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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX g Fa% : Jur Men And ‘Women In Service " (Continued trom Page One o ter, son of Mrs. Lonie W. Gunter, aj ;'me, has been killed in ac- Btlon. in the Mediterranean area. gaetaﬂs were given. MONROE MAN HELD PRISONER BY JAPS : L. One of two American soldiers “announced By the War Depart iment recently as being held pris soner by the ‘Japanese is Corporal -;‘»» ory H. Pannell. He is the Bon of George S. Pannell of* Mon roe. 5. i . WASHINGTON OFFICER | AWARDED FLYING CROSS | ~J For “gallantry and exrraor-dinaryi - achievement in flight, First Lieu i tenant Benjamin E. Hopkins, nfl & ﬁoute No. 2, Washington, Ga., . has been awarded the.Distinguish éd Flying Cross, the War De . partment has announced. The an ~ ncement was made through ~ General Ira C. Eaker, commanding ~ American Air units in the Euro -52; ﬂ_ean theater of operations. . GOMER OFFICER I 8 | GIVEN PROMOTION bAnnounced this week by the ~ War Department was the promo tlon of Second Lieutenant Jack . Hutoheson, Air Corps, to the rank "of First Lieutenant. Lieut. Hutch is a resident of' Comer. iy e T 'BRADLEY PROMOTED ' - TO STAFF SERGEANT "\ 'The promotion of Dudley Ham | mond Bradley, 25, from the grade ~of Sergeant to Staff Sergeant was an: ounced recently “somewhere in i 1 ngland” by Brigadier - General * Frederick 1.. Anderson, Command " ing General of the Eighth Air ~ Force Bomber Command. i© Before entering the service, ‘Bradley was a clerk-typist in the & AAA office in Athens. His sister U Mrs. Mary Bradley Porter, Box ?7 Bishop, Ga. e ——e ~ PFC. RICHARD HUNT IN BOOT TRAINING . Pfe. Richard C. Hunt, Area D-7, " Platoon 2462, is now in boot ' training at Camp Peary, Va. - "/ Mrs. Hunt, the former Miss _Martha Heywood, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Heywood, is re ~ maining temporarily in Athens FSvith Mrs. W. H. Hunt. " Pfc. Hunt was with Keller Motor Company before entering the Seabees. : ,7' . R. L. BENNETT ‘z,‘ ON LEAVE A | Lt. R. L. Bennett, recently re ;’,j?umed from maneuvers in Ten ;. essee, is enjoying a leave at the . _home of his parents, ‘Prof. and IMr . Fredevick W. Bennett, 410 | AiUniversity Drive. [ Lt. Bennett was stationed for " the last nine months at Fort Riley, m p., where he won five medals 5T superior marksmanship in the -1 use of the rifle, the pistol, the ‘qchlne gun, the Brownie auto-= ~ matic, and the hand grenade. ﬁ@‘ s new station is Fort Jackson, L e . ik g | .YOUNG SCARBOROUGH ‘ ~_ RETURNS FROM SEA- ' & Young H. Searborough, gunner's ﬁ ate, third class, USN, of Athens, ~ Ga., attached to the U. S. Naval ' rmed Guard Center at New Or | leans, La., has just returned from | sea’ duty as as membertof a Naval " gun crew assigned to'an American | merchant vesﬂ it wag announced i ?k- by headquarters, of the Bth | Naval district at New: PDrleans. He g ,)the son of: - Mrs. @allie Scar-, | borough, of Athens, (a. ¥ . ;‘Scurborough joined the Navy on April 13, 1942. During his three | months at sea he visited African " and British ports, ; g e “LoYD C. WESTBROOK “"REPORTS TO MIAMI | §° Friends of pvt. Lloyd C. West % prook, i of Lexington Road, | Athens, will be interested to know “he has recently reported for basic wiraining at the Army Air Force s.Pechnical Training Center, Miami _ Beach, Fla. He is classed as flight . engineer and aerial gunner and upon completion of this three “month’'s course will be sent to an Lgierial Gunners School. \‘@3 ause of technical experience . geeeived while employd by Georgia L Apro-Tech in Augusta and the * University of Georgia. School of HAV tion in Athens, he was exempt ¥eg from the required six months e anics training courose. " After reporting to Fort McPher- Classic Art Studio 154 (layton Sireet Have Your Christmas Photos Made Early! JUST ARRIVED:-- New Shipment of Picture Frames SPECIAL PRICES:-- On Christmas Photos , ;'New"G'}ouuid Floor Location Next L Lo Serhi ['son on October 28, Pvt. Westbrook was assigned to Miarai Beach for this preliminary training. & e e ‘ATHENS MARINE {ON MANEUVERS t Corporal James Q. Wilfong. U. iBS, M. C.,, of 1376 South Lumpkin 'strm-t. Athens, Ga. in battle hel- I met and with Reising gun, erouches ]lmm’m] cover in Marine maneuvers | ’; e | l LR e T . % e By e ¥ OB A B e S o | SBosasam s BRI 05. o l R R :M_:-;f;_:;k:;:;; B 3 TR R e e s '\, C W g i % L | g % P jor e ‘;:.«“” | T oy \ S ey VM & o T s e . e G SE g . o TEE . e L R i CORPORAL WILFONG at Quantanamo Bay, Cuba. Al though he is chief steward at the Marine Base Post lExchang, he, along with other Leathernecks, is constantly in training for the mo ment of attack. ) CPL. JAMES SHORE PLUGS FOR ATHENS Corporal James E. Shore from Athens. Ga., really thinks a great deal of his home town. Recently Corporal sShore appeared as a guest on the unusual new radio show “What's Your Home Town?" presented by the soldiers of Mor ris Field, Charlotte, N. C. He went to town telling folks over the air what a swell place Athens ,is, and how much he lis enjoying Army life, The show lis broadeast every Friday night at 10:30 (EW'T) over Station WIBT's 50,000 watt trans mitter with a frequency of 1110 kilocycles. Corporal Shore got a thrill out of his radio debut when genial Master of Ceremonies Larry Walker asked what Athens wanted to do for Shore the next time he gets home, and Sgt. Bill Franklin read off an impressive list of gifts which Athens merchants had do nated. | oty ARNOLDSVILLE BOY RETURNS FROM SEA William Arthur King, jr, 21, seaman first class, USNR, of Ar noldsville, Ga., attached to the U. S. Naval Armed Guard Center at New Orleans, La., has just re turned from sea duty as a mem ber of a Naval gun crew assigned to an American merchant vessel He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Williams A. King, sr., Arnolds ville, Ga. King joined the Navy on Sept, 28, 1942, During his eight months at sea he visited ports in Egypt, Persia, '‘Carribbean area, India, Ceneral and South America and Great Britain. He is a graduate of Arnoldsville High school. His boot training was received at Norfolk, Va, j ————— e LT. (JG) HOMER 2 - FLOMING OVERSEAS Friends of Lieut. (jg) Homer Fleming wi]l be interested to know that word has been received of his safe arrival at an overseas destination, Lieut, Fleming is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fleming and has many friends here. IRA W. CROWE. GETS HOSPITAL TRAINING Friends of Ira W. Crowe will be glad to learn that he has been transferred to the hospital at Camp White, Oregon, to complete his medical training. "His address is Pfc. Ira W. Crowa, Medical Detachment, S. C, C. 1912, Camp White, Oregon. —_—— 5 CHARLES J. JONES IS ' NOW STAFF SERGEANT Charles J. Jones, husband of Mrs. Charles J. Jones, 590 Nantha hala, avenue, has been promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant, his many friends will be pleased to learn. Staff Sergeant Jones is an areial gunner with the AAF, and is sér ving in the South Pacific area. D ——— HARTSFIELD SPEAKS GRIFFIN, Ga. —i(#)— Mayor William Hartsfield of Atlanta, new president of the Georgia Municipal Association, believes expansion of federal aid is threatening the in dependence of American cities and. states. He addressed a meeting of the Griffin and Spalding County Chamber of Commerce last night, FUNERAL NOTICE WIER.—The friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett L. Wier, 22¢ University Irive; M:. and Mrs, Willlam Wayne Wier, Barbara Wier, Miss Mary Lou Wier, Mr. Ea D. Wier, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Albért Wier, Mr. and Mrs. John Wier, all of Athens, Mr. and Mrs. C. Y. Wier, New York; Mrs. W. H. Wayne, Monroe, Ga., are invited to at tend- the funeral of Mr. Emmett 1.. Wier. thig Sunday afternoon, Decembe. 6Hth, at four o’clock irom the First Baptist church. The following gentlemen will serve as active pallbearers andé meet at the residence, 220 Uni versity Drive at 3:30 o'clock: Mr. H. P, Whllams, Mr. K. 8. Marbut, Mr. B. 'S. Tupper, Mr. H. G. Cooper, Mr. Carter Dan iel, Mr. Bolling Dußose, Mr. Jack Daniel, Mr. Howard Ben son, Mr. W. R. Bedgood and Mr. R. H. Downs. Serving as honorary escort and meeting at the First Baptist church at 3:45 p. m. will be the employees of Webb-Crawford Company, Dea cons of the First Baptist church, members of the Athens Rotary Club, and Mr. H. C. Brooks, Mr. Mose Gordon, Mr. W. C. Pitner, Mr. Max Michael, 'VIr: W. C. Thorntopy: Mr. C. 'W.' Jackson, Mr. A. D. Bryant, Mr. J. M. Howell, Mr. J. J. Sel wage, Mr. C. J. Afflect, Mr. T. W. Reed, Mr. Allen Wier, Dr.} Ralph Goss, Dr. Guy Whelcheli and Dr. Frank Hammett. Dr.i J. C. Wilkinson, Dr. E. L. Hill, Rev. D. B. Nicholson, Rev. J.‘ B. Mack will officiate. Inter ment will be in Oconee Hill cemetery ~ Bernstein Funeral Home. Southern Democrats | Charged With Killing Armed Force Vote | (Continued from page one.) ‘ wasg out to kill the anti-poll tax hill, | Guffey declared that the substi tute proposal offered by :Senators McKellar (D-Tenn), McClellan (D- Ark) ‘and Eastland (D-Miss), cail ing on the states to enact legisla tion under which men and women in the armed forces could cast ballots in the 1944 presidential election, would ‘“deprive”’ uniform ed personnel of the vote, Revisal Sought On the other side of the capitol House Democratic Leader McCor mack of Massachusetts bluntly termed the substitute bill “mean ingless” and hinted that an at tempt would be made to block it in the Houge unless it is re vised. However, Rep. Rankin (D-Miss) prediQled swift passage of the Senate substitute and Senator Mc- Clellan called auntrue Guffey’'s chargés about its effect. “The soldiers will have the same rights they always have had to vote and if the states exert them selves as suggested in this bill there is no reason why they can’t Provide adequate means for such balloting according to the state’s own laws,” McClellan said. The rejected bill, offered by Senators Lucas (D-Ill1) and Green (D-RI)), would have waived all state voting wqualifications except those of age and residence, setting up a war. ballot commission of four members to supervise ab sentee halloting by uniformed per sonnel; : Watdipieas kool Macon Editor To | & Speak Tomorrow To Grady Students (Continued hrom Page One) 12:05; : . Mr. ' Adams will appear as one of the special lectures of the Grady school for the present session. Others who have already been heard this fall are: Medora Field Perker son. author of “Who Killed Aunt Magegie?” etc.; Ralph McGill, edi tor, Atlanta Constitution; Russell Lord, magazine writer and editor; John Whde, professor of English and author of a Dbiography of Henry Grady; and T. W. Reed, registrar and former editor of the Athens Banner-Illerald. A native Georgian and a veteran of World War I, Mr. Adams has been a member of the staff of the Charleston (8. C.) News and Courier, editor of the Columbia (S. C.) Free Press, and a member of the South Carolina legislature for five sessions. He is a former ~state chairman of the American Legion of South Carolina and also chairman of the Constitution Com mission of South Carolina for three vears. He has written articles and stories for the American Legion Magazine and many farm publica tions, He is a student of American poltical history and agricultural developoment. He was a radio com mentator for two years, e ———————————) BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN 10 THE PEOPLE OF THE FIRST WARD: | am indeed grateful to you for the honor of electing me as Alderman from our Ward. | will always keep in mind that | represent every one in our Ward. | will cooperate to the fullest with the Mayor and Council in making decisions to the best interests of our Ward and the city at large. | also wish to take this opportunity to thank my friends for their help in carrying my first political venture so successfully. , | (. 5. DENNEY T e R T ARk RSN THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA. ‘Tarawa Losses May Revise Invasion Plans r (Continued trom Page One) ment, but actually enciuntered a ferocious defense. The Japanese, who killed 1,026 Americans and wounded 2,657 more before they were annihilated in three days of fighting, were able to inflict such a toll, Knox told a press conference, for three reasons: 1. They had shelters and gun emplacements so heavily built and so deeply dug at the main position at Betio that they could withstand a “great number of hits.” Camouflage 2. «Trees 'and camouflage make it impossible always to get the information needed from aerial photography in planning an at tack. In this connection, Knox said there had been “criticism by arm chair strategists” that we had insufficient information concern ing defenses. 3. A change of wind hung up some American assault boats on a reel where the men were easy targets for the Japanese. Knox said that 2,£00 tons of shells of all sizes, 700 tons of bombs and millions of rounds of machinegun bullets were poured into the enemy prior to the land assaults. This heavy weight of explosives and shell fire, he noted, exceeded the total dropped in a “big” raid on the vastly larger target of Ber lin, Indeed, said Knox, most of the Tarawa target was within an area of about a square mile. Eyewitness Story A graphic eyewitness story, ar riving belatedly today. from Ta rawa, gave an lidea of what it meant to the attacking Marines personally when all this shatter ing attack . failed to put the de fending Japanese out of business. “Before we started it was great fun,” wrote Marine Corps Com bat Correspondent Jim Laucas. “We said, ‘“There won’t be a Jap alive when we get ashore.” “That was the plan. Naval and air bombardment was to all but destroy the island. The few liv=- ing Japs were to be so shell shocked they would be no opposi tion . . s “At dawn our planes came in. We could see them disappear into the smoke and the flame. We could hear the sputter of their machineguns. We could see the }debris raised by their bombs. | Japanese Defense «“But,” Lucas’' story continued, “suddenly something appeared to ' have gone wrong.” He went on from there to tell of the ferocious defense by Japanese manning everything frem eight-inch guns to sniper's rifles, and how the Marines were mowed down in windrows. Major, General Holland McTiere Smith, commander of the assault troops, recently told interviewers at Honolulu that those Marines who made the beach in the early attacks lost heavily, ‘I counted 105 dead Marines in a space of less than 20 yards,” he said. ’ General Moral ~ General Smith drew this main ‘moral: There must be longer con centrated preliminary pombing in any such future invasions, that some of the blockhouses of Tara wa were of concrete five feet thick, covered with railroad ties ‘and 10 or 12 feet of sand and hard coral. » Unofticial suggestions have been advanced that the Navy will have to develop more facilit/ies for arch ing fire to assure quick conquest of atolls with minimum loss of life. The big guns of warships, it is held, are unsuiited to wrecking strong defense installations on such flat terrain because of their limited trajectery. On the other hand guns of the howitzer type can lob heavy shells capable of penetrating strong de fenses and exploding " inside. These, it is argued, might prove more effective than shells fired on a flat trajectory or bombs dropped from the airplanes. On land, mortar fire has been one of the best weapons in the Pacific because it drops explosives from almost a perpendicular trajectory. The lesson of Tarawa may also vlead to greater use of amphibious craft of semi-tank type in the of fensive spearheads in view of the fact that landing craft filled with Marines may stick on coral reefs and prove easy targets for the de fenders. Ak e it sl | Card of Thanks We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their expressions of sympathy, beautiful .ﬂora]s and use of their cars dur ing the recent illness and death B e S N i Mok aes. We also wish nd Payne Funeral Home for their efficient service. i Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Jones. - Mrs. Helen Cherry. Big RAF Planes Feint At Berlin; . . - Hit Leipzig (Continued from Page One) ed to defend the . capital from what they feared would be a sixth smothering bombardment in 16 days. Little Plana Resistance Awakened by Sirens, Leipzig had to defend its sprawling railway vards and diversified industries mainly with searchlights and anti aircraft guns, A small number of defending fighters turned up at Leipzig be fore the downpour of high ex plosives and incendiaries ended, but by the time fuill squadrons ar rived, the RAF bombers were headed for home, The highly-successful feint cost : e e . | AR e . -twe, . . WV - | Weoo o LS > e N e o \\\‘\\\é\ \é’ﬂ Sl - : £ LTR S E T , oS . . b, £ OGS R - SYo' ' i C i % »,‘_;ﬂ"v_. ok et .1 = R < . ‘\“' ¢7¢ § i W 7 : iy ) S Oe ! v . = S LS i L)Y e A v | N e YA v A > 4 AR NV N # & 0 N e P Y K ,\‘V/ﬂ g N T \d X \\\</ F AR a 7 WY < LN M — . g{/‘? 3§ irXeg NF o T 19* A -s‘:: J ond | ‘ 5 f’/ B ot W G : ‘ i ¥ e A Y W 8 willys A A R ig\\u, e . 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Hugh Davis. formerly on the news staff, has become a member “m of the staff of-The Atlanta Con stitution., . ‘ < | et e eesd] . - Fighting Flares Up In Central China (Continued from Page One) been encircled Nov. 25.) f The fighting in central China was described by a Chinese army spokesmap as the heaviest since the battie for Shanghai in 1937, and the most important since the struggle for Hanchow in 1938. The Chinese high command said Chinese troops were attempting to encircle Japanese forces in northern Hunan province, and were waging successful attacks against the invaders after checking sev eral Japanese counterattacks. 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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, December 05, 1943, Home Edition, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6