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PAGE''10, SUN. 'JAN. 1814. Poll Taxes By alamity Clause" Ruled Out AUSTIN, Jan. 15 Grover Sellers In a supplemental opinion on the soldier vote question today informed Gov.

Coke Stevenson that the "calamity clause" of the constitution does not apply to remission of poll taxes. Sellers quoted an opinion ol! the state supreme court in which said that a public calamity "within the meaning of the constitution must be one having its origin in an act of God, usually local in character and resulting in the destruction of property or properly and life." The court decision came after the Texas legislature attempted to remit penalties and interest on' all taxes in the state ''in the midst of the gloomiest depression this country has ever known," Sellers said. The attorney general's opinion corrected an earlier opinion that a clerk was not. authorized to mail a ballot to an absentee voter sooner than 20 days before election. The ballot may be mailed immediately upon receipt of application, Sellers said, but it may be cast only during a period of not more than 20 nor less than three days before election.

Gov. Stevenson said the sup. plemental opinion bolstered his decision not to call a special session 1 of the legislature to consider the soldier vote question. (Continued From Page One) building, with two floors assigned to a Naval staff under Vice-Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid.

Rice Country Girls Amass Great Record CHINA, Texas, Jan. 15 (ff). Down here in the rice' country they figure China High School has the best girls basketball team in the That's--what coaches of opposing teams and sports writers have said and Coach C. C. Alexander doesn't dispute it.

Alexander, who has been tutoring girls cage teams for IS years, declares: "I have seen the- best teams play and I can truthfully say this one'is the best I have ever seen." The girls have won 50 straight and now they're having a hard time 'fin ding opposition. The other night they beat Sour Lake 86-6. Next they beat Orangefield 53-5 with the starting team being taken out after eight minutes with the score: 43-1. And speaking of individual scoring feats: Barbara Self, star China forward, made 32 points in those eight minutes. In the last 'three games China has rolled up 169 points with the starting team playing just one full-game.

The girls are looking for some competition for a change Jan. 28 and 29 when they play Avinger high, for Tex'as championship. Avinger has won 60'games. Before riming to China Alexander, coached girls teams at Kildare'-High and had one winning streak of more games. Manpower Shortage Hits Jap Air Force CENTERVTLLE, Jan.

15 William F. Halsey that Japanese' air squadrons in the south'" Pacific flying without officer pilots' because of a shortage. '1 Japanese fliers are going into fewer hours and- less training than ever, the south Pacific commander said at a press at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Preston Lea Spruance, near here. Halsey, back temporarily from the: war zone, commented that be afloat and Jap ships would be on the all.

good Jap ships should if the fleets met." Halsey has a formula for victory. "First polish off the Huns, then we'll get the equipment we need to polish off the yellow monkeys," the South Pacific commander said. A reporter asked whether the Japs "are "tough" arid Halsey plied: they're well-fed and they're tough like any other rat. When they're not well--fed and well-uniformed, easy, to beat like any other rat'." CIVILIANS have an erroneous' idea of a modern military aeadquarters, which is usually not in tents but in vast offices in a big city. It is like the headquarters of a steel corporation in JJew York, with plants out in the 'ield.

In Africa, General Eisen- lower had offices and staff headquarters in a large: hotel, others of his staff using a big office suilding. In London, headquar- of the European Theater of Operations are in a big modern apartment building remodeled for offices. General MacArthur's office here is about like that of a corporation president. It has standard mahogany office furniture, several easy chairs, a leather divan. The only decorations are two engravings of George Washington and one of Lincoln.

There is no military atmosphere. There are no trophies, flags, decorations or gadgets. MacArthur's uniform is 'the only military touch. He wears no decorations at all, just khaki shirt and trousers, with no blouse. He keeps a clean desk.

There were no papers on it when I was there. smokes a pipe, walks around the room a good deal when he talks, and excepl for the nature of the conversation you would scarcely there was a war on. know DENVER, Jan. 15 Chafing under government; regulations hey called "confusing and.irsccn- American National Livestock association members agreed today to the plan of 'a California to reduce voluntarily he nation's record cattle numbers and at the same time furnish 'more for public consumption. Delegates to the association's 47th annual convention warmly approved the admonition of Hub Russell from the Russell Brothers ranch near Maricopa, "begin selling your she-stuff now and cat down your production so you won't get caught holding too many cattle when the war.

demand for beef drops and by doing that you'll also be putting more much-needed beef in ttie meat ohgratulations T6; counters." 10 Million Exctu The cattle population is esti- Handful Of German Planes Raid England LONDON, Jan. 15 (ff) The Germans sent about a dozen planes over England a few of which, reached the London area causing a brief and provoking heavy along Thames river. One of the Nazi planes was-shot Earlier, several high flying raiders crossed the east coast and some of 'darted inland. Some bombs were in rural areas and alerts' the coast, but there reports of casualties. General Lives In Hotel What he is like at forward headquarters, and at the front, I hope report later.

This is just the story "of the rear headquarters, and it is about what you find in Washington around the Pentagon or the Navy building, only on a smaller scale. Thousands of officers and men will go through the war out here without ever seeing a Jap or "hearing a shot or an air-raid siren. General MacArthur lives in an apartment at the best hotel here, which is occupied by the Army and Navy. It has modern' furniture and air- which is -helpful in the 'sweltering' January weather, although the cooling system was. off part of the "time I was-a guest at the ho- teL RS.

MacArthur is a petite bru nette from Murfreesboro, Tenn. She and their son Arthur, now 6, came out from Corregidor with the general and are living here. Christmas came late for little Arthur, as his father spent Christmas in New Guinea with the troops. Arthur was told when- Christmas Day but his mother said Santa Claus was up north with father and would come back with him. They had Christmas more than a week typical little-boy's Christmas with a tinseled tree, for which they had to search the country for many miles, as there is little pine here.

Arthur's gifts were also Indian tomtom drum, a punching bag, an. antiaircraft gim that makes a lot of The dangerous escape from Cqr- regidor, and the long weeks 'of bombing there, left no nervous scars on the child, such as nightmares, and that probably is a tribute to his mother's calm care. General "Receptive" There is no use, in youf wondering why I am writing this copy about General MacArthur. There is nothing "behind" it. I had a chance to "visit the Pacific as a Navy war and decided it would be foolish not to get a look at RiacAfthur also.

I came out here think- he was not really a candidate for President, but now think he is think he has been kicked around-some what. I think he has great ability, sincerity and is too much out of touch with the states, and anyway I think I am going to continue to prefer to see re-elected. But I 'was interested in what MacArthur was like out here. That's all there is to it, underrate General MacArthur or the cause, for which he is 'fighting out here. mated by stockmen' as nearly 82 million head, about -10 million more than the ranges can Russell warned that a collapse of livestock market after.

the war would "break a lot of us if we don't cut down the herds by marketing seme heifers 'and spading others." The association approved a resolution at the close of the convention declaring that' if a threatened "beef shortage materializes in the spring "the full responsibility for such shortage and. the hardships it involves must -be accepted by the administration." The association called -on congress to place full responsibility for meat management, now handled by the Office Price administration, in the War Meat board and give the board authority to make effective the industry's meat management plan. Subsidies Approved In' other resolutions the association opposed" subsidies and price rollbacks, "we have never -asked for higher beef prices," recommended discontinuance of all agricultural adjustment administration benefit -payments. for soil conservation and range improvement practices, Mr. and Mrs.

W. Earp, 708 Hub Homes, on birth, of a son weighing 8 pounds 12 ounces at 1:07 a. m. Saturday at-the residence. The father is employed by Wilson company.

The birth was reported by Porter-sistrand clinic. Mr. and Mrs. L. A.

Kight, 1518 Thirty-fourth street, on birth of a son weighing 7 2 ounces at 6:30 a. m. Saturday, reported by Porter-sistra'hd clinic. The father is employed, by Furr Food stores. War War alleviate a labor Production Manpower and asked the board and the commission to iauui shortage in the meat packing industry.

A. D. Brownfield, Deming, N. was elected president succeeding Frank Boice, William Wright of Deeth, N. first vice president; and A.

A. Smith of Sterling, Andrew Johnston of Alpha, N. Potter of San Francisco, Joe B. Matthews of Albany, and-John Arnold of Birney, second vice presidents. Naziland (Continued From Page One) tionally early.

Their concentration of 87 tons of explosives each minute exceeded by nearly four tonn the record set in the raid on Hanover on Sept. 22. Then the fighters clos- eu in, many of them in twin-en- gined, rocket-shooting type. An air ministry account of the raid took official cognizance of them, commenting that "they may be of a little use against bombers not flying in close formation." Invasion Coast Battered The night assaults followed a daylight lashing of the French invasion coast by perhaps 1,400 Allied planes, in which 27 Nazi planes were destroyed and 16 Allied ships were lost. Within the same 24-hours, RAF planes torpedoed German ships off Norway, and 100 Russian bombers struck an enemy convoy in the Black Sea.

The Swedish correspondents in Berlin said the rocket-type ships sent up by the. Nazis last night were similar to the Allies' jet- plane, but were driven from the rear by explosiye fuel. The jet- plane sucks in air from the front, then superheats and super-compresses it almost to the explosive point. The. Af tonbladet correspondent said the new German plane could climb four-and-a-half miles in two minutes, instead of 15 minutes usually needed, but that only experienced pilots could take the sudden change in pressure.

Lililefield Man Gels Nazi U. S. Flvihg Fortresses and Lib erators, and lighter American and RAF plane's participated in the daylight offensive Friday against France, and U. S. headquarters tonight reported that pictures showed the heavy bombers' high precision 'work and "excellent concentrations." "Visiblity was perfect and we made three runs on the said Pilot Capt.

Leonard B. Roper of Bullardj Tex. "The flak wa, thick." Those who bagged planes in eluded Lt. Gerald Montgomery Littlefield, Tex. Texas Weather (Continued From Paae One) Texas yesterday as weird weather conditions continued.

The Dallas office of the weather bureau reported that a cold front, fay-passing "the Dallas area, was moving into the Waco section early today. A bureau forecaster explained that while Dallas had a northerly Waco's wind was coming from a southerly direction and that at the juncture in that area, the cold mass of air was being forced earthward. Early in the evening, the temperature reading in Dallas was 43 degrees, while at the mercury stood at 39 degrees, of the temperature drop, was due to ice: and show in the central'Texas No Marked Drop There will be no further marked drop in the Waco temperatures, however, it was reported. From; the Panhandle- to deep East Texas, thence across the Louisiana line the sun was shining yesterday after snow had laid a heavy mantle over wide areas, skipping other sections. Snow flurries reached as far south as' Hous- Italian Front (Continued From Paee One)" striking enemy supply dumps and communications ahead of the Fifth Army and raiding into Yugoslavia.

American Fortresses anc Liberators with fighter escor made a heavy attack on the Mos- Abe Martin To Coach Elevens -FOJRT WORTH, Jan. 15 Abe Martin, ivho retired from high ranks after leading the JLufkin Panthers into the 1942 quarterfinals, has decided to resume his career. as a gridiron ton, but Dallas and much northeast Texas had of War Loan Drive (Continued From One) afternoon will be'- the most onvenient time for most of them. Most of the details for the pa- ade still are to be arranged. But this much is sure: Each of he military facilities in Lubbock, and they are numerous, will be ully represented.

The plans are being given the enthusiastic cooperation of the commanding. officers) including Coll Ralph E. Holmes of Lubbock Army Air field; Col. Norman B. Olsen of South Plains Army Air tield; Lt.

Col. F. M. Monroe of the facilities at Texas Technological college; Maj. Emmett Lee of West Texas Induction and Recruiting station; and Maj.

B. C. McCas- and, commanding officer of the 39th battalion, Texas Defense News Briefs FDR Asks guard. Each Represented Each commanding officer has lamed his representatives to par- icipate in the. planning.

Another of the series of meetings of this group is set for Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock. They will continue work on a parade in which several thousand- marching men, many pieces of equipment and three or more bands will take part. Chairman Wright announced that a great deal of work, much of it of preliminary nature, is on schedule during the coming week for those who will work- in the drive. Today, pastors of the city are asked to arrange for announcements in their various services of the approaching campaign. Mrs.

M. B. Hilburn, chairman of the women's division, is attending to this important detail of preparations. If she has failed to reach any of the local pastors with a request for this cooperation, they are asked to arrange for such announcements. Rural Division Meeting Perhaps the most important preliminary event actually arranged for the coming week will be a meeting Thursday afternoon at 2 ii Two Levelland drivers in one of two traffic accidents in Lubbock Saturday.

Police named them as Lavern Muliei', and Melvin C. Hargrove, 30, cars collided at 5 p. m. in front of St. Mary's hospital in 2600-block on Nineteenth street.

None was injured in this wreck or the other one, which happened at 4:30 p. m. at Tenth street and Texas Avenue. Police said the drivers were Eugene Freeman, 46, 2621 Twenty-first street, and -Vjrgle W. Gatlin, 43, of Lubbock route 5.

Damage was reported in all wrecks. BiH Mabry, former assistant Lubbock police chief, and identification officer, and Mrs. Mabry, of Abilene, where Mabry' is as- assigned to a sub-office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrived in Lubbock Saturday night for a week-end visit with relatives and friends here and'at Slide and Seagraves. Central station firemen were called to put out a car fire at "1:25 o'clock Saturday afternoon in 1000-block Main street. Last riles for Jim N.

Power, prominent Post merchant and former Garza county sheriff, are to ducted at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Post First Presbyterian church. Rev. R. C. Tennison, pastor, is to officiate.

Power died of a heart ailment Thursday afternoon. Of Week NEW Jan, 15.. 'WT President Roosevelt has asked Americans to observe brotherhood, week Feb. 20 to 26, he says "dedicates -us to. the practice of and justice through which freedom and equality nourish hi human He made the request i a message given out here by Dr.

Everett R. Clincliy, president of the national conference of Christians and Jews. In his message the president said now was good time "for us pledge renewed devotion to the fundamentals upon which this nation has been built." Jap Flight In Burma 'NEW DELHI, Jan. 15. (ffjl-HAF fighters, intercepting large formation of Japanese fighters over Allied positions on the Mayu peninsula of western Burma this morning, shot down "15 of the enemy attackers, probably destroyed six others and damaged many more, an Allied southeast Asia communique announced today.

Two RAF fighter planes failed to return from the swirling fight, but one of the pilots is known be safe and the other is believed to have reached safety. Reds Plunge On From Page One) tanks were burned out as well as 11 self-propelled guns and 16 ar- o'clock in the council chamber of cued in the coup. mored troop carriers. Guerrillas Aid Drive Guerrillas in the Rovno province of old Poland were aiding Vatutin's right wing which was 46 miles across the. frontier past Sarny.

The guerrillas struck an unexpected blow at the retreating Germans, routed a battalion of enemy infantry and "captured several populated places," the communique said. Thousands of Russjans the Germans were taking back to forced labor were res- the city hall of key members of the rural division. Roy Boyd, county school superintendent, is the rural chairman. The procedure to be followed in the rural areas in the Fourth drive will differ somewhat from that in the Second and Third, campaigns, the county chairman explained. In this drive, a quota will be assigned to each -of the rural communities.

Committees will be named for each community. They are in process, of selection now and the expectation is that most of them will -be completed before the meeting Thursday afternoon! They will be asked to conduct- a house-to-house campaign in their areas. City's Drive' Delayed The big. push in the city will not be started until next and possibly not until the'-week Jan. 31.

The exact date still is to be set by the executive corn- Berlin's announcement said that the Red Army had struck out with major forces in what appeared to be another full-scale Soviet offensive in the Leningrad area. Chennault Gets Wish, Named Game Warden BATON ROUGE, Jan. 15. Claire Chennault said he would rather be a Louisiana game warden than governor or U. S.

senator he got his wish, office announced Instructor, Two Cadets Die In Pampa Crash Jan. 15. WP) A flying instructor and two student pilots from Pampa Army Air field were killed in the crash of their twin-engine combat training plane yesterday ten miles north of the field. The dead were Lt. John S.

Cook, 23, of Breckenridge, the instructor; Cadet Raymond Joseph Pierick, 21, Des Moines, and Cadet Edward John Pinchak, 23, Cleveland, Lt. Cook was by his wife, who had been residing at Pampa, as had Mrs. Marines Relax After Bougainville Fight GUADALCANAL, Jan. 16. The last combat units of the third Marine division have completed their mission of establishing a strong beachhead on Bougainville island in the Solomons arid been relieved by an Army combat correspondent Theodore C.

Link, St. Louis; reported the Marines are now relaxing at another island base. Two Said Victims Of Asphyxiation PALESTINE, -Texas, Jan. 15. Justice of the Peace Joe Martin, today returned a verdict of death by asphyxiation in the deaths of Henry Allen Pollick, Jefferson, and Herschel Norman Cox, Longview.

The men's bodies were found, Sheriff Arnold Broughton said, in a room at City, near here, last night. division. Marine u.i. i.Tiv/a~ uj LUC CACULILI tar, Yugoslavia, airfield and bar- mittee, the chairman racks which feed Nazi activities against the Partisans. Light bombers and fighter-bombers attacked shipping in the Adriatic-near Si- benik.

They scored four hits which left a merchantman in flames. Numerous other smaller craft were hit. the Eighth Army's front was extensive patrol ac- State Department (Continued From Page One) nameH Norman H. Davis, chairman of the American Red Cross, Ambassador Myron C. Taylor and Dr.

Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins university. Twelve new major, officer have been established to permit flexible and efficient adjustments of the department's functions to ap i d1y changing conditions." Of four are geographic area offices -dealing respectively with Europe, Far East, Near East and Africa, and the'American re- Ks has accepted the head coacli- mg job at Fort Worth's Paschal and will take over January Martin has coached nine sea- graduating from Texas stian 1930. During that time district titles, two and five at Luf. the Panthers he won 67 f.cd one End lost Un. TO TURN PRO HOLYOKE, Jan.

15; Transcrlpt-Tele- gram today quoted Angelo -Ber- telli. star XcJre Dame back, as saying he was throush with college game and planned to play BrofesEicuaJ football the war. Weather men described it as a tug-of-war between a gulf storm and the mass of cold air from the While the sun shone over most of-the central Texas plains area the mercury was 26 land slightly above during the day. Longview in East Texas slogged through a five-inch snow, heaviest hi a decade, but it was melting fast. Six.

inches fell at Corsicana and nearby Malakoff reported cattle suffering from the cold, with some reported dead, after the coldest night of the winter, 14 degrees. Bus service was resumed over highway 31. Other.points reported: Wichita Falls, clear and 27 degree minimum; Laredo got freezing temperatures for fifth morning during first half of January, minimum at 30 degrees, but onions expected to survive; traffic disrupted at Shrevepbrt "after three and one-half inch' snow, but the sun was shining through yesterday; scattered flumes, first since 1940 recorded at Houston, but sun was out again for the first time in a week; and snow was melting fast in the winter playground area around San Antonio with minimum temperature for last night predicted at 30 degrees. Farmers Warned (Continued From Page On there tivity. On.

both the Fifth and Eighth Army fronts British artillery was active throughout yesterday. Crude Oil Prices (Continued From Page One! oil prices were unofficially frozen, the crude oil price index was re-' proted at 58.9. "2. In 1941, the index of all raw material' prices was 'reported at 83.6. Different Last Year In September, 1943, the index of raw material prices was reported at 112.4.

In September, 1943, the index of crude oil prices still reported at 58.9. Aiijraw material prices increased 3a per cent from June, 1941, to September, 1943, while crude oil prices remained stationary. "The railroad commission of Texas is unanimously of the opinion that the administration in Washington is holding the price of oil down while the big companies buy the little companies out "If this policy is persisted in it means the certain elimination the little oil operator. The commission considers the independent oil operator the hope of preventing an oil monopoly in the United States." He emphasized anew, that ef- arts will be centered more in riis drive than in any previous- on the sales of bonds to individual purchasers. This means, most of all, the sales of Series jonds, as well as Series and The county's Series quota is .1,195,000, which is approximate- the same as in the Third drive.

3ut hopes'are that Lubbock will make a better showing with its Series quota in the Fourth drive han it did in the Third, when it 'ell more than $150,000 short of assigned goal. Individual Responsibility The success of the Fourth Loan the county, the state and the going to pend upon how well the individual purchasers. do their part," Chairman Wright remarked. "If most people will do what can and should, quotas should be reached without difficulty and without imposing hardship upon- anyone. But if too many people refuse to lend their money while 'Americans are" dying on fronts throughout the world, then the drive will fail.

"I do not believe that patriotic American people here and elsewhere will allow it to fail." Coordinate Relations These will be charged with the joordination of all aspects of- American relations with the coun- in respective areas' and lot exclusively, with political relations as has been the tendency during years, the department stated. An office of wartime economic affairs has been set up to maintain liaison with all war agencies concerned. The former division of interna- wpnal communications has been Air Forces Losses (Continued From r'age One) Engine or structural failures ac count for 12.4 per cent and miscel laneous causes 2.2 per cent. Thi cause of 37.4 per cent of all fata accidents remains undetermined Before the war 974 out of everj 1,000 aii- cadets earned their wing without injury due to aircraft ac cidents; now 957 come through unhurt. Before the war 987 each 1,000 went through without fatal accident; now 980 emerg JILPYV J7t) months of August and September, noui a fata crackup.

most people wonder how crops eventually turned out so well in 1943," Jones continued. "Lookina back at the 1943 rainfall record with a total of only 12.84 inches for the year, it is seen that three of the four critical growing months registered 64 per cent of the yearly total. Add to this ths fact that we entereJ the year with excellent sub-soil moisture to draw on during this critical period and you "have the answer." Jones released a 33-year rainfall ueeu wuues icieasea a ja-year rainfall mviaed nuo- three new divisions record compiled at the station in -d ShiPPing St a kf look different, but they are all basically hexagonal, ''found or page section "Buy A War Bond TODAY" Notice Of Sale As Of Jan. 1, 1944 MR. AND MRS.

D. LEVA HAVE SOLD THE Hungarian Cafe HARRY L. LEVA Mr. and Mrs. D.

Leva will be responsible for any indel cdr.ess of Hungarian Cafe af Feb. 1944. the- governor's today. Asked in a letter from Ben Chase of Waterproof, the general's home town, if he would consider running for governor or senator, Chennault, an enthusiastic hunter, answered that the only office to which he aspired was that of game warden. The "state department of conservation has mailed to Chung- king a commission and badge making the general a full-fledged game warden in his native Tensas parish.

Ferry Group Officer Dies In Plane Crash- DALLAS, Jan. 15. (If) Lt. John M. Reiber of the 5th Ferrying group was killed-" in a trainer plane crash near Gon-' zales, Texas, today, Love Field public relations office here announced today.

Reiber's wife resides at Dallas and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin R. Reiber at Denver, Colo. Rev.

Larry Rankin To Leave Pastorate Here Rev. Larry Rankin, pastor of the Christian and Missionary Alliance church, Sixteenth street and Avenue will delivery his farewell sermon tonight at 3 o'clock, he announced Saturday. Members of the family, including Mrs. Rankin and their two Dale Judith Ann, plan, to leave Monday for tae state of Washington to establish their new home. They will stop en route in Los Angeles and other points in California.

Mr. Rankih came to Lubbock eight months ago-from Roanoke, where he was pastor for three Man Found In Hotel With Throat Cut Dies HOUSTON, Jan. 15 (U.R) A man identified as Tom Maxwell, 40, died today in a hospital here.less than 24 hours after he was found, throat slashed, in a hotel room. Police said he lived at Irving, U. S.

Is Said Morally Unprepared For Peace NEW YORK, Jan. 15. (IP) John W. Hanes, former undersecretary of the Treasury, said today the American people were prepared to-empty their pockets and go all out to win the war but that a "morally federal fiscal policy caused them to hesitate and complain. Declaring that the historic issues of the 1944 election campaign were not solely political or economic, but moral, he said in an address prepared for a luncheon marking the 23rd anniversary of the Women's National Republican club: "VVe are moving- toward 'the gigantic crises of- the peace as morally unprepared as, at Pearl Har- bor we were physically unprepared for war." Two Die In Blast, Fire At Gatesville GATESVILLE, Jan.

15. (IP) Miss- Dorothy Gibson, Charleston, W. was burned to death and 'an unidentified soldier died today as the result of injuries re- in a gas explosion here arly today. A hotel was vrecked by the blast. Fire Marshal Raymond Ward aid the girl's charred body was ound on the floor of a room.

Ward said the soldier was lown out of the building by the last. Firemen extinguished the re- ultant blaze. The soldier's body was turned- ver to military authorities. Says Franco To Send More Men NEW YORK, Jan. 15.

Gen. 'rancisco Franco "has. a secret greement with Hitler's head- luarte'rs providing that new Spanish units, considerably exceeding in size'the Blue division -ecruits, -are'to be sent to the Moscow radio reported onight, quoting a dispatch from "Practically all" the officers of he Spanish Falangist movement, vhich General Franco says has disbanded, have received special tegular -army assignments which in many cases consists in secretly recruiting and forming so-called. volunteer units for the Soviet-German said the Droadcast. near Dallas.

There had" been no coroner's verdict on cause of his. death. CALLED, NAZI LIE NEW YORK, Jan. 15 Polish Telegraph agency de- nounced today as "outright and deceptive a Berlin broadcast which said on Thursday that an immediate increase. in food rations had been ordered for workers in vital in- durtries in Poland.

years. MORE SHIPS CHARTERED NEW YORK, Jan. 15. Two additional Swedish ships, bringing the number engaged in such traffic to ten, have been chartered by the International Red Cross to carry grain to Greece, the American Swedish News exchange announced today. U.

S. Liberators In China Paste Japs CHUNG KING, Jan. 15 the 14th U. S. Air force in uhina probably "sank a gunboat and, a freighter in a sea, sweep off the south China coast yesterday, and Mitchells damaged a Japanese installation on Weichow island in Tonkin gulf Tuesday, a com- munique from Lt.

Gen. Joseph W. StillwelTs; headquarters said. Fighter-bombers destroyed four Japanese pack trains on offensive patrols over the Slungling and Tengyueh areas of western Yun- Inan. SAILINGS ON TIME NEW YORK, Jan.

15. (U.R) Every Allied merchant vesse scheduled to sail from-an Atlantic coast port during the critical holiday period from Dec. 15 td Jan 15 embarked on time, despite critical crew shortage problem the War Shipping administration announced today. HONOR GRADUATE SAN MARCOS, Jan. Robert J.

'Gordon, 20, i rvaa 11LUIUICVA the outstimoili!" student of first class of navigators "who re ceived wings and commossion today at the Army Air Forces Navigation school here. FREE SINGING SCHOOL EVERY ONI! WELCOME VOCAL LESSONS AND SIGHT MUSIC READING Good Behaviour Wins Texas Escapee Pardon LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (IP) Twenty-five years of good citizenship have won Loreto Suarez, 45, an unconditional pardon from a Texas'theft charge, police disclosed-today. Suarez arrested last" Dec. 8 on information, that he had escaped 25 years ago from a Hurits- ville, Texas, penitentiary he was serving tw.o-years for theft.

of the arresting Coke R. Stevenson- of Texas granted an unconditional pardon because of Suarez's good record in supporting his wife and step-child, who is stricken with infantile paralysis. Roosevelts Launch "March Of Dimes WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. (£0 Two dunes placed on the line by Mrs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, one for the president and one for herself, the capital's annual "mile of dimes" to fight infantile paralysis. Last year's 7 'mile" raissu. $40,000 in dimes and offi- ciDiS said today they believed that record would be surpassed this year. "Buy War Bond" TODAY" 2 WEEKS BEGINING MONDAY EVENING AT 7:30 CLARK JOHNSON WILL DO THE TEACHING AVE.

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