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Aug. 11. (U.R) A new typo
i bomb blew 80 per cent of
pik) from the map on Thurs-
made obsolete the first1
i dropped sn Hiroshima* only
days earlier, it was disclosed
Technicians at this secret base
are assembling mare of history's
uiOBt destructive weapons for fur-
thir "disintegration" assaults on
Japan in the event current surren-
der negotiations fail.
The crew of the plane "Great
Artiste," which made the raid, dis-
closed that if it had not been for
bad weather, thousands of Japan-
ese in Nagasaki, a city of 252,030
In northwestern Kyushu, might
still be , alive today. The plane
made thie runs over another un-
identified city originally scheduled
for attack but bad weather pre-
vented the assualt and Nagasaki
was selected as a secondary target.
The resultant loss of gasoline
maneuvering over the first city
made it necessary for Sweeney to
make an emergency landing on
Okinawa instead of flying back to
the Marianas.
Mariana airmen in charge of WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. (U.R)—
atomic bombing preparations were Congress was asked to cut short!
going on the assumption that the its vacation to deal with fast-niul-
bomb might have to be used again, ' inlying reconversion problems as
and that hundreds of technicians denml ili;. ition of the home front
were assembling component parts 'o a peacetime economy began in
brought to this base from the earnest tonight.
United States. Senat. Democratic Leader Al-
Officials said they believe! the 1 u - Barkley, Ky. .revealed af-
second bomb scored a direct hit in u'r :l 90-minute White House con-
the heart of the great Mitsubishi ' ■lluit President Truman
Steel works in Nagasaki, and that <-'o'Wess shoultl be reconven-
the resultant blast gutted most of wl i,!? so,m as Practicable. Barkley •
the city. Observers said debris ^ Congress probably will be
from the steel plant soared im in '::,!wl bu<* int0 8t'SM°n Sc,U' '
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a thick column of smoke. , , ,s ,
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(An official announcement trc n .
r, ,, , , IT ,, A .-rim warning came from gov-•
Gen. Carl Spaatz' U. S. Strategic . , * . .. '
, , ernm iu - tficials that widespread
Air Forces headquarters hau said ,... illevitab,e du, j
that almost a square mile of Na- ^ 1|1:„,lhs it wJ„ take t0 j
gasaki's built-up area of 3.3 square .. ,,.od mwwiure of recon. |
miles had been destroyed.) v, lxjou :
^ It was disclosed for the first. Confronted with the imminent j
time that crew members oi the ;,m| j.jjC wnl.( government pro- j
planes, which will continue can y- I (Ul ..rllCnt agencies embarked on
ing atomic bombs to Japan unless j. ■ ■ le program of cancel-!
the enemy surrenders, hud been ' Hm- - r contracts.
trained for a year without know-i J"'-. United Tress learneu i'uat I
ing the nature of their mis.-i n. i ih Army and Navy have ordered I
Harold Agnew, Denver. Cola., a | in initiation of nearly $4,000,000,-
p.hysicist aboard the plane, said ' HU() in war contracts since the!
The Manchurian city of Ilarbin, key Jap center, 320 miles north west of Vladisvostok which has be
.n reported attacked by Soviet planes in the first day assault. (NEA Telephato from files)
Doing Plumb Fine, Thank You
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Empire Stofe build-
ing's sides are ver-
debris from the steel plant boiled
Up in a column sf smoke. He is
one of 40 physicists and aides sent
to this base last month to assemble
the bombs. They haJ worked se-
cretly in the II. S. for three years.
Immense laboratories have been
set up here. Teams of physicists
test materials and assemble the
bomb. The l ase was set up by Col.
E. 'E. Kirkpatriek.
They also said they would be
glad to be able to go back to their
home towns and explain why they
were not in uniform. Most of them
average /bout 27 years of age.
Daily Crime Ra'o Up
AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 11. (U.R)—
Major crimes in Tex as are being
committed at the rate of '! 1S a d: y
the Department of Public Safe: y
said today.
Jai-ancse first announced their]
surrender offer. Authoritative j
sources disclosed that the heavy |
flow of war rail shipments to the j
VVest has been curtailed.
Ree inversion Chief John W. |
Snyder, announcing the start of |
the r..". e for c ntract cancellation'
said it was being carried out "to
the atcst extent possible in or-
der to free materials for recon-
version."
• '.it high-ranking government
• iversien official warned that
d , i.l,e period of transition
'' m war to peace-time produc-
tion—a period lie estimated at not
less than . ix months—unemploy-
ment in the United States will rise
| to S.OO'i.OOO. There were 1,400,000
! jobless 'ii the country in mid-
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Ever since the tragic accident in which a B-25 bomber crashed
with terrific force into the Empire State building tower, the city
has been flooded with rumors that the impact had caused the
building to list, becoming a sort of "Leaning Tower of Pisa." I-Iow-
«yer„_experts have testified that the building is sound, and the
diagram above appears to bear them out. Plumb lines on dia-
gram above are drawn parallel to the ,walls of the Hotel McAlpin.
in front of the Empire State.
USED CARS
WANTED
We will pay rash for yourj
Used Car.
Jack Driver
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I KOI TE HOME
I l.t. f jg) L. L. Geren, who has ,
I bei i serving in the Pacific, is en ,
j route home, Mrs. Geren has learn-)
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EDS EI. HENDRRSON
■ AKKIVE^' THL'KSDAY
Pl'e. Fldsel Henderson arrived
| home Thursday to spend a 30-day j
furlough with his wife and par- '
Mr. and Mrs. Carley Hender-
OUR 1
IN SERViC
a few yards wa« too
often a tortuous, long, drawn out
ordeal, just coroplotod tho Ion*- (
est, fastest trip of their lives,
7,300 miles from Caanftanca,
North Africa, tj the Miami Army
Air Field, i'lyri^i*-
In u matter of hours, tht- Air
Transport j'uiiinmnd flpw thefli
down the coast' of the dark conU-
' nent to Dakar, then hopped the
Atlantic non-stop, flaw northwsrd
around the Brazilian bulge, tlien
up thr. ugh the Caribbean Islands
to the international airport at.
Ml-'.mi. After 24 hours there, they
Mvere shipped by train to Cani|i
Blanding, Ma., thence >to ctnters
nfearer their home either for a dia-
harge on to begin a furlough.
In the group were Staff Sgt.
lames A. Dcase, Jr., 2.'i. Moute 1,
Infantry, with 28 months' service
overseas concluded in Germany,
and with five battle stars t:i his
credit; and Pfc. Noble Harris, 2K,
Infantry, 28 months in Europe
oncludcd in Germany, five bat-
tle stars.
WILLIAM M. CAKR
NOW IN 37GTH
William M. Carr, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Carr of Groesbec-k, has
been assigned to the 37(iih Bom-
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bar merit Group. His wife and
their daughter, Joanna^, are living
in Mexia. The 370th is training
j with Ii-2'J Superfortresses at Grand
I Island Army A"r i ield, Nebraska,
i after having fiown B-21 Libera-
! tors t n -152 lotifc-rangc combat
missions in the Middle East, North
Africa and Europe.
Prior to entering the Army in
December, 1U4«. Carr was em-
ployed by J. C. Thompson of Groes-
beck. He has received his training
at Keeslcr Field, Biloxi, . Miss.,
Amarillo AAF, Tand at the
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OLAN B. INGRAM
SI ATED TO ARRIVE
Olan 15. Ingram of Mexia was
slated to arrive Wednesday on the
SS West Point at Hampton Roads,
according to a War Department
Douglas Aircraft Factory scho Is listing of returned soldiers corn-
Maritime Service
and War Shipping
Other government
war agencies
Will
HFC and its
I affiliates
Plcto-chort above shows the approximate breakdown, according
to participating agencies, of the nation's expenditures from July,
1940, through March, 1945
I in Long Beach, Calif. His current 'pile I before
I assignment i- as an engineer Europe,
specialist with the ground main-
tenance section of the bomb group
that transport left
HARVEY POLLARD
VISITS HERE
MILTON E. REJD
ARRIVES ON SCHEDULE
Technical Sgt. Milton E. Reid,
1.rather of Mrs. L. B. Stanford, has
DOYCE LINDLEY
IN MISSOURI
Technical Sgt. Doyce D. Lindley,
who returned to the States this
spring after having been held as a
German prisoner of war, is now
stationed at Fort Leonard Wood,
Missouri, with a headquarters de-
tachment.
DANIEL R. JONES
FLIES HOME
• Technical Sgt. Daniel R. Jones,
31, veteran f 21 months' service
I Captain Harvey Pollard, son of advised them by telegram that he j in the China theatre of opera-
j Hons, arrived Saturday at tho
Europe. Presque Isle Army Air Field,
Maine, aboard an air transport in
the North Atlantic Snowball fleet.
The public relations office at
Mrs. Beulali Cromeans, visited
here over the week end while on 10-
day leave. Commissioned in the
British Army in August, 1944, he
I is now stationed at Calgary, Al-
j berta Province, Canada, where he
t will' return. His outfit will join the
. Yanks for service in the Pacific,
he said, ttaining in Kentucky
' prior to going overseas,
j He joiiled the Canadian army
' in October, 1910, training for four
' mcnths as a pilot ill the Royal Ca-
j nadian Air Force, then transfer-
ring to the infantry. He went over-
seas in January, 1941, training in
England for a year. Then he
fought with the I'rit.ish as a Ca-
nadian officer across North Afri-
ca in the desert campaign, in Sicily
and up thr ugh Italy, before being
■ommissioiiod last year
iisli officer. Ho returned to Cana
arrived Thursday morning aboard
the Queen Mary from
They had learned through news-
paper lists of coming returnees
that he was due on that date.
Back after two years' service in j Presque Isle reported his arrival
Europe with the 9th Air Force, j At last report last week he was ii
he was stationed at Mannheim, ! India en route home.
Geimany. just before being rede-
ployed to the States. He is to re-
port to 1-Vrt Sam Houston.
da from Italy.
The unusual
Captain Pollan
his sister. Mrs
i n Theatre .if Operations, Ger-
many, — Staff Sergeant Prince O.
McClelland from Mexia. Texas,
Motor Pool Sergeant of a Ninth
Air Force Service Command ser-
i Bri-.viie Group, has been aawrded the
Bronze Star Medal for "meritor-
) ious service in connection with
uniform worn by I military operations from 1 May
who was visiting | 1944 to 31 December 1944", ac-
Ettry Oates, at- j cording to the official citation,
traded considerable attention j Sgt. McClellan through his own
'lore. He wore an olive drab tunic j initiative, built a gas pump from
with pants of navy and yellow and a captured German light tank en-
Treen plaid. j jiine. which saves 90 per cent of
: the time previously required to
WAITER KLINE BOYD, JR., empty bulk ga line from trucks
(«EIS EXTENSION to storage tank.-, and to fill fuel
Sec: nd I.t. Walter Kline Boyd, servicing trucks from storage
Jr., who has been home for two tanks.
months after being liberated from McClellan also built arc-welder
the German prisoner of war camp front a captured enemy generator
in which he was held far ten and light tank engine, which saves
months, has been granted a 30-day 90 per cent of the time previously
! Husband of Mrs. Ruth Jones, 920
East Titus, he holds the good con-
duct: medal, pro-Pearl Harbor tib-
bon. Asisitic-Paeifie ribbon with
PRINCE McCELLAND one bronz s r.
WINS BRONZE STAR The Snowball fleet is a little her-
A NINTH AIR FORCE SER- aided Army air transport operation
VICE COMMAND UNIT. Europe- which has been running to Europe
since July, 1944. Now engaged in
redeployment, during this past
spring and winter, it has flown
back over 7,000 litter patients from
Oily Field, Paris.
missions in the Air Force
rope.
Ames edwarp tbeb
PROMOTED
JameK Edward Teer, Hi
attendant 2-c, who has been
to school in San Diego, California,-.'
has been promoted tp hospital at-
tendant, first class. He was
over the week end before re
to Norman, Oklahoma, where he
is now stationed.
(Son of Mr. and Mrs. O. 9. Teer,
he entered the Navy in March,
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WESLEY CANTRELL
PROMOTED
It's First Lt. Wesley Cantrell
now instead of Second Lt., Mr. and
Mrs. J B. Cantrell, 713 East Mi-
lam. have learned from far off
; ssam, India, where their 24-year-
old son is now stationed. He also
writes in a July 15 letter that he
lacks only six more missions of
l;eiii"' tlu'ougdi with his over the
Hump assignment as the co-pilot
in a Liberator, and that he hopes
i lb be home in either October or
j November. Lt. Cantrell has been
j overstas since November, 1944, fly-
ing gasoline to China.
He lias recently sent home to
his parents such Indinn and Chi-
mse souvenirs as a Kashmir jack-
el. spun silver jewelry, linen tabje-
cloth and a silver water pipe,
] MEMORIAL SERVICES
! IIFI I) TODAY
Memorial services will be held
today at 3 o'clock at the Calvary
Baptist church in Fairfield for Pvt.
Oran H. Richardson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Richardson, who died
in the service of bis country.
The Kev. H. L. McKissaek of
Teugre will have charge of the
memorial rites.
BOBBY E. PARKER
IN CALIFORNIA
Bobby E. Parker, ARM 3-c, is
now stationed at San Francisco,
California, awaiting orders for
iversens service. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Parker of
Mexia.
DAVID T. SELLERS
DISCHARGED
Pvt. David T. Sellers has re-
eive I an honorable discharge at
Camp Fannin, Tyler, after being
in service for eight months.
II ■ is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mvie Sellers of Puint Enterprise.
BILLY WADLE AT
SAN DIEGO
Aviation Student Billy Wadle is
taking his boot training at a Naval
training center at San Diego, Cali-
fornia. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Gone
Wadle. lie fust entered service.
\UTRA McBAY
TRANSFERRED
Pvt. Antra McBay has been
ransferred from San Antonio to
Sheppard Field. Wichita Falls, for
training.
KENNETH REV.,OLDS
ON FURLOUGH
Cpl. Kenneth Reynolds, who has
been stationed in the Air Trans-
pert Command at Miami, Florida,
arrived here Friday to spend a 15-
day furlough with his wife, baby,
Hid mother.
Me entered service in September,
1940 and has completed 42 months'
overseas service Puerto Rico
and Cuba. He returned to the
States in April, 1944.
extension before he is due to re-
port at Miami, Florida, for reas-
signment.
HENRY A. CAVNAR
HONORED IN TRIBUTE
required for heavy welding jobs.
Sgt. McClellan's wife, Mrs. An-
j nic McClellan, and their three year
, old. daughter live at 713 Nowlin
■ Street. Prior to his entering the
| service in January, 1943, he was
A certificate of the Purple Heart j an employee of Abbot Stansell
enti-
is to report after his fur-
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CANNING SEASON IS HERE
Start now by preserving your Victory Garden vege-
tables and fruits. We have in our Hardware Depart-
ment all your canning needs so be sure to visit us and
see our complete slock ot canning- supplies.
Kerr Mason Fruit Jars ....
Qts.
Jelly Glasses (half pinl)
Jar Lids
Jar Funnels
Jar Rubbers
Jar Lifters
No. 2 Plain Cans (24 in Case) 85c Case
No. 2 Enamel Cans (24 in Case) 95c Case
No. 3 Plain Cans (24 in Case) $1.20 Case
ROY J. McNEEI,
(VISITS HERE
Pvt. R.iy J. McNeel,
serving in the Air Corps
pard Field, is spendn; a three-day j
pass with his mother, Mrs. Nan
McNeel, and family.
T. E. McKINLEY
HERE ON VISIT
Cpl. T. E. McKinlty, formerly
stationed in Germany, is Ii re for
a 30-day furlough visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee IcKin-
ley of Wortham and bis grand-
mother, Mrs. Nan McNeel. 813
Nowlin Si et.
| vision f; r the last half year after
, • ■ earlier completing 27 months' scr-
wno is *
vice in the Aleutians, wired his
83c l)oz; Pis. 75c Doz.
50c Doz.
25c Doz.
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15c
family Sunday that he had arrived
in Boston Saturday aboard the
USS Excelsior. He will see them
j shortly, he added.
I His family had already read in
I the Sunday Mexia Daily News
i lhat his 109th Battalion of the
! ' Qloody Bucket" Division had !
and an in memoriam tribute from
President Harry S. Truman has
been received by Mr. and Mrs.
HenrJ> A. Cavnar for their son,
Pfc. Henry A. Cavnar.
The certificate of appreciation
from the president said: "In grate-
ful memory of Private First Class
Henry A. Cavnar, Jr., who died in
the service of his country in the
European area May 4, 1945. He
stands in the unbroken line of pa-
docked in Boston the previous day. |triots who have dared to die that
1 he 2Sth saw eight months j freedom might live, and grow, and
| combat action from Normandy's | increa8c its blessings. Freedom
hedgerows to the heart of the
Reich, entering action July 30,
A. M. DASHIELL
PROMOTED
Lt. Col. A. M. Dashiell, husband
of the former Miss Lucile Jackson,
has been promoted to coloncl, she
has just learned. He has been ovi r-
seas 29 months with General Wal-
ter Kreuger's staff as a doctor.
Colonel Dashiell entered the Ar-
my in January, 1942 as n first lieu-
tenant.
ROY WESTMOREL \ND
1 REACHES BOSTON
\ J. I. RIDDLE & COMPANY '
■ 51 Sgt. Roy Westmoreland, who has
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1911, at St. Lo, and thereafter
fighting in Normandy, Paris, Bel-
gium, Luxembourg, the Siegfried
Line in the Hurtgen Forest, and i
caught the full force of Von Rund-
increase its blessings.
lives, and through it, he lives—in
a way that humbles the undertak-
ings of most men." (Signed) Har-
ry S. Truman, president of the
United States of America.
They have als</ received several
stedt's Ardennes offensive "after I'dow" Ph"toKraphs their son took
being moved to the "quiet" Lux-iin he was killed.
cm bourg sector for a rest. It helped, They were forwarded by his pla-
liberate Colmar in Alsace, Blui | toon lender, dio bad them develop-
drove to the Rhine near Coblenz, e(l- 1,11 !l lh('m ^ith letter | they reported to LeHavre, France,
thereafter serving as an occupa- j of appreciation for their son's j to await shipping orders. This was
tional force until July 5, when it'work.
started home. j
Motor Company, Houston, Texas.
To data he has served 17 months
overseas, in England, France, Bel-
gium and Germany.
BROTHER PASSES
THRO I (HI—ASLEEP
When Mrs. Lodis Stanford went i
down to the station Monday after- j jjp'x McDONNELL
noon as Pfc. Charles McGown went j WOUNDED
through on a tiain for San An- i>J„aff Sgt. Rex McDonnell! lift
| receiving treatment at a hospital
at Mourmelon. near Reims, France,
for injuries received when his pla-
toon was firing a demonstration
tonio, she came just on the chance j
that her brother might be on the
same troop train. And she was
disappointed that he wasn't, for
she knew be had landed in New
for some rookies, so he writes his
York Thursday aboard the Queen aunt< M).s w p War6) 907 Eust
GEORGE SAMMER
IT CAMP LEE
Pvt. George Summer is now un-
dergoing has training at Camp
Lee, Virginia, : ftcr having worked
for several months as a representa-
tive of the Boilorworkers' Union
of America at Richmond, Cali-
fornia. Before that ho was working
in Hawaii as a welder.
His wife, the former Miss Jose-
phine Wofford, is here to mak? her
home with her mother, Mrs. J. L.
Wofford. for the duration.
TWO BROTHERS MEET
AT LEHAVRE
Mr. and Mrs. A. iF. Morrow,
Route 4, have just learned that
their two sons met recently when
(BOB G. MITCHELL
; AT JACKSONVILLE
Boh G. Mitchell, Seaman, first a medical discharge when he reach-
tbe first time T-5 Roy Morrow end
Pvt. Robert Morrow had seen each
other in two years.
Pvt. Robert Morroy is due to get
TWO MEXIAITES
BACK IN STATES
A group of Texans, not long class, is now stationed at Jackson- es the States. T-6 Roy Morrow is
ago in places wherfe an advance ville, Florida. ;in the 20th Division.
Mary, and figured it was time for
him to go through here on bis why
to the Fort Sam Houston center
where redeployed East Texas sol-
diers are sent from Europe.
Then she learned later that
Technical Sgt. Milton E. Reid
after all was aboard the same
train she watched race through
Mexia, fast asleep.
He was based in England with
the 9th Air Force, landed in
France on D-D.ny, and has recent-
ly been stationed at Mannheim.
Germany. He has been in service
for five years, now has 93 points,
and is expecting to receive his dis-
charge at Fort Sam Houston.
BILL CLIMER Uteri
EN ROUTE
Pfc. Bill Climer arrived Sunday
on a five-day delay en route from
Miami. Floridr to Denver. Colo-
ratio, where Ii A-ill be an instruc-
tor in the Signal Corps to replace
n man for overseas duty. Pfc.
Climei has just completed a two-
year tour of duly in India.
/
Titus. /
"I had a skeleton crew on my
run so was doing the firing my-
-•.elf," he writes. "V-1 were firing
rapidfire. I dropped one shell in,
urned my back to pick up another,
ml as I lifted the second shell,
me Owen had dropped or fired
vhile my back was turned, hit the
ne I had in my hand, causing it
to explode. The one Owen had
irod burst about 50 feet up in the
lir. I was the only one hit."
His wounds consist of light pow-
'cr burns on face and arm, mostly
deare.l up now, and third degree
burns, mangled flesh and lacera-
ions of'the right hr. d.
MARCUS McDONALD
VISITS HERE
Slaff Sgt. Marcus McDonald
and n friend, Cpl. Henry Mc-
Michael, of Eagle Mountain Lake
Marine Bape, arc here on u threeVf/
lay pass, visiting his mother, Mrs.
M. L. McDonald.
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BILLY POLLARD
LEAVES TUESDAY
First Lt. Billy Pollard left Tues-
day morning to report to Snn An-
tonio for reassignment, and was
accompanied to Waco by his moth-
er, Mrs. Frank Pollard, Miss Juan-
ita Pollard, and Bobby West.
He has just completed a tour of
HARRY DEERDOFK
PROMOTED
Harry Deerdoff, Seaman, first
: lass, has written his mother that
be has been promoted to petty
officei.
He addc that a cousin, W. H.
McKinlcy, F 2/c, had written him
that he was also in the Philippines.
The two have not yet met, but hopi)
to soon.
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