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8 FORT WORTH 1-5 Sunday Dec 23 194S Texas Woman Freed in Manila Visits Whitewright WIIITEWRIGIIi Dec 22 (SO) daughter of Mr and Mrs Curry who now live at Smithville and was born at Denison Her father is an employe of the Missouri -Kansas Texas Railroad She met and married Staight in 1941 at Manila where he was head of an engineering company He is an Englishman by birth but is a naturalized American citizen Mr and Mrs Staight plan to return to Manila next month 7 oot 4 EYEAR LATER- ASTOGINTE--1944 7 0 OP pt In smil AT 4 4 0 En Iptl A A Caa 19414 It LATER 4' '-'1 -6 1 c- 4- 0 5 -141- -1 te I I led 4 A '4 --f11: i''' 'V-'-f''' i ti-1 g'-1'''-ir' --sts44'r i "-'4'-- 444 i 1 i' 4 'I: 7S "'t- 7 -714'''''31-''''' 4 ii sfSI -It'reit'' 1 -1 4'ss-t''''! 4 4:: f's Is 31 A ii 4- 1 li 4 n't 1' 4- --t i 1 iii 1 1 -0--74 4 4 4 7 -t -4 -''f: -'714' Ict: --1 1 t'r :41 1 2 'r- 4Tt' IV 4 7 7'st -ri 7 74t fr 4''-'-" '77-'- 74 'A P''47 '4'11 7-4t--1 -4 Is 1-- iv' i I kl 1 1 1-' l' f''''' 1-'1 f' 5'2 49--- 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on Jan 9 1942 The rice and soy tney were cap- tured at Manila MRS STAIGHT on Jan 9 1942 The rice and soy I i l''' i -'1'A-1 1: t't 1 114-rN'i- -A--'U I -t I ikli let -esift- z0sPok 4 I ia4-jt-r-i A''srli i''i v-04141woett--I -0 --'t 04 i- 7 vvrier61 --1111c- -0 1 4C 4 211' 1 1-' it- i 'gt I ikt 4 4 ddd -4 'All 1: IA 1 1 'z'''-'' Itt" 4 1 -s vt 0411rcZAl' a 4 Avre4- 014 4 4 4---- 41 tet 1 i 4' 1 etle141 A t-' 7 ti-w-- -4- 7 (1tvv110 "-444P'5'TZ ''--1 mai e-4 d' 0100A011r440Pr 1 0 4" CI Course in Russian VOK0110MA Dee 22 course in conversational Russian will be opened shortly for all inter ested personnel of 8th Army Headquarters Headquarters Company and special troops bean diet is one of the worst remembrances Mrs Stalght has of the prison camp She is the former Miss LettyeE VG400 I SCREAMING EAGLES PROVIDED FIREWORKS DAFFYNITIONS by Paul Gilbert Home Loans to 12000 Vets TURKEYS Dressed Lb 37' PACKIHG HOUSE MARKET 13th and Houston Sts TuRKEys Dressed 370 Lb i 1 PACKIN HOUSE MARKET 13th and Houston Sts JUST A LOCAL BOY MAKING GOOD PHOTOGRAPHS -kpel lecLaaAen PLoloa Christmas Eve Was 'Quiet' in Bastogne in 144 So Journal Said 6-450 Shoottng You 0 Ow Business' (The United States will celebrate this week its first peacetime Christmas since 1940 Here's a recollection of last Christmas-tide as it was observed in the Belgian bulge at Bastogne) DICKENS: What people raise around Christmas FISH: What Americans used to eat on meatless Tuesdays ORCHESTRA LEADER: A man who sometimes leads more men than he can shake a stick at FAMILIARITY Part of the well-known proverb "Familiarity breeds attempt" VEGETABLE SOUP: A kind of liquid hash AGNOSTIC: A man who doesn't believe anything and wants other people to share his beliefs SKINFLINT: Something that's used to give a hot foot LAME-DUCK: An extinct bird that once ran wild in Washington CONVICT: A felon who needs a friend NIGHTGOWN: What some people wear when they're found napping CLEVER MAN: One who makes hay with the grass that grows under other men's feet BRIDEGROOM: A bachelor who exchanges good quarters for a better half ENGLISH BASEMENT: A cellar in an English apartment house BUSINESSMAN: One who must beware of false profits FOX: A man who gets what a wolf went after CHICAGO Dec 21 At least 12000 veterans will have Christmas in homes they own as a result of $5300C000 lent by savings and loan associations the United States Savings and Loan17-- League reported Saturday Morton Bodfish league executive vice president said the $53- 060000 total as of Sept 30 consisted of 834547829 in loans actually closed on that date or 7661 veterans and an additional $18- 897000 in loans pending for 4239 veterans The volume of loans actually closed by the savings and loan institutions on Sept 30 represented 83 per cent of the 841- 807000 repOrted by the Veterans Administration in home loan cornmitments guaranteed on Oct 20 nearest available date for comparison Bodfish said He added the veterans home loans averaged $4510 VII a -N 4 71 A Ei 1 a 7) 1''ISle) ")A 1 a ''1 4- 11 'II "it 0-- ttO with new 4 c114109 -J -o-rel 25 0 convenience A SZ7 i'''c7 6-4--' Zr'14'1-N 49- hA 1-' with the I PARAVOX CASE-1 CORD" HEARING AID I "1 CASE-1 CORD" A IlAvox HEARINn AM Flood of Gifts Ready for Wounded at McCloskey Like thousands of users you'll be delighted with the convenience of the original "1 case 1 cord- entire device is "all in one" small beautiful ivory or ebony case with matching cord and receiver High hearing efficiency Accepted by Council on Physical Medicine American Medical Association Battery upkeep cost um usually low NoDelay Service at Paravox dealers by exclusive unit replacement Coupon brings you all facts Mail coupes for this booklat today --mem have contributed appToximatelyi I 10000 articles ranging from house MI slippers to cigaret lighters and XMAS totaling from $15000 to $20000 1 in value have been wrapped in ri PICTURES Temple lie said that the response for hospitals hospitals 9ver the state has iri 1 1 rill tor nospitats over tne state nasR of Family ancl This :3 page booklet gam yaw the exalt mesa fasts aimmt Easier Heartgegf 1 Easier Heartgegf I I AUDIPHONE LABORATORIES 1 417 Medical Arts Bldg Fort Worth I Plea mond too frooboottot "'Nom Sosisforritmo from Hooting AldoI 1 NAME Imall 0e 4 eMb MED Mb IIIII010 IIMEVINEll MO SIM MOD ONO Gen Anthony McAuliffe replied with his famous laconic "Nuts" Just a year ago Saturday night Christmas Eve at Bastogne in 1944 was "quiet" according to the official regimental journals Compared with others during the week in which the 10000 held off 100000 it was quiet But in the surrounding fields and behind the rubble piles of the town's outskirts Americans fought ceaselessly to prevent these Germans from joining the others in the "Bulge" who would eventually be trapped and torn to pieces because of the men who stood fast at Bastogne On Christmas Eve a bomb struck the hospital and buried 20 patients Another tore down a command headquarters Christmas tree Christmas tree amid the shellfire of a sergeant pinned a Purple Heart on a mangled doll A hospital patient ed the tag to which the Screaming Eagles have Battling Bastards of the Bastion of Bastogne" Proud Eagles That night McAuliffe chose to tell his men of his reply to the German ultimatum and it sent a wave of enthusiasm through the troops Red maps of the encircling German positions overlayed with a big green "Merry Christmas" went out to the troops and the general added: "What's merry about all this you ask? We're cold aren't home All true But what has the proud Eagle Division accomplished with its worthy comrades of the 10th Armored Division the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion and all the rest? Just this: We have stopped cold everything that has been thrown against us from the north east south and west We have identifications from four German panzer divisions two German infantry divisions and one German parachute division These units spearheading the last desperate German lunge were head riedly ordered to stem tbe advance How effectively this was done will be written in history not alone in our division's glorious history but in world history The Germans actually did surround us their radios blared our doom Allied troops are counterattacking in force We continue to hold Bastogne By holding Bastogne we assure the success of the Allied armies We know that our division commander General Taylor will say: Well done! We are giving our country and our loved ones at home a worthy Christmas present and being privileged to take part in this gallant feat of arms are truly making for ourselvas a Merry Christmas" (McAuliffe was "sitting in" fer Maj Gen Maxwell Taylor the division's regular commander who was in Washington but flew back to join his men before the end of the Bastogne fight) Patton to the Rescue General Patton suddenly wheeling north with an army which had been headed directly east was Idriving his men with almost superhuman speed toward the relief of Bastogne His tanks and lorries bore the Christmas present McAuliffe had said privately was tire finest the 101st could have McAuliffe knew they needed it but his men refused to admit it They just faced the encircling Germans and as Corp William Fowler of Jacksonville Fla put it "mowed 'em down" They fought on ammunition dropped from the sky treated their wounded with cognac and courage and described themselves to rear headquarters as "the hole in the doughnut" Patton's men arrived cutting northward through the Germans but two days late for Christmas Those of McAuliffe's men who could fight no longer were carried out those who were able stayed on to finish the job and the dead were buried Interred1 with them were the last hopes of the Nazi nation Christmas of 1944 in Bastogne had seen to BY ROBERTS JR NEW YORK Dec 22 (-13) A year ago Satutday the armies of General Eisenhower were making one of the greatest defensive fights in American history and to Adolf llitler's last desperate bid for victory one man stood up and said "Nuts" It was almost Christmas in Bastogne The "Screaming Eagles" of the 101st Airborne Division with some elements of other divisions trapped by the advancing Germans hardly 10000 men in all were standing off five Nazi divisions' and parts of three others The little town a hub of road system down which Hitler had hoped to drive to Liege andl Antwerp was surrounded For 48 hours advanfi-- their own dead through a thickening ring of disemboweled tanks1 the Germans had been tightening their grip The Americans had begun running up the score which in a week of fighting was to total 200 enemy tanks destroyed and thousands of casualties inflicted "Nuts" He Told Them But they were fighting from fence rows roadsides and from shattered buildings not from prepared positions Supplies were short Tomorrow they would receive more by parachute from C47s circling overhead But on the night of Dec 22 they were short and the Germans thought the Yanks were whipped The German commander sent in a surrender ultimatum Brig TEMPLE Dec 22 gifts from citizens from all over Texas will be distributed Sunday to patients at McCloskey General Hospital here by members of the American Legion Post 133 and its auxiliary Respense to appeals for "gifts lor the Yanks who gave" has been so great that the size of the individual packages to be distributed was double that originally planned Wendland state chairman of the collection estimated 100000 persons over the state been comparable your Tree made day or Editor-Democrat Dies II Tree made day or all Xmas AUDIPIIONE LABORATORIES night day For Appointment ri Bill Newbold 2-9916 1 Ir-Zt Texas 417 Medical Arts Bldg 2-8901 Fort Worth FRANK WHITE Mgr Authorized Dealer LEWISTOWN Pa Dec 22 (IP) Meredith Meyers 80 editor of the Lewistown Sentinel and former Democratic state chairman died Saturday of pneumonia stzwc-wx OF FORT worm yi tec Apes Whit 111 0 ret70------ 7- ---trz- 7-4---- -egoloii-Wrii------ 0 4z21 VI i--- 0 ''''4' 77: ---s" 7 us I 4 41 'If) 3111 to 1 a 'a Texans Can't Use Louisiana Plates rar 460- i 1 le so I 4 I I th- -4I-7L- 4' -I- Ato- Llto61 477 0 ti--- 10i- -I- '4 leV '10 1 --t rtl3'--- RClKie -11 -a4sta 4G 0 114 --''''N'-'41XS '5 01' 4-- 4- 4' I fr i g6410- 11 :111 LIVIII 141T -zar)I3 oir --'-7 ing straight west for key points Jwhen the Eagle Division was hur- that 7777! i 'f 2 si 77's ils 'A: ft f2': V''' -1 '2" k- 1e i 's- 4091' i 4 $5jk- F- ---'Pssgio: As spf '11 45 21: 2 i I 'r ts 3 041- -y-': 4s I i1 1 ') i -P-" ix -J -4- -i I 4: 5'- xegin''i --Kk 7 '''-'40 c' -1e -sik-i-ico'- :7 7--zik i- i tg'' --i: 0110 1 :7 1 ee --iiiiT41'-': 't l': 4 17 1: '7' :6:1:31 '(Zi'JIi4i---- -sk: 1' -t -s N': -r -s --i 0070:1 4 3 tt: 7'rz- 1 ''''''''''''NIZts" I Vi- '3 AAp 0010-- 0 iof" :4 le -7: i t-: I I --s- -ti Out of respect for the memory of ALPH HANSEN AUSTIN Dec 22 one-priced $3 automobile license plates will do Tans no good next year state highway department officials have ruled in announcing a clampdown on Texans registering cars in any state other than their residence Louisiana has announced co-operation with her bordering states by promising to refuse sale of Louisiana plates to anyone outside the state the Texas Highway Department said Enforcement officers are conducting extensive campaigns against motor owners operating illegally with out-of-state license plates ef5 kr-1 1 late treasurer of this company our office and factory will be closed a 1I day Monday December 24th DECORATIVE WREATHS 4 4 1111b7epo 1 4 ii i '--1's -o be 11 4tfii 1 t' --t- ----k4 ii rzzr--tisT teit yp i'251' lat titit et 4 4 sl 4-''' '1IP ---34' -471V0-- 405A-40 ii oi---3 KING CANDY COMPANY See our unusually selection of these beautiful wreaths I 5" to I 81 sizes Wide range of colors and frimmings at Leonard's lower prices Industrialist Gives $100000 to College itL: cn wIca kr( rr PT Vi I to 795 79' JACKSON Miss Dec 22 Millsaps College Saturday was richer by $100000 the gift of 11 Sanders Mississippi industrialist Sanders also made 13 other contributions Friday ranging from $100 to $1000 to various charitable religious and educational institutions "I believe in furthering Christian education" he said "I propose to do other things of this nature as time goes on" CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS FOR HER ---ki ir 1--e ---Alt 4--- if -l-c-p- Z--- -L------ --c---D- i i' SOOM30 r11111PM-1-1 Ai' 3'4w' frc-- to tri e1-aittsr? 41-1: -44 "5 NLLSO 41 et -r-- ---e--17 -rr- 7 I' ----------------5---- --i-XZ r--- 4- ss'- -14 k-- 4 1 ke 0 111110 0 e- Av po 7 A 4 e- ri: regiN lt It I tent' I- ft' al V- I 1104 061:1: Diamond Earscrews Fraternal Pins Sterling Tableware Bracelets Dresser Sets Wrist Watches Diamond Rings Sfone Set Rings Pearl Necklaces Costume Jewelry 4Air4Litt 14'3: ---Z4 4f kt- 4 A 5 07-t7r A HOLLY WRI For Home and Busii Give your home and office a holici ing one of these Christmas wreaths Also suitable for grave decoratic and 2 if 41 SEED DEPARTMENT HOLLY For Home and Business Give your home and office a holiday one of these Christmas wreaths Also suitable for grave decoration SEED DEPARTMENT lc: 't )1 e-sq ---Y 7 7 I 01 07 k- 4 dfr''-----' qr 1-rn It -4 ts i s- 1I'- kot Crash Injuries Are Fatal BEAUMONT Dec 22 Bernard Brown 44 of Kirbyville former Orange County commissioner died here Saturday morning of injuries received in an automobile collision Friday near Vidor WREATHS Windows No Middle- I DOWn and man You Save the Difference 0 dr Glasses Ground in Onr Own Manufacturing Plant on Your Prescripdon WEEK No Middle- 1 DOWil and man YouSave the Di erence If I 0 Glasses Ground in Our Own or Manufacturing No Middle- 1 1:101113 and manYouSave the Difference A Glasses Ground in Onr Own AI a nufacturing i 1 I A 1111 A APASF PreSeriPtOn WEEK RHEUIAATISIti NEURITIS-ARTHRITIS LO Etig I atmosphere by hanging in the window or door aithes 1 -ci 10 I CC- La- LL Established 1920 EASY CREDIT Els5 OPTICAL COMPANY 301 Main St Corner Second 17 Irvs -ma EASY CREDIT etrA 40xtf 01 1 Niz na A ITTNitlt OPTICAL n'-' nal 14 a 41464 a -1'4 COMPANY (ma ::44 110 i-i ft'4N1 301 St Corner Second L1 Torturing pains relieved quickie with Pharmacologists amaring new Vitamin formula Tr RID MATIC for nagging backaches and leg pains that seemingly add 20 years tc your age Who wants to be old Your health is your most viJuable asset Quick acting RID altiTIC works fast often splendid results in one day RID NIATIC relieves smarting burning pasFaces helps kidneys flush excess acid from the blood ittresin RID NIIITIL Increases appetite and energy You work in peace and sleep in comfort £5 000 bottles sold is Port Worth Pont delay Buy RIO Itot4TIC at Leonard's Drug Dept- to dag 55 floatage paid HOUSTON STREET AT SIXTH Mail Orders Invited Open a Charge Account Downstairs THE DIAMOND STORE I A a.