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SERVICE OF THE KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.
NO. 173.
FINE SNOVV MAN
0 TALK OVER G. O. P. PROSPECTS *
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CITY PROJECTS
DEER SMILE
SEEN OR HEARD
QNi: of the local attruct ions of
the snow storm is the snow-
man at 1006 West Hullum. Car#
have stopped to take in the fel-
low
Th
snowman was made by
Barbara and Carolyn Carr, Millv
Myers and Charles Webster. The
address is the residence of Mrs.
Carr, sister of Rev. Amos Myers.
Drive by and see it.
SPOT Collins still eontinues I"
make it In war reports. The
UNITED PRESS NEWS SERVICE
" Light freeze early tonight. Con-
tinued Cold but moderating Satur-
day.
BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1944.
ait
Price Daily 5c — Sunday 5c
Associated Press in its afternoon
report of Thursday said an air
laid on Rome was led by Capt.
Frank Collins. ' «
•Apparently Sjiot has become 0
leader of the flight. All Breckeiit-
ridge is proud of his record.
A RTliUR Miller, new president
of the Breckenridg? Chant*
l>er ol Commerce, has two proj-
ects in mind, he said today, and
these are right in keeping witji
what this corner has been advo-
cating.
These are roadways to state
park and a City beautification
movement here. Both ideas give
us a thrill. We have been advo-
eating planting pecan trees now.
Mr. Miller says that Brecken-
ridge may not be the biggest city
in Texas, but it can be macfc the
prettiest. ^
THE time is ripe for a beautifi-
cation movement here. Ap-
proximately one hundred homes
have been sold In Brcckenridgo
during the past year, and 95 per
cent were to home owners. W1
pie who will live in them and
should be glad to join a movement
of beautification. >
It will not be expensive. Just a
certain amount of work of cleari-
ing. and planting will m H?
changes that will be most firatlfyr
ing. When it is made a wholesale
•movement it becomes a step thai
will pay financial dividends as
well as swell the pride of all of us,
0. 0. P. PROSPECTS IN '44 probably are the subject of discussion by
theae three women delegates, to the Republican national committee
meeting in Chicago. Left to right are Mrs. Alma K. Schneider,
Mount Morrison, Colo.; Mrs. Alfred Williams, Taunton, Mass., and
Mrs Lucv JfUlman. Delta. Colo. flnt or national Snumlnhnt*\
Desertion Trial
For Roberts At
tsr/K do not know how to gqt
W roadways to state park, but
to our mind, as has been said be-
fore this step appears to us to be
our greatest postwar project. Mfr.
Miller and other Chamocr 'flf
Commerce officials and ittortlbeBi
continuully hammering on it will
get it done, we feel. There wljl
be a highway meeting in Ai
soon and maybe we could got
state to build roadways to ' l
sum Kingdom Lake. It will bring
revenues to Breckenrldge In many
ways tor yeatw to come. We are
Jlor these two enterprises.
SEEN or '.Heard: M/Sgt. Wil-
liam Kite writing he is gettlrti
the rlk'ckenridge American
irly somewhere in Uic South Pa-
ific . . . that
can do fptlom* lltl* At R
seems
shoot quail legally * . . ttr D.
Holes hunting a physlCittn tp treat
him lor earache . . . Mm. Jess
Pipkin and others planning to go
to Dallas to attend, funeral ~*
pvt. Harry Roberts, of Chicago,
a trainee at Camp Walters, is
scheduled to be tried for desert
tloii before a Court Martial at
Camp Wolters Saturday, the Pub-
lic Relations Branch at the Camp
stated when asked what disposi-
tion had been made of the Rob-
erts case that had attracted al-
most world-wide attention.
Roberts, on Dec. 16, was a pa-
tient In the Station Hospital at
Camp Wolters. A former partner
in | business, John J. Williams,
came to Camp Wolters in the aft-
ernoon of that drty, and whan he
left the camp after talking to Rob-
erts at the hospital, Roberts was
in the turtle back of the car Wil-
liams was driving.
Military policc stopped Williams
on the highway just outside the
camp gate, returned him to the
camp, and found Roberts in the
cat- back, clad in pajamas.
Williams was arrested, charged
with inciting and abetting a sol-
dier to desert, was later taken to
Fort Worth by a United States
marshal, [Hit under $3,000 bond
and his case will come before the
federal grand jury at Dallas on
Dec. 24.
Roberts told officers that he
ort
HOLE DUG IN MOUNTAIN
IN ALASKA BECOMES
SMELT FOUNTAIN
Naknek, Alaska <U.PJ_The men
of this foggy, storm-whipped Bis-
tol Bay outpost maintain they are
garrisoning one of the screwiest
spots in the north, and offer ap-
propriately screwball evidence in
support ot their contention.
Lt. Sam Montroy, Port Arthur;
Tex., for example, vouches for the
existence of a "smelt fountain"
which he and his men tapped in
the Naknek river shortly after
freaza-up last fall. It seems there
was a heavy run of smelt under
the ice, and when the soldiers
chopped a water hole through the
ice one morning, pressure caused
by a rising tide forced a geyser of
water and fish several feet into
the air. They had intended to use
the water to ice down a road, bit
instead they rushed back for pails
and busied themselves picking up
enough fish to feed their entire
outfit.
Sgf. James Finlay, Livonia, N.
¥., former Brooklyn policeman
and one of the Veterans of Guad
alcana!, asserts it often is so fog
gy at Naknek that the seagulls
are grounded. He insists—with
the support of every soldier here
tack Tl!S car JlS tot .to E'™ .'SStS
Relief From Cold
Spell Promised
West Texans
EIGHTEEN DEGREES, SEC-
OND COLDEST DAY OF
YEAR, RECORDED HERE
One month from the day the
coldest day of the year was regis-
tered the second coldest day of the
year here Friday morning when
the thermometer at the Commun-
ity Public Service Company plant
registered 18 degrees. On. Decem-
ber 14, the reading was 14.
Sunshine sparkling on frost and
snow covered car arid housetops
Friday promised to bring relief
from the cold wave-which brought
the heaviest snowfall since 1930
u many parts of West Texas. The
weatherman also promised relief*
At Abilene five inches was
measured, the heaviest since 1930
v...cn six incnes fell, and south-
ward the fall was said to be even
heavier. At Albany, however,
there was no snow but a light fall
west of there five miles.
Some farmers and stockmen in
the southern part of west Texas
' estimated a foot.
I One bus to Breckenridge was
{cancelled yesterday, this the first
bus out of Brownwood. At San
Angelo five to seven and one half
inches of snow were recorded.
Traffic was hazardous and some
roads were nearly impassable.
Ambulances and workers clear-
ing wreckage at Novice where a
troop train plowed into a passen-
ger did get over the icy highways
to that town from Abilene and
from Coleman and Brownwood.
Drifts made it impossible for
many people in the south part of
Taylor county to reach their
places of work in Abilene and ot
Camp Barkeley.
SOVIETS PROPOSE NEW BORDER 1
POLAND,
4 .Original^border,
Russo-German
.division—1939J
New bofderTfJro
posed fby3 Russia
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Allied Planes Are
JIfoiiS
Church Members
door shut, and. Williams did n«t
know that he;.1#! in there .when
he gofc Hi the car and hdt camp.
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Reports from local hospitals to-
ot day showed four new patients.
irHikini! lor ahd missing account th"r and A. A. Webster wire u-
in yesterday's ported as new patients at Wcs;
looking tor ahd
of C-C banquet
paper . ,. Legion may have
House as speaker for birthday
banquet ... A letter from S«t
Walter 11. Benedict at Ft. Jack-
son, s. C. says Of all the places he
has been the Dynamo city Is the
best ... ahd lot* of car# that
atari running again tomorrow.
have been still since cold wave to
SECRETARY of State Sidney
Latham believes that he owns a
motion picture which would take
the blue ribbon in any contest for
facial expressions of combined
R. Stevenson * secretary, Maurice | JAPS CATCH IT IN NEW GUINEA ATTACKS
side and J- M. Gavin and Mrs, A.
M. Martin new patients at livck-
enrldge Clinic.
C. H. Brown was re|M>rtcd
greatly improved at Westswc.
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House Approves
Soldier Vote Bill
Washington, Jan. 14. - <ixi -
Tiit ..uiW elections committee to-
day approved a soldier-vote bill
leaving control over absentee bal-
lots for servicemen a.r.d women in
the hands of the states.
ally go haywire In the murk and
spin 4; squawking wildly until
they get theft feet back,-on #
igwundfW
Both Sgt. Firtlay and Lt, Mon-
troy touch tor a yarn told here
concerning a number of carrier
pigeons brought to the post from
Ktmeiuiorf Field ar.d released so
that their return flying time
i .uui t e clocked.
"Net a single one of the pigeons
ever iji t home," >uys Sgi. Kiniay
"It was foggy for a couple ol
wcv-k.i after they released 'em, and
our theory is that they gave up
trying tolly in this crazy country
and are walking home."
Sent Into Navy
[ •' ' .' , ' i'"' : . 1 ' * • '
Rejwrt has been received by
draft board that Otis Johnson, ne-
gro, has been accepted by the
navy and left for service without
taking the furlough offered.
Johnson reported at the induc-
tion center on January 11.
Place k Texas
(By United Press)
West and north Texas shivered
under a hard freeze and clear
skies today while in the central
section of the state snowmen and
snowballs were the order of the
day as Old Man Winter played
one of his freakish tricks on the
state.
Freezing temperatures practi-
cally blanketed the state with the
exception of the upper coast as
Wink, along the Texas-New Mexi-
co border reported zero, one -of
the coldest/readings in the nation
this morning.
At Austin, residents awoke to-
day to find some five inches of
snow on the ground and more
falling, while two inches were re-
ported at Waco, one inch at Har-
persville, near Mineral Wells, and
flurries at San Antonio. It was
Still snowing at 8:30 a. m. at Aus-
tin, Waco and San Antonio.
Freezing rain was reported at
Navasota and Texarkana, while it
was sleeting and snowihg at Tyler
where k,' heavy '. coating ' 1 lett
weighted down trees and commu-
nication and power lines.
From Dallas, westward and
northwestward and along the Rio
Grande from El Paso to the tip
of the state ot Brownsville, clear
skies were reported.
CONCESSIONS may be made by Moscow in an effort to settle
tne dispute with the Polish government-in-exile over the border be-
tween the two countries. indicated on the map above are the pre-
war boundary, the border agreed upon by Russia and Germany in
2990 and the new line proposed now by Moscow. Bait Prussia
probably would be included in Poland, : {Ittterntitiensli
Governor To Be
Ranget
STEVENSON TO BE HEARD
TWICE ON MARCH 2
DOUBLE PROGRAM
Governor Coke R,
will bo th<> guest of Ranger on
Texas Independence Day and will
speak oq a program of the 1920
Club that afternoon at 3 o'clock
and at a city-wide church meeting
that evening at 7:30 o'clock.
The announcement of th„* gov;
ernor's acceptance of the invita-
tion was made yesterday by Mrs.
Hal Hunter, sponsor of the Mas-
quers Dramatic Club of Ranger
Junior College, which organize-:
t ion will present the governor and
Rev, David M. Phillips, secretary
of the Ranger Ministerial Alli-
ance and Chaplain of the 15th Bat-
talion of the Tcxp State Guard,
who issued a double invitation to
the governor on behalf of the or-
ganizations which they represent.
Complete plans for; the gover-
nor's visit have not been .com-
pleted but will be announced as
soon as possible. Tentative plans
call for the afternoon program
which will likely be held at the
recreation building and for a ban-
Panic-stricken German troops abandoned their White Russian
stronghold of Mozyr and Kalinkovichi today and fled westward
through the frozen Pripet marshes under relentless attack by Soviet
ski troops and sabrc-swinging cavalrymen.
Meanwhile from New Delhi came report that Allied troops have
thrust, five miles southeastward from captured Maungdaw, 55 miles
above the Burmese port of Akyab, and are continuing a slow adva.vc
despite Japanese counterattacks, the Southeast Asia command an-
nounccd today.
' ~— <$, Allied bombers and fighters
' shuttled over the English channel
in great waves all day today ir.
large scale renewal of the attack
on the French invasion coast, 111
first major daylight activity since
•ne 1,400-plane American bom-
bardment of Germany Tuesday.
American Mitchell bombers
raided Japanese shipping in the
south China sea yesterday and
bombed and machine-gunned en-
emy troops and military installa-
tions at Foil Bayard, on the
Kwang-Chow peninsula, a com-
munique disclosed today.
Natives Think
/hole U. S: Is
On Their Island
ows
Send As War Aid
Detroit (tuei—Plans for an ef-
ficient. complete bovins invasion
of devastated European countries
are being worked out in the
United States to supply the con-
tinent's children with nourishing
milk as soon as possible after the
firing stops.
The Rev. Harvey R. Hostetler,
pastor of the First Church of the
Brethren, a denomination against
the war but all-out for recon-
struction, has announced that his
church has laid the groundwork
to buy approximately 8,000 cows
to feed undernouished children
abroad. More than 700 of the an-
imals have been bought already
by a part of the church's 180,000
members.
The Detroit pastor said each of
the animals bought by the church
is examined and tested by Mar-
vin E. Senger, former Iowa State
iCollege animal husbandry expert,
now at Napanee, Ind. Senger was
selected by the board ot the
church, when the project opened
last spring, to buy cows with the
money raised, place them on
farms and make arrangements tor quet and program Fn the evening
their shipment, if the animals
reach maturity before it is* pos-
sible to ship them, Mr; "Hosteller
explained, tWy will he sold and
■ Most; of the Anlmals- -Holstein,
Jersey and Guei-nsey—are «being
Billl
Br. Freeman Slated
On Baptist
i
Illness Is Fatal
To Bud Welcher
Bud Welcher, resident of Breck-
enrldge since the oil field boom
days, died at 12:45 o'clock Friday
afternoon at a local hospital
where he went a few days ago for
treatment. <
At the Satterwhlte Funeral
Home it was said arrangomeifts
for burial await word from rela-
tives in Oklahoma.
Dr. Douglas Southall Freaman,
editor of the News-Leader, cl
Richmond, Virginia, will be the
' speaker on the program of the
! Southern Baptist Hour at 7:30
at some place yet to be selected.
(Mfiected that the £'<>te
Guard will participate in thfr ac-
tivltics of the day, as the gover-
nor is thti Commanding officer of
the body, and his appeurunce here
places them In a position for in-
! A Jungle Island, Somewhere in
the Southwest Pacific <t,'.ii>— All
the American men in the world
are today on this tropical island,
in the opinion of the primitive
| natives living here.
j "The natives are unable to
' comprehend large numbers," Isa-
. dor Ede, Australian plantation
'owner who has lived on the is-
land for 37 years said. 'They
had never seen more than u few
white men until the American
forces occupied the islund a few-
months ago,
"They have no conception of
the white man's world. The na-
tives Just accept all that is oc-
curring here, shrugging it off as
'white man fashion." Their brain
is not well enough developed to
Stevenson ; understand. They see a bulldozi-t
push over a tree in a few minutes
and the natives say: "white man
fashion' and are pleased because
if they had to do the job it would
toko most' of a day."
Changes that have been made
by the American occupation forces
are difficult even .for Ede to be-
lieve; could have happened in a
short time; he is unable to shrug
tha whole thing off and. accept
what is 'happening to, his jungle
hideaway like the natives.
"I'm almost like the natives in
that this is so tremendous and 1
find It hard to believe my eyes,"
he said.
Ede is impressed by the net-
works of roads that haw been
cut through the jungle and his
coconut plantation, which was one
of the largest individually-owned
plantations in this area of the Pa-
cific. Where once only fireflies
flickered"through the jungles, now
in the evening there are head-
lights of jeeps and trucks bounc-
ing along the roads.
"And 1 never expected to see
motion pictures on this island,"
Ede declared. 1
Ml
• y.f..-(wr*- -rp.
AIR ACE
IBBHiBHIIIr '
Piant Finds "Extra"
Aid In Men's Work
Cleveland <U.R> Another Cleve-
land concern fs following in the
toot-steps ol lis eminent ptv.i.
Turner, crouched beside the first
deer n five-pointer- ho ever kill-
ed. Latham's description of the
scene Is something like this:
-) 'There Maurice is. crouched
With one knee on the ground ahd
holding up the deer's head to
prove it has at least three
.Maurice's round facc is as
<as any moon you ever saw. His
eyes and countenance fairly dls
'Advanced Allied Headquarters,
New Gulned, Jan. 14.~-Japanesc
Inland positions on Arawe penin-
sula, southwest of New Britain,
were successfully raided by Am
erlcan patrols Wednesday, Allied
headquarters! announced today;
The Americans of the Sixth
Army pushed Into enemy territory
after paths had been blasted in
artillery fire. The main Japan-
charge light rays so much, in ese force here was not encounter
fact, that I had to readjust the'„d in the action, a spokesman at
(Continued on Pag** <!.► ; f Gf«n. DnilgfoS MacArthur's Read-
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who are seating the steep cliffs 6f
the KaDugara river near Slo, we
caught as thay climbed into their
barges by Allied light naval cran
which sank three of the barges,
each containing about 30 Nippon-
esa.
Allied heavy and medium bomb-
crs struck again at the enemy sup-
ply base and troop center at Alex-
ishafen, this time with 104 tons
(.•••«* yii --iimffn- l ?f bombs, making it more than
ate Northeastern New Guinea, be-, 1.200 tons dropped hore and at the
fore the advancing Australians nearby Mndnng base since Jan. 1.
quarters said.
The main American invasion
force still is on the peninsula, the
spokesman said.
Fighting, at AraWe reported In
recent Allied communiques has
been described mostly as patrol
actions, with dive bombers and
attack planes blasting enemy-held
villages.
Japanese attempting to evueu
Eivr-noM SundayjBES*" .S"
ar.d the "work-tlirough-tor.i.on
plan seems to be just what the
i..Aioi orcli-rcd. v.W
Tj>ls time, ' The Fdkkcr Corp..
manufacturers of war-vital air-
plane engine holst3, is offering its
employees more than Just a job
and personnel director Raymond
V. P. Abbate said that the pro-
gram had been outstandingly sue-
ccssfui.
Fokker offers all employees
frea bund lotion which both men
CWT—8:30 ■
morning, January 16th, according
to the Radio Committee of the
Southern Baptist Convention, S.
F. Lowe of Atlanta, Chairman.
Mr, Lows announces that Dr.
Freeman, Pulitzer Pr,ize Winner
and holder of 12 honorary degrees
visiting Professor of Columbia
University, author of "Robert E.
Lee." and how completing the last
volume of "Lee's Lieutenants," is
peculiarly qualified tb discuss his
subject, "A Free Church in a
Free State." ; , ,, „ . ,
The programs on The Baptist and women use; a vacation para-
Hour can be heard In our state disc oi the Alleghany river near
over Station WFAA. (Oil City, Pa., where a hunting
, lodge, trout streams,; canoes, row-
iVmiiv BHo« Aro i boa.s ar« outboard motorboats
l OOmey Kites A e j nn> available, oi'.d a 6£Miour work
Set For Today week.
Funeral services for Mrs. D. K I Abl,Bte 8n(d labor turnover, as
Toomey, mother of Mrs. L. K 'ijiBh 20 ncr cent last Januarv,
Maxwell of Breckenrldge, were to * ,b 27 parcent Tiie
bc held Friday afternoon at I abaentea rate has decreased from
o clock in Dallas. . |8.a per cent to 2.3 per cent and
Mrs. I oomey dlcd Vj ed . y mont|lly accidents Have been re-
homo"°2808 Ruth street, Dallas. duccd trom 11 10 four' .
She had been an invalid over a it nil adds up to increase# war
y.^nr. ^ . production, Ahiuito sflld.
RRMI
Maf. Gregory Boytngfon randy for
combat against Ihe enemy.
A TERSE Navy telegram to the
• mother of MaJ. Gregory Boy-
ington in Okanogan, Wash,, that he
was missing in action brought to
her mind the .comment he made
when he enlisted In the Marine
Yank# Drive On
French troops under Gen. Al-
phor.se Juin opened a flanking
drive through Italy's rugged Ap-
ennines mountains and seized
paaks overlooking AcquafondaJa.
seven miles northeast of Cassino,
while American Infantry in a fron-
tal assault from captured Cervaro
pushed within three miles of Cas-
sino, main German stronghold on
the Fifth Army front, the Allied
command announced today.
American forces pressed on to-
ward Cassino after they entered
the fortress village of Cervaro at
1 p. m. yesterday, while British
units on their left flank fought
forward along the railway lead-
ing into Cassino.
Reds Kill 3,000
The Russian army beat back
frantic German counter-attacks
on the road to Rumania for the
stcond straight day yesterday in
perhaps one of the most decisive
battles of the winter, killing 3,0U0
Germans in "extremely fierce
fighting," while other forces ex-
tended the Russian salient into old
Poland to an 80-miie front.
Farther north in White Russia
Soviet forcas drove to the rail hub
or Kalinkovichi and the regional
center of Mozyr, now outflanked
and all but surrounded, Moscow-
said. More than 1,500 Germans
were killed, many taken prisoner,
and li of their tanks and guns
destroyed as the Russians reached
tile gates of the two towns, five
miles apart.
Rome, Is Bombed
The Rome radio announced tint
Rome was bombed at noon today.
* The outskirts Of the Italian cap-
ital ..were last hit by AI lied planes
dfl 'pie. j28, when American tvvo-
tmjyiie l^tt/'hell v. and |! Maraud?r
bombers yLthe lStli airloiie lore
up hangars and other insiait-.tion.
and destroy ed parked ■'plants at
ibree .Nazi airdromes.
At that time, German propagan-
da agentie* attempted to leave
.lie inipressfJJn tile uty itseli natl-
•. or. auuutea.
Soldier Voting
Opinion Coming Lip
Austin, Jan., 1-1. -tU.R; -Atty.
Gen, Qrovvr Seders said today ..e
i>, preiKHJiig a sutjpleaichtui upin-
ion on soldier Voting lor Inloivnu-
twn ol Gov, Coke k. bteveasun. •
A recent summary advi.ed that
I the poll tax provision as a 'pre-
requisite/for voting is in the state
constitution. A special session ol
the legislature cannot initiate u
change in the state constitution.
Poll Ta* Payments
Are Reported Slow
About one third of those
po;«.d to pay their poll taxes tnia
. month have done sd; llpbrds of
Corps air service in 1D38: "This Is ' the u.cal tax collector sIwa .
What1 have wanted t0 do all my llfe potCni;ul receipts In this county
JJjy 'J -MPc cBllmniad Iron. 3UW to 3,.TO
tFSSlSt to J™, '« ' <««• "* M® to-«
Fomj, betoto he «| lost over Oo«- "W •" >0 ' «
dalcarial, .. .. (Internationalj mfniite rush.
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