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)4: THE WEATHER MONROE: Warmer this afti and early tonight. 3Th? ttews-Star Support Women At War BUY STAMPS, BONDS PRICE FIVE CENTS Business Today Bv Marlow George Zielke And NEW YORK, Nov. manufacturers have something to think problem highly complicated tied in with the whole war ef- will become more serious in nth a hew; i Joseph B. Eastman, director of the ft ice of transportation, gaVe the nanufacturers a lemmder that diffn will deepen in 134 wai prod ict-on moves oward its peak. As that war production grows the Nation's transportation system will be leeded more and more for only tho-e I ssential items which must be moved.

So Eastman the food manu- acturers they must give thought to 1 hanging their methods of distnbu- ion to eliminate cross-hauling" Inch he might better he de- ici ibed as excessive" hauling He went further He said the gov- jrnment expects the various industry1 inch must study the prob-! Brno to it seriously" and added: they den take it seriously, it be necessary for the war produc- board and the office of defense transportation to undertake to do fcimething about it, but I hope that ituation will not This is an example of cross-hatil- ig which Eastman gave: is a concern in Boston and in Chicago. They make the same nngs. The Boston concern sells fhicago and the Chicago fnm sells Boston. I hat is cross-hauling. Here is a customer in Worcester, Inch is near Bosion He can buy I'p same thing in Chicago or he can if Boston.

He it in Chi- Hfcgo That, you might call excessive! hrhmd any effort eliminate cross-hauling is con- i cation of; i. Manpowr: he urn be of people in shipping a product from! point of origm to its destination; for! jn sucb porfatinn; 1 hams nd trucks needed to the hauling this country there are about fond manufacturing planks. air highly concentrated in one and from theie distribute their! 100,000 NAZIS KILLED AND CAPTURED Prepare ALLIES ROAM IN TUNISIA AS THEY PLEASE Shorf, Violent Engagements With Enemy Occur Occasionally FRENCH ARE ACTIVE Four Nazi Planes Shot Down And Troop Train Is Riddled LONDON, Nov. scale of Axis air attacks North Africa 1 was reported authoritatively today to show that Adolf Hitler was backing up the enemy land forces with great an power for a biticr-end stand on the Mediterranean even to the of draining planes from his imperilled Russian front This warning of the degree to which the Axis girding to save its last footholds in North Afrma came soon after Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the house of commons that the contest for north Africa had reached an "extremely critical phase." However, the strongest enemy ground concentrations, were believed still to be those holding defensive aics some .10 outside Tunis and Biz- Henry Captured Near Louisiana Get Guns, Ammunition And Automobile BEAUMONT, Nov 25 Claude (Cowboy) Henry was captured (LOSE-QUARTER BATTLE RAGES IN NEW GUINEA Americans Fight 'Last Stand' Force Of Japs On Beaches GENERAL MACARTHURS HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Nov, American and Australian troop, were he Cripped a bitter close-q rarter bat- had tie with a stand" force of Jap- 7 weapons. "I not ane.se on the beaches of northeastern -Causc New Guinea today as the bloodv Annie Beatrice (Toni Jo) struggle in the Buna-Gona area ap- Wlfc llle 29-yeai-old San proached its climax, Antonio convict, faces death the plan, could I S'aJ muster sen, skimmin, Houston BRITISH THINK 150,000 OTHERS ARE WOUNDED Russians Continue To Close Jaws Of Trap On German Troops NARROW ESCAPE WAY Says He Was Trying To Corridor For Bringing In Supplies Is Cut To SO Miles MOSCOW, Nov, 21.

losses in dead and captured alone had ithout resistance today, three days rocketed close to 100.000 as the Russian after his escape from a Texas pnson counteroffensive gained momentum trtim which he left with the intent of and squeezed the escape seeing wife before her scheduled corridor from Stalingrad down to a execution Saturday width of 30 miles, battlefront dis- Pohce Captain George White and patches reported today, two other Beaumont officers roused From the long-besieged city the Ruse convicted slayer from a hotel bed sians reported rolling back a Nazi at 7:15 a.m. and he surrendered with- wedge to the Volga, Gearing another ot avenue for supply and reinforcement You fellows miRhty Japanese positions with machine-guns and cannons blazing Bombers add Henry was captured only 60 miles from Lake Charles, La vvhere the execution will be carried out. He told troops, who have surrounded th a.v istant cook, Japanese on 'hi re sides, closed i 'Continued on Second Page, I0MBERS RAID JAP BASES IN SOUTH (HINA unishing Attacks Made Without Opposition From Planes Mrs. Marv (lofty chief cook at the Oregon state hospital Salem tr Llbya the to charge that McKilloo LiZ.T i District Attorney Miller Hayden said he is prepared th, ZZZ bVraTd 'rftf rik pec cooked with the 'eggs Hayden said powder which McKUlop unsus- ed high explosives to the confusion and death below. Qn the ground hr as sorry- he hadn't been WITH THE UNITED STATES AIR iRCES IN CHINA, Nov.

bombers, ac- jmpanied by the largest fighter eats in seen in the China theater, bjected two of Japan main air in south China to punishing at- today without drawing opposi- from a single enemy plane Anair port on the island of Sanchu. south of Canton, was raided the morning and installations on Iienho airfield at Canton were stroyed in the afternoon, Reuters said a Tokyo broadcast retted that four United States B-25 Embers escorted by three P-40 fight- raided Canton again exday and sa one fighter was wned.) Tlicv handed it back two for one the ineffective pre-dawn enemy on the Kwangsi airdrome in nil wo of ti rec Japanese bombers fixsibly v. a- hiee hangars believed filled with planes, a big barracks and a workshop area at the Sanchu i red the raid bv the American skv- formations landing at Gabes and Sfax in southern Tunisia. Amencan. Britrsh and French fotcex were reported roaming the length and breadth of Tunisia, clashing al.y with enemy patrols short but violent engagements and preparing for the final showdown with the Axis in Africa.

Eden din not specify how ot where the military situation in was but London observns said developments must be expected to unfold slowly compared with the fust phase, agamst the French, where su; prise, long planning and Allied undercover work combined to reduce resistance to a minimum almost everywhere, Fheie was a dearth of news from north Africa today although (he air to over there' to see his wife. hief of Police Ross Key related The icst lighting was taking Henry sa'd traveled through place on a coa.dal strip 12 nules long country getting awav from the EARL HESTER TO HEAD TEACHERS Governor Declares State's Progress In Education Astounding THANKSGIVING PLANS IN CITY AREANNOUNCED Day Will Be Observed In More Serious Atmosphere Thanksgiving will observed in the Twin Cities Thursday, and while the holiday spirit will be in evidence, their will hr a more serious underlying atmo phere, that of a country at war for the preservance of world-w idr democracy. Many a home wril! have a vacant chair or chairs which ill mu'ely' attest that one from the family circle has left since last Thanksgiving to aid in the great cause for which this country is at war. Protestant churches will unite in a joint service at the First Christian hurch where, at 10:30 a.m.. Rev, A.

FINLAND WILL PAY ON DEBT TO U. S. HELSINKI (From Finnish Nov. he official Helsinki i adio it was announced today that Finland would continue to repay her war debt to the United States a.x installments fall due as long ax Finland can obtain United States dollars for the purpose Hjalmar Procope, Finnish nurnstei to Washington, it 'aKj has been instructed to pay the next installment, due in December, from Finnish a. set.

frozen in the United States AFRICA CRISIS SEEN BY EDEN Brifisher Thinks Situation In Extremely Critical GAS RATIONING PROTESTS FLOW TO WASHINGTON Chairman Truman Says More Than 2,000 Complaints Received coastal between Buna and Gona At Buna both Australian arid American units prison farm, reaching Houston Tuesday morning. That night he arrived ------------a'iituvan weir reported attacking an airfield 111 after hitching a ride. He I in the face of rnemv artillery, mortai and machine-gun fue. Heavy fighting was reported to have erupted sg.un on the Gona end of the battle line. The Australians ed the village Monday and found 100 Japanese dead.

Other cirad and wounded Japanese were scatteied along the beach near the community allied airmen made more than 100 sorties over the battle a eH rs. terday, dropping hundred? of and spraying many thousands of rounds of machine-gun on positions of the trapped Japanese registered at a second-class hotel H. Harper." This morning officers knocked on lcis door and yelled "Open up. open up Hemy, Chief Dickey said ie- plied, All right, and let them in. He was clad in khaki trousers and undershirt and was unarmed.

When the officers (hrew a flashlight beam his face, he made his remark that they seemed nervous. One of them answered tnat not worried about you causing u.s any trouble." NAZI BESIEGERS IN SITUATION LONDON. Nov. Nazi besiegers of Stalingrad are in an awful" military position, compelled to withdraw from the Volga city through a menaced, curving corridor of Russian armies and to cross the Don river if they are to get free of the Soviet grip, a British military source said today. This informant, who must remain anonymous, added, however, that thne was no confirmation heie that the Germans had ordered a general withdrawal from Stalingrad.

He said anv German counterattack to relieve the menaced army would be difficult." This informant pointed out that the offensive may prove to be the first major land action of the war not aceompamed by heavy air fighting Two possible reasons, he said, might be unfavorable weather or the diversion of much German air stiength to North Africa. of the gainson which aiieady is lashing out from its defensive and beating back the Nazis street by street. Northwext of the city the Russian offensive penetrated 80 miles into the -ntense on a six-inile 1 for guns." dePth of Orman defenses within tha ASHING ON. Nov Pro- Gona and Sanananda. Nn Dickey said Henry added that to the southwest ra- i nlanat HopiyJ to niiikp cojntiict in Bobu- Russians i mu When the officers asked him why he The aerial action was particularly ay bp I whs ansthitg for guns.

Hj.tin.st nationwide -asoline Japanese h- dren, bed the trxJay but ih" it was reported. Rubber WiUbm the stands 1 S. FORCES AD VANCE 1 1 i mains die effective TOWARD KOKUMBONA GUADALCANAL, Solomon Islands, pi Johnson. Democrat, to Gkiahonia. said he would continue his resi on their during the past! for 90-day stay and Repre-en- 10 during which a Japanese naval tative An dot son, Dtunociat, New Mex- I task, wiped out and a huge ICO.

lie and a group of other oil- lanriing party eliminated, United i Mate congressmen would try to show States laud forces today began a tem- nationwide rationing compute- delayed advance toward Ko- iciation pi mci ropped on the field, Japan's principal (Continued on Second Pagri ASSURED FRIENDLY AUDIENCE Nov 2 The Louisiana Tear hr" as: last night elected Earl He ier pal of Arcadia High school, ident for next after heaiing Governor Sam Jone, declare that the state's progress education under his administration had been astounding. Hester defeated Miss Mary Bains, principa: of Queens borough school here, by a vote of 725 to 640. Mi Anna L. Peters of Bolton High school, Alexandria, was elected vice-president, rings of parish. Serex, pastor of the First Methodist LONDON.

Nov. 25 church, will preach the Thanksgiving Anthony Eden sermon. The public is cordially invited today that the bat- to attend this Ior Foreign told the Ma 11 hev ly unnecessary Af ei iieai ing Jeffers yesterday however, niembeis of a house interstate subcommittee said pnvately it appeai ed that little could he done 1 and 8 Monrc a m. North Africa is "in an tremely critical and declined Catholic church will to discuss arrangements which Lieu- They referred to Jef- Ihanksgivmg at 6:30 tenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower Paschal s.

West has made with the local French nigh R19A5 Hi 8 thorrties. The First The statement was made while Eden hi itiui.h of Monroe was commenting for the second ft. cancellation bv Piim. MiniV at 7:30 m. No othar service will ha ChurchiU of a bro'dj' which '('ontinurd on Sfiond FLIER IS HEARD Graphic Description Of Crash Given By Surprise Witness fr il hi of bombs were defeating Mrs.

Lois Smith Ki Red Rivei that lumie of aple i lie add ss ia -fune Leaf car I ita live were Mini 'we nu not tans ppod Chi -Wendell a friendly a Cana- meeting to- he criticized Tg ur own king's first the liquida- Martin High schcx to 614 Governor Jones told (hr biggest school problem a was geaung of training to problems. Hr the S4.000.000 had been liquidate I or $100.000 and that 'hr annual school revenues had been incr about $5,000,000. Marias Kenson Nygaa Haynes vi lie, a youthful heard his United States Flag played by the Bvrd High school band. It was selected in a re- held the i Grace bra te the low erj by for. during the day.

Episcopal church will cele- Hol Eucharist at 9 a fol- a brief sermon by the rec- Th; Scienti: nksgtving Auburn a theii a1 the Thursdav Is of the city and Nnitiieast rol lege will close for Thank irostoffice will be closed, tores that are operated by mem- of the rotail division of the 1 observe Junioi giving increased and her: Ji of Chamber of Commerce composer, the day. At the A A F. Navigation school, from 400 to 500 young women will be entertained. They will leave the USO Ton i Pa ne Hei Uie bur I esideni mtion. as- iolonci C.

Rcyn the Canadian Cor. ed Willkie ijt a lendlv and -aid tlie asro- tion attitude had been rmsunder- The association had declined wj juin the national committee for aid Rus. are tully of tur effoi ts the common cause and of your support of li; Roosevelt. Rey wired Will- Good Fellows Chief Sends For For Fund Preu B. Martin ledi Total To C.

a- -o, ici Sua pH CLANAHAN jons DIES SUDDENLY KL )ELH: fi mer sner iff of tv i. a He h- enc 1'iture died Good Fello while making an auto trip 1 D' ti t). mninina. hd.s been ex tremel timt off chi mg unselfishl the cause Many of the ailv hi the supplies of boon sccu a' holesale ju ices. So enthusiastic ha: helpful in his work termed in pasi Fellow and he well From him comes toda is such as n'ight a check and expres to the two i(X- 1 Paid pGjrd rech in pronvuing 527.00 the of 25.00 we'I let I i $52 00 Dcai Mi number of am eiick ve in Elv- the Good 1 means been started Fellows bdieve i awing those with worldly is reproduced Wilson Ewing vi-mg check ic cllows fund, no hi not goods.

rewith as 01 Oi 525.00 for which has paper, con ti ibuteii of xp.ue and thr jieop lie Chief of Good eserva.s the title a gesture be expected, fot S25.00 for apprecia- foi their ex pensi the crea to your always put ft regaidless of I personally hope that thi Fellows fund will co over as usual, as there are still man imd that will get lot of Monc of Mon- ippreciate your and newsprint. You efforts Good ell as boys of te and General Charle- de Gaulle had scheduled for last Saturday The prime minister and 1 did not think its delivery at this particulai time would he helpful to the extremely ronse and serious operations now proceeding Eden -aid We could not take the responsibility for allowing anything to happen fai as we had the joower to control it which might hamper the responsible commanders or make the task of oui own troops and those of our allies more difficult Tne house cheeied Eden, who has Continued on Second Paget PURCHASEr HEAVY FOR THANKSGIVING WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 leans may be willing to forero the holiday part of Thanksgiving tomorrow in oidn to keep wai production wheels humming but they apparently are determined to celebrate at festive table sometime dui mg the day. Millions will work usual to keep the tank- and ammunition roli- ig but wbtn they sit down in dinner it Will be to one of the most bountiful Thanksgiving feasts in tne nation'- history. Grocery stores throughout (he country have been jammed this veek as consumers rushed to buv turkeys, cnickens.

cranberries, vegetables, pas- ti ir.s and all me other tnmmtng- Nevei bet' e. agriculture department officials, there been so rl cicitlrtllfj fot food 12 record volume of purchH.sing and lin iied foi its exjiendi- tUle, civilians demanded an unprecedented quantify of good to eat Families that never before thought of buying turkeys are in the now for the festive bird. Some of the heavy buying, sovctu- psent officials said, undoubtedly iep- raented purchases for the future by iearfui of shortagea iatn feis declaration that rationing was not necessary to conserve gasoline outside the east but essential for the ation of uhhe: of vfiich, he said, might leach a dangerous low next year. Chairman Truman. Democrat, Missouri, of the defei invest i gating committee announced that Jeffers Secretary Harold leke- Defense Tram-jwrtstion Director Joseph SANTA ANA.

Calif Nov There are differences between ti ial ourt- wo MI rv I kumbona village and the mouth of the Poiia river on the western front. Marines on the eastern front near the Teneru rivei mopped up strag- (fhng Nipponese force, the meantime. in mccn cm me western front an unit ln civilian courts and a rmlihuv imoer the command of Lieutenant martial Colonel Oti.s Concord, Ma-s But Lhetp is one point of siiuijar- who had leheved the pressed A surprise witness can stir a civ- toward Point Cruz with th 600 lllan court. One can also stu a courtyards to go befoie teaching that ob- martial. A 20-year-old private in the tank Beyond disputed point lav ap- corps did it yesterday as the defense pioximateiy one thousand yards of Lieutenant Robert Wilson tiie Russians had 65 intm the Invaders lines.

The jaws of the nutcracker still were closing. A communique added 3,400 more (3 ciii hu dead overnight to the toll ir, the bend sector alone, raising the official count of the killed to 44.400 six days, and battlefront dispatches said the tally when all wei in would be close to 50,000. i be communique gave no specific! figure on German captured overnight, but dispatches said the previous total of 36,000 now, too, was probably clo'-e to 50,000. i No official figures wete given on (he numbei of Nazi wounded, but in London a Reuters dispatch from Moscow estimated by tim traditional ratio of three wounded for every soldier killed tirot the wounded totaled 120.000 Soviet communique reported both rail supply to the siege forces cut parly in 'he offensive which started sev da.s ago and today's fi mt line dispatches indicated that or ftown wuson, narrow strip i unning through jungle terrain from whirl the Japs charged with involuntary man laugh- the Don river elbow north of Kalach once been driven hut into i ter the deaths of -eh utlmn iinrl gniitL Eastman and Puce Ad- nnmstrat Leon Heroin -on had been executed a planned dnecfed to appear Friday to edab-! i MatanikaU lish the need foi rationing Infantry units specially tiamed in "I've had nio a 9 non underbrush warfare for months, edged forward yard hy ard mopping up told Truman Straggling Japanese as they vent. Between the army units and their He said ie hoped to develop through I objective lies a treacherous hill full ich a complete of small caves, turned up tiers nat- picture of the for general 1 aborting that opposition would Once the American people aie con- 5 inced that this drastic step is necessary, they a ill be pati intic and co- as they always Truman sa id.

Conceding that there was no short- gasoline the and mid- me had once khii driven, but into which i ter 1,1 deaths of 12 persons when infiltrated again when an crashed and burned October 23 nc.iied its conclusion For two days a trial board of 10 of- urai camouflage and shell holes af- fording a full tneasuie of protection clipped sentences by Pi.vate Roy fot' .1 a il Wc.xf fif Fiiillac ficeis colonels, majors and a captain-had heard witnesses describe the mid-air between Lieutenant Wilson new bomber, en route east for the army ferrying command and the American Airlines pa.ssenge craft. But the dcai est picture was painted for the Jap defenoeii It was over this terrain that marines made their wav on the initial drive into the island Hence, army units now have the advantage of marine intelligence on the topographe of tne countt vside West of Dallas, stationed at Camp Young tank tiainmg deep ii, the Colorado desert. West said he was idly batting a tennis ball a backboard at the LSO center in Palm Springs when he f( ont.i.nued on Second (Cor JONESBORO TAKES TAX OFF PROPERTY JONESBORO, La Nov. The town council of Jonesboro Tuesday night voted city property exempt from city taxes for (he veai 1942 under the provisions of constitutional amendment No. 3, adopted at thejeront general election, Mayoi O.

labadet. announced Wednesdav Hitler Half Through With Mad Murder Of 4,000,000 r.D,: wjpsns zzsz i-Ghe' Action of the council made organizations today in Ne the first city ote such re ta cits t) north Louisiana ief to taxpayers ii days ago voted to tioconje the to take at ,000, The move ill Taharlot said City affairs been operated most economically undei Mayor Tabarlel and the present coun -I York. The story which Di us bv tiie state epai unent and persona! of with ho more than 2.000,000 Jews aheadx ha-, -laiighteied in accordance ith race exlmcttroi mrler hy Adolf Hiller Befoie leaving New York to addre the committee his afterneon Dr. chairman of the World been killed and that Hitler was wrath- fui at failure to complete the extermination To speed the slaughter of the nthei half during the remaining month before the edict deadline. Dt Wise said the N.

were moving some four- fifths of the Jews in Hitler-i uled European countrir' to Poland There lie Nazi ere kiihng them at the rate of "more than 100 men an direction of Jew ish prlident The i by air coun- Amprican dudoics into their vrins 'sh structure official documenter, and method the -aving shro 'd hetOUnCU tler has nf y' Nazi-roled that the Jewish popu piopenj ownero. Europe in 13U" "the simplest they could find. Dr. Wt.se, who heads the committee (Contin -a ii BeconC and south of Trekhostrovskaya re- mamed open to an timatcd 300.000 Germans and their allies foi moving supplies, or escaping I hr fall of Kalach, on the Stalin- 2iad-Kamensk railroad, was reported Sundav and Trekhostrovskaya fell Pigfi SCRATCHED MAN IS QUIZZED IN DEATH BOSTON. Nov.

21 old man who had gone to Boston City hospital for treatment of deep scratches on his face v.as questioned today by jrolice investigating the sadistic slaying of Mis Catherine McGinley, 85-yeai -old idow known for Irer many charitable acts. Police Sergeant John Millei said the scratches appeared to have been inflicted bv fingernails and that the man was loathe to explain what caused them Miller added that the cl boro stams resembling blood stains. The man w'as booked as a suspicious person after being taken into custody at the hospital by Miller Mrs. body, batteied, burned and sfi ipped of its clothing, was found in the kitchen of her apartment Monday afternoon by her son, John, on his return from work at navy yard. Police last fught di-wm ned an eailier theory that, robbery was the motive the slaying.

We have found all valuables and cm belonging her in'art where si kept them at home." said Police Captain John A. Dorsey. Police found $220 cash, jewehr id bankbooks showing of 600 trunk in her home. It would have been easy for her to have taken this money valuables 'tad he entered her home to tub her, Dusey said..