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MONROE MARKET WEATHER FORECAST Rain ending this afternoon. Much colder, with light to heavy freeze tonight. Tuesday, fair and much colder. Sunset today, 6:23 p. m.; sunrise Tuesday, 7:52 a. m. Cotton, short, lb .. .. 20c to 21o Cotton, long, lb ... . 28V40 to SOHo Cotton Seed, bushel 79140 Eggs, dozen 42o Corn, bushel $1.50 Wheat, bushel $1.60 PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR MONROE, N. C, UNION COUNTY, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1943 3-MONTHS, 75c; 6-MOh .25 SEMI-WEEKLY, $2.00 A YEAR . mm mmmm Many Get Jobs In The County 1057 Women And 818 Men Placed In Union And Mecklenburg THROUGH UTS. SERVICE The United States Employment Ser vice office in Charlotte placed 1,057 women and 818 men in Jobs In Union and Mecklenburg counties during Oc tober, it was anounced Saturday by Mason L. Sweanngen, Charlotte di rector. Of this number, 1320 went to man ufacturers of all types in Charlotte, Monroe and communities near these cities. Mr. Swearingen said the demand for women in scores of types of em ployment is unlimited. Part-time as well as full-time workers are wanted. Many thousand may be needed during the Christmas shopping season In Charlotte. Among the 1,875 employed In Oc tober was one 83-year-old man, a re tired railroa demploye. Although he has a competent income, he was tired of being idle, he said. When offered a watchman's job, he beamed with Joy and accepted the assignment. The textile industry absorbed 207 of the applicants, and ordnance and accessories meaning the United States Rubber company and other military and semi-military activities took over 584 persons. Food estab lishments,, bakeries, and food stores employed 179. Thirty-four veterans of World War XT, recently discharged from service some wounded, others having come home because of various physical ail mentswere placed. The office also found Jobs for 56 persons who were physicalyl handicapped. The wholesale and retail trade of the two counties hired 180 persons, and 185 went to the transport com panies. Incidentally, among the 1,875 were 300 men brought In from the streets who up until then "had no visible means of support." M.JL S. PLAYS GAME HERE THURSDAY AFTERNOON Meet Faceiand Team In First And Last Game On Local Field The football team of Monroe High school plays Its last game of the season on Its own home field Thurs day, Nov. 11, at 4:00 o'clock, against the Pageland eleven. After having played a tough season against stiff opposition, the Monroe boys are de termined to win once again for the folks who have been so loyal and stuck by them all through the season. The game promises to be a fast, hard one and is slated to be one of the best of the season. This is the first and last game of the season to be played on the home field. 8urely. everybody who has not had a chance to see the Monroe Py thons play this year will come out and give their support to the team. Monroe's lineup is as follows: Ends Bill Walton, Louie Brantley, Milton Trull, ."Snooks" Trull, Max Haigler. Tackles Louie Young, Milton Dur ham, Jimmy Flow, Vernon Wall. Guards Bill Powell (Injured), Jim my Lee, Bill Baucom, Hunter Hadley, Earl Staton, Sam Martin. Center Vaughn Lemmond, D. A. Simpson. Backs Frankle English, Glenn Hubbard, Ralph Pruitte, Leslie Blank enshlp, Buck Howie, Hal Coble, John Ttddy. Coach John Williams. REA SEEKS WISE ELECTRICITY USERS The Federal Rural Electrification Administration Is making plans to provide a plaque to be awarded to one fanner In each county who, hrtu the use of electricity, has Increased the quantity and quality of his food and feed, announces D. 8. Weaver, head of agricultural engineering at State College. Beginning Immediately, fanners who know of people who have used electri city to help meet their food goals In war times are asked to report their names to the county farm agents. Both cooperative customers and public utility users are eligible, Weaver says. He hopes that every county In Uorth Carolina will have at least one award winner In this campaign. By the terms of the announcement, although provision has been made for plaques for every county In the United States, It is expected that some areas will have more than one win ner and some counties will have Done. , . . Bases on which the awards are to be made are these: increases in produc tion;: maintenance of production with less labor; use of time saved by farm women through electrical appliances In dairy and poultry production, gar dens, canning or field work; and self sufficiency on the farm through the production of food and feed pro ducts. Complete details of the contest may be obtained from the managers of the 98 cooperative REA organisations in North Carolina. Weaver urges tanners to begin now looking through their neighborhood! fr persons to be nominated to their county agents.' , card or thanks We wish to take this means of ex pressing our heartfelt appreciation to all of our dear friends for every kind . .M-d and deed that was shown to .OS during the recent Illness and death of our Infant daughter. May Ood bless and reward each one with the richest of Heaven's blessings. Mr. sad Mrs. Frank Benton, . Scouters Training Course Starts Tomorrow Night A Scouters Training Course wlU begin tomorrow night at 7:30 In the Parish House of the Episcopal church, tinder the direction of Ralph Mnllinax, Assistant Scout Executive for the Central N. C. Council. Mr. Mnllinax will be assisted In the program by E. H. Broome, Rev. F. B. Drane and Wil liam Austin. All who are connected with the Scout Movement In Union county and all Interested In the movement are Invited to attend. Rev. F. B. Drane Is chairman of the Training committee, assures all who attend, the five session will be full of help ful Information and suggestions. Nation Honors Bob Doughton President Takes Lead In Congratulating- Veteran Tar Heel ON HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY ,. . v th .a(i r-reaiue.M, iw..., " yesterday in honoring Robert Lee Doughton on his 80th birthday annt- versarv Party lines vanished as praise was neapea on tne norm iniuuu jcuw- crat who heads the House Ways and Means committee, which originates all tax legislation. In a letter to Doughton, the Presi dent said: "Dear Bob: "Hearty congratulations on your reaching the four-score mark. "The best thing about being 80 m your case Is that you are too busy with the present and future to spend much time dwelling on the past. "With every good wish for your con tinued health and happiness, "Very sincerely, your friend, "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Representative Knutson of Minne sota, Ways and Means Republican leader, called personally on congratu late Doughton, and later told news papermen: "Doughton Is one of the grand men of tins era. With his sound Judgment and discernment he Is the ideal man to head the Important Ways and Means committee In these critical times. Doughton stands for national solvency, economy In government, and individual Initiative. He Is a highly regarded by the Republicans on the Ways and Means commltte as he Is by the'Democratlc members." Riwaker Ravburn. Democrat of Texas, and House Democratic Leader McCormlck of Massachusets were among those sending birthday mes sages. Doughton visited nis omce alter at tending church services yesterday to open birthday messages. His desk was banked with flowers ana otner pres ents. He was given a dinner last night by the North Carolina congressional dele gation, and the 25 Ways and Means members plan to fete him at another dinner tonight. 0PA ANNOUNCES TURKEY PRICES FOR THIS AREA Celling Prices For Turkeys Range From 40 To 64 Cents Per Pound. The celling prices for turkeys sold tr nnnsumers were announced yester day for the whole of western North Carolina by the Charlotte district OPA headquarters which memoes union county, and the schedules show a range from 40 cents a pound for the lowest-priced category up to 64 cents a pound for the high-priced group. George F. Th acker, district price officer for the western district, ex plained that the ceiling prices are effective today (Monday) throughout the district, and that they apply to al turkeys sold by retailers to con sumers. The prices will be observed by nearly all types of retail stores, with the ceilings for the large super markets being somewhat lower man those quoted. In the classification of live turkeys the weights are liirht. 18 pounds and under; medium 18 to 22 pounds; and heavy, over 22 pounds. The prices a pound In each weight class for young turkeys are light, 46 cents; medium 44 cents: and heavy, 43 cents. i"or oia live turkeys the prices are light, 44 cents; medium, 42 cents; and heavy, 41 cents. The weight classifications In the category for turkeys killed and picked are light, 16 pounds and under; me mlum, 16 to 20; heavy over 20 pounds. Young turkey prices in this group are light, 54 cents; medium. 51; snd heavy, 60 cents. Old turkeys In this group are priced light, 61 cents; Me dium, 40 cents; and heavy, 47 cents. The .weight classifications m the category for birds already drawn are light, 13 pounds snd under; medium, 13 to 16V pounds; heavy over 1 pounds." The young turkeys in this group are priced at 64 cents a pound for the light weights, 63 cents for me mluds, snd 7 cents for heavies. The old birds are priced at 61 cents for lights, 57 cents for mediums, snd 54 cents for heavies. , 1-A Beginning on November 1, aO men between the ages of 18 snd 37 years, who are sublect to draft end are de linquent, will be classified In the Class 1-A and ordered to report for Induc tion. r. ' - . . '. - ; The United States has approximately 36H million telephones, 17 million of them In residences. Approximately 6 million telephones belong to the 6400 Independent telephone companies and the 60,000 rural lines; the remainder to the Bell system. . .s County Farmers Storing Cotton First Farm Stored Staple Is Placed Under Federal Loan AVERAGE 22.8 CENTS LB. According to Kenneth Gaddy, secre tary Union County A. C. A., farmers of this county have started storing cotton on their farms and obtaining the loans as provided through the Commodity Credit Corporation. The first farm storage loan In Union coun ty was made on November 4, 1943. The loan was made on four bales of Coker's No. 100 cotton, second year seed. The bales totaled 1855 pounds net weight and the producers re ceived a total of $422.63. This was an average of 22.8 cents per pound. It cost the producers a total of $4 60 for Insurance, inspection fee, and record ing fee; therefore, these producers re ceived a net loan of $418.03 on the four bales of cotton. The bales av eraged 464 pounds per bale net weight and the producers received a net loan of $104.51 per bale. Producers In Union county who have cotton on hand which has ginned tags i atiacnea, so mat n can De laenmieu. may store such cutton on the farm and obtaln the cotton may be stored in a building on the farm, pro- vided there Is no hay or gasoline in btammg tne ,oan Qn farm storage cotton should contact County AAA office at once. the DIM0UT RULES LIFTED ALONG ATLANTIC COAST Wartime Restrictions Relaxed Due To Successful Anti-Sub Campaign. Union county folks, who spend their vacations along the Atlantic coast, will be Interested In the announcement from Washington, lifting the dlmout regulations that have been in effect in that area and the gulf coasts since the spring of 1942 and were lifted on November 1. This step Is taken, it was stated in the announcement, due to the successful anti-sumbarlne cam paign in the coastal waters. Simultaneously, the government urged that elimination of the dimout has heightened the necessity for a "brown-out" a voluntary semi-dim-out as a fuel conservation measure. Dlmout regulations were first im posed in the California sector of the west coast under the threat not only of Japanese submarine activity but of enemy air attack. Later they were extended, to other Pacific areas and to the east and gulf coasts. Prime objective was to reduce the glare which served to silhouette mer chant ships plying coastal waters and make the easy prey for undersea raid ers. So stringent were the regulations in such major centers as New York city and San Francisco that those commu nities were virtually blacked out. Military and production authorities cautioned all communities now subject to restrictions to be ready to resume observing them on orders of the ap propriate defense commands. The proposed brown-out is part of the government-industry campaign to conserve critical materials. Saving of electricity means direct saving of coal and other fuels and indirect savings of manpower, material and equipment. Failure to cooperate might mean mandatory restrictions on non-essential lighting, officials warned. These would be made effective not merely in dimout zones but everywhere. Voluntary steps urged Included: 1. Coal and oil heat-sealing of homes, reduction of temperatures and living space, Improvement of heating. 2. Gasreduction of use for home heating, cooking, water heating and refrigeration. 3. Electricity nation-wide reduction of display lighting, elimination of non essential lights and electrical equip ment In homes, stores and factories. 4. Communications elimination of all unnneccessary long distance tele phone calls to war centers and limi tation of the length of calls. 5. Water conservation and elimina tion of waste. REV. ANDERSON RETIRES FROM ACTIVE MINISTRY Pastor Of Benton Hefarhts Presbyterian Church Preaches final Sermon. A large congregation assembled at the Benton Heights Presbyterian church yesterday afternoon to hear the retiring pastor, Rev. Theodore B. Anderson, preach his final sermon as pastor of the church. . Rev. Mr. Anderson assumed the pastorate of the church, soon after its organization In 1941 and has seen It grow from an afternoon Sunday School to an organized congregation, with a new brick building constructed and the old Sunday school quarters brick veneered and remodeled into a oovnenlent educational building. Since coming to Monroe, Rev. Mr. Anderson has made many warm friends who regret to see him leave the city. He has retired from the ac tive ministry and was placed ' on the honorably retired list by the Mecklen burg Presbytery ait its fall meeting last month. Uses Mass PredacUon . Tired of flattening cans for salvage with her feet, a woman in .York, Pa., watted far a city roller to come along and then dumped two baskets of cans in front of the machine. Despite critical shortages of man power and material, the eommunic' tlon facilities of the U. B. have been expanded to handle millions of words more every day probably the greatest and fastest exchange of intelligence the world has ever known. ... THE LATE WAR NEWS IN BRIEF Russia Reds swift conquest of Ukraine carries' 35 miles beyond Kiev with capture of Fastov threatening Germans with worst defeat of disastrous reversal in southern Russia Italy United States forces cap ture positions to strike into valleys leading to Rome; British Eighth army pushes Germans back from Trigno river line. Aerial War U. S. Flying For tresses keep up aerial offensive against Germany, making daylight attack on Duren, airplane parts manufacturing center; Thunder bolt escort brings all bombers back safely. Allied planes keep up attack on occupied France. Sea War Germans broadcast unconfirmed claim that Nazi planes attacked Allied convoy in Mediterranean with loss of 13 loaded troop transports and two destroyers. CHINA Bittle battles rase along central Yantze river front, where Japs have massed army of 30,000 to forestall Allied offensive; Chinese report recapture of Sin tlenpu, 50 miles southeast of Japa nese held Shasi base. Union County's Men In Service Pfc. James B. Howard of Camp Mackall is spending a furlough witn his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. How ard of R2, Monroe. Pvt. Johnny Howard son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Howard of R2, Monroe, is now in Sicily. Persons wishing to write him may get his address from his parents. Pvt. Robert Winchester of the Army Air Corps has returned to his field after spending a 14-day furlough with his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Win chester. His address Is 20th Combat Mapping Sq., H) Will Rogers Field, Okla. Pfc Roxie Winchester 4052 WAC Dct. Box 353, Army Med Center, Washing ton, 12, D. C, has been promoted to corporal. She drives a staff car at Walter Reed Hospital. Sgt. John H. Clontz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Clontz. Is in the Air Corps somewhere in New Guinea. He reports he is in the best of health and that it looks good to see those Jap planes fall. He was very much surprised to meet one of his old friends. Perry Ferguson. Mr. and Mrs. Clontz also have another son, Clarence Turner Clontz in the Navy. He is stationed at Bainbridge, Md. He will come home December 7th for a ten-day furlough. Pvt. Ben H. Wolfe. Jr., writes his parents that he hopes they have re ceived the presents which he sent them while he was In Africa. He is with an infantry unit. His letter was dated October 17th and he said he had received no mail since August 3rd. that he was fine, had gained, had learned to rough it, and was "sorta" brown. The presents were pocketbooks for his mother and sister, a billfold for his father, and rings with inscrip tion, "Africa '43" for his brothers. First Class Petty Officer John E. Kellley, In the Merchant Marine, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kelley, has re turned to his station at Gallups Is land, Boston, Mass., after spending a ten days furlough with his parents. He was graduated from the Indian Trail high school In 1939. Lieut. Roy Hawfleld, who was first stationed at Houston, Texas, and then at another post, is now in California. He is In the office of the staff of the Judge Advocate at Port Ord.Cal. Regimental Sgt. W. O. Tucker re turned to Camp Croft Friday after a few days furlough with his mother. Mrs. D. A. Simpson, and Mr. Simpson on Windsor street. His brother, Ger ald Simpson, in the U. S. Navy, writes that he has crossed the ocean twice and at that time was in Nova Scotia. S. 2-c Maurice F. Jordan, stationed at Little Creek, Va., Is in on a few days furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Jordan, of R3 Monroe. After returning to camp he will be stationed at another base for further training. Cpl. Hazel C. Parker has arrived safely overseas and is in England. He is the son of Mrs. B. C. Parker of R2. MarshvUle. Pvt. Wood row James of Fort Bel voir, Vs., recently spent a furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. James. Braxton C. Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Parker, has been promoted from second to first lieutenant. He received his promotion on October 20th, and is stationed at Camp Upton, N. Y. Pfc. and Mrs. Virgil E. Smith have returned to Camp Forrest, Term., af :er a short visit with the former's mother, Mrs. O. W. Smith, First Lieutenant XDr.) John O. Ful en wider, Jr., has been promoted to the rank of captain, and is stationed at wase Hospital, Fort Bennlng, Oa. Caps, Fulenwlder Is the son of Mr. snd Mrs. J. O. Fulen wider of Monroe. Pvt. Jimmy Lingla, son of Mr. snd Mrs. J. Ray lingle of Monroe, has been promoted to private flrts clss Hs wes one of five see teed from five "tdr bnvs to' take special training. His present address la: Pfc Jas. R. Ling le, 354th Light Bn, Btry. C, Car Nippon Ships Hit By Bombs Cruiser And Other Vessels (Victims Of Growing Air Offensive MACARTHUR IS WINNING A Japanese cruiser at Babaul was "probably hit" by an Allied air torpedo Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced yesterday. A Japanese light cruiser and a de stroyer tender have been bombed in the Bismarck sea and a cargo ship has been blown up at Rabaul in the latest stages of the growing attack on enemy reinforcements being rushed from Truk to that big new Britain base, the communique said. Four large enemy barges have been sunk in the Vitlaz strait above tne Huon peninsula on New Guinea. These sinkings added to the two Japanese cruisers sunk and seven cruisers and two destroyers damaged by earlier Allied air actions. (Tokyo radio taking cognizance of the "Battle of Bougainville Island" claimed more than 56 Allied warships had been sunk and 78 damaged in this area from October 31 to November 5.) No change in the ground situation was reported at Bougainville and Choiseul islands, Japan's last footholds In the Solomons which have been In vaded by Allied troops. Southern Bougainville was swept by Mitchell bombers. Three raids on Allied positions in the Ramu and Markham valleys of New Guinea were temred "ineffective." The MacArthur-Halsey battering- ramlunce at Bougainville to flatten the last door to Rabaul along the hallway of Solomons islands has the happy aspect for Americans of being a struggle whose outcome already has been indicated by its directors. They virtually have foretold a 3tar spangled verdict during the opening stages. Yet yesterday U. S. marines hold only one beachhead at Empress Augusta bay; Japanese engineers still have not given up trying to restore Bougainville's bombed out airfields: and, undismayed by a decisive defeat In the first naval battle, the enemy is rushing cruisers and destroyers from Truk into the fighting zone. General MacArthur sounded the starter's gun for this current opera tion by saying, "If the Jap fleet comes out, we will welcome it." That is unusually strong language for a general who saw at Bataan how tenacious the enemy can be and con sequently would not yield even now to unwarranted optimism. MacArthur can only mean he knows he has back of him the means to extend Nipon's navy a decidedly hot reception. But Adm. William F. Halsey made it even stronger. "This Is the flexing springboard for the longer jumps ahead," he said. PLANS COMPLETED FOR LEGION EVENT THURSDAY 'Annual Feed" Will Be Held At Fair Grounds Thursday Evening. Local American Legion officials an nounced today, that plans were prac tically completed for the big "annual feed" of the Melvin Deese Post No. 17, which will be held at the Union County Fair Grounds on November 11, starting at 6 p. m. Approximately 200 are expected to attend the event which will terminate the membership drive for the year 1944 and the Post is anxious to receive honorable mention with other Posts of the State on the night of November 11, for having secured 100 per cent or more renewals for the new year. Vet erans are urged to pay their dues promptly, so that the local Post can end the drive with a bang and with honorable mention. The "feed" Thursday night, will be free to Veterans of World War I and II who have an honorable discharge and special entertainment will be furnished by a group from Camp Sut ton. Veterans who plan to attend the af fair are requested to mall a card to O. B. Shelley, Adjutant, American Le gion, Monroe, N. C, so that the offi cials may know how many to prepare for at the "feed." Postmastger, BPS, Bayonne, N. J. Cpl. Henry Milton, who entered the service in February of 1942, writes his wife that he has arrived safely in Northern Ireland. He says the peo ple in Ireland are "great." Mrs. Milton the former Miss Clara Boone, Is at home with her parents Mr. and Mrs. George F. Boone in Benton Heights. Pvt. Aubrey Fred McWhorter of R2, Waxhaw, has written his wife of his safe arrival In England. He says he Is greatly Impressed by the lovely English countryside. Mrs. T. A. Parker today received a letter from her son, Vann H. Parker, who Is In the U. 8. Marines. This Is the first word she had received from him in several weeks. He is getting along nicely and is now stationed somewhere in the 8outh Pacific. Pvt. Marvin H. Dunn who is sta tioned at Port Bragg, came for a short visit here with Mrs. Dunn at the home of her mother, Mrs. J. W. Glenn, and then Pvt. and Mrs. Dunn went on to Asheville where he is at tending court. Pvt. John Hearne, Jr., who is now stationed at Fort Bragg, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hearne on Lancaster road. Sgt Makw Mike Tiddy who has been on maneuvers In Tennessee has come for a furlough here with Mrs. Tiddy and son, Mike, Jr and his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Tiddy. Red Cross To Again Make Surgical Dressings Surgical dressings again will be made In production rooms of the Union County Chapter American Red Cross announces Mrs. W. A. Ingram, Chairman. The schedule will be the same, from 9 until 5 on Tuesdays, Wed nesdays and Thursdays and from 7 until 10 o'clock in the evenings be ginning tomorrow, Nov. 9th. Tues day evening from 7 until 10 the rooms will be used by the colored women. Mrs. Ingram urges as many women as possible to respond to this call so that no delay will be caused for getting the dressings off. War Fund Drive Started Today Canvassers Busy Making Calls To Raise County's Quota WEEK OF NOVEMBER 8-13 "During this week of November 8 13 inclusive, every citizen in Union county will be asked to give one day's wages to the United War Fund. This Is the only opportunity that citizens of the county will have until next year to contribute to the welfare of our armed forces, our allies, and refugees or other nations, and to show our ap preciation of sacrifices that have been and are being made by our men in uniform," states E. H. Broome, chair man of the drive in Union county. One day's wages is a small donation, but that amount will raise Union county's quota of $15,000.00. Donors will be given a receipt for their con tribution of a day's wages which can -, . ,v,o Our compassion for misery, the wretchedness, among our allies is ample reason for a generous contribu tion, but there are other reasons why Americans should contribute. Every nation over there is some good Ameri can's mother country and has a big part in our American civilization. America Is truly a a melting pot. We have inherited the good things of other nations and are preserving them for the future use of mankind. Should we be robbed of the usage of the things we owe to Europe, our stock room would be rather bare. Euorpean law, science, language, art and music have made huge contributions to our way of life. Here is America's opportunity. To- days European children will be the This onslaught tumbled seven major rulers of Europe tomorrow. What we towns and numerous villages into the in American do today will have much i hands of Gen. slr Bernard L. Mont weight in influencing the future of the g0mery's British, Canadian, and Indian world. The little children all over the tr00ps including Montedorisio, four world are watching America They miles southwest of Vasto. Six other will not forget. important towns captured In a line Union county's sons are fighting all ! southwest from Vasto along the Trtir along the far flung battle fronts of the j no front were Cupello, Furl, Palmoll, world. Our contributions will be a Tufillo, Celanza, and Bagnoll, the source of cheer, of comfort, and a latter 14 miles northeast of Isernla. great builder of morale because by j AWft, Allied planes ranked wide your contribution, you will be there yesterday. U. S. Warhawks pounced with them. on a concentration of 200 German war Have your donations ready when the canvassers see you this week. Should you be missed by the canvass, send a check or cash to the school prin cipal of your district, or send a check made to United War Fund Drive to E. H. Broome at Box 338, Monroe, and he will mail yo ua receipt. Let's put Union county over the top this week. The names of the donors of a day's wages will be published In papers after the campaign Is over. THANKSGIVING TURKEYS FOR MEN IN BATTLE Ten Million Pounds Of Fowl Being Prepared For Shipment Overseas. Thanksgiving turkey is on the way to American boys in New Guinea, Italy, Africa, Britain, and elsewhere on land and sea. They're getting a lot of bird 10,000 000 pounds and not a drumstick or a wishbone from one of the 33,069,000 turkeys being raised in the United States has gone to a civilian until this week, after all military orders had been filled. The army will use 22,000,000 pounds of turkey for the troops at bases in the United States, with 450,000,000 pounds being left for civilians. It was a big job, getting that much turkey out in time for Nov. 25, and the major portion was done in the Oregon area, where birds mature ear lier thana in the other top turkey pro- ducmg states Texas, Minnesota, ana forage crop agronomist of the Agricul Callfornia. tural Experiment Station at State Processing became an assembly line operation. The birds were killed and tossed on conveyors that Immersed them In scalding water. They were run through machines with rubber fingers that plucked feathers not all of them, but a starter. Scalding water again, and they were carried into a drying-room, then over a huge vat where a ladle engulfed each turkey In wax. When the wax was stripped off a hand operation most of the remain ing feathers came with It. Hand pickers gave each bird the once over for small feathers that might have escaped the wax treatment, and the turkeys tnen went Into a cold-room, where the temperature was set at ap proximately 34 degrees, overnight With that, they were ready for packing In light strong wooden boxes, each taking about 10 pounds of meat. These were placed In cold storage until the army and navy were ready to ship them to overseas posts. Mrs. John Glenn and daughter, Carolyn, and Mrs. Glenn's mother, Mrs. Carrie Godfrey, who have been living in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with Mrs. Glenn's husband, will return to their home here within a few days as Mr. Glenn hi being moved to Michigan. Heights Taken By Americans Brilliant Fighting Enables U. S. Forces To Outflank The Nazis GERMANS LOSE HEAVILY American troops in brilliant moun tain fighting which surprised the Ger mans have seized dominating heights outflanking strategic Mignano in Italy, headquarters announced early today, winning positions for a plunge up a broad valley to by-pass the Nazis' powerful new Aurunci mountain strongholds. (Indicating a deep and rapid Allied penetration in the central part of the battlefront, DNB In a Berlin broad cast said the Germans had abandoned Agnone, Carovilli, and Forli, all In a wedge-shaped territory 16 miles deep north and northeast of Isernla. The Germans appeared to be falling back rapidly all along the eastern end of the front.) A British offensive to the east smashed forward as deep as five miles, reeling the Germans back from their Trigno line, as Allied warriors cao- tured 52 towns and villages In a blaz ing to a year of war since the Allied landings In French NorthAfrica. Fighting desperately, the Germans threw still another division the 94th Infantry against the Fifth army. Nine Nazi divisions now are pitted against the Allies, six of them engaging the Fifth army. Galuccio, three miles southwest of Mignano, was captured as Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's soldiers surged for ward to take heights rising to 3,500 feet on both sides of Mignano. These victories raised the possibility of by-passing Mignano completely for a sweep up the Via Casilina along the oroaa vaney leading to jassino mm . In n.ntinir thf An- Rome, in a drive outflanking the Au- runic mountain range on which the Nazis intended to establish the west coast anchor of a new defense line. Nearer the west coast, British Fifth army patrols crossed the Garigllano river at least at one point. The Eighth army, beating back a series of sharp, tank- spearheaded enemy counterthrnsts, hammered out gains up to five miles In sectors near the Adriatic coast for a total advance of 10 miles In three days. A general attack drove the Ger mans back from the Trigno river along a 19-mile front Inland from the Adriatic, and the few remaining Nazi strongpoints near the Trigno's head waters were left untenable. vehicles parked at Metkovic on the coast of Yugoslavia, destroying 40 and damaging 50 more, and other fleets ripped up enemy tanks, motor vehicles, and trains in Italy In an ex ceptionally successful series of opera tions. The heaviest fighting aground was met by American doughboys driving north and west into the mountains from Venafro. There the Nazi com mand threw In reinforceemnts hi a furious effort to retain the heights dominating the main Inland highway to Rom.e the Via Casilina running through the narrow mountain gap at Mignano only 10 miles short of Cas sino. The enemy, who in recent weeks has seemed consistently to have under estimated the mountain fighting skill of U. S. troops, apparently fully real izes nis a anger too late. From their new vantage points, Clark's forces are looking over the broad valley through which flow the headwaters of the Carigliano river as well as a long tributary the Lirl river flowing from the direction of Rome. REMOVE LIVESTOCK FROM PASTURE NOW Livestock should be taken off pas tures just after the first frost so that the pasture grasses may store up food for the winter months and be in posi tion to make a quick growth next spring, suggests Dr. R. L. Loworn. College. He says that pastures are like bears In that they have to store up (ood for the winter months. Bears live through the long winter period of hibernation on the fats which they stored np In their bodies through sum mer feeding. Grasses must build up a strong root system to live through the winter in good condition and be prepared to make a maximum of early growth for spring grazing. "Growers win note that grasses which have been protected by brush in the pasture and plants around fence posts and like places not only make the earliest spring growth but also the large a mount of grass lor early grazing," Loworn save. ' He also points out that where cattle are allowed to run on the pasture during the winter months after all grazing has passed, a large amount of physical damage Is done the pasture and It takes, quite some time in the spring for the pasture to recover from this bad treatment Removing cattle from pastvrs just after 'the first frost will give the grasses time to build vn a winter re serve of food that will bring earlier grazing and more grazing next spring. Heavy shuttle bombing of Germany is planned from Italy, -
The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.)
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