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1 'f. 4 'v FINAL THE INDEX-JOURNAL The Weather hlr und slightly warmer this afternoon and tonight. Partly cloudy and sllghUy warmer Friday. The Leading Newspaper of, Western South Carolina VOL. XXIII.

vNO. 251 GREENWOOD, S. THURSDAY ArTERNOON, NOV. 25, 1943 associated press features nea features PRICE FIVE CENTS kens Mm in Berlin A Air mm gmn 11 COLD MILK DELIVERED IN NEW YORK LastGasp Hii own i i i 'WSSj Rescue Squads Still Atlanta Faces Trolley And Bus Strike 'Loaned' To Georgia V6rking Feverishly Destruction Is Reported Almost Unbelievable From Eyewitness Accounts. Many Historic Landmarks Are Obliterated Stockholm.

Nov. 25. (AP) Nazi firefighfert and rescue Hquads still labored to bring order out of thaos in! bomb-shattered Berlin today as eyewitness accounts from new details of almost unbe the German capital disclosed lievable destruction wrought i intensive KAr assaults. Vast areas of the great sprawling metropolis, including many historic landmarks, have been literally obliterated, these accounts said, with block after block wiped out by explosives and fire. Much of the city simply no longer exists.

A timely rainfall was reported to have helped the work of fire fighters materially but the destruction of water mains left many sections of the cjtjr at the mercy of the tiu lelephoto The season's first ma lor snowstorm In Upper New York and England Isolated many communities and caused the deaths of at leas nine persons. Depth of the snow is illustrated in this photo, a milkman plodding from door to door in Dennsalaer, N. Y. Note snow-covered automobiles and trees broken under the weight of ice and snow. Union Marine Played A Big Part In The Killing Of 245 Japanese fHfKQnr ers but did not touch his skin, al though it lett a five-Inch burn.

Curry said "It felt like everything was pulling on the seat oi my pants and then applying hot hou there. I prayed more than I ever prayed before. There was nothing else I could do. "Then my nal. Pvi.

Clarence Btwdamejer-pjH Chartefcton, got the machine gun with his automatic rifle and saved me.H Two Are Killed Apd 50 Injure InTrainWreck Youngstown, Nov. 25. V- The Baltimore Ohio Railroads Umkiniiiui train 'cMi-rvinv nearlv 400 passengers smashed into the locomotive of an already-wrecked Pennsylvania freight train last night, killing two persons and possibly a third, and injuring nearly 50, but none critically. The wreck, which derailed the Ambassador' Diesel locomotive and five coaches, occurred only three or tour minutes after the Pennsylvania train crashed into a 8. O.

freight a mile and one half east of nearby Newton Falls. The Ambassador was enroute from Detroit to Washington. The identified dead were Ouy Mc-Oowan, 63, Cleveland, fireman, and Louis Fleisgarten, 61. Cleveland, engineer, both members of the Pennsylvania crew. Rescuers searching through the wreckage said an un identified sailor earlier reported dead might be a third victim.

"There Was a shock and a thud," said Corp. Al gennett of Bay City, a passenger in, the second coach. "The coach turned over, throwing passengers In all directions. A soldier yeUed 'take it easy, folks, and everyone will get and that seemed to quiet the passengers." Promotions Cease Awaiting Report Washington, Nov. 25 f) Rebounds of the Patton incident rl-chocheted throughout the ranks of the Army's highest officers today from Chief of Staff Gen.

George C. Marshall on down. -Following demand In the House for the recall of Lieut Gen. George 8. Patton for slapping and berating a shell shocked private in a Slclllaq hospital tent, the Senate Military Committee asked tor a full report from the War Department and meantime clamped an informal hold order oh the promotions of 14 other generals.

POFI SEEKS XEDIATIOX Bern, Swltserland, Nov. 25 Uf) The Basler N'achrlchUn said In dispatch from the Swiss border town of Chlasso today that Pope Plus XII had undertaken a mission! of mediation between Germany and the i i-I iearingi Foi-Wazis Moscow, Nor. it, The Rod Army appeared today to be overcoming successfully lh man "last gsxp" attack 45 hilles wpst of Kle. After a doits days of violent battle along the edge of the Kiev bulge in the Western Vsralne, the Rusarians reported they not only were repultring enemy assault a-gainst the Brusllov and Chernysk-hov sector but improving their own positions. Berlin claimed both towns captured).

Foreign military opinion was that if the Oormans were unable to make any headway with such i Htroug forces as they have concen-! (rated for this attack after the Russians had been advancing tor i four months, the chances of furth- er major counter-offensives from 1 the Germans were extremely light. Dangerous Flying Soon To Begin With the Seventh Army Air ttprce. Southwest Pacific, Noy. 31 (Delayed vrt MaJt Uen. Wtiiu 11 Hale, commanding the Seventh Army Air, Force, predicted today th bombers of his commaaa soon will btgla a long campaign Involving the most difficult flying in the world.

Army, Navy and Marlue attacks on Makln and Tarawa in the Gilberts, make such an immU uent campaign during the Am erican advance along the Marshall IkUnd chain and throUKh OthSI tiny Central FacfltenaflanaB' ob vious. Hale pointed out that heav bombers already have made in th last ten days a series of the world's longest bombing raids, hit ting seven lalanda In the Gilbert and Marshalls preparatory to troop bindings. Shaw Field Cadet Is Still Missing Shaw Field. S. Nov.

25 () Aviation Cadet Gerald T. Held. 22, whose wrecked plane was found near Watereo Swamp about four miles from here -yesterday morn ing, was still missing early today, the Shaw Felld public relatione office said this morning. Held, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Marcel Held of Chappaqua. N. had bet at the. field here about two months. After the wrecked plane was an intensive search was launched by air and land.

Ten planes working in conjunction with a CO-rnan ground squad combed the swamp area througnt out yesterday, abandoning the search after dark. No trace of the misaiug cadet nor his parachute waa found. UNRRA Dines And Then Works Atlantic City, N. Nov. 25.

() Thanksgiving was to get at least a passing nod here today as cabinet premiers and expert from 43 nations sat down to an old-fashioned turkey dinner but kept up their work through the The question of UNRRA's responsibility for.oermans that have not only seCed in other countries but are living in the homes of nationals forced to move elsewhere unally reached a resolution hi a sub-committee considering the machinery for, returning borne 21,000,000 "aia-pktCu of Europe. i i WHX NOT BEEXCHANGED 25. Sec retary of State Hull, replying to a suggestion that some Japanese con fined at Tula Lake. segregation camp be exchanged for Ameri can cltiaenJ internt.1 by Japan, said hi Department hau no assurance that any large number of Tuls Lake Internees would be acceptable to Japan as re patriot. TOO MANY TOO LATE Charlotte, N.

Nov. 25-tf--A thief broke Into J. E. Kelly's grocery store and stole 10.000 ration Every one tuuaxplred last Satur- South Pacific Allied Headquarter. Nov.

25 UP) A high-ranking infantry officer at Bougainville today credited Capt Tbomas Jolly of Union, 8. and Second Lt. Ben Road of Williamsburg. Va with directing artillery tire which killed 245 Japanese in two bar. rages.

He told James Hauge of bat correspondent, that Read was observing enemy fire by sound at FBI Searching ForTerrorists Of The West Nov. 25 V-Rem iniscent of the public enemy manhunts of the turbulent 30s, the FBI turned loose today all its stor ied: tkill in a search for two brothers who have terrorised the West for months. Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent out "wanted" notices for the brothers Th rone berry O. 28, and Randel, 26, who face a bookful of charges ranging from robbing a sheriff to murder; Hoover said the pair operate in "typical, wild-west, bad-man fash-Ion" and heavily armed "are extremely dangerous." The, murder charge is based on the slaying 5 of a sheepheader, at Hayderi Colo Aug.

8, 1943. The' vlc-tint was robbed' and then bound to Atlanta, Nsv. UCP Atlanta fawlley and has peratora voted last night strike December It and let the War laW Board mo the street cars" nnleas WXB rMMisiters Hi diaappraval of a eantrart wage iacreaae. J. F.

Fvbom, president the local snin, said he was pasitivc that sperassrs In ether local, transBwrtatie werfcera unions M'ecn, CMhnnbM, Aagnsta and Rome, Ga, sIm would vote te strike. mpesMmi Leave No Main Street InTakyo Thin column, conducted as dally feature by DeWltt Mac- Kenzle, la written in his ab sence today by J. M. Roberts Jr.i "If General Ptrshing had had 111 wnv. an American ai-my would have marched through Berlin- down Un-ter Den.

Linden and you young men would not be facing me today In uniform- I do not advocate that we march an American army down the main street of Tokyo I merely advocate that when this war is over, there be no Main of Tokyo left to march down." These are the words of Rear Ad miraLThomaa L. Oatch. Judge Advocate of the Navy, whose command, the U. S. S.

South Dakota, won a place In America's; Hall ol Fame with her exploits in the South Pacific. He spoke before a group of graduating naval reservists is a eood Navy man. raised in the tradition that the ultimate in life is to -deliver good licking to the Japanese." But he raises a question which is causing some discussion today. That Is the possibility of a Japanese peace offer after the war ends in Europe, presented in such guise that the public could conceive our refusal as an unnecessary prolongation of the war. Many feel UMt complete military victory over a Germany which fights to the last gasp will be cheaper In history long run than an early surrender under conditions such a The public probably feels even more strongly than that about Japan.

There is some uneasiness in some official quarters that this may die out; that an offer of Japan to re tire to her home Islands, coupled with the let-down of a change-over oeriod in war emphasis from Eu rope to the Orient, might produce a "what the hell" atUtude and leave ultimate disposal of the Japanese question to future American generations. Everybody is busy nowadays settling Germany's post-war status. Only a few, such as former Ambassador Orew. are making themselves heard above the din about Japan. Thanksgiving Is Worship Day For Thousands By The Associated Pren With critical military operations progress or In prospect in the far-flung places of the world, prayers for the safety of loved ones and tor the success of our arms mingled with the voicing of thanks in millions of American homes and In thousands of places worship today.

For Uua was Thanksgiving. 1943. stripped of the air of festivity that marked the holiday in other, carefree, times. 'Hundreds of thousands, men and women, spent the day away from their firesides at Army and Navy posts, on battle fields, and beside the production lines, Eighth Army Is Moving Ahead Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Novf 25iP) Gen. Sir Bernard L.

Montgomery's Eighth Army has battered 1U way across th swollen Bangro River. the tout litest obstacle yet encountered in the march up cracked a piece out of Adolf Hitler's winter defense line. Allied headquarters announced today. A ta-fcd4iead 9,000 ysjrdfe wide and 2,000 yards deep has been firmly established and help against furious counterattack, it was by two successive nights ol Carolina Boy Was Slapped By Patton Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Nov. -Th name of the soldier Involved in the hospital slapping by Lt.

Gen. George 8 Patton has not been disclosed, but' it can be stated definitely that he waa not Charles H. Kuhl of Mlshawaka, who entered wvtfe after Pearl Harbor. The man In lhhospltal Incident was from the Carolines, and Joined the army before Pearl Harbor. -j 0" (Rep'.

Orani, Indiana Republican, wrote Secretary Stlmson yes- erday suggnHtlag a full report be Made to the House Military Com- mittie and inqflred whether the mail Involved was Kuhl, who wrote hi fatherNAug. 4 that Patton "slapjied myace yesterday, and kicked me in the pants and cuss ed it n.MAv Ask Germans To Abandon War London. Nov (JPh While reports of an Imminent meeting of Brim. Mll -4iiinhl1l Ot-MlHnt Roosevelt and Premier Joseph Bulla remained unconfirmed today, a member of parliament proposed that the three leaders issue a Joint statement to the Oermans urging them to abandon the war. That 'such a statement was' con-temSlated bv the chiefs of satte of the bit three Allied powers was reported last" Week Hard Luck Sgt Misses Boat Atchison.

Kas, Nov. 25. flV-. Sgt Jay Mager, of Denton, Kas. enlisted in the Armv at the start of the war and since Contracted tnfluensa, suffered a severe steam burn, undergone an appendectomy and suffered a spin injury in a "truck accident.

At last aote, he was able be shipped overseas But on the way to the embarkation point his bus collided wttn a hose. Afager'f hip ai.d teg were broken and the ship sadea without 3 Carolinians Are Decorated Xil I-'Southwest' Pacific; Allied Headquarters. 25 VP) Three North Caiollnians were 'among members of. the Fifth Air Foico who bave recently been awarded decorations by Lieut, flen. commander of the Allied Air Force In srea wystepr 0f 1 mm NEA Telephoto Ben Overstreet.

36-year-olU MMHociute warden at the U. S. penitentiary, Atlanta, is slated to oeccme executive deputy Wiley L. Moore, Oeorglas peiial corrections director. Ov- enfreet will be "loaned" to the state lor an Indefinite period.

He is a native of Sylvania, Oa. StilH Subside Washington, Nov. 25 JP) StUl hoping to save President Roosevelt's food subsidy program from a near-J--certain congressional sea-ate Democratic leaders arranged today to call in Florello H. LaOuardla of New Yor and other big city mayors to argue "the case for the consumer." LaOuardla. advocate of federal subsidies to hold down food costs, is among a group of mayors scheduled to testify next week before the Banking Committee on the anti-subsidy bill which swept through the House, 278 to 118.

Chairman Wagner (D-NY said he expected Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago and a group from Southern cities to be among those appearing with LaOuardla on Friday, Dec. 3. The hearings will open Nov. 30 with farm organization spokesmen, opposing the subsidy program, to be heard first "You might say the mayors are going to state the case for the great masses of consumers who are going to be the ones to suffer through higher living costs if subsidies are stopped," Wagner said.

Despite this drive for public support of subsidies, Senator OUlette (D-Is) predicted that the senate would pass the ban and also would override a veto. Oillette said he wasn't at all sure the President would veto the bill, as he did last summer. He said -he believed the administration might accept a. Congressional edict a-gainst subsidies and adjust price control machinery to let farm prices go up somewhat. $2,140,000,000 Tax Bill Goes To Senate shlngton, Nov, 25 (JP) A new tax which would dip 000, deeper into American pocket-jooks andholst the government's Income to an estimated 143.500,.

000,000 a yearmoved over to the senate today, where its rapid approval waa indicated by an unusual shortage of significant amendments-Chairman Otorgt (D-Oa) announced' the finance committee would open hearings Monday and try to complete them by the end of next week. The Senate itself will have to act with terrific speed to match the record of the House, which passed the bill yesterday by a standing vote of 200 to 21 after a single day's debate. Japs On Gilbert Are Annihilated Pearl Harbor, Nov. 25 () In a bloody four-day battle, Americans bave annihilated all but a few of Will Pass uHmes. Thfl following Icture of d-xtructlon was given by the latest haggard, red-eyed arrivals from the Grman capital, many of whom at 111 were wearing clothes singed as they walked through streets walled by tire: Picture of Destruction "It you look at the map starting at Ruhleben.

which has 'ceasr ed to exist, a great are of dentruc KSfht; Berlin from the west to east. So many houses bave bran destroyed in the Spandau north weiit. suburb that it is esti mated at lHt 85 per cent of it will have to bevacuated. "There Ih slmpiy not room enough for all thoneioml)cd To the north the indasU'lal dU trlcts of TiroI, and RMn'ken-dorf. and In the northeast Phnkow and Welsnensee.

jir all badly I haa af ttuMllik centering around, the governmental quarter on tbo Wllhelmstrasse Is the worst of all. "Since the Monday night raid, When sticks of bombs and Incen diaries destroyed or damaged vir tually every building on the left side of the WilhelinstraKHe, from Wilhelmsplatt to Unter Den Lin den, with I lii exception of the Retch's Chancellery, additional buildings received heavy blows. Uoering Building Hit "Dr. Alfred Rosenburg's staff building for ruling the occupied eant. located In the former Rus sian Embassy on Unter Den Linden, was badly damaged.

Reichs-niarshal Hermann Ooering's Luftwaffe building, which was damaged in raids last March, waa hit again by Incendiaries and explosives. The nearby Ges'apo headquarters on Prim Albrecht Strasse was damaged. Moxqulto Buinbers Huny London. Nov. 25.: Swift MohquHo bombers set the air raid sirens howling in Berlin for the third successive night by stabbing at the German capital "again last night as smoke still rose skyward from conflagrations set by Britain's heavy bomber fleets.

The purpose of the attack, from which only one of the raiders failed to return', obviously was to harass and confuse the battered defenses of the city, which already had been burned and devastated on a scale hitherto unknown. An RAF commentator Indicated that the German capital, now the most heavily, bombed city in the world, would be hit as often and solidly as the weathei1 and strategy permitted. "It is the greatest prjr.e,' he declared. The Allied a )iial offensive was kept rolling, meanwhile, as' sev-eral wav bf planes swept out across the channel In bright sunlight this morning in the direction of the French coast. There was no iinmedlate indication et their targets.

Only a small number of planes no heavy bombers engaged In offensive operations from Britain last night, but Berlin had no reason to breathe eaxlly. Didn't Know Her Church Member Hutchinson, Kas Nov. A. WV-Seaman Dale Dawson of the Natal Air. Base attended Church and sat next to woman who wanted to be hospitable to visiting servicemen.

She Invited him to dinner. Dawson accepted with a straight face. He's a Hutchinson resident and had been attending that church for raartr higluall, dtreotink a barrage on the Japs. Jolly directed the fire the next morning. When the Marines advanced they found the Jap bivouac area littered with dead in every position.

3gt Wlnthrop Cady of Salt Lake City, related how Marine Pfc. Robert Curry of Sylacauga, was ctnigtifl5 'feet -from a Japanese machine gun. The first burst rip-ned Curry's canteen from his trous Freed Animals In Berlin Are Shot On Streets Stockholm. Nov. 25.

Elephants and bears of Berlin's see, Ubetated daring the record Monday night raids, were hented down and shot In Tlergavten Park by gnards with machino Sans, travelers arriving Jure by plane from the devastated German capital said last night. Other reports the Swedish press said thai every bnUding In the 209 was destroyed. TenTo One Is Score Against The Japanese Chicago; Nov. 25. last letter from an American flier in China said that U.

S. air fighters are shooting down 10 Jap planes to each American one lost and that "our safety record is astounding tOO," Lieut. Wayne Aberle wrote on Oct. 24 to his wife, who disclosed the letter today: "Our squadron has made more than 125 succesful missions In a little over a year, terrorizing the Japs with untiring tactics and Ingenious bombing accuracy. One day recently our B-24 squadron shot down over 40 Zeroes ut.

"We've had our ships coma back sieved with Zero bullets and antiaircraft, with, engines, Urn' and controls shot out but they've come back, is death, and regardless of how dull, dirty, or dangerous your work, death is always Just around the corner Lieutenant Aberle was killed in action Oct. 26. New Nazi Troops Rushed To Serbia 1 London, Nov. 29. Fought to a standstill by partisan forces io Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia, the Germans are rushing up 'reinforcements preparatory to launching new attempts to break through in those areas, headquarters of the Yugoslav Liberation Army said In a broadcast v.

On the Dalmatian coast, the partisans are battling superior German forces' attempting to gain session of the entire coastline, the Yuyoslav bulletin reported. m. whjciiii ui uuiuicr liihl the ropes gradually tightened into a. death The- brothers werr arrested two days later by local officers at Saratoga, Wyo They, were loaded down with two Ugh-powered rifles, two tmaU-callber rifles, and three j-: Lodged in Jaii, at Steamboat Springs, Colo- they overpowered the sheriff, took his billfold, credentials, gasoline ration book; and automo-- bile, and. fled, t' i' 4 Jap Destroyers Sunk fiarly Today Southwest paclfie Allied i Head Quarters Nov.

29. Ouns biasing In the first dark hours of Am-; erica's Thanksgiving Day, swift United States warships all but wiped out six enemy destroyers to- day during a two-hour running battle whlcTi extended to within 90 miles of Rabaiu, Japanese naval and ir fortress. -j Coving boldly near the entrance of St. George's Channel, whose waters wash between New Britain and New Ireland, the American destroyers sank four Nipponese A fifth was damayed but managed to escape with the other survivor into the black tropical night. Adm.

WU-. liam F. Halsey's spokesman said the 4 declslf enemy defeat, which the outnumbered American unite flic ted without lost to themselves, thwarted an attempt to remove key personnel from often-bombed Buxa on the northern tip of AUled-lnvad-cd Bougainville in the Solomons. the Japanese on the Gilbert la-lands, climaxing their conquest with the capture of Betio and its strategic airfield from where new thrusts may come soon. Betlo fell to MaJ.

Gen. Julias C. Smith's Second Marine Division at dusk Tuesday; most of its 4.000 defenders dead or dying on Its sandy battlefield. v. -I.