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1' i i -ii I'll I i i AN INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC f.BYoPAPER CF THE FIRST CLASS UNCHALLENGED IN ITS FIELD jKjt.iJj, "OL. XXII NO. 25. LONGVEEW, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH PRICE 5 4 t-- 'flu V.v-. MJM i I fill til I I ID v'- 1 mi 1 a 3" WestwaM Carrier Pliines Ober Japats.

Third Day Prisoner Of War OuJflaiikea Join Thtt HAND KOBE ilDER ATTACK Dobie Views Stir House Reactions FARM SUBSIDY CUT VETOED AS BILL APPROVED NAVAL AIR 100 U. S. Seventh And Third Armies Racing To Junction; Say Bridgehead Widens WITH U. S. FIRST ARMY EAST OF THE RHINE, March Lt-Gen.

Courtney H. Hodge's forces overran more than twe More Tillages, smashed to the outskirts of Bonn on the Rhine's east bank and advanced to the south today to clamp an iron grip on a 24-mile stretch of the river. Club Crockett Member Suggests Home on Furlough anks Advance on 2 Latest Professor Be Released to Negro School; Dobie Says Wasn't Fully Quoted Supply Appropriation Would Continue Membership in the Red Cross 100 Philippine Islands? Fall Per Cent club passed the 200-mark Tuesday, it was announced by Of Fort JMferin Inside Administration Seeking Sam Dodson, drive chairman in the Mandalay Announced $1,000,000 Reduction business district. Every, person on the $ayroll of the following establishments have contributed to the BY JAMES M. LONG PARIS, March 20.

(AP) German defenses collapsed in the Saar basin Tuesday while the rampaging American Seventh and Third Armies raced toward art imminent junction near the Rhine. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army flanked com ntr irANin mii.I.IM AN By WILLIAM F.

ARBOGAST AUSTIN, March 20. Py-k Fort Worth speech by Prof. J. Frank Dobie of the University of Texas, in which he commented on negro education in Texas, touched off a flurry of controversy here Tuesday. Rep.

Jo Ed Winfree of Houston, in a personal privilege speech in the Fx I PVT. PAUL H. ADAMS WASHINGTON, March 20. (JP) An administration move to curb farm program payments next year drew a pletely xne fciegiried and al- ternate Hunsbrueck Lines in veto Tuesday from the House Ap House of Representatives called at 1945 Red Cross War Fund: United Gas Pipe Line Co. Central Pipe Line Co.

Longview News Inc. Bramlette, Levy, Gibson Bolton. Kennedy Chiropractic Clinic. Dr. R.

M. Park Jake Webb Barber Shop. Gregg-Tex Gasoline Corp. Olvey, Mucher Si Sample. Gregg Poultry Egg Co.

propriations Committee as it approv- the Saar and Palatinate and tent ion to a newspaper account of ed an Agricultural i- sweepin? trains moved Ludwigshafen on the RhlnevThe! Third Army wss less than 25 miles from the Seventh army in the Kaiser- slautera area. Ball messaged: "With the Siegfried line flanked, the Third and Seventh army should parunem supply oui. 4l the appearance of the folklorist at a meetir-g in a Fort Worth negro high n. miico ox uie BtSC- Private Paul H. Adams, son of Mr.

school. 4- uuuraiauiittie CIXV ot Kaiser- and Mrs. Charles Adams, Route 2, Longview, has written his parents Lieut Gov. John Lee who and utilization practices and as incen- lautern, within nine miles of meet shortly somewhere near the Rhine." i. 7" in the past has difierediharply with that he is now a prisaner of war in tives for production, was made to the I Mainz and 23 miles of the Dobie, issued a writtentatement in Germany.

He had previously been committee by the Budget Bureau chemical center of Tj.dwi0hnf. The Germans said She. First Army which he said in part: listed as missing in action on Jan had launched, a heavy attack in the' aurmg nearings oi xne out xo rmance Lt Meua.deT M- pat, 12. He reported that he had a broken "Frank Dobie's statement in Fort Atsorialed Ptcm War Editor Vmerican carrier plane were rented (warming ovtr Japan lor the jrd successive day Tuesday while Jund forces advanced against mee-! opposition on two more invaded ilippine isUnds. Monday, Vice Adm.

Marc. A. Mit-ier' carrier planes centered their lack, on the big Kure naval base I Kobe, Japan's largest shipbuild- center which was atill smoldering last Saturday's Superfortress id. Tokyo made no mention of to-iv's targets. liewest islands invaded by Gen.

Uflas MacArthurs' forces were Iftay, In the central Philippines and largest island in the Archi-go, and tiny Malamaui, south of ded Mindanao. reported his forces, front. counted IS more dead Japanese on only battlefronts on Mindanao, where tank-led 41st Division drove thward, and in the Zambales in lalni north of Manila. ine oeparuneni ior xne monins a i was comPletely through a 1Z leg but was receiving good treat southern end of the bridgehead east of the Rhine, penetrating seven, mile Worth that he had 'absolutely no ob gtretcKof sjegried Ling be- ment safeway Cab Co. Longview Typewriter Exchange.

Southwestern Gas it Elec. En-ginering Dept. and Plant. Employes of Marcus Wood. O.

H. Grlssom, Cotton Co. B. R. Package Store.

Williams Feed Store. American Sales Co. Miss Willie's Kitchen. Bottle Shop. jection to negroes attending the Uni into uerman lines beyond Hoennin- uenerai iarm program payments tween Saarbruecken and Zwei- PFC.

FRED L. MATNEY Pvt. Adams is a graduate of White versity of Texas is not surprising. gen to reach the Rhine opposite And- now are limited by law to sjwu.wu,- bruecken. aaa evei.

i I Oak high school. He enlisted in the Pfc. Fred L.Matney, veteran of ernach. If true, this would lengthen the Remagen salient to 23 miles and More than a year ago I publicly asserted that there was a desifinite move on foot to bring about social three major battles on the western ASTP at Baylor University. He took his basic training at Fort McCIennan, wu.

ine ouagei duihu jropueu ,200.000,000 limitation for the 1946 the greVt steel millT of the Saarland Cr2' if was all but not already so Alabama, and Fort Leonard Wood, front, is home on furlough visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Aycock, 1101 Magrill Street and equality with the negro race in the This wss vehemently de ZJTr rt.i!aK were lagging Missouri.

He was sent overseas in December. nours behind reports delayed by se program advance without recom- curity bUckn the Liserdau. other relatives; Mr. and Mrs. Clint Aycock, Abie and Jar ell, and Mr.

and Mrs. Bob Aycock and Bobbie. menaauon irom me tern nied at the time but Dobie's statement proves my assertion to be based on truth. Should the negro be admitted to the univresity of necessity he would be admitted to the various social activities of the school." TT Wtd bv mUeS apart nd dosin fast Pfc. Matney naded in Normnny URGE SPEED IN place Lt Gen.

Courtney H. Hodges troops within il miles, of the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein opposite Cob lenz, where American occupation flags finally were struck in early 1923. Front dispatches indicated the main pressure was northward along the last 17 miles toward the Ruhr and eastward, where a second airfield was captured. The bridgehead bulged eight miles toward the German heartland. Combined attacks of the Third and 000.000 the Budget Bureau's recom- 50,90 Enemy Casualties right after D.

Day and saw action mendation for 1290,000.000 for farm More than 60,000 of the originally in France, Holland, Belgium and Ger benefit payments for the 1945 crop, estimated 80,000 Germans of the ene- many. He was awarded the Bronze making the figure 1300,000,000. These my iirst and Seventh armies al- Star for aiding wouode oldiyuu- RrCiCTGN Dobie in a written statement Monday amplified published accounts of his speech. In this statemei.t he said it was possible to be quoted, "yet entirely misquoted," and gave his payments ere in addition to approx- I reaay were counted as casualties. Visage Barber Shop.

Red Front Grocery. Arnold's Repair Shop. I-onfvlrw Beer Deliverv. Little Willie News Stand. Goyne's Cleaners.

Modern Dress Shop. Pittsburg Paint Store. Wadei Connally Co. Peaktns-fhrris Co. Robmasn-Hayward Tire Service.

Longview Repair Shop. City Drug Store. Les' Liquor Store. Louie Rickie. Berkley's Shoe Store Kress Co.

E-Tex Cafe. Sun-I-Land Dairy Products Co. Seaton Rsdlo Service. Brookshire Grocery. imatelv direct subsidy seVen blazine davs.

Patton'. of. der fire. He has also been awarded the Purple Heart, the Infantryman's Badge, and the Good Conduct Rib payments to be made by the War I fensive has inflicted at least 45,000 Food Administration to encourage casualties on the original 80.000 Ger Seventh Armies whittled down Ger- man holdings in the Saarland and production of milk and sugar. I mans in the Rhine-Mose 11 e-Saar bon.

He joined the army in August 1940 and has been overseas almost a year. I The item for farm program pay- pocket correspondent E. D. Ball said Tighter-escorted Wnbers from the jlippmes made thtir second ue-Uve hMvy raid on Formosa, whose formldaWe force of 00 lanes hn virtually knocked out. Th mosa strikes, centered on air mft, were- coordinated with the carrier strike 500 miles to the thwaet.

Titscher and the Third fleet chaired both Japanese suicide bomb-and the remnants of the Imperial by standing S00 miles off Japan two or three days to knock out tmy planes and shipping their i front yard. dm. Chester W. NimiU announc- ments. which have helped boost Uni- a dispatch from the front Workers In Business District Asked To Finish 'Canvass By Wednesday ted States food production to record Prisoners alone totaled up to 20,000 version of the speech and what he had said in a subsequent interview.

Bobie declared that he had said he would have no objection to seeing negroes in the University of Texas, but that he had also said "I would not advocate, at present, abolishing the color line in the Texas public education system." After Winfree read a newspaper highs, was the largest in the mea Palatinate to barely a third of the size of the original pocket outlined by the Rhine, Moselle, Saar and Lau-ter rivers. Gains Are Great The was within nine miles of Mainz, 29 of Frankfurt and 33 of and the Seventh Army had taken at sure. a non arlri nn Baptists To Have Special Services The total in tne Dill ior au gri- I Patton's" troons crashed to-within culture Department activities was moi. ti. Completion of the business district Speyer.

over current appropriation, center of RaisersUutern and Wednesday Night drive for the 1945 Red Cross War Fund not later than Wednesday was asked in a statement issued Monday Patton's army counted 8,355 prison- but iMLtwBU oeiow ouoget captured Alzey, 23 miles from the account cf the Dobie speech. Rep era yesterday. maies. ine reoucuon chemical centers of Mannheim and NOMINATIONS tUlt J. B.

Sallas of Crockett came to the Allied planes were so thick over mates was accounted ior largely oy microphone ar.d declared: The officers and members of the that as well as hitting Kure and on southwestern Honshu island, iday's raiders struck other target nd around the inland sea. The the front today that they had to cuts of J90.00ft.000 in loan authorizations for the Rural Electrification ad First Baptist church will have a spe "If Dobie has such a desire to do queue up for attacks on German something for the negroes, 1 sug ministration, $57,500,000 in the Rural U.S.S. MIDWAY streaming along a superhighway cial prayer and consecration service this Wednesday night in the audi nd aea is bounded by Shikoku ON OIL HIKED Rehabilitation Loan Fund, and from Kaiserslautern to the Rhine. gest the board of regents sever his connection with the University of Texas and he join the faculty of 000,000 in the farm tenant loan fund. by J.

Sam Dodson, chairman of this division. Dodson said fine results had hern obtained thus far in this drive, with a large number of establishments having qualified for the 100 Per Cent Club. Additional names are to be announced. All co-chairmen in the business district drive were asked by Dodson to complete their work Tuesday and The Seventh Army attacking the uhu and southwestern Honshu, all of which were bombed in the dav of the attack. Nimitx gave torium of the church beginning at 8 o'clock.

The meeting will conclude at 8:45. The officers and teachers of These more than offset increases ap Saar and Palatinate from the south Sam Houston (negro) college." breached or threatened the main proved for other departmental activi PERIL TO JAPS details. Rep. Bill Foster of Waco then ties. the Sunday school will meet at o'clock to set department attend ipanee Imperial headquarters ncrease of 21,258 Barrels Siegfried Jine in a 12-mile stretch between Saarbruecken and Zweibrueck- said: Large individual allocations, in ad med that in me urm wn dition to the various benefit pay Compares With One of 10 "We have no kick.

Yesterday we passed House Bill 12 under which en. The Seventh was itself bidding for clean breakthrough to sruro a tran ance and visitation goals for Easter Sunday, April 1. The general attendance goal for Easter Sunday is ments, included: ide planes sank sevrn U. war i nd destroyed 187 aircraft, le lesi confident Tokyo radio ad Thousarrd Asked by PAW we would have to work with negroes. Wednesday end turn in their reports not later than Wednesday.

This part of the 145 drive started shut on Germans remaining in the Payments to states under the Ex Mightiest and Newest Car 13S0. Smith also had this to say in his tension Service Program. 114,198,950, ed aiime Japanese aircraft losses, heart of the Saarland, AP correspondent Lewis Hawkins reported. statement: last Tuesday and must be concluded in addition to $7,001,208 for experi The Training Union Study Course being conducted this week began A dimout was imposed at noon on ment stations; eradication of tuber AUSTIN, March 20. (If) Nominations for purchase of 2.356.356 barrels rier-Will' Have Deckful Of 1945 Model Planes of Vast Potential Monday night with an enrollment so another part of the campaign can be started Thursday, details of which sre to be announced soon.

"Late reports indicate that Dobie has confirmed the statement that he did say he had no objection to negroes attending the University of movements of the Seventh Army' tank forces moving down the Rhine of 81. This study course will be con daily of crude oil in April were plac culosis and bang's disease in cattle, meat inspection service, Regional Research Labora eluded Friday night Classes begin ed before the Railroad Commission at Total collections in the Longview a statewide proration Rearing lues- tories. $4,000,000: National Forest Pro- a. mim mm 1V1. Texas, though he now insists he also advocated the improvement of the negro school at Prairie View.

His day. tectum ana management, jiv-jw-iw, wpwpnTJT wrwc ra fw area as ol Monday afternoon were $32,284.18. Bob Coffey, county War Fund chairman, said. This is more than 80 per cent of the $40,009 goal. oor it.

I The nominations, an increase of War rood Adminisirauon, decks mighty u. s. each night at 7:30. Recreation Head On Job At Harmon 21,258 barrels daily over March reaerai vrop uurn, Midwav-heaviest strongest, fastest Coffey also reported Glade water The committee recommended that I hlll, nominations, compared with a rec rted that firebreaks built in Ja-s major cities had proved inef-ive against Superfort incendiary ers, and pleaded with officials in jing dstricts to care for home-evacuees. 1 B-29s returned safely from their ht at Nagoya yesterday, some of i by way of Iwo Jima which so has furnished emergency landing iba for 51 Superforts.

Gen. Holland M. (Howlin' Mad) whuse marines took Iwo said urc of the island proved "we can any damn thing they've got." 40th Infantry Division had no ble in taking a sizable chunk of iy in the first day of its invasion cruisers, destroyers and rocket had achieved excellent, results over lame explanation does not remove the vice from his admitted assertion that negro students along side of the whites would not be objectionable to him. He did thus ap ommendation by the Ft troleum the Commodity credit corporation, the weekend in its drive. Just get valley opposite Karlsruhe.

The Third Army flanked the two German fortification belts by capturing Hessian town founded by the Romans from which railroads fan out to Kaiserslautern, Worms and Mainz. The main Siegfried line is just east of the Saar river and Just north of the Alsatian border. The Hunsbrueck switch line through the mountains was anchored to the main line at Merzig and in the Karlsruhe corner of the Rhine. Third Army, was within nine miles of Mainz, where the German Administration for war that Texas be perm'tted to use is.uuu oi us not yet combat action ting started. With $4,200 on hand, the produce 2.170,000 barrels daily of Miss Minnie Harlow of Houston, runas ior aamirusn-- This was disclosed Tuesday by It also wrote into the bill a ban I io(o, crude next month, a 10.000-barrel in fund there was expected to go over the $5,000 mark Tuesday.

Texas, has arrived at Harmon to take prove erasure of the color line in our largest state school. crease over March certification. agamst saie oi for air in speech pre over the duties of Red Cross Head There were no new reports from 'Statements of this nature do controired iarm proaucui at u-n fh th. All of the PAW increase was certi Recreational Worker, replacing Miss Kilgore where the fund was near the parity prices for most commodities. Midway.

$20,000 mark on a $22,500 goal, as of immeasurable harm and can but create strife and discord between the I It approved continuance of tbe Opal Leonard who was recently appointed Field Director here. Gates gave no hint of what the baturday afternoon. school-lunch program at an estimated Miss Harlow has had considerable blew three Rhine bridges and com new plane can do. But he predicted the 1945 model carrier and plane cost of $50 .000,000 end earmarked of the $40,090,000 farm tenancy plicated the retreat of their comrade experience in the recreational field, having been on duty at the Station WEATHER East Texas: Fair this afternoon, will not be a "pleasant combination to be contemplated by the Japanese loan fund for advances to returning 1 stood by during the landing at guan without firing a shot. Guer-Scontrolled the beachhead, most unopposed infantrymen ad-ed half of the 14 mile fied for west Texas fields and operators in that area including Gulf and Sinclair-Prairie informed the commission they could produce more oil.

These companies asked for an increase of 2,400 barels daily in the Keystone-EUenberger field. Sinclair-Prairie also suggested an increased allowable in the Ownby pool. Humble Oil Refining company sought a reduction of 3,000 barrels Hospital, Camp Robinson, Arkansas DAVID LAWRENCE service men. war tonight and Wednesday, cooler in south and extreme east portions to still west of the Rhine. At last reports there still were bridges at Worms, Ludwigshafen, Speyer, Germ-mersheim and possibly opposite Karlsruhe.

The $60,000,000 recommended for and at Schick General Hospital Clin night REA loans, while $90,000,000 below ton, Iowa. Addressing the men and women of the Newport News Shipbuilding Company who built the awesome loilo, Panay capital and one of best ports in the central Philip- budget estimates, was an increase of $35,000,000 over current year authori DISPATCH weapon. Gates said: zations for that purpose. The name, Midway, is exception' Texas Has Fine Weather daily in the Hawkins field on an ex For the further development of another wartime article, the powerful planation that part of the market ally appropriate for it was in that famed battle in June, 1942, that the aircraft carrier came into its own. for its preent allowable had been lost.

insecticide known as DDT, the com WATERWORKS CtiriTRACT LET inese communists said they had led three defeats on Japanese China's central Honan province southeast Asia headquarters ted all Japanese counterattacks smashed 73 milts south of and 50.000 enemy soldiers hope-' trapped in central Burma, tish informstion services said On First Day of Spring The Hornet, Yorktown and Enter. mittee approved $50,000 a $50,000 fund. While curbing, the REA program Commission engineers reported a prise Were- the 'backbone of, that hottomhole pressure increase in the WASHINGTON, March of State Stettinius is certainly a courageous man, or perhaps he has the strength of innocence. He has just inquired about published reports of Soviet Russia's unilateral action in setting up the beginnings of a puppet government in Rumania which appears to be a violation of the spirit because of manpower and material important East Texas field. The pres shortages the' committee voiced gen' sure on March 1 was 998.U pounds by The Associated Press To safeguard the Midway, Gates declared, it has been given heavy It was the time of the vernal caul.

era! approval of postwar plants to double the present size of this agency Relatively clear skies and cool r.ox, but both the Dallas weather per square inch, an increase of 3.35 pounds or sn increase of J035 pounds ih submarines have sunk 274 armor, intricate watertight compart' financing the electrification of farm bureau and Prof. J. D. Boon, retired mese vesels in east Asiatic wat- weather prevailed over Texas Tues day, the first day of spring. Der million barrels ol production.

as well as the letter of the Yalta ments and improved damage control, "Great strides ic the direction of in areas. professor of physics at Southern an tne last eignt months. P. Nichols of the East Texas oil agreement. Doesn't he know he must The Dallas weather bureau said Local Man Successful Bidder on Construction of Pumphouses, Filter Job io more of the dwindling number vulnerability.

Association suggested the commission Methodist University, said storms did not necessarily accompany the equi not question -what early morning reports showed "fine School For. Form panes strongpoints in Burma The Midway will be commanded by continue efforts to divert part of the was done at Yalta weather from an aviation stand nox. CapU 3. F. Bolger, who served as tweet oil demand from the East Tex or what Russia to Allied forces Fort Dufferin Mandalay and Mogok, 65 "miles Boon defined the vernal equinox Gates' aid for a year and a half does in her own? as field to other pools producing sim point, with ceiling and visibility unlimited, except in the vicinity of Misson where there was some northeast The fort was taken before putting to sea as captain of The Associated as tne tune of year when the sun exactly "rides the rises ilar oil.

M. Clint Brown of Longview. who one of the most concentrated an Essex type carrier. He said that from to 50 per cent Census Takers To Held March 27-29 Karl M. Linda, supervisor, Bureau of cloudness.

exactly in the east and sets exact Press declares that "under apparent bid was awarded the con. tract for construction of waterworks ry bombardments fci the Burma Tbe Midway can carry a destruc Overnight temperature readings ly in the west, and said that it was of independently owned East Texas wells were not equipped for pump improvements when bids were opened ign. British capture of Mogoi a new threat to Japanese al- tive flock of more than 80 twin-engined planes and. a complement of generally figured to occur on March ranged from a low of 29 at Pampa, in the Panhandle, to (2 at Browns ing and when pressure reached the Tuesday morning at City Hall. Work is to start at once.

some 3,000 officers and men. Con 21. An astronomical calculation describes it as the time "day and night the Census, advises that a three day training school for Fans Census trapped by Chinese on the road between Lashio and ville, in the lower Rio Grande Valley. point where gas leaves tne aoiunon these producers "will be up against Russian pressure, the' Rumanian government of Premier Radeacu was overthrown and succeeded on March I by the Two pumphouses hold pumping from many sections of Texas Mon taining enough steel to build 25,80 automobiles, was towed into the Are equal the world over." it" machinery already acquired by the Enumerators will be held at the Court House in Longview, Texas, March day came reports mat: continued Same calculation or: the seasons fat Names river and wharf alongside Daily water reinjections in East city will be built and an addition rains hsd hindered farm operations. STIN.

March 1 LP) By mar- her pier after a bottle of champagne made to the filter plant on the Sa Portions of the slat basked in near 1945 says the vernal equinox (spring) begins March 20 at $.38 pjn eastern standard time, which would be 4:38 27th, JBth, and 29th. Trainees win receive $3.45 per day ior attending this school. The rate of pay per farm has 10 vote the house today pess summer warmth Monday. administration of Premier Gross of the communist-controlled national Texas ere 363.276 barrels in Febru-try. an increase of 19 410 barrels daily over January commission engineers reported.

bine-river under the contract City Manager Morgan Works explained. imal reading a bill outlawing was broker? against her bow by Mrs. Bradford W. Ripley, 2nd. of Day-ton.

O. The weather picture as the week pjn, central war tune. bean raised in Gregg County and all losed shop in Texas. It may be democratic front There It no particular reason why On of the pumphouses will be Just this side of Gladewater, the other persona interested in this work are' tered on final reading later this The Midway, which will mount Now the seer tare of state. In a Testimony taken at the Hearing began had been marked by rains, damage: at Sweetwater from three heavy hailstorms Sunday.

end at guns up to five inches, is the first formal statement, says: storms shoud aeeompary the verna equinox, says Boon. "There is will be used by the commission in urged to write or call Earl M. Lide, 121 West Second Street. Mt Pleasant south of Greggton. Bid was let on plans and specifications.

vote on the measure (HB12) Gainesville, by floodwaters from a popuar superstitution that storms ac writing a statewide production order for April The order was expected after nearly four hours of bit-J of five 45.000 tanners now building or authorized. The Coral See, second of the class, will be Lunched this we think that some aspects of the Sea LXWZZXaC, Page Other bidders were J. G. Firtl.lo, Texas. Phone 302 or see the local county agent.

W. H. Jones at the Sunday cloudburst which drove 45 company the equinox," says the oaie. to be completed mew, Dallas, $3 ara, and C. H.

1: denti from their hoosee. weather. Duretnu Court House ia Longview, Texas. una at the New Tors favy lira, inane. Waee.

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