unaar BAITED STATES ^ M WAR \I\ BONDS W 1 AND V STAMPS 1|||f VOL LVL?NO. 16 BATTLE^OFTT ALY IS IMPEDED BY FLOOD WATERS Major Baltic is Delayed By Ris ing Streams: Allied Air For ces Range Mediterranean Skies to Soften the Ecnemy for the .Blows Dry Weather Brings. Allied headquarters, Algiers. Oct 12. ? The impending hattle of the Voltumo river was further delayed today by flood waters that swept over the stream's steep banks at some points and hopelessly mired heavy equipment of Gen. Mark W. Clark's fifth army, but allied air forces ranged the Mediterranean skies unimpeded to soften the enemy for the blows that are sure to come with dry weather. An allied communique said only patrol activities and artillery -duets had enlivened the rain-bogged front across Italy m the past 24 houts. The Nazis grasped the respite- to slrenghten their defenses in the depth along the northern bank of the Volturno. which Clark's forces must penetrate in their drive toward Rome. Despite the adverse weather the British eighth army was reported to have gained ground at some points on the Adriatic end of the line. German resistance in this area %vas described as increasingly stiff. In the day's most telling aerial assault. American Mitchell bombers escorted by Lightning fighters rained bombs on a Nazi airfield on Corfu strategic Greek Island dominating the entrance to the Adriatic. In addition to raking the Garitz.a airfield the Mitchells scored two direct hits on a merchant ship in Corfu harbor. In Italy allied fighters smashed a! Nazi gun positions the length oi the front, and destroyed motor transports and trains that are straining to keep the enemy's fighting forces supplied with food and ammunition CONCERT TO BE HELD IN THE COLLEGE AUDITORIUM THURSDAY EVENING. B. P. U A fine musical treat is being ottered to the city and community Oi Boone, this Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the Appalachian State Teachers College auditorium, whet Mr. Klauc Liepmann and Mr. Earnest Geschfski will be presented in a formal concert of violin and ptano After the concert those wishing tc have the opportunity of meeting the visiting musicians are asked to come to the reception parlors of Lovill Hall The Music Department is sponsoring a three day visit to the campus of these very outstanding musicians The artists will meet students and visit classes and play several informal concerts for the benefit ol the students during their stay. Mr. Klaus Liepmann. the violinist, is a member of the Yale School ol Music. He began his musical education at the age of eight. Private instruction in violin, viola and pianc was followed by study at the Hamhnrtf Cnnservatorv of Music Tn ,Q27 Mr. Liepmann received a fellowship at the Academy of Music at Cologne where he remained for four yean studying violin, piano, theory, composition, history and orchestra. Mr. Liepmann gave violin recitals and appeared with orchestras in the leading cities in Europe. Coming tc the United States in 1935, he directed the chamber music series of the Ethical Culture Society of New York and later became a member of the Fialdston School Faculty. He habeen heard in concerts in eastcrr cities, including New York. Boston Philadelphia. Since 1936 Mr. Liepmann has beer director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra and a member of thr faculty of the Yale School of Music He has directed several opera pro ductions by the Yale music Association in cooperation with Yale Gle< Club and Yale Drama School. A present he is instructor in Violii playing and esemble groups, assist ant director of the University orches tra. Mr. Edwin Gerschefski, who wil play accompaniments for Mr. Liep marm at the concert, is one of th< several accomplished performers o the faculty of the Converse Collegi of Music. He has been heard in piani recitals in New York and Connecti cut He has also broadcast frequent ly over the major networks and ha performed with a number of sym phony orchestras. Mr. Gerschefski is a composer o widely reconized ability. His work have been played by the Columbii Symphony Orchestra under Howari Barlow. While a student at Yal University he was awarded tin Frances Kellog prize in composition Graduating from Yale in 1931. Mi Gerschefski went to England u> stud; at the Tobias MaUhay Pianofort School, where he distinguished him self. Later Mr Gerscheski continue i VAT AI An Indep BOONE. WA Soldiers Help R? , >?R J.Jk-1 Lieu. Gen. Mark W. Clark exam given to him. by Monsignor Francesc army contributed fund for the repaii Tbe monastery had been used by ? post and was damaged by artillery ALLIED PLANES ji SCORE ON JAPS i i Thunderbolts Destroy Eight Enemy ; Craft in 8 to 1 Odds Over New Guinea Area. The latest addition to General I MacArluiiur's aerial army, the Thun-j, aerbolt fighter, took the Spotlight , , over the week-end when four of them ' tackled 32 Jap fighters over Wewak. , -New Guinea, downing eight and possibly ten. | The- stirring action of eight to one cdas was the feature of today 's com'i munique which also reported new | allied air blows in the Solomons, a , . stir of Jap air activity, and the kill! ing of more than 400 Japs by the Australians in mopping up operations ( to the northwest of captured Finchhafen, New Guinea. In belated reports on the fighting above Finschafen, headquarters said the Japs were slain in a series of counterattacks. Meanwhile t Australians in the Ramu valley who | are moving north within approxima-; , Sely 40 miles of the enemy coastal base of Mandang are expanding their holdings by driving Japs from out' post positions in high ground. i County FSA Committee . Holds Meeting at College The Farm Security Administra; tion committee from Alleghany. , Ashe. Watauga. Avery. Yancey and I Mitchell counties met with the eoun ty and district, personnel on Monday I and Tuesday at Appalachian College i in Boone. The following officials were presE ent from the district and personnel office: Mr. W. Bryan Oliver, district FSA Supervisor: Mrs. Paul Langhi l-en, assistant district FSA supervis-j, . ne- TVJTJor. TTV. .1t ^ A - i Ui, muo maigaicri J' Ulltri , /ViSOClft* I , tionl FSA District Supervisor; Mr. W i J Riggle from the Regional Office, , Mr. George Smith, District FFA Spe; cialist and Worth J.' Woodall, thei district engineer. Each county, it is explained, is bei ing set up with only one FSA comi rnittee, who will begin performing i (he following duties immediately: I Analyze existing health services : and determine need for additional : services for the FSA borrowers. Ap; prove new applicants for group ser? vices, advise with supervisor as to l equitable lease arrangements, hold, irfg landlord-tenant meetings. Hold meetings with debtors and creditors; t approve applicants for new loans, ' review cases where borrowers have been on FSA program three full . crop years; examine applications, ap praise farms, and certify as to eli gibility of applicants for farm owni ership loans. Under the new FSA t set-up, the county committeemen l will assume many new duties to wards sponsoring the Farm Security - program in this county. The following men will serve as I committeemen for this county: Al fred R. Thomas, chairman; Grady i Bradley and Heggie E. Greene. Mr. f Lee Carender is as alternate mem 21 tytf.r. > I Teachers Meeting to s Be Held On Saturday There will be a meeting for all tauga county teachers in the audi* toriurn of the Boone High School on s Saturday afternoon at 2:30 October ? 16th. Miss Pearl Weaver of the state * health department will be the chief e speaker, according to the announceB ment made by Prof. John Howell, the ' president of the Watauga Co. Unit of * the North Carolina Education As' sociation. e - his piano studies with the famous 1 Arthur Schnabel at Lake; Cone. JGA ] endent Weekly Newspaper TAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROl pair Monastery P ines an ancient carved carneilian C;P o Guazzo after soldiers of the fifth 'jU of a inonestary in Capaccio, Italy German troops as an observation " .. ivu *?"? . _ ne! REDS SURGE AHEAD ;T? ON DNIEPER FRONT'] Scvicts Widen Their Penetration I Areas on West Bank of the Dnieper in Tuesday's Fighting. cos E Soviet forces widened their areas !\e f penetration on the west bank of 1 j. the Dnieper in close quarter fight-. ? ing Tuesday after battering down ?' Clcrman counter - attacks, and the ,U1 Berlin radio said that the Red ar- ro.' my had opened a new drive north of |J'" Kiev. The Russian bulletin broadcast w from Moscow, disclosed that Red army troops had edged closer to the White Russion citadel of Vitebsk, in the north in the face of stem enemy oposition. In all these active areas the Rue- 1 sians destroyed S3 Nazi planes by Wt uir combat or anti-aircraft, fire, de- ?d slroyed or disabled 42 German tanks ere captured two artillery units and sil- al cnced eight others, it was said.' tas Fierce local fighting was report- < ed in the battles of the Dneiper, tas through which the Red Army is clos- for ing in relentlessly on the capital of * the Ukraine, Kiev. lea Without definitely locating the 'n8 area, the communique said that units 1 ut one formation killed 700 of the Shi enemv. In another aroa th?? Rnccinnc HOI were said to have won a height, dora- P'f mating the surrounding rountry at- nl? ter a day-long fight. About 1500 Ger- an< maris were killed in this latter struggle, whieh developed into numerous i hand-to-hand engagements, the com- ted nuinique said. ? Sheriff Captures Still 1 In Blue Ridge Township Sheriff C. M. Watson reports the ^ capture of a whisky distillery in Blue p Ridge Township, eight miles east of e; Aho. The plant which was of a 30 b gallon capacity, had been in operation recently, the Sheriff said. Sheriff Watson was assisted in the j' capture of the illicit plant by Wiley ^ B. Day. Chief Deputy Sheriff. j, ? l Local Leaders Attend J Meeting of Aviation ? Commission Last Week 6 I,Oral 1 PflHprc r> mnofiner of the State Aviation Commission e which was held in Winston-Salem on c last Wednesday, at which time ways and means were studied to recom- ^ mend to the next general assembly the best methods of providing air- J? ports or landing strips for the var- 3 ious towns of the state, and provid- [, ing the necessary funds to construct t, and maintain the service. fa It was pointed out that the great- f est need is to develop the smaller ^ communities that do not now have j: landing facilities ? thai the larger c places would go on from their present development, provided the smal- 1 ler localities were made available t as feeders. c Landing strips along the highways i were advanced as perhaps the most ? likely development especially in the mountains, were level areas sufficient to provide landing space for airplanes is hard to find without a j, large amount of work. The meeting was attended by airport officials, railroad executives, the manager of the Fairchild Aircraft c Co., of Burlington and representa- f lives of the arm^ training service a Mayor Gordon H. Winkler and 1 Wade E. Brown, of the Boone Cham- s ber of Commerce attended the meet- * ing. Especial interest was shown in J this immediate locality looking to the tourist travel, which in the future is expected to be largely by the airways. ring as officials of the campaign: ,'reasurer, Alfred Adams, iecretary, Mrs. C. A. Haywortli. 'ubiicity. Rob Rivers, ludget. W. D. Farthing, ommcrcc and Industry. H. W. Wil: and Guy Hunt. '.xeculive Committee: W. H. Gragg v. E F. Troutman, Clyde Greene, s. J. E. Holshouser. Chairman, Blowing Rock. Rev W. Keys. -ther announcements will be made m time to time regarding the camgn as the plans materialize. rFA Announces Referendum On Burley Weed Quota Washington. October 7th. ? The it Food Administration announctoday it would hold a grower rcf mdum October 23 on the propo to continue AAA marketing quoeia burley tobacco. 3ne proposal would continue quo a year; another would keep then: three years, juntas must be approved by ai st two-thirds of the growers volReflecting increased demand foi oking tobacco, the WFA also an meed that the 1944 state and farrr mting allotments and nationa trketing quotas for both burlej i flue-cured tobacco would be 2( per cent larger than this year. Growers of flue-cured tobacco vo I in July to continue quotas. RATIONING GUIDE Sugar Stamp no. 14 valid for five ounds through October. Stamps 5 and 16 good for five pounds ach for canning sugar to Octoer 31. Food Stamps U V and W will be val1 to October 20. All commercialcanned, bottled, and frozen -uits and vegetables, including aices and soups, and dried beans intils and peas require coupons ram book no. 2. Dried fruits, 'ith the exception of prunes and aisins. and dried and dehydratd soups temporarily removed ram rationing. Meats. Fats. Oil. Cheese. Fish All types of pork, beef, lamb nd mutton, and butter, lard, othr edible fats and oils, cheese and anned fish now rationed under point system" on red coupons in I'ar Ration Book 2. Stamp X will e valid to October 2, Y to Octoer 2 and Z to October 2. Dates rom brown stamps in book no. for the purpose of meats and ats: A to Oct. 2; B to Oct. 2; C o October 30; D. October 3-Octo>er 30: E. October 10-October 30; October 17-October 30; G, Ocober 24-December 4; H, Oct. 31 1-December 4; J. November 7lecember 4; K, November 14-Deember 4. Automobile and truck tires may low be recapped with passengerype camelback without owners ibtaining certificates from-rationng boards. Certificates are nec ssary to recap truck tires with ruck-type camelback. Shoes Stamp 18 in War Ration Book 10. 1 good for one pair of shoes or an indefinite period. Stoves Almost all types of new stoves lesigned for domestic heating and :ooking are rationed. Stoves used or 60 days or longer are classed is old stoves and are not rationed fo purchase certain specified toves not rationed (water heatirs, etc.), a priority rating must >e secured from the War Producion Board. BUY WAR BONDS! DEM< ?Established in the \ UNA, THURSDAY, OCTOBE LANS ARE MADE MR WAR PIIMn uiv iniu A uiw CAMPAIGN HERf ituuga County is Being Call :d Upon to Raise S2.633 Foi War Fund; Mrs. Maddux is Lhairman of Campaign Anil Kives Out Committee Assignments. ?Irs, M. R. Maddux has released liminarv organisation plans foi - United War Fund Campaign in itai.ga County, which is designed raise $2,600 for the benefit ot the lowing named v.-ar relief organiions: J SO. United Seaman's Service, r Prisoners Aid, Belgian War ReI Society. British War Relief SoLy. French Relief Fund. Friends of xembourg, Greek War Relief Asialion. Norwegian Relief, Polish r Relief. Queen Wiihelmiria Fund ssian War Relief, United China lief, Refugee Relief Trustees. Un1 States Committee for the Care European Children. Irs Maddux has named the foi OCRA 'ear 1888. R 14, m:j Sworn I n g Edward R. Stettinius. Jr.. is pic- oi lured as he look ihe post oi un- of dersecretary oi state. A1 left is l>\ Lawrence C. Frank, executive secretary to assistant secretary of ni state. Stettinius replaces Sumner )a Welles. til WAAC RECRUITING *< DRIVE STARTED s Mrs. Hayworth Has Been Appoint- ( ! ed By Governor to Head CJl Local Campaign. Mrs. C. A. Hayworth has been ap- i pointed by Governor Broughton to j be chairman for Watauga County of the campaign for the enlistment of women in the WAACS, which ends 1 on December 7th. Mrs. Hayworth was appointed upon the recommendation ar of Mr. Wade E. Brown, chairman of jz, j the Watauga County Civilian DeI fense organization. s0 nppiicauon oianxs are now av- th aiiable, and anyone interested in ob- jj taming information for joining, is bi 1 asked to call Mrs. Hayworth, at 209J a< or Mr. Wade Brown's office. di Mayor Issues Proclamation u] In connection with the campaign et - for WAAC recruits Mayor Gordon sc . H. Winkler, has issued the fallow- i, . ing proclamation: n"U is with pleasure that I, Mayor n - Gordon H. Winkler, heartily indorse c i this city's participation in the nation wide all-states campaign for the a] l Women's Army Corps' recruiting ti . drive. ti "You doubtless know there as a C( r tremendous need for WAAC'S. Gen- u - oral Marshall stated recently: 'Comi manders to whom WAC's have been I assigned have spoken in the highest ti r terms of their efficiency and value? p ) in 155 kinds of army jobs.' This state- f; luent is indicative of the excellent . job the Army Corps is doing. y "However the present, objective is i2 . to release more thousands of soldiers g - for combat training. In order p to accomplish this each state >3 will particpate in the campaign, p Likewise each city and county. Our {, office of Civilian Defense has been j, designated by Governor Broughton r, as the recruiting agency in North |j Carolina n "Our city's participation in this a i nation-wide drive is needed to as- b sure the success of the program. Our county has been selected to enlist c these recruits by October 15. I feel S; sure that the people of Boone will h want Watauga County and ?Nortb it Carolina to lead all others in the na- c, tion-wide enlistment drive." EASTERN STAR MEETING |s Snow Chapter No. 220, Order of s. Eastern Star, will have its regular u meeting Monday night. October 18. tl All members are urged to be pres- w ent. tl B In Army Nurses Corps " A ti 0o a tl n ti tl d w a t] n e c ii n c 0 U v t r B Lieut. Dare Maltha, daughter of Mrs. F. M. Maltba of Boone, who r 1 entered the Army Nurses Corps on ^ May 1. 1941, and who is stationed | at Fort Bragg. She has been in the < ~ service for 2 years and 5 months. She has been transfrred to Thayer General Hospital. Nashville. Tens. ' ' ' $1.50 a year -DC a copy iURLEY MARKET" TO START SALES HERE%ECEMBER 7 hree >Til!ife' Dollar Burlcy Crop is Fossfcast hv the State Departments of Agriculture; Burley KpfraHLndum Plans are Being Made.TO A $3 000,00(1 ihjg;';.' tobacco crop r Western North Carolina is foresi i>y the state department of ag ,-ulturc. The 1943 forecast, made public on tosday, placed the hurley tobacco reage in this region at 7.700 or 1.0 acres greater than last year. A eld of 1.000 pounds per acre or ab it 150 pounds under the 1942 averse, is indicated by data leathered the department. The two western Carolina Burley arkets?at Asheville and Booro, N. C.; J. W. Hampton, Vice'hipps, Piney Creek, N. C.; Max C. Vilson, Lenoir, N. C.; T. R. Frankin, Glade Valley, N. C., and W. P. lolvard, Curmpler, N. C. BUY WAR BONDS