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VOL. 57, NO. 48.
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WASHINGTON. — Overbuying’ of
stared
Revolutionary
Sun Honor Roll
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and
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Whitewright merchants offer
you
Adding machine paper.—The Sun.
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Government Wants
More Mechanics
Anti-Hoarding
Regulations May
Become Necessary
Germans Meeting
Defeat in Russia
Three Face Death
For Treason
Looking Ahead
HIS DOG KNEW LETTERS
CAME FROM HIS BOSS
The world’s largest sulphur
duction is made in the Central
ries of Texas.
are
con-
free
be
federal
use
ets find® roll of bills?” asks
umnist.
It is if they’re receipted.
MONEY ORDER RATES
FOR SOLDIERS REDUCED
better values.
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“MOTHER OF
THANKSGIVING DAY”
AFRICAN LOSSES
TOTAL 1,910 MEN
pro-
Prai-
rate
i a bushel
announced
Com Loan Rate Is
Raised Six Cents
betes. The condition of
James Reynolds was
Pvt. John.F- Bartek, in the wost con- . then-he can’t go wrong and that is
dition, was “gaining strength rapid- | enough religion to get by any man’s
The day before, he had told Bar-
per cent of the average
rate, as provided by law,
vary between 57 and 74
bushel.
of public
and in oui'
day which
a day of
enterprise. Fear of rain
prompted a pedestrian to throw
his umbrella, and desire for victory is
' not likely to make a warrior give up
WASHINGTON. — Telegraph rates
for money orders sent to and from
members of the armed forces within
the United States will be cut by 50
pei' cent beginning Dec. 1.
The Federal Communications Com-
| mission, in announcing the rate
MOSCOW. — The three-month-old
Nazi grip on Stalingrad was, weaken-
ing Wednesday after a swiftly ad-
vancing Red army killed 15,000 more
Germans Tuesday and captured 12,-
000, including three divisional gen-
erals, in a great winter offensive
rolling so' fast that some Nazi units
were cut down from behind in pan-
icky retreat.
Russian official
raised the toll of Nazis to 77,000 dead
and captured, not counting huge
Literary Club Is
Sponsoring Silk, ,
Mylon Hose Salvage
Responding to an appeal by the
Government to salvage all used silk
and nylon hose for use in making
powder bags for the armed forces, the
Friday Literary Club is sponsoring
the collection of such hose in White-
■wright. Mrs. J. B. Hamilton is
chairman of the’ committee handling
the salvage, and has placed recep-
tacles at the dry goods sores of Cole
& Davis Company and T. W. Ayres
■& Son, where you may deposit your
«old hose.
There is an acute shortage of silk
and nylon, accounting for the demand
for used hosiery. Powder bags made
of silk or nylon are used by the big
guns of the Army and Navy because
they burn up completely when the
gun is fired, whereas powder bags
made of cotton or other materials
leave a residue which must be swab-
bed out of the gun after each firing.
By the end of 1943, U. S. produc-
tion of aluminum will be approxi-
mately 2.1 billion pounds—six-and-
one-half times 1939 production.
<7he White a/iight
YOUR HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER Q ESTABLISHED IN 1885
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1942.
Beans, the traditional Army food,
reached a United States production
record in 1941 of 18,226,000 hundred-
pound bags. v
commercial
at 85 per
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KANSAS CITY.—His 4-year-old
spitz dog, Texas, was despondent,
after Ed Weidman Jr. joined the
Army. It ate little and became ill.
Then letters from hs master began
to arrive. The family said they knew
the dog recognized the scent because
he yelped excitedly whenever one of
these letters came. His appetite
turned and so did his health.
He dashes out to meet the mailman
daily now.
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Welfare Services will be
throughout the nation in the
Conservation Program, F’ 1 ’
will be under direction of the
Civilian Defense Council, in
ation with the State Defense Council.
Technical and educational super-
vision of the Meat Conservation Pro-
gram is in the hands of the state,
county, and municipal nutrition com-
mittees.
The Extension Service and USDA
War Board have assumed responsibil-
ity for taking the “Share-the-Meat-
for-Victory” message to rural people.
Mr. Smith said that should house-
holders not get leaflets on the Meat
Conservation Program during the
week begirftiing Nov. 30, they should
contact one of the agencies men-
tioned, which has local offices, pref-
erably the local Civilian Defense
Council.
and Lieut. John J. De Angelis and |
James C. Whitaker were in “high1
spirits” and expected to be in condi- j
tion to travel within a week.
Col. Hans C. Adamson’s condition I religion.
was satisfactory, but his progress was “I hold to the golden ' rule,” he
slow, because of pneumonia and dia- said, “and I believe most firmly that
Staff Sgt. j if any man will , just follow what he.
satisfactory. • truly knows and feels in his heart,
He that loseth wealth, loseth much;
he that looseth friends loseth more.—
Spanish proverb.
The following have had their
names added to The Sun honor roll
this week:
E. A. Douglas.
Fred Clark.
E. E. Wilson.
J. H. Looney.
Alton McDowell.
C. R. Gibson.
Mrs. C. J. Pace.
Frank Whitworth.
J. G. Muirhead.
Lt. W. L. White.
W. L. Crawford.
Luther Gordon.
E. W. Fields.
J. L. Cantrell.
M. E. Winburn.
L. A. Watkins.
Jesse Bow.
Mrs. R. L. Giles. /
J. F. Roberts.
W. H. Stedham.
CHICAGO.—Three men convicted
of treason were sentenced to death
Tuesday and their wives were each
sentenced to 25 years imprisonment
and fined $10,000.
The men were sentenced to die by
electrocution Jan. 22 ‘‘at a place ifi
Northerri Illinois.”
Each of the defendants
The daughter of a T _____
War Army captain, Mrs. Sarah Jose-
pha Buell Hale, native of Newport,
N. H., has the distinction of being the
“Mother of Thanksgiving Day.”
For years she tried vainly to
WASHINGTON.—A corn loan
averaging about six cents
more than last year was ;
Monday by the Commodity Credit
Corporation for the record 1942 crop
of 3,185,300,000 bushels.
The loan rate in the
areas in 15 states, fixed
cent of parity, will vary between" 73
and 89 cents a bushel, the CCC said.
In other areas, the rate will be 75
commercial
and will
cents a
does a better job in 1
I than can be expected
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For a Safe Landing
“You can not have the blessings of
liberty in peace time without free
competitive enterprise,” a leading
economist said recently. “Even in
war, it may be the difference be-
tween victory and defeat.” Advocates
of Planned Economy (meaning gov-
ernment management of business) in-
tentionally or otherwise, would sab-
otage America’s defense effort by
junking the best plan of production
ever known. ;
If I may be indulged in picturing
the Ship of State as an airship, free
competitive enterprise is her engine.
Thus powered, she has broken all
records for safe and profitable flights
in fair weather and foul. With the
same power unit she sailed into the
storm that broke last December 7
and, since then, has exceeded all pre-
vious performance records. People
who tinker with the motor now
not friends of freedom. Our
tinued existence depends on
competition.
“Almost every trained worker in
the automotive service industry who
may find himself without work due
to the curtailed use of automobiles
can qualify for some kind of a civil
---- service job,” Paul H. Figg, director,
loss. Tenth Civil Service Region, said to-
his gun.
In the present emergency we are
wisely using what we have, to best
advantage. We have democratic in-
stitutions and, as a people we under-
stand the use of no other kind. There
is no reason to wish for anything else.
Democracy, with its system of free
competitive enterprise, applied to
peaceful pursuits, has made America
the envy of the world. In war it has
likewise proved best.
Help in Emergencies
Several years ago there was a great
hue and cry in this country against
private corporations making war ma-
terials, alleging that such companies
fomented wars to make markets for
their goods. It was then that the
United States set up government ar-
senals to manufacture its own muni-
tions. Now private companies are do-
ing it again because the government
works are not competent enough
when there is a real hurry-up job to
be done. On the other hand, a soap
manufacturer who never made muni-
tions before, has surprised govern-
ment experts with this year’s pro-
duction achievement.
Competition keeps business people
awake, up with the times and doing
their best. When a manufacturer has
staked an investment on his own
ability, he is led on by hope of prof-
it; goaded forward by risk of ]
Stimulated thus, private enterprise day.
or peace Auto mechanics, electricians, body
and fender men are urged to convert
their skills to aircraft employment by
Mr. Figg, who pointed out that the
federal government needs these ex-
perts for civilian jobs at air fields
throughout Texas and Louisiana. -
Men who have never worked on an
airplane engine, but who have two
years experience as an auto mechanic
can qualify as a junior ’ aircraft en-
gine mechanic, $1860 a year, and
likewise auto electricians with two
years experience ,can qualify as a
junior aircraft electrician at the same
salary.
Less experienced men may meet
the requirements for general me-
chanic’s helper, $1500 a year, and
men without any experience but who
have an aptitude for mechanics, may
qualify as a mechanic learner, $1080
a year.
“Many persons without special
training or skills will be interested in
the classified laborer position, which
pays as high as 88c an hour in some
localities,” Mr. Figg said.
Applications may be obtained from
the local civil service secretary at any
first or second class post office, or
from the director, Tenth Civil Service
Region, Customhouse, New Orleans,
La., with whom all applications
should be filed immediately.
Persons engaged in essential
work need not apply.
“Yes, sir, I feel that I can speak as
an authority on that subject,” he said.
“This makes the fourth time in my
life that I have been very close to
death. I know I came within hearing
distance of the old fellow this trip
because his approach is always un-
mistakable.”
“One hears beautiful, soft • music
and everything is extremely pleasant
—just as Heaven should be.”
Some one asked what made
think he was going to Heaven.
“I guess it was presumptuous of
in “high I me, at that,” he said.
Then he explained that he was not
j “formally religious,” but had his own
Capt. Rickenbacker Heard Music—
‘Nearness of Death’—Before Rescue In Proclamation
By William Tyree
PEARL HARBOR. — Capt. E. V.
Rickenbacker heard soft, beautiful
music like “the nearness of death”—
just before he and six other survivors
of a forced plane landing were res-
cued from life rafts on which they
had floated 24 days.
A joint Army-Navy announcement
announcements to^aY from the South Pacific said
1 Rickenbacker and his companions
______ were recovering satisfactorily. Rick-
numbers of wounded who apparently enbackei\ Capt. William T. Cherry,
frozen
> as did other German units
last winter in the rout from Moscow,
es-
that 120,000 Germans had
(Parents: The Sun wants to pub-
lish . in this column news about your
boys in service. Whenever they are
transferred from one post to another,
when they get promotions, when you
areas, all
for
this fixedly at the judge as the sentence
was pronounced, displaying no emo-
tion. There was no demonstration in
the courtroom.
The defendants, convicted of aiding
and sheltering Herbert Hans Haut,
one of the eight Nazi saboteurs who
landed in America by submarine last
summer, were:
Hans and Erna Haut, parents of
the saboteur; Walter and Lucile
Froehling, the youth’s uncle and
aunt, and Otto and Kate Wergin.
friends of the Haut family.
It was the second treason convic-
tion in 148 years of American history.
On Aug. 6, Max Stephen was con-
victed at Detroit, Mich., and sen-
tenced to be hanged for aiding the
flight of a Nazi saboteur who escaped
from a Canadian concentration camp.
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may
force the government into adopting
anti-hoarding regulations.
An official disclosed Monday that
“panic-buying” of foods and other
commodities has become wide-spread
enough to give the office of price ad-
ministration concern.
“The .hysteria seems to be getting
near the point where we are forced to
consider the rationing of things that
otherwise wouldn’t have to be ra-
tioned,” explained the federal of-
ficial, who declined the use of his
name.
The proposed anti-hoarding regu- |
lation now under study by the OPA,
he said, would compel purchasers to
declare their present supply of any
rationed article they bought.
The official asserted that by mak-
ing excess or unnecessary purchases
of food and other scarce commodities
illegal householders might be made
to realize the seriousness of over-
stocking.
I, Franklin D
of the United
dent Lincoln in 1863 to
Thanksgiving as uniformly a nation-
David Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs.
D. M. Taylor, has been promoted to
boatswain’s mate, second class, in
the Coast. Guard. He enlisted Oct. 20,
1941, and is now stationed at Miami
Beach, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Hudgins re-
ceived a' letter last Friday, mailed
Oct. 25, from their son, Sgt. Donald
Paul Hudgins, saying that he had ar-
rived safely overseas and that he was
well. The letter was written from
“somewhere in England.” Sergeant
Hudgins’ wife, the former Betty Jean
Hensley of Arkansas City, Kansas, is
now employed by Aircraft, Inc., Fort
Worth.
WASHINGTON. — The Army an-
nounced today that American casual-
ties during the initial landings in
North Africa were estimated at 1,910
killed, wounded and missing.
A communique said Lieutenant
General Dwight D. Eisenhower re-
ported that he was not yet able to ob-
tain a careful confirmation of the
casualties, most of which occurred in
the capture of Oran and Casablanca.
Very few men were lost in the op-
erations around Algiers.
The total, the Army said, was
made up of 350 killed, 900 wounded
and 350 missing in the Army; and ten
killed, 150 wounded and 150 missing
from the Navy.
Especially
“Isn’t it a pleasant surprise to put
on a suit that you haven’t had on for
about a year, and 'in one of the pock-
ets find-® roll of bills?” asks a col-
Pvt. Tom W. Ayres of Perrin Field
spent Saturday and Sunday with his
wife and children and other relatives
northwest of town.
Clovis Childress, who enlisted in
the Navy about a year ago, has re-
ceived his second promotion since en-
tering the service. He was recently
promoted to pharmacist’s mate, 1st
class. He joined as third class. Clovis
is somewhere in the Pacific with the
Marine Corps.
Lt. W. L. White has completed his
four-motor bomber flying course at
Berry Field, near Nashville, Tenn.,
and will soon be assigned to ferrying
bombers across the waters. Lt. White
was flying instructor in Canada until
about a year ago, when he returned
to the United States and entered the
ferrying service. This service was
taken over by the U. S. Army several
months ago. At that time.Lt. White
was commissioned-and sent to Berry
Field for training in four-motor
ing.
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WASHINGTON. — Tejjt of Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s proclamation asking
that Thanksgiving and New Year’s
days be observed as days of prayer:
By the President of the United
States of America, a proclamation:
“It is good thifig to give thanks
unto the Lord.” Across the uncer-
tain ways of space and time our
hearts echo those words, for the days
are with us again when, at the gath-
ering of the harvest, we solemnly ex-
press our dependence upon almighty
God.
The final months of this year, now
almost spent, find our republic ’and
the nations joined with it waging a
battle on many fronts for the preser-
vation of liberty.
In giving thanks for the greatest
harvest in the history of our nation,
we who plant and reap can well re-
solve that in the year to come we will
do all in our power to pass that mile-
stone, for by our labors in the fields
we can share some part of the sacri-
fice with our brothers and sons who
wear the uniform of the United
States.
It is fitting that we recall now the
reverent words of George Washing-
ton,
“Almighty God, we make our
earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep ;
the United States in Thy holy pro- 1
tection,” and that every American in ’
his own way lift his voice to heaven.
I recommend that all of us bear in
mind this great Psalm:
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall
not want.
“He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures: He leadeth me beside
the still waters.
“He restoreth my soul: He leadeth
me in the paths of righteousness for
His name’s sake.
“Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will
fear no evil: For Thou are with me;
Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort
me.
“Thou prepares! a table before me
in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou anointest my head with oil; my
cup runneth over,
“Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life:
And I will dwell in the House of the
Lord forever.”
Inspired with faith and courage by
these words, let us turn again to the
work that confronts us in this time
of national emergency: In the armed
services and the merchant marine; in
factories and offices; on farms and in
the mines; on highways, railways and
lairways; in other places
service to the nation;
homes.
Now, therefore,
Roosevelt, President
States of America, do hereby invite
the attention of the people to the
joint resolution of Congress approved
December 26, 1941, which designates
the fourth Thursday in November of
each year as Thanksgiving day; and
I request that both Thanksgiving day,
November 26, 1942, and New Year’s
day, January 1, 1943, be observed in
prayer, publicly and privately.
Literature On
How to Save Meat
hear from them in battle
will make interesting reading
their friends, so please give us
information.)
Weldon O. Jones, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Jones, who is stationed at
Murac. Calif., has been promoted Jo
private first class.
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s does a better job in war or peace
than can be expected from people
! who work without such stimulus.
By Dr. George S. Benson
President of Harding College
Searcy, Arkansas
Faced with war’s abnormal de-
mands on national resourcse, the
American people are showing will-
ingness to make sacrifices, to accept
lower living standards and changes
in their daily habits. It is not too
much. Leaders of the nation have ev-
ery reason to expect America’s pa-
triotic citizenship to answer calls for
yet deeper sacrifices which are al-
most certain to come.
But is this exhibit of self denial
universally understood? The sight of
millions of people doing without com-
forts, even necessities, to protect their
mutual interest, seems to have been
misinterpreted by the enemies of
freedom. Apparently they think now
is the time to shout “Wolf” or “Adolf”
■or something, discredit Congress and
set the United States to yelling for a
dictator.
Democracy at War
Maybe they forget that democratic
institutions are essential things to
fight with, as well as valuable things
to fight for; or maybe they only want
you and me to forget it. This is a war
of industry and the U. S. is an Indus- ■
trial nation. Self preservation de-
mands loyalty to representative gov- ________________ _ , ___
«rnment and the use of competitive - food products by householders fearful
never of future rationing programs
away
son. You see now what faith can do
for you.”
Rickenbacker revealed that he had
“got mad” many times during the
ordeal, because of bickering among
the survivors.
“We all got to bickering pretty
badly among ourselves and at times,
if I hadn’t got tough, and shouted
them down, I am sure several would
have cracked completely,” he said.
are freezing to death on the
steppes as did other German
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Reuters’ Moscow correspondent
timated
been wounded in the last few days.
This apparently was based on the
usual formula of three wounded for
each of the 41,000 Germans reported
killed.
The Red army’s effort to encircle
the entire Nazi army statemated be-
fore Stalingrad, estimated at 300,000,
clearly was gaining in power. Two
communiques told of vast stocks of
war equipment falling to the Red |
army tide, of at least one enemy air- 1
dromp seized so swiftly that forty-
two German planes were unable ta
take to the air.
Inside Stalingrad itself the Rus-
sians ;n front assaults also were
gaining against Nazi detachments
whose rear communications ha. e
been slashed by Russian flanking
armies sweeping across the Don
ver far to the west.
al festival day.
Mrs. Hale, who died after 91 years
of great activity, was the widowed
mother of five children. She was an
author, pioneer feminist, and also
editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book in Bos-
ton during the 1830’s.
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j For every household in your coun-
ty there is literature available on
ways to conserve essential meat prod-
ucts which are vitally needed for our
prosecution of the war, R. E. Smith,
director of the Office of Civilian De-
fense for the Eighth Region, said to-
day.
How much meat each adult
child is now supposed to eat, in ad-z
justing the diet ahead of actual meat
rationing, is outlined in material to
be distriubted by block leaders for
town and city, and by neighborhood
leaders for rural areas, during the
week of Nov. 30 to Dec. 5.
Literature prepared and supplied
by the Office of Defense Health and
will be used
Meat I
Distribution | s^rday, “said Z^bout^O^OO
. local money orders are telegraphed to or
by soldiers> sailors and marines each
month.
Soldiers and those telegraphing
money to them will be charged 50
cents for orders of $10 or less and 65
cents for orders up to $25. Regular
rates will apply for sums above $25
The FCC said reduced rates al-
ready apply on cabled money orders.
Wife—“I wish you’d give up smok-
ing, dearest.”
Husband—“But all great men have
smoked.”
Wife—“Well, just promise me you
won’t smoke until you’re great.”
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rui years sne Tried, vainly to mo*
bilize governors of her time to have
them all agree on one
would be set aside as
Thanksgiving.
Finally she prevailed upon Presi-
dent Lincoln in 1863 to proclaim
Corpses Priced at
50 Marks, Nazis Use
Them to Make Soap
WASHINGTON. — Dr. Stephen S»
Wise, chairman of the World Jewish
Congress, said Tuesday night that he
had learned through sources con-
firmed by the State Department that
approximately half the estimated 4,-
000,000 Jews in Nazi-occupied Eu-
rope had been slain in an extermina-
tion campaign.
Dr. Wise, who also is president of
the American Jewish/Congress and
chairman of a committee composed of
representatives of leading Jewish or-
ganizations in America, said these
sources also disclosed:
1. That Adolf Hitler has ordered
the extermination of all Jews in
Nazi-ruled Europe in 1942.
2. That the Jewish population of
Warsaw, Poland, already has been re-
duced from 500,000 to about 100,000
Jews.
3. That when chief Nazis speak of
exterminating Jews in Poland they
speak of four-fifths of the Jewish
population in Hitler-ruled Europe,
since that percentage either now is in
Poland or en route there under a
Nazi grouping plan.
4. That Nazis have < established a
price of 50 reichmarks for each
corpse—mostly Jewish, Dr. Wise in-
dicated—and are reclaiming bodies of
slain civilians to be “processed into
such war-vital commodities as soaji
fats and fertilizer.”
“He (Hitler) is even exhuming the
dead for the value of. the corpses,’*
Dr. Wise said during a press confer-
ence shortly after he had conferred
with State Department officials.
He stressed the fact that most of
his information came from various
sources other than the State Depart-
ment, but said those sources had been
firmed as authentic by the depart-
ment.
In addition, he quoted a “represen-
tative of President Roosevelt recent-
ly returned from Europe” as saying
that the “worst you (Dr. Wise) have
thought is true.”
- i then-he can’t go wrong and
ly.” He succumbed to temptation arid land.”
drank sea water the last two days. _ ____
Rickenbacker, in an interview with tek: “Thank God for your testament.
Sgt. Richard C. Seither of the Marine
I Corps on Nov. 15, the day after he
i was rescued, said he and his com-
panions had caught sea gulls and fish
and eaten them raw. He himself
didn’t eat much raw gull and fish, he
simply didn’t like the taste.
Although Rickenbacker never
doubted that he would be saved, he
had felt the “nearness of death,” with
which he is well acquainted.
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in Uniform
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