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NfMfS 'FfATUUS, fUMAT IN wasr TKXAS Abilene Reporter- OR Wn'H TO OR f'OKS VOL. LXIIJ, NO. 145. "WmfOUT OR WJTH (WENSE TO 1WENDS OR FOliS WE SKETCH YOUK WORLD EXACTLY AS JT )TO TEXAS NEWSPAFP ABILENE, TKXAS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1943 -TEN PAGES FINAL freeze Due Jo Repeat in Ciiy.Tonighl the first freeze recorded Monday morning and heavy to killing frost with temperatures of 26 to 30 degrees forecast for Monday (jght, winter weather appears moving in on Abilene. 27 AT AIRPORT Thermometers al tile municipal airport stood at 27 degrees around 5:30 a.

m. Monday and below 30 jftween 4:30 and 7:30. Warmer weather was recorded in Abilene as W. H. Green of the S.

Weather bureau rejxrted a low of 32 degrees at 1:30 a. m. with thermometers at 32 for three or ur hours. No frost Ml in Abilene said Green. Associated Press (AP) United Press (U.p.) PRICE FIVE CENTS Red Army Rolling Toward Rumania Cold wealhT is In schedule for this section as the average date of killing frost is Nov.

12. For the past years, Nov. was average te but a slightly later season last year, when the first below freezing weather, 30 degrees, came Nov. 23, moved the date back one day. Highest temperature recorded mday was 54 degrees at 5:10 p.

Pampa Lists LQW Of 21 forTexds By The Associated Prtts cold blanketed parts of East, West and North Texas today with killing frosts reported in some sections. In West Texas, Big Spring registered a low of 26 degrees in the Panhandle the mtr- tury fell to Zl at Pampa. Plainview a minimum of 21. In northeast Texas Paris recorded a 29-degree reading. A light frost was reported at Austin.

At Frccporl, citizen assessed mage done by a tornado Saturday right at $400,000. The twister riBped through the western section, killhij' and injuring Damage also being cleaned VK Galveston; where. frwiith 'iiinuije. ter; small Ind although several homes uiirtpfed and garajes down. 'today included: 34;" Wichita La- 'icdo, 40; Dallas DFC TO ABILEiNIAN--U.

G. D. Slcaklcy (above) informed liis wife by letter he has been awarded (he Distinguished Flying Cross for action in the South Pacific, where he has been stationed a month. His wife is the former Nadel Hilburn, and lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

E.B. Hitburn, 2041 North Ninth. infi-Freez6 Still On Scarcity list The anil-free situation Is-the worse. Abilene automobiles the season's first freezing temperature last night on very lit- -llt alcoholic anti-freeze. with no permanent solutions were to be had.

fall, service station attendants have had trouble getting even the alcholic substance. One operator could obtain only sis gallons at the beginning, and several report they could buy none at all, with only tak promises from the wholesaler. Mut a dozen calls to difierent service stations in regard to the shortage showed only one attendant who had on.hand a small supply of alcoholic anti-freeze. ftlouse Tax Leader Has 80th Birthday WASHINGTON, Nov. Chairman Robert Lee Do'ughton (D- NCj, of the House ways and means today put away a deskful of birthday greetings and began winding up a J2.000,000,000 tax bill with vigor undulled by 80 years.

Doughton marked his fourscore anniversary yesterday. His ten years leader of the House tax body vc highlighted his 32 years'in Congress. Crime Rate low, Thomas Reports In his charge to the grand Jury for the 104th district court session opening here, today for seven weeks, Judge Owen Thomas commended Taylor.couhty for the comparatively small amount of crime during the past two pr'thrce years, considering the steadily increasing population. 'This, he said, was accredited to.tht alert ptaet officers of town and manly for flag trime well in hand, frying froraplly. and having grand Named foreman of the grand jurv Sellers.

Bailiffs are iivl ThjSrntOdVBeii S. Hancocfc Dan'6'- Oofineltvarid M. N. oldham. slated for the week requiring a petit Jury is that of Lindsey against US Fidelity and Guaranty CO.

It will be heard Wednesday. Judge call his docket Tuesday lo a. rri. tor regular setting. Area Allowable For Week 31,914 AUSTIN, Nov.

railroad commission today reported average daily oii allowable for the weelc ending Nov. amounted to 2,061,814 barrels, of 34,362 barrels daily over" the previous week. Allowables. by districts: 1--25488 543,211. 6--outside East East 10 Coke Says Waste Is Gas Line Key.

AUSTIN, Nov. controlling factor in his opposition to a. proposed natural gas pipeline from Corpus Christ! to Charleston, W. Is whether the sas intended for export is now being wasted, Governor Coke R. Stevenson indicated today.

To this end. he said, he would consult with the Texas Railroad commission for a further determination of the fads. The governor has opposed the transport line the theory that would tend to deplete gas reserves which are needed for the development of Texas industry. At 25 Localities- WISH FIRES RAGE FROM LA. JO BORDER; SABOTAGE HINTED LOS ANGELES, Nov.

Army and civilian authorities investigated the possibility of sabotage today white forest and brush res raging out of control over destroyed 151 homes and threatened the palatial film colony residences of the Malibu district. Fires wcr reported blaiinf (fiercely In 2j localities on a WnW-rm'lc fronl from Malihu to thr. Mtxfcin bordtr. forest officials Mid there were least 19 fires in San coiinlj- The army asked civilians lo re- Dort any suspicious persons seen in I teas where fires were burning, and civilian aulhoritics said they were Investigating possible incendiarism. The San Diego county sheriffs office said 15 patrol cars equipped willi two-day radio were patrolling areas, working with Ihe Army in comotling the possibility of sabotage.

Tlie fires left hundreds of war workers homeless and caused damage estimated at SI.000,000 in homes, livestock, farms, orchards and automobiles. Flames In the Santa Monica mountain range bordering on the beach strip where screen stars have costly homes roared lo lhe coast highway and were racing several small Intend canyons. Movie Paillette Oodrlard's home was in the path of Ihc flames and Aclor George O'Brien's huge house and 25 olhcr homes were threatened seriously in Ihe Decker canyon district. The Santa Monica canyon fire already had burned over 30000 acres. In San Diego county, flames driven by a high wind had consumed sis homes near Ranch Santa Fe and burned a portion of fling Crosby's ranch Fall of Fastov Cuts Rail Line MrivoiRog BULLETIN LONDON, (UP)-- The German a a mws agency' acknotrledccr! a lhat Iht Red'army had achieved "major of (he Gfrman positions of Nevel, on the upper central front some 30 miles from the Lalivan frontier.

LONDON, Nov. 8--(AP) -The Red army was rolling swiJUy toward the Rumanian border today after taking the vital rail junction of Fastov, miles soutliwest of captured Kiev, and thus snapping the principal rail link between German forces in (lie northern Ukraine and the Nazis still battling at Krivoi Rog. The mighty push, moving at a speed of miles a threatened to crumble Nazi resistance in the Dnieper bend and raised the possibility of (rapping huge numbers of the beleaguered Germans. Seizing train loads of undamaged German equipment at Fastov, whose capture was Moscow with 124-gun salvoes, Russian' tank ami infantry units also were reported to have swept up 10 lowns and hamlets as they luiised toward Rumania, one of the Nazi satellites which Premier Joseph Stalin said Saturday was "anxious to find a was-" out' of-the war. In far to the the said they killed 1,000 Germans in repulsing counterattacks bridgeheads near Kerch and generally improved their positions that German said Winging- up aatry rejitorce' on the Perekbp' nort crn gateway to the The 26th anniversary of the So- also saw the Red to trithm 45 miles' of the Latvian and old Polish borders on the north central front, where a Russian communique said the Nazis were losing "one position after another" ivcst and southwest of Nevel.

Six localities were seized and 400 Germans killed in that theater yesterday. The Berlin radio, admitting that the Soviet smash southwest of-Kiev had forced the 'Germans "to lake up new lines," estimated lhat the Russians were using more than 250,000 troops In that area, while the Nazi-controlled- Scandinavian telegraph bureau, declaring that German Wood was flowing as never before, said the attacks beyond Kiev had made the Gentians' posi- lions "even more dangerous." North of Kiev, which was taken Saturday, after bitter all-night tattles, the Russians were steadilv pushing the Germans back toward the Pripet marshes after slashing through Nemycshaeva on the rail route to Korosten. Spanish Troops Join Nazi Army LONDON, Nov. 8--(UP)--Reliable sources reported today that the bulk of the Spanish Blue division, an estimated 14.000 "volunteers" for service on the Russian front, was being incorporated into the German army after being withdrawn from the Soviet front. The informants said every man in the Blue division had received word from Gen.

Fran- tisco Ihal he could come home if he rantcd to, but adding the (hat he join the German army. Only about 400 members of the division, most of (hem ted. were understood to have returned to Spain. The Blue division was reported to have been in the vicinity of Koc- nigsberg. East Prussia, for time.

Informants recently In Spain salt! its men were being absorbed by the German army singly and by units. Every man of the division was said to have taken personal oath to Adolf Hitler when he went to Germany from Spain, and therefore even without Franco's expressed preference it would have been difficult for them actually to leave Germany. Plight Same as in November, 1918, Nazi BERN, Nov. 8-UP)--A Munich newspaper said today on the 20lh anniversary of the Nazi beer hall putsch there that Germany's mili- tary position now Is "roughly' com-1 parable" to that of November, --the month in which' the First World war ended In Allied victory. The Muenchner Xfuesle Nachrlchten, in drawing the parallel between the situations in the two Novembers, said, however, that Nail leaders have Ihc political setup so' irell In hand that a recurrence of Ihe 1318 internal collapse would be impossible.

A Berlin dispatch to Stockholm said Die Germans expect "important developments'-- nature not specified--in November.) The newspaper pronouncement iu the cradle of the Nazi party on (lie anniversary ivhlch Adolf Hitler always has made the occasion for exhorting his old guard to greater efforts led a parade of gloomy reports regarding the German situation. Tiic Swiss socialist newspaper Das Volk quoted, "well informed sources" as saying that the great i Nazi leaders had begun shipping burden of the war had left the their children out of Germany to Reich facing a breakdown "In a what they regard RS relatively safe areas In Denmark. They have been installed in considerable numbers reasonable time." Heavy consumption of war tcrlal has put such a strain on German factories that they cannot hope to accumulate reserves, the Lloyd's of London "bets" on armistice dale. Sec 3, in private homes and buildings requisitioned by tile Germans, it said.) Indicative of the upheaval in war-lorn Europe, the International Labor organization said about 2,500,000 Germans had settled In oc- newspaper said. ciipttd countries since the -outbreak (A Swedish dlspatcli reported by of hostilities, wlille altogether about the Ofllcc cl War Information said 37,000,000 Europeans had been forc- ed to move between countries of leave the continent entire)) 1 Other reports from Germany said Berlin householders had been ordered to tear out their nxjodcn attic floors to cut down Hie fire hazard In botnblnr, the wood be confiscated by tile government for BM la trench construction.

iThe British radio said Nazi authorities had ordered a 20 pergeiit cut in the potato ration for civilians and had forbidden the customary distribution of extra meat and cheese tills Christmas.) azis OEVERS REVEALS ALLIES ARE MASSING FOR'MAIN ASSAULT' WASHINGTON, NOV. 8-(UP)-Signs that the invasion of western Europe is near are multiplying daily, the latest hint coming from the man who is in command of U. S. forces i nthe European thealer of operations. Lt, Gen.

Jacob L. in an address on the "Army Hour" yesterday Irom London, announced that American and British forces are now being organized', for. the "main assault" against Germany. "Before us now lies the main assault for which we are onus- Ing manpower and equipment In accordance with thoughtfully planned world he said. "This a crucial moment in the history of the world.

We cannot falter." Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke on the same program from his North African headquarters and Secretary of War Henry L. Sfimson spoke from here. Both praised the Russian armies, for the almost incredidnble offensive they have been waging on eastern front.

Elsenhower promised the Russian armies and their leaders tiiat "every single tiling we can do to advance the common cause will be clone promptly, determinedly and to the utmost of our ability." Bombs on Europe LONDON. Nov. 01 Allied aircraft roared oul across the English 'channel today lo continue an offcnsive'whicb America heavy bombers sustained yesterday by carrying out their third raid on Germany in five days and their first without the loss of a single bomber. Coastal observers said the daylight attacking forces appeared to be composed chiefly of medium bombers, which have been used largely tor hitting at Nazi airfields and other military targets in France ant! the Low Countries. The bombers were accompanied' by swarms of fighter planes.

Plying Portresses struck into western Germany yesterday with heavy Thunderbolt fighter, escort and attacked Ducrcn, site of important airplane parts and light metals plants. All bombers and all fighters returned from the 70Q-iJilo trip. U. S. Eignth air force headquarters gave no indication of the size of the Duercn attack force, but It presumably was iess than the record fleets, at 700 of tile big bombers, whicli battered Wime.lrnsh.nYcn last Wednesday and Muciutcr Fri- thc second by Gclscnkirchen and day.

The assault was the Americans in two weeks against Ducrcn, 25 miles southwest of Cologne. Some fliers said they failed lo see a single German fighter and that antiaircraft fire was intermittent and light. The wariness of the German fighters rras attributed to the slronf corl, while Ihc lack of ground fire was attributed to a protective overcast which was unfavorable to the enemy hut did not hinder thr bombing. A fighter lost In a supporting sweep into northern France was the lone American casually yesterday. i Cotton Estimate Drops Slightly WASHINGTON.

Nov. 3--(UP)-The Agriculture department today estimated the 10)3 cotton crop nt 11,442,000 bales, a reduction of 36,000 bales from the estimate marie a month ago 1,346,000 bales under the 1042 crop. The department said conditions on Nov. I indicated an average yield of 253.1 pounds of lint cotton per acre, considerably above the 1932-41 average of 217 pounds but below last year's record yield of 272.5 pounds per acre. Cotton ginnings to Nov.

1 totalled 9.061,252 bales, compared with 9.713,351 bales to Ihe same date ol last year. The slight reduction in production prospects during October were the result largely of mid-month killing frosts in North Carolina. Tcnnessc and Missouri, the department said. The report by states: THE WEATHER V.v or COMMKRIT, Scout Honor Court At Winters Tonight Boy Seoul Court of Honor will be held at 8 p. m.

tonight in the First Methodist church at Winters, Charles Rutlcdgc, area Scout executive announces. Max Strother and D. Wagner will be warded the second class badge and merit badges will go to Boyd Bedford, Kennelh Wilson and Elton All boys are members of troop 49 with C. V. Haraood scoulm aster.

FEATHER ABlt.EXr. i i i Fair rhl Jllcr- tonlphl and jllcMly cool- (r nnleht Tllh to 3( an1 heavy lo Xlllfr.s froal. F.AST TKXAS: Fair Ihlj ultrrr.cyn. nlcht Tuesday. roolfr tonlpTit irfth 22 2 In rTctrtmt north portion and 26 to 32 In TKM a pdrlfon.

XcAr frcetlnF: tn ea.M mitral CfM near Ftwt fxctpt near coasl lonlgM wtlh heavy lo JtllUnp frosl In rjoitlj arfl erntra! WEST TF.XAS: Fair afternoon, to- rlpht and cor-tiriL-c-l tu; IMs afternoon arrt toTilsht. tn 2. in State Yield Acre 10-12 Louisiana 355 Oklahoma 118 Texas 172 N. Mc.vlco 453 553.000 703.000 3,038.000 111.000 1943 715.000! 2,825,000 116,000 Heavy Rains Aid Crops in ValUy WESLACO, Nov. rains lasl week brightened crop prospects in the Rio Grande valley, but slowed harvesting of winter vegetable and truck crops.

As many as 150 cars ol fruit were leaving the valley daily. Vegetable shipments were averaging 50 cars ptr day. Citrus shipment 1 for the season acre ncarinj the csr mark as Ihc week closed. Singing Star Guest Of Air Base Tuesday Dale Evans, radrj star, wil be the guest of the Abilene Army Air base Ihratcr seclion Tuesday, it was announced today by U. Isadore Krauss, theater officer.

Miss Fvans will visit various sections of Ihe air base during her tour and will culminate her trip by making a personal appearance at the base theater Tuesday evening in a musical program. rec 5th Advances Mile; Britons Seize Stream ALLIED A A R- TERS, Algiers, Nov. 8--(AP) --R e'p a explosions in Gaela indicated the Germans were preparing to abandon that port 70 miles south of Rome as Allied headquarters a a a mile gain by-Americans of the Ki(th a push which threatened, tp coastal mtfurU'aipsr whcrev tnc enemy Had anchored a new defense line. The Brliish Eightij army, sweeping file miles the Adriatic coast against'; fierce resistance, look possession of the entire length of the Sincllo rirei- and ad- vanccd on Ilic Sangro river, tiie next natural barrier in fyt area. Capturing Sccnrl, Casalbordino and Oarunchib, Gissl and Salclto, Gen.

Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's veteran outfits took over the entire stretch of lateral road running' inland from Vaslo and al some places within seven miles of the Sangro where the Gennans apparently were preparing a new stand. In Ihc central portion of the Vifth array's front, U. Gen. Mark VV.

Clark's American! rirovc- ahead'over Iht roughest country of the whole Alltel line lo achieve a sain of one mile anif capture Calabritlo. Gains of several miles also were registered beyond Iscrnia along Ihc road from Foggia lo Rome across the Abnizil mounlains. This first anniversary of Ihe llcd landings in French North Africa found the Allies delivering stronger blou-s than ever to the Germans alons Europe's southern (rout and the enemy displaying more weaknesses than ever. Gacta is the best port on the Tyrrhenian sea between Naples and Civitavecchia, 40 miles north of Rome, and ils harbor would be of great use to Ihc Allies In selling supplies In for the battle of Rome. Already Iht Americans had the heights dominating iNJijnano, opening the way for a push behind (br.

Aurunci mountains which are the rliicf protection of Gacta and t'ormU on (lie coastal route to Rome, lli.c Appian Way. The roule for tbisi prospective trust Hcs up tlic broad valley lo Cassino along Ihc via Casilina, the main inland route lo Romt. 'An Algiers broadcast by Radio Prance said the Fifth army already had captured Mignano. 21 miles northeast ol Gacta, and had advanced to miles north of Venafro, a fain nliich tvonlri place (he fifth army othc northeast of Cassino in a position to flanV: that tonn.) With tiie Germans appurcntly rfslgncd to the loss of Gacta the battle alonj Italy's nest const promises lo be carried soon inlo the Pontlnc marshes where the flat land crriscrosscd by canals will permit the Gennans to make further delaying standings. The gains on the Filth army front were made in the face of repeated attacks by Uic Germans nho barf increased their force to nine divisions, or approximately 135.000 men.

in Ihc front Italian line. Montgomery's army also encounl- several German attacks mostly by tanks, In Its push up the east coast. medium and light ixunbers and fighter-bombers and figiiters ranged over the land bat- tie ares, hitting gun positions, rail communications, road junctions and troop concentrations. One aircraft was mwing from al lopcrations reported. kGaet a CRIPPLED CRUISER-Hcr stern smashed inlo a jumble pi hvjstcd steel, this S.

cruiser made port and is now under. going repairs at the skilled hands of ship surgeons at an American Navy S. Navy Photo From NpA) COSI JAPS 12 WARSHIPS SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Nov. 8 smashes against warships cargo vessels striving to reinforce Ihc key Japanese base of Rabaul on New Brllaln have cost the enemy probably 12 warships sunk or damaged thus far In the Bismarck sea.

A probable torpedo hit a scored on a heavy Japanese cruiser in Simpson harbor al Kabaul uj- Australian flown Ucaulorts Friday evening, a day after the first master blow in ivhlcli aerial bombs sank two cruistrs and damaged seven more plus two destroyers. Higher Liquor Levy on Again WASHINGTON. Nov. 8-- UP) -Changing its mind again, (he house ways and menus committee voted today to bowii llic liquor lax (o $10 a gallon, against a present lax of 56. The SIO lax would mean $2.50 a qusrl, or I2.S cents a drink for 109 proof liquor, figuring 80 drinks lo Ihc gallon Off again and on again on lilt llnuor levy.

Hit cnmmiltcc previously li.td Jumped the tax (o SIO. cut it tack lo and now has put II al 810 again. By the 66 1-3 percent Jump the committee expects to obtain XJO.OOO additional revenue amiiial- y. Todays action raising the rate $8 to SIO. put about K10.000 into Ihc new general rcvr- lue measure, jumping the total in he lilll to about nn administration request for 10.500,000.000.

T-Boats Jumped LONDON'. Nov. 8--(ft--Two Brit- sh motor torpedo boats, boldly invading Sognc Fjord which Hows nto the North sea about 50 miles lortli of Bergen, Norway, were umpcd by i Gprnian patrol boat and forced to flee, DNB said today ft Berlin broadcast. In addition, a light cruiser nnd a destroyer tender were attacked by night in New Ireland waters, but with nndlscernible effect, and Mitchell bombers from Adm. William F.

Haley's 13th air force sank or damaged three-small coastal vessels and 12 barges off southern Bougaliivilie. Four more barges were destroyed off New Guinea by light surface craft. The weekend operations on land, sea nnd air were Ihe lightest since the Allied drive to clear the 'Japanese out of northern Solomons got under way Nov. 1 with the Bougalri- ville invasion. Ground operations on Bougainville and on Cholseul Island 30 miles away which was invaded Nov.

3 apparently arc progressing favorably, a spokesman for General MacArthur said, adding that "it's up to the Japanese to make the move." last reports (lie Marines iiad firm control on Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, and had mopped up enemy units on offshore islets, all without serious opposition, and Army units on Choiseul were driv- the enemy from a position four miles from their beachhead. Chest Fund Figures Climb to $46,329.52 Taylor county's for the United War Chest fund climbed to i46.329.52 over Die weekend with rstsrrtay's figures amounting to $1.113.20. According (o classification, group donations nerc: amusements and Ihcatcr. $372: department stores, stores. $15; labor organizations, $10; rural districts, SS13.50; newspapers, general solicitation, $121.

No Mail Delivery On Armistice Day There will be no rural or city mail delivery on Nov. 11, Day, Postmaster O. A. Hale has announced. Post office windows be cloM4 all day..