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Cily ilin'oii XL VII HIM Jn 10 PACI KS WACO, TKXAS. THURSDAY, SKITKMNKK 'AO, 1943 NUMBER 295 Fall of Naples Near; Yanks Approach Suburbs Wise Investment In War Bonds Stressed Citizen Down. Sau I'Alrn i M( Farnmgs for I Postwar Need, I cader Warns Sa I PS $57.800 ai Show now, if stt't Me Le ging that citizen buy inv bonds as he can right. R. Dupree, one of the co-chairmen of the Waco- nan count bond eommlt- its by declared flat 1V: bond to $125 "if average realized motion picture party what tough te poing night at ihr- in the ti ansition period hich by MeGinley of that city, will follow this war, he would sink Bond pufvhaies were an get nurse uni.

as At a In I 'if only to do, it I the or do Alter this citizen wt ,1 need mine credit ally Th bonds than ho wise thing to wore the average Owens a preceding the approximately $StW) was bondi when donated Wti'i hatO of McGregor irtioned off by H. Weldon master of ercmonies. ed with Owens net Her mg good they that the the J. were wm d. but the iking mori did betel tO If -t of tl t.

John doesn't hut John is od shape after the t. fart that one man bought a bond to get them quit playing offered opposition to this. Ihe rtatrtraent teemed to put little in the drive ted in that Wed Evenirne anted mar a i and II better thi it he the nent Downtw Calls For Vir I sc of I euer Men Hacking Bill to Ban Fathers' Draft, Senator Huge and Not Necessary See BOND DRIVE. age ItMK Tilt MUIK Silk Hose do It ith 1(H) ar li ond in II oust on; 'S one Pairs l.eit Hr i 341 144 fie the cash and then niching a hose, of them, a UK i merchant, i person a gr boug pair of hos were no clot hose left over. MAI HO I i op port unii at the) WAS HINGTC 1 sept, 29 1 Senat 01 She rid' an 1 Jowney.

emo- era Cali forni charged wlay that Sied lea; had 1 to mars ha 1 the ce? Trent rated air pow er of thing in ai id had. ins 0 ead iaf illv built a huge, us eie.s.s land ar my, Senat Demo Whip Hill, de Alabama, tnere upon rebuked him fo off ering lus tic crlti cisms Inthe senare Ins tead of direr t1V to emb ers of the h'uh oommaiid when appeared 1 before th milita.ry affairs com tee last week. V) Be Placed lit l.ahor Category ept, 29 AP 'umners. democrat the war (WMCi had de, Texas, in tht of cities with shortages lient of the derision the WMC on Oct. adding that, he isly protesting the ac- jusiified and unneces- (lias Boost Due in Fasi WAS MIN A The basic gasoline laiion in the east, is going to be boosted to two a week.

Informed sources said tonight The present ancc for an card holder one and a half gal'on- weekij how 'oon the larger ration 3 no? Nfc I by War -hi ion I 'irertor Bv llll A I I Is Stabbed HrNTSVILLF. Sept. 29- William Dentpsey, 32, was in a critical condition today from two stab wounds he suffered in an altercation at the Ferguson prison farm Midway. Dempsey is serving five years for theft from Harris county. II V( I III I I At Torn Buie, Pioneer ()f Mill County.

Passes HILLSBORO, Sept. SPL Buie. SO, last of a pioneer family which settled in Hill county near Milford in 18ft5, died Wed- in Foil Worth He was a native of Mis ppi and a large Imidownei For the past several years he had been retired. He is survived by three sons. Buie of Mertens; Creighton Buie of Waxahachie; Newton Buie of Fnit Worth: and one daughter, Mrs A.

Bryan of Alhambra, 111 services will be held i hursday at 3 m. in Hillsboro, office burial in Milford cemetery. stamp In the hitler exchange that follow ed, Downey said the comm ttee was "nothing more than rubber stamn" for the and added that whole atmosphere ommittee every senator knouK iv totally ineffective The out but st topped of? the DOWNEY. Page 2 ft I to A I A Seek to Recover Land HOrSTON Sept. 29 TP A tty.

Gen. C. Mann today 'ed smt in district court on behalf of the statp permanent school fund to recover title to a tract of land the Tomball field, title to which is now held by the Humble Oil and Refining Co. The suit to recover an annual rental of $25,000 since Jan 19, 1931, and $250,000 for oil and gas recovered since that date, UK llll I I At 13,740 Die in Traffic CHR AGO. Sep! 29 AP Trif- fic accidents caused 13.140 deaths in the first eight months of this year, the national safety council reported tonight, 29 pei cent below the toll for the corresponding period of 1942.

Suspensions After Are Held Illegal Federal at Dallas Likcns Hearing missioner Issuing Such Orders Dictator DALLAS. Die Weather Hy I S. F.A I Hf Bl Kl AU Blarklund Field fur today Scattered in thf afternfwn 1 the rivet s.s I feet i' I hi 21 I masiiijum was S2 i 3H m. liilM Ulti al 7 a in i. We total rain I for ihe month 2 S9 uich's I a th) maximum tempera 1 1 was minimum Rain none I Sunaet lodw.v p.

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AP The of price administration suspension or order system, employed against business firms and individuals found by a hearing officer to be violating rationing regulations, was ruled unconstitutional today In an order issued by Federal Judge W. Atwell. Atwell described the QpA hearing administrator who issues the suspension orders as "a modern instance of pure dictatorship" in granting the petition of Foy O. and Amos F. Wdemon, operators of the Good Luck Oil company for an injunction restraining the OP A from enforcing a two-week shutdown order against their seven gasoline service stations The judge upheld, however, the right of the president, under congressional law, to make wartime allocations of commodities, adding that the act itself supplies punishment of criminal prosecution or injunction, not orders to require a firm to suspend business.

Roosevelt Plans Special Report To Conjfress on I'ood Jones for pandcd Subsidies; Div trihut ion Bottleneck Is )ue for WASHINGTON Sept 29 Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley said today that dent Roosevelt will send congress ft special message soon on the general food situation which has been masked by growing administration alarm over shortages and the prospect of a bitter new- battle over subsidies. With Barkley at. a conference on food Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Democratic Leader John W.

McCormack. Stress ISM The me Mage will stress 3941 farm production objectives New tension was injected into the food issue by these developments: 1 War Food Administrator Marvin Jones formally appealed to congress for expanded subsidies through extension of the See ROOSEVELT PLANS. Page 4 IUIK Till ilTUh Oil Hearing Called AUSTIN, Sept 2n -AP Chairman Reauford Jester announced todav the railroad had called its monthly state-wide oil probation hearing for Tuesday, Oct 19. Purchaser nominations will be submitted the heating on which to allowable production for November. 1 III A I r.A< K- ---Dallas Ti WASHINGTON, Representative Su of Texas, said tod power comm I cided tn place Dallas, Texas, in the group 1 eal acute la Announce? to be made 1, said Su.

vs as tion as unj sa i y. Senate Group To Draft Own Ideas On Postwar Issue Kfforts to Force Early Test of Senate Sentiment on Foreign Makes WASHINGTON, Sept 29 UP Efforts to force an early test of senate sentiment on postwar foreign policy made some headway today when a special foreign relations subcommittee voted to draft its own resolution on the vital issue and promptly started paring one, By so doing, gave evidence that the house-approved Fulbright resolution and a dozen other pending foreign policy measures would be junked, but some senators viewed the decision at least as a "vety encouraging Previously, Chairman Tom Connally, democrat, Texas, had made it plain his foreign relations committee probably would not act on the issue until after the forthcoming meeting of Bntish-American- Russian foreign ministers or possibly not until Jan. One high-ranking senate republican said, however, he believed today's vote indicated the full com-! mittee would have a resolution ready for senate action before the Moscow meeting -----BACK AT AC ----Pope Resumes Audiences LONDON, Sept, 29 AP The Swiss radio said tonight lha Pope Pius XII resumed his usual audiences today at Vatican City. -----BACK THf ATTAC K-----Tire Quota Reduced WASHINGTON. Sept.

29 I'P The office of price administration today set an October quota for new passenger tires available for rationing which was one-fifih less than the September quota The October total of grade one will be 645,050, compared to in September October quotas for other types of tires and for tubes remain virtually unchanged. HACK till aeo Markets Cattle steady, tops $12. Hogs stronger, tops $14.75. I Spring lambs unchanged, tops $10.60. Broilers heavy light hens 20c.

Consumer grade eggs I7e; No. 1 candled eggs lie. So, cream 52c; No. cream 19c. Hqiiipment Coes shore German Defenses Fold; Two VIlied Columns Move In Vssault on Big Italian Port I.aunehed on Two Sides of Mount Reds Seize Key Base on Dnieper M'Arthur Planes Blast Munitions llll Towns Fall To DeDoi al Wewak Trucks and equipment move ashore from an (landing ship, tankst boat at island of hiriwina, in the Trobriand group, off New Guinea.

Naw Back Solons Back from More Dependency I ronts See War In for Children Pacific Intil 1915 la Seized; Nazi Prisoners Tell of Heavy Punishtnent LONDON. Thursday, Sept, 3ft radio, quoting sources, said todaj that allied troops in the suburbs of Naples. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. Sept 29 Fifth arrr.v tr- VI lied Ground Troops Batter Way to ithin NM) ards of Main at Russians ithin 110 Miles of Old Polish Frontier Soviets Smash Forward Prom Smolensk Iowa rd Baltic; Kremen- chung Palls ALL smashe to But Increase for less Wives Opposed by Vrmed horces; Want to Avoid Checkups WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 The army and navy backed higher government payments to children of service men today, but opposed a boost for childless wives.

Testifying before the house military committee. Maj. Gen Miller (J. White turned thumbs down on a suggestion withheld from wives who are financially independent or who prove unfaithful. White, head of the personnel branch, said the war and navy departments generally favored the bill passed by the senate.

This would continue at $50 a month $28 coming from the government and $22 from the payment to a wife, but would raise from $12 to $18 monthly government payment for the first child and from $10 to $11 that for each additional child. The question whether a set vice- man should be allowed to cut off See DEPENDENCY PAY Page 6 -----B A ATT K----Pioneer Texan With Relatives in State's ('aunties. Passes BEAUMONT, Sept 29- AP Albert Seale, 82, who boasted few declared i Bed colui sout heast Three Senators. 1 ever, Declare Collapse me? of iermatw May xime at Anv Lime up the ithin a with fiJnating coastal was 5m the nlain day, a Kp Japan' Guinei nitiom Art Pilo range ED HEADQU WEST PACI -Pt. 30 AP ARTERS IN at it We Ri de? a large mu- General Sept.

to within 110 miles Polish bonier in 21:6 miles of the Ru- itier in the south today pa rated blows which idnya, midway between nd Vitebsk, and Kren the east bank of the between Kiev and it of 92 was launched aro Mt. Vesuvius afte? splitting open the he Italian population th sides nf the Fifth army, nam' mountain in WASHINGTON, Sept, 29- AP Three senators just back from inspection trip of world battlefronts said today they believed that the war in the Pacific would not end before 1945 but that a collapse of Germany may come at any time. Reporting publicly on their two- hat payments be month flying trip to the war zones, Senators Ru-'sell, democrat, Georgia; Mead, democrat, New York; and Brewster, republican, Maine, told a press conference that army and navy are developing into the toughest fighting machine the world has ever They said there was reason to believe that Germany might not last long, because Hitter had lost the oil of Russia, control of the See SOLONS BACK, Page 4 -----BAC THI ATTAC K----- line, sliced through to the Bay of Naples and gained the open plain to the east. Morocco radio said allied were less than two miles from the heart of Naples, late nigh! and authoritative reports from London said the ancient ruined city of Pompeii, miles from Naples, had been occupied.) Reports from France through Madrid said Fifth army forces advancing north from Pompeii were expected to unite shortly with allied driving around to the right of Vesuvius, Only German rear-jruards remained in Naples and these were expedited to pull out momentarily, the reports said.) In General Retreat vital in the souih Idition to the umitions touched off la! plies a nd fires a they left for baser. communique sal1 bombs ere dropped inv 's o'theas? New On the land side, troops battered their ex pio we nouncei Premie resulted the bo fue! fowei their id 145 tons cf 5 the lines base, Australian way through fixed Japanese defenses to move within 600 yards of the main jetty at Finsehhafen, Japanese shipping base overlooking their more important bases at New Britain The raid against.

Wewak was not without stiff opposition. The bomb- In two Marn of important towns 410 apart in independent drives. Stalin Victory miles from VI silar advance the importai from it rail Rudnya, 4f' ftg marked a si ti Smolensk alo line that leads to Riga, it is only of 10 miles from the northern border 1P. of White Russia. Stalin called it a enemy stronghold and a center of cor munleatiotui in the Vitebsk KremenchuF was seized after a great three-day battle by eight soviet divisions liberally supported by planes.

Stalin said. The capture wiped out one of the last German hridegheads on the east bank of the mighty Dnieper and cut off a large of Germans smashed into a defending force 40 Japanese fighters and de- the river and' Pol stroyed eight of them. General MacArthur termed the Wewak raid, in which fleet P-38 Lightning fighters protected our heavy bombers, a continuation of he campaign to the enemy the use of his air bases." tava. Stalin called for the Moscow vie. tory sa-ute of 12 salvoes from 124 guns to announce the capture Kremenchug is ft rail junction 160 See REDS, Page 2 Resume Oil Hearing WASHINGTON.

Sept. 29-AP- Deciaring the nation "oil reserves are being rapidly Chairman Rivers, democrat, South Carolina, of a naval affairs sub- Salerno. 2S othe committee said today the group would reopen Monday afternoon to receive some "vital from Beauford Jester, chairman of the Texas railroad commission. -----BAC THF ATTAC K------ Airman Captures 150 Italians And Herds Them All In Onto German Soil Balkan Patriots Reported Pushing The Germans were reported in general retreat under the shock of one of the war's greatest artillery barrages which led to the breakthrough. ivi'e and Radio and cltv; Nocera.

seven miles north of towns and the See NAPLES. Page 2 TWO Al TAC .1. (). Ahyeainfinng Is Onanhene of Akim Man Do Not iet Out of Plane in Leading dicrs to Vmericans he had relatives every one of 1 Texas' 254 counties, died here last I I F0(l 1011 night. A pioneer east Texan, Seale first introduced screen wire in southeast Texas and popularized bicycles by conducting inter-city races.

He was postmaster of Beaumont during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. -----BACK THf, ATT At Standlev Reports to FD WASHINGTON, Sept. 29- AP Admiral Standley, the United States ambassador to Russia, made his first report to President Roosevelt today since his return from Moscow He declined to go into details about his conference. Texan Is One Of Seven Men killed In Bomber Crash list keeping Pace HOUSTON Sept AP The United States does not vet have Onanhene (chief of state) of Akim suffic ent strength to crush the Abuakwa. WASHINGTON.

Sept. A navy flyer and his radio mart fi captured 150 Italian soldiers and 1 httafcwa: by herded them to American LONDON. Sept. 29 AP The without leaving their plane during the Sicilian invasion, the navy reported today. The airmen were Lieut Paul E.

Coughlin, Edina. and Radioman Richard Shafer, Albany, who directed the prisoners' march by firing at their heels. British colonial office announced that in a traditional day-long ceremony with a lot of drum beating Daniel Agustus Opoku Ahyeam- pong was yesterday at Kibi In the Gold Coast colony as axis since production though numerically high, just keeping pace with the demands of Rear Admiral Percy Foote, retired, resident inspector for naval materiel for Eighth naval district, asserted today Presenting the army-navv award to the Houston Milling Co. the first such concern in the nation to he so honored Admiral Foote cautioned an assembly of the company's workers that "it is downright foolish for us to be over-confident about the ----BAC THI A 1 I A( K-----Cameron Cited HEADQUARTERS ALASKA DEFENSE COMMAND, Sept. 29 AP Lt, Gen.

Simon B. Buckner headquarters disclosed today the award of the air medal to Col Edward Harbeck Kenedy, Dan gn ahead, you spel! if succeeds his late uncle Nana Sir Ofori who died last month Till II ----Pacific Council Meets WASHINGTON. Sept 29- -AP Members of the Pacific war council, representing the nations actively engaged in the war in the Pacific, met with President Roosevelt today and said they reviewed the general situation in that war theater Sir Ronald Campbell, British charge told the newsmen looked all Coughlin Tells Story Coughlin told the story to his commanding officer: circled past some of our soldiers a forward patrol, on the beach at the foot of a cliff. "They waved and pointed at the hill, which they were evidently having trouble gaining. I began to strafe this posiiion and after about four runs of fixed and free gunfire, while flags and Italians began appearing.

I flew low and motioned for them to go in the Cross Border for Battle, I 'neonfirmed Swiss Stories Say LONDON, Sept, 29 UP Unconfirmed Swiss reports Yugoslav quarters in London to- day said the forces of the Yugoslav peoples army of liberation had crossed the Yugoslav-Austriaa border and were fighting territory of the German reich with the of Austrian guerrilla units. The Yugoslav part sans of Gen. army, supported by Austrian patriots, a battalion of Czech fighters and a Hungarian unit, entered Austria north of Murska Sahota, 58 miles north of Sagreb, and after clashing with a German frontier See 150 ITALIANS, Page 2 See BALKAN PATRIOTS. Page 2 -----BM 110 ATTACK-----French Railroads Raided LONDON, Sept. Spitfires, Mustangs and made low-level attacks today on German land and sea communications and damaged more than a dozen freight train engines in occupied France, it was announced te night, Fifth Anm Nearing Naples Ac erra and the oak leaf cluster to Staff Sgt.

Seely M. Storey, gunner, Pour-Motor Plane Burns Aflet Craekup tn of imcron, Texas, a previous re- orado; cipient of the medal. The ter was awarded to Storey for allies I listed tacks in the face of strong enemy opposition and adverse weather. PUEBLO, Sept 29 UP thi aitai A Liberator bombe- '1 0 crashed and burned on the rolling A at Set' III pyu la CsetiaS raime land six miles north of Sliif) 7 his Month Af Noia J5 Avellmo Monteforte NAPLES romigiianot Capodichino -Y Pueblo today, killing the men aboard. Maj.

John G. Hatfield, public relations officer at the Pueblo ba.se, said an investigation already Down If a vs for Record POR TLAND, Ore Sept. 29 AP Henry Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding corporation continued its had been started The plane was record-breaking Liberty ship pro- on a routine training flight. The victims were Second Lt. Max L.

Foy, San Pedro, Second Lt. Elton Berkeley, Second Li. Paul Forlenza, Flushing, Flight Officer Robert Newell, Trenton, N. Master Sgt. Elmer W.

Amarillo, Staff Sgt, Robert Porter, Washing)on, D. and Sgt Samuel S. Gore, Louisville, Ky. Former acoan Vowed Revenge; Now Missing First Lt. Samuel former Wacoan and son of Mrs.

Gtis W. Schlitzkus, who now re- duction today with Mrs. Robert Moses, wife of New York City's park commissioner, christening the S. S. Jean Nicolet, the 23rd ship launched by the this month, no A I I levas Offers Copper AUSTIN, Sept.

29 Texas' extensive copper deposits in west Texas should be developed on a wide-scale commercial basis now' to meet increased demands for the metal caused by the war effort. Dr. Se Hards, University of Texas geologist, today. Hundreds of thousands and pos- sibly millions of tons of good grade! copper is found in the Van Horn- sides sn Dallas, is listed as missing AllftWoore district of Culberson Hudspeth counties, See CASUALTIES, Page 2 said, indicate S. I ittH arm.v drives immediate area of Saplex.

where allied capture of taste). lamniare and Norera, northwest of ixalerno, was announced. Another allied force was threatening linn, iome distance north of Salerno..