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DENTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 8, 1941
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Most Extensive War Games in History
Senate Rejects
Jeff Davis for
Liquor Board
House Group
Approves 58 New
Navy Auxiliaries
Aid Ship
Loss Not
July 1 Reported
Date to Register
Men 21 Since
Last Oct. 16
round
ABOUT
TOWN
Man Hurt In
Highway Crash
Maritime Figures
Seized On In Row
Over Convoys.
Negroes to Be
Called May 19 and 20
>logne
Soap,
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rough
.trons
(By Associated Press)
Axis warplanes delivered a two-hour assault on Britain’s
vital Suez Canal during the night, the British reported today,
and struck with mounting violence at the island kingdoni
time for
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WORTH GROUP
Gilbert C. Wilson, farm Industri-
alist at the Teachers College, will
speak before a meeting of the Fort
Worth Geological Society May 13
on "Chemurglc Possibilities of the
Sweet Potato and Other Products
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Want Direct Vote
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Discredit Story
Dynamite Planted
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Senatorial Race
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at the concert?" ____
of
the biggest Jobs of the legislature's
regular session. making appropria-
tions totalling many millions of dol-
I lars to run the government anoth-
er two years, moved Into the home
I stretch today
A total of 125 new oil fields were
• found tn Texas last yqar
authorised yesterday would be in- ! of the secret
” district, advised
that "the whole thing is silly" and
that no arrests would be made.
had planted cot-
ton before the series of spring rains
at ordinary planting time halted
work In Denton County fields, but
only a small per cent of the 1941
acreage has been planted. AAA of-
ficials here reported Thursday
Farmers badly need dry weather
to work out rank fields and again
‘ ‘ ‘ * cotton planting.
Assistant Loyd C.
cent behind"
forts, of which
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C. C Hall. Denton postal employe,
suffered a painfully Injured left
arm Wednesday night when his car
and a Dallas automobile crashed
head-on. on the Dallas Highway one
mile south of here.
He was brought to the Denton
Hospital for emergency treatment
and Thursday returned to the hos-
pital. where he was reported rest-
ing well. No bones were broken, the
examination showed.
A young woman, riding In the
car. and the two men in the Dal-
las machine, escaped with minor
cuts and bruises. Their names were
not learned by officers called to In-
vestigate.
Sheriff Roy Moore and Deputy
Sheriff Ones Hodgas, who went to
the acene, were told that the Dal-
las car driver said he. was pulling
aside to avoid collision with a third
machine when the crash occurred.
Both cars were badly damaged.
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(By Associated Press)
AUSTIN, May 8.—(A5—A sum-
mary of activity in the Legislature
today:
HOUSE: Refused to ove-rlde the
governor’s veto of 844.600 emergen-
cy appropriation for liquor board;
returned to conference committee
for further study a report on a bill
authorizing a Joint legislative com-
mittee Instead of the governor to
appoint the state auditor.
SENATE: Rejected nomination
of the Rev Jeff Davis of Dallas as
chairman of the state liquor board
and confirmed appointment of B
D. Battle of Longview as state au-
ditor and Dr. Thomas H Taylor of
Brownwood as welfare board mem-
ber.
(By Associated Pre##)
PENN YAN, N. Y.—Want to
quiet that puppy when he starts
yowling In the small hours of
the morning?
Dr. Lyndon Potter, veterinari-
an. says It's simple: Just place
a "good loud" alarm clock In
the puppy's box The pup will
cuddle up to the clock and
sleep soundly, Dr Potter says,
because the loud ticking makes
the dog think he’s not alone.
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OMAHA — Maybe curiosity
killed the cat, but stubbornness
killed Charles Patrick’s two
mulea.
Being led down the street,
they balked and ran away, col-
liding with a truck. Result: Two
stubborn mulea, dead.
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Another New Floating Fortress for Uncle Sam
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WASHINGTON, May 8 —(A>-
The House navai committee recom-
mended legislation today to auth-
orize the navy to acquire 58 addi-
tional fleet auxiliary vessels at a
cost of approximately 8350,000.000
The bill represented an Increase
of 33 shtps beyond what the navy
requested when the legislation was
Introduced early In March
Rear Admiral Samuel M Robin-
son. chief of the bureau of ships,
testified he had been instructed by
Admiral Harold R Stark, chief of
naval operations, to ask that the
measure be amended to authorize
acquisition of 550,000 tons of addi-
tional auxiliaries Instead of the
200.000 tons originally requested.
Robinson said rapid developments
which could not be foreseen neces-
sitated the Increase
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DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
the fire sirens sound, turn
first parking space to help
CHARLES CITY. la — Nation-
al defense has cut Into plans
for Charles City’s annual soap
box derby.
Orders for eight sets of wheels
and axles for the competing ve-
hicles were cancelled by a man-
ufacturing concern because ma-
terials used in their construc-
, tion were needed for national
defense orders.
‘.2 ?---T " dollar If
arithmetic?”
that was the bargain ’’
• Well. Is it worth any-
to be relieved of that
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RHINEBECK. N Y. May 8 —<A»)
—Capt John Gaffney of the state
police said his men and secret serv-
ice agents were Investigating a re-
port that two men had planted
dynamite on President Roosevelt’s
Hyde Park N Y . estate with the
Intention of "setting it off If the
United States went to war." Gaff-
there w as
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break latid for
Administrative
Sullivan said
If weather is favorable cotton
will be planted through this
month. Little June cotton planting
is done in this section, since the
crop that late would be In grave
danger of elimination by insects.
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opean peacetime
vers usually Involved
100,000 to 200,000 men
exercise.
Beginning May 21
maneuvers in California, the War
Games will gradually build up until
September 1-30 when elements of
the Second and Third Field Army
oppose each other in simulated bat-
tles In Louisiana, under direction of
General George C. Marshall, chief
of staff
A secondary climax Is scheduled
for Nov. 3-30 in the area between
Fort Jackson. S. C.. and Fort Bragg.
N. C. This will involve elements
of the First and Third Armies.
AUSTIN. May 8.—(Ab— The
ate t<xlay rejected the appointment
of Jeff Davis of Dallas as chairman
of the state liquor control board.
It confirmed the appointments of
B D Battle of Longview' as state
auditor and Tom La safer of Fal-
furrias as a member of the state
livestock sanitary commlsaion
Also confirmed were;
*Dr Thomas H Taylor of Brown-
wood. re-appointed to the public
welfare board; Mrs Lillie Stone of
Commerce, appointed to fhe state
board of cosmetology; R L. Thom-
as Dallas. Oveta Culp Hobby of
Houston and Melvin C Eidson of
Luling, appointed directors of the
state teachers colleges; Mrs. Edwin
T. Phillips of Fort Worth, George
Barron'of Yoakum and 3 B Whlt-
tenburg of Amarillo, regents of the
State College for Women
And when he was at the place, he
said unto them. Pray that ye enter
not into temptation, God will keep
us from sin—Luke 22-40.
»..Lu<We lu‘ep our»®lves from oppor-
tunities, God will keep us from
sin —George Eliot
Note to automobile
There’s no hurry
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RAST TEXAS: Partly
WEST TEXAS: Fair toaight 1M
Friday, except iaeraaaiag etoadi-
aeaz la aaatbzzM partiaa devsieg
lag acaitarad ahawara Friday aft-
OKLAHOMA: GaarsOy fair aad
Mniewhat cMlar tealght *M
day.
U 8 Navy’s newest 35.000-ton battlewagon is read! ed
Philadelphia, far in advance of official schedule <NEA TELEPHOTO).
The Little Elm "Pioneers" will
cross bats with Roland. Collin
County, at Little Elm this coming
Bunday afternoon at 3 o’clock Last
Bunday Little Elm took the McKin-
ney Cotton Mill nine Into camp to
the tune of 6 to 3
The name "Pioneers" may or may
not be the name, but
name by which
Pitner knows
"Grandpa
AH for U. 8.
In response to questions, Robin-
son said the vessel* had nothing
to do with the British aid program
and all were needed for the navy’s
own use. The navy wants the ships
by Aug 1
Repreaentatlve Maas (R-Mlnn>.
senior minority member, wanted to
know Whether any of the idle for-
eign vessels whose seizure the House I tate grounds. James Maloney, head
authorized yesterday would be tn- | of the secret service to the New
eluded In tlA 58 ships sought by , York district, advised his office
the navy but Robinson said he did
not know whether the navy would
get any of the foreign ships.
The total cost of acquisition or
construction of the additional aux-
iliaries, Robinson said, would in-
clude funds to arm the ships and
to install gear to protect them from
Workmen loll on the nearly finished foredeck of the U S. 8 Washington, during lunch hour as
for commissioning ceremonies May 25th in
training, Hies were understood to favor 30
| ax the top age limit, while other
about prefer It as low as 26 years.
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__Senate Studies
Yesterday's high registration was
86 with a minimum of 66
Before acting finally on the bill,
the committee struck out a provi-
sion w*-.ich would have authorized
the navy to replace overage war-
ships with combat vessels of any |
type deemed most necessary by the
president. Current law requires that },axets
overage ships be replaced by ves-
sels of the same type—that Is, bat-
tleships for battleships
headquarters officially
hereafter It would take no
.tors were pat-
a clean-cut
________________ and there
were Indications of an opportunity
next week when the Senate tikes
up the House-approved administra-
tion for acquisition of 83 foreign
ships now Idle in American ports.
Nye. who accused the administra-
tion of "blltzkrleglng for convoys."
declared in a broadcast from here
last night that “this week, or these
next few days, are to determine
whether or not America is going to
be in Europe's war "
Wlllkle. meanwhile, was telling a
•freedom rally" in New York that
delivery of lease-lend supplies to
Britain must be Insured by "convoy
—patrolling—airplane accompani-
ment—or what not. We want those
cargoes protected and at once, and
with leas talk and more action ”
Before Nye and Wlllkle took to
the air waves to champion opposite
views, a new element was Injected
Into the convoy debate by mari-
time commission figures showing
that less than four per cent of
British aid ships leaving American
ports had been sunk in the first
three months of 1941.
Struck by such small losses, the
Senate commerce committee called
the commission’s chairman. Emory
8. Land, to appear today "with all
possible facts and figures about
ships carrying aid supplies to Eng-
land from this country.”
GERMANS BOMB SUEZ CANAL
COLORED FORMER COLLEGE
STUDENT DIES
Charles Betta Brooks, a colored
girl who was graduated from the
Fred Douglass School and then
went to the Prairie View Normal,
died In a Dallas hospital Tuesday
night and was burled here in Oak-
wood cemetery Thursday after-
noon. She was recognised while tn
school here for athletic activities
and for scholastic attainment.
In session Tuesday night. Evident-
ly they have the same contract as
the Denton Commissioners entered
Into—a trial of six months.
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Rich-
ardson said the war games, wnich
will reach a climax in September
wheji two field armies O| pose each
other in Louisiana, would be "the
largest I ever heard of "
General Richardson, War
partment spokesman, .^ald the Eur-
milltary maneu-
only from
to any one
fall in
officials
be the
Tobruk Situation
Latest British reports said re-
peated Axis assaults had resulted
In onlv a slight penetration along
a 2,000-yard front of Tobruk's out-
er defenses and that new British
works had been thrown up there
In the war In the air. the British
tallied a new record for RAF night
fighters—the overnight destruction
of 22 Nazi bombers—and the Lon-
don Air Ministry reported strong
RAF attacks on Brest, the Nazi U-
boat base at St Nazairc. docks at
Bremen, oil refineries at the mouth
of the Loire River to France, and
docks and shipping at Bergen. Nor-
way.
RAF raiders delivered "a heavy
and particularly successful attack"
on the German battleships Scharn-
horst and Gnelsenau at Brest, the
Air Ministry said, scoring direct
hits with heavy armor-piercing
bombs on both ships
DNB, the official
agency. |xid Nazi
called
of
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WASHINGTON May 8 —
(AP)—Senator Bailey '
NC) said today that Chair-
man Emory S. Land had.
testified that his man time
commission report on small
losses vf ships carrying!
American aid to England
"had been misinterpreted.”
The commission report, which in-
cluded a statement that only MaM
of the 205 shlpz which left United
State# hertoorz in the first three
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♦ LONDON. May 8.—(4^—High ♦
♦ British official eources. denying +
♦ low shipping loss figure# dis- ♦
♦ cussed in the United State# ♦
♦ Senate, declared tonight that ♦
♦ April losses were a# severe “al- ♦
♦ mo#t as to any preceding ♦
♦ month"—Ujus Indicating sink- ♦
♦ ing of about 400,000 tons. ♦
months of the year with aid sup-
plies had been reported sunk, had
been gladly seized upon as a talk-
ing point by opponents of * convoy
system.
Bailey, chairman of the Senate
commerce committee, told of Land’s
testimony before a cloeed commit-
tee session in connection with leg-
islation authorizing the acquizition
had been misinterpreted," BaHUr ’
told reporters. "He said his em->
phasls was on reported-that ».
•hips actually reported sunk He
said he suspected that other ships
had been sunk but that Ms infor-
mation was as complete •« he muM
get from sources that ^Wete not of-
flcial.”
“At the same time the admiral
made ft plain that be stands by hta
report," Senator Bailey ..added
Wendell Wlllkle and Senator Nye
(R-ND) spoke last night, on oppo-
site sides of the question of con-
V0JT8.
JUAREZ, Mexico—A funeral
procession moved down this
border city’s main street.
Thousands set up a clamor
thinking It was the head of the
Clnco de Mayo patriotic parade.
It was anything but a Joke to
Mayor T R. Borunda. He fined
the secretary-general of the
Juarez Chapffeurs' Union 30
pesos for preceding the parade
with a funeral cortege
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Six hundred registrants will be
for army service In Texas
May 19 and ?0. according to an-
nouncement, by Gen J W r_„ ,
.‘tate selective service director Ne-
groes are inducted into service in I partment officials are considering
proportion to their percentage of i shifting the emphasis to younger
the total population and assigned
at reception centers to every branch
(By Associated Press)
Rep Martin Dies stepped up his
campaign for the United States
Senate by declaring last night that
the American Peace Mobilization is
advising young men In the East
how to escape the draft.
Speaking at Gainesville, the
Chairman of the House committee
' on unAmerican aettvMM aaaerted
i that the organization has gained
thousands of recruits and "to seek-
ing Jobs in aircraft and other de-
fense industries for Ito members
and spreading Nazi propaganda de-
signed to Impede the defense pro-
gram and undermine the morale of
conscriptees.”
Carrying on his campaign In a
talk at Plainview. Rep. Lyndon
Johnson urged that the United
State# become the strongest nation
in the world. He asserted that es-
sential war material was lacking
at army camps he recently visited.
Johnson was scheduled to speak
at Greenville at 3 p. m. today He
expected to attend a reception at
, Dallas Saturday morning
Attorney General Gerald C.
Mann, another senatorial candl-
‘ date, spent yesterday In Dallas con-
ferring with workers at his cam-
, palgn headquarters
He was scheduled to deliver a
radio address at 8:30 p. m. Friday
over the Texas Quality Network.
Arion B (Cyclone) Davis, another
senatorial candidate, said he would
. make his opening campaign speech
’1 at Mount Vernon at 1 p. m 8at-
1 urday.
' At Austin Joe T Stedham. repre-
senting the Joint labor legislative
board, said that Texas labor Is con-
sidering the advisability of enter-
ing a candidate in the senatorial
race because "no candidate who has
so far announced has definitely ex-
pressed his stand with respect
. tae laboring classes ”
'Little Cotton
I hi Ground Now
German news
undersea raid-
ers sang 29.950 tons of British ship-
ping in the North Atlantic.
British anti-aircraft guns were
credited with shooting down a Ger-
man bomber In the neight. making
a total of 73 German night raiders
destroyed over England thus far In
May—only 14 less than in the en-
tire month of April
The sharp Increase might be due
to bright moonlit nights bringing
greater numbers of German planes
to shoot: at. or Improved accuracy
on the part of RAF defense fight-
ers A British commentator ob-
served, however, that "the boys are
getting better at Interception."
It was another tad night
British cities. Liverpool suffered
Its seventh straight assault after
dark, and a British communique
noted tersely that reporta so far
"indicate casualties will be heavy."
Besides the Merseyside dock area
of Liverpool, the Nazis scattered
their bombs over Hull, Hartlepool
and the Bristol channel sector.
In the seven-dav-old strife In
Iraq. British Middle East headquar-
ters said the situation was quiet—
both at the British airdrome at
Habbaniyah. 60 miles west of Bagh-
dad, and at the port of Basra, on
the Persian gulf
Armored adivlslons. the general
headquarters air force, and para-
chute units will take part in the
three main war games, in Louisi-
ana. the Carolinas, and Washing-
ton. An area around Fort Lewis. !
Wash . will be the scene of maneu-
vers of the Fourth Army
Hundreds of civilians are to take
part as airplane spotters
General Richardson said some of
the units would be lacking com-
plete equipment of tanks, anti tank
and other weapons and indicated
also that shortages would limit the
participation of air forces Further
he said that unless deliveries were
speeded up In the meantime some
motor transports would be missing
Troops taking part in the war
games will be In the field an aver-
age of seven weeks. The War De-
partment said the "most advanced
techniques of modern warfare will
be employed In the simulated bat-
tles.”
General Richardson
at the same time that
forces had expanded to
WASHINGTON. Mav 8— (<b-
More than 550.000 troops will ma-
neuver this summer
war games which i
said they believed
most extensive in history
Tire War Department, announc-
ing the maneuvers today, said that
more than 800.000 other soldiers of
the expanded land forces would
take part in mobilization training.
man supply and other
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City of McKinney has ar-
ranged to try out the parking me-
ters around their square as liac
Denton, which action was taken
bv the McKinney City Commission
MOSCOW. May 8—()P>—Tass of-
ficial news agency of Soviet Rus-
sia. today issued a denlel that large
forces of the Red army are being
concentrated on the western fron-
tiers.
The denial statement also de-
clared a reportd that troops from
the Far East and Central Asia were
being transferred to the west. with
passenger traffic on the Trans-Si-
berian Railway halted for this pur-
pose. was the "fruit of the sick Im-
agination of its author."
Similarly denied were
that two reserve air armies of 2.700
planes had been placed at the dis-
posal of the Kiev military district,
and that fleets tn the Caspian and
Black Seas were being reinforced
at the expense of the Baltic fleet.
ney said he believed
nothing to the story "
Later, after an investigation
which Included a check on the es-
Thc Senate planned to consider
on the floor its bill appropriating
for state educational Institutions,
the only one of the major money
measures which had not gone to
; conference committees for adjust-
ment of differences between the
Houses.
The House of Representatives
late yesterday, climaxing several
days of Intermittent labor on it.
passed finally the appropriation
bill to finance state departments
The bill totalled 830.350.000 for
both years of the new biennium,
approximately 14,500.000 more than
the total of the Senate bill and
about $7^00,000 above the appro-
priations for the current two-year
fiscal period.
The action wiped the House's
slate clean of major appropriation
bills, which. In addition to the de-
partmental and educational, were
the rural aid, the eleemosynary and
the Judiciary.
During floor consideration, the
•House added nearly $2,000,000 to
the appropriations which the House
appropriations committee, after
long hearings, had recommended.
Major additions were $1,500,000 to
buy land for the big bend park pro-
ject and approximately $500,000 for
armory rentals and debt servicing
on 50 National Guard buildings
proposed to be built by an RFC
loan.
WASHINGTON. May 8 'A’>-
Three hundred tohacfo growers
jammed the House ways and means
committee room today to protest
that proposed Increases in tobacco
> would single them out for
“unjust" tax treatment
A spokesman. J C Lanier
Greenville. N C. asked that levies
be made on coffee, tea and golf balls
before further increases are made
In the taxes on cigarettes, manu-
factured tobacco and cigars The
farmers, he said, would he hardest
hit by any new tobacco imposts
Lanier. Saying that he was
World War veteran, declared that
the tobacco growers were "100 per j
the defense aid ef-
the proposed to-
bacco tax Increases would be a part
but urged that all farmers of all
commodities he treated alike
announced
the land
____ _____________ a total of
1,302500 officers and men. toward
the aggregate of more than 1.400,-
000 expected to be under arms next
month. Of the latest total, the
regular army accounted for 487.000
officers and men, the
Guard 290.000 Selective .—
trainee# 460.000 and reserve officers
on active duty, 45,000.
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TEN PAGES
A good many Denton and Den-
ton County people have added to
that "Scrap-Iron for Britain" pile,
which is being accumulated on the
Bell Avenue side of the T. 8 C. W
campus, and the pile Is steadily
growing, but if you'll gather up
your scrap-iron or aluminum and
* place It there it will grow consid-
erably faster When you think that
each 110 pounds of scrap-iron will
make one complete machine-gun.
you can begin to realize how valu-
able this Iron Is for the British
You'll feel like you're giving a help-
ing hand with each piece of Iron
, or aluminum you place on that pile
of scrap Yeah, and there’s an-
other thing A lot of you are sav-
ing tinfoil for the British. Here's
a pointer about that: Don’t roll the
silver sheets, as word comes from
authorities on the subject that the
tinfoil should be left flat, as It can
be reclaimed more readily and is
more valuable Save that tinfoil
** from your tobacco
The defense securities, and par-
tlcuuarly the "E" bond, which will
Pr??'<Lnios^ P°Pular to the normal
individual Investor, will never
wing less than their original cost
If held to maturity they will pro-
duce a very satisfactory Interest
return, considering their conserva-
sa,e investment features.
If this series E bond Is held to ma-
turity, it will yield the equivalent
of slightly leas than 3 per cent In-
terest For Instances, the $25 ma-
turity value bond will cost <18 75,
and at the end of ten years one
will receive the full maturity value
of $25. This bond may be regis-
tered In the name of one individ-
ual or the name of two Individuals
as co-owners, or in the name of one
individual as owner and one Indi-
vidual as beneficiary. The owner
of these bonds may redeem any
bond at any time after 60 days
from the issuance of the bond. The
table of the redemption value ap-
pears on the face of the bond;
however, everyone should know
that they will always receive as
much as this bond has cost It can-
not go down in value. These bonds
may be purchased thorugh your
bank or Post Office or direct by
mall from the Treasury of the Unit-
ed States, or from the Federal Re-
serve Bank
that's
Old Smilin’ Doc
'em Doc says,
Smith on the Pioneer
third base Is too old to play base-
it.self by daylight. Nazis pilots reported big fires raging in
Manchester, English industrial city.
German daylight raiders attack-
ed'Sf)over's balloon barrage, ma-
chine-gunned the streets in a
southeast English town, and clash-
ed with RAF defense planes in a
series of blazing dogfights over the
English Channel
The raid on Suez was believed to
have been the longest there since
the war began British officials
in Cairo acknowledged that “some
damage" was Inflicted on Egyptian
State Railway property but said
there were no casualties
Dispatches from London com-
pared the Nazi hit and run forays
with the furious daylight activity
of last fall
It was estimated in London that
300 German bombers flew over
Britain during the night.
10.000 Americans Fighting
The role of Americans in
struggle was high-lighted, mean-
while, In a report by Robert Hut-
chinson. chairman of the American
Eagle Club in London, that 10.000
United States citizens are fighting
In the British and Allied forces.
At the same time, Berlin authori-
ties were reported preparing
heavier blows under the lash
the British counter-blitzkrieg
Nazi officials were said to
making a canvass of all homes in
the German capital to And shelter
for bombed-out resident#: and
Jewish families were ordered to live
in more restricted quarters so that
all or part of their apartments
could be turned over to Aryans
Many Jewish families were reported
being evicted from the desirable
Charlotterfburg area
It wax explained that while com-
paratively few houses in Berlin
have been wrecked by bombs so
far. the RAF's latest raids—with
the new British "super-bombs" and
Incendiaries—have indicated what
might be expected this summer.
On the North African front. Pre-
mier Mussolini's high command re-
ported that Axis troops had cap- | magnetic mines,
tured important positions in the ~
month-old siege of the British gar-
rison at Tobruk. Libya
Ramey * Ivey are enjoying the
hundredth anniversary of the Se-
curity Insurance Co of New Ha-
ven. Conn Thursday morning they
received by air-mail an ice-cream
» cake with the following wording on
It: Join us on our 100th birthday.
1841-1941 M L. and Ab invited
several of their friends in for the
cutting.
drivers:
"'-“7 about getting
license under the new drivers'
Icense law. as Homer Garrison,
state police director In the hope of
avoiding a flood of applications for
new licenses, says no license will
be renewed until after Oct. 1. and
the only ones who need a new li-
cense are those who haven't been
licensed before The new bill
which Imposes a fee for the first
the privilege of driving
auto In Texas, provides for a
W-cent biennial operators license.
Willie: ‘‘Dad. you remember you
said you would give dollar if
I passed my ’’"n
Dad: "Yes.
Willie: 'V
thing to you
expense?"
WASHINGTON. May 8. —(JP>—•
Army and selective service officials
were reported today to have decided
on July 1 as the date for registra-
tion of approximately 1.000,000 men
who have become 21 years old since
th# first selective service enrollment
last October
The registration will take ptece
at the headquarters of the 6500
local draft boards now function-
ing. and authorities said It would
be a "fairly simple Job” compared
with last fall when 16 500.000 men.
21 to 35. were signed up for pos-
sible military training.
The date for the new registra-
tion will be formally fixed In a
proclamation by President Roose-
velt Authorities Indicated that the
day now tentatively agreed upon
was chosen to give the new group
of prospective military trainees
time to learn whether they are apt
to be called for service this fall so
they can arrange their school or
employment plans accordingly.
Now that the initial groups of
trainees have been Inducted to pro-
vide cadres of more mature men
Page, around which to build up the new
i army, it was learned that war de-
I partment officials are considering
I shifting the emphasis to younger
men
I One plan reported under ronzid-
of the army. The call for negroes . eration would be for the war de-
has been slow so far because of | partment to advise selective serv- I
lack of facilities. When this assign-) ice headquarters officially that i
ment Is completed. Texas will have. hereafter it would take no men
] furnished 3.726 negroes to 21585 ] above a certain age. Some author-
white men for military
Page said
Texas so far ha.s furnished >
74 per cent of it.s quota for
current year ending June 30
ball, but not old enough for a pen-
sion. and I was sure surprised to
see him in the game, but there are
some real players on the team,
since they've got four men that
> learned under my Instruction as
manager of the Denton Cubs."
Smith comes back with the state-
ment, "If old Smilin' Doc wasn't
afraid of Little Elm this year he
might be trying to get a team of
sorts over Denton way. but he
knows we put It on ’em last year
and he knows we are stronger this
1 year than last Smilin' Doc is Just
nervous when he hears the name of
Cullum and some of the other Lit-
tle Elm players We want Doc and
a lot of other Denton baseball
fans over here this coming Sunday
to see what an aggregation w_e have
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