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Umlu THIRTIETH YEAR wik. HBRv,cH THU A880CrfTg5RpilB?8?* HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 21, 1948 PUBLISHED BVEltY AKTKKNUUN ,,Mm ~ kxcbi-t ji'noay. !• 1VE CENTS COPY CHANNEL DRIVE COMING. CHURCHILL SAYS Great Offensives To Begin Shortly, Gen. Marshall Says Rome Visitor COl. WILIIAM T. GARDINER, accord ing to Allied Headquarters, was one of the two high-ranking American officers who paid a daring visit to Home to see Marshal Badoglii? a few hours before the Yanks in vaded Italy. Several times during the trip, they passed within a few feet of Nazi troops. (International) House Will Pass Pian ToCooperate Takes Stand to Join With Other Nations To Keep World Peace Washington. Sept. :JI.— (AIM — The House I'lMcliril for its leg islative pen today to sign a his tory-ma liing document which would place Congress on record in favor of post-war collabora tion with other nations in main taining a "just and lasting peace." The action mines in .1 roll call v 'te on a tersely worded resolution de signed to bury any belief that con gressional pence-time philosophy will be dictated by a doctrine of isola tionism. There appeared littie lioubt as to the outcome. From both the itcpuo lic.in and Democratic sides of the aisle came potent upport of the res olution, drafted by ISeprcsentativc Fnlbright (Ai !;.. U.). Leaders ol both parties expressed confidence it would be adopted bv substantially more than the required two-thirds vote. i'ull U. S. Strength 1 o Press Enemy in Europe and in Asia Omaha, Neb., Sept. 21 (Al') — Groat offensives in which thy full si re 11 prlh of America s armed lorces will he liiulcd iijdiiiisl the enemy in j Asia and Ktimpe are "just I ahoul to hejrin." General Geo rue j Marshall said today. Addressing the American he- I jrion convention, Marshall said i that there appeared to in- some! public misunderstanding of iho recent Allied successes, a 'ieii dency to believe that the final i steps of the war were boiiijr! taken. On the contrary, he .-aid in a i prepared .speech, the la-t year and i a hiilf has been s|m-ii1 largely in | preparation fop operations of the j large forces still to go into action. I in establishing base.s tor tuture cam- j paigns. "Now at least we are ready to i carry the war to the enemy." °s:>id : Marshall, "all overseas, thank Cod, with a power and force thai we hope will bring this conflict to an early conclusion. I.ut please re member that this phase is just about to begin. a point which seem- not to he understood by our people here at home, possibly because thev are far removed from the agonic of war except for those whose sons or husbands have been engaged in the fighting." HOUSING CONCERN GRANTED CHARTER, ->•* , Raleigh. Sept. 21 — (API — Four | certificates of incorporation werej filed today with, the Secretary of State: They included: Cioldsboro Investment ("••. of Ooldshoro, to engage in the cor. > I ruction and erection of houses and apartment houses; authorized capi tal stock Sail.00(1, subscribed slock $3.0(10 by K, J. Fulgham ot Ciolds boro. fieorge M. Jordan o( Greens boro and Thomas Wilson of Win ston-Salem. Probe Crash In Which 24 Airmen Died. Max ton, Sept. 21.—(AD—A board] ol inquiry ought to learn today tlie j cause of the crash of an army trans- ; port plane which carried 23 soldiers to their deaths. The plane crashed on the Luurin btirg Ma\lon army air base field two miles from here while on a routine flight yesterday, the po-t public rela tions office announced. After striking the ground, the craft burst into flames. No lurther details have been announced. "Names of those killed will be made ;ivailable for release alter the next ! of kin have been notilied," the .u> nouncement said. Army authorities said the accident was the first aircraft fatality al !iie field, which was established more than a year ago. Mining Developments May Bring State Big Rewards In the Kir Walter Hold. Daily Dlspatm Bureau, By I.VNN NISKET. Haleigli, Sept. 21.—Furliicr testi mony Id the widom of spending -c\ c I'.'il thousand dollars of State nullify to find nut definitely where ami in what quantity certain mineral de posits arc located is furnished by an operation now under way in Virgi nia. The Old Dominion Manganese Corporation this week began shipment | of concentrated manganese ore I mm its mine near Waynesboro: but before any shi|)inent was made the compay had invested approximately half ;t million dollars in les' drilling, roaci building and installation of equip mcnt, so that when production -tails it can be carried forward on a big scale. Kvcn before test drilling pro ved the presence of large deposits of highly valuable ore there had been a thorough geological survey of lie area. Now the State of Virginia and .the operating company are beginning In realize hand-ome eash return on | this preliminary work. The incident has more than casual interest for North Carolina right jit this time, because the preliminary survey, the engineering and organi zation of the company were handled by II. A. Brassed Company, the same group that was employed by the State of Worth Carolina to make 'he surveys here. Proving their own faith in the.r findings, the llrassert outfit put a substantial amount of money into Old Dominion and the corporation is headed by Alex Bar ker, Brasserie vice-president. They interested a Dutch syndicate in the proposition with the result that the company has virtually unlimited financial backing. That aJs< has significance, because the same syn dicate is looking for suitable in \c Imenl in this State ;md if data gathered during the surface ,-urvey early in the summer is supported by (Continued on Page Two) ALLIED ARMADA SAILS FOR INVASION OF ITALY SOME OF THE THOUSANDS OF SHIPS used by the Allies in tlic invasion Mediterranean, carrying additional soldiers and supplies to reinforce of Italy are seen as they depart for the Italian mainland from a North, those men who landed in the initial stage of the invasion. Allied planes African port. These same ships arc now plying back and forth in the|arc backing the land attack. (International KadiopJiolo) Jap Losses Heavy Over New Guinea Paid High Price for Loss of Key Centers; MacArthur Advancing Allied Headquarters in tlie1 Southwest Pacific, Kept. 21— (Al')—Japan paid a Itijrh price! in men and equipment while; losing Lae and Salamana <>n New Guinea. New that these1 air liases are firmly in General ! Alar Arthur's hands, enemy garrisons in the area are bej*in ninsr to undergo attacks by fijrliter-escorted bombers and to see more strnfiiiK Allied fitfltt ers than they have experienced be font. Just how many of a Japanese army, '■nee estimated .it 20.00tt nu n, were slain a.- Salamana fell Se;> tember 12 and l.ae September Hi remains t<> lie disclo.-ed in official report . lint i spokesman for (ien eral MacArllitir .said toilav tl.e enemy, can.uht in a jungle cne.n - nient movement. ! >.-t heavily. Hp said evidence has been found (li.it the Japanese lost .111 entire rcitimeut. ordinarily u\ rragini; 'J.'.'(Ml men. in killed and 1 hospitalized during the outpost 1 halites at Wan. ami Newhiia, ! leading m> to tin* larger scale 1 fighting at I.ac and Salamaua. .Iapane.se soldiers who fieri rortli from Lae now are being added to (Continued on Page Two) British I ,and On I ta I i «i 11 Islands Off Turk Coasts Cario. Seiit. 21.—(AIM—llri I tisli forces liave landed on the I Aegean islands of Con. I.ero and Satnos off the coast of Turkey, it was announced officially today. Tl»c confirmation of the re ported occupation or Coo aii'l I.ero in tlir Italian Dodecanese croup and the Grccnk island of Sainos immediately to the north, which has been current for seve ral days, followed an RAF 10111 iniiiiiri lie annoiiiiciiis that the RAF had seized the Coo air | drome and is now operating from there. I. S. Centers Are Raided by Japs in The Solomons Area Washington. Sep :!1 -fA!*(— Ja IKine <• |>1.iin-- laidinv. American p<> ' j11..I:- «>n C!lla(l.>lcinil III Mil' Solo mons ri't c:l slijjli' damage and I minor ca-uall ies. I In- X.ivy reported today. j The Ilic third if a week up >'i C111; if I; 11 <•-111; 11. ipparciillv was i>f 1hc j niii-ani'i- \■ ') ami pn»l»al»ly was carried " it ' v l>i>uil>in(( planes on | a re<iimtii' -aiiee niisK u. The N.ivv pc\ nm-ly had repiui e<l Hint *'ti Hi' tiiI'llt "I September [ 15 single Japanese pi,me Ixunbed .the i«lnnd calling min damage and I injuring one man. WholeGermanLine In East Crumbling From Soviet Blows \ Red Armies in Smolensk Defense Zone; Over 1,100 Villages Are Re-Captured j Lmuli n, Ki pi. '21—(Al')—r.la>liiiK into the 3molvr.sk de fense zone to oul}!L<Ulk Uiat Cicrman central front anclior. lied army forces stormed today from captured Velizli, (!•"> miles to the northwest, while further south they haul slashed across the Kiev-C'herniKov hijrhwaiy on the middle Dnieper river and cut the main Crimean escaipe railwaiy between Zaiporozhe and ; l)nK'i>ro])iTo\>k. I Tlu Mi' a coiv.mi:nii|iie tl:si-l«is- i I'd an nii:a/ii.g list nt trinm]>h.s marked up :>y the hard slugging j Ilus-ian tro ps. inchnl n a great j wheeling movement pointed toward j Chekasy, key mil eente;- on t!ie j Dnieper southeast of K.c>, in an at tempt to entrap the hundreds ol • thou.-ands ■>! Herman t;uops le porlcd raa.-scd in the ri\i bend. | Mure than 1.130 tow and \il- | lage.s tel 1 before the slasi .wa Soviet advance . the Kussian war bulletin j said. Tremendous pile, el war e(|iii|>ii:ent, including strings u. iml let loaded troop and mat al trains. i.a: ks. armored car.-, gun.- and am- i munition were reported taKen m taet. as' well as great cache.- oi grain, indicating the haste in wiii Si the Nazi* were fleeing on practically all , j hvcU'i's ol' t!ic battlefront. The enemy left more Hum 10,- j (>00 (lead on the licld ol battle, ili.. Russians said. I;. (I army airmen smashed an ap p«ilti:l attempt ol the Geiv.ian* ti ev.it .ite the Caucasus when they; sank . .I enemy mine sweeper and '■ three troop barge.- just south ol the ! Tainan peninsula above the recap tured P"i't ol Xovorossisk. While the whole German front appeared to be crumbling under j the terrific battering l>y the llrd army legions, the Nazi situa tion in the Smolensk theatre ' merged on the precarious. So- ' vie! front line reports indicated. ] Here llic Russians apparently were hurling in immense eon- ' eentrations of artillery, infan- | try. aircraft and tanks to clear I the swamps and mine-filled fur- j ests around that bastion. Yes- j iterdav's advance carried thein i within 30 miles of the strong hold. The llerlin radio ariniilied the11 I Smolensk battle was rising to a j climax, with Hussinn parachute troop- dr ipping behind (he German ' lines \ i the northern arm >•! the 1 Dnie) 11 1 ver bend. Tin ' II ol Veli/.h not only flank ed Swiensk hut placed lied army I spearheads within ten miles of the 1 White Ttussian border and o; ly I") I miles i 'i tlieasl of Vileh.- . on the I , rail 1 !■•• I I'tn Smolensk to l.atvia. j The "1<I Polish border is les- than 115 m les I" the west. BRITISH EXCHEQUER J CHANCELLOR IS DEAD , | L.vi.1 11. Sep' 21 - i \T*> — Sir • ! Kingsley Wood. C'hniicci!' of Hie < I Rxehc; • died loda.v. ,' The '"an who was credited large ly w ' ■ a eping Great I'.' -ia n' iv.le. - time ' Mi l,, "II ail over eel died p on !'■<• • e o' tfie ant " ted u> I noiinre'-ienl of his pay i" you-go I plan (or workers incomc tax. | He was 62 years old. Liquor Books Based Upon Ration Cards Raleigh, Sept. 21—(AP)—IWurol a civilian «\.n obtain new : i|.i«.v ; ration books to be i-sued ill *»i-t< Ik* mast first present hi.- w ;> * ra 1 ii>11 i .ok, pr<>1 iably No. :{. to the re>{i.»trar. who will punch it. 1' u pre\ciitniK "iii- person Iron i 1 >1 :iin init muse Hum one book, the SU'tc : AMI' 1 >• r<i announced today. Chairman ( ai l Williamson s.-'.l the board had obtained Federal per a.ii:i ti> punrh the wsit "it book. I'he Stale board deeded to adopt the policy, he said, alter it | had received reports that son e in- j di\ iduals had several books in their possession. Tin rurtlicr prevent the illegal o'.. taieim ot whisky. Hi,, new l ip: .• Coupons v. II each bear tiie „-e. il number printed on tile face of ii". b> m *1;. Members of tiie armed force may rejj: ter with their comuiaiidinu of ficers and. «•! course. do not hav? to pre.-rnt tticif Federal ration books. Iie.-idenls of the -•"> wet count.e* must register in their home conn-1 ties, but roidcnt- ot dry c n t'es may rc.ni.-ter in any of tin wet counties. 'I'he State ltoard i- having a;v proxin ::tely •Iihi.imiii ot tiie new • ■ >ks printed. The number is about .V'. (Hio less than last year. Th,. new books no into ettect December I. allowing each holder about t'.vo (|iiarts—or tilths—a month. W. B. JONES. RALEIGH ATTORNEY, 63, DEAD Raleigh, Sept. 21—<Af>—Willi] n 15 ( UiicU > .June-. prom jnont lt:i leiish ;iflitrtu*}'. died ill ;i hospi'iil lire e.irly loday alter :m illiic-- ot weeks. Krticral sei v icc< will Ijc held tomorrow. J ours w.is a pn.-t president of 'he District Mar A. soe:.itioii. and was aeti". e in affa'is "I tile State Jilld American I'.ir groups. lie li icl prac ticed liiw here since 1!M)|. HEAVY TOLL TAKEN OF AXIS AIRPLANES 1,<>nr|i>n. Sept. lit (AP—Sir .c. (irill-. crrf.i'V .if stale fur war. <1 I closed ii (*.' iimi.■ todsiv tli.it I'i.I ■! ol 7r!!> onoiv> p':itic« were down over Hritjii:■ I>y ant -air« t batteries between September 3, ll)3it. nnd J.ily 31, 1043. Germans In Italy Drop Back Surely Trying to Avoid Trap; Prisoners Tell About Devastating Shelling Allied Headquarters in North 1 Africa. Sept. JJ — ( A1') — I American Liberators fhtvw new | weight into the conquest <»i* f Italy I>y homliardintr the his toric |ii.i-t of Venice as French troo .s and native guerillas pro ceeded today to mop up German resistance on Corsica and the l"liiteil States Fifth Army rej? •stered new .eains in tJie Saler no beachhead. Slowly ind steadily pressing the] Gt'i'miitigi backward, the Fifth Army stormed and took the key town «t , Kin ill. Hi ml' .lit.in.!, which had served 'he enemy ;•». . •« in miea tionii center during last week's heavy I fijdlSin:: :• i>• Hi* Salem '. (;, eial Mark W. CI i !:'s soldiers ) ai.-o Ik.tiered their u.y In Munte C'orvinn. nine mile.- inland. in .i mi-I: :■ i | i.-h, an !■: II- ill smiree disclosed. A military spokesman alsu an ninnieril thai the (lernians are sv. insim: the lower cud of a line \\ hli h formerly enclosed the Sa leriiu bridgehead to Itif north and ea-t In avoid Item? trapped liv tiie ciniliiiiied l ipid advance of till' Biiti-.li Kichtli Army. Tlili wt« it already !.:'i taken the' bulk "i the German forccs north I.. Si !e I i-. er. The (ieni.in- are u>.ti« intnntry Sli|.|'0 t"d ii> small K- ' 'I' "! JUtldit t" fiislit .i delaying :u--i«»•. in the Kim! e.i ;md the ! 'ti. Army was reported encountering elahoratj ' i e fields and (it ■ i 1 i• »ns in I'. .si'i". iin* en:.tinned id\.itie0 n i'h "r •Saleni". The enemy > e\ei \ on' d< i le'i e pi'-itine; in t'-.e hill iMiintiv | '-.urth nil ti'rthe:.si of Salei'im. tiic 1 sv"'.i-.-man s:iid. and t ,. j.rnRrc-.; of 'the Ail'-d tulips i- -'o\v. 1 (•crin.ni prisoners \\ ere iitioled in official reports from (lie front as Ovine eliKincnt testimony of the devastating effect of inces sant Allied air attacks mi rc triMtiim German eolumns. ("aire !iead<|uartei>. vcpnrtinc 'he , bomhini* o! Venice. - <1 one 4*\l»l«•- j •-•on tlioic w < followed l«v i ;i ( "Inn.i) o! sm<>i.e ."t.OiHl leet h • but the full vc. ill- of the attae't Wciv "I'm tired by el" nl-v laibonitoi'5 bused on the Middle I Ka-t alio hit rirlr if! y ud» e.d , brids' approaches: the Ad.-i.t'tc i jh> ' of IV.-e;ii;i. (It 'A. s announced •'!ieiii 11V at Cairo. jiKo.jtlmt Die HAK hud ex« I tended Allied ilir domination t'f l!'" M editor ram. •! by r.dni'J oil md M. • jIioh iri v the lt.ili.nl . 11. .• nert i-liiiul "f fw.) I Mo.»i of ('ts'cmV Italian nrrinon (of ilt->tt* -Jii.Oimi n en t.;<s joined i .• t \i- Biirtillnj< and Frcitcli troop* | l.nvled in on la-t French warship ir. ,-i ; tlit in \\i|y • "it the Ofi insm fore,- on I!>«• i-'..n»l. s>*» of'icial ail i inecn en) .said Sojav. WfATHfR I Ml! NOimi r.\noM\A I.illlr rhance in temperature, with shower* this afternoon, to 1 night and Wednesday forenoon. Africa And Italy Not Substitutes Submarine Losses in Last Several Months Are Down to Nothing London. S. j.t. J] — (AD — Prime Minister Churchill told Common.-. today that tin- Med iterranean campaign is not "a substitute for a direct attack across tli.- channel on the Ger mans in France ami the low countries"—that he lias never regarded it as such. "<>n the contrary." he said in a lenjftiiy statement on the tide of the war. "the opening of this new front in the Mediterran ean was always intended to be an essential preliminary to the main attack upon Germany wild her rinn of subjugated and satellite states." lie di-c!".-ed. however. 'hat he :ut(l President e!'. -el Italy's eliniiliat mil !i ■ tl;e w ar as their pl'ii.c pal ' n ;-t.\e \\ .ell 1 '.ley met i'i W. >liii!'.::- ii ' M.,y i.nd added tll.it li«' in.- llld expected :l •. i • a\«- Iji-fii mi i i.v : i-.i:t-. ed." Tiirninu ia tin- air war. the prime minister announced that that \\r!..hl nl' huui'.is dropped i.«t (iermauy in the past year was three times tliat ut the pre redim- twelve mouths and that Britain's aircraft supply now ex reeds Ilia I nl (•ermany by more I hat lour to one. Saying that the almost total dc striuli •• ot (iein.Mi war venters was continuing on a great scale, t hurehill disclo ed that the percent age of plane lose- l i the KAK in the fir.-i eight months of was less than tlie same period last year and that the morale of the trews wiis con-et|iiently higher, lie amiomieed also that dur ing the four months cudiiiK Sep ti-mber IK not a single merchant \essel was lost In enemy action in tin- north Atlantic anil that enemy I -boats had not sunk one Allied ship anywhere in the world ilurinK the lirst two weeks of September. I'iuiri i dded 1 -.-.ever, that German U-boats hud become active . 4 .11 and ' ' ell' coiiv.y wa> bc i i4 attacked at the pre cut time. further disclo* ire oi Russia's ipation . the Italian sur run* *ii«- |>tit ie minister said ine i g vcrnmont studied the ar i tei . lie Ml' ./I'd '.}« II ■i..i i > a hen. :n it He alsi r i-S'l arrangc !: nd .in ii Ko.iiu main i;i was not Ml;, lltM j Chun:!-. H we -. : i Commons load* I'd :•.) neat- ' -:.e '. the longest speei h i.. ee 1 le began at 'ii kii and bi'uiie ••!! l i e .aid a (pi if 'i lit ui's later foi ! inch, after whicit he resumed speaking. lie termed tin? Naples invn*i*n 11,< 1 d.ii'.im i I;I-.I' 11 ■! np :i .iii ■■ we have .vet launched, or ! ' 1 ' i i been launch led on .. - ■ ilar scale in the war." Me evpla ned ' ti e Allies could (not have gone farther north unlcw ; they i d (i -| en-ed w *!i aid !r«in slve based rral1--a tact which Hi,, (iern . lis t have known. | Kven in landing a*. Naples, hu '.-.id. Allied li'iies were dependent !"t" an im|Mirtant extent'* upon car* : e h e •' >1.1! t ill which thil A'l e- are bo m aig stronger and Legion Told Full Power Of U. S. Needed Omaha. Srh.. Sept. *!1.—(AIM I —Roane Marine. national com mander of tlie \merican l.ccion, 1 ami Paul V. McNutl. War Man | power Commissioner. joined to KCther lo<la> in telling dele Kiites of tin- opening session of 1 tic region's silver anniversary convention that onl> hv sum moning the full strength of America w ill the war result in a complete victory for (tie I i tilled Nations on the battle* j field ami at the peace table. Wiiniijs iind McN'utt preceded tlio ! -ehi dlllcd present.itinii of the !,e j gi<>n"> diftinpiishcd .-ci \ ice medal to (Continued on Page Two) ^
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