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Envoy Returns for Scolding
RAF PLANES BOMB NORTHERN ITALY;
BOMBERS REACH BERLIN OUTSKIRTS
(NEA Telephoto)
Jolin <'udiiliy, in light siiil, ambassador to Belgium as he
arrived in \>w "V'oi-k aliiiaril tin- Dixie clipper from Lisbon.
Clidahy was recalled to Washington ai'tcr giving an unau-
thorised press conference.
Crash Victims
* Doing 4!\ieely.'
Doctors Report
Four Gulf Employes
Hurl in Accident
Treated at Hospital
Condition of four Gulf. Oil
Corporation emptpves, injured
about midnight Saturday in an
automobile collision west of
town, are described by attend-
ing physicians as "progressing
satisfactorily." They are receiv-
ing treatment ;it the Sweetwat-
er hospital.
The most seriously injured of
the four. Robert Cocke, who
was said to have been driving
the car, is recovering from a
crushed chest, broken nose and
deep lacerations of the face.
V.\ A. Strohel who suffered
concussion and a fractured ;kull,
a fractured left shoulder blade
and lacerations of the scalp, is
resting more comfortably.
Harry G. (William's nose is
mending rapidly. It was almost
severed from his face. He also
suffered multiple cuts about the
face.
H L.. Armstrong is recovering
of a fractured skull, concussion
chest injuries and body cuts.
The group of men were re-
turning from the Gulf plant to
Sweetwater after their night
shift when their car collided
with an automobile driven by
Davis Clark. Jr., who is recov-
ering of severe body bruises.
Visions Menace
Of Hitler If
British Lose
'World's Greatest Army'
Went Down to Defeat
In Just .'{() Davs
Nurses' Home
Onler Announced
The Swc"t water Reporter
Wednesday was advised from
^ the San Antonio WPA state of-
ficp of announcement of the
work order for construction of
a brick-veneer home for nurse.-
at the municipal hospital at a
cost of s2''.0!'0.
Sweetwater nurse-home pro-
Wjjeet was listed among a dozen
WPA work orders announced
Wednesday at the San Antonio
office
The acting city manager's of-
flee had received no official
* work order in Sweetwater Wed-
nesday- morning, but announced
a definite date to start work,
Monday, August la.
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yWeaiher Forecast
SWEETWATER Cont inned
cloudy and unsettled. Sligh/iy
wanner Maximum temperature
Tuesday 87 degrees, minimum
70 degrees, standing on 8<i de
■ •Vrees at 1:30 p. m Maximum a
year ago, r)0 degrees, minimum
71 Rainfall Wednesday morn-
ing measured .00 of an inch
WEST TEXAS Partly clou
dy Wednesday and Thursday
% with scattered thunder storms
over the southwest portion. Ut-
ile change in temperature.
RAST TEXAS—Partly cloudv
Wednesday night and Thursday.
Scattered showers in the ex-
. Upreme northwest portion.
WASHINGTON' - M P)— Sec-
I rotary of the Navy Frank Knox
j told the house military affairs
committee Wednesday that eon-
i script ion i* needed because the
| United States is facing "the
most serious and the most
| grave crisis in our history."
Knox . testified at continued
house committee hearings while
the senate entered its fourth
i day of debate on the issue. The
i house was scheduled to debate
a companion bill, already pass-
j e l by the senate, authorizing
the president to order the na-
tional guard and organized re-
serves into active service for a
| year.
The secretary said the need
i for conscription was two • fold:
I A "psychological" need for
teaching young Americans the
price at which their liberties are
i held—"the price of sacrifice."
2. To train men to operate the
|war instruments the nation is
buying at, "such frightful cost."
I'rays for British
| 'In the event England should
, go down—and 1 pray God that,
! does not happen -we'll be left
without a friend in the world,"
j Knox said.
He pointed out that a previous
j statement of his. indicating a
I belief that with a bigger navy
■ the United States would no*
need any army larger than 300,-
J 000 supplemented by a well-
j trained national guard. was
made before the collapse of
France.
'It always pre-supnosetl that
.the (Treatest armv in the world
; was the French army." he said,
tddin" that in 30 ' days the
l French nation and others col-
. lapsed.
"What one may have said in
j May doesn't apply now," he
said.
Hanger \ot I mined in to
In response to questions from
I See VJSITORS Page R
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Fisher Countv
Reports 2nd Bale
ROTAN (Spl.) A. C. Mel-
. ton, farmer living south of Ro-
{ tan brought the first bale of
the 10)0 cotton crop here Tues-
day and it was ginned by the
; Rotan Gin company. The bale
! weighed IM7 pounds, was ginned
free by the gin company,
} bought for 10 cents a pound and
Mr. Melton was given a substan-
j Ual premium by Rotan busi-
ness men.
This was the second bale of
the 1010 Fisher county crop re-
ported ginned in the county. A
farmer, whose name was not
learned here, was reported to
have ginned one in Roby Mon-
day.
Whiteflat
And Champion
Get Moisture
Sweetwater Reports
%
.60 Inch; Precipitation
k
In Section Spotted
Spotted rains fell over a wide
area of West Texas Tuesday
night and early Wednesday mor-
ning with the central part of
Nolan county again getting the
heaviest precipitation in this
immediate area. Sweetwater re-
corded .60 of an inch, Lake
Sweetwater .30 of an inch and
Lake Trammel! .16 of an inch.
For the first time in weeks,
two sections in Nolan county
suffering worst for lack of mois-
ture were reported to have re-
ceived fairly heavy rainfall
Wednesday morning. Whiteflat
east of Sweetwater reported
I about three-fourths of an inch,
I but cotton could use more moist-
J ure, it was said. The Champion
community in the southern part
of the county had been begging
I for rain for a suffering cotton
I crop and received about an inch
and a half.
Itoscoe Fall Light
The area west, of Roscoe, also
suffering from a slight drought,
reported less than a quarter of
an inch, as was the case in the
Ada community south of the
city. Decker and Blackwell com-!
munities received a reported i
j inch and a half rain early today, i
I Blackwell proper reported .78 of I
• an inch.
Heaviest rain reported in the
j West Texas area was at Mid-
land where two inches were re-
corded at 10 a. m. Wednesday. I
Haskell county to the east was!
I reported to have received more j
j than an inch. Anson reported ;
! nearly an inch of rain.
Reports from the county ag-:
i cnts office at Roby indicated j
| spotted rains in Fisher county.;
! At Roby only a light shower was j
recorded. At Rotan it was Jieav-|
ier The Sylvester area, which
had been needing moisture, was
said to have receivevd about |
two inches of moisture early
Wednesday.
Spotted Oil Divide
Rains were reported spotted >
in the Divide territory, but. most i
of the community had received
beneficial rains earlier in the:
month.
Only in a few scattered areas |
was early cotton reported to I
be suffering for moisture, ac-
cording to County Agent R, R.
See RAIN Page 8
G.O.P. Launches
Texas Campaign
BEAUMONT — (UP)—Texas
republicans launched Wednes-1
day what promises to be a fight-
ing. bitter political campaign to]
win the state in November be-;
cause "Texas must not sell Will-]
kie short."
The republican state conven-
tion closed with its No. 1 ob-
jective the placing of Texas in
the republican national col-
umn for the first time since
1028.
A slate of candidates for state
offices was named—with the j
prominent exception of an op-
ponent to Agricultural Comtnis- j
sicner J. E. McDonald, a demo- j
crat cheered as he addressed the
GOP convention.
Texas U. Student
Killed In Crash
HENDERSON — (UPI — A i
head-on automobile collision nine j
miles north of Henderson on the ;
Kilgore highway Tuesday night
resulted in the death of Earl;
Bourg. 18. Kilkore, junior at the j
University of Texas, and C. E. \
(Toad) Brady, 50. operator of a
Henderson filling station.
Lavontie Sadler, Kilgore. suf-
fered minor injuries and was re-j
leased after treatment at Hen ;
derson hospital. Miss Mary John
Davis of Corsicana was more
seriously injured, and remainetl
in the hospital Wednesday.
West Texas' Leading City more man ia,uuu nenaen
Sweetwater Reporter
More Than 15,000 Readen
j Industrial Area "
Badly Damaged
In Night Raids
Germany Says Parachute
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
"West Texas' Leading Newspaper"
BUY IT IN SWEETWATER
Troops Landed to
44TH YEAR
SWEETWATER. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14,1944)
NUMBER 61 Sabotage British Defenses
300 Nazi Planes Raid Britain
'Blitzkrieg On' Say London Paper,4
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This Cable-Teleplinto shows how the London n-wspjipers headlined the news of Germany's in-
tensive bomb attacks of the war on Tuesday.
All agreed thai Hitler had opened his fight, fur Britain but reports varied greatly on facts
of the raids.
Class Praises
Sanitary System
In Sweetwater
RAF Raids Bring Havoc
To Nazi Aircraft Works
Texas Tech Students
Spend Day Inspecting
Public Works ID ;re
Members of the summer
course for sanitarians and pub-
lie health workers of Texas
Technological college were gen-
erous in their praise of Sweet-
water's water and sewer system,
municipal swimming pool,
health unit, and water supply.
The group came to Sweetwat-
er early Tuesday morning and
spent the entire day here in-
specting the various utilities.
Sixteen members of the class
were in charge of 0. W. Parkhill.
director, who was accompanied
by C. G. Decker, of the Civil
engineering department of Tex-
as Tech; E. G. Wallace of the
state health department, Austin,
and W. L. Baugh, field engi-
neer of the state department,
Austin.
All sections of the state were
represented by the students on
the tour. They included:
A. C. Prat her of Greenville,
formerly of Sweetwater; H D,
Rankin, milk sanitarian of San
Antonio; Murray Warren, san-
itarian of San Antonio; J. M.
Stockton sanitarian of San An-
tonio; Mrs. Stockton, student; W.
H. Mallard, Centerville. Texas;
L E. Paige. Lefors, Texas; M. 1,.
Kuvkendall, Dexter, N. Mex;
Grace Valiquette. Houston; G. W.
Atwood, Fort Worth; W. R An-
drews. city inspector. Borger; L
Eubanks, Lubbock; and D. W.
Young, of El Paso.
The class visited the munici-
pal hospital, sewage disposal
plant, Lake Sweetwater and the
pump house, the filtration plant,
municipal swimming pool and
other facilities.
Thanhs! Adolf
For Everything
LONDON — (CP) — Brit-
ish newsies with their little
blackboards are keeping j
score on air battles these
days much as they used to j
do on the cricket matches.
"78 to 13—rain stops play,"
one vendor chalked up in
reference to yesterday's
raids.
After the German leaflet
raid last week, one newsie's
blackboard said:
"ThanAs for the toilet pap-
er, Adolf."
I, S. V ietorious
In Shanghai Issue
SHANGHAI — i CP) — Ad-
miral Thomas C. Hart, United
jStat.es navy commander in chief!
in the far East, arrived Wed-!
j nesday in a submarine while
Japan demanded that its troops
jtake over the entire British de- j
fense sector of the international;
] sector.
Hart's arrival resulted in an
| immediate tactical victory fori
! the United States in the dispute
; regarding defense of the British \
sector after the withdrawal of |
British troops.
There was to have been a!
: meeting at the Japanese naval I
I barracks of foreign troop com- j
| mandants, with Vice Admiral1
' Moriji Takeda. presiding as sen-
i ior office.
But Hart outranks Takeda, so j
j the meeting was set for Thurs-j
j day at the municipal council |
i building. i
Mexico Adopts
Conscription Bill
MEXICO CITY — (UP) —
President Lazaro Cardenas to-
day receives for promulgation
the compulsory military train-
ing bill passed unanimously by
the senate Tuesday.
Arkansas Names Air Board Post
Adkins Governor Taken by Baker
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—(UP)
—Homer M. Adkins, former in-
ternal revenue collector, was
conceded the democratic nomi-
nation, for governor Wednesday
by forces of the incumbent.
Gov. Carl E. Bailey. Bailey had
sought a third term.
WASHINGTON (CP)
George P. Baker. Boston, was
sworn in Wednesday as the
fifth member of the civil aero-
nautics board.
Baker was formerly assistant
professor of transportation at
Harvard university.
LONDON — (CP) — British
pilots who have participated in;
retaliatory raids on Germany
said Weunesday that hundreds
of square miles of Germany's
best industrial areas have been
devastated in repeated attacks. !
One German pilot, forced down |
and captured in England Mon-I
day, was quoted as saying that
"if the Royal Air Force con-
tinues its raids on Germany on !
the same scale as now the war
soon will be over."
Records show that Hamm in j
Germany has been raided 28 j
times while Gelsenkirchen has i
been subjected to 15 attacks
from the air. The great Krupp
armament works at Essen has
been raided five times and in I
all 214 towns in northern Ger-|
many have been bombed, manyj
of them frequently.
Hamm is the junction point;
for the biggest railroad system I
in western Germany and from
it. tracks run north to Muns-i
ter, Emden and Nordeich, south-!
east to Soest, southwest to Ua-j
na and west to Oberhausen. j
Air experts expressed opinion;
that, the attacks on Hamm. per-!
haps more than any other single |
consideration, were responsible j
for delay in any attempted inva-
sion of Britain.
Pilots who raided the Hornier!
Works at Wenzdorf recently re-
ported that four heavy bombs
hit. the main factory and that j
fires were visible from 50 miles <
away.
Other pilots reported that the i
Fiesler Aircraft works at Kas-1
sel were damaged even more
seriously and hits were scored,
it was said, on the very center \
of the Fock-Wulfe Aircraft j
works at Bremen where twice
violent explosions devastated j
buildings.
One expert said it was impos-1
sible to estimate the amount of |
oil and gasoline destroyed by
RAF raids but. he added, "if |
Germany had done to our oil
what we have done to hers, de-
spite the fact that we can draw
on the world for our supplies,
there would not be a single pri-
vate automobile on the roads to-
day and the position would be
serious."
Blitzkrieg
Tuesday Costs
78 Planes
Fury of Dogfights
Over Channel Reaches
Its Highest Point
LONDON—(UP) — Germany
hurled a reported 300 planes in
a series of attacks against the
southeast British coast Wednes-
day as Britain's airmen struck
deep and hard at German and
Italian objectives.
A dozen German planes were
believed to have been shot down
in fighting up to 2:30 p. m.,
7:30 a. m. EST).
The assault on the southeast
coast was in major force.
An The
An official communique is-
sued Wednesday morning said
that Germany had lost 78 planes
in fighting over the British
Isles ir, Tuesday's raids.
The first raid was carried out j
by an estimated 200 German j
planes. Strong forces of British j
fighters lay in wait for the at-!
tackers and drove off most of j
the bombers. A terrific dogfight1
followed in which nine Germans'
were said to have been shot;
down.
Fighting at Stand Still
The first raid was followed!
quickly by report after report j
of the arrival of New German j
attackers, hitting hard again af-;
ter a morning-long lull in which
aerial activity over Britain was!
at a standstill for the first, time I
since mass raids started Sun-
day.
The new German attacks i
came after a night of counter-1
blows by the Royal Air Force.!
A strong group of bombers at- j
tacked northern Italy and was I
reported by the air ministry to I
have inflicted apparently heavy |
damage on aircraft factories in
Milan and Turin.
Pilots returning from raids on'j
Germany reported that hun-
dreds of square miles of vital
industrial regions, particularly I
in the Ruhr, had been devastat-j
ed by the RAF's nightly raids, j
The admiralty reported that j
two British destroyers bad en-
gaged a group of German light
craft and were believed to have;
sunk a German armed trawler;
and a motor torpedo boat.
Eyewitnesses reported that. |
the battles on the southeast I
coast were the fiercest of the
German air offensive.
Gigantic I>ng Fight*
"The dog fights were '<n a;
gigantic scale." one observer
said.
Another said he saw a single,
anti-aircraft shell blast two
German bombers out of the skvj
See BLITZ Page 8
Benjral Guards
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Going to Chicago
ORANGE, Tex. — (CP) —H
J. Lutcher Stark, Orange's civic-
conscious millionaire, doesn't do '
things half-way.
Patron of Orange high school's
famed Bengal Guard, marching
and musical unit of girls from
seven to 17. Stark is sending 124
youngsters to Chicago Wednes-
day night to participate in the
1940 Chicago music festival.
In taking care of the trip Stark
has:
Chartered a special train—at a
cost of 820,000. Obtained new
cowgirl uniforms at a cost of S8,-
000. Reserved an entire floor of
Chicago's Stevens hotel Obtain-
ed two trained nurses, two per-
sonal maids, three quartermast-
ers, two highway patrolmen, a
number of chaperons, a bus for
the girls' instruments and an
ambulance to accompany the
guards.
ROME — (UP) — British
planes sweeping into Italy from
j Switzerland, bombed vital north-
ern industrial centers early Wed-
nesday, including Milan. Turin,
Alessandria and Tortona, killing
22 and wounding more than 52.
Augusta, Sicily, also was raided.
A communique of Italian gen-
eral headquarters said casualties
included 12 killed and 44 wound-
ed in Milan, one killed and eight
wounded at Turin, and nine kill-
: ed at Alessandria.
The British planes dropped
leaflets as well as bombs. The
Italians claimed that damage
; did not result from the raid on
i Sicily, where four bombs were
dropped. Fifteen bombs fell into
j Turin.
The leaflets told the Italians
that they were at war to 'make
Hitler stronger and to enable
him to exploit the Italians for
; his war.'' They warned the Ital-
ians that "war with all its ter-
rors now is at the doors of your
| homes."
I The district raided forms al-
most a perfect triangle directly
north of the great port of
Genoa between the Ligurian Sea
and the Swiss frontier. It is
Italy's most important indus-
trial center.
Turin is headquarters of the
army of northern Italy, com-
manded by Crown Prince Hum-
berto, Prince of Piedmont.
The raid on Alessandria caus-
ed fires, set by incendiary bombs
and it was believed that con-
siderable damage was inflicted.
BERLIN REPORTS
BRITISH PLANES
BERLIN — (UP) — German
anti-aircraft guns turned back
a British airplane fleet a little
more than 10 miles west of Ber-
lin early Wednesday, well in-
formed nazi sources said today
in explaining a 47 minute air
raid alarm.
Explaining the air raid alarm
which startled Berltners from
their sleep, informants said
that British planes, flying at a
considerable height, approached
the Berlin area.
The planes were forced back
"a dozen or so" miles west of the
city without dropping their
bombs, the informants said, so
there was no anti-aircraft fire in
the city.
Such alarms always are given
when planes reach a certain
designated "danger zone" around
the capital, it was said.
PARACHUTISTS LAND,
BERLIN ANNOUNCES
BERLIN (UP) — German
quarters said Wednesday that
parachutists had been landed
in England to sabotage British
defenses while fresh German air
armadas blasted anew at harb-
ors and airdromes in an unre-
mitting aerial offensive to smash
British air power.
The parachutists, informed
German quarters said, were land-
ed in the vicinity of Manches-
ter and Birmingham to carry
out, sabotage in that rich indus-
trial sector.
ABANDONED 'CHUTES
FOUND IN ENGLAND
LONDON — (CP > — Military
quarters said Wednesday that
German parachutes had been
found in England but that no
parachutists had been discover-
ed
"So far as is known at pre-
sent the parachutes found are
not of the type used by parachu-
tist forces," it was said.
'Experts are examining these
: parachutes to ascertain for
what purpose they were used.
There is no confirmation of
stories that parachutists came
; down and were captured."
o —.
Markets At A Glance
BY UNITED PRESS
Stocks irregular and quiet.
Bonds irregular; U. S. govern-
ments lower.
Curb stocks lower
Foreign exchange firm.
Cotton slightly easier.
Wheat off 1-4 to 5-8 cent; corn
off 14 to 1-2.
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