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Timpson Daily Times
VOLUME 43
TIMPSON. TEXAS. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1944
NO. 198
Tells of Landing His
Bombers With Flak,
Rites For Marion
, W. Shepherd Held
This Afternoon
Marion W. Shepherd, 68.
passed away Sunday afternoon
Marshall, Tex., Oct. 7.-
Landing with one tire flat, be-,
ing lifted out of his seat by j
flak, chased back to his field
by enemy fighters, and seeing
the first robot bomb come over
London are just a few of the
incidents experienced by Capt.
Bonny Roark, bombardier vet-
eran of 30 missions ova- enemy
territory, who has returned to
Marshall on leave.
While on s mission over
Germany Captain Roark's Lib-
erator ran into flak which hit
near the landing gear, messing
up one wing and cansing the
tire on one wheel to go flat.
Staying in formation, the plane
reached its target, dropped its
bombs and headed home.
Nearing home base the entire
crew got into positions used
when crash landing, but fortu-
nately the plane did not crash.
"The pilot threw the No. 4
engine wide open to balance
with the weight that would
have gone on the flat tire and
we made a safe landing.”
Roark said.
It was on this same mission
that flak hit the plane directly
underneath his position.
“The armor plating stopped
the flak bnt the jar was so
great that it lifted me out of
my seat,” he said.
One night after hitting their
target in Germany Roark and
his group discovered that Ger-
man fighters ^dld not leave
them at the channel, as was
the.'jsnal custom at. thsi-dcge
of the fighting, but followed
them into their field.
"Our anti-aircraft had been
ordered not to shoot because
the enemy planes were mixed
up with ours and they might
shoot one or more of us down.
Things were rough for us be-
cause the navigation lights
were on for landing and we
made easy targets. We lost two through an earth-shaking flak
Four German Town*
Captured and Americans
Continue Advance
Allied 'Supreme Headquar-
are*.u „„„ ten, London, Oct. 7. (UP)—
at 12:30 o’clock at his home in American armor, striking be-
the New Prospect community,!hind *n all-time rccord aarial
following a lingering illness, barrage, scored a major break-
through north of Aachen to-
day and tore unchecked across
the open plain for Cologne,
capturing four Reich town -
and steamrolling German re-
sistance that included a hastily
mastered people’s division.
In their new companion push
southeast of Aachen the Yanks
slammed ahead two miles and
Funeral services were "held
this afternoon at 2:30 o’-
clock at New Prospect, with
Rev. Wayne Jones, Bev. J. L.
Bryant and Rev. E. V. Tunnell,
officiating. Interment was
made in the New Prospect
cemetery.
Mr. Shepherd was born in
Wilks county, Ga., June 19,
1876, and moved to Texas
some fifty-three years ago,
making his home in the New
Prospect community. He was
well known throughout Shel-
by county and was held in the
highest esteem by everyone.
He is survived by his wife;
one daughter, Mrs. Alfred
Yonngblood of Port Arthur;
one grandson, Pvt. Clarence O.
Shepherd, in U. S. service, sta-
tioned at North Fort Lewis.
Washington; two great-grand-
sons, David Preston Shepherd'!=rasb'
Wendell L. Wifflde
Dies at New York
nr. Bin hi
DIES FID IUK
Wendell L. Willkie, 52, died !_rftritirn .„ nrniiiiiu
unexpectedly Sunday morning! HrFiFISrU SN hrHffilH!
in Lenox Hill hospital, xr.~ IIUIUILU in UUlimni
New;
York.
Death was due to coronary
thrombosis. Dr. Alexander
Ghiselin, a throat specialist,
said a streptococci infection
affected the heart muscles and
that Willkie died in his sleep
after suffering three attacks,
the last of which occurred at 1
a. m. ___
With him at toe end in ad-
dition to Dr. Ghislen were hi3
persona! physician. Dr. Benja-
min Salzer; his wife, who had
virtually cleared out been ill with a sore throat, .and
gloomy Huertgen forest, which Umoyne Jones, Willkie’s per-
had been infested with Ge;.- TOnai secretary and spokes-
man snipers, machine-guns art'.|man ]n 194o.
hidden mortar batteries. j The wiilkies have one child,
"There is no telling where philip , li«uten&nt (jg)
Private Bobbie Cozort of
Annona died September 15th
from wounds received in ac-
Nazis All Around
Russian Annies Race
Over Plains Toward
Capitol of Budpest
Moscow. Oct 7. (UP)—Rod
Army tnnks and infantry
pounded across the plains of
our tanks will end up,” United
Press Correspondent Henry T.
Gorrell wrote following the
new breakthrough which left
the enemy's defense of the
Rhineland or. the verge of col
lapse and put the great city of
Cologne within imminent
on
duty with the navy “some-
where in mid-ocean.”
Willkie. whose death fol-
lowed by less thin two days
tion the previous day while j southeastern Hungary within
serving with U. S. forces in artillery range of Sieged and
Germany, according to inform- less than 100 miles from Boda-
ation received by his brother, pest today in a rapid-fire «*f-
James Cozort of this city. fenaive to knock Germany's
Telegram announcing the third Balkan satellite out of
young man’s death was receiv- the war.
ed by his parents, Mr. and Breaking through frontier
Mrs. J. A. Cohort, residents of defenses on a 96-mile front,
Annona, and they immediate- Marshal Malinovsky’s 2nd Uk-
ly called their son, James Co- rainian Army already had
zort of Timpson, informing(swept more than 15 miles in-
hhn of the message. side Hungary and the broad
Pvt Cozort graduated from Tisa river was the only natural
the Annona high school in obstacle between the advanc-
1942, attended North Texas irg troops and Szeged and
Agricultural College at Arling- Budapest
ton one year, following which | More than 100 towns and
he entered U. S. service. j villages were overrun in the
and Robert O’Neal Shepherd)
of Port Arthur; three sisters.
Mrs. Lura Rhodes, Mrs. Julia
Darnell, Mrs. G. C. Brook-
shire; two brothers. Marvin
Shepherd and Embry Shep-
herd of this community.
With
, .... some garrisons
funeral services for Alfred E.,abandoned and
Smith, 1928 Democratic presi-]fa4e
dentia! candidate, will be'
buried in the family plot at
Rushville, Ind., it was announc-
startling suddenness, |edj bu» funeral plans were de-
would
left to their
The bomb landed about two
miles from us.”
Captain Roark wears the
Distinguished Flying Cross Isdorf, four miles south
and- the Air Medal witKIKree
oak leaf clusters. He-is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E.
Roark of the Fairview com-
munity.
Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges’ now
famous team of tanks with
doughboys mounted on their
turret* cashed in on four days
of back-breaking, ir.ch-by-inch
slugging to hurdle the enemy’*
last emergency defenses in the
Uebach gap.
They captured Baeswefler,
three miles east of Uebach and
of it,
inheriting only' smouldering
ruins because the artiliery
ferred pending word from the
son.
Panicky Germans Seek
to Delay Advancing
Forces Without Success
Sgt. M. C. Courtney
Slightly Wounded
In Action
— ,flrst phase of the new offen-
bejsive, which carries 82 miles
from last reported Soviet posi-
, tions in Romania and was part
jof a giant'squeeze play map-
ped by the Russian high com-
mand to eliminate the last of
Adolf Hitler's Balkan Allies.
Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Court-; To Speak
Rome, Oct 7. (UP)—Nazi
forces in Greece, reeling under
multiple land, air and‘sea
ROBOT BOMBS
AGAIN IN USE
duels of the last hours had de-'and Aegean islands in a hasty
stroyed everything above1 flight toward Athens and the
ground. On their flanks, the mainland where they may at-
Yanks captured Merkstein, tempt a stand,
seven mites north of Aachen,
London, Oct. 7. (UP)—Ger-
man robot bombs crashed
planes and got two of theirs
However, none of toe planes
escaped, for after we landed
British night fighters took over
and got them. Even though
we lost the two planes we
didn’t lose a single man. Crews
of both planes parachuted to
safety.
‘This was not the only times
enemy planes got near our
field. We were strafed twice
and bombed twice but no dam-
age was done.”
Roark’s missions included
four raids on Berlin, two on
Brunswick and one over Kiel.
Captain Roark’s visit to Lon-
don will probably be remem-
bered a long, long time, for it
was there he saw the first ro-
bot bomb go over the city.
“We didn’t know what it
was,” he said. “We coaid just
see s red glow serosa the sky.
maa&B&UBOBBm
PflLRCE
barrage last night and explod-
ed in a number of places in
Southern England, including
the London area, causing dam-
age and casualties.
Taking advantage of a late
rising moon after nightfall,
the bombs, coming in over the
southeast coast from the North
Sea, were greeted by a terrific
barrage that set houses trem-
bling for miles inland.
One buzz-bomb was hit by
flak and exploded in midair,
and an RAF Mosquito ■ pilot
shot down one of the enemy
Hinkel robot-launching planes
over the North Sea.
Another bomb demolished
an entire block of business
buildings, damaged a nearby
police station, a bank and a
tavern, and injured a number
of people In the street. The
fron( of the “pub” was blown
in, leaving the street strewn
with broken bottles.
LAST TIMES TODAY
Walter Wanger presents
“GUNG HO!”
starring Randolph Scott
with Noah Beery, Jr., Alan
Curtis, Peter Coe, David
Bruce, Sam . Levene and
Grace McDonald.
• '
Tuesday
Nelson Eddy - Charles Coburn
in
“Knickerbocker Holiday twins have a lower center front
3®«8»8®5B3S®Ka83 t00th misein*
Even Smile No Clue
To Identical Twin*
Winston-Salem. N. C. (UP)
—Identical twins, Imogene
and Laurastine Beck, second-
year nursing students, are
hard to tell apart.
One patient at City Me-
morial hospital thought he had
the solution. . “I know how to
tell you from your sister. You
have a lower center front tooth
out and the gap shows when
you smile.”
• But that didn’t work. Both
ney of this city, are in receipt
of message informing them
that their son, Sgt. M. C. Court-
ney, was slightly wounded Sep-
tember 15th, in Germany. The
telegram stated further that
“you will be advised as re-
p^rts of.condition are .rwiv-
ed.” The message was from
and Seheirwaldenrath. four
miles northwest of Geilen-
kirchen.
Infantry was beating through
the suburbs of Geilenkircfaen
while the capture of Alsdorf
junction left Aachen with only
a six-mile wide supply lifeline
to the northeast, every yard of
it raked by American guns
day and night. A companion
pusht southeast of Aachen pro-
gressed two more miles, carry-
ing to the Vossenack area on
the eastern rim of the Huert-
gen forest.
Even the RAP’s vulnerable
night-bombers, 700 strong,
;oined the greatest battle-sup-
port aerial bombardment in
history Saturday as nearly 7,-
000 Allied planes of all types
raked the Nazi lines from the
Schelde Estuary in Holland
and targets Inside Germany.
The heaviest blows fell on
Ihe cities of Kleve and Eem-
merich, northernmost bastions
of the west wall and chief
marshalling points of the Ger-
man armies of the northwest.
Hundreds of divebombers
hurtled down on the enemy's
cracking defenses in the Eu-
bach area.
Twentieth Century .
Club Will Meet With
Mr*. Everett Johnston
The Twentieth Century club
will meet with Mrs. Everett
Johnston Tuesday. October 10,
at 7:80 p. m.
The Red Cross committee
will have charge of the pro-
gram. Mrs. Ira Jackson will
be assisted by Mrs. W. C.
Crump, Mrs. O. Brown and
Mrs. Louis Brown. Members
have chosen an interesting va-
riety of subjects for roll call.
blows, tonight were in full re-
treat from the Peloponnesus the Adjutant Generel, and'ww
received here Sunday.
Young Courtney has been in
U. S. service oversea* for the
past fifteen months, previous
Reports said the Pelopon-
nesus south of the Gulf of Cor-
inth is almost entirely in the
hands of British and Allied
forces and the fierce Greek
patriot fighters.
One report placed British
vanguards less titan 50 miles
from Corinth. Headquarters
did not comment on the report
but it was known that “consid-
erable advances” have been
made in the last 48 hours.
Cairo advised that the pan-
icky Germans had blown up
two bridges and sunk a block-
ship in the Corinth Csnal in
an effort to delay the advanc-
ing British.
(Greek circles in London
said they had heard that fight-
ing had been in progress in
Athens for several days. The
Germans were said to have
barricaded Toads leading to
the capital and SS men were
said to be conducting house-
to-house searches for patriots.)
A powerful mixed task force
of British and American war-
ships including destroyers,
cruisers and at least one air-
craft carrier, was ranging the
Aegean, blasting at remaining
Nazi shore installations and
hampering German efforts to
remove their dwindling garri-
sons to the mainland.
The Balkan Air Force, the
15th Air Force and Greek-
based Allied planes harassed
the Germans both by land and
sea. They fired the Siebel fer-
ries and barges on which the
Nazis were trying to escape
and wrecked truck ’ convoys
ashore as far north as the
mountains of northern Greece.
Military observers express-
ed doubt the Germans would
be able to continue evacuation*
much longer and suggested
to which time he was in train-
ing several months.
Meet. Tonight
The regular meeting of toe
chamber of commerce will be
held tonight at 8 o’clock, and
al! members and friends are
urged to attend.
Oet. 21 at Dinner in N." Y.
Washington, Oct. 7. (UP)—
President Roosevelt today
agreed to address the Foreign
Policy Association in New
York on Oct. 21, thereby chal-
terr'vjt the rumor* tie hid
been '“grounded” for the dura-
tion of the campaign and indi-
cating his probable speaking
strategy between now and elec-
tion day.
Report* that a “White House
ruling” or Secret Service rec-
ommendations had barred fur-
ther public appearances by the
President during his campaign
have caused considerable spec-
ulation. The White House de-
nied th it such a ruling had
been made.
Once for all, give to the Na-
tional War Fund.
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