Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 261, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 21, 1945 Page: 1 of 4
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HAt. Pleasant Aaily Uimes
Mount Pleasant, Texas,Sunday Morning, January 21, 1945
Number 2261
Volume XXVI
Working for the Interests of Mt. Pleasant, the Center at the Milk Industry of Northeas' Texas, with its Progressive Soil Conservation and Diversified Farming Program
IAGE BATTLE FOR LUZON ISLAND
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Continues to Roll rmy orced Back
Forward In Poland By German Attacks
Robert Gates Is
Given Bronze Star
Strasl
For Holland Action
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ch occurred
Nanis
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l is as follow *
connected with numerous other
charter
member of the Rotary Club and
tion from
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artillery
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Roosevelt Begins
will be held
the e
Fourth Term With
Simple Ceremony
Prison in ThailanI
South Manila Soon 1915 Car Licenses
From Prison Camp
A
RATION CALENDAR
Harry M Anderson
in
e wil
plan
one above the other, and
Announces Opening
which
but the beginning. but
‘ he removed The new ones will
lac, bringing them to within 25
be only ten inches in length, or
not j nice stock of new furniture, but
ill also handle articles which
have been repaired and
in
he
Book 3 airplane
Shoes
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I caught 44 days later in
Mumble a few words in church i strea
1300 miles
and
Fhone us your neem Itema.
Japanese Predict New System to Be Sgt Ells Schmid
Aemricans to Land Used In Numbering Writes Card From
E. S. LILIENSTERN, PROMINENT
BANKER, DIES FRIDAY NIGHT
of that city, where the Nazis have C
been herded into a small area
known tn anyone in this section, I
but it is believed it is one of the
Siberian
traveled
Entering Reich on
Two Fronts While
Large Areas Taken
Appropriate Large
Sum For Building
Air Raid Shelters
Wife Has Received
Official Citation
From Commander
Russian Offensive Americai Sevenig
Captured by Japs
on Bataan, First
Word in 16 Months
looked as
intended t
Preceded By Two
Control Letters
served
ganiza
n
to the inauguration of Mr Roose
wit
if necessity is the mother of
invention, then luxury must' be
I the father of it
Message Is Dated
May 19. 1944, and
Long Time Arriving
were
d in
areas
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There are about 250 island* in
the Fiji Island group
ied Uw ieaspurialiot
of Insterber g. in the cast
IJ
• while a Highway Department or- Sgt Schmid is at the prisoner
, der requires that all old plates I of war camp No 3, in Thailand
■
the time it was
was a member
the
tn p
Ga
_ the Mt Pleasant Building and
S Oates for bravery under fire Loan Association, besides being
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Honorary pallbeare
leaves a brothe
siern, of th* r
Funeral servic
wae on Honshu •• the time ef he
last message home received Sep
tember It, 1943.
Mr and Mrs. Barber are great-
ly relieved at hearing from their
son after such a long period and
to know that hr was still well
Pvt Obie E. Barber wIinann-adehn.nrstpohen
Writes To Parents ’ w
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33532
as YAN3
most serious it has been in this
section for several weeks
In the not th. the British have
gained another mile on the east-
' ern side of the Maas River, bring-
* ing them to within 37 miles of
night of 31 Octot
to which Techni
pei
55,
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The big Russian winter often- i
er the battalion
ian Gates was
ected to heavy
nd mortar fire
F
5a
j
Menaced Again by
Enemy Advances
Although the Allies were mak-
naugu ration Takes
’lace Saturday and
asts Short Time
insittutions He was
previously used Plates on truck
tractors will be placed on the
front.
Reduction in sire of the license
plates and issuing only one is in
the interest of saving materials
"Technician Fifth Grade Rob-
ert G Gates. Medical Depart
| ment, USA. for heroic achieve-
fore March 1 New red
values now in effect
e a 3
' e~g1
-
Mr and Mrs Obie Barber re-
reived • card Saturday morning
from their son. Pvt Obie Eugene
Barber, who waa captured by the
Japanese on Bataan nearly three
‘P n‘T
9 .
to respond to the
worthy charity.
Having been in
business here for
p82 _ es
, )
good condition, manv of which
dine _ 14-A coupons
everwhere for 4 gal-
London reported Saturday that
British submarines had sunk 84
Japnese supply vesseis in the
far eastern theatre, most of them
being small ships.
2, ;
JU - •
9a*. ,
gg o9,”-
in the
lons"rach Drough March 21
B-5. C-S E-6 and C-6 coupons
good everywhere for five gal
fons each
Cpl. Thomas 3 Wilson, station-
ed at th* amphibious training
boa* of th* U 8 Marine Corps
at Oceanside, Calif la a guest of
his aunt, Mo Dan M Wia
s * • * a M
L ri* ’
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and for building air raid shelt be used The control letter will' form. and Sgt Schmid marked
ers for civilians in anticipation be changed for every ten thous- i oft the lettering which did not
of more attacks by our super- and licenses \ apply to him, leaving the rest,
fort i raws There will be only one plate is- i which was as follows "My health
As if in answer to the Jap pre- , sued for passenger cars and is good I am working for pay
diction. General MacArthur re- trucks this year, and it is to be My best regards to Balzora and
ported Saturday that further ad- placed on the rear of the vehicles, | all our friends
anection with military
in Holland on 31 De
asurer of (hat or-
Japanese home islands.
Mr and Mrs Rijah Roach re-
ceived word Friday that their
son, Eli, has been promoted from
Seaman 2-e to the rank of Yoe-
man 1-c and has been transferred
from San Diego to San Francisco,
Calif
captured and
moving into
Mountain* to
country
after having
as the Reds have captured huge
territories, liberating thousands
of towns and village*
Lodi. big industrial city south-
west of Warsaw, which was re-
ported being invaded Friday by
the Soviet forces, fell Saturday,
permitting the extension of the
campaign
Marshal Stalin announced Sat-
urday that Nowy Sacz, ten miles
of the Czechoslovakian border
southeast of Krakow, had been
attacked railway li
Misses Funice Callan. Virgie
Beth Hughes and Jewell Green
and Mrs Bessie Caldwell attend-
ed the Passion Play presented at
Paris Friday evening
a tor Harry S Truman just prior highwi
Geo Lee Goates of San Benito.
Mr and Mrs J H Goates of
Kansas Citv. Mo and Mr and
Mrs H C Harrell and little
daughter of Texarkana are at the
bedside of their father. J H
Goates. Sr., who is seriously ill
re reported to have made
provincg
Daue!
60 mites
three inches shorter than those
, siamps i, 2 and 3 valid indefi-
' "hitely.
camp. whose location
of the two Masonic bodies here
and also the Scottish Rite and
Shrine Mr Lilienstern aided in
every civic movement for the
good of Mt Pleasant and Titus
County and was always ready
the banking
about forty
government offices under ground nn
which is only SO miles from Bres-
lau At this point, the Reds were
204 miles from Berlin The Red*
have also penetrated the Reith
in another place, driving north-
ward into East Prussia and it
by German attacks and General
Patch's troop* have been forced
to give up several towns. The
married Mumble
call of any
the same location given in cards
received previously from him
and his twin brother. Lieut
Eldon Schmid last spring Their
cards then were dated Decern
her. 1943
Only fighter
ng toward Manila
I treatment, but he waa never able
to rally from the attacks.
Mr Lilienstern was born in
, Alabama, but came to Mt Pleas-
ant with his parents when a child
। and had lived her* practically
all of his life At the Um* of his
death, he was president of th*
i Guaranty Bond Stat* Bank, and
g
"E
fit in
Meats, Fats, Ete Book four
red stamps Q5 through XS
now good No termination
dates have been set: OPA says
none will be invalidated be
isolate most of Ulla ontinuins te
cutting through to Luxembourg
i Kay. whose home
| Mexico
* Philippines This Nip stromgpoint failed to halt the Ameriran ad-
r closer to ita goal—the capitai aty of Manila At Clark field in
and they gained
hree miles at one
of Kast Prussia, was also taken
by Soviet troop*
Marshal Stalin’s armies were
making progress all the way
from the Baltic to Budapest, but
there was no report on activities
taking place in th* western part
by the Allies Friday in their air
operations again* the Germans,
striking at enemy concentration*
close to th* lines, but th* sky waa
clear Saturday and 750 big bomb-
ers, accompanied by SOO fighters.
However, the fall of the Hun
garan capital may be exported
soon
Russia, Great Britain and the I
United States have signed an'
armistice with the new provis- ,
ional Hungarian government, de-
tails of which ar* to be released
soon
3V3 ' i A .
Mguh,*, M
-4M7:7« “20M Uss i t *• i*-
during the past few dav*
Troops of the Third Arn
g Being
Nails back again in the Si Vith
area, but that important highway
town was still in possession of
the Nuts, although their salient
has been greatly reduced in sire
Fighting was continuing east I
of Lingayen Gulf in the Rosario
area, with the Americans stag-,
ing minor gains for control of the
th* previous night. He was
stricken at his home, but was
later taken to the hospital for
Manila, U 8 aircrant
Succumbs to Heart
Attack Sustained
on Previous Night
« sta bl ishd He
lower AAF photo falling on Japanese planes la the foreground a Nip plane receives a direct Mt Note
Uw camoufteed eHat at the rieht. (nternational Soundphotos)
rs are Bird
sive was continuing to roll for-' ing a good showing on the north-
ward Saturday throughout Po- ern sectors of the western front, i
land with apparently little resist- the American Seventh Army in I
ance being offered by the Nazis, Alsace was being hard pressed ,
we have learned manv import
ant lessons and will profit by
them he said
This was the first wartime
presidentia! inauguration since
that of Abraham Lincoln. and ।
there was no parade or other
show of pomp and ceremony.
Vice-President Harry A Wal-
lace administered the oath of of-
fice to his successor, former sen-
nes and other
stern part of
movement of
vears, Mr t alienetern ram- la
contact with many people, and
numbered his friends by all who
knew him Hi* death will be uni-
verselly mourned in this section
because of his close touch with
th* entire community
Surviving are two sons. Chief
Pharmacist '• Mate Eugene Lilian-
stern Jr. of th* Naval Hospital
at Norman. Okla. and Major
Charles Holman Llienstern, with
the Army forces operating in
Belgium and Germany He also
if this operation was
f the American soldier
Tech 5 Gates is a sor
gains of as much as five mile*
through American positions north
of Strasbourg and were eight and ।
a half miles from that city, which I
may be facing recapture by the I
Germans. Th* situation is the I
the Reds were
the Carpathian
drive into that . -
I Dusseldorf, but bad weather
Russian troops crossea the bor- preventing effective operatic
der of Silesia west of Praszka, The First Army had forcet
• press (orwi
and adjacent
vances have been made by his
troops in the northern part of
Luzon in the direction of Tar-
d had been removed to
if safety Hi* untiring ef-
nd unflagging courage at
r-present peril to his life
ifies the highest traditions
42 style now in use I from Tech Sgt Eils P. Schmid.
Under the old system, each who was taken prisoner by the
andred thousana over a million Japanese in the campaign in
as identified by a letter pre- Java soon after the war started
ding the number, but under The card was forwarded to Miss
nection with the awarding of the
Bronze Star medal to her hus- 1
band, a member of the Medical
Corps attached to that division.
The citation, commending Tech
....... ... iffitt.
He will also handle electric
and gas appliances and will con-
duct a general repair service, in
which he has a wide experience
in these lines Mr Anderson ex-
pects to secure additional room
tn the building to enlarge his
facilities soon
AMERICAN INFANTRYMEM top photo, cautiously probe a foliagehidden Jap pilibox covering the road
at th* family residence on Lid*
Avenue Sunday afternoon at
100 o’clock, with Rev Gen O
Moore, Dr O J Chastain and
Rev Ben K Bering officiating
interment at the Masonic rame-
tery, with the following acting as
re than four figures will! The message was a printed
Old, G A Mount Rd Dickson, O
IL Colley, Felix Jones, M J
Wallace, John F Merritt. A G
Conk, W c Jon**. J K Mac
Kinnon, J A Ward. R F Lind-
say, C T Mitchener _ Tom Riddle.
Chester Latson, C O Lide, J M
Copeland. Or W A Taylor. H G.
Brown. Bob Thar he i. G L Keith.
V « ...
A red saimon, marked by the
U S Bureau of Fisheries in
Alaskan waters in May, was
Eugene S Lilienstern, one of
Titus County's best known citi-
zens, passed away at the Taylor
I hospital at 8:00 o'clock Friday
I night from the effect* of a si erics
om th* front lines to
th the use of i jeep
ing his mission of
constantly exposed
wlf to the deadly enemy fire
hi* jeep was a constant tar-
I get to the enemy during th* en-
tire operation He continued in
I thia self • assigned mission until all
in Tokyo Saturday, Japai
to Manon on Luz
years age This was the first
word they had received from
him in sixteen months of Furniture Store
Written with a typewriter on 11
a form card of the Japanese _____
C Walker. Lloyd
Haney and L A.
.01*7 "
2"e
wata
Mrs. Robert G. Gates has re- !
ceived the official citation from
the commanding general of the !
I 104th Infantry Division in con- <
hich waa a litti
away Another
gina high number of
i*o Technicion Gates, be-
medical technician at th*
tion, realized there were
vugh medical men to meet I
rd« of the casualties, an
•leiy. upon his own in-
and with complete dis-
for his own personal
he began to evacuate the
few words in your sleep and you! ——Y-----
are divorced 1 Phone us yout newt nemo
=I"c
37,1, \
President Roosevelt began his
fourth term as President Satur-
day. with simple inauguration
ceremonies taking piace on the ... ,__. ... .___.. ■. .
south porch of th* White House " icia * IP K e merica
. . .__. . - .. ________ will make nes landings on Luzon , plates for
before a crowd of 7,806 persons , . . 1 .. , 1
___.2 . ..__• Island south of Manila in order
Trie noth of office waa admin . .0..______- ..
. ___. " .. .______. . . . to avoid the hard fighting to the
istered to Mr Roosevelt by Chief! , 1 . . .__.
t .121 —___ 12 .05 - north, saving planes have been
Justice Stone of the Supreme 1 » .
,. .. .. w. __| over the area in large numbers
C ourt, and the President then . . . __" .__
. _. . .____ ,,____ . .. . lately it was also announced
made a short address, in which. .. •
.. . that $460,000,000 has been appro
he expressed faith in ultimate . ____.. .
_______ ______U ___. pristrd for the construction of
victory, pledging himself to work "
to that end and bring the war
to an end as quickly as possible
We have gained some victories
already, Mr Roosevelt stated, but
they have been at a fearful cost.
series of stamp* will be vail
dated Jan M.
Proremed Foods — Bonk 4
blue stamp* X5 through FA
and At through Gt now good
OPA says none will be invali-
dated before March 1. New
point values for fruits a* well
as vegetables now in effect.
Next series of stamps will be
validated Feb 1.
Sugar — Book 4 stamp 34,
good for five pounds, is the
only sugar coupon still valid
Termination date has not been
wet A new stamp for five
pounds will be valid Feb 1:
must last three months instead
of two and a half months
bering system will Mr* Gussie Kay received a
utomobile license I card Saturday addressed in her
45, instead of the ' daughter. Miss Geraldine Kay
army, th* memage waa as fol
lows 1 Harry M Anderson announc-
‘ T am in good health and hope I e* in today's paper the opening
this note find* you the same 11 of a furniture store in part of
received your letters and box the building occupied by Talley's
Please send me another box if Cafe. 1436 North Jefferson, in
possible Give my love to all." ! what is generally known as North
The card stated that he was in Mt Pleasant
Fukuoka Furyoshoyosho prison I Mr Anderson has installed a
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 261, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 21, 1945, newspaper, January 21, 1945; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1433152/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.