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. t-rj -Q7 p. nioudv and cool with Intermittent Cotton, short, lb. ., .. 21ttc to 22o Cotton, long, lb. . . .. 28c to 33c lglht rains today, tonight and-Tues Mi . J a ....: i t " i VUbt c day. ; . -, . ... Sunset today. 7:26; sunrise Tues day, 7:09. .1 . ' - hfon Seed, , bushel v '.V ... . .S .. 8uo PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CHYENTY-SECOND YEAR MONROE, N. C., UNION COUNtY, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1944. 8-MONTH3, 75c; 6-MONTHS, $1.25 E2UI-WEEKLY, t. jTEAB : P m Fi i T i r Tll i rv'KT fx i ! . ' . 1 M . ' i c (O FooUore Nazis Trapped By I " Americas la France if r Surrender J ESCAPE ROUTE. BLOCKED ' Oermany's footsore "last rmy" of 80,000 troops,' cut off while trying to escape from southern France to the Belch, surrendered to the U. B. Ninth jArmy yesterday without the price of a slnele American life or bullet In one of the strangest treks in Jnilitary an-.. Hals. 'i" ?t. . etubby Mai Erich Eisner, who had led his motley assortment of marines. ground forces and regugiar Nasi army troops al lthe way from the Spanish 1 border In an attempt to get them, back to the homeland, yielded them as jrrisoners of war to high-ranking American officers. In a simple but .dramatic ceremony-' -:'.':.- Even as he turned his trapped le- fcions over to the U. S. Army at tne southern bank of the Loire river, they still bore the arms they had fefused to lay down until assured of the safety of American prison , camps. Although hopelessly trapped by a Junction or the Third and Seventh Armies and being ground to pieces by harassslng French - Maquis and the pounding of 0. 8. Ninth Air force e lanes, the Nasd troops refused " to agree to give up their arms until they reached the Loire river, because oi their fear of French vengeance.- The surrender was arranged "by an Intrepid lieutenant, Samuel : Magiu lYoung of Ashtabula, Ohio, reconnais sance officer who, in daring forays srtth 18 men patrolled a 1,200 mile stretch of German -occupied territory south or the Loire, in which for- the last fortnight they had been the only Americans. iV . i- - The : tan, ' skinny lietuenant was standing proudly -behind his com manding general yesterday afternoon at 1:25 p. m when a group of camou flaged, commandeered - French ears pulled up to the southern approach of a bridge spanning the Loire. French Sf squis earlier in the -campaign had blown up the bridge itself to keep the Germans from escaping. - From the ears stepped the Immacu lately barged Eisner and his staff offl fcers, wearing medals with enough metal to build a small tank. "They (were at the head of a column of snore than 8,000 German troops afoot or riding in commandeered peasant i carts and worn out, belraggled autos. Simultaneously another column of more than 7,000 recalcitrant German marines, half unwilling to surrender without a further, fight, was approach trig Orleans and more than 8,000 air force soldiers were- giving up in the vicinity of Mer, a Loire river village rest. . As his staff fell back, the short, stocky German general with a fat, Season" fact5 stepped forward. At a side moved Lt : CoL Jules - K. French, of Merrlfleld, Fairfax county, Va., a former real estate consultant In New York,, who had been living for a week at the German command post as a llason officer, and-Capt Habard, representing CoL M arte 11, leader of 8,0000 French Maquis Who harrassed the retreating Nazis al lthe way from Blarrits. There, on August 28, Eisner had been given the Job of organizing all Nasi troops along the epeanish border and the Bay of Biscay : and leading them back to the Belch. cErrnuL r .tiiodist The congregation" - stood Sunday morning as two names were spoken (or the Roll of Honor: Robert Stevens Couch, No. 176; and Boyd Trull.. No. a77. All honor to ihmL-va-i The church school resumed opera tions Sunday after the polio ban. Next Sunday wll lbe Promotion Day. On October first the entire school will as .semble in the church for the mass gathering which is observed five times a year. The roster of teachers was made up last Wednesday night at a meeting of . the Board of Christian Education. The senior choir presented the n them Sunday morning, using, "l Will Ufe Un Mine E yes," by Edwards. The offertory was sung by Lt. John Llne bardt, "One Bwee, f Sok"m ThouEht.,, liev. T. J. Hui.v.s was In the, pulpit and offered the pa- rsJ prayer. The ostor sooke on. ne comrade nj ie way." lie crew ius aioa tbs trio of Emmaus when Christ walk- J tester day. The CiiHtual Lire Group will meet on Tue&uuy, 9:39 a. m. On V-rsy Genua Clsurch wi'-l open sU d?y for prayer of tnank-;'.TL"7 to C 1 i.-r victory. T Ar 7 r t r -J " e-1 c a- i t v J. of C-e c i ! Cf.t" r:o:r,c2 pyti:o::s Dm FOa STATESVILLE TILT Drop First, Game Of. Season To Aft ... Airy Hlfh, -. Monroe High's Pythons, smarting under a 12-0 defeat by a powerful Mount Airy team last .week, - began drilling . today for their- contest with r iter's field Friday night. The game jvlll begin at 8 o'clock. The Pythons came out of the Mount Airy game without casualties, and bar ring injuries in workouts, will be able to throw their full strength against the Greyhounds, - who ' are reported stronger than last year, when ; the teams battled to a scoreless tie. " s Coach Hump Snyder today praised his charges for their fighting spirit against the strong Mount Airy team, which boasted a sixty man squad, in cluding a score of veterans. "Consider ing the tough competition,'' be said, "and the long ride, in which we bad bus trouble, my boys made a good showing. Of courser we will have to play better if we take Statesville.' The starting lineup against Mount Airy was: as follows: : .'S-sw -Ends, Snooks : Trull, Gary Coble; Tackles, Philip Wolfe, Louie Young; Guards, ' Bill Baucom, Bill Powell; Center. D. A. 81mpeon: Halfbacks, Mil ton Trull, Bull Durham; Fullback Linden BJggins; Blocking - Back, Vaughn Lemmond. ' r Ration Food Points Higher Increased! Point Values Are - Ordered On Items Still On List ; ORDER ) KOwTeFFECTIVE ' The Office of Price Administration yesterday ordered sharp increases In point values for those processed foods still, rationed in a companion - move to elimination of points on a. wide variety. of other canned foods. . ' Both the higher points and removal of many items form rationing were effective Sunday. ' Doubled or . boosted .. even .- more sharply in most cases, the new point values apply to all canned and bot tled fruits, four fruit and vegetable Juices, - tomatoes, . catsup,- - and chili sauce. ::x;,:' ?,".i',i','t The new' ration value on a number two can of tomatoes is 20 points, up from ft, while the coupon cost of peaches, peart and pineapple is hiked from -43 points to 80 for number two and one-half cans. -Pineapple Juice goes to 80 points from 25 and tomato Juice to 20 from 8 points for 18-os. csnaA"'"-; '. .;.:-" - "- ' An of the new values are fixed in multiples of ten because the system of blue tokens as ration change was discontinued Sunday. Blue tokens may be used In units of ten until Octob er 1 in buying processed foods. . After that they will have no value. As , announced earlier, processed foods being removed from rationing are all Jams, Jellies, fruit butters, as paragus, lima beans, corn, peas, pump kin and squash, mixed vegetables, bak ed beans ( tomato sauce, paste and puree, and all varieties of soups and baby jfoods. - Other vegetables except tomatoes . have been - ration-free for some time.';?i-'V In announcing the new ration val ues, effective through September SO, OPA Administrator, Chester . Bowles Said: -";.w;.c ''r X'" ! V-V:'" - .These point values are higher not because of change in - the supply picture of commodities remaining un der rationing, but because of the re moval from rationing of nearly all vegteables, special products and fruit spreads. ''f"--; -v :t''.!. "The War Food administration's al location of processed foods still ra tioned baa not changed. What has changed Is the point purchasing pow er.' ... 't ..-' "v' "'':,4r-.-' ' Under the new set-up housewives will continue to get 00 blue points s month. l-.j ;.'' "! :, Red point values on meats, butter and dairy products are unchanged. However, combination Spaghetti din ners, formerly on the processed food chart, are being shifted to the red point chart, with a one-point value for cartons containing from one to one and one-half ounces of grated cheese, - . . . ri p i ! ' M S I! l- Tl STATZ KZACaUATiTERS '.State DeniocraL;c party headquar ters were crened In the Raleigh room of the j Walter hotel in Raleigh, on Friday with Mrs. Mary Pollard veteran party worker, in charge of the arranrfment. : - - W. r. T" -i rf tii;:.nm, chair r if. .. I vc: ' " o exeru- ; 1 i '. s l r 1 ' c i ' i a r 1 to e ; i i 1 y ai.i c t - ss , u.n for state R .i I 1 U, .. i. to arrive Monday are R r locrof r. nominee ncmor; r, l 1 cf ' n of ian; .vice s- 1 Voters To Pass On nti North Carolbiant Wl Be ; Offered five Proposed official Digest given In addition to state and national tickets. North 'Carolina voters of all parties will cast ballots for or against five constitutional amendments in the general election November 7, ;: V ; Secretary of State Thad Eure. as custodian of the amendments, yester day released this digest of the pro posed changes:; .''7,"VCci'.-v;. No. 1. To make the commissioner of agriculture, the commissioner,-: of labor and the commlsisoner of Insur ance constitutional officers and mem bers of the Council of State.-- v? At the present time, , the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, superintendent of public Instruction and attorney gen' erai are named in the constitution as constituting the Executive .department of the state, r- The secretary of state, auditor, treasurer - and superintend ent of public instruction constitute, ex officio, the Council of state, to ad vise the governor in the execution of bis office. ' If adopted, ' the officers named in the amendment would be added ; to the . Executive - department and also to the Council of State. - No. 2. To exempt notaries public from , prohibition against ' double of flee holding. - - v; ; ; . ; -: .: . Currently a notary public is an of ficer contemplated in constitutional prohibition against double office hold ing. - If adopted, a notary public could bold any other office or place of trust under the authority of the state. No. 1. To 'change the State Board of ivucation amendment. -: This would rewrite the amendment adopted at the last general election. The principal changes proposed are; (1) The position of comptroller would be stricken out and the tsate superintendent of publio instruction would be the administrative bead of the , publio school system and secre tary of the board; (2) ten board mem bers would be appointed by the Gov ernor subject to confirmation by the General Assembly, one from each of eight- educational districts and two members at large; (3) and the follow ing provision In the present constitu tion would be stricken out: "A ma jority of the members of said board shall be persons of training "and ex perience in business and finance, who sbaj mot be connected with the teach ing profession or any educational ad ministration of the state." No. 4. To authorise the General Assembly to provide compensation for the lieutenant governor. -. At present the compensation of the lieutenant governor is fixed in the constitution at $700 for each session of the General Assembtyy. If adopt ed, the General Assembly could fix the compensation In its discretion. . ; No. 8. To abolish constitutional re quirement of private examination of wife for sale of homesteads.- , At present Jn order to convey ab solute title to real estate free of dow er and homestead rights, the . wife must be examined privately, separate and apart from her husband, - and there must be a certificate to the effect that she signed the instrument, voluntarily without fear or compulsion. If . this amendment Is adopted, such private examination of the wife would not be necessary in the conveyance of absolute title to real estate. . SEPARATION CENTERS V RELEASING SOLDIERS Five Military,; Reservations In Coun j try. Itotarolng Men, To OvtUaa Lif e. i' After a little' more than m month's existence as a "reception center in re verse,", the Fort Sheridan (HI.) army separation center has. established a routine which takes care of all details of releasing a man from the army in les stban 48 hours. - . r 1 Fort Sheridan is one of five separa tion centers in the country activated recently in anticipation of general de mobilization at the wars end. Similar centers are operated at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Fort McPhsrson, Ga.; Presidio of Monterey, Calif., and Fort Due, N. J. ; .. , In the 48 hours a soldier spends at one of these forts awaiting his dis charge bis military records are put in Order; his clothing' is checked; he is paid; he receives a medical examina tion and vocational counseling; he is told of his rights under the "O. I. bill" and the Veterans Administration; ke gets .the first Installment (100) of his mustering-out pay, and is. giv en for transportation to the point where he ns Inducted. ' '. . ' . I. - Fr!: f port War Mui::: r J 'S F. ryrnes es timates Uiat r . i s ort expendi tures, In corv, . .,n.' e ui cor "region al piad-s to far- t-rs, could run to $2.f 3,Ce.r . 3 In V. .5. The price guar anUes on corn, t bacco, v.heat, rice and peanuta is D rpr cent of parity, and on coKon, r;lrit'y-two and one- J haU per cc;.t of r--'- Hie Trr,..- t Is c s- t J 8".l S . I '. t 7 t I ) tr i r.!Z"C?JAL HELD FOX -FOTATE HENRY MILTON Set vices Held 8aday , Afternoon Central Met&odist Church. At A memorial service for Henry H. Milton was held al Central Methodist church on Sunday afternoon. Henry gave his life In we battle of France on June 18th. He is the fourth mem ber of 'Central Church to make the supreme sacrifice for God and country. Rev. R. H. Stone Secretary of the Board of Missions of the Mecklen burg Presbytery , ol the Presbyterian church delivered ' -the memorial ad dress. He spoke feelingly of the con tribution that Henljy made toward the answer of. the waver of Jesus. "Thy Kingdom -Come "The oomimr of that kingdom involves the freedom of the mlnltraUon In the past two weeks, people's of the aarft. Those men who Other cities who bad previously filed go into battle help to bring that briefs with the . administration are freedom to mankind. Hence, Henry I Charlotte, Greensboro and Salisbury, did not die in vain. - - , Dr. Clem Ham, Union county health The invocation feas pronounced by 'officer, J. Ray Shute, chairman of the Rev. Robert Turner ot the First Pres- Union county board of commissioners, byterian Church, ifaev. J; B. Caldwell d B. O.. Laslett, Fayettevllle, archl read the Scripture lesson. The senior tect, represented the county before the choir sang, "Be Still My 8"' to dminlstration - in a conference in the tune of Flnlattdla. The pastoral Washington Saturday. v-.-v prayer was offered by Rev. J. H. Arm- ' The Onion county group submitted brust .--v- -'i- a proposal for location of a veterans' After the address Rev. 'jack Akin facility within the city limits of Mon- of the First Baptist church song, "The reany. wmte , uity. chaplain R. L. Wilson pronounced the benediction. The , Tower Bells, sounded as the people gathered for the service and at the conclusion of the meeting. W. L. Starnes was in charge of the usher ing and led the family to their seats during the organ prcjude and directed the retiring of the1 family as the"beUs sounded. Reserved seats were occu-" pled by the American Legion and Aux mry.; ' :. ' ?i, .. . ' Pvt. Sandy a Cfarriker, 18, ton of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Carrlker, R2, Mon roe, has been enrolled In the techni cal school for training of radio me- cnanics students at Truax Field, Madi son, Wis- and installation of the Army Air Forces Training Command. Pri vate Carrlker will receive a complete course In aircraft radio mechanics and will take supplemental AAF courses in defense against chemical attack, phys ical training, and related subjects de signed to fit him for overseas combat duty with the fighting AAF, - In ci vilian me, Pvt CarriJker was a student at Falrvlew high school.. . IM, Whitley Wounded Word has recently been received by his wlfe, the-lomrw - Miss -Margie Pressley, that Pvt Noah A. Whitley was slightly wounded in action in France on August 28, 1944. ? Pvt. WhlQey entered the service in November, 1942, and took his training at ;. Camp Beau, Calif., and - camp Bowie, Texas. He . went overseas in May 1944. Pvt. Whitley also has three broth ers in service. They are CpL Carl Whitley somewhere in France. Pfc George T. Whitley of Fart Bennlng, Georgia and Pet. j. D. Whitley of Camp Blandlng, Fia, His address may me obtained from his wife who is now residing with bis parents on Rt. 2, Monroe. . . , . Staff Sergeant Stokes M. Huntley who recently returned under the ro tation plan from the Italian thAtre-l is spending a few days with nis par ents, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Huntley on Lancaster road will leave Saturday for Houston, Texas for :.a visit with friends, '.y-ci--,. . r. t,,'';:'-; Pvt. EXlward ; Williams of Denver, Colo,- has arrived to spend a few week's furlough with bis father, Dr. B. J. Williams, and family, His sis ter, Mrs. : Louis r Emick and little daughter. ' Elsie, of .Upper Sandusky, Ohio, have also come for a visit. - v- Lteut Phlfer Laney who Is with the Aviation forme in Italy, sailed the 8th of September for the States, and will probably reach borne about tne ena of the month., Lieut Laney has been overseas for. several months. t S Thomas Ll' Helms, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Helms, of Waxhaw, is now enroUed at the United States Maritime Service Training Station in St Peters burg, Florida. : Thomas attended Jack son high school and prior -to enroll ment in the Maritime Service,-be was employed at Camap Sutton. He is now in hut preliminary period of training; during this time, he will be given general courses in first aid, flrefighting, iifesavtng, general sea manship, physical development mental fitness, etc. s Upon completion of ' his basio training; he bones to enter the Engine Department where be will take up such subjects as rigging, gen eral DrlnclDle of steam, boilers, en gines, gunnery, and other practical subjects needed to prepare a seaman for a c reer in the United States Mer chant l.'arine. . - r ..f Lev. LI: r T" s Wi:h Invasloa For A 1 "i AAF F-'3 Ease ' T t s -iiel L. , Jr, son of m, i ll.rs, f ami I iyi-ir of Hon- roe, is a cerx in a Twe . Jl AIT Twee swnt ' group a!,i y Participated p t aD - WW - oui fc.r !, "OT ' si i e invasion w -n 1 ranee. I -7nt Lo -j 1 i I -.;bar-."- t f-oup sup- from ! a t s r i t' e air-sea-1 i t : Ll Cvilica, 8 1 la close .. .!i Army t v : :i all o'uh'-i re bombers, f... s aircraft This Twi 'pr, and trocp B-15 feonibard- wn has figurei in evpry rnaiar :i through Tui.Ua, t.cZy, and " i , life F -t for e. S. C. i. Lorr ws the Ivey-Ke! UnitmlGoni II If' '".'XI -;:'n .- - - yenlnoemce City May Get Vets Hospital Official Go To Washington To Place GtyV Bid For Institution ' PROSPECTS ARE GOOD Monroe and Union county, Saturday placed its bid for the veterans' hos pital before the Veterans Administra tion, making the fourth city in the State to place a request before the ad " directly across the street- from the Camp Sutton station hospital. In this instance-' the city of Monroe does not propose to buy the property for the administration but Dr. Ham said that Union county bad a site which it would give to the Veterans' admini stration IX they should not accept the city site.. . . ,The. Union countlans were assisted in their efforts In -Washington- by Miss Jane Pratt, secretary to Congressman, William O. Burgln of the Eighth dis trict, who arranged for. conferences both with Gen. Frank T. Hines, the administrator, and , OoL I GeorgeT E. IJams,- the assistantr administrator" of Both Dr. Ham and Mr. Shute werel,"" Z"', ZZTZ. officials and were promised that every consideration would be given the briefs suomittea. s ;. f. - talutatlon, headed by Gen. Hines. has announced plans for making available several hundred additional beds, at the same time, it has stated that tt will be Its policy to use all available government hospitals which have been erected during the war period and avoid new construction wherever possible.'- -. ' . :-- - The general opinion has prevailed among North Carolina members of Congress that one of the new facilities will probably be placed in the- Tar Heel state, v . -t FAIR ASSOCIATION TO 4 SPONSOR EIG FESTIVAL Event Win Be planned' For Week Of October 2nd-7th. Plans have been completed for the Fall Festival, which is being sponsored by the Union County Fair Association at the fair grounds from October 2nd through 7th, and should be one of the most enjoyable events of this kind ever held in this vicinity. - - The Mile Long Pleasure Trail" fur nished by Marks Shows, Inc., will pro vide many ; thrilling riding devices, educational and entertaining - shows and sensational free acts. Featured among the many free at tractions will be "Daredevil BrufTy," the man who cannot die. Mr. Bruffy, alter performing breathtaking feats at the topmost part of a 122 foot high swaying pole, concludes bis act by placing a hangman's noose around bis neck and Jumping 80 feet into space. This act in addition to other thrillers will be given twice daily. Featured on the "Pleasure Trail" will be Art "Speedy" Spencer and his "Pit of Death," where boys and girls stu in their teens, ride motorcycles on a. straight np and down wall, at a speed said to exceed 60 miles per hour, while being chased by two un tamed lions. Then there is "Jimmy" Simpson and bis "Jump and Jive Colored Revue; Ches Paree, a musical comedy revue, featuring "Bunny Lamb" and her sensational fan dance; Wild Life; Oddities and many other educational and entertaining shows. In addition there will be 10 riding devices on the "Thrill Zone," including the Flyoplane, Moon Rocket Rldee-o, Giant Twin Ferris Wheels, Merrygo round, Auto S peedway, Whip, Rolo plane, Tiltawhirl, and several kiddle rides. . .- . AIR PATROL CADETS visit norjus held -'.'.L. . Hi-i- li,.. iJtni Twenty-nve axewuere w fcseai raws 7,f::'Onmp Make Trtp Sm-daj Civil Air Patrol Cadets of Monroe visited Morris Field in Charlotte Sun day afternoon. - Camp Sutton ' fur nished the transportation. The squad ron left Monroe high school at 12:30 and arrived at the airport at 2:00 p. m . The group was conducted On the tour by Cap. Andrews Dekarxer, Puo - lie Relations Officer. They were taken through planes on the field which con sisted of single and twin engine train- i - j M""- puP'w mcuiuiu .u . -- 77 r iuicti tm ucwii. o l to7 S-SIV rv. v. - CBcei. - - 1 Twentv-flve members of the sauad- 1011 rKl R Hayworai made tne uip. ine group was unaer oireco of Eerrfant . John Watemouse or Camp Sutton and Lt N. B. Nicholson, CA P FUpht Leader. " Tills trip was made possible through tVe Interest of Major H. A. Usher and c; --ers of CaTp futton. le cadets met on Monday and reU;;'-'y at ;-.-nroe ' h';:i school, t re 7.;j p. m. rew n-.t.i.bers are l..v..ei. CPk GR0VER WILLIAMS IS KILLED IN FRANCE Message Reeeived By His Wife Satar day Morning; Died Sept. 5th. A message was received Saturday morning by Mrs. Grover Williams of R3, Monroe, . from the " War Depart ment, stating that her husband, CpL Grover Williams bad been killed in action in France on September 5th. No other Information wac i given in the bessage. . v's ; - ; ,; ; ici;- .iU - :: ".; s : f -CpL Williams was 24 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Burke Williams of R3, Monroe. He entered the service four years ago, with the National Guard from this county, was stationed at various oosts throughout the coun try, until his transfer to overseas duty, ' tnAiaAMa m Ais . . r fCUlUW U1BI UA U11S CpTwSam.1 IWSr-'V I . f , - - parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burke Wil liams; four -brothers, CpL EU WllllamA. With the U. 8. Army in England; Floyd, conniey and Dan of the coun ty! also the following sisters, Mrs. J, C. Austin. Jr. Bessie. Billy Jean, Mary Frances, Rachel, ' Raymelle and Linda wiluams of the home. Sky Soldiers Launch Blow U. S. Soldiers Vault On Hot land From Transports ;s v , AndXfiders BEHIND GERMAN LINES than 1,000 air transport and glider loads into Holland, at. the northern m m k ni ..riin J tin l . - . That clearly was the assignment of the sky soldiers already reported -in field dispatches to have driven the Germans from several Dutch towns near the Reich frontier. While Supreme headquarters did not say where the thousands of American, British, and Polish sky troopers land ed, the Germans declared they bit Dutch soil in force at NUmegen, 12 miles west and slightly north of where the already breached Siegfried line ends at Kleve. Simultaneously, the British Second Army broke across the Dutch frontier south of the landings in a great offen sive timed perfectly with .this first entirely airborne operation in military history!. - The Germans said part of Lt Lewis H. Brereton's Airborne Army came down at Tilburg and Eindhoven, eight to 10 miles inside Holland and close to where the British Second Army is fighting up from the south. A field dispatch said the British were two miles inside Holland and driving toward these cities. ' ' But the most Important stroke ap peared to have fallen at Nljmegen, which is on the Rhine and only six miles from the German frontier. Here Berlin is 318 miles to the east " - Some German accounts declared the airborne army bad landed on both the north and south banks of the Rhine at Nljmegen. ;:-y'- From Kleve northward the Germans are believed to have counted on the North sea instead ot a steel and con crete wall to balk invasion. While is was believed only a matter of time utnll the combined weight of these airborne divisions and Lt Gen. Miles a Dempsey-s Second British Army wheel on or around the Sieg fried line, the U. & First Army was hammering: away through a hole in the fortifications 28 miles from the' Rhlneland city of Cologne. - . German "commanders fell back : on old World War I tactics and sent wave upon wave of Infantry against Americans . fighting on the German side of the Siegfried line east of Aa chen and these were cut -down in a storm of fire. -.--' ' "Assaulting waves ' faltered, . then broke," Associated Press Correspondent Don Whitehead reported. "The Amer icans held every yard of their bard earned ground. Nor had any breaches in the line been threatened." . Official silence cloaked other Ameri can thrusts into Germany mainly in the Prum and Trier areas south of Aachen.- . -. On Lt . Gen. George 8. Patton's front the Third army fought through rain on the aoDroaches to the unoer Rhlneland toward the French city of oi.yM,T, -,1 TjinHii as and seized Luneville.. 23 ! miles southeast of Nancy.' Mets, the holdout fortress on the Moselle river, was under continuous barrage. - Tanks were crossing the muddy Moselle river south of the city. Far behind this front a "lost" Ger man force of 20,000 men surrendered without firing a shot to the U. 8. 1 Ninth army whose -whereabouts were j disclosed for the first time at Teau- ' p-ency, 18 miles smiths t of O ' These forces f e cut t I I v Of the Third and Seventh a.i.-.ixi. Canadians on the French coiwt : ... . - .7 meanwnue openea up an assault on 1"'" l" uumusno,- mouc mii.io ; penetrations ana were sua inrusurg i -- j - -was preceded by a snat;-ern;g t !r dropped tons of bombs on C defenses In a virtuty uno; p 1 t; I,ot -ration tJiat cost two bombers. fighter plane was lost CAILD CF T:M3 We wiish to tr,ke tv srv-7 o-r rrnry f t "ITS J 1 T t' F i I C t t ' r s 1 rjore Votes Go To Riclmrdcon ' ".':'" ;.' : V - - ' V.. Union's Representative Now . Practically Assured The -Speakership . - ' OTHERS iJaVETIIE RACE Dispatches reaching here today from Raleigh indicate that Union county's Representative O. , L. Richardson is . practically assured of the speakership of the House of Representatives in the IMS session. . j, :-r"t'r'v': His - remaining opponent is George JSfF ti eris Bsw s vuwm hhuvmuvui mm Texas, on charges of Violating the , ' anti-trust laws, he would continue in ' the ' race. Uzzell said earlier this month, he had information from Washington, that he never would be . tried on the charges, which : Involve :. smaQ loans. .- :&.; 1 -- Representative Richardson, lt is un- derstood, already has about enough ', votes to give him the office, and number of additional votes are expect-; -ed within ,the next few weeks from members of the House, who have been ' supporting other candidates or who have not as yet anonunced their In tentions, y , ' i In the meantime Uzzell has prom- ised bis supporters that he would have the Federal indictment out of the ; way by September 1 or would release ' them but some of them believe his exn , planation is not enough and several already bave switched to Richardson.. Oscar Barker:, of . Durham, House , veteran,; today withdrew from the speakership race and asked bis pledg- -ees . to support . Richardson. A. B. Stoney of Morganton, also mentioned as a speakership candidate, is reliably reported .to be swinging to Richard-. SOn. . .:':'. :-,.'.. ;s ' Richardson's legislative career has been rather conservative. In the last: -session he sponsored legislation to rewrite labor laws and to reduce sales - tax to two per cent Both measures failed. However, he definitely does not favor raiding State's surplus. DAMAGING HUPJUCANE , LEAVES MANY DEAD Caases Fro petty Damage UiwfflcisJrgr Estimated At 300,e00 .:-... ... ,.r ,-5, f A burircane that scourged the At lantic seaboard from the Carolines to" Prince Edward island spent its fury -in", tjhe. North AttantiorFrWay after": bringing death to at least 23 persons in five northeastern states and caus ing property damage unofficially estl-" mated aj $30)00,000. . au tne a earns ana most or the aev- ' astatoin centered in the New York- . New Jersey area, where the Carib-' bean-born' hurricane roared Inland Thursday night end In the New Ens land states, where a similar storm- killed nearly 600 persons in 1938. Uprooted trees, snapped power lines, ruined crops, flooded streets those were the aftermath of the 85-mUe an hour gale that lashed more than 1,500 ' miles of coastline with torrential rain. More than 8,000 persons were r evacuated form their homes and some 300,000 telephones in the stricken area ! were out of service. ; ' New Jersey, where two persons were ' kUle dand damage to crops and sea-' ' shore properties exceeded $20,000,000, appealed for Federal aid as rescue 1 workers strove to reach bard-bit areas " of long beach Island. Thirteen persons died, most of them by electrocution Jn Metropolitan New . York and Long Island, although the city escaped the hurricanes full fury. v Store windows -were shattered and ' subways' flooded -in Manhattan. Parts of Long Island, flayed by a 93-mlle -gale, still ' were without electric lights. , - - t ' s - y Connecticut its multi-million dollar? tobacco and fruit crops ravaged for ! the second time in eight years, count- ed four dead. Three deaths were re-, ported in Massachusetts, ' where the v ' hurricane leveled fruit trees, battered ' shore properties and cut communica-f tlons to, islands including Nantucket and Marthas ' vineyard: An' additional death was reported as the 100-mlle-wide gale skirted Maine. - New Englands total damage ap- proached $10,000,000. half of lt in New Bedford, Mass. su3rjcum:? ' ' mcr.i C-I.ir Ci'-!.."cii Tews Pilot On Periscope Awsy ,. Range Of Jap tt -ie r.. Trom The fantastic itary Of h r a r a vy 1 d V r aviator, sliot down t ? , rrlsrope of , 3 S' s t? f 1 a ; 3 - . t..e v 5 f ' e . i v t C. 1 i et 1 r f! i 1 j f ! S. f 7t,jt t Fii is r- ! I ' ) F. r r.f -j i.
The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.)
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Sept. 18, 1944, edition 1
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