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SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1943
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scertain If
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Corp.
Vrbn,” said
Norquest.
tha jiours of 3 to 8
afternoon, no
ty will be reqt
Tropical Storm
Delayed; Due on
Coast by Night
I HOUSTON. Sept 18—GP>— The
i U. 8 Weather Bureou reported to-
By JACK BELL ~
WASHINGTON. Sept. 18— (API—
Congress bent a willing ear today
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lace
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that
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the upper Irrawaddy.
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without invarion. revolt would tie
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night. waa re-
lerlln
nlque reported.
Capture of Bryansk,
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Would Budget
War Plant Labor
OUTBURST AGAINST GERMANS
IN BALKANS MAY COME SOON
If you want to make your soap
last longer, set it. out in a dry spot
and let it stay there until It has
dried out thorouhly. Tills will get
nil the water out of it. makes it
harder and 'tls said that it will
give at least t third more service.
"I don’t know what kind of hun-
ters C. A. Sklle.s and C
kerson arc," said John
Utensils must be clean and
evidence no cracks or other char-
acteristics causing cleaning to be
difficult.
9 Toilet facilities are needed.
Kitchen Difficulties
"One of the biggest
ty in Russia or Wfcr.
Pride of the Navy is tile new car-
rier-bused Grumman Hellcat, a
speedy, highly maneuverable fight-
er-bomber that participated in the
Marcus Island raid
y address for the Home Coming Day O4444 44 IS 144*«44 •♦♦♦♦44
!♦ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ♦
I AFRICA, Sept ♦
I of Ischia ♦
| ♦ off the Gulf of Naples surren-
! ♦ dered to Allied Naval
Parsons, past seventy
years of age said, "Well. I find that
of
of
™2E War at Glance
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the preddent’e elate- — —
war ffliin to Con- . j
ay suggested the ~
50 degrees
growth.
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Inspection of Eating Places in
Denton Completed by Army Officers
Sanitation Requirements Outlined
The mornings begin to feel 'fall-
lah', more so each morning. The
high temperature registration Fri-
day was cnly 83 with a low of 51,
aa compared with 74 and 88 a year
ago. And there was a rumor going
arccind town Saturday morning
that an inch of rain had fallen at
the Experiment Farm. Taint ao,
boys, but Paul Dunkle promises a
rain by next Saturday.
Allied Coup Threatens NAZIS BUILD UP-
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DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
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Asaodated Proas I —ed Wirt
ions
ktric appli-
Ition, many
k new light,
mixers and
al servants
ul lives.
I
Next Tuesday is to be a Big Day 1
at the Kiwnnls Luncheon, as it has I
been designated as "Home-Coming- |
Bond Sale Total
Climbing Slowly
Denton's bond sale total for the
third war loan campaign is climb-
ing slowly. Only 115.000 worth of
. bonds were sold Friday, making the
total 5310343.
Renewed effort to double tbs
sales will be made by committeemen
next week. ■
nanoe i___
sumtaf fire.’
r-tta presk
oetrefi rehat
there la “de
tlal Ind us tires He added thft to
dip further into the ranks of war
workers with irreplaceable skills
for the Denton Junior and Sen- bo critically hurt. ■
u.-u oom- The Navy kept mum on the mum
' r except to say wR-
rormed those in an-
- ortgi-
selected from a staai-
----physical and mental atoU-
. have undergone their bapttan ,
of fire in this theater of operations
t and have peered muster, it WM dts- —J
elaaad today.
some 18 months ago. Undergoing
an intensive, commando-like train-
ing, the have emerged as a done-
<y-knlt, excellent fighting foswe.
according to American officers who
supervised the process. ,j-~ —-
RAF Bomb. Katha
Railway Buildings
NEW DELHI, Sept lg-(AF>—
Railway buildings at Seywa and
Tlndeinyan to the Katha District
were attacked yesterday by beau-
fighters as the RAF continued to
hammy st Japsmeee communica-
tion centers in Western Burma, an
Allied joint communique announoo.
today.
The
A letter from J. H. Wiley to his
son here will sound mighty guod.
or maybe mighty bad, tJ some of
the fox hunters of this county. He
writes of having been in a chase
, with hounds one night when they
caught five red fox.
France, photographs taken during
the latter part of the aid Thursday
disclosed last night.
A new German destroyer appar
ently Just completed or nearly com-
pleted was sunk and possible hits
were scored on three ether large I
Awtasstoad, SegL
Froaeh wwtasgrsi
ives in Brittalny.
Ne Planes Mlestog
The Air Ministry announced that
no planes were missing from the
night assaults.
Naxl shipping was hard hit in
the raid by American Flying Fort-
resses on Nantes and La PalUce,
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Hungary and also on the pi
Finland, on the northern fla
Burope.
In view of recent Allied i
to the Balkan peoples not to
rqent in hli
grass yesterd---- ----
slbillty that the hour for ai
Anglo-Atncricsm thrust into
Hitler's continental fortress is fast
Revolution in the Balkans amutd
C,«rBs^j£t£dr%Mn?3K
RAF BOMBS BERLIN THIRD NIGHT;
ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE CARRIED
INTO FOURTH DAY OVER DIEPPE
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WIRE BRIEFS
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1A-uF>
The State Bigsrtaisei saM to-
day that Admiral WBMaaa
MmsStaf. Amerieaa Amtae-
aeder to the Soviet tiniest Is
returning heme for eenoelta-
tion abewt dtausaiins which are
&SE wu vMh the Rta-
ish and Soviet givirassiwto.
By JOHN K. HIOHTOWEK
WASHINGTON, Sept, it—(API—
The fuse of revolt is sputtering in
the Balkans. A violent and destruc-
tive cutburst against German dom-
ination h considered here to be a
wirtual certainty in the immediate
future.
This view te based <m President
Roosevelt's unqualified eppeal to the
------ of Rumania, Hungary and
la to rice agataat Nasi dousi-
and dsgtrng tt in a "con-
r flea ■ '
president saM he had re-
KWH
Sir <4 1
BuMvu tat i
Rhouki make you drive even more
carefully aa many children will be
on the streets.
MOSCOW, Hept- it—<4>-
Military dispatches reported to-
day that the Red Army had
reached the gates of White
Rua<d^ after croseing the Desna
and capturing the key central
fortress of Bryansk. A Pra-
vda dispatch mid reoccupalien
of Orel Province virtually was
completed after the taking ef
Bryansk. White Russia borders
this province on the west and
inrludrs the important strate-
gic centers of Gomel. Mogilev
and Vitebsk and the leglongl
capital of Minsk.
u
Turn thou to thy God: Keep mer-
cy and judgment, and wait on thy
God continually —Hosea 12-6
If what must ge given is given j
willingly kindness is doubled —
Syrus
SNTON
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Chairman Truman (D-Mo) told
reporters he hoped the Baruch plan
The primary reason for this is ed^n'to ^fecTloodly1on*tbe°Wsst
4 »» ata* — — S— I • a A a a - aA X-
wv •oMags wpaae sasw. w waa aaa s»m maws v vaassc ■
as posible by keeping the health of
all military personnel at highest
pitch possible,” johnson said.
Major Johnson urged operators to
contact the office of the camp sur-
geon. Lieut. Col William M. Caf-
fee. medical corps, or the local
health officer at any time they need
advice on any phase of sanitation.
While leaving fathers untouched In
imsmsntial Jobs “would be to in-
rite a serious retarding of. war
production.**
From now on. the army will make
periodical inspections to be aspired
that the establishments are main-
taining sanitation
u> wp stk i
of enMctlng compulsory manpower
legislation.
In his report to Byrnes, Baruch
said It was his belief that the inter-
ests of war production demand that
"from now on deferments be made
more on the basis of occupation
than family status.**
He said that if fathers as • class
were left free ot the draft, they
might elect to remain in tees emen-
i Russians, the Naxl lines before the
. Dnieper barrier were said to lie
curling up everywhere. #-
From north of Bryansk d<Wm
I through the central and southern
. Ukraine to the shores of the Bea
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i the Germans were in retreat, leav-
ing behind great stores of war gear
in their desperate haste to escape
■ the Red Army steamroller.
I The Dnieper line was in "
ate danger at two main points. Be- I hour,
fore Kiev. Red Army advance col- I "in
move northward or nortth-north-
t in
i the Galveston-Pieeport t.rea late
afternoon or tonight with
it 1 winds 75 to 85 miles per hour and
~ ...... Kuota up «* iv miles per nour near
the river, the daily Soviet commit- the center."
Earlier advisories repeatedly had
- located the storm’s center 130 mil- —”T~ ~~rr: ~ ~
point fee six major Russian rafl- es east of Corpus Christi. lowed up a raid of more than 200
-------------------- -- Meanwhlle fronp I American PUn" Tuesday by
borne over the Houston area on the *ndu*
ways and fa sister city of Beshl
to the north, brought the 1
Annv toreea to wMhta ffil miles __________
White Russia, rich grain country reached 26 miles ,
held by the Germans more than and tumbled the mercury to 60 de- i
I two years h | Kree* by midnight.
Monday afternoon will be
only opportunity for the general
public to see the Hartlee Flying
Field, where the 25th Army Air
Forces Liaison Training Detach-
ment receives flying instruction, it
-------—Saturday,
to be opened to the
Whirlwinds, kept up the concen- 1 I
tated Allied attack on German'
the
roing to try to were
can airfield of Munda. New Geor-
gia. and nearby Barkaonia causing
minor damage and casualties.
3. Employes handling food must
have had health examinations, in '
eluding Wasserman test
4 Employes must be clean.
5. The law requiring a lavatory
with hot water, soap and sanitary
towels for employes must be com-
plied with
6 Adequate sterilization process
is required for dLdtes. Dishes are
not to be dried with tea towel, but
must be sterilized with water at i
180 degrees
7. Refrigerators must be less than
I fiparfw**! fy. inhibit Kas»ttor4a! -r-f-_t- . ■ w-l■■ ■■ l. , — w- - —
j the draaft of fathers fro military i PtalP at> U’15 P- in-
service. i "*■"
Baruch, adviser extraordinary to
War Mobilization Director James
F Byrnes, suggested the voluntary
pooling of labor in shortage areas,
with the producers of most essential
___ _____ a. I,-,.-. milif mew aqiiinwtawf rernttln* ihm
with which the operators have to I first call on workers,
coqtend is their kitchen set-up. ' **—--------—* *-
Most of the buildings housing res-
taurants were never built for kitch-
en purposes. Proper effort on the
operators’ part, however, can make
the places absolutely acceptable,"
Johnson stated.
He also named operators’ inabil-
ity to Impress upon his employes
the necessity of sanitary effort as
another major difficulty.
From now on. the army will make the manpower problem.
In.ruintlow. 4^ m----* ' ___
J. Wll-
_. . . MUler.
Plainview community, "nor do I
know how expert they are with
shotguns on dovea. All I know is ■
the result of a hunt at my place,
where the birds are plentiful The
twain managed to get six birds be-
tween them.’’
, ■
.. . Ax • . 1
shot down against the loss of three
' escorting American fighters.
| Tlie bombers destroyed two Japa-
; nese planes on the ground, dam-
aged many others and spread ruin
among it-ixilr and supply depots.
In a give-and-take battle for |
• ' mastery o* the Solomon skies, the
Japanese on the night of Sept. 14 !
and In the pre-dawn of Sept 15 I
H. D. Barnhart, northwest of
Denton on the Denton-Sanger
Road, was in Denton Satin day He
came te- Denton County about a
year ago, buying the farm on which
he lives When asked why he de-
cided to buy farm land In Denton
County, he said. “Well, for one
thing land was cheap here, and,
too, I believe it is still too low. But
the main reason I decided on
Denton County la that I believe the
cltlaenshlp here Is about the best
of any county I know." '
Rear Admiral Ross T McIntire,
surgeon general of the United Stat-
es Navy, has disclosed that the
mortality r<>te In the armed forces
is slightly more than 2 per cent, and
in some areas cnly 1 per cent He
gives credit to the medical officers,
both lg held and in the re-
search laboratories and hospitals
for the remarkably low mortality
rate.
Wlille this rate may rise as
American soldiers come in contact
with more Germans and Japs. It Is
reassuring to know that modern
mttlical aid administered by train-
ed men is accomplishing a near
miracle on the battlefronts It will
mean that more men will be able
to resume their normal, active lives
following the win,
"I guess I’ve given my garden to
the weems," said W. E. Scherle.
"and I’m going to get back in the
harness of trying to rincl tnat Den-
- ton County oil Held some t.me .soon.
I I have nothing definite to say right
now, only that I’m quitting
garden and am gol..,, L , ...
definitely locate file oil field for ; eluded "a thick sprinkling of vet-
which I've been looking for the past j erans from the Russian front/
17 years In this county."
Proocida and Penza Taken Over; 5th
Army Plunges Inward From Salerno to
Take Rooccadaspide, On Southern Flank.
By ROGER GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Allied sea-l>orne forces have captured the island of Pro-
cida, only 12 miles from the heart of Naples, in a daring coup
Day", and it is believed that quite that threatend to outflank Italy’s second greatest ]xirt from | -
the north, it was disclosced today
The Island lies west of Naples Just I behig cut cfl
off the short upper arm ol the Fv* AlUvd ,,i
but who for soin • reason have drop- I 3uy 0( Maples. ■' ^>een v,r,ua'ly unmolested
™,. i a bulletine from Oen Dwight D. |
® I EUenhower s headquartera Mdd an-
other Allied Expedition srized this
I tiemely difficult
Roosevelt Talk
To Public On
It’s kindo' amusing to hear and
read of Reid’s dogs catching that
fox," said Col. Tom Cole "That
was a tame fox that was brought !
up with his dogs, and one day. it
decided to give the dogs a little
exercise and let ’em chase It. The I
fox was in a playful mood and I
didn’t believe the dogs would hurt I
their playmate, but suinp’n went
wrong, and one' of the dogs forgot
and killed It. And, I imagine that
Reid feels sorry that be le‘ the
fox out of the house that day "
In the Interests <>f peace. We need
air bases right across the Pacific
' —and are likely to have them.
Only Chance for
Public to See
Seed of Revolt
Tlie seed of revolt was thrown
> c-n fertile ground in the Balkans
I and if I were head of one of the
three governments concerned I
' should be Inclineu to expect Indirect
aid of some sort from the Allies
< if my country threw Hitler over-
board
In the matter of the European
air front Mr Roosevelt was more
I specific He bluntly advised the
fuehren that Britain and America
i are going to set up bomber bases
from which southern and eastern |
IN Germany will be devastated.
Sept. 18— (AV- I “
me Dartre ror me Saiemo bridge- , iwo more jxsnur. n was nearieimig
head has virtually ended with the ' to have him give us the categorial
Germans pulling out from the south assurance that not only Hitler and
where the Allies knifed 11 miles the Nazis must go, but that
inland, and with ether Allied forces
seizing two Islands off the northern
spur of the Bay of Naples itself
“The British Eighth Army now
lias Joined the Amerlcnn Fifth .
Army, and they are virtually act-
ing as one army." In position for
a drive on Naples, a headquarters
officer declared
There still was heavy fighting I
near Salerno, the gateway
Naples, but the bridgehead
By GLADWIN RILL
LONDON, Sept 18— (AP)—RAF
mosquito bombers blasted Berlin for
the third consecutive night last
night and this morning great for-
mations of Allied bombers droned
across the southeast coast towards
Dieppe to carry the new round-the-
.. t . w -1 j aerial offensive into its
j Lae, New Guinea. Is in Allied hands. I
J wrested fresn the Japanese by |
; sledgehammer air blows and swift- I fighters streaming out across
striking jungle troops In a major I the channel.
' step by Gen. Douglas MacArthur . American marauders and their
| toward his avowed return to the spitfire esevorta. which returned
' across the channel Just before noon,
attacked a Nazi airfield at Beau-
valstllle tn Northern France, it was
announced. ,
Last night's attack, which kept I
rvwuciive ui nw utuiuki v*|hv«1
crouching in air raid sheltos for i |
• Btataas* --------A--wai^taB obma ,
radio Mi
The broadcast
whs being reset nfcl(i lhe bombers struck in both 11
A communique said Oen Sir Ber-
nard L Montgomery’s 8th Anny
The ‘trio’, comprised of Coppage. j troops had now completed a full
Titus and Ford, are to be found i Junction with the U. S 5th Army
rny of these hot afternoons, around , after their whirlwind 20-inile dash
4 o’clock, on the east side of the [ up the coast from the tee of the
Brent Jackson Building They say j Italian boot
it’s the coolest place in Denton. I . •
and they sit with ease on that iron Salerno Bridgehead
railing Ford and Titus have learned , ,
to keep one foot on the ground. I Battle INear tnded
but Coppage. the most recent mem- , By WES GALLAGHER
ber. hasn’t yet got the habit qf | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
keeping one foot down However. [ NORTH AFRICA C
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ISLANDS NEAR NAPLES SEIZE
Smoke blossoms mark direct
hit on ths Bolmno, Italy, rail-
road bridge near Brenner RM ML_
Flying Phrtreasss give another
I destructive demonstration cf
I their JH|h altitude precialon
ships, the photos showed. I bombing.
! There was no announcement by I -------------,
either British or American air of- (
ficiate of raids on the continent
h last night, but Reuters reported
‘ that air raid warnings had been
1 sounded in Western Switzerland
and tumbled the mercury to 60 de- e.rs .ro?e Bixteen were j OvIltHjl
[To Begin Tuesday
Classes will begin Tuesday for
all students In the Denton public munition blast that wrecked a
schools, commencing at 9 a. m. for , Uon of the Norfolk Naval Air
pupils who will attend
mentary schools and at
sent 60 planes to raid the Ameri- , IM
--- — lor Hlgh school students
' plete plans for the opening of the of the disaster “—‘
schools were discussed at a meet- nesaee had infu
ing of the school faculty Friday ’ thority that the explosion
afternoon Lnated in ammunition that 1
Elementary pupils are to report I fog moved,
to their respective schools, Stone- , -
wall Jackson. R. E. Lee and Sam ; A-----*---TP, -*----»
Houston. Monday at 9 a. m„ when I ramoa
textbooks will be issued and lee- Chineae Pw Test
sene assigned. They sill return
Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock to be- ~. - 4
._f gin classes A schedule for reg-
to a proposal by Bernard M Baruch 9en,tooi ®?nl?r and Jun*
. for the budgeting of labor to war ‘w H1«h School students was pre- American-trained Chinese
planta, with the hope that here was viously announced, with registre- carefully *—
the solution to the Interlinked prob- Uon beginning Monday and contin- fpomt «
lems of manpower shortages and ufng through - Tuesday morning. «J.
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Tuesday. " ' ’ iT" ~r—r—.-sy.-n
School bueee will begin running cl“*o today.
c—'m ~ ----- w The great
who ride the bueee can be at their transported „
reepeettve scboole tar 9 a. m. A,“™ "x r <
definite time ecbedule for the run- umo were, evaCTMOg uNun^ 1
ning of buses will then be set up
Monday.
Doctor- “Tre altered your medi-
cine. Junior. It’s tablets, not pills.”
Junior (complaining): “But I
want pUle.*'
Doctor: "Whyf There’s no dif-
Juntor: "Isn't there? Have you
/Vied blowing tablets th rough a pM
shooter.”
fronts, but some of their kitchens
are filthy," Johnson commented
( "We would like to see restaurant
i conditions so clean that the public
u >v~v,w, u } could have a standing Invltatku to
There the : visit the kitchen. In no case, how-
1 ever, do we expect any place to
' qualify with army standards
spection. We only require
I they qualify with the health stand-
j ards of the stale food and drug
laws." he added
"Off Limits" Signs Due
| “Off Limits to Military Person-
nel” signs will be posted on all
I eating places which do nc< conform
< to the Texas food and drug law af-
------ — ter the operator has received wam-
States could control those islands hut of his sanitary status and the
*- ““ -------- report has gone through the office
of the camp commander.
The criteria for Judging the sani-
tation of the reatauranls. drug
stores, and cafes include the fol-
lowing :
1. Physical aspect must show
floors, celling, and walls to be
smooth and of easily cleaned con-
struction
2. Adequate fly protection, such
as a screen door opening ‘__L
or a fly repellent fan. Is necessary.
f One of the places where Invasion
j is possible, of course, is the Balkans
-----1 Roowvelt made a blunt
the ’ suggestive bid for Rumania. Hun-
An Al- 8ary. and Bulgaria to desert Hit-
ler
I .
[phone 1725 J
was emphasized
The field is U
public from 3 to 6 o'clock Monday
afternoon, the occasion marking the
first year of operation of the field
here. Because of military use, the
field la closed and only on a spe-
cial occasion can the public be ad- 1
mltted.
George L. Harte, owner of the
field and civilian operator lor the
Arrnv training pr<»grani here, hM
Invited all Interested persons to
visit the field duriiqi tBe hours eot
Monday afternoon At 5 o'dock a
. — .Xi-2 T L forces 4
♦ two days ago, it was announc- 4>
4> ed today ♦
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larger Island of Ponza 65 miles .
northwest of Naples
Dispatches from Allied headquar- j
ters said the 10 day-old battle of
Salerno a us virtually ended as
the Geimans swung their southern
1 flank toward central Italy to avoid
being caught in a trap between the
8th and 5th Armies
The Nazis were still 1 juii_
, strong rearguard ^Uons iH'WPver. I way had lald all th„ eR. 1 <S^*en~‘wedg7to within _
' unci’British warsliiw. sentlal facLs w,iu;h un>’ citizen out- 50 miles ot the river, wlille far to westward and reach the coast
nlanes an 1 ground troops sldr t»lt't» command could reas- south another Soviet spearhead | A Z*X* 1 4
planes and ground troops had capture<|
Ossipenko and smashed to a point 1 -‘-/L
35 miles from the lower reaches bf , gusts up to 10 miles per hour
the river, the daily Soviet cornmb- the center."
For three days Allied planes have
/. 1 I in strik-
ing as far north as Rome, and now
with the weather perfect, a suc-
cessful German retreat from the
Salerno sector is gc4ng to be ex-
gettlng the
His sugges-
tion was contained in a report to
Byrnes. Inserted in the Congression-
al Record by Senator Vandenberg
(R-Mlch).
When Baruch said such a plan i
might be the only alternative to
a general labor draft he struck a
responsive chord. particularly
among members of the Truman
i War Investigating Committee who
| have made an intensive study of
Denton estaolishmeiits serving
food and beverages Friday receiv-
ed final inspection from Army offi-
cials, Major Robert W Johnson,
medical corps, camp medical in-
spector; Capt. Russell O. Spittier,
medical corps; and Major George A.
Campbell, medical corps, camp ven-
ereal disease control officer, from
Camp Howze. The inspection and
survey was made with Dr M L.
Hutcheson Denton County health
’ officer.
Establishment managers and
operators were informed of sanitary
' deficiencies and have been given a
| period of adjustment.
▼ Al al.I r.U I
O F Parsons, a longtime em- !♦ W NORTH
ployee of the Acme Brick Cctnpany. ♦ ™
is back on the job alter having
been in other work for the past
eight years.
ml ia,u r,r;i. * miu
I can take care of my end of the
, job all right, and I'm glad to feel
that I'm helping In the war effort,
as bricks tue needed, too." Parsons
lias been doing nursery work for
the past. 8 years.
.
A communique said 5th Army In-
fantry plunged 12 miles Inland trom
the bloody Salerno beaches to cap-
ture the town of Occadasplde on
the southern flank of the bridge-
head
"Allied troops now havs the ini-
tiative on the 5th Army front." the
dally war bulletin announced
Germans at Elba
In an apparent move to counter
the Allies’ island-lioppi ng
northward — ...
j coast, WKKl llfwwqiwi, K-I i
I that German lioops had
f Napoleon? exiTe““ 711? Ttalian gar- I vaslons which have been premised
rlson of 7.GOO men was said to have ! C:.: :*
' surrendereo !
In «ie stetor, the Americans cap- ; and Mr
tured 150 Nazi prisoners for
largest single bag to date
giers broadcast said the prisoners
all young and tough and In- j
step by Oen. Douglas MacArthur .
(nwiird hia aunw^d mturn tn ttw '
Philippines.
‘ With God'z help, we are making
our way back," the resolute general |
.said today in announcing Lae's 1
capture. ;
Ita fall Thursday, with the few I residents of the German capital
[enemy survivors chased north into ! ~ - *"* - -—
a death trap of blockadeed Jungle i the third successive i_
I trails, occurred while the long [ ferred to by the Berl
I emouldering Solomons are of the [ . "nuisance raid ** —
. Pacific offensive v- -----* 1 • •
aflame by. many scores of Japanese j Northern and Southern Gi
Other Mosquitos, accomi
■p It in line.
The president Latf to hold out on
us in one Important matter and
that's when we are to get other in-
LONDON, Sept.
Gssmm taws to ths wssSire Z—
BaBuuM were reperked taktag tare etaure* *M«
Weatherman C E. Lac’s control tower found only a
---------------- I Norquest It is moving slowly few stragglers among the ruins to
The Dnieper line was In tmmedi- | northward only a few miles per | *■"'
------------------------I
"Indications are the storm will north had been
ades, some manned
paratroops, had been built across
MOSCOW. Sept 18—HP>—Adolt
! Hitler’s battered German legions,
hurled back on every sector of the
. Eastern front and smarting from
| less of the key central fortress of
I Bryansk, were reported spiling new I
! defenses today before their Dnieper j
, River bases of Kiev and Smolensk, j day that the hesitant tropical hur- |
I Punch-drunk irotn the Incessdnt rlcane would swirl over the Galves- i
i hammer blows of the hard-slugging ton-Freepcrt area from the Gulf of j ftl'd American planes
" ‘ “ ------ - Mexico late this afternoon or to- *•■*-- -■ —
night
j Reporting the first change
I ricane’s center, the bureau located
t Ba hinniruno blviiit 1 RD mllnc ooct
WNU Rak >IUt crwlni Dank
and capturing Bryansk.
‘NEW GUINEA— AiUee. MacAr-
thur, on road to Philippines after
capture of Ita. says.
ITALY— Allied capture <rf Island
at Prockta. noar Naptea, thrMtens
to outflank Italy*s sscond greatest
wttboutinvMtan. revolt «Mridtte up P°western EUROPB-RAF kftn- tag i
steasble German forces needed ted- quite bombers blast Berita for ihtrtl ' troop
-----*... ....... ' —
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
Awuwtoted Press War Analyst
President Roosezeit’s review of
the war left me with the comforta-
ble feeling that the commander-in-
chief had called me into his pil- j
fighting vate office r.nd In his own colorful
,11'PVPr I _____ I____I 1.1 j a. . r_______.11 Al______ *
kill
a few Kiwanlans of Denton in for-
mer years will be heir for the oc-
casion. All Kiwanlans, who have
formerly been members ot the Club.
szmv nnv zva/ssi iroovii unvr .
ped out of active membership, are |
invited to attend this meeting. “
B. Stone, one of Fort Worth’s fine
lawyers, will deliver the principal
but Coppage. the most recent mem- |
I
the danger has been poihted out
to him and he'll get in line on that
safety measure soon.
to
itself
the trails leading into mountains
| which rise nearly 14,000 feet.
Bombers Lash Out
Agahist the Bougainville air base
of the Japanese in the Solomons,
Admiral William F. Halsey hM, fol-.
I American planes on Tuesday
IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept.
. 18 <A> — The air. base stronghold of clock'
* • . A A a I frontal
The daylight formations were
preceded by thick fonnstions of Al-
lied fighters streaming out across
onably expect to know
F D. R’s commentary struck
me as calculated to Inspire com-
plete confidence in Allied progress,
while making ft, quite clear that
we still have a tough job ahead of
‘ us. One of the outstanding impres-
sions It conveyed was that the ixe-
sldnnt rect-anizes the citizenry can
be dealt with on a man-to-man
basis and doesn t need to be beaten
swVep ' over the head with a propaganda
aki'ig the Italian west [ chib in order_to kee]
coast. Nazi headquarters reported
1 occupied
the historic Island of Elba, scene of
Napoleon’s exile
I
There was no announcement by
Norfolk Naval
Blast Total May
Grow Beyond 24
■ . —- , v.:a. 1 •
NORFOLK. Ya.. Sept. 19-<AP>—
Naval authorities ixprsassd fsar to-
day of an increase ta the dMth ton
of 24 caused by the disastrous aat-
h— , munition bissi uxai wrecked ■ 8M-
a. m. for, uon of the Norfolk Naval Air Bto-
. . the els- Don., ftkrtosn of the 250-odd Id.
mentary schools and at 13:15 p. m. Jured ware reported officially to
Oom-
mation oi our n<jpes tnat Japan |
would be deprived of the mandated i
was rapidly expanding into one sol- I
id front as the Germans swung 1
their southern flank northward to-
ward central Italy to avoid being
caught In pincers between the Eigt-
th and Fifth Armies.
The familiar patterns of the Al-
lied attack was seen again as
Northwest African Airforces start-
ed pounding Nazi airfields south I
of Rome.
For the first time. Allied planes
now are operating from airfields on
the Italian mainland. Before, the
fighters had to fly all the way from
Sicily. •!
Capture of Roccadaaplde Indi-
cated the Germans were abandon-
ing their mountain positions from
which their M-mlllimeter guns had
pounded the beachhead.
Naris Held Mountain Pare
The Nazis sUll were fighting des-
perately north of Salerno, and hold
the mountain passes leading down
Into the south side of the Ba<
Naples, and their next great si
undoubtedly will be In defense of
that bomb-wrecked seaport.
There are at least six German dl-
vlstona in the area, although those
engaged against the Fifth Army
unquestionably were heavily bat-
tered.
The British force which landed at
Taranto, the Fifth Allied Corps, re-
mained oomptfEPvtay inactive, a-
cept for stmethening, of contact
with the British just north of the
instep of the 'boot *'
GeraMta troops, particularly ths
first German parachute division,
are still In the area Just north c<
Bari on the east coast, bat now
must withdraw or faee'danger of
........*•<
Flight of the enemy remnants
had been forseen Block-
by American
l Allied air power, growing rapidly
'at both ends of the 750-mlle battle
, r „ in 24 I arc. made possible the brilliantly t transport by shooting up loctxnot-
hour. to the loctUon of the hur- .executed 13-day pincers drive which re- w
| ' swallowed up Lae. After IJberators
the hurricane about 180 miles east . ar>d Mitchells razed its last defens- ;
of Azov and the Crimean gateway, j of Corpus Christi Thursday morning with 43 tons
--------------- . | The center h upparenily farther ' of bombs, the Australians who
; east than given In previous advls- marched In and raised their flag on j
1 r< v Ijie’x oontrr/. tower found onlv a 1
Is
Tills column has space for only
tao more jx4nts. ft was heartening . vs aujuaiinmi,.
j "Many of the places have good
the i
i Prussian military clique must be
’ rooted out of Germany, and the
I milltartsLs of Japan must follow, if
we are to have peace. *
president put his finger c-n the per-
ennial root of German and Japa-
nese aggrerslon—militarism, which
Ilves on when individuals like Hit-
ler and Tojo die.
It was good also to have confir-
mation of our hopes that Japan
' would he rienrivod nf th. maoriTt/-d
islands which they got through the
! League of Nations after the last
war and fortified against us. It [
would be a great thing if the United '
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