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WEATHER FORECAST Colder tonight; fresh winds. Bunset today, 7:53 p. m.; sunrise tomorrow, 6:63 a. m. MONROE MARKET ' Cotton, short, lb 21V4c Cotton, long, lb 81tto Cotton Seed, bushel 70HO Eggs, dozen 82d Hens, pound 24c to 370 Corn, bushel $125 Wheat, bushel $1.80 PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS i ii SEVENTIETH YEAR MONROE, N. C, UNION COUNTY, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1943 WEEKLY, $2.00 A YEAR r Lower Prices On Meat Seen OPA Hints In Ceiling: Suspen sion Order That Decline Is Probable CEILING ON HORSE MEAT OPA hinted strongly It will order lower retail prices for meat in suspend ing todav for a month new dollar-and- cents ceilings on beef, veal, lamb and mutton, originally scheduled to become effective tomorow, Friday. In accompanying actions, the agency -clampep ceilings on horse meat and approved corn transportation subsidies intended to hold down prices of dairy and poultry products and encourage increased production of them In areas where feed is short. The dollar-and-cents ceilings on fceef, veal, lamb and mutton were su spended until May 17, Price Admlni strator Prestiss Brown explained, to permit "a full re-examlnatlon of the ceilings to insure they are In accord with the directive (from President Roosevelt) requiring a tight holding of the line on cost of living items.1 It was learned from other sources that Brown had received many com' plaints that the ceilings would ma' teriaily Increase retail meat prices, particularly in chain stores. According to Information receiv ed by local rationing officials, the price refutation which would have become effective today, April 15, and would have established dollar and cents celling prices on retail ales of beef, veal, lamb, and mut ton, has had Ha 'effective date moved forward to May 17, IMS. This means that local retail sales of the above named meats are sub . Jeet to the general maximum price regulation until the effective date of the new regulation which will be May 17, IMS. It was indicated a revised order might widen the differential between chain and independent s tore prices. The original schedule permitted a dir ferentlal of one to three cents per pound on meats, between chain and independent stores. When first announced, the order was described by OPA officials as effecting a material reduction, on the average, in existing retail meat prices. Today, officials, unwilling to be quoted by name, said It appeared the reduction was more theoretical thana real. They explained it reduced ceilings of small stores which were not selling much meat but; apparently did not mean lower prices on most' of the meat ac tually being sold. , The original system required each prices on meat on the basis of the highest prices charged in March 1942. Principal purpose of the new regulation was to standardize prices. The suspension order was the most striking action taken to date by the OPA in following up President Roose velt's order to "hold the line" against Increases in the cost of living, and his .simultaneous directive to cut prices wherever possible. Other major actions thus far Include the establishment of maximum prices on horse meat and fresh tuna fish, and the com subsidy order. The latter Is a follow up to OPA's action last night increasing the mid-Western price of No. 2 yellow corn by five cents a bushel. So that this Increase will not mean higher prices in areas which must Import feed, OPA will subsidize transportation costs to keep prices In such areas at present levels. - Numerous other actions' have been hinted, including an order designed . to reduce the cost to. consumers of poultry, eggs and fresh vegetables. Experts were reported still working on promised ceilings for several basic agricultural products, Including cotton, wheat and apples. The horse meat order, one of the first official recognitions of the increase In its consumption, is effective' April 20. It sets 14 cents a pound, as the - top price for carcasses of large sections, 18 cents a pound for boneless cuts, 14 oents for meat ground with the bone, and 19 cents for meat ground with out the bone or packed In one pound glass containers. One of the oddities of the order was the higher price for "horseburger" than for horse "porterhouse." Officials explained that a larger percentage of horse flesh Is sold in the ground form. HOSPITAL NEWS Admissions: Raymond L. Mills, Jr. S3, Monroe; Mrs. Julius Falls, R2, Jefferson, 8. C: Mrs. Henry C. Bau om and baby boy, R3, Monroe; Mrs. J. O. Helms, Wlngate; Mrs. James H. Wallace, R2, Pageland, S. C; Mrs. Robert Gamer and baby girl, Monroe; Woodrow W. Burgess, - RL, Monroe; Sirs. J. D. Ashley, Waxhew; Mrs. J. Clifford long, Monroe; Donley O. Rushing, RS Monroe; John Thomas Johnson, Rl, Pageland. 8. C; Mrs. John P. Clancy, Monroe; Craytol Grif fin, R, Manhville; Doris Hornback, Rl, Wlngate. - " .'" For treatment: arover o. Meonn, Rl Monroe: Johnnie T. HilL Monroe; Mrs. A. T. Carnea and baby boy. Monroe: Mrs. J. K. Coleman and baby girl, Pageland, 8. C; Mrs. Francis E. Mo Clung, Monroe; Mrs. Sandy Steen, R3, Ruby, 8. C; Mrs. Frank White and baby boy, Rl, Monroe; Mr Blake Watts, Rl, Pageland, a a; Mrs. An drew Hasty, R5, Lancaster, 8. C; Mrs. Clyde Mungo and baby boy, Pageland, 8. O.; Mrs. Theron Mangum, Page land, 8. C; Mrs. Vana Sneed, Rl, Marsh vllle; Mrs. Lester Gilmer and baby girl, Monroe. - - . J Pvt. James E. Moore, son of Mr., and Mrs. W. A. Moore, has been trans ferred from the Signal Corps to the following address: Det. Med, Dept. Station Hospital, Fort Bliss, Texas. He has a brother in service also. Pvt. William Eugene Moore, Hq. Co, 2nd Bn, 40th A. R. 13th. Armored Dir, Camp; Beale, CaL ? . .-- y LOCAL YOUTH LEARNS ARMY WORKS QUICKLY Archie D. Moore, Now Receiving Train ing At Engineer Officers' School. Archie D. Moore, aged nineteen, a Monroe high school graduate of 1941, was convinced today that this rapidly expanding American Army makes up its mind in a hurry. Visiting the Charlotte Area office of the Army Corps of Engineers, where he was employed until a few days ago, he reported today that he was or dered to an Engineer officers' training school even before he had been en tirely through the induction process at Camp Croft, near Spartanburg. This youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Moore, of Monroe, has been an employee of the Corps of Engineers offices at Camp Sutton, at Monroe, Camp Butner. at Durham, and at Charlotte, having entered that civilian service immediately after graduation from high school. Several days ago he decided, since his draft num. ber likely soon will come up at nts Monroe Selective Service board, that he would volunteer In response to the Corps of Engineers call for 9,000 men a month for replacement training pre liminary to being sent into assured overseas service. He went to Camp Croft along with 74 draftees, and got sent out of these immediately, armed with orders sending him to an officers training school His orders require him to report to Fort Bragg, and the Engineer Officer there was ordered to forward him lm meiately to the proper training center. The headquarters of Captain Robert P. Ruffner, the area C. of E. officer, said Tuesday that a number of men in this section of the Carolinas are volunteering for the Corps of Engi neers. This number is expected to in crease steadily, because the rapid de cline in military construction is re leasing hundreds of skilled men wno may now experience difficulty in using their skills except with the Army En gineer forces. Captain Runner cited the case oi this Monroe youth, as showing em phatically the excellent opportunity men from the construction lndusttry have to obtain officers' commissions in a minimum of time by volunteering for service with the Corps of Engineers during this recruiting campaign. Ail volunteers here are required to appear before Captain Ruffner for a personal interview preliminary to enlistment, it was explained. Usually, these volunteers win oe given twelve weeks of basic training but ail of them will be privileged to apply for commissioned officer train ing. Wants Advance Pay For Boys Army And Navy Request Leg islation To Permit Pay ments Ahead REYNOLDS BACKS BILL The War department, with the ap proval of the Navy department, has asked enactment or legislation to per mit personnel ordered overseas to be paid In advance up to three months of their pay. A bill proposed by the two depart ments would also permit payment of per dlems for as much as a year In ad vance. If the bill Is enacted, "the War de partment proposes to authorize tne payment in advance of pay rolls al ready prepared when the embarkation occurs prior to the end of the month," the Secretary of War stated in a letter to Congress. "In addition," be said, "In cases where such action Is deemed advisable and time permits, the prepa ration and payment in advance of pay rolls for the current month may be permitted. In special cases where it is anticipated that regular payment of pay rolls at stations overseas will be impractical in the Initial stages of the operation the War deparatment may authorize payments covering periods of not more than three months." The Secretary pointed out that naval officers may now be paid up to three months in advance -when ordered to and from sea duty, and that persons ordered to distant stations where reg ular pay cannot be- made to them may now be paid In advance. The new proposal extends this au thority to aU personnel, commissioned and enlisted, of all services. A bill, a 966, incorporating the de partment's proposal was Introduced In the Senate by Senator Robert R. Rey nolds of North Carolina, chairman of the Senate military affairs committee. BENTON HEIGHTS SCHOOL CLOSING Twenty-Five Seniors Awarded Dlpto- Class Donates To Bed cress. The graduating class of the Benton I Heights high school held its class day and graduating exercises - Tuesday morning, April 13, at ten o'clock In kthe school auditorium. CM. Presiar, former principal of the school, made an Impressive talk on "Ingredients Of A Worthwhile Life." ! The das made a twenty-five dollar contribution to the Red Cross and gave as its gift to the school a War Bond. It was announced at the exercises that Vir ginia Benton had been voted by the student body the best aD.-'round girl and Joel Stegall the best an-Tound boy; J Howard 'Williams, principal, presented diplomas to the following: Viola Baocom, Jean Belk, Virginia Benton, Effle Broome, Jewel Cur lee, Frances Hancock, Luclle Hartis, Doro thy Jenkins, Dixie Long. Frances Pollock, Marine Smith, Betty Lou Tucker, Vivian Tucker, Zelma Wall, James Cornelius, Harry Hargette, Payne Howard, Olanda Mullls. William Outen. Billy Pollock, Louie Price, Eu gene Smith, Joel StegsO, Charles Trull, and BiUy Yandie. : Dedication Exercises Of New US0 Building To Be Held On Saturday $65,000 Club House To Be Formally Opened With Elaborate Ceremony N0TABLESWILL ATTEND . The formal opening and dedication exercises of the new $65,000 USO build ing at 502 North Main street in Mon roe will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock with many notables from military and civilian life attending the exercises. A thousand invitations have been sent for the opening and one of the largest crowds to ever at tend a similar ceremony In Monroe, is expected to be present for the oc casion. Following the dedication an Informal reception will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 o'clock when interested visitors will be given the opportunity to inspect the building and its facilities, which is said to be one of the most modern In the southeast. From 8:30 to 11:30 P. M. there will be a formal dance for enlisted men in the auditorium, with music furnished by the 386th Engineers Royal Castleers. Corporal Roxie Reefe wil lentertain at the dance with His 11200 accordion. The Monroe Military Maids, Victory Belles and Junior Hadahhah of Char lotte will supply the dance partners for the enlisted men. One hundred fifty to two hundred girls have been Invited. The patrons and patronesses for the dance are: Col. and Mrs. W. R. Wheel er, Col. and Mrs. Warner Gates, Lt. Col. and Mrs. Arthur T. Smith, Major H. A. Usher, Mr. and Mrs. Moke Wil liams, Mr. -and Mrs. J. 8. Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Niven, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Stack, Vann Secrest. The dedication program will be as follows, with Rev. Joseph H. Armbrust, chairman of the Monroe Defense Rec reation Committee presiding: Invocation Rev. Frederick Drane. Star Spangled Banner Monroe high school band, Prof. R. W. House, direc tor. Salute to the Flag Boy Scouts. W. of O. Austin, Leader. Greetings Mayor V. D. Bikes Monroe. Music High School Band. Introductions Chairman. Old Testament Reading Rabbi Philip Frankel. Remarks Col. W. R. Wheeler, Com manding Officer of Camp Sutton, and Col. Warner Gates, Commanding Offi cer of Morris Field, Charlotte. Music Massed Choirs; Mrs. Zeb Jones, Director. Introduction J. Ray Shute. Address Judge Wilson Warlick. Judge of Superior Court. Music High School Band. Presentation Ceremony Thomas R. Owen, FWA Regional Representative, John I. Neasmith, FSA Regional Rec reation Representative; Vesper Smith, COUNTY RED CROSS OFFICIALS EXPRESS APPRECIATION FOR SUCCESS OF DRIVE "In bringing to a close the present War Fund Drive of our American Red Cross," states R. E. Lee, Chairman, "we feel that In view of the fine and hearty response made to the causes for which it exists, that we would not have done an that we should, If we failed to express our sincere and grateful appreciation to all of those who have had a part In such a worthy and needed pro gram, either as a worker or as a contributor. : "Union county's quota was set at $15,000, which at first seemed a rather large sum. However, with the wholehearted cooperation ' of the workers and citizens of the county and the soldiers of Camp Button, a. total of $18,170 has been donated, with approximately $5,000 being raised at Camp Sutton. ' v "The success of the whole campaign Is due to the faithful and energetic work of the men and women, boys and girls, throughout the County in soliciting the aid of all Its citizens, and we know . that ail the people in the county Join with us In high praise and commendation of their successful efforts. The record of the present drive stands as a tribute to the cit Isens of Union county, and undoubtedly as a source Of consolation to the boys in our armed forces and their realisation that the people on the home front have kept their faith." ' "Every contributor should feel proud of bis participation in this ' humane project. For that identifies him or her with the force of democracy, mercy, and Christianity, In which are Imbedded the principles and Ideals of all true tirinnt and the things for which men today are fighting and dying, to preserve." -; y - ' " . : , ' . .. -. R. C LEE, Chairman, r ... NEW US0 BUILDING TO BE DEDICATED jj Army and Navy TMCA Associate Re gional Spuerrisor; E. G. Londow, Jew ish Welfare Board Regional Super visor; M. E. Shepard, Director; Wil liam Rosenberg, Associate Director; Miss Helen Glpson. Assistant Director. Benediction Father Patrick Hanley, Response Massed Choir. The program for Sunday, April 18, the day after the opening, will con sist of the following: 9:30 a. m., the Java Club, coffee and doughnuts for soldiers; 10:45 a. m., visit a Monroe church, local residents are invited to come in and take a soldier to church and then home for dinner; 12:30, home dinner; 4:30 p. m., lobby sing and muslcale, Roxie Reefe and his accor dion; 7:30-8:30 p. m.. Music of the Masters relax wijborda; 8:30-9:30 p. m., Recorcno send a letter dome on a record. The Franklin Street USO will con tinue to operate in addition to this new building. The process for secur ing this building has continued for the past 12 months, when application was made to the F. S. A. by the local Defense Recreation Committee. This committee was appointed by Mayor V. D. Sikes. The original committee consisted of Rev. J. H. Armbrust, chairman; C. H. Hasty, W. H. Morri son, Miss Allie Horn, Mrs. E. H. Brome, M. B. Llles, and Mrs. Fred Huntley. Later Sldl Stewart was named in the place of C. H. Hasty, deceased; Claude Eubanks took the place of W. H. Mor rison, who resigned because of other duties, and Erskine Mcllwaine was added as secretary. Ex -officio mem bers are Mayor Sikes and J. Ray Shute, Jr. The following sub-committees of the Defense Recreation Committee were named: Social Activities, Miss Allie Horn, chairman; Home Hospitality, Mrs. Paul Gamble, chairman; Club Activities, Mrs. F. B. Drane, chairman; Music-Community Sings, Amos Stack, chairman; Church Cooperation, Rev. F. K. Eflrd, chairman; Information and Rentals, Pvt. Fred Wright in charge, now Cpl. K. C. Gallagher in charge. The location of the Main Street USO Club, opposite the post office, was chosen for the Federal Recreation Building, based on the number of soldiers housed in Camp Sutton. The Type D building was Anally chosen. This building consists of a large au ditorium, with splendidly equipped stage; spacious well-furnished lobby with a snack bar, check room, offices, library, music room, powder room, and snower lacllltles. The F. W. A. and P. S. A. officials approved the site, and the funds were granted to the amount of $65,000 for construction and fur nishings. The local Defense Recreation Com mittee Is responsible for providing soldier recreation facilities, but has nothing to do with the operation of individual units. When the building was secured, the Young Men's Chris tian Association and National Jewish Welfare Board, members of United Photo by Dixie Photo Shop Program At Court House For Sale Of War Bonds Announcement was made today by the Women's Division of War Saving Bonds and Stamps of Mon roe and Union county qf a special program to be presented at the Court House, Thursday evening, April 29 at 8 o'clock, which will In clude a concert by the Monroe High School band under the direc tion of Prof. R. W. House and special talent from Camp Sutton, under the direction of the Defense Recreation Committee. Immediately following the pro gram, the Minute Maids, sponsored by the Monroe Junior Woman's Club will sell bonds and stamps. The public Is cordially invited to attend the program and Join in the sale of war bonds and stamps by purchasing as many as possible service Organalzations, Inc., were re quested to take over the operation of this building as a USO Club. The Committee has always desired a well- balanced program, and 5 of the 6 USO agencies are now operating In Monroe, namely: Travelers Aid, Young Women's Christian Association, Na tional Catholic Community Service, National Jewish Welfare Board, and Young Men's Christian Associations. In addition to the USO building on North Main street a new Federal Rec reation building for colored soldiers is now in process of being erected, to be operated by the USO and is located next to the Winchester colored high school building. Under Lanham Act funds, recrea tion centers are being operated in the churches, Business and Professional Women's Club and Winchester colored high school auditorium. It is believed that Monroe now has one of the best well-rounded, cooperative soldier recreation programs in the South. Committees and Staffs of the local USO are: Monroe Defense Recreation Com mitteeRev. Joseph H. Armbrust, cnairman; Sldl Stewart, Claude Eu banks, Miss Allie Home. Mrs. E. H Broome, M. B. Llles, Mrs. Fred Hunt ley, V. D. Bikes, J. Ray Shute, Erskine Mcllwaine, secretary. Federal Works Aeencv Henrv A. Brooks, Supervising Engineer; Thomas K. owen. Senior Construction Engi neer. Federal Security Agency Johnh I. Neasmith, Regional Recreation Rep resentative; Stuart Woodward, Field Recreation Representative. Building Management Committee Vann V. Secrest, chairman; Moke Wil liams, Sam Lee, Edwin Niven, James Morrow, Roy Curry, Robert 8uritz. Building Staff Main Street USO Club M. E. Shepard, director; Wil liam Rosenberg, associate director; Miss Helen Glpson, assistant director; Ruth Phillips, secretary; Ruth Fin berg, secretary. Building Staff Franklin Street USO Club Raymond P. Hogan, director; Mrs. Betsy Price, associate director; Miss Annie Sue Holland, acting direc tor Travelers Aid; Andrew Daly, as sistant director; Helen Goodman, sec retary; Gertrude Keziah, secretary; Elizabeth Long, secretary. TO PRESENT RECITAL AT WINGATE FRIDAY NIGHT At eight o'clock Friday evening Wlngate Junior college - will present Miss Eleanor Lee In concert, assisted by Miss Carolyn Caldwell, soprano, In the college auditorium. No admission fee will be charged and the public Is cordially Invited. The program is as follows: Carolyn Caldwell O Divine Re deemer, Gounod; O Dry Those Tears, Del Riego; O Love Life, . Mana Zucca. Eleanor . G. Lee Butterfly Etude, Chopin; Black Key Etude, Chopin; Fantasie Impromptu, Chopin. - Miss Caldwell Kashmiri Song, Woodforde-Flnden; Star Of Me, Rogers;- A Dissonance, Rachmaninoff; My Hero, O. Strauss. - Mrs. Lee Malaguena, Lecuona; Clair De Lune, Debussey; Wine, Wom en and Son, J. Strauss. Mrs. Herndon Hasty and two chil dren. Miss Emily and Herndon, Jr.. and Mrs. Ralph Sutherland, spent Saturday to FayettevUle where they visited their coucm, Mrs. F. w: Toiar and family. THE LATE WAR NEWS IN BRIEF Aerial teams of swift medium bombers and high speed, heavily gunned fighters bombed and shot up the Japanese on Kiska island all day Monday, the navy report ed today in the latest of a series of communiques telling of offen sive blows at the enemy in the North Pacific. The R. A. F. crossed the Armps Tuesday night for a block-buster raid on the Italian naval base of Spezia, and the British African command announced that its bombers had showered explosives on Messina and Palermo Italy in an aerial vise. "The whole dockyard was well ablaze," said one pilot who made the 1,500-mile round-trip flight to attack the big Fascist submarine shipbuilding and repair center, 50 miles southeast of Genoa in north ern Italy. Hungary has refused Axis re quests for troops to help defend Balkans and at the same time is withdrawing soldiers from Russia, usually reliable sources said today. According to these quarters, Mus solini asked Premier Nicholas Kal , lay of Hungary for troops during the tatter's recent Rome visit, but Kallay was reported to have dung to the official line announced weeks ago that no Hungarian forces would be sent across the southern borders. Unification of the French em pire overseas under a council which would be committed to sur rendering its powers to the French people after their liberation is the basis of the "Giraud plan" which General Charles de Gaulle, Fight ing French leader, is considering In London Allied circles said to day. Union County's Men In Service Tech. Sgt. Barney W. Helms, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tracy O. Helms of R5, Monroe, is spending a 30-day furlough with his parents. Sgt. Helms has been in the service for seven years, four of which have been spent overseas. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked by the Japs on De cember and for the past 17 months has been in active duty on a flying fortress. This furlough is the first Sgt. Helms has had In four years. Be fore coming to the Spates, he spent 30 days at his home in Hawaii. He was recently released from a govern ment hospital in San Francisco after receiving treatment there for 30 days, making ninety days he has been away from active duty. Mr. and Mrs. Helms have two other sons In the service who have been overseas for the past three years and another son that will enter the army, June 1. Pvt. James C. Mullls, Jr., has been transferred from Boise, Idaho to Utah. His address is: Pvt. James C. Mullls, Jr., 581 Bomb Sqd., 393 Bomb Sqd , A. S. N. 14149726, Wlndover Field, Utah. Pvt. John H. Hlnson recently visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hln son. He is stationed at the air base in Richmond, Va., and has been pro moted to instructor. His address -, Is, H. Si 8. Co., 1st Bn. 924th Avn. Engr. Rgt., Army Air Base, Richmond, Va. Corporal Robert B. Matheson ar rived Wednesday, April 7th for a ten day furlough with his mother, Mrs. J. B. Matheson. He is stationed at Camp Breckinridge, Ky. He entered the sevrices October 13, 1942. Another son, Pvt. Joseph B. Matheson, is sta tioned in India. Pvt. Harvey Lee Cooke and Mrs. Cooke of Nevada, are spending IS days with Pvt. Cooke's mother, Mrs. Ells Cooke and Mrs. Cooke's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Greene of Benton Heights. Military authorities at Key Field, Miss., recently announced the promo tion of Lex V. Cox to the grade of corporal. Corporal Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon H. Cox, R4, Monroe; has been a member of the Army Air Forces since October 29, 1942, when he was Inducted at Camp Croft, S. C. He is stationed at this air base with a quartermaster company. Pvt. J. B. Long, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Long, Is now stationed at Camp Van Dora, Miss. Pvt. Long has Just gone into camp. He has been on ma neuvers in Louisiana since January 29. He says he is glad to get back to camp, but would be much glader to get home to see the folks and says to tell, his friends to keep writing. He likes his mail. Pvt. Nathan Lee Stacks has been spending several days with his wife, the former Miss Dorothy Agnes Rich ardson of Monroe and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 8. Stacks of R4, Mon roe. Pvt. Stacks has recently been transferred from Fort Jackson.. S. C. to Camp Wheeler, Ga. His new ad dress Is Co. B.. 17 Bn. 1st. Pn Camp Wheeler, Ga. - J. W. Walden, 82c, who has been in service at Peart Harbor, has been transferred to Midway bland. He says the navy Is fine and would like to hear from his friends. - Pvt. James T. Rape who It stationed in Virginia, spent the week-end with his wife, Mrs. Rape of R4. Monroe. Pvt. Rape was Inducted Into the army January 33, His address Is 14th Med. Tng. Bn., Co. A, 4th Platoon, Camp PteketVVe. .-. . Sgt Johnny . Cashlon of Fort 8111, Okla, and Mrs. Cushion are spending i ville, Fla. His address is: Cni 2-, a furlough wfth the formers mother. 4-E Barracks 67, 6j. Ma. ire Avti Mrs. R. H. Cflshlon. Mrs. Johnny tlon DeU Navl Air Terhnkal Cashlon was formerly Miss Eeansr Center. JnctamvlUs, Fla Stoop. . . , , Oontinued on page 8) Allies Bag 84 Enemy Planes Stunning Aerial Triumph Shreds Axis Sky Forces In Tunisian Fight NAVAL BASES" POUNDED The Allied high command announced today a stunning 84-to-3 serial victory which shredded Marshal Rommel's sky cover and further menaced his thin supply line on the eve of the climactic fight for survival by his cornered Tu nisian troops. American Flying Fortresses led a tremendous assault on Rommel's rear bases in Sicily, destroying 77 planes. Seven more were shot down in other operations during yesterday. Heavy German reliance on aerial transports indicated the gravity of Rommel's supply problems as Allied ground troops closed on the enemy's last mountain bastions. The British Eighth army already was probing the Enfldaville defenses 50 miles south of Tunis; the British First army was moving in from the west much nearer thaan that to the Tunisian capital, and French and American troops were occupying In the southwest for co-ordinated blows that are expected to push the forces of Rommel and Col -Gen. Jurgen von Arnlm into the Mediterranean. A French communique said the mountains west and northwest of Kairouan had been cleaned out with 1,100 prisoners taken, 500 Axis dead counted, and 18 cannon captured. A junction also was reported made with the Eighth army north of Kairouan. Lieut. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson's First army made further advances in its effort to clean out the mountains be tween Medjez-el-Bab and Mateur pre liminary to a direct strike toward Tunis, which is only 35 air line miles from Medjez-el-Bab. (Capt Ludwlg Sertorius, Berlin ra dio commentator, in a broadcast re corded by the Associated Press said General Anderson was employing High landers and Canadians "In fierce fight ing for the mountains north of the Oued Zarga-Medjez-el-Bao road. Strong French forces were moving up In the Bou Arada sector below Medjez-el-Bab, he said, and "the bulk" of the British Eighth army tanks and motorized formations have moved up to the Axis-held mountain rim west of Enfldaville. "Air operations," said the Allied communique laconically, "were directed largely against enemy air fields" and it was left to a spokesman to tell the , story' of the greatest series of blows yet delivered from the sky in the North African theater. American Flying Fortresses led a tremendous assault yesterday. Thun dering over the Castelvetrano and Mllo airfields in Sicily they caught 12 big enemy air transports on the ground at the first and 106 Axis planes grounded at the second. In sharp ac tions, 51 enemy transports were de stroyed at Castelvetrano and many others badly damaged; at Mllo at least 22 enemy planes were smashed and fires from a blazing gasoline dump were set leaping among others. The day was rounded off by the de struction of 11 more Axis planes for certain, four of them going down in flames under the gunfire of the For tresses coming back from Sicily. These attacks (which in all likeli hood accounted for a total considerably greater than the minimum and cer tain figure of 84 enemy planes) were synchronized with assaults upon the surviving Axis airdromes in Tunisia itself Megrine at Pochville on the out skirts of Tunis and Oudna, south of Tunis. (Not only the Tunisian Allied air forces but British home-based bombers and RAF planes under the Middle East command were pounding violently at tne Italian base-land. It was an nounced In London that Spezia, the naval base In northern Italy below Genoa, and the Palermo and Messina harbors in Sicily had been heavily bombed. Pvt. Bill M. Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lee, has been transferred from Salt Lake City, Utah, to the following address: Second Statistical Control Unit, Fort George Wright, Washington. Dudley Wilson Simpson, seaman 3c, U. S. Navy, has finished his basic training at Bainbridge, Md and is spending a two weeks furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Simpson, on East Windsor street He will return to Bainbridge about April 16th, and will be transferred to Crest Geld, Va. "Seabee" McColl Johnson of the U. B. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Johnson, has landed In Hllo, Hiwiii, and writes that lt Is a lovely place, and there Is so much to see. His brother, "Seabee'' P. H. Johnson, Jr, who has been at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, has been transferred. Pfc Millard 3. presiar, 303 Winches ter Ave Monroe, has been graduated from the Motor Vehicle Operator's School, Motor Transport, School Bat talion at the New River Marine Base and Is onw ready for duty as a mo tored vehicle . operator. . , Graduation came after three weeks of training and instruction at the school at New River. ' Pvt.' Oscar L. Prultt son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Prultt of Bakers has been promoted to private first class and sent to Lawson General Hospital, Co. B, 1st Platoon MDTS, Atlanta, Ga, for. technical training.. Ha received his basic training - at Camp Pickett, Va , . . . . Pvt. James Kenneth Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. -J. H. Moore of Marsh ville, has completed his training at Parris Island, 6. C, and he won a medal for expert rifle-and plstal oot tne. Ee Is now ta tinned at .in. w. 1 f 4 S-.J i I. If i i 5 i
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