Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 194, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 13, 1944 Page: 1 of 4
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UNITED PRESS NEWS SERVICE
WEATHER
Light rain in extreme south
tlon Sunday. Not quite ho cold
Saturday night and warmer Sun-
day..
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IIWBCKKXRIDUE, TEXAS, SLNDAY, PKB'iU.'AKY ||, lt 44
—di
I THE
off to barbecue
fort in ft. worth
Price Uaily pe—Sunday iic
quail in yard
seen or heard
ARTHUR MILLER. E. R. Mai-1
1 \ welly Judge Floyd Jones and j
Frank Roberts had -rone to Ft.
Sill Saturday morning In answer
to the Invitation from Col. Frank
C. Mellon to attend the buffalo
bart.cuc and Indian ceremonies
there today.
Col. Mellon has never forgotten
Breckinridge since his troops
.sto|)|Kd ov#r here, and he once
said that when he retires he may
con:.' here to live. 1 |
Incidentally, Indians drying buf-
falo meat. furnished the flrst.de-
hydrat ion process which now is j
becoming so widespread. But be-
tween*out aio and Meet, we'll mm
Ocif.
Reported Knied' Judge Dyess Hits
To Sell Bonds
W
K have read that western In-
dians. accustomed to the
nun; buffalo meat, when thev
lir>t tasted cow meat thought it
sicheningsy s.veot. in fati, in on
meeting with a white man nt an
'outpost for the first time lh.?y,!
though the wiiite man "all cow." !
They sat do An tJ a table to bed',
butter, milk, etc. - and some c.f !
them left th.> table to vomit, i'hey j
said the white man even sn.ellcd !
like a cow. 1 •
MRS. DON MORRIS Brock- |
enridge, who has been on !
t rutehes lately, was disappointed 1
Saturday that she could not go to
I'ryor, Oklahoma. Saturday was
her father's birthday and Sunday
ist Pryor founder's memorial day
will be held for the Whltaker
State Orphan's Home. A banquet
will be held with Gov, Kerr .the
principal speaker. Her father gave
'"""the home to the state. Mrs. Mor-
ris forwarded a manuscript of the
life of her father for use on the
oqtasion. ; ;
a
LAND OF THE SITTING SONS
OPERA SINGER Una Cavaliwi, CP.
was killed in an Aliietl bombin-J
raid on Florence. Italy, ncioi-tlinrj
to an Axis broadcast from Uomo.
Or.ce married to Robert Winthrop
Chanter, a grandson of John
Jdcob Astor whom she divorced in
1912. she had appeared in opera
to New York, Chicago. Moscow
j*nd Paris, (International)
s:
ses For Vets
other colleges may
follow pattern to aid
msn after service
CHAMPAIGN. Ill, (U.P.)-The
University of Illinois is preparing
now for -training returning war
veterans Tor peacetime jobs.
The university has created a de-
partment, the Division bf Special
Services for War Veterans, which
stunning to him that
nation in business
as in boom
DALLAS. Feb. 12.- Over a ra-
dio network that included virtual-
ly every operating station in Tex- :
j as 52 of them the tragic mareli I
of Bataan was dramatized last j
night in a war bond broadcast ot j
the experiences of one of its great- )
est sous, the late Ll. Col. tVilljam
Edwin Dyess,
! 1 muck nt alien incident, the story
| Colonel Dyess told of Jap bru-
J talities shortly .lefore his recent
death in a California airplane
crash/ Was re-told. •
Judga Richard T. Dyers of Al-
bany, atiier of ins Texas hero,
appeared brie:.y at the close ot !
. uie dnui::tik:iitii>n ta ply that "on :
my - iei.ur.i HUii BaUtrui he
was ii.io a man cji.tini; u
nightmare.''
It was stunning to him. Jui^ ■
D;. e.;s added, to" return nam? to ■
nation that was "going' ajout Us
business as in ; the best boo u
• imes."
"We are a shameful people
when we buy war bond •; only if
we tan get to see a movie star i
or if somebody gives us a fur coat
or a quart of whiskey to boot," j
said Judge Dyess.
The Texas war bond quota ot j
: $395,1X10,000 was some 82 pet cent
, complete before the broadcast ;
with skghtly less than $50,000,000
to be raised in the next three
days, said Nathan Adams, state
chairman of the war finance com-
mittee.
■ .
Oil Men To Meet
In Pennsylvania
TULSA, Okla., Feb. 12 fSpl.
The raging snowstorms which
moved east across the northern
part of 'he country from the con-
tinental divide struck the eastern
seaboard today, spreading a snow
I blanket from three to 12 inches j ;
j deep and hampering rail, air and ;
i highway transportation,
The cold wave, which followed
the blizzards in the midwest,
at least seven lives, and in New
York, the storm, described as the
' worst in that state in three year,
was Warned for at least si?: oddi-
j tional deaths.
Transportation returned to nor-
mal in the northern plains state.-:,
but extreme cold hampered high-
way traffic. Slowly rising temper-
atures were iorecast for the mid-
west Sunday and the Atlantic
States Monday,
i The Dakota's and Minnesota
j were the hardest hit by the cold
1 vave wi h te.-npera'.rres dropphr
to 30 below .stero at some points ;
Moblry, S. D,, rv ported 31 below
zero with the mereury s.ill dr jp
pins and Jamestown, N. D„ art
Bemidji, Minn., were in the 20':;.
i Below zero readings wen- re-
corded in Wisconsin, lowi. Kan-
sas, Nebraska, Illinois, Northern
Indiana and Missouri.
Seven inches of snow fell in
New York City and 10 inches cov- >
ered Boston, although the snow-
fall tapered off and was expected
to stop late today. Western Penn-
sylvania, upstate New York and
A former Breekenridge resident most of New England also had
is making an enviable service rec- Initiation of new members and heavy snow.
ord. This is J. T. Hammett. who ! tttIk on Lionism occupied most I Airlines traffic wost of Chica£°
was here with Phillips company I . .. < . . _ ... was resumed, although on abbrev-
for some- time, representing this j0 e 0 , le "rosrnm thc iated schedules, but most flights
city in a number of state antl Breekenridge Ciub Tuesday noon, east were cancelled.
Tough Going Here Warships Pound
Among lite fir-si pictures to rcr'.ch the lint., d St-it s of the Marshall
Island invasion, this picture shows Jnjranrse prisoners huddled to-
gether on a troop transport following capture by American force;.
Former Resident New Members Are
Completes 50 Told Of Lionism,
Air ivlicoinnc 1 organization hits 4,375
all iTlXbolOllb j clubs with 100,000
members
ALLIES' ITALIAN
BEACHHEAD ';
y-Z' Statute <Mik/
Gylldonia
Frascafic^
Clamplno
Cisterna
Anzio
Tyrrhenian
Sea
APPEARING In the press of yes-
terday was notice that Capt.
llollis M. Hughes had ' been
; regional golf tournaments while
living here.
j A Star-Telegram writer yester-
i day afternoon had the following
I to say:
From one of the bomber bases
this-followed by^ brief reference
to his trip to Washington by j. o. Seven Charged In
Sandefer, Jr. ! ---
,TTa.. rm ■
Cendefer told of incidents on
the trip, promising later to talk
Selling Of Gas
Ten Brownwood gas station op-
may set i pattern for similar pro- 'The midyear meeting of the ... ......
gams in other colleges and uni- j board of directors of the Indepen- of the Army's 15th Air Force ir. to the club on the part petroleum erators have been charged with
vesities throughout the country. It jdrrit Petroleum Association of thc Mediterranean area iomt i! is playing in the global conflict, i attempting to defraud, the U. S.
ALLIED BEACHHEAD below Rome
is shown on this map. While Att-
5lo-Ameriean forces consolidated
their positions in the face of
trounting enemy air activity,
growing German power was
thrust at the Allic-s, battling with
tweks to sea. (Intezaationzll
Bucks Win Three
Of Four Starts
breck team hao good
chance to go into
cage finals
(hem -10 to 18. throwing them
back to meet Weatherford again.
A PPARENTLY ail the quail have.'"g veterans, to inform them of the National Stripper Well Asso-' Janu>!.. <r Hammett, radio"opera- ,Pal®n. giving a history of the or-; E. Thompson, J. L. Burks, .I.'.p. j
\ not left Stephens county Mrs.'wh,u ,ho university has to offer, ciation will be held. J. p. Sande- lor n{| gunner in a .Flying Fort- ©unzation since its formal organi- Haney. Jake Ray. J. R. KimDrell, 1 u',a^' W'is high point man
Sito advise them accordingly and ,0 fer. Jr.. of Breekenridge. Texas. , rcSsU his fiftieth ^,|on in ^ in and ob- Frank Dietz, J. Z. Stevens. V. D. Jrth
dow or her home on West Walker; administer programs for those is bead of the stripper well asso- , misSion Jan )8 aga( t ^ jec ives of the organization, one Rutherford and Roy Ralph Win- ""J1 ^ riffi-le, 2 ScSins
" ' < ■ — . . , . VnBirUuL.ki main part of its work b?ing to as- frev .with .3 and umeici, 2. scoggins,
[i He' wears the Air Medal and nine Risi the blind and those with fail- ' Ail made hontl for $500 with the |^^ ntl Miller also played in
ther light on the matter.
said, the purposes of the division j At the same time, a point meet- war " " msmbers present who were re- |gt 9, and 10.
I are to study the needs of risi urn- ;ing of the directors of IPAA and . ^he ex-golfer is now T Sst • ccived during the January cam- They are Marvin J. flowers, II.
the National Stripper Well Asso- ! Jam..s, 'j\ Hanimett radio opera- pa,g"' giving history of the or- E. Thompson, J. L. Burks, I. D.
ciation will be held. J. p. Sande- l0,r und gunner in a Flying Fort- Snnization since its formal organi- Haney. Jake Ray. J. R.
Enemy; Riiss End
Annihilation
bombers crossing into
france; new blows
hit at japan
Allied forces ringed by (!:.• Ger-
mans on the Anzio-Nettuno beach-
head below Rome slood their
|! ground today against a powerful
German attempt to squeeze their,
beck to the sea, relying on aii
superiority and th> supp^Min:
gtnis of the fleet offshore to turn
the delicate balance in ti-.eir fav-
or. • . ' ' ;
British.-warship.; pounced th
enemy positions wHcue t®
aure was greatest. Extr.'i.ic'.y %l
weather llai been hampering t:i>
air force?, lint a bivaiv wvj.j
potted to i!ia;;e •> >s ibic a concen-
trated assault, wi.ith niig4t ,li
the enemy's plan of attack.
And Attleil command, r.s in l!i ■
Mediterranean have assured Prime ;
Minister Churchill that the "great
baitie now proceeding for the cap- ,
lure oi u me will be won," ii -.."is -
announced officially tonight.
On the Russian fivinl, Soviet
forces ncared completion oi th ^ ..
task of annihilating the survivors
of 10 Nasi divisions pocketed
around llechcrkad on the middle
Dnieper. Other Red armies pre-
pared for possibly larger entrap-
ment of enemy forces by striking
in the western Ukaine tor-vards
' . the Odessa-Lwow railroad, the
| principal routo of German retivat
from south Russia.
A strong formation of Heavy
bombers, escorted by fighters,
crossed into Franee to keep the
latest ail" offensive against, west-
ern Europe In full blast.
New blows against Japan were
announced in the Pacific, where
Allied bombers struck heavily at
Rabaul, New Britain stronghold,
and at enemy bases on New Gui-
nea. Wake Island and objectives
in the Marshalls also were- bomb-
ed.
£
emphasis w ill be placed
clow of her home on West walker ; ««" ««*« f u"™: , s "van u
street Saturday morning to see a j "whose special needs are not sal- ciation.
covey of quail under the window. Wicd by existing cUrrieula." Special
"They are the prettiest things I! The veteran who wants tn pre-1f j t. j (j practices in secondary re-
ever saw," she exclaimed. "They ; pare for a specific, job in South (.ovcry a, lhe Bradford meeting,
have such pretty blue topknots." j America, for instance, might have jyjr Y.o6k said. A tour of engi-
So they were blues, you see. ! had difficulty arranging it in lhe nce'rinK and core analysis labora-
standard curricula. Under 'he tori,,s |n (he p^nnsyivania area to
JAKE SANDEFER told of an in- j new division, however, he would SC|, les|s made on san(1 t0 dL>tcr.
cident at the Lions Club Friday 1 toe allowed to combine agricultur- |mjno jts susceptibility to water
Tat speaks considerable. He said a! courses with courses in business 1 fiHfKjjng aiso is planned.
he got in conversation with a management and language. The complete program of the
young man from Alabama because! 'ffoj division will begin oiwra- mid-year meeting, which will in
he carried a queer kind of gun. ,jons immediately, but the univei
The man said he was going to Ft. a|ty does not expect a great in-
Worth to get a prisoner. fly* of returning servicemen until
Sandefer -was curious to know; **
how he would get him back. The j rn",t. '*,mvs |)| M
man said h^ would handcuff him n^V n'K>w- -
to him. Asked what if thc prison-, The \-eleran.. <Kt«mmodated will
' er was a great strapping fellow,, include those who never attended
the man replied for Sandefer not college before, those who In-
to worry, that Me would get bofck ducted before finishing, and olh-
:entcnce.
elude outstanding national speak-
ers, will be announced soon.
Finns Appear
imMpn
•. • I'-. • '! ' ' 1
nynHlHi
Juho K. Paasikivl, Finnish?
Oak Leaf Clusters.
Hammett, whose home address
ing eyesight.
ihis game.
Friday night thc Buckaroos de-
feated Weatherford 55 to 21
Clark again led in scoring With
exception of Flowers and Dietz
r..n,Tir„ Deputy District Governor Floyd ^hn°. warc rc,oased on S1'50;)
is 205 West Plummer Street, East- Jones added to the remarks of ' •
land, will be recalled by Texas Bowles by stating that 800 mem- ; . n
followers of golf as the youngster r bers and 25 clubs have grown to J llFOCKinortOtt Boy
who came out of Rising Star 10 4,375 ciui)s and 160,000 members. f ,ncp« flnhill Fiirht
years ago to start blazing a bril- He added that Lions have out- ljUSeS L PIUU r 's111
Iiiint trail through Southwest stripped all other service ciubs. in FORT WORTH Feb. 12 - Tom-
tournaments. Three years ago he numbers and that Havana, Cuba.: mje j^av Barrington 15 of
won the Texas championship.\ has the largest cltib. 840 members, j Throckmorton, lost the' battle for
ioinod ILT-mv nirf1 «J5 I t« Thpy COVCr SiX,CCn nati0ns' his lif,? yesterday at the home
joined the Army Bnd went into ■ \i c wr p Mnrinn
President P. M. Faulkner an- J™* ' W" C Mor,on
. nounced that the club has pur- f W°r,h- ;j| . ,
j chased two more bonds and <e-' T°mmte suffered from an c.i- j c<wSPiyfollowed by Brown
ported on finances.anrt.U
the air arm.
Burns Fatal To
, ^ D. Justice, 32, of the FlatwoodN
rntewman Who thel ;comn^i|®|Sftlpnd county, drtd
NHHHHI HI I I RR , . PWK Which ended the first Ru . early Thursday morning from the
else he would have to serve his crs trained in specialized Army or so-Finnish war, arrived in Stock- j effect® of burns sustained last
u.. gpw j. 7 hJ <h wd £or,hiirh blood «lth Rowan made 10, Offield
P,iin0."""•bm by Miss Johnnie f« W-h.,'.'
W
HEN they got to Ft. Worth he
crooked a finger to Jake.
When Joke drew night he asked.
"Where Is the fort ?" Jake ex-
plained the fort in Ft. Worth. The
man said all he knew- was that he
had orders to go to Ft. Worth and
get a prisoner and. "Now. how in
the heck am I going to find him T"
LIFE would be more enjoyable
if people would try t6 etijojr
it.
SEEN OR HEARD: Pat Mahon-
ney still 111 at Westslde hos-
pital . Sheriff Ray Hlckey re-
l>orted a little better Saturday . .
Clark Lee's rattlesnake total in
hunts nenr Wayland reported a«
225 Friday night . . . Wichita
Fall* with 17 degrees colder thnr
Amarillo Friday night . . . ,Blll
Pltzer home from Florida wear-
ying officer's insignia . . . Mr, am?
,-*Mrs. Quincy Corbatt getting In
Thursday from Omaha and othct
Jowa points just ahead Of the
torm . . . This weather makes us
Ibclde the groundhog s«w hlr
shadow that cloudy-sunshiny day
(Continued oh Page 2) i: «
Navy college programs. holm by airplane from Helsinki I Monday while attempting to build
Willard expects these vetern:^ today and it was understood that In A** in his kitchen stove. Hi;
to be "older than the average stu- | his trip was in connection with | wife was also burned at the time
It was emphasized that whtio
the weight of the German attack
appeared to have eased to some
degree in the last 24 hours, the
Nazis still were attacking and
still were pouring in reinforce-
ments In evident preparation for
stepping up the assault.
This; Allies, it appeared, delib-
erately have taken time to build
up their beachhead but mean-
while the Germans - hoping I'm-
their first worthwhile victory in
more than a year, seemed deteis
mined to do everything in their
power to prevent the Allies from
taking Rome.
Brcckenriclge registered 26 do
green Saturday morning, or si:
dents, matured in experience antl Finland's desire to get out of the i but her injuries were not critical. 1 degrees warmer than Friday some rest treatments for his beas t. (Continued on P.ige 1>
(Continued on Page 41
i -Din lict.
s
The Justice home and its contents
. .*eie destroyed.
! Bom in Eastland county on
September 23, 1912, the deceased
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Thdelivered to the United States. 'Justice of the Flatwoods commUiiv
Japanese Government has adopted j There is no indication that the ity.
an attitude of cold disregard fer ' State Department expects to get [ -■■■■;■
' one. now. . Chaplin SuiTender
morning, and predictions were .or
warmer weather to follow.
American protests of its savagery
toward war prisoners, it lK>cant >
apparent Friday night as the State
Departmchi revealed that Tokvo
officially received its damning de-
nunciations and hasn't even both-
•red to reply.
Undersecretary Edward R. Ste«-
iniu« said the Swhs Government
had confirmed delivery of two
messages from Secretary of State
Cordell Hull to the Japanese -
•.000 words of bitter recrimina-
tion. accounts of torture and mur-
der, starvation and bestiality,
The Tokyo radio has said only
that the whole horror story- the
death march from Bataan—W'Bs a
fake; designed to lift American
morale and cover up American
LOS
vent Jan. 27 to our legation at iNf
Bern. They could have cleared
through the Swiss to Tokyo in a
matter of hours, and the Japan-
ese have had two Weeks to pon-
der their reply, if they intend to
make any.
Meanwhile, relatives of the men
who fought to the end In tho
Philippines, only to,undergo a liv-
ing death after that at the hands
of tormentors, carried their bur-
den to Capitol Hill.
w
ANGELES,
Feb. 12.
CKurllc CJiaplln, 54-yc«ld vet- GradUBte
BROWNWOOD BEATEN
IN SECOND GAME
Breekenridge won out over
Brownwood Saturday afternoon
28 to 25 and will play Ranger
Saturday night a call from
Supt. Gr.iley Saturday after-
noon said. f
activity on
the beachhead perimiter undoubt-
edly was due in considerable mea-
B#e t6 the heavy ' rains. ua.Is,
and sleet which turned the bat;In-
fields into bogs and kept tlv sol-
h (mh Wdh fuddling
watej-flllcd silt,trenches. ,
Mrs. R. W. Barrington of Throck- morning at 11 o'clock, and if win-: (,lu>, k',ck l)av,'fl
morton, came to Fort Worth Fri- ner. to meet the loser of th - " d°W" ^ aCt,V,ty o;"
day tc visit relatives and to tak
! The battle of the beachhead had
j a direct bearing on the battle ."or
; C.assino. whel e the Americans
were slowly but surely winning
despite the heavy cost,
Pope Will Protest
Bombing Of Villa
BERN. Feb. 12 (U.P.) - Ital-
ian frontier reports from usually
weli-lnforined Catholic circles in
; Rome toduy said that Pope Pius
j How Navy, Marines, Coast Guard
|! Veterans May Secure Their Pay
Navy and CoaaiGunid enlisted services will be required to fur
veterans who haTe
J. M. Cooper, county agent, sai*
j he did not think much, If any.
; damage was done by the freeze
I for the past two days, although
he has not examined fruit trees.
j This damage, if any, will not be veterans who hKve been honor- nish evidence of length and ter
i known for two or three days ablv discharged or released from mination of service to their re
more. i active service since Dec. (>, 1941. spective departments.
' may now apply for mustering-oui The offices to which applicn-
' Keliett Sayre Is ] payments. The Navy said their np- Hons must be made are as fol
erah of the screen, is to surrende;
to a United States marshal here
"on,d°>- °° •«"?" " "■■'vi°y- info™,Hon Itat Kollotl Soyp.- h,.s
iS.h1? N^Vori ,rl? oH ,hc «°!,0!>!
Mrs. A. N; Sayre has received
plication should be filed with the lows: _ . ■ 'XII would make a protest to lhe
Field Branch. Bureau of Supplies Offieei's discharged from the Ajn'd nations shortly re"anliv
and Accounts, Cleveland. Ohio. Navy: Bureau of Naval Person* the bombing or Ca"tel Gandolfo ii
This is the same organization, the nel, Navy Depaitment, Washing- i Xvhich the Papal summer villa v.- is
Navy said, which has been han- ton. p. C. „ „ „ , 'hit and the college or propaganda
wnn a isew xor* inn 01 u voun- - , „ . . dling allotments and family allow- Coast Guard officers: U.S. Coas 1 demolished
protege and afterward conspired ! JS 22? l°\ ^ ^ ^ c ' ^d9«Brtor3- Washington.,
to comnoi her to leave Beverly "V:. °,r corps personnel. D. C.
iSPi
A federal grand Jury returned QU|nca>
.service.
to compel her to leave Beverly ; "ft
*>"+- IS^ 1 Enlisted veterans of tho Marine
■ Hc served eighteen ' , Corps must file their application--
He Is in administration wlth th., Commandnnt of the Ma
, rine Corps, Washington, D..C,
A-letter from Newell Sttyre said
^ ^.r,. rr„ boys,' They also urged that the. he-
misdeeds. There never has been •• roes-of Bataan be promoted and
an official-government statement; given automatic insurance.
These people, formed into the' Indictments Thursday, charging
Federated Organizations for Ba- that the white-haired comedian
taan Relief, came to the Senate, transported Joan Berry, 23,. to
military committee with a plea. New York In October, 1042, With that he saw Capt. Edwin Sayre in
that aid somehow be gotten to the; intent to have her "engage In «[ North Afrirn and he was waiting
licit sex relations with him" and for a hospital ship to the states,
later transported her back to Los' Newell still is working for the
Angeles. I British, now in Italy.
Members of the women's re-
serve in each branch of lhe ser-
vice eligible for musterlng-out
payments follow the same proced-
ure as thc men.
Commissioned officers of all
Marine Corps officers: Com S Is NciltTal III
manumit, U. S. Marine Corps, Polish-RUSS KOW
Washington, D. C. '
The bill provides for payment WASHINGTON, Feb 12 .U.P.J
of S100 to veterans with less than ! -The United States is determin-d
CO days' active service: those with j .to remain neutoral In the curr-nt
active service offiO days or more 'Sovlet-Polish dispulenthe inter-
and with no foreign service are of main alnlng a lied unanim -
entitled to $200, payable In two ty. postwar collaboration, it
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