The Transylvania Times
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Brevard, N. C.
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Estab. 1896 Estab. 1931
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Entered as second class matter, October 29,
1931, at the Post Office in Brevard, N. C.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Ready To Strike!
News this week from London and
Africa indicate definitely that the pro
posed mighty allied invasion of Europe
is now only a matter of days.
At least a million men, amply support
ed by planes, warships and transports, are
said to be poised along a 3,000-mile stretch
of -the Mediterranean from Morocco to
Syria, ready to strike at any moment.
During their lengthy conferences,
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill, together with their top military
authorities, are believed to have mapped
out complete plans for the forthcoming
invasion.
It is significant that upon his return
to England, Mr. Churchill visited North
Africa and conferred with leaders there
and upon returning to London on Satur
day, the able British leader held secret
war sessions.
Where the allies will strike remains a
dark secret, but it is evident that the at
tack will be along the southern rather
than the northern parts of Europe, perhaps
through the Balkans or through Italy.
Nobody knows, but the biggest news
of World War Two is apt to break at
any moment.
I
Unity At Last
Stormy action has been underway in
Argentina for the past week, with the
result that this strong South American
nation has finally broken off diplomatic
relations with the axis nations and has
joined the allied cause. v
This is something over which we can
rejoice. All of the other nations of South
America swung wholeheartedly to the al
lied cause over a year ago, but not Argen
tina. It has continued to provide a sanctu
ary to axis agents.
But the military authorities, being un
able to get any lend-lease from the United
States because of the sympathy with the
axis nations, realized that it was dropping
behind as a military power on the conti
nent and overthrew President Ramon Cas
tillo’s government.
General Arturo Rawson took control,
but because of his plans to appoint two
Fascist admirers on his cabinet, there was
rebellion and he was forced to resign as
president.
It is obvious now that the last axis
stronghold in South America has vanished
and that today there is real solidarity
between all of the Americas.
Let N. Y. A. Continue!
According to the report of the Byrd
Committee, a lot of federal funds are being
spent unwisely. This should be discontinu
ed not only for the duration of the war
but permanently. However, there is one
phase of federal activities that in our opin
ion should be carried on and that is the
War Production training program of the
National Youth Administration. Eventual
ly this work may be taken over by the
public schools, but for the present most
public schools do not have necessary space
or equipment. Then too, the work of the
NYA is so well underway and under the
direction of trained personnel that valu
able time and effort would be lost if a
transition should be made at the present.
A good example of the work being
done is that of the Asheville NYA War
Production training program, under the
direction of Mr. Leo H. Manley, covering
17 Western North Carolina counties in
cluding Transylvania. For the period be
ginning July 1, 1942 through May 15,
1943, 1112 boys and girls in this area were
trained and placed in war industries. These
youths are now contributing toward win
ning the war in such industries as aircraft
factories, machine shops, steel mills, ship
building, as well as the armed services.
The work is carried on 24 hours a day
in 8-hour shifts and includes training in
machine shop, aircraft woodworking, me
chanical, electrical, radio, sheet metal and
welding shop wrork. These trainees are
housed in dormitories provided for the
purpose and are under strict supervision
and care including the service of a doctor
and nurse.
After the courses are finished at Ashe
ville the trainees are transferred to Induc
tion-Into-Industry Centers including such
well known places as Norfolk Navy Yards,
Langley Field, Newport News Dry Dock.
Thus there is a follow-through program
that no other organization is now prepared
to duplicate.
This appears to be an outstanding ex
ample of money well spent to help win
the war. So let’s let the NYA continue!
A Modernized Plan
After four months of bitter congres
sional battling, Congress finally agreed
upon a compromise pay-as-you-go tax bill
which abates from 75 to 100 percent of
a year’s payments.
Thus the federal government’s system
of collecting income taxes that has been
in use since 19 13 has been radically
changed and modernized.
Starting July 1 individual income taxes
will be collected by employers every pay
day and the employers will send Uncle
Sam a check every quarter.
The bill forgives the past indebtedness
of over seventeen million taxpayers 100
percent and forgives about seventy-five
percent for the remaining twenty-seven
million income taxpayers.
After having waged a bitter fight to
defeat the passage of the Ruml plan that
called for total forgiveness, Congressman
R. L. Doughton, chairman of the powerful
ways and means committee, led the fight
for a compromise and received highest
praise from both Republicans and Demo
crats in both branches.
The passage of this measure is a break
for the taxpayers and for the government,
too.
Pass The Strike Bill
Heeding an order from the commander
in-chief and faced with the possible pas
sage of a rigid anti-strike law, the nation’s
530,000 coal miners, who had been fol
lowing John L. Lewis instead of the stars
and stripes, returned to work Monday.
Indications are that the miners will
continue on the job while negotiations are
being carried on by the War Labor Board,
despite the fact that Lewis sounded a
threat of a work stoppage on June 20 un
less a contract is agreed upon by that
time.
Certainly Lewis has not surrendered in
the battle with the government and al
though it is apparent that Mr. Roosevelt
does not want Congress to pass the Con
nally-Smith anti-strike bill, the need for
such legislation is imperative. It is rumored
that the President was favoring the meas
ure, but we are informed by high-ranking
members of Congress that this is a most
delicate question with the administration.
In record time the House passed the
far-reaching anti-strike legislation last Fri
day, but as yet the Senate has not acted
on the bill that was drastically amended
from the one which the senators had pre
viously okeyed.
This paper likes the five-point pro
visions of the House bill, which include:
giving the war labor board statutory pow
ers, providing a fine of $5,000 and or one
year’s imprisonment for persons who “aid”
in interruption of work at war plants seized
by the government, requiring 30 days no
tice and a secret ballot before strikes can
be called in war plants, requiring labor
unions to register with the national labor
relations board and file financial data
and prohibiting labor organizations from
contributing to political campaigns.
The final passage of this bill, in our
opinion, will be equal to the winning of
a major victory against the Japs or Ger
mans.
Certainly there must be no compromise
on the issue of whether John L. Lewis or
the constitutional authorities govern our
republic. And if Congress accepts its re
sponsibility, it will pass the bill at once
and insure the country against future dis
ruption such as John Lewis has caused
during the past six weeks.
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By B«jl MaLLON
Washington, June 12—The spe
cific type of American bombing
attacks leveled lately upon South
ern Italy is the usual forerunner
to invasion in commonly accepted
military tactics.
On the other hand, the nature
of the long range attacks by the
RAF over the Northwest European
shore-line is not generally a pre
lude to early land attack.
Our Flying Fortresses have ham
mered Italy continually — almost
in broad daylight — shooting at
the railroad junctions leading
southward from Rome into Sicily
(Foggia, etc. and at Naples, the
leading seaport from which Nazi
supplies are being shipped to Sici
ly. \\ e have likewise hammered
the immediate airports throughout
the territory including Sardinia
and Pantelleria to keep Mediter
ranean skies clear of Axis planes.
But over the Nazi - controlled
continent, the RAF has continued
to shoot at far different targets
—at industrial centers, dams, pub
lic utilities, rather than at the rail
road junctions and airfields im
mediately behind the shore.
The evidence, therefore, con
tained on the face of our military
operations, suggests only invasion
of the Southern Italian front.
Domination of the air on a great
arc running half-way up into Italy
has been maintained by us since
the Nazi collapse in Tunisia.
Just after our Tunisian victory,
we met practically no opposition
in the air over Italy, Sicily and
Sardinia. After a few days, Hitler
rushed some planes to one or two
places, but these were soon de
stroyed by us. many of them on
the ground. Again after a few
days Hitler put some plane rein
forcements into the area, and
again they were destroyed, so
we have enjoyed almost complete
freedom from air opposition in
our bombing attacks.
The situation there is entirely
different than in Britain when the
Nazis failed to get air control
for invasion. During the German
Blitz over England, the British
lost almost plane for plane with
the Nazis in a terrific struggle.
Axis air losses in Italy have been
very much heavier than ours.
Indeed, the opposition has been
so weak as to warrant the con
clusion that Mussolini's airplane
defenses have been practically
wiped out and he now lies prone
on the ground with nothing more
than anti-aircraft fire to hinder
his ultimate destruction.
Ordinarily a land army can
easily go any place it can get an
air supremacy, even without com
plete dominance. You might sur
mise. therefore, that the time has
arrived when Messrs. Roosevelt
and Churchill might well call upon
the Axis for surrender of Italy to
save needless destruction of lives
and property.
In an ordinary war, this would
surely be expected, but the Musso
lini regime, although having lost
its own Southern skies, still con
trols the police and the army, and
thus delays the date of its death
at a terrific cost to its people.
Also tough, wise, old General
Stillwell in China once said that
while dominance of the air was
a decisive military factor, it still
remains true that the only way
you can conquor a piece of ground
for sure is “to get someone to go
there and stand on it.”
It looks, therefore, as if we will
have to go into Italy and stand on
it. The Jackal, as Churchill calls
Mussolini, will have to be routed
from his liar.
The final American mooping up
operations on Attu still leave Kis
ka in Jap hands behind our lines,
subject to starvation or attack. No
supplies have arrived for the Japs
on Kiska since our Attu operations
started, and none will ever get in,
according to our hopes and aspira
tions.
With Attu as a submarine and
air base, vve will probably dissuade
the Jap generals from even trying
to send reinformements to Kiska.
The Aleutians may, therefore,
be cleaned out without further
heavy operations.
Pouitrymen Go Slow
On Summer Broilers
North Carolina poultrymen
should go slow and stay on the
safe side in producing summer
broilers, says Prof. Roy S. Dear
styne, head of the Poultry Depart
ment at N. C. State College. Since
the feed situation is so serious, he
suggests that growers make sure
of an adequate supply of feed
from the feed dealers before con
tracting for the chicks.
He further suggests that grow
ers anticipate the necessity of
more floor space per started chick
than is usually required in the
spring. About 2 square feet of
tloor space should be given for
each 3 chicks at the beginning of
the feeding and this space should
be increased to one square foot
per chick, when they are 4 weeks
of age.
At least 20 percent more bakery
goods are being produced this
year with the same amount of
shortening as was used last year.
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
---By WILLIAM BUT-— -
Ctatral Prmt Writ*
The Germans promised to de
fend their Tunisian position “to
the last cartridge.” Maybe the
cartridges, like that statement,
were just duds.
And then there’s Musolini
who promises the Italians he
will return to Africa. O.K., Duce
—what’s stopping you?
“Strawberry Acreage Reduced”
—headline. Oh, come now—we’re
willing to make sacrifices but let’s
be reasonable!
It’s Junior’s guess that the
new substance with which the
Navy chases away sharks from
swimming seamen must be some
ingredient extracted from spin
ach.
Japs are building a new base
on Vanga Vanga. Their idea, no
doubt, of doubling a war effort.
A prominent wrestler spends
his spare time fishing. Just can’t
get away from that catch-as
•catch-can business.
An old timer, says Grandpappy
Jenkins, is a fellow who can re
member when China was chiefly
famous for being the source of
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BOY SCOUT COURT OF
HONOR TO MEET 18TH
The regular court of honor of
the Transylvania Boy Scout dis
trict will be held next Friday
night at the First Baptist church
here, with Chairman Jack Tran
tham in charge. A change in the
meeting place was announced by
E. H. McMahan.
A number of scouts are ex
pected to appear before the court.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many
friends for their acts of sympa
thy during the illness of our fa
ther and husband, J. A. Allison,
and the beautiful flora! offerings.
The Allison Fam.lv.
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A crisis in food production may
result in the area from Virginia
northward because of the shortage
of gasoline.
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