Allies Move Forward In Italy
The Transylvania Times
Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation In 1943
★ SECTION TWO ★ BREVARD. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JAW. 27, 1844 * 1« PAftM Tnmv ^
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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NEW INVASION IS
CAUSING DISASTER
FOR HITLER FORCE
Battle For Rome Is Now In
Final Stages. Germans
Are Trapped
In one of the most brilliant
moves of the war, British and
American troops of the fifth army
made a surprise landing invasion
south of Rome last Saturday morn
ing and now they are driving to
the interior and are cutting off
nearly 200,000 Germans.
The Nazi were apparently caught
flat-footed by this bold invasion
thrust of Lt.-Gen. Mark Clark’s
fifth army. Last week the Germans
sent three crack divisions from
the Rome area to the battlefront
80 miles southeast of the capital,
leaving the Rome area almost
wholly undefended.
Battlefront dispatches said the
troops landed with scarcely a shot
fired and secured immediate ob
jectives with virtually no opposi
tion.
On the main battlefronts a pow
erful offensive has been underway
and allied planes, outnumbering
the enemy 13 to 1, are slashing all
communications to break up the
expected Nazi counterattack and
to protect the land forces.
Thousands of allied men have
been rushed ashore and it is be
lieved that the Germans will be
trapped and will suffer one of
their greatest defeats.
This action is regarded as has
tening victory in Italy.
Meanwhile plans are underway
for the invasion of Europe from
England.
Once loved deeply, all truths
are so beautiful that they ravish
us beyond ourselves, and the first
rapture of life is to point them
out to others. Nor does the rapture
die, but grows in the using.—
Stopford A. Brooke.
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Masons To Confer
1st Degree Thurs.
_
Henry: Henderson, Worship
ful Master of Dunn’s Rock
Masonic lodge has called a
special communication for
Thursday night at 8 o’clock
for the purpose of confer
ring the first degree.
Degree will be conferred
by T. E. Reid and assisted
by E. M. Collins as Senior
Deacon.
All members are urged to
attend and a cordial invita
tion is extended to all visit
ing Masons.
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Only About Half
Of Auto Owners
Have Their Tags
Only a few over half the car
owners in Transylvania county
have bought 1944 license plates,
C. M. Douglas said Wednesday. He
said that strict instructions had
been sent to the highway patrol
over the state that no car would
be allowed to travel after mid
night on Monday, January 31, un
less the new license plates were
on the car.
The local tag office manager
said that, due to the amount of
work necessary to complete re
ports and have his plates and cash
audited on rush days, no tags
would be sold after 4:00 p. m. on
Saturday and Monday next. He
said that his office would be open
from 7:00 in the morning until
6:30 at night each day except Sat
urday and Monday.
Mr. Douglas also said that no
checks would be accepted on the
two rush days.
Processors have been ordered to j
set aside 20 per cent of their Feb
ruary production of oilseed meal
for direct distribution to areas
designated by the War Food ad
ministration.
'Draft Roosevelt* Resolution Is
Adopted By Democratic Group
Chicago Gets Convention,
Hannegan Is Named New
Chairman. Succeeds
Walker.
Washington. — The Democratic
national committee, turning its
meeting into virtually a fourth
term rally, called on President
Roosevelt last Saturday to “con
tinue as the great humanitarian
leader” in both war and peace.
After selecting Chicago as the
national convention city and in
stalling youthful Robert E. Han
negan, hailed as the “second Jim
Farley,” as new national chair
man, the committee members roar
ed approval of a resolution declar
ing the “liberal spirit and far
sighted idealism” of Franklin D.
Roosevelt “must be imprinted in
the peace.”
“We, assembled here, realizing
his world leadership and knowing
that our allies are praying with
us for the continuation of his ser
vices both in war and peace,” the
resolution concluded, “do now
earnestly solicit him to continue
as the great world humanitarian
leader.”
Fourth Term Plea
Thus, the resolution stopped
short of calling for a fourth term
in so many words but there was no
mistaking that the committee mem
bers regarded it as a plea for the
president to run again.
The Democratic committee left
the date of the convention up to
Hannegan, 40-year-old Missouri
Irishman who succeeds Postmaster
General Frank C. Walker as na
tional chairman. He is expected to
select a date in July.
With their business out of the
way, the committee members set
tled down tonight to eat a $100
a-plate Jackson day dinner, a tra
ditional money-raising feast, and to
I HEAR A LOT OF FOLKS
AT HOME CLAIM THEy CANT
* AFFORD TO BUY AN
K EXTRA WAR BOND! /
WHAT WOULD a wounded soldier
think of you if he could hear
you say: “I can’t afford to buy an
extra War Bond?”
He might remind you that he
couldn’t “afford” to go to war! But
he went, and now he’s making more
sacrifices . . . for you. No wonder he
expects you to do something that will
help him!
Especially when all you’re asked to
do is to buy an extra $100 War Bond
this month. So check over your bud
get . . . see if you can’t swing at least
an extra $100 ... or $200 ... or $300
... or even $500 for extra War Bonds.
You’ll find that you can . . . and it’s
no sacrifice, either, for War Bonds
are the best investment in the world
today!
BASK THE ATTACK!
Dixie Home Store*
E. C. REVIS, Manager
FINAL RITES FOR
MRS. D. CILLESPIE
Brevard Lady Died Sudden
ly At Her Home In
Brevard Thursday
Funeral service was held last
Saturday morning at the Brevard
First Baptist church for Mrs. Dee
Gillespie, 64, who died suddenly
at her home here Thursday after
noon. She had been in declining
health for some time. Rev. B. W.
Thomason, pastor, conducted the
service. Interment was in Gillespie
cemetery.
Surviving are the husband; four
daughters, Mrs. M. W. Waldrop,
of Easley, S. C., Mrs. Virginia
Vaughn and Mrs. J. E. Forrester,
of Greenville, S. C., and Miss Mabel
Gillespie, of Brevard; two sons,
Glenn Gillespie, in the Navy at
Miami, Fla., and B. F. Gillespie,
at Navy Yard, Charleston, S. C.
four brothers, Frank and Lambert
E. Bagwell, of Brevard, Joseph A.
Bagwell, of Huntington Park, Cal.,
and Terrell F. Bagwell, of Ameri
can Falls, Idaho; two sisters, Miss
Emma Bagwell, of Brevard and
Bradenton, Fla., and Mrs. W. E.
Batson, of Whittier, Calif.
Pallbearers were Karl Bosse,
Ralph H. Ramsey, Julian A. Gla
zener, Sine Hamed, Fred Shuford
and Jason Huggins.
Mrs. Gillespie was a native of
Transylvania county, and a mem-1
ber of the Brevard Baptist church, j
Osborne-Simpson funeral direc-1
tors had charge of arrangements.
Borax Gives Large
Gains On Alfalfa
Field plot tests with borax on
alfalfa show that this material is
needed to control yellows and ob
tain maximum yields of alfalfa
both for hay and for seed, says
J. R. Piland of the State College
Experiment station.
Based on a value of only $25 a
ton for alfalfa hay, each dollar
invested in borax has returned a
net profit of fourteen dollars in
hay for a series of tests in dif
ferent sections of North Carolina
over a two-year period.
“Boron reserves in North Caro
lina soils are insufficient to meet
the needs of alfalfa and an appli
cation of 25 to 35 pounds of granu-1
lated agricultural borax per acre
is recommended,” Piland says.
“For present stands of alfalfa, it
is best to apply the borax during
the fall and winter. In new seed
ings, the borax should be mixed
with the fertilizer used prior to
seeding.”
Piland points to the record of
D. G. Wilson of Linwood, Route
1, Davidson county. Borax applied
November 22, 1940 not only gave
him a 27 percent increase in yield
in 1941 but also gains of 429
pounds of hay in the first cutting
in 1942, 421 pounds in the second
cutting, 434 pounds in the third,
and 162 pounds in the fourth cut
ting. On the borax plot, he pro
duced 11,126 pounds of cured hay
per acre.
hear addresses from Vice Presi
dent Wallace and House Speaker
Rayburn, of Texas, both potential
running mates for the president,
provided he agrees to a fourth
term nomination.
House Speaker Rayburn and
Vice President Wallace, praising
the leadership of President. Roose
velt, told a Jackson Day dinner to
night the same kind of leadership
must be maintained in the post
war period if the country is to
win the peace.
Neither called directly for a
fourth term for the president, but
the thread of this possibility ran
clearly through both addresses to
the $100 a plate banquet at the
Mayflower hotel to raise funds for
the Democratic party’s 1944 cam
paign. Both men have been men
tioned as possible running mates
for Mr. Roosevelt.
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