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JFrench Revolt While Allied Bombers Pound Path For Invasion
GOVERNOR IS
KILLED BY
PATRIOTS
A France re-born lias ushered
In the New Year with a stroke of
defiance against the Nazi over-
lords.
.y Frontier reports tell us that
fllie prefect of the rebellious pro-
vince of Haute Savoie was killed
yesterday by patriots.
The Vichy official was walking
with two German officers when
several shots rang out. The pre-
fect and one of the Nazis fell
(lead. The other officer was
wounded seriously.
Huute Savoie is that mountain-
ous province? where French re-
sistance is (lie strongest—where
Vtough gangs of young men'have
“landed together in the hills to
escape Nazi slave labor battal-
ions—^where the Germans are
fighting tlie underground with a
full general anti strong army de-
tachments.
^ It's all part of the nation-wide
resistance in France which re-
cently forced Vichy to appoint
a three-man commission to help
crush resistance. Hitler's French
collaliorators have imposed a
^strict curfew and increased their
patrols in all vital areas. Hut the j
still-free men of France arc on
the alert. Awaiting that mom-1
cut of destiny when second front
PRESIDENT'S NEW YEAR MESSAGE
PLEADS FOR WORLD-WIDE UNION
OF PEACE LOVING NATIONS
WASHINGTON — (UP)—Fre-
sidenl Roosevelt, in a New Year’s
Hay message, called upon Ameri-
cans to pledge themselves to co-
operate in bringing final victory
on the battlefield.
And the president also asked
that tlie American people give
their pledge to establish, as lie
puts it, “an international organ-
ization of all peace-loving na-
tions to -maintain peace and
security in generations to come."
Mr. Roosevelt issued bis New
Year’s statement from his sick-
bed in the White House. The
president has a mild case of the
grippe. Ills temperature was nor-
mal today, but he remained in
bed on the advice of his physi-
cian.
The chief executive’s message
said, “Many of us are observing
this first day of the New Year
us a day of prayer and reflection.
It is fitting on this day that wo
direct our thoughts to the con-
cept of the United Nations which
came Into lieing on another
Infinitely bleaker New Year’s
Day two years ago.
The president added, “Two
years ago the United Nations
were on the defensive in every
part of the world. Today we are
on the offensive. The \yalls are
closing in on our enemies. Our
armed forces are gathering for
new and greater assaults which
will bring about the downfall of
the Axis aggressors."
Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that
the United Nations are giving at-
tention to post-war problems too.
And he said we must maintain
the war-time co-operation among
the nations in the peace era.
Sweetwater Reporter
BUT IT IN SWEETWATER
MWest Texes’ Leedint Newspaper"
47th Year
Sweetwater, Texas, Sunday, January 2, 1944
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
Number 1
ROUT NAZIS
ALONG 200
MILE FRONT
■fir
i ' ;• •> -
W. W. Fambro, 67
Dies Suddenly
Rites Today
W. W. Fambro, (>7, co-owner
with O. U. Nichols of the Sweet-
water Livestock Auction compa-
ny on West Rroadway, died tin-
troops pour across the channel. ; expectedly' about 10:.’l(i p: in..
A Allied bomber, arc battering r|,|.iv hi, home \\ v
I ranee in preparation for that j„,iv sllff(,wl ]wltn
esx fires rtk—......... -......-
and Hurricane light bombers at-1 - ,, , , ,
tacked military targets in north- 1 'l|ivl family mov-
w ern France today without loss. to Sweetwater ulx.ut five
" The lumbers were escorted bv V>’in - ago operating the com-
Spitfire and Typhoon fighters' ' pany for two and half years in
Yesterday, heavy formations j the prc»cnt site, before building
of American Flying Fortresses
and Liberators battered six ma-
jor targets in France. Our four-
-TODAYS
MOVES
g motored raiders scattered their
fire from I In- Paris area to the
Ray of Biscay. Vital Nazi-run
war plants and airfields set up
as invasion defenses were satu-
rated with American Iwmihs.
1 And along tlu- ITcpch inva
' i< » coa . . not her i.,.dor force
of Allied medium lioniijcr.s car-
ried out -Imllle-raid, on Hitler'.
Atlantic wiill.
From all the attacks, tlie Al-
lie lost 2!* heavy bomlicrs and
• three fighter . And 2s German
plane were shot down.
Now one of the ringmaster of
the Allied second front air show
lias taken over Ills liig new job.
Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz
y arrived In London today and 1m-
mediiiicly began work a com-
mander of the American stride-
See GOVERNOR I'agc I!
-v-
• Blackwell Will Gel
Another Oil Test;
»Location Staked
llluckw'cll community, 2-> mile,
south of Sweetwater with oik- I" a V-Mail letter received Sal-
producing oil well, now is ecing - ”1 * Re|s<rter I’fc. Sam-
. . . . 'my (iciislx-rg, writes from Aus-
iIg equipment moved in Mew n-alia thai he is getting Hie dalb
of another test in Dial area, lom 1 |Ni|ier and keeping up with
Carlisle, merchant said Friday. | Sweetwater and territory.
I he Blackwell block. Inelud- “| am receiving tin* of-
ing the iirodueer and Craft lease ten," lie writes. “Really enjov
Wits boiight recently by Warren j rending a lx nit home ami my fr’i-
Petroleum company of Tul.-a, a ends." lie mentioned that lie wa-
soclatc "f l, Welch of lion, orr.v alsiut Son \ngelodowning
ton. Rentals were paid on 8,7»Ki \ the Mu-tangs, hi, former team
acres during the week.
A location wji staked turn
feet from tin- cast and west line
of the northwest corner of sec-
tion 275 on the M. W. Fowler
land. Contraci- call foi a deep
lest ti.iHKi to 7.INMI feet
t Transport Pilot Conies Home From Pacific
For Christmas Leave; Wears DFC, Air Medal
»
"Home," something that In-
had longed for had dreamed of
for II mouths while flyiijg a
transport in and nut of the "I-
lands" that made pages in lib
lory books since the Invasion
of Guadalcanal by ihc sturdy
marines. First Lt. Roy C Fa/
mer, son of Mr. and Mr-. O I.
Farmer, well known ranch fain
lly of iw eel w ater. I - finding it
heavenly, but lie’s growing res;
less over tlie "calm" of his
hometown.
Riding tin- range with Ivl
Hradlurd only yesterday, lie
admitted that tlie Bradford,
Chrys'er l« something like a
“snail" a, compared to the
iiiigb transporth that drop out
of tin sky filled to brim with
ever.M ilng front human >ky
(write i tombs (paratroops) to i
glguntle zlg-saw assortment of
need for the men who tire
throwing everything they have
In action against the .laps.
On his tunic I- pinned the
ribbon < that signify the DIs-
tingul lied Flying Cross, the Air
A year has dawned that will
gleam through the pages of hi,
tory for centuries to come.
Ii will be packed with more
meaningful events than perhaps
any of its predecessors, t nborn
generations of school children
will remember it along with
IiHiu. I I!t2. ;77<». For Bill probab-
ly will see the end of the war -
in Uuro|ie, the beginning of the
end in the Pacific,
modern auction barns, air eon-1 it may see kingdoms fall, w hole
dltloncd. erected about two and nations torn by civil strife. With-
a half years ago. out doubt, it will see men die b.v
Funeral services will bo held the thousands. But, if the dream-
at .'1 p. in., today at the Elliott yf world leader mine true, they
Funeral Rome in Ablene, hi- will not have died in vain. Fm
former home. BMI can usher in a new era >jn
Surviving are his widow and l|ie relation- «>f men and coun-
a ste|Mlaugliter, Mrs. O. L. Nieh-ilrijf . .
ob ..I t*-.vlMimi ii I eight 1 T,,[’ l’’1 n for PMI ha- be.-n
.....ilren bv a former marriage **' ", m;,v ‘:;*1 b'Ketber
■ ......"•» "y -» rra,m£SS7*
r"tur"is,,. Tiii., ii,.ii i- «i,»i I.,
jbalilv will happen on world ban
! tlefronts in the inoinentoti, v.-ar
! Bill.
l-'ir t of all it w ill , ee (li-ruuni
burn and crumble a. never b
fore. The pre-inva-inn tv offen-
sive will lash llii- Reich from
end to flaming end New teeluu-
! (|iies, new suixir-lNimlH'i's are1
ready. The roster of General Kb-
enhower's Invasion command
clearly shows that tlie Allies in-
tend to beat Europe's coastal de-
fense, into ruins In-fore a single
infantryman set fool a,bore On
Ibal staff are such lop drawer
airmen a air Chief Mar-hal- Sir
Arthur Tedder and Sir Trafford
Leigh-Mallory, Lieutenant Gen-
eral Carl Spaatz and Major Gen-
eral .limmy Doolittle.
Coiled I’res, ('orres|iondeiil
Harrison Salisbury, back from a
lour of all Kuropean fronts ex-
cept Hu.-,la, say- our leaders In
llcve Germany has only a 50-5n
ebanee of surviving the winter
Isunblng. For even while It i- go-
ing on, the Red Army will flail i
the wehrinaclu back toward mid-1
Europe.
Spring is eX|K-etetl to see tlie 1
invasion There's little doubt
that it will In- launched aero -
the channel. Rut there may lie I
other diversionary a -aults. By 1
then, perhaps, tin- Allies will |
have moved Into the Balkans.
The npisiinlmeut ol tough, able
Sir Henry Maitland Wilson as J
Allied eoiiTmander in the Medit-
erranean seems to Indicate an ,
Interest in that area
He led Britain BMI Greek ex-
pedition lb- commanded I In- ar-
my of the Nile when Grazlanl
was cui headlong Into Egypt.
lb1 led the forces which seized
Syria from Vichy. And. a.- com-
mander of Britain's Middle East-
ern forces, lie ha- bad to deal
with tin* thorny trouble- of
Kg'pi. Trans .loruiiii. Ira«|. Iran
See WAR Xim FS Bag. •
❖ Mr
NAZIS BFTREAT FROM III IIVIM; RUSSIAN TOW N—As Russian, -nil :asi.(HNi (e-iu,.,i,-
rrrlin^ fliiou^li ,i iH.Vimh hriMrli in I lit* linr n r^i of l\ic\, this photo inii\r«| in i lie I nit<-<|
Klalr** N.i/.i** rrlrr.ilin^ itiroiiuli ;i ICll^sf;in loun in tlir liir\ -rrlor. I irr- leirlril the
town. ( N K.\ Ik.nliolclrpliolo).
Abilene* ti/Ilve.
Court Of Honor
Slated Tuesday
Employes of the C. K Gy p-um
company will give a program at
7.:i(i p. m., Thursday for the Bov
Seoul court of honor at the
Philip Nolan School.
General program will Is- in j
. barge of R..,, Covey. Hu- It.-'
| Cliffm-d William, and tile Rev
Hugh Warner. A large nuuitier
| "f award- will Is- made and the
i public is invited.
Sammy Gensbcrg Serves
In Australia Theatre
POLAND
N:
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Chcrnyokho* ^ KIE " ^ MlL£S
Bcrd.che*
CHcckojy
Zhitomir r.
u*n‘
Znompnka -.UKRAINE
.... r \ -■ •■:••• A
s - ^ Zoomcnko
VV'/-
/
Khorkov^
• Polfo-o *•
too
'pBhi
’ Nearest natural 0\-
Vf
Nom are Bug ondt
Dncpropcfro*s
Pcrvomaisk »
Krivoi R09
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V
Nikopol *
Zopofoikc
Dniester Riven ^
-lit
RUMANIA I - ^
I Odes;
Osipenko
Odessa
TOM.XVS \\ \IS 'I \—An iiiMlnl ;*tH»,tMMi N.i/i*. Ii;i\r hmi f 11111<*<j townrd I• um;ini.i 11 ntn!
I'nli**h Im»mIci - l»s the K11) Trim in ;i ili lsr tin’ll irltig /liitoniir. iimI ll<ai . In tin- «*«>utli
tlir ltii'*'»hin* »l;ih tnwjn l Mkopnl. (Nlv\ TVIt'fiia|t).
Sweetwater Fire Loss
\ii.,tralla is a nice place but i,
•V. years behind America. They
•till have horses and buggies
here Traffic moves on the wrong
side of the road." Sammy is son
"f Mr and Mrs. Frank Gens-
lx-rg of Sweetwater.
Mt ial. soon to have clusters a.I
.led. and two gold stars tb.it
mean action in enemy territory
Deeply modest and conscious-
in--, young Farmer would not
talk of Ills hairbreadth escape-,
which lie treated lightly, bin a.I
mitte.l that lie had seen the .laps!
•’helling the canal iCuudulciut- j
al. at Henderson Field. Hi,
tri|ied ribbons and stars tell of
combat in the south and South-
west Pacific.
I.i. Farmer, 21. volunteered
loi the service in March Bill. 11 • •,
received Ills wings In May BMJ. |
but in. commission, flying as a
pilot and enlisted man, receiv-
ing bis bars and lieutenancy
while overseas* He was one of
in pilot to be 11nis.lv honored,
lb- could tell of life in modern
New Zealand, which lie thinks
b highly Interesting and of Aus-
tralia. somewhat backward t<>
Hie Fulled States in communi-
cation, transportation and edu-
cation. The food, for the most
part is similar to ours and the
people love the Yanks — | so
See TRANSPORT Page I
Sweetwater lbl.'t fire loss i»-
light for the d<
■tit in Bill i
The depart It
lent a.'.'WcK
la led kl7.2i::.7<>, with tw<> m
In Ift IB we started with an Sh.-i
calls In the el;
y limits trai
three yet to lie adjusted. V.
'too i. -ei ve wl
'deli ha
s been us- i
:>,0I2 city bio.
ks from tlu
Forgay, chief of the Sweetw -
ed. he said. Till
is year i
he amount j
tral station: 7’.
call* at the
ter Fire department, announc.
will have to i
te kept
at .SKI,(Mill |
side station. 1
'rucks travel
“We may lose a part of oui
to $ j 1,000.
tna-ie
jHissible |
•»77 eltv blocks
T he two st;
good fin- record.'' he cited “Y."
through nioie
ins)).-.
■tions and
answered 2t.
out of toy'll
we may In.’ able io rclain on
the e(Ni|N?ratio
n of e
ittzens In i
and traveled
251 miles
2-Y per cent credit Tin- will In
fire prevent lot
i> pra. i
ha-.
I’umpers w.
•re put Into ,
forthcoming in un unnmm<
lu,|M.Hllen- I
for Blit
i Included j
nine times, la
vlng b.Vio n
nicnt from the tali ' Rceor
mercantile an
1 ret a
II district
two and half
inch line, |
of the office point lowunl k.-.
totaled 1. loo
-event v
•live war--
ing Io, 170 gall
oils of water
ing the credit intae* The ,-t.it.
houses. 7-*> pu
tide buildings. 10
cr fires were
controlled
records are aniTouii. i in Mare
inanof.ii luring
plant-
•». ('otTiT-
booster truck-
using 12,1s
Chief Forgay sec- a tough
lions included
102 fire hazards, j
Ion* of water
BOWL
GAME
FINAL
COTTON BOWL
Texas U. 7, Randolph
Field 7.
ORANGE BOWL
LSU 19, Texas A. and
M. 14.
OIL BOWL
Southwest Lou isiono
24, Arkansas A, and M. 7.
Nearly 50,000 Acres Colton Planted On 989
Farms; Million Feet Terrace Lines Built
The terracing program
Nolan county .bring BU;l ..
shown in the annual re|».rt 1
Hemp Kearney, county admin
i,iraiiyo ofneet fot tin- \ \ \
reached a peak with I..T>!U-
feet built oil 7<i farms \ grea
cr program in land rontnurln
Is lieing planned for Bill
There were BL’ll.VN acre*
of .'III(on i.lanle.l amt X,12a.II
acre* of wheat -i.wr.l mi tin-
tWftf farm* til tin- euiiMly.
Const t-uel lull of illy rislini
leri-aers ii'acli.-il :i.Y?‘2u lin-
ear feel mi seven fiii-ln*. Ma-
terials iiinved mil In esees*
•if 2.IHMI i-nlile yaeils pee ilaiu
was esllinaleil al .YI,:HI7 on
,12 farms nilh 112 lank
sleueluers; Iti.ItU rutile
yards wee** ninved In ex-
••t*»s of 2,i*ni ruble yards
per ilaiu.
Prot.cling -mitm.-i fallowed
| acreage by . ontinii listing, pit
I eulllvatlon, or eontuur furrow-
, ing. were .VKt.u .eres on II farms;
1 2(211 acres on five farms by
j other means and Hn.h71.hon 83.1
i farms by contour farming inter-
i tilled crops. Contour listing
cropland reached III. 171,o oa
| s;;ii farms stalks and stubble
were left on s,s7is acres oa
'■ 201 farm-
Tlte program of digging or
j drilling well-: casing was lal-l,
n.-I levs than loui inches in
| diameter • >n la farms In |s
irUetlU'e- ol 2.102 feel Fire-
i guards on non. rop ..pen |»asture
and range land ran II I iiille-
oii two ranch.-- Eradication of
prairie dogs gophers and kan-
N'LAIIUV t’age
jth.n-
calls
action
eel ■ >f
| ill lit 11- ,
Oth
yvlth
gal- j
4 Sweetwater Boys
Preflight Cadets
Al San Antonio
In training at tin* prcflight
school of tin San \ntnnlo ,\\
Intlou Cadet ('enter are 2t,"> from
Texas, including lout Itoy- from
Sweet water.
The future pilots receive nine
weeks ..I instruction at the ecu-
' ter. learning the fundamentals
necessary fm- actual flight train-
| lug In primary, basic and ad-
vanced schools They are pre-
pared physically and mentally to
j attain their common goal, the
i silver " lugs i.t Arm' Air Forces
pilots
The preflight cadets include:
i Georg.- Wyatt Kik. i |r 111 I
Silas; It..licit \ Pepper, 20b F
j Louisiana Si Charles Rufus
Scott. Jr .tor. Fast First stRay-
I inond .1. Swuiin. 1107 Josephine:
y'.w y
FiCHTERS
OF 3 NATIONS
m FORCES
Tl i- !milling men of three
nations—the United State.-, Can-
ada an I Britain -have done 'i
good job of celebrating New
Year’s Eve in Italy.
The Canadians have advanc-
ed another mile — the British
have made a daring raid behind
enemy lines — the Americans
have won three new mountain
peaks.
Perhaps the most action 's
. ver on the rocky Adriatic front.
There the hardy warriors of
Canada have punched out anoth-
er mile through thick German
mine fields. They smashed their
way past Injavy machine gun
! lire and explosions from mor-
I tars.
The new march puls the Can-
adians three miles lieyond Ort->-
na which they captured earlier
this week after days of bitter
street fighting. And now the
port of Peseeara is only eight
mile., from the Canadian- That
means the Canadians are with-
in striking distance of the Pes-
cara river line. And the Ger-
mans arc expected to make ,.
determined stand there — In-
hind the im|x>riaul east-we-ii
road to Rome.
\merican soldiers have r!'-r.*
their part by pushing the Gc,
, mans off three more mount .n
height.- which guard the hilar I
highway to Rome.
\ for the Hi Itlsli i. - v ! \
complete a l/rgi -eai,- ia d n
the Italian West Coast Tlu
, See FIGHTER J’.-ge rt
-------------/——
Germans And Japs
Jittery About
Invasion Plans
The German- say Bias Am-
erican Ian I. sea and uh forces
! are inassing great strength In
the Aleutians for a major at-
tack on the Japan.- horn”-
land.
The repot'! is \
' rlrme.l. of course
1 just a Nazi prop
to try to divert a
the threat of a .-<•
Europe
But. for what
claims are worth. I
. f the details, a-
thc German radio
The Nazis (|U..i
iwtchcs y?* BByinu
-onu* !K1 liiousan :
lrated in Alask - 1
ing up mountain,-
Dutch Haris
That we alre
croft carrier
tanks, para,
about one t
many .>f tin
LON HON — (I pi — The
It.-.I A rail.-s arc only 27 miles
from the old Polish fronti.-r.
Moscow reimrts licit Soviet
troops west ot Kiev liave
caplin..I ill.- rail Innetion of
lielkorovfelii. 'I ids repre-
sent* a gain of nine miles in
past 21 liours.
The ii. " Rr.l Yi-iii> eoni-
in Uli i.| ii >’ r.-pori' I lie eapturc
of more than dot) towns and
villages on tlo Ukrainian
front in sweeping gains by
ilie forces ni (.cneral \aiu-
tin.
In Hie n.irlh, Russian
1 r o o p s |ia\ <• ail'alieed
llirougll 2K more inliabiled
l.x alities in ibeii* drive imrlli-
west of Neyel.
The Ru,-i ii- have started the
New Year with what looks like
a new. hangup threat to the
Nazi- in th. Dnieper Bend.
I ted Army troop at the very
tlie offensive -aliens
v are the ones mount-
cat. These soldiefs of
kraine army are fan
a wide flanking move
>f tlie rail junction of
bottom o
lieyond K
ing this tl
the first
ning out i
southeast
Berdichev
Ar
Russians intend
to surround the
many thousand-
of Germans In
the Dnieper
And the third
i kraine army in
the Dni.-per In-iu
1 itself is coordi-
nating its attack
with this offen-
sive. The third U
kraine army has
punched norti
iward for 12
' bi tlie Kiev S
ialtent, the Rus
-iatis are also m
arching towards
tin old Polish 1
Hir.ler. After a
bad day of fighting for the Ger-
mans, the Red a
rmv stands onlv
:« miles from <
.id Poland In
that day of l.attl
es. the Russian-
to<-k the im|s»'t
ant rail eltv of
Zhitomir and nu
ne than 150 vll
ge- and n.wn-
. lK?,ides.
oflermg
ne |siinLs
•oitnter-at-
n attempt
But.
Iris Davison is
Dead; Car Injury
Proves Fatal
\l.st
Unity uneon
l ’ could u
gaoda stUI
[cut ion fr.*!'
-nil front i:
the enemy
i re are soim
.roadcast o'
Mrs. Boyd's Hen
Doing Her Fart
Suggesting Peace
out-
\ttu and Ki
have there
mule crui
te troops,
usand plane-
long-range
The enemy hroadeaet
claims a big idled fleet Is
Ing In the I dlan Ocean u.-
Itule to ai aided off
against Burma and Malay
As we -aid before, the
all Germ n reports and
See GERMAN'S Page it
New Year Outlook
Bright; Rains hall
farmers and -to.km.-n "atched
c*onct*rm*t!.
the New Year In w ith great eti
of rain w&m
recorded.
thtislastn and the rinnI winter
l of it falling li?f<
ore Julv
season that "til mean dollars In
1 ()n 1>
J Of Jf'
* tlrlxzk’s and hr ft*
u’itture utTf repot
i I M • t-If Rf t -
tlu-lr |NH-ket.s a, the year a.I
ted afli-i
' aiices
’ fall
. 1?MJ llv
are wen*
I’lie slow, steady rain iN-gan
; 17.11
i tot «hi* v<
ear; HMI,
falling early Saturday and by b
i Dj
i ttx lino. I8ir»
setting
a in . bad gauged ,‘>8 inches. M
' |M
•;iK for >m\ veai ii
11 the IN
C Manroe. volunteer wealbei
1
lH*riod that a r<i
.In chart
fereeastet. -aid
| has
hi*f»n kept in the
RejmrU-i
The rains following a long dry
; ft It's
v;. in V02 when
(i-tJM In
lierlod have provided only littU
dies
were recorded
stoekwater. but llii'. pr..nu>tc.|
Tl
ie first moisture
receive. 1
"rescue” gras,, wild rye and
I here
Traffic movta o
n wrong
weeds for ,t.H k grazing Land i-
1 and
gleet on January
i The
In fine sIuuh for preparing, and
, iem|M»ratur*> dlpin^l to 'M
general outlook for P’l! '< '
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 1, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 2, 1944, newspaper, January 2, 1944; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth710820/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.