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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 10.—(AP)-
Still pursuing withdrawing German forces. Eighth army
troops have thrust a wedge deep into enemy territory along
Italy’s mountainous backbone and at last report were driv-
ing directly toward the German base of Sulmona, it was
announced today.
Front advices indicated there was little or no oppo-
sition, although the Germans were said to be carrying
out extensive demolitions.
A communique announced Allied troops had entered the
down of Palena, on the little Aventino river 25 miles inland
from the Adriatic and 11 miles southeast of Sulmona, and
LONDON, May 10—The Germans
were reported? striving hastily to
tighten up their shaken western
defenses on this fourth anniversary
of the Nazi drive through the Low
Countries as the gigantic British-
American air campaign developed
new aspects pointing toward a
climax in preparation for invasion
D-Day.
Thus the war in the West
had swung in a full cycle, re-
versing the position of May 10,
1940 when the Germans, su-
preme in the air and on the
ground, sent their legions
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a subsequent announcement told of the occupation of the
mountain villages of Fallas-
coso, seven miles northeast of
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Mena and San Angelo, 12
miles southeast.
The Eighth army forces also
seized high ground near the hamlet
of Gamberale, two miles northwest
of San Angelo on the road to Pal-
The advances carried the Allied
troops a minimum of nine miles
beyond previously announced posi-
tions.
A full explanation of why
the Germans pulled back was
Shot yet available, but the move
apparently was taken to shorten
and straighten their mountain
lines.
The Germans, who have broad-
cast various propaganda reports of
Allied preparations for a new of-
rensive somewhere in Italy, appear-
ed to be increasing their defenses
on the main Fifth army front
south of Cassino. While their big
guns provided a covering fire. Ger-
man working parties were heard
fling trees and digging in on the
west bank of a river.
An Allied patrol with tank sup-
port raided an enemy-held house
west of Cisterna on the Anzio
beachhead, inflicting casualties.
Headquarters said six enemy tanks
setacked the raiders, but four hits
, were scored on the German vehicles
and one was left afire.
Although bad visibility kept
heavy bombers on the ground for
the second day, British Welling-
last night renewed attacks on
the west coast ports of Genoa and
Livorno. Marauders, Bostons, Thun-
derbolts. Warhawks and Invaders
hammered away at communications
north of Rome. Eight Allied planes
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Netherlands in the all-conquer-
ing blitzkreig which led quick-
ly to Dunkerque and the col-
lapse of France.
With conclusive defeat in the air
staring him in the face, Adolf Hit-
ler has designated 29-year-old Maj.
Gen. Oberst Pelz to command Ger-
man air forces in the West and
ordered him to assemble a force to
combat the impending Allied in-
vasion said reliable advices from
underground Europe.
Pelz, looked upon as an air geni-
us and a prime favorite of Hitler,
was given the task of keeping to-
bombers
1 Reds Switch
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STATUTE MILES
WHERE NAZIS WITHDREW
—Germans have withdrawn
in the sector near Palena, on
the main Italian front, it was
announced, and Allies have
pushed forward there. Black
area on map indicates appar-
ent area abandoned by Ger-
mans, though this was not ex-
actly defined in the official
Allied announcement. Black
line is battlefront. (AP Wire-
photo).
Draft Statement
gether
invasion fleets—no matter what
damage the homeland suffers in
the meantime.
No matter what the Germans do.
In addition to the enormous ac-
celeration in Allied attacks—in the
first 10 days of this month there
has been almost as much activity
tion dumps and other critical con-
centrations, (2) the two-ply tac-
tical bombing of rail junctions and
LONDON, May 10—IPP,—For Britons awaiting invasion D-Day
and eventual victory and peace this was a memorable anniversary.
It was on May 10 four years ago that Winston Churchill replaced
the late Neville Chamberlain as prime minister and began leading
them through the darker days that still were to come and finally onto
the road to victory.
even
the most conservative Amer- as in the two previous months
..... ___. British air leaders are there were—at—least three—new
agreed the Allies can win full con- phases noted:
These were (1) the RAF’S new
ican and
trol of the air within seven
to 10
airfields, and (3) the speeded up
drive against railroads and bridges.
The campaign against continental
air “fields was aimed not only at
combat planes but aerial troop
transport, for which the Germans
have been famous. It was consider-
ed that bombardment of the fields
has damaged the Nazis’ chances
for whisking reinforcements by air
to critical points. 1------
Germany’s defensive position was
emphasized last night by Lt. Gen.
"There is no doubt that Ger-
many now lives in a state of siege.
It is undeniable that there is a
great tension among the defenders
of Europe."
Broadcasting a promise of deliv-
erance to her people, Queen Wil-
helmina of the Netherlands, anti-
cipating a return to her country,
said she would take a brief rest "in
order to be fresh and strong for the
See INVASION Pg. 2 Col. 1
hake Invasion Coast
Reich Reports
Local Soldier, Eight
Others Are Wounded
"Pvt. Flurry F. Elvin of Abilene
and eight other West Texans have
been wounded in action, it was re-
vealed today by the War depart-
ment. _ .
Private Elvin, whose wife, Mrs.
Bollie F. Elvin resides here, was
wounded in the Mediterranean area.
The others wounded are: Pvt.
Horace J. Barley, whose wife, Mrs.
Lou Addie Barley lives in Golds-
boro; Sgt. James T. Boyd, son of
—yrs. Millie Boyd of Lamesa; Pvt.
George B. Clover, son of Mrs Ethel
M. Clover of Santa Anna; T-5 or-
bia C. Harvey, son of Mrs. Addie
J. Harvey of Rising Star; Pvt. Dor-
sey McDonald, son of Mrs. Lettie
1 McDonald of Norton; Pvt. James
Murphy, son of Mrs. Bessie Jen-
kins of Eastland; S-Sgt. Lindal L.
Barrett, son of Mrs. Mattie Bar-
rett of Rotan: and T-4 Glen O
Harrison, whose grandfather, James
F. Dowell, resides at Rotan.
Sellers Upheld on
Bond Issue Ruling
Carded Friday
WASHINGTON, May 10—(UP)-
Selective Service will issue on Fri-
day new regulations expected to
clear up much of the uncertainty
regarding the present and future
draft status of men 26 years of
age and over. "
The fact that a new announce-
ment is forthcoming was revealed
last night by the Office of War
Information, but it gave no further
details. The regulations were be-
lieved to be under discussion at
the conferences here between Maj.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national
selective service director, and state
draftofficials._______
Speculation that the new di-
rective would attempt to clarify
the status of men in the 26 and
over group was bolstered by
Hershey’s statement earlier this
week that too many men had
been “altered” in 1-A.
Siege Force
LONDON, May 10.—(AP)
—The fall of the Crimean
fortress-port of Sevastopol af-
ter a 24-day siege was an-
nounced today by Premier
Marshal Stalin in an order of
the day which indicated one
of the two original besieging
Soviet armies may already
have rushed to the main front |
for a new Russian westward
offensive.
Conspicuously absent from a
list of 56 commanders cited by
Stalin for distinction in the
drive which completely cleared
the last of the 10,000-square-
mile Crimean peninsula was the
name of Gen. Andrei I. Yere-
menko, whose independent ma-
ritime army struck 150 miles
westward across the peninsula
from Kerch and or April 19
reached Sevastopol’s southern
environs. The ommission sug-
gested that Yeremenko and his
men might have been moved
elsewhere in preparation for im-r
portant new operations.
Through fall of the city the So-
viet Black sea fleet regained the
second of two valuable ports from
which to venture against Axis
forces on Romania’s coast 200 miles
to the west. The other is Odessa,
180 miles to the northwest, recap- |
tured by the Russians April 10.
In the overall 31-day Crimean
offensive, at least 100,000 Ger-
mans and Romanians were be-
lieved killed or captured. Some
25,000 were said to have remain-
ed in the Sevastopol pocket as
the Russian victory drive began
Sunday. Many died trying to
escape by sea, the Russians said.
A midnight Moscow communique
said Russian artillerymen hauled
about 60 guns yesterday to the
north shore of Sevastopol bay and
destroyed many enemy ships in the
inlets while infantrymen on the
east and south side of the city
plunged through for the final mop-
up.
German suicide corps were said
to have clung to the last to three-
The condition has been an out- to have clung to the last to three-
growth of the present policy of storied defense works carved into
drafting only men in the under 26 the city’s bluffs—caves that the
used as ammunition
year brackets. In the meantime, Russians
however, older men are being placed depots and defense headquarters in
in 1-A, given physical examinations the 250-day German siege of the
and held in reserve—for how long port in 1941-42.
a period no official has yet stated. ---------
The new regulation was thus ex. Tokyo Reports Raid
,__. - ___pected to involve something in the ‘ •
issuance of four issues of Jefferson nature of a specified period of time
- - - during which men over 26 will
not be inducted. Some manpower
officials believe that while induc- ...... ...___. __, .- - -
tion will probably have to be made Tokyo broadcast reported by U. S.
this year in the 26-29 group, the government monitors said two Al-
30 year and older category of reg-lied destroyers had attacked Jap-
istrants may not face draft calls anese positions on Shortland is-
until well after the start of 1945 -
and perhaps not until later. The
entire outlook, however, is depend-
ent on no greater - than-anticipat-
ed casualties in impending military
operations. ,.0*0-2*0o
AUSTIN, May 10.—()The su-
preme court ruled today that At-
borney General Grover C. Sellers
properly refused to approve the re-
county bonds.
The decision, quickly following
last week’s oral arguments in the
important test case, disposed of a
question which had attracted wide
* attention from counties and from
buyers and sellers of bonds.
Hopkins to Home
ROCHESTER, Minn., May 10-
(P—Harry Hopkins, personal friend
and advisor to President Roosevelt,
left Rochester for his home today.
Mayo clinic physicians said they
now feel that after an additional
short rest period he will be able to
aurn to his duties in Washington.
The Weather
FU.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY — Partly
cloudy to cloudy today, tonight and
Thursday, Little change in temperature.
EAST TEXAS—Partly cloudy to clou-
dy this afternoomeand Thursday. Widely
scattered light showers in extreme east
portion this afternoon. Partly cloudy to-
roht. Not much change in temperatures
WEST TEXAS—Partly cloudy to clou-
dy this afternoon, tonight and Thurs-
day Scattered thundershowers in El
Paso area. Big Bend country west por-
tions of the Panhandle and South
Plains this afternoon and early tonight
Not much change in temperatures.
Maximum temperature last 24 hours:
Minimum
temperature laat 12 hours:
TEMPERATURES
Wed-Tue Tue-Mon
A.M. Hour P M.
68 76—1-62 76
67 79 2—59 77
irise this morning
set tonight .....
On Shortland Base
NEW YORK. May 10—(P) — A
Mexicans to Fight
CARACAS, Venezuela, May 10-
(A)—Carlos Medraza, member of the HOUSTON, May 10.—(P)—San
chamber of deputies, says that Mex- Antonio was selected convention
ico is planning to send 2,500 avia- city by Texas Elks at the conclud-
tors overseas to fight against Ger- ing session of their three-day con-
many.
Yanks Strike
From South
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‘ Ward S Injunction
Litigation Droppe
LONDON, May 10.—(UP)
—The Royal Air Force made
the heaviest attack of the war
on the French invasion coast
last night and today Allied
bombers smashed at, seven
German bases in France and
Belgium while Berlin report-
ed violent battles with Amer-
ican raiders over the Balkans.
A powerful force of British
heavy bombers ushered in the
fourth anniversary of the Ger-
man sweep into the Low Coun-
tries and France with a record
CHICAGO, May 10—(A)—Federal Judge William H. Holly today
dropped injunction litigation stemming from government seizure of Mont-
| gomery Ward and company Chicago properties without ruling on legality
of the federal action in taking possession.
The court told company and government counsel that he “con-
sidered the case dismissed” but would rule Friday on whether it should
be recorded as dismissed with or without prejudice.
Judge Holly said he would not rule on legality of the seizure because
“events have transpired which apparently have taken the case out of
my hands.”___-_______-_.____. .
Subsequently the judge told reporters he had ordered destroyed all
copies of the decision he had been prepared to issue today in the in-
junction case. He said he "regretted having to do so," having spent a
| great deal of time studying the evidence and arguments submitted by
-------------------------------government and company lawyers
AIR ACE CONGRATULATED—Capt. Robert S. Johnson of
Lawton, Okla., receives congratulations in the cockpit of
his Thunderbolt fighter from his crew chief S-Sgt. J. C.
Penrod of Newark, N. J., after the flier’s return from a mis-
sion over Europe in which he shot down his 26th and 27th
enemy aircraft to top by one Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker’s
World War I record. Crosses on plane indicate previous vic-
tories. (AP Wirephoto via radio from London).
Roosevell
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Billions for Army
Reno Divorce of
Heiress Voided
Elizabeth, N. J., May 10—( ==
Advisory Master Dougal Herr in
chancery court today found null
and void the Reno divorce of Doris
Duke Cromwell from her husband
WASHINGTON, May 10.—()-
President Roosevelt asked congress
today for new appropriations for the
Army totaling $15,676,652,700, which
would bring the total contemplated
expenditures for military purposes
up to $49,000,000,000 for the next
fiscal year.
“The estimates," a White
House statement said, “con-
template the maintenance and
operation of an Army of 7,700,-
000 officers, men and women on
the offensive in a global war
through June 30, 1945.”
coast which rocked it and
southeast England like a violent
earthquake.
American medium and fighter-
bombers took up the non-stop as-
sault on its 26th straight day, fan-
ning out behind the Atlantic wall
to plaster Nazi rail yards, airfields,
a power plant and a key bridge
scattered through France and Bel-
gium.
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Nazi • radio reports of intense
air battles over the “ristarn
Alps" indicated that the United
States 15th air force again was
striking from Italy at Balkan
targets which were plastered ef-
fectively last week. Berlin prop-
agandists claimed a "consider-
able number" of American
bombers were shot down by
German fighters and anti-air-
craft fire.
Most of the RAF’s night force of
heavy bombers concentrated on the
Boulogne-Dunkerque area, studded
with rocket guns and other anti-
invasion defenses, which were hit
by 1,500 to 2,000 tons of explosives.
Other British bombers ranged in-
land to attack • the Gennevillieres
suburb of Paris, Annecy in eastern
France, and Berlin. The attack on
the German capital was carried out
by Mosquito bombers.
The evening news called the at-
tack on the French coast an ‘earth-
Holt Beaten in
and preparing the ruling.
The company properties are back
in the hands of its’ management.
Judge Holly said, and it is a well
established fact that federal courts
are not required to rule “on a moot
question."
The Chicago plant was in govern-
ment possession from April 26 until
Comeback Try
By United Press
Former U. s. Sen. Rush D. Holt,
attempting a political comeback in Avery to Walk Back
West Virginia, trailed by nearly 3 7
to 1, in the Democratic gubernato-
rill primary, while in or io mayors
of the state’s two largest cities led
their respective tickets for nomina-
tion for governor, incomplete re-
turns from yesterday’s primaries
showed today.
In addition, West Virginia Demo-
crats selected 18 delegates to the
national nominating convention, un-
pledged but reportedly favoring a
CHICAGO, May 10—(P—
Sewell L. Overy, chairman of
the board of Montgomery Ward,
and company, said in an inter-
view today that he planned to
walk back into his office under
his own power, and that he
expected to find that the com-
pany’s mail order business de-
clined “probably 30 or 40 per-
cent" during the two weeks of
government operation.
| yesterday when Secretary of Com-
merce Jesse Jones turned it back
to the company.
Jasso .. .. .......... ........ .... In addition to the $15,000,000,000
minister to Canada, and ordered it in new appropriations, the state-
ment explained, there will be avail-
able in the fiscal year starting Ju-
and of no effect in New Jersey. In-ly 1. $33,607,263,800 of unobligated
=. -......eir balances from current appropria-
James H. R. Cromwell, former U. 8
set aside.
Herr held the decree “null, void
handing down the court’s decision
the advisory master challenged the
31-year-old tobacco heiress’ compe-
tence as a married woman, to select
a residence outside the state so
long as her husband stayed in New
Jersey.
He held that an element of
fraud was “conspicuous” in Mrs.
Cromwell’s claim that she was
a Reno resident.
At the same time Herr declared
Nevada had forfeited its right to
the full faith and credit clause of
the United States constitution in
sealing testimony of Mrs. Cromwell
and not permitting its perusal by
| the New Jersey court.
Cromwell’s suit for a limited di-
lands, off the southeast coast of
Bougainville island in the Solo-
mons, Monday morning.
The broadcast declared Japanese
“garrison units" on the island had vorce under the laws of the state
“repulsed” the attack and said one
of the destroyers was damaged.
of New Jersey will be heard later
before Herr.
tions.
The $49,000,000,000 outlay for
the next fiscal year period com-
pares with a preliminary budg-
et estimate, submitted to con-
gress last January, of $52,300,-
000,000, and with a $71,500,000,-
000 program approved by con-
gress for the present fiscal year
The White House said the large
carry-over of 1944, had been made
possible primarily by a reduction in
the projected strength of the Army,
a reduction in shipping losses, and
a “substantial reduction’ in unit
costs of war items because, of vol-
ume production.
2
The new budget figure pro-
vides for 200,000 members of
the WACS, more than treble
the number now on the rolls.
Elks Pick Santone
vention here yesterday.
Whenever It Comes—
D-DAY PROCLAIMED FOR CITY
D Day—whenever it arrives—was proclaimed today by Mayor will w.
Hair as a day of prayer in Abilene.
after consultation with the Abilene Association of Christian Women
and the Ministerial Alliance, through its president, the Rev. J. O. Haymes,
Mayor Hair issued the following proclamation:
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“In view of the nearness of invasion, and at the request of the
Association of Church Women, and the Ministerial Alliance of Abilene, I
proclaim D Day, when it comes a day of prayer. When the news of
the coming battle is confirmed, I respectfully suggest all churches be
opened, all church bells be rung, and that our citizens immediately as-
semble in their churches, uniting in prayer to the Divine Ruler to guide,
protect, and strengthen our fighting men, giving them complete victory
over the powers of evil.
When George Washington was fighting to win our liberty he prayed
before he went into battle.
Why shouldn’t we take a little time and pray for our soldiers to
win their battles, to preserve liberty, and Christianity for the world?
Respectfully yours. .. * % ah fe 2 .
WILL. W. HAIR, Mayor 7
2 Women, Marine
Injured in Mishap
BENAVIDES, Tex., May 10.—P -
Two women, and a Marine, en route
to Laredo to the bedside of his sick
mother, were seriously injured when
their automobile overturned near
here late yesterday. -
The injured were Mrs. Anita Mc-
Cuen and Mary Jane Yoemans’ of
Corpus Christi, also en route to
Laredo, and Pfc. Pilar R. Cantu,
USMCR, who was picked up here by
a naval base ambulance following
the accident..
Stettinus Talks
With Lawgivers
WASHINGTON, May 10-
Undersecretary of State Edward R.
Stettinius Jr., spent two hours with
the senate foreign relations com-
mittee today discussing his recent
conferences in London on post-war
problems.
"It was a free and frank discus-
sicn,” Chairman Connally (D-Tex)
reported. “Questions were freely
asked and as freely answered.
‘‘I can not discuss details.”
The biggest single item for any
branch of the Army included in the
total $49,000,000,000 program, is $12,-
610,000,00 for the air force. The ord-
nance department is listed for $8,-
599,00,000.
Mr. Roosevelt told congress it
would take $12,690,000,000 for pay.
travel and allowances for the army,
plus nearly $2,900,000,000,000 for the
army’s food bill.
Demos Label Dies,
W. Lee ‘Dangerous’
BEAUMONT, May 10 Sena-
tor W. Lee O’Daniel and Rep. Mar-
tin Dies, Texans in congress, were
termed “dangerous" in a resolution .
yesterday by the Jefferson county I
Democratic convention.
The meeting, in which a Port
Arthur labor group seized control,
elected W. S. Taylor, member of
the CIO-affiliated oil workers un-
ion, as chairman.
quake blitz."
Marauder medium and Havoc
light bombers of the U. S. Ninth
air force this morning bombed rail
yards at Mons and Tournai, Bel-
gium, and Creil France, along with
the Poix air field west of Ameins.
They were escorted by Allied Spit-
fires.__________
Since midnight RAF heavies
and the Amreican planes had
dropped some 3,000 tons of
bombs on Germany’s forward
installations. .__
Twin-engined Mosquitos carried
out the raid on Berlin, planting
two-ton block busters among the
ruins of the battered capital before
its huge net of searchlight and
anti-aircraft batteries could get
them within range. Seven planes
were lost in the night’s operations.
Socn after dawn, Spitfire fighters
crossed the straits of Dover to in-
augurate the daylight phase of the
offensive on the fourth anniver-
sary of Germany’s invasion of the
Low Countries and the start of her
conquests in the west.
Directors Named
FORT WORTH, May 10.—()-
W. H. Wright, assistant to the gen-
eral manager of the Consolidated-
Vultee Aircraft corporation, and
Maj. Marion Sansom III, member
of a pioneer Fort Worth cattle fam-
ily, are new directors of the
Southwestern Exposition and fat
stock show.
•
INSIDE BOMB FIN — An
armorer makes an adjustment
inside the fin of an 8,000-
pound bomb at an RAF bomb-
Jefferson is the home county of
Dies, chairman of the house com-I- - . _.
mittee investigating Unamerican er base somewhere in Eng-
activities. land. (AP Wirephoto). 3
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A CIO union won a collective
bargaining election at the plants
last night, and followed up with
a demand upon the War Labor
board to extend and enforce an
expired contract with the union.
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The government had asked Judge
Holly to issue a temporary injunc-
tion restraining Ward executives
from interfering with federal oper-
ation of the properties. Ward coun-
sel had requested him to dissolve a
temporary restraining order to that
effect which he had issued April 27,
one day after the government as-
sumed control with the aid of troops.
During recent arguments govern-
ment and Ward attorneys had dis-
puted whether President Roosevelt
had the legal power to seize the
plants. • .
RUSH D. HOLT
fourth term for President Roosevelt r a rre T
and Republicans named 19 dele-Toath A-IrmOA
gates. divided between Gov Thomas DCCTN
E Dewey of New York and Gov.VUT RAIAS
John W. Bricker of Ohio. .
In the West Virginia gubernato- 1 Nnnsnar
rial race returns from 775 of the FOT / NAOTOAI
state’s 2,796 precincts gave: I Ul 4 NVyLUU
Democratic: Circuit Judge Clar- __
ence Meadows 50,509; • Holt 16,403. | AUSTIN, May 10—WThe court
Republican: Mayor D Boone Daw-of criminal appeals today affirmed
son. Charleston, 33,844: R. J. Funk- death sentences against two ne-
houser, millionaire industrialist, 22- groes, Allen Murray who was con-
610. victed of rape in Denton county and
William Johnson who was convicted
of murder in Fayette county.
In both cases the appellate court
said there was no evidence of error
in trials.
•Murray was sentenced in connec-
tion with the rape of a 17-year-old
student from the Texas State Col-
lege for women last November. Trial
testimony showed that the student
In Ohio, 7,161 of the state’s 8,872
precincts gave:
Republican: Mayor James Gar-
field Stewart of Cincinnati 130.254:
Thomas J. Herbert 111,177; Paul
Herbert 103,704. Democratic: Mayor
Frank J. Lausche of Cleveland 114,-
495; Martin L. Sweeney 49,179;
James W. Huffman 30,757.
In the two primaries President
Roosevelt picked up 70 delegates. He
is expected to pick up 66 more this
week and they will be enough to
give him an actual convention ma-
jority.1:
Pola Negri Ordered
To Pay $1,975 Fine
NEW YORK, May 10--Pola
Negri today faced a possible jail
sentence unless she pays by June 1
a $1,975 fine levied by state seren
a $1,975 fine levied by state supreme
who shrdlemfwyshrdlucmfwypshrdl
i court Justice Isidor Wasservogel
who found the former screen
actress guilty of contempt of court.
Wasservogel ruled yesterday that
she had failed to comply with an
order of Justice Sidney Bernstein
who directed on Dec. 21, 1942, that
Miss Negri pay $25 weekly on a
debt owed the estate of Col. How-
ard Thayer Kingsbury.
and a white male companion were
held up by the negro who stabbed
the girl’s companion and then at
tacked the student in a wooded sec-
tion of the county near the city of
Denton. .
Johnson was convicted of shoot-
ing his wife, Rubelia Johnson, last
June. He entered a plea of guilty.
Texas Hero Cited
By General Clark
TEMPLE, May 10.—()-Lieut,
James P Steen of Crowley, La
who has twice received the Purple
Heart and has been recommended
for the Silver Star, today received a
citation at McCloskey general hos-
pital from Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark,
commanding general of the Fifth
army in Italy.
Lt. Steen, already is getting used
to a new artificial leg here at the
army’s largest amputation center.
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