MR FORCE CHIEF
HAILS HIS CREW
(Continued From Page One)
I . be«an with a smile He did,
8 almost an hour, declaring:
Thl. main objective of the Al
air war over Europe is to
11 ■-/ ;t easier for ground troops
’•r‘iiie =„ in the final dash, and
t0 .thousands of lives.
' o The loss of 60 bombers at
- ■ furt is incidental to de
'‘tcron of the ball-bearing fac
;;nlv there_ --Regardless of our
: Tn ready to send over re
'■'''rment crews for every one lost
Pla,L ,'*he -ame time keep building
9id 1 V- *»
8 our strength.
® <;e‘eond only to the bombing of
I sr.c objectives is the aim to
t?£a;‘V Tie German air force.
“Trie Allies are getting the up
\..nci the air in all theaters.
Pi: "not saying the war is over,
n-1 ’about over- or anything of the
c special committee of ex
':rtimately familiar with Ger
P£';; industries before the war
na:ie. "p target lists for the bom
rich target is given a priori
tv w;:as wi
"f^Lon' -haired’’ German scien
S'. gr- racking their brains for
capons and ideas—rocket
lC ; aerial bombing of bombers,
‘. / •\Ve got the ball-bearing work
^cbweinfurt. but German brains
--e" still working.”
- r'-e Germans have drawn on
filter strength everywhere
."concentrate on defense against
,-c bombers, stripping Italy and
relatively few in Russia.
;V Japan now must have her
...... o!' sixth team” in the air
. ;he Southwest Pacific.
FOUR NEW PUMPS |
ARE TOBE USED
IlContinued From Page One)
...»to every location, an average
tanks a day.
:-e city’s water line project
pension which would extend the
rtteline from Hood's creek where:
,re present intake is located to
King's bluff moved a step forward
v:;*h the announcement by City
Attorney William Campbell tijat
the application through F. W. A.
had been approved by the region
al office in Richmond. It must
now be acted upon by the central
federal bureau in Washington.
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The Tennessee Ramblers
To Appear On Jamboree
The "Tennessee Ramblers”,
just back from Hollywood where
they made several movie shorts,
will’ be the feature attraction on 1
the second “Jamboree” show of ,
the season next Sunday in three
performances.
With Jack Guilette and Curley
Campbell as the outstanding stars :
of the musical aggregation, the i ]
modern and old-time renderings
will be arranged to suit the taste
of all.
As an extra attraction, Claude j
j Casey, popular vocalist and mas
ter of ceremonies, will return to j
the city and will be seen with .
the Ramblers.
Other first rate musicians will <
be presented and a complete pro- ,
:iam will be announced later.
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OIL DISCOVERED
-i]
TALLAHASSEE. Fla.. Oct. 18.—| ‘
! ~ State Geologist Herman Gun- L
ia*d today that he may inspect ■ <
“u week a well at Sunniland in j
■ -.0 Florida's Everglades from i
•!-ch a Humble oil company geo- (
■ - reported recovering “salt |
':,h a bonafide showing of j
ve?y heavy dark oil.”
tj-o.er said he hud received no i
.M5;ied report on the well, but 1
= ■ he would probably visit the 1
■•'•■■e Aden E. R. Murchison, district <
oeciogist for the oil company in
Jlobile, returns to Florida. i
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I?ack To The Jnnsrles And Mountains
Two and a half years after the Japs had chased Americans, British and Chinese out of Burma, thus
cutting off China's only supply road, the Allies are ready to start retaking this jungled, mountainous
area. Forces under Lord Louis Mountbatten are primed for action as the region's monsoon season
draws to a close. Early this year, British troops under General Wavell made an unsuccessful stab
toward Akyab, on the Bay of Bengal coast, and later a British guerilla band invaded northern Burma.
Not content to await recapture of Rangoon and the Burma road, LT. S. Army engineers and Indian and
Chinese laborers have been building new supply roads from the Sadiya-Ledo area in northern India
along undisclosed roads to China.
Reinforcements Pouring
Into Battle For Italy
(Continued From Page One)
the non-intervention agreement.
Off the beaten track and visited
by few foreigners, it was a con
venient embarkation point for his
soldiers. Gaeta is the best port
between Naples and Civitavecchia,
40 miles north of Rome, and would
be of value to the Allies in landing
supplies for the battle of Rome.
As a result of continued Allied
air attacks on German airfields,
I the enemy now is dispersing his
; feeble remaining strength on in
numerable small airstrips. Nazi
! fighter squadrons based at Capua
were found to oe using several
i air fields in the vicinity of the
: town after Allied bombers had de
, stroyed the main air field and
! wrecked or damaged 50 planes on
| it.
Great progress has been made
i in getting the port of Naples into
shape. This is by far the most
important of all points of entry in
Allied hands, since it not only is
; the biggest port and best harbor
but is conveniently near the main
battle along the Volturno.
Italian deep sea divers and sal
vage crews have been extremely
helpful in this work, and their ef
ficiency has been praised by our
engineers.
When the Fifth Army was al
most driven into the sea by a furi
ous German counterattack a few !
days after the landing at, Salerno,
Allied engineers dropped their nor
mal work to join in the fight which
saved the beachhead, it was dis
closed today.
British engineers who took over
the operation of one section of
railway ran a train through a sta
tion held by German troops to lib
erate a group of 300 prisoners of
war at a point fa'rther up the line.
Some air fields have been con
structed within one day after the
area was captured from the ene
my. One of the engineers’ biggest
projects is the restoration of acque
ducts serving Naples, Taranto,
Brindisi, Bari and other cities,
some of which were in desperate
need of water after the Germans
destroyed sections of their supply i
systems.
American troops captured Ner
rone and Ruviano on dominating
heights north of the Volturno after
fierce and fluid fighting in which
units frequently became isolated.
Cancelio. formerly an important
Axis air base eight miles from the
mouth of the Volturno, fell to a
British force in an advance from
the sea. Both the British and
Americans had to fight off vicious
Nazi counterattacks in their ad- .
vance.
On the Eighth Army front fight
ing was reported raging through
the streets of Montecilfone, ten
miles southwest of Termoli on the
Adriatic. Field reports said ene
my resistance was increasing all
along that front.
Ameripsn pnpinpprc i
have won tributes from Allied
commanders for speed and effi
ciency in reopening communica
tions routes and constructing fa
cilities to handle the constantly
mounting Allied strength on the
peninsula.
Often working under fire and
sometimes going into battle as in
fantrymen, the engineers have re
moved mines, repaired roads and
railways, opened up tunnels, fill
ed bomb craters, erected wharvse
and constructed air fields.
Allied hehavy bombers from the
Middle EJast attacked Maritza air
field on Rhodes and Kos harbor
in the Dodecanese and Syros har
bor in the Aegean yesterday. The
bombers and fighters of the Noi fe
west African Air Force continued
to rake fee enemy’s communica
tions behind the fighting line in
Italy. Three Allied planes were
missing from all operations.
Gen Clark’s American troops
repelled three strong Nazi counter
attacks before they captured Ner
rone, a strategic mountain strong
hold 22 miles from the mouth of
the Volturno. Very heavy fighting
appeared to face the British vet
erans driving northward from the
Volferno s mouth. The N Js ere
entrenched on the 2,500-foot Mas
sico ridge above the river valley
and already had m a d «> several
strong counterattacks from then ,
lofty position.
Tlie government ^values a *al :
1 Diane pilot of $100,000.
REDS SMASHING
(Continued From Page One)
que recorded by the Soviet mon- j
itor, also announced that Russian
troops who had crossed the Dniep
er in a new drive southwest of
Gomel now had turned northward
and were striking toward Rechit
sa, “27 miles west of Gomel, in
an effort to snap the enemy’s rail
lifeline to Poland.
Ten villages directly south of
the White Russia citadel of Gomel
were captured by Russian units
attacking on the west bank of the
Sozh river, above where the new
crossing of the Dnieper was made,
said the communique. |
North of Kiev' the Russians "con-|
siderably improved their positions” }
beyond the Dnieper's west bank,
it said, in the encircling drive on!
the Ukraine capital.
At Melitopol, gateway to the:
Crimea, one of the grimmest fights \
of the war flamed through its:
sixth hday inside the shattered city.
Moscow said the Red army as
sault units, fighting with bayonet
and grenade in a blinding sand
storm that clogged their guns, had
“captured large quantities of war
materials.”
Stand-In Stars
Sitting pretty these days Is
Cheryl Walker, whose work in
“Stage Door Canteen” brought a
major studio contract, and made
her one of the few Hollywood
stand-ins to graduate from the j
-anks to stardom. - |
The Balanced Blend"
, The "balance" of Carstairs
, white Seal is made possible by
• careful selection and skillful
, hlendingfromoneoftheworld's
I • lor9es* reserves of choice
. blending stocks.
, $2.90 QUART
; | $1.50 pint
iCABsrams c
White Seal e
!! t
’ ‘ •.
fi.'ain Nemr^HSnK?Y’ 86 8 Proof. 60% H
0,«iUing Co,SPC Carstairs Bros" V
nc,> Baltimore, Md. ^
ROMMEL FACING
GUERRILLA WAR
(Continued From Page One)
tisan forces for a bridge over the
Sava river near Sevnica.
Meanwhile, information reaching
here from Greece disclosed that
a repetition of the 1941 famine in
which thousands died threatened
the population there unless free
dom comes quickly or larger food
supplies are sent.
The Greeks, swept by enthusi
asm over Allied victories in the
Mediterranean and believing that
liberation was near, were said to
have exhausted their reserves and
thrown their hoarded foodstuffs on
the markets.
They were described as facing
the winter with insufficient food,
clothing and fuel amid a rising
disease rate resulting from under
nourishment.
A shelterless, floating population
of 200,000 was said to have result
ed when the Germans burned hun
dreds of villages in an attempt to
smash guerrilla activities, and 200,
000 were evicted from Thrace and
Macedonia by the Bulgars also
were reported roaming the coun
try..
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Workers* Council Meets
To Plan New Nominations
The nominating committee of
the Workers Council met Monday
in the home demonstration office
to plan the nomination and other
activities of the coming year. This
council, which is composed of
heads of all civic groups, has de
cided to have a program from
each group during the coming
year.
Those present Monday were
Miss Virginia Ward, 'family life
community program director;
Mrs. Cordelia Foster, home serv
ice director of Tidewater Power
Co.; Miss Jennie Stout, assistant
health consultant; Miss Ann Ma
son. home demonstration agent;
and H. B. Rivenbark, production
credit assocition.
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HOUSEWIVES URGED
TO AID HOME FRONT
(Continued From Page One)
Four will begin Monday, October
25. At that time housewives will
be given an opportunity to sign
the following pledge: "I pay no
more than top legal prices. I ac
cept no rationed goods without
giving up ration stamps. 1 trade
no stamps and destroy those 1
do not use.” Each wife signing
will be given a window symbol
and a “market basket price book”
to help her keep up to date on
ceiling prices. No house display
ing the window symbol will be
called upon by the door-to-door
pladge workers later.
ENEMYSPEARHEAD
BROKEN IN BURMA
(Continued From Page One)
pointed Japanese cavalry sortie
f’-om Siaofeng. southeast of the
former capital at Nanking. In
southern Anhwei on the same front
Chinese forces reported breaking
into Suitungoheng. southeast of
Suancheng, and killing several
hundred Japanese.
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GIRLS PICK EARLY
FOR POST-WAR FETE
DAVENPORT. Ia. (£*—1Twenty
farmerette members of the Wal
ther league of Trinity Lutheran
church are picking beans and
banking the cash proceeds against
the day when 40 or more boys,
members of the league, come
home from the war.
Elmer Doering gave the girls
an acre of beans when he couldn't
get help to harvest them. The
girls pick the beans, take orders
and make deliveries, earmarking
the money for the post-war
homecoming celebration.
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The School of Military Govern
ment to train Army officers for
civil administration of occupied
enemy territory was established
in May, 1942, at Charlottesville,
Va._
$100 Monthly for
Sickness and Accidents
Plus Hospital Benefits—Pays Cp To
Jl.OOO if Killed—Costs 3c a Day
POLICY SENT FREE FOR
INSPECTION
A NEW sickness—accident—hos
pital policy that pays up to $100 a
month for disability from sickness
ar accident—and hospital benefits
in addi*!on—pays your beneficiary
jp to $1,000 if you are killed—costs
as little as 3c a day!
And most important—It covers
&LL accidents from the very first
day . . . ALL sickness from V1*
iery first day, except those specifi
cally excluded in the policy. No
waiting period of 7 or 14 days, as
so many policies require.
It has other benefits—you will
see them all for yourself when you
send for a regular policy on FREE
nspection without obligation.
Postal now is offering this pro
section on a monthly payment plan
if only $1.00 a month—or on quar
terly, semi-annual or annual pay
ments. BUT SEND NO MONEY.
Write for policy on free inspection.
No agents will call—no medical
■xamination. Write today—send full
lame, address, age, occupation,
ind name of beneficiary to Postal
Liife tc Casualty Insurance Com
pany, 6430, Postal Life Building,
Kansas City, Mo. i
LAUNCHING WILL
FEATURE MEETING
(Continued From Page One)
be Storer P. Ware, secretary of
the N. C. Shipbuilding Company;
J. E. L. Wade, general chairman
of all preparations; L. A. Raney,
potentate; F. A. Mathes, who serv
ed as chairman of the war bond
committee; the Rev. C. K. Proc
tor, head of the Orphanage at Ox
ford.
The dinner will be held at 5
p. m. at the shipyard cafeteria,
followed by at dance at the Ar
mory at 9 p. m.
The outstanding activity of this
group of men was their war bond
sales, headed by Fred Mathes. In
the spring campaign, with a goal
of two million, they reached over
four million, and in the recently
completed drive they again set
a goal of two million and reached
three and one-half million.
SI,000 DISAPPEARS
CHARLOTTE, Oct. 18—OB—Chris
Fappas, operator of a downtown
eating place, reported today to
police that SI.000 had mysterious
ly disappeared from a safe in
the establishment.
RATIONING HEAD
ASKS FOR CLERK
j (Continued From Page Onel
j board acquiesed the abatement
! amounting to approximately $24.
After reviewing a recommenda
tion from the War Department, the
board granted the V. P. Loftis
construction company a permit to
construct a pier and eight 4 pile
dolphins in the Cape Fear river.
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Dehydration of fruits for Army
consumption will reduce 100 pound*
of apples to 13.
eyonr
£0bt
O SWITCHING THEM
REGULARLY
©CHECKING WHEEL
ALIGNMENT
©DRIVING UNDER
35 MPH
PROPER DRIVING HABITS
WILL PROLONG THE LIFE ]
OF YOUR CAR
!
Single I
Double Twin Air-Stream ? I
MOPAR Underseat HEATERS |
These efficient car heaters fit snugly under
the car seat (see picture) . . . out of sight 11
and requiring no usable space. Heat flow ||
is controlled from dash and is directed to M
front and rear for uniform distribution. M
I MOPAR
I OIL
1 FILTER
|| Clean o i 1 prevents
p wear. Your oil filter
|| should be changed at
P least every 8,000 miles.
Good Ignition
j| Saves Gas
With colder wearner on H
the way, ask your serv- ■
ice man to clean and H
adjust ignition points, ■
and spark plugs. Make ■
sure your engine will I
start. It’s a good thing 1
to check up regularly on I
many things under the I
hood. I
Suggestion to
Repair Shops
If you need parts of any
kind for Plymouth, Dodge,
DeSoto or Chrysler cars,
see a dealer who handles
that make. For Dodge
truck parts, see a Dodge
Dealer.
cec Your De3'®* 1
ieCThese Timely
SiBS HELPS
H"'h«k *ir«p“,ed -v'-^ 1
1. Have £iving to avoid
weath j convemence, \
stalling' inc l
lays- and chas- l
2 Lubricate engi long car 1
2‘ ^ frequently £toPweari and l
breakdowns. g of car 1
3. Keep all vit gine, brakes, 1
fsS «».«aod e
steenn&’ t l
I ing equip Squeaks, l
A Tighten entire. noises signal l
4 ' taftles, strange n° e(Js atten.
I that something l
| 5. Remove ^ paint; 1
I protection. your
I 6. Keep m to station to
I sssvsssssp
1 g™f££» md ||^—
Brake Lining
and Brake Fluid
Long-life MOPAR Brake Lin
ings come in sets tailored for
certain definite car models. /
MOPAR Brake Fluid is fi
designed for all hydraulic IM
brakes. Will perform satis
factorily under all conditiens w
of climate, temperatur. and
service.
Watch out for fj
“STILLWEAR” |
That’s another name for de- m
terioration which affects cars |§
that are put away or used S;
anly for short trips. Such 3
cars need regular inspec- a1
tion and service, too. Thor- jji
augh lubrication and periodic 9;
:heck-ups are the best pro- &
Lection against “Stillwear.” |3
Highlight of the l|
Week... 1;
Major Bowes* Ami*
teur Program every
Thursday. 9 P.M., *
Eastern War Time, g|
over CBS network. S
Take advantage of
his friendly sugg.ee> jB
tions on car care. ^
ESSENTIAL WAR WORK '!
FOR MEN AND WOMEN |
Ilf you are interested in SI
full or part time employ- 9
ment at essential work, B
stop in and talk it over 3
with your nearby Plym- ft
outh, Dodge, De Soto or H
Chrysler dealer. «
Chrysler Corporation — Parts Division
Factory Engineered and Inspected Parts for
I PLYMOUTH • DODGE
1 DESOTO • CHRYSLER
WAR BONDS ARE YOUR PERSONAL INVESTMENT IN VICTORY