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induction Ordered of Al
Occupational Deferrants
WASHINGTON, Jan. &—(d’J—National Selective Service tonight ordered the induction of occupationally
deferred men, including those below general Army physical standards, who quit their essential jobs without
graft board approval. The action followed swiftly on President Roosevelt’s message to Congress recommending
sweeping new job controls. He urged national service legislation, action to make more effective use of 4-Fs,
and a draft of nurses for the armed forces.
Associated Press (AP) A United Press (UP. PRICE FIVE CENTS
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BAPTIST*
Sycamore
Designed to halt "job-skipping"
once a deferment has been obtained,
the order makes five million men
psed 18 through 37 subject to mili-
tary duty under Selective Service
calls "drastically lower" physical
standards.
The Army will fix special draft
Inquest Tuesday
For Mrs. Schmid
The mother, father-in-law and brother-in-law of Mrs. Eleanor Schmid
1 By EDWARD KENNEDY
PARIS, Sunday, Jan. 7—(AP)—American troops of Field Marshal Montgomery’s Allied
offensive against the northern flank of the Germans’ Belgian bulge yesterday captured
Fraiture, less than one-half miles from an important enemy supply route. Other U. S. units
advanced almost one mile and a half in a new attack launched south of Stavelot
guotas for this group, and such In-
auctees will be assigned to other
than regular Army duties, will be on hand in Chino, Calif., Tuesday when an inquest into her death
- Men who left the jobs for which
- they were deferred and took less
essential work were ordered reclassi-
is conducted, it appeared last night.
AM, Pastor
Special messages
I Portion of Thy
A ‘At soldiers
ht H the tight
rope and Bible
■ DEATH
This brother sin
I unto death, he
gall give him lift
Shot unto death:
I death I do not
spray for it. All
in: and there is
” (I Jno. 5:16,-
■of some, but it
som menta tors a
ulty For that
well for all of ua
Imatic about it.
Ing is' evident
I meant by “sill
peless condition
I pel ess that we
|to pray about it
I pray, but not
1:earn then that
fond it ion is porg.
obable—but cer?
Jerwise the lan-
|ge is meaning-
fading
|at any one who
his soul or digs,
is is in such %
passage contem-
ossible to treat
to so ignore the
Ince, that con-
leared” and we
Eph. 4:19). The
unto repentance
ibility (Heb 6:-
1 our condition
peless one So It
strive- diligently
of our lives, not
ance die to
ch such a state
rescued from it.
i and queries to
nd the
hurch of Christ,
ighland.
—Paid Adv.
M Sundoa
trilling fan-
countries.
Bled recently, but the new action
plugs a loophole by covering those
registrants whose physical impair-
ment gave the government no hold
over them.
Thus the new regulation cov-
• ers men classed ss 2-AL, and 2-
BL who would be eligible for
limited service if not deferred,
and 2-AF and 2-BF, who would
Dr. N.J.Smith
Dies in Anson
he classed 4-F if not deferred. In
addition to those listed as 2-A
> 2-B (engaged to essential work
* or direct war production.)
"Local boards of the Selective Ser-
- vice System have been instructed,”
the headquarters announcement
Mid, "promptly to reclasify men who
change jobs without satisfying their .
Vocal boards that the change will re-
sult In a greater contribution to the
war effort.
‘The boards were informed that
Army physical standards to be ap-
plied to these men will be drastical-
sly lower and those under which men
care inducted for general military
service.”
Local boards will be directed
henceforth to call up for induction
not only specified numbers of regis-
trants for general service, but at
the same time "specified numbers of
3 men who do not meet the physical
standards for general service but who
T are acceptable for military service
under the lower standards because
they left the jobs for which they
were deferred without local board
epermission,” it was stated.
W “Men in the 18 through 37 age
group are equally liable for ser-
vice in the armed forces,” the
announcement stated. “Defer-
ments are granted not for the
benefit of the individual, but in
n the interest of the nation aa a
whole.
“National welfare demands strict
Interpretation of the provisions of
the Act that no deferment shall con-
tinue when the reason for the de-
ferment ceases to exist.”
9 Local boards were instructed to
classify as 1-A. 1-A-O or 4-E any
Class-2 registrant who voluntarily
leaves the employment for which he
waa deferred, unless it haa been de-
termined in advance that the change
ats in the beet interest of the war ef-
Mfort or that there are adequate per-
sonal or family reasons justifying
the transfer.
The provisions were not made
Z binding upon veterans honorably
z discharged from the Aruay or
(D Navy, and provisions wae made
for other registrants whose job
transfer could be justified for
special reasons.
The local boards were instructed
that they could accept a United
States Employment Service referral
Ward as evidence that a job switch
would be in the interest, of the war
effort.
Selective Service estimated there
were approximately 4,256,000 regis-
trants In classes 2-A and 2-B, and
about 847,000 persons in classes 2-1
SAL, 2-AF, 2-BL and 2-BF
It also was disclosed unofficially
boards would not be required to fill
these special quotas if “job-skip-
pers” were not available; to other
words, if the action produces the de-
1 Wired deterrent effect, few men will
be inducted under It
It also waa disclosed unofficially
that the Army would not take men
with defects which obviously disqua-
lify them for any form of military
Vie Army announced that physi-
cally sub-standard men who are to-
dueled under tonight’s order will be
‘placed to assignments best suited
to their physical condition.” Pre-
sumably this would include work
epattalions, clercial posts, K P, etc
Meantime Chairman May (D-KY)
introduced for the house military
committee a "work or fight" mea-
sure aimed at all men between it
and 45.
• The Weather
u. s. DEPARTMENT pr COMMERCE
__WEATHER BUREAU
ARTLENE AND VICINIT: Consider-
able cloudiness Sunday. Monday paru,
ends and warmer.
* EAST TEXAS Considerable elecal-
**** cealer Senday, Monday partly
t.27 ***me nerih and central per-
Weer TEXAs—Parn- sfendy. easier
Bend caamtry and Del Bie-Eagle
Pass Area Sunday, Monday partly elend,
stightly warmer T *
TEMPERATURES
•w- morn , *iF
swt
lew
sanset last might: 6 4s.
@ Smerise this morning: 8:41.
* Sumbet tonights see.
date last year:
Mrs. Eleanor DeVoll, 317 Orange,
mother of Mrs. Schmid, left by train
Invasion of Luzon
Is Believed Near
ANSON, Jan. 6—Dr. Newton Jack-
son Smith, 73, eldest physician in
Jones county, died at 3 p. m. today,
following ill-health for a year. He
was a patient in Hendrick Memo-
rial hospital in Abilene for six
weeks prior to returning home Dec.
12. +
Paneral will be at 2:30 p. m. Mon-
last night for Chino. She said Fred
Schmid, father-in-law of the dead
woman, left Denver, Colo., by plane
for the west coast and Private Har-
vey Schmid, his son, left Fort Bliss
in El Paso for the coast. Captain
Carl Schmid, husband, is with the
Seventh Army in Belgium.
Mrs. Schmid, 23, was found
shot through the head In the
home of Dr. and Mrs. F. M.
Brennan in China Friday. Cot-
oner W. E. Williams has set the
inquest for Tuesday morning.
Elmon Hall, brother-in-law of
Mrs. DeVoll, arrived last night in
Chino to assist with the Investiga-
tion, after flying from Abilene. Mrs.
DeVoll said a thorough investiga-
tion of all circumstances surround-
ing the death of her daughter will
be made and Mrs. Fred Schmid,
mother-in-law of her daughter, Is
enroute to Abilene to care for her
two grandchildren, Gay 2, and Car-
lene, 8 months, until the probe Is
completed:
Mrs. DeVoll last night could
think of no reason why her
daughter should have taken her
own life. She said Mrs. Schmid
had talked with her Thursday
night and was in high spirits.
She also said she knew of no
DR. N. J. SMITH
day in the First Baptist church
here, with the Masonic lodge to
charge.
Dr. Smith was born May 17, 1872,
in Benton, Tenn., and had prac-
ticed medicine in Texas for' SO
years, 40 of them to Anson and
Hamlin He was married in Octo-
ber, 1898 to Miss Mattle Girdner
of Greenville, in Greenville. They
came to Jones county in 1803
Dr. Smith, was a member of the]
staff of Headrick Memorial and St.
Ann hospitals in Abilene, and of
the Taylor-Jones Medical Associa-
tion. He waa a 32d degree Mason and
a Shriner.
reason why anyone should wish
to kill her daughter.
Mrs. DeVoll disclosed that several
weeks ago the manager of Harry
James’ orchestra took four pieces
of music she had written and
promised to attempt to have James
play them. She said Mrs. Schmid
was to see James during a New
Year’s Day visit to Los Angeles.
When she attended the Rose Bowl
football game, Mrs. DeVoll also
said her daughter had taken other
pieces of her music to California in
efforts to present them to leaders
of other "name" bands.
Dr Richard Winters of Port
Worth, formerly of Brady, who ac-
I companied Mrs Schmid to Chino
said last night he will remain Th
California until after the inquest.
although he was scheduled to re-
turn to his duties as laboratory di-
rector of the Texas Livestock Sani-
I tary commission in Fort Worth to-
morrow.
Surviving are his wife; three, — ,
sons, Warren Smith, partner in the pe OrG-Mu
Smith-Crain pharmacy of Abilene VIS DononeV
and for 20 years a druggist in Mer-I L’I UHICH)
kel, Paul Smith of Houston and
Carl Smith, to the Navy at Quan-
tico. Va; a daughter, Mrs. N. J.
Crain of Abilene: three brothers, S.
J. T. and N 8. of Waco and Ed
Smith of Sulphur Springs; and four
alsters, Mrs W. H. Cox of Corpus
Christi, Mrs. Wade Smith of Al-
tus, Okla, and Mrs. O w Burns
and Mrs W H. Harris of Dallas.
3 n J------.----------pendent oil operator and drilling
Zale Parker, 33,
Killed in Arizona
Succumbs Here
Mrs. Frank T. Brahaney, so, died
at the family residence. 890 Hickory,
last night at 7:50 o'clock following
a long illness.
Her husband has been an Inde-
contractor here for the past It years.
Survivors, in addition to her hue-
band. are a daughter, Mrs June Pet-
Zale Parker, S3 was accidentally
killed Thursday while working for
a mining company In Morenci, Art-
sons. relatives near Abilene here
been informed. The body will be
shipped to Novice for burial in the She moved
Midway cemetery, but funeral ar--1007 was a
rangements are incomplete. 41 —4
Mr. Parker was born Sept. 11,
1311 and grew up to the Content
community Near Novice
Surviving are his wife and three-
year-old daughter: his father and
mother, Mr and Mrs. John Parker
of Novice: two brothers, Alton Par-
ker of Ballinger and Karl Parker
of Novice and one sister, Evelyn
Parker of Abilene. One brother.
Edgar Parker, died In a Japanese
prison, camp July 29, 4943.
tis of Abilene, two sons, 1st Lt
Frank Brahaney Jr with the 4th
Marines In the Pacific and Edwin,
a student at Texas Tech, and a sis-
ter, Mrs. Harry Layman of Wichita
Falls.
Mrs Brahaney, the former Lillian
Knight, was born in Brunswick, Mo
“he, moved to Stillwater, Okla., to
-____graduate of Oklahoma A.
A M and was married in 1918 at
Sapulpa, Okla
She was a member of the Catholic
church.
Funeral arrangements will be an-
nounced later from Laughter funeral
home.
FLIER’S MOTHER GIVES—Mrs. O. M. Frydenberg, 797
Edwards, mother of Lt. Donald Frydenberg, who has been in
the Army Air Forces 18 months as an aerial gunner, places
the family's collection of waste paper at the front curb.
This morning it will be picked up by Army trucks and sent
on its way to help win this war. Have you got your waste
paper ready for this morning’s collection? (U. S. Signal Corps
photo).
FDR Emphasizes
U. S. Foreign Role
By JOHN HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Jan. C—45-President Roosevelt today dramatically
projected an active role for the United States la European political affairs.
For the first time he declared bluntly that “our power and our Influence"
henceforward will reinforce the principles sf the Atlantic Charter.
With less than a month to go -----------------------------
before he meets Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stalin, it
thus becomes evident that the
president la preparing for his next
great journey determined to seek
political arrangements for liberated
countries which will contribute to-
ward what he galled a ‘peoples’
peace.”. 2
For the accomplishment of
that peace, Mr. Roosevelt told
Congress in his annual message,
“the unconditional surrender of
the armies of our enemies la the
Greek ELAS
Seize Civilians
ATHENS, Sunday, Jan. 7.—(tot-
Accusing the leftwing ELAS of tak-
ing a large number of British and
Greek civilians as hostages when
they pulled out of Athene. Lieuten-
ant General Ronald M. Scobie de-
By RAY CRONIN
Associated Press War Editor
War events of great import in the far west Pacific, possibly an Ameri-
can Invasion of strategic Luaon island in the Philippines, appeared to be
shaping up today ( Sunday). - .
Jittery Tokyo reported by radio
that three American convoys were
on the move in Philippines waters
and added “the Americans may have
landed on Luzon."
Tokyo said one of the armadas,
spotted west of Luxon and protected
by a carrier task force, was made
up of transports’ and 100 landing
craft The Japanese said the other
two convoys were speeding westward
in the Visayan area southeast of
Luzon. Tokyo claimed, without
American confirmation, ‘ that two
carriers, a battleship and a trans-
port were sunk by Nippon airmen
as they hit the convoys. \
In a late Saturday communi-
que from Pearl Harbor Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz said Ameri-
can invasion forces landed on
Fala Island. In the western,
Carolines 173 miles east of Jap
The Yanka met only alight re-
sistance.
The Admiral reported the shelling
of Iwo Jima, In the Volcanoes 750
miles south of Tokyo The Navy
threw Its big guns again# that
Japanese base along the B-29 path
to Nippon's capital from Saipan
Earlier fleet headquarters told of
the shelling of Haha and Chichi
Jima, to the Bonins.
Nimitz revised his box score
on Japanese losses in the two-
day carrier plane hit against
Ryukyus. He said 111 planes
were shot dowa and 220 dam-
aged while 25 ships were sunk
and M damaged.
In his communique today Gen-
eral Douglas MacArthur made no
mention of Philippines convoy op-
erations He. said Yank fighters
and bombers continued their at-
first and necessary step—but
the first step only." .... _,_____-
His emphasis on crushing the of civilized warfare and that any
enemy's armed might appears to tie truce negotiations would have to A
to with Russia's announced policy cover release of the hostages
of smashing Hitlerism ss distinct
from Germany It raises the Dossi- 11“ “"•“*■ oumET Ul DAusu wan anU, souuwesu OI ameral-
many Hesdo/tn, and Greek government forces to held Mindoro
meaning of unconditional surrender Greece said the original British Other American fliers heavily
mternrerenerm: terms for a truce, which called for bombed by-passed Japanese post
TEE more eart muntars and surrender of weapons by the ELAS tions in the far southwest Pacific.
Dry . in e.moe eaC military and had been withdrawn but that he They hit airdromes and supply
TK.nr--M.oi . that was still prepared to discuss terms areas on Halmahera, Ceram, Cele-
P menel the with ELAS leaders \ bes. Bismarck and the Solomons
m - or n Scobie disclosed that besides civil- with 262 tons of bomba
tan hostages, the ELAS had captured
a "considerable number” of British
war." and he entered a plea to
the American Congress and pro-
pie not to let titled differences
“divide us and blind us to our
clared today this violated the rules
tacks on southern Luzon. They de-
stroyed a locomotive and 100 freight
and hit three rail bridges. Ub-
erotor bombers unloaded 33 tone of
7----—-----— explosives on the airdrome on Pala-
The British commander of British van Island, southwest of American-
and Greek regular troops and that
the ELAS had refused repeated re-
quests for the International Red
Cross to visit the prison camps or
The Japanese radio also was
busy telling of Yaak Super-
fortresses strikes against Tokyo.
Kyushu Island, southernmost of
the Nippon main group, and
Nanking, seat of the puppet
British forces pressed their
main drive between Marche
and Hotten at the western
end of the northern flank al-
though enemy tanks, at the
risk of disaster, pushed them
back nearly a mile at Bure,
ten miles sout hwest of
Marche. '
Superiors
Rip Luzon
Ts the southeast, field reports
said the German spearhead
north of Strasbourg not only
was contained but had been re-b
duced by U. S. Seventh Army -
attacks. The Germans who had
crossed the Rhine north of the
Alsatian capital were being
hemmed back into a narrow 3
shelf along the west bank of
the river.
Doughboys of the Seventh com.
pressed the Nazis into the town of
Gambsheim, nine miles north of
GENERAL MA 0 ART HUR’S
HEADQUARTERS, PHILIPPINES,
Sunday, Jun. 7— (PP) — Mitchell
bombers and fighter bombers con-
tinued their strikes against southern
Luzon, main Philippine Island, Jan-
uary 4 and 5. General Douglas Mae-
Arthur announced today.
A locomotive and 100 freight cars
were destroyed and three railroad
bridges torn down for damaged
- Liberators blasted the airdrome on
Palawan Island southwest of Amer-
ican held Mindoro Island with 93
tons of bombs.
The bombing of Luaon has
continued with little letup since
the Americans landed on Min-
dero, 150 miles from Manila.
December 15, suggesting prepar-
ations for an even more direct
attack on the concentrated Jap- "
anese strength there.
Today's communique, however,
gave no hint as to plans for Amer-
ican landings on Luzon, although
the Japanese radio a few hours pre-
viously sold the Yanks “may have
landed" on that island.
American airmen gave the Jap-
anese at Halmahera and Ceram be-
tween New Guinea and the Philip-
pines, a go-ton bombing They also
dropped 84 tons in the Bismarck-
Solomons area and 83 tons, on Jap-
anese-held Dutch Celebes, on Jan-
uary 1 and 4, hitting airdromes and
Strasbourg. Other Germans were
cleared from villages they had
seized in driving 15 miles west-
ward from the Rhine. In reducing
the drive, the Seventh cleared the
Germans from Rohrwiller and Her-
rlisheim in the interior as well as
from Oftendorf and Stattmatten
along the Rhine bank. ------------------
The American First Army, in
the new drive on the northern .
flank of the Germans’ Belgian
bulge, waa paced by tike 82nd
Airborne Division, which jump-
ed off this morning and drove
down the west bank of the Salm
river southwest of Stavelot.
The 30th Infantry pushed south
on the 82nd‘s west flank against
slight opposition. A few miles west
heavy fighting raged inside Lier-
neux, two miles from one of the
Germans’ two lateral supply routes.
In the Bastogne area, the U. S.
Third Army broke up an attempted
German counterattack by artillery
fire The Third earlier made a two-
mile gain to north Luxembourg east
of Bastogne. -
Supreme Headquarters an-
nouneed that the Germans had
lost at least 100,000 soldiers
killed, wounded or captured
since they launched their of-
fensive December 16, and said
that Allied losses—mostly Amer.
Iran-were nowhere near M
At least MS of the SOO tanks with
which the Germans drove into Bel-
glum and Luxembourg have been
knocked out and 22,000 prisoners
have been captured. Headquarters:
- eald.
Service Journal
Reminds Stalin
Of 1942 Appeal
WASHINGTON, Jun. 6—0
The “Army and Navy Journal,”
recalling Marshal Stalin’s 1942
call for a second front in west-
ere Europe, asserted today that
: “now that we are struggling
with a strong counter-offensive
It would be helpful for the Red
Armies to strike through Po-
land.-,
The unofficial service publica-
tion said:
“If nothing be done until Bu-
dapest is occupied and safe-
guarded, Hitler will be free to
reinforce on Rundstedt and thus
delay our invasion of the Reich.
“Dispersion of troops in pur-
suit of special interests almys
has been disapproved by our
government.”
Field Marshal Karl von Rund.
stedt’s bold shift of armor into the
deepest recesses of his Belgian posi-
tions apparently weakened the roof,
for front dispatches said the U. 8.
Plrat Army struck soft spots among
the hard cores of resistance on the
north and made gains of more than
a mile.
supply areas.
American ground forces are
actually within 12 miles of Lu-
zon, having established them-
serves on Marinduque Island,
which with Mindoro guards the
southern approaches to the
main islands of the archipelago
Beeidea reporting the possibility
of a Yank landing on Luaon itself
the Japanese radio said three groups
of American transports and carriers
were in Philippine waters, one of
them or about 100 landing craft in
the region of Lingayen, 110 miles
north of Manila.
None of there enemy reports have
been confirmed by American auth-
orities -
While von Rundstedt was driving
the British from Bure, five miles
south of Rochefort, the U. S. Third
Armored Division-one of the auth-
ors of the St: Lo breakthrough-
pounded up to a crossroads near
Fraiture, 25 miles northeast of Bure,
Eight miles west of Fraiture, an-
other St. Lo veteran outfit; the U.
8 Second Armored Division, mop-
ped up Devantave, four miles north
of the enemy road center of La
Roche. Here the Germane threw in
strong armored forces.
All along the northern front the
U. S First Army was on the move
ft The snow, cold and fog which
denied tt air support, striking with
st least six divisions and part of a
seventh.
more important common and
continuing interests in winning
the war and building the peace.” __- . - 1
While taking a strong aland "to give any assurance they are
against “misuse of power" to the being conducted according to recog-
war settlements, he opposed "per- nized conventions.”
fectionism” to thia country's ap-
proach to those problems.
After the last war, he said, “we ---------------. ■ -
gave the hope of gradually- 8 month. 1 industrial Island. .
achieving a better peace because we I Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexan- . The first strike of the war by
had not the courage to fulfill our der. Allied commander to the Med- America 5 Fleet air arm to the
responsibilities to an admittedly im- iterranean, and Harold MacMillan,! China coast was reported by Remo
perfect world" British Resident Minuter st Allied bert. James, Associated Press war
Mr. Roosevelt cited two specific Mediterranean Headquarters, re- correspondent aboard, carrier cons., Jenerua
areas of Allied difference—Poland turned to Athens and conferred task force flagship of Formosa said yesterday,
where British and American policy with Scobie, Regent Archbishop Da-The naval pilots explored 500 miles ---------
clashes with that of Russia, and maskinos and Premier Nicolas of the coastline from Foochow to
Greece, over which the United Plasties _ near Hongkong ______
Brownwood Man Slain
BROWNWOOD. Jan Gnu- Dies; Piles Monday
mer Parker, one of the owners of + 1
a Brownwood battery firm, was shot Mrs. L. L Behne, 28, died at 8:20
to death tonight at a service stay last night at her home at 626
tion operated by his wife s parents. Hickory, after an illness of several
Mr. and Mrs. William Alford, at | months. Funeral will be at Elliott •
Owens, Sheriff-Earl Stewart an-chapel at 3 p. m Monday, with
nouneed, the Rev w O. Vaught pastor of the
University Baptist church, officiat-
ing Burial will be in Cedar. Hill
“Mr!'Aha Mrs Behne had spent least and west of Bastogne after
the last six months in Waco, and belting back six more counterblows
returned to Abilene last week be-
regime in China.
Washington officially reported the
-..---------------. .Kyushu attack by B-29s out of
With the abrupt withdrawal of China bases, but said details were
the ELAS forces from the city, Ath- lacking The Japanese Mid from
— . _ — ens was quiet for the first time in 70 to 80 of the sky giants hit the
hope or eradualy a month.
Pe Field Marshal sir Harold Alexan-
States has tangled with Britain He
admitted concern over those and
many other situations.
Proclamation
AUSTIN Jan. 6 —(P) — Governor
Coke R. Stevenson today proclaimed
January 26 as Public Health Nursing
Day in Texas
British forces had been prepared |
for full scale offensive to throw the
ELAS out of the city today, but
found that the leftists had fled
from their previously defended posi-
tions. z
There was no indication, however,
that the KLAS was giving up its
fight, for Scobie’s communique to-
day told of continued warfare in
the Piraeus and Patri areas.
TEXANS WHO FLED JAP PRISON WERE EVER HUNGRY
TEMPLE, Jan. G—UP—"We were guerillas, and one of the eighty- from exhaustion.”
always hungry,” said 1st Lieutenant three died after reachtag shore. A Filipino guerilla found him
Harvey T. Denson of Granger, and
1st Lieutenant Roy Russell of Fort
Worth, of their experiences behind early in May, 1942.
the barbed wire of Davao Penal
Colony in Mindanao, the Philip-
pines, during two years and four
months as prisoners of the Japan-
Russell and’ Denson were cap- and took him to headquarters '
tured on the island of Mindanao where he and other starved
Americans who made their way
there received their first good
food in 28 months. A Filipino
doctor traveled 60 miles by foot
to administer to them.
Tank troops seized Marinduque
Wednesday giving them, "direct
contact with the southern Luzon
const,” General Douglas MacArthur
Mrs. 1.1. Behne
Von Rundstedt’s decision to
commit his armor to the deep-
est portion of the bulge at •
time when the Allies were draw-
ing the lines tighter at the 12-.
mile wide waist was a puzzler
and a high Army officer declare -
ed tonight it was -both unmili-
tary and unlike von Rundstedt.”
The. U. 8. Third Army, stalled, in
an attempt to close the pincers
north of Bastogne, lashed out both
See YANKS, Pg 9, Col.
cause of Mrs Behne • illness. She
was born Oct. 7. 1916, in Delter
county sa Marv Lee Russell, and AL: | :1
married Mr Behne in Abilene Feb Ablienans Listed
Surviving are he, husband: three W. 1 1 • A -4’ -
children, Gwendolyn Richard Wounded n Au on
Glenn, and Edward Lee: her moth-1 ” ****** -*-- • *
er, Mrs. Nettie Russell, Abilene: _ _.___..
1 three sisters. Mrs Eunice Faye Us- The War department last, night
mars Frances MacBeth and i officially announced names of 2753
Voncyle Russell, all of Abilene and soldiers wounded action I H
one brother, Mack Russell of Abi- Asiatic. Mediterranean and Paeifle
Miene lareme incline: uh
son drifted bi the water,
wounded and delirious. His
threat was parched from lack
of water, and his body burned
by the hot sun.
On the third day, his raft was
| spotted off shore by a Filipino
! fisherman The native cautiously
I approached the raft Delirious and
Two torpedoes from Ameri-
ran subs struck a Jap freighter
in whose hold the 750 Ameri-
cans were packed Many were
killed. Russell was Nown un-
conscious into the water but
quickly revived.
K^x :e.phroueh dine | — - The Alpine nan met eMt
Son managed to ame to a board ceeded in getting the American
"I swam out to sea to get awan with two other men The Japs shot 4 24"
_____-__- -__i the man on his right, and then the
I or a route cnecKupin the water about eight hours As man on his left. They shot Denson ,
"The topic or conversation i the soon as the Jap. cleared out r through the nesn of the left arm AP
prison camp was always about food - swam back to shore in the early and through his left side but he d n Wf
mid Russell 3 morning. It waa raining and cold managed to hang on and got out to
when v. 8. bombers began to 1 suffered a sprained hip and spent sea. Later, he fashioned a crude * "ad cram
appear-over the Philippines late the rest of the night in a coral cave raft from a hatch door, some boards 252.% 4 .,„ erest
* last summer, the Japs moved
fast. They did Mi intend to
let their prisoners get back Into
the hands of the, Americans,
said the two filers.
Denson and Russell were among
the last shipment of 750 men to be
ese.
The 25-year-old fliers, last of a
handful of prisoners to be rescued
from the Japanese, arrived at Mo------- ,— z.— ---------
Closkey General hospital here this from the Japs." he said. “I was
week for a routine checkup. 14 •”* -..... 4.
I was so miserable that when day- and a rope that was floating in the
light came, I started inland, and water.
walked for about a mile when I fellFor three days and nights, Den-
“I was emaciated. My eyes
were sunk In. and I had lost
forty pounds In weight," Den-
fed me 57 raw eggs before he
get me to shut urp. He then fed
Ft. Worth Blaze
areas, including:
Pfe. Rayes R Alvarado of Big
Spring. A
Pfe. Francisco D. Carrillo, San
Angelo.
Pfe. Arvel Edmonds, son of MrA
Nellie M. Edmonds, 1034 Chestnut."
T.-Sgt. Domingo Garcia, Brady.
moved from Davao. Of that number,
667 were lost at sea, 83 were final-
ly rescued by the help at. Filipino
This Global War-
SEE DISPATCHES ON PAGE NINE
me wet rice and chicken broth.
“On the second day, I was able
to travel,” and he took me to guerilla
headquarters. I was the last man
of the group to get there A Filipino
doctor traveled sixty miles by foot
to administer aid to us. The na-
tives brought in good food to us for
miles around.
FORT WORTH Jan 6—()—A
three-alarm fire that lent a cloud
of black smoke billowing • over a --------— - .
large section of the city had des-" Pvt. Andrew M. MeCarley, huse
troyed more than 100 totis of tire band of Mrs. Joyce M. MeCarlen,
beads at the Hicks Rubber & Sal- 609 West Broadway, Sweetwater
vage Company, north of the busi- Pfe. Samuel L. Philley, son of Mr
ness district tonight More than 100 | Maggie Philley, 628 South 11th.
tons of second hand, reclaimed, Pvt. Billy M. Phillips, son of G. W.
tires and about a dozen box ears Phillips, Route 1. Retan.
___. _j Lt. Tom F. Sneary, husband 4
fire which Cora Nell, Sneary, 1818 North 6th.
Pfe Cody E. Thompson, brother
of Mrs. Audrey Mise, 801 Oak.
loaded with aluminum scrap were
threatened by the L
started from grass burning an the
Trinity river levee. *
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