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Hear Luther Johnson Speak at War Bond Rally Friday, June 30, at 8:30 p.m., In Football Stadium
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Along Road to Warsaw
From World Battlefronts
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United We Brand!
in a slaughter re-
Pictures Pour Into News Office
For Great Heroes Day, Edition
From early morning until late in proud and thrilled too, as you see
refused and the man drove on only
who are now in service, training i News will be printed and copies
backed oil storage tanks at Giurgiu | Pickard, examining the girl before
she was placed in a hospital for
said
ing daylight attacks by American , she had been raped.
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WHAT DOES THE BOY IN THE
FOX HOLE THINK OF YOU?
News stories from Salerno, Naples and Anzio in
Italy . . . and from Arawe, Cape Gloucester and
Hollandia in the South Pacific . . . are full of the
exploits of these sensational, seagoing trucks.
Dewey Takes
Command of
Republicans in 44
Armored Forces
Crash Through
Nazi Resistance
American Bombers
Attack Targets in
Central Germany
MEMBER
UNITED
PRESS
on the Romanian-Bulgarian bord-
er, southwest of Bucharest, follow-
UNITED
FEATURE
SERVICE
Forward elements of the Amer-
ican column drove seven miles be-
yond captured San Vicenzo to the
near
Dallas
Capt. Walter Stout,
Overseas Veteran,
Arrives in Ennis
Large Group of
Baptist Juniors
Attending Camp
ed
girl
GOP Delegates
Heartily Approve
Of Party’s Choice
place is inland from the river at
Pawling.
Oklahoma Girl
Kidnaped, Attacked
South of Dallas
Over there they pay with their
lives. The least we can do over
here is Buy More War Bonds
Broadcast Says
Japs Occupy Key
Center in China
Now the GMC “Duck” is prominently featured
in radio photos showing the invasion of the
French coast. As the attack on Fortress Europe
progresses, look and listen for more news of this
versatile invasion vehicle.
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drove her
criminally
today that Field Marshal Wil-
helm Keitel, chief of the Germ-
an High Command, has arrived
in Helsinki, following the shift
of Nazi troops to reinforce the
Finnish front.
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assaulted her, then a-
RAF Planes
Hit Rail and
Roads in France
The third army yesterday cap-
tured Ostritsa, eight miles north-
east of Borisov, after a 23 mile ad-
vance in 24 hours along the Mos-
cow-Warsaw highway.
Cherniakhovsky also sent a spea
head south through Krugloye on
the -west bank of the Drut River in
(Contused cn-Fage Four)
Joe A. Naughton, General Chair- , sive in history—an offensive aimed
man of the Ellis County War (squarely along the shortest inva-
Price and Rationing Boards, has sion route to Warsaw and Berlin.
sauce flights met increased Ger- , ward a store at Cobb, near Durant
man air resistance- Supreme head- ! in southern Oklahoma, to sell some
quartres announced theat Prelim- i eggs and buy a sack of sugar. She
been granted a leave of absence,
effective immediately and to ter-
minate August 1, 1944, at which
time his duties in this capacity
will be resumed.
ing through Monticiano and on
past that town to within 12 miles
Ennis citizens are failing to give the support to the
boys out on the battlefronts who are fighting for our
freedom and right to live.
Ennis citizens are not backing these boys in a way
Liberators on two oil refineries and j The girl’s father came to Dallas
! a railyard in the Bucharest area • after her today.
THE WEATHER
East Texas: Considerable cloudi-
ness this afternoon, tonight and
Friday. Showers in southeast por-
tion except in Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
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der the sustained fury of the 5th
and 8th army drive'.
American tanks and infantry-
men pounding northward ■ on the
war-torn coastal highway met in-
creasing evidence of confusion in
the . enemy ranks. The Germans
were losing heavily in men and
equipment as a result of the devas-
Invasion Innovation.. .The GMC “Duck”
treatment and observation,
by the Honorable Luther Johnson,
congressman from the 6th district-
At the request of the Committee
on War Bond Sales Congressman
Johnson will speak on the import-
ance of the success of the 5th War
Loan Drive and will reveal little-
known facts of importance and in-
terest to every citizen of Ennis.
The urgency of this meeting can
not be overemphasized. Be there
and bring a friend.
ENNIS CANNOT, WILL NOT
FAIL IN ITS WAR BOND PUR-
CHASE OBLIGATIONS!
Of all the many new types of landing craft and
amphibious vehicles developed in World War II,
none is more unique or useful than the GMC
“Duck.” Operating as a boat in the water and
as a six-wheel truck on land, it has completely
revolutionized beachhead supply and transport.
Captain Walter C. Stout arriv-
ed in Ennis Wednesday night after
having been overseas since last
June. He was injured on Feb. 7 in
Anzio when the bombing of the
hospital on the beachhead took
place. Captain Stout arrived back
in the United States a little more
than a week ago and was in the
William Beaumont General Hospi-
tal in El Paso since last week end.
Both feet were injured by shrapnel
in the bombing. He is improving
splendidly and will return to the
hospital in El Paso after a months
visit here with his wife, the form-
er Elizabeth Roller, his mother,
Mrs. B. F- Stout and sisters and
brother.
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page after page of their pictures in
The News Heroes Day Edition.
Throughout the pages of The News
there will be special messages from
the leading business and profess-
ional people of Ennis and Ellis
county paying tribute to our boys
and girls.
Hundreds of extra copies of The
bandoned her.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents joined in the manhunt for
the kidnapper, described by his
victim as being in his early 20’s,
about 5 feet 11 inches tall, weigh-
ing about 175 pounds and clad in
battles southwest of Caen, a front
dispatch said today, and Allied
planes are "slaughtering" Nazi i
reinforcements moving toward |
the battle zone.
London, June 29 (UP)— A Jap- •
anese communique, broadcast by
Tokyo radio, said today that Jap-
anese troops in China’s Hunan
Province had occupied Hengyang,
a key junction point on the Can-
ton-Hankow railway.
The communique described Hen-
gyang as the largest advanced A-
merican airforce base in China.
Last Chinese reports of the fight-
ing around Hengyang said the Ja-
panese were attacking the city
from all sides yesterday, with one
force storming the eastern suburb
two miles from Hengyang.
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The News does not believe Ennis citizens—not a single
one—would fail to do his part to win this war and bring
our boys back home at the earliest possible date. It does
not believe the people lack interest. They simply do not
realize the urgency of making the Fifth War Bond Cam-
paign a success.
There is just one solution—we MUST buy bonds—we
MUST support our boys.
1.0 Ennis’ record of buying bonds in the past is too fine
Wto spoil now. Let’s buy them now so when G. I. Joe comes
home we can point to the community’s record with pride—
not make excuses.
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junction of the coastal highway ■ inary reports showed 25 enemy air-
with the Castagento road. i craft were destroyed yesterday, at to return and force her into the
Less than four miles inland, | a loss of six Allied planes- i car and drove to Dallas where the
other American units captured ! -.....
Castagneto after a 3 1-2 mile ad-
vance from Sassetta.
Farther to the east, the Ameri-
cans sent armored spearheads rac-
id
the afternoon a steady stream of
pictures of the boys and girls of
Ennis and Ellis county now in the
servic> were brought into The
News office for publication in the
forthcoming Heroes Day Edition.
Many were the surprises as we saw
the pictures of boys who just a lit-
tle while ago were in school but
the flow of enemy supplies and
men to the front.
Mosquito bombers carried out the
attack on Saarbrucken, an impor-
tant rail center in Germany’s Saar
Valley, and also bombed an oil
plant north of Essen. All the Mos-
quitoes returned safely.
Although unfavorable weather
restricted air operations over Nor-
mandy, the few Allied formations
that carried out armed reconnals-
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The meeting is to, be held on
Friday, June 30, at 8:30 p.m. on
the football field of the Lions’
Stadium and all citizens are urged
to attend and to bring their friends
and neighbors.
Hon. Luther Johnson to Speak
A special feature of this great
mass meeting will be an address
will be sent to interested govern-
ment agencies, colleges, press as-
sociations, etc.
If your heroe’s picture is not in
our files it would be a good idea
to bring it in soon together with a
note outlining the name, rank and
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' Republican Campaign Headquar-
ters, Chicago, June 29 (UP)— Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey took command
today of the Republican Party’s
1944 effort to retire President Roo-
sevelt to Hyde Park by Challeng-
ing the administration as too old,
unsure in Foreign policy and fu-
tile on the home front.
‘•He will make a hell of a cam-
paign,” his associates promised as
Dewey came perspiring from the
Chicago stadium last night where
he accepted the Republican nom-
ination. for President of the United
States, GOP hopes and enthusiasm
are high today.
The National Convention, whose
delegates sweated out some of
Chicago’s mst unpleasant summer
weather, adjourned a moment af-
ter Dewey had completed his I-Do.
Heads wagged approvingly as
Dewey spolse. Many delegates had
their first close-up chance to see
him and to compare his rich bari-
tone with Mr. Roosevelt’s easy
voices. Whatever else happens in
this campaign year, the voters will
British heavy and medium bomb- i attack occurred early last night,
ers, flying from Italian bases, at- | County Health Officer Dr. J. M.
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to take their places in the great
armed might of our Democracy
which is bringing to its knees the
evil forces of tyranny.
You too will be surprised to
learn how many splendid boys and
girls of Ennis and Ellis county are
• now in service—and you will be
As the guns and tanks and
planes and ships of our great na-
tion move forward on the far-
flung battlefields; as our country
fights for its life and the life and
! freedom of smaller nations; as our
boys go into battle prepared to
give their all—something has hap-
pened here on the home front—
something tragic that would take
the heart out of our fighting men
if they were to learn about it.
ENNIS IS FALLING SHORT OF
ITS WAR BOND QUOTA!
There is consternation among
the leaders of our community and
in an effort to make clear the
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her home,
ne : London, June 29 (UP)— British
armor h's beaten off all assaults
by 150 German tanks in heavy
Far to the rear, other Soviet
troops, tanks, guns and planes
were pounding to pieces the doom-
ed remnants of five enemy divi-
sions encircled at Bobruisk and 12
others stranded between the Dne-
Will Try to Smash
French Beachhead
With All Out Effort
Chaperones for the group are j
Mrs- Clyde Green, Miss Thelma
Jones and Mrs. Joe Hawkins. The
group of. 25 children includes Bruce
and Louis Neumann, Ben Nolan
Bristow, Harry Stone, Forrest Ad-
ams, Roy Stokes, B. O. Brown,
Buddie Ray Young, Thelma Fer-
guson, Macie Ann Green, Mitzie
Hedrick, Diane Hawkins, Ann
Muirhead, Pat Smotherman, Juan-
ita Grumbles, Don Essary, Nima
Joe Anderson, Scott Ramsey, Mary
Frances Grant, Billie Nelle Legate,
Jacquelyn Adams, Carolyn Crane,
George Brown, Alan Porter, Ann
Reed.
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tling desperately to delay the; battlefront.
march on their Pisa-Florence-Ri- | Twenty heavy British bombers
mini line, now only 35 to 55 miles were lost in the raids on Metz and
beyond the advancing Allied colu- Blainville, indicating that the Al-
mns, but front dispatches indicated lies had dispatched a formidable
they were beginning to crack un- aerial force in an attempt to stem
A large group of Juniors left
Monday morning for a five day
stay at the Baptist Encampment at
Woodlake. This encampment is
owned and administered by the
Baptists of District 13.
ed in Berlin broadcasts over north j
west and central Germany, where i
the German DNB news agency said
two U.S. formations, and a fight-
er escort were engaged in violent
air battles with Nazi planes.
The night attacks by hundreds
of heavy four-engined and medi- j
um bombers were centered on Me-
tz and Blainville in eastern France
near the German border, and Sa-
arbruken, just inside Germany.
The three cities are on main
highways and railroads running a-
cross the border between Germany
and eastern France, where aerial
reconnaisance revealed the Germ-
ans have begun moving huge rein-
forcements toward the Normandy
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London, June 29 (UP)— Large
forces of British four-engined
bombers and Mosquitoes concen-
trated heavy bomb loads last
night on a 35 mile section of Ger-
man transportation lines across
the Franco-German frontier and
Nazi radios indicated extensive
raids on the Reich today.
American bombers were rep or t-
By UNITED PRESS
Alied Headquarters, London, June 29, (UP)—Germany
has begun moving huge reinforcements from. Eastern
France and the Reich itself for an. anticipated effort to
smash the Normandy beachhead, aerial reconnaissance re-
ports revealed today* as the fiercest tank battles of the in-
vasion raged around. Caen.
“Extensive” German troop movements from the East
toward Normandy have been sighted by Allied Reconnais-
sance planes, fo rthe first time since the start of the in-
vasion 23 days ago, a headquarters spokesman disclosed.
Countering the threat, hundreds of British four-engined
bombers smashed last night at the strategic Eastern, France
railway centers of Metz and Lainville, through which the
reinforcements were moving. Twenty bombers were lost.
Th heavy troop movements wer interpreted as an indi-
cation that the German High Command at alst has de-
cided that the Normandy invasion represents Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower’s main invasion effort.
The enemy was believed to have delayed reinforcing
beyond the present strength of 15-odd divisions his forces
in Normandy because of the possibility that the Allies may
strike elsewhere in even greater strength. However, the loss
of at least 80,000 killed, wounded or captured so far in the
Normandy campaign probably forced the Germans’ hands.
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Bitter Fighting All
"Along Italian West
Coast Highway
Dallas, Texas, June 29 (UP)— j
Officers Intensified their search to-
day for a young man who kidnap-
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Moscow, June 29 (UP)—Red
Armies today stormed into the su-
| burbs of Borisov, last enemy strong
hold above Minsk, and to the south
began a march on the Baranowicze
gap, historical gateway to Brest-
Litovsk and Warsaw.
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UP War Correspondent
With Advanced Allied Forces
Near Caen, June 29 (UP)—From
a ridge near the river Odon I have
been watching the biggest tank '
battle of the Normandy campign—
fought between Nazi Panzers and
British and Canadian armored u-
nits with the ferocity of two heavy
weights going all out for a knock-
out.
The battle was fought on the
slopes between the Odon and the
Orne Rivers which flow out of
the German strongpoint at Caen,
a triangle of open, rolling down-
land cut up here and there by a
few tree-fringed roads-
It was ideal tank country.
The British and Canadian tanks
made an impressive sight as they
waddled up to deliver their explo-
sive punches, I swung in behind
them and moved through one vil-
lage with* the red-hot blast of a
tank exhaust heating my face.
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miniscent of Stalingrad. •
Rolling along the main Moscow-
Minsk-Warsaw highway at an un-
precedented pace, Gen. Ivan D.
Cherniakhovsky’s 3rd White - Rus-
sian army broke into the surburbs
j of • Borisov, 45 miles northeast of
I Minsk, and threatened to over-
I whelm that outpost on the east
bank of the Berezina River.
The advance earned Chernia-
khovsky’s forces more than 75
' । miles west of Orsha on the sixth
day of the greatest Russian offen-
that is necessary to win.
Ennis citizens' are failing in the Fifth War Bond cam-
paign. Slightly more than one-third of Ennis’ quota has
been sold: With about a week to go we must sell $225,000 .
. , p., - e t-i 1 1, ~ T I.. • - +1. called by T- A. Barrington, chair-
bonds if the citizens of Ennis can look G. I. Joe in the I ",..10 5E 1441
, 1 • , man of the War Bond Committee,
face when he returns home a few months from now and say
“we did our part.”
I per and Drut Rivers west of aban-
A BBC broadcast heard by the i doned Mogilev
United Press in New York said
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The general lack of interest manifested by Ennis citi-
zens in the purchase of bonds is discouraging to Chairman
Thad Barrington. “Very few persons seem to realize the
4 urgency of our reaching the quota now,” Chairman Barring-
ton says. “What can we do to arouse them to absolute
necessity of selling Ennis quota of the Fifth War Loan
Bonds?” he asked. “How can we make the people—all
classes of people—buy more bonds?”
Those questions, the fact that Ennis citizens are fail-
ing in their duty and obligation to the fighting men, is the *
cause for this editorial. I
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It’s Sth War Bond Quota
blue striped trousers and a blue
sports shirt and wearing a gold
wrist watch. He was driving a
blue-green sedan.
The girl, sobbing hysterically,
related the story of the kidnapping
and attack to J. W- Mason, to
whose home she made her way af-
ter being ravished in a wooded sec-
tion south of Dallas.
In her story to officers, the girl
related that the man drove by and
asked her to ride as he walked to-
hear some well , spoken oratory fating shell fire poured into them
tfrom the Hudson Valleys two by fast moving American field
most prominent residents. Dewey’s guns.
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Rome, June 29 (UP)—American
armored forces crashed through
bitter German resistance along the
Italian west coast highway and
drove forward more than seven
miles to within 25 miles of Livorno
(Leghorn), a communique reported
today.
Other allied columns were on the
march northward along a broad
front stretching more than 100
miles inland, shelling and bayonet-
ing frantical German rear guards
from their makeshift defenses be-
low Siena and in the hills around
Perugia.
Allied headquarters revealed that
the number of prisoners captured
since the beginning of the offen-
sive on May 11 has swelled to more
than 32,000 men, of whom 25,000
were taken by the 5th army.
Everywhere the Nazis were bat-
Correspondent
Sees Biggest Tank
Battle of Invasion
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N are now equipped with a new
midget searchlight no bigger than
a walnut, but capable of projecting
a 1,500-candle power beam visible
for 60 nautical miles. The new
lamp, with the most powerful beam i
ever obtained from an incandes-
cent unit that small gets its cur-
rent from a hand cranked genera-
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