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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1944
Page
4
Notice warns that all entertainments box suppers and similar benefits with admission fees will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials resolutions of respect and related notices also incur charges.
Publisher Glenn Doss announces subscription at 1.50 yearly payable in advance. The paper offers prompt corrections for any erroneous reflections about persons, firms, or corporations appearing in its columns.
Lt Gen. Brehon Somervell, commander of the Army Service Forces, visits Texas and articulates broad backing for the Red Cross. He calls its work essential and says it offers mercy and kindness at war, aiding training camps, hospitals, battlefields, prisoners, and soldiers' families, notably supplying blood plasma.
Robert E. Hannegan, new chairman of the national committee, spoke before more than a thousand Democrats in Dallas. He urged party unity and organization, praised Texas as a Democratic stronghold, and warned that Republican hopes rest on unsettled wartime restrictions and weak platforms. He suggested Willkie or Stassen as possible nominees, noting their lack of forward programs. The address aims to energize the campaign and push both parties toward constructive postwar planning.
Patriotism grips the Liles family of Lewis County as 13 Kentucky riflemen join the army. Granville and Rev. John Liles, aged 74 and 71, spearhead a clan that includes five sons in service and two grandsons, with prayers for safe returns and a vow to fight for rights and country. The piece also notes a separate FBI-verified case of Reed stealing vacuum cleaners, later confirmed as truthful.
Arthur B. Reed, 37, held on $2,000 bail in Newark New Jersey on a charge of stealing government property. Authorities say he hoarded 110 vacuum cleaners with a plan to gain a corner on the market.
The War Department authorizes a POW camp at the Denison Dam site. German prisoners from Tishomingo Oklahoma will be moved to sod slopes to curb erosion and will assist in cleanup after construction.
Arkansas Attorney General says marriages performed about ten years ago in Crawford County by Rev. B. E. Swiggart were illegal due to missing filed credentials. Swiggart, now in Enid, Oklahoma, sought the AG opinion.
Raleigh W. Spurlock, 21, jailed 30 days after pleading guilty to battery for following, grabbing, and kissing a woman in Bostonia. He claimed in Ohio such behavior was tolerated, and Municipal Judge Eugene Daney Jr. noted the difference in San Diego. The story ends with an odd line about a fearless domesticated cat.
Flint report outlines Palace Corp postwar plan to mass produce fully furnished five room homes. Buyers order by mail or telephone and move in within hours after delivery. Additional factories planned in Texas and California to meet demand.
Mrs Zofia Czechon was ordered to pay 1000 marks or face three months in prison after her dog growled at Col Richard Kunats German dog. The Nazi court in Plock found she raised her dog with hatred for everything German despite Kunats dog being quiet and well bred.
Albany New York three weeks old William L Brunelle III was flown 2500 miles from Childress Texas to New York City where his father Aviation Cadet William L Brunelle Jr waited. His mother Rose E Thomas Granville died eight hours after his birth at Childress Hospital.
Six boilers in the Interborough subway powerhouse were damaged by two 37 mm shells fired accidentally from a merchant ship in New York harbor. It marked the third wartime accidental shelling in the city, with previous incidents near Staten Island and a March blast that chipped the Equitable Life Building cornice.
Texas total 6,373,320 copies of War Ration Book 4 distributed by the Office of Price Administration. Harris County tops Texas counties with 615,209 copies, followed by Dallas 452,361, Bexar 369,468, Tarrant 272,992, Travis 103,287, and Jefferson 108,582. National total reaches 128,760,419 with Book 4.
Wisconsin woman seeks divorce from a retired naval officer husband who makes her sleep in a hammock and has fallen to the floor 16 times in 23 years. Chicago case features a wife who claims her husband turned crime habit into nightly role play forcing her to lie as a corpse. Michigan wife sues after husband gifts saxophones to five stepchildren. Oklahoma case notes a husband marking the wife’s shoe soles with chalk to catch her steps.
A husband drove past the couple’s residence in a car equipped with a public-address system and roared a chilling message that he would not be home that night, calling it final.
The piece discusses how crowd circumstances shape honesty. Cousin Henry, once far from virtuous, becomes markedly honest after stealing Julia from her first husband and facing severe punishment. Julia’s actions weigh on him to refrain from further theft, while other snippets mention economical wife behavior and a departed husband’s silence.
In camouflage logic the zebras stripes help conceal the animal among grasses and jungle patterns blur shapes. The text compares natural patterns to ship painting to obscure outlines in varied environments.
The article explains how ship camouflage uses colors in grouped patterns to blend with the sea and reduce visibility. It notes that blotches may vanish at half the range of solid paint, and that invisibility is impractical against submarines with hydrophones, so camouflaging aims to be hard to hit once located. It also includes a note from The Sun inviting reader submissions.
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