The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 333, Ed. 2 Tuesday, May 16, 1944 Page: 1 of 10
ten pages : ill. ; page 21 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
May 15, 190
May 15—()-
loyment problem
ged from 0°
ter remount
7,000 recently to
7 Service Forces
BOND BOX SCORE
Since Pearl Harbor $16,920,148.00
of the housegyf
y give some line
strength of the
: in that state,
e rule there, so
e entered on all
me he ran. Sen-
on (R) won ile
and was unop-
al election.
May Quota
May
$ 231,700.00
$ 61,920.50
E C
e
VOL. LXIII, NO. 333.
WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES”-Byron
A TEXAS 2u-l4, NEWSPAPER
ABILENE, TEXAS TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1944 —TEN PAGES
IAL
ER’S DAY 0
Photograph
and Save!
798
TODAY
Victory
dIo Phone 55(D)
ads
sets
I TH A
NTH!
O
I filled
te tra-
solid
HE
15 EVENING
A FINAL
Associated Press (AP) United Press (U.P.) PRICE FIVE CENTS
RENCH BREA
"Gl’SFIND EVIDENCE GERMAN INFANTRY ON THE RUN Wedge Perils
-____By SID FEDER eight guns. In Spigno the Nazis had claim.
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY AT —- --- 1 PP89 9 4428 had claim
OPIGNO, May 16—(PP)—American
troops arrived in this mountain
stronghold to find no Germans in
it and indications here and at oth-
er places today were that the en-
emy’s infantry has been withdrawn
from many forward positions.
eight guns.
Spigno was a mass of rubble, not
only from raids by American fight-
• Many prisoners were taken by
the attacking force, especially
in their battle near towering
Mount Cavita, where Maj. Vie-
tor Hobson of Birmingham,
A., reported the capture of
• an entire artillery battery of
er bombers but also demolition car-
ried out by the retreating Ger-
mans.
Civilian residents welcomed
the Americans by rushing in
from the hills and kissing the
soldiers. They said they were
given five minutes to get out of
town several days ago. Since
then the enemy had been blow-
ing up houses, leaving no strong
points for use by the Allies.
ed commanding positions from
which they could direct fire down
the entire Ausente valley.
Meanwhile a large scale battle
was going on for Castellonorato,
the Tyrrhenian coast line. Tanks,
artillery and infantry were partici-
pating. More than 200 prisoners
were captured from this sector.
Indications that enemy infantry
was withdrawing with the artillery
fighting a rear guard delaying ac-
tion came from at least two sources.
Two French foreign legionnaires
brought in by one outfit said they
had escaped from a German prison
camp after their capture several
weeks ago. They said infantry was
being pulled back and artillery was
fighting from mountain emplace-
ments.
Two Nazi artillerymen
brought in by Hobson insisted
“the infantrymen ran like hell.”
The first American soldiers to
reach the ruins of Spigno, over-
hanging the face of a cliff, was a
tnei
lank
ITALY
0 5:
STATUTE MILES
Near Cassino
ALLIED HEADQUAR-
P ic o Wi 5
patrol of eight men late last night. |
More arrived today.
TERS, Naples, May 16.—(AP)
—French troops poured
through a breach in the Gus-
CASSINOS
S.Giorgio"
o: 155
eryaro 5
dinos Sweep Forward on Burma
mprabume.
Teronevens imanni
Kamain 9t,S
Mogaung.
itkyina S.
= 8
Yank Air Base
Near Formosa
WAR AT A GLANCE
. : „Mawlu: E
= —---* st T it-: -
, To Imphall Pinlebu J
:: • Katha
CO CHINA 19
iTa2€a
Bhamo NCI:
Hit, Say Japs
By the Associated Press
China’s new offensive
on
Kawlin,
Tagaun
7.
Ki, *4..
aHBurmo:
T. Al Rood ,
CHINESE DRIVE TOWARD BURMA—Black arrows indi-
cate Allied drives in the Burma-Chinese theater, where, the
Chinese high command announced, large Chinese forces have
launched an offensive across the Salween river in an effort
the Salween river front has
swept through several strate-
gic points and Tokyo ‘radio
broadcast a report which in-
dicated the Allies may have
a new airbase within bomb-
ing range of the Japanese
homeland, Formosa and the
Philippines.
The radio broadcast claimed
Nipponese planes hit Suichwan,
225 miles north-northeast of
Canton, and termed Suichwan
“the advance base of the Am-
By the Associated Press
CHUNGKING — Chinese
troops capture several strategic
points in further advance west
of Salween river.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
Naples—Allied troops crush all
German defenses south of Liri
river in central Italy.
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD-
QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon-
New Japanese thrust close to
borders of India reported.
36th Memorial
to link up with the Allied forces driving southward in north-
ern Burma. Today’s communique placed the Chinese at the
Shweli river (bottom center of map). This area lies east of
the India-Burma border sector where Japanese (white ar- -------—-— ---
@ow) have pushed into India in the region of Luphal. (AP shot down and more than 38
Wirephoto).7 * anu set atte or severely dam-
erican airforce.” Tokyo said the
“main force” was wiped but,
that possibly seven planes were
tav line on the south edge of
the Liri valley today in pur-
suit of disorganized remnants
of the German 71st division
whose break was endangering
the flank of the Nazi line
blocking British troops at the
valley’s mouth. :
(The German radio said vio-
lent fighting was raging against
strong Allied forces heavily re-
inforced all along the line from
Cassine to the sea, and that
German troops had been forced
to fall back in night retreats,
especially in the coastal hills
which make up two-thirds of
the fighting area.)
Esperia -«;
uson ia
: Spignoe
€ S. Maria
Formia
GAETA
Mignano
Castelforte.
fante
r U
Sessa-
urunca. — w
‘ : Tearo,
CHINESE ASSAULT AIMED
AT OPENING SUPPLY LINE
• By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH
WITH THE CHINESE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE SAL-
WEEN FRONT, May 16—(AP)—The big object of the current Chinese of-
fensive across the Salween river is to secure a land route to bring in
heavy war equipment which will permit a military showdown with Japan,
a Chinese military leader said today.
a It is to obtain as quickly as possible heavy artillery, mechanized equip-
ement and motor transport that the Chinese have launched their offensive
across the Salween with 20,000 troops at a dozen points in the hope of
joining up with Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s forces 150 miles away in
north Burma.
Once armed with this equipment the Chinese hope to conduct the in-
land phase of a joint American-Chinese drive on one of the Japanese-held
a-------------------------------ports on the China sea, making
aged.
Neither the raid nor the losses
Abilene Pilot
Cost at Sea
Second Lt. Charles A. Whitting-
ton, who was a co-pilot on a B-24
bomber, died on February 8 in an
accident on a flight between Brazil
Sand Africa, the War department in-
formed his aunt, Mrs. P. P. John-
son, 1341 North 13th, in a message
received Monday.
Lieutenant Whittington, who
made his home with his aunt fol-
Gowing the death of his mother,
was reported “missing on an over-
water aircraft flight" Feb. 9. For
days afterward the Johnson family
was informed that a search for the
crew of the missing plane was be-
ding continued but no development
“occurred. Two weeks ago informa-
tion came from the War department
that the assembling and reviewing
of details relative to the accident
were being carried on and at that
time the route of the plane was
Collowing when it disappeared was
given.
The young pilot was a son of
Walter L. Whittington of Wichita
Falls. He came to reside with his
aunt and uncle here in 1934 after
his mother’s death and was gradu-
Qted from Abilene high school in
1937. After enlisting in the Army
Feb. 27, 1941 he served as an en-
listed man at Fort Bliss, Fort Fran-
cis E. Warren and Camp Young
and was a staff sergeant when ap-
gointed an aviation cadet in the
Air Force. He was commissioned at
Brooks field last November and,
after a brief visit here, went to
Salt Lake City, to Arizona and on
to Westover field. Mass. for combat
training.
• Lieutenant Whittington was a
cousin of Odell Johnson, Abilene
high school science teacher.
Worker Crushed
HOUSTON, May 16.—(P)—R. R.
Gunpkin, 30, Lufkin road worker,
died in a local hospital last night
of a broken neck and internal in-
juries received yesterday when he
was crushed between a bulldozer
gu an embankment near Cleve-
China the setting for a decisive test
of Japan’s military power.
This broad outline of strategy
came from the hard-driving Chin-
ese Gen. Hsiao I-Hsu, chief of staff
for Marshal Wei Li-Lung.
Gen. Hsiao acknowledged Ja-
pan would be hard to whip. He
ses eye to eye with Brig. Gen.
Frank Dorn, Gen. Stilwell’s
chief of staff for the Y-force
(American liaison force with the
Chinese, who has been helping
prepare the Chinese expedition-
ary force to accomplish the first
phase of this strategy by break-
ing the Japanese blockade of
the Burma-Ledo road.
Barring the possibility of a Rus-
sian move into north China against
the Japanese, Gen. Hsiao gave the
opinion that Japan herself intends
to make China the last big battle-
ground of the oriental war. Ob-
viously Japan’s position in China
would be untenable, or nearly that,
if the Russians should move against
her.
Further, he said that despite the
boasted self-sufficiency of Japan-
ese armies in China, they could not
survive if the United States should
conquer the home islands by direct
assault.
However, Gen. Hsiao said he was
banking on neither possibility and
regarded China as the place for de-
cisive use of American-Chinese mil-
itary resources.
Antonescu Puts Heat
On Hitler for Troops
Istanbul, May 16.—(Delayed)—(P)
—Premier-Marshal Ion Antonescu
of Romania was reported today to
have warned Adolf Titler that if
more German reinforcements were
not forthcoming immediately Ro-
mania “would consider herself free”
to negotiate a separate armistice
with the Allies.
Antonescu has demanded an an-
swer. by today, following up a prom-
ise Hitler made when the Red army
first crossed the Dniester river be-
fore the fall of Odessa, said. the
report, which was regarded here as
credible in view of Romania’s pre-
carious position. r € w
have been confirmed by Allied
sources. If Suichwan has been
built into an effective striking base,
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault’s
LONDON, May 16—P—Reu-
ters said in a dispatch from the
Kohima front in northweast
India today that the whole of
Kohima ridge is now in Allied
hands and that with its cap-
ture the biggest battle yet on
the Indo-Burma front has end-
ed.
14th airforce would be less than
1,000 miles from the Japanese home
islands, 675 miles from Luzon in
the Philippines and 450 miles from
Formosa’s capital—all within bomb-
ing range.
Chungking said the attack
carried troops through the im-
portant Namien pass and to the
Shweli river. They captured two
enemy bases south and south-
east of the Burma road and vir-
tually encircled a Japanese
force 29 miles northeast of
Tengchung.
On Burma’s extreme north coast,
a Japanese thrust to the Indian
border was repulsed west of Dalet-
me. Allied headquarters said. This
front is 220 miles southwest of Im-
phal, main British base in the In-
dian border state of Manipur.
General MacArthur’s head-
quarters announced 220 tons of—
bombs have been dropped on
Japanese installations at Wakde
island and the adjacent Dutch
New Guinea coastline, raising
the two-day bomb total there
to 554 tons. Other planes hit
the Schouten islands for the
11th straight day.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’s head-
quarters reported raids on Shum-
ushu in the far-north Kurile is-
lands, on Truk and Ponape in the
Carolines and on isolated enemy
garrisons in the eastern Marshalls.
Barkeley Officer’s
Father Succumbs
NORMAN, Okla., May 16—(P
Major John Alley, 64, senior profes-
sor in the department of govern-
ment at the University of Okla-
homa, died of a heart attack last
night.
His widow and two sons in the
service, Major Harry Alley, with
the Eighth air corps in England,
and Lt. John Alley, Camp Barke-
ley, Texas, survive.
Highway Urged
Special committee of the 36th
Division Memorial commission will
carry with it the hearty support of
the Abilene chamber of commerce
when it goes before the Texas High-
way commission in Austin tomorrow
to request designation of Highway
36 as the 36th Division Memorial
highway.
A telegram was sent this
morning by the local civic or-
ganization backing up the re-
quest, according to Jack Sim-
mons, chamber of commerce
manager. Jesse F. Winters is
chairman of the highway com-
mittee of the chamber.
The special committee in Aus-
tin is headed by Mrs. Jud Collier
of Mumford, Robertson county,
who also is chairman of the Texas
Roadside Development program.
Appearing with her to urge desig-
nation of the highway will be Beu-
ford Jester, chairman of the Texas
Railroad commission; Dr. Homer
Rainey, president of the University
of Texas; and Walter Humphrey
president of the commission and
editor of the Temple Daily Tele-
gram.
A man has been prepared show-
ing the highway and areas along
its route suggested for memorial
planting in honor of the men in the
36th division who have fallen in
Italy.
The highway originates in Abi-
lene and runs diagonally southeast
across the state to Freeport on the
Gulf of Mexico. It passes through
towns that are homes of many of
the National Guard units with the
36th.
The Lirl valley affords a strongly
guarded corridor north toward
Rome, and at its mouth fast Brit-
ish armor was massing for a big
battle in the shadow of Cassino.
Reduction of the Gustav line be-
came a great battle of annihilation,
with the Americans seizing the
mountain stronghold of Spigno and
the French wiping out two regi-
ments of up to 6,000 men.
Advances since Thursday
ranged from three to eight
miles. A thousand more Ger-
mans surrendered, raising the
total to 3,000. Eight or more
villages fell; many more com-
manding mountains were taken.
The foe spoke of increased
pressure northeast of imperiled
Cassino where the British were
debouching tanks into a great
flanking drive.
General Alexander’s aim became
clear it was primarily to destroy
the German armies in Italy, rather
than to advance swiftly through the
tangles of mountains. His reserves
were not yet committed, neither
those behind the southern lines or
those in the Anzio beachhead with-
in 20 miles of Rome.
The French captured San
Giorgio, just south of the Liri,
laying bare the lanks of Cas-
sino. The town is a key to the
Liri valley leading to Rome.
They also took Monte Fammera,
Cresta Santa Lucia, Le Forche, Cas- |
4P
WHERE AMERICANS, FRENCH GAIN—Arrows indicate Allied drives in Italy. Solid imne
is front on basis of Allied communique Monday: broken line is front from which offensive
was launched Thursday. The solid line moved forward again today, as Americans charged
into Spigno, and the French into San Giorgio, threatening to outflank Cassino. (AP Wire-
photo).
Nazi Fliers Strike
At Invasion Bases
Photos Reveal
Huge Invasion
Fleet Massing
LONDON, May 16.—(UP)—Cene
sor-approved photographs-disclosed
today that the Allies already have
LONDON, May 16—(The German airforce, striking with possibly
300 planes in its own counter-invasion aerial offensive, attacked the
southern coast of England last night for the second consecutive night
and the Berlin radio said today the assault was concentrated on Ports- I massed a huge invasion armada off
mouth.the British coast, and German
broadcasts reported intensified
Defensive forces shot down six planes as the Nazis came over in
two waves shortly after midnight. Four other coastal towns felt the
weight of enemy bombs as the raiders spread through the dark sky.
A hospital was hit, causing a number of casualties.
Allied operations from British bases last night were confined to at-
tacks by Mosquito planes aaginst the industrial city of Ludwigshafen, ob-
jectives in northwest Germany, and an enemy airfield in France. Four
ale, Annunzita and Castel Nuovo. T
The Americans seized Capo Duco | InAnnacon
and three defense hills. The 131st UI UJJUSUU
and 194th regiments were declared
destroyed, the commander and staff
of the latter captured. Gen Al-
phonse Juin said the Germans were
in “disorderly retreat" before his
avenging troops.
The Weather
ABILENE and Vicinity: partly cloudy
and continued warm this afternoon, to-
night and Wednesday.
EAST AND WEST TEXAS — Partly
cloudy this afternoon, tonight, and Wed-
nesday Continued warm.
Maximum temperature 86; minimum
Tue-Mon Mon-Sun
A.M. Hour P.M.
68 69 2 84 84
60 69— 3—84 84
62 65—6-84 84
62 64 7— 82 83
virriso
YET
Treasury Backs
Night Club Levy
Grim French warriors, thirsty
for revenge against the Germans,
pursued battered and disorganized
See ITALY, Pr. 2, Col. 2
Casualties Light
ALLIES HEADQUARTERS, Na-
ples. May 16.—(PP—Allied casualties
in the new offensive in Italy have
been “less than we expected," a
member of Gen. Sir Harold Alex-
ander’s staff said today in a review
of the campaign.
The Allied command in Italy
On Demo Ballot
Hot political battles may wage
for the next few months in county,
district, state and national races,
but there are two local candidates
who can sit back and watch the
other men work.
When the deadline for filing
for district offices passed last
night, Owen Thomas, seeking
re-election as judge of the 104th
district court, and J. R. Black,
candidate for the 42d judge-
ship, were unopposed.
An uncontested race for the 42d
judgeship is nothing new, Harvey
Brown veteran reporter of that
aircraft failed to return from these
and mine laying missions.
After a week of the most intensive
bombardment in preparation for
the impending invasion. Allied aer-
ial activity from British bases has
been on a greatly reduced scale for
the last 60 hours. It appeared to
be a grim. pause for more new
crushing blows.
The invasion air preparation
was carried forward yesterday
by about 250 American Flying
Fortresses and Liberators and a
force of Thunderbolts and fight-
er-bombers which hit objectives
in France. Light ‘bombers at-
tacked an airdrome near the
hard-hit Creil railroad yards
near Paris. Marauders bombed
a railroad yard.
In these operations, as well as
widespread RAF operations the
night before, not one bomber was
lost. One escort plane failed to re-
turn.
shipping movements in the ports of
southern England.
A spokesman for the German
air force reported over the Ber-
lin radio that reconnaissance
planes had noted “fresh move-
ments of invasion barges in the
ports of southern England"
since last Friday,
Tacitly confirming Axis reports
that the Allies were massing the
greatest number of ships off Brit-
ain since the Dunkerque evacuation,
the London Evening Standard pub-
lished photographs of a large con-
centration of tank landing ships
“lying somewhere off the British
coast" and of a number of other
ships captioned, “second front land-
ing craft lying off the coast.”
Though newspapers previous-
ly had published photographs
of masses of weapons ashore,
these were the first to show
large assemblies of landings
ships admittedly lying off the
British coast.
66 69 8
72 72-9
75 76—10--
76 78—11-
79 81—12-
Sunset tonigh
WASHINGTON, May 16.—(P)-
The Treasury department today ad-
vised against any reduction at this
time in the 30 percent wartime tax
on cabaret and night club checks,
which became effective April 1.
The Treasury stated its position
in a letter to Chairman Doughton
(D-NC) of the house ways and
means committee, who had asked
the department’s opinion on a bill
by Rep. Knutson (R-Minn) propos-
ing to cut the levy to 10 percent.
has been “very pleased” with
the work of Allied airmen, said
the staff member who singled
out for special praise the French
empire troops who have been in
the thick of the drive.
But he said it was obvious the
troops of the Fifth army would not
be able to advance the next few
days as they did the first five.
He emphasized, in this connec-
tion, the difficulties imposed by ter-
rain in bringing up guns and am-
munition to the newly taken posi-
tions and the necessity of repairing
bridges.
RAMMERSTAFF FIGHTER OF
SALERNO GIVEN DECORATION
The Bronze Star, newest Ameri-
can award for heroic or meritorious :
achievement against the enemy, has -
been given Abilene s It. Col J N 1-90
Peter Green, his wife learned in A
letter from 36% division officer t pecpasisnttnr
yesterday.It
No details were given of the ac-•
tion which won him the award It W 2
was won. Colonel Green wrote, trsm spined
court, said this morning. Since 1908
there have been but five men on
that bench and an incumbent has
never been defeated.
Thomas L. Blanton was elected
to the 42d bench in 1908 and served
, for eight years, said Brown who
was appointed court reporter the
last year of Blanton’s term. In 1916
Joe Burkett was elected and served
four years.
Harry Tom King was the first of
the list of appointed judges. He was
in office for some seven months and
was followed by W. R. Ely who was
appointed and served for seven
years until accepting appointment
to the state highway commission.
The retiring judge, Milburn S.
Long. was appointed to succeed Ely
and has been on the bench 1 years.
Long is a candidate for the 11th
district court of civil appeals.
Having no opponent is a normal
situation with Judge Black. Since
appointment as 42d district attor-
ney Feb. 8, 1927, no man has an-
nounced against him.
The British railway executive
committee announced that in addi-
tion to the number of passenger
trains already “discontinued “many
more” trains will have to be with-
A Berlin broadcast said the indus- . . __
trial and communications centers of drawn during the summer without
Cologne and Mannheim were among notice "because of increasing pres-
the RAF’s targets last night and sure on the railroads,” presumably
that other Allied aircraft advanced in connection with theanspons:
into the Bight of Kiel..
RAF crews back from Ludwigshaf-
en said a large explosion was set off
after fires sprang up in the target
area.
tion of troops and supplies for the
invasion.
Dr. Kildare Author
Killed on Garigliano
Parents Hear More
From Wounded Son
Mr. and Mrs. J. McAlister Steven-
son, Lytle Lake, yesterday received
further word concerning their son,
Cpl. Fred C. Stevenson, who was
reported April 21 as having been
seriously wounded in action at An-
zio beachhead, Italy.
A letter from the War depart-
ment gave the parents his hospital
number and, although not divulg-
ing the nature of his wound, pro-
mised they would be kept inform-
ed as to his condition from time to
time. Corporal Stevenson has been
in the Mediterranean war theater
since last September and in all of
the fighting on the Italian boot. He
is in the field artillery. -
Russians Blast 3
Partisans Liberate •
“some time back."
Colonel Green was mobilized with
the National Guard three years
ago and went overseas with the
32th division a year ago in April.
It was at Salerno beach that he
coined a slogan that has become
widespread. According to stories
written from the Italian front, sev-
eral other artillery officers sug-
gested to Green that it might be
wise to move the artillery pieces
back to new positions on the beach-
head. The colonel refused.
"Well stay where we, are and
when our ammunition is gone we’ll
See GREEN, Pg. io, Col. 2
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Na- Three Key Towns
ples. May 16—(PP)—Frederick Faust, "
war correspondent for Harper’s LONDON, May 16—(P) - Large
magazine and better known under scale operations by Yugoslav Par-
the pen name of Max Brand as
a fiction and movie writer, was
LONDON, May 16—(P) — Large
LT. COL. J. N. GREEN
killed in action Thursday night on
the lower Garigliano sector, it was
disclosed today.
Faust, who wrote under four oth-
er pen names, was creator of the
Dr. Kildare stories which had wide
popularity in motion pictures. He
wrote 85 books and also quantities
of fiction and became known as
"King of the Pulps.”
Faust was killed on the opening
, night of the Fifth army offensive.
tisans in central Albania have lib-
erated the three important towns
of Koritza, Elbasani and Berati and
give-and-take battles are in prog-
ress on all fronts in Yugoslavia, a
communique from Marshal Josip
Broz (Tito) said today.
Particularly fierce battles are in
progress in Bosnia and Croatia
while in general the Germans are
striving desperately to clear im-
portant lines of communication at
any cost, said the broadcast bulle-
tin.
Nazi Transports
LONDON, May 16.—(P)—Soviet
air blows at German sea and land
transportation and local activity on
two sectors of the otherwise dor-
mant battle front were reported by
the Russian high command today.
A broadcast communique said
Russian airmen caught a con-
voy of 41 ships in the Norwe-
gian port of Kirkenes and sank
three transports totalling 19,000
tons, a self-propelled barge, an
auxiliary vessel and a patrol
cutter.
Three Nazi transports were set on
fire, and one of them was beach-
ed, the communique added. Two
other transports and an escort ves-
sel were reported damaged.
Nazi rail concentration in the
vicinity of Lwow in old Poland were
bombed and fires and explosions
were started among German mill-
tary trains and supply depots at
Ravaruskaya, Stryj. Dvinsk, Ukhno
and Dobrozin, the high command
said.
A supplemental communique told
of local fighting southeast of Stan-
islawow in old Poland and north-
west of Triaspol on the lower
Dnestr.
The Russians said the Germans
had pressed back Soviet formations
and captured a small hill at Stanis-
lawow, but added the situation was
restored later with about 100 Gere
mans slain.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 333, Ed. 2 Tuesday, May 16, 1944, newspaper, May 16, 1944; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1636096/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.