The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, March 31, 1944 Page: 1 of 6
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By GEORGE C. PALL
FOR THE first time since No-
vember Hubert and Me Worn-
bit have heard from their Hon, Lt.
Bub, from his prieto camp in
Rumauia. The letter, a «hurt one,
wait dated December 16. They
heard a few days ago that he ia
still in Rumania, but it is quite
likely that with the approach of
the Red Army into Rumania the
German* will remove their pri-
soner into German) proper, tab
said in hit* letter: "Dear folks:
Received a cablegram from you
about ten days ago but «us un-
able to reply. It really was good
to hear from home. We ure all
looking forward to getting let-
ters although it probably will be
a few monthN yet. I am ready to
get a foot now, so don't worry
about me. We are spending our
time playing bridge, chess aiul
learning to sp«<ak German. One
of the boys speaks German flu-
ently so he is teaching the rest
oí Uí .
"We got packages from the
Red Cross last Sunday, contain-
ing milk, salmon, spam, sugar,
coffee, chocolates, etc. The* were
really k«hhI. Each of us gets one
a week from now on. Guess thait"~-
about all. Tell everyone hello for
me. I am fine, so please don't
worry. Love. Bub."
T
Willi.!■: WK an ¡hinkitn. «I. .it
lluliert Womble, we can't h ip but
shudder when we realize that he
hat* sunk so low mentally to havt
I t T"l r f'r ■ beat him six
-«Straight gauics nt dunnnoes. Ves
sir. Iielieve it or not. silting in
their regular afternoon domino
session Tuesday. Cross repeatedly
left the hacker holding the sack,
(¡ame after game, until a total of
nix had been reached, were stacked
away by the stocky, snutf-dippin'
policeman. Beauty and the beats!
Just another .tie of those things,
where brawn won over brains by
a count of six to nothing.
•
JUST READ with interest in
the HEARNE DEMOCRAT where
dogs had been killed in Hearne
by Deputy Sheriff II. Smith and
Constable J, E. Cobb It - it ins that
a stray dog, infected with rabies,
came to town and proceeded to bite
several of the Hearm- canines and
« general iiog round-up became urg-
•e¡,t. 1'hi ;<_• ui\- j>, t uboul that many
mangy, ownerless curs in this
town. They roam the a tree ta all
day, and apparently belong to no
one. We are not in favor of whole-
sale dog slaughter because we are
fond of dogs, have one of our own
that we love very much, but we are
in favor of dog control. Sickly,
mangy dogs should be kept up and
treated or put out of their misery.
•
WK AKK still hobbling about on
crutches and find it awkward. Re-
ceived several cards Inst week and
a few boxes of candy From the
Ed Dusheks and Frances came a
box of home made chocolate nut
Judge which hit the spot and this
the card that came with it:
"It's not flowers that come from
the far away tropics,
But candy from friends, who
read Town Topics."
Then Flora Addison sent this
card "Aw hell, get well."
Then a NICE card from our
Sunday School Class and one from
the Methodist Youth Fellowship
and one from Mrs. Flossie Philp.
However. I believe 1 would have
got better results if I had run 11«0
announcement in the CLASSIFIED
AD SECTION.
Mrs. Hudec, at Perry's, saw that
I received a big sack of chocolate
candy. I Rot a lot of advertising
through sympathy Monday. They
lookeil at me m those crutches and
couldn't say "NO."
•
MARCH redemptions in War
Bonds are running nt a rate of
nearly 47 percent, according to
news story emanating from Wash-
ington. Imagine that! What is the
use of buying War Bonds and
•turning around and cashing them?
It does not h'-ip the government
and certainly does not help the per-
sons who do it War Bond sales are
approximating half a billion dol-
lars a month with half <lf that
amount being redeemed by others,
so that, instead of selling half 11
billion dollass worth of bonds
monthly we are realling selling
what amounts to only one quarter
billion dollars worth.
*
THAT ACE old 'maxim', COUN-
TRY BOY (JOES TO TOWN,
proved true these past two weeks
when our good friend, Ben Wolr,,
of Deanville spent ten days on a
trip to Chicago, where tin- Nation-
al convention of the Rural Elect ri-
flciation Association was held. We
had a card from him last week
showing a picture of the Stevens
hotel. The convention hcadqunrt
ers was in the ballroom of this ho-
tel. They hud everything, including
the F.B.I after Ben, while h wa-
in Chicugi However, In to! that
©al&tuell Stems
*im wi ^
AND THE BURLESON COUNTY LEDGER
*
I WATCH YOUR
EXPIRATION DAT!
VOLUME LVII—NUMBER 34
CALDWELL, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1944
PRICE $1.50 A YEAR—S CENTS A COPT
Red Cross Goal Of $8200 For County Reached
Captain Andrews Is Awarded Silvpr
Captain Theodore Andrews of Caldwell, husband of the former
Miss Mildred Mills of this cit>, music teacher in the Caldwell city
schools, was presented with a silver star award by Lieut. Gen. Mark
W. Clark at Fifth \rm> Headquarters in Italy on March II. ( apt.
Andrews, a member of tin Sfitli Division, Co. E, whose personnel is
almost entirely obliterated through casualties, most of whom ar«*
now tier man prisoners, received the Silver Star through gallantry in
action. It was not stated in which nction Captain Andrew's heroism
occurred.
Captain Andrews i the son of Mrs. John Renfro, who now re-
sides at Milano, Texas.
(C
on la t pngcl
Hearne Prison
Camp Selected
As Mai! Center
All Mail Coming to U. S.
For (ierman Prisoners To
Be Assembled Near Here
HEARNE, Texas March 'U —
(Spl.) Henceforth, all mail com-
ing into the United States for the
(ierman prisoner of war interned
in this country, will be sen' direct-
ly from the point of landing to
the Hearne Prisoner of War Camp,
it was announced this week. The
mail will be sorted here and then
routed to all Prisoner of War
Camps in the United States which
number approximately one hunurcd
ur.d fifty. All unloading and work-
ing of mail will be done by the
pn-oners, under closest supervi-
sion.
A representative from the Win
Department arrived here March 1,
and has been working with the
Camp personnel in arranging space
and the necessary facilities to han-
dle the mail an I according to bis
report, the 111 1:1 has beiv arriving
■uní has been shipped out in a sat -
¡•«factory nititrit t
A carload of mail arrives in
hearne aboo'. c . ry tin • (i-iy; « ,-
er the M's-i uri Pacific Four car-
loads of mail have been snipped,
to date, from Hearne ovi r the
Southern Pacific Lines, to the vari-
ous camps in the United State-.
The selection of the Hearne
Camp as this distributing point,
reflects the efficiency and good
management of the commanding
'Vicei and the personnel of the
camp.
Red Cross I nits Of
Centex Hospital In
Meeting At Waco
Monthly meeting of the Red
Cross Central Texas Camp and
Hospital council was held last
Thursday at Waco Army Air Field
and Miss Cathleen Cade and Mrs.
H. E. Beseda from Caldwell attend-
ed.
More than 75 women attended
the meeting from all parts of Cen-
tral Texas. They learned that ev-
erything from old felt hats and
beaded evening bags to pianos had
been among the articles donated to
Military personnel by county chap-
ters. From Burleson county came
a long list of items for these men,
including a piano and a pool table.
. lit 1* WAN It O NU* A S O «ÍAMI'
Cleve Bates
Enters Race
For Sheriff
Fourteen Years As Deputy
Sheriff Qualifies I.ocal
>lan For Job
(!. C. "Cleve" Bates, for four-
teen years a deputy sheriff in the
c unty. this week announces his
candidacy for sheriff, and author-
ises this newspaper to notify the
voters of his intentions.
Bates has been a faithful public
servant for many years and be-
lieves that his record stands him in
good stead to serve the people of
Burleson County a- their sheriff.
"1 don't see any use in giving
Woman's Club To
Bring Noted Texas
Author Here April 6
Dr. Ralph W. Steen of Texas
A. & M. College, author, lecturer
and specialist on Texas history
will lie chief speaker at the annual
Texas Day program of the Cald-
well Woman's Club, officials an-
nounced Thursday. The program
will lie held at •'!:00 o'clock Thurs-
day afternoon, April 6th, at the
Caldwell high school auditorium.
Dr. Steen is the author of sev-
ital books on Texas, among them
being "Texas, A Story of Prog-
ress." which is a text book for
junior high school students, and
"An Economic and Social History
of Texas."
Members of the Woman's Club
felt that they are fortunate in se-
curing I r. Steen as their speaker
t r the Texas Day occasion and ex-
tend a public invitation to all who
w:sh to hear his lecture.
- Hl i W A If lt« N OH 4.VD «TAMPS
Caldwell Soldier
Helps Hunt Nazi
'Ducks' In Italy
Corp. Jessie Courtney
SVt is Out Swivel (¡un
tiucks Like Fockewulfs
(Continued on last page)
Letters Recently Received From Boys Who
Are Prisoners of War and On Battlefronts
ANZIO BEACHHEAD, March 12
(Delayed) AP They crouched
in a duck blind in a grainfield on
the Anzio beachhead waiting for
more ducks to come by.
Tin y already had knocked down
five.
They had a brace of 50-caliber
n.achineguns and a 37-millimeter
cannon, and the ducks they were
after were the strafing kind.
"This is just like shooting mal-
lards in Louisiana." observed Cpl.
Edmond Fleming of New Orleans.
"We've got a blind a teal couldn't
spot."
Whereupon the old wing shot,
Cpl. JESSIE R. COI RTNEY OF
CALDWELL, TEXAS, (Note: He
is a brother of Mrs. W. E. Jancik
of Caldwell and Mrs. W. E. Row-
land, of Fort Worth) said gently,
"We've got the guns for this kind
of shooting, too. F' r shooting
strafing ducks like Messersc'nmitts
nnd Fockewulfs we need some-
thing on swivels, something we can
swing around fast, and these have
u'ot it. Those Fockewulfs come in
fast and low."
"The only ducks we've bagged
so far are Fockewulfs," said Sgt.
Marvin C. Eherman of Amery,
Wis. "We're not complaining, un-
derstand. A Fockewulf is a mighty
fine fowl."
He was interrupted by Cpl.
i larence Hooper of Huntsville,
Ark., who stuck his head out of
the radio booth and called:
"Three unidentified ducks to the
northeast."
A couple of the boys jumped
down into the blind. It looked like
a good day for ducks. The air was
cool but not cold and ugly little
cotton balls were opening at dif-
erent angles in the ky. These
>v<re .lerry shell bursts.
"Any word of them ducks," they
•isked Corporal Hooper hopefully.
"N'aw," he said disgustedly. "No
lope on 'cm."
"Well hell" said * rporal Flem-
•• ir climbing back out of the pit.
"This beachhead used to be one
of the finest duck shooting spots
on the Italian coast. But maybe
we've shot it out. They tell me
that up to yesteiday l~>> had been
bagged on the beachhead.
s i t air*
Minimum Price
On Eggs To Be
Set Locally
Merchants Take Lead To
Protect Farmers and Work
Through W. F. A.
A meeting of all grocerymen and
producemen at the district court
room in the courthouse tonight
(Friday) at 8:80 will lie held for
the purpose of filling out contracts
to establish a minimum price on
eggs, it was learned here this week
through County Agent L. C. Eakin.
Eakin stated that he and local
Farm Bureau heads had conferred
with officials of the War Food Ad-
ministration who were in Caldwell
earlier in the week. These men
pointed out that, with an over-pro-
duction of eggs all over the coun-
try, the price bad been dropping to
such an extent that an economic
problem was now present.
It is expected that a minimum
price of 2<i cents per dozen will be
set. All producemen and grocery-
men will be required to fill out ap-
nlications furnished by the War
Food Administration, which will set
up the minimum price for all. The
handlers will receive an additional
three cents per dozen of eggs for
handling, Eakin said.
Farmers are thus notified that
it will not be practical for them to
place their chickens on the market
and attempt to get rid of them be-
cause every effort is being made to
set the minimum price high enough
to allow the producers a profi
on their eggs. Eakin stated that
the 2<i cents minimum was a be-
ginning and that he expected the
minimum to be raised even higher
within a short period of time.
BUT WAK BOXD* AN 11 stamp?*
Fifteen Million
To File Income
Tax Declarations
EDITOR'S NOTE: More letters
have been received from our
Im >s in prisoner of War camps
in (iermany and Japan and we
are including these letters in
this week's issue of the NEWS:
S Sgt. Henry II. Shaw write to
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Shaw, from the (¡crinan prison
camp. Dec. 26, saying: "We bad a
very nice Christmas. The Red
Cross gave us a real nice Christ-
mas box." And another letter
written Jan. 2:t says, "I have been
getting along o.k. So fai the win-
ter lias not been so cohl. It snowed
several times but it wasn't so bad.
Mom. you all plea e don't worry
.'built me In cair e the tivatiii'lit i-
I..1 '• ■•">> •"III 1' -lie • I ■ • '!! , 111.
..Illl , .I'M! I ;:ct ' . \\ ' te •
a e ,,, v ii .ai, . • d •«■II all
tin folks bell for me."
Written on .Ian. 2 i a letter to
Mi and Mrs. Adolph Slovacek
from their son, who is also pri-
soner of war. He writes, "1 had a
very nice Christmas. Had a good
dinner but thought of all the good
things that were on mother's ta
ble. I go to church regularly. I'm
fine only I do get lonesome for you
all. Write often. Edmond."
While the majority of the na-
tion's 50 million taxpayers will find
their 1944 federal income tax obli-
gations taken care of through with-
holding by their employers, an es
timatcd 15 million will be required
to fife declarations of their estim-
ated 1944 tax by April 15. Declara-
tion forms are being mailed by the
Bureau of Internal Revenue to all
persons who filed declarations last
fall. The first quarterly payment
of estimated tax shown to be due
on the declaration should be made
at the time the declaration is filed,
the other payments to be made on
oi before .June 15, September 15,
and December 15. Farmers who re-
ceive more than SO per cent of
their income from farming, may
postpone filing their declarations
Until December 15. However, if they
wait until December they must pay
all of their estimated tax at, that
time.
BIT W A H HUNK AWD UTAH CU
Orchestra and Band
Feature Varieties
A musical and variety show for
the benefit of the Burleson County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross will be presented by picked
entertainers from Bryan Army
Airfield and College Station units
of the Armed Forces at the Cald-
well high school gymnasium Thurs-
day evening, April 1:1.
A dance orchestra and band wili
lie an added feature of the show.
Noted Humorist
To Address Rotarians
.leff H. Williams, of Chicka-
sha, Oklahoma, famous as a
humorist and homespun philos-
phcr, will be one of the keynote
speakers at the Rotary District
Conference, to be held in Hous-
ton. April 23 to 25, under the
auspices of the Harrisburg Ro-
tary Club.
Mr. Williams is a native Tex-
an but spent most of his boyhmtd
in Arkansas, where he attended
Arkansas University. Later he
studied law at the Kansas City
Law School, and he has since
been a successful practicing at-
torney.
He has been active both in the
Rotary organization and in war
work. He is a Past-Governor of
the 121th District of Rotary In-
ternational. was a member of the
Constitution and I'v-Laws Com-
mittee of Rotary International
in 1039-10, and has served as a
Director of Rotary International.
For two years he was chairman
of a committee providing aid and
relief to prisoners of war in the
Ax'f. dominated countries, is As-
sociate Administrator of the War
Savings Staff for the State of
Oklahoma, and has been giving
freely of his time and ability to
the stimulation of war bond sales.
Over the past 5 years, Mr.
Williams has traveled approxim-
ately 150,000 miles by airplane,
speaking to audiences all over
America and in some of the over-
seas countries. He is considered
by many critics to be one of the
top-ranking public speakers of
the United States.
Chriesman Store
Changes Hands
The store of Matejowsky and
Speck man, soiling general mer-
chandise and housing the Chries-
tnnn post office at Chriesman for
•11 years, since January, 1913, was
sold recently to Sumpter Dunaway.
John Speck man has served as
f'stniBstrr at Chriesman during
all those years and when asked
• hat l>e now intended to do, re-
plied. "i am gonna go to the river
and fish."
Mrs. Ethel Matejowsky. partner
in the business, indicated that she
plans to move to Houston to live.
Mrs. Eula Aiken is expected to
act ns temporary post mistress
until further notice is received
through the government post office
department.
The new owner will take over
April 1, it was said.
Figure Barely
Exceeded, Says
Local Chairman
$8229 Amount Subscribed
Through Thursday; Colored
Communities Lag Behind
Having only one day to go, the
Red Cross Drive soared over the
top Thursday with inches to spare,
as reports from D. L. Alford Jr.,
chairman of the chapter, indicated
that $2229 had been turned in.
The county quota had been set
that $H2'29 had been turned in.
throughout the month, due chiefly
ti had weather and muddy roads.
Th' ie are also several communi-
ties that have not yet completed
their work and will have addition-
al donations to make to the fund.
T here will be a sizeable amount
coming at. the end of this week
from the Matsonian Theatre, where
donations have been received twice
at the evening shows.
Alford stated that the colored
population had not responded to
the Red Cross this year as they
hav« done in the past. Many of
the colored communities have not
made any reports at all and some
have turned in only small amounts.
The city of Caldwell went over
in the early beginning and exceed-
ed its quota of $2250. Somerville,
with a quota of $1500 is about $250
behind but in all probability will
reach its quota.
It is expected that, when the
f-.nal tabulations are taken, there
will be something over $9,000
raised for the Red Cross this year.
Ilti T WAK HON IIH AND NT AMI*!
Local Ration
Board Praised
By OPA Office
Chairman Says "We Hire
Too Much To Eat In
Burleson County"
lit * w \ u in \ r
Voters To Elect
School Hoard Men
.Mrs. Elsie Autley has received
t veral letters from her son, Sgt.
Edgar Leon Ant rey and in each
one he urges her not to worry
about him, that he i all right and
' n rite fien. Hi wife ha re-
r he.! • veral letter. , at <> Lr >n
with Cu hoy ot thi :?<>th Div.,
1 v e eap'ured by the (ier-
(t oiitinui last page)
Little interest is being shown in
tin* April 1 school board elections
throughout the county and in the
city. The County b >a¡d will need
three new member- l"hn Lewis,
Trvin Worthington and H. E, Res-
eda are up for re-election, although
two of these men would not write
their names on the ticket, but
agreed to serve if the> are elect-
ed. John Lewis and II E. Reseda
would not write then names on
the ticket, but W'ir'h. ngton did
write his.
In the i ity Choi !
three n< u month* •
■o. II. II. Womb!..
-• 41111 I >i IÍ. J Sa\
i l l . \*hn-e • -IV.*. e
l ie are up f •
ipp . tiun.
i election
¡ceded al
I. M .ore
the mem-
•bis year.
!' without
Dotson Of Deanville In Hand-To-Hand
Fiirhtinii With Nazis In North Africa
Sergeant Louis H. Dotson of
Caldwell, Ro tc one, near Dean-
ville, came home last week and
surprised his folks. Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Dotson, farmers. The serg-
eant was fresh from the Italian
wai theatre ;.ud was among the
cue percent who receive furloughs
this month.
Dotson. a member of the Signal
Corps, was in the North African
campaign, the invasion of Sicily
and fought in Italy after the :ifith
Division had established a beach-
head at Salerno.
Sergeant Dotson, a rough and
ready soldier, wa in the middle
of hand-to-hand fighting with the
t.ornan- in North A fri'.i and ear
'• • i i. tlir ugh th entire course
oí imttle until the enemy wa-
wiped out and p. -bed into the sea
UTltl
t
ierman dead but indicated that
he was there where they were
Iropping.
"The German, when they were
reed to retreat, would always
leave an Italian rear-guard and
these Italians, fifty or sixty at a
time, were forever looking for
somebody to surrender to," said
Dotson.
"After I got into Italy I saw
several of the boys of the With but
that was after the boys in Com-
pany E had been captured or
w uinded or killed I saw Loss War-
lick. Theodore Kudclka, Osic Moore,
Coovge Hartv tt and another boy
• riint Somerville whose name has
lipped my mind. They were all
,icll and had n t In. scratched then.
Sergeant Dotson will be hone for
21 day and then, in .ill pr liability,
ther I will be assigned as instructor
any i u:ew he 11 m the «tale-.
Stephen J. Tully, head of th«
district office of price administra-
tion at Houston, in a telegram to
R. S. Bowers, chairman of the War
Price and Rationing Board of this
county, praised the work of the
local board in handling their part
in connection with the nations em-
ergency store check.
The telegram read as follows:
"The Houston District staff join
me in congratulating you and your
unselfish workers upon the fine
way and the dispatch with which
you handled your part of the na-
tion's emergency store check. We
are proud that, because of your co-
operation, the Houston District waa
the first in the O.P.A. six state
district to report 100 percent com-
plete. I know you feel with me that
this accomplishment has been a
definite step forward in our effort
to safeguard the public interest
and to promote closer cooperation
among the nearly five thousand
food dealers in our area."
After receiving the telegram, R.
S. Bowers, chairman of the local
board issued the following state-
(Continued on last page)
COURT HOUSE HEWS
Marriage Licenses
Thado L. Schoppe and J. L. Mon-
roe.
Probate Matters
Estate of B. K. Rowland, de-
ceased; Mrs. Pansy Rowland, appli-
cation to be appointed administra-
trix; to be heard on Monday, April
:i 1944.
Estate of Mrs. L. A. Tottenham,
deceased; Will was probated. W.
F. Tottenham, of Brenham, ap-
pointed executor, without liond. J.
E. Mrnustik, Dan Howry and J.
W. Porter, named appraisers.
Estate of Mrs. Maggie Lynch;
Will admitted to probate.
Land Transactions
Harvey-Schiller Co. to Bennie
and I#ouis Loehr; deed to 30 acres,
Kuykendal survey; part of Grant
estate.
City of Caldwell to Geo. H.
Shaw; deed to J. D \utrey place
in South Caldwell.
Emily W. Hughes and Mary W.
( tide, and husbands to Carril J.
P 'lasck: deed to <¡S acres near
' 4.'s Point.
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