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PAGE FOOT WITH THE KHAKI AND BLUE OF LAND, SEA AND AIR more ton MXU.EK Housing Facilities Needed Here Now During the past few days an unusual number of officers and their families have been attempting to find rooms, apartments and houses in Denton, some of them reportedly without success, Officers of the 86th Infantry Division, moving into Camp Howze, Gainesville, now, and families of student officers in Air Force detachment here are the groups now who need housing faci- Halson training at the U. S. Army Air group lities. Denton residents have cooperated 1 In the past few months in providing quarters for the new families now established here, and hope has been expressed that they will cooperate now. Notes of Service Here and There Otis King, who Is a pharmacist's mate with the U.

S. Navy in Norfork, Is visiting his mother, Mrs. O. M. King, 1217 North Elm Street.

Vinson Tipps, second class petty officer with the U. S. Coast Guard, and his wife are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wilson, in Denton.

Tipps is stationed at Panama City, Fla. R. Bradley and H. L. Bradley, sons of Mr.

and Mrs. S. Bradley, Dallas Drive, are here. s. R.

Bradley is with tliu medical corps in the U. S. Army stationed at New 'Orleans. Corp. these cadets are first given ground school training at preflight bases, and then are training fields.

assigned to flight MODERN WOMEN mmtit tuxim Set. Joe Hill Jonesi son of Mrs. Qeo. M. Jones, 629 College Street, has been accepted for training In the field artillery officers' candidate school at Port Sill, Ok.

He is a graduate of s. M. U. and in October was admitted to the Texas bar while serving in the U. S.

rmy. Aged Pioneer of County Buried Special to Record-Chronicle JUSTIN, Dec. services for Qeorge Turner, who died in the Masonic Home In Arlington, were conducted in the Justin Presbyterian Church with Rev. J. L.

Harris officiating. Turner was born in Marbone, May 18, 1849, and died Dec. 2 in his 94th year. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Turner in Kentucky before coining to Grayson County in 1B82. He moved to Collln County, and then to Denton County in 1899 and he resided In Justin until entering the Masonic Home In 1932.

He was an active blacksmith until about 84 yeavs old. Of three children born, only one survivor, Edgar Turner of Justin. Foin- grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive. Masonic Lodge had charge of the services and burial which was in the Justin cemetery. Personals Mrs Lola Pa fiord and Mrs.

Oren Bradley Is statleneci at SliD.op.ud porter visited In Denton Field. Another son, Lewis Bradley, w. i. Bishop and Charlie Wills with the u. s.

Marines, stationed at San and a son-lu- son were in Denton. p. Lovelace of Ardmore, law, Herbert Paul, last week, left to visited Mrs. J. B.

Bradley" Join the U. S. Navy. Pvt. Jack Layfleldof Tarrant Harvey Hldlon, a volunteer officer candidate who left hero Nov.

81, has been stationed at Fort Knox, with the Armored Force, after processing period at Camp Wolters C. L. Oliver Jr. has been approved as an Army Air Force aviation cadet and will be called far pre-flight training shortly. Ills brother, Field and Sgt.

Morgan Layfleld of I-'ort Sill, visited Will Layfleld. Mr. and Mrs. Darin Wright of College Station visited Mr. and Mrs.

V. C. Wright. Mr. and Mrs.

W. N. Shofner and Mrs. Ed Tally visited in Port Worth. Garden Club Meets The Justin Garden Club met in His home of Mrs.

J. H. Allen. Miss Lindley gave a talk and suggestions on ''Christmas The next meeting will be Dec. 17 and A is now training as a mechanic for the U.

S. Army Air Force, at Miami. Fla. Both are sons of the subject" will" be "a discussion" Dr. and Mrs.

C. b. Oliver. discoveries and sad mistakes dur- I ing the year. Oscar Bates Byron, son of Mr.

and Mrs, Oscar Byron of Route 2, i Aubrey, has enlisted in the U. S. ICC-t feSldeilt OT Maritime Service and will be sent to Ministers Named FICKLE LASS BETTER DEFER LOVE AGAIN Along conies a letter from fickle young woman who has only herself to blame for the jam she Is in: "My dear Mrs. Martin: About five months ago I promised to mnrry a young man who was leaving my home town. He wasn't In the Artny at that time, but has since Joined up and Is, as far as I know, overseas.

We wrote many letters, of course, but I have never seen him since getting engaged and now I find don't love him and, what makes it worse. I am very much in love with someone else. "I really feel terribly about this and don't know what to do. It realize now that I was not in love with him ever and that I should not have said I would marry him. Knowing this other man has shown me that.

He has net asked me to marry him because he knows I have promised to marry this other fellow, but I know he loves me and would ask me were I free. "What shall I do? I hate to write and "break the engagement, yet I simply cannot go on writing as I have been doing and I simply let the other man go out of my life (he's in the Army too). Please advise. I really am in an awful jam and honestly don't know what to do. Betty Jane." One thing you had better not do is promise to inarry any more men.

The one with whom yen now fancy yourself in love shows his good sense In not trying to exact any promises from you. Besides which, you are not free to engage yourself to him. I really think you had better stop seeing him and stop dramatizing your emotions and maybe you will discover tlmt your finance Is all you thought him. Wait a While This other man may be attracting you only because he Is at hand. I would not, were I in your place, take your feelings for him too seri- It is probably infatuation.

Let him go. Wait for a bit until you see what your reactions to his ab- sence'wlll be. Then if you find you can't forget htm and really do love him, by all means break your engagement. But test yourself first. You sound fickle to me.

After all, five months is a short time tci fall in, out and In love again. Don't marry one man If you love another, but ore you in love at all? Isn't It just one more case of being in love with love and not with a person? Speaking generally, it Is nqw much easier to be sure whether or not one is in love and with whom. In normal times one's man is not in danger. Now he is. If a girl can Interest herself in someone else svhilc the man she has promised to inarry tjiay be on the firing line or exposed to any great danger, she obviously Isn't, in love.

It's better for the man the maritime training station at Sheepshead Bay, N. for training. The Denton Ministers' Associa- Basil Toone, son of Wm. meeting Monday -morning in T. Toone, Routes, Denton has been the plrst Presbyterian Church ucl 1 I1UIJ promoted to the rank of marine elected Rev.

J. L. Rotten vice pre- I to find it out before he marries her gtumer in the 0. S. Marine Corps.

sldcnt. mid named two committees I But the girl must remember that a He has served in the corps nearly i to carry out important projects. To letter such as the occasion de- four years and held the rank of comply with President Roosevelt's mands is going to hit him as hard sergeant in the fleet marine force proclomatlon for a day of prayer i If not as fatally as a bullet might' at the time of his promotion. 1 a committee was appointed by the so she should show him all the I assdclatlon president, Dr. H.

Q. Colin McSween. 'son of Mr. and Goodykoontz, composed of Revs. Mrs.

Robt C. McSween of Route 1, Philip W. Walker, Ooodykoontz and Denton, has been for ap- i J- Copeland to have charge of ppintment as an Army aviation i the progra: cadet. After being called to duty, to be held In the First Methodist Church at 10 a. m.

on Jan. 1. A committee composed of Rodvn, Copeland and. Goodykoonta was named to have made printed placards of invitation to services In all, Denton churches to new citizens and soldiers, the placards to contain names of all churches and siderntloii possible and certainly not write such a letter unless she is very sure cf her feelings. engagement is never pleasant, but It Is usually not a tragedy.

Tile circumstances you describe make it more unpleasant than usual, that's all. Nice women don't go around promising to marry every man who asks them, just for the emotional excitement of becoming engaged. How much better It would have been If yen 'had refrained from Johnny's gone off to the war Mary's doing Johnny's chore Feed her biscuits; more and morel From GLADIOLA Flour FIOUR BRING YOUR FAMILY LAUNDRY to your Steam Washateria Save time and money. Free parking. Phone 31.

East Side Cleaners The Gift Luxurious! to be placed in prominent posi- making any promises. Better decide tirws in all churches, the USO cen- i to remain free of further obli-a- tcr, hotels and other strategic tions for the duration and better be Emphasis was placed on sure you really want to be free of the one you have assumed. Test of Love Long separations are a splendid test of love. They really teach one far more about the true state of one's heart than anything else, for propinquity Is really no test of love. Its-absence Is the acid test.

The girl who wants to break her engagement can always console herself with the thought that the man also has seen the error of his ways. But when I've made this suggestion to girls I find their reaction rather curious. They usually resent any such Inference. Yet why should they? Many a man has gone through with a marriage because he could not face being coasldered a cad. But a man should have the same privilege as a girl in the matter of admitting the engagement a mls- take.

i Everyone is so much better off, if il Is a mistake, than going frOn a bat! bethrothel to a worse marriage. Emphasis was placed on the members assisting In the I Christmas Seal sale. i Prom now on the meetings will be held in the Plrst Presbyterian Church, U. S. corner of Oak and Bolivar Streets, the first Monday of each month, at 10 n.

m. Present for the session were Revs. Gocidykoontz. Walker, Roden, O. N.

Baucom, L. R. Bradley, H. A. Casey, Copeland, Prank Wcedon and R.

M. Chambers. The Amazon river is 4,000 miles long. SOOTHES REFRESHES! KICKERNJCK'S Brushed Rayori Sleeping Coat Bembevg Brushed Raya toasted marshmallow! Softly, fitted cuffed sleeves satin binding and buttons. White, blue, rose.

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Humphries, 1212 Bell Avenue, were called to Mercedes Friday because of the critical condition of Mrs. Humphries' mother, Mrs. C. H. Boyce, who died Saturday at 4 p.

following a long Illness. Funeral services were held Monday at Runge. home of; the family for many years. Mrs. Boyce had visited here a number of times.

A deposit of 42,000,000 cubit feet of peat exists In Juniper swamp, in the borough of Queens, New York. Belief At Last For Your Cough CreomuUion relieves promptly be It aoc-3 rlaht tn i' aure heal raw, tender, in- bronchia! mucous mem- ef- Tell your druggist to sell you 3 of Oreomulslon with the understanding you must like the way it qUyrO GREOMULSIGN No Lessening Of Allied Effort In African Drive By DeWITT MacKENZIE WITH THE BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY IN LIBYA AT BENBASI Dec. lull In the fighting on the Libyan front should not be taken as indicating any slackening of tile Allied effort to oust the Axis from Northern Africa, for it is merely a period of intensive preparation for resumption of what Is one of the decisive battles of the whole war. Marshal Erwin Hommel knows that, and he is straining every nerve to get set at El AgheilR to meet the fresh onslaught which Is inevitable. His operations are quite apparent to us on this side of the line for in these days of aerial magic the sky is one huge Cyclopean eye which sees pretty much all that passes beneath.

This whole great desert-splotched zone on both the Allied and Axis sides Is swarming with activity like one of the myriad anthills which dot Its surface. I have been crossing and recrossing hundreds of miles of this inhospitable" territory killer desert of hills and deep cut gorges which the natives call jebels and can testify that the war Is moving apace. The present lull is a perfectly normal thine. In. the short period of about a month the Eighth Army chased the fleeing Hitlerites like rabbits across some 700 mites of desert.

Now, that is a terrific performance both for the pursuer and pursued, since the movement of an army even 20 miles with all its supplies Is a mighty job. These difficulties are multiplied in the Libyan desert, because even drinking water must be Iranspdrted long distances and there are few highways to accommodate this movement of men and materials. Then, too, Rommel was running tcwards his home territory where he had not only a favorable place to make a siand but also supplies and reinforcements. Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery, Eighth Army commander, on the other hand was racing away from his bases as fast ss he could go and it must be logged as one of the grent tactical achievements of this war that he was aule to cover such distance and arrive strong enough to oust the Germans from their strategic port of Bengasi, Things look good now in Eighth Army territory.

Naturdally I cannot give details about military movements but the most important thing which could possibly be re- coiced Is that the morale of the army is absolutely top hole. That includes our Yankee airmen who are doing such a grand job on this front. Fion: my own observation I know the men are confident they will drive the Boche into the sea ami they are eager to get ahead wiili the job. That fighting spirit is the first requisite for viptory. At the same time there is no disposition to underrate the striking powei still in the enemy's hands.

Indications are that there will be a hard, bloody battle. Rommel's line at El Alameln was shattered by surprise tactics. Montgomery outsmarted him. There was a fierce engagement there which at times produced hand to hand fighting and Axis casualties were heavy. But that clash wasn't protracted for the Nazi marshal took, to heels to save himself.

Now, however, the Axis commander is in a strategically strong position. He has had time to get his breath after his headlong retreat nnd he has been receiving reinforcements and supplies from the continent, although it Is highly likely that some of the aid in- tendeo for him, especially warplanes, has been diverted to support Axis forces in Tunisia. in any event, whether Rommel likes it or not h.2 must make the stand of his life at El Agheila. He is being made the goat to perform the holding operation In Northern Africa while his lord and master has a chance to get set to defend himself on the continent. Hitler is in nn uncomfortable position at the moment for he is not only being attacked heavily on the Russian front, but there Is a threat lo Italy, Southern Trance and the English Channel coastline.

Der fuehrer must re-line his forces so as to meet these contingencies. By HENRY CASSIDY Dec. resistance, stiffened by aid-borne reinforcements, was growing on inc central front west of Moscow today, but the Russians announced they had battered down 20 counterattacks west of the German-held Rzhev and killed 1,000 Nazis In a three-day along the important Rzhev-Vyozmn Railroad line. The Russia offensive gained ground both on the central front and southwest of Stalingrad, it was reported, although the Germans were bursting out of their snow- covered positions in desperate counterattacks. Northwest of the Volga stronghold the Red Army was reported tightening Its hold on both banks of the Deb river, The mid-day communique said the Russians, after repulsing all counter-attacks, were consolidating captured positions, in fierce fighting which accompanied these German counterattacks.

1.800 Germans were reported killed nn one sector and 300 In another. The jiild-ciay communique reported two more companies of enemy Infantry wore wiped out by a scout unit. Southwest of Stalingrad, the Ruts. sians said they killed 250 more of Hitler's troops in dislodging th" Germans from a fortified position. The Germans, after nearly three weeks of the Russian offensive, were still their foothold in tile northern factory suburbs of Stalingrad and apparently were maintaining some lines of communication, but they have been unable to improve their positions in the Steppes between trie Don and the Ask Farmers to Support Program, Raise Home Crops MEMPHIS.

Dec. of Agriculture WIckard brought the the South's farmers two direct pleas support planned farm programs, especially by voting for cotton marketing quotas on Dec. 12, and to produce more for home needs. Tile secretary, who yesterday made chief of the home food front, introduced before farm war boards of 14 Southern states a discussion of regional production goals for I 1943: with, declaration that to use our resources to the I fullest will be nothing short of tragedy." Some people are saying that the war has done away with the need for farm programs, and that farmers should grow whatever they wish, Wickard said. But actually, he contended, "to Urge farmers to scrap farm programs and do as they please would I be like telling the factories to 'manufacture what they whether It be automobiles or radios, regardless of the need for planes, tanks and guns." AMONG SICK Mrs.

Joe T. House, 1520 Bolivar Street, has returned home after undergoing treatment in a Port Worth hospital. Her condition is Improved, but she will be unable to have guests for the present, it was announced. Mrs. W.

A. Matthews is a mod- leal patient at the Denton Hospital. The small son of Mr. Mrs. Harold Smith of Pilot point is 111 at the Denton Hospital.

Miss Elolse Johnson Is In the Denton Hospital for medical treatment. DENTON LIBRARIAN' SPEAKS in FORT WORTH Miss Lottie Brashears, member of the Teachers College library faculty, spoke to the Fort Worth Library Club Friday night on "The War Program on the Teachers College Campus." After the program Miss Brashcars was honor guest at a dinner In.the home of Mrs. Bertie Mothershcad, librarian at T. C. with other librarians attending tlie meeting.

NOTICE FARMERS! JUST RECEIVED CARLOAD OP SEED OATS Ferguson 022 variety. Recommended for spring planting. Also received 2 loads New Nortcx seed Oats. Both varieties free of Johnson Grass. The Seed House Cor, iv-li niul K.

MrKlunc-y 6,641 Japs Killed At Guadalcanal WASHINGTON, Dec. Japanese killed by United States Soldiers and Marines on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons stood at 6,641 counting thousands of Nipponese estimated to have been destroyed by sea action artillery fire and air bombings. The Navy said in a communique yesterday that the 0.641 figure was based on an actual, count of bodies. The report Indicated Naval authorities here believed the Jajanesc have received no appreciable reinforcements or supplies since their huge armada was blasted by TJnltetl States forces in a great Naval battle three weeks ago. American Marines, the jungle- trained "raiders" who volunteered for one of the war's most dangerous fighting jobs, wiped out 400 Japanese soldiers and five bases while Irfsing only J7 of their own men, yesterday's communique said.

The action, mostly In the jungles of Guadalcanal occurred over a number of weeks. Nepheiv Reported Lost in Action Mrs. N. E. Fairman lias received word that a nephew, Jlmmie Little, first class seaman, has been reported by the War department lost in service somewhere in the Pacific on Thanksgiving Day.

He is the son of Mrs. Doris Little of Caro, Jvfich. FLOWERS BY WIRE the country IN A FLASH The perfect Christmai gift that altfayt arrives. Bur PLEASE ORDER NOW last jniaute service out for Che duration. The government "taitgatoxdlint." DELIVfRY GUARANTEED only on orders placed ctrljr.

R. L. Selby Sons FlorJsts and Nurserymen Phones 374 and 31 Fort Worth llbjhway Jap Opportunity To Cripple U. S. Seapower Missed WASHINGTON, Dec.

7. The Navy's revelation of the magnitude of the disster at Pearl Harbor made clear today that the Japanese missed a prime opportunity to destroy Immediate American sea- power in the Pacific nnd perhaps seize Hawaii. With eight, there were In the Hawaiian three cruisers sunk or disabled by the sneak Nipponese blow, Amer't lean naval forces in the Pacific a year ago were outweighed or five to one by the Japanese Imixs- rial fleet. Air defenses of Oahu Island lay shattered. Runways af airfields were pitted by bomb craters and clogged with the wreckage of more than 100 planes.

The American warships still able to fight might all have been lost had the Japanese main fleet sought out and engaged them. An invasion of Hawaii, or even a raid in force aimed at final execution of the crippled ships, might well have been successful. Why the Japanese did not follow up their first assault with some such action may never be known until after the war. Perhaps it was pre-occupation with other campaigns. Or more probably it was because they themselves in their most hopeful moments never anticipated that such punishing blows could be inflicted on the American fleet in such a short time.

As It was, the Navy was able to tell in its week-end Pearl Harbor anniversary review a story of a magnificent salvage and repair job. Of the 18 ships and a large floating drydock which were disabled, only one, the battleship Arizona, is accounted a total loss. More than half the ships, including at least three of the battleships, are back with the fleet and some have been for months. Where Japs Struck Treacherous Blow PEARL HARBOR pectlicFUct itieortfd fit hit bor IMlfl Wickard Named Food Supply Head WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.

Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickanl, who grew up on the farm and who believes bread is as important as bullets in winning a war, today was in complete charge of supplying the greatest food needs American history. President Roosevelt directed the 49-year-old Wickard yesterday to assume "full responsibility for and control over" the nation's food program, an undertaking that must reach unprecedented proportions next year in order to help feed the armed forces, the Allies and liberated countries. Wickard, who estimates thai, up to 25 per cent of the 1943 output will be required for lend-lease nnd armed forcees, takes over the marketing and distribution supervision formerly exercised by the War Production Board. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS May shows closeup or Pearl Harbor area where the Japs struck nt U.

S. warships and airfields, and relation of Hie American navnl base of all of the Hawaiian Islands. (NEA Telemp.) served in the family home nt which nil of Mrs. Bishop's five children were present. Miss Margaret Stacker of Wichita Palls was the week-end guest of i Mr.

and Mrs. Boyd Armstrong. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon SImpkins and Mrs.

S. S. Johnson and children, Dickie and Linda Adelc. spent the past week-end with Mr. and Mrs.

T. A. Pierson. Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Allen of Sherman visited friends and relatives here Sunday nnd Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Belder and children, Ann ami John, have gone to Omaha. to visit her parents.

Mrs. Clayton Hendrix and sou, Billy, have returned to their home in Sim Antonio alter visiting their parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.

McCray. WBBEFS The First Prcsliylerian W. A. will sponsor a Christmas party for all women of the church Wednesday at 7:30 p. m.

in the education building, 120 South Elm. with Mrs. Oeorge Medders program chairman. The Bible study to have been held Tuesday has been postponed to Dec. 15.

PERSONALS Mrs. Bess Gatewood of Washington, D. arrived Saturday to spend the winter with her sister, Mrs. W. E.

Durblii, 520 North Elm Street. W. E. Bishop of Columbia, Ohio, has returned home after a vacation with bis mother, Mr.s Lulu Bishop, route 1, Denton. In his honor a Thanksgiving dinner was JLCNTHCRIC LENTHte'S TAMY COLOGNE will win mascutfrm approval hands down! pieman! scent It dedicated to plecuurelngrooming-afrlendly note with tweeds and builneii suits alike, It't never we're warning yo'u-tho women In your life will undoubtedly raid your mpplyl 80f; 16 ot, $2.30.

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