Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 5

THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN, ASHEVILLE, M. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1941 Page FIVE Army Unit Ends Tactical Mission Atop Mt. Mitchell AAF ANNIVERSARY JONES LAST RITES TO BE OBSERVED WILL BE HELD IN SATURDAY NIGHT RUTHERFORD TODAY The first anniversary of the army air forces weather wing and communications system installation in Asheville will be celebrated with a in the main ballof the Vanderbilt hotel Satcabaret urday night from 9 to 1 o'clock. Approximately 500 persons are to attend.

including ofexpected, enlisted men, civilian personnel, and their wives and friends. Col. Ivan L. Farman and Col. Weanell Bowman, commanding officer and chief of staff, respectively of the communications system, and Col.

W. O. Senter and Col. William Stone. commanding officer and deputy wing commander of the weather wing have received special invitations to attend the dance and have accepted, it was announced.

Entertainment, door prizes and special features are being arranged by a committee headed by Warrant Officer William M. Howard. who will act as master of ceremonies. Frank Jackson's orchestra will play for the dancing. The earliest library in China MRS.

QUEZON IS ILL WITH INFLUENZA Mrs. Manuel L. Quezon, wife of the Philippines president. is ill with influenza, it was disclosed yesterday. While her condition is not considered serious, the illness made it necessary for her to cancel plans to leave the city today for Washington, where she planned to spend a few days with the Quezon children.

Every possible precaution is being taken, Col. Manuel Nieto, the presidert's military aide, said, to keep President Quezon from contracting the disease. He and Mrs. Quezon reside at Ann Hathaway cottage, on the grounds of Grove Park inn. while the staff is housed in the inn proper.

The party came here a fortnight ago in the interest of the president's health. SMALLEST EGG LITTLETON, N. H. (UP)-A pulowned by Frank Trombley of Littleton holds the unenviable distinction of laying one of the smalleggs on record -one inch long in the Shiloh community. He had been in failing health 10 years.

He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. jones, Rutherford, R.F.D.

No. five' brothers, "DEMONSTRATION AT A- AIRPORT CLIMAXES TRIP Latest Types Of Weather Equipment Shown By Technicians Saddened by the death of their leader but highly gratified with the results of their expedition, army weather technicians from Orlando, climaxed a week-long tactical mission atop Mt. Mitchell yesterday afternoon with a two-hour demonstration at the AshevilleHendersonville airport of latest types of meteorological equipment. The full dress rehearsal of new mobile units similar to those expected to play a major role in the impending invasion of western rope was witnessed by more than 50 officers from the AAP weather wing here and a half dozen civilian weather experts. With popcorn and peanuts, the "show" could almost have passed for a thriving carnival as interested spectators milled among the various "exhibits" and listened to detailed explanations of their function and operation.

Balloons Dot Sky Within a half hour after the first unit of the caravan had driven onto the field, the machinery of observing. recording, and forecasting the weather in all its complex forms WAS in full swing. Radio-trailing balloons dotted the sky; teletypes chattered out endless lines of coded weather reports from other sections PEBECO PETE SAYS: make your brightest smile come backAnd furthermore, save you jack!" PEBECO Powder gives than the averYes you more leading tooth of 6 other age Makes teeth sparpowders! peppy, too! kling clean. Tastes Try it today! GIANT ONLY SIZE Also Big Pebeco Tooth size, Paste--clean, refreshing flavor-10e and NEW WEATHER EQUIPMENT "sideshows" at the two-hour Asheville-Hendersonville airport white balloons were inflated for just before the of one by a group of army weather week of final field tests of the of the country; field telephone wires connected technicians in the various units; and complicatedlooking maps and charts began to take form in the mobile weather station. It was a dramatic preview of fullscale weather operations at the front, and visitors were impressed with the speed and smoothness with which the outfit was placed in operation.

The demonstration, 'first of its size and scope ever to be staged here, was carried out by a party of five officers and approximately 30 enlisted men from the equipment section of the army air forces board at Orlando from the weather service region headquarters there. Tested in Mountains The group returned to Asheville Monday night after six days of final tests for the new equipment under mountainous conditions. The equipment previously had been put through similar tests under tropical conditions in Florida and flatterrain conditions in New Jersey. Traveling in a convoy of two jeeps, two mobile weather stations, a radio truck, a personnel carrier, a supply truck and an equipment truck. the expedition arrived at its bivouac area near the top of Mt.

Mitchell late Tuesday of last week. Headquarters were established at an abandoned CCC camp and the mobile weather units placed in operation at Stepp's gap, about a mile away. Simulating actual combat condiDARLING, DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE: Bewitchingly loves Michael, a married man. Fair play means nothing to her. Will she get what she wants or will Carol, Michael's wife, hold his love? Tune in "BRIGHT HORIZON," 11:30 on WWNC, Monday DEMONSTRATED demonstration of the latest type yesterday afternoon was the radiosonde runs.

The cameraman of the radio-trailing balloons. The technicians from Orlando, who equipment atop Mt. Mitchell. tions, the group carried its own medical technician and radio operator, lived largely on army. rations, established field telephone service between the weather station and camp area, and picked up weather reports by radio to plot its maps and make its During the week the party, was isolated from the outside except for several visits from officers of the weather wing here and other weather service personnel, It was on one of these inspection tours Sunday afternoon that Maj.

Salvatore Paglicua, weather technician with the AAF board and officer in charge of the expedition, was fatally injured in a accident on the treacherous mountain road. Maj. Paglicua's body was sent yesterday afternoon to Lexington, where funeral services and burial will be held at a time still to be set. Capt. Frank D.

Murphy of the weather wing accompanied the body to Lexington. To Attend Services A plane load of officers from the wing here, together with weather, officers from the weather directorate in Washington and the signal corps experimental station Fort Monmouth, are expected to attend the services. Mrs. Paglicua, who has been residing in Orlando with the couple's two children, went to Lexington yesterday for the rites. The three other persons injured in the jeep accident were reported in good condition yesterday at Moore General hospital, where they were taken for treatment.

Hospital attendants said Col. Chester W. Cecil, commanding officer of the weather region centered at Orlando, would probably be in the hospital for a month for treatment of mulleg lacerations. tiple, Donald C. Miller of Bloomberg.

driver of the jeep, who appeared to be badly injured Sunday, was reported improving rapidly. and Capt. William S. Barney, officer in charge of the detachment sent on the expedition by the weather region, was already able to be up yesterday, his broken shoulder in a sling. Sand Hill Unit Gives Program At Allen School The Citizen yesterday carried an item stating that the Girls' Ensemble the Allen home school for negroes, under the direction of Mrs.

Wallace Mann, presented a musical program at the school on Monday. This was in error and should have read that the Girls' Ensemble of Sand Hill school presented the program, under direction of Mrs. Mann, at the Allen thru Friday. home school. Put your ship car in shape for Studebaker service service is each week of the war goes bv.

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HELP YOUR COUNTRY! 1944 HELP YOURSELF! KEEP YOUR CAR BUY MORE UP TO PAR WITH STUDEBAKER WAR BONDS SERVICE SAWYER MOTOR CO. 195 Hilliard Telephone 313 Pioneer and Pacemaker in Automotive Progress BUILDER OF WRIGHT CYCLONE ENGINES FOR THE BOEING FLYING FORTRESS MULTIPLE- DRIVE MILITARY TRUCKS- OTHER VITAL WAR. RUTHERFORDION. Last rites Jesse Jones, for Andrew Broadus Jones will be Clyde Jones, held Wednesday afternoon at 4 Jones, Forest c'elock at Shiloh Baptist church, Pvt. Bovd Jones, Rutherford, county, and the with Rev.

the Ralph Rev. in home; England, and Huntley officiating. Ledbetter, Mr. Jones died suddenly Monday Smith. Forest night at 12:30 o'clock at his homeland Miss Estelle Johnson City, Bern, George City, R.F.D.

No. 1, army, somewhere James at sisters, Mrs. Gullford Spindale, Mrs. Leo City, R.F.D. No.

2, Jones, at home. One of the most popular mobile weather units at the hydrogen tanks at which huge snapped the scene above let demonstration was staged have just completed a est ITALIAN DRIVE BLEEDS ALLIES AS WELL AS FOE Kennedy Asserts Some Generals Still Hope It Will Help By EDWARD KENNEDY NAFLES, May 2. (P) -The Italian campaign, which began with an avalanche of allied troops swarming over Southern Italy in less than a menth, has become but a bleeding sore. Some allied generals are calling saying it is bleeding the Germans. But in its present stage it is bleeding the allies also, balked as they are at Cassino, on the Garigliano river and on the Anzio beachhead.

However, some of the generals are honeful the campaign still will play a part in the defeat of Hitler simllar to that of the peninsular campaign in the downfall of Napoleon, when Wellington landed in Spain and drained the French military strength for the final blow at Waterloo. fall, when the Sangro and Volturno rivers were reached, two sound courses were open to the allies: a big-scale drive up the peninsula, or contentment with Southpro Italy from which to dominate the Central Mediterranean and bomb the Germans. Western Drive Better The first was discarded because any campaign up the Italian meninsula led only to the Alps and it better to hold a big allied force for the western front. Washington and London decided on a third course. The conquest of Rome was desired for political, morale and religious prestige at home and abroad.

Allied forces in Italy were ordered to advance on Rome. In doing so the fifth and eighth armies ran into the real southern bastion of the fortress of Europe which the Germans had built with the advantage of some of the best! defensive positions in Europe an almost solid wall of the most rugged mountains stretching from the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic sea. Some critics of the campaign say this line could have been broken with troops available here if they had been used differently and if the situation had been exploited more skilfully and rapidly in certain instances when the Germans were disrupted. Other Factors However, there were other factors. Italian resistance and sabotage proved less effective than had been promised by Badoglio; air support proved less effective than was expected in some cases: and despite steady aerial battering of Nazi supplv lines, it has not yet cut off the flow sufficiently to make the Germans pull back.

When frontal attacks failed it was decided the time had come for another "side run." which eventually came off at Anzio. At first a relatively small landing a short distance behind the German lines was planned. But the plan was enlarged step by step- -a little bigger force a little farther north-until it was decided to land a strong force at Anzio. It was believed that by the time of the landing the Germans would have been pushed out of Cassino and fighting would have progressed into the Frosinone area, 25 miles northwest and that much nearer Anzio. The attack on Cassino in midJanuary failed, but it was decided to go ahead at Anzio anyway, 1 in the hope it would compel the Germans to pull a disastrous number of troons away from Cassino.

Anzio Landing Success The landings at Anzio were a success, took the Germans by surprise and apparently disrupted then somewhat. But not for long. They were able to throw a big containing force around the beachhead without any apparent weakening at Cassino. Critics also say the Anzio landings might have been better exploited at first. But because of the danger of having units isolated and destroved one by one, only an area just big enough for maneuvering was occupied, and the Germans have held it down to such small proportions all of it remains under shell fire.

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