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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18

A friend of mine says that one day
last winter when he went out TO his
barn he thought his cows had grown
warts overnight, but he found they
merely had bad cases of goose pim-.
pies. Seems he hadn't got around To-
plugging up few cracks in the BAN
Hope you have placed high o,a..
your list of "things to- do, tl.is
fall" the matter of barre repair;
Replacing window panes, Closing
up cracks, fixing sa9eirg doors
and whitewashine inside your
barn give big results.
Wind whistling in your chimney
may sound nice when you are sitting
by a warm fire, but wind Wt,istling
through barn at milking time as;
something else. The feed whica your
COWS get won't produce milk if it has
to be used to keep the COWS warm
Whitewashiug rafters, posts and
sidewalks is mighty important step
in your sanitation program. Clean
barns help produce No. alter pads.
and clean Gtanchions, cleln floors
and clean COWS carry Oh tile same
good work.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18
MISS GLADYS KHRY
NOW AT BANNER ELK

Banner Elk - Gladys Kilby,
daughter of Mrs. Vina K. Love,
OF Hemlock, has enrolled at Lees
McRae College as an intern in the
Medical Secretarial course.
Miss Kilby is a graduate of Riv-
ervlew high school, in the class
OF l943. Since enrolling at Lees
McRae, she has become a member
OF the Woman's Athletic Associa-
ton, and has been active in ath-
letics.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18

the ship Bonhomme Richard -
sinking and aflame as broadside
after broadside of round shot from
the Seraphs crashed her hull.
Summoned to surrender on that
tatetul day in 1879, John Paul
Jones spurred his boarding party
TO the capture of a rich prize by
his shouted, never-to-be-forgotten
answer. I'VE have just begun to
fight"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18

posed of Is states, includes, Vir-
ginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee,
Arkansas, Kentucky and Okla
homa.
The program will open Monday,
Oct. %, with an address by DR..
Edwin P. Lehman, professor of
surgery of the University of Vir-
ginia School of Medicine.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18
CANCER SOCIETY is
PLANNING A PROGRAM

Raleigh Organized medicines
participation in the annual meet
ing of the Southeastern region
field army, American Cancer So
citey, to be held in Durham, Oct.
22-24, was announced this week
by DR.. Ivan M. Proctor, Raleigh,
chairman of the Medical society
of North Carolina.
The Southeastern region, COM
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18

A IL you good dairymen whose
"A herds are on fall freshening
program are no doubt at this time
converting part of your barns into
maternity wards and practicing up
on your floor-pacing.
Calves need good, clean place
in which to arrive into this world. A
well ventilated box stall, with deep
fresh bedding is best, but if you do
not have such place, good bedding
provided in clean place away from
the rest of the herd is next best.
Most important to the COW
and to the calf is the care the
COW gets at calving time, the
extension people remind us. How
productive a cow will be in her
milking time, for one thing,
depends great deal ON proper
feeding before and after calving.
AS you know, COWS should be fed
literally in their dry time, but grain
should be reduced about two weeks
before calving. Light, laxative feeds,
such as oats and bran with perhaps
some linseed meal, are recommended.
Extension dairymen advise watch
ing a COW carefully when the calf is
due. Most calves are born without
assistance, but it is best to be on
hand, in case trouble should develop.
If weather is extremely cold,
the cow should be blanketed for
several days, to protect her from
drafts. It's good idea to give the
cow Il drink of warm water i'm
mediately after calvine.
This subject was discussed in the
September October craftsman which
you can get by writing me at 500
Peshtigo. Chicago 90. Ill. For addi-
tional information write for one of
the following bulletins: Special Cir
cular Care at Calving Time Is
Important" University of Wiscon-
sin. Madison. Wis; Bulletin B-69,
Texas A 4 M College. College
Station. Tex: Circular l52.
Polytechnic Institute, Auburn. Ala
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-18
Brief Review Of State National And World News

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from automobile engine blocks
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
kazi Government
Reported as
Leaving Berlin

LONDON, Feb. l. Brussels
reports attributed to "unimpeach-
able military authorities" said
Thursday that the German govern
ment is leaving Berlin and that
the Reich capital is rapidly being
organized for street-by-street and
house-by house defense.
The Brussels reports did not in
dicate where the German govern
ment might take refuge. However,
for months it has been known that
many government offices had been
transferred out of Berlin to escape
the devastating Allied air bombing.
The most likely site of the gov
ernment was believed to be Munich
because of it's associations as the
birthplace of the Nazi party, its
primimity to Adolf Hitler's retreat
at Berchtesgaden, and its relative
distance from both the eastern and
western fronts.
Travellers arriving in Stockholm
from Berlin reported that the flash
of guns in the, eastern front occa-
sionally is visible in the German
capital. But they attributed reports
that gunfire was audible to the
ovelstrung nerves of the citizens.
The Brussels informant said, how
ever, there was no indication that
Hitler himself was leaving Berlin.
Rather, he said. Hitler probably will
remain in the city until the last
possible moment.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
Fl Centran's S Kin
Dies in France

Lieutenant Marvin Shipp, nephew
of Mis-. Wesley He'll of Ell Centro
and who lived in Ell Centre many
years, was killed in action in Ger
many. N
He was wounded in September
but recovered and had just returned
to his company when he was killed.
In a letter received by relatives
Saturday, Lieutenant Shipp said he
had been awarded the Silver Star
and three other medals but was un-
able to explain what action had led
to his receiving them.
Lieutenant Shipp came to Ell Gen.
tro with his mother, Mrs. Frank
Couger, now of San Francisco, when
he was a small boy. He attended
elementary, the high school and
junior college in Ell Centre. After
that he attended the Bible Institute
in Los Angeles for four years.
He had been in the army almost
four years and went overseas in the
fall of 1943. After being in Eng
land for some time, he went to
France and participated in the vic
torious sweep across that country.
His wife is living in Bremerton,
Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
Joint Units Scan
RecreationaI
Plans and Funds

Intensive investigation of ways
and means of converting the long
unused Imperial theater building at
Sixth and State streets into a
recreational center was urged We'd
nesday evening by the city council.
Members of the council met with
a special committee of the Chamber
of Commerce to consider the recent
offer of Charles P. Skouras of Fox
West Coast theaters, to give the
building to the city for recreational
purposes.
MANY USES STUDIED
Many possible uses for a converted
structure were discussed at length
by both councilmen and committee
men and the committee was as
sured by the council that it con-
CURED with the chamber opinion
that the opportunity is rare one.
Suggestions for possible usage of
the structure included: city audi
torium for conventions, lecture or
concert series and other gatherings;
rooms for youth recreation to draw
adolescents from pool halls; gym
nasium facilities and possibly hand
bail of squash courts; meeting
rooms for boy scouts, girl scouts,
campfire girls and possibly offices
for headquarters facilities for youth
movements.
TO MAKE SURVEY
The council issued authorization
paralleling that of the chamber for
the committee to investigate recrea-
ton plans in operation in other
cities, as well as determine the uses
to which the building should be put
in order to meet local requirements,
and make a report at as early date
as possible.
Methods of obtaining expert archi-
tectural aid in blueprinting re-
vamped structure were discussed
and the committee was instructed
to proceed as rapidly as possible
toward the end of providing Skouras
with specific and satisfactory plans.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
List Of Yanks
Freed in Isles

ALLIED EADQUAR R T E R S,
Luzcn, Feb. l. (UP)-The list of
American prisoners released in
Wednesday nights attack on the
prisoners of war camp at Cabana-
tuan included:
M/Sgt. Ermon R. Addington, Har-
rison, Idaho.
Dean w. Albce, civilian, Eureka,
Montana.
Pfc. William Barker, Oakland,
California.
Otis r. Bills, Phoenix, Arizona.
T/Sgt William G. Claxton, Los
Angeles.
Pfc. julius w. Cobb, Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
Captain Homer j. Colman, Grand
Junction, Colorado.
M/Sgt. Eugene G. Commander,
San Diego.
Jearuld j. Drown, San Diego.
Colonel James w. Duckworth,
San Francisco.
Captain Robert j. Duncan, San
Francisco.
S/Sgt. Jacob Dusich, San Fran
cisco.
Pfc. Chester J. Easton, Englewood,
California.
Corporal Ted D. Easton, Venice,
California.
Frank C. Ellsworth, Lcng Beach.
Pvt. John T. Eims, Shafter, Cali
fornia.
Lieutenant Knute Engerset, USN,
Seattle, Washington.
Sergeant Milton A. Englin, Seat
tie. Washington.
Captain Floyd I. Floyd, Enter
prise, Oregon.
Piivate Nelson Fonseca, San Jose,
California.
PFC. Claude Gibbons, Tracy, CAL
ifornia.
Private Russell B. Gendel, Colo
RADIO Springs, Colorado.
Private John Braunberger, Port
land, oregon.
F/Sgt. Stanley E. Bronx, Seattle,
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province.
mo incicent of the campaign has
given me such personal satisfac-
tion," said Macarthur.
The rescue attack was accom-
plished with such precision that
only 81 Americans we're lost and
8 wounded while the Jap garrison
was annihilated. In the fight at
the camp and in a running escape
battle with Japanese columns sup
ported by tanks, the Americans
killed 523 Japs and knocked out
IL tanks.
CA CHS broadcast from Luzon
reported the American Commandos
killed 70 Japs guarding the camp
and $50 Jap soldiers in fierce five
minute attack. A special squad broke
the main gate, hacked away the
barbed wire and shouted: You're
free, Yanks, head for the main gate
where the guides will pick you up"
DIED OF HEART ATTACK
One prisoner died of a heart at
tttCh Ill UllC CACAOCIllCllC 40 llC 1CdSll-
ed the gate. Within n minutes the
expedition was heac ing back, the
weak and sick being carried to OK
carts three miles away.
Almost all the rescued prisoners
were Americans but there was a
sprinkling of British, Dutch, and
others.
Lieutenant Commander H. A. Err
ickson, Los Angeles, former senior
medical officer at the Cavite naval
base, said sick men in the prison
camps were fed only spoiled fish
and flee.
THE condition of the rescued
men is fair" Macarthur said, they
are receiving every care and atten-
ton, and their rehabilitation will
be rapid"
The prisoners brought with them
the first eyewitness accounts of the
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last defensible Japanese lines on
the Pampanga river at Calumpit,
% airline miles north of the city.
Tanks and infantrymen of the
37th (Buckeye) division were re-
ported well past Calumpit today,
moving rapidly down highway three
in an apparent bid to enter Manila
within the next few days and FORE
stall any Japanese attempt to des-
troy the capital.
The 37th's advance was facilitate
ed by another American gain far to
the ncrth, where Doughboy columns
sealed off highway five, the only
other main road to the capital. with
the capture of Munoz and Talavera
IA and 65 miles above Manila.
BARS FLANK ATTACK
Cabanatuan, miles below Tall
avera and the control point for the
highways leading to the northeast
coast of Lllzon, also was believed In
American hands, barring any pos
sibility of Japanese thanking
threat to the Manila-bound 37th.
Observers believed the columns on
highway five might swing down
from Cabanatuan to race the 37th
into Manila.
Exultant CTS spearheading the
37th's advance were no longer talk
ing Of possible fighting on the road
to Manila but OF the expected VIC
tory parade through the city. and
the only question among the troops
was whether they could prevent Its
destruction.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
Patton
Widens
Breach
Advance Pushes
Miles Inside
Reich Defenses

PARIS, Feb. l. CUP)-
Lieutenant General George
S. Patton's Third army as
sault forces overran four
German towns Thursday and
broadened their front inside
the Reich to four and a half
miles.
U. S. First and Third army
divisions were fighting flank
to flank into the outposts of the
Siegfried line along a 40-mile attack
front winding through Belgium,
Luxembourg, and Germany.
At the southern end of the west
ern front, the French First army
opened a new attack in Alsace that
appeared to have broken the Ger
man threat to StraSbOurg.
NEAR BIG CENTER
Dispatches from Patton's front
said his vanguard had thrust two
and half miles into Germany
within eight miles of Prum, the big
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Is Mexicans Die
In Train Crash

MEXICO CITY, Feb. /. (UP)-
The National Railways announced
that 96 persons were killed and SO
injured Thursday when freight
train collioed with special passen-
ger train crowded with Mexicans
making the annual pilgrimage to
the shrine of San Juan de los Lagos
in the state of Jalisco.
The wreck occurred between Pol
otitlan and Cazadero, about 100
miles from Here, the railway re-
ported.
The National Railways traffic
manager said that the. freight
crashed heavily into the rear Of
the passenger train.
Doctors, nurses and anbulances
were rushed to the scene from Quer-
etaro, nearest big city, while relief
trains left Mexico City for the
wreck site. IA
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
Pair Held on Move to Blast
Ranch Of Returned Evucuee

Rupp said that Johnson, who has
been AWOL from Camp John
Knight at Oakland for four weeks,
confessed that he and two civilians
attempted to cestroy the Japanese
Americans property as a prank and
without malicious intent.
Sheriff'S officers arrested the un-
identified civilian after he was
found carrying a bag containing 80
sticks of dynamite he said he re-
ceived from johnson.
Tinoall said formal charges of
attempted arson. would be filed
against the civilians.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
Yankee Advance Pierces
Line 20 Miles From Mantle

G E N E r L MAC ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Feb. /.
(UP)-American arnored columns
broke across the Pampanga river
and swept down to within 20 miles
or less of Manila Thursday in a
weakly-o opposed advance that pre-
saged the liberation of the Philip
pines capital in matter Of days.
AT the same time Gen. Douglas
Macarthur revealed that U. S. war
ships had re-eptered Subic bay,
barely 80 miles from the mouth of
Manila bay and the one-time an
chorage of the PIT boat "expend-
able" squadrons that fought off the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
Russ Mass on Oder
For Death Blows
Advance Prong Of Drive May Be Only
30 Miles From Reich Capital as
Invaders Sweep Into City Of Kustrin

LONDON, Feb l. (UP)-Russian forces drove to the
Oder river less than 40 miles from Berlin Thursday and
IT'S miles to the east captured the ongencrcled Polish
city of Torun, KILN capturing the German garrison by
passed in the lightning sweep westward.
Russian ard German reports agreed that powerful Sow
forces massng the east bank of the Oder in
evident preparation for stormng the last natural defense
line athwart the approaches of Berlin.
The fall of Torun Polish fortress city the lower Wis
ua was announced special order of the day by Mar
shall Stain, broadcast from Moscow.
The German high command admitted that Marshal
Gregory Zhko forces had swept to the east bank of
the Oder northwest of Kustrin AZ miles east of Berlin
From Kusrn the river angles northwestward to its right
angle elbow an even 30 miles from the capital.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01

AUBURN, Calf, Feb. /.
(UP)-A 2O-year-old soldier
and a civilian whom author
tiles refused to identify were
held in the Placer county Jail
here early Thursday pending
filing of formal charges of
attempted arson in connec-
tion with an unsuccessful dy-
namiting at the ranch of
Summio Dol, recently-returned jap
anese-American.
Private Elmer r. Johnson, 20, for
merry OF Reddisg. cAlifJilta, We'd
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01

Both Moscow and Berlin broad
casts reported that the Soviet van
guard had crashed to the gates of
Kustrin, at the confluence of the
Oder and War.he rivers, where the
trunk line from Danzig crosses the
Ooer and runs straight to Berlin.
ON EDGE Of FRANKFURT
Moscow dispatches also said the
Russians were believed to have
reached the east bank of the Oder
opposite Frankfurt, 80 miles east
and slightly south of Berlin.
A German communique reporting
that Zhukov's forces have advanc-
ed as far as the Oder northwest of
Kustrin" said fresh German reserves
had been thrown into battle in that
sector, indicating the defenders Of
Berlin might make their supreme
effort at the Oder, the city's last
outlying defense line.
The angle of the river northwest
ward from Kustrin in relation to
the distance from Berlin made 1t
uncertain exactly how near the
Russians were to the richest single
prize of the war in Europe, but 1t
appeared to be less than 40 miles
and possibly only little more than
80.
The Nazi command said reserves
also had been engaged against Sow
let tank spearheaes that had ad-
vanced as far as the Sternberg-
ZielenZig area go to 10 miles east
southeast of Berlin.
AIRMEN DEFY SNOW
Moscow dispatches said scores of
Soviet air squadrons were defying
snowstorms and generally bad
weather to hammer the enemy cay
and night on the eastern front.
Moscow dispatches also reported
that Red armies had completed the
encirclement of Konigsberg, captur-
ed five sixths of East Prussia, spread
out through the Polish corri6or to-
ward Danzig and expanded posi-
tions north and south of Breslau
preparatory to a full-scale assault
on the Silesian city.
Red Star said Konigsberg. capital
of East Prussia, was enveloped in
flames, touched off by Soviet guns
and Nazi demolition squads. Pris-
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Japanese fleet during the siege of
Bataan three years ago.
NO OPPOSITION
The Olengapo naval base at the
head of Subic bay and Grande
island at its entrance were occu-
pied without opposition Tuesday by
units of the newly LANDED American
Eighth army, and MacArthur's COM
munique said elements of the U. S.
Seventh fleet already were operat-
ing from and rebuilding the base.
Meanwhile, 1t. Gen. Walter
Krueger's Sixth army veterans were
closing in swiftly over the last miles
before Manila after collapsing the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
Fall From Truck
Fatal to Youth

G. Codine Is, Mexican, was killed
in the Calexico area Wednesday
night when he fell from truck,
Deputy County Coroner Orval Walk
er SAID
The boy was taken to the county
hospital after he fell and he died
there about an hour later. He was
understood to have been working
fer the Brtce Church company.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01

DETROIT, Feb. l. tUP)-Approx-
imately 900 powerhouse employees of
the Detroit Edison company have
voted in favcr of a strike which
would cripple war production in De-
troit and AZ other Michigan cities,
the national labor relations board
announced Thursday after counting
votes.
No date was set for the walkcut,
which may be called to enforce de-
mands of the Utility Workers Or
ganizing Committee tCIO) for
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01

nesday night confessed he and two
civilians attempted to dynamite a
packing shed on Doi's ranch Janu-
sry 10, Captain Karl Rupp, provost
marshal at Dewitt General hospital,
said.
johnson was held in military GUS
tody at the Jail. and District Attor-
ney Clarence Tindall said one of
the civilians implicated by his state
nnent also is held there on an open
charge. The third man still is
sought, Tindall said. He had an
nounced earlier, however, that two
civilians were being keld.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
Work-or-Fisht
Change Loses

WASHINGTON. Feb. l. (UP) =
The house Thursday rejected 1877
to 1T, substitute proposal for
work-or-else legislation that would
have kept manpower controls on a
voluntary basis.
Offered by Representatives Forest
A. Harness, (R), Indiana, and
Frank A. Barrett, CR), Wyoming,
the substitute measure would have
asked" deferred men 18 to As in
non-essential activities to agree in
writing to accept war work.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
Detroit Power
Strike Voted

speedy settlement by the company
of 80 disputed issues in a new con-
tract. 1t was expected the union
would allow time for a final meet
ing CT conciliators and company Of
ficials before striking. but officials
said the strike could be called i'm
mediately. The vote was $50 for the
strike; 232 opposed
Chief Issues at stake we're job
classification, incentive pay and va
cation schedules.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01

1t also would have empowered the
war manpower commission to in
vestigate labor boarding and waste
in plants having cost-plus fixed fee
war contracts.
Defeat of the voluntary substitute
proposal followed successful admin
tstration fights against anti-clos-
ed shop and racial discrimination
amendments and indicated probable
passage of the committee version OF
the controversial bill. probably late
Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
Bataan, Corregidor
Prisoners Freed
yunk Commundos
Raid Jap Camp
Daring Night Sor+ie by Rangers
And GueriIIas Release Men
And Officers Held Since Invasion
By FRANK HEWLETT

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Feb. /. (UP)-
picket force of American Commandos has slipped behind
the Japanese lines and brought back to safety $40 Allied
prisoners many of them of Bataan and Corregl-
dor Gen. Douglas Macarthur revealed Thursday.
The brought back to freedom by a daring
foray last night in which 12 members OF the Sixth Ranger
battalion and 286 trained guerilas penetrated 25 miles
inside the Jap lines storm the prisoner of camp at
Cabanatuan 70 miles north of Manila in Nueva EcJa
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
WEATHER FORECAST

Generally cloudy Thurs day
night and Friday with occasional
light rain. Continued cool days
with maximum around 60 degrees.
Temperature at night well above
freezing,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-01
Wallace Wins
First Round

WASHINGTON, FEB. 1. up
With administration forces large
ly cooperating, the senate Thurs
day passed by IA to IL the George
bill to remove the multi billion
federal lending agencies from
jurisdiction of the secretary of
commerce.
WASHINGTON, Feb. /. (UP) -
Administration supporters won a
tWo-vote first-round victory in the
Henry A. Wallace fight Thursday
when the senate defeated a motion
for immediate consideration of his
nomination to be secretary of COM
merce.
BY a count of 43 to al, they defeat
ed motion by senator Josiah Bailey
Cd, North Carolina, for the senate
to go into executive session to con-
slider Wallace's nomination.
The Wallace supporters opposed
the motion because their strategy
was to defer action on the nominat-
ion pending enactment of the
George bill to strip all lending pow
ers from the commerce department.
MAP STRATEGY
The Wallace supporters in recent
days had realized it would be futile
to attempt to win for Wallace the
multi-billion lending powers that
had been exercised by Jesse H.
Jones, as secretary of commerce.
Soon after the vote on Bailey's
motion was announced, senate
democratic leader Alben w. Barkley
of Kentucky moved to take up the
George bill. This was carried by a
vote of SO to 2.
The complicated parliamentary
maneuvering took pace before JAM
med galleries which sat silently as
they watched the history-making
developments. The walls of the SEN
ate chamber itself we're lined with
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