Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 226, Ed. 1 Friday, May 4, 1945 Page: 2 of 10
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TEXAS TODAY
Its
near his home!
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Leaf
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theater of operations
1 lias been attending the U
at
I spite the fighting
Mrs William Kenas, 802 Congress
Avenue, has received word that
her husband, Stall Sgt William
Kenas, lias been moved from Sai-
pan to Okinawa, where tie will
I continue with a photo squadron
of the U S. Air Forces. He wrote
' his wife the Island is beautiful de-
H. C. CHR1SMON
TEXACO SERVICE STATION
N Lo.. across from postoffice
You can’t go wrong with . , .
TEXACO Guoilne. Lubricants
CARS WASHED, LUBRICATED
Hickory Street William has just
J from nine months' duty
soldier _
found. in captured territory, a bale
1225 Austin
I awarded the
J Cluster to his
' award was made for "meritorious
. achievement" during bombing at-
tacks against Nazi* war Industries
j and military targets In cooperation
! with Allied ground forces Sgt
I Crouch is a tail gunner on a B-17
Flying Fortress He entered the A
A F in February. 1944
Staff Sgt Chas J Habern. sou
| of Mrs Ira Massay has arrived at
! Fort Sam Houston after serving 10
| months in the Mediterranean thea-
ter of operations. There he will
'get a furlough to visit his moth-
J er, according to a
I story. Sgt Habern
I and assistant engineer on a bomb-
1 combat mis-
Mr. and Mrs W T McKinney,
of Ft Worth, received word Wed-
nesday that their son. Staff Sgt
James E McKinney, has been
missing in action over Italy since
April 20, Sgt McKinney is a radio
operation op a flying fortress and
j flew his first combat sortie Nov
20. He had matje 21 missions be-
I fore being reported as missing
McKinney, a graduate of Ponder
High School. was inducted Into the
Air Forces April 7. 1944
And a lower Rio Grande Valley
soldier "some* here in Germany”
L/.HiG. in mpiureu territory, a bale
of cotton ginned in Willacy County,
By JACK Rl'TLEDGE
Associated Press Staff
U vouTr one wfid iius trondfred
where Goose Creek got its name,
this will help
Goose Creek got its name from a
creek running through the town
j along which docked hundreds of
thousands of wild geese when early
pioneers came from beyond the
, Mississippi back in 1800 They set
tied ui what was then Mexico
And Gooer Creek is proud of
name
’ Tech Sgt Wm T. Graham and
| George Graham, apprentice sea-
I man. are visiting their parents, Mr
j and Mrs W E Graham, 928 West
* JTif’korx/ Qfrnwt Koo ni«»
l returned
as an aerial engineer in the Euro-
pean theater of operations and
Georg'
S. Naval Academy Prep School
Bainbridge. Md
Staff Sgt. Thomas L Crouch,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom L Crouch,
Avenue. has
second Oak
Air Medal
public relations
was tail gunner
I er and completed 51
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Men’s Ixmg or Short
the upkeep of
lessen
those
Sleeved
SLACK SUITS
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FLOWERS FOR ALL
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North Side Square
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Down Through the Years
ten miles inside Bohemia at Vogel-
stang, 44 miles southeast of Hie
ilefti, congratulates old-time rival for heavyweight
Jeffries, on latter’s 70th birthday
their historic 25-round battle at Coney Island.
WAR PRISONERS
FREED IN NORTH
for
BEAUTIFULLY
WAXED FLOORS
easily
^quickly
Ukdurably
fir All Kinds of Household
Cleaning Call For
O-CEDAR WAX
Polish and Mops
BAI.THROP’S GROCERY
___AND MARKET
At Piggly Wiggly
You Will Find
O-CEDAR POLISH
. mops. nc.
They Are "Tops’’ For
Household Cleaning!
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campaign.
including
opening new
work on
beautlfica-
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and
the ,
held ,
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Edwards, and Beulah
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To Need Plants
The chairman plans to call on all
residents who have plants and
shrubs to divide to donate them to
the beautification project. At the
Build With Th«m
Later 1
Foxworth-Galbraith
* O-CEDAR
Self-Polishing Wax. Polish
• ' And Mops.
Can Always Be Found At
DICK HARRIS GROCERY
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(Continued from Pago 1)
of touch. In two days « total of
500JXXJ Germans have surrendered
lA*the north, including commanders
of two armies. Kiel and Flensburg.
Jpiportant German naval bases,
tare declared open cities by the
■^ihdowy German command
•—Gen Patton’s Third Army
Wulting the largest and most for-
last reported in Czechoslovakia
Prussian to the end, he handed j
over his baton saying "I might be i
spared the embarrassment of being
captured later in the presence of I
common, retreating German sol- !
diers’’ He had planned the 1939 |
invasion of Poland; he commanded
troops which pierced the Maginot
line; he directed the disastrous i
Caucasus campaign in 1942
Patton's troops were in or near
Ca'choslovakia on a 125-mile front I
__ and his forward troops were out
Linz 29 miles from Filsen, site_of the
Skoda munitions works The city (
of 117,704 was outflanked by forces J
| and
The first meeting for this year
improvement
committee of
was
entered Zelnia and Rhota 35 miles
south of Pl Isen
By entering Italy,
Alexander M Patch’s
t____________ Army Almost completed
last reports the Seventh Army Its first divisions were drawn from j
of th" civic
beautification
Chamber of Commerce
J Thursday afternoon, presided over
by Mrs. J L. Kingsbury, chairman j
V, • ,,, ,,u ,VU > "U> L I ,.VI III, -
year as follows: Support to the an- |
nual clean-up campaign, street 1“‘“* ** ‘
improvement,
marking of streets,
streets, etc , continuing
the redbud drive and .............. , ,
lion of highways leading into the | having iris to give were asked not
with shrubs and flowers, co-oper-
ating with the Denton Garden Club
and assisting In its spring flower I
show.
Plans for planting the grounds
around the Texas and Pacific depot M
were outlined, the committee atal ; L.
O V- Fowler, manager of the
Chamber of Commerce, having se-
cured co-operation of the officials
dig Uhuu unUi Uie beds be
made ready and they will be noti-
fied through the Record-Chronicle
Some of the committee will call for
them if desired.
Present at the meeting were
Mmes Kingbury, R W Bass, D
j. Lindsay, H L Dal.ee,
King N W
Hill Rev Chas W Smid, Dr
| B. McBryde and O L Fowler
of the company for that purpose I
Planting already done on the Fort
Worth Highway and in the city I
were reviewed and plans made tor '
future plantAig Some of tills in- j
eludes planting shrubs a’.id ground
coverers that will not only make j
the banks of creeks more beaut i- j
ful but keep down Johnson grass
ootie needles, and closed on Linz |
from three Bide»—the nearest :
MOSCOW. May 4 -0P> —The
I S military mission said today from
' 2,000 tt> 3,(XX) Allied war prisoners
_ I were liberated near Neubranden-
] burg iStalag 2-Ai by Marshal Kon-
| stantin Rokossovsky’s drive to the
I Baltic and that it understood many
I more were freed at Camp Barth
; < Stalag-luft D near Stralsund.
The mission said it believed
; many Americans were at both
! camps, but it had tip-cifficlal word
j I on them yet. i
Lieut Gen,
Seventh j,
a circle |
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HOME, May 4—l/P> Many per-
sons were badly beaten today hi a
free-for-all fight between at crowd
singing communist songs and a
"V group oi demonstrating Italian sol-
diers and students who demanded
that Italy retain the province ol
Venezia Giulia.
<The Belgrade radio broadcast a ;
Yugoslav army headquarters denial
yesterday of an official Allied Med-
iterranean announcement that Ger-
J man garrisons in Gorizia
Trieste had surrendered to a New
Zealand column Wednesday
broadcast said "no German garri-
son whatever could have surren-
dered in these places since as early
as April 30 these towns were com-
pletely cleared of enemy troops by
our own forces."
Wklabie of German pocket* picked I
.lip Field Marshal Edward von
Ktlest In a room containing nar-
it I
! Tom Sharkey, 76
honors, former champion James J
Jeff won decision in
j Nov. 3, 189!)
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if
- ' Artny advanced in Czechoslovakia
on a wide front, stabbing into Bo-
a,ld outflanking Pilsen.
^^u*he Cactus < 103rd) infantry dl-
. ii ion entered Italy before Inns-
$tuck, capital of the Austrian Ty-
uQ To the west of Innsbruck, the
French First Army advance was
wflfowed by four-foot snowdrifts
Seventh Army last night was i
a9ported five miles from Innsbruck I
Junction West of Vienna
*~£atton's troops besieging L;.._ _ _— ------ -
•Bfre close to a junction with the Skoda munitions works The, city
’ JuaBbUte west of Vienna—a ineet-
which would encircle all the
•Mftconquered part of western stang. 44 miles southeast ol
Czechoslovakia A meeting would Another Third Army ^column
cut> the. southern and largest Ger- ' * J ■
.'■An territory in two
,^’-Moscow reported that Russian
Hjhtrols were within ten miles of
, tlie-Third Army
jTwas 27 miles west of Berchtesgaden Italy. The army
!|*nd Salzburg, strongholds ap-
. proached from the north by Pat-
Iton’s troops
Germans in the north who hau
inot surrendered were herded into
ithe sea The enemy was in chaotic
'rout He was whipped by shells and
i'seourged by bomb* It was a Dun- , .
••kerque in reverse, aacept that the IN ROME RIOT
“Germans seemed to be falling in
•jthelr attempt to get away into iso- |
•dated Denmark and eventually to '
•'equally isolated Norway RAF
•.Beaufighters alone sank or dam- '
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DCNTON. TEXAS. REOORD-CRROmCLB. FRIDAY. MAY
aged 40 Nazi vessels in port or In
flight yesterday in raids which the
Britisn iflr ministry described as
their biggest attack of the war.’*
Lieut Gen Kurt von Manteuffel,
whose grandfather was occupation I
general in Paris in 1870. surren- I
dered in the north. His last com- I
mend was the Third Panzer Arm.
Gen. von Tilpelskirch, whose 2Ut
Army was cut to shreds by tlip
Russians before it reached Brltls|>
lines in the north, also entered
i prison cage
Reveal von Kleist Capture
The Yankee t26th> division cap- j
tured von Kleist back on April 25.
but kept it a secret until today
The 63-year-old marshal had oom- |
Four Projects Outlined for Year
For Civic Beautification; Citizens
To Donate Plants for I se in IVork
j was activated to
invade southern France It crashed !
through France, the Saar. Bavaria, j
Austria and now back to Italy and
near the Fifth Army whence i
sprang
MANY beaten
who outlined four projects (or the '
i lug it would be appreciated if they
better ! would call Mrs Kingsbury or the
| Chamber of Commerce, it was
stated. Wanted soon will be some
: old-fasnioned purple iris, and those
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War at a Glance
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lour furs, clutliing and
storing (hetii with tlir
American Cleaners und Dyers, 2!l
W Oak Street, phone :;g().
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SERMANY^
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I oft northeast Borneo. American
und ,hipane.se bring heavy guns n
bear in .southern Okinawa fightln/
U S Superfortresses bomb Ja|*an
ese homeland airlieuT
Against its background of magnificent Alpine scenery and in closeup, photos above show the chalet ai
Hitler’s retreat near Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian mountains, destroyed by 12.000-pound earthquake
! bombs in an aerial attack by more than 350 British and American planes. Here were spoken the first m t
lines m the drama of World War II British Prime Minister astounded the world by flying to Berchtesgaden
to placate Hitler over the Czechoslovak crisis in 193 8 Konrad Heinlein, Sudeten Nazi leader, conspired
J with the Fuehrer against Czechoslovakia; and Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schtissnigg recently reported
hanged by the Nazis, was given the devil’s choice of Anschluss or conquest1’
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Milo
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occupation of Flume and Polo
PACIFIC FRONTS Chinese
launch a counteroffensive in Hu-
| nan province to save the American
i air base at Chihkiang; British and
I Indian troops make good progress
drive to wipe out Japanese re-
in drive to wipe out Japanese re- Protect
push into Czechoslovakia i sl8,an<T 1,1 nurmp!* of Ran- rugs by
.____ ____I goon Austrians meet bitter Jajian-
rejistance on Tarakan island
Holl ’ *
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WESTERN FRONT Americans
drive into Italy toward a Junction
with their comrades wiio had '
fought up through the Italian pe-
ninsula [ " “ ‘— "—" ’ —
on a broad front outflanking Pilsen
and close on the burning Austrian
fortress of Lanz.
EASTERN FRONT; Russian
units in cooperation with the Brit- '
ish crush the enemy in northern
Germany, many German units |
surrender all along the Red Army i
front I
ITALIAN FRONT U S Ilf th i
Army nears a junction with Amer- I
leans pushing down from the north,
Yugoslav Partisans complete thej
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Favorite motor oils anti used tires. Plenty of stock and
OCCASIONS
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$2.50
DENTON Al'TO
St PPLY
lift East Hickory
Marvin Davis, Mgr.
For Complete
INSURANCE SERVICE
Phone 370
JOE GAMBILL
“The Mutual Agent"
PISHES THAT LOOK AND
TASTE LIKE GRANDMA
USED TO SERVE.
THE STEAK HOUSE
G. T. Phillips,
514 S. Loe
We Telegraph Flowers
IF YOU WANT
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insect spray. Remember, we are the home of the Wllz-
LARD BATTERY.
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SPRING IS RUSHING!
SUMMER IS ALMOST HERE!
This is the week to have those winter clothes cleaned,
ready for storage until next fall.
Clean Clothes List Longer
This is the week to get out last summer’s suits and
dresses and let us make them look like new.
VOGUE
CLEANERS and FURRIERS
MR. AND MRS. J. H. BARROW
Phone 16* 721 N. Locwt
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Cadenhead-Denman Hdw.. Inc.
North Side of Court Square
to give happinetw. give Flower*
and you will be happy in giv-
ing them. ’’Flower* leave part
of their fragrance in the hand
that beatowa them", »ay« an
old Ch I near proverb
LELA FOSTER
FLOWERS
Phone 40
WHAYNE FLORISTS
Phone 573 800 N Locuat
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TILE-LIKE FLOOR ENAMEL
* Take care of Horace, Lady—that floor
can look out for MaeU. If* coating
of HLE-LIKE FLOOR ENAMEL wifi
«ee to that
• Here’* floor protection for wood or am-
crcte floors redd* tn attraeflv* floor
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self polishing
WAX
Prove thfs soon: U« O-Odar Seff
Polishing Wax on your floors and
see how it (1) goes on without a
i bit of drudgery, (2) dries to a
rich, gleaming luster without rub-
bing. (3) lasts, because made with
long-weving Carnauba wax.
Jest S^resM aed Lof Dry.
Driot In IT ada«**«.
f or Ueelevm, Weed, Vila, Caaq»es«fi*a.
D*el*rs Attention > Dirlribvlud by
The Schoelikopf Co.
MM-14 Jaekaon Street
• . Dallas 2. Texas
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Flneat Funeral Sprays. Cor-
»agea. Cut Plowen and Pot
Plants!
WE SELL
-CEDAR PRODUCTS
| POLISH, MOPS, ETC.
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SHEPHERD’S
GROCERY - MARKET
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Learn to Fly
$3.50 Per Lesson -— Rides From $1 Up
Planes for Rent, Solo, per hour $6.00
Special Prices for Course or 10 Hour Time.
Free Transportation To and From Field.
COLLEGE AIRPORT
3 MILES NORTH OF DENTON ON LO( UST ST,
Jack Gray, Operator Phones 496 and 836
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KEEP YOUR
CREDIT GOOD
TIRES ARE CRITICAL
Its Either Re-Cap In Time or ELSE
We Feature
BACONIZED RECAPPING
It’s dependability has been proven to hundreds of Denton car
and truck owners Only the best, obtainable materials are used
We Repair and Vulcanize Tractor Tues
21 H O L H SERVICE
DENTON AUTO SUPPLY CO
Marvin Davis, Mgr. „6 E H\.kory
Merchants Finance Co.
•THE FRIENDLY HOUSB*
Back of Pbsfoffice
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Finance your bills with a Merchant Finance Loan be-
fore they-are past due. We will |>e glad lo discuss our
plan with you at any time.
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Because of the paper
shortage we would ap-
preciate your bringing
your cake boxes when-
ever you desire a Purity
Cake. Thank you!
DENTON
COUNTY MEN
IN SERVICE
SI MMER STORE HOURS
THE WILLIAMS STOKE
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Deliveries Each Day at 4:30
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MONDAY through I RIDAY
9 to 5
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Saturday Only
9 to 6
SID FORD
Phone 1745
WOOL - WOOL
x Highest market prices paid
Wool sacks and twine.
We Are Now Able to Do Custom Mixing!
We have now installed a new mixing machine, so bring
on your feed.
SEE US FOR YOUR FIELD SEEDS
Cane, Sudan, Millet, Hegari, Etc.
SNOW’S FEED STORE
603 East McKinney St. Phone 1926
THE FARMERS FRIENDLY STORE"
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