Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 203, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 3, 1944 Page: 8 of 16
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L. L. Jarratt and Freddie
ol Loraine were Fri
day afternoon shoppers.
♦ •
mt%- George McDonald and W.
A .fefves of Rotan were among
the Friday afternoon shoppers
here.
ft. 0. Wolf of Hermeleigh.
■pent Friday in town on busi-
ness.
• *
Mrs. Vernon Fry of Roby was
In town Friday shopping and
visiting friends.
* • *
One man was fined $14 Satur-
day in the city court on charge
of drunkenness.
i *
Tootsie Whitaker has gone to
Dallas to make plans to enter S.
BABY GIFTS
Of All Kinds for the
Stork Shower.
Use onr lay-a-way plan for
Your Baby Blankets
gar's took Shop
BOOKS AND GIFTS
KODAK FINISHING
West Side of Square
M. U. this Ml. She la visiting
friend* there until the fall term
starts.
*
Jim Taylur left Thursday for
Lubbock where he will enter
Texas Tech when the fall term
starts. He went early for foot-
ball practice.
♦ •
Mrs. Arthur Sears of Abilene
and Mrs. Jeff Davis of Roby
were among the out of town
shoppers Friday.
* * *
Judy Powell of San Angelo
arrived yesterday to visit Joyce
Walker and other friends here.
Judy attended Newman High
school until her family moved to
San Angelo.
*
Mrs. B. A. Allen of Lampasas
is a guest in the home of Mr,
and Mrs. H. B. Allen.
* * *
Among the Roscoe shoppers
Friday afternoon went Mrs.
Mary Nell Byars, Mrs. John P.
Henson, Mrs. K. D. Hestes, Ruby
Lee Gros and Irene Finlev.
.♦ # *
Loraine shoppers Friday af-
ternoon were Ira Coffee, Mrs. H.
W. Hallmark, Mrs. Charles
Marth Jr.
* * ♦
Mrs. Gaston Brock of Snyder
was in town Friday on business.
♦ *
Mrs. C. L. McLeod and daugh-
ter, Ann of Trent spent Friday
in town shopping and visiting
friends.
Mrs. J. A. Price and Mrs. C.
E. Leon of Rotan spent Friday
in Sweetwater.
* * -
Mrs. A. H. Haney and daugh-
ter, Mildred of Roscoe were here
Friday. Mildred was making pre-
parations to enter Abilene Chris-
tion College, Sept. 12.
Robert Brookshire has return-
ed from Ssn Antonio where he
visited relatives for a week.
• • *
Jewell Shelton of Divide spent
Friday in town making plans to
teach in Eldorado.
• ♦
Mrs. J. S. Muns of Loraine has
arrived in Sweetwater to visit
in the homes of her sons and
families, Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Muns
and Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Muns.
* ♦
Dewey and John Darnell of Al-
buquerque, New Mexico, arrived
Thursday to visit their mother,
Mrs. D. N. Darnell and their sis
ters, Mrs. Cora Robinson and
Mrs. H. A. Tansil.
* *
Mrs. J. A. Smith, Wanda Jean
Heine and Mrs. Hugo Zetzman
of Roscoe were among the Friday
afternoon shoppers.
*
Warren Sturgeon of Snyder
was in town Thursday afternoon
on business.
m • *
Mrs. Burt Wulfjen of Colorado
City spent Thursday afternoon
in Sweetwater shopping and vis-
iting friends.
* *
Cpl. Billy McCracken has re-
ceived a promotion in the Air-
WACS to her present rank. Sha
is stationed in Boiling Field,
Washington, D. C. She is a mail
clerk at the field. In high school
she was an outstanding tennis
player.
* * *
Mrs. S. F. Kollar and daugh-
ter, Patricia, are expected home
today from Oklahoma where
they went to visit relatives.
* * *
Lillian Pratt of Dallas arrived
Friday for a weekend visit here
with Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Harkins
Sunday' September 3; 1944
and with Mr. Hid Mrs. W. R.
Swain.
Marion Harris' S 2-C U. S.
Navy, who has been home on fur-
lough has returned to his base
in San Diego. He has just finish-
ed boot training and will be as-
signed when he arrived in camp.
* *
Pvt. C. W. (Rip) Wilson is
here on emergency furlough vis-
iting his wife. He will report
hack to Camp Beale, Calif.. Sept.
2th.
* *
Mrs. Gene Bound and Mrs.
Leonard Gohye will be hostess
lor the Officers Wives Bridge
club Tuesday at Avenger Field.
♦ * ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Parkes Neblet'
and children and Barbara Glass
who has been visiting in their
Dallas home are visiting here
with Mrs. S. R. Neblett, Madeline
Neblett and the S. LJ Glass fam-
ily" through Monday.
*■ * *
Cpl. Bill Gavin, former em
ploye of the Western Storage and
Compress and now serving in the
army* stationed at Camp Bark-
eley, is spending the weekend
here with friends.
* * *
Catherine Ray has as her
houseguest this week, Shirley
Wright from San Angelo.
* ♦ *
Maine McCormick, former
Nolan county health'nurse, is
now in charge of Tyler and Ha;-
din counties, serving as health
nurse and located at Kountze.
She and her mother, Mrs. Mary
McCormick are visiting Sweet
water friends for a few days. Mis
McCormick has only recently
finished her post graduate de
gree in health school at Van-
derbuilt.
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Just disclosed by the British is their new "surprise" weapon, the deadly Churchill "Crocodile"
tanks pictured above. Equipped as flame-throwers that project their deadly jets a great distance,
they played an important role against German beach pillboxes during invasion of Normandy.
P
•X.
The dramatic photo above, taken in Paris while sporadic fighting
between isolated Germans and liberation forces was going on.
shows a French soldier firing at a sniper concealed in buildings
in background.
Forced To Fight
There will be a joint meeting j Belgium Veterans
of the Rotary and Lions Clubs !
Tuesday, at 7:30 in the sky room
of the Bluebonnet hotel.
* 4=
Mrs. Merlin Tolor returned
Wednesday from spending five
months in Babson Park, Kla..
nearby where her husband, Cpl.
Toler, weather observer with
the army air force was stationed.
* * *
COURT BATTLE
DALLAS
aire Texas oiln
wife squared
paration for a
battle over the
14-year-old son.
John E. Wrathei
charges, that his
Irene Wrather of
giving proper care
11 !P) A million-
lin and his former
iff today in pro-
dramatic court
custody of their
| LONDON — (UP) — It has
; learned that a Belgian resistance
i army of nearly one-million form
j or war veterans has been order-
! ed into action against the Ger-
l mans.
This information was learned
as a Nazi broadcaster on the
Brussels radio made a belated
I plea to the Belgians for mercy
I toward Germans and col la bora
tionists. The enemy announcer
said that the Belgium capital of
! Brussels soon would be occupied
S by Allied troops.
charges new deal
of Longview
former wife,
Dallas, is n,i'
to John Mo-
Donald Wrathei'. a student at
Terrill school here.
Mrs. Wrather, in a 1012 court
decree, was given custody of the
boy during school months, and
the father was to have him dur-
ing vacation.
Young Wrather now is with
his father who asks the court ii
he must give up the boy to his
mother when school starts.
Wrather says his former wife
works and does not have time to
devote to their son.
EL
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POLICE CREW
NEW BRAUXFEI.S - (I P) -
The Press of Texas was rebuked
today by Mayor A D. Nuhn for
reports which, he said, gave the
erroneous impression that Xew
Braunfel was without benefit of
police force.
The mayor declared that the
news stories are "very damaging
to the city of New Braunfels on
that they invite bank robbers
and thugs to come in."
Four members of the police
force resigned recently to take
other jobs after they failed to get
a salary raise of §15 a month.
Bui .said hi honor, the vacancies
have been filled and the city's
law enforcement agency now
comprises seven men.
I .OS ANGELES — (TP)
Miss Vivien Kellems charges
that the new deal, while fighting
the Nazis, has taken the oppoi-
tunity to establish Nazi doctrines
in the United States.
Miss Kellems — West port.
Conn., industrialist, whose letters
to a German nobleman in Ar-
gentina recently were inter-
cepted and criticised in the
house by representative Coffee
assorts that th onew deal is at-
tempting to exercise complete
control over the nation's rati': >
stations and newspapers.
She spoke before I .os Angeles
Rot aria ns vest en lay.
ROMANCE
HOLLYWOOD (UP) — Much
can happen over a luncheon
cloth. A business deal may be
consumed. An almost - dead j
friendship may lie renewed.
The latter was, the case when |
Norman Taurog, MGM director
of "Boys Town" and Academy
Award winner, took Sue Roam |
to lunch. She's an assistant exe-
cutive secretary t<• Louis Mayor. j
The i ouple returned fr<>ni lunch 1
with a marriage license. Studio j
officials say they will be mar-
ried within a week or two.
Allied Advance
Described By
Famed Reporter
United Press War Correspon-
ent Richard McMillan has filed
a colorful eye-witness story of
the British march toward Bel-
gium. The correspondent says
thateven the Russians never
have exceeded the swift advance
of the British, who covered 60
miles in 24 hours.
The road along which the Brit-
ish are advancing, he says, is a
road of "flowers, smiles, teats
and blood." He goes on: "Tanks
crash through miles of ros>
strewn fields and lanes amist
flanders poppies. And they are
greeted by people so joyous that
they laugh and cry in the same
breath."
At every crossroad, McMillan
says, you see the gory, tangled
mass that was once a German
convoy before it got caught in
the greatest retreat in modern
warfare.
McMillan says the British an>
capturing dozens of robot bomb
sites daily. In some cases the
buzz-bomb was a boomerang to
the Germans. Frenchmen told
the war correspondent many of
the bombs exploded before they
could be launched, killing French
men and Germans.
The Allies have paced off bril-
liant new gains in southern as
I well as northern France. Amer-
ican troops, in a swift 34-mil?
advance up the Rhone valley,
have captured Vienne. only 14
miles south of Lyon.
| Another American column has
driven to within 2!) miles of Ly-
on. West of the Rhone. French
troops have advanced IP. miles to
within 18 miles of the important
road junction of Saint Etienne
The London radio says Ameri-
can troops, advancing east of the
Rhone, have crossed the border
seven miles into northern Italy.
But so far this has not been con
firmed.
However. other American
troops have hammered out a big
victory in ltalv. The Allied Fifth
armv. which has been in the
southern outskirts of Pisa for
weeks, now has overrun the
whole city.
But. that gain is only one
phase of a general offensive by
the fifth and eighth armies in
Italy an offensive that, would
have been bis? news a few weeks
ago. before the Americans burst
across France to Germany. On
the Adriatic side of the line, the
British Eiehth army has reach
ed the Gothic line on a 20-mile
front and now is within eight
miles of the vast flat Bo valley
—ideal tank country.
Between 250 and 500 American
heavy bombers rose from Italy
today to pound German commun-
ication lines in Germany and
northern Italy. A GO-mile-an-hour
sale disrupted air activities from
Britain. However, one force of
British I.ancasters managed to
'Iron four-ton blockbusters on
the cornered German garrison in
Brest.
Dies So Others
Might Live On
LONDON — (UP) — An Am-
erican pilot is London's unkno\m
hero tonight. This unidentilfen
pilot saved the lives of scores
of London factory workers by
sacrificing his own.
The pilot was bringing in his
crippled bomber. Over LondW
he ordered the crew to jump. As
they went out the side one flier
heard the pilot mutter in these
words:
"I can't leave it down over a
residential district, But do %
worry, I'll get her own."
When he i-ame in for a landing
at a London field, the plane wa3
rolling too fast. It would have
crashed into a factory full of
workers nearby. .%
So he zoonied up over the fac-
tory and plummeted like a crip-
pled bird into a nearby garden.
He was dead when rescuers
pulled his body out of the wreck-
age. 4
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WHO'S GONNA WIN
DALLAS — (UP) — There's
still some hope for Dallas in her
race with Houston to have tl,%
best fire-prevention record for
1944. Fire Chief L. M. Funk of
Dallas reported today.
Funk said that Dallas fire los-
ses for the year were $784,454 as
compared with $735,930
Houston, giving Dallas a disad-
vantage of $48,524
The contest between the two
cities will be terminated with a
crow-eating dinner, the crow to
be eaten by the Mayor of t)C
losing eitv.,
NO FOOD SHORTAGE HERE
Mo. (UP) — Hung-
lg-
just pack your baA
LAMAR.
ry? Well,
and head for Lamar, Mo. The
little town of three - thousand
has enough food prepared and
on hand to feed between 10 and
15.000 people.
Citizens became paniey at 11 f_
thought of the hungry crowd
that would come to town Friday
to hear Senator Harry Truman's
formal acceptance of the Demo-
cratic nomination for vice presi-
dent. Everybody — churches, ly
oal lodges, Arperiean Legion ana
other organizations—pitched in.
They brought enough food to the
big affair to feed a crowd of be-
tween 10 and 20,000.
But n crowd of only seven
thousand came to hear Trunin «:
speak at the town where he
was born. And most of those
had already eaten or brought
their lunches along.
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$51.00 to $61.00
Reconditioned 1-4 H. I' to a
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New Electric Toaster.
i Burner Electric Hot Plate
Also: Prewar Hydrators, Drip
Traps, Ice Trays, Grids, Iron
Plugs and Fuses.
PHELPS'
Appliance Co.
:I0K E. Bdwy.
Phone 2581
Two Officers
Killed Near
Here Friday
ABILENE (UP)— Two sec-
ond lieutenants from the pilot
training school are ilead today as
the result of separate accidents
when their identical P-47 Thund-
erbolt planes crashed not a mile
apart at exactly the same min-
ute late yesterday.
The twin crashes were 35 mil-
es west of Abilene near Sweet-
water.
Col. Harry Weddington, com-
manding officer, listed as dead
2nd Lt. Edward LeMay, 21,
whose father lives at 1105 Tay-
lor Street, Bay City, Mich., and
2nd Lt. James Byron Lesherl
20, son of Carl R. Lesher, Akron,
O., LeMays wife Mrs. Elaine M.
LeMay, lives here.
Colonel Weddington said the
planes were on combat training
flights when tne crashes happen
ed. A board of officers has been
appointed to determine the
causes. . .
T
pONM.IIT . . . after yoil
have turned oil' the ra-
dio and put out the cat
. . . can you go to lied Willi
the comfortable feeling
thai your property is pro-
tected by Burglary In-
surance','
D. A. Clark
;i07 Oak Ht.
Sweetwater
Phone 722
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 203, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 3, 1944, newspaper, September 3, 1944; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth282956/m1/8/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.