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Vol. 59, No. 8
McKinney, texas, Thursday, December 7,1944
12 PAGES—SECTION ONE
sol-
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ting ceremony at Baytown, Texas.
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ning, and development by the Humble
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the
They re-:
Ex-
BUSINESS AT
THE TEMPLE
OF JUSTICE
meeting
son
late
Rutherford and
Mrs.
Buy a
e
Remember Pearl
Harbor Today
Buy Extra Bond
Connally Says
Proposed Oil Pact
Is Unfair to U. S.
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Mercer Abernathy
In Fortress Raid
American Junior
Red Cross
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Pete Perkins Is
Editor-in-Chief of
Daily Courier Gazette
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Many Auction
Sales Being Held
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Mrs. Stella Rhymes Dies
In Winnsboro
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Lt. R. F. Newsome
In Sea Battle
New Suits
American Motorists Insurance Co.
vs. Opal Lorene Shaw et al, personal
damages.
Janelie Jones vs. Ernest Jones, di-
vorce.
Mrs. Mary Amici, of Chicago, is here
spending the holidays with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Joe Shikany and husband,
208 E. Anthony Street. She is en-
joying her visit away down in this far
southwest state.
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Judge W. C. Dowdy
Opens District Court
In Sherman
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the
celebration
Company’s
a quar-
plan-
says:
Now
DISTRICT COURT
W. C. Dowdy, Judge.
Dwight Whitwell, District Attorney.
Luther Truett, Assistant.
Willena Herndon, Assistant.
Jim Cantrell, Clerk.
Louise Mann, Assistant
BUY THAT BOND THIS MORN-
ING.
Sidney, Harry and Earl (SHE) will
settle it for us, why worry?
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PVT. JACK CHAFFIN
WOUNDED NOV. 9
I
<Lhr iilriKiitiirii tixaiiiuirr
Office of Publication Opposite County Jail
Hillman Hints CIO
To Be World. Pattern
5,000 More Japs
Drown As Flyers
Sink Convoy
Shell Shortage
Costing Lives
While We Strike
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—Chairman
Connally predicted that the Anglo-
American oil treaty now pending be-
fore the senate foreign relations com-
mittee will “NEVER BE RATIFIED.”
“It is my view that the treaty is
UNFAIR TO THE AMERICAN OIL
INDUSTRY and is not necessary for
the general welfare,” he declared in
a brief statement.
“I have been opposed to ratifica-
tion since it was first submitted to the
committee.”
The treaty, sent to the senate sev-
eral weeks ago for ratification, pro-
vides for collaboration between the
American and British governments in
the development of the world’s petro-
leum resources.
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Ashburn Hospital
Patients Feast On
$2.55 Pound Steak
Bombs Explode,
Derailing Train,
Heard 43 Miles
EDITOR’S NOTE—Read the large
advertisement of the Humble Oil &
Refining Co. on another page of
aminer today.
COUNTY COURT
H. H. Neilson, Judge.
W. C. Hagy, Clerk.
J. S. (Red) Hand, Chief Deputy.
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Pfc. Jas. W. Marshall, stationed at
Camp Hood, near Temple, is a new
reader of the Examiner.
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C. C. Alder of Seagoville, Dallas
county, is a new reader of the Ex-
aminer.
Tom W. Perkins, Sr., has announced
the appointment of his son, L. L.
(Pete) Perkins as editor-in-chief of
the Daily Courier-Gazette and Weekly
Democrat-Gazette.
Pete has been holding down a fine
job as linotype operator on the Dal-
las Times-Herald for the past ten
years and is a good one. The Exam-
iner and many other friends join in
welcoming Pete back to the old
“stamping ground.”
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Pvt. Kenneth Moore is spending a
few days visiting his parents at Me-
lissa. He has recently completed his
boot training in the U. S. Marine
Corps at Parris Island, S. C., and will
report to a Marine station in North
Carolina following his leave here. He
and his father paid this office a pleas-
ant call.
ed the December term of court.' The
dockets were called, and settings of
cases made. Judge Dowdy reports not
much litigation at the present. Divorce
cases predominate.
The Jury Commissioners for the
September term of court in Collin
county were summoned this week to
draw Grand Jurors and Petit Jurors
for the January term of court. The
commissioners were J. H. Merritt, and
W. P. Wolford, McKinney; Dr. W. F.
Hayes, Farmersville; G. P. Pounds,
Blue Ridge, and Claude Curtsinger,
Frisco.
The September term of court does
not adjourn in Collin County until
January.
Mrs. Maggie M. Chaffin, of McKin-
ney, has received word from the War
Department that her son, Pvt. Jack
Chaffin, was wounded on Nov. 9 in
France. He is with the infantry, en-
tered service March 23, and has been
overseas since October.
Mrs. Chaffin has two other sons
serving overseas. Pvt. Joe Chaffin
with the Medical Corps was wounded
in February in the . Marshall Islands
and is now in a hospital in Hawaii.
Another son, Pfc. Dwight Chaffin, is
in China in Quartermaster.
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FIRE BOYS HAVE
LONG RIDE TO
COUNTRY CLUB
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Mr. and Mrs. V. O. Bales and Mrs.
Mildred Bales have received notice
from the government that their son
and husband is in combat service in
the South Pacific. He left here only
a short time back. Mr. V. O. Bales is
a McKinney fireman and one of the
best we have had.
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Remember Pearl Harbor.
Bond. Gamble’s Drug Store.
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Msr. C. L. Nixon of the Chambers-
ville community is a new reader of
the Examiner.
Most of us are agreed that Red
Cross is one of our most valuable and
most helpful organizations. Ameri-
can Red Cross has been organized
and in successful operation for many
years, but in recent years The Ameri-
can Junior Red Cross was organized
for the purpose of educating our youth
toward the great need and immense
value of Red Cross. Activities in Coi-
lin County are- under direction of Ly-
man D. Robinson, Chairman. Most of
the activities of American Junior Red
Cross are carried on in the public
schools. Children are not requhed to
contribute any definite amount for
membership, but each school room in
elementary grades pays fifty cents
which enrolls the entire room for a
period of one year. This enrollment
also entitles the room to receive the
publication, American Junioi- Red
Cross News for one year. In high
school grades, the enrollment fee is
$1 per 100 pupils, or fraction of one
hundred. High school enrollment en-
titles the school to receive Junior Red
Cross Journal for one year.
Last year every school in the coun-
ty was enrolled in Red Cross. We
are hoping for the same report this
year.
LONDON, Dec. 6—Sidney Hillman,
CIO labor leader, took his organiza-
tions Political Action Committee into
the field of international affairs Tues-
day. He hinted that it might become
the pattern and a part of a similar,
world-wide labor group to guard the
future peace.
“We must have an organization,
to express ourselves on world affairs,”
he told a press conference.
Here for a preliminary meeting
with British trade union officials to
arrange the agenda for an interna-
tional labor conference in February,
Hillman declared that American la-
bor was solidly behind the idea of
postwar international cooperation.
CLOVIS, N. M., Dec. 1—At least one
person was seriously injured Thurs-
day by explosion of a freight car ot
bombs in a Santa Fe railway train at
Tolar siding.
The blast, heard here 43 miles away,
Oh, you strikers, whether in war
plants or allied enterprises, have you
no patriotic blood in your veins?
Strike for a dime and stop work of
thousands who would otherwise be
glad to work. But fear the union
black list and the racketeer leaders.
Shame!
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Santa Claus Letters
One tells of the brave lost two places.
" United States troops have killed at
least 277,000 Japanese at a cost of
21,000 AMERICAN FATALITIES, the
Office of War Information revealed
Thursday night in a report which said
that Japan already had 4.000.000 men
in the field and can comfortably equip
and train an additional 2,000,000.
Buy War Bonds, thank the Lord and
rush the ammunition.
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U. S. Cautions
Britian To Let
Italy Alone
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—The United
States Tuesday pointedly told Britain
—and indirectly Russia—that Europe-
an peoples should be allowed to work
out their own governments without
interference.
The notice, given in a statement is-
sued by the State Department, was in-
terpreted to mean that this govern-
ment is sticking one foot tentatively in
the door of European politics.
The declaration applied SPECIF-
ALLY TO ITALY. It was given the
widest possible application, however,
by the concluding sentence which
said that while we oppose “outside
interference in Italy, this policy would
apply to an even MORE PRONOUNC-
ED DEGREE with regard to govern-
ments of the United Nations in their
liberated territories.’’
The Examiner is receiving letters
from the children over the county,
who, not being able to talk to him
while he was here Saturday, are writ-
ing in to ask him to not forget them.
They are giving him a list of the
things they want. One little Blue
Ridge girl says:
Dear Santa:
I am a good little girl, 7 years old.
Please bring me a laundry set, some
doll clothes for my old doll, and a
black board to work my school les-
sons on. Candy, nuts and fruits, and
ABOVE ALL. REMEMBER ALL SER-
VICE BOYS.”
The Examiner is passing these let-
ters to Santa. He will not disappoint
them.
McKinney Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment’s booster truck answered a call
at 8 o’clock Sunday night to the
Country Club, three miles south of
town.
Only minor damage was reported
as the blaze was extinguished quickly.
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W. D. Angel, who has been a suc-
cessful business man at Allen for
many years, was in the city Tuesday
and called by to renew for Examiner.
Mr. Angel has used our classified col-
umn to advertise farms for sale. Said
a recent ad brought inquiries from
Oklahoma and California.
We have never before known of so
many auction or dispersal sales, of
farm equipment and livestock as now.
Col. George APPle, of this city is
one of the leading livestock auction-
eers in Texas and is busy all the time.
You w’ill see his advertisements in
this issue of the Examiner.
Shortage of labor on the farms,
boys in the war service, has caused
the old folks to rent the farms and
move to town. Dairy farming has
been hard hit. Breeders of fine cat-
tle have been forced to sell.
Col. Apple tells us the sales are well
attended.
Suits Disposed Of
W. A. Wright vs. Mary Lou Wright,
divorce granted.
Dolores Imogene Rice vs. Grady
Watson Rice, divorce granted.
Edgar F. Dial vs. Inez Dial, divorce
granted.
A •
HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 4—In a fit-
ting ceremony at Baytown, Texas, em-
pioj ees of Humble Oil & Refining
Company on December 14 will com-
memorate a feat UNPARALLELED
IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY—
the production of ONE BILLION GAL-
ONS OF FINISHED 100 OCTANE
AVIATION GASOLINE at the Com-
pany’s Baytown refinery.
This achievement climaxes
ter of a century of research,
Judge W. C. Dowdy and Mrs. Jus-
tine B. Abernathy, court reporter,
went to Sherman Monday and open-
LONDON, Dec. 5—American
diers are paying with their lives for
a Western Front shell shortage.
Noel Monks, Daily Mail correspond-
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Remember Pearl Harbor. Buy a
Bond. Gamble’s Drug Store.
Mariaga License ,
Henry Edward Davis and Mrs. Ag-
nes Lee Riley.
James D. Peel Jr. and Ima Jean
Bates.
Vernon Woody and Della Faye Mc-
Clung.
A. W. Smith and Mrs. Mary Moun-
ter.
Sgt. Alfred H. Boyer and Emma
Lee George.
Edward C. Carter and Willie Ray
Wisdom.
Vesta D.
Gladys Evans.
Probate
Mrs. Edna D. Powers has filed ap-
plication to probate will of Martha
Cameron, deceased.
Leonard Lee Creel has made appli-
cation to probate will of Tennie Cheel,
deceased. >
Sheriff’s Department
The sheriff’s department has filed
6 arrests with the justice court the
past few days: 1 for traffic violation,
2 for drunkenness, 1 for affray, 1 tor
felon!/ theft, and 1 for wife desertion.
Constable Department
Th^ Constable’s department filed
si arrests as follows: 2 drunks, 2 traf-
fic victfations, 1 swindling, and 1 foi
theft.
McKINNEY, Texas, Dec. 1—Soldier
patients at Ashburn General Hospital
will feast on choice sirloin. T-bone
and club steaks as a result of Sanger
Bros.’ gift to the hospital of the 830
pound prize winning Hereford of the
Dallas Stock Show. Mr. Eli Sanger
visited the hospital Thursday after-
noon, and with Colonel Anderson, pro-
ceeded to the cold storage plant for
the formal presentation of the cham-
pion steer.
The big Hereford steer 'bought at
auction by Sangers on the 4-H Club
and Future Farmers of America sale
at the Dallas show, brought $2.55 per
pound to its juvenile owner, Joe Ben
Whitaker, of Clay county. Spirited
bidding by Dallas leading bankers,
packing houses and other business
concerns pushed the price up to this
high peak which is said to be the
highest ever paid for the winner of
this event.
Most of the
however, had from 4 to 8
The first three days of hunt-
ing was in rain, but last two days
were crisp, dry and cool.
port deer plentiful this year.—Plano
Star-Courier.
been visiting his mother,
jBatos ~ ■* *** - 4»-» ntrx
waiting to be sent to a new post.
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Mrs. Hawk Brown of Anna, Rt. 2, re-
news for Examiner to 12-45.
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Geo. M. Hall of Co-peville, sends
$1.50 for Examiner to 12-45.
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Jas. F. Press, of Blue Ridge, Rt. 1.
is a new subscriber to Examiner.
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Mrs. B. C. Terrell of Greenville, S.
C-, will read Examiner during 1945.
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Mrs. O. T. Stewman of Abilene, Rt.
4, sends $2.00 and gets Examiner to
12-45.
The Examiner has received a bulle-
tin from an Eighth Air Force Bomber
Station in England telling of adven-
ture of Mercer G. Abernathy of McKin-
ney.
With three engines knocked out or
pulling only partial power, aileron
and automatic pilot controls damaged
and hydraulic system destroyed, an
Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress
brought its crew safely back from.
Germany and through a landing at an
emergency field in Southern England.
Crew members on that trip were
two Eastern Texas airmen—Flight
Officer Mercer G. Abernathy, 19, Mc-
Kinney, who was the navigator of the
Fortress and Staff Sergeant William
L. Pipes, 25, Frankston, Texas, waist
gunner.
Trouble began on the bomb run over
chemical plants at Ludswigshaven.
German flak gunners shattered the
windshield. Number three engine was
next to go. Another burst destroyed
the controls. Number two engine be-
gan losing pressure and the automat-
ic pilot was blown out. Following
headings given by the navigator the
pilot nursed the faltering bomber ov-
er Western Europe. Friendly fight-
ers picked up the aircraft at the Chan-
nel coast and escorted it to an emer-
gency field in England.
The Number Four engine, weaken-
ing under the strain gave only partial
power as the Fort was brought in for
a landing on the grass.
Flight Officer Abernathy is a
of Mrs. Emily Abernathy, North Col-
lege street, McKinney, and the
County Judge Mercer G. Abernathy.
He entered Army Air Forces in April
1943.
We of McKinney are proud of the
record our boys are making in the
service over there. -
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James M. Yandell, U. S. M. S. has
‘ ‘ ” , Mrs. Sue
He is now in New Orleans
' -lAuei iviuuks, uctiij, ivian tui respuuu-
ent with the U; S. 9th Army, wrote
as. follows:
“The final assault on a town had
begun and American infantry on the
outskirts were counter-attacked by the
lastxGerman tanks in this sector.
“Heavy fire from the tanks cought
the Americans as they came up an
incline leading into the town. They
had no tank support owing to mines.
“A call was made immediately for
artillery support while the Americans
dug themselves in. I was in the com-
mand post when the colonel passed on
the call for artillery support. I could
hear the reply coming through the
phone:
“ ‘Too bad, but we fired our quota
in the opening stages of the attack.’
Without saying a word, the young col-
onel slumped into a chair.
“ ‘Fired their quota,’ he said. “No
use telling them that th© German
tanks haven’t fired their quota and
my men are being cut up for the want
of a few more American shells.’ ”
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demolished several buildings at Tolar,
fire spread to some of the derailed
cars. Fire crews, ambulances, physi-
cians and nurses were rushed to the
scene from Fort Sumner and Clovis
air bases.
Communications lines were blown
down.
Leon J. Cassell, Santa Fe public re-
lations executive, reported from di-
vision headquarters at Amarillo that
the train of 81 cars contained only the
one car of bombs, 31 cars back from
the engine, but that others of the 39
derailed cars contained gasoline.
Traffic over the line at Tolar was
blocked and trains are being rerouted
over the Santa Fe’s northern route.
First reports to Cassell indicated
the train crew escaped injury. He
named the seriously injured person as
Jesse Brown, of Tolar, who was re-
ported hurt as he stood in front of
his home.
Mrs. J. D. Leftwich of Lubbock, re-
ported to the Clovis News-Journal
that she was driving on the highway
parallelling the railroad when
train blew up.
She received slight injuries.
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McKinney Men
Get 17 Deer
McKinney- people are gratified by
the conduct of so many of our boys
who are now engaged in the- bloody
battles on sea, air and earth to pro-
tect our country. Interesting stories
are reaching us. Two are on our desk
as we write. C ” * " .
conudct of Flight Officer Mercer G.
Abernathy and the other relates ex-
perience of. Lt. R. F. Newsome. The
story about the latter appeared in
the San Francisco Call-Bulletin .New-
some was navigator of the U. S. De-
stroyer. It was attacked by four Jap-
anese battleships last October 25,
turning the tide of the great naval
battle of the Philippines. The story
was told following the return for re-
pairs.
The 2,100 ton destroyer limped to
a berth at Mare Island last Sunday
for repairs from shellfire in the bat-
tle in which FIVE AMERICAN SHIPS
WERE SENT TO THE BOTTOM, two
other destroyers, a destroyer escort,
and two escort carriers.
The battle started at 6:45 a. m. on
the morning of October 25 Commander
Hathaway said, about 60 miles off the
San Bernardino Straits and about 72
miles northeast of Leyte Island.
Commander Hathaway’s ship was
one of a small group composed or
three destroyers of the 2,100-ton class,
four lightly armed destroyer escorts
and six escort carriers, commonly
called “baby flattops.” The enemy
battleships shelling the carriers had
emerged from the San Bernardino
Straits and were so far away that
Commander Hathaway’s ship, farthest
from the straits, could not see them.
“I started through the carriers for
the Hoel. The enemy was about 15
miles away. The Johnston, the other
destroyer, also started for the enemy.
The four destroyer escorts joined us,
and we threaded our way through
the carriers laying a smoke screen.
“Then the admiral ordered us to
attack just as we came in sight of
the Hoel. Shells from the battleships
and the Jap heavy cruisers started
landing all around us.
“I counted four heavy cruisers in
the first places of the Jap column, be-
hind them came four battleships.
“We opened fire about 30 seconds
after the Hoel and fired our first tor-
pedoes at the Jap cruisers.
■ ■“A direct hit by any one of those
shells would have blown us right out
of the water.
When we saw the battleships
swing out and head straight for us
we swung hard left and then hard
right to bring them abeam and kept
closing with them until we were with-
in range of our five inchers.
Admiral Sprague was maneuvering
his small fleet south toward Leyte,
where they could get some support,
and the destroyers steamed at full
speed behind the carriers, occasional-
ly turning to fire a broadside at the
pursuing cruisers.
Hathaway said ' the Japs overtook
the wounded Hoel and Johnston, sink-
ing them while his ship was fighting
off another heavy cruiser. Meanwhile
some land based Jap planes came over
and attacked him, and his gunners
downed one dive bomber and drove
off three others. The carrier St. Lo
was hit by the planes and sunk. The
carrier Gambier Bay had gone down
as well as the destroyer escort, Sam-
uel B. Roberts.
“I’d like to give a word of praise
to Lieutenant R. F. Newsome, our
navigator; Lieutenant Commander W.
L. Carver, executive officer; and W.
W. Meadors, gunnery officer.
“The Japs had a good plan, but it
was poorly executed.
“It all boils down to superior Amer-
ican grit and American sailors.”
Lt. Newsome is a son of City Com-
missioner Fitzhugh Newsome and
wife.
T. J. Lane, Hansford Ray, Mayor
John H. Snapp, Ferry Lewis, Merrill
Benton, Ted Floyd of McKinney and
J. F. Harrington of Plano had a most
enjoyable deer hunting trip to the
Bill Schmidt Rranch, in Mason conn-
tyfon the Llano River. Leaving Nov.
14 and returning the evening of Nov.
embei* 22, they brought back 17 deer.
Every member of the party had ex-
ceptionally good luck. John Snapp
bagged an 18 point, deer and Ted
Floyd a 16 point deer.
deer, however, had
points
organization.
The December
serves to spotlight . _ ___
leadership in all of its war operations
and to pay tribute to its 14,000
ployees. Here are some of Humble’s
war accomplishments:
Attainment of the billion gallon re-
cord in the manufacture of finished
100 octane gasoline gives Baytown re-
finery the distinction of being the
first' and only individual refinery to
have produced this much.
Baytown Ordnance Works, the first
plant in the nation to manufacture
toluene • from petroleum by chemical
synthesis, has. supplied the toluene for
at least one out of every two bombs
used by the United Nations since
Pearl Harbor. For this achievement
it has been awarded the Army-Navy
E five times.
Humble refineries have also sup-
plied very large quantities of other
aviation and military gasolines, avi-
ation engine and heavy duty lubricat-
ing oils; one-sixth of the materials
being manufactured from petroleum
for the critical synthetic rubber pro-
gram.
Humble is nroducing MORE CRUDE
OIL THAN ANY OTHER COMPANY
in the U. S. ONE-FOURTH OF THE
ADDITIONAL CRUDE OIL needed for
war is being produced by Humble.
Humble Pipe .Line Company is
TRANSPORTING MORE OIL THAN
ANY OTHER SYSTEM. Its DAILY
LOAD of approximately 700,000 BAR-
RELS amounts to ONE IN EVERY
SEVEN barrels of the NATION’S
SUPPLY.
Highlight of the December 14 cele-
bration will be the formal presenta-
tion of the ONE-BILLIONTH GAL-
LON of 100 octane aviation gasoline
TO A HIGH-RANKING military offi-
city by H. C. Wiess, Humble president.
Additional exhibits and motion pic-
tures will portray the Humble Com-
pany’s operations and will serve to
orient visitors before they inspect
Baytown refinery. Special tours will
be conducted through the refinery and
its associated war plants from Decem-
ber 14 through December 17.
Editor Tom W. Perkins has the
> sympathy of everyone m the loss of
1 his sister, Mrs. Stella Rhymes who
died at her home in Winnsboro yes-
terday. Mr. Perkins had only a few
days before returned from a visit to
his sister, when notified of her crit-
ical illness. She was improving when
he left for home. She had been a
resident of Winnsboro for over 50
years and had often visited in McKin-
ney, where she has many friends. She
is survived by her husband, Julian
Rhymes; one son, Robert Hill
Rhymes; two daughters, Mrs. Ray
Beggs and Mrs. Tommy Staten and
her brother, Tom W. Perkins. Funer-
al arrangements are pending.
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Mr. Sam Morrison of Dallas and H.
S. Ware, District Manager of the T. P.
& L. Co., of McKinney, gave the Ex-
aminer a pleasant call Friday. Mr.
Morrison is connected with the T. P.
& L. Co. as public relations man. He
has been in the newspaper business at
Weatherford for many years. He told
us of our former McKinney man,
Theo. Yarbrogh, son of the late Coun-
ty Supt. Yarbrough. Theo has been
Grand K. of R. S. of the Knights of
Pythias for many years. . He knows
all about riding the goat. We used
to witness his tactics. We enjoyed
the visit from Messrs Ware and
Morris.
Today, Thursday, 3 years ago,___
Japs murdered our people at Pearl
Harbor and opened the greatest war
in history of the world.
The Morning Dallas News
THREE YEARS TODAY,
where do we stand?
The fleet that sagged in Pearl
Harbor’s mire arose to its knees, took
full stature and now sweeps the seas
as the MIGHTIEST STRIKING
FORCE KNOWN TO MAN. Our ar-
mies have sprung from a few hundred
thousand to 11,000,000 men who fight
triumphantly the world over.
BUT IT ISN’T OVER. More men
will die ere this day ends. And there
will be many more days just like it.
Our row is long and hard and blood
will tint every foot of the way.”
One Billion Gallons
Gasoline Output
Big Oil Company
LEYTE, Philippines, Dec. 1 (Fri-
day) Five, thousand more Japanese
soldiers were killed or drowned at
sea-^that makes 26,000 who TRIED
but NEVER GOT TO LEYTE—as
American planes for the SECOND
STRAIGHT DAY accounted for an
Ormoc-bound enemy convoy Thurs-
day.
Although the convoy was cautious-
ly scattered over a wide area, the
Yanks fighters TRACKED DOWN
ALL OF IT, sinking a 9,000-ton trans-
port and three small freighters and
engulfing a 5,000-ton freighter and
destroyer in flames.
In contrast with Wednesday’s eras-
ure of a THIRTEEN-SHIP ' CONVOY,
two of which got reinforcements to
Ormoc, this one DIDN’T EVEN GET
CLOSE TO THAT PORT.
One freighter was bagged as far
west as Mindoro by a night patrol
plane. Othhers, including one heavily
loaded transport, were blasted off
Masbate and off Cebu.
The P-47s and P-40s went down to
masthead height as they raised the
enemy’s reinforcement LOSSES IN
ATTACKS ON SEVEN CONVOYS to
29 transports, aggregating 103,750
tons, and 18 escorting warships sunk.
The Cebu raid stirred up fifteen to
twenty enemy fighters who burst out
of the clouds. Two of the six Jap air-
craft destroyed in the widespread ac-
tions were bagged there. Americans
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