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Jm, tr THE JVEATHEH TEMPKKATIKK Muslmum degree; minimum 61 d-w. greeit; river gauii il.iM. fall 0.3 Ml FMt Hi CtMMl Ob 0rwwM4, Uftert CMUtj. a MlariaalBfl FIVE CENTS VOLUME 2J NUMUEK 192. GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, MISS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AI'RIL 12, 1915.

AjIm if MISSISSIPPI Tartly cloudy Mnd coiilinurd warm IhU after-noun, tiitiijiM Mild Friday. I.t. Jimmit) Md'hemon, who stationed nt thu Richmond, Vu. Army Air Hunt', stopped over In Greenwood lust night on a routine flitclit iiinl enjoyed a vixil with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Perry Mcpherson, Lt. Md'heraon ItMll BJu jvJuuvJ II m. Himmler Issues Court Upholds ffininre mmw act mum flying a l'-17 fitthtur plane. I Aiming those graduating from Sgt. Heafner Is Reported Safe Leflore County HFTEB CROS8IC36 ELBE i t.

r. mi Intensive course of Gunner's Mate at (iieiit Lake Naval Training School wiih Fred A. JohiiHon, hod of Mr. and Mm. J.

E. Johnson of Greenwood. I.t. (j. ir.) James Andrew "Rubber" Ely un, father.

J. A. Kly of iSlmw, were guests of and Mm. B. II.

Bluckstone yesterday. Lt. Ely is just back from in months service in the South ueific where he wrs coin-nmnder of a PT boat. wj a. mi German Cities Sumatra, Formosa Red Army Tanks Are Rolling Again 8th Army Troops Meet Opposition Reported Raided Recent Decisions Keeps County In Class Two In Ruling Law Constitutional.

Leflore County and twenty-six other counties in Mississippi will hold the same classifications they have held since under a sweeping decision of the Mississippi Court handed down by Justice L. A. Smith, last Monday in a suit by R. Cunliffe McBce, vs. W.

S. Vardaman and other members of the Leflore County Board of Supervisors, which was brought us a test suit to obtain a deci Crumbling Along Invasion Path Clad Tiding Come In Men-saue To Mother In Received Vesterduy After noon. A cablegram received yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Cecil Heafner from her son, Sgt II. L.

Heafner, was the first message received since he was reported missing by the War Department last April 29, 1944. The message sent personally by Sgt. Heafner said: "I am well and in good health. Am having good time for a change. Hope to see you all soon.

Sgt. Heafner was in a bomber that whs shot down over Germany. No word had been received from him since that time. Details arc meager but belief is held that he had been liberated from a German prison camp overrun by the rapid advance of Meridian Public Schools will close Muy 2ft for the Summer vacation." Junior College graduates will receive their diplomas Muy 2K, Senior High graduates the following day. Stern Decree Declares No German City Will He Declared Open Town.

LONDON, April 12 P) Hein-rich Himmler, Commander of the German Home Army and Gestapo Chief, issued a decree today declaring that "no German city will be declared an open town," DNB announced in a Berlin broadcast. "Every German town and every house must be defended," the SS leader declared. "Every village, every town will be defended with all means. Every German responsible for the defense of a place who does not follow this order loses his honor and his life." DNB said the decree was necessitated by a tendency toward easy surrender in the west to American spearheads commanders who promised that if the towns gave up they would not be destroyed. Although Himmler signed the order as Rcichsfuehrer of the SS (Elite Guard), unverified reports reaching London have said he was virtually the ruler of Germany and had superseded Hitler.

Battle Against Second Barrier Thrown liy The Germans At Santerno River. Drive Swiftly For The Havar-i ian Frontier As Other Sov-r; let Troops Complete Occupa-i tion Of Vienna. sion on the constitutionality of No successor has been announced yet for Col. Robert E. M.

Gool-rick, Commanding Officer of Kees. Icr Field here, who is to be transferred to headquarters, western Flying: Training Command, Santa Ana, effective May 1. Col. (ioolrick has been commanding officer since April 15, 1912. PuKh Imminent Toward Devastated Capital And Linkup With Red Armies.

By JAMES M. LONG PARIS, April 12 A report attributed to Frenc.i sources and without immediate confirmation said tonight that Allied parachute troops had been dropped at Brandenburg, barely 20 miles west of Berlin. the Allied armies, -O- Bomber Collision Claims 14 Lives Louisiana and Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers searched today for four criminally insamc negroes who escaped Monday night ivom the cast Louisiana hospital at nearby Jackson, Lu. Other Aspects Of Pacific War Said To lie Progressing Satisfactorily. By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Renewed Allied Carrier raids on Sumatra and Formosa were reported by Tokyo radio today as "strong of fighter-escorted Superfortresses lashed at war production centers in and around the Japanese capital, Japanese soldiers added a new hazard to American conquest of Okinawa, 325 miles south of Japan, by releasing thousands of lepers and insane.

Many of the men were violent. U. S. 24th Army Corps Units beat back four well-organized Nipponese counterattacks on southern Okinawa yesterday but were held to a virtual standstill for the sev enth consecutive day. American casualties in the first nine days of the Okinawa campaign were announced as 2,695, including 432 dead, 2,103 wounded, 160 missing.

More than 5,000 Japanese have been killed, or 11 for every Yank, compared to a ratio of 20 to 1 on bloody Iwo. PARIS, April 12 (American Ninth Army tanks crossed the Elbe River today and debouched onto the flat, unbroken plain leading 57 mles toward Berlin and 115 miles from Russian siege lines. ROME, April 12 Eighth Army troops battling heavy opposition have pushed across a second barrier thrown up by the Germans at the Santerno River, while on the opposite end of the front American troops, assisted by Italian partisans, have captured Carrara Allied headquarters announced today. The Santerno River runs parallel to and about five miles west of Senio River line from which the Eighth launched its new offensive four days ago. Carrara is four miles north of Massa, west coast hub whose capture by the Fifth Army was announced yesterday.

(Meanwhile, in a message to Italian patriots behind German lines in northern Italy, Gen Mark W. Clark said the "final battles for the liberation of Italy have begun." (He warned, however, that the moment for coordination action had not yet arrived. The instructions were broadcast over the Rome radio and recorded by the Federal Communications Commission.) 1 Dozens of towns have been reduced to rubble around the stubborn Germans by nulveriz- LONDON, April 12 (J') Russian tanks, driving swiftly for the -Bavarian frontier were rcporteJ to have reached the Dunube bend 42 miles west of Vienna today as other Soviet troops virtually completed occupation of the histori: Austrian capital. ''The Berlin radio said Soviet ar mor reached a point between Krems and Melk, .30 miles from Linz, 75 miles from Bavaria and little mare than 1H miles from Qerchtesgaden, mountain top re-tieat of Adolf Hitler. Fall of Vienna appeared to be only a matter of hours as mopping up of the last, enemy resistance progressed rapidly inside the vital communica'ions hub and second city of the greater Reich.

Russian shock troops yesterday stormed across the Danube canal inside the capital, gaining control of half the island between the canal and the river where the Nazis were making a final stand. i Nine-tenths of th? major part ft the city south of the Danube already was in Russian hands. 'fiNortheast of the capital the Russians slashed one of the last German escape routes a second- a law passed at the 1944 session of the Mississippi legislature which provided that counties should not fall below the classification they had under the assessment of 1930. The attorney general of the state, following a court decision last June, in which an attempt to hold such classifications passed by the legislature in 1932, was ruled invalid, had issued an opinion that the law passed in 1941 violated the state constitution. Following the attorney general's ruling, the Leflore County Hoard of Supervisors, deemed that the county which had a lower assessment in 1943 than it did in 1930, was a county of class three instead of class two.

The decision was of major importance inasmuch as tax levies, county officers salaries, and the maintenance of clerical staffs in several county offices are governed by the classification in which the county is placed by virtue of its assessed valuation. An Amendment of classification Fliers Aboard IM7s Killed When Flying Fortresses Collide Over Jackson. Kiwanians Hear Committeemen Early Junction Of Allied Armies Is Predicted Regular Program Is ed To Hearing Of For. First Quarter. William H.

Simpson's men could reach the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin by tomorrow night or Saturday, provided the Germans switched no tank forces from the east One report, however, said the Germans were shifting their bat- tcred Sixth panzer army from the Eastern Front. The First Army approached Leipzig in Saxony over the 'old battlefields of Frederick the Great. One unconfirmed report placed American tanks near HalU, 15 miles from Leipzig. Planes de- ntraifrri -nr ilirhlnrl IM.Rna Today's meeting of the Kiwani? Club was devoted tu hearing reports from various committee chairmen. Secretary Albeit J.

Brewerton Meeting Met ween cd Army And Western Allies Holds Attention Of Russian Republic. General American gains were re-1 I il. statute which stabilized these matters was introduced in the called on the chairmen for reports 1944 legislative session by Lit of the first quarters' r-activitica-LafV Wlroaa runnmg north to wn-Lrid the following responded: pWteTjf and the Czechoslovak city tlcton Upshur, Leflore county J. C. Hardwick, chairman of tne tanks near Halle.

Cities fell like tenpins: Weimar, Heilbronn, Essen, Cobpra, Nord-hausen, Schweinfurt, Hafderstad' artillery in, the "new" attacks. Cotignola, which was1 one -ot the first towns taken by the Eighth Army in the new drive, was completely destroyed. Only about 1,000 of its normal popula representative, who with A. ti. Bell, represented the plaintiff in the test suit, both in the circuit puiwsa in uib rniiippiiies, ranging up to 21 miles on.

Luzon-ad SQ on Negros Island. British armor swept east and south from Thazi in central Burma to trap fleeing Japanese. Nipponese recaptured Sichwan in north central China and renewed their drive toward Shensi province on the northern road to Chungking. EDDY G1LMORE 4 MOSCOW, April 12 (P) The possibility of an early meeting between the Red Army and the western Allies in the heart of Germany held the attention of the Russian Republic today as it learned that American troops had reached positions only 57 miles from Berlin and 115 miles from JACKSON, April 12 A) The names" of 14 fliers killed shortly after midnight Tuesday in the collision of twj B-17 Flying Fortressss were announced last night by Col William H. Garrison, commanding officer of the Jackson Armv Air Base.

The men, all members of the 203rd Army Air Base unit of the Second Air Force, on detached service from headquarters at Colorado Springs, were on a training Both planes were- demol -ished. The crash occurred about 13 miles north of the airbasc. Those killed, with next of kin, listed, were: Major John F. Cunningham of Milton Junction, Wis. His wife resided with him in Jackson.

First Lt. George J. Canavan, father, James J. Canavan, (1637 South 33rd St.) Milwaukee. Wis.

First Lt. Charles J. Keathley of Auburndale, wife who resided with him in Jackson. First Lt. Carl J.

Shane, mother, Mrs. Edne Shane (Myrtle Place) Batesville, Ind. First Lt. John C. Stevens, sister, Miss Barbera M.

Stevens, (104 Rosewood St.) Boston, Mass. First Lt. Daniel B. Sullivan, father, Be'ijamin T. Sullivan, court and in the supreme court At great tank battle raged in that area as the Germans tried desperately to check the westward drive of Marshal Ivan S.

Malin-ovsky's Second Ukrainian Army for a linkup with Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian which upheld the lower courts ruling that the statue was valid. In passing on the constitutionality of the 1944 statute the supreme court said: Emmen, Neustadt and by German account Bochum. The Third Army farther south broke out again in armored gains of up to 46 miles which carried within 42 miles of Czechoslovakia and 32 of Bayreuth in the Bavarian redoubt where the Nazis may troops sweeping through and be yond Vienna from the south; Attendance Committee, gave attendance figures an-J made appea' for 100 percent attendance during April. Others reporting were Clii: Watson, Underprivileged Children; H.

M. Stanf ill, Public Relations and Business Standards; Maury Mclntyre, Agriculture; J. D. Buckley, Inter-Club Relations; Bill Harper, Churches and Spiritual Associations; Walter Payne, Education, and Carl M. Kelly, Program.

J. C. Hardwick gave the Kiwan-is charge to Dr. RoDert Fedric. The attendance prize went to Harris Coleman, Navy.V-12 student.

Guests were Lt. Martin Decke-, Capt. A. Arc'iiniaeo, Jul Hughes. 0 maKe tneir last stand.

In Czechoslovakia, meanwhile, the Second and Fourth Ukrainian arimes linked up in the Carpath Soviet lines along the Oder. The same question is on everyone's tongue when is the war going to end The Soviet press, however, is keeping silent on this question and there has been no official speculation. The impression prevails here ian Mountains and cleared a supply road from Poland to the Vienna front. Tolbukhin's forces captured one of the Danube canal bridges intact and raced across under Nazi mortar fire, quickly seizing th? Vienna electric powr station and that the war will end when the Red Army launches its impending offensive across the Oder and tion of 10,000 remained, living out the bombardments in cellars. Capture of Carrara apparently was made by the 442nd Regiment, made up of Americans of Japanese, ancestry.

They had been last reported only a half mile from the town, a marble quarry center of 50,000. The Germans obviously were putting up one of their "show piece" defenses all along the Italian front a stubborn bloody fight for 'every crossroad despite the present situation inside Germany. RAF Liberators were out in support of the Eighth Army ground forces during the night, attacking points close to the battle line southwest of Lake Comacchio where enemy supplies were concentrated. The new fighting in Italy was coincident with a reported Ger-men withdrawal north of Sarajevo in Yugoslavia. The Balkan Air Force has been attacking Spain broke off diplomatic relations with Japan, in protest against the murder and torture of Spaniards in Manila.

Aging Premier Ad m. Baron Kantaro Suzuki increased warlike appearance of his cabinet by adding the sixth military man, Lt. Gen. Fukiharu Yasui, as minister without port, folio to act as liaison officer between the government and the army. He is a member of the Kwangtung army clique might which produced ex-premier Generals Hideki Tojo and Kuniaki Koiso.

Approximately 150 B-29s, escorted by Mustangs from Iwo Jima, raided the Nakajima Musa-shino aircraft engine factory in Tokyo's suburbs for the eighth time. Another Superfort formation made the first strike at Kor- Ncissc Rivers, where according to Soviet front-line dispatches the "The legislature was required to fix suitable compensation for public officers and while they selected a definite standard as a basis below which the classification should not descend, it was not sn arbitrary one. By so doing, stablization of compensation could be and was achieved in so far as minimum lf ripenrfition is concerned, a very important consideration to be contemplated by capable men. Public service could attract capable men, thereby contributing to the efficiency of government and the welfare of the people. We think therefore, that section 2 of Chapter 192, laws of 1944, is constitutional, and is reasonable, not arbitrary, and is germane to the end sought to be accomplished, and bears a reasonable relation to achievement of a purpose to promote efficiency in government." (321 First Ashland, Wis.

Flight Officer Michael B. Elli clearing the entire Prater Park area, chief amusement center of ott, mother, Mrs. Mary G. Elliott, PARIS, April 12 (American First Armies dfrove hard for Leipzig toilaf one" report placing their tanks 15 miles away, while the Ninth Army massed on the Elbe at Magdeburg a scant 57. miles from Berlin.

The dismemberment of Germany continued apace on all sectors, where daily gains of 2ft miles or more were commonplace. The greatest advance of all was scored late yesterday by the Hell on Wheels (2nd) Armored Division of Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's Ninth Army to the Elbe, last waterway before Berlin, it ran more than 50 miles in 12 hours.

The Third, and probably the First Army, was operating under (11 Bay St.) -Potsdam, i. Y. Flight Officer Jack C. Ewing mother, Mrs. Hattie Rose Ewing.

Falling River Helps Situation Increase Chances Of Holding Red River Levee in Vicinity Of Colfax, La. the famed city. Pressing farther along the narrow island, the Russians engaged a heterogeneous Nazi garrison, which included Luftwaffe pilots, sailors, Volksturmers, SS men and even boys from Junkers schools, and then broke into the Jewish quarter of Leopoldstadt, one of the last three districts held by the Germans. There the Germans were fighting from cellars, overturned street cars and from their own burned out tanks. The Soviet high command reported that Austrians forcibly mobilized into the German Volks-sturm wave joining ihe Red Army -0- a security blackout.

Both were (rural route) Alinf Okla. Flight Officer Harold Lisdell. mother, Mrs. Josephine Lisdell, (102 Depot St.) Mineral Bridge, Ohio. Flight 0 fficer G.

F. Trost, father, Eqald Trost, (Som-trst Ave.) Segreganset, Mass. Staff Sjrt. George C. Brooks, mother, Mrs.

Mary B. Brooks (Route 3) Owensbora, Ky. Staff Sgt. Walter L. Lark, mother, Mrs.

Nellie M. Lark, (283.) Glendale Ave.) Jennings, Mo. Sgt. Joseph A. Ott, mother Mrs.

Margaret Ott, (939 Mc-Knight Reading, Va. Pvt. August N. Lilienkamp, fighting with skill and dash to bisect Germany in combination with an expected Russian push to somewhere between Leipzig and Dresden. A linkup with the East County Is Aiding Clothing Drive ern Front likeiy was only a matter of days.

iyama, transport center 110 miles north of Tokyo, in a 3,800 mile round trip flight. Tokyo said about 150 other B-29s attacked Shizuoka, site of a Mitsubishi aircraft engine plant south of Tokyo. All raids were made in daylight today. Japanese broadcasts said the French Battleship Richelieu and a British Battleship of the Queen Elizabeth type were beliveed to be in the British task force which yesterday raided Sumatra. Tokyo said carrier aircraft hit Sumatra and Sabang, off the northern tip of the island, and destroyers shelled Sumartra.

Another Allied task force, Tokyo reported, sent 80 aircraft against three major cities on northern Formosa today. strength of the German Army is concentrated. There has been no hint when this drive may be launched, but one gains the impression here that the zero hour is approaching. Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukraine Army, of course, still is tied up one sector liquidating the large German garrison of Brcs-Jau, but the Russians have been stepping up their attacks here and the capture of the Silesian city on the banks of the Oder seems not too faV distant.

The fall of Breslau would free many troops for a drive westward. While the Russian public is greatly elated by the rapid advance of the American armies, the average Soviet citizen is firmly convinced that the great majority of the German forces are massed on the eastern front, battling the Russians for, every mile. Dispatches' from the Russian front, meanwhile, suggested that Moscow's big' guns might salute the fall of Vienna any time now. Official Russian 'dispatches were silent on a German announcement that Marshal FeoBor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army tanks were driving westward from Vienna in the direction of Linz and Munich, but there was every reason to believe this was true.

It is known that Tolbukhin has punched a big hole in Nazi positions and presumably he has poured through it rapidly. 0 The Germans asserted that the British Second Army opened an uerman communication lines in that area almost constantly for three days. More than 300 motor transports were destroyed or damaged on the main road to Brod, and 18 locomotives and more than 100 freight cars were put out of commission. (- CHUNGKING, April 12 The Chinese High Command announced tonight that Japanese troops had captured Lachokok, former advanced U. S.

14th Air Force base 200 miles from Hankow and 350 from Chungking. The city, which the Americans had abandoned as a base some time ago, fell Wednesday morning after bitter street fighting, the High Command said. and that anti-Nazi demonstrations wife, Mrs. Lorraine Lilienkamp, Sub-Committees Functioning In All Communities To Gather Apparel For War all-out assault on the U-boat lair of Bremen (342,113) at dawn, but were thrown back to their siega (1212-A Wilmington Ave.) St. Louis, Mo.

-0 lines four miles from the great had taken place in sveeral Austrian towns. The announcement was the first official Russian indication that the Austrian people were reacting to Moscow's promise Sunday that Austrian independence would be restored and that Russia would not seek to port. In the United National Collection drive over the the following ladies have The Amercian Seventh Army in the south captured Schweinfurt (42,000) and its shattered ball VIOKSBURG, April 12 A falling river has slightly increased the chances of holding the Red River levee in the vicinity of Colfax, the Mississippi River Commission here reported today. Weak places in the levee are being strengthened and the situation there is more encouraging than at any time in the last week. As a precautionary measure, the 19th Louisiana Levee District has begun construction of a tie-in levee from the levee line to the railroad embankment in the northern outskirts of Colfax.

The body of a negro workman, Arthur Nash, who was drowned along with another worker -when a boat capsized at the Fletcher Lake levee Tuesday, has been recovered. The other body was found shortly after the accident. Conditions generally in the lower valley were unchanged. S-Sgt Henry Odom Is Coming Home agreed to serve as chairmen in their respective com Tickets Going Fast For "Junior MissM bearing plants near the edge of change Austria's social system. the Oerman national redoubt, lt was there on Aug.

17, 1943, that the U. S. 8th Air Force lost 183 heavy bombers in its first heavy munities: Mrs. T. H.

Thompson, Schlatei; Mrs. J. C. Lawhorn, Sidon; J. R.

Wilson, Money; Mrs. A. Y. Sturdivant. Minter City; Mrs.

F. R. Morgan, Morgan City; Mrs. Nannie Webb, Swift-own. The location of the collection depots in Greenwood are in the The Junior Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the New York casualties on a bombing mission.

As DeWitt MacKenzie Sees The War Situation Today stage show "Junior Miss," which 0 Paper Troopers To Be Honored With Medallion School Student Gathering Pounds, Of Paper Will Receive Service Medallion. vacant building next door to the Cjty Drug Store an 1 the show rooms of Moore McDavid corner Church and Lamar Streets This week has been designate! DEAR EDITOR- Rf JlmnT ArrhuTtw as "Clean Out Your Clothes Closet Week." the Kambow (42) Division scored the triumph. Important cities fell in the last day span. These included the steel and coal Ruhr center of Esesii Germany's sixth city; the central German supply base of Nordhausen historic Coburg snd the Dutc.i city of Emmen Fighting continued in Brunswick Dortmund Bochum Erfurt Schweinfurt Halberstadt Celle and Heilbonn In the Magdeburg area, where five bridges cross the 450-fooi wide Elbe, the Ninth Army was 115 miles from Russian lines east of Berlin. The First and Third Armies possibly were closer in the narrowing waist of Germany.

Clothing is needed overseas for the people of nations who havj been under the Urutal German army. Their only resources are the lands where the Nazi invaders Wires Parents He has Completed Missions And Awaiting Orders For Home. machine. That assay fits a view which this column often has voiced. Having studied Hitler at close range in Germany I have ventured the belief that he is the mainspring of Nazism that in fact he and the Nazism are one and the same thing, and that his death or incapacitation would produce a collapse both of the military machine and of the government.

The Nazi regime has been a one-man show, in sense that Hitler always has had the final dis-tatorial word in everything. The general public has accepted him almost without reservation not plays a one-night engagement at the high school auditorium Friday night, reports that advance ticket sales are exceeding all expectations. All seats for this show are reserved and the early purchasers of scats will be assured the best seats, therefore this is one of the main reasons sales have been phenomenal. "Junior Miss" is accredited with being one of the best comedies written in many stage seasons. It will present plenty of fun and entertainment.

A band parade this afternoon by the Greenwood High School band, will call attention to the attraction tomorrow night. Tickets may be bought at the Bank of Greenwood and after banking hours a booth in front of the bank will care for customers. Sales may also be consummated at Larry's Men'i Shop. The advice received from state headquarters of the War Production Board by Supt. E.

S. Bowlus states that all Paper Troopers gathering 2,500 lbs. of paper, will be paid special tribute bv the awarding of a service medallion. London has heard a report that Hitlers has been assassinated a story which unfortunately has found no confirmation. There's another report of a split in the Nazi party.

It's said the Fuehrer is being thrown over in favor of Gestapo Chief Himmler, the bloody minded wholesale murderer. To this British spokesman has replied that the foreign office is operating on the theory that the Fuehrer still is in control, with Himmler in command of defense forces. Positive knowledge of Hitler's passing certainly would have a vast repercussion. General George C. Marshall, U.

S. Army chief of staff, recently said the death or capture of the Nazi chief would contribute tremendously to a cot-lapse of the German military have not been able to steal every available' supply. Mill? that would have produced garments have al! been destroyed by the Hitler hordes. Collins, Miss. Everybody.

is wondering why them Germans don't throw in the sponge and call it quits. I reckon they are like the colored ball team when one side had tne other by a 79 to 0 score in the third inning. When asied why they didn irive ud. the captain of the losing Do not wait for some one to rall or remind you to give to 'this A happy message was received this morning by Mr. and Mrs.

H- T. Odom from their son. S-Sgt. Henry Odom wno cabled: "Finished missions. Awaiting orders for home.

Lots of love." Sgt. Odom is a tail gunner on a 17 and has been overseas sincn November 1944. He is with the Eighth Air Force stationed in England. Stars and itripes, the Ameri- A full explanation of the plan will be revealed on the Army Hour next Sunday, April 22. All Paper Troopers are asked to redouble their efforts in collecting wastepaper in order that they may qualify for this service medallion, Supt.

Bowlus said. 1 team replied: "Us can't win dis clothing drive. Bring home flow you and your family would feel vour loved ones had been nilldged only as temporal but as spirit- can Army newspaper, quoted ual ruler. Ninth Air Force pilots as saying and robb'd and left with the bar- game but we gwine set a recoru for de worstest beating team ever, got.u-.,..-.--- est of rags to clothe your body. on page eighty (Continued oa gift asii.