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Recreation Group
Ha* Holiday Party
'Die sensitivity and responsive-
of the symphony orchestra to the
nuances of the soloists gave a near-
prof easlona I reading to the orches-
tral parts The orchestra showed a
marked improvement over the or-
ganization which accompanied the
choirs in the spring in the [lerlorm-
ances of the Bach "St. Matthew
Passion nd the "B Minor Mass.”
The performance of the oratorio
earthed out the tradition of the mu-
sk department of presenting each
vear great musical works on the
campus During the last nine
months the department has pre-
sented the Bach B Minor Mavs"
and "St Matthew Passion" and the
Brahms "Requiem"
and ouiteeii courses Di hi
; b.|>l»tisM director of the
economics department has
. announced Plans are being made
u> letuh these courses as soon us
the authorization is made, she said
Preparing to leave for the 17th annual convention of the National Stu-
dent Federation ot America uit the University of Minnesota. Dec 27-31.
are shown lour of the five delegates who will represent T S C W
Pictured above top row. left tp right, are Misses Billie Banks Doan of
Memphis Tenn, and Edna Clark of Coleman, bottom row left to right
Misses Sara Trot of Honey Grove and Edith Ellison of Denton ‘Die
Other delegate Muss Mary Alice Barnes of Denton is not in the picture
’Hie group will leaie by tram Christmas Day President of the federa-
tion tilts t.ai is Miss Elizabeth Robertson ex-student of T S ,C W
nutrition and f<x*is
I b c W have appli
T S C W fees will not be raised
'his session and any increase next
session will la' -small Pre-idem I
11 H'.ibbaul has .iimoun. ed
'There will lie no tiuieas
lege prues next semester'
and my t ex ommeud.a'ion
for a S3 20 increase per
the 1942-43 session
Precision of attack attention to
nuance, and a clear understanding
of the contrapuntal potentialities
of the score marked the perform-
ance of Handel s ' Messiah" ut the
main auditorium of the Teachers
College Friday night by the A Cup-
pella Choir of the college Dr W
C Bain, head of the music depart-
ment. directed the performance,
which was given before a large au-
dience of students and townspeo-
ple
Two of the soloists for the ora-
torio. Hugh Martin, bass from
Tulsa. Ok and Charles Bounds,
tenor from Winnsboro were heard
here for the first time Martin
sang with a voluminous, voluptu-
ous bas stone Creditable perform-
ances also were given by the other
soloists, who included Miss Kath-
arine Evans, soprano from Den-
ton. and Miss Helen Havens, alto
' from Fort Worth
The First Baptist Alathean Class
held its annual Christmas partv tor
members and children in the church
l>arlors Friday evening attended by
approximately 50 Rev Paul Ste-
vens assistant pastor led a sing-
song awd.Mrs Frank Weedon told
the Bible story of the Christ Child
Gifts were distributed from a
Christmas tree and refreshments
served
('t.Us’mas plu> ini' Magic
wa giver <i ih< Christmas
m tlie lox limn center ot the , ed to Rid Cross national headquar-
ters for authorization as teachers
of the standard Red Cruel,
Ivenu I tioii and canteen courses
S b.ppticl’t director
home economics department
na i1 v
MPA r .nation project Friday af-
ternoon Ulidt I tile supervision of
Mt. I oulsi McCue dins tor
Midi r vv.r given a pi l/e as WlniU'l
ul (lie teiint Clnistma rind con-
test s|g>ns<ired bv the center
Charm'ers in the plav included
Johnnv Spark* Juanita Land and
ikirothv West Canty canes were
given to 14 children attending the
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In line with the roll call. "Amer-
reglstrar of
will
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Yule Meeting
Of I). 4. R. Held
Girl* to Get Credit
In Home Nursing
Sixteen girls at T S
retene certificates from
Cross headquarters for having
ple'.ed the standardized i
home hygiene and
There
rep.lies
years.
McCullar.
County
The 30 les-
under the direction of
Miss Beulah
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chapter of Red Cross
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T. C. MOVES
TO AID DEFENSE
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ourse in
care ot tiir sk k
upon their return from the Christ-
mas vacation This is hie first
such course to be offered in Denton
during the past several years, ac-
Bess J
Denton
W nurse
Alex Dickie. registrar of the
I Teachers College, chairman of the
I Civilian Defense Council for Den -
ton County and also co-ordinator
; of defense activities at the Teach-
ers College Friday went to Austin
Dickie will seek to work out with
state and federal agencies the de-
tails of defense plans in the coun-
ty and also from the educational
point of view
Dickie's appointment as college
defense co-ordinator was announc-
ed bv President W J McConnell
Tile president also announced that
an advisory council had been set
- up consisting O! the dean of men
the dean of women and the dean
of the college and tour committee
chairman to work with Co-ordinu-
tor Dickie
A Ctirlstmas meeting of tiie Ben-
jamin Lyon Chapter. D A R was
held in the home of Mrs W C.
Bam with Miss Elizabeth Lyon
1 asBlstant hostess. Friday afternoon
During a short (ypsiness session
plans were made for Red Cross
| work following the holidays and
i Miss Elizabeth Lyon was named
I head of a committee to organize
I a chapter of C A . composed
' of children of members. -Mrs
1 George Hughes vice-regent, was
' the presiding officer in the ab-
aence of the regent. Miss Virginia
Halle
In line with the roll call. "Amer-
■ lean Women in Government Serv-
ice Mrs J P Harrison discussed
two former American foreign min-
isters Mmes Ruth Bryan Rhode
Harriman Mrs E W
reviewed the National
Historical Magazine.
The home was beautifully dec-
orated in a Christmas theme in-
cluding a large tree, and refresh-
ments also were suggestive ot the
season.
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Bill Folds, Leather Goods, Christmas
Tree Set*, Gem Razor Set* and Kit*
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Stationery, Flashlights, Student Lamp,
Airmaid Hosiery, Airmate Tie* and Sox.
Wonderful Selection of Fountain Pen*,
| Dreaaer Sets, Gift Toilet Set* for Women
| Mid Men, Golf Balls and Many Other
' Suitable Gift*. Come See U* First!
Snooks Drug Store
Phone* 29 and 39
Yule Partv and
Death in Sky
Program for Club
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Gifts
Club Women Will
Buy Defense Bond
ichthyologist
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NOW MHffS
Julian Land. 435 Highland Street.
wtx> underwent an emergency ap-
pendectomy Wednesday evening at
th* Denton Hospital, continues sf-
n*usly ill but was resting well Sat-
urday
Mrs Gav Webb of Krum remains
seroiusly ill at the Denton Hospital
where she has been receiving medi-
cal treatment
The Hawkeye home demonstra-
tion club voted to buy a defense
band M its meeting in the home
of Mrs G H Henderson After a
Christmas program was given cot-
ton gifts were exchanged and re-
freshments were served to 11 mem-
bers
the Knan
miles ! rom
spokesman
WASHINGTON Dex 30—oPt
Oongrev. late Friday sent to Presi-
dent Roosevelt u bill providing for
the registration of al) men between
the ages ol 18 umi 65. and providhig
that those frOni 20 to 45 be sub-
jected to military service
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It wasn't parucularly exetung
Miss Mary Nell Jenkins, assistant
to the registrar at T S C W com-
mented today about me trial air
raids warnings and blackouts while
she was in Los Angeles Miss Jen-
kins was en route to California
when war was declared on Japan
Arriving Dec 10 she saw some ot
me first blackouts held in Los An-
gelea <whxle she was visiting fnends
there
There were air raid sirens and
radio announcements she said
We used candles enough to see
tiow to get around in the house Ail
light* were out. and if you were
any place in a car you just had to
stop ‘
Californians were a httle nerv-
ous, but not particularly excited
she said They aren t panicky or
scared, but they are... all trying to
comply with the regulations
Miss Jenkins advises any one go-
ing to California for me holidays
to start three or four days early to
get mere an lune Troop move-
ments delay transportation, she
said
Fish can talk according to Isaax
Ginsburg ichthyologist of the
United States Fish and Wildli’e
Service He says me sea horse
makes snapping noises which ap-
parently serve as a means of com-
munication
RCkL ESTATE TH XXM Ek's
D D Barn« and wife to R D
Hill 13 44 acre* in Edmund Aday
survey minus two acres tor highway
right-of-way glJOO Dec 15 1H1
Geo O Hughes snd wife to Geo
W Lewis 9X, acres in 640-acre sur-
vey of Nansy Coker or. waters of
Olear Creek 14 miles north seat ol
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Chrysler sedan
H»«833 Ktsxr
Chevrolet sedan
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Chevrolet truck ,
>61230—Alien Butane Gas Equip-
ment Oo. Juatln Ford truck
to 19 members
A G Koenig
Mrs N E Snyder 1119 Oakland
to visit her
Fnzell m
Avenue, left Saturday
daughter Mrs Sam
Beaumont
Mr and Mrs C W Harris and
children Wanda and Maxwell
Houston and Miss Frances Max-
well. who teaches tn Lometa, are
holiday guests of the parents of
Mrs Harris and Miss Maxwell Mr
and Mrs J R Maxwell. 1410 Norm
Elm Street
Mis Frames Smith 407 Normal
Avenue, is spending the holidays in
Lubbock with her son and daugh-
ter C H Smith and Mrs R S
Wiliams
Miss Laura Jean Johnson who
teachFs tn the Austin Schoo! for
me Deaf is here for the holidays
with her mother Mrs Ivan John-
son
*The Shakespeare fine arts de-
partment met Frioav anernoon in
the home of Mrs W J B Buttrill.
with Mrs Anna Burgoon cohostess,
and combined the regular program
with a Christmas party The home
was beautifully decorated with a
Christmas tree and yellow chrysan-
themums
Mrs A B Tyson discussed "Tap-
estries and Their Use in Amer-
ican Homes." speaking of tapestry
as a personal art and the poetry
of the bobbin Mrs W A Cooper
discussed "Artistic Meta! Work —
Its Use in Decoration and Cos-
tume.” saying that to be appreci-
ated one must know how it is
made Mrs. V H Robinson was
leader The club voted to leave a
defense project tc the program
committee
Tea was served
and a guest. Mi’s
River.
i Singapore
raadd.
Japanese bombers struck again
at Manila apparently ineffectively
and otilers roared over Cavite, site
of a U S naval base in Manila
Bay Bombs were aimed at Nlchoia
Field, in the capital, but fell wide
and exploded in the bay There was
no immediate report from Cavite
Fifth Columnists Help
The thrust from the sea at Man-
danai second-largest island of the
Pl.llipjxnr Archipelago followed
three landings, all reported quick-
ly check-mailed, upon Luzon the
largest.
It was aimed at an area where
potential fifth columnist* abound
Japanese immigrant* and capital
have long been poured into the de-
velopment of Davao a port of about
15.000 and Davao Province of
which the town is the capita) Soon
after toe war started 1.500 Jap-
anese of military age were round-
ed up there for Internment
The Davao air held wax bombed
in the hit-and-run raids with the
continuance of the war in the Pa-
cific but the landing today was fhe
first action of that kind reported
since the Japanese established the
Apart: - Vigan ■ Lega«pl beachheads
or. L uzon
A Japanese naval communique
said six United States planes had
been shot, down and five others on
the ground were set afire in a raid
by fighter craft yesterday on Del-
monte and two other planes, a
hangar and oil depot were destroy-
ed a; Iloilo Panay Island, in the
Philippines
A communique issued at Singa-
pore said the Malayan situation
was quiet and reported air force
reconnaissance over Japane.se-held
territory and the China Sea east
T,*' Malaya
Davao ''
import-
ant a* a ba-c lor-opet atlou* against
i.eartiy Bnti'h Nort.i Borneo where
Japanese troops haw already gain-
ed a footh >1! m the White Ra-
jal: k.ngd •l.- of Sarawak
An Aneta Dutch news agency >
dispatch from Batavia said Dutch
Army fliers renewing assaults on
Japan's sea-borne invasion forces
off Sarawak scored direct hits on
two Japanese cruisers and two
transports
On the Malayan front where
the Japanese art driving down the
-oad to Singapore the British ac-
knowledged that a slight further
withdrawal was carried out by our
I ’roop* without interference from
the enemv '
The latest withdrawal takes the
British well south of
less than 300
a Landon
Body of Walter Stark 63
hangs from the top of a 95-
foot flagpole in Muskegon
Mich after a heart attack
cauaed his death as he wa*
fastening a rope to the pole
Steeplejacks tied four ladders
around the pole and were able
to lower the body
Azores or the Spanish Canary Is-
lands.
The governor of Hongkong re-
ported by telegraph this morning
that operations are proceeding on
tlie island, the British colonia1 of-
fice m I-ondoti announced
Governor Still There
The governor wishes it to be
known that the Japanese story
that he left tlie island is false
A Berlin radio broadcast yester-
day quoted Tokvo reports that Sir
Murk had Wed the colony, already
half overrun by Japanese forces
which landed in the night.
Lkgnel. the Japanese news agen-
cy said huge tires were raging in
many part* ot Victoria. Hongkong's
capital city, but admitted that the
last-stand garrison was still offer-
ing resistance and that guns on
Victoria Peak were replying to Jap-
anese batteries which have been
shelling them since yesterday
morning
In the American-detended Phil-
ippine theater U S Army head-
quarters reported heavy fighting
was developing at the predomin-
antly-Japanese city of I!>avao. on
Mindanao Island 600 miles south
of Mumia wuere four enemy trans-
ports landed .swarms of trooji* at
dawn today
An official Tokyo broadcast as-
serted the invaders were smashing
resistance bv t’ S Armv forces
aid that the situation was rupilly
turning m favor ot the Japanese
A builetm tiom the headquarters
of Gen Douglas MacArthur, com-
mander in chief
reported tersely
Fighting continues at
Mindanao is <rategicali
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Family's Death
Russians Cut
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SIZZLING HOT '
Latest issue March uf Thar. “Oar
Anierica at War—Texas Theatre.
Sundax and Monday 110
AMONG SICK
Miss Dorothy Lamkin. 302 South:
Elm Street underwent a tonsllect-
omy Saturday morning
Mis* Jean Holt Teachers College
student who underwent an appen-
dectomy at the Medical and Surg-
ical Clinic, was to return to her
home in Haskell Saturday after-
noon
Miss Emma Lou Fleming who
underwent an appendectomy several
days ago at the Denton Hospital,
returned home Saturday
Miss Zelda Hibler 403 Egan
Street, underwent a tonsillectomy
Saturday morning
i.rrru: falls Minn. i><-
P- A 16-year-old Morrieon Coun-
ty farm youth "tired of being
txxsied around." Codntv Attorney
Austin L Grur-r announced to-
day. ha* signe • statement calmly
admitting the sfiotaun slayings ol
his parents, a younger sister and a
younger brother and the staMing of
a fire in the home 16 miles east of
here
The deatlvs of August Dehler. 50
Ins wife his 10-year-old daughter
Anna Mae and five-year-old son
Kenneth, were discovered last night
by a nephew of the slain man who
drove to the house to get the 16-
vear-old to attend a Christmas
party
Grimes said the lad had told in
his statement of starting prepara-
tions for the killings yesterday af-
ternoon by siptiomug gaguUoa Iran
a tank at the farm and aprewding It
around the premises Alter the
evening meal Grimes quoted the
Lad as saying he completed the
chores and them obtained a shotgun
from the house, telling his father
he was going to shoot a rabbit
Grimes said the family was killed
by shot* tired from outside the
house
After settuig the fire the state-
ment continued the lad drove into
the nearby town of Buckman
where news of the discovery of the
fire was told him in a barber shop
Grimes said the bov returned to the
home helped extinguish the fire
and then returned to Buckman
from where he telephoned sisters
tn Duluth. Minneapolis and Little
Palis of a terrible accident ' He
was taken into custody when he re-
turned to the home a second time
1 MOSiXJW Dec 30 —The
Red army's grand offensive from
Nortlxern Karelia to Southern Uk-
raine has cut down the size of the
, retiring Axis divisions by more
{ than 40.000 men in two weeks, Rus-
sian reports said today
Soviet units operating in a sec-
tor of the Leningrad front were
declared by the government infor-
mation bureau to have slain 3.000
Germans, captured the railway
station B —otherwise unidentified
— and seized a large quantity of
provisions and war material in a
three-day battle
i Tlie Community party newspa-
per Pravda said Soviet units killed
1.600 Germans and recaptured 30
villages yesterday in the Donets Ba-
sin area
Other villages on the central
front were added to tlie Soviet list
of gains in which 37.000 Germans
were declared to have been killed,
wounded and captured since Dex 7.
Izvestia the government newspa-
per, said German assaults on Se-
vastapol had been thrown back on
the whole front outside that Cri-
mean naval base which was i.<volated
by the German drive from the Per-
ekop Isthmus to Kerch
Tlie report said Soviet artillery
and planes helped block Nazi mo-
torized columns and ground forces
had inflicted heavy German losses.
I Ruza 60 miles due west of Mos-
cow Tarnssa. 65 miles south ami
village* west of Kaluga a railway
center 90 miles southwest, were re-
ported recaptured by the Russian*
Kaluga itself was described as part-
ly encircled
German troops who once were
more than halfway around the
capital thus had been thrown back
violently both above and below it
The invaders ol Khn. Kalinin ami
Vysokoe were reported battered
westward earlier this week
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