Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 264, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 15, 1944 Page: 1 of 6
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EBS (UP) — Radio Tokyo says I
American forces on Leyte are :
being reinforced in the quick-
ening battle for the island's west j
coast port of Ormoc.
The enemy radio (as heard by j
NBC in New York) says two
nw.-e American divisions have
been landed on Leyte. If true,
the unconfirmed enemy report
would mean iho addition of 2ft,-
000 men.
J'hese Americans are pitted
?inst a Japanese force now
estimated at some 35,000 men.
which Tokyo radio identifies as
some of the best in the Japanese
army.
The battle for Leyte's west
cdji-it port city of Ormoc again
is reaching a decisive stage. Ra-
dio Tokyo says the enemy force
includes some of Japan's best
troops.
.Allied leaders say the lat-
est set-back for Japanese sea
power in the Manila Hjiy
area probably will prevent
any further enemy attempt
to reinforce .Japanese troops
on the island.
J,t.'s also considered doubtful
tm t Tokyo will further weaken
its remaining garrisons in the
Philippines by reinforcing Ley-
1e, since troops on Mindanao and
Luzon may be needed desperate-
ly^later.
"lie American air blow at
Manila Hay Sunday is being
heralded as a major preparatory
step in an eventual invasion of
Luzon. Pearl Ilarbor officials
re.veai that United States car-
rV.'-toased pit winl; two Jap-
anese destroyers, crippled an
enemy cruiser, and left 11 Jap
anese cargo ships or "il tankers
burning in Manila harbor.
Aground on TiCyle, two
^American columns are push-
Sweetwater Reporter
, i
Ing down the Ormoc corri-
dor highway toward the
port city. One Yank force
lias snapped a pincers on
part of ihe enemy divisions
-guarding Ormoc, while the
"other has dashed to within
tl air-line miles of Ormoc
from the east.
Radio Tokyo shows evidence
of increasing Japanese concern
over where American forces
iiw.v strike next. It warns in a
broadcast that all male residents
between IS and .'Hi living in Ma-
nila will be forced to defend
Japanese strong - points.
Brigadier - General Carlos Ro-
i#tlo — the resident commission-
er of the Philippines — predicts
compelte liberation for all of the
Philippines during the coming
year, in a broadcast from one
of Leyte's liberated cities, he
s0B: '
"I foresee that, instead of cel-
ebrating the 10th Anniversary
of the commonwealth next year,
we will see the inauguration of
the Philippine republic.''
^However. no such cheering
picture comes from Chungking,
the Chinese high command says
a strong Japanese force is head-
ing for the Kwangsi province
cities of Kwciyang and Nanning
c-'ki'-s of the last remaining Unit-
etr States air bases cast of Kun-
ming. -<■«?
DEDICATE!! TO SERVICE
47th Year ' "
, /
School Board
Elects 2 New
Instructors
Tax matters, election of two
new teachers and routine prob-
lems were handled last night
at a meeting of board members
of the Sweetwater Independent
school district.
The session was held in the
tax collection office with E. E.
Roy. collector, giving a sum-
mary of tax payments The rate
this year is- $1.
Margaret .Gary- of Fredericks
burg was elected high school
homemaking instructor, succeed-
ing" Mrs. Marie Purvis who re-
signed.
Mrs. Verna Martin Metz was
chosen to succeed Miss Sheiton
as Spanish teacher in high
school.
Present were I!. S. Covey, city
superintendent. M i I to n Pa te,
.John YV. Pepper, \V. X. Baucum,
C . S. Perkins, John Cox, Jr., and
Leo Nurtn.
Koiso Thinks Present
Battle Last Chance
To Get Good .Terms
CHUNGKING (CP) —Private
reports received in Chungking
froiu sources inside Japan say
Japanese Premier Koiso consid-
ers the battle of the Philippines
Japan'.- last chance to obtain
something better than uneondi-
! tional surrender. These reports
| say the Japanese government is
; preparing influential people in
Japan for eventual defeat, but
; stressing that resistance in the
Philippines must be as pro-
! longed and bitter as possible to
i win better peace terms.
Radio Tokyo reflects a similar
! sentiment in announcement that
| all residents of Manila between
j is and 5o will lie forced to fight
| when ::the necessity arises.''
Radio Tokyo also says Allied
; planes raided Makassar on
i Celebes island, in the Dutch East
' Indies. Tuesday morning.
!s Promoted To
Courier Officer
For Middle East
Capt. Robert F. Morris who
•ecently returned to Africa fater
siting here with his wife and
'lice daughters, was promoted
ct. N to theater courier officer
or the Middle East.
Capt. Morris spent two years
i i that theater of operations be-
i re coming home on leave. He
- turre-J there for active duty
Oct. is.
"West Texas' Leading Newspaper"
BUY IT IN SWEETWATER
Ij. Horace Koqm Re'tsms From Pacific
Duty- Tc kes Pert In Manv F-mcornents
1 t. (j.g.) Horace Chilton Ho-
pan, Jr., Rol>y Xaval officer, has
seen the war reach a decisive
sKge in the Pacific, having
been under fire in many of the
island campaigns and taking
part in MacArthur's return to
the Philippines at Leyte.
. Home on leave Lt. Hogan, who
w|s graduated from the I'nited
States Naval Academy, Anna-
polis with the 1943 class, is
transferring from his heavy
ship of the fleet to the Naval
air corps. He hopes for three
nujiths assignment in Texas.
Serving in combat intelligence,
Lt. Hogan has been on sea fluty
for 51 months. He was promoted
from an ensign to Ins present
rank last August.
>'inCe embarking for overseas
dmy and combat service Lt.
Hogan has seen stubborn enemy
strongholds fall: he has seeii
savage island fighting and the
skill of the United States Navy
in a swift Pacific advance to-
wwil its goal- Tokyo, through
impetus of violent action.
Lt. Hogan spoke little of the
Japs setback, of the torrential
downpours, typhoon winds and
i,t. <j.g.) * • Hogan, .lr.
forces ex| erieneed at Leyte or
of the general push against the
.lap held islands, and he cautious-
ly avoided mentioning the toll
(if Jap ships destroyed or heavily
damaged in the fight for Pacific
supremacy.
Sweetwater, Texas, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1944
No. 264
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ACTION AT IjKYTR INVASION'—lap aircraft continuaSly pounded at;ilo
during invasion operations. Three bomb e\plosi<;ns ran lie seen in the
planes dodge ark-ark fire. The Liberty slii;> in the left background
Jap .
pliine tliiit was brought down. In the
foreground are American
Telcpholo.)
I"l boat-
■ -hips in l,e\ te Gulf
background while
uas hit hy a Jap
N.>\ y I'lioto \ ia N FA
INNOCENT
v^ent storms that the invasion See LT. HOGAN, Page Six.
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PARIS i UP) — Heinrich
Himmler may be Germany's
home army commander but.
lie's also the butt of a good
joke being w li i s p e r e d
around Germany.
Here's how it goes. Propa-
ganda Minister Doctor Jos-
eph Gocbbels asked the dean
of Berlin University to
award Gestapo Chief Himm-
ler an honorary doctor's de-
gree.
When Himmler appeared
before the dean's commit-
tee he was asked the simp-
lest question they could
think of: "Who killed Wall-
enstein'.'"
That's kid stuff for the
third grade in Germany -
General Wallenstein is one
of the country's most fa-
mous historic figures.
Well, Himmler gave it
some thought, and then said
can assure you hen-
professors 1 had nothing to
do with it."
Two Ranchers Big
Winners In Show
DALLAS (CP)—-Two ranches
have emerge^ as -outstanding
winner - in tlie Pan-American
1 lei etui d I. a i' -ition in Dallas—
the famed Turner ranch of Sul-
phur. Oklahoma, and the Wyom-
ing .Hereford ranch at Cheyenne.
\V.vnmimr.
Ro.v 'turner, .'resident of the
Ann rican flereiord Association,
is ownei ot Pontetoc Tone, aged
,,u 11 named grand champion Mon-
dav, which win Jirst honurs
i u'esday. alonv; wilii T-Rupert
Mixi .. .-enior yearling and Col-
it-ge Rupert 'I iiiarth, summer
yearling.
Misty Maid, owned by H. It.
btrm iie. Corsicana rancher and
,ace horse owner, has taken first
honors in the class of females
alvfd before May i. in 12.
World's Largest Gas
Line is Completed
HOUSTON (CP) — The re-
cently - completed pipe line
from Houston to West Virginia
—the world's largest and long-
est natural gas line—is a boom
to both Texas land owners and
the state treasury.
Richard Wagner, of Chicago,
chairman of the Tennessee Gas
and Transmission Company,
which is owner of the line, made
the statement last night in
Houston.
The occasion was celebration
of the completion of the pipe
line which permits Texas gas to
perform a vital war function in
the fuel-starved armament cen-
ters of the United States.
Thionville
Hoyange
GERMANY
Saarbruc
■.V-':.igy ••
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FRANCE
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Nom«ny
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Frouord
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TODAV'S \\.\n MAP—Tlic .* ■*<( Army <;;ptnits Korts Thion-
villr :sikI \ rrnr.v in riK'irclinu AIh/.. XoriluTiimost pt netr,i-
lion is norfInvest of Henestn It, wfirre it is onl> -0 miles from
SitiirlH'itekcn. ( \ KA TeleiiutfO.
McGloihing. Santa Fe Car Clerk, Wins 1st
Place, S1C0 Bond For Best Victory Garden
M. II. .Metnothing, Santa I'
i cat clerk, . this moinmg w a -
j awarded a SI00 war bond for
I his participation and winning
I'll st , lace in a Victory Garden
i •.•cutest sponsored by the Gulf
i iviosvoo and Santa re lines.
Mi. McC'othing's garden was
' U: 111; d. ciii ivattd and harvested
,:t bis In me. •"> West Uth street.
! it was selected as top garden
1 re.m many hundreds growing
di ng the rail lines.
Comijiu to S\ve< t water to make
1 the formal presentation were
.1. II. Fitzhugh, Galveston, pub-
I tic relations officer; J. P. Cow-
i Lalyeston, assistant gen-
eral manager; A. P>. Ciemcnls,
i emple, superintendent.
Pit spbtation of the bond was
j made at the Santa Fe round
! house in the local railroad yards
J oy Mr. Cow ley who stated:
"We wish to show recognition
| today to one of your co-workers
i for having won the capital prize
| for having the host victory gar-
den e,n the Gulf Lines. The na-
! lion's victory garden program is
j -econd only to the American
Hed Cro>s as the greatest volun-
teer war movement in the coun-
try today.
"The mil victory gardens in
the United States number about
21,000,000, of which there were
more than 10,000 cultivated by-
Santa Fe employees, and of this
nunii ei api
n i ne Guh
"When thi ,
up«.n industr>
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AXIS TROOPS
SLAUGHTERED
BY COSSACKS
i MOSCOW (UP) — The Rus-
j sians have stormed into the
! southern suburbs of Budapest.
And Moscow says the battle for
| toe Hungarian capital is in its
final stages.
the famous Cossack cavalry is
j leading the Soviet advance and
| the hard-riding horsemen are
chopping down laggard enemy
troops with sabers. The Danube
is reported swollen with bodies
of Germans and Hungarians
I tossed into the river by the
Cossacks. Dismounting behind
; their horses — trained to lie
i down in battle — the cav alry-
men are using their mounts as
: shelter as they machine-gun the
enemy troops attempting to
wirn aero-- ihe Danube.
Schools Turn Out
For Thanksgiving
On November 22
GREAT BATTLE
FOR CITY MAY
END QUICKLY
Sweetwater schools will dis-
l miss on Wednesday afternoon,
Nov. 22. following the last class j
period for the Thanksgiving i PARIS (UP) The Ameri-
I holiday. Ross Covey, city school ! cans have pushed more than
| superintendent, has announced, j half-way through the chain of
| The holidtiy was set by virtue
I 01 the annual meeting ol' the
i 1 exas State Teachers meeting
nine major forts guarding Metz.
United Press War Correspond-
ent Robert Richards says it ap-
and because of the Big Spring- ! pears that the great* battle for
Mustang football classic to be j the historic stronghold will end.
playiri at the Mustang Bowl in j quickly.
the afternoon. General Patton's Third Army
.Most teachers will attend the j has captured three more of the
meeting end others will go to | main Metz forts in the latest ad-
tbeii Pomes for the holiday, j vanct -which carried to within
Classes will be resumed Mon- j little more than a mile of the
day morning. Nov. 28. I doomed city. Two of the princi-
Rurt.l schools are not expected | pal bastions fell yesterday and
to observe the holiday since they the day bef \
oximately 800 were
Lines.
government ealied
to lend its slip-
• to the victory garden [ ro-
_•; m the Santa l*e was one of
tin litst to .join in this move-
ment and the employees of the
Santa l*e have again justified
th« faith in them by the remark-
able results which they have
obtained.
'As a matter of' fact, it has
bet n I lie company's policy for
seats to make land along the
riyht-of-way available to em-
ployees for gardens. On the
Santa Ke yMem !KI awards, to-
taling !S2.(H)tt"in war bunds and
stamps were offered and won
by victory gardeners this year,
i in eiiampibn Santa Fe sy stem
gardeners is Henr.v S. Miller,
switch man. of Marceline, Mo.
IIL award was sjixi in war
bonds. On the Gulf Lines 2;> em-
ployee- won awards totaling
< l.'ii) in war bonds and stamps.
• 'Through the columns of ihe
, nta l'o Magazine we have
1 rough! home to the employees
the importance of the program
and have kept them posted on
OI'A regulations affecting can-
ned fruits and vegetables, which
has been of great value. The
food raised in these gardens was
nottb thousands of dollars, but
See McG LOTU1NG Page 0
Oilier Soviet forces, |iii Ii-
ing along the northern ;unl
eastern approaches lo Hiid.i-
pest, are in control of the
entire corridor between the
I hum he and Tis/.a rivers to
the south.
Below Budapest, the Russians
are pouring across the Danube
river to assault, the city from
• lhe west.
According to German reports,
j Nazi troops have evacuated the
i railway and highway center of
.laszbereny, ."I miles east of
Hudape. !.
In Yugoslavia Soviet troops
; are advancing from Danube
| bridgeheads established some
100 miles south of Budapest.
In Serbia, Bosnia and Monte-
negro, the Germans are facing a
I disaster reminiscent of the de-
| bade in Russia as violent, snovv-
! storms block roadways. The Ger-
| mans—driven into the wild
| mountain areas since the fall of
I Skoplje—are struggling despcra-
| tely to escape the trap. The Yu-
goslav radio says German posi-
tions'have been attacked suc-
I cessfully — with the aid of Brit-
j ish and Allied planes.
N'oiili of Ihidapest, two
Soviet columns have joined
forces on the Hlingarian-
('/.echoslovak frontier.
Urom Bucharest, a Soviet c I i - -
jiateh says the people of the
Black Sea port of Constanza
i have taken the government into
their own hands.
The dispatch savs the people
'—in .-.pile of troops at the city
hall trying to halt them—have
' installed officials elected by the
national democratic front.
Another dispatch from Buch-
arest says all ministers who ser-
I ved in Romanian cabinets dur-
ing the past four years are be-
ing arrested.
Police Clueless In
Missing Girl Case
WASHINGTON i UP) — Police
say they have no clues to the
whereabouts of a 20-year-old
government girl who ha.s been
missing sint e Friday.
'I he girl is Gladys Erickson,
a Navy Department clerk from
Virginia. .Minnesota. A no'e
iouud in her room indicated she
was worried about her health,
but her friends say she appear-
in eood -■ irits when they
havi recessed recently to aid in
the harvest. The schools that
close, Ed. F. Neinest. county
! superintendent -aid, ' will ob-
■ soi vc the Nov. 2:; holiday, the
1 same as the city schools.
Wickard Urges
Post-War Expansion
Ot Power Lines
AUSTIN (UP) — Texas Rural
j Electric Cooperative representa-
| lives have been urged by Unit-
• od States Secretary of Agricul-
i lure Claude I!. Wickard to plan
I now for post-war expansion of
power lines.
Addressing a - atewide meet-
| ing Co-Op officials in Austin,
i \\ ickard said 31 per cent of rur-
al homes in Texas have electri-
city while the national average
is 41 and nine-tenths per cent,
lie urguti support of f tie Lu«# t
hill now pending i.n conffi-i--. '
The bill approjiriates 5s5-mif-
lion dollars lor rural eleetrifiea-
! lion administration projects, and
I the money can be loaned tOz-pri-
: vate iidwer concerns as well as
j co-ops. Wickard hopes that pri-
vate utilities wil not be permit-
ted to •• kim off the cream" —
• as he put it—by extending lines
| only to high paying territories,
letting the sparsely populated
| areas continue witnout eiectrici-
e. ho
i e to
said, the
lie subsid-
c- Representative
if Waco, who came
-I.", Wickard before
for Washington,
ves that the flood
now pending in
have an mtiuence
t.v-
If thai. i. i
.'program will
■ized.
i United Stat.
W. R. li. ige i
; to Aust in to .-
! leaving today
j says he belie
; control bill
I congress can
on RI-:a de\ elopment.
WKATHKR FORECAST
s\\ ki: r\\ a'I KK -- \lthough
Sweetwater - not. ill the path
of a frost the mercury skidded
to -11 early today, Judge M. C
Manroe, volunteer forecaster,
said. High temperature Monday
i was ii!. f orecast is cooler we;>-
• th■ t tonight.
Forecasts call for fnii weatb r
: ovet ooui stales except for eon-'
1 siderat.li cloudiness in south
Tc.v;- this aftetnoon. tonight
I and tone rrow. with cooler tem-
| ' "i-etiires oredicted for East
Texas and for the lower portion
I oi i, est i exas.
Fort II Li n ire — north of
Metz — surrendered to our
! ."itli division this morning
after the (.erman comman-
der rejected all American
ii It i ma t li in.
The 90th division also over-
ran Forts Hubert and Jussv,
above famed Fort Driant on
j the left bank of the Moselle Riv-
' er west of Metz.
The American Fifth Division
seized Peltre — two miles sou-
; t,heast of Metz proper — and
-tacted closing in on the out-
skirts of Magny — only one
mile south of Metz.
The Germans hint the Metz
i battle is lost by announcing that
,civilians have been streaming
out of the city for several days.
Allied front reports say the 3rd
Army has narrowed the German
; escape corridor east of Metz to
| eight miles.
Elsewhere on the 275-mile wes-
i tern front, three other Allied
! armies yre pressing mrewed of-
iT-ii's i ves—antT* rn'ei -f ing on ly mod-
crate resistance.
Field reports say the Naz-
i's appear to he withdrawing
all along the line to conser-
ve i.beir dwindling manpoty
iT—probahl.v for a stand on
5he east hank of the Rhine.
In Holland a day old offensive
is pu.-hing on toward the last
enemy defense line east of the
Reich frontier.
1- ieid Marshal Montgomery's
troops crumbled the enemy's
first line of defense in the early
nours of the assault — advanc-
ing from positions west and
southwest of Venlo to within 7
miles of the German border at
line point.
The Tommies seized four brid-
gehead- across two canals on the
approaches to Venlo — linking
up three of the bridgeheads and
advancing up to three miles be-
yond the water barriers.
Front reports say all enemy
positions west of the Meuse riv-
er have turned out to be weaker
than the Allies had thought. The
Nazis gave up the towns of Eind
and Meijel — 10 miles west of
Venlo — and continued falling
back eastward.
At the southern end of the
western front. American Sev*
e"-h -j.-my troops are advancing
northeastward toward Sarre-
o.-im u fu tne entrance to the Saar
Valley of Germany. The Yanks
h ,\e gained up to a mile and a
half between newlv-captured
See GREAT Page 5
11
last -;i w her. She disappeared
itom Georgia Hall at Arlington
Farms, a government dormitory
tor girls who work in the na-
tion'.- capital.
The eiil's father. Gus Erick-
son, has been notified that she
i-- missing.
Supreme Court Asked
To Set Aside Death
Sentence Of Soldier
WASHINGTON (UP) — The
United States Supreme Court
has been asked to set aside the
death sentence of a 23-year-old
soldier convicted of the murder
oi a teen-age Sutton, Nebraska,
girl.
The high tribunal was asked
to review the (,-ase of .Joseph
-Maeavoy on the grounds that he
I was insane at Ihe time the al-
leged crime was committed.
Macavoy's attorneys told the
Supreme Court that the soldier
suffered a mental setback while
serving overseas.
Macavdy was accused of beat-
; ing Ki-year-old Anna Milroy to
'death in August, 1943. The sol-
| dier at that time was stationed
j at the Harvard Army air base
[near the girl's home.
"TKXAS IN THE WAR" QFEEN"—Willi Edward .lamleson,
vi president of the National Press Club, Washington, and
spokesman for 30 nationally-known writers who are now par-
ticipating In tlir "Texas In The War" week tour of Texas In-
dustries, Is, looking on, William O'Neil, President of the Gen-
eral Tire and Rubber Co., congratulates Miss Faitli McNamera,
of San Anionio, who won the "Texas In The War" beauty eon-
test which was a highlight of the dedicatory ceremony at the
new S5,530,OHO General Tire and Rubber tire-building plant at
Waco, Texas. (NEA Telcpholo.)
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