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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Thursday Evening, February 17, 1944
Allied Airmen Blast Ponape and Kavieng REMEMBER THE DOCTOR
leavies Plaster
Answer to Previous Puzzle
ACTRESS
Jap 'Gibraltar'
HORIZONTAL 55 Pastry
1 Pictured 56 Tavern
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD-
QUARTERS. Pearl Harbor. Feb 17
——Ranging into the Carolines
to within 400 miles of mighty Truk,
big land-based Army Liberators
have delivered the first attack of
the war on Ponape, Japan’s "Gi-
braltar of the Pacific."
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an-
nounced yesterday that a consider-
able force of the Seventh AAF
heavy bombers dropped 55 tons of
explosives Monday on Ponape, sink-
actress, — 58 Railroad
____(abbr.)
11 Type measure 59 She stars in
12 Exist--
13 Ever (contr.)
14 English ver-
sion (abbr.)
15 Short sleep
17 Renovates
20 Reverential
fear
21 Type of
molding
23 Abandoned
ing a cargo ship and blasting shore 24 Prince
installations. Meeting no air oppo-1 25 Tantalize
27 Sandpiper
VERTICAL
1 Betoken
2 Effigies
3 Symbol for
sodium
4 Circle part
5 Telephone
inventor
6 Lease
7 Affirmative
16 Vegetable
18 Daybreak
SONNY
TUFTS
H F
I-l-Hin
ISTARIST
39 Penetrates
41 High card
(comb. form) 43 Scatter
45 Hammer head
19 Like
20 Friend (Fr.)
22 Pith
24 Everlasting
26 Storehouse
27 Protective
sition, all the four-engined raiders
got home.
(There was no official indica-
tion as to the bases from which
the big bombers flew. They per-
haps took off from the Tarawa
—air base in the Gilberts, which
would mean a roundtrip flight
of more than 2,000 miles. New-
. 8 Written form
______..,___‘ of Mister,
28 Electrical term 9 Wind anew
foliage
34 River
_________... .._____35 Foreigner
29 Street (abbr. ) 1 0 Turns inside (Sp. Am.)
30 Him out. 38 Withdraw
31 Doctor of Sci-
ence (abbr.)
32 Babylonian
2
3°
75
ly-won Kwajalein in the Mar-
shalls is less than 600 miles
east of Ponape and American
air bases are being developed
there but a recent dispatch
from Washington stated those
bases were only large enough
deity
33 Area measure
34 Surgeon Gen-
eral (abbr.)
36 Notary Public
(abbr.)
37 Debit note
(abbr.)
38 Of the thing
40 Delineate
42 Consumed
44 Cereal grain
3
2/
22
2 6
26
23
for medium bombers.)
Ponape’s excellent harbor is Ov
erlooked by a heavily fortified rock
like Gibraltar. It recently was
photographed by a Marine plane, 45 Places
disclosing 25 ships in the lagoon 49 Native of
and showing the location of ex- Latvia
35
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tensive facilities. 50 Compass point
The Monday noon raid repre- 51 Reiterate
sented the deepest westward pene- 53 Expire
tration of Japan’s island defenses 54 Symbol for
by land-based bombers. silver
Admiral Nimitiz also announced
44
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59
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that five atolls in the Marshalls
were raided Monday and Tuesday-
by Liberators, Mitchells, Dauntless
dive bombers and Warhaw fighters
of the seventh AAF and search
planes of fleet air wing two. On
Monday, a Navy search plane made
the first officially reported raid on
Eight Aircraft
Lost in Attack
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
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Callahan Near
E Bond Quota
BAIRD, Feb. 17.—(HW)—Calla-
han county citizens have practically
reached their quota of E war bonds
in the Fourth War Loan drive, it
was announced at the Callahan
Evangelist Preaches
In Nephew’s Church
PUTNAM, Feb. 17-HW)—The
Rev. Berry Baker, noted West
Texas evangelist, is conducting a
revival at the First Methodist
Church for his nephew, the Rev.
LeRoy Baker, pastor. The meeting
began Sunday and interest and a-
tendance has increased. The meet-
ing will continue through Feb. 21.
Thursday E
46 Upward
47 Symbol for
tellurium
48 Levantine
ketch
51 River (Sp.]
52 Powerful
explosive
55 Jumbled type
57 Chaos
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THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb.
17.—(P)—Allied planes flying low
through heavy antiaircraft fire
plastered the Japanese base at
Kavieng, New Ireland, with 65 tons
of bombs, setting the town ablaze
and smashing cargo vessels in the
harbor, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
reported today.
The ack ack knocked down
eight Allied aircraft, more than
ever before lost on missions
over this base, but 15 airmen__
were snatched from the fate
which the Japanese reserve for
American prisoners when the
crew of a lone navy Catalina
flying boat put their plane
down four times under the nose
of enemy shore bateries te
fish‘the filers from the water. =
Losses from fire, theft, storm.
07
Business loans, if proved worthless.
County Luncheon club meeting yes-
terday in the basement of the Meth-
odist church. The total quota for
the county was $272,000, and it is
over the top with around $300,000.
Sgt. Harrold Ray, aerial gunnery
instructor at Laredo, addressed the
thirty-odd who attended He said
soldiers keep a close check on their
communities to observe how they
respond to sale of War Bonds, and
are enthusiastic over how they were
being supported at home. Even new
recruits are very anxious how the
“home front” is sharing its part of
the cause. Sgt. Ray is on a 15-day
furlough.
Ben L. Russell Jr., announced ex- 1
tension on "E" bond sales in the
Fourth War Loan to Feb. 29. T. A.
Baker is well known in this seco
tion and was a former pastor here.
The local pastor attends McMurry
College three days a week. Before
coming here he was pastor of :
circuit out of Weatherford. Services i
are held at 10 a. m. and 8:15 p. m.
daily.
THETOAST
THE NATO
Alimony, if ordered by court. Membership dues in labor union.
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LEAVES FROM A WAR
CORRESPONDENT’S NOTEBOOK
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-------by Hal Boyle-
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY AT =
CASSINO, Feb. 2—(Delayed)—(A) reconnoiter the Rapido river area
—Sgt. Joun K. Ball, 23, of New south and north of Cassino." The
Hampton, Iowa, isn’t exactly a cold said as he cleaned his muddy rifle
____— A bath addict, but he is still grateful
woman was haled into court by a to a plunge into one water-filled
neighbor who complained that she bomb crater while out on patrol,
banged on her apartment house---------
door in the dead of night. A.san CL I
Argentine Chief
Gains Time for
Charting Policy
Mejit island in the eastern Mar-
shalls.
Fifty-Fifty
NEW YORK. Feb. 17—(P
The woman readily admitted the
act but told the judge: "I only
knock when her husband’s snoring
is so loud as to awaken me."
The magistrate denied a request
that disorderly conduct charge be
made against the door-knocker.
KZEEMITE
$CLEANS
FALSE Itti
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Feb.
| 17.—(P)—President Gen Pedro Ra-
| mirez of Argentina, rid of con-
flicting elements who brought on
this week’s governmental crisis, ap-
| peared, today to have gained a
breathing spell in which to chart
his future policies.
“Three of us were
sent out to
in an Italian barnyard.
“We left
shortly before noon, with only our
rifles. With me were Pvt. William
Konen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and
Corp. Peter Nountcheff of
York City.
New
"We went out along our sector
1,000 yards south and well in front
of our outpost. Both sides were
shelling the area. We had got up to
a blasted bridge on Highway 6 go-
ing into Cassino when we bumped
into a German patrol.
“That ended our chance of
looking over the bridge. The
patrol was on high ground and
we were in a flat field. They
were only 5 yards away and pin-
ned us down with small arms
fire. We could have thrown a
hand grenade at them if we
_ _____Appointments announced yester-
F NO BRUSHING day to fill three cabinet vacancies
1 E A were regarded here as merely de-
tame bercer, ana ne better hen kep Natural, | ferring a clear-cut decision on how then Konen made a break and got
sparkling and gleaming with a daily KLEENITE | Argentina will stand in the inter- into a canal a few yards away.
9national picture. Nountcheff and I flopped into bomb
ins.’Try KLEENITE today. All druggists. 35c The appointments apparently holes. They were full of water. They
A Money Back" not deliehted represented an attempt to compro- were four or five feet deep and ten
mise between the demands of the feet across.
had it.
“We lay still for half an hour.
MacArthur’s. communique said
that United States and New Zea-
land troops, who swarmed onto the
Green islands at the northern edge
of the Solomon archipelago Mon-
day night and Tuesday, have con-
solidated their positions without
incident. The invaders met only
mild resistance.
The heroic rescues staged by Lt.
(jg) Nathan G. Gordon of Morril-
ton. Ark., and his crew of the Cat-
aliha "Dumbo—the nickname air-
men have given the low-speed plane
—won the unusual honor of men-
tion in the official ocommunique.
* * *
Medium bombers, attack planes
and fighters in the Kavieng raid
also sprayed the Japanese with
100,000 rounds of machinegun am-
munition. Damage done included
the sinking of a 3,000-ton cargo ship
and several coastal vessels and
light cargo craft, the destruction
or damage of five floatplanes and
bomb holes on the airdrome run-
| way.
Supporting his statement that the
Green islands landings put an end
to the 15-months long Solomon is-
lands campaign so far as military
strategy is concerned, MacArthur
for the first time omitted from his
communique the Solomons heading
under which he heretofore had re-
ported the fighting there.
For the first time in many days
there was no reference to aerial
smashes at Rabaul, enemy base on
the northeastern tip of Ne w Brit-
ain, but Australians flying medium
bombers and fighters dumped 23
tons of explosives on supply areas
at Jacquinot bay, on the southeast
coast, and Talase and Cape Hos-
kins, both on the north central
coast, were hit.
American Marines in the
Cape Gloucester sector on New
Britain are continuing their ad-
vance. Light Allied naval units
sank two barges at nearby Rein
Air raids on Japanese bases in
the Wewak area, northeast coast of
New Guinea, sank a 1,000-ton
(Third Of A Series)
WASHINGTON—Don’t forget to
take the deduction allowed for ex-
traordinary medical and dental ex-
penses in computing your income
tax. It’s a Godsend for persons of
moderate income who have had
Losses from storm, theft, fire and
certain bad debts may be deducted.
If your home is damaged by fire,
flood or storm you may deduct the
loss provided it is not compensated
for by insurance or otherwise. If the
insurance is not sufficient to cover
White reported Army Relief Fund
response had reached $333.75 here.
“Pops" Lee, local movie manager,
reported passes for 111 were honored
Tuesday night representing as many |
The club went on record to un-
heavy sickness costs.
Medical expenditures for
your wife, husband, or dependent
which exceed five percent of your
the loss, you may deduct the excess
you,” of the loss over the amount of in-
derwrite $50 for purchase of a war
bond for the winner of the county
award, in the Victory Garden con-!
test. A bond for winner in a Baird-
wide similar contest will be arrang-
ed for, it was intimated.
R. S. Elliott presided at the
session.
TAYSTEE BREAD
•TASTY TOAST!
KLEENITE xeed 70/zed
freighter and destroyed or damaged
27 aircraft on the ground at Dagua
airdrome. Seven intercepting en-
emy fighters were shot down.
Striking at the Alexishafen air-
opposing factions, one of which was
Get Kleenite today at Sloan Drug Com- said to have urged A declaration of
pany McLemore-Bass Drug Co., J. Hef- 580 ICO M 9
ley Drug Co.. Medical Arts Pharmacy or war on the Axis and the other to
have strenuously opposed any such
any good druggist.
—Adv.
“Both of us got up to our arm-
pits, but that got us out of firing
range. That cold water felt good.
We were so glad to find a hole. We
stayed there until after dark.
Lt. Cor. Harry Sweeting of Au-
drome farther south, in the Madang
supply area. Allied divebombers de-
stroyed or damaged 10 planes on
|the runway.
DR. JOE E. BUSBY
CHIROPRACTOR
Chtropractie Health Service
in AbMene 26 Tears.
Conveniently Located Downtown
Fourth Floor Mims Bidg. Ph. uree
Funeral Held for
Thomas A. Gracey
action
Meanwhile, reports from Buenos
| Aires said a constant guard was burn. N Y. didn’t like it one bit
being maintained over the home of - when the Nazis shot away his tank
Gen. Arturo Rawson, co-leader with radio antenna during the break-
Ramirez of the revolt last June. through at the Gustav line which he | resident of Abilene
Rawson was president for two days led.
| after the revolt. Later appointed
ambassador to Brazil, he resigned
in a quarrel with Ramirez over the
import of Argentina’s breaking re-
lations with the Axis.
Funeral for Thomas A Gracy, 45,
the past 11
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"He crawled over to another tank
alongside his own," said Captain
Edwin B. Olson of Fargo, N. D.,
“right during the middle of the bat-
tle, unscrewed the other tank’s an-
tenna and put it on his own. Then
he continued the attack.
Damages Given for
BAIRD. Feb 17.—HW)—The Elevator Shaft Fall
Abilene District of the Methodist Judge Milburn S Long yesterday
Church has established a record in awarded Charles O’Rear $4,500 in a
its offerings for the Methodist Home | suit against the Texas Employers
for Children at Waco, according to Insurance company for injuries the
PITTSBURGH PAINTS
WALLPAPER
MIRRORS
wnonm an announcement today by Dr. Cal plaintiff allegedly received June 20,
C Wright, district superintendent. 1943, when he fell down an elevator
A total of $6024 84 was contributed shaft at a local hotel
to date compared with $4110.67 last
year. Wright said. ====================--
Abilene churches made the fol-
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lowing contributions, the first figure
| being the 1943 offering and the sec-
ond the 1944 contributions: First,
$401-$515; Fairmont, $100-$110;
Grace, $56.25-$100; St Paul’s,
$1367.78-$2221 10
Albany gave $706 as against $328
last year: Anson $410 as against
$281; Merkel $322 and $233; Baird.
| $195 as against $174; Hamlin, $301
l as against $127; Throckmorton, $215
and $143.
In addition $52 represented in
supplies was sent to the orphanage,
according to Wright.
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net income may be deducted. The
maximum medical deduction allow-
ed is $2,500 in the case of a head of
a family or a husband and wife
making a joint return. For others
the maximum is $1,250.
Medical expenses include money
paid for the diagnosis, treatment,
cure or prevention of disease. Also
amounts paid for hospitalization,
nursing, (including nurses’ board
where paid by taxpayer), laboratory
and dental fees, drugs, and vitamin
tablets prescribed or recommended
by a doctor.
The cost of crutches artificial
limbs, and teeth, eyeglasses and
similar equipment is deductible.
Likewise payments for health and
accident insurance and group hos-
pitalization insurance. Medical ex-
penses, however, do not include fu-
neral expenditures.
years, was to have been conducted
at 3 p. m. today in the First Church
of the Nazarene with the pastor,
the Rev. Marvin G. Jobe. officiat-
ing. assisted by the Rev M Sibley
and the Rev. W. B. Walker.
Burial was to have been in Cedar
Hill cemetery under the direction of
Elliott Funeral home
Mr. Gracy, who died Wednesday
in Hendrick Memorial hospital is
survived by his wife: three daugh-
ters, Mrs. Cecil Greir of Abilene,
Mrs Nathon Pollock of Coffeyville,
Kan and Jewel Gracy, at home: a
son, Sgt. Garnet A. Gracy, stationed
in San Diego, Cal., with the Ma-
rines and a brother, Claude Gracy
of Vernon.
per
ICE CREAM
3211
Two Area Soldiers
Missing in Action
Two men from this area were
listed as missing in action by the
War department Wednesday. “
They are Tech Sgt. Woodrow
Callahan whose wife. Mrs. Grace
M. Callahan, lives in Coahoma, lost
in the Central Pacific area; and
Cpl. Carl A. Butler, son of Hohn
Henry Harrison Butler, Trent, lost
in the Mediterranean area.
surance.
If you made a business loan and
every effort to collect it has been
unsuccessful, you may deduct your
loss as a bad debt. You must estab- |
lish that the bad debt has become
worthless. If you made a loan mere- |
ly to help a friend and it isn’t re-
paid, the amount is not deductible 1
unless the money was to be used for
a business enterprise.
A husband may deduct alimony
payments providing there has been
a divorce decree or legal separation,
and the payments are to fulfill a
legal obligation arising from the
marriage contract. and the obliga-
tion to pay is ordered by the court.
Here are other items, in addition
to those mentioned yesterday, which
may be deducted:
Theater admission taxes; tele-
phone service taxes; sports event
taxes; interest paid on loans; mem-
bership dues in labor union; trans-
portation taxes.
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