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DAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 31. 1942
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U. S, lit unite rs
Attack Airfields
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MEDICAL CENTER
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trouble at all—just get your money
ready and take a trip U> your Post
Office, your bank or the Federal
Savings and Loan Association
Chinese i
30 miles east of the great air base
hotter, as the recordings were caught
at 75 and 94.
get
from
con-
I to
un-
Oullook Uncertain
Whether this offensive la strong
• timely enough U> help save Stal-
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single 1-A men is being formed,
n which future state draft quo-
will be filled as long as possl-
Aug. >1
have as yet been stationed at :
Gainesville, where Camp Howze Is
just being competed Many others
are due there this fall.
Cleaning Out the Snipers
Missouri to Call
All Single Men
First into Army
JEFFERSON CITY. Aug. 31—(.P)’
Roosevelt’s spech is sched- — Missouri’s supply of single men
war ' will be exhausted before any local
1 ’it
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DENTONRECORD-CH
Burma Aoad, and on Japanese bases
in French Indo-China
All American aircraft
! safely
1 dream come true today
j dedicates with a 10-minute speech
J val medical center at nearby Beth- ’
esda, Md . i
The occasion will mark the 100th I who can be brought to earth only
anniversary of the establishment of | by complete defeat in battle ”
I Confirming atrocity stories of oth- j
; er Americans 1
Grew told of the bayoneting of
captured soldiers and the ’’water
cure” given elderly American mis-
sionaries
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Hard-Striking Allied Forces
Stall Japs on Every PacifkFront
Slash at Wide
•We didn't get much rain," said
W.. C. Mees, who lives northwest ol
Denton We could see the rain
~ falling at Denton while tt wtx clear
at our place " Bill Bounds, near
Banger, said. ”We didn’t get the
,$ rain we needed, but the rains right
now will go toward making good fall
gardens’’ Bruce Davis, who has
been stationed at Camp Wolters, is
at home for a few days with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs Ashley Davis,
before transferring to Ban Antonicy
where he will be In the personnel
department.
The first rehearsal of the fall
for the Denton High School Band
will be held this Monday night at
Band Hall at 7:30 o’clock. Bandmas-
ter varroll McMath wishes to ex-
tend an invitaticp to the boys and
girla who have musical instruments
to be present for his rehearsal and
bring their instruments
Guard The Company now has 60
members but more young men are
needed to HU the rahks, as quite a
few of tile regular members are now
serving In the U. 8 forces, accord-
ing to Oapt L. H Ligon The drill
will start at 8 o'clock
Stamps through its sales during the
month of July, and We i
want to thank the people for their
cooperation
War Bonds and Stamps are read-
ily available in Denton It is no |
i na and the air front of
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Lieut Wight
Is Missing in
Foreign Service
Second Uaut Robert GteodaB
Wight at the U. 8. Army Air Ocrpa
has been reported miming —be
Aug. 19 in the European th—
of war. word came te *“
Mr. and Mrs. ~ *
North Rim. fn
meat Sunday. \
Lieut. Wight
service since 4
Ing his first tra
Seek ye the Lcrd. all ye meek of
the earth, which have wrought ills
judgment, seek righteousness, seek
meekness, it may be ye shall be hid
in the day of the Lord's anger.
Zephaniah 2-3.
Bunday’s low temperature was
down to 75 and the highest point
during the day was 88. It was a lit-
cenlral pertlem, asat-
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aertbeaet aad is to ton east partisan
WEST TEXAS! Intermtttaat
rains. spreading westward tote the
El Itaee area thio afternaaa ang to-
night. OrrasieneHy heavy rataa in
the Big Bead eeantry a— in the
South Flataa aeette. Windy tbh gf*
tanseeaL
‘"oKLASOMA: Uttle ehanga to
temperatsra; scattered showers ea-
iretoe wagt today and hi weal to-
night.
♦ Its cooling.
♦ ...Ji
a MS-1
ad been ta the
nt. 1341, reeeiv-
OsHf? then was sent to Gardner
Field in Taft. Calif. Be rmM
his wings at Luke Field. Arts , early
last May. was sent to Al
La.. for a abort ttad. C
placed in toe pursuit aW
A grat
School ’
years at'
qeived his O- F. T. traiail
TwMrfle Wight gf
a Uster, and Winston
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mine.
That question as to the scarcity 1
of doves will be answered Tuesday,
as the open seasesi on those birds
opens September 1st at sunup Most
people report a scarcity of birds,
while aotne say they have seen quite
a few. but the consensus of opinion
is that few birds are here It is
caused, some think, by the fail-
ure of the grain erop in tiie county,
and the birds took off teg
feeding grounds
communique
“From both raids there was no
damage to our planes or personnel.’
Lt Gen Jopesh W Stilwell in
Chungking announced week-end
American bombing attacks on Lash- ,
io. rail-highway junction cf the
»es i crusnea only oy an onensive war |
* leading to "complete defeat in bat- I
‘ r 2 Z ... IL j | were bowled over, and San Antonio i
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j lines were down. A few airplanes
“All American
Aircraft Get
lit it'k Safely”
Regular Item
ON JOBS
BOOTH PORTLAND. Me.. Aug.
31—(/P)—An official of the South
Portland Shipbuilding Corporation
threatened today to dismiss employ-
ees who absent themselves from
wor) without sufficient cause, and
refer their cases to draft boards.
I
449 Ships, 3,0
Seamen Lost by
Sub Sinkings-----
i'',Whi^*|^)e’rty“iws,’in certain machines on.the M» “"I JtST ' A—ta'
localities were extensive, the great- |’till unavailing effort to antoh hTTLJfr
eight months of war. has claimed
4to allied gad neutral merchant
ships and Um lives of mon than
3.000 seaman, an Associated Pram
tabulation of announced western
Atlantic sinkings disclosed today,
any, rauruau »uu *upv>i. >..»»»-. , — .. . .. ‘
Tp the north, where the Red Ar-1 “y eumnartnes dropped avtonieb-
. . ____-____» iturlu in Jnlv aim} Siynst
Still miming today wore
l.MO crow members and _™_.
past the piv- moat of whom now may be
^hev both to considered lost, but 1M10 others
were reecued and landed saftly st
, western Atlantic porta and up until
thia morning only 33 merchant-
men had been announced as' sunk
when he broken by econoic hardships."
He said the Japs were a people
' tile great concrete towered new na- I who "Individually and collectively
vni mAdinai <.» will gladly sacrifice their lives for
their emperor and their nation and .
More Houses
Wttded Badlv Needed for
Army Officers
' I6UIF SWM HITS
Mrs Jess A. Taylor and daughters.
Misses Tina and Dorothy, have
moved here from Dallas and are lo-
I rated at 1009 West Oak Taylor is
in government work In New YorE.
The family Is united with the Meth- ujt<i
odist Church. Miss Tina will enter two
Teachers College and Dorothy will j
- be in the grade school
“My little niece. five-year-old
Barrie Beach of Groesbeck, wanted
and got a United States Flag." said
Mrs J. 8. Gambill. Sr "She wrote
me that she could not get a flag In
Groesbeck and that she wanted me
.,to send her one right away so that
4>she might place it over her bed for
protection from the bad Japs and
Huns. Yes', she has the flag, a little
one, and it’ flying over har bed
tert. _____ ___
On a visit to the Red Army lines underwriters cut cargo war rick
i near Rehev, Henry Cassidy, Asso-I ntaa ----
elated Press correspondent In Mos-;<jenL
i cow, saw Russian troops riding
United States tanks into the bat- 1
tie and four things were appar- .
ent:
1. Even the exhausting summer
battles have left the Red Army
strong enough to mount an offen-
sive on a limited front.
3. American equipment, tried and .
proved in action, now is a regular
part of the Russian arsenal
| >. Germany’s defense line, built i
and strengthened west of Moscow ,
in the past seven months. Is vul-1
4 The autumn rains have arrived
as the advance heralds of another
Russian winter.
Keeping up another show of
strength where the Germans least
expected to find it. Russian airmen
cut a path of explosion and fire
across eastern Germany Saturday
night from the BalUc porta of
Koenlgsberg, in east Prussia. Stet-
tin. and Danxlg to Berlin itself.
Swedish reports said the Nazi
capital was under air alarm for
three hours
Weather Halts Planes
Unsuitable flying weather tem-
porarily halted the air blows of the
RAP’s great night bomba in what
rapidly has developed as an over-
lapping, double-bladed aerial war
against Germany capable of carry-
ing sudden devastation to the re-
motest corners of the Nasi Father-
land.
A spurt of allied sea and air
assaults on the axis ashore and
afloat in the Mediterranean thea-
tre underlined the approaching day
when rested, reinforced armies on
both sides will come to grips to
miler west of Alexandria.
United States bombers smashed
effectively again today at enemy
landing fields east at Matruh and
at the waterfront of Tobruk.
British headquarters announced
that RAF bombers and torpedo
planes set two axis ships afire, hit
al least one other and left a tanker
biasing from stem to stern in week-
end aerial stalking of the enemy a
Mediterranean supply lines. -—-j—
Mre.¥KftrksT
Farm Home Borns
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- The fam home of Mrs. W. H.
Parka, west of Denton, talcudtag
__ __ garage and ehlcken houm wan
this aftemeen to completely destroyed by Bro about yOXBST
ffamto She was onabe to save any ♦ 1
household goods. . m JQfi
1*0 Mm «M sethtoito* M W _____
tween and 13.000 wife to- « Mag
surance ooterdge of about P **
cording to her son-in-law.
M. Craddock.
More houses are badly neded for
Armmy officers who will be sta-
tioned at Gainesville, according to
O L Fowler, manager of the Cham-
I ber of Cotnmerqp.
I Already a number of officers have
j been located here and others
By BARNET1- HILDER8EE
Associated Presn War Editor
DimuLoi' al tho hands uf Al-
lied forces striking with irre- .
sistible might stalled the Jap- I
anuse today on every front of |
| A group of Marines advance through the palm trees searching for any stragglers or snipers. (Passed by
Navy censor in Wash)—(Photo by Sherman Montrose. Acme Staff Photographer)
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MAN ANTONIO. Aug. »».—VP)
—Damage te farm and eity
property and crops in San An-
tonio and Bexar county from
Sunday’s 79-mile-per-hour wind
the worst in to years—was
placed at approximately IL-
000.000 today by city and coun-
ty officials. The figure, four
times that ol an earlier esti-
mate, was raised hy reports ol
wind lashed crops in rural
areas and addiUtHuU reports o<
damage to homes in the city and
to planes and bulldiiifs at the
municipal airport.
(By Associated Press)
A week-end Gulf storm which
I swept 200 miles of the Texas coast- ,
i al country spent its dying force in ! — . . w...
, the upper Rio Grange Valley today YoIs* .^1'Tr bUti,^r
.7 . .. ' ’ the «(vth rtav Russia's tiuhters keDt
Edgar Bergen, noted ventriloquist
who toojt Charlie McCarthy and ,
Jy’ Mortimer Snerd on a two-week fly- I
ing trip to Alaskan army, navy and ,
marine posts, returned to Holly-
weyod with an observation that per-
haps has been inode by others Ber-
gen. after seeing what the Ameri-
can armed forces are doing, can't
understand why it is necessary to
devote so much time and effort to
hold entertainments and other func-
tions to encourage Americans to buy
War Bonds.
“ Every American has a stake in this
country and is vitally concerned in
• the csitcome Money and property
would be worthless if this country
should lose Buying War Bonds Is
buying insurance—victory Insur-
ance
O. E Taylor, manager of the
Penney Store here, said. "The Pen-
ney Stores. 1609 of them, are mighty
proud of the record they made on | '
WITHOUT CEILINGS CLIMBING
omcuoa. am. JirHun-uBb
leaks in a dike, prices of several im-
portant foods not effected by ceil-
ings are slipping up to *
nation’s effort tn keep ....
cost of living, study of market
— prices showed today.
Some foods, however, like flour
and poultry, have behaved as
I though they, toft were covered by
, the prioe control blanket
, The fact that the umbrella over
I food coots, seeking to bold them to
March peaks, has been punctured in
i numerous piacoe la
market experts. Ttil
l av«dable. they to
1 s?—— ~
-Two inctdWrtx lartWtok: prwld- I
ed a further hint as to how mor- ■
chantmen were faring lately: I
1. A Berlin report admitted that I
are taking this burst oi , wavl U-Boats were encountering
Soviet strength on the central Rus- vicissitudes” in Atlantic coastal wa- I
s>»n front. tera.
Favorable Feints | j American Marine Insurance I
On a visit to the Red Army lines , underwriters cut cargo war rick
----Rshev, Henry Cassidy. Asso- I njtee on certain voyages by 5 >ar
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Fourteen seamen wore lost, IF re- I
ported missing and 339 rescued in |
i sinkings announced last week, tn- II
eluding four American vessel*, two II
British, one Norwegian, one Dutch M
and one Greek. j
One of these went down off the
U 8. East Coast, bringing to 173 I
that area’s tote of wartime vic- I
tuns; three In the Caribbean made 1
that figure 14fi; four off Booth
America booetod that total to 4* I
and one in the Gulf of Mexico 0
raised that number to «. None oft I
Canada toft that figure at 41. , I
Warthlp-eacorted convoys along 1
Amemrican coastal water* and in 1
the Caribbean during Auguot a> H
leered to be more than a match for
enemy submarine forays on allied
sea lanes. •”
British pianos, cooperetinc with
American forces patrolling vital
coastal sones, already have encaged
axis raidera. whtte British and Ca-
nadian warcraft steam alongside
great convoy* routes in the north
and south Atlantic. (
(By Associated Press)
"All American alrcrart returned
safely.”
Eigtit times now this has been j
the tag line capping the success of
| the United States Anny Air Force ,
Flying Fortresses on the eight I
aSsJ
EAST TEXAS: Warmer bl Mtotb-
weot portion tbte aftemoMi, Uttle
temperature ehange tonigbt tel
north and eaat pertioM tbte after-
noon; occasional rains this after-
noon and early tonfghi In north-
west and
tered sb
the July Bond sales, as $8,422^53 86
wetrth of. or almost 25 per cent of its
meehandtee sales. War Bunds and
Stamps were sold through the
•> stores. The Denton Penney Store
placed $18,276.25 In War Bonds and
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naturally ' t^e Pacific war.
These blows, falling on tiie ene- I
v’ hfil’d.ttfnn /siitrw^stu frnnj tilt*
swampy shores of Milne Bay of) New |
Guinea to the battlefronts uf Chi- [
Burma, i
slashed at the whole fabric of the
enemy’s scheme of aggression
I mans could throw against the defenses of StaUagrad bounced
back today off the unyielding lin«s of its defenders while Giw
Red army, on its own offensive to lhe ncyrth, gave renewed
evidence of Russia’s still unbrokm pow*r.
Hundreds of Nail tanks and
bombers screened large amault
forces on the approaches of the
With a cunning expensively learn-
ed from tiie Japanese themselves
in the lost battle of Malaya, Aus-
tralian' ground forces baited a trap
on Milne Bay lnt<< which an enemy
landing force apparently has stum-
bled to its dt&truction.
A special communique issued at J
General MacArthur’s Australian
headquartits said today that the |
unwary Japanese on Milne Bay. at .
the southeastern tip of of Papua, I
were being “rapidly reduced.”
Tile Japanese, , it said,
—including tanks- which they land-
ed so confidently on the narrow
beach last Wednesday
Chinese Push Ahead
Backed by American airpetwer in
growing might and widening range
of operation. Feneralisslmo Chiang
Kat-8hek‘s ground troops have
carried China's fight deeper Into
enemy-held territory
Each stride forward by the re-
surging Chinese brings closer the
day when the big bombers of the
United States army air force will I
have secure bases within range of '
the enemy’s home Islands and To- I
kyo iteslf
The Chinese high command an-
nounced that retreating ,*
forces have been pursued to the [
outskirts of Nanchang, which the ----
invaders have held for more than ' lected Tuesday by city truck
,„o years and fitted out as their
principal base In Kiangsl
Ince.
hrev ■*-•*!
Sts >
,Tc
Soldiers Appreciate
Motherly Kindness
becoming public.
Apart from the epic story of be-
roiam by American forces, they tell
ateo two significant accounts—that,
contrary to all military expectation,
the forcea storming the island
ahorec Buffered few losses to the de-
fenders' many; that the Japan
had poured'
the islands
. them for a u>
p^a^Ja^’fSStekftoStiS wl£ SEVa---- ~ —
punches, details of the struggle are most intact to the Marines.
| my’ hard-won outposU from
I . - --
The Denton County Executive
MMnmtttae completed a check qf
M^&hctal election returns, ac-
county Chairman W I.
|i||||||Hk and the unofficial re
nearly vote for vote
Klc.ial There was a dif
vote In two places
and toewed the (June
numbe^Mtes Pretty nice, go
IngTwe^^K for the election ot-
Russian Army Holds
Firm at Stalingrad i
Storming Germans Unable to Break I
Through; Soviets Demonstrate Unbroken
Power by-Counter-Attacks to North.
(By Associated Press)
All the weight of manpower and machines that the Ger-
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-■■’'’(S'V P’”-"’'-- ’ -w.'J-
it be said
j dew.' A
reads: From Denton
i. IO Miauil o<niv,i, »»~-
riaburg. Penn., to Chicago, III., to
Balt Lake City, Utah, to Spokane,
Washington, to Portland, Oregon,
now ta San Francisco and then to
1 .Tucson, Arizona. Am seeing the
I; ■ 4bn-M»
Captain Craig volunteered for
service With the U. 8. Forces about
five months ago and he does seem
to ba ’sent places ’
4.m4mh|
■
I al country spent its dying force in
! property and crops. j ,JOt break.
ton Nearby Palacios, Port Lavaca, i no change and field dispatches from
Rocmkport and Refugio also felt, 4?* Stalingrad front indicated that
much of the storm’s fury. I the Germans were leaving men and
by Australian troops under
Gen Cyril Albert Clowes, and they nice
have knt all of the heavy supplies I here.
which are coming in. | my airheldjTeast of MaTruh.
Both houses and nice apart- ' All American aircraft returned
ments are being rented here and In- safely.
Twice on successive days Ameri-j
can medium bombers and fighters
blasted tile Japanese air base-sup-
in
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Housewives have been urged to
2 *^ i and place them
at the curbs In front of their home
tonight so that they mav be col-
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placed in a durable container, the
prov- . cans will be emptied from the con-
j tainer, and It will be left for next
In Chekiang province, pieanwhile. month’s collection. Mayor Lee*Pres-
reports said that Lungyu. ton said
“**. tht ;“?*. **'■*■) I The cans are shredded at Dal-
site of Chuhaien. had been retaken I las plant and then used to
after a heavy night fight Lanchl, ■ the vital material, copper.
20 miles northwest of Lungyu and i mines. The collection is In
on the 450 mile Chekiang-Klangsi ’ nection with the nation-wide sal-
railroad, also was reported back in ! vage drive, and cans are collected
Chinese possession 1 in Denton the first Tue. lay of each
Thus, the Chinese have recap- ; month.
tred almnpt 350 miles of the rail
line and. pulling an imporant tri- i
umph out of what seemed to be I
grave peril, virtually have eradicat- !
ed Japan's summer gaif in the Che- j
------------- kiang and Kings! ' ,
tie colder a year-ago and somewhat^ Completing this ground offensive, TeyntUin Area
» American bombers smashed on OJt
three succqfslve days at key bases
on opposite sides <<f Japan's front
—twice in Burma, where the enemy
threatens both India and China’s
interior, and once in French Indo-
China. a marshalling point for ene-
my land, sea and air power in the
Pacific.
Extensive damage was wrought on
i Chinese Pushing
Deeper in Areas
I Held by Japanese.
the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery and the formal christening
of an imposing edifice which the
| President personally helped design
In collaboration with his White
1 House physician. Rear Admiral Ross
T McIntire, present chief of medi-
j cal bureau with the title of surgeon
I general
i. . . The address will be part of a 30-
CAIRO, 31 —(AV-Unlted ( minute broadcast to be heard by
States bombers in the mldd e east Arnerlran medical nav.) unite
effectively attacked enemy airfields throughout the world
east of Matruh and harbor and I Mr -
' dock facilities; of TWuk this morn- uled for 3 30 p centra( __
I ' tlm*’ AU *nalor rftdl° networks will draft board dips into the •nnta of
LJ& in wL c,rry hte ««>arks. married men for military rertU .-
— I E8 . 5^. wh>ctl WM | The chief executive has two ma- state se’evtive serv headquarteis
two Japanese bases in Indo-China j addresses scheduled in the next announced today
Frl.day’.aco,nmunique from LfGen ^RA^b^bers^nd ^torpedo-CHrn^spven days—one Thursday before; Col Claude C Earp, state draft
! International Student Service director, said a statewide pool of
j of the world, and the other next from
Monday, a Labor Day speech on tas v
new ways to curtail inflation. ble.
I Th Ponder Rodeo showed to a
■. qgipacfiy crowd Saturday night, and
it was’ an appreciative audience
which cheered the performers Too.
Friday night a big crowd watched
the boys and girls do their various
stunts.
There is to be no performance this
next Friday night, but Saturday
nigbt, at the usual hour. 8:30. a per-
formance will be staged and again
Monday night (Labor Day) will see
the boys and girls pull some new
stunts which are being planned
Oapt. E. P Craig might
to be ’stepping through the
card from him
to Miami Beach, Florida, to Har-
LOUI8VILLE. Aug 31—0P>—
Because she had treated them
so handsomely while entertain-
ing them weekends, four Fort
Knox soldiers gave a party for
Mrs. J. H Edmondson, at a ho-
tel here and gave her a cup in-
scribed "To our darling Mom "
"They are like real sons to
me.” she said "They called me
up on my birthday and sang
'Happy birthday’ and reversed
the charges, just like your own
children would do.”
towntelMg MtWU- tUay. liave 1.. - —--.—’Z..-,.
far on occupied Europe. Perrin Field
Today the same line comes from^*r
American bombing forces on two [() Pl(l Y
11 ere Wednesda v
twu japoutw Mtwen 111 inuu-viium ■------------ ------——
Friday, a communique from Lt. Oen i bombers and torpedo-carry-
Stilwell's headquarters In Chungking , planw set two JtxU afire and the
announced.
U. S. Bombers Busy
At Lashio, junction of the rail- tanker in" the MwHterranean yestere
road from Rangoon and the Burma | day, a joint headquarters-RAP com-
road to Chungking, the conununi- j munique said today.
Eio^re^SB^’^VnyCita" WANT8 WO"®”5--TO REMAIN PRICES OF SEVERAL FOODS
in the warehouse area and left fires i
burning in both J ,
At Myitkyina, in Northern Bur-
ma. . three separate attacks were
made by United States bembers.
American fighters and the RAF.
One announced by Gen._ Stilwell
from Chungking and the others by
Brig- Gan. Clayton Bissell. U. 8
commander of air forces in India,
Burma and China.
Meanwhile, the United States Ma-
rines sat tight in the Solomon
2 _ (ting their hold and
picking off the last remnants of re-
sistance on the island* where the
Japanese have felt the power of the
first American offensive and tast-
ed probably their moat disastrous
reverse so far.
Puncturing of the ceilings of some
foods and rises In prices of certain
uncontrolled itefns have helped to
lift the cost of eating since the ceil-
ings went into effect in May. Ceil-
ings were fixed at top prices quoted
111 MkMlL. _
The latest Associated Press index
of food prices was M 79 compared
with ?«fil at the March high, baste
of ceiling prices on controlled foods.
A year ago it was 74M. The bun
* ..Bradstreet index, repreeentlng
total wholesale price per pound of
31 foods, steed nt $3 80. new peak
since 1935. compared with |3.«0 in
March. This was 54 cento higher
than a year ago and $1 Al higher
than two years ago A similar up-
--, ---------, ----- turn is shown by the bureau of la-
e arrangemeht. bor statistics analysis.
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localities were extensive, the great- |---- —
, est monetary loan was done to crops, i through the Soviets armored linos,
especially cotton and rice. I T*1' Ocfthafi high command said
' At Houston, on the fringe of the ' ax* torc«» hBd Orom the
storm area. L C Stroudsdale, man- ««»uU‘ to alpoint only 15 rnilee from
' ager of the American Rice Grow- I Stalingrad and .that night raid-
I em Association, said rice crop dam- planes again had sown vast
p^Uh;‘^L'(ti^X s -
; Matagorda Bay residents charac- »v «•« ••««*•. "•* 1 iZLt-'
terized it as one of the worst storms 1 «ny has launched Ito own "second tn«ly„ln.
in that area in the past 20 years front" in the drive on anchors of
; Buffering most from the effects of Germany’s 1941 winter line, Soviet
j the blow were Matagorda. Palacio*. have smashed 1
1 Port Lavaca, Rockport and Refugio stronghold of Rzhev both to
Mountainous tides caused of the' the north end the south, have
I destruction at Matagorda, where ' cleared the whole northern bank of
, water stood five to eigtit feet deep the Volga and fought into the city
1 In places Nearly every building had t itself, Russian officers on the acene
| been damaged in some degree, and ] aaW today.
I the town wks without water, teie-
| phones, lights or food
I George Kain, 76, apparently ;
I drowned as he slept irj his Mata-
gorda hoe Gernando Hermenea. 19,!
and his wife. Laredo cotton pick- :
er*, died when a house was blown
i over <
1 The storm moved in from the
i Gulf Saturday night and reached
' its height in the Matagorda Bay
1 region early yesterday momrnlng. It j
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Figures showed that June. With
109 announced sinkings, was the
moat disastrous period In tbe
or timely enough to help save sial- United Nations' fight against the
Nevertitetees, it Is unrolling with 1 ^rted^Sp* loaoM for July’Wre
a show of power which suggests | the first indication of how the al-
that the Germans may find them- -
selves suddenly uprooted from a1
‘ .. . a___*. *1___... •
and almost certainly will have . redu< ed number of sinkings waa an
Mere raff mmn mfiphiAM MJUl 1 ***** taoatmi —-A^-.
planes from the Caucasus to > for Uat week, whereas many
Z- 2----- ik
Although the Berlin communique ,t
Id the H^^n^tJipifta had txwm , j.
Moscow and below Leningrad— In-
dicated the concern, with which the
Nazis *re taking this burst of ,
| dications are that many more offi- j
cers will be here seeking accommo-
dations, It was stated, since only n
small number of officers and men ply depot town ct Mitkyina,
' ' Northern Burma Said the air force !
o' Defeat Japan
: Com pletely-Greiv
WASHINGTON. Aug 31—(AA-A
"swashbuckling” Japan can be
j crushed only by an offensive war
returned 1 tie.” Jaseph C. Grew, for 10 years
’ United States ambassador to Tokyo,
told the nation last night
' Grew, in his first public report
1 sines returning on the Grlpsholm,
. warned that Amermlca was fighting
I n "powerful fighting achine. o peo-
I pie whose momrale cannot and will i
I not be broken even by successive (
President Roosevelt will realize a defeats, who will certainly not be >
<4 run rvx Izx/lnn $.« txswxlrMn $w«v aa/SMjvLi kne/4«lAii.o **
by Major General H. R. Hannon.
: commander of the air training cen-
1 ter in San Antonio, praising air
force personnel for saving a thou-
sand or more training planes when
the storm hit the city.
Five men were taken off safely
back from Japan. 1 by the Coast Guard from a barge
l | wmch had broken loose from ita
1 tug five miles off Freeport entrance.
In the Brownsville area Coast
1 Guardsmen rescued nine persona
j marooned by high water.
Tire Thief Leaves
One Fingter Behind
SANTA ANA. Calif., Aug 31
—(AA—Sheriff’s deputies are
seeking a tire thief who left be-
hind him not oply a finger-
print but a finger.
Answering a report that a
car was being stripped, offi-
cers found the suspect had fled,
leaving a finger, severed when
the automobile Jack slipped.
Japanese ■ gather tin, cans
1 tn the ' at the curbs In fi
outskirts of Nanchang. which the
seven days—one Thursday before
I.a.t at i liitiiTmtiuiiii otuuenv Service
I ■« «•» >»«•
urday night and set fire to an cH
road from Rangoon and. the Burma | day. a joint headquarters-RAP com-
road to Chungking, the conununi- i munique said today
que said, fighter-escorted Ameri-1 ______■
Remember—Ten
77'”---r. JMUUUCM?, . IV fttUU, wuuru
t ,0F ashore into the waiting muzzles of '
Astrallan troops lying in wait for
just such an enemy attempt to out- j
Hank the Allied outposts some 225
miles around the island coast at 1
Fort Moresby
Previous communiques have an-
nounced the high cost in ships, men.
planes and supplies at which the
Japanese were able even to land on
the marshy. crocodile-infested
shore j been located here and others are
Nofw .It unfolds, all that they are j coming almost dally seeking quar-
whlch they have mansq^^ to^gwt T ^^ariy o‘f ' ffiem waht'fr'fftfUf S,
back off the island to their ships. some furnished and some unfur-
The other men. the communique ntehed. and Power asked every per-
said. are swiftly being cut down on 1 son who can provide a house to uumuu^,
a narrow peninsula north of the bay j notify his office at once. Right now ' other continents.
Maj a high ranking officer is seeking a in North Africa, medium and
five-room unfurnished house 1 heavy American bombers blasted the
besides other applications I Axis supply port of Tobruk and ene- '
I
Field, near Sherman, will play a
concert on the court house lawn In
Denton Wednesday at 7 p m , ae- ,
cording to O L Fowler. Chamber '
of Commerce manager, who Is mak-
ing local arrangements
lies were progressing.
aireiMS;b.a - i JS/SET iTrtSL: Tii
cure and almost certainly will have . reduced number of sinkings waa an
to draw off men. machines and enounced total jf only nins vto-
"riWiriftetatWk?--------- ■
(temp Hulen Evacuated ‘
Camp mMfi,"Evacuated ' of Ito
thousands of soldiers, did not escape
damage
Most of Palacios’ residents had I
fled before the storm when it struck
about midnight Saturday with an
estimated velocity of 70 miles an
hour Two hours later the wind had
attained an estimated 90 to 100 1
mimles an hour 1
Bay City, only 20 Iles from Paia- ]
cios. experienced winds of little
momre than 45 Iles an hour Dam-
age was small
The Corpus Christi-Aransas pass
. region was virtually isolated for a
| tie Communication lines were
; wrecked, but toward mid-evening j
telegraph and telephone connections
with Corpus Christi were restored.
The Caller-Times reported Corpus
Christi escaped with slight damage.
At Austin trees and power lines I
ere bowled over, and San Antonio ■
reported local telephone and powar m J*;'1'
t(r£« were rtown a r.w nersbte to mass attack.
I at the San Antonio Municipal Air-
| port were damaged The storm laat-
‘ ed there from early morning until
| late afternoon
14 Keocued
Fourteen (jersons were rescued by
the Coast Guard.
An official statement was issued
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