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THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
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ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS WEDNESDAY EVENING, SFPI. 1, 1943
IN FIFTY-SECOND YEAR
MEMBER UNITED PRESS
NO. 208
POPE ASKS FOR PEACE THIS YEAR
A Different War
12,000 Germans
Ennis Ready for 3rd
Declares All People
War Bond Campaign;
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Americans Drive
Closer to Tokyo
In Recent Raid
German Troops
Continue Brutal
Killing, Denmark
United Nations
Start Fifth Year
Of World War II
British Naval
Units Bombard
Italian Mainland
102-Year-Old
Texan Observed
"Birthday Tuesday
Lt. Gov. Smith
Fires Again in
Ickes Verbal War
Pulverize Shore
Batteries Round
Reggio Calabria
Directs Appeal
To Leaders in
All Countries
Downfall of Axis
Expected Within
Next Twelve Mos,
Texas City Without
10 Policemen After
Men Stage Walkout
Both Banks Also
To Close Monday;
P.O. Closes at Noon
dred yards from this and other de-
stroyers, before it it was silenced.
N. York
October _
December
March _
Ridlev Rites
Held Wednesday
Says Secretary’s
Insinuations False
As His Arguments
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1 (UP)
Willie Stevens, negro, who was
shot and wounded yesterday by
the father of a girl he attempt-
ed to assault, was killed today in
a struggle with city detectives.
Negro Shot When
Struggle With
Policemen Occurs
Churchill Enroute
To White House for
New Conferences
Arrives Home
Mrs. Minter Womack, who has
been in the Gaston Avenue Hos-
pital in Dallas for observation, has
been brought to the home of her
father, Will Weatheford. Her con-
dition is reported improved.
Task Force In
Progress Against
Marcus Island
Major Traffic
Offenders Mav
Get Coupons Taken
Rider, Jolesch,
Hesser, Mrs. Allen
To Direct Drive
Fight For Principles
By JOE JOLESCH, War Loan Chairman
more than five persons, even those
gathered at street car stops, the
refugee Danish press service said
today.
(Radio Algiers said Nazi troops
Service Stations; Bill Rabe, Mack
.ce nrru. indiscriminately on all
Huff and H. M. Thompson.
Frank Ehlinger is chairman of
the S. P. Division and Frank Vria
is chairman of the Czech division.
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Victorious on
Fronts Extending
Over 700 Miles
HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. 1 (UP)—
Warning of wholesale suspension
of gasoline rations for major Traf-
fice offenders, particularly drunk-
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NEWS
A Japanese communique said
today that U. S. Navy surface
vessels and “many planes” at-
tacked Japanese installations on
Marcus Island, 990 miles south-
east of Tokyo, at dawn.
The two banks will remain closed
all day Monday, September 6, along
with other business houses in En-
nis in observance of Labor Day.
The postoffice will be closed at
noon. Only one city delivery will
be made and there will be no rural
deliveries. Mail will be dispatched I
as usual. I
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 1
(UP)—A decisive Allied triumph
has forced Japanese aerial fleets
to shift their base to Dutch New
Guinea, leaving nearly 400 wreck-
ed planes behind and laying open
their advanced coast bases to
unhampered assault, it was re-
vealed today.
Introducing
A daughter, Joyce Ann, born to
Mr. and Mrs. Bart Lanicek on
Aug. 29, at St. Pauls Hospital in
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Robert P. Patterson said in an in-
terview at Melbourne, Australia,
that “you won’t have to wait long
for the bombing of Tokyo.”
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killed 6,000 Danish civilians and
450 soldiers in one Danish town
alone.)
Despite the ruthless Nazi en-
forcement of martial law- however,
the Danes were reported defying
their new overloards at every op-
portunity with King Christian X
himself setting the keynote.
NAZI BLITZ WAR is waged without any regard for the welfare of civilians.
But in Sicily the family shown in this picture finds the United Nations fight a
different kind of war. From the British officer in the local Company Office they
get advice on food and housing.
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 1 (UP)
—A strong force of Flying Fort-
resses swept more than 400 miles
north of Sicily to raid the Ital-
ian rail and aircraft center of
Pisa yesterday as British war-
ships bombarded the Italian
mainland, it was revealed today.
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Staggering Allied blows against the Axis on land, from
the air and sea were revealed today as Pope Pius XII
broadcast a new appeal to the world to make a just peace
this year.
On this, the fourth anniversary of the German attack
on Poland that touched off World War II, the following
action was reported:
1. Britain’s battleships, the Nelson and the Rodney,
with a cruiser and destroyer escort, shelled the invasion
coast of southwestern Italy.
2. British heavy bombers gave Berlin its second terrif-
ic bombardment in. nine days.
3. Russian armies gained important triumphs on a
700-mile front, spearing deep into the defenses of Smolensk N
and driving a wedge into the northern Ukraine.
4. A Japanese communique reported that American
planes and naval units had attacked Marcus Island, 990
miles southeast of Tokyo.
The Fope declared that all people are weary of the war
and are clamoring for peace.
“To continue the war ds to conform to national inter-
est as against human and Christian conscience,” he assert-
ed. “Give to all nations hope of honorable peace by ar-
ranging a just ''peace.”
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under a ‘war-time
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Regarding' the
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1 (UP)—
German troops touring Danish
LONDON, Sept. 1 (UP) — Pope
Pius XII said in a broadcast to the
world today that even those who
at the beginning of the war count-
ed on a quick victory now feel
nothing but sorrow.
Referring to his appeal for peace
in August, 1939, just before the
war began, the Pope said that
“events happening today are prov-
ing our. words.”
‘Justice and love are inspiring us
to address our words to everybody
for everybody’s welfare,” he said.
“War operations are reaching a
climax; everywhere people are look-
ing at ruins. In all nations hatred
against total war is increasing.”
The Pope asserted that “trust
between nations has been swept
away.”
“We are addressing ourselves to
those who can bring justice to all
and we tell them that the truly
strong need not fear being too gen-
erous,” he added.
“To continue the war is to
conform to national interest as
against human and Christian con-
science,” the Pope said.
“Give to all nations the hope of
honorable peace by arranging just
peace.
“Blessed are those who are pre-
LONDON, Sept. (UP)—The fifth
year of the war opened today with
the United Nations on the thresh-
old of big events expected to bring
Adolf Hitler to the brink of catas-
trophe.
The only question still debatable
was the time the Allies would re-
quire to demolish the greatest
threat to‘the world’s peace and se-
curity since Napoleon.
Estimates as to when the Nazi
dream of world domination will
crash in the dust of total defeat
covered almost any time interval
during the next 12 months.
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The Navy announced today that
an American task force raid "pre-
sumbaly” was in progress against
Marcus Island, 1,100 miles from
Tokyo, and a Japanese commun-
que reported a heavy air and sea
bombardment there, beginning at
dawn.
The Navy announcement reveal-
ed that an attack by a carrier task
force though nothing had been
heard from the force.
A Washington dispatch stated
the attack might be part of an
American naval sweep in the Cen-
tral Pacific.
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Funeral services were held at 4
o’clock Wednesday for J. I. Rid-
ley, 76, retired farmer who passed
away Tuesday morning at his
home. Services were held in the
Keever chapel with Leroy Brown-
low, minister of the Church of
Christ, officiating.
Interment was made in the En-
nis Memorial Park.
Mr. Ridley, a native of Brooks-
ville, Miss., had lived in Texas
since he was a child. He had lived
in Palmer for many years before
moving to Ennis.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. (UP)
(WFA)— Livestock: Cattle: Salable
5400, calves 2200. Steers and year-
lings generally steady. Cows slow-
early sales to shippers fully steady,
local packers bidding unevenly low-
er. Bulls and fat calves and stock-
ers unchanged. Common and me-
dium slaughter steers and yearlings
9.00-12.35. Beef cows 8.00-10.50,
canners and cutters 4.00-7.75. Bulls
7.00-10.50. fat calves 8.50-12.50,
culls 7.00-8.00. Stocker steer calves
13.00 down, heifers 12.50 down. Ap-
proximately 25 percent of receipts
cows.
Hogs: Salable 14,00, butcher hogs
steady to 10 higher than Tuesday’s
average. Sows and pigs steady. Top
14.35. Packer top 14.25. Good and
choice 190-275 lb. butchers mostly
14.25 and 14.35. Good and choice
160-180 lbs. 13.35-14.15. Sows 13.00-
25. Weighty stocker pigs 11.00-12.00.
Sheep: Salable 11,500, very slow.
Practically no ewes sold early, bid-
ding fully 25 lower. Few spring
lambs and yearlings about steady.
Medium grade spring lambs 12.50
down, good grades held above 13.00.
Common yearlings 10.00.
en drivers, was made today by
J. K. Smith, acting Houston dis-
trict attorney for the Office of
Price Administration.
Smith said the new policy would
eliminate warnings previouslys given
offenders hauled on the OPA car-
pet. Henceforth- motorists will be
given a hearing, and, if the cir-
cumstances warrant, their gasoline
rations will be suspended.
Rations may be suspended by the
OPA for as long as a year.
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charge, Smith told Ickes that 'your
insinuation is as false as your spu-
rious arguments in defense of bu-
reaucratic bungling.”
Smith said that it was “refresh-
ing,” to get the “latest reason” for
gasoline rationing.
“We were first told,” he said,
“that it was the ‘shortage of rub-
ber.’ Now it is the ‘shortage of
gasoline”
“For dexterity of delemna,” he
added, “a bureaucrat is an artist
of superior genius.”
Smith also asserted that more
than a hundred refineries have
ceased operations because of re-
strictions placed on them by the
OPA and Ickes’ Petroleum Ad-
ministration for War.
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ER IN MESSINA STRAITS, Aug.
31 (Delayed) (UP)—With battle
ensigns flying, two British battle-
ships with an escorting force of a
cruiser and a destroyer boldly
swept up the Straits of Messina in
daylight today and pulverized
shore batteries around Reggio Ca-
labria on the Italian mainland in
one of the greatest naval bombard-
ments of the war.
The hour-long bombardment
raised clouds of dust and smoke
Vthat half obscured Reggio Cala-
bria, which lies across the narrow
Skraits from Sicily, and the rumble
of the guns, audible for more than
50 miles, must have shaken the
whole tee of the Italian boot.
The cruiser and destroyers, to-
gether with the six-inch guns and
other armament cf the battleships,
meanwhile bombarded the shore
battery at Cape Pellaro, six miles
south of Reggio Calabria, and oth-
er gun positions as far south as
Melito, 10 miles below Pellaro.
The only Italian answer to the
bombardment came from the Cape
Pellaro battery, thich fired six
Plans are well underway for the
Third War Bond Campaign in En-
nis with Joe Jolesch as chairman,
according to announcement made
by Walter B. Rider, general chair-
man of this community.
Mr. Jolesch, in making arrange-
ments for the campaign has ap-.
pointed R. W. Hesser as chairman
of the business section and Mrs.
Lou Ella Allen has been named as
chairman of the ladies division.
The Third War Loan thrusts up-
on every American, a unique obli-
gation of self appraisal. Each of
us must examine our cash assets
and current incomes in the light
of their true relation to the war
today and the nation tomorrow.
“We in 45 counties in North
Texas, including Ellis county, have
been asked for $125,000,000 as our
part in the War Bond campaign,”
says Mr. Jolesch.
The Treasury Department has
set a personal goal for every work-
ing American to buy at least an
extra $100 bond above his regular
war bond buying during the Third
War Loan Campaign. It will mean
taking every penny we do not need
and putting it into War Bonds.
Scraping up the money from every
source we can; turning in, all the
loose cash we carry around with
us; digging out what we have tuck-
ed away; just in case; going with-
out pleasures, luxuries, even neces-
sities this summer.
“It is urgent that every person
(UP)—The Cameron county sher-
iff’s department lent its aid to the
Brownsville police department to-
day as a 10-man walkout by mem-
bers of the city police force left
the city with only 11 officers, in-
cluding Chief Henry Gordon.
The walkout was staged in pro-
. etest over not getting a demanded
29eper cent pay increase over the
pNent salary of $125 monthly.
Chief Gordan said he was re-
placing the men who left with new
employees and added that he
wouldn’t have half the men who
walked out come back under any
conditions.
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My efforts are being given to the
Third War Loan Campaign in the sale
of our Ennis quota of War Bonds be-
cause it is the one way that I can fight
for the freedom and independence Amer-
ica stands for.
Our land, our homes, our freedom of
religion, freedom of speech and freedom
of the press are dear to the hearts of all
of us.
To preserve these, gallant 'men and wo-
men are sacrificing willingly so that the
principles of democracy, which we hold
so dear, shall never be endangered. Per-
haps we can't join them on foreign soil,
but we can raise the money for munitions,
food and clothing for those who are do-
ing so much.
Put your money in the uniform of U-
nited States War Bonds. -
The British warships steamed
boldly up the narrow straits of
Messina in daylight yesterday and
began pulverizing Italian shore
batteries—a possible softening-up
prelude to land invasion of the
peninsula. The big naval guns
could be heard more than 50 miles.
There was a weak reply from the
Pellaro battery on.
The Pope’s words were expected
to have a marked effect on Cath-
olic Italy, where peace demands
have been building to a climax
since the Axis defeat in Sicily and
the air offensive began crumbling
great and small Italian cities. It
was believed that the new regime
of Marshal Pietro Badoglio would
be unable long to remain in power
unless it could show the Italians
that it was making a real bid for
peace.
A dispatch from Dana A.
Schmidt, United Press War Corres-
pondent aboard one of the warship
that shelled the Italian coast de-
scribed the bombardment of Reggio
Calabria, once the mainland ter-
minus of the Sicilian ferry, and of
Cape Pellaro and Melito, south of
Reggio.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Sept.
ITLY, Tex., Sept. 1—Mastin T.
Hickman, who claims title to the
oldest living, native of Texas ob-
served his 102nd birthday here
Tuesday. He lives with his so
Mastin T. Hickman, Jr.
Hickman was born in Hardin
county, Texas, Aug. 31, 1841, the i
son of James Hickman, native of
Georgia and Frances Bradley, na-
tive of Bradley county. Ark., the
parents immigrating to Texas in ,
1833 three years before the battle
of San Jacinto.
Hickman was four years old
when Texas was admitted to the
union in 1845. In 1861 he married
Ann Helker, daughter of a neigh-
boring pioneer and later enlisted in
the Confederate army with the
Texas infantry. He was stricken
with infantile paralysis in 1875 and
has spent the past 68 years in a
semi-paralysed condition. He serv-
ed 40 years as county official of
Pol county. At 102, he still re-
Bains the keen faculties of men
half his age, is a constant reader of
Mwepapers and reads and writes
Vithout the aid of glasses.
He has been a prominent Mason
during most of his life and is a
Democrat.
Other children include Carl
Hickman, Nacogdoches. Mrs. Lule
Berman, Corrigan, and Mrs. Dora
Anderson, East Columbia.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UP) —
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
was en route to the White House
today for new conferences with
President Roosevelt and to arrange
a meeting soon of British, Ameri-
can and Soviet political experts.
The President and the Prime
Minister had no announced plans
for observing the start of another
year of combat that began on Sept.
1, 1939, when Germany went into
Poland. Mr. Roosevelt’s schedule
was a day of conferences with top-
ranking officials. Churchill left
Quebec late yesterday after nrs ra-
dio address.
While Italy was being shelled
from the sea, American flying
fortresses from North Africa raided
Pisa, city of the famous leaning
tower 165 miles northwest of Rome,
and Liberators from the middle
East raided railroad targets at Pes-
cara, 100 miles northwest of Rome.
Hundreds of home-based RAF
planes gave Berlin a 45-minute
blasting last night, starting fires
and causing great damage. The
raid was believed to be on a scale
comparable to the attack on the
Reich capital on Aug. 23. It also
was believed to have boosted the
RAF’s bombing tonnage for Au-
gust over the 16,000-ton record set
in July.
The Tokyo radio, in announcing
the third American attack on Mar-
cus in 18 months, warned the Jap-
anese people that the raiding force
could have attacked the mainland
of Japan if it had chosen. The at-
tack was reported to be in great
strength. Marcus Island lies Mid-
way between Wake Island and Jap-
an.
At the beginning of the fifth
year of the war, Germany’s grip
on the satellite and subjugated na-
tions of Europe appeared to be
weakening. A potential under-
ground Army of 12,000,000 was re-
ported ready to strike the Nazis
at the moment of an Allied inva-
sion of the continent. The con-
quered countries were no longer in
mortal fear of Adolf Hitler’s war
machine and were ready to fight?
gack at the first good opportunity,
Austin, Tex., Septi (UP)—John.
Lee Smith, Lieutenant Governor
of Texas. wsa one letter ahead to-
day in vitriolic debate with Har-
old Ickes, Secretary of Interior,
with a message to Ickes that
“planes, tanks and jeeps will not
run on the type of gas which you
so frequently generate.”
The argument started when
Smith charged that a reduction in
gasoline rations in the southwest
which was coupled with a relaxa-
tion of regulations in the East, was
“a cheap political maneuver to ap-
pease certain of the politically pow
erful states on the Eastern Sea-
board.”
Ickes, who also is pertoleum Ad-
ministrator for war, came back
with the statement that Smith,
“draped in the outer garments of
patriotism and the underwear of
self-interest,” should remember
that ‘our tanks and trucks and
jeeps cannot burn, as fuel the croc-
odile tears that you shed.”
To which Smith, in his latest
letter, answered:
“We will never win this war with
anybody’s crocodile tears, mine or
yours. And most assurdly our
planes, tanks and jeeps will not
run on the type of gas which you
so frequently generate, apparently
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MOSCOW, Sept. 1 (UP)—Victo-
rious Red Armies sent the Ger-
mans reeling back along a 700-
mile front from Smolensk to the
Sea of Azov today in a series of
coordinated offensives.
New Soviet advances posed a
grave threat- to the central front
bastion of Smolensk, one of Adolf
Hitler’s headquarters; outflanked
the companion fortress of Bryansk;
brought the key Bryansk-Konotop
railway supply line within Artil-
lery range; drove closer to the
Dnieper River bend west of Khar-
kov, and ground up the remnants
of the trapped garrison of Tagan-
rog. .
Russian forces now were liberat-
ing towns and villages at the rate
of 100 every 24 hours. Some 12,000
German officers and men were
killed yesterday and 87 Nazi tanks
and 67 guns destroyed.
At some points, including the
Northern Ukraine, the German re-
treat showed signs of becoming a
rout with tanks and guns being
abandoned intact. Eight hundred
German prisoners were taken in
one sector alone southwest of
Sevsk, 80 miles south of ryansk.
A series of coordinated Soviet
offensives had the Germans reel-
ing on a front extending from
the Sea of Azov on the south to
the Smolensk area on, the Central
Russian front.
The Russians announced that
they captured Yelnya and Dorogo-
buzh, two important Nazi defen-
sive points before Smolensk, out-
flanked Bryansk, drove closer to
the Dnieper River west of Khar-
kov and killed some 12,000 of the
enemy yesterday.
$ LONDON, Sept. 1 (UP)—Brit-
ish four-engined bombers, hun-
dreds strong, smashed another
huge section of Berlin into blaz-
ing ruins last night in a 45-min-
ute thunderbolt assault that
marked the end of the fourth
year of the war.
campaign,” Mr. Jolesch says.
If your purchase of War Bonds
seems heavy to you, remember that
your tax dollars are helping to pay
for Victory now, and that they are
fighting for your living standard,
also that they are working to keep
our country’s financial structure
sound for that boy now in the
armed service, for all your family,
and for you in the years of peace
to come.
Buy all the War Bonds you can.
“To back those men to the hilt
is our primary obligation. To pour
every available dollar into a com-
mon, fund which will insure them
adequate materials of war in quan-
tities sufficient to overwhelm the
enemy and which will insure an
orderly financing of the war. to
check rising prices and thus assure
the stability of America today and
tomorrow.”
Committees:
Hesser Block; H. R. Thomas,
J. G. Howell and Hubert Rogers.
Kucera Block; Selma Rains and
Fred Clark.
Davis and Collins; W. D. Arden,
J. E. Keever and C. A. Nowlin.
Plaza Theatre; E. B. Walker,
B. J. Stork, F. L. Roorbach.
H. Burk’s Block; Clyde Moore,
Ed Fisher and Joe Kuchar. <
City Hall Block; M. B. Moseley,
J. D. Cade and I. J. Parma.
Federated Store Block; W. M.
Gordon and Marvin Layton.
East Side Business Section; Thad
Barrington, Floyd Engvall and
J. W. Blakey.
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