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MEXIA, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUG. 6, 1943.
NUMBER 33.
Passed As Orel, Catania, Munda Taken
Orel's Capitulation
Means Loss Of Hitler's
35-Day Battle For Field Ends cSgL°?„ aiiy'is
Called Matter Of Days
Strongest War Bastion Junl?'e Troopers Baby Kidnapped from Hospital
1 w Decimate 5000 of i •
Jap Suicide Unit
Mop-up Underway
in Biggest Base
in Mid-Solomons
MOSCOW, Auk. 5, (UP)—Rod armies re-captured Orel,
one of the strongest Axis bastions on the whole 1,800-mile
front, today and smashed on through crumbling German
defenses in a race to trap the fleeing remnants of the gar-
rison of 250,000.
Eight Soviet columns were converging on t'rantically-
rctreating Germans attempting to escape over two narrow
dirt roads through a steadily-narrowing corridor to the
eolith wast, j ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, {
(Radio Berlin said I'no whole Orel salient as well as | SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 5. |
the city itself was being evacuated by German troops "ac-i<U.R) American jungle troops have i
cording to plan" after removing "all military installations, I captured the Munda airstrip at the
material and supplies.") I end of a :i5-day battle and are
The Soviet avalanche rolled up the German hedgehop: ! cutting to pieces remnants of the
defense system at a rate that posed a direct threat to Bry- j estimated fi,ooo-man Japanese gar-
ansk, biggest German base on the central front 75 miles J rison left behind to make a death
West of Orel. fight at the New Georgia base, a
The Russians quickly liquidated individual German
pockets cut off by the speed of the main army's retreat and
front .dispatch said today.
George Jones, United
Press
then pushed on in pursuit of the enemy. German rear j correspondent, reported direct
guards fought desperately to stem the Russians, but up-1 from Munda, once the biggest Jap-
parently nowhere were able to halt them completely. 1 anrse base in th; Central Solo-
Orel feli after bloody street battles that boosted Nazi | mons, that the enemy defenses had
losses on the Orel front alone yesterday to some 6,000 kill- been crushed and the mop-up he-
ed, 2o(i tanks destroyed and 238 planes shot down. Hun- gun-
dreds more tanks, mobile guns and other arms were abati-; Artillery and airplanes smashed
doned by the Germans in their hasty flight.
at. Kokongolo Hill, on the western
The Soviet troops routed the enemy with bayonets and j en() nf the fj0|f|. where a suicide
hand grenades in the final round of the battle and won the r,,ar KUB,r| had been left, by the
greatest victory so far in their summer offensive. The Ger- j jf,pa„e.se to make a last stand
mans had held Orel for 22 months and it was the eastern-1 whj|(1
some cf the troops sought
most point to resist the Russian winter offensive that swept I
to escape, Jones said
nearly 400 miles from Stalingrad to the approaches to the | MundH whs the first objt,t,tlve
. Dniepei I iver. attained by forces under (Jen.
Ickes Lashes at 1 ■ - --— -
yesterday on the 21'rd day of an
offensive launched July S2 from
1 the north, east and south. The in-
I itial assault took the enemy com-
pletely bv surprise and pulverized
I bis first defenses, but subsequent
Share-MiseryTalk
Gas Equalization
Called War Need
CHICAGO, Aug. 5. (U.R)—Na-
tional Petroleum Administrator
Harold L. Ickes lashed at criticism
cf the government's gasoline ra-
tion policy as a "share the misery
program" and told a group of
Midwestern Congressmen and
Legislators today that "more se-
vere curtailment out here will
help win the war."
He said gasoline rations east of
the Rocky Mountains would be
equalized, probably within a few
weeks. Washington reports yes-
terday w rp that the order would ! Germans had begun their scorched
become effective Sept. I. ' earth preparations for withdrawal
more than a \vee« ago by blowing
the offensive in the South and
Southwest Pacific on June .'10 to
roll back the enemy from his ex-
tended bases reaching toward
Australia.
The bitter yard-by-yard struggle
advances were slowed by an elab- through deep-laid enemy defenses
orate network of defenses spotted j cncj,.(.|ii)g Munda developed into
through wooded terrain.
Once their main highways to
the west and southwest had been
cut, however, the Germans began
to pull out of the southern sector
behind bitter rear guard resistance
in the hope of averting another
Stalingrad.
Blasting their way through
a complete rout of the enemy,
Jones said in a dispatch dated
Tuesday, as the Americans closed
in with tanks and flame-throwers.
He reported that some Japanese
troops may have hron evacuated
by destroyer to Kolombangara,
northwest of New Georgia across
Kula Gulf, but said U. S. soldiers
were moving to cut off further
what once was a picturesque city I retreat an() that snia|| craft had
nf 150,000 inhabitants, the Rus
sians found Orel to be little nioia
than a mass of flaming ruins. The
Ickes spoke quickly and ner-
vously before about 150 persons in
a hotel parlor. Although there
many unfriendly to the govern-
nK nt's gasoline program among
his auditors, the Senatorial Com-
mittee investigating petroleum
programs, which hail left Kansas
City hopping mad yesterday, was
not present at the opening.
up factories !>nd public buildings.
Civilians were moved to the Ger-
man rear, presumably for the de-
portation to the Reich as slave
labor.
been used for moving troops.
U. S. troops had swarmed over
the eastern end of the field, Jones
said, finding wrecked remains of
six Japanese Zero planes and two
bomber.'.
UJf
501 Casualties in
Sicily Reported
Through July 22
—
100,000 Captives
Taken So Far in
Island Campaign
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA. Aug.
5. (UP)—The Allies crumpled the lower end of the Axir,
i line across southeast Sicily today by capturing Catania and
I the: nearby transport junctions of Paterno and Gerbini, and
to the north beat back the enemy defenses with a sh.ii-
j tering land, sea and air bombardment.
The British Eighth army swept across the Catania,
plain under cover of intense artillery fire and seized itie
i ancient city of Catania to blast out the southeastern anchor
I of the wilting Axis line.
Other forces swarmed around to the northwest and
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (U.R)
American casualties in Sicily no, . .
to July 22 numbirid 501 killed, I t0°k Paterno core of a highway network keying J he com
.".,'iS0 wounded and 2,370 missing
| Sterolary <f War Henry !.. Stim-
: sor announced today.
He said Italian and German
| prisoners taken by th Allies now
| number about 100,000. The nu'ii-
I ber of enemy killed and wound't'
j al<o is In •'ieved tn be substantial.
i Stinison said American losses
munications around the western slopes of Mount Etna. The
thrust threatened to trap the elite German troops who were
thrown out of Catania.
The Eighth army also seized Gerbini, 12 miles west
of Catania and center of a major cluster of Axis airfields
With the liquidation of the Sicilian campaign descrii>
erl as "only a matter of time" after the British 8th army
entered Catania, the Americans and Canadians pounded for-
ward through stiffened resistance and heavy mine fields on
were moderate considering the na■! the central and north coast fronts in their drive to push
ture of the fighting and the t. r- the Axis back toward heavily-bombed Messina, last, port ji
(Pvt. Cnit Chambers, left and Sgt. Ear! B. Houston or urcgiii
Slute Police are standing beside ladder of fire escape of Albany,
Oife., General Hospital, from which the two-day-old baby of Mr. and
M(;s. B. W. Gurr.ty was kidnapped. (NEA Telephoto)
rain.
British easualt ie; were not a
I t reat deal higher than the Ameri-
I can, he ridded.
! W liil" detail" of casualties since
July '22 are not available, they
are believed to be light.
Stimson said l'>sses of American
■ B-2-) Liberator bombers in the
| raid on the Ploesti oil fields in
i Rumania amounted to 20 per cent,
| but a devastating blow v.as struck
at the vital oil resources there,
representing about one-third of
the Axis oil product ion.
A total of 177 l.iberaturr, partici-
pated in the raid. Fifteeen or 20
American planes wire shot down
over the target and as many mor
failed to return from the mission.
Right were forced to land in Tur-
key.
Sid Swinburne
Italian Cabinet Meets r.
On Important Matters
LONDON, Aug. 5. (U.R)--Th"
ne\jv Italian cabinet was scheduled
to exarnin? "matters of an im-
portant nature" today following
two ecclesiastical conferences at
y
with the Nazi r gime, nor a formal
reply to Eisenhower's offer.
Tb Vatican long has been con-
sidered a possible go-between for
arranging a peace between Italy
Funeral Services
for Longtime
Resident Today
exit from the.island.
(In London, observers suggested
that all organized resistance in
.•icily might be overwhelmed in
three days. The German radio
said Catania had been evacuated in
'the most successful maneuvers"
yet carried out in Sicily "to mia-
,e 1 the enemy." The Nazi's broad-
en ,i said the Germans had retired
to a much stronger line behind
Catania,)
The fall of Catania was followed
quickly by the -eizure of Paterno,
which is an important road junc-
tion about 12 miles to the north-
west in a web formed by moun-
tainous roads and a railroad loop-
ValtieatV City which Swiss sources and the Allies, t vougil there has
The government newspaper
Ezvestia suid the Germans wit
striving to the utmost to keep open
their escape corridor from the
I melting Orel bulge, but added that
"Gasoline supplies .-lmuld and t.he Soviet columns advancing
must be equalized throughout th" from nil sides except the west were
nation east of the Rockey Moun- gathering momentum, lverrunniug
tains," Ickes said. "We are not do?,ens of secondary gr.nisons an I
doing this simply to spread the thr ateniu,: to encircle the bulk of
misery. It is a perfectly lrgical li.e enemy forces sou'bwest. of
move.
Bryansk
Public Demonstration Reaffirms U S
Official Faith in Glider as Weapon
' k
LAURINEURG MANTON Alt-Ion an i neiny town, single and fm-
AIR I>.SE, N. C., Aug. ,ri (U.R) i mation take-olfs, and spot land-
-"These boys will have 50 per | ings both in rough terrain and or.
| ,.r„t grater ability than members water
rf ailbosne units that invaded Si
cily.
Arnold described the night land-
ings—made on moonless nights
"By God when they can put I and without, either ground illumi-
gliders lown in the pitch dark
when you can't see a damned thing
brt th" «tars—it proves our boys
are po^ng to town."
Gen. Henry II. Arnold, top man
of the Army Air Forces, speaking
nftrr a 2-day public demonstration
• •f new techniques in airborne war-
fare which military ohsorvcrs said
whs a reaffirmation of official
fnilh in the glider as a military
Weapon.
Correspondents and tigh-rank-
ing officers, Including Arnold,
witnessed the demonstrations, fea-
turing n simulated glider attack
nation or glider lights-^as a new
departure in glider warfare.
"You couldn't see a damned
thing but the stars," he said. "Then
I heard music in the air—they nad
the post band in the first glider
and they came in playing 'Coming
In On A Wing and a Prayer.' After
Work Started on
Groesbeck Road
by Highway Crew
Work was begun this morning
on the Navasota River-Groesbeek
section of Highway I I, Sparks
McKay, district maintenance fore-
man announced today, with the
local maintenance crew of ten and
eight ai'rditional workers from
Waco handling the work.
Ten carloads > of pi •sivc-l a -
phaltic concrete have already been
unloaded in Groesbeck, and ">j
Hv" (.Ytvi't'd l'ltoe«.'tl)cr to repair
this strip, which needs some 210(1
tons of materia1 to get it in satis
factory .shape
Ten days altotft'thei' ought t >
see the work finished, recording to
McKay, always provided the ma
terial keeps coining steadily from
Hcarne, where Gifford Hill has the
contract for rupplying all that i-
needed.
The crew has just complete I
similar work on the Nigger Creek
road, alongside the Mexia Intel i-
nient Camp.
Bobn Plant Charged
DETROIT. Aug.
said raised hope.- within Italy of
an early pence.
(The London radio, recorded by
CBiS, said that the Italian Crown
j Council met in Rome this morn-
ing with the German ambassador,
| Hans Georg Von Mackensen, pre-
| ent.)
| the Cabinet meeting was believ-
ed telateel to Italy's future role in
wair and included in the agenda,
ohs rvers here theorized, was Gen.
Dwight 11. Kisenhower's offer of
July 28 to giant the Badoglio gov-
Tnment an "lion, cable peace" that
wcyld includc the rebase of Hal-
i| solfii rs captured in Tunisia
anil Sicily.
Though chief of government
MiU *shal Pietro Badoglio has as
been no concrete evidence that it
Funeral
services were to be
so far has been called upon to act l,eW Thursday evening at G o'clock
at the family residence for Sidney
m that capacity.
Molly Pitcher Is
Honored Saturday
by Sales Drive
J. Swinburne, 81. longtime resi-
dent of Mexia, who dropped dead
downtown Wednesday evening
about six o'clock.
A retired brick mason who has
I not plied his trade for the past
I fifteen years, Swinburne was born
'in Nacogdoches April 11, 186'.'. His
'fighting in the most difficult ter-
rain. The enemy had laid heavy
mine fields in their path.- and
moved up mobile guns, as well
as elements of the 15th Panzer
Division.
The British 8th Army unii>r
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
crashed into Sicily's second eirj
at 8:30 a. m.
Renewal ot Rome
Pounding Slated
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 5. (U.R)--
ing aivund the west side of Mount ! The Allies are planning to renew
Etna. The Allied gain cut one of their air attack on Rome as soon
thp main loads by which the Ger- : as possible, it was revealed today
nans and Italians could escape i with disclosure that only unfavor-
from the Catania trap and put able weather conditions had pi
British forces near or astride the
only railroad on the western slopes
of Mount Etna. Allied warships
ind bombers hammered the other
escape road on the east side, of
the peak.
The fall of Paterno and Catania
appeared to doom th-. town of
Uisterbianco. mid-way between the visibility, it was learned,
.wo bigger towns and on the main This change in plans emphasized
escape road out of Catania. (Mis- the Allies determination to hit
>rbianco means Mr. White.) nothing but war objectives at
The Americans pushing from Rcme. Axis propagandists tried to
Ti inn toward Ratidazzo and the ! aive the impression that the Allies
Canadians hammering toward I had attacked churches and his-
\drano, which guards the only I torically important centers in their
road by which the enemy can circle : first, and only raid on the capital
west of Mount Etna, were reported . to date—on July 19.
vented bombing of the Italian
capital last night.
A raid on Roman military tar-
gets had been carefully planned,
hut the Allied strat- gic an forces
shifted the attacks to Naples and
other communications centers in
southern Italy because of poor
father, Kdmond Swinbn
was a
turday's bonds rales in Ms:.'ft I native of London, England, while
| will bp in memory of America's j his m'ther, Martha O'Neal Swin-
j !'ir-t heroine. Molly "Pitcher." of i burne, came from Indiana He
! Utvelutionary Days, it was an- was married Octobei It!. 1882, to
•i Mined today by the Husiness and
> JV. sinm 1 Women's Club and the
Vmoriran I eghti Auxiliary.
In the battle of Monmouth, the
plucky : arlv American went back
: i|ted in proclamation that the j ^ forth cnn.yinK ,,i(„lu,rs of wen the
wtor will .continue" and Rome I W(lfr|. ,0 ,h( diehard American1 W)1
blitu'.leasts have, insisted that Italy
wifl fight on the side nf Germany.
thi'goveiiinient had issued iieitbei
a rfornia) statemeht i f solidarity
JeportkgGci man
Juzi les Ufiicers
■iddi '■ suffering from the in-1
• iit la at. thi n when I,"i In.sband |
VII at his <anu"li, took Ins 'dac ■
mil fired his mm until the but-1
1 won. For that heroism, she
:iven a comieijsiiui us ser-
ennt in the Army by General
'.Vnshiiurton in person.
"The original Molly Pitcher and
her modern counterparts who serve
heir men on production lines, iti
erl Cross Work, in civilian ac-
tivities, i.nd in I .ivi'ig and s-llin
HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. a. (U.R)- -
[The U. S. Immigration and
NaHnirtizotion Service today fin
th(i |>i(Jlem of what to do with
Wlilhelm Bunjcs, ,'l7 year-olil tier
man-horn f rmer crnvict. j '.dniiri-tratnr I'Vank Scofield an-
Bunies' was recently released ! 'i'n« i tl as prep.'rations for Sat-
Miss Emma Blanton 'f Free ton-
County.
For many years he ha made his
home in the 800 Block East Tyler,
at the extreme southeast end of
residence scctkn nf town. He
was a 111' ill ber of the Bapti.;!
Church.
Surviving him arc his wife and
one son, Bert Swinburne, of Mexia.
Funeral services will be conduct
1 ed by the Rev. II. T. Walters,
| nastor the Cedar Baptist church,
I with Corley's Funeral Home in
j charge of arrang nients, and burial
j scheduled to take place in the
: Cotton Gin cemetery.
Pallbearers include L. W.
Minims, Cull Ragland, W. L. Sew-
ln, tfal jcOu/iL f/W/rV
iAc. fvi&t daij, —
ckick&. ansL fwu&L
, . ,, i i • f . ell, G. N. Collinworth, P. J. Bounds,
bonds are eonallv honored in Sat-
r Sr., and E. C
.iconv s nationwide observance ci I
l it/her Day." War Bonds
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Lee's Pick Paste
Star Parasite Remoxer
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they landed, the band marchod *>-| Bohn Aluminum nnd Brass Corp. 1 frf,m state penitentiary after serv
and throe of its supervis< ry em- 'nu n ,l'rm ,or f°rgery. Now he
ployes wore charged with sabotage 's helrig hi I I at the Harris ( nun
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BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 5. (U.R)
Raul Damonte Taborda, anti-
Fascist publisher, a^nd Santiago
Diaz Viayra, editor o* the pro-
Fascist newspaper Cabilo, settle
tht ir differences with slashing
sabers today.
Seconds for the two agreed
last night that the duel would be
held at an undisclosed spot this
afternoon
The war cry lor the day has
been d. si,'mated as 'Fill the po-
ller with bonds and stamps."
re- Th; - signifying th< purchaser's .,s
regulations
pHONE
TEXAS
Immigration
quire the d.portati n of any alien
convicted of a crime involving
mc.ral turnitudc.
astnnce will he ninned on those
who co-operate by making a pui
i linm of rdthor bonds or stamps
MEXIA
way playing 'What The Hell Do
W'e Care.' It was marvelous.
Twenty-two gliders from thu
1 lt.h Troop Carriei Squadron stag-
ed a simulated airborne attack ell
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United States and Great Britain
today in a five-caunt indictment
before Federal Judge Edward J.
Moinet.
ty jail us an immigiation prisoner.
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