The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 187, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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msolid&ted with Daily
Gazette July 28,1924.
Qtye Hang jX cwS'Sekijram
The Oldest Business
Establishment in
Hopkins County.
44—NO. 187.
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1942.
BUY WAR BONDS and STAMPS
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
6 Allied Vessels Sunk!
ecisive Battle
ears In Tunisia
lit* Needed A Lift
Julies Converge on Bomb-Battered Axis
Stronghold; 6Enemy Merchant Ships
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Bunk in Harbor of Tripoli
(By Aaaoeiated Preaa)
t London, Dec. 4.—A decisive battle for Bizerte and
‘Mis was apparently under way today,, with British and
rican troops converging on the bomb-battered Axis
igholds. . •
Fierce struggles was believed being waged along the
•owing arc of defenses which the Axis has flung out
mdward sides of these two Tunisian towns,
A German counter-attack, according to the M-oroc-
adio, was repulsed at Pont De Fahs, thirty miles, south
unis, by French troops, which captured the place sev-
£i days ago.
Meanwhile, the Allied westward drive from Libya
still paused near El Agheila.
^.United States bombers have destroyed or damaged
smerchant ships in the Tripoli harbor. _ r
SALTILLO WOMAN
COMPLETES 10 YEARS
AS NEWS REPORTER
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1943 program Transports Also
Lost Off Africa
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L indon, Dec. 3.— Superbly-
lit pped and desert-toughened
irican streamlined armored
es spearheaded Allied action
; urling back the heaviest Ger-
counterattack of the Tunisi-
^ ampaign aa Allied troops
sed forward on Bizerte and
In under the protection of in-
ning aerial forays.
' dispatch from headquarters
he Allied forces in North Af
ic
quoted a h«d(fiarter« Wpokes-
‘ as saying the Americans
" ed a big part in repulsing the
ulT\Bn counterattacks at Tebour-
a rail junction within thirty-'
^ miles of Bixerte.
I merican medium bombers, es-
II ed by P-38 fighters, assaulted
° Tunis airdrome in the fifth
ed raid on that field in forty-
• hours. At least twelve Axis
hers and transports were do-
yed on the ground, the pilots
Iftcd.
ith the decisive battle fit Bi-
and Tunis thus joined, Al-
.jeadquarters reported the
liiam, had suffered heavy loss-
3 DIE IN
GREENVILLE
AIR CRASH
Lt. Bill Reed, flight instructor
at Majors Field, Greenville, and
a frequent visitor in Sulphur
Springs, was killed Wednesday
night when his plane collided
head-on in mid-air with the Rhip
of an RAF flier from the Terrell
airfield. An enlisted man from
Majors Field and the British pilot
also died in the crash.
The unconfirmed report reach
ed The News-Telegram through
W. I. Weldon, close friend of
Lieutenant Reed, who received
the death message by telephone
early Thursday. Pending official
notification of the next of kin, no
confirmation of the report Could
be obtained.
The American plane was
thought to be one of the trainer
type seen over Sulphur Springs
frequently as the Greenville fliers
use the auxiliary field northwest
of here a great deal.
The Hopkins County Echo and
The Daily News-Telegram takes
pleasure this week in saluting its
s correspondent, Mrs. Herbert
Avaritt, of Saltillo, who has com-
pleted ten years as news reporter
for the two papers.
During these ten years, Mrs.
Avaritt has not failed to send in
the news from Saltillo each week,
although,.a few of her letters have
missed train connections and fail-
ed to arrive, which was not her
fault.
Ten years Ms a long time and
the 520 letters Mrs. Avaritt has
written have given the readers of
The Echo and News-Telegram
more than enough pleasure and
information to compensate for the
trouble and time it required to
gather and report the happenings
of the friendly little community
over on the Eastern edge of Hop-
kins County.
Congratulation!, Mrs. Avaritt,
and may you continue to favor
we with your good “newsy” items
each week.
No limit will bo placed on the
amount of terracing which may
be done by any individual farmer
under the 194.'! AAA program, it
has been announced by John P.
McKenzie, County AAA chair-
man.
Any soil conservation practice
carried out during December will
lie paid for under the 1943 Agri-
cultural Conservation Program.
Under the 1943 plan the AAA
will pay for all terracing done on
all farms in Texas. This differs
from previous years in which pay
was not received for practices
carried out in excess of the soil
building allowance for individual
farms.
Albert H. Seifert, 18-year-old weighing 70 pounds and stands 4
feet 5 inches tall, signs his draft questionnaire at a local board in
Pittsburgh, Pa. The local board happens to be a south side police
station and officer P. J. Kelly had to hold him to enable him to sign
his draft papers. (NEA Telephoto). _
COUSIN OF MRS.
ELMER NELSON IS
KILLED IN ACTION
Red Ski Troops
Hurl Nazis Back
(Hy Aaaoeiated Preaa)
London, Dec. — The Admiralty announced today
that the Allies lost sixteen naval vessels, including the
small aircraft carrier Avenger, during the AEF-led land-
ings in North Africa, and the toll, officially described in
the House of Commons was considerably smaller than ex-
pected. i.v—‘--i
Five United States naval transports also were sunk
in the operations, the United States Navy Department has
announced, adding that three other transports, a destroy-
er and tanker were damaged.
These announcements came as further blows were re-
ported against the Mediterranean supply lines of the
Axis.
The announcement came as an
answer from Administrative Offi-
cer B. F. Vance to County Judge
W. B. Kitts’ request for an exten-
sion of time for earning soil
building allowances in the 1942
Hopkins AAA program. Delay in
securing parts for tractors and
drag lines was holding up some of
the soil building programs.
TIRE INSPECTION
APPLICANTS ARE
CALLED TO MEET
FAIL TO LOCATE
MYSTERY SHIPS
OFF CALIFORNIA
A meeting of all service station
operators who expect to be ap-
pointed tire inspectors for Hop-
kins County will be held in the
District Courtroom Friday at 10
a.m. Earl Oliver, district tire ex-
aminer from Deport, will instruct
the local men in correct tire in-
spection.
All information necessary to
, carry on the periodic tire inspec-
tions required in the mileage ra-
tioning program will be given
service station operators at this
time.
Official appointment of the tire
W, B. ONLEY IS
NAMED DISTRICT
MASONIC DEPUTY
(By AiuritUd fnml
,, ashington, Dec. 8--— Liberia,
the strategic west coast of Af-
, has granted air base righta to
United States for duration 6f
war.
i he agreement give* the United
ites the right to build, control,
•rate and defend air ports in
ieria.
FORMER LOCAL
RESIDENT DIES
Mrs. Elmer Nelson received
woixl Thursday that her cousin,
Thomas Glen Slough, of Cooper,
had been killed in action in the
Solomon Islands. He was a mem-
ber of the crew of the San Fran-
cisco.
MARINE PATROLS
WIPE OUT JAPS ON
SOLOMON ISLANDS
XMAS TURKEY
BUYING TO OPEN
ABOUT DEC, 5
Mrs. W. B. Loving received a
message Thursday morning from
W. Perry Miller, of Muskogee,
Okla., stating his sister, Miss Mat-
tie Miller, passed away Wednes-
day night at her home there.
The deceased, a former resident
of Sulphur Springs, had a host of
friends here who will be grieved
to learn of her death.
IBy AuoAmUd Com)
Washington, Dec. 3.— Marine
patrols attacking enemy forces on
Guadalcanal have wiped out an-
other fifty-five Japanese in . the
Solomon Islands and captured a
quantity of arms and ammunition,
the Navy announced today.
Daylight attacks by Army anJ
Navy aircraft continued to haras:*
enemy positions on the island, the
communique said.
a Axis Vessels
Sunk By British
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London!* Dec!"^!—Th Admlrat-
announccd today a British na-
force pounced on a Tunisia-
und Axis convoy Tueeday and
„k four transport# and two de-
■oyers.
The British destroyer Quentin
bsequently wa* hit during the
tack by Axis torpedo planes and
»8 sunk.
SHIP OUTPUT NEARS
7 MILLION TONS
Weather
East Texas—Shower* in the ex-
eme northeaet portion. Colder
might.
Wert Texas—Colder from Pe-
jg Valley weitward. Eleewherc
,t the same as previous U
ALLIED FORCES
CLOSING IN ON
BUNA OUTSKIRTS
The local Christmas turkey
market is expected by product-
buyers in Sulphur Springs to
open about Saturday, December
5. Although no quotations have
been released, buyers predicted a
high price for top grade birds.
According to buyers’ estimates,
there will be slightly more tur-
keys available for sale on the De-
cember market than on the No-
vember Thanksgiving market, but
still fewer than the unusual num-
ber demands*!. Many turkey grow-
ers held th.Vbutfi for the Christ-
mas market, and other flocks are
just now maturing.
(By Aaaocuxiea Praaa)
Moscow, Dec. 3.—Russian ski
troops pressed the Nazis back
west of Moscow today while be-
tween the Don and Volga rivers
the Red Army steadily closed the
trap on Stalingrad's besieger?
from recaptured heights.
Battlefront dispatches said Ger-
mans are dying at tku rate of 1
000 a day as ski Jfljpftpers urmed
with tommy-guiRwOashed with
Nazi Alpinist reinforcements south
of Leningrad and. west of Mos-
cow. ,
On the Stalingrad front the
Germans were resisting savagely
(By A*Bonated Praaa)
San Francisco, Dec. 3.—The
Twelfth Navy District said today
that a “large number of unidenti-
fied surface vessels” hud been re- , -------- -re -
ported 450 miles off the Califor- (inspectors for this county will not
nia coast, but a thorough search * be made until later, but will be
of the area “failed to confirm made in sufficient time for mo-
W. B. Onley, Sulphur Springs,
was named aa district deputy for
District Seven of the Grand
Lodge of Texas Masons at the an-
nual convention in Waco Wednes-
day. He was named by -Lieift.
Rogers Kelley,' newly elected
Grand Master of the organization.
Mr. Onley is Past Grand Master
of the Sulphur Springs Masonic
Lodge, and has been an outstand-
ing Mason for many years.
Always holders of a very re-
sponsible position, the 121 district
deputies of Texas will this year
have heavier duties than ever be-
fore because of the fact that Kel-
ley is in the Army Air Corps.
their presence.”
JAPS CLAIM
I ALLIED
SHIPS SUNK
(By AutcUUt Bruy)
Washington, Dec. 3.—American
shipbuilders move nearer Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s 1942 objective
of 8,000,000 tons of new cargo
vessels, the Maritime Commission
announced, by delivering eighty-
four vesaels totaling 891,700
deadweight tons in November.
The montn’s shipyard produc-
tion raised the year’s total to 626
vessals of 6,890,000 tons, leaving
1,110,000 tons to be delivered in
December if the President’s blue-
print for victory goal is to be met.
(By Pry a)
MacArthur’a Headquarters. Aus-
tralia, Dec. 3.— American and
Australian troops have infiltrated
the outskirts of Buna and others
are closing in rapidly on the vil-
lage from the northwest, driving
the Japanese into a narrowing
pocket of stebl where they rrc be-
ii-g hammered relentlessly by ar-
tillery and planrtA the Allied com-
mand announced Thursday.
A Japanese naval force trying
to land reinforcementa for the
lottaring defenses on the north-
western New Guinea coast was
turned back by Allied bombers
Wednesday and airmen of Gener-
al Douglas MacArthur’s command
shot down twenty-three enemy
planes—their heaviest bag of tiie
fierce battle which Thursday en-
tered its twentieth day.
The Japanese defenders of Buna
HOUSE PASSES
BILL TO REDEFINE
FARM PARITY
torists to secure inspection reports
before the January 31 deadline.
sian onslaught went into its third
week slowed but not stopped.
(By Aaaortated Preaa)
Washington, D.C., Dec. 3.—The
House by unanimous consent to-
day passed legislation redefining
agricultural parity to include the
costs of all farm labor.
President Roosevelt expressed
their fight for life as the Rus-\ opposition against the step when
M in*,, ti„ third nnti-ioflation nrooosais were he-
(By Aaaooated Preaa)
Moscow, Dec. 3.— The
Red
Army punched more holes in the
German lines between Velikie
Luki atu^Jj^hev on the central
front Wednesday and captured a
strategic height southwest of Sta-
lingrad in a continuing joint of-
fensive that left more than 3.801)
dead Nazis in its wake, the Rus-
sians announced Thursday.
The total of Nazi killed and
anti-inflation proposals were be-
fore Congress two months ago.
The legislation now goes to the
Senate.
(Continued on page four)
(By Auoclaltd PrutI
Tokio, Dec. 3.—Imperial head-
quarters* announced today the
sinking of a Uhited Nations bat-
tleship, a cruiser and two de-
stroyers the night of November
,30 off (juadalcanal.
The Japanese asserted they also
set fire to two other destroyer*-
and acknowledged loss of one of
their own.
ONLY ONE STATE
AMENDMENT WINS
BROTHER OF MRS.
CLARENCE MORGAN
•'KILLED IN ACTION
RAF Renews
Night Raids
On Germany
PLANES DO 725 MPH
IN POWER DIVES
•4
London, Dec. 3.—The RAF, re-
newing its night assaults on Ger-
many after a lapse of ten days,
struclj last night at Frankfurt and
several other objectives in west-
ern Germany, the Air Ministry
announced today.
(By AiueUutd Prut)
Farmingdale, N.Y., Dec. 8.—»
Two youthful Army lieutenants
have accomplished the virtually
impossible by diving powerful
fighter planes at 725 miles per
hour—more than 12 miles a min-
ute.
They hurtled through space at
a speed greater thtfn that of
sound, so rapidly in fact that the
sticks of their Republic P-47
Thunderbolts “froze” and they
had to rely upon mechanical de-
vices to right their ships.
Bundles For ihe Boys!
Mrs. Clarence Morgan received
word Thursday from her mother,
in Dallas, that her brother, Cecil
E. Lamb, stationed on the San
Francisco, had been killed in line
of duty somewhere in the South
Pacific.
(By Aaaoeiated Prasa)
Austin, Texas, Dec. 3.—Official
returns of the November 3 gen-
eral .election show that only the
antideficit amendment to the Tex-
as Constitution was adopted, the
state canvassing board announced
Wednesday. •
The amendment to forbid ap-
propriations by the Legislature
without certification from the
Comptroller that funds are in
sight to meet the obligation re-
ceived a 90,418 to 72,816 favor-
able vote.
Last reported incomplete, un-
official returns had indicated that
another of the five proposed
amendments, that to pay $76,000
for a building at John Tarieton
College, received a small majority
but the official returns from all
254 counties showed 86,868 votes
against the amendment and 84,-
013 for it V
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Bundles of United States currency that goes to the entire enlisted personnel at the big Army Air
nance ofifeer, seated, starts proceeding* by drawing the money from a bank. Armed escort «w
that nobody interferes. (Air Corps Photo from NEA).
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Bagwell, Eric. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 187, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1942, newspaper, December 3, 1942; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth828662/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.