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Newspaper Page Text* LOCAL COTTON JINCH MIDDLING ........ 21%0 Vol. 112, No79g am ggt B Bt T i B ris:::-:-‘-si:r“' # 4 G ST '.-«-5535555555525:3555::515:55,155?55535‘555:53555 Voo eLY :,3% 2 B R R 7 e il T s i o R R e ﬂg . &7 . B LGk SRR i BT e SE b S R R 1 R e . s . { ﬁ::<z.:>';;:;"z..:l'::;:zisSezf-:i-:‘iga: G be R % . ifi.’le«‘"fi'-i‘/f'iiff"??‘E?::Zi-’:éff B R b R - R :':,_;;;;;-’:-‘::agé o e AR e 2 | R R S, L s 3vR e " i 3 b ,;,* g '5'::'f"'z?»:153155?2:?’353" e oy ' L ; ; eg : : b;G e ‘ & ; Sy s B g 5 b G Sets Ki is Attend R d Shown above is Martin J. Abney being presented a Kiwanis pin with a dangling “17” by Lieutenant-Governor L. G. Hardman, jr., of Commerce, at a recent meeting of the local club. The “17” sig nifies that many years of unbroken attendance by the well-known Athens insurance man. J. Swanton Ivy, vice-president of the local club, watches as Mr. Abney receives the honor. SETSRECORD FOR BY JEAN M. KANE . “Habit is my reason for 17 con ;secutive years of perfect attend ance at 884 meetings of Kiwanis Club, said Martin J. Abney, Athens insurance agent. He con tinued that habit is one of the greatest motivating forces, say ing he didn’t miss church or Sun day school for 15 years for the same reason. He was recently presented a Kiwanis pin with a dangling 17 by Kiwanis Lieutenant-Governor L. G. Hardeman, jr., Commerce, for the club. “Mr. Abney is the only person in Georgia to have attained such an attendance rec iord to my knowledge,” said Mr. Hardeman. Rather than miss a meeting Mr. Abney has traveled as far as Atlanta and Greenville to at tend other club’s meetings as a substitute for the the one missed. He said that he intends to keep his record of mever missing a meeting. | Oldest In Club Mr. Abney, who was 72 years old March 27, is the oldest man in the Athens club and one of the ven charter: m rs.. The local üb, - . ‘4l, 1920, nder the sponsorship of the At anta club, was the sixth in Geor ia. Other charter members now active include Van Noy Wier, E. E. Lamkin, T. H. McHatton, H. . McWhorter, Jake Bernstein nd Carlton Jester. | Now a member of the Inter lub Relations Committee, Mr. bney was formerly club trustee and liason officer for ten con ecutive years until Kiwanis In ernational abolished the position. An Athens resident for 57 years, he has been in the insur ance business here for 35 years. e was the first man to join the thens Country Club, but is no onger a member. “I havem’t missed a meeting ince I was called to the Mutual ome office in Atlanta for a usiness conference about a year go,” stated Mr. Abney. He con inued that he is in good health, iving the proof that he had not een sick on a single Tuesday or the 24 years since the club’s! ounding. i L . - ‘ niversity Glee lub Show To 1 N . . e Given Tonight _BY GLORIA EPPES ‘ I'wo Athenians, Guy Boyd and| obert Dunlap, have roles in the‘ usical adaptation of “Ten Nights N a Barroom,” by William W. ratt, which will be presented onight in the Fine Arts Audi-‘ orium at 8:15. Mr. Boyd. son of Dean and Mrs. > H. Boyd, will protray the part, f sinister Harvey Green, the vil-1 4ge gambler. Mr. Dunlap, son f Prof. and Mrs. M. D Dunlap Will be one of the villagers. Mr. Boyd was graduated from thens High school in 1941, and § now a senior at the University, najoring in chemistry. He has 8N a member or we Glee Club) r;r four years, and is a member Gamma Sigma Epsilon chemis-| Iy fraternity. | Mr. Dunlap was graduated from thens High school in 1943, and Now in his sophomore year at (Continued on Page Eight) ATHENS AND VICINITY e lly eloudy and slightly pooler tonight. Fair and mild riday, IVGEORGIA: Fair and slight- ‘ !;'“t'dooler. tonight. Fair and i Friday with slightly Sout}r, temperatures over the and Central portion. : TE Blgket 'I~VI.PERATURE +a9 Loweg . Mol ) {1 }l\\?ean e ‘ 5 '.58.0 Ormal iR e .65.0 .I&Ctgfssilﬁst 24 hours .. = .. 1.67‘ Excess ice April 1.. .... 7.22 Ave Ssince April 1.. ... 3.89 Tosrage April rainfall .... 3.73 Eg‘al since January 1 ....30.85 cess since January 1 ...10.74 ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service. Public Invited To Hear Talk By Yale Savant Dr. Walter B. Miles, Yale University psychologist, will give the annual Sigma Xi Club lecture in the Forestry build ing auditorium at 8 o’clock to night. His subject is “Psychology and Military Aviation,” and he will explain psychology’s part in keeping flyers at maximum effectiveness by the tests and controls which help to chase “gremlins” away. Dr. Miles will illustrate his lecture with lan tern slides. According to Dr. E. P. Odum, president of the University Sigma Xi Club, this is one of the most timely subjects that Sigma Xi has presented in many years. The lecture is open to the public. Clearing Weather Forecasts Give Hope For Crops ATLANTA —(#)—Forecasts of ;clearing weather in most sections Wpei .today - for relief tfrom ™ “‘rainfall which al ready has delayed farm work more than at any time within the past 25 years, the Atlanta Weather Bureau reported today. Temperatures during the week ending April 25 were favorable tq crops, but the rainfall occurred on an average of 3 to 6 days with weekly totals of 1 to almost 8 inches, Meterologist H. A. Arm \strong said. Reports from Georgia stations during the week included At lanta 2.76 inches, Augusta 2.05 Columbus 4.31, Gainesville 1.40, Macon 2.06, Savannah 2.04 and Thomasville 3.74. Some of the greatest amounts of rainfall, between West Point and Waycross, were not included in the report. Armstrong released the follow ing survey on crop conditions: Cotton —No planting during week., Previous plantings germi nating poorly although some are beginning to come up in south east. Corn — Planting operations at standstill. Previous plantings are growing fairly well on uplands. Grain—Growth and condition good to excellent, though sunny weather would be beneficial. Irish Potatoes — Growth and conditon rather good with im provement shown during week. Sweet Potatoes—Beds general ly in fair to good condition and ready for transplanting. Although ground generally too wet, some efforts at transplanting have been made. Tobacco—Plants in fair to good condlition Only few in south central counties have attempted transplanting, where it is too wet. Truck and Vegetables—Prac tically no plantings during week Fair to good condition uplands in central and southern areas but poor to worthless where soil has been saturated. Fruits—Orchards through state developed well during week, al though rains prevented essential spraying, especially for peaches. Convention Of 40 Churches Will Meet In Winder Christian Churches of North east Georgia will hold their sixty seventh annual Spring Conven tion at First Christian Church in Winder Sunday, Rev. Paul Howle, pastor of First Christian church here and chairman of the District Board, announced today. Rev. Howle said the meeting will continue throughout the day. with some 400 delegates repre senting forty churches in the dis trict. Dinner will be served by the Winder church, he said. Featured speaker for the meet ing will be the Rev. Dewey Haven of Jefferson, the new Dis trict Evangelist. The Rev. C. M. Driskell is president of the Con vention, 3 et b b DAWN SEES ALLIED AERIAL WAR UPON AXIS ENTER 13TH DAY; ITALIAN FRONT STILL INACTIVE llex!iles Under Conirol By U, §. By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON.— (AP) —Com prehensive government controls over cotton textiles have been proposed to alleviate a predicted 25 percent shortage in cotton goods for civilians this year—a shortage which may run to 50 per cent in the low-priced lines. The proposals, prepared by an inter-agency “task committee’” of the War Production Board and the Office of Price Administration, will be gone over, it was learned today, at a conference set for Fri day morning with Fred M. Vinson, director of the Office of Economic Stabilization. WPB Chairman Donald M. Nel son was reported to be “seriously concerned” over the textile out look, although the inter-agency committee was understood to have said that prompt action could lavert clothing rationing. WPB has committed iteslf to avoidance of rationing. l The most serious problems are in goods for children's clothes, men’s shirts, women’s inexpensive dresses, kerchiefs, underwear and nightclothes, infants’ garments and other low-priced lines. } 25 Percent Short The task committee reportedly estimated that civilians would get only about 2,500,000,000 yards of cotton goods in the first half of the year, about 25 percent under lestimated needs and about 1,500,~ 000,000 yards short of actual con sumption in the first half of last year. ~ The committee’s report indicat ed that military demands for cot ton fabrics were more likely to rise than decline in the second half of the year. This would ag gravate the situation, since civil ians now receive, in effect, what is left after military and essen |tial industrial demands are met. | The recommendations to be lscanned by Nelson, Vinson and OPA Administrator Chester Bow les, include price adjustments as well as production controls. Price premiums have long been urged to stimulate Wction of “low end goods”— e items which are low in price, hence neglected by manufacturers in favor of higher-profit items—but OPA and WPB have so far failed to get to gether on an effective program. | For Civilian Use ' The program urged by the task group would require allocation of a certain amount of each type of “grey goods,” or unfinished fab rics, to the Office of Civilian Re quirements, for civilian use. This would give civilian ' programs much the same standing as mili tary programs, but would be ap plied at first only to some of the worst-needed types of goods. Priority ratings for the civilian output would be placed immedi ately after military and industrial uses, and ahead of yardage des tined for export. The ‘present practice of “freezing” looms on certain urgently needed fabrics would be extended, with OPA ad justing prices to prevent losses to mills, ‘ Other recommendations were made for government action to! boost the manufacture of finished | goods. They included special pro-‘ duction programs for the scarcest items, with OPA fixing dollars and-cents ceilings on each iteml simultaneously with the start of the program. l The aisappearance of “low-end” lines from stores was blamed by the Labor Department yesterday for part of last month’s rise in| clothing prices. , Dr. Holland Lauds Jefferson Davis BY C. S. DENNEY, JR. “Very few men in history can surpass the brilliancy of Jeffer son Davis as a leader, strategist, or in character of manhood,” de clared Dr. Harvey C. Holland. at Confederate Memorial Day exercises here Wednesday. Dr. Holland was the featured speaker at annual exercises spon sored by Laura Rutherford Chap ter, U. D. C., a highlight of which was presentation of the U. D. C. Cross of Military Service to Mayor Bob McWhorter by the chapter. Standing between United States and Confederate flags. Mayor McWhorter received the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s highest award from Mis. N. G. Slaughter, president, on behalf of aura Ruthford Chapter. «For service to the people, we present Mayor Bob McWhorter, a direct descendant of Major Me- Whorter who was prominent in the War Between the States, the United Daughters of the Con federacy’s highest honor,” stated Mrs. Slaughter as she pinned the medal on Mr. McWhorter. | In accepting the medal Mayor MeWhorter said, “I fully realize{ the honor bestowed upon me. I‘ will always cherish this medal as one of my most prized posses sions.” The medal awarded Mayor McWhorter is presented a citizen of Athens each year, one who is " (Continued on Page Eight) Athens, Ga., Thursday, April 27, 1944 BY 6,000 TONS By RICHARD McMURRAY Asosciated Press War Editor Well over 1,000 heavy British hombers plunged 4,500 tons of explosives last night into recon struction work at the Great Krupp works of Essen, the ball hearing plants of Schweinfurt and the Paris rail yards and as dawn broke, American and RAF fleets carried the unchecked air inva sion of Europe into its 13th day. Probably 6.000 tons of bombs were dropped on the Germans last night and today, for a force of up to 1,250 heavy U. S. bomb ers and fighters lugged an esti mated 1,500 tons of military tar gets in northern France. Around the fringe of Hiller's beseiged and roofless fortress.{ Russian planes, Allied warships, navy and army fliers sank at‘ least 25 vessels and damaged a dozen more. Down to the floor of the Black sea went five trans ports with troops fleeing the (Crimean coffin corner: beneath the ficy ' waters of the Barents sea went four more transports -—all victims of Russian bombs, Moscow said. British = carrier. planes caught a ¥Kierman convoy off the Norwegian coast and dam aged five. Most of the others sank or {were [crippled, iaround Italy. The Tltalian front remained still, save for two minor German attacks on the Adriatic. Bad vea ther grounded all but 80 Allied planes yesterday. The British lost 29 bombers in in spraving their mighty block busters into German avsenals and the Villenuve St. George rail bottleneck near Paris. Mos quitos annoyed ruined but re building Hamburg and two of these swift planes were downed. Smoke leaped almost four miles into the air above Essen; the Schweinfurt attack was “par ticularly well concentrated,” the British said. German radios said Allied Bombers were striking in South and Southwest. Germany, sug cesting a two-way attack from Britain and Italy. The Nazis said violent air battles were in ipro gress. Channel fog banks were filled for hours with plancs, flving in the pre-invasion bat-! tle. In anxiety over approachin;{! invasion, German planes stabbed thrice at Britain last night. Ber—l lin said the main blow was at Portsmouth, the major harbm'l and naval base on the southeast English coast. The Russians were contribut ing heavily to the liguidation of the German air force as well as the Nazi army. Moscow said 79 enemy planes fell on their Rus sian front wednesday. . N Latin Girl Races | Over Country To Catch Her Fiance BAINBRIDGE, Ga. —(#)— A 19-year-old Latin American girl who came north to marry Avia tion Cadet Kermit S Midthun, hoped to reach the aitar today before unromantic :Army orders whisked her fiance away again. Pretty Leonora Larrea arrived in Miami, Fla., from her home in Montevideo, = Uruguay, last Monday. She was to meet Mid thun there:for the wedding they had planned while co-workers last year in the American em bassy at Montevideo. But young Midthun suddenly was transferred to the Army air field here before she arrived. She came on to Bainbridge yesterday, and learned that Midthun is to be transferred tomorrow to an other training station. Midthun hurried to the county coifrthouse for a marriage [li cense, but Lieut. Elmer Salter, public relations officer, said he did not know if the wedding could be sandwiched into the Cadet’s crowded schedule before he goes “We're going to try to get hirm off,” said Salter, “and if we do, they’ll be Inarried in the post chapel. But they won’t see one another after that wuntil they reach his next training school.” Midthun, who enlisted in the Army Air Forces last Dectober, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A Midthun of Froid, Mont. | station.sleaves, Tu.. DR. WOLFE ELECTED | ALBANY. Ga. —(/P)—Election, of Dr. David M. Wolfe of Auguw ta as Dougherty County Commis sioner of Public Health was an-| nounced yesterday by the Count.V? Board of Health. He will assume his duties here May 15. 3‘ Dr. Wolfe has been connected| with the State Department of] Health since 1936, when he was| a_ppomted assistant epgidemiolo- | gist. His more recent positionsl with the Department include! chief of malaria control work and | director of the State Bureau of ‘ Vital Statisties. i He is Wte of the Univer sity of .ﬂf School at = ¥ 4 CHICAGO —{/P)— The federal government, using army troops, toddy supervised the operations of Montgomery Ward and Com pany; the country’s second largest mail order firm, whose chief ex ecutive officer unsuccessfully re sisted President Roosevelt's Sseiz ure 6rder, Utﬁtod States soldiers, equipped with rifles, patrolled the spacious grounds of the plant, overlooking the " Chicago river, and others were on duty in the merchandis ing plant. Printed notices, signed by Jesse Jones, Secretary of Com merce, and stating that all Ward’s Chicago properties now are under federal government control, were posted in the building. The dispatching of a detach ment of troops to the plant late yesterday climaxed the govern ment’s third effort during the day to successfully carry out Presi-. dent” Roosevelt’s directive, issued when the company failed to com ply avith his and a War Labor Board order {o extend an expired contract with a CIO union. Twice during the day officialsi of the Department of Commerce ‘a.nd' «the Attorney General’s of fice took steps to take possession of the plant but on both occa sions they failed when Sewell L. Avery, company board chairman,l reffused to recognize their au-| thoﬁ%’, contending that seizure was” Illegal. He had advised Mr. Rogsevelt, in a telegram, that | the "company was not engaged in war- work and seizure by any federal official would be uncon stitutional. Avery, confronted by govern moﬁicials and the head of the , reiterated his contention that the proceedings were with out ‘legal authority. However, he left. after being advised by the officials that the place was in possessien of the U. S. Govern ment. ;Wayne C. Taylor, Undersecre tary of Commerce who was named as the agent to assume control of the Ward properties, said he had advised Avery, in his third and final attempt to gain possession, that business would proceed as usual at the plant, which employs approximately 9,000. The CIO union involved in the dispute claims a membership of 5,% of the 9,000 workers. o A company spokesman, who asked to remain anonymous, later id¢ the management did not | regy the legality of the seize, urey ; ' AT ¥ ﬁ?t Went Home «Mr. Avery just went home at ’the end of his business day,” the spokesman said in commenting | on the chief executive officer‘ leaving the plant after arrival of the troops. “It does not mean that he reeognizes the government is| he recognizes the government as pany’s properties.” ' Avery, who made no publicl comment on the day's events, was‘ said to be ready to report as usual at his office today. A meet ing of the hoard of directors is scheduled - for tomorrow but it was not ‘announced whether it will be held. Likewise there was no comment by company officialf as to whether the battle would be carried to the courts. In Washington, Attorney Gen eral Biddle said in an opinion prepared for Mr. Roosevelt that, the President based his right to seize the plant on the powers andl authority granted him under the constitution and laws of the coun- | try. The government, in several labor cases between company and union, has taken over war plants when settlement failed. Bloodworth And Tabor Named On Draft Board B. R.: Bloodworth and T. O Tabor have received their com missions as members of the Clarke County Selective Service Board. They were appointed by the State Director of Selective Ser vice upon recommendation of Governor Arnall a few days ago to succeed Dr. E. H. Dixon and R. R. Alexander who, resigned several weeks ago. " The Clarke county draft board is now eomprised of W. C. Pitner chairman; M. D. Watson, Prof Claude Chance, Mr. Bloodworth and Mr. ‘“Tabor. Both of the new members have sons in the military service. Mr. Tabor is division' representative of ihe Lueas and Jenkins theaters with headquarters in Athens. Mr Bloodworth is head of the B. R. Bloodworth Insurance agency. STORMS KILL 30 ATLANTA. —(AP)-—Tornadoes killed 80 persons in southern and mid-western states between April 9 and 16, southeastern area head quarters of the American Red Cross announced today. A total of 721 persons were in jured and property damage was >stimated in millions. Few storms have done more lamage than those reported this spring, Colin Herrle, acting direc or of the National Red Cross dis ister relief service said. Surveys of the 70 counties hit n the April 9-16 period show 2,- 09 families affected, a total of 19 homes levelled, 889 other oo e i L RN S e oA ey S “- T 1 B PO GEEEN & wm Ry BB EET C R R = e N G B B £ S . R B B e T TS g 5 S A = e TR R s e PRt e it B . s e -:~:1i-:i-:»:;§.:':':;.-\. - - e e gl e W BTR L RN " o R B R U 0 BRI e o % B e i . 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(Radio photo from Stockholm.)—NEA TELE PHOTO, MacARTHUR SEIZES THREE MORE AIRFIELDS IN NEW GUINEA IN DRIVE TO OUST JAPS FROM AREA BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AERlAL—German targets pounded with up to 6,000 tons of explosives as Allied bomb ers continue pre-invasion as sault. U. S, planes hit At lantic wall installations, after RA¥F attacks on Scheinfurt, Essen and rail yards near Paris. RUSSIA—Bat.ie for Sevas topol in final phase as Rus sian artillery rakes entire city, forcing Germans into last retreats. Romanians re port fresh Soviet thrusts north of lasi, ITALY—LanG fironis quiet except for small-scale Ger ~man -eperations .en W" Bad weather grounds all but 80 Allied planes. BURMA — Stillwell’s Chi nese troops, advancing down Mogaung valley, capture vil lage of Manpin, 10 miles north of Kamaing. Sporadic fighting reported on out skirts of Allied base of Ko hima, CHINA - Japanese forces advance toward Tengfeng, southwest of Chenghsien, and gain ground at Mihsien, also near Chinese base. PACIFIC—AIIies take three airfields in Dutch New Gui nea and draw noose tighter on fourth and largest at Hol landia. ‘Bulldo g And Spitz !Awazt Rescue From City Pound An English bulldog, a white Spitz, both males are in the City Pound awaiting execution unless they are redeemed in the next two days, City Health Inspector ' H. B. Hodgson said today. ‘ Dr. Hodgson said another in mate of the Pound is a nice mixed ll)reed dog—a large one, which would make a good family pet. The dogs are in the Pound be cause they do. not have tags in dicating they have been vaccinat ed against rabies, Dr. Rodgson said. He said that while quite a num ber of people are keeping dogs ni their homes, this does not ex cuse dogs from having to be vac cinated. “We've had several cases of rabies in Clarke and Oconee counties, an done last Saturday in the city in the Milledge Ter race section, “said Dr. Hodgson. lEveryhody should watch their ldogs for the next thirty days and Ipve nthough a dog has been vac cinated, if it has been exposed to this dog, it should be kept up for sixty days,” the official said. 'Servuces For Mrs. Ida Matthews Will Be Held Tomorrow ' Funeral services for Mrs. Ida Matthews, who died Wednesday, will ‘be held tomorrow at Beth aven church at 3:00 p. m., with the Rev. J. B. Mack, pastor of Central Presbyterian church, and the Rev. Edmond Perry, pastor of Center Methodist church, officiat ing. : Pallbearers will be J. P. Jar rett, Ford Seagraves, D. C. Mat thews, Jim Fitzpatrick, Lonnie Seagraves and Roy Matthews. McDorman-Bridges is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Matthews is survived by three daughters, Mrs. W. D. Williamson, Nicholson; Mrs. M. A. Walker, Aﬁ;%;"ﬁn. T A Moore, Aiken, S. C.; two H. A.B.C Paper — Single Copy, 3c — 5¢ Sunday:;i By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Associated Press War Editor General MacArthur has three new airfields in New Guninea {rom which to spring the aerial might spearheading the cam paign to clean the Japanese out of the Southwest Pacific and | hasten the day when he can make his avowed return to the Philippine Islands. MacArthur’s communique to j day reported the capture of Ma } dang town and airfield and of Cyclops and Sentani (Tami) airdromes near Hollandia, Dutch New Guninea, 430 miles north west. A fourth airdrome and biggest of them all — Hollandia air drome— has converging Ameri can troops on its fringes and re port of its capture is :mminent. Conquest =of Hollandia air~ dromes will complete the m Dot That Sat ey e MacArthur’s forces have snat ched at least four air bases from the Japanese on New Guinea — the three reported today plus Tadji airdrome at Aitape 150 miles southeast of Hollandia, which fell Saturday. And still there is no reported major ground oppositon. Madang fell to Australan jungle veterans without a pitched battle, Aitape airdrome and village were capt ured with only 120 enemy Kkilled and Hollandia Town and the two airdromes invested thus far were taken with only 100 Japanese killed. Allied airmen kept the enemy off-balance by destroying 20 parked planes and shooting ’down three interceptors in a raid on Kamiri airdrome on Geelvink Bay, 400 miles north-| west of Hollandia. Break Jap Resistance In Northern Burma, Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell’'s Chinese troops appeared to have broken the back on Japanese resistance slowing the Allied drive down (Continued on page two.) l. = ' | Invasion Sirens To Be Call To Prayer BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bells, whistles and sirens will\ summon thousands of Georgians {0 prayer services on the day the Allies invade Western Europe in a mighty effort to knock out Hitler and hasten the coming of peace, The plan has spread from com munity to community and now embraces most of the state. Air raid sirens will signal the invasion in Savannah and Bruns wick, where arrangements have been made for the newspapers to notify defense officials as soon as they receive the flash from The Associated Press. Church bells and whistles of industrial plants also will ring. In letters to pastors of every Protestant church, the Atlanta Christian’ Council has asked that prayer services be held on inva sion day, with special services in the evening. - Rabbi David Mark of the Tem ple in- Atlanta said “we will hold special services not only for mem bers of our own faith but any who wish to join us. After all, it is not a war of any one faith but of all faiths.” He added he believed syna gogues throughout the state would join in the special services. | We have been saying prayers' for victory every ady for overl two years—ever since Pearl Har bor — after mass,” said Bishop O'Hara of the Savannah-Atlanta Catholic Diocese. Now in Mem phis. he said that on his return it was “very likely” that he would send out a letter “suggesting something more than that.” Plans for special services on invasion day also have been an nounced in Cobb county, in Eat onton, Athens and elsewhere, . HOME [HOLD SEVASTOPOL IFI\IIING, REDS SAY MOSCOW — (&) — Field dis patches from the Crimean front declared today that Seviet artil= lery, commanding every street igl Sevastopol, is firing point-blank into the city and asserted that German attempts to hold out had defintely entered their last stage. ' “The ‘enemy still holds dead - streets and squares,” said the’ ;army newspaper Red Star, “but Soviet -guns have reached -the ‘Germans and Romanians in their last shelters.” It appeared that the Soviet high command had decided to wipe out the enemy at any cost, even though it might mean the destruction of what still remains of battered Sevastopol. The Red Star correspondent said the Germans still held air dromes in the suburbs of the once-great naval base but that they had been rendered unusable He declared that Soviet dive= bombers were cooperating with artillery in blasting the city. = The dispatch added that Rus sian troops had captured an im ‘portant hill near the city on ‘which the Germans had located eight artillery and four mortar batteries. 3 The Moscow communique re= corded in London said the Rus sian fleet and air force had sunk five transports presumably carry ing Axis troops from the be sieged Crimean base. 1,000 Nazis Killed -, In land fighting, the war bulle= tin said, 1,000 Germans were Kkill~ |ed in two sharp but localized ac tions along the front, but the Russians made no mention of German and Romanian reports of ‘a renewed Red Army drive in the lower Dnestr river area. The five transports blasted in the Black Sea totalled 13,000 tons, the communique said. Two other transports were damaged, and a landing barge and two patrol boats were sunk. Two thousand miles to the north, the Red air force spotted a convoy of Nazi transports in the Barents Sea. the bulletin said, and sank four transports totalling 20,000 tons, two patrol boats, a patrol launch, and damaged two transports and a minelayer. Ten idefending < German planes were ldowned, a!;t:: six Soviet air% m o o o g ’ heast of Stanislawow in old Poland, Soviet tankmen wiped out a company of Germans and seized “a height of great import lance,” the communique said, while more than 800 Germans were killed in a second clash in an unidentified sector of the second Ukraine front. Another 300 Germans were wounded, -and the enemy lost 20 tanks and self propelled guns in a futile attack }there, Moscow added. The Nazis lost 52 tanks .and 79 planes over the whole front on Tuesday, the Russians de clared. (A Romanian communique from Bucharest and recorded by U. S. government 'monitors, declared the Russians had launched new attacks north of llasi, capital of the Romanian province of the same name, and said heavy fight« ing was in progress. The bullétin also asserted that further Russian attempts to widen the Soviet bridgehead on the lower Dnestr had been repulsed.) Needs Of Schools - To Be Topic Of e o Meeting Tonight A large atendance is expected at the Junior High school build ing on Childs street tonight when a meeting of the combined mem berships of Junior High and Senior High School Parent- Teacher Associations will be held )at 8 o'clock. The joint meeting was called by Mrs. Leo Belcher, president of the Junior High group, and Mrs. J. F. Whitehead, pgresident of Athens High P. T. A. - P. T. A. members, representa tives of the Board of Bducation and City Council, and school of ficials are expected to attend the meeting, whieh will ‘be devoted to' a discussion of the needs of" !city schools in the light of press ing demands ' being ‘made -« on them by increased enroliment and the modernization necessitated by the progress in education. = = = - Suggestions are expected to be lmade to Board members present 'as to how best meet the problems. | The meeting will be open to the public and all interested citizens, whether members of the P. T. A. groups or parents of chil ‘dren now in school. are invited to attend. r* s 1 "Guests In House” 1 Will Be Shown <& Through Saturday “Guest In The House,” Uni versity Theater production open ed its second week last night in the new Greenroom theater of the Fine Arts Building. a Three presentations of “Guest In The House” will be given to= night, Friday and Saturday nights at 8:30. Tickets are on sale at

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, April 27, 1944, Home Edition, Image 1