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September 7, 1943. rage 3 6600. 6600. EL PASO TIMES EI Paso's HOME Newspaper. Warfare Center in Endsewood Arsenal, for exemplary behavior, efficiency and fidelity.

the Naval Training Station at Far-ragut, Idaho. Seaman Smith attended El Paso High School and El Paso Technical Institute. His wife, Esther, lives in Casper, Wyo. Southivcstemers In Service Promotions, Transfers. Graduations Italian Opposition Nil Soldiers Welcome Canadian Troops By EDWARD GILLING to store up reserves lor peacetime production.

The House Ways nd Means Com-mlttce, at the call of Chairmsn Doughton C), will meet Thursday almost a week ahead cf the reconvening of Congress to open public hearings on tha whola question of renegotiation of war contracts to prevent excessive profits. Post-War Industry Study Is Assured Washington, Sept. 6 (AP). An Immediate and thorough Congressional study of post-war Industry became assured today, as talk of changes in the war profits renegotiation law turned into a debate on whether industry should be allowed JAMES M. MANDEVILLE.

Sgt. James M. Mandeville, son of Mr, and Mrs. James M. Mandeville, 1101 North Brown Street, has been promoted to staff sergeant.

Sergeant Mandeville is serving "somewhere in England." 11) W. RUTH V. SMIT. loners of war, who are now beir WAC Lt. Ruth Smit has been held in prisoner campi in tlit Representing the Combined Allied Tress Distributed By International News Service With the Eighth Army on the Italian Coast, Sept.

6. Canadian BONNIE BEE ROBINSON. Pvt. Boj.nie Bee Robinson, 21, aughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Be Bee Hillsboro, N. is now as supply clerk with the Wacs at the Army Air Base in Blythe, Calif. Her husband, PFC. George E. Robinson, Is serving with wuimea company commander of i United Stales.

me wau Post Headquarters Com- troops in the British Eighth Army occupied the Italian towns of Bcggio THREE BROTHERS. pany at the Carlsbad, N. Army Air Field, PVT. FRANCISCO VASQIES. Pvt.

Francisco Vasques, son of mmTT'- Mrs. Amelia M. Calabria and San Giovanni without meeting opposition of any kind, I this correspondent can now reveal. The few Italian soldiers comprising the defending garrisons failed to fire a single shot in defense. In fact they gave our troops a warmer the parachute troops.

She has two t' attkt'PopukX brothers serving with the Navy and one brother in the Marines. succeed- in WAC Lt. Vivienne Pat-terson. Lt. Pat so rapidly that he had no time to terson has been sques, 2402 isett Avenue, ius just completed basic training at the Armored Replacement Training Center, preparatory for transferred to welcome than even that accorded by the liberated civilians.

The troops with which I landed Tailed to make a contact with the 'enemy all day long Saturday. Their task was to deepen the bridgehead inland toward the hills and lt was hard slogging, but they had the certainty that no enemy was holding Tommy Skov, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Innis Skov of Fabens, is the first 17-year-old in Fabens to enlist in the Coast Guard. Tommy, who enlisted at 9 a.

m. Saturday, was on a train bound fur the Coast Otiard Training sla- LEATHER Marana, Ariz, i ant Smith, the former Ruth a s. M. Kuth V. Smit combat dutytfon by 10 a.

less than an hour with an the high ground overlooking and after he Was C'harlei K. Ilollln. Herbert rUMIne armored unit. commanding the beaches, where tranelu VuqiM sworn in by Mr. and Mrs.

Evans, 3922 Cum-United a berland Street, have three sons I A ri Wire Daughter of Mrs. Ethel McComas, cf Denver, graduated from North Denver High School, and completed a year of business training at a Denver opportunity school. She was managing a restaurant in blow up many bridges. Reggio Calabria was almost empty of inhabitants. Those people remaining in the town said their neighbors cleared out in fear of our bombardment.

The town of Reggio suffered comparatively little damage in contrast to Messina, Allied air men apparently having found it unnecessary to blast the mainland city as hard as the Sicilian terminus of the ferries. The landing on the beaches was compared by all troops with rehearsals staged In training days. The lack of opposition was the biggest surprise the fighting Eighth Army has had in its long campaign from El Alamcin to Tunisia, to Sicity, and to Italy. 1 serving in the Armed Forces. They PVT.

PETER JULIAN GARCIA. Pvt. Peter Julian Garcia, son or i are: Cpl. Charles Mr. and Mrs Sioner A.

J. W. Schmid. The Coast Guard Recruiting station here when she entered the Jose A. Garcia, rvice.

hundreds of guns and many more thousands troops were landing. One battalion scaled a hill 2180 feet high and captured a village at a junction of roads running through the mountains to the north. A small pocket of Germans was reported to have been holding that village, but they, too, left without firing a shot. A most amazing feature of the invasion is the scarcity of demolitions. Lieutenant Smit received her had Tommy in a whirl for an commission on April 17, 1943.

Her husband, Emile M. Smit, for Edward Hollins, in the Infantry, who was wounded in action in Sicily; PFC. Herbert Hollins In the Air Force. His wife, Allie lives in the Lower Valley. First Class Pet- hour.

In addi 3i I merly an interior decorator and now a camouflage instructor in Army Ordnance, has been serving lion to taking i enlistment 309 Park Street, has completed his basic training at the Armored Replace-m Training Center, preparatory for combat duty with an armored unit. Tommy Sko? The enemy apparently pulled back In North Africa for over six months and having him sworn in by Commissioner Schmid, officials also had Tommy pose for a picture be ty Officer Cur- fore "loading" him into a jeep and cunii j. Hoin. tis Jack Hollins, in the Navy. His wife, Mildred, lives at 3922 Cumberland Street.

rushing him to the 10 a. m. train. LT. JOHN WILLIAM SWEATT.

Lt. John William Sweatt, Bar-stow, Texas, of the U. S. Cavalry, has been promoted to captain. Peter i.

Garcia British Slip Into Greece Schemes Drafted To Resist Axis Tommy, who was graduated from the Fabens High School in the LT. DONALD D. McCABE. Lt. Donald D.

McCabe, 25, son 1943 class, was an outstanding LT. DAWN LORRAINE HORN- Mr. and Mrs. football star al the school. He has one brother who is with the Army overseas.

London, Sept. 6 (AP). In one of the most audacious acts John Michael of the war, British and Greek staff officers from Cairo have traveled BAKER. Second Lt. Dawn Lorraine Horn-baker has been ordered to active duty.

Lieutenant Hornbaker Is from Artesia, N. M. WILLIAM AYLES NUNN, JR. Lt. William A.

Nunn, son of W. A. Nunn, 909 Cedar Street, recently received his commission after completing a course at the Officers Candidate School in Fort Benning, Ga. Lieutenant Nunn attended Austin High School and Los Angeles City College. hundreds of miles through enemy-held territory for a secret rendezvous at Balkan headquarters of Greek guerrillas.

WILLIAM B. THREADGILL. Pvt. William ThreadgiU of There, it was disclosed today, they conferred with 600 leaders representing more than 50,000 Greek patriots and effected a unified command for an underground fights McCabe, 3304 Mountain Avenue, was graduated from the A A Pilot School at Fort Worth Army Air Field and will become an instructor on the the Marines was against the Axis. equipment, radios, medicine and home on furlough recently CAPT.

CHARLES BRADLEY SMITH. Lt. Charles Bradley Smith, of Carrizozo, N. an officer in the U. S.

Cavalry, has been promoted to captain. visiting his some food, reportedly have been landed. Some British, Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting with VilrS -24 Liberator RAMON MONTES. JR. PFC.

Ramon Montes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Montes, 514 South Ochoa Street, has completed a course in aviation mechanics in the Army Air Forces Technical School in Amariilo, Texas. mother, Mrs. Helen Thread-gill of the Lower Valley.

He is Lt. d. d. McCibe bombers. Lt.

Donald McCabe won his wings the guerrillas In the Balkans, it is stationed at CAPT. DAVID MATTHIAS GEBS. Lt. David Matthias Gebs, Santa Rita, N. has been promoted to captain in the U.

S. Air Corps. and commission at Ellington Field, Texas, after completing preliminary fliRht training at Ballinger, Texas, Camp Pendel- and Goodfellow Field, Texas. The conference established a long-term policy to fit in with the Allied Middle East Command's plans for intensification of sabotage in the Axis-occupied Balkan country. According to reports reaching here, they also perfected methods to assure arms and other equipment to the guerrillas.

The conference lasted three days and then the staff officers returned to Cairo by the same secret route used for entry. Germany has talked of British planes using secret airfields in Greece and of submarine contacts along various parts of the coast. Supplies, including arms, technical lull, William Thrcadi III Calif. His father, Burl ThreadgiU, is with the Seabees stationed in Davisville, R. I.

ELDOX P. HARVEY. Cadet Eldon P. Harvey, son of Mr. and Mrs.

C. M. Harvey, 1407 Elm Street, has been assigned to the Air Force Training Detachment at Corsicana Field for training. PROMOTED. The War Department Sunday an CAPT.

NORMAN DIF.HL DARBY. Lt. Norman Diehl Darby, of Tu-larosa, N. has been promoted to captain. reported here.

Left behind when Greece was overrun in April, 1941. they took to the mountains and linked up with the native patriots. Some still are wearing" the remnants of their old uniforms. Allied governments have estimated that there are about 150,000 guerrillas throughout the Balkans now actively fighting the Axis and have said that at least twice that number would join when and if they are equipped with arms. nounced the following promotions: First Lt.

Henry Albert Foster of Mesa, to captain. First Lt. Joseph Franklin Crews of Mar- DONALD A. WHITE. Donald A.

White, 19. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L.

Whte, Fabens, Texas, has arrived at Central Stale Teachers College, Stevens Point, for a course of Army Air Force RICHARD WILLIS MARTIN. Second Lt. Richard Willis Martin of Farmington, N. received a temporary promotion to first lieutenant, the War Department fa, Texas, to captain. Second Lt.

Edmund Lionel Given, 709 Balti-more Street, El Paso, to first lieu tenant. CAPT. CLIFTON E. ARMSTRONG. Capt.

Clifton Elliot "Byng" Armstrong, 26-year-old son of Atty. and Mrs. Otto Armstrong of the Upper Valley, is visiting his family on a 15-day leave, following his return from North Africa where he served with a tank destroying unit. He has been overseas for about a year. Captain Armstrong recently returned from North Africa as a guard for some of the Italian pris THREE BONDS TO THE GALLON.

Hershey, (UP. When Piedmont Croce. tonk the km I Inn CLARENCE J. SMITH. Clarence J.

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WEINTRAl'B. St. Louis A. Weintraub, former employe of El Paso Jewish Fed jug full of pennies he had saved JAMES P. McII ARGUE, JR.

James P. McHargue, son of Mrs. Clyde J. Smith, Route 2, has Mr. and Mrs.

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