Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 251, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 9, 1945 Page: 1 of 4
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HAt. Pleasant daily Uimes
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Volume XXVI
Number 251
Stockholders First President Kiwanis
CREW NIPS CARRIER FIRE STARTED BY NIPS
Allied Pincers Is
Japs Coniradict ' :
T
0
National Bank Hold Club is Speaker at
Closing On German
Own Reports About
Election Officers
Meeting Rotarians
Philippine Action
Forces in Belgium
P7
close on the Ger-
with stow but steady progress be- pines
im-
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tation
trying to regain pos-
stimstrying to
n
11. A Spruill Dies Paris Presbytery
* Superfortresses
made for the officer, as follows
Make Two Attacks Tuesday Morning
Has Meeting Here
on Japs in Pacific After Short Illness Monday, Tuesday
vice
the Pres-
ed
wet
daylight
alt anewsly
bomb
The big planes based on Sai
Moscow Savs Nazi
made
• Drive on Budapest J
Woodrow Dorsey
intro-
Texas Legislature
tive
Fort M
Hefeate
Maxw
Pittst
Me
County and
noom that the German dri
BIG TEMPERATURE DROP
Fewer
visited this or
ment of Agricult
NAZI PRISONERS TAKEN BY YANK AIRBORNE TROOPS
of Chas
observed
RATION CALENDAR
vm
T uesday
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niece, Deanna
BABY DIES AT HOUSTON
The Weather
80,000
EDWIN WHITE IN HOSPITAI
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Phone us yout news Ttems
Fhone us your news Item
bookkeepers
Changes in
SPECTACULAR fre fghting scene is recorded by Um camera aboard i Ol aircrart carrier to the Bouth
Poetic as crewmen ght a Maas caused by Jap air raidera Navy photo. (Imtermational Soundphoto)
Native of County
Succumbs to Heart I
Ailment at Home
meeting Tuesday, and stated that
he was representing his organiza-
tion in asking the cooperation of
becomes
executive
Ministers, Elders
Several Cities Are
Present at Session
Urges Cooperation
Two Organizations
For Civic Moves
transpe
Nazis ।
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NW
Clear
continued
men bulge
GUARDSMRN BEAT TEAM
FROM PITTSBURG MONDAV
parents, Mr and Mrs W M
flair
Tokyo, Formosa
Are Both Raided
By Day on Tuesday
Maximum
Minimum
Temp 6:30
Wind from
Shy
and many fne
passing
Funeral servi
following on January 1
survived by her parents,
ther and sister and her
west
lov.
Stewart and Orene Iousew
i Re”
I ton
Eddie Spruill of Norp
besides numerous ethe
Bonham,
Glade-
nd Mar
and Lorene Womack are promot-
ed to assistant cashiers
The First National Hank has
Titles Are Changed
For Personnel of
Officials Tuesday
m
Minist
n fron
Mount Pleasant, Texas,Tuesday Evening, January 9, 1945
Working for the Interests of Mt. Pleasant, the Center of the Milk Indust^ of Northeas* Texas, with its Progressive Soil Conservation and Diversified Farming Program
idependent team
rg at the gymnasium
of electing directors and choos-
ing officers for the year 1945
Ry
itely.
Gasoline
let. Ark .
relatives
nourn his
morning
ses made
vsuallv c
the 1
Invasion of Luzon
Thought Certainty |
But Not Confirmed
L "4
In the
to i with A
the Germat
Strasbourg
is holding the rema ind- I
big city
peg
im for Monday
t the tempera-
23 degrees by
This drop of
the weather
of the Hron River in Czeche
akia.
Fierce fighting as still in
gress inside Budapest, but r
Fighting Continues
as Blizzard Rages ।
on Western Front
A1 to 23
arrange
towns f
er sid
this e
lory and has recptured
lost ground south of Bitche
siderabie improvement ha
unusual military situation
veloped in this campaign.
K -
I has
intrntiona
ned from
I Mediter
top turret gunner
omber group in Italy
Spruill and Mra Chriet
of Mt Pleasant and St
nt Mitom Spruill, stain
i training at
Laredo He
I M College
compleled at press time. awaiting i Commerce,
word from Sgt Spruill at Fort j water Tyk
Myers shall for th
attacked Japanese positions sim-
S Arlene Cabir
ned Monday f
e thev attenqe
s on the Japanese
6,
forced to
three-mile
Allied pincer movement
dalid everywhere for 4 gal
"ons each through March 21
B-5. C-5, B « and C I coupons
good everywhere for five gal-
lons each
M McL
eom
server, are as follows
died at
in that
14-A coupons
A dry nort
tion Monday
temperature
president instead of
th a big
rmometer
T Coker
ices had not
American command
Although there have bee
ion on
also been made on
Okinawa i preset
nr plane i to Lazon
i ii hi ilka aul part of France, but the
tinmans were making desperate
efforts to advance in the Col-
mar area, where they have heid
a salient tor the post two months
Rig Allied bombers were out in
In addition, large numbers of three brothers, Bennie and Clar- | sionary
carrier hosed bombers struck at
DESPIRITED and WEARY, German pt Ironers captured by American soldiers of the 505th Parachute Regiment
of the 82nd Airborne Division march hack over a snowy road in Belgium to an internment prison They
were made captive during a U. S counterattack. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (f*Ni national)
(Fl. GEORGE C CRAWFORD
WITH ITAI V AIR FORCE
titles have been
He said he is particularly inter-
rated in what can he done for
Stockholders of the First Na- .
tional Bank held their annual
der of AwM. i.
siderable more
Okinawa and other islands in
Rukyu group between Formosa
and Japan to complete the most
I wide spread operations of rerent
the |
terri- I
some I
Can I
reports from our side about th
the enemy salient
Army made sim
from the south m
area. although our
about ten mi
only highway
western part
be directed along the right lines
A permanent peace rar he ac-
complished only through the H-
forte of all organizatione, especi-
ally the churches and irhsub.
•nd their support in every way
is necesaary
Mr Jones complimented the
Rotary Club on right new mem-
beta tor Ute laat half of the year
I and expressed the hope that this
club and the Kiwanis Club will
j continue to grow in 1943, as there
isa great opportunity tor service
neetea wth the execu !
ittee of foreign mu I
ashville, Tenn Rev 1
vent ten years Ml a mis !
Brazi and is now I
f Bible in Austin Col1
merly of Mt Pleasant
Berlin Insistent
Germans Continue
to Make Advances
it west of that
center which the
Definitely Stopped
and Rev Glenn Maxweil - rr
Linton spent thirty mo | ,i .I.
Fie He
president - Ruby Harvey aotter. “hnavttahiaafhen thenar
•k The Reds 1
a third of the
ing made lo ahul ie nap by the
joining of forces from the north
and south
The First Army gained nearly
a mile on the northern flank of
ember and Rev
4 the Kilgore
the two elubs for the
sius-map Is Opened Tuesday
tions to Belgium ere bombed by a n . g. ,
ptrmmhgunutencnd In Kegular Session
pianes to aperate Headquarters •
Theron M Jones, president of
the Kiwanis Club, was guest
IN wilams, pisident imathetprror"readyuatmentotwtvman
year, becomes chairman of the Im. -n.. •
;__ . A " n" . . . 11 after having town in military
board. A G. Daniel becomes I --ic. . _ ,
—-ice for so long A social rev-
at the home
showed a mas
as 65 degrees
lure dropped
the situaliom
Deanna Date, aged two years,
daughter of Mr and Mrs Hoyt
Dean Sinclair, of Houston, for-
The directors are
provement of Mt Pleasant and
Titus County.
Mr Jones said no club has a
right to exist unless it is per-
forming a service to the com-
munity, and that the members
should have that idea in mind
in their program* Love of com-
munity must be in the minds of
service club members, and that
new ones sometimes make sug-
Eestions on thing, the older ones
cannot see
The speaker pointed out that
both Rotary and Kiwanis ran
work together in these matters,
that often the project will be too
just closed Ite most successful
yser. aa was reflected by the
I statement of conditian (ssued at
•rut the Third
liter progress
the Bastogne
r troops were
a mile on a
| leaves tour grandchildren
MMum The gap
two American arm
Ambrose Spruill
!. N Wil-
of rhe Eighth Air Force has been
moved from Britain to France
so e« to he cioser to the fighting
front and to give closet coordin-
ation with the ground forces
General Bradley sported Tues-
day that German losses have been
so serums in the current cam-
paign as to affect the course of
the war Our casuaities have also
been heavy
in Belgium Tuesday, I concerning action in the hilip- i
ence Spruill of Titi
liams, L H Wilson, W M Drig-
gers. R M Kasling and A. G.
Daniel, and after the meeting
ot the shareholders they met
and chose the following officers I
and «mployees
I, N Williams, chairman of the
board
A G Daniel, president
R M Kasling and C E Ur.
vice presidents
Mrs Estelle lm. cashier
Char Im A Tucker. Ruby Har-
Ivey and Lorene Womack, assist-
i ant cashiers
i Other employees are Virginia
I Tidwell, transit clerk. Jean Sum-
! merlin. Nell Huffman, Lillian
Mr and Mrs P F. Wallace of
Cpl Edwin White was etrieken
with influenza Sunday white
visiting his sister at Houston and
has been sent to the hospital at
Ellington Field for treatment He
was improving Tuesday.
December Ml. with burial I
China attar bed enemy positions Ho
on *^-1 mm Shipping and share Da
I installations were bombed, ar - , Rei
Lording to the reprts from Tok- ed
red stamps Q5 through X3
now good No termination
dates have been set OP A says
none will he invalidated he
fore March 1 New red point
values now in effect Next
series of stamps will he vali-
dated Jan 28
as to where the tend
' take place
Admiral Nimitz rece
, a conference an Leyte I*
I General MacArthur, w
wther gains of the forme
ve occupied Date Sinclair
apital, with I ...............
$ p
lift wide, but the ’
s leading into the
of the Cerman 1
arriers The J apanese
hen he deprived of p
ford is now
for a B-24
. and made
I in enemy
is Day He
rawford of
meeting Tuesday for the purpose speaker for the Rotary Club
oving in one di
w eat side of the
The Japanese were contradict-
ing their own reports Tuesday
’ 1 large for a single organization
trending A &
time of hit en-
JIl
.7, 2a8
, _ 45
pre
lee
r. with the Reds driving
opposite direction on the
ide of the river The Rus- d
vere reported Tuesday to ev
than fifty miles from the | tv
bulge were under fire of our ar-
tillery
The Dritish were driving in
from the west at the tip of the
salieat. from which the Nazis
were Mid to be withdrawing in
an attempt to get back into Ger-
many This te what the Allies
are trying to prevent, but a rag-
mg blizzard Tuesday favored the
•
The small force of Germans
which cromed the Maas River
into Nolland north of Venlo has
Frsr the first time in many I
years, the Legislature will not ]
have »o worry about stole fin-1
ances, M the general fund has a I
surplus and reaeouM ar* enough I
tor operations during the next |
two veers if proper economy to
ther emphasizes the belief of a I
major campaign now being tn I
progress, as they met shortly I
before each previous big-scale
eperat ion
it was reported Tuesday that in
the past two day* 223 Japanese
planes and nearly a hundred I
•hips have been destroyed ar l
badIv damaged by American j
planes operating from tend base* l
Mt Pleasant weather condi-
tions for the previous 24 hour I
taken at Ato this morning by
Cha-t-- e-h-- su 2
been wiped out by British I
and are no longer a threat
Tokyo i pur’id Tuesday that *
ro forces of super fortresses had j
0
One slatement Tuesday morn-
ing said the American naval task
force had pulled out of Lingayen
Gulf and was sailing along the j
weal coast of Luzon, but later I
in the day it was reported that I
shelling of Japanese coastal bat- I
ter les was continuing No men |
tion was made of the division of I
American troops which Tokyo I
said had landed Monday !
The Japs were still referring I
to two other big convoys moving I
up from the south toward Luton, |
in Budapest has been definitely
cheeked about fifteen mites north
at the Hungarian capital and
that the tide baa turned in favot
at Soviet forces it was admitted
however, that the Nazis had been
I able to make substantial ad-
I y ances before they were check-
led. white Berlin insisted the
I Nazis were continuing to make
I progress.
here Monday night by a score of
The regular sessiom of the
Texas Legistetui e was opened
shortly before noon Tuesday,
end wil term tin we fot a period
of ninety days
w a
l M
at his h
cl community about 1 00 orlock I byterian church Monday mo
Tuesday morning froom the l ing. with the session continui
ferts of a heart ailment He had I until Tuesday noon
aUa “8 naVe pan were sai to have visiled the I been ili oniy a few hours when I fter the Presbytery compl
orm0a and I enemy capital tn drop demolition । hr passed away lest ite work a Minister S Rei”
sending of bombs there and at other piaces i Decvased was a native of Titus Ion Foreign Missions was he
I on Honshu Island About ses en | Cuunty and was 36 years of age | with sessioms Monday afterno
ty of the super bombers were to < at the time of his death He was land night and on Tuesday mon
the force, it was reported A* operator of a blacksmith shop ini
I usual, the Japs piayed down the the western pari of town
yeffect of the attacks | Surviving are his widow.
Aswytlyer force from bases in shree children, the latter t
m of G G Cr
!, ana entered
blue stamps XS through FA
and A2 through G2 now good
OPA says none will be inyali-
dated before March 1 New
point values for fruits as well
as vegetables rarer in effegt
Next series of stamps will be
validated Feb 1.
Sugar -- Book 4 stamp 34.
good for five pounds, is the
only sugar emupon still valid
Termination date has not been
set A new --tamp for five
pounds will be valid Feb 1:
must last three months instead
of two and a half months
Shoes _ Book 3..2irplane
stazzps 1, X az: *3 =* -—=--7
. Pi mbyte ty of Pam met |
•A. ,
erman Both expert to
their former fields as
t conditions permit
i and elders were pre*
i invasion of Luzon, it to g
I hwlievee that such ctio
orueega hul there M ng
the close of business December
30 Tm bank at that time had
more than three mi llhm dollars
on deposit, with available cash
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