Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 1945 Page: 1 of 8
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Timpson Weekly
VOLUMB 64
TIMPSON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1945
NO. 17
Seventh War Loan Drive
Begins May 14; E Bond Quota
in County Announced
U. S. Third Army
Drives 23 wiiles; 35
Miles From Austria
Over-All Qucta For County
Will Be Announced Later,
Chairman Windham An*
The Seventh War Loan
Drive begins officially on May
. 14, 1945, and our E Bond quo-
ta hag been assigned. The over-
all quota will be given later.
The quota for Shelby County
in E Bonds is $390,000.00. This
is by far the largest £ qucta
we have ever had. This fact
will ease the tension a bit—
we will be allowed all bonds
sold during April, beginning
April 9, and extending through
July.
As we get ready to face this
issue, I would like to appeal to
all who are able to buy E
Bonds to the limit. A man and
his wif| may purchase $5,000
each of these E Bonds in any
year. If the larger bond buy-
ers will buy the limit it will
help us in meeting this quota.
If we are to meet the quota
more peopie will have to buy
than have in other drives. I,
therefore, appeal to every per-
son in the county, who can, to
purchase bonds. We are told
that there will be only two
drives this year as against
three last year. So you may
__ntake-ysor -nurehcscs heavier
now being assured that it will
be fall before you are ask ... to
buy again. . Begin.now to .buy
and keep it up through July
and I feel sure we will meet
our apportionment.
We need to stand by our
boys with our money now more
than ever. So let all ot us re-
double our efforts just as we
expect our boys to do in the
"knock out punch.”
Yours very truly,
W. C. Windham
Shelby County, Texas
War Finance Chairman
mum tie
81MSTEIM Stem
Guam, April 25. (UP)—
American marines occupied
three more small islands off
Okinawa Monday while army
infantrymen on the southern
■ line won important high
ground in the western sector
as a pulverizing naval bom-
bardment systematically wip-
ed out strong Japanese de-
fenses.
Fleet Adm. Chester W
Nimitz announced that the 7th
infantry division on the south-
ern front had captured an im-
portant enemy position on high
ground west of Ishin village.
Enemy resistance along the
SURPRISE MOVE
BY PATTON NABS
33,000 GERMANS
With U. S. Third Army In
Germany, April 23. (UP)—
The American Third Army
crossed the Naab River on a
seven-mile front today and ad-
vanced to within 23 miles of
the Danubian city of Regens-
burg.
Paris, April 23. (UP)—
American and French armies
exploded a grand scale offen-
sive into Nazidom’s last re-
treat in the Bavarian Alps to-
day amid persistent reports
that other Yank and Russian
columns had fused the eastern
and western fronts with a junc-
ture below Berlin.
The boasted Nazi defenses
fo Bavaria fell apart like a
house of cards early today
when Lt. Gen. George S. Pat-
ton's rampaging Third Army
turned up suddenly in the Dan-
ube Valley 125 miles from
Berchtesgaden, after an elab-
orate feint toward Chemnitz
that caught the Germans flat-
footed.
Racing 26 to 28 miles south-
ward in 12 hours, Patton’s
speeding tank columns drew
abreast of the U. S. Seventh
and’French hirst armies which
already' were storming the
western ramparts of the Ba-
varian Redoubt.
Late dispatches said. the.
Third army’s armored trail-
blazers were fewer than 25
miles north of the Danubian
citadel of Regensburg and 70-
odd miles from Munich, and
were scattering the bewildered
and panicky Germans before
them.
Patton’s men were riding
pellmell for the Danube at the
very moment the German
radio waa muttering about
Third army attacks on Chem-
nitz, 125 miles to the north-
west, and the Nazi commander
of that city was proclaiming
his intention of fighting to the
death. *
Caught off guard by the
sudden thrust, the Germans
north of the Danube appeared
to be the most surprised men
in the world to find themselves
overrun and captured by the
dreaded Third Army.
More than 33,300 startled
enemy troops were taken pris-
oner in the first few hours of
Patton’s southward drive, in-
cluding 1.500 iHungarians who
had jest been shifted from the
eastern front.
Patton’s surprise drive
brought a 250-mile wall of
Americans and French armor
into line against the Bavarian
Redoubt from the Swiss border
to northwestern Czechoslova-
kia at a time when the Ger-
ap-
peared to be going under in
their last fight.
Paris. Aprii 24.(UP)—Lieut.
Gen. George S. Patton’s racing
tanks carved out a spectacular
28-mile gain today, driving
within 35 miles of Austria and
reaching the Danube four
miles west of Regensburg. Oth-
er American and French forces
assaulting the Naizs’ southern
redoubt captured Ulm and
threatened Augsburg and
Munich.
Patton’s sensational break-
through, which has covered 78
miles in two days, was rolling
up to the Germans’ Danube
river defenses at a two-mile-
an-hour gait-as his tanks rip-
ped to within 94 miles of
Berchtesgaden, Adolf Hitler’s
redoubt fastness, and 120 miles
of the Russians west of Vienna.
Lt. Gen. Alexander M.
Patch’s powerful Seventh ar-
my on Patton’s western flank
joined with the French 1st ar-
my to capture Ulm, on the
Danube where that great river
becomes navigable for traffic
to the Black Sea. Patch drove
within 10 miles of Augsburg
and within 44 miles of Munich
as the three Allied armies as-
saulted Hitler’s redoubt along
a 250-mile front.
Patch’s army forced its sev-
enth bridgehead across the
Danube at Ehingen, 15 miles
southwest of Him. The French
First army of Gen. Jean De
LattreDe Tassigny^ made, a
new crossing of. the^ Rhine in
assault-boats eight miles north:,he. said-be’ would callere-up
of Basel. Switzerland, r.andjand o we would get together
Sgt. Jack Snelaon and
Captain Theo McGee
Meet Overseas
Mrs. R. O. Snelson of this
city, is in receipt of interesting
communication from her son,
Sgt. Jack Snelson, with the
Ninth Air Force, overseas, in
which he tells of the recent
happy meeting with another
Timpson boy. Captain Theo
McGee. A portion of his let-
ter follows:
"Well, what do you think
has happened. I was lying in
bed Sunday evening and a boy
came in and says there’s a long
distance telephone call for me
and I go down and answer the
phone and here's the ifirst
words: "Hello Jackson, this is
Theo.’ Boy, was.I thrilled. I
have never been that happy
but very few times in my life.
Well, I met him and we talk-
ed from four until ten at night
and had to part. Oh, it was
good to see him. He was on
his way to England on leave
and he had a Sergeant with
him. After seven days in Eng-
land he will return to France.
Those Captain bars on him are
just about as big as he is. He
has aged considerably- and
locks more like Mr. McGee ev-
ery day. You can telF he has
had some rough going since he
has been in the army. I kept
him laughing all evening be-
cause he has such a hard go
of it and I have it so easy com-
paratively speaking. We sat
down and just talked over old
times as both' of- us had some
rather Interesting incidents to
tell each other.-. .•'When he
comes-back through .England
charged into the defense black
forest to clean out 16,000 Ger-
mans trapped there.
British shock troops at the
northern end of the front broke
into the North sea port of Bre-
men Monday night, by the
light of the raging fires 3tart-
' ed in a two-day bombardment
by guns and planes, and start-
ed fighting their way through
the streets.
Moscow dispatches told of a
junction already accomplished
between the Russians and the
Americans along the Elbe-
Muldc line and said that two
armies were rolling north of
Berlin for a junction with Brit-
ish armies in the north.
A United Press dispatch
from the First army front said
that the link-up could be ex-
pected Wednesday. It will
mean the junction of nearly
13,000,000 Allied troops—8,-
250.000 Russians and 4,500,-
000 under Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower—against some 2,-
500.000 Germans.
1 Mrs. F. A. Francis Has
Letter From Brother
entire, front was heavy through
Tuesday but the incessant bom- man a,rm'e* north
bardment directed against the
fortifications manned ’ by an
estimated 60,000 Japanese
took a heavy toll during the
fighting on ti.3 sixth day of
the U. S. 24th army corps’ of-
fensive.
Pillboxes, blockhouses,
trenches and gun emplace-
ments were destroy. ' Many
caves in the southern ridges,
where stubborn Japancje de-
fenders have held American
advances to a minimum, were
sealed by the terrific gunfire.
Mrs. F. A. Francis recently or.'
Appreciated Letter From
J. V. Noble
We are in receipt of an ap-
preciated letter from J. V.
Noble, for many yean a resi-
dent of Timpson. Vawter has
many friends in Timpson and
throughout this sector. We
quote a portion of his letter:
,‘T wish you would extend my
! sympathy to everyone in Timp-
• son and territory who has lost
I a loved one in thU war, re-
I gardless of race, creed or col-
received letter from her broth-
er. Pfc. Tom (B. Hollis, some-
where in Germany. He stated
that he was doing just fine and
heped to be home soon, Mrs.
Francis said. His wife ha-, a
position with the Consolidated
^teel Co. at Orange.
His address: J. V. Noble, St.
Joseph’s Sanatorium, 1901
Grandview Ave., El Paso, Tex-
We will appreciate your
grocery and feed business.
T. L. Billingsley.
again. He was . amazed with
France just like I was and we
discussed the things that I had
wrjtten you about France and
he got a kick out of those
things.
“You can tell Mr. and Mrs.
McGee that they truly have a
son to be proud of. I talked to
the Sergeant that was with
him and he said all the enlist-
ed men were crazy about him.
Yes, we had a good time and
I hope to see him again. First
person I have seen from my
home town since I have been
away. . . . The war is fast
drawing to an end and. your
guess is as good as mine on
what they will do with me af-
ter it is all over with, but any-
way I am not getting my
pectations too high.
’It seems by what we read
that the U. S. took President
Roosevelt’s death pretty hard.
He was a great man. All the
stores in Paris closed a day
and flag* were hanging every-
where. The peopie of France
really loved Roosevelt.
Reports Theorize
Himmler May Have
Met Death in Car
London, April 23. (UP)—
Dispatches from the British
2nd army front said tonight
that British armored cars had
shot up a large heavily-guard-
ed black Mercedes sedan on
the Bremen-Hamburg road
and speculated that- one of
the three occupants killed
might have been Heinrich
Himmler.
Himmlem was known to
have been in the neighborhood
last week visiting the garri-
sons of Bremen and Hamburg,
the dispatch said.
Timpson Weekly Times S1.5C
per year.
Splendid Attendance at
Meeting
.The regular meeting of the
Timpson chamber of commerce
ls well attended Monday
night. Several committee re-
ports were received, including
the health committee, which
is considering plans for a gen-
eral cleanup drive and cam-
paign to rid the town of mos-
quitoes so far as is possible.
Rex Brinson gave a report in
regard tc a celebration that is
being considered for some-
time during the tomato season.
Mr. Brinson also made an-
nouncement of the coming
East Texas memorial service to
be held in Timpson in May.
This has been an annual event
here for some year?, and is
sponsored by -Legionnaires of
this sector.
Membership committee ex-
pects to solicit additional
members to the organization.
Several matters of new bus-
iness were discussed.
Mrs. Tot Taylor, who has
served the organization
secretary for over two years,
tendered her resignation last
night. The resignation is to
become effective May 1st.
Noble Amos Announces
Firm Plans io Buy
Irish Potatoes
Noble Amos of the firm
Amos Bros, of Timpson, re-
turned Thursday afternoon
from' a business trip to Hous-
ton. He stated that the pur-
Rev. Dollahite To
Deliver Bacca-
laureate Sermon
As previously announced
the following dates wili pre-
vail lor the concluding exer-
cises of Timpson Public
Schools:
Senior Chapel Day, April 25.
Junior-Senior banquet, April
27.
Filial examinations for sen-
iors, week of April 30 to May
4.
Final examinations week of
May 4, to May S.
Graduation eighth grade.
May 10, 8:30 p. jn
„ Fieccatilaureate service, Sun-
day, May 6, 11 a. m. at high
school auditorium. The sermon
will be delivered by Rev. W.
A. Dollahite, pastor of the
local Baptist church.
Senior commencement exer-
cises, jFridny. May 11, 8:30 p.
m. at high school auditorium.
The program will be of the
student speaker type.
Pfc. Haakei Beard
Liberated From Gorman
Prison Camp
Mrs. Haakei Beard of this
city, received a letter this
morning from her husband,
Pfc. Haskel 3=*rd, bringing
the happy information that he
had been liberated from a
German prison camp, and that
might buy Irish potatoes here
this season. Mr. Amos stated
that arrangements had been
made, and that according to
present plans, his firm would
buy Irish potatoes here this
season.
While in Houston he also
visited his sister-in-law, Mrs.
J. V. Amos and sons, J. V. Jr.,
Donald and Tommy Joe.
We wit| buy your eggs.
T. L Billing*ley.
Beard 'was taken prisoner
while serving with U, S. forces
in France last January. He is
a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F.
Beard of this eity.
It is farther from El Paso,
Texas, to Beaumont,' Texas,
than it is from New York to
Chicago, Illinois.
DDT, often called the “mira-
cle insecticide,” is not yet
available to civilians.
| Double-Sized
j Job Ahead
^ 7th War Loan
4 Six War Loan Drives are a matter of history.
& Together they account for bond purchases to-
K tailing more than 109 billion dollars. Of this
^ amount, 13% billion dollars, or a boat 12% %,
1 represented "E" Bond purchases by individuals,
k It’s a good record, but our job is not finished.
£ Ahead is the 7th War Loan with a national
5 quota of 14 billion dollars. Of this amount, the
w "E” Bond quota is 4 billion dollars, or over
^ 28%. It is a challenge to all of ns to more
^ than double our efforts.
^ Because Americans take hard tasks in stride,
k we shall succeed. Boy ail the bonds you can.
^ —hold all the bonds yon buy.
o See us for information os ell the issues to be of-
S fered to the buying public during the Drive.
% We will try to assist yon in a purchase best suit-
% ed to your needs.
$ THE COTTON SELT 5TITE Bill
Timpson, Texas
^ Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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