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(One Day Nearer Vicldry) THURSDAY, Jrtv Page S Section One " THE WAYNESYILLE MOUNTAINEER 19.1 t. Joseph H. Smith Tells Of His Twenty Months In Prison Camp The knowledge that back home in Western North Carolina a girl was waiting for him kept Staff Sergeant Joseph H Smith, of Ha zelwood, from giving up the fight for life while he served twenty months in a German prison camp, according to his own account of his experiences as a German POW. Sgt. Smith, son of Mrs. Lee Smith, of Hazelwood. entered (In service in August, li)41, as a vol unteer and was trained at the following fields before he was sent to England where he served with the 8th Air Force: Keesler Field. Harlingen, Tex.. Boise. Idaho, and Walla Walla. Wash. He completed his third mission over enemy territory when his plane clashed over France coming back from a daylight mission over Stuttgardl, Germany Six of the crew escaped, but Sgt. Smith was one of the four who were even tually captured lie traveled for three days and was separated from the others trying to get away. A French civilian gave him a pair of trousers and a coat, with which he wore his army shirt As he had entered a cafe on the third day to get some food, he saw an old French woman talking in an excited manner to a man. he felt sure lie was the subject of conversation. lie left at once, but was soon chased by two French civilians on a motorcycle. He hid from them, and they pass ed by several times, but at last they caught him and drew their guns on him. He realized that he If, when your hair needs overhaul ing, a date calls up ... no time for stalling.j5jl Use MINIPOO 4fh the dry shampoo ""Y Ten minutes does the Job for you! ffifi 3Q tHAMPOOI.JWCtUDIKO MITT fjO Smith's Cut-Kate Urns; Store War bonds fui the war bride later will bu.v modern. ,dl ias kitchen which mil be a joy to work in. Quality merchandise last It'fiijer A Phone 202 Welch at Shurt did not have a chance, so they took him and turned him over to the enemy. Later he learned that the old lady received 50,000 francs for giving the information in about him. This was on September 9, 1943. At the time of his capture he was only about a mile away from a prison in Pari), where he was put in solitary confinement for 21 days. He was given a slifT pe riod of questioning by the German officer.; at three different times. He was compelled to give his name, rank, serious number, and name, rank, serial number, and he refused to talk. He had a bowl nl soup at noon and a cup of black coffee at night and in the morning After 21 days he was sent to Uulay-Luft. Frankfurt on the Main, where he was a prisoner for seven months. He was treated '"fairly well" for a prisoner, as he worked in the kitchen and had two meals a day. plus some food supplied by the Hed Cross. Later he was moved to Stalag-Luft, near Memel, Fast Prussia, to a large camp, where he had considerably less food. He still had two meals a day. if you could cail them that, be pointed out. The soup was made from water poured off the meat cooked for the German gar rison. Sometimes there was a little cabbage and sometimes a bit of potato floating on the flavored water. "1 tried to escape once, but I was captured and shot II days later as 1 was climbing over a stone wall, and 1 did not attempt such any more. I landed in a creek as I jumped and suffered a broken ankle. I realized it was useless, I would never get away, ana my nest hot was to stick it out in camp," he said. He was in prison months before any mail came through and then he received 30 letters at one time. In all he had about 100 letters. If takes around eight months for mail to get to a prisoner, he explained. The men who died in his imme diate barracks were all shot and wounded by the guards when they tried to escape. They were buried outside the camp, but the prison ers could see the white crosses, that ever reminded them of their buddies. In his camp a Onrian with a heart got them in a radio, which I hey kept unassembled, and only at certain times in the night did those elected by the group to have charge of it ever use it, and then only to get news of the war. In Discharged r., ... rAt Welcome Home The Following Haywood Men Have Received Honorable Discharges From Military Service, According To Records Received Here. Badge of Honor m v -a LI Die I Blackheads. Too, Went trast Vm, it ia tin'", there ia ! li;iriiilt-sa, medicated liquid called KLEENEX that dries up utmpW might as it acta to loosen and rrinove blarkhf ads. Thoar wlio followed aim- directions hnd applied KlMTti upon retultiK wcfr amazingly surnrisrrf. when they found tlifitjJirn pirn and blackheads had disappeared 1 firse uHfpa enthusiastically praise KlNm and rlaiin thpy.jfre no longer cmbarratwed and ar now happy with thru Hear com pirn ions. Um KfMrea. If onr applk-ntiofi rioei not aatiftfy. yon ft double youi mnncv t"k Ask for Kttefni . ititi SMITH'S DRUG STORE SGT. LAWRENCE MOODY, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Moody, of Hazelwood, who entered the army on September 16, 1940, has recent ly been discharged from the ser vice. He served in the Infantry for 14 months and was then trans ferred to the paratroopers. He was granted his discharge on the point system, having to his credit 127. He left here with the Na tional Guard unit. He participated in the campaigns of North Africa, Sicily, and Italy, later entering with the forces in Holland. a prison camp, Sgt. Smith ex plained, leaders are elected to be in charge, just as an officer would be outside. The news was relay ed then to all the prisoners, un known to the German guards. Liberation came to his group on April 26 when they were on the march to another camp, after 7 days on the road. They got word they were near the Americans, the 104th Division of the 9th Army, and they told the guards they were joining the American forces, and feeling that they were near enough to take charge, took the guns from the Germans and soon joined the Americans. "We were completely exhausted when we reached them. 1 don't think we could have made it any longer. They gave us food which we needed. There is no need to tell you we were overjoyed," he explained. When they joined the Ameri cans they were 300 miles from the French border and were soon tak en into France, where Sgt. Smith remained until June 5. He arriv ed in New York on June 12, with around 2,500 other prisoners. "The lights of New York looked mighty wonderful to me, and 1 will never forget what they meant io me as our ship came in," he concluded. Sgt. Smith reported to Camp Kilmer, N. J., and from there to Fort Hragg and then home for a sixty-day furlough. He is entitled to wear the Pre-Pearl Harbor rib bon, Good Conduct medal, Euro pean theatre ribbon, Air Medal, and Purple Heart. He was serv ing as a gunner prior to his capture. Three 0! The "Musis" In Haywood's - - - Post-War Program 1-A Modern Highway down the Pigeon River to the Tennessee Line 2- A large Commercial Hotel. 3- An Improved Highway to Ashe- ville THE First National Bank ORGANIZED 1902 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation "The Friendly Bank" Troy J. Reno, Tech. 5th, Army, Ashford General Hospital, West Va. Johnnie J. Norris, First Lieut. Army, Ashburn General Hospital, McKinney, Tex. Glenn W. Allen, Sergeant, Army, Fort Bragg. Theodore R. Grant, Private First Class, Army, Thayer General Hos pital, Nashville, Tenn. Hardin L. Price, Private, Army, Welch Convalescent Hospital, Day tona Beach, Flu. John M. Wyatt, Private, Army, Fort Bragg. Sampel J. Liner SSgt. Air Force, Regional Hospital, Fort Bragg. Thomas A. Sutton, Private, Army, Fort Bragg. .John N. Sutton, Private, Army, Hospital Center, Camp Pickett, Va. Leonard J. Snyder, Private, Army, Fort Knox, Ky. Millard P. Plemmons, Sergeant, Army, Welch Convalescent Hos pital, Daytona Beach Fla. Floyd E. Hill, Tech. Sergeant, Army, Fort Bragg. Ilarley J. Rathbone, Tech. 5th, Army, Fort Bragg. Robert L Jordan, Sergeant, Army. Hospital Center, Camp Pickett, Va. Jesse T. Ford, Corporal, Army, Welch Convalescent Hospital, Day tona Beach, Fla. James B. Hurley, Tech. 4th, Army. Fort Bragg. Richard E. Turpin, Tech. Sgt., AAF, Fort Bragg. Thomas E. Swanger, SSgt., Army, Station Hospital. Camp Croft, S. C. Granville M. Mull. SSgt. Army, Fort Bragg. Lloyd B. Caldwell, Corporal, Army, Fort Bragg. Wiley Williams, SSgt. Army, Camp Gordon, Ga. Frank R. Arlington, Sergeant, Army, Fort Bragg. Gordon G. Reno, Tech. '4th, Army, Fort Bragg. William G. Arrington, SSgt. Army, Fort Bragg. Edward Hill, Tech, Sergeant, Army, Fort Bragg. Robert W. Ollliland, Sergeant, Army, Fort Bragg. James W. Swaynglm, Sergeant, Army. Fort Bragg. Rex L Messer, Private First, C lass, Army, Harmon Genera Hospital, l.ongview, lex. Willard Medford, Sergeant, Army, Fort Rragg. Fred A. Wyatt, Private First Class, Army, Army Medical Cen ter, Washington, D. C. Joseph Hardy Palmer, U. S. Ma rines, from San Diego, Calif. Willard Medford, U. S. Army, from Fort Bragg. William Guy Arrington, Army, from Fort Bragg. James Waldo Swayngim, Army, from Fort Bragg. Euward Hill, Army, from Fort Bragg. Oscar Lawrence Canupp, Army, from Camp Atterbury, Ind. Frederick Owen Cook, Fireman Second Class, U. S. Navy, from Great Lakes, 111. Ned Snyder Davis, Army, from Camp Gordon, Ga. Robert Boone Caldwell, Army, trom Camp Gordon, Ga. Herman Albert Free, Army, from Daytona Beach, Fla. David Carl Edwards, Army, from Fort Bragg. Robert Jake Moody, Army, from Camp Gordon, Ga. i t) H . Hit !' if 7 A ' i 4 x' , : III THEY USED TO CALL HER FATTY Almost uobeliavabl lam of waiffat i poibl for meat overwcitjht MopU through ptetmnt, baoIutely lMLnn. Ibm reducing method. Wbilo 'attini plenty, it it poibU W tain off aa aiucf u three to 6v unsightly pound a wk No exercise, no eteiVatioa diet.' bo re ducing dmg or cathartic an oenaenn for those Who nek to regain a rraoahil. youthful figure. In (act. the TrecDett Way i to confidently recommeaded that yon may try Tremett witkoat risk ing a penny. You and your friend kntst marvel at the exciting unpratemsnt in your appearances you must get the results you seek ia 30 day, or your money trill be refunded in RiQ. Eaty to-fouow direction ntk every package. Ask for Tremett a Smith' Cnt-KaOi tMr fiij,. Charlie Love Cagle, Private, Army, from Fort McPherson. da. Wiley Williams. Army, from Camp Gordon, Ga. Rex Lee Messer, Army, from Longview, Tex. Paul William Kirkpatrick, Pri vate First Class, Army, from Camp Gordon, Ga. Randolph R. Wyatt, Army, from Camp Gordon, Ga. James Edmond Robinson, Army, frou Fort Bragg. Mack Chesney Lovedahl. U S Navy, from Charleston, S. C. Floyd E. Mehaffey, Private First Class, Army, from Fort Bragg. Walter R. Franklin, Jr., Staff Sergeant, Army, from Fort Bragg. Doyce Sutton, Army, from Fort Bragg. Charles E. P. Mehaffey, Army, from Fort Bragg. James Edward Moody, Navy, from Bainbridge, Md. William J. McClure, Jr. Is Serving In Pacific William L. McClure, Jr., cox swain, is now serving aboard the USS Fletcher in the Pacific and is fighting aboard this destroyer which has piled up a great war record while battling Japanese ships, planes and submarines over 200,000 miles of the Western Pa cific. Her guns have downed 1 I Jap planes and helped destroy eight others. The Fletcher has sunk a cruiser, assisted in sinking another and heavily damaged two destroy ers. She has sunk one submarine and is credited with the probable I sinking of another. She has res cued more than 1.000 survivors from five stricken ships, five planes and a submarine. Throughout her 1 1 star cam paigns, the Fletcher has taken part in three surface engagements with the Japs, been in 31 separate anti-aircraft actions, five anti-submarine attacks and Hi major shore bombardments. Pfc. Sam L. Queen, Jr. Arrives Home From Pacific Theatre Private First Class Sam L. Queen. Jr., U. S. Martne Corps, has arrived home for a 30-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam L. Queen, at their home on the Dellwood road. Pfc. Queen entered the service in July, 1942, while a student al Western Carolina Teachers Col lege. He entered a Navy training course at Emory University and after completing the work w ab sent to Parris Island, where he took his boot training. From Parris Island he was sent to New River, and later to Camp Pendleton, Calif., from which post he was sent overseas He was seriously wounded in action on Iwo Jima on March 30, and was recently awarded the Purple Heart in a hospital in Hawaii. After his leave here he will re port to Philadelphia for his next assignment. He has a brother in the service, Capt. Richard Queen, who is serving in the Soulhwesi Pacific with the AAF. Dr. H. M. Clarvoe GENERAL PRACTICE VETERINARY MEDICINF and SURGERY OFFICE PHONE 93 RESIDFATE PUOvt OFFICE DEPOT STREET I ilit Rev. Joe Daniel To Preach In County Rev. Joe Daniel, of Marion, will preach here on Saturday and Sun day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Early. There will also be special music for the services, and the public is invited to attend each meeting. Rev. Mr. Daniel will also preach at the Congrega tional Holiness Church at Cove Creek while in this area. The United States has produced about 50 per cent more food an nually during the present war period than in World War I. Mrs. Eula Setzer and Miss Georgia Warren spent I he week end in Greenville, S. C, with rel atives. 1 Remarkable Treatment for Stomach Distress From Too Much Stomach Acid MM54EV Are ymi tuitun-.l uit! siB the binning nii-ny 1.1 too Milled tree si um,ic( ariii'f lUt nf tlie fn minis VON' TAHI.ri'S is lri hiring comfort ing relief in ImmhIi cU of wh siriifitlv griltt'ful people ti il .,( rt'hnt tliev r.lll tin- "wnnHeis" V.m T.it It'U h;tve ilonp fnr them. 'I'tn tf''""'' l. umi In aims to counteract surplus, initiitin tiiu)iii'i arid it riil to hriuif relief fi"m xut-l. on. I it ions. If yon suffer from indiei inn. tfiis, !ip;irttiirn, belt-lung, blunting, s..ur Mom-io-h it nd ol Iter symptoms due to et doiuiii-h a i i i J you, ton, should t ry nn'y for prompt ielief . . , right m home . . . without rigid liquid diet Get $1.23 Trial e. AIo available 2.00. $3.50 sues. Al SMITHS CUT RATE DRUG STORE and other good drug stores. Planning for TELEPHONE PROGRE in Rural DIXIE rr 1 . t io necp nirp wiui xarni prore a, J extend service to more farm fatnili, . l l r 1 t i . icirpuoiie inuuBiry is working on ini(m,iaJ new deviees and inethode. . j ........ tuj mr rciiinjjj our rural telephone expansion prolan which was suspended in 1912 when ei .m ilt and materials became ''l'l'H more iirnentl needed for the armed forces. Surveys art heing made to determine the needs ami in provide the facts from which we can rarrv . , I iilana f tt av- n,,L 11,1, j , f f ...... . .1 i service in the South. The goal is to brings the tele phone to the greatest possible number of farm families. 28 'ill Buy War Bonds and Stamps D3WJ D7 BE ml t?nember those'dark days in early 1942, when' the Axis'tide of conquest was spreading over the World like a pJague?aThat -was" when the Trans, porta tion Corps of the War Depart ment asked theSouthern Railway System to teachtoe fine art of rail roading tojAmericansoldiers "who would some flay have the job of operating military railroads in a dis tant "theatre of operations." The Southern's rails were already beginning to hum with a record vol ume of wartime traffic Nevertheless, a "school" was made available for the 'soldier-railroaders, Without charge, on the 200-mile main line of .the Southern between New Orleans and Meridian, Miss. Instruc tion cars and other special facilities were provided, and veteran Southern officers and employes volunteered to serve as "teachers." On March 18, 1942,the training was begun.' And from that day to the end of January,' 1945, soldier-railroaders worked alongside skilled Southern officers and employes throughout this 200-mile long "school" ... on trains, in shops and roundhouses. ..on tracks, in offices and yards . . . learning to work together as a team . . . learning to railroad by railroading. To date we have been privileged to train, not only our own famous Southern-sponsored i 727th t Railway SOUTHERN RAILWAY Operating Battalion,' but ' also three other battalions and the personnel a replacement school'. . . ina. me 6,000 officers and men. The record shows, too, that when these soldier-railroaders graduate from our "school" and Went overA they added brilliant new chapter the history of military railroading. ' the bartlefronts of World War u- So, as these Mldier-raflroadersfP highballing down the mainline to Victory, il is with pride that we mention this job of the Southern Railway W ...now.thatitcanbetold. SYSTEM U .wAnd sProg gUtt Ter7wfctr. , ill
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