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JHER FORECAST
TEXAS: Scattered thundershower*
portion this afternoon and
GOOSE CREEK. TEXAS SATURDAY, JUNE 17. 1944
ME 2 7 No.—4
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ahce of the peninsula and the isolation of Cherbourg. United Press War Correspondent
Henry T. Gorrell reported from the front.
— St. Sauveur-Le Vietome, through which passes the in*
Area Total Due From
Chairman Hugh Echols
After Checkup Monday
rea Since Guadalcanal
sported By Nimitz
lund highway ami railway, from Cherbourg, fell only ycaterda;
(fen. Omar N. Bradley's Infantry and armor steadily broodti
deepened their wedge across the desperately resisting enemy's hash
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AMERICAN CASUALTIES I
NORMANDY SET AT 15,883
OF LADIES
N-RATIONED
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includes wedgies, baby dolls,' tin
and are white, green and red If
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ON CHILDREN'S
SHOES
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re always
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for the
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UNDAY
1$ The Day To
HONOR
DAD
en we give Dad special
.. and The Miracle Store
believe you’ll say is iy**
er many more at popular
1.49 to S2.98
15 and $5.95
1.95 to $9.75
.98 to $2.98
. $1.00
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Felly, Teml
ily One Local
te Contested
.C.Mallott Will Run
fcgainst Judge Zierlein
round town
Ih the Tri-Titles: A friend
[ *• A. Trahan reminded us
Welder R. A. bought a $1000
“r tond in this drive, and that
’ the third time he has
through in this fashion
H. H. Mertz telling about
! accomplishments of his son
• Mrs. Hilda Le Doux of
Charles, La., is back here
*«ng with gasoline rationing
*"* • She was the board s
t employe here ... Mrs. Glen
*'*r downtown and hurrying
• • Norman (Dodge)
we^ getting on even terms
i all of his friends in Goose
• • • • Duke W. Jones on a
“Wi for oil—and finding it...
‘ Trenckmann likes to tell
k a , hl* friends took him
pw cleaners . y* Grover House
itoMghest cat In the Trl-
*Jd he (the cat) proved
■ Mr*' R. R. Pryor about
to visit around with her
’ ***|n after a long Illness
• Alice Tyree up and about
"Harness early this morning
O. Florance searching
. tor a.lost article . . \
“■ker handing out
-^s. J. Jtt Johnson com-
. . .. town for an afternoon
^PPlng . . . C. A. Fortner's
Ducktyo lucky bean 1*
“Ik of Crosby . . . W. D.
, «y* there are a couple
u In the dictionary he
never be mi , ?.
Godfrey just poppinw wiUi
S**m for the Quack 8hack
. Drputy Sheriff W. B. Milner
* moist brow.
L !f.f#rto! Barney Galleg-
. for some one to
, >»wn . . . Dick Harrison
"** an assignment as a
... Ellington field . , .
the latest dope from
*W Clark of West La
’ wh 4 il ^*la°n Johnson tefj-
- y h*'* not In the hotel
aRL, HARBOR, June 17. ft’.fi.'--
divisions of Japanese troops--.
Le 20,000 to 30.000 of the emper-
E. eme fighters—were locked in
V death struggle today with the
Vefican invaders of Saipan in
rhat may become one of, the most
Live battles since U. S. Ma-
te stemmed the enemy's south*
□ drive to Guadalcanal,
iu) Unes Breached
[Battling through intense mortar
1 ^ artillery fire, the Americans
reached the Japanese strongly-
fended lines north of the sugar-
,ill town of Charan Kanoa to
king their forces to less than five
liles from Garapan, largest city
i Saipan, which straddles the
itrav’s Central Pacific supply
, ii49 miles southeast of To-
|A front dispatch by United Press
Correspondent Richard W. John-
iton said the troops were driving
bland over Gree, rolling hills aft-
[r capturing Charan Kanoa where
[bey routed a strong Japanese
guard in street-to-street
lighting.
1 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz dis-
losed that an estimated 30,000
fipancse were defending the is-
ind and pointed out that "our
Miimption that Saipan would, be
rongly held because of its strat-
e location in the Japanese de-
e system has been proved cor-
sa
ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, LONDON, June 17. '^'-American assault
troops, already well across the enemy’s last railway and main highway from Cherbourg,
pushed to within seven miles of the west coast of the Normandy peninsula today as
an official , rejiort disclosed that J5,883 Am )ricans had been killed or wounded in the
first 11 days of the invasion. * Ai.- I
U. S. Troops Take Junction .
The Americans captured the important road junction of St. Jasques De Nfhou, 4.3
miles northwest pf St, Sauveur*Le Vietome and Vj-> miles, from, the west coast, this
A total of $336,873.33 In war
bonds had been sold in the fifth
war loan drive by employes of the
Baytown plants of the Humble Oil
and Refining company, according
to tabulations made by C. A Long,
chairman of the drive for'Humble.
A compilation of the bond drive
totals for the entire area will be
made this week end by Hugh
Echols, chairman of the area’s
war bond committee, and this will
set a gauge on the work that re-
mains to be done on the area's
$1,000,000 quota.
THIS UNIDENTIFIED GROUP of American
prisoners of war are confined at the base ejmp
of Stalag III B, which is situated somewhere in
Germany. They are members of a prison camp
work detachment. This photograph was taken by
an International Red Cross committee delegate
during his visit to the camp on Feb. 28, this year.
International Red Cross picture. (International)
inin Attack Revealed
| The Pacific fleet commander-in-
iiief, in another communique, also
Mounced that a big American
■ Decisive Battle—Page 2)
Asphalt Stops Dupt-But Not Politics
Texas Avenue Closed After Rock Top Sprayed
An odd mixture of Uvaide rock,
asphalt and polities had been
thrown together here today with
at least oite pleasing result. There
was no dust on Texas avenue.
Precinct workmen late yesterday
County
May said his
asphalt in the center of the thor-
oughfare. '
The street was then closed ex-
cept for north and south traffic
[Only one local precinct politi-
race loomed today for the
Inly 22 primary with two offi-
wli unopposed. ■
[Midnight tonight is the dead-
er the filing of candidates
’ the precinct posts, and June
I it the day they have to place
Nr filing fees.
[Drawing for position on the
allot will be held at 10 am.,
Only One Local, Page 2)
French In Landing On Elba
Exile Home Of Napoleon Occupied
•ROME, June 17. CPF— French
troops landed "successfully" to-
day on the island of Elba be-
tween Corsica and Italy, where
Napoleon spent more than nine
months in exile," winning a
springboard to support the coast-
al flank of. Allied forces racing
northward toward Florence.
A special communique an-
nounced the invasion of Elba by
a French army detachment com-
manded by Gen. Jean De Lat-
tre de Tassigny. The first offi-
cial report was brief, saying:
"On June 17 a detachment of
the French army ‘B’ which is
commanded by Gen. de Lattre De
Taaslgny, at the direction of the
supreme allied commander, land-
New Aide At Baytown
Unemployment Office
’ Mtn. Gladness Wolf, of Hous-
ton, will come to Baytown Itfon-
day to begirt work in the office of
the U. 8. Employment service, it
wu announced today by Mrs. A.
E. Stout, manager.
Mrs. Wolf fills a vacancy by the
transfer of another employe to
the Houston office.
ed successfully on the island of
Elba.”.
Elba lies across the five-mile
Piombino channel from the town
of the same name on the Italian
mainland, which in turn is some
33 miles northwest of Grosseto,
captured by the Allied Fifth
Army in its swift push toward
the German line through Pisa,
Florence and Rimini, some 63
miles beyond. .
"The momentum of the Allied-
advance in Italy has been main-
tained,” a communique said, in-
dicating that the general sweep
northward by the Fifth and
Eighth armies still virtually was
unimpeded by the fleeing Nazis.
Driving northward from Terni,
Eighth army troops Ua>k Spolcto,
Trevi and Fologno, the latter a
major transport center 28 miles
above Terni, wnich fell only two
days ago. ,
“Troops of, the Fifth army
have advanced all along their
sector, and have taken a number
of localities and the important
town of Grosseto with its exten-
sive air fields, the communique
said,
The seizure of Grosseto had
been announced yesterday. It is
on the coastal railroad and high-
Wiy.
through intersections
Commissioner H. A. M _
engineers had told him the thin
topping would dry and seal off
after it had been hit by a few
hours of .hot sunshine.
The street remained closed this
morning.
' The political angle to the ill- .......... ^____
fated street topping project be- (Jp over there, and the same report
came injected into the problem by r>mm made by John Henderson over
today being the last date in which a( ,he Baytown Ordnance W
to file for a place on the ballot
in the Harris county premary elec-
tion on July 22.
Commissioner May, who is com-
pleting his first term in office, so
far is the only candidate to seek
(See Dust Stop|>ed—Page 2)
Other Stale* Reported
J. D. McCune, in charge of the
drive among craftsmen employed
at Stone and Webster, reports an
estimated $40,000 in .bonds sold at.
the war bond station he is staffing
for the duration of. the drive. An
exact tabulation on his beat will
be announced early next week, he
said.
Long announced the addition)of
several names to the $1000 honor
roll among fifth war loan drive
bond buyers, one of them for three
units in this bracket, Maurice W-
Mayer, iiv the technical service
who bought three $1000 bonds.
More S1000 Buyers
Joe Sieber over the riggers paid
in: far. two $100 wax bonds. .......
Other $1000 bond buyers includ-
ed E. Reese, in the riggers; J. H.
Wahlatrom in the.engineers, Gas-
ton Clement in the pipe depart-
ment, William Henry (Red) Wil-
liams Over at Plancor 1082.
Mary Kiber, who writes up the
bonds over at Plancor 1082 for
Humble workers was so excited
about Williams' $1000 unit (the
first she hq^d written up) she for-
got to hav* him sign if.
T. P. Smith, in the instrument
department, has been sick but he
came back'on the job and bought
a $1000 bond.
Paul Alleman, over at Plancor
485, reports progress is picking
Illness Is Fatal
To 'Unde Mack’
Rites Sunday For Former
Resident Of Highlands
Stocks Close Today
Funeral services for MoNeil
(Mack) Harris, 66, former resi-
dent of Highlands, will be held
Sunday afternoon In Houston. He
died at a Houston hospital at
10:30 p.m. Friday following a pro-
longed illness.
Harris, knowji to all his friends
as "Uncle Mack," was employ-
ed by the Humble'Oil and Refin-
• ing company at Baytown for sev-
eral years. Later he was a road
foreman for Harris County at
Galena Parji.
He is (Survived by his wife,
Mrs. Minnie-Harris, of Houston;
one son, Jeff Harris, of Wooster;
five daughters, Mrs. Pot Ahder-
son of Highlands, Mrq. Harvey
Thaxton, of Ingleside; Mrs. Al-
Finnish Envoys
Told To Leave
bert Bqardman, Mrs. Joe Rombs,
Mm.
Courtesy Citizens National Bank A Trust C«.
Allied Stores
American Radiator
. 20**'
,Tlfi
American Telephone ........169’A
Anaconda Copper ........... 26(4
Bethlehem 8teel .......0114
Chrysler Motors .......97 K
Cities Service................ 10%
Commercial Solvent ...... 17%
Consolidated Aircraft
Curtiss - Wright
Electric Bond and Share .
Electric Power and Light
Freeport Sulphur ..........
General Elcctrte .....
General Motor* .........
Graham Paige............
Greyhound ...............
Gulf Oil ....................
Ho. LI. and Power Oo. ...
Houeton OU .............*
Hudson Motors.......
Humble Oil .A.,...• •
Jones and Laugjilin ./,...
I,oul*lnnB Jamd ..... .'. <,.
Lorillard .................
Murray Corporation......
Nash Kelvlnator .
National Dairy ...
North American Aviation .
Ohio-' Oil .................
Packard Motors .............
Pur* Oil ....................
Republican Steel ...........
Ruatless Steel ......
Sharp and Dhone .........
Sinclair .....
flketly ............
Southern Pacific
Sperry Corporation ........
Standard Brands ...........
standard OH of Indiana ..
Standard OH of New Jersey,
flunray Oil .................
Texas Corporation .........
Texas Gulf Sulphur........
Tidewater Corporation......
T-P I-and and Trust .......
imj Mrs. Thelma Wakefield of
Houston; two brothers, L D.
Harris, of Baytown; J. A. Harris
of Highlands; two slater* Mrs.
Georgia Gentry, of Highlands,
Mrs. LUIIe Goodin of Conroe.
WASHINGTON. June IT. <U.R)—
Finland'* refusal to get out of
the war against,Russia and the
"inimical” activities Of her min-
ister to Washington today left
that nation on the brink of rup-
tured relations with the United
States. .
Both Finland, the only nation
that always paid her world war
debt Inaulment*. and Hjalraar J.
Procope, an extremely popular
member of the diplomatic corps
here In happier days, now arp in
ill repute In. this country.
Procope, his wife and two small
children, and three of his lega-
roiinKtdors and their faml-
are under police surveillance
tlon
lies
In their homes nnd under orders
SKIS* 0&*ai«
Quack Shack Opens
VV At Gymnasium Tonight
United Aircraft
United Corporation
United States Steel
Walworth ..........
Western Union ,....
White Motors .wv*.
Wilson Company ...
There's a negro a-languishlng
In Goose Creek jail who "never
done nothing wrong ”
"made a mistake."
And a few of the people who
saw him make that mistake were
Deputy sheriffs W. B. Milner,
George B. Scott, L B, Faulkner, ____________ .
H. E. McKee, C. B. Arnold, M E. n„ formal opening tonight at
Crain, Constable Wyatt. 0. Buech Robert E. Lee High School f
and a mlecellaneoue crowd of Kirk Buach, president of
other people whole business It Is
to see that such mistakes are not
made.
"Didn't do no wrong; Just made
mistake. Carrying a gun too
The Quack Shack, 'teen Age
entertainment organization spon-
sored by the Trl-CItlee Ju*ior
Chamber of Oommsrea, will have
Kirk Buach, piMtfMt *f lha
Quack Shack organliatlon, and
his aides have made elaborate
plans for the gal* opMIng event
which Is being dedicated to boys
leaving soon for service with
Mri. O. A. Brown
lostess for the oo-
Uncle iam.
will be the
British Already
Have Answer For
Nazi Air Rocket
RAF Aims Heavy Blow At
Supply Depot In France
Second Finnish
Defense Cracks
at the Baytown Ordnance Works.
Travl* Porter, the chairman over
at Plancor 1082, reports interest
is picking up rapidly.
Ra|ly Here Tuesday
Meanwhile drive officials are
making final preparations for the
big rally here Tuesday at 5 p.m.
when three movie stars will make
personal appearances in the inter-
est of the bond rally,
Wild Bill Elliott., popular West-
ern movie ace, Adelc Mara, pret-
ty Republican starlet, a*4 Jimmy
Wakely, radio and serene enter-
tainer, will be in the troup mak-
ing their appearance on the lawn
adjoining the Citizens National
Bank and Trust Oolhpany on West
Texas Avenue In Goose Creek.
Return Of Prisoners
In Japan Predicted
LONDON, June 17. tl’.R)—Britain
already han.tfrg» answer to Ger-‘
many's robot bombers a single
day after their sensational debut,
air experts believed today, and a
■sharp redaction in their activity
during the night indicated thut
the Nazi-touted secret weapon
was being shackled.
Hit Robot Storehouse
The "pilotless aircraft," as the
British called the flying torpedo
or new type rocket, streaked over
Southern England again last'
night, casing more casualties and
damage. But the attacks were
on a much smaller scale, and
decidedly less startling than the
first strange attacks 24 hour*
earlier;
Nazis Claim Victory
The German high command,
continuing its propaganda offen-
sive, said in a communique to-
day that Southern England and
the city area of London had been
“under fire of qur heaviest ex-
plosives with only slight inter-
ruptions” since M:40 p.m. Thurs-
day. _
Tacitly admitting that it had
not been able to ascertain the
results of the attacks, the com-
munique added:
"It is to be expected that the
(See British Already, Page 2)
Report On Casualties
(Sorrell reported from the front in France that American casualties on
French soil since D-day have been announced at 3,283 dead and 12,800
wounded. Actually, he said a higher percentage of'casualUes had been
anticipated. ’
Gorrell said Bradley told correspondent* at hi* field headquaitM
that the allied position* in Normandy now was "absolutely secure .,.
largely because of the guts and valor of our troops.”
I can't sec how the enemy can kick ua out,” Bradley told.
Even as he spoke, his guns and planes from the &11UH air forces
were sweeping the enemy's west coast highway, the German*' last ts-
cape route from the north, with shells and bombs, giving promise *f
lding <
early encirclement of tens of thousands of Nazis holding out
St. Sauveur and Cherbourg,
Edge Toward Carteret •
The capture of St. Jacques De Nehou, less than 16 mile* South of
Cherbourg, put the Americans well along the road to the west coast
port of Carteret. ' "
Another American colurtn was even closer to the west coast high-
way on tiie approaches to La Haye-Du PulU, six mile* south of St
Sauveur-Le Vicomte. At last reports, this force was only a Uttle more
than three miles from La Haye-Du Puita, through which pass both tha
west coast nnd inland highways and the west coast railway*. *
Still another American threat to the .enemy’s north-south routes
appeared to be developing before the communication center of T fWIT.
returning to
five miles south of I-a Haye-Du Puits. Thunderbolt pilots i
England from raids iq the Lessay urea reported "growip; IndteteoW*
idrawal toward Coutances, 12
MOSCOW, June 17. (IIP) _ Red
army troops streamed northward
along a 65-mile front In the
Karelian isthmus today after
breaking through the second
Finnish defense line In a rapid-
ly developing drive toward Vli-
puri.
(An Helsinki dispatch report-
ed that the Finns had started a
complete evacuation of civilians
from Vlipuri.)
Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's Len-
ingrad army, steadily Increasing
the tempo of its thrust toward
Finland's third largest city, cap-
tured more than 100 settlements
that the enemy was preparing for a withd
miles farther south. ■;? • tfHCSgg
Maj. Gordon W. Fowler of Newark N. J., said gen«r*l„ ClMMy
traffic in the Lessay area appeared to be south rather than toward the
front. ' 1 ,
Montebourg Re-Captured ,
Gorrell reported that Montebourg, 14 miles southeast of Cherbourg
on' the main east coast highway to Paris, was re-captured by the Ameri-
cana yesterday after a street battle, but a headquarters spokesman said
the Germans still held part of tha ruined town.
Gorrell wrote that the fall of Montebourg cleared the Parls-Cher-
bourg highway to a point east of Valognes, 10 miles south of Cher-
bourg, and told of watching engineers dynamiting buildings and clear-
ing rubble from the highway below the town.
On the southern sector, British troop* smashed through German
lines between Tilly-Sur-Seulles and Caen and seized a village, straight-
ening out the allied line, Richard D. McMillan, another United Press
war correspondent reported from the front.
“The new line offers a better jumping off position for future op-
erations," McMillan said. “The British lines are now greatly reinforced
in the rear with reserves, which sUII are pouring Into the beaches.”
British Re-inforeed
Other British forces held firm In the face of vicious German
counter-attacks near Escoville, four miles northeast of Caen, and Bre-
vllle, two miles farther north, and inflicted heavy damage on the en-
emy. : y*
The latest Anglo-American advances enlarged the beachhead to 800
square miles. An estimated 300,000 Germans from 16 divisions, in
eluding 200,000 first-line fighting men, already have been thrown into
battle, but of these four divisions have been virtually destroyed or
their fighting efficiency seriously Impaired. * .' • j
Over 100 Vets Helped Here
25 Each Month Get Civilian Jobs
and towns, including Luonatyoki,
to bring the Soviet forces within
28 miles sontheast of Vlipuri.
(The Swedish newspaper Da-
gens Nyheter said the Russians
htd reached the rail station of
Perkjaervi on the Mannerhelm
line,, five miles north of Luonat-
yoki.) .
. As the attacking forces smash-
ed the Finnish defenses on flva
separate sectors through the for-
est and lake country for gains
of five to nine miles, long col-
umns of trucks, half-tracks and
artillery filled the narrow roads
in carrying supplies to swiftly
moving troeps.
At the same time, front dls-
(See Second Finnish, Page 2)
.More than 100 veterans of World
War II have been placed in jobs
in the Tri-Cities through the local
office of the U. 8. Employment
Service, according to figures re-
leased today by Mrs. A. E. Stout,
manager.
An average of 26 discharged
service men pas* through the of-
fice each month, ah* said. .
When the veteran first registers
at the office, an effort Is made to
place him immediately in a posi-
tion for which he Is trained and
is physically able to hold, Mrs.
Stout said. If for any reason he
Is unable to hold the job, he la
placed as many time* a* necessary
until permanent work le found for
him. . w
It la not difficult to find Jobs
for supporting a family la prob-
lematical.
An advlaory council compoaed of
Tri-CItles business men, la bring
formed to work with the U. 8.
Employment 8ervice office In re-
plkcement of the veteran*, Mrs.
Stout said. Names of the men
will be announced M soon as the
organization if Wimplet^/S-’*1' •
Mrs. Witter Burned
When Matches Explode
for the men, Mrs. Stout said, but
IW*
most of them, at firat are
aically unable to do hard Wofk and
occasionally finding light work
that gives sufficient remuneration right hand.
"n
Mr*. Eileen Walker had her
hand aevsrriy burned Friday
night by an exploding folder of
matchee.
She received emergency treat-
ment at a hospital for injuries
to the palm and thumb of her
Sally Insurance 'Big Shot'
Heads State Woman's Federation
WASHINGTON, June 17. tULfil-
Rep. Andrew C. Shlffler, R., W.
Vo., member of a house foreign
affalm subcommittee studying
prisoner exchange methods, to-
day predicted the return from
Japan "within a few months” ot
all American civilians and
wounded or III prisoners of war.
•ehiffler mad* the statement
coincidental with a report by the
subcommittee revealing that 19,-
919 American prisoners of war
and 6,693 civilians are believed
held at present by the Japanese.-
GETH NEW POST
. JjM fake Jk Markers, 320
Michigan, has been appointed to
a field worker position In the
Mrs Sally Nowlin,
tonlo, has been elected-------
Ident of the Federation of Insur-
ance Women of Tea**, It was an-
dnounced today. '<*
Mrs. Nowlin, who formerly liv-
ed in the Trl-CItlee, 1* now em-
ts&g.rz'isx £
was connected with Bail Insur-
ance Agency at Baytown when
she lived here.
Mr*. Nowlin
tonlo several I
with her I
Nowlin, who Is
Cadet Center,
corps.
fowlln went to San A
veral months ago to
who jajttBBTW j
•our, U. A Army J
state department, ot public wel-
fare In Harris County, K has been
announced by Charles S. Gardi-
ner, of tb* offlo# of Texas Un-
employment Compensation Com-
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