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DENTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20, 1941
VOL. XLI
NO. 110
Associated Press Leased Wire
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but how.—Bailey
Mexican TroopA En Route to Lotver California
very
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Hie bad news from the East tills
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ILf
fax '
Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister gloomily told the
by British
lk
Clarence Patterson.
id
Texas, nephew of Mrs Elin Hawk-
have lost more than 40,(KM) killed, wounded and captured in
1
had
t;
5
declared
next year s county
moN
enemy" of the democra-
e
HONGKONG
LUXON
'HAINAN
llGASFt
In
necessary
Vteta
SAIGON
Northwest Malaya where
^CNefeei 5««
n
l'
for 1943
bombers
Another formation
of
enters>thea. D
’ Il
pro*
month
I
I .S. Sub Sinks
offi-
at
:onom-
antly. has given little air support 8Or«wP of the National Foundation
a~ ______AA_______. . : fnr TnfeniiU Baealweta aaU AKaat
W ASH 1 NOTON. Dec
no
a sharp decrease in the number ofno
Lexington. Ky .
no
division.
narcotics
reported
AND
lead to recovery of more watches
R
' there swiftly.
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Denton
the
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Mixinf
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knowledged as
Mtart1 ** atn*t/w
flrat
ition
wish to
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A
Allies Fighting
Valiantly to Stay
Jap Aggression
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Russia Reports
Plot Made /<>
Rd Ik Mussolini
And Make Pea re
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
Chinese Advance
In Effort to
Relieve Garrison.
chairman of the
Emergency Cam-
| County Farmers
200-ton Russian i freighter Pe re pop J Name 1042 A A A
en route between Vladivostok and i
Program Heads
by the Moscow radio to have
sunk tn Arctic waters
Although allied with Britain and
United States in war r
many. Russia has not
and
any
il» Japa report capture of Hong Kong but British report fighting still
in progress; i2> Three-way drive on Luzon Island in Philippines. Manila
bombed. <3» Pwnay bombed. <4- Drive into British Borneo, bomb Dutch
Borneo; ,5> Drives into Burma and against British defense lines before
Singapore < NEA Telemap >
n of an officer 'standing in aisle> stow their equipment in a railway coach
8. government they boarded a train at Nogales. Ariz.. to.move acroe* U. 3.
Jmy garrisons in Lower California <NEA Telephoto)
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nOiih
ao«Hio
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PACIFIC
OCEAN
how E J
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route between Vladivostok and
Java
Eight members
crew
Mexican troops under supers
as with prrmiMlon from the
territory to reinforce Mexica
Building Permits
11,400 Here for Week
fighters squeezed
and crushed in the confines of the
.with
which Singapore haa been reln-
(Thia dally feature, conduct-
ed by DeWitt MacKenxie, wide
world news analyst, la written
today by Ired VanderachmidL)
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dies,
lets,
crap
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AFAR*I
mi # w
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22 T, C. Men
Qualify for Air
Corps Training
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rawak.
Dutch L
ed to have
lands defenders
Ch tn sea headquarters aald the sa-
Shumchun had tarred the
German Armies Continue to Fall Back As
Friction Between Russia and Japan Grows;
Nazis Still on Run in Africa.
ing for police wort in war time.
Schools yet to be held: Jan. 5-10,
Wichita taUa; . 22 2“--
rtllo. Lubbock. Ban Angelo,
kana and Jkler
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little old when
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the United States Army this week,
according to a report to the dean
of men Saturday morning from
Lt. J
men! officer for North Texas ■
The report followed testa given ,
Teachers
men were qualified and accepted
Traffic Cop says
A loose nut at the wheel Isn't as
trad as a "tight" one.
for illegal traffic.
Because of the inability to ob-
J
♦
Uon and treatment
AIEELING HOT!
Laieai lm«M March of Ttawe. "Qw *
Amorim al War*'—Tum Theatre,
tanday aad Monday. 110
Japanese air force
When the Allied warships and
particularly the planes are in the ,
China Sea area in sufficient force. 1
. . Adil
planned on a basis of long-
time security.
Not Yet al Singapore
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Meanwhile, the Dutch news agen- < —
cy Aneta reported an episode of
new friction between Russia and
i Japan, declaring that 17 Japanese
warplanes bombed and sank the 4.-
If
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ment supplies of drugs needed for
1 iMirposas have been built
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United States
has ben reported as missing
Patterson family, when they
in Denton County, lived on
Floyd place, east of Denton.
denton Record-chronicle
Heavy Fighting
Under Wav in
South Philippines i
MANILA Dec 20 (45— Heavy J
'The |mper
delivered." ss
found a St I
day morning in my yard
stand, despite the tragic loss of
the Prince of Wales and the Re-
nar-
row causeway to the Malayan
mainland, is a true fortress If 15
years of methodical work and more
than a hundred million dollars can
’ build one The works of its huge
guns go five stories deep in the
ground The island’s supplies have
Store Looting
Suspect Is Held
I 3 SHOPPING DAYS THJ. CHRISTMAS
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against four ahlploada of invaders
who possibly were aided by raot-
dent Oriental Quiallngs; Northwest
Borneo <8arawu). where the Jap-
anese landed In burned-out Britlah
! oiManda and are tatnc poondad W
lurning and
irled furious
NAZIS TOLD
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Expect Hard, Bitter
Fight, Goebbels Says
Jap Far East Mo
Said Santa. "You never can guess
What presents I’m planning for Heia—
Scales and a tail.
A terrible Jvsil.
And a ticket (one-way) to Loch Nese."
It WM (______________
time, however, with the Japanese
strongly entrenched on the main-
I
I
to our own forces and civilian per-
sonnei ”
WOT!
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KABt
HI
volunteer I
Air May Spread
Infantile Paralysis
SAN FRANCISCO Dec.
—A series of expertmenu suggest-
ing that the air may be potential
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The Japanese, hacking their way reported today
, through the jungles of the Malay- University gMdi
an Peninsula and dependent for *"
further progress on i
wtW'Wi
^•’1
to Malayan operations, save in lo-
cal action This ta s heartening
land and rapidly tightening the
siege ring around Hongkong Is-
$
. on the run." had occupied the Me-
— .„. I diterranean port of I>rna and the
bTh Edw'artis started' that ’coTiim'n'1 Inlanj) ‘o*h <’f Mekiil and
And when it comes to w rilin' «
newspaper-column. Bob ain't gol a
tiling on ok! Bill even if Bob Ls
good As a certain friend of mine
would say. 'Ole Bill wani't no slouch
hisself’."
LONDON. Dec 20 —vPv— The
Russian embassy announced today
that a group of militant Italian
antl-Fascista and Communists have
formed a secret committee of ac-
tion" aimed at overthrowing Mus-
solini and concluding a separate
Italian peace
The announcement, which was
’ J ‘ i the embassy's publication.
"Soviet War News." recalled tire
recent Italian disclosure i f a revo-
lutionary movement, including an
attempt against the life of Mus-
solini and extensive sabotage tn
Italy i A trial of suspected spies
and saboteurs was held in Trieste,
with
Robert L
and E H. ■
Tatum with Perman Smith dele-
gate. Sanger. Troy P Miller O A
Seely and L P Enlow, with Miller
delegate. Justin. Frank Butler. R
C Love and O H Turner, with
Homer Tnvlor delegate; Little Elm
Hubert Tlsdell. R D Sims and L. E
Allen, with Allen delegate
Early in January the county com-
mittee will hold its first meeting,
said AAA Administrative Assistant
Ia>yd C. Sullivan Saturday, to plan
operation of the lt>42 AAA
gram in Denton County
from Hongkong mainland section
Attack Ape
mamla
PHIUPPtMi
ISLANDS .
South ChmoSM
’“‘”734 i4j-
MINDANAO
MALAY
STATES
SINGATOtt
sohtiamak;
j DUtCH EAST INDIES
Lewisville the third
Alternates will be H D
Elm and J M.
for Dallas to carry out further in-
vestigations
From the suspect Moore got one
Wrist watch that the Denton Jcwri-
-------------------- iers identified as one of the rnlss-
but only light casualties artkks. the sheriff reported
His De Has trip. Moore hoped, would
miles due west of lhe capital; Ta- |
nissa, #5 miles to the south, and
villages west of Kaluga. 90 miles
southwest of Moscow, the govern- '
ment. said
Tliese, with csrljer gains above
lhe capital, converted Moacow’s
one-time defense arc Into a half-
moon shaped fine of offense against
German ireople today that "we must compose ourselves for a
Jr., former hard and hitter battle ... we will not lie able to avoid certain I
TexasnneSiewyofUMrs reverses> even as the Nazi invasion armies were rejiorted to :
ips of Denton snd serving with the
United States Marines in Hawaii, two weeks of the bloody retreat in Russia.
The
were
the
k JAF ATTACKS
BOMBED BY JAFS ,
At eight agricultural block een-
against Ger- j ters. Denton County farmers Fri-
Russis has not declared I day elected AAA
hostilities on Japan but recently I
Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvl-
noff bluntly described the
REVERSES
War Red Cross Emergency Cam-
paign. said, “We’re definitely on the '
way to a successful termination of |
the campaign to raise 56.500 for the .
Red Cross in Denton County, and 1
It is our hope that one check for
that amount may be sent into head-
quarters by Christmas Day If you
haven’t already subscribed, you
may may do so by leaving your
cash or check at either bank or the
Record-Chronicle office If you
have already made on contribution,
well, you may want to make an-
other, as you know this money is
going to a most worthy cause.”
Lawrence Kolb, director of |
me service's narcotics division,
said the two Institutions, usually ;
-—-.—•“I 40 capacity, now have
Fishermen haven’t had much
luck this week, as the 'signs' were
against them. but. boys and girls,
you may expect a lot better fishing , members of thf so^t
F; 1 crew were reported killed; 32 oth-
ers including the captain, were res-
I cued.
1 Itan defense work will be held in
the council room, second floor, mu-
nicipal building. Monday beginning
at 8 a m Mayor Ize Preston an-
nounced Saturday All citizens of
Denton were urged to come by
sometime during the day and reg-
ister for defense work
Anyone wishing to
their services in assisting with the j
regb-t ration were urged to contact
Mayor Preston or Otis Fowlci
the Chamber of Commerce.
i
end of the Japanese
also flew toward Cavite, site of a thrusts; there will be other bad
U S naval base in the bay. but no news, for this must be a defensive
reported from that dis- war for the Allies until America
' can get her real strength on the
In any event, as Winston
. there is one
disap-
this coming week Z
will be right, and even this Satur-
day. quite a few of the fish will be
hungry, but starting with Monday,
you may find it necesary to get be- I
hind a tree to cast, as those bass 1
and white perch are going to be
awfully hungry
Saturday morning
Carroll, aviation procure-
ment officer for North Texas
to *38 eandid^t*'*77.1*'^UegV'by ‘ndteation of the limits of the ** '
Air Coips and Medical Corps of- *------------- 1 th' --g. tr e
fleers Eleven men were listed as
permanently disqualified and five
as_temporarily disqualified
men passing the exam-
peared to be growing among
Administration
„ of the
revenue was Ji-
lt is God that glrdeth me with
strength, and maketii my way per- i
feet—Psalms 18-33.
It matters not how long we live,
xpriaa attack In North Borneo
IMtllUls—W oC’ ’ the aap- ;
• invadera wi» taated earlier
wwk k> BtttHtteMBtaoitai
iMtitara wwb Mao report-
ro taftfctad anaghtag blows
on JapMMM warships and troop
transports off Sarawak.
m ti» stags of Hongkong, a 1b-
kyo broadcast asserted that the
British garrison had been encir-
cled on Mount Victoria, in the
heart of the city, and that Jap-
anese troops had occupied the rest
of the city. Victoria is the OkiMtaL -' »
Of Hons kang colony. ■
Tokyo proas dispatches
trucks flytag Japanese colors
carrying disarmed British L__
through city streets from the flght-
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largely destroyed the main office of
the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-
ing Corporation and large oil tanks
near the Tlakoo docks
Sheriff Rov Moore snd Deputy
Sheriff Woodroy Bays returned late
Fnda yfrotn St Louis. Mo bring-
ing a suspect in live recent looting
of seven watches from the McCray
Jewelry Co store, and Moore left
v Vers early in the mi
the fighting was repoi
'hronghout the day
That city, where the Japanese
, have large investments and where
1.500 Japanese of military age were
rounded up by the army soon after
the war started, was the first
point in the Philippines to be at- i pulse The island, linked by a
tacked and that thrust came from
the air
Japanese planes bombed it St
6 30 a tn on Dec 8 and returned
that afternoon for another raid.
Since then no attacks have been
announced officially from Davao
! and the army has declared It had
I the situation locally in hand
The action at Davao was the high
spot of the day's fighting as
cially reported.
raid was
trict
The air raid alarm in Manila was scene f_
in effect an hour and 10 minutes. ' Churchill once said,
Tire Japanese swept mto Davao thing inevitable in war:
pointment.
But while there is no ground at
I all for complacency about the po-
sition in the China Sea. there is
even less ground for defeatism. 1
Singapore has every chance to
ca to
Brit-
__Ji®*-,
. tiement at Pnnang to ghe enemy, i
but have in doing so sapped the >
power of the Japanese land ad-
vance toward Singapore
One may be sure this is not the
of the Japanese invasion
"No. I am not crippled. ' said C
C. Yancey, seen walking with a
cane Saturday ’’Can’t you see that
I’m using this for style?" W 8
Long said. "Well. I am not telling
you how many quail to bring me.
but you'll find my refngeratot
pretty empty and you can just put
as many of 'em in it as you see fit "
Ab Ivey and G E Taylor allowed |
as how they'd be glad to get all the
birds over the first thousand bag-
ged Saturday afternoon by Round-
about B E Drake said that if he
didn't get his'n tills time. he ,
wouldn't be looking for any till af-
ter Christmas Ed Savage said.
"My Irish. Tommy, got a sticker in
his eye so my hunting lias been de-
layed '
Thank*. “E J ”. Lhank* from both
Bill and Bob Here's
Headlee writes in hi*
Doing*';
“1 mH Bob Edwards
square
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■MM
. on the Philippine island of Luaon.
uT-vraupuicilh UM*
been stiff-armed by the heroism of
United States filers; Davao, on the
Philippine island of Mindanao, »ult on _ _
a ; where a fierce battle 1» proceeding tapopy to nah retatbroemento
swept on AS miles west of Derna -
a total drive of 245 miles from the
Egyptian border where the British
counter-offensive started a
ago
"Great havtx' whs caused to en-
emy mechanical transport on a
number ot which were lit-
etally |>acke<f with traffic.' a Brit-
ish communique said
Americana In IMO i>aid an nll-
Ume high tax bill of 83.130.147.000
in connection with ownership and
operation of motor vehicles Spe-
cial Impost* for highway purposes
by state and local governments ag-
gregated 81174514.000. while high-
way users contributed 8755.813 000
to the cost of general government
The Public Road*
report* that 8188578.000
•pecial highway
verted to non-highway use
You boy* end girl*, over 80 year*
of age, don’t forget that you rtiust
have an Exemption Certificate from
Tkx CoUector On if you vLL U
vote tataa 1*43 ttecUooL
Western Libya
On the Soviet
slans rr|>orted 37 000 Germans had
been killed, wounded or captured
In the retreat from Moscow since
Dec 7 another 1600 killed yester-
day in the Donets basin on the I
southern <Ukraine) front, and 2.-I WAfiHINGTON. Dec 20
000 killed in the Leningrad battle ' To the Wot Id War goes credit for |
•era a sharp decrease in the number of
In the Crimea. Soviet, dispatches Inmates of the narcotic hospitals
said renewed German Assaults on operated at Lexington. Ky. and '
the long-besieged Scvasto|x>l naval Fort Worth. Tex. by the United i
base had been thrown back, with States Public Health Service
Dr 1
the service's
Sales of Defense Savings Bonds
for November amounted to 8233.-
487.000. it has been announced by <
the Treasury Department The
November figures carried total De-
fense Bond sales past the two bil-
lion dollar mark and revealed that
82.008.611.000 worth of bonds have
been purchased by the American i
people since the Defense Savings
Program was launched on May I of
this year Next week In Denton
, you’ll be offered an opportunity to
set up your budget for the pur- I
chase of Bonds and Stamps
i
J '
hissing uttie agent*, some of them jn 24 hours, Governor Sir
;^r^eendoyta sarz
be the anchor points of a noose
around the China Sea by which
our Japanese enemies hope to pre-
vent reinforcement of Allied forces
from east, west or south; to protect
Japanese s upply lines stretching
upward of 3.000 miles and to slow-
ly strangle Singapore, which is es-
sential to the operation of big
1 American and British warships in
i the Western Pacific.
Japs' Invasion Data
Clockwise from the South China
coast, these are the invasion dots
which Japan is trying to make in-
to real bases
Hongkong, where a valiant gar-
J the attar.
Some researchers have suspected
food, water and insects as mediums
-T was a I
said Tom Doggett "I
Louis Democrat Sun-
lt> my yard It was
dated Auguat. 18*6 and an Inter-
esting item in It was from Denton,
telling of lhe sudden death of an
Argyle physician "
dwindled materially. Also, govern- ’
I iikkhi snapru nne oi oncnae against ment supplies of drugs needed for
the retiring legions of Adolf Hitler medical | LT 21 . 2_2‘.
, Three loaded German transports i UP substantially and have cut
totalling 25.500 tons were reported j deeply Into the suppUre available
.... .. ... . . been< lor illegal traffic.
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In Washington, a conviction ap- tain drugs and traffic ip them 11- j
*ared to he vmwlni .mnrr 8851- ■ leaallv. Dr Knlh said tlvare are
atom that the United’ States wot|M "i
send an expeditionary force across •"
Those men passing the exam- there is every reason to believe
(nation may stay in school for the
remainder of the .semester provl
they obtain deferment upon rec
mendatlon of the examining board
and the registrar of the college.
The examining board giving the
examination* included E F Hub-
, bard president of the board. C W
Mills. N C. Christianson, and J. J.
, Van Deraarl. recorder—all of the
j Air Corps and two flight surgeons
from the Medical Corps, N R.
Dnaiunond and J W Erickson.
te .1
"Why don't you keep your |>a.v
envelope instead of giving It to your
wife all the time?"
"1 can't. There's a law against
it."
What law?"
"Mother-in-law "
With powerful Red armies re-
ported massed in Soviet Siberia,
next door to Ja|ianese-occupied
Manchukuo. and with air bases
within easv bombing range of To-
kyo. Russia could strike a deadly
blow at Japan from the north while
her armies are spread out far to
the south in the Philippines. Ma-
laya and Borneo
Seev Harder War
Berlin Propaganda Minister
Goebbels grimly acknowledged that
I "changed world conditions" made
I it necessary to count on a long
and harder war. and he implied
that the chance* oi any further
UghtniMg marrhea were ended
1 We do not underestimate the ____
j remaining possibilities of England BuUrill
jl
In 1
legally. Dr Kolb said tlrere are '
'materially fswer" narcotics cases
in the federal court* and conae- ,
Civilians I rged
V
Enemy Transport ,To Register for
Defense Monday
BbitNio
*», ||'DUTCH I '
^7- 'I 1 • 1
week was made by Japan's invasion
dots around the China Sea. The
good news was made by American
and Dutch fliers and Submarine
! crews and by British Imperial
troops who have prevented or re-
tarded the growth, development
and reinforcement of those inva-
sion dots as bases.
There is nothing haphazard about
these invasion dots They are the
result of a strategy treacherously —---------------—n
, plotted and assiduously scouted by 1 from siege-bound Hongkong
hissing little agent*, some of them jn 24 hours, Governor Sir
around the Straft of Ma
. _ _ " 'Northwest Malaya where 4
Only > few bomb* fell on Nichols iah. falling back and fight
„ Field, it was rEpor'dKl. most of the
Japanese missiles falling wide of
thetr mark and landing in Manila
Bay near n large water supply
tank
i
riMANGjJ'
tahtSH
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. "W
1 day elected AAA committeemen
for 1942 and also picked delegates
Jap- t0 a county convention that Friday
anese as "Axis gangsters" and "the night selected
common enemy" of the democra- AAA committee
c‘es i Heading the 1942 county com-
mittee Will be J T Donald of Jus-
tin. chairman; M A Buttrill of ’
Krum will be vice-chairman B T.
McGee of Lewisville the
member
Ttsdell of Little
Thompson ot Denton
' The outcome of the eight block
elect ions of local committeemen
wen- as follows i first name being
local chairman, in each case' Pi-
lot Point. A A Berend. Gary Moore
and Clyde Branum, with Berend
county delegate. Denton. J M
Thompson. R. A Wynn and w. T.
Neely, with Thompson delegate. I
LewlaviUe. B T McGee, R. A Duwe
- and R L DOnald with McGee
delegate Krum W F Riek. M A
. J and H B Kolner.
and America" he added Riek delegate; Aubrey,
White- the German people tht»~ George. E C." Redfern
received an enlightening hint on
the reversal of Axis fortunes. Hit-
ler's high command tersely
knowledged that German and
I ian troops in North Africa
withdrawing according to plan "
Official Cairo dispatches said
'if certain that it’h' bigger.’ a"nd British troops keeping the enemy
I enjoy reading his Round-About' "" 4 ,K“ “*
column every day As I recall it.
Russian artillery and planes Inflict-
ing heavy losses on the Nasis
REGAIN TOWNS
Soviet troops regained Rusa <W crowded do capacity, now have
i approximately 700 vacant beds
I "whict) would have been filled ex-
cept for th* war “
Hie war. Dr Kolb said, lias made
; It difficult to obtain narcotics from
tile Far East, and as a result the
( supply In the United States has
A new business in Denton was
announced Friday when the Den- >
ton Ten Pin Bowling Center an-
nounced it wa* ready for the bowl-
ers of the county. The alley is in
the Millican Bldg., south side, where
formerly the A. A P. Grocery was
located.
on the
Told Kim I had looked all
over town for s vest-pocket diary
Then I forgot about i*
until Bob drove by and sent a di-
ary bi to me When It comes to
being Uiougiitful. Ole Bob is no
slouch I ain't sayin' that his
newspaper is any better'll mine but
Still Hokl
Hongkong
* 1 ** ' ‘ i
'W
■ K”-|
__
In the first word flashed
Urge Police to
Attend FBI School
DALLAS.
Bureau of Investigation
smashed, her sea lanes riddled and , * d*?> ;-------
her fighters squeezed Inexorably * "*•*• ,*,*n?*e
—~ 1 * *nen It aald in a
vec noose they have tiled to draw i ♦ “u* «pected
, around the China Sea. *
| It is the Job of the defenders of * JJ*L ■ —
Singapore and Manila and Batavia i * own®*- Reuters
i to hold on and lasii back as they I ♦ Tnk*°
are able until this irresistible rein- T»■
forerment by air and rea arrives.
It is America’s Job. a full-time, 24- ■'"'""■"■flnffFT
hour-day iob. to see that It gets
said
i were
tatMta
Ing sone and reported thaffirehad
I
Italians Admit IliffiiulUe*
Premier Mussolini's high com-
mand. acknowledging the growing
pressure of British mass attacks,
declared that Italian - German '
forces fought with valor and great
abilltv in new positions west of
Dcnia "
The Germans and Italians were
now trying desperately to reinforce
thetr battered desert armies de-
spite Britain's control of the sea
lanes How many thousands of
Axis soldiers have been drowned j issued in
en route to Libya may never be “Soviet
known, but the British have re-
ported countless transports sunk
A British communique said two
more Axis transports were sunk
out oof a heal ily-guarded convoy
Tuesday near Tripoli, one of the
main ports of entry into Axis-held Italy, this month.)
front, the Rus- I r D^reUSCS
Narcotic Inmates
r defend a virtually undefendable is-
tlghung is raging at the predotni- I »®nd. Ap<rrt. Vigan and Legaspi
nantlv-Japanese city of Davao, in ■ 011 the Philippine island of Luaon.
the Southern Philippines, where Where Japanese development has
four enemy transports unloaded a
swarm of soldiers, it was announced
today as the Japanese again struck j
at Nichols Field in Manila in l
light raid
A communique issued at the
headquarters of General Douglas
MacArthur, commander of the U
8 Army tn the Far East. said
1) after 13 o'clock.
"Fighting continues al Davao.'
British Far East citadel waa
still holding out today while
Japanese dispatches pictured
the island's million-population
capital in flames and declared
the Japanese f»ar was flyinff
over Hongkong harbor.
While the Brittah garrison bat-
tled against apparently hopeless
odds. Chinees army headquarters
announced that Ctitnsse troop®
driving along the Caotou-Kowioon
railroad in an attempt to relieve
Hongkong, smashed their way yeo-
I terday into Bhunchun on the main-
land border of Hongkong colonja
rison still fe_ght this morning to It was desperate'race against
the Atlantic when training, equip- quently fewer persons are being
ment and shipping >Permitted »<nt by the courts to the two hce-
Difftculty In landing was ac- Pitals established for their deten-
knowIMfMl as a poealbiltty,
several sen* Iocs aald that
American troops probably would go
flr»t to Africa, the Portuguese
7 HTVERaas. Page 4)
R B Rucker, former Krum clt-
isen now of Burnet has to-en away
from his home-county for quite n
good many years, but he continues
to subscribe to the Dally Record-
Chronicle. writing that he just has
to know what his friends up here
are doing Reuben now operate*1
the "Longhorn Cavern" in the
Texas State Park 4 miles south of
Burnet The "Longhorn Cavern”
is the third largest and one of the
moat beautiful caves in the world
he says
Registration for voluntary civi-
WASHINGTON Dec 20
Tire Navy reported today that a
United States submarine had sunk
an additional enemy transport."
There were no details of thk. lat-
est reported action by American
undersea craft, but earlier Lins week
it had been announced that a sub-
marine hart sunk one enemy trans-
port and probably a destroy™
Thus the sinking reported todaj
was of lhe second transport lost to
the Japanese by U S submarine
action.
T1>e Navy Department also rv-
| ported In its communique that Ca-
I vite .naval base in the Philippines.
' had sustained a heavy bombing raid
at noon Friday and while this at-
tack caused “some damage to prop-
erty' there were only "light casual-
ties’’ to American forces and ci-
i villan personnel
Text of the Navy communique;
"Atlantic Theater—There are
new developments to report
"Eaaern Pacific There are
new developments to report
"Central Pacific Theer art-
new developments to report
Far East A U 8 submarine
sank an additional enemy trans-
1 port Cavite sustained a heavy,
bombing raid at mxiii of the 19<h.
This raid caused sotne dauiagc to
' j
JAPS ADMIT HONGKONG KB- .
818TANCK STUBBORN
♦ LONDON. DM. Ml -<*>-♦
♦ Hongkong * dafandora draw a ♦
" deep tribute today from Do- ♦
I nawa aganoy, O
- . btaPtaUuMU X
♦ fU hM been"
-r-«- -r_- — -4 - -b
A r— * ~~~ k —rtcorooc Uw
♦ Tokyo broadcast.
« ......-s-r - .» V u
that Japans Invasion bases can be
during
past week
cers who have been unable to at-
remal^a^day ee^^ ireln 8L40*. They ware M follow.: K. L.
to srset a
room, stucco residence on Rach
- ■ - T MW; c.'H. Dg.
r s =
IM aMMkted ttf IMO.
. J. i
■ 7
■
Dec 30. -UP)—Federal '
officials
urged all North Texas peace offi- j Three building pennita issued ta
cers who have been unable to at- Oell‘ori during the past week
tend previously, to take one of the *«U«nated ooat of
IMLee. to erect a ttro-atory, throe-
TaTll-a A’mS a ooat of 84M
.'xTaxar- J-*0 g
Amnia, for u
“ to am* •
spreader of Infantile paralysis waa
* J by two Stanford
* giedical researchers.
. Ju«t how the virus is transmitted
further progress on a few roads fro*n one person to another has not
edged by a tangle of green and be*n funY determined. • One group
. overhung by menacing mountains. 0 Experts baa attributed about on®
have not reached the secret main- thlrd o* case, in a single ept-
. land defenses which command the dwnic to contacts between patients
approaches to Singapore. Nor have i or POU® carriers on one hand And
they run into the powerful Imperial susceptible persons on the other.
Twenty-two Teachers College '"J™ »“» held In reserve, with So™* J’*'*"1’?"JY*’® "uspacted
men were qualified and accepted *blch Singapore has been rein- and insects aa mediums
for training as aviation cadeta tn »«•* b>' I
*----Since the assault by Japanese Harotd K. Faber and Mlaa
fliers on the Prince of Wales and R°«®U® J- Bllverbcrg. who did the
the Repulse. Japan, very signlfic- current experiments under the apon-
-V W rvuiiuawuu
I for Infantile Paralysis, aald that
so far aa they wear aware, no pre-
did tAC* AteMW UmM ---a#
the air m a possible carrier.
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