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By Quimby Melton
Tonight, Troy Barnett Post,
American Legion will hold a
V; dinner-meeting in celebration
of the Legion's 25th birthday.
The American Legion has
played an important part in
the life of America since its
organization. But, it has been
parts of the Legion program,
the nation refused to follow,
that have marie it the out
standing organization in the
nation.
Today the nation wishes that
instead of calling Legionnaires
“sword rattlers" and the like in
days gone bv it had listened to
> the Legion and followed its
Suggestions.
For had ' America listened to
the Region there is every reason
to believe that the World War
II might have been avoided.
Tbpt's a big statement. But
just consider these facts:
The Legion advocated an
« adequate" Army, Navy and
Marine Corps. It also fought
all attempts to scrap the Navy
—and you remember we actually
sank ships to come within the
figures agreed oh at the dis-.
armament conference.
Suppose America had been
prepared for war—do you be
lieve the Japs would have struck
at Pearl Harbor?
Suppose America had been
strong on the land, on the sea.
and in the air. it might have
even kept Hitler from starting
his part of the war.
The Legion also warned a
gainst subversive elements in
this nation warning that “the
enemy within our gates" was
as great, if rfbt a greater enemy
than the “enemy over there."
Legionnaires who sour.ded
this warning were called “al
avmi'.s
Suppose the nation had lis
tened to these warnings and
hini nipped the German Bund
and other subversive elements
in the bud America- would
not have known the work of
fifth columnists.
There* were other things the
Legion advocated—all designed
to make America so strong the
rest of the world would respect
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CHINESE OWED NO
INCOME TAX BUT HE
SENT $10 TO HELP
PHILADELPHIA.—tfB) — E’eventh
hour mail at the deputy collector
nf internal revenue’s office includ
ed a $10 check from a Chinese who
said he didn't owe any tax but
wanted to “contribute to the gov
ernment.”
O. M. RAVEN IS
NOW FIELD COOK
O. M. Raven. United States Ma
rine Corps, stationed in tlie South
Pacific Area, has been made field
cook He is the son of O. A. Ra
ven, 505 West Quil’.ey Street; Grif
fin
\yEH P * n v CLINIC AT
WEST GRIFFIN FRIDAY
A We.i-Baby Clinic wi'l be held
at tlie West Griffin Nursery School
oh West Ouilley Street Friday aft
ernoon at 2 o'clock. All mothers in
this vicinity are urged to bring then'
babies to the clinic.
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BULLETIN!
WASHINGTON.’—tfP) —Dates
when additional 10-point stamps
wii' he good for buvin? rationed
food were announced by the
Office of Price Administration
(OPA1 today, as follows:
Red stairms 08, H8 and .13
will be valid front March 26
through June 18 for meats and
fats. Blue stamps F8. G8, H8.
.18 and K8 may be used for
processed foods from April 1
k through June 20.
Buy More War
Nazis Cover
From Positions
Hills Rimming
Good Progress Reported
Iiy Allies In That
Sector
ALLIFD HEADQUARTERS, Na
ples.—(flb—Covered by a thunder
ing artillery barrage. Fifth Army
Infantry and tanks ^plunged into
the ghost city of Cassino today but
Allied headquarters said the ad
vance was impeded by continuing
> Orman resistance and the -ruins
left bv yesterday’s record aerial
bombardment.
The enormous destruction
wrought by the weight of some 2.-
500 tons of bombs actually delayed
Allied armor. From surrounding
the Germans were laving down
heavv mortar fire on the town to
| hinder sappers struggling to clear
J the debris.
Steady progress was reported,
however, both in the devastated citv
and in the hills to the northwest.
As the t rooms drove into the piles
of wildly-churned rubble left by
history's most concentrated air at
tack. several hundred British, and
American artillery pieces pounded
the enemy back.
On the beachhead below- Rome.
Vlied ground forces a’so were on
the move, taking two German dP
fense points and bolding them a
gainst forceful enemy counter-at
tacks.
Lt, Gen. Ira C. Eaker. commander
of the Mediterranean Allied Air
Forces, called the Cassino bombard
ment “a fumigation” and expressed
the belief few enemy defenses were
left, intact.
In the northwest hills where Al
lied .infantrv was penetrating the
Germans still hold many strong
points immediately adjacent to the
town. The pnem\- was reported
fighting stubbornly from these
points, many of which are con
crete mnplacements reinforced bv
steel p’ate similar to that used in
tanks.
In the 2 500 sorties sent against
Cassino and other targets in Italy
yesterday, the Allied Air Forces
icst- six planes, it was announced
officially.
Although Fifth Army Forces on
the beachhead threw back firs’
enemy efforts to regain the two
enemy sirongpoints taken yester
day southwest of Carroceto. Lat
est reports today said fighting still
was going on under harassing enemy
artillery fire.
The Germans were said to be
using a new “grappling device" in
an effort to explode Allied mines
along the beachhead perimeter.
Draft Boards Told
To Fathers
WASHINGTON.— UP )—With mili
tary manpower needs running be
hind at the rate of 100,000 men a
month, local draft hpards were
urged today to set up the induction
of latheis and Up seek out men
now needlessly deferred in indus
try and eotriculture.
"We must, in the future, make
®ithar* aykibiblet*. jy»reasingly
greater numbers to meet inducti on
requirements,” said Selective Ser
vice Director Lewis B. Hershey in
a letter to all boards.
“At the same time we must se
cure men from other classes and
particularly we hiust secure men,
fathers and non-fathers, from the
group now deferred in industry and
agriculture.”
The letter, was dated March 13.
Yesterday ,in testifying before a
senate subcommittee, Hershey em
phasized that the armed forces now
are calling for young men.
Defending his month-old order
tightening up draft deferments for
tanners, he said 470.000 of the esti
mated 1.700.000 deferred farmers
are under 26.
CPL. JACK OGILVIE
ARRIVES IN ENGLAND
Corporal Jack Ogilvie of Experi
ment has arrived safely in England.
Cpl. OoiiVie is the son of Mrs. C.
T. Clianibley.
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MISSING IN ACTION — Sgt
Covell Williamson, tail gunner
on a B-26 Marauder bomber,
has been reported missing in
action over Italy since Feb. 20.
sgt. Williamson
MISSING IN ACTION
Staff Serjeant Coveil Williamson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wil
liamson, 302 Bell Street. Griffin,
has been reported missing in action
in Italy since Feb. 20. Sergeant
Williamson was tail gunner on a
B-26 Maurader bomber. He enter
ed the service in March. 1942, and
had been overseas seven months.
On Feo. 14. The News carried a
special dispatch from the Twelfth
Army Air Base telling of Sergeant
Williamson having shot down a
German Me-109 during an air bat
tle on Jan. 10. Williamson was a
warded the Air Medal with two oak
leaf clusters. Before entering th°
service he was a farmer.
U. S. Airmen Have
Field Day In Pacific
BY RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ
Associated Press War Editor
A 350-mile segment of Japan’s
southwest Pacific defense line was
ripped with a 500-ton air smash,
Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur commun
iqued today, while American fliers in
the Central Pacific picked out a
new target—Oroluh Atoll—in the
eastern Carolines.
From Wewak, New Guinea, on the
west to Bougainville, Solomon Isl
ands, on the east, Southwest Pacific
airmen had a field day, blasting
bomb-cratered Japanese supply bas
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es, starting fires and destroying
vital ground installations.
For the fourth straight day, We
wak, main enemy supply and air
base in northern New Guinea, was
pounded by Allied fliers Monday’.
Eight interceptors were shot down
whfen they , tried to dull the 174-ton
blow. More than 600 tons of explos
ives have been poured into Wewak's
defenses during the four-day as
sault.
The communique reported other
heavy raids on enemy positions, in
cluding a 68-ton blast at Rabaul,
New Britain, and a 123-ton strike
supporting ground troops repelling
qpiridal Japan^e lunges at Empress
Augusta Bay, BougailTville.'
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Allied
commander-in-chief in the Paci
fic, accompanied by Gen. Robert
Richardson, Central Pacific Army
Commander, returned from Wash
ington conference and announced
Navy planes on Monday hit Oro
ihk for the first time in the war.
The small atoll lies 190 miles east of
Truk.
Other planes smashed Japanese on
Ponake and Kusaie in the eastern
Carolines and four out-flanked en
emy bases in the eastern Marshalls.
In northern Burma, a drive by
Cninese troops to clear the Hukawng
Valley brought the capture of a
small village south of Walaubuni
and placed them almost in the Mo
yaung Valley, through which run
key Japanese communication lines
Mrs. H. J. Copeland and Mrs.
Byron M. Wilkinson spent Wednes
day In Atlanta attending the W.
M. V. conference.
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BERI.IN TODAV—CITV OF RUBBLE AND DUST— These photos smuggled nut of Germany show Berlin
as the city of rubble and dust it has become as the result of ‘round-the-clock bombings by the USAAF
and the RAF. i Radiophotos from Stockholm > - 'NEA Telephoto).
RAF Bombs German
Industrial Cities And
French Railways
American Bombers Are
Out Today In Raids
Over Europe
LONDON. (/P> — Bearing
down on southern Germany in
great strength, U. S. heavy
bombers struck another hard
blow today in quick sequence to
a record night attack by the
RAF which hit Stuttgart, Mu
nich and other targets with
more than 1.000 four-engined
bombers carrying over 3,360 tons
of bombs.
It was the U. S. Strategic Air
Force’s second aerial invasion
of Germany in as many days.
LONDON— <7Pi—Hitting the Reich
with ever-massing strength, the RAF
sent a great force which included
more than 1.000 four-pngined bom
bers against the Germans last night
and dropped what probably was a
record weight of destruction—more
than 3,360 U. S. tons of bombs—
mainly on Stuttgart.
At the same time that this im
portant industrial target. 300 miles
southeast of Berlin and 450 miles
southeast of London was being
ground to pieces by the impact of
the terrific load, other British air
men hit at Munich in southwest
Germany, other targets in north
west Germany and smashed at rail
way objectives in Amiens, France,
w-lth their heavy bombers.
Forty British aircraft, following
up the blow at the aircraft center I
of Brunswick yesterday by the Am-1 j
erican Fortress and Liberator fleets,
were lost in the huge night invasion
of the German air. |
“The weather prevented immediate j
observation of the results, but to- I
wards the end of the attack the glow i
of large fires was seen through the
clouds." tin air ministry said In an
nouncing the Stuttgart attack.
Only a few hours after the RAF
returned from the multiple attack,
a big force of American bombers
roared out across the English Chan
nel to continue the onslaught by
daylight. i
Meanwhile Allied headquarte’ I
announcements from Naples report
■
ed a two-way operation agains’ j j
and her satellites with a
Mr. C. R. Wooisey,
Former Teacher. Dies
Mr. Charles R. Wooisey, former
teacher in Spalding and •Fu Vf >!t
counties and for several yars sup
erintendent, of Fayette Count’
Schools, died early this morning at
the home of his daughter. Mrs. Joe
Chambers'. In Milner Mr Wco’sev
had been ill for about two weeks.
Mr! Wooisey. who was 91 veal
old, was born in Clinton. Kv. the
.son of the late Dr! Isaac G. Wooi
sey and Clemerza' Regan Woe Le v
At the age of nine he moved to
Fayette County with his family For
several years he served as superin
tendent of Fayette County Schools
and taught for 40 years in schools
in Fayette rnri Spalding counties.
Survivors are two daughters. Mrs
Joe Chambers, Milner, and Miss
Ruby Wooisey, Atlanta: two sons.
J. I Wooisey. Brooks, and A F
Woo.se.v, Atlanta; one brother, I.
G. Woolsev. Wooisey.
Funeral services will be held at
Wooisey Baptist Church Friday aft
ernoon at 3 o'clock with Rev. Grant
land Middlebrooks officiating. In
terment will follow in the church
yard. Haisten Brothers, funeral
directors, are in charge of arrange
ments.
Pallbeaiers will bo Waiter Wilson
Ike Wilson. Ferrell. Sams. M T
Sams, J. M. Graves, and C. W.
McElroy.
heavy and medium bomber attack I
from Italy last night against Sofia,
capital of Bulgaria follow-ed by a
raid in force by RAF Wellingtons
which rained two-ton blockbuster^
on that main junction in Hitters
Balkan rail network—now doubly
vital for the German forces in Rus
sia.
The German air force also was
out during the night, dropping
bombs at several places in south
east England and the home coun
ties and giving London another
alert, but no bombs fell in the capi
tal and the British Press Associa -
tion said only tw’o enemy planes
reached the city's outskirts.
SERVICES PLANNED AT
NEW HOPE CHURCH
Services wif. be neld tdmght and
Friday night at New Hope Baptist
Church (colored) on Boyd Row
The services will begin at 8 o’clock.
Rev. E. M. Johnson will be guest
speaker tonight and Rev. Mattie
Neely of Chicago. 111., will de
liver a message Friday night. The
public is Invited to attend the
meetings.
GEORGE W. MADDOX IS
HOME ON FURLOUGH
George W. Maddux, petty officoi
third class, United States Navy, is
now spending a 30-day furlough at
home alter serving for 16 months
in the South Pacific Area He is
the son of Mrs. Mallard Jones oi
Experiment. .
FORECAST FOR GEORGIA:
Increasing cloudiness and warmer
today wit hshowers in extreme
northwest portion. Cloudy and
mild tonight with light showers
north and west. Partly cloudy
and cooler Friday.
Zo . Murray Named
Booster Director
George N. Murray, official with
Lowell Bleachery, has bepn elected
director of the Chamber of Com- 1
a
merce. He fills the vacancy t reat.- ,
ed when Mac Cheatham. Dundee j
official, left to enter the Kavv'. t
Cheatham has been commissioned
an ensign in the Naval Reserve
H. L. WJLLEBY IS IN
AMPHIBIOUS FORCES
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NORFOLK, Va—Henry
Willeby, whose family resides a>
205 East Broadway. Griffin, is now
an integral member of the Amphi
bious Forces of the United States
Navy. At the completion of his
preliminary LST training at the
Amphibious Training Base. Camp
Bradford. N. O. B.. Norfolk.
ginia. Wlileby was assigned to the
.,rew of an LST for, / active duty.
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// One Day Nearer Victory" Established 1871
WAR IN BRIEF
rv TIIF ASSOCIATED PRESS)
AERIAL: U. S. heavv bomb
ers ajtaek southern Germany
in wake of record 2 , 360-ton RAF
smash at industrial Stuttgart
and other targets, Italy-based
bombers hit Bulgarian capital
of Sofia
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RUSSIA: Central sector of
German front in southern Rus
sia near collapse as twin So
viet drives thrust toward Ni
kolaev and Odessa. Red advance
units within 25 miles of Dnies-''
trr Riser. Russo Bessarabian
boundary.
ITALY: Allied infantry and
tanks forgo into devastated Cas-’,
r mo in wake of 2 500-ton aeriiil
bombardment. Germans conti
nuo resistance with-mortar fire
from surrounding hills Allies
in beachhead continue to un
prove positions.
PACIFIC: Land-based bofnb
ers blast 350-mile seoroent of
tjnnanise Southwest Pacific de
fense lines while Navy planes
hit Oroiuk atoll in central Pa
cific. New Jap ground attack
repelled at Bougainville
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Bl'HMA: Chinese troops un
j der command of Gen. stilwell
capture Tin ghawk Sakan in
drive up Hukawng Valley in
North Burma
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ST. SGT. LANGLEY U
SERVFS IN ITALY I
Staff Sergeant Maurice H. Lang
ley. Armv Air Forces, is now serving i
jn j ta]v St. Sgt. Langley also took
par) jn Uip North Afrloan campaign,
^ thp con of Mr 8nf j _\i rs j h
Langley of Griffin
LT. JAMES O. MARTIN
IS IN SOUTH AMERICA
Mrs .!. O. Martin. 211 Alabama
Street, has received word that her
son Lt James O Martin, has ar
rived safely in South America. Lt.
' Martin is a bomber piiot
j LT. KENDRICK SENDS
AUSTRALIAN RUG HOME
Lt. M. H Hendrick, Jr., recently
sent a rug made of Australian wool
to his mother in Griffin. Lt. Ken
drick has been stationed 'in the
Pacific Area for several months.
British Sailors To
Be Entertained By
Local Kiwanis Club
i: elite it British sailors, mem
bers of the crew of a torpedoed
British warship now in drydock at
Charleston. S C., for repairs, will
be the guests of members of the
Kiwanis Chib of Griffin during the
week-end The sailors arrived in
Atlanta Tuesday and arc being en
tertained in the homes of Atlan
tans this week They will come
to Griffin on Saturday afternoon
The & roup includes boys from
Edinburgh in Scotland, Belfast in
Ireland, and from I/mdon and
Birkenhead. They are now’ en
joyirvr tneir . first week-long leave
sine” they, arrived in the United
States.
Plans for the entertainment ol
the sailors on their visit to Griifin
have been announced by Oirdcan
Harper, chairman of the War Citi
zenship and Entertainment Com
mittee of the local club. There
will be a supper at the Parish
House Saturday night at 7:30. Fol- will
lowing the supper the sailors
be guests at a formal dance at Sam
Wilson's Club House on the Grif
fin-Newnan Highway Members of
the Kiwanis Club, their wives, and
dates will be present. Members or
the Javcee-ette Club and Pilot Club
will be dates oi the British seamen
The visitors will be guests in the
of several members of. the
ft .b ojer the weeljg^
They will be carried back to At
lanta Headquarters-of U. S. O Sun
day afternoon.
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BILLIE BUTLER IS
ACCEPTED FOR WORK
AT ROBINS FIELD
ROBINS FIELD. Ga.—Billie Lea
vern Burier of Griffin/ Ga.. has
been accepted for training as a war
worker with Warner Robins A*r
Service 'Command here, a “Keep
'em Flying" branch of the Army
Air Forces responsible for the re
pair, maintenance and supply of
army aircraft in all parts of the
woiid.
Butler is the son of Ira Lee But
ler and Mrs. Claudia Ellis Butler
of Griffin. He attended the public
schools tneiip and his Vjork at Rob
ins Field Is his first job.
Upon completion of his training
he will be assigned to headquarters,
base commander, postal section.
Bug River
Crossing
Announced
Continue ‘Exterminating’
Germans Trapped
In Ukraine
LONDON. -iJV-Red army troops
have smashed across the Middle
Bug River and sent spearheads
within 30 miles of the pre-war Ru
manian border, Moscow announced
today, opening the way for a drive
down the Bugs west bank that
would offer a grave new threat to
the already hard-pressed Germans
ill lower Russia
- Elsewhere on the long front, a
Soviet communique said, the Rus
lans continued to pile up disaster
tor the hundreds of thousands ol
Germans in the Ukraine, smashing
v. within 17 miles of tlfe large
Black Sea port of Nikolaev on the
eastern bank of the Lower Bug. and
’aying thousands more of the trap
ped Germans In the Snlgerevka poc
ket/ north of Kherson.
The crossing of the Bug, the bul
letin .said, was made southwest of
Uman by Marshal Ivan S. Ko
nev's Second Ukraine Army, which
ripped over a 62-mile front and
tjren hurtled forward for 12 and
i 8 mile gains toward the Dnieper
River frontier of Bessarabia, sweep
ing up 100 villages in the surge.
Using even empty barrels as rafts,
Konev's forces leaped the river be
tween Nemirov, 23 miles southeast
of Vnnltsa, and Gaivoron, 62 miles
southwest of Uman. The Russians
also reported the capture of Olgo
l in. only 15 miles from the Odessa
Warsaw rail line, already cut 200
miles to the northwest at Tarnopol.
Moscow said .Soviet troops were
pccessfully exterminating” the
tr ipped German forces trying to get
out of the Snlgerevka trap. 45 miles
northeast of Nikolaev. The Ger
nians were said to he abandoning
I rge quantities of equipment.
The Russians also anounced the
rapture of Bereznegovatoye. ■ and
Siiiketevka. hinges of the trap be
tween the Ingul and Ongulets Riv^r.
The capture of the rail station of
Kopany brought the Russians within
17 miles of Nikolaev, which was
virtually cut off by wat^r aS
threatened from three sides on tne
land. The fail of Nikolaev would
menace German- troops retreating
from Novo Nkrainka. Nilotaev is but
65 mites northeast of the Nazi’z
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Dr. Sutton To Speak
At Griffin Teachers
Meet On Monday
Dr Wiilis Sutton of Atlanta. SP
cretary of the Georgia Education
Association and formerly superifi
tendent of the Atlanta Public
School System, will speak at. the
mooting of the Griffin Teachers
Xssocfation hB ;he 4( riff^> Hie .
School Auditorium on Monday.
March 20. The meeting will b?
held at 4 o'clock.
All Spalding County teachers
have horn invited to attend the
meeting as special guests. The pub
lic will be welcomed.
LOCAL MAN RE-ENLISTS
IN U. S. MARINE CORPS
A PACIFIC BASE—(De’ayed)—
Marine Sergeant Major William O.
Hollan ol Miami Beach. Fla., and
Griffin. Ga.. has re-enlisted in the
Marine .Corps for another four year
tour of duty. The Leatherneck en
tered the Corps in 1938 and has
seen 33 months of sea dutv. He now
Is a member o fthe Fleet Marine
Force His wife. Mrs. Justine Hol
lan. lives at 345 Lincoln Road,
Miami Beach, and his parents, Mr
and Mrs. William Hollan. live ”t
Griffin, Ga.