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Timpson Daily Times
VOLUME 43
TIMPSON, TEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1944
NO. 79
AMERICANS SUM
3 JAP BASES IN
MEW INVASION
Allied Headquarters, South-
west Pacific, Monday, April
24. (UP)—Seasoned American
jungle fighters landed Satur-
day at Hollandia, Dutch New
Guinea in the first invasion of
the Netherlands East Indies,
going ashore at three Japa-
nese bases along a 150-mile
front in the greatest offensive
thrust of the Southwest Paci-
fic, war, Gen. Douglas -MacAr-
thur announced today.
General Mac Arthur, who
personally directed the inva-
sion from aboard a U. S. light
cruiser and supervised the
landing operations, revealed
in a communique that an esti-
mated 60,000 soldiers of Ja-
pan’s 18th army had been cut
off along the New Guinea
coast by the landings at Ait-
ape, Hollandia and Tanah
merah, 20 miles west of Hol-
landia.
Thousands of American
troops, veterans of earlier New
Guinea campaigns, swarmed
ashore under protection of a
terrific naval and air bombard-
ment, meeting only slight re-
sistance and suffering light
casualties as they quickly
moved inland to consolidate
their positions.
American forcea landed at
two points on Humboldt bay,
20 miles inside Dub’ll New
'Guinea and immediately'drove
inland toward the three air-
fields around Hollandia.
At Aitape, 125 miles below
Hollandia, they quickly seized
the Tadji airfield and at Tan-
ahmerah bay, 20 miles west of
Hollandia, they were pushing
down a road leading to the air-
fields'10 miles away.
MacArthur’a communique,
announcing, the landing in
Dutch New Guinea and the
recapture of the first Nether-
lands territory from the Japa-
nese, said that the operation
throws a loop of envelopment
around the enemy’s now iso-
lated 18th army along the New
Guinea coast
"This enemy army is
completely isolated,” the com-
munique said.
The communique further
said that the total remaining
strength of the Japanese ar-
mies—those destined for the
invasion of Australia—in the
Solomons, Bismarck Archipel-
ago and New Guinea, was esti-
mated at 140,000. Tn addition
to the 60,000 in New Guinea,
there are 50,000 in New Bri-
train, 10,000 in New Ireland
and 22,000 in Bougainville.
The original Japanese
strength in the Southwest Pa-
fic was a quarter of a million
men, the communique said, of
which 110,000—or 44 per cent
—has been lost in the cam-
paign.
SENIOR CUSS WILL
PRESENT PU1, “LINO!
LOU,” FRIDAY NIGRT
The Senior class of Timpson
High School, will present its
annual play Friday night,
April 28th, at the high school
auditorium, beginning at 8:30
o’clock.
The play Is “Lindy Lou," a
three-act comedy, and the
class is expecting a large at-
tendance. There will be spe-
cialties between acts by Gloria
Smith and Yvonne Baker.
A matinee will be given at
1:30 Friday afternoon.
Following is the cast:
T. Timothy Tweedsome—-
Charles Lightfoot
Lindy Lou Evans—Madge
Boucher.
Dick Barrie—Robin Hooper,
Jr.
Big Boy Boberta—Harold
Baker.
Benjamin Blackstone—Ger-
ald Mills.
Ethelburt—Crosby Crain.
Duchess of Londonberry.
Era Bell Hayes.
Delores Del Monte—M ary
Evelyn FutrelL
Patsy (Miss Chicago)—
Peggy Julian.
Patricia (Miss Philadelphia)
—Dixie Tippett.
Prunella (Miss Boston)—
Sue Kyle.
Admission: Adults, matinee
30c; night 35e. Children,
matinee 20c; night 25c;t"x in-
cluded.
| Shelby-Panola Soil Conservation District
District Supervisors
Hold Regular Meeting
j could be controlled by mow-
! ing.
! Our next stop was made at
The Shelby-Panola Soil Con-: Charlie Humphries’ farm
servation District Supervisors j where the supervisors inspeet-
held their regular meeting in | ed terraces constructed by a
the Soil Conservation office I Ford tractor with terracing
over Payne and Payne in Cen-: disk attachment' These ter-
ter, April 4th, with the fol- races were twenty feet wide
Timpson Infantryman
Promoted in Italy
With the Fifth Army, Italy.
—Private First Class Barney
E. Solomon, son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. K. Solomon, who live
on Route 3, Timpson, Texas,
has been promoted to corporal.
He is a truck driver with the
36th “Texas” Division of the
Fifth Army in Italy.
Buy War Bonds Every Pay
Day!
One Way Flying Trip
to Tokyo After War
Will Cost $207
Washington, April 19. (UP)
—If anyone wants to fly to
Tokyo in 1848—assuming he
can go to Tokyo in 1948—
Pan-American Airways tonight
guessed ithey could get him
there in 27 hours and 36 min-
utes flying time from New
York.
The fare would be $207 one
way. The probably more pop-
ular round trip fare would
amount to $373.60, according
to Pan-American.
Also the “timetable of the
future” will provide a "Special
three-day week-end air cruiser
to Paris”—the week-ender to
leave New York at 2 p. m. Fri-
day and be back in town for
an ice bag on the forehead at
7 a. m. Monday.
A bargain-rate week-end
could be spent in Bermuda for
137.26, according to the Pan-
American prospectus. There
would be 10 flights daily and
you could be basking on the
beach less than three hours af-
ter leaving New York.
A round trip to Buenos Aires
could be arranged for 9291.60,
and you could be in the capi-
tal of Argentina within 22
hours of departure from New
York. Berlin, or what has
been rebuilt of it by 1948,
could be reached in 16 hours
flat at a one-way fare of 5120
or a round-trip rate of 5216.
Paris will be 15 hours and
8112.50 ($202.50 round trip)
away; Honolulu 20 hours and
12 minutes and $151.50 from
New York.
The prospectus emphasizes
that "the data herein contain-
ed is purely hypothetical.”
CUT ROSES FOR SALE, 35c
per dozen. Mrs. A. G. Cope-
land.
lowing members present; E.
E. Neal, chairman; S. T. Alli-
son, secretary; J. L. Patterson,
Warren Byrd and R. R. Morri-
son. County agricultural
agency representatives attend-
ing the meeting were: Frank
Moore, District Conservation-
ist, Nacogdoches; Roy R.
Woolley, Work Unit Leader;
Edward M. Helton, farm plan-
ner; John O. Moosberg, coun-
ty agent, and Roy D. McMil-
lan, administrative. officer of
the Shelby County AAA.
The meeting was called to
order by Chairman E. E. Neal.
Soil erosion and conservation
problems of Shelby County
were discussed. Plans were
discussed whereby the Shelby-
Panola Soii Conservation Dis-
trict might acquire useful
equipment to be used in ex-
panding soil conservation prac-
tices in Shelby County after
the war.
R. R. Morrison tendered his
resignation as member of the
supervisory board since he has
been selected as county agent
for Panola County, and did not
feel he could do justice to
both jobs. The meeting ad-
journed at 11 o'clock in favor
of making a tour of some of
the soil conservation praclices
now' in effect in Shelby county.
District Supervisors
Make Tour
Walter G. Peters’ farm pond
was the first stop made. Roy
D. McMillan explained to the
supervisors how that a pond
so constructed, with adequate
spillway that has been sodded
with Bermuda grass, dam that
is three feet higher than the
spillway level, has a twotto-
one slope on the back side and
a threc-to-one slope on the
front side, and a solid clay
core through the center of the
dam, is eligible for payment
through the farm pond con-
struction program.
The supervisors also saw an
excellent stand of White
Dutch Clover that Mr. Peters
planted two years ago. Mr.
Peters contributes the excel-
lent stand and valuable pas-
ture to the fact that he pre-
pared his seed bed well prior
to seeding and that he also
used superphosphate at the
rate of 400 pounds of 48% per
acre.
The group next saw the ex-
cellent job Duke Parker has
been doing of establishing Ber-
muda grass on an old aband-
oned hill field by brushing,
thoroughly disking, fertilizing
with superphosphate, section
harrowing, and mowing. They
also saw a two-year-old kudzu
planting on the Parker farm
that had been thoroughly disk-
ed to loosen the ground for
more plant development and
level the plot so the weeds
an. 18 inches high and were
constructed on the plan of the
m dified channel type terrace.
We then proceeded to the
pasture fertilization plot at
Wiley B. Hayden’s farm,
where the group ate their
lunch and noted great im-
provement made by disking
and fertilizing winter clovers
with superphosphate at the
rate of 300 pounds per acre.
Mr. Hayden stated that his
cattle grazed . the fertilized
area more than any other part
of the pasture and it is still
making the most rapid growth.
From there we proceeded
to Warren and Henry Cara-
ways’ farm (colored farmers
in the Bobo community). Bush-
ing Manning, vocational agrl-
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Choral Chib to Present
Program April 25
The choral club of Timpson
High School, under the direc-
tion of Mrs. Rushing Manning
and accompanied by Mrs. Ar-
thur Horton, will present a
program in the high.school au-
ditorium on April 25, at 3:00
o’clock in the afternoon. The
public is cordially invited.
Program will be as follows:
“The World is Waiting for
the Sunrise"—Ernest Seitz.
“Just a Wearin’ for You”—
Carrie Jacobs-Bond.
“Allah’s Holiday”—Rudolph
Friml.
"I Love a Little Cottage”—
Geoffrey O’Hara.
“Just For Today” (Part-
ridge-Seaver)—Madge Bouch-
er and Mary Evelyn FutrelL
"Ah! Sweet' Mystery of
Life"—Victor Herbert.
“Glow-Worm”—Paul Lincke
“Roses of Picardy”—Haydn
Wood.
"Summer Winds Blow”
Johann Strauss.
“Say a Prayer for the Boys
Over There”—Madge Bouch-
er.
“Lullaby Moon” — Billie
Brown.
“Gota’ Home”—A n t o n
Dvorak.
"Kentuck Babe” — Adam
Geibel.
Members of the choral club
are: Madge Boucher, student
accompanist for the choral
club; Margie Ramsey, Mary
Evelyn Futrell, Bette Tyer,
Bettie Jo Richards, Murlene
Paramore, Levera Ann Bailey,
Alma Jean Ramsey, Ruby
Claudene Powers, Joy Jean
Matthews, Bobbie Lois Sav-
age, Beth Neel, Marian Hoop-
er, Barbara Nell Frazier, Jo
Nell Hairgrove, Lurline Hair-
grove, Nelda Webb, M. E. Cas-
sidy, Gloria Worsham.
w h nm
TRAVEL FM UD FIST
TOIMUIMS
Washington, April 28. (UP)
—Admiral Ernest J. King, com-
mander-in-chief of the U. S.
fleet, said tonight that long
roads still lie ahead in both
Europe and the Pacific but
that the Allies now are fully
entered on those roads and
have the wherewithal “to
travel far and fast to victory.”
King’s hard-hitting "prog-
ress report” revealed for the
first time that the Philippines
could not have been saved un-
der any circumstances; that
more than a score of U. S. war-
ships—which he named—had
suffered varying damage, and
termed the 1942 Pacific bat-
tles of Savo island and Santa
Cruz American defeats.
He said:
In Europe a "massive inva-
sion threatens in the west.”
The Axis situation is “increas-
ingly desperate.” The encircle-
ment of Germany is in sight.
Germany’s structure of satel-
lite states is crumbling, with
Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary
and Finland weakening; the
Balkans aflame with guerilla
warfare and other occupied
countries awaiting “only the
signal.” Aerial bombardment
will be a major factor in Ger-
many’s eventual collapse. And
Germany’s submarine fleet haa
been reduced from a menace
to' a problem.
In the Pacific, American
power now is such as to
“threaten” invasion of the
(Continued on Page 2)
WS PREDICT
KH BEFORE
Min
London, April 22. (UP)—
German and Spanish sources
speculated today on the possi-
bility that “D" day for the
Allied invasion of western Eu-
rope would come sometime be-
tween tonight and May 1,
while Moscow and Berlin re-
ports hinted strongly that the
Anglo-American assault might-
be co-ordinated with a full-
scale Russian offensive in the
east.
Adding to the increasingly
tense feeling of anticipation
was the disclosure that Unit-
ed States glider pilots were
practicing daily at a troop car-
rier command base in England
for their vanguard role when
"H” hour arrives in the west.
A Madrid dispatch quoted
the newspaper Arriba as fore-
casting the landing between
10 p. m. tonight and 8 a. m.
April 30. with the comment
that “all Allied landings up to
now have been made daring
the phase of the new moon.”
Reports from Stockholm
quoted »' German military
spokesman in Berlin as pre-
dicting tbe invasion before the
end of the month, noting that
"during the last 10 days of
April the channel tides will be
at their highest and therefore
most favorable for an attack.”
FOR SALE—1 electric Coca-
Cola cooler; 1 pair coaster
scales, and 1 electric Mow
fan. See Mack Tartar.
Buy
Bonds.
STILL MORE War
^No. "l698
J OEcal Statement of Financial Condition of
J THE COTTON BELT STATE BANK
Jl at Timpson, State of Texas, at the close of business on J
% 13th day of April, 1944, published in the Timp- |
k «>n Times, a newspaper printed and published at Timp-1
N son, State of Texas, on the 18th day of April, 1944, in J
^ accordance with a call made by the Banking Cominis-$
k sioner of Texas pursuant to the* provisions of the Bank-1
vj ing Law of this State.
^ RESOURCES
Loans and discounts, including over-
* drafts—Schedule I ......................._........$ 148,157.72 |
., United States Government obligations, 1
% direct and guaranteed—Schedule II
a Obligations of State and political
N subdivisions ....................................................
% Corporate stocks, including stock in
k Federal Reserve Bank......................
J EaUt premises owned____________________________
% Furniture, fixtures and equipment.......
| Cash on hand and due from approved
Reserve agents,.............__________________
306,325.00 ij
41,009.63 ^
20,600.00 k
8,000.00 J
1,700.00 1
C Reserve agents.....................................
N Customers securities held for safekeep-
% ing ..................... .............. —
i Other resources—Schedule III............
J
Total Resources
Capital • Stock ........................___
N Surplus: Certified $10,000; not certified
k $4,000 --------------------------------------
V Undivided profits _______________________________________
N Cashiers checks, dividend checks and
k certified checks outstanding................
k Demand individual deposits.........._.............
J Demand public funds, inelndlng postal
* savings and U. S. Government deposits
LIABILITIES
... 360,691.27 ^
1. 419,200.00 k
25.00 ^
.. $1,306,108.62
- $ 50,000.00 ^
14,000.00 k
13,905.00 ^
— 40.00 k
..... 748,987.58 ^
59,875.95 ^
. 41*,200.00 J
.....$1,305,108.62
Vice President and Cashier of the k
N above named bank, do solemnly swear that the foregoing J
% statement of condition is true to the bent of my knowl- 1
k edge and belief.
J H. L. ROGERS. ?
M Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of s
V April, 1944. h
v T. J- Moiloy, Notary Public, Shelby County, Texas, k
1 CORRECT — ATTEST N
* J- E. Blankenship, E. H. Hebert, J. D. Hairston, Directors ^
\ Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. ^
k Total all deposits ($808,903.63)
£ Customers, securities deposited for safe-
J keeping
Total Resonrees
Jl State of Texas-
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 79, Ed. 1 Monday, April 24, 1944, newspaper, April 24, 1944; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth765525/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.