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THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS
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No. 211
IN FIFTY-THIRD YEAR
BUY’WAR BONDS TODAY
Yank Seventh Army
Germans Make Full
Dress Stand Against
Patton’s 3rd Army
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Bulk of German Armies Destroyed or
Crippled Western Europe Says Stimson
Credit and then killed a German sniper
Commodity
The American push was running passed away Wednesday evening at
Ellis
saved lives.
man border near Mulhouse, where Ennis and Raymond H. Tar of
Price
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ing to Iccation. The rate fcr 15-16 i of E.
Walker, Dallas, district
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will range from 21.09 to 21.30.
Railway Transport of the Office
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brought total U.S.
surviving as a family unit the rug- Coast Guard
J.
Hill, nephew of Leonard Hill
ed their country.
Taylor, Tex., Sept. 7 (UP)—Wil-
Threatens Escape
Route in So. France
Jap Diet Told
Country Faced
Grave Crisis
Austin Has New
Rainfall Record
With 3.5 Inches
Cleburne Candidate
Beat Opponent By
One Vote Margin
Austrian Winter
Peas Success in
Williamson Co.
Asserts Battle of
London Is Over
Editor Gets Letter
Commending Recent
Heroes Edition
UNITED
FEATURE
SERVICE
MEMBER
UNITED
PRESS
Kaufman Soldier
Fires Six Times,
Kills Six Japs
Clifford Spencer
To Resume Work at
Baptist Seminary
Houston Tool
Plants Turning
Out Tools Again
Triplets Given
Wings Together
At Texas Airfield
to
and
AAA
any
No Appeal, Draft
Board Chairman
Is Attacked
Four Killed As
Plane Crashed
Near Hondo Field
\ With U.S. Armored Column Ad-
vancing Through Belgium, Sept.
5 (UP)—We have been moving
fast, but not fast enough to keep
up with the retreating Germans.
According to the Belgian villagers
the Germans have been passing
through in retreat toward their
own frontier ever since last Tu-
esday.
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grade and staple in the 1944 pro-
gram will be calculated in relation
Rome, Sept. 7 (U.P)—American armored columns of the
uthern France Seventh Army were driving on Besancon,
1 miles from the Belfort escape gap into Germany today
hile French units raced toward a junction with northern
invasion forces.
(The German DNB news agency reported that American
troops were attacking west of Mont Cenis and Little St.
Bernard, two Alpine mountain passes on the Franco-Italian
border approximately 60 miles due east of Grenoble.)
Orleans, La.
The State and county Agricultu-
ral Adjustment Agency committees
Mrs. N. A. O’Brien
Died in Houston |
Hospital Wed.
Mrs. N. A. O’Brien, 47, sister of
E. G. and H. A. Tolar of Ennis,
Luling Soldier
Honored For Work
Done at Salerno
SADDLE STUFF—Yank troops ride captured German mounts into liberated town of Cham-
bois in northern France. Allied forces are spilling into Pas de Calais area of rocket bomb
coast in hot pursuit of battered remnants of German 7th Army. Enemy resistance encoun-
tered is “patchy and no more.”
Loans Be Made
On 44 Cotton
Crop Thru CCC
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1944 crop cotton, acccrding to P.
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peas and vetch during the last
winter are loud in their praise of
the crops.
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parallel to the Swiss border into I
the Belfort gap. There still was no
officials co irmalion of Swiss re-
ports that American troops occu-
pied Pcntarlier, 34 miles due east
or Abois and only a few miles from
Switzerland.
At that point the Americans, at
the present pace, would be less
than 48 hours march from the Ger-
A hot weather suggestion from
the Sunkist Kitchen: tcp that fruit
salad with orange or lemon sherbet
instead of the usual salad dressing
10:39 o’clock in the Methodist Hos-
pital in Hcuston following a major
operation
The body will arrive in Ennis
early Friday morning.
Funeral services will be held at
the Keever Chapel Friday after-
noon at 4:00 o’clock.
Surviving are her husband, three
brothers, E. G. and H. A. Tolar of
Early grapefruit from the Isle
of Pines, near "Cuba, has already
reached the eastern markets.
Oklahoma and Louisiana. The ex-
. The loans will vary accord- j Extension of the juris’diction on I fantry attacks supported by
A Ircotion The rate for 15-16 i ef E. q Walker, Dallas, district tars, 105’s and long torn 155’s”
the Rhine separates the Black For-
est and the Vosges Mountains.
In the drive tc Arbois, the Amer-
icans sealed off more than half
the Franco-Swiss frontier against
the remnants f the 19th Army still
in the Sane Valley, with French
forces of the interior east of Potar-
lier guarding one of the main routes
into Switzerland.
Food Administration
ged primary, basic and advanced
flight training of the last nine
months, the youthful triplets re-
ceived the personal congratulations
of Col. John H. Bundy, command-
ing officer of the field.
Germans First
State Bulgaria
At War With Them
approval as lending agencies should has been made to include Texas,
bedirected to Commodity Credit
The following letter has been re-
ceived from Ralph R. Mulligan,
publishers representative, of New
Y ork:
Dear Mr. Newlin:
Your “Heroes Edition” is‘worthy
of special commendation, for not
only is the Ennis Daily News pro-
ducing a publication which will be
cf great historical value, but it
nounced here
Here’s Successful Farming’s sug-
gestion for avoiding shorting in
the ignition system of small farm
engines during rain: Wrap a nar-
row piece of waterproofed adhe-
sive tape around the porcelain part
of the spark plug.
A closed season on ruffed grouse
was decreed on Long Island in
1791.
being eliminated. It is only thru
this gap that the German forces in
Scuthern France can escape.
Stimson said that from D-day on
June 6 through June 30 the army
suffered approximately 42,000 cas- ।
Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Sept. 7 (U.P)—A show-
down battle of the Moselle River line blazed along a
30-mile • front between Metz and Nancy today when
American shock troops charged the steel and concrete
fortifications guarding the outer approaches to Ger-
many and the vaunted Siegfried line.
Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Sept. 7 (UB—Two Ameri-
can armies wheeled past the Moselle and. Meuse River
barriers in a gigantic pincers drive on Germany’s Siegfried
line today while other Allied columns rode down feeble
opposition in northern Belgium and Holland.
Far to the west, Allied ground and air forces attacked
die-hard enemy garrisons in Brest and the French channel
ports with a fury that presaged the early conquest of those
by-passed German strong-holds.
railroads to handle freight and
passenger traffic of great magni-
tude to bring the war to a suc-
London, Sept. 7 (UP)— Duncan
Sandys, chairman of the way cab-
inet committee on flying bomb
counter-measures, announced today
that "except possibly for a few last
shets, the battle of London is ov-
er.”
ualties of all types in France. Pre-
invasion estimates had set the fig-
ure at about 81,000, he revealed.
Of the 42,000, the secretary said
33,933 were battle casualties.
Stimson also announced that A-
merican Army casualties in all the-
aters through Aug. 21 totaled 305,-
795, including 57,677 killed, 15,933
wcunded, 45,967 missing and 45,218
prisoners of war. Of the wounded
he said, 63,986 have been returned
to duty.
Stimson’s figures through Aug.21
mere to be congratulated for the
public service rendered, for this
“Heroes Edition” will be important
Austin, Tex., Sept. 7 (UP)—A li-
eutenant and three enlisted men
from Hondo Air Field, near San
Antonio, were dead today following
the crash and explosion late yes-
terday of the AT-7 navigation
training ship in which they were
flying.
The plane went down during a
heavy thunderstorm near Fiskville,
Travis county.
Names of the men have not been ;
released.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 7 (UP) —
Hughes Tool Company’s two plants
here were turning out war mater-
ial today under supervision of the
army, after seizure yesterday on
orders of President Roosevelt.
Action followed the reported con-
tinued refusal of the company to
follow a War Labor Board direc-
• tive calling for maintenance cf un-
iop membership.
The War
through the
casualties officially disclosed as of
today total 59,964. They include
23,926 dead, 21,894 wounded, 9,678
missing and 4,466 prisoners of war.
Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Tex.,
Sept. 7 (UP)—The first set of trip-
lets ever to complete pilot training
together in the history of the Unit-
ed States Army Air Forces receiv-
ed their wings and commissions as
second lieutenants at the Eagle
Pass Army Air Field’s 19th Cadet
graduation today.
They are Jay R., Jene L., and Joe
D. Hinkle, the 19-year-old sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Ross B., Hinkle of
Walton, Ind.
For their unprecendented feat of
Kaufman, was mentioned prom-
inently in news casts last week.
He is an expert rifleman on
Guam. He was sniping when fifty
Japs tried to take a machine nest.
They lost 40 but killed two Amer-
ican gunners. Then Cpl. Hill step-
ped out in the open and shot it
out with the eight remaining Japs,
killing six of them with six shots,
all his gun holds.
The other two got away before
he could reload. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Chester H. Hill of
Shreveport, La. He is a Marine..
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Austin, Tex., Sept. 7 (UP)—Aus-
tin had a new rainfall record today
J after 3.5 inches fell in an hour yes-
terday afternoon, the weather bu-
reau reported.
Total precipitation for the after-
noon was 3.89 inches. Electrical
service -in parts of the city was in-
terrupted by the sudden downpour’
which was accompanied by a high,
wind.,
Rome, Sept. 7 (UP)—German
forces were withdrawing today a-
long the central and western sec-
tors of the Italian front, but in
the east the crack Nazi first par-
achute division fought stubborn-
ly to hold Rimini, Adriatic gate-
way to the Pc Valley.
The Garand rifle has three times
the fire power of the Springfield-
used in the last war, according to
I the War Production Board, j
are making plans to leave this
week for Fort Worth where he will
resume his work at the Seminary.
He has several years seminary
work to his credit already, and will
By Unied Press
East Texas— Partly cloudy in
north portion, cloudy with showers
in south porticn this afternoon, to-
night and Friday. Warmer in
northwest and north central por-
tions Friday afternoon.
Late War —............
FLASHES
From World Battlefronts
my along the Rhone is gradually corporation, Regional Office, New tension has been made as other
T Price, Chairman of the
County AAA Committee.
Premiums and discounts
Austin, Tex., Sept. 7 (UP)—D. D.
(Dcug) Gathings of Cleburne de-
feated incumbent Herbert F. Braw-
ner of Joshua by one vote in the
run-off primary for State Repre-
sentative from 99th District, re-
turns to the State Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee showed today.
Ceritfied tabulation wai Gath-
ings 1,096 votes, Brawner, 1,095.
that was holding up advance. But
of great importance was his in-
formation to his commanding of-
ficer about a surprise tank attack
Washington, Sept. 7 (UP)—The
bulk of the German armies in wes-
tern Europe have been destroyed or
crippled to an extent that they
“seem insufficient to maintain pro-
longed defenses of Germany,” Sec-
retary of War Henry L. Stimson de-
clared today.
In contrast, Stimson disclosed
that American Army casuualties
during the first 25 days of the
invasion of northern France were
about one-half of the losses which
had been expected.
While German forces are shrink-
ing, Allied forces are growing and
their advance is speeding up, Stim-
son added.
He told his press conference how-
ever, that supplies must catch up
with the advancing armies before
they can administer a death blow
to the Nazis.
“The war won’t be won until Al-
lied troops are in Berlin,” he said.
German forces now are evacuat-
ing all of Southern France from
the Rhone to the Atlantic, accord-
ing to Stimson, who said the gap
between the American third Army
of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.,
now on the Moselle and Lt. Gen.
Alexander M. Patch’s Seventh Ar-
In many sectors of the Metz-
Nancy front, Richards said, the
Germans were exploiting to the ut-
most the advantage of the pillbox-
es studding the region since the
early days cf the war.
Fortifications of the old Maginot
Line reached to this area, and it
appeared that the Nazis had refur-
nished them in the week that Pat-
ton’s forces had been stalled by
the lightning over-extension of
supply lines to prepare for a stand
in the Mcselle Valley.
Clouds scudded low ever the bat-
tleground, Richards reported, im-
peding Allied air support in the
heaviest fighting the Third Army
has done since it sped into east-
ern France.
The latest reports indicated that
Le. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ rifst
army was finding the going easier
in the push across the Meuse in
great strength—a drive which if
entirely successful would roll up
the flank of the German forces
facing Patton’s army.
First Army troops were reported
pushing beyond Namur, Dinant,
Givet and Auchamps. The four
spearheads were pointed at Luxem-
bourg and the Rhineland, and that
thrust from Auchamps already was
inside the Ardennes Forest.
-- liamson county farmers who have
Mr. and Mrs. .Clifford Spencer experimented with Austrian winter
grains and oil anad will continue
to smooth out tangles in trans-
portation of those commodities.
Shipments of sorghums, cotton and
other erps nw are approaching
their maximum.
Reduction of the staffs of the
Division of Railway Transport is
taken as indication that Office of
Kaufman, Sept. 7.—Cpl.
By United Press
Emperor Hirohito anj his prem-
ier, Gen. Kuniaki Koiso—the high-
est authorities in Japan—told the
Japanese Diet teday that the coun-
try faced a grave crisis and had
reached “the decisive stage of the
war.”
- The emperor’s acknowledgement
f the situation was contained in
' an imperial rescript to the 85th ex-
traordinary session of the Diet,
while Koiso personally addressed
the body to warn cf the possibility
of an American invasion of the
homeland in which he said, the life
or death of the nation would be
at stake.
Hirohito’s rescript and Koiso’s
address were broadcast by Tokio
radio and recorded by United Press
at San Francisco.
Tokyo radio said Hirohito was
present at the session but did not
say whether he addressed the body
or had his rescript read to it.
A Jap Demei news agency dis-
patch,’recorded by FCC monitors,
said the Japanese government
would begin a national labor regis-
tration of occupations and skills
cn Nov. 1. The program will af-
fect all males fro 12 to 60 years
and all women from 12 to 40.
The emperor called on members
of the body to “rouse yourself a-
fresh" to meet the car crisis and
“wreck the inordinate ambitions of
Mie enemy countries.” He said he
lad ordered the ministers of state
to present to the diet “bills of spe-
cial and grave urgency connected
with the current situation.”
While he claimed that the work
of constructing greater East Asia
was progressing “with great rapid-
ity” and Japanese troeps were
“smashing the formidable enemy
everywhere,” Hirohito noted that
“a further increase is seen in the
violence of the enemy’s resistance.”
Abilene, Tex., Sept. 7 (UP)—
Jack Taylor Davis has been charg-
ed with attacking the chairman
of the local draft board.
The reason for the ‛ attack was
his failure to secure an appeal
from his I-A classification.
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365,759. Navy,
Marine Corps
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medium salt fcr brining or can-
ning. Plain table salt (not iodized)
is recommended by etter Homes
& Gardens focd editors for can-
ning. It may produce a slight
cloudiness in the brine but will
have no effect on the quality or
taste of your food.
United Press war correspondent
Robert C. Richards reported from
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s third
army front that American and
German forces were locked in vio-
lent fighting of the close-range
trench warfare type through a
broad reach of the Moselle Valley.
To the northwest the United
States First Army was smashing
forward from four bridgeheads on
40-mile stretch of the east bank of
the Meuse in what comprised the
northern arm of a massive pincers
push against the Nazi west wall.
Farther west British armcred
forces running roughshod over fee-
ble German oposition captured
Gent (Ghent), Courtrai and the
French border town of Armentiers,
the home of the Mademciselle dear
to the heart of the doughboys of
1918. One Anglo-American force
was reported unofficially to be with
in 9 1-2 miles of Rotterdam.
Richards’ dispatch from the 3rd
Army front in northeastern France
disclosed that the stiffening Ger-
man resistance had turned sudden-
lyinto a full dress stand against
Patton’s forces pushing stubbornly
toward the Reich.
“It is evident,” Richards said,
“that for the next 48 hours at least
the blitz type of warfare has been
supplanted by grim, close range in-
to the loan rate on 15-16 inch E. O. Walker, Rail
Middeingoanttorate for 15-16 inch Director Given
Middling cotton, net weight, inMore Jurisdiction
Ellis county is 21.25c, states P. T. ] -------
inch Middling cotton, net weight, rail director of the ’Division of
John L. Franconi
Has Franchise For
Film Classics, Inc.
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John L. Franconi has acquired
the Texas franchise for the dis-
tribution of pictures for Film
Classics, Inc., a new producing
company only recently organized.
Its plans call for producing its own
pictures in Hollywood as well as
that of releasing several Samuel
Goldwyn reissues, such as Hum-
®shrey Bogart in Dead End, Gary
Cooper in The Westerner, and The
Cowboy and the Lady ,and Eddie
Cantor in The Kid From Spain.
The new Texas organization will
begin operations on Oct. 1 with its
Dallas offices located at 308 South
Harwood, and will be operated
under the name of Film Classics of
Texas. W. J. Crammer will join
the new organization as Dallas of-
fice manager.
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and the problem cf getting out a j high level have brought results’,
newspaper on time every day,—you } The organization, however, still
and your associates are all the i has the huge problem of aiding
London, Sept. 7 (UP)—The Ber-
lin Radio reported today, and lat-
ter retracted its own report, that
Bulgaria had declared war against
Germany in a complete about-face
by the erstwhile Balkan satellite
of the Nazis.
The transocean news agency, an
hour after reporting the Bulgarian
declaration, put out an “official
correction” saying that the Bul-
gars had “only broken off rela-
tions with Germany. A declaration
of war has not ocurred.
The report gained currency in
some other unofficial quarters as
the Nazi broadcasters floundered
through their contradictory ac-
counts of the situation in the
troubled Balkans.
Despite the inability of the Nazi
propagandists to make up their
mind, responsible sources here be-
lived that Bulgaria was in effect
a belligerent against Germany, and
trying to make peace with the Un-
ited States, Britain and Russia.
Diplomatic sources understood
Bulgaria had informed Russia that
she regarded herself as at war with
Germany, in line with Soviet de-
mands. Moscow declared war a-
gainst Bulgaria when the demands
were ignored.
Before announcing Bulgaria’s war
declaration, the German transoce-
an news agency quoted authorita-
tive Nazi quarters as saying that
“hoping for favorable conditions
from Great Britain and the United
States, and inorder to make a
concession to the Soviet Union, the
Bulgarian government has broken
eff relations with the Reich.”
Radio Ankara also reported the
Bulgarian government’s move, as-
serting- that the declaration cf war
was handed to the Nazi minister at
Sofia, and that the government im-
mediately notified Russia, Britain
and the United tSates of its action.
- London diplomatic sources had
no confirmation of the reported de-
claration of war, but it was under-
stood that Bulgaria- had merely,
notified Russia that she considers
herself at war with Germany.
soon complete his minterial study I and can be secured without
and go out to serve some . church, outlay of cash.
photographs of so many published.
I doubt if many people realize
the great amount of work necessary
in producing this particular issue,
faced as you and other publishers Defense Transportation efforts to
are, with reduced working forces j keep war-time transportation at a
(The British radio said that ac-
cording to some reports the Amer-
icans now were north cf Besancon
in the drive toward Belfort.)
CBS correspondent Eric Sevare-
id attached to the Seventh Army,
reported today -that the northern
and southern invasion forces had
joined at an undisclosed point
close to the German border, and
that the junction was closing the
Belfort escape gap.)
The two forces under Lt. Gen.
Alexander M. Patch gained between
20 and 25 miles in their advance
north and northeast through the
Saone River Valley, and a head-
quarters spokesman said the drives
were made “withcut contact with
the real guns of the harassed Ger-
man 19th army.”
The French, following along the
river, swept to Allery, 10 miles
northeast of Chalon, and lessened
the gap between the 7th and 3rd
Armies to aproximately 55 miles.
On the eastern side of the val-
ley, American troops captured five
towns, including the junction
point of Arbois, with little opposi-
tion and drove northward toward
the Doubs River, which bisects the
southern part of Besancon and
continues southwestward.
Luling, Tex., Sept. 7 (UP) —
Technical Sergeant James M.
Logan knew today that his home-
town citizens are proud of him
and the honors which he has re-
ceived, among which is the con-
gressional medal of honor—the
nation’s highest.
Foi’ last night as the 23-year old
hero sat with perspiration beads
glistening on his forehead, clasping
and unclasping his damp hands,
he heard three of his former Texas
National Guard officers praise him
before a crowd of nearly 2,000 at
a special ceremony in the high
school gym.
At least the sergeant appeared
nervous and frowned occasionally
until Lt. Col. Miller Ainsworth of
Luling called on him to tell about
| Co. 1, 36th Division, at bloody
Salerno on Sept. 9, 1943. Though
composed then, his modesty kept
back details. Colonel Ainsworth
was Logans National Guard bat-
talion commander and was in the
36th also at Salerno.
“I guess I went crazy and tried
to get Jerry before he got me,”
Logan said.
With those words, the former
farm boy, oil field worker and
Houston stevedore covered his
heroic actions that kept the 36th
from being pushed back into the
sea.- Logan was in the first wave
of men to hit the beach. When a
German machine gun pinned the
group to the ground, Logan exposed
himself to fire, killed three Nazis
and captured the machine gun.
He turned the gun on the Ger-
mans, exhausted its ammunition,
then smashed it.
Later he captured two Germans
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Hcuston, her mother, Mrs. Lula To-
lar and a sister, Mrs. W. V. Cart-
er of Cleburne.
Beuna Tolar O’Brien was born in
Ennis in March, 1897, and was
reared here. She was married
nineteen years ago to N. A. O’Bri-
en. They moved to San Benito
in 1926, and have resided there
since that time.
Mrs. O’Brien was a member of
the Order cf Eastern Star.
Loans will be made directly by of Defense Transportation, is an-
the CCC or through lending ag- nounced from the office of W. F.
encies, principally banks, approved Kirk, Chicago, western director,
by the Corporation. Request fcr Director Walker’s jurisdiction
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ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY TEXAS k ★ k THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 7, 1944
for the enemy was preparing. That
certainly is an outstanding ac-
complishment for a small city pa-
per to do so fully a job as. that in
which the names of all the boys in
your section are listed, and the
executives of the division have re-
tired. Olin C. Castle, who was as-
sistant western director of the Di-
vision of Railway Transport
with headquarters in Houston, re-
signed last month and most of
the operations of his office were
transferred to Director Walker
Sept. 1.
। L. S. Bourne, who occupied of-
fices with Director Castle in Hous-
ton, will continue as district port
director and in that capacity will
have jurisdiction over all port
activities along the Gulf of Mexico
west of but not including New
Orleans. Mr. Bourne will assist
Mr. Walker in incidental Tail
problems.
Director Walker in recent months
has given much of his time to
problems in transportation of
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