Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

PRICE IVE CENTS MIAMI OKLA SUNDAY OCTOBER 17 1943 VOLZ XL I NO 93 A The American Jeep Pops Almost Anywhere 'f' sSi 50 COUNTY MEN Heavy Aerial Attacks On PLACED IN LA of ft! left for the center at er of annual mother jn 9 Ji 4 GRAINS EASE AMINETNEW DELHI Oct The first1 ship carrying food 'from abroad is already unloadingat an Indian 'port and a second ship is expected to arrive soon to alleviate the famine in Bengal I The Byline of I Dependability ULSANS RALLY TO CRUSH 0 STRIKERS URGED BACK INTO COAL PITS BY LEWIS Office of 'a A Street and irst Avena BLIMPS COLLIDE 8 MEN MISSING Published Evety Bvenfar Eetpt Saturday) and Sunddy Morning by Miami Newa Becrd a Pabllabing Co fine) Gomel Near Collapse Gomel was another objective of night The Melitopol fighting which rivaled Stalingrad for intensityaqd bloodshed saw the German hurl ing waves of men and machines into the maestrom despite their losses orty German tanks were destroyed in the southwestern part of the city alone The Germans were reported fighting under a stand or die order from Adolf Hit ler The Germans rushed up divisions from Crimea reaching the battle before Gen Two Auto Wrecks But No One Hurt mentis return of mines to the owners About 22000 were out in Ala bama resulting in the closing of seven blast and five open hearth furnaces and about 3500 in Indiana In his telegram Lewis said he had definite assurance the board would rule on the con next week This is a tenta tive agreement with the Illinois Coal Operators association which calls for revision of the historical method of figuring the time on the basis of time actually spent at the coal seam It would make the work day for underground men S1: hours including all time required in traveling from the portal of the mine at the beginning of the shift until the miners emerge at the end of the shift The wage i rate now $7 for a 7 hour day i would be straight time for the i first 40 hours of the week and i time and one half thereafter i It would give an average i $875 a day for a 5 day week Christmas Mail Is 1 Rolling Into risco SAN RANCISCO Oct GT) Christmas packages for service men in the Pacific area overwhelm ed postal employes totay in the greatest mail pile in San rant history Postmaster William McCar thy said about 3000000 paikagefl with the address postmaster San had been received here up to the riday midnight deadline for mailing gifts to Army men overseas and that loads en route from other sections1 of the country would swell the pile to 4500000 or so i The deadline for'mailing Christ mas packages to Navy Seabee Ma rine and Coast Guard personnel overseas is Nov 1 Two automobile collisions boost ed low street accident rec ord last night our drivers were involved three of whom were gath ered in by the police after inves tigation of tKo wrecks No on was injured Ctv Patrolmen 'Arlev 'Gailey and Horace Pool Jr made the in vestigations and arrests in both accidents WASHINGTON Oct GPU A new demand for single supervi sion over food everything from farm machinery to rationing de veloped in Congresr today as an offshoot of the quarrel over use of consumer subsidies to roll back prices Hep Jerhrns (R Ohio) chair man of a Republican food study committee advaned the idea which the Roosevelt administration has opposed and Rep (I) Okla) of the House banking com mittee promptly dubbed it unwork able Jenkins maintained thet the sub sidy program of the administra tion stemmed from what he termed the nd nuxup resulting from the conflicting jurisdiction of a half dozen agencies over the na food Won't Strike' Policemen Promise Tenn Oct 16(T) Memphis police in a formal statement today said have no intention of striking or walking A representative committee on behalf of the 150 odd patrolmen who had given the city commis sion an ultimatum of meeting de mands for salary and other conditions by a tomor row extended the time ly 5 7 After declaring thebe was no in tention of striking the statement said will continue to police and protect the 1 Then the seven man police com mitteeV conferred with the city commission and agreed to grant the commissioners additional time to study the demands No defin ite time was specified for the city commission to 'act but the ac tion helped to remove a deadline UMW Chief Opines VLB Will 1 Approve New Contract This Week I The Weather OKLAHOMA Slightly warmer iwest and slightly cooler east half Sunday forenoon MISSOURI Slightly cooler southeast ana uttie i rhnrA north and forenoon 1 i 'KANSAS Warmer 'west and central and little temperature alange extreme east Sunday fore noon 5 Air Raid Alert Is Sounded in London LONDON' Oct GT) London had a brief air raid alert leaxly today but the all dear I spynded a short time later without any gunfire being heard A few hours Pearlier German planes had struck a town on the southeast coast i vTt was the first warn'eg in Lon Idon since 8 the night after 15 German planes dropped 30 tons of bombs1 on the city Czech Who Escaped rom Nazi Prison Tells About New Enemy Weapon JOURNALIST DIES New YORKj )ct Dr Eugen Kovacs 43 New York Times correspondent in Bucharest Rumania for 14 years died here today of a heart attack Dr Ko vacs one of the best known Ru manian newspaper men was or dered to leave Rumania ii 1940 liecause of anii Jewish decrees Af ter a brief jieriod as 'he Belgrade dorrespondent he came to the United States where he was on th news stall 41 Two Navy Airships in Acci dent Off New Jersey Coast in og PHILADELPHIA Oct GW i lyda Leorce osses Hurri cane to 20 6 In 0 Stadium Volturno River rnWARn KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers Hied troons smashing forward all across the Italian iront ibva maoi fuin vriial wind IHYIPfinTlfl ATld 1ft nthftT toWHS the Gerpians who were reportedoificially today to 6 counter attacking savagely ana renewing tneiraenai iupportln a desperate effort to break away from close i' THp hnttu north of tbft Volturno river reached high point of fury as the Germans lashed out repeatedly with terrine counter assaults designed to disrupt tne Aines long enough to permit a Nazi withdrawal but the Amer: lean ifth army struck back with such speed and power as upset the plans Radio rance at Algiers said mi DToaacasi rccoraea in Bonaon the Germans north of the Volturno were In full retreat) Both the ifth army in the? west and the British Eighth army in the east threatened to outflank the Germans Volturno river line after hurling the stubbornly resisting enemy forces back with lightning ad vances' ranging up to seven miles In a northward thrust1' which carried them five miles beyond the Calore river ifth army forces captured Cerreto nine miles north east of the point where the Ga lore meets the Volturno to increase jinland raij( and highway communi no flank Crashing swiftly through stiff opposition Eighth army troops some 25 miles to the northeast pushed ahead six miles to cap ture he important road junc tions of Campobasso virtually in the center of the Allied line across the peninsula and Vinchi aturo six miles southwest With the fall of these two points the Allies gained control of vital inand rail and highway communi cations and were in a position to menace the whole flank of the Ger man defenders on the Volturno line bya penetration deep behind that fighting front "Several e'fiern 'fiercest counter attacks were launched in the region of Caiazzo a mile north of the Volturno but the ifth army finally routed the Germans in grim fighting there' and now has the town firmly in its possession Amorosi five miles east of Caiazzo on the east bank of the Volturno also fell to the ifth army which gained control of the high ground in thal im portant sector At several other points the Germans lunged out toward the river in attempts to reduce the bridgeheads through which ifth army is bringing more men guns and tanks up to the fighting areas reports from General frontline headquarters indicated the Germans were at tempting? to disengage them selves from close quarter com bat particularly near the mouth of the Volturno where British troops are now strongly en trenched after their amphibious landing In spite of the sharp counter on Page Two)3 New Demands or ood Czar in This Sow Has Done Well or armer I Ewest Branch Oct I Wilma has done all right by lE' Moore retired farmer and ith'j food for victory program i tMoore bought Wilma a purebredChester Whitt sow for $130 and in 18 months she and her offspring hayeproduced 187 pigs He sold some of them for 500 and still Wilma and 45 of her decend aiits I Moore bought Wilma with theiitfentiori of raising a few pigs asazhobby on his eigbt acre tract RISCO YOUTH 17 IS SENTENCED TO I LIE IN PRISON able to spread disaster over south 1 forces reached the area The Soviet ern England He reported that some airforcc was nidi lho southward fJerninnc qtiH taaI fhof caiyicI hino RIO PUBLISHER DIES RIO DE JANEIRO Oct Edmundo Betterttourt 77 found er and former publicher of the Correio de Manha one of leading morning newspapers and father of Apulo de Bettencourt now director and publisher of the paper died today drive bombing German troop trains and army stores at Nikopol 50 miles southwest of Zaporozhe our trains were declared smashed by these attacks At Melitopol neither side claim ed advances as they fought hand to hand in the war torn city Red Star Soviet army newspa per describing Melitopol as the I last German strong point before yo miles ot dismal mud iiats xnat offered little chance of natural de fense said the battle had I sumed a wide scale and has tre menaous signmcance I A Russian there would I open a path deep in to the southern districts cutting off the Crimea where six or seven German divi sions are dug in Moscow said the Germans had elected tb make a supreme stand in the vital southern area and reported that reinforcements for the Melitopol battle were arriv ing from the Crimea rushing in to attack over and over again despite heavy losses Twenty six violent German counter attacks were launched in one day and German planes made 1100 sor ties oer a 10 mile front Red Star said The fighting was with bayonet and grenade through the skeletons of shell wrecked buildings in the town itself Despite German tenacity Russian reports were optimistic and Col Andreyev Moscow radio commen tator said Melitopol was advance successfully toward tha Crimea ana aiso lowaras we muuiu ot the Across the middle Dnieper the RuMians surged out anew from their bridgehead near Kremenchug an area from which comparatively little fight ing had been reported in recent days Berlin reports said the attack meal and then slept: most of the opened with fierce artillery prep afternoon The state charged that the bar owner Al Mathieu was shot by Sappington as Mathieu tried to capture tie youth who was light ing a pistol battle with on downtown street admitted staging three holdups and disarm ing an officer Germans suit leel that something will happen in favor at the most critical moment of the war Although the German people do not dare express their opin ions openly the Czech said the general mood of in the country revealed in such mumbled phrases as and He said that sharp criticism is heard even in lines of shoppers of the destruction inflicted on Ham 1 burcr bv Allied bombers and the: failure of the German ground de 1 xense during the iirst air raid on Wiener Neustadt on Aug 13 by Af frica based Liberator bombers of the Ninth airforcc The Czech reported that the chief director of the German pris on delighted in personallv beating up university teachers Some pris 1 oners were forced to work in a nearby ammunition factory he said while others labored in fields He added that slow or inaccurate work was punished by hunger on Sundavs and that mortality was high due to undernourishment Germany Believed Prelude To Invasion of Europe By JOHN HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON Oct The aerial offensive against Germany appears now to be entering the stage of preparation for an Allied invasion of western Europe Attacks constantly increasing in force and1 frequency probably can be expected from now against those in dustries and arsenals essential to development of Reserves for the critical campaign which will start when Anglo American armies thrust across the English channel Thia is a conclusion drawn by some observers here from the American air force assault Thurs day on the great ball bearing pro duction center at Schweinfurt Ger many Widespread concern over the fact that the operation cost 60 ly ing ortress bombers evoked from official sources enough information io show that the damage done was worth the cost Consequently the Schweinfurt raid is down the books as the most important single accomplish ment to date of American bombing over Germany Ranking almost equally In im portance is the raid made on the oil refineries at Rumania which also proved very expensive in heavy? bombers Rumanian fields to which the Ploesti refineries are the bottle neck produced 30 percent of Ger total oil supply crude and synthetic The long distance air raid from North Africa Rippled output Allied military authorities everywhere hailed it as a signal victory and one which after some months would vitally diminish Nazi oil resources espe cially aviation gasoline and high grade lubricants Gen Henry Arnold chief of Army air forces said the Schwein furt bombing knocked out 50 per cent of German production of ball bearings These are integral parts of industrial machines as well as (Continued on Page Two) 27 Other Are Clasified2 A' By Board in Recent Meeting Here The local draft boafd has classi fied 'SO Ottawa countipns in 1 A who are now available for imme diate induction into the armed forces Mason chairman of the board' announced Saturday The board also classified 27 men in 2 A who have been deferred from military service through their pres ent employment in war essential industries' The status of 23 is undecided pending physical examination five the listed in 4 and one is classed in 1 Those classified in 1 A with pre vious classifications include: Gene I Hickman (P) 'Amos Taber (P) William Schierlmami (P Henderson (P)1 Harry Perry (P) Billy Abram (P) Johnnie Peterson (P) Melvin Hawkins (P) Richard Hove (P) Billie Reynolds (P) Steven K'Keck (P) Lee Schra dr (P) Wayne easter (P) Diek Ehrha'rt Jr (P) William Mitchell (O) James (O) Henry Guinn (P) Ernest Cokey (P) Mark Skaggs (2 A) ern Watkins (P) James Hqlmes (2 A) Harold Kreeger (P) Eugene White (P) Earnie A Shook (l Blaine Buzzard (2 A) John Spoon (P) William Mcall (P) Oran A Petitt () Alfred Gibson (P) Kern Janow (P) Alvio Cunningham (P) Zehnar George (P) Orlo Gay (P) Charles Renfro (P) John Shetsley (P) Guy Smith (P) Leon PhillipsP) Willard Jennings (P) Wal ter Tyree (P) David Bailey (3 A) Thomas Kelly (P) Leo Boyd (P) Jack Nichols (P) Albert A Garner (P) arris Hutsell (3 A) Lester Pine (4 rancis Maloney (2 C) Burdis Nodine (P) John Steffens (E) and John Whip key (P) Classified 2 A and deferred from military service with their previous classifications: John Tidwell (1 C) Clifford oster (P) Howard Gonce (P) Jesse Cox (P) Don ((Jontinued on Page Two) inemy orces ace Rout In Area North temperature I SEAHAWKS BEAT MIZZOU 4st Sunday KANSAS CITY Mo Oct An inspired Missouri football team that tired in the final quar ter dropped a 21 to 6 decision to the Iowa Navy pre flight eleven before 12000 fans tonight American jeep really gets around one' aboard an unnamed aircraft carrier pulling a torpedo bomber into position to take off on the October and 6 Navy attack on Jap held Wake island (NEA Telephoto) Sovie rorces Deal Stunning Blow to oe At Melitopol Russians Gain Initiative in ierce ighting At Gateway to Crimea Several Towns Captured by Other Red Troops in Ad vance of Three to Six Miles Heavy Losses Suffered by Reich fOLAHOJLk Oct" Tulsa sAjoiaen xiumcane withstood a surprising first half challenge by hard run dng Sooners tonight and stormeeark with a readly last half pass ing attack to score a decisive 20 6 ictorv before a crowd oi xovuu in 1'aft stadium Clyde Leorce whose passes ro unded spectators or tne puuev rhrows of last AU American lUnn Dobbs tossed to bd ohea sky for two of touch lowns Jim Stegman recovering blocked punt galloped yards tor xne uviic ii The Sooners i had scored first rith 50 vard march along the ground in the second period burly lAwiid Tphnw crashing through he Tulsa tackles for most of the listance but man nwcr swiftlv turned the tide' and he last half was almost aJout i IRST EKiuu i'An attempted quick kick by Le 'nrro was nartiallv blocked but Irolled to Oklahoma The Sooners gain and BobBrumley kickedfpoorly out ofbounds on the Oklahoma 38 Un a lane pasa vijuc dashed through the middle to the 13 On the next play Leorce was( dumped vr a 15 yard loss by Merle Dinkin but he got back the distance with a pass to John Herri rtSan on the 12 Here the Sooners held' downsUnable to move through 'the "Tulsa Brumley bboted tothe Tulsa 46 The ball changed hands three times on a series 6f fumbles and neither team threatened for the remainder of the period SECOND PERIOD Bob Mayfield: intercepted SX (Continued on Page Two) WASHINGTON Oct John Lewis asking striking coal minero4ej go back to work told them he thought the War La bor board w'ould approve next week an industry wide contract lengthen ing the working day and boosting average earnings about $175 a day In telegrams sent to local unions in Alabama and Indiana the Mine declared that this was his sidered personal as to the probable actipn He urged the 25000 miners idle in the two states to go back to work on Monday Other principal labor develop ment: President Roosevelt established a new three man emergency board to reconsider wage demands by 110(1000 railroad workers the shopmen maintenance of way men and other so called non operating employes A predecessor board scaled the employes demand for 20 cents an hour increase down to 8 cents but stabilization director red Vinson set aside the de cision on the grounds that an 8 cent rise would violate the govern wage stabilization policies Officials of the Kearny yard of the ederal Shipbuilding and Drydock company said 85 steel handlers who have been out since Monday had been notified of their dismissal Only six of 33 steel handlers due on today re ported but others of the 17000 day shift were on hand after a series of ildcat walkouts earlier in the week Many workers still were idle at This report was made through duclled throughout the day and the Cramn Rhinhulthnn mmnanv i vuc vouuiuaiuvttn picas uuiuuu ujf a Czech intellectual who fled Nazi prison where he had been interned for three years His name was not revealed He said that early in Septem ber while he was making his way to freedom he heard ru mors that the Nazis had devel oped a new multiple mortar or rocket thrower with a purport ed range of up to '00 miles The Nazis claim he said that when these weapons are mounted on the rench coast they will be I front Moscow Is Having Brightest Season Since War Began MOSCOW Oct 16 Mos cow as the setting for the forth coming three power conference of American British and Russian for ministers is having its brightest season social and other wise 'since the start 'of the war The ballet opera concerts plays and movies all are going oreign diplomats are giving par ties in a way they have not done since the winter of before the invasion by Germany In fact except for 'the great number of men in 'natty be med aled uniforms during the day and the partial blackout at night this season is very much like the start of the last winter of peace in Mos cow There is even a great glare of lights on one street where a movie is being made in open air studios Trio Accepted or Military Service Out of the group of draftees that Tulsa Tuesday three have been accepted so far for the Army and one for the Navy Marvin Bennis Tunnell John Hawthorne and Bill George Hadley will be taken into the ranks of the land fqrces and rank Eugene Smith will be come a sailor The names of others leaving last Tuesday will be released as soon as notice i received of their accept ance or rejection 2000 NAZIS SLAIN BY RUSSIAN ARMY 1 LONDON Oct 16 CT) A 187 field guns and over 400 ma Czech who recently escaped from chineguns Germany said today that fear of losing the war js predominant in the minds of most Germans while heavy fighting as the Russians others believe some sort of colos 1 closed on the White Russian town jsal stroke is being prepared against i from the north and south EightGreat Britain in retaliation for hundred Germans fell yesterdayair raids against The Reich I the bulletin said and big guns I hi a renrivt mua mndo tk By JUDSON LONDON Sunday Oct 7 (AP) Gen edor Tolbuk south Russian arpiy wrenched fiercely resisting Ger mans from block after block of battle shattered Melitopol to the Grimea killing 2 000 of the bitterest struggles of the war today entered its fifth day ifty miles to the north a Soviet relief army slugging its way toward Melitopol captured several hamlets in an advance of three to six miles There was new fighting at the Soviet bridgehead south east of Kremenchug on the middle Dnieper where Soviet units were declared to have "cracked the German lines and captured several settlements and over 250 prisoners 7 North and south of Kiev where PCDU A kl DCnDI Ithe Kussians "ere fblb'S toward ULnlflnll LUILl the l'kraniBn capita) over 1000 were wiped out said a CCnD UAD I ftQT I Moscow communique recorded by I Lil II 1 1 II II LUO I the Soviet Monitor In one fighting there the Russians said thej beat back over 200 German counter attacks wiped out over 8 000 Germans in a step by step ad vance and destroyed 176 tanks yards Philadelphia where 2000 walked out riday I Li WLB eallnd nn LAvis Incf nio4i Swo Navy blimps collided to ask the striking coal miners to in mid air in a dense fog off thereuri1 and followed up XT today by sending orders to the New Jersey coast today and eight tt i miners to to work forth officers and men are missing the Lakehurst Naval air sta The union had not authorized the tion announced through the fourth strikes which followed the govern 11UVUL UlbUlCl puDHC ICXUUUHS Ul fice here One ot the lighter than air ships I crashed into the ocean and the I 'other returned to Lakehurst insignificant damage and no loss of life or injury to the announcement said Only one member of the crew of the second ship was saved The Navy identified him as Har ley Charles Hunter 23 avia tion mate second class of Yacolt Wash Names of the missing were withheld pending notification of the next of kin The Navy said it was the second instance in naval lighter than air history in which airships have col lided the other occurring June 8 1942 two small training blimps were engaged in a secret experimental mission at sea at The collision occurred at 9 am (cwt) off Barnegat inlet Both i ships were of the patrol type 250 feet long The ship which crashed was on a military mission the Navy said while the other was on a training mission for officers and men was instituted at the announcement said board has been appointed to investigate the The Wrecked blimp lay on the beach this afternoon The Navy said he accident occurred during of zero Persons at the scene reported fog rolling infrom the ocean to such an extent that search for survivors would be difficult Scene of the accident was in the general vicinity of the spot where the S'S Akron giant Navy dirigible fell into the ocean on April 4 1933 The huge craft sank 15 miles off Barnegat jsland during a thunderstorm Mother in Law ounder Dies at 79 AMARILLO Tex Oct GT) Nellklonald 79 the moth law day observance died here to day after several illness Burial will be here I She inspired her son in lavr Gene Amarillo publisher to stage a mother in law celebration or several years governors of Texas proclaimed the event A national Mother in law club was organized The celebration in 1938 was mark ed by the presence of Mrs rank lin Roosevelt as honor gust Miami Daily News Record Er ALBUQUERQUE Oct 16 GT) Without a tremor Robert Edward Sappington San rancis co youth who looks many years older but is 17 today heard himself convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment a waiiv icaiii vtouci tic LoiQ deputies wnu reiurneu nim tu his cell to await transfer Monday to the state penitentiary at Santa In that way he said he would be prepared to return to a law abid ing life if he could obtain a pardon or parole 1 I Less than an hour after he was convicted of murder in the shout'd ing of a 68 year old bar owner Sappington ate a normal mid day 1 1L a jl aration followed by strong infan try and tank forces The Germans reported mn ve southeast and north of Kiev where the vc additional holds across the Dnieper near the prize city Ber lin 59 Soviet tank were de in thqt fighting ''V AS fl f' Jr I 3 1 I S3 1 2 1 1 fj The Byline of I Dependability.