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tXTRA CHRISTMAS MONEY From things lying around you donH want clothing, used lumber, baby and doll buggies, etc. for an ad taker. I THE HUTCHINSON NEWS VOL. LXX1 NO. 122 HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1942 PRICE CITY 5c House Postponing Rationing Thangsgiving Holiday For Most Of City Navy Program Not Halted; Special Church Services Wartime observances of Thanksgiving Day to suit every taste arc in prospect for tomorrow in Hutchinson and Reno county.

Stores, business houses, banks, city hall and court house will be closed providing a holiday for a large part 'of the population. Schools will dismiss for the weekend, with pupils returning to classes next Monday. The navy, war industries and draft boards will work. Employes of restaurants, railroads, hospitals and other utilities will be on thr job giving services to the general public. Thanksgiving dinners arc planned at restaurants.

Many individuals plan to take advantage of a last motoring fling before gasoline rationing, and others will entertain at traditional family feasts. i There will be church services for formal prayers of thanksgiving and opportunities for sharing good things with tho less forty- note. Just One Celebration "Franksgiving" is a thing of the with all U. S. citizens celebrating again on the last Thursday of November us first proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln in 1(163, when a legal holiday was made of a clay which first became significant in thanksgivings offor- (Pagc 8, Column 2, Please) Can't Co To Doomed Wife Cowboy Henry Caught Anil Offers No Fight Austin, Tex.

police were informed today that Beaumont officers had captured Claude (Cowboy) Henry, convicted slayer whose wife faces execution in Louisiana Saturday, in a rooming house. Henry escaped from Texas prison farm Monday. Beaumont is near the Louisiana- Texas line and less than 50 miles from Lake Charles, where his Claude E. (Cowboy) Henry wife, Annie Beatrice (Tony Jo) Henry awaits electrocution for the slaying of a Houston, salesman. Yesterday Louisiana officers announced they were on the alert for any attempt of Henry to reach his wife.

Police Capt. George White and two other Beaumont officers roused the convicted slayer from a hotel bed at 7:15 a.m. and he surrendered without show of resistance. "You fellows seem mighty nervous," he told the officers who had covered him with their weapons. "I'm not going to cause you any trouble." Last Friday Mrs.

Henry confessed she fired the shots that killed J. P. Galloway of Houston, after flic and Horace Finon Burks, had robbed him. She said she confessed to save Burks from execution. A plea for clemency for Hurks, also under death sentence, is in preparation.

Tellers HON. JOSEPH EASTMAN OFFICE ENSL TRANS. WASHINGTON. D.C. Dear Joe: The fellows who devised the blanks for farmers to fill out to get gasoline for their trucks certainly never lived on farm.

Yours, HU'l'Ul. Jeffers Indicates There's No Chance Of Delay; Many Protests Registered Washington special house committee recommended today six month's postponement of gasoline rationing in all or at least part of the presently area "to see" what complete voluntary tire saving will accomplish. The group also suggested that studies of the office of petroleum coordinator and office of defense transportation be utilized in an effort to make sure "that our transportation system throughout the country does not suffer a sudden and drastic collapse through premature and forced gasoline rationing." Representative No Need For Farmers To Get In Stew They're Assured Ample Gasoline For Operations The problem of the farmers' gasoline supply after gasoline rationing seemed to have dissolved today, but the fuss brewed while the problem was still a problem, was assuming alarming proportions. The situation appeared to be this: First allotments of gasoline for farm trucks as provided in certificates of war necessity were too some cases much too small. Farmers figured they couldn't continue operations with insufficient gasoline to get from farm to in some cases from field to field.

They complained and rightly. ODT to Rectify Error The complaints fell on ears in the Office of Defense Transportation. Then they fell on heads. Then they almost drowned the ODT. Meanwhile the ODT realized it had made a mistake and has made a move to rectify the original error.

It has asked that first certificates of war necessity be sent back, and has promised to allow more gasoline with issuance of new certificates. Farmers' stirred to concerted action by the original "injustice," and possibly not realizing the ODT is trying to the tangle so as not to hamper, food production while conserving rubber, arc in many cases still fighting mad. In Elkhart several hundred farmers and business men held a mass meeting at the Masonic hall and adopted resolutions of protest ajainst gasoline rationing. Reno Farmers Meet Saturday A mass meeting of all Reno county farmers was called by Charles Hornbakcr, Castleton farmer for 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the courthouse. It was thought possible this morning the Reno county meet- (Page 8.

Column 4. Please) Anderson CD- chairman of a subcommittee of a 15-man committee created at a bi-partisan anti-rationing caucus of house members last week, made public the recommendations at a house interstate commerce committee hearing. Easterners to Meet Representative Martin of Massachusetts, the -house Republican leader, today called a meeting of New England senators and representatives for next Tuesday morning to discuss "the eastern oil situation." An announcement by Martin's office said New Englanders were especially interested in "preventing people from freezing to dentil." Rep. Sumners protesting against nationwide gasoline rationing, said today that "this idea of having somebody from Washington telling an individual how to go about his own auslness looks too much like the bug that bit Hitler." Are Conserving Rubber The people, Sumners told a louse interstate commerce subcommittee, are demonstrating voluntarily that they can conserve rubber. He suggested that they DC permitted to continue on that jasis rather than employing gasoline rationing as a basis for con- rubber.

Despite the protests by Sumners and other, Rubber Admin- strator William M. Jeffers declared the rationing program (Page 9, Column 6, Please) Army Pilot Cleared In Fatal Collision Sanuta Ana, Calif. 1 William N. Wilson, accused of manslaughter in the death of 12 persons after a collision between his army bomber and a commercial airliner, was acquitted today by a courtmartlal. First Bond to Roosevelt Washington 'President Roosevelt today purchased from Secretary Morgenthau the first $500 bond in the Victory loan drive which the treasury will launch next Monday to $9,000,000,000 in December.

raise For Civilian Control Washington Rep. Tolan (D-Calif.) urged today that civilian authorities, not the army, be given charge of distributing America's manpower for production. Weather Kansas Much colder tonight xvlth'a hard freeze; continued void Thursday forenoon; scattered showers east tills afternoon, Hutchinson weather (U.S. report): High temperature yesterday 70, low today 36; at 2:30 p.m., 44 Year ago 64, low 27. Kansas weather: Cold riding on brisk wind rolled in from the northwest during sending the mercury down after pleasant conditions earlier in the day.

Snow measuring an inch or two was on the ground in Wvoming with smaller amounts in Nebraska. Temperatures yesterday averaged 12 to IB decrees above normal. Munlrlpiil Airport TeinlipruliirpR (By RAA Cammunk-ntloii, station) Yecleritny: I 11 ii.tn 6lii 21.10 i 40 iiio 3B 5:30 m. 5 31 6:30 541 H.30 7:30 401 39 8.MO 41' 42 10:30 4.VIO:,10 ii.iio Totlny: fa.llt) 12:30 am 47.1:30 48 1:30 4)1 44 Thursday HUN: 3:10 p.m. Lack Turkeys For Demand Record Food Buying In Past Week By Ovid A.

Martin Washington (fP) Americans may be willing to forego tlv; holiday part of Thanksgiving tomorrow in order to keep war production wheels humming but they apparently are determined to celebrate at a festive table sometime during the day. Millions will work as usual to keep the planes, tanks and ammunition rolling but when they sit down to dinner it will be to one of the most bountiful Thanksgiving feasts in the nation's history. Grocery stores throughout the country have been jammed this week as consumers rushed to buy turkeys, chickens, cranberries, vegetables, pastries and all the other trimmings. Never before, report agriculture department officials, has there seen so great a demand for food. Possessing a record volume of purchasing power and limited outlets for its expenditure, civilians demanded an unprecedented quantity of good things to eat.

Families that neve before thought of buying turkeys are in the market now for the festive bird. Not all of the demands are being met. In some localities the supplies were limited and grocers set up their own rationing schemes. Reports indicated that the tem- oorary shortages were greatest in Lhe ccses of meat, poultry, milk and dairy products, eggs, some types of fresh vegetables, and some luxury items. There was one item which may be missing from many Thanksgiving tables.

It was coffee. Sales were forbidden this week as officials froze stocks pending the start of rationing next week. Jews Ahead At Fast Pace Race Extermination Hitler 1942 Coal, Rabbi Wise Says Washington of a campaign which Dr. Stephen S. Wise said was planned to exterminate nil Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe" by the end of the year are to bo laid before a committee of leading Jewish organizations today in New York.

The Dr. Wise said was confirmed by the state department and a personal representative of President deals with hew more than 2,000,000 Jews already have been slaughtered in accordance with a race extinction order by Adolf Hitler. Before leaving for New York to address the committee this afternoon, Dr. Wise, chairman of the world Jewish congress and president of the American Jewish congress, said he carried official documentary proof that "Hitler has ordered tho extermination of all Jews in Nazi-ruled Europe in 1942." Half Wiped Out After a consultation with state department officials, he announced they had termed authentic certain sources which revealed that approximately half' of the estimated 4,000,000 Jews in Nazi- occupied Europe already had been killed and that Hitler was wrathful at "failure to complete the extermination immediately." To speed the slaughter of the other half during the remaining month before the edict's deadline, Dr. Wise said the Nazis were moving some of the Jews in Hitler-ruled European countries to Poland.

There, he said Nazi doctors were killing them at the rate of "more than 100 men an hour, per doctor," by injecting air bubbles into their simplest and cheapest method" they could find. Four-Fifths Gone Dr. Wise, who heads the committee, asserted that already the Jewish population of Warsaw had been reduced from 500,000 to about 100,000. (The Polish governmont-in exile reported in London yesterday that Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Gestapo chief, had ordered the extermination of one-half of the Jewish population of Poland by the end of this year and that 250,000 had been-klUed-ttuough: only 40,000 Jews skilled workers in the German war are- to remain in the Warsaw ghetto, the government said.) Intolerance Their Kick Central Students Explain Stand Fayctte, Mo. at Central College, a Methodist school where 300 walked out of a chapel service yesterday during a talk by President Harry S.

Devore emphasized today their action was a general protest and had nothina to do with 3.2 beer. At the time of the walkout, President Devore was explaining his action in ordering clcsing of a cafe where there was dancing and beer. A group of students, in a statement today, asserted: "The students of Central College wish it understood that the dispute with President Devore over the closing of a cafe serving beer is only a minor matter. Students protested in this matter only because they felt that there had been no substitute provided for the social activities cut off by the president's order on amusement centers." In a previous list of grievances filed, the students objected to three of Devore's policies: one, "attempt to establish religion by edict through compulsory church and chapel attendance;" two, his system of "student 'stoolpigeons' and inquisitorial methods at trials on moral problems in which students were intimidated," and three, his "general intolerance." Russians' Take Heavy Toll Of Huns In New Sweep At Stalingrad AP Features HESE are (he faces of America of tho 130, 000,000 rich and poor, lucky and unfortunate who gather for the Thanksgiving And above is the lace of meleagris who represents the millions of succulent gobblers who will grace (he festive board. (joint Holiday Paper Your Thaksgiving News and Herald will be one and the fame, delivered to your door tomorrow morning.

No afternoon News will be issued, in conformity with a policy inaugurated just a year ago, giving all employes a full holidny. It was on Thanksgiving, 1941, that the experiment was made and it met with whole-hearted in- dorsement by News readers. They found they had more time on a holiday to read their paper in the morning than In the afternoon and were glad to permit others to share in a full holiday. So on Thanksgiving, as on Sunday, it will be The News- Herald. Hitler Ready To Co All Out In N.

Africa Increasing Aerial Activity; No Major Scale Battle Yet By The Associated Press scale of Axis air ttacks in North Africa was ported authoritatively today Might of Armed Forces Springs From Civilian Front, Say Chest Leaders America is raising an army of 7,200,000 men, leaving more than 120,000,000 civilians to keep the home front. And the home front must be kept, because from it springs the might of the army and the nation. That's the theme of Hutchinson Community Chest association workers in planning the 11)42 fund, campaign, to support civilian health, family welfare, youth development and citizenship train- in" programs for the coming year. National Civilian Defense authorities have recognized the community chest as an essential home front activity, along with air raid md fire protection, first aid, nurs- ng and nutrition. All local campaign attention now is focused on the start of the wneral solicitation, following the "tnke-off" meeting of men and women workers Friday morning at 10 o'clock at the Chamber Commerce rooms.

Campaign commanders met this morning lor a final checkup on teams. Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce members heard the Community Chest story from Karl Smith at their monthly luncheon meeting today at the Bisonte ho- lel. At the same time, A. A. Remington of the VMCA spoke to em- ployes of the Monark Food 'Products Co.

Tonight Smith will talk to members of the Carpenters union. Thanksgiving will be just another work day at chest campaign headquarters. The campaign gcal is $35,053 40. for support of the Associated Charities, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Salvation Army, Y. M.

C. A. and Y. W. C.

An unbiased budget committee checks the financial records of the agencies, studies their needs, 6om- pares expenditures of past years with their budget requests for the ensuing year, holds hearings with agency representatives, and then recommends to the Chest As- sociaticn board of directors a minimum budget for each agency. When approved by the chest directors, the combined totals constitute the goal of the campaign. Speurville Boy Is Given Air Medal London In the room of a heavy bombardment force somewhere in Kngland, Maj en. Ira C. yesterday decorated 18 airmen for tonsoicuous heroism in action over German- occupied Frame.

Eight othel awards were made to a bomber crew unable to be present. An air medal award was given to Sergt. Carl ville, Kaa. H. Drake, Spear- Me i Runs Scale rcury Tcpcka (K't you like variety in your weather, try Ellis, in the western part of the state.

Yesterday morning the temperature there 13 degrees above Before the clay was over it zoomed up to two degrees lefs than the highest reported in tho nation. And last night It dropped back down to 33, the lowest reported in the slat 1 to ihow that Adolf Hitler was back- ng up the enemy land forces with great air power and for a bitter- end stand on the Mediterranean even to the ex- ent ot draining planes from his mperiled Russian front. Tliis warning of the degree to vhich the Axis' was girding to save its last footholds in North Africa came soon after Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the louse of Commons that the con- est for North Africa had reached an "extremely critical phase." However, the strongest enemy ground concentrations were be- ieved still to be those holding de- 'ensive arcs some 30 miles outside Tunis and Bizerte and in flight before Britain's 8th army in Libya, although the Vichy radio ycs- reported strong formations anding at Gabes and Sfax in southern Tunisia. Patrols Active American, British and French 'orces were reported roaming the ength and breadth of Tunisia, clashing occasionally with enemy patrols in short but violent en- and preparing for the inal showdown with the Axis in Africa. Eden did not specify how or vhere the military situation in Tunisia was "critical," but London observers said developments must ie expected to unfold slowly com- jared with the first phase, again.it he French, where surprise, long (Page 9.

Column 5. Please) From the long-besiogcd a Nazi wedge to the Volsa. reinforcement of the gams defensive positions and Northwest of the city tiic sian offensive penetreated P.o miles the depth of German Menses within the great Don bemi. and to the southwest the had stabbed 65 miles into the invaders' The jaws of the nutcracker still were closing. Heavy Over-Night Toll A communique added more German dead overnight to the toll in the Stalingrad-Don Bend alone, raising the official cMint of the killed to 44,000 in six d.iys, and battlefront dispatches said the when all reports were in be close to 50,000.

The communique gave im specific figure on Germans captured overnight, but dispatches the previous total of 36,000 now, too, was probably close to 50,000 (No official figures were Riven on the nUmber or Nazi wounded, jut in London a Reuters disp 'rom Moscow estimated by traditional ratio of there wounct'-d Main Jap Bases Hit No Air Opposition 1 or U.S. Planes By J. Rcilly With the O'Sulllvan Unitqd States Air forces in China, Nov. (if) American bombers, accompanied by the largest fighter escorts yet seen in the China subjected two of Japan's nain uir bases in South China to punishing attacks today without drawing opposition from a lingle enemy plane. An air port on the island of Sanchu, 72 miles south of Canton, was raided in the morning and nstaliations on the Tienho a Held Canton were destroyed in the afternoon.

(Reuters said a Tokyo broadcast reported that four United States B25 bombers escorted by three P-40 fighters raided Canton again yesterday and iaid one fighter was dowriod.) They handed it back two for one for the ineffective pre-dawn enemy raid on the Kwangsi air drome in which two or three Japanese bombers were shot out of the sky and the third possibly was Moscow Claims 100.000 Killed or Captured As Two Armies Strike Ahead To Close In On Attackers; Ketake Positions In City Berlin (From German Broadcasts) Russian! liavc succeeded In "temporarily penetrating" Nail positions on the Rihev front, wpst of Moscow, and have reached a point west of the rail center of Toropct's German broadcasts disclosed today. By Eddy Otlmore Moscow (ff) v.sscs in dead and captured alone had rocketed close to 100,000. the Russian counter offensive gained momentum and squeezed tho invaders' escape corridor from Stalin- down to a width 3D miles, batllefront dispatches reported today. iv the Russians reported rolling back another avenue for supply and which already is lashing out from Its ng back the Nazis street-by-street. Hus- for every soldier killed that thel wounded" totaled 120,000.

i Rail Lines Cut Soviet communiques Doth rail supply lines to the forces cut early in the offensive! which started seven days ago ai.ilj today's front line dispatches dicated that only 'a narrow running through Don elbow north of Kalach and of Trekhqstrovskaya'-TemnlriMJ dpen to an estimated 300,000 mans and their'allies for moving! supplies, or escaping. The fall of Kalach, on the Stal-i Ingrad-Kamensk railroad, 'was ported Sunday and Trekhosli skaya fell yesterday to forces; rushing down ffom the southwt (The official communiques have; not made clear the paths Bcir.cj followed by the several Russi.inj offensive columns but the of the Germans' escape avenue! north of Kalach would Indicate Marine Patrol Bags 70 Japs Washington The navy announced today that a marine patrol an Guadalcanal In the Solomon islands had killed "0 Japanese and captured five machine guns In an enemy encampment southwest of the American-held airfield. The action was carried out Monday, Guadalcanal time, against an encampment near the village of Mamlnilo on the upncr reaches of the Matanl- kau river. The marine patrol suffered only two men wounded. A communique reporting this flurry of activity said also that dive bombers and ftRhtcrs from the Guadalcanal airfield had attacked enemy installations at Munda on the western end nf New Georgia island, 180 miles northwest of the airfield, and scored direct hit on a warehouse.

The navy had reported yesterday that Japanese troops were active In the mountainous Mambulo region but had not described the nature of the activity. Press Japs Toward Sea Americans A ml Are Closing In that cut the same 'Red army which; the Stalingrad-Novorossi? General MacArthur's Headquarters, American railroad southwest of StaTingTadiand Australian troops were grip- swung part of its forces in a billed dose-quarter bat- "Uist stand" force of Japanese' en the beaches of north- westward and captured which lies about 50 miles ducjj a west of Stalingrad, and Cni pj ew Guinea today as the swerved west to take Surovikhimv OW tiruggle in the Buna-Gona another 35-40 miles west, (Earlier Russian communique? reported penetration to Cherny- shevskaya, about 75 miles west of Trekhostrovskaya, and this give the picture of a German-held corridor stretching some 120 mile? west from Stalingrad within narrow confines before it spreads out into relative security for the invaders.) Wipe Out Wedge Adding to the troubles built up behind the Axis siege armies, the Russians reported yes- GUIHI. At Bunu both Australian terdny that they had shoved a and American units were report- column down the Volga from the attacking an airfield in the north to effect a junction wiu Stalingrad's tough garrison in thr area approached its climax. Every plane the Allied forces could muster was sent skimming over the Japanese positions with iiiiichinc-Kuns and cannons blazing. Bombers added-high cxplo- to the confusion and death In-low.

On the ground Allied I mops, who have surrounded the Japanese on three sides, closed In slowly. The heaviest fighting was tak- place on a coastal strip 12 lies loin- between Buna and of still 1 enemy artillery, mor- ar and machine-gun fire. northern part of the city and clear out a wedge that the invfd- ers had driven between this, see-. tor and the main part of the town. Battlcfront dispatches reporting gains of 25 more miles yesterday in the Chernyshevskaya area Again Sees Lights Kecifc, Brazil blackout which has be.cti in force in within the Don bend Indicated strategic area, on the east- cniniust bulge ot South America, today by military that tho Russian advance in this sector was reaching menacingly close to the Nazi-held southern -sequel to the an- seclion of the main Moscow-to- ni.imccmciil that Dakar, some Rostov rail line.

miles across Thc drive southwest ot Stalin- ijniic. had thrown Dakar, some the South Atin its lot with grad also continued, nnd it was in- tu- Allius. dlcated that the Russians were 1 -Previous dangers on this coust moving up into striking distance decreased sufficiently to nit a return to normal con- i.v 'the order said. of Kotclnikovskl, the rail station 90 miles southwest of Stalingrad from which the Germans launched er rm th Jp nc I'romoiioiw destroyed. Three hangars believed filled with Japanese planes, big bar- rucks and a large workshop area at the Sanchu airport received direct hits in the morning raid by the American skydragons.

Five tons of bombs were dropped on the field, Japan's principal South China reserve base and airplane repair and storage center. Fires were started and oil supplies were believed set ablaze. A string of bombs exploded on a runway as three enemy planes were taking off. One was demolished before getting off the ground. Fighters attacked the others, probably damaging one.

The raid on the island base was led by Lieut. Col. Herbert Morgan, of Freedom, Pa. attack on the Volga citadel last ummer. South of the railway which runs from Stalingrad through Kotel-' nikovski and into the northern; Caucasus, another fjusslan column! was reported to have pushed six; miles farther across the Kalmyck i steppe without meeting any firm! German resistance.

Gain Heavy Booty Red Star said It was Impossible to count the spoils which fell to the advancing Russians as the Germans withdrew, Automobiles, tanks and even airplanes wcve left behind. Russian dispatches acclaimed the surrounding and of three Nazi divisions In the Don bend southwest of -KleUkaya, and the elimination of a narrow wedge the Gernjans had driven to 'the Volga north of Stalingrad as the greatest of the new victories. Kletskuya, on the Don 120 miles (Page 9, Column 3,. Please) Approved Senate The senate confirmed the promotion of Admiral William F. Halsey, xmmander of American nav- nces operating in the Solo- area, to the temporary rank tintral.

also confirmed the dt Hear Admiral Henry K. to the temporary rank of admiral. Hewitt commands naval forces In the African theatre. French lim A Fighting Frencii spokesman skipped broadcast to France in explanation de, "As long as Parian It the head Nui'th Africa I c'liinot cunscienti'.