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MEXIA. TEXAS. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1044.
NUMBER 10.
I*
Heavy Bombers Strike At Berlin Again
Nazis Appear to be
Preparing for Third
Storm of Beachhead
• ,
ALL1L01*) HEADQUARTERS, ITALY, March !>. (UP)
—In Italy, the Germans! were repulsed in two attacks on
the Anzio beachhead and Allied war planes, ranging un-
hampered by weather or much cm my opposition, ravaged
their ground lifies and rear communications. Tlv Germans
still appeared to be preparing for a third major effort to
storm the beachhead, however.
On the diplomatic front, it was hinted in Stockholm
that an important development was pending in Finland's
efforts to arrange an armistice with Rusisa. It also was
reported that unrest and war weariness was growing in
Bulgaria. More troops were said to have been called up to
check pro-Allied guerrilla activities.
In London, Prime Minister Churchill replied to ques-
tions about the proposed transfer of Italian warships to !
Russia with a statement implying it might be rjostponcd, I
perhaps until after the war.
In the Pacific, American Marines on New Britain ex- i
tended their grip on WPiiaumex Peninsula, cutting it in
two and advancing against stiff Japanese opposition on
Tulasea, 170 miles from Rabaul. Our ground forces also re- J
pulsed Japanese attempts to land on Los Negros in the i
Admiralty Islands, and advanced closer to Madang on the ,
New Guinea coast.
American Bombers Call upon Berlin
• i
On the main 5th Army front to
tho south, firfhtiriK subsided to re •
' latively minor patrol action ami
artillery exchanges, even in the
streets of Cassino, where savage
linnd-to-haml battles had been in
progress Monday and Tuesday
nights.
Canadian combat, patrols on the
8th Army's Adriatic front engaged
Nazi skirmishes in the Tollo sec-
tor three mile- northwest of Or-
lona and Polish artillery shelled
enemy units around Ateleta.
Poor visibility over most of It-
aly grounded the U. S. 15th Air
Force's heavy bombers, but hard-
hitting American Marauders and
Mitchells picked up the attack with
a series of smashing raids on Na'-'.i
supply "routes from I he sulnnbs ->T
Hi me to San Stefano Harbor, SO
miles northwest of tile Italian cap-
ital.
One Mnraudt r formation struck
through a heavy overcast al the
Tiburtina Railway yards in the
Knstern outskirts of- Rome, while
a second started fires and explos-
ions in San Stefano port installa-
tions.
The railway junction of Orte, 10
miles north of Romo„ also came
tlruli r attack by a force of Mitclu 11
bombers that laid t us ef explos-
ives sqtiarely across tracks and
rolling stock in the freight yards.
Amcriean Invader; dive-bombed
and strafed road and rail at Mon-
Inlto Hi Castro, on the West Const
above Koine, causing extensi/e
I in s and damaee, while I! A F fight-
ers and fighter bombers attacked
road traffic in the Rome area. The
British Raiders destroyed ill on-
t inv vehicles.
Headquarters spokesmen said
poor visibility had prevented full
observation of the damage inflict-
ed on the Tiburtina yards yester-
day, but they reported that the
reei lit series of raids oil the net-
work of railway yards in the Rome
area had "severely damaged" vital
clearing points for German troops
and supplies moving southward to
the fighting fionts.
Russian Troops
Smash into Nazi
I, hie.
Railjuiiction City
MOScVl i March 9. 'U.R) Rus-
simi ir ops threatening to paralyze |
the German switehline rail sys-
'em behind the Ukrainian front
smashed into the junction city of
Stiirakaimtantincv today and
brouKht the transport huh of l'ros-
kurov under artillery fire.
Marshall Gregory K. Zhukov's
three-way advance continued de-
spi e steadily increasing German
resistance and the water-soaked
battlefield* where front dispatches
described fighting conditions us
' incredible."
On a wide arc around the rim
of Zhukov's broad salient in the
sector of the pre-war Polish bor-
der. the Germans have been thrown
lack to strong points anchoring
the trim p rt network by which
they had been able to shift troops
for parrying surprise thrusts by
the Kussiuns.
Eye Reversal of
WPB's Position
on Wasting Gas
Stand Now Taken
That More Gas Is
Needed from Texas
AUSTIN, Tex.. March 9. (U.R)—
Texas Railroad Commissioners to-
day pondered a War Production
Board request for more natural
gas to make carbon black to harden
and color tires, though it was not
-lung ; 'o the state wa- held up to
public scorn as a gas-waster.
The state was prepared to offer
an unlimited supply of "sour" gas,
but sweet gas seemed to be in do-
main! to judge from testimony at
a day-long hearing on the topic
before Commissioners Beau ford
Jester and Ernest O. Thompson,
yesterday.
There is no resti iet ion on sour
gas. It is unsuited for domestic
use because of its high sulphur
content.
The carbon black plants are per-
mitted also to use casinghead gas,
re ulting from oil well operations.
They can use sweet gas, but only
if it is done in a plant that pro-
duces five pounds of carbon black
to each 1,000 cubic fee't of gas
burned.
Carbon black plants in the Texas
Panhandle are not equipped to get.
that return on the gas utilized.
They use the sour gas'and -produce
what is known as channel carbon
black. It takes the name from the
method of production, the carbon
being deposited when sour gas
flames are directed against a sur-
face of channel steel.
Thomas J. Starkie, grayhaired,
slow and soft-spoken dollar-a-year
director of a WPB chemical divi-
sion. told the commission carbon
black stifeks should be 250,000,000
pounds. He said an inventory Feb.
29 showed 1 1:5,000,000. He identi-
fied himself as vice-president of a
chemical company with a private
income in excess of $!!0,000 a year.
Starkie sai l about four pounds
of carbon black gees into the
SO
of
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For the s
and Fortr
their way
econd time in three days LT" icd States bombs swing their
esSes Look part in the Monday raid on the (Jerman capital. T
down and others bursting upon the stricken city. (US
Mill
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from NEA
Liberators
i. bombs on
Tele photo)
Bulgaria Calling
More Troops and
Rumanians Leave
Bulgarian Gov't,
('alls Troops after
Three-Day Meelin#
Hi United Press
I New rumblings fr'.m the BhI-
I bans were reported by the Office
i of War Information today, with
| Bulgaria calling more troops to
j the colors and Rumanian civilians
] beginning a ma-s flight from
| towns along the Russian border.
The Swiss newspaper Hosier
| Nachhichten said Premier Dobri
! Bojilov's Bulgarian government
j had called additional troops after
i a three day meeting in Sofia bc-
| tween Field Marshall Gen. Maxi-
! milian von Weichs, commander of
| German troops in the Balkans, and
Prince Cyril, chief Bulgaiian Re-
gent, and the chief of the Bulgar-
ian General Staff. The talks, the
dispatch said, were expected to be
con'inucd scon at a meeting at
Iluler' • headquarters.
The Swiss dispatch reported the
Bojilov government was primarily
concerned with stepped-up guer-
rilla warfare and possibility of
an Allied invasion in the Balkans.
The Basler Nachrichten, quoting
: estimates of "official Bulgarian
(ireles, said that the Bulgarian
gut rrillas numbered nearly 27.000
and reported the movement had
gained such strength that Bulgar-
ian troops had launched a "regular
j offensive" against them.
Government troops storming a
! partisan center at Bajlnw, where
150 guerrillas reportedly were
slain, discovered a secret arms
depot with stiff i-ient weapons for
j four regiments, the newspaper
reported.
; The dispatch said the patriot?
; were believed to have received
arms from Allied planes based in
Southern 1 aly an i that they were
; receiving directives and instruc-
j lions from British headquarters
in Cairo.
Subs Sink Sixteen Successful Close
ore Jap Vessels of Spanish-U. S.
Trouble Expect
fiV ,
il Uu*L
2H2 Total on
Five Transports
IncSr.ded in Bag
WASHINGTON, March 9 'U.R)
IJ. S. submarines have sunk Id
more Japanese ships, including five
11'H.nsp'i .s. in their increasingly
effective campaign lo isolate .la-
the
pan's mi1 lying bases
nouneed today.
This latest bug
statement of Admii
Nimitz thai Ann iit
in Pacific are ineri
ber nnd off; d"iicy de.-pi!
crease in tar;.o!s.
av si u-
bfars out the
al Chc-tor W.
an stibniariii1 s
rising in mini-
Madrid
iler pri
States
I xpoi'fs
many
on (in i
be..,.
•!„
ill
Nimitz. commatnler of thPa-
cific Fleet, credited U. S. subma-
rines w ith forcing the .lapane. c to
vitbdraw their heavy fleet units
rom Truk.
In iiddilion to the five
toi ls, 10 cargo vest)< Is and
• r wer; listed as sunk in
ommntiique. This brought
lie number of Japawve
j average tire, and that about
| per cent of the nation's supply
black Comes from Texas.
on Page Six)
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"Salt
Soldier Son Dying;
BOSTON, March !t. (U.R) A
Maine mother was flying to Texas
today in an effort to reach the
bedside of hoi soldier son before
ho dies'.
Mrs. Blanche Hilton of Sanford,
Me., left here last night aboard an
American Airlines transport pin no
lifter being summoned to Fort Sam
Houston, Tex., by Army doctors
who said her son Alfred was near
death from an uncurnblc tumor
condition.
The soldier was home on fur-
lough recently becuui-e of his frail
heiil'h. Upon his return lo Texas
j his condition look a turn for the
I worse.
I ralis-
a lank
toilay'-
to I M
meichani
'ossels sunk by oui suhmarin's.
n addi'ioli, 10 have been probably
link and II I damaged for an over
'II total of '127 in the numb'r of
Japanese ships hit by on snbum
ilies.
I ims i f the I'll' -"e r':i.ivlist ban
dicap Japan's attempts to rein-
force its remaining Pacific out-
posts.
Welfare Head Quits
to Take Private Post
.AtTST'N, T; x.. M ir-li H (U.R)
Mrs. Viol('ir< cnhill, for 12 year
bend ef l lie Child Wi ITar? I "iv
■ion of the State Board of Cnn-
tr>d end the Publii Welfare IV'
pHrt.ment. bus resigned lo return
to tlousinn win re she will Iv on
the staff ol th,' Children'" ll'i'-can.
a pi*i\ate oraii'Mi.',iiti"ii.
WM
WASHINGTON. March !: (U.R)
Successful roneJusion of Spanish
American negotiations to stop
Spanish aid lo Germany was re-
perl ed lo be imminent !,od._y.
There wi Ie also rep rt- !•••'>
I hal I'ortuv.al also un
sum from the t"nil d
and Great Bril; hi to stop
ef Tungsten ore lo G; r-
was in a-ccrd with Spain
igreoiiient belie';.jd <o have
rcheil wi'li the A11 i"-s.
Sp.'.t ; h-Ameri" an nog >'.i 11i n
have ben carried on here by Act-
ing Secretary ef State Edward 1'.
Stettinius, Jr., with the Spani-h
Ambassador, and in Madrid by A
meri"an Ambassador Carlton I.
Hum Hayes with the Spanish For
:• o Office.
The pvs! diffi"tilt pr libeii in
ilveil Tones! ~n .>"«• (Wolfram)
i strnteirie mineral used for hard
"ing rteel i siil in,armor-pi. rein ;
bid's. Cei'ieanv i:ns Iven obtain
dig supplies front b th Spain and
rtU' al. *ri the pint, Spain ha
'.'0 now illine. to cut off export
'a (i'Tmeny h. -an ■.• <.I lhe i ft" ■'
II Slr.'i!' dl ccell'mi v ,
Il i; understood, hovfev. r, that
Spain and the United Slates n'iv
"ave reached some sort of a work-
ing agrourunt on (l is issue, and
Madrid reports indicate that bn'.li
Spain an.l Porlugid have a-.treeil ti-
ll commi n formnln under w hi h
they will he able lo present a com-
mon front to Germany.
WEATHER
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Soiiih p"iti >n this iiflcrnoon;
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WASHINGTON. March (U R) -
Oi'l'ici' ul- Price Administra-
li n reminded the public today
'hal the prices of wines and liquor
will take a noticeable jump on
April, when newly-passed excise
a:t"s u'i> into effect.
OI'A said buyers should become
familiar with the authorized in-
creases becau e dealers may add
i "lily the exact amount of the raise
to present maximum prices.
Generally speahinir. consumers
will pay fr nil I to T."> i' iil more
a i|iinrl for dis i I led spirit- and
fi■ i ,-f-nt |i. I i r■■" n mm.' f.n'
■ i111•, I'..j.-i(uiine- \pril I. I'ln new
lux on beer will briny.' only slight
'increases per bottle at retail.
Doolittle's Bombers
Follow Up Biggest
Fire Raid in History
LONDON, March 5). (UP)—Maj. (Jon. James H. I)oo-
little -sent the heavy bombers of his Eighth Air Force a-
uainst Berlin today for Ihe second straight day in a quick
follow through on the biggest fire raid in history on the
capital.
Fuur-motored American bombers struck at Berlin
while the city still blazed from the record daylight as.-ault
: 24 hours earlier, and carried on the first week of the United
i States aerial siege of the battered heart of Nazi m.
Powerful groups from U. S. Eighth and Ninth Air
; Forces and British fighters again threw a protective shield
j around the bombers, an Army headquarters communique
I announced.
"Heavy bombers of the Eighth Air Force again attack-
i ed targets in the Berlin area today."' the communique said.
| "They were escorted by strong forces of fighters of the
Eighth and Ninth Air Forces and the Royal Air Force.
The second straight bombardment of Berlin and the
| third in four days emphasized the weight of the drive to
i stamp out the remaining military potential of the chaired
and pitted city and at the flame time knock the Luftwaffe
! out of the skies over its homeland.
I •— ♦. The ,iiov. attack reflected the
Pagliacci Keeps
on After Death
Opera Singer Dies
in M'dst of Aria
SAN FRANCISCO, March !) (U.R)
. Opera Sinycr Aroldo Lindi, 5~-
j year-old veteran of European and
j American s-tayes. collapsed and j
died of a heart attack on the sta'.v j
jse :
powerful reserve strength of A-
mcrican !Air Forces mus-ed m
Britain, now able to strike repeat-
edly despite such losses as a record
08 bomber- Monday and ;iti yes-
terday.
U. S. headquarters announced
thai 12." German planes were shot
■'own yisteulay, II! by Fortress and
i.ihi rator uunners and 80 by their
fighter e-cort.
Fr m the small beginning last
Friday when fighter:- made the
lirst American aerial pass at Ber-
f the San Francisco Opera House ^ ]in, the campaign had grown to
last night, but the audience i-"- formidable proportions of
mained unaware of the tragedy her.vy bombers parading in
while a performance of "Pagliacci" strength over the capital *f-r two
was being concluded. ! consecutive da\s.
I.indi, singing the tenor part of
Canio, the heart-broken clown who
innst go on with his comedy, fell
heavily on hl.i face just before com-
pleting the famous aria "'Vesti La
Giubba" at the close of the first
act. The curtain was hastily mr.f
down, while the audience applaud-
ed, apparently unaware of the iu-
Uf rupt ion.
Doctors pronounced Lindi dead,
but his part was taken by tenor
Mario Palermo and the opera wa •
mm-1 titled without announcement
i f the singer's death.
.-il.
had
ap-
W A SUING TON. March il. (U.R)
. Ssserting that "if we were ever
al the bottom of the barrel we are
i at it right now," executive lii-
rect; i Lawrence Appley of Ihe
War Manpower Commission hinted
strongly today that local draft
boards will be called upon to adopt
I tougher policies iri ordering pre-
i'earl Harbor fathers into service.
lie laid a press conferense the
situati- n is so critical thai defer-
ments must be based solely and
sticlly on the individual's iric-
placcability ill industry, physical
oisqiialiticalions or personal hard-
ships. The WM , lie added, may
soon be compelled to recommend
certain changes in deferment poli-
cies to Soloe'ive Service.
The situation has reached the
stage, he said, where almost every
industrial deferment rescinded
means taking a "key man" from
industry, Appley said.
Hut wiih the aimed forces net v
iug :}(>().000 men a month, Apple,v
said Selective Service and the
Commission were facing the pr di-
lem of sacrificing certain produc-
tion for larger armed forces.
. From now on, he said, all de-
] ferments must reflect the relative
| urgency of an individual's activity.
| Indicating that same draft
.boards have not yet accepted the
nece-sity for drafting prc-Poail
Harbor 1'ntbefs, A-pple^ said Mile
| W Alt' is Ullde'ltakilig wjtli .Selective
j Service a comprehensive study of
local board deferment policies.
(apt. Laughlin Wi'l
Speak ;it Hi.ifli ^elioa?
Captain A. ,1. Lntiglilin, one lime
principal of Mexia high school,
will * peak hi ici'iv I'lilay morniiig
it : ii n'i ! .,d( I" ' p. i;il a cml.il\
iv II" I bv !, C. \\ on.I. pt ilicipal.
The public is invited to hear
! Captain Laughliu at this time.
Ijinili, borll in Swi
l-eared for the past ten years with
I lir Sail ' arl> Op ra Company. II
also had sung with the Chicago
Opera Company and had appeared
in many 'European cities.
Turn in Points, Local
Butter Sellers Told
Points must be collected and
surrendered to the local rationing
board at the end of each month by
persons selling butter and meat.
•I. W , Klliott, cbairnmn of the Lime
stone Food Panel of the Price
Rationing board announ. ed today.
It is n strict violation to use
these paints for purchtv-iivf meals
and fats, lie sciu.
The daylight offensive still was
picking up momentum, and now
i ivaled the best thtee nights the
RAF ever had against the most
ijoi-.".bed capital in the world.
The RAT managed only once to
make I1 e,heavy attacks on Ber-
lin in four nights. That was on
dan. ^7. jx and 30 when more than
'5,000 long ton.-- of b 111l.is were
dropped on the city.
The American- wen likely to
fall slighily short of the RAF
tonnage, ^although the first aui*
n'.ur.cement did not reveal the
-i-/.e of today's attack.
lu c ntrast with the
heavy raids Monday ail!
day. Ihe German radio
no
tie;
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on th
reports i f he
approi
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first two
Wedlu s-
broadcost
ivy air bat-
to Berlin.
Only after the official annoiinee-
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agercy acknowledge one wa- under
way. 1'he ag.mcy said American
b nibers used a cloud cover for
"a new ten-- r attack" on Berlin.
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