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NAZIS FALL BACK TOWARD SEA: RIGA FIGHT RAGES
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ALLIED Sl'I'RKME HHADQl'ARTERS (11*) — The fall- of
a great Allied offensive momentarily rests on the weary shoulders
|^>t' a dwindling hand of lii-iflsh paratroopers.
If that courageous airborne unit around Ai-iihcm ran hold out
until the liritish Seeond Army Rets across the Rhine river, the |
Allies will have swung open the northern gateway into Germany. I
Heeond Army tanks and armored ears already have rolled to the !
soiilli hank of the northern arm of the Rhine. There, they've res-
cued a small force of paratroops. And now they're battling for
*llie Ari)hem bridge in a desperate effort to get across and rescue
the nir.in airborne force on the opposite shore.
Front reports say the highway bridge still was standing when
the Second Army rolled to the Rhine after lighting ils way north 1
from Ni.inirgen. As infantrymen battle to take the span, Second
army artillery is hurling shell after shell across the stream into
y : the Germans encircling the Arn-
• | hem troops. A headquarters
spokesman says the situation in-
side the embattled town has im-
proved considerably since the
Second army reached the
Rhine's south bank. Those air-
borne troops have been slugging
it out for six straight days. A
dramatic radio message from
their commander says they'll
hold out until relieved. Nonethe-1
less, officials believe relief must!
come quickly.
Southward .along the western '
front, the American First army j
is mopping up after capturing
the German industrial city of!
Stolberg, six and one half miles
47th Year
Sweetwater, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 24, 1944
No. 219
Steakley Assigned
To Staff Of 8th
'Naval District
I/I'. STEAKLEY
DALLAS — Announcement
<fc!ias been made iti New Orleans
of the assignment of Lt. Zollie
C: Steakley, USNR, to the staff
of the Assistant
YETS WANT
POST-WAR
FARM JOBS
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
President Roosevelt has asked
two of his top advisers to go to
work at once on a program to
help about one million members
of the armed forces establish
themselves in civilian life as far-
mers and ranchers.
The white house reveals that
the president has sent a letter
to Agriculture Secretary Claude
Wickard and veterans adminis-
trator Frank Mines asking them
to make a survey on the project
east of Aachen. Still farther j and report at the earliest possible
south, ihe battle of the Moselle date .
river is rapidly becoming the | The chief executive points out
battle of the Seille river. ! that there are reliable estimates
A front report from United j that more than one million mem-
Press Correspondent R o b e r t. hers of the armed forces want to
Richards reveals that the Ger- j g0 jnj0 agriculture after the war.
mans — taking advantage of rain Mr Roosevelt suggests thai,
and mud—have dug in all along j "adequate credit upon reasonable
the tiny 1.0 foot wide stream,. terms- must he assured to help
which forms the boundary be- j veterans settle on their own
tween Germany and F ranee in , ,s ,, af|(led t|iat lhe land for
Lorraine. The river is approxi-
mately live miies east of the Mo-
selle at this point.
As the Allies fought along the
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News Is
Qloomy
PEARL HARBOR (UP) —The
puppet government of the Phil-
ippines is at war with the Unit-
ed States and Britain.
Tokyo radio says Puppet Pre-
sident .lose Laurel proclaimed a
state of war effective at 10
| o'clock Saturday morning. That's
Friday, our time.
TOKAY'S WAR MAI'—The liritish Second Army reaches air
troops al .Ariihem, open arrows show uosslble drives. Yanks
penetrate (■erniany at Scharpenseel. (NER Telemap.)
REDS START
ROMANIAN
OFFENSIVE
MOSCOW (UPI — The Ger-
mans announce that Nazi troops
are retreating in central Latvia
— an indication the Germans are
giving up that Baltic state.
A Berlin spokesman says
j strong Soviet forces are pursu-
j ing retreating Nazis east of Ri-
1 ga as they fall back towards
| the sea. And a Moscow report
says fighting is raging in the
suburbs of Riga.
A Moscow report says fight-
| frig is raging in the suburbs of
I ,.„i (offered an opportunity to crush
Ir Estonia, more German col- . .... j'*' destructive
umns are being pressed against L, * aestructne
! the sea by Soviet flying columns | D
! striking south and west of Tal
According to the Japan-
ese, the Quisling leader said
American and British planes
had violated territorial inte-
grity of the Philippine re-
public despite his appeals
for amity and good will. The
broadcast added that Japan-
ese occupation forces are pre-
paring to defend the islands
against an American inva-
sion.
Characteristically, the enemy
aid an American inva-
sion would be welcomed, for it
l>JEK FIGHTING — First
Lieut. Edgar R. Woodson, hus-
band of the former Verla Ak-
in:-, was killed in action in
France on August 28. Lieut.
:?Woodson was serving with.!
the 701 li division. He recovered
from wounds sustained in the
battle for t'herbough and had
rejoined hi- outfit as com-
pany commander. His wife
and daughter, Janice and fos-
ter parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Harbison, survive.
Commandant,; fjei
frontier of Germany, General
Eisenhower added up the score
today and said the enemy's mil-
iary situation is hopeless. Re-
ceiving correspondents at his ad-
vance command post somewhere
in France, the supreme comman-
said the length of the Eur-
Eighth Naval District. Lt. Steak-j opean war depends on two fact
Aley was serving as Assistant At-
torney General of Texas when he
entered the Navy in in 12. He-
was appointed Acting Attorney
General by Attorney General
Gerald C. Mann for one day prior
ftio leaving Austin for military
duty.
Since April 1 !> 12 he has serv-
ed with the Officer of Naval Of-
ficer Procurement, the District
Intelligence Office, and as a staff
fmember of the Eighth Naval
District Manpower Survfty Com-
mittee. He was graduated Mag-
na Cum Laude from Hardin-Sim-
mons University in Abilene in
192!) and from the University of
ATexas Law School in 1932. While
at the University he was student
editor of the Texas Law Review,
president ol the I nivcrsity Inter-
Fraternity Council, chairman of
the Judiciary Council, and a
—member of the ! Diversity debat-
ing team.
He engaged in private law
practice in Sweetwater, trom
1932 until lie became Assistant
Attorney General in 1939.
"Mis. Lovvorn Is
New Staff Advisor
♦At Avenger Field
Mrs. Clinnie L. Lovvorn of
(lit) E. Texas has been appointed
Employee Counselor (Staff Ad-
visor) at Avenger Field.
• Mrs. Lovvorn formerly super-
vised the WASPs' Avengerette
Club in downtown Sweetwater.
Jean Forster. expected at
Avenger around October 1, and
Mrs. Lovvorn will replace Mrs.
w Helen Shaw and Miss Alva
Webb. Staff Advisors at Aven-
ger since the start, of the WASP
program, who left last week.
Parisian Shops
Remain Closed
PARIS — (UP) — Foreign
business houses in Paris are re-
maining closed to enable French
« industry to resume without fear
of foreign competition.
United Press Correspondent
Joseph Grigg reports that thous
amis of American, British and
other foreign businesses estab-
_ lished in Paris before the war
" still are shuttered on army or-
der. It is understood the ironclad
ban came direct from General
Eisenhower to forestall any for-
eign trading during the imme-
diate post-liberation period.
u's:
First, how long the Germans
can stand the terrific pounding
they are taking in the west,
south and east.
j a "ran "constitutes an eco-
j nomically sound farm or rafter.
I from which he can earn a suffi-
cient income to keep his family
in comfort and health, educate
his children, an dintegrate him-
self and liis family into tb« com-
munity as happy and useful citi-
zens."
Pays Tribute To
Two Great Men
WASHINGTON (Ul'i
Pro
sident, Roosevelt has proclaimed
And second, how long the Ges- October llth as Pulaski Day and
tapo remains in control of t lit
Reich.
As the ground offensive pro-
gressed, strong bomber and
fighter formations swept out
across the channel to blast un-
identified targets. At the same
time, approximately 500 Ameri-
can heavy bombers from Italy
attacked industrial targets in
Sudentenland near the German-
Czechoslovak ian border, as well
as rail yards in Southern Austria
and seven bridges in northeast-
ern Italy. Smaller formations of
Mitchell bombers hit the Cor-
man-held Italian cruiser Taranto
at the La Spezia naval base on
the Ligurian sea coast.
On the ground in Italy, British
Eighth army troops rave driven
beyond captured Rimini into the
I'o Valley. On the other side of
j the front, American troops have, . , , ,
pushed into the threshold of I been organized in the mountains
, tho Futa pass leading through overlooking
the Apennines.
October 12th as Columbus Day
in tributes to two great men of
American history.
Pulaski Day will honor Count
Casimir Pulaski, a Pole who died
fighting for American freedom
in 1770. Columbus Day will com-
memorate the discovery, or re-
discovery, of America by Chris-
topher Columbus.
In connection with Pulaski
Day. the president paid homage
to the indomitable spirit of the
Poles—the first to t;
against our e<
LUZON
Son Fernando • A
Clark Field
Manila
•ataa
Japs declare
martial law
tin Philippines
Nichols Field
Covife
m
jLagunt
EGIDOR
aguno do Bay
amer aircraft Dtatt
205 Jap plants, sink
damogrn 37 ships
Batangat
, linn—the captured capital.
A front dispatch to the
Russian paper Red Star says
the Germans suffered enor-
mous losses in final assaults
on Tallinn. The harbor was
described as a graveyard of
wrecked shipping. Uttered
with the bombed-out bulks
of scores of Xa/J vessels. , . H . nj-iw-i-
«w. &3TJXSL&. ftWjguifc an
the Germans arc raught between |^eavy An^ican cruise
The Quisling Laurel already
had proclaimed martial law in
the Philippines following at-
tacks by a powerful United Sta-
tes task force in the Manila
area.
There still is no American con-
firmation of Japanese reports
yesterday that a second carrier
raid had been made on Manila.
But General Mac-Arthur announ-
Catalinas sank
four cargo ships in raids off the
and said a
r bomb-
arded Koror in the Palaus north
| of Peleliu. Koror is the enemy
the Red Army and Polish pat
riots. General Bor, commander
of the Polish underground says . mUitnw'headquarters" and''lhc
iGerman mortars an a'- l ery j 0litical center of the mandated
; are continuing to shell the whole paiau .
city—an indication that a large - h Marines are
""" "'n Snl , f f : making o„iv slight progress
S Farther m he south - in Japanese fighting from
K e
lex*.
til'ins
Maquis Organize
Mountain Patrols
BOl'RG-ST. MAURfCE. on the
Frecnh-ltalian Frontier (UP)
Italian Maquis — numbering in
the tens of thousands — have
Italian Val-
French border to
Premiei
sian
American Bombers
Drop Ammunitions
For Warsaw Fighters
leys from the
Turin.
The ranks of theMaquis are
increasing daily despite German
reprisals that have left three-
thousand homeless in the valley
of Aosta alone.
The Italian Mauuis are in
contact with the Allies through
radio. They have received a num-
ber of parachute shipments of
arms. But these Italian patriots
are mainly dependent upon arms
captured from the Germans and
liONDON — (UP) — Polish
ei rices in London say that the
American bombers which dropp-
ed arms and ammunitions to the • Fascists"
encircled Polish garrison in War- Italian Maquis take orders
saw acted on direct orders from frorn a single committee of nat-
t.lie Quebec conference. jional liberation. But groups have
According to this source of in- j)een organized by diffreent poli-
t'ormation the crew members 1 tical parties and bear different
were told that Prime Minister! designations.
Churchill and President Roose-
volt had agreed on the question I 44 PERSONS INJURED
' of help for Warsaw under- RICHMOND, Calif — il'P) —
ground army. j Some 44 persons were injured
At the briefing, an intelligence last night when a Greyhound
officer also told the crews that bus overturned north of Rich-
"tliis bomber dlvlison had dropp-1 montl. Calif., after colliding with
ed arms and ammunition to Ma- an automobile. Two of the bus
(|tiis in France. And we will not; passengers were seriously hurt,
fail in this important mission." but the rest suffered only minor
The commander of the U S 8th
bombardment division, Major
General Earle Patridge, and the
commander of the police air
force, vice Marshal Izycki, also
attended this briefing.
Izycki commented:
"The supplies received from
this one mission exceeded th3
total previously dropped by Al-
lied airmen in 48 days of resis-
tance."
VANKS RKTI'RN TO PHIMPI'INES— Vanks redirn (o the
i'liilippines after "i years and I months \*i(li results shown
in boxes. ( \ i : \ Telemap.)
BULLETIN Proficiency Examns
For Avenger Field
Base Weathermen
Weather forecasters at the
\venger Field base weather sta-
tion are dusting off their mete-
orology which all AAF forecast-
ters wi'l take October 2, 3, and
I. The tests are administered by
the Army Air Forces Weather
Wing headquarters, Asheville,
X. C.
Avenger forecasters are Capt.
Dean Martin, Lt. Leslie Cochran,
Lt. Earl Nierode, Lt. Ralph Arn-
ett, Jr., T/Sgt. Bernard Browne
and T/Sgt. David Stern.
Both Milk and Oil
From Same Field
Is British Secret
MOSCOW - (UPI
Stalin announces that RUs
troops have captured Parnu, the
Estonian port .'35 miles north of
the Latvian border on the upper
side of the Gulf of Riga.
Parnu, 70 miles south of Tal-
linn. was the last sizeazle port
that the Cermans might have
used for the evacuation of Esto-
nia by sea.
The fall of Parnu represents
an advance of about 50 miles
from the nearest Soviet position
reported hv Moscow 24 hours
ago.
LONDON il'Pi — Supreme
headquarters announced tonight I
that one thousand glider-borne
troops were dropped Saturday to |
support the British second army ■
drive to the relief of the Arn- !
hem force.
the south
Transylvania—the Germans re-
port a new Soviet offensive to-
wards the Transylvanai capital
of Cluj. which already has scor-
ed local breaches. However, no
details were given.
A late bulletin from the Brit-
ish radio says Moscow dispatch-
es report the Red army has laun-
ched an assault on Hungary by
land and air. Russian and Ro-
manian troops were reported at
the border of Hungary yester-
day. Ankara reports say crowds
are staging peace demonstrations
in many Hungarian towns.
Simultaneously, more internal
I unrest is reported in Greece. The
BBC. quoting Ankara, say- for-
ces of Greek patriots are advanc- j
j ing towards Tt.hen- Ankara ob- [
servers believe the occupation of '•
I Athens by the patriots now is !
i only a quest ion of days. They re-
I port that patriots already domi-
nate the Corinth region.
Alaska Transport
With 19 Aboard
Found On Mount
SEATTLE — (UP) — Search
planes have located the twisted
wreckage of a (.'-47 army trans-
Triple A Notified
Of Available 1600
Bushel Grain Bins
In an effort to provide addi-
tional storage space for grain
sorghums, the CCC has advised
Demp Kearney, county adminis-
trative officer for the Triple A,
that they have a limited number
j of unerected. unused, prefabrica-
ted 1600 bushel grain binds of
12 by 16. by 10 and fourth feet
for sale.
These I"'. Te -ahtpped • froSi
Kansas and were prefabricate
in 1942-194:i The price is $185,
Kearney said. This is on a badfs
of five to a car, freight paid to
any Texas point.
Application may be made at
the local Triple A office. There
: are also available a quantity of
, noon bushel pro-cut bins of 15'x-
i H;'xl7' dimensions. The walls are
j constructed of 2"xJ2" tongue and.
groove Douglas Fir and they
have a shingle roof. The flooring
lis l"x0" tongue and groove
i These bins are shipped six to a
I car, freight paid, to n \y ship
! ping point in Texas or S285
This price may be increased
I somewhat if binds have to be
shipped from points in Kansas
with higher freight rates. Coun-
ty committees will lie advised of
the change in price, if any.
There are approximately 4200
l hoard feet of lumber, exclusive of
shingles, in the bin on the basis
! of $285 delivered. This figures
I approximately $(>soq per tbous-
I and board feet.
Producers may object t< the
j height of this bin if lading
! equipment is nop available. If
S so. it appears possible that the
height can be reduced bv remov-
ing the top 2~xl2" planks •orm-
ing the wall The rema ning
I lumber can bo used to a good
UNITED STATES FIRST AR-! advantage to make another bin
MY HKADQl'ARTKRS, Prance 1 or for other purpose* on the
<UP> — The 2S:th infantry div- j farm
ision of Pennsvlvanians —! v
known as the "keystone divis- C(fe Threatens
well-defended positions on a
mountain dominating the west
coastal ridge.
The news from southern China
still is gloomy. A Japanese com-
munique announced the capture
of Wuchow. gateway to Kwang-
si Province and 150 miles south-
east of imperilled Kweilin. The
communique claimed that Jap
troops driving 125 miles west
from Canton took Wuchow in
their march towards American
bases.
But in Burma, 14th army
troops pushing the Japanese
southward have captured Tong-
J zang—the last bie
I the Tiddim road.
vuiage
on
Keystone Division
In European War
ion"— is revealed to be in action j
against the Germans.
The 28th is fighting as a part!
of the First army commanded j
by Lt.-Gen. Courtney Hodges, j
The division captured Percy and
several other objectives south
of St. Lo following the Norman-
injuries. Most of them were ser-
vicemen.
WANTED: Custom commne
cutting, with new combine.
Will bo cutting next two or
three days one mile south of
Busby Tolan's place. Guy
Henry.
FOR SALE: Girls bicycle, good
condition, pre-war. Call 2689.
LONDON — (UP) — Holland's
radio orange says the Germans
are preparing to destroy harbor
installations at Amsterdam. The
Nazis may be preparing to aban-
don the port.
FEW tJRANRMOTHERK
NEW YORK (UP) — The pre-
sident of the grandmothers in
war service club says her organ-
ization is having trouble getting
members.
The president — Mrs. Viola
Wendt—of Detroit, lays it all to
the fact that most women do
not like their ages to be known
or that they are grandmothers.
She is 52 years old.
LONDON —(UP) — The Brit-
ish certainly have learned to j
make every inch count. They '
now get both milk and oil from
the same fields.
British Fuel Minister Geof- j
frey Lloyd took a party of news- j
paper correspondents to one of
the secret British oil fields —one i
port plane which crashed while | break-through, and its mem-
enroute to Fairbanks, Alaska, j hers were the first Americans to
with 19 passengers and crew-1 parade through the streets of
men aboard. , Paris after the liberation of the
The plane—missing since Mon- French capital.
j day — was sighted on the ice, The 28th. formerly headed by
I covered slopes of Mount McKin- Lt.-Gen. Omar Bradley, now is
| ley in Alaska. The Alaska de-! commanded by Major General
fense command says army auth- Norman Cot a.
orities have no hope that anyone j —-—
1 aboard the plane survived. Howl
! ever, a search party has been
i formed in Fairbanks and is on its
way to the crash scene, nine-
I thousand feet up the side of th^
| mountain.
The transport had been miss-
' ing since Monday. When last
Mo tor Company
Sparks from an ascfctlyene torch
ignited surplus gasoline about 3
p. m. Saturday threatening the
Murchison Motor Co.. on East
Broadway.
A I• 41 Plymouth sedan belong
ing to R. S. Ross of Fort Woi'h.
was under mechanical repair
Only slight damage was done to
the fender, hood and wiring.
After mechanics tried to ex-
tinguish the blaze, the Sweet-
water Fire department stopped
flames with chemicals.
Sweetwater Will Be Host Nov. 8-12 To NW
Texas Conference At Methodist Church
Sweetwater will be host on No-1 former SMI' president and now
vember 8-12 to the Northwes* I head of the Dallas area, win pre-
heard from, the pilot reported he | cShesL to^fS^Vronfcr : s,(,e- 0r Albm r- Shirke>' oI
bring! ^an Antonio will represent t.lia
was encountering icing condi-
tions as the big plane neared Mt.
McKinley.
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Secret Oil Fields
Of the fields which helped pro- prf)r/lirp 3/)/) /V)fl
duce :i00,()00 tons of oil when rroauce JVU,UUU
England needed it badly Tons Petroleum
The newspapermen saw cattle ! LONDON (UP) — British au-
grazing in anil around the 200 ^ thorities reveal that secret oil
w ells. | fields somewhere in England
The British have junked the j have produced 300,00 tons of
derrick idea. They bring up the! excellent quality petroleum since
oil with seven-foot-high pumps
powered by silent electric mot-
ors.
the war.
The fields are located'
farming section.
in
ence. The conclave will
approximately 500 ministers anJ
lay delegates here.
Host pastors will be Dr C. A.
Long, district superintendent,
Rev. Tom Johnston, First Meth
odist pastor and Rev J. E. Shew
hert. Highland Heights Metho-
dist church minister-
Dr. Allen T. Moore of Dallas
will open the conference ori
Wednesday with an evangelistic
sermon. There are nine districts
in the conference and some 272
preachers.
Bishop Charles C Selectman,
Methodist, crusade to begin next
year Dr E, B. Hawk head of the:
theological school at SMU will
deliver the ordination sermou
on Saturday night.
The entire citizenship will be
asked to coperate in entertain
ing conference guests. "So Far"
said Rev. Mr. Johnston, "every-
one has been cooperative and
the hotels very generous."
The conference extends from
Clyde on the east to Midland on
the west, Texline on the north
and skirts Vernon, ^
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