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Timpson Weekly Times
VOLUME 59
TIMPSON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1944
NO. 9
COUNTY BUILDINGS RECEIVE
ATTRACTIVE IMPROVEMENTS
With funds derived from
the Building Fund, improve-
ment of county buildings in
Center has been in progress
for sometime and will soon he
completed, adding consider-
ably to the convenience and
neatness of the property.
All the offices in the Records
building, occupied by the
County Clerk, District Clerk,
County Judge, County School
Superintendent and Jury
room, have been repainted,
covering for the floors, and
new furniture added where
needed, including new beds
for the jury room. A new roof
is to be placed upon the Rec-
ords Building.
The District court building
has also received needed and
attractive improvements. The
four entrances to the building
have received new concrete
steps. County offices located
in the court building are: Tax
Assessor-Collector, Sheriff,
County Treasurer, and these
offices have been made attrac-
tive with new improvements.
The District court room has
been completely “done-over.”
The ceiling and walls have
been repainted, and all the
seats in the buildings are spot-
less with new paint. The en-
tire floor of the court room
has been covered with new
Azrock covering, and addi-
tional chairs have been placed
in the building.
For service to the~pu51ic a
new water fountain is being
placed a short distance from
the court house in-the center
of the sidewalk leading to the
East entrance of the building.
The jail has recently re-
ceived needed improvement,
including new cabinets, closets
and conveniences.
The old wood stoves that
have been in use for years
throughout all the buildings
have been replaced with gas
heaters.
The band stand located near
the court house is being
modeled, the basement of
which is being rebnilt for the
installation of a rest room for
men.
II. S. HOPS SEIZE
LOS NEGROS ISLAND
IN NEW MINE
Allied Headquarters, South-
west Pacific, Wednesday,
March 1. (LJP)—Dismounted
American cavalrymen seized
Los Negros island, in the Ad-
miralty group, with its airfield
only 610 miles of Truk, Tues-
day, hurdling the Bismarck
sea by destroyer in “one of
the most brilliant maneuvers
of the war,” it was announc-
ed today.
Casualties were believed
generally light. Los Negros is
in the Admiralty group and
directly threatens Truk, Guam
and the Philippines.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
and vice Adm. Thomas C.
Kinkaid, commander of Al-
lied naval forces in the South-
west Pacific, viewed the land-
ing of elements of the first II.
S. dismounted cavalry divi-
sion, includes the famous
“Custer’s seventh regiment,”
commanded by Maj. Gen.
Innis P. Swift, a communique
announced.
The Americans met some re-
sistance on the beaches, it was
announced but not a single
Japanese challenged Ameri-
can occupation all day Tues-
day.
Brig. Gen. William C. Chase
was in immediate command of
the landing forces as General
MacArthur witnessed
troops make good a move
which would bring land based
American plane only 1,300
miles from the Philippines, the
"hero of Bataan’s avowed
goal.
The landing was made by
small boats from destroyers,
after both aerial and naval
bambardment softened
objective in a blow which,.
re- caught the Japanese “com--'1'
TEXAS’ 3GTH HAS
SEEN MODE FIGHTING
THIN ANT OTHER
Allied Headquarters in Na-
ples, Feb. 28. (UP)—The vet-
eran 36th division, from Tex-
as, has seen more days in the
fighting line than any other
American division, ar.d was
the only American division in
the original Salerno landing. I
The 36th was in the line forj
15 days then, ar.d has since-
served stretches of 43 and 31
days in action.
Texans of the 36th fought
in the campaigns for Mounts
Lungo, Camino and Maggiore
as well as the town of San
Peitro. They suffered, heavy
caualties in late January when
they crossed the Rapido river
sonth of Cassino to be trapped
under interlacing German ma-
chine gun fire which forced
them to dig slit trenches in a
mine field. They finally had
to swim back across the river
under heavy fire, losing much
of their equipment.
The 36th later sent a unit to
help the 34th in the mountain
fighting behind Caasino.
American Planes In
Second Attack Upon
Rome Airfields
REDS CLOSING IN
ON NAZIS FROM
THREE SIDES I
Camp and Hospital
Meeting
Allied Headquarters in Na-
ples, Feb. 29. (UP)—Behind
the heaviest artillery barrage
of the Anzio campaign, the
German 14th army launched
new tank and infantry attacks
against our beachhead lines
today but was brought to an
abrupt halt by a wall of re-
urn fire from Allied guns.
Despite their spectacular
opening, the German attacks
. ppeared to be a series of ic
cal thrusts rather than one
massive push. United Press
Correspondent Reynolds Pack-
ard reported from the beach-
head. The enemy thrusts came
after the British had again im-
proved their positions in the
galley-cut flats below Corro-
ceto and American dive-bomb-
ers had lasted Rome’s air-
fields for the second straight
day.
The Germans have been
bringing up heavy artillery re-
inforcements under cover of
bad weather in the last week,
front dispatches said, and
they began their barrage dur-
ing the night. Sheila scream-
ed into the Anzi and Nettuno
harbor areas and by 10 a. pi.
today the bambardment had
reached the greatest intensity
since the Fifth army stepped
ashore on Jan. 22.
(A German broadcast as-
serted that Nazi troops had
captured two heights north of
The East Texas Camp and
Hospital Council will hold its
next regular meeting at Camp
Fannin, in Tyler, at 2 p. rn.
Wednesday, March 8th. It is Campo Di Came, about two
urged that all who are inter-
ested in this work attend this
meeting if possible. At this;
jjjg> meeting nominations for of-
* fleers for the Council will be
made for the ensuing year and
election wiil be held at the
following meeting in April,
which will be held at Harmon
Hospital in Longview.
' Any one who has collected
any of the various articles call-
vjsi ed for in a previous news re-
up theipcrt’ wiI1 P,ease deliver to the
I various committee chairmen
the community which you
and fol-!!ive’ who !n turn "will see lh*t
I they are delivered to the hos-
pletely by surprise’
lewed up months of relentless, . -
bombing and shelling of nowipitals desired by the donor,
by-passed
miles south of of Carroceto.)
On the Cassino front, Amer-
ican troops entrenched a few
hundred yards from Monte
Caasino abbey mopped up a
number of German troops who
had infiltrated their positions
during the night.
Sharp patrol activity was
reported on both the Tyrrhen-
ian and Adriatic ends of the
lower Italian front while in
the center Polish troops rount-
ed an enemy patrol near Cas-
te! Di Sangro.
American A-36 dive-bomb-
era, despite thick weather,
blasted the big Littoria airfield
jjust north of Rome and the
By Louis F. Keemle
United Press War Editor
Red Army forces, closing in
on Pskov from three sides,
fought their way through the
outer defenses of the key rail
city on the Baltic front today.
Dispatches from the fight-
ing zone indicated that a fron-
tal assault on Pskov was like-
ly, with resultant street-by-
street fighting. The Germans
were expected to put up a de-
termined stand for the city be-
cause of its importance as a
barrier to the Russian drive
westward to the Baltic.
In Italy, the other principal
land front, rain slowed up
both ground and air action at.
the Anzio beachhead, but
American dive bombers were
able to strike at German air
fields outside Rome for the
second successive day, and at
the supply routes leading
down to the active war zone.
Other bombers attacked ene-
my shipping across the Adria-
tic.
The great air offensive
against Germany was renewed
with another massed assault
on the French invasion coast
by medium bombers and fight-
ers, while American heavies
again crossed into Northwest-
ern Germany to attack the air-
craft center of Brunswick.
Sir Archibald Sinclair. Brit-
ish Air Minister, told Com-
mons that the goal of air su-
premacy is in sight for the Al-
lies, with the prospect of crip-
pling German air industry and
transport in preparation for in-
vasion. He remarked on the
strength of German air de-
fenses and
British plane and personnel
losses in the last year, but said
the ratio of such losses is
steadily decreasing in relation
to the results achieved.
RED CROSS
CAMPAIGN
IN PROGRESS
The Bed Cross War Fund
campaign scheduled for
March, began in Timpson,
Thursday, March 2. Workers
on the committees assigned to
the several areas of town, be-
gan soliticiting funds Thurs-
day morning.
E. E. Phelps, chairman for
the campaign in Commission-
era’ Precinct No. 4, makes the
following statement in regard
to the campaign:
“Our Red Cross is needed
more today than ever before,
it is helpful at home, it is ae- .
tive abroad and in every thea-
ter of war where our .boys
may be found. That is the
reason you and I are being
asked to give more freely.
“After all our quota of
$2614.00 for Precinct No. 4 is
not so big when you consider
the good it is doing; it is our
investment in humanity.
“We hope to contact each
and every home in Timpson
and nearby communities. We
want to give every man, wom-
an and child the opportunity
to contribute something to our
Red Cross War Fund for 1944.
If you have not been contact-
ed during the first week of the
drive please see your local so-
licitor or chairman.
“Let’s - So this job like we
usually do things around here.
Why not have our contribu-
tions ready when we are con-
tacted. Certainly, we will be
asked to give more freely; bnt
by cooperating with our eom-
County Judge Dudley Davis, j the south, the Wednesday war
with the assistance of County! bulletin reported.
Commissioners H. F. Camp-1 Rainy weather shielded the
bell. Precinct No. 1; C. N. Ja-! landing operations, and al-
eobs, Precinct No. 2; R. H.; though casualty have not
Permenter, Precinct No. 3, and! been reported officially, a
W. C. Crump, Precinct No. 4, i headquarters spokesman said
Japanese bases to’Tc th? Editurs o{ AiI Papers i smaller fields of Guidonia and
in the County: I Marcigliana.
May I take this opportunity j __
to express my gratitude to all j PACIFIC WAR
of you in your fullest coopera- >c {yiyv’C a*VC
ticn with me in this work, for J? c,n,sfn*T
without you I could have ac- U. 5. ADMIRAL
complished very little. Again
have taken much interest and, he believed they were “gener-
pride in having the county. ally light.”
property improved, and Shel- ’ “We spit right in the Jap’s
by county citizens are real eye,” General Chase comment-
proud of the * splendid work ed after the communique nn-
that has been done, and other nouncing the daring attack
improvements that are nnder- was released,
way.
I thank you.
Mrs. V. A. Naylor.
STALIN SAYS
NAZI DEFEAT
TIME NEAR
Washington, Feb. 29. (UP)
—Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin,
in a message to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, today
predicted that the time was
near when the Allies would
defeat Hitlerite Germany.
sion of the 26th anniversary of
the Red Army and on the suc-
cesses of the armed forces of
the Soviet Union in the strug-
gle against the Hitlerite invad-
era,” Stalin’s reply said.
“I am strongly convinced
that the time is near when the
successful struggle of the arm-
ed forces of the Soviet Union,
together with the armies of
the United States and Great
Britain, on the bass of the
agreements reached at Mos-
cow and Tehran, will lead to
Stalin’s message was irr re- the final defeat of
sponse to one which the Pres-
ident sent to him on Feb. 22,
on the 26th anniversary of the
Red Army, praising its victor-
ies against the Nazis
“I ask you to accept my sin-
cere thanks for your friendly
congratulations on thb occa-
our com-
mon
many.
enemy, Hitlerite Ger-
of Beat
Most all varieties
Certified Seed Corn we cai
buy.
SOGARD SEED STORE.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 28. (UP)
—Possibility cf knocking off
: Japan without landing troops
! on the Nipponese island was
j voiced here last night at the
; University of Texas by Rear
’Admiral C. P. Mason.
Addressing 100 university
Made-in-Japan Scottie
Spoil* Sergeant’s Day
With the Second Array on
Maneuvers. Somewhere in ’
Tennessee. (UP)—Staff Sgt.!
E. A. Anderson is a father, I Naval ROTC students who be-
and—being a good father_he came commissioned officers,
always has the happiness of'Admir*1 Mason, now com-
his little girl in mind. i mandant of the Naval Air Sta-
He thought of the child last
week-end in Nashville when
he saw a street hawker selling
mechanical Scottie dogs to a
large soldier trade. So Sgt.
Anderson bought a Scottie and
proudly carried it back to his
field headquarters.
Before an amused group of
friends, Anderson wound the
dog’s spring and set him in
motion. During the course of
his antics the tow upset, and
flagrantly displayed the trade-
mark, “Made in Japan."
After they swept up the
pieces. Anderson’s
wondered if there wasn’t some
law of the ASPCA preventing
cruelty to mechanical canines. | lives.'
tion at Corpus Christ!, said:
“There’s nothing weak
about Japan. I do think it is
possible to defeat Japan with-
out landing troops on her
short. I do think we will have
to land troop3 in the islands
surrounding Japan, in Asia
and China.
“I see the war in Europe as
an army war, the war in the
Pacific as a navy war,” the
former commanding officer of
the carrier Hornet said. “If
the Navy can force Japan to
surrender without landing
friends troops on her home land, it
' will mean the Navy has saved
hundreds c? thousands cf
mittees it will enable us to
disclosed heavy j make our quota in record.
“This is part of our job on
the home front; let’s do it
qnickly and in the right spirit.
We can take pride in a good
!job well done.”
An indication that the losses!
might be cut still further was; TOMATO PLANTS—Ready to
given by a London air observ- j go. Get your order in now.
er, who predicted a modifies- Sam Crump, Timpetus, Tti-
f Continued on Last Page! 1 “*• 28-2w5dp
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of the reasons why we have
impressed upon onr staff the
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dential.”
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1944, newspaper, March 3, 1944; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth815341/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.