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THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
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ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 15, 1943
MEMBER UNITED PRESS
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Are Over-Optimistic
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Cotton Report Shows
Ellis County’s Crop Is
Earlier Than Last Year
II Duce Becomes
Head New Fascist
Gov’t, of Italy
Stalin Expected
To Announce Fall
Bryansk Today
Tickets On Sale
At All Drug Stores
For Football Game
Patterson Calls
Nat'l, Service Act
Resigns From Ennis
School to Be With
Husband in Virginia
peace as saying that she shot her-
self because she was despondent.
Husband Sent
Overseas; Wife
Takes Own Life
certainly
months--
“Anyone,
Nazis Mount Guard
in St. Peter’s Sq.
In Vatican City
C. B. Keever, Jr.
To Graduate From
A & M College Fri.
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Masonic Lodge
Mgtes to Buy
$1,000 War Bond
Nazis Continue
To Retreat Under
Heavy Red Blows
OWI Chief Revealed
Intention in Radio
Address Tuesday
Back the Second Front on the
Home Front—Buy War Bonds.
Cub Scouts to Sell
War Bonds, Stamps
In Town Saturday
Maj. Gen. Royce
Named New Middle
East Commander
Surgical Dressing
Room to Resume
Old Schedule
Mrs. C. F. Ofner went to Dallas
this morning to meet her husband,
Lieutenant Ofner who is arriving
from England where he has been
for ten months with the Electron-
ics training division in the Radar
service- Lieut- and Mrs. Ofner will
visit in Houston and other Texas
.points before leaving for Arling-
ton, Va., where Lieut. Ofner will
be located- Mrs. Ofner has resign-
ed her position with the Ennis
High School and will accompany
Lieut. Ofner- to Virginia.
To the People
of this Community:
Mrs- H. T. Stringer and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ray Ward, left Wednes-
day morning for Houston where
they will join Mr. and Mrs. Ran-
dall Stringer, going in the latter’s
car to Harlingen where, on Satur-
day, they will see their son and
brother, Kenneth Stringer- receive
his wings at Harlingen Army Air
Field-
Young Banker
Succumbs to Heart
Attack Wednesday
Get Your Dollars in the Scrap—
Help Beat Hitler and the Jap—
Buy Bonds!
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Miss Lancaster
Resigns From Ennis
would briefly express the desire of
Congress for establishment of “ap-
propriate international machinery
with power adequate to maintain a
just and lasting peace.” The com-
mittee approved it unanimously be-
fore the summer recess. Chairman
Sol Bloom, D., N.Y., said he might
try to bring it up for debate Mon-
day under suspension of rules-
Lie Fulbright resolution gener-
ally has been received favorably,
although Rep. William P. Lambert-
son, R., Kans-, fears, that it con-
Ennis Has Ginned.
Over 2,000 Bales
From Year’s Crop
Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Sept. 15 (UP)—
Allied invasion forces at one time penetrated 10 miles
inland from the Salerno bridgehead, it was disclosed
today by a statement that the German counter-attack
had regained the towns of Altavilla and Albanella.
Texas Has 50 New
Polio Cases During
Week of Sept. 11
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Boy Kills Self
Showing Others How
Man Was Killed
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 15
(UP)—Allied air power has won
control of the sea routes all the
way from the Solomons and New
Guinea to the major enemy base
at Rabaul, New Britain, a South
Pacific spokesman said today.
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WAR LOAN
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of Kiev- The Gomel railroad cross-
LATE WAR
NEWS
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day night, Sept. 30, the lodge will
confer the F-C. degree on two or
more candidates.
back home, who lets
Kenneth Stringer
To Get Wings at
Harlingen Field
C. B. Keever, Jr., son of Major
and Mrs. C- B- Keever of Waco,
will graduate from the Texas A.
and M. College Friday. The grad-
uation ceremonial will include the
baccalaureate service, a review and
will be followed by conferring of
the degrees, a reception for the
Seniors and will be concluded with
a ball in the evening.
After a visit with his parents in
Waco he will leave about October
1 for officers candidate school-
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War Bond purchases pave the
way for tomorrow’s pleasures.
Up your bond buying today.
•"-EYES TO WEEP WITH.”
To give the devil his due, Mus-
solini, the once boastful, now
beaten jackal, gave utterance to
a vivid phrase the other day as
our soldiers advanced toward
WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (UP)
—Undersecretary of War Robert
P. Patterson today called for en-
enactment of a National Service
Act to recruit industrial man-
power and help bring the war to
a quick and successful conclu-
sion.
Miss Hazel Lancaster of Royce
City has resigned her position with
the Ennis Public Schools and has
been elected to teach in the O. M.
Roberts school in Dallas where
vaded dispatches from the Italian
front, replacing their former air
of gravity typified by one which
said "we have been very hard
pressed.”
“Jerry is going to have to do a
lot better if he wants to break
our line,” said a pooled dispatch
from Herbert Matthews- “When I
left the front shortly after one this
afternoon (the date was not given)
the situation was well in hand, al-
though the Germans were pressing
hard.”
Tentative reports said the Allies
had partial air superiority, but had
been unable so far to “correct the
situation on the ground.” Notably
the Allied planes were flying /from
extreme Southern Italy or Sicily at
best, while the Nazis presumably
were hopping off from fields im-
mediately behind the lines-
As the crucial battle raged, the
Axis took to the radio with a proc-
lamation that Benito Mussolini, de-
posed former Fascist dictator of
Italy, was in the saddle again at
the head of a new so-called Fas-
cist government. - ♦
‘I resume today, Sept- 15, in the
21st year of the Fascist era, the
The Allied communique report-
ed today that Allied counter-
attacks had offset previous loss-
es around Salerno and that re-
inforcements were being landed,
an NBC broadcast said today.
the boot of
Italy:
“If we lose,
we will be
left only with
our eyes to
weep with."’
Mussolini
should know.
The Cub Scouts will sell war
bonds and stamps Saturday in an
effort to increase the sales.. The
three dens will be represented at
three different places in town in
order that anyone may have a
chance to buy bonds and stamps-
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Excerpts from a letter written
by an Ellis county lieutenant now
stationed at Pearl Harbor will be
considered by everybody. It fol-
lows:
“I have talked with several offi-
cers who have been in the States
recently on leave or on special
duty and most of them have said
that people at home were over-
optimistic and believed the war
would be over in just a few months
and were beginning to let down
and have a good time. I hope this
is not so—because this thing is
NOT going to be over soon and
DALLAS, Tex., Sept- 15 (UP) —
Henry Hobbs Burns, 15-year-old
Dallas boy, was showing his play-
mates how a man killed himself
last year.
He put the muzzle of an auto-
matic pistol in his mouth and pull-
ed the trigger.
Police said he was killed instant-
ly.
That’s all he and his Axis part-
ners in crime have left for the
conquered peoples of Europe.
That would be your fate, too,
if you had not built up the power
for today’s victorious invasion.
Yesterday’s War Bonds are doing
a job today in Europe. ' Today’s
War Bonds will help pay for the
march into Rome, Berlin and
Tokyo.
Invasion requires double and
triple the supplies of preparation
for attack. The Third War Loan
is a home front campaign in
gvhich everyone must march
phh his or her dollars. That ex-
"ra $100 War Bond which you
should buy today as your mini-
mum participation in the attack
is your guarantee that Musso-
lini, not you, has been left only
with eyes to weep with.
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Allied Headquarters, Sept. 15 (UP)—A tremendous
see-saw battle raged on south of Naples, a communi-
que disclosed today, with American invasion forces
yielding some ground but consolidating new positions
under a record run.
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Kharkov, Gomel, Kiev and Smo-
lensk.
Nezhin, only 70 miles north
northeast cf the Ukrainian capi-
tal of Kiev, was expected to be
enveloped by Soviet forces- that
yesterday captured Kunashovka,
three miles to the east, and cut
the Nazhin-Gomel railroad, last
CAIRO, Sept. 15 (UP)—Maj.
Gen. Ralph Royce assumed com-
mand of the United States Ar-
my Forces in the Middle East to-
day, replacing Maj. Gen. Lewis
H. Brereton, who left for an
“important” but unspecified as-
signment in another theater.
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Football tickets for the Ennis-
Lancaster game which will be play-
ed Friday night, Sept. 17, are now
on sale at all drug stores, accord-
ing to Supt- J. D. King.
“By buying your tickets before
coming to the game, you will be
able to get in the gates much
faster,” said Mr. King.
This is the first game of the sea-
son for the Ennis Lions, and will
be played on the new field as was
last year’s games-
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Ennis Masonic Lodge Tuesday
night voted , to buy $1,000 worth of
War Bonds-
The lodge will work in the F.C.
degree Thursday night, Sept. 16.
and on Tuesday night, Sept- 21,
will confer the E.A. degree on two
candidates.
On Tuesday night, Sept. 28, a
special meeting will be held to pre-
LONDON, Sept. 15 (UP)—Pre-
mier Marshal Josef Stalin an-
nounced today that Russian
troops had captured Nezhin, im-
portant rail center on the north-
eastern approaches to Kiev, capi-
tal of the Ukraine.
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emyslug and got knocked out. They’ve a long way to go yet—a lot of them—facing physical
handicapsth at may not be overcome in a lifetime. They don’t talk much about what they’ve been
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o’clock until 9 o’clock p.m.
Buy War Bonds — The Key to
• Victory.
LONDON, Sept. 15 (UP)—Beni-
to Mussolini proclaimed himself
supreme head of a new Fascist
government of Italy today, seven
weeks and three days after his re-
moval in disgrace by King Victor
Emanuel III.
A series of proclamations signed
by Mussolini who was rescued by
Nazi parachutists, stcrm troopers
and Gestapo agents from imprison-
ment of an Italian mountain top
only last week, was broadcast by a
self-styled “fascist radio.”
While Mussolini made his new
bid for power under German aus-
pices and protection, Nazi para-
chutists defied Vatican City’s neu-
trality by mounting guard in St.
Peter’s square, in effect, a Bern
dispatch said, making Pope Pius
XII the prisoner of Marshal Al-
bert Kesselring, German command-
er in Central and Southern Italy.
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AUSTIN, Tex.. Sept. 15 (UP)—
Texas had 50 new cases of polio-
myelitis during the week which
ended Sept. 11 to bring the year’s
total to 1,017, the State Health
Department said today. For the
preceding week 62 cases were re-
ported.
Harris county led the list of
counties with' 12 cases. Dallas and
Tarrant counties had one case
each.
The department said in at least
six instances reports last week
were delayed, and that actually 50
cases were not new during the pe-
riod.
Cases by counties were: Gray,
Haskell, Navarro, Potter and
Wheeler, three each; Galveston,
Grayson, Nolan and Rockwall, two
each; Baylor, Bowie- Brown, Cass,
Childress, Dimmit. Hamilton, Hen-
derson, Hill, Lampasas, Lubbock,
and Travis, one each-
DALLAS, Tex., Sept- 15 (UP)—
Because she was worried about her
husband who had just been sent
overseas, 16-year-old Mary Jo Neal
killed herself last night with a
.22 rifle, police said today.
Police quoted a justice of the
Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Sept. 15 (UP)—
The greatest air assault ever launched in support of
an Allied army hit the Germans at the Salerno bridge-
head yesterday with more than 2,000 Sorties; flown by
planes of every type including Flying Fortresses swoop-
ing low and using their guns as aerial artillery.
sent Judge W- M. Tidwell a Fifty-
Year Gold Button, and on Thurs- tains “implied commitments” and
is “another New Deal subterfuge.”
More opposition suspicion of ad-
ministration intentions was indi-
cated by a bill introduced by ‘Rep.
W. Sterling Cole, R., N.Y., to pro-
vide that no promise, agreement,
commitment or undertaking made
by any person with a foreign gov-
ernment or agency shall be binding
upon the United States except as
made under the authority of Unit-
ed States laws.
A law to enforce a law seems
odd but it reflects the suspicion
of some representatives and sena-
tors that the administration may
intend to engage in “agreements”
or other compacts to achieve cer-
FIFIH ARMY HEADQUAR-
TERS, Salerno Area, Italy, Sept.
14 (Delayed) (UP)—The Allied
bridgehead line, threatened for
a time by heavy German coun-
ter-attacks, was consolidated
again at today’s first light and
was being rapidly strengthened.
BY UNITED PRESS
American and British invasion troops appeared today
to have weathered, at least for the time being, a storm
of German counter-blows below Naples, and there were
some signs that the admittedly, grave threat to their
bridgehead had been smashed.
A dispatch from the headquarters of Lieut. Gen. Mark;
V. Clark’s Fifth Army, filed yesterday, said the Allied line
threatened for a time by heavy German counter-attacks,
had been consolidated again and the Nazi momentum had
spent itsellf.
The Allied position was being strengthened rapidly,
and the Anglo-American troops had resumed exploitation
of their bridgehead, a dispatch from S. B. Shapiro at
headquarters said.
The United Nations radio in North Africa said that
hard fighting continued, that Allied reinforcements were
pouring in, and that there had been no change in the last
few hours.
Military observers in London also reported intense
fighting adding that the situation had become “no worse”
on the basis of the latest reports from the Mediterranean. -
The German, high command, crawling back from the
Nazi propaganda position yesterday that the invasion force
had been “smashed” and was being evacuated, reported a
“renewed” Allied stand near the coast, and said it’was be-
Mrs. J. Farrar Atwood, chair-
man of the Red Cross Surgical
Dressing Room announces the
resuming of the old schedule-
Beginning Monday the room
will be open each day through
Friday from 9 a.m. o’clock until
5 p.m. and on Tuesday and
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es the Kiev-Kursk line at Nezhin. ?
Romny, 73 miles southeast of Ne-
zhin and 130 miles due east of '
Kiev on the Gadyach-Konotop
railway, appeared doomed follow- l
ing the fall of Zasule, two miles
away.
Altogether the Russians captured I
nearly 350 towns and villages yes-
terday in accelerated advances all
along a 600-mile front from Bry-
ansk to the Sea of Azov. Nearly
10,000 Germans were killed, and
175 Axis guns and 90 tanks destroy-
ed or captured.
The Germans were counter-at-
tacking on many sectors in a futile
effort to stem the Soviet advances
toward the Dnieper River. How-
ever, they soon resumed their re-
treat under new Soviet blows and
the Tuesday midnight communique
said the withdrawing Germans
east of Kiev were thrown into dis-
order.
The German withdrawal along
the Sea of Azov, where Yalta fell
to Russian columns that had driv-
en 16 miles southwest from Mari-
upol, was being harassed by So-
viet commanco-like landings in
the Axis rear.
J. J. Hodo, 45, a vice president
of the Texas Bank and Trust Com-
pany of Dallas, died of a heart
attack at his home 902 Buckalew
Street in Dallas, at 8:30 o’clock
Wednesday morning. He had been
sick for about ten days.
James Joseph Hodo was born in
Ennis Nov. 4, 1897, and was a grad-
uate of the Ennis High School. He
attended Texas A- and M. College
at College Station and after leav-
ing college attended a business col-
lege in Waco.
After completion of his business
course Mr. Hodo was employed
with the Citizens National Bank
here as cashier for several years
and left the bank in 1933, was
employed by the U. S. Government,
and was stationed in Cleburne and
Wichita Falls for several years be-
fore moving to Dallas where he
■ accepted a position with the Texas
Bank and Trust Company where
he has been employed since that
time- Mr. Hodo has had several
promotions during his association
with that bank and was elected a
vice president of that bank at the
annual elecion of officers last Jan-
uary.
Mr. Hodo was married June 11,
1926, to Miss Jessie Cowan of Mi-
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LONDON, Sept. 15 (UP)—The
Algiers radip said! today that
hard fighting continued around
the Salerno bridgehead in Italy
with no change “in the last few
hours.” The Allies still were
landing reinforcements, the
broadcast said.
MOSCOW. Sept. 15 (UP)—Pre-
mier Marshal Josef Stalin was ex-
pected to announce the capture of
Bryansk, south-central front
stronghold, and possibly the sub-
sidiary bases of Nezhin and Romny
on the approaches to Kiev, in an
order of the day today marking
the beginning of the third month
of the Soviet offensive.
(Reports reaching London of
street fighting in Novorossisk indi-
cated that Black Sea naval base
also may fall, collapsing the Nazis.
Cucasian bridgehead.)
The Germans already have ac-
knowledged the evacuation of
Bryansk and Soviet front reports
said the Red Army occupied the
western portion of the city yes-
terday after forcing the 500-yard-
wide Desna River.
Captured by the Germans on
Oct. 31, 1941, Bryansk was con-
verted into a supply and reinforce-
ment base from which German
strength could be shifted between
the southern and central fronts.
Railroads radiate to Moscow,
J. J. Hodo, 45,
Former Ennisite,
Dies in Dallas
tain international commitments,-
rather than to approach the prob-
lem through treaties which, by
constitutional mandate, are subject
to the advice and consent 'of the
Senate-
Cole plans to offer his bill as an
amendment to the Fulbright reso-
lution if it is brought to the floor
soon. ’ e
According to the report of Spe-
cial Agent N- L. Everett made to
the Department of Census, Ellis
county’s cotton crop is much ear-
lier than last year’s. Up to Sept.
1, the county had ginned a total
of 9,896 bales as compared with
446 to the same date last year.
Ennis ginnings this season are
also far ahead of last year. Up to
Tuesday night the four Ennis gins
had received a total of 2073 bales-
To the corresponding date last
year only 720 bales had been
ginned here- Ginnings for the past
week alone totaled 791 bales.
Seed are bringing $58 as com-
pared with $43 last year.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UP)—
The administration is preparing
today to present to the people de-
tailed plans for post war interna-
tional collaboration in an effort to
crystalize sentiment-
Director of the Office of War
Information Elmer Davis revealed
that intention last night in an ad-
dress delivered in Syracuse, N. Y-,
before the State Publishers Asso-
ciation. He conceded that Secretary
of State Cordell Hull’s radio ad-
dress of last Sunday was some-
what general in character but
promised that it would be supple-
mented by “Expositions in more
detail.”
Chairman Tom Connally, D.,
Tex-, of the Senate foreign rela-
tions committee would be the logi-
cal man to follow Hull in the ex-
position of administration policy
which now is committeed, subject
to legislatie approval, to interna-
tional collaboration in the use of
force, where necessary, to maintain
world pease.
But Connally is approaching the
question with caution. He told the
United Press that there would be
no meeting today of the foreign re-
lations committee, which usually
meets on Wednesdays, and he was
uncertain whether he immediately
would have any public comment to
make on foreign policy.
Scant attendance in House and
Senate when Congress convened
j yesterday demonstrated the inap-
propriateness of attempting any
vital action on foreign policy for
some days- There is an informal
agreement in the House that no
major business will be undertaken
until October 1.
The House foreign affairs com-
mittee meets today, however, to
plan a way of getting the Ful-
bright resolution to the floor
quickly and of guarding it against
amendments- That resolution
LONDON, Sept. 15 (UP)—A
Berlin broadcast by Exchange
telegraph acknowledged today
that the Allies have “discontin-
ued” their evacuation of the Sa-
lerno bridgehead in Italy and
were holding firmly to a coastal I
stretch. Strong German counter-
attacks were continuing, it said.
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