Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 229, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1944 Page: 1 of 8
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SUNK BY U.S.
AMERICANS REACH PLAINS BEHIND SIEGFRIED LINE
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PRAGON
SOCIETY HEAD
IS DEAD
PEARL HARBOR (OP) _
Eleven more Japanese ships
€luve been sunk by <\menean
submarines operating in Far
Eastern waters.
The Navy says the .lap vessels
included one escort vessel, one
destroyer, one converted sea-
lane tender, orie cabe ship,
ve cargo vessels, one medium
cargo transport and a large
tanker.
T o il a y ' s announcement
brings to 772 the number of
^ ene.ny vessels sunk by Unit-
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Sweetwater Reporter
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"West Texas' Leading Newspaper*
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47th Year
Sweetwater, Texas, Thursday, Oct. 5, 1944 (ft
No. 229
s«l Stales submarines
One of the hie: men behind (-lie
scenes in wartime Japan is dead.
The enemy news agency reports
that Hitsuru Toyama, the 90-
isear-old head of Japan's Black
TDragon Society, died last night.
The Jap dispatch refers to To-
yama as "a most respected lead-
er among Japanese patriots
throughout three eras." The
agency says he "devoted his
Wi'hole life to the advocation and
practice of the Japanese imper-
ial principle of nationalism and
expansion."
That's what the Japs say—hut
far eastern experts emphasize
'#hat typical biographical notes
would'fail to bring out Toyama's
real significance. They say he
was one of the most powerful
political bosses in Japan, and
.was the power behind the To jo
government, which started the
war against the United States.
The .liips had had news on
the home front today. The
Tokyo minister of agricul-
ture announced that Japan
- faces a food erisis as grave
" as the allied,military threat
evidently the blackest com-
parison he could think of.
Unfortunately, however, the
Japs can take some consolation
from the news from China. The
•nemv's four-lronted drive to
split China in half continues to
gather speed. One force pushing
from the east is within 25 miles
of 'he key city of Kweilin, and
the leading southern column is
£>nly lit) miles from the city's
gates.
But it the Chinese go down—
they'll go down fighting. A fam-
ous general whose name cannot
be disclosed has been assigned to
jdefend Kweilin, and he is quoted
^as declaring "our guns in Kweil-
in will roar until all our men are
killed "
GRoosevelt Wins
Union Support
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
President Roosevelt has received
gjhe personal assurance of politi
cal support from a railroad un
ion leader and the head of the
International Ladies Garment
Workers union.
Mr. Roosevelt met with a
~group of railroad union heads.
Afterwards the spokesman for
the group — President George
Harrison of the Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks — said "we as-
sured the president that railroo I
jnen still are his friends, and
that we're going to do the best
we can to re-elect him."
Earlier, David Dubin.ski —
leader of the Garment Workers
—said he spoke with the presi-
dent about the New York state
■present political situation. Dub-
in.ski was confident that tlv>
president, will carry New York
state in November.
Clutch Hitting Wins
First Series Game
For Browns
ST. LOUIS (UP) — The St.
Louis browns demonstrated
clutt.ii hitting at us'best in
winning tb ouening game of the
world series.
The Brownies, baseball's cur-
rent darlings, gained only two
hits off Big Mort Cooper and
Blix Donnelly as they defeated
the Cardinals 2 to 1. But those
two hits were right where they
should lie—close together.
In the fourth inning, Gene
Moore singled.z While he was
roosting on first base, George
McQuinn smacked a homerun to
give the Browns their two hits
and two runs of the game.
The two-run lead was all
Denny (•alehouse — who
won only nine and lost f
during the season — needed.
He had allowed the Cardin-
als five hits in the first three
innings, hut held the Card-
inals scoreless.
Gatehouse was in tne most hot
water in the third inning. After
Johnny Hopp and Ray Sanders
had singled. Stan Musial advanc-
See CLUTCH I'age 8
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Glitter, Spangle
Of the "Big Top"
Thrills Kids Today
Today is Circus Day!
■ The jungle beast, chalk-white
of the funny clown, music of the
I organ grinder and steam caliope,
! gay plumes atop the wide-hip-
j ped horses, long necks of the
amusing camels, pigmy hippo-
potatnius, gnarling lions, still
| holds a thrill for men, women
and kids whose love for the "big
top" never wanes.
Cole Bros. Circus offers all the
tingling emotions of the girl of
the trapeze, the spangles and
glitter of rings, all whizzing
along at once, and the fierce
snarls of tigers, whose bodies
seem to ripple magnificently as
| Ihev put on their act inside the
\ steel i nclosures.
Almost as exciting as the show
itself is the loading and unload-
! mg of the equipment, animal
I cages and the placity of the ele-
' phants as they move, trudging
| along to place each wheeled
wagon distastefully.
Clown ticket salesmen this
morning in the foyer of the Re-
porter calmly answered thous-
ands of questions concerning
show hojirs, admission, discontin-
unaee ol the gala parade and oth-
er inquiries that demote patience
and a encyclopedic mind .
even for a clown.
70 000 I inht Trucks
For Civilians To
Be Manufactured
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The war production board plans
to authorize production of 20,000
light trucks for civilian use dur-
ing the first half of next year.
Names of seven companies ex-
pected to make the trucks, the
first to be turned out for civilians
since January of 1012, may be
announced tomorrow.
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BROWNS TAKE FIRST SERIES (J.AMK. L> to 1—Tlw Sf. I.miis Browns took
the World Series being played in St. Louis. Mo.. «i'h ;i sc< re of 2 '•> ' 11
McOiiiiinn (Browns) congratulated by Mark < iirist man Hi) as lie crosses
hitting a home rim in the fourth innf*'" tionre t!."i) i- stioun as J
( N FA Tel i.)
Roth Ends WPB
Visit in Dallas;
Iron Works Sure
Milo K. Roth, returned to his
offices in the Board of City De-
velopment this morning follow
ing a three-day visit in Dallas
with War Production Board of-
ficials and Robert A. Huttash.
president, Industrial Iron Works
Huttash and Roth secured "the
blessing" from WPB regional of
fices for the construction or
Sweetwater's newest industry, a
manufacturing concern which
specializes in passenger bus
bodies ol 100 per cent steel fab-
rication.
Huttash left Dallas for St.
Louis, Mo., where he will pur-
chase and ship machinery and
equipment for the new plant to
Ik located un East Broadway.
Mack Johnson, local contractor
will get the plant under con-
struction by the middle of next
week at which time President
the first game of
the plate after
i ;irs iiie umpire.
I luttash
watei.
will return to Swee;
Sweetwater Boy Captures 4 Germans On Hay
Loft In Old Barn While Looking for Eggs
WITH THE SEVENTH AR- Even
♦MY, France — A ,'Nith Divisional
regjmental convoy, moving nor-
th, decidcd to pull off the road
recently to give the men a chan-
ce to eat.
Private First Class James O.
«r farmer, Fort Worth, a driver,
and Private O. A. Kinsey, Sweet-
water, his assistant, pulled their
truck intoa driveway next to an
old farmhouse
"1 started into the barn when
f "i French woman came running
out of the house," stated Private
Farmer. The Texas then asked,
"Avez vous des eufs," The wo-
man replied in rapid French.
"When she said something
mabout the Boche. I thought she
•Was trying to tell me that the
Germans had taken all the eggs.
Actually I didn't know what she
was trying to say, so I went up
on the hay loft to look for eggs.
when I saw something
stir, I didn't dream there were
Germans still there," remarked
Private Kinsey.
Unarmed Private Kinsey yell-
ed, "Put 'em up. Put 'em up."
Two stupified Germans leaped to
their feet with their hands in
the air. "Then two more jump-
ed up from behind me," said
Private Kinsey, "but they did-
n't give me any trouble."
"Hearing the shouting, I ran
into the barn to find Kinsey fac-
ing four Germans who looked
scared stiff. Three of them were
armed and neither one of us had
a gun," recalled Private Farm-
er.
Private Kinsey's sister, Mrs.
W. B. Howe, lives in Sweetwat-
er, Private Farmer's wife, Mrs.
James O. Farmer, resides at 2122
Lee Street, Fort Worth, with
their two?year?old son, James,
12 Big Gifts To
War Chest Drive
Opening Oct. 10
Twelve lit w members
been added to the Big
group in the I nited War
drive to open county-wide
10, with a quota of $20,000.
R M. Wimmons, chairman and
Lelaml Glass, co-chairman, are
meeeling with good response.
Anyone they have overlooked is
asked to contact one of the com-
mittee.
Charles I'axton is area chair-
man of the War Chest Drive.
This year the drive includes do-
nations for the Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts and I'nited War Chest.
Much of the money donated
will remain in Sweetwater for
work among the Scouts and for
I!SO Work.
Donors today: 1 ligginbothair.
Bartlett, $100. Western Windmill
$1 r>t•. Texas Klectric Service $200
Walter Boot he. $100, .1. C. Pen-
nev, $100. Aviation Enterprises,
$250, Klks Club. SIM), Dr. C. A
Rosebrough. $125, Alvin Trow-
bridge, $100, Vandervoort's. $150,
Gus Rigsby, $100. Lone Star <!a •.
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CONSOLIDATE
DDT UNITS
KANSAS CITY (UP) — The
office of defense transportation
says that consolidation of the old
Kansas City and Dallas regions
makes the new region, number
5, the largest in the United Stat
es in the point of truck units.
QUARTER OF
MAINLAND
IS SEIZED
The Allied in-
progressing
is
BOM Its HIT JAP I'li.WK—This generously camouflaged .lap
Sally plane went lip in smoke just a few seconds after tills
picture was taken—destroyed by parat'rag bombs seen inst
before they hit, during a low-level bombing and strafing at-
tack on Old Nanilea airdrome in the Itoero Island. Note other
bombs exploding in background. (A A F Photo from YEA
Telcplioto.)
TWO YOI'NG
SI Al-'.\|{Kits SOUGHT
FORT WORTH — (UP) —
Search is underway today along
the winding Trinity river be-
tween Fort Worth and the Gulf
of Mexico fort wo boys who are
believed to have undertaken the
trip in an outboard motor boat
without the knowledge of their
parents.
The boys, Jack Conrad Barrett
and Richard Davis, have not
been seen since Monday. Neith
er had one of two motorboats
kept in the Barrett garage and
several quarts of milk and othei
foodstuffs from the Barrett pan-
tr\.
Weather Forecast
WEST TEXAS Fair this af-
ternoon. tonight and Friday.
Not much change in teninori.
ture.
Painters Walk Out
Because Navy Paints
Its Own Guns
HOUSTON' it
mately 100 AFT.
staged a walkout at the port
Houston Iron Works, refusing
to work because the navy insists
I on painting the guns on ships be-
ing repaired at the firm's dry
docks, company officials say in
j sworn statements.
Port Houston President J. E.
Cough declared in his statement
ihat C. A. West, business agent
j for the union, predicted Tuesday
his men would not work on the
same ships if the navy continued
to paint its own ships' guns,
j Cough said West left his office
I a few minutes later and that the
flight Shift did not report for
\t w/i l\ 11 Ult da>.
ROME (UP) -
vasion of Greece
on schedule.
A Greek news service in Cairo
reports that the Allied military
mission in Greece feels so confid-
ent that it has issued a surrend-
er ultimatum to a German gar-
rison just 30 miles from Athens.
The ultimatum ordered Nazi
and pro-Nazi security forces on
the largest island in the Aegean
Sea to surrender or face death
The Allied invaders have
seized control of the Pelop-
onnesus — almost a quarter
of the Greek mainland.
The Allies followed a familiar
invasion pattern. British para-
troops preceded infantrvmen
; who landed from ships and plan-
es at night supported by naval
j and air bombardment.
Paratroops and British com-
mandos struck quickly at a few-
key airfields which fell with lit-
tle or no German resistance.
Spitfire fighter planes, which
have been striking at Greece for
three days, landed at these fields
They refueled and rearmed, and
took to the skies again to cover
jthe landings from the ships.
Greek partisan troops have
'joined the Allied forces and are
believed to be carrying the
brunt of the actual fighting
j First reports indicate the Allied
i forces are small— just enough
j technicians and leaders to rally
jthe striking power of Greek
I guerrilla fighters and hurry u|
' the Germans' exit.
I Partisan and Allied troops
\ have entered what is believed to
| be. the last German stronghold in
| Greece—fortified Patrai on the
I Nothern Peloponnesus coast. A
| sketchy communique from Rome*
doesn't say whether Patrai —
once a center of Greek commer-
; ce—has fallen. But it is believ-
ed the town already may be in
Allied hands.
In Yugoslavia, a Russian
army has driven to within
artillery range of Belgrado.
Dispatches passed by Mos-
cow censors predict that the
capital will fall within a
few days.
On the political front, import-
ant news about Russia's attitude
toward conquered countries
comes out of Estonia.
The leader of the communist
party in Estonia—Arnold Ver-
nier—has told American and Bri-
tish correspondents Russia will
not collectivize Estonian lands
nor nationalize small business—
at least not in the near future.
Incidentally, one of the war's
most horrible stories has come
out of Estonia.
United Press Staff Correspon-
dent Meyer Handler reports see-
ing the remains of some 2800
men. women and children in a
wooded glen 25 miles southwest
of Tallinn, the Estonian capital.
It was the work of Nazi butch-
ers who fled Tallinn on Sept.
19th.
There's no late news from the
Polish front, but it is revealed
that General Bor, commander-in-
chief of the Polish armed forces
>vas captured by the Germans In
Warsaw, together with Ins en-
tire staff.
Governor Praises
Sears "Made In
South" Program
Governor Coke Stevenson of
Texas has congratulated Sears
Roebuck and Company upon it?
Southern Industrialization Pro-
gram.
The letter, written and signed
by the Governor, was addressed
tn officials of Sears. Roebuck &
[ Co., and is on view in the local
| store. Enlarged copies of the
! congratulatory message may be
Missing Will Names
Dallas Woman As
Beneficiary
HOUSTON — (UP) — A miss-
ing will of the late Mrs. Thelma
Bradley merchant of Houston
names Mrs. L. V. Rhoades of
Dallas beneficiary of an estate
estimate at $75,000. A typewrit-
en copy of the, will, alleged to
have been written by the late
Mrs. Merchant was admitted to
>rotate today.
The decision of county judge
Roy Hofheinz to admit the miss-
ing will to probate invalidates
another will which named Mrs.
Merchant's sister. Mrs. Pearl
Bradley Shepherd of Beaumont
as sole beneficiary.
Attorney for the deceased tes-
ified he had prepared a type-
written will form naming Mrs.
Rhoades beenficiary at Mrs.
Merchant's request.
Mrs Rhoades is the niece of
Mrs. Merchant.
Lone Bandit Gets
$1,000 From Missouri
Bank Cashier
SUMMERYILLE. Mo. — (UP' I
—A lone unmasked bandit held !
ip the Summerville bank shortly |
efore non today, forced the j
ashier and a girl employe into j
he vault and escaped with abou*
1,000 in cash.
Lee Bell, cashier, says the ban j
lit scooped up all the cash in the j
ill. He estimates the amount at j
tbout $1,000.
Bell describes the bandit as
'tall, slender wearing a sport ;
•oat." Bajidit drove east ,oiv,'
Missouri i06 toward Eminence j
n a late model Plymouth car.
Bell and the girl employe were j
lot locked in the vault. They !
•ailed the state patrol within a |
ew minutes of the bandit's es j
•ape.
Summerville is at the east i
dge of Texas county, in th? j
•outh central part of the state, i
Troops Listening
To World Series
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN
ITALY — (UP) — Thousands of ;
American troops are listening to j
the World Series broadcast re
laved by the Fifth army's o\v i
mobile radio station operating in
the forward areas.
Reception for the first game
was perfect. The soldiers gath-
ered in recreation tents to hear ;
the broadcast in the headquar !
•_ers areas.
At the front, radios in tanks \
were tuned to the broadcast for !
soldiers who could listen.
P) — Approxi- seen in the display windows and
painters have , throughout the store.
i The Governor, like all South
j erners, is keenly interested in
! the present and post-war oppor-
I tunties for Southern Industrial
i Expansion and Growth. The pat-
i tern of Southern economy is
| composed of its raw materials.
; man power and manufacturing
capacity which must be acceler-
: ated.
Sears, cognizant of this fact,
| is again sponsoring a Southern
Industralization Program incor-
porating southern • made mer-
chandise not essentiol to the
prosecution of war effort plus
everything of non-critical mater-
See GOVERNOR Page 8
GOVERNOR EXPECTS
AMPLE REVENUE
AUSTIN — (UPi —Governor
Stevenson expects that there will
be ample revenue to meet legis
lative appropriations in Texas
for the next two years. That is,
unless the new legislature t:j
convene in January greatly ex-
ceeds appropriations of the last
session.
THIRD ARMY
STORMS INTO
FT. DRIANT l
PARIS (IV) — American arm-
ored forces have burst out on
the Cologne plain behind the
Siegfried line.
Stabbing two miles northeast
of I'bach, they have penetrated
the edge of the plain to within
35 miles of the Rhine river. But
the Americans are battling
through mud, rain and intense
German fire in the break-
through area north of Aachen,
where they have taken the
town of Beggendorf.
United Press War Corie.-pond-
ent Jack Frankish, now with the
First Army, says the Americans
are paying a high price for
"what, so far, is only a tiny wed-
ge in Germany's defenses." The
Germans are pouring heavy fire
on all points of the narrow lane
the Americans have cleared
through the line.
North of the First Army,
British troops are striving
for a comeback at Arnhem.
Attacking on a six-mile
dutch front along the Ni.i-
megen - to - Arnhem road,
the second army has moved
to within two miles of tlie
Rhine bridge for which an
air-borne division fought a
heroic, hut futile Iti-day bat-
tle.
On the other end of the front
American Third army shock
troops have stormed into the un-
derground chambers of Fort
Driant on the approaches to
Metz. General Patton's men have
burrowed down vom one of
their footholds on the three cor-
ners of the fort into the maze of
passages bun.*'ombing
giant block of concrete.
To the south. French atrd
American troops of the Allied
seventh army have beaten off
scmall-scale German counter-at-
tacks south of Belfort.
On the channel coast. Cana-
dian troops—pushing out from
liberated Antwerp—have advan-
ced the front line 10 miles nor-
thwest of the city. They now are
systematically cleaning out the
concentric ring of German-held
forsts around it and have seiz-
ed a town on the Belgian-Dutch
border.
More than one-thousand
American heavy bombers to-
day sped out to bomb Co-
logne, the Khineland city 30
odd miles ahead of the Am-
erican first army. The bom-
bers, escorted by some 750
fighters, also struck rail lin-
es 23 miles northwest of
Munster and airdromes at
five nearby towns .
If a British report is true, the
Germans have tried to strike
back with a new secret weapon,
but the attempt was a fizzle.
The London Daily Mail reports
from Stockholm that Germany's
Y-2 secret weapon already has
been launched against Britain
from Dutch firing sites. But the
dispatch — attributing its infor-
mation to a neutral observer who
served in the German army —
says the Nazi high command Is
disappointed with the results.
The dispatch says the new wea-
pon travels so rapidly that it
fails to terrorize the population
And it is said to penerate the
See THIRD Page 8
Local Marine, Veteran of Cape Gloucester,
In Violent Peleliu Battle,- Saves Officer
By T/Sgt. Benjamin Goldberg
Marine Combat Correspondent
PELELIU. PALAU ISLANDS
( Delayed) — With two other Ma-
rines. Private First Class Vance
lobe, 19. of 500 Locust street,
Sweetwater, lifted a wounded
officer on a stretcher during a
Jap attack the first night on the
tiny beachhead. One Marine top-
pled over the wounded officer,
killed bya sniper. The other was
shot in the head a few seconds
later.
Jobe dropped to the ground,
dragged the dead man from the
officer and tried to find a corps-
man He did not call for fear of
giving away his position to the
enemy, who were in foxholes
around him.
Another officer approached to
aid and was shot between the
eyes. Jobe took refuge beside the
cocoanut log where the wounded
officer lay. Snipers sought him
out and chipped the log over his
head with scores of bullets.
After 35 minutes,two Marines
crawled up and they dragged the
officer to the beach. He died a
few minutes later. „
Private First Class Jobe was a
j rifleman in the defense line set
up on the beach shortly after the
i landing by combat engineers
} The Japs attacked that night
with infantry and a tank and in-
flicted severe casualties on his
unit.
The enemy was repulsed, how-
ever, and next morning, it was
necessary to clean out caves and
foxholes a stone's throw in front
of our lines, where Japs still re-
mained. Jobe saw three Japan-
ese who had committed hara-kiri
during the night by holding
grenades against their stomachs.
The Marine is a veteran of the
j Cape Gloucester campaign.
His two brothers. Harrel and
Lewis also are in service. Lt.
Harrel Jobe. A. C, is in th?
ferry command. He was an over-
night viistor here recently with
his father. W. H. Jobe, leading a
formation to the Pacific coast.
Cpl. Lewis Jobe is in the ord-
nance department stationed in
MarylandL
A son-in-law of Mr. Jobe's, 1st
Lieut. John Harrington. Is a
pilot instructor in Laredo. .
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