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A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
The Weather
EAST TEXAS—MaMy dead?
with showers end scattered thun-
derstorms this afteraee*, tosl{ht
and Tuesday.
VOL. 50.—NO. 93.
CUERO. TEXAS. MONDAY. MAY 1. 1944
FOUR PAGES
f\Towu Talk TROOP-SHIP
m—- SIM; HEAVY
U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ON SCENE AT WARD CO.1
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Parents should take every
precaution against exposing
their children to measles
which appear to be spreading
rapidly in Cuero. Most cases
reported to date have been
severe with a number of
Ouero children having been
4BOst seriously ill. Certainly
ghildren should be kept out of
crowds if possible and at the
hint that they are
contracting the ailment, a t
doctor should be called. Most
* of us consider measles just
another uneventful chapter
in a child’s life but the type
gt measles which has invad-
ed Cuero 1s much more serious.
.We can’t be too careful.
♦ * ♦*
To say that Sunday morn-
ing’s rain was welcomed
would be to put it mildly and
according to all reports Cuero
received a light fall compar-
ed to the precipitation which
visited some sections. One
Lindenau farmer tells us that
he is convinced his section re-
ceived from two to three inch-
es of rain and that it
really a God-send. Cuero’s
fall was much lighter but will
come as a boon to Victory
Gardens which have been
showing the effects of the
heat. The rain will also speed
up maturity of the tomato
crop and might be branded as
another of those typical “mil-
lion dollars falls.”
* * *
That closing of the Bray-
ipft held in this ctfy is last
another incident in the Army’s
program of bringing to a close
many phases of the present
training program is proven by
the fact that the world’s
largest military training area,
camps spread throughout the
60,000 square-mile California
desert area, are soon to be dis-
mantled. The Army brands
the move as just another
“step in the winning of the
war.” These camps have serv-
ed thefr purpose In training
troops for desert warfare and
now that the compaign is over
in North Africa, such train-
ing is no longer to be stressed.
In the instance of the Bray-
ton Field, the Army has
reached the saturation point
in the training of Army pilots
and so the field, despite its
splendl^ record is to be clos-
ed. And many more will follow
• in its wake as the days roll by.
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Holders of “B” and “C” gas-
oline ration books can now
ipake application at the local
War Price and Rationing
board for new, Grade 1 pas-
senger car tires. This does not
mean, however, that appli-
cants can get tires without
the usual procedure—applica-
tion at the local board office,
and issuance of a certificate
by the board. The release of
LOSS OF LIFE
U. S. Ship Goes Down In
Mediterranean; 498
Men Perish
4 N
NEAR RECORD
1,000 Bombers Plaster
Nazis; Not One Lost
Second Heaviest Loss Of
Life In Such
Sinking
WASHINGTON, May 1.—(UP)—
The War Department announces
498 men and officers were lost in
the recent sinking of an American
•3hip in the Mediterranean. The
brief announcement says the ship
was sunk by enemy action and went
down quickly. The next of kin of
the missing men have been notified.
This was the second heaviest loss of
American lives in a troop ship sink-
ing. The largest loss—of one-thou-
sand men in the sinking of an Al-
lied 'Ship somewhere in European
waters—waa announced February
17th.
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REDS PREPARE
FOR LAUNCHING
OF INVASION
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Softening Up Central Sec-
tor Of German
Front
LI. Ralph Piper
Takes Tennessee Bride
The following announcement has
been received in Cuero by friends of
Ralph Piper, who is a former flight
commander of Brayton Plying Ser-
vice;
"Mr. and Mrs. James Huly Bray
of Memphis, .Tenn., announce the
marriage of their daughter, Jane, to
Ralph Edgar Piper, Lieutenant, Un-
ited States Army Air Corps, on Sat-
urday the twenty-second of April, at
, Christ Episcopal Church, West Dear-
born, Michigan.”
—ttemember Feari Harbor—
NO OPPOSITION
FROM
PLANES
Record Best Yet Made
American Bombti
Crews
PLANES IN ACTION
Soviet Air Force Showing MRS. WILSON
| More Strength Than
Ever
LAID TO REST
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STOCKHOLM. May 1.—(UP)—
was Swedish sources believe the inva-
sion of western Europe will come
this week, probably within the next
48 hours. Otherwise, they add, it
-won't come until May 17th at the
earliest because of low channel
tides.
LONDON. May 1—(UP)—The
first session of the conference of
British Empire Prime Minsters got
underway today. Informed observers
think Prime Minister Churchill will'
outline invasion plans to the Do-
minion leaders . :
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MOSCOW. May 1.—(UP)—The
Soviet air force is giving empha-
sis' to Joseph Stalin's May Day ord-
er of the day with intensive attacks
on the central sector of the enemy's
hunt. These assaults are widely re-
garded as a campaign to soften up
Hitler's forces in preparation for a
Russian land offensive against East
Prussia and the Baltic states.
Stalin pledged to strike at Hitler
I from the east at the same time as
’ the Aides invade Europe from the
west.
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ff. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL FRANCIS BIDDLE himself is on the scene at the Montgomery Ward A Co.
plants in Chicago to take personal charge of the impending court battle which looms following gov-
ernment seizure of the huge mail order bouse. A detachment of military police took over the com-
pany after Sewell L. Avery, chairman .of the board, refused to turn over the plants to Ugo Carusi,
the attorney general’s executive assistant, and Wayne C. Taylor, undersecretary of commerce. Carusi
and military police are shown above as they entered the main offices of the company. The conflict be-
tween the government and the Ward company was brought on by Avery's repeated refusal to extend
the company’s contract with the Mail Order Employes union which expired last December, as ordered
by the War Labor Board. Avery returned the next day and was forcibly ejected. (International)
Former Resident Of Old
Indianola Buried In ;
Hillside
TAR6ETSCENIHED
Attack Achieves Great Re-
sults According To
Reports
By United Press
Unchallenged by Gerrn^
fighters, Allied pre-ini
air operations ent
third unbroken week of <
ationa today
Every one of the up to
RAIN EXCEEDS
HALF INCH
4CE OF ACES STILL AFTER JAPS
mri ■ —tt
LONDON, May 1.—(UP—The
bead of the German police in War-
saw has been shot by the Polish
underground. The Polish Ministry
Yoonthmed on Pass 4>
Much Heavier Fall Report-
ed In Some Areas Of
County
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Rainfall totaling .55 of an inch,
the first fall of any consequence in
i i
igmmmmmie.: a
weeks peppered down on this city
in the early hours of Sunday morn-
ing, accompanied by a brief flury of
hail and a brilliant electrical show.
The fall in Cuero was much light-
er than- in many sections of the
county.
One Lindenau farmer estimated
the fall m his section to have ex-
ceeded two inches. ^
Practically all areas of the coun-
ty experienced some rain and while
light in most cases the fall will
j prove most beneficial.
W. C. flchorlemer reported a light
! rain the Davy community but said |
that Salt Creek near the Buesing.
school, was higher than it had been
in twenty years, indicating heavy
rains up above.
Nopal and Garfield, he added, ex- j
perienced quite a heavy hail storm.
PLANT FIGHT
CONTINUES
Seek To Prove Monfgom-
ery-Ward An Essen-
tial Industry
By United Press
The government has presented
affidavits from several war agen-
cies in its effort to prove that that soaked North and East Texas,
Montgomery'Ward and company isjover the week-end.'
essential to the war effort. The The general rainfall covered areas!
government seeks to prove subse- in North and East Texas and con-«
quently that President Roosevelt tinued as far west as Abilene. Rain-‘
acted properly in ordering seizure faU was reported as far south a*
of the company’s Chicago proper- the Gulf Coast.
( Flood warnings have been issued
pie affidavits were handed to'to farmers to get cattle out of river
Federal^ Judge William Holly in
Chicago this morning. He has re-
sumed hearing argument's on the
company’s petition to dissolve a
By United Press.
Russia's air forces are softening
up the central sector of the enemy's
front—in apparent preparation for
a land offensive to coincide with an
Allied western invasion. . j --
Soviet planes—for the third time ?ccres 01 friends *nd relatives
ij* ” STr*"1 heav,ly at the “ “KMMMid hear,
—- tahlnd the. enemy s eenlreK^ Ann> „ 'oraTw!
dent of Old Indianola and a resi-
dent of Ouero for the past fifteen
year.
Mrs. Wilson died at her home at
206 East Morgan Avenue Friday af-
, . ... .. _ _ . _ ,, itemoon. Services were conducted
had hit the big German airfield at by Dr w A McLeod PnaiyteriMn
minister and interment was in Hill-
side under the direction of the
Freund Funeral Home.
Mrs. Wilson was bom at Indianola
December 18, 1858, the daughter of
'.‘i
area
i front lines. Long-range bombers
: struck fiercely Saturday night at
Idritsa—doorway to Cenrtal Latvia.
A number of enemy airplanes—and
several military trains—were de-
stroyed. Earlier, the Red dir force
had hit the big German airfield at
Orsha in White Russia and another
field in the same area—blasting 21
planes.
These assaults fit in well with
| Joseph Stalin’s May Day message.
The Soviet leader hints broadly that„ _ .rT* *
Russia mil ttitoa-gid M-Mftom fcr She came tfeSs c^ShS
parents in 1883, Mr. and Mrs.
Kuester being among Cuero’s earli-
est residents. She was married to
Adolph Wilson and for many years
they made Yoakum her home. Mrs.
Wilson came to Cuero fifteen years
ago. She was preceded in death by
Mr., Wilson in 1932.
One brother, Henry Kuester, is
her only survivor.
—Remember Pearl Harbor—
AIR ATTACKS
MT BEGUN
UfikM -a-gnat
the east—at the same time the Al-
lies smash at Germany from the
west.
Stalin says that Germany is like a
desperate wounded beast—slowly
weakening but still powerful—<who
must be pursued and killed before it
has time to recover. Only a com-
bined simultaneous blow by Britain.
Russia and America, he says, will be
strong enough to crush* the bleeding
animal. k
While Russia thus prepares to deal >
with one end of the Berlin-Tokyo j
Axis, she is keeping a wary eye on j
the other end. The Soviet Far |
Eastern Command—in a'May Day,
order of the day—warns Red Army!
troops facing Jap-held territory to;
be keenly on the alert.
_Remembe. Peart Harbor—
fighters which
French invasion coast
ed. And they set uj
that crowds swarmed
cliffs of Dover,
sion had begun.
Hundreds of mcrttnq|
fighters followed «
acro4 Hitler’s Atitti
lng at railway yan^
in
MayWhlle
planes wore <
were over no
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JAPS LAUNCH
NEW DRIVE
Plans For May Call For
New Record In
Attacks
er targets in that i
deep* in Germany hi
Is not yet cllar.
Last night the RAF
vital -target,-, in France,
biggest bombers In a t
railway yards and an
dump near Paris and
yards in northern Pr
ing crew-members
•cults 'In all three
raids were carried
Germany.
Again today the
is filled with speculation
coming invasion of Westgg
The lstest coomb froth^1
sources. They believe
due tills week, probably
By United Press.
More thundershowers are looked j
for today to augment further rains,
Mmj: Richard I. BONG, leading ace of the Southwest Pacific and" top
man in the number of planes shot down in combat, is shown seated
in the cockpit of his P-38 fighter plane which bears flags denoting 27
Japanese planes to his credit. This is the latest picture of Major Bong
who is still attached to a Southwest Pacific air base. (International)
next two days. If ft
i then, no the Swedes cM
take place until May 11
earliest because channel
be at a low ebb in
to the disadvantage of the
And today the Allies
I ammunition in the wa
• —— ! LONDON, May 1.—(UP.)—Allied, agaimt the Germans.
Head Toward MidsedionSxS
01 Peiping-To Han-
kow Railroad
CHUNGKING, May 1.—(UP.)—
United States Ninth Air
complied what Is deacr
ally as one of the most
gunner. -
Lt. and Mrs Crain are enjoying a
stay with their parents.
—Krmrmber m»rl Harbor—
temporary injunction restraining
company officials from interfering
^ with government operation of the
new passenger tires to both plant.
“B” and “C” book holders, is' Two affidavits were from War
due to a substantial increase *°od Admin^trator M^in Jones
. ... and War Labor Board Chairman
in civilian allocations of pew! william Davis. Jones’
bottoms and onto higher ground in
the Trinity river lowlands.
The Trinity and its tributaries are
reported to be nearly bankfull.
A torrential rain at Grapeland
Saturday night caused the Prairie
Lake Dam to collapse and sent
water in the Grapeland Country
BILL CRAIN
GETS WINGS Children’slhoes In
— (arlain Sires To
William R. Crain Commis- Be Ration Free
sioned As 2nd
Lieutenant
overshadow the April
record by a wide margin.
This is reported by United Press
Staff Correspondent Edward Beattie, borne operation of the war in i
on the basis of information given ‘ting set for the invasion,
him by unquestioned sources. | it also was revealed **»«*
With good weather and good luck,!American merchant fleet 1
I Japanese troops have begun a r.ew i^f^e caraPi^8n might readied to f<fllow tiw|
. -TT . ^ reduce the German air force to a
powerful onve across Eastern Anh- ^fort the great land cam-
wei Province toward the midsection Ipaign gets underway,
of the Peiping-to-Hankhow railroad.! Three months ago that sort of
However, front dispatches say the statement would have been classed
Into enemy waters
military supplies for the.
beachheads. Among the fL
menu to be landed^-onoe
more pfkto have been
i as rank wishful thinking. Today.1 nf mtirt Tit nilliuol 1
Starting Monday, May 1, shoe
stores can sen children’.; shoes be-
__ tween sizes 8 1-2 through 3. ration-
KIRTLAND FIELD ALBUR- free, providing the retail price does
Club Lake to the highest point since OUERQUF N M.. May 1.—Aviation not exceel $1.60. J. S. Edgar, Sr.,
it was built in 1927. cadet William R Crain of Cuero
Small creeks were out in the
“rh 2TES Siasnss
been halted. And flercely-attack-j publicly — experienced observers German; to destroy
ing Chinese have checked the ene- j think it is entirely within the limits
my’s southwestern advance at Mil;- of possibility.
sien, and another southbound Jap [ These men feel that, at the Worst,__
column near captured Chenghsien. ’ the German defensive fighter force &ly -more
Approximately 20 miles west of can be made to fight often enough,
Chenghsien, Chinese troops are hold- [ and can be hurt badly enough in
ing a strategic pass against enemy!the process, that it will be crippled
________ . , , Texas, a recent STaduate of the
affidavit Houston-Anderson county area OI
synthetics by the o»ce o, the!^^^^ J °
the flow of these clippUes to farm- damaged
ere would hamper the war effort —Remember Pearl Harbor—
Loses Fine
rubber director.
—taMtor Peart Harbor—
Captain William
Nwlh Graduates
Special to The Record.
FORT RILEY, Kans
seriously. Davis, head of the agency
whose orders touched off the con-
troversy between the firm and the
government, says the danger of a
strike at Ward’s is that it might
* spread to other plants engaged
April 29.— wholly in war production.
Jersey Cow
The Ray Wiley family in the cot-
ton mill area of Cuero had the mis-
awarded the silver "wings” of the
aerial bombardier supplementing
previously won aerial gunner's in-
signia
Lieut. Crain is thp ?on of Mr and
Mrs Newton M Crain of one Easr
Court House Streeet He is a grad-
uate of Cuero High School, class of
1939. where as an undergraduate Ire
was a member of the baseball and
chairman of the DeWitt County
War Price and Rationing Board, an-
nounced Saturday.
No smaller-sized children.; shoes,
sizes 1 through 8. are being releas-
ed from rationing, Edgar said, due
to the extreme shortage - of those
■ izes
— Remember Pearl Harbor_
Walter Blake Miller
In Gunnery School
(forces who have tried in vain
take the pass for 10 days.
to;once and for all when the invasion
i comes.
at.TED HDQS . KANDY, Ceylon,
jMay 1.4r(UP.>—Lieut. Gen. Joseph
' Stilwell is driving deeper into
| Northern Burma, on the anniversary
of his 1942 Burma retreat. Still-
; well’s Chinese-American forces are
pushing steadily down the Mogaung
Valley toward the Jap bdse of Myit-
kyina.
—Remember Pearl Harbor—
—Remember Pearl Harbor—
Navy Colors Float
Over (amp Wallace
German Police Head
—^*fihlngt?n' 80016 fortune-to lose their family cow in a tennis (earrv- h- la te7 attended Walter-Blake Miller son of Mr and . ||J WdfSflW KHICCl
Capt. William O. North, Jr., 28
son erf Mrs. W O. North of members of the House rules com- sudden and mysterious manner Kemper Military School. Boonvtlie. Mrs' Walter O Miller, has been ad-
788 Gonzales St., Cuero. Texas, mittee are ihapping a campaign to Sunday morning. The cow ap- ancj Universifv of Texas mitted to the Gunnery Centrol In-
was graduated today with the of- force House action on the commit- peared to be in normal health at Ht5 brother is serving with the It s -tructors School at F- Meyers in
fleers’ advanced class at the Cavalry tee-approved resolution for a Spec- milking time Sunday morning and Navy holding the rank of ensign Tampa Fid after receiving his
School, and received his diploma in investigation of the seizure. .was milked as usual and staked prior to his successful completion gunnery wing and being given the
in Har-
a ceremony addressed by Col. Thoe. One member of the group charges near the family home Just after of 18 weekj. of ftlsJlT dnd combat rank of private first class,
W. Herren, commandant. Captain committee chairman Adolph Sabath being tied out she started swelling training in high lev -1 precision linger-. April 29
rho graduated in 1940 from with deliberately trying to keep the and in about an hour she vao dead bombing and navigation at Kirkland Miller finished ills classes at Har-
North.
CAMP WALLACE, Tex., May 1 —
(UP.)—Navy colors are floating
lover Camp Wallace, formerly one of
the nation's greatest anti-aircraft
j training centers.
i The camp is in process of con-
• version into one of the southwest’s
; fist boot camps.
“ 7 i Col. LeRay Nelson of the Army
LONDON. Mav 1, (UP.) T"eRelinquished the command yesterday
Polish Ministry of Information said Com Dej^-yn Hyatt of the Navy,
yesterday that the head of the Ger- j Hyatt will serve as commanding
man police in Warsaw has been shot 'officer until Cap. William H. Green
by the Polish underground ' 'arrives later this month.
lines, add has made
build its own.
Back on the battle
than
American and British
mered at vital Na
out the day yesterday, capping
day’s operations with a four-wag
blow at West coast ports of Oenoa4
Livirono and Spezia and
yards at Monfaloone In
era Italy
The land fighting remained
same—sporadic patrol Ifhting
artillery exchange* in 10 sector
In the Balkans, YHiMlav Pai
ans report a .success fei their
large-scale fighting
A war bulletin says a strong
column has been
and Bulgarian counter-attack]
Macedonia have been repclsed.
the Partisans report they are
offensive in northern
and asound Trieste, on the
side of the border. - *- *
—Remember Feari
Lt. and Mrs.
bers, Record suboeqtoen, will he
the
In petroleum engineering, was a re-
serve officer, and was called to act-
ive doty in March, 1941
Texas A. <fe M. College with a degree resolution _away from the House The cow was probably worth a hun- Lieu’ Ciain w;<■ '-aii^ncfl at lint f n lf-'id-nc his r-lassmstfs schol-
floor. Tne Illinois Democrat fought dred dollars and the cause of her
unsuccessfully last week to block death had not been determined
committee action on the resolution, (last accounts.
Las Vegas. Nevada, where he glad- astically. He is'the only one of the
at uated from the Army Air Forces twelve admitted to the CIS from his ground members
flexible gunnery school as an aerial class who is under 20 years of age. vers escaped-
The report said that the sentence j within six weeks, some 12-thous-
passed on S-S Calonel Otto Grim-;and n?vv recruits will be stationed
wald was carried out'by six under-'ttt the camp. The Army retain*!
The execution-jonly a small section of the base,
[comprising aaafoteHajM* ahopa
........ gT’ ' “
Strange Death j*f
if they will
and pay the
chair*.
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