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i paito fms Coverage Only Daily Newspaper la County Serving 59,000 A member of United Press, the greatest world-wide I service, with wire facilities for last minute developments. Covering Taylor and every nook in Williamsn county with trained special ol 29 NO. 227 TAYLOR, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 16, 1942 PRICE FIVE CENTS i Major Battile Developing In Pacific Germans Dent Stalingrad DeSense Violent Street And Sazis Reinforce Troops By M. 8. HANDLER Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Sept.

16 (U.W The throwing more reinforcements into one of the greatest battles of history, forced the Russians back today on a sector west fof Stalingrad, and front-line dis- Belleville Citizens Turn Out For Cotton Picking BELLEVILLE. Sept. 18 (UW patches said they had dented the Tlnsi town went cotton picking defenses at other points. yesterday. (The German official news agency I The butcher, the baker, all the claimed, in a uispatcii "from the professional men.

merchants, news- that the Germans had reach- editors, school children and ftd the Volga river in the center their mothers, all went into the of Stalingrad and that violent field as this town closed shop to Again Challenge Allied Possessions S. Announces Loss Of Big Carrier Solomons Is Being Bombarded street and house fighting raged). Th Grmans were attacking with a ferocity perhaps never before equaled on the approach to Stalingrad and the Volga river line. They assaulted with an undiminishd fury on the southwest approach, and slightly less ferociously on the northwest. Nasi Dent Soviet Lines Dispatches said the Germans help neighboring farmers bring in their cotton.

A lack of labor had threatened the crop in the county and farmers had appealed to the Belleville Chamber of Commerce for help. Dr. L. J. Clark, president of the chamber, said the group had told the farmers to let them Know when they were ready.

Yesterday, the farmers were dented Soviet lines at various1 ready. Almost every bui ness points and tried to develop the dents into considerable wedges, but Soviet counter attacks from the flanks finally dislodged them in most places and the lines were re-sealed. of Stalingrad, Soviet troops continued tense the Soviet noon communique said, and a considerable number of air- and a considrable number of craft on a narrow sector, the mans launched a number of attacks and at the cost of heavy losses succeeded in advancing somewhat. artillery and tank busters destroyed six German tanks. In the last 24 hours, Soviet airmen and anti-aircraft gunners have destroyed 35 German planes.

"Southwest of Stalingrad, one of our units repelling enemy attacks, destroyed two tanks, several ored cars and about one battalion of German infantry. On another sector. Commander unit wiped out 200 of the enemy and destroyed five German tarfts. 10 lorries and one artillery 25th Day of Battle This is the 25th day of the battle of Stalingrad, reckoned from the time the Germans broke across the Don river where it bulges Electric Brutal Of Two Chair Awaits Murderer Little Girls The battle of the southeast Wife Charges Mickey Rooney With Cruelty HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 16 (U.R) Brunette Ava Gasdner, 19 year old screen starlet, sought a divorce today from Mickey Rooney, her Attorney BEDFORD HILLS, N.

Sept. 16 (U.R> Impelled by a "sudden 17 year old Edward Haight went and after several failures kidnapped, raped, tortuied. mutilated, and murdered two little sisters, one seven, the other cipht. Unrepentant, ligth hearted even, he told state police and District Pacific today appeared about groom of nine months and demand- today the details of a crime of ed alimony sufficient to support horrible bestiality. Satisfied of his City Atty.

Clears Tax Payers Minds On City Tax house in town put up the sign: to pick cotton." The doctors, lawyers and preachers closed their offices. There was no school for the day. Transportation even was furnish ed by the townfolk, although the farmers, tickled with the unexpected help, had offered to take the pickers out and bring them home. All the cotton pickers themselves asked, though, was that the farmers pay the regular $1.25 per hundred pounds they picked, furnish them with the long, trailing sacks, and give them plenty of drinking water. There was no estimate today how City Attorney E.

M. Grimes much the pickers picked, but Dr. I stated today that he was afraid Clark said the townfolk indicated some local citizens did not under- their willingness to make it a weekly affair until the farmers stand the Purpose and laws con- have all their cotton taken to the cerning city taxes Mr. Grimes said gins. that a number of suits had already been filed, but the city did not want the property, only the tax money.

The city attorney further said that in the ncmr future an entire list of all delinquent taxes would be published. Mr. Grimes in trying to make the situation clear to the citizens in the manner to which she is accustomed to on Rooney's $5.000 a week salary. Miss Gardner accused her 21 year old husband of causing her mental suffering extreme and U. S.

Army Nears Five Million Mark WASHINGTON. Sept. 16 (U.R legal sanity, Gallagher promised that his progress to the clectric chair would be swift. Gallaghers promise was partly for the benefit of several thousand men who were in the streets of this village and who helped police search for the body of one of the victims through most of the night. police maintained a heavy guard over Haight, who was charged with murder and ing.

Mutilated The body of Helen Lynch. 8, wa at 1 a. m. in the rvensico Hetivoir. which is part of the "NIW ORDER" it another manifestation of the workings of Hitler's "new TMi photo of tHo bullet-riddled bodies of Soviet citizens shows but a microscopic fraction of the innocent civilians murdered by Nazi soldiers.

Sleughter occurred in Rostov-on-Don. Mexicans Celebrate Independence Day With Program New Rubber Czar, William Jeffers; Already At Work ir The Mexican Fiesta which has closest to the Volga The supreme ben held the past three days will on the idea said. main reason why people fail to pay their city tax is that they have the impression a home cannot be sold for taxes. Usually when a person finds he is mistaken with respect to the law and he finds that his home can be sold for he arranges payment to avoid foreclosure. true that real estate cannot be disposed of until the end of two years after the property is sold for taxes.

During the first year it is necessary for the owner to pay the purchaser at the tax sale twenty-five cent in addition to the amount the purchaser paid for the property; During the second year he must pay fifty per cent extra in order to redeem property. After the second year he has no right or privilege to German assault attacks on every come to a close this evening. 1 sector of the west and southwest The Fiesta is located at the front, almost never ceasing -began Blackshirc ball paiVc east of Taylor, a week ago this morning. Today being Mexican Independ- The noon communique mention- ence day. their regular program will ed fighting in the Novorossisk be held at five o'clock this area for the first time since the noon.

Judge E. M. Grimes, city of that Blacft Sea naval base 1 attorney, will give the welcome acknewledged last week-end. 1 address in behalf of the city of of Novorossisk one Taylor. of our units in three days fighting.

-----------------------------annihilated about one battalion of enemy infantry," it said uiJi This indicated that the defend- BEAUMONT, Sept, 16 (U.R) 4 ers of Novorossisk were now Thomas Dewitt Blair, three-year- holding the coastal road that runs Mrs Jim Blair, southeast through the naval base Kirbyville, lex 50 miles north- of Tuapse, through Sukhum, and of here- in a Beaumont ends at the Port of Batum on the hospital last nighi of scald burns I suffered when he fell into a wash(See No. 8 page 8 tub of boiling water at home. Temple Man Held In 'Williamson Co. Jail; Bond Set At $5000 GEORGETOWN. Sept.

16 (Spl.) Herring of Temple, charged with failing to stop and render kid and with driving while intoxicated, is being held in the Williamson County jail until he the $5,000 bond set by Justice of the Peace George Rouser Monday He will be bound over to the grand jury on October 26. Herring is being held in connection with the accident which toefe two miles south of Jarrell midnight Sunday which cost Mrs. Roy Lay of Corpus Christi her left leg and may take her life, accord- The Weather Scattered showers this afternoon and tonight. Little temperature change. Highest 91 Lowest 67 (Coun mwr Fatterson ing to the latest reports from the Temple hospital where she is being treated for her injuries.

The charge of failing to stop and render aid, a felony, was filed in the justice court of George L. Rouser. while the charge of driving while intoxicated was filed in the county court The examining trial was waived Herring was caught in Taylor Monday afternoon with his wife by Highway Patrolmen G. Keineri and Leshe and brought to Sheriff R. O.

office Mrs, is reported in a critical condition at the Scott and White hospital in Temple where she was taken by the Friedrich ambulance shortly after the motorcycle she and her husband Roy of the Corpus Christi police force, were riding was struck by Herring's car. Herring continued on to Temple following the crash He is superintendent of the plumbing of the General Hospital under construction. Rio Grande On Rampage Cuts New Boundries BROWNSVILLE. Sept 16 (U.R) More than 300 persons were reported trapped today between the Rio flooding waters and a country near near southmost Cameron County, community 15 miles southeast of here. All plantation owners except one family had been driven from their large acreages in the Big Bend area of the Rio Grande County levees protecting the plantations broke Sunday morning under the biggest flood since 1933.

Trapped persons were said to have two routes of escape open by walking through waters over one of the county roads or riding horse back to the concrete road leading to Brownsville. MERCEDES. Sept. 16 (U.R).— The rampaging Rio Grande, jamnv to flood stage for the time in three weeks along the low course, threatened today to put Rio Rieo, small Mexican redeem the property, and the town across the river from here, purchaser at the tax sale has the into the United by cutting right to take possession of the behind it. 23 Colored Men Left Today For Ft.

Sam Twenty-three colored men left Engineers of the International Boundary Commission, reported that approximately 1,500 cubic feet of water per second now was flow- By SHIRLEY BROWN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (U.R) William M. Jeffers. Union Pacific railroad president who is at on his new job as rubber administrator, today promised immediate steps to put into effect all of the recommendations of the special Baruch rubber committee. A few minutes after his appointment by War Production Chief Donald M.

Nelson, Jeffers confessed: don't know a thing about rubber but I intend to do whatever is necessary to carry out the assignment." Appointment a Surprise His appointment as th new rubber "czar" was a surprise here. Unknown in the capitol, he was not among those who were believed to be in the running His selction also fulfilled only part of the qualifications that the committee headed by Bernard Baruch suggested for the job (the rubber administrator) shoud lie a thoroughly competent operating and manufacturing executive. preferably with experience in the rubber industry," the Baruch committee report said The committee also referred to the need for this man to start with experience and knowledge of the Jeffers, an Omaha, Irishman who worked his way to to enter a new bly a major naval chaHenge of Allied as loss oi a second American aircraft carrier in the hard- fought Pacific, campaign was revealed by the S. Navy. The carrier was the Yorktown, a 5-vear-old ship, which joined the lost MaJ Gen Hershey, as part of the Th American Navy paid tor.rnen with children probably would om itv w.iHi The severe blows deait the Japan- begin during the last three month- h' had crushed 1 rtf rr.obilt wheel and ner arms and ese 111 successive battle ot the 4 ir were bound Haiabt had sat After testifying before the House VktIt muu Coral Sea, Midway, and the committee invest iRat ng migratory P-Tked police automobile Solomons.

I workers and manpower problems, I "'bile volunteers dragged the res- The York town, damaged in the Hershey was asked reporters h. mu' mc to hts Midway battle, was torpedoed June soon Selective Service expected to 1 l( 6 by a Japanese submarine while up men who have wives and 1 I efforts to salvage her were under- dependent childran of Helen sister. Margaret way. The following day cap- Previously he had the com- 7- floating in a shallow sized and sank mittee that the Army this year will creek several miles away. Her The destroyer Hammann, escort- exceed the 4,500.000 goal disclosed anklr ere bound and the side ing the Yorktown previously had by Gen.

George Marshall, chief of her hoac had crushed, been announced as sunk. The two in June Hersh did not ships' losses were included in the reveal, however, how much the' Between the finding of the total announced previously for 8( 1 would be exceeded. bniit pi.lut tied battle of and In talking to rey? the two room sham near Stam- 215 enlisted men that the available supply of single ford. in which he lived Despite loss of the Yorktown mrn would be exhausted this fall, with his father and brother. Though the score of the Pacific battles still that then the of de- he had been arrested before, sey- sdood in the Allies favor whether to draft 18- and 19- ral pei id been sufficiently and naval spokesmen ex- youths or married men imprc by the nature of casual pressed confidence that the bal- with would arise.

conversations they had had with ance of striking power in the If 191vear-old youth are him re entlv to direct police to southwest Pacific was on the not dratted year, the Army him. Confronted by circumstantial American side. will tike 1 000.000 or 1.500,000 mar-1 evidence. uiht readily confessed The Jaanese were stepping up fdmily men," he said He re and directed to Helen's their air and land operations on iterated that he expects unmarried body. Marine ositions at Guadal- with dependents to called Haight had been employed, since canal Island and reports from Pearl this year- hl' to complete elementary Harbor said it was thought likolv Hershey revealed that, effective school, hv the city of Stamford to new mijMjrtant Japanese navo! month, the Army has asreed cut at playground, and other for Fort Sam Houston this morn- last October, the river has been ing, following their fourteen day steadily gouging into the Mexi- furiough.

wdiich was granted iai- can bank south and west of Rio medially after their induction. I Overflow from this newJy- The eolored men that left aie formed bend now is beginning to ing steadily through Old Resaea, top of th Union Pacific railroad about three miles south of Rio Rioo, from office boy. has no misgiv- which is perched on a sa.ndy bluff about his new job. He ad- on the river bank 1 mitted it was but said Through three other floods since this waK no for talking as follows: Johnnie Samuel Evans. Alexander Ross.

Georg Howard Batts. Charles Edward Blatftman, Edward Lee Clay. Eli Jackson D. Reese Elisha Norton. Odell Ervin Robert Taylor.

Decoto Larkin. George Milligan Roscoe Waters. Roscoe Perkins. Fred McClain. Tom Willie Epperosn.

Tony Washington Willie Douglas Edwards. Louis Johnson. Charles Louis Middleton. Herman Maxwll. Ik Wilson.

i Edward Tyler, move eastward behind the town and emerging into the main channel about two miles below the town. Action Needed do not need we need he said in accepting the appointmnt. told interviewers that he had no idea why he was summoned to Washington until he arrived by (See No. 2. page fli challenge in the Solomons was about to take some with venerea! to be made.

i diseases, but their number will not L. Cirip two per cent of the total Even while the Japanese were of men drafted. Hershey starting their assault to regain the 'ald percentage to positions the Marines had wrested from them, Admiral Chester W. Nimite, commander-in-chief of the be increased soon. He said the Army also had decided to permit drafting of 10 Hershey expected that figur would be increased, Deferment of agricultural labor, he said, is the responsibility of local draft boards, although national headquarter has tri to guide lo- 1 eal boards by suggesting that they defe reesscential farm worker hard question the local boards because they that if they defer one they have to defer all men who work on farms." he said a question that only the local boards 'Shot Goes Off went off unloaded changing porters To which end, this morning w'ith tiiey have now employed a man excess baggage, but carrying a heavy cartridge of best wishes from the people who have known and liked him the 18 years he has been employed as porter by the Preslar and Hewitt Drug Store was christened John on by his parents but when he went to w'oi for Preslar and the nititname was chosen --why, he says he know.

But there is on thing the firm knows; and that is they don't like they feel certain Uncle Sam will not ealTto the service In fact there were fourteen reasons why he was picked from a long list of applicants, but even Sinker says he can't offhand call all thost nomes, so we condense those fourteen reasons as a wife and thirteen living children are seven dead) 6 and 7 boys, ranging from 2 to 27 years of age, all unmarried and living at home. Pacific fleet, averted that the per cent registrants United StMea was its Hershev expected that figure also grip on the Solomons and planning to drive on without (Creation of a new naval air post Air Force, Pacific taken in Washington that a sustained naval and air offensive would be in the Pacific during -the coming months. Vice Admiral John H. Towers, an exponent of attack, be the ntw air commander. (The same the offensive and stick to it expressed by Rear Admiral Blandy, who has returned from a inspection tour of the Pacific war got to kecep pushing," he said.

The best defense, as usual, is a strong offensive We remain static.) Reports from the southwest Pacific area have indicated that the Japanese might be massing then- largest available fleet for a southward sweep intended to drive the Americans from the Solomons. Some believe the enemy attack might be carried as far Ntw Caledonia. The United Slates sent a big naval force when it started its attack the Solomons in August and ltwas believed likely that if naval engagement had not already been started, it certainly was in immediate prospect. Aerial Fighting Expected Naval pointed out, however, that modern naval warfare does not mean close ranging punches but rather long distance aerial fighting, which can be expected in impending Solomons engagement In JO months of Pacific warfare, American and Japanese surfitae craft have met only once at close range That was on Aug. when there was a smashing exchange in the Solomons area, with the Ameri- munieipal property and do odd jobs, lie was known in this New York City suburban area on the Connecticut border as an amiable, dull witted youth.

Haight was confessing the murders 10 minutes after he arrested. He gave police a detailed statement of his day, reporting that twice he had made advances to older women, one a girl of 16, before he succeeded in picking up the two small girls. TEXANS GET DFC PEARL HARBOR Sept Distinguished Flying Crosses were awarded yesterday to Aviation Radioman 3rd Clas, Frank Waco, and Radioman Jrd lass William Porter Pixley Borger, Texas Thousands Of Pickers, Mostly Mexican, Start On Annual Tour AUSTIN, Sept The annual tour of cotton pickers is under way in Tt xa Thousand of pickers, mostly Mexicans, gathering the fleecy staple in the Rio i Gr; nde River and swing into the coastal bend of the Gulf of Mexico before starting for central Texas, north Texas and the plains. This year, truckload of them are passing through Austin daily, north much earlier than service unopen- (two 8, page 8) heeded usual Damage to cotton in the coastal counties by recent Gulf storms has advanced the northern movement of pickers was reported I ickmg and ginning are almost at a standstill the Texas Agricul turni Extension Service ed today in a bulletin covering conditions for the ended Sunday. Pale tud salvage cotton blown Bales to dai out in the storm area of south and 1 111 Texas was prevented by continued rains, and pickers were moving the reported "In some areas, ed bolls uere vi ore favorable conditions for cotton prevailed over most of the northwestern area of Texas, it as but dry weather is needed Leatworm talion in late cotton in north west Texas has been brought under control and sufficient poison on hand to take care of an expected recurrence.

Good stands ot early seeded wheat were reported in the Panhandle Grasshoppers were damug- i tvi fields in some sections. Cotton 3: 9873.