The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. [37], Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1944 Page: 4 of 6
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I Three Brother
I Die within Week
Funeral services were Iwld in
Fairfield Friday morning at 10
o'clock (■ r J. L. Chiids, 90, pioneer
Freestone resident und the third 1
brother in the Chiids family t:> dio
in the last wuek. Burial wes held
in Fairfield for the longtime Fair-
field resident, who c'.isd Thursday
'nrnvin." ut :S o'clock in Teague at
j the hoivo of his daughter, Mrs.
F. E. Withr vv, with whom he lias
J been making his home for everal j
j years.
| A second brother
! ,!5, died last Thursday in Fairfield
'and was buried Friday, the follow-
| inj" day. lrom the Cavalry Baptist
j Church. Tile Rev. James Morgan
undiluted the seivices, assisted by
Hopped Up
i &>•'■
It. R. Chiids, i IT
I the lit v. K. Kj Shepherd, and the
' Hi v. il. I.. MeKi sack, Burial was
i in the Antiuch cemetery at Turl-
' ington.
j A thirl brother. C. ('. Chiids, K;>, J
I of Jacks-nviilc, t ied Monday i" a|
1 Dallas hospital, und was. bun: I
I Tuesday of iliis week in Jacks.
j ville.
i Survivors of J. I.. Chiids include
j three daughters, Mrs. F. K. Witli-
' row of Teague, Mrs. Lee Kirgun j
of Fairfield, and Mrs. R. L. Willi- j
With' the end of her four-year exile in sight, Wilhelmina; queen of
the Netherlands, is preparing to resume the throne upon libera-
tion of her country by the Allied armies. *
'foid of Fairfield. Two -ons,
L. 11. j
Supersergeant
Missing in Action
• and W. H. Chiids of Fairfield also
j survive.
j C. K. Chiids is survived by three
; sons, Carter, Obie, and Edgar
Chiids of Jacksonville and three
| daughters, Mrs. Lorenu Young of
Garland, Mrs. Zora Conner of Dal-
las, and Mr-. Myrtle Dodge of New-
York.
CALUNA
iMsffiS
Finjoying his greatest year as
Cardinals run away with third
straight pennant is versatile j " allnee
Johnny Hopp. in thick of'"race
for batting leadership with .344.
Wm. Shillings, Jr., is home on a
furlough fy.ini Long Beach, Cal-
ifornia. ,
Jerry Duu Wallace ef Dawson
; rpent last week with his grand
parents, Mr and Mrs. S. W. Bur-
lington.
Mrs. George Wallace, Sr., re- |
turned heme yenle:dav from i
Desdemona, where she lias been
visiting relatives, I
Miss Bonnie iluniel.l el Dalli'j
visited her parents, Mr. and Mr;;.
. ear Barfiold. over the v. el; club
A'iss Vera Jo-Ha l ii.'e.'Lon visit-!
ed relatives in llub.' ard I'ii.lay :
and Saturday.
Mr. and Mr?, U. i!. 1 lance >.1'
El 1'aso are visiting hi.- parents,
Air. and Mr. . R. R. Ui.uc.
Mrs. J. I!. Wallace (I' Wate rpent
Sunday with her father, Mi, Buir-
i in;:ton.
Flight Officer William O'Ban-
non Jr., formerly of Laiedo. spent
last we k emi with his mother.
Mi" P. W. Ruiiriimloii, he'nn Lu-
ing iransferre i t( Line I:i. Neb.
Mri. My.tie Clenn and Mrs.
(!ee rye Wallace, Sr.. spen! Sun-
day in Killeen with Mr. and Mr.;.
Ri bin Reynolds. They were ac-
coir panted home by Mrs. Mull Aa-
! kev,, who has been visiting in Kil
i leen.
' • Mr. and Mrs. 1'iank Barrett had
us thoir guests Sunday all of their
children—Mr. and .Mrs. Bob Dun-
j tun ol' Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. George
a iu
Pirccer Possibility
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SW,T^
FRANCE
Venice
Yttience
fur to
Genoa
Rovenno
La Spezi
San Rcmo
Leghorn
Ligurian Sea
Pesaro
Ancono
Ho run cg
Cannes
Adriatic Sea
Marseille
CORSICA
Mediterranean Sea
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mP'r' I
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j ' Lieutenant
' 21, has been
After 30 years active service
in the U- S. Army, 26 of them
In the 'highest non-com rank.
Master Sergt. Chester Stewart
recently retired at Ft. Lewis,
Wash. He's pictured V abovo
wearing, beside rank chevrons,
10 three-yea: -hitch hashmarks,
ftiur World War I overseas chev-
rons and an ovcrscr.s strip from
this war.
L. D. McGilvray,
miffing in action
since Augi-it 22 over Yugoslavia ; g '
the War Department notified his I ot'.Til'.vo
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E-. M .Vic-
Gilvray, Route ii, Woitham, thi-
i week.
A friend of his stationed at the
same pest has \v; itten his family
I-5 i\ How.' in a letter dated Air-
,.;'.st "We ''rave been together
ever rince at Marfa and I felt very
'.if' v.li'.T be went down, but please
lUm'i f-et the impression that he
i di ul bet u'i l.e was listed as
n:i.^in.v in action.
'We had -aided Vienna and
one cf Larr.'. 'r ergines was knock-
ed - .ill ever the tarvet. lit stayed
with us all the ' ay to the coast
of Y.e.'o.-lavii w.ien another en-
•V
gin cut 'Hit lie hie: his (l.oice of
lit he;* trying to bring it across I
tht Adiiatic en two t ngincs or
I playing r.afe and .bailing out over
1 Yuge lavia. Fver'onc is sure he
I did the latter. As things stand
now he has an excellent chance
ef getting back hero to Italy
without being taken a prisoner.'"
I.t. McGilvray is a Liberator
[pilot with the loth Army Air
! For'C, and during extensive action
I against German installations has | |m;Me(| v<.iin by.
been in raids or such targets as A|, cal.jy supporter of Pro-idem.
Munich, Vi-nna, and the I'loeati I Rcoaevelt, Reed soon turned on
in! fielda el Romania. He also (|K. president and became a leader
softening up J jn anti-New Deal party eirclec,
still able despite advancing age
to fire the bitter broaiisides which
characterized him as a political
Acts for Pad
p.'.uy
1 ivc.uv
Lean
ALPENA,
—James A.
later wfyo |.
: viction above
, ig'at bitterly tl
ti^;. r.ftei Wu'lii War
day ;.t the age of 82.
lieed had been ill f. ;• ;i
a weuk. He wi... iaken t•> the
! piti i at Aipeau lrom his Os
,Ceunty ranch a veel
. ing from a eevere cel l. Recovcrin ;
j fiuviewhat, he returned to th.
ranch but Wien.'.siui:,' l.i eoudi-
I tioii became triii.al ami his pe
| soiml fiiiysicUu' from Eansu's City
I flew to his bedside to aori-t ;Uiy-
sicinnr already with him.
He served 18 years in the upper
House from !'souri, continnine-
ttle series of great salons from
that state, iiikI in t'.i28 was a
candidate for the ' Democratic '
party's presidential nomination, j* ~~~
But the ghost of Woodrou Wil I G<&nilclll Collapse Due
son haunted the Missouri!,,,, then j fc Eage QilS Shortage
winding up Ills long tenure lr.
Washington, and the nomination
Jr., and children, Ma-
rina and Nuncv Ruth of Coolidge,
ami Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Boy
i Jeuson.
! Mrs. Newt Findloy's vir.itar-
untlay were her 'i^ter, Mrs. M.
! Eh ckmtn ar.d niece, Mrs, Emma
j Mt.iT and her daughter, .M: -.' ('ly-
tic Murr. ef Mexi.t and anol' e
ni to, Mis. Bill Mcfre.cn, ,.i' L ■ ai -
as.
B'ilie Jeharncn, cle1. l.i
sen ef Mr. and Mi". Ott > • >iiuii-. .
ami ncpliew of Fred J-.'hanscn o!"
cotnnu.uiiy, uar. I i at
Anticipating Allied capture and consolidation of French Mediterranean ports, armchair strategists
.see Interesting possibilities of a surprise pincers movement, as diagrammed on map above, that
might spell quick doom for Germans in northern Italy; Left arm of pincers could thrust eastward
through Alpine passes on to broad plains above Po river; right arm would require amphibious in-
vasion of Yugoslavia. Success of movement would trap Nazis in northern Italy, force their sur-
render or flight through Brenner Pass, which is at mercy of Allied bombers.
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isrcMIl Meet to Speed Victory Plans
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Is 'i d M-
ties
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the hi
IK'ej
lis horn, ir
inir and wn
Hubbard t'
Sunday •
V.r. and Mrr
Mr. : nd Mrs.
dn I' t.f I'rairi
•\ r< h: !.• Vin.-o.
dellc, Mr->. Denaid R- .
ami Mrs. 11. F. Ciaig, Jr
by, all of Waci, am! Mr
Wt.i.-.aa Sl.ii : •>•! ehil.,:
Mill Mt
a'rl dr,
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nter, t. i
■ Vins .a,
., and ba-
a I id Mrs.
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Maria Osmena, above, daughter
of Sergio Osmena, new presi-
dent of the Philippines, will act
u: her father's official' hostess
in Washington, " entertaining
members of the Philippine em-
bassy, State Department secre-
taries, und congressmen.
on South-
, Participated jr the
i and invasion offensive
' cm France.
lie i a graduate of Wnrtham
high school and was employed by
the Silver Vine Oil Company be-
fei" entering the Air Force in
September. 11,-12. I.t. McGilvray
speaker and Senate investigator
| in his more youthful days.
Jim Reed probably packed more
I drama into his life than any oilier
went oversea ■ in March. 11)41, and (Pul>Iic figure of his day. He'fought
; was stationed in Southern Italy.
Mexia Navigator H. N, Guthrie, 46,
Held as Prisoner Dies Unexpectedly''
for states rights. He fought pro-
hibition, against centralization of
the
«nd
toiTigii affafrt
Mis. O K. Sims, who underwent
a major operation at a local hos-
pital in Mexia last week, is doing
nicely, according to relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. liutledge
have moved to Fairoaks for this
school term.
Mr. and Mrs. Aulsie Sims have
moved into their home here.
A. B. Sims returned to Temple
Monday for a brief -tay.
IULSA, Okla., Sept. 8. (U.R) • \y L, Henderson < f Waco was
End of the two-year critical gaso- on business last week.
line shortage within 00 to !)0 days j Pvt A)|en M Rogers stopped
after Germany capitulates was | j)v ffom Long Beach,
predicted today by refining com- J c'H,jt. ( U) Camp 1Iull,n Monday
.iiiny executives. I night and visited '/.is parents, Mr.
Already, it wa- revealec,, con- j an., JfIrSi Jim noKtu.s.
siderable quantities of petroleum | M)s . Hnz,., Dean Sims lt,ft |ast
products ordered for the European j ,ast week tf) enter e-,,|(.K(> at Call.
,var theater have i-een diverted to j yon f(U. this term
the Pacific coast for use against j" Charlene Sims of Freeport j
the Japanese. I spent the week end here with her |
C. L. Mayhall, sales martager | pai.pnt#( Ml.. und Mrs. J. J. Sims. I
for the Anderson-Prichard Oil Co.,
m'0m-
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In fi.;fettle were the Quebec conferees. Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt when
thi pi t lire was snapped. The two leaders met in the :.ld capital of French Canada, both were plca-'ed
over tie progress of the war and ready to start drafting new plans for the final and complete defeat
of G in .":ny anti Japan. (NEA Telcphoto)
ud.
Gudgeon Reported
Losi in Sub Warfare L,^'
ipper of the Gudgeon, Lt.
Cmdr. Robert A- Bonin, of Mil-
WASH1NGTON, Sept. 12. (U.R) waukee, Wis., is listed as missing
-Loss of the 1176-ton American action together with the normal
ul marine Gudgeon, presumably
Pacific, was
• I ho Vn
announced to-
rn tlv
cry l.y the Navy.
The under: ca craft was the 29th
Ameiican submarine 11 • -1 since
complement of 05 crow members.
The Gudgeon held a presidential
unit citation for sinking 11) Jap-
anese ship . including one sub-
marine, and damaging three more.
one three inch anti-aircraft gun,
two anti-aircraft machine guns,
and 10 21-inch torpedo tubes.
Mrs. Fred Cannon of Thornton
vi-ited Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Glov-
er over the week end.
Mrs. George Peyton and Mrs.
Cecil White left Tuesday fot'i
Greej'ton to .-|iend several days]
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lamar]
the hee.in ing of the war, the Navy She was 2D!) feet long and carried I umpbell.
lid that "certainly within 90
government in Washington (days af'.er Ge.rmanyV collapse
American paitieipation in the civilian shoilage of gasolilKj' "• i
should ease up considerably." "
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He . whs- km wiv its "Fiu-hting
I
Second Lieutenant Walter Kline
Boyd, Jr., 21. i- a prisoner of war
held by the German government,
so his mother and wife learned
today. He has been missing ir.
f.itu n since, a July raid on Ger-
many
The telegram read: "Report
just received through the Inter-
national Red Cross states that
your son, Second Lieutenant Wal-
ter Kline Boyd, -Jr., is a prisoner
of war of the German government.
Letter cf information follows."
The notification of hi" change in
status came from the provost
marshal! general.
I.t. Boyd had been overseas only
peven weeks before the action in
which he failed to come back, and
four months earlier had received
his commission as a navigator on
a Flying Fortress bomber at
Hondo Flying Field. He is a 1941
Mexia high school graduate, and
'had attended school at SMIT, A.
& M., and Westminster before
entering the Air Corps March 12,
'1043. He and Miss Betty Jo Brady
of Mexia were married April 10,
vand he wai transferred overseas
the last of Mhv.
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Jimmie Edwards of Wr.co was
a business virltor in Mexia Fri-
day.
Sgt. Maurice Robinson of Waco
II. X. Guthrie, Hi, .">07 E. Hop-
kins. 'rill foreman of the Pure
Oil Co., died lust night at a local
hospital after suffering a heart j
attack oil a downtown street yes-
terday •• fternoon. ,
Guthrie, a native of Norman, I
Jim" and even when his Mis'-our-
ians turned their backs on him he
kept right on fighting Wilson an I
the League.
Reed was elected to the Senate
in 11)10.
in the Senate his brilliant
Oklahoma, was born August 28, j lory soon marked hint a>
1898, and was a veteran of World j the leaders of the uppe r House.
War I. I _ _ j _ r
Tie leaves a widow, a daughter,'1 iVlA 1.J W j\ i
Margaret Jean of Mexia, two J
brothers. R. K, Guthrie of Okla-
lioi. ii City and Donald L. of Kan-
sas City, Mi . Two sisters, Dorine
'J thrie, Notches, Miss., and Mrs.
I'1 red Huekaby, Tulsa, also sur-
vive.
Guthrie wus employed by the
Pure Oil Co. for nine months
since coming to Mexia in January.
Corley Funeral Home will ship
the bodv to Norman, Oklahoma,
tomorrow where services will be
held Sunday afternoon at the
Myers Funeral Home.
Mrs. Marshall Shelton left Sat-
urday to spend a month in Hous-
ton, where she will join her son,
Larry Lynn. x
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Murchisorv
and sons, Johnnie and Billy, of
' Houston are visiting this week end
' in the home of Mrs. Murchison'a
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Rob-
inson.
Mrs. Mary Anthony of balsas is
Mr. and Mrs. Porter Allen and
daughter, Mary Beth, of Paris and
Dallas spent the day Sunday with
her mother and sister, Mrs. T. C.
Kennedy and Mi s Winnie Ken-
nedy.
Miss Bernieee Lindsey of Mc-
Gregor is spending a few days '
with her parents and other rela-
tives.
Mrs. C. C. Pollard who lives on
the H. C. Fife place was not ser-
iously hurt Suturday night re-
turning from town when their car
was hit by another one.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Scwell and
family visited in the Lindsey home
Mid-C: ntinent refiners are pre- ,
paring f r immediate, reconver- i
sion to automobile grades of motor i
fuel as saon as the government
permits after the European war's
end.
| The No. 1 unknown quantity in
:>ra- I the gas disc picture i-i the pglicy
one ol j „f the federal government.
"The entire thing depends upon
what kind of call the government
■ makes upon refiners," said May-
hall. "We are now producing at
rapacity, and considerably ubove
I the output that wall he needed for
! the war against Japan. So it ap-
; pears likely that much of this
great production can be diverted
to civilians without much delay."
I Other refining company execu-
tives predicted the civilian gaso-
line rations could be increased as
sonn as 00 days after Germany
falls.
The rubber program was also
reported a major obstacle to re-
moval of gasoline restrictions, al-
though Mayhall added this pre-
diction:
"The tire situation is sure to be
a lot better within 90 days regard-
I GOP Landslide
in Maine Voted
PORTLAND, Md„ Sept. 12. (U.R)
i—A Republican landslide in the
j Maine "barometer" elections re-
! turned three GOP congressmen to
office and elected state Senate
president Horace A. Hildreth gov-
ernor, virtually complete returns
showed today.
It was the largest margin of
victorv ever scored by the GOP
in the traditionally Republican |
state, Marion Martin, rrf Bangor,
assistant National Republican
chairman said. The Republican
gubernatorial candidate received
approximately 75 per cent of the
vote cast.
The voting proved a blow to the
CIO Political Action Committee
which had campaigned actively I
Sunday. H Jul ueurr wilniii vm lit
Saturday morning Homer Lon- ]eg8 of wh|tt hftppeng
zte's house caught fire in the flue |
but was put out 6y hasty work of j Mrs. C. IJ. McMillen of Waco Is
neighbors. Only the inside of the j visiting her mother, Mrs. M. L.
kitchen was burned. M.-rinno
Mrs. Rasco, mother of Mrs. Pink
McDonald^
Mrs. Raymond Cozby and son,
for the election if two Democratic ;
candidates for Congress. i
Returned to office were Reps. '
Robert Hale of Portland, in the j
first district, Margaret C. Smith
of Skowhegan, in the second dis-
trict, and Frank Follows of Ran-
gor, in the third district. Hale's
margin was n little better than two
to one. The other.' won by margins
of approximately three to one. |
DALLAS, Tex.'.' Sept. 12 (U.R) -
Announcement was made today of
the purchase by American Air-
lines of 55 new high-speed, t'our-
A. Bates, is a great deal better, j Wilson, iiave returned to Grand ..engine passenger planes from the
is visiting hi* wife and relatives spending the week end in the home I She is in a local hospital recover- Safine after visiting in Mexia for. Douglas Aircruft Company at un
THE OLD JUDGE SAYS...
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"It sounds almost like a miracle, Judge...
how did we ever do il?"
"American industry did it, Sally. When
the Japs conquered the chief natural rubber
producing ccntcru of the world they thought
they had dealt a death blow to our war
effort. But, in k"3 than two years, we are
producing enough synthetic rubber in this
country to supply all our military and
essential civilian requirements.
"Our rubber experts knew how to make
it but the most practical process at the
time required huge amounts of industrial
alcohol... far beyoncf the already over-
taxed capacity of our industrial alcohol
plants. So, overnight, our country's beverage
distillers stopped making whiskey and pro-
duced hundreds of millions of gallons of the
vitally needed alcohol.
"As a matter of fact., Sally, a high govern-
ment official said recently '...synthetic
rubber is from 6 to 9 months ahetid of
where it could have been if alcohol had not
been available for butadiene production."'
"We were really fortunate, weren't wn
Judge, to have a beverage distilling industry
in existence ... able to help perform this
great wartime miracle!"
the week end.
I of Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Robinson. | ing from a broken hip.
! several days.
This udvtiliiOHfnt sfnmsorid by Confermcc vj Alcoholic Ihvcra^c Jnduitriu,
estimated cost of $30,000,000.
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