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Newspaper Page TextH % E: T Jor TIT, No. 119, ‘Minute Women’ To Lanvas City In War Bond Drive Women's Organizations Form Army To Help put Drive Over Quota By BUNNIE COX The “Minute Women”’ of Revolutionary days are to pave their counterpart in 1943 when Athens’ “Min ste Women” start out be fore the end of this week to canvas the town selling War Bonds so that Clarke county will reach or sur pass its quota in the Third War Loan campaign. Organization for the formation of the “Minute Women’ was start ed Wednesday afternoon when the heads of various women’s organi sations attended the Rotary Club weekly luncheon and heard a talk py Dean Paul W, Chapman, chair man for Clarke county in the Thirg War Loan drive. GEORGIA IS LAGGING IN THE SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON —(AP)— North Carolina, with 69 per cent of its quota subscribed, to day led all other southeastern states in the Third War Loan Drive. Virginia was next with 63 per cent. Other states’ percentages in cluded: Alabama, 61, Arkansas, 33, Florida, 61, Georgia. 48, Ken tucky, 56, Louisiana, 48, Missis sippi, 47, South Carolina, 53, and Tennessee 60. ) & Representing the ~women’s or ganizations were Mrs. Annie E. Griffith, League of Women Voters; Mrs. J. W. Bailey, D. A, R.; Mrs. N. G. Slaughter, U. D, C.; Miss Wylene Chafin, Pilot Club; Mass. Alvie Hill, Pilot Club (Business Women); Miss Mary Ruff, Entre Nous Club; Mrs. Bunnie Cox, Junior Assembly; Mrs. Thomas J. Harrold and Mrs. T. J. Jomes, A. A, U, W.; Mrs, W. A. Capps and Mrs. Mildred Rhodes, Spanisp War Veterans Auxillary; Mrs. Paul Morrow and Mrs. J. W. Bailey, Woman’s Club; Mrs, Max Hubert; American Legion Auxiliary; Mrs. (Coltinued on Page Seven.) imul Plan To Stimulate Food Production " Abroad Given FDR WASHINGTON —(P)— Plans for stimulating food production abroad so this country will not have to feed the worlg have been perfected by the War Mobilization Board and are now on president Roosevelt's desk. Announcement of the Global Work to be undertaken may be forthcoming by this weekend, along With an executive order designat- Ing which federal agency is to ad minister the huge program, The job may go either to the Office of Economic Warfare, which already is conducting large-scale burchasing operations abroad, or to the Agriculture Department With its foreign bureau and corps Of experienced scientists. The State Department probably will have general supervision ingofar as for €ign policy is concerned. Eventually the Program likely will be integrated into some Unit ed Nations organization in line With the Allieq policy of sharing Internatonal responsibilities. This woulg be in keeping, too, With Uniteq Nations plans to or- Banize relief ang rehabilitation Work for war-wrecked areas on a world-wide basis in 'November. Distribution of food produced un d.oubtedly will be one of the func tions o¢ the relief agencies. Agricultural experts here said the main work of promoting pro duction abroag is divided into three steps: First, deciding where fertile landg and labor may be founq; Secong, guaranteeing mar kets for the produce; And third, Making available the services of “lentists anq - other'.men with leow-hmv" as well as some ma- Chinery and seeds where needed. \-’——.. . Wheeler Bill Heads For Congress Shelf: r Fathers Get Ready WASHINGTON —(#)— Despite {i“‘dimh Protests by Senator. l"heem. (D-Mont), administration €aders today charted toward a Ehelf pig measure to block the @aft of fathers, | Fortifieq by the Army General Saff's assertion that 7,700,000 men MUst be in yniform by Dec. 31 to ’\"’fl;”e victory, opponents of the denieier measure appeared confi b VEGY could either smother the e When it Comes up nezt Tues tary . ,DANg it back to the Mili lal‘y Affairg Committee, there to \Sulsh anq gje, low “"hile & million fathers with ol OPSGI' nufbers awaited the N Whicih their graft boards wiul i k“ Sending out in Oectober to K the 446,000 family heads that §:l%txve Service offickals maw. must ing iy B T e vear. Regane ¥ %ﬁg'ﬁ&_isé :N- ’g?ﬁ:‘g ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service. D P s A 30 A SAT 0 SO se R T D B R e s S S S T e S may S ¥ SR “3’2*: ST e T R . vf%’%’é& W‘e%“?#’ . z*,m,s oe e e SR RRS RR S A RS S S, . 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Martin Company, have been made the first plastic inner tubes, for use on today’s war machines and tomorrow’s family cars. The elasto-plastic material is made of the ingredients shown above. Russian Relati USSian reiations, Food, FOR Problems . Wheeler Father-Draft Bill Seems Headed For Certain Defeat i i s saipni WASHINGTON — (AP) — Re lations with Russia and a new ap proach to the world food problem appeared today to have temporarily replaced combat strategy as the number one concern of the White House. Awaiting President Roosevelt's decisions are: 1. Appointments to four Kkey diplomatic assignments, all bear ing on Anglo-American-Russian interests. ’ 2. A program by the War Mobil ization Board (WMB) for stimu lating food production abroad Sso !that the U. S. will not have to feed ‘the world. Announcements are expected momentarily on these subjects. The :diplomatic appointments in volve an Undersecretary of State ‘to Succeed Sumner Welles & who has/itiformed’ friends of his resig lnation; an ambassador to Russia in place of Admiral William H. 'Standley, reported to relinquish his post for personal reasons; an ‘envoy for the preliminary discus sions of foreign ministers of the three big powers at Moscow, lead ing to a Roosevelt-Churchill- Stalin meeting, and a U. 8. repre sentative on the inted-Allied Medi terranean committee. Some action on the food program was believed likely by this week end along with an executive or- KContinued on Page Two) Elinor Glynn, Noted Novelist, Dies In London Today LONDON —{(#)— Elinor Glyn, ‘well known novelist, died early to day at the age of 78 after an ill ness of several weeks. Mrs. (Yyn, who would have been 79 on Oct. 17, entered a nursing home three weeks ago. Her condi tion became steadily worse and she was unconscious for the past two days. The- writer established her liter ary reputation with the novel “Three “Weeks,” but she was per haps equally well known as the woman Aho taught Rudolph Val entino, famous star of the silent movies, how to make screen love. “phree Weeks,” which has been described as the foundation of the modern sex novel, was 8O daring it shocked grandmothers and caus ed a storm of protest, but it turn ed out’to be one of the greatest popular successes of the day. She was once offered $40,000 for the manuseript of the book. Elinor Glyn led a life that was almost as glamorous any any de scribed in her novels. She was born on the Island of Jersey and by the time she was 27 years old was a widely trayeled young wo man of fashion, with dazzling red hair and green eyes. She once re called how four young Englishmen quarreled over her and then jump eq into a lake in full evening dress. Among her early admirers were a British peer, a duke and a million aire, but she married a commoner, Clayton m&n;m‘m" e Avaind . el -34 et vng” Jap Remnants On I ' ! MacArthur Announces Sea-Borne Landing Above Enemy Base | e R S AL NP iS B 4 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — (AP) — Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today ~ the -seaborne landing of Australian troops above Finschhafen, enemy base 60 miles northeast of Lae on the New 'Guinea coast, and the destruction of remnants of a Japanese garri son on Arundel Island in the Solo ;mons. ~ Under protection of warships and planes, the Australians went ashore against enemy opposition at dawn Wednesday six miles above peacetime mission head~ ‘quarters and just below the Song River. At dusk ‘on the previous day, Japanese bombers and fight ers sought to attack ships involv ed in the operations but were in tercepted between Lae and Finsch- RS YT i 555 American troops fell ; in the Jap attack on Guam N SPt, R e s R i iy d 1 e eyt War bonds buy planes, guns and | ~ ships to win back this island | YT TR hafen by P-40s which shot down four bombers and five fighters at a cost of one interceptor. Capture of Finschhafen on the Huon Peninsula, which is more suitable for ground action than any other territory previously at tacked on New Guinea, would give MacArthur control of & gulf with in easy over-water striking dis tance of Japanese-held New Brit ain and its stronghold of Rabaul. On Arundel, directly , west of New Guinea, American jungle troops destroyed enemy troops and reinforcements .on the- island’s north shore and also on nearby Saga Karasa Island to move with in artillery shelling distance of the Japanese garrison at Vila across Blackett Strait on Kolombargara. The Japanese guns at jmperiled Vila immediately opened fire. Widespread air blows of the Allies augmented the latest ground operations. In the Madang sector northwest of Finschhafen, the al (Continued on Page Three) W-E-A-T-H-E-R e ——— _M GEORGIA: Continued mild this afternoon, tonight and Fri day forenopn, with slightly higher temperatures this aft ernoon. ; Athens, Ga., Thursday, September 23, 1943. Allies Advance In Central, Southern Italy By WES GALLACHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. — (AP) —Allied headquarters announced advances of 10 to 15 miles in central and southern sectors of Italy today in a forward sw&ep which was gradually forcing Field Marshal General Albert Kesselring to uncover the inland approaghes to smoke-smothered, dynamite-shattered Naples. Gapital Pyzzled By MacKenzie Wonders Why General Thought Statement Necessary BY DEWITT MacKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst One of the many things the world likes about General Doug las MacArthur is that this great soldier speaks his mind as befits a man of action, but unusual statement in Australia that how ever subordinate may be his role in the war, he hopes to play it manfully, leaves one with feelings of deep puzzlement as to why e thought it necessary to issue it. The General’s declaration is wholly cryptic to the American public, and the usual news sources in Washington profess to be equal ly at a loss. There's no indication of what inspired it beyond the fact that obviously something' is troubling him. It is that the supreme command er of Army, Navy and Air Forces of the Allied Nations in the South west Pacific (to give him his full, rather terrfying title) feels that he has been in some way Dbelit tled? If that is what he thinks, he's wrong, for his position in the esteem of the American people is as high as the skies. He is one of our great national heroes and his (Continued on Page Two) . . Arnall Asks Huiet For Explanation . About Expenditures - ATLANTA —i(#)—Governor ' Ellis Arnall has asked Labor Commis sioner Ben T. Huiet for an expla nation of “why so much money is being ' paid out as unemployment compensation when there is such a scarcity of manpower.” Arnall said he received many complaints about- the -administra tion of the Unemployment Com pensation Division of the Depart ment of Labor. He added that this fund should be protected as much as possible “for the time when there will be a genuine need to assist those who are unable be cause of economic conditions to obtain employment.” The Labor Department’'s records show that the state's unemploy ment compensation payments sank to a record low in August—§s7,s629, compared to $337,032 in the same month last year. Informational Representative Carl Rountree said the bulk of the payments were to contractors’ employes while shift ing at the completion of projects. Hitler Planned To Invade England After Air Assanli LONDON — {(AP) — The gi gantic air attack that Germany hurled at London three years ago this month definitely was the pre liminary step toward invasion of Britain, it was disclosed today. Twenty-five hundred barges massed in ports across the Eng lish Channel and the North Sea were to have carried Hitler's in vasion hordes to the shores of England as the climax of a five week program culminating in mid-September. The planned preliminary steps were to have been the knocking oit of the RAF and then the bombing of London to shatter the will and ability of the people .to resist. This information, obtained from sources which may not be speci fied, presented a broader picture of events that occurred during those dark days than it was pos sible to give then or since. The daring and tireless pilots of the RAF carried the major bur; den of throwing- this enemy inva sion program awry—the men who long ago were immortalized by the words of Winston Churchill: “Never in the field of human con flict was so much owed by 80 many tc so few.” The RAF then was out-number bered four to one by the German Airforee’s 3,5&50 planes. : The force that battled back 400 German plines on Sept. 15, 1940 and 850 on Sept. 27 amounted 8;«; only 2¢ squadrons — less thans threeqtimes in s Gay. [ }‘Victorious French soldiers and American Rangers pressed the' 4 ermans back farther into the ngrtheastern corner oi Corsica while Mllied Air Forces bombed and Machinegunned Nazi ships seeking ; remove escaping Nazis from evacuation port of Bastia. ~ JAllied soldiers were within sight i£ sound of the systematic wrecking of’ Naples by German de molition squads. As the sound of frequent ex plosions from the smoking city rofled over the hills toward the Americans and British, Allied headquarters announced that the Germans had scuttled at least 30 ships at Naples and blocked prac tically every berth along the docks. } “Fires have been burning along ‘the docks for several days, appar ently as the result of demolitions,” } id the announcement, which was ased on aerial reconnaissance. Charges were seen to burst along he docks.” Docks Being Wrecked ’ Aerial photographs also showed g large industrial area north of the docks had been wrecked by ombings and the railroad yards emolished. “Phe extent to which this is going on inicates the enemy is de termined to make the big port, pne of the largest and best peace- Sjme harbors in Europe, complete ly useless to Allied troops _when they occupy it,” the announcement stated. lln the inland sweep British and Alt:?qam swung the right of their Jing forward toward the Adriatic, 'with “§alerno serving somewhat as a hinge, and staightened out sev eral deep mountain bulges. They advanced 10 miles north west of Potenza, 15 miles mnorth of Sala Consilina and 10 miles west of Mottola which is.north of Taranto, capturing the towns of Acerno, Avigliano. and Genosa. Acerno is 18 miles east and slightly north of Salerno and six (Continued on Page Seven.) Forced Bond Buying Is Threatened By Henry Morgenthau ,NEW YORK.— (AP) —Secre tary of the Treasury Morgen thau said today that the issue at stake in the Third War Loan drive was ‘“Do the American people want to continue the volunteer plan for financing the conflict. it : “There is a lot of short wave propaganda. coming from Japan and Germany,” Morgenthau said as he started a bond drive tour through New York City. “They are trying to break up this drive. The eyes of all the world are upon us.” : The drive, he said during an inspection of the seventh dis trict of the community sales division, was “about two thirds” completed, “but there still are a lot of doorbells to ring.” To the People of this Community: ARE YOU REALLY AT WAR? What does being at war mean to you? Less gasoline for your auto? Less sugar in your coffee? Higher prices for yeur food and clothes? Separation from your ... husband? mﬁka Sure, it has @A% meant all g i those things, m some serious and some really trivial for a pe riod when your actual safety is at stake. But has the war meant BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS to you? In many instances YES. The first stage of invasion has already pushed our casualties over the 100,000 mark. The gold stars which decorate thousands of our homes today are a challenge to the vast ma jority of us to do our best in the Third War Loan. No good Amer ican wants to see one more gold star added to the firmament of glory. We educhte our youth for life, not for death. If they die, they die so that we might live. Every extra War Bond you buy today will back the invasion so that the war will be shortened and so,. that there will be less blood, sweat and tears for you and your friends, A ™ - » ee T o L '/ / Gttt £ ' »v i~ ~\LATVIA ! 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[ O :"T // / '\'l/" Py %1 L k 2% Z%l : %\ QDESSA o ROSTOV Elista 7 \ =\ \n _sMelitopol QPP T s } s L et WY ¥ L T ZCRIMEA Asl Krasnodar / il RUMANIA [ T R ~({u/.,%i X T Sevastopol®OWT KT LT e Nalchik i - BULGANA isl L AUCASUSY . eßs 07 | 1 TN fstanbat Met L A N an AL LG e <0 i é -"’--.\..:l""""l“"" I"""I""IIII““ '“"Ln "IIIA" ! E- h g « " ® i - ight-Star Summer Drive Spells Victory For Russians It's been a profitable summer for the Russians. Quickly smashing a belated German offensive in ﬁﬁ‘ : Orel-Belgorod sector last June, the Red Army surprised everybody with a westward drive of their own. In less than three months the Russians have retaken the blacked-in zone on the map, an t?'ai‘ spotted with key cities and equal to a third of all territory regained since Nazis reached their peak of penetration last fall. Now Sdviet thrusts menace Germans at Vitebsk, Smolensk, Gomel, Kiev and along the Dnieper. And not far beyond lies the border of Poland. . ; Nazis Abandon Gateway ® To Heart Of Ukraine, Dni River Basti nieper River Bastion Kiev Menaced By Reds From Three Directions; Demidov, 21 Miles From Whife Russia, Taken & By JAMES M. LONG - - i LONBDON.— (AP) —Reeling-backward at an accele ‘rated pace before Red Army onslaughts, the Germans have abandoned Poltava, the gateway to the heart of the Ukraine and bastion protecting the northern side of the Dnieper elbow, the Germans announced today in a com munigue broadcast from Berlin. Triple “A” Maps State Meeting Is Held Here Wednesday To Bolster Farming Output A practical plan to help Georgia farmers increase production of urgently needed war crops and livestock in 1944 was outlined at a meeting of sgtate and district vocational supervisors and AAA adminiMtrative officials here to day. Under the plan, approved by the U. 8. Department of Agriculture and the U. 8. Office of Education, T. G. Walters, supervisor of voca tional agriculture for Georgia, said “the vocational teachers of agri culture, representing nearly every rural community in the state, will carry out an organized program of instruction to help farmers use the practices of the AIAA farm program to increase wartime pro duction.” “Vocational teachers have co operated with AAA officials and! local committeemen from the very beginning of AAA in helping farm ers to use the program. With the nation now facing an unprecedent-‘ ed need for more food our teachers will give even imore assistance to farmers in helpipg them to deter (Continued on Page Three) War To Be Brought Home To Americans By Series Of Films WASHINGTON — (AP) — For a country in which movies are a top industry. - .American- battle photography in this war has been feeble. The Army says steps to correct that are now being taken and that steady improvement will be ap parent on the screen of American movie theaters, Shots taken during the Allied victory in Tunisia by British and American photographers are now being assembled and will be Tre leased jointly to the public of both countries by our own War De partment and the Britisa Ministry of Information. Nevertheless, thoughtful work has gone into the task of showing American troops at home and abroad — through movies — why we are fighting the war. The information branch of the Army’s Special Service Division already has turned out a number of pictures for this purpose, rely ing mainly on %a— because (Continued on Seven) A.B.C. Paper—Single Copy, 3c—>sc Sunday Poltava, a city of 90,000 lies on the Vorskla River in the fertile wheatlands of the Ukraine, and is a control center of a network of railways radiating to Kharkov, Kiev, Kremenchug and Dneipro petrovsk. It i§ 80 miles west of Kharkov, 187 miles southeast of Kiev, 61 miles northeast of Krem enchug on the Dnieper and 77 miles northwest of Dnépropetrovsk at the Dnieper bend. Enter White Russia LONDON — (AP) — The Moscow radio said today that Soviet troops are storming into White Russia in the Go- ‘' mel sector, shortly after a Axis forces have abandoned Aliied forces have abandoned Poltava, gateway to the heart of the Ukraine. The Moscéw announcement, which quoted the newspaper lzvestia, official organ of the Praesidium of the Supreme Council, was record ed by Reuters. Gomel, in the area where the new break through was announced, is a rail center about midway be tween Kiev and Smolensk, within a bare 15 miles of the Dnieper River and within 150 miles of the old Polish border. Captured by the Nazis on ’ept. 20, 1941, in their first powerful drive across Russiaa, Poltava was the scene of the rout of Gen. Deniken's Russian White Guards in the Russian civil war and the famous battleground where the Swedish Army of Charles XII was defeated by the Russian under Peter the Great. (Continuea on Page Seven.) University Busy As Beshive As Students Begin Registration The annual Voluntary Religious Association reception will be held this evening at eight o'clock at the Strahan House on the campus of the University of Georgia. All students and faculty members of the University are cordially in vited. “Windy” Kimball, student president of V. R. A. will preside, and announced that there will be no speeches. ; Weather permitting, students will gather on the lawn in front of the Strahan Houose. Purpose of this gala occasion is to promote good fellowship among students and faculty members, and to acquaint new students with the fact that students are welcome at all times to use the Strahan Housé as their LOCAL COTTON {-INCH MIDDLNG .. .. .. 218 16-16 INCH MIDDLING ... 20% 3 Hannover Target e 0f Mass Air Raid Allied Aerial Forces Throw Quadruple Punch Into Enemy Europe LONDON — (AP) — Allied Afr Forces threw a quadruple punch into enemy Europe with an RAF mass raid on the Reich city of Hannover last night, a Flying Kortress attack on -Nantes today 'and two U. S. Marauder assaults . deep into France. ’ All' were carried out within a period of 18 hours, s The Alr Minlstry said “a very strong force” of Britain’s biggest bomb carriers roared into north central Germany during the night to attack the Important rail an tactory city of Hannover. TwWens: ty-six of the bombers were 1 as lost, f" : “Preliminary reports show that a highly concentrated attack was completed in 30 minutes, leaving very large fires with smoke rising to-a great height,” a Ministry communique said. i Smaller British bomber -forma tions attacked the port of Emden, in the extreme northwest corner of Germany, and inland Oldenburg, a big army, air force and railroad center east of Bremen. e The Americap, Fortresses, streak (Continuoz" én Page Three) ' Legion Convention AR Hears About War From Admiral King OMAHA —(#)— The American Legion had an opportunity today to hear from the Commander-in- Chief of the U, 8. fleet how the battle is going against the AXis. The highlight of the closing ses sion of the 25th annual Legion Convention was the scheduled presentation of the Legion’s Dis tingnished Service Medal to Ad miral Ernest J. King and his ad dress to the men who Wwere mem bers of thé armed foroces ‘in the First World War. g {Blection of a national coms= mander to succeed Roane Waring of Memphis, Tenn., was the moh important order of business beforg the convention., The most * likel choice appeared to be 51-year- Warren Atherton, Stockton, Calif, attorney and chairman of the Le gion’s Committee on National De fense, ind The only formalities of the pro gram will be the introduction of student members”of the V. R. A. cabinet by Mr. Kimball, and the introduction of Athens mlm by Rev. H. C. Holland, president of the Athens Ministerial Associa tion. i Georgia cheer leaders will be present to conduct the first “pep” meeting of the season. Georgia songs and yells will be followed by refreshments. % AR Meantime, registration g~ derway this morning and will.¢on= tinue through Saturday. Regular class work is scheduled to begin next Monday morning. Pre-regis tration indications, according ‘o Dean William Tate have led Unis versity officials to expect some lA% batle e Dn

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, September 23, 1943, Home Edition, Image 1