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Street Hospital and Clinic
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RANDOLPH scott
for help it was no use. There was i nurses at the Denton Hospital and
RI TH WARRICK
of superintendent since she came to
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from the St. Luke School of Nurs-
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heading for
cooling blue depths.
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V-J Day.
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Minimum Charge 60c Hour
Dixie Motor
Coach Bus
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is not enough today! See
us for Complete Protec-
tion against ALL haz-
ards of loss or damage.
Until Sept. 10th!
Due to Sugar
Shortage
Duncan's Mary-
land Club Coffee
bizarre attack fell flatter than
pancake as a military weapon
stopped. Radiomen tried in frantic
desperation to click out their appeal
ning of a living nightmare. It end-
ed. for some, more than 115 hours
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Lake Dallas Over 15 friends attend-
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tion of censorship.
At the end of July nearly 230 ot
no power.
Another officer tried vainly three
atfernoon at the Elm Street Hos-
pital and Clinic.
Mrs Chester Thomas of Aubrey,
route 3. underwent minor surgery
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painted two large "X‘s" over maps
| of the Pacific war area and the
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Jap Planes
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mumique declaring offensive action
in all sectors has been halted," stun-
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Superintendent Of
Denton Hospital
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LION MAN
Miss Lillian Estes has announced
her resignation as superintendent of
Now’s the Time to Buy
Non-Rationed Food
White Swan
Pork & Beans, 3 for 25c
Brooks
Pork & Beans, 2 for 25c
Delicious Preserves
Peaches, Plums, Pineap-
ple, Raspberries and
Blackberries
Balthrop Gro. & Mkt.
Phone 442
A $23,50 00,000-a-year cut in pro-
curement of munitions and supplies
was announced today by the War
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productions of the aircraft which Slant outdoor maps stuck on the job
achieved some of St. Louis' "firsts" j to fl1® end. At the height of last
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STORE
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MOTOR CO.
...the next move is friendly refreshment
America's outdoor living rooms are devoted to friendly living. There
the warm invitation Have a Co^c offers you ice-cold refreshment straight
from the family icebox. There's no finer nor simpler recipe for home
hospitality than the friendly phrase Have a Colp. Always have a supply
of col’Coca-Cola ready"n hand.
J. H. NEBLETT
Insurance, Real Estate
& Loans
308 Jackson Bldg.
Phon 365
A blend of extra fancy
coffee of a rich, winey
flavor, heavy in body. It
is prepared for the true
coffee connoisseur.
Lb. Glass Jar ....._39e
Japan
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ponese ships and 17 plares knock-
ed out in the last day of the war.
said some air patrolmng over enemy
islands would be necessary.
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HOSPITAL NOTES
Allie Clayton, daughter of Mr and
Mrs. W. O Clayton. route 2. under-
went a tonsillectomy Wednesday at
ooyneo UN0U AuTWOGITY Qt THE cQA:914 COMPANY BY
TO DALLAS
A. M.: 2:45, 4:50, 8:18. 7:00.
11:00.
P. M.: 2:0, 4:00, 5:30, 7:10.
10:00, 11:58.
One or more of the wind-carried
bags came down in Texas, Washing- i
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Miss Estes has held the position
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DNTON RECORD-CHRONICE Japanese Bomb
Balloons Failed
were disclosed today with relaxa- | nounced
Nurses Resigns
all engines '
; later—after some of the crazed sea-
men had killed each other, and
others had dived suicidally into the
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in aviation history would be display- night’s celebration, they arrived
ed in a museum proposed by Milton with scaffolding and brushes and
M Kinsey, chairman of the Mu- I
nicipal Airport Commission.
St Louis aviation pioneers claim j Japanese home islands
NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE—
^Jocun topics
Young America's classic
“Shoes to Grow Up In"
times to instruct the engine room or superint
to reverse the ,ship—she was going ' Denton in
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drinking (water!) fountain, install-I
ed yesterday on the sidewalk directly
in front at the liquor shop.
Wedhf
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Mrs LoU Young. 1012 Austin,
underwent major surgery Tuesday
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provinces of British Columbia, Al- I
berta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Hole in One Odds
Northwest Territory Several were > 1105 • - -
found in Alaska, one or two in Mex-
san.
i tered as manager of the housing
। department with a government
| agency.
Mrs. G. C. Acord of Dallas is vis-
I iting her parents, Mr and Mrs. Karl
Michigan.
Balloons were found in Canadian
fat caives 1200-131
| cifle naval forces carefully avoided
the use of the word "attack." He
reported merely that units ot the
Third Fleet in the vicinity of Hon- ।
shu, main island of Japan, was be- ,
ing "approached” by Nipponese
parentiy fell prey to a
i ubmarine.
For the 500 crewmen
to medium caives 8 50-1176;
ter Ryan surrendered to Deputy scale raids during the campaign for
V-J Day Not Yet Set
WASHINGTON, Aug 15— (AP)
—Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
raid today President Truman has
not yet decided when to proclaim
morning at the Elm
—officially announceu - the
boundaries of thelr respective oc-
cupation zones in the Reich.
In general they followed the an-
ticipated lines, although the zone
I allotted to France—an area shap-
i ed roughly like a figure-of-eight in
the southwest corner of Germany
—fell far short of fulfilling official
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Wyoming, Idaho, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Colo- .
rado, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and
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r Butts of Gainesville
minor surgery Wednes-
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planes.
Al Dopking. Associated Press war
correspondent, reported from the
fleet today that Admiral Halsey's
warships were 120 miles off Japan "
Fleet commanders have been
warned to maintain strict vigilance
for Japanese treachery. The fact
that five planes were shot down is
Indicative that the precautionary
warning is being followed.
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After Delivering
Free Competition
RICHFIELD, Utah, Aug 14(P)
—Richfield’s state liquor store now
has a "competitor" that knows no
closing hours. It's the city's new I
municipally-owned and operated
Sheriff Ray Brooks. He was held in the island, flew in under a bright
:em -heut tod. moonlight about 8 p. m. to strike
Slash Ordered
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Of War Weapons
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15—(—
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story of the tragedy, in a calm, un-
dramatic voice A raft saved him
And Lt. Cmdr Lewis L. Haynes,
senior doctor (wife, three sons,
Fair Held. Conn.) described the
plight of the swimmers
Sinking Rapidly
Clad in his pajama top, McVay
ran to the chart house and told the
navigator, Cmdr. John Hopkins
Janney, Baltimore, Md.—now listed
as missing: "For God's sake make
certain contact reports get out. Say
we have been torpedoed. Our posi-
l tion such and such. We are sinking
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In St. Louis Museum
ST. LoUIS—(P)— Full-scale re-
at the Kim tation-type antipersonnel bomb
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the astounding blow
In commenting on the Japanese
planes hovering around the Third
Fleet, Admiral Nimitz said Gen.
MacArthur, supreme commander of
Allied forces in Japan, has been
asked to inform Japanese author-
ities that Third Fleet defense mea-
sures require naval forces to de-
stroy any aircraft approaching
them.
The commander-in-chief of Pa-
By MORRIE LANDSBERG
GUAM, Aug. 15—Two great
explosions flashed out of her slim
bow at 13 minutes past midnight.
Flames streaked through her shock-
darkened passageways, searing the
piled bodies of her crew ino shape-
less masses. Within 15 minutes she
plunged headfirst into the sea
That was the end of" the proud
1 cruiser Indianapolis—torpedoed 450
miles off Leyte July 30 with 833 dead
and missing. alter she had finished
a record speed run from San Fran-
cisco to Guam to deliver the first I rapidly and need immediate assist-
atom bomb to the B-29s. She ap-
TO FT. WORTH
A. M : 5:30. 8 :00.
P M : 12 45, 2:00, 4:00. tM,
10 00
TO ARDMORE a
OKLAHOMA CITY
A. M : 2 10. 8:18. 11:00.
P. M.: 1:24. 1:58 . 8:16. (735
Ardmore only) 9:4.
TO GAINESVLLLE
A M : 2 10. 0:18. 11:00
P M : 13:46. 1:24, 8:M. 6:16.
7:35, 0:20.
TO WICHITA FaLLS
A. M : 3:10. 8:16. 11:28.
P. M.: 3:55, 7:86.
TO SHERMAN
A. M.: 2:10, 8:16. 11:10.
P. M.: 13:45. 1:24, 1M.
TO WHITESBORO VIA
PILOT POINT
A. M : 11:10.
yearlings 11.50-14.00: medium
WHERE JAP SURRENDER MAY BE SGNED—Japan's surrender may be signed
aboard the American battleship Missouri, above, named for President Truman’s home
state, according to reports current in Washington. Chairman Carl Vinson, of the
z. House Naval Committee, approves the suggestion. He said the Misouri could move into
Tokyo Bay for the ceremony. (NEA Telephoto).
down by the head.
“I would set an outside limit of 1 ing in St Louis.
' 16 minutes," McVay related "That j Saturday night she was honored
is a quite liberal figure for the time j with a dinner and lawn party at the
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Stockers and feeders,6.50-8.00.
Hogs 100; steady; good and choice
hogs 150 Iba. and up 14.55; sows
mostly 13 80; few stocker pigs 15 00
down
Sheep 400; steady; medium and
good Spring lambs 11 00-55; good
shorn ewes 6.00-25.
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sgrdacte
the first successful controlled flight,
the first parachute jump and the |
first air mall trip in the United
States The city launched a then ob-
scure air mall pilot, Charles Lind-
bergh, on his historic trans-Atlantic
flight and staged the first interna-
ttgnal balloon race in 1907
in 1909 Glenn Curtiss, St Louis
plane manufacturer and pilot, made
xthe first airplane flight of more
khan a mile to claim a $5,000 prize,
kigsey recalls.
he first air mail flight was made
from here in 1911 and a year later
the first test parachute jump was (
made at Jefferson Barracks army
post.
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lim"ctrnublwath vcomemunsturr- ! the mianightsea .was the began-
ported on the march in an attempt
ta seize control of key cities north
of the Yellow River.
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French aspirations.
I Britain and the United States,
however have agreed to review the
assignment of zones among them-
I selves and France "at a later stage
1 ‘ the Allied occupation of Ger
many, it was announced
The department said that as soon
as President Truman announced
the Japanese surrender last night,
telegrams went out to prime con-
tractors notifying them of cut-
backs reducing army prourement
from $2,400,000,000 a month to $435,-
000,000 a month.
Of the procurement which is con-
tinuing, the department annOUneCd.
$268/000,000 monthly represents
food purchases.
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Turkey Will Take
'Quake Precautions
ANKARA— (R— Since earthshock''
are not adjustable to architecture.
। some ' magic island’’ they saw in
“N ngrblyonaeame ou-streaked berore she disappeared beneath the home of Mrs’ Morris Bradley in
circle ot men and debris in the sea 55“ -
knew what had happened to the
J unescorted cruiser—until a Pelellu Teven CkeTe in
search plane led the way to the res- ean -narges in
a01 the 115 survivors we days Fatal Shootins Of
survivors said nearly 700 men ae E.„,
had gone down wit the shaip. Hun- Japanese Farmer
dreds more plunged into the sea
without life preservers or rafts, so EDINBURG, Tex., Aug 15 .—(P— I ned Okinawa troops They thought
that death auicklv began to nick H L Ryan, farmer, is under a that at last they would be able to
' them " charge of murder in the fatal shoot- | see a movie or play cards uninter-
Ten officers and 305 enlisted men ing of Isaac Date, farmer of Jap- j rupted by enemy air action.
uved through the torture. anese ancestry, who was found three GIs muttered vivid imprecations
Capt. Charles Butler McVay. III, miles west of Mission yesterday I about Japan's integrity.
Washigton, D. C., told much of the * District .Attorney Tom Harley said 1 The Kamikaze planes, something
,. , ---------------—---the charge was filed yesterday af- I rare at Okinawa since the large-
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small tires, and diverting manpow- I
er for their investigation and con- |
trol, the balloons flopped badly as |
a war weapon. Not one ever drop-
ped in a city or war plant.
Investigation showed the balloons
were 33-foot, hydrogen-filled bags ,
made of five layers of paraffined
rice paper; that they traveled
around 30,000 feet with prevailing
Pacific winds, coming from Japan
in three and a half to four and a
half days, at 80 to 120 miles an hour i
Each carried five bombs, four in- '
cendaries and a 33-pound fragmen-
Prior to 1822 no play in English
had ever attained a run of 100
nights
KEEP HEAT WHERE IT BELONGS
Inside in winter, outside ipisummer. : r
Johns-Manville Rock Wool Insulation.
M A GAY ROOFING & SHEET METAL CO.
DENTON PLUMBING CO.. BA?T MeINNE
R Metal Jacket Water Heaters, Sinks, Lavatories, Closets,
(,4,’ Septic Tanks, Plumbing Supplies, Repairs.
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vertised description was wrong.
I NEW YORK. Aug. 16.—(A-The Thecountytthen sent him “ tax
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isolated’ areas, where - unexploded hit 36,960 balls, a lawyer,
bombs remain a menace.
Except for killing six persons who I
tampered with a bomb near Lake- I
view, Ore., perhaps causing two I
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Hi-uos
The monthly meeting of the
Denton fire department originally
scheduled for tonight has been in-
definitely postponed, Fire Chief
Eugene Cook said today.
The Knights of Pythias will do
work in the rank of esquire at
their regular ‘ business meeting
Thursday at 8 m. *
PERSONALS
Mrs. J W Carlton, 2635 Bolivar,
accompanied her daughter, Mrs.
Grace M Collins, to onzales to
bring her granddaughter. Betty, to
their home in Fort Worth from the
Hot Springs hospital where she was
recovering from burn* received
eighteen month* ago. Wednesday
Mrs Collins nd her two daughter*,
Betty and Beverly, will leave for
I El Paso where she has been trans-
day morning at the Denton Hos-
pital and Clinic
Kenneth Daniel Booker, son of
Mrs. Bea Booker of Lake Dal-
las. was admitted as a medical pa-
tient Wednesday at the Denton
Hospital and Clinic
The baby son of Mr and Mrs. E.
W Wallace. 3432 Prairie. was dis-
missed from the Denton Hospital
and Clinic Tuesday
Mrs. Ruby Lee Arnold of Krum
was dismissed Wednesday afternoon
from the Denton Hospital and
Clinic.
Mrs Tip Hall, route 1. was dis-
missed Wednesday afternoon from
the Denton Hospital and Clinic
Joe Donald Frasier, son of Mr
and Mrs A F Frasier. 409 South
Elm, underwent major surgery Tues-
day night at the Elm Street Hos-
pital and Clinic.
Mrs Lee Madewell of Denton un-
derwent major surgery Wednesday
morning at the Elm Street Hospital
and Clinic.
Mrs Charles Burks, Pilot Point,
route 2, underwent minor surgery
Fort Worth Livestock
FORT WORTH Aug 16—(AP) —
Cattle 3,000; calves 1,600; steady;
medium to good slaughter steers and
architecture is going to be adjust- !
| ed to earthshock* by the Turkish |
Government by building house
SEATrLE, Aug. 16.—4- Japan earthshocked regions whieh would
’ sway with shocks, thus preventing
ing unmanned paper balloons in j costly destruction and less o t
western North America, out of per- j tcArdrrglonginudtutesyand geology
haps thousands launched, but the , professors of Turkey, a map has |
a been prepared showing the exact
earthshgck areas in Turkey A Tur-
vetnn J ue ouuuge v.----- kishscferist has unveiled a m.-
tacks, hitherto secret to keep the chine with which he claims to lore
enemy from learning the results, stall earthshocks, it also was art-
First Atomic Bomb
etteville. Ark , where they will visit
friends The Rev Goodykoontz was
pastor there for six years before
he came to the First Presbyterian
Church'here. They will return the
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CHICAGO, Aug. 16 —IP— Two , 11
robbers bound and gagged Max
ton; Oregon, California, Montana. | gN^on ^n^s stok
while he watched After selecting
the patterns they liked best in their IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Aug 15
sizes, they departed with five $50 | _A)L Fred Keefer bought an acre
I suits and $40 In cash. I of land from Bonneville county for
--- | one dollar, but later was informed
the sale was illegal because the ad-
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I CHICAGO, Aug 15. —(P— Sign,
painters who have charted the day-
by-day course of the war on two
Four Major Allies
Announce Boundary
Zones in Germany
WASHINGTON, Aug 15.— (AP)
—The four major allies in the war
against Germany — the United
States, Russia, Britain and France
the Denton Hospital and Clinic
Miss Nin* Francis Foreman, 2234
Alamo Place, underwent an appen-
dictomy Wednesday morning at the
Denton Hospital and Clinic.
Mrs. E D. Massey, 618 Schmidt,
who ha* been a medical patient at
the Denton Hpspital and Cliic,
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