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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
PAUL EDWARD REID

Paul, Is years of age is a quiet,
studious boy. Played on ball
team, 1914. Hobbies: Playing the
guitar and basketball. Ambition:
To become an aviation cadet. Mot
to: Expect the best and take what
comes"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
IMOGENE BLEDSOE

''Pete", Is years old, is a de-
pendable student. A member of
basketball team for 3 years, voted
by class as the wittiest girl. Am
bition: To become a Red Cross
nurse. Hobbies: Skating, basket
ball, travelling. Motto: "Life's
too short to take long chances"
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Way stronghold 10 miles southwest of Valmontone and l9 miles south. east of Rome, the special communi- que said.
 Velletri already had been doomed, however, by the surprise thrust into the hills to the north and northeast and its fall was believed near. The resistance inside the town was not expected to retard the Allied ad- vance on Rome, though guns em- placed in the city added their har- rasSing fire to that of guns em. placed in the Alban Hills.
 American tanks had been stand ing outside Velletri fro several days unable to enter the town because of fire from enemy Self-propelled guns. An outflanking column finally pen etrated its streets from the north east after overrunning Lariano, four miles away on the road from Val montone.
 The Germans also rushed rein- forcements into Velletri in an 1lth hour attempt to save the town and seal off the American penetration, but their efforts apparently came too late.
 Horse Tenders
 Company butcher sand horse ten ders were thrown into the Germans front line as fighting units.
 Even as the fall of ValmontorH would collapse the enemy's rigia; flank so the capture of Velletri would speed the Allied drive up the Via Casilina around the left flank of the Alban Hills.
 American units clearing the en- emy from the Artemisio mountains in the heart of the Alban hills were only two and a half miles from Mt. Della Faeta, where slopes descend to the wooded Campagna Plain and Rome itself. Its capture would by pass both the Germans Appian Way strong hold of Albano and nearby Castel Gandolro, site of the Pope's summer home.
 The Germans also were resist ing strongly in the Lanuvio- Cam poleone sector southwest of Vel letri. Because most of the Allied armor was committed there, the Germans had expected the main attack to come from that sector.
 Frequent German counter attacks,
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NOOIlllIlueu 1TOIn rage U nations to aspire to freedom. That was not necessarily considered an invitation to colonies to revolt now during the war-against their United Nations keepers but it was an emphatic on-the-record warning that those who think the United States is moving toward postwar i'm perialiSIn or acquieScence in post war imperialism may be wrong.
 The fact that Hulls statement, made public for direct quotation after the press conference. was ex- temporaneous gave special signifl- canoe to 1t for those who know Hull. He does not speak casually and to them 1t was evidence that the problems of small nations and the trend in some quarters to con- tinue to glorify colonial empires has been bothering him.
 The 72-year-old secretary ordinar- fly is a man of few words, even at press conferences. But when he is ready to speak on a subject that has been nettling him, he speaks emphatically.
 That was the case yesterday. The subject was brought up by a re- porter who asked whether Hull could give small nations some reinsurance about their position in the proposed international organization. In keep ing with the traditional policy of the United States for l50 years, Hull replied. the international organiza- ton will be constructed on the principle of sovereign equality of all nations-big and little. weak and strong
 But more than half of his 10 min utes talk to reporters applied more directly to colonial people.
 No one had to put us on the witness stand to know what we were doing" for the Philippines, he be- gan; even earlier in American his tory. we preached the same spirit of liberty to South American coun- tries ''in the chains of Spanish despotism" and then recognized them. right and left" as soon as they threw of the yoke.
 That has been our consistent re- cord, a record of championship of liberty for everybody, encouraging them at all times and in all places. [" Hull said.
 T see no reason why this country. this great free people who through generations have dedicated them- selves to this wonderful human cause and preserved it-I see no rea- son why they should be catechized every morning before breakfast as to their loyalty to liberty. or their consistent desire of liberty for every body and freedom for aspiring peo- pies everywhere"
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Continued from Page D street. Hundreds of subway passen- gers were made so violently ill as the trains pulled in that they left the cars and with difficulty sought the street level. Above, the gas spread over the area.
 Eventually the fumes were pumped out of the tunnels by a powerful smoke ejector, and gradually they evaporated outside.
 Scores of ambulances, Red Cross doctors and nurses, private physi- clans and volunteers administered aid to the afflicted men. Women and children, often treating them where they fell on the streets and sidewalks. Hospitals ,n the neigh borhood were damned, and many awaited relief on the ,awns.
 The gas escaped from a metal cylinder, one of 20 which Golliver was taking to a waterfront pier where the chlorine was to be shipped to South America. Police said they found hole rusted in the cylinder.
 The driver, whose trurck was owned by Lester J. Denner of the DeMar Transport Co.,. told police he picked up the cylinders at the plant of the Standard Oil Company in Bayonne. N. J.
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into dust by wind and rain, rem- nants of the wild West Mod. ern cowboys who now spend more time riding in station wagons than on hosses The brilliance of a Western night - a dark-faced sky freckled with stars. Much poetry and many songs have been written in tribute to its over-powering beauty. But nothing can match the first-hand view of this shimmering phenomenon The many peace- full sights that make you think the war is very far away. But a plane drilling its way through the sky reminds you nothing is beyond the wars reach Peaceful Indians now selling souvenirs at railroad stations ,. Cattle herds in the sun- set making a picture postcard to be filed in your memory,
 Desert nights filled with roman- tic mysteries When you see the gigantic natural obstacles that still exist in the West you are filled with renewed respect and pride for the pioneers who built a civiliza- tion on the foundation of blyood, sweat and tears Tiny villages with less population than in a Big Town apartment house Head waiter smiles, of train porters |. The Deisel engine entering & tun- mel with a loud cry, dragging the serpent of cars behind 1t The sage brush country, with an oc- casional motorist providing the only sign of life Tired tourists chew ing the fingernails of their pa. tience, eager to arrive at their des- tination :. Hot dog stands planted in the middle of nowhere.
 The army billboards scratching the sun -shined beauty of the sur rounding scenery Victory gar- dens in the midst of gas stations The sign in a railroad car: Victory depends on unity. And unity starts with YOU" The porter who has travelled with FDR on his swings through the country and says he received his biggest tip from the President .. A cloud ed sky pregnant with rain draping the landscape with an orgy of gloom Small burgs where peo- pie go to bed early. At midnight the only lights that can be seen are from lonely street lamps For mer stagecoach trails that are now proud, wide highways-one of the country's most vital arteries.
 The graph of California's noun. tainS etched against the horizon. Large orange groves sprinkling the air with natural perfume The rash of hamburger stands We'll groomed rolling hills Stately mansions nestled in the plans of green valley West Coasters wear ing their tanned faces like an ad- vertisement for their climate War plants filled to the brim with activity Patches of brooks among the carpets of grass You can scoop up only a handful of Americas wonders travelling through it. But that's enough to put America in your heart. It's beauty, richness and power never fail to i'll you with awe. It is a great country, and every one of us should never stop being grateful to be a tiny part of 1t.
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 Foes Escape Route
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supported by crashing artillery bar rages from the Alban Hills, were repulsed. It was in this sector that the Allies were closest-13 miles to Rome.
 Canadian clemens Of the Eighth Army advanced six miles from Frosinone to reach the approaches to Ferentino, another junction on the Via Casilina, while French troops of the Fifth Army pushed through the mountains south of the highway to & point some five miles west of Ferentino.
 Squeeze
 The French Canadian squeeze on the Via Casilina from the south- east, coupled with the American thrust across the highway near Val montone, was expected to engulf some enemy remnants fleeing tow ard Rome but others may es- cape over secondary roads to the north.
 The tactical air forces supporting the Fifth and Eighth armies con- tinued to concentrate on enemy communications and transport yes- terday.
 Thunderbolt fighters shot up 25 German freight cars loaded with gasoline near Montevarchi on the Florence -Avezbano Line, while Nit chells cut a railroad bridge across the Tiber near Orte, 55 miles north of Rome.
 Marauders, Thunderbolts and Mitchells attacked roads, railroads and bridges, cutting tracks and blocking roads. Fighter-bombers were credited with destroying 100 enemy vehicles.
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Board Okoys $1,OOO,OOO
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NNOlblLluCQ HUH E06C ~ to the board in which 1t was re- vealed that as of May 3l the city had a treasury balance of $3,32s, ol2 in comparison to the balance at the close of April of $l,l56,762.
 This increase it was pointed out by the treasurer results from the deposits made by the tax collectors office during the current tax period.
 Treasurer Belanger reported the city's money is deposited as fol- lows: First National Bank of BoS- ton general funD, $1,379,62l; First National of Boston, (Fitch reser- voir accounD, $70,877; Colonial Trust Go. of this city general account), $500, ,00o; Colonial Trust Co. (street and general i'm provement bond funds), $l5,9S6; Colonial Trust Go. 0axes paid in advance), $863; Citizens & Manu- lecturers bank. $57o,664; Water bury Trust Co.,, $l55,000; Water bury National bank. $235, 900.
 Municipal golf receipts for the month of May it was revealed at yesterdays meeting exceeded expen- ditures by more than $500. Receipts at the Hamilton Park pavilian were $27 less than expenditures.
 Balance of the golf course as of May was $4,663 while receipts dur ing the month equaled $4,136 and expenditures were $2,3el. The net fund was $4,979.
 The Hamilton park pavilion &C., count showed a balance on May 1 of $l,098, receipts during the month of $40 and expenditures of $317. The balance at the end of the month, after making allowance for accounts payable and accounts receivable was S1O7l.
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village near Bishenpur, south of Im- phal, while other British forces re- pulsed Japanese counter -attacks in the Arakan and Upper Galadan areas of Western Burma.
 Chinese and American-manned fighter bombers destroyed eight Japanese planes in a series of sweeps over Shansi Province Wednesday, while lone 18th Air Force Libera- tor damaged a 2,700-ton freighter of the South China coast.
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Reds Battle For Initiative
BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent


 Moscow, June 2. - (UP) - The Red Army counter-attacked vigor- ously north of Iasi today in a bid to regain the initiative on the Momanian front after destroying 166 tanks and PIP planes in beating off three days of ferocious German assaults.
 Though the Axis offensive still was continuing, the Soviets began a series of successful" counter attacks yesterday, a supplement to the Russian midnight communique said.
 German and Romanian thrusts at the Russian line broke yesterday under the massed fire of Soviet ar- tillery, mortar and machine-gun batteries. Eight hundred enemy troops were killed and IT tanks and five armored transports knocked out in three futile attacks on one sector.
 Elsewhere, a Romanian regiment attacked the Soviet line until eX- hausted, then was forced into flight by Russian counter-attack.
 "They were met by the fire of Tommy Guns and machine guns of German attachments barring Hei Way" the Soviet high command said. Hundreds of Romanians died from German bullets"
 In pre-war Poland, a German i1- fantry battalion attacked the Soviet line with tank support southeast of Stanislawow, but was thrown back after a two-hour battle which repeatedly developed into hand-to- hand fighting. More than 100 enemy troops were killed and six German tanks were knocked out.
 A Russian patrol broke into enemy trenches northwest of Vitebsk in White Russia. killed a group of German troops and returned to their own line with prisoners.
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based bombing range of the Philip pines.
 GA Berlin radio broadcast heard in New York said Japanese reports described the Allied position on Biak as critical" with the Amer ican forces, estimated at one divi- sion, pushed back to a narrow beach strip. Berlin said the Japanese claimed that 1000 U. S. soldiers were killed in bitter fighting on Biak.)
 Two enemy planes attempted to raid the American positions on Biak in a night attack. the communique said. but the assault was "ineffec- tive"
 Allied planes continued their at- tackS on other Japanese emplace- ments from Babo in Dutch New Guinea where the Babo and Sagan airdromes were hit, to the Wakde- Sarmi area. where the Americans have killed a total of l,453 Jap anese since the invasion May ls.
 The communique also disclosed a new Allied leap-frog landing on Bougainville in the Solomons, where the Japanese were putting up some of the toughest resistance of the Southwest Pacific war.
 While naval and aerial forces heavily bombarded the enemy po- sitions. the Allied forces landed on the north bank of the Tekessi Ri- yer to place the advanced line l2 miles south of the previous Amer ican positions on the Topolxina perimeter.
 The naval vessels also attacked Japanese shipping in the Empress Augusta Bay and destroyed seven enemy barges.
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NNOAAbAAAbC4 AAOAAA 06C ~ felt warranted to bring a divorce action. He said they sometimes took years to investigate the cases be- fore they consented to serve as counsel.
 Lawyers should help to keep the social fabric intact" Judge Quinlan said, adding, "they should de- termine if 1t wouldn't be more pru- dent to wait a time for desertion to be proved than to resort to the charge of intolerable cruelty which often is far from the case"
 Under statutory provisions, . sep- aration must be of three months duration before it can become g ground for divorce. A case entered on the ground of intolerable cruelty may be tried three months after it is entered on the court docket.
 Judge Quinlan many times before has condemned behavior which leads to a quest for divorce. and spoken against the breaking Of homes. Several hundred citizenA who recently took their oath of alle- glance heard him in one of his noted discussions. on the import. ance' of healthy family life.
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broadcasting to the world over the Vatican radio, declared somberly that the sweep of battle northward to within earshot of the Vatican had brought Rome face to face with "one of the gravest moments in its history"
 Whoever would raise his hand against this sacred territory of Rome, will be accused of fratricide," |" the Pope told the college of Cardin- als on the occasion of the Feast of St. Eugenio, his name Saint.
 Duty
 Tt is the duty of the Holy See and Apostolate to look after the welfare of souls and protect the town of Rome .. The church will continue its efforts to see Rome spared. No human hand could pre- vent us from carrying out our dut- ies according to law and God"
 The Pope's speech was broadcast by the Vatican radio while Allied and German armies battled only a dozen or more miles away. Neutral dispatches said the thunder of bat tie already was audible in the Ital- ian capital.
 The Pope disclosed that hungry. suffering refugees were streaming into Rome as the fighting drew closer to the capital.
 Tn few places in Italy and other places in the world is there such misery as in Rome, where the en- tire mass of people is suffering" he said. '"The army of miserable peo- pie increases daily"
 He said he had requested that food be shipped to Rome by sea, but still was awaiting the reply of one belligerent. whom he did not identify.
 Sacred Territory
 The Pope noted that the sacred territory around the Sepulchre of Christ" was becoming a theater of war and said that a year fVo such a development would have seemed to some people incredible. impossible. !"
 He urged that the belligerents reach a peace designed according to Christian Doctrine" and called for the increased influence of Chris tian teachings on all nations.
 Tt seems humanity finds itself in the face of victory or utter de- struction," he said. "The ghost of these alternatives is suffocating all hope. People with such feelings are going to all sacrifices and are drag ging with them all others. A true. lasting justice should be the right solution"
 No just peace can be reached, he said, if the victor would "by force of arms dictate" the terms.
 "A just policy has to give the defeated nation a dignified place, 1" he said. Therefore we hope that the rulers of peoples think they have to tolerate . defeated enemy and show some generosity, hoping that our Lord will give peace all over the world"
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Nantes pass most of the arms, am- munition. supplies and reinforce ments for the northern end of the Bay of Biscay coast, including the ports of Nantes and St. Nazaire.
 Thick Clouds
 A force consisting entirely of four-engined Lancasters flew through thick clouds to reach Saul n1ur, but the skies cleared 20 miles from the target. The attack be- gan at 12:45 a. m., and 20 minutes later the smoke was SO thick that new targets markers had to be dropped for late arrivals.
 German night fighters appeared too late to hinder the bombing.
 The raid carried forward an- other step the RATS systematic of- fensive to cripple Germany's west ern communications in advance of "D-Day'-an offensive that already has devastated 38 railway nerve centers extending up to 100 to l5O miles behind the French invasion coast.
 The air ministry announced last night that the destruction wrought in its attacks on railway centers since March 3 had outpaced Ger man repair work, forcing the en- emy to abandon all idea of restor- ing all yards to full working order again.
 The Germans now have concen- trated their repair work on through lines. frequently abandoning sub- sidiary yards and facilities, the ministry said.
 ''The result has been that the Germans can bring munitions and weapons from Germany to France, but it is increasingly difficult for them to switch from one point in France to another.
 B0mbers Grounded
 Bad weather grounded Allied bombers in Britain most of yester- day, but late in the afternoon 9th Air Force maurauders with an es. cort of Thunderbolts pounded Ger. many's west wall defenses in north ern France.
 Medium. light and flghter-bomb. CTS of the 9th Air Force last month broke all records by flying more than 30,O00 sorties and dropping more than 10000 tons of bombs on more than 100 different targets. an ofiiial summary revealed. 4 total of i07 planes was lost--oniy 3 per ent.
 MarauderS and Hayocs were credited with wrecking i3 bridges. severely disorganizing i2 airhelds and smashing the port area of Dieppe.
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SOLDIER sTABBED

Taunton, Mass, June 2.-(UP) - Pvt. Hilliard P. Hoover. 25. of Cl622 East Riddle street. Baltimore was stabbed to death last midnight an Q nearby Army camp and authorities immediately arrested another sol- dier who allegedly confessed the staying.
 According to Army officials. Cpl. James N. Roberson. 8, of (357 lith street. NV. Mia,ai, Fla. ac- knowledged the stabking and said that it followed an argument. Both soldiers are negroes.
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aerial attacks.
 On the North Burma front, Allied troops fought depeer into Myitkylna spearheaded by Chinese infantry column that pushed the Japanese garrison back more than 400 yards through the barricaded southern section of the city.
 Fierce fighting also continued in the Mogaung Valley, where Lieuten- ant General Joseph W. Stilwe!l's Chinese forces frightened their grip on the roads north and south of Kamaing.
 The communique reported that more than 700 Japanese were killed by British Chindits along the rail- way and highway lines southwest of Kamaing before the raiders aban- doned their road blocks there last week.
 British Imperial troops in East India cleared out Japanese-held
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doubting Thomases when, he asked Congress for a $50,000 plane pro- gram.
 Critics. he said, at that time called his request for 50,000 planes a political gesture that could not be carried out. He seemed happy to report that this figure had been far exceeded with production in the past year running over 100000.
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Tremendous ranches monopolizing giant slices of territory. Some are almost as large as a small Flu ropean nation Skeletons of ghost towns slowly being turned
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More than 20 per cent of Maxi air. craft on the eastern front are now reported to be obsolete.
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Sound. travefing at the rate of ll26 feet . second, would take g hours to encircle the globe.
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-24
Three DIVORCE
ACTIONS FILED
No Hearings Scheduled
Until June Session of
Superior Court

One man and two women filed
divorce actions in superior court
today. All of the cases viii be re-
turnable to court March and must
rest on the docket for three months
before hearings are scheduled.
Harrison Leroy Lewis of Manga
tuck seeks divorce from Katherine
William Lewis of Seymour. The
couple married March z, 1912 In
Naugatuck, and cruelty is alleged to
have started during the first month
of marriage. The couple has one
child.
Delina Oudette Berube of Bridge
port seeks a divorce from Joseph
Berube of Waterbury on the
grounds of deserttion, intemperance
and cruelty. The marriage was per-
formed September 20, 1918 at Ber-
lin, N, H. and the plaintiff claims
she was deserted in September,
1923 Cruelty is said to have started
In September, 1913. Custody of a
minor child, an allowance for sup
port, and alimony are also saught.
Cruelty is the basis of the COM
plant filed by Blanche Hebert
Armstrong of Waterbury against
Denzel Jack Armstrong of Wa
terbury. The marriage took place in
New York City February IA. 1893,
and the plaintiff claims her hus-
band became intolerably cruel in
February, 1888. She seeks custody
of two minor children, an allowance
for their support, and alinony.