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Allies Qive Hitler Smashing Blow In French Coast Raid
• LONDON, August 19 — (UP)
—American. British and Cana-
dian troops today gave Adolf
Hitler a foretaste of a second
front in Europe with a record-
-breaking commando attack on
"the Dieppe coast of France.
Operating under a cloud of
allied warplanes' — American
flying fortresses and American
fighter squadrons among them
_—the commandos smashed into
•the nazi coastal defenses of
the Dieppe sector.
At midiat'Vernoon London
time the commando attack still
was in progress nut some of
^the troops were being with-
•drawn — having achieved their
objective which was destruction"
of a big battery of six-inch nazi
coast defense guns and a muni-
tions dump.
£ 'Jhr English Channel
~ coast shook under the rev-
erberation of the battle —
the greatest land and air
operation which western
Europe had seen since the
a days of Dunkirk.
• The German radio reported
that, a nazl counter-attack had
ibcen started in an effort to
drive the commandos from
their positions and that losses
in men and materials were con-
siderable. There was no indica-
tion how long the commandos
were prepared to hold (heir po-
sitions around Dieppe but pre-
sumably they had fully carried
out their objectives.
The American forces 111 the
big attack were units of the
newly organized Ranger force
—the American equivalent of
the British commandos. These
picked volunteers have been
training for several months in
raid tactics.
American air forces were
hacking lip the KAF In pro-
viding an air curtain for the
land troops. Great flying
ibitftress hominies were
blasting at nazi strong
points and com 11111 ideations
lines for German reinfor-
cements.
Squadrons from all front-line
RAF fighter squadrons along
the coast were in action in con-
tinuous attacks not only in the
Dieppe area but over a wide
region of northern France. Am-
erican fighter squadrons were
flying wing-to-wing with the
British in the attacks
Resident, sof a southeast coast
town reported that a number
of ambulances were nioving into
the deck areas \vhich were
blocked off from the public.
It also was revealed thai
some commandos have returned
from the Dieppe area to a Brit-
ish base and were described as
being in "high spirits,"
TANKS All) ATTACKEBS
LONDON, Aug. 19— (UP)— Al-
lied forces including United
States army ranger troops land-
ed on the French coast today
in the greatest operation since
Dunkirk.
British combined operations
headquarters announced 1:05 p.
m. (8:05 a. m. I0WT) that tanks
had been landed in the center
of the Dieppe area, GO miles
across the English channel from
the Sussex coast, and that hea-
vy fighting was proceeding.
The coiumnniiiiie said
thai landings had been made
at .ill points select,-il li.v com-
mandos, mninl.\ Canadians
and British special service
(roups, n ili-lacliin 1-111 of a
fulled Stales army ranger
Imitation and a small con-
tingent of fighting French.
"Heavy opposition was en
countered at some places and
on the left flank one landing
party was initially repulsed <mi
reformed and later carried the
beach by assault," the communi-
que said.
Germany acknowledged tanks
were included
ed that strong
chutists took part.
Hundreds of airplanes from
the heaviest bombefs to wave-
skimming fighters fought wild-
ly over the 00 miles between the
English south coast and the
Dieppe area of France where the
landing was made.
Face - blackened commandos
who started the attack were fol-
lowed by infantrymen, it was
understood, and strong forces
of the crack Canadian army
trained in England as shock di-
See AMERICANS Page 1
NAZIS HURL NEW MASSES
Or TROOPS ON STALIN6R AO
knowledged tanks! jy.. r.-,
lo Protect
Coast 01 Texas
PORT ARTHUR, Tex., Aug.
19—(UP)—Navy blimps in a few
months will be flying far out
over the Gulf of Mexico to com-
bat the Axis U-boat menace
which has taken a heavy toll
of allied merchant shipping in
that area, it was announced to-
day.
A blimp base, to cost $10,000,-
000. will lie constructed between
See BLIMP Page (i
RangersTrainedFor'Indian 'Fighting
US ARMY RANGER TRAIN-
ING BASE, Somewhere in Brit-
fain, Aug 19 — (UP)— Rangers
of the United States army got
their first taste of actual war-
fare in the Dieppe raid today
and all accounts indicated they
were just as rough and tough
fas Rogers' Rangers of pre-rev-
olutionary days from which
they took their name.
The Rangers are the Ameri-
can counterpart of the British
commandos. They were train-
fied for weeks in commando tac-
tics.
Every Ranger is a volunteer
and for everyone in the torce
there are dozens who wanted
to get in on the dangerous
9 work but were rejected. Every-
one lias brawn as well as brain
and common sense along with
daring.
Every llnnger who went
• into action on the French
coast today had undergone
weeks of drills and rehear-
sals for the raid. They
knew how to kili with their
bare hands, how to garrote
f an enemy silently, and how
to incapacitate those want-
ed. as prisoners.
Their training included -tou-
ghening up day and night ex-
el cises in which they often
§.marched 100 miles in two days
with little rest and few rations.
Such marches led them through
rivers and yp precipitious
cliffs. They wiggled through
bai'bed wire and dense under-
Upgrowth, and to simulate battle
conditions live bullets whizzed
overhead or kicked up dust be-
hind them.
After the toughening process
and the drills in hand to hand
.§ combat, the men were rehears-
ed time after time in silent land-
ings along stretches of the Eng-
lish coast.
—v-
*Freiicli Warned
Raid Not Second
•Front Invasion
i*
Defense Guns And Nazi
A ntm 11 nil ion I)eslroyed
By Allied Units
LONDON, Aug. 19, — (UP) —
The allies' raid on the Dieppe
coast of France today, great-
est military operation western
: Europe had seen since Dunkirk
—took the Yanks back to the
See FRENCH Page 5
•c- Attend I
State Mee
jegions
ing
Earl C. VandervQ jTt, H A.
_ Walker and Mrs. Lance Thomp-
son are in Fort Worth attend-
ing sessions of the American
Legion and auxiliary state con-
ventions.
Problems facing the state and
nation during World War 2 will
' be the big part of the agenda
taken up by veterans of No. 1
war.
, Woather Forecast
SWEETWATER — Tempera-
tures: high yesterday. 90; low
today, 68; at 11:30 a. m. to-
day, 80. Possible showers and
not much change in tempera
'• ture.
EAST TEXAS—Little change
in temperature this afternoon
and tonight; occasional thunder-
showers near coast this after-
noon and upper coast tonight.
WEST TEXAS — Tempera-
ture this afternoon and tonight
about the same as during the
previous 24 hours, except warm-
er this afternoon east of the
■Pecos river. Scattered thunder-
# showers in liig Bend country
and east of Pecos river this af-
ternoon.
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NUMBER 21 6
t'Ht'RCHILL CONFERS WITH STALIN—Radioed from Moscow to .New York this photo
shows the historic meeting of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin. Tlie man at
the extreme left is unidentified, then left to rijght are: Churchill, W. Averell Harriman, U. S.
Defense Liason chief; Jos,"f Stalin and Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov of Russia. (NEA Ra-
dioplioto).
OFFICIAL 0. S.
COMMUNIQUE
Farm Labor Shortage May Develoji
[11 Nolan Countv For Fal l Harvest
0 Daniel Makes
Plav For (loast
Labor Ballots
1 By United Press
Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel, carry-
j ing his campaign into the Gulf
I coast war industrial center last
j night, told a Port Arthur rally
crowd that he believes in labor's
I right to strike and to picket,
j "I believe in the right to organ-
ize to conduct collective bar-
I gaining." the junior senator, not-
I ed for his campaign tactic of
i slam-banking "Communistic la-
I bor leader racketeers," said.
"I believe in the right to
| strike if a majority to do so
•taflu*Vn -peaceful picketlffM. ' be-
j lieve unions should be allowed
I to charge any amount for dues
if the members agree to pay it.
"But T oppose violence in
j strikes."
James V. Allred, ill speech-
es ypsteiday In the Dallas
area, told audiences he was
j See O'DANIEI Pare ci
By garrison Salisbury
I T Staff Correspondent
A commando force Of Ameri-
cans, British and Canadians to-
day fought out a dress rehearsal
of a second front in Europe
against the Nazi defenses of the
Dieppe area of France.
Striking .55 miles across the
English Channel under an um-
brella of British and American
air power, the Commandos gave
western Europe its biggest taste
of military action snice Dunkirk.
The attack was on a far larg-
er scale than any previously
made by the Commandos and
was the first in which American
land and air forces had partici-
pated.
By midafternoon some of the
Commandos were arriving back
in Britain from the zone of op-
eration. There still was no in-
dication, however, how long it
would take the main body of
troops to carry out the operation. J
The German radio indicat- j I
"d that heavy Nazi counter-
attacks were in progress in
an effort to drive the Com- j I
niandos front their positions, j .
The action—coming only IS i
hours after the announcement i
of the Moscow conference of
Prime Minister Winston Chur-
chill and Josef Stalin—sent a
thrill through the British public
which saw its hopes for a second 1 occupied
front getting at least partial re- j a commando
alization. j patteiti for
Military quarters emphasized 1 come and is
that a real second front would
require thousands of troops for
every hundred engaged in the
Dieppe attack and far more ex-
tensive planning than even was
required for today's operation.
The commando operation over-
shadowed developments on the
other war f ronts.
v
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—
(UP)—A. U. S. submarine
has sunk a Japanese cruiser
or destroyer in the western
Aleutian area—bringing to
23 the number of Japanese
ships sunk or damaged in
that area—the navy announc-
ed today.
Fog prevented "an exact
identification of the type of
ship," the communique said-
This was the ninth war-
ship hit by U. S. submarines
alone in that area since the
Japanese moved In there in
June.
The submarines, penetrat-
ing to the Japanese bases
under cover of the fog which
usually hampers an air and
surface operation, already
had sunk six destroyers,
were believed to have sunk
another destroyer and left
another "burning fiercely."
TODAYS
Final Onslaught
Under Wav At Two
♦
City Approaches
MOSCOW, Aug 19— (UP) —
The Germans today hurled mass-
i es of fresh troops, tanks and
I planes into what the official So-
] viet army organ Bed Star called
I "a final drive for Stalingrad"
after stemming Russian coun-
ter-attacks at the two main ap-
proaches to the beleaguered in-
| dustrial city on the Volga.
South of Kletskaya, which
lies 71 miles northwest of
Stalingrad, the sheer weight
of (.'Hacking German tanks
and motorized infantry forc-
ed a Russian retreat to a sec-
ondary defense line, official
dispatches said.
Russian attacks in the Klets-
' kaya sector were said to have
; destroyed masses of enemy in-
j fantry reserves and new tanks
! and planes after the Red army
I defenders had been forced back.
With
I MOVES
By Louis P. Kecmle
Of the I P War Desk
The allied landing
erable force on the
France is
\merican Sinks
German Sub Oil
Coast Of Brazil
in consid-
coast of
more than
raid; it sets the
the invasion to
an implicit prom-
i ise to the conquered peoples
| that the hour of liberation is
i not far distant.
The British were careful to
| warn the French population
! that this is not yet the opening
] of the coming second front,
i They were cautioned not to ex-
j pose themselves bv a premature
See WAR MOVES Page 5
v
Hospital Chief
■** I r
Addresses Lions
Sweetwater Lions yesterday
RIO DE JANEIRO. August 19! heard Miss Maude Cooze, super-
(UP) At least one of the mtendent of the Sweetwater
ubmarines that sank j municipal hospital gave a report
on safety.
United States headquarters
said in its communique 011 the
Dieppe, France said:
"Headquarters, European the-1 are
atre of operations, United Slates
army:
"In a combined operations raid
on the Dieppe area today a de-
tachment from a United States
ranger battalion is taking part
with Cahadian forces. British
j
With the coming of general
rains to this section crops are
expected to be good and plans
already being made for the
fall harvest.
Several schools in the sur-
rounding territory have already
started with the expectation of
turning out for a period of a
month to six weeks in order
that the children can assist in
special service troops
small detachment of
French."
Especial importance attached
to the emphasis 011 the partici-
pation of the Canadians. They
are Crack picked troops trained
during the last two years and
more to be the spearhead of the
British imperial forces who
to Invade western Europe.
The British special service
See COMMUNIQUE Page G
and a \ gathering the feed crop and in
fighting I cotton picking.
| This year it is expected that
there will be a farm labor short-
age in this section. As a general
rule Mexican pickers come out
of San Antonio but this source
of labor may not be sufficient.
The 1942 cotton crop of the Unit-
are | ed States has been estimated at
13,085.000
bales by the census
Production last year was 10.-
744.000 bales and in the 10 years,
19.31-40, average 12,100,000 bales.
These figures will show that the (added
cotton crop is expected to be
much larger than usual and due
to the labor shortage harvesting
will be more difficult.
According to Ed F- Neinast
most of the schools in Nolan
county will turn out sometime
in the fall to help relieve the
farm labor shortage. Highland
school opened August 10 and Di-
vide and Blaajwell are plan-
SoJdier Kit Fund
Nears $300 Mark
bureau
en out
m a report
recently.
that was giv-
ning to open August 24.#
Combines are gathering a por-
tion of the maize and feed crop-
but cotton must be gathered by
hand. Most feed crops are ma-
ture and beyond damage but
precautionary measures are be-
ing taken to guard against leaf
See LABOR Page 6
The Soldier's Kit Fund is near-
ing the .$300 mark, with $38.30
Tuesday afternoon mak-
ing the total $272.30. An indi-
vidual member gift from the
I,ions netted $21 and a collection
from Maryneal brought $7.30.
Citizens, two naming sons in the
scrvicejeave ten dollars.
Three donors who have turn-
ed ill their dollars on August 17
were omitted inadvertently from
the chairman's lists. They are:
Mrs. C. D. Farley, Mrs. W. R.
Owen and Barbara Owen. Mrs.
Owen has a son in the service.
.Tune Heath added another
dollar to the Sweetwater Hos-
pital staff's contribution making
that $18 altogether.
Four dollars was added to the
Legion Auxiliary donation.
See SOLDIERS Page 6
Garman
five Brazilian ships in coastal
waters, killing perhaps 670
passengers, and forcing Brazil
to the verge of war with the
Axis, was reported today to
have been sunk by patrol pla-
nes.
While angry crowds milled in
the streets, roaring for veng-
eance. breaking up axis shops
and burning axis flags, the offi-
cial national news agency an-
nounced that two German sub-
marines had been sunk.
It >.aid an American plane
piloted by Commander Jack
'Lacey lii%d sunk a submar-
ine yesterOny .<0 miles from
(lie coast, apparently in the
area where the ships went
flow is. Subsequently, the
Kinking of a submarine by
a Brazilian pilot in that area
\ was officially announced.
One sinking was reported by]
Interventor Maynard Gomes of j
Sergipe State, and the second j
by Interventor Amabal Peixoto j jtljn.
of Rio Be Janeiro State. The !
The I possibility that the announce-
'See SUBS Page 6
Miss Cooze was born in Cam-1
bridge, England. She is a grad- j
uate of St. Bartholomew's hos-
pital. Miss Ccoze was a nurse j
in France for three years dur-
ing the other war and for cue
year after the close of the war. j
Two others were guest at the 1
meeting, they were: Lt. Co!, Ma-
son and Arthur Partain.
An unrehearsed demonstra-:
tion by two first aid teams was j
given. One team had previous
training and the other had none.!
Assistant fire chief Lloyd Rog-i
ers served as judge.
Plans Perfected
For "Blackout ()f
Business Au^. 27
City Leaders .Map Big-
Drive For Sweetwater
Scrap Metals
Plans for the business black-
out." on Thursday. August 27;h.
Sweetwater Scrap Day. were
perfected and met with entnus-
iastic response at a mee'ing
Wednesday morning at trie
'Board of City Development
rooms. More than 50 men ar.d
women attended the gathering,
representing all local business
and civic organizations. Nolan
county and the city of S v^ei-
water. There was unanimous
agreement that all business in
the city should be suspended,.,
from noon until 4 p. m. August
27, so that all hands might be
turned to gathering scrap for
the nation's war effort.
Leland Glass, who presided
briefly explained the purpose of
• crap program, which has been
the meeting. Details of tje
in progress for several weeks,
were explained by Henry Reit-
man of the International Har-
veter Co. He sketched the tre-
mendous need for scrap hy
pointing to the fact thai our
wartime consumption of steel
alone is 121.000.000 tons per
year. His suggestion was to
get into scrap gathering around
the home and get fun out of
seeing how much could be col-
lected of all kinds of metal ex-
cept tin cans.
Brief remarks were made by
See BLACKOUT Page 6
Flying Fortresses
Raid Fighter Base
LONDON, Aug. 19— t UP) — A
American-British commu-
nique reported today that two
squadrons of America's crack1
flying fortress bombers success-
fully attacked a Nazi fighter
plane base at Abbeville t-idav.
Enemy Ship With Two Torpedo Boats Sinks U. S. .K.(III(1TS- A Namr
Merchantman In First Of Such Attacks Of War W^illi Background
The American attack w
of the wide-scale air opt
over northern Franee in
of the Dieppe comman
sault.
The communique! was
joint 1$ b the I . S. arm
quarters for the Europe
atre of operations and t)
ish air ministry.
The fortresses were c
by Royal Air Fori
is part
rations
upport
issued
head-
in the-
e Brit.-
Killed Captain
Who Married
Her Secretly
DOUGLAS. Ariz., 'Aug. 10 —
(UP)—Authorities believed to-
day that the quarrel which end-
ed in red-haired Margaret Her-
lli*y, 21. a colonel's daughter,
'.illing her lover. Captain David
Carr, 27. was engendered by
her discovery that though he
had just married her secretly,
he already had a wife.
The disclosure that Carr left
two widows came from Miss
Herlihy. who, from the hospital
where she is being treated for
shock, hysteria, aj:il bruises,
confirmed that she had married
Carr at Agua Prleta, Mexico,
.lune 21. and from Ruth Duke
Carr, 24, a nurse, of Phoenix
City Ala. who said Carr had
married her Jan. 24.
A NEW ENGLAND PORT,
Aug. I!) — (UP)—An enemy
surface raider, using two torpe-
do boats in a pincers attack,
has sunk an American merch-
antman in the first such attack
of World War 11, it was reveal-
ed today. Fifteen or 16 men j
were believed killed and the j
remainder of the 46-man crew I
were wounded or captured.
Wounded survivors said the
night attack In the South Atlan-
tic was launched simultaneous-
ly from three sides on a calm
sea. The 9,000-ton raider hurled
GO rounds of heavy shells in
salvos of six from hidden gun
turrets as the torpedo boats
slipped in to fire four torpe-
See SHIPS Page 5
I.O.O.F. SELLING BONDS
FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. 19
—(UP)—The Independent Order
of Odd Fellows of Texas today
launches a 30-day war bond drive
in the state, seeking to sell
$278,000 worth of bonds and
Stamps in order to qualify so a
United States bomber can be
named for the organisation.
M
II
"w-? •£?
DOWNS FIRST NAZI PLANE OVER EUROPE—To 21-year-old Sergeant Kent L. West of
West Brockton, Alabama, "belly gunner" In a Flying Fortress, vent the honor of shooting
down the first Na/,1 plane for the American forces in Europe. He was rilling his "Birmingham
Bliti.krieg" when the German pilot swooped down In the Fockr-Wulf 180. Sergeant West's .V-
caliber giiiu. ended him In short order. West (center) Is ;liown here amid his flying buddies
upon itls sale return to England, ''s^sed by British tcuuor. (NEA Telephoto).
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—
(UP) — Announcement that
American "Rangers" partici-
pated in the commando raid
ai Dieppe added a new name
today to the nomenclature of
World War II.
Just how the name was
chosen and by whom was
not known here. It was
pointed out, however, that
American soldiers and ma-
rines have never approved
the designation "comman-
dos" as applied to them, pre-
ferring not to copy the Brit-
ish.
The term "Ranger," how-
ever, would be practically
perfect from the standpoint
of American history and tra-
dition as well as current ap-
plicability.
American rangers fought
against the French and In-
dians before the revolution-
ary war. As guerilla bands
they fought against the Brit-
ish. As Texans skilled with
the six-shooter, thev main-
tained law and order in the
days when the west was
really wild.
escorted
fighters,
tin announcement said. All the
American planes returned safe-
ly.
The attack obviously was de-
signed to immobilize >
er strength and pre
German air force from
ing allied air control
Dieppe area.
"Manv bursts were
ft'/.
buildin
sal
ed,'
runways
areas and fires
the cbmmuniqu
fight-
the
ulleng-
> r the
re start-
said
SUNBEAM MABKKI PLAI'E
WHITES ANOTHER
SUCCESS STORY
Sammy Glass placed the ad
that appears below:
1.000 heavy white sugar and
gunny sacks for ale.
i 10c. each Sunbeam Market
Place.
. and in less (han an hour
: after the paper had been off the
j press, he had sold more than 1C
j sacks with more calls coming in
| Why don't YOU lake advantage
; of these opportunities and if you
; have something to sell, place a
j WANT AD today.
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