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The Dependability Byline of I MIAMI DAILY NI XLI, NO. 93 Morning Published by Every Miami Evening News Record (Except Baturday) Publishing and Sunday (Inc.) MIAMI, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1943 A Street and of First Publication Avenue N. E. PRICE FIVE CENTS Office 12,000 NAZIS SLAIN BY RUSSIAN ARMY Enemy Forces Face Rout In Area North Of Volturno River By EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Allied troops smashing forward have wrested two vital road from the Germans, who were be counter-attacking savagely support in a desperate effort quarter combat. The battle north of the high point of as the with terrific counter -assaults long enough to permit a Nazi ican Fifth army struck back as to upset the enemy's plans.

TULSANS RALLY TO CRUSH O. U. Clyde LeForce Passes Hurricane to 20-6 Victory In O. C. Stadium OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct.

16- LAP) Tulsa's Golden Hurricane withstood a surprising first-half challenge by Oklahoma's hard-running Sooners tonight and stormed back with a readly last-balf passing attack to score 3 decisive 20-6 victory before a crowd of 15,000 in Taft stadium. Clyde LeForce, whose passes reminded spectators of the bullet throws of last year's All-American, Glenn Dobbs, tossed to Ed Shedosky for two of Tulsa's touchdowns. Jim Stegman, recovering blocked punt, galloped 29 yards for the other. The Sooners had scored first with a 50-yard march along the ground in the second period, burly Derald Lebow, crashing through the Tulsa tackles for most of the distance, but Tulsa's superior manpower swiftly turned the tide and the last half was almost a rout. FIRST PERIOD An attempted quick kick by LeForce was partially blocked but rolled to the Oklahoma 25.

The Sooners couldn't gain and Bob Brumley kicked poorly out of bounds on the Oklahoma 38. On a fake pass, Clyde LeForce dashed through the middle to the 13. On the next play LeForce was dumped LOT a 15-yard loss by Merle Dinkins but he got back the distance with a pass to John Herriman on the 12. Here, the Sooners held for downs. Unable to move through the Tulsa line, Brumley booted to the Tulsa 46.

The ball changed hands three times on a series of fumbles and neither team threatened for the remainder of the period. SECOND PERIOD After Bob Mayfield intercepted (Continued on Page Two) This Sow Has Done Well For Farmer -WEST BRANCH, Oct. 16- UP) Wilma Las done all right by E. R. Moore, retired farmer, and the food for victory program.

Moore bought Wilma, a purebred Chester White sow, for $130 in 18 months she and her offspring have produced 187 pigs. He sold some of them for $3,500 and still has Wilma and 45 of her decendants. Moore bought Wilma with the intention of raising a few pigs as a -hobby on his eight-acre tract. Air Raid Alert Is Sounded in London LONDON, Sunday, Oct. 17-(P) London had a brief air raid alert early today but the all clear sounded a short time later without any gunfire being heard.

A few hours earlier German planes had struck a town on the southeast coast. It was the first warn' in London since Oct. 8. the night after 15 German planes dropped 30 tons of bombs on the city. GRAINS EASE FAMINE NEW DELHI, Oct.

16- (P)- The first ship carrying food grains from abroad is already, unloading at an Indian port and a second ship is expected to arrive soon to alleviate the famine in Bengal. The Weather OKLAHOMA- Slightly warmer west and slightly cooler east half Sunday forenoon. MISSOURI Slightly cooler southeast, and little temperature change north and west Sunday forenoon KANSAS- Warmer west and central and little temperature change extreme east Sunday forenoon. The American Jeep Pops Up Almost Anywhere The American jeep really gets around. Here's one an unnamed U.

S. aircraft carrier, pulling a torpedo bomber into position to take off on the October 5 and 6 Navy attack on Jap-held island. (NEA Telephoto) 50 COUNTY MEN PLACED IN 1-A 27 Others Are Classified 2-A By Board in Recent Meeting Here The local draft board has classified 50 Ottawa countians in 1-A, who are now available for immediate induction into the armed, forces, O. F. Mason, chairman of the board, announced Saturday.

The board also clasgified 27 men in 2-A who have been deferred from military service through their present employment in war essential industries. The status of 23 is undecided pending physical examination; five the listed in 4-F and one is classed in Those classified in 1-A with previous classifications include: Gene I. Rickman (P), Amos K. Taber (P), William T. Schierlmann (P), William L.

Henderson (P). Harry E. Perry (P), Billy D. Abram (P), Johnnie Peterson (P), Melvin Hawkins (P), Richard C. Howe (P), Billie J.

Reynolds (P), Steven K. Keck (P), Lee M. Schradr (P), Wayne C. Feaster (P), Dick G. Ehrhart Jr.

(P), William W. T. Mitchell (0), James W. O'Dell (0), Henry W. Guinn (P), Ernest M.

Cokey (P), Mark E. Skaggs (2-A), Fern Watkins (P). James W. Holmes (2-A), Harold M. Kreeger (P), Eugene H.

White (P), Earnie A. Shook (P), Blaine M. Buzzard (2-A), John O. Spoon (P), William C. McFall (P), Oran Petitt (P), Alfred D.

Gibson (P), Kern J. Janow (P), Alvic B. Cunningham (P), Zelmar E. George (P), Orlo R. Gay (P), Charles O.

Renfro (P), John Shetsley (P), Guy R. Smith (P), Leon on Phillips (P), Willard N. Jennings (P), Walter H. Tyree (P), David P. Bailey (3-A), Thomas W.

Kelly (P), Lee W. Boyd (P), Jack B. Nichols (P), Albert A. Garner (P), Farris F. Hutsell (3-A), Lester T.

Pine (4-F), Francis M. Maloney (2-C). Burdis P. Nodine (P), John R. Steffens (P) and John H.

Whipkey (P). Classified 2-A and deferred from military service with their previous classifications: Tidwell (1-C), Clifford R. Foster (P), Howard R. Gonce (P), Jesse C. Cox (P), Don G.

(Continued on Page Two) 'We Won't Strike', Policemen Promise MEMPHIS, Oct. 16- (P) -Memphis police, in a formal statement today said "we have no intention of striking or walking out." A representative committee on behalf of the 150 odd patrolmen who had given the city commission an ultimatum of meeting demands for salary increases and other conditions by 9 a. m. tomorrow, extended the time indefinitely. After declaring there was no intention of striking, the statement said "we will continue to police and protect the public." Then the seven-man police committee conferred with the commission and agreed to grant the commissioners additional time to study the demands.

No definite time was specified for the city commission act, but the action helped to remove tomorrow's 9 a. m. deadline. RIO PUBLISHER DIES RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 16- (2P) -Edmundo Bettencourt, 77, founder and former publicher of the Correio de Manha, one of Brazil's leading morning newspapers, and father of Apulo de Bettencourt, now director and publisher of the paper, died today.

STRIKERS URGED BACK INTO COAL PITS BY LEWIS UMW Chief Opines WLB Will Approve New Contract This Week WASHINGTON, Oct. 16- (P)- John L. Lewis, asking striking coal miners to go back to work, told them he thought the War Labor board would approve next week an industry-wide contract lengthening the working day and boosting average earnings about $1.75 day. In telegrams sent to local unions in Alabama and Indiana, the United Mine Workers' president declared that this was his "considered personal judgment" as to the board's probable action. He urged the 25,000 miners idle in the two states to go back to work on Monday.

Other principal labor development: President Roosevelt established a new, three-man emergency board to reconsider wage demands by 1,100,000 railroad workers the shopmen, maintenance-of-way men and other so-called non-operating employes. A predecessor board scaled the employes demand for 20 cents an hour increase down to 8 cents, but stabilization director Fred M. Vinson set aside cision on the grounds that an 8- cent rise would violate the government's wage stabilization policies. Officials of the Kearny, N. yard of the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock company said 85 steel handlers who have been out since Monday had been notified of their dismissal.

Only six of 33 steel handlers due on today reported but others of the 17,000 day shift were on hand after a series of wildcat walkouts earlier in the week. Many workers still were idle at the Cramp Shipbulding company yards, Philadelphia, where 2,000 walked out Friday. WLB called on: Lewis last night to ask the striking coal miners to return to work, and followed up today by sending orders to the miners to "return to work forthwith." The union had not authorized the strikes which followed the government's return of the mines to the owners. About 22,000 were out in Alabama, resulting in the closing of seven blast and five open hearth furnaces, and about 3,500 in Indiana. In his telegram, Lewis said he had definite assurance the board would rule on the "pending contract" next week.

This is a tentative agreement with the Illinois Coal Operators association which calls for revision of the historical method of figuring the miner's time on the basis of time actually spent at the coal seam. It would make the work day for underground men hours including all time required in traveling from the portal of the mine at the beginning of the shift until the miners emerge at the end of the shift. The wage rate, now $7 for a 7-hour day, would be straight time for the first 40 hours of the week and time and one-half thereafter. It would give an average of $8.75 a day for a 5-day week. New Demands For Food Czar in U.

S. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16- (P) A new demand for single supervision over food-everything from farm machinery to rationingveloped in Congress today as an offshoot of the quarrel over use of consumer subsidies to roll back prices. Rep. Jenkins chairman of a Republican food study committee, advaned the idea, which the Roosevelt administration has opposed, and Rep.

Monroney Okla.) of the House banking committee promptly dubbed it unworkable. Jenkins maintained that the subsidy program of the administration stemmed from what he termed the "mess and mixup resulting from the conflicting jurisdiction of half dozen agencies over the nation's food problems, N. Y. JOURNALIST DIES NEW YORK, Oct. 16 P) -Dr.

Eugen Kovacs, 43, York Times correspondent in Bucharest, Rumania, for 14 years, died here today of a heart attack. Dr. Kovacs, one of the best known Rumanian newspaper men, wag ordered to leave Rumania in 1940. because of anti-Jewish decrees. After a brief period as the Times' Belgrade correspondent, he came to the United States where he was on the paper's.

news stalf. Soviet Forces Deal Stunning Blow to Foe At Melitopol Algiers, Oct. 16-(AP)- all across the Italian front junctions and 10 other towns reported officially today to and renewing their aerial to break away from close Volturno river reached a new Germans lashed out repeatedly designed to disrupt the Allies withdrawal, but the Amerwith such speed and power (Radio France at Algiers said in a broadcast recorded in London the Germans north of the Volturno were in full retreat.) Both the Fifth army in the west and the British Eighth army in east threatened to outflank the Germans' Volturno river line after hurling the stubbornly resisting enemy forces back with lightning advances ranging up to seven miles. In a northward thrust which carried them five miles beyond the Calore river, Fifth army forces captured Cerreto, nine miles northeast of the point where the Calore meets the Volturno, to increase jinland rail and highway communino flank. Crashing swiftly through stiff opposition, Eighth army troops some 25 miles to the northeast pushed ahead six miles to capture the important road junctions of Campobasso, virtually in the center of the Allied line across the peninsula, and Vinchiaturo, six miles southwest.

With the fall of these two points the Allies gained control of vital inand rail and highway communications and were in a position to menace the whole flank of the German defenders on the Volturno line by a penetration deep behind that fighting front. Several of the enemy's fiercest counter-attacks were launched in the region of Caiazzo, a mile north of the Volturno, but the Fifth army finally routed the Germans in grim fighting there and now has the town firmly in its possession. Amorosi, five miles east of Caiazzo on the east bank of the Volturno, also fell to the Fifth army, which gained control of the high ground in that important sector. At several other points the river in attempts to reduce Germans lunged out toward the bridgeheads through which the Fifth army is bringing more men, guns and tanks up to the fighting areas. Official reports from General Clark's frontline headquarters a selves indicated tempting from the to close Germans disengage quarter were them- com- atbat, particularly near the mouth of the Volturno, where British troops are now strongly entrenched after their amphibious landing.

In spite of the sharp counter(Continued on Page Two) Christmas Mail Is Rolling Into Frisco SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16 (P) -Christmas packages for servicemen in the Pacific area overwhelmed postal employes totay in the greatest mail pile in San Frans cisco's history. Postmaster William H. McCarthy said about 3,000,000 paikages with the address "care postmaster, San Francisco" had been received here up to the Friday midnight deadline for mailing gifts to Army men overseas, and that loads enroute from other sections of the country would swell the pile to 4,500,000 or so. The deadline for mailing Christmas packages to Navy, Seabee, Marine and Coast Guard personnel overseas is Nov.

1. Two Auto Wrecks, But No One Hurt Two automobile collisions boosted Miami's low street accident record last night. Four drivers were involved, three of whom were gath ered in by the police after investigation of the wrecks. No one was injured. City Patrolmen Arley Gailey and Horace Pool, made the investigations and arrests in both accidents.

SEAHAWKS BEAT MIZZOU KANSAS CITY, Oct. 16- (P) An inspired Missouri football team that tired in the final quarter dropped a 21 to 6 decision to the Iowa Navy pre-flight eleven before 12,000 fans tonight. Russians Gain Initiative in Fierce Fighting At Gateway to Crimea Several Towns Captured by Other Red Troops in Advance of Three to Six Miles Heavy Losses Suffered by Reich. North and south of Kiev where the Russians were fighting toward the Ukranian capital, over 1,000 Germans were wiped out, said a Moscow communique recorded by the Soviet Monitor. In one week's fighting there the Russians said they beat back over 200 German counter-attacks, wiped out over 000 Germans in a step-by-step advance, and destroyed 176 tanks, 187 field guns and over 400 machineguns.

Gomel Near Collapse Gomel was another objective of heavy fighting as the Russians closed on the White Russian town from the north and south. Eight hundred Germans fell yesterday, the bulletin said, and big guns duelled throughout the day and night, The Melitopol fighting, which rivaled Stalingrad for intensity and bloodshed, saw the Germans hurling waves of men and machines into the maestrom despite their losses. Forty German tanks were destroyed in the southwestern part of the city alone. The Germans were reported fighting under stand-or-die order from Adolf Hitler. The Germans rushed up divisions from Crimea, reaching the battlefront before Gen.

Malinovsky's forces reached the area. The Soviet airforce was aiding the southward drive, bombing German troop trains and army stores at Nikopol, 50 miles southwest of Zaporozhe. Four trains were declared smashed by these attacks. At Melitopol, neither side claimed advances as they fought handto-hand in the war-torn city. Red Star, Soviet army newspaper, describing Melitopol as the last German strong point before 90 miles of dismal mud flats that offered little chance of natural defense, said the battle had "assumed a wide scale and has tremendous significance." A Russian victory there would open a path deep in to the southern districts, cutting off the Crimea where six or seven German divisions are dug in.

Moscow said the Germans had elected to make a supreme stand in the vital southern area, and reported that reinforcemerts for the Melitopol battle were arriving from the Crimea, rushing into attack over and over again despite heavy losses. Twenty-six violent German counter-attacks were launched in one day and German planes made 1,100 sorties over a 10-mile front, Red Star said. By JUDSON O'QUINN LONDON, Sunday, Oct, 7-(AP)-Gen. Fedor Tolbukhin's south Russian army wrenched fiercely-resisting Germans from block after block of battle-shattered Melitopol, gateway to the Crimea, killing 2,000 Nazis as one of the bitterest struggles of the war today entered its fifth day. Fifty miles to the north a Soviet relief army, slugging its way toward Melitopol, captured several hamlets in an advance of three to six miles.

There was new fighting at the Soviet bridgehead southeast of Kremenchug on the middle Dnieper where Soviet units were declared to have 'cracked the German lines land captured several settlements and over 250 prisoners. Heavy Aerial Attacks On Germany Believed Prelude To Invasion of W. Europe By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Oct. 16-(AP)-The aerial offensive against Germany appears now to be entering the stage of preparation for an Allied invasion of western Europe.

Attacks constantly increasing in force and frequency probably can be expected from now on against those industries and arsenals essential to Germany's development of Reserves for the critical campaign which will start when Anglo American armies thrust across the English channel. This is a conclusion drawn by some observers here from the American air force assault Thursday on the great ball bearing production center at Schweinfurt, Germany. Widespread concern over the fact that the operation cost 60 Flying Fortress bombers evoked from official sources enough information to show that the damage done was worth the cost. Consequently the Schweinfurt raid is down in the books as the most important single accomplishment to date of American bombing over Germany. Ranking almost equally in importance is the raid made on the oil refineries at Ploesti, Rumania, which also proved very expensive in heavy bombers.

Rumanian fields to which the Ploesti refineries are the bottleneck, produced 30 percent of Germany's total oil supply, crude and synthetic. The long distance air raid from North Africa crippled Ploesti's output. Allied military authorities everywhere hailed it as a signal victory and one which after some months would vitally diminish Nazi oil resources, especially aviation gasoline and highgrade lubricants. Gen. Henry H.

Arnold, chief of Army air forces, said the Schweinfurt bombing knocked out 50 percent of German production of ball bearings. These are integral parts of industrial machines as well as (Continued on Page Two) Moscow Is Having Brightest Season Since War Began MOSCOW, Oct. 16 (P) Moscow, as the setting for the forthcoming three-power conference of American, British and Russian foreign ministers, is having its brightest season, social and otherwise, since the start of the war. The ballet, opera, concerts, plays and movies all are going. Foreign diplomats are giving parties in a way they have not done since the winter of 1940-before the invasion by Germany.

In fact, except for the great number of men in natty, be-medaled uniforms during the day and the partial blackout at night, this season is very much like the start of the last winter of peace in Moscow. There is even a great glare of lights on one street where a movie is being made in open air studios. Trio Accepted For Military Service Out of the group of draftees that left for the induction center at Tulsa Tuesday, three have been accepted so far for the Army and one for the Navy. Marvin Bennis Tunnell, John D. Hawthorne and Bill George Hadley will be taken into the ranks of the land forces and Frank Eugene Smith will be come a sailor.

The names of others leaving last Tuesday will be released as soon as notice is received of their acceptlance or rejection. GERMAN PEOPLE FEAR WAR LOST Czech Who Escaped From Nazi Prison, Tells About New Enemy Weapon BLIMPS COLLIDE, 8 MEN MISSING Two Navy Airships in Accident Off New Jersey Coast in Fog Oct. 16 -Two U. S. Navy blimps collided in mid-air in a dense fog off the New Jersey coast today and eight officers and men are missing, the Lakehurst, N.

J. Naval. air station announced through the fourth naval district public- relations office here. One of the lighter-than-air ships crashed into the ocean and the other returned to Lakehurst "with insignificant damage and no loss of life or injury to personnel," the announcement said. Only one member of the crew of the second ship was saved.

The Navy identified him as Harley Charles Hunter, 23, aviation machinist's mate second class, of Yacolt, Wash. Names of the missing were withheld pending notification of the next of kin. The Navy said it was the second instance in naval lighter-than-air history in which airships have collided, the other occurring June 8, 1942, "when two small training blimps were engaged in a secret experimental mission at sea at night." The collision, occurred at 9 a.m. (c.w.t.) off Barnegat inlet. Both ships were of the patrol type, 250 feet long.

The ship which crashed was on a military mission, the Navy said, while the other was on a training mission. "Search for the missing officers and men was instituted at once," the announcement said. "A board has been appointed to investigate the accident." The wrecked blimp lay on the beach this afternoon. The said the accident occurred during "conditions of visibility." Persons at the scene reported fog rolling in from the ocean to such an extent that search for survivors would be difficult. Scene of the accident was in the general vicinity of the spot where the U.

S. S. Akron, giant Navy dirigible, fell into the ocean on April 4, 1933. The huge craft sank 15. miles off Barnegat island during a thunderstorm.

Mother-in-Law Club Founder Dies at 79 AMARILLO, Oct. 16-(P) -Mrs. Nell Donald, 79, the mothen of Amarillo's annual mother-inlaw day observance, died here today after several months' illness. Burial will be here. She inspired her son-in-law, Gene Howe, Amarillo publisher, to stage a mother-in-law celebration.

For several years, governors of Texas proclaimed the event. A national Mother-in-law club was organized. The celebration in 1938 was marked by the presence of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as honor gust.

LONDON, Oct. 16 (P) A Czech who recently escaped from Germany said today -that fear of losing the war is predominant in the minds of most Germans, while others believe some sort of colossal stroke is being prepared against Great Britain in retaliation for air raids against the Reich. This report was made through the Czechoslovak press bureau by a Czech intellectual who fled Nazi prison where he had been interned for more than three years. His name was not revealed. He said that early in September, while he was making his way to freedom, 'he heard rumors that the Nazis had developed, a new multiple mortar or rocket-thrower with a purported range of up to 200 miles.

The Nazis claim, said, that when these weapons are mounted on the French coast they will be able to spread disaster over southern England. He reported that some Germans still feel that something will happen in Germany's favor at the most critical moment of the war. Although the German people do not dare express their opinions openly, the Czech said the general mood of 'pessimism in the country la revealed in such mumbled phrases as "terrific sacrifices" and "gloomy future." He said that sharp criticism is heard even in lines of shoppers of the destruction inflicted on Hamburg by Allied bombers and the failure of the German ground defense during the first air raid on Wiener Neustadt on Aug. 13 by Affrica-based Liberator bombers of the U. S.

Ninth airforce. The Czech reported that the chief director of the German prison delighted in personally beating up university teachers. Some prisoners were forced to work in a nearby ammunition factory, he said, while others labored in fields. He added that slow or inaccurate work was punished by hunger on Sundays and that mortality was high due to undernourishment. FRISCO YOUTH.

17, IS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON ALBUQUERQUE, N. Oct, 16 -(P)-Without a tremor, Robert Edward Sappington, San Francisco youth who looks many years older but is 17, today heard himself convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. "I want to learn a trade," he told deputies who returned him to his cell to await transfer Monday to the state penitentiary at Santa Fe. In that way, he said, he would he prepared to return to a law abiding life if he could obtain a pardon or parole. Less than an hour after he was convieted of murder in the shooting of a 68-year-old bar owner, Sappington ate a normal mid-day meal and then slept most of the afternoon.

The state charged that the bar owner, Al Mathieu, was shot by. Sappington as Mathieu tried fo capture the youth who was a pistol battle with pol'ce on downtown street. He admitted staging three holdups and disarming an officer. The fighting was with bayonet and grenade through the skeletons of shell-wrecked buildings in the town itself. Despite German tenacity Russian reports were optimistic, and Col.

Andreyev, Moscow radio commentator, said Melitopol was "isolated," permitting "Soviet forces to advance successfully toward the Crimea and also towards the mouth of the Dnieper." Across the middle Dnieper, the Russians surged out anew from their bridgehead near Kremenchug an area from which comparatively little fighting had been reported in recent days. Berlin reports said the attack opened with fierce artillery preparation followed by strong infantry and tank forces. The Germans reported "close renge fighting" southeast and north of Kiev where the Russians 1-ve edditional holds across the Detener near the prize city, Berlin soil 59 Soviet tanks were deetoned in that fighting..