Cleburne Times-Review (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 192, Ed. 1 Monday, July 12, 1943 Page: 1 of 4
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Johnson County and Cleburne Area Newspapers and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Johnson County Historical Collective.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
•i
3
<•
Weather Foreast
i
41
ilen
38TH YEAR, NO. 192
alert
i
i
alert
*»
k
1
.1
q
positions, Russian
Attach
were that
Pvt.
in
s» •
CAMP BARKELEY Tex .
> I f.«
except to
Army.
Gamer White, Australian young officers have
♦
Mrs
Plan Road Work
00
infant
25
pro-
parents;
» t»
10
sir
the
Sewing Raem
Curtiss-
Is
3?
I
XI
'r
1
2
LT
... I
V.
A
/
1
»
Drop 52 Tom of
Bombs on Bibelo
Hill Sunday
Robert D' Bryan
Gets Commission
And Pilot Rating
Italians Report
- Bitter Fighting,
fl Counter-Attacks
New WHD Agent
In Somervell Co.
—L-H *
Seven Armored
Counter-Attacks :
Are Repulsed
Claims Defeat of
Allied Troops at
^Several Points”
Several Thousand
Men Believed to Be
In Jap Garrison
Many Types of
Shoes Released
From Rationing
r«n-
r»-
aa-
LL
S
ES
S
Thrown Back
Elsewhere along the Orel-Kursk
front, the Germans attacked with
es many as 400 tanks and thou-
Ml
4409.
Ian
ala
Strength Net Known
Strength of the Munda garri-
nrfto next Irvxssvim hill 15’ wm w Iwa .
Ti
l
i £
n
Oeortfe .
More Gift* Made
To Milk ice Fund
n«
sr.
S*.
Tanks, Paratroopers *
Seize Bit? Air Base-----
British Take Port
J
I
I
. I &
Tuesday
Supervisors:
Cleburne Times-Review
Published Daily Except Saturday ,? J United Preu <U R) Leased IFire
■ *
rt Worth
lay
,IA
7days
>6
mptoms.
1
r
l air
that
Axto i *rial —i
m southern
Pvt.
lured
Si
L
authorising many obsolete planes
when they launched their program
of building up the nation’s str
force. It particularly condemned
the army for building its fighter
plane force around the Curtiss P-
40 Warhawk, which it called "usa-
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 12.
(U.R>—Thousands of American sol-
diers and marines Closed in on
Munda today and the Japanese
air base, cut off from supplies and
s?s|
investigation warrants them
Among the highlights of the Tru-
man report, which gave an opti-
mistic overall picture of American
these announce-
in n
one
took at 9 p. m. on Saturday. They
were opposed by the Italian 54th
(Napoli) division, based near Sy-
racuse
of the. base,
fighting sporadic actions In
jungle fringe, White said.
Reports placed the x.
forces about two miles east ot
Munda north of Roviana Lagoon;
to the north 6t the base they were
about five miles away and edging
in.
'Japanese air activity weakened
all along the 750-mlle arc of attack
building program because of diffi-
- - • "The
about
j Mileage, Reduce New Tiret Requests
I F Rponn rilAC ! 7he Johnafln County War Price
I *1 * lu* UvCllv ICv t and Ration Board office has re-
Today at Home
In Burleson
ertaon Capt.
other new r*
«U1 bo oompl-
army night fighter to fulfill its .commitments and out
—_.) "Hellcat" cd line With performance of Curtias-
tleafahto af &>!>• Wright plane*.”
iiki. ,A
| .
I
b
$
As replacements for physicians1
ALL F E D HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa, July 12. (U.R1—Allied
«Invaders captured 10 major towns
In southwestern Welly, reputed
seven armored counter-attacks, took -
2.000 prisoners and rolled at least
fSi
BACKUP'
TM^your boy
hcree** freer
t* year feaiNy Marfl
000 expenditure annually for three
years. Texas' annual share would
approximate 900,000.000 and when
supplemented by state funds would
finance an annual construction
costing WO.OOO.OOO.-
Primary interstate highways, sec-
ondary state roads, fann-to-market
it ada and municipal improvements,
all may be Included.
Sewing Supervisors: Mmes.*
J. ■. Pattenon, Oarl Dickson.
W P Battle.
Knitting Superv
noon only): Mrs.
Casualties Light
Allied casualties still were de- •....
scribed as comparatively light. *'
(Axis broadcasts and communi-
ques continued vague except to
claim that there was bitter" fight-
ing on Sicily and that,-counter-
attacks had defeated the Allies at
several points, The enemy claims
hits on thgee cruisers and said 3hat
eight ships had been sunk.) ”
Strong winds on the first night
I
•XL -Sw ■
“ * 1
- T wSEir
< - ■ ■: .J>
j Lt ROBERT DREW BRI AN-
The United States produced 64.-
000 plane* in the 12 months end-
ing last June 30.
Two new'type* of fighters — a
twin-engined i .
and a navy Grumman
production of Warhawks and have
Wright concentrate on “Com-
mando" cargo planes
Other charges against
Wright were that it has not pro-
duced a single "usable" dive bomb-
er for the navy at its 227,000.000
plant at Coldmbus, O., and that
its huge backlog of war contracts
1 | 2
8 !“6o ■
Germans Shift
Offensive; Reds
Seize Villages .
at,
>nl a
- '
J
I
8 j 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
n fU> M | .26 90 ■
CLEBURNE. TEXAS, MONDAY. JULY 12. 194H ' - " ' ’
___ ........— ; _ — I — yp — I I J . i ..t. . ,!■ =
ALLIED ARMIES CAPTURE TEN TOWNS IN SICILY
AMERICAN HGHTERS;
CLOSE IN ON MUNDA,
FALL EXPECTED SOON
for Somervell County,- who
i esigned to , take up < “—
in the county, will be {* succeeded
6* agricultural agent by Sidnev
WtlHams of Grimes County
Hams will begin hi* work <’
16.
Miss Cason visited Tn Cleburne
today wlt;h Miss Maeona Cox.
Johnson County W H.D agent .
| (Bpl.)—Six Texas young men were
| among the aviation cadets who
Im.... graduated recently In tonnal
WM «XXt>a? t>^ exerclseF at the Blytheville Ahny
was expected to fall within thel -lr w)th commlMlons as
Dauntless dive bombers and ““n<1 and rated as
Avenger torpedo plane*, continuing „„ „
the South Pacific's biggest contln- | 1
betoHill Oetrame. He’ graduated from mg in some places
J Cleburne High School in 1933 and s Parncnuts 1 roop1^ ggnt in bv t-is
iattendbd the University of Texas^AHins wem reported by*Berlin a"nd
IT: ' '
cadet hist June.
set up by Gen. Douglas MacAr- S*»rvieA«
mn H.«k, ,k. ro«,,_4 r unerai services
For Brooks Baby
. Alfred Lawrence Brooks,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Oscar
Brooks of 508 North Anglin street,.
died Sunday evening at 10:15 o’clock j
in a local hospital — |
Last rites were conducted today
at 2 p. m. at the Cleburne ceme-
tery with Rev. Oran Stephens of-1
ftelatlng. Interment was made
there under the direction of Dillon
& Sons Funeral Home,
Survivors Include his
Lee^i
parents, Mr anti Mrs ’ iNteik!
Brcokk. Missouri; and Mr and
Mrs, G. Brotherton,
public thi» week-end. said fsoi’y
equipment turned out by the Lock-
land. O., plant of Wright Aero-
nautical Corporation, a Curtiss-
Wright subsidary, passed inspec-
tion tests, and that "some army
officers abetted the Cbmpanv in
these practices."
The Justice Department has filed
AMERICAS
PRAYER
MINUTE
1 We thank ftee, our Father,
that Thy Word abideth for-
ever. Even the gates of hell
are powerlees before Thee. Thy
Church walks . the troubled
waters today as our Lord walk-
the storm-tossed Bea at
Galilee But Jesus spoke, and
there waa a great calm. Bo
may it be. In His name we
ask It. Amen.
I
1 and Ration Board office has
' ceived a communication from W
JM. Jeffers in regard to the tire
Gold and silver evening slippers
have been released fiom shoe ra-
tioning. H. N. Warren, chairman
. k_0I}S ,r ot the Johnson County War Price
and Rationing Board, announced
today.
“This amendment does not re-
lease from rationing evening slip-
pers with fabrics or mesh uppers
trimmed with gold or silver leather
or imitation leather, or shoes with
fabric uppers and gold or silver
heels,” Mr. Warren explained.
He added that the same amend-
ment to the shoe rationing order
releases football, basketball: icnd
track shoes and below-the-knee
riding boots without lacing or with
lacing no higher than the instep^
release full laeed ' boote?
boots, and jodphurs.
OHtetel* wwHd-p»e44de »l,0Q(M)«L-] >h^r thit‘in "onter^to' k^p “uwir
inventory responsibility correct,
they are required to attach to the
OPA inventory form a list of the
shoes, by types and quantities,
which are released from ration-
ing.
dromes and it was belle’
from now on the main T
operations would be from -------
Italy, where Allied bomber^ Heav-
ily attacked the main Fascls -*~
bases I ■ !
There still was no word |ol
Italian fleet going into ak J
(The BBC broa&Mt, uneoafwi
reports that part of the^ It
fleet had put out from the:9
naval base ) ’ '
PICNIC POSTPONED tU .. ”
The annual picnic held at Marys- J
town on the third Saturday) In
July will not be held this y*iT “
cause ot the numerous case
infantile paralysis in nelghfci
counties, it was announced
LA.. i . i •
-------------------------------------------- -
Poultry Club to I
Meet on Tuesday
The Victory Poultry Club will
meet Tuesday evening at 7:30
o'clock at th City Park instead of
■ Filday evening, according to an-
nouncements made today. The
is being held early to
- , sec-
retary, who., will leave Friday for.
T where he will be the
... - county agent
BARBECUE TUESDAY”’ / ‘~
Members of the Veterans of For-
eign Wars will be entertained with
a chicken barbecue on Tuesday
la "out of proportion to its ability evening in the home of Paul Rdfc-
.. .. ... jack Landen and
members of the post
/
AUSTIN. Julx_„l?. (U.P1—Texas
Highway Department forces today
waited word that President Roose-
velt has signed the road bill passed
by Congress to start work on de-
tailed plans and splteif' *-
$80,000,000 read work to be let In
the first year after end of war.
Under terms of the bill, it was
computed, the Texas Highway De-
partment will have $3,238,000 for
use in post-war planning In an-
ticipation that the construction
program will be carried thrdugh,
the highway department will carry
projects through the planning
stage so contracts can be awarded
almost immediately after the war
Is ended :
The actual construction program
will depend ort what Congress does
Uncaused' Fhe' afiiiy 6f ‘cS?WTF»*r^C«LM^nUl>
---------- A bill sponsored by the Ameri-
can Association of State Highway
Ronald Hay,,,Infant son of
end Mrs. J'. L. Hay of
Hemphill street. Fort Worth, died
this morning at 7:15 o’clock
Fort Worth hospital. He was
of twin sons.
Funeral services will be conduct-
ed Tuesday afternoon at the Bur-
leson cemetery with Rev. Charlie
Cluck of Burleson officiating li>
W ASHINGTON, July 12.
<U.R)—Acting Secretary of War
Robert P. Patterson announc-
ed today that the army's resi-
dent representative at the
Wright Aeronautical Corpora-
tion's Lookkund, Ohio, plant
has been removed because of -
the Truman committees dla-
government.
WASHINGTON, July 12. (U.K—
The Justice Department proceeded
with-its investigation of the Our-
* : tiss-Wright Aircraft Corporation
I today, while the War Department
still offered no comment on charges
i .8enat* Truman commit- statute. He said no proceedings ble but secorid choipe." Jt said the
j tee that army officers “abetted" will be begun unless the current army had decided to discontinue
fliers who participated In the raid
assault would be necessary to com- amine!, training, and evacuation in anklq
plete the job, he said. ’ the ■ Medical Department of the, ,Daves was reported jo have been
.. — . Anny. The high praise all ob- passing between the cars when a
_ ____ servers have given to the Army’s jar started a car which hit him.
t son waa not known but it'was be- Medical Departmentls partially He was taken to the. office of
(ieved to number several thousand the manner In which these local physician
men. Osmar White, Australian young officers have made
terment will be In the' Burleson
cemetery with Crosier-Pearson Io
charge of the arrangements
The infant is Survived by his
paienta, Mr and Mrs. J L. Hay.
Fort Worth; his twin_brother, Rob-
ert Allen Hay,"Wri; Worth; and
his grandparents, Mrs. Ella Gillis,
Fort Worth, and Mr. and
Roy Hay of Burleson
MARRIAGE LICENSE
A marriage license was issued
and Monday by the county clerk’s office
Miss Annice Cason, W.H.D agent to W. G. Thetford of Godley and .
Mary Beauton Smith of Keene
Ive for conquest of the
Italian island bastion.
Led by tanks and paratroopera J
and strongly supported by naval j
and air bombardment, the Ameri- j
cans under Lt Gen. George S.
Patton. Jr., seized the big air base J
at Licata on the south coast and
the BrttLsli under Gen. Sir Ber-
nard L. Montgomery tpok the vital
port of Syrarase, to consolidate a
100-mlle coastal invasion strip.
Repulwe Attacks
Patton’s tough American units
broke up a heavy Italian counter-
attack headed by 45 Fascist tanks
Just north ot Gela and then re- j
pulsed the heaviest of seven enemy •
counter-attacks by turning back the
Italian 4th Livorno division in hard
tighten.
“The advance continues," today's ■ '
communique from Gen. Dwight D.
Elsenhower stated and dispatches
from forward areas described Hie
offensive as moving into high gear
against stiff Axis opposition
Jibe population of Sicily was de-
----friendit- ,
— ..... ... — Hsion forces
and as being willing to cooperate
indicating that the conquest might
be facilitated by the Sicilians.
The Allie* now are astride the
vital road running from Pozzallo.
which surrendered to an Allied de-
stroyer, to Syracuse, which British
and Canadian troopq sjonned and I
.... sat w viir
situation In the country
| The communication follows:
“I know you and'your organi-
zation here fully realise the neces-
sity for strict adherence to the
announced tire conservation regula-
tions particularly during the next
few months, we will be making
synthetic rubber but there will in-
‘'evitably be some delay in fabri-
cating it into passenger' car tire*
because of shortage of facilities,
equipment and manpower. Reports
from all over the country Indicate , -
SX.MfcT.xss
all changes, and seven officers of
Wright Aeronautical. But Assistant
Attorney General Tom ,C Clark
of the war frauds division said the
suits were filed principally to pre-
vent private individuals from sim-
ilar action under the "Informer"
before Cox of Johnson County, Special
"’*? Agent W. N Williamson.
|r ■ ■ -
| of Somervell County.
Justice Department Probe of Curtiss-Wright Corp.
[jContihues, War Department Makes No Comment
tional performance”—are In
duction.
The army has cut back Its glider
culty yi their operation
army is not, enthusiastic
gliders," the committee.
The committee’s criticism took
in far more than tile alleged "de-
- eqsHpnsssilb^^O^usimswaiaB*.
Born March 22. 1867, at Burle
son, tl>e deceased made his home
rear Burleson all his HfB. He
was a retired farmer at the time
of his death.
tfe Xi
Also seriously tojurea was Pvt. ! ol his children. The body will lie in
Lenard tiavli.. pvt Jack Hawk of state at the Crosier-Peatson Fu-
Dallas was not hurt neral Home.
------ I Survivors include seven sons, W
Beene. Hamlin; J, E Beene,
Pvt. N, G. Beene,
N. D.
Beene and F. W. Beene. Sudan;
-rot.-■= 9P! ‘Bteue,’ BUFleson; and Pvt
mi.;
Oll-
Liddle
Alvarado; 'one brother, A.
irvlaor: (After-
.. Bob Chafin.
St£*.,f,XE.‘T,‘>'* lex“‘ Highway
Washington, July 12. (u.R)- Department to
President ■ Roosevelt today, signed Dl o I Y1Z_ '
the $84K,ipoon(X) agriculture, de-
partment appropriation bill, but
said he regretted "exceedingly that.
Congress failed to provide funds
to continue the government crop
insurance program.
EAST TEXAS Little chonge in temperature
occasional thundershowers today and tonight with
locally heavy showers near upper coast.
Temperatur* 8 J) 10 I 11 12
Haarly
thur’a drive to roll back the Japan-'
ese in the south and southwest
Pacific. ■** r"
Hewlitt said an official compila-
tion showed that fighters had shot
down 173 enemy planes since the
central Solomons invasion started
June' 30. Twenty-five or more were
destroyed by ground fire and bomb-
ers tn the same are*.
► Bombers dropped 40 tons of ex-
- plosives on Kahili airdrome on
Bougainville Island in the north
Solomons and a single Catalina
bombed Vila. Today's communi-
que Irom MacArthur did not refer
daah
=“tSi~
■ vcc vi.au KI my mf iCeTS
Curtiss-Wright iii selling defective
I aircraft equipment to the govern-
ment
The Justice Department revealed
that it* investigations ware begun alrppwer, were'
seven weeks ago whan the commit- menta:
tee first haqded oVer its bill of
particulars against Curtiss, accus-
ing the company of selling motor*
thait leaked gasoline and other
faulty parts to be used In Amert-
. can war planes^ - -V---------- ■
Th* Truman report, first mad*
| LONDON. July 12 (UR)
I Dalian conimunioue, reporting con-
•r l»)***^ -fewftehMtat- on Welly.
' 1 counter-attacking Axis forces
defeated Allied troops
points.” causing’ a
He was accepted as Rome ■ to have been rounded up,
I annihilated or dispersed^^
| It was not indicateo whether to-
| day's Rome claims of ship sinkings
, Included those made yesterday by
■ the Axis’ radios. The previous
j ones were two to three ■ swAjeera
I and an ammunition ship sunk or
| damaged, a 15,000-ton "liner" |
’ I GSmagcd, two merchant ships
...» Medi- sunk and 64 planes shot down.
athwart the Japanese land supply ca* Replacement Training Center, ]
—■ _ July 12. (Bpl.)—John Perry Sero-
away, and drove back two enemy: 5^r’ Cleburne. Tex . son of
Attempts to open the path. Sixty Mr .J;.p. SeroYfr’ t«xi»Vj
—--2 I IrCvivcu iiic gold bar s ui h see-
PYyqk Hewlitt, UkUted Press lieutenant at the Medical Ad.
staff correspondent on Guadalcah- —~ —*•—
Miee Annice Casun of Dainger- >
ntld. who began her duties as
Woman's Horn, Demonstration
agent for Somervell County last
week, is the first WHD agent to
serve tn that county. Miss Mason
Is a graduate of TSCW, Denton.
T. K Donaldson, county agent.
Somervell County,- who has
* I compliment Richard Burleson,
let&rV. Whn will Inavn
™ Granbury^ where he will
On Utlly new county agent
Wives of members are also • in-
vited to attend In case of rain
the meeting will be held at the
Cleburne High School building.
.........
*
i attacking with unabated violence
in an apparent attempt to encircle
Russian troops they estimated at
400.000 in the Kursk salient-
The Red Army’s capture of Wro
’ ” ! on the Orel-Kursk tront
mcinrtmr" initowed a. jiurpnag^heaYY , Ilf raH.
nd the Sinking of b* Russian ^Bhnovik bettl.
planes on a GermarT lank dlvtaion
j preparing to attack the Soviet
positions. • . ’
Several dozens of the enemy
of 8,000-tons each. | tanks were destroyed and two regi-
torpedo | mente of supporting infantry
.. .11. S. ADVANCE COM-
MAND POST. North Africa.
July 13. (U.8>—Ameriean and
krilhh ptratroups ithierrd
some of the- most important
objectives awljnoi to them In
the invasion ob Sicily, by bloodv
street fighting at close quar-
ters It was revealed today
WASHINGTON, July (12
tacked four '^jipknese cargo
ships 280 miles southwest of
Atta and sank one of them,
left a second in sinking
dition and damaged the
maining two, the Navy
nounced today
A communique ateo said
that U’. S light surface unit
bombarded Japanese positions
at Kteka and at Utile Kiska
Island during the morning
yesterday The enemy did not
return the fire
■ • X
. DEATH FOR NAZIS—With tommy-guns held in fl
'*tS* _■ ^.- through & Russian Village- to storm Gernwtn-heMHF
mgbhlAe gun behind tgiun as they r>$9 toward strategic, ptoltlon.
Cleburne Man Local Boards Asked to Hold Down
Seriously Hurt
In Car Accident
Cleburne residents have respond-
ed to the plea for funds to carry
' on the distribution of milk and ice
to the underprivileged children of
erhas been collected to meet the
July blUs.
Latest contributions are 53.00
\ frwn R. 4. WUils, <1.00, Mrs.
6. t>. Whites; 51.00, Mrs Annie
Taek and si o0. Ute. «h B. Logan. M
The fund to dispensed by the - ■
iltmion Gospel Mission and milk
and ice are furnished imdcrprfv-
.. ileged children and sick aged
; d* ’ i •' '
wk-
"but everywhere were thrown back.
More Uian 2.000 German offleets
and men were killed and many
tanks wrecked yesterday.
Big tank and Infantry formations
were launching almost continuous
attacks against the Soviet positions
around Belgorod in a so-far futile
I attempt • to deepen their wedge.
’■“ F61iowlng' a~ WilMartF ffeavy
artillery barrage, more than 100
tanks, spearheaded by 60-ton tig-
ers, lunged at one Soviet position,
only to lose 34 tanks, three arm-
ored cars and 14 guns. The Red
air force Intervened to aid ground
I forces.
Rites on Tuesday
For Hay Infant
a
Bl. for treatment by
, , . - their a Dillon & Sons ambulance and
correspondent on New Georgia, Mid < duties as intregal and fireplace- will go to the Santa Fe Hospital
thq enemy probably had slipped Part ot the complete and sue- at Temple tonight for further treat-
in some reinforcements and waa cessful medical service which has ment.
expected to make a death defense madf‘ the mortality rate of battla --------------------
’ * Allied troops were casualties ao low. : i EXTENSION SERVICE
... . . t > following graduation, in which OFFICIAL VtSiTS HERE
Brig- Gen. RoyfC Heflebpwer, I g. E Adahis. vice-director'dr
American I school commandant, and Col. the Extension Service Department
George E Armstrong, asstatant of Texas A * M College, visited
commandant, participated, the new in Cleburne’ today with County
second lieutenants were granted Agents C. A Munsch and Maeona
10-day graduation leaves 1 *
reporting to their first officer
assignments, r
.' ’ .......i
pAMP RDWZB. July 12 (Up) -
Condition of Marine Capt . Joseph !
W. Bailey of Dallas, former con-
-tressinan, ^rjpusly injured in an
automobile accident Saturday night. |
remained the same today, it was | , . . „
James Edward Beene. 76. life-
repoT'ted I long resident ot Johnson. County
Capt. Bailey was injured when died this morning at 10 o'clock
the automobile in which he and at his home on Route 2, Burleson
two private soldiers were riding
collided with a truck. The Bailey
car swerved to avoid hitting a
Stalled vehicle which Was parked
fit the side of the road, it was
ar" pending the arrival
. mileage and thereby reducting the
number of requests for new tires
if the public were better informed
of these facta,” Jeffers said.
"X’hope and believe it would help
all concerned to get through this
critical period if you would Impress
upon your boards and In turn have
them advise the people in their
community that all conservation
| measures should be strictly adttefttd
I to. We do not want to be forced
to impose any new and mort drus-
I tic regulations other than, limiting
jthto may have to be done if pres-
ent regulations ahd advice /loeo not
. not bring the necessary restate to
Ude us all over.Ulto period while
we are scraping the bottom of the
barrel for liras to keep esseattal
cars in service. -» q
"The people should not request
new tires that arc not absolutely
needed and all used tires should . . — —,—
be kept in service until recapping i of the invasion caused difficulty
is necessary and then recapped be- i for Allied paratroops, who were
fore asking to have them replaced I scattered more widely than Intend-
with new tires. I am Cpiuidwii ,
that id possession ot the facts the sufficient f
Aiqerican public will cooperate to planned obj
achieve our goal of keeping cars
rolling. I hope that by sometime
in 1944 our supply of rubber and
tires may be adequate to enable
us to remove most if not all of the
existing regulations. ”,
Lenard Davis, who was in-j R. Beene. Hamlin; J. E
the automobile accident | Grandview; Pvt. N, G.
laturday night, is the son of Mrs. > Camp Howze. Gainesville;
E. Davis of Pendell avenue. i —
... .. . — -------- r
-r-J.. B Beene, Fort’ Snelling, Minn.;
-1 two daughters, Mrs. Maud G..
I reath, Memphis, and Mrs.
j Wood. Alvarado; one brotL^,., „,
L Beene, Burleson and 19 grand-
ichUdre”- • [eligibility for Grade HI UCM-but
I Intensifiv Pressure . , s
At Northern End of t, £
Orel-Kursk Frcui 31
I 'QMto
MOSCOW July 12. (U.R)— Ihe^L
Get mans shifted the main weights w
| of their week-old summer offen-j ■
sive to the Orel-Kursk front to*7f
day after Red Army troops seiaMUk
two villages there in one -of al»
series ol counter-attacks IbaAra
Soviet sources said 'may develofMT
into a full-Hedged Russian oounteB-r*
offensive?'
Field dispatches said the Gai*-
mans intensilied pressure at the!
northern end of -the front after >
I failing In three days of'masslvel-
attacks hi widen their breach. la|-
I the Soviet defenses northe’art' Of
I Bi lgorod, some 165 miles to the
A" j south
~ I German
J Despite the loss
had defeated Allied troops “at' 4G.(MN> men. 2.500 tanks and 1,100
several points." causing- a with- i plones U1 lhe ,lrHt Meven dapi’ of
drawal iu one secton. [battle, the Gemjans still; were
Ths communique did not mention 1
a previous report from the Berlin:
j radio which said an Amei lean I
| “formation” had been pushed back
into the sea. The Italians claim-
ed heavy damage to Ships of the1 y’"a8es
, invastorr fleet, v.... ......
| Ihtec cruisers and the sinking of
j eight steamers.
Ships Sunk
I The cruisers and three steamers. I
I including two cf " ‘
. I Wf rc orcdfyed ,0 Italian torpedo | mente of supporting infantry were
BLYTHEVILLE. Ark , July 12 1 pianos while the German - air' dispersed with many officers and’
force was said to have sunk five [ men killed, the Soviet communi-
stearners and several landing craft oue last night reported With
besides setting 40 merchant ships (the Germans disorganised, the Red
and transports afire. 4-Army launched a counter-attack
Thirty-eight Allied planes were that’ drove the enemy from the
, shot down vesterday, the Italian two villages
pilots of twin-engine bomber air-"'high commands said | Thrown' Ra. k - -
,v*q*v. | Previous Italian reports broad-1
[ Included was Lieut Robert Drew last by radio Rome told of the |
R D gtart of ,.ounter,attac!x
» North Anglin street, morning with hand-lo-hand fight-
* ' Mr rnwuaTed - frtjnr-rrrg lb-«fiH pairs’’ 1
the eastern end Clebunie High School In 1933 and , Paracnute troops sent in bv tlie
| three years
a
up process that ipciuded two naval1 .
bombardments and steady, artillery [
shelling, carried the air offensive,
against Munda through 1_ ....
day. ~
Some 378,000 pounds of explo-
sives have hit
since Friday.
The Allied jungle troops stood
route to Balroko Harbor, ten mUea (BpD—John Perry Sero- rx Cl.,
away, and drove back two enemy 2®’ Cleburne. Tex . son o. Ilaypc JllSlclinS
Attempts to open.the path. Sixty, Mr «d M« \ P Seroyer. today
i Japuusc were killed. (received the gold bars of a sec- zr ■ 1 j <
' n«- Crushed Leg
al, said In a dispatch sent after date School graduation. [ ------
Friday's record 70-ton attack on I As repiacements for physicians R C. Daves of 625 East Ward-
Munda that the Japanese may ca- I have been forced into non- ville. who works in the North Yard
pitulate before next week-end. The medical positions the Medical Ad- aj the Santa Fe Shops, sustained
fliers who participated In the raid mlntotratlve Corps officers have R badly crushed leg this morning,
doubted that much fnore aerial taken over duties of supply, per- where a box car passed" over his
Allied paratroops, who
confident : ed- They got together, however, in H
. force to reach the first
r-------- .jjective. They were later ’"1
driven bff by the enemy but suc-
ceeded tn making contact with ill-
vading ground troops and made a
new Etand. -. > ’
■ At one point Allted troops had J
driven about 15 miles inland.'
Air fleets ot the United Nations,
meeting slightly increased Axis air
opposition, destroyed about 50- en- m
emy aircraft to maintain aerial J
.superiority above the invasion forces -
and strike with heavy bomb loads
at Axis tront hnd rear bases in , jj
Sicily and lower Italy. •
Bombard Ponalln
Allied n’aval forces continued to
disembark reinforcements and sup-
plies and destroyers bombarded the
Sicilian coastal town of Pozsallq '
and the railroad line between 8y-
l racuse and Ragusa, on the east
coast.
American pilots returning from
machltje, gunning and wrecking
.hundreds'Qf troop-filled trucks on
the island said that large sections
of the islaqd coast were “crumbling,
smoking ruins" As a result of steady
aerial bombardment.
Damage to Mes81n* to “terrific” , -3
one pilot said, and the port prob-
ably can be used only by small j
cowboy. enemy from i
inerch-
bornbs were dropped on
- 309 yards north of t_
of the Munda air strip.
Softening Process
The attack, part of a softening
-—JJ. Perry Seroyer
Gets Commission
the enemy base
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Cleburne Times-Review (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 192, Ed. 1 Monday, July 12, 1943, newspaper, July 12, 1943; Cleburne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1310926/m1/1/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Johnson County Historical Collective.