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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

base, dated May IL, Burns wrote
that the infantry came into It's
own today - just like old times
before airplanes and modern
battleships." The story continu-
ed:
The four army landings made
on Attu today were effected by
men facing the elements and car
rying a pack ON their backs and
guns in their hands.
The all-obscuring fog was the
reason. Modern warships and
airplanes - were non-availing
against the coolest weather re-
corded.
The most modern death deal
ing weapons OF the air - can
non-carrying fighter planes, me-
dunn and heavy bombers were
ready but grounded by fog.
The only effective use Of air
planes made today was to- para
chute supplies TO advance infan-
try troops which got 20 terrain
higher than the fog blanket.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
Allied Planes
Renew Attacks
Strong Forces
Sweep Over Chonnel

LONDCT May 25 - tH) -
A strong force Of Allied war;
planes headed eastward across
the Channel this morning to re-
sumo by daylight the Allied Of
fensive which reached its peak
Sunday night in a record-break-
ing Raj assault on Dortmund.
The course followed by the
daylight raiders indicated they
would hit the French coast
somewhere between Dieppe and
Boulogne.
Raj fighters were over north
ern France on smallscale in
truder patrols du ing the night,
but the British heavy bombers
were given a rest after their q
OO0-ton attack or Dortmund.
bout Is German planes
struck at a south coast town in
a bold id-afternoon raid which
flattened workers houses and
buried an undo termined num-
b. in the ruins. u was one of
the biggest daylight forces the
Nazis had used in some time.
One raider was destroyed.
Some of the raiders swung
over a neighboring town and
turned their cannon upon large
buildings.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
Young Soldier
Lost in Action
Pvt. Alvin North
Tunision CosuoIty

Pvt. Alvin North. 20, was
killed in action April 26 while
fighting with the u S Army in
North Africa, the War Depart
ment today notified his wife,
Dorothy, OF ITO North avenue.
Pvt. North was sent abroad
last September shortly after he
transferred from the Canadian
to the u S Army His wife, the
former Dorothy Mae Newly. is
an employee of the Cunningham
Drug Store. They married APP
ril 3. 1912.
Pvt. North had lived In Mount
Clemens briefly and had never
been employed in the city. His
father, John, lives in Roseville;
his mother, Mrs. Bernice Glenn
ems, in Seattle, Wash.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
Day
p|ans(onp|ete
Schools, Business
Houses to Close

Schools, banks. bus n s
houses and the county building
will close Monday while Mount
Clemens residents honor the hero
dead following a mammoth Me-
mortal Day parade 10 be lead by
the Selfridge Field band and a
large number of m ar h i n &
troops.
Col. William B Wright, new
Selfridge Flel q commandment.
will deliver the Memorial Day
address from the steps OF the
Public Library following the pa
rade. Graves of sailor and soldier
dead at Clinton Grove and St.
Mary's Catholic Cemetery will
later be decorated.
SCHOOLS TO CLOSE
Superintendent / Wade Fast
revealed today that all public
schools will close Monday. He
See PARADE-Page 8
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
$500 Quit
Thinker Plant

DETROIT, May IS - [P) A
strike which United Automobile
Workers (CIO) officials said was
unauthorized all but halted pro-
duction. at the Timken-D Detroit
Axle CO., plant here today. A
Union spokesman estimated the
number of men involved at a..
500.
The walkout started in the
hammer shop Monday morning
and spread 10 other depart
ments. Workers disregarded ap-
peals by Union officials in car
with sound amplifier that they
return to work.
Il. G.. Goldie, executive vice.
president of the company, said
81 to 80 truckers in the main
plant we're refusing 10 move
materials and that this was af-
fecting production.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
Yanks Tighten
Affu Pressure
as Foe Retires
Americans Mop-Up
Remaining Pockets
Of Jop Resistance

WASHINGTON, May 25-(P)
Secretary of the Navy Knox
said today the battle for Attu Is
land is continuing with Japan
csc troops pressed back on the
Northeastern extremity of the
island.
The secretary ( Id a press con-
ference he had no fresh informa-
ton to add TO yesterdays COM
munique which said the pressure
of American soldiers against
pockets Of Japanese resistance
had been liquidated.
The fighting is continuing"
Knox said. 1--WE have those men
corralled out there on the PENN
sula."
Asked the origin of the Is
en- my twin-engine bombers
which raided American forces
in the Attu area Saturday and
the sixteen which participated in
a raid Sunday, Knox said I'VE
don't know where the planes
came from"
KURILES BASE?
"A suspicion is that they
came from the kuriles." the
secretary added.
The kuriles chain, running
roughly North and South, has
It's northern anchor about $50
miles from .Attu.
Asked whether any reports
had ~~mc in to show that the
airfield project initiated by the
japanese on Attu was feasible,
Knox said no reports had arriv-
ed, "but l assume what the
japanese have started the Yanks
can finish"
The enemy had made consid-
cradle progress in leveling a
flight strip when the American
See PACIFIC-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
5aIvaged Tin
On Way 10 Mill
Second Corlood
in Week Loaded

The weeks second carload OF
salvaged tin will be on its way
to reclamation centers tonight
when workmen complete load
ing of the 99,33O pounds of
metal collected by the Mount
Clemens Salvage Committee in
recent drives.
With a total Of $3.50 pounds
OF the war-necessary metal col
lected in out-county points, plus
Al, $40 pOun DIS salvaged in
Mount Clemens, the weeks ship
ments totaled over "a long tons
(of 2,240 pounds each).
Included in the Mount Glenn
ems total we're 1O,555 collected
by school children. plus Potts
pounds contributed by the Cadil-
lac Can company, and 500
pounds which had previously
been accumulated in city storage
yards.
The first Of the weeks two
carloads left the city Monday
while the second. both of which
we're loaded by Harry Levine e.
Sons. leaves this evening.
Out-county collections were:
Utica - 2,985 pounds; Center
Line-6,000 pounds; New Balti-
more - 1,280 pounds; Roseville
-6.l25 pounds; East Detroit
1920 pounds; ST. Clair Shores
- l4,050 pounds: and Warren
township-l4,560 pounds.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
49,o00Rubber
WorkersDesert
keyWarP Plants
Akron Crippled
by Greatest Wolkout
in City's History
BY CARTER l.. DAVIDSON

BY CARTER l.. DAVIDSON
AKRON, Ohio, May 25-(P)-
Three major rubber companies
reported all production ceased
today as the number of ClO
employees idle in a protest
against a War Labor Board
wage decision rose TO 40, 900. de-
spite a War Department demand
for resumption of work.
Several h rdred pickets form
ing a shoulder-to-s shoulder bar
ricade at three gates 10 Good.
year Tire & Rubber Co. 5 No.
l plant turned back workers
employed on the first day shift.
Crowds started gathering IN
front Of the plant on Akron
east side more than an hour
before the usual time for change
of shifts. Some men were eject
ed forcibly as others pushed
them through the picket line,
but there was no violence.
Only plant guards and sup
ervisory employees ere permit
ted TO enter, and three hours
after picket line formed, the
crowds thinned out. A Good
year spokesman said $4,000 Go
United Rubber Workers were
idle at all its plants. ccpting
Goodyear Aircraft Corp, a sub
sidiary not affected by the work
stoppage. About $4,000 remain
ed idle for the fourth day at the
B. F. Goodrich Co. and 17,00O
at the Firestone Tire & Rubber
Co.
The three ,ncerns normally
are engaged / production OF
gas masks, barrags balloons. life
belts. airplane deicers. tank
treads, anti-aircraft guns. ma
chine gun clips, civilian and
combat tires and other war ma
terials.
Idleness oecame the greatest
in the history Of Akron's rubber
industry a few hoLrs after
James p. Mitchell, industrial
personnel director Of the army
service forces, appealed for re-
sumption of production.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
Troops Called
to QueII Row
in Shipyards

MOBILE, Ala, May 25-CP
Soldiers and police were
called into large shipyard here
today 10 oucll disturbance
which started, Police Chief d. T..
McFayden said, when Negro
welders were assigned 10 work
with white Welders.
McFayden said several OF
the Negroes were beaten up,
and that order was restored
when all Negroes IN the yard,
operated by the Alabama Dry
dock and Shipbuilding Corpora
ton. were sent home.
Police authorities took several
moves TO prevent spread OF the
disturbance. including the clos
ing Of all liquor stores, and the
prohibition of the sale OF beer
anywhere in the city.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
East Coast
Faces Sharp
Travel CurbS

WASHINGTON. May Is -(A)
- More bundle-toting for the
East was decreed today in an
order sharply curtailing delivery
services and in the case of many
luxury items prohibiting them
entirely. The order was coupled
with warning that the already
critical gasoline shortage along
the Atlantic seaboard would
grow worse.
The order, effective at 1901
a. m. (EWT) Thursday, was is
sued by the Office of Defense
Transportation last night for l3
northeastern states and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Limitations were placed on
both wholesale and retail deliv-
cries. The ODT listed the maxi
See GASOLINE-Page 8
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
German Troops
Mutiny. Belgian
Sources Claim

LONDON, May Is - (Fo -
The Belgian news agency re-
ported today three instances Of
mutiny among German forces in
Belgium.
At Lokeren in East Flanders,
soldiers who refused to leave
for the Russian front were re-
ported fettered and taken to
Client prison while machine
guns were set up in the streets.
At Loochristy in the same
province. the agency said 30
men were arrested after Incl
dents between officers and
troops.
At Vynckt in West Flanders,
several men were reported kill
cd in an exchange OF shots
which followed the refusal of a
drunken group to return TO their
barracks day before they were
scheduled to leave for Russia.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
newspaperman Heads
New Draft CONTINGENT

Seventy selectees from Draft
Board No. / will leave the USO
Club at 1880 q. m. tomorrow for
the Detroit induction station
where all will take the u. S. Ar
my physical examination.
Kent c. Ferguson, publisher
Of the New Baltimore News and
former Monitor-Leader police
reporter, will lead the group.
Those accepted will be given
immediate two-week furloughs,
instead of the one-week period
formerly granted. Many Of the
men are married.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
SaVe'SiX Lives

SAN DIEGO, Calf, May Is
-(R-Private Willia,-l F. Bush
nell, 20, Of Ann Arbor, Mich,
and four other Marines yester-
day were credited with saving
the lives Of six crew members
Of the Consolidated Army-type
experimental plane which crash
ed May 10 into the Marine Corps
base recruit area.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
FRISCO FERRY
Fog Shrouded Yank Landings on Massacre Bay Beaches

From this advanced Eleventh
Air Force base, 81 planes depart
ed early today TO make the $50
mile round trip 10 Attu while the
Navy dispatched Catalina patrol
planes and Ventura dive bomb
ers.
Late this afternoon. however,
the Navy got in its lick and de-
spite the heavy fog gave Jap
positions on Attu a heavy she'll
ing but the fog held the answer
TO its effectiveness.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
EdseI Ford Critically
III al County Estate

DETROIT. May 25-(P-Ed-
sci Ford, 49-year-old president
of the Ford Motor company. was
reported today as still in a criti-
cal condition.
Ford, the only son OF Henry
Ford, founder Of the vast indus
trial empire, is suffering from
undulant fever at his home on
Lake St. Clair. He has been chief
executive of the company for "a
wears.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
Utica leaihernetk
a Prisoner Of laps

The name Of Pvt. John Brown
Austin Mason. son Of Mrs. Nellie
M. Mason. 1861 School road,
Utica, was listed today by the
War Department together with
those of 95l other u. S. Marines
as prisoners of war now held by
the Japanese. Most Of the men
listed are believed TO be informed
in the Philippine Islands.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
Read Reports

MOSCOW, May Is - R) -
The Russian people read in their
newspapers this morning the
latest reports of u. S. Lend
Lease Administrator Edward X.
Stettinius, Jr.. on American war
supplies set aside for the L. s.
s. r..
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
Change Made

LANSING, May Is - R) -
All men indicted into the ma
tons military service from the
Lower Peninsula Of Michigan
after June will be processed
through the Detroit induction
station, Col. Samuel ID. Pepper,
Deputy State Selective Service
Director, disclosed today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
TO Fcte Willkic

DETROIT, May * (A0 -
Michigan Republicans will hold
q reception for Wendell Willkie,
1910 COP presidential candi-
date, Sunday at the BOOk-Cadil-
lac Hotel, when Will lie comes
10 address the Presbyterian
General Assembly on "WOrld
Christianity"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

CAIRO, May Is - (R) -
United States Liberato-s drop
ped $50 tons Of bombs before
noon yesterday on the southern
Italian harbors of San Giovanni
and Reggie Calabria, where ex-
ploded ammunition dumps shot
sheets Of flame and debris more
than 1000 feet into the air.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

WASHINGTON, May 25-(FD
- Rep. Bradley G-Mich0 has
demanded a congressional in
vestigation Of the United Ma
tions food conference. He told
the House yesterday that Amer
lean officials are Invading the
constitutional rights, privileges
or immunities OF citizens Of the
United States"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
ThousandsFIee
from Merti|ess
Hail Of Bombs
Yonk Pilots Dump
Explosives Over
Key Enemy Ports
DY ROGER GREENE
Assoeiated PrssS War Edii

Thousands of bomb-dazed re-
fugees were reported fleeing
North from Southern Italy and
from islands in the Mediterran-
can today as American war
plares sowing bombs like
wheat heaped fresh destruction
on Sardinia. Sicily. Pantel.eria
and the Italian mainland.
Reports reaching Switzerland
said an exodus was under way
from many towns on the toe Of
the Italian boot, with Rome al
ready receiving thousands at
tempting to escape Allied bom-
bardment.
A Rome broadcast admitted
that city districts proper" at
Cagliari, capital of Sardinia Is
land. had been abandoned as a
result Of the violent Allied aerial
offensive.
Other developments at-a-
glance
RUSH DEFENSES
Invasion filters - Stockholm
hears Germany rushing antrim
vaSion defenses in Norway. 200,-
600 Nazi troops guard Norwe-
gian gateway to Europe.
Russia-Tense hull continues;
German, Soviet commanders
both guard against surprise ma
jor offensive.
Southwest Pacific-Gcn. Mac
| Arthur's bombers drop Is tons
Of bombs on big japanese base
at Rabaul. SGT fires visible 100
miles; Allied raiders hit four
other enemy strongholds.
Aleutians - American troops
tighten pressure on trapped Jap
anese survivors on Attn; aerial
photographers show miles OF
new trenches at Kiska.
With Allied planes stepping
up the fury of their assault on
the invasion trail into south
ern Europe, Italy's Crown Prince
Umberto was quo',d by the
British r idio as warning Ital-
ians that they were short of
arms and must throw all their
spiritual and physical strength
in the struggle.
OUTLINES DEFENSE
Premier Mussolini was said TO
have called Fascist Party chiefs
Of the Rome district last night
and given them new orders -
presumably dealing with meas
ures to combat an All d inva-
sion.
Once again. American war;
planes spanked the offensive and
boosted the six-da. toll to at
least 329 Axis planes destroyed
by shooting down IL more en-
envy aircrall In cor'ba. during
the last "a hours. Others were
wrecked on the ground.
Over 800 L. S. planes blud-
geoned Sardinia, attacking nine
important defense targets on the
island in what might we'll be
softening up campaign TO pave
the way for actual invasion.
BY daylight this morning. a
strong force OF BritaLi based
warplanes returned to the as
.ult on Hitler's northern RAM
parts. heading toward Boulognc
and Dieppe on tn Nazi-occu-
pied French coast.
The RATS great Get OF four
engined bombers rested over
night, after their record-shat-
tering attack o. DortmunC Sum-
day night. but Raj fighters jab-
bed at targets in northern
France in small scale intruder
patrols.
SKATER BASES
Flying from has In the Mid
die East, Y. S. airmen pounded
San Giovanni and Reggio Clab-
See ITALY-Page 8
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
Lieut.. Fuller Now
in Seattle Hospital

Lieut.. Harry Fuller, U.S.N..
who suffered serious burns dur
ing a fire aboard transport in
the North Pacific several
months ago, has arrived back in
the United States. and Is under
going treatment for his injuries
at the u. S. Naval Base Hos
pital, at Seattle. Wash, his wife
(the former Gertrude Johns)
learned today in telegram
from her husband. Lieut.. Fuller.
since the time Of his injuries, has,
been q patient at the Navy Hos
pital at Dutch Harbor In the
Aleutian Islands.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

WASHINGTON, May IS Up
- May thus far has been a
ivory encouraging" month in
anti submarine warfare Navy
Secretary Knox reported today.
y, rave no figures and caution
ed against drawing any cOnclus-
ions for the future, explaining
TO a press conference that the
loss rate In shipping varies from
one period to ant Ter.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
Fighting Severe

LONDON, May rs - (R) -
The YugOslav gOvernment-in-
exile reported today increasing
~ severe fighting in four major
regions of YugOslavia as the
Germans intensified their ef-
forts to tighten their control OF
the country under the threat oil
Allied landings.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

RIO DE JANyIRO May Is
(R)-All Brazilian rubber work.
ers were given a deferred draft
classification today and exempt
ed for the present from army
mobilization in a government
move to step up the output OF
war important natural rubber.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25
Heavyweiehis Batter
Jan Base Al Rabaul

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA. May Is (P) -
Heavyweigbts of the Allied aer-
ial force teamed up yesterday in
a major blow at the strong Japa-
ncse base at r b !, New
Britain.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

ate X X X
bulletins


WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.,-(P)
- The trial Of Jack Dempsey's
divorce suit against his wife,
Hannah Williams, the former
Cheerful Little Earful" Of mu-
steal comedy, began in State
Supreme Court today wit sew
eral witnesses testifying she was
friendly with former lightweight
champion Lew Jenkins and Ben
ny WOodall, One-time jenkins
trainer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

The fog was SO thick that
Higgins landing barges could not
find their way. So destroyers or
other vessels 'mothercd' a large
flock ashore, took back the
empties, and then took another
brood ashore"
Fog horns blared necessarily.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

HOME ON v1SIT-2nd Lieut..
Wayne w. Adair. former Moni-
tor-Leader advertising salesman,
who is spending brief leave
with his wife and parents in
Mount Clemens fol- wing grad
uation from u. S. Army Officer
Candidates School at Fort Ben
ming. Ga.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

In a dispatch from the same
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-25

Impartial Coveross
Of All loeol News
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26

When Caesar Refused
30 Grant Cleopatra an
AuIicncc The EGAp1iln-
Queen Had Herself
Rolled Up in "A Rug
and Struggled Into His
Prcscucc-and by Her
Beauty and Charm
Changed the Course
of History.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26

w INo U In0W Is Whats u going
Co. lead 20
As for who gave us shorts for
Women we'll We WON'T go INTO Tint
GouIt BE- ny been Lady Astor
Gould b. have been those short. 8htr
'nen thIngaW7bobs With the. cute
Attlc' name embtp,iered on the side
about which there has been such a
hot international controversy
Probably only Time and the.
Valentine Museum can tell
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26
By NlAA MHeoNPEFNAM

NEEEEF tbes.I.3ay Astors pantts1
N/ Th> Valentine Museum Of Ech-
w uoad Virginia says yes Lady
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26

\ The e-roug That Dorothy
EIamuur Nadr Famous
Or Vice NcrSa-Is said O.
Derive From ihr shape
less Mother Hubbard
Mrapper~ ari t-Al+--
SinndriCS In
flictcd on Lin
gprie-lrSs -
south
Sea NaideuS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26

Dire predictions that Mrs Boomers hor-
rd idea might lead 20 terrible ends were
COMMON And ] ann afraid that many persons
Nro have observed the Stacks which are UNI
vcsuoaahy .he decentralization of Mrs.
B.oomers boomers WoBd-agree that the
fear, or that earlier protesting generation
ht'c been more than justified
Many Women today love slaeKs wear
~f-tck- and have the deep-seat9d conviction
that The de1p-soated part of Stacks is more
apparent ou ,he Other woman than them
solves A little looking backward yqetfitr,'t
hurt sueh-ea,r, B1 then on the other hand.
maybe we have Mrs Bioomer to thank for
the millions OF womW workers whose en-
ployment IN war Industries is the safer be-.
cause of her once radical inspiration.
Any. discussion Of the inspiration of fem
mime fashions would scarcely So complete
without mention. of The sarone elsst3s Dorothy
Lamour made famous or vice ves@ Accord
1919 o. some authorities this abbreviated gar
m.n' was DERIVED from the shapeless 'Mothcr
hubbard Vfhppers inflicted ON Hngerc-lcss
south sea madcus by the early missionaries
Granting that that's leherr-, 4, came from yyita-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26

December 81. Ioi1
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26

Curators of the Virginia Museum
Attribute Their Prize Exhibit 10
the Former Nancy l.angfforne,
and, Although She Declines the
Honor, The Dcmure Set of Little
Girl ndic> MaN Yet BE the
Means of Writing the Noble
Astor Name Large on the Pages
of History.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13
TO HOLD BAPTISING
AT TUCKERDALE SOON

A baptising will be held at the
Tuckerdale Baptist church on the
fourth Sunday in May at 10 o.
clock a. m. Ten or more persons
will be baptised and a large
crowd is expected. Everything
is going along nicely in raising
funds for the church building"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13

says Rev. M. D. Hart, pastor. Mr..
Swanson Edwards delivered an
interesting message last Sunday
night, when a large congregation
attended.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-13

Norman HI. Le1nly, of the U. S.
Navy, has been recently promot-
ed to Petty Officer. &c. He is
now on duty somewhere in the
Pacific. Writes that he is getting
along fine.