Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 228, Ed. 1 Monday, December 6, 1943 Page: 1 of 4
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Working for the Interests of Mt. Pleasant, the Center of the Milk Industry of Northeast Texas, with its Progressive Soil Conservation and Diversified Farming Program
Volume XXV
Mourn Piea^ani. I exas. Monday Evening, December 6, 1943
Number 228
Close Call
Allies Make Gains
In Several Places
On Front in Italy
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$40,000 in Checks
For Past Weekend On Three Fronts
During the past weekend, the
The Nazis were reported Mon- i
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See CONFERENCE, Page Four
BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
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Use Your Scraps to beat the Japs'
Building and Loan
Association Mails
attack by the Japanese
in
Infantry Bearing
Brunt of Fighting
Reinforced Nazis
Nineteenth Series
Matures and Stock-
holders Get Money
No Petit Jurors to
Be Called Unless
Found to be Needed
No Information as
Yet on Amount For
Fourth War Loan
Americans Range
Over Wide Area to
Hit Jap Positions
the
the
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FRED McMINN SENDS HOME
SOUTH PACIFIC SOUVENIRS
has
fly ■
Roosevelt, Stalin
and Churchill Met
TogetherFourDays
L a
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HE MADE IT back safely to his
carrier after a raid on Rabaul,
New Britain, but Lieut. James K.
Brothers of Monroe, La., realizes
that it was a close call as he
gazes at hole torn in plane's tall
by Jap lire. (International)
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'yore holes and git yore chow
, while it’s hot. This ain’t no all-
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Aerial Activity in Russians Breaking Nazi Submarines
Pacific Increased German Positions
Increase Activity
But Purpose Fails
Allied Leaders Reveal Results
of Teheran Conference Monday
packs, but have been unable to
( prevent the passage of convoys
r to and from Britain because of
a Japanese island only 400 miles bridgeheads to the south of thep*16 wor^ °f ^ig bombers.
who made monthly payments in-
to the Association. Such invest-
ments have paid nice interest,
. .. Same as November
the month of December is the
same as for last month, whicn
was $40,300.
No report has been made as
to how many bonds were sold
in November, but it is likely that
the county fell behind on its as-
signment. It ihas also been re-
ported that a number of holders
of small bonds are cashing them
in at a higher ratio than here-
tofore.
Mr. Lide has not yet received
any information as to how much
Titus County will be expected
to take of the issues of the Fourth
War Loan, which will begin on
January 18th and continue
through February. In the Third
War Loan, the quota was based
on bank deposits and was set
at $477,000. A different plant may
be worked out for the coming
campaign.
days at home with his parents.
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Mrs. James Barry and daugh-
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Hays Johnson Jr., who
just completed his primary
ing training at the University
of Oklahoma at N man, arrived
Sunday night to spend a few
days at home with his parents.
Maximum ------------------------ 65
Minimum 53
Temp. 6:30 ... 63
' Sky ...... Partly Cloudy
Rainfall Sunday 1.65 in.
Earl M. Lide, chairman < *
bond sales for Titus County, has
been informed that the quota
District Clerk J. A. Glass an-
nounced Monday the names of
the sixteen men to appear on
Monday, January 3 in District
Court, from whom the Grand
They are
of Gomel, and were said to be
only four or five miles away
from the important railway junc-
tion.
Heavy fighting was reported
in the sector west of Kiev.
Snowstorms are raging in the
northern streches of the long
front, but they are not prevent-
ing the Reds from driving on and
pushing back the Nazis.
An attempt of the Nazis to
make sea-borne landings at the
mouth of the Dnieper was re-
ported by Moscow to have been
frustrated by the Reds.
The Nazis have been able to
withdraw their garrisons from
several threatened areas by their
recent heavy counter -attacks.
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O. C. Liliensteren went to St.
Louis, Mo., Saturday to buy
merchandise for Lilienstern’s
Cash Store.
and those who put their money
into the stock were well paid.
Interest is compounded
six months, giving the stockhold-
ers excellent returns on their
savings accounts.
The Mt. Pleasant Building &
Loan Association is one of the
strongest financial institutions of
its kind in this section, its funds
being insured with the federal i
government for the protection |
of local citizens.
The Association is very proud
of its record .in these trying
times, which enables the pay-
ment of the $40,000. It has never
failed to meet its obligations at
any time in its long history. It
is also proud of its large invest-
ment in war bonds and the fact
that it has been selected a dis-
posal agent for these bonds to
the public.
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hopping
)Days Till
HRISTMAS
List Grand Jurors
For January Term
of District Court
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the enemy
I to attack 1
large group jjfships plying pieasant, Texas, bellowed at the
\ undersea , yanks on the ground:
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PRETTY SIGHT IN EUROPEAN SKY—BUT NOT FOR AXIS
Second Anniversary Pearl Harbor
Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the treacherous
L, _> on the American Navy at Pearl
Harbor, wihich precipitated this nation into the greatest war
history.
That date, December 7th, according to President Roose-
velt, “will live in infamy,” and he has vetoed a bill by Con-
gress making it a day of celebration, saying another, more
appropriate, should be selected.
We think everybody agrees in principle with this as-
sertion, but we can use the day to strengthen our determi-
nation to do everything possible to bring about the defeat
of Japan and Germany, and there will be nothing wrong
with using Tuesday to show the world we are backing
the war effort.
LET'S ALL DISPLAY THE AMERICAN FLAG IN ALL
ITS GLORY EVERYWHERE IN MT PLEASANT TOMOR-
ROW!
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LEAVING BRIGHT STREAMS OF VAPOR BEHIND THEM, Liberators and Flying Fortresses of the Eighth
U. S. Air Force wing their way toward Nazi submarine yards and docks at Bremen. (International)
The nineteenth series of sav-
ings investments in the
Jury will be selected,
as follows:
J. T. Leftwich.
• C. E. Lee.
D. C. Myers.
T. O. Raney.
J. C. Driggers.
Raymond Brown.
Walter Roberts.
J. F. Colley.
R. R. Colley.
A. J. Blalock.
L. A. Black.
A. B. Young.
H. E. Lewis.
, Leonard Justiss.
J. C. Russell.
Edgar Huffman.
Twelve men will be selected
from the above to serve on the
Grand Jury.
Judge Sam Williams has de-
cided not to announce any Petit
have been based in
Ireland.
It is gratifying that air power
has shown its superiority ever
the submarines, because the lat-
ter have the advantage this time (t A
jef year. 1.1. _
The results of the conference
of President Roosevelt, Premier
Stalin and Prime Minister Chur-
chill were finally revealed Mon-
day at noon in the first official
announcement of the meetings
held the previous week.
It was revealed that leaders
of the three great Allied pow-
ers spent four days together in
Teheran, capital of Persia, be-
ginning on Sunday and continu-
ing through Wednesday, Decem-
ber 1.
The conferences were said to
have been held in the utmdst
cordiality and that all were anx-
ious for positive agreements on
the prosecution of the war and
the maintenance of peace after-
wards. The first three days were
devoted entirely to discussion of
military plans for the defeat of
Germany, it was announced, with
high British and American staff
officials taking part. There were
only three representatives of the
Russian government present,
Stalin, Foreign Commisar Molo-
itov and General Voroshilov, who
I was in command of the Russian
'armies at Stalingrad. The final
day of the conference was given
over to making plans for post-
war problems.
x The report of the agreements
■?ury panels which have been re®chedwas general in nature,
selected by the Jury Commission I
I until it is known whether or’
'not there iwill be a need for
: them in the trial of cases.
At present there are only a
few criminal cases on the docket,
and most of them have been con-
tinued from other terms. Civil
litigation is also light, except
... Mt. for a number of divorce suits,
Pleasant Building & Loan As- | which will probably be plenti-,
sociation came to maturity Mon-[ful again,
day, with stockhciders being I From all prospects, there will
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Mt. Pleasant wei.ther coi.d
lions for the previous 24 hour
taken at 6:30 this morning t
,harles Coker, local weather ob
server, are as follows:
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ed their submarine activities in following article:
ithe Atlantic, still operating ini A bunch of amphibian engi-
I , , 4- r.eers were lined up for chow
around noontime one day dur-
ing the invasion wihen Jap bom-
bers dropped some eggs. Every-
body jumped for a slit trench.
The Jap planes had scarcely
It was reported from Allied
headquarters Monday that sub-
stantial gains have been made
n the Italian front all the way
s cross the peninsula in spite of
reinforcements by the Nazis,
who are being forced out of one
strong position after another.
The Fifth Army bypassed sev-
eral important heights west of
Mignano and the Americans
were said to be in sight of Cas-
sino, their immediate objective,
which if captured will open the
way along the wide valley into
l the plains country.
The Eighth Army made an
advance of two and a half miles
along the Adriatic coast in the
directi.n of Pescara, bringing I
them to within less than four- !
teen miles of the big port.
The infantry is bearing
lj:unt of the fighting, as
mountainous terrain prevents
the use of much motorized equip-
ment and rains have made most
of the roads impassible.
British naval units are sup-
porting the ground troops in the
east by shelling Nazi position'
in the east, but the weather has
been too bad for much air action
along the front.
Allied planes made forays cn
.the xailway station at Salonika,
Greece, and on the island of
Rhodes. They also made a strong
attack on Split, the big Yugo-
slav port.
from the big naval base of Truk, Dnieper River city, which they j It was reported that in a re-I *
and it is believed they took off'have also surrounded. This drive cent eight-day sea battle in which tjme to unioaci the bombs
from Guadalcanal. Tokyo report- is in connection with the at least fifteen of the enemy an(j pass on when t-4 C. S. Dod-
ed a hundred planes were en- • operations for control of the ' submarines attempted to attack son, a mess sergeant from Mt.
gaged in the attack on the Mar- Dnieper Bend, and to increase
A box of souvenirs from the
South Pacific has been received
by the family of Fred McMinn,
who is in Naval service in &e
South Pacific, part of the time
on New Guinea. In addition, he
sent home part of his clothing
and other equipment, which may
mean that he is coming back
home on a visit soon.
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As a girl in England,
exiled queen of Spain always
wore button earrings, but in her
new country she adopted the
provincial fashion of long gold
I crosses for the ears. On Easter
! Sunday she wore intense dia-
I mond and pearl drops.
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KINK DODSON IS QUOTED IN
YANG, SERVICE MEN’S PAPER
Big Bombers Keep | • ---
Sealanes Open and|s™”“£
Convoys Protected j of Yank, the Army weekly, in
----- [which was an article on happen-
A report from London Sunday jings in New Guinea. Sgt. “Kink”
, wthich it was stated that the three
I nations were pledged to the com-
plete destruction of Germany
with operations to take place
from the east, south and west
against the armies and war in-
dustries of the Reich. The time
fcr these operations was said to
have been set by the military
leaders and the attacks on the
Nazis will be relestless and in-
icreas*n® *n P°wer as time goes
v, o I From all prospects, there will Naturally* the dates for the
mailed checks for the amount I be a very light court session in attacks were not given, as this
due them. January. | wotiM mean the Nazis could
The total of the checks mailed' ----------v---j fortify the
amounted to $46,000 and repre OliniQ Fnr S'°nS
sented quite a profit for those j VvUlllj VfUvLCl A Ui
Purchase of Bonds
a single torpedo was fired at ’
The Soviet forces were also the Allied ships. Only bad
closing in on Zhlobin, northwest weather prevented further ene- day an.night restaurant.”
- ~ ■ • .... my iosses> it was stated. I __________,y__________
Although it was not specified > Sam Johnson, who is taking
where the big bombers were special Army training at Okla-
based, it is believed they came [noma a. & M. College, arrived
■from both Iceland and Britain, Saturday night to spend a few
as the operations were conduct-
ed in the areas between these
places. Some of the planes may i
Northern ter, Cynthia Ann, and Mrs. G. E.
Cannon and daughter, Jo Ann,
of Houston spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Florey.
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i son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. O. C. Lilienstern Jr formerly
cf this city, at Houston Saturday
morning.
Nazis could
> areas where the in-
were to be made.
In regard to the post-war ar-
rangements, the report merely
stated that the Allies will wel-
come all enemies cf Fascism in-
to the family of democratic na-
tions, to work for conditions
Which will enable all peonies to
choose the kind of lives they
will live, free of domination by
aggressors.
No reference was made to any
ultimatum to the Germans for
unconditional surrender, which
was expected by all the world
to coincide with the fate of Ja-
of pan, and there' was no call for
5! the overthrow of Hitler and his
j supporters. The future of Ger-
of bond sales in the county for ; many and all of Europe was thus
left in the balance, and is likely
to be settled solely on the bat-
tlefield,
The closing words cf the an-
nouncement, framed at Teheran
on December 1, said, “we came
here with hope and determina-
tion, and leave as friends in fact,
spirit and purpose.”
Nazi propaganda had said the
text of the agreements called for
ne unconditional surrender of
the German people, and although
the bungling of the Allies in re-
leasing the news of the confer-
ence deprived the announcement
of surprise and psychological ef-
fects on the enemy, the Nazis
will have to do some tall explain-
ing to their false reports.
There Was only one specific
reference to post-war boundar-
ies made in tihe report of the
conferences. It was that the in-
dependence and territorial integ-
rity of Persia is to be guaran-
teed. It is believed that this is
an indication that Russia will
be given a free hand in regard
to the territories between the
the at least fifteen of
the 1 submarines attempted
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shalls, all coming from Ameri- 1 pressure in the area of Krivoi eastward six of the
can carriers. I Rog, wihere the Nazis have been craft were sunk and that not j “C’mon, you guys, git out of
The Japanese sent a number , holding tenaciously. " »♦ ■
of planes against the Gilbert is- <
land bases they recently lost,
but the defenders reported there
was little damage and no cas-
ualties on either Tarawa or Ma-
kin.
It was announced Sunday that
our forces now have a good air-
field in operation on Bougain-
ville, and our planes are pre-
venting the use of Jap fields
through constant bombardment.
Although progress on the ground
<» has been slowed recently, it is
said this is the most surcessful
campaign the Americans
yet staged in the Pacific.
Further gains were reported
*for the Australians closing in
on Wareo .latest enemy base on
New Guinea to be attacked.
ships.
Snowstorms Rage i
In Northern Areas j
But Reds Drive on I
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air action in the South Pacific day to be menaced by the Rus- stated the Germans have increas-1 Dodson was referred to in the
was greatly increased, with both sians on three separate fronts,1 1 .
sides making attacks. (with the Reds making some pro-
American planes ranged over gress.
a wide area, not only to smash Their main offensive appeared
enemy positions in the Marshall i to be in the Cherkasi area,
Islands, but they also struck at wihere they have enlarged their ,
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