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EIGHT
DENTON, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 1, 1940
VOL. XL
Amnociated Prew» leased Wire
NO. 41
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BRITAN MAKES PREPARATION
'adlier Bomb
IMMEDIATE PARTICIPATION
REPORTED NOT ISSUE WHEN
MUSSOLINI, SUNER CONFERRED
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Each Must Do
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Klingenberg
"heavily
The source added that England
probably would "shout victory" ai d
stations
Egyptian Sudan,
added.
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they
that
now
all
hint
was
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Name Get Their Love
Letters Badly Mixed
afternoon
thickly
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news
station
was clearly
Oct
today
count inp
and
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years
Rome
"a very
ready reached
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Germany Hit by
British Bombers
Germany Seeks
to Brin a Japs.
Soviets To fret la
Middle West Is
Claimed for F. D. R.
Moral of Story Is
Not to Stick Head
Out Elevator Door
liowi'V er
si stem
Oct 1
according
about
The officer
J‘ i
continued
i
any pressure upon
into an active part
The Rome talks
important
of reinforc ing, claii-
fylnp and making precise the iden-
tity of views between the National-
ist Spain of Generalissimo Franc o
were .
in a house .
plane, believed to | said
Offensive squadrons of the Roy-
al Air Force struck again at Bar- ,
Im. German Industrial sections and *
the "Invasion ports" The flash of
bomb explosions across Ute Strait
n down during
the RAF with
Oicratt M KmMmH &r||
raining bombs on power plants i
i« r. 1 *’j* i» zi t - 1 ,*-4 , \ c* iiivynoycd
; That aerial bomb which Master Serp Prank Newton is pooling none too
I gingerly at San Diego. Calif Is no plaything Newton head of the Bort
Ostend
Havre also
h> ■ pie,
Iha/f k>it
r'“ '
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• p
’ nsicic traffic
in front of othe
right moment
Foreign observers interpreted this
mean Spain would wait
friendship for
permit
to st • ;i
is understood
States on an
DECLINES REWARD FOR CAF-
TURING KIDNAPER
LOS ANGELES, Oct. l uP>—Ce-
cil Wetsel says he has declined his
sit are of the *25.000 reward for the
rescue of kidnaped three-year-old
Man- De Tristan Jr.
Bl 4.
ri- *
tcritk Monteriey
coupl for early this morning
an unidentified com-
were kill'd
det of the group fled In the dark-
Toothaker of '
R. Saturd"'- '*
|ta»f th- ■ “
TP’
Must Combat Raiders, Speed Exodua of
Women and Children and Provide Shelter
For Those Who Stay Behind.
War Department showed that 36.-
099 men had volunteered
September for three-vear
in the army Inasmuch as statis-
tics for the month will be coming
in for at least another 10 days, offi-
cials said they were confident that
the August record of 38,616 enlist-
ments would be topped by a sub-
stantial number
ievers.il to
lhe British
DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
fROUND 1
K ABOUT
INTOWN J
I By Ajift(xTatr<l Prraaj
Authoritative fascist quarters in Rome, predicting that.
England would probably "shout victory” and say that “Spain
resisted axis pressure,” acknowledged today that immediate
Spanish entry into the war was not an issue at conferences
started between Premier Mussolini and Spanish Minister Ra-
mon Serrano Sutler.
Thsse quarters assert* d that no , 1 ■" ' - ' ■ ' —-
Wide Areas in
in - mist and the shock of the blaete
on the French coast 20 miles away
rattled houses along the cHfb.
Ot-rman gun emplacements at
Cape Gris Nee and the port of
Calais, still burning with the Area
of British idng range gun shelling
during the day, were attacked hea-
vily
On
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a
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P Informed dog-men,
'Show
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Instructor Dies
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III Oct I
the MM’tle West
. Chairman
lhe heels of a removal of
trainloads of women and children
from the hard-hit poor district* of
London came official Advice tr :*
duce further the pofutatld^i w.
much as possible by transfer- x>
the country. -
For yesterday's toll th*- Brittah
TEN II KORS < IIOSEN KIR BE-
NAVIDEZ TRIAL
FI.IXVRADO Oct 1 *T>
had been named here
m
WASHINGTON. Oct. 1. —ytt—
The state departments reaction
was sought today on a broad pro-
posal sanctioning unrestricted fi-
nancial aid to Great Britain.
The proposal, offered by Senator
King iD-Utah>. would exempt Brit-
ain from the limitations of present
neutrality and other laws which
prohibit loans to belligerent or debt-
defaulting nations
Chairman Pittman (D-Nev> said
the Senate fdreign relat!'-'* com-
mittee. to which Kings .- -hrton
was referred after introdi*.. xi es-
terday, would await state deport,
meat views before considering the
measure
Besides permitting financial as-
sistance. the measure would etn-
txiwer the president, in furtherance
of the national defense program,
to enter into negotiations for ac-
quisition of strategic British island
possessions in the Pacific Thus the
wav might be opened for a deal
for air and naval bases In the Pa-
cific similar to those recently ac-
quired by the United States tn the
Atlantic In a trade for 50 destroy-
ers
Cloudy skies Tuesday held out a
' possibility me epening day ’s pro-
gram might Include rain
Ing vigilant and watchful over all
that happens In the European
world, readv at the opportune mo-
ment to use her rights and achleii-
even with arms her aspirations'
The "right moment" was believed
bv foreign circles to refer to tHr*
LONDON, (kt. I.— (AP)—With no end in sight to the
bombs which have fallen on Uindon dgy t-tnd night for 25
days. Britain’s capital in preparing for the severest winter
of war in its history. Its plan is three-fold—to combat the
German raiders with tin* strongest possible defense weapons.
li '■ Id you see Dr Wm. Magness
around —
While Fascists cast doubt on the | and early today.
| possibility of a formal Rome Ber-j '•*
Jin-Madrid alliance at present, the
Italian press seemed to take it for attacks
granted that Spam could be used
an axis base for attack
on Gibraltar
By tills means.
strategists apparently hoped to
DEMOCRACY THEME FOR TEX-
AS FEDERATED CLI BS
FORT WORTH Oct 1 —*4V-"To
Have and to Hold Democnuy." will
be the theme of the 1940 conven-
tion of ttie Texas Federation <
Women's Clubs to be held In the
club house in Austin. November 11-
14. I.....— '
land
here today.
WASHINGTON. Oct 1 —
Army officials said today volun-
tary enlistments In September con-
tinued to break pacetime records.
They predicted the month would
register another new high
Reports already received at the I before winter " "
British sources did not rule out.
,r'/iir'ng ' however, the possibility that heavy
.—........f j | f s|tcng ()f
shot
credited
3-to-l advantage
were listed as 1.071
planes and 2.709 fliers shot down;
British losses 319 planes, 156 fliers.
“Strong liefense"
Iximbrn's anti itn raft "archies"
blazefl into action tiuam tins morn-
i Ing as German raiders resumed a
set ics of night-lorn; attacks which
I the Nazi high command described
as "highly ucccsstul" despite a
"strong defense"
Four persons were killed and sev-
en wounded in North Ixmdon when
the attackers dumped high explo-
sives on a residential section
British raiders cut a wide swath
over Western and Norther! Ger-
many early todav and forced Ber-
| Un's millions underground for five
| hours and eight minutes In the
100 feet from the wreckage
apparently had
tempted too late a jump by para-
chute
Flying Cadet Raymond M Smith
of Stamford. Conn , jumped safely
when the plane got into trouble
the
I the
tilled
to overflow- I
I
The Klingenberg pouT-r nation
*lso was 'heavilv b««>h«t " rail-
ways were hit and a factory set on |
yWl.iw*W*»yillliilWj|W.IJUiyF
Street. which
from Bill McKee W M
I lek* Brownlow, who has been in
‘J transfer business off and
. lyMrs and years, has < harge of
‘j transfer and storage end
buMness
iV ---
ay before
gave him a
jentlrman".
itenda giving him
I Have Known."
longest alann yet in the Nazi cap-
ital
Berlin authorities sajd only one
bomb fell in the city proper It I
caved In walls of apartment houses
| and blasted a huge street crater, j
Authority
totlav tlia’
.tr. into die
was not an Issue at
tills
Mussolini
Fi ancisco
government
Government tor<*s rccentlv ptir-
u*’d similat small bands of rebels
.*nd outlaws in Chihuahua. Tamati-
'.ipa, anil M 1< h. i:u I la n .tales Most
of tlie.se groups were reported to
have siii i cndei eil
Almazan liiinsell
to be in ’h*' Knifed
extended vac.11 ion
Although lie claimed to have won
th*- tmb'ilent .lulv presidential clec-
an *n ei w helming majority.
opjxin-
General Manuel Avila Cama-
has been officially proclaimeti
FREDERICKSBURG. W Vw.,
Oct 1 --<>Pi- Winifred L. Wwt-
klna of Richmond and Winifred
L. Watkins of Birmingham.
Mich., are having a tough
time as freshmen at Mary
Washington College here
"I’ve a letter from your boy
friend." said the Richmond
Miss Watkins to Mias Watkins
of Michigan
"And I’ve got a letter from
your boy friend," replied the
latter.
I. and Mrs E L Brown have
L ed from Floydada, whete they
J ueats of Ed and Fred Brown,
Denton citizens. Those
boys, even though they
from Denton many yetus
• «d the Record-Chronicle *«•
E. L Brown said, "and be-
i one of the best papets that
ubacribe for Both the boys
lone mighty well since they
t>*nton. but they still Drink ot
y.on as home."
T. (.'. Band Tonight
Tonights program, featuring the
Teachers College band, a dog a*’1
and a fancy skating performance
by the local team of Cassidy Broth-
ers. is expected to draw a big at-
• tendance. If the threal of showers t;le morning
; fails to materialize
Many to Be Removed
After a tour of bombed areas
Harry Willink special comnrlssion-
‘ '' parade'’beginning was slated for er for rehousing the homeless, told
I
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main for the present is that ot tie- I
tint! bv
lit. adininxstt at ten-backed
(•nt
i ho
TO MEET SEVEREST NNTER OF.
WAR IN NATION’S HISTORY
WASHINGTON. Oct 1. —(/Pi-
President Roosevelt s message to held for stronger defenses
the men subject to conscription Is Observers reason that the gov-
"that eaeh of us must willingly do eminent .s efforts are not the result
his bit tf we are to hold fast our of any (xirticular change in the
heritage of freedom and our Amer- ( situation but merely are an effort
lean way of lite—our national ex- j to get in the best possible shape
before the cold weather sets in
At the same time the admiralty
to every man who registers on Oct. disclosed that British shipping had
Jolt of the war in ;
21 bv ac- >
that Nazi "ibmarines 1
had sunk 19 British vessels totaling
131.857 tons The loss of three al-
lied and five neutral ships brought
the total tonnage loss to 159.288
tons—almost three times the pre-
vious weekly average
permits issued at
aecretarv's office for t ic
SPAIN TO DELAY WAR ENTRA
LONIXiN, Oct 1—(>P>- Violent
in Berlin. Mannheim
and elsewhere in Germany follow- '
cd widespread RAF raids last night
J —; t;,(, Alr Ministry j
I news service declared In a sum- s
imiry of the air force's continuing ‘
” ’s
For over three and a half hours I
I heavy bombers, which had slipped I
past the German t.r.D
the Nazi-Fascist i
it al t
j w in* h already had been damaged
in previous raids, the summary
I said
! The German invasion bases" at
I Dunkerque, Calais Ostend Bou-
I logne. Lorient and lx-
j were pounded
service said the
m Berlin, hit
identified by
STRUT FOOD RATIONING FOR
ALL FRANCE
VICHY. Fiance. Oct 1 DIN
Stringent food rationing went into
.... full effect throughout France to-
J Flynn of the Democrat ic1 day as restaurants were ordered to
tn- serve no restricted food -such as
and cheese- without
ration tickets from pa-
dt.h
IQr
V Tt Gdne who has been in charge
lhe weather bureau at* Dallas
; a good many years, Is to re-
i todai so it's possible that we
Bhave some brand of weather
MlBited by the cotton and pea-
^growers and even the Denton
|M|y Fair Association isn’t call-
J*r a rain on its opening day
Be Fair grounds was a busy
■ Monday night wiUi hundreds
| hundreds of people filling the
knds. especially the Dee Lang's
kival section. The Carnival was
full swing and doing a good
tness while Die rest of the
fids was filled with people get-
| booths and displays in order.-
I the winner
’ ’I 7'"“j The "right momcn’ win bc;t*-ve.| I
home is In Sandv, Utah, was found u , ... I
' bv foreign circles to refer to the |
time when Britain's collapse would
appear imminent, for it is general-
ly agreed that Spain is incapable
of fighting a protracted war so soon
after emerging from her (trvitall,:-
ing civil war
British planes bombed an Italian
airfield on the North African front l
as well as a Libvan base, the Ital-
! tan high command announced to-
day. but lost two planes
Italian planes bombed British
camps and armored cars and two
] railroad stations in the Anglo-
its communique
STATE TURKEY PRODUCTION
OFF EIGHT PER CENT
AUSTIN. Oct 1 —4#>-Texw tur-
key production for 1940 Is estimated
to be eight per cent below last
year's output for a total of 3,536.000
birds.
f themselves wishing they
in the best small city of 'em
Barring weather complications.
Denton County Fair officials ’were
expecting a record crowd to pack
downtown streets this afternoon, to
view the Patriotic Parade launch-
ing the five-day show
Gates at the fair grounds were
open Tuesday morning to permit
exhibitors hurrying with installing
displays-and putting livestock into
pens to move in and out of the
grounds easily
At I p. in the gates were closed
and thereafter admission was by
ticket, and first officials attendance
I Rosecrans ordnance department and recognized armv authority on com- at the 1940 fair begun
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j pected to join the axis as a full-
fledged partner
"Helping Hand"
Well-informed sources in Berlin
I said meanwhile that German di- |
I plomacy is lending a "helping 1
hand to bung together the axis'|
I new lairtner. .Ja|xui. and 1... ....
foe. Russia, in a non-aggression
pact
| bustion said lie had developed a new construction method increasing
i bomb's destructive capacU} 50 fold Army ordnance officers ure experl-
| mentlng with ti e new bomb construction
west I . — 7". ".
“ ‘SPAIN MAY BE
Mac-
i the Donald Ixird Woolton. minister of .
allow food, announced that 58 emergen- reported 47 German planes downed
*' “ ‘ ‘ ~™“' 10 22 British, with 12 British pilots
saved
British figures on planes shot
September credited
a three-to-one ad-
vantage German losses Were listed
as 1,071 planes and approximately
2,700 filers shot down The British
acknowledged the loss of 319 planes
and 156 fliers.
to «|x*<‘d an exodus of fwonien and children to more sparse-
ly settled and thus less lx>nil>ed, areas; to give those who
must stay the utmost shelter.
After another night-long series . bombs exploded tn 27 scattered sec-
of attacks broken off just before tions of the city. ' »
dawn, Ixmdon s anti-aircraft guns1 An air ministry odoununique said j
roared Into action again tills morn- I German bombers destroyed a num-
Ing against scattered German raid- ' ber of houses and caused casualties
ers | In a northeastern suburb but de-
Early this afternoon several i dared ' reporta indicate that dam-
bombs fell in a Uilckly settled age generaUy lias not been exten- 1
southwest Ixmdon district and there 1 slve nor the number of casualties
were believed to have, been casual- j large '
ties A raider who penetrated to the I
Central London area disappeared to- | of Liverpool,
ward the southeast amid a burst
of anti-aircraft shells and followed ’ particularly
by a patrol of British fighters
One German
have been that which earlier was
reported to have strafed a train In
a southeast London station, crash-
ed In Surrey after a fight with a
Hurricane
Three other raiders were reported of Dover glowed red through the
shot down out of formation 1..
Dorsetshire when British fighters
attacked a flight of about 15 which
crossed the southwest coast late In
wram .dieth foolish men,
t>vy ..la cth the silly ones.—
consequence of a
British blockade lx-ing clamped on
Spain and yet to utilize Spain lor
I an assault on Britain s great rock
I fortress winch guard.-, the west gate
of the Mediterranean
Italian circles in Rome indicated
| that Spanish Geiu ralr simo
| cisco Franco inten u-d to
n Den on this weekT-the lien- ou( ()( (|ii, nn|1| ,h ,
Transfer <t Storage. Ben 1 I rl'uh, .
Ten
jurors had been named here at |
11 30 n m todav for the trial of I
Emlliano Benavidez, charged with |
the slaying of Henry’ Calcote in ]
this county last Sept 5. and two
motions of the defense for con-
tinuance or postponement had been
overruled.
ROME. Oct 1 - !’■
five sources d*x lured
immediate Sfainish
war
conferences started
between Premier
I Generalissimo
minister of |
Serrano Sutler
Italo - German
Spain, it was said, will not
pressure upon Spain
tn the war
were said
aim
New Defense Method
Whether the defense would be a
new combat plan or a new night
anti-aircraft weapon—-or both—was
not dlscloeed
It came as comforting news to
Londoners emerging from chill air
raid Shelters after their 24th con-
secutive night of attack in which
Schools Approved
Col Theodore K Spencer, assist-
ant adjutant general and inspector
for tire R O T C . will recom-
mend to the U. S War Department
the establishment of a R O T C
unit In the Denton public schools,
he announced here Tuesday morn-
ing after looking over the material
equipment of the school system.
The unit, if and when established,
will be open to boys of 14 or over,
and will be optional, according to
Supt, R C Patterson An appli-
cation for such a unit has been on
file with the department for many
months, but as similar requests
have been made by hundreds of
schools there is no information as
to when or ever such a unit will be
loca'ed here. Patterson said
EAST TEXAN: Generally Datf *W-
niffM; Wednesday partly elendy. Ip-
ral showers In extrenis Mrlkasd
portion. Gentle to modarsto awU-
east to mitheMt wind* an tlto
coast.
WEST TEXAS: FaHly etondy to-
night. Wedneadwy fair. Rttto dtaRfiP
in tomporalnre.
OKLAHOMA: OpmnI
northwest and extranae «aaU
east and sopih tonteal; PM
light ahowaEa aoplbaart Pdf
east; raatee nirthMM teto
Wednesday gMMP^y Mff.
MONTGOMERY. Ala Oct
1 lx An officer-instructor
stuck to his controls until a flying I
student cadet parachuted to safety. I
was killed today when an army |
training plane crashed in a woods
about 10 miles southwest of Mont-
gomery
Tire body of Second Lieutenant
T Ostler air reserves, whose
Tiie important shipping section
the Midland* and
several other parts ot the country,
pwrtk’ulsrly Southeast England,”
| were attacked, the communique
cy feeding centers have been open-
ed for the homeless tn London
"More than 22 000 school chil-
dren have been evacuated from
London in the last two weeks."
MacDonald said "Many more ought
to go
Intensification of
paredness comes at a time when the
Nazi air siege seems to be letting
up slightly and when jiromise Is
May Be Base
In general the FUsci-t press r<-
... y-, i .fleeted >< belief that Spam cmild
f lane Ijraslies t*1 used m the axis -elnin*- as i
base for attack on Gibraltar wi'ti-
I out entering into an outright mill
< tarv alliance
I II Popolo di Roma declared
"Spain's position as it will re-
SPOKANF Wash Oct 1
*4’» Marion Hogan peeked out
of *h*’ el*' . n1 or he opera' es
•.OlKll’d the starting handle
’Arid the <tivul"d doors snapped
on tils neck
For 20 'minutes he gaped at a
crowd gathered outside while a
building engineer climbed Into
the elevator through a trap
door at the
the doors
Hogan emerged "unhurt but
uncomfortable "
such pressure had been brought to
bear on Spam -despite an appar-
ently synchronized barrage of dls-
patches from Berlin and Rome re-
♦t ng the grass around Fred j stilly stating that Spam was^ex-
tfil i i home, or see Fred mowing ‘
ar. c.iclon lawn, don't get xclted
jt’g 'hia Way—Fred enjoys mowing
|i*i < -testa the trimming while the
” lor is just Die opposite, as he
• trimming and hates mowing
of you who have dogs that '
I filsh to enter in the Dog show
[ho Fair this year should get In
Ih with Otis Fowler or Carton
liaon The Show gives promise
being a better one than was
Elost year, and the dog . anclers
»1kt will be going some a- last
Mt gave a lot of entertainment , “C
fg-lovers Truman StroOd and < 0,1
Underwood two of Denton’s I
will assist | ])eve 3pHln of H forthright declara- |
tion of war against England- with I
i the inevitable
p days? Got lumbago or spinal I
lature or sump'n?
p he has to walk that wav — .
Lome “shirts his wife made for I
i * t. m
school
a rpr'
.ervice pro ibly in
,e county, oth ' than
But when y* know
well realize tl >t It Is
that he holds out so Quarters
i lie's the kind of tel *w who [
good at anything hr does.
I
' hav e
BERLIN Oct 1 -1’)—German ]
diplomacy, according to usually
wi ll-informed sources. Is lending a
1 helping hand toward an effort to
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Russia and ,la(*an together , Bncj tpP |WO victorious axis powers '' upped off polue
Zurzosa was re|>orted to have en-
< retlv. timing his
1J39 it
’mbered, however, that
biggest building pe-
I story of t “ town
rxnes are r “ to be
and the ncreasc
nonths may bring
with that ot
... the Mannheim railway yards '
the bursts of bombs was followed
alm'xst at once by a violent explo-
sion and then by a whole "line ol
explosions so fierce and bright that
Gin aircraft were lit up by them "
The fliers decided they hud hit 1 European
either ammunitio ntrains or a
lies ol dumps
00 wounded
imes greater '
.allies of 1 .
voti*' n d
Ine <nc, capitals 8 000 000
li '-nd btivhier new.--, however. wlPin
th“v merged from underground
. .eltii.s after lhe 24th consecutive
( night of air attack to i. ad in their
'morning newspaper that a new de-
fense svstem is Ix-niK developed to
combat the Nazi bombing assault
We • an hope to stop night raids
—official ' said n headline m Ixird
Beaverbrooks Daily Express. The
InUwspapci quoted hii’.li official
[quarters that Britain would soon
'have "a complete answer to night
bombing "
British figures on planes
I down during September
I the RAF witli
[German losses
Arthur O McNltzky Post,
h each year during the Den-
County Fair has operated
ntry Store", changed
1 and again offer Hu
i a chance to trade wui
q- months ago. they
conduct tl
It r >tails
upod
Uie ti
fiRa never realizes wha' a good ,
Exnton Is until he goes to an- ,
place." said Bob Fowler "II
S believe the people here ap-
Lfete what a really fine city
lion is. but If they will go some-
irtclse to live for a while they'll |
■ newspaper Tu-mpo said mll-
.iilthonties descended on Zar-
is adherents after one
• alarmed b\ tin- pro-
th*- iejKirteci plot, had
Hunt Sa f etc
For the first time, all Londoners
able to do to were urged to leave
lhe city for safer havens In the
■ountrvsid. The systematic re-
moval ot mo;hers and children from
he London «rea was extended, and
■•■’ood Minister Lord Woolton an-
ounced that 58 emergen* v feeding
'ations hud been o|xned In the
vpitol to feed families bombed out
f their homes
Coincidently, it whs estimated
lat London's casii.iltv toll tor Sep-
-■mber totalled 5 00*> killed anti 8,-
appi oxiniatelv
.n the August
■ killed and
bring I
j *n u non-aggTession pact. I
The axis powers, so far as can
be learned, are not endeavoring to j SRy that "Spain resisted axis prrs-
jM-rsuade the Soviet Union to ad- , surp" pqf, tIvftt no such pressure
here to the new Rome Berlin-To- I had been brought to l>car
k.vo alliance, although the pact in-
vited all nations so desiring to cast
their lot with the "three youthful
nations
Declaring they had heard Lon-
don rumors that Germany Is put-
ting out fveace feelers, these author-
ized sources reiterated
"Tlic war is being pursued with-
out compromise Peace can come
only after victory."
crt’zy 't i
■
VUKS
.j ,^'.<4,1
Ml
fr-.
Foi
and t
Job 2 ’
* ». n. u gnaws a gannerit, so
consume a man.—Chrys-
jlver Scott of Amarillo who has
the guest of his grandfather
— H. Blackwell. returned home
\—|day He said. You fellows
*\A brag too much about Denton's
’Mr supply and I sure thank you
j he most excellent water while
'* js'here.”
' ^e
(
MONTERREY Mexico Oct I
■ 4'* Police and soldiers todav shot
In di.iiii Hilgmtic: General Andres
Zaizo-a. *>ld friend ot Juan An-
dren Almazan losing candidate for
inornm*.’ pt".-idiii' to smash what they de-
and clued was a revolutionary plot to ,
Frnncv's -cize the garrison, governors pal-i
ace and oilier state and io* al Of - |
ti* ers
Authorities said
restored order and
qUU't m Montein v
Several persons
under arrest
Th*'
itarv .
'0--.1 and In.'
ot Hi* latter
portions ot t
! that "all
leave should "
Extension of the mother-and-
chlltf removal when to iflcdvdo
14 London borougtis was announced
in the bicycle, pets and twins by Health Minister Malconn
will be judged, and ' —‘-'*-
y car's
SPR1NOFIEIX)
**- - - Claiming the M
of President Roosevelt,
ward «
national committee contended to-1 serve no
Mrs Joseph M Perkins of East- day that Wendell L Wlllkle thus meat, bread
d. state president, “announced far "has raised nfi real issue" in! receiving
lhe presidential campaign. < irons.
the
first
Months of 1949 total W30 288
Mimately *30,009 under the
■ponding period for
le re-
; first talk
' with Mussolini was finished nt 12 ■
' 35 p m Serrano Sutler then wenl
j to lunch with Italian Foreign Min-
ister Count Galeazzo Ciano
Foreign observers said they be-
lieved Serrano Suner and Mussolini
would put the touches to an
Tlie
power
. . . | mat npanisn nenerau simo Fran- ' week,
business has been launch-I c(sco „.(l lo g,.,.,,1 flams
I S|mm out ot the couth* t 'until Die | A tew minutes after the first
------- „ right moment stuk ot bombs had fallen there was (
owner, and is located a Foreign observers interpreted this a large explosion and numerous
Ito mean Spain would wait until t fires marked the success of the at-
' Britain s collapse appeared inunin-, tack." It reported It <„ -
ent before jumping off the neutral-' wtth these deails.
Ity fence much a* Ilajv waited un-
l til France was virtually i>rostratc
Anno this seeming
| axis diplomatic coups,
'admiralty acknowledged that Brit-
; ish shipping suffered its worst jolt
of lite war in Hie week ending Sept.
23. with a loss ot 19 British, three
allied and five neutril .9ii|v total-
ling 1.592K8 tons, oi almost three
times tlie previous weekly average.
A Brltlsli spoke.‘:r *n said Hie sea
I destruction tndical .nc a great in-
creased Nazi U-boa' campaign, was
part ot Adolf IlltlTs attempt to
end th*' war liel 't* winter"
Th*' 'pokesman di.counted
losses, however declaring thal
'convoy system liud already I
| England s warehouses
I Ing
While I ondon's millions seemed
assured c' a plentiful tixxi supply
i for the winter, an ominous oflu ial
note was stru* k m the lat*' of Hie
bomb-torn capital itself
i 4 p m . with the long line of march adults
forming at Congress Avenue, com-
BY AXIS POWERS PLOT IS NIPPED
Mil l-rt* I - -
i i sections
' first awards of this
given
Group Surrounded
Zarzosa and ins followers
surrounded about 2 a m
which they iiad rented and were I
reported to have opened tire on the [
soldiers u|xm the latter's demand
that they surrender
Tile troops returned the fire and |
,.,v y ... .... Zarzosa and
understanding defining Spam s part panion
In Italian-German plans to con-
quer Gibraltar
Th*’ remain- 1
istence itself "
The president's message will go
iv y til j moil n **v i v v,
16 In tht guide book which is de- 1 taken its worst
signed to provide the registrant, the week ending Sept
with all the information he needs knowledgmg that Nazi
on the workings ** “■*
service machinery.
More Shipping lost
Informed quarters, speculating on
the reason for the sudden increase
In losses, expressed belief the Ger-
might have pressed French
and Italian submarines into serv-
I Ice.
"We must be prepared for these
things.” they said, as part of Adolf
I Hitler's attempt to etui the war
hitches josses might
luck, and said that aftci all they
were not serious tn view ot ttif pre-
vious successes ot convoys which
have filled England s warehouses to
overflowing
Four jjersons were killed and
seven Injured tn a North Ixmdon
district In the morning when high
explosive bombs struck a residen-
tial area
Other raiders were sighted over
other parts of England
Two Nazi planes attacked a
Welsh town, dropping Incendiary
and high explosive bombs Raiders
were reported in the vicinity of a
southeast coast, town and also over
two southeast coast towns shortly
before noon.
London, meanwhile count inr an
estimated 5.000 dead and 8’tOO
wounded in almost incessant Sep-
tember air raids, received "official
assurances' that new defense sys-
tem is being develoited to meet,
night attacks—source of a majority
of the casualties.
Inspired articles In the London
press quoted high official quarters
that the new defense should be
in operation In from one to three
months.
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