Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 219, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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Volume XXIV
Number 219
FRENCH SCUTTLE FLEET TO PREVENT USE BY HITLER
Gasoline Available
Protecting Our Soil As a War Measure
7’
4
i Night at Lone Star Consul For Brazil
i
77ie Weather
REEP ’EM FLYING, U.S.A
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sasur —
County Prior Nov.
14th 5,081 Bales
Berlin Admits One
Force is Now Ten
Miles South Tunis
Former Employee
of Times to Enter
State Department
Failure to Receive
ODT Certificates
Not to Interfere
1942 Crop Nearly
Double Harvest of
County Last Year
Unique Vehicle is
To Spend All Day
In Mt. Pleasant
The Teng siege of Stalingrad
appeared to be about lifted Fri-
day as the Russians continued to
drive the Nazis out of the city
and threaten the flanks of the
invaders. The German left wing,
Funeral services will be held
Chapel
' of Winfield.
Pallbearers
land owners who are represented
by the board of supervisors.
in Hugo. Okla., visiting Mr. and way junction twenty-five miles
Mrs. Dan Mitchell.
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Mrs. Annie Delafield has re-
her son in Austin.
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REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR/
Maximum .
Minimum
Temp. 6:30
W:n^ from
Sky
> 7-
■
I
I
' Jr Jwl
Mt. Pleasant weathe- condi-
ions for the previous 24 hours
taken at 6:30 th’" w/v-'-"
harles Coker, local weather ob-
server, are fcs follows:
...55
.... ... 29
33
SE
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During December
For Truck Owners
JKt ^Jlccisiint JBailg Ainu's
Working for the Interest of Mt. Pleasant, the Center of the Milk Industry of Northeast Texas, with it. Progressive Sod Conservation and Diversified Farming Program'
Mount Pleasant, Texas, Friday Evening, November 27, 1942
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Cotton Ginnings in Navy’s Recruiting
Cruiser is Coming
Here December 5th
Stailngrad Siege
Is About Lifted as i
ROMMEL’S PANZER FORCES LOSE ANOTHER TANK
about 350,000 men and have de-
layed the closing of the
around them.
Moscow reported the capture her untimely passing,
of twelve more villages along the
Don River and claimed an ad- at Cooper’s Chapel Saturday I
ditional 12,000 Axis troops had morning at 11:00 o’clock under
[ the direction of L. L. Gieger, !
—’"ister of the local Church of i
Christ.
sey, son of J. G. Godsey of this
city, to the effect he has been
appointed Vice-Consul to Para,
Brazil, 1 ‘ ‘
Foreign Service Division of the also be obtained at the office of
the rationing board.
Deceased was only 22 years of pacity. j Applications for supplemental
He will be stationed at Para,! rations for passenger cars are
following I also known as Belem, capital of I-
ATTENDANTS FROM OUT
OF TOWN FOR FUNERAL
OF J. W. LOKEY THURSDAY
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Pvt. Robert L. Simpson of Wa-
''O, is home on a three-day fur-{
lough visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. T. L. Simpson.
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Mrs. V. C. Wright, Mrs. Arnie
Winton and Miss Imogene Wright
of Commerce spent Tuesday with
1. M. Copeland.
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John A. Cook returned Wed-
nesday night from a business
trip to Austin.
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French garrisons flocking to
the allied standard have switch-
Follows Attack By
German Planes on
Shore Installations
in groups to the district for this
assistance. The district is as-
sisted by the Soil Conservation
Service, Extension Service, Vo-
cational Agriculture teachers,
Forest Service, and others, oper-'
of double the amount as was
expected. Ginnings for the first
two weeks in November were 226
bales, but it is not likely this pro-
portion will prevail in the fu-
ture a? practicaly all of the crop
has been gathered and ginnings
will continue to grow lighter.
Mrs. H. L. Hess Sr. returned
Thursday night from a week’s
visit with relatives in Oklahoma
City.
Germans Continue
To Sustain Heavy
Losses Everywhere
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Five Allied Armies
[Striking Against
[Nazis in Tunisia
ley, Miller Hays. D. K. Boswell,
M. Driggers ahd D. E. Peel.
The following were among
those from out of town who at-
tended the funeral of J. W. Lokey
at the Baptist Church Thursday
afternoon:
Mr. and Mrs. Y. C. Combs and
1 . . ...
EE
A volcano of dust, sand, metal and smoke erupts ln this unusual photo as a British sheii scores a di-
rect hit on an Axis heavy tank somewhere on the Libyan desert As the British Eighth Army ap-
proaches El Agheila, the Axis armored forces have been cut down nearly to the zero point.
(News of the Day Newsreel Photo)
the commercial interests of the
United States.
Fred writes he will try to ,
come home before going to Bra- j
’’’ of the 'Japs. She had lived at | so> because he is scheduled to :
’ -‘ ’ ““'|fly by way of Miami’ the Canal i gasoline *wm ’beT aHowed'for ail
i new as-. 5_________
there may be some delay and
confusion because of unfamiliar-
ity with the program everybody .
•a ill be able t0 get enough for
their needs. However, it is em-
phasized that the public will have I
to give up pleasure driving for
the duration of the war.
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Young Lady Dies at
Home of Parents j
Aftef Short Illness
I
Miss Betty Lorene Wilhite, I
, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. A.1
been killed or captured.
The situation in this entire
area is still confused, as the Rus-
sians have been advancing so
rapidly and the Germans were
caught so completely by surprise
no one knows just where the
armies are fighting.
Berlin reported a continuation
for the fleet not to show any re-
sistance if the Allies attacked
southern France. He also said
the fleet units all had steam up-
ready to sail to North Africa
Friday and his attack on Toulon
was to prevent this.
Marshal Petain was told Hit-
ler did not question his loyalty
to the Axis, but was advised oth-
er members of the government
were plotting to aid the Allies
and France had to be occupied
because of rampant treachery in
the Vichy regime. Admiral Dar-
1 ly attacking the enemy in this
now aligned with the Americans
and British in North Africa, have
been deprived of their French
B. N. Reed, recruiter in charge nationality by the Petain gov-
of the local Navy Recruiting ernment. It is not now clear
Station, has received informa- ■ what part Pierre Laval will play
tion to the effect the Navy’s re- : in future developments in France,
cruiting cruiser will spend all' -----------V
of Saturday, December 5th, in '< A. H. O’TYSON IS TAKEN TO
I Mt. Pleasant on its tour of North- DALLAS HOSPITAL FRIDAY
2,259 j east Texas in the interest of in- I
substantial improvement ducing young
over 1941, but is somewhat short Navy.
The cruiser is an automobile lance for treatment in the Medi-
converted to look like a war- | cal Arts Hospital. He was accom-
ship, and contains a
recruiting office, whene men may j Riddle and Mrs. Gus McFarland,
sign for duty and be inducted Mr. O’Tyson was stricken Mon-
in to the service at that time, or j day night with what is thought
they may fill out their papers to be arthritis.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL TO HAVE
SCAVENGER HUNT PARTY
The intermediate department
of the Methodist Church will
have a scavenger hunt party at
the church building Saturday
night at 7:30 o’clock, under the
direction of Mrs. H. L. O’Briant
and Allan Wheeler.
cr. Two other States, Maranhao J Es action on them will have to
and Piauhy, are included in the be postponed until the commer-
district which he will represent c’al cars have been taken care
the commercial interests of the of. Applicants for supplementary
“B” or “C” books may use the
gasoline’in their basic “A” books
I pending the issuance of supple-
mentary rations.
Members of the mileage ration-
ing panel advise that sufficient
The Titus Cofinty Rationing
Board anneunce^that owners of I
commercial cars who have not
received their certificates of ne-
cessity from thed Office of De-
fense Transportation may apply
for gasoline rations for carrying 1
cn necessary operations during
the month of December.
Registration will begin Satur-
day morning at the rationing of-
fice in the Cotton Belt building,
and will continue until all owners
of commercial cars are taken care
of. Volunteers will assist the
regular office force in filling out
the applications on forms which
wil show the number of gallons
believed required for the month .
of December.
Of the more than sir hundred
commercial car owners in the
county, onlv twelve have receiv-
ed approval from the Office of
Defense Transportation, and the
local board has been authorized
to issue certificates for the re-
minder for qse during Decem-
ber.- -‘-Je-‘O'-—’*
Persons wh" have already se-
cured application blanks and
have been waiting to file their
r-nlicatiors until thev have re-
ceived their ODT certificates may
a’so file with the local board for
♦he number of gallons of gaso-
line they need.
Apolication blanks for com-
mercial users may be secured at
the post offices in Talco, Win-
field and Cookville and they are
also available at all the service
and is soon to enter the { stations of the county. They may
of Soviet advances west of Mos- |
cow, and said their offensive has
now nearly reached Velikie Luki.
Heavy fighting is progressing on |
the Rzhev sector also, according
to the Germans, but so far, Mos- [
cow has made no mention of such
activities in the north. There were
also reports the Russians were .
preparing for a big offensive in :
the Leningrad sector to relieve
that city of pressure. I five
W. H. Lee, special agent of.
i the Bureau of the Census, re-
ports the cotton ginnings in Titus
County prior to November 14th
amounted to 5,0-81 bales, compar-
ed with a total of only 2,822 bales
for the same period last year.
This is an increase of
: bales, a
At least a part and probably
all of the French fleet in the
Toulon harbor was scuttier Fri-
day morning by oraer of the
commanding admiral after an at-
tack by German bombing planes
on the harbor installations at
4:00 a.m. French time. 1
During the brnbarcment, the
French also destroyed their coast-
al batteries, the navy arsenal,
ammunition dumps and oil tanks
at Toulon so they would not fall
into the hands of the Nazis.
The German planes also sowed
magnetic mines across the har-
bor entrance to prevent the fleet
units sailing to North Africa, so
rather than see the warships fall
into Hitler’s hands, the ships
were sunk in the harbor, thus
giving the Allies a victory with-
out having to fight for it.
In the fleet were the big bat-
tleships Strasbourg and Dun-
kerque, the smaller Provence,
f:ur cruisers, twenty-five des-
troyers, twenty-six submarines,
an air carrier tender and other
vessels, totalling sixty-two. All
reports on the scuttling come
from German sources, which
agree that all were sunk.
Field Marshal Von Runstedt
has been made commander of
all of France f-r the Germans,
and he has ordered the demobili-
zatioA of all French soldiers,
. „ which places France completely
servation programs by applying under German domination.
Hitler excused his action ift
breaking his word to the French
that Toulon would not be occu-
pied by sending a letter to Mar-
"hpl Petain saying it had been
, definitely proven that some
ating under plans adopted1 by the 1 French official had given orders
“Soil and water conservation
places a protecting arm about the
land Americans defend at home
and abroad,” District Chairman
Raymond Brown of the Sulphur-
Cypress Soil Conservation Dis-
trict, said today.
“We at home must defend the
soil for which our men and boys
are fighting on the battle fronts
of the world,” he declared. “With
soil and water conservation
measures, we can lay the ground-
work for victory on the home
front. Conservation not only
saves and improves the land, but
it also i.acreoses crop yields at
once. That means more food with
which to win the war and write
the peace.”
This picture is a combination
of two aerial photographs in
order to show on the land the
symbol of American freedom, the
United States flag. The strip
crops that form the stripes are
from a Southwestern photograph;
the shocked corn that resemble
i jg
lit.. - *„ 4 -■stars is taken from another photo-
graph.
“■Today our flag is the symbol
of freedom and liberty for all the
people enslaved by the Axis and
all the people fighting against
enslavement py the Axis,” the
district supervisor said. “The
contour lines, the contour strip
crops and the terraces in our
conservation-treated fields are
symbols of the protection the
conservation program gives the
land cn which we must depend
for the food ever necessary for
our victory.”
Farmers may obtain help in
planning and carrying out con-
the Reds have received heavy |
reinforcements and are fanatical- '
ly attackin gthe enemy in this
area.
German forces are in disorder-
ly retreat west of Stalingrad
■while the south arm of the Rus-
sian pincers is hacking Hitler’s
lines to pieces. The Nazis are
offering more stubborn resis-
tance to the Red spearheads try- "hjijppjr.es and has been rerort-
i" sl®®e,ar.nlyJOf ed as missir g- probably a prison- zil but he is not certajn he can 1
f 4L _ IT m — C1-* I* J 1« • v a J n » » • -
trap Lone Star for the past ten years [ f]y by way of Miami, the Canal
and had many friends to regret gone and Thinidad to his new as- ■ - j ■ ■ „ j
. . necessary driving, and altthough
signment. I., __j
Mr. Godsey - is a graduate of
the Mt. Pleasant High School and
was an employee of the Times
for several months. He later
worked on newspapers in West
Texas and then received an ap-
pointment in Washington, where
he worked his way through col-
lege. When the war broke out,
he tried to enlist in the Navy and
Air Corps, but was rejected be-
cause of his physical condition.
With his new appointment, he
says he does not feel so badly
over being turned down in the
frmed forces. Fred promises that
if coffee rationing gets too tough ,
on us, he will send us a coffee
tree from Brazil. . ,, , „ . , ... T
, I family of Pans, Mr. and Mrs. I.
advanced at one point to within F. Mitchell and daughters, Cry-
, ten miles of Tunis and this re- ! stal and Clella, of Fort Worth,
London reported Friday that, port was verified by a dispatch Mr and Mrs. Cecil Combs, Mr.
. Allied armies are now, from Rabat, but this source is j and Mrs. Ben Lanston of Dallas,
'marching against the Axis forces not yet considered as reliable, Mr .and Mrs. R. E. Lee of Mt.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Daniel, Mr. entrenched at Bizerte and Tunis, although the Moroccan capital is I Vernon, Mrs. Otho Cooley of
and Mrs. Billy Means and daugh- said that one of these forces ■ supposed to be under American Pittsburg, Miss Mary Catherine
ter, Dianne, spent Thanksgiving had captured an important rail-1 oontrol. I Hays cf Tyler, Mrs. Holly Law-
’ s There is intense air activity j rence and Mrs. Howard Cargile
i southeast of the latter city. An- along the entire front and Al- of Winfield.
1 oher has cut the railway between lied bombers are blasting at both Pallbearers for the funeral
the two places, it was said and the Nazi-held perts and their air- were C. T. Holcomb, Gus Pres-
turned from a month’s visit with still others are moving eastward fields. More reinforcements are
through the middle of the country reaching there from Italy, but it
to dominate the Gulf of Gabes. ! is believed the Axis still has only
Berlin admitted the Allies had about 25,000 men in the area.
__ The Times received a letter
j Wilhite, passed away at the fam- Friday morning from Fred God-
| ’ly home in the Lone Star com-
| munity Thursday night at 10:00
I o’clock following ‘ an illness cf
- — | only twenty-four hours. Her
northwest of the beleagured city | death
was attributed to uremic
was reported to have been trap- poisoning j State Department in official ca-
ped’ chance of efcape’ Deceased was only 22 years of, Parity.
as e e s ave receded Gav_^ ; age and besides her parents, she He will be stationed at Para J rations for passenger cars are re-
is survived by the following ‘ also known as Belem, capital of j r"’psted not to contact the board
brothers and sisters: Mrs. H. A. {the State of Para, and situated i cffice fcr information concern!.g
Songers of Paris, Mrs. W. M. at the mouth of the Amazon Riv- | their applications already
Harvey of Monahans, Mrs. Joe
Crabtree and Edgar Lee Wilhite
of this county and Willard Wil-
hite of San Diego, Calif. Another
brother, Herman Wilhite, was
with the American forces in the
i Miss Betty Wilhite Fred Godsey Given
Passes Thursday Appointment Vice
Nazis Driven Back i
a
men to join the i A. H. O’Tyson was :aken to
I Dallas Friday in a Riddle ambu-
- — | cal Arts Hospital. He was accom- •
complete panied by Mrs. O'Tyson. Lewis
aaavvr me V1LC GV |
they may fill out their papers
and report for duty at a later
date. A special force of recruit-
ers will accompany the cruiser
here.
All men who sign for service
on the cruiser will be credited
to the local station.
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WINS SCHOLARSHIP
Miss Mary Nell Cass of this
city, student at Baylor Univer-
sity, has been chosen for mem-
bership in Alpha Chi National
Scholarship Society, membershir
being selected from the highest
five per cent in scholarship for
the junior and senior classes by
an honor committee.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cross, G
W. Cross. Mrs. Earl Porter anr
children, Sue and Billy, visited
ed from “V” for Vichy to “V” Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Cross i"
for Victory. ' Texarkana Saturday.
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 219, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1942, newspaper, November 27, 1942; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1366883/m1/1/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.