Withdrawal From Southwestern Holland Is a Final Stages
Rex Ray, a Baptist missionary, told Bonham Rotary the Japanese war against China has forced civilians into torture and death. He described Chinese civilians mistreated by Japanese soldiers and warned that China could pay for war using machinery, clothes, medicines, and even American aid. He cited war supplies arriving by air and road, with prices soaring for basic goods.
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China
Rex. Ray
Aed Baptist
Bonham Rotary Wednesa Noon
Amer
Bacon Saunders
H. A
Rotary Club
Aailian Troops Port Advances Units To Aid In Italy
Allied forces push advance units toward an Italian port as part of a broader operation. Reports indicate coordinated land and sea movements with support from air units. Local defenses respond with limited resistance and logistical challenges.
Triplets Born in Philadelphia Area Hospital
Three girls and a boy born today to Mrs. Joseph Inello of Upper Darby Pa at Lying In hospital in Philadelphia. Mother and baby counted as healthy as the hospital reports.
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Radelphta
Josephinello
Upper Darby
Hos- QS
Guatemala Government Stresses Unity After Talks
Guatemala officials said by telephone today that the new government enjoys the goodwill and support of the entire country as it seeks stability and cooperation during a tense transition phase.
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Que Lopez. Herrarte
Telen
Allies Overtake Retreating Germans At River Maas
Allied columns pressed the retreating German force across the Maas river in southwest Holland. American and Canadian units seized Oudenbosch and pressed toward Roosendaal and the Moerdijk bridge as British forces covered Maas bridges. Allied leaders signaled a northward push toward Rotterdam with heavy shelling on escape routes.
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Paris
U.P
Holland
Maas
Antwerp
Cap
Miles C. Dempsey
Second Army
Dempsey
H. D. G. Crerar
1St Army
Rotterdam
Moerdijk Bridge
Mark River
CAP Squadron Begins Study of Navigation in Bonham
The Bonham Civil Air Patrol squadron starts ground school and a navigation course taught by Bill Stanford, a former Jones Field instructor. Meetings are Mondays at 7 30 p m for two hours, with 20 minutes of drill and classroom work. New members are welcome. contact H R Van Zandt or Udell Brown or attend the third meeting at the high school Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonham Squadron
Civil Air Patrol
Bill Stanford
Jones Field
H. R. van Zandt
Udell Brown
Texas to Begin Year With Cash Surplus
Texas to start the new year with a sizable cash surplus as State Auditor C I Cavness reports 3 441 207 in cash on hand when the legislature convenes. The forecast for the fiscal year beginning Sept 1 1945 shows revenues near 75 million with a dip to 70 5 million in 1946 and 1947 amid wartime effects and oil tax gains. Governor Coke R Stevenson will use Cavness figures to draft a two year budget for the legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
U.P
Texas
C. I. Cavness
Cavness
Cayness
Coke R. Stevenson
Stevenson
Del Curto Named Head of Food Procurement
J M Del Curto named head of the food production and procurement division of the U S foreign economic administration in Mexico. He will leave the Texas Department of Agriculture where he led the Horticultural and Entomological division after 25 years. Walter T McKay to succeed him.
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Austin
Tex
U.P
U. S. Foreign Economic Administration
Mexico
J. M. del Curto
Texas Department of Agriculture
del Curto
State Agricultural Department
Walter T. McKay
J. F. McDonald
Texas Agricultural Department
Fort Worth Livestock Market Report Activity and Prices
Fort Worth cattle numbers around 4500 head and calves about 3100 with active demand. Good fat cows bring 10 to 11, choice fat calves 12.25 to 12.50, good stocker calves and yearlings 1050 to 1150. Hogs at 1200 with good and choice 190 to 250 pounds 14.29 to 14.40, 260 to 300 pounds 13.14 to 14.15, good choice 155 to 180 pounds 13.14 to 14.25, sows 13 down, feeder pigs 12.50.
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Fort Worth
Weather Forecast Text for Texas
Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with no big temperature change. The outlook calls for continued cloudy skies into Thursday with steady temperatures and light winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Carrier-Based Airmen Down 2,594 in Two Months
U S Pacific Fleet reports Third and Seventh Fleet air crews destroyed 2 594 enemy aircraft in air and ground over two months with 252 enemy planes damaged or destroyed and roughly 200 American carrier planes lost though with lighter crew losses due to rescues. The report credits Admiral Nimitz and pilots under Halsey and King in grinding efforts around the Philippines and Leyte with high enemy losses and notes unofficial totals for Japanese vessels and ships sunk.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Admeilester W. Nimitz
U. S
Third Fleet
Acm
William P. Halsey
Thomas ©. Kinkeid
Philippines
Cien
Doulas MacArthur
Leyte
Southwest
Pacific
Po Tnd
the Phillippines
Bailey Seaman Dies in Action October 3
Alec Boyd Bicknell, 25, US Navy Seaman Second Class, son of Stoke and Mrs. Bicknell of Hunnivale Col, former Bailey residents, was killed in action on October 3. He entered navy December 1942, trained at San Diego, and is survived by parents two sisters a brother and a half brother.
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Bailey
Alec Boyd Bicknell
USN
Stoke Bicknell
Hunnivale
Col
W. D. Bicknell
Bailey High School
Bicknell
Navy
San Diego
Calif
Johnnie Lindsey
Bonham
Juanita Goin
Sunnyvale
Keneth Reid Bicknell
Oklahoma
Gordon Blackburn
British Troops Reach Mawlu Near Katha
Southeast Asia Command reports the 36th British Division reached Mawlu on the North Burma line, narrowing Allied approach to Katha within 20 miles. In western Burma the Fifth Indian Division cleared a Japanese strongpoint on the Tiddim Fort White road and advanced 12 miles south of Tiddim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Burma
Mandalay
Mawlu
Katha
Fifth Indian
Tiddim
Fort White
Allied drive nears Carigara on Leyte coastal front
Allied forces push two more miles up the Leyte Valley to within eight miles of Carigara as Maj. Gen. Trving's 24th Division and Maj. Gen. Mudge's Dismounted First Cavalry press the Japanese retreat. Air action and torpedo boats disrupt enemy reinforcement while patrols advance along inland routes and coast.
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Allied
Philippines
U.P
Leyte Valley
Carigara
Camotes Sea
Leyte
Frederick A. Trving
Jaro-Carigara
Verne D. Mudge
Barugo
Douglas MacArthur
Daily War Bulletin
MacArthur
U. S. 24Th Corps
Maj
Cien
John BR. Hodire
Dagami
Jaro
Caton Fill
Dasami
All Soviet Territory Cleared Of Germans Report
Moscow reports Soviet newspapers say all territory is freed from Germans. The claim covers the Baltic coast and northwest White Russia as under Soviet control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
U.P
Baltic
White Russia
Petsamo Area Liberated, Stalin Announces Victory
Premier Stalin announced in a day order that the entire Petsamo area in northern Finland has been liberated, marking a major wartime achievement for the Soviet Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
U.P
Stalin
Petsamo
Finland
The Road to Berlin
United Press dispatch notes distances from major fronts, listing 296 miles to the western front from a point southeast of Nijmegen and 309 miles to the eastern front from Jablonna Legionowo, plus 535 miles from the Italian front near Ravenna as context for wartime reporting.
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Berlin
United Press
Nijmegen
Jablonna-Legionowo
Poland
Ravenna
Texas Liquor Tax Take Surges in October
Austin report shows the Texas liquor control board collecting 1 344 542 in October from direct taxes permit fees and stamp sales, up from 1 063 333 in the prior October. Bridge collections totaled 27 242 versus 23 763 a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
U.P
Bert Ford
Texas Liquor Control Board
International Bridges
Purple Heart Awarded Bonham Gunner in Italy
Sgt Finis L Meadows of Bonham Texas receives the Purple Heart for wounds suffered during heavy shelling while serving as tail gunner on a B 24 Liberator targeting Bologna Italy on October 12 1944. He earned the Air Medal for meritorious aerial missions in the Italian theater.
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Isth Aaf
Italy
Finis L. Meadows
Route 2
Bonham
Tex
United States
Bologna
Meadows
Mediterranean
Mia
Martha L. Meadows
Wth St
Springfield
Menadowa
Clerman
Flight Surgeon Capt John Lanius Assigned to AAF
Capt John Lanius son of Dr and Mrs J A Lanius of the city has been appointed Flight Surgeon in the Army Air Forces and is stationed at Scott Field Illinois He attended a conference on Industrial Surgery at Middletown Pa for AAF surgeons He previously practiced surgery in Dallas Mrs J A Lanius is visiting at the family home in Belleville US Sugar molasses and yeast can now be made from wood with toothpicks completing a forest menu
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lanius
J. A. Lanius
Thi City
Army Air Forces
Lanius
Scott Field
AAF
Middletown
Air Forces
Dallas
Army
Capt. Lanius
Belleville
Soviets Close In On Budapest From Three Sides
Soviet forces press toward Budapest from the east and south driving along a 75 mile front between the Danube and Tisza rivers. Berlin reports new drives toward East Prussia and Danzig while heavy fighting erupts near Pultusk and Liepaja as the Red Army advances in Hungary Latvia and Poland.
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London
U.P
Budapest
Kecsemet
Hungary
Danube
Tisza
Berlin
Red Army
East Prussia
Red
Danzig
Ventire’ Narew
Poland
Pultusk
Warsaw
Gross 'Trakemen
Osterbury
Rodin P. Malimovsky
Lativa
Baltic
Liepaja
Auce
Leipaja
Moscow
Latvia
Matvei Zakharov
Wag Army
Serock
Rozan
MacArthur Thanks Nimitz for Leyte Victory Support
General Douglas MacArthur sent a message to Admiral Chester Nimitz thanking the Pacific forces for their service in the Leyte operation saying they enabled progress. Nimitz replied the fleet was proud to aid in the Philippines liberation and anticipated further successes in joint efforts.
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Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Pearl Harbor
Douglas MacArthur
Adm
Chester W. Ni
Three Soviet Columns Near Budapest in New All-Out Push
Allied WW II brief reports three Soviet columns converging on Budapest from the south east and northeast in a renewed drive to liberate the Hungarian capital. East Prussia fighting and Italian front counterattacks accompany news of air raids on Tokyo and Yokohama. American forces raid Tokyo Bay while Leyte blockade tightens.
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Paris
Walcheren
Schelde
Holland
Antwerp
Maas
Budapest
Wallace Truman at Madison Square Garden Back Roosevelt Rally
Vice President Henry Wallace and Senator Harry S. Truman joined on stage to campaign for Roosevelt at a New York rally. They attacked Dewey as influenced by backers and urged reelection, praising Roosevelt as the doorway to the future and democracy amid calls to change isolationist policies.
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New York
U.P
Henry A. Wallace
Sen
Harrys. Truman
Roosevelt
Wallace
Dewey
Truman
Madison Square Garden
Liberal Party
Senate
House
Portable room coolers for postwar buyers
Portable room coolers will be offered after the war and will be priced for an average income family, making them affordable for common households seeking relief from heat.
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Azi
Tokyo
Farious
Eaker Brandspanese As
Easts
Wuchow
Coolie
Aailian
Ain
Guatamalavernment Safe
River Mans
Fort Worth Livestock
Bailey Seaman
A. B. Bicknell
Aachen
Wilck
West Coast
15Th Aaf
John Lannius
Nimitz
Leyte Island
Yokohama
Radio Tokyo
Cebu
Chester W. Nimitz
New York City
Thomas E. Dewey
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