News of our men as women in uniform
Reports from Whitewright and surrounding areas detail service members and families during wartime. Lieutenant Anna Benson moves from ensign to Navy nurse in Australia while Carl Pierson joins the Navy and heads to Dallas for training. Others receive furloughs, postings, or notices of transfers, with families hearing from sons in the Army Air Forces and Navy about training, deployments, and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. E. Benson
Anna J. Benson
Lieutenant Benson
Benson
Navy
Australia
Carl Pierson
W. M. Pierson
Dallas
Carl
Whitewright
Uncle Sam
Need of Dads in War Told To Congress
War Department officials urged Congress to allow compulsory assignment of men and women to war industries and to draft fathers arguing it is essential to winning the war. Lt. Gen. McNarney and Undersecretary Patterson testified that deferring fathers would hinder production and force drafting childless workers. Admiral King supported maintaining 1943 troop bases with potential increases for 1944, stressing risk to operations if numbers drop. Patterson called national service laws vital to swift victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Congress
Gravely
Joseph T. McNarney
Senate
House
Roosevelt-Churchill
Quebec
Robert P. Patterson
Ernest J. King
Naval Operations
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Patterson
Whitewright cotton ginned tops season half way mark
Up to Wednesday night Whitewright reports 1506 bales of cotton ginned, over half the season total. Weather aided harvest with corn mostly gathered and cotton opening early due to heat and drought. Cotton sold at 19.50 per bale and cottonseed at 55 per ton, higher than last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
Who Dares Not Buy Bonds Demands John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck laments the war effort and the toll of conflict from the docks of London. He questions why citizens would avoid lending their money to support the war, urging readers to consider who dares not to finance the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Steinbeck
Whitewright Schools To Open Monday Morning
Superintendent B R Caraway announces Whitewright Public Schools will open Monday morning with a full staff for a half day, noon dismissal. Summer renovations include interior painting and improved facilities. high school and grammar school faculty and bus drivers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. R. Caraway
Whitewright Public Schools
H. M. Gentry
Rex Cruse
Marion Felker
Kathryn Roddy
Lillian Neathery
Eva Williams
Sarah Kilgree
Lucyle Sanders
Nance Francis
Tom Bean
Nell Brown
Sallye Hamilton
Annabell Bedford
Arline Owens
Jimmie Lee Brown
C. C. Waldrop
Walter Jenkins
S. T. Stubblefield
Ernest Smith
Claud Dillon
Germans 50 to 60 called to army
German males born 1884 to 1893 must report for military duty immediately. They must register and bring their World War I records. Simultaneously large German cities will evacuate women and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Reich
Germany
Servicemen Favor Hometown Newspapers Say Librarian
Miss Alice J. Garwood of the Second Service Command notes servicemen most often request hometown papers as reading material. The New York branch library news cites the trend among troops seeking familiar local news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alice J. Garwood
Second Service Command
Library Book News
Garwood
Chaplain King Survives Near Battle Front in Italy
Lieut. Col. William E. King of Kansas City, a chaplain with the Fifth Army, returned from three days with a battalion partly cut off under fire. He escaped by hiding in an irrigation ditch and swimming 300 yards to safety, where a privates comment echoed the line I was 21 yesterday and last night's venture aged me 40 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Army
Italy
William E. King
Kansas City
King
Oil Test to Begin Near Whitewright Amid Drilling Move
Derrick and drilling gear moved two miles southeast of Whitewright for an oil test on the McCulloch block about 9 000 acres east and south of Whitewright. C C Thrasher of Henderson holds the drilling contract. H W Snowden of Dallas arranged it. Mrs Q M McCulloch of Ardmore owns the lease. test planned at the Mrs W H Wharton Ellis tract with a derrick to 3 500 feet. Locals anticipate progress after a prior nearby test yielded little.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
C. C. Thrasher
Henderson
H. W. Snowden
Dallas
Snowden
West Texas
Q. M. McCulloch
Ardmore
Okla
McCulloch
W. H. Wharton-Ellis
Tears of nine year old halt auction of pony
In Falls City Nebraska a nine year old boy cried during his pony’s sale as his parents moved to California. The auctioneer halted the bidding when the boy’s tears moved bidders to stop. Jim Shafer Sr. plans to haul the pony to the new home in California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falls City
Neb
Jim Shafer
Jim
Jim Bowers
Jim Shafer Sr
Jim Shafer Jr
California
Many Who Didn't Know It Had Touch Of Poliomyelitis
Dallas health official Dr. Joe M. Dewis said many summer poliomyelitis cases were mild and not recognized. He noted most do not reach paralysis and misidentified symptoms resemble a summer cold or food poisoning, yet still confer immunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Joe M. Dewis
City Health Department
Dowis
Wife and husband banter over aging and life expectancy
A light exchange between a wife and husband about living to a hundred. The wife questions her longevity while the husband jokes about slowing at forty. The quip reflects domestic humor on age and time.
Third of Whitewright War Bond Quota Sold
Forty thousand dollars in War Bonds have been sold in Whitewright since the Third War Loan drive began. The quota is 118,900 with about one third reached. A meeting will be called to launch an intensive person to person campaign to finish the remaining two thirds. Some workers progress varies, rural areas hindered by harvest, many buyers have used banks or post offices without solicitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
B. W. Newman
Newman
First National Bank
Post Office
Rotary Club Hears From Navy Radio Technician
M. F. Gillett a first class Navy radio technician spoke at the Rotary Club luncheon. He described ship types and shipboard duties during battle and discussed the anti submarine war while not revealing secrets. B W Newman urged support for the Third War Bond drive totaling 118900 for Whitewright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Fogle Gillett
R. A. Gillett
New York
M. F
Gillett
U. S. Navy
Rotary Club
Russell Summers
Navy
Atlantic
Uncle Sam
Rotarians
B. W. Newman
Whitewright
Newman
Lee Simmons
Sherman Rotary Club
Cpl
Mur Ryan
Eighty Italian Warships in Allied Hands
Allied HQ North Africa reports eighty Italian warships now under Allied control. The updated tally lists five battleships, one seaplane carrier, eight cruisers, nineteen submarines, twenty seven destroyers, twelve torpedo boats, six corvettes, one auxiliary cruiser and one hospital ship, with merchant vessels en route to Allied ports.
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Allied
North Africa
North Africa Soldier Laughs At Texas Heat
Pvt. Johnnie H. Allen of Llano writes from North Africa that he and his tentmates laughed at Texas 109 degree August heat. He asks what locals would think if it reached 136 and jokes they will dig out their flight jackets if the mercury drops to 109.
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Llano
Johnnie H. Allen
North Africa
Fish for Civilians to Become Scarcer
The War Food Administration says about 65 percent of the total food fish supply will reach civilians in the year ending July 1. Civilians will get 7.9 pounds per person, about 1.8 pounds less than last year, while 35 percent goes to armed services Allied nations and other war needs. Total edible supply is 1.531 billion pounds vs 1.691 billion in 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Food Administration
Armed Services
Yanks Repel Nazi Push at Salerno Bridgehead
The American Fifth Army, battered but holding, repelled German counterattacks aimed at sweeping the Salerno bridgehead into the sea. Allied air forces and naval bombardment backed the defense as 2,000 sorties pummeled German roads, railways and gun positions while reinforcements and tanks landed to shore up the beachhead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
47Th Infantry
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Salerno
Grayson County
Dallas
United States
Kasserine Pass
Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
Algiers
Altavilla
Albanella
Agropoli
Clark
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Drafted Father Brings Daughters to Fort Custer
A Highland Park man, Harry A. Barany, 27, reported with his two young daughters at Fort Custer reception center. He was granted several days furlough to arrange care for the girls before reporting for duty, with Red Cross assistance for the children during the day. Barany said he did not know the mother’s whereabouts and had been ordered to report to Fort Custer by a transfer board in Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Custer
Mich
Highland Park
Army
A. T. Etcheson
Harry A. Barany
Red Cross
Barany
Etcheson
Custer
Detroit
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Camp Gruber
Lela Ryon
el Paso
Corporal Ryon
Boyd Newman
Perrin Field
Mrs
George Hansard
Ft. George ‘G. Meade, Maryland
A. A. Hudgins Jr
Bremerton
U. S. Navy Yard
A. A. Hudgins
Sgt
Donald Paul Hudgins
U.S. Air Forces
Guy Hamilton Jr
Third Service Command
Baltimore
Hamilton
University of Houston
Ft. George G. Meade
Milton A Reckord
Ralph Kaiser
Ralph B. Kaiser
Young Kaiser
Philip Earnheart
Jefferson, Mo
San Antonio
Tex
Billy Glen Earnheart
Camp Edwards
Mass
Camp Davis
N. C
Glen Earnheart
Oral L. Henry
Mrs. Henry
Oral
Arthur B. Sanders
Camp Roberts
Calif
Neil Brittan
Stillwater
Robert Neil Brittan
Philippines
Colonel Brittan
Emmet Penn
J. M. Ashinhurst
Pvt
John M. Ashinhurst
Iceland
England
Army Signal Corps
J. A. Bixler
McKinney
Tech
W. B. Bixler
Government Hospital
Sergeant Bixler
Mark Montgomery
Mark Montgomery Jr
Sicily
Cicero
Wallace Wilson of
Sherman
Russell McGinnis
C. P. McGinnis
Corporal McGinnis
Camp Bowie
Brownwood
London
America
New York Central
Yank
The
Texas
Sun
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