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:lort statio;'led in Texas Army camps. She wears here her work
- PHOTO
badge, but not her work clothes.—NEA TELEPH
lznored In Strike
Pacific Electric Rail
Workers Numbering
2,600 Quit Jobs Today
LOS ANGELES —(£)—A strike
of 2,600 Pacific Electric Railway
employes began at 2 a. m. (Pacific
War Time) today, despite concilia
tory efforts of President Roose
velt
Tieup of the interurban line’s
trains and buses ‘'wWeént "Into effect
in an orderly manner. Ticket win
dows were closed, and depots were
quiet,
The walkout started un sched
ule, a few hours after the Presi
dent's last-minute endeavor to
avert i,
Final decision to proceed with
the strike, arising from the work
ers' demands that their salary
maximum be increased from 87
cents to $1 an hour, was ordered
by the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen’s grievance committee
after it' met to consider President
Roosevelt’s latest peace overtures.
(Continued on Pagge Eight)
Take It Easy On The
Shoes, Boys, For
r
They've Gos To Last
WASHINGTON — (AP) — Take
It easy with the brogans, boys, it's
going to be a longer time between
pairs,
Six months was the period set
by the Office of Price Administra
tion last night for stretching the
next new-shoe ration stamp, which
becomes valid Nov. 1. ‘
Heretofore, it's been four months }
between coupons, ‘
3 Principal cause, OPA explained,l
'8 & critical shortage of leather
due to heavy demands for military
and ‘industrial uses and for shoe
repairing. The manpower shortage
Is a contributing factor.
Present production estimates in
ficate, OPA said, that the new
Stamp will have to last until May
1 but if the outlook should im-
Prove sufficiently, the period will
be shortened. A definite announce
ment was promised as soon as
Studies underway are completed.
b l.n naming stamp No. 1 on the
Airplane” sheet of Ration Book
Thl:ee as the coupon for the next
Period, OPA also .announced that
the expiration date of stamp 18 in
Book One has been extended in
definitely beyond Oct. 31. Its use
Wil overlap the new stamp, which
llkGV_&'ise has no expiration date. i
Elimination of expiration dates
(Continued on Page Eight)
Cost OFf Living Takes
Another Jump, This
Time 4.8 Percent Higher
\.NEW YORK — (AP) . — The
332:0“31 Industrial Conference
centrd reports that it cost 4.8 per
it 'mf.ll"e to live last month than
did in August, 1942, and 195
?;:1 cent more than in January of
inlhe Board said the cost of liv
wg for wage and low-salary
M‘”‘errf was less than in July out
o 9.mdustr{al cities surveyed,
°Té in 18 and unchanged in three.
A decline in cost of .3 per cént
;‘2’ the average for the nation.
mci‘”‘- Ga., reported the largest
€ase, that of 8.2 per cent for
:‘he 12 months period. New Faven,
ONN, with 2.1 per cent, recerded
the smallest gain,
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service.
Finschhafen Give
Artillery Drubbing
illery Drubbing
Allies Reach Edge
Of Airfieid Two
Miles From Objective
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC —
(AP)—Australian artillery pound
ed the Japanese today in the New,
Guinea ceastal base at Finsch
hafen,- arching W_#r =
line - patrels- which- hfié
down rapidly fading enemy resist
ance to reach the edge of an air
field two miles north' of their ob
jective.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur thus
confronted the Japanese with the
threatened loss of their third air
(Continued on Page Eight)
Halsey Braves Bombs
Areas In Solomons
\
| {5, S. HEADQUARTERS IN: THE
}SOUTH PACIFIC.— (AP) —Ad
'miral William F. Halsey, jr.,, has
\returned to his South Pacific head
}quar‘ters, it was announced today
following a hazardous inspection
‘trip to the most advanced combat
‘areas in the Solomon Islands, in
cluding New Georgia, Vella Lavel
la and newly capturde Arundel.
Accompanying him were mem
bers of his staff and U. S. Sena
tor Henry Cabot Lodge (R.-Mass.)
“Two days after his visit to
Arundel,” said a headquarters
statement, “organized resistance by
Japanese forces to Army troops on
that. small island ceased on the
afternoon of 'September 21.
“Admiral Halsey and his official
party underwent aerial bombing
by enemy planes at both Guadal
canal and Munda.
“The purpose of the trip was to
inspect advanced area installations
and review combat personnel as
well as to confer with Army, Navy
and Marine_commanders.”
Most of Halsey's journey was
made by air although trips to
Arundel and Vella Lavella were by
surface craft.
Charges 300,000 Draft-Age Men,
Non-Fathers, Employed By U. S.
WASHINGTON.— (AP) —Coun
sel for a congressional committee
investigating draft defermients for
government workers charged late
Thursday that approximately 300,-
000 draft-age non-fathers were in
government service, and had not
been called up for induction al
though less than half actually had
been given deferred status.
Ralph Burton, counsel for = the
house military sub-committee di
rected to study the government's
own deferment policies, made the
charge and suggested immediate
inquiry into the situation he de
scribed.
Sub-committee Chairman Cos
tello (D.-Calif.), asserting he was
surprsied by Burton’s allegations,
said a full investigation would be
made.
Burton submitted his figures
during committee questioning of
members of the three-man review
committee set up by the President
to pass on deferments of federal
workers.
«“They are available for call,”
Reds Reach Dnieper River
In Force As N ; Face
a 3 - &
Losing Smolensk, Big Base
Russians Making Heavy Thrusis To Cross |
Dnieper But Are Repulsed, Germans (laim
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW.— (AP) —The Red Army has reached
the Dnieper in force, and other Soviet units north
west of Smolensk have reached the village of Tara
senki, only three miles from the border of White
Russia, Soviet dispatches said today.
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World Today
| By The Associated Press
INVASION: American Fifth
Army launches full-scale of
fensive against mountain-en
| trenched Ger i
mans guarding
Naples; Allied torpedo boats
sink two enemy vessels in
swift raid on Albania’s Va
lona barbor; Corsican con
quest appears imminent as
Allied warplanes rip through
Nazi air fleet attempting to
evacuate garrison,
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RUSSIAN: Berlin admits
| shattered German troops flee
t ing Kuban bridgehead, col
lapsing Hitler’s hope of seiz
ing Caucasus oil treasures;
Nazi evacuation of Crimea ex
| pected; Soviet juggernaut
claims enemy’s ‘“second wall”
fortifications on Dnieper reach
ed in lightning sweep.
AERIAL: RAF blasts four
more German industrial and
transportation centers, losing
thirty-two bombers; uncon
firmed Vichy radio reports
say “American planes” attack
Paris. X 4
———————
PACIFIC: Japanese strong
hold at Finschhaven pounded
by Australian' artillery; Allied
{ troops reach enemy ' airdrome
north of b . more: than 12,-
fl;,&ng kitled m’ Sala
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aua-Lae battles, | 7
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Yugoslav Guerrilla
) . .
Forces Fighting
.
Germans In Triesle
LONDON —(#)—Strong Yugo
slav guerrilla forces were reported
fighting German troops today in
the streets of Trieste and threat
ening Fiume in an apparently co
ordinated drive against the two
Italian ports at the northern end
of the Adriatic.
The action was part of a series
of new flareups by 'partisan armies
against Nazi occupying forces at
scattered points along some 400
miles of the eastern Adriatic
shore all conceivably inaugurated
|with Allied approval.
Yugoslav sources here said Slo
vene irregulars struck . some 25
' miles into Italy from the Yugo
'slavian border and penetrated
’Trleste, with oppressed inhabitants
of that former Italian naval® base
[Joining their ranks to dattack the
‘Nazi garrison,
These same sources reported
other Slovene formations had oc
cupied Idria, Italian mountain town
four miles east of the Yugoslav
border and 28 miles northeast of
Trieste, while farther to the east
in northwestern Yugoslavia heavy
fighting was said to be in progress
along a 50-mile front between Bis
trica (Feistritz) and Ljubljana.
The British Broadcasting Cor
poration, quoting a broadcast by
the Algiers radio, said that Fiume
was being shelled by partisan ar
tillery set up in Susak, a mile and
a half away across the frontier.
In a broadcast heard by The
(Continued on Page Eight) i
said Robert M. Barnett, chairman
of the review group, when Repre
sentative Harness (R.-Ind.) asked:
“How in the name of common
sense can that many single men
be working down there when. they
are talking about drafting men
with children?”
Barnett said his committee had
no responsibility in that matter,
its jurisdiction being limited to
pass on key positions and to de
termine which agencies shoWild use
replacement schedules.
“We have wondered why they
have not been - called for.induc
tion,” he commented with respect
to non-inducted government work
ers who have not been deferred.
Burton said official Selective
Service figures indicated that 197,-
656 draft-age, non-fathers were
employed by the government as of
August 15, with many agencies un
reported. The committee’s own es
timate, he said, was that the total
was closer to 300,000. Employes
given deferments as of August 15,
Burton said, approximated 116,935.
Athens, ‘Ca., Friday, September 24, 1943,
said the Russians already ‘Wwere
making heavy thrusts in efforts: f
cross ‘the Dnieper, but dech‘rg
they were repuised. e
(Alihough ‘the GCerman . FHigh'
Command failed to bear out the
report, the Berlin radio said the
Germans also were systematically
evacuating heavy equipment, in
stallations and civilians from their
bridgehead ~ across ' the Kerch
Straits in the Caucasus.) 8
With the Red Army only nine
miles from Smolensk, after cap
turing . Luzanovo, .the Germgns
were in immediate danger of los- |
ing their central front = citadel,
which they have held since . the
early days of their smash toward
Moscow . : ! e
‘ A" dispatch to the Army "‘news-.
per Red .Star said Russian troops
first reached this big ' objective;
‘through = Nocomoskovsk in "‘i;h_Q,
lower Ukraine on the upper elbow |
of the river in a drive from Pol="
%tav:x. The capture of NoVomps'J,‘
‘kovsk was announced yesterday. %
Strong forces of Soviet ~troops
have arrived on the banks of the
(Continued on Page Eight) 3
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German Industrial
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(ities Bombed
[Again Last Night
LONDON—(#)—In their second
heavy blow in 24 hours against
Nazi industrial and transportation
centers, a fleet of big RAF bomb
ers blasted four German cities Jast.
night, heavil _'mm( the twin
gities. pf mfi eint-Eudivigshafen
‘and hitting - Darmstadt, -36 miles:
northeast of Mannheim, and
Aachen, near Ceologne, i {
Thirty-two bombers failed to re
turn,
The twin cities at the junction
of the Rhine and Nekar rivers
shuddered - under the impact of'
1,600 long tons (1,730 U. S. tons)
in 45 minutes—l 7 tons a minutel
less than the record load dumped
on Hamburg—in a sequel to the‘
Wednesday night attack on Han
nover, l
It was the second big attack in
less thanp three weeks on Mann
heim-Ludwigshafen, second largest
inland port in Germany, through
which large quantities of coal and
other vital supplies are transship-|
red to Italy. Aachen, hit 16 times]
before, is a key railroad and high-|
way point through which moves |
much of Hitler's supplies and re
inforcements for the West Wall.
The three-pronged attack round
(Continued on Page Eight).
Special Session Of
; pecia ion
‘Assembly Forecast
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In Prison Situation
ATLANTA.—(AP)—One or more
members of the State Prison
Board have decided to reject Gov
ernor Ellis Arnall's request that
the Board step aside in favor of a
‘Director of Corrections,” an au
thoritative source said, and Capitol
sources predicted the governor
would call a special session of the
legislature to enforce his demands.
Arnall has said the prison system
needs a complete overhauling and
has called on the Board to yield
all but its advisory powers. As to
the extent of those powers, the
governor meanwhile asked Attor
ney General T. Grady Head for a
ruling.
Clem Rainey is chairman of the
Board, whose members are elect
ed by popular vote. Vivian Stan
ley and Royal K. Mann are the‘
others.
Arnall said he would have 2
series of prison reform measures
incorporated in an ‘executive order
by Saturday.
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GEORGIA: Not quite so
warm this afternoon, slightly
cooler tonight « and Saturday
forenoon.
TEMPERATURE
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .... .00
Total since Sept. 1 ..... .. 2.83
Excess since Sept. 1 .. .. .01
Average Sept. rainfall .. .. 3.46
Total since January 1 .. ..44.05
Excess since January 1 ~. 4.62
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. Werld-wide commander-in-chief of all Anglo-American armed forces may be the assignment for U. S.
chiet-of-staff Gen, George Catiett Marshall if Washington rumors blossom into fact.. This unprece
dented field command would go to the V. M. L. graduate (1901) who served in the Philippines (1902,
1815), as aide to Pershing in World War I, and in China (1924-27). General Marshall, pictured above
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iZi “Withdrawal”
d - - A s v
Takes Rout Aspect
Problem Of German
Generals Is To
. :
Avert Major Disaster
BY DeWITT MacKENZIE
~ Associated Press War Analyst
The great withdrawal of Hit
lerian forces on the Russian front
has taken on so much of the nature
of a rout as to rank with Dunker
que as one of the pivotal crises of
the whole war.
What started out as a planned
withdrawal has deteriorated so
rapidly under the pile-driver blows
of the Red forces that the German
high command is now faced with
the problem of whether the Nazi
armies can reach their prepared
defenses west of the Dnieper river
and avert a major disaster., If they
do achieve that pat-trick, they still
must look back on one of the most
costly retreats of history, both in
men and materiel.
As this is written the unbeliev
able Red armies are almdst at the
line of the Dnieper at several
points, They're just about where
they were two years ago when
Hitler was smashing’' them back
with arrogant assurance.
The whole unwieldly German
right wing, stretching 750 miles
from Smolemsk in the north to the
Crimea in the south, is shivering
and cracking under the fierce Red
assaults. The Russians are close
to Kiev ang Smolensk, strategic;
strong-points in the Nazi front.
(Continued on Page Eight) ]
» 2
Prospering Peanut
Belt Overcast
| .
By Menacing Dust
BY L. R. RUTH
AMERICUS — (AP) — There is
something in the air in this South
Georgia community besides the
hustle and bustle resulting from
good farm yields.
It is a fine dust that leaves a
thin eoat of white on automobile
windshields during a rain.* It is
reminiscent of the days when dust
from the west. filled Georgia skies.
Farm leaders of this section are
wondering if the dustbowl of the
west will be duplicated in Georgia,
the ecuntry’s greatest peanut pro
ducing state.
Peanuts are hard on the land.
They take more fertility from the
soil than any other crop, agricul
tural experts say. There is a rem
edy in following peanuts with a
cover crop that protects top soil in
fall and winter. But last year only
around ten per cent of Georgia's
peanut land was planted in cover
crops, G. M. Austin, district con
servationist said today.
A tour through the peanut belt
shows hundreds of thousands of
acres of land dotted with drab
brown stacks of peanuts in the
_ (Continued on Page Eight)
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I.Conques'c Of Corsica Is
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Apparently Im...inent;
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sth Begins Offensive
Drive Launched Against Nazi Mountain
Positions Guarding Route To Naples .
By ROGER GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Conquest -of Corgica, stepping-stone to the French
mainland, appeared imminent today as Allied warplanes
intercepted a German air fleet attempting to . evacuate
Nazi troops from the island and shot down seven trans
port planes. :
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Dismissal Of Rule
Nisi Is Asked
By Southern Bell
ATLANTA — Declaring that the
rdte ‘of return ¢n' its business in
Georgia is already dangerously
low, ‘and steadily declining, the
Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph- Company has asked
the Georgia Public Service Com
mission for dismissal of a rule
nisi, ordering the telephone com
pany to show cause why intrastate
long distance rates should not be
reduced to conform with Long
Lines interstate rates.
. The Commigsion granted a con
(Continued on Page Two)
High School Students,
114 Strong, Are
Picking Cotton Today
BY BOBBY OLIVER
Did you see a truck going down
the street-this morning full of
boys and girls? They were one
of the five groups that made
up 114 Athens High students who
went to pick cotton.
These boys and girls volunteered
to go out to meet the crucial need,
and they are determined to stay
with it until the crop has been
harvested. The students this morn
ing were sent to farms in Clarke
(Continued on Page ggn)
A.B.C. Paper—Single Copy, 3c—sc Sunday
CGen. Henri Giraud’s . French
troops from North Africa, support
ed by American Rangérs, had al
ready driven battered remnants of
the 12,000-man Nazi garrison .into
, the northeast corner of’the island,
while Allied warships maintained
a tight blockade to cut off escape
by sea. :
Napoleon's birthplace, Corsica
lies only 110 miles from the douth
ern coast of France. ;
I From Matera, it was announced,
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s
lveterans drove north another 10
miles to occupy Altamura.
While Gen. Clark launched his
climactic offensive against burn
ing, dynamite-wrecked Naples,
Italian refugees said residents “of
the once great port were battling
German troops in the streets and
lfiring at the enemy from the
windows of their homes.
German firing-squads were re
ported executng civilian ‘“rebels”
and Italian army officers and sol
~diers who refused to . collaborate
even as Nazi demolition crews de
stroyed the city of 925,000,
German Debacle Mounts
On -the Russian front, the Ger
man debacle mounted hourly.
A Berlin broadcast admitted
(Continued on Page Eight)
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Varied Assoriment
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0f U. §. Magazines
. WASHINGTON—(#)—Brig. Gen.
¥. H. Osborn said today the Army
would stick to a policy in practice
since Pearl Harbor: :
Encouragement of discussion be
tween officers and men on “the
progress of the war” but not on
political or controversial problems.
This is in contrast with British
methods. Every two weeks Bri
tain's Army Bureau of Current
Affairs provides booklets on cur
rent problems of all kinds—contro
versial or otherwise—which are a
source and basis for forum dis
cussions between men and officers.
The American Army's Special
Service Division’s research branch
reports on our soldiers that “de
spite their high educational level,
the great majority of the men are
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Gongressmen Seek
ToDraft “Lost
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& s Lk
Enough Draft Eligibles é
On Federal Payroll To
Supply Needs, Chargsd
By William F. Arbogast
WASHINGTON. — (AP)E
—Abandoning the fight _tofg
outlaw the father draft, a:
congressional bloc sought
to cushion the impact on
the nation’s homes today
by driving into uniform
what one legislator called
“a lost army” of thousands
of government workers. = =
Chairman May (D-Ky) of the !
House Military Affairs Committee |
sald it would be- futile to- press
for legislation to prohibit the draft
ing of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers.
He announced also that his com-=
mittee would ask Maj. Gen: Lewis
B. Hershey to explain next week |
why an estimated 300,000 draft-’
age, non-fathers in the federali em
ploy have not been inducted al-}
though no official request Wwas |
made for their deferment, 5
One of May's sub-committees, |
headed by Rep. Costello (D-Calif),
said its investigation of govern
ment deferment policies indicated
that approximately 300,000 federal
workers apparently eligible for the
draft have not been called for in- ¢
duction. ¥
“l do not claim that ail of these |
men should be in the armed ser
vices,” Costello told reporters, “but |
certainly a lot of them should be. |
With liberal allowances for phy
sical defects 'and other deferment
conditions, Costello said, “at least |
half of them, it geems, could be
put in uniform, and that would '
mean 150,000 pre - war fathers
would not have to be drafted now. |
assuming that it would take some |
time to get these. men off the re- |
placement lists, if they are on |
them, it still should be possible
to put at least 50,000 of them in |
unitorm this year, with the others
being ready early next year.” |
“This lost army of government
workers is big enough to furnish
all the men needed, without taking
fathers” commented Rep. Harness |
(R-Ind), a member of the Costello |
vmmittee. “For the life of me 11
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Plan To Let Men =
/ln Service
Ballot Is Studied .'
| BY DONALD HYNDMAN
WASHINGTON —~(#)— Prelimi
nary steps to enable several mil
lion members of the armed services
to cast absentee ballots in 'the
1944 state primaries and the Presi
dentlal election were taken in Con
gress today.
Chairman Green (D-RI) announ
ced he had asked Secretary of War
Siimson and Navy Secretary Knox
to give the Senate Elections Com=-
mittee their views on a pending
plan to permit overseas service
men and women to use a simplified
v -mail ballot. :
As soon as the Stimson and
Knox statements are received,
Green said he wourd open hearings
on the proposal, which he spon
sored with Senator Lucas (D-III).
Chairman Wborley (D-Tex), of
the House Committee on Elections,
also announced plans to open hear
ings on similar legislation well in
advance of the first primaries next
March,
Predicting many practical aiffi
culties would be encountered, due
to varying state election laws and
the complexities of distributing
and assembling ballots cast in the
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