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YOUR HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1944.
VOL. 59, NO. 1.
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Adding machine paper.—The Sun.
Burn Wrappings
From Abroad
With the Men
in Uniform
Extends Milk
Subsidy Payment
Until Feb. 1 7
Prohibition Is
Up For Hearing
GRAYSON QUOTA
$3,193,000
J. A. Carlisle Is Named
Assistant County Attorney
82 BILLION
SPENT ON WAR
AMERICANS HIT
ON 800-MILE FRONT
JAPS’ LOSSES
IN CHINA HEAVY
COLONEL GOT CANDY
CANE, PLAYED SANTA
30 INDICTED ON NAZI
CONSPIRACY CHARGE
AIR ACCIDENTS BELOW
10-YEAR PEACE MARK
The following from Whitewright
-and section will report Saturday to
the induction station at Dallas: David
Chumbley, Charles Milton Chumbley,
Carlton Robert Johnson, James Clif-
ton Page, Robert David Reynolds,
and Cecil Edwin Biggerstaff, route 4.
WHY SOME ESKIMO DOGS
ARE CALLED HUSKIES
A resident of ancient Athens could
be exiled for five or 10 years if 6,-
000 citizens voted for his removal.
RED RADIO SAYS
ALLIED RAIDS HELP
Human beings consume by weight
10 times as much air as food.
U. S. COMPLETES LARGE
BOUGAINVILLE AIRFIELD
J. H. Burchfield has ordered The
Sim sent to his son, Edgar Burchfield
of the U. S. Navy.
By Kenneth L. Dixon
WITH THE AEF IN ITALY (De-
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New Drug N ow
Putting Penicillin
On Back Shelf
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Women’s Shoes
Worth $3 or Less
Are Freed by OPA
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Stuteville,
route one, have received a letter from
their son, Jimmie Stuteville, who is
in the Southwest Pacific, stating that
he received his Christmas packages
on Dec. 16. They have another son,
Sgt. Grover Stuteville, in service. He
was in New Guinea when last heard
from. Jimmie is in the Navy.
Here’s Good News:
People Too Busy
To Think Suicide
CIVILIANS TO GET 67
PER CENT OF 1044 MEAT New Year Dawns
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. j vious record low of 10.2 in the post-
World War I year of 1920.
R. C. Thrasher received a telegram
Monday from the War Department
informing him that his son, Sgt.
Clyde Thrasher, was slightly wound-
ed in action in Italy Nov. 23. On
Wednesday Mr. Thrasher received a
letter from his son mailed on Dec. 22,
stating that he was getting along o. k.
and not to worry about him. Sergeant
Thrasher did not say anything in his
letter about being wounded.
Davis Parrish has returned to Rice
Institute, Houston, to resume his
training in the Navy V-12 Unit, after
spending the holidays here with Dr.
and Mrs. Ross R. May.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Smith received
-a cablegram from their son, Cpl. Wil-
lie B. Smith, extending Christmas
greetings and good wishes for the
New Year. Corporal Smith is in the
Air Corps and is an airplane inspec-
tor. He is stationed somewhere in the
Central Pacific.
dering Berlin in a night attack. Brit-
ish and Allied planes pounded targets
in Northern France and along the
French “invasion coast” Wednesday.
Cpl. C. F. Collins of San Antonio
spent Sunday with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. F Collins, northeast of
town. He was accompanied by Cpl.
Festus McGlone and Cpl. John Pat-
rick, who are also stationed at San
Antonio.
SHERMAN. — Quota for Grayson
County for the fourth war bond drive
has been set at $3,193,000, L. S. Omo-
hundro, county war bond chairman,
was informed Monday. This figure
compares with $3,497,000 quota in the
third war bond drive.
The new quota includes $1,206,000
in series E bonds, commonly called
war savings bonds and purchased by
individuals.
The campaign will be opened Jan.
18 but any sales this month and
through Feb. 29 on series E, F and G
will be credited to the fourth war
bond quota.
Quota for the county has not yet
been broken down to provide goals
for the various towns in the county.
WASHINGTON. — Bowing to
mands of more than 100,000 individ-
ual petitioners for immediate legisla-
tive action, a House judiciary sub-
committee will begin public hearings
next week on national prohibition
legislation.
Chairman Hobbs (D.-Ala.) said the
hearings probably would start on
Wednesday, with prohibition advo-
cates as the first witnesses.
The hearings will be on legislation
introduced last March by Rep. Bry-
son (D.-S. C.) to outlaw beverages
containing more than one-half of one
percent alcohol by volume, the pro-
hibition to remain in effect until “the
termination of demobilization” at the
end of the war.
Its professed purpose is “to reduce
absenteeism, conserve manpower and
speed production of materials neces-
sary for the winning of the war.”
and hulls used for packing in these
gift packages. Both of these mate-
rials are on the quarantine list be-
cause of the danger of introducing
rice insects and disease.
The United States is the only big
cotton country not generally affected
by the pink bollworm, an insect cap-
able of doing as much damage, if not
more, than the boll weevil, Dr. John-
ston explains. There has been some
infestation in a few Texas border
countries, but sharp restrictions are
maintained against its spread.
To prevent the possibility of the
pest getting a foothold from this new
source beyond the control zone, the
entomologist urges prompt destruc-
tion of boxes and packing by fire and
not stored or put out with the trash
where the insects might survive and
find their way to gardens and fields.
WITH UNITED STATES FORCES
IN BOUGAINVILLE.—A 6,500-foot
field for light and medium bombers,
within less than 250 miles of Rabaul
and only 850 miles from Japan’s
mighty naval base of Truk, is in op-
eration today in these Northern Solo-
mons.
The airfield, at the base of the
fuming volcano, Mount Bagana, was
carved out of the heaviest of jungles
and was dedicated Christmas day.
America, but there is danger of other
alien enemies slipping through our
guard. According to information
from the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture, many serious insect pests
have been discovered among the
packing in Christmas and other par-
cels reaching this country from serv-
ice men abroad.
Dr. H. G. Johnston, entomologist
for the A. and M. College Extension
Service, recommends burning this
material promptly as the best safe-
guard against the escape of these
dangerous pests. If allowed to
escape, he said, the insects concealed
in this packing material might create
a new hazard for agriculture compa-
rable to those which already have
cost Texas farmers losses; in crops as
well as money spent in efforts to con-
trol destructive infestation.
The danger was revealed when
hundreds of living pink bollworms
were found in packages coming
through such widely scattered ports
as Baltimore, New York, Philadel-
phia, and Houston, the USDA states.
Many of the packages examined at
the northern ports were on their way
to families living in the Cotton Belt.
layed.) — Back in Denison, Texas, j° completion an Italian “Siegfried
Robert L. Cox always got a candy 1 ’
cane each Christmas from Mrs. Veni-
ta Hartson, a neighbor. It was a sort
of standing joke between the Cox
and Hartson families.
Tony Giaraputo, who ran the candy
kitchen in Denison, always made the
cane but this year Tony closed his
store because he was getting old and
because materials were so hard to
get.
But when Mrs. Hartson reminded
him of the annual candy cane, Tony
hobbled out into his own kitchen and
made the peppermint cane, giving it
to Mrs. Hartson with tears in his
eyes and the words:
“For the colonel, God bless him,
he’s a gooda boy.”
Robert Cox, a lieutenant colonel of
infantry now, had just a touch of a
catch in his own voice when he got
the gift and the note about Tony
shortly afterward.
But he and the other officer and
men of his command post had decided
to share their Christmas candy with
the kids of war-ravaged Mignano.
So the candy cane went to a little
5-year-old Italian boy whose band-
aged head showed the effect of a
German mine and whose home was
filthy cave.
Cpl. Ben Raley, who is on maneu-
vers in Louisiana, visited his mother,
JVIrs. Vergie Raley, and other rela-
tives here this week.
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Alexander re-
ceived a telegram Wednesday from
their son, Brazwell, Phm. 2c, of the
U. S. Navy, stating that he had
rived in the states and would
.home Saturday.
Pvt. Noble Page, who has been in
Italy and on other fighting fronts, has
arrived in Atlantic City, N. J., ac-
cording to a telegram received
Wednesday by relatives. He has been
in a hospital recently, but the nature
.of his trouble is not known.
T/Sgt. and Mrs. Granvolee Han-
sard of Coffeyville, Kansas, are visit-
ing their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Hansard, and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
ZBillner.
R. S. Watson, assistant Grayson
County attorney for three years, has
resigned in preparation for entering
the Army and J. A. Carlisle has been
appointed by James S. Kone, county
attorney, to fill the assistantship.
Mr. Watson was first appointed by
Ralph Elliott and was reappointed
when Mr. Kone'took office in 1943.
He lives in Whitesboro. Mrs. Watson
and their two daughters, Janice and
Margaret, plan to remain in Whites-
boro for the present.
John Coleman, English sailor mak-
ing soundings in the Hudson, Sept. 8,
1609, was the first white man slain by
Indians in New York.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Shoe deal-
ers may sell part of their stocks of
women’s footwear ration-free, at $3
or less a pair, during the two-week
period from Jan. 17 through Jan. 29,
the OPA announced Friday.
The quantity of footwear released
is 15 percent of retailers’ stocks of
women’s shoes listed in September
inventory reports to OPA.
The action does not mean the shoe
supply picture has improved, the
agency said. It was taken to permit
dealers to dispose of certain types of
shoes, mostly novelty styles, that
have been slow to sell under ration-
ing. If more than $3 is charged, ra-
tion stamps must be collected.
Mair order houses, wholesalers and
manufacturers also may sell 15 per-
cent of their September inventories
ration-free, subject to the $3 price
limit. These dealers are not limited
to the two-week selling period and
shoes in this category transferred to
retailers may be sold ration-free at
any time.
SHERMAN. — Grayson County
farmers and milk producers have re-
ceived with elation the announce-
ment that the milk subsidy "payments
have been extended until Feb. 17.
Harassed the past 18 months by
drouths, high feed costs and lack of
manpower, dairymen declared the
milk subsidy payments since Oct. 1
had been a life-saver and repre-
sented the difference between a loss
and “coming out even.”
The payments of subsidy on milk
and butterfat has been one of the few
farm aid programs operated with a
minimum of red tape, according to
W. W. Gunn, crop control administra-
tor. Payments totaled more than $9,-
000 for the month of October and the
producer merely had to present his
receipts for milk and butterfat sales
at the agricultural administrator’s of-
fice and drafts were issued on the
commodity credit corporation, which
could be cashed at any bank.
Subsidy payments are made at the
rate of 50 cents per hundred pounds
on whole milk and six cents per
pound on butterfat. The program
has been of the most benefit to small
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-
giers.—German engineers are rushing
as to the owner of large herds. The
producer with 25 cows receives
j around $60 per month.
Lt. Joe T. Meador was aboard one
of the vessels that met with mishap
not far out of New York Dec. 23, ac-
cording to information received by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J
Meador. One of the vessels was sunk
and the other had several fires to
break out on it before it was 400
miles from New York. The vessel
sunk was a destroyer and more than
fifty crew members lost their lives.
The crew and soldiers aboard the
vessel that developed the fires were
returned to New York. Lieutenant
Meador was on this vessel. Accord-
ing to newspaper reports, seven fires
broke out on the ship.
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NAZIS RUSH*
NEW DEFENSE
LINE IN ITALY
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Many authorities on ] ’ ”
have claimed that the ancient Greek
is the most perfect language that has
ever existed in the world.
Pfc. Jack Bradley is visiting his
■parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Bradley.
Private Bradley has been in service
a’ little over two years, several
months of which he spent in
Canal Zone area.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hicks, route
three, received a letter this week
from their son, Pvt. Joe Hicks, who
had been stationed at Pearl Harbor,
but is now on some island in the
Southwest Pacific. They were de-
lighted to hear from their son, but
when they learned he is now in the
Southwest Pacific, ■ they knew why
the delay in hearing from him. They
have another son, Sgt. Russell R.
Hicks, in service. He is stationed at
Myrtle Beach, S. C., having recently
been transferred from Sheppard
Field.
WASHINGTON. — The Army Air
Forces said today that “basically, the
accident record is good” in its huge
program of training pilots to fly war-
planes.
Gen. H. H. Arnold, commander of
the Army Air Force flying, said the
rate of accidents per 1,000 hours
flown did not increase as anticipated
in the fiscal year ending June 30,
1943, but was, in fact, reduced frac-
tionally from .739 to .716. This rate
of accidents was lower than the aver-
age rate for the 10 peacetime years
in 1931-40, although more than three
times more miles were flown last
year than in the whole preceding 20-
year period.
“As a result of the increased pro-
portion of larger and heavier planes
carrying more personnel, of faster
military aircraft, and of newly
trained pilots, the rate of fatal acci-
dents was up fractionally from .077
in 1943 to .083 for the full fiscal year
The trend near the end of
the year was downward and in the
last quarter the rate was below that
of 1942.”
The AAF, Arnold said, uses every
means to teach accident prevention in
the course of training its fliers. He
commented, however, that “combat
flying is a grim and dangerous busi-
ness.”
WASHINGTON.—A federal grand
jury Monday indicted 28 men and
two women on charges of conspiring
to aid in the establishment of a Na-
tiohal Socialist (Nazi) form of gov-
ernment in the United States.
All but eight of the 30 had been
named in previous sedition indict-
ments which, however, did not allege
an actual conspiracy to set up a Nazi
government here.
Joseph E. McWilliams of New York
and Chicago, described by the Justice
Department as the organizer of the
Christian Mobilizers and publisher of
the Christian Mobilizer, is among the
eight indicted for the first time.
CHUNGKING.—During 1943 Jap-
anese troops lost 160,000 men killed
or wounded in the fighting in China
army
Gen.
minister of
WASHINGTON. — The Nation’s
meat eaters will fare no worse in
1944 than they did in 1943, if the War
Food Administration’s estimates are
accurate, but they may have to culti-
vate an appetite for more pork and
less beef.
Of the- Nation’s 25,000,000,000-
pound prospective total meat supply
for the new year, the food agency has
allocated 67 percent, or 17,085,000,000
pounds, to civilians.
The 1944 allocation amounts to
about 132 pounds per capita, dressed
weight basis, about the same the
WFA estimated it was in 1943 and al-
most six pounds more than the 1935-
1939 average. Prospects are there
will be more pork and less beef this
year than last.
The 33 percent remaining after
civilian allotments will be distributed
on this basis: U. S. military and war
services, 17 percent; Allied and other
friendly nations, 12 percent, and
emergency reserves, 4 percent.
line” several miles deep and as pow-
erful as similar Nazi fortifications in
Western Europe, German prisoners,
reported Wednesday as headquarters
disclosed that Lt. Gen. Sir Oliver
Leese, a tank expert, had taken over
command of the British 8th Army in
its drive up Italy’s Adriatic Coast.
Intent on keeping the Allies from
Rome as long as possible, the Nazis
were said to be installing their for-
midable new defense system only a
few miles from the present battle
line, with its strongest features lo-
cated in the neighborhood of Cassino
opposite the 5th Army and inland,
from Pescara, Adriatic seaport which
Canadian forces are nearing.
Mobile Defense Expanded
The desperate nature of German
resistance in Italy in recent weeks
possibly was dictated by the neces-
sity of holding until the new line
could be completed. Dr. Fritz Todt,
German engineering genius who con-
structed similar walls in the West,
was killed nearly a year ago in a
plane accident, but the organization
he built up is believed still function-
ing.
In addition to forging the new line,
the Nazis were reported forming re-
serves of mobile defense units back of
the fighting line and to be reinforcing
their troops at the front with crack
mountain regiments. An Allied offi-
cer said the enemy appeared to be
preparing for a long war of attrition
up the Italian leg.
Canadian troops celebrated an-
nouncement of the appointment of
Leese as the new commander of the
8th by storming and capturing “Point
59,” a strongly-defended hill about
three miles from Ortona and over-
looking the coastal highway to Pes-
cara. The advance, first of impor-
tance for the Canadians since a snow
and wind storm hit the Adriatic sec-
tor last weekend, was made after a
heavy artillery and mortar barrage
had churned the height.
The husky is a dog native to
northern North America from Alaska
to Labrador. He is usually wolf-
gray in color (indeed, he has some
wolf blood in him) and is much used
for a draft and pack animal.
The name husky is said to be de-
rived from an Algonquin Indian word
for eskimo. In the early days, the
white missionaries called the Labra-
dor natives “huskemaws,” a form of
the word esquimaux. Curiously
enough, the name husky was first ap-
plied to the natives themselves and
only later on came to be identified
with the’eskimo dogs.—Exchange.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Billner have
received a letter from their son, Pvt.
W. J. Billner, stating that he had
been transferred from North Africa
to Italy. Private Billner is a para-
trooper.
WASHINGTON.—The war has
brighter side, too.
For instance, fewer Americans are
taking their own lives than ever be-
fore.
The census bureau reported Satur-
day night, along with' the explana-
tion that people are too busy these
days to give much thought to
destruction.
A projection based on sample
tistics through October, placed
probable 1943 suicide rate
than 10 percent per 100,000 popula-
tion, a continuation of the
duced decline that began in 1940 and
saw the rate decline in successive
years from 14.4 to 12.9 and to 12.0 in
1942. The all-time high of 17.4 per
100,000 was established in the de-
pression year of 1932, and the pre-
BERKELEY, Calif. — Another so-
called “wonder drug”—gramacidin—>
is effecting cures as dramatic as peni-
cillin, the University of California
Medical School announces.
Dr. Henry Brainerd, clinical medi-
cal instructor, said in a statement
that gramacidin owes its healing
powers to the same general principle
as penicillin. He said gramacidin,
prepared from soil bacteria by a sim-
ple process, is more than 1,000 times
as active in germ-killing as the sulfo-
namide drugs.
Dr. Brainerd said gramacin—pro-
duced cheaper and easier than peni-
cillin—has been employed success-
fully in cases of impetigo, boils, in-
fected wounds, burns and various
types of ulcers with “variable and
sometimes very dramatic results.”
The general election year of 1944
dawned with a few formal announce-j troops haven’t set foot on continental
ments of candidacies for public office
in Grayson County and with a
bumper crop of unofficial statements
of intentions to run and rumors of
potential candidates.
Rep. Roger Q. Evans of Denison,
who has served two terms as Gray-
son County Place 1 representative,
announced he would not seek reelec-
tion to that office and had not de-
cided whether he would run for flo-
torial representative. Rep. M.
Morgan of Denison, completing his
second term in Place 2, will seek re-
election. LeRoy Anderson of Deni-
son has announced his candidacy for
the Place 1 representative.
Formal announcements made in-
cluded J. C. (Calvin) Buchanan for
county clerk, and Vernie Henderson
for county judge. Mr. Buchanan has
been serving as a deputy county clerk
under Grady Thompson, who will not
seek reelection as county clerk. Mr.
Henderson, former district clerk, lost
to J. J. Loy for county judge two
years ago in a close race finally set-
tled by court action.
After several years as county
judge, J. J. Loy will run for Fifteenth
District Court judge, and Judge Tom
Suggs of Denison will seek reelection •Inspectors also have found rice straw
to the Fifty-Ninth District Court
bench.
Others reported as definitely stat-
ing intentions to seek reelection in-
clude George Schumacher, tax offi-
cer; S. V. Earnest, district clerk; Mrs.
Beulah Howdeshell, county treasurer;
and Prentice Gafford, sheriff.
LONDON.—American heavy bomb-
ers—plowing through a strong de-
fense which included rocket planes
and ME-110s towing what appeared
to be new type anti-aircraft bombs—
struck Kiel shipyards Wednesday for
the third time in weeks and ranged
across a record 800-mile front to blast
airfields at Bordeaux and Tours in
France and other targets in Western
Germany.
Never before in a major operation
has the U. S. 8th Air Force been able
to attack targets so far apart as Kiel
and Bordeaux or been able to execute
so many diversionary thrusts. The
airline distance from Kiel, a German
north seaport, to Bordeaux, in South-
eastern France, is 800 miles.
There was no immediate announce-
ment on the number of aircraft lost
or the enemy planes destroyed.
It was the second attack in two
days on Kiel. That city’s shipyards,
and railway targets at Muenster, also producers, payments being made in
in Northwest Germany, were struck i Grayson County to the housewife
by U. S. heavy bombers Tuesday in who sens milk from one cow as well
one of the great daylight aerial as-
saults ever visited on Hitler’s Euro-
pean fortress. Counting American!
and British fighter escorts the fleet in j
that attack consisted of some 1,500
planes. Mosquito bombers hit smol-
NE WYORK.—Extent to which the
Allied air offensive from Britain is
aiding the Russian drive was stressed
by a Moscow radio commentator
Wednesday.
“The British and American
Forces are giving German war
dustries no rest,” the British radio
quoted the commentator as saying.
“Initial German successes in Rus-
sia were largely due to superior
weight of arms. But now it is a dif-
ferent story.”
The Moscow broadcaster had par-
ticular praise for the devastating
American raid on the German ball-
bearing works at Schweinfurt, in
which 60 Fortresses and two fighter
planes were lost.
“This was a particularly hard blow
to Hitler’s war machine and certainly
had serious reactions on the Russian
front,” he said.
WASHINGTON. — Every hour of
1943 saw more than $10,000,000 pour-
ing out of the Treasury to meet the
staggering costs of global war.
While final figures will not be
available until next week, indications
are that 1943 governmental spending
will approach $88,000,000,000—more
than $82,000,000,000 of which will
have been for war purposes. Thus of
the $241,000,000 spent every day of
the year, over $225,000,000 went to
put Hitler and To jo on the defensive.
Income, although the highest in
history, failed by $53,500,000 to equal
outgo. The $34,500,000,00 in 1943 re-
cep its was more than double the $16,-
400,000,000 collected in 1942,’ when
total expenditures amounted to
$56,020,000,000, nearly $50,000,000,-
000 for the year.
The national debt climbed from
$112,471,000,000 at the end of last
year to nearly $170,000,000,000.
and many of Japan’s crack
units have been decimated,
Hoying Chin, Chinese
war, said last week.
He declared that Japan had main-
tained 39 divisions in Chinese war'
areas, including the borders of Pur-
ina, Thailand and Indo-China, and
that the army was becoming impov-
erished from the effort.
“Japan has now sunk into the
China quagmire from which there is
now way to extract herself,”
added.
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