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FORCES SOMEWHERE IK' NEW GUINEA, Nov. 23. --(DelayecT) --W)-- United States troops flzntlng a Jungle battle over what say must be the world's worst battleground are taking everything the Japanese have in their lull bag of tricks with comparatively lew casualties. In short. In this cautious, painstaking advance through tall grass and under the green canopy ol tall trees, the Americans are dealing out steady punishment at sniall cost.

Our troops are finding the Japanese tricky. For instance, one wounded Japanese lying among the dead was caught lifting a hand grenade. A bullet In the head finished him. Corp. Clinton Browne)! of ville, described the Japanese as "big fellows, well-equipped, fighting from well-prepared positions in slit trenches, behind log barricades, and some barbed wire." The enemy has staged a regular show with sound effects--firecrackers and shouting, The assault started at dawn Nov.

19. The troops in the unit I was following first had to cross deep stream. On the other side was a machine-gun nest, but the Japanese let the first troops cross before opening fire. Corp. Delas A.

Leland, of Alexandria, and Private John Wilson of St. Louis, stumbled on the machincgun, and Leland was wounded by the first burst. "The bullet knocked me down and (hat was the first I knew the Japs were there," said le- land. "I could hear Wilson crawling Uwirds them I opened fire with rifle, I could hear Wilson firing, lew. We got Jap, but I to come back the hwpltil." The advance continued in that manner.

The troops edged forward cautiously. A burst of machine-gun fire would send them flat into the mud. Our machine-guns or mortars would seek out the Japanese nest, and when it was silenced the troops moved forward again. FIGHTING INTENSE The first objective was Cape En- daiadcre, which juts out Into the sea, and a Japanese airdrome about three mites south of Buna. Fighting was intense at both places.

(Today's communique from General MacArlhur's headquarters said the Americans had captured Cape En- daladere.) "In the advance of the airdrome we saw about 20 Japs at one point and got three with rifles and tom- myguns and chased the out," said Corporal Robert Augsburger of Winslow, III. "Then we moved to the edge of the 'drome and started across. When we were hall way they opened up -from concealed positions with machine-guns and put a barrage of mortar fire behind us--but we got back." In the advance on the cape, the Japanese were pushed back into the comparative open of cocoanut trees and an American barrage from rifles and mortars killed at least 25 of the foe. Sergeant Charles P. Ester of Wyandotte, said the dead included Japanese officers, Identified by their long swords.

Three of Nazi Aides Given Death Red Army Jaws Close on Nazis By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor Allied offensives jarred Hiller-Hirohito Co. further off balance on every front.in World War II today. While the Russians steadily tightened a gigantic trap against 300,000 to 400,000 Nazis in the Stalingrad sector, American, British and Fighting French forces hammered the Axis into an ever-narrowing corridor along the Mediter- BOVKA ranean coast from Libya to Tunisia in North Africa. German headquarters acknowledged with rare frankness that the Red armies had penetrated into Nazi defense STALINGRAD POTENKINSKt TSIMLYANSK ABGANEROVO ValtinHeldas Enemy Aiien WASHfNGTON, Nov.

-Attorney General Biddle announced today that Richard Julius Herman Krebs, who wrote a widely-sold book in his experiences as an agent of the Gestapo and the OGPU under the name of Jan Vallin, had been arrested a Betncl. on a warrant ordering his deportation to Germany. The next step presumably will be to intern Krebs as ah enemy alien, since he cannot be returned to Germariy during the war. The justice department de cUhed to'comment policy concerning enemy, aliens. Prior to his arrest'he been at liberty under bond pending a decision by tht" board.

"Out Of The described In great detail Kreb's lite, particularly his work as an agent of the soviet Russian secret police which, he said, brought him to America to stir up trouble along the water front. He claimed to have done similar work in Europe and declared that he was "(he Comintern's chief trouble-maker on the water front of Europe, hunted by the police of halt a doien nations. 1 Krebs first cnme to the United States for a brief period in Decem ber 1921, landing at Galveston Texas. He made brief visits also in 1923 arid 1924. He testified before the immigration appeals board that from 1923 to December 1937, he was a member of the communist part; of Germany and that during tha period he led a "life of conspiracy and violence." Fortresses Down 15 Nozj.

Fighters LONDON, Nov. Fortresses and Liberators ol th' U. S. air forces raided the German submarine base at St. Nazaire France, yesterday, touching off a lively air battle in which 15 Ger man fighters were destroyed ant four bombers were lost.

Despite the obviously heavy aerial opposition to the dayligh stroke at the Important U-boa nest; near the mouth of the Loir river, the Joint U.S.-Brllish com mumque reported "many burst on the target." Fears Offensive Women Draw rison Terms CHICAGO, Nov. (UP) udge William J. Campbell today entenced three men to death and hree women to prison for treason connection with assistance gtv- to a member of the Nazi sab- tage mission. Campbell sentenced the three men to die in the electric chair an. 22 and the three women to years in prison and fines of 10,000 each.

The sentencing climaxed the big- est treason case in the nation's All the naturalized Of r- RESCUED AFTER 22 DAYS ON RUBBER RAFT--Floating alone, on a rubber life raft for 22 days before being rescuec the experience of Capf. William T. Cherry, of Abi- cnc, pictured here as he was carried on a stretcher. Cherry pilot of Rickcnbachcr's plane, was -first of party rescued Picture radioed from Honolulu. (Photo from U.

S. Navy.) CHUXGKING, Nov. 24-- (jP(-- In creasing signs of a major Japanes drive In Yunnan province, the area sandwiched between enemy-held Burma and French Indo-China In soutluvcstcrnmost China, were reported today by the army spokesman. He said Japanese preparations' in- cwded a concentration of amphibian tanks along the Salween river in a slice of Yunnan already enemy- held and stream of reinforcements arriving in Indo-China, STOP and THINK Texas Rubber like All Rest' AUSTIN, Nov. is no gasoline shortage in Texas but rubber on Texans 1 cars will wear out just as' fast as rubber in New York, rubber Administrator William M.

Jcffers asserted In a telegram answering charges by Ekct John Lcc Smith. 'The only object of gasoline rationing, speed limitation, periodic lire inspection and group riding wherever possible is to conserve rubber to the end that we may keep this nation on rubber so that there will "not be an economic breakdown in Hie commercial life of the United Slates during the period in which synthetic rubber supplies arc being developed," Jeffers said yesterday. Answering a query of Smith's. Jclfers. slated that his recent statement about opposition to ra tioning "by people who should know better" referred to thousands of post cards from two Areas neith- of which was in oil producing states.

Smith, answering Jcffers, wanted to know why gasoline was rationed in eastern stales "due to shortage ol gasoline because there was Inadequate transportation and months later rubber conservation was Injected as the reason for rationing gasoline in Ihe West and South." You'd better think CM) jour Testament, son; you can. nee what faith can 4n lor yon. Eddie Rkkcnbacktr, Frl. Rarlek, their rescue from the Jesus onsfrcrrd and fJiem, Verily say unfo you, If ye- have and doubt not, he shall not only do this KMch Is done to the free, but also if ye shall say unfo this mountain, fie remoc- and be than cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, Kliatsoevcr yc shall ask in prayer, believing, shall Matthew Rationing Costs State 5 Millions AUSTIN, Nov.

Volun ary rationing of gasoline has re duced the state's revenue from mo or.fuel tax collections about 45, 000,000 since May 1, Governor Colt R. Stevenson declared today. The (rorernor said the 'reduction, reflected in figures compiled by the comptroller's department, was accounted for principally by less private car travel because commercial traffic is virtually unchanged from a year ago. Voluntary reduction of speed a so was a factor In lower gasolln sales this year compared with th same period last year, the gover nor said. The governor, long an opponen of rationing, cites figures support of his contention tha speed limitallon and voluntar elimination of unnecessary travel will accomplish rubber conservation without compulsory restrictions on the use of gasoline.

Nazis to Kill Half Of Poland's Jews LONDON, Nov. rich Hlmmlcr, head of Ihe Nazi gcs- Upo, has ordered that one-half the large Jewish population in occupied Poland be exterminated by the cnrl of the year, report! from the Polish underground movemen 1 lo the Polish govcmment-In-exlie here said today. The lirst step in the bloody program. It was said, would be to fell 50 percent of the thousands ol Jews living in Ghetloes established bj the Nazis. The remainder would be later.

WHERE RUSSIANS ARE ADVANCING--Arrows indicate general direction and extent of strong new Red army counteroffensive Russians'reported had put thousands of Ger. mans to rout. The two-pronged move resulted in Russian oo a.id Hau i A -B. aii The. men Hans' Max Haupt, he 'saboteur's Walter heun Froehllng, the boy's uncle, and Otto Richard Wergini a friend of the Haupt family.

The women were Haupl's mother, Erna Haupt, his aunt, Lucille Froth- ling, and Mrs. Kale Wergin. Judge Campbell referred to the eight-man Nazi sabotage mission which- landed oh the east coast last June, bent on wrecking the American light metal industry and other vital war transportation and equipment. Young Haupt was a member of the mission and the government proved that-the treason defendants uiew of his mission when they fed, Housed and helped him. 'NOffCE TO ENEMY' Campbell said "the sentences will serve notice on the.

enemy that the cunningly conceived Nazi scheme to use German-Americans In this country as pawns is doomed to fail" On the Libyan desert front, British headquarters reported that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's victorious 8th army lid driven 100 miles beyond Bengasi to occupy Agedabia In -swift pursuit of Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's fleeing columns. On the Tunisian front, a broadcast from American-occupied Morocco said American, British and French troops were now attacking Axis positions in the northern region ol the colony-- presumably around Abganerovo. The Russian advance had carried 125 mites west of Stalingrad today.

i i i a vut. A lie I I I I 1C lines south of Stalingrad and in the of the Don river cupa(ion of Kalacn 50 mi es suli whUe another west of the long-besieged Volga city. The Nan communique hi southwestward had occupied rail town of said vaguely that "counter measures are proceeding. GERMANS REPORTED FULLING OUT OF gTALINGKAD BriUsh dispatches from Stockholm said Barman Van Hoth, reputed commander of the Nazi siege forces, "has begun to pull out from Other reports said the Germans were throwing in masses of reinforcements in an attempt to keep open an avenue of escape reinforcement. In the far Pacific.

American Australian troop's under Gen. Douglas MacArlhur furiously attacked the last dwindling nests of Japanese resistance on the Papau peninsula, in New Guinea, and U. S. army heavy bombtrs blasted Japanese invasion forces' anild the ruined temples of Mandalny, Burma. These were the highlights In 24 hours of unbroken good news for the United Nations on the world's far-flung battlefronls, with the picture further brightened by the announced adherence of French forces at Dakar to the side of the Allies and by a diplomatic pact eliminating French Martinique in the Caribbean sea as a potential menace to the western hemisphere.

Secretary of Stale Cofdell Hull said in Washington that as a result of an agreement reached with Admiral Robert; French high commissioner at Martinique, there was not likely to be any necessity for American occupation of French possessions in the Fierce Air Fight Opens in Tunisia naval aA. sniore fiHblw I continued that there are ure." He thousands of German-Americans in the United States who "should not be harassed" because the gestapo tries to use some of them for Us purposes. Markets Will Close NEW YORK, Nov. 2-W--Securities and commodity exchanges throughout the United States will be closed Thursday, Nov. 25, Thanksgiving Day.

The U. S. Dept. of Agriculture announced that life- stock reports would not be Issued Nov. 26.

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Tues-Mon Mon-Jun I 1 4 --19 66-60 6S--SJ (8 M--45 SJ--42 50-39 Guadal Unlikely WASHINGTON, Nov. Secretary of the Navy Knbx said today it was "very, that Uie Japanese were getting reinforcements to their troops opposing American forces on Guadalcanal in Ihe Solomon islands. It Is possible but not probable," Knot told a press conference, "because rigid United States patrols are working day and night." The Japanese have not been reported landing more troops one the embattled island since their great and 1 unsuccessful drive almost two weeks ago to forces and overwhelm the American defenders of the airfield there. AMERICANS ADVANCE Knox said lhat the Americans meanwhile were continuing to widen their area of control, particularly by pressing back the enemy forces on the American western front. He confirmed that fighting has been going on to the westward of Point Cruz, which is a little more than four miles beyond the airfield From the extreme of this action on the west lo the farthest point of action on the cast.

Hank at Tctcre where, a. Japanese force of sevcra' hundred men was wiped out early this month, Is a distance of approximately 16 miles, while the depth of the American-held area at the center around the airfield is about four miles. 100,000 troops--from the Russian conquest Is incomplete. An in- ront'and other sectors of nazl-1 creasing number of authorities be- Europe to bases along the I Heve that the Japanese already have northern shores of the Medtter-1 achieved the outer limlls of the raiean. Texas Production Rises 3,200 Bbls.

TULSA, Nov. Daily crude oil productidn In the United Slates Increased 35,225 bar rcls to 3,915,825 for the week ended November 21. the Oil and Gns Journal said today. Illinois production was up 27,600 to eastern fields, 2,150 lo Kansas, 5,600 lo 311,550 Louisiana, 1,600 lo Okla homa 4,350 to the Rock, mountain states 2,385 to 122,635, nni Texas 3,200 lo 1,376,450. is.

growing ijtayestijierit of Axis' foxU- proceeding. "accoril- ng to that more enemy' troop transports were hot down over the Mediterranean route from Italian Sicily to Tunisia-indicated that Adolf Hitler fas desperately seeking to reinforce 'lis garrisons at Blzcrte and Tunis, he capital. Hitler was reported to lave rushed 1,000 planes and ip- iroxlmately -40 divisions--perhaps THE WAR TODAY -IT column, condu'cteo; 'fe written today by; Glenn Babb. Mr. Muc- Kcnz'ie; in the middle east war zone, is expected to resume tomorrow.) Japan, cannot win her "greater without defeating China.

As long us Chiang Kai- Shek holds together his government in Chungking and his armies In the few provinces that surround the capital the jRpanese program 1 of GARRISON TRIPLED While definite Information was acking. observers said Hitler had irobably doubled or even tripled original axis garrison of 10,000 In the North African colony, which lies between American-held Algeria nnd Italian Tripolltanla. Conflicting reports obscured the Mtuation along the Gulf of Gabes, mmedlalely below Ihe narrow Axis- held coastal strip between BlzerLe and Tunis. One repovt said French troops lad cut the Axis route of escape near the Libyan-Tunisian frontier while the German radio asserted that the entire Tunisian coast down to Tripoli was still In Axis hands. On the Soviet front, Russia's treat offensive to relieve Slilingrad and trap the gee THE WAR Tf.

3, Col. 7 space they set out to make their own, but without, the heart, that unconquered western and southr wester nhalf of China, their new empire remains pretty much a hollow shell. If they could gain that there Is reason to believe, they would be content merely to fight to hold what they already have grab bed, leaving India, Siberia and Australia alone. CHINA NEXT TARGET? So don't bo surprised if the nex' major undertaking of the Japanese army Is another effort to knock China out of the war. A similar prediction was made in this column six months ago, when many proph ets were talking about India and Siberia, and the record shows lha the only large scale campaign un dertnken by the Mikado's- land fore cs (as distinguished by the over teas thrusts at Midway, in the Aleutians and the southwest Pad flc islands) during the half yea was the campaign in Chcklang and Klnngsl which ended In costly fu tlllty.

For five years and fou months now Japan has been tryini to Bend China to her will. She can nol cease trying without admittln that the whole program of conques has failed. Evidence Is mounting that Burnv and the adjeinlng Chinese pro vlnce of Yunnan will be one of th war's major battlefields this winter The question remains whether th choice of time and place will be made by Japan or the United Na tlcns. Generals Wavell and Stllwe have made no secret of the Allies determination sooner or later retake Burma, scene of last spring disaslcr which Stllwcll called "hum illating as Before the mon soon conies again next May to dra Its streaming, humid curtain ove the battlefields that campaign ma Missile From Car Knocks out Woman's Eye and Breaks If There Is one womnn in Abilene who really has It in for the driver of a red and grey pick-up. She was walking down the slrcct staying on her side of the side walk when the pick-up drove by and cither the driver threw ii rock or the wheels of the tnick caused one to (ly in her direction.

At any rate the rock hit the woman. But she is not complaining about that. The rock knocked her glass eye out and It fell to the side walk and 1 have begun. But will the Japancs was broken. wait? Can they afford to wait? MEATLESS DAYS AHEAD OF ABILENE FOR REMAINDER OF YEAR Bj- HARRY HOI.T Abilene appears to be headed tor meatless days for remainder 1M2.

The supply of Iwtf pork at an all-time fair here nd butchers, almost a man, will me (he but of their quotas (or thfe tturter by the end One of the city's largest meal notified his customers that he can furnish them through Thursday and that he will kill no more vmlll Jan. 1, unless OPA lilts or modifies its Under the OPA rule, as explained by Tom Newman, butcher and manager ol the city abattoir, butchers are allowed lo kill only 100 percent ol the 1MI Kill. During the last quarter of 1941, 3,442 animals were slaughtered at the abattoir, Uie records show. Already this year, 2,452 animals have been killed for the quarter, with 1,500 being butchered In October, the first month. That leaves only 990 for the period and more of lhat number is quota hogs for farmers who have made the practice of having their meat hogs killed at the local slaughter-house, And of the remaining number, approximately 200 were killed last year by butchers no longer In business, leaving lew lhan 300 calves and hogs that can be Itillcrt lo furnish the city remainder of the year.

DEMAND DOUBLED And the meat consumption Is almost twice what It was a year ago, due to a 43 percent Increase in population and the greater load on local cafes, due to troop trains stopping here to allow passengers to eat. At this lime a year major were sending brft supplies tori to AM- knc, It was pointed oiif. two larger companies, Swift Armour, long have btn reluming unfilled orrltrj. The Vcrnon comrmrry, one ot Ihe largest distributors In Ab- Ikiw, selling everjthinj direct the anr.y. All of which adds up to the fa that local bulchers must furnlsti local needs with local beef.

There's an abundant supply beef In Ihe country, Farmers an stock farmers arc just hitting th peak season In marketing m.llk-f See MEAT. PI. By the Assoc fated Press LONDON, Nov. vio- ntly erupting struggle for ait premacy was. fought over Tunisia nd along the -Axis Mediterranean lUttle route today while British nd American forces on the ground ere getting set for the all-out as- he enemy is driven from the Sort)) frlcan There was every sign tin aerial conflict would be a hard one, for gnat fleets of German planes were gathering In the Mediterranean theater and Axis reinforcements sllll were reaching Tunisia through the Allied gantlet.

"The fight Is going to be tough nd longer than might be expected," a spokesman at Allied head- uarters in North Africa, Bearing him out were report! both sides telling of nounting fury of the struggle. The British middle east command nnounccd at Cairo that at leas) hree more large enemy planes, may have been troop trans. wrts, were sent plunging into yeslcrdny oft Iho Tunisian coast. Broadcasting what it called an Mllcd communique, the Morocco adio snld that Allied air activity ad grown "very Intense" and that nothcr violent bombing raid had cen made on Tripoli, In Libya. The Algiers radio said nine Axis ilancs were destroyed in an Allied aid on an enemy-held airfield in Tunisia and a Vichy broadcast told it heavy air raids last night by icrmnns nnd Italians on Algiers, Jonc and Bougie, Allied-held Algeria.

A heavy bombing assault en Bi- erte and strafing of grounded ncmy planes at Palermo, the SIcl- Ian base from whtch Axis reinforcements arc being flown to Tunisia, ere carried out Sunday night by he RAF. the Cairo bulletin said. An Axis merchant ship was sunk he same night by British torpedo ilanes southeast of Sardinia. Can- non-tollng British planes attacked schooner off the Tunisia east coast yesterday. Darlan Holding Ships at Dakar MADRID, Nov.

reports today said lhat Admiral Jeatv Francois Darlan has ordered all French warships and merchant vessels to remain at Datar for the present. The reports said Darlan is dispatching a special staff to Dakar to organize the port for full cooperation with the Allies. French forces there at present were Mid to include the dam.i(tcd French Richelieu, one crulur 31 submarines. Reports reaching Spain from tha African battle front were scanty. However, there were believed to be some Indications that the Allies are not moving forward rapidly enough to prevent the Germtrn from putting substantial ashore.

was noted that the Germain have persktently reported heavy Nazi troop landings at Gabes Sfax which was believed to indicate thsy hope to re-estabiish Und communicatloni with TrioU..