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a Doil one ninp Wide ffh. THE SEDALIA City Edition olunip Niiml 32 Denncc-at Established 1868 DEMOCRAT Ohouffhi for OoJa the Sunday Mornins Capital Fourteen Pages agp, not riraviT wrinkles on thy rherks; be content to be envied, but envy not Sir Thomas Scilalia, Suiulay Feh ruarv Browne. Price Five Cents Dow 11 26 Of Planes Japs In Not An AH I Plane Ir In The Air Battle an. New (riiinea By TOM ALLIED HEADQILXRTPIRS IX AUSTRALIA, Eob. the biggest single air battle to da-e tiie so Pacific, t.venty-s Japane-e planes were de'tr yed and 15 damaged over Wa Xew Guinea yesterday.

Not a single allied fighter was the fighting which all day. The allied weie Ligid- nings, Airacobras and haw their victims and medium bonibers. It was an all-out attojr by the Japs to ruin the i airdrf.me around whiih ground fighting has been continuing on a small Fcale for several days. There was no ground pusn synchronized with big air attack and fighting limited to patrol ac- The total bag of enemy planes consisted of: twenty-one fighters end three medium bomoers shot i down by planes and two by antiaircraft guns: Damaged or probably fighters and three medium bombers. Fight Over Wide Area Fighting occurred er a wide erea around Wau, which is 35, miles southwest of Sayamaua.

The planes battled at altitudes as h.gh as 18,000 and as low as I feel sure that Col. Par kor Says Trottps On MIAMI BF.XCH. Feb. f) 'V -V ora, le idents nf M.a.. filed wwitten about tiue 'y I -g smgi.

of the in a n.ng here. Vicv rc'-ec ed t' eir auswei fiO i- Ralph M. 'Uimmandmg the Miau Reach air base com- Sa (, Parker in an open letter: uuiug will continue. arise at tiie first sound of military ac- tir yv mnrning and get do on yo knees with all tue ruen'bers of your hoiQ r.u... aie there- ui.v, a id c.fier tiianKs to with me and all the rest of us, t'nat those are Americans singing American songs, and not Gero ans or Japanese singing victory American RC War Fund Campaign Gets Started Rev.

W. P. Arnold AiiiioiiiieeR The mitteeinen like gargantuan tumble- to back us 000 feet, wdth planes swirling and rolling weed. This in size Plans for the 1943 Red Cross War Fund campaign are now formulated, it was announced night by the Rev. Walter P.

Arnold, general chairman for the drive. date has been set, the quota fixed, and we are getting said Mr. Arnold, sure that the citizens of I lied Forces 1 roops Aow III North Afr ira lie Direrleil Him R.v Wes riallagher IX NORTH AFRICA. Feb. 6 -Cien.

D. senhuw- er was named c'iuef of all allied forces a new Aorth Afi'c an theater of cpt up t'dav as further results of the conferercp at Casablanca (ontinuea to uufrud. Gen. Henri Giraud had just I a French committee to replace the council the late Admiral Jean a intecprcted as a direct result of the French high commisMoner's talks witln President Roosevelt and Prime Min- li'ter Churchill last (From the Algier-i radio, in a broadcast rec rded in a repr.rt that troops of the British eighth army werp good fiO miles inside indicating further that allied efforts to the Axis frcim the were fast appr aching a show'down.) i Although the Eisenhower an- niuincement made no mention of promotion in rank to a full general, authorities said that forces of Gen. Sir Bernard L.

British eighth army entering this theater would come his command. So far as the United States forces were concerned, the reshuffling of command was tually completed wdth the appointment of Lewus H. Rrereton, commander of U. S. Air Full Associated Press Leased Wire and Wide World Featurea iof fi Army Of Reds The Last German At Storms Defenses Of Rostov South Of Don Croup To Enter New Positions 111 Tunisia Service On Fehruary 19 Names Made Public By Board On Saturday The Pettis County Selective Service Board announces the fol- i lowing registered in this county are to for induction into the on Februarv 19: Stage For A Showdown In Operatiiins Set WITH THE ALLIED FORCES IN TUNISIA, Feb.

I new ly won allied positions atop Djebel Mansour and Alliliga, com-i manding an important Germanic aucasian army already Large Army Is Virtually In A Tightening Ring Of Soviets LONDON, Sunday Feb. 7 (AP) The Red army stormed forward at the last German defenses of Rostov south of the Don today and sent flying: columns southward toward the Kerch Straits to cut off the seaward escape of a largre Nazi artillery and was disclosed The followung four men are in Tunisia, have been; virtuallv caugfht in a Russian transferred into this county from in the face of heavy noose hv other boards: counterattacks by German infan- Lauren Eugene try supported by Route 3, LaMonte. mortar batteries, it Oiian Inlow today. 1400 South Warren. The greatly Lloyd Eiwin Troops which 12364 1311 East Fifth.

Roy Daniel McCampbell Ridge. The following twelve men volunteers: Charles Preston Bottoms Jr. East Eleventh. James B. Whitfield depleted British w'on Mansour, a noose by a tightening: thrust to the Sea of Azov.

A special Russian communique recorded last night by the Soviet Monitor said the Russian forces reached the Sea of Azov south of Lieut. Gen. Ihvight D. allied forces in the strategic height 20 miles south-the Germans oH west of Pont Du Fahs known Caucasus and the regular ihiU 648, in a pre-dawn attack are Wednesday had to fall back, though reinforced by crack guards UnUH.tfoYth Adolf Hitler thus was present- It not immediately clear extricating hi. where Eisenhower named to head all of the North Africa Theater of Operations Brazil Full Partner Now air battle surpassed over tnn only by the great that day allied attack on a Jap con-; on March 9.

wiy off Lae, New Guinea, Jan. 6 has been occasioned by the ration- through Jan. 9 when 133 enemy program which will be going planes were downed or damaged. during the week preceding. It as splendidly this year as they did i last year, and that the drive will forces the drive The delay Places Country At War On Axis Powers IS hoped that the funds will subscribed and the reports in the end of that week.

The committees hope to begin drives in the county districts be by on Luck To Americans American pilots had a of luck at the beginning of the fight in that when the first wave of Jap bombers and their escorts hit Wau airdrome some allied i February 15. transports with fighter escorts The quota for Pettis county has v.ere just arriving and thus were been at $16,500. This sum, in the air and ready to meet the though only exceeds the amounts raised in the The battle came in five phases year during the roll from 10:45 a. m. to 1 p.

m. At fhe first war fund drive. 10.45 eight American P-40 fight-1 Gommittee Appointments escorting transports came upon Arnold announced the ap- 12 Jap medium bomoers which committees, the ere dive bombing Wau field planning committee and the pub- with an escort of 12 Zero.s. committee. The planning rung into them at 2,000 feet and committee, which serves as the less, the shot down five executive committee of the drive, Zeros and two bombers, and pos- composed of the follow- fibly got three more of the bom-Banner, Leon Archias, bers.

Harry Brunkhorst, J. J. Chip- At the same time, eight Franks, Phillip Mc- ican P-39 fighters, which also I Montgomery, were escorting some transportsGeorge H. which also probably were a ilkerson, A. 1op cover for the first formation, Milks, Charles Van Dyne and intercepted 20 to 25 Zeros and Caldwell.

Major enemy medium bombers at ranking officer 000 feet Sedalia Air Base who re- rtown Zeros and one bomber and prob- anlv destroyed five more Zeros. The Red Cros.s War Fund head- iater, at 11:40 quarters are being set up in two rooms adjoining the office of the Red Cr. ss at 125U South Ohio. One room will be used as an uffice and the other as a supply room. A telephone, number 115, has been conneeted.

Mr. Arnold urged the public to make full use coach, believ-of this telephone. American in that area. Brereton succeeds Frank M. Andrews, who was named commander of U.

S. forces in the European theater yesterday to Eisenhower." Separation of Theaters Separations of the U. S. North rural theater of operations fmm countiw at war against Japan their European is one of the well as Germany and Italy. nr 1 raining Lor Armed Forces Instruction In Specialized Work Will Be Given the British forces would care J.

Davis, Railway Exchange take up new positions, although it Kansas City. was evident the important heights Charles Luther were not being given up entirely. 1309 East Eleventh. RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. Brazil joined the United Nations today as a full partner against the axis in a which places Roosevelt-Church- results of the ill conference.

(Under ordinary mllitaiT pro- partners and not again.st cedure, Eisenhower would be out- but was nevertheless an Feb. The war manpower commission announced today approval of 281 non-federal schools, colleges and universities for utilization by the t. navy departments for niallv at 1 training of men and maily at wai against the European Stage For Showdown By EDWARD D. BALL LONDON, Feb. al- Milburn George Grand.

Jack Wesley 1420 South Ohio. Res set the stage for the impend- Robert Frederick ing showdown in Tunisia today South Quincy. I by naming Lieut. Gen. Dwight John Bryan Eisenhower commander-in-chief 2514 East Broadway.

of a new North African theater of Charles Clayton operations shortly after the ranked by both Gen. Sir Harold commander of the British force 5 in the Middle East, Gen. Sir Bernard Itlont- jgomery, field commander of the, British eighth army. who recently conferred (The announcement Saturday with President Roosevelt followed a period of speculation States 'in allied quarters that Pusenhow- Casablanca. er, commander of the AEF which ally of the United States.

The decision to sign the pact of the United Nations was reached this afternoon at a meeting of the cabinet with President Getulio St on a Natal (Please Turn to Page 6, Column 1) Fire Coin Biisv Satiirdav women needed in the armed forces. Located throughout the country, the institutions were the first to be selected by a joint committee of the army, navy and manpower commisison for the new war training program. Many others will designated later. Every institution in the coun- i.s being considered for pos. u.se.

I'he commission emphasized that actual contracts will be let only to Institutions facili- South Stewart. Sam Dolan 319 East Boonville. Carl LeRoy 1518 East 10th. Robert Lee 1217 South Barrett. Vincent Thorban East Saline.

Arthur Cecil I W. Alexandrine, Detroit, Mich. William J. Saranac Youngstown, Ohio. Marvin Frederick 623 East 18th.

Joe Martin W. Warren, Chicago, 111. entire Caucasus force, estimated up to 200,000 men, in his first after his disaster of Stalingrad. At the same time, the que announced, the Red army surged to within five miles of Rostov from the south by the capture of Bataisk and burst across the Donets river in a sweep which threatened not only the encirclement of Rostov and the Donets mining basin but also the approaches to the Crimea. In the latter thrust they came within 43 miles of Kharkov, capital of the Ukraine, south of Pont-Du- British announced with submarines more axis supply mountain jarmy 20 miles Fahs.

But the I sea successes I sinking three ships and a tanker in the Mediter- I raiiean. The Algiers radio broadcast a report that British eighth army troops were good 60 miles inside after crossina the crossing Route'border from Libya.but this lacked 3, Hillsboro, Tenn. udes in Sedalia. John gomery was appointed chairman of the publicity committee. Brazil declared on and Italy last Aug.

22 alter jsy.stematic attacks had been made on Brazilian by axis U-Mies prove acceptable to the Inter- boats in the South Atlantic. The declaration was then a mere formality, for the Brazilian air force already was making war on sub- remain Up until noon Saturday the fire and sank some in between companies had made fifty-six runs operations, since the first of January, an in- Besides joining the United Na- of the same number of runs P' complete belligerence in tn7bp7r' To the war department to the terms of the Atlantic Char- i training fore at the same period of 1942. I However, only slight damage re- I suited from fire in any of the four runs made Saturday morn- i jng. About an hour (Please Turn to Page 6, Column 4) ter. Official North American sources in Brazil said the decision was of ested branch of the services.

Contracts for training made be- creation of the committee in force. There are 600 and 7C0 of these. Approve Missouri Schools Among the 281 approved today are: for engineers: Herman Edward Andrews (Jak Union, Mo. William Fred South Stewart. William Woodrow Davi.s- Harrison Apts.

Donald McFarland Agnes, Kansas City, Mo. -189 -904 official confirmation. Gen. Henri Giraud established a new war committee in French North and West Africa, supplant- ing the old imperial council form- by the late Admiral Jean Dari Ian. -3301: Way Open To DeGaulIe step apparently left the Alois Carl way open for the Fighting French South Broadway, Wichita, Kas.

I Edwill Gustav 2635 Lyle Maplewood, Mo. Charles LaMar George 301 S. 18th Yellow Stone French Lincoln, Neb. Ellis Jewell 12, Green Ridge. Mis- jpsse Aubrey soun, 'Washington School University Fire resulting from sparks from! importance in the coordin- Metall Leo Oscar Welch 697 defective flue caused $15 dam-i Brazilian "forces In the To general war effort.

Car Plunged Iiilo Di Ditch A 1935 Chevrolet fri to been owned and er by 2205 Ohio axenue, according to to was wrecked nn old highw'ay 65 near the Heck farm of Sedalia. The accident occurred about 10:30 Friday night and the car struck a culvert overiurned in a drainage ditch, spilling the into three feet of water. Tlie Heck farm is located on the road which the M-K-T iti'ckyards and just a I km distance from new' ghwav 65. According to infvn: en Sergeant P. E.

Corl of the Highway Patrol the car is mcn- cd by Pettis but it not cither state or city -n it. It was said he was led by other and girls, none being injured. The car as taken to the Elmer Arnold where it was held of folks questions about the pr Cross they want answered. They want to know where the money goes and how it IS used. V'e had that phone put in for tbe purpose of those questions as well as for use by those who are working on the drive.

1 hope the public will use this explained Mr. -Arnold. pending further investi the accident liy 11 1 -f Desire A Cruiser Named itv Ms- KANSAS CTTAF Fe Hoy A. Roberts cf the tv night for Secretary peto the Kansas ('oy a ea navy cruiser ne 'en city. Symphony hestra Rehearses Tuesday Night a fr Se eoiid Both well The Navv oert Bruce B'itliwell.

son of Sheriff Mrs, C. R. who a freshman at the Schi'ol of Engineering, Uinversity of Columbia, successfully passed the U. S. Navy examinatirm in Kansas City lart week, and was taken into the sei' with the ra-k of an appreiit ce under the program.

He will be 18 yoais old the 13th of tnis ir.riOh. He I yet re.o ived as to t'nnu u'e b's' uer hi' gn C. Hot J- ranow wmere -n a age to the residence cf William Beymer, 914 East Sixth street. jThis alarm w'as received at 8:40 o'clock in the morning, i Seven minutes later the companies w'ere called to the residence of Harry Williams, 501 North Prospect avenue, where paper stuffed into a flue had caught fire. No daivaged resulted.

At the fire companies were called to the residence of T. E. Riley, 1700 East Fourth street, wdiere a curtain had fire while a sn'all boy was playing with matches. Slight damage resulted. Sparks from a burning flue caused about S5 damage To the roof of the of Jack Tindle 343 Noi lh Summit avenue, about 11:50 o'clock.

Sedalia Retail iirocers To Meet Missouri urgy. the w'ar department for the of army aviation cadets: Missouri: Jefferson College, Alissouri State Teachers Rockhurst College, St. Louis Uni-j versity, Southw'est Missouri State Teachei's College, University of Missouri. I To the war department for pre-I All Independent Retail Grocers of this city are invited to be in- atiendance at the regular monthly: meeting of the Sedalia e'U Retail Grnrers training for the w'ho'h ill be held tomorrow' corps, night (Monday) February 8th Missouri: Washington Univer- 8:09 at the Central ness College. TTie program To the navy department for be devoted to a engineers: P' int Rationing and Ration Missouri: University of Mis- ing.

souri. ville, Mo. Joe Franklin Crescent Blv. Roy Arthur East i'ourth. Claude Lee AH Bakersfield, Calif.

-212 Direct Hits On Ships ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Lawuence Jerald North Africa, Feb. L'Sh the hot bursts of shells, four -213 South Ohio. Joel Gentry Scott Washington 1238 n.i -1 to Talk On Scouting At Inb Meeting U'e a vt Gillespie, of Jefferson i- nt the Boy be the UiC meeting at the R-thwell lb I I Loiigwood (7irl The A ACs Ms'-s of Dr. and Mrs. i AL Xe sh of Longwo'd.

has recently eiiMsied in the Army Corps. Aliss went to Fort Leavt iiw or'; licr physic was ui f'c- a i ('a AT neen res'-img She 1 an S''e pUys r- was at vmp t- -'p of tre Sed d'a Sy ou tra. She attended C. two years, ta "tar school last vear iS uie Neu' GOP Senators Lunch And ork Together Bv Francii J. Kelly jresentation v'a? far mere slender WASHi-NGTON, Feb.

6 than the present 38. They look to gyrmp XIinoriTy Leader ATcNary. Oregon e.merged today veteran, for counsel, and had him Ea.st Sixteenth. Dfinald Alfred care S. Foreman Courts, Ohio, Perry Lee Smith Somh Stewart.

Trueman William Manford James 302 East Seventh. Charles Leonard South Lamine. Cecil Calvin 'CheuTnut, Kansas City. Robert Abe Fourth. A rt -O'.

R. a a c- year nas been tea u'er Si unM An R- 5 T. C. Lo; I'd This Post A I g. I A nev nine aa fact IT Ue nine say their eteMion over ex- pei'Anced indicates deep of the voters (Tel- uy ti.v biiM- ne h- and they intend umeml'i'g about it.

Amy ai w'orkimi at a wee': tn- and. ov once, a diu.umr tC'- IV fl- he I tj i'. 'MPV K. LA'i-ile, ewwu Shiite in d- 'utmn. The for- ttuh is ht re i a nate comm i n- Pi H.

me At ve. Pr 'C as guest of at one of their Wednesday which are becoming a feature on hill. Oddly, the strategy-luncheons grew' out of a treat by Vice President Wallace. Early the tiiat ranking Def crat invited ail to a noon nine new' Ropuh- bcans aud two memberj hpud. Aim- ice the I off the Republieans stayed Lunrheon Meet Each Week Si'ire then nine has'p reg They have a Wednesday noon re-ervatmn in a dining room known as the nator A'andenbe -3003- -337 i Ralph Waldo Eckles- Route 2.

Freeburg, 111. Joseph Eugene Wheeler 1220 East Thirteenth. Clay Luther Patrick Poute 4, Neosho. Aio. Lloyd Richard 916 West Jim Summitt, Kansas Cit.v.

James Elwood -Route 5. Clarence Ben 2. French political situation in North Africa took a hopeful turn for the better. In the actual fighting, however, on the allies suffered a setback when the Germans captured a 'I 2 frrxrv. ihc.

i The Russians, their drive to II om the British first a the Sea of Azov south of Rostov, announced that they had captured the town and port of Yeisk, 65 miles southw'est of Rostov and the I terminal of a branch railw'ay from main Rostov-Baku line. I Cut Off Huge Nazi Force With all railways and roads In I their possession the Russians thus cut off the large German force still holding Krasnodar and the Black sea naval base of Novoros- sisk in the Caucasus after a retreat of 375 miles from the high- w'ater mark of their invasion. Escape by sea from Novoros- sisk or across the Kerch Straits into the Crimea the only exists left to the Germans, and wdth the Russian fleet still in being in the Black sea it was a question the German high command had the naval facilities to attempt an evacuation such as saved the British army at Dunkerque in 1940. Fanning out rapidly south and of Yeisk, other Russian columns seized several more district centers in spearpoints thrusting 25 to 70 miles below that port, the midnight communique as recorded by the Soviet Monitor reported. Take Near Coast Yashenka and Kopanskaya, only five and ten miles from the coast but 25 to 30 miles south of Yeisk, fell to the while another column seized Pereyaslavaskaya, 70 miles southeast of Yeisk and only 65 miles directly north of Krasnodar.

This meant the were rapidly driving toward the Kerch Straits from the north and closing off even this avenue of German escape. In the Ukraine, the midnight communique told of additional successes, with Soviet columns thrusting w'est and southwest of Stary Oskol tow'ard Belgorod and Kursk and between those two tw'o places. The communique reported cap- tiire of Bolshay-Troitskoye, ap- (Please Turn to Page 6, Col. 3) under Gen. Charles De Gaulle to be represented, and North Afri- can dispatches reported that Gen.

Catroux of the Fighting national committee con- iferred w'ith Giraud in Algiers to- Route day on taking a post in the French African government. Both new committee and the separation of the U. S. Rock-: North African theater of opera- tions from the European theater W'ere seen as direct re.sults of the Roosevelt-Churchill Casablanca conference. (Please Turn to Page 6, Column 2) Five Die Airplane IiivAii Crash CLINTON, 6 Tw soldiers of the air corps and three aviation cadets were killed last night in the crash of a twin- engined army airplane on a farm seven miles southwest of Clintcn.

The public relations office at Chanute Field identified the dead 724 as Second Lieut. Leland Reynolds. 40. of Rochester, pilot; Staff Sergt. Lloyd B.

Oliver, 24, of Salisbury, crew chief; and Aviation Cadets Walter L. Halerz, I 22, of Chicago; Weldon Gayle, 20. of Rellaire. Texas; and I Carroll W. Hooe, 27, of ville, Ky, I The plane Bond Sales For Bomber Petti.s countians are doing their part toward buying war bonds, and if the sales continue the next training fl.ght from the Hondo W'as on a Army Air Ba'-e at Hondo.

the relation.s office In- officers had been unable as yet to find the cause of the accident. Medical Society To Hare Special Meeting Monday The Pettis Countv Aledical Society have a special meeting at 7.30 ivVlock Alonday evening, Feb: 8. at t'ne John H. Both- vvell Alemorial hospital. iatioii Cadets Killed In Crash January the bombir, to be pur- cra.sed by the county, and called Pettis County, will be irchased and flying over Rerun before loi 1 ic fixed quota Vje county January as SSO.onn, Janua V' reimrd weok noi as Nie 'V ac ne fi m.

(R-ARch I' n.f t'd. I T.U'V Hospital Notes Florence, admitted 1 ai'iv a. 11.. ne Fvstal scnocl. r.en senate rep-, (Please Turn lo Page 6, Col.

2) BoUnvell Ben Bi bu- b-eat All'. Kfrmetn Anderson, Wf-' Airs. Herneit and infant son, 516 Fourth itieet, diimlssecL ALNUT RIDGE, Feb. 6. Cadets Alaitin Cozine, No.

1 Burn- liam Place, Radburn, N. and John Louis Malm, 209 Jay street, Albany, N. were killed today w'hen tlieir training ship from tine army air base rasi.ed on a i-j Light near Beat 1 East T'np puoLc (announced. for -1 2nd 3rd 4tn eex sales sales week sat PS 23 760.00 25.012.50 32,475 00 here -itine e. reiations $111,896.25 et and Lu-A I'baiige I port.on.

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