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E V GOOD E N! N G
By Quimhy Melton
Tonight, midnight, is the
deadline for mailing your in
come tax return for 1943.
There has been a lot of jok
ing, griping, and fussing about
the intricate tax return. Men
claim they have turned gray
headed oyer night trying to
figure out their tax returns. Wo
men have thrown up their hands
in disgust and said they never
had been uood at figuring:
But despite all the joking,
-griping and fussing, the great
majority of 50-million Amer
leans, who must make a return,
wi’I hat» them in the mails on
time.- -
And despite all the jokinr.
griping and fussing, the great
majority or them are thankful
they work in a free nation
Wli?re they car. make fenot.vh
money to pay an income tux.
Titey know that the money they
pay Uncle Sam goes to buy
guns, and tanks, anci armored
cars, and ships, and plgtnes
and guns with which to whip
the enemy and keep this na
tion free.
Americans joke, gripe and
fuss a lot—but that's America.
Tn a totalitarian country r.o
. one can joke. >r end fuss
; about the government.'^To' do
so would mean the concentra
tion ramp at least.
So if you haven’t finished
that return, jump to it. and
gel if in the mails before mid
night: and be thankful that
you can have a part in financ
ing victory.
If is estimated that about
a third of the persons who
make income tax returns will
have a refund coming to them
—thanks to the fact that with
lio’ding tax tie- accumulated
mere to i heir credit than thev
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will owe the government. But
these must not expect checks
for their, refunds tomorrow or
the next day. It will t ike a lone
time for Uncle Sam to check
the re,turns and make out re
fund checks.
The withholding tax. which
was viewed as a nuisance by
irmm- when started six months
before the end of the rear, has
turned out to be a blessing in
disguise, since it made it easy
for everyone, who had^.wages
withheld, to pay their income
tax,
Nl* F.- VF A R.O* D TURNS
PEVMTF.S INTO BONDS TO
ADD TO COLLEGE FUND
ATLANTA.- -15 ,-P! iis Ji nkin '.
nine-year-old fourth grader, yes
terday pushed "hard to net Dl.600
pennies up to the counter at the
postoffice, where she was handed a
crisp, new bond to go into her col
lege fund.
Phyllis sacrificed shows, candy,
Ice cream — practically everything
she likes, to save the pennies, her
parents said,
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AT FORT CUSTER St.
Eft Pnrto J. Morris, son of J.
B. Morris of Griffin, is station
ed at Fort Custer. Mich. His
wife is Mrs. Lena Cook Morris
of Griffin,
Russians
In Southern
Smash Along Black Sea
Coast Towards
Odessa
MOSCOW.— t/P )—Red Army troops
ere liquidating several trapped Nazi
divisions in the southern Ukraine,
the Russians said today, and in a
smash along the Black* Sea coast
have closed the harbor of Nikolaev,
leaving Odessa as the only large
port in southern Russia still avail
able to the Germans.
Ten thousand Germans have been
killed and 4.009 captured already, a
Soviet communique said, while try
ing to break out cf the trap sprung
i v Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky's
Third Ukrainian Army about 46
miles northeast df Nikolaev in {he
Boreznoi. ovati-Snigerevka area. Col
umns driving In from the north
and south fogged a ring of steel
rround the Nazis.
Other Red Army troops pushed
IS miles beyond captured Kherson
to cut the German line of escape
through Nikolaev harbor into the
Black Sea. They captured Shiro
l ..va Balka. 28 miles southeast of
I Nikolaev and less than 10 miles from
I the mouth of the southern Bug
j River, and Soviet gUns now control
| tii - < \it from Nikolaev, the Soviet
! Bulletin said.
The Red army also closed in on
Nikolaev from the north, captured
Kiselevka. 21 miles to the east,,
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Finns Turn Down
Russian Peace Terms
STOCKHOLM—l/D—The Finnish
jiurlirment decided today to continue
a: war with Soviet Russia, rejecting
Tint ia’s final terms of armistice, ac
CMvc'irg to reliable information avail
; ble here tonight.
Tlie vote is understood to have
been 160 to 40. only two score mem
V vs of the Finn parliament willing
accept Moscow’s peace condi
tions.
Thus the parliament supported
re government position outlined by
Pienvicr Edwin 1 inkomies when, in a
s. "ret session yesterday, lie described
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Vice-Commander Of
Legion To Speak
At Meeting Here
Louis C. Summers spnior vice
commander of the American Legion
m Georgia, will be the principal
speaker at the local meeting Thurs
dr v nieht when Troy Barnett Post
loins other Legion posts in observ
i ng the Legion's 25th birthday. Din
ner will be served, 7:30 o’clock, at
the Memorial Club House. Advance
reservations indicate the lamest
crowd to attend a Legion meeting
here.
Members of the Legion and the
Legion Auxiliary will attend. A. J
I whalen is commander of the loca’
| pos t an d Sam Saul is adjutant,
Griffinite's Brother,
Reported As Missing,
Is Now Safely Home
Lt. Lloyd Stanford of Augusta,
brother of Mrs. T. O. Vinson of Grif
fin, who & missing in action in
was
the European theater for several
i months, is now visiting Dr. and
■ Mrs. Vinson at their home here,
j Lt. Stanford, who is in the Army
1 Air Corps, left the United States
for England in August, 1943. He has
i been awarded the Air Medal, Oak
j leaf Cluster, and the Purple Heart,
i t Stanford is also wearing a sym
bcl of the shoe of a boot called the
Escape Boot, indicating that he es
'led from occupied territory.
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C. B. DEXTER SPEAKS
TO ROTARY CLUB
C. B Dexter, associated with Po
mona Products Company in Grif
fin, will be the principal speaker
s meeting of the Rotary Club
day. The meeting will be held
tnc Parish House at nooa.
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RUSSIANS DRIVING TOWARD ODESSA—Recapturing Kherson, at
the mouth of the Dnieper, taken by the Germans in 1941. Russian
t: oop.s are driving on and by Nikolaev toward Odessa, where the
Germans reportedly are assembling ships of all sorts and sizes for a
Black Sea "Dunkirk.'' East of Tarnopol, in Poland, the Germans
have backed up to a point some 50 miles from the Rumanian border,
but the city itself remains an island of Nazi resistance in a line
under Soviet hammer blows. — iNET
Wynne Precision Company Doing Vital War
Work In Manufacturing Precision Crystals
Used By Army And Navy In Vital Radio Sets
in brief
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
AERIAL: Allied planes. in
history's greatest concentrated
attack; cascade 1.400 tons of
bombs on Caskino target area
of less than square mile, aim
ed at reducing German-held
city to rubble, breakirq dead
lock of more than two months
or main Fifth Army front.
Medium force of U. S. bombers
strike western Germany while
RAF Mosquitoes rake Dussel
dorf.
RUSSIA: SoviPt forces tight
en squeeze cn trapped German
divisions near Nikolaev; press
on elsewhere toward Rumanian
border. Odessp threatened.
ITALY: Allies improve po
sition in Anzio beachhead after
British troops wipe out German
pocket south of Carroceto.
PACIFIC: A’lied airmen step
up offensive against Wewak, in
effort to neutralize air base in
same manner as Tabaul. U. S.
Navy task force makes daring
sweep into South Pacific seas
without air or sea opposition.
Seroeont Grant, Home From Italy Where He
Took Part In 50 Missions With Flvina Fortress,
Says Germany Is Losina Out In Battle Of Air
Sereeanr William Grant, of Ex
periment. recently returned from
Italy: where ton gunner on a i
as
Flying Fortress he took part in fifty
bombing missions told the Exchange
Club yesterday that Germany was
fast losing the battle of the skies
and that German pilots today ate
inferior to those he met in combat
when he'Tirst reached Europe,
The Sergeant who wears the Air
Medal with eight stars, also took
f ime during his interesting talk to
">raiSe the American Red Cross for
its work “overthere.” This agency
ne said “is trulv doing a great job"
to help the soldiers who have gone
overseas, maintaining recreation
enters and even going into the
front lines to help soldiers. “They
feed you, furnish amusement and
ever, lend you money when you’re
broke." said the sergeant.
Grant who was introduced by'
Dr. Cain, a member of the club
told of several of the missions on
which he flew. His Flying Fort
ress took part in bombing missions
over Italy. Germany, Bulgaria and
even Yugoslavia, The real thing
'hat worries pianes on a bombing
mission is not so much the “flak”
but fighter interceptor planes, he
said.
The pilots of German planes to
day are inferior to those who pi-
GRIFFIN, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1944
Family Of Jewelers Now
Directing: Important
War Industry
One hears a lot about big war
plants that turn out airplanes and
tanks and iruns but often an in
dustry doing just as vital a job on
war materials gets little or no pub- |
lici'y. For airplanes and. tanks and I
guns are so large and it takes such
a large staff of employes to turn
them out. that the firms ma'kine
them oceunv the center of produc
tion spotlight.
But there are hundreds of small
er plants that are turning out vi
tal small parts for the planes, tanks
and guns that very seldom get an
publicity. They do not seek it. pre
fering rather to do their work in
a quiet, unassuming way, satisfied
to know' that their product is help
ing bring victory to the Allied cause.
Such a plant is the Wynne Pre
cision Company of GrUfin which
I 1 for sometime has been manufactur
ing ■' small " 'f*-'' officially
i a radio crystal,
known as SCR-299. These are cry
stals buiit in high powered radio
sets that are used by the Army,
When America entered the war
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lotod planes thev first met SO mp
nine months ago. he said'. He attri
outed this to the fact that heavy
toll had been taken on the German
Air force with manv pilots being
killed, Continued duty on the part
of German pilots, without rest is
also slowing them down and reduc
ing their fighting ability.
Sergeant Grant. *nnd p T
have taken part iif several raids on
the surburbs of Rome. He said
that before each raid there every
pilot was cautioned not to f’y over
the city itself and bombardiers were
told to be sure they dropped their"
bombs only on railway yards or
military installations. , “To all ef
fects. as far as the Americans are
concerned Rome is an ‘open city'"
said the sergeant.
After his interesting talk Sergean'
Grant answered questions of mem
bers. He was most modest in what
he said always giving bis .plane
mates credit for whatever was ac
complished. He stressed the fact
that complete teamwork between
everv man in a crew was necessary
to make a raid a success.
Oue question asked him was
How about Brenner Pass? What
is being done to demolish it?
His answer was “If we don't hurry
up we’ll meet the Russians coming
through that pass.”
Task Forces
The South Pacific
Jap Planes Or
Fails To Find Single
Enemy Vessel In
Ocean Sweep
BY RICHARD < . BF.RGHOLZ
Ar aviated Press War Editor
■ A tiering sweep of South Pacific
teas friifd to stir up a single Japa
nese ship or combat pi. nt, air Am -
Iricah cruiser-destroyer tack force
reported today, but Allied fli*rs
found good hunting £t Wewak New
Guinea, where they bagyed pc «ibl>
65 enemy planes during a
500-ton a 1 sm ;;
The task force ventured unchal
lenged the farthest west in Japan’s
South Pacific island empire of any
naval unit in the war Failure to
find a single Japanese ship or "draw
the attack of a single Japanese plane
caused Rear Adm. Aaron S. Mer
nli, task force commander, to com
ment,: , -
“It demonstrated our naval as
well as air superiority over a large
section of the-South Pacific. It
docks like the Japs have abandon
id their forces tin the South Paci
fic i and left them to subsist on vie
toiy gardens."
From Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s
headquarters came the tabulation
of 65 enemy planes "shot out cf
action" during Die three-dav smash
at Wewak. Japan's main air and
supply base in northern New Guin
ea. Tire last reported of threejstrikes
which occurred Monday when 210
tons of explosives rained down on
Wewak's four airdromes and supply
areas. Two American planes fail'd
to retura.
Suicidal lunges against Americans
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Cal. Moore, Prisoner
Of War, Writes Home
Freising Red Cress
Mr. and Mrs. E. D Moire receiv
ed on March 9 a third letter from
their son, CpI. .William P. Moor -
who is, a prisoner of war in Gor
many. In the letter CpI. Moore
boxes" which the prisoners rec :vc
from them once a week. He wrote
that the boxes contained cand
cigarettes, meat and crackers and
are stfrely welcome The-};>tte,r, ; w;i
written on October 3. 1943.
Sir Names Added To
Red Cross Honor Roll
Six mere names were added to
the Red Cr y-'s loo Per Cent If or w
Roll Tuesday. They are the Grit -
'in and Snalding Countv Health
Department, industrial Life In
surance Company. Primary Depart -
mentof t.h'- Fir- t. M-thodist C!:uri |
Randall and Bfak‘1'-. Inc., and
Thomas Service Station. ;
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WORKERS OF FLINT
RIVER ASSOCIATION
TO MEET MARCH 21
.The Workers’ Council of the
Flint River Association will m»»t
the New Hope Baptist. Church on
Tuesday. March 21. An interesting
program has toen arranged for the
meeting, A representative group
from every church is expected.
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MAN SHORTAGE '
PUTS WOMEN TO
OPERATING STILL
OGLETHORPE, Ga.—W—Sheriff
W. T. Jolly testified to the man
power shortage today. He said he
recently found three persons operaf
ing a r u - All- three were women.
PFC. M. C. F.PPINGER
REACHES
Pfc. Marvin C. Eppinger, son of
Mrs. Cynthia Presley of Griffin,
has arrived safely in England, Pfc.
Eppmger, who is serving in the
Ordnance Division, trained at
: arkana, Texas, before going over
teas.
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“camera studies of Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower. Allied invasion chief,
show him observing target practice by tank crews in a miniature
range somewhere in England, That big smile (bottom, righti spells
a bull's-eye —iNEA Telephotoi.
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Germens Nil London
W ! »h B'g Fire Raid
IONDON Rescue worki rs
oiled through smoking ruins in
search of dead and injured today
ns London dug itself out after a
fierce pre-midnight fire raid that
rivaled in intensity the big German
attacks of 1941.
Thousands of incendiaries and
nigh explosive bombs were showered
down upon the city in a short but
concentrated attack which touched
iff fires in many sections and ri'd
?xten e ive damage in too bf the
capital’s best known business and
residential districts. !
Bombs also drooped nt scattered ;
points in East. Anglia and south |
and .southeast Eh“lnnri, causing j
both Vayualtfes. and d imna at- kpv
rv'A places.
The fo<al rnidinrj force esfi- ■
was
mated at 150 to 200 n’r.m-s but how
manv of t-hPSf* reachoii London wn."
not announced. At Ina.Ft. 13 raid- j
■°rs worn phot »dbwn. 11 over Er ?r- J
i-oid and l-vo errouLn horm* & *
: Tood }"'■■ '4 of ibo rnirlf4"s Germany
-ends against England are twin-:
engined, dual purpose fii?hter-bbmb- j
r . r ,. oaneb!c of carrvin/z onlv a ton
Of cx>-K«-ives against; the three tor:"
nr monv that thr ' Atlies 1 .four-en
^ined bombers tote,
Nazi pronagandists exploited the
-aid on Lnr.ciorj t the fullest, the
Berlin radio leiiipg the German
public that the assault was
nut on a grand caie and asserting
the raiders had unloaded ,
numbers of new ‘‘super heavy
bombs” said to have great destine
live power.
The raid, which lasted., less than
an hour .was the first attack on
the British capital since March 2
and touched off a barrage similar
f to that sent, up during last month's
“baby blitz."
By the time the last of the raid
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I J. H. HOWARD FINDS
UNUSUAL EGG HERE
1 J. H. Howard of Experiment re
centli; found a unique egg in his
i hen-house. ,l Tfie'egg. which is larg
ter-than ordinary.was covered with
unusual markings. However, the
markings did not form any specific
design.
U. S. Heavy
Hi! (enlral
LONDON U, S. heavy bom
bets in "medium-sized forces"
smashed at military targets in cen
tral Germany today, under strong
escort. strategic air force
headquarters announced.
Target and other details were not
disclosed, but the German radio said
air Meets swept into northwest, Ger
many this morning, touching
ryer Hannover. 150 miles west
Berlin.
German radio transmitters went
off the air ns the bombers approaeh
rd during the middle of broadcasts
boasting of heavy damage to Lon
don in a huge fire raid last night.
T ater the Berlin radio said Grr
n'.o n anti-aircraft, defenses loda y
were “considerably hampered by
■weather conditions”
It was the llth operation this
iPiyruy tit? v to inr.r F'V!
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Told Bv Newsnooer
PtTFNOS ATPES ,p. Ouinfun
i(,t yere born eie-pt months a.go 'n
O 'ei-os A ) .-C suburb to a well
to-J.i rr<n/’H/’r .and b 4t>-ve»r-old
Italian wife, .wh Vent the_cvent
C ope,i to avo’d •hljf f*vr}| 0 , f‘T\t
such as attended the birth of the
famous Dionne chitoren Buenos
Aires nepers said today.
Frnnco pilleenM. th^ir father, d^
dined to permit reporters to EGG
h! off-tirin'/ -three ei"l«- anrf two
hot-. but exhibited photographs oi
thprn ■ rGprTkiruT; “Look, gentle.
men. a. fall bouse ” The’r names
i o said, aro Fernanda. Maria
Esfb.Gr. Maria Cristina. Carols A! •
b° and Franco.
Diligent) said the children were
bnm, nf home last July 11 with
only a, midwife in attendance nr
his wife. Vnllota. whols the mother
j of three other children. He de
clared the quints are in excellent
health, each weighing between 20
and 25 pounds. I
The story' of the’ multiple birth
was told first by Miss Leila Shaw,
society editor of the Buenos Aires
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Cassino
Ground Forces Charge In
To Drive Germans
From City
BV EDWARD KENNEDY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Na-
1 Jes i/Pi Allied air power devast
ated Cassino today with history'*
greatest bombing attack, and Allied
ground forces immediately charged
in to dtive the Germans from the
rubble of the fortress town.
More titan 1.400 tons of bombs
were hurled on a target area of less
than a square mile by every type of
Allied plane in an Armada of 3,006
sorties.
Its goal was destruction of this
' trongfmlri where Jht Germans have
been blocking the main Fifth Army
advance since early January.
British and American artillery
• nashed out in a heavy barrage af
ter the morning-long bombing stop
ped. .
Cassino, on a main highway to J |
Rome, is 75 miles southeast of that
capital, and some 60 miles east of j |
flip Anzio invasion beachhead.
T.t Gen. Ira C. Eaker threw every I
plane of his Mediterranean Allied ] |
Air Forces into a gigantic blow to
smash the German grip on this
town onecand for all. They started
shortly after daylight and continued
pounding the town until noon.
Then artillery opened its fearful j j
barrage and the waiting infantry
was flung into battle.
Allied troops who had been holding -- j j
about one-third of the city were
withdrawn .quietly during the night
to give the bombers a free hand. ]
First reconnaissance photographs
.developed after the attack showed
that Cassino was levelled.
The tremendous attack had one
objective—to destroy every building * j
in Cassino and pulverize the ancient
stone house,, concealing countless |
vancc- and to kill every German in -
the place.
The rumble of the bombing shook
windows and houses In Naples, 50 i
airline miles away. ***> - .1
Ncvei before has such a weight !
of high explosive bombs been pour- i
ad on so small an area in so short a |
time. , In intensity the raid eclipsed ;
i ' v ever inflicted on Germany.
Pvt. W. W. Turner Is
Reported Missing In
Action In Italy
Pvt. William W. Turner. 23, of
Griffin has been reported missing in
pc ion in Italy since February 7,
1944. His wife, who makes her home
at 747 East Broadway. Griffin, re
el ived a message from the War De
partmerit thisWeek containing the
me:- sage above.
Pvt. Tinner entered the Army in
May, 1913. and was serving!in the in
fantK- In feptember. J >43 he left
the United States and l;,u|ded ill
North Africa. After a few v months
there he Went on to Italy, Prior to
entering the Army he was employed
it tiir* ‘ AmeviCcUi TV •owing Mill in
Griffin.
Pvt. C. T. Buffington
Wounded In Action
In Itoly February 2
Mr and Mrs J. G. Buffington,
of Griffin, have been notified by
the wax department that their son,
Pvt. Charles T (Tip) Buffington,
was wounded in action in Italy on
1 February 2 Pvt. Buffington has been
i serving with the United States Army
somewhere in Italy .since October,
.
j 1943
FORECAST FOR GEORGIA:
Partly cloudy and Warm today,
tonight and Thursday. Showers
extreme north portion Thurs
day afternoon.