The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. [34], Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1944 Page: 6 of 6
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FRIDAY,
The long"dormant southern Russian front blazed into action with
the capture of Iasi, gateway to the Ploesti oil fields, (NEA Telc-
map)
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Sample Ballot
I am a Democrat and pledge myself to
support the nominee of this Primary.
For Attorney General:
Grover Sellers, Hopkins County
Jesse K. Martin, Tarrant County
For Associate Justice of Supreme Court:
Richard Critz, Williamson County
Gordon Simpson, Smith County
For Commissioner of Precinct No. 2:
C. R. Sellers
J. R. Dulancy
For Commissioner Precinct No. 4:
John Mackcy
Zealand for a rat alter having
served in the South Pacific on a
battery patrol since before Christ-
mas. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Bradshaw.
HORACE McCORD
IN NEBRASKA
Lieutenant Horace B. McCord
of Mexiu is now stationed at Brun-
,ing Army Air Fickl, Nebraska,
where he is training in a P-47
ThunderboltV fighter plane. He
was commissioned at Aloe Field
in May after entering the Army in
February, 1943. Lt. McCord is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mc-
Cord.
MARION M. BROWN
IN CARIBBEAN
Lieutenant Marion M. Brown
has been transferred from West
Miami, Florida, to a post in the
Caribbean off Venezuelu, Dr. and
Mrs. Brown learned Monday.
Since receiving his commission at
an officers candidate school at
Yale, he has been stationed at
Selfridge Field, Michigan, and at
Nashville, Tennessee. Lt. Brown
is serving with the Army Airways
communications.
ARTHUR J. McCLINTOCK
IN FRANCE
The headquarters of the 82nd
Airborne Division in Normandy
has reported that Private Arthur
J. McClintock of Delia was one of
the soldiers of a parachute infan-
try regiment dropped on France
on D-Day which played a brilliant
MEXIA MARINE
WOUNDED
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Lauderdale,
1101 West Main, Friday received
a telegram from tin War Depart-
ment notifying them that their
son, Piivntc J nines W. Lauderdale,
U. S. Marine Corps, was wounded
in action July 2fe in an undesig-
nated battle. The telegram, signad
by Lieutenant Ceneral ■ A. A.
'/andegrift, commandant of the
Marine Corps, and lequested "To
prevent possibie aid to our ene-
mies, do not divulge the name of
his ship or station."
Private Luuderduie, 22, has
been in service since before Pearl
Harbor, and overseas since De-
cember. He received his training
in San Diego. He attended the
Mexia iiiph school before entil-
ing service.
BOB FAIN NOW'
IN ALABAMA
Major Poll Fain, recently re-
turned from New Guinea, has
been ordered to Maxwell Field,
Montgomery, Alabama, where he
has been assigned to duty on
four-motor ships. Maxwell is a
transition fielci.
Lions Make Paper Halmahera Raids
WALKER L. GIFFORI)
HOME ON FURLOUGH
Private Walker L. Gifford ar-
rived home on a furlough Sunday
night from New Britain, and will
spend his leave with his father,
W. M. Gifford, at Datura. He iias
been granted a 21-day furlough.
J. V. COX. Jit,
NOW IN GEORGIA
Private V. Cox, Jr., who has
Pick-up Sunday
The Lions Club will make a
Mexia wide paper pick-up Sunday
beginning at .2 o'clock, they an-
nounced today, in co-operation
with the paper salvage work of
Troop 70, which is sponsored by
the Lions. Newspapers tied in
flat bundles measuring 11x17 in-
ches and magazines tied in bundles
about 10 inches high will be col-
lected from Mexia curbs and car-
Increase Weight
By United Prcm
The heaviest raid of a two weeks
steady aerial campaign against
Halmahera, stepping stone to the
Philippines, was revealed today
as other Allied airmen battered
widespread enemy bases through
the Southwest and Central Pacific.
A communique from Gen. Doug-
las Mac-Arthur's headquarters dis-
closed that Allied bombers dumped
ried to the town paper barn for 135 tons of explosives on Halma-
the Scouts to start processing to hera Monday without opposition.
Fend away. Loose paper that is The raids were reaching the scope
clean and that contains 110 trash 0f other aerial "softening-up" as-
will be picked up only provided it saults, which preceded landings as
County Expenditures (or July,
Itemized for Taxpayers' Inspection
General Fund
Maverick-Clarke Lltho Co., sup-
plies, $92.68; Educators Paper A
Supply Co., supplies, (22.40; Dr.
W. L. Strode, services, $6.00; Me-
irta Daily News, supplies, $82.60;
The Steck Co., supplies, $61.60;
Southwestern Bell Te|. Co., welfare
phone bill, $9.60; Gulf States Tel.
Co., $27.66.; Connally Funeral
Home, ambulance service, $6.00;
J. P. Births A Deaths, $21.60; Lit-
tlcpagc Funeral Home, casket,
$16.00. Total $282.64.
General Salary Eund
Hines Super Service Station,
northern New Guinea coast to Co., supplies, $59.06; E. K. Seale,
within 600 miles of the Philippines, office expense, $42.24; The Groes-
Other Far Eastern air force beck Journal, supplies, $18.00;
bombers harassed Japanese bases '. Gulf States Tel Co., $62.30; The
is in a box or sack that can be | MacArthur's forces swept up the (supplies Sheriff, $6.96; The Steck
carried away.
The War Salvage Committee "has
arranged with the troop to divide
the proceeds from the sale of paper
with three-fourths going to the
boys who participate in the work
according to the amount of work
done by each. The remaining
fourth will go to the Scout troop
treasury,
A similar division will be made
in the proceeds from fat collected
by Scouts.
Atlantic Landing
Reported by Nazis
from the southern tip of the Phil-
ippines to deep in the Dutch East
Indies.
Air patrols bombed Davao on
Mindano Island in the southern
Philippines Sunday and other
bombers returned Monday to score
several near misses on an 8,000
ton freighter in the harbor.
In the Central Pacific, American
bombers made a new attack on
enemy shipping at Marcus harbor,
j only four hours' flying time from
Tokyo. Two cargo vessels were at-
tacked in masthead sweeps that
left one burning and the other
'noticeably slowed" and smoking
LONDON. Aug. 23. <(U.R)—Amer
j I""'t ^''' asslfncd ' finished his basic' infantry train- j 'can troops have landed at St. Jean ! heavi|y
in# at Camp Hood has volunteer- de Luz on the French Atlantic ) Army planes flying from bases
ed for paratrooper service, and coast near the Franco-Spanish | jn (jK, Marianas raided Yap in the
has been sent to Fort Benning, border, the German DNB news I Carolines and other heavy bombers
Ed Prather
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GARTH MI I.AM
IN ITALY
Private Garth Milam, husband of
the former Miss Louise Vickers of
Mexia. has landed in Italy, his
wife has been advised.
LfMESTONE MAN
WOUNDED
Mr. and Mrs. (iuy Andrews
were notified by th<• War Depart-
ment Tucsrliiy 'hat their -■ 11,
Guy Aymuell. has been seriously
wounded in Italy.
EDMONI) WILI.IA.MS
HOME FROM ITALY
Staff Sergeant Kdmond Wil-
liams, 22, formerly of Corsicana,
J
| 1 iving here was Major Hank
Clewis of Mexia, a former Univer-
sity of Texas football star and
coach. He is serving with an Army
engineers outfit that opened up
and operated the port of Naples
after the Germans had wrecked
it last fall and it subsequently was
taken by the American-1. Loyal to
his h ir.e state, ('lewis agreed that
this part of France is truly beauti-
ful, then added, "But it can't touch
j Texas."
1 Major Clewis is the husband of
| the former Miss Koline Watson of
prevent Germans from interfering
with the ground force until the
beach landings had been accom-
plished. In doing this, the 82nd
captured the town of Ste. Mere
Eglisc and fought for and held
bridges over two rivers, the Mer-
deret at La Fiere and at Chef du
Pont, and the Douve at Pont
l'Abbe and at Beuzevillc la Bas-
tille.
.This w'as laccomplish(^:l in 33
days of continuous action with-
out relief and without replace-
ments.
UOYCE I). WNDLEY
IS WOUNDED
Technical Sergeant Doyce i).
Lindley, son of Mr. and Mrs. it. |
T. Lindley, has been wounded in j ^ ^ I' IMCE
action in France, his family has
received word. He writes fiom a
hospital somewhere in France,
where he is receiving treatment,
that he is recuperating rapidly
from a bullet wound in the left
forearm. Sergeant Lindley has
seen action in France sinct the
Normandy invasion began. Be-
1 fore goiiu* into service he was
employed by J. ('. Pcnney's in
Mexia. t
Georgia, for training.
JONES C. ROM A IN
SENDS SOUVENIRS
Groosbcck Journal, supplies, $33.-
50; Sam Adkins, 1 traveling ex-
penses, $140.91; The Texas Co.,
gas & oils, Sheriff's Dept., $0.96;
Mag. Pet. Co., gas & oils, Sheriff's
Dept., $28.97; Magnolia Station,
gas & oils, Sheriff's Dept. $29.41;
John Kidd, office expenses, $22.56;
J. O. Pelham.pts. & repairs, Sher-
iff's Dept., $15.30; Browder &
Henderson, groceries, jail, $84.60;
Co., water pump, $30.43; R. M.
Martin, 4 days labor with team,^
$22.00; Guy Martin, 2 days labor,
$4.40; Fisher & Nance, pts ft re-
pairs, $42.91; Southwestern Pub.
Serv. Co., lights Co. barn, $1.66;
H. C. Williams, repairs, $68.60;
C. C. Castleberry, pts A repairs,
$56.71; H. P. Harper Drugs, pts.
A repaii-B, $115.10; L. B. Hunt, gas
& oil, $251.13; Thornton Lbr. Co.,
lumber, $270.17; Central Texas
Supply Co., lumber, $363.36. Total
$1417.11.
R & B Fund No. 2
Bruck Campbell & Son, nails,
$30.21; Joe W. Hancock, gas A
oils, $155.03; Beard A Stone
Elcctric Co., pts A repairs, $2,86;
Peoples Tel. Co., $4.09; Richards
Equipment Co., repairs, $11.43;
Miller & Hance, pts & ' repairs,
$6.25; Kenneth E. Paris, pts A re-
pairs, $29.15; Centerville Lbr. CO.,
lumber, $275.89; J. T. Robbins A
Son, pts & repairs, $51.09; Central
Texas Supply Co., lumber, $833.18.
Total $1399.18.
It & B Fund No. 3
Gulf Oil Corp., gas A oils, $26.84
J. O. Pelham, pts & repairs, $141.-
50; Bruce Campbell & Son, lumber,
Hill Printing & Stationery, sup- I $67.21; A. J. Jennings, supplies,
plies, $154.70; Norton Fox, office $1.00; Gulf Service Station, re-
expenses, $11.40. Total $709.83. pairs, $5.40; Lionel Slider Hard-
Salaries of officers and deputies ware, pts & repairs, $1.60; A. D.
remain constant and are not re- j Archibald, lumber. $73.20; Gulf
stated here. | Oil Corp., oil & gas, $84.33. Total
Permanent Improvement Fund i $401.08.
Lone Star Gas Co., gas at jail, | R & B Fund No. 4
$10.00; Southwestern Pub. Ser. | i et. (;01) & 0j|Si
Co., lights at C. H. & jail, $149.74; <>0; Browning-Ferris Mach'y Co.,
City of Groesbeck, water C. 11. & g, repairs,0.74; Jack Driver,
jail, $101.65; McCall Bros., sup- j,^H £ repairs, $1.65; Robinson A
plies, $13.05; Dixie Floorsweep Gregory, pts & repairs, $17.75;
Co., supplies, $2.50; A. J. Jennings, WcRt Texas Wool & Mohair Asso.,
repair.-", C. II. $7.14; Ottis Phife, lumber, $185.24; Mexia Motor Car
repairs C. H., $1.25; Mrs. W. B. Co-i ptH & ,.epHjrSt $29.35; Don
agency paid today. j attacked Dublon and Moen in the
The American invasion forces, Truk atoll.
described by the enemy agency as j other llel.ja| targets in the Sun-
"small," landed yesterday after a ; (1}iy rait|8 jnt.iudcd: Poiiape in the
Pfc. Jones C. Romuin has sent heavy naval bombardment, DNB j L.astci n Carolines, the former A-
his mother, Mis. Myrtle P.omain ' SHid. merican ba<e at Wake; Nauru,
315 Roberts Street, several sou-^ St. Jean de Luz is six miles west of the Gilberts and isolated i Hewitt, repairs C. H., $3.50; Wil- Wood Oil Co., oils, $93.00; Jone? A
venirs from Italy, where he has north of the Spanish frontier on Japanese positions in the Mar-| mer Burney, repairs C. H. $37.50. Laughli
been fighting with the 36th Di- | the Bay of Biscay, 10 miles below ' ^alls.
vision Included were linens, (Bayonne and 112 miles southwest j
of the big port of Bordeaux.
DNB said German "naval and
coastal" guns engaged the Allied
warships and that an attempt
to reinforce the original American
landing force was repulsed.
There was no immediate con-| .~y;-b(mlbR-wert, fjrcd across , $122.20; Hines Service Station,
the channel early today and it was--tubes, $6.25; Modern Cranding t o.,
indicate-1 that the Germans in- ( repairs, $72.20; McClure-Hai i is
i tend to throw every robot on hand ,
| at London before abandoning tho
sheets, pillow cases, table cloths,
cake plates, and a hand painted
floor pillow. Mrs. Romain stated
that anyone interested was wel-
come to come inspect the Italian
items.
Robomb Assaults
Double Up Pace
ADAM
; COMMISSION!!!) !
Maurice Adam, son of Mrs. Zu-
leika Adam, ;.nd 'riandson of Mrs.
John Corley, has received his
commission as er.;ugn in the U. S.
Naval Reserve and is being sent |
to Hollywood, Florida, for in-!
; doct.rination.
He was graduated last year
from the Univeisity of Texas,
and has since received training at
I the Spciry gyroscope school in
| New York.
| firmation of the reported landing ,
I from Allied sources.
French partisans supported the 1
landings, DNB said.
Persistent reports from Spain
in the last week said the Germans
had evacuated most of their troops
from the Franco-Spanish frontier
area, including the border town of
Hendayo, just ,-outh of St. Jean
LONDON, Aug. 23
of flying
<U.R>— Waves
Total $326.33.
It & B General Fund
G. R. Kngledow, fees, $10.00;
M. L. Hill, fees, $2.50; W. T. Lat-
tner, impounded mule, $27.50; V. T.
Williams, fees, $2.50. Total $-12.50.
It & B Fund No. 1
Thornton Garage, pts & repairs,
launching platforms in the Pas Dc
Calais area.
Coastal observers reported de-
fense gunfire was heavier than
ever.
"Judging by the number of his
File Anti-Trust
Complaint on RRs
in Supply Co., pts & re-
pairs. $16.16; Mexia Mach'y Co.,
' pts & repairs, $0.30; Norris Lum-
ber Co., lumber, $13.00; A. C.
Brotherton, gas & oils, $60.63;
Western Auto Asso. Store, pts A
repairs, City of Mexia,
water, Co. barn, $1,25; W. M. Eu-
banks Hdw. pts & repair*, $0.70;
Southwestern Pub. Serv. Co.,
lights Co. barn, $1.50; A & W
Sales Co., supplies, .1)2; Fountain's
Supply Co., pts fa repairs $.!.00
Central Texas Supply Co., lumber,
$1016.84; J. W. Higgins, oil, $2.00.
Total $1576.67.
Hoxers Signed up for
BILLY F. POLLARD
TRANM ERRED
Lieutenant Billy F. Pollard h-.s r ,, . , r
been transferred from Linct-ln, i i^ITll'r illttl i 1*0 SllOW
Nebraska, to Dyersburg, Tenno ;- j •• —
Liberator Kills
51 in Lancashire
i see, where he is serving as a1 Signing up Johnny Conway of ,
Mexia, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. ; R-l 7 bombardier. Lieutenant Pol- I Omaha, Nebraska, and Jackie; LONDON, Aug. 23 i(U.R) — At
1.1. S. Watson. ! lard son of Mr. and Mrs. F'ank "Kid" Meadows of Waco Army I 'oa!,t 51 persons, including 34 chil-
| Pollard of
I sionod July
Air Field.
Mexia,
22 at
j.lACK RAGAN
I VISITS HOME
| Private Jack Ragan l^as "pent a i
| few days here at home after being | I,. N. ROBINSON
/ in Louisiana for several weeks. He I NOW I.N ITALY
will return after the completion j Second Lieutenant I
.if his furlough to Camp Howsse, j son. who went into
Gainesville. March, 1043, is now
i
I Italy, flying as a Flying i/'ort res
j (B-17) bombardier.
F
was coirimis-' Air Field for the six round semi-;''™11 {'^ Kindergarten age, we.e
the Childress final event virtually completes the Killed today when an American
' card for the professional boxing Ul-erator bomber crashed into the
show to be staged at the Mexia villaK(' .sahno1 al Fi'-ckle1.".! in
City Auditorium September 1,
,, - n , . . . After striking the senocl, the
Promoter Oedrie Davis announced , , .
, . plane careened across the road
todsy. , u-i i • i
r, , .. . and hit a juarajre hem# asud as a
Conway and Meadows are exper- . . .. .. f. ,
, , . , . snack bar, setting it on lire anil
icncetl welterweights. Conway is an. • * *
„ • . , , . - reportedly trapping J.\) to .'u peo-
I rmer welterweight champion of ^
Nebraska, and is fighting his first j P Thm, Amcricjn airmen were
bout in this section. He is more i known to )mvc b(,on kj|le, in tho
N. Kobin--
service in
serving in
de Luz, under heavy attack by , Hying bombs and the rapidity and
French patriots. I frequency with which he is send-
ing them over," one observer said,
"the enemy i.s anxious to get rid
of them while the going is good.
For an hour this morning there
was one continuous roar.
"Nothing like it has been seen
or heard before. The barrage was
non-stop and so thunderous it al-
most, smothered the explosions of
the flying bombs themselves us
some were shot out of the air and
fell either into the sea or on land.
Although Allied troops were
closing in rapidly on „the flying
bomb launching sites, competent
observers saw no early end to the
"mechanical battle of Britain."
E. >1. BRADSHAW
WRITES FROM FRANCE 1
Coipcral E. M. Bradshaw, who | ERCEL M. HAGER
is serving with the infantry in I WOUNDED experienced than Meadows, and is | cl-n«h. Only seven of the nursery
France, writes that farmers would j Pfc. Free! M. Huger has for- expected to give the hard-punching j H{«hool's >11 pupils escaped.
lie is, right in the I warded to his wife, I he former | WA1' boxer trouble. , Rescue workers continued to dig
Three Wives Net Jail
WASHINGTON, Auj.
! Mahogany trees -ut l:y Marines
'6\\ (U.R)— in the Pacific area had to be pulled
The Department of Justice today
charged the Association of Ameri-
can Railroads. V western carriers
and their chief executives, and j
two banking houses with viola- i
tions of the Sherman Anti-Trust
Act in collusive rate-fixing and by
discouraging improven^its in ser-
vice and equipment.
The banking houses of J. I*.
Morgan Co., and Kuhn, Uieb &
Co., were named in the complaint.
Attorney General Francis Bid-
dlc, wdio is on the West ("oast, an-
nounced through his office here the
filing of a civil complaint against
the roads in Lincoln, Neb., Fed-
eral istrict. Court. ,
Named a)so as defendants are
the officers and directors of the
American Railroad Association,
the Western Association of Rail-
way Executives nnd 31 other in-
dividuals.
The 10-page complaint alleges
like it where
has arrived from Italy on furlough middle of an oat field. He also
after completing 62 missions over | ari ls that it has been as hot where
Miss Kathleer
Heart lie
Bezell, r* Purple j Davis had earlier announced se-
cnemy territory with the 12th Air
F: rce.
A gunner on an A-20 (light
he is as back home in Texas.
Brad haw says he is glad the war
is not being fought in the States,
received
France
lor wounds j curing Eddie Martin of Detroit,
received in France since D-Day : Michigan, and Bob Kirkland of
while serving with a tank bat- ' Waco for the main event. Martin
taiion. He has b eu in England ' is a f unci' Olympic champion, ami
i
bomber), lie has been decorateft i because "Y<;u can't realize what i s'nct' February, lOi.J.
with the Air Medal and five oak
clusters. He was also awarded \he
Purple Heart for being -lightly
wounded in action.
After a 21-day furlough spent
beat nich fistic stars as Dempsey
McPhail, Canadian champion,
into the school's l uins late today
after 60 bodies had been recover-
ed.
All the children killed or missing
were leas' than five years oi l and
many were evacuees who had gone
the pe pie here in France have to r
go through . . . homes blown up, j VM' w,,n K j Booker Beckwith, and Jimmy Be-
no place to stay. I never saw so j F'1' EHATES vins. He also fought a draw the
many poor little kids without a t Private Oavi,. White has writ- . only time he has met Gus Lesin-
honie. I thank God I am an Amer-! f" from.Bl,rni" h,s aunt- Mrs. , vich. piesent middleweight charn-
at the home of his parents, Mr. j icari. . . We, give them
and Mrs. E. V. Williams of Mexia, 1 rati ns we can spare.
he will report t.i Miami, Florida, "It is really a sight to see go-
for reassignment. ing down the road. You see people
carrying their things on their
HANK CLEWIS IN i back, going back to a place that
SOUTH FRANCE i used to be home to them."
Wick Fowler, staff correspond- Br3(lsht)Wi 80n of Ml, HM(j Mr,.
all the I Waller, that he was | pjon> Kirkland is a native Texan
wounded in action August 4, and ; w[,0 has mPt and defeated the best
that he can't hear as well
ent of the Dallas Morning News, (. K
in an article dated August 2:1 with serv|ce three
the invasion forces in Southern
France, said:
"The fir-t Texan I saw upon ar- : J|M CALLOWAY BRADSHAW
51° ME£I*'Tex'®
lap invasion money disttibuted
among the Japanese troops to use
when they reach t!ie United
States, which they have been
| told they have already taken,
f Mexia, entered ' White, brot ier of Mikel White,
summers aia>. He j a|sn vvrites "I am going to send
, a Japanese major's name stamp
(that he stamps official documents.
| JIM CALLOWAY BRADSHAW I Where he is now he won't be
'NOW IN NEW ZEALAND , stamping anything but hellfire,
Jim Calloway Bradshaw, fire- 1 along with seven other honorable
man, first class, is now in New sons of Nippon's rising sun."
as well as i |)0yS jn this state, and is called
formerly, lie has sent home some J one ()f the hardest punchers in his
weight..
Three 1-round preliminaries will
service
is a Forest Glade graduate.
also be presented. Tickets go on
sale in downtown drugstores Fri-
day.
■ii
robot
to Freckleton to escape
b > ibing of l.,')TMJon.
Ci.i.se of the <1 vrii wn-- not es-
Iable-died 'mmu'iately.
Eyewitnesses raid tin L: lerai.or
sheered Into tl e school, kn i ig
f a chiminy an-'.' setl!n,c ri'iniec,
which spread lupklly.
None of 1 10 pupilR in another
wing of the school were in' ireu.
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 2.'1. '(U.R)—
An 18-year-old youth with three
wives—all living and none di- | that the defendants, beginning a- |
voiced—found himself in the city 1 bout 1932 and continuing to the |
jail today. j present time, "have been engaged |
He fir-t married in October, [ in an unlawful combination and
1943, then in June, 1941, then a conspiracy in restraint of trade
month later in July. ",n<1 commerce in the transporta-
The trouble started when the I ^rclirht and passengers a-
second wife got wind of the third "101^ ^vcri'J sl tes and with for"
a few days ago. "i«n Mnt,ons unH arP ,urt,M l"
contracts, agreements, arrange-
X. T. Spruic.ll of Tyler was a
business visitor in Mexia Wednes-
day.
Mrs. L. Tripp, daughter, Elton
Jo and Naomi Bradshaw spent the
week end in Dalian with Mrs. Syl-
via Hilton.
Mrs. It. L. Burehfield of Mart i ments and understandings in res-
spent Wednesday with her daugh- I traint of said tradfc and com-i
ter, Mrs. Lillie Pitts. ' merce."
From where I sit... 6y Joe Marsh
How Different Will be
Post-war Homes?
Mr and Mis. Fred Mitchell of
Pasadena arrived Tuesday to spend
a few days in Mtxia on business.
OIL FIELD LUMBER CO.
S18 r„ Main St Phone 425
NEW STOCK WALLPAPER, PAINTS, VARNISHE8
AND BUILDING MATERIALS.
Kwp ThIt Great Jurist en the Job/
RICHARD CRITZ
for Supreme Court of Texts
L*d Hit Nairtit Opponent In July Primary by
Appr«iioat*ly 100^00 Vottl
Justice Crifz h exemplified the belt tradlllarff of
a Te*a« judiciary rich in notable lerv^e . ..he pos-
seises the breed view of the true jurist and the
professional attainment necessary to cepable judg-
ment on the bench.—DALLAS NEWS.
KHP CRITZ /OH HIS IfCOWD Mil TIMM
(Pal. Adv. by Friends ef Judge Crlts)
Matt Doorly, our local carpen-
ter, has been showing us archi-
tect's drawings of the kind of
post-war houses that we're go-
ing to live In. Some of them look
like squared-off dominoes; some
are streamlined like they were
going to fly. And they're all
filled with fancy things like air*
conditioning and what-not
"Sure change oar hone life!"
Matt Mjra Importantly.
"Shucks," says Dan Mason,
"it isn't the shape of a house, or
the gadgets in it, that make up
your home life." •.
"What is it then?" says Matt
"It's the little things," says
Dir. "Like a well-worn ckalr
before the Are-and ■ good book
—and a friendly glass of beer
after a hard day's work. Little
things, that are a part of living."
From where I alt, Pan's abso-
lutely right. And I think the
men who dream of home from
overseas agree-that it'a the
small, familiar pleasures, that
add up to home.
No. 91 of a Striet
tfjytljkt, 1944, Bnrning Induiry
SATURDAY
EI)W. (i. ROBINSON
—in—
"Tiger Shark"
Cartoon . . . Serial
SATURDAY MIDNIGHT
"Sailors Holiday"
Munich I Short
SUNDAY & MONDAY
BETTY ORABLE
—ill—
"Pin Up Girl"
(Technicolor)
MARCH OF TIME
Cartoon
News
PALACE
SATURDAY
ALLAN LANE
—in—
"Silver City Kid"
Comedy . . . Serial
SUNDAY...MONDAY
"Swing Shift
Maisie"
with
JAMES CRAIG
ANN SOTHERN
Cartoon
News
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