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1944
RED CROSS WAR FUND
39TH YEAR, NO. 90
FRIDAY. MARCH
CLEBURNE, TEXAS.
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PRICE FIVE CENT!
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FURIOUS FIGHT ALONG
ITALIAN BATTLEFRONT
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Enemy Supply
Lines North of
Rome Attacked
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Lt. Oran Smith
Addresses Lions
Former Cleburne
Man in VPSF
Berlin Still
Burning After
Third Day Raid
Final Totals for
Fourth War Loan
Red Cross Fund
Doubled Thursday
* Legion Continues
Post-War Plans
Prizes to Be
Given at Waste
Paper Matinee
Irvin S Cobb
Dies in New York
2 Cleburne U of T
Students Get
Degrees by Mail
New Baby, Fire
Are Reported at
Harwell Home
AMERICA’S
MINUTE
PRAYER
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NEW YORK. Mar. to (U.RF-Ir-
vin 8. Cobb, famous author, died
lire,
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Employees Get
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Last Rites for
C. B. Donovan to
Japanese Planes
Attack Eniwetok
New Fight Over
Food Subsidy
Program Near
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Burial council
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the food
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Phil Wat-
Johnson
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< ’p'ar < rlinit ion
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I SAN ANTONIO. Mar 10 'UP'
|C. C, Prader, 200-pound dumping
foreman at Randolph Field,
stood charged with murder without
Buster,
■hock
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REDS POUND GERMANS IN UKRAINE
RAF HITS LARGE AIRCRAFT PLANT
12 1 | 2
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for l
mean- 1
of an group some of the benefits of Ute
Red Cross aa he had seen them.
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17 am. EWTi to-
A meeting of Farrrtl1* cab-
also was scheduled *fqr ' this
lilianee.s ot the
better condition
i been with all
coin.lv parti-
I
Everything is in readiness for
the waste paper matinee to be lield
Saturday morning at the Yale The-
ater at 10:30 o’clock for the bene-
fit of the Red Cross. 'Ihe matinee
Is sponsored by the local Boy Scout
Troops.
A truck will be in front of the
theater at 8:30 o'clock to receive
paper and youths may begin turn-
ing in their bundles al that time.
Each bundle must weigh at least
26 pounds, be securely tied and con-
tain paper of the same type Maga-
zines, newspapers and cardboards
must not be mixed.
A prise of *5 00 will be given
to the youth bringing in the great-
est amount of paper. Second prise
is M OO. third prise, »2.00 and other
prises will be given to others bring-
ing in large amounts
Our Heavenly Father. Thou
dost give richly unto all Tliy
children Grant unto us Thine
own Spirit tiiat We may use
the temporal posesssions with
which we have been endowed
so as ta develop eternal char-
acter wlylch shall live t^tever.
In Jesus' name, we ask Amen
.......
Si ART OF AN AIRFORT—War rubble covers site of proposed Allied airport, on sandy plain
near Netluno. Italy But American equipment makes short work ot clearing area Engineers
quickly will cover ground with steel matting and soon planes will be taking oh to provide air
protection lor Allied ground fighters.
i -Decrees are
291 Onivcrsity
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Regular meeting " of the flTty
council will be held tonight at
the City Hall at 7:80 o'clock.
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British Units on
Beachhead Beat
Off German 1 h rust
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the unremitting
Amertcan and ]
’The RAF kept
n a round
the
Fund Treasurer, D C. Carpenter. I No commencement ceremony was
On Thursday afternoon the mem-1 help since many ot the graduates
bers of lire colored Red Cross unit I were Navy students who were com-,
met to plan their campaign for | missioned on Feb. 2« and ordered
funds among the Negro citizens of, to active duty.
Cleburne. They set as their goal,
MOO and leaders In the various I
zones were appointed '
One of the highlights of the
meeting was a talk by H. R Phil-
lipa, lormar prefeetpr, who is now
stationed with the U. 8. Army
at Pbrt Ord. Calif. He told the
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HUKAWNC
VAUfY
today in his apartment at the Sher-
aton Hotel
Oobb had been ill for several
months and was in a coma for
24 hours before his death which
* 1 10da a.m. cwt. Mn
---- — with hhn.
I trfrhisfifnas were badly damaged by
! s fire caused by a defective flue.
The mother and baby were moved
[ to the home of a 1 _
were reported tc be getting alone
nicelv
’ Firemen from the Central Sta-
tion extinguished the blaoe. Fin
Chief Dewey Jiles ztsted today
that damage to the contents waa |
about MOO and about MOO to the
house.
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Navy
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Piuses wire
t.ihuin” 'n-in 4
Applic.tf ions hr '1
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11 'Till h 2rallied
i li iK’l la i ion
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crew
I stood cnargea wnn mui....
I malice today after W A
26. of Junction died from
as a. result of a fist fight
The red line of the Red Cross
thermometer climbed to just short
of $28oo this morning, when
total receipts for Thursday were)
deposited. The total in the bank;
1s 12712 90. which is a gain of
$1386 50 over the $1327 40 reported grades
Thursday, according to the '
P.' <>1)01 til ( ijlvest'i
Ch 'Junie. u;;s t.ib 16 Mavor I H
r< < rnilv K’( rived <•< i;it: • fust prize ol $.> 00
’,u 1,1 t gn I who brums i
hls-L < u <». rtHHHHd ol
urn■ i
Members <f C E DeLarm Pos'.
Amerii'iin Legion, met. Thursday )
i ' veiling at the Legion Hall in reg-
ular session
Routine business was transacted
i and tne members continued work !
I on their post-war plans regarding j
...c enlargement of the present
j and ^employment of re-
turning veterans
Ml.Pl
today
. Gragg, accused
of murdering his wile by drown-
, after the defense rested its
case without presenting any wit-
nesses .
Since the state's case was based
solely on circumstantial evidence,
the defense, losing two pleas for
instructed verdicts of not guilty,
rested on the contention that the
prosecution had not proved to a
moral certainty and
elusion of every other reasonable
hypothesis that Gragg had
dered his wife
Due to the many inquiries that
have ben received by residents of
Hie city who do not live on paved ;
streets or cn streets where there
is no curb, the Boy Scouts arc ex-,
tending their canvass of residences ;
tor the painting .if house
bers to tin entire city
will be painted on steps
oilier convenient place where curbs
lire not available
A largo number ol residents were
net at home when the canvass
v as begun last week If these
should decide to have their house
numbers painted, they may eitiier
call phone 903 and leave their re-
quest or see the boss when they
begin the painting in their neigh-
borhood
'Bi United Press^
I he R< il Ai'tnv ixttinded at
the Geimans in tlie Ukraine
it I "th ends of
ai'cliiti"'
Poland 1
es <>f the Dnieper.
in the west, the German Luft-
! vatli staggcrod asatnst. the ropes
Ulld’T
ol 'lie
I ■ rocs
l< nsivr
basis ;
Poland
railway
in on Pnkurov.
on the line
. the verge of severing the last sup-
ply link >t the Gennans except,
the inadequate single track lines
Bia k-
Bru-
iut, scoutmaster ot East Hender-
son Troop 213 and H <’ Custard.
I chairman of finance commit tee
He started I
l'i' in
ma iked .T2 ycai
Willi the Santa Ic H<
loll man al ill.
at Ul f line ol Ins
! Russians Fight
In Streets of
C !■'
merly ol
mrtl wlm
'otion raids advani nig
Jhe position ol so trim i>
in the Vohint.'i Poo
Ip'oiec
'I he VEST’ wa oi.ihIh.o
i iugo dc.stim <| on i in
IiUtc.s and Alhiil ni.fion.s
sabotage and sinnlai perils
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| A promi'.i’ "I
! I'b ’’ nnnu’i mil I-,
P Wolco” R
mmoritv member "I the
(ommittee AHI.(men !.1\nrtiu ;jri< e
control extension- Uk act new ls
scheduled to expire June 30 Wol-
cott ’dd Republican's would tuht
tiiesc :na.|oi chaiige.s
^•’lonim t mn of .'ons-m r I od
v emrird n h> ine
cone t ''ssioii 11 .<ii' h"i •
Johnson County exceeded
$60,978 the quota of $706,000,
t^e Fourth War Loan Dnve.
Curding to the letter received to-
day by Judge Roy Anderson from
C. R Hendricks, of Fort Worth,
regional manager.
The final Official tabulation of
rales m furnished by the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas is $339,-
682 in Series ■ sales for Johnson
County and $1M,#78 for the total
rales |n th« cMm$y. Hendricks
stated ths, this Is ths - -
i|ln Whioh each county in the __________ .... ...
Fort Worth region topped ita over-ured ,M of an inch and
ail quota. , inch this morning.
There will be no house-to-house
_
Saturday morning matinee coileo- COUNCIL TO MEET
tton at the Yale Theater by some - -
S I* wort’eotto,“
J,’ -v . ■ ■ f.. «'■'
the first drive today when the sun shone for
“•“ty in the brief time. Rain last night
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L‘l < il J li Sinil Ii .11 , nuule
talk al tlie Lions Club loday
Ims just irei'iiilv ret.min'd
Indi.i wlr >*■ In1 liai. been stationed
lor Hie past IK months as a pilot
in ihr U S Army Au Corps
He told many interesting experi-
ences. and answered questions of
tlie various members in regard to
war activities where he lias been.
Lt Smith also Kild ol the wonder-
ful work that he had actuallv seen
tlie Red Cross do
Miss Nora Schhepei played two
piano solos, "Indian Love Call, and
"Easter Parade "
Carl Butler and Lee Brumley ai-
'anged the program,
A C 'Tex i Bayless was mdticl-
ed into tile club by President Irwin
Ward
Guests ol the cluli were H I)
Stenson, Joe Scott of Dalias, Lynn
Brandon of Fort VVortli George
Edwards, Sheriff Oran Smith and
Bill Stiles of Alice.
on the ground al Itabaul
ton attack, and
dropped 65 tons ol
apai airdrome on New Ireland.
In the Central Pacifte, a navy
search plane shot down a Japanese
medium bomber between Eniwetok
and Truk, and army and navy air-
:ralt combined m a raid on five
enemy positions in the Marshalls
Mail’ll 10
apoarrnil\
liases, .it-
.. in the M.'i
'■hall Tslmi.ls Wedncsdm
cd only Ij'tie damage- i
in uni'cd ycsford'i.v
Althorgh no details ,.|
were given in a Pacific fl>ot
enemy bombei:-
to
to the ex-
pll: loi
ciat mg
Rumsey G VV Carrigan
Derby, Card Heath. John F
tier and J w Cummings
v 111 be m .... ........
I with Dillon A Sons
| the arrangements
I Honorary pallbearers will
(members of the Santa Fe
tpc employees
l”the Santa I
I
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I V l I I '< A': It 11" a a.m1. ' on gilt I
'am hi ca t I'lid tciilh pa; lion
to . lion", winds m nuili pom>n
Hourly 8 » io
Temperature 48 48 48
There was plenty of excitement
fit the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Forest Harwell. 945 North Border
street. Thursday
A baby ton was born to Mrs.
Harwell early Thursday morning.
Ljitcr in the , day, the house and
A ’T
uwitt is J I»° y
_SANOOWA DP o V t
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200 300
AUSTIN. March 10
In mg conferred on !
i f Texas graduates by mail, the ' ||’1(,
j building
winter semt stci I .
29. but final i
>rted1 grades have just ben turned in j I
War | mid the graduation list compiled . il
> commencement ceremony was |,
PEARL HARBOR.
he 'OP -Japanese planes,
flying from Carolines
i.liked Enhvrtok Atoll
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a
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28, and ordered j
The list of gtaduates Includes:
Cleburne: Bachelor of Arts. Clyde
Hanen Tsaacks; Bachelor of Busi-
nl'ss Aidininisti attion, Frederick
Dwight Dickson.•••
Glen Rose. Bachelor at Business
Administration. Ann Whynama
Roden. <
Designate student graduated
with highest honors. >
illy United Press>
US maimes, paced by General
I Sherman medium tanks, have driv-
en to withm two miles ol Talasea.
1 and American planes have opened
heavy attacks on the Japanese base
on Willaumez. Peninsula in New
, Bi Ham it was disclosed today .
The tanks, mounting 75-nun guns.
: protected the Hanks of the Amer-
ican forces and knocked out sev-
eral enemy pillboxes in tlie drive
down the casletti side of tlie pen-
insula. only 170 miles west ot the
big eiii my bastion ot itabaul, at
" rfte mui henstein up o| the island.
Strengthen Positions
Ano'i ii'iin no Los Negros in Hie
Ailmir.iity Islands also wore
11' i igl 11' 11111;: then positions and
Aincnciili wnii.hip., mid lipply ves-
<'ls mo\<'d mto .Scadler Harbor
uilliuut mt ci lerence planes were
operating Irom Momotc airfield and
apparently carried out the newly- I
. disclosed attacks on Lorengau and |
'the north coast of Manus, the main
Admiralty’ island
Virtually isolated Japanese .forces
On Bougainville, in
I Solomons, attempted
I attack on American
j Torokina. but their
silenced
H
Aim rii an
Stunt saw in .smith's communi-
cation an indication that the lieu-
tenant governor plans to match
strength with the governor in the
summer's political campaign, but
his letter said he "waived any per-
( sonal political Interest or consldera-
t firm.".......— ■ ------------—J- -
Possibility that Stevenson ' and
I Smith might meet for a personal
I discussion, was seen in presence
| of both in North Texas. Smith’s
letter was released here last night
while he was In Arlington and the
governor is a few miles from there
tor the opening of Ute Fort Worth
Fat Stix'k Hhow
Smith's contention that it is tlie
governor's constitutional duty to
convene the Legislature is summed
up in a paragrapli of a three-page,
t ingle-spaced, ty|x>d letlcr in which
he contends sole |>owcr to pass upon
tax questions Is given tlie Legis-
lature and that by refusing to call
a session, the governor usurps that '
power
In effect, governor, j Johnson. 64. Dallas furniture man.
who succumbed yesterday to burns
received earlier In the day In an
explosion which occurred
started to light a kitchen
which line! developed a leaky
i nection
Aiiiei i< an I >laiic.s
( )p<’l 1 A t I <H k (Hl
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WASHINGTON
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,l u Lb id v
ivur*jr
boys I leaders
Rouse ?iid
Pike Control
NF.I'AI. ) [CHINDWIN ZlVfZ |
7,V —
GAUHATI
lje
super-
\isor.v hirers, tbe employees ol Hie
<’opperr shop alAhe »Santa Fe. and
the inrmbei-s of the board of dea-
cons ol the Fir^t Baptist Church.
Donovan whs liom m Sf'Juia. Ala.
<m May 7. 1876 He started Io woik
for Ila Santa Fe m Galveston,
and last Noveinbci
of selva•••
was ( opprrsiiLil h
local .-hops lirre
death
Survivors include (hr
daughters, a brother
grandchildren
k-3
DISCHARGE FILED
Harry Erie Shultz Jr,
riaaz v-12. hM received an
otHblc discharge from tt»
Aued at New Orleans on Feb.
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A .GrH m,11s
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Akyab
■SAN ANTONIO, Mar 111
Mrs Bernice Duffin. 22.
charges of
GIVE MORE
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BAN ANTONIO. Mar 10 (U Pi
A three-man holdup gang was one
iqan short today and the other
two were In jail charged with at-
tempted robbery
The third member. Marfcarito
Vaile/., 19. was shot and killed by
Thomas Mayes, filling station at-
tendant, as the trio attacked him
after seeking aid In fixing a
Vallcz struck Mayes witli a
tool, while the other
the attendant, Mayes told officers
1)1,1 i H
It W,< .
I Governor Expected To Ignore Request
bFor Special Session on Soldier Vole
flank ;
Of the beachhead beat elf a Ger- |
man thrust around the headwaters j
of the Moletta River, southwest
of Aprilla, while American in-
fantrymen halted several Nazi at- I
tacks southeast of the town
Heavy Casualties
Heavy casualties were inflicted
on onr enemy patrol attacking tlie
American positions, and ■ the Ger-
mans called a temixirary truce t<
peimit I he removal ot their dead
and wotmt'i d under the-protection
if a Rod Cross flag
Brisk skirmishing and artillery ,
exchanges inntinued on Hie main i v°t'ing requirement that blocks
5tb Army front around Casshiu , volc *01’ most Texas soldiers,
at.q in the lower Garigliano val- ■ i"a.v Meet
ley. where high waters and mud i
pinned the bulk of the opposing I
armies to their trendies and fox-
holts.
IJebuine < mployecs ot tin Sai '.<
Fe sltons Thursday received died s
tor salary raises retroactive 'o
1. • 1943 it was announce^
Checks lor local employee',
between $(|;h),000 and $200,-
m a sliding scale |
/■iits to 9 cents an 1 ed
cli’dln ■
rat'.- ; .
Ramirez Resigns
As President
j DALLAS, Mkr 10 <U R>—Services
were planned today for Marcus H
link it the
inadequate single track
into Rumania
A late bulletin from London said p
Second Army of the Ukraine 4
I has joined in the Russian offensive
on the southern front and in five '•4
) days ot heavy fighHng has ad- ’td
vanced 25 to 43 miles and captur- |
more than 300 localities in-
tlb' rail towr. of Uma... , 1
I in 1 .i' 1
1 oin
luunique. the enemy bombci- 11.
their second attack since the Mai
shall's invasion, apparently con-
centrated on Engrbl Island at
Hie north end of the atoll, where
ail airfield was seized by U S
Marines in inld-February
A Navy search plane shot down
a Japanese medium-bomber be-
tween Eniwetok and Truk, while
Army and Navy aircraft raided live
enemy positions in the Marshalls,
dropping a total ol 37 tons of
bombs One American plilnc crush-
ed on a Japanese target during tl e
attack *
the
' Id lor I hr ”I||\
((inn! (Iinrn
hiHI liHinii'i! n.
VPSF i< on/
12 hours rat Ii
Bcohcr tr.nisf'Trrd to the Santa
General Olfict at i
1932 from Cleburne
former Mary Seav
) resided
Rainfall totalling .76 of an incli
fell In Cleburne last night and
tills morning according to the rec-
ords of U. 8. Weather Observer
W s Owhsby
More rain is forecast for this
area tonight and Saturday will also
be cloudy.
Showers started falling Thurs-
day night about 9 o’clock and con-
tinued intermittently until
the ; Registrar's Offiie has announced
These students completed
work during the
which closed Feb
Match in
;.l|-"iH fight "vei
moved
..(Inuntstia tlmi
legislation 'n
to extend
'll its pre-
year
■ introduced I
F Wagner.
1 S'-.).ite banking ,
Chairman
< Ai the
(. fnililtici'
1 u r'
faced
fraudulently receiving
! armed services allotment checks to
day alter admitting she had mar-
ried Pvt William Mayotte without
bothering to divorce Pvt Robert
Daffin, who left San Antonio in
1942
Mr.< Daffin told U
sioner A V Wright
roomer had seated I
bigamous marriage and had forced
her to spend the two allotment
checks on "a gay time."
1 lie in xl
• oniinit lee
IT al w hu ll
.. .. lie -cl veil 1,1 out 1 ol: hi
uii'hid- ship and Hie dlstiiit
IPX Just plain cat'vlessni'ss accordin'!; desires tile cooperation ol all
I to Information rtieiv'd from interested in boys
Booher
The VPSF
in 16
81 a 11 s
1 huso
mil 1
man
. port ed 11 m t. I ill I
disliicl were in a
Ilian it had ever
<'immunities of tlie
i ipming
’Pile entire committee urges citi-
zens to cooperate with the
and girls tn tlie paper salvage drive I the
on Saturday morning The waste; me
paper matinee at tire Yale Theatet I sent
is sponsored by the Boy Scout
I loops, of Cleburne and proceeds
will go to the Red Cross War Fund
Mayor 1 S Moon 1 giving the
tn.st prize ot $.> <M1 to
; gnl who brings in
ii now
' It In.-.
Guin 1 hn I
Texas Ils
the armed
Stat, . a In.
iml n..'. 1
< J < imibat hi '
Ila iiitio i f loin
'I hr men serve only
week
.1
1.
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; 11 ''in
! mi ll
: tx'undtng
British Are
the
' im an around the 1
d'trli'T the nl2ht 1 by
mg mto Ftai'/'c to bomb the Mar-
jgnane alrlcraft plant 12 miles
; ni it Invest o< Marseille cr. the Mcdi-
tei ranean
Bethr. still wa i.urning and was
\ teing descried oy- thousands of its
inhabitants Mto the third massed
< a' li h» at'mk in fm,r days.
The fi’lnnm m tire Ukraine
reloped inn Um mo,.t important
1 ..nd laige.t mici,iiion of the year,
1 designed in , le.,; Soviet, soil ot an
I estimated nio.ooo Germans and
; .'(itieczc then, across the Dnieper
im.amst tlie c.upatliian mountains.
Fight In Far nopol
J A’ ’.in mu tliwestern end of the
line 'he Russians were Lighting in
st n ets of Ta 1 nopol. five way
ainetion with Poland on the
| I vo v-Odessa railway As they
I ■ loscd tn on Pn kurov. farther
! south on the line they were on
of
Meeting April
tncetitie "i
will l»' Imbl "li
Him ,. dim a 1
ds ie <<h 1
cominittei
........ ......... ...., ..... I men
from | interested in boys Mme informa-
tion can be obtained from the dis-
trict chairmen.
The following mcinliers ot
committee were in attendance
Warren, chairman, B J Jaekiim
chaiinian ol organization and ex
tension ; o C Nix. 1 ii.i It lli.lt 1 .J
ailv.incemcni; l,i c Hi umli v
mil 11 nt member adv alicciiii nt
; n Deck, commissioner
Andei '.on. H oop 1 ' muni teeman
1 11' >m I hi J Lions - Chili, John
1 ner. meinlier at large: J
Fe General Offici at Galveston ; ,lf r' . scoutmaster ot East
in 1932 from Cleburne His wile, ;:?n 213 and H <
the former Mary Seav Wilson
also resided in Cleburne and
fauglH In tlie Irvin': Building prior
to her marriage
tlie northern
an artillery
positions at
guns were
j quickly silenced by counter artll-
; Ii i v barrages It was diselosed be-
latedly ihui Amernan forces hud
'occupied without opposition tile liny!
I Magine Islands tn the mouth of
hiil'H ' Augusta Ii.i1. on Botlgal'll-
Vllli Fela 27
I Allied a 1H111 n 11 a 11 willed 11 mil'
daily attack.'. Ihl'mghoiil the Pa-
|eil)c, centering tin assault;, on the
[Bismarck, archipelago. New Guinea
iand the Marshalls
1 The only aerial opposition was
| encountered along the northetn New
tliiinea coast, where tlm American
I pilots shot down 17 and probably
10 others ot 40 attaiking Japanese
lighters
Five other plane;, were destroyed
111 a 56-
Allied planes
bombs on Pan-
VITERAN AMERICAN jungle fighters, battling for tjie first tunc as a
major unit on the Asiatic continent, have completed a block on the
main Burma road linking Walawbum witli Malngjtwan 1 sec map
above), thus hastening extinction of 2,000 trapped Jap troops.
Further to the south, Allied troops made a successful raid agam.it an
enemy position on the coastal plain of Maungdaw. f Intel mtioiial)
Bov Scout ai'iivilii'i t.11 tlie in's'
lev. week- wele < > 111111 i«i I Tlilllsday
night nt a mi'i'tmg "t district
mcmbei • 111 me
t hi- LoTie Sial Gas Co
urn, chairman ol the
County District presided
Plans for activities and
iz.ition of new units were discussed [
1 .mil it was pointed out that. John- I
: son County lias at Hlo Vista tin
only lone scout tribe m Circle hi
A board of review was set
for April 7 and the Court ot Honoi
will be lield in Hie county court-
room on April 14 Every troop tn
, the county will be urged to par-
ticipate in tin' Court of Honor
IIIO.(MM) Pounds of Papei
'File salvage report . Imw <1
over 100.000 pounds ol paper
collected in 1943. most nt winch wa.;
Ink'll 111 by I loop 213 "I F.a. t Hen-
dersim Strei'l Baptist Ch'lleh Jolm
B D"' k. cimmii.'.stoner, alilmtinceii
tli.ii a ro'md table bm unit li'ad-
ei will be held in Um next lew
al u| H C C11 -I a rd. chair-
ut 1 lie finance cotntni't' . rc-
that.
w <re
had
BUEN'iS AlREti. Mar 10 'Uf” ■-
President Pedro P Ramirez, who
delegated his powers to Vice Pres-
ident Edelmiro J Farrell Feb. 25.1, •
; resigned the office yesterday. It
I was announced officially today
j He sent formal notification of
j his action to the Argentina supreme
I court
Tlie high tribunal went into ses-
sion at 8 a m
day
inet
morning
Announcement of Raitarea' »c-
I lion came after he had moved from
House'ih,. official presidential summer
residence tn suburban Olivos, where
called : |)r )1H<| remwuicd in seclusion since
Admlnn liaim Chr-tcr Rmc'es ' tutning his jxiwers over to Farrell,
I'isri' mci'imu io discus t<, an estate on the arirtotiatic
kvenida Quintana.
.'>■ 1 i.uiionio Bagarnu. senior mem-
1 | ..sc |n.| ,,f f|l(> court, received a com-
r.mkmg ' munieation from Ramirez, ycstcr-
House, day that he had resigned and im-
mediately notified. Dr. Roberto Re-
petto. president of tha tribunal,
who was vacationing at the seaside
resort of Mar Del Plata
Rcpetto returned hurriedly to the
lapitai bv automobile and members
ot the court immediately held an '
extra 'dlicial meeting and decidM
io 101, inc officially this morning.
J lie newspaper La Prensa re-
I'.'iited that tlie supreme court also
would consider a document said to
be a manifesto tn which Ramirez
expounded to the country the rea-
sons for ills resignation.
ALL1ES-NAZI PATROLS IN U. S- Marines
Within 2 Miles
Of Talasea
He said: In effect, governor,
your refusal to permit the Legis-
lature to meet In this instance had
the same result as dissolving the
Legislature—the law making body
has been refused its constitutional
rigid io function."
Commenting upon tjjp attorney'
general's altitude. Smiths letter' l)AIJ1AK Mhi-. 1o
; LricL jury deliberated
Your attorney general, while lfttp oj chesley A.
posing as an authority on const!- 0» ;____j—te,.
tutional law. refused to give me, I pig'
[as lieutenant governor, an opinion, ’
| thus clearly violating Sec. 1 and
Sec. 22 of Article Four of the State
Constitution. This I treat simply
as the .petty act of an equally
petty man, and I dismiss it as
an act of no consequence, but I re-
fuse to dismiss as of no consequence
his unwarranted employment of the
constitution to disenfranchise near-
ly one-half million of the most
worthy citizens of the state."
Smith has not formally an-
nounced for re-election. There has
been some talk that he might run
AUSTIN. Mar. 10. (U.K)—Gover- .
nor Coke R Stevenson, in Fort;
I Worth today, was expected to ig-
Gov John:
{ the governor!
was ignoring the constitution in I SAN ANTONIO. Mar
ratusing to call a “s|»eeinl session '
of the Texas Legislature to facil- I
Rate soldier voting.
Stevenson has refused previous
requests for a session, citing an
opinion of tlie attorney general
that a special session of the l«cg- [
| islaturc cannot remove the poll tux
! voting requirement that, blocks a
will bi’ iii'l<| Un-,
I 30 Il'c.lK k ha
I lol a >v an l>7 who (I led
1" ’l l Ij aj lei. npi >11 111 a
>10 piial whi rl' la hail been
the past six week-.
'Il.f services will lie conihi'te<| al
the First Baptist Church with
Dr Albeit Vi'lililig, 1
Pallbearers win be I,
G W
in opoiat 1011 1
of. the United I
being ini'' I
meinlx is
Ion es .,!
an if ii.i
)>!<».! Hill
tcdiiv as
mt u.diicfd
Senate
Ac!
fi rm for another !
Tin resolutions were
I Chairman I<< lx 11 I
D . N Y e: Un
commit lee. aivi '
Spence D K.
I- 'tiFin column i'1
I ..no. Wagiiei's (
a lolip
.southeastward
In the lower
I
N'AJ’I.ES. Allied Headtittnr-[
tei's. March ID, (UP) — Allied)
and German combat uatrols'
I attled w ith increasing furv,
all alont! the flooded and
mud-bound Italian battle-j
fronts, a communique disclos-
ed today, while swarms of
Allied iitanes struck at enemv |
suddIv lint's north of Rome
and the bin German nuns[
commanding the Anzio lieach- I
head. ? ,
Girina n sKirmishers si ruck ie-
ptatedly at British and American
defenses around the beachhead
perimeter and small formations
of Nazi fighter-bombers ranged
oVer Hie battlefield to bomb and
strafe the Allied iiosition.s One
low-flying enemy raidii 'laihed. ini
flames 'imler slolm ol itflc III"
from Hi.' British ground troops j
Activity
Front reports said feverish activ-I
ity still was 111 progress behind the
German lines, indicating tlie enemy
still was attempting to mass troops
and arnioi lor a lourlli major at-
tempt to drive the Allied invasion
li nes back into the sea
Bad veather continued to ham- |
per all large-scale troop move-
ments. however, and most of the |
fighting was confined to
patrol action
British units on the left .... i
6f the beachhead beat eff a Ger-
I
here a letter from Lt.
[ Lee Smith asserting
was ignoring the c
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