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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15
Colun1nist Pays Tribute To
The Late Raymond Clapper

TO his own faith in the midst of cX-
naordlnary success Was the subject
OF discussion by Il group oi his friends
recently. Almost unanimously we
found the answer 10 our question
Clappcr WAS making probably Il
larger income than any other jour
nallSt. In popularity polls he received
more votes than any other political
cOlumnlSt on the radio. lie had the
confidence of the most important
men i'll public lie here and abroad.
Officials in civil md military lie
asked his help in deciding frigh,cn-
ing questions.
Yet in spite of the influence,
wealth and popularity, he remained,
so we decided. the boy from Kansas
who having made good in Spcctacu-
lar way RENAMED 10 the very last
the boy from Kansas.
He always saw the world md lis
great men and the good ana bad they
did with the eyes OF Il Kansas farm
boy. He kept that clear, close o-thc-
soil outlook. II was the backbone OF
his character and his personality. l.
gave him strength 10 see through at
rect ton and 10 judge motives and
results
In Washington where there is so
much a!tcc'ut!on. 50 much hypocrisy.
conscious and unconscious. simplicity
$ Il gift from heaven and one OF the
most valuable .. all commodities. l.
IS also one of The most lasting OF GOOD
qualities and assets.
q mean 0! course real simplicity.
Not The sor. thgt IS manufactured for
public display
Having lived in Washington most
Of my lite. have noticed as have
watched people come and 90. that il
5 the simple people, the people who
manage 90 keep on being themselves.
who don't bother with pvc:cnsc who
manage to survive.
II takes lot OF quality To survive
II Washington. Tho ~ &C either
makes or breaks the most stout
hearted. Washington seems kind.
But il is cruel. Seems welcoming,
eager 10 encourage. But il Will de-
vo"r you ]. YOU haven't reality.
Sizzling characters storm IN ana
prepare 10 conquer The s'oH-nu,Inn
capital. With press agents and cash
and hospitality they make rc dy -
rcHrIauG, the local customs ana
meanwhile make themselves famous
t"rc.cI' Sometimes tnr-c -5l2ling
characters, have Tic stun HAT makes
i"r survival. Generally. they lrdc
| f.HHH
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15
Eook ,nrb Meeting Postponed

w.g Contemporary Book cluo meet
.ng scheduled Tor Thursday has been
pl-'. ned uutll Thursday. February
>! H., announced today.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15
Attends Sisters Funeral

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. T.. Suc.d and
family attended III" tuner O! Nj.
SncJG's sister Mr.. O. ". Oak. Sun
day. al Clover. Va
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15

Corporal William p. BARRIE vino
wa, stationed al New River. has boon
transferred 20 Cherry Point. lis ncw
address j. Y. VI. S. T.. Sgd. 33& +. NJ.
+. Grip. 3%-3ri NJ. y. ". Cherry
Point. y. c.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15
Jr. Wunau'S Club.

TIL. T.n.pr Wuman's CLUB VIII
NICE. "wednesday evening al s o'clncK
m tie cafeteria oil the high school.
,uG .I members are urged 10 bc
present,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15
(incS TO California

Private Haywood {. Rayuor lcrt
for Pjttsburg. California. after spend
ing an ci@nt-day twIuugh with his
wife and parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T.. l..
Raynor.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15
". VI. =. In Meet.

The y. VI. 5. uI New Sandy Greet;
church u.l. meet with Mrs. -. /.
Ay,cg. Thursday night, February L..
II 1880 O'Clock.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15
K X X 4 4 4
X WITH THE COLORS r.
x X X X 4 4
At California COLLEGE.

Mr.. and Mis-. J. |. Crablrcc haze
received word from their son. Cadet
James {. CrdDtrcc. that IN" has been
sent /" Santa Maria. California. Ia.
primary training al Hancock college.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15

I'll. ..1uU-IcuCucr a>,nciHtipn q:
Ii,r...... G.gu school VIII meet 1T
g.sl .. %. "Wednesday afternoon III
,lr ..l..y al tine school.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15
Returns tu Delaware

Private Wilson T.. CuIr.u has re-.
turned tu Wilmington. Delaware. al
ter spending Il short time with his
wife on Andrews avenue.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15

Poultry is the second largest user
of grain and COnCC"tratc feeds. Rcgu-
lar culiing of floclis vii save mitch
needed feed and increase flock pro-
fits. say State Collcgc>poultry special
l;Itr
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15

T.r Av.pyN home demonstration
c,u. r. meet with Mrs. j. l.. Mur-
,ry F..sy. February 10
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-02-15
Improving After Operation

Mrs. 7. II. Weldon Is reported in
proving after an operation AZ Maria
Parham hospital las, Saturday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-24
Wild Bomber
Ends Flight

SIOUX CITY. Ia. Nov. %
INS)-The wild flying crewless
Bit Fortress bomber, whose pilot
less flight caused widespread
alarm as far east as Michigan, was
officially identified today as the
plane which crashed in north
eastern Minnesota yesterday.
Col. w. S. Dawson. commandment
OF the Sioux City air base. an
nounced that the crashed plane
was the bomber which took off
from the Sioux City base and
from which the crew Of 10 boiled
out at Marion. S. D., when motor
trouble developed.
One of the motors "conked' out
and the pilot was unable 10 keep
the propeller turning freely. The
resultant vibration was tearing
the motor loose from its mount
ingS.
The army flashed the alarm TO
all air bases. Civilian and military
authorities were aierted over a
wide area and the vagrant plane
was reported sighted" from
scores of places hundreds of miles
to the east, southeast and north
east
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-24
Pepper Spurs
65CMiniinnunn

WASHINGTON, Nov, % qNS)
Senator Pepper Cd of Florida
said today that he would seek
early approval Of the Senate labor
committee for his resolution de-
claring wages under 65 cents an
hour to be subStandard.
I'VE expect 20 have n meet
ing OF the subcommittee, prob
ably tomorrow. and a favorable
report Is assured" Pepper said.
The Pepper resolution was pro-
posed as a part of the program 70
break the Little Steel" wage
formula II was also designed 10
benefit white collar" workers in
some sections of the country.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-24
Poor Tirpitz
Spanish Deplore Sinking
Of Beautiful Ship

NEW YORK. Nov. % QNS)-
The Spanish home radio rebuked
Britain for sinking the beautiful"
German battleship Tirpitz.
The Spanish broadcast, mont
tored by the FEC, said the Tir-
pitt was "the main obstacle"
standing between northern Nor
way and a Russian invasion by
Stains hordes."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-24
Kalamazoo Girl Dies

KALAMAZOO, Nov % up
Judith MunS0n. 2, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Glenn Mum
son. died yesterday of burns when
she fell into a pail of hot water
SUNDAY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-24

How utterly feminine strawberries spilled In a
merry print on this sunny winter-time eottoni Sweet
square neck and pockets befriled with lacy cotton
eyelet, and Iook-double breasted Set-in belt puffy
sleeves. Blue rose IL to TO- See gift eottons.
WASH NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. sASEMENT-FARMrR
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
6 Principal Factors Which Are Holding Up Allied
 AdDance On German Front Are Analysed

Germany nilitarily. The closer one comes under direct enemy fire the more one learns that the Germans are not a broken force but still are capable of rugged fighting.
 But Germany's position is mili- tarily hopeless based on the overall situation. Germany can't possibly win the war on the battlefield. The Germans lack the necessary rnin- imum manpower.
 Germany lacks raw materials to carry on. The Nazi oil and fuel sit- uation daily becomes more precar- ious. The Reich'g industrial and ec- onomlc structure is sagging without any hopes Of recoevry. The loss of the Ruhr will virtually halt Ger manys means of wasing war. Mounting Allied pressure closing in on Germany from oil sides cannot be denied.
 All Alone
 The Germans now arc fighting all alone as a waning power against the combined might Of America. Russia, the British Empire, France and the occupied countries at the end Of five and Q half years of to- tai war. Hitlers military machine
 (conilnned on paes Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
Sinos Holt Jop Drive
By WALTER BUNDLE

United Press aWr Correspondent
 Chungking, Dec. 5-(UP)-Fresh Chinese troops, presumably includ- ing reserves withdrawn from the Communist border area" of the northwest, have halted for the mo- ment the dangerous Jap drive in Kweichow, a Chinese communique reported tonight.
 The new Chinese forces, the con- munique said, have recaptured Pachai, the most dangerous Jap anese spearhead which is only 55 miles southwest of the great Amer ican air base at Kweiyang.
 The communique did not indi- cate that the Japanese offensive threat had been permanently re- duced but thta for the moment the Chinese have thrown check into the attacking Japanese armies.
 The move of Chinese special troops south from the Communist area was expected to have far reaching military and political re- percussions.
 Coming on the heels of Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek's second gov- ernment shake-up, the shifting of the northern troops was interpreted as evidence of Chungking's deter imitation to check the Japanese in- vaders and, at the same time, to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
.9o-Doy Low 0n.Liquor
 In Use Here

State legislation enacting new laws to conf1ne the extent of liquor package store establishments here and elsewhere in the state will like ly be fostered at the January open ing of the General Assembly. A 90 day restricting directive on all new liquor store permits has already been ordered by the State Liquor Commission and is now in effect in Waterbury and elsewhere in Connecticut.
 The directive orders the "freez- ing" of all permits requested since on or about November 10th for a 90 day period, said period extend- ing through the opening date of the General Assembly in January. It has been stated that future legislation, if enacted, will be based on the need for controlled plans for returning serviccmen who con- template entering the package store business. Proponents of such a measure claim the field will be too crowded at that time to permit the profitable entrance of these men, into the field.
 A similar proposal was made here by the Package Store association which appealed to the Board of AL dermen seeking limitation on new stores. A public hearing was held on the matter at which time various other groups and individuals op- posed the proposals. The measure is to be heard at the regular meeting of the aldermanic board in couple of weeks and is reported to be op- posed by the majority of the mem bers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
9th Captures
 Prize Center Of Rovennu

Rome, Dec. 5 --UP)-- Eighth Army troops have captured the i'm portant road center of Ravenna, miles inland from Italy's Adriatit coast. 1t was announced today.
 Ravenna, wits, a population ol 30,000, is the focal point for high ways leading to Bologna in Italy'S Pc valley and to northeast Italy.
 British infantry units previously had cut the Ravenna- Bologna rail- way line in occupying Godo and Rus si. midway between Ravenna and Faenza, the latter a key center on the important Bologna -Rimini high way.
 GA Berlin military spokesman re- ported that Field Marshal Harold E. L. G. Alexander. commander-in- chief of Allied Mediterranean forces, lad launched a new offensive in Italy)
 The conquest of Ravenna was the most northern penetration of Italy and brought the Allied line at that point 530 miles from Berlin.
 Other Eighth Army troops forced bridgehead over the Scolo Ria Cuipa canal south of Russi against strong German resistance and had cleared the enemy from the sector east of the Lamone river.
 Farther west Indian division troops at the right flank of the Fifth Army moved against light resistance to take four heights about 10 miles south Castel Bolognes which Is on the main highway six miles northwest of AEaenza.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
Berlin Is BIitzed Again

London, Dec. 5 - (UP) - More than $50 Flying Fortresses and 1iib- orators, escorted by upwards of 800 fighters, hammered industrial tar- gets in Berlin and rail freight yards at Munster, just behind the western battlefront, today in another phase of the nonstop aerial offenslve against Germany.
 The assault on the German capi~ tai attracted the Luftwaffe. whlch engaged the American raiders in furious aerial combats. Preliminary reports showed that at least 8i German planes were shot down.
 The American raid followed heavy night attack on Karlsruhe and Hefbronn by almost 1000 Bri~ tish planes. These dumped more than 5000 tons, of bombs on the two cities lying athwarth lines link ing the Ruhr Valley and central Germany to the southern sector c the western front.
 A munitions and tank plant in the Berlin suburb of Tegel was the prin- cipal target of the Eighth Air Force heavies, although other industrial targets inside the capital also were hit.
 Several objectives were attained despite adverse weather, the D. 6. strategic air force announced.
 The big fighter escort was sent along with the Fortresses and Lihef~ ators in the correct assumption t1e German air force would fight hae&s particularly over Berlin.
 Returning flyers reported s'huge~ dogfights ragged above the tarsets mainly in the Berlin area, with tl14
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
Mushoshino
 Only Dented
By MAC R. JOHNSON
,1nited Press Mar Correspondentl

United Press War COrreSpOndentD
 Headquarters Fist Bomber Conl- mand, Saipan, Dec. 5 = (UP0 = (Via Navy Radio)-Reconnaissance photographs of Sundays Superfort- ress raid on the Mushashina factory of the Nakajima aircraft works in Tokyo showed that the plant had been hit but was mot destroyed by any means Brigadier General Haywood s. Hansell, commander of the Fist Bomber Command, an- nounced today.
 The giant SuperfortreSses whiSked over the target in the Tokyo area on a 200-mile -an-hour tailwind which resulted in speeds in excess of 400 miles an hour and conse- quently made bombing conditions extremely difficult, Hansell reported.
 However, he said that substantial damage had been inflicted on the aircraft works in the western sub urbs of Tokyo. The MushaShina fac- tory, he explained, had been a tar- get of the SuperfortresSes in the first and fourth raids on the Jap anese capital and excellent results were achieved in the latter attack.
 Much still remains to be accom- plished in raids on BonShu Island where a great part of Japan's ship building and aircraft industry is concentrated, Hansel said.
 A cloud cover over the Tokyo area interferred wiHa visual preci- sion bombing of targets and resulted in less complete photographic cov- craze of results than desired, he declared.
 However, he added, the B-29s have stood up well under the tempo of four raids on Honshu in 10 days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
FOR Plans Drastic
 State Dept. Changes
BY ROBERT J. MANNING

DX kSODEh1 Ss MANNANG
 United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, December 5. -- (UP) n President Roosevelt, preparing the State Department for strong direction, of American foreign policy 1 in the critical years ahead. studied still more appointments and person nel changes today to complete per haps the most significant shakeup in the departments 15S year history
 MT. Roosevelt began the reorgan- iZation yesterday - just three days after 44-year-old Edward R. Stet- tinius, Jr., became Secretary of State to succeed Cordell Hull = by naming a new undersecretary, an- nouncing resignations of three as- Sistant secretaries, nominating their successors and transferring to the department what may be the first of series of new cultural and economic activities.
 These included the work Of the office of coordinator of interAmeri- can affairs, whose director, Nelson A. Rockefeller, was nominated as one of the assistant secretaries of state, and may later take in some of the functions of the foreign eco homie administration and any office of War Information activities that are retained after the war.
 Other appointments strengthen
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
|Rioting Reigns In Athens
 As Churchill Issues Warning
Allies Aim To Prevent Civil War

London, Dec. 5-(UP) = Prime Minister Winston Churchill said to- day that Allies would exert their full weightSof arms to restore order in strife torn Greece, but they could not succeed if tommy guns provided for use against the Nazis were used in an attempt to impose Com munist dictatorship on the country.
 Churchill sketched for clamor- ouS House of Commons, which fre- quently interrupted him with point ed questions, the bloody crisis in Greece. He said the considerable" British forces in Greece would be engaged fully in an attempt to put down Leftist demonstrations and attacks. and to slave off the threat ened civil war.
 Even as he spoke, Athens dis patches reported new outbreaks of violence.
 We and our American allies are doing our utmost to give assistance, and our troops are acting to pre- vent bloodshed," Churchill told a cheering House of Commons.
 Whether the Greek people eStab- fish 8 monarchy or 8 republic, a government of the right or left, "are matters entirely for them," Church. ill said adding:
 Until they are in position to de- eide, we shall not hesitate to use the considerable British Army now in Greece and being reinforced to see that law and order are main tained."
 Confronted by a stormy labor de- mand for full dress debate on the crisis in Greece, Churchill turned it down on the grounds of prior arr engagements for consideration oi other subjects at this time.
 Athens dispatches reported unof- tflcialiy that Premier George Papsan- derou had resigned and that The mistolcles Sofoulis, leader of the Liberty party, had succeeded him after conferences with representa- tiveS of other parties.
 Violence continued in the Athens area for the third straight day. British troops began re-occupying public buildings in the Piraeus port zone, and attacks were made on prisons in the capitals suburbs by
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
By VIRGIL PINKLEY

Limited Press War CorrespOndent)
 With the Allied Armies inside Germany, Dec. 5-tUP)-Six princi- pal factors keep the powerful Allied Armies from smashing over the Rhine and then battering their way quickly Into Berlin.
 They are:
 O)-Stiff, stubborn capable Ger. man resistance.
 (2)-Lack of full quota of sup- plies along the fronts, particularly shells and gasoline.
 @ --The weather which frequent iy denies the use of overwhelming Allied air superiority and makes employment of tsnks difficult.
 (D-The terrain.
 (5)-Transporlation difficulties, especially lack Of ports plus long sippy lines.
 te)-The will of the German peo- pic, thus fer, to resist, including standing up to tho pulveri1ine Ale lied air boInbardnoIlt.
 Theso conclual0ns arc reached ca Q result of covering the various fronts by ioep. afoot and by aircraft, baing under artillery, mortar niid shell fire. and experiencing ell
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
Popondreou Resignation Is Reported

Athens, December 5. = (UP) - Premier George Papandreou was re- ported to have resigned today as the death toll oin riot-torn Athens rose to 27 and defiant 1eftist leaders proclaimed their intention of can- tinuing strikes and demonstrations until they have won a new gov- ernment. '
 There was no immediate confir- maation of Papandreou's reported resignation, but the hours of his government seemed numbered in view of the spreading disorders and the left-wing Fam leaders open defiance of both the civil autlori- ties and the British military.
 Themistocles Sofoulis, leader of the liberal party was said to have succeeded Papandreou as premier after consultations with representa- tiveS of the other parties.
 The general strike, originally hm- tied to only A hours, brought added pressure against the Papandreou government. All public and private services were idle. No street cars operated. Public utilities were not functioning. The Athens radio sta tion was silent.
 Six deaths were reported in skir- mishes yesterday, mostly between ElaS irregulars, military arm of the Fam, and government police. The Tlas was protesting a government order that its members surrender the arms with which they helped to liberate Greece.
 Elas Partisans seized Thisson, a section of Athens, and also attacked gendarmerie barracks at Makrigiani inside the city limits, and prisons at Vouliagmeni, in the suburbs.
 e-.- -Elas trops were said to be using mortars in some attacks.
 At one time, ElaS units held all but six police stations in the center of Athens, but they yielded some without resistance to intervening British troops and were ordered to quit the remainder by Lieutenant General Ronald Scobie, British commander in Athens.
 Later, however, it was learned that only five of his capitals 24 po- lice stations were still in govern
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
THIRD ARMY DRIVES 1 10 MILES BEYOND
 SAARLAUTERN TOWARD SIEGFR|ED LINE
.NAzIS HURL
 BIG BARRAG
 AT ATTACKERS
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY fry. wr xx-.. sa..s

BY J. EDWARD MURRAY
 United Press War COrrespOndenty
 Paris, December 5. - (UPl1 = It. Gen. George s. Pat tons Third Army, striking out from it's bridgehead across the Saar river some six miles inside c erm a n plunged a mile and a half beyond burning Saarlautern today in a bid for a new breakthrough of the Sieg fried line.
 Front dispatches said eles ments of the 95th Division were believed already to have contacted the outposts of the 1O-mile Deer line protecting the heart of the industrial and mineral-rich Saar basin and the Rhineland beyond.
 Siegfried line forts were hurting thousands of shells across the road of advance, into Saarlautern ttSeh and at the Saar bridge over Wlalcn American infantry and tanks were pouring for the next stages or the assault on the Saar basin.
 Along a 4O-lni1e front to the southeast, Patton swung his right flank northward to within Q little more than six miles of Saarbrucken, capital of the Saar basin, five miles from the French border city of Sar- reguemines. Patton's artillery al- ready was bombarding Saarbruckeu.
 The battle along the Roer river before Cologne and Dusseldorf where the Americans first hreacnen the Siegfried line, settled down largely to patrol action and aTtil-. lery duels as the F.irst and Ninth Armies gathered strength for q | Iunge to the east bank, German preparations for counter-attacs I against Ltnnich and Iaichezbsrg were smashed by American artillery.
 At the northern tip of the 409- mile western front, the Germans blew up dikes along the lower Rhine river in Holland, flooding the Britt ish-C Canadian bridgehead above Ni-' jmegen to a depth of foot in some places in an effort to discourage any renewed attempt to force the river.
 The Canadians "changed'' some positions in the flooded area, dis patches said, but beat off an attack I by a German parachute division. Fifty Germans were killed and no captured.
 British troops in southeast Hol- land liquidated the German bridge head west of Venlo, the last enemy (Continued on Page A)