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Newspaper Page TextHomE ——————— T 70l 111, No. 280. t |- w. Fmmett L. Wier ' Jies Fhurstay; Services Sunday Outstanding Athenian |s Taken By Death in St. Louis, Missouri Emmett L. Wier, member of a pioneer Athens family ad one of the city’s -out ¢anding citizens,. died in st. Louis, Mo., late Thurs dgay following an illness of everal weeks, He was 59 vears old. ‘ gervices are to be conducted qunday aftermoon at 4 o’clock jom First Baptist church. Offici ating will be the pastor, Dr. S 0 Wilkinson, and Dr. Eugene L. Hili, pastor of First Presbyterian Church. pall-hearers and other details will be announced later by Bern «ein Funeral Home, in charge of arrangements. Mr. Wier is survived by his wife, Mrs. Myrtle ‘Wier; son, VVil-‘ Jam Wayne Wier; granddaughter, parbara Wier; sister, Miss Mary lou Wier; four brothers, Ed D wier, Albert Wier, John N. Wier, Al of Atheds, and C. X Wiher, Yew York. Native of Athens l A pative of Athens, Mr. Wier pad lived here all his life. He was the son of the late John W. ‘Wier and Mrs. Sara Lanier Wier, and for many years his father served as Sheriff of Clarke county. The Wiers were among the pioneer family groups in this county and over a long period of years con tributed much to the development and progress of this comzaunity. Mr. Wier was Vices President and General” Manager of the Webb (rawford Company, one of the lrgest wholesale firms in this section of the state. He was an executive in the firm for over twenty-five years and much of the success of that busi ness can -be attributed to | Mr, Wier's business ability, integrity and personal populdrity. e was a true citizen in the most exg&cting.,Qyﬂ,““%%.ﬁﬂin and despite the press of his busi ness connections, he nevertheless) made sacrifices to serve the peo-. ple of Athens as one of theéir gov erning heads. For a number. of vears he was a member of- City Council, representing the- Second (Continued on Page Eight) Pearson Is Called “ Before Committee | | About George (harge WASHINGTON — (AP) — Sen ate tax bill hearings took a new turn today as Washington column ist Drew Pearson was called be fore the Finance Committee 10 explain . his published assertion that an attorney for the United States Chamber of Comrherce. ‘hoasts that ~he has - Senator George's vote on taxed in his pocket. Chairman George (D. - Ga.), Whose committee is conducting hearing on the $2,140,000,000 added. revenues bhill, declared he wanted to “get at the facts” and said a sibpoena would be issued if Pearson did not appear. The columnist, however, said he Would be on hand, adding: “As Senator GCeoige said to President Roosevelt in 1938 at Barnesville, Ga., ‘I accept the chal lenge’ His reference was to the Geor glan’s remark in his 1938 cam mign for re-election when Presi dent Roosevelt 'took -the stump igainst him. Pearson, in his column, describ ® the attorney as a former em toye of the Finance Committee ind “one of the few men not con lected with the senate, who regu lrly attends George’s birthday Partjes . ™ As the tax hearings continued, Representative Johnson (D.-111.) Ploposed that all additional as ssments on individuals and cor- Prations, which might beé voted as i anti-inflation measure, be salt “away in the federal treasury for Dostwar use by the taxpayer. (Continued on Page Eight) i Sl At i s —— ] T ——— WEATHER R s e e —— GEORGIA: Partly cloudy to tloudy and continued mild to- Might and Saturday except slightly cooler in extreme north portion Saturday. Occas ‘onal light rain in extreme "orth portion tonight. TEMPERATURE : Highest .., il iiis & ¢ 500 Lowest , LEE N eBO Mean . yio-C RTL 01 Normal | s katt A el «+ 81D KRAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. ««-+ 00 Totil since December 1 ... 00 Deficit since Decemper:l .. 48 averise December rainfall ‘i.:; otal sinc§ Januvary 1.. ..46.45 Excesg z_‘_.‘ e L ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service. McNutt's Political Future In Mail Pouch Chasing FOR Will Decide Course WASHINGTON. — (AP) —Paul V. McNutt’s poditi cal future and the Constitu tion of the United States! Any connection? Could be. Right now the political future -of McNutt may be lying bundled up in a maii pouch somewhere between Washington and wherever President Roosevelt is. That pouch—containing official government papers-—is a handy demonstration of how the Ameri can foundatiop stone, the Consti tution, can fit changes in Ameri can life. The father-draft bill, which would boeunce McNutt out of con trol. of .Selective Service, has been sent overseéas with other official papers’ to. the President for his signature. - Several schools of thought say these things may happen: . The President will save Mec- Nutt’'s authority by vetoing the bill; or he'll sign ‘the bill into law and let ‘MeNutt look out for him self. If the bill is signed MeNutt's associates say he will drop. com plétely out of Washington political life and resign his other jobs as War Manpower boss and Social Security |Administrator. How It Works But this is where the ‘Censtitu tion comes in. Wihen the founding fathers in (Continued on Page Eight). No Democrat Can Be Elected In 1944, Sen. Wheeler Says WASHINGTON —i(&)— Express ing doubt that any Demoerat can win the Presidency in 1944, Demo cratic Senator Wheeler of Mons tana predicted today that Presi= dent Roosevelt will not be a candi date for re-elecion next year re gardless of the state of the war. “War or no war,” Wheeler said in an interview, “a definite Re publican trend has set in and the President will be able to sense this far more quickly than any of his advisers. “Having had conferred upon him the greatest honor ever given a President of the United States (a third term) and having faced 12 long, difficult years, in my judg ment the President not only does not want to run but will not run even if an attempt is made to draft him.” Wheeler, who campaigned ac tively for Mr. Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936 but was silent in 1940, said he regarded the results of a special congressional election in Kentucky, where -a Republican won overwhelmingly in a tradi tionally Democratic stronghold, as indicative of a nationwide trend toward the GOP, While Wheeler. who has been critical of the administration’s foreign policies represents a clear~ ly anti-administration viewpoint in predictng that President Roosevelt, would not run, Senator Mead (D --NY) said he thought the President should be drafted as the party nominee, ) “He is the most powerful gov ernmental leader in the world to day,” Mead declared. ¢“He repre sents the most powerful country and his leadership and prestige insure an expeditious termination of the war and give the best pos sible assurance that we will win the peace this time.” Steelworkers Ready To Battle For - \ 17-Cents Pay Hike PITTSBURGH —(#)—The Unit ed Steelworkers of America, pre paring to battle for a 17-cents-an hour wage raise Wwhich would smash the government’s Little Steel Formula declares it will nonetheless stick to its no-strike pledge. (A, resolution adopted bY the union’s executive and policy com mittees last night asserted: «We recognize that for the dura tion of the war, issues in di§pute between the steelworkers and any employer must be adjusted through peaceful means.” The 485 steel companies, repre senting about 85 per cent of the | industry, with whom the steel—‘ workers seek wage conferences,l Dec. 13 have been asked to keep current contracts in force pendingl negotiations and the submlssion‘ of any unresolved disputes to the Wiar Labor Board. The resolution charged that “Congress has taken every oppor tunity to impede and prevent ac tion to control prices and even ‘today is threatening to bar the use of funds essenial for subsidies to assure some measure of price con trol.” 4 Philip Murray, president of the Steelworkers and of the CIO, com mented that there had been “No policing of price cejnnzl anywhere To “GIVE UP OR DIE" IN “BIG 3" ULTIMATUM ! London Paper Says Rinal Decree Has : ~ Been Drawn Up By Meeting In Persia By E. D. BALL | LONDON.— (AP) —The London Star said .today a Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill conference in the Middle East has drawn up a final ‘‘give in or die" ultimatum to Cermany. r “‘Stalin is at war parley ; meeting with Churchill land Roosevelt; give in or die to Cermany,” was the way the afternoon newspaper headlined the article. Finland Continues As Nazi Partner ¢ Nazi Partner Drops Propaganda Role ‘ Of Separate War After Moscow Parleys ' \ STOCKHOLM -—() — Finland has quietly dropped -the propa ganda line that she is fighting a private war disassociated from the world conflict and: apparently has decided to continue the [fight against Russia gs ‘a full-fledged partner of Germany, This decision, following a period in . which some -Finnish leaders showed a tendency toward trying to get out of the war, was taken as the only practical alternative ‘to plans formulated gt the.Moscow ' Conference, which the Finng in terpreted to mean they would have to surrendengunconditionally, a re liable -informant said, In line with the mnew Dpolicy, which also reflected growing Nazi pressure, a directive was said to have been &€~ to the controlled Finnish press, instrueting it that thereafter there should. be no men tion of & separaté war. A/ stricter censorship also was reported 1o have heen clamped down on the press, into which public sentiment for peace had sometimes gound its way. ! According to information reach ing Stockholm, 'premier Bdwin Linkomies and Foreign Minister Sir Henrick Ramsay called the tune in a debate on future policy following the meeting of the rep resentatives of Great Britain, the United States and Russia at Mos- COW, 1 The Finnish ‘cabinef, In effect, had decided to cling indefinitely to the line it had jbeén pursuing since Hitler invaded Russia, but the communique issued at the Moscow meeting, it was said, left the Finns asking 'themselves, “What does it mean for Finland ?’ Unconditional surrénder Jl* the only answer they. could find and this they decided’ tha could never accept, preferring rather to fight on alone even after, the AXi§ ca pitulated, it was’:l?qf“d. Germany, meanwhile, has agreed to furnish Finland tens of thous sands of tons of grain and sugar by January 1, and official Nazi newspapers are printing laudatory articles about “Finland’s example” in which they emphasize that Fin land is a ‘“comrade ih arms.” . s e e Four County Agents Get Distinguished . Service Recognifion Distinguished Service awards will be presented four Georgia county agents during the annual meeting of the National County Agents Association at Chicago. The State Agricultural EXxten sion Service announced the four are W. E. Neville of Towns coun ty, C. W. Wheeler of Walker county; A. J. Nitzschke of Cha itham county and Dallas Spurlock ’of Terrell county, Each has been in county agent work for ten or more years, Di ‘rector Walter S. Brown said. A native of Mayfield, Ga., {W’heeler was graduated from the University of Georgia Collége of Agriculture in 1919, served as a rehabilitation supervisor for the Veterans’ Bureau for a year and taught vocational agriculture for two years at Barnesville, He be came county agent: in Wilkes county in 1925 and served there until becoming Walker county agent in 1935. Spurlock taught for nine years in Tennessee and (eorgia before becoming county agent in Effing ham county in 1920, He wds ap pointed county agent .at Pawson in 1930. Nitzschke, a graduate of Cornell (Continued on Page Eight) o i Doesn’t Know Whether He Signed Up For f The Draft, Or Sugar « ATLANTA — (AP) — A negro was arrested by the FBI on charges of failing to sign up for Selective Service. | “Why didn’t you register?” ask ed Assistant U. S. Attorney Ray mond W. Martin. + .. ~“1 did,” the man replied, “but I don't know whether it was for the araft or forapghet T 2 Athens, Ca., Friday, December 3, 1943. Farlier, Chairman Tom Con‘-‘ nally of the ‘U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee had declared in Fort Worth, Texas, that “An other great conference is taking place in the Middle East” ~among the three United Nations leaders, and described the meeting as ‘“‘of paramount significance.” 1 ““The Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin meeting, about which there has been so much speculation, hazs. taken place,” the London Star. said. . “The three statesmen are noOW. eonferring somewhere in the Mid dle East. Some reports, Axis andd neutral,. say the meeting place is Teheran; others say it is Tabriz, in the Russian military 2zone of northérn Persia. Connally Gives News “The first definite news of this new conference was given to the world by Connally in a radio ad dress from Fort Worth.” Official Washington and X.ondon maintained a discreet silence, while continental radios told the world that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin were in Iran drawing up an ultimatum calling upon Germany to surren der under pain of being bombed to destruction. ; The German-controlied Paris ra dio asserted that the .conference was being held at Tabriz in north west Iran, across the border from Russia, and said that ~ Seviet troops had been concentrated there to assure the safety®of the Allled statesmen, - ° : Similar reports emanated@ from Bern, Vichy and Turkey. &l agreed that the conferees —Were meeting somewhere in Iran, but some expressed belief the confer ence was being held in the capital at Teheran. . i - The situation closely paralleled the circumstances surrounding the recent North African Conference, when Axis and neutral sources proclaimed that Roosevelt and Churchill were conferring in Cairo with Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek several days before the of ficial announcement of that meet ing. (In Fort Worth, U, 8. Senator Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, de clared in a radio address last night that “another great confer ence is taking place in the Middle Fast” among the three United Na tions leaders and said the meeting (Continued on Page Eight) ST R by el SR e xS e A S ST By The Associated Press AERIAL: New fires kindled as RAF batters Berlin again in strength dropping 1,000 tons of explosives; British lose 41 planes. ITALY: U. 8. Fifth Army launches offensive in central sector of German winter line, carving out hard earned gains in Calabritto area, while Brit ish Eighth on eastern wing captures Castel Frentano, 18 miles below Adriatic port of Pescara; Aliied Air Force ranges across Adriatic to bomb Yugoslav coast, as U. S. Lib erators smash at Bolzano rail center near Brenner Pass. RUSSIA: Soviet armies move ~ to within six miles of Znam ~_enka, rail center in Dnieper ~ bend, make fresh advances northwest of Gomel; . Berlin says Red Army has launched new drive toward Prsha and Minsk; Tank battle for Dniep er bulge rages. s : DIPLOMATIC: Neutral and enemy radio ' speculates on meeting of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill in Middle East, purportedly in Persia, mapping Germany’s final collapse. SOUTH PACIFIC: Allied bombers sink 10,000 ton Jap anese transport, large tanker and damge two destroyers in widespread aerial offensive; Australians converge on Wa reo, Japanese strong point in New Guinea, 10 miles north of Finschhafen; U. 8. Marines raid Japanese arsenal in ol S ne before withdrawings ECTABLISHED 1838 New Russian Gains | : ' .. Reported! Nazis Fighting Continues With Unabated Ferocity - On Entire Eastern [Front By Henry C. Cassidy . MOOOSCOW—(AP)— While German infantry and tank divisions, heavily rein forced' by mechanized for ces rushed from western Europe, battered in vain against the Russians’ Cher kassy bridgehead on the Dhnieper river Red Army troops carved out new gains yesterday northwest of Gomel, where they cap tured mgre than 80 towns, a_ Soviet. commpnique an nounced today. Fighting continued with unabat "ed | ferocity. all along the front, despite ' they prevalence of rain. clugh, and , snow, field ~dispatches said. ‘s . The Ruﬁlt #§ communique report ed gains} g the lower Pripet rhér,‘-:boﬁgt of Zhlobin, and in the ection of Znamenka, a rail center southwest og Kremen chug and key to lateral communi cations between the Kieve bulge and the Dnieper bend. Approximately 2,900 Germans were killed in Thursday’s battles, the communique said, and the Russians, destroyed or captured 72 tanks and other war equipment. The war bulletin said the Ger maus. were throwing troops against the Russian lines “without con sideration for ‘large losses.” ‘especi ally 'in the Cherkasy sector,-where 1,000 Nazig,were wiped out in a series ot-,ﬁ @ counterattagks. (Both -the, Russian and' German (Continued on Page Eight) E.h . * WAR REPORTERS mg« AR ATIACK | | ] y o | LONDON—(#)—Three. War or-. respondents failed to return from ‘last night's great RAF raid over Berlin—Lowell Bennett of Inter national News Seryice, Norman Stockton es the Sydney (Australia) Sun, and amether whose name was! withheld : temporarily. . ' |Stocktan, who reported the war in New 'Guinea and once served as deputy editor of the South China Morning Post, flew in the raid on’ the German capital with an Aus tralian squadron of Lancasters. Bennett was officially reported missing by the British Air Minis-, try when the bomber in which he" was a passenger failed to return. [ Young Bennett made the flight 'as a représentative of the “Ameri }can Pool,” and was to have written an eye-witness account of the Ibombing of Berlin for the three American, news serviges—The As lsociated Press, The United. Press {Continued on Page Eight.) Only 47 Hospitals In Georgia Aid =~ Maternal Program ATLANTA ; ={P)—Qvercrowding of many ' hospitals 4o the extent that “they ecanpnot take any more patients of any kind” is cited by Dr. B. R. Watsen® of: the State Health Department as among rea sons for participation of only 47 Georgia institutions in the federal emergency. maternal and infant care program for wives and babies of servicemen. Other reasons, he said, are fi nancial problems and inability of some hospitals in the state to meet federal standards. He report ed that four war-crowded centers, Columbus, Savannah, Macon and Augusta, still have no civilian hospitals participating. “In_many small towns,” declared Dr, Watson, director of the de partment’s internal child health division,” the situation is so bad that mothers have to leave the hospital five days after the baby is born.” BT T : The pay for doctors set by the program - offers another problem,' he said, adding, “forty dollars is poor pay for just a simple delivery and though some doctors are ac-l cepting these low fees just to help the war effort, others are financial ly unable to do sO.” | R Ernest Woodruff Named Outstanding Atlantan ATLANTA — (AP) — Ernest ‘Woodruif, retired Atlanta bank Ker, will receive the Chamber of Com merce 1943 certificate of Distin guished Achievement at the cham ber’s 78th annual meeting tonight. L. L. Gellerstedt, executive vice president of the Citizens and Southern National Bank, will be nominated as president for next year, succeeding Carlye Fraser, " Woodruff, who ¢ame to Atlanta from Columbus, Ga., in 1893, has been associated with the Atlantic Steel Company, Coca-Cola. Com- Atle Ice & Coal Company and S Tigest e e e e o Red Cross Girls At Fighting Front RRy ‘ : S 5 B e R S ; } ¥ N FT S ok g ,‘, b, ' Rl s g T\ o e e i L (SR ; R TR ol s 3 A Fo 5 B % TR ! ? b _f“apc\ R S o : g R 5 g e :f Ay e & @ L ) F T st Y ; TT g LR Y L warF ;N B "iy A o ¥ b L e § 3 " i & Ty PPS a3S IER oo RER Y- Rk il <¥ L B sAAIfS3 3% P e oSO Laliiagie Ponab ovl R S R : 2 e A { PUTLICS L % R : & oo S \{ WL o ¢ e i R 1 TR (L é STRRR R SR % S ,*;‘ ‘:.-;:s'{,y' BTE & X e R 0 : o ‘\SS % o 4 Bl o i T W },’ e %y L el o e L ;ge : ! LR R e EoS RN, SR S R G R O 17 G 7%.::.@ A 3 Yol o T O " . p é ] &%» e < 5 @ & °~M Y R 5 Ht B 3 A AR ; P e 3 ek %@ % Ve Te et AT 4 G 3 R R R il A R S S &SR’@ o ; IR & E . 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Army morale high, despite war’s hell and rain’s high water. At top, left, Lois Berney, Fallon, N. C., and Pfe. Clyde Burgess, Toccoa, Ga.,, vie with Mary Ross Owen, Onowa, lowa, ‘and Pvt. William Maderra, Rayland, Ohio, in an impromptu jive contest. Below, Red Cross worker, Elizabeth Coxe, Haverford, Pa., with fresh doughnuts for fighters back from the front, dodges deep mud puddles, while Lois Berney, her dance over, whips up a tasty meal from canned rations. (Photos by Bert Brandt, NEA-Acme photographer for war picture pool). RAF Pounds Battered Berlin In New = Air Attack By Night x ) 3 LONDON. “— (AP) — RAF heavy bombers attacked Berlin in .great strength- last night for the fifth time in two-weeks, starting great' fires raging in the German capital, the Air: Ministry announced today. “ Mosquitq bombers’ simultaneous ly” attaeked” targéts * in ‘Western Germany, said’ the announcement, which ~acknowledged the loss jof 41 ajrcraft in “thé night's *opera tions. S b e i German; broageasts acknowledged the raid .was- on:arlarge scale apd said an almost unnrecedented '-dir battle.raged over:the city-for more than an hour; s "Nazi.. fightér planes - engaged. the big~ four-mot ored -Britisii Bonibers. "= - 7 The Germans, <'who ' s&id ‘they shot .down 80 of the raiders,. ap parently were Wiitthg" for-the “.at tack, and " had | ¢origentrated | every weapon at thé,gt"' ’dl'z’poqal, ip_an’ at tempt ‘to protect the capital, " one third ‘of which Was .reparted 'laid in rdins by ‘Heavy assiults .of last week. e LS e The Germaps..said ~ the .. attack blanketed , the. whole . greater . Ber Jean Kane Views. "Stage Door” . From Fly Gallery - . "I BY JEAN'M. KANE : Opening -night “is: usually. “two on the aisle’™ for the drama critics, but last night for.the opening pub lic, performance .of . ¥dnpa Ferber and- George S; Kaufman's ‘fS;a'ge‘ Door” it was ‘“two won the fly gal lefy,” thet first timer a eritic has' viewed 'a ‘University “Theatre pro duction from %hat vantage point, twenty-four feet' abovVe -the stage. We wére dble ‘to Bée mot only ' the play ‘but the' iftrieate end’ varied events that happn “ backstage to make a_show 'lm{:é ' “Stage Door” goduinie; fu RIS A Y el - As.we ‘:{alf‘tljxfgﬁghv tne. wings and. see the. dramatists _in their mmwmﬂﬁwwo e crgw rushing aroufid. gesting every ":-‘n"-t—_"' » 5 3‘3“”%, = »“’..&,. A “".:":1‘ A.B.C. Paper—Single Copy, 3c—s¢ Sunday lin, area, and returning fliers said ‘“very large” fires were seen with smoke rising to great heights. ~ The raid probably -brought -the total bomb load dumped on the German capital since the start of ‘the “campaign to well over 15,000 Jong tons, with more than 1,000 tons falling on the’ city last night. The attack hit the city while it still wids in a great state of dis ruption from the .previous blows, Latest reports from Sweden ‘yes terday said fireg still were burn ing and only a few transportation lines were runnirig among the de ‘bris-filled streets, with people get ting their supplies from improvis ‘ed stores in cellars, automobiles ‘and street tables. : " . Bombers Arrive Early The -bombers apparently arrived early in mid-evening, and the ~“(Continued on Page Eight) e e e e December Term Of ‘ Federal Court - } . Begins On Monday . The regular -December tferm. of Federal Court will open- -Monday, ‘D}acember 6, at 9 a. m., with Judge ißaséomg S. Deéaver, presiding, Cases ‘to be tried include Lutie ’Smith, charged with War K Bond l forgery; Wilburn N. Goss, viola ’tion of liquor regulations; Henry *Jackson, " 'E. C, Wages, Flonnie Posey, William Alonzo Payne, vio-l lating liquor laws: 1 Clifford Guest, Paul H. Meadows, Willie Adams, John Solomon Bailey, Coleman . Brown, Talmadge Bris coe, Benny Hayden, Nelson B. Jor= don, Mack ,K.‘?ight, Haggard Moon, Ewell McCullough, K. C. Moore, John Patten, James Riley, Willie Spearman, all' charged with in fringement «3 _internal revenue laws AR ‘ S .‘ S e s -.- : g e ‘ﬁi”"’ sn 5 =*¢w@m ,ﬂ_‘ Wervice: ahd Aiailee ACL UL AFATY LOCAL COTTON ; I 15-16 INCH MIDDLING ..., 19% 1-INCH MIDDLING .. .... 206 | i . ". . ’ . ”lx ill Allies Advancing . ; i’ Againgt Enemy %A n alian Front Clark’s Fifth Army . v s Troops Crack Forward | ; $5 PE After Long Stalemate S?:lé% By Wes Gallagher ALLIED "HEADQUAR . TERS, Algiers. — (AP) — Lt. Gen Mark W. Clark' Fifth Army troops, after g long stalemate on the west ern Italian front, havet cracked forward through machine - gun - raked field® and barbed wire in the Ca} labritto area in the wake oi} a rolling barrage of artil} lery shells 'and aeria® bombs, Allied headquarters announced today. B The British Eighth Army" continued to smash the Germans back beyond the Sangro Ridge, anc captured Castel Frentano, on & lateral road west of the important German defense town of Lancianot and pushed on toward San Vite on the Adriatic coast, six miles beyond ~ Wednesday's line. Bus Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgome % drive showed signs of slowing down, s f Both the Fifth and Eighth Ase mies took prisoners in their ads vance. Tl The airforce reported heavy"g tacks aruond San Giorgio, ~_;:§ and Cervano on the Fifth . Armg front where the Germans »3 said ,to _have ‘“mounted guns om every strategic height around th@i road to Rome.” 5‘3 Allied air attacks were thﬁ‘ heaviest in many days and 17 German planes were destroyed for! v loss of eight Allied planes. . A farce of Liberators, ascorte Yy Lightnings, pounded Boxgﬁnﬁ,ﬂ ~n the Brenner Pass line in northe ern_ltaly, while - th_e,fßr{t%ﬁ itroyers Queenshorough and Raid= v bombarded Nazi installations in he Albanian port of Dumua? ight, e The Liberators and Lightnings vere engaged =by strong formas ions of ME-109s and FW-190s and ‘hot’ down four for a loss of three. ~ 'Calabritto, which is five milas. ~ (Continued on Page Eight) 8 Y MEDIATE | OLSH-RUSSIAN ASHINGTON-—(/P)—Czech’ Presi= | ent Edward Benes may act.,,;‘:z sediator between the Poles B -ussians. who are not on diplo «atic speaking “ferms, at the © -oosevelt-Stalin-Churchill confer= | o .nces, B That suggestion cropped up in |+ responsible quarters ' here , today as the Red army’s advance toward a the polish frontier made the prob=- & lem of severed relations between Poland and Russia increa;lngigf acute. ‘ et o Benes departed = quietly London several weeks ago and has = been reported in the European | press as having arrived at Moscow, Whether or not he is attending the Allled war ¢ouncils as an ad- @ viser, it is generally believed that the “big three” will discuss the © Guestion of administering liberat ed territories in central Europe,» ‘Czechoslovakia, it was pointed é out, is about to sigm a 20 year mutual defense pact with -Russia = and has often diseussed the possi bility of a central European feder= \ = ation with Poland. s While Benes would not be likely to present a fermula for solution ’; of problems between Poland and Russia, it is known that the Czeeh president has shown great interest in a reconcilidtion between the twa - neighbors. sl - Even before the treaty negotia-~ tions were disclosed, the warmth = !or Russo-Czech relations was evi- i ' denced when Benes revealad he = | would not push hig cherished idea of central European collaboration = if it took on the tone of an anti- Soviet block, L 131 Clarke Registrants . Leave For Examinations 4 (A, roster of 181 Clarke county = men left Friday for final pre- %‘ induction examinations at Fort McPherson, the Clarke Selective Service Board announces. ) The names of the men inducted wiill be announced in aboug two % weeks, the Board stated. 3 l 8303’ LEFT /= “v Af‘ ‘ & . pUP : E y y f ; LR \ %M? 7 ¢ ’ ) ; 2 K- . W l B § 1 | TN »-"3 p IS L | & it FE N Ead 4 TR e L Gy P T

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, December 03, 1943, Home Edition, Image 1