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UNA ThsVeathcr Continued cold east and south portloni, warmer northwest portion tonight, light frost cast portion FINAL 3 0 The Leading Newspaper cf Western South Carolina VOL. XXIII. NO. 250 ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRJI GREENWOOD, S. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOV.

25, 1942 WIDE WORLD SERVICE NEA FEATURXS PRICE FIVE CENTS Aim In All-Omit Aw To Save THE INDEX Effort African Foothold nn WW 5110370 UVJCJZiU i RED TRAP CLOSING ON NAZIS in MayD BULLETINS RZHKV BREAK CONCEDED Rrrila (From Uerman IVoed' Eden Warns Of Critical Phase In North Africa uerma in SOVIiT RUSSIA af imvicmTV 4 eaitwaava ev CMtNYSMlVSKAY hf VaiACMeJTAUNCelAD rr vv KOTttNOvKOsstXy-, T.Kosft5( 'ftaraatNy Close To 100, 000 Russians Stab 80 Miles Into Foe's Defenses Northwest Of Stalingrad, 65 Miles On South; City Garrison On Offensive 1 Moscow, Kov. L'3. (AIMUerraan louses in dead and rain Air Power To Back Troops For Bitter End Stand By The Aseeclaled Frees London. Nov. 25 Tee scale of Axis air attacks in North Africa was reported authoritatively today to show that Adolf Hitler was hack big up the enemy land forces with great air power for abltter-end stand on the Mediterranean shore probaeiy even to ine extent oi draining planes from his Imperilled Russian front.

This warning of the degree to which tne axis wss giraing to save lis jas loouKNoa iu nwiu mimm came soon after Foreign Secretary Inlhnm TAn tnA Uu Hniil of Commons that the contest for North PlanesOut OfRussia t.fJ-.-rV?"l-. captured alone had rocketed sian counter-offensive pained momentum and squeezed the invaders' escape corridor from Stalingrad down to a width of miles, battlefront dispatches reported today. From the" lon-besieed. city- the Russians reported rolling back a Nazi wedpro to the Voljara, clearing another avenue for supply and reinforcement of the garrison which already is lashinar out from its defensive positions and beating back the Nazis street-bv-street. 2 y.j.' 'jK.

TURKEY 1 eatriSjAM Tmsusts IAKUV tVJtlCf RMAN OtlVf I rr, arv TV vVriUcal However, the strongest enemy ground concentrations were believed till to be those holding defensive arcs some ID miles outside Tunis and Blserte and in flight before Britain Eighth Army In Libya, although the Vichy radio yesterday resorted strong formations landing UudUU Losses doge to 100.000. aa the Rus- Nazi Besieger OfStalingrad In 'AwhVFix London, Nov. 25 IV-The Nan besiegers of Stalingrad are In an military' position, compelled to withdrew from the Volga city through a menaced, curving corridor of Russian armies and to Cross the Don river if they axe to get free of the Soviet grip, a British military source said today. This Informant, who must re main anonymous, added, however, that there was no confirmation here that the Oermans had ordered a general withdrawal from Stalin-. grad.

He said any Oerman counter- attack to relieve the menaced army would be "tremendously difficult" This informant pointed out that the Russian offensive may prove to be the first major land action of the war not accompanied by heavy air fighting. Two possible reasons, he said, might be unfavorable weather or the diversion of much Oerman air strength to North Circus Elephant Trainer Is Killed Jac eonvllle, pisw Nov. 35 Walter McClaln, 44, superintendent, and trainer of elephants for the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey circus, was accidentally killed today while helping unload equipment of the big top for a one-day stand here. Witnesses said McClaln. described by circus official as "the top man In his profession." wss applying the brakes on a heavy circus wagon loaded with equipment as it was being brought down a runway from a railway flat car and slipped off the side.

A wheel of the wagon rolled over him. McClaln, a native of North Care-' Una. had been fa) circus work all his life. Make Steady Guadalcanal Japs had once been driven, but into which they had Infiltrated again when American forces executed a planned wlthdrswal toward Matan-ikau. Gained Yard By Yard Infantry units specially trained in underbrush warfare for months.

Page 7 Column BUY UNITED STAT3 we- CI raxUo, Nov. 23. Py The Ger man radio Mid today that the RuNMiana had Hrreeded utm porarily penrt rating" German po Ut ion. ea the Rahrv front wmt of Moarow. REPORT JAP RAIDER HUNK New York, Nov.

2... vP Tle Vichy radio broadraMt today a Havas report that a powerfully armed Japaaeee surface raider of 10,000 toM had been sunk In the Indian ocean by a ml nr weeper of the Indian navy aad Dutch patrol boat. There wa no immediate Bri(ih coafinnatloa. KEEP OS FAYING Heislakl (I'reat Flaahk BreadcaMiu, Nwv. ti The efflclal BelsInU radto al4 It was aaeaaeed Ussy that Fin-laid weald eeatlaae te rpay her war debt te the lalted HUtes as lastoUaieats fall dae "Jast as long as Finland eaa ebUla raited States dollars fer the parpote." HJalniar Preeepe, Flaahh sslalster te Washlagtoa, It said, has beei laatraeted te pay the next bittallmeat, dae la De-eesieer, fresi Flsslih assets (rosea la the raited States.

N083B JEWS ARRESTED Lenden. Nev. t5 V-The World Jewish Osogress leperted today, that UM Jews ta Norway had seen arrested ta a hemes te hones maahant by the German and seat te eeaeentratiea camps prepare tery to being pet' e-werk fa Norway or te Poland. NAZI COURT TRIES DANES Leadow, Nov. tS W-A Reaters repert from Stockholm said today that Danish eithtens had been tried sad sentenced by a German military eeart fer the first time since the Nasi eecapattea of the little kingdom.

SURVn-OKH IN BARBADOft Bridgetown, Barbados, Nov. 24 (Delaj-ed) P) Twenty seven nOrvivora of an Allied ship which was torpedoed recently have been landed here and 28 other who were adrift la two boat have been picked ap aa dare expected to ar rive here sooa. No details of the torpedoing were diarlosed. Gas Rationing Postponement Washington, Nov. 25 A special house committee recom mended today a six months' postponement of gasoline rationing in all or at least part of the presently unratloned area "to see what complete voluntary tire saving will ac complish." I Tne group also suggested that studies of the Office of Petroleum Coordinator and Office of Defense Transportation be utilized in an ef fort to make sure "that our trans portation be utilized In an effort to system throughout the country does not suffer a sudden and drastic col lapse through premature and forced gasoline rationing." Representative Anderson (D-NM), chairman of a subcommittee of a 15-man committee created at a bipartisan anti-rationing caucus of embers last week, made public the recommendations at a House Interstate Commerce Committee hearing.

Representative 8umners (D-Tex), protesting against nationwide gas oline rationing, said today that "this Idea of having somebody from Washington telling an Individual how to go about his own business looks too much like the bug that bit The people, Stunners told a House Interstate Commerce Subcommittee, are demonstrating voluntarily that they can conserve rubber. He suggested that they be permitted to continue on that basis rather, than employing gasoline rationing as a basis for conserving rubber. Despite the protests by Sumners and others. Rubber Administrator William M. Jef fers declared the ra- tlonlng program stands, and will be- gin as scheduled on Deo.

1 Group Advises Those spokesmen have stressed that poll! teal arrangements In North Africa were intended to free Allied military commanders there for their main Job and that, in that sense, political and mllitny operations were closely dovetailed. Remind ml 8. Cemmand Referring to the feet that the North. African expedition was under United States command, Fden said: "This Is not the time To discuss arrangements made in Kbrth Africa between General Elsennower and local French authorities. "The battle is In an extremely critical phase and it will be tune to go into all these measures when it is won." Mesnwhile, he said, nothing should be done to give the Ameri cans cause for complaint.

The statement was made while Eden was commenting for the sec ond dsy on the cancellation by Prime Minister Churchill of broadcast which Oen. Charles De-Gaulle had scheduled for last Sat urday. Net Hamper Treepa Task The 'Prime Minister and did not think its delivery at this par ticular time would be helpful to the extremely tense and serious op rations now proceeding In Tuni Eden said. "We could not take "the' responst bility for allowing anything to hap pen so far aa we had the power to control it might- hamper the responsible commanders or a the task of our own troops and those of our Allies more difficult." The House cheered Eden, who has Just succeeded Sir Stafford Cripps ss government leader in the House, when he said: Pepalatlea Helps Allies "The First British Army, strongly supported by United States forces, Is making its way eastward over enormous cub lancet witn.tne utmost possible speed, and they are greatly helped in the advance by the fav orable attitude of the populatior and also by the vigorous resistance which the French troops of Tunisia already are offering to the Oerman and Italian invaders." "The government entered intc engagements with De Oaulle anr those engagements stand," Eden said. "I hope the House will agree with the government that the greatest discretion should be observed In th utterances which may be mad while the battle and general opei atlons are In their present extremely critical phase." Earlier Eden told the House tha all Britons Interned In North Afr.

ca and almost an the Fightint French internees now have been re leased. NamberHairt In Derailment Near Denmark Denmark, Nov. 25 VP) At leaet four persons were serious! in lured great air power for a bitter-end lacerated this morning when a northbound Atlantic Coast line railroad passenger train was derailed about three and one-half milea west of here. The accident occurred about 5:3 a. near the Hlghtower mill poi Two of the five passenger and bag gage coaches which left the track overturned the pond In about four feet of water.

Chief of Police W. V. Whetstone of Denmark said he believed an persons In the two cars which plow ed Into the pond were accounted for. but that a further check was being made. Four of the Injured.

Miss EtneUze Wood of Atlanta. Frt Robert Bal lard of Fort Bragg. N. G. Ethei Carter of Barnwell and Willie Lou Miller of Atlanta, were taken to tne Tri -County hospital at Orangeburg for treatment.

The extent of their injuries wss nut Immediately determined. Whetstone said most of the occu pants of tl nine-coach train were soldiers and sailors. Passengers trapped In the two overturned coaches smashed windows and clam bored out. London, Nov. 35 Uty Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons today that the tattle lot North Africa Is "in an extremely critical phase 'and de lined to discuss arrangements which Lieut Oen.

wight D. Elsen hower has made with the local French authorities. Eden did not elaborate on his Allied spokesmen, however, re peatedly have pointed out that the relatively light resistance from the French was' only the first phase and that the showdown for domination ot the Mediterranean's African Otore would be the test, now de veloping, between the Allies and the stroneer defenses of the Axis. Berlin Tells Of Gains In North Africa Berlin (From Oerman Broad- casts), Nov. 39 A Oerman broadcast said today that Axis troops in Tunisia had been reinforced by armored formations, artil lery and other mechanised detachments and had secured their hold on roads and rail lines along the coast and leading toward the Inland highlands.

i-: A DN8 dispatch said that al though no major land operations had been reported, the advance of British and American formations from Algeria had been slowed by increasing Oerman bomber and fighter attacks. Heavy air blows against the Brit ish in Libya and the Allies in French North Africa were reported by the Oerman high command today, but It said there were "no fighting actions of importance' on either battlefront In Libya, the bulletin said, low flying Oerman planes attacked British desert strongholds and fly ing fields. Ships Hit In Algiers In a night attack on the Allied- held port of Algiers, it said, a merchantman was destroyed, another big transport was set afire and two destroyers were damaged. Page I Column I SurvivrsOf U.S. Freighter Land At Lourenco Marques tourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa, Nov.

2S W-JiTty survivors of the ,900 ton United States freighter Alcoa Parthflner landed here today arte rthelr ship was sunk oft. the Mozambique coast probably by a submarine. Borne the survivors were injured seriously. They were given first aid treatment by a Portuguese rescue party aent out to meet them. Three other ships have been sent to the bottom of the Mosamblque coast within the past week.

The story which Dr. Wise said was confirmed by the 8tate Department and a personal representative of President Roosevelt deals with how 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 "HI tier has ordered the extermination of all Jews in Nasi-ruled Europe in 1942." Te Speed Slaaghter 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 Fags Column 3 at Qabea and Bfax in southern i VMrnt Vatrel Claahea American, snusn ana srencn ior-.

ees were reported roaming thr length and breadth of Tunisia oi.Viin jwvMi.tnri.llv with ptvmr patrols in short but violent engage menta and preparing for. the final showdown with the Axis in Africa. The assertion tnat Hitler probably was weakening his air forces In Russia to bolster those in the Mediterranean area came from an auth- Aritv Tvhnu nam can not be dla- closed, but it was supported by a dlsnetch from Algiers, where an Australian correspondent, John Jarvie, telegraphed that he had learned that an Axis squadron that raided North African towns yester day was on the Stalingrad front thraa VMwrf mem There was a dearth of news from North Africa today although the air war preliminary to the decisive ground battle continued hotly. page 7 Column 8 Two Candidates Announce For Labor Commissioner Columbia, Nor. () Claud R.

Boland of Columbia said today he was a candidate for appolnt- K- HmnM lahnr com. UtVlll WW mlshtoner to succeed Commissioner W. Rhrit Harley, who has decunea to comment an a report he planned to take another position soon. Rep. Thomas W.

Young of Charleston has also announced for the office. Northwest of the city the Rus sian offensive penetrsted (0 miles Into the depth of Oerman defens es within the greet Don bend and to the southwest the Russian' had stabbed 5 miles Into the In vsders' lines. The Jaws of the nutcracker still were closing. Nearly AO.OOO Killed A communique added 1,400 more Oerman dead overnight to the toll Into 8tallngrad-Doa bend sector, raising the official count of the killed to 44,400 In six days. and battlefront dispatches said the tally when all reports were in Would be close to 10,000.

The communique gave no spe cific figure on Oermsna captured overnight, but dispatches said the previous total of U.000 now, too. was probably close to 10,000. (No official figures were given on the number of Natl wounded. but In London a Reuters dispatch from Moscow estimated by the traditional ratio of three wound ed for. every soldier killed that the wounded totaled Nasi Rail Line.

Cut Soviet communiques reported both rail supply Hues to the siege forces cut early in the offensive which started seve'i dsys ago and today'a front line dispatches Indi cated that Only narrow strip running through the Don river elbow north of Kalach and south of Trekhostrovskaya remained open to an estimated SO0.00O Ger mans and their allies for moving supplies, or escaping. The fall of Kalach, on tht Stal- Ingrad-Kamensk railroad, was reported Sunday and Trekhostrovskaya fell yesterday to forces pushing down from the southwest. Drive Clears Towna (The official cotnmunlques bave not made clear the paths being followed by the several Ruaslan offensive columns but the location of the Germans escape avenue north of Kalach would indicate that the same Red Army which cut the Stallngrad-Novorosslsk railroad southwest ot Stalingrad swung part of Us forces northwest ward and captured Kalach, which lies about 60 miles due west of Stalingrad, and then swerved west Page Column 4 US Troops Advance On By J. NORMAN LODGE Guadalcanal. Solomon Islands, Nov.

Jl (Delayed) VP) Refusing to rest on their laurels during the past 10 days during which a Japanese naval task force wa. wiped out and a huge landing par ty eliminated. United States land forces today began a temporarily delayed advance toward Kokum- bona village and the mouth of the Poha river on the western front Marines on the eastern front near the Teneru nver mopped up straggling Nipponese forces in the meantime. On the western front an army unit under the command of Lieut Col. Otis Whitney, Concord.

Mass, who had relieved the Marines, pressed toward Point Crus with less than 600 yards to go before reach ing that objective. Beyond the disputed point lay approximately one thousand yards of Jungle terrain from which the Msp shows Soviet pincers Oerman besiegers of Stalingrad. No Opposition To 2 US Raids On China Bases By J. ReUIy 08nlUvaa With the United States Air forces la China. Nov.

13. (De- 'ared). tP American bombers, tccompsnled by the largest fight er escorts yet seen In the China theater, subjected two of Jspan's naia air bases in South Cblna to punishing attacks today without Irawlng opposition from a single enemy plane. An air port on the Island of fencha, 71 miles south of Canton, was raided in the morning and nstallatlons on the Tienho airfield at Canton were destroyed In the afternoon. (Reuters said a Tokyo broadest reported that four United States B-25 bombers escorted by hree raided Canton igaihst yesterday Tuesday and laid one tighter was downed).

Tbey handed It back two for for the Ineffective pre-dawn enemy raid on the Kwangsl air-Irome In which two of three Japanese bombers wers shot out of he sky and the third possibly was lestroyed. Hangars, Fired Three hangars believed filled with Jspanese planes, a big barracks and a Urge workshop area tt the Ssnchu airport received direct hits In the morning rsid by he American skydragons. Five ons of bombs were dropped on field, Japan's princlpsl South China reserve base and airplane epalr and storage center. Fires eere started and oil supplies were Mlleved set ablate. A string of bombs exploded on rnnway as three enemy planes were taking off.

One wss de-aolished before getting off the round. Fighters attacked the Hhers, probably damaging one, The raid on tht Island base was ed by Lieut. Col. Herbert Mor-isn, ot Freedom, Pa. Japs WouM Not Fight In the afternoon attack, major nstallatlons were put out of commission and a huge fire wss touch- id off at an oil dump.

Col. Robert Scott, ot Macon. who led the fighter escort ra this mission, said: "Their fighters wouldn't come ap to meet is. Bombs covered, the entire tar-tet area. Fire blazed up from bits on oil storsge and within three minutes smoke plumed np .000 RAF Again Pastes Burmese Airdrome New Delhi, Nov.

25 VPy- RAF bombers blasted a Japanese air drome at Melktlla, Burma, south of Mandalay, last night for the second night in succession, starting a number of fires, a British communique announced today. naa 'leieiuioto offensive which is closing in on the Japs In Last StandFightOn General MacArthur's Headquar ters, Australia. Nov. a (fl Am eric an and Australian troops were gripped In a bitter close -quarter battle with a "last stand" force oi Jspanese oa the beaches of north esstern New Quince, today as the bloody struggle In the Buna-Oona area approached its climax. Every plane the Allied forces could muster was sent skimming over the Japanese positions with machine guns and cannon blazing.

Bombers added high explosives to the confusion and death bejow. On the ground Allied troops, no nave surrounded the Japaneso on three sides, closed in slowly. On iz-Mlle Coastal E.rlp The heaviest fighting was taking place on a coastal strip 13 miles long between Buna and Oona. At Buna both Australian and American units were reported attacking an airfield in the face of stiff enemy artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire. Heavy fighting was reported to have erupted again on the Oona end of the battle line-The Australians entered the village Monday and found 100 Japanese dead.

Other dead and wounded Japanese were scattered along the beach near the community. Allied Air Blows Heavy The Allied airmen made more than 100 sorties over the battle area yesterday, dropping hundreds of bombs and spraying many thou sands of rounds of machine-gun bullets on positions of the trapped Japanese. The aerial action was particularly Intense on a six-mile stretcb be tween Oona and Banananda. No Japanese planes appeared to contest the air with the Allied filers, it was reported. Moroccan Sultan Welcomes American Occupation Forces Washington.

25 WV-The of Mordoro. Sldl Mohammed, has informed President nooseveit that the Inhabitants ot Morocco have received American occupation forces "as friends." Further, he said, the French colony "has no disagreement with the great nation of the United States, whose chivalrous and liberal principles are known to us." "It was, therefore," the 8ultan said In a message made public today by the White House, "in the above spirit that ire declared to Major General Pstton that as long os our prestige, our soil, our religion and our traditions were re- spected by your troops they could rest assured that they found In Morocco only friends and collaborators." I Papuan Beach Details, Proof Of Jewish Extermination Reported By Kenneth Dixon Wsshtagton, Nov. -4--Detalls of a campaign which Dr. Stephen Wise said was planned to exterminate eO Jews In Nail -occupied Europe by the end of the year are to be laid before a committee of leading Jewish organizations today In New York. rcr-yicron BUY VNITSO STATS Y7AR AND Ml i 1.