The Kilgore News Herald du lieu suivant : Kilgore, Texas • 1

I 1944 ynVeXVar7n 9 The svenson PUEUSKED AT THE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST OIL FIELD standing imunity of the award Service ga to OL 13 NO 323 Full Leased Wire United Press KILGORE TEXAS SUNDAY JANUARY 16 1944 A Kilgore-Owned Institution TWENTY PAGES TODAY MairsM ul BOW GONE CRUISER MAKES PORT 9 RAFKh ocks SEIZE INDUSTRY Runnion Hit By Car At Scene Of Wax Fire George Runnion 36 Kilgore fire marshal was killed when struck by an automobile as ne was guarding lire nose Friday mgnt duung a maze wnich destroyed a warehouse and 5Uu0uu pounds oi wax at the new Betrolite Corporation wax plant here Damage in the lire was estimated at between tpnoooO and $iEUt)00 nrenien weie caned to the plant at Friday afternoon The accident wnich Runnion was fatally injured occurred aoout iu o'clock as ne stood over the lire lines which had Deen laid across tne road in iront oi tne plant ine driver oi me car L- Deters did not see Runnion until tne car struck him as he stood with his back turned to it Runnion was taken at once to the hospital but was dead on arrival Firemen iought the blaze until 2:30 Saturday mormngf'anct succeeded in coniining damage to tne warehouse and adjacent area 'The main recronte plant was not damaged company ofiicials said the plant would be in operation again as soon as temporary storage facilities couid be arranged ior the product probably witnm a week' Jno indication had been iound of how the tire started A complete check had been made oi the warehouse only la snort time beiore a watchman in an adjacent building I saw the flames leaping up inside it just alter 6 Kunnion had been city tire "1st 1919 SOLDIER VOTE ACT HELD INVALID NEW ONE WOULD BE Sellers Says War Not 'Act Of God' As Rule Requires AUSTIN Man 15 (UP) The ci oi the Texas Legislature ol 1919 unaer which service men ol wona Vvar One wtre peimutt-d to oie without poll tax payment was invalid Aliy Gen Crovtr btlleis held in eitect Saturday in a supplemental opinion on soidier voting furnished to Gov Coke Stevenson Gov Stevenson said that he has no intention presently to convene the Legislature to enact a similar law lor men now in service The act of 1919 was not contested but Governor Stevenson said that if he nt into the realm speculation about the possibility of an not bung contested it would also be logical to speculate on unlikelihood of a contest til an act that would permit under-age service men to vote The lack of a special session need not prevent most service men voting Stevenson said They can can vote if their Wives pay their poll taxes by Jan 31 or the soldiers can pay the tax by mail or by an authorized agent The Attorney opinion carries with it an indirect ruling tnat the act ot tne last session of the Legislature by which service men weie excused from poll tax in the year the war ends also is invalid The Texas constitution requires See SELLERS on Page 8 AIRCRAFT PLANTS THERE SAID SHUT FOR REST OF WAR LOND'ON Jan 15 (UP) rr BERN Switzerland Jan 15 i ll a naming sequel to Tues- (UP) Benito puppet lay American precision at- ack the RAF Friday night tmothered Brunswick under 1318 tons of bombs and oSturday the great German tircraft production center 1 vas believed immobilized or the duration Drawing off the enemy's fighters with strong diversionary Mos-fuito raids on Berlin and Magde-eurg great fleets of four-engined oombers were able to hit a peak ntensity of 150 tons of bombs a minute on the main target An average of 90 tons a minute vas maintained for the 23-minute duration of the attack and 5s the aerial armada withdrew towers af smoke and flame shot 18000 feet into the sky and the red glow marking pyre could oe seen for 150 miles Translated into American tons the British long-tonnage announced by the RAF totaled 2318 tons which provided theie was no wastage was enough to knock jut Brunswick as a production enter A British expert said there was that recon-naisance pictures of both the and Bntish bomb damage vould show that Brunswick had seen eliminated from a military ispect even though it was still labitable for its population of 150000 The night's operations cost the JAF 38 bombers most of them lost in wild night battles on the return flight because the Luftwaffe'S night fighters did not the Brunswick raiders until they had left the target In i ddition to diversionary attacks in Germany lie RAF bombed targets in North' Prance and laid mines in enemy waters Detailing Friday's dawn to dusk ittacks by strong Anglo-Ameri-an planes cn North France a joint Allied communique said that exceptionally good icsults were See RAF on Page 8 FASCISTS ITALY REDS HURL BACK COUNTERBLOWS KILL 2000 NAZIS LONDON Sunday Jan 16 (UP) Soviet forces killed 2000 I Germans and wrecked 70 tanks Saturday in hurling powerful German counterattacks on the Vinnitsa 'and Uman sectors ol the first Ukrainian front south of Kiev wheie the enemy was fighting desperately to retain posses-i sion of vital lailroad lines to the Dnieper bend In White Russia Gen Konstan- tin Rokossovsky army made unspecilied gains westward across the Pripet Marshes toward Pinsk capturing a number of inhabited I points and killing 1500 Germans The German high command communique broadcast by ther Berlin radio claimed that powerful Red Army forces had opened a new offensive in the long-dormant Leningrad and Lake Ilmen areas as well as mound Nevel in a three-pronged drive to break the German lines guarding the Baltic states That report ol Soviet assaults against tne northern anchor of the crumbling German lines in Russia was not confirmed by broadcast communiques which were among the shortest issued in almost a month Tjie Soviet bulletins said that east of Vinnitsa wheie the Although its bow was shot away in a battle with the Jps in the Southwest Pacific this Navy cruiser made port and was returned to action after a new bow had been built' at the Bremerton Wash Navy yard This photo was taken before the ship was fitted with a temporary bow so that it could return to the Bremerton yards Official United States Navy photo DEPT OF STATE IS REORGANIZED government swept away all private ownership of business and industry the territory held for uy vjtrmsn anus Tne aecrte was promulgated rnuay Homier aispaicnes saia Biiei a evict meeting oi ue eouncu oi numsurs somewmre in Nonnun Italy unaer iviussoiniis pei sonal chairmansmp aiecita all owners ol corporate securties to turn tnem over immediately to a state-conirou-ed agency ms ui ues-uuite Finanzianitmo in cx-cnange lor almost worthless cur-teiicy issued by Mussonni pup-pvi government uoservtis legal ded the move as tne must oiasiic step taxen by any government sine the Soviet union private fnoper-ty in Russia alter me lirst World vvai Tne Fascist measure in effect ere ted new supei -Holding company run by tne state wtnch would the only snarcholder in occupied Italy with the apparent puipose of socializing the ital-an economy Stock exchanges rt acted violently to the startling government action and the bottom dropped iiut of the market lor many ol the nation's leading industrial shares Fiat shares plunged from 1300 to 950 and stocks ol Sniaviscosa the giant textile firm dropped from 1300 to 880 Montecatini Chemical shares weivt from 530 to 328 while the big electrical combine Adriatica di Elettiicita broke from 1000 to 5Q2 FRENCH FLANK NAZIS AS YANKS DRIVE ON CASSINO ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers Jan 15 (UP)-y French mountain troops have captured Acquafondata shattering the north llank of the German defense arc protecting Cassino and prompting an enemy retreat be-lore powerful American blows on the southern approaches of the Rome road stronghold it was disclosed Saturday night Beating back waves of Nazi counterattacks five of them ite-in the last 24 hours Gen Alphonse veterans of Tunisia tattered their way forward tor two more miles end seized five key hill positions in the Acqua-fondata area seven miles northeast of Cassino More than 25U Germans were made prisoner By-passing but not capturing the enemy strong point at Viticu-so two miles southeast of Acqua-fondata the French also put themselves astride a back-door road into Cassino while the Americans hammered away at deep Gei man defenses on both tides of the Rome road The effect of the French advances began to tell when Amsr- if an troops driving northwest from battered Cervaro three Sec CASSINO on Pages 8 marshal since last Oct 1 For 13 years before taking the city post I he had been a Southwestern Gas I and Electric Company employee here He had served as a volun-j teer fireman here as well as in i Jefferson Wmnsboro and Wolle City and at the time of taking I the fire office said he had achieved Ins lifelong ambition i Funeral services will be held this atternoon at 2:30 at the Rader Fjneral Home chapel with Rev Bennett Baptist pastor conducting The body will be taken to Wolle City Monday lor burial Runnion was born in Wolfe City He married Miss Selma Hatcher Jefferson in 1930 Sur-r--viving are his wife one da lighter Jo Ann 10 his father I Runnion ol Wolle City two tis-sters Mrs Sam Dooley of Wolfe City and Mrs Ray Williams of Tyler and one brother Lt Col Marvin Rumron of Harlingen The Petrolite Corp plant one of the largest new industries in Kilgore in recent years went into operation here in November after the company had moved here from Tulsa Okla It is still not completed The plant produces wax from the residuum of East Texas oil which is of a high wax content A part of the shipment which was destroyed in the warehouse was consigned to the government for war uses including the weatherproofing of uniforms The rest of the shipment was to go into commercial channels The warehouse was a frame See FIRE on Page 8 ur i Airport Road Hearing Set AUSTIN Jan 15 The I'tate Highway Cpmmissfon Saturday announced public hearings on a number of proposed road projects here Jan 19 The proposals included: Gregg County Extension of lighway 322 from Rusk County line to Highway 149 designation of Kilgore to Gregg County airport highway partial relocation of Highway 149 in Longview Russians were driving toward the Bug River the Rumanian border and the Odesa-Warsaw railroad main German line to Southern Russia southern units of Gcri Nikolai First Uk-See REDS on Page 8 WS MORRIS MADE NATIONAL AIME PETROLEUM HEAD Morris of Kilgore has been elected chairman of the Pe-ti oleum Division of the American infcitute ol Mining and Metallurgical Engineers for 1944 He will lakc-oflice at the annual meeting of the Institute in New York Feb 21 Moms who is vice president and genual manager of the East Texas Salt Water Disposal Company founded the East Texas Section of the AIME and was its first chairman A 1924 graduate of the University of North Carolina ho has served as petroleum engineer with the Bureau of Mines and engineer with several oil companies He was also admitted to the Oklahomd bar in 1936 He served as field chairman for the East Texas Engineering Association from 1936' to 1942 ancl as chairman 'of the Southwestern District of the American Petroleum Institute in 1938 He was appointed by the East Texas Sait Wated Disposal Company to his pie-sent position in 1942 Here We Go Round The Alphabet Bush ALBUQUERQUE Jan 15 (UP) Who knows? McCollum state salvage director of the War Production Board answqrtd the telephone A woman asked "Can you please toll me the regulations governing issuance of ration points for waste 't sorry but you'll have to ask the OPA as Pm net familiar with McCollum replied "This is the OPA ctJling" the Woman rr-pliid ROE SPEARS DIES KILGORE RESIDENT FOR 65 Roe Spears 79 longtime resi dint of Kilgore and native of tins ieinity died at his home 504 East Mailt Street Saturday alte- noon alter having been seriously ill lor about one week He had been -n ill health lor a numbei ol' veins Funeral saw ices will be held at St Luke's Methodist Chinch at 430 tins alien noon with Ret it Bennett pastor of the i irst Baptist Church in charge iiunai will be in Kilgoie Cenx-U Mr Spears was born in the Mount Monah community in 1864 did mot cd to Kilgore about 65 years ago He had lived at the tame locution here since that nme although a new house ws built on the site of the original lmine about 25 years ago For many years Mr Speais was a Kilgoie merchant after which he saved on the city police force until a lew years ago He was well-known to all the school children during that period serving as guard at the street crossing at the high school building Surviving arc his wile Mrs: Ida Speais and two sisters Mrs Lawrence of Kilgore and Mrs Jda Sparkman of San Antonio Pallbeaiers will be Sam Ross Fianz Spear Vincent Florey Roger Goyne Reuben Crim and CrcWn "Dickson Rader Funcial Heme will be in charge services MRS MCKINNIE HEARS BROTHER IS IN JAP PRISON Pfc Weldori Wootten who has been listed as missing since early in 1942 is a prisoner of the Japanese his sister Mrs McKinnie has been notified Mrs McKinnie received a card from Wootten which read am interned at the War Prisoners Cainj) (5) at Moulmein in Burma My health is good I have not had any illness I am with friends Let me know about the The card was a small piece of thin pasteboard an Imperial Japanese army card similar to those being received from families of other men who are held as prisoners of the Japanese Pfc Wooten received training at Camp Bowie Brownwood and was a member of the 131t Field Artillery the tamed Lost Battalion in Java Governor Proclaims War Loan Period ''AUSTIN Jan 15 Oov Coke Stevenson Saturday night proclaimed the period from Jan 18 to Feb 15 inclusive time for the Fourth War Loan drive in Texas and uiRod every Texan to invest as muih as posrtble most we can do on the home front is necessary to assure the earliest the proclamation said WASHINGTON Jan 15 Secretary of State Cordell Hull Saturday night announced a far-reaching reorganization of the State Department designed in tne depertim jit's words facilitate the conduct of the foreign relations of the United States in war and A departmental announcement of the shake-up said it would the assistant secretaries ana MARINES BATTLE JAPS ATOP HILL 660 ON NEW BRITAIN ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS" New Guinea Sunday Jan 16 (UP) Marines on New Britain Island opening a final assault against Hill 660 on ihe Borgen Bay front below Cape Gloucester battled strongly-entrenched Japanese forces on the top of the vital elevation Friday in intensified fighting to clear the western end of the island of enemy troops it was announced Sunday Gen Douglas communiques ripbitcd the increased giound action at Hill 660 an important observation point while a announcement that Marines vAire heavily pounding Japanese positions in thc' top ol the hill indicated that the Leati-trtucks had stormed the slopes ot the hill in a final drive to oust the enemy defenders Mitchell medium bombers cooperating with ground forces Friday boribcd and strafed enemy rear positions between Cape Ra-oult and Rein Bay while the air offensive against Rabaul on the nortneastern tip of New Britain was continued by Solomons-based aircraft Lukunui ancl Tobrra airdromes at Habaul the Rapopo coastal scc- Sce PACIFIC on Page 8 US Planes Sink Ship In Marshalls WASHINGTON Jail 15 (yP) Army bombers sank one medium sized cargo ship set fire to numerous buildings and damaged grounded planes and seveial small ships in fenir unopposed attacks on Japanese bases In 'he Marshalls on Thursday and Friday the -Navy announced Saturday night In a Pacific Fleet headquarters announcement rrleasid her- qnd Pearl Hurbor the Navy said "No enemy fightei opposition wa: encountered in- these strikes and all of our planes returned pi incipal oliiccrs ol the department from aammistrative auties in order that tney may devote tne ti cater part ot tiien- "''Tnne to maiteis oi important lorign pol- Jt order created two new committees within the department on policy and on postwar pro-giams as well as an advisory council cn postwar foreign policy iieaaed by nmiscll 'I he department sain he already had named Noiman II Davis Myron Taylor and Isaiah Bowman- as vice cnainticn jil the council Davis ior many years served as a roving ambassador and diplomatic tioublc-shooler for President Roosevelt Taylor former chairman ot the board of the United States Stctl Corp has acted as Mr Roosevelt's special envoy to the Vatican on various occasions Bowman president ot Johns Hopkins University also has served the Roosevelt Administration in various capacities shake-up had been expected sinbe Edward Stcttinius former president of Steel was named to succeed Sumner Welles as Undnsecrelary of State last Spt 25 Official sources said at that lime that first job would be to reorganize the department into a more streamlined See STATE DEPT on Page 8 Mrs Edith Allen 34 Dies At Home Of Her Parents Mrs Edith Alien 34 died at the hcjme of her parents Mr and Mrs Frank Johnson Route 3 Saturday afternoon after an illness- of several months Funeral services will be held at Rader Funeral Home chapel at 2:30 Monday i ftcrncon Burial will be in Kilgore Cemetery with Rev Bennett pastor of the First Baptist Church in chm gc of both services Mrs Allen had ben leaching sthool in Velasco where She and her husband made their home until May 30 1943 when her serious illness forced her to resign her position there She came to Kilgore at that time and has bfrn ill at the home of her parents Survivors arc her husband A Allen Velasco two step-chi'-ciri Dewey Alien of Vtlascoant! Mrs Mildred Acock or Boohcs-''iik Ark her parents Mr and Mrs Johnson two brotheis Omer Johnson of Houston and Albert Johiv-on of Velasco her giand-rnotoer Mrs Annie Latham Uiumiight OKla two ni ces and one nephew Palibcaicrs will be membtrs ol Ihe local IUCF Lodge 'Miracle' Needed WASHINGTON Jin 15 (UP) House -Democratic Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts said Saturdiy night that only a "political would enable members cf the ikmcd forces serving overseas to participate in tile November elections Such a he said would be in the form of a decision by Republican legislators to vote for a federal soldier vote law instead of the measure passed by the Senate and with some light revision approved Friday by a 7 to 5 vote of the House elections committee McCormack described the committee's bill as and and said it was a behind which opponents of federal soldier vote Ugislation are hiding The four Republican members of the committee who voted for the bill he said hide their The House is tentatively scheduled to start debating the soldier vote issue on Thursday The Senate privileges and elections' committee however is expected to report out next week a federal ballot law as a substitute for the bill See on Page 8 slippery ice the snow beenme a pain in the neck -Slush froze or the streets when the temperature dropped Friday jiight and made driving extremely difficult ns well as hard on wnr-thin tires Bus schedules were disrupted and walking was about the only dependable means of transportation during the worst of the storm Householders and business men Saturday were forced into the unaccustomed occupation of shoveling snow md scraping icc from their sidewalks The snow was bclkvcd the heaviest in Kilgore in 15 years A bright sun Saturday melted ice and snow from the streets though much still remained bunked and drifted across lawns and on the shady side of housetops The mow was general over East "ritd Central Texas changing to sleet at Marshall and on into See SNOW on Page 8 POPULATION of Kilgore grew ay lecps and bounds Friday aftei-noon and Saturday morning All 'he newcomers were robust fellows ith straw hats and cob pipes and the other accoutrements of their kind They were to be found singly in pairs and even in groups of three or four Who were they wnd why did they come at this particular Why thry were snowmen their arrival being governed entirely by the weather man FIVE-INCH SNOW COVERS KILGORE HARMON SOLDIERS TO GIVE PROGRAM FOR BOY SCOUTS Harmon General Hospital personnel will present the program for the Boy Scout Court of Honor Tuesday night at 8 at the High School auditorium The Harmon band under the direction of Master Sgt Pedro Rodriguez and the orchestra under Sgt William Wagner will play Also appearing on the program will be Sgt Harold Spellman comedy specialist Cpl George Harris vocalist Cpl Robert Aspock concert pianist and other performers The colors will be presented under the direction of Sgt William Lt A Zoppi will be chairman for the Court of Honor program Presence of the Harmon personnel is made possible through the courtesy of Col Emerson commanding offioer i BULLETII1G BUENOS AIRES Jan 15 A violent earthquake rocked western Argentina Saturday night and preliminary reports indicated heavy damage and casualties in San Juan province at the loot of the Andes The Ylllar Ortuxar seismograph In Buenos Aires located the earthquake renter Just south of San Juan Province near the Argen-tine-Chiiean bordeK aal a spokesman (or the eh Y'ry raid the tremor wai 1 -1 A felt at rt In Uyenos i A snowfall estimated at between five and six inches lay picturesquely over Kilgore Friday night and Saturday following a rear-record snowstorm which continued without let-up-for mpre than eight hours Friday -Children erupted from schools squealing with delight Friday of-ternoon into a white world cf snow fights and snow men Kilgore Ccllcgo students were not too dignified to enter into the fun and a pitched battle raged between the college and the Navy But to motorists grunting and straining to back cars out from cuibs and driveways packed into Partly Cloudy East Texas Partly cloudy warmer except in extreme south and extreme north portions Monday partly cloudy slightly colder north portion YOUNGSTERS and some not so young 'had the time of their lives playing In the unaccustomed snow Oldrst-limers remember juvt when Kilgore has ever been -Jjfilesscd with such an abundance of it but boomers tell ns that the snowfall of Friday brought the largest amount of the feathery flakes seen in the 11 or 12 years they've been round BACK to the snowmen: our la-voritc was the big one he must have Ixen six feet tall erected on North Commerce Mrs nes called to tell-us about him and wr were rewarded for a dc-tpur of sevcinl blocks on our way home by the sight of the magnificent fellow Lets of effort us well i See K1LGUROUND oil Page 0.