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chow pleases Many nationajlities
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Sws&sSS*
Front Is Stronger!
Ty LOUIS F. KEEMLE
UnltH Press War Analyst
Tho visibilities of I Inly tt'.vl
th•> Bulbar.!" r.s u major land front
rf Southern Ttrly. Their position it
■rood and is ftor.i'ily being im-
proved. Thn occupation of Foggia,
-,viib its commai/.'ations facilities
against Germany are becoming and air fields will ureatly strength-
r a'c apparent
> newed over the
tven as debute is
advisability of a
itiic!'. invasion of Western Europj
a-rass the English Channel.
f: ir.se Minister Churchill has
he has never regarded the
-i' which began in Africa
-.rlstitute for the invasion
Wcsltni Europe. However, be
•" • indication that the present
mr-'itn'; K'?sii;tn offensive would
rase a s'luuen change in the time
• b!i if th Allied High Command,
■ ioh hi .Mid just a week ago
r.t
«f
III.!'
■>bvi
1 be art-lied in duv course. I
\i) ')tla> Needed
PI*.-. . ti 'n ir Soufheastein |
o cn th" other hand, offer*! |
!v..-:itatTes which may be
v Ilk- delay. In the ;
•' it .'.ly it is no longer a '
a . ra.hig a defended
! g a precarious ;
!: ad. ! !
en Allied offensive power.
Sardinia flood Base
The occupation of Sardinia and
1 Corsica offers furthev offensive
! possibilities nml is a real thr-'in
I to the flank of the Germans in
Northern Holy Across the Adri-
atic. the Jugoslav patriot:', have
(.p.-red a threat on the other flaui\.
That <h ' : • an s;Aral's oi
i sluvm in l.h.
IV 'ill ana artci m. ut that thoy
hi'" • te: .i . h. .1: ir' iv pert >,.•
:St Kt • 1 i .1 tii!' i.'l 'ltd oi
Corfu. • ff,l'; wvr Mkauiuu
Coast. At t.hexsame time, the other
Axis rtates ai.' fiio i d'vert th"
Alias .".relfirmly established
• - :. "ve ■ ;■ -rational area
' ne-tiiae
An Ai:
the need
Rumania
th Ru'syian:
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AMERICAN ARMY CHOW pleases palates from mi.-ny lands whep those student officers of many nation-
alities answer mess call at Fort Benning, Oa. Left to right are fcapt. Gaston P. Ramin of the Frcnch
Military Mission; Ijeut. Genaro P. Javier, Philippines; Lieut. Yaso Abe, Hawaii; Lieut. Pedro Ortiz-
Aponte. Puerto Rico; Capt. William M. Bridgeford of New Jersey; Lieut. Sam G. Lew. Los Angeles-
born of Chinese extraction, and Limits. Theodore T. Suooka and Jitsuzu Chinen, both born in Honolulu
o£ Japanese parents. This i-; a United States Army Signal Corps photograph. (International)
ALTO SPRINGS
TEHUACANA
1
RUSSIANS NEAR GATES OF KIEV, DNIEPER RIVER
S -':enl onned Monday with j
| i" ■ ..I! present even if it had 1 v
v. : 1 all right and was still rain- I
'it _. Cur a .-chcrr. are Miss 11a | i.
j Mills of Kc.sse and Miss Helen!;;
iGt;: '!' of Chilton.
' Mr. an! Mrs. Joe Kenn.dy were
V- : y
mmkM
<?(&
m,
i
| vi.-il.i r.-' in Marlin Saturday.
Tl"--e ;r. ing fishing Saturday j
v.tr" Mr. atul Mr;'. John, Mr. and.
jy.rs. O. T. and Mr. and Mrs. j
|'I.i ti-i \Villirtr.K, their families nod j
jMr. ;'iti 1 t.trs. Orval Ruiisback. I
A! . I,'.una Davis of Stranger j
lis "pei'din.; .lOventl days with her]
:tc-r, Mrs. Will Kay.
Mr. and Mrs. George Stone spent
is vernl days last week in Houston
visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mis. W. G. Curry and family.
Ti.,y were guests al the launching
( f a ship.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Tiirnipseed
spent Sunday in the Mustang com-
munity.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McCarver
i and two daughters, Miss Anna Lee
and Vera,-spent Sunday afternoon
in the hnm' of Mr. and Mrs. Will
Kay, also Mrs. Henry Ledbetter
and daughter-, Bettie Fay.
! Singing Sunday night was well
attended and had good singing.
PERSON VILLE
r.lake l'V'Kino spt.nl flu
in Kilgor;; with r,"lalivcs,
Mrs. Dnnvir. I!. 1! of Californi:;
is visiting with her parents, Mr.
an.I Mrs. George 1,'owt II.
Shi iitf Sunt Adkins way f.een in
•nr.- midst Thuir-dny.
Mr. Sexton «f Wt : I. Texur
iting Mr. a.u' ..ii" Vil'le
er, .it's
on,' ht •
visii.iit"-
in I'Vrt
11(.n
to . Ti'
Mr. ;
lerl
wIm
' ist
■ I •
l'i.
M:
■;! !
ti .■t; 1 • 111.
I' nun. It
1 r A. ,V M. •
s.it! Mrs. Tl'
Mond: y fur
clr.'v will mat
h:
y and
I !utind
W. T.
dltt
IS Vis.
Swirl.
moth-
grsu-l
m
SPAI
THREE CREWMEN of a Pacific Electric Railway interurban leave their car In a Los Angeles terminal,
above, to join the ranks of 2,600 striking employes of the transportation company. Left to right are
Henry Aldrich, conductor; Charles ReynolilB, operator, and L. W. Beaver, motorman. The strike has
tied up freight and passenger service iu ft large war-working area. (International Rr.diophoto)
edkilecl as Due
feteniiine
GEN. CLARK SENT
.(j
I'utt
pre?p
I I'
no
1 el.ii"
I W(
par
. I!'.1
\i r
M r.
F1
mis
nt
; Ilounds,
I Mr. and Mr
[ dnughter of <
I wee 1; end v ■ th
Reynolds,
Mr. and Mrs. I.
Mrs. Cuv Yi lver
Mario Iiildrrhad
Corporal Ililderbrri
:v• ■ y11 .i" ■
T'ort Arthur
:c tlicir home,
d atris v.i'd
lie Spent ill"
amis of their
Mrs. Dave
WASHINGTON. Sept. 27 CJ.R) -
i: ler-!;i ■ retary ;;f War Robert !'.
er nn M'edi "i( d at a two-'Jp.y
couf; r ne ■ of nu re than J1')"
! ■ i.r 11•>i• t ! ry, label- and th j
I 1 liai l.li" coming I •' j
I ill lv> "i'0'.'tly 'n blood and j
. . . bid. will determine the ]
■ of t world."
i: ! ir.' i:-' abend, Ivt it is the
;■ (! judfrnii;ii Hi our miii- i
ader ■ that we "lill have a!
• , i a.
I ,< n
j rutu,
nan
. Roy Milburn
I'tsieann spent
Mr. and Mrs. Hi
and
I "i i !
I1arv 1
1 long,
' Th
' Washiir.
1 litil wai
nr.
Snnd'.y i
lake f'ih
•If IV
for
furth
■yd Yelverton,
hi with Mr...
accompanied
to Dallas last
left, for Salt
<t trainin.".
fight," I'tittei-.-nn said
'er; e.'. were laiied to
ton In hear a confiiieu-
l'eporl by rarking Army
and War Department of-
Iv planned te explain tin
i confronting the fTniI.' i
as well tis give off-the-
iccount:- of the war's pro-
Fo
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RUSSIA'S THIRD LARGEST
is the R.'d Army r<- >.i : d !•: h!
jfletr (I winter dife'i'.1 lii.e. mi: ,1
day's capture of Smtile'isk, tin in
CITY, KIEV, shown in view above, i vl«* Dniepei
It! *fv. it., v.-.iy across the " 200 foot w « st'ett" of dcv<
vi. a1 ready reported evavuatin liti llhraii
r main German defense point along the river,
liver, Germany's pro-
•perat • I iahting today
'.pital after Pri-
ll e Russians,
(fat ,'iiiationaD
Public Hearings
Dae on Anti-Pol!
I"! ',£1.1
WASHINGTON. Sept. 27. 'II.R)
The Senate Judii'inry Cinnniilti'i
agree I today t hold publii Iv ir-
ings beginning Oel. 25 mi tli
anti-poll lax bill, limiting ;• sti-
many to the ct nsi itutiruiality uf
such federal legislation.
Chairman Fnderii k Van Nuy .
D., Ind., announced the action
had I'efrorted tile Hmi approval
anti-poll tax bill favorably. '! ti 2.
"The dpnstitutionafily ipi a ion
only will be presented," Van \un -
said. "We will try to eliminate nn.v
argument on policy."
The subeommittce members who
voted for the bill were S 11s.
Ernest W. McFnrland, I).. Ariz..
Abe Murdock. II., Ui.ili, and Jchn
A. Danaher, D., Conn. Sen-;. T 111
Connolly, I).. Tex., and Warren R.
Austin, ({., VI., voted neainst.
i Nazis Ann
Reverses at Last
I . a •• reverse* and to have launched
a new line designed to keep the
Reich fighting in f ar ef the con-
sequences defeat would bring.
German concern over the war
situation was evident in censored
I Iv pule i cs reaching this neutral
i capital.
j Two principal reasons w re be- '
j lieved behind the Nazi leadership's j
new p . I icy of painting relatively j
i frank pictures of their fronts: !
J. \ realization that the Nazi !
|i ili ii would be weakened by i
riilicid. if they try to belittle the |
current reverses.
1RIE GROVE
Sallk
I br ike he
is taken t
:1V rs.
day an
She wi
Mexia.
Mi.'. Charier
ited in Fast, Tl";: s
Mr. and Mr-. Jeff
turned home.
Pvt. Conrad Hardison of Camp
Wallace and Mrs. Wynona Ste-
phens of Mexia visited their par-
ents Mr. end Mrs. L. C. Hardi-
s: n Saturday night and Sunday.
Doyle Kennedy of Mexia viSiied
his mother, Mrs. Callie Kennedy,
Saturday afternoon.
Claude Brown and John Webb
:er fell Satur-! had business in Mexia Wednesday,
r knet ami leg. I We are going to have our home
a hospital in coming here October 17. We are
I lo king for n large home coming
Mi i ••'.n, who vis- i arid extend a welcome to one and
: s last week with | all.
Mines, has re- ! Mr. and Mrs. Otis Smith
I children of Freeport visited
iVj1
Lirpoyt Equalized
Rates
ir7
ii
! officer:-,
i Tic i ll-, v
obst.icle
Nations
record
e ress.
I'r.tterson said il would ne im-
||||, : ihle til ivei'i t in'a> the pa
that Americaii-made eipiipment Itas
played in t!ie many successes that
Mlied arms have r celitly achiev-
ed.
'"t l:ev( just rel in tied from tii"
I'ajifie fri it, profoundly moved
by Hie iifficulties undergone by
our troops in that thoatr; of war."
A
BMH
Witlk
BETHEL
Miss Gladys Freeman
jept'd wni':! with Duke
in M: xi;> and Gladys
mother will move to town.
Mrs. Tonimj Meore who has ' (|ay afternoon,
ne n visi:itig her mother, Mrs. j Mrs. Ruby Ivcy is in
V.'lrna ;-.i.< =. ha-; t:-.ne to Filgorc visiting relatives.
for a while, where her
has a': • mother, Mrs. Melie Sharp over
i Ayres | the w::ek end.
uid he." ( Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Oakes
| visited friends at Fairoakes Sun-
WASIIINGTON, Sept. 27. (U.R)—
Champi. ns of a nationwide uni-
form rat;> structure today received
strong support from four top gov-
ernment officials in their campaign
to abolish '"discriminatory" rate
making.
Sen. Tom Stewart, I)., Tenn.,
author of a uniform freight rates
bill, rev.aled that the officials
were in canplete sympathy with
the m ve to bring about equaii-
' zation between southern and north-
ern freight charges.
In a letter to Stewart, War
Mobilization Director James F.
Dallas i Byrnes stated that wliil • he
I a member of the Senate he
Patterson
is to take
"1 a-ked
he wanted
"Send
•aid. "The fight
stratetri.' airiitb!
Gen. MiscAutbur
most.
■ri;
iiie air
>
what j
I
'Sen t
more
iat during tlv
ir, effrrts wer
tvclotmienl. o
and
his
me air,' lie said,
and more air and
•i ir' "
l';'tt:r"on sail! tl
early part of the \v:
concentrated on i
the long-range bomber progrini,
the results of v.iiich are showiii'.v
,n every liat tb front.
"Night and day these boiiiber:;
•wing back and forward over tlv.:
target—a deadly pendulum of des-
Iructii'ii." Patterson said.
MRS. MARK W. CJ.ARK, wife of the commander of the American Fifth
Army now advancing in the Naples sector, shows some of the souve-
nirs her husband has sent home. Snapped in Pittsburgh, where she
appeared"* St. a War Bond rally, Mrs. Clark holds the Grand ('toss
conferred on the American general by the Sultan of Morocco. Other
gifts in the collection include daggers, dancer's breastplates and a
gold-decorated shoe. (International)
FEA Joins Keacmoes as
f \ I'Weim Economic Agencies Occur
spent Sunday
and Mrs. John
Hinton Plummcr
in the home of Mr.
D. Plummer.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Little and
■ ti t !' Gri I'sbeck spent. Sunday
villi lis parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. L. Little.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Davis spent
Wednesday and Wednesday night j
in Wi.cn with relatives.
I'l'c. William Chandl r of Kansas
sin nt. Sunday in the home of Miss |
Florene Herring. i
Mi;-, iietty Jo Crow of Shiloh j
■ pent Saturday night and Sunday j
in the home of Miss Lottie Mae
Morrow.
has been cmployid.
Mr. and Mrs Frn
and Mrs. Buck iliii!
Sim . G. G. Winringliam,
Heit.il Itiibbhis and John IT
attended trade.
Thursday.
lay n
husband Mrs. James Davenport, who has
J been with her mother, Mrs. Kinne
! r.'.nklin. Mr. |furltinl, hns returned to Houston.
■ Ntimti j mi s. Rose Hudnal is visiting her
^ls' daughter Mrs. Walter Landers of
,Tin? Bremond.
Grtiesb;
was
had
expressed "the opinion on several
occasions that discriminatory
freight rates should not prevail
against any section and that in
M
STOCKHOLM. Sept. 27. 'U.R)
fi Nazi propagandist . appeared today
to have giv.n up trying to hood-
wink the German people about
f
Taormina, on Sicily's eastern
const, was established by Greek
settlers about 700 B. C., and until
World War II was a tourist resort.
-
_
i
J. Sr K AUTO SUPPLY
-TIRIC VULCANIZING—
See us for Grade III Tires
209 West Commerce St.
and Mr. . C. C. McFall of
"dexia visit d 1 .•!••■ I Monday even-
in;' with Mrs. V"lma Sims, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Franklin and Mrs. Ton,v
Moore.
Mrs. Velma Sims entertained
a few in her home Wednesday
night with a little singing. JuitJ
nn enjoyable tim' was spent.
Miss Mary Byrd, Mrs. Iteisil
Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Franklin and son, Mr. and Mrs.
Buck Hines, Mrs. T. O. Sims and
Mr. and Mrs. Fddie Tooke and
children were in Mexia Saturday
night shopping and visiting.
Leon Man Promoted
CF.NTF.RVILI.K, Tex., Sept. 28.
(SPL)— Roland Knight of Cen-
terville hns been promoted to Cap-
tain in the Air Corps according
to word received here.
Knight was the first Leon coun-
ty boy to bomb Germany and his
record ns an airman has been
cited in papers in England.
Captain Knight's wife lives in
Centerville.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Baker and
son of Center, were week end
visitors in the W. J. Ensterling
and John Jones homes.
Johnnie Mae Harrington and
Emma Jean Christian of Freestone
were Saturday guests of Fairy
Nell Oakes.
Miss Iva Nell Sims of Lost
Prairie was a Sunday guest of
Miss Patsy Sharp.
We are sorry to hear of Aunt
Mary Stephens being on the scik
list.
Mrs. Ruth Morton of Oakes com-
munity, who has been ill for the
1 past six weeks is better.
Oil Miii Is Damaged
HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. 28 <U.R)—
Damage from a fire which swept
through the one-story wooden bull i
bouse of the Houston Cotton Oil
Mil) last night was estimated to-
day at *.'<5,000 by Eugene T. Har-
ris, manager.
Fire Marshal H. L. Matthews
suid the cause of the file hod r.ot
beer, determined.
ju&tico to all
be a
ture. "I
opinion.'
ctions there should |
uniform freight rate strue- i
not changed my
Brov/der Foohs
Idea of Siberia
Bombing Bases
ot. 27 (U R)—
consolidation
ti economic a foil -ies and
,ri of Edward K. Stettin-
to be Undersecretary of
> ; -united today by offi-
Know as a fir. I "la: s job
WASHINGTON.
Pi ("lident R"0:'OVI'H
of rorei"
nominal i
ill:'. Jr.,
State an
rials who
is
ha vi
CHICAGO,
f-da is neither
enter the
Sept. 27 (U.R)—It us-
"able or willing" to
• against Japan and
Vice president Henry A. Wallace j "all chatter about the Soviet Un-
asserted that "the maintenance of ) ion giving us bombing bases in
old-style regional differences in ' Siberia is harmful nonesense," Earl
freight rates has been one of the | Browder, Secretary of the Com-
metheds of monoply control." I munist pnrty in the U. S., said
War Food Administrator Marvin j Sunday.
Jones said while a congressman j "Since the Soviet Union in the
he had "fought to secure removal j hest of cases will have borne two-
of these r gional differences und | thirds of the military tusk of de-
also the discrimination against feating Hitler, and in the woi t
| of adminisl rntive trouble shooting.
Credit is being - given to Jajnes
I'. Fern oi, vet'Tfln of the House
I and Senate who left the Supreme
, Ci url bench to In eonu bead of the
I Office of War Mol ili'/.ation. Byrnes
( worked it out.
Now that the officers of lease-
lend ndmit'ii-1rntieti, foreign relief
! and rehabilitation operations and
have been eon-
a readiness to
the previous set
rativc
"agriculture- in the export trade
rate structure."
Secretary of the Inferior Harold
L. Ickes, long an advocate "f
uniform rates, wrote that the Ten-
nessee Valley, the Grand Coulee
Dam area and other manufactur-
ing regions cannot develop in-
dustrially us they should if in-
terterritorinl fivight rate dis-
crimination continues to exist.
Truck Runs over Baby
case up to nine-tenths, it is an il-
lusion for the United States to c};-
pet t that they will be able or will-
ing to also undertake the burde i
of the military "ttru/ ^le u"'ains;:
Japan." he said In an address be-
fore ." Communist rally.
"All chatter about the Soviets
giving us 'bombing bases' in Si-
beria is harmful nonesense with
only one aim and end to try to give
the Soviet Union similni tasks in
I the Far East whii b be has por-
j formed in Europe, namely to win
the war for lis."
. , , Browder urged closer relai ion-
-John Riley Suttorfield, two-year- slijpK ^ S()vjet
old son of Capt. and Mrs. Jonn
j Sutterfield, died yesterday when
HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. 25 (U.R),
and the United Stater..
James O'Connell, of Overton, he was struck by n truck as it I W. W. Mason is spending sov-
vI«itoil friends in Mexia during backed into the yard of bis home | oral day; in East Texas on busi-
the week end. I to deliver a load of lumber. ' uess.
e:ot: mm warlr.ri
nolitialed. there )
acknowledge that
up wi an administrative mors
which did some good work in spite
rf itself.
All three agencies were engaged
;n i, inter led for vest overseas
j operations f ir'which the field will
I e: pntid Inst' ad of contract. Yet
j lhey were itidejlemh nt of each oth-
er. Divided i'.utbprily ko to stpiab-
bios in the field;
It I, d to a lot of confusion and
to plaintive inquiries fioin 111-'
British and other Allies who won-
deicd with whom in a position of
overall authority they could deal.
No one could tell them.
As now set up they can deal with
Leo T. Crowley or his agent. Crow-
ley l oad:- tlv new FFA which is
what tlv Office of Foreign Eco-
nomic Administration embracing
tliosi agencies will be called. lie
recently gave up his 150,000 a year
job with the Standard Gas and E
lcetrie c inpany. so that, lie could
lake over this new job at ,fl0,-
000 a year.
The reo:',"ani:-:ation actual!)
tlv c'limax cf the dianM.i. beiwee'i
S: crctarv of (.'I'limei'ce .1 i-Joiiei
and Vice-I'rtsiiieiit llei.r.v A. Wal-
ia'o. Wallace was lead of the
Boiird of Economic Warfare then
and J ones was it i finair ial agent.
The nun could not get along and
Mr. Roosevelt finally removed W al-
lace, leaving Jones' powers and
position substantially untouched.
The changes also serve to ori-
ent Ilorbc'rt II. Lehman into the
relief situation. A former govei-
nor of New York and close associ-
ate of Mr. Roosevelt, Lehman cam-
here early tiii - year to head ti e
impressively mimed Office of For-
iien flelii f and Rehabilitation Op-
erations.
Girl Newspaper Coy
at Work in Marshall
MARSHALL
—The
a
manpower
new low hi re.
Carmen C-iv.les
her first deliveriiF
route Sunday. Carmen
year-eld girl.
Al'.iEd
north!
radii
the rf
cai
- >i
Al
ril
til
if
,-#'1
ex.. S"pt. 27 (U.R)
shortage struck
i
rtai ted making
on r new spnper
is a
11-
Fallon Resident Has
Broken Ankle in Fall
Mrs. T. I!. Walktr of Fallon was
reported resting ta-y til a local
hospital following a fall Saturday
morning in which she broke her
ankle while visiting al Prairie
Grove in the home of Mrs. Emma
Smart.
Blood tests have been developed
by the Japs lo del inline "char-
acter and ability" for selection of
workers in their war industries.
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