The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 211, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 4, 1945 Page: 1 of 4
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THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
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ENNIS. ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 4, 1945
BUY WAR BONDS TODAY
IN FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR
OCCUPATION OF JAPAN NOW IN FULL SWING
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Hirohito Reads
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as made by a Japanese photographer.
Pictures were obtained from Japanese Domei News Agency by the day of drownings during the holi-
house in the distance.
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urban tracks early Sunday.
Dallas, ’Tex., Sept. 4 (UP)—Mar-
the
I tracks about three mniles from his
beund car.
and depressed the populace because
of the great power of the United
and
surrounding points from six land-
: ney and promises to be here on a
by J. E. Keever, who presided at
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Hwaii or Southern California,
as
Navy Personnel
ships and transports.
' at Yabo Village, near Tachikawa.
The Ennis Rebekah Lodge
was
as the i merican troops last week.
eastern .Enters SMU
and
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day.
i about 200 members.
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Imperial Rescript
To Japanese Diet
Troops Into All of
Important Bases
Jap Newsman
Said War Lost
After Midway
Citizens Bank
Recently Put In
New Fixtures
been attained, subsequent attacks
upon Hawaii, Alaska, and the Pa-
cific coast could have been expect-
led.
Lodge Host to
Other Lodges
the
the
that “the capture of Midway and
the abolishment there of an op-
erational base was the hole objec-
Couple Marry
Texas Style
During Rodeo
MEMBER
UNITED
PRESS
style accessories.
Immediately following the cere-
UNITED
FEATURE
SERVICE
road.
The soldier, Donald D. Me Ana
again, the farmers are being ap-
proached again on the old swindle
racket which has been pulled here
H. P. Hilliard
Celebrating 85th
Birthday Today
dred
At
held
Ennis Girls
Return From
Vacation Trip
To Be Heid In
Dallas Sept. 12
action was one of relief, although
why the attack was not followed
by an invasion remains a myster
to this day.”
Tanaka said the futile Midway
expedition was not directed against
day for John F. Panter, 30, found i
fatally injured on the Waco inter-
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4 Dean Harrison
Speaker For
Lion’s Banquet
By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW
Unied Press Staff Correspondent
Tokyo, Sept. 4 (UP)—Emperor Hirohito today personally
read an imperial descript calling on his people to seek the
“confidence of the world” at the opening of the 88th extra-
ordinary session of the Japanese diet.
Paul B. Keith
Gets Discharge
From U. S. Army
I back and legs bv a shotgun blast, ippines and New Guinea, will be
; He was treated at Love Field dis- stationed at Kanoya.
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home for the aged as many would j Coach Robert Lowrance of Ennis,
have been unable to attend other- J passed away Sunday morning at
Lillian Ross Seymour, daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. Leslie Seymour,
was accompanied by her parents
to Dallas Monday where she en-
rolled as a freshman students at
, Southern Methodist University.
hers will begin paying dues as of
September 1, it was pointed out
Dill of Corsicana. .
Capt. Cates was taken prisoner
in March, 1942, at the time Java
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Panter, a
LegAn i which is large, lives in a nearby
5 . county, and he needs money to
land chief of the English section of
j Tokyo’s Mainichi, said the news
Dallas lodge put on beautiful de-
gree work.
Three grand officers of the Re-
bekah Assembly were present and
-- 1500 former prisoners from camps Headquarters for the group will be
Washington, Sept? 4 (UP)—The 1 in the Tokyo Bay area to hospital the Tokyo University of Commerce
submit to search prior to admis-
sion. However, the Japanese hand-
ed each correspondent entering the
building a mimeographed sheet of
six “rules,” which included "visi-
tors may be searched by guards or
police officers.”
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nounced a successful attack upon
frames at office of Ennis Daily
News.
Paul B. Keith, son of Mr.
waved a French Tri-Color
planes passed overhead.
The camp was on the
move them there. He gets the mo-
Eight hundred memberships is
the goal of the newly organized
Chamber of Commerce in Ennis,
with the mark now near five hun-
shore of Biwa-Lake near the vil-
lage of Hikone. It consisted of two
barracks-type buildings and sheds
100 yards from the" waters edge.
host to the Corsicana, Waxahachie
and Dallas Lodges Monday even-
ing at the IOCF Home in Ennis,
at a joint installation service. The
AIR Mail Stationery for 10c,
15c, 25e and 40c at The News Of-
Chamber of Commerce work will be
named this week and they will
be invited to attend the meeting
next Tuesday.
base eight miles west of Tokyo. ,
Arrives In States
S-Sgt. Sol Rothschild arrived in
New York on the Queen Elizabeth
and called his mother Saturday.
He will go to San Antonio and
will be in Ennis in the next few
days. ________
grinning and eager to please went cheon guests of the War Chest.
। aboard the flagship of the task ----
force, the destroyer David William D . H •
Taylor, for a conference with Capt. , KacKet Deing
Clyde M. Jensen of Peru, Ill. Used Against
Arrangements for the-American py: p
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day week-end.
Pvt. H. D. Lewing, 18, of Fort
Wortn, end Pvt. Donald E. Starr,
20, of Royalton, Minn., were drown-
ed Saturday at Camp Wolters. •
Pvt. Virgil Gordon of Postville,
Iowa, son of Mrs. Annie L. Gord-
on, was drowned Suneay afternoon
at Burger’s Lake.
as Ladies Night, with a chicken | Americans seemed to believe,” but
barbecue at the Lakeside Country ;
Off Dy+v 7av Wear ! Roger Simpson and Cmdr. Harold
A. .p -c 1- E. Stassen, former Governor of
Civilian Clothes Minnesota, already have moved 1,-
ient results have been obtained
H. P. Hilliard is celebrating his
85th birthday today at his home
here. He was honored this past
week end when his relatives and
friends could be with him. Among
chose here at that time were Mrs.
Molly Meade of Fort Worth, Mr.
‘ and Mrs Grant Rutter of Grape-
vine. Miss Ann Shryoc of Dallas,
4 Miss Cora Lee Hilliard of Dallas
and George Hilliard of Waxaha-
chie.
Mr Hilliard is still interested in
Ennis and public affairs and only
recently came to town to vote.
j pensary, and transferred to Ash- The airfield, most important in
Top photo pictures a view of the bomb center area after an atomic bomb was dropped on hurn oenerat FosPttat at MeKin X^tor Kypshuseformedy pans
the city of Hiroshima. In the foreground can be seen the skeleton of a Catholic church.
Bottom photo shows the devastating effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
a meeting of the directors riage—Texas styie: Miss Maxine
Tuesday morning at the Tex- Clark and Jesse Parker were mar-
$pe
Club at 8:00 o’clock.
The committee in charge of ar-
rangements has announced that
the Rev. Dean Harrison, pastor of
the Rosemont Christian Church in
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wounds after 400 days of combat.
out in all directions. ; But volunteered to make a tour of
Japanese sources estimated that I
of air transports
■ infantry from
The admission of correspondents
, , , , followed rejection last night by the
product of slow growth, and prop- American High Command of a Ja-
erly so. Years of experience,
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I home and was st-c bv a sowih tified at Lt. omdr. Kube, 2nd Lt. I for tne past several seasons. Some-
home, an. * Hasbe. Lt. Comdr. Sugiyama and one approaches the farmer and
" / a staff officer J wants to pick for him; his family.
he is recuperating from
“The first was a statement of the
general staff early in the morning
that war had been declared against
the United States. This shocked
; ferried air-borne
I ly hstd stopped to rest on
the United State Navy and Army
h 3 installations at Hawaii. Public re-
Mrs. J N. Keith of 411 W. Knox
St., has been discharged from the
Army after serving 18 months in
the European Theater of Operat-
ions with the U. S. Army Signal
Corps. He returned to the U.S. by
plane and landed in Miami, Fla.,
and received his discharge in San
Antonio, Tex. He has now gone
to his home in Longview. Mr. and
Mrs. Keith and little son, Joe,
spent a few days here in the home
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N.
Keith
day. The fullest measure of con-
“Oar thoughts are constantly di-
rected to that end.”
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; which attacked Okinawa. will discuss plans for another over
A small task force from Adm. the top campaign in Texas. The
Raymond A. Spruance’s battle- meeting will be attended by War
tested Fifth Fleet sailed into Ka- Chest leaders and workers -from
goshima Bay at 7 a.m. (5 p.m. every county and community in
Monday, CWT) and proceeded in the region. All local persons in-
formation to an anchorage off Ta- terested in the October campaign
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Misses Sarah Corbin and Sarah
Florence Connally have returned
from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. F.
Willmann and Mrs. William K.
Corbin and Gary of Seguin. Miss
Corbin, who is a recent graduate
of St. Paul School of Nursing in
Dallas, has accepted a position as
supervisor at St. Paul’s Hospital
and assumes her duties today.
Miss Connally attended Sacred
tieart Academy in Waco the past
two years. She is to enroll , at
St. John’s High School for the
coming year.
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chery. . from a local farmer this past week
Japanese sources reported the and never showed up; the same
shift of American airmen and , negro worked the racket here last
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first postwar rush on clothing
stores was expected today as the
Navy authorized all its personnel
within the United States to wear
civilian clothes when not on duty.
Gobs and Gal Sailors greeted
with yells of delight Secretary of
Navy James V. Forestal’s new ord-
er permitting them to doff Navy
Blues and grays “outside of work-
ing hours while on shore-leave or
otherwise in off service status.”
One exuberant sailor stripped
of fhis blue jacket right in the
I midst of his companions in a down
i town cafeteria.
American correspondents were
excluded from the session address-
ed by the emperor, but 30 Allied
newsmen and photographers, in-
cluding this reporter, were allowed
to attend the afternoon session,
which opened at 1:30 p.m.
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East Texas: Clear to partly
cloudy this afternoon, tonight and
Wednesday; gentle, varible winds
on the coast, mostly northerly to
easterly.
wise. ! Timpson, Texas. Funeral services Close-out prices on fabricoid folder
Punch and cookies were served to [were held at Garrison, Texas to-
Soon afterward, troops 1
swarming ashore at Takasu
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Buskin Joe and Buddy.
Officiating while astride his
Tokyo, Sept. 4 (UP)—A Japanese
newspaperman told the United
Press last night that “thinking Ja-
panese” knew the fortunes of war
were going against their country
after Japan lost the battle of Mid-
way in June, 1942.
He said that the Japanese pub-
lic did not know the Pearl Harb-
or attack was a sneak raid and the
populace was “shocked and de-
pressed” by the news that war was
“Hours later a broadcast an-
REV. DEAN HARRISON.
The Ennis Lions Club will have
ts reassembly meeting Friday,
Sept. 7, which, has been designated
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By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
Unied Press Staff Correspondent
General MacArthur’s Headquarters, Yokohama, Sept. 4
ty.r>—Thousands of American troops began the occupation
of southern Japan by sea and air today, taking over
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E. Haynes, chaplain of the 35th KXT--—. L.—
battalion of the Texas State VV Ol I I om
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The bride, given in marriage by amamats Area
rodeo producer Roy Tharp, wore
Fort Worth, (UP)—Three Camp I
Left standing are a few smoke stacks and a small Wolters soldiers were victims to-
liminary inheritance tax report dis Kyushu’s most important airfield and a large port.
I closed today. . Some 600 miles to the northeast, the first 200 of an
Of the total estate, more than ultimate force of 20,000 American air and ground force
wo.million dollars wil be usedtocrewmen moved into the Tachikawa army air base, eight
establish a cildren s free hospital . 1‛‛k . ‘10.
I and clinic 1 miles west of Tokyo, under an occupation program that
Miss Driscoll, who died July 17 1 will put troops in the Tokyo metropolitan district Friday.
I willed that the clinib should be | Large scale transfer of troops ------ ------------
known as the “Robert Driscoll and from Atsugi to the Tachikawa air- Ay i Ng ■
Julia Driscoil and Robert Driscoll, I drome will besin Thursday, 19 days ' V A •10st IVIeCL
Jr., Foundation.” ahead of schedule.
Capt C. A. Cates
Liberated From
I Jap Prison Camp
declarea.
Genji Tanaka, newspaperman
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ney, stationed at Camp Wolters, 2,500 troops from the American lest in the success of the National.
Mineral Wells, was struck in the Sixth Army, veterans of the Phil- i
Wal I -l-d. '
Mr. J. B. Adoue, Jr., chairman of
War Chest Region 5, will preside
at the conference, at which Way-
land D. Towner, general manager
of the United War Chest of Texas,
i . provided for our fighting men
n11-c /IID Thrpp men were southeast of Kagoshima, under the G . ®
Dallas, (UP)— Ihree men weie .. . 1 - I through agencies of the National
under arrest today after they re- direction of an advance party of .
rortedi,. Lad Tim amuck on the 20 technicians who landed yester- Va nud
portedy had run amuck on me Sgt. Collins is now a patient-at
denton wad yesterday, injuring a 1 day McCloskey General Hospital, where
19-yeai old soldier with a shotgun, | The newly landed troops quickly
I and running several cars off the j secured the airfield and fanned
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Dallas, a former member of
Lions Club in Ennis, will be
guest speaker.
Corsicana, Tex., Sept. 4—Capt.
Charles A. Cates, U. S. Army, was
liberated from a Japanese prison
camp on August 30, according to a
tiegram received Sept. 2 from the
War Department by Mrs. Charles
A. Cates of Decatur, Texas. Mrs.
it if you would mail in your
checks al once without waiting for
a collector to call,” stated Mr. Kee-
ver. “If you . are not already a
member and wish to belong, please
call Mrs. Ina Jackson at 320.”
The Chamber of Commerce has
been working with a discharged
serviceman who is planning to lo-
cate a box factory in Ennis in the
near future. Many other projects
nave been planned and every citi-
zen in Ennis is invited to take
in this swift moving age changes
come thick and fast. And when
an instiution successfully meets
these changing conditions and
keeps itself abreast of the times,
ready and able to serve the public
as it should be served, that insti-
tution merits and usually enjoys
the confidence and esteem of a
large and increasing number of
patrons.
Such is the record of The Citi-
zens National Bank of Ennis which
, after the bank holiday in 1933,
^opened its doors for business.
g Such a record becomes a price-
less thing. It is not made in a
X The emperor read his rescript to
the combined membership of the
House of Peers and House of Rep-
resentatives shortly fater both
houses convened at 11 a.m. Many
members emerged from the diet’s
first postwar session weeping open-
ly.
“It is our desire,” the emperor
said, “that our people will sur-
mount the manifold hardships and
trials attending the termination of
the war, make manifest the innate
glory of Japan’s national policy,
win the confidence of the world,
establish firmly a peaceful state
and contribute to the progress of
; mankind.
Chamber of Commerce Seeking
800 Members; Have Nearly 500
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part in the program.
Another meeting of the officers
and directors will be held Tuesday,
September 11, at 10:00 a.m. at the
Texas Power and Light Company
assembly room. The various com-
mittees needed to carry out the
kasu, four miles Southwest of Ka- : have been invited to attend.
noya. The conference will be -open at
Four Japanese naval officers, 10 a.m. all delegates will be lun-
Dallas, (UP)—Funeral services
will be held at Lancaster, Tex., to-
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War Chest leaders from this area,
who attend the United War Chest
I of Texas Regional Conference at
the Adolphus Hotel, Dallas, Wed-
nesday. September 12, 1945; will
hear from one of the nation’s most
cutstanding battle heroes a ‘ per-
sonal account of the fighting a-
broad.
j T-Sgt. Odel Collins, 36th Divi-
sion veteran, five times wounded
and holder of three award for bra-
very, will report on services being
him was in May, 1944. He was
with the group known as the
। “Lost Battalion.” He was in Tha-
iland in war prison camp No. 5.
The telegram advised Mrs. Cates
her husband -was in good physi-
cal condition, but was being hos-
pitalized and she would be noti-
fied as soon as he reaches a hos-
pital.
Tanaka pointed out, “had this Ennis Rebekah
Decker said the family aparently j seen in the air.
i was enroute to the home, believed A huge fleet
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i was released to the Japanese pub-
lic in two announcements.
Corpus Christi, (UP)— Miss Cla-
ra Driscoll, former National Dem-
ocratic committeewoman from Tex-
as, and a well-known Corpus
Christi philanthropist, left an es-
tate valued at $4,214,660.71, a pre-
Carrier plane pilots, meantime, j All airfields in the area will be
reported sighting 60 additional pri- , used by American planes in sup-
soners in a camp at Hikone Vill- port of the occupation forces. Ta-
age, approximately 50 miles ■'vest of,chikawa lies 17 miles north of At-
Nagoya. They said one prisoner sugi, first airfield occupied by A-
surrendered to the Japanese. The ~ ,
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last word that was received from 1 1 , , .___..
If you have already signed up
as a member, we would appreciate
as Power and Light Company ot- ried at the Pleasant Mound rodeo
fice, it was announced that excel- while on the irrespective horses,
of the port were completed at an
j informal conference held -over a , Waxahachie, Tex., Sept, 4 As
Chief Deputy Bill Decker said wardroom table with an American , the cotton picking season is here
dairy worker, apparent- Naval officer interpreting.
Huskey, armed seamen stood
and Great Britain,” Tanaka Cates is the former Miss Ethel i from the membership drive. Mem-
were presented with lovely corsag- ,
es by the Noble Grand of the En- , Sister of Ennis
nsrsoSSmes Apple, president o Football Coach
the Rebekah Assembly brought an j Died bunday
interesting talk thanking the lodges i --
for having the meeting at the । Miss Mae Lowrance, sister
through fair weather and foul, to-
gether with a record for fair and
honorable dealing, are usually nec-
essary to command and retain it.
We are consicous of the high
place this bank holds in the con-
fidence and esteem of the citizens
of Ennis and vicinity. Being jeal-
ous of its good name, it shall be
our constant endeavor to conduct
its affairs during the coming years
in conformity with the highest
standards of integrity and efficien-
cy.
We invite our patrons in to see
our building since it has been re-
medied, doing away with old fix-
tures ano. using modern equipment
and fixtures.
Yours very truly
J. W. Tolleson, President
mg ships. The task force also m- 1 n. , . ,
. , , ' , , .c. certain date, but never shows up.
eluded the destroyer Bradford and ’ ,
! With the co-operation of the
! seven minesweepers. . 1 , t ....
farmers, the sheriff’s department
Russen Annabel, United Pi ess , was able to arrest several of these
Correspondent aboard the David last year and they are now doing
a cow-girl costume with western- , William Taylor, said there were no two-year sentences on the county
, Tokyo Bay, Sept. 4 (UP)—Third demonstrations or incidents. 1 Earm. Sherifr Jess Cariker asks
.Fleet rescue forces shifted thei other units of the Fifth Fleet , the farmers to check these pros-
mony, there was a wild Brahma ' operations 125 miies southwest of waited outside Kagoshima Bay for pective hands closelv, and report
bull riding event at the rodeo sta- Tokyo today and began the evac- the signal to enter. Hundreds of o Le sheriff's office any suspic-
dium. uation ofliberatedAllied prisoners carrier planes new overhead onious person. One negro, using the
___ I of war from camps in the Hamam- ; guard against any Japanese trea- name or R H Haynes, got $15
atsu area. 1 "
Rescue teams under Commodore
. ___ Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Su-
Dallas, (UP)—A woman was kill- preme Commander, probably will
; ed, hel husband injured seriously 1 move hi* headquarters from Yoko-
and their three children slightly hama to Tokyo proper next week.
Injured late last night when the Japanese foreign minister Namo-
car in which they were riding j ru Shigemitsu conferred at length
I struck a highway abutment near ! with MacArthur at the general’s
Rowlett, according to Chief Depu- headquarters today for the second
ty Sheriff Bill Decker. : straight day.
The woman, Mrs. Bill McKinney Lanaings on the southern tip of
died en routetoahospital. Herhus- ;Kyushu southernmost of the Jap-
band was said to be in a serious anese home islands, began at dawn
condition. The children, Truett without incident. In compliance
and Pruett, twins, 5, and Darrell, 7, with MacArthur’s surrender orders,
! were slightly injured. not a single Japanese plane was
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Nowlin, R. W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 211, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 4, 1945, newspaper, September 4, 1945; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1485343/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ennis Public Library.