The Mexia Weekly Herald from Mexia, Texas • Page 10

I- Resident Killed Pvt. Robert Earl Neel, brother Mrs. A. C. Wolfe, 303 South Ross Avenue, was.

accidentally killed in Germany 25, she was advised today neon. She and Cpl. Wolfe, who has been stationed at the Mexia-Prisoner of War Camp 'for the past year; were to leave this afternoon for their home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on a seven-day emergency furlough. No 'concerning Pvt. Neel's accident available as yet.

He -was serving at the time in the First Army as a maehinegunner. He is the. son of Mr. and jVlrs. C.

L. Neel of Bowling Green, and las mother left Mexia only Sunday to return to her home after visiting here. Mrs. Wolfe was to have substituted at the White elemen- tary school this week, and- was at, school today when the tlegram about her brother arrived. Another brother, Lt.

W. E. Neel, is a pilot on duty in.the South Pa- I cine. R. M.

McClintock of Pasadena has returned after spending the week end with friends and relatives. Dutch Died So Nazis Could Live UEXfit. HERAIJ5 FOR EVERY WEED FOR WEAR AKD WEATHER" COOK'S QUALITY Costs only Ic per sq. ft. (two- coat) for the best in house paint protection and beauty.

PAINT OVER THAT CLD WALLPAPER VJ17H Odorless Washable Finish Lovely usually coven HAVE DURABLE Choice of Lustreless or Semi-Gloss in many colors and Finest, quick drying for genera! use, Sizes ISc up SCUFF-PRQOF Dries Hard Over Mfght COOK'S For Ceiifngs A paint thcr Q'IVSS daylight effect with artificial lighting. To feed the capacious maw of the Nazi army, -three "hunger" provinces of were looted- of all food supplies, resulting in horrible starvation ravaging the area. Above, a starved old Dutch --boy, bones nearly protruding from his flesh', receives treatment after Allied occupation." The horror of Nazism blazes from tte lace of another Dutch youth (inset) pictured as he was dying of hunger. Report Jap Raids Made by Balloon WASHINGTON, May 22. (U.R)—Japan has been sporadic-ally attacking the western U.

S. mainland for the past months with balloon- borne bombs, the War department revealed today. It said no property damage has re- The War Department's word for the Japanese attempt to vifit long-range destruction upon the United S'ates was "fantastic." the past several Japanese free hiilloons nre known to have landed or cropped explosives in isolated localities," the announcement' said. These balloons tanhol be e-on- 1 by iheii- launchers, the Wai- Department said. Apparently they were loosed to I drift with wind currents toward this continent.

"These balloons are grey, white or greenish-blue paper, about 33 ifect in diameter," the War Department said. "They carry a £sw small bombs suspended beneath the baHccn. It was believes, that the imnin purpose -of the bombs is set (brush and forest fires. They are i danirerous and should not be touch- i cd by anyone not familar with The balloons, it was said, have landed or dropped their explosives from time to time in isolated areas. There no indication that any of them ever carried enemy personnel.

Th-? armed services decided to the nature of the attacks to civilians against possible and personal injury. The services warned, however, it w-'uld a-id the Japanese if they shouH learn exact informa- iirn as fo the time, locality and eiiccl: of any incident. Tiiis permit the enemy to correct its methods. The Army and Navy paid.tri- bute to newspapers and radio stations for withholding facts about the bombs which have become known from time to time. "With the coming of warm weather and the end of the'school i season, it is desirable that people and especially children living west the Missisippi River be warned 1 of the possible hazard and cautioned under no circumstances to tr'uch or approach any unfamiliar 1 object.

Ace WASHINGTON, May The pace-setting Amefkah 1st Army 'will, lead for Yanks-; in First to land in France, invade Rhine and first to -meet the Russians, Geii. H. Hodges' Fighting, 'First will add another record to its resbiinijlhg list 'by being the fffSt major -U. -S: fighting force to transfer to the -Pacific: The War Department announced last night-that the 1st was already "on the 'the -Pacific via the U. S.

A. This preJumaBly -meant that advance -units had embarked from France i or the hiteo. they will be given furloughs be- Jore going on to help finish the job in the Pacific. Naturally it take some tima to move an entire army, which may number somewhere around 250,000 I to 300,000 men. However troops or i the Pacific Wai- have high priori- l.ties on transoeean transport.

I token return of the victorious First Army to American soil will take place 'this Thursday when Hodges, accompanied six of his generals, 15 to 20 'lower officers and 24 G. will arrive in Ati lanta, Ga. The- War Department said that the divisions and corps that go to Japan will not "necessarily" be thej i same as those that fought in Ger- many, though divisions are be- 1 ing brought back to the However, it added, "enough vet- eran units and veteran will take this; field under General 1 H-odges to insure the same vigor- ous assault against the' Japanese as was made against the Germans." This was the first definite word that Hodges himself would fight iri the Pacific. Presumably most of his crack officers will go with him to join the three other armies already in the Pacific theatre, the 6th and 8th jn -the under Gen. Douglas MacArthur's c6m- binecl command 'and the 10th -on Okinawa under Adm.

Chester W. Nimitz' overall jurisdiction. In Funeral arrangements are spending for Jeff Murphy, 53,, of Wortham, a vetiran wko died early Tuesday morning at the Veterans' Hospital, in which removed Saturday follpwihtj; is believed to have been heart Hurphy, a- private in the 143rd Infantry, 36th Division in World was taken prisoner the qermans and held captive for four months and 20 flays before ie was released. He was during that war, and. never recovered the effects of that injury plus his invprisonment.

son of the late W. D. Murphy and Mrs. Murphy of Wortham, and had) served as ice of the peace for a number of years. He was also an active mem- jber of the Wortham' Methodist Church, in which he was formerly choir director.

Services will be held from the Methodist church with burial In Wortham at an hour tc be announced later. Survivors include his mother, his wife, the'former Miss Althea a major disaster, the ship limped home to, the Brooklyn'Navy Yard. She will fight again. (NEA Photo) steadman of ortham, and'two 1 children, Rena Jo, 2, and Dwight, 116, who- is a member of this year's Wortham graduating class. ers and: sisters who survive include, JW.

R. Currie, G. Mrs. Keeling, Mrs. Ella Mrs: W.

L. Garrett, all of Wortham, of Houston, Jack of Dallas, -and Mrs. Tom E. Eubanks of Mexia. Hit by a Japanese dive bomber on March.

19, the carrier Franklin lists 60. miles off Japan. Moving away, left, is th cruiser Saifta Fe which poured tons of water into the blazing carrier Survivors of the Franklin crew huddle forward. Although the Franklin suffered 1000 casualties, (Freckled Red Schoendienst of tthe St. Louis Cardinals is the most talented and colorful new 'major league player.

Starting left field, the 22-year-old product of Germantown, 111., who could-double for Huckleberry Finh, filled in acceptably at shortstop when Slats iMariQfl twisted his anklf Igbing out himself with a dis- shoulder; GI Discharge Footed by Drive i Army discharge pay 'during the next twelve months will take $390,000,000 out of the funds now brother Is Dead 1 Pf c. Baxter Sims, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H.

Sims of Lost Prairie, arrived home Saturday after hav- ing- been held as a German prisoner of war at Camp Stalag 2-B since Two More Freed, Families Learn Two more Limestone county sol- I (iiers have been liberated, so the (American Red Cress notified their families today through the local home service office. The first pood news arrived ear' ly this morning, addressed to the i Red Cross offiee here, saying "May 21, 1945, Pfc. Jasper Erskine, 38287440, requests Mrs. Clinton Erskine of Thornton be notified cf his liberation." Pfc. Erskine is a 1937 graduate of Thornton high school, and his family lives near Thornton in the QfUls community.

A similar telegram arrived shortly after noon, as follows: "Pfc. Alton A. Ray requests Mrs. Martha Ray, Kosse, Route 2, be notified of his liberation." This raises to nine the number of liberated prisoners in this area whose families have been notified since last Friday. Pi Enterprise 500 Attend Point Closes Session Enterprise Sing An observation post on the hill for artillery of the U.

10th Army being raised in the Seventh War Ridge." Behind the rocky pinnacle lies the city of Naha, where Loan, so Director Ted R. Gamble nave almost completed its capture. Signal Corps photo from NEA Te of the Treasury's war finance di- vision said today. Other important expenditures in the winding up of the European war and the prosecution of the Pacific war will require other equally sizeaole portions of! the money now being raised by I means of the drive, which Gamble therefore hailed as "one of the most important of all:" Gamble noted that their last pay day will be the biggest for I most of the 1,300,000 men scheduled to be released within a year. The $300 discharge payment most men will reeeiv he said, will balance the reduction in army pay- directs fire "on U.

S. Marines lephoto) Japs at base of are reported to September 19, 19-13. i Pfc. Sinis, who was looking fine as he arrived to spend a 60-day leave at home, was captured in the landing at Salerno, Italy, the first day of that amphibious invasion. He 'discovered -only after reach- insr here that brother, Pfc.

Glenn Sims, was killed in Belgium 15, 19J5. The liberated Limestone soldier, who will report to Fort Sam Houston for reassignment, had not been home since January, 1942. He wehti 1 overseas shortly after that, arid served with the 36th Division. Gene Dyson is valedictorion of the Point Enterprise graduating I J. Barnes of Mexia was re- elected president of the Limestone class and Joe Schuster salutator-1 Convention SM Zn-r, A (VI OROV day at the all-day meeting held afc Point Enterprise.

Over 500 people attended the convention, a semi- ian, -Principal Autra McBay announced today. Commencement exercises for the 10J5 graduating will be held Thursday, May 24, at o'clock at the Point Enterprise auditorium. This year's graduates from the Point Enterprise Grammar School annual affair, and leaders pronounced it one of the best held hi recent years. Visito and Groesbeckl Re-elected vice-president was Alvie Sellers, with Annie V. Fore named secretary for the coming Father Rich in Points JEWETT, May 22.

Pfc. Albert L. Hall, 25, of Jewe'tt home on rotation furlough from year. The new officers expressed lots of points for dis- their thanks to the public for their co-operation in making the Pt. Enterprise meeting the success it was.

The site of the next meeting of The id est the group in October will he an- orn hil The young combat veteran, at 25,. is the father of six children. nounced later. is 9. The youngest, he was overseas, is five months oW.

were pres- Rose. Mr. and Mrs. R. L.

Madtlox and Mrs. Nora Phillips, Mrs. Jessie daughter, Elizabeth Ann, left to- Barrett, and Mrs. Fred Mull of day for a ten-clay vacation in Glen Waco spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs.

J. W. Bonner. rolls that would ordinarily result! include Mary Nell Inderman, Su- from decreasing the total person- i die Mary Lightsey, Jerry Kerzee, ne Joe Schuster, Gene Dyson, Jimmy i The drive started its second Williams and Bcbby week yesterday with 29 per cent I 'Opening the program will be the of its goal subscribed. Mexia and traditional processional, played by Limestone sal JUre a little ahead Mrs.

Doyle McGee, followed by the of the with invocation, which is' to be given by approximately brie-third local goals reachecj. both the Rev. C. E. Stites.

Special music scheduled for the The Mexia Band Mothers sold Program includes a quartet made $5,100 in bonds Monday to open of Marie Fore, Maxine Russell, the second War Loan week of the Seventh drive. W. W. Cora Lee Holt and Weita Wright, the class song by the graduating i Riddle Co. MEXIA.

TEXAS Hard Coal Strike at End after 3 Weeks WASHINGTON, May 18. The hard coal crisis apparently had blown over today as swiftly as it came the night of April 30. Seventy-two thousand vania anthracite miners, on strike since midnight of the day before May Day, were expected to be back digging coal on Monday. In the meantime a total of about I 3,230,000 tons of hard ranted by Fuel Administrator Hari old L. Ickes to be enough to heat i all the houses in a city like tiraore for an entire remained under the groundr Hiss Betty Wadle of Dallas spent the week end with Miss Mildred Wadle.

The public- is invited to'attend ithe closing exercises for the Mexia Junior high will be held Friday afternoon at :30 o'clock in the school Approximately a hundred students are expected to complete their Junior high work this year, according to Principal C. W. Mitchell. The formal exercises will mark the transition of the group from junior to its senior high school. program will open with the school song, sung by the student body.

Simone Gonzales will make the class's farewell speech. "Ciribiribin" is to be sung by a trio composed of Rosie Kuyava, juanita Armstrong, and Mary Joan Gillespie. A poem, to Junior High School," will be read by Bobbie Nell Cannon. Frank L. illiams, superinten- -of the Mexia Public Schools, will present diplomas, and Mitchell will recognize honor students.

I Mason served 'as chairman of the cl ss a sol Mane Fore day's sales, which also were re- The honor graduates will deliver 'ported as including $2.50 in war the salutatory and valedictory for I savings stamps. I ass Assisting in the Monday sales I Rev Gcol Steinman, dean of promotion were Mrs. Oran Bar- i Westminster Junior College, will nett, Mrs Lynri Adams, Mrs. Hu- deliver the-commencement address, bert Newberry, Mrs. J.

C. Stibolt, I flowed by the conferring of dip- Mrs. M. M. Brown, Mrs.

Robert I lomas Ene tsey, president L. Maddox, Mrs. Edith Neale, and Mrs. R. I.

Dollai-d. Frightened Germans. Fear Red Occupation WITH U. S. EIGHTH CORPS, Central Germany, May 18.

(U.R)— Thousands of frightened Germans crowded the Highways in a mass exodus from the heart of Germany today as rumors spread that Russians would soon would occupy the area. There was no official confirmation of the occupation rumors but civilians have been streaming down the highways in alarmingly increasing numbers for the last several days. Some were attempting to bring household possessions tin makeshift cart's and wagons. 'Others, mostly old men and women, carried only bare necessities in knapsacks or wrapped in table cloths. of the school board.

Alvie Sellers will give the benediction. Move to End Changes WASHINGTON, May 18. (U.R)— i War Mobilization Director Fred Vinson, is expected shortly to as- sure the public that there will be no change in meat ceiling prices without six months advance notice, i I congressional sources said today. i Such a move, they declared, would be intended to inspire confidence. Mrs.

L. C. Kirgan of Fairfield, Mrs: George Stubbs of Wortham, and Miss Joyce Kirgamare guests of Captain and Mrs. Tom Sgt. Raymond Gantt of South Carolina visited his aunt, Mrs.

Bl Hyden, Thursday en route to Groesbeck to visit his parents, Mr. i and Mrs. Walter Gantt. THE OLD JUDGE "Jim, didn't you say you wanted to ask the Judge something about grain, the next time you saw him?" That's right, I did, Mary. Is it true.

Judge, that distillers recover part of the grain they use in making war-alcohol?" OLD JUDGE: "That's absolutely true, Jim. Wherever the government has permitted distillers to purchase $he equipment neces- -sary to reprocess -the used grain, at -least of the feed value by weight) of the whole grain is recovered. It comes back to farms like yours in the form of premium- quality livestock feed rich in vitamins BiandBa." JIM: the same thing true when distillers are permitted to make whiskey, OLD JUDGE: "Yes, every bit as true, This tuttcTtisancnt sponsored by Conference.