Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 55, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 5, 1944 Page: 1 of 8
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To Chock Coupons
t|' DALLAM — (VP) — There will be nothing embarrassing
'■boat next week's check* of motorist*’ gasoline coupons — If
the motorist has properly complied with regulations culling for
endorsement of the coupons.
So says Regional OPA Administrator Mux McCullough.
The check will be nationwide. It wus made necessury because
only half of the motorists hud endorsed their coupons, leading
(Ito a terrific traffic In black market gusollne which wus hard to
trace.
, McCulloagh also says thut any mptorlsts stopped who do not
have their coupons endorsed face possible loss of gasoline rations.
West Texas' Leading City More Than 15,000 Readers
Sweetwater Reporter
BUT IT IN 8WEETWATEH
“West Texas' Leading Newspaper”
47th Year
Sweetwater, Texas, Sunday, March 5, 1944
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
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Number 55
Open New Front
■ MOSCOW— (UP)—Maturduy's Movlct commuakne says 9m*
Id forces of the Ukraine huve forced the IngMeta nvertn iMv
drive south through the head of the Dnieper head. They nave
raptured several |daces, Including Zugrodovku, ISO miles southwest
of Krivoi Itog.
' The Ingulcls River angles from Krlvol Rog southeastward to
the Dnieper above Kherson. By crossing It, the Russians hurled
a major harrier in I heir push rolling hack the nose of the German
I salient in the Dnieper bend. t _ , . . ,
The cohimunique says also that on the Estonian front tlie
Russians have expanded their bridgehead across the Narva river
I southwest of Narva.________ . ■ —
>Sweetwater*Nolan County Begins Annual Red Cross Drive 8; Qoal $17 500
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ALLIED RUNES CONTINUE AIR ASSAULT ON EUROPE
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Qreat Axis Communications Hub Under Fire From Six Sides
NAZI DRIVES
.CITY QUOTA
IS $12000
fOR 1944
While the 1044 Red Cross War
Fund drive is being pushed in i
ijpther contmunilles of Nolan
county by community chairmen
and their workers, forces are
lined up for the launching of
Rhe "big drive.” house to-hou.se
pnd person-to-person, in Sweet-
•water on Wednesday morning.
Sweetwater's part of the coun-
ty’s self-assigned 817.5(H) quota
Is $12,000.
Larger contributions will have
already been brought in by
-the time the "big drive” is
Jutarlcd. The Century club, head-
ed by R. M. Simmons and the
Flfty-Dollar club, headed by
Irving latch, have completed
their drives. The drive of the
Twenty-Five Dollar club got un-
Tierway Thursday with Henry F.
Reltman and Hayes M. Walker
as co-chairmen.
Roseoc Is already nearly
over the lop in raising Its
4 quota of *1.700. Dr. T. I).
* Young, drive chairman
there. re|Nirted l-VIday. Con-
tributions nf Roseoc have
already reuehed the SI..VNI
mark, and the residential
section has not yet been
f canvassed, hr said.
.1. D. Holbrook, named It.v
County Chairman Carl M. An-
derson as chairman for the drive
in Sweetwater proper, plans to
Jiavc Sweetwater's business and
Residential areas completely cov-
ered by nightfall Wednesday.
There will he no kick-off break-
Sec QUOTA, Page 2
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Tity Employes At
Los Angeles Ready
for New Strike
I.OS ANGKI.ES— (UP) Four
thousand I-os Angeles water and
power (Icpiirtment employes are
threatening to strike again next
QM-ck They have loudly reject-
ed with catcalls and boos—an
employer • representation plan
ment general manager,
proposed by the water depart-
A recent 10-day strike of the
rtvorkers hlacketl out Isis Ange-
les and left many war plant *
without water. The walkout was
ended when the army took con-
trol at President Roosevelt’s di-
rection.
a However, the Army has re-
turned the iiiiliiles to the city
management and now the em-
ployes threaten to quit Jobs
again next Sunday. The strike
was precipitated by the city’s
gutting III third the worker- IV
Ttollar-a-iiioiith wage demand.
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Trade Barriers Must
%e Broken Down
If Peace To Last
WASHINGTON — (UP)—A
laming that International trade
barriers must Is- broken down
if peace Is to last after this war,
Is given by a Stale Department
official.
William Fowler, chief of the
'Eminierelal Policy division, con-
tends that economic cooperation
between nations Is needed if the
peace Is to continue more than
a few decades after the war.
In a speech prepared for do-
Every to the citizens conference
on International Economic un-
ion. Fowler says he does not
suggest sudden and complete
free trade.
Hut, he goes on: “I am slig-
hting (hat unless the peoples
of the United Nations and Asso-
ciated Nations give early and se-
rious thought to loosening up
the world network of peacetime
trade restrictions—trade and cm-
••oyment after the war will be
Kept below desirable levels.”
—TODAY'S--
WAR
MOVES-
HLIGHTLY WOUNDED —
Bobby lluiblb-slon. seaman 2-
U, suffered slight wounds in
the invasion of the Mursliull
Islands. Assignt-d to a trans*
port Bobby has been in sever-
al South Paeifle engagements.
He lias docked at Guadalcanal,
Takgl, New Hebrides, Fiji*.
New Britain and Is now- in
New Zealand. He Is a PHI
graduate of Sweetwater high
school.
U. S. AIRMEN
AGAIN BLAST
JAP BASES
Japan hopes to win its latest
war by making it a carbon copy
j of its first war.
The enemy in the Pacific is
| fighting the only way he knows
how. He’s using u 40-year-old
strategy that worked once
against the Russians in 1004 and
he hopes will work again again-
st the Americans.
Washington experts say Jap-
ans grand strategy more and
more follows the same general
lines as thut of the Surro-Japan-
I esc war nearly a half-century
! ago. As at Pearl Harbor, the Japs
; then pulled a sneak punch again-
j st the Russian naval base at
! Port Arthur. Hut the parallel
| doesn’t end there. As In the war
i with Russia—Japan’s first as a
j modem jswvcr—it now hopes to
; lure the opposing fleet far from
home and then out it to pieces.
One of the most influential!
Jap newspapers is quoted as
saying:
“The United Suites fleet is
steaming toward Japan as did
the Russian fleet 10 years ago.
It is therefore plain that Japan
has entered the derisive phase
of the pacific war."
Thut apparently mean- the
oncinv i plotting to |munrc on
our Pacific fleet soon with the
help of land-based plane Hem e,
if the past holds the elite to the
future, it might be wc II to ex-
medium 1 amine the history Japan hopc-
•umekod ! will rollout Itself. It might is-
profitable to see the one stunt
the enemy hopes to stretch in-
to two victories.
In Ivi.V Ru-'ia had deprived
Japan of treaty right- in Man-
churia. Japan was Jealous of
Russia Influence In China. \nd
tile rights ami Interest of the
two nations were conflicting in
Korea, one thing Id to another
and then to war.
Ru -ia’s army proved Ineffic-
ient from the start. Pott Arthur
fell in February of IDO! and two
months later Russia -offered a
decisive defeat at Mukden Hilt
the czar -till had one trump
card -his grand fleet. In October
of PHI4. this fleet steam........
■see WAR MOVES, Page 3
irpi —
WASHINGTON -
American* heavy and
lioinlx-rs again have
lap-held liases in the Caroline
and Marshall Islands.
A Navy announcement, re-
lea i d In Washington and Pearl
Harlior. reveal- that the planes
dropped 2.1 tons of bombs on the
targets Thursday.
It r< |Mirt that Army Lilierat-
ors dropped eight tons of bombs
on runways and buildings at Po-
nape in the Carolines and blast-
ed shipping and dock areas at
Ku-ale in the same group. Th •
Army anti Navy teamed up—
-trlkhig with Mitchell bomber*
and Navy Venturas- In the at-
tack on the Marshalls. Seven-
teen tons of explosives were
were hurled at two enemy
strongholds In the eastern pait
of the islands
The Navy a\- anti-aircraft
fire was Ineffective and all of
tin- attacking planes returned
safely to their liases.
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Pioneer Nolan
Resident Dies
In California
Dow Hylton 85, pioneer Sweet-
water stock farmer, whose fam-
ily settle I Hylton In tne ear'v'
days of the county, died Feb. 2*.
in Oakland, Calif., friends here
have I wen advised.
Service were held Fell. 2!) ill
Oakland. .-------------------
Surviving are Ills wife anti composed of 11 western state-.
two .........let's. Nettle and Mr- ! At the same time, the Oregon
II C. Mi nt/ and three sons, Ed- Governor ends speculation on
gar. Aaron and Walter | »*•« ""» possible candidacy fo,
After the family left Nolan i (he Senate scat He-ay-he h is
county llicv moved to Nevada., every confidence that he eouid
thence to Oakland als.ut seven | render valuable, constluctlw.
I.service as a IT. S. Senator but
I has decided that his Immediate
j obligation is to carry on as gov-
I ernor.
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Tin- map allow, -hows Burma anil «llspo*lliini ol Allied
anil i-iiiim') forces.
Roosevelt Aide Ma\ Furnish
Executive Powers T Case
Guy Cordon Named
To Succeed McNary
SALEM; Ore. (UP) -A lie
publican attorney from Ito
burg. ore . Guy Cordon, i- suc-
cessor to the late Senator
Charles Me.Nary.
Governor Earl Snell announ-
ces that he lias appointed Cor-
don to the Interim vacancy. He
will serve only until Novemlwr.
when an election will determine
who will serve the four remain-
ing vears of McNary's term
Cordon, who is 53 years old.
has spent most of hi- time In r<*
cent years In Washington as at-
torney for a group of Southern
Oregon land grant counties and
for the Interstate Association cf
Public Lands counties, which is
years ago
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Vichy Minister Is
Tried For Treason
ALGIERS--(UP)—'The former
Vichy minister of the Interior
was brought to trial lit Aiglets
Saturday on a charge of treason.
Pierre Purlieu apiwared lie-
fore a five-judge mllitutw tribun-
al consisting of two civilian*
and three generals. He denied
he had attempted to suppress
assistance movements among
patriots, and said he actually
had enabled one member of the
French liberation committee to
escape from occupied France.
Swiss Officer To
Die For Espionage
NEW YORK—(UPV—The
Swiss radio in a hrondeasl re-
layed from London (and record-
ed by CHrt) says a Swiss annv
officer has lieen sentenced t<»
death for espionage
The officer was convicted of
giving Information about the
Swiss army to a foreign power
for political reasons. Four of
his accomplices, two of them sol-
diers, drew long prison terms.
WASHINGTON (IT)
A senate -ubi-oniiiiitt- i has rec-
ommended that Jonathan Dan-
iels—-one of President Honsc-g
veil's administrative assistants
In- brought liefore the senate
to show igju.se for refusing to
answer committee questions.
Daniels earlier tb - week re-
fused to give any te-timony re-
garding reports that he tried to
force the resignation of Harry
Slattery the head of the Rural
Electrification Administrati o n .
He said he wouldn't talk be-
cause such testimony would be
a betrayal of Ids confidential
relationship with President
Roosevelt.
If (lie senalr derides Mi
lake uelloii oil tile slllieoin-
lull lee's I'eeoiiiiiieiul a I I u li .
the trial of Daniel- will In-
tuit e an hl-torie test of leg-
Islallve teesus executive po-
wer*.
Mr. and Mr.- Roosevelt i elc
brateil their 11th anniversary In
the While House Saturday
Starting 111- 12th year in of
flee, Mr Roosevelt now 02
year- old a|t|s-ai In basically
good health
A- for Mrs Roosevelt liei
fabulous energy has never dim
intshed. Right now he’s poised
for another of her famous Junk
ets out of tlie country- tin
thin* to visit servicemen in the
('arllibean
On the diplomatic front act
lug Secretary of state Stettlnlu-
told reporters that the United
Stain i - reft alnlng from sntei
lug into official relations with
the Argentine regime of acting
President Farrell until Argentl
na conies hack Into the fold ol
hemlspheie -olidarlty •
Stettlnlus -aid at an unex
peeledlv called news ennferenee
—"this government has reason
to lieileve that groups not In
sympathy with the declared Ar-
gentine |mllcy of joining tlie de-
fense of the hemisphere were
active In this turn of affairs."
He was referring to the revolt
when Farrell u designated as
acting chief ■ ec-iitive. and Pre-
sident Ramh ' / wa - t"i'eed to
tep aside
WOUNDED — P't- Palmer
w. pnilll, 2". I- i crep lug treat-
melil in \> i-lli Alflea l»i wound-
-ii-l.lined In act Ion with the
; lilli dh 1-Ion tn Dill) 4
liloltier Of Me*, led "f
fw eel Willi i, lie i» wllli company
"E" 142nd int mil). ”>«*
.-willwalei Nation.il Guard null,
aeliviilrd In HMu. 'He ha- will-
ten ili. i lit- wound- ale **ot
list lsi-1."
Itl’.NT DIMM IOR St ED
CLEVELAND HT'i
housing diortage
The
problem came j country
home to roost today on the m*1 1
(IIY IS All
BUT ISOLATED
BY RUSSIANS
MOSCOW— (UP) —The great
Nazi communications huh of
Pskov now is under heavy Rus-
sian artillery fire from six di-
rections. Advancing Red army
columns have forged a tight ar
about the city. No natural bar-
riers remain to Is.' hurdled.
But the Russians face the
tough job of slashing through a
thick mesh of hedgehog forti-
fications the Germans have
built in the outskirts for a last-
ditch effort to hold Pskov.
The city, w hit'll controls
I'ueiny defense- on both the
Latvian and Estonian Iron,
till-. Is all but Isolated. The
only main railroad in Nazi
bands Is under steady Ru-
slan slu llfire. That leaves
only a sccondu)- line still
available to the German- for
uioving troop- and supplies.
The Germans are putting up
a -tiff fight to save Pskov. Mot
than 800 Nazi- were killed yes-
terday in furious battles.
The enemy also i- paying a
heavy price In defending the
narrow corridor between Lake
Peipus and t lie Gulf of Finland,
farther north. In two day- of
fighting 2,200 Nazis were killed.
On the diplomatic front, Fin-
land i reported to have com-1
1 i Jeted her reply to the |>caco
tei ms laid down by the Russian
The an.-wer. according to Stock-
| holm source-. Is a rejection "f
some of the Soviet terms. Inti
cushioned with phrase* making
it clear that Finland wants to
continue |**ace negotiation.-.
'Specifically, the Finnish gov
I eminent Is said to have turned
down -i Rt in demand that
, German troop- in Finland lie In-
! terneb. and that Finnish troop*
| withdraw behind the if lit-lo bor-
I ders.
The Flnni-h negotiator, for-
mer Premier Paa.-aklvi, is sal l
i to lie expected hack in Stock-
] holm today to deliver the
reply.
Michigan Man Goes
To Army 4th Time
DEARBORN. Mich — tl'IM —
I Anthony 8arg*ntl has been
| Imuneed around so much since
the passage of the selective ser-
vice act (hiit he has to mediate
before dressing for the day. But
Siirgenli dons Id.- khaki at the
sound of a bugle
Private Sargentl first entered
the army in \pril. Toil, hut was
released in October that year un-
der regulation* dismissing men
over 2x years of age. That ruling
wa- revoked, however, and four
months later Sargentl became a
soldier again six months later
he was released Then In April.
Pi 1.1. he was called again, hut
that order was revoked.
Shortly liefore (’hrlstma- Sar-
gentl wa- warned to prepare
again, and now he's en route to
'duty a' Fort Sheridan. Illinois.
He'- i| little eonfustsl but all he
wants to know l>—who said that
women have a monopoly on
changing their minds'’
150,000 War Homes
To Be Built In '44
WASHINGTON — (UP)
House- for war workers will be
mushrooming up through th
this year—160,000 of
FIGHTS IN I I A 1.4 — Sgt. 4.
D. .Miller who vv-nl into the
inva-lon of Italy with tin- Fif-
th army, i-eci-lveil a pi-niiiiilioii
recently. Hr i- -on of Mi. anil
Mrs. I. K. Miller nt Kolty. His
wilt- and live nionlb- "Id ba-
by. Mary Hire, vvlntni In- has
never -i-i-n, are remaining in
Sweetwater for the duration.
lie Ini- been oyi-r-ea- for a
year.
BEATEN BACK
IN ITALY
LONDON (UP) — Ameri-
can bomber plane- raided Ber-
lin Saturday for the first time
in the war.
Ap air force communique an-
nounn that the Berlin district
was one of the targets of Fly-
ing Form ■<■ in widespread
raids thut extended into eastern
Germany.
Berlin radio says some Ixmibs
dropped iti the “build-up” sec-
tion of the German capital.
The Nazi claim that only a
few liomber- i>enetrated the Ber-
lin area, that only a few bomba
were dropped, and thut several
ol our plane- were brought
down by inten-e fighter np|K»sb
not the story we
turning American
Japs Have Some
Good Stories About
Failure To Fight
I’EARI. II 4 It BOR - (UPi —
Tokyo I—iied some remarkable
propagatul
Ing.
■I ’erliaps
their pi"
ment. and
won't di;
tin
ivor
rie- fins morn-
k-aijer- think
iced encourage-
to luck they
he truth. At any
rate. Tokyo i
radio set a
new high
Apparently,
In absurd rt
ports In <
-timatlng
-amc <>n the- <
Allied plane
|o- < - for
February.
sioil^ L? 1 nUVL III
The total i-
set at J(
it aircraft
s(|uu(ln*n will
supixiKcdly -
liot down
over Sou-
K'ction from
thei ' Asia i
and tlie I1.'
id fie. The!
rom* tf
Jap- -ay the
v lost Nil.
enemy platie-
It's inters
istIng t"
note that *
ftgiiters dldn'
no mention
was made of Jap-
jto do than c
anese los.--.-s
in the Hi-
mart’k ar*
ride.
t tlon.
But that
get from
; fliers.
Pilot- nt Mustang fight-
ter plane- wbleb aceoinimn-
ii-il the American bomber-
In Iti-rliii report that Na/I
lir- . wrr ri! ".-lant t"
fight. Tin-> -ay the thk-k
lighter plane protection giv-
en the I ortre—es ke|il the
Nazis away and that several
German fighters were de-
troy ed.
One of the returning Mustang
pilots -ay- the mission was "far
caster than anyone expected."
. it v a much the
other bombing mis-
r re in Germany. A
ieh had fighter pro-
Thundc txdt -ouad-
lei'e were so few
. in th
the da
tep of A If t "it U’>enc-ch who is
Commi—loner Fet-gu-on of
the Federal Housing Admlni
itl’A rent iliii'i t* >r fot 22 north- h rat Ion --.n- private builder- at"
ea tern Ohio counties. | scheduled to construct only
The landlord of the apartment H.tNHt war housing units le-s
house In which ITeneseh live-1 than in TB-I.'t.
filed a -ull in muiti> al court I ile adds that l!M4 eon.-tructloii
to evict liene-i h an i 11 other j win be concentrated for the
tenants so that the house call lie most part In 2<i vital war ceil'
leased to the government for | ters where employment Is still
conversion Into -mailer suites j expanding. Small quota,-are set
for war worker-. I for sou other communities.
chipelago. However, General
MacArthur alrcaily has announ-
i ed that in the February often-
I sivc against Rabaul and New-
Britain alone, we destroyed or
I damaged 27* planes while the i
Allies suffi-retl only negligible
j losses.
Tlie newly appoint**’ director
1 of Jupane-e navy in formation
! add'-d hi- voice. Tic .-aijl that 127
; American submarine- have been
' -unk an') f»2 damaged since -tart
of the war He .'Hindis this Is
| very remarkalJe Tx'cutt
United States only had 120 sub-
I marines when the war iM'gan
The Jap story is a f.ir cry from
official figures showing we have
i lost aliout a score of submarines
since Pearl Harlsu*
Perhaps the prize story i- Ja-
: pan’- explanation for the lack of
aerial opposition l" our raids on
enemy ba-i in the South Pac-
i Iflc The Jap- -,i\ :Ik if pilots
1 Just couldn't Is- botbei'id — lie-
| cause they were sure our pilot-
l couldn't hit anything They ad-
i mitted that bombs ...which they
I .-aid were dropped at random—
\ lilt military installations But. of
| course, that w as Just a mistake
Perhaps the stories were
I meant to offset the extraordlm
] arv war measures whit h Japan
is taking All students are to lie
inoltilized. and school* and col-
lege- turned Into military store-
j houses and hospitals. The mens
I ures also include extensive air
: raid precautions, decentraliza-
j tlon of city imputations and eva-
cuation of government offices
from large cities.
Highland School
Wins Consolation
AUSTIN — CUP) Little
Prairie Lea school of Caldwell
i poiinty has won the state class
B high school basketball champ-
ionship.
In Its first trip to a state
tournament. Prairie !*■« swept
through all opposition in Its div-
ision and Saturday took the title
j by downing Blossom High from
Lamar County, Ki to 2(1, In the
. finals.
Earlier, Highland srhool of
near Roseoc had won the class B
i consolation honors by downing
1 Perrin, 36 to 22.
ky that our
have much more
ne along for the
However, our fliers ran into
■e NAZI. Page *
Left Wing Strike In
Italy Called Off
NAPLES < UP) —The time
scheduled for an anti-royalist
-'rlKc demonstration in Naples
un tdent Satur-
the
'UUCI'f* < if
an politico
til'd that o
strike migl
i- in time.
three leftwing
1 parties had
<iers cancelling
t not reach -u-
The demonstra-
tion was proposed as a protest
against itrlti-h support of the
Badogllo government.
American military police and
Italian rlvl! police patrolled the
, main factory districts.
\ Communist leader said ho
would confer with Allied auth-
orities later today on an autho •
ized mass meeting planned as an
: alternate protest.
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Farmers Are Being
Ignored Says Leader
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Farm Leader Paul isifton ar-
i cum-- the administration of
-lighting the farmer in duy-by-
■ day war decisions.
And those decisions, he says,
ire shaping the peace to come.
The assistant to the National
Farmer'* union president level-
le 1 hi- charge in an address be-
fore the citizens conference on
International Economic union,
; meeting in Washington today.
sifton claim the farmer has
nut been counted Into war food
j production, processing and dis-
tribution a tie should have been.
He told the conference that this
v« ar food production could
have been at least 10 per cent
greater had the administration
and Congre provided one bil-
Hon dollai - in loans to under-
equipped furmers. This sum,
he pointed out. Is equal to the
coat of running the war for four
days.
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