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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1944
Page
1
Disjointed notes recount Allied advances in the Saar basin amid war. Mentions Ravenna captured by British forces and November tax collections totals and forecasts. Assessor-Collector reports month results, discounts, and year-to-year comparisons.
Lt General Ira Eaker heads the Allied air forces planning a winter campaign to bomb German targets from Italy to France and the Balkans. He forecasts continuous daylight operations with radar equipped heavies and anti-aircraft defenses. expects losses but aims to keep U S losses low while striking railways and critical lines through the Brenner Pass and other routes.
Calves 1400 head sold across all classes with good beef cows and slaughter steers in fed ranges. Stocker calves and heifers traded slowly with prices noted for various weight categories from about 850 to 190 pounds. Top lots reached around 19 dollars per hundredweight with lighter slaughter stock and stockers showing steady buyer interest.
Pfc. Richard A. Barton Jr., a 1942 Bonham High School graduate, recalls the Peleliu assault with vivid detail. He describes ships firing at night, first wave landing on Sept 15, brutal wounds, amputations, and Marines brought aboard for medical care. Barton serves in the Marines and is recovering in a California naval hospital.
Warrant Officer K F P Estes in the Pacific writes his wife Mary Kate Estes about a 15 second earthquake near Island Y. He notes the blast-like sound and the dry spell of four days, adding Thanksgiving dinner details and a lighthearted take on wartime life.
Lt. Dean Copeland former flight instructor at Jones Field now with the ATC visits Bonham on leave with his wife. He served in the China Burma India theater flying men and material over the hump for ten months.
Bonham faces a $160000 shortfall to meet the 6th War Loan quota as local leaders urge all residents to buy extra bonds. Meanwhile Oklahoma highway officials announced bids will be asked mid January to restore service across Lowell's Bluff Bridge on Texas 78 Oklahoma 299, a project cost projected at 300000 to 400000 with revetments and a pilot channel to return the river to the old path.
Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Army pushed 64 miles to the Austrian border and 122 miles from Vienna in western Hungary. More than 2,000 Germans and Hungarians were killed with 3,000 prisoners taken in three days, as the Red Army seized 100 plus communities along a 170 mile front between the Danube and Drava.
Paris dispatch reports American armored forces captured the village of Berstein southwest of Duren and within a mile of the Roer riverhead, advancing toward the upper Roer waters. The action comes as Allied troops press a broad assault in the area.
Amarillo papers publish four page engraved editions as union printers stay in continuous session over a new contract. Linotypes sit idle while publishers and union officials fail to reach an agreement. About 60 union members met yesterday to discuss proposed contract changes and had not adjourned by noon.
More than 550 Flying Fortresses and Liberators with 800 escort fighters hammered Berlin industrial targets and Munster rail yards in a new phase of the nonstop Allied air offensive against Germany.
Japanese invaders in Weichow province push north along the Kwangsi Kweichow railway to seven miles from Tubshan and near Weiyang, with Tokyo radio claiming advances. U.S. forces report a Japanese gunboat on the Yangtze as Burma road engineers, led by Col. Robert Seedrick, push to connect India supply bases with China.
First Lieutenant Donald J. Dufford of Grand Junction Colorado led a B 29 which rammed a Japanese fighter over the Na kajima factory Sunday. The bomber sustained engine and nacelle damage yet returned safely to base. The Japanese collided with another fighter and both went down.
Rain moves across East Texas this afternoon with partial cloud cover and cooler night conditions. Northwest areas fall near freezing tonight while Wednesday stays partly cloudy and cold with fresh to strong winds diminishing.
American destroyers in Ormoc Gulf off Leyte engaged three Japanese warships in a night action. One American destroyer was sunk likely by a mine or torpedoes while two enemy ships were sunk or damaged. Catalina aircraft rescued many survivors as daylight revealed further American casualties and continued air patrols.
A Stockholm dispatch quoted by the Daily Express claims Adolf Hitler is living at his Berchtesgaden mountain retreat shielded by artificial fog. The source said a foreign visitor described fighters forming a cloud screen whenever Allied planes approached Germany.
United Press reports distances to Berlin from major fronts. 296 miles from the western front, 309 miles from the eastern front, and 632 miles from the Italian front, with provisions for measurement reference points.
In Washington Secretary Claude Wickard outlined four postwar plans to stabilize southern agriculture and cotton. He urged parity pricing for domestically used cotton and options tying domestic prices to world rates, with potential direct payments to farmers investing in future development. Rep Stephen Pace warned without a solid program the cotton industry faces disaster.
Farmers in Fannin County will elect Agricultural Adjustment Administration committeemen and county delegates in a series of meetings from December 11 to December 15. Elections occur at 7 p.m. except Trenton and Savoy on Saturday at 2 p.m. Readers may join discussions on conservative practices for 1945 and production goals.
Adolf A. Berle said he has been offered another important post but will decide after returning to Washington. Berle heads the American delegation to the civil aviation conference in Chicago and did not specify the new position.
Chinese forces, likely units pulled from the Communist border zone in the northwest, have halted the Japanese drive in Kweichow for the moment, according to a Chinese communique from Chungking dated December 5.
American Third Army moved into the Saar basin driving near Saarbrucken and Saareguem, while Eighth Army reached Ravenna and captured Ruse and Godo in Italy. Greek political turmoil escalated with reports of Papandreou resignation and a general strike. Japanese warships reappeared near Leyte with a destroyer sunk and ships damaged. Heavy rains slowed Leyte ground operations.
Rain in Bonham for the 24 hour period ending at 8 a m totaled 1.02 inches. A light mist continued through the morning. The rain was fairly general over North Texas with clearing skies and cooler temperatures expected.
Fannin County bonds from the 6th War Loan received a push as Texas and Pacific allocated 90000 in bonds to the county. Shares distributed among Savoy Ector Bonham Dodd City Windom and Honey Grove with varied amounts. Ladonia reported no progress. several communities show good gains during the campaign.
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