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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Monday Evening, July 12, 1943
Attack on Sicily Test Tube for Big Show
President Signs It’s Travel-Weary Group of Passengers
Farm Cash Bill, On Trans-Continental All American Line
Grir
Other Invasion
Teams Ready
(The torents oomimi f we
Greener Associated Press war cor-
respondent who landed with the AEF
in North Africa and followed the Tu-
nician campaign through to Allied Vig-
tory. Gallagher, now on leave from
the Mediterranean front, was, injured
a jeep accident near Bizerte alter
being cut off by enemy fire. A.native
of san Francisco, he has traveled
through 16 countries and watched the
Germans entered the capitals of two
of them. Denmark and Greece, since
the war began). -
By J. WES GALLAGHER
BANTA CRUZ, Calif., July 13—
(PP)__On the success of the Allied
invasion of Sicily depend United
Nations hopes for a second front.
The attack on the key,Italian is-
land is a test tube by which Gen.
= Dwight D Eisen-
shower and his
lmilitary advisors
man will be able to tell
when and where
to strike next.
While Sicily is
important as an
air base from :
which to strike :
Italy, and as a
stepping stone to
an invasion of
Italy, It is far
wis GALLAGHER more important
as a testing ground of Allied am-
phibious methods which some day
may be hurled against the contin-
ent.’
Preliminary preparations for the
Sicily invasion started last March
and gained impetus with the fall of
Tunisia early in May. In secret
training quarters, picked troops
were gathered and put on 12-hour
a day amphibious drill schedule.
When the collapse of Axis opposi-
tion in Tunisia released battlewise-
British and American troops, these
soldiers were sprinkled among task
forces training for the Sicily attack.
That It took two months from the
time Tunisia fell to mount the in-
vasion of Sicily gives a rough idea
of the time and training required
to land the hundreds of thous-
Asks Insurance
By NANCY PHILIPS
Every day around noon a couple
of all American buses pull up in
front of the American cafe and
unload a large assorted group of
wrinkled, weary and sometime hag-
gard passengers who have been
packed together over such a long
period of time for people to be
packed together that they all look
more or less alike.
Most of these, people have been
living together for approximately
.......____three or four days and nights en-
“I certainly hope that when Con- route from one coast to another.
They have stopped for meals which
WASHINGTON, July 13-<A>—
President Roosevelt signed the
$848,295,883 agriculture department
supply bill Monds y but said that he
-regretted exceedingly that Con-
gress failed to provide funds to con-
tinue” the crop insurance program
in a statement to the press after
making the appropriation bill law.
the President said:
are included in the bus fare $47.50
from coast to coast) and to load or
unload" passengers every hundred
miles or so. Passengers must make
reservations ahead of time, other-
wise the bus will breeze by without
pausing. They must also be going
out of the state or they are not
eligible for rides on the American
line.
This cuts out all delay and gives
the line a reputation for speed
without unnecessary dilly-dallying.
The All American buses might be
compared with the pony express.
Every 300 miles they change driv-
ers.
But the same passengers ride on
gress returns from its recess, funds
will-be provided to continue this
program which will mean so much
to our farmers and at the sameT AI
time enable agriculture to be placed Lssmam UIAPi
on s more stable basis than ever hi IiOnO An 1 I
pefare Roosevelt commented that LULUDO n I
weather is the major hazard of ’ -—-------------------------------
agriculture and said: ‘Certainly in
these times when the farmer is be-
OVER THEIR OBJECTIVE! The green light for jumpers has been given and men are
==============
very quiet, some half asleep. (Signal corps radiotelephoto from NEA.)____________________
Allied Planes Start Operating the Markets
Off Captured Fields on Sicily At A glance
STOCKS—Irregular.
BONDS Irregular.
CURBS—Higher.
COTTON- Future# - steady.
WHEAT—off more than a cent a
ing urged to produce more and as-
sume greater risks, "we should not
stop a program which is of such
tremendous potential value to
them' .
Saying that Congress dropepd crop
insurance on the claim that it was
too expensive, Mr. Roosevelt said
the program had not yet been given
a fair trial, and recalled that simi-
lar criticisms of cost had been made
in the past with regard to rural
free delivery of mail and more re-
cently in connection with the pro-
gram of rural electrification.
Both of these programs, the presi-
dent said, "are now recognized as a
great blessing to our rural popula-
tion" and have been made to work
on a practical basis." He added:
“If we can make crop insurance
work, it will, in my opinion, prove
one of the greatest steps ever taken
by the government toward making
farming a sound and profitable oc-
cupation.”
For New Ihrusts v
ands of troops necessary to open
a second front.
BieUy is an important cog tn
Allied plans, but only a cog. It
te revealing no military secrets
• to sav that other task forces
are hidden in North Africa and
in the Eastern Mediterranean
preparing for other blows
against the Azis even as the
Sicily attack is being carried
out.
There are other key stepping
stones to be taken and it is more
than likely that fighting in the
Mediterranean will be continued all
summer as British, American and
Canadian troops break down Hitler's
outer defenses one by one
in battering this Axis Island bas-
tion, the Allies will gain a vast body
of experienced troops for the huge
By EDWARD GILLING
Representing the Combined British Press
(Distributed by the Associated Press) ...___:
AN ALLIED COMMAND POST IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA.
July 11— (Delayed)— Allied planes were operating Sunday from cap-
Sicily. .......- -
German troops have been thrown in. In an endeavor to hold up our
advanseurday night when British troops entered Syracuse at 8 p. rn there
was some fighting in the sweets and German troops tried to hold out in
the barracks of the town but by dawn fighting had ceased and the
enemy was completely cleared from
the town and port.
Later to the day Allied mine-I
sweepers cleared the beach ap-
proaches of mines.
On the southern coast American
troops have captured the ports of
Licata and Gela and equipment al-
ready is being unloaded there. I
The bridgehead held by the
Americans is 35 miles to length and
Livestock
Abilenian Paged
For Inheritance
Paging Mrs. Ruth Ribble. Or Mrs.
V. M. Ribble.
KANSAS CITY
KANSAS CITY, July 12 —(AP)— (WFA)
Hog* 5700; slow uneven, 10-40 higher.
Itcatris 12.000: calves 1600; practically
nothing done on liberal supply of slaughter |
steers. Largest run cows since early spring:
canners and cutters about steady but beef-
kinds weak; bulls fully steady; steers 25- ance following the death of a rel-
40 lower: most cutter cows 8.009.50 me -‘-- "•—‘ -”
Idium and good bulls with weight 13.00-50.
Sheep 5.000; fat spring lambs and year
lings steady; slaughter sheep uneven;
steady to 25 higher’s medium to choice
native spring lambs 14.00-15.25 to packers.
PRODUCE—___„
, KANSAS CITY. July 12.—(AP)—Poul-
L try and produce prices: Eggs 35* 38*:
butterfat 42-45; butter 41.4-42.22; .hens
23 68; broilers, fryers and springs 21.18.
By EDWARD GILLING rouns turkeys. 31.58-33 M8es-ldat"tkez2
AN ALLIED COMMAND POST «53244 °25 keys 29.85
ENEMY GUESSED
AT 12 DIVISIONS
10 miles deep.
Between them and the British
Eighth army on the right are the
Canadians, who took a big part in |
the capture of Pachino peninsula divisions.
Saturday. ,
Allied troops were fanning out
Sunday as they advanced inland
and up to midday there was no
sign of an enemy counterattack
our troops are meeting only light
opposition so fsr and the civilian
population is reacting well to our
IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, AREA
July 10 Delayed)—Allied sources
said Saturday that enemy forces
defending Sicily may consist of 13
final assault.
Attacking mountainous Sicily
against determined German-Italian
resistance is a far more difficult |
task than the landing in Northern
Africa.
The speed and success of the at-
tack will give General Eisenhower
an inkling of what may. be faced
on the continent and a chance to
make whatever changes might be
found necessary. It is extremely
unlikely that the Sicilian campaign . m in ...... ....______
will be a matter of days. It isine to advise them to surrender,
well to bear in mind that it took with the result that the town then
the Germans and their luftwaffe
three weeks to seize virtually un-
(The total thus would range up
I to perhaps 144.000 men. London
| sources on Saturday placed the to-
tal Axis forces on Sicily as rang-
ing upwards to 400.000 men.)
Two of these probably are Ger-
man. the remaining 10 being five
Julian consul divisions and five
landing and cooperating in every Italian infantry divisions.
one illustration of this occurred |
when an official of one town which
our troops occupied without much
trouble offered to go to a nearby
town in which the enemy was re- |
defended Crete, which was garrison-
ed by not more than a division of
British troops.
Abilenians Back ,
From Washington
Bernard Hanks and W. P. Wright
returned to Abilene Sunday night
from Washington, D. C. where they
■pent several days representing the
Abilene chamber of commerce to
several matters of importance to
the city They reported things were
pretty hot to the capital, both the
weather and the atmosphere in Con-
gram, which adjourned during their
stay.
surrendered.
More than 4 000 prisoners were
taken Saturday and an Italian
coastal regiment was virtually wiped
out. Included in the enemy tanks
knocked out Saturday by the Brit-
ish were a number of French ma-
chines being used by the Italians .
Enemy air opposition throughout
the whole of Saturday was prac-
tically negligible but Sunday en-
emy aircraft is slightly more in evi-
1 dence, which is another indication
I that the landing caught the en-
emy off balance.
Sicilians sav that German troops
on the island had the first warn-
ing of invasion at 1 a. m. Saturday,
three hours after our first assault
troops landed.
TOUGHENED WEST TEXANS
TAKING PART IN INVASION
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY demonstration with the benefit of
MNORIW AFRICA, (Delayed)—his commando training
TUP The Yankee invasion troop- Instructor. Lt. Laqims
! who struck at Sicily are fellows querra of Auburn. N teaches
“Chares R Satterfield of the men to step on casualties with
Breckenridge Tex, who could stand ! disregard. m
- - - Do crensea ^ helmet „. tm ^ met :
“Y.5 A taught to do that at this in sneek or killed,” he tells
invasion training center
Satterfield’s gel was the crack
shot of the company, Pvt. Hugh
Smyth of Lakewood,
Smyth fired from 15 feet and
the bullet came a little low.
grazing the helmet and snip
ping a string en the camouflage
net. Satterfield didn’t stir.
“It’s all a matter of confidence.
his Commando training.
Instructor Lt Ladislaus Vlncl-
his classes. "In either case you
can’t hurt him any mere. It
doesn’t hurt him fer you ••
step on him. But if you run
wide around him er stop to help
him, you're giving the enemy
an extra chance at yea."
• • •
he said.
They teach the boys everything
here, knowing that they’ll spearhead
the invasion armies going to Eu-
rope They can storm houses and
towns or pillboxes, stone or in
groups. They shoot from either
shoulder. And the fact they use
live bullets has caused only a lew
minor wounds—and big results in
getting them used to gunfire.
* bunch of straight-shoot in a
Texans, Satterfield among them,
tea Th house-to-house fighters. Capt.
Frank C. Coker of Paint Rock, Texs
-no once played pro foot ball with
the Philadelphia Eagles and the
mumineton Clippers, handles the
SICILY-
(Continued from Page 1)
broadcasts, declared "Italian and
German troops decisively went over
to counterattacks."
i The German communique said
at one place the Axis counterattack
"drove the enemy back at first con-
tact,” but German military quar-
ters were quoted in other Berlin
broadcasts as admitting that the
Allies "in other pieces were able to
hold their positions."
(Algiers broadeasst, recorded
in London and rebroadeast by
the London radio, «ald a violent
battle was raging between Al-
FORT WORTH
FORT WORTH July 12.—(AP)—Cattle
4,000; and calves 1,200: no mature ateers
sold early. Cull to common yearlings 8.00-
12 00 Common to good beef cows 8.15-
11.50 with best higher. Good butcher ealves
12 50-13.50: common to medoum sorts
9.00-12.00: culls 7.00-8.50. Stocker ateer
| calves mostly 13.50 down with boat light-
weights above 14.00. . ■
Hogs, 1.500 Butcher hogs mostly 15-30
above Friday’s average, sows steady o
| 25€ higher: pigs unchanged Hog top 13.85.
Sheep. 15,000; good and choice spring
la mbs 13 00-75: common to medium spring
lambs 9 00-12.50; culls 5.00.
Produce
CHICAGO
CHICAGO, July 12.—(UP)—Produce:
Butter: 1 142,866 lbs.: market steady
and unchanged: 93 AA 41%: 92 .1:90
IB :40%: ears .40%. 39 CX40%: M (cook-
ling grade) .39. cars .39. u
Egas 14.885 cases; market unsettled;
no quotations; wholesale celling prevails.
6 Traffic Deaths
In Area for June
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the passengers and the bus probably
feel as if they belong together for-
ever and ever. Some confessed, at
this halfway mark between New
York and Los Angeles, that they
had forgotten how it felt just to sit
down in ■ a chair and not find
themselves pn the road. •
DISTRUST FOR CHAIRS------
One fellow, who was stretching
his legs in front of the American
cafe, sald quite seriously that he
had developed a distrust for chairs.
He had been sitting in one since*
he left Seattle. Wash . five days ago*
“If I ever get off this bus,” he
said, "I am going to spend the rest
of my life standing up. I am afraid
if I ever sit down again the chair
will start galloping—Across. courn—
He was going to St. Louis, Mo., to
report to his local draft board.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pickens of
Dallas were eating and seemed very
cheerful considering the fact that
they had been riding since Monday,
They had been to Seattle, Wash., t&
see their son, Seaman Second class
Landers Pickens, and expected to
pull Into Dallas around 5 p. m.
: Saturday. They have another son in
the Navy who was reported missing
in action four months ago and the
have had no further word.
Pickens, who is employed in the
shipping department of the Lone
Star Cement Co., loosed at us good-
naturedly for a moment and said
"Do you know how far it is from
Seattle to Dallas’ •
We said, no, we were afraid to
reserves to the
Sicilian theater and were instead
maintaining a guard at the nor-
thern frontier, the Nazis themselves
were preparing for an attack in the
BERN, July 12.—(P—The entire of failure to send
fortress of Europe was on the alert
today for new lightning Allied
thrusts as Axis leaders in Germany
and Italy anxiously watched the
progress of the battle for the Med-
iterranean island of Sicily.
Dispatches reaching here to-
day treat Berlin and Rome con-
ceded that the Allies had estab-
lished at least four bridgeheads
in Sicily and looked ahead
glumly to a day not far distant
when they expect invasion
barges to grate upon other
shores along the Mediterranean.
Of the two Axis capitals Berlin
took the news of the invasion more
calmly, pointing out that it had long
been expected and declaring that
advance Allied parachutists and air-
borne units had been annihilated or
surrounded and captured. Axis sour-
ces gave few details, however, on
the progress of the fighting in Sici-
"There was mounting tension in
Rome and on the mainland of It-
Balkan area.
German leaders, pointing to the
heavy bombing of Crete, suggested
that the Balkans might be the next
stop listed on the United Nations
timetable
Stimson to See
Prime Minister
LONDON, July 12.—(P)—Secre-
aly. . .
One dispatch from Milan said
that Premier Mussolini and King
One of those ladies-or that lady, Vittorio Emanuele had made a point
II the two names belong to the same of being seen publicly in Rome,
person—has been left an inherit-
if the two names belong to the same of being seen publicly in Rome,
where the "atmosphere is heavy”,
and private sources revealed that
Mussolini had presided over a cabi-
net meeting Sunday.
It was atsu reported that there
had been further expulsions in the
Fascist party in an effort to bolster
crumbling morale and Italian news-
papers were enlisted in a campaign
to whip up enthusiasm for the fight-
ing ahead. ,
(The London Daily Mail reported
that Mussolini had appealed to the
Ruth king to address the Italian people
the tension
ative, "Aunt Eva.”
Mrs. Sidney Fox, 761 Turk Street,
Apt. 31. San Francisco (2), Calif.,
is seeking to locate Mrs. Ribble and
tell her of the newly gained riches.
In a letter to the Reporter-News
she wrote “The last we heard of her
she lived on Hickory street, not
far from Simmons university. Her
name is.Mrs Ruth Ribble. or Mrs.
V. M. Ribble.”
Efforts to locate a Mrs. - -
Ribble were unavailing Monday in an effort to ease
morning. Mrs. W. C. Ribble, wife of which followed reports of the Sic-
a Hardin-Simmons associate pro-
fessor, has the Christian name
"Virginia Mae” which might con-
ceivably make her Mrs. V. M. Rib-
ble. She also had an Aunt Eva. now
dead, but the relative lived in
North Carolina, not California.
Residing on Hickory street in the
neighborhood of Hardin-Simmons
are Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo T. Rib-
ble, but Mrs. Ribble’s name is
Velma.
Persons eligible to put in a claim
for the inheritance can write Mrs.
Fox at the above address.
lian invasion.)
Another factor which appeared to
weigh heavily in depressing the
Italian state of mind as the crisis
approached was a steadily worsen-
ing food problem brought about by
the relentless Allied air attacks on
tary of War Henry L. Stimson, who
arrived here yesterday by plane from
the United States, spent a quiet day
today "getting acquainted with some
of the American Army officers and
seeing a few other people," an an-
nouncement from his headquarters
said.
Stimson was scheduled to meet
later with Prime Minister Churchill
for a conference on forthcoming
moves against the Axis and will also
inspect American troops based on
the British isles. He announced
that he would hold a press confer-
ence later in the week.
Stimsons' flight was broken by
at stopever at Island, where he
paused briefly to inspect United
States troops and installations. He
was greeted on his arrival ir. Brit-
ain by Lleut. Gen. Jacob L. Devers.
Ameriacn commander in the Euro-
pean theater; William A. Harriman.
U. S. lease-lend expediter, and other
high officials. The trip was Stim-
son's first to a theater of operations
since the war began.
In the Stimson party were Brig.
Gen. Alexander D. Surles; Harvey
It is 3,735 miles, he said, and took
another spoonful of soup.
Seated at the same table were Mr.
and Mrs Alex Avizenis who wereg
returning to their home in Taylor-
ville. Ill, from San Diego where
Avizenis has been employed by Con-
soldiated Aircraft for the past 14
months. He was going back to be
drafted and Mrs. Avizenis was*
planning on staying with her fam®
ily for a while.
HEAVY SOLDIER PATRONAGE
The bus driver reported that al-
most half of American passengers
were generally soldiers' wives and
war workers. But they come fromat
all walks of life, he added—“you”
just can’t tell what kind of load you
will gather.
Gathering her things together
for the last lap of the journey, eld-
erly, gray haired Mrs. J. J. Tur-M
ner said she was taking her daugh-
ter. Mary Ethel, to Dallas to spend
the winter. Their home is in Las
Cruces, N. M, and Mary Ethel had
wanted a change so they were going
to Dallas.
Four boys, a little the worse 1 o’S
wear, were seated at a corner table.
Leroy Triplett, who was eating a
huge bowl of ice cream instead of
the usual dinner, declared he was
on his way from Oakland, Calif,
where he was employed with %
construction company, to Oklahoma*
H. Bundy, a special assistant; Lieut.
Col. William H. 8. Wright; Lleut.
Gordon Grand. Stimson’s aide de
camp, and Corp. William Ford, a panlons, Wesley Lorrow, was going
where he hopes to enlist in the
Army Air Force. One of his com-
Italian railroads.
While private sources in Italy said
the Italians had accused Germany
Five highway and one pedestrian
death during June increased three-
fold traffic fatalities in the Abi-
lene highway patrol district for
June, 1943 over the same period in
1842 Despite the hike. Half-year
totals remain under those of last
lied troops and 30,000 Germans
fer possession of the town of
Ragusa, a little over 20 miles
Inland and approximately mid-
way between the Americans on
the Allied left wing at Gela and
the British and Canadians on
the Allied right wing at Pachino
on Cape Passero.)
American troops apparently com-
pletely controlled the vital south-
ern port of Gela, with its import-
ant road railway facilities spprox-
imately 55 miles west of the south-
eastern tip of the island.
The Allied command officially
said that American and RAF fight-
ters maintained control” of the
air over the advancing Allied
troops.
The enemy obviously was trying
to build up forces for a counter-
attack. for pilots reported heavy
troop movements on many roads
leading to Southeastern Sicily
The resulting raids on transport
by the A-36 Mustangs equalled in
fury any strafing in the African
,Pvt. Foy Stephens of Palestine.
Tex.. Coker’s specialist on two-
shoulder firing, demonstrated that
trick during the mock storming of
a makeshift town built on the
shores of the Mediterranean
The troops learned to face real
bullets. A constant stream went
down the center of the street of the
town, fired by Pvt. Billie Lyerla of
Eastland, Tex
They do their jobs around here
so well that the building of pill-
boxes for practice assaults is a
weekly duty, according to Lt. Hugh
Nichols of Richmond Calif.
Even cooks have been turned in-
to parachutists so airborne troops
trained under Lt Col. Doyle R.
Yardley of Raymondsville, Tex. can
get their meals on time.
Bluebonnets to Be
Guests at Dance
Membert of the Bluebonnet Bri-
gade are Invited to attend a dance
given by Co. A. 56th medical battal-
ion. Camp Barkeley, Tuesday night
at the recreation hall. The dance
will be informal. Buses will leave
the Fifth street UBO club at 8
o’clock.
WEATHER REPORT
BIG SPOT COLLINS
BAGS FIFTH NAZI
clerk.
Pvt. Jimmie Couch and Pfe. La-
verne Fredick of the Marine Corps
have returned home for a brief
visit with their parents after nine
weeks basic training at "boot”
camp in San Diego, Calif. Private
Couch is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Delbert Couch, route J. and Private
Fredick ih the son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. Fredick, route 5.
to Hot Springs. Ark, to see his
girl friend, he finally admitted. He
has been working for the city ofS
San Diego.
Youngest of the group was Ed
Lyons of San Francisco, a senior
in high school, enroute to Chicago.
Ill, to visit relatives .
Fourth member at the table was
Howard Lea who, like most of thee
others, was going to his home in
Joplin, Mo, to be drafted after
working in Long Beach, Calif.
LITTLE ENTERTAINMENT
When asked what they had been
doing during the long journey they
grinned and looked at each other
and said that they sang, slept,
smoked, tried to read, gabbed. But
most of the time they just sat.
We suggested a pack of cards
and they were talking that overa
when we left •
At the end of the thirty min-
ute lunch period passengers wan-
dered slowly back to the bus ...
some were arguing over who had
come the greatest distance, oth-
ers were busy hunting their seats.S
The last man on was the fellow
who did not trust chain. And he
stood up for a long time before he
finally sank down and tried to read
a magazine.
PACIFIC-
(Continued from Page One)
possibly in the thousands, helpless
before an assault.
On the other end of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's 750-mile offensive are
reaching from the Solomons to New
Guinea. Allied planes battered the
Salamaua area continuously in sup-
port of ground forces setting up that
enemy base for capture.
The second enemy atempt to run
a force of cruisers and destroyers
through to reinforce Munday and
Vila, on Kolombangara, apparently
had failed. The enemy force that
was sighted and attacked in bad
weather in Kula gulf Saturday was
later seen headed north, evidently
seeking cover.
BRECKENRIDGE, July 12 —
While the count is strictly unoffi-
cial, based on what they read in
the papers, folk hereabouts Mon-
day marked up a fifth German
plane for the bag of 1st Lt Frank
J. (Big Spot) Collins.
Press dispatches from North Af-
rica announced that Lieutenant
Collins, former # Breckenridge high
school football star, shot down a
Messerschmitt fighter during oper-
ations over Sicily Saturday.
The West Texas air hero bagged
a seaplane in a raid on the Italian
m temperature and precyimu A seaplane * - idland
period. Minimum temperature seaplane base on Stagnone island
---(Amounts of precipl-off the western tip of Sicily June 1.
He had shot down three Messer-
schmitt fighters in previous raids.
Lieutenant Collins is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Collins of
Breckenridge.
re DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN
For periee ending at 1:30 % m. July 12
year.
Taylor county had two of the .. ...______,
deaths chalked up against it, one Maximum temperature and precipitation
highway and one pedestrian. Two
were in Jones county, one in Shack-
elford and one in Scurry.
The June, 1942 figure was two,
both occuring in Mitchell county.
Total accidenu thus far in 1943
total 31 highway, 3 pedestrian, com-
pared with 3S highway and 5 pedes-
trian in 1042
Showers Forecast
In Abilene Tonight
With occasional thundershowers
predicted for today and tonight.
Abienians hoped for the big break
in weather that would relieve July’s
hot, dry spell.
Rainfall late Saturday night
amounted to .15 inch, bringing the
month's total to date to .20 inch
Normal for the period is 80 while
July's normal is 3.13 inches.
campaign.
Leading one formation of A365
Lt. Robert W. Hafer attacked a
convoy of almost 200 vehicles in
Eastern Sicily and his airmen re-
ported the destruction of 100 trucks
In that foray alone.
- In another Allied air punch Capt.
Glenn Stell of Shreveport, La., led
a Mustang formation In taking the
same toll of an enemy highway
convov
A third Mustang mission led by
Capt. Justin C. Gunnison of San
Rafael, Calif demolished 30 more
vehicles.
In continuing night and day air
battles Malta Spitfires accounted
for 22 of the 50 enemy planes, loa-
ing two of their own, while pro-
tecting the southern beaches against
bombings by the German and Ital-
ian air forces
Air Capt. W W. Foster Jr of
San Antonio. Tex., said "Gela is
apparently under rompleu control”
of the Americans who plunged
ashore there Saturday morning.
for 12 hour pro. Amounts of preciny:
tatim than 10 inch are not pupuan.
^^TOS ironuaTioN MUST NOT BE
BROADCAST or "ADIer „„. Preetp.
Abliene ..............9
Albuquerque ..........
Amarillo ..............M
Atlanta .............
Big Spring ...........1
Brownsville ***********
Chicago ..............1
Denver ...............N
KI Paso .............£
Fort Worth ....... 92
Houston:..............0
Kansas City +**.....
Little Rock .............
New Orleans ..........*
New York ............“
Oklahoma City ........"
Roswell ............ 9
San Antonio **********
Waco **************-
Washington ..........87 ”
CANADIANS-
(Continued from Page One)
The Canucks went through the
beach defenses in a matter of min-
utes. cleared the beach defenses and
struck intend, mopping up groups
of Italians en route
More than 700 prisoners. Includ-
ing 15 officers, have been captured
by the Canadians already. All day
columns of prisoners poured down
from the front, happy looking
crowds guarded by one or two sol-
diers.
The Royal Navy has been giving the
troops magnificent gun support and
big and small warships lying close
in to the shore bombarded targets
with thundering salvos that shake
the peninsula During the day we
saw no enemy aircraft. It seemed
eerie not having any about
During the day the beach looked
like a big league traffic jam, with
tanks, guns and trucks plowing
through the sand to roads leading
inland.
67 —
72 -
M* -
: " Tojo Back '" Tokyo
43
NEW YORK, July 13—(P)—Pre-
mvr Gen Hideki Tojo returned to
Tokyo Monday from an Inspection
tour in the Philippines, Burma and
Malaya, the Tokyo radio reported
in a broadcast recorded by U. 8
government monitors.
In Abilene Today
WAC Set. Marvis Hardy left Mon.
day for her new station in Mt
Pleasant. She had been stationed
with the local WAC recruiting office
since the first patr of March.
-I seems like old times again,”
remarked one of the city policemen
Monday as he counted the number
of fines for drunkenness in corpora-
tion court Four fines brought *40
with one $10 drunkenness charge
and a $50 vagrancy fine suspended.
An elderly man was fined $10 for
disturbing the peace in the Canton
cafe and a boy was given * Sus-
pended sentence charged with steal-
ing his sister-in-law’s shoes and
selling them to a second hand
store A total of $110 in bonds was
forfeited.
Largest building permit in some-
time was issued to George. Swinney
and Glenn Dugan to erect a $3,800
buisenss building on Cottonwood
street. Other permits were Issued
Mrs D. C. Gibson, 2081 North
Third, €200; O % Carter, 835 Rose
Twelve boys qualified as aviation
cadets in the Army Air Force this
weekend. They were Sgt. Henry
Woloszynek, Sgt. Richard Allan
Payne, Sgt. James Erb, Sgt. James
Russell Buckwaiter. Pvt. Wallace
Baldwin McIntire, Sgt. Raymond
William Naizer, Sgt Vincent Eu-
gene Young. Pfc Earl Jacob Kirch-
berger. Pvt. Hubert Miller Byrd, Pvt.
James H Phifer, Sgt. Jessie C.
Smith, and Cpl. Robert 8 Wool-
beck, all of Camp Barkeley.
Capt. Earle J. Aber Jr. Racine,
Wis.. co-pilot of "We the People,”
mentioned prominently in an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch from a U. 8.
bomber station to England for a
raid over France Saturday is a
cousin of Ray C. Granger of Abi-
lene.
John Womble, Abilene chamber
of commerce manager, is in Dallas
this week to attend a meeting of
the Texas Chamber of Commerce
Managers association. Womble will
be in Dallas the entire week.
.□gtjjljHKJH’SUM-lJU^^^--^^
"This is one of the things I like about going out for
housework every day, ma am—being, served a well-
cooked meal at noon.2 ,
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