Cleburne Times-Review (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 120, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 15, 1945 Page: 1 of 12
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Rainstorms and Tornadoes Leave
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whlle enroute to the latter place
Special Train Bearing Body Reached Capital Saturday
for the past" three yeras. His fam-
against Lapezla
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halt where President Truman and
Lift Casket
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ing each of the four service arms.
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Alvarado Today
Three Overseas
Veterans Return
Mayor Names,
3 Members to
Park Board
Funeral Ritual
Read Saturday
At White House
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Casualty List.
Is Announced
Truman will join today in the rites
for the man who last July decided
with a mile an hour advance to
within 38 miles or less of Dres-
den
the leaders of the
had worked with
arc
and
Dr. J. G. Little
Receives Naval
Commission
The column said Sen. Carl A.
Hatch of New Mexico is "another
close adviser" of the new president
CP.-Armored
Army pushed
N Between
of the me
Family, Nation s
Leaders and Others
Attend Service
crowd* stood in the sultry April
sunshine.
MeCoy, Jim M . T/S, i
Mabel C> McCoy. Rt. 3
POCKET CUT
LONDON, April 14 (U.P—The Al-
lied Army radio said today that
the German pocket in the Ruhr
basin has been cut in two by con-
verging American forces
ndang, nine mile* north
ini-Bologna highway,
broadcast, recorded by
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A Red Cross check, which admit-
ted possible duplication*, showed
that 76 persons had been killed
and four others were reported to
have died at the base hospital at
Camp Maxey. Tex.
< Rescue squads reported they had
recovered 58 bodies and the High-
way Patrol estimated that the to-
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TODAY’S WAR MAP—The, U. S 9th Army is less than 50 miles
from Berlin, while the First, reportedly taking Halle, is enroute to
__Leipzig. Map shows closeup area of Berlin with approaches from the
western and eastern front*..(NEA Telemap)
The sturdy marines and soldiers
bit their lips in obvlous grief.
Third Armored Division, were 100
miles 01 less from the Soviet front •
GUARD OF HONOR AT PRESIDENTS CASIGT-A Guard of
Honor stands at attention at the side of the casket on the train
as it was ready to pull out of the station with the body of the late
mine of Alvarado, Geraldine and
Arthie Lee of Fort Worth
The body was taken to the home
I in Fort Worth by Colburn and
Dillon and will be taken back to
I Alvarado today for the services.
him They would be men________
expect to participate more fully
in forming policy than the late
WEWOKA, Okla., April 14. (URI
--Flash floods struck this city last
night, inundating the city filtra-
Mon plant and making the city’s
water supply unsafe for drinking.
At nearby Seminole four persons
were drowned when high water
washed their car off the road into
a ditch.
Appointment of three mmbers
to the Cleburne Park Board and
passage of two ordinances featured
the meeting of the City Council
Priday night at the City Hall
Returns in the recent city elec-
tion were canvassed by the council
and those candidates receiving the
highest number of votes were de-
da red elected There was no change
from the previous announcement of
winner* . . •
Mayor T. S. Moon appolnted
Howard Parker, Mrs Bill Hyde and
Mrs Florence Howell as members
of the Park” Ward to f the-va-
FWRVICES SATURDAY
AT WASHINGTON
THE WHITE HOUSE. Washing-
ton, April 14 (UP— An Episcopal
funeral ritual for Franklin D. Robse-
People of Nation Pay Tribute to President Roosevelt;
First Army troops were storming
the outskirts of Leipzig along an
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Check Drivers
Licenses for
Expiration Date
Awarded Eighth
Oak Leaf Cluster
Ave.; laburn*.
■ Army Wounded. Pacific Region*:
x Price, James W., Pfc., nephew
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government who A moment later enlisted soldiers
Mr. Roosevelt in and sailors gently lifted the flag-
I draped casket from the train and
Battalions of the armed services
through the
AN 8TH AIR FORCE FIGHTER
STATION, England (By Mall) —
Capt. John W Morrow, P-51 Mus-
tang fighter pilot of Cleburne, Tex.
has been awarded an eighth Oak
Leaf Cluster to his Air Medal for
exceptionally meritorious achieve-
ment in aerial flight over enemy
occupied continental Europe
Capt. Morrow, who flies with
Col Kyle L Riddle’s 479th Fight-
er Group of the 2nd Air Division,
is credited with the destruction of
two enemy aircraft, one in air
combat and the other on the ground
' He is th* son of Mr. and Mr*.
ily reside at 1004 East Annie street.
Survivors include his widow, of
Fort Worth; his mother. Mrs Em-
ma Looney of Alvarado; two sons.
Dale Looney. 83/c, of Pearl Har-
bor and Ernest (Jack) of Fort
Worth, and three daughters. Er-
emy broadcast also said aramall
force of Mitchell bombers attacked
Shanghai three times today.
Units of the America! Division
have gained control of Bohol Is-
land in the Central Philippines.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur announc-
ed.
likeia
us to
third and one fourth
>t* of the state are
. Names of a number of- soldiers
from this area were included In
the casualty list announced for
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still dominant here, even in death
But this is his last appearance in
"The Old Rugged Cross"
■Rock f Ages.”
r*l services Tor Felton Tobe
, M. Fort Worth, who died
through Italy along a
lie front today in a rap-
Ittnh drive that carried
mile* Of Bologna
ted troops were moving
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. PARIS, April 14. (U.R)—Three American armies ripped alncst at
will through the German defenses below Herlih, Leipzig and Dresden
today in an all-out drive for a jurcture with the Red Army that might
collapse the crumbling Wehrmacht. ' —
Hard-ariving tank columns of the Amtrican First and Third Arm-
ies eut the Reich in two with a series of thrusts that carried forward
30 miles and more in a matter of hours. The drives severed the main
escape routes southward from Berlin to Hitler's "last redoubt” in tle
---O mountains of Bavaria.
_ stretching from
4 MM miles northwest of
Othward through newly-
Massa Lombard* to the
SEMINOLE, Okla., April 14 UP
—A cloudburst partially inundated
this East Contra] Oklahoma ‘
today.
At least four persons were
drowned when their car was wash-
ed from.a highway into a flooded
ditch and it was reported that a
second car with six persons in.it
was missing: >
The rainfall from 6 o'clock last
night until 4 a m today totaled
11 10 Riche*, according to an offic-
ial weather bureau reading.
The Negro section of the city
was under water and rescue boats
Were taking people from housetops
•rid trees
WASHINGTON. April 14. (U.P— ters-in-law, and Mrs. John Boet-
The body of President Roosevelt tiger were first to board the funer-
was borne through the hushed al train where Mrs. Roosevelt
streets of the nation's capital to- waited. They were followed by Mr.
day to receive the people's tribute, Truman, Secretary of Commerce
The special train drew into Wash- Henry A. Wallace and former War
ington’s Union Station just before Mobilization Director James F.
9 am. CWT and came to a slow Byrnes.
tightened their assault arc around
the ruined port. of. Bremen and
speared up to within 40 miles of
Hamburg. Germany's second city
and greatest seaport.
To the west, the Canadian First
Army captured Arnhem and rolled
up big tains in its drive beyond
the Issei River into Western Hol-
lend and northward toward the1
Emden ahd WilhelmsPraven navt
bases. At last reports the Canad-
ians wore less than a dozen miles
from the North Sea coast.
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son of Mrs.
I, Geburne.
, Pfc , son
Ir oping around Its northern
States.
After tomorrow, the complexion
of this government will begin to
change as the man from Missouri
and his men take over .
Cabinet Government
There is talk already of "going
bakto cabinet government." That
means a cabinet of. stronger men
on the average than Mr. Roose-
Still C •” •
Then Bishop Due prayed:
"O God of peace . . . i remember
Thy servant, franklin Delano . .
"Grant quietness of heart and
comfort and the Passurance of Thy
eternal love to those whose lives
were. knit to his In the bonds of
family and friendship.
"Strengthen those on whom have
fallen new responsibilities th, the
high tasks of government . . t.
"Watch over the men and women
of our forces, by sea, by land and
in the air . . .
Quicken and knit together in
common loyalty the wills of this
whole people . . .
"Keep us in this land and those
poples who struggle at our side,
stedfast and united in the unfin-
Battalions of soldiers. sailors and and
marines' marched slowly ahead of F
the shrouded caisson that bore Mr led the procession
Roosevelt's body. I crowd-packed streets----
Ol troopsdm olive drab with fixed rine band, leading and marching
bayonet* and their dusty working at funeral pace.
legging* and GI ‘shoes stood every' The crowds were so quiet that
three paces along the cortege route, the clumping tread of the march-
" Only one of the. preaidant's four ing men down Constitution Avenue
sons—Brig. Gen. Ellott Roosevit soynded like distant *urt.
-h*d reached Washington for the Mrs Roosevelt, outwardly com“
ceremiony. The others were with posed as she has been since the
the navy and marines at their war tragedy struck, was clad entirely
posta lh the far Pacific, in black She wore a heavy dotted
Allot, the four Roosevelt daugh- black veil and rode with her son.
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meeting heavy opposition in the Alvarado Baptist Church by Rev.
drive toward Bastia and were Ross Holland, the pastor. and Rev
stalled temporarily five miles south-. Mr. Bartells. —
east of Argenta. I Looney, a mechanic employed in
On the west coast, 5th Army Fort Worth, was enroute to work
troop* reached the outskirts of when he was taken ill. He was
Averum and were fanning out from born .In Johnson County June 35,
nearby Carrara in the offensive 1905. but had lived in Fort Worth
to, potify him
nationins mieean advnce agnst
of view."
The column said the new presi-
dent will turn to old friends “on
the hill" for advice and guidance
and that Connally is one of Tru-
man’s oldest friends.
“Truman credit* Connally with
being potent in reelecting htm to
the Senate,” the column said "Con-
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get it. But licking Germany and to spend his leave here with his
Japan is the Immediate order of wife, 707 South Anglin street, and
business. with his parents, Mr and Mrs.
,----- ' F. J. Broumley, 408 -Bells Avenue.
TWO PAYS OF MOURNING ! He went overseas in October, 1942.
PEGRGED IN- MOSCOW Feeh 6gt - Archie Brooks is home
MOSCOW, April 14 (U.P— Black on leave after spending three years,
berdered Red flags fluttered over in the South Pacific He is visiting
all official buildings in Moscow to- his mother, Mrs Mary Brooks, 211
day in keeping with an official East Wilson street, and his sister,
decree (Alling for two days of Mrs. Hylan C- Holliday, 309 Grand
mourning for President Roosevelt. Avenue.________ Capt Morrow
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In the plaza outside and along1 passed it to the body-bearer* —
the broad, troop-lined avenue lead-" non-commissioned men represent-
ing to th* White House, silent ing each of the four service arms.
Elliott, and her daughter, Anna,
Immediately behind the horse-
drawn caisson.
Planes Overhead
In the next car were the presi-
dent's daughters-in-law and in the
third, Mr Truman, Wallace and
War Mobilization Director Fred M.
Vinson.-------
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
TO BE BURIED TODAY
lAT HYDE PARK ESTATE
Delano Roosevelt is
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EAST TEXAS; Partly ciqudy today. Cooler
' today.
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PuMUhed Daily Except Saturday United Preet Leated Wire Service
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CLEBURNE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1945
Mon. than 700 persons were in- of the Ri
Property losses will run Into'cBR said Allied units entered the
millions of dollars, official* said. suburbs of Imola, a key point on
The tornad that Struck Antlerg, the superhighway 19 miles east of
3 ‘ ‛ in Bologhas-— ------- ,
A communique said the German* . Funeral
were putting up strong resistance Looney. —. - -- ------
in conselice, five miles north of Saturday mornlhg about 10 o'clock
and Alvarado
president.”
pennes, it was announced hare Sat-t Rhoades, William H.,
urday, 212021 a ’ of rWesley W. Rhoades, 964 Brazos
All mtbrists are urged to check ‘ -
— expiration dates on drivers 11-
cehses and if the date of expira-
tion to near, renew them Ammedi-’
Gain On Luzon
Assault troc ps continued gains in
the Luzon campaign. . In the north
the Americans pushed within three
miles of Baguio, once th* Japan-
ese headquarters for the Philip-
pines. Other units advanced toward
Balete Paw in a drive to cut off
the enemy escape route into nortli-
eastern Luzon
In the island's southern sec-
tor, American columns were slow-
ly closing a huge pincers on re-
maining Japanese force*. )
Philippines based war planes
raided Pormosa again and sank or
damaged three enemy freighters
off the China coast.
of Mrs, Etta L. Mukleroy, 1124
77 East James street. Cleburne
Washington President Harry 8
In Two with Series of Thrusts
run. At least ill persona, were' 8th Army Ul 22
dead as the result of tornadoes' Ag-y "e‛e D l
& Pon Mile; ol Bologna
night and if reports irom isolated |
communities are confirmed te
persons. Late reports showed that out"
the series of twisters had struck Con
14 separate areas, killing M persons Luuze
in Centre! and southeastern Okid- ,__..__
homa. 17 in Western Arkansas ahd nt the Santerno River
six in Southwestern Missou
ished task of war . ______
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Shrouded Caisson _ no ue v—wm -■
It was a wartime ceremony in the hlack draped military caisson,
keeping with an America whose the U S. Marine Band played
forces were fighting toward victory “The Star Spangled Banner." fol-
in Europe and in the Pacific. lowed by "
rortion ofthesbusines secton.was;Massaombarda which teli Thurs- between Burleson
S^ed day night 10 strong tank and in- 1-------
1 rantry forces: tn Consult a physician. will be held
Other 8th Army forces also were this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the
eanciAt on the board. -
An ordinance extending the
franchise of the East Cleburne bus
to include the West Cleburne route
was passed as was the ordinance
extending the two hour parking
limit sones on East Henderson
street* between North Anglin and
North Robinson and around the
post office building on the south,
west and north sides.
Police Chief J. R. (Bob) Junell.
asked the ratification of Yater
Rogers as a regular police officer,
which was granted. A number of
routine matters were also discussed
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Aggie Muster Set
For April 21
The annual Aggie Muster will
be held on Saturday. April 31, at
8:30 p.m. at the American Legion
Hall, and all graduates. ex-student*
or fathers of ex-stdents of A&M
College are invited to attend
Anyone planning to attend is
asked to notify either Dr A.C.
Bum* - or County Agent C. A
Munsch. The muster will be held
around the world wherever Texas
Aggies are stationed ———
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■ isolating the town. 21230
p Three othet cars were washd the ex
’ from the highways, but it could cehses
. not be learned Immediately whether “ ’
the oceupante had escaped
TANK SPEARHEADS
IN U MILES OF BERLIN
' LONDON, April 14. (U.P—-A
radio Luxembourg broadcast
said today that American tank
spearheads have driven to with-
ir' 13 miles of Berlin.
9 cnukcp
out slow gains against the stub-1
born Japanese defense line before
Naha, the capital, after repulsing
a strong counter attack. In the
northern rector marines continued
to gain against light opposition.
Radio okyo said Japanese "sul-
cide" planes were continuing to
attack the American fleet of Oki-
nawa and claimed 12 additional
vessel* had been sunk or damaged.
1,290 Planes Dastroyed
Admiral Chester W. Nimita dis-
closed that Vice Admiral Mare A.
Mitscher's Task Force had destroy-
ed '1,390 Japanese planes in the
last four weeks.
More than 328 enemy planes
were destroyed in tbe last thro*
days through the Ryukyu chain
of which Okinawa is the principal
island.
A British task force destroyed
17 Japanese planes Thursday in
an attack on Formosa airdromes.
B-29s Put Torch
To 5 Square Mile
Area in Tokyo
-¥anks BaEtrOut
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Third Army outflanked the city
sebervalde & 69
Oranienburg 3, • "e,
- Three Cleburne veterans are
either back in Cleburne or have
landed in the states this past week
Pvt Clyde Hubbard, who was
wounded last Christmas Day in
France, arrived in the states on
Thursday and called his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hubbard. He
stated that he was in South Caro-
lina in a hospital, and hoped to
be home soon. He was in the 3rd
Infantry Division of the 7th Army
at the time he was wounded.
Petty Officer Third Class Doc
Broumley, who has been in the
Pacific area for the past 26 months
with the Naval Seabees, has arrived
veit smarted over hto flag-draped
=--of Destruction in Three States
Preaitleii Truman, Mr* Roosevelt, tee 7 p/ raIa,’ Ka-i
member at the Roosevelt famiy, __ .__f w, ______ • p“a L,__. ___ .
resllndtrzkok“hrsroergmencand —
Among them was Foreign Secretary that motorisis were forced to turn on their lght Condilions similar
Radio Tekyo said about 170 1
E-29s participated in the attack I
and claimed 41 were shot down. | I___
—On - kinewa Island, troops of. “2
three American divisions battered
A rigid military security black-
out cloaked the progress at the
Ninth Anny’s Second Armored and
83rd Infantry Divisions beyond the
Elbe, but London boiled with
rumors that on entry into Berlin
was pei haps only hours away.
Verge of Disaster
The Germans were reeling on the
verge of disaster all along the 200-
mile American front from Berlin
to Dresden, and far to the wert
in the shrinking Ruhr pocket and
along the North Sea coast.
Late field dispatches said dough-
boys ot the American First and
Ninth Armies split the Ruhr trap
in two with converging drives
from the north and south. More
than 100,000 of the 160.000 Ger-
mans caught in the pocket already
had been taken prisoner and hun-
dreds more were reported surren-
dering by the hour.
British Second Army troops
- (By United Press)
A huge fleet of American Super-
rortresses pm the torch te a five-
square mile arsenal area in Tokyo
today, setting off explosions heard
100 miles away and spreading
names to the Mikado’s-palace.,. --
Thousands of ten* of explosive
and incendiary bombs were dumped
An the target atea, congested with
three munitions plants and a
chemical works. The section lie*
six miles northwest of the imperial
palace and is adjacent to the 17-
square mile area devastated by the
B-29 fire-bomb raid March 10.
Huge Fires
Huge fires blazed through the
area. A Japanese communique said
flames broke out in part of th*
buildings within the imperial pal-
ace, the Omiya palace and the
detached Asasaha palace but were
"sdon extinguished." .
publication the latter, part of the
week by the army and navy.
They are aa follows:
. Army Woupded,, Euopear’Res-
tal death tol) might reach 75.
More than 300 persons were in-
jured tn Antler* alone.
n i.. Sen. Connally
Observers Foresee New Political . Mentioned as
Era; Truman to Address Congress Coalition Leader
7 ' ' “ - __ I DALLAS, April 14 (U.P_U. s.were barely 80 miles from a
------- 0 ----- I „ . _ ture with the Russians massed
i IA-N Aorll 14 upSen. Tom Connally, veteran Texas along the Neisse River to the east.
pWpAsHindTODnsAP the Roose- Democrat, was mentioned today as vanguards of the First Army’,
veil cabinet to "stay in," Wash-(the likely leader of a Senate coal-
ington observers, today foresee a ition “to dominate the administra- area to the north,
new plitical eradaw stars 1 tion" of President Truman j There theThird DiVision skirted
time of new political stars: _ . The mention was made in the
weekly "Washington Calling" col-
umn written by the Washington
satff of the Scripps-Howard news-
papers
The column said that the Senate
that he should have hto chance “has long seethed with resentment
the United1 of the strong executive; Truman
has sympathized with this point
.The tornado
a xillaze of3.200, population in
Southeastern Oklahoma, left
greatest havoc im its wake. A large
Gains Against
““-Lines Before Naha
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Then the opening words of the
ritual:
"I am the resurrection and the
life . .I know that my Redeem-
er liveth . . The Lord gave and
the Lord hath taken away; blessed
be the name of the Lord.”
The Rev. John F. Magee of St.
John’s Church read the 46th Psalm,
"God to our hope and strength.”
and .the 131st Psalm. "I will lift
up mine eyes unto the hills "
Str John’s Church is the “‘pres-
ident’* church.” It was to this lit-
tle tan chapel, across LaFayette
Square from the White House, that.
Mr. Roosevelt went to pray for
guidance the morning he took, the
oath of office. March 4, 1933.
The lesson* were read by th*
Rev. Howard S. Wilkinson, rector
of St. Thomas Church, and an-
other of the president7* favorite
hymna was sung, the old ringing
Faith of Our Father*! Living
qommission a* a lieutenant com-
mander in the U. S. Navy Satur-
day and will report for duty on
May 7 at San Pranctsco.’ _________— _
Little, a medical and surgical Interment will be in the Antioch
practioneer, came to Cleburne in cemetery Pallbearers will be Archie
1941. Latr he moved hl* offies Whitley. Luther L . J D . W H .
to Killeen where he practiced for M. L.. C. O. and C F Looney.
Dr. J. G. Little received
HYDE PARK. N Y-. April 14. |
(U.P-A secluded flower bordered
garden on the bank of the Hudson
River was prepared today for the
sad ceremony which will make it a
historic national shrine
The peaceful grassy plot, set
apart from the rest of the Roose-
velt estate, was abloom with spring
flowers as if nature had prepared
its own funeral garland* for Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt, >
Mr. Roosevelt will be buried in
his favorite retreat, within sight
of the home he loved so well, at
9 a m. (CWT) Sunday.
The country squire's hometown
neighbors will mingle with inter-
national dignitaries as he to low-
ered to hto final resting place in
a simple Episcopal ceremony.
The Rev.fW. George Anthony,
pastor of St. James Protestant
Episcopal Church, where Mr. Roose-
velt was senior warden, will offi-
ciate at the burial service.
sothern approaches. The
FOR JUNCTURE
WITH RED ARMY
president sometimes permitted his
official conciliators to do The
unofficial cabinet will change too,
in time, and Mr. Truman will have
hto own men around him.
Fundamental in the policies of
the Truman administration as in
that of Mr. Roosevelt is the deter-
mination to obtain an agreement
to maintain the peace
The new president will make hto
first formal declaration of policy
Monday in an address before a
joint session of the Congrssc He
will speak in the chamber of the
House but hto words will be direct-
ed to the people of the United
States and beyond them to th*
world
On Tuesday he will address the
armed services by radio with a
pledge to carry on the war they
have so nearly won in the west
and which they are winning in the
east. He will accompany that
pledge with a promise that this
nation will take its part in seek-
I ing to maintain peace, once we
ficials said today. n* . . 68ic
Rescue squads continued to dig iar
through the ruins of dogehs of. wit
shattered communities for misaing
ALLIES RIP BERLIN, LEIPZIG, DRESDEN DEFENSES
BernduwFrevenvoldet,
Strousberg Kuestm
^Berlin ________-
80 Mitos From Reds
1 The Third Army’s speeding tank;.
seven, mon th*. He then moved back
to Clebume where he reopened his
office* and has been practicig
•Ince. He took hto examinatioh at
Houston March 1.
the southen edge of Desau and
tammed up to within five miles
of the Elbe River at a point 55
miles south west of Berlin.
The Dessau drive raised a new
threat to the wrecked Nazi capital,
already imperiled by the sweep of
two American Ninth Anny divis-
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As the cortege made its slow pro-
gress through the streets squadrons ... _ —
of giant Flying Fortresses and Lib- J. W Morrow of Cleburne
era tor bombers—symbols of Amer- —A—-----.
lean aerial might—roared overhead. To Present Senior
The crowds which stood five deep 10 neS . r A
along Constitution Avenue where Play April 25, 2b, 20
the procession passed down the * ___—
broad avenue of government build- | Days without Daddy," a hilar-
ings—most of them erected in the ious three act comedy, has been
early days of Mt Roosevelts ad- selected as the Senior Class play
ministration—watched in quiet re- to be presented in the high school
spect as the cortege went by auditorfum on April 25, 36 and 37
Here and.th ere 1 the.crowd,. Rehearsals started Monday under
woman.fatntedintheunsea pnahle the direction of Mrs L. A. Max-
sticky.h to Some brttar onchair isan and the senior sponsors. Miss
or.boxes.t.ge.a.pettervew.ang Lily Paul Fraser and Bryan Duf.
ma ny shielded thelt.tace.trom the Two casts of abbut 20 each have
hot-suuWihunewsparersj g, qa been selected, one for April 36 and
Many-womenwet the other Aprii ». and an all
burly. Tretght-Eandler who pulled , star cast drawn from these two
his cap down low and turned away, I g roups.will present the play on
wiping hto eyes with the tank of AprHi27ezgp.d . Eka oz-“Quz
hto sleeve. i While the play 18 about the war:
Police said they had never hand- it 18, all on the laughside .and
promises to be a delightful treat
(Continued on Page Five) to the audience.
umeqe s.
Anthony Eden. who flew from Lon-
don. '
4 Military Procession
The president‛s body arrived just
before 9 a.m. today from Warm
Springs, Ga., and was borne
through the streets of Washington
ina.mile-long military procession,
ilee by tens of thousands lined
Constitution Avenue and gathered
around the White Hous* tar .e last
look at the shrouded military cais-
n on which the casket was pulled
by six my horses, with a seventh
a* lead hone.
In the old East Room of the
White House, where Dolly Madison
once hung the presidential wash-
ing, the solemn words of the Epls-
copal, ritual were intoned by the
Rt Rev. Angus Dun, bishop of the
diocese of Washington.
First then was a hymn, one of
those the president had sung since
boyhood, ringing out its tones in
hi* strong,- vibrant voice It was
"Traveller* by Sea and Land” —
a hymn of the sea, in harmony
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