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There's Tears And A Woman's Pluck In This Poignant Letter About Her Slain Soldier-Husband m.rrlnsK broken bv.war. I know Kath 'will are hopes and plans between a husabnd u.fl being married. I have memories, and and They're tood By HAL BOYLE WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN GERMANY--OT--In 'two years vlth troops ovcrscns I have read many stirring letters from wives who lost their husbands In foreign combat but none more moving that one T-ritten by Kath Irvln whose husband, Bcde Irvln, was killed when an bomb fell short in the breakthrough near St. Lo last Bede, an Associated Press war photographer, now lies burled in Trance. He -was the envy of every soldier and correspondent who knew Sdm because Ihe mailman never passed him by.

He was gone Irom Mteme a year and three months and every day his wife sent him a gay, iojslpy letter invariably well-written and cheerful. Like thousands of other American women whose husbands have died In action. Kath has found It difficult to adjust herself to the "n- of death. She expressed this lost feeling in a letter to Danny Crossl, another AP photographer, thanking him for telling her -he details of Bcdc's death. Because I knew Bedc and Kath well, Danny showed me this letter and I should like to share it with-you for the picture it glVLS of a perfect marriage broken, by-war.

I know Kath jvill reason and therefore won't mind. V. is very real even now," she wrote. "And I llnd myself putting away little chit-chat in my'mlud lor future letters will br writing to Bcde--and then I remember ehere can be.nn more to'write to him, can-be no more inail coming from him. Can beVno more home leave, no home cominj a a so far as my Bedc ts ed.

But'it is the Impossibility oJ everything which makes it'h'aidlor me to believe that it is true and makes me think that he-will sonic day be returning millions of other men will' some day "There is so little comfort in the fact'thatf Bede'was Rood sol- tiler and died a good soldier's held no Ideas of ever being heroic He would say how little he did over there compared to so many other men were contributing. Yet he had a certain amount of satisfaction in knowing that he was doing whatever he a do 10 the best of ability. I know. Bede was happy past year and three months--as happy.as any, man can be so far away from his family and home, are hopes and plans between a husabnd Bede and myself ever come wo ever dreamed of together can ever'come true now. Little founds of shatterlnr hopes and dreami are blf noises now--nothing to hope for --and no undenlandlng.

seeing Bede around! the house isn't an unusual thing for has been'a long-time since we were'together in our own apartment. Tor you boys-in London it Is different. You'have seen Bede more recently You have eaten with him, talked with him, been around him--and now that he Is gone It Is hard in another-way for all of you, .1 know -your, hearts 111. how carefully dry your-eyes will be as you carefully try to avoid mention of Bcde's name. too, have things to will be no more dinners for us together, no more.future to dream of and plan on together.

But most 'of all there be, no; more Bede. No more Bede to ever meet again. No Bede cpnilnr home again: I do have memories--memories of Bcde nnd memories'of happiness we together in some eight years of being married. I have memories, and pictures and letters. They're to have--good lean on--but there is never to be Bede himself again.

"Maybe someday, if ever we meet again, prhaps you can talk to me about (Bcde--tell me something might not know--tell me of the soldier, Tor-the only one I know is the Bede that was with me foi all too short a time, the Bcde who listened to the sound of taps on his 34th birthday, the Bedc who now lies asleep on French soil where he once picked two red popples-and sent them to me in one of his last letters." Kath kept Bcde happy by her. letters to the day of. his untimely death. Through her letters she with him--part of his life--every day for the -15 months he was away. And the moral--if you want one is: Write that letter to your man In service.

Many a soldier die on German battlefields still sweating out that letter from home that "never'comes. Many will fare into bloody Carkncss unhappy because some or sweetheart less faithful Knd understanding than Kath. THE WEATHER ralr With Moderate Temperature. (Detailed report Inside) FINAL EDITION FIFTY-THIRD YEAR No. 92 For Over Fifty Years a Service Initiation of and for the Valley BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, OCTOBER 19, 1944 FIVE CENTS PER CO TOKYO CLAIMS INVADED Allies Massing to Break Nazis Before Dec.

25 Tommies and American nrraor rocked the Germans back toward Vcnlo on the Mnas (Meuse) from the Holland, salient today In what appeared to be the preliminaries an offensive aimed at breaking i organizes! German resistance bc- i fore Christmas. I West of Antwerp in Holland Canadian forces were less than two ir.llcs from the German gxms at Breskena commanding the sea entrance to the port from the south of the Scheldc. Aachen Half Conquered In Aachen U. First army troops, again smashing German tank and infantry countevthrusts northeast of the Siegfried Line city, held about half the wrecked city nncl smashed on into the northwestern quarter where fighters bombers pinpointed strongpolnt-s ahead of the bazooka and grenade squnds. Coincident with Berlin's report of a Russian onslaught against East- Prussia's defenses.

I Ahc German radio declared that British offensive in cast Hoi- McAllen Unites Ex-Students In Rainey's Behalf Jacksonville Now But No Official In Hurricane Path; Confirmation Is Heard From US nf resistance MIAMI, The Atlantic coastline from Daytona Beach, to Cape Hattera-VN. was threatened today by a severe tropical hurricane thai 'struck the'Florlda west coast before dawn and headed rapidly across the state toward Jacksonville. The weather bureau reported at 10 a. m. that hurricane warnings a from a s'ion delegaton the had been hoisted from Daytona to Cape Hattcras in anticipation of it .11 nth" wa rinh- la winds of 60 to 80 miles an hour velocity.

succSfy organized The blow was moving across state the rate of 18 to 20 miles an and passd a resolution a President Homer Price' Rainey of the University for the part he is playing in his 'controversy with the University's board of regents. The called by Texas University-exes and friends, was advertised as a "Support Rainey" meet: -nevertheless, the Mission group-- Including Franklin Ewers of the Ewers and Wilkins Mission law firm-- appeared and said Rainey supporters attempted to gain control of the meeting. Barber Heads Club hour and will pass into the Atlantic n.ar Jacksonville. The Mission group quickly nomi-' nated and elected H. L.

Barber to be chairman of the, meet. Barber Is superintendent of Mission. at Immediately: following this challenged By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor The long-rpromised American ivasion of the Philippines Is under-" No loss of life or casualties were reported from the hurricane which way. Tokyo radio saidI today, roller caused perhaps a dozen deaths, injured between 300 and 400 task sons and sank at least three small vessels in Cuba. The storm swung around Key! West.

last night, moved up the i Florida coast and turned inland, just east of Tampa. Winds up to 100 miles an hour caused some property damage in the Tampa area and the city was warned to" expect another hard i today. St. Petersburg! Gra GIs 'Invade Big Business came through with no heavy damage reported. The hurricane gave the Florida Keys a severe lashing as it moved into the gulf from Cuba, but the city Key West, which earlier i expected to feel the full force of the storm, apparently suffered no serious, damage.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The size of stakes in army crap games became an economic issue today, as if it already weren't. Span? -in the middle of ft I sc! transports "invadcc I the eastern side of the central i Philippines, Tuesday Manila tirae)- jand for two days have been shell-" iing and bombing defense cstablish- iments, said, an imperial comniu'-il- que heard by the Federal cations Commission. "Part of the enemy forces seem. have landed on Suluan 1 I at the mouth of the Gulf, an earlier" news agency broadcast re-; ported. i Manila Bombed Simultaneously Manila radio, announced 270 borne plants, --on- big air installations "In support the American attack on Aachen, has Increased In violence." The ttmine raised the possibility of a grand strategy- plan to beat the Nazis by smashing slmultan- 1 eously at East Prussia, heart of German militarism, while wrecking the Rhine-Ruhr valley, the center of German industry.

i. British Advancing An Associated Press war cor-! respondent with the British Sec-1 ond army said Lt. Gen, Sir Miles C. Dempscy's troops, striking swiftly after taking Vcnray, had advanced nbout throe nncl a hair miles south toward the town of Amerlka. An armored column was converging at a.

distance of five miles dpon the objective from the cost. The Germans had been eliminated from all but about seven right the convicts Include Ernest Johnson (lace'obstructed serve two years for Daniel that Cantu five years for five.years for'highw robbery; Manuel Domir.sucz, two-to- VaJ three years for possession of marihuana and Cruz Acevedo, two years for a similar conviction Seven persons were' known dead, validity of the" meeting on the! more than 300 injured and prop' damage was heavy in western When i Cuba after, the storm: battered the ncidcnta contended Havana for more than Kcmnterer-'and T. Eofene; Beattie tomaTily stakes in Pate Optimistic Mystery Blast Secrecy Shrouds Over Support For Planning Board Kills 24 Yank Fliers Abroad BIRKENHEAD, Liberator exploded myster- County's Reason To Oust Deaton a--news-story on. the" meeting carried in the Valley Evening Monitor, McAllen, was error. Barber told the group that the present situation between-President hours.

Government officials said it would be days before the full; toll would be known. In Florida, residents of the thickly populated beaches at Bra- games crap I shadowed Allied capture of two 'strategic Nipponese bases and a rc- costs 60 three-day British air and to a minimum our are Ir.aval bombardment of the Nicobar the Indiar, ocear. 03 Mountbat.en. generally paid in the largest de- possible," the econ- and the regents be'denton' and Sal-asota moved: in omists stated in oted or the National ieft" up to" the regents and Rainey I land and more than two 'score 'Jt te on "poiicy. to settle! allowed.

rquare miles of territory west of J30.000 has brought forth "encouraging results." it was nn- nouncecl today by Robin M. Pate, head of the Ruhr. VALLEY SHIPMENTS A total of 149 carloads of and vegetables' loft, the Va He said that a substantial pcr- of the quota has already jbeen raised In response to letters Isent Brownsville business houses, Rotarians List Community Aims Jd Cameron county commissioners, it was reves.led today, have asked George Cox, state health-office His suggestion was not Amendment Loses A resolution was.then praising" F.ainey'for. the part'he is) I playing in the controversy. Magus Smith, of the Mission group, proposed an amendment to the resolution to include several other University officers.

That amend- families sought refuge in schools, and churches. a. soldier entit- i led to on par day will ret route to Singapore; British troops 'captured Tiddim, southwest Burma springboard inr Japan's invasion of India Isrt March. Nazis Flee Town In East Prussia merit was voted down. Us Rankin, also of Mission, made I director, to replace Dr, Grady; a motlon to table the Germany an- Deaton, Cameron county health It defcatcdi inounced today the evacuation of officer, on final balloting, the rcsolu-lthe East Prussian-border town In "hush-hush" proceedings, thejtion was carried by a 20-19 vote.

JEydthuhnen and said the Rus- commissioners decided to ask for. Observers at the meeting were hurling tremendous in- Dr. Dcaton's removal and County i -the Mission group defeated: fan try and tank forces against the Judge Oscar C. Dancy and their purpose in taking control of i Junkers' province to achieve a commissioners-- Ted Hunt, Port! the meeting by electing one of 1 "grand scale break through at all Isabel, A. A.

Kimmell. Hnrlingen.j their own group as chairman. With costs," procedure is virtually a. command invitation for high rolling on the vagaries of that old "Eighter from Dccatur" and Little Joe from Kokomo. list with 91 cnrloncls.

Other shipments were: mixed fruit 35, oranges 16. raddlshes 2. peppers 2, mixed vegetables 1, andc lemons 1. A program community and, rc( 5 uost and Andy Bowie. San Benlto--went, Barber as chairman, the Mission to Austin in person to make the group lost a vote.

J. Lylc Hill, Mc- Bcrlin tacitly acknowledged in communique that the Mexico Suffers $20 Million Loss jthe southern Report Is Unconfirmed Official Tokyo's brief announce- ment--unconfrlmcd by any S. sources--that U. warships and JMansports "invaded Leyte Gulf" did liiot specifically say that assault; leaves had landed. The task force! entered the 80 mile long gulf Tucs- iclay.

the communique said. And on Wednesday the naval puns opened i up and carrier aircraft swooped down on Nipponese defensive installations. Japanese "navy and army units' fhl iuiu, whieh have no: Rotar Mrvice to bc cardecl out i a to contributions, at DON PEDRO AND The Weather Society Protests the next nine months 'was I ThG Cameron Willacy County outlined before the 'Brownsville! Medical association, meanwhile, Club Wednesday by on record in a Harllngen meeting yesterday condemning a Rotary, commissioners' action on the ground i that It was secretive, and that the profession had not been cither individually or as of Dr. Deaton's im- -Ttv dismissal and the secret ftnd ijertives." he said, action of the commissioners was With more than $23,000 already wmiam Sherwood, on hand, the Valley Planning, fn presentcd Board, under management of Bob. wh mmus McLeaish, has already begun its I During- these it item on the board's months we MEXICO CITY --MP)-- Material reat new Russian offensive Alien, who called the meeting to losses from floods holdlnp the de- plunged across the East Prussia "Support Rainey," tiiis nhraseolo Jiis phraseology senate approval the water! been theirs; It was of throughout the southern part of A landing anywhere around bis: Pro-Regents members of the Mis- Konigsberg, capital of East Prus- that state.

sion group attending the mccting'sia, is a "German i jh a paloapan and Tlacotal-i Included Ewers, a -me: Law Firm in Missioi Leyte Gulf, some 400 miles from. ember of the)ing station. It is-the first German i region the crops of orccs in Position for land-based air headed by settlement which the Nazis have! bananas and cotton and a great 1 wpcps over thc cntirc Philippines. i 1 i enemy has six landing fields cents singled out- by Rainey In the controversy. Also Magus Mexico.

Mission's Drive Is Over The Top (See Editorial In Today's Herald) While Brownsville United War jertives." he action 01 tnc was 3mUhi Ho ls Rankin Barber, and I Chairmen of various key com-jdisclosecl for the first time ycster-1 ade calloway from McAllen, imittcBs were delegated, to carry clay at the meeting of the Valley Burr an from Edlnburg Sid Uhe program through. jmcdlcos. iHnrdin. Frank Comcy of Los Discussions by the commissioners of Milwaukee, was a Dr. Dcaton's status were not on TEXAN" IS "KILLED itor at the meeting.

Mr. Comey! record, the county clerk's office BALBOA, Z. --Panama Canal LATE BULLETINS part of the corn crop were almost 1 completely destroyed, a part Irom i lthln 25 miles of the Gulf of cattlc drowned and dwellings razed lia and lan to the ground. Suluan is adaptable to development great part of the vanilla crop as an unsinkablc aircraft carrier. 'an orchard near La The discussion on is making his first visit hereJDr, Deaton was made nbout a in three years.

(month ago, following routine-busi- 8l at la 'i' were tt nd d1 tflncss on a regular commissioners Benl Rotary club.which court i i i i mun i UJ.iii.uu i I 111 i Chest campagin officials repeated observing its 25th anniversary. as no ncccsslty for en i Tnc San Renltn club wsa or can-' i TK today contributions still better" than Yesterday, the com- The San Benlto club wsa organ-' I Brownsville Rotarians. (Continued on Page 2) nrmy headquarters announced yesterday the fatal injury ot Maj. Melville H. Boulder.

26, ol Gaines-i vine, I collision of two; fighter planes near France field i Monday, Maj. Bouiter was squadron commander. LONDON Heavy casual- lies were reported today In a. town in Southern England which Miffi.ced one of Its worst blows of lira war ai the Germans continued their flying bomb attacks for the eighth suc- around Gutierrez Zamora. a 915 Planes, Ships Lost nearby towns, which promised Carrier planes- in a week of bo especially abundant, was lost, pounding' the Philippines.

Formosa said. iand the Ryukyu Islands to the i north, have destroyed 915 Japanese planes and hundreds of ships. The. P. M.

LambertOn, Jr. i figures do not include the toll taktfii 7 3 daily raids this week over th-i Dies Here At Age 38iPhii-ppines. 1 Placidc M. Lamberton, 38, Atlm. Chester W.

Nimita said two vance was scheduled Returns To Normal PEDRO kept his weather ear cocked this morning, that if that hurricane In Florida became threat to 1 this section of the gulf coast, hf'd bc fully aware of it In plenty of time to issue a warning, "As much as I hate to admit it, I'm afraid that the weather bureau here is right for a change, when they say that we won't get the big blow." Such concession from the Don staggered the mctcorloglst. "Tell him to go back to bed for the day--he must be jick," was the letter's terse comment. (Detailed Weather Report fir- munlty fo Mission announced a i 9 DS vanM Ut had gone over the top in lts Rt the St TM" icampaisn. tonight as a 'Ladles Dave Simpson, Brownsville drive i Ichairman, said that 500 solicitors PostofflCC 'Here would canvass the city during the city during the remainder of the week in an effort to raise Brownsville postoffice $23,000 quota which has been al- wcrc back to norrna -today, after lotcd to Brownsville. navln)f comp i handling of Mlssion quota of $7,600 had QOQ gone bevond the $3,000 mark today i forccs with silll more contributions com- Ing in.

The community was the first in Hidalgo county attain Its 1 1 goal. -This was. an increase of Carpatho-Ukraine MOSCOW Swift Russian advances through the Carpathian mountains have liberated one third of the Carpatho-Ukraine, castcrn- -Erroneously, in a picture yester- a in The Herald, a postoffice employe shown shipping some of mail sacks William The Individual By JtxeaS photographed was Lloyd L. Jones. RETURNED HOME HARUNGEN Warner of Stuart Place, has been re- "cesslvc" night.

An entire row of i the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Lam houses In the community, was destroyed.

enemy transports were sunk, five i bi ju ui AJ.JU ixii c- un in i ti i bcrton of Brownsville, died at 11:40 olhor shlps Icft an a a. m. todav at Mercv hospital 03 destroyed Wednesday Phll-. lowing a two-year illness. I 1 5 Luzon and Ca; Islands.

Manila radio clalm- I Premier and hi, ATHENS A Back In A native of New Orleans. Greece four years of exllcv Lamberton had spent the Af Americans were George Papandreous a of his life in Brownsville and government assumed prior to entering radio signal ser- i control from a committee of 'vice in Washington, D. several three that had rukd since the iiart r.r.^ror^ri rartin! approacncs islands Manila radio clalm- Ul rAa1 MacArthur Ilb.i-ntion of Athens years ago, had operated a radio ascd six enemy vessels, pounded THP NFW O--Here's the new rommandlne officer at the MEET THE tt.n o. tne new commanaing ojiicei ai, ine SAV FRANCISCO A Tokyo radio broadcast, picked np by Ihe. Blue network here.

Today, quoted a. Japanese Imperial coni- mimlniie as reporting American attempts I 0 land on Leyte central Philippine. The broadcast said "Leyle, where the enemy has started landing attempts. Is between Mindanao and Luzon Islands." Surviving him, besides his par-! 'ents, arc his widow, Maurine; twoi Peggy Lamberton and Morris W. Clint, all of Browns- In revised figures on the Formosa, lors The Hinkley Funeral par-; in APPROVAL SEEN" AUSTIN (ff)-- Southwest water works officials favor approval of the omnibus rivers and harbor bill afternoon, at a time to announced later.

raids. Nimitz raid 43 AmerlcAA plsncs were shot down. Tokyo claimed 112. and admitted loss of 312 imperial aircraft. Nipponcr-e propagandists raised their claim of S.

warship losses to 57 sunk cr damaged. Nimitz didn't change his figures of none sunk and two knocked temporarily ojit of acUon, Brownsville Army Air, He Is Lieut. Col. Francis Thomas, jby congress. If the measures Garrison Gives Up To British Forces ROME The Nazi garrison on Santorin island.

70 miles agency DNB said today a. and the' omnibus flood control bill north of Crete in the Sea of sW te funeral WHS held yesterday ROMMEL BURIED LONDON The German most provlncs of Czechoslovakia, moved to the home of his daugh- and established virtually a solid jter, Offic Adalr, from the Valley 1 S'o'r' -head Dl nipn ground DCLWeen. Ul- I I lie 4 i i i i i i i A i i i i A a i i Mondar. Peterson, transferred to Missouri, (See on' Fare and industrial surrendered yesterday to a WurttemberR for Field Marshal i head- announced today. 'announced Monday,.