Danton Record-Chronicle (Newspaper) - December 2, 1941, Denton, Texas ROUND ABOUT TOWN Blessed Is the mah whose strength Is In In whose heart are the highways of There needs not a great soul to make a hero there needs n God created soul which will be true to its origin that will be a gnat soul DENTON VOL XLI NO 94 TEXAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 2 1941 Associated Press Leased Wire EIGHT PAGES The Christmas 1940 buying son set a peak record for retail business In this country but the approaching buying son seems to be heading for an even greater record When the sales ure totaled after the holidays chants ore anticipating the est volume In history Texas has been particularly for- in increased business A 22 per cent Increase in department store sales was noted by the eral reserve bank the week ing November 23 and this Is an index to general retail business All his is being accomplished in spite of priorities rumored shortages and credit restrictions Sam McCluskey who hns served over a year with the 5th at Fort Bliss has received his dis- charge from the service and has re- turned to Benton to make his home Discharged on account of being over the age limit McCluskey and left with the first Denton County contingent to en- ter the service Mrs McCluskey has been residing in Dallas while her husband has been stationed at Bliss German Ukraine Nazis Driven Back for Miles British Admit Heavy Setback in Libyan Campaign Army Turning Retreat if into Rout Searchlight Pattern Over Cairo i SOME GOOD CAN COME FROM FALSE TEETH MISSOULA Mont Dec 2 metal lowers of Ray Hemingway's store teeth i probably saved his I a bullet accidentally fired by a 22 calibre rifle i Hemingway escaped serious in- jury Report Germans In Rout Running Awa From Reds B Evans son of Me and Mrs J I Evans who is In Panama as foreman of plumbing in the tional defense is depressed over the recent accidental death of his brother Evans and his in- ability to be at horns with his ents at that time As many friends have asked for his address in order to write him his mother has plied it for those who may yet sire to write him His address is Box 12 Howard Field Canal Zone By Associated Press Soviet dispatches declared today that the retreat of Adolf Hitler's Ukraine armies from had be- come a rout with the Nazis westward along the shores of the Azov Sea after a defeat which puts an eact I from Rostov is nt J lo tales about the e ty of German army Soviet Delivery Of Oil to Turks i Significant By One of the most important developments of recent months Ijas suffered n black-out because of the i more sensational nese crisis the Nazi rout at Rostov and the great Allied drive against the Axis in the Libyan desert I refer to the fact that the I viet has delivered under naval con- voy at Istanbul Turkey three I barges laden with the oil which is more precious than rubles these MOSCOW Dec rout Roosevelt Asks Japs to Explain Military Move in Wants Information As Negotiations Continue Oriental Press Charges Britain Plans Invasion of Thailand the German confusion in the first shipment of kind since the T began Fur the Muscovites Nazi economic o pressure on tjie j As British fight in Libya they take precautions against large-scale air I had been directed by the I raids on Cairo Here anti-aircraft searchlights play over ancient Egyptian i rep I WASHINGTON Dec Roosevelt i was disclosed today to be Japan questions which diplo- observers said included request for an explanation 01 1 Japanese military moves into Indo-China and toward land 1 The disclosure was in a state Department official's account of another visit there by Japanese j Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura 1 and Special Envoy He said Undersecretary Sumner The Hunt Company oil test on the Trinity Farms near Slidell had reached the depth day morning on the con- tact and surface casing was set on the test ou the same farms northwest ot the deep test Actual drilling will be started there within the next day or so Denton window displays are just about ready for the first night of the Christmas lights being turned on Wednesday evening and day many of the windows reflected Yuletide in a very pretty way and the kiddies arc seen stopping at the windows to see what Old Santa may bring em A program Is being ar- ranged for the entertainment of the and hundreds of people who are expected downtown evening Join the your will be there We feel kindo lonely down nt our said Q S Rice as our children who visited us during the Thanksgiving holidays have ed home Mr and Mrs W O lor and son w O Jr of Dresden Term Mrs Jack Jones Tenn and Mrs O J Maloue of Denison left this week for their respective homes Otis Fowler manager of the ton Chamber of Commerce and Hump Moore manager of tlie Kinney Chamber of Commerce re- turned from a trip that took them as far west as on way 24 They contacted chambers of commerce executives all along that highway in regard to getting the Federal Government's sanction In designated Highway H ns a de- fense road Each chamber com- merce along the route save oue agreed to join in the request The Fifty Year Ago column of the Dallas W C McKamy of Carrollton was in the city and reported that his store of a large quantity of before lust The thieves also attempted to tear the cash drawer from its fastenings but got nothing Harold H Young former Denton citizen now assistant to Henry A Wallace vice-president of the ed Slates In Washington will be on honor guest at n reception given by the Dallas Chamber of Com- merce Tuesday Young a lawyer of Dallas for a good many years was reared in Denton and got his early education in Denton schools Monday was the hottest first day of December iu a good many years with n high 17 at the Dallas llou and the low of the day was 20 degrees cooler will 57 Hunlers and dogs had u hard time of it Monday when the quail season was officially opened but the dogs really had the worst of it and many of them not yet In working condition absolutely fell out ol the sport Varied reports as to luck come from hunters Wayne Clifford Balthrop nnd Dave Barrow it seems bagged the while Ben Wren seems to have gotten the as he didn't even see a bird ter Lindsay and two others Ing near bugged 24 Tim and H friend from las got 17 but Tim managed only tor five of them Harvey we hear got six and Carroll son and Son Jour Sid Ford killed one and Ford two Haven't what Dr li B Harris or J P Harrison did on opening day Oscar Underwood says he didn't got off O J kerson mid Davidson have not been hetud from nor have we heard what carl Smith captured knocked down four rains or fell In ho northwest eastern part of Denton County Tuesday morning walled villages still Mist lit the Hongkong New Territories A British broadcast quoted Viet Vice Commissar S A Lozovsky j as saying that the latest attempt i of the Germans to take Moscow has cost them hair a million men On the Libyan desert front the British acknowledged a damaging setback or Gen Sir Alan ham's drive to knock the Axis out of North Africa Dispatches from Cairo said Germans had slashed through the British corridor from to j bruk trapped panzer forces northeast of and captured itsell and El Hamed A British said the Nazi brenk through meant that the newly united German panzer now hemmed in along the coast east of Tobruk could probably j break tile British encirclement and j escape to the west if they wish to j do so The spokesman declared j ever that while the Nazi may delay matters for a few days longer it had not impaired Brit- ish confidence Another Army Flees In the war Soviet dispatches reported besides the German defeat at Rostov Red army troops hud also put the Germans to flight through deep snow drifts around 120 miles southeast or Moscow Advices reaching London said the southern forces commanded by Gen von were back to Mari- 100 miles west of Rostov to make new stand around that city which they captured on Oct 1 Hitter The German high command said bitter fighting was continuing but gave no details On the front a bulletin 1 from Hitler's headquarters that German pressing the two offensive on Moscow had penetrated deep into the defense how far was not slated while a Soviet spokesman countered with n ment that the Germans can ister so fnr only tremendous losses in nil directions without exception i Authoritative London quarters likewise reflected optimism over the battle for Moscow declaring that i the Germans had not any I progress during the past 24 hours Dispatches to the Soviet paper Pravda said Heel army troops hud reputed attacks by three man divisions about soldiers 1 in the Klin and tors respectively 50 and 65 miles northwest of Moscow Some reports said heavy fighting had broken out in the Italian i tor ill the River basin near i Voroshilovgrad 100 miles north of with considerable losses Inflicted on the Russians Axis Consolidate On the flaming North African battle trout British headquarters j admitted that the Germans i Ing all their 1 forces into n desperate lunge had succeeded in consolidating their di- vided armies in the Libyan desert wastes A British communique snld man troops advancing from the south southwest in bitter day managed to roach er forces trapped south of Re- wgh no miles from the frontier Premier Mussolini's high com- mand reported the capture of British prisoners In the zone while the German high com- mand claimed that more than 9.000 British including three generals had been taken captive so far in the campaign The command also the destruction of 814 British tanks and 127 planes Official Nail dispatches said the battle on the Tobruk front hart taken a favorable turn for the Axis In the last few days A Nazi military spokesman snid developments Indicated n definite turn of events In a few clays cating that u decisive phase in conflict was Imminent Powerful sea-borne British forcements were reported pouring Into Tobruk whose narrow corridor eastward lo may have been cut by the success In tlie waters outside Tobruk bor the Italian high command re- ported Ilio sinking of a cruiser of ihn Aurora class ets River basin and the j Turks have offered them all the ern area Soviet broadcasts declared today About other oil they need henceforth and they need plenty Now that move might easily de- I Churchill Sees Manpower Crisis SOUNDS NATURAL FOR FARM is to call on him in order i to make certain Inquiries of the Japanese government through them for the Information of the president This taken bv observers to mean that the president was Inter- vening personally In the tions in order to get some recent tory explanation erf anese military steps Officials however declined to LONDON Dec Minister Churchill told Parliament j today that a crisis oi manpower and will dominate the year 1942 for Britain proposed that i military conscription age be lowered to 18 and raised to 50 men of I were ploughed up by the fire th seem to have the the cautious east of Moscow I Middle and Near East once the i The village of was Bosporus or Dardanelles has been j named as onp recaptured when the jumped Germans fled abandoning their In other words Turkey is one i j of the most valuable stretches of j northwestern Moscow I terrain on earth right now in the j tor Pravda declared three German j eyes o either the Axis or the 1 divisions haO been repulsed In a lies sanguinary battle yesterday as the Scek to Swing Turks j Germans attempted to turn Soviet That's why both sides have been and warned that ev defenses about Klin and domg to swing the i go might be called lanisk s Turks away from neutrality Powers to compel unmarried enemy into their respective Thus men between the ages of 20 and 30 i Tlie horizon was ack smoke throughout the day about Volokolamsk da said in telling of an attack where the Germans had dug in be- hind traps machine-gun nests and burled tanks run dry of I fuel Only a tew Germans escaped I death tanks participated in this Pravda said At Kuibyshev the secondary cap- ital of Russia Spokesman S A Lozovsky declared In a press con- that the rout of Voa j army at Rostov puts an end to tales about the invincibility of the German nnd bars the way for a advance of the ers This is not the first and will not be the last by far of the ing blows dealt to the German sad Lozovsky Soviet vice of affairs Of the new offensive against Moscow he declared the mans can register so far only mendous losses iu all directions without exception o DEPORT Dec 2 and Kurusu confirm or deny such tions Nomura indicated to reporters before going to see Welles that he were not bringing Clyde planted a half their government's reply to of It came up with i tary Of State Hull's document re- i stating the basis of United States policy in the Far weeds and he hired a half dozen men a half day at a half dollar to chop weeds Now he's harvested his half i To Weigh Carefully bushel of corn Nomura said this still was being j given weighty consideration 1 i i 4 i 111 11 i i l 111 g i i l Both the Japanese stressed that Consider Results Of Talks Important to join the uniformed forces will be sought he said although mans have given signs of trying to only volunteer women will be neutral so long as signed to lethal or combatant or at least until it seems wise to vices make a shift j The present conscription limit for The side which wins the outright men is 19 to 41 support of Turkey will have got to a solemn and rich that support ed House of Commons that secured before the crucial fighting ain's crisis of equipment is of next spring it would be worth a j ly over and an VICHY Unoccupied France Doc new ments in relations were forecast by authorized sources today following Marshal return from a long conference with Hermann Goering in the occupied zone The meeting held in a railway car near Saint Florentin 80 miles of Paris signalled the be- of new detailed tions these sources said sizing it should not be regarded as being merely a conclusion to negotiations Jacques Vichy secretary of state declared in Paris that the Interview represented the marked will of the French Japan was anxious to continue to engage itself ever more conversations and hold open the I constantly a path of durable and door for a resettlement Acting Police Head by Council kingdom either enemies and I to Hitler or his Clare say Ankara Cruiser Lost j A fter Sinking Nazi Sea Raider might even get that price if it chose to bargain In connection with the attempt to swing the Turks to the Allied cause some Washington observers are speculating whether William C who has just bees assigned to the Near and Middle East as presidential observer may take a hand In the game If Observer litt who has a reputation for skill in diplomacy could pull oft coup he would have achieved a by self It would be an exceedingly cate task arid particularly difficult because Bullitt would be dealing with the Oriental mind Also key Is in Britain's preserves Innd but Prime Minister Churchill undoubtedly would come help In this instance Should attempt to bring home the golden fleece he will en- flow is now partly because of United States aid and partly be Assistant Police Chief Ray completed British ell was named acting head of the j Denton police department by the i City Commission In a brief called j meeting Monday night cause of newly Empire factories he said the drain oil Britain's manpower was arising from five Kurusu asked If he still thought he had a fighting chance of cess Yes I don't give up so easily Nomura said Nobody wants war would not settle anything any way Japan has yet to make a formal reply to the peace formula of basic principles set forth by Hull last and the State Department for Tokyo's answer to In- fruitful European Fernand De French ther said it js certain that very important will result from the conference In Berlin the com- mentary Aus Deutschland which reflects of the Gorman foreign office said the principle of cooperation In the spirit of the new order has been unmistakably of stalling the He assumes the of the late new factories Chief o C Pass until nn election maintenance and is called to fill the post of police sion of forces In the East supplying of Russia from i British production chief by the council's order Whether or not a special election be called before the present meanwhile continued tense and an analysis of troop and naval ments led military strategists here to the conclusion that the ed ABCD powere a their decision t Japan invades prospective expansion of j police term expires with the the air force and the continuous liar city election in April was not kingdom of Thailand Merchants Plan Christmas Party S Wednesday Night i the O growth of the navy nnd continuous guard against two danger of in- vasion and the sir will hang over us until the end of the wav The expanded military clear Tuesday Legal aspect of the matter was being studied by City Attorney Bruce Davis The city charter because of oversight docs not make any mention of what shall be followed if a The Powers In Accord ABCD powers America A Christmas party for Denton residents which will mark ion will bring more than cancy in that office occurs It savs men nnd women under review for only that a city marshal shall be armed service with the British forces Another change would permit year-old youths lo serve overseas elected by the people for a two year term The order The present assistant chief of fierce competition in Count a which now is limited lo those lice is approved by the commission LONDON Dec Australian cruiser Sydney hns sunk one of Germany's most dreaded sea raiders of this war but an official announcement today said she apparently paid for the triumph with her own life and the lives of 645 men aboard her She fought her last fight with the heavily armed man somewhere off who kicked him out of his job as Franz von Papen Nazi ambassador to Turkey who not only is one of the shrewdest diplomats of our lime but is and would sot to try to give the American a ducking in the pont If the pace got too hot Apart from other considerations von reputedly has no liking for these Idiotic as he is said to have called the people i Australia probably not far from the Islands where her pre- sank the ftai- I famous raider Emden in the last war Tlie known to Brit- German military nt ington during the World War be- cause he was suspected of plotting i ready 20 and older Hitler May Attack Churchill coupled his call for in- creased manpower er with the warning that at any time Hitler recognize lus defeat by the Russian armies to er his disaster visit us with all his We are all ready We shall receive him when he comes by day or night by far greater forces and with every modern im- but we must always be to serve as acting police chief un- til an election is called The council also voted that be paid by the city to Mrs O C Pass representing of the compensation her husband would have earned during the remainder or his term as head of the ment against our neutrality Von Papen undoubtedly has done work in keeping the Ish naval men as raider No 41 and Turks from Joining the Allies sailing under the name of i England's gravest concern must be moran had sunk nine British i that he might persuade Ankara to or neutral ships In at least three oceans before tlie i Sydney came to mortal grips with her BO over to the Axis though there hns been no sign that this likely Since the World War the Turks The survivors old have at heart been pro-British I the story of the combat None of i found thai lo be true when I I he Sydney's men were found and i ed Turkey Just before the present Hie Australian government war Tlie great President Kemai I scouring the battle area with planes Ataturk creator of modern Turkey J nnd shins announced hat II must who then was on has j be presumed that she has been j hart laid down this policy as lost j It was said that if the No dale was given for the Turks had to fight they would join i but Australian Prime Minister Britain but that they would re- i John disclosed In a main neutral ns long as possible menl that the next of kin of the Sydney's missing officers and 003 i men had been Informed November i r Observers believed the measure would be passed speedily after de- bate but Thomas Horabin oppi liberal pointed out that the prune minister made no reference to conscription of property and declared there will be ment that the prime minister 1 not gone much further iu izing us for total war I am convinced that this cannot our war effort to the degree lo de- feat Hitler he said Churchill warned that the ure a iu living standards British May War Against Finland t Rumania Hungary LONDON Dec In- formed sources today predicted that declarations of war against Finland Hungary would come towaM the end of the week They said been given her hust to attacking sources indicated that to declare Lake Dallas Has Roll Call Fund The first county own flian the city of Denton lo report con- Oklahoma Bank Bandits Escape CEMENT Ok Dec men robbed the First State Bank of Cement of between and today and fled In a watting automobile Glenn Mann cashier nnd Mrs Mann a teller were alone In the Fire Chief Cook Named Fire Defense adhered to the pact especially in been to when view of Prime I Minister Churchill's warning jal ago that whoever i ed witti Hitler was Britain's foe I i ii Vi con- a teller were alone In the lo the roll call of he bank when the men forced Mann at pistol point to put Sett Denlon County chapter of the American Red Cross is Lake Mrs Bess said Tuesday Dallas of the total that hns been set for I ho county out- side of Denton Extending the time for tho roll call from the end of November to Dec 18 McCullar urged towns to make tholT contributions fis Mxm ns possible In order to reach Bonl set nt by that Into tho money In a sack Then said the wo Hod locking the couple In the vault Mann said one of the men to be between 30 nnd 35 years of was of medium height nnd weighed from pounds Ho said he did not get a very good look at tho second who need Mrs Mann with a pistol while he first gunman held a tol on Mann I More Italian iyi Britain China nnd the Dutch East Ule of the Christmas are known to be In full season will be sponsored by cord with the position the United merchants In the city on the lawn States has taken In the I ot the county court house We tions with Japan and the BCD evening members of the I A program of recorded front were completely mas and chimes has been ed on nli developments In the I arranged between 6 nnd 7 o'clock discussions j while a chorus from T S Military strategists advanced four I c- under Hie direction of Mrs reasons for their belief that the Terhune will sing ABCD would fight If the mas carols ns the colored lights at Japanese troops now massed In i house and the municipal French should and in the windows of move on stores decorated for the Tlie invasion be a pre- season ore turned on lude to an attack on British and Merchants of the city have agreed Dutch possessions in the South to co-operate by having their sortal window decorations It would put Japan in a more i ed Wednesday evening so favorable military position for nn as a whole can join In the offensive against the Burma Road i Christmas party China's vital supply line 3 It would enable Japan menace American sources of rubber and other raw materials i Wartet In charge of Mrs M L essential to defense Hutcheson will sing accompanied and by giving Japan a firm hold I by a electric organ to tin The Denton School Band directed by Carroll will play during the evening and a In the South Pacific Jeopardize the future security of the Philippines I JURY would provide evidence that 0 Japan was furthering the Axis FOR LAKE SUIT nt encompassing the East and Eastern Asia gram of world conquest by i ating In a tremendous pincer j Jury was selected Monday noon Q hMr Tial of suit of Ira Cox vs City of Dallas and District Judge Ben W dismissed the remainder of he panel until Friday It will take until Thursday night Charges Britain Plans Invasion TOKYO Dec 2 devoted a long session today to study of the Washington white the press Fire Chief Cook of ton has been assistant of the fifth district for of a fire defense service C C of Fort Worth f LONDON Dec nee to counter any Japanese heads the fifth district com- today assembling at Singa- 10 Cooke Wise i ish warship led by the cruiser dispatches describing the gathering of ABCD forces in the South Seas and charging that Britain was preparing to Invade Thailand Dispatches to and ing newspapers described British war preparations along the Thailand border as being com- re- ported that a declaration of a state of emergency in the pines was Imminent vastly strengthened British fleet ftl least to try the Cox suit neys believe The litigation grows out of con- struction of Lake Dallas alleging creation oi the lake backed up creek waters and damaged farm land owned by Cox Denlon Pajo Pinto Parker Aurora had sunk the ranl Johnson Hood Somervell Inn destroyer da Mosto the j j tanker and Under the direction of the U S the supply ship Army working through the lire In- when It attacked a Libya Mediterranean convoy At the same lime tho Greek surance detriment of the stale has been divided Into 26 to be organized for fire announced another blow defense The will in- at Axis not only tho existing tiro cations asserting that a deep-laden In each etly but also southbound supply ship of 3000 the tons was probably sunk when hit plans for will be by u from the Greek sub- at n meeting of district tors his week-end In Austin i Crete on Nov 10 pore with the arrival there of an advance flotilla led by the ton battleship Prince of Wales Tho cabinet meeting was ed by n conference between Pre- mier General Tojo and Ad- miral navy now member of the Supreme War Council Foreign Minister Togo was understood to have laid before hla colleagues latest reports from Ambassador Admiral Nomura and Special Envoy on their yesterday's Sto ROOSEVELT Pogo 4 EAST Partly cloudy lo fair In west considerable In occasional In eaat portion and near upper coast this afternoon and In portion tonight cooler north anil west portions fair to wanner In extremely Light to moderate mostly northerly to erly Hinds en the coast WEST Kulr Wednesday but tome iness tonight In the Del Pass area Wednesday llm Ktg Paso area In Fair nnd cooler
