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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1944
Page
4
Notice of entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees will be charged at regular rates. Memorials and resolutions of respect also charged. Publisher and editor commit to correcting any erroneous reflections upon persons or firms upon notification.
The Sun abandons informing registrants about status due to rapid shifts in selective service directives. The piece traces changing age brackets from 21 to 36, then to 28, then to 45, then to 38, and finally to under 26 with possible up to 30 for non war workers, warning readers not to count on a fixed rule and noting the possibility of shifts as time passes.
A serviceman keeps his personal watch to follow family farm life distant from the front. Five o'clock signals chores and milk, six o'clock means supper with Mom at the stove, teakettle singing, and the evening quiet as Dad reads the morning paper while Mom tends to chores.
A fragment from the Christian Science Monitor paints a scene of a soldier away from home, a pal resting by the hearth, and a message that duty keeps home close. The tone honors sacrifice and steady watch, urging perseverance in the face of distance.
The Dallas News argues Drew Pearson is justified in blaming military brass rather than the War Manpower Commission or the Selective Service for draft errors. It says the brass muddled policy, miscalculated needs, and allowed WMC and SS to shoulder public censure, with the President failing to curb overreach and a lack of clear draft policy amid wartime changes.
Texas Governor Coke Stevenson designates invasion day as a Day of Prayer for Texas to join fighting men in prayer. Churches to open their doors and businesses to allow employee participation as news of the invasion arrives. The proclamation, dated May 2 1944, urges the home front to unite in supplication for safety guidance endurance and victory.
Houston report says an 18 year old Negro received 500 stitches after a nightclub cutting at midnight Sunday. The man later left Jefferson Davis Hospital under his own power. Johnny Dewalt could not name the assailant to deputy sheriffs.
Foy O. Wileman and Amos E. Wilemon, owners of Good Luck Oil Co, pleaded guilty to three OPA gasoline ration violations. Each faces $500 fines after admitting to depositing 336 unissued ration coupons and delivering 1,680 gallons of gasoline for passenger cars. Judge William H. Atwell commented on employer responsibility for employee theft.
Dailey charged that coupons misled buyers by showing endorsed license numbers and names of states on 336 T coupons and 21 C-2 coupons for gasoline. Judge Atwell stressed wartime necessity of OPA controls, noting regulations limit liberties but are essential to win the war.
Public citation by the Grayson County Probate Court requires all interested parties in the J E C Skinner estate to appear May 5 1944 at Sherman Court House. Crawford Bunkley as administrator filed the final report and may be contested. The sheriff must publish this writ for ten days before return. H Grady Thompson Clerk. Iva Medlin deputy.
Senator W Lee O Daniel said he will not serve as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago under any circumstances. He labeled the convention as “all cut and dried” and opposed President Roosevelt for a fourth term. He suggested many qualified individuals could be president and that the vice presidency should go to the candidate with the most votes.
A Texas Democratic Party leader stated he is practically sure that O'Daniel would not be named a delegate to the convention under any conditions.
Washington reports more than two thousand enlisted men under thirty two have applied for infantry transfers since the Army opened the option last month. War Department says about two hundred bids arrive daily. transfers occur in grade with no pay loss.
In Maine, a newcomer to Summers from Houston interviews a longtime resident. Asked about local summers, the man jokes that this year he was drunk both days, illustrating the town's rough humor about its climate after the coldest summer on record in 1943.
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