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Greater Aerial
Force Sent Over
Great Britain
Students Guests
Of Rotary Club
Prime Minister
Predicts Failure
German Machine
Defense Bill Needs
Senate Approval
August Postal
Receipts Increase
fife
Is?
Hitler Attempting
To Prove Speech
Accurate Forecast
Overton Crash
Take* 3 Lives
NY A Supervisors
Discuss Program
Little Disorder
In Transylvania
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Mrs. J. C. Farmer
Buried Wednesday
Admiral Hortl
cutiylng ceded
Nearly 4,000 Nazi
Soldiers Killed
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Dr.H.H. Ger|r~
Mercury Keeps Up
Record of 100
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Mrs. Jane Smith
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General Teacher
Meeting Called
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THE WEATHER—(U.D
Emi Texas— Partly cloudy tonight aad
Not much change in temper-
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Government Agencies Can Aid Farmers those present to spread "Falr^ op-
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a view to presenting to the public ]
the improvements which these , *"
agencies can obtain. County Agent TLIJ J*
W. N Wllllamsoa announced- to- <11(11
day that the program wae under
way ' ■
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Mrs Clayton Wooldridge Miss
Mary Helen Bradbury. Miss Helen
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today a tew hours after two of
iw oblldren a son. IX and 4au«h-
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tn which she was Injured
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Rose star
active last night. i v iSsM
Churchill i__2,___—-—n.
they must maintain morale and
home defense because 1
chances at
largely upon his
next year. -'M
The Commons cheered Chwrch-
lll's statement
He said that the American de-
stroyers would be put into active
service immediately.
He said that the agreement rep-
resented simply mutual measures
of assistance rendereB-to each other
by two friendly powers tn a spirit
of confidence.
He said thadhe TBrltlsh crews
already are meeting the ■ les troy-
ers at various porta where they
are being delivered. ..
The British-United States agree-
ment said ChurebiD. will eixxxir-
age Britain's friends throughout
the world but he warned ttu
would be a mistake to try to read
tn to the official notes more than
the documents are on their face
Churchill declared that, la her
daylight raids against Britain.
Germany has lost planes at a ratio
of three to one and pilots at the
rate of six to one.
General program of the Nation-
al Youth Administration came be-
fore a staff meeting of supervisors
from three counties last night here
Fred T Baalism, area mipMWltor,
was in charge of the meeting. ‘
Bedlam eafd today that the ne»
phase of NYA work... edvoattonal
prajort. which has twen edded to
the .'mat,ruction division, wm wi«
■ J ihe prhwiisd ‘uibjeeta which
came Imfiire «•» g»oup,
Britain Becoming
Stronger Daily,
Commons Is Told
ran"
BUMNS IX>T
flre tost night failed to
ivvbv rwodences when a 1
set fire to a vac- ,
WAN1W single’ '
Sixty Oaks Dairy,
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tlrnism every day in all contacts
with the public and their friends
Phil Warren. Chamber of Commkce
president, was also present and
contributed to the general dis-
cuaslob. After thU. the various
cosnmlttees planned their work.
Advertising committee members
present were Mr and Mrs Ben
Cook and Miss Lucile Crmwell.
and Mrs IM Zimmer-
. and Mrs J. Galy Var-
ige Wwin T Ward. MT
Mrs Herman Brown. Miss
Seroyer. MBs Adele Brad-
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mlttee from the Agricultural Work J WINCHESTER. Z_“_. *
<UJO—A trusty guard from a prison
farm today killed two escaped
otmvicts who were in a gun battle
with a posse The trusty ap-
proached a cabin in which the
convicts were , barricaded and shot
both.
Those killed were James Scott,
31, and Ray Harrell. 34 Scott
was serving one year for grand
larceny Harrell -Was up for 21
years for robbery
State authorities announced also
that G. B Hnltsclaw, serving
life, was captured
No details of the shooting or
capture were given
Previously it had been reported
that an entire 1.000-acre plantation
near Watson had been surrounded
and that it was thought six men
were trapped
Ten of those who participated
in the mass break were reported
to be still at large.
An opportunity to capture all six
of them was lost last night after
they were found In a, Negro cabin
tn the plantation of J O Mor-
ton While a state policeman
went to get help, they fled into
a woods
lAyanty-two convicts have been
recaptured and four had been slain
in gun fights with police and
P°Gtady» Diamond of Rayville.
La . who with another teen-age
girl and boy were held by six of
the convicts to shield themselves
from posses, told of the gun
battle Monday night when a dep-
**^n *"*’ th’I ”,f" Buportotemtent Emmett Brown
feted from hunger thirst and mos- —neral teachers meet
dultoe. MIm Diamond. Vonctlle n*‘* gf"rrw'. - -, -
Williams and Jerry Marrlgtll were
taking a ride Monday night when
the otaivicte commandeered their
madiine They were released yes-
terday by three convicts Who sur-
rendered
HiYTTYlN Rent 5 (UF- The
•ighth Ot JO d<"4.royer'< i aded to
''great Britain saHM from here to-
day lot CMnadlan ports where su
will be turned ovei to British of
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to the papers of the county asking
them to carry notices of the dance
. .in this week’* papers and inviting
AM . Sept S. ^djients of their communities to
“■ attend the dance Also it was
planned to distribute hand bills in
the towns along ’
fair booster trip
day'. Tickets i
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CkynONBURG. Sweden Sept
J ttLIO—Fishermen reported today
that a British submarine Monday
nhtht sank • German transport;
loaded with 4.000 at 6 30 octong-1
to Norway and that only i<» •*•(* „„
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Mary Jane Utnith. 32.
_ Falls, died at 11 a.
Wednesday at Ute home of
brother. Joe * *
Bend, on the
Mrs fknlth was born in Hood
county, the daughter of Arthur
and aha . , _ . ,.
Funeral services were to be held
at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the
Band Flat church, with Llge Lock-
er officiating Interment will be
in tile Band Fiat cemetery, with
Crostor-Pegrson tn charge.
Pallbearen wUl be Sidney Jen-
kins. Jim Payne. Mark Coodgtll.
Raymond tXxxigill Jewel Thomas
and Irvin Thomau.
Mrs smith 1* survived by one
son. R C. Grave* of Electra, four
brothers, Walter Israel of Crowley.
Joe Israel of Bwelfel Bend. Jack
Israel of California and Luther B.
larael of CMbume. and three sis-
ters. Mrs Hthel Thompson of Ada,
Okla.. Mra. Thelma Ftpldtog of
Saxon. Okla., and Mrs. Mattie Boll
Israel of Ckhume
“®C£,rt,^rtorip^ Veterans Lay Plans
For Fishing Trip
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agencies. The program will give
the agencies an opportunity to
show what they can do as one
unit.
Agencies working on the farm
towns ana communities servtoe.<*Pn5iw-
d a meeting of th. queen con-
curtty manciattan and AAA.
Changes on the 143 acre farm
which were recommended by the
comsntttee Include fencing, terrac-
ing. planting of a home orchard,
expansion of pasture, wildlife pre-
serve. landscaping of the yard,
greater closet apace and moving
of the laborer's house.
The land is blackland composed
of Houston clay and Trinity soils.
This is taken into consideration
when mapping out a crop
latter in the year, the
planning cos ’
up a similar
each of the
the county.
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Enthusiaam prevailed at Uie
meeting Wednesday night at the
Chamber of Commerce of all ac-
tive committees for the Barn
Dance to be held aa a forerunner
to the Johnson County Fair &
Rodeo Every phase of the dance
was dismissed by those present
The IlWIimn waa presided over
by Barman Brown. Chamber of
Commerce manager, who outlined
the general work of all committees
and voiced an enthusiastic urge to
TUUBA. Okla . Sept 3. (UJb—The
Arkansas rtver was slightly above
flood stage on a 100-mlle stretch
in Eastern Oklahoma today, but
engineers said a serious inunda-
tion would be averted unless fur-
ther rain falls.
The downpours that yesterday
topic of conversiUon to J
■ - but the temper- I
Its share to keep I
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”The"ofnctal Weather Observer 1
W S Ownby's report at 1 o clock I
was that the mercury had leacBM I
the 9S degree point During the 1
next hour the mercury went to J
100 degrees Th. minimum la« J
night Bas fl degrees . ■
A slight break in the high tern* ,.j
perstirres was torreren in <*•_W«B-
ther fcrecaet of partly eteudy »- |
night and Friday _ |
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NIGHT BURNS IX3T g
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water gar age
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Private bath.
garage, hot
Phone B»a w
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|ioum apartment
Featheroton "saj
FOR ItENT' 'lVOj|
209 Frathersloii.. 2
FOR RENT"
aparttnrtit
1213.
Those attending were Mr. and
Mrs JpUy King. Mr. and Mn.
Cres Lawson. Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Cook. Miss Lucile Creswell. Mrs
George Patrick, Mr and Mrs Ty.
s<ni Payne. Mrs Billy Ewing. Mr
me al. 7 a i
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straight-.'o|:’-lmorc the merrier
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M’ like to mu Ice the
West Liberty To
Open on Monday
Thermotneter Heading*
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WARHINOTOM. Sept 8 <U Si-
Only Menate approval of conference
rcyo.il :.i. mined today before
8SXM,000.000 ‘total defense” bill
goes to Prosldtrnt for signing It
provides funds for 10.400 more air-
plnnrx, 300 more Warship* and
equipment for army <>r 1.300.000
Rio Vista is the first commun-
ity to file the name of its John- ____
ion County FWr Queen entry, of" all governmental agricultural
"Mlsa Rio Vtata," named by the
people of that obmmunlty is Miss
R< Milin. Tolbert She will vie for
the honor of fair queen-along with
representatives of other surround-
ing towns and communities
test committee Wednesday evening
it was decided that the queen
would be selected by popular vote
arid further that the young lad-
les representing the city of Cle-
burne would not be candidates for
the Queen title This will enable
the Cleburne people to vote for
their choice of queens coming
from the surrounding towns
The Rotary Club and the Lions
Club have been requested to nam*
representaUres for the "Queen
Coronation." to be held during Uie
first evening of the fair The rep-
resentatives Will be presented as
boats to the contesting queens from
the outlying communities
Towns which have not sent
their candidates should do so
once, ii? ‘was stated
ing for Friday morning st » o'clock
at the high school building The
meeting Is for all white teachers
in Cleburne
It will o. an organisation meet-
ing and to make plans for the
coming school year, he said
Colored teachers will meet Fri-
day afternoon tn the colored
school
White teachena, will mert in their
respective bufldl
tcrtioon with
Brown said. I
Baturdny morning the teachers
will report to their school* and
assign grade iw-hool students to
Mats and begin the organisation
of Die classrooms, th. city
tntendent announred. Mln w
regtotratlon will b* oomptetad
fore that time.
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tiplied Nazi Air Ra
Air Raiders Halted By British Fighters
ARMY ORDERS WORLD’S FASTEST PLANE
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LONDON, Sept 5 <U.W> IMMR-
Mlnister Churchill warned Great
Britain today that German aerial
attacks will be multiplied and that
Hitler's L 17/ Z— '
may come thia month, although
he predicted its failure and rapid
disintegration of the German em-
pire. .rc/VtHI
Britain is becoming sQpnger
daily and Hitler suffered a severe
setback when 50 United States de-
stroyers were acquired by Britain,
Churchill said Heavy fighting
soon in the Mediterranean, Far
East and Near East was forecast
and Viscount Halifax, foreign sec-
retary. promised full support to
Greece If Italy invades that ter-
ritory.
Parliament .was interrupted to-
Rio Vizta School
Will Open Sept. 16
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Due to th. lateness of cotton
picking, th. Rin Vista board of
t.rwrteea have changed th. date for
rc. f r-1.4 TW W .1 .
will open B.pt 16, it was an-
nounced hare today
Previously th* school* had hewn
ids ted to vrcn mi Bep’ » Many
■tudenta ar. picking cotton and
would be unshl. to at tide
early date, it «m pointed out.
CLUJ. Transylvania, ftept 8.
OlF -Wlth Uttlr reported disorder.
Hungarian troops under Regent
began today oc-
— „.ritory as Ruman-
ian garrisons and civilians moved
out Tlmre were unconfirmed ru-
mors, that inn were killed along
the aastmi border tn a fight In
whkfi Russian* were involved.
Trustees of Uie West Ulwrty
aohool decided Wednaeday have set
th. oponlng day fat Ute school aa
Hept 9 It was also decided that
th* first nlna-month term in the
history of the school would be in-
augurated thia year
O. Powell was recommended to
the county board a. driver of the
Wait Liberty-Cleburne school bus,
Approval of th. hot lunch pro-
gram wm given by the board and
a pledge of all available resources
of the school toward the operation
of th. program wa. given
West Liberty is on. of th. 12
rural ^'hixij' I'f he county that
met the state requirem.nta as a
standard, aabool last year Board
mmlMra are J M Pbiiard. pre*
Idem E L Wes! and T “
Brand. »-.rtary Teax'lriera
Cheater Hyde. prinetpaL and Mrs.
Wills GHv tiekeiand
Eighth Destroyer
Sail* for Canada
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kASTtST H.r. is th. world'* f.tl.st military plan., • n.w Lockheed M8. after its inspection
by Willu tn KnudsM, d.f.ns. chairman, in Burb.nlt, C.l. TW» fighter h.i • speed of 500 m.p.h.
and c of 1,100 miles. Many h.v. b..n ordered by th. wmy.
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Work Begins On Farm To Show How
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Escaped Convicts
ling in Cabin
Funeral services for Mrs J G.
Fanner. 44. who died Tu«wl»y
night tn a loch I hcupital of pneu-
monia. were held at 4 o'clock yea*
terday afternoon al th. Lone Wil-
low Baptist church. wlUi isg.
Locker officiating. The minister
waa asslated by Reverends Wilt
Brown and W T. Jone, of Blum.
Interment was in the Bono cem-
etery, under Uie direction of Cro.-
ler -IMaraon Funeral home
PalkMarars were Burton Mo-
to V. C. Bmigett. Wylie Cbic*.
Ed Brokham. Claude .Miller and
Marvin Clary
aurvlvmw are tire husband imr-
ente. two sisters and three broth-
ers. i »
J. Them Home
| L Worth City Councilman
4 suggested Cleburne as one
If; e. sites ton-the possible to-
B of a camp for German
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I Wua. wvqral months ago It
I i ba though the Mg city
*1 wdnt the men
hardly tblnk that Qt. people
ii -nil wi. to harbor Uies.
^ImUsm-WW. are tawpitable
•nd bold no grudge* xipliol
tailors but we an in dis-
■MB* with their form of gov-
ksn and the man who rules
Lrc we would suggest to I
Ln WHlir.m Daetuie Ui«t he
bn the next clipper bound for
[ Mid «o l««Gt to lit* f.Uier-
I ft womii i>. e*pe 1,-vo. but
lull not. cost th. tierman «<>*-
Ln* ■!• much fm pmwage <■- it
I to retain living qm.rlerx III
bountry
l-iteh Act
Ltadteta of witathcr Council-
I ne.lwo ii or oot. he
leu Use people to citlM near
I Worth by inferring that bls
Idld not want them and to
I them somewhere .he
I merchant want UHF poplr
bhiime and Johnson County to
BderxUy wtth their city bqi
I nxu,nil US something is
|wi<t enough lor Fort Worth
|r> ’r r,rart>y cities have 11 is
|wl ■> business.
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Metobm of th. Veteran.
Foreign War* planned a fishing
trip for next. Wedtwaday night
when the organisation met last
night at the Carpenter* MU
ftenlor Vtee-Commandvi M. J.
Carter presided over the meettns
This is th. sisxmd Ume that the
outing has been planned It wm
postponed recently due to a rise
in the river
ously afwaklng, there h a
group of men and woman
vaht to make th* trip Xf you
a tor and it in not full, let
low, we will get »nw oon-
i customers It you want. «
Wr- will get you one
body who goes on n booster
going for a good time and
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— of » lot pf tun WTint do
Optometrist < «h*U *• Imv*1 " bit of
nr sit around being dead-
m SWH .*i
Th. Rotary club had on. of th.
rno«t colorful and mtereatlng pro-
gram* of the ymu Bxch m«m-
ber wa* appropriately dressed In
colorful cowboy regatla. with Albert
Venting carrying the firearm*
Each member had been requested
to bring an his guest some student
from Cleburne High School who
exjiecta to attend oolleg* thia year
These students furnished the pro-
gram.
James Rattaree rendered s trom-
bone solo. Tilden Head. Manon
Johnaon. Monroe Bicknell Louis
Hoblltt and Joe Schott, played in
a clarinet quintet. Darwin r’Agure,
I. O. Kennon, Jr., Frederick Dick-
son. Jamie Flake, and Irwin Buck-
ner each told what they exptot-
ed to get out of four year* of col-
let* Uf«. MIm Julia Dunlap play-
ed a violin solo
After th. program
man took color motlc
the entire group
Ai i ii iii’uxleiy, I—iw—... •
Greenville, wm a guewt. and there
were about 66 student present
Parliament , was mlerrupiea ip- ,f m
day by an air raid alarm. C.1M* ■*« I
bv Nazi planes over London smoke I
writing the Nazi insignia. . No I
, mbs were dropped although both I
German and British planes were J
sight.
reminded British that I
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Hitler* I
final victory depend I
success before I
‘•"y home
Israel of
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ways and forced farm taiuiUe. J
from the lowlands had ceased- J
Showers were predicted, however, 1
and 40 national guardsmen Mood , .1
m readmesa tor further rescue
work if It becomes necessary M
The river, crest WM rolltag
downstream rapidly m small
stream* began to recede. Damage
from th. cloudbursts and floods ■
was rettmated tentatively at 85rt). ■
ooO The figure included a 850.- ]
ono low at Cleveland. wMre the
pump station at city lake and a
portion of the dam srere vw.pt
avray.
Hundreds of refugee* still were
9 Bristow and
Tulte Many spenT the night in
stalled railway train, officials
said it would take several days be-
fore rail and bus service could bo
restored to normal
? WOSTU < lvm.rtM'K-ftl.»
Hb 1300; calve* 1.800. attady to 36
hr. Steers and yearling* 5.00-tlS, bast
—J-W calves 4 60-10.00 Hogs 1,600;
[ n . lower; top butehera 7.10; mart
kRfj OL’ grades «.4O-
CiKmMmta.........PMklng sows 5 78-6 00 gbMp 1J001
CARD OF frtANKt '• «nosl spring iambs 7M-730. few
I wish to
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House Strikes Out
’Traitor* Used In
Congressmen Melee
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WASHINGTON Sept 5 <U.«—
The House today formally ex-
punged from its record the use of
the word traiur” by Rep’ Bev-
erly M Vincent. D., Ky . which
resulted in a fist fight on the floor
last night between Vincent and
Rep Martin L. Sweeney. D , O.
| Without a debate it adopted
resolution by Rep Clare E Hoff-
man. R . Mich . Striking out Vin-
cent's assertion, made in a speech
of explanaUbn for the fight, in
which he declared
“I said I did not want to sit
by a traitor to my country "
Administration leaders still hop-
ed to get a final vote on the bill
by tomorrow night despite the bit-
ternta* of Mbate displayed during
th. last two days
I Although the measure was en-
i dorsM by the Senate with a 58 to
31 vote, debate this week has con-
, vtneed administration teaders that
( it win receive no such margin in
the House. A week ago they
, predicted a two-to-one approval.
t but yesterday-jtong before Sween-
, ey's speech asfl the ensuing fight
i discloeed the sharpness ot feeling
on the subject—they revised down-
ward their estimates
Some House leaders predicted
that the margin in favor ofthe
arffl they wrote letters last night bill would be a. tow as » »«««•
to the nanera of tit*, oountv asking others said W or 80 But no
one—not even Ita opponents—
would predict its tteteat
The Sweeney-Vincent fist fight
was the note on which the House
ended two days of general debate
last night at 10:30 p. m , on the
bill that would make men between
the ages of 21 and 45 subject to
draft for military service
Before the House adjourned It
heard the two partlcipanta give
their explanations- and in the
telling Sweeni-v apologised and
Vincent publicly repeated his accu-
I satlon. Vincent finally withdrew
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4ta space for Uie printed
rg- The dlscuaslon has set-
■down to one point—whether
■railroads are dhctiminsllng
’ unt of
rates charged
hope that the men continue
dr-Mte a* we arc intererted
e various points which each
I ■ raught out and feel that they
Alng out further points that
verioeked in our study of
Kiijft! UUyhM Band
»i Band Wowt That ought
some orchmtrs ■
for the purpose of making
r trips and getting • crowd
lher you can't find anything
than a little band which
jut out some, “hoi" music
« had ratlin heat a little
—i a booster trip band
a symphony
a oouple of brass pieces.
1. perhaps a baas fiddle
guitar and mix them up
you will come mil wifi, .,
I xroo
the Trip
booster autocade will leave
m and Ohamber
Manager Brown
every car in Clsburne to go
‘ On a booster
a the slogan,
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I1 hare talked to several who
, ; trip, but
[ might bMhful about letting
Jna know about it
it ain't no way to be. Shucks.
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i on around thl* little sMto
lie chamber lath, have mapped
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<By United Pressl
Adolf Hitler sent his bombers
in new strength over Great Brit-
ain today but they met a flying
barricade of British fighter planes
and bursting anti-aircraft shells.
Heedless of the Fuehrer’s threats
to "rase" BritbJi cities. Royal Air
Force planes again swarmed over
Germany, causing a two-hour air
raid alarm in Berlin, blasting an
storehouse and dropping a
in the famous Ttergarten
In the capital city - In an attack
on a north German city, it was
admitted, 18 persons were killed.
As Uie British and German air
forces traded blow tor blow, the
Balkans felt repercussions of Uie
Rumanian crisis Flrot Hungarian
troops marched into Transylvania
and Gen ion Antonescu virtually
succeeded King Carol as Rumanian
dictator
More than 50 British towns and
Gittes heard the crash of German
bombs apd the roar nt German
planes in the hours before day-
light. In one London district reg-
ion 100 bombs fell In another sec-
tion of the metropolitan defense
area 50 bombs were dropped In
10 minute..
Bo many German phtnes were
over Britain that defense lendern
sent Into action new secret anU
aircraft batteries. The gun* threw
up a canopy of bursting and
flaming shells and Were reported
to have brought down six of the
raldera. bringing the 24-h<nu tab-
ulation to m German planes down
. against lo** of 11 British craft
with five pilots safe.
London had an W-minuU* air
raid alarm that lasted until 10:43
p m Then the drens were nilent
untn 10 a. m. this morning when
there was a 56-mlnute alarm
Royal Air Force bombers blasted
away at G«iu»n bases across the
channel in France and Uie reper-
cussion of Uieir bombs rocked hous-
es on the English coast
The German high command said
that targets of Its air force ware
the great British porta of Liver-
pool Swansea, Bristol. Weymouth,
Poole. Chatham. Great Yarmouth
and Hull and the aircraft plants
at Rocheater and Weybridge
It wax claimed that one British
raider wm brought down in the
Berlin vicinity last night and that
two person* were killed th.re
With the 18 cMiialtles in north
Germany, thl* brought known
death, in iMt night's British, raids
The Germans claimed that three
mor. British destroyers, the Ekk.
the Ivan nd tin- Expreas. had
been sunk but offered no details
Th. high command claimed that
one HUbmarliie had reported the
•inking of 27,000 tons of shipping
and gave the score of yesterday's
air action aa 87 British plane* de-
stroyed. 17 German* lost
Postal receipts for August Allow-
ed only a alight Increaaa. it wm
•nnnuMed today by Fostinaatar
Rov Itoak The hike Is consistent
Wtti> a oonstant galu for previous
month* thl* roar
f>:*k said that during Augur.
I WO. the receipt* went 83.086.7! a*
Crsniwed to 93.060 12 during Aug-
ust or tat m.".
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South (,'eddo
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monts, three roonr» mm
810 and 812
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ctom In near sclKi‘4«JjB
County Building
K. Chamtara. r > ] ■
Bright colored shirt* were the .
hotteM t, :‘ ------*“
Cleburne tod*
ature was doii
the city warm also
Ownby's report at 1 octet*
During th.
wpnt to
y t m/ ' 3
erman
the route the first
3 will make Satur- 1
kre being printed 1
today for the ticket committee to 1
dirtxlbute immediately
General plans were outlimd by
the other committee*
The prize committee decided to
award prises to the best ar mosti
typically dressed cowboy or cow-|
sst square. „
committee Clare E Hoffman. R
bend ajid'ed to “take them <
a nlckleodeon but will make their
announcement later as to their
decision as they are to contact
several parties today.
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