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Counter Russian
Drive Hampers
Hitler’s Advance
I today, |
radio
troops
Japs Reported to
Be Within 210
Miles of Calcutta.
near strategic United Nations sup-
ply lines in the Indian Ocean
ther, and other assistants will carry
on the business of the Headlee Mo-
tor Company
would
Manchukuo
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the positions with flashing bayo-;
nets.
the past 24 hours Oen. Bock had
heavily in a
stem to stem.
The Pensacola class consists of
the Pensacola and the Balt Lake
City, each with a normal crew of
and four
off far northern Norway.
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October
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Nasis Report Gains
In the Crimea, Hitler's field head- 1
| quarters asserted that Russian de- '
the are. .
Those unacc
Ernest Smith.
Ray, address r
'This is a day of unified com-
mands. We have seen its success in
now see
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Hitler Reported
Pressing Japan for
Attack on Russia.
United Campaign for War Aid
Fund to Be Undertaken in Denton
...
station owners are not in such a
bad fix as the station men in Ama- |
rillo are, according to the following ’
statement clipped from the Amaril-
lo • Tack less Texans", but it is cer- 1
tain t
riding •
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Love is the hardest lesson i
Christianity; but, lor that reason. ■
it should be most our cure to learn J
it.—William Penn
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GAVE ’EM CHANCE FOR REAL
DEMONSTRATION
♦ BELVIDERE. Ill.. May 15.— ♦
♦ uP>— Miss Florence Vincent ♦
♦ failed to appear for final ex- ♦
♦ amination In a Rer Cross first ♦
♦ aid class. She had fallen and ♦
♦ broken her leg in getting off ♦
♦ the floor after acting as a vic- ♦
♦ tlm for several other practic- ♦
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DENTON, TEXAS,
Texas Hotel j
leander
»<mt ta
putting an
r at a nails* ho-r - —-
He Mid he' reported to the
Summer temperatures didn't last I
long. Wednesday the thermome-
ter went up to 92, the highest of |
the spring, and this Friday morn- I _
chiefly against Vladivostok—but a
’.flMWW'-.. us.-*'-. — *>**..•.
sized the gigantic nature of Mar-
shal Semcon Timoshenko's Khar-
kov offensive
Major Tank Combat
A major tank combat took place
in one sector, with a large num-
ber of tanks participating on both
sides." said Red Star
"Forcing a
tanks by a
.
CH RON I
Evils Threaten Nations *
The three same evils that caused
ern clvlliMtion, Rev. Roland
Lea veil, pastor of the First r
tist Church in Tampa, Fla., said
p4> 1
in the Mr" ' hod outpost on
I, i ,■■■ of New Q-------
Graftage ig an ancient art, known to have k
to horticulturists at least two can- theae asss
turies BO,-. important
wifi ran far united Statoe senate
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WASHINGTON. May 15.—<4>-
The work of demobilizing French
warships is going forward at Mar-
! Unique. Secretary of State Hull said
[ today, and agreement thus has been
I reached on the vital phase of mili-
I tary questions under discussion at
the Caribbean Island.
Tlie status and future usefulness
of French merchant shipping now
idle tr. the Island harbors of the
French possession, he indicated, is
Battle of Australia—Gen. Doug-
las MacArthur's headquarters re-
1 that long-range Allied
again heavily
| that Soviet tanks forced a water
barrier, split the Germans' troop
I concentrations and drove a wedge
SHERMAN. May 15— (Ab— Imine- 1 into_the enemy defenses,
diate possession of 58,096 06 acres
-.'•w
• 1
i By Associated Pressi
Climaxing a bloody five- j
I month battle again«t hope-1
' less odds, the last weary rem- I
duty Inants of the British army in
1 Burma have crossed into
I Manipur state in Eastern In- j
[ilia, it was reported x 1
[while the Vichy
of [dared Japanese
paign was necesaary
Committee Formed
For the central committee which
has been organized here. D. L.
Lindsay is chairman. L. A McDon-
ald vice chairman and O L Fow-
ler secretary.
Other members of this committee
ing it was down tn the forties The
highest registration Thursday was
79 A year ago
were 66 and 88
people to God.
He pictured the South as a great
training field for Uncle Barn’s sol-
diers and told the pastors that
here wax a wonderful evangelistic
opportunity.
"If we win the soldiers here, then
they will return to their homes
carrying the word of God."
Rev. Augule Henry, pastor of the
First Baptist Church in McAlester,
’ Ok., spoke on the pastor and home
missions He first
work of the I
then suggested to the pastors bow
they could support them.
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Soviets Reported Crashing
WICHITA FALIB. May U.-4AJ
—Three guests who were iegietWOff
at the Texan Hotel which was de-
stroyed by fire early yestentay stfii
were unaccountoci for today.
?^nk Bollinger —
Minn, previously I
was located today
hotel landlord ’15 minutea after
fW were th-
MkCtty; Odle
Traffic Oop: "Use your noodle,
ladyl Um your noodle!”
Lady: “My goodness. Where is itf
iiflts '
damage.
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campaign ever undertaken
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BAN ANTONIO. May 15.—
Churches in the Southern Baptist
convention have paid off approx- i
iniately 510.000.000 indebtednoM
wlthm the last six years, E. P. AU-
dredge, statistics officer of the con-
vention, said today.
AHoredge, whose home is in
Nashville, Tenn., is hero to attend
tire annual meeting of Southern
Baptiste opening Saturday.
lire Baptiste, he Mid. Increased
the value of their property within
-the last six years by $30,842,401, or
an average of 15.168.480 a year.
Although there was an inoroase
In the number of churches and in
i chi rch membership in 1941. there
22.1J
I e. Crimea, drae thwto would be a
Bap- perpetual throat against Ms right
dd in flank.
1. If ths Naal chief could clear
the Reds off the peninsula, and if
be could get acroM the Strait of
suffers Kerch, and if be also could annihi-
i home. [ late Russian opposition on the oth-
(2) a pleasure-seeking people and er side of the strait, then he would
(3) a nation-wide militaristic spirit’ have opened up a abort-cut into
that fosters vice among the pop- the Caucasus. ------ *—~*“
ulace. swimming a tra
To combat these evils, he sug- one thing, and , „ —
gestad that pastors should join in ' army sctom Kerch Strait in the
a concerted effort to return the face of heavy enemy opposition la
another. Hurdling these big ditches
Lt one of the most difficult of mili-
tary operations. Anyway, we don’t
need to crore thia strait until wo
ing so many war bonds and so on
and so on. I’ve talked to other fill-
ing station operators and they say
that this ’sore-batking’ at our ex-
pense is general Most of us are
broke, we need the money worse
than we ever did in our lives and
our cwitomeni are riding us until
it is a shame and a disgrace."
I've received at least a dozen
complaints from filling station peo-*
TEXABi Coolta » to*
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
With American-made tanks
blazing the way, Russia's
armies were reported to have
crashed through the inner
defenses of Kharkov in at
least two’ places today after
[sweeping seven miles beyond
the Donets River and smash-
ing more than 150 German
he will report to the War Produc-
tion Board for active service. He
will work for the scrap Iron and
tlst convention.
He Mid the world today i
from (Da breakdown in Hlg
i (3) a nation-wide mii|tarirtic,|
as a
of land northwest of Gainesville as the breach and
tlie site for the Army camp was , occupied positions," Red Star Mid
the infantry charged to clean up granted the government in an or- | Military dispatches Mid the Rus- |
the rwAttionc with flnuhtno- hnvn. - der by Judge Randolph Bryant in sians, attacking on a 357-mile front, i
___, ____t were nrilv an milM frnm the
663 men. 10 5-inch
catapult-launched L_
The Germans mid the cruiser
was bombed Thursday "north of
North Cape” and caught fire and
sank at midnight last night—thus
apparently allowing adequate time
far removal of the crew.
Fighttag to Crimea
In the Crimea, a Soviet commu-
nique reported that “stubborn
rescued the^jgatos
▲ German spokesman last night
Ari* troops had crossed
the "Tartar pitch." » oH Moe <*
tare aovnrra. rag> *)
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May 15—<A5—A 1042
crop of 45.802.000
bushelk wax indicated by conditions
on May 1. the U 8 Department of
Agriculture reported today.
Exceeded only by the record crop
of 874183,000 bushels In 1931, sueb i
a crop would be 88 per cent great- '
er than the 1041 crop of 27.186.0Q0
bushels and 46 per cent greater
than the 1030-30 average of 31,360.- '
000 bushels. Of 3,804,000 acres sown
in the fell nt 1<U1 ahnnt 2 055 000
> eMrewre A,
By DaWll l MasKKNEIE
WMs WecM War Analyst
Herr Hittarir
is strongly reml
Chinsee proverb ____
a Tiger finds it difficult to dto-
mount
Der fuehrer is compelled to get
ahead with his increasingly dif-
ficult business of trying to break
through into the Caucasus, but
thus far he is continuing to en-
counter what to him Is the phe-
nomenon of an enemy which, tak-
ing the picture as a whois, ret sins
the InlttaUvs. White his operation
on the Kerch Peninsula has mat
wlU. considerable success, yet in
the far more important Kharkov
sectoi to the north, where he really
ought to be attacking with his 3,-
000.000 men. he himself is being
flung beck by a fierce Red drive.
The im| Ba
Nazi chlel _ ..
tiger plenty tough to ride However,
hsving stated this we should pause
end not rush headlong inb .
conclusion about the tmmsdlate fu-
ture of the tttante Russo-German
struggle. Hitler is tough himself,
anc te going to cause a lot of trou-
ble. The position at the moment is
this: ♦
water barrier, our
powerful thrust split
the enemy’s concentration of troops
wedge into his de-
Members of the Town ft Country
Club will assemble at the Old Avi-
ation Field, north of Congress Ave-
nue, Bunday at 3 p 1,1 and 1118
general public is invited to meet
with the club members. There will
be barrel races, chair races, jump-
ing and other events Too. re-
freshments will be served.
I near future with the Army operat-
, ing or controlling the nation’s en-
| tire fleet of more than 300 trans-
port planes.
The War Department, acting on
instructions pf President Roosevelt,
announced last night the Army
would take over' operation at M Or
more of the airliners, while approx-
imately 70 others will be converted
into cargo carriers, to be operated
by airline personnel for the mili-
tary.
The remaining planes. about of
thoee now in service, will continue
commercial schedules for the time
being, “but Will be considered al-
ways available for emergency mili-
tary missions." •
"Air travel vital to the country's
needs will continue subject to a
strict system of priorities," the an-
nouncement said. "AH **"
can travel by train an
cept in real emergencies."
Officials said the sweeping onter.
which caught congrecsianal and
commercial airline drclos by sur-
priae. was in effect a substitute
for the arrangement worked out a
month ago under which only about
one-fourth of the nsaimerntel «
planes were to be diverted to war ,
"Then our infantry moved into
consolidated the
_ for the Germans who have held the
Thus Japan, through her vassal. | iniportant Ukranlan steel city since
sought to give the Impression that
her intentions toward Russia are
peaceful
In the event of war between Ja-
pan and Russia. the Japanese i
would probably direct their main
attack against Soviet Siberia— ■
London diplomatic quarters Mid
’ they heard Adolf Hitler was so
„ | which swept through the Texan stunned by the unexpected power
Japanese thrust which separated Hotel in Wichita Falls Ambulances can be seen standing by In the foreground while the blazing structure of the Soviet offensive that he had
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to Increase pressure on Japan for
Two Dead—Many Injured in
advanced over roads littered with
hundreds of German bodies and
! many smashed tanks and cannon,
said Red Star, official army paper
11 described the whole continuing
Tokyo "broadcast an- operation ax “another heavy defeat"
Deate Headlee left Friday by
plane for Washington. D. C.. where
border
into
years ago a
The Radio Defense School, which
is being taught at Teachers College,
is in need of more students, as the
required number is fifteen. At
present there are only seven stu-
denst who are learning the opera-
tion, ao if you wish to become a j
technician, apply at Teachers Col- [
lege.
If you don't know what an
Eamesway Technician is you can
learn by going to the Denton Dairy
Co-Op Feed Store. Bell Avenue.
Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock,
as a culling demonstration will be
given by the New Internal Exami-
nation.
in the fall of 1M1. about 2955.000
acres remained for harvest; aband-
onment thus amounts to U per
cent of the sown acreage, compared
S-.IS
.WHT10 4 In
IMO-30 avsra
Recapture Communities
MOSCOW May 15 —OP)— The
Red artny drove ahead against
Kharkov today, recapturing a num-
ber of nearby communities and
forcing the Germans into retreat
after brushing aside coiinter-at-
tacks ih which the Nazis vainly
threw In their reserves, front-line
dispatches reported.
Despite bad weather which hamp-
ered tank and aerial operations. 1
- th* Russians deepened their pene-
Tokyo hand-shake—Japan’s pup- tration of the Nazi positions and
pet stagp of Manchukuo has ratified
an agreement with Russian-spon-
---- . sored Outer Mongolia to end the
steel division for the War Produc- ' prolonged border dispute which
tion Board in Texas and Oklahoma flared into open warfare three
While Deate is with the United
States government. 'E J.”, his la- , nounced today.
and consolidated
I occupied positions." ,
More than 50 wrecked German
tanks were found at a single point , t lip
the Russians accounts said K ’
Apparently referring to the same
artion, other reports said the Red
army was operating on Ute west
bank of a large river which it had
crossed earlier while the stream
still was ice-coated
The Germans blew up all bridges,
but' the Russians threw up new
ones and poured across during a
storm of German aerial bombs.
Then they fanned out on the west-
Three Missing
In Wichita Fire
Inner Defenses at Kharkov
—
Sweep Beyond
Donnets River
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rid
Mrs. H. N. Davis of Lexington,
Kentucky, is here to visit her
mother, Mrs. R. E. Cobb. South
Elm Street. Mr. and Mrs Davis
own and operate stock farms near
Lexington and have developed some
fine race horses. When asked if
they had an entry in the “Derby”
this year, she said. “No. we didn't
this year, but we expect u> have
Hardpone’ in the big race next
year, as he was enrolled two years
ago.”
Thou shklt love the Lord, tby God |
with all thy heart and with all thy [
soul and With all thy mind and i
with all thy strength —Mark 12-30 < — --
hardest lesson in j
Here's hoping that Denton filling | are Driven
an attack against Russia.
A British broadcast said Hitler's
clack Field Marshal Fedor von
Bock, who "almost" took Moacow
in the Nazi offensive last year, had
t-n p,,, <n ™ SSsTS
“'t?T bruuk^ -Id Lh.l ddrtn. '*’^’ *“^‘•'"^1. „
i. _ a_ a. j ivccoras snow, ne poinv^u out,
I ? ministers were ordained in 1941
futile attempt to stem the Soviet previous year in the
: conventions 96-year-history.
Total contributions for 1941, he
j suit., amounted to >44857,607, of
; which 337 035.267 went for local
! church work, while 17.822.340 went
Russians Fsrisd Back
Hitler’s offensive against Oto
Kerch Peninsula, which is the Cri-
mean Panhandle, Is forcing the »
fiercely resisting Bolshevists slowly
back towards the Kerch Strait. The
battle is continuing and nothing
decisive had happened at the time
of this writing- purpose of this
Nasi attack was twofold:
1. Before the fuehrer could un-
dertake hi. major offensive latest
the vital sector between Kharkov
the Red armies steadily were press-
ing forward, crushing Nazi counter- [
attacks, capturing a number of
nearby communities, and advanc-
ing over roads littered with hun-
dreds of German bodies, smashed
tanks and cannon.
Red Star, the Russian
» battle
"another heavy defeat"
bard. Dr W J McConnell. W D
Barrow. A. C.--
ry. Jacob Price.
Preston. R. M Barns. W
W. F. Brooks and Rev.
Walker.
Lindsay, who is heading the cen-
1 tral committee, is an ail company
agent here, has had long experience
in relief campaign work, and dur-
i ing the last war, #fille living in
w ] Houston, received many cornmen-
: dations for his part in the money
1 campaigns at that lime, including
his work as a four-minute speaker
ern shore
The first line of German defenses,
which the Russians said was cap-
tured two days ago. was described
vast zone of pillboxes, anti-
tank obstacles, minefields and for-
tified farmhouses, covering every
open space with a heavy crossfire
of artillery.
But the Red artillery pounded
gaps In the series of fortifications,
then the tanks rolled forward and
pie. And folks. If what they say Is H In Eastern China, a Tokyo broad-
true. this isn’t right. Be fair. b«< i
American. The filling station boys ‘
are hard hit. Most of them are !
desperately in need of cash to pay |
their own debts They’ve had hard [
luck, which isn’t their fault, and |
you people, if you’re right and have
a sense of decency, quit
(hem.
All over these plains, you folks be-
gin paying up your gasoline and oil
bills. What do you say? You’ve
Just been careless and neglectful,
haven't you? And you'll begin tak-
ing care oC It. won’t you?
That's fine That's the proper
spirit. We get things done out
here, don't we? We appreciate the ,
problems of our neighbors What ,
—>youMyi--- - [the bii
Pilling station operators seem to chiding
be poor collectors To be a success 1 Fortress,
retailing gasoline, a man sure has | japanese
LONDON May 15 —<4’>— Sweep-
ing across the Donets River on a
5C-mile front. Marshal Semeon Ti-
moshenko's mechanized Red army
was reported tonight to have crash-
ed through the Inner defenses of
Kharkov in at least two places
driving the Germans before them
Diplomatic sources In london
had heard that Adolf
Hitler was so taken aback by the
i uvuiucia uKtkiii iicMvuy pvuuucvi • t x *
| Japanese shipa in the harbor of I Unexpected power of the Soviet at-
| Rabaul. New Britain, and scored |
a smashing victory over enemy I
fighters which tried to Intercept [
them. ,
A communique said gunners in
[ the big bombers—presumably in-
r giant American Flying
, Fortresses —shot down seven of 17
• planes attacking them
secondary flanking thrust
probably come from
into Outer Mongolia.
Meanwhile, DNB. the German
news agency, reported that the
Japanese navy launched two new
45,000-ton battleships and four 35.-
000-ton battleships last year and
will launch three more battleships
of unspecified size this year.
... .
Of DO11M
m an upper
■r, S3. Ftart
man. waa
fifth floor
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OLUUVUllI UgUllUg 1
1 miles to the south, on the Kerch [
! Peninsula, where a German thrust 1
has twice forced the Russians |
back All Soviet accounts empha- ;
to be almost overly polite and ac- | A)1 Allled planes returned safely
— v, | other United Nations bombers
I raided the Japanese seaplane base
In the LouLslade archipelago, off
the southeast coast of New Guinea,
sinking an enemy seaplane and
leaving shore targets In flames
The Japanese countered with two
heavy raids on Port Moresby, key
Allied base in Southern New Gui-
nea. first attacking the airdrome
with 13 fighter planes and then
striking at ships in the harbor with
, 26 heavy bombers
nli'ii;.’ 'Li |'.a\ <>t Bengal
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1 ” 1 •' pa
pa’.' wiinii lii mil-’ '1 Chir.i
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' l ! lii',. i : i in at;.
have been high-pressured Into 5 000 men,
j followed a dogged retreat from the
i bomb-ruined city of Mandalay and i At least two persons were dead and others were be lleved lost in the fl:
j the British from their Chinese al-
I lies commanded by the American
Lieut -Oen. Joseph W Stilwell
At last reports, Gen. Stilwell's
forces were stubbornly resisting a
Japanese advance up the Burma
road some 125 miles into China
proper
u In Eastern China, a Tokyo broad-
cast ci edited Japanese forces with
j inflicting a heavy defeat on the j
main body of the 22nd Chinese j
Division In a battle 17 miles north-
west of Kuhsienchen, In Central
Hopeli Province.
Other Developments
Other Far Pacific developments
taken over he added
what he termed puddle jumpers
and one- or two-man ships He as-
serted that almost anything that
can fly is useful to the government
Tlie president did not elaborate
on what new fronts American men [
might be fighting soon Nor did he !
care to answer a question as to I
whether American troops had taken I Redsiar>the RuMtan array
part in the British occu^tlon of ne r gald lh|, was
tne French Island of Madagascar > ...inother heavy defear for th,
j Germans, who have held Kharkov
since last October
The newspaper said both sides
threw in powerful tank forces and
were now only 20 miles from the I
heart of Kharkov, with the Ger- '
mans “retiring slowly” and awaiting '
i reinforcements.
Germans Using Reserves
i A British spokesman Mid Adolf
Hitler's high command already had I
ihrown German reserves Into the
| conflict without stemming the Rus-
| sian assault. The Red armies, he
said, had penetrated Nazi lines "in
I considerable depth."
bek>w tKhFrk^P*a Domp,,tlc »lrHne travel’will be ptac-
( below Kharkov, a Soviet cotnrnu- , n „ fu,. warume basis in the
! nlque acknowledged that the Rus- 1 warume D<"1
sians again had “retreated to new |
| positions" in th^even-day-old bat- i
tie of Kerch Peninsula
lonoon military quarters said the ;
Russians were retiring in good or-
, der. and added:
"They are not licked.”
| Meanwhile, the Germans Issued
I communique asserting
that Nazi warplanes yesterday sank
M , ...... , • United States cruiser at the 9.-
,„o„ or ^onomlc qo«,Uoo u-.n — ” - „ ^£1
Denton should do its part in all the corner would result in confu- | lcan sauadron" rn »h. Arctic Ocean
the war effort and relief and service . sion and wear down workers and--
projects, and that in order to do ' givers alike a movement was inltl-
! m t saz< hu a sywtain nf rziir Itetarllnor bltMki. I
duplication of work, a united cam- : neaa men to create an organization [ to "soviet*^Munnansir" bombed the
convoy between North Cope and
; Spitsbergen.
Besides the two warships, the
, | announcement said, a 3,800-ton tee-
county officials, both colleges, the breaker and a 2.000-ton merchant
Vxlewte ■z'kzwU Mantee, a ew I - . ’ 7 ____
To be launched In Denton short- , present general campaign. Lindsay
ly will be a general campaign for said Friday:
a war aid fund, the purpose being
to raise the necessary amount for
this city to meet its calls for money ! early Axis victories. We
to take care of war emergencies the same idea turning the tide in
and to do so without the necessity the United Nations strategy,
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Hammer at Japs
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Aus-
tralia. May 15.—(ZP>—For the second
successive day, long-range Allied
bombers hammered yesterday at
Japanese shipping tn the harbor of
Rabaul. New Britain, and scored a
smashing victory over enemy flght-
rackless Texans", but it is cer- I |j | |j I || I ZB
that the gas and oil business is III III I VI
not what it was before December 7 I
Gene Howe gives this information j
and advice:
And say, everybody, here’s some-
thing that sure "ain’t light folks,"
if what they say is true -
WASHINGTON. May 15 —<47—
Declaring Uvat more transport
, planes are needed. President Roose-
j velt told a press conference today ' hans and asserted
[that we are getting Into ‘ * '
1 fighting more
a military one
This and other questions relat-
ing to the economic life of French
Caribbean possesions, he told his
j press conference, is continuing un-
3Diooii4ii(( vsa^wa v vws osacasav iiqiiv ... . .
ers which tried, to Intercept them. der discussion and may take some
General MacArthur’s headquarters tunc 10 conclude
announced today ’wwt i
W Crop
In Texas Foreseen
which returned safely from their 1
mission, a communique said. AUSTIN.
The Allied planes were credited > Texas wheat
officially with damaging at least one I * ‘
transport in the strategic harbor,
one of the bases from which a Jap-
anese fleet Milled forth less than
two weeks ago to meet defeat in the
Coral Sea.
Another formation of Allied
bombers simultaneously attacked
the Japanese seaplane base in the
Deboyne Island group in the Lou-
istsde Archipelago, sinking an en-
emy seaplane and setting fire to
shore Installatioris, headquarters
said.
The Japanese
come to it
come to it. *
Crimean drive la a fine piece of
strategy. The Reds to their attack
•tong a 36-mlle front to the Khar-
kov sector are (1) compelling Hit-
ler not only to hold .troops and
described the equipment there, but are forcing*
home missions and him to huh up reinforcements, and
'* ------— -— <3> are threatening his key posi-
tion and cummuntatlons which he
lords for any attack against the
Caucasus gateway lying betwara I
Kharkov and Rostov.
Of course, should the Bolshevist
offensive achieve a. deep penetra-
tion of the Nasi line about Khar-
kov it would develop to due course
into- a turning movement which
would threaten the German right
flank, cm the sea of Aaov. However,
such an advance would be so great
that we are not justified in gotow
far with speculation about it until
the Russian offensive has proceed-
ed further.
I have a letter from a filling sta- j
tion man and he says that as a
class they are suffering more than
any other group in this whole coun-
try. He says they are not object-
ing because the government re-
strictions have about ruined their
business. They are patriotic and
believe.In doing their full
without complaining
But the letter says that it isn't
the government but the p
themselves who are breaking their , ,
backs. [while the Vichy radio de-I
"My. business is gone,” one of [dared Japanese troops had
them states I'm not selling half advanced 80 miles into India
the gasoline I formerly did and am ,
operating at a loss But what gripes [
me is not Uncle Sam but our own .
folks. I have hundreds who owe !
me but who won't pay Nbw that
the war is on they are using it as
an excuse They say they
their income taxes to pay; that the
eogt of living has gone up; that they
[RUSSIANS REPORTED PAST
OUTER DEFENSES AT KHARKOV
conunodatlng And so many of such
fine smiling folks simply are not
hard-boiled enough for their own
good.
There's a saying down here, you
know, that if you want to teach
your boy courtesy and politeness
and good manners, why get him a
job in a filling station Instead of
sending him to college. And there's
something to thts
Lyipnmia
1 said they
pounded t
I tack that he had instructed his am-
bassador to Tokyo to increase pres-
sure on Japan for an attack on
RUssia.
people I
while the Vichy
actual I
and more and
more places all the time
The chief executive spoke of in-
creased American fighting in vari-
ous parts of the world during a dls-
cu^ipn of his order permitting the ■
War Department to take over con-
. trui^f all the planes of comnierclal
We need all the planes we can
Every kind U being I
including i
drive against Kharkov. Russia's
■Pittsburgh" in the Ukraine.
The Germans claimed they were
inflicting severe losses on the Rus-
------------1 they had de-
ll> <„ »h. I '-JIU*W wu“. winze 1
1.. k th 1 to missions and benevolences.
----------„—; ~ . [ This is the largest amount ever
■ given since the depression." he
Mid
went for
fenders of the heights before Kerch <
I short cut to the great Caucasus
| oil fields had been driven bock
■ and that German-Rumanian "68!- pita
t mns were at the gates of the town.
The Nazi communique mention-
ed tersely that fighting was con-
tinuing in the battle for Kharkov, an address last night at the pastors'
Soviet front-line dispatches said , conference of the Southern Bap-
mittee was appointed consisting of w
repreFentaUves from city officials, J an~
of*Co^mTrce and business InMitu- ‘ fX^hter”^ teft^aiie
tlons. It is the duty of this commit- I
are Holford dTl. HLItob- P11ake “P mates of war aid
- - — ---- ... — — fund drives for the year and work
O Calhoun' M D Pen- cut • budget to take care of them.
Ben Ivey Lee «id fund* wU1 be included
C Orr ' except the Red Cross, which we
Phillip : understand has ruled that its drive
is not to be included to any con-
solidated campaign for funds.
••Within the next week a well or-
ganized campaign for war aid
fundr will be started to the city
of Denton. W D. Barrow has been
appointed manager of the cam-
paigr and has already begun or-
ganization of his forces.
"Since the Denton War Aid Fund
to promoting the drivea. He has a (»»• bew enthusiartiraMy rodorsad
WbMtflWfe * his group"*-lu*n house’ and
the law tests were taken 1 I----—----- —
ZZ-TS 'lTL? j be the bast received and moot suc-
Explains Parpeaa ] ceasful campaign ever undertaken
Ih explaining the purpose of the I to our dty."
projects, and that in order to do ; givers alike a movement was mill- i yj,,. communjque the planes,
so without the necessity of much I ated by a group of our leading busi-! .,rlklnir a, ro, AiHed «Urxilv line
: that would be known as the Den-
[ ton War Aid Fund A central com-
mit! drove a
fenses.
"Then our infantry moved into
the breach and consolidated the
The argument to Japan wax said I
to be that Russia had concentrated
much on the E>iro[>ean front I
she could offer little resist-
ance to an attack against Siberia. I
-."Just now there are a number
In undertaking the united cam- of war aid fund drives In progress,
paign. those directing the move the USO. Navy and Army relief. a special
pointed out that It was difficult to the China relief and many more I _
meet these calls for funds if a , to come. a Urdted States cruiser of the
separate campaign had to be un- ! "D—«-•-- ro—- ~ ■ ----- ~ „ un-
dertaken for each. They felt that or drives with others just around ' strover In an attack on “an Amer-
1-S 14. Z'Z.rnar nrzM«lz4 racllli in rxZXWt f«1 _ . * . .
the war effort and relief and nervice slon and wear down workers and
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