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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1944.
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‘Go-to-School’ Is
Plea of Several
Federal Agencies
Blalock Will
Support Nominees
Grayson Exes To
Meet August 20
Daylight Saving
Law Repeal Asked
By Texas Solon
Sgt. Haile Writes
From New Guinea
1 1 Million Bales
Is Cotton Estimate
U. S. Army Now Using
New 4 Super Explosive’
AMERICANS SWEEP UP
ST. MALO AND LE MANS
COTTON CROP
NEEDING RAIN
Their Marital Rift
Extended to Woodwork
Weldon Wilson, Phm. /lc, son of
Mr, and Mrs. C. A. Wilson, has been
transferred from Portsmouth, Va., to
Corona, Calif.
Cpl. Raymond Kerby of Fort Sill,
Okla., spent the weekend here visit-
ing his mother.
Pvt.- J. O. Dollar of Camp Wolters
spent the weekend here visiting his
wife and son.
Ben Robert Jones, 17-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Jones, has been
accepted for service in the Navy.
of Mrs.
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Postal service in the United States
dates from 1639, when such a service
was first instituted in Massachusetts.
George Washington was the only
president of America to receive the
entire electoral vote.
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To Be Protected
Yanks Clear Guam.
Trap Japs Inland
Grayson College
Fifty Years Ago
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YOUR HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER fl ESTABLISHED IN 1885
Pvt. Carl D. Carraway, who is sta-
tioned in New Guinea, is a new sub-
scriber to The Sun. New Guinea is a
long way from Whitewright, but The
Sun is going to several from this sec-
tion who are now in New Guinea.
Pvt. Doyle D. Alexander, son of O.
-G. Alexander, has been transferred
from Manchester, N. H., to the Army
Air Base, Presque Isle, Maine, for a
period of 90 days schooling.
“I believe that if the matter were
left to the vote of the American peo-
ple they would overwhelmingly ap-
prove of such action.”
far-
and.
to ad-
Ross Wilson, seaman first class, has
been transferred from San Diego,
Calif. Seaman Wilson is a son of Mr.
.and Mrs. C. A. Wilson.
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Lt. Harold Pace of Lincoln, Neb., is
■visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Roscoe Pace in Denison, and relatives
in Whitewright.
Mrs. Roscoe Brown of Wichita
Falls, wife of Lt. Roscoe Brown, now
a prisoner of war of the German gov-
ernment, is visiting her husband’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grover C.
Brown. She recently received a let-
ter from Lieutenant Brown, who was
wounded at the time his Fortress was
shot down over Germany, saying that
he has recovered from his wound, al-
though he has lost some fifty pounds
in weight during the year and a half
he has been a prisoner. He said he
had received several packages and
letters from home, receiving sixteen
letters at on time. Lieutenant Brown
said that he is still wearing the
clothes he wore when he parachuted
to German soil, and that they are in
bad condition. Mrs. Brown’s brother,
Lt. Randall Bradley, also of Wichita
Falls, is a prisoner in the same camp
with Lieutenant Brown, having been
shot down April 28th last, when he
received a head injury.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Earnheart went
to Victoria last Friday to attend grad-
uating exercises of Aloe Army Air
-Field. Their son, Philip Earnheart,
was a member of the graduating class
and received his wings and commis-
sion as a second lieutenant in the
Army Air Force. Since entering the
army as an aviation cadet more than
a year ago, Lieutenant Earnheart had
been in training at Jefferson City,.
Mo., Jones Field, Bonham, and Ma-
jors Field, Greenville, before going to
the single engine advanced flying
school at Victoria. He has been as-
signed to Aloe Field for a course in
aerial gunnery and transition train-
ing in the P-40 fighter plane. A grad-
uate of Whitewright High School,
Lieutenant Earnheart attended Texas
A. & M. College for a year before en-
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Pvt. Percy G. Tracy of Camp Fan-
nin visited his mother, Mrs. Lola
Hood, over the weekend.
Mrs. Tom Head has been informed
that her brother, Pvt. Melvin F. Flem-
ing, has arrived in France. He has
sent some French money to his moth-
er, Mrs. Cora Jane Fleming of Sher-
man, formerly of Whitewright. Cpl.
J. D. Fleming, his older brother, is
also in France.
Because of a war-caused shrinkage
in the nation’s high school population
until it is now back to the levels of
1934, a national “Go-to-School Drive”
is being sponsored by the Children’s
Bureau of the Department of Labor
and the U. S. Office of Education of
the Federal Security Agency, ih co-
operation with the Office of War In-
formation and with the endorsement
of the War Manpower Commission.
Three million young people of high
school age now are working full or
part time in this country. Jobs have
been the big reason?-the young people
have not gone on to high school. The
lure of big money has been a factor.
Other factors—desire to help the Na-
tion, to help an employer, and to help
the family—all play a prominent part
in keeping young people out of
school.
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WASHINGTON. — There is com-
plete agreement between top officials
of the Army and the War Production
Board on estimates of military sup-
plies, Major Gen. Lucius D. Clay said
Tuesday in reference to a statistical
report whose withdrawal led two
members of the WPB to submit resig-
nations.
Clay, director of material foi' the
Army service forces, said in the sum-
mary in question was a general in-
ventory which the Army felt might
tend to obscure critical needs for spe-
cific weapons. The suppressed report
listed good supplies of nearly all
Army ground weapons, but was said
to deal with general categories, rather
than specific items.
“The Army has never said that the
over-all procurement program is lag-
ging seriously,” General Clay as-
serted. “However, we are behind
schedules and our required produc-
tion in the next six months must in-
crease substantially.”
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Lt. Joe Thomas Meador, with an
.American armored division in France,
sent his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J.
Meador, some French money and
some German ration books he picked
up in France. The items are now on
■display in a window at the Manning
■& Meador store here and have at-
tracted considerable attention.
Pvt. W. J. (Dub). Billner, para-
trooper with the American Army in
Italy, writes his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Billner, that he is well.
■“Tell the boys at home to take care
of things in Whitewright, we are tak-
ing care of Rome,” he added.
Lt. Jack E. Wallace, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Wallace of Morenci, Ari-
zona, and former resident of White-
wright, has won the right to wear
wings and boots of the Army Para-
troops, according to announcement
received from the parachute school at
Fort Benning, Ga. Lieutenant Wal-
lace has completed four weeks of
jump training during which he made
five jumps from a plane in flight, the
last tactical jump at night involving
a combat problem on landing. Com-
missioned as a second lieutenant in
the Field Artillery in May, 1943,
Lieutenant Wallace had been sta-
tioned in California before going to
Fort Benning. He is a 1940 graduate
of Whitewright High School.
Morris Fogle Gillett has advised his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Gillett,
that he has been promoted to the
rank of chief radio technicians The
rank of chief petty officer in the
Navy is equivalent to the rank of
first sergeant in the Army. Chief
Petty Officer Gillett’s address is U. S.
S. Badger-126, care of fleet postoffice,
New York.
Another of Japan’s inner circle of
Western Pacific defenses — strategic
Guam Island—has been brought un-
der American control.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, chief
of the Pacific fleet, announced late
Wednesday that Yank forces have
completed conquest of Guam and that
remnants of the once powerful Jap-
anese garrison are surrounded inland
from Pati Point on the northeast
coast.
- The trapped Japanese, under heavy
pressure, are expected to be liqui-
dated shortly.
Guam, seized by Japan in the early
days of the Pacific war, was liber-
ated by hard-hitting Marines and
doughboys in twenty days.
Successful conquest of Guam, Sai-
pan and Tinian, all in the Marianas,
position American forces for future
operations against the Japanese
homeland, the Philippines, Formosa,
and the China coast.
months, $50; matriculation fee, $1.50;
library fee, 50c; books, not over $15;
total, $179.
“For young ladies, add $25
above.”
tering the Army. His brother, Lt.
Billy Glen Earnheart, is with the
Army Engineers at Elkins, West Va.
The Government’s first cotton crop
estimate for the season, announced
Tuesday, indicates a crop of 11,022,-
000 bales, which was slightly larger
than expected in trade circles. The
per acre yield was indicated at ten
pounds greater than last year at the
same period. Number of acres that
will-be harvested was 20,081,000, the
smallest cotton acreage harvested
since 1895.
WACO. — A Waco Negro couple,
when divorced, found separation a
problem because of the housing
shortage. They solved the difficulty
by having their home sawed in two,
moving the pieces apart and walling
the open side. They live today on
the same lot, entirely separated, tell-
ing their friends all they had to do
was think and saw wood.
WASHINGTON.—A super explo-
sive called pentolite, 20 percent more
powerful than TNT, is being used in
rocket projectiles.
Maj. Gen. L. H. Campbell, chief of
Army Ordnance, announcing this
Saturday, said that a “small quantity
of this explosive” will penetrate 5
feet of reinforced concrete.
Besides providing “terrific punch”
for bazooka ammunition and other
rocket projectiles, the Army added,
pentolite also is employed in rifle
grenades, anti-tank explosives, cer-
tain types of artillery shells, for
demolition and for clearing wrecked
harbors such as that of Cherbourg.
District OPA Director J. H. Kult-
gen of Fort Worth issued an order
Tuesday requiring eating establish-
ments throughout the 49-county dis-
trict, including Grayson County, to
have ceiling prices for 40 basic food
items and meals posted in their
places of business by Aug. 16.
Copies of the posting order, togeth-
er with posters listing the 40 items,
will be distributed to all eating places .
by next Monday, R. H. Owens, dis-
trict OPA price executive, said. The
prices to be placed on the poster are
the highest price charged by an es-
tablishment for the listed items be-
tween April 4 and 10, 1942.
Owens said places which have not
done so already are required to file
with the ration board by today their
prices and menus for the base period.
The new restaurant regulation pro-
vides that establishments which do
not file their prices can be forbidden
to do business.
Pvt. Billie Hatfield, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hatfield, has
completed her training at the Wom-
en’s Army Corps training center at
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and has been
assigned to the 261st AAF Base Unit,
Abilene, Texas.
Lt. Billie Joe Trice,
Dow Powell of Whitewright,
been reported missing over Germany
since July 19. Lieutenant
ceived his wings at the
Army Flying School Aug.
and went overseas early this
His wife is the former Bonnie Pearl
Hendricks of Anna.
INVASION HEADQUARTERS.—.
Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley’s whirl-
wind wedges rushed without check on
the last 100 miles toward Paris
Wednesday night after sweeping
through Le Mans and forcing the die
hard defenders of Brittany’s sea for-
tress of St. Malo to knuckle under in
surrender.
The capture of St. Malo, whose de-
fenders had been ordered to fight to>
the last man, was reported in field,
dispatches. Never before had it been
taken, though it had been the scene of
many sieges in the Middle Ages. The
historic fishing village and resort on
the north coast was perched on an is-
land connected with the mainland by
a defended causeway.
Unconfirmed reports said American
troops had pushed into Nantes on the
Loire and into Angers, just north of
the Loire and fifty miles upstream
from Nantes, indicating the Ameri-
cans were still sweeping forward
without any stiffening Nazi resist-
ance that would presage a real fight
for Southern France.
On the northern end of the
flung Allied battle line British
Canadian forcse continued
vance.
Nazi Attacks Beaten Off
The Canadians broadened IL_L
wedge into the German lines to six
A nickel is referred to as “token
money” because it does not contain
five cents worth of metal.
W. O. White Jr., apprentice sea-
man, writes his mother that he has
finished his boot training at San
Diego and would remain there for
-eight weeks’ schooling. He has been
in the Navy since June 1. His wife,
the former Imogene Nelms, and their
children are making their home in
Dallas.
WASHINGTON. — World War II
. veterans, while still on active service,
. have already reached the position as
to benefits that the veterans of World
War I required 25 years of effort and
lobbying to reach.
Not only is pay higher in this war,
but so is mustering-out pay. World
War I soldiers got $60; present-day
veterans get $100 to $300.
The veterans of the last war kept
hammering until they got a bonus—
“adjusted compensation,” based on
their war insurance. Today’s veter-
ans have a wide range of benefits,
from business or home loans to free
education.
The Servicemen’s Readjustment
Law (G. I. Bill of Rights) was cred-
ited by Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines,
administrator of veterans’ affairs,
with surpassing the benefits given
the last war’s veterans, including the
bonus.
It was not until three years after
the last war that Congress combined
scattering agencies to form the Vet-
erans’ Bureau. Today, the Veterans’
Administration is operating a multi-
plicity of programs, ranging from
death and disability pensions to free
education for every veteran of 90
days’ service.
In the process, the Administration
will be increased vastly in size—the
extent isn’t determined yet—and will
become in time the biggest hospital
operator in the U. S., to serve dis-
abled and needy veterans.
The Administration now operates
95 hospitals or other facilities, with
88,000 beds. Additional facilities, un-
der construction or soon to be con-
structed, will bring the total to 121,-
000 beds.
By contrast, the Army now has
has more than 850 hospitals in the U.
S., with nearly 500,000 beds—63 per
1,000 men, as compared with 11 hos-
pital beds per 1,000 for the civilian
population. By the end of the war,
need for Army hospitals will be
diminishing, and the Veterans’ Ad-
ministration will get 100,000 more
beds from the Army.
Congress made hospitalization one
of the chief features of the G. I. bill,
half billion dollars for new hospitals,
and gave the Administration priori-
ties ranking after those of the Army
and Navy, to speed construction.
Service hospitals do not discharge
disabled patients until they have re-
ceived the maximum improvement I
that can be given them, except for in-
sane and tubercular patients. There-
after, they become the responsibility
of the Veterans’ Administration.
The G. I. Bill of Rights contains
provisions for the protection of serv-
icemen in exercising the rights due
them under the law. Disabled vet-
erans, for instance, may not be dis-
charged from the service unless they
execute a claim for compensation,
pension or hospitalization, or certify
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NOTICE TO THOSE
SENDING SUBSCRIPTIONS
TO MEN IN SERVICE
This newspaper mails a large
number of copies to men in the
service each week. If you are one
of those sending a subscription to
one of these service men and
think the time for which you paid
has expired, please come in and
check this with us and renew the
subscription if you desire it to be
continued. Please notify us
promptly of change of address.
News items about men in serv-
ice will be appreciated.
The sixth annual reunion of Gray-
son College ex-students will be held
at the Whitewright High School
building Sunday, . August 20. Ac-
cording to reports reaching White-
wright a large number of ex-students
will be present. All attending the re-
union will bring lunches, which will
be spread on a large table in the
school gumpasium. This has been the
custom in the past and when all
lunches are spread the table has been
loaded to capacity with a big assort-
ment of the best food with plenty for
all.
The complete program for the re-
union has not been announced, but
the principal speaker will be Major
Morris U. Lively of Fort Sill, Okla.
The program will begin at 10 a. m.
For many years Grayson College
was one of the leading educational
institutions in Texas, and many of
the ex-students now occupy high po-
sitions and some are among the lead-
ing business men of Texas. More
than 200 attended the reunion last
year, some traveling several hundred
miles to be present.
AUSTIN.—Rains are badly needed
to halt deterioration of the Texas cot-
ton crop in all sections except south-
ern counties where the crop already
is made, the United States Bureau of
Agricultural Economics reported here
on Wednesday in forecasting a 1944
harvest of 2,450,000 bales.
The Aug. 1 acreage of 7,127,000 was
the smallest of this century, although
the prospective yiled per acre is 165
pounds, eleven pounds above the
average since 1900 and five pounds
more than the average last year.
Through July most cotton was
withstanding heat and drouth well,
with fields clean and insects in check.
By the end of July the need for rain
was acute, and August weather will
determine the crop’s final outcome as
usual, the bureau said.
Drouth which continued through authorizing the appropriation of one- pealed,
the week ended Aug. 7 left farm
crops generally in an unfavorable
condition, the bureau said in another
report. An exception was the south-
ern high plains. Cotton picking is
well under way in South Texas with
the supply of labor reported
quate. Most of the corn crop
beyond help from rain, and
corn and grain sorghum was being
harvested in southern counties. The
peanut crop likewise was being har-
vested in South Texas, with the East
Texas area needing rain.
Livestock remained in fairly good
condition last week, but was begin-
ning to show effects of hot weather
and dry ranges. Many counties re-
ported inadequate supplies of stock
water, and marketings of cattle,
calves and sheep were heavy.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Haile received
this week the following letter from
their son, Sgt. Findley Haile, who is
with the. Army in New Guinea:
“Yesterday I had the good luck to
go on an expedition up the coast 25
or 30 miles. There were nine of us in
the two vehicles;
outfits that will cover almost any
kind of ground. We followed the
coast almost all the way and drove
along the beaches on a number of
stretches. Visited two native villages
of about 150 and 50 inhabitants. Got
some good pictures and also picked
up some nice sea shells in and along
the coral reefs. Traded the natives
for some papua fruit that tastes
something like a melon but grows
high in the tops of slender trees. Also
tasted several different kinds of nuts
and other fruit I had never heard of.
“Am slowly learning something of
the Pidgeon English they speak, but
at each place the dialect seems a little
different. A lot of them speak Eng-
lish, and I have seen a few who could
speak real well, educated by the mis-
sionaries before the Japs came. By
signs and gestures we are able to' un-
derstand them and after we learn a
little of their screwy ways of putting
their few English words together we
get along fine. It was very interest-
ing to watch the natives spear fish
from the coral reefs, and some of the
boys traded for spears and bows and
arrows from them. I didn’t, because
of the trouble in getting the stuff
home.
“The natives subsist on what na-
ture furnishes, and only cultivate a
few yaros (yams) and banana trees.
We passed along what was once a
banana plantation that was destroyed
by the Japs. The new plants are
small, and a few of the old ones that
survived had fruit on them. I took
some shots of these, but the light was
not good and they may not turn out
very good.
“One native chief (whom they call
Doctor) could speak fairly well, and
we learned some interesting (and
horrible) things the Japs did when
they invaded. A lot of these things I
will wait till I get back to tell you.”
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Represen-
tatvie Luther A. Johnson of Corsi-
cana, author of a bill in the House to
repeal the daylight saving law and
return the entire country to standard
time, urged the House membership to
bring such pressure to bear on the
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce that the committee will re-
port out one of the pending bills.
“I believe the time has come now
for daylight saving time to be discon-
tinued,” Johnson said. “Long before
Congress enacted this law, certain
cities throughout/ the country had
daylight saving time by agreement,
but it was only for a limited time,
usually May 1 to Sept. 30, when the
days were longest. And as the days
grew shorter the agreement was re-
The current issue of Farm „
Ranch, in its “50 Years Ago” column,
has the following item about Gray-
son College which passed out of ex-
istence some 36 years ago:
“Grayson College, Whitewright,
Texas, was chartered in 1886. It
maintains departments of Mathemat-
cis, Languages, Science, English, Elo-
cution, Music and Art, presided over
by eleven thoroughly competent
teachers. During the year a three-
story pressed brick stone trimmed
building, containing over thirty
rooms, was completed, finished and
furnished.
“Five flourishing literary societies
assemble in their elegantly furnished
halls.
“The necessary expenses to stu-
dents ought not to exceed for young
men the following rates:
Board, 10 months, $100; washing,
($1 to $1.25 monthly), $12; tuition, 10
HOUSTON. — Myron G. Blalock,
Democratic National Committeemen,
said Tuesday that he will vigorously
support the party’s nominees and as-
serted that Texas presidential elec-
tors are bound to support Roosevelt
and Truman.
“My position,” Blalock told The
Chronicle, “is that I supported the
majority at Austin and that I am
likewise supporting the majority at
Chicago. I will vigorously support
the nominees of the Democratic Party
and when I get to where I can’t sup-
port them I will resign as a party of-
ficial.”
The statement was in reply to a
letter addressed to Blalock by former
State Senator T. J. Holbrook of Aus-
tin, one of 23 electors named by the
“Regular” State Convention, in which
Holbrook called on the National
Committeeman to state whether he
would support the electors. Hol-
brook’s communication answered a
letter from Blalock sent to all elec-
tors, asking whether they will, if
elected in November, vote in the elec-
torial college for Roosevelt and Tru-
man.
miles at the base and pushed a three-
mile-wide spear to within about five
miles of Falaise.
British troops
bridgehead across
beat off German counterattacks and
advanced amid indications the Ger-
mans were getting ready to Withdraw
from their position between the Brit-
ish and Canadian forces.
The official announcement of the
complete occupation of Le Mans—
automobile manufacturing city
eighty-five miles east of Rennes—
made it clear that American tanks
were well beyond the city and the
German news agencies reproted the
fast spearheads were only eighty-
seven miles from Paris.
The German report that Bradley’s
forces had scored this further ad-
vance of twenty-three miles from Le
Mans was without Allied confirma-
tion, but there was a possibility it
might be correct as the Americans
had not yet met any solid resistance.
On the Caen front, wave after wave
of Allied planes slashed savagely at a
great concentration of German tanks
which had been drawn up presum-
ably for a largescale counterattack.
The Canadians on this front rolled up
their total catch of prisoners to more
than 2,000, most of them from the
German 89th Division, badly mauled
in the initial Canadian attack a few
days after they were brought to the
front from Norway.
Altogether at least twenyt-six more
towns and villages were liberated
four-wheel-drive Thursday by the Americans, British
and Canadians, bringing the weekly
total, of announced liberated commu-
nities to forty-nine.
All Eating Pl aces
Required to Post
Price on 40 Items
that their right to file such
has been explained to them.
The Veterans’s Administration is
authorized to place officials and ’em-
ployees in Army and Navy hospitals
and discharge centers—the Army has
more than 600 — to advise veterans
and process claims. Some men have
been assigned and others now are be-
ing trained for these jobs.
Veterans organizatoins also are
authorized to assign paid, full-time
representatives to the discharge cen-
ters, to aid veterans in exercising
their rights.
Finally, as a hedge against any fu-
ture demand by the veterans of
World War II for a bonus, Congress
provided that any benefits collected
by the veteran under the G. I. bill
shall be deducted from the adjusted
compensation, and if he obtained a
loan under its terms, the bonus shall
be used for paying off the loan.
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