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DENTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 31, 1944
Associated Press Leased Wire
VOL. XLI
NO. 249
May Succeed Dies
SCRIPTIONS
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forts of the Japs
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Germans Strike
The invasion of
Strike from
British Troops
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At Russia h>
Britain and Italy
Protect Balkans
scorched earth policy ahead of Gen.
M. Combs, above, of
By HID FEDER
re-
vanced to a point just south
of
bombed a
ELERS
impending Red ofTensive.
Navy Carrying
was in progress inside Vellet- '
On Steady Drive
ri, Alban Hills road junction
75-mile
Along
Against Japanese
section of the lawn
Ed Miller, president of the Den-
was
Heavy Counter Attack
The correspondent said he was 15 miles southeast of Hamm. The
fenses were stubborn and skilled
1 Bank
battle
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shot down yestei
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tank battle
River all along the coastal sector
As
( enemy
area
engaged and
CK:
American Shermans
ing prices, buy rationed goods only
Strike
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higher
t
taxes and pay them wUlingly
Pay off old debts and avoid making
holding back their full power until
fortress
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through Velletri to Valmontone.
DE RS HERE
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levy.
RO. & MKT.
Better
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Nazis,
offenive on all oceans"
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15 Husband* Since
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names of
tne ptimary ballot
May 19. was recaptured bv Texas
the electors on
which made the two speeches rather
addressing with fingeis pointing to
air power yesterday, when 3,200
i
Nen Luinea Production Center
stop, the other man has tne floor."
itary targets in Qermany, Austria,
ALTOR
first speaker to finish
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more than 25,000 sorties the last
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On Slaughtering
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
Opposes Trial
For Kimniel Now
Senate Hikes
Debt Limits Cuts
Tax on Cabarets
Ploesti, Railyards,
Airfields, Invasion
Coast Are Bombed.
far attained by our air force are a
; cruiser and a transport vecsel in- l
short
nice
had
Mosco *
upt Rus- 1
k and Poultry
Remedies
Peaumont. Tex . is expected to
be e'ected to the House of Rep-
resentatives to succeed Martin
luck at fishing
nell, who took
Iemini,
German
proposal by R W Morrison o’ San
Antonio that the Rotary Clubs of
tanks, antillery and
seize a beachhead.
the decision vesterday
strategy conference here
The Office of War Information
polnts out seven individual actions
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kev to the Vis C
miles southeast of
Farther Away,
Allies Move Ahead
As Nazis Retreat
C Bingham, who suffered a stroke
of paralysis last week, was eome-
whnt improved Wednesday, accord-
ing to his son, Bill Bhgham, who
was in Denton Wednesday morning
having pretty good
There's J 6 Pan-
heattacks I
contmued
on the edge of some woods between
Greggton and Gladewater
trated an the area between
logve and Dunketque—that I
progress.”
A Tokyo broadcast said "results so !
seems nearing its climax." the re-
port ndded i
The enemy was reported to have
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Mils to Campo Iemhi at the sea
At some points west of Velletri
the Allies were within six miles of
the popes rummer home at Castel
Gandoflo.
kyina.
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damaged and set ablaze."
J ater a similar announcement said
it '
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By AUSTIN BEALMEAR
LONDON, May 31.—(AP)
—Up to 3,500 invading Amer-
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nance Corp.
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Aammem
Forrestal said that it seems quite te mporarily blacked out, suggesting
clear that during this war and car- Ttaly-based bombers might be strib-
Gen Joseph Stilwell's troops tainly its immediate phase, T per-iing simultaneously at southeestei
rfavr pierced the defenses of this sonahv would not be in favor of Europe. Z . »
Follow Heav Monday Blast
Dies, who will not run for
election
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WASEINOTON, May 31—--
he Senate passed a bi ratstng Utt
The curresnt year's appropriation i
was $169,500,000.
Berlin radio reported Allled planes
over Western Oermany during the
light, and Balkan stations were
• ck
4
A bill to extend the OPA's life |
for another fiscal year is pending ;
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Pren.surxey
Latest han
sons- MM UM
ing from Bri-
'or* the third
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mM late this afternenn and
<1 Thurday partly clendy
a
Clouds -obecured full result* of this
first attack on Ploesti, IN miles
fan the Russian battle lines, since
spearheaded by tanks and self-pro-
pelted guns
A frontline report by Associated
Press war correspondent Daniel
De Luce snid that Americans. al-
though heavily opposed in the Val-
montone sector by the Goerig Di-
vision. stil were shelling Hignwas
8 by daylight and that only limited
enemy traffic was slipping through
during the night
Clear Around Frosinone
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Britain W l
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Prance, Belgium and Yugosclavi.
A U B. communique aald the ratd-
They worked their way through strong enemy positions
the village of L Americano, on the 1 - • —
RECAPTURED They plan not later tnat Monday 1 - — - ----
DALLAS. Mal 31— -Ernest to nsk chairma i George A Butier i ment of their stubbornly resisting martial trial
Koslowski, 22 German prisoner of of cf the State Democrr.tic Execu- 1 garrison still holding parts of Myit- ।
mg to the circular walk It does
seem too bad that a path has been
made through that section making j 18 miles from the capital
It necessary to put down a concrete
Japanese An objective is selected,
it is pounded from the air for days
and fmally a task force of warships,
aircraft carriers and land-based
airplanes beat down ‘ “
Americaqa fough virjhally gard •
by yard into the ottakrta of villa
,Bmi. 55
ispepig
Lt Ernest McCray, son of Mi
and Mrs W J McCray of Denton,
who has been flight instructor with
the army at Marfa, is at home for
a few days He is being transferred
to a field at Roswell. N M.
UNDERGROUND
ASKED TO AID
IN FIREFIGHTING
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trated into Germany to blast the
chemical center at Leverkusen. BM
a single plane was lost i the op--
A four-day M
j west of New Gumea, had been in- j
vaded by United States forces and
I that "severe fighting is now in i
,519
•art late this aftanaeeei
night; Thuraday partly ok
' thundershewers eztreme
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ESTATE
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! stantly sunk, «ix or seven amphibian
* i i ,c, r,,,, | trucks and ether vessels sunk, three
ALLI E 1) HEADRUAR- warships, includmg ne large ves-
TERS, NAPLES, May 31.—sel. and three amphibian trucks
: - in months, the Japanese
' yet tanks, planes and first-class troops
initiated by the uetice department into the battle for Mokmcr airdrome
r
(' Judge J
interesting since it comes on the
heels of further moves by Hitler to
compel Bulgaria to knuckle under
He is reported to have t lammed his
a ’ Southeastern shield for his fortress
; Europe Time will tell whether it's |
= a big scale asault to forestall the
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Romanian oil refinery at Pio-
esti today, four German rail-
largely by an "if” end that would tx MORE TIRES—
BUT NOT ENOUGH
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10 day* against roads and railways
supplying Hitler’s armles tn north-
western Burope.
Arizona, and
you go and you
identifcation. If
rsigned, Amer 1 an
Amic: ican F i pi ess
520.$50,and$100
ed), 11mmu+oc.
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rations, were smoke visible for many miles.
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XUG STORE
war who escaped from Camp Maxey tutive Committee to pla
and energy ; pro-
of money . gives
yments; makes a
with risky cash
thinks it ts merely to qisr
’ sian troop concentrations
i ell offensive ef-
rhlle troops with
other equipment
channel trenobled-tromthe diazt
' sian troop concentrations | WAAHINGTON,
The Nazi attack is particularly The largest war
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ton Rotary Club reported on
in ue
movement backwards," the i eport
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that will help hold down prices, as
• follows • 1 > Buy only what you
uhe
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the meandering
time to land some migity
sandbass, at <1 Bill Wight even
damage on motor transport, tte
announcement added
the building, making a short cut to I vancea to a point just south an aircraft carrier—instead
theuctrcular wnlk around the Court | of coastal Pescarella Nuova, cruiser had been sunk
H* understood too, that at least ' 14 miles south of Rome, and j --------
, one walk on the east side will di- the German radio said today [
xide .he lawn of the north section, that dramatic street fighting I
starting from the curb-walk and go- ........
. • ---- — • front from Calmonte to the Atina ‘ l
"a mar the appeal rance of that . region north of Cass’no, the Eignth i
! Army advanced swiftly against with ,
drawing German rear guards. tak- '
’■ ’ mg half a dozen or more towns
a ! But in the critical area of the
j exploitation of new bases
! Japan.
. Offering the fiercest resistance
Gen Douglas MacArthur has met
French one it apparently concen-
better luck with porch Pete Tobin
and Bteve Barron took a hunting
expedition Tuesday to help the
fishermen. as they were shoutmig
snakes, turtles and gar
need (2 Pay no more than cell-
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coast,
WEST TEXAS; Party loudy this
afterneen, generally tair‛ tenight
and Thursday: few seattered tb—
dershoiers inranhandle thia at-
ter was a Md Uda i via Ng.
OKLAHOMA: Pary eloudy to-
day. thundershowens west, -purur
out just a
Marshal Gen Albert Kesseirmg ! total of *182 252,000 for the OPA
sought to hold the Fifth Army pres- | for the fiscal year starting in July,
sure German counterattacks were m—------------------
with stamps 13) Support
_______ _______ _______ .nan- Have pierced the defenses or tnis sonany would not be in favor of Europe,
damus suit to compel hi compliane city, a key stop on his way to re- conducting such a trial” "
.with the request opening the Burma-China road i _________________
President Limits
54 Plans to Term
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montone to the sea The Nulls sa‛d
78 of 200 Fifth Anny tanks were ,
ah-our "envttlahtd nPiasnttrorn and ts awaiting federal grand jury ,
ress wall before Romeat least an- i ncuon
Davis reported. the
But be ye doers of the word and
not hearers only, deceiving your
own selves—James 122
The great end cf life is not
knowledge, but action.-Huxley
t. .
The well-established pattern of
American military and naval tac-
tics is by now well known to the
along 25
wall extending j
for the desperately-placed
on that sector of the front
Hold Allied Forces
miles of
told to him by “a traveller southeast of Dortmund; and Boast.
ESCAPED GERMAN PRISONFR
same objective—to prevent Allied
attacked with 30 tanks.
WASHINGTON May 31——-
. President Roosevelt has amended his n.a -A a .2
references to a possible visit with ersnmq posued.,
Prime Minister Churchill to make I Pinderimhtem.bom 01 11 bombers and
I clear that his plans in this connec- AuKnuta. .
tion do not &0 beyond his present planeg°ftomt“Nheaiterraneam"ghses
1 We told his news conference res- ' struck stmultaneously at war planta
iterda,rthatsinswsasrpot‛e i near uiz and wiener-Neustati
tongue last Friday to mention late Austria andak.enemy concentra±
i spring as one of the pnssible sras- ; uons in.xugonlax1a.
ons for a meeting, that he meant to I ^*7^
limit himseP to between now and , ac182riainrbesed .Planes, of
Jan. 00. the end at his present term the Allled tacticai air forces new
3,500 American Planes
isn't yet apparent, it s significrnt 1 - —===--==
I as showing the importance Hitler/v . A,
attaches to the Balkans as the fraud ( harges
n
^ques !
* chance of losing
s and hotels to ill
ney and relax by
Express Truvelcis
A
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2.
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the office of the Dean of Women
phone 587 Buch information wil)
be arpreciated by the college au-
therities
Florida
Mrs Stankowich has waived ex-
heavy Allied forces and "enables us , eo., .. _ ...
<■ German troops are also retreat- today ofred -haired Mrs Arioh
tog at Al’edena in the upper Sangro S tankowtoh, held here on a federar
Valley bi the course of a general,charge. off xdulent ly.recetving -V ” wag secapvucu Jy i rAA czar eievcs .21 me pn ii a » .
benefits under the .servicemens de- highway patrolmen late yesterday and. i’ Butler refitses. to fle a
pents allowance act of 1942 ’
defeated them, the Japanese losing
11 machines Of nine Nipponese
planes sent into the fight, six were
shot down
The Americans evidently were
which has dented the Russian line
north of Iasi. Romania.
While .he full import of this move I
— from the number of defendant',
involve'!- was pnnotmced today oy
Attorney General Francis Hidde
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ML GUKRKANT NAMED AUSTIN
COLLEGE HEAD
SHERMAN, May 31—(-Dr. W
B Querrant, 52, Presbyterian min- , -----a:---- --
later and educator has been ap-ivice. wasdisorganiaed serlously, and
pointed president of Austin College that highways were hit so badly
by the schoors board at tustes. motor.trarfichad to * shirted to
He has been actig president of the aeennd anA elne= mede Som-
, bombers and fighters from bases Bl
1 both Britain and Italy blasted mU-
"Uttie Detroie" represents the efforts of Ute Ordnance Section of a U. 8. Army base somewhere in New
Guinea which has set up a series of motor vehicle productiou lines patterned after thone which Ae fam-
ou* in th* motor city of Detroit. Mich Trucks and jeeps roll off there lines with the precision and dis-
patch that promides th* Arty with important transprtation in forward arm*. In th* photo shown above.,
brake Hhku and carburetor are installed on the motor assembly of a 2%-ton Army truck somewhere
along Uto nssembly, Un* at "Latte Detroit". New Quinea. Working on the machine are, lef to right Pte.
Paui 8chau, MUwaukaa, Wis.: Pfe. Leo McClain. Dalia*. Tex.;- and T/S Elmer Andereon. Boston, Mbm.
(NBA Telephoto . ___u I
hiqhwa leading northward.
Rushing to turn the key on the
backdoor of thts escape route.
Eighth Army troops occupied Pofi
and pushed on northwestward by-
Amara, four miles south-
Frontnone.
arryig th* current Allted often-
sive to it* farthest inland point,
Kjgfath Army troopa captured Atf*d-
(••• OSBMAm. IM* «) T
— i A break between Russia and Bul- or counters end all living
a result of attacks against ' garla might change the complexion Boston
‛ enemy reteens at Truk, of Turkey's position of neurality. -
miles trom the I SappmnseTmanantendanalaurintoh ! would w sovered “ ‘ ’
Araee.Tubandhehadlsmnes Porrestal said, "the enemy has de- wishes in the matter
(4' east and - —----
walk there The path, as will the
the boy: are
Prexy Farmer of the shadyside
club uni’ into action just like a real
president mould O e man started
talking and during his speech, an-
other member started talking, too.
May 31—4P—
New York. Ohio.
that you would like to rent to stu- I "dramatic street fighting" to Vel- 1926 Sav. BRI
dents for the summer, telerhone i letrt, strongpotnt 18 mtles southeast V“.V‛ “!5 r D1
of Ronn and said the stubbor/Of Detroit Woman
fighting there was pinning down 5 woman
, announcements revealed today.
| Th two enemy forces on these i
i fronts 2,500 miles apart had the I
Ware after ____________
, bombers struck agaln and agaln
at th* French mvaaton coast.
Szzsu-ssszaryuzFmab-i
fir exceeds produc- ' * cruiser or aircraft cerrler
tion and emphasized the need for I PorSx of sexenempudian
continued coiserv ation. and damaged three warships..
Fewer heavy duty truck tires will i The Chinese high command said
be avalleble in June than in May. 8 Japanese force breached a de-
OPA said and some idle trucks are Tense line 40 miles from Changsha
Inevitable ‘0,1 the Hankow-Canton railroad.
[ This fourth Chinese defense of the
erations, which also included mine-
laying in enemy waers.
So heavy was th* assault on th*
benefits on only four of the fiteen j
Order ass obtained, allowing the smashed The enemy said Amer-; Relating pthat her nemory was
^ath'S u^N^ I Turi Sa "S
shock troops were blowing up in ' 35. record of marriages in
Velletri "The battle south of Rome Michigan. Indiana Texa5. Colorado ,
Texas sponsor scholarships which
will be open to the graduates of
high schools The Morrison plans
sets up a fund of $5,000 to be used
for ten scholarships of 6500 earn
The scholarships are to be aw aid-
ed to winners of an essay contest,
the subject of which is to be "Our
Constitution Its Value to Me "
TERS
SUPPLIES
UMBING
Advance fees laid by stuxients
who will enter the summer session
of TSCW are up markedly ov',i last
year which cond'tien brings about
a need for more rooms in Denton
homes The rooms art needed to
take car* of the additional stude: ts
Should you have a room or more
the second man. "Hold cn there.
Additional walks are to be placed
on the Court House lawn to shorten
distances between points The
Commissioners for years have at-
tempted to get people to use the
walks that have been there, but the
people liked to walk across the
grass, so consequently paths were
worn in the lawn It had been
suggested some time back that walks
be placed where die paths have been
worn The new walks take off from
the main walks on the four sides of
I Japanese Drive
|; Hard to Seize
Railway in China
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a loss of 48 of ours— with over 50 the summer term of District Court
per cent of the American plane Under a new law the court remains
crews rescued, in action against open throughout the year, but grand
service vessels in those same at- juries are called three times a year
tacks, he said a total of 52 enemy as was done under the former two
1BING CO I
ND REPAIRS |
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E. McKinney St. I
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ts. Machine Rut- /I
vacuum cleaner I
HOP /I
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Phone 363 j
Filed Against 55
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•The German radio reported
Weatiher
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new ones 15) Don't ask more money
for goods vou sell or work you do
<6 > Provide for the future with
adequate M’e Insurance and savings
(7 Bay al) the War Bonds you can
afford * -----
George Horace Lorimer, for many
years editor of the Saturday Even
ing Post, once wrote "It is a good
thing to have money, and the thirgs
that money can buy. but it is good
too, to check up once in a while
and make sure you haven’t lost the
things that money cant buy “
Blast at German Targets
Crocetta. Just southeast of the
May 31 (
frauds case
JAPS ADMIT
BIAK INVADED
। Dwight D. Eisenhower s in / Mion
armies coincided last night with an !
.... - .. .. . ... . .. to the I
1sighuy south of Campo hathaspaessenbases jr . .
coastal terminus of tne ; cuates his Heet units and as much ( rand urv tO
of his shipping as possible when ” .
and M) oneofourlong range reconnatsane/Mept Here ,ngK
PITS- S"tgnungsehsteEel -Iere J—He • +4
I AMhtafMofces"de-b Grand Jurors have b*an summon - ,
stroyed 580 Japanese planes against e1 to report Monday, June 5, for
$
a.
AI OPIal NEW YORK, May 31—(P—The
Afuaneo "l ifl h ■ !V Japanese acknowledged officially to-
WUVONU• •IIMIILI J day for the first time that Biak is
• * ’ land, in the Schoutens group north-
Fy DEWIrT MACKENZIE
Associated Press War Analyst
Tire Gentians themselves have
taken the initiative on the Eastern
front by inaking a heavy nttaok
EAST TEXAS: Parly eloudy this
afterneen, tonight ana Thursday:
widely seattered thundershowers to
extreme east portion this afltw
Winds resateawsNy freak on the
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Biak Island, only 880 miles from
the Philippines followed this well-
known pattern All the Japs didn’t
know was just exactly which of their
outposts would be selected, and
when
mailed fist down n the Sofia gov- with the filing of comrlatits aga’nst
ernment s counicil table and de " 55 employes of the Bethlehem-
wASWINMTON Ma. n inanded not only full war aid but Hingham Shipyards in Boston
rs. ri A:. M severance of diplomatic relations , Biddle said all defendants ate . _ mice room th. ruid
Tne United States fleet in the . . 2 . n ___ troops two miles from the field.
rqctrictgs cartying on a permanent "hAt pt Bulgaria on a tough ehanent "1 obtaining 0s., payment _ Amertrana ‘reamtered with ______. ---___-- -_____.___—_____
i Tf^^Aa^ • storm or rase” broke trom nwmnbered
I stretching from Valmontone - ’ tsa “ the -tremendous mobtty" Shit."qoe ^rt^to"^^ " moeenest the, bureau have war corfespondent Spencer ‘
the southern slopes of the Alban land air air forces anarewe Save,br"n, eannot continue long nusibabfsdrrinaretartayenemnrarnam: " Hiak. Monday, tola how
. . - .. . - that without a further upHeava’ Tu ’ complaints naming additional de- enemy vtrtuially ambushed two were unable to save them.”
to establish air fields in all the j this cockpit of Southeastern Europe fends nb would be tssued today American battalions which suffered I
forward areas. This could be the emergency which More than 100 defendants finally severe casualties in the generalion flights over Britain to have a
The carrier task force, he told a would force a reluctant Turkey to । will he charged, he said fighting the Japanese suffered at invasion preparetine —ere
_ . _ .. . .. ... ! news conference dominates Pacific reconsider whether it rhould join Biddle did not list the names of heavily, too 1 - - ‛
, Boring away on.the lertflank.1he 1 action "and will probably continue the Allies in the war i the 55 defendants all either welders in the Southwest Pacific’s flrat
British nave crossed the MOletta to do so " I A brenk betweg
Querin. tn charge of the Detroit
FBI office, said the government
charges she received allowa ice
' ■ Aamammsiur TT ■ ■ ee
-
May 18 A number at O—gn
interceptors and intense flak ware
encountered.
ship of all type was sunk and 32 eight-week and one six-week court nr N A NN N A MEG ■ key rail city was producing heavy
damaged while no American ships terms. VrIAI • I‛AIIr3 casualties. Chungking said
were lost 1 Jurors summoned are Whayne BE ON BALLOT , Would Split China.
We are now in posltion," For- Sitz. F W Hayden, Pilot Point —m— f The Japanese purpose in its
restal declared "to speak of our Walter Goldsmith. Lewisville, Chas Arsii M‛. , ,, A cg1 many -sided offensives in Honan and ; WASHINGTON, May .—(AP)—
Navy as a world fleet, with the McCamy, Carrollton; H W Jen- , An,. 4 s3 ‘0 '* Hunan provinces is to split China Secretary of the Navy Forrestal to-
might of our ships carrying the kins Roanoke; Walter Hodges, Au Hlei ner-/ state OnVI. and seal off the eastern part against day expressed personal opposition to
brey Miller Faught. Justin. Elzie ilon todAv planned to go to court. Allied bomber use, a Chungking of- 1 court martial at this time of Admiral
Hart Little Elm. Mood Gann. Pon- 1 necessalv' to NAV, names of ’heir ficial sald. Husband E. Kimmel on charges of
der: M A Buttrul. Slidell. Lee presidential ejectors miapeq 01 the In the Central Pacific U 8- air- negligence in connection with the
Poole. T C Sample Denton. Walter Julv 22 eallot ' men struck Saipan in the Marina 1 Japanese attack on Pearl Har-
Wilson. W B Chambers. Sanger Pormher Gov Jaines V Allred islands in the second land-based bor.
Clyde Simmons, Grapevine, B W and Alvin J Wirtz, former under- 1 raid of the war against this out- : His statement at a news confer- ___
Meadows Argyle secretary of the Inte lei. announcet • post. .. ...___ luce came while congressional com- ings on th*
following a 1,1 North Burma Aided Chindit mittees were considering a resolu-
forces again struck at communica- tion which would fix September 8
tions to prevent Japanese reinforce- l as the deadline for starting a court
limit frem 2219/000,-
All restrictions on farm slaughter-
ers of livestock and delivery to per-
arauadsroomsowgrprsdosths."crtpe romoa
4. aatrune mihu from RnM, 1 istration, according to word veeelv-
at the junction of Highway 8 and a eabyteya csulltvan.counine-
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Th* overnight activity followed
a great demonstration of kmartaan
LONDON, May 31.—(AP>—Ger-
man propaganda pronouncements
1 that the Nazis will apply the
By J. B. KRUEGER
Associated Press War Editor
In new bursts of power the Jap- | Allled fire-fighting talk
anese are strongly resisting Ameri- 1 European underground.
। cans invading Biak Island off New Inithe fifth of a series of broad- j
! Guinea and are developing swiftly i casts by supreme headquarters of '
their offensive to seize Chinas the Allled Expeditionary Force, a I
i Hankow-Canton railway. Allied spokesman for Gen Elsenhower told I
announcements revealed today. 1 patriots across the channel to keep ;-,in eta;;
their fire control units ready be- l ican planes strikir
cause the fire danger in the bat- tain and Italy 101
. tie zones would be great trom bombs, consecutive day,
nearer artillery and “German incendi- ~ “
I arism ”
I As the German propaganda mill 1 , 21
churned out its assortments of fact yards tunnelling traffic to the
threw and fancy, much of it obviously de- • incessantly attacked French
' signed to bring fear to the waiting j invasion coast and an enemy
. . , . .0. 0 invarion forces, a roundabout and „• hec. in +h. .1. Feneh
• on Biak which only miles suspect report toid of the kilim? cf air base,in the old French
from the Philippines They crouched nve American airmen in Germany i Maginot Line.
in raves and behind treerprotected "by agilited people" The air base was near Mulhouse,
ridges. Heavy rifle. Machine .Kun This story came from the Berlin just north of Switzerland.
। mortar and artillery fire pinned correspondent of the Stockholm" The rail yards were at Hamm;
down MacArthurs Sixth Army newspaper Aftonbladet, who aald it Osnabrock; Schwerte, 10 miles
(AP)—British troops ad-
Rone line generally 16 to 20 miles
j south of the Eternal City. enen v d--
mann Goering motorized division 1 *12.000.000 in the next fiscal year,
had been built up to full strength I chiefly for additional enforcement
and that artillerymen and service ’ staffs in district and regional of-
troops had been thrust into the line ' flee.
a* infantry, while German field | The president recommended a
j" out among German civilians Sun- tween 250 and 500 Fortresses and
_ day, when American fighters alleg- 1 Liberators and 1 JOO fighters.
, . , , - . .__ _______ strafed women and children. From 500 to 750 U. S. heavy
Davis in an exclusive story from and that when five fliers para- bombers acortad by swarma of
chuted to earth "German police; Mustangs and Lightnings struck
J. ___Li________ from Italy at Ploesti 35 miles north
Two German planes, apparently of Bucharest, and enveloped at least
Frank Smith commonly known
f among his friends as Windy/ regu-
■l , lar chaperone for the GSO girls
r i who attend dances at Camp Howze.
19 hat take on two other nicknames,
if* • At one of the dances recently, one
d5 of the selders asked, "Are you a
- 2 ' s — -peehe sald A big tank battle war. re-
confusing Up .spoke Prexy Farmer, ported around Lanuvio. midway
* polnt of the German line from Val-
bulwarked town of Lanuvio, in the
Albtan Hills 16 miles southeast of
Rane
The Elghth Army wheeled
steadily 'onward against enemy
rearguards thpough the mountains
of Central Ialv. occupying such
towns as Alfedena. Fontana,
Strangolagalll. Poti Ceccano and
Arpino and closing to within four
miles of Frosinone a major exit
. late *N—!■; coniinued war and
—— — --i
professor?" So some of the dancers , , ___________
call him ' rrofessor," while others I UI the troops withdrawing in the ia . r m j
call him pop face of the Eighth Army ran make I ASKs / Or F 110(1 S
] good ’heir escape .
Despite the mudds condition of j it is now apparent 'hat months 1 7 o OP l
the streams of the county, some of i were taken in preparation of this t
steel and stone shield barring the I --
way to the Eternal Citv Unofficial ' WASHINGTON, May 31—(—
opinion was expressed that only a President Roosevelt asked Congress
mighty drive would split it open I today to increase the Office of
Battlefront advices sald the Her- I Price Administration’s funds by
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Germans Fight Stubbornly
In Defending Rome' Front
ucks 2ehdpobastn‛krom50. _ wav an, „ w. -.......
perscentand exempting untformed [200 nhteajEom artain ted
service people Trom payment of ine sought Toutthe Latwatte for sky
teMte o Attritiom, I* was ate Ite a I
fifth zuccessive day at heavy bote- ' • 1
er action from'Britain. .
The RAPs overnisht attacks were —-1
concentrated on military Instate- '
tions along the French invasion
coast, but Mosquito bomber* pee-
f, Denton’s banka were busy places
• Wednesday morning, following the
holday of Tuesday. And remember
| that again Saturday the bank* wil
I be closed, observing Jeferson Davis’
birthday Attend to your banking
A busfness Friday.
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I Judge: "Why do you want a dl-
| vorcef"
Mia Doe: Blame it on gas
Brntloning"
Judge: "Plense explain."
MH Doe: "When the gas ration-
I Inc made my husband stay hone
l ntht4, I realized hew happy I uned
• gobe when I wes nlone." . __
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Farman may slaughter and deliv-
er meat to any person without a
permit. This release does not affect
OFA restrietions, however, it was
Announced, which regulate price and
point control om certain meata. Por
information on price and point con-
trol, people were advised to eon-
tact the War Prioe and Rationing
Board in the county court house:
second and third class roads Some
aehhaad"er-cnmuemmdornqsau
strafing planes to infiies heavy
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Edwards, Robert J. Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 249, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 31, 1944, newspaper, May 31, 1944; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1427072/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.