The Kilgore News Herald from Kilgore, Texas • 1

IE withoii behlncj le higl PUBLISHED AT THE OIL CAPITAL OF THE LAR EST OIL HELD in th heri OL12 'r NO 307 one wa Full Leased Wire United Press KILGORE TEXAS TUESDAY DECEMBER 29 1942 ra fpRfair In) MM whosj ere Ea Ros art lage wa' Crum im Joh ert Fon non Oli Stone age wa icinity Last SHij mmm SIGN PACT WITH NEIGHBOR was ar I be uds Uni ting th 'rom th' civiliait fjd to jT Uk Roger Touhy Gang Leader Caught wo Associates Killed Edgar Hoover Personally Leads 50 FBI Agents Into Apartments of Chicago Where Men Were In Hiding CHICAGO Dec 29 FBI Director Edgar Hoover today announced that the' Touhy gangsters most vicious' and most dangerous criminals the country ever were killed or captured in a series of raids by his agents culminating early this morning when seized Roger Touhy and Basil (The Owl) Banghart i Worlij: irk wi arl Har i reports partmen i of In minor It wai to sep' bad tion set' i in thei is read Allied Air Attack Damages Every Axis Held Port In unisia Nazis Fail In Efforts To Send New Forces Into North Africa Round-The-Clock Offensive Is Allied Plan LONDON Dec 29 (UP) British submarines have blasted four ships attempting to reinforce the Germans in North Africa and the Allied air attack has grown so heavy that observers said today that every Axis-held port in Tunisia was damaged heavily The submarines struck along the Tunisia-Sicily-Italy supply line and sank two ships forced another to beach itself and probably sank a fourth according to a British Admiralty announcement German positions in Tunisia were under two-way attack from the air Bombers and fighters attached to the British Eighth Army roamed far from their bases to strike at German bases in Tunisia Then Allied planes based on Tunisian airdromes took up the attack in what almost amounted to a round-the-clock air offensive American Lockheed Lightnings long range twin fuselage fighters carried the battle from Tunisia into Tripoli-tania and attacked a German supply column 30 miles west of Tripoli Kar regulati Tie Gov a sug laced or roved bj uggestioi day frorr mpa he Mexican Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najera left signing with State Secretary Hull new trade pact between Mexica and Pact includes 50 per cent cut on duties on crude and fuel oil from Mexico Dm 4 Otb by SYRUP A Mo Vice-President Henry Wallace Sees World After Allies Are Victorious Flag Hoisted luring Ilight fiver Capital orces Now With ighting French gainst Germans LONDON Dec 29 (UP) French Somaliland last tronghold of Vichy on the African Continent has oined the Fighting French en Charles De eadquarters announced to-ay The Cross of Lorraine the 'ighting French flag mark-ng the adhesion of French iomaliland to the Allied ause Was hoisted last ight over Djibouti capital the territory and terminal the railroad to Addis baba capital of Ethiopia he cpmmunique said A foreign office news department bulletin announcing that Somaliland had adhered to United Nations as part of the French said the adhesion vas effected at 8:15 am yester-lay by an agreement signed at Iheberle on the Djibouti-Addis gtbaba railroad Signatories were Maj Gen Fowkes British commander in thiopia and Chancel Fight-ng French delegate in East Afri-a on one hand and Gen Du acting governor of French Iomaliland on the other British military and diplomatic uthorities had been negotiating ith French Somaliland authori-es during the week-end Vxis Radios Heard Then Axis radios announced hat Fighting French' and British orces had marched into the col-ny on the Gulf of Aden just ielow the Red Sea on the east oast of Africa and were march-ng on Djibouti Acquisition of the 8492-square nile territory with a population about 45000 natives and 1700 iuropeans ivas a major Allied ictory French Somaliland commands he narrow strait of Bab El Man-cb between the Red Sea and the ulf of Aden but above all it Is FRENCH JOIN Page 6 A NEW KIND of activity is eeping merchants occupied this eek Christmas decorations have ome down wrappings have been wept away and now clerks are iusy with inventory Christmas hecks are being spent and of ourse there are always a few xchanges One merchant had vef $600 worth of toys left over fter Christmas last year this year was barely $100 and yet his tock was larger this year than ast Yes Kilgore had a big hristmas SPENDING Christinas Day in his very favorite pastime Autrey hunted quail while he was visiting his near Jacksonville And he had good tuck too lie went out at 1:30 and was back at 5:30 with twelve birds the limit The Lairds Jr euid Sr have quite such good luck where they hunted in Smith County but it was a great day anyway The Lairds Jr were here lor the holidays from Grand Prairie where he is stationed at the Naval Base i Captured were: Roger (The Terrible) Touhy gang leader Basil (The Owl) Banghart his lieutenant Edward Darlak escaped Joliet Prison lifer William Stewart lifer Matthew Nelson lifer Slain resisting capture were: Eugene Lanthron alias James lifer St Clair Mclnemey alias Baby Doll and The Saint a safe blower and robber wipes out the Touhy Hoover said After mowing down two men who resisted the FBI men moved against the gang leaders with tommy guns tear gas and rifles in a North Side apartment Hoover described the scene this way: zero hour was set for 5 this morning for the raid on the Touhy-Banghart hideout Building Surrounded agents surrounded the building They had an apartment on the floor opposite apartment The FBI was equipped with machine guns high-powered rifles and tear gas The building See TOUHY GANG Page 6 SOUTHERN PACIFIC SETS RECORD FOR HANDLING TRAFFIC HOUSTON Dec 29 The Southern Pacific Lines handled the biggest transportation load in history this year but expects an even greater load during 1943 A Mercier president said in a report released today through the Houston offices report revealed that the ton-mile freight volume during 1942 was 33 per cent greater than last year 72 per cent over that in 1940 92 per cent above 1939 and 73 per cent greater than the previous all-time high of 1929 the statement said by the number of passengers carried one mile reached a new high and was 60 per cent above the previous peak year of The railroad the statement said operated 6150 special trains for the armed services besides military cards handled in regular trains All this Mercier said was taken care of despite a manpower short-See SOUTHERN Page 6 1 1 Plane Carrying Two Fliers Missing PHOENIX Ariz Dec' 29 (UP) A twin-engined training plane with two Texas cousins aboard is still missing today pn its flight from Roswell to Williams Field the post public relations office reported The plane disappeared Saturday afternoon after leaving Roswell Missing are: Second Lieut James Caldwell Jr 25 son of Mr and Mrs Caldwell' Farwell Texas and Staff Sgt Maxwell Caldwell 26 son of Mrs Leslie Jones San Antonio Texas The next of kin of the missing men have been notified Little Change BY UNITED PRESS EAST Warmer In the west and central portions little temperature change In the east portion tonight Sponsors Drive Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri who asserted he would sponsor new drive to enlist Congressional support of pay-as-you-go tax plan Government needs $8000000000 additional revenue and Senator Clark believed Ruml plan should be reconsidered Nazis Fail To Halt rlarcli Of Russians MOSCOW Dec 29 The Red Army developed a pincer movement against Rostov today by driving southward down the Voronezh railroad to within less than 80 miles of the city and breaking into the Rostov administrative district from the northeast Russian forces all but surrounded Kotelnikovski the principal German base southwest of Stalingrad and swept 56 miles to the south entering the northeastern tip of the Rostov administrative district and reaching Kichkino on See NAZIS Page 6 Tells President He's Overzealous In Labor's Behalf AUSTIN Dec 29 Death of -his nephew-soldier led John Lee Smith of Throckmorton lieutenant governor-elect of Texas to protest today to President Roosevelt about the national labor attitude the day he Smith telegraphed to the President laborers walked out on strike shutting off enough ship plates per day to build a ship and the thousands like him who have died and are yet to die in order that this nation may live have the right to expect and receive the ardent and loyal cooperation of their government long with every American citizen President some of us believe that you have been ovci-zealous in behalf of organized labor to the hurt of these magnificent young men who gamble their lives away that the rest of us including organized labor may still be Smith's nephew Lieut Reynolds Smith was killed in an airplane crash As state senator in 1941 John Lee Smith authored the Texas law punishing violence in labor disputes 18 Texas Solons With Armed Force i AUSTIN Dec 29 Gov Coke Stevenson had received no reply today to his request to President Roosevelt that military leaves be granted members of the Texas Legislature in the Army Navy and Marine Corps to attend the legislative session to open here Jan 12 1943 With the commissioning of Sen Clem Fain of Livingston as a lieutenant of Marines the number affected in Texas Is now 18 Five are Isenators Lubbock's senator and representative both are in armed service Eight of the soldier-legislators are stationed in Texas and nine outside the state Lieutenant assignment has not teen RATIONING BOARD MAY FREEZE SALE' OF CANNED FOODS WASHINGTON Dec 29 (UP) Rationing authorities indicated today that if ntcessary they might the sale of all canned goods to forestall any threat of widespread panic buying Americans generally they said appeared to be heeding the appeal But they 1 admitted that buying waves had developed in some parts of the country which if continued might require quick and drastic action The appeal was made in a broadcast Sunday night by Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard following an announcement that all canned dried and frozen fruits and vegetables will be rationed on a system in February High rationing authorities conferred yesterday on action to be taken if a general run should develop A general on all sales was regarded as the most likely counter-measure 33 Pounds Per Person There still was no indication what the final canned goods ration will be Wickard indicated that total supplies in 1943 would See RATIONING Page 6 Big Reduction In Auto Collision Insurance Rates AUSJIN Dec 29 Costs on private passenger car collision insurance policies will be reduced 20 per cent Jan 1 1943 Gibbs casualty insurance commissioner had announced today The lower costs will apply to either new or renewed policies Ten per cent reductions will be allowed Gibbs said for vehicle owners who have gasoline ration books as supplemental to A books or books only or to supplemental in addition to basic books for motorcycles Motorcycle owners with basic ration cards will be given a 20 per cent cut in collision Insurance costs Rates for other types of vehicles will remain at present amounts Gibbs said 1942 Proves To Be Banner Year For Major Texas Crops AUSTIN Dec 29 The 1942 season turned out to be a banner year for the major crops in Texas the Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics said here today in its annual crop sunumarj Crops valued at $665239000 were harvested on 2651300Q acres The combined yield-per-acre index of all peas was 23 per cent above the 1930-39 average and six percent above 1941 Cotton continued king 'lint accounting for $275500000 of the total crop value while cotton seed was worth $61118000 in addition Valuations placed on other leading crops for the year included: Com $69919000 wheat $50-759000 oats $6390000 barley $2794000 rice $24487000 pecans $1570000 oranges $4930-000 grapefruit $14490000 peaches $2012000 spinach $3572000 tomatoes $6977000 German Truck Column Taken By Force ALLIED NORTH AFRICAN HEADQUARTERS Dec 29 (UP) American Iotkheed P-38 Lightnings carried the- African air war from Tunisia into 1 Trlpolitanla yesterday attacking a big German truck column taking troops and supplies from Tripoli it was announced teday The long-range pursuit ships struck from a base behind the Allied forward lines and battered the Axis column about 30 miles west of Tripoli the chief Axis base toward which Field Marshal Erwin Libyan armies are fleeing before the British Eighth Army The point of the attack was between Zauia and Medenine The fast American planes destroyed at least 21 trucks and left many others burning Observers believed the Tripol-itanian raid was an indication of the turn that may be expected in the African campaigns with the routed Axis Libyan armies nearing a junction with CoL Gen Walther Tunisian troops and Gen Sir Bernard Eighth Army rapidly closing the eastern end of the North African nut-cracker Allied bombers repeatedly hammered the Axis-held harbors of Sousse and Sfax on the Tunisian east coast where the Germans ap-See GERMAN Page 6 LATE BULLETINS CAIRO Dec 29 British forces were in contact yesterday with the Axis forces in the Wadi Bel El Chebir area 55 miles west of Sirte and 185 mlies from Tripoli a Middle Eastern Command communique said today WASHINGTON Dec 29 (UP) President Roosevelt today arranged to confer with members of a mission representing Gen Henri Honore Giraud the new high commissioner for French North Africa WASHINGTON Dec 29 (UP) Manpower Chief Paul McNutt today revised upward to his estimate of the number of men and women of this country who will be engaged in war industries and on the batllefront by December 1943 WASHINGTON Dec 29 (UP) qf all single men on a statewide basis for induction into the armed forces before the calling of a state's married men will be proposed to the new Congress it was learned' today WASHINGTON Dec 2 (UP) Allied ynits have been withdrawn from the hill portion six miles' northeast of Eab In northern Tanb'v they took mi Ere tls War Cerartjflect irr: 1 British observers believed the constant Allied attack on supply lines might be beginning to pinch Col Gen Walther Nehring German commander in Tunisia who has a force of about 40000 at his disposal For a time he was being reinforced at the rate of 1-000 men a day it was said but that now has been reduced to a trickle Air Activity Mounts Mounting Allied air activity indicated the big Allied push for Tunis and Bizerte might not be far off Medium and heavy bombers from the Libyan Desert on the east and North African airfields on the west dropped tons of high explosives on Axis-held ports in Tunisia day and night Allied bombers and fighters devastated Axis trains and motor transport inland Competent observers in Tunisia said every Axis-held port had been badly damaged Allied headquarters in North Africa reported in a communique yesterday in See BRITISH Page 6 HEALTH OFFICER BEGINS INSPECTION TOUR OF COUNTY Believing that a person disabled by veneral disease or food poisoning was as much lost to military action as if he had been shot by the enemy city county and state agencies joined local military oificials Tuesday in inspections and investigations which will bring tightening of enforcement of pubic health and sanitation regulations in Gregg County and vicinity Acting under directions of Dr Jones county health officer Utzman Gregg County's sanitary and health inspector today began an inspection tour of Gregg County establishments He was accompanied by Major John A Fisher of the United States Army Captain John Schneider provost marshal and Lt Joseph Fuller designated to assist in such inspections by Colonel Emerson commanding officer of Harmon General Hospital'' Repeated infractions of sanitary laws by food handlers and increasing reports of venereal infections among soldiers passing through the area has created an acute problem demanding immediate action it was announced Recent Conference Plans for action were made at a recent conference held with Colonel Emerson by representatives of the city commission city police force district office the sheriffs department county health office and health service Hie pretent inspection of ec' lishments where food la sold ti soldiers and will size: 1 Sanitary i buiUirj lb and oU tot) "2 2 Tt i 1 4 I a a Jm 1st WASHINGTON Dec 29 (UP) Vice President Henry A Wallace continuing the sketching of a blueprint for a post-war world today envisions a world for all the world but believes the United Nations will have to supervise or inspect the school systems of Germany and Japan after the war In the post-war world according to Wallace there must be jobs for everyone and security for all the world victors and vanquished from depression and war To achieve that there must be a world council and a world court with a of centralization and a maximum of home he said Wallace has become the major spokesman for the new deal on post-war plans Last May he first See WALLACE Page 6 DR CRANFILL BAPTIST LEADER DIES IN DALLAS DALLAS Dec 29 Services for one of best-known churchmen and prohibition leaders Dr Cranfill were held at the First Baptist Church here today Dr Cranfill 84 died in Baylor Hospital yesterday after suffering a stroke in his office Christmas Eve He never regained conscious-' ness and little hope was held for his recovery after pneumonia set in to complicate his condition Aside from his ardent fight against intoxicants Dr Cranfill perhaps was best known for his Sunday school work For 45 years he had taught a class in the First Baptist Church and for many of the latter years his sermons had gone out over Texas via radip each Sunday Born in Parker County Texas See DR CRANFILL Page 6 Milk Shortage Declared Acute DALLAS Dec 29 Regional OPA Administrator Max McCullough said today that agricultural authorities of six states have added their appeals that something be done soon to alleviate a milk situation that already has developed critical phases in some areas They conferred with OPA officials yesterday about revising celling prices for milk in Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Missouri Kansas and Arkansas McCullough said the suggestions made would help conclude the program quickly and he again asked milk producers to continue their work until the OPA could help them SHERIFF SMITH PLANS FOR OFFICE NAMES DEPUTIES Sheriff Lonnie Smith who assumes his new duties the first of the year announced his list oi deputies at Longview' Tuesday morning Harry Dawson was made chief deputy while Hub Meadows will represent the Kilgore district Others named were: Earl Smith bookkeeper under Sheriff Hays retained Doug Hays desk sergeant under the former administration retained Callaway night chief of police Longview Fonza Leath Preston Chapman Sam Bean Charlie Davis and Roy Whitehurst Sheriff Smith plans to take the oath of office and assume the new duties next Friday morning At the same time all deputies will be sworn 18 Year Old Boys' Must Now Register At SS Quarters Jimmy Dalrymple secietary to the Kilgore Selective Service Board announced Tuesday morning that from now on all 18 year old boys must register at the offices in the basement of the post office building Heretofore they have been registering at the high school Healso announced that all boys who are now 18 years of age have until Dec 31 to register All those who become 18 after January 1 must register'bn their birthday All supplies which were sent to the various schools have been turned back to the Selective Service office and it will be necessary to register there Dalrymple urged the boys to be on time Mrs Fawcett Dies In Houston At Age of 99 Years HOUSTON Dec 29 Funeral services were to be held today for Mrs Mary Fawcett whp died in a local hospital at the age of 99 She would have reached her 100th birthday next April Coming to Texas 88 years ago she first lived near Fort Worth with her parents Her father was a Baptist minister Her husband Fawcett chief engineer of the Cunningham Plantation near Sugar Land Texas died in 1897 She is survived by a daughter two sons a sister 14 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren SANTA CLAUS was mighty ice to Beall employees he ft them each a check for two salary in their stockings A CALL for quick action has tieen sent out by the Red Cross (flee for all workers who have ard for garments for the armed orces They must be in the otic just as soon as possible ON HIS FIRST furlough in over year Robert Eugene Forkner of Mr and Mrs Forkner I spending a few days here with is parents He Is a third class ee KILGOROUND Page 8.