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ENNIS DAILY ' NEWS, ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 26, 1944
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Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Glaspy ac-
companied their little son, Johnny,
to Dallas today to enter a hospital
for observation and examination.
Visitors Here
Visitors in the home of Mr. and
Mrs.' J. H. Bushby were Mr. and
Mrs. Wilmer Scott and daughters
of Dallas and J C. Ware of Rusk.
133 acre farm 6 miles of
Ennis, on 34 highway; good
improvements; for third and
fourth.
northern end of Norway; German
news agency, DNB, confirms Brit-
ish report.
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Tm. Rec. U. S. Fat Off.—All nights reserved
Holiday Guests
Guests during the holidays of Mr.
and Mrs. D. W. Ramsay were T-
Sgt. Dan L. Tillman and Private
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208 W. Knox St.
Mr. and Mrs. Selma Rains had
as their guests for Christmas Day,
Mrs. J. B. Rains of Hillsboro, Mr.
and Mrs. Leslie Rains and daugh-
ter_Judy Nell of Grand Prairie and
Mrs. Vivian Rains and daughter of
Ferris.
Poff and Mrs. Clara Richmond of
Ennis, Mr. and Mrs. Jack O’Ban-
nion and Jackie, Mrs. Una Robin-
son of Waxahachie.
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Auto—Tops
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also Misses Dorothy Jack Gaultney,
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T-Sgt. Earle Fletcher, U. S. Ar-
my Signal corps, was in Corsicana
Saturday en route to his station at
Camp Forest, Tenn.
Fletcher, manager KAND when
he entered the service, is return-
ing from California where he has
been on furlough visiting his wife.
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Week End Guests
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Davidson j
of Houston spent the week end ,
here in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Clayton Donegan. parents of Mrs.
Davidson.
weather we couldn’t bomb them. The Nazis lay out a
square of territory in and behind our lines, then syste-
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Cpl. A. L. Turner;' son of Mr. and
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Dallas, Texas
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Services all makes of type-
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offensive south of Radomyshi, west’
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Cook have received a message that
J their brother, Luther Lusk, has
| landed in—France Mr. Lusk’s wife
! and two children, Michael Luther
and Joan, live in Indianapolis.
Troy, Jr., of Hillsboro. A message
received today stated that Mrs.
Dungan had an appendectomy in a
hospital in Hillsboro after spending
the day here.
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I have opened up a new mule
barn for myself. I will buy mules,
horses, milch cows,' any kind of
livestock you have to offer. I am
located on South McKinney St., in
the Fred Moore Block, Smith bu-
ilding. Will appreciate your seeing
me before you sell, .your livestock.
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-Ennis Daily News
Published Every Day Except Sun
day, by The United Publishing Co.,
.which also publishes the Ennis
Weekly Local and The Palmer
Rustler.
’ All communications of business
and items of news should be ad-
ressed to the company and not
individuals.
to within eight miles of Vitebsk.
In Italy, American 5th Army
launches two attacks, capturing a
height near San Vittore; Allied
because Of bad ( ' Hubert E. Davis, 18, son of Mr. ’
and Mrs. Hubert C. Davis, 713 W. j
ADJUSTMENT
In a recent letter, a Texas
boy in the Navy pondered,
“civilians are unique articles
‘in the curious assemblage of
. wartime humanity. They are
■ 'treated as though, even
treat themselves, as though
they-were the minority. Most:
of their thoughts are with
the boys and girls in the se
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Christmas Guests
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Floyd had as
their guests Christmas Day, Cpl.
Thomas F. Carter, Pvt Eddie Gil-
; bert, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Gilpen
and Mr. and Mrs. V. B Jones.
and we have know it. It is extremely difficult to knock
out of commission. However, we thought the war was
going to be over soon and that we could finish up the job
with the tanks already on hand—of which we had tremen-
Holiday Guests
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Etheredge
had as their guests for Christmas
Day, Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Newcomb
and son, of Beasley, Mr and Mrs.
Boykin Etheredge of Dallas and
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Dungan and son
they concentrated hundreds of tanks in their first attack.
Once they broke' through, they spread out. Also the Nazis
had little to lose. If they sat behind the Siegfried line
8. However, it remains a fact that we had advance
government will back!information of great Nazi activity for about a week before
a loan considered safe by a
vice.—Yet, those in service c 3
waiting and dreaming of the
end of the war with visions
of returning to what they
.knew as civilians with every-
thing they knew now trans-
’.formed into luxury and ease.”
He continued by lamenting
'the fact that the trip home
’Was not going to be as rosy
, as it was painted, and that
-because of the disillusion-
„ment which was sure to fol-
.-low lack of jobs and misun-
derstandings, many boys
...otherwise all right would be-
come misfits. He was rather
; wistful in his desire for un-
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Holiday Guests
Mr and Mrs. H. S. Cranberry
and daughter, Clota Kate, of
Breckenridge are holiday guests in !
the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. G.
Lilley and Mrs. Clota Fowler. Mr.
and Mrs Dow Riggs of Dallas spent
Christmas Day here in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Lilley.
- derstanding by civilians of
-the problems rehabilitation
-Will bring.
* Ennis citizens have been
matically pepper it with rocket bombs. They can aim
them well enough to hit within certain areas.
7. The German system is to attack suddenly with
the air—by robots and rockets—while
pasture on. Crisp.
One-third and one-
To the man that can
Next month your car will drop 4%
in value. If you intend to sell
why not now? I will pay full ceil-
ing price for any clean car.
1941 Studebaker Commander Sedan
1941 Buick Special Sedan
1941 Nash Coach
1940 La Salle Sedan
1940 Packard Sedan
1939 Dodge Coupe
All at less than ceiling prices.
No trade-in required. 15 mo. terms.
Auto loans without red tape.
Frankie Davis Motor
Company
215-17 N. Main Phone 333
Holiday Guest
Charles Worth Howell, stationed
at Biloxi, Miss., spent Christmas
here, with his parents, Mr., and
Mrs/z. L. Howell Jr.
where Hawaiian commissioner Joseph Farrington had
been visiting Hawaiian troops and had been provided a
plane to take him to Rome. Rooney hitched a ride with
Farrington and reached Rome two days after the rest of
the party.
He arrived, in fact, just too late for the audience
granted the entire group by Pope Pius XII, a 20-minute
session during which the pope talked of the importance of
planning for peace. His fellow congressmen were lined up
outside the papal palace for a picture, when Rooney, a
devout Catholic, came puffing up and joined them. Just
as the picture was to be taken he was told by a Vatican
official that this picture was to include only those who
had visited the pope.
Rooney explained that he was a member of the party, I
but that because of travel difficulties he had just arrived
in Rome. He had been anxious to see the pope, he ex-
plained, but had not been able to get there in time.
A hurried consultation followed. Then a messenger
was sent back into the palace, and shortly Rooney was led
in for his private audience with Pope Pius. He was with
the pontiff for half an hour—ten minutes longer than his
colleagues.
Weather Note—
When the house military affairs committee took off
from Washington on its trip to Europe, members had been
told they’d fly the northern route to. England with a stop
at Newfoundland. So they dressed in their heaviest under-
things which are recognized
include the necessity for jobs
and the G. I. Bill of Rights
will in part guarantee em-
ployment for some veterans,
and schooling for others, but
what of those who neither
want to go to school nor had
jobs when they were induct-
ed, and therefore have none afford this gamble.
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“VNis*e
PETE ALSO SAYS:
May the New Year see the
return of your loved ones
with peace and happinelss
for all!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
' (By Carrier in the City)
, One Month ________________ 65c
Three Months _______________$1.95
, Six Months __________________$3.90
One Year ___________________$7.80
By Mail in Ellis County
dous quantities. More recently, however, we have started
building a big tank which can equal or better the Royal
Tiger.
Robots Beat Airplanes—
6. Robot bombs and rocket bombs can fly in any
weather whereas airplanes cant. Also they don’t require
men. Thus the Germans have been able to bomb U Jom
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bank, or other agency, for
half its value up to $2,000.
With the money borrowed,
the veteran may invest in a
business, farm, or even his
home, if he so desires. Em-!
ployrs will give veterans
preference in jobs, and if no
jobs’re available, a certain
amount of compensation will
be provided by the govern-
ment, ii!
These things are wise and
fair, but not enough. Recog-
nition of the need for under-
• standing in the home is
vital. Most of the boys seem
to want to return to com-
plete civilian status as nearly
as possible. They are going
to expect certain considera-
tions, some of which may be
unwarranted, but others of
which will be deserved. One
thing those who were chil-
dren when they left will de-
mand will be acceptance as
adults by their parents.
Many will have grown ac-
customed to living with
crowds, and will find the ad-
justment to home life diffi-
cult, especially since many
civilians during the war have
cut hours of the social life,
they used to spend with peo-
ple by doing war work. Un-
derstanding of the desire for
company, if it is there, or of
the desire for unaccustomed
solitude should be handled
with tact.
Participation in civic af-
fairs, rather than isolation
from them as a separate
group, will be desired in many
instances. In all problems
which arise, the thing of
greatest value will be a sin-
cere desire for understanding
and help on the part of both
the ones who have been at
and the ability to forgive and
home and those who return,
forget when things don’t
work out exactly as planned
for a while.
circuits. A theoretical phase in-
cluded principles of electricity and i
Here For Christmas
Cpl Thomas F. Carter who ar-
rived Saturday night for a isit
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. V.
B. Jones, had as his guests, Pvt.
Eddie Gilbert of Philadelphia, Pa.
They returned to Camp Crowder
Mo., Monday afternoon and were
accompanied to Waxahachie by Mr.
and Mrs. Owen Gilpen, T. H. Floyd
and Mrs. V. B. Jones
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tremendous force and heavy armor in one small area,
Washington, Dec. 26.—Those close up to the war pic-
ture are convinced that aside from faulty intelligence,
there was no one single military error which brought on
the swift and disastrous German break-through.
Undoubtedly some intelligence officers will be dis-
ciplined or broken for failing to evaluate the concentra-
tion of German troops opposite the First Army about a
week beforehand. But there were other factors con-
tributing to the reverse, none of which can be laid at the
doorstep of a single commander. Basically they are factors
which only General Eisenhower and General Marshall
themselves could properly evaluate, and act on. .
Here are some of the inside, basic factors involved:
1. General Marshall himself ordered the U. S. of-
fensive which began Nov. 8, and which continued with
battering-ram tactics until von Rundstedt turned the tide
against us. Marshall, visiting the battlefront in October,
that during the winter the Germans could mobilize 100
new divisions, so it was wise for us to clear them off the
west bank of the Rhine before winter closed in.
'Entered as Second-Class Matter
at the Post Office at Ennis, Texas,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
SS Uruguay with 4700 troops aboard, Chief Officer Pardoe dropped
into the pitch black flooded depths of his vessel and yanked trapped
and injured men from certain death. Disregarding all danger, he
directed the construction of a temporary bulkhead that enabled the
ship to make port. Chief Officer Pardoe wears a Merchant Marine
Distinguished Service Medal for his bravery. Buy War Bonds to back
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from the Naval Training School
(Electric) at the St. Louis, Miss-
ouri, Naval Armory.
He is now awaiting further du-
ty orders to sea or to some shore i
station where his training will help I
him earn the petty officer rate of |
electrician’s mate third class.
Selection to attend the school j ;
was made on the basis of his re- i
cruit training aptitude test scores, i
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bombers strike the Brenner Pass
and Venice areas.
Allied carrier-based aircraft sink
‘ a Japanese destroyer and two large
cargo vessels in attack at Kavieng.
New Ireland; 41 enemy aircraft
shot down; we list 11 fighters.
Ground fighters in New Guinea
I capture Wandokai on Huon Penin-
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THERE'S A REAL
under his suitcoat, a muffler, a heavy overcoat, a hat,
gloves and spats. Those of his colleagues who noticed,
decided to say nothing. They sat by and watched. When
the plane landed Pagan, with amazement written on his
face, marveled at the mildness of the mid-winter climate
of Newfoundland.
“I never heard of such a thing,” he sid. “Why, you’d
think we were ‘way down south’.”
(Copyright, 1944, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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2. There was and is no disposition ' to doubt the
wisdom of General Marshall’s devision. However, these
battering-ram. tactics cost men, also tire men out. The
American system is to keep divisions on the front line,
bringing up fresh men only for replacements. Tus the
divisions now at the front have been fighting steadily
since the landing in Normandy last June—with, of course,
a lot of men coming up as replacements.
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results. However, the Germans immediately took out
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preparation for retreat rather than attack. Also some of
General Eisenhower’s friends in the war department had
cautioned him that it was a favorite Nazi trick to turn
and strike back when cornered.
Note—General Courtney Hodges, against whose First
Army the blow was launched,, is regarded as an average
American general. He was not able to make the grade at
West Point, but immediately enlisted in the army and has
worked his way up. He was a major in command of
infantry in the last war, one rank higher than Marshall,
who was then a captain, and has commanded infantry all
his career since, having risen to be chief of infantry shortly
before we entered the war.
Brooklyn Boy Makes Good—
When the house military affairs committee flew from
Paris to Rome, the plane was grounded overnight at
Marseilles. In the morning Representative John Rooney,
Brooklyn Democrat, a heavy sleeper, lay abed too long
and was left in Marseilles. He managed to get to Nice,
Beaty Hembree stationed at Camp
000 tons), by units of the British I Maxey, Texas.
Home Fleet off North Cape, at the Sgt. Tillman is the son of a for-
mer school mate of D. W. Ramsay
now living in Cheraw, S.C. .
Pvt. Hembree’s home is Anderson,
the American public had reasons to believe that a large zifittaiaamamat
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wear. A card game started, some of the members began >
tot read and one or two went to sleep.
Among those who chose sleep was Bolivar Papan, com-
missioner for Puerto Rico. Papan slept through the pilot’s
announcement after the plane had been in the air about
half an hour that the plans had been changed, that they
would fly the southern route with a Bermuda stop.
As th plane pulled in to tropical Bermuda, only a few
hundred miles from Pagan’s homeland, Pagan awakened
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■thinking about those prob-
‘lems, as have the “folks at
.home” all over the nation,
and they realize, too, that
-planning must be under way
‘for - the normal resumption
'of.. civilian activities by the
returning soldier. A few
things are realized already,
and they are most important
'for the masses, but others
must be considered. Those
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NN Vy IZ ' Frances Pemberton, Plainview.
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LUTHER LUSK
ARRIVES OVERSEAS
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their battle troops after Normandy and sent them to rest
behind the lines. The Nazi boys and old men we en-
countered in the Siegfried line made us think the German
Army was shot to pieces, but it wasn’t. The experienced
battle troops, now refreshed after a long rest, are taking
the offensive against us.
4. The war department itself was responsible for a lot
of the favorable news which gave the public a general
feeling of overconfidence. One of its most important in- 1
dications was that some 800,000 German troops were killed i
or taken prisoners during the clean-up of France, making
a sizeable hole in the Nazi army. Of these, however, about
400,000 were Russian-Ukrainian labor battalions. Thus
Westinghouse Mazda Lamps, 15
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16 acres of land with a
4-room house, windmill, over-
head water tank, born and
garage with electricity and
water piped in the house
Cash rent. % mile from city
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