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THE HAMLIN HERALD, HAMLIN, JONES, COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1943 The Hamlin Herald PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BOWEN OWNER AND EDITOR ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE OF HAMLIN, TEXAS, FOR TRANSMISSION THROUGH THE MAILS AS SECOND CLASS MATTER SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ONE The Axle Has Some year? ago we began to hear of the Axis powers. The axis this and the axis that. Three spokes, and just three felloes (or felly) and now the wheel which has been chasing round and round has a broken axle and one fulloe has leaving the other in a heck of a fix. Yes, old Mussolini has had his day, unless the Allied powers get their hands on him. then his days will be short and rickety.

His mighty empire was built on an idea of slavery and wrong. his sea was not deep enough to hold all his ships and those of England, the United States and a dozen other nations that love right and justice. So they broke his axle and his axis. The only thing better to break would be his neck. The fall of Italy has been expected.

Months ago this column ventured a prediction that Italy would stop by September 1. Really she did. Anybody can hit a prediction if they keep it up long enough. But old Italy has been the cause of the greatest war in all history of man. She started out and old Hitler took the patterns and helped make the mess.

He thought if Mussolini could do it, he could, and so they began to hold pow-wows and finally their axis got to rolling while the United States and England and all the rest stood and watched the machine build up. Italy is not a walk-over even yet. Germany has a hundred nests of cp! position in that country and many American and English boys will pay the price before it is in our hands. But woe unto Germany within a few more weeks. WTe have a lot more predicting to do.

By October 15, we expect to see Greece, Bulgaria, Roumania, Hungary and Jugoslavia crumble out of the axis frame-up. Then by December 15, the jig will be up with Germany. She can not stand up on what the hot bombs and the ice of winter will offer. There is an end to human endurance. America, meaning the United States, is just beginning to fight, just now mobilized and starting the greatest machine in all history toward Germany.

No power can withstand what is in store for the Germans and the Japs the Japs, wrell, yes the Japs, we will get to them later. And how! 0-0-0 FARM FOR SALE 177 acres, two miles from Hamlin, about 100 acres in cultivation, balance fine pasture. One 6 room house, and one 3 room house, good barn, plenty water, plenty of mesquite timber for wood. This is a fine farm with a fine early spring pasture on creek. An ideal home, convenient to town with fine schools and churches.

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I have some buyers for Hamlin I 1 homes. See me if you want to sell. H. 0. CASSLE, Hamlin, Texas Office Visits for 1943 At The Hamlin Hotel Sept Oct.

13 Nov. Dec. 8 I Mrs. Mollie Oates of Dallas is spending the week here with her i sister, Mrs. D.

0. Sauls. -o-o-o- Mrs. Lota Bauman of Desota, Texas, visited her aunt, Mrs. Delia McIntosh last week.

TOM A. BLAIR The appointment of Tom A. Blair of Amarillo, Texas, to the newly created post of assistant chief engineer, System of the Santa Fe Railway, was announced in Chicago today by G. H. Minchin, vice-president in charge of operations.

Chief engineer for the Santa Fe Western lines since 1938, Blair has been with the railroad for more than a quarter of a century. He assumes his new duties immediately. A native of DeBeque, Blair wras born June 1, 1892. He was graduated from the University Colorado with a civil engineering degree in 1913. He taught structural engineering at his Alma Mater before entering Santa Fe service in 1915 as rodman at Pueblo, Colo.

He subsequently became transit- man and office engineer on construction of the Santa Fe lines from Shattuck, to Spearman, Texas, until World War 1 when he entered the army. He served overseas as a first lieutenant with the 115th engineers and saw action on the St. Mihiel and Argonne sectors. Following his honorable discharge from military service, he returned to his old job at Shattuck. After serving in various capacities as a building inspector, bridge inspector, roadmaster, division engineer and transitman, he was made district engineer in 1937 at La Junta, Colo.

Less than a year later he was appointed chief engineer of the Railroad's Western lines, which position he leaves to assume his new duties. TRUSTEES OF TOMORROW NEED KEEN EYES On the boys and girls of today rests the responsibility of directing the world we are now fighting to preserve for them. If their education is to be sound, their hands capable, their brains alert, their eyesight must be efficient. Keeping the vision of America at a high performance level, is the work of thousands of specialists, in scientific corrections of visual deficiencies. So says Bausch Lomb Optical Rochester, N.

largest makers of all kinds of optical merchandise in the world. We suggest you see one of these specialists, Dr. Fred R. Baker OPTOMETRIST AT HAMLIN HOTEL Sept. 15 BAKER AND SEE About I Big Bomber Pilot Sinclair School Opened Monday, September 6 The Sinclair school opened Monday morning, Sept.

6 at 9 with a good enrollment. Several patrons were present for the opening exercises. The teachers are Mrs. Wortham Crow, principal, and Miss Edna Maude Crow, teacher. The trustees are Mr.

Odell Rainwater and Mrs. Robert Hagler. -o-o-o- Are You Going to Send A Christmas Package? -O-O-O- How can I know when Long Distance lines aie busy? The operator will tell you. When the Long Distance circuit you want is crowded, she will say limit your call to 5 minutes. Others are waiting We know be glad to co-operate and keep your call below 5 perhaps even cancel it if it is not important.

SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BUY WAR BONDS FIAT TOP NEWS A large crowd wras present at the opening of our school Monday morning, Sept. 6. Mrs. Earl Brown and Miss Winnell Schrimsher, teachers, are looking forward to a successful school year. Mrs.

Scifies and boys visited Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hines of Hamlin last Sunday.

Mrs. J. M. McGuUgh was a Sunday afternoon visitor in the home of Mr. and Mrs.

J. W. McGough. Mr. and Mrs.

Larry Holmes and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Truett Stovall and daughter of Tuxedo Sunday. Pfc. L.

B. Bruner of Wichita Falls was a week end visitor of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bruner. Mr.

and Mrs. Dee Rankin and boys visited Troy Austin and family of Hamlin Sunday afternoon. Those who visited with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Brown Tuesday and Wednesday were Mr.

and Mrs. Gordon Green and son of Merkel, Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Elkins and daughter of Dallas, and Mr. W.

S. King of Littlefield. During conference Sunday night the following officers were elected: Mr. Larry Holmes, Sunday School Mr. Cox, assistant Mr.

Homer Neal, church clerk; Mr. Dee Rankin, treasurer, and Miss Winnell Schrimsher, secretary. Sunday School teachers were also elected. The Defense club will meet Friday night, Sept. 10, at 8:30 for the purpose of organizing for the coming year.

------------o-o-o------------ A best-selling laxative ALL OVER THE SOUTH Uncle post office is sounding the warning that all personal overseas Christmas gifts must be mailed between September 15 and October 15. After that date parcels may not be mailed unless by a written request of the service man or woman. No soldier should ask for a Christmas present. No use in going into details why packages must be mailed early. You know.

No use in telling anybody in what spots over the world our fighting forces are located. You know. Also everyone knows that no matter how old a person gets and no matter where he or she may be, wrhen Christmas time rolls around, they become children again, and long for home and remembrances from loved ones. This is all the more true in war times. Any package mailed as a gift for Christmas should be marked Do not mail any perishable goods.

Make all packages strong and tight. No one can mail more than one package in one week to the same member of the family. How to address Christmas packages? Well, if you want the man to open his package till Christmas, state so on the package. But not many will make that request. believe it would be best to say not deliver till By that time maype the boy will be somewhere else.

Anyway, the address should be absolutely correct. Most addresses will take four or five lines and the words should be well printed, or by a good typewriter ribbon. about all we gathered from the Information Service of the P. 0. Dept.

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Price 2 200 00 H. O. CASSLE, Hamlin, Texas The Herald is always glad to hear from our soldier boys. For example, there's J. R.

Reynolds, whose mother brought in a letter from him down in New Guinea, and say, folks, that boy is really from Hamlin and one peep at the pictures be sent his mother will prove that. He sent three of himself and his Australian girl, or girls, and that kid certainly had a smile on his face. It looks like he has a girl on every street, surely not in New Guinea. For also he showtd several snap shots of native men and women, even a New Guinea dog. Take it all around, he is getting plenty to eat, has a go place to live but still longs for some of the chocolate pies his mother makes.

Good luck to you, John R. Second Lieutenant Robert Fowler came in from Walla Walla, state, last Sunday to get a few days at home with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Paul A. Fowler.

He left Thursday for his Field to resume flying the big four engine bombers, the First Lieutenant Forrest Greenway (known in the Army Air Forces at Carl F. Greenway) arrived in Abilene nday night by plane, from his station in Orlando, where he is an instructor, or lecturer in the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics. This is one of this most important air centers, and maybe in all the world. Forrest has been away from Hamlin about 19 months, and this time on his furlough he has proved what this paper has been saying all along our boys leave us as mere boys, and when they return they will be MEN. Lt.

Greenway proved that twice this week, first he was guest speaker for the Lions Club and Wednesday spoke to the Rotary Club. Lieuteni ant Greenway speaks with authority, emphatic, in a mature military style, with excellent flow of words, and dispatch. He is at the of the air development of the United Nations. He told all that prudence would permit, and it was enough to convince all who heard him that the smartest air forces in all the world are developing rapidly in this country. Events recently show that our men are now up and at the enemy.

The Herald wants Forrest to know that this community is glad to know that he has developed so fast and is now able to tell a big class of officers, who out-rank him, something that they should know. The comes through channels that even ranking officers do not know, and xvhut they hear at Orlando is what will enable them to make good on the field. Pvt. Guy Greenway, mechanic in the Randolph Field, returned Saturday after a three days furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Roscoe Greenway. Pvt. Jesse Davis, a colored soldier had a grin of happiness on his big face last Saturday when he stepped off the bus, just from Camp Gordon Georgia. Only had four days here, and he lost no time enjoying it. He said the colored soldiers down there are getting along fine, have all colored officers except the Colonel and Lieut.

Colonel. Pfc. Dennis Terrell of Camp Bowie returned to his post at Camp Bowie last week end after a week at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.

L. Terrell. He has been in the camp since July. First Sergeant Winifred Joiner again sends a card to his mother, Mrs. A.

S. Joiner, Rt. 3. Winifred filled in the printed form card from Japanese Military Camp No. 1 in the Philipine Islands.

He said: health is fair, I am under treatment, I am improving, please see that your health is taken care of. Tell everyone hello. Please give my best regards to all the The card was signed in his familiar hand writing. Pfc. Elmer Viereege of Camp Barkeley was over for the week end to visit his wife, the former Juanita Reynolds.

The boys of the 90th are perhaps now in California. Pfc. Olan A. Stuart came in from the Memphis, Air Base, last Saturday for a 15 days furlough at home with his mother, Mrs. A.

Stuart. Olan is in the Quartermaster Department of the Army Air Force. ----One of the biggest robust soldiers we have seen in a long time is Pfc. Merrill Herring, son of Mrs. M.

Herring, who came in from Ft. Ord, Calif, this week on a 13 days furlough. Merrill is in the Amphibian Engineers. He is some man, weight about so much, and still he is only a 19 year old kid. His work teaches him how to get over and under the water, and through it with big guns and everything.

A LETTER TO MRS. NOBLES Recently Mrs. Vera Nobles received a very interesting letter from Firt Lieut. D. E.

Kroesch, who was then on duty in the North Africa- Sicily area at the time of the invasion. Lieut. Kroesch was an aviation school buddie of Mrs. son, the late Warren Nobles. He was here at the time of death and the friendship built up between the two young fliers has seemed to be deep because of the tragedy that parted them, so wherever Kroesch may be he remembers them as Warren sp ke of them.

He says thought of you and sister lots of times, but I did not want you to have to worry much about me either, since I flew the ocean to come over hefre, and also took part in some of the campaigns. Yes, I was in on the invasion of Sicily. I dropped paratroopers by the score, amid the bursting of flak and machine gun fire. funny thing, I think so much about it, but somebody even awarded me the Air Medal Oak Leaf Cluster for outstanding missions over Sicily. (Along with all my buddies, of course).

been making out fairly well. heat is sometimes almost unbearable, and the flies ar thick, along with the ma- leria mosquitoes, but we manage pretty well. flown over most of North Africa until it seems almost like my back yard, but most all of us are just a bunch of homesick American boys, fighting like the dickens to git this war over fast. Thanks a million for sweater that you knitted, and I still have his shirt too, both are here with me (and I guess Warren is too) night of my second mission over Sicily I wore shirt and I believe that is one of the things that got me back alive. A lot of my buddies were shot down in the Mediterranean.

(I was really a scared little boy that night). No protection, the lives of twenty men in my hands and having to fly right through that terrific barrage of flak to drop them near the beach in Sicily. I got home without a bullet hole. I hope all the folks down Hamlin way are on the beam as usual. I know they are.

a friendly town. Tell all the kids hello for me. I miss seeing them all. I have had one furlough since I have been over seas, and I spent a week up in a Red Cr css Hotel in the mountains, and I actually had steak and fresh butter to eat. Well, I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

Love to you all. Pfc. Joe D. Stuart again writes his mother, Mrs. N.

E. Stuart from North Africa or Sicily. He dated his letter Aug. 16. Joe is a money maker.

He not only sent about $130 of good old American money back home for to do with it as you want but he sent her a sample of the Allied Money issued in Italy. It was a Two Lire, Series of 1943. This was the first Allied Money we have seen. It was two and five eighths inches by three, purple on one side and green on the other, and the Four rFeedoms were well placed on the green side. He says, in Sicily now.

I came over in the first wave, but we did not have much trouble getting on land. It was not so bad until about a week Then Joe began telling about being in an orchard, and he said, it had everything, apples, lemons, bananas, onions, peppers and He made fun of their crops and harvesting and threshing. have watermelons and canteloupes, and cucumbers but they are not very big and very Pfc. Claude Haught and his brother, Petty Officer James Haught, have returned to their posts. Claude to Lincoln, and James to Norman, Okla.

After a visit home with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Haught.

another fine looking young lady from Norman came down on Tuesday of last week to see that the Seaman was piloted back to his name? Miss Pat Newbar. James promised the Herald man an and went back on us. Ah, James! You better beat that. Pfc. Jesse M.

Kelley of Camp Dix New Jersey, is returning to his camp after a week at home with his brother, Roy and family. His mother, Mrs. G. W. Calvert of Ft.

Worth came Saturday to be with her sons. Jesse seems to be standing the army life fine and was glad to see old Hamlin and friends again. Pvt. Row L. Embrey came over from Camp Howze last Saturday for just a day at home with his mother, Mrs.

Rosa Embrey..