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FJtlDAY, MARCH 17,
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es Pre-!nvasion Show
d Accuses
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WASHINGTON. March 10 <U.R)
Si'rrptHpv t}( Affi'lclU'iiro Clou I-
Wirburil 't.ctlitv a*einc<' H-irry
n*'-* " . Th'r.il r'.lertri 1 Tallin Ad
tti'or. «'f '"urttflith"Ulsisr.
Dr. Roy iLe-lie Lcaivu.n, 45,
oinii'f*>: Me:il i dentist, died early
[omit'" niornin"' in a Martin hos-
i ntler having been reriously
ill Cin- fievejrl days.
i.i'an hi liiis baon practicing
i'! M-f*la f.irvv-1922, wlu>n lie en-
l i f n office "c f IV. J-, L. Mflit-
i -1 ''lowing' fell lie opened
own | ru'tlce. whicii lio eon
i i! "(I until his dealll
v:i:i barn October 31, 1B'J7,
Vhtrutoii, the son til' Dr. N. C.
ir" it. wi ll-known Thornton
tltirf Hi'i- i* \r, jv5v
Ihr' H- iii>)ni'I'tlthc'S". crtnivit l>
tl "ni'i/l to f >r.'.vtjjuj t^vj ,b;u Jtv
mo livjl' <vr; '•> .*•'
Ir; "1 t'!.i u jj'.Mblti /iest-
•i'lt•• ••• !'«brirriri'I'(• 'bat. «m-> m
s u'iij' (■)
miv
renn
i ysi i ii, and the late Mrs. Julia
r,.., i mon. wlio preceded bei
on h dcalli'by only two nion'bs.
1 Mtcr graduating from the Tb.irn-
•ii am: Mexia High Schools he
tl< ndetl Vunderbllt Dental College
Nashville. Tenne ate, for two
c.tr. graduating in 1922 from
■ i:"i University in New Orleans.
(:«->y
until ill health prevented, Dr.
imon was an active member of
■ fho lions' Club, which he served
J
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General Dwigiit I>. Eisenhower. Commander-in-Chief, Allied Inva sion Forces, points out a bit of in-
teresting action to bis depu: •, Air Chii t' Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, right, who uku finds it a worthy
H'.r.'ert at the Amreienn arte -red e r pro-invasion show "somewhere in England. (NEA Telopboto)
Comeback in Burma
trim
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H\Ft. Hcrtx
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viainqkwan
He-
Walawbum
Japs trapped
by Americans
and Chinese
NAGA HILLS
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Silchar
Imphal
CHINA
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Chungking
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FORMOSA
Pacific Ocean
' Hong Kong
hainan jjfl
MANILAILPHILIPPINEIS
l-CHINA
I Qa3 Jap-hcfd area
Huntsville Author
Dies in San Diego
SAN DIEGO, Cal.i March 13.
(U.R)—Col. John William Thomason,
J Jr., F>1, Marine officer, author,
[artist and former newspaperman,
died yesterday in Naval Hospital
after a brief illness.
He was a native of Huntsville,
j C :l. Thomason bail been attached
] to Camp Elliott and had been with
j an amphibious training command,
ur&sfi kStrike 1,fares uP
Branch, Charleston. DlUCWv-Urtl IS, i . 11? 1
;, i. i ii lAgam over Wales
Leiicvec involved5
Revenge wa. undoubt
well, who, with hi.; In
early in the war, wh
helped* > :>p 2fii)11 ,1 -.j
flag) on map above
formed of I
tlirou:;., the i!. .
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A dMr
4 " V-'
Aim:
LONtl
Jugosljiv ci.nin i
day tty. active pr ■
Amei-i no ofr.ii
Jo.sip ir:'ito)
forct-".i] in 11 ii-i ■■
Cerifltfn
Tbo unidei" i:
purlisan detaci':
lnnd, off (be I.:i!-.i '
r<UCCI'Ssful Ottai'i: 1
ship of I'lii'in.
paid. A co11!.ii'■ i■ I"
booty was taki'i' ill
t ions.
American nffi."
to have been in -Ii
vlousiy for liaison w
Hcrlip ladio ivt. n-le
«il hof.it con fin... •
Unitifd Stall and
mandos landed on 1.i
the Dalmatian coast
Lieut.-Gen Joseph W. Stil—
of a beating" from the Japs
i i-trained Chinese divisions
v'ln'tna, as sliown (Chinese
c s that nipped Nips was
prise march of 200 miles
i their own jungle trails.
j pavific fleet.
He wrote magazine articles and
' fiction and six books as well as
illustrating many others.
Among them were "Fix Bayo-
n Is," ' Red I'auts," "Marines and
Others," and "Job Stuart."
Col. Thomuson's Marino career
began in l'.il
tached to the
Marine Corps
S. C., ns a second lieutenant. He
participated in several engage-
ment in World War 1 and received
numerous decorations anil mt-duls
! by botli the United States and
France.
Funeral services will be held
' this week at Huntsville, Tex.,
| Thomasons birthplace.
lie -tarted his career as a writer
! while employed by the Houston
! Chronicle before the outbreak of
j World War One.
I Col. Thomason was the brother
'of tf.' former Miss Margaret
[.Thomason, who taught in the Pub-
one time as president, in the
i Mas: nic order, and on the Mexia
! School Board, of which he was
j still a member at the time of his
death. He was also a member of
i the First Baptist ■ Church. After
'coming to Mexiu, lie was married
to Mi s Les'sie Spearman of Pitts-
, burg, Texas, who later died.
Sutviving him are his wife, Mrs,
Mr.rthu Leamon, one son, Roy L.
'Jr., and bis father, Or. N. C.
1,canton, all of Mexia.
' antral rt rvices will be held ill
tla l!i idle Chapel Tue-day aftev-
n on at 3 o'clock with the 'Rev.
i:. U. Hi ry (,t Coraicana conducting
the scrviiea, assisted by the Rev.
K. L. Dob on, pastor of the First
. a'nist Churcli ill Mexit..
I'ullLearers will be Dr. R. E.
Cromeans, Dr. M. M. BroWn, Lynn
A'Jams, J. II. Nussbaum, Raymond
I.. Dillard, Ivan Thorite, 'O. M.
Burnett, Wyutt llayter, Eddie
KcIk, and Frank L. Williams,
lionor.try pallbearers will be all
tb i' Mi da doctors, dentists, and
,i at-bers of the Mexia School
Slat lew a.i lil'1.'^ I."ad t.iv. Ir ' .'.a:
''i.ltrvy's "word cunuot Ir.' r,.!i.
■p n."
"In mv perfninal d .'elityj:; <m b
f'.l i!U-r ' ntiincv■ni.i bist'nv.'e-
'•currimr wherein i!. wa; f it1 '
that his wi,* could not be reli" 1
upon," Wickard said. "His lack ef
"'Vfi"ity has likewise been men
tioned to me by several indivi-
duals. It is my opinion that bis un-
ru".''il caiiiiol be attributed
to torgctfulness, but i:i mest ill
staiii' -;'. t i pelf-interest."
Pending from a prepared state
n.iCiit;, Wickard said be bad a pro
found respect for the public ser-
vice Slattery has rendered, but
that, member:', of hi.< stuff, REA
employees, members of Congres •.
ami othr-m complain''d' .ibat Sia't-
tery'.-i adminiatrntidn cf .REA \ya'.<:
"la::" and that ebinriv'sviomil i."'m -
mit/ner y.jere b inn*n.'v to "l.is" :
conTdtnce in i.f'A."
I' M!, f-ettc, i'ornv r Deputy Ad-
mil ijtrati r, re.d.'.'tied in l'.Ml on
the "I' tind that 1 '!/e foiind i: ira
po;..dbte to work vvit'i .'.luttiry.
Set," til! V.'i I: tr.l to.", "he fount
it impossible to trui't" Slatti
am' fliat I!>•■ ".Ad:: i-'i; tai :■ e i.l I
not lie di ponded lip 11 to tell the
tru'h," the pecritary said.
Ken. Cuy M. Gillette, D„ la.,
asb d Wickard why, if lie had
thought Slattery no iit'.oaipe'.ont.,
no i luirgts bad been filed.
"I v.ould not want to prefer
charge:! against him," Wickard '.in-
swi red, adding that ho bad Inpe i
afti j* Pearl tlarbor that the cur-
tailment of REA work would light
en .'lattery's rcsputisibilii-ics a.. I
that "thing:; would be ironed out."
ships roar on, a huge cloud of smoke is all that remains of a Flying Fortress which re-
>ct. bit from flak and exploded over the suburbs of Berlin during the March <>tlT attack.
11 u:i is nt right of pictures. (Signal Corps photo from NEA felephdto)
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V.'A! iliNCTOM, M'ircb Kl (U.R'
Red Army Aims to 'Strangle'^ Nazis
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LONDON, March 18. (U.R)—The
(Charred and dismembered skeletons
| of 2f> women, apparently murdered
| by a new partisan bluebeflrd, have
l been discovered in an abandoned
j bouse at 21 Rue Lesuer, only a
few doors from a neighborhood
theater showing "The Murderer
Lives in House Number21," the
German DNB news agency report-
ed in a dispatch from Paris today.
The murderer, said DNB chopped
up the bodies of hi* victims and
lie School System for several j burned them in the furnace at No.
, years, and visited frequently in t
1 Mexia.
I 21, an empty house near the Arc
du Trioniphe, which was said to
Move Is Be^un to
have been rented by a mysterious
i Dr. Marcel Petiot.
LONDON, March 18 (U.R)—The
icoal sLrlke believed settled yester-
day by a back-to-work vote of the
strikers, flared up again today as
miner:1 in South Wales held pithead
meetings and decided not to resume
work until their position is elari
fied.
The South Wales mnvemen'
threatened to sweep the entire coal
field in spite of urgent appeals by
the mine!/' leaders beaded by Com-
munist Chairman Arthur Horner.
Approximately half of the 10(1,000
striltlii" miner:: in Nc.r'.h and South
Wales, Durham, England and Ayr-
shire, Scotland, voted yesterday to
return to work.
Tbo reversal of Sunday's decis-
'.inted r.« a j
during tb" |
. Called t;j i
1')!(), a:i aj
i"'!i d to the j
in Jr.lv. 11)12 ,
■ ::('i ;• g '!lCV:ll ;
. 'inb; r, b t V.'tl i
I the ! 2th A ir |
h Af-i-a. Pr.motel'
neral, Doolittle then'
e mnuinc'iiig gi neral, 1
'i S r ' 'i" Air I-'or"•
• •i A'- • 'i V .'.5. fl heoa v.e com i
ir.r.ndtr of tb" ITith Air Fofo on 1
Xn1 ■ 1 l'J.|:l a,-id I II Ji ll. 1, 1911 he '
took his pr:.::en' post.
(t i • i!ir' most decorated air
generals in the Army, Doolittle
wart awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor for leading the
raid on Tokyo.
Doolittle has played an impor-
tant role in the development of
both civil and military aviation dur-
ing the past quarter century. He
made the first experimental flights
in blind flying, won the Bendix
Trophy Race in 1981 and the Thom-
ason Trophy Race in 1!i:!2, and be-
e-time president of the Institute of
Aeronautical Science in 19-10.
P0LAN
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\CZECH0
HUNGARY
RUMANIA
rlocfti
SUCHAKSSI
ODESSA
Nazis forced
to use
secondary rail
routes
Miles
100
• BULGARIA
Constants
I
Black Sea
Line shading on map above shows area lie". Red araiy north
of 500,000 Germans in the Dnieper Bend-Black region; white
arrows point to goal of Reds' drive towrrd Rumanian border—to
complete encirclement of Germans behind their Inst lines of escape,
the- secondary railroads and imperfect highways leading™troito
Odessa-L.vow railroad,
IP,
by-Mexia Scoots
Shell Targets or
Jugoslav Coast
LONDTN. March 11 (U.R)—In -
t'jnsifyintf th Allied i\vo-vvuy
s.hioc'/.c on Gorman < V'nu,n^'a"
tion.' to the Balkans. British li^ht
naval craft have swarmed in close
"We want jus! as much paper as i to the Jugoslav Const to batter wv t
emy shipjiing and installations
A truekload of paper weighing
10,000 pounds was shipped from
Mexia Friday, thanks to the work
of local Girl Scouts and Cub
Scouts.
also to be lodged within j
I'mers Home Corp.
•'arm Credit Administration. '
present duties and fune-
ucludiiig the authority to !
■ a'is to establish and ap- ^
'■operative setups, would j
affected. i
pr .vision of the bill would I was openei
i member eonim'''
' puftlieans under
A brick wull, 12 feet high, hud |.
'been erected uroUnd the house and I
| behind its cover, DNB said, the j
!"bluebeard" built u lime pit in
WASHINGTON. Ma-eh IX (U.R)lwhich he the bodies in an
A campaign ti, overhaul the to rL'movt! u" lrttees ,lifi
ion
campaign
crazy quilt" tax structure in or-
der to safeguard postwar economy
icrime. The bones and skulls of his
victims were piled up around the
in pr"
I
Island off
noftcc Asks
FSA Be Abolished
WislIINGTON, March i:i. 'U.R)
—A (House Agriculture Subcom-
mittee today climaxed the recom-
mendation that the agency be.
abolished and certain of its func-
tions trn 'ferre.l to a rejuvenated
farmers iiome corporation within
the Agrii 'Ittll'e Department,
The Subcommittee's complete
recommendations, included in a
bill submitted by chairman Harold
D. Coohy, D., S. C., also called
for ubclition of two other Agricul-
ture Department agencies, the
Puriil Agricultural Credit Corp.,
preference to returning vet-
. is in the resale of governmeilt-
iiii S lapd i':,r farming ^uj'pos-
'f:■• init'ial loan to be'granted
ii;,, farmer for the purchase of
el:, farm equipment and sup-
•s. or family subsistence, would
limited to $2,500, with the ag-
•': 11 ■ amount 11 u 1st a nil i ng to any
lini't'ower n it to exceed $11,500
any time.
■n Challenge for
ed Fortresses
LONDON, March 13. (U.R)—Fly-
j big Fortresses bombed northern
: France today without challenge
| by the German Air Force and a
herb official source said Lt. Gen.
Carl A, Spnat.7, might, start an-
nouncing his targets in advance
as' n challenge to the Nazis to
cyme up and fight.
The unopposed strike by the
Fortresses at military targets in
France lent weight to the assertion
that Spaatz, commander of U. S.
Strategic Air Forces over Europe,
was considering extreme measures
to smoke out Adolf Hiteir'g fighter
strength. <
While warning that the Luft-
waffe is not yet licked, the high
outre said the Allied air command
< r bad its number nnd were eon-
idering the feasibility of broad*
e i ting identifications of daylight
1 today by a special 25'
or House lie-
sponsorship <>f
Joseph
r(. I pit and neur
the finmic)..
Americans Down
26 jap Airplanes
House, Republican Leader
j W: MnUiri, Jr.. Of Massachusetts.
Martin announced the new Re-
publican move as both Congress
j and the Administration were
j pressing a tax simplification mens- I
i ure that may relieve at least 30,- i
000,000 wage earners of the chore i THWF.ST PACIFIC, Marc'h 13
at pithead meetings resulted
in t ' 1 U' collieries in the Aberdare
egion remcininv: idle, while only
I two ( t' the 10 at Monmouthshire re-
s illied wt rb. The s' rikc started tit
Monm(ii;Uishire.
Thc,fiti il:i :•.: apparently distrust-
•ed tlu' .e'Overni'.rent's pledge to re-
don i'.ler its preyiou!, withdrawal,of
wr.' i.f li'in.c^^tii ms. Tljey had voted
to r: slime work while their cot.
pla't^ti were b; ip'g; jayestigated bv
Fu'l and Pov.er Minister Gwihn
] I.luyd George. They also agreed
to allow him 21 days to considt
• tile situation,
menl
b:
AUSTIN, Tex.. March 13 (U.R)—
The federal-state program for pay-
ing maternity and infant care ex-
penses for wives of enlisted and
non-commissioned seivice men has
^iv::i the State Health Depart-
t:"eniendi)us job.
inn'.iguration of the pro-
■' Dee: e.-ber 1. the depart-
tspr.ived 1.5::I I'ppiicilion'i
tayini' <?,is{b of births and baby
through early March.
At the same time there were n-
loi.it ...(too applications pending.
They arc being ehecked as rapidly
as lle'.-ib1." to a -are adecjuate
1 nicdicul attention in both mater-
I ri it y ,iiid infant cases, Dr. flh>orge
ment,
i-
you can get ready for us," the
paper salvage company making the
collection stressed, promising to
return a. soon as another truck-
load is gathered by the Mexia
Scout
He commented that the paper
was it good cievli'.ion. Home that
w:„ wet from recent rain oubl
list be taken, but will be a. . ,,t- d
as o-11 : ;-i it di i.s o i •
Assisting in the loading were
four high-school students sent
down b.) Carroll Wood to assist
Mrs. W. S. Underwood, Mr-. .1. B.
Pat on, and th .se Scouts who have
been carrying on the local salvage
drive.
Newspapers, magazines, and
| while Jugoslav partisans have criii-
I pled rail lines in Slovenia and
I Crot'ia, it was announced officially
i today.
1 British destroyers in sweeps of
the Adriatic during the night of
March H-'.i shelled Korculu Harbor,
i n 1v rt ubi island, where the Gei-
ms.ns : re b'rlieved to have a largo
.:• so i t ". ' >'ali in. Allied Medi-
•<! , ILaiiiuai'ters communi-
que disclosed.
Allied and Jugoslav sea and am-
phibious units have been reported
increasingly active off the Dalma-
tian Ci ist, striking at German
i east.d supply lines and island gaV-
risnns.
.—j. ' IS
Hy DON CApWELL
AI.LlFD lilEA DQUAltTF.RS IN
i of filing returns. It may be passed j
within the next two months
'U.R)—American F-17 Thunderbolt
pilots, engaging a reinforced Jap-
Northern
The new Republican committee 1 anoac I'orce over
j will be headed by Rep. Daniel A.' Nt'w 0uim'n Saturday, shot down
I Heed, It., N. Y„ member of the 1 2fi l'nen,y l)luncH «nH Probably des-
I tax-writing House Ways and j tr°yu(' a,x rttht,,•:, in aerial com-
i Means committee. Martin said a
: streamlining of the tax system
Million Czechs
Begin Resistance
LONDON, March 13. <U.R)-
jW. Cox, State Health Officer, said, jcaidbcard is wanted, they reminded | Cfofa npna *fmpnf
Tf the present rate of applica- the public. These may be left in L/C|9ClI llllvlll
and
Loan Adminiatrtitioii, with duties into battle.
was one of the country's most
pressing problems. )
He said excessive taxes operated:
as n "brake" on national economy,'
anil that every individual must be,
permitted to retain "some of the
fruits of his labor if America is'
to continue to be the land of op-
portunity."
Under the simplification meas-
ure now being studied by the Ways!
and Means and Senate Finance
committees, taxes for person*
making up to $5,000 a year would
be so integrated that, all could be
collected through withholding. It
may also extend the integrated
withholding system to salaries over
$5,000.
I lints preceding a heavy bombing
attack on Wewak, it was announc-
ed toduy.
The Americans lost two pianos
ns they routed the ihemy force .if
10 fighters to clear the skies for
B-24, B-26 and A-20 bombers which
dropped 120 tons of bombs on the
airdromes-rit Wewuk, big Jnpaneae
base approximately 210 miles west
of the Allied front line.
A communique said the bombs
caused widespread destruction oi
the airfields, supply and dispersal
areas. Gun positions were silenced,
fuel dumps ignited and several
parked plitPes Were destroyed by
the American planes, which also
hit the Madnng Coast, 100 mil's
to the <*ast and Just across Astro-
Tf the present rate of applies
f irms continues, Dr. Cox estimates
Un federal government will ex-
pend $1,250,000 and $1,500,000 an-
nually in the program in Texas.
The project is administer! d by the
I State Health Department, with
A | funds coming from the Children's
million Czechs wore believed re- j Bureau of tbi U. S. Labor Dcpnrt-
sponding today to a call from their ment.
exilo government to begin active j Average medical cost for a ma-
resi tanee against the Germans on ten.ity case is between $.10 and $50.
a scule that may develop into on j While hospital facilities add about
armed uprising. $25 or $S0. Dr. < ox said. Tlu pa-
With the Red Army less than tient has to pay for medicines, he
the public. These may be left in
be tin building belonging to
'parks Jenkins on Fast Commerce.
? 'tl'
American Tanks
Crush Last Jap
120 miles from the old borders of
Czechoslovakia) the exile govern-
ment in a broadcast last night' or-
dered its followers to "go over
from individual exploits to or-
ganized mass actions."
The broadcast marked the first
formal appeal 1iy an exile govern-
ment to it.< native underground to
go over to the offensive and af-
fected about one sixth of oppressed
Europe's potential underground
army of 0,000,000.
Tiie other forces in France, Nor-
way, Holland, Belgium and Den-
explained.
The expect-int mother secure:'
from n doctor end a hospital of
WASHINGTON, March 11. (U.R)
The State Department mode it
clear t might that the United
Stales is not now committed to
abstain from the use of military
force to stamp out espionage by
Axis agents operating undci Aish
protection.
, * In a move t:i set the record
j straight, the department repitb-
u . 1 1 t li -bcd in full the text of a message
11111 where American tanks, manned j
trnnsmittel by President Roo.su-
[Kawisg DU
NFW DELHI, March 11. (U.R) —
Tw0 thousand Japanese troops
have been exterminated in the
Hukawng Valley of Northern Bur- i'
by U. S. and Chinese crews, have
bioken the bad: of resistance, it
her own choosing information on ! was officially announced today,
special forms, that they will take Front dispatches quoted Lt. Gen.
her case. I he forms are sent to .1 seph W. Stilwell, commander of
the State Health Department for the combined Amoricun-Chinese
from the ^fidcral forces, as predicting that the en-
pens. are paid when the Hukawng Valley, eventual
released.
apprjml ;it.fl
•fun Is 1 xpetisi
Stilwell paid high tribute to j
Chinese and American troops who i l's'ni
lube Bay from Alttetl positions. 1
, The U. R. oirtnen also'continued remain under the earlier
Miss Helen Wright is spending t their attacks on New Britain in ' Orders to "organize and wait,
a few days with friends in Hous- ■ the Bismarck archipelago, center-! The Czech government promised
ton. 1 ing n 01-ton bombing attack on arms to all organized groups and
H. C, Roller, who has been ill Rabnul, where they sank three ' called on those unable to hear
and open a way for the completion
srgeney Crop .slid Feed, b mbing targets lu guad the .Nazis in a locui hospital has been removed small craft and damaged many arum to help "our national fighters
I to his home.
others.
according to their abilities."
Mrs. N. L. Phillips and Mrs. II.
M. Hiurett of Waco spent Sunday
wit:, their sister, Mrs. J. W. Bon-
ner.
Mrs. Morion Conway of Te :ar-
: sna is spending a few days here
v.'i h her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. o(' 'he new supply road to China.
I . Smith. 1 ' The blows by Stilwell's forces
Mi , Betsey Jane Killiugh has practically eliminated the hereto,
tuned to rlryan after 11 visit fore fsmcl Japanese 18th Division,
here with her pari-ntiy (Mr. a 1111 although the enemy mny have re-
Mi'3. C. Kill 01^1.,, . |., jtrievijfl so^ie of their artillery.
v(dt to Irish Prime Minister lOnmott
De Valero on Feb. 20, l!M2, in
which this country's attitude to-
ward Eire's neutrality at that
time was fully stated.
The republication was prompted
by De Velera's statement of yes-
gatewny to Western China, soon ! in ''"""try's
will be in Allied hands. I l'"r'lK"st that cxpo1 Ax,s. l,ipl°*
mats wh i have been carrying on
activities jeopardizing
' f-.ught and -lied side by side" to j African Hves-that the United
clear the Japanese from'the valley Stutcs WUs ',Ig,IkC(I not to ,nvn,l°
Ireland.
Mrs. J. M. Tinnin of Overton
is spending a few days in Mexia
with relatives and friends.
Mrs. Rethn Hardin and Mrs. Fred
Cundicff of Dallas spent the week
end here with relatives.
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The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1944, newspaper, March 17, 1944; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292587/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.