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VENIN G
By QuJmby Melton
News from the Pacific tells of
three more islands in the Phi
liopine area being invaded by
the Ain ilcan Eighth Army,
There islands are within 30
miles of Borneo, They have
been a potential threat to the
American po'sitkns if. the Phi
lippines but onco they are firm
ly in our hands this threat will
be ended.
This latest invasion seems to
indicate that Borneo, rich source
of rubber and oil, will be the
next stop on MacArthur's In
vasion Special, A study of the
map will develop interesting
speculations.
One can easily set the idea
that. MacArthur’s plans include
taking of Borneo then sweep
ing westward on to "Sumatra
and. the. Malay Peninsula.
Such a drive would hi planned-,
to join up with the Bri.ish
coming in from Burma.
Not only would capture ol •
Borneo. Sumatra ar.d the MnV
lay Peninsula dispose of a lot
of Japs but it, also,’would de
.price the-Japs.....of the source, rf.....
-
rubber, tin, oil and other es.
scntial war materials. From this
part of the Pacific has ‘come
much of the material the Japs
have used-to conduct the war.
+
This move of’ MacArthUr to
the southwest doer not mean
that the war agamst Japan
proper will be neglected. For
no doubt aclicn there will be
left - to forces unner Nimiiz.
Formosa, Japan prober and the
China coast would fail under
his jurisdiction.
How. soon can the British be
expected to start their end oi
the pincers on Japan’s holdings
in Sumatra* and territory there?
Already they are -making pro
c.c-s and once the war in Eu
rope is finish d the British will
send strong forces there to join
in the fighting. Already parts
of the British fleet arc haiyii
and more units are'"steaming
towards the Pacific.
Capture of Japans holdings
in the southwest Pacific will
go a long way (awards termi
nating the War against those
fiends.
According to the “After V-E
Day. What?" series e.W running
in THE NEWS. Army officials
are planning on the war with
Japan lasting from,IS months to
two years after Germany is
whipped.
The Army officials very prop
erly believe" in preparing for a
long war, for then should it
encj quicker than expected, it
will b just that much better.
It's much better ta be over
prepared than under-prepared.
But there is a chance that
the war with Japan may end
much quicker than that. Cer
tainly we hope so.
For once it sinks through the
t h i :• fr^Ttntfs-TTTTlTr rr-rt+- '
ll'.i.. ( I ‘ I ■ well tng same as
Germany if- they < ntinuc to
fjglit, they may be Willing to ac
any terms, ip'-luding tin*
conditional surr ncicr; ralhei
than see their home-land blast
ed into rubble. -
The Jars are dumb clucks In*"
many ways— but they are not
so dumb but they know (hat
,
enytliin? i< bitter than complete
dev notation of cveo'hing they
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fossrss.
CPL. JACOB H. FANNIN
WINS BRONZE STAR
Vv'ITH THE 30TII INFANT!? V
Div N ?N.......C" TXKT7 C'i
port* 1 .! - b II. Fannin. Oiiffin, Or...
not la Irfantiy Rcgtih-nt, hi bet n
avv ;n!ed the Bronze Slur tor meii
torlei.s achievement and service lit
France, Belgium, Holland and Ovr
many.
Th award was presented by M,i
J ir .General L. S. Hobbs, Common
er of the 30th In^artry Division,
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Road To Berlin
EASTERN FRONT: 32 miles
(from Zellin).
WESTERN FRONT. 133 miles
(from East of Gotlia.).
ITALIAN FRONT': 544 miles
(from Reno River).
Plans Completed
Colleding
For Destilate People
Members of th- local United Na
tional Clothing Collection Commit
ter made definite plans at. a meet
ing Tuesday afternoon for ..ccUec
I tion of clothes in Griffim The
meeting was held at 4 o'clock at
.
! the Chamber of Commerce with C.
! B. Nichols, chairman, in charge.
During the time from April 12-30
■ a receiving .station will be open
j day every in afternoon the building and formerly ail day Satur
occu
j pi d by the Spalding Development
! Company, located next dc;r to Jcs
j re’s Pharmacy.
On Sunday afternoons during
April a truck will call at eyeiy
home in Grit fin to collect cloth
ing. Persons wl > arc planning not
to be ad home at that time are ask
ed to place their bundles of cloth
ing on the front porch.
The—cl;thing - which is collected
will be srnt~ to for eig n c o un tnes-Tm
help clothe families who have been
left destitute by the war. Items
which ded ' particularly are
are ne r
bed clothing, baby clothes, under-,
wear, shoes, sweaters, suits, dress
es. All clothes should be clean
• Items, which are mol needed arc
dress suits, evening ciothes, wom
en's hats, sftoes with open ..toes or
heels or shoes with very high heels.
People are ask'd not to turn in
such item's.
Radio Program By
North Side School
Thursday Afternoon
“Griffin" will be the th me of
the radio program to be sponsored
by the North Side School tom'-rrow
afternoon. April 5, at 2:15 P. M.
over the local radio station. .
Elliot Hill will be thd announcer
; a-tf8 the history of Griffin will be
given bV Htiin Ingram. Juanita Fn
I or, and Donald Evans. Ray Taylor
will have charge of-a seng. and
i Carolyn Wilson will talk on "Girf
j fin Colleges.'’
A playlet, “Selling Griffin To A
Homeseeker" will be given with
j parts taken by Larry Knight, Jack
| Moore, Ernest Grant, Codetta Ms
j Dearmid, James Pcnley, and Betty
i Howard,
Music will be under the direction
of Miss Thelma Brisendine.
! WAR A! GLANCE
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
THE WESTERN FRONT:
British toppled Osnabrueck", 60
miles from Bremen, and Muen
ster, and sped onwa»d; Canad
ians drove closer to Zuider Zee
in drive to trap Germans in
Holland; U. S. First. Ninth arm
ies increased pressure on up to
150.000 Germans trapped in
UmWT U. S. Third advanced be
'*'yond Gotha. 58, miles^from
Czechoslovakia and 160 from
Russian lines; U. S. Seventh
captured Aschaffenburg, enter
ed V/ueizburg. t h rea t.c ned
Nuernberg.
*THE RUSSIAN FRONT: Two
Russian armies hammered in
Bratislava and ranged within'
administrative limit s of Vi
enna; Austrian cgpH.U within
ea v oitilliry rat je •
, Tllli ITALIAN FRONT: Brit-
British Within
48 Miles of
NOlIfb s, .. «
oca
Russians Surge Through
Outer Defenses Of
Vienna
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U. S. THIRD ARMY, Germ
any, April 4.—(/Pi—Kassel fell
late today, depriving the Ger
mans of one of their great plane
and tank manufacturing ren
ters.
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» BY ASSOCIATE PRESS
Field Marshal Montgomery's Bri
tish sliced to wit hi i 48 miles of* the
North Sea today in a drive, to trap
German troops in western Holland,
and on the central German plain
Lt. Gen. George E.„ Patton's U. S.
Third Army tank spearheads ripped
ahead, in new gains of up to seven
miles on both sides of Gotha, driving
to within 58 miles of - the Czecho
slovakia., frontier.
Reds in Vienna-------
A powerful*Russian offensive was
surging through the administrative
district of greater Vienna. The cap
ital. six miles away, was within easy
artillery range; Wiener Neustadt,
aircraft center, had been overrun,
and other units hammered at Brat
islava, puppet Slovakian capital 24
miles east of Vienna's limits.
A strong formation of British
Lancasters loosed the second attack
in 16 hours on Nordhauseri, 55, miles
cast of Kassel on the direct route
to Berlin, hitting Nazi troop eon
centrations in support of Patton’s
troops now fighting more than 200
miles east of Aachen, within 140
of Berlin and fnore than three
fourths of the. way across the waist
Germany. Less than 160 miles
separated Patton from the Russian
lines. Berlin was struck by Mos
quitos during the night. *
The estimate of German troops
trapped in the Ruhr was raised to.
between 120,000 and 150.000 as the
U. S. First and Ninth Armies broad
cast an appeal to the encircled Ger
mans to surnnder because “there is
no hope for you. " Gen. Eisenhow;er
told Germans that "the end is not
far off." . .
Muerjster has fallen and Hamm in
the Ruhr was ready to fall.
In the north Canadian troops
closed rapidly a trap on the bulk of
90,000 Nazis in western Holland.
A Paris radij* report said the drive
was only ten mile sfrom the banks
of the Zuider Zee.
Osnabrueck. linking Holland with
northern Germany, f“11 to British
airborne troops as British tanks by
Pusscd th„e city and raced on under
a news blackout.
Patton In Kassel
On the central front Patton’s men
fought street by street through
Kassel, industrial city 165 miles from
Berlin, and at the southern end of
the American front the Seventh
Army captured Axclr 'fenburg after
a bitter siege, while other tloops
fought into Wuerzburg and swept to
within less than 40 miles of the Nazi
shrine city of Nuernberg.
{PLEASE TURN TO PAGE SIX)
Pfc. H. J. Mallory
Wounded Again
Private First Class Hubert J.
Mallory, husband of Mrs. Mary Car
.
den Mallory of Route C. was slight
ly wounded in nctioh In Germany for |
the second time on March 21.
Pfc. Mallory Ls serving with the
First Army in Germany. His/par
i cuts, Mr. and Mrs. R L. Mallory
make their home at 524 Lake Av.e.
ish chits linked on strip be
tween Valli di Comacchio L.i
,goon and Adriatic, virtually
clearing area below canal.
THE PACIFIC FRONT:.Twin
American; drie s moved south
toward Naha, Okinawa capital;
| first major resistance possible
there; U. S. forces won control
I of enemy naval base at Tawi
tawl, 30 miles north of Borneo,
taking possession of Boneao
Island and capturing airfields
on Sangasanga. Panay vir
( j tually cleared; 300 Superfort
l resses hit Tokyo and surround
ing areas.
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Pvt. James Kilgore
Is Killed In Action
Pvt. James (Skeett Kilgore, 19^
was killed in the invasion of 1 o
Jima. March 4. his par nts. Mr. and
Mrs. C. T. Kilgore. 430 Bell St.. ::.,ve
been informed by the Marine C i"s
He had fceen in th Maiims -I!,
fight ni nths. 1
Pvt. Kilgore graduated re ni
Spalding Hish.-Sch.ool la t. June .in'!
went into the servic • immedia
when only 18 years of age.
He has a brother, la. O* T. Kil
gore, Jr., who is in India with (lie
Quartermaster's - Corp •
Private Jean Yates,
First Reported As
Missing, Is Prisoner
Mrs. L. L. Yates. Route 1, who was
Private M. Jean Y’ates. son ’ *
reported missing in action last w ek,
is a prisoner of war ms mother ha
been informed. A few hours before
Mrs. Yates received 'he wire i. m
the War Department lenortii.
“missing in action" cue r. i i
letter frdm another son Li. J, ■'
I. P. Yates who told her he
visited his brother's outfit and v>.
told he had been tak< :i a pri r
of war. Mrs. Yates, v.ho is-vi ,'ii
her daughter, Mrs. Bus Cam: i c't,
in Santa Ana. Cali' ': ic. :e- i .
the letter and the War Di o r.n :
message there.
Buddies of Pvt. Y:.'.: v told !..s |
brother that the unit -with w, . ,i
he was captured' fought its wm 30
the front under heavy shell fit i
fought until surrounded »y-a -
man unit, that outnumbered then
ten to one.
Another sin- c f Mr: :. Yatrs .
gergeaftt Warren G Y 1; it
reported missing in a etion.
Mrs. Ido Wade, 83,
Dies In Marshallville
MARSHALVILLE, Mrs. Ida
Wade. 83, mother of Dr. John Don
aid Wade, of the University of
Georgia, died here today after a
ten days’ illness. The funeral will
be held Thursday afternoon, 4:00
o'clock.
GRIFFIN, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1945
A RUSSIAN SI AM LABORER’ MEETS HIS OI.D NAZI BOSS This - remarkable series of pictures
shows what took place when a lormi r Russian "slave laborer" met a German civilian policeman In
Bonn. Germany, ajid recognized him as his overseer in a Nazi factory where he had been forced to
work for three years. Upper left: The Russian (rig! t) »is wresting a bicycle from the German. Upper
riglit: The Russian swings a vai at the policeman. Lower left: The former “slave laborer" (back
to earners comes lo grips with the ex-overseer and exacts a penalty in his own way. Lower right:
Breaking loose, (he German run: through'-the street with the Russian in hot pursuit. Released by the
■ Allies .from forced labor, ;the Russian was •search! ng for an American "displaced persons center" when
lie happened in meet his former oppressor. These pictures were made by William C. Allen, Associated
■ Press photographer wild the wartime still picture pool. — (AP Wkephotoi.
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NEW YORK -David J. .Am ! ,
vice president, Commercial Bank
ct Trust Co,. Griffin. Ga, has been
nam cl the war Ban -halrimn fbr
that v t ) he ’.ti u i f a •ti’.ivies (if
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th-’ -Am- n- jn He; A * • ; * 1 i 1 1
in w.ork. 1 ; \\ith the ■ a:i,..'s slat
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14 through June. 30," 1
Mr. Arnold’s a i > 4nme.nt was
made bv A B A Pl'esica it! W
Randolph. Bingi'--, as pert (i live
A: seeietii i, - ' m/i
.bring in a tisu* ’her H) on a.per'
banks through';c iH<- United Slat
in a coord igTitTn t ax' i
the •J’: • >- ii SI 4,
000,000.000 god 1 dur-ii’ - the 7'h. War
Loan Drive 1 ludhi > 1 i 0(K) 1)80,00'.
in E Bonds.'
-The Weather
FORECAST’TOR GEORGIA:
Increasing ylnudine* . anil i- *
tinned warm todav. TliiU'i 1 ,"
mostly cloudy, :<atiei'ed si. ,vv
crs.
Maximum Wednesday: SI
Minimum Wednesday: 63
Maximum Tuesday? 86
Minimum Tuesday: 57.
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WAR BONDS
(Second of Five Articles)
By F.I.TON C. DAY
And JOHN M. HIGHTOWER |
WASHINGTON tjp The Armv
Is .
counting: on a movie u- tell the c».
La (inTah r) with fiehtfre'4n Eurooe
why the. hatlle isn’t over why
many < f them mm till -h-rd i:
out with the Japan'""
When (he troops" headed oil f'C
the European front, ti y saw mo
tie n pictures.- heard "ad
pnniphle 'r by the 'cokfiil expl.-iin
the Nazi, his pleas of ebnqurst
-mi! 1 : .w he f' relit. Th.e Japa res'*
mentioned more or loss infi-
tin Armv must i.;i:r:i>r th me
i
soldter point' directly from Euro;*' 1
to tihn.lhetr hate at j
•r.enpv Furtlicimore., il must
V. p their : | its u-> for week* >r
mod‘in- tin'll they- caq b<
rrovi i the Pacific
|. T'-» l:’/'s' morsdr* |»! „ >1 rn ' i '.‘r
j wl - : 1> V v.'4ir l r >V)'m;-i Fn' iTil'. interlvak* i
rn \i4*i F> and th I
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TP 1 ' Ami'. •m'ov.lt ,e,i< ill an«.w- !
Us o pr- bp-in in, an eta -
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" r ,jr Tiin program cm
,.bra'-"r •' for 41 h Pacific (ask]
an -j t; m \ .f-durntirrn and play
j bey) It is triilorc'cl to. fit tmops
f j T‘ ltlr'
.
( m i to 'he he,ne front and
:-d women who make mu
nil ton
Mueli Harder Task
The t.ask was easier at the time
I of pearl Harbor. . The nation whs
i under attack. The national psycho
. logy was a mixture of f ar and an
Kr . r a ] lt i thint gave a mighty impetus
to the war effort.
i Now this nation Is almost
As Gei.ruja st.i w P an dial
man, Mf. A" n !rf will •- -irdirta! I hr
pj-pgram i a al* AsKocia
tion with ik:ut •tit** < ■■ r:ia hiniC
Bankers Arsociali' n, f.cr.my \V .r
l in anv’C of l: la i« ■
net ir i
former Griff knife's
Husband 15 Ktillcdi
Ml! Awn n I Boz-,,, ,n • f Cocrt
ran, the fotmei N t ’ Vi.-i.rPa Evan
of ("j if!In, 1 ( rr.i w ; ri from
the War D i : i.rj* r:
band" c, n- -ral 1 IP a
was killed in i -n it Gcr
February 28.
Corporal V. i/<■:•;.in h e !. • i: - "
lng overseas nee .Di t ember,
( with the Eighth Divbnn. In
tion to his-wife, he. Is survived
one s'n, Annon Bozeman, Jr„
brothers and one sister, ail of
ran.
'One Dov Nearer Victory" Established 1871
for push m pacific
f - PfRGFST MORALE PR0R3EM
and a half years deep In war, Soihe
troops and workers aie perhaps a
little bored. Others me weary. All
are concerned -about resuming .more
normal livrs.'
y On top of nil this great
a enemy
- Germany - Is about to be defeat
ed. Many perhaps most, of the G
I’s who have' helped defeat the
Germans feels they have done their
part and should come ll me Ye*
the top Army men who. are
ify for this arid ot her in
this series are planning for a Pa
cific war l isting 18. month:, to r*n
y i - a iafter Germ,an-. ,u. ,c /
The business. <
that most of them ni er fr
«-jth the Armv P on. dim
The Army intend In II. »ve
copies of It ‘•■rr-orier.tat.-inn" -lilnt
are ready for projeMio n mafJi’
of every tyono t ulf ni Bum, to
IX' shown to tin" a
menu : th- v ,ee O ' flung
Tin print ■d word V. ill follow
the form most lag’ll: u (4. r
th" pocket file M
romju.’iit
wiil .be < n'M.
G f ". d i; " like ’h..- in h ten'-d *
to them lor upv. a rets :<v year
There i , in t : li• is In
t;)( , oU i i relate-! Io :"'-'jfW 1 '.
ment, a nice matter rf timij m'Tie
r i,^^.j M ,( ft j|.- in ran't he started ,'LliI
soon. Commander,s in Europe wain
t0 f-n, [p,. attention «,f their nj< n
riveted cn 1,. .tirg Onnianv, un-
111 tiiat chore Is d-.m
howevnr, there must be no Ume for
worry or* uncertainty over the fu
^ urp _
Many thousand* ot soldiers will
spend several months in Europe
(PLEASE TURN To PAGE TWO)
Three More
Islands
Are Taken
300 Superforts Keep War
Ablaze Over
Tokyo
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS I
Leap-frogging 41st Division as- I
sault forces invaded three islands at j I
the southern tip of the Philippines
where tiiey seized a former Japa- I
lies- naval base and two airfields, I
posing a new threat to Borneo, | I
.scarcely 30 miles away.
The landing on Tawi and capture I
if neighboring Sanga Sanga and
Bdrigao Islands appeared to be as j
a;.y as the Okinawa campaign at
at the other end of the western Pa
cific front. 325 miles south'of Japan.
Marines and the Army's 7th In- !
fantry Dlvbion scooped up a 10
CjUare mile area of south central
jki nawii, LncTldtng a score of vil- 1
lnges, advanced toward two more alr
fi’eTds and the first, sign of aja es
tafclisherj enemy defense line. j
Some 300 Superforts kept the war
blazing over Japan Itself with pre
dawn attacks on Tokyo, Shizuoka, 1
Tachikawa and Koizumi, all within
a 50-inile radius. Pilots reported no
opposition as tiiey attacked through
thick clouds. Some B-29s even
swept low enough to strafe ground
objectives. Tokyo radio claimed
three Superforts were brought down.
Aided bombers and carrier planes
destroyed or damaged 48 Japanese
mips and i mall craft and knocked
out 33 enemy planes in sweeps rang
ing from the Ryukyus down the
China coast to the Dutch Indies.
More Naval Power
More power for Allied naval op
erafions against the Japanese was
reported on its way as the office
of war information estimated the
Nipponese fleet- lias lost a fifth of
its personnel. OWI placed Japanese
naval personnel losses at 262 000 with
IF chaps 850.000 left. American na
ul casualties were 92,819, Including
35,750 dead, with more than 3.000,000
now on duty.
Radio Tokyo saio a great British
fleet was in -.ded toward the Indian
Ocean.to lead amphibious operations
against southern Burma, Malaya and
the Dutch East Indies. .Canada
promised to send a small carrier
force into the Pacific when the
European war ends.
MecArthur reported campaigns in
he central Philippines virtually
completed on Cebu, Panay and Neg
ros.. . :
Tokyo imisP-,1 American Invasion
foici on (Jki:i.iwa were receiving
i "hotter reception’’ than at Iwo.
But Aim-ric in commanders said the
nperaften' *• funettmed hke precision
uckWi.rk. l!«£.-o::.|-. far better than
v ’Add; M die.m ■" and so rapidly
it -i than" - in strategy was neces
ON TO BORNEO I ‘ CRY
OF JCNGI.I WISE TROOPS
MANTI A Borneo and Us
great petrcleum end rubber resnurc
cu lay ( v 30 mile; south of jun
gle-w i -e veti nil is of the U. S. Eighth
n v y ffUtUV. " Th won strategic
Co* •: l- - i i; , .1 ■ naval base
ut "ivi T iWi' at the euthem tip
Si jt hipelago with hardly
fi*l
r ajer: -n Jens A."
Dm a aid'd by guer
HU 1 p'urett two airfields ion
Simva-fi' Island and look pos
, stssion i f -neighboring Bongao Isl
r.ntl w;’ i’ - <tirt.u Iv -agp-opposition,'
t-nn i ted—tbd ayn-*
j Wir. id" f tii" Seventh Flef*t,
boid y tour 1 through waters which
0 m« provided the Japanese with a
I nuijdr" fleet anchorage arid refuel
mg depot, laid down a heavy bom
■ ijm-dment prior to the landing while
navy planes provided close support
to the landing force.
The daring thrust carried lnvad-
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