The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 183, Ed. 2 Thursday, December 21, 1944 Page: 7 of 16
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1
mber 21, 1944.
Thursday Evening, December 21, 1944
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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Guam. Rear-
Adm. Richard 59 Age
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EDWARD
c 0 WAR CORRESPONDENT'S NOTEBOOK (
LEAVES FROM A WAR U by Hal Boyle
"I was lucky-it was loaded,” said
the corporal "I fired, and then
there was another good Nazi—a
dead one.”
manded am-
phibious oper-
ations at —
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balanced
61 Brilliancy
VERTICAL
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nent raise their
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sts have gone far,
Lise would permit
s and clerks al
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then they got to
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ley and the posts
ment—or, rather,
General Walker-
lat $400 raise @t
ment has made a
of postal service
thin a few weeks
e recommendation
congress. a
a flat increase.
oard—$400 to the
only $1,700 ant
man making $9,-
ommendations are
suggest:
f various kind in
des and for peo-
different salaries
to top.
y present inequali-
smoothed out and
alary structure of
nade more faimto
le problem seems
e up in the next
here's no telling
tppen to it
It Memphis
118 Weapons
19 Greater (
F ‘quantity
20 Crimson 4
22 Postscript
t (ab.)
23 Winnow
, 24 Near
' 26 Decigram
| 27 Paid notice
28 Spain (ab.)
30 Fish
32 Wicked
34 Note in
Guido’s scale
36 Brazilian
macaw
3 Close to
4 Giant king of
1 Bashan
11 Dutch city
14 Nova Scotia
(ab.)
17 Aid
19 Manufactured
21 The gods
23 Music note
24 Harsh to the
taste
42 Mystic
syllable
44 Arabian gulf
45 Varnish
ingredients -
46 Slide /
48 Require
49 Jump on one
foot
50 Anger
5 Lady Literate 25 Stories -
in Arts (ab.) 28 Air raid alarm 51 3.1416
6 Sweet 29 Flying vehicle 52 Cloth measure
secretion
7 Sweet
1. potatoes
18 We
19 Press
10 Pinnacle
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31 Sped
33 Huge tub
37 Weary
38 God of war
41 North Caro-
lina (ab.)
is IL IT
54 Blood money
55 Sailor
57 Steamship
(ab.)
58 Biblical
pronoun
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ROW I
. Lippmann are not
ounded Men
essary risks with the
ir own communit led
de an appeal to@ach
0 women. The Army
nswers, and 237 signed
the whole 27,000 the
s new recruits than
irses who for various
had to leave the nurse
the month of Nerem
is situation, which da
ency and will become
: must first recognise
s. Women are not ub-
raft. They cannot be
rve. Moreover, unlike
r industries, they can-
5 serve by giving them
They are neither com-
used; they have neith-
ty nor a pecuniarfe
eans that each womi
rs must do so because
1 r
nuch higher sense
han we expect or finde
al average of this on
ition. ■
ans also that Oaebg
who has to make the
sting is in fact offered,
ucement not to enlist
in civilian nursing, she
■ to place herself under
Ine. or go away from
e the discomfortstino
Ice in the theaters
n make a great deal
because the civilians
e a lot of money, and
o pay high prices for
te nursing Finallyagseg
considerable pressure
I another to stay where
> to protect her job and
Iter the war. a s
lough they are fit and
Uy responsibilities, @av «
duty under the law to
ountry: there are com-
ial and institutional,
light be called profes-p
union pressures upon,
efer civilian to military,
result to not on Pl to
nlistment in the nurse,
create inertia and red
the face of the many
orts being made to 41
pply of women who can
sing, be it as nugres
a Only an aroused and
iblic opinion, focused Ml
a Congressional inquiry,
this logjam in the red
women to nurse the sick
d soldiers of the Ameri
elieve it is necessary for
a has seen our wounded
broad to talk as if the
the men and their
I their fellow citizens
reminded of the human
They can imagine, with -
e telling them, what it
e on a bed of pain un-
id uncared for over long
time. When I say un-
: am not talking About
and medical treatment,
universal testimony beta
y army has ever had in
be record of the Medical
far is brilliant—measure
Ives it has saved, by the
t men who have gen
crippling effects of their
the number of men 9
ood health who in othi
! have become lifelong
1 saying not on my or
if course but on this
sible commanders, thi
cannot be sustained]
f the surgeons end do
the devoted Army nurs
ben is not reinforced |
nore women—by wome
how to nurse the -
y their presence, and b
are women moving abo
1 who are in pain, in fe
spirits, and are lonel
will to live and to recove
t, 1944, New York di
36 Lease
38 Solar disk
39 Bachelor of
Science (ab.)
40 Within
42 Either
43 Compass point
44 Circle part
45 Lone Scout
(ab.)
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Played impor-
tant parts at
Salerno and
Namur
49 Conceal.
81 Pallid
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Britons Clear One Third of
Athens, Hand Out Supplies
ATHENS. Dec. 21—(UP)—Brit- With the extension of the British
ishoforces cleared one third of “island" in the center of Athens,
Athens, today, permitting the dis-
tribution of food and other relief
supplies on a large scale for the
first time since hostilities began
WITH THE AMERICAN SEC-
OND INFANTRY IN GERMANY-
Dec. 9— (Delayed)—(PP)— It all start-
ed In a tomato patch.
The brawny artillery corporal on-
ly wanted to pick a few fresh to-
matoes—but one thing led to an-
other and before he was through
he had knocked out a Nazi pill-
box, two machine guns, and a heavy
enemy flak gun.
And Joseph Martino did it all
with captured German weapons:
The corporal, a 25-year-old 200-
pounder who used to play high
school football and drive a truck
back in New Haven, Conn , was no
stranger to heroism. He wears the
Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.
But this day Martino, chief of an
artillery observation party, wanted
tomatoes, not medals.
He lay with a group of infantry
soldiers held up by Germans de-
fending the pillbox strongpoint.
Nearby, a lone civilian, calmly pick-
ed tomatoes, oblivious of personal
danger.
Martino could stand It no
longer: "If a civilian can pick
those tomatoes I can, too," he
said.
And he did. He wormed forward,
picked what he wanted and got
back safely. Waiting for him with
a grin was the battalion command-
er, Lt. Col. John M. Hightower, Las
Cruces, N M.
As Martino started to crawl back
to pick some more. Hightower call-
ed jokingly "why can't you get that
flak gun instead?”
“I can do that, too,” Mar-
tino caled back as he disappear-
ed into some bushes. He prov-
ed his boast.
One doughboy and another artil-
leryman gamely volunteered to help
him.
They had to cross a main high-
wav and a high stone wall before
they could get at the enemy em-
placement. This wall had blocked
the artillery, Infantry and armed
reconnaissance cars. Concentrated
fire from the German-flak gun and
two machine guns made the high-
way impossible.
Martino took a chance. He
rolled a length of abandoned
tile pipe across highway. A
rattling burst of enemy bullets
and flak shattered It instant-
ly.
One of Martino's helpers then
decided to drop out of the par-
and one mine exloded.
“It just threw some dirt over
me. Martino said.
But that experience convine-
cd the other soldier it was use-
less to try to go on. He stay-
ed in the ditch. Not Martino.
He sighted his first Nazi soldier
near the gun emplacement. He was
50 yards away. Martino had only |
ty.
Martino and his remaining com-
rade dashed quickly across the road a German pistol, and that was a
and plunged into the ditch before risky range. So when he found a
the enemy could cut loose again.dead German in a ditch, he took his
Martino landed in a mine field rifle.
2 Lb. Pkg. 1
Paisley
Water
Softener
39
Protected by an embankment
Martino quickly covered the 5
yards to the body of the men h
had shot and stripped him of tw
Rites Pending for
Louise Snowden, 18
BUFFALO GAP, Dec. 21—Funer-
al for Louise Snowden, 18, daugh-
PAGE SEVEN
mother and brothers, Ed Jr., and
Fredsam, to receive treatments.
Surviving are her parents, broth,
ers, and grandmother, Mrs. San
Snowden of Colorado City.
' ter of Mr and Mrs Ed Snowden
’ of Colorado City, will be conducted 1
German grenades He pulled out
the pins and dropped the grenades
on the enemy gun crews, killing
two more men.
The Nazis had enough of this
wild one man army. Five came out
shouting kame rad I" Moving up
now, the Americans took 20 more
prisoners and mopped up the area.
1-----—------
Ninety-five per cent of Haiti's
population of 3,000,000 are pure-
blooded Negroes
there at a time to be announced I
later. /
Miss Snowden died in Buffalo
Gap where she had come with her
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2
two and a half weeks ago
(The dispatch indicated the
“Ditish had launched the all-
r out offensive against ELAS gun
positions with Lt. Gen. Ronald
art Scobie, the British command.
, had said would be undertaken
at 9 a. m. today with “field
and naval artillery, strafing,
-mnieckets and bombs.")
Left wing ELAS units were rout-
ed from new areas in both central
-and southwestern Athens, including
• one district northeast of the Acro-
• polls and another northwest of the
Athens-Faliron-Piraeus road.
.. The Athens-Faliron road itself
Anglo-American relief agencies be-
gan distributing 60 tons of canned
meat to 75,000 inhabitants in the
cleared area with an average of
36 ounces going to each recipient
at a cost of about five cents.
Free soup was distributed to 10.-
000 persons in Athens yesterday,
but another 1.200 planned servings
had to be cancelled in the late
afternoon because of sniping.
Four Greek policemen armed
with tommy guns arrested John
Rallis, puppet prime minister
during the German occupation,
in the fourth-floor apartment
of an industrialist friend yes-
terday.
Rallis, who had escaped from
Avorow political prison during an
ELAS attack on the structure, ac-
companied the police quietly to
remained impassable except for ar- . .
mored vehicles, though British what was described only as "an-
troops began an offensive to clear other place."
it three days ago.
Former Ovalo Vet
Killed in France
■ OVALO, Dec. 21—Pfc. Henry E
Day, 26, died Nov. 12 somewhere
in France, his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Day of Brownfield,
ft Mnerly of Ovalo, have been in-
formed.
"Private Dav overseas since No-
vember, 1942, had taken part in the
invasions of Africa, Sicily, Italy and
Southern France. He entered the
Army in March, 1942 and trained
at Camp Wallace and Camp Hulen.
- Day is survived by his parents,
six brothers and six sisters.
Waelder Rites for
rAbilenian’s Mother
[' Funeral for Mrs. J. C. Miller,
mother of Mrs Robert Batjer, 626
Popular, who died at her home in
Waelder early yesterday, will be in
I the home there at 2:30 p. m. Fri-
Drs Batjer and her two children,
Robert and Susan, have been in
Waelder since last Saturday and
Mr. Batjer went there last night.
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YOUR MEMORIAL TO
A BELOVED WAR HERO
A Hospital Room Perpetuating in Years of Service to
Humanity the Name of That Loved One
A new wing Is nearing completion at Hendrick Memorial Hospital.
It will provide 24 more patient rooms—rooms which will go into
immediate use because of Abilene's need for increased hospital
facilities.
Throughout Hendrick Memorial Hospital, bronze door plaques
acknowledge the gifts, through the years, of furnishings for private
rooms. Many of these are memorials to well known West Texans
who have served in many fields of endeavor.
Today, our thoughts dwell often on the young West Texans who
have served on our country's fields and waves of battle—who have
given their lives in this war.
What more fitting memorial to them than a gift. In tribute to
their service to country, of a hospital, room’s furnishings to serve
the community's ill and injured in the years ahead?
Nendrick Memorial Hospital
Abilene, Texas
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