anderson Ito fill the pool in Washington Park, (Continued on Page Col. Z).