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THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
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NO. 176
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FOUR PAGES TODAY
IN FIFTY-SECOND YEAR
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The Weather
Tech. Sgt. Harvey C. Compton
Six New Cases of
Polio In Dallas
LATE WAR
NEWS
Wind, Hail, Lightning
Does Damage Over Wide
Section in Ennis Area
8 U.S. Citizens
Indicted By Jury
Badoglio Puts
All Italy Under
Martial Rule
'School Transfers
Must Be Made by
First of August
Signs Increase
Italy May Seek
Separate Peace
Mrs. Annie Vavra
Czechoslovakia
Native, Succumbs
Say Children Can
Aid in Harvesting
County’s Cotton
OPA Gives Lower
Quotas for Autos
In Aug. Than July
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Funeral Services
To Be Held Here
Monday Afternoon
Woman Who Lived
During Four Wars
Taken at Age of 90
Russia maintained a coloney on
the California coast until 1841.
Two Injured as
Truck Hits Wagon
Near Mexia Today
Houses Unroofed
Crops Damaged by
Heavy Hail Storm
Houston Gets
Shipbuilding
Contract Today
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP)
—U. S. Planes blasted Japanese
, positions on Kiska ten times last
Saturday in the stepped up cam-
paign to wear down the enemy's
defenses, the Navy announced1
today.
Sgt. Compton Gets
Distinguished
Flying Cross
Funeral Services
Held Sun. in Rice
For Willie Joe Parish
Enemy Found With
Very Elaborate
Fortifications
Where Is
. Mussolini?
Salt Lake City, Utah, is located
at approximately the same latitude
at New York City, Madrid. Naples
and Istanbul — 41 degrees north
latitude.
Thos. L. Swafford
Succumbs After
Long Illness
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP)—Secretary of State
Cordell Hull said today that the Casablanca terms of
unconditional surrender for Axis enemies of the United
Nations still apply to Italy.
MOSCOW, July 26 (UP)—So-
viet military advices said today
that the Germans were wrecking
ing Orel in apparent preparation
for withdrawal and the Red Ar-
my was expected to drive into it
at any time.
St. John’s Church
Rites Tuesday
Morning, 10 o'clock
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP)—«
The Office of Price Administratior
today established a quota of 45,-*
500 new passenger automobiles for
rationing during August, 6,300 few
■er than in July.
Among the Texans who recently
received the Distinguished Flying
Cross was Tech. Sgt. Harvey Comp-
ton of Waxahachie. Sgt. Compton
has also received the Air Medal
and Oak Leaf Clusters. Sgt. Comp-
ton is with the United States Army
Eighth Air Force.
Military Funeral
For Rice Man
Died in Wisconsin
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MEXIA, Tex., July 26 (UP)—Two
persons were being treated today
for injuries received when a truck
ran into their wagon near Mexia
this weekend.
The injured were Carl Betts of
Jewett and Ben Antoney.
Charges were filed against G. A.
Montgomery of Travis county, who
was driving the truck for leaving
the scene of a wreck and failing
to render aid.
Forrest Still Jr.
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Franks and Mr. and Mrs. J.
Parish, all of Rice.
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Mrs. E. White, 55,
Dies Sunday in
Waxa Sanitarium
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP)—
Eight United States citizens includ-
ing two women, who have been
broadcasting Nazi and Facist pro-
paganda from Germany and Italy
were indicted here today by a fed-
eral grand jury on charges of trea-
son.
The dust rising over the collapse
of Mussolini’s regime still obscured
its full import. But the indications
were plentiful, and gives authori-
tative backing in many quarters,
that Italy was looking for a way
out of the war, and was putting
the search in the hands of the
Duce’s arch political foe.
Reynolds Packard, former United
Press manager in Italy, reported
from* his present post in North Af-
rica that “it is obvious to one who
knows Italy” that Badoglio will
seek means of breaking with Ger-
many.
InLondon a diplomatic com-
charges after a peace deal is made.
4. Made a deal under which he
would seek to save his own skin
by arranging an escape through
the Vatican, where his son-in-law
is ambassador.
5. Been stricken critically ill.
Experiments are being conducted
at Eureka, Cal., in dehydration of
whale meat, whose steaks, when
cooked, are said to resemble beef.
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Funeral services were held Sun-
day afternoon at the Rice Bap-
tist church for Willie Joe Parish,
two months old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joddie A. Parish, who died in
the Navarro Clinic in Corsicana
Saturday morning. The Rev. W. H.
Day conducted the rites, and bu-
rial was in the Rice cemetery.
Surviving beside his parents are
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie
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Mrs. Annie Vavra, 69, resident
of this community for 47 years,
passed away at 6:30 o’clock Sun-
day afternoon at the home of Joe
Odlozil, 509 South Pecan Street,
after a long illness.
Funeral services will be held at
10 o’clock Tuesday morning at St.
John’s church with the Rev. Fath-
er F. Kowalski and the Rev. Fath-
er Vincent Micola officiating.
Interment will be made in St.
Joseph’s cemetery with H. C. Wip-
pern in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Vavra was born Nov. 10,
1874, in Czechoslovakia. and came
to America with her parents when
she was quite small. The family
settled in Cooke county where they
resided for 9 years, before coming
to Ellis county.
She was married to John Vavra,
in 1896, who passed away a num-
ber of years ago.
Surviving are six children, four
sons, Joe, Frank, Louis and Charles
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
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ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS MONDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1943
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During the first quarter of 1943,
Lend-Lease shipments accounted
for 1-2 pound of butter out of ev-
ery 100 pounds produced in the
United States, and 15 eggs out of
every 100 eggs laid.
LONDON, July 26 (UP)—Mar-
shal Pietro Badoglio, taking over
the government from the faltering
hands of Benito Mussolini, placed
all Italy under martial law today
as signs increased that the South-
ern Axis partner may seek a spe-
arate peace.
Moving swiftly to prevent a pos-
sible outbreak of civil war between
ousted Fascists and supporters of
the new royalist regime, Badoglio
also imposed a dusk-to-dawn cur-
few and banned all public meet-
ings.
There had been no authentic re-
ports of widespread disorders in
Italy preceding Mussolini’s ouster
last night, but major trouble is
expected when army royalists take
over power from the Fascist hier-
archy.
Badoglio also announced the ap-
pointment of Raffaele Guariglia,
ambassador to Turkey, as foreign
minister, an additional portfolio
taken over by Mussolini last spring
following the removal of his son-
in-law, County Galeazzo Ciano.
Guariglia was reported by Ra-
dio Rome to be enroute to the Ital-
ian capital by. plane from Ankara,
where he easily could have ar-
ranged informal third party con-
tacts with Allied nations, possibly
to extend peace feelers.
The proclamation of martial law
and establishment of a curfew was
announced in a manifesto issued
through commanders of army corps
and territorial defense- forces and
broadcast by Radio Rome.
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP)—
The Maritime Commission today
announced the awarding of con-
tracts for construction of 223 Lib-
erty ships to the New England
Shipbuilding Corp., South Portland,
Me., and the Houston Shipbuilding
- Corp., Houston, Tex. The Houston
yard will build 108 vessels and the
Portland yard 115 ships.
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OPA Says No. 14
Good 5 lbs. Sugar
BY UNITED PRESS
Reports circulated today that Benito Mussolini, depos-
ed warlord of Italy, had fled into exile or was held by the
Italian army to be turned over to the Allies for trial as a
“war criminal.”
The reports lacked confirmation. The whereabouts of
Mussolini was as big a mystery as the import of the gov-
ernment shakeup. Marshal Pietro Badglio, Mussolini’s suc-
cessor, gave no immediate clue to his intentions as he went
about consolidating his position by putting the entire coun-
try under martial law.
Diplomatic sources in London said Britain was ready
to do business with Badoglio if support developed for some
indications that Italy might be heading out of the war.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull made it clear, however, that
the Allied terms would be unconditional surrender.
The possibility of light being shed on the Italian sit_
nation arose from the report that Prime Minister Winston
Churchill would discuss the subject at the next session of
the House of Commons. _
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BEDFORD, Ind. (UP)—It isn’t
that Aaron Craig’s hen is unpatri-
otic—she’s a good producer—she
just couldn’t help it. The hen re-
cently laid an egg which was mark-
ed with an exact replica of the
Japanese rising sun insignia and
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BANANAS CAME IN TINFOIL
NEW YORK (UP)-Ponder this
when you’d like to slice a banana
over your breakfast cereal:
More than 2,500,000,000 bananas
were imported into the United
States each year before war cur-
tailed their import. Yet, back in
the latter part of the last century,
when the fruit was even more of
a rarity than at present, each ban-
ana was carefully wrapped in tin-
foil.
Vavra, all of Ennis, and
daughters. Mrs. Joe Odlozil
Mrs. Mary Honza of Ennis,
16 grandchildren.
WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP)
—The Office of Price Adminis-
tration announced today that
stamp 14 in War Ration Book
One will be valid for purchase of
five pounds' of sugar from Aug.
16 thregh October. Stamp num-
ber 13 which became valid June
1 expires on Aug. 15.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, July 26 (UP) —
Allied troops driving the Axis
into the northwestern corner of
Sicily pressed their offensive
from all sides today but bitter
Axis resistance slowed the Cana
dian troops pushing in from the
center, a communique announc
ed.
East Texas — Little change in
temperature south portion; not
quite so warm north portion this
afternoon and tonight; scattered
thunder-showers south and extreme
east portions.
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Thomas L. Swafford, 25, resident
of Rice since he was four years
of age who died at 6:30 o’clock
Thursday evening in the govern-
ment hospital at Traux Field,
Madison, Wis., following an ill-
ness since February, will be held
at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Metho-
dist church in Rice with the Rev.
W. H. Day of Grapeland, pastor
of the Baptist church of Rice, of-
ficiating.
The body arrived in Ennis at
midnight Saturday and was taken
to the Keever chapel where it will
remain until late Monday when it
will be taken to the home in Rice.
Interment will be made in the
Rice cemetery.
Thomas Lynn Swafford was born
June 2, 1918 in Mart. Texas. When
he was a few months old the fam-
ily moved to Italy and in January,
1922, they moved to Rice where
they have resided since that time.
He enlisted with the U. S. Army
Air Corps Dec. 13, 1942, and was
sent to Sheppard Field for his ba-
sic training. Following the comple-
tion of his training there he was
sent to Traux Field, Madison, Wis-
consin, and had been in the gov-
ernment hospital there since Feb-
ruary. His parents had been with
him for the past seven weeks, also
his fiancee, Miss Patricia Dailey
of Los Angeles Cal.
Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
G. H. Swafford of Rice he is sur-
vived by one brother, John 'if.
Swafford with the U. S. Army at
Camp Grant, Calif., and three sis-
ters, Miss Jaunita Swafford of Los
Angeles, Cal., Mrs. H. J. Harris of
Los Angeles, Cal., and Mrs. Floyd
Brewer of Rice, and grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dannelly of
Lockhart, Texas. He was a member
of the Episcopal church.
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These wishing to transfer
their children to the Ennis
school district are requested to
do so by August 1. The law pro-
vides that no transfers are to
be made after August 1st ac-
cording to J. D. King, superin-
tendent of the Ennis public
schools.
Three major moves in an effort
to solve the cotton picking problem
in Ellis county this fall will be
made, it was decided at a meeting
of the Ellis County Federal Crop
Corps committee Thursday night
when members from all over Ellis
county gather to study the prob-
lem. They will be:
1. Asking the school authorities
of the county to delay opening of
the schools of the county about 30
days so that school children may
help with gathering the cotton and
other fall crops.
2. An effort to get a permanent
war prisoner camp located some-
where near the central part of the
county so that Ellis county far-
mers may be able to use them for
farm labor, and
3. Organization of labor commit-
tees in every community, such as
was so successful in the matter of
helping the cotton chopping prob-
lem.
It was agreed by the committee-
men that the matter of closing the
schools is the most promising of
all the possible plans in this sec-
Benito Mussolini appeared to
have vanished from public view
amid the ruins of his Fascist re-
gime today but there were count-
less rumors that he was fleeing
to exile, was under arrest or was
critically ill.
Reports seeping through neutral
sources speculated that the ousted
Italian dictator had:
1. Fled to Switzerland.
2. Fled to Germany.
3. Been arrested, with other Fa-
cist leaders by the Italian army
leaders to be turned over to the
Allies for trial on “war guilt”
mentator said Britain would be
prepared to deal with Badoglio
“provided that it is evident he ex-
ercises full authority in Italy.”
The dealing presumably would be
on the basis of the unconditional
surrender slogan devised at Casa-
blanca.
Deepening the gash in Italy’s
flank regardless of the political sit-
uation, the Allies ran their total
bag of prisoners in Sicily past the
70,000 mark. Six Italian generals
and one admiral were captured
yesterday, running the number of
generals for the campaign to 10.
The American seventh army,
mopping up western Sicily and
wheeling around to join in the
final assault on the Axis Etna line,
captured Termini Emerse, big city
of north-central Sicily. The Unit-
ed States round up had netted 56,-
000 Axis prisoners.
Following up the heaviest air
raid of the war on Hamburg Sat-
urday night, the Royal Air Force
carried out a “very heavy” bom-
bardment last night of Essen, -the
Nazi arsenal city, while mosquito
bombers stabbed anew at Hamburg
and at Cologne.
It was Hamburg’s third attack in
about 24 hours, the first of which
delivered 2,300 tons of bombs to
the great port. The second, by day
light yesterday, was made by A-
merican heavy bombers simultan-
eously with broadside attacks on
aircraft factories at Warnemunde,
a seaplane base and shipyards at
Kiel- nd targets in the occupied
countries.
Rain, varying from one-half inch
to one and one-half inches, ac-
companied by hail and wind and
electrical storms, took a heavy
property damage early Saturday
evening over Ennis and a wide sec-
tion of the surrounding area.
Rainfall in Ennis was slightly
over one-half inch, and at Rice
where the storm was reported
worst, 1.35 inches fell. Wind and
hail also did heavy damage to
crops and small houses. Many
houses were unroofed or blown ov-
er at Rice and as far north as
Price’s Cross. Crop damage was re-
ported from the area between
Price’s Cross roads and Rice over
a strip about two miles wide.
At Rice the corrugated cotton
warehouse was blown down, the
residence of Mrs. J. A. Riddle was
badly damaged by the wind, as
were a number of other buildings.
The town was without electric
power until early Sunday morning.
Bardwell and the communities west
of Ennis were also visited by heavy
wind and some hail but the dam-
age was not so great. Bardwell
power lines were also put out of
commission.
In Ennis many residences were
withput electric service until 2
o’clock Sunday morning when the
lines were repaired. The South-
land Ice Co. was also without pow-
। er for several hours.
A large number of telephones
were out in Enns and workers
worked throughout the night and
Sunday making repairs.
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Mrs. Ernest White, 55, resident
of Ennis for more than 25 years,
passed away at 3:20 o’clock Sunday
afternoon at the Waxahachie Sani-
tarium following an illness of two
months. She was taken to the hos-
pital last week.
Funeral service will be held at
5 o’clock Monday afternoon in the
Keever chapel with the Rev. Al-
fred H. Holman, pastor of the First
Presbterian church, and the Rev.
Britton I rt, a Presbyterian minis- |
ter from Waxahachie, officiating. |
Interment will be made in the
Ennis Memorial Park.
Mrs. White, formerly Rose Cleve-
land Childress, was born in Gun-
tersville, Ala., January 8, 1888, and
came to Texas with hei parents,
James S. and Donie Childress
when she was five years of age.
The family came first to Dallas
and two years later in 1895 they
. moved to Byrd’. She was married
Dec. 17, 1913. to Ernest White. Mr.
and Mrs. White nave lived in En-
nis for more than 25 years where
Mr. White is a Southern Pacific
car inspector.
Surviving are her husband and
two children, a son, George White
of Dallas and a daughter, Mrs.
Harold McKnight of Waco, also
five brtchers, F. M. Childress of
Electra, Chas. C. Childress of Bar-
Forrest Still. Jr., well-known
young journalist, son of F. A. Still,
Waxahachie businessman and civic
leader, who has edited the maga-
zine of the Goodrich defense in-
dustry at Texarkana for some time
has been promoted to the editor-
ship of the Goodrich magazine and
newspaper at the home office, Ak-
ron, Ohio, and he and Mrs. Still
will move to Akron by Aug. 1 to
make their home. Mr. Still, reared
in Waxahachie, formerly was sports
editor of the Daily Light, while
in Trinity, and subsequently was
with a Texarkana newspaper prior
to going with Goodrich.
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Military funeral services
MOSCOW, July 26 (UP)—The
Red Army, battling desperate
German resistance and rains
which turned dirt roads into
streams of mud, pushed toward
the German base at Orel from
three directions today, advanc-
ing from two and a half to five
and a half miles in their latest
surge and capturing 30 more vil-
lages in the strong defense net-
work surrounding the city.
DALLAS, Tex., July 26 (UP)—
Three more Dallasites and three
other North Texas residents have
been stciken with infantile paraly-
sis.
Two of the Dallas patients, an
11-months-old baby and a 3-year-
old child were admitted to the
children’s hospital.
The other Dallas patient, a 9-
year-old boy, was admitted to
Parkland Hospital with two’ girls
from Mount Pleasant and a boy
from Naples, Morris county.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 26
(UP)—Allied planes dropped 186
tons of bombs on the Japanese
base at Munda in the heaviest raid
ever made, by the growing South
Pacific Air Forces, 85 was revealed
today as front dispatches reported
reinforcements have reached Amer-
can troops battling the enemy in
the Central Solomons.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s head-
quarters spokesman said that the
record raid, made Saturday, ran
the total weight of bombs dropped
on Munda from July 19 to July 25
to more than 580 tons. A dispatch
from George F. Jones United
Press staff correspondent with the
troops on New Georgia Island,
however. said’1’the enemy fortifica-
tions were much more elaborate
than had been supposed and Al-
lied airmen had found precision
dive bombing of jungle targets
more difficult than anticipated.
American troops are in sight of
the Munda airdrome, key objective
of the Solomons drive and long
since useless to the Japanese be-
cause of the heavy Allied shelling
and bombing, the dispatch added,
but today’s communique failed to
mention land fighting on the
wooded island.
Jones said that the unbroken line
of the Americans around Munda
enable them to exercise unceas-
ing pressure against the Japanese
defenders, although he added that
“the last mile to Munda will be
the tcughest of all.
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USO Photo Service
"JINKER" SAYS HELLO. Official greeter of the USO Club at
Watertown, N. Y., is Jinker Bairn of Stockdale, a blonde cocker spaniel
who makes friends with all the servicemen. Pfc. Paul F. Morvay of
Bridgeport, Conn., is on the receiving end of her attentions. Jinker is
owned by Miss Marguerite Judd, associate director of the club.
The manifesto also provided
that:
1. The commander in each pro-
vince will take over all armed
forces, including police, militia,
citizens’ armed groups and similar
organizations. •
2. All powers for maintaining
public order have passed to the
military.
3. The militia will be incorpor-
ated in the army.
4. All public places, such as mo-
vie theaters and the like, will be
closed.
5. Meetings of more than three
persons anywhere or at any time
are prohibited.
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ry, G. B. Childress of Wichita
Falls, C. J. Childress of Vernon
and Rufus Childress of Olney, and
a sister, Mrs. John Key of Byrd.
Her father died in Rankin in
1927 and her mother passed away [
in Electra in 1916.
Mrs. White was a member of the
First Presbyterian church.
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Last rites for Mrs. J. W. Free-
man- 90, who died Thursday even-
ing, were held at 4:30 p.m. Friday
at Saxon-Boze-Mitchell funeral
chapel in Waxahachie with the
Rev. E. R. Patterson of Midlothian
conducting. Mrs. Clyde Taylor sang
“Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” and
‘Rock of Ages.”
A native of Elbert county, Geor-
gia, Mrs.. Freeman came to Ellis
county forty years ago. She was
the former Miss Martha Ann Fay-
er.
On Dec. 14, 1871, she was mar-
ried to J. W. Freeman and seven
children were born to this union,
three of whom died in infancy.
She was a member of the Metho-
dist church.
Mrs. Freeman lived through three
wars and during the fourth, and
five of her grandsons are serving
with the U. S. Armed Forces in
the present one.
She is survived by two sons, J. D.
Freeman, Mertens; G. L. Freeman,
Bardwell; two daughters, Mrs. J.
Henry Miller, Waxahachie; Mrs.
W. B. Banks, Waxahachie, Route
4; one adopted daughter, Mrs. J. D.
Clark. Vernon, Texas; 19 grandchil-
dren and 20 great-grandchildren.
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