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WEATHER FORECAST Continued warm with Mattered thundershowera. Sunset today, :3B p. m.; tunrlse Tuesday, 8. 19 a. m. MONROE MARKET Cotton, short, lb 21tto Cotton, long, lb 31 He Cotton Seed, bushel 7040 Eggs, dozen 35c ' fjyers, pound 384c PUBUSHED ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS 'Utj, ', ' 0Ut OUBnci 91M i-faeat, bushel $1.40 BEVENTTETH YEAR MONROE, N. C, UNION COUNTY, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1943 SEMI-WEEKLY, $2.00 A YEAR mm MS 1 I 1 -I I II I I I I I I I I I I I !. WW 4 House Rejects Corn Ceiling Committee Refuse! To Act On Price Hike Of Commodity MEMBERS FAILT0 AGREE A Senate-approved plan to entice stored corn Into the market by raising the ceiling from $1.07 to $1.40 hiishKl. Chicano basis, was pigeon-1 holed Friday by the House agriculture committee before Congress adjourned lor a recess until September 1. Committeemen thereby left up to the administration the task of remedy ing the current shortage-of purchasa ble corn. They tabled the bill, 9 to 6, after discussing the subject In execu tive session with Marvin Jones, the new War Pood administrator. Committeemen who fought the bill had predicted that if it were passed President Roosevelt would veto it, pre sumably on the ground that it ran counter to his "hold-the-Ilne' order. At first there was talk of drafting some alternative legislation, but later In the day the Idea was dropped, at least for the time being. Representative Hope, Republican of m Kansas, quoted Administrator Jones "as saying he did not see how the ceil ing could be broken unless some steps were taken to reimburse farmers who have sold corn since April 14, the date the $1.07 ceiling was set. Hope re called that former Pood Administrator Chester C. Davis had stated, in setting the ceiling, that there would be no further increase in the maximum corn price In the present crop year. Legislators disagreed, as to whether It would be feasible to pave the way for an increase In the ceiling by re imbursing farmers the difference be tween prices obtained since April 14, and any new celling. Representative Cooley, Democrat of North Carolina, contended that lifting of the celling by Congress "would play Into the hands of speculators" now holding corn sold by farmers since April 14. On the other hand, Representative Hope, ranking minority member of the agriculture committee, said that if the goverment lifted the celling and "gave the farmers some assurance oi reimbursement on corn they have sold since April 14, I think Congress would back up the administration, t Own. . State congressmen -estimate there are about 800,000,000 bushels of corn now in storage. They say hold ers are able to realize as high as $1.37 a bushel for it by feeding It to hogs, and hence are unlikely to place it on the market without an Increase in the $1.07 ceiling. Chairman Smith, Democrat of South Carolina, of the Senate agricultural committee, author of the higher ceil ing proposal, declared that the only way to get the corn moving is to raise the price, adding, "The law of supply and demand must be allowed to oper ate In this case." .HELICOPTER TO .GO. fNTO.QUANTITY PRODUCTION ?; ? V'-'-5ysr' '"' 'V '' :"- & i .t -1 ? - W,. - i ii n' in' i . ' , 1 Cotton Yield Drop Expected Harvested Acreage May Be Smallest Since Year 1895 REPORT SHOWS DECLINE THE LATE WAR NEWS IN BRIEF A hint that General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's famed British Eighth army which booted Axis out of the Middle East in one nf history's most brilliant military campaigns, may be participating In the Invasion of Sicily came to day in the first press dispatch from the Sicilian landings. if This Sikorsky type of helicopter, which will be built hTouantitv for the Army Air Force, by Nash-fcelvinator Corporation TpSime manufacturer of automobiles and refrigerators, can alight on land water, snow, thin ice, a rooftop or a parking lot. The craft can hover motionless in mid-air; descend and ascend vertically without forward motion and fly backward, sideways or forward with equal fadlfty. Oil Stocks Up On East Coast Supply Slowly Rising From Recent Low Level HIGHEST IN 4 MONTHS Eastern petroleum stocks, slowly In creasing their rate of recovery from dangerously low levels, have risen to RATION SQUABBLE ON OVER VACATION GAS Brown's Order Lifting Ban Is At Ickes Slap Rationing officials are hot under the collar, D. C. Speaker said today, at Prentls M. Brown's easing up of the northeast pleasure driving ban to per mit vacation motor trips. Brown made the decision against the advice of his rationing aides in the Office of Price Administration, said Speaker, mythical District of Co lumbia spokesmen for authentic sources who may not be quoted. Purth- Petroleum Administration for War ? ne sald- Secretary of the Interior icKKes, as petroleum aaminlstrator, 56th PIONEER INFANTRY TO MEET IN SMITHFIELD Twelfth Annual Reunion To Be Held August 7-8 Veterans of World War I from sev eral Atlantic Seaboard states, members of the 56th Pioneer Infantry who fought in the Argonne and later served with the Army of Occupation In Ger many, will gather in Smlthfield on the week-end of August 7-8 for their 12th reunion. This will mark the third reunion of the regiment in Smltlffleld. The ex soldiers having met there in 1939 and again last year when by unani mous vote they accepted an invitation to return to Smlthfield for their 1943 convention. Other reunions have been held In Tyrone, Pa., and In Monrqe? The 56th Pioneer Infantry was com poaed of 3,600 officers and men, ap proximately 1,900 of which are reg istered members of the reunion asso ciation. Most of the members live In the Carolinas, Pennsylvania and Maine. William H. Wilson of Sanford, Maine, is president of the association and Jonas R. Smith of Philadelphia, is acting secretary. W. M. Oaskin of Smlthfield, who presided at last year's reunion, is in charge of arrangements for this year's meeting. The 1943 reunion program will In clude an address by Albert Coates, a native of Smlthfield, who has received national recognition as creator and director of the Institute of Govern ment at the University of North Car olina. j The Seta Pioneer Infantry trained at Camp Wadsworth, 8. C, and went overseas 'during the summer of 1918. Upon its arrival In France,'; the regi ment moved '- Immediately into the thick of the fighting In the Argonne unit was stationed in Germany untlfl the summer of 1919 when It returned to tba United States. - try to' who expect to attend the 1943 reunion may make reservations by writing W. U. Oaskin, Smlthfield, N. C. - . . - - t ,, ' Union county, In the summer of 1918, sent a' contingent of 85 men to Camp Wadsworth at Spartanburr. S. C, and these men were all assigned to the 66th -Pioneer Infantry. A number of them wlU attend the re union In Smlthfield. ' , reported Friday. Stocks rose from 29.5 per cent of normal to 315, the best level sicne March 6, but acting PWA Administra tor Ralph K. Da vies cautioned: "Even though the volume of oil now reaching the East coast every day is almost at prewar levels, this does not permit the relaxing of restric tions upon consumption for the rea son that this oil must supply military as well as civilian requirements. "However, the public will find con siderable satisfaction in knowing that, even though its own supplies are cur tailed, the needs of the armed forces are being met in full and on time." Eastern supplies are still 8.5 per had turned down a request for more gasoline to permit the move. Speaker explained: Many OPA staff men felt that, even though only accumulated A-card ra tions may be used, it would encourage unessential motoring by those who de cide to "take vacations at home." Brown requested Ickes only a day or two before the vacation plan was an nounced for an additional civilian al location of 15,000 barrels a day for vacation use, but Ickes said no. And If In bowing to the congres sional group headed by Representa tive Fred M. Hartley, Republican of New jersey, who sponsored the plan ment to the East averaged 960,362 bar rels dally for the week ended July 3 a drop of 33,292 barrels from the pre vious week, but Da vies commented: "We are going to bring in more oil, month by month. In the four weeks ended June 26, the total overland movements was 1.366539 barrels per day compared to 998,960 barrels daily in the same period last year. That is an increase of 36 per cent, but we are not stopping there. With each succeeding month, the figure will be considerably higher. 1,199 NAZI PLANES HIT BY EIGHTH AIR FORCE i - Army tents made of heavy cotton duck rann all the mv from "nun" else to hangar stsa. The most com mon are the regular army tents used in camps and pup tents used while the men are on the move. ' A cotton .office tent that can be set up quickly in the field has recently been devel bped and the air corps uses what is known as a "Panser Hangar" which covers airplanes while emergency re- ' pairs are being made. Report Of First Tear's Operation Shows Huge Nazi Losses. cent below what the oU industry views r ,7"" ,77. . ay'a" as "a safe working level," Davles said. I 0"ev vtf"" tr.lp ,year' Brown HnilroBri tank car loadines for shlD-ihad any thou8nt gaining congres n T.LTiral60 362Sbar- slonal f administration's suosiay rollback program, it didnt work. Hartley was granted the privilege of announcing the vacation plan Tues day, but Thursday he Droadcast i speech entitled "Let's Liquidate OPA.' He accused Brown's agency of incom petence, madadministratlon, and col- lectivist tendencies, The vacation plan was reported also to have confused local ration boards, which are uncertain how to judge which drivers are eligible. Hartley's announcement said any accumulated A rations could be used for one round trip to a resort or sum mer home. OPA's subsequent state ment said this was true only if "ade quate alternative means of transpor tation were not available. Angered, Hartley checked OPA and soon came back with the report that he had been given assurances that the phrase was a "regular considera tion" in ration regulations, that any body who had the necessary A coupons could get 8 vacation certificate, and that "all hell is going to break loose" if these assurances proved wrong. Although this seemed to satisfy Hartley, it reported has left local boards in a quandary, uncertain whether to apply rigidly the "adequate alternative transportation" yardstick or be generous. An OPA spokesman said it was being "left up to the boards' experience" to decide. No instructions have gone from Washington to local boards, but OPA'S legal staff has sent a memorandum to regional offices advising that "boards must decide each case on its own facts, using their Judgment to obtain a reasonable answer" as to what constitutes adequate alternative transportation. Factors to be considered include the availability of and accommodations of train or bus to within reasonable dis tance of the destination," the age and physical condition of the vaca tionists, and the amount and nature of baggage. The Army reported recently this summary of the Arts year's operations of the Eighth air force over Europe 68 daylight bombing missions, 102 in dustrial targets, naval bases and war plants destroyed or damaged by a total of 11,423 tons of bombs, and 1,199 enemy planes shot down. Losses were 276 American heavy bombers. However, In addition to the enemy aircraft confirmed as destroyed gunners of the Eighth air force proba bly destroyed 525 more, and damaged 501. The losses of American planes aver aged only 3SI per cent In 7,067 sorties against Germany and German-occupied Europe, a sortie being a single flight by' one plane. American bombing operations in the European theater began July 4th last vear when American crews manned six A-20 Bostons (light bombers of the Roval Air force) and accompamea six RAF-manned planes on a daylight attack against Nazi objectives in the Netherlands. Twelve months later, on Indepen dence day this year, the operations had grown until formations oi several hundred heavy bombers attacked Le Mans, Nantes and La Palllce, dropping 544 tons of bombs. In the operation they shot down 46 German planes, scored 35 probables, and damaged seven, while losing eight. The first heavy bombardment mis sion by the Eighth air force as such occurred last August 17, when fighter- escorted bombers dropped 18 Mi tons of bombs on Roden. - The early mis sions of, the Eighth air force were con fined to occupied France, and nine of them, all with fighter escort, were flown without the loss of a single bomber. ;- The organisation'! . first . mission against Germany proper was execute January 37 with n attack on the docks and naval base installations at WUhelmshaven, which were blasted with 136 Vi tons of bombs. This mis-1 ilon cost the Eighth air force three planes, but M enemy planes ; were shot down, five were scored as proba bles and 10 damaged. - German fighter opposition has in creased markedly, as operations of the Eighth air force have increased, the department related, but Major General Ira C. Eaker, commanounf general of the force, reported that the morale of the bomber crews is as high, as ever. "None of the crews has a feeling that they are overmatched," Eaker Eleven and one-quarter billion yards of cotton were produced in 1943, which is about 6,392,045 miles of doth, or enough cotton to wrap around the equatorial circumference of the earth approximately 357 times. Cotton linters products are used for mattresses, .upholstery, absorbent cot ton and gauze, wicks, twine and car pets,, paper, cellophane, lacquers and enamels, plastics' for automobile and electrical parts, fountain pens, toilet ware,- jewelry,' safety ' glass, motion picture films and phonograph records. complete confidence in their ability to take a heavy toll of German fighters." A monthly box score Is nee August disclosed that the heaviest total of bombs 2,865 H tons was dropped by the American bombers in May. This month also saw the greatest destruction of enemy interceptors 340 definitely destroyed, 108 probables, 187 damaged. The Dcnta air force lost 87. - - . The costliest month to the Ameri cans-was June, 1943, when they lost 88 heavy - bombers While dropping 1.458 tons of bombs and destroying 304 enemy planes, with M probables wrote. "The bomber crews hare a land 131 damaged. The Agriculture department reported Friday that this year's harvested acre-1 age of cotton may be the smallest! since 1895, although the War Food administration had asked for a fairly substantial increase over last year. In its first report of the season on cotton, the department estimated the acreage in cultivation on July 1 at 21,995,000 acres, or 5.6 percent les than last year and 25 per cent les sthan the 1932-41 average. Assuming abandonment of coiton land equivalent to the 10-year period would be 21,576,000 acres, or the small est In 48 years. The department made no forecast at this time as to the possible produc tion. However, should the per acre yield equal the 10-year average, the crop would total about 9,500,000 bales compared with last year's about average crop of 12,824,000 bales. On the other hand, should the yield equal last year's unusually good one, production would total about 12,100,- 000 bales. Cotton consumed by the United States during the 12-month period ending July 31 is expected to be about 11,250,000 bales. This year's crop will be supplemented by a re serve of about 10.900,000 bales from previous crops. However, much of this old cotton is of low grade and short staple length which Is unsuited for many manufacturing purposes. The War Food administration last winter made grower planting allot ments which would have permitted as much as 30,000,000 acres to be planted. It sought extra production of long staple types needed in greater supply for the war effort. It also sought cot tonseed for vegetable oil. Livestock feed and other purposes. The department's report said un favorable weather in some sections of the cotton acreage to follow govern ment recommendations. Rather sharp decreases were reported for Texas. Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas. Floods in May and early June destroyed some acreages and prevented plantings of others. Defi cient painful caused a sharp reduc tion In the acreage in New Mexico. Only In Mississippi and North Caro lina were this year's averages larger than last year. Other factors in the short acreage situation were said by farm officials to include a shortage of fertilizer, farm labor, and competition of some other crops. Flying Fortresses scored numer ous hits on the key German air dromes at French fields in Caen and Abbeville, the Eighth V. S. air force announced last night aft er studying photographs. A large concentration of bombs hit ad ministration buidlings and. bar racks at Caen in a raid yesterday. Numerous bombs were dumped on the storage area and a direct bit was made on an adjacent railroad. One or two antiaircraft positions were hit at Caen. The Flying Fortress Wabbit Tracks shot down nine German fighters out of a swarm of 25 which riddled it full of holes In a running half-hour battle Saturday .in the American raid on France. Wabbit Tracks limped back to It base without a single crewman hurt, the Eighth U. S. Air force disclosed last night. The Fortress was piloted by Capt. Walter E. Flagg, of Susanvilie, Calif. It was forced to fight it out with a Focke-Wulf when its number one engine failed 4 miles above France compelling it to turn away from its targets. Allies Crush Axis Tanks To Seize Three Sicilian Airfields PACIFIC WAR HOLDS JAPS FROM SIBERIA Allied Pacific Action Will Prevent Tojo From Aiding Axis Friends. PLEASANT GROVE CAMP MEETING AUGUST 8-15 Rev. Harold Robinson Will Be The Visiting Revivalist. Rev. J. B. Fitzgerald, pastor of Pleasant Grove Methodist church an nounced today, that ReV. Harold Robinson, one of the best known Methodist revivalist ministers, and a man who needs no Introduction to the people of this section, will do the preaching at the camp meeting this year, beginning August 8th and con tinuing through August 15th. Rev. E. E. Snow, who had formerly been scheduled to conduct the services, has been transferred to Florida. Prof. J. A. Lesley of Bluefield, W. Va., who has taught several singing schools in this section, will teach a one week singing school at the camp ground beginning Monday night, Au gust 2, and will be In charge of the music during the meeting. "With this good man on the camp ground for a week's singing school, we would have a good camp meeting, even if he had no preachers. He is a great man and a great music teacher. We are all set for a great time at the old camp ground this time," says Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald. All neighboring pastors are invited to come with their people and join with us for a great revival," con cluded Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald. A. Alexander, first lord of the Admiralty, praised Allied seamen last night for "the wonderful feat" in taking "the largest armada of merchant ships and naval craft" across the Mediterranean "This is a great occasion for saying 'thank you'," Alexander said In an appeal for contributions to King George's fund for sailors. A 400-tank German assault per haps the greatest of the war, fail ed to budge the Rer army from its position on the Orel-Kursk front Sunday and the Russians were able to throw the disorganized mechanized masses from two pop ulated places in that sector to cli max the first week of the great summer offensive, Moscow an nounced today. Nowhere along the 165-mile Kursk Salient from Orel to Belgorod colud the Ger mans achieve anything resembling a break-through, the mid-night communique said, adding that ' through the day Red army troops continued to beat off massed ene my tank and infantry assaults. Union County's Men In Service STIMS0N IN LONDON: VISIT HINTS NEW FRONT War Secretary In London Shortly After Invasion Starts Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson arrived in London from Washington less than 48 hours after the invasion of Sicily began, and the assumption was that his flying visit was connect ed with coming moves against the Axis in Europe. He will confer with top military and civilian authorities in Britain, particularly with the American com mander in the European theater of operations, Lieut. Gen. Jacob L. Dev ers. . The general and other ranking officers met the secretary at an undis closed airport. William U Harrlman, expediter of lease-lend to Britain, was among those greeting Stimson. It was the secretary's first Visit to a theater of operations since the United States entered the war. ' v With him were Brig. General Alex ander D. Surless, Harvey H. Bundy, a special assistant; Lieut Colonel Wm. H. cV Wright; Lieutenant Gordon Grand, of MUlbrook, N. Y, Stimson's aide de camp, and a. clerk. Corporal William Ford. h v i, r The knapsack a soldier carries, now known as a combat kit, which contains trench tools and iron rations, is made of stout cotton canvas. f!a canteen is eorerea oy tne same material. WPB aide says papers face a sharp cut In newsprint supply, ' Tells Of Fighting In North Africa Some interesting sidelights on the fighting in North Africa are given by Pvt. Vance Griffin son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Griffin of the Faulks community in a recent letter to his brother, Mace "Slim" Griffin, who is in non-combat, service . The letter to his brother follows: North Africa, June 8, 1943 Hello Slim: How are you these nice hot days? Fine I hope, and I sure hope the army isn't too hard on you. As for myself I am still doing fine. I haven't heard from you since be fore you were at home, in fact, I haven't heard from any one in over a month except two letters from the wife. But I suppose every one is do ing fine. I sure would like to be home form a while now. It seems like it's been years since I left home. You should think you are lucky to be in a non-combat unit. We can at last tell part of what has gone on here. So I will try to tell you a few things. We left New York August 5th, and were on the waer fourteen days. We landed in Scotland. A train was waiting for us there. We traveled about one hundred miles to Glasgow, Scotland, where we spent the night We left there the next day for England. About five hundred miles, and were stationed sixty mile from London. We stayed there for four months. On Thanks giving Day we sailed for North Africa, and were on water for twelve more days. We landed In Aron. Were a few miles of Aron for ten days and moved near Sidlelle Abbes, and were there for a while. We were allowed to go to town once a week. I only went three times. That was enough for me. There was not very much you could do, and nothing to buy ex cept wines. We had plenty of fruit for about three months. We left what we called our camp March 2 for the front, about 1,000 miles. If you remember the battle of Fondouk, we were there for twenty two days, and I must say our outfit was awfully lucky. When that was over we had a few days rest, and were on our way to the battle along the coast about 200 miles to drive. We were In battle there about thirty days. The fighting was hard. There is noth ing but mountains every mile of the way I have gone over a few of she mountains that we gained one by one. and what I saw was unbelievable, but you understand that I cant write about that It didnt seem possible, but we never got to see the place we wanted so "much Tunis. If you re member about the long range ar tillery shelling Matur that was our guns. It was torn to hits; that was as far as we got. I have seen German guns and all their equipment, and what I cant say. Planes that we found on the ground are made Into rings. ' Most every soldier has every finger . full of rings. . .So that leave it up until now. Would like to tell you where I am now but that Is Im possible. The next thing Is where to nextr I hope you never leave the U. S. A. I have been hearing that tuonunuec on page ) Whatever the real Nazi objective in the new and stupendous battle in Rus sia is, the fighting Is raging under circumstances tending to forbid any present Japanese intervention tn airi her fellow conspirators in Germany and Italy. . Russia has small need in fear a stab-in-the-back attack from Japan at this staee. American nffpnsivp mnvps in the south and southwest. PnrifiV and i in Aleutian theaters make it all but inconceivable that Tokyo could bo dragooned by Berlin into striking at siDeria. The Japanese war lords are defi nitely confronted today with what Prime Minister Churchill so recently called the "supreme challenge" of American sea power. He had a hand in Washington high strategy councils in the shanine of events in the Pacific calculated to lure the Japanese main neei H) aecisive action. It Drobablv would be coinc mnph ton far to say that the Ameerican Pacific onensives are actually coordinated with exnected developments In Russia That they were timed in relation to wnai was being prepared against the Axis for delivery this year from Africa and the British Isles is obvious. Taking the weight of Axis pressure of Russia was an officially stated prime purpose of the Washington ad vised strategy directives, however. And included in that pressure, as Moscow must view it, has been the possibility of a Japanese blow at Siberia timed, as was the attack on Pearl Harbor, to meet Axis needs in Europe. A global war calls for, global strate gy, even if there is much to indicate that Anglb-American leadership to its regret has not yet succeeded In Inte grating its own and Russian opera tional planning. It is permissible, therefore, to as sume that the Pacific offensives which are tying down Japan are a part of what General George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, calls the "pattern of victory" followed by the United Nations. Thev are an integral nnrt. of what Moscow and Berlin now stress as - cne Dame or Kursk," remote as they are geographically. And that Berlin phrase, contained in a non-official broadcast which for the first time admitted It was an of fensive, not a defensive fight the Nazi armies in Russia are waging, still leaves doubt as to its strategic or tactical objectives. It. implies that It is only reduction of the Kursk salient, thrusting deeDlv westward hptwwn Orel and Belgorod, that is aimed at. All Forces Advancing Along 100 Miles Of Italian Coast TAKE MANY PRISONERS More than 2,000 vessels were in volved in landing operations in Sicily, a special correspondent rep resenting the combined British press reported Sunday night. WHEAT CROP TO BE BETTER THAN AVERAGE More Than Six Million Bushels WiU Be Harvested In State. Although the cold weather of April and May cut back wheat "rather ex tensively" throughout the State, the crop this year should be larger than the 10-year (1932-1941) average, J. J. Morgan, with the State Denn Agriculture, reports. North Carolina ordinarilv nrndiinpR approximately five and one-half mil lion bushels of wheat. This VPflP'S yield will run over six million. Lat year's harvest was 8.014,000 bushels. There are around 5,500 combines now used in the wheat harvest in this State each year, and Morgan said that "there is insufficient competent labor to operate these machines." But Morgan pointed out that the wheat harvest is now In "full swing" throughout the big wheat-producing areas of the State. In many sections, he explained, threshine machines are in use, and in some of the mountain counties the cradle is still emnlnwrf in cutting the grain. Indications point to a yield of 14 bushels to the acre for 1943 as com pared with the 10-year average of 11.8 bushels. "It is virtually impossible at this time to get a clear picture of the wheat situation. The late freezes cut back the stalk, but the stands on an. paremly good. We have received some reports to the effect that the heads of the wheat are not as good as we naa anticipated," said Morgan. Nearly half North Carolina's annual wheat crop comes from the nnrt.hem and central counties of the piedmont Dec l lull. In 1940 Iredell countv led in ttoi wheat production with 372,780 bushels, but in 1941 Union county went Into first place with 371.320 husheic tn Iredell's 365,920. Arthur Price, a necro snidw sta tioned at Camp Sutton la dul tnt two negro men and a woman are be ing new in tne county Jail, charged with puirder as a result of a fight that took place at the home of Harley White, negro, In the Faulks commun-' lty Saturday night about 10 o'clock. According to reports, the soldier ac companied Hurlev. Johnson anA Ion. White to the home of Harley White iuraay rugnt, where an argument took place during, which the. negro soldier was stabbed and hnt era! times during the melee, dying wmeume laier irom the . wounds. Sheriff Nlven and his officers went to the scene of the murder and ar rested the three lmnwi and indwi them In the county jalL . Z. Brleht Tucker mnt ilu mv. end In AsbevlHe where he went to see campaign! - tJ' ' wmv am wwu irayu mm lor stmeume. ue was accompan Storming Allied assault troops, par achutists and glider-borne infantry men were flrmlv established alone 100 miles of Sicily's southeastern shores Sunday night and held off limited counterattacks, it was announced from the Allied command post. Invading American forces had smashed through enemy tanks and trench positions at Gela, 90 miles west of the Island's southeastern corner, and captured two Axis airfields while the British formed a junction with Canadian troops across Cape Passero and seized the Pachino Alrdroce which lies at the tip of the cape. This meeting gave the British- fTnnadiatt fnnAG a Btrftnw nncltfnn r 1 . tnsu.v.v.. the peninsula with the sea on both nanKS. Everywhere the advance continued against enemy resistance which as yet had not become serious wut was ex pected hourly to grow in power, Gen eral Dwight D. Eisenhour's headquar ters announced Meanwhile trpmn. dous volumes of supplies and rein forcements were being poured into the Allied beachheads. Onrushinff cronnd forces wer said to have met American air-borne troops in an undesignated sector, an an nouncement which suggested that the Allied nenptrat.inn inland at. lAoat. 1n some places was progressing rapidly ana wnicn indicated mat tne AUiea parachute troop assault had been highly successful In Its first large-scale ' application. The Americans collided sharply with an enemy tank column when they landed near Gela but they smashed through easily with the assistance of a barrage of shellfire from Allied war ships supporting the action offshore. Capture of three Important airfields gave the Allies import Doints frojs which to press their aerial superiority against the Axis at close quarters. (An earlier broadcast from CBS Corre spondent Winston Burdette from Al giers asserting that the British had taken the Catania Airport subsequently was described as an error resulting from faulty transcription.) Observers emphasized that a con certed Axis rniintprnfFonoi va aaiiIH ha expected as soon as the German and iiauan generals could decide whether the southeast coast landings consti tuted an Allied feit to rover a real invasion from another point or were in iact tne real thing. "With our beaches flrmlv held and our troons advancing the Allied navies' most important task during the day was tne landing oi runner troops with their vehicles, o-nns fiil Anuinmont. ana stores," said a headquarters com munique. At Gela, a vital port and road Junc tion on the Gulf of Gela, the Ameri cans established their beach objectives in three hours after the predawn landing Saturday, fanning out to the right and left to contact other forces on their flanks. Gela was the first city to be disclosed offlcialls as a point attacked in the Invasion of the island, 300 square miles larger than Vermont. (A Stockholm dispatch quoted re ports from Axis capitals as saying the Allied invaders had landed at seven DOintS in Rifllv oftAr MtohHchlr ni- superiority which isolated the island irum me Italian mainland. These re ports said the first landings were made at Canlcatti Araormo T.it racuse and that bitter fighting was mguig arouna Kagusa late Saturday.) Although few details were contained in SUndaV'S COmmiininilM thav mmA to round out the picture of the gi gantic operation in which synchro nized land, sea and air fnrA out their tasks with the precision of a fine watch. American and British parachute troops and plirir-lvu-ru mva ceded the erminri units afvnu4n i land objectives on the island in the oiggesi operation or this kind since uie uerman capture OI Crete. Thev went over In Vmm tnmM,), fiown by troop transport command vuuus wno acxuauy were over the ob jectives before Axis antiaircraft crews spotted them and opened fire. Although heavily loaded with men and equipment, the planes maneuvered throush the antlalmvf. ff- ..j w w . . J WIU gan unloading. Gliders were cut loose "ura uie transports just over the ob jectives. All this was three or four hours befnm t.ha mm k..- e.Wt " IIUIU AVI uw sea-borne infantry to come ashore. me snusn gliders landed on east ern targets while the American para trooppers bailed out over targets to the west, in the invasion Bone. Then air-borne forces achieved suc cess with "negligible tosses," an official Mujuiurcezncnt . saio. : . - , :." :f ? An air force communique said the -fliers covering the Sicilian Jandlngs protected shipping and the beaste where the tmim i-m akm -. . - 1 - wmimv UV 1CTJ hammered enemy transport convoys u nuways in tne interior. Heavy bombers and trnmrfiit hm, er-bombers were used lavishly In the attacks against those enemy airfields stui m operation," the bulletin said. -It was stated officially that the en- tire strategic and, tactical air forces -were employed in the furious aerial Raymond Oriffln and J. Vernon Grif an, who visited their brother, W. P. Oriffln. and his sons. Drs. W. H and M. A. Oriffln. led br his thrade iwcIml ji nnmn I . OTer They raided troops. The A-36s "spent On mm- than inn sorties over Sicily. They raided troops. locomotives .and barracks la roaring tow-level attacks. The pi'nta re-wied hsvir1 c i IColi'.li-;!!-. i til I W
The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.)
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July 12, 1943, edition 1
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