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America Will Be Made Or Lost In Next Five Years, Shuler Tells Crow
West Texas' Ltfdlng City Mor* Hum 16,000 Bmitn
Sweetwater Reporter
BUT IT IN SWEETWATER
*46th Year
"West Texas' Leading Newspaper"
Sweetwater, Texas, Monday, July 19, 1943
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
Number 173
£ More Jap Ships Sunk Trying To Aid
Doomed Qarrison At Munda Fortress
SICILIAN ARMIES WAVER
CLARK I P ATT ON
GREEN
ILAND
RUSSIA
GREAT
BRITAIN^
^ U. S. A.
Son Francisco
Son Antonio
Now York
Memphis
Atlantic Ocean
AFRIC
Pacific Ocean
SOUTHWEST
PACIFIC
AUSTRALIA
THESE ABE THE MEN who are in direct command of the seven armies of the U.S.A. The gen-
erals and their headquarters or areas of command are: First Army,* Lieut.-Gcn. Hugh, Drum,
Governor's Island, N. Y.; Second Army, Ma.i.-Gen. Lloyd R. Fredendall, Memphis, Tenn.; Third Ar-
my, liieut.-Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas; Fourth .Army, Lieut.-
Gen. John L. I>e Witt, the Presidio, San Francisco; Fifth Army, liieut.-Gen. Mark W.Clark, North
Africa; Sixth Army, liieut.-Gen. Walter Krueger, Southwest Pacific; Seventh Army, Lieut.-Gen.
George S. Patton, jr., Mediterranean, his army fighting in Sicily.
They're In Bigtime War Now
TENT FILLED
/OR OPENING
OF REVIVAL
f "There is too much liquor and
oo much loose living in Amer-
ica, and it must not happen that
we win the war and lose the
moral standards that have made
ihe Nation great."
A The Kev. Bob Sfculer evange-
list opening a city-wide revival
"n Sweetwater told 1,000 people
last night.
Practically all seats in the
great tent were filled, and an
overflow audience occupied
chairs outside.
Expressing the hope that u
great spiritual revival might
stein from Sweetwater, the I.os
_\ngeles man told of the peril in
lowering moral standards be-
cause of the war.
He urged parents to take a
careful and prayerful attitude in
counseling their teen-age young-
sters, and told personal incidents
Vevealing an appalling tendency
to iver-evaluate the uuiiuim it-
self.
lie has two sons now in active
eeervice, and others that he ex-
pects to be serving before the
I.Var ends.
The real fighters, the real
cream of Amcriou's young
men, do not want any sur-
render of ideals among the
girls, he said; and he de-
• pi'centcd the fact that too
many girls of high school
age are being ruined
through' fali^e conceptions of
] • it riot ic duties and' ideals.
"Christ is the only unfailing
foundation for my life, and for
America," the speaker said, giv-
ing it as his central theme. He
was converted at the age of 9 in
the mountains of Virginia, and
credits America's 'freedom for
#11' with giving him a chance
for education, schools and chur-
ches.
See TENT FILLED Page 4
v
|/ f Weather Forecast
EASIT TEXAS — Little chan-
ge in temperature this afternoon
and tonight; a few scattered
thunder storms near the upper
^oast this afternoon.
*' WEST TEXAS — Little chan-
ge in temperature this afternoon
and tonight; scattered thunder
showers in the El Paso area, Big
Send country and Pecos valley.
"Nothing new ever happens
around here," writes Ray Farris,
North Africa, first radio mechan-
ic on two B-25 Mitchell bombers,
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
A. Farris of Sweetwater.
Probably plenty happens that,
Ray * not permitted by censor-
ship to write home. A former
circulation manager of the
Sweetwater Reporter, Ray has
been in North Africa since the
invasion, entering that country
at French Morrocco.
Ray told of the serviceable
use of his metal helmet, which
answers to the purpose of'% per-
sonal valet. "We use them for
washing our hands, shaving, as
a tub for laundrying socks and
handkerchiefs and bathing."
The men are allowed to swim
three times a week, and have
laundry service for fatigue suits
and other clothing.
He spoke of his making a
comfortable bed out of scrap
lumber and crooked nails, "com-
plete with locker at the foot
and on the sides, and now I can
kepo things clean."
A recent story from a strategic
airbase where Ray is stationed,
told of the men once being quar-
tered in an old French school-
house. Algebra problems of the
children still were on the
blackboards.
The bomber group, in which
Ray is a mechanic, and First
Lt. L. A. Ritter of Sweetwater
is a first pilot, has accounted
for 128 ehemy fighter planes,
the war correspondent told in
his story, has strewn the Med-
iterranean with wreckage of
German and Italian ships, and
has blasted Sicily, Sardinia and
North African ports day after
day for months (before Tunis.)
its men have been awarded
370 decorations, and completed
1,564 sorties and 94 missions
with 4,930 hours in the air.
The story said that the bomb-
er group had dropped two mil-
lion pounds of bombs on Axis
shipping and towns. The unit
also played a big part in deve-
loping the American medium
bomber tactics used in this area
which played a great hand in
final victory.
v
Seven Men Fined
For Gambling
Picked up Sunday by Jess
Lambert, sheriff, seven Sweet-
water men, arraigned today in
justice court, entered pleas of
guilty to gaming.
Fines collected amounted to
$319. Six were fined $19 on the
charge and the other $25.
HOPE HELD
FOR LYNCH
IN PACIFIC
•Hope is held by Mrs. Jack
Oglesby Lynch, the former
Louise Flack of Sweetwater, for
the safety of her husband, En-
sign Lynch, who was aboard
the U.S.S. Helena, a 9,700 ton
cruiser sunk in the first battle of
Kula Gulf, July G.
Her mother. Mrs. Tom Flack,
returned Sunday from visiting
her daughter, who is employed
for the duration in F'ort Worth.
She believes since Mrs. Lynch
has received no word of his be-
ing missing, that he probably
was rescued with 161 seamen
picked up on a Japanese-occupi-
ed island of the New Georgia
group Sunday.
Rescue of the men by two
destroyers was said to be one of
the war's most daring events.
Eyewitnesses pointed out
that some of the rafts to which
survivors were clinging were
seen to be drifting north, which
would carry them to Japanese-
held islands north of the Solo-
mons.
DETAILS OF RESCUE
SOMEWHERE IN T H E
SOUTH PACIFIC, July 17 —
(Delayed) — (UP) — An Amer-
ican destroyer force, sneaking
through uncharted straits at
the risk of air, submarine and
surface attacks, rescued 161 sur
vivors of the cruiser USS Hele-
na from a Japanese-occupied is-
land Thursday night, it was an-
nounced today.
Only one attempt was made
to halt the rescue—a lone Jap-
anese plane attempting to bomb
a destroyer lying off the island
where the survivors of the Hele-
na; sunk July 5 in Kula gulf in
a battle in which U. S. forces
sank six Japanese warships,
had taken refuge. The destroyer
was untouched. (A communique
from allied headquarters in the
southwest Pacific said nine to
11 enemy ships were sunk in
the first Kula gulf battle.)
The rescue force, accompanied
by allied war planes, sailed close
to a Japanese naval base to
bring out the survivors, many of
whom had been In the water for
more than two days before being
washed ashore.
By United Press
American jungle fighters
attacking with aid of an aerial
assault hit Munday trom two
sides today in a final drive to
wrest airbase from its Japanese
garrison as eight more Japanese
ships were reported sunk by.
Allied planes and naval forces.
A spokesman for Gen. Doug-
las MacArthur indicated the base
may now be entirely surround-
ed and that its fall to weary Am-
erican troops beating through
stiffening defenses is only a
matter of time.
Allied warships chased off two
formations of enemy destroyers
—altogether nine ships—trying
to break through to besieged
Munda. One may have been sunk
and three were damaged.
Allied planes sank a cargo shin
and damaged two destroyers and
another .merchantman in attacks
Sunday in the northern Solo-
mons where 24 hours earlier
nearly 200 planes sank a light
cruiser, two destroyers and four
other vessels.
On the New Guinea end of the
Pacific war front, American and
Australian ground forces moved
closer to Salamaua, enemy base
on the northeast coast, as Allied
planes drove off a formation of
50 enemy fighters over the area.
DUCEUNITS
ON SICILY
WAVERING
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa, July 19 — (UP)—
Allied armies swept forward be-
hind shattering air and naval
bombardments in Sicily today
and army reports indicated that
Italian forces were beginning to
crack up all over the island ex-
cept outside the east coast city
'See UNITS Page 4
AS U. S. ACES BOMB BOME
ISLAND NOW
ONE THIRD
CONQUERED
Red Army Traps Thousands
ALLIES MOVE
AHEAD IN
SICILY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa, July 19 — (UP)—
Allied invasion armies advanc-
ed along the whole Sicilian front
again today, meeting heavy op-
position around the east coast
city of Catania, seizing the road
center of Caltanisseta on the
central front and fanning out j tj1(
MOSCOW, Jul/ 19— (LP/ -The
Russian armies today fought
deeply into the hedgehog defens-
es of Orel, made scytho - like
swipes at the rear of several big
German units today, and threat-
ened thousands of troops with
encirclement and annihilation.
Front reports of slow but stea-
dy Soviet advances tightening a
steel band against the Orel sal-
ient said advanced elements were
racing on ahead to slice in be-
hind German pockets of resist-
ance and threaten their retreat
I route.
Field dispatches indicated the
! three-way drive on Orel had
j brought one striking force to a
j point between 12 and 20 miles
east of the city. A descent from
north toward the Bryansk-
from Agrigento on the west. 1
Canadian forces smashed 15
miles northwest from Caltagir- i jjner
one on the central front and j
took the town of Piazza Armer-1
ina, thus joining with the Am- j
ericans at Caltanissetta in a pin- j
cers drive against the Axis base
of Enna, only 10 miles away, j
At some points, allied troops
have now advanced 50 miles or
more from their landing places I
on Sicily.
With one-third of Sicily alrea-!
dy„ in allied hands, the British !
and Canadians in the hardest
fighting of the campaign seized
vital bridge positions on the Cat-
ania plain and pushed to within !
easy gun range of the burning
coastal city, leaving many dead
Germans and Italians on the
field. A spokesman warned,
however, that stiff fighting lay
ahead at heavily-bombarded Ca- j
tania.
On the central front, Ameri-
cans stormed into Caltanissetta,
seizing the main axis communi- j
efftj^ns,. to the west and advanc- j
Mff; 'I.' "wfthin y; dozen m'vJes of
the enemy's main-mid-island con- [
centration point at Enna.
The American operations, T „ , T
thrusting* northward at a point j First Lt. Lob Long, who reach-
about 55 miles west of Catania, ec^ Sweetwater Saturday night af-
appeared to be threatening the | ter having participated in o0
enemy's entire right flank in 'a ! missions over enemy held terri-
Orel railway registered more
progress, threatening to cut the
and slice across the base
of the German bulge. The south-
ern group reported steady but
undefined progress.
The Soviet press said the bit-
terness of German resistance was
explained by the "mortal fear of
another Stalingrad looming."
The newspaper Pravda said
that in one river valley after bit-
ter battles the Russians cleared
a wide area and established a
firm bridgehead from which
they were preparing to storm a
key objective.
The Red air force neverthe-
less was reported firmly in con-
trol of the' skies, as evinced by
the destruction of 58 German
planes in aerial combat yester-
day.
v
Li. Long Tells
Rotary Of Air
War In Europe
TODAY'S
WAR
MOVES.
S. Pat. Off.)
(Keg. U.
By Louis F. Keeinle
UP Wiir Analyst
American progress in the sou-
thwest Pacific offensive against
the central Solomons and New
Guinea continues highly satis-
factory from the operational
point of view.
Japanese sea and air losses
have been considerable and Am-
erican losses light in compari-
son. Yet the gains made in near-
ly three weeks since the offen-
sive started are not large in re-
lation to the great area involv-
ed.
Rather than giving a false
picture of a triumphant and
speedy American sweep north-
ward through the Pacific islands
the results to date serve to em-
phasize the slow and ' difficult
nature of the task ahead.
The Japanese losses, if they
continue at the present rate,
are bound eventually to weaken
their defense power and thus in
the course of time to accelerate
the American progress. Yet that
is a considerable look ahead.
Since Japan's main naval stren-
gth still is safely out of range
and her air resources not ser-
iously tapped.
The difficulty in routing the
Japanese in an island by is-
land campaign once they have
gotten a foothold was aptly put
the other day by Gen. W. E.
Lynd, commander of the fourth
air force in California. He said:
By United Press
The Allies bombed Rome for
| the first time today coincident
! with reports that the Italian de-
fenders of Sicily were showing
(It was practically an All-Am-
j erican show, but Cairo reports
: said some British planes took
parr in the raid.)
signs of cracking up.
The attack on Rome, pointing
up the Allied warning to Italy
to get out of the war or be knock-
ed out, was more than a token
raid Heavy and medium bomb-
ers plastered railway targets
near Rome's central station, and
Bern reports said the assault
caused some measure of panic
in the city.
At the same time Allied land
armies slashed deeper into the
Italian flank, surging ahead ev-
erywhere except on the east
coast where they encountered
stiff resistance before Catania.
splitting and turning movement
while other allied forces stab-
bed into the line near Catania
in drives that threatened Ger-
bini airdrome and roads south-
west of Mount Etna.
See ALLIES Page 4
tory, told of his exploits today at
the noonday meeting of the Ro-
tary club.
Rev. Bob Shuler, evangelist
from Los Angeles, Calif., in
Sweetwater conducting a revival.
See LT. LONG Page 2
"The .laps do
any place they
don't go away,
them."
not leave
hold. They
You just kill
That has been shown convinc-
ingly in Papuan New Guinea, I
Guadalcanal, Kiska, and is being [
shown again in the Central Sol- j
onions. Munda has been pounded
into uselessness as a Japanese ;
base and is almot surrounded, j
Its fall is extremely probable, ! lied
See WAR MOVES Page 6 See
Caltanisetta, hub of central
Sicily's communications, fell
to the American Seventh ar-
my. To the east Piazza Ar-
merina was captured, and a
pincers movement against
Ihe Axis base of Enna ap-
peared prospective.
The history-making raid close-
ly followed a record 500-plane
assault on Naples which all but
obliterated that great Italian
port city. It came three days
after President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Winston Chur-
chill warned Italy to get out of
the war or die.
Even as bombs from Allied
heavy and medium bombers of
the northwest American air
force were crashing on Rome
shortly before noon, land armies
were slashing through Sicily.
British troops were advancing
near or in the outskirts of Ca-
tania, and the Americans were
fanning out from the west and
west-central positions toward the
heart of Sicily.
With one-third of Sicily in Al-
hands after none days of
ISLAND Page 6
The Avenger Qirls Pulled
When Their Horses Dashed
Plenty Of Leather
From Snyder Arena
Even the Avenger girl flier
who took a mean tumble, when
that double-ridden donkey spilled
its cargo to the ground in the
Snyder rodeo arena, had a good
time Saturday night.
The girls rode double behind
cowboys, a few even taking the
saddle and letting the horsemen
ride behind. There weren't en-
ough horses to go round, and the
loud speakers kept blaring out
challenges to the "bashful cow-
boys," to ride their mounts up
to the Avenger fliers' section to
"get 'em." Apparently, all the
girls kept looking hopefully to
the paddocks for more horses,
and more men.
A H AH-AH-AH
Most of the Avenger girls
held with one or two hands
to the back of the saddle,
when riding behind their
cowboys at Snyder's rodeo;
but when the horses were
put into a swift gallop to
make a rousing exit the fu-
ture "WAFS didn't hesitate
to pull all the leather in
sight.
One girl, who had held her
arms lightly about her pil-
ot's waist, grabbed lilni full
strong when the equine went
out of the arena with all its
"motors roaring."
Those that got to ride had a
"huge time," riding the horses
—behind their cowboys—into the
arena for the flag demonstration;
and in a grand finale leaving the
arena—horses galloping swiftly,
and the girls hanging on desper-
ately at times. But the girls
stuck on amid the plaudits of the
sympathizing crowds.
Major Robt. K. Urban, some of
the establishment officers at Av-
enger, other officers from the
field, along with Big Spring Bom-
bardier school officers arrived
late for the Saturday night show.
Start of the program was held up
while they were being feted by
the rodeo management.
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AVENGER FERItY COMMAND TRAINEES in formation, as shown aliovc have been an outstanding feature of program* in
which they have participated. Trained to go through some "of the most intricate maneuvers the girls never fail to draw ohs and
ahs by their precision work. The planes for a background add significance to this Avenger photo.
gation began to hope Avenger
officers would follow suit. Major
however, I Urban and his fellow officers en-
For Sweetwater spectators
The military group, and a large
number of civilians, including
Charles E. Paxton, Victory com-
mander and the girl fliers' offi-
cial "Sweethert," Ross Covey,
school superintendent and the
T. P. Johnsons were part of the
record crowd of 8,000.
A feature of the program was
collection of more than $200 for
a man seriously injured in the
Friday night's competition The
horse he had ridden was well apparently stepped on him.
handled by another cowboy, who | He went on with the show,
injured, however,
also was
making his descent.
The trick riding of a five-year-
old cowboy on his pony was po-
pular with the spectators.
And the clown was up at the
top in the calf tying and roping.
The crowd really felt for the
fun maker when his steer tossed
him off in that riding event, and
a thrill came when Mrs. Cli#
Denton, chief Avenger estab-
lishment officer rode her
mount into the arena along
with* show officials, Big
Spring officers and others.
She did well with her horse,
and the large Sweetwater dele-
j joyed the show', but left the rld-
I ing to the bomb boys.
The exhibition of low-flying
bombers roaring over the field
was good, and timely; Irut some
skittish horses just about un-
loaded their cargo; and prompted
advice on the loudspeaker Few
spills marred the event.
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