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40TH YEAR, NO. 69
CLEBURNE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1945
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soldiers that they would be given
adequate medical care, Patterson
said.
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Tschirne
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represent the United States in
the Senate foreign relations com-
Tuesday night* at 8
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Miss Johnnie M. Smith.
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A certain Houstonian garbs him-
‘demoralizntion’
buyers an then eeMtw work.
It contended that
statement.
far from hastning Germany's de-
feat, would steel the anirit of
that “there’ll be no more cigarettes
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Hallman Rites to
Be in Alvarado
Rites Today for
W. F. Largin.
Aged Resident
Hourly
Temperature
self in the outfit of a Texas Ranger,
finds a long line of hopeful fag-
can give the public much better
and faster service when applies -
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Mad Ration
Applications
To Board
for military <
end of the .
the courtesy title of senior adviser.
Chairman Tom Connally. D., Tex.,
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A Benin-
holm ne ws
Labor Argues
Against Bill
ed, because
be most re
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parents
and
Apache,
of
the
end of the fighting in Europe to
not-in sight.”'
He made the statement in urg-
foreshadow Germah use of polson
gos:
— rhedenthinenteheeMnedfor
United Press Leased Wire Service 2. *
to Borger, Tex.
Smith said in his testimony that
he was tn Twin Falls when he took
Patton’s Men
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In Siegfried Line
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Fifes in Capital
Visible to Reds
70 Miles Away .
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urday, Feb. 10, a check of records
revealed today. More may be add-
ed to this amount however, as sev-
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[th his
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those who could
spared would be
he said, 13,563 man were wounded
and the following week 22,825 were
wwkUI W^^wiedreporte for the
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can Water Treaty today before the cOtner members of the United Dallas; nine grandchildren
Senate foreign relations commit- States delegation will be former four great-grandchildwen.
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known in boating clrclw, having
been a sailing enthusiast. Hfur
Bomber Command.
A Pacific fleet communique dis-
eral towns in the county have not
1 yet reported contributions.
Marvin Wright, treasurer of the
fund, today stated that $154.25 had
all of which are rationed because
they are vital to the war effort;"
Chairman Warren said that per-
could not fare worse than if they
capitulated now," the publication
said
Reliable reports reaching Stock-
holm from Berlin said Nazi auth-
orities were concerned over inten-
sive thefts of arms from Volks-
Sturm (Home Guard) baracks out-
side Barlin.
The Nazis ere said to fear that
foreign workers, war prisoners and
native anti-Nails may try to stab
the German army in the back ns
socn as military. events force the
Gestapo to loosen its grip on the
German home front.
End of Battle
For Manila
Appears in Sight
Ing in Europe is
ge, -,-0-- that our forces
there' face a great deal of
fighting. ”
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such a plan of, destruction as the
Yaita atatement revealed would.
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Guarantees Care
He pointed out that those fig-
Ores do not cover the army’s sick.
Passage of a nurse draft bill would
‘y
doubter* and every nopu-
iroughout Germany ■
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ated on the island art headquar-
ters of the 21st (Super fortress)
WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (U.P)— A , TA
Undersecretary of War Robert P. LOnTV UonALeS
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inducted on a selective basis
President Roosevelt in his annual
state of the union message last
month asked Congress to enact the
nurses draft legislation. He said
the army last year had established
a goal of 20,000 additional nurses
but had been able to get only 2,000
through voluntary recruiting.
No Time to Lose
Patterson told the House com-
mittee that “there is no time to
lose."
. "Some of our people, with an
eye on the Russian advance, feel
the Japanese Drmei Agency.
33 Fighters
Domei said that 35 fighters first
hit the two sectors Monday and
that 66 bombers followed up with
another assalt yesterday.
4,000 ALLIED WARPLANES SMASH
The Swiss Telegraph Agency said
the official German foreign office
publication "Diplomatische Infor-
matlon" comented that the Red
Army in Eastern Germany already
had "placed itself outside any
moral qualification."
"There would be no surprise if
were Vandenberg, a member of
An appeal to citizens of Johnson
County to mail their ration appli-
cations to the local War Price and
Rationing Board was issued today
by Chairman H N. Warren, who
declared:
"Too many people believe they
can get faster action by making
personal visits to the board, buti
reality this causes a heavier work-
load on board clerks and slows pro-
cessing of applications.”*
"Each time a clerk has to leave
important work to discuss ration
problems, the processing of , appli-
cations is slowed just that much
more “
to Borger, where he was arrested.
8-STAR SERVICE FLAGS
CHISHOLM, Me. (U.P— Two lo-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. (U.P—
Representatives of organised labor
today argued against “work or else”
legislation before the Senate mili-
tary affairs committee.
Lewis G. Hines, representing the
AFL, denounced the pending bill,
which would make men from 18 to
43 subject to a labor draft, as "a
long step down the path that leads
to compiete totalitarianism. ”
timers of Houston recalled with
shivers today the snowy St. Valen-
tine’s Day of 50 years ago. The
greatest snowstorm of Houston's
history fell on Feb. 14, 1895, blank-
eting the city in a mantle of white.
Houstonians, who rarely see even
scattered snowflakes, had a gay
time cavorting around in the drifts.
Temperature for today: about 75.
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HOUSTON, Feb 14. (U.P.)—Here’s
one of the many new angles on
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fighters struck to the north
Rivel bartiers by reaching Z____
eight miles west of sagan at the
confluence of the Quies, Tschirne
committee. Chairman Bol Bloom
D.. N. Y., of the House foreign
affairs committee. 4 * 1
HOUSTON. Feb 14 W.P—Old-
heavy cruiser and a troop trans-
port. * ‘ -—-
Eight ships damaged—four cruis-
ers and foiii destroyers.
Three enemy battleships probably
damaged.
Sixteen Japanese planes shot out
of the air, many more destroyed
< n the ground.
Scores of enemy guns, ammuni-
tion dumps and troops destroyed
on the ground.
The Ommaney Bay’s six months
of action saw her thmugh the
invasion of the Philippines. She
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, CANADIAN FIRST ARMY
TROOPS DRIVE TO 28
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Boat Club as its commodore.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. i _ ..____ . —___________-_— —
Ethel Benson, a daughter, Miss for today," watches them leave, and Tokyo. It was the 68th straight
Elizabeth Benson, a sister, and two ducks into the store for a pack [ day that the Liberators had bombed
brothers. for himself. IIwo.
„__ |hat Germany as a
nation and Germans as individuais
art Burial will be in the Rose sonal calls at the board take an
HH cemetery, Cleburne. ___________ average of ten times as long as
_ A. native . of Marshall County, the processing or an application
Tenn., he wassborn on April ’ 4,received through' the mail,--
1362, and was the son of William ......—.... .... ..............
8. and Mary Ann Short Largif MARRIAGE LICENSES
He and his wife had been married Marriage licenses were issued this
for 592 years and for the past 10 week by the county clerk’s office
years had resided in Cleburne. to Frank Leo Lightsey of Fort
-a ETeat de Dimess Drive whuch closed here sat-
To emphasize the army’s need
without hope of escape 2
Guam, a former American naval
station, already has bean converted
into the biggest American base
west of Pearl Harbor. Also situ-
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Paula Lynn McFadden Rites Thursday for (
pies Here Today Editorial Writer of
eontrollcd residential district*. t
While the troops were cleaninK
uo‛ Manila, American bombers and •
FORT WORTH. Feb 14. (U.P—
Funeral service will be held to-
morrow for Charles A. Benson,
51-year-old editorial writer and
Sunday book-page editor of the
Star-Telegram here, who died yes-
terday after a four-month illness.
Burial will be at Oakwood ceme-
tery .
Benson had been employed by
Survivors include his widow, Worth and Miss Dorothy Stout of
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. (U.P— Mr: KOPSeVeI is inviuing inuiid:Mrs. w F. Largin, Cleburne; a Cleburne; Amos Leon Cogdill of
Attorney General Grover Sellers of uaisaamong.his, political opposition son, j. Frenk Largin, Trinity; two Cleburne and Lottie Mae Honea;
— Ij was expected to open his 10 help write the peace bond that daughters, Mrs R. H. Beaver, Cie- L. O. Bentley and Miss Pauline
Fs case for the proposed Mexi- he.must Ask the Senate to sign. burne, end Mrs Hogan Hancock, Ray, both of Joshua, and Everett
Other. membe rs of the United Dallas; nine grandchildren and M. Dickerson of Washington and
FfVECENTS PER COPY
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Iast vtes will be held this
fternoon at 5 p. m. for William
a .."5
cal war workers have a total of 16
children in the armed services.
Mathias Bonnevie and Stanley
Doiron have eight service stars on
that the end of the war in Europe
may be at hand and that there
will not be many more casualties ’
there,” he said. “But we cannot
gamble with the lives of our sol-
diers.
"The view of those responsible ।
his home, 1106 North Wilhite
street
of the Senate foreign relations
Johnsdn County citizens sub-
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Takao and Tainan sectors of For-1 WASHINGTON, Feb 14; (UR)
mosa for two days, according to,The USS Ommaney Bay, a 10,0C0
tog aircraft carrier of the world’s
-fuitinest navy, has gone to a
watery grave on the bottom of the
Pacific after a short but violent
Survivors include the
l ation caused “by far the worst ex-
— —-r. .. — ty g wu w wv ! plosion" foreign correspondents
ment at length on the Colorado sec- been set forth yesterday by Paul f ever have witnessed at a Wihelm-
tion,. which guarantees Mexico 1,-- Schmidt, official spokesman for the strasse press conference.
500,000 acre feet of Colorado River German foreign office, in an angry ~
water-annually. ----- +outburst at the Wihelmstrasse over
■ Sellers said he would present to the joint statement of President
the committee a resolution passed Roorevelt, Prime Minister Church -
uilantmously by both houses of the f and Premier Stalin.
Texas Legislature in endorsement: Stockholm sources speculated
that Schmidt’s statement might
faltry Division continued to close 1 . ,
in on the, Japanese who Ware e
writing off their three-year stay. I, • '
h Manila in a last orgy of fire v t r1 ' *
nd blood. Escaping Filipinesire LOSS 01 Earmer.-
ported that the Japanese . were 43 4 a 4" ?
massacring men, women and chil-
dren indBeriminstelyin
Rusian Army forces have estab-
— lished, a "major” bridgehead across
_ the Oder at Reitwein, 35.....miles
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Its swarm of death-dealing planes constitute a guarantee to stricken
had hung up the followips score: —-ida— --- ‘ “— -da ----
Two Japanese ships sunk—a
nachine guns. tommy guns, signal CASE POSTPONED
pistols • and hand grenades must A suit styled City of Cleburne vs.
be registered by Feb 20. M. A. rekel et al set for today
The arms are needed for the in District Court has been post-
now Velksstrum, the dispatch said. . poned until March 3.
Little Paula Lynn McFadden,
four-months-ol daughter of Capt.
and Mrs. Paul McFadden of Camp
Hood and Cleburne, died this
morning at 9 o'clock in a local
hospital after an illness of several
days. The child was born October
13. 1944. "
Funeral services have tentatively
been set for, Thursday at 3 p. m.
at the Dillon chapel, but final ar-
rangements are pending informa-
ton from the child's father.
fa, s .
It aiao would mean that the
army's nursing needs would be filled
with minimum disturbance to civ-
ilian nursing requirement. he add-
the Star-Telegram for 26 years, the . _
past 22 yeats as chief of the editor- getting cigarettes:
lai writing staff. in addition to his
newspaper work, Benson was well-
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The services wil be conducted _____________
at the Dillon chapel with Reueli the same time, people who use
Lemmons officiating assisted by 1___ \ -
Rev G. C Butler. Pallbearers serving tires, gasoline and shoes
played a gallant role in the fierce
second bottle of th© Philippines
when she and sister escort carriers
steed nffa ki_Japanese_battle-
ship force eff Leyte
- _______ - .... The navy did not say how many
tions come and go by mail. and at men had been lost on the two
' l thelships. Next of kin, however, have
nails for ration action will be con- been : notified. —— _____
78 miles of the Ruhr Valley.
The advance was going ahead |
’ clowly in -the aFace of #nraxme!
German artillery bombardment that |
was more khan4 matched by the ’
Av massed fire of hundreds of Atlied -
"i field guns moving up in the wake
of Gen. H D. O. ©rerersCanad- |
tan. Engiish, Scottish and Welsh
a “couple drinks of whiskey” while -----
driving a fellow-worker's car. Next; GUAM, Feb. 14. (U.R>—Admiral
thing Smith knew, he said. he was Chester W Nimitz disclosed today
driving along a_ Colorado highway,1 that this new advance headquar.
and crossed over into Texas, goingters Ffor ‘the Pacifie —fleet .at.at---
Guam, In the southern Marianas
only 1,500 miles south of Japan.
The announcement lifted the 5e-
crecy which had screened the lo*
cation of the headquarters since _
Nimitz announced their ehtabiish-
ment Jan. 29
American forces still are killing
an average of 16 Japanese a day
on Guam. The remaining enemy I
troops were holding out in caves
„ua. . .o.....___________ - .—. -------closed that army Lberators joined
one time hearted the Fort Worth He tells the f optoorc clgaretqg B-2k Superfortresses in a raid Mon-
seekers in an authoritaliva. volce day on the Japanese island air
r tTbase of Iwo, 750 miles south of
I
Doss of the two ships brought
to(/261 the total U. S. naval loss-
esin the war . .
" The Ommaney Bay was built by
Hhry J. Kaiser from a converted
i per . Itai) t ship designs She carried
a normal crew of about 500
Her career began last September
when she supported the invasion
of the - Palau Islinds. Before it
was over the Ommaney Bay and
Ing a stolen automobile across a Nimitz Has New
state line from Twin Falls, Idaho „-t -°
Headquarters for
Fleet at Guam
100 U. S. Planes
- • . a fa • •, - N
Manus,
appeared in sight today, with the
U. ' 8. Navy’s former base at
Cavite and Nichols Field again
in American hands:
The Japanese reported, mean-
while, that nearly 100 American
plunes raided Southern Formosa
again Monday and Tuesday.
Unite of the 11th Airhome Divis-
ion captured Nichols atrfield yes-
terdaly and then pushed along the
shores of MGhila Bay to take the
Cavite naval base, where they
setzed 10 enemy seaplanes and a
battery of three inch gun* in-
tact.
Close In On Japs
At the same time the First
Cavalry Division and. the 37th In-
DALLAS, Feb. 14. (U.P)—Funeral . railway. '
services for L V Stockard, 66. as-i The Second and Third Ukrain-
sistant superintendent in charge of I lan Armies, meantime, re-grouped
......1 for the Dallas public'in Hungary under 73 generals for
schools were to be held here this resumption of offensives aimed 6t
arternoom.- ---------------- -------Vienna, Bratislava and Bohemia
He died at the” family residence after completing the beratiomofi
Monday night after a heart attack encircled Budapest.
while en route to a meeting. , Budapest, ruined capital of
Stockard was a former principal Hungary, finally fell yesterday to
of the-old Bran (Dallas) High the two armies following a 50-
School, now Crozier Technical High. day siege in which 49,000 enemy
1 troops- ware kilted gnd 110,000 cap-
FORT WORTH, Feb. 14 (U.R)— tured, Col. Gen. Pfeter-Wilden;
Arthur Otto Smith, 25, of Fort butch, and hi staff were captured
Smith. Ark. today began a two- in their headquarters in an un-
year prison sentence following his erground sewer.
Meantime, Admiral Cheater W.
Nimitz disclosed he had set up his
new advance headquarters for the
Fa elf to fleet, at Guam, in the
southern Marianas, only . 1,500
miles suth of Japan i /
Guam was a former American
naval station before the war and
since its recapture has been con-
verted into the biggest U. 8.
base west of Pearl Harbor.
3 Other Allied
Armies Ready to
, Join Assault
) V. 4 ' • .e
Air Attacks
Support Soviet
Drive on City
LONDON, .FebA 14. 4.P—The
'Red Army hammered to within
70 miles of Dresden today as the
Saxony capital and other points
in the path uf the Soviet advance
rocked under air bombardment by
nearly 4,000 American and British
war planes. ,
For the first’ time in the war
the powerful land offensive of the
Russian armies was directly sup-
ported by coordinated air blows
from both the American and Brit-
ish strategic bombardment fleet*
The attack was opened by night
when some 1,400 RAF planes blast*
ed Germany, nearly BOO of them
concentrating or Dresden I where
they lighted vast fires visible to
the. advancing Red Army less than
70 miles distant, at the Quels .
River: '
Hit Targets
American Flying Fortresses and
Liberators took up the assault ky
uay, sendinz some 2,250 planes
over Germany, including 1,350
bombers. Opto targe u. S. ■
..... diopped a new bom u
load on Dresden while others lilt
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c., and the grandparents, Mr.
to theStock- Mre. w. j Bowen of J
on said, tedd Germah authorities had orde den of deburne.—
ed that ull guns, rifle*, pistols. -- .. " ....
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Mrs. . Grace a. Hallman didL
Tuesday at 9:06 p. m. at her
home in Alvarado, where she had
esided for the past 36 years. She
was born in Corsicana and was
the daughter of S. A end.' Ruth I
Riggs Teas.
Funeral services will be onduct-
ed Thursdny at 3 p. m. at the
Methodist Church in Alvarado with
Rev. Rosa Smith officiating. In-
terment will be in the Glenwood
cemetery of Alvarado under the di-
rection of Coleburn-Dillon Funeral
Home of Alvarado.
Survivors Include her husband.
John 8. Hallman. Alvarado; two
bi others, S A. Teas. Fort Worth,
and Robert Teas, Dallas; a sis-
ter, Mrs. J. C. Wiison, Alvarado,
and several nephews and nieces.
d*- 4. ¥ di --"t gt/en.-
PARIS, Feb 14. (UP- Shock
troops of the Canadian First Army
battled through fierce German up- *
position less .than three miles from
the Rhineland strongholds of Goch .
and Calcar today,. The multi-
pronged offensive carried within 1
riflemen.
Both sides were throwing in-
creasingly , heavy armored and in -
fantry , forces into the sodden
;• knineland plain, and field dia-
• patches sdid elements of seven
Nazi divisions already bad been
identified in the battle
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TEXASBRIEFS
ter. She was the -Oth U. S
rier sunk in Werld War IT.
He navy told her story las
ht in announcing the loss of
h the Cmmaney Bay and the
le sweeper Longi it did ant
t exactly how they met their
I. only that it was through
emy action."
of the treaty.
NEEDS AN WXTECNSION
olintoN, KT
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why died
o’clock at
and Bober.
Major Bridgehead
From Sorau the Russians were
in a position to strike 72 miles
southwest to Dresden with only
two river barriers, the Neisse and
the Spree, to hurdle.
On the Berlin front, First White
ia h.
SLASr FOK THE ENEMY—Batteries of rockets are packed by crew members of an LCM
• (landing craft mechanized) for delivery to the enemy free of charge, but business end first.
These projectiles give greater striking power to small vessels, since recoil of cannon shot
is eliminated in thefr firing. 1 v , U ■ Navy Photo
Patterson Urges House Group to
Approve Nurse Draft Legislation
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elnten‛s—eenine-vefyge,hashe- Germany in, Crimean dectar- bring the complete
come a maternity hospial with ation frees the Reich at"all moraftor the WaTT WT
| the recent arrival of a total of 23 obligations"’ to abide by the rules
offspring of dogs boarded at the of war, the Nazi-controlled Scan-
home. ASt. Bernard produced a dinevlan Telegraph Bureau quoted _____ ______ ______ .
11 Utter of 13 puppies; tworof which Schmidt as saying at a press con- sistance inside the
17 died, and two other dogs each bore ference. "Everv Mehtae’
--f tour pupplepu—a--_____________ ,. "Tty Germap* henceforth , will milt
west and" Magdeburg, 70 miles
southwest of Berlin
It was the first time in the
war that the elements of all three
of the major Allies had been co-
oroinated in a blow at Germany:
Whether the Anglo-American air
support for the Red Army waa a
fruit of the Yalta conference was
not knowa.- -J... . 1^,_____
Over Germany Toda'
Deepen Corridor
Far to the south, Lt. Gen:. -
. George 8. Patton’s American Tird ITALIAN SNOW BUSINESS—Gunners of an anti-tank Brit-
Armawidened h and deepened Une ish artillery regiment had a Job bringing their guns into
sorar phuoms hana added ? tw position, when heavy snowstorm hit Italian front Bo they
hundred biuterly-contested yards to used native oxen and a home-made snowplow to clear a path,
its bridgeheads on German soil Note that driver at right is on snowshoes.
across lb* Sure and Our Rivers---— _ ----।-------- . -...--------
, On a front of almost 100 mites I,- . -
== Republicans listed a Delgation
#- fuvev waiting to join th* assaul r _ iff 1 * P f
1o Trealy-Makmg Conference
. was about to explode at any hour. „
- began boasting that their partial WASHINGTON, Feb.'- 14. (U.P-. Secretary of State Cordell Hull with
destruction of the Heer dams had Expected Republican acceptance of
completely disrupted the Allied joint political responsibility for the
time-table. ; April 25 United , Nations confer-
f . Resistance Softened . ence would speed the proposed post-
W Enemiy broadcasts asserted that war anti-aggression treaty toward
ihe Boer, floods had not yet ratification.
subsided and.that the But there was a shadow on the
lain would hold up the expected bright prospect Sen. Arthur H.
offensive for days or weeks vandenberg, RMich., refused to
after the waters recededgnin say whether he wold accept mem-
German resistance wassotening bership on the United States dele
at some points on the Third Army gati to the treaty-making con-
attack front, but there waa no ference.
sign of a generalbreak. Mostuoi Three Republicans were among
the west wall pillboxes in.thexarathe eight persons named yesterday
were being defended stubbornly | x
and were cleared -onlytatter G0$ San Francisco on April 25. They
covered by machine gun and tank -F
"fire, had blasted their crews out
WTmhhe"vmSl®sevent Army front
i for nurses, he pointed out that
400,000 American soldiers already
have been wounded in this war
during the week ended Jan. 14.
will be Jef fie Wofford, S. B.
Kelly. J. D. Barker, Lee Bizzell,
Pete‘Bertram and Watt D. Stew-
been turned into him; 864.80 had
beep left aL toe 'Times-Review of-
‛fice for the fund and Clyde Young,
manager of tW Yale and Palace
Theaters, states that 8414 61 was
collected at the picture shows dur-
ing the past week
W A. Scott, chairman of the
fund in the county, today expressed
appreciation for all help given In
.the drive and also thanked all who
contributed in any way to the fund.
This year, contributions were volun-
tary and no expense was involved
in order*that all money donated
could be turned in to the county
and natjonal funds.
Of the $633 36 contributed to
date to the fund, half of the amount!
will remain in the county fund and
’ the remainder will .be sent ■ to the
National Foundation.
mistee, Rep. Charles A^, JBton, of
■ Alsnee genernilv was qulet a- B orerenk sfnuor »s
1* tb< ugh German arte American sklr- committee, and Cmdr Harole E.
f—inisherswere.ariyeinehEral Stassen, the 37 year old political
fenhoffen am 8* mieswest of ftrebalf'trom Minnesota.—
-Htgenau-, ri Announcement, of the delegation
Sharp local fighting,also wog personnel, with Secretary of State
reported from Oberhoften, iSpir Edward R. Stettinius. Jr., as chair-
/ miles so luthoast of Hager U,W a man, followed within 24 hours the
A the Americans cleared. ( release of news that the Big Three
" trongGermn.foretha had. of in the crimea had agreed on the
fiitratdninte the fafftory area - pattern of the postwar .word.
t wotoun------- - : Members, of Congress with aston-
X. er __ , ishingly few exceptions, still were
CuA-rAi Kallave j Speaking well if sometimes cau-
UIOVCI JCIICI> Itiously of the program when the
__ _ . - San Francisco conference delega-
" In Washington “onnimk Awoounow wison, who
• • went alone to Versailles in 1919.
14. (U.P— Mr. Roosevelt is inviting Individ-
-V* .0.A
Today Allied air forces were
over Germany in great strength.
The Nazi radio echoed with warn-
ings of raiders over Dresden and
Swickau, 60 miles to the southwest,- 2
while German radio transmissions
in the north were suspended, a
usual indication of Allied airac- . 3
tivty.
The Dresden asault struck tot
netwurk of rail and highway arter- i •
les and depotsjupoh whieh the 24V
Wehrmacht is dependent to sup- "t
ply its front line forces now rap- T ; j
idly falling back upon the Sax- u
ony capital, 2
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's forces
were pressing against the Quies
River, third of the six water bar- " F
ners before Dresden, on a nint-
mile front less than 70 miles from
their -goal. . J
A few miles to the north, ar- I
cording to German advices, other I
Red Army forces had bypassed I
_u—
Japs Report Raid
On Formosa by
" “ Over $600 to
ng the HSuse mitary affairs com- March of Dimes
mittee to approve legislation pro-,
viding for drafting of nurses
American forces in Europe. Pat-
east of the capital and five miles
soutbwest of Kuestrin, Nazi broad- t
casts said. --------- — -----------—r---. —
Northeast of Berlin. Russian
forces advanced to wfthin five—-
miles of the Danzig-stettin-Berlin
e 22- Germany to Scrap Rules of War for No-Holds-Barred
a- Fight as Result of Big Three ‛s Crimean Declaration
tarday's afternoon sesgion CH*4 he - LONDON: Feb, 14. • (ttF—Buie- conduct ths- war with * nil r.Ultahlc unrlwstanrts that Germa nv
will base hl* atatement on the.Rio pean dispatches said today that means, no matter how grim their -es-and --hat- —ermany
Grande sections of the treaty which Germany hM proclaimed her in- effect, Schmidt said.
give the United States a guaranteed tention of serapping the rules of The STB dispatch, published
350,000 acre feet annually of Rio war from a "no-holds-barred" fight in Stockholm newspapers, said
Grande water below Fort Quitman, to the death as a result of the mention of the Crimean dec la r-
Tex. Bin Three's Crimean declaration. I
He indicated he would not oom- The new policy was said to have1 plosion
-
Weather Forecast
EAST TEXAS: Fair, not much change in tem-
perature. Fresh to strong winds Thursday.
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