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GOOSE CREEK, TEXAS 5 ATURD A Y, JUL Y 22, 1 944
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Quiet Poll
UnderWay
In Section
Truman Victory Move To Right
" New Team To Conduct late Vote Drive
Moorhead, Moore Ahead
In Totals Compiled
In East Harris County
In a quiet election in the Tri-
Citics area and throughout Texas
today, favored incumbents, tor
the- most part, held comfortable
By LCUB .(L-WlUiOK ; *• dated Sen. Harry f Truman of Roosevelt's standard end effective
uttWK Iwsaapw -zzn** »■*-*"
tHJJ»— President Roosevelt was off mate yvRs John Nance Garner of
today on nia fourth term cam- Texas, wiio was elected Vic* presl-
paign with running mate No. 3 dent in 1932 and 193G and then
after a bruising final session of broke with the President. v
the Democratic national convcn- Late Drives Planned
lion which rejected Vice Presi- The Demo, ratio nominee* plan a
dent Henry A. Wallace and nomi- .late campaign, conforming to Mr.
leads in balloting in boxes, in this * 1
Yonks Wont Orote Airfield
It taken at the convention when Sen. Alhen Barkley began hi*
area.
A compilation completed at 1:30
p.'m. gave Judge R. R. Zicrlein a
427 to'216 lead over his opponen t,
S. C. Mailott. Zicrlein was lead-
ing in both Goose Creek and
Baytown boxes. Mailott enjoyed
alight leads in petty, at High-
lands tod at Cedar Bayou.
Polk Out in Front _. ~ j
Sheriff Neal Polk was running
better than 3 to 1 ahead of bis'
Opponent, Angus Morrison, in the
tabulations. The- Sheriff had
counted 494 votes to 191 for Mor-
rison.
The closest scrap of all was be-
tween County Judge Roy Hof-
heinz, who conducted no cam-
paign in order that a radio sta-
tion permit application would not
be impaired, was ahead of Glenn
Perry, a youthfui• Opponent, but
the margin was only 370 to 319.
(See Quiet Election—Page 2)
< ’r ir'‘^r. -j Jack- e> , -ftfl Jf
Guam Drive Advances Toward Coast
Admiral iChc»tcr W. Nlmltz re-
ported that.the troop* wore meet-
ing increasing resistance in some
sector* a* they drove inland
through the hill* in the southern
portion bf Guam, n former U. S.
naval station which fell to the
PEARL HARBOR, July 22
U. S. marine* and army troop*
pushing from the north and
south, drove toward a junction
on the west coast of Guam today
In an apparent effort to cut off
Orote peninsula and Its 4,700-foot _____ ____„ ___
Airfield. Mfr&U: tour dsp* *tU* "ttiul ligating munitions production and
(Tokyo radio, in a broaden*! - Harbor. , - * contractd. He to reokoned to have
begin- major speeches until late
September or October.
Truman appear* to have been
(he hand-picked choice of the
President whose wi*he* were car-
ried out here by a strategy board
consisting of half a dozen men.
Top honors for boating down the
effort of left wingers and others
to keep Wallace on the ticket go
to National Committee Chairman
Robert E. Htoncgan, a 40-ycar*
old from St. ixjuis. who wa* chos-
en by Mr. Roosevelt to administer
party affairs:
Truman Won Spur*
Truman, nominated yesterday
for vice president about 23 hours
after Mr, Roosevelt was named for
a fourth term. I* a second term
member of the Senate who i^
chairman of the committee inves-
oation speech of the president. Note the empty seats of Texas
hilars who had “taken a walk."
S. Four Miles Of Pisa
tale Italian Front Reports Gains
2-Party Precinct
Conventions Set
July 22. IL’.P)—American
have pushed up the west
[of Italy to within, four Julies
Isa, western anchor, of the
Ians'-Gothic line, and-other
[army forces are'fighting 15
[due south of Florence" allied
•pStters reported today.’
Fiftli and Eighth armies
i Sported driving steadily
northward ail qc-ross the Italian
from, capturing"more than half
a dozen iatge towns wfiidh the
Germans had ., concerted ; into
strong points on the approaches
to the Gothic line. • J
.The Americans bending back
the west wing the German de-
fenses already had sent- patrols
across the Arno river, which flows
wesfwasd through the Pisa area
in a flanking swing around the
city of the leaning tower which
DUND TOWN
Itiw T-s r.-.- *ifraa threatened by a frontal push
le It >S: G,H', Mur>),h from the south. ' ' :
fg ready lor a day s work
pe same was true of young
[Robbins . . ...Adolph Her-
F running an' errant . . .
i Dittman got out of bed on
ttg_stde this -morning,.
The capture of Tavernelle in
Val D’Elsa-and Castel Florentino,
15 mijes south and 18 miles south-
west of 'Florence, brought that big
central hinge of the German de-
Democratic County Meet
Set For Next Saturday -
Ak the election proceeded to-
day, political groups wc[e round-
ing - up representatives for the
precinct conventions to be held at
7 p. m. following the close of
, the polls. ' . <t
Both Republicans and -Demo-
crats Will elect delegates: tonight
to the county conventions to be
field in Houston next week. The
couhty Democratic convention will
be held Saturday, July 29 at the
City Auditorium. The—Republi-
cans will meet Tuesday, July 25,
at the. Milam building, Delegates
to state and district meetings jvill
be elected at these convenions.
_ Republican precinct conven-
tions tonight will be routine af-
fairs, with pobability the incum-
-re-elccted' cashier.
recorded by FCC. monitors,
knowlcdged the. landings on
Guam, but claimed that the
Americans were ‘3n great con-
fusion due • to the tremendous
losses inflicted by our forces."
Tokyo said that the American
forces suffered" 4,300 casualties ,in
the landings.) > “* *
<A German DNB news agency
dispatch reported from Tokyo
that fierce fighting was , raging
oa Oiiam.)___t -,—,-
While warships offshore hurled
tons of explosives into Japanese
positions inland, the .assault
troop which landed seven miles
apart early Thursday were fan-
ning out from Secured beach-
heads between Adclup and Asan
points north of Orote peninsula
and Agat and Bangi pdint be-
low the peninsula:.* ■
' (Tokyo estimated that one di-
vision,. approximately 15,000 men,
and 150 tanks were landed at
Assan and a half, division at
Preliminary estimate* indicated
that * the f American casualties
were ‘’moderate.’’ Nlmijz said in
his report; ef the operations on
' Guam, the first American terri-
tory about to be liberated in the
Pacific war.
The Pacific fleet commander,
who again breached Japan's in-
ner defenses with the invasion of
Guam said the assault troops
landed againt light resistance
conserved for the taxpayers
great many millions of dollars
which might have been spent to
no purpose.
Wallace was ahead on the first
ballot, 429'* to 319 —
.The remainder of the:votes were
scattered among other candidates,
most of whom had been nominat-
ed to provide various state delega-
tions with safe places to east their
votes pending some indication who
In'view of the light opposition
oppos
to the landings,, jt' was asfcomed
the Japanese withdrew; from the
beaches tinder the terrific ;17-day
bombardment of carrier aircraft
might be the witoer.
Wallace drive
The Wallace drive began col-
lapsing on the second ballot when
Delaware switched to give Its full
eight votes to Truman, When
Maryland was reached on the roll
call, the delegation abandoned fa-
and surface vessel*, including
^attlelhip from Admirat Ray- vorite wn Gov. Herbert R. OOm
-
mond A, Spruahce's Fifth fleet.
It was, esUmaletJ that 19,000
tons of, steel and explosives were
pounded Into the island during
the pre-invasion assault. the
gfeatet softening up attack yet
carried out In the Pacific.
Masked Robbers Get $4000
Brewery Victim Bold Houston Raid
Drenched Allied
Campaign Bogged
'«», Bob 365T iS v=
bent chairmen being mb™,,. . vt
and the same delegates as last • They left Winters locked in the
ffear being named- for the state van of a Beer truck, where a night
\Frazier rack ' 01 tto.rirtn, army, ana aavancea conventions. ' "
1 ihe ‘ jn„U > thL elements already were driving on Not so .with the Democrats
'-stick,!'-Ktrt,— .beyo»d.-both-townsv ........— whose - presiding - chairmen-' artr
Pm- J°rthe * Barbernio Val D’Elsa, two miles prepared to wield-heavy gavels to
fo on thp -urnot ,S'ner south of Tavernelle, and nearby keep order in the selected but vo-
iBrawner * J,, a Softdonate also fell to the advanc- ,ciferous crowds expected to at*
ing allies. <■— Aend the sessions. .
,Delegates chosen Trom these
or to give Truman 18 more votes.
Oklahoma's Gov. Robert S 'Kerr
withdrew, from the race and the
state’s 22 votes went to Truman.
Virginiu switched her 24 from
Sen JoJin H Bankhead, of Ala-
bama to the Missourian. By that
time the stampede was on and
states' were clamoring for a*
chance to change their votes.
Final Count
But even With the changes ef-
fected during the roll call. Tru-
man and Wallace were only,l3Si
—i- .. . .. votes apart when'the last delegate
$4,229. He Said the robbery oc*
cured shortly after 2 a, m. The
two gunmen, wearing masks fash-
ioned from White handkerchiefs,
walked into his office, and de-
manded the alrcady-opcn safe be
emptied for tnem.
Police were puzzled by the cf*v
Jiciency with , which, the “two rob-
bers completed the job. The Brew-
ing plant Is surrounded on all
sides by a high, stcet-wirc fence.
The only gate wax ldcked' and .«
watchman’heard him calling for watchmanwas on duty there all j j , , lg.gg.3flM MLJI» I-
** A T - Funeral 2:30 P. M Sunday tl\Z^ V,C,,m 10
net at Ported. - -A* Mill RiK4t«A rgaumc their manh toward Paris,
HOUSTON, July 22.. (I'.R) --Two
masked gunmen escaped ’’with
more than *4,000 early today Jn a
bold raid on the carefully-guarded
and high-fenced Gulf Brewing
cdmpdny plant.
The robber twosome, both de-
scribed as six-footers, took; the
money from E. H. Winters, night
_ _ ’ recora
Truman had 477'4 votes at the
end of the roll call and Wallace
[ v (8ee Truman Victory—Page 2)
“ TWO JAP war lords, Gen. Ru-
niaki Kobo, top, governor-geh-
eeal of Korea, and Admiral 98t-
- ftuhtaaa Vonal, below, former
Jap premier, have beep chosen
by, Emperor illrohito to form a
new cabinet to replace the one
'of •justed Premier Gen. Ifidekl
Tojo. . , , (International)
suspects
ruthless effort to wipe out all
semblance of opposition to Adolf
Hitler.
8500 Officer* Held
A London D-iily Mali disjwtch
from Stockholm estimated that 0,-
500 German officers of various
rank*. Including many from trust-
ed SS divisions, had been artest- j)
cd, and traV0ilor«,arrivingatMal-,
mo frofh Berlin said (hey heard
that "many hundreds'' of officers
had been executed in the great-
cut purge in German history.
Bern *ald frontier report* said
Von Kundstedt, removed earlier
this month as supreme German
HEADQUAR-
Bsasresrtisr-™'* «•«.«. -<*.
Harry Wood Dies
At Mont Belvieu
Sir Bernard U Montgomery’s of-
ftosivo Idown the highway from
Caen to Paiis bogfMmtofn com-
pletely in mud and heavy rains
today and supreme headquarters
announced jn Its shortest- .com-
munique of - the invaiion 'that
“there is nothing to -r/port"
British and Canadian- forces
waited* tn foxholes, trenehea and
ditches half filled with water on
in chief of the Germany army,
were among those put to death.
Deepitc the run of sensational
report* of uprising reaching Lon-
don Hitler appeared to be main-
taining firm control of German
radio stations, new* agencies,
newspapers and other key points
whose occupation would
cssary for any successful
more
Hitler's Double Is
-..n
Mosquitos Pound Berlin
a'loser northern awi-aouthern banks of precincts will earn the honor, and W64t()$r: GfOUIlcIs .PIsflBS TpddV
L * ’.the lower Arno as well a* the An- will pay-for it in action at the
wujwuur leiis . j, Amo canals and countv convention.. this.....year,
1944: as
'ace. suppori
■quick
scrape with a
■hard to find as’
ter > , .It's fun-
Unitud Slates patrols probed the
At Hill U^k-i Church
Harry Calvhr Wood,' 57. ,#ed
uddeniy at 11:25' p, m. Friday
NEW YORK,' July 22
• ’Berneir *-*
,* to Fosseto and Arno canals and
Highway 1 between Livorno and
qua ;
(See-F. S, Four Miles—Page 2)
guards firing au- chairmen preside over the con-
Mile*—PageS) rtientions. ‘
Stocks Clone Today
r siNand urging toi Mta-'to ----— 1 .......T'
lne back of your A card
another will not be I*-
Im&
American’* Radii
American Telephone .....
Anaconda .Copper'
Bethlehem Steel
Courtesy Citizens I^iUonal Bank * Trust Co.
Ohio on ...• ..<• • *••
Packard Motors . , . , , .
Pure Oil ..................... ip
Republic Steel
tfiis year. LONDON, July 22.-01- RAF
Mosquito bombers hit Berlin with,
two-ton blockbusters last night
and British Beaufightcrs battered
a 40-ship. German convoy off Hel-
•-* ’ '— M>
loped
almost"
halting aerial operations.
The Beaufightefs ran into n
heavy barrage of rockets and an-
ti-aircraft fire as they hit four of
the merchantmen with '.loFpedoes
and raked the rest of the convoy
cannon and rocket fire.
-b Ships were left sinking , and
county convention
chairmen hclfcve.
The precinct chairmen arc also
the presiding judges at electrons
in the Democratic primaries, so
counting of votes wilt suspend goland, but the worst flying w
for a time tonight while the ther since the invfsion deVeio
lido over the .con- over the .channel today, Mm
Adverse weather also curtailed
operations from Italy, -although
some allied bombers ranged into
Czechoslovakia during the night
to hit the industrial -city of Par-
dubice. ~ .
Allied Headquarters at Rome
disclosed that the Nazis’ largest
suddemy^^^HlHHHRH
at his home in Mont Belvieu.
Wood was a native of Hills-
boro, but had lived in Mont Bcl*
vieu for tre , past Iff years. He
wasantm^^oftheToxa*-
Oulf Production Company there.
Funeral services will be held
at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the First
Baptist churph of Mont Befvksu,
with the Rev. Claude Herdtn,
pastor of DalSetta Baptist church
Officiating. .He will be assisted
(l^Dr nefird^firo—I*agpr*f0nS ,S" ""/’“'dotted! ** AdoWJuf
. , llF»*”fe?waV^iktIe0r". double
Goose Creek C.of C. ''
• Mm' tgp turti^TM^ortcd to1^
OWI.-and “was appointed as a
collaborator by Ihe secret serv-
ice.” - *
M
producer of synthetic oil was be-
I veccly damaged by Lib-
Fortresses .
Moved severely damaged by
erators and Flying N
_ mpm -_v..
by Rev. Homer Davenport, pastor
or the First Baptist church '
KPEL1AIAN SEEK POPE | .
ROME, July 22 II’HI—Archbishop
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Now In New Office
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The Goose Creek Chamber of
Commerce has moved its head-
quarters, and is now located at the
McKinstiy building address on
_ _______ , ___.. .
Mom Belvieu. ' by Dr. Max Levy. Spellman of New York, who ar-
Buriitl will be In Hardin ceme- Dt!. C, W, Spear president of the rtved in Rome Friday, celebrated
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and was to be received
Pope Pius XII Inter in the
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cation.
Wrttll,.............. , wm -in: wiring- m» -
Two ships were left sinking.and iterranean bombers, yet have come (gey Harry Wood—Page 2)
iors five ese-ort vessels set afire, arid io tbp Gecman capita!. _ _
S% reported burning fiercely as the Reconnaissance photqg ra phs
•8 pilots completed the assault. showed direct hits on, the plant,
S',* The air ministry said the raid -which once produced 800.000 tons
- 16 on the convoy and the attack on of oil annually, and the, pilots re-
H5JSS5JSL£aL£^ Reported 86 Miles.Away From Warsaw
Decisive Battle For Poland Under Way
■athls6"1 alL trapped in
• • ■ Grover believes
IS Ucrs*m ■ ■ ■ Mrs. L.
K®*1 being able to
b| s;ra‘$bt of a deal without
Consolidated Alrernlt 18H Sinclair ...............JV
Curtiss - Wright — S'-i Southern Pacific .—■*
Curtiss - Wright
Du Pont
Eaton
Electric
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Main Japanese Column Evacuees Continue
'■ according to close friends
lest “ews ig that- S«L
9„"J. Reinekc
la hnVA*’’ J' ^Fby Holcomb
l,V°'day « the bank and
r_ -n the election booth.
:ie Agee
General Electric 38_
General Motors...........,,80% , _ .
“• Graham Paige .............. 2'* *« ftn<?
Greyhound
Jibing
Gulf Oil.',,:.,...... . .
Ho. Li. and Power Co.,.-,... 87H
Houston Oil ..................HV4
Hudson1 Motors ... **■*
Jones and Ladghlin’......... 28%
Kroger Grocery ......->',«•••■ 3**4
Sperry Corporation .28V4
•*+***•- ■■- |n Burma Withdraws
'tandard_01Lof-Ncw JeYscy. 56V1 a .
Sunday Oil .................. M CHUNGKING, July 22 (L.P)-The IRUN. Bpain, July
Texas Oerporaflon .-> ■ •• mB|n pdrtlon*of a Japanese col- laytd In France because of rail
Tfilwter Gwitowon • ■ ■, * • ^ umn that attempted to relieve traffic disrupted by Allied bomb-
T-P Cbai and Oil 71J$H the PJngkb garrlsori below the logs and partisan advances.
United Aircraft
- MOSCOW, July a. CD A decii
ive battle for Poland began today
■■■■ ''.....erfui Soviet 'armies
cvaciiees tonimue
nn Trin To I ichnn along a v250-mi!es sterteh of the
VII II l|J IV M2WII Bus River t0 gtril{ei mcnecingiy
RWn
menacingly
mils* of Warsaw.
(C Pi within 84
ue- ikrtfopj Konstantirt Rokossov-
it% Burma Road in Yunan Province, Drain? with 414 British civilians
United Corporation .
United Gas ........
United States , Steel
is.
, .x-,. 1H has- completed Us withdrawal to and other evacuees,
_____ 14-. Mangsbin, after suffering serious arrive at the Fi
..... 57*4 “Josses, the Chinese high com-
—. ..ML.. msnd said Saturday........—n "
the Pingki
sky's cavalry, tanks and infantry
of (he First Whlta-Russlan Army
spearheaded the drive with wide"
sweeps around the fortrSse city
of Brest Litovsk.
The northern thrust of Rokoa-
Mufray Corporation.....
Nash Keivlnator
19 \
Western Union-.......... 4J, )-_ _ J3»tnese troops In the Pingka-
White Motor* ......-V-.Menttul are* are mopping up iso-
Wilson Company ........W4 >rted enemy groups which were
COtton up „.w., ......... IS separated from the main body,
St. Regis .................... 0' tfip nowntHniqiin mlded.
scheduled to
arrive at, the French-Spanish
border,-July 8, finally pulled into <*ovsky's troops carried to
.IrunJWdHO.___- — - -_.4row-ka.on thf 1
- The trains proceeded to Lisbon,. the Bug 8} miles
where the evacuees are to be Siedlco rail junction,
exchanged for German nationals major enemy
^torcd-SiroikLV&ssom-
oaal of Alexandrowka- and a simi-
lar distance northwest of Brest
Litovsk, which was being shelled
by Soviet artillery set up nine
miles north of the cltv.
On the southern
tw-0-pfenged drtve,
toymen stormed into
miles south of Brest
leav only a 30-mile
hind the city, and
road escape route
While
-- - -
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driving at a
gains of
Irifan- miles i
wmiM
now in Los bon harbor aboard the . the Polish capita^
Swedish finer Drottingholm. Uni?*
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