Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 31, 1943 Page: 5 of 24
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Sweetwater Reporter, Sweetwater] Texas
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My United Press
i The Japanese appeared today
to be straining themselves —
with little success — to bloster
their positions in New Guinea
and build up means of counter-!
ing constant allied air harass-
1 ment throughout the Southwest
Pacific.
'A communique from Gen.
Douglas Mar Art hut's headquar-
ters reported U. S. bombers
caught a convoy of four Japan-
ese destroyers trying to land
supplies on Finscli harbor, <>n
ihe eastern New Guinea coast,
and hit one, probably sinking it,
and forced the others to run
i Jpr cover norlf.tw'npl in hea-
vy weather.
This was the fourth ser-
ious enemy attempt to get
through American air
screens in the are north of
Australia with supplies for
Japanese-held bases and
outposts.
United Press dispatches from
the Southwest Pacific also re-
ported that generally unsuc-
cessful Japanese air attacks for
four days on allied-held Oro
Bay, on the New Guinea north-
east coast, indicated the enemy
is installing new airfields, pos-
3 Jap’s Destroyers Flee After U* S* Bombers Disable One
4TH ATTEMPT
TO BOLSTER
BASES FAILS
SOT. .1. II. HENSON, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Henson of
ItoM-oe. served overseas for
more than a year with the
ISAK illler receiving training
in the RCAF, Canada. He
liroadeasl over the BltC while
111 the Eagle Squadron eluh
in London. Lately he lias
transferred to the t . S. Naval
Air I’orce.
LT. IMVMOMi L. ItlHDLE,
son of Mr. and Mrs. .1. I). Bid-
dle, who entered the signal
corps in I!) 1(1, received his com-
mission from officer's candi-
date school Dee. .11, 1942 at
Fort .Monmouth. X. J., and
non is stationed at a disper-
sal camp in Oakland, Calif, lie
is a I!):SS graduate of Sweet-
water high school.
Bl DEBT ( BABB, ji „ son of
Mr. anil Mrs. Bnperl Crahh,
si., ol Dallas, and a nephew
of Mrs. \V. lb Eci-giison of
I Sweetwater, lias lieen in Hie
i:. i v ,v since t 949. He suiviv-
| ed the bombing of Pearl llar-
j hor, Hawaii, where he was
stationed, liis father former
ly taught music in Ihe Sweet-
water schools.
pot back to base.
A. delayed dispatch from the C|-||aa| fAIKIK
Alaskan end of the long Pacific i 31IIUUI U/lllU}
war front teported tlic Japan-
ese on Attu Island, westernmost
of ihe Aleutians, had been ob-
served constructing a field for
land-': Used aircraft. l!. S. air
observers said enemy activity
will
aibly to provide a covering
screen for future convoys.
The Japanese increased their
air attacks on allied liases in
India, apparently to stall the
British drive into Burma. A
British communique from New
Delhi said l.'i of 22 raiding Ja-
panese plants were damaged in
aerial combats over a south-
eastern Bengal forward landing
ground and five probably didn’t
ion the island had been stepped
up recently.
Heavy fighting wa; reported
from the Chinese front on the
Yunnan border next. Lo Burma.
A Chinese communique said the
Japanese had neon thrown back
in attempts to breach Chinese
defenses west of the Mekong
river where they have been
charging forward for 11 days.
Deadline Today
| Today is the deadline for the
1943 school census, Ed F. Nein-
ast, county superintendent, said.
While most of the census in
Sweetwater and rural areas was
taken Feb. 2-1-27 in the regis-
tration for War Ration Book
2, there arc slid believed to lie
children in the county uivnum-
erated.
If there is anyone with in-
formation concerning school-age
children vv si have not p-gister-
cd. it is their duty to notify
the county superintendent or
R. S. Covey, city superintend-
ent, N-cinast said.
.UMiKbn
SERVICE
In announcing change of own-
ership in the Yates Funeral
Home. Sid Wells, a licensed fun
The Shirt'front
of Morale
f;
rt
S h i rts
7.25 and 2.50
In the armed forces, Inspection is an important
daily ritual. Officers know that a meticulously
neat soldier or sailor is apt to be a better one.
Civilian psychology is no different, booking alert
makes a man feel alert, ready, and eager to put
his best efforts into whatever duty is assigned to
him. So—line up *'ir Inspection in faultlessly lab-
ored Jayson shirts. Their clean-cut, fine-fitting
comfort Is unequalled—their remarkable stamina
defies the ravages of wear
and repeated launderings.
Come in and see our large
assortment of fine fabrics
and pattern varieties
JAYSONIZED (no-starch,
wrinkle-free collar made
under Celanese patents).
Sanforized, fabric shrink-
age less than 1%.
*■ \ \ N \ N V V
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w \ '\» ^
Exclusive in Sweetwater At
Sill W ELLS
i i ,al director and emhalmer since
j 1925, comes to Sweetwater to
| continue the same competent
•nd understanding service car-
i ried on here by Mr. and Mrs.
I Howard Yates, owners for 13
I years.
With the same complete facil-
■ ities and staff including Weldon
I Patterson, assistant, Mr. Wells
! said this week that he is inter-
1 csted at all times in a proficient
| standard of service for Sweet-
I water and vicinity,
j For 13 years he was associat-
j uteri with the David Peel mor-
' tuary in Corpus Christi, able and
I f. JIMMX GBA< E who ml-
until 11 it In tlic air force in
the fall nl lull reeeiveil his
<a.in mission May 2ti, 1912 anil
is now stationed in Missouri.
Farm Workers
^classified
COLLEGE STATION, Tex.-
S Iicntial farm workers over .38
; years of age and in Class IV-H
be leclassifiett in Class l l-C
or Class HI-C now or prior to
| May 1, the Texas USDA War
Hoard has announced.
Purpose of ttie reclassification
| ;o place workers beyond mili-
tary age limit into classes to
j which they properly belong by
i reason of occupational, depen
I dency or other status.
i The war board added that
usual rules regarding induction
and deferment will apply to re-
classified men if and when men
over 38 years are called into
1 ihe armed forces..
| Announced several days ago,
| ihe four-point program agreed
i upon by the Manpower Cont-
; mission, the Selective Service
[ System and the Department cf
I Agriculture is to keep necessary
| agricultural workers on the
! farm.
Points covered in the program
efficient funeral directors. His
wife and son, Rob, a senior in i
; Corpus Christi High school, will
j join hint here soon to make
their permanent home.
The new owner of Yates Fun-
etal Home is a member of the
f irst Methodist church, past I
prt sident of the North Beach ■
Kiwanis club: and was on the
membership committee of the
Chamber of Commerce at Cor-
pus Christy where he had lived
since 1930,
A native West Texan, Mr.
Wells said today that he is glad
to be back in the Southwest, A
-;ster, Mrs. Howard Hardy of
Lubbock, taught in the Sweet-
water schools-in 1929. Other rel- j
at Ives live in Midland and Stan-
ton. I
YEO.M t \ 2nd < LASS B. TEM-
PLE Dl( IvSKOV nl tin* Unit-
ed Stairs Navy volunteered
for service Oct. 17, 1942 ami
was sent shortly to Son Eran-
cisco where lie is now station-
ed. V former star represent!!-
live from this district Yoenia i
Dickson was a partner in itn*
law firm of Anderson mil
Dickson.
are as follows: (1) State and
county USDA war boards an*
authorized and instructed to
seek deferment of necessary
farm workers when the worker
or employer fails to request de-
ferment, and to take appeal-
front local board decisions re-
garding farm workers when
such action is justified.
(2) Local draft boards will
refer to war boards farm work-
ers who are not producing suf-
ficient agricultural units to
justify classification in Cia--
II- C or III-C and will allow 30
days for placement where work-
ers can produce the required
number of units;
(3) Local draft boards are in-
structed to classify in Class II-C
III- C and will allow 30 days fori
placement where workers can
produce the required number of i
units;
(3) Local draft boards are in-
structed to classify in Class ll-('i
or III-C any registrant with ag-1
ricultural experience who has
left the farm for other work, pro- j
vided he returns to agriculture
and becomes regularly engaged
in and essential to it prior to his I
receipt of order to report for in-1
auction into the armed forces:
(4) Local draft boards are in-
structed not to reclassify neces-j
sary farm workers out of tie- j
ferred classification, even if calls j
for military manpower remain1
unfilled.
STXEF SGT. A. ». SIJ.VEV,
Min of Mi*, am! Mrs. Arthur
s'ilvi y, is stationed at George
Army Air Eirlil, liiwrence, 111.
til* t-nlislt'il in Jhiii- 1941. Sgl.
Hilvt y is i xpeeted home on
furlough in April.
t IBS I I/I I A. BITTER, Jr.
seeing action on tin* Tunisian
trout as a pilot on a bomber
nri iti'il his wings March li,
«iis assigned to a bomber
squadron itt Xlcxandria, La.,
1912, at Luke Field, Ariz.., and
selected for overseas duty
soon afterward. Son of Mr.
amt Mrs. I X Bitter, sr., he
was graduated from Texas
I • i ll in 1941 enlisting in the
ail force in August. He has
been on active service in
North Xfrien since flying the
X i la ill ii - in i lii- summer.
Named To Help
in Bond Drive
High Flying Quality
SEAMAN HOUSTON i.AMB-
EBT, who went to Hawaii in
1941 is shown here by the
side of a grass hut the Navy
used until permanent barracks
could be built some where
near Pearl Harbor. He is now
ill the South Seas. He is the
son of Mrs. Jake Lambert.
AS! Dcsnq Their
Duty For Merita
It i.-i a physical impossibility
for the Reporter in this edition
to do full justice to all the near-
ly 2,000 men and women from
Sweetwater and Nolan county
now in active service.
Just as the nation honors “The
Unknown Soldier” of World War
1, this edition by its represen-
tatives for which pictures and
stories are available, hopes to j
reflect credit upon all doing j
tneir duty for American. Moth- -
ers are equally proud of individ- j
ual sons and daughters in uni- j
form and in war work.
Newspaper and citizens — we I
;,li wish luck, honors and a safe '
return for them ail.
Grover tint, chairman of
; the Victory bond drive, today
1 anno ni <1 additional commit-
! tecs to aid during the forthcom-
ing Viet ry bond sales cam-
paign.
Tilt* committees and their res-
fpective chairmen are as fol-
| low :
New-oapor publicity, George
Bennitt and Bob Cooke; radio
pu1 iicitv Riissell Bennitt; enter-
yainrrs nr. Bertram Simon; men’s
;' iiia : . IV lad Ponder; wom-
en .-!•■ aker . Mr- John Perry:
fit;, empl ves R. C. Hoppe;
'•it;. Boss Covey; coun-
ty - . E : Neinast; Minis-
lerial am1, J. E. Shewbert;
I merchants' s’n., James Fergu-
s':: s -ut . Spurgeon Gaskin.
Livestock Market
Furnished liv Courtesy
BROOKS PA it KING CO.
Sw i*i*i welter, i'»*xas
HOGS:
Tops 14.25.
200 to 285 His. 14.00 to 14.25.
100 to 18n lbs. 13.75 to 14.15.
130 to 140 lbs. 13.05 to 14.05.
Sows:
lbs 12.50 to 13.00.
350 to 450 lbs. 12.00 to 12.50.
CATTLE:
Fat calves 400-000, 11.50 to
12.50.
Good gra :nfed yearlings, 500
to 700 lbs. 11.00 to 13.00.
Butcher cows 800 to 900 lbs.
9.00 to 11.00.
Bologne bulls 1200 lbs. and up
10.00 to 11.00.
Cutter cows 7.00 to 8.00.
Here's your up-and-at ’un hat with long lasting
quality! Stetson’.-, "Stratoliner” is . treamlined and
smooth with felt soft as a cloud! You’ll feel mod-
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style and stay in shape. Rise to every occasion in a
Stetson "Stratoliner.” Made by exclusive Stetson
Vita-Felt* Process—in soldier tan, cocoa brown,
bine, air gray and natural.
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 31, 1943, newspaper, March 31, 1943; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth709967/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.