Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 249, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 29, 1942 Page: 1 of 6
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ALLIED OFFENSIVES GAINING
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Tax Rate For City
Continued At $ 1.7 0
By Commissioners
Bolstered by a $20,000 surplus, the municipal government of
Sweetwater will face what is expecteo to lx> tlie 'toughest' year
in the city's history with the tax rate remaining at $1.70 per 100
on assessed valuation.
The budget for the fiscal year, beginning Oct. 1, and ending
Sept. 31, 1943, was passed last night at regular session of tile
city commission unanimously after some discussion on prospects
for the ensuing period. Only a few salaries were raised, and
City Manager R. C. Hoppe cited an apparent dilemma in labor
because of the lure of highly-, —
paid defense jobs. Possibility
that women might be able to
take over some city jobs was
brought out.
The budget ordinance, anoth-
er ordinance fixing the tax rate
and a third re-establishing the
occupations tax all were passed
with emergency clauses, making
them effective immediately ow-
ing to the short time remaining
before the start qf the fiscal
year, October 1.
Action also was completed at
the meeting on a previous ord-
inance for the refunding of $35,-
000 filtration bonds of Oct. 1,
1923 issue. The bonds were is-
sued originally with a provision
permitting redemption after 20
years. The two decades will
have elapsed when start of the
redemption processes will be
made, October 1. They are 40-
year term bonds and are to be
redeemed under the refunding
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Australians Push
Offensive Against
Japs In Mountains
Using Infiltration Plan
Of Attack Enemy
Has Employed
GEN. MacARTHURS' HEAD
QUARTERS, .\uatcata~-Xept.
• —TCP)—Australian troops un-
der Lieut. Gen. Sir Sidney Pow-
ell are on the offensive against
the Japanese in the Owen
Stanley mountains and are mak-
ing progress, it was announced
today.
They are using the infiltrat-
ing and flanking tactics which
enable the enemy to drive to
loribaiwa village 32 air miles
from the invaluable allied ad-
vanced base of Port Moresby.
It was indicated that the Aus-
tralians had strong hope of re-
moving the threat to Port
Moresby and they had the sup-
port of new artillery, including
25-pounder guns such as helped
British empire forces to smash
the recent German offensive in
Egypt and of an increasingly
strong air force which for 15
days had struck at the enemy
communications.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an-
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Six Join Navy
At Courthouse
Six colunteers were accepted
Drive On Japs Qets Started
By Robert Miller
HEADQUARTERS, U. fc>. Pa-
cific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Sept.
29—('UP) — The United States
forces are on the offensive in
the Solomon Islands for the
first time since the marine in-
vasion Aug. 7, it was indicated
today. ,
A navy department commu-
by army and navy planes on
enemy land, sea and air forces marines, convinced
over an area extending 500 mil-
es north of the marine positions
was believed to mean, an aband-
onment of defensive tactics and
to foreshadow a possible contin-
ued advance northward by the
ground forces.
This correspondent returned i
to Pearl Harbor after six weeks I
on Guadalcanal Islands with the i
that they Japanese awoke to an Olyni-
will hold their gains with the plan reveille of the big guns
aid of the air forces and the j and bombs of the American
navy. fleet and air force.
But great reinforcements in< There will be no surprise
men",ships, arms and planes will J now. The attack must be car-
be necessary.
The invasion of (lie re-
maining Solomons will not
be as easy >is the first at-
tack on Aug. 7 When the
ried out with an overwhelming
superiority in men, ships and
planes and the marines anti-
cipate heavy losses, . but they
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West Texas' Leading City INfc More Than 15,000 Reader*
Sweetwater Reporter
45TH YEAR
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1912
NUMBER 219
Churchill Against Second Front Talk
Capture Of Last
Texas Retail Business Up 11 Pet.
With Income Down 6 In August
Madagascar Port
Announced
LONDON. Sept. 29 — (UP) — j
Prime Minister Winston Chur- j
chill, answering a barrage of :
questions in the house-of com-1
mons today, urged against spe- j
I culation on the time or place of [
an allied second front offensive, j
announced the capture of Tul-J
ear. last remaining port in sou-1
thern Madagascar, and parried
demands for a statement on
why Britain had not bombed
Rome.
On the second front he em-
phasized "the undesirability of
public statements or speculation
on the time or place of future
allied offensive operations.
Such speculation, he said, was
undesirable even if it was based
on inference and not on inside
information.
"Will that be conveyed to Mr.
Willkie?" shouted someone from i write a till dealing with the
House Farm Labor
Group Plans Own
Remedial Action
'Crisis Too Acute To
Await Official Act
By WPB Unit'
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 —
(U'P)—Chairman Hampton P.
F'ulmer, D., S. C., announced to-
day that the house agriculture
committee would not wait for
administration reco mmenda-
tions on manpower legislation
but would proceed at once to
You must take the initiative . .
i\la.i.-Gen Lewis B. Hershey,
selective service director, speak-
ing in Cleveland, warned indus-
trialists ot disciplinary action it
they do noi train replacements
toi worker^ with temporary
draft deferments.
Barber Injured
In Fal l Down
Elevator Shaft
Leo Hinshaw, Sweetwater bur
birshop owner, suffered serious
by~Yeoman Carl Martin, Abilene j injuries about 6:30 p. m.. Mon-
the floor.
(In Moscow Wendell L. Will-
kie said he favored a second
front if military leaders thought
one practicable).
Churchill said he had nothing
to add to his previous state-
ments, but that there was no
"limiting factor" which would
prevent a bombing of Rome.
He repeated that he would
make no statement when Reid
suggested that Rome had not
been bombed because of Cath-
olic susceptibilities.
farm labor shortage.
Chairman Paul V. McNutt of
the war manpower commission
told the committee late yester-
day that the administration plan-
ned to make "certain recom-
mendations" in the near future
on legislation authorizing the
government to order men and
women to work Wherever, their
services are of the greatest
benefit in the war effort.
McNutt. who previously said
that he considers a national ser-
vice act "inevitable," said that
the WMC no longer is able to
Oliver Locker-Lampson, con-
servative, interjected: "May I "persuade workers to move vol
ask whether the bombing of uiHanly from one job to an
Swarms Of Soviet
Planes And Tanks
Blasting Germans
i
Enemy Steadily Driven
Rack Along 50-Mile
Don-Volga Front
fly Henry Shapiro
MOSCOW, Sept. 29—(UP) —
nounced that business of all re-j (UP)—Marshal Semyon Timo-
ff STtaSfi. Sain Aug. I ^nko-s counter offensive back-
ust, compared with July, but!ed by swarms of planes and
that income was six per cent | tanks, was blasting the Ger-
less than in August, 1941. j mans along a 50-mile front be-
Other index figures reported, tween thc Don and Volga rivers
„ Electric power consumption — j a')OVe Stalingrad today, steadily
up 10.01 over July and up 7.3 driving them back.
AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 29 —
j (UP) Texas' business chart
i shows zig-zag lines if today's
i report of the bureau of business
| research at the University of
i Texas are mapped.
Supplementing Monday's re-
| port of better business for de-
| partment and apparel stores in
j both monthly and yearly com-
i parisons. the bureau today an-
Reds Slash Ahead
As U.S.Push Begins
Stalin-
ing in
>• Red
its on
ittacks
stands
icate that their flanking man- , . ,
jvers had yet progressed fa, | rUMIl£[ IJl YlU
lough to endanger the Nazi c?
By Harrison Salisbury
Soviet flanking attacks slashed forward northwest of
grad today and Russian reports described intensified figh
the 50-mile gap between the Volga and the Don with son
Army forces hitting at Nazi supply lines at unstated poi
the west -bank of the Don.
The Increased momentum of the Russian diversionary'
came as allied forces in two Pacific spheres—the Solomon
and New Guinea—carried the war to the Japanese.
The Russian reports did not in-
dicate that their flanking man-
euvi
enough to endanger
spearhead now in the city ot f . J
Stalingrad itself. It was indicat-; vjQblb III I*01 till
ed the Nazis were attempting to
block traffic along the Volga fVunimr I Ik I let 1'^
river aVtery by shelling from ad-1 vjUJIIJ1J _ L |J 1 O
vanced artillery emplacements v
in Stalingrad.
The exact location of the So-;
viet push to the west bank of
the Don was not made clear by
the Moscow dispatches. Howev- j
er, it appeared that Russian |
troops north of Stalingrad were j
vigorously attacking at several I issuing from Austin, Nolan com-
points ranging from a few miles j missioners' court on Oct. 13 will
north of the city to north of j take up the matter ol' eliminat-
Voronezh, 350 miles northwest j ing able-bodied individuals from
of Stalingrad. j WPA and surplus foods lists
Nazi propaganda reports who might assist more in the
continued to attest the vig- war program. About W men
Health Unit, Children's
Lunch Immune. Judge
Reeves Holds
In keeping with instructions
are on WPA lists in Nolan.
Other pruning of county costjs
also will be taken up with the
possibility that minor county
departments will feel the ax.
County Judge Delas Reeves said
today he is in full sympathy
In London Prime Minister j }vit.h the economy move; but,
believes the county-city health
unit and hot lunch for child-
ren provision should be main-
tained fully.
or of Soviet resistance and
characterized the battle
within Stalingrad as the
first house-to-house, block-to-
block combat of its type,
since the battle of Madrid in
tli" Spanish civil war.
Winston Churchill put a damp-
er on the second front specula-1
tion with a statement to com- j
mons that such talk regarding j
allied offensive operation
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was
per cent over August, 1941.
Front-line dispatches said the i
Building permit—up 72.7 per. Russians also were on the west j
cent over July but sagging 72.S j bank of the Don trying to drivel
below August. 1941. _ !a wedge into German positions
Building permit — up 72.7 j there and disrupt reinforcements I
per cent over July but sagging j ancj supply lines for the Nazis j
72.8 below August, 1941. insldn StnlincrafJ.
Rome would not unite Italians
rather than split them "
Churchill did not reply.
'Britain has said that if the
Axis bombed Cairo, a Holy Mo-
hammedan city. Britain might
bomb Rome).
v
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inside Stalingrad.
The government organ Iz-
vestla -said Soviet batteries
li-;d destroyed pontoons and
sunk numerous troop-laden
boats trying' to cross a river,
probably tlie Don river,
wh itli German reinforce-
ments for Stalingrad must
cross.
Red Star, the Soviet army
50 per cent higher than in Aug-1 ne\\spaper, reported that it had
ust1941. The overall decline was1 2?t1.ralne? ™ *hr®e ™.onfths-.bJ*
attributed to fewer sales of fur-1 Stalingrad had its first light
niture, automobiles and other!
durable goods.
Other items noted a lull in
chartering new businesses but I
fewer commercial failures.
Postal receipts dropped 4.4 per!
cent from July to August, al-i
though remaining 6.2 per cent
over August, 1941.
Fort Worth, Amarillo and Elj
Paso stores reported increased!
business while sales were down)
in Dallas, Houston and San An-!
tonio. Family clothing sales were
Texas Second Hiirh
In Number Lost
Bv Sub Warfare
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2.30(1 Men And 1 Woman
Listed As Merchant
Marine Casualties
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29
Bill Would Fix
Our Jobs For Us
Over 600 Expected
For Scout Potluck
The ground was baked as hard
| as stone, and a thick white film
| of dust covered the earth,
j ■> Soviet progress above Stalin-
| grad, while steady, was neces-
I sarily slow. The enemy held nit-
j merous, strongly-fortified posi-
j tions. and it took devastating ar-
, tillery fire to soften them up so
| enemy depth defenses could be
I penetrated
day when he stepped into the
elevator shaft of the Doscher
building, falling 12 feet to the
basement floor.
He, is receiving hospital treat-
ment for a sprained shoulder,
contusions of the abdomen, lac-
eration of the scalp and a frac-
ture of the small bone In tlie
upper leg.
Immediately after the' fall, a
negro porter found Mr. Hinshaw
and summoned help. He was re-
moved to the hospital for emer-
gency treatment.
The accident marks the sec-
ond of this nature since the
opening of the clinic building in
1928. Dr. R. R. Allen fell ap-
proximately the same distance
recruiter, at the Nolan cour-
house last week, four of them
as Sea bees (construction work
ers) in the Navy.
The men joining the naval
ranks of construction men are:
Morris Wilson Harris, 27. of 107
E. Louisiana street: Alvin Lee
Armstrong, 26, 311 Hickory
street; Herman Lawson Arm-
strong, 37, 808 Bowie street: all
of Sweetwater: and Melvln Mau-
rice Clark, 31, Box 325. Snyder.
Ethmer Elgin Lee, 17. of Ina-
dale, enlisted as an apprentice
seaman, general service. Class
V-6, U. S. Naval Reserves, with
Billie Lee Brown. 19, of Herm-
Jeigli, The recruiting office will
be open at the Nolan courthouse
again this Saturday ftom 9.30 to! fracturing his hipbone, about 13
3 P- in- years ago.
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Weather Forecast
SWEETWATER — Temuera- j
tures: High yesterday, 82; low >
today, 51; at 11:30 a. in. today, j
80. Generally fair and not much
change in temperature.
WEST TEXAS—Quite warm i
again this afternoon. Tempera-1
ture about same as last night. I
EAST TEXAS — Not so cool
in west and north portions and
on lower coast. Little tempera-
ture change elsewhere tonight.
Light rain tonight near lower
coast. Fresh to strong winds this
afternoon and tonight in north-
west and extreme north por-
tions, ranging from 2(1 to JO
miles per hour
( Plans to make the Second An-
! nual Boy Scouts' Potluck Din
j ner at 7:30 Thursday night in the
' high school gymnasium at least
! the equal to last year's event.
; attended by 700, had been per-
fected today.
Parents, whether they have j
children of Scout age or not, and j
all friends of the Scout move- j
ment are invited to attend. Lead- i
ers pointed out today that the j
dinner was becoming an out- j
standing get together event for
the Sweetwater area.
Dr. Robert L. Sutherland, di-1
| rector of the Hogg Foundation
I of the University, and an admir-;
I able speaker, will outline and j
| answer the problems facing all
of the younger generations, and j
their parents. His record is one i
of accomplishment in dealing
with mental" hygiene 'Tor the
people of Texas. He Is widely sieal arrangements, D. T. Alex-
know n as a writer on health ! under; publicity, Dr. C. A. Rose-
(UPi—Congress today received j and hygiene subjects. j brpugh; attendance, Milo Roth
a presidential request for a sup- ] The committee chairmen for and service, J. D. Holbrook.
plemental navy appropriation of | the annual event are: At Jor-j Dr. Rosebrough said today ar-
$2,862,000,000 for the construc- dan, general chairman; program | rangements are being made to
tion of airplanes. chairman, Charles Burke; phy-See OVER 000 Page 5
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29
— (UP) — Rep. .1. Percy
Priest, D., Tenn., today in-
troduced legislation which
would authorize the presid-
ent to order men and wom-
en to serve in jobs where
they would be most useful
in prosecution of the war.
Priest's bill was similar
to one introduced in tlie
senate by Sen. Lister Hill.
D., Ala. It would authorize
President Roosevelt "to pro-
vide for total mobilization
of all the material resources,
industrial and other produ-
ctive organizations, and ser-
vices of its (the nation's)
citizens."
2 BILLION FOR PLANISH
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29
In a two-day battle, the Rus-
Presence of a LT. S. health
doctor Tuesday*, anil Satur-
| £ays, along with the servi-
ces of two registered nurses
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Ha Ik At School
Board's Rule
On Flair Salute
<
HOUSTON, Tex.. Sept. 29 —
(UP)—Five members of Jeho-
vah's Witnesses today asked the
school board to withhold action
on a rule requiring school child-
(UP)—The navy today made! ren to salute the United States
public the first merchant sea-; flag.
men's casualty list of the war. j Oscar L. Pillars, spokesman
revealing an even 2,300 men and ! for the group, was about to read
one woman dead or missing as j from the Bible quotations on
a result of enemy action while j which the sect, bases their re-
serving under the U. S. flag. fusa] to salute the flag, when
The list covered the period of! Holger Jeppesen, president of
Sept. 27, 1941, to Aug. 1, 1942. i the board, stopped him.
During that time the navy an-! 'This isn't the place for a
nounced attacks on 205 U. S. j church service." Jeppesen said,
merchant ships carrying freight I "We have appointed a commit -
and oil to all parts of the world. ! tee to act ori this matter, and
Today's list—which included Oi ' the members will be -dad to
skippers—showed 410 dead aua i hear your case," he told the Je-
1,891 missing in those and per-! hovah's Witnesses. The regula-
haps other attacks. i tion can not come before the
The navy counted in tlie total, j board until the committee mak-
but did not release the names J es its recommendations."
of 14 seamen casualties whose I v *
records did not list next of kin.
nor those of 116 other seamen
whose next of kin reside in for-
1)15. R. L. Jil TtlERbANI).
sians destroyed 42 bunkers and
2.200 Germans on one sector.
The Germans fiercely counter-
attacked, but could not dislodge
the Russians from their new po-
sitions.
The Russians were holding the
bull; of two German divisions
which yesterday took the of fen-
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Boy. 10. Injured
In Shotgun Blast
Moye Smith, jr., 10. while
playing at his home, Gil East
Arkansas about 6:55 p. m. Mon-
day suffered a serious injury to
his right elbow when a 410
gauge shotgun discharged send-
ing the load into his arm and
shattering the bone.
While the youth's condition is
considered serious by attending
physicians, he is resting satisfac-
torily. He is son of Mr. and Mrs.
Moye Smith, sr.. owners of the
Globe Cleaners.
Jack Chennault And Another Texan Lead War
On Jap Subs In Kiska Harbor, Aleutian Islands
eign countries.
The lone woman listed was j
Mary Cullem Kimbro, a Steward-
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People's Unity
Party In Texas
Has Tax Plank
AUSTIN. Tex.. Sept. 29 —
(UP)—The "People's Unitv par-
ty." newcomer to Texas " elec- j
tion ballots, made public today
its 25-point platform.
Platform one is outright sup- j
port of President Franklin D. j
Roosevelt and his war program. I
The party originally included 1
Roosevelt's name but that was j
dropped because the title W&s too I
ion gto go on the ballot.
Other planks call for a nation- j
al gross income tax to be col-
lected monthly for social secur-
ity uses and state matching of
all federal funds for old age as- i
sistauce; personal income limit !
of $25,000 a year for duration of
the war and conscription of idle
wealth for war uses; power for
the governor to veto al! rules
made by satte bureaus and to
suspend any appointed official
for neglect or absence from his
post of duty; free college cour-
ses for high school honor stud-
ents and free school lunches:
Texas Aborigines
Go Back To Saddle
WASHINGTON. Sept. 29
_ (UP)— Indians in the
cattle and oil country are
givig up their beloved au-
tomobiles and once more
riding horseback. Indian af-
fairs commissioner John
Collier report©! today.
He predicted that the
horse would become "once
more a widely accepted
mode' of transportation
among the children of the
west's most fearless riders."
Collier suid that the In-
dians "love their automob-
iles, no matter what then-
vintage." but that they
were giving them up to
conserve gasoline and rub-
ber.
HANGS SELF TO TREK
BROWNWOOD, Tex.. Sept. 29
—'UP*—Frank W. Lappe, 60,
was found dead today, his body
hanging by" a rope from a tree
on his farm at Blanket, neat
| here, a suicide.
HEAR YK'. 1IKAK YR
THE WANT \!1S RENT
I ANOTHER APARTMENT
Mrs. J. A. Bradbury pia-
1 ced the following ad—
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ALASKA DEFENSE COM-
MAND HEADQUARTERS. Sept.
28—(Delayed) — (UP) — U. S
army and Canadian fighter
planes circled two Japanese sub-
marines pounding them with
bullets in last Friday's raid on
Kiska harbor, it was disclosed
today.
The submarines were attacked
during the first joint U. S.-Cau-
adian raid on the Japanese-held
Island In the Aleutians. The na-
vy announced the attack by
fighters and bombers In a com-
munique yesterday and estimat#
ed that 150 Japanese were kill-
ed or wounded.
Maj. Wilbur Miller of Living-,
St on, Tex., attacked a Japanese j
submarine which surfaced in,
the harbor. The squadron form-'
ed a circle with the submarine
on the outer rim. As each plane j
passed over the craft, its can-1
11011 slugs beat a tattoo on the!
Airmen told after their return hull, Each plane loosed three bar-
it dove.
The second submarine was
subjected to a similar attack
by a squadron led by Maj.
■lack ( bennatih, son of Itrig.
Gen. < In ire < iienuault, com-
mander of th," V. S. forces
in China.
Observers reported they were
for an amendment to
era! constitution requiring
eral judges to be certified
four years (they now are
how a fighter squadron led by1 rages at thc submarine before I unable to determine how badly I See JAPS Page
the submarines Were damaged.
The fighter planes also de-
stroyed several Japanese single-
float fighters, hit two cargo I pointed for life),
ships, setting one afire, wreck- After the war, the party
ed possibly eight out of 10 poses payment of $loo a m
cruiser-type bi-planes and shot to members of the combat f(
down three Japanese fighter.- and munitions workers fo
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