Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 89, Ed. 1 Monday, December 11, 1944 Page: 1 of 6
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nize the Soviet-backed Lublin.
committee as
ment.
per,.egg plant, bean and English government in London.
with the world of the west.
There has been hope,
though slim, that the two Polish
For-
his house and one of them rolled
Laredo reported the
coldest
Thursday while he was fishin
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1,500 killed and 2,500 wounded—
Iwabuchi, who "performed bril-
The Weather
positions fell near British head-
TEXAN PROMOTED
Temperature*: High yesterday.
MAN BURNS TO DEATH
30.
Fair and warmer was promised
cold this afternoon and tonight;
at
the next 48 hours while it was
The Swiss were the first to use
car on a high'
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Route of U. S. Highway
77 Through City Gets
Department Approval
Russians Drive
On Budapest from
A Century Ago
By HENRY PRINGLE
W. Kalnut (above) of New York
was reported by army authorities j
what appears to be a large stadium. In the left foreground are many
war office, embassies and the Navy and Justice departments. In the
lower center are the Ginza shops and theatrical district. Many army
LONDON, Dec. 11. (P—Rus-
sian troops drove on Budapest
Some news for motorists: The
army is releasing for civilians an
undisclosed number of tires it
Street Fighting Is
Raging in 5 Villages
Near the Roer River
than 14 days ago the Nipponese
were sweeping all before them as
they blasted ahead toward the
Burma road citadel of Kweiyang.
At Merken, the First army was
within 22 miles of Cologne and
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Loss Brings to 74,
Number of Japanese
Admirals Who Have Died
control and rivers and harbors
work programs and some other
legislation.
the Japanese naval commander-
in-chief in the central Pacific.
Tokyo also raised to 18 the
number of generals whose deaths
have been listed since May 23.
Recorded by the Federal Com-
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had left for peacetime work.
With these tighter draft con-
trols expected to help solve sup-
ply shortages, a new war produc-
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Odd Glimpse* of Life
In Town and Country
the city itself.
Other Russian columns far to
the north of Budapest reached the
Panic Sweeps Nazis
In Hungarian Capital
As Red Forces Approach
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (P)—
The government is making the
selective service system work to
fill gaps in the nation’s war labor
force.
Skilled men released from the
the services to take jobs helping
combat lagging war production
nave been ordered replaced in
uniform by civilians now holding
non-essential jobs.
Revised draft regulations, tap-
ping once again the men in the
26 through 37 age bracket, are
due as a result of instructions to
been promoted to brigadier gen-
eral.
Congress Wants Recess
Congress would like to end its
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Chinese Pursue Enemy
The Chinese drove the Nippon-
ese out of Kweichow into Kwang-
si, recapturing Liuchai just over
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The state highway commission has finally approved the J
proposed routing of U. S. Highway 77, at the west side of the ।
city, the Chamber of Commerce was advised today.
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master plan survey and the em-
ployment of professional services.
The Chamber of Commerce also
has asked the highway depart-
ment to say when actual con-
struction work on the relocation
of U. S. 77 can begin. The de- ‘
a narrow pocket by these three
allied columns, the enemy’s force
a tough request for Santa Claus.
“And what do you want for
Christmas?” said a department
penditure of funds for the draw-
ing of this plan.
At the same time members of
a master plan survey committee
say it will be necessary for them
central Slovakian frontier on
,icitre 1 Laki and Teruo Akiyama and
ieetmicuh ! Rear Admirals Hidehisa Iwagami,
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liantly and daringly during the
attack on Hong Kong as well as
the campaigns in southern Su-
matra and Guadalcanal."
the contrary, much heavy fight-
ing faces the Yanks before enemy
forces north and south of Ormoc
are liquidated.
The Chinese high command an-
nounced today that its counterat-
tacking troops had driven the
Japanese invaders completely
a successor.
Terming Wickard’s actions “il-
legal and contrary to the REA
act,” Slattery’s statement said:
a unrelated to the diplomatic event
e
and police to have failed to ar-;
rived Dec. 4 at McGuire General
the year, 9.
East Texas: Fair, continued cold
east and south, slightly warmer
northwest portion: lowest tem-
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about eight miles south of Ormoc.
Enemy Force Trapped
Greek governments. i the Second Ukraine" army drive Tyler, signed the Treaty of Wang
Officials figure Moscow is busy north and northeast of the capital. Hiya with the Chinese Empire.
eery store operator at Tripp was
burned to death yesterday in hi*
* _ iway near this city.
Freezing Weather Grips
Texas As Snow Blankets
Middewestern States
By The Associated Press
Freezing weather gripped Texas from panhandle to gulf today,
bringing heavy damage to truck and citrus crops in the Rio Grande
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admirals listed as lost since
By The Associated Press
Tokyo belatedly announced to-
day the death of Vice Admiral
Chiuchi Nagumo, “supreme com-
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DALLAS, Dec. 11 (P)—A man
identified by Dallas county offi-
cers as O. S. Ragsdale, 54, gro-
Slattery said the appointment
of a deputy administrator with
“coordinate” authority had the
effect of displacing him.
The White House in announcing
Slattery’s resignation, did not re-
lease the usual exchange of let-
ters. No mention was made of
valley.
The United States weather bu-
reau at Dallas forecast rising tem-
peratures but the freeze — most
severe early December freeze in
the Rio Grand valley’s history,
according to Bill Friend, manager
of the valley experiment station
—had already gotten in its work.
The temperature at Weslaco
was 28 and it was possibly colder
in other sections of the valley.
The severe freeze and heavy
frost wiped out the tomato, pep-
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term. Colleagues want Truman4 mand felt the Germans might
to go through it all over again for I consider their situation hopeless
them later that day in the senate and not make a battleground of
chamber.
Russia Keeps Silence
Diplomats have noticed Russia
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House January 20 when Mr. the east side of the Danube and
Roosevelt is sworn in for a fourth it appeared the Russian high com-
jag
greater east Asia wa."
Last week Yokosuka naval sta-
tion reported the deaths of 13
other admirals.
The admirals who died, Domei
said, were Vice Admirals Hunju
Yanks Capture Ormoc as Chinese Chase Japs
even prisoners had been taken between
Dec. 3 and Dec. 7.
A Berlin broadcast early today
said a tremendous Soviet offen-
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kept strict silence during the An- front of at least 11 miles. The of July 3, 1844. On that day an.
glo-American squabble over in- Soviet communique said more American named Caleb Cushing,
than 40 places fell yesterday to sent on the mission by President
the border. They said they are
now pushing along the Kwangsi-
Kweichow railway, some 17 miles
beyond Liuchai.
The last Japanese force to be
army fought inside Haguenau and
three nearby towns.
95th Division Busy
During Sunday, the 95th divi-
i sion reported cleaning out 25
• pillboxes, 30 fortified buildings
and several dug-in tanks inside
i Saarlautern which the Ameri-
! cans half won eight days ago.
Patton’s men also fought the
streets of Roden and Fraulautern
i beyond Saarlautern and in Sarre-
i guemines.
UE iaue 59- । broadcast disclosed the deaths in
Mr. Rooseveitsreporting the 25th grant of im-
i perial honors to avy officers and
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Senator Truman may have a
double inaugural ceremony as
vice president.
“They also jeopardize the re-
payment of government loans and N------ -
NEw iuka, vec. ii. vry— are dangerous to the welfare and May (.
Two-year-old Linda Lanham, ' permanent success of REA. Ij Thn
ested on plantations in
district suffered some
from Kweichow province. Less
night; ’
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partment at the present time is
doing relocation work on highway j
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hospital, Richmond, Va, after
spending a three-day pass withiuaw.. .e po. .a. ........
her parents at New York. (APi committee of the Chamber of
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in principle by the Chamber of
MISSING—Wac Pvt. Marilynn Commerce and the city council.
The Chamber of Commerce has
requested the state to give actual
designation of the route as soon i
as possible so that plans for the
proposed circus-Fair park may be
(left, center) of Japan's emperor, as photographed for the first time
heart of the congested city of Tokyo lies the moated palace grounds
railroad station. The Sumida river across the picture (right) has
-, .. ; . by Saipan-based Superforts (B29s). Just below the palace is a large guunus. AUawuanuitarecuueges,nuv
to have the actual routing berorei government buildings including the Diet and Prime Ministry, the embassy buildings.—(AP Wirephoto from 20th Airforces),
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_____ . p.____________ _______ _ The death of Nagumo previous-
who has a keen ear for family | have protested, but to no avail. I ly had been announced by Ad-
conversations, had mom and pop. I decline further to be held even miral Chester W. Nimitz.
" nominally responsible for these i Nagumo, who directed the at-
' tack on Pearl Harbor and Mid-
____- i.. ;.L. White House action on their and five miles south of the city i
ss ss m paniascepi !
said far greater increases are i - - - ■ - --
, . . . annexed. Spain’s posession in the
sive was in the making in the Far East fell into our safe-keep-
Vistula bridgehead at Baranov, ing The power of Russia waned,
Poland, and that a large scale and so, little by little, did that
drive aimed at Cracow could be * — ....
then neglected to name the city.
His buddies at Buckley field
are getting up a book on him.
Present odds are 18 to 1 that
he’ll forget the ring.
NO LEFT-HANDED WHISKERS
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 11. (P--
R. P. (Bob) Lyons has a collec-
tion of 99 mustache cups and a
rarity, a mustacne saucer, but
he’s stymied.
Twenty-three skiddoo and oh,
you kid! Nowhere can he find a
mustache cup for left-handers.
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ppergnd egg plants be-
Red army forces immediately The agreement opened five Chi- 1
north of Budapest had smashed nese ports to American merchant-
six miles down the Danube from men. It settled disputed tariff and
B„um a.Palish g9n6rT Wneyggdheacsven tensrsaeseetd cXE Terry 'broke^rough |
States deal with the exiled POllS ( wavosvionaepnd aken Alsggd that |
SHORT MEMORY
DENVER, Dec. 1L (P)—Cpl.
Richard H. Jacobs couldn’t re-
member his fiancee’s street ad-
dress in requesting a Christmas
furlough to marry her.
He found the address—and
acceptance was dated Dec. 8.
The White House did not dis- men “who were either killed in
'—‘ Slattery’s reasonsforaction or died of illness in the
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Capital of Greece |
British Bombers Hit
ELAS Concentrations
Around City Sunday
ATHENS, Dec. 11 (A — Acute . ,
. . pea vegetable crop, W eslaco re-
food shortages and the imminent । . , ...
danger of epidemics threatened ported, adding, that sunshine - .
British heavy borterstroryte ther damage. I mal Russian recognition of the
first time in the week-long civil l iede —1
struggle attacked Elas concentra- weather of the season with light
tions around the city. * * i- J ‘
of this highway has been ap- i
proved by the State Highway
Commission and that a repre- j
sentative from this office to-
gether with the district en-
. gineer are now engaged in de-
termining the detail location
between Gainesville and Den-
ton.”
The letter was signed by J. L.
Dickson, engineer, road design.
The approved route, the actual
survey for which now is being
completed, passes at the extreme
western edge of the city, and
will cross California street at a
point between Leonard Park and
the Fair Park.
. This is the route proposed sev- i
eral months ago by Jac Gubbels,
urban planner of the highway
department. It was then adopted
s a r y of the
Treaty of Wang
H i y a. Nobody
did remember it.
Our eyes were
on France and
on the progress
made since D-
day. They were
on the Pacific.
Yet the fact
that we were at
war all over the
world was not
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illegal acts. |
“The president s order forbids
federal officials to engage in pub- !
__________ _____________ he controversies. Therefore, I
“Cigarettes,” was the solemn have resigned in order to carry
answer. this fight to the public. This is
all I have to say at this time.’
WHAT NEXT? ! A White House announcement,
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Dec. today said Slattery submitted his |
11. (P)—W. B. Hutchinson of i resignation by letter early last munications
• Terre Haute, Ind., was in a train I week, asking that it be made ei-
wreck last September, but es- fective at once.
caped unhurt. ’ acceptance was
Upset, he came here for a rest,
arriving just in time for the Oc- [dose L-.-:2m,
tober hurricane. Last week two quitting. Neither lette S
automobiles collided in front of public. + renter for
- - A capital storm center Ior
ars, Slattery was the subject of
SUPERFORTRESS’ VIEW OF HIROHITO’S PALACE—In the
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driven from Kweichow was
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way, died July 7. He previously
had been identified by Nimitz as
| subcommittee that an electrical TakeejiMiyaskiShinki Nakok'
cooperative sought hisausterxand ! and Senkchi Amano. It was not
thatuhe haretery Wikardandby disclosed how they died. The dead
Sohathan Daniels, a presidential generalswas.MaGen. Tsuneo
assistant, to Step out.
Daniels said he asked Slattery
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As yet there were no official
Russian reports of heavy shelling
Selective Service System to
selective service from War Mo- l 01session this week, if possible. Nearby Positions
bilizer James F. Byrnes. ' getting away early for the holi-
Manpower officials feel the ac- days.
tion will keep war workers at , Finishing touches still are need-
their jobs and cause a return to j ed on the big postwar roads, flood
munitions plants of those who . . .
have been launched in this area
i in the past two days. Three came
I at Dillingen before dawn today,
posts and barracks are located in the area above the imperial palace In one of these. Germansmade
grounds. ALso located in that district are colleges, hotels andother 1a charge shouting.Heil H
- -- -— — - .Every nazi was killed.
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Fight to Public
President Announces
Resignation Without
Mentioning Successor
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (P) —
Harry Slattery, whose resignation 80 in Nolan county, relocating and
as Rural Electrification adminis-, rebuilding seven miles of new
They got to within 70 miles of trator was announced by the highway between Sweetwater
that point before the Chinese hit White House today, said he quit land Roscoe
hook “to carry this fight to the public.” '_______________
In a statement, the embattled II _
veteran of two democratic admin- I nLztA AnnhineAg
istrations, said that Agriculture IUnyU HlIIIUUIIUU
Secretary Wickard had “bypassed
and displaced me as actual ad- Hboath nf NovwoI
ministrator” with the result that UCd Lil Ul lid V di
“the situation within REA has _ A _
become indefensible and increas- L ArAA I ammendor
ingly intolerable.” I UI UC UIIIIIICIIUCI
well over the two-thirds majority side the beleaguered Hungarian
needed to override an expected capital.
veto. The president wants the) Strong formations of Marshal', ,,, g+
‘ - straddling city with an all-out dredth Anniver
frontal assault from that direc-
tion expected at any hour.
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By EDWARD KENNEDY
PARIS, Dec. 11 (AP).—
First army veterans drove
within two and a half miles
of the Roer river citadel of
Duren today and advanced
11. miles along the Aachen-
Cologne superhighway to
Merken. 17 miles inside Ger-
many and the deepest point of
conquest.
i Even as Lt Gen Courtney H
Hodges' shock troops in fresh
snowfall fought t o w a i d the
flooded Roer on a ten-mile front,
the skies were filled with 1,600
U. S heavy bombers and 800 es
corting fighters striking vital
points on German railroads lead-
ing to the front.
Dhorn. three miles west, and
Echtz, 212 miles northwest of Du-
ren. toppled Nearby Geich. Ober-
i geich and Strass were taken yes-
terday.
Street Fighting Wages
Street fighting raged in at least
five villages, the farthest of which
was five miles from Duren They
were Pier. Merken, Gey, Merode
and Schafberg. The Germans em-
ployed dug-in tanks and self pro-
pelled guns at Gey.
On the Saarland front to the
south. Lt. Gen. George S Patton’s
Third army fought amid Siegfried
line defenses at Dillingen and
Saarlautern, encountering eve r
stiffening resistance which took
on a fanatical character. Tanks
and guns fired at the Americans
from vantage points inside build-
ings and factories. Infantry was
buried under rubble heaps left in
the wake of allied air forces
Eleven enemy counterattacks
Victory on
Leyte Is
Important
Americans Control
Important Port for
Jap Reinforcements
By ELDON OTTENHEIMER
Associated Press War Editor
Shell - riddled, bomb - shat-
tered Ormoc on western
Leyte in the Philippines is in
American hands today with
thousands of enemy troops
facing annihilation in a pow-
erful American squeeze play,
while in China resurgent Chi-
nese pound on the heels of
Japanese retreating from
strategic Kweichow province.
A badly battered Japanese navy
heard bad news from London
with disclosure that Britain now
has two fleets ready for them,
one in the Pacific and the other
in the Indian ocean.
Launching an early morning at-
tack the American 77th division,
which four days previous made
daring landings three miles south, I
captured Ormoc in midafternoon .
Sunday.
The town, an important port !
and reinforcement point for the
Japanese, had been an American
objective for weeks.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur says
the American 7th division moving .
north up the coast is within a mile I
of making contact with elements
of the 77th which fanned out and
moved down the coast after land- !
ing. A third American force
came over the mountains from
Burauen on Leyte’s east side and
joined with the 7th at Albuera,
sing into asserted efforts to force his
a bomblaccidentally dropped resjgnatinn a senate agriculture
from a plane overhead, plunging ne to _ -----1
into the water about 50 feet from
Other low readings: Gainesville
------------------ Quarters on the eastern outskirts 253- Harpersville 23, Abilene 25,
WTIM^ ^T^ARMY *22 2 - - -
SrSan°^ "2, $: kagh for T801100 20:
enth -army quartermaster has 75-millimeter shell struck British Beaumont 28, Navasota 29, Hous-
headquarters. The British replied ton 27, Dalhart 21, Del Rio 27, El
with artillery and mortars. । Paso 23. Sulphur Springs 27, Cor-
Heavy rain curtailed action dur- , pus Christi 32, Alice 31Browns- peratur
ing the night but fires started by yille 34. Victoria 32, Palacios 30, frost lo'
shellfire still were smoking today I Yoakum 31, Galveston 34, Laredo ;
on the northern slopes of the Ac- 30. •
ropolis. Fair and warmer was promised coia mis arternoon ana vongnt; <
All unlading of relief ships at for the West Texas area during Tuesday fair and warmer; low-
Piraeus, port of Athens, was * th- “ *---’ —i- ---- - - - T--- ----
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RAF Wellingtons and cannon . ,
firing Spitfires joined the san- ing har
guinary fighting 4- already re- Lared
ported to have cost the leftists, damage..
........ .* ____- Amarh was the coldest spot can’t use any more; casings will
after an Elas attack supported by in the ktate with the mercury be reconditioned and put on sale
mortars and artillery had been tumbling Mb 16 degrees. It was in retail channels,
repelled yesterday by British 17 at Salt Flat, 18 at Clarendon
troops using tank and field guns, and Wink and 19 at Lubbock.
Several shells fired from Elas
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Ice Makers Meet
In Annual Session
FORT WORTH, Tex., Dec. 11
(P)—Members of the Southwest-
ern Ice Manufacturers Associa-
tion assembled here today for the
first of a two days convention
to discuss trade problems and
plans.
Fred A. Wewerka, president,
said here yesterday that Texas
plants have stepped up their
manufacturing facilities 20 per
cent with a minimum amount of
equipment and that ice shortages,
such as experienced by some
cities last summer, may be
averted in 1945. -
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er Rio Grande valley to-
lesday fair and warmer,
'exa*: Fair, not quite so
commission, the
in the southern segment of the
Yamashita line, although many
thousands strong, are unable to
extricate themselves,” MacArthur _ A .
“Capture of ormoc, it was Sattery Quits
pointed out, does not mean con-___ _
elusion of the Leyte campaign. To ;
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of China, while the power of Ja-
pan grew greater. The United 1
States sought peaceful trade in
the Far East and looked forward j
toward the day when the Philip-
pine island* could be given their
independence. But the hope of
peaceful trade ended as Japan de- 1
manded to be dictator of the Far
East. And before long, Japan had
taken the Philippine islands. I
When V-E day comes, when I
Germany gives up, the United I
States will redouble and quad-
ruple its efforts to finish the busi-
ness started with the Treaty of
Wang Hiya just one hundred |
years ago. More ships, more Sup- |
erfortresses, more guns, more am- I
munition—more of everything— I
will be needed for this unfinished 1
business it will cost more to de- I
feat Japan than to defeat Ger- I
many. I
That is why more bonds than I
ever before must be bought in |
the Sixth War Loan. I
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