Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 268, Ed. 1 Monday, January 29, 1945 Page: 1 of 4
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HNt. Pleasant Path Uimes
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Mount Pleasant, Texas, Monday Evening, January 29, 1945
Volume XXVI
Number 268
Working for the Interests of Mt. Pleasant, the Center of the Milk Industry of Northeast Texas, with its Progressive Soil Conservation and Diversified Farming Program
Allies Making Good Three Yank Armies
Sunday Morning as
Fernando Monday
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Th* Titus County Home Dem
induction
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Dallas for
into
also lashed Cavite
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The Weather
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Plwone us your news Items.
Try our went a *,
here on business Monday
Daily Times Imporves Service
By Securing Associated Press
Boy’s kg Broken
in Two Places in
Accident Sundav
Titus County Men
Leave Monday For
Service Induction
Army overran 400 more western
Polish localities beyond encircl-
Free Basketball
Game Is Scheduled
Tonight At Gym
H. D. Council Holds
Installation New
Officers Saturday
Air Forces Blast
German Positions
Behind West Wall
Attacking Officer
With Knife When
Is Shot In Heart
BOSSOM AND MT VERNON
CAGE GAME IS POSTPONED
New Service Goes
Into Effect Here
First of February
Announce District
Meeting of Agents
Here on April 12
cloudiness tonight and Tuesday,
continued cold, lowest tempera-
ture below freezing. .A
Progress in Drive Converging on San
On Western Front Fernando Monday
TICKETS TO PRRSIDRNTS
BIRTHDAY PARTY ON S XI »
AT LOCAL DRUG STORES
Roger Lewis. Otis Boyer, Jr.,
and Sam Cambron of Dallas were
All Had Previously
Been Examined for
Physical Fitness
struck at transportation centers
in ’th** Reich, including Coblenz,
Muenster and Kassel
so i
the
A small son of Mr and Mrs Jim
Parrish of near Winfield had a
leg broken in two places Sunday
when a horse which he was rid-
ina fel on him
Mr* Frank J Barnett, of Ed
wardsville, Indiana arrived Sun
day for a visit with Mr and Mr*
C O Lide, Mr and Mr* Claude
Mason and Mr and Mr* R J.
Davis
knife he had secured in the house
with the other
Mr Redfearn, who is still not
Aubrey Redfearn and together
they went to the house to get the
Negro and take him to jail.
Sheriff Redfearn went to the
front door and Night Watchman
Redfearn went to the back The
Negro ran out the back way, but
SHERMAN TANK MOVES SOUTH ON LUZON ISLAND
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27
NW
Clear
Considerable
The fliers again started land
slides in Balete Pass, gateway to
the Cagayan Valley, northeast
Luzon, where the Japanese sup- ।
posedly have strong forces.
been raptured by the northern
flank of the Sixth Army, which
joined other American unit* at
“ rennet riauNO A EuKaMAN TANK thrust forward from the Lngayen gulf beachhead to launch
US.rnav5 traralsAanila.""aountainouu terrain can be — in the backeroundTaisanom;
dal U. 8- Coast Guard photo. (Intetastionel Sou p 2
The basketball game between
Blossom and Mt Vernon, two of
the strongest teams in this sec-
tion, which was scheduled for
tonight, has been postponed un- j
til Monday night of next week .
Sickness of players was given as
the reason for postponement.
Gateway to Manila
Being Threatened
by MacArthur’s Men
lar monthly meeting at the court
houw Saturday under direction
of Mrs L H Wilson, outgoing
vice-chairman, and Mum Winifred
Sassman, Home Agent. conduct-
An ominous lull settled over
moat of th* remainder of the
snow locked western front ex-i
repl in southern Alsace, where
was later taken tn a hospital in
Dallas for treatment
Mt Pleasant weather condi
tions for the previous 24 houn
taken at 630 this morning bs
close to the German frontier and
I IN miles from Berlin
Berlin dispatches Mid Soviet
spearheads, however, had reach-
ed the Obra River frontier twee
ty-one miles west of raptured
Opalencia, sixteen mile* south-
east of Pniewy That would put
the Russians only ninety-five
miles from the German capital
in the north the Russians drove
twenty-nine miles into the Polish
Corridor northwest of Bydgoszcz,
capturing Sepolno, six miles from
the German Pomeranian frontier
Siezing Lobzenica, thirty mile*
west-nor th west of Bydgoszcz, an-
other column rolled to within
three miles of the Pomeranian
frontier and to within 119 miles
of Stettin These troops were out-
flanking on the north the Ger-
man rail center of Schneidmuehl,
twenty mites to the southwest.
Walter Jackson who has been
in the Seabees for over two years,
has returned home after receiv-
ing a medical discharge from the
service He has been at Camp
Shoemaker, Calif, recently
Sgt Jack Morgan arrived home
Monday from the Laredo Air
Field to spend a week at home he
fore reporting to Lincoin, Neb,
for assignment to a plane crew
for duty overseas soon
four-day lull, struck two massive
blow* Sunday at Germany* Ruhr
industrial belt
A force of 1,000 United States
Air Force Flying Fortri**** and
Liberator* escorted by 250 Mus
tangs unloaded 3,000 tons of
bombs on two benzol plant* near
Dortmund, the large Rhine bridg-
es at Duisburg and Cologne. and
on rail yard* at Gremberg, four
miles southeast of Cologne, and
Hohenbudberg, five miles south
west of Duisburg
A force of probably 250 RAF
Lancasters with fighter cover fol-
lowed dumping almost 2,000 tons
of explosives on smoking Grem-
berg
Patrol* lunged out aggressive-
ly along the United States Sev-
enth Army from in northern Al-
sace. and along the Roer on the
United States and British Second
Army fronts at the gateway to
the Ruhr Valley, where the Brit-
ish now were drawn up along
the Roer at a number of places
Lt Gen Courtney H Hodge*
First Army sprang * surprise at-
tack at 4 a m in a blizzard
which heaped snowdrifts seven
feet high in the early hour* the
First overwhelmed startled gar-
risons of four towns northeast of
St Vith
armed services on Tuesday The
number rd men cannot be reveal-
ed because of censorship, but af-
ter they have been accepted their
names can later be printed
Calls for this month have fol-
lowed th* pattern of previous
month*, when the number taken
into the service* have not been
very large but during the com
ing month* it can be expected
that much lrger group* will be
taken hy the Army and Navy
under the new manpower pm
gram which call* for a big in-
crease in both force*
Last week a large number of
Titus County men tank their
physical examinations and are
expecting calls for the near fu
lure
new base has not been announc-
cd. but it *u Mid it »u at a
plarc which ha* recently been
much in the news
Rosario, scene of the hardest
Jap resistance on Luzon, ha*
and Berlin said that Schneid-
muehr already was under Soviet
assault
Other Russian troops had cross-
n tsi 1 | At the southern end at the arm
Posta Notes and
e no, a ton-way highway junction
Stamps Available
Local Post Office
stopped when ordered to do
and came back, grabbing
Jimmy Lee Mullins, colored,
was shot and killed about 2:30
o'clock Sunday morning while
resisting arrest
A short time earlier, the Negro
had been arrested by Night
Watchman T. B Redfearn for
creating a disturbance and a big
knife was taken away from him
Mullin* slipped away from Mr
Redfearn while on the way and
fled to the home of his mother
in the "Bungalow" section. Mr
new plan can be secured at the .. _ . .. ..
post office wher* instructions Charles Coker, locai weather ob-
have been received to explain it,
area* behind the west wall, dis-
rupting continued German move-
ments from the Ardennes sector.
During the day, big bombers
Redfearn then called Sheriff
Maximum
Minimum
Temp 6:30
Wind from
Sky
East Texas
is about twelve years of age, was
unable to throw himself free, the
weight of the animal breaking
his leg
_ . .__... . . < ed the installation corcmony for
Th* by was brought to the ,__
- . , ..1 ..___ — v ... ।’he following officers and com-
Tayior hospitai where an X-ray
,__, „ . _ «1 mittee chairmen:
examination showed it required ;
the services of a specialist, so he Mrs Raymond Brown, Chair-
Electric Washers in Jangle
Electric washing machine* are
needed in the jungle, too An
Army doctor, ordering supplies
to equip behind the front' hos-
pital* in India sent headquarters
a special request for the wash
er* They were shipped by plane
with his medical supplies
Effective February first and
thereafter, postal notes go on sale
at the Mt Pleasant post office
This is a new service inaugurat-
ed by the Post Office Depart-
ment and is something like
money order*, but the postal
notes except that anyone can buy
one of these notes in blank and
fill in the name of the payee
within sixty days from the date
on the note
Denominations of the note* can
be anything from Ic to $10 and
the fee will be only 5c. The notes
•re good for sixty days
Applications for the note* to
to be made at the money order
window at the Mt Pleasant of
fice, and it is believed patrons
will have an extra convenience
in the transmission nt money
from one point to another under
the new service
Information concerning the
a highway junction leading to
Baguio. Philippine summer capi-
tal.
Gen Douglaa MacArthus re-
iv ME AaaociAva esaas
PARIS, Jan. 29— Veteran di-
visions of the American First
Army pushed their attack north-
east of St. Vith to within a mile
of Germany and the beginning
of the Siegfried Line today
North of the First Army, the
U. S. Ninth and British Second
closed up to the Roer and through
the Siegfried Line in many places,
potentially threatening the Ruhr
and Rhineland industrial areas
and their cities.
In the south, the Third Army
was near or across the border all
the way to Saarbrucken.
General Eisenhower'* force*
were deployed along or beyond
200 mile* of the Siegfried Line
all the way from Holland to the ।
southern part of the Saarland
From dusk until dawn today
Allied planes swept German
was stil intoxicated when first tier at * mew point by capturing
arrcstcd by Nighe Watchman Czarnkow, IN miles northeast
Redfearn of Berlin and ninety miles south-
T east of S trim German Baltic port
A sizeable group of Titus coun- ' They were crossing the high-
ly men left Monday afternoon for way at Winfield. when the horse onstration Council held it* reKu-
"t slipped and fell and the boy, who
• « ina A>OCIAVED PREDS
Three converging American
; columns bore down on San Fer-
■ nando, called "the gateway to
• Manila," Monday, while super-
( forts struck again at two batter-
ed islands on the sea road to
Tokyo and gave the enemy capi-
tal a sleepless weekend.
Formosa received the most de-
structive raid since October from
carrier based plane*, the Navy
announced Monday, stating that
Takao harbor ha* been ruined
American plane* damaged or de
stroyed 237 Jap planes and 27
ships in this operation
Fleet Admiral Nimitz disclos-
ed that history'* greatest navy la j
now operating from new advance
headquarters, several thousand
i miles nearer Japan than Pearl
Harbor. The exact location of the
Ticket* to the President *,
birthday celebration at the Re l
finery recreation hall are on sale
at Avery’s and Bullington * drug
•tore* both today and tomorrow
tor the benefit of those who have
not vet made their purchases
Half of the proceed* of the
celebration remain in Titus
County for future need*
Beginning today, the Daily Times is taking a big
step forward hv offering its readers the services of the
Associated Press, the world'* greatest new*-gathering
agensy
More complete news will he given our reaaers in the
future on world events and state happenings of interest
to everybody and as soon as we get more familiar with
this service we will also make additional improvements
in the appearance of the paper
Our news is now being received through the local
Western Union office in three telegraph quotas daily
insuring accounts of th* latest developments on the hat
tiefront* and happenings of interest all over the country
The Times has a circulation of more than 1,300 papers
every *hy, an " mant te give our readers the very best
service possible This can only be done if the business
concerns of Mt Pleasant continue to give the Times
adequate support bv taking advantage of advertising
space in the city’* best medium.
We will continue to give our readers all the local
news possible in connection with the Associated Press
dispatches
Justice Frank Madison
called to th* scene to hold an ed Poznan, last bis Polish ety in
inquest and stated that the off. i Ge man hands, and deployed on
err acted in self defense in shoot- an eishty mile are facing straight
ing Mullin*, and this to borne out | toward Berlin.
by testimony by Sherif Red Zhukov’s central columne,
fearn, an eye-witness threatening to cross momentar-
Th* Negro has • had record, ily into BrandenburE. Berlins
he having been sentenced to the home province, captured Pniewy.
penitentiary in 1938 for th* kill on the Warsaw -Berlin motor
ing of another Negre the previ-Ta": twenty seven miles west nt
ous year He was out on parolebeseised Poznan and IN miles
at the time Mullin* to said to be ! due east of Berlin
dangerous only when drunk. hut In the northwest they reached
was drinking Saturday night and | the prewar German Polish from-
Negro Killed Early Capture Town on
° " Railway to Danzig
From Reich Capital
' • » vE •••OCI*T«O MOM
MOSCOW, Jan 29 — Russian
troops were attacking along an
80-mile front on the eastern road
to Berlin today and in the south
another Red army bit deeper in-
to German territory after aeix-
iag several industrial centers of
southern Silesia
A German communique declar-
ed the Russians had made fur-
ther gains from their bridgehead
at Steinau and that Schneide-
muhl, a town four miles inside
Germany on the Berlin-Danzig
railway had been surrounded. ‘
Koenigsberg. capital of East
Prussia, was imperiled and other
Russian spearheads were thrust-
ing toward Danzig The Germans
now hold only one-fourth of East
Prussia and are holding out be-
tween Koenigsberg and Elbing,
but are being squeezed into an
ever-narrowing area along the
Daltic coast.
Memel, last Nari held city in
Lithuania, has been captured by
the Reds to clear that country
entirely of the enemy
night watchman by his overcoat I Other Soviet offensives were
with one hand, brandishing a also being conducted in Czecho-
Slovakia and Hungary, with the
A free basketball game will be
played at the gymnasium tonight
between th* local Guard team
and one from the Camp Maxey
hospital Everybody to invited
and the guardsmen will be in uni-
ferz fee the occasion.
The Guard team played the
regular Camp Maxey team at the
campSau day night and won by
• score of 40 to 27
There will be no Guard drill
tomorrow night because of the
President * birthday celebrations
Resisting Arrest
Nazis being badly battered and
giving up more territory.
very active from an operation On the seventeenth day of the
last fall, fired one shot which en- big push Marshal Gregory K.
ter rd the Negro’s heart, causing Zhukov • First White Russian
instant death
Big Russian Offensive Drives Well Into German Territory
On the northern front the town
of Rosario was taken and the
Yanka there were within a half
। mile of an important road junc-
l tion One road branch twists
through the Dengue- Mountain*
‘ to Baguio The Japanese defend
er* in that sector, a division and
a brigade have been practically
decimated. General MacArthur
Mid He added "the enemy has
been forced to move his northern
reserves from the Baguio sector
i tn supplement the remnant* of
his forces guarding the approach-
es to the north "
Sharp fighting continued in the
San Manuel sector, also on the
northern front, where th* Yank*
were reducing strong Japanese
positions
The General disclosed that the
American* captured tremendous
depot* of quartermaster, signal,
ordnance and air technical sup
plies in the Clark Field sector
The bag included more than 200
new aircraft engines, much am-
munition and food and forty
pieces of artillery
On the Second Corps front, the
General said. seventy-one tank*
of the J manias N Armored Di
vision have been destroyed
Yank airmen continued to
blast Corregidor Island. Bataan
Peninsula and Subic Bay They I
Benton A B Young. Bascom
Brown. A L Ponder,
it was announced that the dis-
trict meeting of home demonstra-
tion agent* will be held in Mt
Pleasant on April 12, and the
following committees were ap-
pointed to prepare for the meet-
•ng
Mr* Luke Wilson, Mr* A B
Young, and Mrs Juanita Rogers,
menu Mr* Paul Harbour, Mr*
Walter Justiss and Mrs Leslie
Narramore, registration Mr* C
T Newgent, Mrs Ernest Grigg*
and Mr* W E Blackstone, dee
orations
ft #= alee anzsguzwced inat
Mr* Laura Lone, extension edi-
tor of A A M College, will hold
a reporter’s meeting here at 10:00
». m on February 21, with all
reporter* urged to attend and all
others interested invited
French and American forces ported late Sunday that parallel
lightened a clamp around Colmar Yank column*, headed for the
enemy citadel—and drove to capital of the Philippines, seized
within four miles of the Rhine Angele* and its four nearby air-
Mor* than 1,200 American and field* while patrol* reached Mex-
British heavy bombers, resuming ico, three mile* northeast nt San
full-seal* aerial warfare after a ; Fernando
edsomnadgsn
man
Mrs Juanita Roger*. vice-
chairman
Mr* Byrum Parham, secretary
•nd treasurer
Mrs Leslie Narramore, educa-
tion committee
Mrs A I. Ponder exhibit com-
mittee
Mr* W E Blackstone finance
committee
Mr» L M Bordern marketing
committee
Mr* L H Wilson, expansion
commit tee
Mr* Thelma Motris; recreation
committee.
Mr» Bascom Brown, year book
committee
Mr* Vivian Justiss, sponsor
committee
Mr* Ernest Griggs, reporter
committee
The following members were
present for the occasion Mmes
L. M Borden. T A Lee. Elsie
Vaughan. W E Blackstone, A
L Rogers Walter Justin*. Paul
Harbour, Hale* Walker, F G
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 268, Ed. 1 Monday, January 29, 1945, newspaper, January 29, 1945; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1433159/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.