The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 19, 1945 Page: 2 of 6
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her woeL'ly letters Eva tab:
Hno fbniitii^nvln" nigh Bcho l
tliB frit yflinv when her two j
went into the tlir force,
'•dp c;;,.i^y.h-r in 1'i0 grocery i
Tending craft await H-hour, daWn on Jr-mary 8, S-Day for the American invasion of Luzon. The
amphibious fleet was under the command of Vive Admiral Barbeyinside Lingayen Gulf. Landing
craft, awaiting H-hour circle a tr r.p f :msport. (Signal Corps Radio telephoto from NEA Telephoto)
litired at Guam
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>vte. Jan. 15. WJ.R)
V/TI'TE MAINS, N. Y., Jan.
j Mi.— "I don't cfcra what people 1
' i nlnk, I love hiln and that 1 i
(what matters," Ev Caprarf, 1
sai! as ah?' defended her recant \
engagement to an Italian prisoner t •; i bout, t^-s nntica of her 13-
cf war interned at Chnmbtrsburg, year old br ■%,# Kino, who help-
Pa, whom she hr.a scon but foul* e-l Mil "ometimes hindered liei'
I times. iu '.vnitlnt' (jn.^fie cuatcmm; ami i
• i M-iposcft marriage to now bright lie'r little 'J-ycar-old |
21-ycar-olti Cpl. Dt*Jfino Kosutti i.Jster Elva wai- iu scheol. Ne.ither
, in-; posed a military problem. <d them, «l:c. i .iy, lms .ver dls- j
Army officials aay priaonerft at •:usscd how he j®elt about fighting i
war mi'.ft be returned to their America. |
heme land in the status in Which Then UonitJ i was transferred
they were captured, and there'* to Pennsylvania. Two days after
i: i tilling how ninny violation.* her brother* Prhpk was killed clr.r-
ilv.'ir marring'' would incur. Ing mtutCiivei's i'n Texar, Eva and I
"if necessary, I'll go to Italy ut hov iiiothW visited Chambers,
the end <f thi war ami marry l-oft. . ' 1 j
hin:," "lie continued, "but we'll "I was so tUirprisod to see. how
•icth come hack here to live. Del- rood lmkiivv hi' was," Eva biush-
| luio liken A merle a i.ncl wants to'ed, and pciilW'l to the picture on
jj't'l ' hrr.' for good." "he mantle* df* her fix-J'oot, har.d-
" * Trr>i, ! The romance started two years f onie fiance ■ Last October young
HI'.AllQuART when Ccrparal Rosatli's Delfino rectired a three-day pass)
Eiitish Fleet Is
iEe?.dy in Pacific
-A big British !
ajro
unci;
in rid friend of the fam- to visit tho <Dapraris, and !asi;
JI atUo fl *ct i ioady for action a- as]<e(i fiva t0 correspond with week the soldier's uncle took Eva
j .v.i.ist the Japanese in the aeiuc . ^ u,p]v w who had been brougli'* oil a shopping: tour for a diamond j
and will fi^Mting* alongside j-u* j (0 u Toxas prison romp after ho solitaire. Though Eva picked it
United States Ni\vy in the iin-; %VftjS taD|lrc;j while fighting with \ out, Delfino placed it on Inn*
mediate future, according to Adm. Italhmg al Tvnia> ; third finger, left hand, when they
Sir Pr.ye M-aser, commandei .11 ^ <«\y0 rCnlly know each qther met iti the vccrcation'room of the i
chief ot Britain s Pacitic Hcet. • qUite well even though we've s?on prison camp. :
Eraser, who watched the invit- .,.le)| U|ul. only fom. t!)0
! moi^ of Luzon. from th^ dark-haired, tomboyish - looking ,
E"a insists. "Delfino told ipo I
about his home near Rome atid •
v.ovkirg with his father, a whale-
JJj. S. NAVAL HOSPITAL, San
ifi'-'o, Calif.. Jan. 15.—Wounded
he was congratulated by Captain
M. D. Willcutts, (MC) tJSN, Sen-
i an American warship and narrow
' iy escaped death when a Japan .se
I bomb landed aboard, told a press
j conference 'hrt his fleet would
' piny an important role in the
i next' phai-e of the Pacific war but
! • hat few British troops could be
expected in this theater until t'.v
Ev.ropean conflict ends.
British naval men are looking
forward to "chasing the Japs back
: Jo Japan," ho si-id, adding that
I "you'll see us in action in the
| near future with a large-sized
i fleet."
After seeing the American Navy
| in action for the firtt time in the
Lingayen Gulf landing, Eraser hud
high pra'se for the Yanks cffi-
sale checse dealer. I know about
ins soccer tvam and that he likes
- ancinj and pliys the guitar."
i Veal 0)
Shifts Tkmsa
sii
Mexia Down Lov/
"jency.
we've nil learned is
in.'the throat and right cheek by icr mediral officer of tins hospi- "One tl
en/ my mortar shell fire during the tal, who presented the decoration. t))at the ,Tnp"nnt.g0 prS|< ively don't
tattle for reoccupation of Guam, Rankin, vho also participated in nvtillory—cither from sea or
riv;
Ifsrine Private First Class Cecil '•r'.mp-.jign:-- at Bougainville and
^ Rankin, 21, of 200 East Ho])- Emiru Islands, was wounded while
kgis St., Mexia, Texas, was re- serving in an anti-tank gun unit
CSiitly awarded the Purple Heart durinu the historic Guam assault.
.SRdal. He is the son of Mrs. Alice P.
frill' is pictured at right above as Rankin, of the Mexia address.
land. No wonder they ran for the
hills when they saw our battle
.hips sitting off at 5,000 yards
belching 1-1 and IK inch shelji.
That's mighty terrifying on ti-.'.-
receiving end, yon know."
Every salvo of gunfire on tha
hattlefront must be accompanied
iiy an equal amcuri- of salvaged
urease, Mrs. Ralpn Burroughs re'
minded Mexia nousowiVos today,
calling for increased fat savings
to match war demands for glycer-
ine and other fat by-products.
Mexia fat savings have dropped j reported in war-busy Milwaukee,
considerably below the 1000-pound The War Manpower Ciivnission
a month quota set for the town I'-t Detroit reported that 5,000 ot
^Thoroughbreds
Wm , i
msmmlm
Redistricting Is
Asked by Coke
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 15
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson
(U.R)—
by the Texas salvage authorities,
she reported in her capacity as
| fat salvage chairman. October and
.November waste fats turned in
j by housewives and be tellers to the
i Frozen Food Locker on West
I Palestine came to 552 pounds. Do-
j cen ber total reached only 200
I pounds despite stepped-up holi
lay cooking in most homes.
The local Army crmp is savins;
around 250 pounds of grease
month in additior to the town's
the applicants processed last week
•vftre "highly' eapal le and quali-
fied 4-F's from service industries
—just the kind we're after."
One of the largest increases wai
reported in the Minneapolis-St.
Paul area. Applicants last Mot-
day and Tuesday at St. Paul in-
creased 400 per cent over the pre-
vious week, ,while in Minneapolis,
increase for, the first two weeks
■ - m i mj nil) ■
M. I ,W..
(Miami Herultl Photo)
Nine'swell reasons to ulve to the March of Dimes. These youngsters walking out of Miami s
Jackson Memorial Hospital, won their battle over infantile paralysis last year, thanks to dollars and
dimes given to the Fuiul-Raising Appeals of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis JThe
March of Dimes this year occurs January 14-31. to
fumm
! 3 Columns Push
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GEN. MacARTHUR S HEAD
QUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 14. (U.R)
U. S. 0th Army tanks and in-
fantry. advancing eight miles a
gainst light Japanese resistance,
have driven 20 miles into Nor!h-
* western Luzon and reached the
Vgno river line noar thn town of
l.ivrm'-,- g. S7 miles nov'.hv.'er.t o
ii was announced today.
To the nnrthwest. two othei
i.'n-n-. o- I.t. Cen. Walter Krue-
Wc'rrn \rmy hamaiercd ''tit
of four to riv'ht. miles along
| pnlallel highways and c-xtcnde l
| the American lines ten to HO miles
into Luzon on a lG-mile front.
1 II. S. warplanes, halting poa
sibly anotheV Japanese attempt to
rush '.einfcrcenients into Luzon,
da>
sai.l
. vS:-
v. t cithei
By United Press
The threat of work cr fight
le^lslrticn has had almost as much
effect in getting men to transi'or
'■a war iv.dufitrier, as a draft would
and thoVisnnds of workers have
,'amincd U. S. Employment Oft'i - ,
ees throughout the country to sign !
vp for war work, a survey revealed J
today.
Many major war production cer-
tef? reported the heaviest increas- [ vestigations into the death of Mrs. j. that " t he enemy is n
es in war job seekers nine;- I)-Dnv ! Kleanor Schmid, 23-year-old beau-j unntl° or "'billing to seriously
and In Wisconsin alone, more tha i ! ty \;ho was found fatally shot at I challenge our offensive."
11,000 applicants jammed USES the j-joinc cjf friends in Chino, Calif. | Tl,° on'' Japanese resis tance
offices with the greatest increase
i sa-k 50 crnslal vessels Wt\,n
California officers continued in- i Gen. D uglas MacArthur
i that "The enemy i
She had gone to California to ;WUB ,)ein^ '"et bV t'-00'-" 0,1 thp
market a s ng written by her !Cllst f,link of the beachhead in the
mother, Mrs. Eleanor DeVoll of
Abilene, Texas. A cornorer's ver- m'^e" east r| San Fabian. There
diet is due soon. (NEA Telephoto) Japanese were fighting
today . , . .
, 1 | savings, she reported
called vn the Texas legislature for
action on senatorial and repre- j fa
tentative redistricting as an emer-
gency matter. He requested also an
emergency appropriation of $124,-
825#for liquor law enforcement
until the new general department
appropriation takes effect Aug. 31.
Another bill, proposed today,
1 wvul.I omit levy of a state tax for
Horace J. Robbins
Silver Star
bar
to prevent the Americans ,'?.om
strikinK westward and cutting off
their •highway links with Northern
Luzon.
Miss Ethel Bunnell, former school
*leach"r of Huntsvillc, 111. 'beauti-
s*i03 show horses- by wea'ving on
[also tails and mane ;. She's done
more than 0000 since 1923.
His father reports Corporal flor-
ae c J. Robbins, Field Artillery,
Battery C, 03rd Armored Field
:>n, son of Mr. and
Allies Land OH
Coast of'Burma
™"-|F!c Tony Freeman
!^is?i!!g in Action
Pfc. Tony Freeman was reported
Sunday by the War Department
as missing in action since Decem-
J payment of confederate pensions I /
ber 23. The Mexia foot soldier was
CALCUTTA, Jan. 13. (U.R)—Al-
lied troops, covered by strong air
p- 1 naval forces, have lan-'eJ on
been cited for the award , My0jj0n peninsula in Hunters
Sil'.er Star f.r gallantry i pay on weS(; C0!lgt of Burma
i in r.c.ion o'i May ?S<, 104'! near , a)u] <jBtablished a bridgehead in
Mahy WMO offices also lcportrl j I'riv r'.oii, Italy, rhis buttery <.f. 0f |10aVy Japaneso artll-
that requests for statements of |:i'ovci into u i^ring positi'n un.iei (].,Vy . m| mrehinegun 'ire. a c
ivftllnbility required for job trans- J "irec enemy observation, i he b;t-
of this month topped a similar per- 1 .
. , . r, v . ,„r . 'Artillcrv Battaii*
iod in December by 125 per cent. ,.
T, . i j m i-i Mrs. R. II. Robbins, Box 21.5, Mex
Boston reported a 40 per cent ir- .
crease and. in Pennsylvania appl' 1'"
cations jumped more than 20 per/'
cent.
fere? bad dropped te a new low. 'cl'J
until a $3,000,000 accumulation in
i.the pension fund has been used.
Chief change proposed in state
financing was a distribution of
j state aid to school distticts on the
basis of school attendance. Now
the mcney is distributed on the
basis of a scholastic census taken
each March.
in reqres'.g frir transfers.
At the same time, Chicago ne
| ported the first crackdown on
is believed by his family to have ; .vf rkpr3 wh„- 1uit their jobs. A
been in the Third Division of the
in the 15th Infantry Regiment, and >'
The Sacratiiento, Calif., office of
the USES re-pbited n sharp decline an inL
ing one eiiH
:nn officer an
men.
| mvrique from Southca: t Asia
h* I no sooner moved when the ; v^RC;nu-i;ters in Kan:'v, Ccylo
'y covered the er.ti'.c area with
art-
illery barrage, kill- I
I man and wounding
d nine other enlisted
Ccr-ornl Bobbins, with utter dis-
, Chicago I'r.ift beard disclosed that j ' for hi- own safety, volun-
it had ind'ieied four men for quit-j taril
i
Seventh Army.
lie entered service April 25, their Hoba and an Arm.; j
l.M. taking his seventeen weeks' spokemv-iivreported that a Chicago 1
basic training at Camp Hood, hoard hr.fi ordered all registrant! I
where he won a sharpshooter's classified 4-Frio report this woc'i,
ating with the rifle, and complet- at. local USES officos for question- j
Erection of an additional state |L':! his "•v:i'k with tbc highest rat-! ing.
office building was proposed with ' inK of hia c1hss- 0ne of two soli '
Ctl' !
fir.-
e . re forward while the
tinned to receive heavy ac-
cncniy crl'llcry and mortar
rnj assisted in moving the
i-vrci'd today. *
Ti i'nring n'iiphiblous opcra-
d signed to block a southward
e enpe attempt by enemy troops
i ' t o Kaladan River Valley area,
11'lad forces landed Friday and
dispatches said tonight that s>om~'
units had advanced up the peninsu-
la to within a half mile of the town
of Myebon, two miles north of the
i-iUr-
, Mrs. Chni'lcs. S. Howard Mil's gracefully in saddle on great Sea-
• bircuit, v. .i while preytost money winner on the turf, owned by her
"jjusband. liu: grand stallion Is not bothered by Washington s di-
Hvctivc , hist racing, as his running days are over. Now at stud,
he wai
?ccnt ly voted best ho
PRAIRjii; GEO
•.Tim Whitak"". who has jus'.
rjnished boot, training in the
i<kivy, and his wife and children
^<itod lier ui.de and uunt, Mr.
;Wd Mrs John Gamble. lie has
, ! timed to San Diego for. further j W. Rohinsort.
training.
Mr. and Mrs Rcdtll are moving
'«st of Mexia and Mr. and M,s.
•Tubry Archibald arc movinc on
ever to race in "'lifornia.
ed Mrs. Lindsey.
Mr and Mrs. D D. Thornton
av< to Marli'i, where she is
nndergoirg medical treatment.
M s Winnie Kennedy visilec
relatives in Houston last week.
: if.' i-eco-.t-panied her hrr.ther-ili-
v i.. (i .i.tcr. Mr. and Mrs. O.
H( n Lays Doable Egg
an apppr'opriation of $3,000,000 for
it.
A hill revamping legislative dis-
tricts by Rep. Hurley Sadler of
Sweetwater was given No. 1 in the
House, and scheduled as emergency
legislation under the governor's
submission.
Rep. C. M._ McForland, Wichita
Falls, filed a bill to permit lawyers
to elect an acting judge if the
regular judge fails or refuses to
hold a needed court session.
Other bills filed today include
provision for state employes to be
paid semi-monthly instead of
monthly; increasing license fees
for coin-operated vending, music
and skill machines; creating a di-
vision for physically-handicapped
children's education, and authoriz-
ing $50,000 expenditure for a three
member commission to revise and
digest Texas laws. Last revision
was in 1925.
Unique among the bills is one
by Rep. J, R. Donnell, Corsicana to
diet
selected out of 100, for Offi- Kesselring May Lead
■Nazis in Italy Fight
lad already been accepted for <0C8 - —
idy been accepted foj' OCS
when he was sent to Fort llfeade,
ROME. Jan. 13 XU.R)—Canadian
; wcurtilcd to the battalion aid sta
jtion. The heroic action displayed
i by Corporal Robbins in this inci-
| 'lent undoubtedly saved the lives
i of several of hi- wounded fellow
; soldiers. RnbHns, entered military
1 service from Dallas.
ncing beach. The tip of
Maryland, and from thQr'p overseas I trnops of -the British Eighth Ar-
in October. 1944. ' my engaged rt "sizeable German
After a few days in England, he i ftfee" at the base of the spit sop-
•ad served since then in France, mating ^ Comacchio lagoon from
an .I has written home that he had Ithp Adriatic. Sea, ant. captured 10
"tier action. His last letter home J "d ^ 20 enemy dead
on the field, Allied Hcadquartc-v*
was dated December 15, the day
ocfore the Belgian-Luxembourg
breakthrough.
Pfc. Freeman is the husband of
the fo; mer Miss Anna Lou Moss,
laughter of Mrs. Mary Moss. They
have one son, Tony Ixiuis, 4, and
are making their home at 819
East Hopkins.
He was born January 2, 1920,
noar*C olidgc, but has lived in
Mexia since he wns a child. He
was graduated in 1937 from the
Mexin high school, serving as pres-
ident of hin class, and attending
Rice Institute for two years and
the l-C College In Waco. He was
The wierdest egg yet displayed
tie Yeldell place jui-t vacated by ! in the NVvvs Office was brought in j tax funds in bnnk. It makes tax- (at 01l° t'm<: nianager of the Good-
•Jtem. j today fr im Mrs. K. Q. McCraw, j able 50 per cetit of a person's aver- I yoiu' Service Store here, and when
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f iMrs. W. L Lindsey has just re-11 l*: East. Palest ine, who reports I age bank balances for a year, less
' $med from Mineral Wells, where: i ;t war, laid by a Buif Orphingt.on. 110 per cent for outstanding checks,
he was eallef to the bedside of ; A three-inch egg with a waist
circumference of seven inches en- j ^WHENCE SHIVERS
closes a normal sized egg sur-1 "EAVES HERE
rounded by the vhite of the out- : Lawrence Shivers, seaman 2-c, re-
•dde egg. The oute r egg apparently , turned to SBn Diego. California,
has se veral thicknesses of shell,' after spending a leave here with
which peel off. The egg will be his wife and sons following the
mother, Mrs. S. P. Sbcpard.
tfhile en route home she visited
^ kor daughter and family, Mr. and
.MW. Raymond Plunk in Ft. Worth
Mrs C. W. Robinson of I.os
Ingeles, Caiif., Miss Winnie Ken-
;iy, Mrs. R. G. Purcell ind
tor, Mm. Ernest Ford, visit-
he entered the army, was working
for Consolidated Aircraft in Fort
Worth. Whib in Mexia, he was an
aC'ive Lion, and he is a member of
the First Methodist Church.
A brother, Second Lt. Jack Free-
man, is serving in the Air Corps
and stationed in Hawaii. They are
annovneed totHy.
(\ BPC briadcast heard in Lon-
don "aid the Canadians had wiped
out a_ whole company of German
;n 'he fighting.)
On the sector south of the Ri-
iilni-Pologna highway fifth Army
patrol? probing the extensive Ger-
man positions! found the enemy
"extremely sensitive" along the
\vhole area of the front.
In the aren south of Bologna | Rpi-p.id the word of the agreement,
alcr.g highway 05 a group of pri- i Crowds gathered in the streets
em.-;', tahtn ir. a small local ac- | f0). orderly demonstrations of their
tlor displayed what purported to frrntituelo. '
be an order of the dny from Fiel l 1 —
Marshal AiWt Kisselring aayint;:
"I am lending you in battle,1945.''
A welter of miners recently have
said that Ke,*se|rieg. German Con
mnnder in Chkf Ir. Italy, war, eit.'n-
r ...lead or wounded.
The Rev. A. W. DeOuire entered
i. local hospital Saturday for
medical treatment.
pi: inntila, approximately 32 miles
southeast of the capture 1 port of
Ahyr.b, jut- ou1, into Hunters Fay,
i'n inlet of the great liny of Ben-
gal.
Meanwhile, Adm. Lord Louis
Mou' tbattfen's war bulletin re-
rrt t~. ' 7i ' /m 1J veft'ej that ■ British 14th Army
P (' -LT-OK Forces, operating far to the west
.a J. •., "+4-XL K-' -/Jk.2. ...
of the main bacly of troop i in the
Cml IShwebo area, have occupied Can-
i 1 gaw, 70 miles duo south of KrJcni-
ATHENS, Jan. 15. fU,R)—A truce J yo. Gengaw, a rail and road jutic-
ended the sh'.oting in the Greek j tion city, was seized after a heavy
civil war today. j attack by RAF planes.
Some ELAS units were under-
stood to have failed to receive noti-
fication of the signing of the truce.
which became effective at 12:01
a. m.
The ELAS forces, however, gave
every indication of observing the
teims of the truce. They had been
pulling out •: f the banned areas as
fast as their superior officers
(USCG photo from NEA) ,
There's a mixture of sadness
and wonder in this .little Fili-
pino lad's expression as . he
flashes a salute—which lie
copicd from G,''!'S who liber-
ated his homeland—when con-
fronted by a Coast Guard pho-
tographer on Leyte Island.
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J.' . J ft t J'lj
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Mrs. ftv.th Adams and son,
the sons of Mr. and Mrs. E. A.' Charles, and Clyde and June Greg-
kept on display fcr a day or to for 'completion of his boot training. He Freeman of Mexia, who have one gory visited Peyton Gieggory in
skeptics to inspect. [entered the Navy in October, 1944. daughter, Betty Jo Freeman. Groesbeck Saturday.
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