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Number of British Warships Sunk.’
town to show
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INDIA PARLEY
JO MEET AGAIN
fl
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radio
“What’s a poor man
island forts both from the penln-
guerrillas and possibly a few United , uiand fortress still fl les .**
after
called a grand message from Wain-
I
fighting front.
postmaster
five miles out
on
agency at
bu has been in communication with
was linked
Allied
*d-
bow-
serted
off
fee 1
..t-J
val
aerial operation'
German
The
He had
sisters,
of Denton.
two
artillery shot down
three
In
rier
ton
vitMiiiK uiipuiwuit uwi* • uiuwt wipruu laml ui num-
time communications among Rus- gansett Bay had struck the u . a a 1
ala and the United Nations across Canells a 4.070-ton naval caroo
ah
German etn- anchored in shoal water and is in
found
e
today
and Filipino
of man
to
<L,
; ’mJ jq
S'
A
. , ;■ ’ J *- Ukl*-*.**!*1 _jf*' **
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i 9
4m£L-
tyan dea-
two Axis
far war
waaoon-
ation for
years old.
Torpedo from
Motor Boat Hits
Naval Vessel
Five Killed in
Bomber Wreck
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
Liquidate Nazi
Invader* in 1942
B W. MeKENZJE
Burl W McKenzie. 64. Denton
4-.....-
a big British na-
sylon. Just off the
i Crossing the Ohio river in
| experimental water wagon
the fortress island of
cut off for
Corregldor
nearly 24
rate-
said
not
Ger-
t-Aiso
to the church to He in state until
4 p. m.
era is
A 1
said I
had occupied
_.s Island 225
By DREW MIDDLETON
LONDON, April 10. —OP)— The
United States and Great Britain
face a desperate battle in the next
three months to maintain dominion
of the seas because of steady Axis
progress in picking off key bases
throughout the world, an informed
naval observer said today.
Bataa
Axis pal
in's conquest fit
Item since it i
ridSS?%
al) woman
..... .<»
adding
supplies
gsretare
gas works on the CnRUat
coast.
-
noir Oood-
•tches told
iter of Ger-
SjTTO Neals
divisions
he Kalinin
ral region
I
is
V™
1 N
firing circuit In the
roamed • total die-
rds through the
I the cargo vea-
information re-
made
told of con-
aaaaulta on
a, Britiah
I
i
frontier into White
and were continuing
vance.
The drive into WM» Mfe
.1
*1
k J
"'KS
vl;z . a..»-
leaguered island fortress of Cor- ,
I1'
Kind look ;, kind words, kind acts,
and warm handshakes—these are
the secondary means of grace when
men are in trouble and are fighting
their unse?n battles.—John Hall.
U. S- and Britain Face Desperate
Fight to Dominate Seas With Key
Bases Being Picked Off by Axis
B. W. McKenzie,
i Postmaster Here
I our flag stlU flies on the beleaguer-
ed island fortress of Corregldor,"1
the War Department added.
*TV» a x'wtiiwsa* an vile mas /\«a
armada of five warship^ i
transports landing troops in
Extending Conquest
This Indicated that the Japanese
broken
ae Mne...,v Jj
agency reported that
of the Congress Party
wtih pole and Une In the past few
days of nigh water, but the boys
' Japanese naval unite are operat-
ing at the entrance to the bey in 1
j wright reported this morning that
all communication between Bataan,
. where his American-Filipino force
forward ’against American of 36.853 effectives was crushed, and
to.: feet- - —-----'—
had been
hours.
(The Japanese news
f Lieutenant General
I This indicated that the Japanese — . ..----
were extending their conquest of ,
the 7,000 islands in the Philippines ,
I ria and the United Nations across ■
the Atlantic, through the Indian
Ocean and around the North Cape. I
“The Germans learned a lot of I
"Every Allied loss, such as the lessons from the first World War.
Peninsula, Jap Say
a reply rejecting the Britiah pro-
posal. but this was not made pub-
' lie pending discussions of a possible
reported today reflected that orig-
inal decision or indicated that ef-
forts to work out an agreeable com-
promise had been unsuccessful.)
,.?'j
wright reported this morning that
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and that Nail
1
In North X
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TCLJt T.*'
Two Killed in.
Auto Collision. ......
ALVIN, April 10 —UT>—iodgar
Locke, a, a farmer of nanr Oa
rich, and MM. J. D. Dodsi bl m.
>
V *
i. Knox. Ky
Fites ON FORT
ander. W.
cue. l _ _ ____ _
tniek, W. L Yarbrough,
E. J. Headlee. L. Bailey.
-Weather ... ETA
EAST nXAB:
fits into the
raises the *~
minent possibility that Manila 1
will be opened up to aki Japan's
lunge toward India and the threat-
ened junction with Germany some-
where In the Near East, this source
declared. —• --
“We must face the facto,” he
said gravely. "The Japanese. Ger-
man, and Italian fleets are nearing
numerical superiority, if they have
not yet achieved it.
a local hosT.lta) shortly
o'clock Friday morning,
been in th? hospital several days
American I orpedo Boats Sink Nipponese
Cruiser Off Cebu; Enemy Reports
BRipi
Red Army
In White
’^1
ed . Allied flotillas and heavy unite,
he declared, and added:
prisoners.
Coincident with the news that
IWA1CVC U1*L Wl” VI
ed the fate of the old B
Dire, but that riwliew hriland. ta,
i off Norway, New York, or
will defeat the Britiah
Empire and confine the American
war effort to North America." tanc
Axis world strategy, he continued, bay-
up to now has been baaed on the sei.
Nttl mm of .geopolitics. This held
that land power. pltB air power,
could conquer Europe and nullify
American and British eeapower.
But Nazi reverses in HMaik the
constant stream of Allied troops to
Australia, the Middle Met and
rodigious scale of
I to Russia, have
_ r ,...J seapower ig a
n ere scary adjunct to any plan for
world conqueri.
Bad weather hampered 1 iritlab-
German aortal operations over-
night The Germans said tha i naval
_22_. RAF
bombers ore. Helgoland Big H and
that ugnt Nam booMn MpMd a
■“ south
3
n place In a sector IB miles
hweet of Smolensk, between
Mk and Navel
continutd. the thrust would be
rjous threat to the important
tek defenses guarding the flank
bk German “escape corrMor*'
; Mbseow on the old Napoleonic
AlU^inAii^lS*a
demonstrated thi
sons were injured In an automobile
collision near here last night
The injured ware Mr*. W. K.
Crowson. about M, of Dicktaeon.
her six children, and Mb. R. d.
Locke of McAllen. Mrs. Dodson wu
alone in one the atriMMUnis;
the others were all in a second car.
driven by R J. Locke, son of the
'°*,L ;.......i
that your Um are properly in-
* kept In condition. The
■ tim will be length-
Jtatodi and I
Mfo of four
A1IW 1KT IMA1U, WlUHd LMi
Ury in these forthcoming battles
ster air power.. fresh
, |L time factor in Amer-
' lean armament production.
"Victory would mean the virtual
closing of all tha Important mart- i
I
id
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i
Man Killed in
1 HICK collision
GLADEWATER, April ...
Leg VWner sharp 40 ctxintr
HON matatenanre «up^*' 1
today in the collision of a
*—*- —1 an automobile I
Mar
truck and ________
miles east of Gladewater.
Bessie Cunningham of Longview
was injured -gnd .brought
to a hospital here Sharp was hurl-
ed through the ear door by the im-
P*ct- '
the Japanese in the air and well
continue to increase it.”
Moderating any hope that such
air initiative could be broadened
| into all-out offensive action, by
land, sea and air, Australia's Air
Minister A. B. Drakeford declared
that despite successes of the air
1 ------------.. - -w i arm- ti” ' ‘
"The great surface units of the | ghort
: the battle cruisers Schamhorst and
^tnglo ---1 i.
rests either have been captured, at-
tacked, or are continually menaced
by the adroit use of combined str
and sob power.**
The Axis opportunity to
Soviets Advance;
British, Axis in
Fierce Desert War
r, and around Bs-
g- besieged Russian
s Crimea.
wn Adolf WUaria
^atta<*s on^Se
tn the Crimea, but .
innsrs had knocked
STAT-
lea, British head- tf. J
led that British " '-...al
------- I Britiah offer
MELBOURNE. April 10. —vf>- 1
The United States and Australia
have taken the offensive in the air
but are yet unable to lay the
groundwork for a total counter-1
drive, it was stressed officially to-
day while the Japanese consoUdat- |
ed a further gain In their are of :
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., April 10.
—<45—Five men were killed last
night, the public relations Office at
Minter Field announced today,
when an army bomber flying from
Stockton. Calif., to Tucaon, Arts.,
crashed on the Mojave Desert near
Bagdad.
Ueut. Jan.ee Lewis, public
tfons officer at Minter Field,
names of the victims were
available nere. The plane, he said,
was under command of a Lieuten-
ant Ford
~LMHTWa a» ciart wbf One of
a flight of seven which '•**
Held for Tueson with a
igatort on a training
the ships landed at the
base, then needed east
Near B<r<dad, the crash carried
four men to their deaths A fifth
bailed out. but his parachute
be given a greater voice tn the di-
rection of her own defense.
<It was not clear immediately
Harry Schwenxer in the Bradj
Standard tells of the ‘Fourth Es-
tate*, a reference to newspapers in
the following:
Perhaps some readers have heard
and wondered at the use of the
term. Fourth Estate, in connection
with the newspaper and Joumalls
tic profession What's more, un-
doubtedly the question has arisen in
their minds as to what constitute
the first three "estates." Reprint-
ing a clipping from a Philadelphia
newspaper, and which appeared in
the San Saba News, the following
comprehensive answer is given:
In England's early days, the social
order was aivided into three class-
es, or estate.- : the clergy, the nobles
and the commons. Newspapei
were called the “Fourth Estate"
according to Thomas Car- *" **’“ «**•’•«*» *" ■***• «ntH
lyle, who wrote "Burke said there
ware Three Estates in Parliament;
but In the Reporters* Gallery yon-
Capella, a 4 070-ton naval cargo
vessel, yesterday afternoon.
The Navyb announcement of
this mishap in Rhode Island waters
did not say whether the torpedo
-----------but did 'not that the
?h said Sir Stafford
a press conference for
noon tomorrow and was expected
then to announce the final result
of his miseten as bearer of the
I riri>uaa«.a^
He has rot yet received the re-
ply of the Moslem League, second
largest of the Indian parties, Reu-
ters said
The news
the decision ____
—presumably an action by its work-
ing commit-ee—was unanimous.
I lAaiht Uywasnm
Reuters s^jdjt was believed that
olutlon expressed willingness to
form a "truly national" govern-
“With the town
clock out of order and the clock of
the Denton County National Bank i
going hay-wire, how’s a man to,
know what time to go home to
It's a rather universal law—when
a fire alam sounds for drivers to
pull into a curb. Remember the
next time you hear an a term that
you’re suppose to give the fire en-
gines a clear street.
Don't forret that you're to wear a
'Bronco Band Tag' today and Sat-
urday It'j a sign of support to
the Denton Public School system
through the Bronco Band Give
What you can afford, but give and
wear a tag to show that you believe
in the system and the band
being made only at the city of Ce-
bu, second only to Manila in size
and Importance, or also on the is-
land of the same name The city j
is about 350 air miles south of Ma- ru B lurlner gam in uieir
bases facing this continent,
actual warfare, t
bombers, fighter
“ , i.
claahm between 1
vanguards *'i multi
complete odvantag
man communique
British arrru ed a
stroyed or captured
warfare. -
The German accot
tinued day and nN
bomb - battered 1
stronghold in the
which has experienced) more than
2,000 air-raid alarms.
In Russia. Soviet
of renewed bloody si
1 man reserves, repor
killed Two Ger
counter-attacking
front—tha broad,
northwest of Mosco
ed routed a'ter a fierce battle.
Hf’'.lk N'AZi
A Berlin radio broadcast conced-
ed that Red Army troopa.\a
with many tanks, hsri)
through tho German deAti
north of Lake Ilmen, pre
around Novgorod, and dteiofl
vanced Nazi unite. J
. .... w—www * ’lb* broadcast asserted
whether the Congrees Party action I aver, that the Russian s®
---- orJg_ »tnm subsequently cut off fn
plies end Enforcements.
Novgorod, s key German
northeast of tha bloody
Rposa battls sector where tie
Uth army nas been trapiad
weeks.
an invasion fleet landing troops Ln
The fleet was attacked by the tor- | ln A ran
pedo boats, which had dealt effec- HI 1 UCiHL /II LU
tive blows to the foe before being
transferred south from the main ;
fighting front.
The communique failed to state
whether the invasion landing was
I
, harbor of Port [or.Ule 35th ment but toox the positions that the
m ~ . ofTer M explained by Sir Stafford
did not pe m.lt the scope of such
The boys oi the anglin' itch may
not have be^r. having so much luck | Hamilton County
I
declared
of th
from
road to AmoN
Th. V&y
man newataf
reported -nJ*;
in the Orel\
south of Moi
vsstopol, the
naval base in
A bulletin
fieM headqu
heavy Red si
WASHINGTON, April 10. -0P)-
i The Nary reported today that a tor-
pedo accidentally discharged from
a motor torpedo boat in Narra-
4 p. m. Saturday In the Pearl Street
Church of Christ, conducted by the
former minister, Lyle Price, and 1
jr8 Rev W H McKenzie of Austin. |
by i The body will be held in the
• Schmits ;vineral Home until 2 p.
sinking of the British cruisers Dor- Not the least was at Jutland. They had exploded but did 'not that the
setohire and Cornwall tn the Bay believe that the battle there decid- ; Capella. assisted by togs, "has been
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danger^1*-—
NEW DELHI. India, April 10.—
i (*>—Amid i eporta that the oem-
pramtoe plou for Indian self-gov-
ernment had not yri bean smooth-
ed out U> the saUaiactkm of native
Hindu leaders, the working com-
mittee of the songreas (nationalist)
party conf Tied for four hours to-
day and caHed another session for
tomorrow.
mlttee afterward told reporters:
weather may be cloudy. Do not go I quarters report
by the weather. We- are meeting I »«»p« in the rei
tomorrow.** ert fighting had
The d!
Cripps a
i A War Department bulletin re-
ported that American torpedo boats
i sank a Japanese cruiser off Cebu,
in the Central Philippines, but that
fighting on the Bataan Peninsula
apparently had ceased
The comneunique said Gen Wain-
ritfHf rmrwirtswl thia rexrxw-u rtre that
„ ZL- ~ 23 tab*,
over the French fleet was described
by this source as “too good to miss."
combined witn tne iiaiiAn nawy to
support an Axis offensive against
Egypt and points east, and thus
prepare the way for a blow at Rus-
sia's Caucasian flank.
* Air power, “the cheapest form of
attack,“ has been used wherever
possible by the Axis to sink Isolat-
' (By Akoociaied Fressi
British and axis troops
fought with increasing vio-
lence on the North African
desert today, white on the
Soviet front, Vichy radio re-
port* via Stockholm said Red
Army troops had crossed the
frontier into White Russia
■ •; ____
more than 40 feet deep, an amphibia n personnel carrier shows what it can do. The Army is testing this k Soviet republic, was said to have
- fl pH II II Al
•--
apply to some towns, as he says
This from a neighboring editor is
a good sugg stlon to any town In
a recent issue of hte paper he said.
"We heard yesterday of o family
that recently moved into our com-
munity who lived in the town five
weeks before anyone called upon
them except the mail man and the
grocer's delivery boy. Ttie young j
Wife in telLng of It afterwards said: [
‘It was tile lonesomest five weeks
I ever spent. I wondered what was
the matter with the town or with i
my husband and me. I was not
surprised that folks didn't rush in |
and receive us with open arms, but |
this is the way that the people of
the town can let newcomers know
they are welcome. From experience
I can tell you that it makes a lot
of difference tn one's feeling to- J
ward a town if one gets a *
reception. I think i
moving into a town are a little hea- |
leant about pushing themselves into (
notice They would rather wait for , r| fl / ’] •
the people of the town to show | <4111
their welcome " We wondered as j
we read the paragraph if our town
is guilty of similar oversights Let's
welcome those wiio coine to XHU' I
town to make their home and be |
one of us.
Thur*- |
day's low reading was recorded at
47. But. boy. o boy, didn't that sun 1
look good Friday morning It made
one begin to believe that we'd have
some spring weather
——-
AgBKiatod Pro« LmbH Wire nafiTPAOl
...... 111 i, , , ■———
BATAAN DEFENDERS FIGHT O
<-
communique said
rulser was heavily
planes destroyed
le admiralty ac-
the aircraft car-
been sunk tn an
dies off Ceylon but I
Japanese claim of |
additional ends- :
be quite untrue.”
nunique yesterday
British cruisers.
ion as the 10,000-
nd the 0,875-ton
been sent to the
Milan Ocean. TTita
claim the British confirmed, but
Allied Indian planes were declared
to have straddled a Japanese alr-i
craft carrier with high explosives
yesterday somewhere off the Ceylon
coast.
In the battle for the approaches
to Australia, Japanese bombers
raided Port Moresby, in Southern
___________
and pallbearer* will be: Torres Strait, for the 24th time.
... « ...." ajld -pofcyQ headquarters reported
that Japanese troops had occupied
British-owned Christmas Island 3M
miles south of Java.
Important to Japs •
The island Is stratogteaUy lmpOrt-
ant as another base for Japanese
attacks on the m lanes between
Australia and India.
In the Philippines, btarked out
----_»*. Bstaan hid
„ J American
--->— - - s tr- -
3opA ooeenoea oy
Stimson yesterday
as facing (taaik or surrender as a
result of a Japan— break-threugh
(Bw BATAAN. Peg* «)
FLAG STILL FLIES ON FORT
d«.^u,«'OF CORREGIDOR; JAPANESES
' ed island fortress of Corregldor." MOVE TO OCCUPY NEW AREAS
[ The cruiser sunk was one of an
and 10
i Cebu.
WASHINGTON, April 10 —4<P>— regidor," the War Department said
I Jonathan M j Corregldor was raided frequently ,
Wainwright reported to President yesterday by heavy bombers, and
I Japanese artillery hammered at the
Roosevelt today from Coiiagl island forts both from the penln-
archipelago, where native Filipino that our flag on this beleaguered ,uia snd the south shore of Manila
! guerrillas and possibly a few United , uiand fortress still flies "
I 8 rXl^Plw^(rrerinl1m11« short*y however, the War' No material damage resulted.
1 ■ o.’xsr mll“ ?»<>
tag to the shelling from Bataan
to avoid risking Mte on defending
troops still on the Penninsula
k The cruiser reported sunk was
one of a fleet of five warships and
10 transports which the War De-
KUIBYBHEV, Russia, April
10.—(4^—Die Red army will
liquidate (he German army in
Russia tn 1842, B. A. Lozovsky.
Soviet vice commissar for for-
egln affai-s, told his press con-
ference today, adding that
United States supplies are
reaching the Russian force*
and being "used to make Nasi
corpses.".
Asked how United State*
supplies are arriving. Losovaky,
official press spokesman, said,
“all sorts of things for war" are
being reoutvad, “but precisely
in what quantities is a secret.”
Wi
Who take to the prairies in high ,
water times for their flsh have been |
having plent / of luck, 'tls said The i
flah. In the high water time, hpve j
been taking to the prairies in the
low-muddy waters, and the catches
have been good Too, the catfish
anglers have been going pretty
strong, as the catfish have been bit-
ing freely in the muddy water* If
you're Ash-hungry for catfish, it's
good tim-’ to get your fin, so the
boy* say
_ I No
Department had reported that.
l’‘The War Department said Gen. fikhUog on Bataan Peninaul«rtp-
I Wainwright -seat a message to, Par®ntly had ogaaqAt/e^- /b -teM ; ■
President Roosevelt reporting that | Roosevelt, talking at a press i
postmaster, lormer mayor and long 1 "everything possible had been done ennferenee ««(H that «r mmm-w ■»
active in civic affairs here, died in I to hold Bataan" but that "the over-
9 whelming air and artillery superi-
": ■ - - - _________-j over_
came the dogged resistance of the !
1 hungry and exhausted defenders wr?*ht »n. answer to one he had dte- -
.... ....
Neither message was released in '
full, and Mr. Rooeevelt read only
the single sentence from Wain-
wright's communication, that the
flag still files over Corregldor.
! This communication came in this
morning.
Communications Cut
A communique said that Lleuten-
order to destroy this last chance *nt General Jonathan M Wain- ‘
of retreat." the broadcast said *“ '*J
Dome), the Japanese news agen-
cy, said Japanese vanguards were
pressing forward against American
and FUlpino positions on the pen-
insula and had captured the towns
of Limay and Lamao on the east
progress on Bataan.) "
"General Wainwright
I
T ————
of Bengal, cute whatever edge we
have tn gun* and ships uire,
' “The great naval ba— on which be fought
Anglo-American sea supremacy Calcutta,
BERLIN (From German Broad-
casts), April It. —UP>— Japanese
frontline dispatches from Bataan
Peninsula reported today that Lieut.
*: Gen. Jonathan Wainwright has aa-
Mvnbled a few small transport ships ’
to Corregldor fortress, five miles .
acrons Manila Bay. “Japanese na- >
t val unite, however, are ipmsting at I
the entrance to the bay In order to
, destroy this last chance of retreat,” '
the dispatches added.
£all communication between Bataan
r and Corregldor had beert cut off
Behold, God exalte th by his pow- |
er; who leacheth like him?—Job
X-32.
'One on God’s side is a majority I
—Wendell Phillips
Jack Lewi* of the Lewisville En-
terprise didn’t get this surely from i
the Denton newspaper, since Den- I
ton people are noted for their hos- |
pitaUty and open reception to i
strangers moving here, but it might ' ■ | 1*1*1* i •"
Hostilities Continue
nlla.
The city has been shelled repeat-
edly from the sea but hitherto had
escaped Invasion, and meanwhile
served as an Important transport
and communication point for unoc-
cupied areas of the Archipelago.
•A commercial radio station at Ce-
h.. h.s in enmm..„(rotum .tty, d-nta-d no damage or! - Party was report-
“ once more ed late last week to have drawn up
, cinwuu^icJ Allied interceptor —- — - — •*• *
planes Defending airmen pitched
1 J’hel j’ re®llit*”ce 2?- n°~ *"•' pvnuuig discussions oi a posstoie
by Oeofge. H. Brett, compromise in which India might
air chief and deputy commander ■ - - - ... -
under General Douglas MacArthur
| In the Southwest Pacific.
“We've taken the offensive against
i-. '* -■.....■. ~ i'
the Ma- > coast, capturing several thousand .
~ ~ 1 ■ 15 a. m., Eastern War Tlmt, today
i said, however, fighting was still In
tied grimly on—24 hours after the j ------ ----------- ------
( Department in Washington j that our flag Still flies on the be- j
conceded the probability that they
had been overcome—Japan claimed
heavy new blows against British
sea power in the India Ocean
■ ips Sunk
idquarters as-
naval and air
the 10.850-ton
r Hennes, two
a patrol ves-
« in an attack.
were Three Estai
dsr, there sat a Fourth Estate more
Important far than al). It is not a
figure ot »peech, or witty saying;
It is a literal fact—very momentous
to us tn these times."
“Now, Handy McDorr. tall ma
■here the elephant Is found.”
“The elephant, teacher, is such a
large animal ft is scarcely ever
tost."
_ p. im raiaea ror* ovuuiein
Burial wUl be in the I. O. O. F. New Guinea. 300 mUea a— ths
cemetery, *..» tic — . —. —-
Lee Preston. W. R. Hicks, E. P. I
Cox, Rav Bishop. Clem Pierce, Ray
Sadler. J. 8. Btockard and peorge
Weaver. Honorary pallbearers will
include former Congressman W. D.
McFarlane. Congressman Ed Gos-
sett Thomas W. White of Hamfl-
ton, postoffldg employes not named
aboke. and J W. Erwin, John Atex-
„, — A. Taliaferro. R. B. la-
J. T. Simmons. W. L. McOor-1 communications with 1
. -- --- W. O. Off. the fate of the MJK
—J, Dr. L. H.. ------ . -.
Hubbard. Dr., W. J. McOonneU. E. Wty |
C. Garriso i. J. 8 Darnall and J.' --
H RUareU. The local Masonic
Lodge will have charge at / the 1
grave. , j
Nasis, the battleship Drpita and '
' the battle cruisers Schamhorst and
| Oneisenau. the Italian battle squad-
ron, and the entire Japanese first <
i battle line are being husbanded
j carefully against the day when the '
Axis forces major sea battles in |
both the Pacific and Atlantic."
im- i The Axis, he said, counts on vic- '
Bai 1 .
>*«•* i because of
. effws. and
of defective firir
torpedo boat, re.
tance of 10X100 j
r before strlkli
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VOLUNTARY REGI8TE
* uMiaswai wrtMna-B
I’rcsldent Roosevelt dlacloi<
that, in connection with stu<
arm. the Allied air strength still
----—3 of what would be re-
quired to lay the basis for total
action ,
Counter-Drive
portment said apparently comprised pniinfl Difficult
an Invasinn landina trnnna In * 1 * J 1 M B 1 K ji R, R R tr
DENTON RECORD-CHRONIC
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DENTON. TEXAS. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 10,1942
— i
"A mosquito killed in April U ,
equal to a thousand done away with I
in Augiut,' says Dr F. E Piner, <
City Health Officer, who announced
that the spring cleanup would get '
under way this coming Tuesday.
"This is really one of the most im-
portant clr.anups of the entire
year," he said, "as during the next
month or so is the time U> put a
stop to millions of mosquitoes that
bring misery during the summer t
months "
The cans and rubbish should be i
placed on the curbs by Monday af- i
ter noon, as the gathering will start
at a nearly hour Tuesday morning I
"What’a a poor man to do?" t
asked a man who wanted to wnow
the time oi day "With the town '
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The sky may be overcast and the ■
We are meeting 1 troops in the
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columns and sMitanks on fire.
Italy* high coAmand Wd new
>ittah and AxN
4 again to our
and the Oer-
and guns da-
ta the deaert
3 ■ a message to
‘Veit reporting that
Bay.
Shortly before, however, the War
By KOGER D. GREENE
Corregidor’s, big guns 8)411 blazed defiance in Manila Bay
today, and the Japanese reported at 6:50 a. m., Eastern War
Time, that hostilities v « *
gets a friendly i luseu, despite previous assertions mat uieut.-uen. jonatnan |
most strangers |M Wainwright’s heroic defenders had “begged” for a truce. !
itant about pushing themselves into
Thursday's high temperature
rending was the same as the low |
one year ago—55 degrees but the |
high of a year ago was 80 Thur*- . , „ , v . c
. i following a period of 111 health
Coming to Denton in 1920 from I
Hamilton County, where he r-— 1
reared, lie engaged in the real es-
tate business here, was elected
He had ority of the Japanese finally
conference, said that of course all'
fXej bad about Bataan There is no
further news on this, he said, ex-
, cept that he had received what he
came the dogged resistance of the <"**"■* * J ‘ ~‘~
A German radio broadcast quot- Patched 0 the general,
was Ing Japanese frohtllne dispatches Neither message was
said Oen. Wainwright had assem-
bled a few small transport ships in
mayor and served eight years, and I an attempt to evacuate American-
was named postmaster eight FUlpino survivor* from Bataan to
years ago fo'lowing his position as i Corregldor fortress. *
1 mayor I m Manila Bay
Active Civic Worker
1 He long wa.s active In the Cham- I
[ ber of Commerce, serving on the i
beard of directors was a leader in j
Boy Scout work, was an active
member of tne Klwanis Club until
his health failed and he had had
a protninen-. part in many civic ac-
tivities duribg all the period of his
residence h<>re He was a member
of the Church of Christ,
[ sonic Lodz • and the I. O. O. F.
Born in Madison County, Tex., |
| Aug 20. 1877. he was reared 1
In early man- ;
1x1 BltuaL w*rfirS' MVen Jap't Congre*«~Party committee ree-
anese bomber*, fighter escorted,! ’------' --------------“
raided the strategic New Guinea
harhnr nf Fhnrt Xn—rtfew iha •Mtv*
time and were believed to have tost
at least one bomber. irizv uii
Die first reports of the 20-mln- . g government
“■* ws 8SJ", 's rr*: " .<?*• ~
was linked with Inter-island sta- I encountered
(Sec Fl.AG. Page 4)
■
uii< iw_ A were continuing on Bataan peninsula [
friendly i itself, despite previous assertions that Laeut.-Gen. Jonathan ®
! Al 4 ».. J U-.-i «(L_________ a______
i
k/Viuciucui. win) uir news viiav
in 1 Gen. Wainwright's men still bat-
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hood he taught school several years War
and later served for 18 years as
district court reporter
Sept 29. 1901, he was married to
Miss Rose Wallace in Hamilton
County tin. McKenzie survives,
with seven children: Lieut. Col.
I Henrv R. McKenzie of Chicago,
i Lieut. Homer W McKenzie of
Hardford, Conn ; William A Me- i
Kenzle, w‘th the FBI in Washing- ]
ton; Miss Aline McKenzie, member ;
of the home economics faculty of
the College of Arts and j
! Industries at Kingsville; Mrs Geo.
j W Smith Jr. of Celina, Mrs. T W. |
Gillespie and Miss Berta McKenzie j
of Denton. He had two sisters, '
Mrs L. F Johnson of Dublin and
Mrs J. D Upham of Carlton;
three brothers, Rev. J. C. McKen-
zie of Amarillo. Rev W H McKen-
zie of Austin and W B. McKenzie
of Hopkinsville, Ky.; three grand-
children, Joan and Anne McKen-
zie of Washington and Thos. W.
Gillespie o* Denton. All these rel-
atives were to be here for the fu-
neral. those from more distant
points flying to Denton.
r unerwl Saturday
Funeral services are to be held at
Washington
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home
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