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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-08-03

Startling, sister Of the bridegroom,
pianist and Miss Lois Dickson,
vocalist. Miss Dickson sang BE
cause" and Gail For YOU" ITO
A Wild Rose" was played during
the ceremony. The bridal chorus
from ''Lohengrin" was played for
the entrance of the bridal party.
The bride was given in mar
riage by her father. James Os-
borne, brother of the bridegroom,
served as best man. Following
the ceremony a luncheon was
given by Mrs. Hendrix, mother of
the bride, for relatives and close
friends.
Mrs. Osborne attended Mars
Hill college and received her B.
Is. degree in home economics at
Appalachian State Teachers col
|1ege.
Mr.. Osborne also is a graduate
of Appalachian State Teachers
college and for the past year has
been athletic director at Cove
Creek high school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Osborne will re-
side at Sherwood.
Mr.. Osborne, who is a brother
of Mrs. R. J. Startling, made his
home with the Rev. and Mrs.
iStarling for sometime.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-08-03
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR
MESSRS. WORTH, SUNDAY

Rev. r. C. Wagner, pastor OF
the jefferson Methodist church,
announced this week that a mem
orial service would be held for
the late Walter H. Worth and
Joe c. Worth on Sunday morning,
August 6, at 11:3O o'clock in con-
nection with the regular preach
ing service.
Sunday School will be held at
1890 o'clock with the preaching
and memorial service Immediate
ly following, he announced.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-08-03

WANTED-Tenant farmer for
large fertile stock farm. Will
share crop or lease for cash. T.
w. Ferguson, Ferguson, N. c.
8-3-1tp.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-08-03

$1,000 reward for return OF n
mans 17-Jewel gold case Elg1n
pocket watch to Badgers Funera&
Home, West Jefferson. N c.
8-3-1tch.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-08-03
Classified Ads

FOR SALE-Small farm with
no buildings. One quarter of mile
from Virginia Carolina high
school. No better bottom land in
Grassy Creek township. See or
write Charlie E. Haynes, Box COL,
WEIGH, w. Va. 8-3-3tpd.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-08-03

FOR SALE-About rs acres of
saw timber, pulpwood and ex-
tract. See or write B. K. Hart
zog, Idlewild, N. c. 8-3-4tp
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
NO COMMENT ON BRITISH USING
 ARMY IN GREECE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Secre- tary of State Edward Stettinius Jr today put the United States on record as favoring complete freedom of political action by the people of Greece.
 He formally endorsed a declara- tion of British Prime Minister Win ston Churchill, made Tuesday, that the Greek people should have con- plete freedom in their form of government, either to the right or left.
 Stettinius deliberately refrained from endorsing another statement by Churchill, dealing with the use of British troops to prevent forma- tion of what Churchill called "a Communist dictatorship in Greece. "
 Stettinius was bombarded by ques- tions about expanding his state ment and make it more specific in respect to use of British troops in Greece. He declined further com ment, however, he is expected to indicate todays declaration is not being conveyed officially to the Brit ish government.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
Statks of Contributions
 Made 10 Bond Auction
 For Next Sunday ?. M.

With all but one of the soliciting teams reporting, the list of articles donated for the big Bond Auction Sunday in the Elks Hall begins to look like a cross between the in- ventory of department store and the index section of a Sears, Roe buck catalogue, says Bob Martin chairman of the big drive.
 Everything from a glass eye to a trip to Seattle via PAA (deluxe stateroom with adjoining bottle of bourbon) and scores of other use ful and desirable articles including sun lamps, overcoats, suits of clothes, cases of liquor, credit slips at laundries and dry cleaners, taxi rides-even a ride in an Army jeep. Speaking of the military, don't forget the pre-war girdle, dull coverage, two way stretch. will never let you down Size mili- tary secret.
 Some of the cash donated has been used to purchase appropriate
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
VIADU(T REPAIRS
 NOW UNDERWAY

e Work on the Calhoun Avenue via duct repair job is coming along at good rate, according to w. B. Man they, contractor. By tonight one pillar will have been fixed and a three and a half-foot continuation of the footing will have been poured
 After the three pillars are restor- ed to solid foundation retaining wall, B feet long, 10 inches thick and four-foot base will be build along the pillars to hold the earth
 This repair work was authorized at the regular meeting of the City Council last Friday when 1t was pointed out the three pillars were resting on nothing more substantial than mud.
 Motorists have been asked to slow down while crossing this section of the yiaduct, near the Knight Apart ments, as tie roadway is supported only by jacks and wooden posts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
DAYLIGHT RAIDMADE
 ON ENEMY
Many Nip Planes Downed or DestroYed-T Tokyo
 Is Also Bombed

WASHINGTON, Dec. A large force of Superforts, smash ing today at Jap dominated Man. churia, destroyed 26 enemy fighters. probably brought down l3 others and damaged 24.
 The Air Force communique said one B-29 was lost in enemy action
 Today's attack was on the air craft plant at Mukden and other strategic military objectives.
 The attack was made during daylight and excellent results from the bombing are reported
 The Twentieth Bomber Com mand. based on the Asiatic main- land, encountered from weak to strong air opposition and anti aircraft fire was meager to mod crate but inaccurate.
 The Tokyo radio acknowledges Mukden and Port Dairen.. were attacked by 15 Superforts. but claims five Forts were downed in the encounter with Nipponcsc air craft.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
JAP BOMBER SHOT DOWN
 OVER R5AIpAN
Plane of Reconnaissance Flight Is Spotted and
 Brought to Earth

UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS. PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 7.-Shooting down of a Japanese reconnaissance bomb CT over Sapain Island, where the Tokyo -raiding American Superfort- resses are based, is reported by Ad- miral Chester w. Nimitz.
 Alert American airmen against Japanese snooper raids baggad an enemy bomber Monday before it had any chance to unload it's explosives.
 The communique also said fighter planes of the Seventh AAF con- tinued strikes against the Japanese held areas in the Mariana Islands and gun positions on Rota were bombed Sunday. The same day Lib orators hit Two Jima while the Sev- enth AAF attacked Japanese island installations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
Cernlanyin in Italy Sill
 Retreaiinq
All Enemy Resistance Easl of Ldmone River
 Wiped Out sa

ROME, Dec 7--Allied troops to- day deepened their newly bridgehead over the Lamone River, southeast of Faenza. All enemy resistance east of the river was wiped out, Allied Headquarters said.
 Polish troops at the bridgehead captured Brisighella, 10 miles southwest of Faenza. The import ant height of Monte San Rindaldo Mezzano, on the Rimini-Ferrara Railway. six miles northwest of Ravenna, was also captured as the victorious British and CPadian units chased the scattered German forces back of the Lamone River.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
RED ARMY IS CLOSING IN ON BUDAPEST

LONDON, Dec. 7.-The Red Army vanguards arc sweeping around low CT Lake Balaton, within 35 miles of the Austrian frontier, as Berlin re- ported that the power of the Russian offensive is closing in on Budapest on three sides.
 The greatest threat on Budapest came in spearheads of Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine Army units, driving up the west bank of the Danube.
 Germans said they have aband- oned Ercsi, only l3 miles south of Budapest, in the face of the tide that the Russian armor, which the Soviet war bulletin said yesterday, made gains up to l6 miles.
 The Russian communique made no mention of the German claims of the offensive from the north of Budapest, where the Red troops are reported plunging down from cap tured Hatvan, or from the eastern Budapest suburbs, where the Soviet Army was checked some time ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
8 PERSONS SENTENCED
 BY KEI(HlkAN COURT

During the recent term of court at Ketchikan the following persons , were sentenced, according to advices received at the U. s. Marshal's of flee:
 Adolph Cramer, arrested at Ju- nsau, received five years for forgery. Charles Stevens, convicted of shooting a bookkeeper and stealing a boat at Hidden Inlet last summer, was given a ten-year sentence.
 Archie White, arrested at Juneau, received three years for grand lar- |ceny.
 Willie Hynes, arrested in Juneau and convicted of forgery, was given a sentence of 13 months. Edward Kimball, Ketchikan tav- ern operator, received a sentence of 18 months on hit and run convic- ton.
 Rex Wilbur. convicted on a morals charge, was sentenced to five years ii. jail.
 George Tomasik of Milwaukee, ar rested in Juneau, received sus- pended sentence of five years for robbery.
 Those of the foregoing persons receiving jail sentences will be taken to McNeil Island Penitentiary.
 Dick Henry, juvenile, convicted of burglarizing the Jim Ellen Grocery, will spend the next three years in the Englewood Correctional Insti- tutional at Englewood, Colorado.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
GIRL SCOUT BOND
 DRIVE CONTINUING

The Girl Scout Sixth War Loan Drive is continuing in Juneau and all girls are right up on their toes with their solicitation activities.
 Girl Scout Troop No. will meet Saturday at 12:30 o'clock at the Baranof Hotel to take charge of bond sales for that afternoon. This troop is sponsored by the Rebekah Lodge, with Mrs. Alice Thorne and Mrs Earl Cleveland as leaders.
 Troop No. 2 will meet at the same time and place on Saturday, December Is, This newest Girl Scout troop is sponsored by St. Margaret's Guild and has as it's leaders Mrs. Burr Johnson and Mrs. Earl D. McGinty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
TANKS MAKE
 BIGCAIN50N
 LEYTEI5LAND
Jdps Losing On All Fronts Line of Reinfor(ements
 by Wafer Is Cut
By MURLIN SPENCER GA. F. War Correspondent

GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR'S s HEADQUARTERS IN THE PHIL IPPINES, Dec. T Fighting on Leyte Island is increasing, with the Americans making substantial gains on all fronts, Gen. Douglas Macarthur reported today.
 A Japanese tank attack, launched in the Ormoc corridor sector, where the Tenth U. s. Army Corps is applying pressure, failed to break the Americans grip south of Ormoc, on the Nipponese supply port on the Islands west coast.
 The Americans preached the en- emys Palanas River line and pierced it to a point south of Bal oga, on the coast, and Kangdagit Village, inland.
 "The enemy's line of reinforce ments by water through Ormoc Bay has been cut by our naval and air forces" Gen. MacArthur said on the third anniversary of the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack.
 With increasing pressure by our ground troops, the enemy's situa- tion must be regarded as serious" l" the General said in the communi- que, which told of Allied thrusts against Nipponese installations, air. fields and shipping, from the Ma nila area on the north to the north coast of New Guinea.
 Scores of tons of bombs were dumped on airfields, destroying parked planes. Three 1,000-ton en- emy freighters were sunk.
 Ten Japanese planes attacked shipping in Leyte Gulf, but Tank fighter planes downed six of the attackers, and anti-air- craft two more.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
UPRISING
 IN GREECE
 |5 FOUGHT

ATHENS, Dec. 7.-BritiSh para chute troops with infantry support, planes, tanks, armored cars, and ar tillery blasted away at point house to house against the principal centers of the Elas resistance around Acropolis. although Maj. Gen. Scobie announced progress was being made in clearing Elas, armed Auxiliary Leftist of the EMA political organization, in the Athens area.
 Fighting spread to Thrace, where Elas Greek Nationalists clashed with the British. Beau fighters crushed the Elas mortar positions in the public park east of Aero polls, and across the main Athens Piraeus road, where it enters the Capital City.
 Field artillery was used to blast out other positions, but snipers' bullets still dipped back and forth down the side streets of the Capital on the second day of the pitched battle.
 Premier Papandreou, whose Gov ernment is supported by the Brit ish, told correspondents that the FAM lis plunging Greece into a civil war"
 In London the Greek Government spokesman said that the outbreaks had delayed the election for several months and Papandreou denied the Leftist charge that he was attempt ing to impose dictatorship. He de- scribed the British role mot only a friendly service, but one of duty, be- cause the present situation results from war"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
TANK FORCES
 LINEDAL0NG
 5AAR RIVER
Nazis Withdrawing Into Holland as Americans
 Pound Basin Cities

PARIS. Dec. .-U. s. Third Army tanks plunged into the outskirts ol Forbach, a French Tail town and Siegfried line outpost, three and one-half miles from battered Saar- brucken, as the artillery pounded the capital of the industrial Saal for the eighth straight day.
 Action flared on the static north ern flank of the American line. as Hodges First Army troops struck out from captured Inden, midway between the Roer River citadels of Julich and Duren. Patrols reached the outskirts of Pier, mile and a half away.
 The Germans are believed to be feverishly preparing defenses on the Eft River, narrow stream beyond the Roer.
 Third Army forces are lined up in strength along g miles of the Saar Rivers west bank.
 The French border city of Sarre- gumines has been all but cleared of Nazis. Patton's artillery at Sarre- gumines shelled the east side of the river where Germans are withdraw ing into the homeland. Front dis patches indicated the imminence of American penetration into the Reich in that area, nine miles southeast of Saarbrucken.
 In the northwest, the Americans still firmly held Saarlauten, the Saar Basins second city despite German claims that it had been re- captured Troops continued to pour across the expanded bridgehead there.
 In the south, the U. s. Seventh Army, driving toward juncture with the French in the Vosges, ad- vanced within five miles of Colmar, the last major Alsatian city in Ger man hands, against moderate re- sistance and amid signs of a Nazi withdrawal across the Rhine.
 There is little change at the northern American flank in Ger many, where the Ninth Army is massed against the rain-swollen Roer River.
 The First Army continued dog ged assault against Duren, a Roer bastion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Ct. Col Robert s. Allen now on active service with the Army)

WASHINGTON-Along Philadel- phias swank Main Line, they tell how the former Prince of Wales, while dining among Quaker City bluebloods, was asked: Would you like to meet Biddle?"
 To which the Prince replied What's a biddle?"
 Ever since the Biddle-Littell row broke the Justice Department wide open, lot of people are asking the same question: What, who and how is Francis Riddle?
 If you talk to his old friends on the Philadelphia Main Line, they will tell you he is traitor to his class. If you talk to Norman Littell, his former Assistant At torney General, he will tell you Riddle is merely the stooge and puppet of Tommy Corcoran. If you talk to some of the newspaper publishers against whom Riddle is bringing suit in the Associated Press case, their remarks are al- Aost unprintable.
 But if you talk to the men who work with him day in and day out in the Justice Department, 90 per cent will tell you he is shy, hesi- tant person, who sometimes waits before making up his mind but, once he is sure he is in the right, will fight harder for the right and for the underdog than any other Attorney General in recent years.
 FDR tells how, when Riddle was proposed as head of the National Labor Relations Board in 1884, he feared Riddle was too reactionary. Tn Philadelphia, Riddle had been attorney for the Pennsylvania Rail- road, biggest railway property in the world. His last law case be- fore he entered the Government was to defend the Pennsylvania against Wendell Berge of the Jus tice Department in rebate case.
 Riddle and the railroad won To- day Berge is Assistant Attorney General under Riddle, and today they are both prosecuting one of the biggest antitrust cases in his tory against the railroads.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
OPEN HOUSE E
 10 BE GIVEN AT
 JUNEAU SCHOOLS

Open house will be held at the Juneau Public Schools next We'd nesday night, December 13, from 7:30 to g o'clock, A. B. Phillips, Superintendent, announced today.
 He said the parents, and the parents only. are invited to visit both the Grade and High Schools during these hours to see the class rooms and their children's work and to meet the teachers.
 Phillips further stated no att tempt would be made to dress up the rooms especially for this occa- sion, that the parents will merely see ordinary school routine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
Nix! Lei
 Navy Do If

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 - Plans of the Interior Department to pros pect for oil on public lands in Alaska have been turned down by the house Appropriations Commit tee.
 The Interior Department has asked for Sl,075.O00 for the purpose of oil drilling, but the committee said the Navy is now prospecting in the area which is understood to offer the greatest promise.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
FBpW CLUB BOARD
 INVITED TO JUNEAU

SEATTLE, Dec. 7-An invitation to the National Federation of Busi- ness and Professional Womens' Clubs to have the July board meeting in Juneau, Alaska, has been extended by Mrs. Crystal Jenne, President of the Juneau Federation.
 Miss Louise Franklin Bache, Ma ticnal Executive Secretary, ex- pressed hope the board will be able to accept the invitation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
MANCHURIA BOMBED BY SUFFERS T0DA'
Job Seekers Are Warned
 To Stay Away from Alaska

SEATTLE. Dec. T. - Privation and unemployment face Alaska bound job seekers, State Manpower Director A. F. Hardy said today, following warning against travel to the Territory at this time.
 Hardy said his statement followed an appeal from A. A. Hedges Alaska Manpower Director with headquar- ters at Juneau, who reported from 30 to 300 persons have been arriving
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
TWO BUILDING PERMITS
 OBTAINED THIS WEEK

Two building permits were issued this past week by the City Engineers Office, records showed.
 Margaret Burnaby obtained per- init to shingle house at 143 Cas- tincau Avenue at an estimated cost of $500. I. G. Fulton and Company was named contractor.
 B(ggs and Messerschmidt took out a permit to repair the foundation of house at 432 So. Franklin Street, at an estimated cost of s700. James Larsen was named contractor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
MEN UNDER 1o TO GO INTO BATTLE,
 WAR DEPT. SAYS

WASHINGTON, Dec. T. Men under 19 are now going overseas as infantry and armored repiacements. Under Secretary of War Patterson disclosed.
 This represents a change in pol- icy necessitated by urgent military requirements, Patterson told a news conference
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07

weekly in Alaska since last August l when travel restrictions were eased.
 Hedges said the Alaska housing situation is desperate and sea- sonal occupations are mostly at a standstill and "in addition to this there are no jobs, no housing, also temperatures in many parts of Alaska are now down to 20 degrees below zero"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
ALMOST TOO LIBERAL

Shortly after Riddle came to Washington in 1884, FDR had oc- casion to wish his new man wasn't so liberal The San Francisco Call Bulletin had fired a newspaperman Dean s. Jennings, in violation of the NRA labor code. The President wasn't looking for scrap with the newspapers at that early date in his Administration, but Riddle, as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, one of the most thankless jobs in the country, ordered Jennings reinstated
 Riddle probably gets his instinct of battling for the underdog partly from the late Justice Oliver Wen dell Holmes, whose secretary he was; partly from Mrs Riddle. Riddle has written a book on Holmes, soon to be film d in Hollywood. Mrs. Riddle, we'll known poetess, writes under the name of Katherine Garrison 0iIs elle of her poems having been ssl a music for the Phila-
 fas harmonic Orchestra.
 As Aslornay General, Riddle has
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
STUDENTS AT JUNEAU
 SCHOOLS SEE MOVIES

This morning, in the Grade School auditorium, three showings were made of a group of bond sale mpvies. Both High and Grade School students attended the show ings, the first of which was pre- sented at o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
REJECTED

CHUNGKING. Dec. T. Chiang Kai Shek has rejected the proposal of the Chinese Communists for the establishment of Democratic Coalition Government" and offered counter proposals which must be taken up with the Communists con ciliation committee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
TERRIFIC QUAKE IS
 REPORTED
Whole World Shook for Six Hours-Center May Have
 Been in Japan
WEST BRoMwICH, England, De-

WEST BROMWICH, England, Dec "A violent quake shook the whole |earth for six hours according tc one leading British seismologist. It is reported the quake centered in the vicinity of Japan on this third anniversary of the sneak on Pearl Harbor.
 J. J. Shaw, veteran SeismologiSt |said wind tremors made it difficult to trace the direction but he ex- pressed the belief the quake was possibly in Japan, the Aleutians or the Kuriles.
 A short time later the Swiss radio said both the Zurich and Nurnberg Hobservatories recorded an extremely violent quake in the direction of Japan
 The Swiss announcement added "In case the quake occurred in populated places, the consequences are bound to be catastrophe"
 The first shocks were recorded at 10:48 o'clock, Pacific War Time, last night.
 Shaw said six hours after the first tremors "the whole earth was still vibrating
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
BIRTHDAY BALL

B. D. Stewart, Territorial Mine Commissioner, has been appointed by Mayor A. B. Hayes to make all arrangements for the Presidents Birthday Ball on January 30. Con- mittees will be appointed soon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-07
TOKYO AGAIN BOMBED

" Ataf "A AAs*SA 0+ v. A<N<afAf COMMAND HEADQUARTERS SATAN, Dec. 1.-Two Super ress bombers, on weather re naissance flights, bombed IT. last night and early today in j .arate. strikes. seven hours apa
 The two attacks constituted fifth and sixth visits to Toky Saipan-based Superforts since initial one on November "A.
 The Tokyo radio said "thre four Superforts dropped incen [ bombs on the city Thursday Il ing, Jap time. and small started by the bombs were pro ly extinguished.