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ALLIES OPEN BIG PUSH TO MOP UP ETNA DISTRICT
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ulation of 345,000 at tint* of Nasi conquest, May. 1
Legendary home of Icarus, "first man to fly," Crete fell
to invaders from the sky. Mythology names Mt. Ida as
birthploce of Zeus, king of the gods. For centuries a
strategic spot in the Mediterranean, Crete guards an
trance to the Aegean. Peosonts of Greek origin raise
lemons, grapes, olives. Candea has fine harbor.
ritish amphibious
lores! staged Com-
mando roid on north
coast airfields
night of July 4, 1943
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approaches to the Aegean Sea and Greece;. German parachutists and airborne troops made military history here
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U. S. PEOPLE
'CONTINUE
.'BEST FED'
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—(UP)
•—American civilians will con-
tinue to be the best fed in the
jvorld.
* The first, official announce-
ment of the Bureau of Agricul-
tural Economics on the 1943 food
outlook underscored that oft-re-
peated statement of food offi-
cials by revealing that total food
^production in 1943 will be four
per cent higher than in 1942
when all previous records were
smashed.
The record food outlook doesn't
■mean that, civilians will have
more food available for them,
however. In fact, the apparent
overall civilian consumption for
1943 will be six per cent under
the 1941 record, but four per
^pent larger than the 1935-39 av-
erage.
The only "if" in the BAE pro-
duction statement was that its
estimate was contingent upon av-
erage weather for the rest of the
^ear and continuation of the
present trend in record livestock
production—both of which are
likely prospects.
Livestock production is
the key to the present total
9 food outlook, and BAE fig-
ures confirmed war food ad-
ministration predictions of
last week that the current
meat shortage will end soon
with a flood of beef, lamb
® and pork. It is meat produc-
tion that will hoost total
food production above last
year's figures.
Food crops, even though ac-
reage will exceed 1942 by three
gee AMERICANS'Page 4
County Surveyor
"Office Is Moved
His office is now located in the
north font office of the Mont-
gomery Ward building, C. C.
tjoopef. county surveyor stated
woday.
The office was moved Friday.
Previous to this time, it was lo-
cated in the county clerk's of-
fice.
E. Q. Daniels will have charge
^tf the office for the next few
days while Mr. Cooper is out of
town doing engineering work.
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Weather Forecast
* SWEETWATER — Slightly
cloudy and increasing winds,
not much change in tempera-
ture. High Sunday 100, low
this'morning 78, at 11:30 today
*95.
v EAST TEXAS — Little chan-
ge in temperature this after-
noon and tonight and Tuesday
morning.
WEST TEXAS—Little change
Jn temperature this afternoon
*(nd tonight and Tuesday morn-
ing; scattered thunder showers
In the El Paso area and Big Bend
country. _
ALLIES EXPLODE' CITY
AFTER CITY IN REICH
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2 —
(UP) — The 2,000000 "tough and
efficient young Americans" of
the army air force have made
nearly 100,000 combat flights ov-
er enemy territory during the
first seven months of 1943, Gen-
eral Henry H. Arnold revealed
yesterday in an anniversary
broadcast celebrating the atr
corp's 36th birthday.
Arnold, commander-in-chief of
all U. S. army air forces, spoke
from here in a round-the-world
broadcast that brought in the
voices of famous American air
commanders in all parts of the
world and revealed that the
United States now enjoys air
superiority in all war theatres
and expects to win air domina-
tion in the near future.
JAPS' LOSSES
SET NEW HIGH
FOR MONTH
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
Southwest Pacific, Aug. 2—(UP)
— Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
southern Pacific offensive, set-
ing a new high for Allied bomb-
ings in the area, cost the lapa-
nese record losses in its first
month, a compilation showed to-
day, with 28 enemy warships
sunk or damaged and 436 or
more planes destroyed.
The official report came while
ground and air action on the
two main fronts of the area —
at Munda on New Georgia island
in the Central Solomons and on
the New Guinea northeast coast
—apparently entered a compara-
tive lull.
Air attacks in New Georgia
area were "hampered by adverse
weather but a medium force of
Dauntless and Avenger bombers
with a fighter escort dropped 27
tons of bombs on Munda yester-
day, exploding an ammunition
dump and silencing several gun
positions. •
A communique did not refer to
ground action at Munda. where
American soldiers and marines
are besieging the enemy garri-
son, but it said that on New Gui-
nea Allied troops had seized con-
See JAPS Page 5
Berliners Leave
Ahead Of Bombs
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 2 —(UP)
—A partial evacuation of civil-
ians from Berlin was reported
in progress today as German re-
action to severe air bombard-
ment of other Reich cities tur-
ned panicky and the Nazis push-
ed a propaganda campaign ap-
parently designed to prevent a
break in morale.
Berlin was untouched by last
See BERLIN Pa$e 4
Simultaneously, the war
department, announced that,
U. S. aircraft production is
now totaling upwards of 7,-
000 planes monthly, and that,
monthly deliveries to the ar-
my air forces alone are more
than the combined plane
production of Italy, fJer-
many and Japan.
Deliveries to the army were
put at 4,500 or more planes a
month while total axis produc-
tion was estimated to be no
greater than 4,000 planes a
month—Germany, 2,200, Japan
1.200 and Italy 600.
Arnold said concentrated air
power has cut "a path to victory
in Tunisia, across Sicily and to
the heart of Rome itself." He
said that together with the
British, the United States is
"exploding city after city in Ger-
many into silence."
Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, com-
mander of the air force in the
European theater: "The invasion
of Germany has begun. Right
See ALLIES Page 5
HARLEM RIOTS
FINALLY PUT
UNDER CONTROL
NEW YORK, Aug. 2 —(UP) —
Six thousand policemen guard-
ed tenement-lined streets of
West Harlem today where more
than 12 hours of rioting was
dying down to sporadic out-
breaks.
Police listed four deaths and
nearly 200 injured in street
brawls, stabbings and shoot-
ings. Ignoring two radio pleas of
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, a group
of negroes overturned an auto-
mobile and set it afire about 9
a. m.
Traffic was ordered rerouted
around the area, liquor stores
were closed, and policemen re-
porting for the 8 a. m. tour of
duty were instructed to wear air
raid helmets to protect them
from, stones and other missiles.
LaGuardia. in a second ap-
peal over seven radio stations,
said the disorders were not
"a race riot, because no groups
of our citizens were in con-
lict." Virtually the only white
men in the area, were the uni-
formed policemen, sweating and
pushing against the crowds
which often extended from wall
to wall in the crowded streets.
The mayor's first radio address
was at 1 a. m. when he appealed
to the negroes to stay off Har-
lem streets.
Of the nearly 200 persons In-
jured, 155 were civilians and
40 were policemen including two
captains of police. At 9 a. m„ 363
persons, nearly all negroes, had
been arrested. Most of those in-
jured were negroes.
In a third radio appeal for
order shortly before 10 a. m..
LaGuardia warned residents of
other parts of the city to re-
main out of the Harlem section
where the rioting had occurred.
HUGE CARGO
GLIDER FALLS
KILLING TEN
ST. LOUIS Mo., Aug. 2 —(UP)
—Army investigators sought to
determine today what caused
t he' wings of tf huge new cargo
glided to collapse, sending the
craft earthward in a dive that
killed 10 persons, including the
mayor of St. Louis and others
prominent, in the aircraft indus-
try.
The new type glider, making
its second flight, crashed before
10,000 horrified spectators at
Lambert St. Louis municipal air-
port yesterday during a public
demonstration. The craft was
similar to the one which recent-
ly was towed across the Atlantic
to England in the first such
flight.
The 10 victims included Mayor
William Dee Becker; Thomas
Dysart, president of the St.
Louis chamber of commerce;
and Ma«jor William B. Robert-
son. president of the Robertson
Aircraft Corp., which built the
glider.
GIRL SCOUT
WORKER IN
CITY TODAY
Mrs. James Kidd, area Girl
Scout worker, arriving in Sweet-
water today will meet this after-
noon with two leaders for organ-
ization of the first senior group.
Mrs. Noble Whiteaker and
Mrs. E. Storey, leaders, will be
instructed in Girl Scout aims and
to carry on the work of six
Scouts and Brownie units in the
council.
Tuesday evening Mrs. Kidd will
lead a training program at the
home of Mrs. T. P. Johnson,
commissioner, for leaders and
assistant leaders.
The program is working in
with the announced Girl Scout
drive set for Aug. 4, for funds to
carry on in the West Texas area
with a goal of $1,500.
The same work is being plan-
ned for Girl Scouts in advance-
ment of youth, that is being done
for the Boy Scouts of this area.
Both aims are highest in stan-
dards and will relieve much of
the child delinquency problems
now at a peak in America.
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TEXAN'S HORSE WINS
CHICAGO. Aug. 2—(UP)—R.
A. Coward, a burly Texan who
has been battling perverse rac-
ing luck for most of his 15 years
as an owner-trainer, admitted
today that turf fate had squared
accounts with him. He saw his
Marriage romp home the victor
in the $50,000 Arlington handi-
cap.
U. S. Troops Capture
Sicily Port and Town
• ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa Aug. 2 —((UP) —
American forces s mashing
through Axis defenses in north-
ern Sicily have captured the
coastal port of San Stefano and
the town of Mistretta, six miles
to the south, it was announced
today, while allied planes have
renewed block buster attacks on
Naples and Southern Italy.
The new American advance to-
ward the Messina tip of Sicily
gave the 7th army possession of
the important north-south road
froin San Stefano, through Mis-
tretta and the Caronian moun-
tains, to Nicosia. Thus, the last
axis link with central Sicily
from the coastal road had been
broken.
The British Eighth Army,
which had been hammering at
the Axis Catania defenses on
the east coast, has beaten back
a strong enemy counter-attack,
an allied communique reported.
Allied capture of an addi-
tional 10000 Axis prisoners—
about half of whom were
Germans — also was an-
nounced. This brought the
number of prisoners taken
by allies during the Sicilian
cumaign so far to near 100,-
000.
Steady allied progress was re-
ported on all sectors of the line
drawn in a semi-circle around
Mount Etna. Canadian troops
fighting to the south of the Am-
ericans were said to be pushing
forward despite heavy opposi-
tion.
(The British radio announced
the Eighth Army, which has
been shelling and skirmishing
south of Catania for days, had
started its "big push.")
The American advance of 12
miles brought Lt. Gen. George
See TROOPS Page 6
MASS PLEDGE
ENDS 2-WEEK
REVIVAL
Germany's super-race idea logy,
Nietsche's theory, and adherents
of a "Might Makes Right" policy
in America yesterday were blam-
ed for a new paganism that finds
America the so-called Christian
nation with less than half of its
citizens attending churches at
any time.
Dr. Bob Shuler speaking at the
Municipal auditorium at 3 Sun-
day developed the foregoing
statements with fact and story
in a talk aimed at rousing Christ-
ian people to greater effort in
defending oldtime American spir-
ituality and belief. "Back to the
simple faith of Our Fathers," was
his plea.
He cited Christianity, fully liv-
ed and demonstrated, as the on-
ly method of preventing chaos.
Christ's teachings were given as
the exact antithesis of the might-
makes-right of the Hitlers, To-
jos, and Mussolinis; and he told
the story of the Good Samaritan,
stressing the fact that it was
Christ's own story typifying
Christian practice.
At the night service in the
tent, he gave the final sermon
of the two weeks' city-wide re-
vival, closing with a rousing
demonstration in which nearly
all of the 1.400 attending stood
and raised their hands.
"How many will try their hard-
est to live better Christian lives
that we all may meet in Heav-
en?" was the question that
brought.the great demonstration.
Work of taking down the Har-
ley Sadler tent used for the re-
vival was under way today, and
the site was expected to be fully
cleared by the volunteer work-
ers before nightfall.
Texan's 'Fori' Has
Been On 150 Raids
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa, Aug. 2—(UP) —
An American Flying Fortress
group completed its 150th raid
over enemy territory with yes-
terday's attack on Naples, Italy.
The group commander is Lieut.
Col. Lerov A. Rainey of (230 N.
Drive) San Antonio, Tex., who
has flown on 44 of these mis-
sions personally.
It is the oldest and most ex-
perienced of all heavy bombing
groups operating in the Mediter-
ranean theater. Its first raid
whs on Rouen, France, a year
ago this month-
WAR PRISONER (AMP
ISSUE STILL UNSETTLED
The war manpower shortage
nearing serious proportions in
Fisher-Nolan counties, if bump-
er crops are to be harvested.
Yanks, Under Full
Pack, Walk 24 Miles
To Wallop Germans
NICOSIA, Sicily, July 29
(Delayed) — (UP)—Ameri-
can troops walked 24 miles
in 20 hours under full pack
across mountains to attack
and whip the Germans de-
fending this key town on the
Axis supply routes to the
South and east.
This "aggressive recon-
nuisance" found the enemy
dug in on high ground north
and south of the 11-mile
road eastward from Gangi to
Nicosia, 16 airline miles
south of the Axis anchor
pint at San Stefano on the
north coast. Nicosia had to
be taken to cut the roads
north to San Stefano east-
ward to Troina.
HITLER'S OIL
FIELDS FIRED
BY U. S. ACES
CAIRO, Aug. 2— (UP)— Advic-
es from the Balkans said today
that fires still were roaring
through the Ploesti oil fields of
Rumania, 24 hours after a long
planned precision bombardment
of nearly 200 American Libera-
tors, more than 20 of which were
lost.
Details of the devastation
wrought-in the first mass attack
on the Ploesti fields confirmed
earlier reports that the finely
tuned raid by the Ninth United
States air force dealt a stagger-
ing blow to the major source of
oil for the German war machine.
A communique revealed that
20 Liberators were shot down ov-
er the target area and others fail-
See OIL Page 6
prompted another meeting this
morning in the Board of City
Development office of the war
prisoner committees headed by
Marshall Pior Nolan county, and
R. L. Marchant of Fisher coun-
ty-
Various committeemen made
statements of the situation, each
commenting that the need for
labor was most pressing in his-
tory of the region
Present were Ed Ponder, BCD
president, and Milo Roth, secre-
tary-manager. Pior, Marchant,
Harley Sadler, Watt Bennett,
Irving Loeb, Fred Howard, H.
A. Walker. Demp Kearney, Trip-
le A county administrative of-
ficer and T. P. Johnson.
Pior pointed out that 90
per ccnt of the farmers and
ranchers of the two coun-
ties want war prisoner lab-
or — most ol' them favoring
a permanent camp. "Only
way to determine what steps
to take," said Pior "is to
call a mass meeting and at
the open forum hear what,
steps can be taken." An
army official should be sum-
moned and asked to ex-
plain a temporary camp to
the citizenship, if a perman-
ent camp cannot be handled.
Harley Sadler, state represen-
tative. said he believed that a
permanent camp was out of the
question, since the army canton-
See PRISONERS Page 6
CROWDS FLEE
FROM MANY
AXIS CITIES
LONDON, Aug. 2—(UP)—
The Allied command called
upon the people of Crete to-
day to aid Italian soldiers
resisting the Germans and to
await the signal for a gener-
al uprising when invasion
forces land for the attack
upon the European fortress
from the southeast.
Moscow Approves
Tentative Terms
Offered Italy
LONDON, Aug. 2 — (UP) —
Usually reliable sources said to-
day that America and Britain
had submitted to Russia their
terms for the surrender of Italy
and that Moscow approved their
fundamentals.
The terms were understood
to have been dispatched to
Moscow soon after the downfall
of Benito Mussolini. Informant*
said the reply resulted in Prime
Minister Churchill's convening
of the British war cabinet of
1.30 a. m. Friday to consider h..
Churchill was understood to
have felt upon receiving the
Soviet response that action must
be taken immediately, whereup-
on he ordered the cabinet into
session.
Russia apparently made some
suggestions, inasmuch as she
was reported to have agreed
"fundamentally" regarding the
terms.
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Sunday 'Business'
Brings $112 Fines
Business Sunday at the police
department picked up consider-
ably, producing a total of $112
in fines assessed in city court
this morning, charging eight law
offenders.
Three men and a woman were
fined $14 each on charges of vag-
rancy; another woman was fin-
ed the same amount for drunken-
ness, and the others drew a $14
flr.e or. a charge of Urunkenaess.
GREAT EVENTS
COMING FAST
IN WORLD WAR
LONDON, Aug. 2 — (UP) —
The general opinion in London
today is that three events of the
past seven days marked the
turning point of the war.
There is substantial variance
of opinion both in British and
American quarters as to how
long it will be before Germany is
defeated.
The three events are the Ital-
ian crack-up, the record-breaking
allied air offensive and detail-
ed, corroborative reports from
air combat crews revealing that
the luftwaffe strength in west-
ern Europe is beginning to
wane.
The biggest question in the
situation is how x-apidly the
allies can cash in on their unique
opportunity for putting Ger-
many under maximum military
pressure. Three major actions
are in progress — allied opera-
tions against Italy, Russian op-
erations wearing down the Ger-
mans on the eastern front and
the western European air offen-
sive.
Many experts — sometimes ac-
cused of over-enthusiasm— re-
gard the present Anglo-Ameri-
can air operations as equaling a
major land battle in the strain
imposed upon Nazi resources.
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Reds Continue
March On Orel
MOSCOW, Aug. 2—(UP)—Red
armies smashed through towns
only 10 miles north and south of
Orel today and the Communist
organ Pravda reported that the
German army has been so deci-
mated that only 25 per cent of
its remaining first-line troops in
Russia are native Germans.
Poles, Czechs, Austrians, Al-
satians and nations of other oc-
cupied nations compose three
quarters of the troops facing the
Russians, Pravda said.
More than 40 towns and villag-
es were seized north and north-
west of Orel alone despite fero-
cious German counter-attacks.
One unit repelled nine enemy
attacks and killed 3.000 Germans,
while another accounted for 400
of the enemy in capturing a forti-
fied strong point.
The Germans were putting up
particularly strong resistance
south of Orel in an attempt to
keep the jaw on the Soviet pin-
cers from closing and encircling
them. In one sector, the Russians
cleared 23 mine fields in 24 hours
rendering more than 4,000 mines
harmless.
The Berlin radio said to-
day that Russian forces
were attacking "with great
violence" in the area of Orel
and especially the southwes-
tern part of the town an
apparent admission that the
Red army had driven into
the city proper.
By United Press
The big push is on in Sicily,
it was revealed today, with Am-
erican, British and Canadian ar-
mies plunging ahead along the
whole Etna line against stiff ax-
is opposition in a bid to over-
run quickly the Messina bridge-
head lying alongside the Italian
mainland.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
headquarters reported that the
allies had begun a general offen-
sive. The American seventh ar-
my advanced 12 miles in the
northern sector, capturing the
port of San Stefano and other
towns, along with 10,000 more
prisoners.
While Lt. Gen George S. Pat-
ton's men bent back the upper
end of the Etna line, the British
Eighth Army pounded the Cat-
ania end and the Canadians
plowed forward in heavy fight-
ing at the center.
Unofficial reports circula-
ted that the Eighth Army
launched a big scale p wh,
and its commander, Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery,
said that "we will now drive
the German* et of Sicily."
Ranging on ahead of the land
forces, allied planes made good
Eisenhower's warning to Italy
Saturday that the breathing
spell was over and the air attack
was on full strength again.
Millions of Italians were re-
ported fleeing the cities hit or
threatened by the new offensive,
while a similar exodus was be-
lieved to be on in parts of Ger-
many.
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TODAYS
WAR
MOVES
(Reg. U. S. Pat. Office)
By Louis F, Keemle
United Press War Analyst
The American air raid on the
Rumanian oil fields constitutes
a show of Allied might in a sig-
nificant quarter, the Balkans,
which may yet become the de-
cisive battle ground of the war.
If the theory that Hitler can
be beaten from the air is dis-
| carded, it is clear that the final
i bliw must come in the defeat
j of his still powerful army, and
' that it must be done on the soil
i of Europe.
Russia and the Balkan coun-
| tries offer the most likely ground
for the test, which already has
started as far as the Russian
front is concerned.
Prime Minister Churchill has
pointed out that Germany still
has about 300 effective divisions,
which would be in the neighbor-
See WAR MOVES Page 2
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That little classified did the
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