Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 169, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 27, 1945 Page: 1 of 8
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March 2, Texas Independence .
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cathedral city, and the Germans said the First
Snow and Ice
Over Texas Areas
your fart."
out Woman: -Nothing at. the
tn -very beaw" fighting
' resistance under
of fife
Value Pictured
How in only five generations of
breeding to a purebred bull the
scrub strain may be almost elim-
inated from a half blooded cow was
clearly shown by a picture chart
in an illustrated letter recently sent
to county stockmen by O R. War-
) reported the
a powerful at*
Yew get Che best always at twin-
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ABOUT
TOWN
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A tree fell across the automobile
of Virgil Little. West Hickory Street,
and smashed It about as fiat as a
pancake. Luck was with Little, as
he bad insurance to cover the dam-
i Me.
Zone Chairmen Determine to Finish
Red Cross Drive for $21,1
Building Pens,
Arena for Sire
Sale in Denton
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GERMAN LINES BUCKLE IN W
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GREAT POWERS PREPARED FOR
GERMAN COLLAPSE. CHURCHILL
SAYS; ASKS CONFIDENCE VOTE
Dlvl-
and
on
the
Mine Workers expire island was “the key to the control of
the matn navigational route through
the Central Philippines."
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with continued production-!
war in Europe lasts through
Production has hit the down.
while requirements hold the peak
levels. Ickes reported to the War
Production Board in his rAe as
aofid fuels administrator.
The bituminous industry, down to
a new low of 385 (x>o men In Ito work
force, faces t he loan of another 30.000
men this year. Ickes said.
ed more colliers for
the Atlantic coast.
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DENTON, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY
Many Thousands of Dollars Loss Sustained
by Trees, Shrubs and Telephone and Power
Wires and Poles in Denton.
While the temperature was not
so low Monday night, only 38, one
of the worst ice-accumulations on
'( trees and shrubs formed that the
oldest citizens can recall. Many of
the beautiful trees of the city have
been literally riddled, with even
some of the largest limbs breaking
and in some instances large trees
have teen uprooted by the weight
oP the ice. Some streets were block-
ed by the large trees falling across
them. Telephone and telegraph
i wires were down all Over this ssc-
• tion of the etale. Electric light
wires were out in some sections of
the city. Telephone and telegraph
linesmen from Denton and Decatur
were working in this area since 3
o'clock Tuesday morning.
4 It is impossible to get out of Den-
ton, either by telephone or wirq,
and the Associated Press wire to
the Record-Chronicle was out and
the United Press wire to KDNT al-
so was out Both the R-C and the
Radio station are hoping fur drop
... service by bus fnx® Dallas. Harwell
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Wealth gotten by vanity shall be
diminished; but he that gathereth
by labor shall increase .^-Proverbs
13-11.
Riches, the incentives to evil, are
dug out of the ground.—Ovid.
the heattad
dormitories and
and shrubs were
weight of the toe
Ttoday's birthday cclcbrators arc
• «Mrs. W H. Hodgson, Billie Jew.ii
Hjwldlng. Mrs Linwood Roberson.
Olrs Mack V. Massey, Jack Bry-
son, J. C. Goodner and Ronald
Wayne Trice.
■ Latest moves to repeal the Feder-
al motor vehicle "use" tax comes tn
• the form of H. R. 1870. introduced
by Representative Wilbur D. Mills
<D . ArkJ. a member of the House
Ways and Means Committee. Ways
and Means Chairman Robert 1*
Doughton (D., N. Qartl. has said
that after the War with Germany
ends fepeal of this tax would come
first of all in his recommendations.
Representatives A. H. Andresen (R..
Minn.), has introduced H R. 1760
to authorise the Federal Works Ad-
ministrator te pay 60 per cent of
the "current and reasonable value
of any toil bridp, exclusive of
rights-of-way, constructed prior to
January 1, 1047. which any state
might make a free bridge.
Record
Work of constructing the pens and
». . the sales arena for the Denton
nttrio-murtv County sire sale to be held al the
M the Pol- Denton County Fair grouyids Thurs-
cuy, March 1. to under way. The
work to tinder the direction of Bld
Ford and a crew of men. having
Abolishing Closed
Season Bill Signed
-.Austin, Feb. ’'life
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A kind! Uve got a nickel here mme ■“
I ■*!&: ’•rm sure of it, but IM still can Third end N
Mte to pay your fare—you've un- tured 30 Getman
teittoned my susnenden three times —~
SlWlr ' (See GKRMAN Page 9)
Armies might
•S’® ‘•UR’*
The Germans located the Neisse
bridgeheads between Guben and
, Foret. 51 and 67 miles southeast of
the capital, and southeast of Forst. •
This might indicate Soviet attempts
to outflank the river bastions of
Guben and Foret.
Moscow remained silent on activ-
ities at this gate to Berlin
German accounts placed Russian
motorised infantry in Pomerania
30 miles beyond their tost positions
in the Baltic push.
Head for Stettin
On* Berlin broadcaster said the
Red army was pounding a triple
■drive toward Btettin. Koiberg tmr1
the Baltic 66 miles farther north-
J7 -TXFT-Ttttt ewt. ®toiP, TMBTW Bt>-
into the outly- gains toward all three. Anoth-
er said the Russians were 33 miles
from Stettin.
By German account, large Rus-
sian and German infantry and ar-
mored forces were fighting on a
I 100-inile line extending from Kue- ,
srin. on the Oder 39 miles north-
east of Berlin, southward to the |
approaches to Goerlits, Silesia’s sec- (
ond etty 48 miles east of Dresden. <
A broadcast by the Nazi Trans- .
ocean agency said Marshal Ivan S. .
Konev's First Ukraine Army had i
reached the Neisse "everywhere" for ]
60 mites south of its confluence with
the Oder southeast of Berlin The
agency said the opposing forces were
locked in a "merry-go-round of
death."
Berlin has reported the Russians
fighting in Xhe suburbs of both Gu-
ben and Forrt, Netose River strong-
holds.
One-mlle gains in Dkst Prussia
<8ee REDE. Page 9) . t
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EltTON
lery was the Russian
Fedor Gusev.
ICE PUTS FIRS Al.ARM SVSttM I
OUT
JACKSBORO. PWb. 37.—uPA-Vol-
unteer firemen had to be summon-
ed by telephone when the Jacks-
boro fire station and city hall
caught fire yesterday because the
finn alarm siren, muted by sleet
and toe, would not operate. The
blaze originated within 30 feet of
the Jacksboro fire truck.
- ", Hv Associated Preta) “
Texas, basking until yesterday in
one of its mildest winters tn years,
stirred heavily today under blan-
kets of snow and ice.
Communications and transports
lion were dipped Highways, lines
and trees were toe-laden as numb-
ing cold which slipped in through
the Panhandle “ ‘ " J
its fingers deep
1MMMI KB Yl _
m >n- Sherman-OataMVllle
to North Texaa Denison and Sher-
man were nearly
municallons lines
cities were down i
By RICHARD KASISCHKE
LONDON, Feb. 37.-(F>—The Red
army, breaking through for 80 mites
in Pomerania in a bid to slice Dan-
zig and Gdynia from the Reich, has
thrust to Bublitz and Rummers-
burg, 38 and 38 miles from the Bal-
tic, the German high command said
todM.
A Berlin broadcast said the So-
viets had forged even beyond Rum-
melsburg on the military highway
running 31 miles north to Stolp, a
^BgMSMntontiMto>*gMttMte4tomtoiea>
east of Danzig.
The German communique said
the Russians had thrown bridge-
heads over the Neisse River 50 to
60 miles southeast of Berlin, but
that these had been knocked back.
Nazi reports of tank battles rag-
ing along the Oder-Neisse River
iiilggastv It the First White Russian
and First U| ' ‘ - -v - -.
wwwia weed otuy me finest buuK
boars, and rams they can afford,
and reminded stockmen of the sire
sale March 1.
the
the Fourth Marine
summit of HUI 383,
*bove the central
icniy>h^l<1 plsttBKf
battle-weary Japa-
ering from lack of
enemy dead mount-
Ntne have been cap-
\ V ujDby. win be observed as a holiday
* to the bento, Denton Oounty Na-
I tional and First State, so remember
* to do your banking business that
is necessary tomorrow (Wednesday).
against which
Yanks had lau
tatatoe.
British troops threatened the rich
Central Burma oU fields by cap-
turing Pagan, ancient captal of
Burmese Kings about 100 miles
south of Mandala
northern edge of t
Advances at 400
. stretched
■ Oentral Tncaa
W today WM the Denl-
■" triangto
greatest Inland port and chief out-
let for the Ruhr which to 1M2
cradled three fourths qf all Chr-
i and the Ameri-
Nlnth Armies cap
i towns overnight
to
Clear Bre Mhrough
May Be s(heaved
i’ —
American Forces Moving Rapidly ^Toward
Cologne and Other Troops Near Great.
Industrial Section of Ruhr.
invaded an-
Upptoea. tak-
__IMe oti small
but strategic'V«de Island astride
the shipping lane from Manila u>
. «»«. h»>
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of the Japanese
The scholastic census will get
under way this coming Thursday
when the teachers themselves will
do the work, which they agreed to
take over voluntarily and without
coat to the system. Thv city has
been divided into 53 distrtots and
i the teachers drew tote for districts
i to enumerate. The white teachers
will gather the white censua while
K .the colored teachers will take care
of theirs. The enumeration will be
done during the month of March.
I and yon will help the teachers in
I thatr work If you will try to be at
I home when they call after school
F'Atours. "
■tod. Oun-
o the two
____ _____no tatoeww
bans and buses had entered or left
the area since 9 P m. test night.
••wm. m*u. m* >*>aur «■■■■ Bus service was reeumed this morn- .
lines to mtoencea ware still om.| ing Tzlepbosw and etoctriD Itoea
Durant, Okla., across the Red
River, also was hard bit
The ice started forming yostzr
day in West Tbxas, and cemnnn-
ications tn many elttoa were out of
order.
Interurban service out st Dallas
extended only to Wa—hachto. to
MUh awny..Bervtoe from Waxa-
hachie to Wac® tatd been dtoruptoZL
tow Mgfismr gigirimtot rmnrt-
ter of the vital Ruhr Valley,
.than 15 miles away. "
south Lieut. Gen George
llUrd Amg captured high
>verlookiiiR the Kyll River
and moved close to Bitburg, sweep-
ing up numerous towns In the Eifel
Mountains along a to mile front'
aimed at Coblenz and toe Middle
Rhine
The German radio said U.. S
bombers had returned over the
Reich again today.
The Canadians broke into Caiear.
a bitterly defended fortress road
center, and the Brussels radio said
the town of 2.053 had been occu-
pied
Driving Toward
School Census to
~ Begin Thursday
Taking the school census of Den-
tap will begin Thursday and con-
fine until completed This year the
census wlU be taken by the 86
teachers, principals and superin-
tendent of the school system, and
as Ute work must be done in late
afternoons and evenings Supt. R
C. Patterson asked that all persotis
cooperate in order to get a com-
plete roll of all children between
the ages of six and 18 years.
The school maintalnance is based
on the per capita enrollment, and
for every child missed the system
will be out 823.25. the amount of the
scholastic apportioranvat. which will
hays to ha made up in .local r—
so it Is important to taxpayers that
every child's name he secured. U
was ixjitiled ouC .u parents make
an effort to be home for a few days,
the work will be facilitated, as toe
city has been divided Into 54 dis-
tricts, and all of the workers will
start at the same tone.
ft was suggested that If Uie head
of the house must be away the In-
formation be left with some other
member of the family or with a
neighbor.
Among early arrivals tn the gal- Coal Operators
i Map Strategy
WASHINGTON Feb 37. —<F#-
Bituminous operators met today to
shape their policy toward John L
Lewis' expected wage demands in
an atmosphere tensed by the sug-
gestion of a strike and prediction*
of a 50.000.000-ton coal deficit.
The group of operators, represent-
ing 478 whore contracts with Lew-
is' United I*’ ----- —
March 31, considered the union
leader’s move yesterday tn serving
notice under the Smith-Connally la-
bor disputes act that a strike was
possible in 30 days
Both the operator* and the
UMWA policy committee are pre-
paring for negotiations which be-
gin Thursday
Meanwhile Interior Secretary
Icksa said a 60.000.000-ton coal def-
icit I* inescapable thia year - even
, - - . . ibF
1945
« given a Rod Crus*
rill fie urgeu to display
■
1
on fresh water A
relaxing etof
It also repeals Intel laws sth
iattng closed seasons at varial
with the general closed wnren.
By LEONARQ MILLIMAN
Aaaaeiated Prere War Editor
American carrier planes destroy-
ed or damaged 338 Japanese ptauea
and 31 small veasals and heavily
raked two big aircraft factories in
a slashing raid on Tokyo Sunday.
Admiral Chester W. Nimita an-
nounced today.
On the way out Admiral Mare A.
Mitscher's carrier force on Monday
raided Hacbljo Isla.id, airbaw and
B-38 warning station 176 miles south
of the enemy capital. Japanese
broadcasts said 17 of 188 raider*
were shot down at Hacbljo.
Adverse weather, which turned in
Miowbtorm* by the time B-»* struck
later tn ths day, hampered Ameri-
can carrier plane* more than Jap-
anese hiteroeptors over Tokyo.fli
price paid by the raiders was nine
fighter* and five pilot* lost and two
small ships slightly damaged.
Americ an c ommanders in the Pa-
cific today dramatically rr-estate-
itshed thoPtUhppin conufionweslth
government in Manila, wheso Jap-
anese militarist* ruled for Hmm
years and predicted that in a few
more days' the Nipponese would
be driven from two island which
Tbkyo haa governed Mr more than
a century.
U. 8. infantrymen
other island in the Fh
tng the enemy by surj
Damafe running into many thousands of dollars was
being surveyed by Denton people Tuesday, as the result of
an ice storm which coated trees, shrubs, telegraph and tele-
phone wires and poles.
Hundreds of tree* and shrubs
were ruined. In some case* trees
were stripped of limbs by th*
weight of ice. and many shrub*
were broken to the ground. In some
caeas tree* were-tiprooted.
In th* early hours of the morn-
ing traffic was endangered W large
limbs which had broken off and
fallen Into the street*
Much electric service and tele-
phone service was interrupted for
•otnc time Tn aocne esses the msin
line* were out and In many others
the service lines to reritenfos were
broken by top-heavy toe-coated
trees.
The damage to the municipal
poww—fysvem prcxmuiy win w
8MW or 86.000, it was estimated
by L. *. Burrow, city engineer in
eharge of th* power ptant. A few
poire were broken but in meet
oases it was wires broken by
weighted limbs or broken trees.
Moto of the main electric fins*
were in operation again before
many cases service
Bev. Philip Walker, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, walking
• * along the east side of the square,
wearing a fine pair of galoshes, said
tsh-Banker Ed Miller, "WeU, I
thought it was Christmas, judging
from (he weather, so hung up my
O V. Russell with Mr*. Russell
% are new residents of Denton. He to
no stranger to the city, however, as
he has been running through Den-
ffm for the past 43 year* apd 23
days on the M. K. * T. Ry . with
which be ha* been working. He is
retired now and they decided that
Denton was the place to live. They
are members of the Calvary Baptist
Church of Denison. Tliey bought a
bom* at 3817 North Locust Street.
If that 'thunder-prophet' business
« holds Rood thia -yrer, Aped w<S te-
•' another corker of a month, as dur-
ing the past several day* loud’thun-
der has been heard. If the April-
freezes come *s strong as th* nb-
ruary-thunder, boy* and gpl*. watch
out.
The first regular meeting of the
* Sanger Lion* Club was held Mon-
day night in the public school,
where the dinner was served by
the Home Economic* class to forty-
two member* and some fifteen men
of the Denton Lion* Club. H. B.
. Ttoon 1* president of th* club and
• Prof. H. O. Harris to secretary. Just
a week ago when the charter for Ruhr Raain
k*>«**4«
beis had .signed,. bui. within the
past few day* 22 more member* were
added, which makes an excellent
> start for the Sanger club.
in Denton
Quickly; Campaign to Start Thursday
** * '.*'*7** •.***" *'
this in the window* of his home
Ben Ivey, general chairman of
the Red Crore war fund campaign,
urged that each person who to ask-
ed for a donat ion realize the import-
ance of work being done by the Red
Cross and co-operate with the local
worker*. He pointed out that work-
er* are being given a suggested do-
nation for each employer to make
and employes wlU be asked to do-
nate a minimum of two days' pay.
He stressed »e fact that the cen-
tral conffhlttee is not attempting
to arbitrarily tell anyone how much
to give, but rather that these esti-
mates have been made on the basis
at facte and it will be necessary to
collect tfc* d<-xlgnated amount U
the county quota is to be reached
Out of the money collected in
Denton foe the nattonal campaign,
33,7 pgr cent wfll be kept toy th* of work,'
local chapter for use m Denton UM t w
County During 1*44 th* Denton about the wage contract* wMoh ex-
chapter spent 18,71344 on home ‘ “
k>aus, 813148' ter rerviee expeiwe*
817786 for civilian relief, 8674 62
for hois* UMbg and nurses' aide.
8107.30 for first aid. 882 « for water
Pacific nr brought a confident
devlaration from Marin* U. Qen.
Holland M. (Howlin’ M*d) Smith
that “we expect to lake this island
In a few more day*.'' ——-
The battle was so fierce that the
usually conservative Pacific Fleet
communique said gain* were made
"through extremely heavy enemy
defence*" In "varv hMW’*
against mounting' rest*
"a very heavy volum*"
Artillery, naval guns and carrier
aircraft supported the advance
Which carried '*
Division to th*
rising 80 feet
surroundhig en
MMi said
enes were
water,
ed to 1
tured.
ed State HlxMw SI between
Kaufman and Ennis and U S
Highway 178 southeast of Dallas
we* closed because at a break in
the Trinity Rtrer hr**. —
Sa*w In Panhandle
At Amarillo the temperature had
risen to 36 drgrees from a tow
yesterday of 18. Snow, which be-
gan at 8;80 a. m. today oontinued
falling generally over the Panhan-
. . r, ranging from
two to. glx inches, covered the
South Plains area, extending as far
down a* Snyder.
Snow was reported at 1
where an inch ted faUz
a. m and Ctaruidf""
Sleet and ice catered
lene and Wlebita^MBi i _
Dalia* reported the heaviast
rainfall with 180 inetea which fol-
lowed an electrical storm last night
Ice accompanied it* 80-degree tem-
peralure.
Rain was grnemi evar Centre!
Texas, some of H fTOM
fell. At OoHMMas. "Oth a
.1 .U 73 u« be*, was reported Rata
delayed Navarro Oounty fam work.
M Dates Brantfl Airtines gnMSMi-
■tans* at mldnteB last
flight* were expected to
1 shortly before noon,
tempereture* ra
; Austin to 80
Marion Ever* said that abota1
one-half the poles between Dentoh
and Hjckory creek to the west were
down, and report ha* it that many
of the poles between Denton and
Dallas and Fort Worth were down. ‘
t •
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
Asseciated ?***• War Editor
American First Army arnfor smashed into the outer ring
„ "-lo^ne's defenses today as heavy artillery shelled the
city, and the Germans said the First and Ninth
Armies w(>ne pouring scores of tanks into the Cologne plain
for the drive to the Rhine.
In the east, the Germans said,
Soviet troop* had croeesd the Neisse
at several points southeast of Berlin
but were thrown back. The Nazis
said a bitter tank battle raged all
along the Oder-Neisse front, sug-
gesting
Zhukov^ First White Russian Army
and Marshal Ivan I. Konev's First
Ukraine Army had Jumped off for
the final drive on the Reich capi-
tal.
The Berlin radio said U. 8. Third
Army tanks bypassed Bitburg, key
to German defenses in that sector,
and had reached the Kyll River.
45 miles southwest of Coblenz, U. 8.
occupation headquarters after the
last war.
Allied armies gained all along
a 200-mile front
Thinly spread German defenses
apparently were buckling along the
Western Front. 8poke4toen for both
the V. 8. Ninth and the U. 8. Third
Armies expressed belief that a clean
cut breakthrough had been achiev-
ed. Lieut. Gen. Courtney H Hodges'
First Army men were in sight of
IB* *pires yf Cologne, some 10 miles
lagging behind the
courtesy that was much appreciated troops.
««war w— uiuu. -it -- Can>dlan nrrt Army offen.
sive in the north made a flve-mile
advance, topping the etretegic road
center'of Uedem and reaching the
outer defenses guadlng the north-
west * '''■
now
To
ing of the chairmen of the beef,
sheep, dairy and hog divlsta.is.
Col George Apple, who will be
auctioneer for the sale, inspected
the arrangements at the grounds
Monday afternoon, and expressed
himself a* well pleased with the
tegt-Up
The sale wUl be held regardless of
the weather, a* the auction will be
under cover, G. R. Warren, county
agent, said Tuesday
A large number of sires are ex-
pected to be offered for sale. The
auction is sponsored to encourage
better livestock breeding in the
county. •
Ickes
••••ilk
taking vessels from transAtlantic
convoys if norcsaary. and placing
more men on the railroads to “dear
their way for coal movement,"
"Estimates so far have been
based upon the assumpUon ,1ML.
there will be continued openitton;
that there will be no interrupttou
„V**K Mm' report
—nn*i prompt* the question. 'What eroor Poire R,
pire April 1 and May 1 for bttumin-
^tfiteyacite negotiations start April
i out of power until shortly after 7
, a. m. West Oak Street Mrvto* eras
off until about 11:38. and West
j Sycamore and West Hickory Ktreet
serric** until about 1 a a In
' many parts of town, however, the
) service was not interrupted.
I ktf V-v- te Ota
This was one of the moat de-
: stroctive ire storm* ever expem
i td.An DcnUx), •llhougii many___
, Mteto tees cone* K’the past a
peouiiarity of this incMent wm that
i th* temperature did not go below
I • degree*, but ifc* steady, stow
rain froze on tree* and wire* a* it
i ML
XI was not belicvd that crop*
would be damaged, although some
’ advanced fruit Buds may be.
Seldom if ever ha* Denton bean
to completely elated from the
outside world as to this case No
telephone or telegraph wires ware
in operation in or out of Danton.
' Trace. Sterabs Hard Hit
>•' Many thoueands of dollar* dam-
L JHMhm* doue Uj sbraiM and trees in
! Denton It WM not poatlble Monday
<to get an accurnie picture ox th*
full damage, but many hundreds of
tree* and shrubs ware broken.
Some large trees were completely
stripped of limbs, and in a few
histetecs lhe weight of the ice pull-
ed the roots of cedars out of the
ground.
City Park damage was indicated
Monday to be.hcavy, a* well as on
collerr campuses nnd nt private
borne*. • . •' —
N. T. (telains Damage
' —Ubnsidcruble damage waa dune
st North Texa* CoUaaa II was
estimated al noon that damage to
j at that time was
was feared thl* would
Spurred by the new* that Pilot
Point has already turned In a check
for 82.500 tor the national Red Cross
campaign, which begins Thursday,
city zone chairmen agreed Monday
afternoon that the drive in Denton
to raise approximately 831800 of
the County's'quote of |32.ooo, should
be concluded Juel ** soon as pos-
sible.
The campaign within the city will
get underway officially Thursday
morning at 8 o'clock when all zone
chairmen and their workers meet
in the Texas Theater, where they
will be given the names of the per-
sons they are to contact for dona-
tions. After a mass meeting there,
each sone chairman will hold a
■mailer meeting with hi* worker* in
one of the three Interatate the-
aters. Coffee and doughnut* will be
furnished the group by J F. Harri-
son. manager of the theater*.
T* Raaeh AU ■stow - -
At the meeting Monday afternoon
the group adopted the etagaa. "A
Red Croa* .in the Window of Every
Home In Denton." Eteh person who
makes a contribution to the cam-
paigrt WUl
x|Mtdter and
By JAME6 M LONG
PARTS, Feb ?* ...
Army tanks burst into the outly-
ing defences of Cologne today as
heavy artillery shelled the great
cathedral city while just to the
north, the Ninth Army advanced
nearly four miles to witliln five of
the factory-packed Ruhr basin
Canadians to the north advanced
five miles, capturing the strategic
road center of Uedem, and reach-
ed outer defenses of the Hochwald
defense line guarding the north-
west corner of the Ruhr, less than
15 mile* away.
Lieut.-Gen. George 8 Patton's
mighty Third Army captured high
ground overlooking the Kyll River,
moved to within a mile of strategy
Bitburg and swept up nine towns
in the Eifel* along a 30-mlle front
which was pressed two miles deep-
er toward tfie Middle Rhine and
Coblenz.
All along the 300-mUe assault
front from Emmerich on the Lower
Rhine to the now solid bridgehead
across the Saar River six miles east
of Saarburg, the thinly spread Ger-
man defenses #ere splitting at the
seams Spokesmen for both the
Ninth and Third Armiea expressed
belief th nt deuicut - breAlLthroug bs
had been achieved. Prisoners cap-
tured in February alone passed 80,-
000; the total since D-Day ap-
proached 838,000 And yet only a
fraction of Gen Etoenhower's 73
known division* had been identified
in the great battle of annihilation
to dear all Germany west of the
Rhine.
Report* hours behind the fast
pace of ths First Army said Lt-
Gen Cburtney H. Hodges' men were
looking al Cologne chimneys and
spires 10 1/3 miles ahead.
Capture Mere Tewn*
The Ninth Army captured six
towns Including Venrath. five miles
from Mucnchen Gladbach, western-
moat city of the Ruhr The place
is 18 miles from Dueaseldorf. ad-
ministrative center of the Ruhr,
and only 16 from Neuss, which lies
across the Rhine from Duesseldorf,
The Canadian advance carried to
within 33 mile* Of Duisburg and
only 16 from Neuss, which lie*
acNMs the Rhine from Duesneldorf
The Canadian advance canted to
ed r.M it* ]
night but 1
South Texaa temperatures rang-
ed from 35 at Austin to 80 at
Brownsville Beaumont and Gal-
vetton on the Gulf coast had 80-
degree reading*. Al Corpua Ohristt
the temperature moved down to 48. .>3
____ . . . - ....... .....,-Tirlr iwesTto '>
operatton, however.
Tsmgerotari Only 88 j|
The temperature was not tow.
notwithstanding the damage duu* 4
by toe coatings on trees, ahrubs. tel-
ephone and te‘
The mlnlmu
day night at I
Station three
Denton waa only 38, three below
freeaing. and the mercury had as-
cended to 33 at 7:10. The meotanmi
registration Monday afternoon was
34 degrees.
The rainfall Monday and Mon-
day night total 1.16 inchea.
Trains were running late because
of the toe, but ttaffte was moving
regularly over the T. 4b F. and M.-
K.-T. line* here, aeeoMMR te A. Q.
Bryant. Denton agent Telegraph
many pole* wore n
operation* ware I
without Wioui nt
TEMPERATURES
DALLAS. Feb. Y
TaxM temperature
the tree aud more btoakad* was an-
tKlpated . _ ... ____
Chilton Hall and Oak Street Hall,
reeirtenn* hall* for girl*, wore with-
out heal or light* until about 11 a.
m. due to lack of power, and the
same was true of Orchestra Hall
and Music Mall Music classes were
disimsed until after noon, but other
classwork went on a* usual except
for the very early hours.
The Texas Telephone Co., tn
Denton suffered damage which
wlU amount to several
____J doliare. according to I.
L Fullerton, manager. Many wires
and some poles were broken, with
the chief damage done by Ice-laden
tree* striking ibe wire*.
Many telephones were out of op-
eration early Monday because of
trees breaking wtrea. but meet of
them were tn use again later in the
morning Fullerton said most ot the
brenkage was due to trees faUhig
on the Maa* running to bouses.
Long distance lines, both tete-
pbone and telegraph, were out ail
mojaitad, and Deuton was complete- ’
ly isolated a* far as wire service ,
was concerned. Wires were down
and loirs broken in all directions
from Dtuton because of the weight
of the ice. «
Little damage was reported al T.
6 C. W Pectric wires wore im-
dei ground which prevented damage,
and power continued which made H
pcaamie to o,
system in all
buMte.
Many tree*
broken by the
but it was impoeslble during I
to get an accurate eettmate
Tww deheela Oaae
The Junior and Senior
Stout woman (standing on
rowfied streetcar, vainly trying
nd a qtokle for her fare tn poci
within 33 miles of Duisburg, werld'i
By JAMB8 F. KING
LONDON, Wh. 37. “
Minister Churchill declared _
the great powers were completelv
prepared for the collapse of Ger-
many. asserted the proposed Poltai
frontier would "not sow the seeds of
future wgrs." and gave hia personal
aaaurance of Ruaaia* good faith te
plans for the peace.
The British leader demanded <
vote of confidence from Common
on the Crimea piano for a peacdk
ful world, challenging p.
those who have criticised __
ish decision*.
He promised drastic and effective
Germany teterly impotalbtefcr^e^’ bt'en over 10 hUn at » meet‘
Germany again to surrender.
Churhlll said the United State*
would play ,“a vitally important
part" in a new, far-stronger world
security league which will not
shrink from establishing its will
against the evil-doer" by forof
or anna.
Giving the first public account by
one of the principals at the moment
tout Crimea conference, ba term-
ed the proposed Foliah boundary
“the fairest division which can bo
made between the two countries."
Marshal Stalin has given "the
moat solemn declarations" that Po-
land's sovereignty and IndepeudOte
dence would be maintained, he said,
and "thia decision has now been
joined in both by Great Britain ana
by the United States.”
Then Churchill added:
“The impression I brought back
from Crimea and from all my other
contacts is that Marshal Stalin and f*.11- county agent The letter polnt-
tbe Soviet leaders wish to five tn'
hmniaMfi frlrniltiiVi iimI , ijmalitt,
with the western democracies r
feel also that their word is their
bond. I know of no government
which stands on its obligations more
solidly than the Russian Soviet
government"
He declared the objective of the
great powers was “to .save the world
—not rale it.” and that "the world
organization cannot be baaed upon
the dtetatorship of the great pow
ere." ■ • -
Churiibill spoke for 70 minifies
before lunch, and scheduled tte rest
of hl* address in the afternoon
Churhlll gave no hhit as to when
he believed that collapse of Ger-
many would come, although he did
say that the war in Europe had
been prolonged al "good many
month*.''
"The world organisation," he
said, "cannot be based on a dicta-
torship of the great powers. It is
their duly to preserve the world, not
to rule it.” ,
The prime minister said hl* gov-
ernment had "a right to know'
where it stood in parliamentary
upluiniQ w> Jhe Yalta conference
strong expree *
the House wlll.sti
sltton among our
Churhlll plunged right into a
showdown with his critic* in open-
ing a three-day foreign policy de
bate in which members of a mail
bloc have indicated they would
sbarpaiwot al the "big three's" plans
for Poland. v
Hie debate, heralded a* one ol
the most important ever held in
shaping Britain’s future policy, drew
the biggest crowd to the House in
years.
the
—--
Hea^Damage Don
By Ice Storm Here
__■ I
(leaatag Up Manila
American Infantrymen were wip-
ing out the last of Japanese sui-
cide squad* in Manila a* Gen.
Douglas MacArthur told a cheering
crowd of Filipino* in war-ravaged
Mnlacanan Palace that "your coun-
try is tawe again at liberty to pur-
sue it* destiny." , ..
-Maibrttair declared » "the full
to WjSo^d
constitution restored to the enm- ~ ‘
monwealth ' Accepting, f
Sercio Osmena expressed It
Philippine* would attain <
independence this year. »’ .
•tatts* stiM caged on ail side*
of Manila.
Tto the south, between Luaon and
Mindoro Island*, veteran Mth
sion troops invaded Verde
cornered the surprised garrison
the east coast. MacArthur said
the key to the control of
ivigational route through
PhtlinninK ■>
On the weal, paratroopers were .
?fc?22^ieY.dn
counted 3.U66 enemy dead on the . .. .
fortress island. Uncounted other*
blew themselves up In CofMHidor s
tunnels or were killed trying to swim
•way. .
To the North. 40th Division in-
fantrymen were cleaning up eaves
and ravine* in the Zambale* Moun-
tain*.
In the east, the dismounted First
Cavalry and Sixth Infantry Divi-
sions repulsed three counterattacks
but ran into Increasing opposition.
Elements of three other divisions
rran*id north from this main battle
line toward the strongest Japa-
nese concentrations on Northern
ttatih.'*’'
'fin unusual feature of MacAr-
thur's Tuesday communique was
th* absence of ship sinkings by the
Fifth Air Force, which deztroyad
or damaged 1*M9 enemy veaaeia lest
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