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THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE, COLEMAN, TEXAS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1943
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News About Loyal, Patriotic Men In Armed
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Services of United States
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Telephone or Bring Items About The Boys In Service to The Coleman Democrat-Voice.
— Dial 6251 —
Set. Billy Stewart, son of Mrs.
J. T. Stewart of Coleman,
writes from somewhere in the j
Southwest Pacific that he would ■
like to come home long enough!
to go fishing. He has been in
the Army a little over a year, i
He has a brother, Carl, in the:
“Coleman Company" (Company ;
B, 142nd Infantry,-36th Divi-
sion ) of the Army.
* * *
S/Sgt. A. W. Shackle, now
stationed at Maimi, Fla., is vis? |
itir.L' with friends in the county j
this week. Sgt. Shackle sub-
scribed to The D-V while a visi-;
tor m this offioe.Tuesday ‘dfU0
noon.
Goes To Wisconsin
Pfc. Cortez Thorp, son of Mr.
1st Lt. Mac Woodward is to
leave Tuesday night, August
24, for Carlisle Barracks, Pa.,
for six weeks of training in of-
ficers school. He then will be
transferred to Jefferson Bar-
I racks, Jefferson City, Mo„
I where he Will be stationed.
. # * #
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Clary have
received announcement that
their son, Joseph, has been pro-
moted from seaman, first class,
to yeoman, third class. He is
stationed *in the Pacific theatre.
* # #
Jerome D. Fox, S 2/c, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Fox of Novice,
i in the Navy for about two
months, writes he wouldn't ex-
change Navy life for civilian
life. He is a former student of
Jack Gray Gordon, student at
the United States Naval Acad-
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j Field, Wis.
He’s In Greenland Interesting Letter
From India Tells
About Ceremony
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Pvt. Paul Rains,
and Mrs. W. L. Rains of Rock-
wood, is stationed somewhere
in Greenland.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Simpson
this Week received the follow-
ing letter from their son, Lt.
Newby Simpson, describing an
interesting sacrificial ceremony
he recently attended. Lt. Simp-
son is stationed in India.
The letter follows:
Back From Pacific
August 3, 1943.
Dearest Mother .and Daddy:
R. G. Blackwood qf Houston,
grandson of Mi, and Mrs. H. H.
Doss of Coleman, is back from
the South Pacific for a rest of
a few days. The young Marine
three months’ action on
saw
with his parents,
Jack Gordon, of this city.
• O. L,- Blackwood, ship's cook
2/c. left Monday morning for
Vi _miu to resume his woil
with the Seabees following a
visit with relatives and friends
' here for a few days. He joined
the
His wife and daughter, Betty
Jean, 11 months, are residing in
Coleman. • <
j tioned in Maine, is visiting with
relatives and friends in Coleman
this week.
Talpa Soldier Is
Commended By
Major General
Sunday we really witnessed
some sight. We were invited ,Guadalcanal and nJne months
hv°nfL>° viltiLp^hpaAman *n anoher spot that was just as
lages by the village headman ,,K,, i hD,,„ i„
to see their yearly sacrificial
ceremony to the Goddess of
Puja. It signifies the end of
the planting season and they
offer this sacrifice so that the
goddess- will give them good
crops,
j We were first taken to the
j house of the headman and then
were served with tea and fruits.
All the time we were there peo-
ple were fanning us and doing
and Mrs. Dave Banks of the
Jackson. Lt. Jackson is statis-
Scabees on April 20. 1943. J*ufl,al° community. Harrell Ucal officer of the Nashville Air
■ J............. banks, b _/c. U. h. Naval Train-classification Center at
ing Station, San Diego, another •„ T
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bunks, was ’ « • , »
here at the same time. | Mrs. Kenneth
James Price, son of Mr. and
Mrs. F'ioyd Price, Monday was
sworn in the Navy in Dallas. ,
and has been sent to Corpus J°e
weekend
Pfc, G. A. Norris, son of Mr.
_ „ccn>. and Mrs. L. C. Norris of Talpa,;their best to make us comfort-
Petty Olticer l. C and Mis. * * * along with other men in his bat- able. «
Da\r Banks, Jr., and daughter, Lt. and Mrs. Ben Jackson will!talion, received the commenda-| At last the ceremony began
Diana Lee. ot the Naval Air arrive Mondav for a visit of|ii0n of Maj. Gen. A. M.- Patch and we were taken to the altar.
Station at Coipus Chiisti, have wdh Lt. Jackson’s for meritorious and conspicuous;Each of us was accompanied by
been visi mg his parents, Mr. 'parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. service during the recent oper-ian ^dian who kept us covered
ations against the enemy.'1 I with an umbrella. At the altar
"But for your help,” the corn-,1*10/ were beating big drums
Nash-lmendation declared, “the recent and dancing before the goddess
'operations against the enemy <a statue inside a brass car-
• would not have heen possible." l lak<'). All during tne dancing,
Zimmerman and continues as follows." “Your1 Pe°P^ were bringing flowers,
and daughters, Frances Sue and accomplishments i n.c 1 u d e di1'1.06, ,7s ar*d °thei things to
Hummerstone of Molly Ann, plan to leave about among other things, blazing!0*8°ddess.
J , visited in the the first of the month for Knox-Toads through the jungles and!,, After about two houis of this
l;iSt ville, Term., to join 1st Lt. Zim- building bridges over the river. started the real sacl l^1,<;'e^
Sgt. Jesse
Freehold, N.
Strother home here
Sgt. Hammerstone merman,
“hot." He visited here recently.
* # *
Glen Pope Writes
About England In
Letter To Mother
The following letter is from
Pfc. Glen F. Pope, now station-
ed in England, to his mother,
Mrs. C. C. Burk of Santa.Anna.
England,
July 9, 1943.
Dearest Mama:
I got four letters today, two
of them from you. I was sure
Leonard N. Evans, Prisoner Of,
Japanese Government, Writes He’s
In Good Health; He’s At Taiwan
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Evans of! interned in Taiwan. My health
Coleman have received the first
direct word from their son, Pvt.
Leonard N. Evans, since his cap-
ture by the Japanese qn Corre-
gidor on May 7, 1942.
The message is in the form
of an Imperial Japanese Army
post card. On the card he was
is usual. I am working for ex-'
ercise. Please see that Grace
and Oleta (two friends) are tak-
en care of. My loye to you.
Jeep." “Jeep” is the young sol-
dier’s nickname.
Since the figures 20-2-43 are
printed at the bottom of the
permitted to fill in blank spaces,!card it is believed it might have
with the remainder of the sen-'been written on February ^
fences being already printed in 1943. w
English.
Here is the
message: ‘.I am
Guy Hamilton One
Of First Soldiers
To Land In Sicily
Pvt. Evans, cook with the U.
S. Army, arrived in the Philip-
pines on November 23, 1941.
His parents have written to
him on many occasions since the
Red Cross notified them he was
being held a prisoner in Taiwan,
Formosa, but the post card was
the first communication they
hud received from him.
Mr. and Mi’s. W. R. Hamil-
ton of Coleman have received
a letter from their son, Guy,
that he is in $icily and that he
was among^the first paratrobp-
ers to land in that country on
July TO, opening day of the bat-
tle.
i t;, where he will receive weeKena. sgi. nammersione merman stationed near that This was done with limited and!goa*s. weie sacrificed
Root Camp training at the janc* pee Strother, son of Mi city with an Engineers Corps, inadequate equipment. Your py cuJtia8 their hea s o wj
Air Base. , and Mrs. Strother, were in the Xhey are now visiling Lt Zim_ battalion at the same time op- one stroke of the knife also
-----------------| Army together tor ten months, merman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. .crated with 73 men under its au- ,five plgs and J!?re^ wfJer buf a*
....... ...... iat *l- ^ew‘s- Wash, and Camp g £ Zimmerman. ithorized strength. Your work* 0 wera sacri lced 10 sam
Livingston. La Lee is now * * * !was all the more remarkable;way: .Tben goddess ^
serving somewhere overseas. t ;♦ carried to each house in the
i
IGHTNING MAY
STRIKE ONCE
TOO OFTEN!
Lightning doesn't strike
vvice in the same place!"
■ ice may be too much if you
’ en't fully covered by fire
nsurance!
Talk To Your Agent
J. M. If DONALD
AGENT
M/Sgt. Arthur T. Lewis left (because it was done under the
i Wednesday .for Columbia, S. C.. adverse conditions of intense
George Givens has recently, following a visit with his father, heat, heavy tropical rain storms
completed a course in the Mer- J. W. Lewis, of Santa Anna and and often while subjected to
chant Marine and is now sta- with an uncle, M. J. Lewis, of harassing hostile fire. It de-
; tioned at San Pedro, Calif. He Burkett. He has been in the manded ingenuity, resourceful-
iis the son of Mrs. G. F. Givens. Army the past seven and a half ness, determination and courage
'years. J of the highest order on the part
I Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Simpkins! * * * jof every officer and enlisted
jof Glen Cove have received I Cpl. Clarence C. Carr, son of man.”
; word that their son, Cpl. Grady Mrs. Eldridge Carr of Coleman, | The young Talpa soldier is
W. Simpkins, U. S. Marine has received his diploma from stationed somewhere in the Pa-
!Corps, has been promoted to the airplane mechanics school, cific war theatre. While news! "7" a7?«7n tn ihe°hpaHman’s
sergeant. Sgt. Simpkins has showing that he has satisfacto- of the commendation is just nowjilfl,IKf, ..„jgWPIP cPrvPd aeain
in the Pacific war theatre rily completed course prescrib- received, it was made in Janu- n u e d a we ea 3ga n-
ed by Boeing Flying Fortress ary.
I School, Seattle, Wash. j
village and a goat was sacri-
ficed at each house.
At one of J,he houses the man
who was killing the goats de-
cided to show off a little
try to cut the goat’s head off
with one hand. He didn’t cut
it off in one stroke and as this
is supposed to cause bad luck,
they had a big fight which last-
ed about 30 minutes. No one
was hurt badly though, and we
!
been in
for 20 months.
* A,
Cpl. Ross S. Martin, Jr., of|
this city has been graduated Word has bqgn received here
from an Army Air Forces Tech- of the promotion of Cpl. San-
nical Training Command school ford Tune, son of Mr. and Mrs.
in the Detroit Civilian Schools Sanford Tune of Rockwood, to
Area, completing' an intensive technical sergeant. He is sta
course of instruction as an air- tioned somewhere in Australia,
craft technician. He has been1
in the Army for 11 months and Lt. and Mrs. Ben Jackson
previous to that time was ranch- write they recently entertained
W. CARL WILLIAMS
GETS PROMOTION
W. Carl Williams, Jr., of the
U. S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Williams of Santa Anna,
has been promoted to seaman
first class. He is stationed
somewhere in the South-Pacific.
* * *
Guy and other U. S. para-
troopers landed behind the ene-1WAYLAND GORDON IS
ray lines on the opening day. He,GRADUATE OF ARMY
glad to get them. Be sure and j reported in his letter that he TECH SCHOOL AT L. A.
send me The Democrat-Voice]was well and “I haven't been! SANTA MONICA, Calif,—
and get somq of my money and punctured yet.” Cpl. Walter W. Gordon, son of
* * * j Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Gordon
1 of 517 College avenue, Cole-
DENNIS STOKES TO |man, recently completed ad-
BE NAVAL CADET ivanced ground crew tragping at
Dennis Stokes, ARM 2/c, son j the Army Air Forces Technical
of Mr. and»Mrs. B. T. Stokes of [Training Command School at
Talpa, is home on leave; He has (Douglas Aircraft Corp., Long
been accepted as a naval avia- \Beach, Calif. This is one of the
Albert Pope To
- Seabees; Given
Good Rating
We were the first white men
ever to be in the village and the __
first white men that about so'The peopk' dnve on
pay for it. By the way. my $30
allotment starts this month and
you should get it the first part
of August.
Things are sure different here.
It is 10:00 o'clock and not dark
yet. It doesn't get dark until
about 12:00 at-night. We have
only about four hours of dark-
ness at night.
They told us. it rains every
day and it hasn't failed yet. I
nearly froze last night, but am
really prepared tonight. The
weather is not so cold.
There were some men here
changing our money into Eng-
lish money today. They have
bills with one pound on them
which are worth $4 in our mon-
ey and in silver a shilling is 20
cents, a half crown -is 50 cents
and a penny is as big as our 50
cent piece.
I guess I will get used to all
of this before I leave. The food;
he.re is a lot better than it wasj
in several places in the U. S.
tion cadet and is to report to
Dallas in September, and will
be assigned then to a training
school.
He has been in the Navy more
than two years and has spent
the past 18 months at Pearl Har-
bor.
He studied aviation mechan-
ics at the Ford Naval Training
special'aircraft factory schools
in the Command's Los Angeles
Civilian Schools Area.
The local man has been trans-
ferred to an Army Air Forces
station for active service, tak-
ing his place in the vast army of
expert technicians who keep
our combat planes in fighting
trim. Previously he had quali-
School at Dearborn, Mich., andified as an Army Air Forces
|ing.
Albert J. Pope, son of Mrs. 'J.
h>
Bonded
Public Weigher
To give you “A MORE Complete Service" we have in-
stalled a New Fairbanks Truck Scale that wiy,take care of
practically any size load. These scales have a platform size
10 teet wide and 50 feet long and will weiqh up to 80,000
pounds. Mr. Ivy E. Barker is the Bonded Public Weigher
and will give you 24-hour service. -However, ALL
WEIGHINGS AFTER CLOSING HOURS AND ON SUN-
DAY V/ILL BE "EXTRA $1.00."
Drench
TRY OUR SPECIAL FORMULA TAPEWORM DRENCH
PHENOTIAZINE DRENCH AND POWDER
Veterinary-Supplies
Feeds
• HORSE AND MULE
• BUCK AND BULL
• DAIRY FEED
» OATS
• SWEET FEED
• WHEAT
• BARLEY
• STOCK FEED
Poultry Feeds
• CHICK STARTER
• GROWING MASH OR CHUNKETS
• EGG MASH OR CHUNKETS
TRY OUR MIXED CHICKEN FEED
Geo. D. Rhone
Warehouse
“A Complete Service for the Ranchman”
WOOL v COTTON - GRAIN
West Side of Square
Capt. Arthyeta Van Dalsem of
the WACs in their home at n D___ . T„oc
Nashville, Tenn. Capt. Van Dal- Pope of ^ T f".
sem was enroute to Will Rog- ?uy August 17, for
• ■! •• Field, Okla. to review a
>company of WACs, and to Ran- “T!'' °f ‘
dolph Field. Texas, where she w.hltc.h organization he has
, was to see her husband, Curtis, | ™d lhe rallng of chlef pct'
vvho is in training to become an ■ >CL!' * . n ,
instructor. Mrs. Van Dalsem is ^r niFope' ormc .Co]eman
a staff director in the Third Air resldent’A volunteered his serv-
ice and is stationed at Tam- lcea August 10.
I pja For the past seven years he
r ’ " * * * has been employed by Brown &
John Clifton King., Jr., and Hoot Inc., and for the last eight
! Sidney Edward Smith, both of mpntbs *]as been general super
.Talpa, were in Lubbock early! "nenfenl
this week to complete their |nouston
| enlistment. They are to be
i transferred to San Diego, Calif.,
where they will be given a
chance to qualify for Navy
1 trade schools.
# # #
H. D. Canady, S 2/c, visited
j last week with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Canady at
Glen Cove. He recently has
completed his boot training at
San Diego, Calif.
# * #
Misses Frances Budd and
Katherine Cochran, SPARS,
(will be in Coleman in the inter-
est of recruiting men and wom-
en in the U. S. Coast Guard sev-
eral times eaefi month, it was
announced this week by Chief
Pharmacist's Mate Seaton of)
I Abilene. The chief and Missi
[Cochran, S 2/c, were visitors j
'‘here Monday.* Miss Budd is a!
i yeoman 3/e.
Pvt. Cozart Tharp has been
(transferred from Gulfport,
I Miss., to Gen. Mitchell Field,
Wisconsin.
‘ # # #
Pfc. Marion A. Berry, son-in-
law of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Ware
| of Coleman-Glen Cove Route, is
[now stationed at Stark, Fla.,
and is in the AAF. He married
the former Miss Jo Anna Ware.
He has lived at Goldsboro and
Crews.
# « »
S/Sgt. William Griffin of
Kelly Field, San Antonio, visit-
ed last weekend with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Grif-
fin. /
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Robert Miller, son of Deputy
Sheriff and Mrs. R. C. Miller
of Coleman, is visiting with his
parents here for a few days. He
is emoute from Los Angeles to
somewhere down East.
for that company at
He has been in charge
of the San Jacinto Water Pro-
ject, Harris County War Indus-
tries, in which water is being
transported to the synthetic
rubber plants in South Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Pope visited
with his mother here last week-
end.
t # * *
.'Pvt. Haskell Richardson of
Coleman, a radio operator at
Camp Butner, N. C., has been
home on furlough.
per cent of the people had ever
seen, so we really caused about
as much excitement as the cere-
mony.
I Their women stay right at
[home and are not seen by a
stranger. It was a very in-
teresting experience and one
tha,t I can tell you more about
when I see you. I think we
also got some good pictures of
it which I will send home.
We are still having rain every
day and the country is a sight.
We are supposed to have two
more months of rain.
Love, NEWBY.
Word has reached here that
Pvt. Charles West, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. (Tip) West of
Albany, has arrived in Eng-
land. The young man enlisted
in the AAF as an airplane me-
chanic last November, receivT
ing his basic training at Lub-
bock Air Field. He later train-
ed at Garden City, Kansas, and
at Salt Lake City, Utah. Prior
to entering the service he was
a Civil Service mechanic at -the
Midland Bombardier School. He
is a grandson of John West of
Talpa and of the late Mr. and
Mrs. J. S. Sewell of Coleman.
The West family resided in
Coleman before moving to Al-
bany in 1931.
road and the steering
their car is on the
of the
wheel on
right.
Hope you are feeling o.k. I
think of you every night and I
love you lots.
Love, GLEN.
# * *
NEPHEW MISSING
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Gardner
of Coleman have received word
that a nephew. W. E. Evans, is
missing in action. Warren Eu-
gene Evans, 21', son of Mrs. Roy
H. Evaijs of Handley, sister of j
Mr. Gardner, was a member of;
the crew of the Pickerel, a sub-
marine reported by the Navy
Department Sunday as "missing
and presumably losV’ He serv-
ed with the 45th Division at
Abilene fqr a time, but received
his discharge so that he could
enter the Navy and submarine
service.
after completing the course
there was transferred to Pearl
Harbor, T. H.
Stokes continued the study of
mechanics for some time and
then began to study radio.
He likes the Navy fine and
says the education he has re-
ceived . in the Navy would cost
thnToft’oi^u1 him several' thousand dollars in
the left sict« civilian life_
technician through general air-
plane mechanic training at a
technical training command
school. He was especially chos-
en for the advanced course.
Prior to his technical instruc-
tion the local man received ba-
sic military training at one of
the basic training centers of the
Army Air Forces Technical
Training Command.
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Pouns, Joe B. Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 1943, newspaper, August 19, 1943; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth748175/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Coleman Public Library.