Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 285, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 30, 1942 Page: 3 of 6
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SWEETWATER REPORTER, SWEETWATER, TEXAS
ritim Fought Way Out Of M To Join Main
^Writer With Them
, Sees New Trucks
^Arriving In Lines
Withdrawal Ordered To
^ Prevent A Second
Tobruk Incident
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By Richard D. McMillan
" (Copyright, 1M2, By UP)
<• WITH THE BRITISH EIGH-
1 TH ARMY IN THE FRONT
LINE, Egypt, June 28: 1 p. m —
(UP)—The British Eighth army
has abandoned Matruh to avoid
1 another Tobruk.
It has withdrawn not merely
to retreat but to fight.
As I write, British forces
which had been threatened with
disaster have fought their way
-^through the enemy columns lo
( join the main army.
There is a tremendous ebb
and flow as the British army
takes up new positions.
Tanks, going faster than I
/JRbelieved a tank could move, are
y racing along the road westward
from Alexandria, hurrying in-
to battle.
They are brand new tanks,
just arrived in Egypt.
With the evacuation of Ma-
truh, the entrance to the cor-
ridor leading along the coastal
highway toward Alexandria,
falls into the hands of German
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. I
• At the same time the menace I
to big British forces from the
left flank of the Afrika Korps
as it drove east has been re-
moved.
_ The British Eighth army com-
^ mand decided to abandon Ma-
truh because it did not want
another Tobruk. It was a hard
decision to make, especially in
view of the present state of pub-
_ lie opinion in Great Britain and
™ the United Stales. But it was
faced with facts.
The tight little fortress of Ma-
truh, strong in itself, was iso-
lated when the enemy cut the
^coastal road at the Garawla
^ road and railroad crossing Sat-
urday night.
With two other correspond-
ents, I escaped from the Matruh
defense perimeter a short while
^ before the Afrika Korps cut the
road.
At that time the hulk of the
British fighting troops already
had been withdrawn, so they
could be of more aid in the
£ fight that is to come, the battle
for the Nile.
As the British forces came
out they went into action
immediately against the sides
of the Nazi armored amid
f infantry formations which
slowly were elbowing their
way through the gaps in the
British mine field south of
Charing Cross, the road
junction a few miles soutli-
• west of Matruh.
At the ‘same time the tanks
on the southern flank attacked
the German armored forces.
This phase of the battle con-
tinued until Rommel’s tanks
Bbroke through to the coast in
a fast-moving, strong column.
.Many of the men were threat-
ened with being scooped up in
a Nazi net as the enemy closed
in on Matruh. Instead they
® fought their way through the
thin enemy rear columns and,
marching southward, turned east
to rejoin the main army along
what has now become the front
_ line in the battle.
• It became obvious that so
long as Rommel was moving
southeastward in the Matruh
area, it was useless to pour hea-
vy reinforcements into Matruh.
^ where they would be pinned
^ down, besieged and inactive
except in a negative role.
Matruh was more important
to the enemy for prestige pur-
poses than it was materially. Its
a tiny harbor sheltered only a few
w ships and these took off the
remnants of the British garri-
son which remained to the last.
The battle waged south and
southeast of Matruh, which re-
^ suited in its loss, broke off with-
out a real conclusion.
The Germans broke it off to
continue bringing up their forc-
ce to march onward in suffi-
cient strength to meet the re-
-organizing British farther east.
Salad Recipe
Qiven June 23
At Blackland
(From Ogilvic Sisters, New York)
TOSSING THE LOCKS—tossing and of course brushing—overcomes the coarsening effect
of excessive sunning and grime. For best resit Its, try tossing and brushing outdoors, in bath-
ing-suit freedom.
Town Topics Tersely Told
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Brown of
1 Abilene were Monday business
'visitors here. They formerly liv-
ed in Sweetwater.
♦ * *
Mrs. Edd ltodds of Roscoe vis-
ited here Monday en route to
Brownwood to visit her mother.
.Mrs. 1.. It. Gill. She will he away
It) days.
* * *
Mrs. \V. M. Mitchell Ims re-
turned from two weeks’ vaca-
tion spent at Mission in the Rio
Grande Valley, Fort Worth and
Dallas.
* * *
•lean Griffith, I'. S. Marine,
who survived, the sinking of
the aircraft carrier Lexington,
returned to San Diego. Calif., late
in the week to he re-assigned
to sea duty. Ho visited in
Sweetwater with his sisters,
Mrs. Morrison Harder and Gena
Griffith.
* * *
Mrs. Morris Ncigel and two
sons of San Antonio have arriv-
ed for a visit with the Abe Levy
family.
* * *
Mrs. I. Kraselsky of Botham,
Miss., arrived this week to visit
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. H.
Berman. Che is the former Eva
Berman
* * *
Mrs. Charles Hoggsctt of Kti-
tan spent Monday here visiting
her mother, Mrs. Frank Parker
and sister. Mrs. Exa Ford.
was in town on school matters
Monday.
Fred Howard, manager of
Sears Roebuck, is in Lamesa to-
day on business.
Mrs. Ralph Hendricks was
hostess June 23. to a group of
women in the Blackland com-
munity for demonstrations of
making salads and salad dress-
ing.
Sour cream salad was demon-
strated by Mrs. Hendricks and
made using the following re-
cipe:
I cun thick sour cream.
I teaspoon salt.
!-2 teaspoon mustard.
1 tablespoon sugar.
3 egg yolks.
1-4 cup vinegar.
Have vinegar boiling hot arid
stir in other ingredients which
have already been mixed togeth-
er. Cook until desired thickness
is obtained, stirring frequently.
A salad using fruit and vege-
table was demonstrated by Airs.
E. N. Cummings. It was made by
combining a small can of grat-
ed pineapple, a package of or-
ange jello, and a cup of grated
carrots.
The salad, set in lettuce leav-
es and topped with the sour
cream dressing, was served with
salad wafers and iced tea to
Mines. E. X Cummins, G R.
Phillips, W. C. Staton, N. A
Layfield. Anna Owen, Ralph
Hendricks, Birt Heel, and Miss
S.vble Cummings
*
.1. C. Pinson, manager of the
telephone company. i> in Anson | Good crowds are attending
today on business for his com- the open air revival'of the As
pany. , sembly of God church, 303 East
New Mexico. Services begin
The Homemakers elass of
the First Baptist church will
meet for the regular business
and social session tonight at 3
at the city park.
* * *
Mr. mid Mrs. C. A. Churchill,
owners of a Sweetwater cafe
for seven years, who recently
moved to San Angelo, are oper-
ating the Twin Gables, a road-
side tavern. Six former employ-
es of Sweetwater also are!
working there. They are Turner)
Snyder, Bert Mcintire. Mrs. j
Cordye Pennington. Mildred)
Stribling, Bobby Lee and Elinor |
Rushing. The Churchills spent ;
Sunday here disposing of .heir
former equipment.
★ A
Maxine Johnson, who has been I
visiting in Los Angeles, Calif
with Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Court-
ney and friends for several
weeks has joined her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Johnson in
Gallup. N. M. Johnson is con-
struction supervisor on a gov-
ernment plant there. Mrs. John
son left Sweetwater recet
for Gallup. The family expects
remain there for the summer.
each evening at 8:45 with the
Rev. Frank Leo bringing instruc-
tive messages. The Rev. David
L. McLaughlin, pastor, is invit-
ing the public.
All camp fire girls are asked
to meet at 1 p. m. in the USO
rooms. Reservations are still .be-
ing taken and girls wishing
to attend the camp who have
not signed up are asked to see
Mrs. J. C. Martin.
* * *
Bremen’s Plants.
Docks Bombed
S:j3nl Time By RAF
s to j J
Christian
Circles
Elect
Gi-udiiniac liespess has return-
ed from a visit in Snyder w ith
her grandparents, Air. and Mrs.
\Y. Lee Jones. Mr. ant! Mrs. Gra-
dy Respess drove there Satur lay
to accompany her home and at-
tend the rodeo.
* * <■
Mr. anil Mrs. S. II. Sail'd and
John Meyer ,ir„ Louis Meyer,
John Anz, jr„ and Cecil P.av
Bills will leave Tuesday for
Lake Brownwood on a several-
day fishing trip and outing.
»
Coming flown the road, I
saw the reforming British
forces as the tanks, visible
for miles to the east by the
clouds they raised, went in-
to action.
Grave days obviously are
ahead for the British in Egypt.
If they win here it will be like
an echo from the battle of the
Mare. If they lose it will bo a
heavy blow.
A tank officer just said to
me, of this critical hour:
“We will get him yet.”
Mrs. Jim Rail'd, who spent a
month ir) Sweetwater visiting
with her mother, Mrs. Jennie
Wiggins and sister. Mrs. R. K.
Mr. and Mrs S. S. DeGaish and McAdams, left Monday for her
family had as their Sunday, home in Colorado Springs,
guests. Rev. George Massey, of j
Oklahoma City: Mr. and Mrs.! Dismissed from the Sweetwat-
Frank Beyouth of Snyder; Mr. er hospital Monday were: Mrs.)
and Airs. John Alalouf and Air.1 R. H. Scales, medical: Mrs. A
and Mrs. Cecil Lotief or Rocan j A. Ronemus and Airs. Bill Hem- j
* * * | by. minor; Mrs. .1. A. Blank-'n-1
George Saied who is taking nd- ship, major surgery: and Mrs. W.
vanned training in the army r ir) B. Sheppard, minor surgery,
force, based at Plainview, visit- J * * *
cd here Sunday with his parents. ! Mr. ami Mrs. J. It. McCoy and
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Saied. j Mr and Mrs. Carl .Moore left
* * * Sunday fora 10-iiav vacation. | mined to make Bremen useless
Levi McKorey of Itynckwell * * ; to the Germans for months ihat
was among the visitors in town 1 Sweetwater hospital patients, ! will be eruicial to the Nazi war
this week. admitted Monday include Mrs. j effort. I he raid Thursday, be-
* * * Jake Flint. Roby. T. B. Olive. | Heved to have been the great-
John McDonald, John H. Bow-
den. and Voncille Lee. Long-
worth. all major surgery: Thom-
as H. Eubanks. Ovaio and A. L.
Gregg. Hamlin, medical.
LONDON’. June 30 — (UP) —
A strong force of Royal Air
Force planes -estimated at 300
or more—bombed Bremen. Ger-
many’s second largest port, heav-
ily during the night, the air min-
istry announced today.
it was the third raid on Br:-
men since Thursday night, when
more than one thousand heavy
lu mbers unloaded explosives
and incendiaries on its docks
and war industries.
Other objectives in northwest
Germany, enemy airdromes in
occupied territory, railway tar-
gets in France and German ship-
ping off the French coast were
attacked, the air ministry said,
but Bremen bore the brunt if
the raids.
Nine British bombers were
missing.
The RAF obviously was deter-
Closing the circle year, wom-
en of the First Christian church
met Monday afternoon in thic-s
circles to elect officers for the
fall and to complete study for
the period.
Mrs. W. E. Collins was hostess
to Circle 1 anti led business.
Mrs. Robert Eidson led the
lesson. Mines. Raymond Bishop
and Charles Bledsoe were pre-
sent. Next meeting will be in
September.
Mrs. Waiter Anderson was
elected president of Circle 2.
meeting at the church. Other of-
ficers are: Mrs. Lance Thomp-
son. vice president; Airs. Charl-
es Paxton, secretary and treas-
urer anti Mrs. Ney Sheridan, tea-
cher.
Mrs. M. K. Stevenson led
prayer and Mrs. Charles Deen,
business. Others present were,
Mmes, Fred Williams, Paul Sor-
enson, Jack Roland, E. H. Jus-
tice. The group will resume
meetings in September.
Mrs Manse Wood is new pre-
sident of Circle 3, meeting at
the church. Other new officer-
are: Mrs. H. B. Allen, vice presi-
dent, and Mrs. Fannie Elder,
secretary-treasurer. Others pre-
sent were: Mrs. W. F. P’Pooi.
Mrs. Homer Bradford, Mrs. C.
W. Breeding, and Mrs. .J. S. ’rill-
man of California
T. E. Lewis, president of the
Divide school board, was in
town this week visiting at the
county superintendent's office.
Maxine MeConniek, muse
with the city-county health unit
spent Monday in Maryneal or-
ganizing a class in home nurs-
ing.
* * *
Be. .1. E. Heavy is able lo In-
back at the city-county health
unit after undergoing dental sur-
gery He is director of the unit.
IP CHICK
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Br. Carl F. Moore of the ehll'l
anti maternal health division of
the state department of health
was a visitor this weekend at
the city-county health unit.
est in aviation history, wrought
widespread destruction.
Saturday night and before
dawn Sunday, British bombers
returned to drop bombs upon
objectives they had missed.
Radio Berlin reported “some
damage done by fires in toe
residential areas of Bremen”
in last night’s raids. It claimed
that 10 British planes were
-hot down.
! O’Daniel Speaks
Mrs. Ruth Crabtree of Rig
Spring was a Monday morning
business visitor in town.
H. B. Norris, superintendent of
Divide Consolidated school, was
a business visitor in town Mon-
day.
Mtl-s. Charles Bledsoe and
daughter, Charlesa Glyn, left
this morning for a visit in Fort
Worth with her mother, Mrs.
E. Wade. Mrs. Wade formerly
lived here.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hubbard
and daughter. Glynnell. will
leave today for Rotan to visit _
overnight with her father be--j lii I if*; I nitlfirmW
fore returning to their home in i 111 AUI1IU1 itTVY
Roswell. N. M. In Sweetwater . warj• i ti i p 11 •
they visited Mr and Mrs. Mu itll Hal l OlllIlS
rv Hubbard. Ins parents.
• * * j Senator W. Lee O'Daniel who
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Burrow - j is a candidate for re-election and
and daughter. Mary Margaret 1 Hal Collins. Mineral Wells bo-
have returned from visit in Cro- ■ u I operator who is running for
well with her mother, who is re- governor, are scheduled to up-
covering from a major operation.! pear shortly after noon in Swaet-
They were away for 10 days. water tomorrow for this city’s
* * * j first hie time political rally of
la on Fleming, receiving clerk | the current campaign..
John Harnett, member of 111'-
Highland school board. visited
at the county superintendent’s
office Monday.
of Sears Roebuck is on a two
weeks' vacation. He expects to
pend the time at home.
Mrs. L. I* Prosser of lliwro.’.
teacher in the Highland school
Bully Wash has returned
from a weekend visit in Mid-
land and Odessa She left Satur
Senator O'Daniel left the gov-
ernor's chair last year when
elected to fill lit unexpired
elected to fill the unexpired
Collins, who i.- traveling in
company with Senator O'Dan-
iel as an econo nv measure to
BEING SQUIRED about Hol-
lywood by (numerous men-
abcut-tnw n these evenings is
French refugee movie-find
Madeleine Le Beau.
are on a swing of West Texas
towns in the interest of their
political aspirations. Their .-am
paigns. however, are independ-
ent of each other they have sta-
ted.
Senator O'Daniel will speak at
12:45 on the courthouse square,
advance reports indicate.
THAT STOMACH AGAIN J
Maybe you ate too fasti Worked lata.
Were too hungry. Normal atotnach* ara
•lightly acid, but hurried eating, when es-
h Busted, can cause EXCESS acid. ADLA
Tablets contain Bismuth and Carbonates for
QUICK relief. Ask druggist for ADLA.
day and returned Monday night, reduce their campaign expehses,
Armor's Drags
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, OERE’S a salvage tip that really
■'11 is straight from the feedbag.
The pretty princess frock and
matching bonnet worn by the
child were made from one of the
gay-print bags in which poultry ’
and stock feed are being delivered
these days down on the farm.
Fabric for the feedbag, one of
which is shown, is purposely se-
lected by the feed concern for
double duty.
Returns to City
From Capital to
Spend Vacation
Major and Mrs. Austin Davi
and son. Austin Newman
Sunday for Oklahoma City, Ok-
ia.. where Major Davis
cer in charge of the maintenance
depot for the army air force.
While in Sweetwater, they;
visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Mose Newman and
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. C
Davis. They spent a week at
the Newman cabin at Lake
Sweetwater and enjoyed an out-
ing. Her sister, Margaret Louise,
left! returned with them to Oklaho-
1 ma City for a summer visit.
is olfi-
with
Our fighting men are doing
j,_ their share. Here at home
** the least we can do is put 10%
of our income in War Bonds
for our share in America.
Attend
Abilene
Wedding
Mrs. R. E. Finley and 3on,
Billy ,104 East New Mexico 8t
were in Abilene Sunday to
tend the marriage of Wand:
Maxine Wallick and John Wij
liam Craig. The ceremony
place at 6:30 p. m.' at the He,
enly Rest Episcopal church.
The groom is a nephew
Mrs. Finley and was born
reared in Nolan county in
Decker community.
The church junior choi
sisted by its alumni, san
bridal chorus from Loheftn
Harold Thomas gave orga
companiment and weddintRiu-
sic The bride was giver, year
riage by her brother, flney
Wallick. She wore a Final
gown of blue marquisefWith
a veil of illusion held a a
heartshaped halo. Her bou-
quet was of white gardas-
Katherine Baxter, fl of
honor, wore a pink nrJisefte
and carried pink and ie glad-
ioli. Carroll Ferrell / best
man.
A reception folloy at the
home of Mrs. B. D.ph, sis-
ter of the groom. Tlfide was
graduated from APe high
school and Hardin-?100® uni-
versity. Craig is thU of Mrs.
M. P. Foster. He Med Ahi-
lene high schoor.
The couple wiife on the
Craig ranch on tf#ason road.
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