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7. fFj I 'V 8 THE BRATTLEBORO DAILY REFORMER, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1943 -2S Bellows Falls Freeman was in charge of the lunch served at the close of the sm THREE MISS. MEN FREED IN LYNCHING LONE WOLF FLIER OUT IN IS WAR New Britain Landlords Dont Know Own Tenants NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (JP) Its a wise landlord, one of them claimed today, who knows his tenant In New Britain, one of the nations critical housing shortage centers. The landlord, investigating the unfamiliar signature on a check for a months rent, learned, he said, that one of his tenants had moved out and a new tenant had moved in without bothering to tell him.

mands and to support their desire. These the legislature takes up and more and more it has become the Job of the governor to reconcile and conciliate, and it seems to be recognized that this job has been well done by Governor Wills. Some few are bound to be disappointed but our legislatures are mostly made up of honest and patriotic men. We people In Bennington know that Governor Wills is honest, patriotic and loyal to Vermont, and, working with men of similar type, he has accomplished more than he possibly could had he attempted to give orders and make demands. Governor Wills has grown in stature, and the people of Vermont, the great majority of them, feel that the administration of Vermont affairs is in the best possible hands.

Percale Hop Set for July 3. Miss Clark demonstrated egg dishes at the Home Demonstrattlon meeting last Wednesday and leaflets were distributed and discussed. It was voted to hold the annual Percale Hop in North River hall on the evening of July 3. Plans were discussed and details will 6 given i later. I The dinner committee for the next meeting is Mrs.

Clara Stone. Mrs. Viola Williams, Mrs. Leon Williams, Mrs. Blanche White, Mrs.

C. M. Mac Kherson and Mrs. Billie Allen. I Lynn Youth in Tunisia Says Teamwork Is Essential Local News.

Miss Shirley Willard of Becker college. Worcester, is spending the Easter vacation at her home here. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Osterhoudt and son of Plttsford were visitors in town yesterday.

Miss Betty Harwood has returned after spending several days visiting with relatives in Portsmouth, N. H. Elaine DeWolfe of Saxtons River, Mrs. Cyrus Brewster and Infant child of Chester and Michael Harty were discharged from the hospital yesterday. In municipal court yesterday, Lawrence T.

LaWare of Redford, N. was fined $10 and costs of $5.75 after pleading guilty to speeding. LaWare was picked up yesterday north of the Putney-Westminster town line, driving 60 miles an hour. FINDS NAZI PILOTS ARE GOOD MEN Health, Dr. Viola Russell, director of maternal and child health, announced today.

This money was made available under the provisions of the first Deficiency Appropriation Act passed by Congress March 18. The program, had been carried on in Vermont from Jan. 20 to March 15 and was financed from regular maternal and child health allotments. These were completely obligated by the middle of last month. Under the new plan, any woman in the state, irrespective of legal residence, whose husband at the time of application, is an enlisted man (this includes men deceased or missing in action) in the armed forces of the United States who makes application for such care will be eligible for medical and hospital maternity services provided under the plan, without cost to the family.

Excluded are commissioned officers; master, major, first, technical, staff, and platoon sergeants; chief, first, and second-class petty officers. A memorandum announcing the continuation of this maternity care program and the change in policies from those previously in effect has been sent to all practicing physicians, hospitals, public health nurses, and public and private health and welfare agencies. Persons wishing further Information concerning this service should write to Dr. Viola Russell, Director, Maternal and Child Health Division, 348 College Street, Burlington. During the two months the program was in operation, medical and hospital care was authorized for 166 maternity cases.

Thirty applications were received after the funds were depleted and care will now be provided for them under the new plan. Vermont was granted $10,000 on its first allptment from the Deficiency Appropriation with the promise of additional money as the need arises. Andrew Morrlssee has showed great improvement during the past few days. I He underwent a serious ap-! pendectomy last week. John Helyar of Montpelier and Brattleboro and his nephew, Delmar Hawkins of Brattleboro, called on his mother, Mrs.

Ada M. Helyar, at Mr. and Mrs. W. S.

Allen's last i Wednesday. I Sugaring has taken a new lease on life" with the recent snowstorms and farmers have been busy again the past week. For a time it looked like a short season. ailer Among Those Found Innocent by Jury in Negros Hanging HATTIESBURG. Miss.

(P) Three Jones county men, charged with violating civil liberty statutes in the lynching of a Negro at Laurel last October, were acquitted by a federal court Jury here today a few seconds after 9 a. m. The all white Jury was given the case last night and was ordered locked up by Judge Sidney Mize at 10.58 p. m. until 9 a.

m. today. The men are Luther Holder, Deputy Sheriff and Jones county Jailer, Barney Jones and Allen Pryor. The federal charges grew out of the lynching on Oct. 16, 1942, of Howard Wash, 49-year-old Negro, who was taken from the county Jail by a mob and hanged from a bridge.

Wash was convicted of slaying his employer, Clint Welborn, and was awaiting a mandatory life sentence at the time of the lynching. 1716 government charged that the defendants deprived Wash of his life without due process of law. A government witness during the trial pointed out Jones and Pryor as members of the crowd around the Jail on the night of the lynching but testified that he saw neither inside the jail. A statement purportedly signed by Pryor admitting his part in the lynching was introduced into the record by the government over defense objections. Defense attorneys contended the statement was signed under duress and Pryor under questioning said the statement was false.

Judge Mize admitted it, however, after an FBI agent testified that Pryor had been warned it could be used against him. the Celanese Corporation of America, Newark, N. to return to work immediately and gave them until Monday to comply. Non-compliance by then, he said, will result in government steps to see to it that the plant is re-opened. Acting on the recommendation of the War Labor Board, whose repeated appeals to the workers, members of the United Mine Workers District 50, to end their strike had failed, the President sent telegrams to President John L.

Lewis of the UMW and four other union officials, demanding that picketing cease and the workers go back to work immediately. Hinsdale, N. H. FARM WORKERS WANTED Men Over 38 Years of Age Accustomed to Outdoor Work 1 TRACTOR OPERATOR 2 TEAMSTERS Several men for growing farm crops and digging trees for U. H.

government contracts. Good wages, steady wholesome work. Boy State Nurseries NORTH AlilNGTON, MASS. Located 18 Miles South of Boston NEW AVIATION CADETS. Earl Roberge, Brattleboro, and Philip Booth, Saxtons River, Qualify, RUTLAND Among a group of young Vermonters who recently have passed mental and physical tests which have qualified them for training as aviation cadets are Earl M.

Roberge of Brattleboro and Philip E. Booth of Saxtons River. The Womans club will meet at the home of Mrs. Fred Nees on Tuesday. Mrs.

Albert Fisher will give a book review. Miss Leatrlce Streeter of Keene Teachers college, who has been home this week on vacation, has had as her guest Miss Milllcent Williams of Keene. Mr. and Mrs, Fred Kendrick, and daughter, Gale, were guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Howard I. Streeter and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kendrick the first of the week. Mr.

and Mrs. Jerome DeForest of Hartford, will spend the week end with Mr. and Mrs. William H. Booth.

Mrs. LeRoy McGulgan returned home from Hartford, last week Thursday, accompanied by her grandson, Russell Schlatter. Mr. and Mrs. McGulgan will spend Easter with Mr.

ahd Mrs. Albert Schlatter in Hartford. Rev. William A. Knight delivered an address on Kindness at the First Congregational church on Thursday evening.

A Christian flag was presented to the church by boys who are members of Rev. Howard E. Hoods Sunday school class. The choir sang On Olives Brow and Mrs. Mark Chamberlain sang a solo.

War Around the World- (Continued from Page One.) the northern end of the Allied line had been thrown back. In the Russian campaign, Soviet headquarters indicated today that Adolf Hitlers first 1943 spring drive had tapered off and asserted that the Germans had lost almost 5,000 troops and 200 planes in less than a week of violent fighting in the Caucasus. The Hitlerites, having been bled white, are not now undertaking active operations, Red army headquarters announced, climaxing a week-long series of communiques reporting that the Germans were throwing masses of tanks, troops and planes into the Kuban bridgehead battle. CUTS OFF HAND FOR GOOD LUCK PIECE JAMES BURKE, 94, BURLINGTON, DIES murder in the slaying of Mrs. Martha FnrTY1pr Mflvnr and Ron James in a sleeping car.

The verdict UITIiei -LVldyOr ana representative Known for Vigor BURLINGTON James Edmund Burke, former mayor of Burlington for 10 years, died today at the age of 94 after a short illness. He was well known throughout the state as a result of his service in various public positions, having represented the city in the Vermont House of Representatives four times and been a postmaster for eight years, in addition to holding the city chief executive post for a decade. He also served on the city council for two years, and was police commissioner for three. He last was a member of the legis- lature in 1937, having previously served in 1925, 1931 and 1933. Although not outsandingly active in party circles, he was a well known Democrat, and renowned for his vigor in public service at an advanced age.

He was born in Williston May 5, attended Williston academy, and settled in Burlington in 1873. He at one time was a carriage maker and blacksmith, retiring a number of years ago. Surviving are seven children among them Mrs. J. Lenahan of Bellows Falls.

In 1908 he ran for governor of Ver-, mont on the Democratic tigjEet against George H. Prouty but was defeated. iM Honor Grange Master. Chester Long, master of North River Grange, who will go to Rutland Sunday for physical examination, was given a party by members of the Grange Thursday evening. Mrs.

Iva Roberta, and Roger Moody presented a varied program of singing, dancing, cards, stunts, insignia contests and contests, pertaining' to Easter and spring. The entertainment Less Talk, More Action Wanted. (Barre Times) Again it should be emphasized that heaps of miscellaneous scrap metal ought to be moved from collection points here in Vermont before the people are asked to begin salvaging tin cans. Without moving outside the boundaries of the Barres city and town one can see piles of this scrap metal gathering rust and dirt as it awaits removal. When the scrap metal drive was at its height, it was earnestly stated that the country needed every pound of such metal that could be collected.

That drive was about six months ago. Yet, in spite of that claim of urgent need of scrap metal, untold thousands of tons of the material are still unused and unmoved from the collection points. The delay in moving this material rather belies the claim of urgency of the need. If the urgency was over -stated, that over-statement is calculated to weaken the appeals for future drives at the behest of the government. Again, we repeat, the scrap metal ought to be moved at once.

There should be less talk and more action in this matter. By HAROLD V. BOYLE. AT AN ADVANCED BASE in northern Tunisia (April 22, Delayed) (IP) A slim, young American Spitfire pilot, who knocked down seven German combat plane3 in less than a month, said today, No one is good enough to take care of himself alone in the air. It isnt a matter of individual flying any more you have to have teamwork and co-operation, said Sylvan Feld, 24, former Lynn, dairyman.

"You work together now or die. You cant be a lone wolf that is last war stuff. You have got to have teamwork all the time. Feld said that word of his first victory had alarmed his family. Mother sent a message to me saying Come home at once, he added while smiling.

Probably the most spectacular feat by the curly-haired aviator occurred recently when he shot down four German fighter planes in three days. All his victories have been against combat ships. Has Been Luckv. I Just have been pretty lucky lately," he said. It started April 17 when I got my fourth victory in a sweep over Kairouan.

Six Messer -schmitt 109s were chasing Lieut. Morris A. Dodd of Danville, 111., who is in another Spitfire squadron. The four of us took off after them. I shot a Messerschmitt 109 off Dodds tail and the rest broke off the attack.

"The next day I was with Lieut. E. G. Smithers of Hillside, N. when we sighted some Focke-Wulf 190s going after British Spitfires.

I dived on One and chased him to within 10 miles of Tunis before I shot him down. While turning back I was attacked by two more Focke-Wulfs and they chased me back home, firing all the way until I was able to rejoin the same British Spitfires. Boy. I was glad to see them. Those 200-millimeter explosive shells were bursting all around me as I whipped back on deck.

I really was scared. On April 19 we went on a sweep over Tunis, protecting some bombers pounding enemy airdromes. After they left the targets our six Spitfires spotted four Focke-Wulfs down low. We dived on them and in the attack that followed I closed on one and after firing on him saw the enemy pilot bail out as bullets struck the cockpit. Another Exploded.

During this fracas another of our pilots suddenly was attacked by six Messerschmitts. One got directly on his tail. I turned inside him and fired. He exploded with my first burst. We were right above ground at the time and they were throwing flak up at us by the bushel.

"Three other fellows in Our squadron got two more Messerschmitts in that mixup. Our commanding officer, Maj. Robert Levine, 24, of Columbus, got one. The other was shared by Lieut. John B.

Blythe, 24, of White City, and Lieut. Victor Cabas of Newcastle, Pa. If we didnt work together in these scraps theyd pick us off separately. The German pilots we are up against now are good men. Make the Most of Yourself! Get a new, different hairdo for Spring and feel like a different woman.

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The Nazi command also stressed the First Armys assault, declaring that the enemy, as expected, launched a large scale attack and that, "in embittered struggles which are still being Waged, 48 tanks were destroyed. 8th Army Slackens Pace. In the south, where the British Eighth Army had driven half way up the coast from Enfidaville toward Bou Ficha, the pace slackened as Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomerys troops picked their way through coastal marshes under fire by Ge'rman mortars and machine guns Details of the American thrust in the north were not disclosed, but an Algiers broadcast said two German attacks in the Cap Serrat sector at Arkansas Negro Admits Luring Boy, 11, to Woods WEST MEMPHIS.

Ark. (JP) Because he wanted a "good luck piece to put in his hip pocket a 22-year-old Negro is being held in Marion, Jail today charged with cutting off another Negro youths hand with a pocket knife, it was announced by City Marshal Bud Holland. Holland said Charles Edwards asserted he lured 11 -year-old Joe Bloomfield, into the woods Thursday afternoon, knocked the boy unconscious and cut off Bloomfields left hand Just above the wrist. After his arrest the Negro declared, Holland said, that an old Negro had told him a human left hand carried around in his left hip pocket would bring good luck. He confessed that he left Bloomfield unconscious while he returned to wash the hand and put it in his pocket, Holland related.

The marshal said Bloomfield was in a Memphis hospital in a serious condition and that Edwards had been charged with assault with intent to kill. Home-Town Paper PraLses Wills. (Bennington Banner.) Governor Wills has survived the legislature in his second administration and with an apparent increase in popularity and with his ability more widely recognized than ever before. During a legislative session a governor faces the ambitions of many groups and factions. They cannot all of them have what they want, and In Vermont the party in power does not give orders and orders would not be obey'd if they were given.

In this state it is customary for the various groups and individuals to put forward their de- took place in the dining room and living room at Grange' hall and was enjoyed by about 30 Grangers and friends. Two solos were given by Miss Aline Tottler. W. S. Allen, in behalf of the Grangers, presented Chester with a money belt and a sum of money.

Mrs. ADVERTISE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE REFORMER. 'V BARRANQUILLA, Columbia (JP) Vice-president Henry A. Wallace left by Pan American Airways at 7.30 o. today for Miami, ending his Latin-American tour.

He is due in Miami this evening. F.R. ORDERS END OF CELANESE STRIKE Tells Workers to Return or Government Will Open Plant WASHINGTON (JP) President Roosevelt today ordered strikers 1 A A minder BME to ST0RB y0UR FURS I DOWNS PLANE, GETS EARPHONE SHOT OFF Secret of Good Appearance declared in Washington that he would like to fly over Tokyo to help settle accounts with the Japs for the execution of the U. 8. airmen who helped bomb Tokyo.

WANTS TO VISIT TOKYO As Lieut. Gen. Thomas Holcomb (left). Marine Corps commandant, and reporters listened, Capt. Joe Foss (right), ranking American ace with 26 planes to his credit over Guadalcanal, Four thieves moths, heat, fire, theft are out to rob your furs of their life and beauty.

You don't want that to happen, so may we remind you that you can foil these robbers by the simple device of sending your furs to our freezing, cold storage vaults. There they can spend the treacherous summer months in cool ease and beauty-preserving comfort. The cost is little and the safety greatest. In addition to being scientifically tended, every coat is covered by insurance while it is in our care. You can find no greater safety anywhere.

Framingham Flier Lucky to Escape in Air Battle AT AN ADVANCED U. S. FIGHTER BASE In northern Tunisia (JP) He knocked down one German fighter-bomber, but a second one shot his earphone off and that was even a bigger thrill. I sure was glad to get out of that scrap in one chunk, said Capt. Hor-man L.

McDonald, 25, of Framingham, commander of one of the American Spitfire squadrons in Tunisia McDonald added We ran into some Junker 88s a couple of weeks ago. I went after the leader, cutting in front of a second German plane to do so, figuring he was too busy ducking the rest of our Spitfires to bother with me. I gave the leader a three-second burst with my cannon and set his right motor on fire. Just as I finished with him I feit something hit my head and the glass canopy over the cockpit was smashed to pieces. I felt something land in my lap and reached down to see what it was.

It was my right earphone, shot right off from my helmet without touching me. I was dazed momentarily from the impact, but pulled out of it quickly. The 50-millimeter slugs had hit within a foot of my head. "That taught me not to try any more cutting in ahead of German planes. Every item in her lion-washable wardrobe is LAWTON DRY-CLEANED regularly.

She doesnt own a lot of clothes either. She keeps the ones she has smart and immaculate the LAWTON way. Womens clothes, mens clothes, curtains, drjaperles, pillows, chair covers, blankets, quilts, send them all to Lawtons. All work Insured against fire and theft. urnroHS PAYS FOR BABIES OF SERVICE WIVES GcddncwPearson'oNunt We are conserving gas and tires.

No callbacks, please. If you wont be at home when driver calls, leave work outside. CASH AND CARRY AGENCY MIC HELM AN-BEEBE CLOTHING STORE Phone COLLECT from Northfield, S. Vernon, Vernon, Hinsdale, Putney, Newfane, Townshend, Wll-lianisvllle, S. Newfane, W.

Duin mere to n. 4-24-43 The Friendly Store Down on the Hill Government Sends Extra Money to Finance Work in Vt BURLINGTON A new grant of money to continue the maternity care pragram for the wives of men In military service has been given the Vermont Department of Public AMERICAN GUN OPENS UP A big American 155 Blr Marbott Pass oh the road to Gabes. From Its cam- mm. artillery piece, nicknamed Long Tom, opens the quflaged' position it shells German and Italian posi- drive by United States forces in Central Tunisia before tions..