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TI11UTY-FIRST YEAR Hgnfrgraon Baily Bfgpatrfr I.KASKH IVIItK SKIiVICK UK Till-: ASSIICIATKII I'HKf HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 1, 1944 PUBLISH Kl) EVKItV APTliRNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY (LARGE SCALE GERMAN RETREAT IMMINENT Heights On Cassino Highway Seized By 5th Army Troops; 8th Pushes Nearer Pescara GENERALS TALK WAR TACTICS A! ITAUAN field headquarters the commander, Gen. Cnpino, and his visiperior, Gen. Mark Clark of the American Fifth Army, listen as • i nates share a discussion. Italian infantry and artillery have be^a .... .\clv active on the Fifth Army front (International) Roosevelt Urges Continued Help In Ailied War Effort Hitler Hints At New Blows l.nniinli. Jan. 1 — (AIM—Farms; tin* grimmest year of his N.t/i regime. Adolf Hitler ofleretl his people and soldiers New Year's hints of offensive blows against the enemy and new inventions of warfare, and asserted the Germans were ready for any invasion from the west. \ wordy message to the home Iront played again on his favorite propaganda theme, but a< know (edged that 1943 had been the year of "heaviest re Miieh of his home front proclamation was devoted to picturing the German war as one against bolshevism, with this propaganda theme salted with the warning that "in this war there will be no victors and losers, but merely survivors and annihilated." President Mentions Plans for Postwar Problem Solutions Washington. Jan. I.— (AIM — President Koosevcll asked in a .New 1 rar's Day .statement today that the people plcdee eooperation to continue the I lined Nations' determination to carry on to final victory in (he war. In his lurmal statement, tlse President .said: "Two veins ago the United Nations were on the delensive in every •••art ot the world. Today we are on the offensive. The wall.-- are closing r«. morelessly on our enemy. Our armed loree.s are gathering for new and greater is.-ault> which will hring about the dou ul.ill of the axi- aggressors. "The United Nations are gi\ing attention also to the different kind of struggle which must follow tnc military phase, the .struggles again.-l disease, malnutrition, unemployment and many other forms of economic and social distress. "To make all ol u- secure against lulure aggression and to open the (Continued on Page Four) Traditional Welcome To New Year More Subdued New Yuri., .Ian. 1. -(AP)— The Dal lot) cast dif its win woes for ;i frw hour.- last mjjht to welcome in I hi- new year. N'< a' York had its lights hack for • !ii' lust New Year's celebration ,-ni'' ihi- submarine menace plunged tin Miy into gloom, unci linii.Oim peron (police estimates) thronged Time. S'liiaie to yell and toot horns. A' 2 a. ni.. New York's Hcllevue hospital reported that of 10 alcoholic s brought in. none showed signs of has inn had adulterated or poisonous lirpior. In Hut falo. N. Y.. a group of social afccncie exnerimcnied with a lirpiorle>> night cluh for teen a HP boys and Uiil» and pronounced it a "noisy success," There were traditional noisemakers, soft lights, music and fancy decorate ns. but the drink* were sodu Wiilcr, Kinger ale and lee cream Midas- and "ion boys ;md girls reiwrli'd having a -well tune. As many more tiled unsuccessfully to gain admission to tIk* club. Couples who had reservations at Chicago's Colony Club suffered disappointment. While bartenders were getting ready for a rushing New Year'- Kve business. federal agents closed tlie club for alleged non-paymcnt <>l oeinl security taxes. In Oxslnuitf, New Y<>il<. inmates | of Sing Sinn prison, by -pecial perI mission, celebrated the new year i>y rattling their cell doors, singing and j shouting. New York's last fire nlaim i>f 1043 happily turned out to be a fiilse 'inc. I And haopy were the celebrators who pitllcd the alarm at Seventh Avenue and 34th street. They disappeared bcfcre '.he firvmin arrived. Berlin Reports of Retreat to Begin on The Eastern Front Allied Headquarters. Aljlici's.j Ian. 1 — (.AIM — American | Ii-im>|>s of tin- Fifth Army soi/.-j •d three heights overloi »ki ng j tlie Cassino highway, the most; important mail to Rome, and' the Kijrhth Army is picking itsi way through mine fields at ai 111iIt- a day |>ace up the Adriatic1 :oa-t toward IVscara on the •astern route. Allied headquarters announcement said today. British troops. bark from a hit and run raid behind the German tine north of the <•;»- | rieliano river mouth on file western end of the liattlel'roiit. reported they h.td mopped up a number of Nazi troops, took prisoners and destroyed an important railway and highway bridge. General Sir Harold Alexander's lath army nip headquarters withheld larllu'i details ot this raid of Wednesday njglil, however. Tho destroyed bridge, it <vris said, blocU?d the line < German retreat '.■> ihe Appian Way about a quarter jf a mile north of the river. „ The American advance in tlv> rough mountains placed them two miles southwest of Vintieuso in the westward push toward Cassino. The Germans' desperate delaying tactics were demonstrated at San Tommaso, two mites west of Ortona where Allied troops had to fight through terrific fire from 88 millimeter suns to retain a height they previously had seized and then lost. Bad u lather yesterday limited Allied air forces to a few attacks on locomotives, motor truck convoys. supply trains, and gun positions in the battle area. Three Allied planes were missing from the attacks in which <>nc ticomotive and seven motor vehicles were destroyed by strafing and Gt :man positions bombed at Kormia, Mmturno and on the road north of Cuardiagrclc in the eastern sector. Pilots Front Brazil To Go Into Battle Win do Janeiro. .fun. I—(AP)—A group <>i civilian pilots will leave soon fur tin* Kiiropoan theatre as a s annual <1 of ilrazilian forces to be sent into battle* against the Germans. it was disclosed today. President Getulia Vargas told a luncheon of army officers yesterday th t "for tlx- first time, Brazil kin soldiers will step on the soil >f other continents to participate in war operations." a id declared th it "successive unprovoked afigressir.i.s led up to the fighting field whie'i 1 demands ol us an effective conti' but ion of arms and war imple- j incuts " Vargas' fighting speech came soon alter the return to Hio (!<• Janeiro of General Mascarcnhas dc Mot*aisi and members of the Itra/ilian mill- j tary mission who visited the Itali.-'ti front. The general disclosed during his trip that Hra/.ll would send an expeditionary force abroad. Post Offices Show Surplus Washington, .fan I. (AIM— For the fir.-1 time 111 24 years. Hie Post Of;'ice Department lias operated "in the black" for a fiscal vear Tlie department originally reported a slight deficiency for the year ended June 30. but said today final figures turned this into a surplus of SI 334.551 Hcvcnucs totaled $11(10,227.289, expenditures S9R4,992,737. Hit Scored by British Bomber in Biscay Bay Attack . " i .V British I tberator bomber, piloted l>> ('zerhoslovak airmen, scores a hit on u fierman blockade riuiuer in Hie Hay of Biscay. During the attack. British r.iaites sank thro.' Nazi destroyers in addition to the hu> pictured above. The pilot reported tiiat the iir:.t bomb dropped 011 a ship was a direct hit and left Hie vessel afire and in sinking condition. This photo was radioed fr nn London to New York. (International) Two Ball Bearing Plants, Airfields In France Bombed Steady Procession Of Planes Across Cha jr.el Continues London, Jan. 1 — (A1 *) — American Flying Fortresses iind Liberators struck at two important Nazi ball bearing: plants near Paris and two air-t fields in France yesterday, while other Allied aircraft were, pouring a deluge of bombs on j the front invasion coast, an of-1 ficial announcement said to-1 day. Identi;y:ng the targets of the I Fortresses tnd Ubcriilore, an uirj mini/try ami I n.led States ;iri yi I IIIIIMHII.I'I i .-aid large twilll.lt nHI:. hit the < fin I).ill bearing lactone*, nciir I'aris and the airfields neai Cognac mi 1 in wot coast at France. j Cross-channel aerial activity iislicrini; in the new year continned today willi a stcadv procession ol l i'.liters and fighter bombers licailiiiR toward the continent iliirinr the morning. Kiit the activity was on a iiinsidcrahl.v smaller scale than in the preceding IK-hoiir period when perhaps' 3..VUV Allied planes invaded Hitler's rootless continent. Kcpnr'lng I: it - in Imtli the I'a, objective- iimt the an Held.-. rctun ing .crcwmvii s id they could still see columns nf .smoke rising t« ;> when they were ,:s far away a. the French cast "ii their way home. The air base ;•! Chateau Hern:il\li ill westcinti.il I ianee s believ ed t >i be used by Gernuin planes collabo- j rating with U-boat attacks against I Allied shipping. The raids against I tie norther*! French coasts, curried out by I'nited States -Marauders anTI HAF and Dominion planes, met negligible opposition. but a Fortress formation i returning from one of Ihe other assignments was jumped by from .">0 to 75 Na/i tighter planes and engaged in a great running battle from the* Brest peninsula lo the middle of the Figlish channel. NO GKICAT EMPHASIS Washington, .fan, I—(AIM The Office of War Information, asm"! if it could supply details of enemy propaganda use of the rail and steel strike threats >- lid today that N'a/.i bioadcasters have not greatly emphasized them so far as OWI kno.-s. Fifteen Hurt In Collision At Goldsboro tinldsbo i>. .1 {an. I -(Al1)—Fifteen person- wore inji;rod. one seriously, at Seymour Johnson field lust night when ;iii Atluntie Coast Line switch engine and a Goldsboro Tr.iimportation Company bus collided at a spur track crossing. Sergeant Harry Lorcn/, whose wife lives in Toledo, Oluo. suffered fractured leg au<t other injurie-. Ills condition u.is s.iat t . In- .-iili<!ac tory. M:s- Florence llorne of Ciolil.-boro. and employee ol Seymour Johnson field, suffered cut> and bruises, and 'J: (I 1.1. Irene Goodman, a nurse .1 the licld hospital, suffered a severe jaw injury. The post public relations office said all the other injuries apparently consisted of cuts nad i>r <•> and none were seriou.. Field j ;.mi> .lances carried the injured to trie jio.t hospil I. where all rem a licit at midday today. The public relations office said the acctdi" t was l>eing investigated to ascertain the cau-e. NYA To End Work Tonight W'ii.iliiiiUluii. .I.io'. t ( \P)—The •Hire-!ir Mi"!: National Youth A(l1 iti I - It i vl rut j« >11. <l> i'A ti iinw to -Ili employer mid 300 ions of ol'l r< i ords, floe- I' night after eight years a.- e.n integral prut of the New Deal WA was al>oli-hcd by ("oiijjieslart July I. <*ffoctive at llie end of I this New Year's Day. It will lenve to tho Treasury $700,II K), tli • unused portion of $1,500,000 1 Congiens provided for tin* jol> of ii! (|tlida<liui. It has also given lo the | Treasury its 3(Mi tons of old records, i to he sold ,is waste t.aper. i When the "cense" legislation was | enacted NYA had 04.920 persons on ; ils payroll. Within ten flays it had I dtopped 53.373 youths, leaving the* I 11,555 administrative employees. To! day NYA has 46 on its payroll. New Britain Airbase Rid | Of Japanese Attempts of Enemy To Retake Airdrome "Heavily Repulsed" Advanced Alliml Headquarters, New Guinea. Jan. 1 — (AP)—The new year found Allied forces cleaning up the second airbase capable of providing protection for bomhinj; raids on the Japanese stronghold of Rahattl. General Douglas MacArthur reported toflay American Marines hud cleared the enemy out of tlieir strategic {'ape Gloucester airdrome on the southi western tip of New Britain and tliai navy construction workers were liusilv whipping the cap| tured airstrip i'i serviceable condition. All .laiiancsc attempts I i't retake the airdrome have been "heavily repulsed." MacArthur's communique said. From the Cape (iloncrstor air■ drome. I!,ii).ml lio niilv mites (Continued mi I'iifje Four) Reds Only 35 Miles From Poland Important Railway And Highway Bridge Of Nazis Destroyed London. Jan. 1 — (AI*)— Advance Soviet units | >111 n^ci I ahca<l today to within :$"> miles of the old Polish border and less than '.10 miles of the (irewar Rumanian frontier alter the lied army, hammering the (iernians hack aloiijr a 200-mile arc west of Ki<-\. recaptured the vital rail town •>! Zhitomir and swept lip l">o more comni'mit ies. rounding toward Novojsrail Volinski. thi' Russians look Kinclvaiiovka. '!! miles southwest el' Koi-oslen .it IIk- northern mil <if llii- are. a .Moscow rommioiitiUf il •• c I a r r il. anil smashed into llit- town of I'ogicbisc lime at the southern mil in an advance of l.*» milc.s. A Moscow dispatch lull] of the happiest New Year's eve eeleliration of the war. the Hell army also lunged ahead in three other sectors. Troops of General l\:m S. I!:igramian's Italtic army rut tlnniigh the Vitebsk-Oinhn highway south of Yitebsi; and advaiit'id "ii both sides hi that biltcilv contested strong!n lil. Farther north, the Russians M-i/i'ii lin communities west nl Xfvc*l. while in the Dnieper bend far tu llu> south tin* third Ukrainian army. deepening its bridgehead across the river, captured live more towns in its drive Inward Nikopol. General Nikolai Yatutin's first I krainiau army was raring ahead far heyond the territory lost to Die (iermaii counter offensive west of Kiev in November and December, and Berlin reports to Swedish newspapers said there were many indications in German military circles thai a new large scale retreat would tie ordered on the eastern front in order to stabilize a defensive line. In a frank acknowledgement of the gra\ itv of the situation, a Nazi radio commentator declared that "in view of the great numerical superiority of the Soviet forces. German troops were compelled to restrict their activities to a mobile warfare in which difficult and dangerous situations repeatedly occurred." WEATHER FOIt NORTH CAROLINA Fair to partly cloudy and continued rather cold this afterneon and tonight. Sunday increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer with rain beginning in mountains in afternoon or at night. i Strong Reaction Feit To Labor Dispute Accusation Washington. Jan. ! - (AP) — A. ,>t 111111 i II:: • il 'ill! Hi- recent | rail-steel liib'-i it nlili - miy have unduly |.11.1i» - i-. ii• >|n-.in war, liit ih' i '.on v. ' : lcdi'.i-li.immcr J li rci- t ,(|.iy. Iip'iia'it nnmedi ilc pro-, tests i ir.nttccneo I nun union men and i<isi.|-i i hai.-h w nil ;i Mil the White Ml" I. ilidlill >1 threaten-! <ffT atiils'.-s. 'I lie torrent i'l reaction was unwashed by ii cit■< liiriitinn oi a persmi hitfh in1! only in fluted States 1 conne'l* lull n l.iiM* i'l llii' I'nitcd I Mali Mii iir sit id: 1. The axis Ii • I ;l en the rail laid uteel situiiI'Mis and plumed I them thrmnth propaganda channels | in an effort to Fhnw thnt runditiuni | here nrc in a slate ol chaos. 2. The net el feet has been to stiffen resistance ol the axis allies 1 and perhaps delay revolts in sub- i J u Rated countrits this winter up- ] risings which could have spelled swift collapse of Hitler's house ol card*. X The whole thing has been :i "great tragedy." Tin* high authority. expat <luiu <>" Ihe bhinl conclusions about the propaganda value, >-;<i<I tliiit Ihe subjugated countries are reported hesitating again l«> the wild resistance counted on as a big back dour in the overthrow ot (ierman domination ii| the continent This means that the war could he extended months longer and the Allies may have to hattie through Ihu stunmei at a c>jc' of stores of thousands of easualtu's. The K< nil is pointed o f. if was • ■dded that the Kurope satellites have eveiytlitng to nam bv hang* inn on a little longer in (lie expeo hit ion hi piaco more liberal than the "unconditional miitcikIci < I ic— turn." Slimming up. he said, the point j* that any delay in the Ktiropean internal explosion is .1 delay on thu victory timetable lor the Umludl Naitois.
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