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Timpson Daily Times
VOLUME 42
TIMPSON, TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 194*
NO. a
sEcranfiHi
REMS FROM TOUR
ormcjn
Predicts Capture of All
Guadalcanal Within 30
Days; Warns Japs a#
Raids on Tokyo.
Pearl Harbor, Jan. 29 (De-
layed) (UP).-Secretary of
the Navy Frank Knox, back
from an aerial tour of South
Pacific bases during which he
came through two air raids
Unharmed, today predicted
the capture of all of Guadal-
canal within 30 days and
warned Japan to “get ready”
for more raids on Tokyo.
“I think we have disposed
of sny threat from Japanese
ground forces on Guadalcan-
al,” Knox said at a press con-
ference. "I believe the Japa-
nese have abandoned at-
tempts to reinforce their
groups on Guadalcanal and
that within 30 days all organ-
ized resistance on the island
will have ended.”
Knox visited Guadalcanal
daring a two-week inspection
tour with Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz, commander of the Pa-
cific fleet They visited every
major U. S. base in the Paci-
fic from Hawaii to the Solo-
mons.
Japanese planes raided
American positions on Gua-
dalcanal for sever- hours dar-
"mg their visit but none of the
party waa injured. The raid
was one of the most extended
made by the Japanese since
the American invaalon last
August.
Knox and his party also un-
derwent a Japanese sir raid
while on Espiritu Santo island
in the New Hebrides, 600
miles socthsast of Guadalcan-
al.
Knox and Nimitz received
newspapermen at the admir-
al’s headquarters here today
and disclosed that their in-
spection tour also included
visits to Midway, Canton,
Johnston, the Fiji*, Samoa
and New Caledonia.
Highlights of Knox’s obser-
vations included:
1. The chances are “dam
good” for mime American air
raids on Tekye and the Japs
had better "get ready.”
2. “We now are ready to
strike hard blows and we hope
and expect to retain the initia-
tive in our hands.”
3. “Our present rate of de-
struction of Japanese shipping
is a matter of grave concern to
the Japs.”
4. Pearl Harbor has become
an “utterly transformed fort-
ress” but the United States
must proceed on the supposi-
tion that it will be the object
of another Japanese attack.
5. The army and navy are
cooperating fully.
6. The hardest job in the
Atlantic theatre is defeating
the submarine menace and
“we are particularly worried
about the production of escort
vessels, but they will be liek
ed.”
Upon his return to Washing-
ton, Knox will have covered
20,000 miles by air. The tour
marked his first visit to Pearl
Harbor since his inspection
flight following the Dee. 7,
1941, Japanese sneak attack.
Knox said the world-wide
war situation had improved
for the Allies in the past three
MSE RIMES HI
DMA FIELO BUSTED
IT HUES_
Allied Headquarters, Aus-
tralia, Feb. 1 (Monday) (UP).
—Sporadic ground fighting
still is continuing in the Wau-
Bubo area below the Japa-
nese-held port of Salamaua in
Northeast New Guinea, the
Allied noon communique an-
nounced Monday after front
dispatches had reported Aua-
aralian troops pursuing the
remnants of a shattered ene-
my attack force.
Eight Japanese bombers
and a fighter plane mean-
while were destroyed or dam-
aged Sunday by Allied fighter
planes which strafed the Jap-
held airdrome at Koepang, on
the Dutch half of the Portu-
guese-Dutch Island of Tfmcf
northwest of Australia, the
bulletin said.
The communique gave no
details of the Mubo-Wau
fighting, which began last
Wednesday, beyond to say
that sporadic ground fighting
continues. On Saturday the
Japanese lo3t at least 250 men
in attacks on Allied lines—the
second in four days—which
carried them to within 400
yards of Allied-held Mac air
field before being thrown
back. :
Allied attack planes joined
the latest skirmishing, 'bomb-
ing Japanese position ir. Mu-
bo and nearby Komiatum.
Other Allied planes mean-
while gave Rabaul, major
Japanese port of New Briatia
Island, its second successive
attack. Heavy bombers, the
war bulletin . said, attacked
shipping and harbor . installa-
tions in a predawn attack,
dropping bombs on docks snd
among anchored vessels.
“Haze and searchlights pre-
vented observation of results,”
the communique said.
The bulletin reported that
in the Koepang raid, long-
range fighters attacked the
airdrome with cannon
machine guns, “destroying or
damaging eight enemy bomb-
ers and one fighter caught on
the ground.” Hangars and
buildings were set afire, in-
cluding an apparent ammuni-
tion warehouse which explod-
ed violently.
Two miles away from the
airfield. the Allied planes
struck a Japanese motor pool
containing twenty vehicles but
the bulletin did not report the
results. All Allied fighters re-
turned safely.
Viqueque, on the south
coast of eastern Timor, was hit
by medium bombers with un-
reported results.
nilTEKE
President Roosevelt has re-
turned to the Whtie House,
arriving Sunday night, after
traveling 14,#00 danger-
fraught miles, much of it by
air. The last lap of the trip
was made by special train
from Miami after a flight from
Brazil Press dispatches say the
President returns to put into
“active offensive campaigns
which he and Prime Minister
Winston Churchill drafted at
their historic unconditional-
sarrender conference at Casa-
blanca.
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Haw-
thorn, of this city, announce
the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Hazle Alyue, to Mr. Her-
ald Tillman Ledbetter of San
Antonio, son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. C. -Ledbetter of Los An-
geles, California.
The wedding took place on
Saturday, June 20th, 1942, at
1:00 P. M., In Los Vegas, No-
REPORTED TMEIIH
mum*
Moscow, Feb. 1. (Monday)
(UP).—The Red army liqui-
dated one of the last two Ger-
man pockets at Stalingrad
Sunday, capturing Field Mar-
shal Friedrich von Paulus, and
ia the West Caucasus closed to
within twenty-nine miles east
of Krasnodar, whose capture
would cut still another rail-
road line to Rostov, the So-
viets announced Monday.
A special communique re-
porting the liquidation of the
German group near central
Stalingrad said 18,000 prison-
era had been captured in the
last five days. It also boosted
from 220,000 to 330,000 the
Soviet estimate of the number
of German troops under von
Paulus trapped when the Bed
army pincers snapped behind
them on Nov. 23.
More than 100,000 troops of
the Sixth German Army have
been killed since the Busmans
launched their final battle of
extermination on Jan. 10, the
high command said.
Captured along with von
Paulus were his staff, includ-
ing Its chief, lieutenant Gen-
«nd‘er*1 Sehmidt’ fourteen Ger-
man Generals and two Ru-
manian Generals.
The regular Sunday mid-
night communique reported
the capture of the district cen-
ter of Ryazanskaya, twenty-
nine miles east of Krasnodar,
snd the railway junction and
district center of Belorechen-
skaya and figteen miles north-
west of the oil center of Mai-
kop, whose fall was announc-
ed Sunday.
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Mil MOULD
IllLMII LEDBETTER
SHELBT HITS SOME
OF THE ISM FOOD
(By J. O. Moosberg)
Crops sad livestock to be
produced in Shelby County to
secure the county’s share af
lucre Med food production in
1943 are approximately the
following acres of crops or
numbers of livestock. Ail of
these increases need to be
reached to meet the goal for
the county. Approximately
3,000 men are in the armed
forces of the United States
UTHE OF MMSE
FLEES JHPMRSE« QtHl
vada, at the Gretner Grune Shelby County. Each of
Wedding CbapeL Reverend F. the*e «•" wi!1 *P-
C. Lovett, Baptist minister,. OBe ton of food
performed the impressive Prodn“d- Production of food
double-ring ceremony before *or -Afbed countries must also
an improvised altar banked,^® *D tae county. Look
with stephanotio and lily-of- the lb* below-
the valley. White satin «dd Mch « 3™ Y®"
Streamer* extended from the ,nd u,k with y0UI
altar to tall candle holder* on »**»bor about
months, but added that “we
are just starting to fight.”
“We now are ready to strike
hard blows and we hope and
expect to retain the initiative
in our hands,” he said.
each side. The ceremony was
read by soft candle light.
List’s “Dream of Love” was
softly played throughout the
ceremony, and traditional
wedding marches were given.
The couple was attended by
the brother and sister-in-law
of the groom, Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald C. Ledbetter, also of
Los Angeles. The bride wore
an ensemble of navy and
powder blue. Her ahoulder
corsage was of blue orchids.
DireeUy following the cere-
mony, the bride snd groom
left for s wedding trip to Lake
Arrowhead and various points
along the coast They resided
in Lot Angeles daring the
summer, at the end of which
Mrs. Ledbetter resumed her
duties as .teacher in the Kil-
gore school system.
The bride attended Mary
Hardin-Baylor College, South-
ern Methodist University, and
received her B. A. Degree
from Stephen F. Austin Col-
lege. She was a member of
Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority.
She was candidate for the
neauty section white at S. M.
U-, and was a beauty repre-
sentative at Stephen F. Austin
College. At the present time
she is a member of the Kilgore
Public School faeuity.
The groom attended the
American Business School in
Hollywood, and at the time of
the couple’s marriage, was
manager of Th rift im art
Stores in Los Angeles and
Hollywood. ,Mr. Ledbetter is
now stationed at Kelly Field,
San Antonio, Medical Detach-
ment, United States Army Air
the increase
that he can bring about on his
farm.
(1) Increase the market
weight of 16,000 calves that
will be dropped on the farms
of the county this spring by
25% or selling 400 pound
calves instead of 300 pound-
ers. This can be secured by
furnishing cows on the range
with a mixture of equal parts
of steamed bone meal and
coarse salt in a box or trough
instead of a salt block. This
will enable all cows to get salt
instead of salting two or three
oi the herd. And by feeding
the calves while they are nurs-
ing the tows on the pasture.
In small herds of one to ten
cows this can be accomplished
by feeding the calves in the
lot at night, and in larger
herds it can be accomplished
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The Maikop spur line joins
the Tuapse-Armavir line at;Corps.
Belorechenskaya. Both Anna- j Mrs. Ledbetter will com-
vir and Tuapse already are in; plete her rchool year, at which
Soviet hands. |time she expects to join her
The capture of Ryazanskaya I husband,
indicated that the Russians
now are driving toward Kras-
nodar on an arc stretching,-------------
». i mijiijj |j i stmostil
HUH MB
The fall of Krasnodar would j
leave the German troops who i Austin, Tex.-r-Civilian build-
are still holding out in the ling was almost at a standstill
. . , . ^ Dn>gpect vicinity of the Black Sea port ;last month, aa University of
Asked about th p pert NQV,orosgjsfc only one round- \ Texas Bureau of Business Re-
of further air ra»ds on Tokyo, which I «areh report, show that
to escape north to Rostov. [building permits issued during
From Krasnodar railway | December amounted to $2,-
lines radiate west to Novoros- ’889397, an 85,5 per cent
sisk, 160 miles north of Ros- nose-dive from the same
tor, northeast to Tikhoretsk month of 1941.
and east to Kropotkin. ' Tlk-j At the same time, Decem-
boretsk and Kropotkin, junc- j ber building permits were al-
tions on the Baku-Rostov rail- i most double those of Novem
confused * road, already have been cap-1 ber. Through the year 1942,
[civilian building’has declined!
jby 48.9 per cent from that of;
Knox said he could not com-
ment as to how and when such
attacks would be made.
"The prospects are darn
good, however,” he said. "You
San tell the Japs to get ready.”
Pardonable Confusion
Birds become
rather than frightened during i tnred by the Soviets,
air raids, a British naturalist!
has observed.
Chungking. Jam. 30. (UP)
—G. Martel Hall, a native of
Nacogdoches, Texas, and an
executive at the National City
bank at New York, who es-
caped from Peipiag on May
31, has arrived in Chungking
in good health after walking
more than 200 miles through
Japanese-held territory and
thence through Shanai pro-
vince.
Hall, 48, fled from Peiping
with the aid of Chinese guer-
rillas and spent several
months with group* of the
Chinese 18th group (Com-
munist) army, which are car-
rying on continuous warfare
against the Japanese through-
oat North China.'
Hall said he spent three
months in a Chinese guerilla
headquarter* only eight miles
from a Japanese fortress and
that the Chinese fighter* were
giving a good account of
themselves despite complete
lack of modem equipment.
The Chinese, he said, are cap-
turing hundreds of rifles and
other guns from the Japanese
and converting them to their
own ate.
Hall raid Japanese military
authorities throughout the oc-
cupied areas-of North China
were doing their utmost to re-
cruit “slave bettotioas” of
Chinese workers for mines in
Manchuria and Mongolia.
Li an effort to‘force the Chi-
nese to come into recruiting
center* ti>* Japanese are lay-
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Farm Mobilization For War
Last Tuesday, January 12th, was designated
as “Farm Mobilization Day,” and President
Roosevelt and others proclaimed to the farm-
er* of this nation that their part in this war is
i to produce food and more food. We were
; told that the production of food is just as im-
portant in this war as the production of planes
and tanks and ships and guns. FOOD IS THE
FARMERS’ WEAPON IN THIS WAR.
We know our farmers will come to the fore
as in the past, . and do their part nobly.
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mand of die reliable farmers of our trade ter-
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