Mexia Weekly Herald, The (Newspaper) - August 14, 1942, Mexia, Texas L ALL THE NEWS FOR ALL Of THE PEOPLE PHIL GENERAL INSURANCE The Mexia Weekly Herald PUBLISHED FOR THE OF THE RICH WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN THE WHAT DO YOU DROP US A CARD SO WE HAT BETTER PLEASE YOU VOL MEXIA TEXAS FRIDAY AUG 14 1942 Marines In NUMBER 33 Isles Russian Resistance Checks Nazi Advance MOSCOW Aug 13 vices from the devastated north Caucasus indicated today that fening Kussian resistance has checked the Germans al -all points except the area where they apparently are trying to drive over the rugged mountains to the Black Sea noon communique announced a German advance on the side of the front which is some miles northwest of the great industrial city of Stalingrad But offsetting the advance the Russians drove into German lines northeast and Mass Killing of Dutch Hostages Is Nazi Threat improved their positions the com said Generally il WHS reported German wedges into Soviet defenses around skaya and were ing a costly hammering from iet and fierce tacks dispatches saij ever that the Germans seemingly with heavy reinforcements hail increased the ferocity of their forts to crash through Lo grad The Germans were losing sands of men nnd many tanks and planes and gaining little in the areas of Krasnodar and Maikop each of which is about CD miles British Bomb Mainz Center Second Time from the Black Sta dis- patches reported Large Force Takes Part in Attack LONDON Aug 13 strong force of British bombers hammered the important German industrial and communications center of last night for thu second consecutive night Only in the area of Some 500 planes took part in Tuesday night's raid Last night's wrs believed to be no smaller -s Airfields in the low countries some 75 miles southeast of j x u -i t- i i attacked 175 miles from the oil fielas i Five bombers were missing of Grozny were the Germans The aii and storming ahead at their rate former In the Krasnodar an unus People NOW lually fierce battle was said a few German bombers over England and Scotland the night a few under Arrest LONDON Aug 13 man authorities in Holland today threatened a wholesale execution of Dutch hostages to of whom are reported under arrest unless the population surrenders those responsible for the wrecking of a Nazi troop train and the at- tempted destruction of several radio stations Thus fat the Germans have re- from reprisal of hostages in Holland although there have been many killings in France Czechoslovakia Jugoslavia and other occupied countries The Aneta Dutch news agency along a river presumably the the London urea where they caused Soviet artillery and aircraft hurled masses of Germans into the river The fighting was now m the rough foothills of the Caucasian mountains the advantages of tank were diminishing and the Germans were fighting conditions naturally adapted to the tactics of the tough soldiers of the north Caucasus Massing their and ed vehicles Germans ed in lull strength near kovski The Russians threw in heavy tanks and dive bombers which drove the enemy back with heavy reported that German authorities Fighting was spreading on the Voronezh front on the stretches of the Don South of Voronezh Hungarian forces at- tacked 15 times a day with considerable panzers and and some villages changed hands several times U S Fighters Bomb Jap Point suffering from invasion were taking stern a- gainst any Dutch uprising in event of an allied invasion of Western Europe A siries of new decrees was said to have been issued designed to tighten control over the Dutch ilian population The German troop train loaded 1 with soldiers was wrecked last 1 Friday and the Nazis have an- that unless those UNITED STATES AIR FORCK sible are by HEADQUARTERS China Aug jow night hostages will be ls fighter planer carried out a highly successful attack Tuesday on in northern Honan province and returned to their base without loss it was revealed today in a communique of Lieut Gen Joseph W Stilwell The planes dropped high ex- and incendiaries all of which landed within the the communique said ed It WJS rot clear whether the threat implied the Execution of all the to hostages re- ported to be held by the Germans DALLAS Tex Aug 13 An army bomber named Texas I O O F roon may be dropping bombs on Berlin or Tokyo ine to plans made by Odd Fellow leaders the first air raid casualties since July 30 The communique cited a small number of casualties some in the greater London apen to authoritative reports three were killed and injured in one building struck by a n the northern outskirts of don The German today ad- mitted the second mid on buildings had been aged in residential and fires of the preceding night had been r kindled The Germans claimed four downed With its second visit to Mainz the RAF returned to its of concentrating attacks on a single city until it is pulverized The effectiveness of this method was demonstrated by the loss of only planet The force which out Tuesday night's raid on Mainz lost 16 While the term strong force has been used to describe raiding of varying was no doubt that last night's toll of five repi a small pel cent of thp planes employed wa as an indication the defenses had un- been hard first Inn and were tillable to offer us men 1000 Vi Grain Saccharin Tablets Dorothy Gray Cologne LYSOL SHAMPOO FITCH'S SHAMPOO 1 PINT Wine of Cardui Miles Nervine Beauty Lotion India Reported Growing More Quiet Today Sister of Nehru Is Put in Jail Aussies Win Small Battle in New Guinea i -t I 1 Support Ground Troop Action GEN DOUGLAS UR'S HEADQUARTERS ia Aug 13 gle forces have won a potentially important if small scale the interior of New Guinea the cloud shrouded Owen Stanley mountains dispatches from an Ad- base said today i They were aided by Bell cobra fighter planes which for the first time in the Pacific as bombers each carrying a medium wieght bomb The Japanese had moved inland from their base the north coast to take Kokoda and its flying field at the northern side of the mountains Three Australian combat parties were carefully organized and sent in to attack them Advancing from tree to tree the Australians took six hours to fight their way through yards of a rubber plantation They relieved Australian patrols which had been surrounded were in urgent danger and theta started extensive harassing tions against all the Japanese they could find As the harassing the went over the mountains and roared into tion Shrieking down on Kokoda vily luges in they destroyed Itie house of the resident officer who now in the army marked the site of his home on a map for them as the No 1 get in the area The result of the triple patrol operation was that the entire anese force in the Kokoda area wus trapped the first patrol which had retired west of Kokoda and the one which took Kokoda on one side and the trol which had seized the eastern road strip on the other The Japanese dispersed into tht brush Today's War Map Today's war map the four fields of operations of the United Nations in the South ic 1 Marines reported holding beaches on 3 islands in the Solo mon group 2 U S pilots get 7 Jap planes 3 Allies reportedly win Kokoda airfield 4 Allied bombers blast Jap held islands NEA American Fighter Forces Flying on European Front Germans Claim Damaging U S Carrier Wasp Also Claim 19 British Ships Hit MEXIA BOMBAY Aup 13 dia was reported growing mme quiet but several new out- breaks police at jailed the sister of leader Pandit Nehru An official announcement said that Pandit sister of the leader and minister foi thr United Provinces had been taken into Mere than 70 have been killed in Indian far A hite tabulation showed that 32 have m Bombay 300 arrested In jonJon the India office re- that in the past 24 houra conditions in Bombay and old Delhi been much The India office said that T Bengal Punjab and have been 2nd th t excitement seems 1 la rn outbreak at killed a 61 i including a judge and some polica were injured LONDON Aug 13 The German radio claimed tonight that the American aircraft carrier Wasp has been heavily damaged and set afire and 19 British shifs sunk or damaged including Iwo and three cruisers in Axis or a big Allied convoy in the western ranean The Geiman claim contained in j special broadcast communique of the Gernian high command said the bulk of the British ranean fleet had suffered heavy damage in the battle still underway The Bri ish previously acknowledged the sinking of the aircraft carrier Eagle claimed the of one is U-boat in the Mediterranean but made no further comment on the Axis claims The Wasp a ton carrier with a capacity of 72 to 84 pi Mies last ran the Mediterranean gauntlet and succeeded in ing reinforcements of fighter planes to besieged Malta AUSTIN Tex Aug 13 Fire deaths in Texas passed the 200 mark for the vear durins July State Fire er Marvin Hall said today There were 13 fire deaths in July and a revised tabulation a total of 202 from fire for 1942 A large number of these could have been Hall said LONDON Aug 13 ican fighter forces it was an- today have gone into tion on the European front ing out 31 separate operations in the fast 48 hours It was the first occasion that Electra Mayor Urges Oil Men Support Allred O'Daniel and Allred Continue Heated Speeches By UNITED PRESS T Leo Moore Electra mayor has thrown his to V A lived in the run-off race for he Democratic U S senatorial nomination Moore who pot aVout votes in the Inly 25 voting for shoi t lei m on the Texas Railroad oil men of the state to against Sen W bid a full in the upper house Our most important oil matters to kill by his opposition the for a linp iron Texas to the eastern Moore said of his action the war effort is im- l.cdtd and arc re- The nil foi tlie next tc be operated cut of Texas oilmen tn vote to a senator up theve who is willing to operate foi Hid benefit American air action against the continent has been ed on a full-time basis American heavy bombers a Cairo communique said set afire three Axis cruisers in the Greek harbor of A British radio report said ican flying resses are ready at any time to assutrit on the German homeland The American fighter operations weie carried out in cooperation with the Royal Air Force and a U S spokesman indicated that thus far they are largely in the ture of training American airmen in actual combat conditions T The American fighter squadrons joined in harassing the French coast in patrolling the waters off the shore and in rising to intercept marauding German planes The communique said that in the from August 11 th to August 13th American fighters made three operational flights over the French roast and 20 ties in the sea area around hied Europe In addition said the communique American participated in eight interception operations a- gainst Nazi planes heading fm Britain The communique for the first time that air against Euio.c have been placed a hour basis The American air pation July 4 when a force of six American light ers joined the RAF in attacks on N'zi positions in France and land Japanese Battle Desperately to Hold off Marines AUCKLAND New Zealand Aug 13 marines it was understood today are engaged in an intense battle to break the resistance of Japanese contesting their operations in the Solomon Islands According to these reports bitter land fighting is in and the Japanese are resisting strongly However it was assumed here that the landings by American forces include not larger the Island of Florida and similar tions on the atolls of and It also was be- that the Americans have won positions on the big Island of Guadalcanal More Trainees Are Wanted for Aircraft Course GEN MacARTHUR'S QUARTERS Australia Aug 13 optimism over the American assault on the Solomon Islands rose today on a basis of reports that the U S marines have been strongly reinforced and have improved their footholds on three or possibly four of the lands The reports were broadcast by the Australian radio and were at- to a correspondent with the Allied general headquarters The Japanese grip on Tulagi Day and Night Classes to Begin Monday Two shifts of trainees will begin classes next Monday at the aircraft metal working school in Mexia it these is believed to was today following a have been broken in fierce fighting meeting Wednesday of the local and the Japanese were said to have been driven out of many defensive positions in hand-to-hand combat committee with the teachers of the courses and Fred Temple of Waco district supervisor Members of the It is believed the original I committee are Wright Kincheloe ing party has been strongly forced and there seems to have been considerable improvement in the past 24 the Australian radio said On Guadalcanal Island reports said the American marines are driving for an airdrome site re- the best in the islands Whether the site has been fully de- by the Japanese is not known So important did the battle loom in the minds of Australians that it was believed the might at any time start a mad dog at- tack on the north coast of ia as a diversion aiming at the great Allied base of Darwin Army May Take over Strikebound War Work Plant Allred Tyler the mail has boon to Hie federal dis- I iim proud I WLS a and M no man in Allred suid referring tn hib froin a draft job to go into the in that vur It it no new for me to he called i yes Allred uiM Ins throughout the President culled for in the other wai and I enlisted in the ravy I'm ing any credit for it I did just what or Uher ts boys did But I'm proud that I was a yet man ard not a no in That war in this war Allred continued to discuss his platform throughout the territory where O'Daniel ran far of Hm in the July 25 voting O'Daniel was in the Panhandle yesterday for i flood of Continued on Page U S Bombers Raid Greek Harbor CAIRO Aua 13 force of United States bombers by tamed out aii attack on the Greek harbor of Tuesday it was announced Four enemy cruisers moored in harbor m tho Greek Peloponnesus Peninsula a- bout 350 miles across the ranean from the African coast were the targets of the Two direct hits scored MP one of the cruisers resulting in a bio it stated It was the attack of the bombers on Greek ports although American air force squadrons based n North Africa have Italian fleet units anil Italian convoys in the eastern Mediterranean times BAYONNE N J Aug 13 at the Bayonne plant of General Cable tion voted today to remain on despite pressure of the Wai Labor Board and parent and local unions of the American tinn of Labor Frank Evans Jones O B Teer and L W Sawyer Monday's beginning classes will be made up of a day shift ing from 9 a m until 4 p m un- der J Hill night shift operating from 7 p ir until 1 a m J J Beer in- Many more applicants for the training are wanted Frank liams of Mexia Public Schools sponsors of the course said today He emphasized that women as well as men arc for the training District Supervisor Temple ing women as well as men to take the training stressed the fact that the purpose of the course is to teach aircraft jobs to people who will actually go to work in plane factories There is no compulsion but students who complete the course are expected to accept jobs in plane tion There is a great need for more plane construction workers he pointed out and that is the reason for establishment of training schools such as the one in Mexia course is not meant for people who WASHINGTON Aug 1C William II Davis oC the War Labor Board said today that unless there is an early nf the strike at the tral Cable Corporation plant at Bayonne N J the next step would be to use federal to put the plant back pre- caution Approximately workers at the Bayonne plant on strike sines Monday in defiance of the War Labor Boaid and parent and cal unions of the American of Labor were scheduled to vote on to return to their jobs Davis expressed hopo that would return want to take it as a j The idea they emphasize is to provide trained workers now ed for war woik The classes aie i yt filled Williams said today He urged more interested people to for the course at the local U S Employment Service office on Sherman street Rails to Go to War DALLAS Tex 13 foi abandoned streetcar rails probably be out satin by the WPA Works Director J G Rollins I said j The city expects to get enough I from sale of the scrap metal to pay j cost of replacing paving There i are several hundred tons of old rails in Dallas streets Absorption area of the inner surface of the lungs is about 50 j times the external area of the J body Band Concert to Be Presented Here Saturday The Mexia Summer Band un- der Director Robert L will another public open air patriotic concert Saturday evening at o'clock it was announced today The concert will be held on man street between Commerce and Main and the public is invited to attend Patriotic band numbers and cal solos will be featured on the said today Miss Pollard and G E Jimmy Flair vill be tured as singing popular war SAME SPEED 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