The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 306, Ed. 2 Thursday, April 26, 1945 Page: 2 of 18
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Thursday Evening, April 26, 1945
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Thrice Wounded
Soldier Is Killed
Mrs. Margaret Stimatze, 1632
North 11. has been notified that her
husband. T-Sgt. Russell Stimatze
was killed somewhere in Germany
April 13.
Sergeant Stimatze, who trained
with the 45th division at Camp
Barkeley, went overseas with the
division and had been wounded
three times— the flrat time at Sal-
erno. the second at the Anzio
beachhead, and the third in south-
Fortress Gunner
Wins Air Medal
15TH AAP IN ITALY-S-Sgt.
Calvin J. Clemmer, 26, waist gun-
ner of an Italy based 15th AAP
B-17 Flying Fortress has been
awarded the Air Medal for ' meri-
torious achievement while partici-
pating In aerial flight.”
Sergeant Clemmer, whose wife,
Mrs Marie Clemmer, resides at 3421
Russell, Abilene, Texas, has flown
13 successful daylight bombing mis-
sions against enemy targets in Eu-
Captain Johnson .
Is Guest Speaker
BRADSHAW, April 36—'8pl»-
Capt. Clyde Jackson, Army chap-
lain son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Jackson of the Shep community,
was guest speaker at the Bradshaw
Baptist church at a special meeting,
recently. Captain Jackson returned?
from duty in the Pacific theater of
war a few days ago.__
The Ontario Department of
Lands and Forests fits its planes
for winter service with metal skits
instead of wheels.T
Thursday Even
Irum
SCENES IN NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS—Upper left: Civilians in the German city of Weimar are forced by U.S
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is the debris from one day s killing of prisoners by German SS troops in the Buchewald camp. (AP Wirephoto)._______
Anson Resident
POEM HELPED REPORTERS KEEP e
TULI I ILLI LL URILA IEEE Mitchell, early-day resident of An-
— son community and lately returned
I ID WIT TDAVEL ( WAD to Anson from Ranser where he
Ur nil TIKAVIL DUKINU WAR lived for years, has been in Hen-
IdrickMemorial hospital where he
Roosevelt the Man—
(Fourth of Six Articles)
By DOUGLAS S. CORNELL
WASHINGTON. April 26--
Franklin D. Roosevelt was * poet.
This story revolves around an
eight-line, hitherto unpublish-
ed opus. It is necessary to
sketch in some rather extensive
background.
Immediately after Pearl Harbor,
a secuntv blackout was imposed on
movements of the chief executive.
Gradually it was lifted, but for
a long time when he scooted up to
his home at Hyde Park. N Y.. re-
might work because the President. underwent examination and treat-
always was ribbing us on the sub- ment.
ject. --------------------------------------
So we drew what was intended
to be a picture of a train rolling Kitchin Returns--
along atrack and typed a poem
entitled "Ode to the Spring,” or DALLAS. April 26.—-(PP)—A Paul
-Expense Account, Oh. How I Miss Kitchin has returned to head the
You" , "Dallas office of the Federal Bureau
"As we wish for sectors vernal, of Investigation, succeeding Dean R.
"Warm tUke hope) spring eternal Morley, transferred to Little Rock,
“There wed bask in liquid pleas-Ark
ure
“While piling up a modest treas-
ure.
“The problem’s simple, answer
same—
“Let’s jump to Georgia once
again.”
porters were not permitted to go
along nor to record the fact that
he had been there.
Representatives of the Associated
Press and of the other two major
wire services kept battling for the ...____
right to go along on a “protective” volunteered
basis even if they could write noth- A few hours later Mac called
Ing about the trips.
Mr. Roosevelt called us "the three
We took it in to presidential Sec-
retary Marvin McIntyre.
“I’ll show it to the boss,” he
POLISH SILVER
WITHOUT RUBBING/
ghouls," we were told.
But, after all, the President
belonged to the people, and if
anything happened to him the
news services wanted to be on
the spot. Eventually we won
our point. That it was a point
well taken was proved when Mr.
Roosevelt died on April 12 at
Warm Springs, Ga.
The first trip after the war start-
ed on which we went along was an
us Into his office and handed us
this reply, scribbled in the Presi-
dent’s own hand on a memo pad
“Mar. 10 *43
“Your touching deep desire
“Arouse in me fire
“To send a hasty wire
"To Warm Springs in the mire
“To scrape the roads,
“Break out the corn.
"The gals is waiting
“Sho’s yo born."
At the bottom he penciled:
"To the three press associations
ONLY. None other need apply ”
Inspection of war plants and mili- We made the trip, but half a
Ury establishments In the fall of dozen other reporters also were
1942 We went through the north-
ern tier of states, down the west
coast, and back through the south.
But we continued to miss out on _
minor trips
dozen other reporters also were
taken along on the first half
Mar had photostats made of the
presidential poem for ua.
LOCAL WOMEN GET
THOUSANDS OF
EXTRA RED POINTS
■very day, precious red points
are being paid to housewives who
turn in used fats to their butch-
ers. Because this country is faced
with a possible fat shortage,
these used kitchen fats are even
more urgently needed to make
medicines, synthetic rubber, gun-
powder. soaps, paints and a
hundred other essentials on the
battlefield and home front.
Every woman can help towards
final Victory by saving every
drop of used fats each Uma che
cooks. Even a spoonful is worth
salvaging. Won’t you keep saving
until final Victory over both
Germany and Japan?
Fill pan, preferably aluminum,
with hot water Add enough
Rain Drops to make water
deep blue. Soak silver % hour
Tarnish and stains disappear
even from deeply etched pat-
terns Keep all your silver love-
ly always
YOUR
f t t C 1 t
PROPS
AMERICA’S WASH WORD
era France.
Mobilized with the National
Guard in 1940, having been a mem-
ber of the Colorado National Guard
for six years previously, he trained
at Fort Sill. Okla., before coming
to Camp Barkeley.
Sergeant Stimatze was holder of
the Silver Star medal, the Presi-1
Vential Unit citation, and the Fur-!
ple Heart with two Oak Leaf clus-
e2He is survived by his wife, his
parents. Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Sti-
matte of Canon City, Colo., and a
brother, S-Sgt. Oliver Stimatze, In
the air corps in the South Pacific.
His sister-in-law is the former Aline
Hatcher of Albany.
Eigthy per cent o fa movle film
manufacturing plant is in perpet-
ual darkness during worknig
hours.
rope,
A member of the 463rd bombard-
ment group, Clemmer, participated
in the mission of the Italy based
Flying Fortresses to bomb indus-
trial targets in Berlin on March 24,
1945. Thia mission was the longest
ever flown in the European the-
ater by Fortresses and was led by
his group.
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92— At the Pent
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President Manuel Avila Camacho
We feared we might be left out
again.
We sat around the White House
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