at BRISTOL HERALD COURIER, BRISTOL, VIRGINIA-TENNESSEE -TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1944. Governor Darden In Bristol Today Virginia War Fund Leaders to Plan Campaign for Next Month Colgate Darden, Governor honorary president of the VirWar Fund, and W. Tayloe ginia will confer Murphy, president, county leaders in the with ninth congressional district, at a luncheon meeting at 12:15 today General Shelby hotel. at the conference will be held in This the regular conjunction Rotary club meeting, and Govwill address the ernor Darden club. of the conference here Purpose will be to plan for Virginia's the 1944 War drive in be held 1 October 5- Campaign, to November 1.
S. Carter of Bristol is C. of the ninth district chairman drive. National War Fund fiThe the USO, War Prisoners nances Greek War Relief Associaother agencies. retion and 16 lieving the suffering for the Virginia's state $1,836,000, the coming drive is based on 70c per figure being capita of the state's population, $8.51 per person of the or about and women serving state's men in the armed 1 forces.
GREAT BATTLE RAGES IN LATVIA, ESTONIA (Continued From Page One) holding the Narva Gap, forces Just north of the Latvian-Esborder Berlin said the tonian had outflanked Valga, Russians northeast of Riga, by 87 miles the Pttle Embajogi river of Valga. In this sector by crossing north the Russians were Berlin accounts to split the German threatening armies. Col. Alfred Von Olberg, Lt. German transocean agency radio commentator, said that all other fighting on the eastern in comparison to the Funpaled Baltic battle.
The Russians, he precedented furiousness" of the have been attacking for said, and steadily throwing four days and more thousands of in more men strongly supported by tanks and planes. Moscow's nightly communique did not confirm the German rebut again mentioned fierce ports, fighting west of Jelgava, 25 miles southwest of Riga. This is the where the Germans said area were trying to turn their, troops, the Russian salient imperiling Riga. A Soviet midnight bulletin said 600 Germans were killed and 54 tanks destroyed west of Jelgava, and that Russian lines had held firm under the Nazi blows. Red banner Baltic fleet bombattacked the Latvian post ers.
Liepaja, nearly 100 miles west of Jelgava, on Saturday, the communique said, sinking three German transports, totalling 12,000 tons, and three submarines. Two large transports and a floating dock were declared to have been damaged, and huge fires "broke out. in the port which is a major supply base of the Nazi Baltic forces," it added. A German broadcast said that the Warsaw sector had been quiet for two days except for artillery duels across the quarter -mile Vistula river between Russianheld Praga and the Polish capital. Moscow also ignored that sector in issuing one of the shortest communiques since the big summer campaign began June 23.
The Russians, however, bringing up reinforcements along the Vistula opposite Warsaw, Berlin said. A communique from the Polish underground General Bor, said Polish patriots' still were at-, tacking the Germans inside Warsaw, and also in the Kaminoska forest eight miles to the northwest. Queen Victoria's 68-year reign was the longest in British history. EDUCATIONAL INSURANCE Call ERNEST HOGAN. MEr.
PEOPLES LIFE INS. CO. 300 Dom. Nat'! Bank Bidg. -Phene 635 Ask us for the FACTS upon which funeral decisions should be made.
FUNERAL HOME PET DEDICATED SERI PHONE FUSSY STOMACH Bismol is good for 'When you've eaten something you shouldn't, and you pay the price with a sour, upset stomach, take soothing PEPTO-BISMOL. Tastes good and does good. Ask your druggist for PEPTO-BISMOL when your stomach is upset. A NORWICH PRODUCT MARTIN'S MURDER CASE 15 OPENED Negro Being Tried at Lebanon in Connection Death Tom Williams LEBANON, Sept. 18.
Arthur Martin, colored, went on trial in Russell county circuit court today on the charge of murder in the fatal shooting of Tom G. Williams, well known local real estate dealer, at an early morning hour August 5. J. Griffith, defense lawyer, told the jury, selection of which was completed at 4 o'clock this afternoon, that Martin fired upon Williams in self defense when the latter was forcing his way into the negro's home. Claude S.
Wilson, commonwealth attorney, who is assisted in the prosecution by A. G. Lively, declared in his opening statement to the jury that "Williams had obtained on three previous nights on liquor from Martin at bien home the night he was killed was there to get liquor." Four witnesses heard" today were Dr. Elliott; Hambrick Bradshaw, colored, a neighbor of Martin; Deputy Sheriff Conley Fields, and Garland Easterly, undertaker. DEWEY ASSAILS NEW DEAL LABOR POLICY IN SEATTLE ADDRESS (Continued From Page One) of the wasteful competing bureaus filled with men quarreling for jurisdiction while American citizens stand and wait." 4.
Abolish privilege for one group over any other group." Smith-Connally Act Denounced The nominee, who addressed a cheering crowd at the Civic auditorium, called for retention of the National Labor Relations act, collective bargaining and the right to strike, but denounced the Smith-Connally no-strike act as having failed to solve the problem of wartime shutdowns. "In the 12 months prior to the passage of the Smith-Connally act there were 3,359 strikes," he said. "In the 12 months following the passage of that act there were 4,448 strikes." The Smith-Connally act, which forbids strikes in government seized war plants under pain of fine or imprisonment, will expire with the end of the war "as it should," Dewey said, adding: "The provisions of this law and the other New Deal interference with free collective bargaining should never be renewed." "The right of workers to leave their jobs individually or together -the right to strike--is one of the fundamental men," he declared. "It has sometimes been abused. But what has caused that abuse?" Then he blamed the president's War Labor Board and declared: "Whether by design or sheer incompetence, its practice has been to stall weeks, months, sometimes years- before issuing decisions.
For that reason, too, the working man and working woman and their families have had to suffer." Asserting the war effort has been "constantly hampered" by "this planned confusion," the New York governor said: "This policy of delay, and more delay serves only the New Deal and its political ends. "It puts the leaders of labor on the spot. It makes them come, hat in hand, to the White House. It makes political loyalties the test of a man's getting his rights. "Personal government instead of government by law, politics instead of justice prevail in the labor field in this country, and am against that kind of administration and always will be." Calling for equality between business, labor and agriculture with full employment and high wage levels, Dewey promised to set up "fair, even-handed government competent, orderly administration." SOUTHWEST VIRGINIANS ARE KILLED IN ACTION WASHINGTON, Sept.
18. (AP) -The War Department today listed 51, men with Virginia kin among 2,460 United States soldiers killed in action. Thirtytwo died in the European area, 16 in the Mediterranean, and three in the southwest Pacific. They included: European area-Pvt. Bascom J.
Bryant, son of Mrs. Minnie Bryant, Route 1, Ewing; Pvt. Robert Carter, son of Mrs. Laney Carter, Duffield; Cpl. Evert J.
Flanary, brother of Miss Lois Flanary, Norton; Pvt. Edgar G. Smith, son of Mrs. Annie A. Smith, Route 2, Galax; Pvt.
Jesse H. Stroupe, husband of Mrs. Allene A. Stroupe, Route 3, Wytheville; Staff Sgt. Billy S.
mother, Mrs. Dema Wilburn, Route 1, Grundy, and Pfc. Thomas H. Williams. mother, Mrs, Dora G.
Williams, Route 1, Marion, Mediterranean area: Pic. Ellis K. Fulford, mother, Mrs. 01- lie B. Fulford, Austinville; Sgt.
James R. Gibson, mother, Mrs. Grace E. Gibson, of Wynedotte avenue, Big Stone Gap; beal, Staff sister, Sgt. Mrs.
James Ruth W. Stamper, of Independence; Pfc. William W. Simmons, wife, Mrs. Mary F.
Simmons, Christiansburg; Pvt. Joseph B. Vaughan, mother, Mrs. Madge Vaughan, Independence, and Staff Sgt. Charles B.
Webb, Jr. father Charles B. Webb, Plasterco, The average persons is estimated to walk 18,098 steps or 17 7-8 miles a day. RUSSIA AND FINLAND SIGN PEACE ACCORD (Continued From Page One) against the advancing Russian formations. Soviet troops are fighting on Finnish soil those installations can be of the enemy's in his fight "adVantage against the German Alpine Army must be destroyed.
If destructions are carried out, they are not directed against the Finnish people, but against the arch enemy of the Finnish people, Bolshevism," said a broadcast statement of the German high command recorded by the Associated Press.) DEATHS and FUNERALS DR. EARL H. MOODY DIES AT BLUFF CITY Prominent Sullivan County Physician Victim of Three-Weeks Illness Dr. Earl Harrell Moody, 49, of Bluff City, died at 6 p. m.
yesterday, the Appalachian at Johnson City, after an illness of three weeks. He had been in declining health for some time, and critically ill for the past five days. Dr. Moody, well-known and prominent physician in Bluff City and Sullivan county for the past 17 years, was born at Fall Branch, Tenn. He received medical training at the University of Tennessee Medical College, in Memphis, Tenn.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Rosalind Hyder Moody, daughter, Linda Jean, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Moody, all of Bluff City, and four brothers, W. C. Moody, Canton, Glenn, of Johnson City, Paul, of Bristol and Ray, of Camp Crowder, Mo. Funeral arrangements are incomplete, The body is at the Blevins Funeral Home. A.
F. SALYER, 64, well known farmer of the Daniel Boone section of Scott county, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at his home at 2 a. m. yesterday. A son of the late Henderson and Sarah Wheatley Salyer, Mr.
Salyer was a member of the Baptist church. Funeral rites will be held Wednesday at Big Cut church in charge of Rev. James J. Gully and Rev. Howard Musick.
Interment in Williams cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mary Jenkins Salyer; three sons, Dewey Salyer of Wise, Ed Salyer of Jewell Ridge and Carl Salyer of Salyer of Gate City and Mrs. McGarvey Pierson and Ida Lee Salyer of aGte City and Mrs. Claude Cole of Whitewood, five stepchildren, Salyer of Wise, Mrs. Wrightly Lane and Mrs.
John T. Carter, of Gate City, Mrs. James Williams of St. Charles, and Haywood Peters of Appalachia; also three brothers, B. F.
Salyer of Gate City, W. A. Salyer of Nickelsville and J. M. Salyer of Coeburn.
INVASIONS POINTED TOWARD PHILIPPINES MAKE GOOD HEADWAY (Continued From Page One) eliu had hurled back all Japanese counterattacks and advanced against tough opposition. Fifteen enemy tanks were knocked out at the cost of one American tank in repulsing the enemy effort to throw the Americans back into the sea. The Peleliu airfield was in American hands after three days of hard fighting. Strategic ridges had been wrested from the ponese and the marines were diggin gout small groups of defenders in a rugged, punishing country. Mortars, which proved so deadly on Saipan in the Marianas, and artillery were being used by the Japanese to contest every foot of ground.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, reporting Sunday night on action through Saturday, said the marines had advanced a third of a mile on Peleliu, Of the estimated 8,000 to 10,000 -defenders of the island, 1,400 already had been killed. All objectives had been reached on the perimeter of Morotai Island, closest ground approach to the Philippines, by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces.
There still was no evidence of Japanese resisitance. Engineers on Morotai were well ahead of schedule in their job of creating an offensive base out of the Pitoe airfield. The new base is 300 miles south of the Philippines. Tiny observation planes already were using it. JAPS THREATEN TO OUT CHINA IN TWO (Continued From Page One) regulars moving westward from Hengyang, also once the site of an American air base, were reported less than four miles from their immediate goal of Poaching.
A junction of the Japanese forces between Waitsap and Yungming would form a line of defense against Chinese strikes eastward to support any American landing on the China coast. Chinese forces were attacking Japanese flanks northeast of Kweilin and in the Lingling area in an effort to check the enemy drive on Kweilin, the high command said, When washing white cotton I fabrics, soak to loosen dirt. U. S. ASKS SWEEPING REORGANIZATION OF CHINA'S WAR EFFORT (Continued From Page One) principal concern of Vice President Wallace on his trip to China, of Donald M.
Nelson, U. S. production chief, on his current secret mission, and of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill at Quebec. In recent weeks, there has been some belief here that Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek eventually may have to step aside in favor coalition government inrepresentatives of the powerful Communist groups in north China. At the moment, competent authorities feel that the reorganizaItion can and will have to be brought about by Chiang himself to avoid political disintegration of the country.
That he may now be using his leadership to that end is suggested in connection with reports of wide latitude given critics of the government at a Chungking meeting this month of the peoples political council and advisory assembly. The point of this criticism, as reported to American officials, is that China's present regime has grown so conservative that for several years its chief concern has been to preserve itself. In the process of eliminating opposition, it is alleged the regime has lost contact with the people's own leaders. Also, it is reported in informed quarters here that the Chinese army, organized along war lord lines, contains many divisions which are either largely filled with ineffectives or which exist mostly on paper. Pay and allowances are portioned to the generals on the basis of the number of individuals in their command.
Some have their commands trimly organized and some have not. Furthermore it is generally accepted as a fact in Washington officialdom that Chiang's government has spent a part of its manpower and its slender supplies to maintain an inactive front against the Communist regions in north China. It is felt here that these troops and the Communist forces themselves, totaling perhaps 600,000 men, should all be turned into the fight on Japan. If Russia entered the war against Japan, the Red army's southern flank would link up with the Chinese Communist forces. The Chinese government would be extremely embarrassed if it were not on speaking terms with those forces, Russia's present "stand-offish" attitude toward China partly motivated by this situation.
On the Pacific and Burma fronts, prospects for getting quansupplies into China at an early date are brighter than they have been since the complete loss of Burma road. Forces from China and those from India are already in contact in Burma SO that China's isolation, except by the India air routes, is coming to an end. It will be completely broken when American forces in the central Pacific, have driven to the China unless the Japanese have succeeded, meantime, in dividing Free China into two parts SO that Chungking would be still cut off from land routes to the ports. This is the objective of Japanese strategy at present, along with the aims of opening a land route from Manchuria to south China in order to ease the strain on shipping. INTERPRETING THE WAR NEWS (Continued From Page One) 9 sixteen inch guns.
In addition to the capital ships, it is suspected Japan has been experi menting with extremely heavy cruisers, of virtually battleship proportion. Japan started the war with 10 battleships, four of which have been sunk. At least seven of her aircraft carriers have gone down. Curiously enough, in all of the American navy and air contacts with elements of the enemy fleet, there have been no reports of the sighting of any of the new construction. The latest engagement was the carrierborne plane attack on Japanese ships and aircraft near the northern tip of the Philippines in June and dispatches mentioned no ultra modern fighting ships in that enemy force.
The assumption, therefore, is that the enemy "may be husbanding truly powerful battleships, cruisers and aircraft carriers to make a last stand near to home. In such an engagement, the enemy would be opposing a naval force certainly numerically superior, Moreover, -since the start of the war, the United States has added to its fleet both 35,000 and 45,000 ton battleships of the most modern design and of super fire power. That this American fleet may have the support of powerful units of Britain's navy is indicated in the recent Quebec statement of Prime Minister Churchill that England expects to be in on the kill in the Pacific. DOGHOUSE GOSPORT, Ind. Sept.
18. (AP)This town's jail was full today for the first time in historyfull of dogs. The town board ordered all stray dogs picked up and, with the pooch roundup barely begun, 25 dogs occupied the jail's cells -both of them. BURIAL INSURANCE Age-Birth to 70 years NO MEDICAL EXAMINATION SOUTHWESTERN VOLUNTARY INC. J.
N. HILLMAN, Pres. F. WILLIS, Sec. Treas.
H. E. EVERETT, Salesman STATE GUARDSMEN STAGE MANEUVERS Virtually Every Man "Annihilated" in "Battle" of Gleason JOHNSON CITY, Sept. armies of the Third Regiment of 18-(Spl)-The Red, and Blue the Tennessee State Guard battled to a draw yesterday in maneuvers at Camp Gleason, both annihilated in with every, man. on practically, the process.
Approximately 330 troops attended the camp, and though the problem called for the Red attacking forces to have approximately twice the personnel as the Bues, the two groups were actually almost equal in their strength. The problem was for the Blue forces to defend Camp Gleason from an attack by Red troops approaching from North Carolina. Lt. Col. Fred Johnson was gun and chemical company, and Captain W.
S. Sells commanded the attacking battalion. The Blues were composed of officers and men from Companies and the machine gune and chemical company, and the Red troops were from Companies I and the machine gun and chemical company. The two battalions began operations at 10 o'clock Sunday morning and fought until 1:30 p. when the problem was officially declared closed, Umpires for the day were headed by Major Frank P.
Robison of the Fourth Service Command, and included Lt. Col. Sherfey, professor of military science and tactics at the Science Hill high school, Sgt. W. C.
Salter, ROTC military instructor at Science Hill, and various line and staff officers of the guard. Major Robison, who had to leave camp as soon as the problem was over for Chattanooga, stated that in his opinion the result was a draw. "Each side had SO few men left that the problem was stalemated," he said, "The Blue forces did a fine job of defense, and executed two very masterful retreats. Their communications were excellent. The Red forces employed good tactics and would have taken the camp if their timing had been a little better." The major went on to say that participants may have thought that the Blues won, since they held camp until the period was over, but he stated that the Reds had occupied approximately half of the camp at the end, and still had a number of troops which, if the problem had continued for 15 to 30 minutes longer, would certainly have taken the entire objective.
Blue forces had constructed excellent defenses over entire area, and through the aid of a "walkie-talkie" and telephone were to entrap several members of the attackers, The Red forces sent their main attacking force down Indian creek while a company, under Captain L. H. Shumate formed a pincer attack which out across country and came down from the densely wooded ridge on the left flank of the camp. Firing was simulated by the firing of blank ammunition. the blowing of whistles and the snapping of triggers on guns.
The encampment was paid a visit by Maj. General T. A. Frazier, commander of the Tennessee 'State Guard and Col. M.
M. Waltz, State Guard advisory officer, both of whom evidenced complete satisfaction in the performance by the guardsmen. Frazier Lauds Spirit of Men "The spirit of the men at the encampment was very fine," Gen, Frazier said, "and is evidence of the high interest in East Tennessee in the guard and high type of personnel in the regiment. I hope to see this until it reaches its maximum strength." Col. Waltz, in commenting on the problem, was high in his praise of the conduct and sportsmanship of the men.
"Communications were well in hand and control between officers and men was splendid and compared favorably with men trained for a longer period of time," he said. "The military police detail functioned exceptionally well in clearing the maneuver area of battle casualties." Gen. Frazier announced that considerable equipment had been obtained from the U. S. army for the use by the state guard, and listed eleven heavy duty, six wheel one and half ton trucks, which will be reconditioned at Camp Forrest, three field ranges for each regiment, numerous radio intercommunicating sets for outdoor, use and a large number flashlights, complete with batteries.
This equipment is to be available for use throughout the state. While in this area the general also visited the armory in Bristol and stated he will Arrange for improvements which will make the appearance and acoustics better. He also stated To relieve distress of MONTHLY Female Weakness (Also Fine Stomachic Tonic) Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound is famous to relieve periodic pain and accompanying nervous, to weak, functional tiredout feelings- all due monthly disturbances. Made especially for women- -it helps naturel Follow label directions.
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S SEAT CRUELTY CHARGED TO BULGARIAN SOLDIERS (Continued From Page One) how he and two lieutenants of the same crew bailed out over Macedonia. All three were shot by ground. Bulgars One after of the they lieutenants was killed and the other two men wounded. "I was 28 hours without care," the seargeant added.
"The people came and stripped the dead lieutenant of his clothes and belongings and he was buried right there, naked." Another sergeant. said it had been necessary to amputate his heel because of infection and that the surgery was performed without, anesthetic. screamed with he pain," said, "and a guard rushed over and clubbed me with a pistol until I was unconscious." 60 U. S. DIVISIONS ON FIGHTING FRONTS (Continued From Page One) vert our efforts." He paid tribute to success of the BritishAmerican unity of command coordination with Russian and Chinese forces and said: "Let's finish this terrible business as a great team, the greatest the world has ever known and then resolve the conflicting peacetime interests of, our countries with something the orderly procedure which has enabled to compose our military differences in the much more difficult business of conducting a global war." The legionnaires in their threeday streamlined convention previously had heard the rival vicepresidential candidates, Democratic Sep.
Harry S. Truman of Missouri and Republican Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio discuss their views on assisting returning veterans of World War II. President velt, Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sent greetings to the convention. National Commander Warren H. Atherton of California, demanded "annihilation" of the Japanese, said the legion would insist on peak production of war material "until the last Hun sap and the last stupid Jap with guns in their hands have been shot." A compilation made a number of years ago showed that abnormally tall men tend to die young.
that considerable material, used by the army in 1917, had been taken up by the army, would be returned and that CCC uniforms would also be issued for use by the state guard. Yesterday's camp was in charge of Col. W. Donnelly, commander of the Third, Regiment. Lt.
Col. Max Y. Parker was camp adjutant and Captain W. S. Argabright was assistant adjutant, Captain Carl A.
Jones was in charge of public relations and intelligence, and Captain J. S. Turpin was camp quarterMajor George F. Dugger and master. Provost marshals were Captain M.
L. Carriger. Medical officer was Major T. T. McNeer.
Major J. H. Winston was in charge of the problem, and Lt. George E. Oldham was his assistant.
Lt. Frank W. Barker and Lt. J. A.
Smithdeal were attendants. The band was in charge of Lt. H. B. Ford and Warrant Officer S.
T. Witt. The camp was opened at p. Saturday afternoon to receive officers and men, a large number of whom spent the night. The problem began at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, the men moving out of camp to their positions between 9 and 10 a.
m. The mess hall was not open during the encampment, except for the making of coffee and boiling of water. Troops ate rations for breakfast, dinner and supper. The camp was, closed after a parade and review held Sunday at 5 p. m.
Easley THE BEST INSURANCE EASLEYInsuranceAGENCY FIRE LIFE CASUALTY Robt. MEasley-Fred R. Sheen. Associate "WHEN LIFE'S CLOUDS ARE DARKEST" BLEVINS Funeral Home ESCAPED SOLDIERS ARRESTED IN. WISE Quartet Charged With Es- BRITISH 2ND ARMY AND AIRBORNE FORCES MAKE JUNCTION IN HOLLAND (Continued From Page One) ating as much as 15 miles northwest of the northern Siegfried terminal city of Kleve-threatened to drive around the line and out on to the north German plain on the high road to Berlin.
Supreme headquarters did not announce where the British Secand. British, Dutch and and the Poles of Americans, the Allied First Airborne Army met, but it probably was near Eindhove, important Dutch rail city ten miles inside Holland. Lt. Gen. Miles C.
Dempsey's Second Army, advancing miles in the last two days, was known to have patrols operating both north and west of the city, which still in German hands. The town 18, Aalst, three miles south of Eindhove, was captured. Clearing the way for the arrival of more of this southwest of Eindhove planted another bridgehead across Meuse-Escaut canal north of the Belgian town of the Lommel. The handful of American war correspondents who landed with the parachute troops and glider infantry, said battle for the was bitter, but that American, forces, casualties now were welded light. together across the best lines of German retreat from western Holland, were bolstered throughout the day by strong sky troop forces landed by gliders.
The Paris radio said the airborne Allies had occupied burg, Nijmegen and Eindhove, but this was not confirmed in other quarters. Equally important, the giant sky train was unloading field artillery and other heavy equipment, while guardian fighter planes patrolling in great strength knocked down at least 27 of the 200 German planes which tried to derail the aerial express. Clouds of bombers dropped supplies and scourged German reserves attempting to come up to enter the spreading struggle. These reinforcements were being sealed off from the young, green troops who broke and ran under the shock of Sunday's first landings, leaving their arms in the field and fleeing from at least 13 villages. The Germans declared the main weight of this unprecedented aerial operation was falling on the Dutch Rhine city of Nijmegen and had spread north across Holland's most formidable water barriers at Arnhem.
Arnhem is 320 miles west Berlin, is 15 miles northwest of the reputed Siegfried line terminal of Kleve, and is beyond both the Waal Ryn and the Neder Ryn, main arms of the Rhine and most troublesome of Netherlands' water hazards. Supreme headquarters, announcing the arrival of fresh units of the first Allied airborne army, reported operations were "going well," a good sign since it included the first critical hours after the landings when sky forces are most vulnerable to counterattack. In the battle for the Siegfried Line, doughboys fought well inside the frontier fortress city of Aachen after crushing German resistance on the outskirts and 18 miles to the northwest were attacking in great strength near Sittard, a Dutch city a mile from the German frontier. Nearly 40 miles southeast of Aachen other forces drove across into Germany a mile or two from the Luxembourg border, keeping up the relentless pressure along most of the west wall's length. The U.
S. Third Army, ing the Germans from their last footholds in France, fought to a point 18 miles east of Nancy and were nearing the peaks of the Vosges mountains, which block the road to the French frontier city of Strasbourg. SILVER STAR AWARD FOR KINGSPORT MAN WITH THE FIFTH ARMY, Italy, Sept. 18. (P)-Staff Sergeant John D.
Gilly of Kingsport, Tennessee has been awarded the silver star posthumously for with the 34th "Red digallantry in action serving while, vision on the fifth army front in Italy. Observing a seriously wounded man who was unable to withdraw when the enemy made a strong counterattack, Gilley, in the face of intense enemy fire, constructed a makeshift litter and carried the injured man enemy held territory throughetthe "The courage and devotion 1 to his comrade of Sergeant Gilley exemplify the highest traditions of the armed forces of the United States." the citation with the award said. His wife, Mrs. Inez S. Gilley, lives at 1313 Willow Street, Kingsport.
Quills are known to have been used for writing as early as the seventh century A. D. HOSPITAL. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SERVICE For all the family, fer LESS BUY THE BEST SOUTHWEST VA. HOSPITALS Write WISE.
JAMES O. LIPPS, Mgr. FAITHFUL PAUL COOK PERFORMANCE HOME cape Fort Jackson Rehabilitation Center NORTON, Sept. 18. (Spl) -Four U.
S. Army privates who allegedly escaped early Saturday morning from the rehabilitation center at Fort Jackson, S. were arrested about 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening on Indian mountain, six miles north and now are held in custody' here pending the arrival of military police who will them to Camp Pickett, Vremove The four men, taken into custody by Virginia State Highway Patrolman Jack Turner, have been identified as Ray Borthman, of Milwaukee, Leonard Brown, of Clarence, Robert Sanders of Columbus, and Alexander Pete Tolemy, of Crown Point, Ind. Turner said the quartet was apprehended when the jeep in which they were riding was wrecked on the mountain. He said he recovered from vehicle a containing the private Captain Berportfolio, nard R.
Hall, of the Army Medical Corps; a shotgun, a 12-inch butcher knife, a quantity of cigarettes and chewing tobacco, and some officers' clothing. The state trooper said he had communicated by telephone with a Major Stewart at Fort Jackson and quoted Stewart as saying that three of the men-Bortham, Brown and Sanders were serving five-year terms and Tolemy a term. In addition, three he said, Sanders was facing another court martial on charges of arson and mutiny. Brown, Sanders and Tolemy at present are confined to the Norton Clinic as the result of injuries suffered in the wreck of their jeep, and Bortham, treated at the hospital and later released, is a prisoner in the local jail. Sanders suffered a broken arm, Tolemy possible internal.
injuries, and Brown severe bruises. An ambulance will be sent here from Camp Pickett to remove the men, now under close guard. SENATE DELAYS ACTION ON NEWS FREEDOM BILL (Continued From Page One) ciple of news freedom. Sponsored by Connally and Senator Taft (R-Ohio), two pending Senate resolutions would affirm congressional belief in the right of the responsible press to write, send and publish news at uniform communication rates without interference, governmental or private. The principle would be incorporated into the peace treaty or in international agreements.
HE WANTS Your Letters Snapshots KEEP HIM SUPPLIED FILM DEVELOPING AND PRINTING KELLY GREEN 'YOUR KODAK 514 CUMBERLAND BRISTOL, VIRGINIA. Just Unpacked! Beautiful New Boudoir Chairs A good selection of fine quality chairs in a wide variety of styles are on display now. Spring filled construction. Beautiful new covers. Shop now for large comfortable boudoirs, barrel chairs, chairs and ottomans slipper to chairs match.
and Chaise wing lounges, $12 95 up HOME FURNITURE CO..
