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plays end. the post at which he
gained all-conference recognition
while at the Teachers College. Oer-
ner, also a cadet, weighs 195 and
plays tackle
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Pvt Homer B Smoot, who had
I been stationed at Camp Callan,
| San Diego. Calif., has been trans-
| terred to Seattle. Washington, word
* ! has been received here.
Soldiers No Longer
To Say “Charge It”
Soldiers who have been in
habit of saying "charge it, please."
in the purchase of various items at
Officers Cadre at
Gainesville Camp
More than 50 families of Camp
Howze officers are now living In
Denton, the Chamber of Commerce
has reported, adding that the in-
quiries as to living facilities here
are made almost dally at the of-
fice.
With that information, it Is only
natural that the < interest of Den-
ton people in what sort of progress
is being made at the Gainesville
training center should grow Latest
news is that approximately 200 of-
ficers for the 84th Infantry Divi-
sion have arrived at tire
These men complete the
cadre of the division.
Pvt First Class Neal Rogers. 1
now serving with the U. S Army |
in Cali'ornia, is visiting his mother.
Mrs May Rogers, in the Liberty
community
Naval Air Station football travelling
squad by Lt Marty Karow, head
coach/of the Navy eleven. Covin, a
cadet, weighs in at 200 pounds and
With an opportunity to gain
J petty officer’s rating. William
} Stephenson, son of William Steph-
enson. 419 Mounts Avenue, has en-
_________ rolled in the Naval Training School
Army posts throughout the country for electricians in the Navy in July
will be put on a cash basis begin- I and went through recruit training
ning Nov 1. according to War De- I at San Diego, Calif,
partment dispatches received by
the many military bases surround- |
ing Denton. In most cases collection
sheets have been loaded each pay-
day with "deducts” which in many
instances left the bewildered sol-
dier with barely enough to get to
town, to say nothing of a little
spending money The cash plan
was first tried at Fort Bragg, and
upon learning of its success, the
War Department decided to apply it ' Coral Sea. Denton County men are
to the entire Army. ! J N Meadows, Route 2. Denton.
• • • • i and A Baker Jr and J V Rice,
bath of Aubrey.
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Reporting for the last lap of train-
ing in his pursuit for the silver
wings of an Army Air Corps glider
pilot. Patrick Hadsell, son of Mr and |
Mrs. V P Hadsell, 1403 Maple
Note# of Service
Here and There
James R Ixmder, who has been
on a 15-day furlough, has returned
tc» Williams Field, Chandler, Ariz.,
where he ts in the bakery depart- ls‘ no“ '^“th I
mi nt of the ground crew of the Army Flying School. Lubbock
tl S Army Air Force Hr visited i Slaf. Hadsell will complete
his mother. Mrs J M Louder. Ill . tj)(, t.raining lie began at Aberdeen.
Sawyer Street here . I S D. He Ls an ex-student of Texas
A <St M College
Pvt. Hubert L. Norris of Watson-
ville, Calif, is visiting his father.
J. H Norris, in the Oak Grove
I cctnmunity.
James D Solomon has been pro-
’ moted to the rank of petty officer,
i second class, in the yeoman branch
t’*!np of the U. S. Coast Guard He is sta-
otricer ; llone(j jn t|le district personnel of-
.. . . , 1 flee at New Orleans
Among the new arrivals are four
cgflcers who were assigned from
the field artillery officer candidate
school, which they have just com-
pleted, at Fort Sill, Ok
Three Denton County men are
among those in the Sherman dis-
trict who have enlisted in the U. j
S. Navy under the slogan, "Be a ’
Lexington Volunteer." in commem-
oration of the launching of the new
U. 8 S. Lexington this Saturday. |
a full year ahead of the original '
schedule. The old Levington. an air-
craft carrier, went down in the
of
scriptions of shoes the boy was wear-
Shoe Reopens
Search for Child
Texan Named to
C.-C. War Post
In Washington
SACRAMENTO. Calif.. Sept. 24.—
OPL—Tentative Identification of a
tiny white shoe, aged by the weather
and chewed by wild animals, today
reopened the year-old search for
Clarence Murphy. Jr.. 4, who disap-
peared July 14. 1941, from Camp
Sacramento in the High Sierra
The shoe, found two miles south
of the camp by a deer hunter, was
not definitely identified by either
of the child's parents. Mr. and Mrs
Clarence Murphy of Sacramento
: but it tallied so closely with de-
W ASHINGTON. Sept >4 — (AP)
—Ralph Bradford. 50-year-old Tex-
as economist, today was named to
the new position of general man-
ager of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States as part of a
general reorganisation to gear the
chamber's machinery to war and
poet-war needs.
Bradford will have direction, un-
der President Eric A. Johnston and
the board of directors, of the cham-
ber’s entire operations, including a
new streamlined set-up putting ma-
| jor activities under 12 main group-
, Ings to speed up and simplify the
organisation's work.
Admits Slaying
Father, Mother
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 24—AAV-After
hours of questioning, Robert Nash,
27-year-old St. Louis electrician,
today confessed, said Police Capt.
Leonard Murphy, to the ax slaying
of his father and mother during a
quarrel over his financial difficul-
ties. ■
Murphy, of the St. Ixiuls police
detective division, said the husky
youth related details of the brutal
ahthorittei
Charlei
ternal revenue agent, and his 49-
; year-old wife. Eleanor, were found,
hacked and mutilated. Tuesday
night in the family automobile on
a highway eight miles north
Springfield, Ill.
' w to police. Federal Bureau of
investigation agents and Illinois
‘ !s.
A. Naeh, 81-year-old In-
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Newcomers Of
Denton!
ASK FOR
Purity Bread
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Mary Sue
Cakes
At Your Favorite
Grocery
Purity Bakery
Phone IM For
Special Orders
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Medical & Surgical Clinic
212 SOUTH ELM STREET
lias Been Converted Into
The Victory Inn
Comfortable, Modern Living Quarters. Near
Heart of Denton’s Business Center.
Special Monthly Rates On Rooms
Or Suite of Rooms
NOW OPEN
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Walking
Shoe
You netdn’t wait a momtnt
to own this good-Jooking
shoe-of-the-fashion-world.
We have it—in a wide range
of sizes and widths ... to fit
you smartly.
S6.50 .
BROWNbilt Shoe Store
North Side Court Square
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Denton Teachers
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DeMaio's lived at Saif Augustine.
Miss Ruth Steidinger, director of
Buster
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Brown
committee
shoes They have a 37-year
reputa-
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them.
Parents'
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Complain of Reds9
Trick Bridges
quality-flt-and-wear
behind
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weeks. He will soon be able to re-
sume training in the Marine Coast
Guards, however
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Mrs. DeMaio said He was ordered
into service Feb 24. 1941, and has
been stationed since at
Perhaps you as a child were
loved
i geles a “total stranger" to her although he has been her husband since
! last May 1.
LONDON. Sept 24—(AP)—The
French garrison of Tananarive sur-
of T. 8. C. W., will appear on the i
program Oct 9
Oct. 12, Miss Myra Sowell, of the
Teachers College home economics
faculty, will talk on i'Play and Play
Materials.” f
Phone 1S1Z waen you want qual-
ity dry cleaning. Camp Cleaners.
, iiiiiK (.ijmiiinix lur tile niiorv
course, began a series of lectures
Wednesday
Mrs Ercel 8. Eppright, director
of the home economics department
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Italian infantrymen escaped
striding across one of the spans
MAN KILLED BY GIN BOILER
BLAST
COMANCHE, Sept. 24—(/Pi-Bob
McDonald, about 40. was killed In-
stantly today when a gin boiler ex-
ploded at Oustlne. 12 miles east
of here. John Couch, 17, was critic-
ally Injured by flying stSHe from
the fire box
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NEW YORK. Sept 24—Rus-
sian ingenuity in the use of con-
cealed bridges for retreat and coun-
I terattack in the battle of the Don ,
Bend draws plaintive comment
from 1.1 Giornale d'Italia of RomeJ
“The Soviets.” said the newspa-
per in a dispatch broadcast today
by the Berlin radio, “built several
dozen bridges across that river (the
Don) which were, however, com-
pletely invisible to Italian ground
troops and also to the air force be-
cause they were laid about a foot
and a half below the water's sur-
face.” '
Moving up or withdrawing, the
Russians waded knee-deep across
these bridges by night. The dis-
patch said the trick was discovered
when a Russian soldier pursued by
by
Home on a
John A Allen, son of Gus Allen.
Route 2. Denton He Ls a private first I
class at Williams Field. Chandler, I
Ariz, and entered the service last
March
Magazine recommends them. ,
have a complete size
range for boys and girls of
all ages Bring the children
. From San Diego, Calif , comes the j
news that Mrs Bob Beale of Little
Elm has arrived to be with her
husband, Bob Beale, who has been : rendered unconditionally yesterday
confined to the hospital for several British troops occupied the i
-mi Kx. -w* Madagascar capital Just
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There were not many Jap prisoners taken In the American invasion of the Solomons Islands, but there
! were some. Here, behind barbed wire, you see the fighting sons of the Rising Sun who knew when they had
I enough. A marine (center) is lining up a group, left, for Inspection while In background another group is
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Married to Stranger
i trust
Capt. and Mrs.
Mario DeMaio
Residing Here
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Mrs Gloria Weller Miller, left. Hollywood amnesia victim, who recovered L/entOn 1 earners
her memory to find herself married to Henry Miller, right, of Los An- ' To ("live I ecture*
Three home economics teachers |
from the Denton colleges have been ,
scheduled for lectures in Dallas 1
during the flve-wecks' Intensive J
-----/—course to train volunteer nursery i
stationed since at Camp school Bi<jeS which began Sept. 21
Blanding. Fla Camp Shelby. Miss at Dallas Y. W C. A under
and finally for a month s schooling ( the sponsorship of the civilian de-
al Fort 8111. Ok before coming | fenfle volunteer office and the
here. While at Camp Blanding, the ! Council of Social Agencies.
DeMaios lived at Sa if Augustine. | Miss Ruth Steidinger. director of
Fla., which. Mrs DeMaio said she nursery school education at T. 8. O.
was more reluctant to leave than W. and a member of the plan-
Providence, their home. Before be- | ning committee for the short
ing called into service. Capt De-
Maio was employed aa time study
man in a large machinery plant.
a fort-
night after their landings on the
west coast of the island, the British
announced officially today.
A communique said the troops
were “received with cheering” by
the population when they marched |
into the city after breaking through
suddenly stiffened French resist-
ance 15 miles north of the capital
Antalaha, 200 miles south of Die-
go Suarez, on the northeast coast,
also was occupied early yesterday
I
“Well, you can say that we like
Texas.” Mrs. Mario DeMaio, a new
resident of Denton who is living
at 301 West Sycamore Street, said
Wednesday afternoon. She is the
wife of Capt. DeMaio who is with
the field artillery unit of the 84th
Division. Camp Howze. Gainesville
The DeMaio’s are from Provi-
dence. R. I., and two boys make
up the family. Jack, age 9, Is in
the fifth grade, and Bobby, age 6.
j in the second grade Both attend
, th® R E Lee School here.
Capt. DeMaio has always liked
| military service and has been In
Pvt Olen Jones, brother of Mrs
J W Malone, 228 Bryan Street, and
san of Mr and Mrs. W L. Jones of
Aubrey, arrived in Dallas by plane
Wednesday and Ls here on a 15-day
furlough He is stationed at Camp 1
Young, near Los Angeles, Calif , .
and this is his first leave since join- |
ing the Army last February
15-day furlough Ls I morning, the communique said
Admit Surrender
VICHY. Sept 24—(API—British
occupation of Tananarive, capital
; of Madagascar, was ■ announced of-
I ficially today by the French gov- |
Two former Teachers College ath- | emment which said Governor GeS-
letes. Forrest Covin and W L 1 eral Armand Annet had reported !
Gerner, were named among the J with regret that stubborn resistance
39 officers, aviation cadets and en- I by his troops had failed to halt
listed men assigned last week to the i the British advance.
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Army. .
Requlreinenta for enlistments in
the corps include being U yean
of age on date of enlistment and
not havin< reached the 4fth birth*
married or sincte, full-time under-
graduate student or accepted *
admission In an accredited ogfl
passing a qualifying physical a®
ination and maitaining .a satisfac-
tory scholastic average.
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listing in
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candidates from the col
uates. Students who
grades show that they are good
ooUege dean andlTuw aai the
qualifying examinations, they are
penntied to conllnte college until
graduation, provided ths exigencies
qf war do not require their serv-
ice* and provided they maintain a
satisfactory scholastic average.
Upon withdrawal from cotepe er
failure to maintain the scholastic av-
erage. enlistees are called to active
duty. When they enter the Army
Enlisted Reserve, however, they are
inducted as privates on an inactive
or deferred status, which th
main until they cotnpiete (
After graduation, they are
to active service and report to a
replacement center for three months
baste training. If the training to
completed sattefectorily, the man
are ordered to officer eandMoto
By the end of the present semes-
ter of college work, studSnta who
te the Army JteUsted Reserve
program eg the Tteachers College,
as well as thorn* of other toUegee
over the nation, who have rwtehed
the selective service age win be
subject to immediate call, accord-
ing to a communication received
from the War Department te Dr.
A. H. Wood. Mahon officer for the
Teachers College military pro-
grams. I
Selective service age," is inter-
preted to mean the age at which a
man would ordinarily be in&isted
through the selective service w»-
mre and six months. As-
given that men now en-
_ the Army Enlisted Re-
serve will not be called prior to
the end of the term, and no in-
dication is made that other branches
of the service will make similar
changes in their programs, the
announcement said.
Quete Raised
The Teachers Ccilege quota for
men in the Army Enlisted Reserve
was this year raised from 108 to 100
students. The purpose of the pro-
gram is to insure for the Army
a future source of qualified officer
candidates from the college grad-
{
material are recommended by the ;
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AMONG SICK
Mrs Frank Lowe, West Hickory
Street, returned home from the
Hospital where she had
ooSmbwoel
Ph°*remaitaStel
MOSCOW, Sept 24—<A>>—
An official denial that Russian
planes have been bombing Bul-
garian cities was made public
today through Tans. Soviet News
Agency.
iidaUt*sa
LONDON. Sept. 24 —0P>—
Norwegian sources said today
that the Germans were hasten-
ing the installation of anti-
aircraft batteries and sowing
thousands of mines along the
Norwegian ccust in a wide-
spread tightening of anti-in-
vasion defenses.
SHt H WIN W»l HAM ■.
Denton
been ill.
Mrs. Joe Wise Brooks, who had
been a medical patient at the Den-
ton Hospital, returned home Thurs-
day
(From German
Sept 24— i/P)—A
German
reported today that Nazi
marines had sunk three
trqyers, an auxiliary cruiser
and five transports In an at-
tack on an Allied convoy be-
tween Spitsbergen and Iceland.
ing when he disappeared that Dis-
trict Attorney Henry 8. Lyon of El
Dorado County said he was con-
vinced it had belonged to the
youngster.
CLEVELAND. Sept. 24.—0F>—
Curtailment of war production
In all the Aluminum Co. of
America's five Newburgh
Heights plants was threaten-
ed today by a continuing strike
of 225 CIA smelting plant work-
ers. company spokesmen said.
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CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICERS TO
GO TO DALLAS
San ANTONIO, Sept. 24^-OF)—
Because it is closely Interwoven and
identified with the Sghth Service
Command, headquarters of which
was ordered to move to Dallas Nov.
15. Headquarters of the Office of
Civilian Defense of the Eighth De-
fense Region will also be moved
from San Antonio to Dallas.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL REVERTS
TO INACTIVE SERVICE
DALLAS. Sept. 24. -4AV- Brig.
Gen. Preston A. Weatherred will
revert to inactive status as a brig-
adier general Saturday, following
his retirement from active service
because of age General Weather-
red was commander of the 72nd In-
fantry Brigade of the Texas J8th
Division until his brigade was brok-
en up In the change of the 20th
from a square to a triangular di-
vision. '
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MOSCOW—Stalingrad defenders
recapture some fortifications, kill
7,200 invaders as Germans rush
reinforce men ts by air. <
MOSCOW — Presidential Envoy
Wlllkle expresses Russians’ “dis-
appointment and dissatisfaction”
over lack of a second front.
LONDON—British bombers raid
Flensburg submarine yards, hit
three Axis ships off Dutch coast.
BERLIN—High command clalma
submarines sank 22 AlUed ships.
PACIFIC—Australians hold firm-
ly in renewed fighting in New Gui-
nea. 32 miles from Port Moresby;
raiders blast Japanese supply baaes.
WASHINGTON -Navy announc-
es destroyer Jarvis disappeared In
southwest Pacific, auxiliary |rang-
pprt Little sunk at Solomons.
To Be Married
In Corpus Christi
Mfs. Helen Akers and daughter,
Miss Wanda Akers, left Tuesday
for Corpus Christi, where Mias
Akers will become the bride of En-
sign R F Travta bl'tte V. S.'1M-
val Reserve Saturday. Mias Akers*
grandparents and aunts, Mr. and
Mrs O W Martin, Mmes. W. P.
Brooks and Vada Guest, left Wed-
nesday to attend the wedding.
The liraton County Baptist Bro-
therhood will hold a dinner meet-
ing in the Plainview community
Monday evening at 8 o'clock when
Rev. Fred Fisher, minister of the
Sanger Baptist Church, will speak.
Pres, and Mrs. L. H. Hubbard will
entertain tonight with their annual
party honoring the T. 8. C. W. sen-
iors and graduate students. Former-
ly a garden party. It will be held
this year in the college auditorium
and will feature a short comedy
program with a reception in the
foyer immediately after.
Born to Mr. and Mra. Luther Al-
len, In the Denton Hospital, Thurs-
day morning, a boy.
A graaa fire at the corner of Peak .
and Collins Streets about 11:30 a. j
m. Thursday resulted in no dam-
age. after Denton foremen answer-
ed the alarm
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Elizabeth Ardpn’s now
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AUSTIN. Sept 24—(AP) Stole
Fire Insurance OommiiuUoner Mar-
vin Hall today warned against the
hazards of hoarding excess supplies
Of gasoline and asserted the “Indis-
criminate use of gasoline in Texas
is becoming a criminal tragedy."
"The threatened nationwide ra-
tioning of gasoline will cause many
to cast safety aside," Hall pointed
out in a rtatement. ‘This practice
is not only dangerous but can HF.
suit In a fire Insurance policy be-
ing voided If a fire results ftdtat
the stoned gasoline."
Fire deatlis In Texas have reach-
ed a total of 318 this year, ho
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