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VOL. 50—NO. 72.
CUERO, TEXAS,* THURSDAY. APRIL 6, 1944
SIX PAGES
I^Town Talk
Contrary to all reports the
8am Houston Induction
tatifrr Us anything but Use
•bugaboo” which many might
4iapU'Xpu believe. Take this
Crom one who went thru the
.gjjHier Wednesday and came
bgt, along with some thirty
other DeWitt county men,
gt member of Uncle Sam’s
AbVy. Don't get the idea a trip
£lsough the induction center
picnic. It is anything but
(Hat, but the one hundred and
idxteen men who made the
trip Tuesday afternoon ex-
pected no picnic. They did find
MSWever that Army life is
utfmt you make it. The doctors
Who give your examinations
dUe most considerate. The
jbrgeants who give the orders
'<pt,ftnii but most agreeable.
frwe must go on the double
Bwet of the time but you're
fipfag to hurry through and
pit home. That's for certain.;
0! course, steeping on the
ikjbr of an Army barracks
wi& a single blanket and no j
pillow is no treat but when!
you throw 1500 men Into !
fwr^efs built to accommodate
«n|y 500 you can expect no
in bed or hot and
watBr. The In- (
center is strictly
and Us operated in a
most efficient like manner. To!
go through is an experience
you won’t forget but at the j
time it gives you a pretty
idea of the thorough-
af the Army. The ' men
> in the future hfiv*-
to
Invaded by Russians, Rumania Is Question Mark of Balkans
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RED TROOPS
NEARING CITY
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Cuero Chicks Bound
For Panama Canal
Zone Via Plane
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YUGOSLAVIA
KUCHAKISt
BULGARIA
Red General Nearing His
Birthplace As Drive |
Moving On
TO STORM CITY
Approaches To Black Sea
Fortress Being
i Cleared
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with the
etc made
enTlMUnp.
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Incidentally a total of fifty
three DeWitt county men
negotiated the
ttions Wednesday,
two of whom will enter
Nary and
|nui|iliilng twenty one the
Army the majority are well
ytjpnc DeWitt county
Another big
hgs been ttten from the
mpks of: DeWitt county's
ybvng manhood. White we
know the departure from fam-
ilies is going to be hard on all
eonoerned, the men are ready
to go and do their bit. Believe
you me.
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The Arkansas Fuel Com-
pany's No. 1 Buehrig three
mites northwest of Meyersville
apparently is going to be the
dtecovery well of a new field
dir DeWitt county. The well
completed but
are high that the test
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the invasion was undertaken for conquest and said the Russians had no
thought 6f destroying “the existing social order of the Axis ally.”
Nevertheless the Russian stroke has thrown most cf the Rumanian
outcome Of the war on this front. ^ Red A™v force, top ,e,t. - jS-jSg" ^
ed across the Prut river to invade the Axis aateilite state at points sort of defense in Rumania. Premier Antonescu. lower left. has .indicated
shown-on ,map above. Foreign Onmnil—rRyaphesiav Molotov denied he wquld be willing to discuss peace moves with Russia. (International.)
WHAT HAPPENS IN RUMANIA, bulwark of Germany's Balkan de-
fenses and first Axis territory to be invaded by Russian troops, may de-
termine the course that other Balkan states will follow in deciding the
Young Fighter Wtmld ttave
PLAN SERVICE 0ne BeJLeve Wa*Dul1
Sgt. George Carte Takes
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TPA BUSINESS
MEETING HELD
Easier
Territory In Stride
Candle-light communion service,
tonight at 8 o’clock in honor of this
ThurMay’s being the anniversary of
the Last Supper which Jesus had in
the Upper Room with his Disciples.
Noetumal-adoration will be observed
at St, Michael's Catholic Church
Carte declared,
Tech. Sgt. Carte was
the minute he stepped
f£ EEtSS*. ven,ion Named Mon'
ron.
"I attended to the radio until we
went over the target. Then it was
my duty to man the waist guns. I
rim*’’SI'Delegates To Stale Con-
m Named
day Night
Almost everyone has gotten so
, hungry for fried chicken at
some time that he would pay a
rather high price for it. Such
seemed to be the case with W. D.
Clark of Balboe. Panama Ca-
nal Zone.
After he had made, usd paid
for. three long dhtanoe calls to
Williams Hatchery. Clark gave
Neil Williams an order for 300
Barred Rock chickens. These
chicks, which were hatched
Tuesday, were shipped Wednes-
day by air express. Pan Ameri-
can Air Linei are expected to
deliver them, for the sum of
$32 to Balboa today.
Chickens are far from a fam-
iliar sight iiv the Canal Zone
and it can be understood why
Clark considered each one worth
the approximate cost of 50c.
'—Remember Pearl Harbor—
U. S. BIRDMEN
AGAIN PASTE
1SLE0F TRUK
Back Over Jap Base Today
. After Hard Blows
Monday
so japTojum
Report Eight Days
Consecutive Raiding
By Americans
By United
Tokyo radio reports that Ameri-
FIFTY FOUR
MORE MEN IN
ARMED FORCES
Navy Gels Biggest Per-
centage Of Men Going
Up ThisWeek
WELL KNOWN GROUP
Many Well Known Young
Cuero Business Men
Accepted Wednesday
Soviet General Malinovsky is
nearly home. 1
Within a matter of hours, troops
of MalloovskV'5 Third Army of the
Ukraine are expected to lay siege to
Odessa—the birthplace of- their
commauder.
Latest front reports place the
Russians just about 10 miles north
of the great Black Sea fortress, and
some 15 miles to the northeast and
east.
The drive on Odessa also is “the
road back” ior many of Maliniv-
sky’s veterans. For many of them
defended the city again it the two-
month German siege in 1941.
The Russians virtually sealed the
fate of most of the Nazis in Odessa
by ' cutting acroai the main escape
routes northwest of the port. In
Moscow says the only land es-
cape route remaining in German
hands is m single-track coantal
fail way that hurdles the five-mile-
wide Dniester lagoon bv ferry. But it
is estimated that only a trickle of
the Nazis could escape from the city
by. this route. And the remnants
of an estimated 100-thousand Ger-
mans still are in the Odessa pocket.
Among the 100 localities liberated
by the Third Army yesterday is the
town of Baden: 37 miles northwest
as a
By JANE TULLY ..... _
With M missions over enemy ter-; my duty to man* the waist guns. P' ReWin8 Breeden. Hai Nlelsen
wifi be held at the Methodist church ritory to his credit. Tech. Bgi. Five people composed the crew and and 11085 Taylor were selected as
and Holy Communion will al» be George Allen Carte, who is visiting everyone on that B-25 was kept idelegates to the State TpA conven-
at the 8L Marts Lutheran church brother. Murray Carte, in Cuero. busy.” tion which is to be held in Austin
looks at you calmly with his placid He explained the choice of the this year members of the TPA
blue eyes and reports no out-stand- Green Dragon by describing how, met in annual business session here
ing horror or fault in his living con- life-like it appeared when the ma- Monday evening
dittons during his fourteen months' chine guns blazed like liquid fire Several business mat ten. wert dis-
stay in New Guinea. from the monster’s nostrils. posed of during the evening, with
“We lived in Army tents and His sole determental comment about Hadley Edgar, presiding,
from 9 o'clock* tonight until 8 while we had only dehydrated food
o'clock tomorrow morning, which1 eat- there plenty of it.
will be Good Friday
gavel to a successor
Good Friday is a Holy Day of the
Christian Church which is observ-
ed as the anniversary of Christ's
foreign duty was. “No. I don’t favor j Mg*,., president of the Texas
The the idea of drafting women that'-jp* win also be in attendance at
climate was damp and warm, but has been brought, forth b1. the the state meeting of course, and will
not unbearable” this radio operator ginalres in California. If I had ajhand over h:r
and aerial gunner said.
sister. I'd resent her
“As for recreation, why. we saw because such would likely
crucifixion. Tomorrow schools will!many movies there before they were overseas duty for her. I've been
be closed ail day and the stores will even shown in the States. The there—and it's no place for women.”
dote from 12 noon until 3 o’clock. Special Service group always sup-
Presbyterians. Baptists, Metho- plies u* with magazines and news-
dists and Episcopalians wUl join in papers. In fact. I'd like to tell the
worship at the Grace Episcopal public that Uncle Sam does an ex-
ctiurch. Dr. W. A. McLeod. Dr. cellent job of caring for his boys.”
Ben David. Rev. Ewart Watts and
Word has been received her by |
Mrs. Emma Keseling that her sou,*
A. J. Keseling. arrived safelv in j
New York after being across for j
come time.
being draf ted j to ^ clected at the session,
tkely lead to ; —Remember Peart Harbor—
T. L (. Choir Director
northeast of Rofcnania's
Ploesti ail fields, and 240 miles
northeast of Bucharest, the capital
of the Balkan satellite.
Speaking of Rumania, radio Al-
giers says Soviet columns have driv-
en to within two miles of the. key
communications hub of Jassy. But
for the second straight day, Moscow
her, given no report on the fighting
in Rumania.
Moscow also is silent about the
battle for encircled Tamopol in
Poland. But it has revealed . that
first Ukraine army troops killed
another two-thousand Germans in
the Skala pocket northeast of Cer-
nauti.
A Berlin communique claims the
German garrison of Kowel in Po-
land -has been freed of encirclement.
Moscow hadn’t even reported the
junction encircled.
The. diplomatic story of the day
comes from Helsinki. The Finnish
foreign minister denies that fMiner
Premier PaasUdvj has left again for
Mosoow. it says he Is still in Fin-
land. A Swedish paper yesterday
quoted unconfirmed rumors to the
effect that Paaslklvi had gone to
Moscow—presumably to continue
peace talks.
Fifty four DeWitt
the majority of them fs
added to the armed forces
nation Wednesday
one hundred and
county inductees went
Fort Sam Houston
ter.
Of the fifty four, fifty
white and one was » Late
lean.
Thirty two were accepted
service in the United States
Twenty two were accepted for
service.
Throe figures marked
time that acceptances
exceeded those
Army. j
Many well known
men were included
Among them were B1U
ager of the Stowers
Pony. Harry C.
ef The Cuero Reoord,
erbend
Monday and Tuesday nights.
If the report Is octrflrjned-by Al-
lied headquarters, it means that
American airmen have carried out
raids against the Japanese Pacific
stronghold for eight consecutive
days.
American pilots say the Japanese
have started using night fighters to
defend Truk because their anti-
aircraft batteries have failed to
check the American moonlight raid-
ers. A Liberator crew reports that
no giant searchlights lit up the sky
as they flew qver Truk in the fifth
night raid. Sochi the airmen knew
why. Japanese night-flying Zeros
were in the air. The Zeros did no
i
damage.
In Asia, a large-scale battle is
believed imminent lor the important
Allied supply center of ImphaL A
Japanese column Is reported striking
into main BHfinlj defenses on the
Manipur highway north of the city.
It is Indicated that at least a part
of the column has turned south to-
wards Imphal.
The British have ambushed ad-
vance units and also have inflicted
come casualties on an enemy col-
umn moving towards Imphal from
ALLIED HEADQUARTRS. Italy, !the south
April 6—(UP.)—The operations! A third th«»i to ta**h*a comes
Rev. J. 6. Bud long will conduct the
services.
Lutherans will observe these hours
I at their 8t. Mark's Lutheran Church
Words From The CrossT
Mass of the Pyesantified will open
the services of Good Friday at Bt
Michael’s Catholic Church and the
“Way of the Cross” will be tomor-
row afternoon at 1:30.
__Remcmber Pearl Harbor—
Will produce Oil. The Initial {with “Meditation of the Seven
tflK shoved gas and distillate,
tfhw perforations are being
made and some exciting news
may break during tiie next'
few days. Here's hoping.
If DeWitt county tomatoXU6rO NCQfO YOllIH
growers can get anything like (e(ejyes Purple HCdfl
the price being paid for the
early valley tomatoes they rOSliHiniOUSly
should cash in royally on this
year’s crop. The tomatoes are
BLASTROCKS
NAVAL PLANT
At Least Three Killed And
Thirty Five Others
Injured
Three employes who were In the
shed at the time of the explosion
somehow escaped death. The shed
was built of concrete and heavily
barreaded Damage is estimated at
50-thousand dollars.
Patterson says the dead and in-
jured apparently all were residents
of 'he Hastings vicinity.
Two officers of the Ninth Naval
District are expected to arrive at the
ammunition depot late today to con-
duct an investigation.
—Remember Pearl Harbor—
chief few the Mediterranean Air
Force. Brigadier General Norstad.
says Allied bombers in Italy have cut
all longitudal railways. Meanwhile
from the northeast. Some 94 miles
away, the Japanese are massing
thousands of troops.
In north central Burma, General
the‘Germans are stepping up their i Stilwell’s Chinese forces have cap-
troop and supply movements on the! tured two more river villages in
Old Officers
Re-elected
li. E. GIBSON
Juanita Harmon, mother of.Leon-
, ard Roy Harmon DeWitt county ne-
now bringing twelve and onei^ wi(0 waG wiled while serving
half cents per pound. No such'his country, received the
price can be expected of
course for later tomatoes but
hot in recent years have even
the earliest tomatoes com-
HASTINGS. Neb . April 6— UP —
Two terrific explosions at the Hast-
ings Naval ammunition depot -this
morning resulted in the deaths of at
least three, and probably eight, per-
sons. Thirty-five others suffered
Purple niinor injuries.
Heart and its certificate Monday 1110 commanding officer of the de-
from the Secretary of the Navy. brougiit out the largest vote*-^n languages at T. L. C.
Cassino front. Heavy artillery fire
by both sides also is taking place.
their drive south through Mogaung
valley. And General Cochran’s air-
commando fighter planes have de-
NAJLES. April 6 .— (UP.)— An-' strayed from 33 to 38 grounded Jap-
other accidental attack on Allied anese planes caiJkht in a jungle air-
troops by our own fortes is revealed
today. It’s disclosed that on Mar.
field.
In the
Southwest Pacific, Ameri-
raid on Cassino. 10 American bomb-
ers mistook the town of Venafro,
held by the Allies, for Cassino. Urey
bombed Venafro.
F E. Strieber and Ad Schroeder Director of the Texas Lutheran
Jr., were re-elected aldermen and college Choir of Seguin scheduled
Max Gohlke was chosen as the new for a concert at. the Cuero Lutheran
member of the council Tuesday in church on Tuesday. April 11. at 8:15
Yorktown's city electic|i^ which p m.. 13 H. E. Gibem, professor of
her son.
She has also been notified by the
1 State of Texas that the name of her j
many years
town News.
" Gohlke will
according to the Yprk-
F. Patterson— re-
_. ___ itl m-m ports that three oersons are
These were awarded uj her to mem Thrv wtrc Norris Fre>.
Chester Curtis. and Lyda
Mitchell. Five others arc missing
to come for growers Of this ered the highest possible service to Mafhensain r city treasurer
I _ •
The first explosion
a.
15th, the day of the great bombing can airmen have delivered another
blow to Wewak on New Guinea.
Liberators dropped 200 tons of
bombs and destroyed 13 Japanese
planes. And on the ground, Aus-
tralian forces have advanced to a
point only nine miles from Bogad-
Jim, Japanese New Guinea seaport.
—Remember Peart Harter—
Well Known Yorktown
Man Suffers Injuries
succeed
Gibson organized the first
at T. L. C in 1929 and ever
Alderman his group of
choir
since
LONDON. April 6—(UP ) —Mar-
shal Tito's Partisans are reported to
have repulsed a Bulgarian thrust in
Eastern Jugoslavia. The Partisans
are said to have forced the Bulgari-
ans back in hand-to-hand fighting
! with rifle butts after exhausting
{their ammunition.
>tence6 for
accept*
Young, Powell,
jure were ami
Aripjr service while I
went to the Navy.
iHfttdtd also was
DeWitt county
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LONDON. April 6.-.UP.) _ AH' Yorktown News repert* R. JL Metz
singers have^been rec- j^te,. ieaves and travel permits for ^ffIrto«aSseve?albbrol^
have been cancelled. It is believed e.n ril5s .anc* Pa^nJu^ bruises Mon-
iker Pearl Harbor—
re-election as The concert in Cuero. under spon- that the ban is to ease the strain of day whUe assisting in unloading
sorship of Cuero Lutheran Church, travel facilities over the four-day ^ car ^ k*gs of beer.
Metz was standing in the door of
the car when a switch engine
French Invasion
Also Hard Hit
Bombers
Elder's Europe was
today ^ perhaps from bothj
and Italy.
FigiRbr-escorted Liberator
out from British bases to
?*!*-«*r * “*
com* wnoout loss. iw
end Thunderbolt fighters
light anti-aircraft fire b«
single Nazi interceptor.
At the same time, the
radio reported bombers ova
east Oenaany. The Nads
American bombers battled
interceptors over Northern
slavia jh the area of Zagreb
As the pre-invasion
tin ues, all leave and travel
during the Easter holidays for
bers of the British armed
have bean cancelled. The bat
believed to be aimed chiefly
easing the strain on tratei
over the holiday period.
News of the air war in Southern
Europe concerns, not a new, but an
old raid. Censorship for the first
time has permitted the
that from eight to ten
Liberators in the big Ol
last month dropped
Allied-belc Venafro. 12 mUaa to the
east.
United Press War Correspondent
Clinton Conger saw the whole thing
from another Liberatlr. Comer
says the error was somewhat under-
standable in that Venafro bore the
same general lay-out ae Cassino. It
seems that the bomb-bays of one
Liberator opened beesuae of taUlty
mechanism. When ueartw plane*)
saw the bombs fall,
they were over the ta
The Commander in
air
Mr. mad Mm. W. W. Kennedy,
Record subscriber* will be the
gwesU ef the Rialto Theater
Friday at the showing ef “Bon
ef Draeaia” If they will pramnt
their country. j The first explosion occurred at A total of 126 votes were cast, and jp expected to draw a full house. Easter holiday period.
—Remember Pearl Harbor 1:20 a. nv hi a box car beside a there were five candidates for the There will be no admission. How- _ ____ _
Misses Lois Thieme. Charlene a>icl Icocllng shed for bombs and mines, three positions of aldermen to be ever, a free-will offering will be NEW DELHI, April 6.—(UP.) — coupled to the car and started mov- Mediterranean air fweaa, LA
Charlotte Keseling. students at Be- ^ car wa5 heinR loaded with filled taken A large-scale battle for the im- H- This caused the kegs to turn- Ira Eaker, says the GNMinn benb-
guin Lutheran College, are home explosives. Immediately after it ex- — Remember Pearl Harbor— —Remember Pearl Harbor_ portant Allied supply center of Im- hie down and. knock Metz out of the ing accomplished all that was ex-
ior the Easter holidays. They are pioded. the cooling shed—which was Miss Ann Ruth Gohlke. student Cuero was without electricity be- phal in eastern India is believed im- doors. After he fell on the railroad pected of it by air f
members of the Texas Lutheran pne(^ Wjth mines and depth charges nurse m San Antonio, is spending tween 4 and 5 oclick this morning mlnent. Japanese forces north of tracks some of the kegs fell on him-l*1-5- He reports that the
College Choir which will be heard —also blew up. The second blast her Easter vacation in Cuero with due to the C P L installation of the city are striking into main He is in the Medical Arte Hoe
tration of bombs and their
in Cuero April 11 at St Mark s Lu- was heard at Hastings.
. the ran church. “ miles away
nearly 11 her parents. Mr and
Gohlke.
Mrs Fritz a larger transformer in
tion a: the hydro plant.
sub-sta- British defenses. It is indicated! pital in San Antonio and consider-
(OODU&ued ou page 8J ;ed in a serious condition.
was about the same as over
industrial targets.
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