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Timpson Daily Times
VOLUME 4S
TIMPSON, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY IS, 1944
NO. 139
NAZI TROOPS
MAKING DEATH
STAND ASU. S.
TROOPS ENTER
ST. LO
Allied Supreme Headquar-
ters, London, July 18. (UP)—
American vanguards entered
8t. Lo Monday, and the fall of
that German defense keystone
appeared imminent as power-
ful American columns-closed
in from three sides and began
house-to-house fighting in the
suburb; with Nasi paratroop-
ers who were told to stand
and die
Fighting off desperate coun-
ter-attacks by five German di-
visions, British troops on the
eastern wing of a thundering
120-mile front extended the
gains of their two-day offen-
sive to more than four miles
and crashed int« two enemy
strongholds, Evrecy and Noy-
ces. Late last night the battle
was reported "swaying to and
fro,” in the British sector.
On the west, American
troops entered Lesaay from
two sides and cleared that
German west coast anchor ex-
vept for a "matter of yards,”
while other American columns
elosed in on the stronghold of
Periers and the important Les-
say-Periers supply' roads,
backbone of the German line.
The villages of Les Millieries,
La Samomniere, L’Abbaye,
Remilly on the Lozon and La
Barre were captured in these
advances. ^ ____
The Americsns stormed into
St- Lo's suburbs after overrun-
ning St. Croix, a mile east of
the center of the city, James
C. McGlincy of the United
Press reported from the front,
and Allied headquarters re-
vealed that MartinviUe, stub-
born strongpoiut lying a little
farther out, had also fallen.
Very heavy fighting rages
across the entire front, head-
quarters added, but the steady
Allied pressure has caused
further cracks in the enemy’s
defensive system.
For the first time in weeks,
bright weather permitted the
air forces to throw, their full
weight into the battle for St.
Lo and the old Charlemagne
fortress biased and shook
from their explosives as the
Yanks hammered into the out-
skirts, front reports said.
The doughboys had pushed
off at dawn along the last 1,-
000 yards to St. Lo through a
thick haze that for the moment
prevented either artillery or
aerial support. The surprise
of the “silent” assault rocked
back the Germans nearly 40r
yards and by the time they
recovered the mist had clear-
ed and the guns and planes
were in action.
Under the curtain of the
barrage, a strong American
patrol penetrated well into St.
Lo, front reports said, and
street fighting was believed al-
ready under way. Another
American force drove down
east of the city and began
fighting through the under-
growth on its southern ap-
proaches toward German-held
heights that mnst he reduced
before St. Lo can be made ten-
able for full occupation.
The main assault forces
were storming St Lo from the
north, east and west against
furious 'resistance, particular-
ly on the western side where
the Germans threw in a num-
ber of tanks in an effort to
BRITISH HELP
IN SOUTHWEST
PACIFIC IS DUE
By United Press
Britain will send “large and
powerful forces” to the South-
west Pacific before the end of
the year to fight under Gen.
Douglas Mac Arthur, Prime
Minister John Curtain of Aus-
tralia announced today as the
official Japanese Dotnei agen-
cy reported that Admiral Shi-
getaro Shimada had been “re-
lieved of his post” as navy
minister.
Curtin told the House of
Representatives in Canberra
that Prime Minister 'Winston
Churchill had assured him
during his recent visit to Brit-
ain to attend the empire con-
ference of heavy British sup-
port in the battle against the
Japanese.
Transfer of the main British
effort must await the defeat of
Germany, Curtin said, but
large and powerful forces will
be available this year and the
whole British effort will be
"vigorously pursued.”
The Tokyo radio, indicating
Shimada'a removal may have
resulted from the recent de-
feat of the Japanese navy in
the Philippines and the Amer-
ican conquest of Saipan, said
the change was made in view
of “the present grave war situ-
ation.” Bear Admiral Naokun
Nomura was sworn in as his
successor.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
announced that - carrier-based
planes hit Guam and Rota
again Saturday for the 12th
consecutive day and that Navy
Liberator bombers, in a new
raid on Iowa Jima in the
NAZI ROBOT
DUMPS BLASTED
BY ALLIED AIRMEN
London, July 17. (UP)—
American heavy bombers
struck from Britain and Italy
today at German military in-
stallations and vital transport
links scattered through France
from the channel coast to the
lower Rhone Valley near the
Mediterranean.
Some 750 heavies of the
Eighth Air Force swept out
from Britain
W. C. Crump
Makes Statement
To Citizen* Of
Precinct No. 4
Russians Reach
Curzon Line In
Mighty Western Push
Dear Friends: ! London, July 17. (UP)—
Saturday, July 22, you are Red army forces, driving west-
going to your various voting ward toward the twin German
places and east your vote to bastions of Bialystok and
elect your officers for the en-. Brest Litovsk, reached the Cur-
suing term. Included in the' zon line today,- while other
offices is a very important of- Soviet troops to the north
flee—that of commissioner. It pushed within a half-mile of
is an. office of much importance the Latvian border and widen-
ind carries a great responsibil-1 ed their Niemen river bridge-
through misty ity; this responsibility includes German-delineated East Prus-
weather over the channel to other than maintaining roads head for a direct attack into
hit supply dumps for ffyin-r' and bridges, that of keeping sia,
bombs, bridges, and rail yards jibe tax rate of the county at Stockholm reports said that
feeding the Normandy battle-;its lowest possible minimum,{Soviet parachutists were di
front. care in the management of the1 sending in Bast Prussia and
Liberators of the loth Air county’s financial affaire, and that the Germans had order-
Force flew from Italian bases the financing etf the county fa>(ed the entire' eastern half of
with a Mustang escort to hit general on a cash basis. This'that province evacuated,
three bridges and one rail hub requires much work and care-I The five Soviet armies driv-
in Southern France. The Avi-
gnon, Tarascon and Aarles
bridges over the Rhone and
the Avignon rail yards were
their targets. First reports in-
dicated “good results,” an an-
nouncement from Rome said.
Moderate anti-aircraft fire
and some enemy fighters were
encountered in the attack aim-
ed at the connecting links
along 50 miles of the Lower
Rhone between the two main
rail lines on either side of tbe
river. Some enemy planes
were short down.
The daylight assaults, com-
ing a few hours after British
bombers pounded Germany’s
dwindling oil supplies in co-
ordinated night raids form the
west and south, were made in
generally unfavorable weath-
er.
More than a dozen railway
bridges in a wide circle around
Paris were attacked by small
ful consideration. 1 have done ing toward East Prussia
my best to handle these mat- Warsaw scored maxi
Bolcanos, bombed and strafed formations of bombers, while
17 ships and destroyed 13 en-
emy planes on the ground.
An American dive bomber
was shot down in the Guam
raid but its crew was rescued
by a destroyer when it crash-
ed two miles off shore.
American ground forces
held firm against frantic ef-
forts of 45,000 Japanese to
escape a trap on British New
Guinea. Reinforced U. S. in-
fantry maintained a solid tine
along the Drinimor river after
entting off enemy spearheads
and killing 344 more Japa-
nese.
U. S. destroyers and Allied
planes steadily bombarded Ja-
panese rear positions inside
the encirclement.
A Tokyo broadcast admit-
ted Allied planes had raided
the oil center of Boela on
Ceram on the Dutch East In-
dies Saturday and said inter-
ceptor planes shot down four
American craft.
Tbe Allied communique
said, one U. S. plane was de-
stroyed by anti-aircraft fire
during the raid which explod-
ed petroleum tanks and sent a
flood of burning ail through
Boela.
hold the Vire river crossing at
the edge of the city. At least 6
tanks were knocked out.
(German broadcasts admit-
ted the loss of MartinviUe, key
point of the enemy’s Hedge-
row defenses on the eastern
approaches of St. Lo and one
mile outside the city.
Once past St. Lo, the Amer-
icans will gain Terran suitable
for massive tank actions de-
signed to roll up* the western
half of the French front and
clear the British Second army’s
flank for the big push oft Paris.
others went on to hit a flying
bomb dump at Killy La Mon-
taigne, south of Rheima, and
rail yards at Belfort, about 35
miles west of Basle on the
Swiss border.
Despite unfavorable weath-
er, the bombers found clear
spots in all tbe target areas
and bombed visually between
patches of drifting clouds.
The bombers wse escorted
by 500 to 7^0 Mustang,
Lightnings and Thunderbolt
fighters. They were not chal-
lenged by German fighters.
High Schools Boot
College Students
Austin, Tex., July 17. (UP)
—Small towg high school
graduates make the best stu-
dents in junior colleges. Dean
John Thomas Davis of John
Tarieton Agricultural College
told the third annual Junior
College Conference at the
University of Texas recently.
“Large school systems run
students through in mill lots,
so that they acquire a facile
memory to reproduce needed
facts on examinations,” he as-
serted, “but they never learn
to think.”
Dean Davis cited one chemis-
try class at John Tarieton
which made an exceptionally
poor record. A check reveal-
ed that every class member
came from one of the state’s
largest cities and all had
“flunked out” of A. £ M. be-
fore entering Tarieton.
“All those students had av-
erage or superior L Q„ but
they bad never learned to use
thought processes, and knew
lothing of how to study,” he
said.
ters to the best interest of the gains of 16 miles and liberated
people in my district and in more than 410 localities today,
my county. I ha e endeavor- while to the south Berlin
ed to expend the r oney of the claimed that a mighty Bed
county, my pr"-inct—your army offensive in southeastern
money—as ecorjiric.Uy as Poland had carried within 85
possible. miles of the great rail june-
I have given the duties of tion and fortress city uf Lwow.
this office my FIRST and BEST | There still was no indica-
ATTENTION; I have cooper- tion from Moscow that the
ated at all times with other Russians had driven into the
members of the court; and Suwalki triangle of East Prua-
have shared in the cooperation from Poland in 1939, but Mos-
of these officials. sia which* Germany annexed
It has indeed been a pleas- cow dispatches said the Rus-
nre, and an honor which I ap- mediate neighborhood” of the
predate greatly, to serve the sians were fighting in the “im-
citizens of precinct four, and border and Stockholm report-
Shelby county as a member of ed a wave of panic waa sweep-
the Commissioners’ Court. I — '-•* ■ ■ - - ! -
want to express my sincere
appreciation to all the people
of my precinct for their fine
spirit of cooperation. To each
and everyone of you, I am
deeply grateful.
The duties of the office have
required a large part of my
time and it has been impossi-
ble to make a thorough can-
vass of the precinct. Please ac-
cept this written notice as my
personal appeal to you and to
everyone for your vote an sup-'
port in the coming election. I
also take this opportunity to
sincerely thank you for past
favors shown me. '
I am, gratefully,
Your friend, i
W. C. CRUMP. j
(Political Advertisement)
Robot Blitz Against
Southern England
London, July 18. (UP)—
The Germans stepped op their
robot blitz a garnet southern
England today and many oi
the big flying bombs fell in the
London area.
The new attacks came after
clear weather yesterday in the
Straits of Dover had aided
fighting planes and anti-air-
craft gunner* to destroy many
of the pilotless plane* aa they
streaked towards London.
Poor flying weather has re-
stricted planes and hindered
ground ’batteries for a majori-
ty of the 34 days since Hitler
began his indisermumte bomb-
ing with the pilotless craft.
Londoners were roused
again shortly before dawn to-
day by the wail of sirens her-
alding the approach of the
bombs. Damage waa done and
casualties, including some fa-
talities, were reported in Lon-
don and Souther* England.
ing that breeding ground of
the German Junkers military
elan.
Notice Members Eastern Star
Tonight is regular
meeting of Timpson Chapter
No. 396. Order of the Eastern
Star. Meeting will be held at
8:30. Members are urged to
be present.
Mrs. Lucille Cramp, W.M.
. Miss,Katie -McCarty,. See
p|»9|
NEW TRAVIS
PEAK TEST
FOR PANOLA
Marshall, Tex., July 17.
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Com-!
pany was getting started on a!
new Travis Peak operation to-|
day in the Carthage area of
Panola county. No. 1 Hudson,
in the Isabella Hanks survey.'
Northeast of Carthage, Rog-
ers Lacy No. 6 Burnett, Bon
Hendricks survey, continued
testing tile blossom at 2,876
feet, hut results were not an-
nounced.
No. 1696
Official Statement of Financial Condition of k
1 THE COTTON BELT STATE BANK ^
% at Timpson, State of Texas, at the close of business on k
k the 30th day of June, 1944, published in the Thnp- W
k 80,1 Times. * newspaper printed and published at Thnp- 5
3 son, State of Texas, on the 7th day of July, 1944, in *
% accordance with a call made by the Banking Commit-1
k doner of Texas pursuant to the provisions of the Bank- a
k 'ns Law of this State. 3
'ml
172,367.76 ^
304,426.00 ^
36.767.42 ^
20,000.00 g
8,000.00 N
1,700.00 %
J reserve agents--------HH-ZTI ... ~ — 526.138.32 *
. ^ Cash items in process of
| % collection (Transit) .................
I ^ Customers securities held for safskeep-
Total Resources ________________________
. RESOURCES
n Loans and discounts, ineluding over-
^ drafts—Schedule I
k United States Government obligations,
^ direct and guaranteed—Schedule II..
9 Obligations of State and political
^ subdivisions .........................
k Corporate stocks, including stock in
k Federal Reserve Bank___________________
3 Bank premises owned ._.......................
^ Furniture, fixtures and equipment______
k Cash on hand and due from approved
- 7Zo.ian.52 ^
8,000.00^
... 467,850.00^
$1,543,238.50 ^ ,
LIABILITIES
PRLRCE
Joe £. Brown, June Havoc
and Dale Evans in
‘Casanova In Burlesque’
Wednesday - Thursday
“The Navy Way”
with Robert Lowery, Jean
Parker, ■ Bill Henry, Roscoe
Kara*.
grrreaMrtt-wsfrTw-Mtrui'MUii'w
^Capital Stock :
SSurplus: Certified $10,500.00; not cartified'
3 $4,000.00 _________________________________
A Undivided profits ___________________
k Cashiers checks, dividend cheeks and
k certified checks outstanding.___________...
3 Demand individual deposits._________________________
S Demand public funds, including postal
savings and U. S. Government deposits..
50,000.00 ^
14,500.00 ^
11,980.98 k
687.50 ^
*86,726.07 ^
109,493.95 ^
467,850.00 S
$1,543,238.50 W
§
k Total all deposits ($998,907.62)
k Customers securities deposited for aafe-
^ keeping ---------—---------- _...
^ Total Resources......____...._____
b State of Texas
N County of Shelby _
■ I, H. L. Rogers. Vice President an 1 Cashier -of the c
k above named bank, d«,yoIemnly swear that the foregoing W
3 statement of condition is true to the beat of my know]- 3
% edge and belief. k
^ H. L. ROGERS. ^
k Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of k
k July, 1944. 3
k T. J. Molloy, Notary Public, Shelby County, Texas. ^
3 CORRECT — ATTEST 1
k J- E- Blankenship, W. M. Byrn, E. H. Hebert, Direcfars \
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 139, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 18, 1944, newspaper, July 18, 1944; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth764779/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.