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BITTY HANSEN, 17-year-old complaining witness in Errol
Flynn’s trial on statutory rape charges, describes to Deputy
Dist. Atty. Thomas W. Cochran the arrangement of the rooms
in the Bel Air mansion where she claims she was ravished.
She took the stand as the first of the state’s chief witnesses
ig the trial at Los Angeles.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-
(AP)—A major congression-
al spectacle—an open hearing
on a presidential diplomatic
appointment—was assured to-
day by a unanimous vote of
the Senate foreign relations
committee to hear charges of
unfitness levelled against Ed-
ward J. Flynn, nominated to
be minister to Australia.
By just as unanimous a vote, the
Senate banking committee in ex-
ecutive session approved President
Roosevelt’s appointment of former
• Sen. Prentiss M. Brown (D-Mich)
to succeed Leon Henderson as price
administrator. 1
Chairman Wagner (D-NY) . of
the banking committee predicted
the Senate would confirm Brown,
who was defeated for reelection to
it, next week. At that time, how-
ever, Flynn’s nomination will be
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
GOLLYWOOD, Jan. 15—(UP) -
As weird an assortment of Holly-
wood characters as ever walked
across the screen came to court
today to complete the story of Bet-
th Hansen’s night with Errol Flynn.
“There was the handsome Flynn,
himself, worried about the prospect
of 50 years in the penitentiary if
convicted on statutory rape charges.
+ There was, the 17-year-old Miss
Mumnsen, whose story about her re-
lations with a succession of men
made the kind of literature the
train butchers used to peddle:
There also were Lynne Boyer, a
singer, and Chi-Chi Toupes, a strip
terse dancer. Both entertained at
a dinner in a Bel Air mansion,
which ended. Miss Hansen charged,
with Flynn taking her upstairs, un-
| dressing her, except for her socks,
and attacking her.
Miss Hansen. was to finish her
sory, under cross examination by
Defense Attorney Jerry Giesler,
and to deny as vigorously as she
could his not-so-heavily veiled hints
that she considered Flynn a sucker
in a town of suckers.
| . “Didn’t you,” he demanded,
%‘tell police that it was easy to
get money from the suckers in
this sucker town?”
"I beg your pardon,” cried the
indignant Miss Hansen. “I
to give concerning Flynn’s fare-
well, kiss on Miss Hansen’s lips.
The trial probably will adjourn over
the weekend, with the Affair Han-
sen still incomplete. Most of next
week will be devoted to case of an-
other teen-age girl, Peggy Satter-
lee, who charges Flynn with taking
her yachting and attacking her
twice.
just starting on the way designed
for confirmation.
AIR COAL STRIKE
Chairman Connally (D-Tex)
aid
Move to Inspire
Oil Hunts Made
the foreign relations committee
hearing probably would begin
Wednesday or Thursday, and that
only direct testimony, not hearsay
evidence, would be considered.
Two other matters held the in-
terest of official Washington—the
increasingly urgent one of taxes,
and a War Labor board hearing
on the anthracite strike in Penn-
sylvania.
Something new in the way of
taxes—a "restraining tax,” designed
to keep people from spending too
much on non-essentials, while per-
mitting them to buy a certain
amount of goods tax-free-was talk-
INTERPRETING
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By GLENN BABB
Amid the clamor over the politic-
al situation in the French empire
there is danger of overlooking the
fact that French fighting men, de-
dicated to the liberation of their
country, are getting ahead very
well with the immediate job of ex-
pelling the Axis from Africa.
In fact, during the last few days,
while the American Fifth and Brit-
ish First and Eighth armies have
been concentrating on their dis-
positions for the knockout blows
against Nehring and Rommel, near-
ly all- the Allies’ African success
have been scored by Frenchmen.
Some of these fight under the
Lorraine cross of de Gaulle and
some under the banner of Giraud.
A Fighting French column under
General LeClere has accomplished
one of the brilliant military feats
of the war, a 1,000-mile advance
from the heart of Africa to drive
Mussolini’s minions from the Fez-
zan region of Southern Libya. 1
In Central and Southern Tunisia
Giraud’s men are keeping up a re-
lentless pressure on the enemy,
scoring varuable tactical gains and
ranging deep into the desert near
the Tunisian-Libyan frontier.
And while the’ politicians are
bickering over the best way of
unifying all Frenchmen in a posi-
tion to fight Hitler, these soldiers
of two factions have established
contact ‘across the African wastes.
Just how is not disclosed; perhaps
by plane, perhaps by motor or even
camel patrols traversing the sever-
al hundred miles still separating
the main forces. But at least
they have formed a liaison with
every prospect that it will be
strengthened until there is a strong
French sector between the Ameri-
cans and British in Tunisia and the
British in Libya which may prove,
one of the main elements of Al,
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ed around on Capitol hill as a pos-
sille compromise to overcome the
administration’s hostility toward a
general sales tax.
___._ . The reasons for a wildcat strike
"wildcat order" which will permit of 17,000 Pennsylvania anthracite
full allowable production from new- miners were to be explained to the
ly discovered fields without shut-War Labor board by a committee
down . I of 15 miners. The labor board,
" 38. .which also summoned operators to
In a move to encourage wildcat-a public hearing this afternoon,
ting the commission thus liberal-wanted to know why the miners
ized a rule’ which heretofore has "are on strike against the national
limited discovery wells to shut-no-strike policy and against the
.__. I welfare of the nation in time of
downs which other wells are re-war.” On the outcome may depend
stricted to. Some wells now operate
only 15 days out of a month. The
wildcat wells now will be able to
DALLAS, Jan. 15.—(—The Text
as Railroad commission today ap-
proved an amendment to its 1942
operate, at their allowable rate,
each day of the month.
A further amendment to the or-
der, suggested by Commissioner
Olin Culberson, was held over by
the commission for future consid-
eration. -.
certainly did not.”
“Miss Hansen, whose misuse of
the English language indicated she
told the truth when she said she
ran away from school in Lincoln,
Neb., testified that she met one
| Armand Knapp when serving him
shclogna sandwich in a Hollywood
drug •store; that he told her he ----------—
could introduce her to Flynn: that [ discoveries and to allow full pro-
he said she should play up to him.
and that she did meet Flynn and
Culberson suggested that per-
mission be given for the drilling of
more wells surrounding wildcat
duction under field allowables up
to 18 months.
a threatened extension
of the
walkout, which now centers in
Wilkes-Barre.
COUPONS IN TAX PLAN
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sat in his lap at the dinner.
"You were playing up to him?”
Cosler asked. **
“Yes,” snapped Miss Hansen.
Then. she said, he took her up-
stairs, removed her slacks, which
were tight, and her underwear, and
attacked her.
“Didn’t you object?” Giesler
queried. •.
‘‘I didn’t have no objections,” Miss
Hansen replied, calmly smoothing
her skirt.
Blushing occasionally, Miss Han-
sen admitted she didn’t learn the
name of the first man she met
in Hollywood, that she didn’t dis-
cover Sammy’s other name, even
in a hotel room he rented for her,
and that she wasn’t sure about
Bunny’s last name but believed it
was “Baker."
“When she finishes her testimony.
Miss Boyer will tell about: what
she saw at the dinner party.
Miss Chi-Chi also had evidence
Col. E. O. Thompson, commission
member, declared at the proration
hearing here that a raise in crude
oil prices of 58 cent s a barrel
would be necessary to bring oil in-
come "even up to parity with 126
other commodities.”
He declared proration had held
down the price during the depres-
sion by regulating supply to meet
demand—and then came price reg-
ulation under OPA to keep it at
that figure while other prices rose
sharply.
"The price of oil today regulates
the discovery rate of three years
hence,” Thompson added. He said
the commission stood firmly on its
declaration favoring a higher price
for oil producers.
Culberson’s proposal would fix
allowables for discovery wells at
from 20 barrels for wells down to
1,000 in depth, to 240 barrels for
wells between 11,000 and 12,000 feet
deep.
FORMER EAGLE SQUADRON FLIER
SURPRISES MOTHER WITH VISIT
One year and three months ago
m Oct. 20, 1941—Pilot Officer
Tommy Donohoo, son of Mr: and
Mrs. T. L. Donohoo, 218 Palm, left
Abilene for Ottawa, Canada, where
joined the American Eagle
squadron, volunteer group.
Thursday, out of a clear blue
sky, he dropped in unexpectedly
to see his mother. Popular Depart-
mgent store employe, while on leave
from the European and African
battlefronts.
With the Eagle squadron the 23-
year old officer has seen action on
| the coast of Britain and was trans-
ferred to Africa in May, 1942. With
other members of the Eagle squad-
ron, he was transferred to the U.
S. Army air forces on July 4, 1942.
Pilot. Officer Donchoo formerly
was employed by the Hilton hotel
| here and the McKee Construction
company in Brownwood.
Miccompanied by his mother, he
was visiting in Haskell Friday.
TOMMY DONOHOO
Senator Bridges (R-NH), heft-
ing a Belgian paving block which
he said had been extracted from
the courtyard of Flynn’s New York
estate, made a series of charges
against the retiring Democratic na-
tional committee chairman yester-
day, including one that the Flynn
courtyard was paved with New York
City materials and labor.
The suggested “restraining tax”
idea, it was understood, embraces
the sales tax principle but would
carry exemptions of possibly $500
or 80 worth of purchases a year.
If such a law were written, with
a $500 exemption, then coupons in
small denominations, would be is-
sued in that amount to each gain-
fully employed person and he could
use the coupons for making tax-
free purchases until they were
exhausted. Anything bought with-
out coupons. would be taxable at
whatever percentage congress de-
cided on.
Meantime, overwhelming strength
appeared to be arrayed behind the
pay-as-you-go principle for col-
lecting individual income taxes, al-
though there was a division of opi-
nion as to how it should be framed.
American Planes
Land in Portugal
LISBON, Jan. 15 -P— Eleven
American planes were reported to
have landed on Portuguese soil to-
day while more than 50 were sight-
ed flying southward over this neu-
tral nation.
The Iberian peninsula has been
buffeted by bad weather conditions
for several days.
The 11 planes were said to have
come down at Portela Sacavem, the
Lisbon airport.
Under normal procedure bellig-
erent planes which land on neutral
soil are subject to internment, just
as are troop units which stray into
neutral territory. It was not brought
out definitely whether the reported
landings were forced.
The size of the formations report-
ed headed across Portugal suggests
another large-scale aerial reinforce-
ment of Allied troops in French
North Africa.
General Terrell III
Maj. Gen. Henry Terrell Jr., com-
mander of the 90th Motorized divi-
sion. Camp Barkeley, has been a
patient at the station hospital since
Monday night when brought in from
the field as a “flu” casualty. The
general hopes to be back with his
troops within s few days.
Ends Long Feud
COLUMBIA, s. c. Jan. 15,-P
The tangled threads of an Edge-
field county feud that caused five
violent deaths were cut today as
the state took the lives of two
men and, for the first time, elec-
trocuted a woman—all convicted of
murder,
Mrs. Sue Logue, 43 year old for-
mer school teacher, was the first to
die. She was convicted along with
her brother-in-law, George Logue,
55, and Clarence Bagwell, 34, of
planning the murder of a neighbor,
Davis W. Timmerman.
Bagwell, the last to go, was pro-
nounced dead 22 minutes later.
George Logue was pronounced dead
in the chair at 6:32.
The three deaths by electrocution
brought to eight the number of
persons to die in the Edgefield
county Logue-Timmerman vendet-
ta that began years ago when Mrs.
Sue Logue was a teacher in a rural
school for which Davis Timmerman
was a trustee.
First of the deaths occurred in
September, 1940, when Sue Logue’s
husband, Wallace Logue, was fa-
tally shot in an altercation with
Timmerman over a calf. A year
later Timmerman was killed by
gunfire, and a few weeks after his
death Sheriff Ward Day Allen,
Deputy W. L Clark and Fred Dorn,
a sharecropper, died in a gun bat-
tie at the Logue farm, where the
officers had gone to serve warrants.
Bagwell was convicted of the ac-
tual slaying of Timmerman. The
Logues were convicted of being ac-
cessories before the fact.
LONDON, Jan. 15.—(UP)
—Royal Air force bombers
struck Lorient, important
German submarine base on
the French Atlantic coast, last
night in the first heavy raid
of 1943, the air ministry said
today.
Two planes were reported missing.
EMPHASIS ON SUBS
The raid was made at a time
when the submarine menace held
the front pages of the British press
as Germany’s greatest threat in the
war.
In the past, heavy raids on Lor-
ient may have coincided with intel-
ligence reports that submarine pens
were filled, or in an effort by the
British to keep the U-boats away
from an important Allied convoy,
but the target last night was be-
lieved to have been Lorient itself as
well as nearby objectives.
Air circles in London stressed the
fact that the bomber command has
made plain its intentions to neutral-
ize such submarine bases and said
the consequent heavy damage and
loss in the French town was re-
grettable but inevitable.
These same sources pointed out
the Lorient attack was proof that
the Allies were ruthless in their de-
termination to deal with the U-boat
menace.
MAY TRAP U-BOATS
The Germans recently broadcast
that their submarine bases on the
French Atlantic coast were bomb-
proof, with the pens covered with
re-inforced concrete, but the pene-
trating powers and blast effects of
the RAF’s 8,000- and 4,000-pounders
—which might have been used in
last night’s raid—have been known
to crumble two or more entire blocks
of buildings at Cologne. Thus it was
conceivable that the pens were so
damaged in. the raid that the U-
boats would be unable to leave until
the debris was cleared.
An American air force communi-
que reported an offensive sweep
yesterday over occupied France and
Belgium by low-flying planes of the
fighter command. Damage was re-
ported to enemy planes and trans-
port personnel.
Two Focke-Wulf 190a were shot
down north of Ostend, the communi-
que said, and other American planes
attacked a small coastal steamer
with cannon fire. Bursts were seen
to take effect. All planes were re-
ported safely returned.
Abilene Aviator
Missing in Action
Relatives" were notified Thursday
that Lt. James O. Jones Jr. 23-
year-old Abilenian, has been report-
ed missing in action since Jan. 7
somewhere over Western Europe.
Lieutenant Jones, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. O. Jones of Sipe Springs,
has a brother and sister living in
Abilene, Orus Jones, 2522 Olsen, and
Mrs. Fred Holder, 1942 Walnut. An-
other sister, Mrs. H. D. Gallion, lives
in Albany. His wife is employed in
Midland. .
A Flying Fortress pilot, the flier
enlisted Nov. 9, 1941, after taikng a
Civilian Pilot Training course at
Hardin-Simmons university and the
local airport. He received his com-
mission from the Lubbock Flying
school and was stationed in Okla-
homa City, Okla. Salt Lake City,
Utah, and was sent overseas on Sept.
7, 1942, from Massachusetts.
The last letter received by his sis-
ter, Mrs. Gallion, was dated Dec. 26.
W hat YouBuy With
WAR BONDS
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Labor for domestic needs is scarce
. sa men are working for War
needs. Materials are scarce . . .
they are going into War Production.
So that garage or other outbuild-
ing must wait until the War is won.
But after the War, when the Peace
is won too. :. you will have money
to spend if you start saving by buy-
ing War Bonds now. You can have
that garage and the other things
on the priority lists today. Invest at
least 10 percent of your income in
War Bonds every payday.
U. S. Treunwa Denartnuert
Berlin Reports Japs
Build Transport Rafts
NEW YORK, Jan.15—(P—The Ber
lin radio broadcast today a Tokyo
report that the Japanese have be-
gun the construction of rafts made
of bamboo, with a surface area of
10,000 square meters, to transport
army materials.
The broadcast said the construc-
tion was ordered after successful
tests had been completed under the
super vision of Japanese military
authorities.
The building of such devices more
than strongly hints of the shipping
losses that the Japanese have suf-
fered.
Hale Center Bank
Suspects Indicted
FORT WORTH, Jan. 15—(P-
Steps will be taken immediately to
bring Flavis Godfrey Gilbert and
Talbert Jackson Laymen here for
trial in federal court on charges of
robbing the First National bank of
Hale Center of $9,626 Nov. 27, U.
S. Dist. Atty. Clyde O. Eastus an-
nounced.
A bank robbery indictment was
returned against the two yesterday
by a federal grand jury here. Gil-
bert is in Tallahassee, Fla., and
Layman is in Los Angeles, Calif.
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ALLIED FORCES MAKE CONTACT—French forces driving
(arrow) northwest of Hairouan established communications
(heavy dotted line) with French army moving northward in-
to Libya (arrow) from Equatorial Africa, Allied headquarters
in North Africa reported. With British advancing beyond
Sirte toward Wadi Zem-Zem, the approximate Axis-dominat-
ed territory, based on Tripoli, in Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria
Axis Supply Lines
Pounded by Allies
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH APRICA, Jan. 15--
Flying Fortresses attacked the Eastern Tunisian supply ports of Sousse
and Sfax yesterday, leaving the harbor areas aflame from a destructive
downpour of explosives, it was announced today.
Lighter two-motored B-26 Marauders battered rail lines and high-
ways along the coastal road at Mahares, on the Gulf of Gabes 20 miles
southwest of Stax, and American fighters ranged widely over the battle
area.
An allied communique said that “there was no change in the ground
situation.”
The Allied aerial attack also was kept under way from bases in the
east where United States and South African warplanes battered at Mar-
shal Rommel’s supply lines and air bases along the Tripolitanian coast
and into Tunisia. A Cairo communique said 13 Allied pilots were miss-
ing after widespread operations in which at least eight Axis fighters
were downed.
In London, the admiralty announced that British submarines in the
Mediterranean had sunk three more enemy supply ships and a small
naval vessel, probably destroyed
three other supply ships, and shell-
ed a railway bridge on the south-
ern coast of Italy.
A forward P-40 outfit led by Maj.
Philip G. Cochran of Erie, Pa., who
LONDON, Jan. 15.-(UP)-
The Nazi propaganda ministry,
apparently preparing the Ger-
man people for more bad news
from Africa, announced today
that the British were about to a
hurl 10 divisions (150,000 men)
against the remnants of the
Africa Corps in Tripolitania.
recently bombed a German head-
quarters at Kairouan, was credited
with six victories in three days.
Cochran and 1st Lt. Thomas A.
Thomas Jr. of Ada, Okla., shot
down a Focke-Wulf 190 on Jan.
11. On the following day the unit
shot down three others. Cochran
got another plane Jan. 13, and Lt.
E. T. Bent of Pittsford, N. Y. also
shot one down.
All told, American airmen bagged
15 planes—nine Junkers 88s, four
Messerschmitt 109s, and two Focke-
Wulf 190s.
Two RAF Spitfire fighters disclos-
ed that now virtually all the aerial
fighting in the northern sectors of
the Tunisian front is taking place
over the enemy’s lines.
Germany Claims
800 French Slain
BERLIN (From German Broad-
casts), Jan. 15.—(PP——Eight hun-
IIDUCE SUFFERS
FALLEN ARCHES -
CAIRO, Jan. 15—(P)Airmen
operating over the Libyan desert
report that Mussolini is suffering
from fallen arches.
There are many junctions along
the roads which spread like spokes
from Tripoli and at these points
Il Duce in happier days had
triumphal arches constructed. These
junctions now are convenient tar-
gets for RAF bombings of road
traffic and the arches are said to
have suffered.
Gremlin Disrupts
Soldiers’ Poker
FORT BENNING, Ga., Jan. 15-
(UP)—The appearance of a poker
gremlin was vouched for today by
The Bayonet, Army post newspaper.
Witnesses to activities of the
gremlin were only listed as para-
troopers "Corporal Fay, Corporal
Woods, Bardin the Great, Sam New-
lin and Tackett the Terrible.
Playing quarter - limit poker-
Ceuces wild—the five called for a
new deck, snuffled and the hand was
dealt.
"Each man began looking at the
man next to him with an expres-
sion of ‘Raise me sucker, I can use
Berlin Radio:
Sends Death -
Stand Order
By The Associated Press
Adolf Hitler’s armies on the
lower Don, selling their lives ‘
at a rate of more than one-a-
minute, were pictured in So-
viet dispatches today as reel-
ing back on the approaches to
Rostov, while the Russians
captured at least, six more
towns and killed 1,800 Nazis
in 24 hours.
Soviet headquarters said the Red
armies crushed repeated counter-
attacks by "big enemy tank and
infantry forces” and continued to
roll forward.
BERLIN SCARED
Simultaneously, the Berlin radio
for the first time betrayed alarm
over the morale of 22 Nazi divisions
trapped in the narrow Don-Volga
ccorridoir before Stalingrad. In a
special broadcast, the radio preach-
ed a death-and-duty sermon to Hit-
ler’s soldiers “who see no sense in
holding on,” and told them bluntly:
"Personal wishes are of no ac-
count. It is up to the soldier to carry
out’ orders in a spirit of blind and
unquestioning confidence.”
The broaceast came in the wake
of Soviet reports yesterday that
high-ranking German officers were
escaping from the Stalingrad trap
by plane.
Hitler’s field headquarters acknow-
ledged that the Russians were at-
tacking with “unabated fierceness”
in the vast battle area along the
lower Don and in the Caucasus.
DRIVE INTO KALMYCK
Today’s Soviet mid-day com-
munique said Russian shock troops,
storming back through the ruins of
a Stalingrad factory district, rout-
ed. the Germans out of fortifica-
tions and houses, demolished 56
blockhouses, cleared a street and
Emd AO 2MO See Kavanee
on the lower Don, in the westward
thrust toward the great German
base at Rostov, Russian headquar-
ters announced that the Red arm-
ies slogging through wet, heavy
snows had now driven back the
Nazi invaders more than 125 miles
and pushed within 45 miles of the
Kalmyck steppes.
In a single day’s fighting, official
dispatches said, the Russians mark-
ed up a 26-mile advance to recap-
ture the town of Sotnikovskoye on
the fringes of the Kalmyck region,
while other Soviet columns expand-
ed their wedge along the Rostov-
Batu railroad. One spearhead had
already captured a town 20 miles
west of the-rail junction at Min-
erainye Vody, the Red army com-
mand said.
SILENT ON LENINGRAD
The German radio, conceding
small territory gains by the Rus-
sians, found a curious satisfaction
in the situation with the comment
that it would have been worse if
Hitler’s invasion armies had kept
on winning!
" ... The Soviet retreat into the
vast eastern expanses of the Soviet
union would have confronted the
German armies with almost insol-
uble supply problems.”
Russian military quarters remain-
ed silent on Stockholm reports that
Marshal Semeon Timoshenko was
leading a new offensive to break
the 17-months-old German siege
of Leningrad, the old czarist capi-
tal in the north, or that a Russian
drive was developing in the Vo-
ronezh sector on the upper Don
Senate’s Petrillo
Probe Suspended
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15-
The Senate banking committee to-
day quickly and unanimously ap-
proved President Roosevelt’s nomi-
nation of former Senator Prentiss
M. Brown of Michigan as price ad-
ministrator.
Committee attaches said the
members voted approval of their .
former colleague “almost before
they got their hats off.”
dred French troops were killed and
15 tanks were destroyed in Central the dough’” The Bayonet related.
Tunisia, authoritative Germans said
today, when, - approximately one
regiment strong, the French launch-
ed an attack toward Pont Du Fahs
but were repulsed after several
hours. of fighting.
A sizeable pot was on the table
when someone called. Each player
showed A straight flush, a queen
high spade flush winning.
But the gremlin had gummed the
works - eight deuces were counted
in the five hands.
THE WEATHER
STOP and THINK
There is a deplorable tendency
among us Americans to cling
overlong to youth. Is anything
more ludicruous than the mid-
die-aged woman who tries to
act kittenish or the middle-aged
man who dresses and acts like
college boys are supposed to but
seldom do outside the movies?
—Dr. Frank H. Ferris, Cleveland
pastor. /
He that worketh deceit shau
not dwell within my house: he
that telleth lies shall not tarry
in my sight—Psalm 101.7.
Ginger Rogers
To Wed Marine
HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 15—(P-
Screen Actress Ginger Rogers, the
titlan-haired Independence, Mo.,
girl whose flashing feet first won
her fame in a . Texas • Charleston
contest way back in the 1920s, is
engaged, the Los Angeles Times
says today, to marry Jack Briggs,
a private in the U. S. Marine corps.
Briggs, the newspaper states,
once worked as an actor at the
same studio with Miss Rogers, but
they didn’t meet until three months
ago—and since then they’ve seen
each other not more than ten
times. . .
U. s. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
(This information must not be broadenst
by radio)
ABILENE and Vicinity: Warmer this af-
ternoon and tonight with fresh to strong
winds. __
EAST TEXAS (east of 100th meridian):
Warmer this afternoon and tonight with
fresh to strong winds over north portion
and moderate to fresh winds over south
portion
WEST TEXAS: Continued mild tempera-
atures this afternoon: considerably colder
with snow squalls and strong winds late
tonight in Panhandle and South Plains:
elsewhere about as cold tonight as last
might
Highest temperature yesterday: Clity of-
flee, 67; airport, 69. ,
Lowest this morning: City office, 36;
airport, 32.
VICTORY
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 205, Ed. 2 Friday, January 15, 1943, newspaper, January 15, 1943; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1635611/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.