Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 262, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 5, 1942 Page: 1 of 12
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Remain! In Aleutians After Four U.S. Attacks
TWENTY
VOL 41
EMERGENCY RELIEF CAMPAIGN DUE THIS WEEK
tS^Ar*|^ersonnel
. Ready It Join
** In AER Drive
•00 Germans and knocked out a
number of enemy tanks r>day; ft
a heavy-gun battle that still wa
raging tonight on Qlbliya Ridge
•oath of El Alahelm where Field
Marshal Erwin RommeTs German
Africa Corps la stalled on the read
»2 'J?$m
CHUlfGHVG, Sunday. July 9
(UP)—TheJUnited States Army's
new-born -force (e China got ito
baptism of f#e by downing at Mast
firs planes & three waves of Jap-
anese tighter-escorted bombers
bombers width roared out an In-
dependence ^ay challenge at dawn
yesterday ovbr Hengyang. Hunan
province railway center, authori-
tative wurort reported today.
• Brig. God.; Claire L. Chennault.
commander*af the Americana, had
Invited thefcthallenge. which may
prove to b«, ihe greatest air battle
e\er fought^ over central China.
With enemy.planes filling the skies
Details
available,
to greet t
group, m
Unde SamfiivssBrownwood
It’s Biggest July 4 Show
Brownwood’g biggest pnrndb—requiring 45 minutes to pess
^yen point—geve thousands Saturday a thrilling view of
de Sam’s limitary manpower and equipment.
Wipi military precision the parade moved promptly at
Uk. through streets cleared entirely of parked vehicles,
lie crowds thronged the sidewalks along the entire line of
sports from tbo
China s dosaan i
Major Oonoral Daniel I. Sultan
r*riowod the parade as command-
lag of|»ar of tho VIII Army Corps
frwn arevtowtog stand draped
with bunting to tho reviewing
•Und warn ranking military off)
cars of the VTIT Array Corps and
Camp Bewia and a selected group
« civilian officials of Brown wood.
Brown county ard local civic or-
M'.iiationa. * •
Tho military bands—on# march-
ing and the two others riding—
Hayod^martial airs for tho lengthy
Elements of the 31st Division,
augmented by the 113th Cavalry
and other VIII Amy Corps troops,
made up the parade, which includ-
ed several thousand soldiers and
their, vehicles and arms.
Burets of cheering and hand-
i CONTINUED OH RAGE ELEVEN)
Growing Interest
In Park Concerts
er in a private school which they
conducted here foe some time.
Later they both taught in tho
Coggm Academy, where Daniel
The .■(*[ council in special ftee-
Mon Fiiwy afternoon awarded
contract (fir a caterpillar and buU-
d07.e- to the R. B George Ma-
t»"P«ny on iu bid of
W.44« for. the machine and |1M
for the bulldozer
A S per; cent cash discount on
the caterpillar for payment in 30
days wiltjpring the total net coot
for .tne equipment, delivered is
Brown wood, to 39J1» 70
EL. RENO. Okie.. July 4 fUP>—
Capt. Charles C. Kegelman. first
of the AEF to Eumpe to win a dis-
tinguished Service Cross, wee the
hero of his home town of El Reno.
Okla , today and hia mother and
father were about to forgive him
for forsaking medical school train-
ing io become a pilot
Hia father, also named Charles
C. Kegelman. wanted to know the
details of hew be bounced hia
school athletlea shall ho continued
er intramural competition be sub-
stituted. will also bo talked. ’
CountfrA Superintendent CUre
Stakin'said every superintendent
principal end local sekpol board
member in Brown county is. urged
to bo present for the mooting. He
md M/A. P chmond chairman of
the Brown County Board of Trua-
toes, will bo present.
to toll her about It a
she saM she would
down.. Good now* ou
like that sometimes."
LONDON. July 4
t a ptain Chariot C. K
came the first hero «
poan ACT today wl
LAMATION
regard to the number of bed*
rooms, one. two, throe or fouai
Each has Bring room, 4ftchop
and bath. Each will be equ pp*d
with mechanical refrigeration and
cooking and heating stoves. T*7
Tneea will be as followa: One
bedroom, $21, piua MAO for
utilities; two bedrooms. 333 90.
plus |9 for nttilttoa; three bed-
rooms. $23.30. plus 39.80 lor util,
itioa;. four bedrooms. 329.90, plu|
99 for^BkW ■
NEW CAR FOR POLICE
DEPARTMENT PURCHASEDj
«e% .
Contract for a note car for the
police dopartaaont was awarded by
the city eounctl Friday to the
Mtaftftfc'ftMM otor Company. The
hid submitted on the 1942 Ford
was 91,11*. with allowance of 9429
on eld ear. making the cask tran-
section 9147.
* Mr. Uftsdaie wont to the home
of his daughter to Corpus Christ!
last Novemb<ir, being 1U at the
time 'and remaining there until
his death.
City Til Equalization
Board of Thro# Namod
Creel Grady. E. M. Boon and
T. 1 Denman have been named as
the 1942 city equalisation board,
The members of tha board were
••tatted by the city council during
a special lesslao Friday afternoo^
FUghl Over Viehy j m '
VICHY. July 4 'UP'—Large for-
mations of unidentified planes
flow over Vichy today and headed
south There were no bombs drop-
ped end no defense ftre .
' The planes were so numerous
their pstoat# lasted nearly an
hour, starting at 11 a. m.
'jaS-'
RED FRONTS BUCKLING: BRITISH HOLD FIRM IN EGYPT
‘Fog’ Lifts
1 *,l rn
Revealing
More Isles
Endangered
WASHINGTON. July 4—<UP>—
U. S. Army bombers, taking ad-
vantage of every rift in tho fog to
blast at Japanese forces to the
Woetom Aleutians, have attacked
enemy ships and abort l natal la-
ttona four times to the past two
'intoha. tha Navy announced today
Although tho weather hamper
age was inflicted upon the Jap-
anese to each operation, a Navy
communique said.
The announcement was the first
since June *1 on the mystery-
shrouded situation at tho tip end
of tho chain of islands which
curves more than 1.000 mik-s
south westward from-the Alaskan
Jaga Still There *
Despue the repeated attacks,
tho Navy admitted, "the situation
to tho Aleutian Islands has not
changed materially ’
At the same time, a War De-
partment statement quoted Brig.
Gen. Laurence S. Kutar. Deputy
Chief of the Air Staff, ae report-
ing substantially the same situ-
ation on the basis of aa ingpec-
ttoh tour of Alaskan bases from
Wltteh he has just returned.
. Kbter asserted that bombers to
Alaeki "are carrying the fight to
th#~ am m3 ” and have severely
ed Japanese ships, air and
installations. He reported
rican airmen are keeping
at Risks Island under
m despite weather eon-
and are patrolling adjac-
isa.
I airmen are also de-
vising special means to put tha
Japa within range of fighter
pianos spar sting from our Aleu-
tian bases," ha said "Distances
are groat, and the bod- weather
vastly incresses gasoline consump-
tion. Nevertheless, whenever the
wonttier even approaches 'fly-abil-
ity,' our bombers promptly take
off to fight the enemy with bul-
important of the re-
^^qggynsd ^waa^on
attacked a force of three
with
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ROWNWOOD Bulletin
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Hot Known
raiders inflicted damage
act extant of which could
tomrimuEP on paox t*h>
SHERMAN MAN
GETS II 56.783
SCHOOL CONTRACT
■traction of
building
3407.000
was
Fri-
atsei
abject to approval
Federal Works Agency, on
I s base bid of $199,783.
r bids wore:
Construction Company,
9193JQ0.
Construction Company.
9138.000.
Construction Com-
Wtehiu Falla. 9199.000.
s opened and read
■esaion of the city
ftp Herbert Voelker. of the
firm of Voelker 4 Dixon. of
Wichita Falls, the architects for
the acheol building project here
Lento J. Bryan, representative of
the Vnderal Works Agency, was
Bids on the seating end equip-
ping of the building were also
■pftrif end read but no action
♦■ken an awarding the contract.
These bids cootaibed long lists of
separate items and Mr. Voelker
suggested that tt would be well
to watt until those were studied
by City School Supt E. J. Wood-
rtHfriit to do ao before entering
Woodward and school
R. J. Milligan. E.
Paul Richardson were
mlng of tho bids.
Burglars Loot Local
Plant, Take $300
i in iisimololr 9309 was obUia-
burftors at the plant of the
lisils~~‘ Wholesale Grocery
my Friday night. R B
(UPt-
on the
inner Mongolia kill-
400 Japanese, re-
town of Wucbea and
enemy offensive
P so tow ran head to-
supply road from
communique said to-
night p
Military
northerly _ ____
said re inf take men ta which
Wuchen soon after the Japasseee
bed penettated ita streets Wednes-
day nigh^f routed tho attackers
Thursday)
Fewer llap 1.000 of the enemy’s
original JXXX) men remained tor
the eastward retreat along the
motor rodq on the north bank of
the Yel let? river toward Paotow,
about 12d miles away. An army
commontape said that the Jap-
rarav^stod^ost three armored ears
It was:3he second Ume in a
month Uuf$ the Chinese had brok-
en up JApanese efforts to edge
westw ard ^pver some of the moet
open and-| shelterless terrain in
Chios litfti which in June trimcd
the YeUo#river to the Ordoe Plain
btoow Padtow were checked before
mgking run h progress
Nazis Using
Blitz Force
First Tims
Near Kursk
RERUN. July 4 (iJV)—German
forces have blasted their way
through Russian defenses between
Kursk and Kharkov wtth "rapid’'
units rushing toward the Den,
while enemy shipping to Caucasian
Black Sea ports is bring blasted by
the Luftwaffe, the German com-
munique arid today.
(The aU out offensive Germany
apparently of a movement to flank
tho Ruastonrheld city of Rostov
preparatory to a push into tho oil-
rich Caucasus. The attacks on
Russian warships and transports to
the Black sea presumably was co-
ord mated with this aim, being de-
igned to eliminate this menses to
the German,right flank it tho drive
through the Ukraine succeeds.)
Reds "Encircled"
German formations hevo beaten
the enemy on the entire offensive
front of the Kursk end Kharkov
and large forces of enemy troop#
are now encircled, the communi-
que said, while units of the Gor-
man army are now moving east
toward the Don.
Bombers, dive j. bombers and
fighter squadrons of the Luftwaffe
tog attacks and inflicted severe
tog attacks and toflieetd severe
lotaes on the Russians |a men end
material, while one anti-aircraft
regiment annihilated 47 enemy
tanks and shot down nine planes,
it was said. -v v
Military quarters said the num-
ber ef Russians cut off by German
flmdftig movements • was not
known. Tbo announcement that
"rapid" mechanised forces wort
moving toward the Den was the
first intimation of the direction
thtt offenuve would take bat fur-
ther information about the rims of
the operations were not available.
(Rapid forces are German nnMs
that to past effensivei have been
rushed ahead after a break through
to spread confusion to the nwny i
Stalemate
Develop
No Gains
In Desert
^ ft
By LEON KAY
United Pram Staff
reported Batur-
%ere that the
onto a box
which they had Jumped
the awning, and from the
had been able to
ragb a wtad<
Bottling Co. plant at
avenue we* also re-
The Weathei
heavy fifhtln, around U
Aianetm that they could .no long-
er attack independently of each
other. ,
Late reports from the front ss&
the bettlefront now was a acini'
Circle, with the Germans and
Italians Inside, starting a few
miles westward of* El Alahrim.
s«ing southward to the anchor
point en the western end ef the
ridge, then northwestward in the
direction of Axis-held El Doha.
British mobile columns emu
stantly harried the Axis posi-
tions and Allird.fliers plastered
their middle and fer-fhmg com-
munications ceaselessly day ahd
night
- In one phase of the fighting
Aria units wort reported ft here
reached British porittaaa on the
weetern end of the ridge where
they met South African troops
who put the Italian Litorie ’
motorised dhrlstoo to rout Tho
Italians bolted to the north
the Germans had to reform
aod send them bock tote
Rommel aloe was getting rein-
forcement*, but time was briievqd
working heavily to the defender/
favor .as they poured men sad
equipment to the fighting front
Housing Project
Wants Applicants
Seeking Quarters
was injured
.And they »»nued whftu they
learned that a Yew hours after the
raid on Nazi airdromes to Hoiiand
hb was awarded the first DUtia-
jWtahod Service Croce for valor ft
• 1 guess maybe wo can forgive
him for quitting the medical
•chool,' said Hit rioter, Mrs l E.
Milan, also of El Reno “He just
waaa t interested He »pent all
of his afternoons in Oklahoma City
and every dollar he could scrape
together taarnto| to fly."
K egel man a wife, Marian was
piano ef ftp ground, machine gun- *«xi airdromes ha practlcallypiek-
“ "*w *----- ------ ed flaming plan? 3fuSTS^d.
machine gunned a flak tower tale
silence, and flew safely home.
^ l^yriman^ whose ho met is ft
perior ^airmanship, extraordinary
gallantry and coo hi see to Mvtng
the lives of his crew/* \(aj. Gen
Dwight D. Elsenhower command-
er in chief of U. 8 troops to the
European theater, said to
tog the DSC award.
Unite
an 94 unite to the Parti
w
ritttuts fntftdata* A satin, Texas I brother
Ben Iprn to loyal Couple
LONDON. July 4 tUP>—A sen
was born tonight to tho Dtrihaso ef
Kent at Oppm* Country House m
fttoktoghtmiMtaft > - Mother and
rhad art doing well
The Duke ig King Goorpe s
Batti* o4' Brownwood
bought With Firework*
The big battle downtown lad
night wasn't a Japanese invasion,
(to*pile what everybody soemed to
think who wasn't downtown. It
was juft a little shooting off ot
exploding aU arouod tha BwBntft
omee treated the hews workers ft
a note* facritefta of Aa! warfao*.
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