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E.P. Livestock Building To House War Prisoners THE WEATBfER. GOOD MORNING! ALFRED P. SLOAN prfdict a five-year induitrial boom after the war following a feW months' "pause for adjustment." That Is encouraging, Mr. Sloan and other executives of large corporations make It their business to know what to expect.

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1943 14 PAGES Full Leased Wire Report of The Associated Press API The United Preaa (UP International News Service Central Press law i wm nn stth fo) lj lj i i i I i i A TO WORK FARMS U. S. Sub Finishes Off Jap Ship City Doomed Living Cost Cut, First Since 1941, Recorded Bv U.S. ByU, As Russian Drive Gains War Prisoner Camp In EP Is Approved The Southwestern Livestock Exposition Building and grounds were approved 1 Axis Massing Fleet To Remove Last Defenders Naples Harbor Bombarded; Allies Knife Elna Lines Wednesday for a 1000-man Italian war prisoner camp by London, Aug. 11 (AP).

Russian troops fanning out west of Kharkov struck suddenly southward today and slashed one of the last German escape railways from the important Ukraine center in a broad, wheeling movement apparently aimed at the Dnieper River bend to trap the large German forces in the Donets Basin. Cutting the Kharkov-Poltava Railway at Vodyanaya, 40 miles west of Major C. L. Whitmarsh, repre senting Col. L.

A. Ledbetter, commanding officer of the Lordsburg War Prisoner Camp This will mean more cotton pick Allied Headquarters In North Africa, Aug. 11 (AP). British and American attacks, knifing through both coastal Reduction Benefits City Dwellers, Labor Chief Says Washington, Aug. 11 (AP).

Propelled by a two per cent drop In food prices, the cost of living for city dwellers went down this summer in the "first substantial decline" since Pearl Harbor, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins said today. The Office of Price Administration cut-back of meat prices and seasonally cheaper fresh vegetables combined to bring the cost of city living down 0.8 per cent from mid-June to mid-July, Miss Perkins said, despite slight rises in clothing prices and other items. ers for El Paso County. Final approval must come from I i tr I the War Department. "We hope to have final approval MiaiKov, tne Kussians thus the escape gap from Kharkov to about 60 miles in the south, Moscow announced in a special communique.

(Pressing relentlessly into the suburban villages of Kharkov from three sides, the Soviets penetrated by the end of next week," Roland Harwell, manager of El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1, flanks, put the heart of German bitter-end resistance at Randazzo in Sicily under increasing pressure today. While British naval units in a foray up the coast of Italy raked targets at the edge of the Bay of Naples, British Tommies of the 50th Northumbrian Division fought their way through the town of Guardia, seven miles north of Acireale on the east coast and advanced to within a short distance south of Riposlo. and W. S.

Foster, county agricul tural agent, said. I iilzjzz wri to a town 7Vj miles northeast of the El Paso County Farm Labor Com. Under the formula used, retail miUee will meet Friday to consider llie vanguard of the British snia increased and indications of highth Army thus drew up to line: the gathering of the evacuation directly of Mount F.tna's sum-1 fleet multiplied signs which mit and gained its fir.t glimpse i caused the Allied air forces, favored food represents two-thirds of the total cost of living; "Until this summer, the rise in living costs had been almost uninterrupted since Germany in executing a formal contract with the Army. "Major Whitmarsh appeared highly pleased with the setup at the livestock building and said he would report favorably on it" both Mr. ol Italy shoreline after battling by moonlight nights, to hurl great fOXCERT TONIGHT Record Crowd Due To Hear Mexican Band us way irom fcgypt.

Hipo.sto is nine miles south of Tanrmina. an Axis er fleets than ever into making any Sicilian Dunkerque a costly vaded Poland," Secretary Perkins city, said the Russian bulletin as recorded by the Federal Communications Commission. (Other towns captured brounht the Russians also to 20 miles on the east, 30 mi Irs to the west and 22 miles to the southeast. Kharkov appeared doomed because the city of 800,000 had no natural defenses to protect the defending Germans.) But the winding Dnieper River, the Germans' Inst important defense line in Russia, was only 83 miles to the south In this area. From here the Russians might crash down be endeavor.

But Allied spokesmen warned against expecting anything but a measured advance. LXJi evacuation base, and less than 30 miles from Italy. The American Seventh Army was reported to have made gains in the buttle for Cape Orlando, 40 miles from Messina, after firmly establishing itself on the bridgehead won by sea-borne infantrymen two said. The only previous monthly drop of the war was a small de-line from May to June this year. MEAT CUT SUBSTANTIAL Substantial In the prices of niost meat resulted from Harwell and Mr.

Foster said. FAVORABLE CONTRACT SEEN AS POSSIBILITY "We are convinced the matter will reach a favorable conclusion Mr. Harwell and tifi; Foster said they discussed with Major Whitmarsh the possibility of establishing The battle for Randazzo, north of Mount Etna, grew in intensity in A musical treat is in store for fact, as tne stubborn enemy bur residents of 1 Paso and Juarez at rowed into the ruins of that central sector key point. Mrently deter the OPA's July reduction of price maximums, the Secretary said. hind the Germans in the Donets Basin by a drive to the Sea of Azov, days ago.

This landing was at the mouth of the Rosmarino River, I oJ 8:30 p. m. Thursday when the Infantry Band of Mexico will appear on the Pan-American Starlit Sym a 500-man war prisoner camp at Fabens. They said Major Whit- three miles cast of San Agata. mined to make it a Sicilian Verdun.

American troops threw themselves across mountain rivers in the far (The German communique said They included an 8te per cent drop for beef and veal, eight per cent for pork and four per cent for lamb, Prices of chicken unaffected by phony program in Austin High School Stadium. marsh replied, "If adequate facilities are available, 1 see no reason why such a camp should not be put up at German forces there were adopt-; of raking artillery fire and with ing a mobile defense). their British and Canadian allies The enemy's small boat traffic 'charged to within about six miles the OPA cut-back were down A record crowd is expected for THESE pictures, taken through the "periscope of a V. S. submarine, graphically tell the story of the finish of a Japanese freighter about a mile off a Pacific island.

(Top), the freighter is in the sub's sights; (center) the torpedo finds the mark, shattering the ship with a terrific explosion, and (below) the ship settles rapidly. fractionally. Fabens." Requests on file disclose that op. he "Pan American Night" program, Vegetable prices as a group is an "extra" on the summer proximately 3000 outside pickers forcing the enemy to withdraw or be trapped. RUSSIANS SWEEPING ASIDE NAZI DEFENSES But the Russians, driving along a 500-mile front, were sweeping aside Nazi defenses in other areas.

West of Kharkov they drove into the important town of Akhtirka, which is 42 miles south of Sumy, another key objective of the Russian drive. In this area, 65 miles west of Kharkov the Russians advanced up to 12 miles and captured while lower for this year re concert series. mained about 40 per cent above across tne narrow Strait of Mes-1 (Continued on I'age 2, Column 3) FDR, Churchill 1942. Professor Melquiades Campos, conductor and composer, will direct the 80-piece band. His composition, "Polanaise," will be played during The price of spinach rose 42 per cent, with a scarcity in some cities, bu.

other vegetables showed price the program. Other selections by Mexican composers also are on the declines. Set Quebec Parley "Aside from spinach and fresh program. would be needed to harvest the 1943 long and short staple crop, Mr. Foster said.

The Farm Labor Committee called on County Judge M. Scarborough and Mayor J. E. Anderson who agreed to give the building. The building, if finally accepted by the Government, is to become a camp after Sept 6, the date the Herald-Post Kids' Rodeo and Police Range Hands Rodeo will be over.

Cotton picking should start earl in September. 50 populated places including eight other large towns. fish," Secretary Perkins said, "the only important price inareases among foods were seasonal ad Juarez and El Paso civic leaders met Professor Campos and the band Wednesday when they ar vances of five per cent for eggs, a Farther north, Soviet columns reached to within 40 miles of Bryansk by capturing Alexeycvka and 70 other populated places in a general advance of more than six greater than seasonal increase of ten per cent for oranges and smaller advances for dried fruits Quebec, Aug. 11 (AP). President Roosevelt will meet Prime Minister Winston Churchill here, Canadian officials announced Wednesday night, to draft their blueprints for continuing the onslaught of Allied arms against the Axis.

It was disclosed at a press conference that the ban imposed by American censorship on revealing the site for the conference had been removed. Production Budget May Reach Billion Administration Expected To Ask Congress For Financing Of Increased Food Program Washington, Aug. 11 (AP). The Administration may ask Congress for at least a billion dollars when it returns from recess in September to finance the 1944 war food program a program which is expected to set production goals considerably above this year's prospective record output. Associates of Food Administrator Marvin Jones said tentative recommendations miles.

and vegetables and some WHITE SCHEDULED July clothing prices were about 0.5 per cent above June. Miscellaneous goods and services rose 0.2 The Moscow special communique, recorded by the Soviet monitor, also said that on all fronts yesterday 85 German tanks were wrecked and 85 The date will be divulged later. were being made for the Roosevelt- As in the past, the parleys will German planes brought down. per cent, with medical expenses, beauty and barber shop and laundry services "somewhat higher than rived in Juarez by train from Mexico City. Ernesto Robles, assistant to Professor Campos, lived in El Paso as a boy.

He attended Aoy School and later was stationed with the old 12th Cavalry at Fort Bliss under Gen. G. K. Brown. He has been with the Infantry Band for 20 years.

"I have many happy memories cf El Paso," said Mr. Robles. The band has been sent to El Paso for the special concert through the courtesy of Consul General Haul Michel, Ezequiel Padilla, Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, (Continued on Col 6) take place in an atmosphere of ut Churchill meeting in Quebec.) V. S. CHIEFS OF STAFF ALSO GOING TO QUEBEC German dispatches described the immensity of the fighting as "un in June.

surpassed" and "never before wit NOT FOR PUBLICATION' nessed on the eastern front." They told of a drive from Vyazma American chiefs of staff will come here to confer with the British chiefs of staff whom funds were being prepared for sub FLIER INJURED to within 21 miles of Smolensk by masses of Russian tanks and infan Ghattin Slated Churchill brought along from Eng mission to the lawmakers. Congress City Lawyer's Post Vacated By Cameron By H. WORTH JONES. 'City Attorney Frank B. Cameron will resign this month, or as early as City Council names his successor, it was learned Wednesday.

Assistant County Attorney Travis White has been chosen to succeed him, it was said. AH" parties concerned in the land when he arrived in Quebec would be asked to grant the Com modity Credit Corporation author Pilot Identified Tuesday. Since then, Churchill and ity to borrow the necessary funds most secrecy, to be climaxed by joint press conference at which the two United Nations leaders will disclose whatever they can of the decisions reached. The full significance of the forthcoming meeting, the fifth between the two principals since Pearl Harbor, obviously will not become known until it is translated into action against the enemy. (News came from Moscow that Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin had received both the American and British ambassadors Wednesday, with Soviet Foreign Commissi-Molotov present.

The Moscow announcement came as preparations! from the Reconstruction Jinance ToHoltlAirport Post Until 1944 Prime Minister MacKenzie King of Canada, and the British, and Canadian staff chiefs have been in conferences forming a significant Corporation. fiasolinc Fuel Oil The money would be used largely introduction to the Anglo-American talks which will follow. to support farm prices at levels designed to encourage farmers to produce to the limit of their resources. try moving in from a broud front between Yartsevo, 21 miles northeast, and Kirov, 108 miles southwest of Smolensk which is 230 miles southwest of Moscow in the Napoleonic Corridor of retreat The Russians made no mention of this fighting in their bulletin, but the Germans said it "equals in fierceness the Soviet onslaught against Kharkov." The Russians wheeling southward around Kharkov still had a good distance to go to equal the high-water mark of their winter drive from Stalingrad last winter. Churchill and MacKenzie King The city has tentatively agreed Because production costs have ad Stocks spent three hours today at a joint session of the British war cabinet to allow Richard Chattin to continue as manager of the Municipal Drop municipal legal shakeup have attempted to keep the change quiet Mr.

White's present superior, vanced somewhat and ongress has eliminated AAA benetit payments (Continued on pace 'i, colmun 1) Airport until Dec. 31, it was learned, County Attorney Ernest Guinn, also In Plane Crash Near Airport An Army Air Force P-38 plane crashed and burned south of El Paso Municipal Airport Wednesday, injuring the pilot, who was the lone occupant of the craft according to the Biggs Field Public Relations Office. The pilot was identified as LI. John F. Shackelford, of Kilgore, Texas.

It was reported that the craft faltered immediately after the has been "quiet about the matter' New York, Aug. 11 (AP). The American Petroleum Institute reported today that all supplies of Nazi Raid On Britain Follows while he sought another chief as sistant The shortage of young lawyers has made it difficult for Mr. Guinn RAF Bombing Of Nuernberg gasoline and light and heavy fuel oils decreased in the week ended Aug. 7.

to find another assistant. He asked city officials to keep the naming of his assistant as city attorney as Wednesday. Alderman Henry Wooldridge said that "it's a matter that should not be in the papers." However it was learned that Mr. Chattin, who has held the Municipal Airport contract for several years, would remain in charge of the field until Dec. 31, and would pay the city $500 monthly for his priviledges and utility costs.

Mr. Chattin has the contract to service planes of the Army Ferry Command. His contract with the Ferry Command dies not expire until Dec. 31. Council has agreed Mexican Ace Drops Bombs 'For Benilo' Light fuel oils decreased 19,000 Oarrels to 36,344,000 while heavy lei oils were off 163,000 to 000.

for 1944, it may be necessary, food officials said, to raise the support prices on some commodities to assure farmers a sufficient return. The increased support prices may in 'some cases, they said, be out of line with price ceilings established by the Office of Price Administration. Where such was the case, the officials continued, it would be necessary for the CCC to buy the affected crop or commodity and resell to distributors and processors at prices in line with the ceilings. Such resale operations would involve losses. The losses would be borne by the billion dollar fund now under consideration.

Officials emphasized, however, that losses would be far less than a billion dollars. They explained that a large fund would be neces-(Contlnued on pace 2, column 2) a secret until he could find a successor for Mr. White. Mr. Cameron became city attorney last fall when former City Attorney Ted Andress joined the Total domestic gasoline produc tion declined 1,609,000 barrels to against 74,977,000 last week and 79,559,000 last year.

Armed Forces. He is now a Navy take-off, crashed into the bondocks south of the airport and burst into flames. Lieutenant Shackelford, according to Biggs Field officials, managed to extricate himself from the wreckage and walked away from the scene, but had suffered severe burns. He was taken to Biggs Field Station Hospital. London.

Aug. 12 (Thursday) (AP). British bombers spilled 1500 tons of explosives mi the Nazi shrine city of Nuernberg Tuesday night, and Berlin, radio abruptly quit the air just after midnight Wednesday to indicate that the RAF was hammering Germany for the third straight night. German planes dropped bombs on a southwestern English coastal district early Thursday. These re- taliatory stabs have grown infre-The latest, or second stage of the quent during the simmer as the campaign to knock the Nazis out of Axis air force lias been put more the war actually began two nights and more on the defensive.

(ago in the heavy attack on Mann- The blasting of Nuernberg dis- heim-Ludwigshafcn, he said, closed a switch in Allied strategy, This was the sixth raid on Nuern-aimed at destroying Germany's fin-: berg and much the heaviest it has ished products centers as distinct 'undergone. The city is 525 miles from her already devastated basic I from Britain. Mexico City, Aug. 11 (APt Mexico's ace goodwill flier, Lt. Col.

Antonio Cardenas Rodriguez, returning from a special mission to the Mediterranean war zone to officer. Mr. Cameron is resigning the city attorney's post, which pays $325 that because of Mr. Chattin's knowledge in handling the airport and Rationing At A Glance monthly, because of pressing private night, said that with consent of! Ferry Command demands, and in view of his investment that he President A Vila Camacho he the craft was described as a business. He wants to leave his municipal post not later than this month.

1 should continue control at the field Ferry Command plane that v. passing through EI Paso. Mr. White, although not in good dropped several bombs over Italy marked "this goes for Mexico. Greetings to Benito." The bombs were signed "Mexico." Cardenas, who arrived on the Mon health, is regarded as an expert on municipal, county and legal matters.

until expiration of his Army contract AIRPORT CONTRACT EPIRES SUNDAY Mr. Chattin's contract as man The lengthening range of the Convinced that the long, heavy i aerial offensive pointed up the blows in the Ruhr and the Rhine- H. Ht Freak Cloudburst Halts Nip Clean-Up Continues; Marines Spearhead Munda German capital, from which an estimated 1,000,000 women and chd- ager of the air field expires Sunday. terrey Clipper from the United States tonight, gained fame a few years ago as a good will flier to South America but for the last two months he has been on the war front as part of a Mexican military Heretofore, the city made no Upper Valley Traffic land, where the Reich's elementary materials of war are produced, has all but put an end to the enemy's flow of basic materials, the RAF bomber command has decided to concentrate on the manufacturing Flood waters, which came rustl money on the air field despite its tremendous investment. Mr.

Chattin has found a lucrative business dren are being evacuated. Whirlwind bombers swooped over six small Axis vessels near the isles of De Gioro and Brittany Wednes- mission. stage He flew in American bombers the field and in his contract i i I ui a ing down arroyos after a ireaKisn cloudburst in the mountains, tied up traffic Wednesday night for one hour in the Upper Valley at the juncture of Highway 80 and the Mesa Mountain Road. The point MEATS, CHEESE Book 2, red stamps and valid through Aug. 31.

RATIONED COMMODITIES PROCESSED FOODS Book 2, blue stamps and valid through Sept. 20. SUGAR Book 1, stamp 13 for 5 pounds expires Aug. 15; stamp 14 becomes valid Aug. 16 for 5 pounds through October; stamps 15 and 16 worth 5 pounds each for home canning.

SHOES Book 1, stamp 18 good through Oct. 31. GASOLINE Gasoline coupons must be endorsed immediately upon receipt No. 7 coupons good for 4 gallons each through Sept 21. -B" and coupons expire according to date on individual book.

Transport TT" coupons for commercial users now good until Sept. 30. Allied Headquarters, Australia, Thursday, Aug. 12 (UP). The advance of American clean-up forces on New Georgia Island against the last organized enemy garrison grouped around Bairoko Harbor is continuing, an Allied communique revealed today, and it was disclosed that Marines and parts of three infantry divisions participated in the Munda cam- over Pantellerla, Palermo and; -miy a iew nuurs aner me punes ooj' mew up ium n-uuau, ei Naples, besides participating in a Mumped their shattering cargo on fire to a fifth and exploded a sixth to service private and Ferry Command ships.

The city has not enjoyed any of the profits from its vessel. Nuernberg, where the Nazis held number of other flights. The Allied Air Force, he said, is definitely su investment. On the other hand, is known as the "crossroads." Thp water nvr 1ht ViiffhwflV war city officials pointed out the city perior to Axis aviation. He added that victory for the United Nations is in his opinion not too far away.

inn rloon tnf tltifrtiefa in Titaniiuif has spent $1,000,000 on expansion their annual party festivals before the war, an official of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare explained the latest phase of the aerial assault on Germany. He said the enemy's production In other operations, an ME-109 which tired to avoid combat was shot out of the air by the Fighting French pilot of a Spitfire squadron patroling near the Somme Estuary. Spitfires and Typhoons also harried communications and trans and improvements at the airport They waited until the waters receded. No accidents ere reported. HALIFAX RETl'KNS.

Mayor J. E. Anderson made it plain that the city would, when Mr. Chattin's Army contract ex Members of the Sheriffs Depart the progress of the American right flank, which yesterday was disclosed to have joined forces with American troops pushing on Bairoko from Enogai Inlet at a point two miles southeast of Bairoko. A headquarters spokesman rc-(Continued on Vft 2, Cot 4).

London. Aug. 11 (UP). Lord -of consumer goods barely was The Japanese were offering resistance to the American left flank, pushing northward from Munda, at Zieta Village, about four-and-one-half miles from Bairoko, the communique said. No specific mention was made of ment said that so far as they were Halifax, British ambassador to the: keeping pace with air-raid damage.

United States, arrived in London i adding that the Germans appeared able to learn, this spot was the only place rain fell and "it was a real pires, hire its own manager ana would see that the municipality porlation in France and Belgium, attacking freight Uains, targes and hangars. 4 by plane today. no, be directly in need ol clothing. cloudburst" enjoy i profits from the field..