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THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
MEMBER UNITED PRESS
No. 247
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS MONDAY EVENING, OCT. 18. 1943
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ALLIES PREPARING FOR BIG DRIVE
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higher ground past the Volturno valley.
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Negro Citizens
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of
laborers
F ing underground pipe.
Craig
of Corsicana, Mrs. J. J. Hodo and
in Dallas with Mrs- Jimmie Hodo
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Slowly Fall Back
Under Hammering
Alabama Miners
Continue Strike
Tex Exceeds Bond
Quota 24 Percent
Give Liberally
To War Fund
hundred weight for whole milk and
6 cents per pound for butterfat-
Carson City, Nev., is the smallest
State capital in the United States-
$7,500 Ennis
War Fund Quota
Feed Payments
Be Made Direct
Dairy Farmers
State Baptist
Association Meets
Here Nov. 9-11
Lavenia Overheiser and Mrs.
wen Marchabanks of Ennis-
Mrs- Homer Martin_____
Chester Johnson ________
Scout Leaders to
Meet Tonight, Plan
Training School
Movement May Trap
Thousands of Nazis
Ukraine, Crimea
Funeral Rites to
Be Held Monday
Afternoon at 4
and daughters. Mrs- J. J- Hodo re-
mained for a longer visit-
Dispatch Claims
U. S. Road Cut
quota of $7,500 to be contributed
within two weeks time.
Mr. Grumbles requests that those
who wish to have a part in the
fund leave their contributions at
either of the two banks:
Previously reported ______$260-00
Received today:
Reed to Investigate
Plant Strike At
Houston for Gov.
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_ 2.50
Mrs. H. M. Kirk ---
Mr. L. J. Johnson --
N- A. Lindle _____-
L. Stevens __________
W. P. Peterman _____
August Bus ---------
Anton J. Pavyeak .
G. L- Harwell ______
Mrs- J. P. Sims____
W- E. Smith _______
F. N- Wilson ________
Adolph Bozek ______
Each of the three were major German strongpoints
and their capture faciltated the seizuure of seven villages
in the Volturno area.
We Farm for
America
Mrs. C. M- Gallagher___
Mrs. C. B. Knight _______
E. E- Williams ___________
Clyde Dent --------------
Mr., Mrs. Joe Fleetwood
G. W- Hays ______________
WAR IN EUROPE
A YEAR AGO
TODAY
Allied armies in Italy hacked through tough Nazi rear-
guards today, moving slowly toward Rome as fresh forces
poured across the Volturno River to prepare for heavier
offensives. ,
The Germans punched back with continual counter-
attacks to stall for time while the bulk of theirtroops moved
into new defense lines.
Three more towns were captured By American and
British forces of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s Fifth Army,
which faced increasingly heavy enemy artillery fire from
War Fund Campaign
Gets Started In Ellis;
Ennis Has Good Start
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BY UNITED PRESS
Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 18.—(UP)—The
Allies are massing supplies for a long range bombing
campaign against Germany from Italian bases, which
will be launched as soon as possible, it was announced
officially today. / ------
J. W- Dover_____
S. F. Polk_______
I A- R- Miller ___.
Two Master’s Degrees
In Masonic Temple
Tuesday Night at 7
22,000 Miners
Refuse to Listen
To Leaders Plea
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Russians Pouring
Through German
Dnieper Defenses
he plumbers returned to their
s, ending a walkout that began
j A weeks ago in protest to the use
in
Merrone. three miles north of the
and 20 miles inland fell after three
Nazi counter attacks were beaten
off, and Cancello and Ruviano also
were seized.
On the British Eighth Army front
in eastern Italy, Allied patrols mov-
ed forward five miles to run into
a battle at the town of Montecil-
fone, which they had to abandon-
Clark’s forces were moving to
close a pincers in the Volturno area
equeezing the Germans back along
the main road to Rome running
northward from Capua.
The next Nazi line was expected
to be on the Garigliano river, 18
miles above the Volturno and the
$22,000 Ellis
War Fund Quota
—IN FIFTY-SECOND YEAR
appeared determined to pay any 7
price to hold the city, gateway to
the Crimea,
But a Russian break-through to
the Black Sea from the area south-
east of Kromenchug would isolate
not only the German garrison in
Melitopol, but also Nazi forces in
Dnepropetrovsk, the iron and steel
center of Krovoi. and dozens of
other points in the big bend of
the Dnieper-
The Russians cracked the Ger-
man defenses on the west bank
of the Dnieper oposite Kremen-
chug in a two day battle and rolled
the Germans back 15 1-2 miles,
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Arthur Grumbles, chairman
Citizens Asked to
Entertain 300
Messengers Here
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Mrs. T. C. Lanier’s
Sister Died in
Pampa Sunday
Mrs- T, C. Lanier received a mes
sage telling of the death of her
sister, Mrs- Wood Overall. who
died Saturday at her home in Pam-
pa after a brief illness.
Funeral services were held at
2 o’clock, Monday afternoon with
burial in the Pampa Cemetery.
Mis. Overall, formerly Della Al-
exanaer, was a former resident of
Here On Vacation
James Brown, Second Officer
with the Air Transport Command,
stationed in Atlanta, Ga., has ar-
rived to spend a week’s vacation
with his prents, Mr. and Mrs- WC.
Brown.
From World Battlefronts
sons are cordially invited.—Leo
Kirkpatrick WM., Clyde R. Rob
ertson, Secy-
killing more than 2,000 enemy
armies hammered out new gains
looking toward the encirclement
of Kiev, Russia’s third city, and
forced the Dnieper 100 miles far-
ther north to outflank Gomel, south
eastern hinge of Germany’s White
Russian defenses-
The street battle inside Melitopol'
entered its seventh day with fight- i
ing reaching a pitch rivalling that;
of Stalingrad. The Germans were-
contesting every building and front
report said that the Nazi command
Dallas, Tex-, Oct. 18 (UP)—Tex-
as exceeded its quota by 24 per
cent in the third war loan drive
Nathan Adams of Dallas, chair-
man of the Texas drive, announced
today.
While the Texas quota was $420,-
000 000, he said, a total of $519,-
942,695 was actually bought in war
bonds during the drive period.
Of this figure, sales to idivi-
dividuals amounted to $262,117,602,
Adams said.
and fu '
Sohn Staples, 83,
Ellis Resident
52 Years, Passes
W. E. White______-__________1-0 ’
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bristow ----$3.00 ! MrMrs. A. s Mills__________1.00
E B Owens ---------- _ 1.00 A. M Potiska ______________ 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. H. H Connell __ 5-00 < Mr. Mrs. w. G. Parker___________
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Jordan ___ 5.00 ! T w Christian ____
Mr and Mrs. G- A. Maxwell __ 1-00 ; Mrs. g R curry
Mr D.E Ward --------------2.00, R Mrs. A. Archer____
J. J. Bird ___________________1.00
Mrs. Lee Lowrey_____________100
Lena McCall -----------------1-00 j L R. Hobbs
J. R. Banner ----------------5.00 Bea Dobbs _____
Roy Onstead ----’7’---------1.00 I Mrs. Leo Wells
Mr., Mrs. McDaniels ________1-00 r, T n E,,
Mr, Mb. b. A. Chatman .... 1.00 Mr J. D. Horn
The Ellis County AAA office has I
been advised that the dairy feed
payments will e made direct to
producers upon submission to the
County Committee of satisfactory
evidence of quantity of whole milk
or butterfat sold.
Mr. P. T. Price of the Ellis Coun- i
ty ACA states that all producers
should keep sales records of whole
milk and butterfat sold. The Ad-
justment payement will be for the
rouble at Orange
roject Apears to
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I Mrs. Genevine Haynes___JL. 35
| J. L. Drozd ________________... 1.0b
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Dr- J. P. Clark_______________ 5-00
— 1-00 Miss Annie Martin __________ 5.01
—10 00 Mr: Mrs. C. A. Johnson 2.00
To Dallas
Mrs. Joe Macalik was taken in
the Keever ambulance to the St.
Paul Hospital in Dallas Sunday
Mrs. Macalik was brought to her
home last week from the hospital
and was taken back for further
treatment.
In prearation for a Scout leader’s
training school which will open
here Nov. 1, members of the local
district committee are to have a
supper meeting tonight at 6:30 in
the Texas Power & Light building.
Representatives of a number of •
churches and other organizations
which will have men in the school
have also been invited to meet
with the committee- Recruiting me-
thods in each institution will be
outlined and signing course mem-
bers will start at once-
The Scouter training course will
be given to train all men actively
elagaged in leading Scouts and to
better inform men on all commit-
tees of the operation of the Scout
troops- Regular meetings of the
course will open Monday night,
Nov. 1, and continue for six Mon-
day nights thereafter-
। Farmers of America have not
only produced flenty of food,
fibre, but they have as many or
more sons and daughters in the
service of our country than any
other branch of our government
and it is with heartfelt grati-
tude they learn those boys and
girls are learning to take God’s
word more seriously than they
did here at home- For many of
our farm boys and girls do not
[have the • chance to learn as
[much about religion or God’s
[word now as they' could have,
byad all of our country church-
jV not been moved t o town. Let
*s hope and pray that this a-
walkening to a more realistic
Qnowledge of a Divine Ruler will
be with them here at home.
■Ellis County Agriculture Asso-
ciation.
Ennis and moved to Pampa sev-
eral years ago.
Surviving are her husband and
two sons, Eartie and Eltinge Ov-
erall, two brothers, Louis and Ware
Alexander of Bohse and two sis-
ters, Mrs. Lanier of Ennis and
Mrs. Bob Davis of Beaumont-
Mrs. Overall was an nt of Miss
(Undated)—Most of Alabama’.'.
22,000 soft coal miners remained or
strike Monday despite pleas from
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, that thej
return to the pits.
The 555 workers at the Wood-
ward Iron Co-, Mulga, Ala-, shaf
were the only ones who voted to re-
turn to work in the dispute ovel
the War Labor Board’s delay ii.
acting cn a prop: ’ 1 rontract.
More than 50,000 tons of coa.
have been lost since the Alabama
strike began and the resultant pig
iron loss has been about 6,000 tons
daily.
At Washington it appeared that
the NWLB might delay its ruling
on the coal dispute until the miners
return to work.
Ennis Masonic Lodge is called to
meet promptly at 7 o’clock Tues-
day night to confer the Master’s
degree upon two candidates. Offi-
cers and members are urged to r months of October through Dec-
come promptly. Visting Master Ma- l ember at the rates of 50 cents per
will leave this afternoon for Houst-
on to investigate for Gov. Coke R.
Stevenson the Sheffield Steel plant
construction strike.
Reed conferred with Stevenson
early today, and said he would go
to Houston Immediately after
holding a hearing this morning on
an application of the Texas and
New Orleans Railrod Company to
increase working hours for women.
Berlin radio broadcast a Tokyo
dispatch today claiming that a
new road being built into Burma
in the north by American en-
eers had been cut by Japanese
troops.
The place of the alleged action
was not given. The dispatch said
that “numerous Lorries and road
building machinery” had been sei-
ed. The Berlin broadcast was re-
corded by the NBC in New York.
best defensive positions on the
route northward. 3
Cairo radio said that additional
British troops had been landed at
the mouth of the Volturno, while
a bitter struggle with the Ger-
mans has been in progress for
several days.
In Russia the Red army breach-
ed the German Dniepre river line
at two points in force. Near Kre-
menchug, a 28 mile gap had been
torn into the Nazi defenses and
Soviet troops were pouring thru
in a great rush designed to iso-
late the enemy forces southward
in the Ukraine and in the Crimea.
Another hole was ripped near
Gomel, which was outflanked and
may be captured shortly. At Mel-
itopol, street fighting approaching
that of Stalingrad raged for the
seventh day while Moscow dis-
patches indicated that the Red
army was slowly investing Kiev.
The air offensive from Brit-
ain went back on full scale. Mos-
quito bombers harassed Berlin
with a night raid. 84th on the
Reich capital since the war start-
ed, and by daylight big fleets of
allied bombers roared over the
German planes made another to-
ken raid on London last night and
also bombed eastern and south-
eastern England- Altogether, 15
planes crossed the English coast
but only a few reached the Lon-
don area. One was shot down.
A number of persons were killed
when a bomb demolished four
houses on an estate near a London
football club, while at least two
persons were killed in another Lon-
don area- Rescue squads dug in the
wreckage of bombed dwellings for
several persons unaccounted for.
BY UNITED PRESS
Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Oct. 18.—(UP)
—Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s fliers have destroyed 104 and
probably 147 enemy planes in a smashing two-day aerial
offensive that rocked Japanese airpower along the 750-
mile Southwest Pacific battle line, a communique reported
today.
The triumph, won last Friday and Saturday at a cost
■ of only two Allied planes , raised, Japanese losses in this
theater during the past week to about 300 aircraft, includ-
ing 177 destroyed or damaged, in the raid on Rabaul, New
Britain, Tuesday and Wednesday-
“We apear to have achieved def- ------------------------
troops and wrecking 17 tanks, in-
cluding eight 60 ton Tigers-
Poplenastoye, 18 miles 'south of j
the Dnieper, and Likhovka, 12
miles gouth of the Dnieper and 10
miles from Popelnastye, were a-1
mong the towns and villages lib-
erated-
The Germans rushed units to
Sunday Visitors
Mr. and Mrs- James E.
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New Delhi, Oct. 18 (UPI—Brit-
ish ground and air forces have
launched a strong attack against
the Japanese held! town of
Maungdaw, 60 miles north of
the important Burmese supply
port of Akyab, a communique
disclosed today.
Moscow, Oct. 18.— (UP) Russian
armored forces, pouring through
a 28 mile gap in the German Dnie-
per River line- drove southward
below Kremenchug in a flanking
movement that held a . potential
threat of entrapment for hun-
dreds of thousands of Nazis in the
southern Ukraine and the Crimea-
Matching success, other Red
MacArthur Rocks Jap
Airpower By Destroying
104 Planes in 2 Days
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Today marks the official opening !
of the War Fund Campaign in En- i
nis with Arthur Grumbles as chair- I
man- Mr. Grumbles reported that
the fund has reached $530.76 in
the pre-campaign drive for con-
tributions. Ennis has accepted a
inite air superiority on the north
coast of New Guinea, not necessar-
ily in numbers, but in flexibility
and ability to cover and intercept
many enemy planes simultaneous-
ly,” a headquarters spokesman
said in announcing the new vic-
tory.
Allied fighter planes, he said
enjoved “another field day” at the
expense of the battered Japanese
air force.
The daylight raiders and their
fighter escort roared out across the
English southeast coast so high
that only their vapor trails were
visible from the ground- Nearly an
hour later, many aircraft returned
from the Calais area-
Twin-e.gined Mosquito bombers
attacked objectives in western Ger-
many, as well as Berlin, during
the night without loss. The raid
on Berlin was the 64 of the war and
the first night attack by the RAF
bomber command since a similar
Tosqui'j raid on Berlin Oct.
Qouading out the night offensive
ot.- British aircraft laid mines
in emmvvaers.bomebd and straf
ed airfields and railway targets in
occupied western Europe and hit
shiping off the Dutch coast- Two
barges were sunk off Holland by
one Hurribomber and Canadian-
mannedMosquitoes knocked out
seven locomotives. All planes re-
turned safely from the moonlight
the Ennis War Chest Fund, expres-
ses deep appreciation for the con-
tributions received from the col-
ored employees of the Ennis Com-
press and each colored employee
contributed $1 making $25 from
this firm.
B- F- Thomas, principal of the
colored schools, is chairman of the
colored division and is making
plans to begin his campaign this
week- Those contributing from the
Ennis Compress are as follows:
W. Russell, R- Hopkins, J. Russell
E. Biggins, D. Goss, E- Cavitt, S.
Jones, C- Hughes, Will Gilton, Wes-
ley Gilton, Watt Gilton- L- White.
M- Mays, W. Pierce, J- Ferlow, L.
McDonald, B. Wood, Arthur Burk,
H- Ford, J. Felder, A. Booker, R.
Rowden. F. Voters, A. Tolar.
U.S. Navy reported continued
bombing and artillery action on
Guadalcanal Island.
U.S. Navy communique announ-
1 ced two Jap destroyers hit by U.S.
Army bombers Oct- 16 northwest of
Kiska in the Aleutians.
Russian communique reports So-
viet troops holding on at Stalin-
grd despite renewed heavy Ger-
man attack.
Prime Minister Winston Church-
ill warns British that a German
air attack this winter might be
“heavy and menacing.”
Dr- Joseph Goebbels, Reich Min-
ister of Propaganda, declares this
is the decisive year for the Nazis—
“the last but at the same time the
biggest chance in our national his-
tory.”
Ft. Worth, Tex. Oct- 18 (UP) —
Livestock:
Cattle 6,000; calves 5,000. Slow
and around a quarter lower, many
bid off more- Few sales slaughtl
er steers and yearlings 8.50- 12.00
Most beef cattle 7.00-9.00 only a
few 9.50 upward, canners and cut
ters 4.00-7.00. Bulls largely 7.00-
9.25. Bulk slaughter calves 7.501
few ''good and choice 10.50-11-50,
culls around a 7.00 average- Sto-
kers mostly 10.50 down- About 30
per cent of run cows-
The First Baptist Church of En-
nis will be the host church to the
Baptist Missionary Association
when that body holds its annual
meeting here in a three day ses-
sion on Nov- 9, 10- and 11.
Between 250 and 300 messengers
will come here for the meeting
and remain throughout the delib-
erations. Ennis peole will be called
upon to act as hosts to this fine
body and to entertain the visitors
during their stay in the city.
Rev. S- T. Francis, pastor of the
host church has called upon the
members of his congregation, as
well as their friends, to provide
homes for them. In issuing the call
he addressed the following state-
ment to his membership:
To the members of the First
Baptist Church and our friends:
The 9, 10. and 11 of November
we will have the honor and the
privilege of entertaining the State
Association here in Ennis. This is
quite a responsible task. We will
have some 250 to 300 Messengers
to provide homes for.
A committee has been selected
to secure homes, and those who
have already been solicited are re-
sponding graciously. If you have
not been solicited and, you are in
position, and so disposed to as-
sist in this great task, just call
177 and ask for Mrs. Doc Goodwin.
881 and call for Mrs. Curtis, or you
may call the office of the First
Baptist Church, 565.
Quite a numebr of our friends
from our sister Churches have al-
ready responded, for which we are
very grateful. The entertainment
will consist of a bed for the night,
? and if you wish you may give
j breakfast, this is entirely optional
• with you. Trusting that we may
have a call from you, and thanking
you in advance—S. T- Francis.
range, Tex., Oct 18 (UP)—La-
• difficulties at the $4,500,000 •
erside Housing project appeared
be nearing an end today with )
] return to work of 80 plumbers I
i a forecast that a dispute with
J of L painters would be settled
the near future.
London, Oct. 18 (UP)—British
mosquito bombers struck at Btr
lin last night and a big fleet of
allied bombers followed through
today with a daylight attack on
Nazi Europe to send the Anglo-
American aerial offensive back
into high gear after a three-
day lull.
John Staples, 83, retired contrac-
tor and carpenter and resident of
Ennis for more than half a cen-
tury, passed away at 6:15 o’colck
Sunday morning at his home 101
N. Edwards Street following an ill-
ness of several weeks-
Funeral services will be held at
the family residence at 4 o’clock
Monday afternoon with the Rev.
S- T. Francis, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, and the Rev. G.
mlfued Brown, pastor of the First
Pdist Church, officiating.
SInterment.will be made in Myr-
EMDemetery with J. E- Keever in
Mrge of arrangements.
E Mr- Staples was born in New
Banton. Hawkins County, Tenn.,
Miarch 17, 1860. He was married
ere Oct- 9, 1887, to Miss Louise
ike Feagins. In 1891 Mr. and Mrs.
apkA moved to Texas and lived
Crisp-for about two years be-
re moving to.Ennis. Mr. Staples
s helping construct - the orig. 1
1 First Baptist Church buildit,
1893 and it was during that time
( family moved, to Ennis-
urvivino: are three daughters,
Mrs- Morris Gilley, Mrs. W. G-
Parker and Mrs- Edith Myhand
all of Ennis. A son. Horace Staples
passed away here Dec. 17, 1942. Mr-
Staples is also survived by a grand
son, Capt. E- H. Staples with the
U.S. Army in England and a
granddaughter, Susan Staples, who
resides in Kyle. Texas- Mr. Staples
• survived by a sister, Mrs.
--B. Feagins, of Fullerton, Calif.
[ ^Jis wife died here April 20. 1939.
UMr. Staples’ parents were Willi-
“ Tabitha Staples. His fath-
" was' killed during the Civil Wai'
ile serving with a Tennessee
iment and his mother later
ne to Texas and died in Ennis
1912.
Jr. Staples was a member of the
I st Baptist Church-
the front in a frantic effort to
stem the Russian drive, but all
counter attacks were beaten off.
Supporting Red air force planes
shot down 36 German aircraft in
dog-fights.
■ (The German transocean ageny
said the Russians were using 15
divisions—225,000 men——250 tanks
and 200 artillery batteries in their
drive from the Kremehchug area.)
Allied Headquarters. Algiers,
Oct. 18 (UP)—American troops
have seized two key twons north
of the Volturno and to the west
the British captured a third
as the Fifth Army tightened it
pincers against the main Ger-
man fortifications astride the
road to Rome.
East and West Texas—Slightly
warmer this afternoon, tonight
and Tuesday forenoor.
Birmingham Ala-, Oct. 18
(UP)—Nearly 20,000 rebellious Al-
abama coal miners stayed away
from the State’s idle pits today
jecting the pleas of their union
leaders and the order of the War
Labor Board that they resume dig
ing at once.
The best information from un-
ion officers, company representa-
tives and the Alabama mining
stitute, clearing house "10. 1 coal
mine information, was that not
more than 2.000 to 2,500 diggers,
ymostly those employed in the
small commercial pits, had heed-
ed the back to work orders.
| Austin, Tex., Oct. 13 (UP)—State ] Mrs. P. V. Mulkey spent Sunday
Labor Commissioner John C. Reed i --------1_ -----
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