The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1945 Page: 6 of 6
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Musical Instruments to Help Soldiers Fill,
Spare Time to Be Bought with Tag Day Dimes
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A Tag Day will be held by mem-
I bora of the Mexia Music Study
j Club Saturday, with the funds se-
! cured by selling each tag for ten
! cents or more to go to a war pro-
ject undertaken on a statewide
basis by the Texas Federation of
! Music Clubs.
| The money donated over the
state Saturday will be used to sup-
%•
ply musical equipment for camps
J and hospitals in Texas; musical
equipment for the national federa-
tion's depots at six po?ts of em-
barkation, where Red Cross, special
service officers, and chaplains may
get it to take with their outfits
overseas; Vecords for forces in
Alaska and the Aleutians; portable
photographs for overseas outfits,
with special priority arrange-
ments made to make phonographs
for this purpose available to the
federation; and music equipment
, for hospital ships and funds.
Mrs. C. R, Noles and Mrs. A. M.
Tag Day, with headquarters at
J. C. Penney'i and Jimmies' Cafe.
Working with them will be corps
of junior high and high school
girls. Each tag will be sold for ten
cents or more, with .the street
sales to latart at 9:110.
Grateful responses from around
the world have already been re-
ceived by the federation for their
work, with one overseas soldier,
commenting on their need for some
kind of an accompaniment when
his men sang, writing "Let me as-
sure you that your one ukclele has
done plenty to brighten a little
corner of our troubled world." A
submarine group wrote "We play
your records over and over again
while on all-day submerged patrols
in enemy waters. We have a rec-
ord-player which has loud speakers
in every compartment; so you see
everyone has I he pleasure of lis-
tening." A chaplain in Europe
writes "I cannot begin to tell you
Dashiell will be in charge of the j what this music means to us'here."
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Washington's Lcgacy to America s Fighting
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In line with his desire that gove-rnment heads throughout the world meet frequently to talk as friends
and exchange views in order to better understand each other's problems, President Roosevelt confer-
red with three monarch* on his journey from the Rig Three conference at. Yalta. Here I''DR and
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia chat aboard a warship anchored in Great Bitter Lake near Cairo.
(Signal Corps njioto from NEA Telephoto)
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John Sullivan
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Reported Prisoner
Second Lieutenant John S. Sulli-
j van, who was with the Ninth Army
I of the 36th Mechanized Cavalry
j Reconnaissance Squadron, was re-
| ported Sunday, February 18, a
| prisoner of Germany. Sullivan,
: step-son of Major Robert A. Bag-
i nell of the Mexia Prisoner of War
CHARLES W. SMITH
VISITS HERE
Flight Officer Charles W. Smith, I
will report to Lincoln, Nebraska, 1
February 22, for further engineer- j
ing training on B-29's. He is here j
on 8-day leace visiting his parents, j
Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Smith, after j
being
"George Washington became first in war,
not so much by reason of victories over the
enemy, though he had won such, or of suc-
cess in strategy, though that had been his,
as to the triumphs of a constancy which no
reverse, no hardship, no incompetency, no
treachery could shake or overcome."
—CHIEF JUSTICE MELVILLE W FULLER.
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BOBBY KAY BOBBINS
IN LUZON INVASION
Bobby Ray Rohbins, of the
S. Navy, son of-Mr. and Mrs.
! II. ftobbins, has notified his par-
! ents of his participation in the
I Luzon invasion,
transferred from Lowry
| Field. Denver, Colo.
] He went into the Air Corps in
j October, 1942.
; ALLEN A BR A MOWITZ
i IN NEBRASKA
j Pfc. Allen Abramowitz, formerly
stationed at the Mexia Prisoner
of War Camp, has notified friends
i here that he is now stationed at
Grand Island, Nebraska.
; Grider Field, Pine Bluff, Ark., and
his basic as a pilot at Independ-
ence, Kansas, completing his work
i at Pampa. He was a member of
the Civil Air Patrol here, receiving
his solo papers.
| President Meets King Saud
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this being his
previously reported - "fifth major engagement. Robbins
December 20 in Bel-
< mother in St. Louis,
One of the smallest
portraits of Georg*
Washington, outside oI
a postage stamp, is
the one shown at left,
a hand-painted
reproduction of the
famous Gilbert Stuart
portrait. It is one
inch wide by two and
a half inches long, it
contrast to the
original's dimension!
of 12 inches by 30
inches. The tiny
painting is one of ths
painstaking details in
the miniature
reproduction of the
, West Parlor at*"
Mount Vernon,
pictured above, from
Mrs. James Ward
Thome's noted
American Scries of
Miniature Rooms,
After display in the
Cleveland Museum of
Art on Washington'*
Birthday, the exhibit
: will tour the country,
'''en bo permanently
installed in th* Art
Institute *it Cijico.to.
Camp, was
! missing on
I gium, to hi
I Missouri.
He is a graduate of the Univer- j
1 sity of Arizona, and entered the I
regular army early in 19-11,1
and was at Pearl Harbor when the
.Japanese attacked. After remain-'
I irg in Honolulu for a year, he re-
I turned to Ft. Riley,. Kansas, and
received his commislson ii the
cavalry, and was transferred to
Yuma, Arizona before,going over-
seas into the European theatre of j
wa r.
Lieutenant Sullivan's twin sis- •
tor, Mary Julia Sullivan, who is !
: Staff Assistant with the Red I
' Cross, is now stationed on Morotui
Island in the South Pacific, after-
past two
was spent
entered the service in June, 194,1,
| and has been overseas 15 months.
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ROLANI) I'RICHARI)
| W ITH 79TII DIVISION
Cpl. Roland Prichard, son of
Mrs. Margaret Prichard, Route 4,
Mexia, has sent home a printed
article of how the 79th Infantry
Division of which he is a member,
crossed the Seine River. Col. S.
Wood, commander of the division,
concludes the short summary with,
I "I counted 139 German dead in one
Ismail area not more than 50 yards
square after one attack. I've never
seen anything like it in any other
'engagement in this war, ami we've
I had some pretty stiff ones."
! German artillery and German
airforce did their best to dislodge
the 79th, whose position constitut-
ed a stubby finger sticking into
[enemy territory. But the division
I held its ground and suffered fairly
j light casualties camparcd with
those sustained in the Cherbourg
campaign, and the fighting around
La Hayc Du Puits. With the fall
of Paris, the division pushed on in
a general American advance to-
b. us band of the former Miss i wurd Belgium. They were the first
it 11y .1 i Brady, has been awarded j American tioops to enter many of
he Air MVdal, according to a re-> the towns and eities of Northern
reived by his mother to- ' France, where they were almost
mobbed at times by the French
ROBERT BRADSHAW
HOME ON LEAVE
Cpl. Robert Bradshaw of the
U. S. Marines is home on a 40-day
leave after being in the South
Pacific for 18 months. He entered,
service, 1942. and is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. T. Bradshaw.
MARION I!. NORTON
IN HOSPITAL
Pfc. Marion B. Norton, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Zack Norton, is re-
ported as undergoing treatment
in a hospital in England. He has
been in service a little over four
years, and was one of the first to
volunteer from Mexia for service.
being overseas for the
years, of which one year
in Australia.
GLOVER N. HALL
IN FLORIDA
Grover N. Hall. Box 77, Donie, i
is now enrolled at the U. S. Mari- I
time Service training station in.
St. Petersburg, Florida. He at-
tended Donie high school, and prior
to enrollment in the maritime set- ,
vice,' was employed as a decker, i
The son of Mrs. Ernest R. Hail of j
Donie, he is now receiving basic |
training preliminary to special (
training as a maiine radio opera- '
tor. '
JOHN
BACK
Sgt.
Mexia
turned to
spend ine'
IM RSKEN
HERE
John Btrsken of the
Prisoner of War Camp rc-
the post tl.is week after
a furl'-ugh at Everett,
Washington, and' Butte, Montana.
He was accompanied back by
his <svife, and they will make their
home here.
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Second Lt. \Y
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Ret-
ailer
Boyd, Jr.
Boyd, Sr.
in r^ad as follows:
.•ptionnlly meritorious
while participating in
Cf)
anmikg 5i!gar
Rations Ma
ir in
Smak
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Be
71?is Year
U.P)
WASHINGTON'. Feb. 21.
Rations of sugar for I is .••inai'rjr
this year will !.«• mailer and will
be harder to get, the Office of
Price Administration revealed to-
day.
Under a drastically curtailed ra-
tioning program 20 po'M - will
be the limit of the canning allow-
ance fur one pet son. \ ny one fam-
ily will be held to 100 pounds of
canning sugar.
No ration stamp.- will be vali-
dated for can-ing sugar. All al-
lotments will lie made directly by
local ration boards. Rations will be
determined according to an OPA
scale of estimates, with a limit of
WILL BUY
YOUR POULTltY
Highest I'rices i'aid
Farmers Produce
Company
D. J. Holmes
1000 South McKinney
; one pound of sugar for each four
i quarts of fruit or fruit juices.
Major reason for crtailing this
| year's program, Price Administra-
tor Chester Bowles said, is that
ug.ir stocks arc the lowest they
have been for any February since
the war began. The loose rationing
system which prevailed last year
: resulted in an over usage of 300.-
000 tons, OPA said. This, it said,
helped to bring about the stricter
I prograpi for this year.
The total 1945 hom^-canning
rati n will he 700,000 tons, the
■lime anion-1 allocated in 1944.
I Stamp and certificates for 1,000,-
000 tons actually were issued last
year, Bowles said.
The 1944 system "made it* too t
\ easy" for people to get sugar, i
Bowles said, so "we simply had to |
i tighten up,." Otherwise, he said, i
'jail requirements might not be met. I
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Mrs. M. M. Brown left Tuesday
| night to visit with her sister in
port
day.
The citati
":,"'or exc
achi'. vmncnt
sustained bomber combat opera-
tions over enemy-occupied Con-
tinental Europe. The courage, cool-
ness and skill displayed by this
officer upon these occasions reflect
credit upon himself and the Armed
Forces of the United States."
Lt. Boyd has been a prisoner of
war of the German Government
since July 20, 19-11.
Major General Ulio stated that
since the medal could not he pre-
sented to Lt. Boyd .it will be for-
warded to the Commanding Gen-
eral, Eighth Service Command,
Dallas, who will select an officer
to make the presentation to his
family.
cheering them as liberators.
JOHN DYSON
BACK IN STATES
John Henry Dyson seaman 1-c,
son of Mr. and Mrs. ('. F. Dyson,
307 West Fannin, has notified his
parents that he has landed in San
Francisi".!. and they are expecting
him home en leave soon. Dyson is
18 years old, and has been in the
Navy since April II, 1914. This
makes his fifth trip back .to the
states on the troop transport on
which he is stationed,
yet had a leave sinet
service.
CECIL F. POTTER •
IN BELGIl'M
Pvt. Cecil F. Potter of Mexia, is I
a member of the 3037th quarter- I
master bakery company supplying j
fresh bread daily to Allied troops
pushing ahead to liberate the Low- j
lands, a press release from Bel- ]
gium reports. Only one member of J
the outfit was cook in pre-army |
days, but it is capable of turning ,
out between 15,000 and 18,000
loaves ; f bread each day. Equipped
-with British mobile ovens, the
unit can set up and begin turning
! out bread in three hours. The
mobile unit also operates its own
; anti-aircraft defenses,
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1 JESSE R. FLOWERS
LEWI S MONDAY
Pvt. Jesse R. Flowers left Mon-
I day for Red River Ordnance, Tex-
j arkana, Texas, after spending a
j I 1-day furlough with his parents,
j Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Flowers, 717 ,
j North Canton, lie has just com-
pleted successfully a 12-week's
course in the work of an ordnance j
parts clerk at the Aberdeen Prov- j
ing Ground, Mat
R<)\ JOHANSEN NOW
IN THE PHILIPPINES
T Sgt. Roy Johansen, of the
Army Air Corps, has notified his
family of his arrival in the Phil-
ippines, and reports he likes it
fine. Johansen has been overseas
for the past 1 months. His wife
and daughter, Barbara, are mak-
ing their home with her parents in
Pasadena.
I President Roosevelt and high ranking U. S.
! cials meet with King Saud of Saudi Arabia on
warship near Cairo. (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto
photo)
Army and Navy offi-
Lhe deck of a U. S.
from NEA Tele-
Hill,
tobcr
I.
• ives
He went oviiseas last Oc-
stes Bennett, Sr.
, Groesb'. ck.
bis father,
bnl
he
has not
entered
-t.
ntantrvman from
Worlham Missing
J. B. McCORD IS
PROMOTED
Captain James P>. McCord of |
Coleman, husband if the former j
Miss Billie Simmons, has just been
promoted to that rank from First'
Lieutenant. In New Guinea with
an ordnance outfit for over a year,
lie is commanding officer of his
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II. L. ALLEN
TR \ NSFERREI)
Cpl. Houston L.
REDDING FAMILY
HAS REI'MON
Mr, and Mrs. J. W. Bolton, 312
Jackson Street, are enjoying a
unique sitr.rtion among American
Allen of Kosse, i fainj]j,>s this veek—the whole
.1 ACE FLOYD
ON LUZON
Pvt. Jace P.
artillery outfit
March, ha
. Luzon, act
Floyd, v illi a fiel
overseas since las!
moved from Leyte „o
inline to li tter re-
ceived hare b
•I. P. Fjoyd of
llis letter re
better than '•
,' his mother', Mrs.
Telniacnna.
aterl he .ikes Luzon
vte. "Conditions,"
has been transferred from Sidney, j -famj]y, including three
j Australia, where lie has been serv- 11j1t. v.-,.t-vit <• are a!', al hm
ing with the chemical warfare ser-
! vice for the past two years, his
wife, the former Miss Cecil Quil-
j len, has been notified.
DANA HENDERSON
BACK IN STATES
Mrs. Dana Henderson, the form-
er Miss Lucy Lee Daugherty, has
been notified by her husband, ,
Dana Henderson, Petty Officer,
2-c, that he is back in the United
' States after serving with the sea-
\ bees on Guadalcanal, New Guinea,
'and the Admiralty Islands. He will
he home on a thirty day leave.
They have one daughter, Lynn. j
sons in
serviie are
| Pfc Mi It" n Sledding. 21, car'
i.p with a delay en route from
j Camp Cordon Geore.:a en his
' way to Fori George G. Meade,
I Maryland.
j Ncwburn
j to take off
| his chores as a fireman and wate"
I lender ir. I he Merchant Marine,
' and Ken.ieih lledtline,. IS, just
lnij:peoe(| t" do likewise !rom his
Merchant Marine outfit.
Milton has been, in the Army
Redding, 2 ', managed
fe a. few days from
lie said, "on Lu'ion ar-j fim. The
food, climat" and people are all
a big improvement.''
Mr". Ch",.|.er Slaughter of Sum
Houston State Teacla r's collog)
is pen '::ng the wiek end with
her pannls. Mr. and Mis. J. 11.
Pal ton.
AT FIRST
SI0N OF A
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666
two and onr-hall years, ano 1 a-
just rini:'hed rix week ■ refresh- r
basic infantr." training afte,
, tri'.nsfci ring fiom the Air Corps
| Nevburn is dr< le 'eport b:'.cli
i to a Gidf port Thursday, to •'e-
! sume dut'e* with a cargo freight-
j or, after jmt retui'iing I'na.i j
' Panama, while the younger bro- [
I ther, Kefineth. is ; lated to report |
[ to an Eastern port soon. Kenneth i
| has seen 22 months duly in the
I Sol'til Pacific, when he was a sea - !
; man aboard a tanki r, .vhiie New-
Crowley, La.
Mrs. T. E. Burleigh of Hearne
has returned after spending the
week end with Mrs. Lizzie Mae
F reeman.
Mrs. Terry B. Johnson and
daughter, Judy, of Dallas
guests of Sgt. and Mrs,
Adams over the week end.
Miss Hazel Dean Sims, a for
, Sgt. Roy Stubbs, about 31, has
I been "lissing in action since Jan- j company.
I uarv 8 in France, his parents. Mr. I Captain
jnrld Mrs. Roy Stubbs of Wortham
j vere notified Thursday afternoon.
I He is the nephew of Jak< Stubbs
| of .Mexia, and brother of Mrs.
Ernest Strange of 'Voilham, foi-
iller Mexia high school teacher.
Sgt. Stubbs, who has been over-
seas since October, was serving
I with the 2!2ik! Infantry Regimen',
j 12nd Division, according to his
j relatives. A nulivc of Worlham. l e
were | reccivc il his «choo|ing
Simon ! tham and 1'ort Worth, where he | Hospital, Temple. The award was
W. T. TYNER GETS
WINGS AS PILOT
Second Lieutenant W. T. T.vner,
119. son of Mr. and Mrs. William S.
i Tyner, Router 3, Box 281, left
I Thursday for Pampa, where he is
, expecting assignment as an in-
I structor. He has been home on
leave after completing a course in
' twin-engine advanced training at
Sgt. William W. Prestidge of Pampa, where lie has just received
Teague Saturday afternoon was ; his silver pilot's wings and ap-
presented the air medal at retreat j pointmcnt as an officer in the
McCord is the son of j
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. McCml of Cole- I
man, where he was a rancher be-
fore entering service three years
ago.
TEAGUE SOLDIER GETS
AIR MEDAL
in Wor- ' ceremonies at MeCloskcy General [Army Air Forces.
lie
wa s
Fort
into
gradurt"
entered
U>
August
Bench, F
9,
rn«r student of West Texas State
Teachers College of Canyon, has ih,"t. He i* married, and nis wif"!
trnn 'erred to Westminster Junior has remained in Fort Worth while
Collffe. | he has beer, in service.
servici
from tin North . f°r "exceptionally meritorious j J048, went k> Miami neacn, r la
Wortl. high : chool, going ! achievement while participating in then to Kansas City, Kans., where
ih' rtorkvsrd business after sustained bomber combat opera-! he completed a course at. Rockhurst
tions over enemy occupied cotiti- | College. Lt. Tyner took his pre-
nental Europe" as a member of a flight at the San Antonio Aviation
j bombardment group. j Cadet Center, his pr imary at
GROESUBCK OFFICER
PROMO'I ED
Luther E. Bennett, Jr., a P-51
Mustang fighter pilot from Groes-
heck, has been | romoteil to th>•
rank of First Lieutenant in or-
ders from the headquarters of
Lieutenant General James II. Doo-
little.
Lt. Bennett has been awarded
the Air Medal for "nieritoriou"
Cold Preparations a dizectHt
If
j burn has
t for three
been
yeais
sailing
now.
the seas
achievement" in aerial combat. M 'I
is a member of the 35<ith Fighter
i iroup.
A f I ei gruinalion from Mart
high school, Lt. P,ei net), attended
Texas A. K M.
He enlisted in *ho Xrmy Ah*
Forres in Sepier.ber, 1942. After
training nt Cuero, Waco irul
Moore Field, he received his
wings and commission in March,
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318 V>. Main St Phone 425
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