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beating the Nazis back step by step across the Gargigliano valley floor, despite repeated armored counter attacks and enemy motar fire.
 At the center of the 5th Army Line, American and French units massed along the cast bank of the Rapoid river before Casino and sent patrols stabbin ginto the en- emy defenses. In preparation for a full-scale assault nthat fortress town straddling the inland invasion road to Rome.
 American heavy guns, including the deadly l55-millimeter "long toms" hurled tons of shells into the battered town.
 A headquarters spokesman re- vealed that the French forces at- tacking north of Casino captured GOO German prisoners between Jan l2 and l8, and inflicted heavy casu' alties on the enemy.
 Canadian Units
 Across the Italian boot, Canadian units of the British Sth Army pressed a savage attack against Nag strong points in the hills overlook ing the Adriatic coastal road just north and west of Ortona.
 While the entire land front blazed into action, swarms of Al lied fighters and fighter bomber' battered the enemy's front lines and flying Actresses and Liberators spread ruin through the network ci German-co controlled railroads in Tuscany.
 Other Allied raiders swept acros: the Adriatic to hammer enemy ship ping and port installations along the Jugoslav coast, while British destroyers pounded the Nazi-held Italian shore line in advance of the the attacking Eighth Army.
 American light naval units, pre- sumably destroyers or PIT boats raced body into the Ligurian Sea Monday night to shell enemy lighters of the Port of Spezia, al- most midway between Genoa and Leghorn.
 United Press staff correspondent Reynolds Packard reported from the British 5th Army front that the new offensive opened at 9 p. m Monday when the British crossed the Garigliano at three places and established firm beachheads on the north bank of the river
 German resistance was reported strongest near the Tyrrhenian coast where the enemy threw his armored forces into repeated counter attacks and laid down heavy mortar bar rage in a vain effort to hurl the British back across the stream.
 The attack thrust squarely into one of the most-heavily fortified sectors of the entire German line & maze of concrete gun emplace- ments, trenches. pillboxes and ma chine gun nests from which the Nazis put up a stubborn battle.
 Recent dispatches had indicated the Garigliano had been swollen by melting snows to an almost-im- passible mile-wide torrent. but the floods were believed to have sub- sided in the past few days of clear weather.
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 Stimson said that from Q finan- cial standpoint. the War Depart ment will never have been in the railroad business at all"
 We will owe the carriers no- thing; they will owe us nothing, " he said.
 The steel wage controversy was tossed at the administration in a letter from John A. Stephens, U. S. Steel vice president, who asked Miss Perkins to certify the dispute immediately to the VILE.
 Stephens said some of the union demands, which include a request for a general wage increase of IT cents an hour, were "of such a na- ture as not to permit solution in collective bargaining since they either involve departure from the national economic stabilization pro- gram administered by the National War Labor Board or concern fund amental matters of principle on which the respective viewpoints cannot be reconciled"
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 to belittle the effect which such a situation will have on the ultimate welfare of our democracy. If it continues 1t will surely affect the morale of the Army. It is likely to prolong the war and endanger our ultimate success"
 Sthnson went on to warn that il might also "have an effect on the future unity of our nation which Is disturbing to contemplate"
 This war will last much longer than the last great war;" he said. "The effect of this division between the men who have borne the bur- den of the fighting abroad and the men who have shown this irrespon- sibility at home will have a longer time to sink in and be accentuated It will not be forgotten easily.'
 Stimson said the men in the army see the country divided into two distinct classes. On the one hand, he said, are members of the armed forces who were taken through selective service and told not only that they must serve, but the time, the place and the method of their service has been chosen for them.'
 Unacceptable Duty
 "They are facing a duty which they cannot escape and which in- volved the possibility of death or mutilation," he said.
 On the other side they see that the government imposes no corre- spending duty upon the remaining men of the nation and even per- mits them to leave the most i'm portant war jobs without regard to the needs of their country"
 The remedy, Stimson said, lis for the nation to make clear in no un> certain terms the equality of obli- gations of its citizens"
 Stimson said legislation penaliz- ing strikes is not the answer for it threats a symptom and not the disease"
 The purpose of a national service law, Stimson told the committee lis to get at this basic evil which pro- duces the Responsibility out of which stem strikes, threats of strikes, excessive turnoverS. ab- senteeisn1 and the other manifesto tions of Responsibility with which we are now plagued.
 Tt is aimed to extend the prin- ciples of Democracy and justice more evenly throughout our popu- lation."
 Stimson has long advocated labor draft legislation. His demand for 1t today came in the midst of stiff congressional opposition to national service.
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 to Billy Holiday as choice for female vocalist, really warmed uu the crowd In the closing minutes with more than you know" and 'Honeysuckle Rose" and then Lio- mel Hampton, runner-up to Red Norvo in the odd instrument cate- gory, cut loose on the Wbraharp with Flying Home" Hampton and drums winner Sidney Catlett then tangled in a percussion duel that had the audience in an uproar and left the crowd shouting for more when the curtains were drawn.
 Louis Armstrong was a double winner, being designated as the leading trumpeter and male vocal ist Roy Eldridge was on the other trumpet; Jack Teagarden was a big favorite as trombonist and sec- ond vocalist; Coleman Hawkins and Barney Bigard were on the sax and clarinet with Benny Good man, the first place clarinet win iler. being piped in from the west coast for a solo of his new compo- sition "Rachel's Dream; Al Casey was tops on the guitar; Art Tatum played piano and Oscar Pettiford plucked the bass.
 There were so many photogra- pherS in the place setting of Verey Lights, Roman candles and distress flares that Q concessionaire selling smoked glasses would have made a fortune Tatum, the piano player from Toledo, has been blind since childhood and learned to play by ear Norvo, whose real name is Kenneth Norville, led the band while Mildred Bailey sang Man and wife five of the numbers played were the work of members of the band the Met can now consider itself in the groove. Remembsr Caruso9
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(Contlnued rom Fage l) the river, can hear Q terrific can- nonading, indicating stiff German resistance. We're crossing along Q wide expense of river bank and some of the rafts carry mules which which will haul supplies into the forested hills ahead of us.
 It's 60 to 30 feet across the river at this point. near Castle Forte, but flood waters have made a raging torrent out of the stream. Some Tommies fall off their rafts and I can see them swimming, burdened by their packs and rifles, through the icy waters.
 The tracer bullets arch overhead like a ruby necklace against the sky. Now the Germans are return ing our artillery fire and both banks are lighted by intermittent flashes as shells explode. It sounds so much like @ thunderstorm that you almost expect it to rain any minute.
 AS the first coral streakS of tints of dawn appear light the horizon, l can make out more details. We've thrown up smoke screens along the river banks to shield our ferry serv- ice which still is shutting at a rapid clip.
 Our troops have pushed forward to occupy strategic knolls and can see Allied planes swoop low over the trees to bomb and strafe the enemy just ahead.
 Chandelier Flares
 The Germans hang chaldelier flares-brilliant magnesium lights under parachutes-in clusters of three of four over the river until our machine guns cut them down.
 Fires spring up on the German shore from our artillery barrage and by dawn ct least four are visible from here. One battery has hit a German ammunition dump behind a mountain peak and the flames sil- houette 1t as if searchlights were playing behind 1t.
 As daylight advances 1t is possible to calculate that we have advanced over 10-mile front from the gulf inland. The troops are pushing the Germans back and the ferry serv- ice is bringing @ steady supply of ammunition and endorsements.
 By afternoon, the surprised Ger mans have recovered from our ini- tial push enough to counter attack near the coast line. They've rushed up tanks from somewhere behind their line, but the British have a firm hold on heights north of the river and the counter-attack is re- pulsed.
 German prisoners begin to come back over the river on the return shuttle.
 Our surprise appears to have beer complete. Coming up to this obser- vation spot in @ jeep we proceeded with greatest caution. Signs along the road warned: "You are being observed by the enemy. Keep 400 yards apart. Drive slow because dust means death"
 had tea with the British officer commanding the operations earlier and he told me the past several days had been devoted to cleaning ur German patrols that had penetrated south of the river. He believed they had been wiped out and said: "If the element of surprise succeeds, there won't be any artillery fire before p. m."
 I got to the rooftop at 8 o'clock And the British plans worked out perfectly and not gun fired be- fore the zero hour.
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Hitler PIons
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Continued from Page D ing them in the face at Tunis, ac- cording to the report. they realized 1t was time to prepare haven for themselves and their capital The United Nations had made 1t clear they had intended to punish all Axis war criminals and the Nazi leaders realized that no European neutral could offer protection.
 "'They knew that they could find real safety only in a country they could control through subterfuge what better place could Hitler find than a country in the new world easy to prepare as a haven and one which the United Nations would hesitate to invade for fear Of being accused of imperialism by her other good neighbors?'
 Thus" the dispatch continued, it is plain that Germany began a systematic study of Argentina $ hopes and fears and weaknesses. The Nazis corrupted her politi- clans, bribed her officials, spread propaganda through the press, radio and church. and finally fur- nished the will and push to enr ginee a crafty revolution to meet her needs"
 Nazi Victory
 The dispatch gave no further de- tails of Hitler's haven plan or the reports authorship, but said that the document asserts that by win- ming the battle of Argentina, the Nazis have attacked the western hemisphere on the theological front at its weakest point"
 "The document concludes" the dispatch said. with a plea that the United States take immediate steps economic to begin with, military If necessary-to bring about an early downfall of Argentina's dic- tator' and restore the country to its people, the majority of whom, it is held are pro-Democratic."
 The Nuffield Foundation is to
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Chairman

Chairman
 Members of the Russian War Relief committee participated to. day in the observance of 'Theater Day" feature of the Fourth War Loan campaign. A special cOmmit- tee headed by Mrs. John Stanes- low was in charge of Q booth in the lobby of the Sate Theater and in addition to selling bonds advised many prospective buyers on prO- cedure.
 Mrs. Staneslow was assisted by Mrs. Joseph Yenkeluni, Mrs. Law renee KOleshkO, and Miss Lillian Beed. A Russian film, North Star" fitted appropriately iuntO the com- mittee's activities.
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 Faces About Towns Their Royal ffighnesses CroSn Prince Olaf and his lovely Princess Martha supping incoR ct the waldorf wedgewood with not on ogler hep Anna bella, the star, alone in Theodore's $
 Narlene Dietrich on Legs ing ton Avenue Martha Scott enter ing the stage door at the Mayors Center Theater, the towns new bargain Jane Darwell, one of Hollywood's good ads, chow-meining producer pr @ of 'srhe Heavenly Body which stars Hedy Lamar, bit of heaven herself .. Louis Jordan, a newcomer, due at the State The ater next week. His records have been sold to over three million, al- ready Benny Goodman, the thrillebrity.
 SaIlies In Our Alley: Over at The Gamecock a movie actor said that Hollywood "iS wonderful to every one except people with smallpox" .A To which cynic Queried; You mean to tell me that guy with a flat wallet would be welcome there?' .. "No," was the retort, in Hol- lywood Q flat wallet is the first sign of Smallpoxl" D. Lowe'S nifty: When the Yanks take Cassino. they'll have to play with 5l cards as the Duce is missing"
 NTemOs of a Midnighter: It. Rob- ert D. Cutting and his bride GET mandean Walters) will be 3 soon. He recently shot down 2 Messer- schmitts. She plays the sister in Song of Bernadette" Pre- viewers say Danny Kaye's up in Arms" performance in cine-magic .. Yvette has been chosen Wal entine Girl" for the Feb. l2 Colum- bfa U. Student Ball at the Roose- welt The Walter Kinsellas will be in the Summer. She is Jane Davis, Powers lovely .. Billy Rose is trying to sign his ex-wife, Fanny Brice, to star in his show at the ziegfeld Add lessons in toler- ance: The cab driver named Christ Abraham The Donald Cases (he's the railroad heir) are having the miseries. She was Maria Aus tin of the stage Babs Beck with (who broke her betrothal to It. Orrin Lehman last week. will marry It. George Gibson of the Air Corps. Now abroad.
 Broadway Story: He is on a local gazette The editors wish he'd go peddle his stuff elsewhere Res- son: He allegedly dined with &C., cused killer, Wayne Lonergan-- sometime during the following day Lonergan Is charged with the murder of his wife earlier that Sabbath Of course, the newspaperman didn't know his friend had killed anybody If the accused killer doesn't plead tem- porary insanity Gas many hope), the newspaper feels 1t will be need lessly embarrassed It isn't the first time one of the staff has been in similar trouble About a year ago another of its by-liners was arrested in a raid at a sinful place in Brooklyn The first was also recently robbed by sailor he invited to his midtown apartment tor a dwink.
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NOTICE

Annual Meeting for ScOvill Mfg. Co. Credit Union No. to be held at Doolittle Alley Hall, Hamilton Ave, 1880 p. m.. Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1944. All members are urged to attend.
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News in the Army spreads fast and now the WACs are wing with servicemen in this area to be the first to get tickets to those famed fun sessions-the Amos n Andy pfcviews.
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photographed copies of the alleged Briggs letters which Langer pre- sented in an attempt to show that Briggs had obtained the celebrated Hopkins" letter for Sparks.
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By United Press

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 The Berlin radio today described as "pure invention" @ report pulp lished by the Moscow newspaper Pravda that Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop had met two leading British personalities to discuss separate peace terms.
 'sThis report is considered by the Wilhelmstrasse solely as an attempt by the soviets to extort from Wash- ington and London an early tncon- ditiOnaI oath of loyalty for world public opinion" a German propa- genda broadcast said.
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Walter WiHAcIAeII
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ANAN4AAAAMNNNAAA &AG NAZ ANeAANN - NAA~A@N In most claes these days. In fact they are getting as difficult to find as tenants in the good old days of the depression A real estate agent (trying Co convince O frienO phoned Q competitor and said: "A few months ago looked at an apartment for SS01 per, It was sub- let. I think it's the same one in which Mrs. Lonergan was murdered. Can you get 1t for mel" -. "You may have it." was the eager an~ swer, "just as soon as the police leave t."
 For Diversion Seekers: War Cor respondent Leland Stowe'S new book: They Shall Not Sleep"
 (KnopD E. R. Stettinius, Jrs book: Lend Lease" The 3 Sis- ters via CBSundays The way Helen Forrest toys with Basin St, Blues" ., Ida Luplno's playing in Tn Our Time" Woody Her mans platter; By the River of the Roses" The card game. Crazy 8s". Three to ten may play 1t. The eights are wild, and the player has to match face cards in suit or number or keep drawing. The first out of cards wins
 Manhattan Murals: The pln-up window display at 50th and 7th. Stops more traffic than the cor ner cop The line of wet wash strung from the penthouse window atop the swanky Park Avenue and 47th ediflce The group lined up outside 6 Broadway and 49th Street cigar store, New shipment of choongum, thassan The can did camera smart aleck, who snaps the unsuspecting girls around Rockefeller Plaza -- the windiest spot of all The clothier's sign in Harlem for zoot-Soots: Victor Mature Shouldersl"
 Broadway SmAlltalk: Carmen D. Antonio of the moom- pitchers keeps her mocha complexion ther exploit CT allegeS) by taking coffee baths Fely Franquelli, in the screens Cry Havoc" may be Tabu In Dancing Cannibal," by Mildred L. Cantor They say you can't rent an office in the Paramount Bldg. If you cast actors Wm. Har- bach, the composers son (the handsomest Coast GuardSman, to hear the Stork Club gels argue iO, will be decorated. For saving a sailor from drowning tbetween two ships) somewhere in Florida waters .l Life's current issue. in captloning the Under Cover" spread, said that the best-Seller started its climb to the Number One slot when at tempts were made to suppress 1t" .. It was best-seller long before :. !. AP correspondent Larry Allen sent pals here card dated Nov. l8) from concentration camp in Po- land. It read: Escaped in Italy; was run over by train; badly hurt; OK now"
 New York Miami Beach N0velette The newspaper in Florida had NuAIS SpO1y dpOuL LllC Sdle Ol dLl old house on one of the islands near Miami Beach The price was over $60,000 Quite a sum for a house built long ago But the gazettes did not reveal eff they knew) the reason This is why When 1t was built 1t was a honeymoon mansion for a couple just down from the North He was much older And so she fell in love with an entertainer at one of the hot spots - financed him in his own night club, and was around long enough to see him become i'll and die Not long af- ter she was broke She returned to New York and went to work in a show {. !. Where she met and married a wealthy man and bought the house she ran away from "a million years ago.
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If a lion licked your hand, it's rough tongue would rasp of the skin.
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NOhtA1uCo 1ESsu EaBo O
 '"The report further states that the German diplomatic plan for 1944 calls for Q separation between Rus- sia and the western powers.
 Tt ends by saying that the 1030 alliance with Russia can be repeat ed'."
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Buy War Bonds S Stamps
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The Nuffield Foundation is to pay for the training in England of six Maltese doctors.
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Midtown Shudder: Apartments in
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-15
Pvt. Leonard Kyle Shoemaker,

Pvt. Leonard Kyle Shoemaker,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. G.. M. Shoe
maker, of Wagner, who was re-
ported missing in February, is
now a prisoner of the German
government. His parents re-
ceived a postal card from him
this week, which had been written
on March IL, in which he says:
81 am a prisoner in German cap
tivity and am in good health.
From here (Transit Camp I will
be transported during the next
few days to another camp, the ad-
dress of which I shall give you
later. From there I can get your
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-15

Sgt. George D. H0uck, son OF
Nr. and Mrs. Lawson Houck, of
West Jefferson, has been pro-
Eaoted to Staff Sergeant with the
Ninth Air Force, somewhere in
England. Sgt. Houck, an air.
craft welder, attended West JEFF
ferson High School and prior to
entering the armed forces, was a
Welder for the West Penn. Ma
chine Shops.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-15

Sgt. Joseph d. HOuck, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Houck, of
West Jefferson, has been in serv-
ice for the past two years and is
now stationed somewhere in the
Hawaiian Islands with the Air
Corps. He writes that he is get
ting along fine,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-15

Alfred Burman Hurt, Jr., Sic,
@of the u. S. Navy, son of Mr.. and
Mrs, A. B. Hurt, of Nathan's
> Creek, has recently arrived at the
: Naval Training Station, Great
: Lakes, Ill. His brother, Bobby
Hurt, who has been in the Navy
for the past year, receiving flight
training, is also stationed there.
They are together for the first
time in several years.
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THE sKYLAND POST, WEST JEFFERSON, N. c.

stayed for the night at the home
of an Italian, who was away from
home. There were four goats
there, so we MIXED them and had
milk to drink for the first time
since we came overseas"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-15

Sgt. Thomas G. Arnold, of
Camp Gruber, Okla, writes that
he is getting along fine and to
give his regards to all the folks
in Ashe county He recently
spent a short furlough with rel
atives here, after completing
training in Tennessee.
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letters and can reply to them"
Pvt. Shoemaker has been in serv-
ice for sometime and has three
brothers in service.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-15

Pfc. Raymond Lee Barker, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Mayor Barker, of
Bina, has been in service for over
three years and overseas for sew
en- months. He was recently
awarded the good conduct medal
and writes that he is getting along
fine.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-15

Antonio, Texas, will be transfer
red to Randolph Field soon for
advanced training. He received
basic training there.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-15

Cpl. Smith ShOemake has been
transferred to an army air base
at Harvard, Nebraska, from Lin
coin, Neb., where he has been for
nearly two years.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-15

Cpl. e. r. Jones, M. P, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. w, L. Jones, of Amy,
is somewhere in India.
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A-C Richard w. Ashley is TAX

ling boot" training at the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station.
His wife and son, Dickie, are
making their home with his pa
rents, MIR. and Mrs. @. H. Ashley
at WarrenSville.
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Cpl. James Elmo Jones, para
trooper, is in England, where he
has been an instructor in air
borne infantry for sometime.