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VEATIIEIt FCrXCAST Partly cloudy with moderate temperature! today, tonight, and Friday. I '8unset today, 7JM p. sunrise Friday, a. bW LWiMftVMI Cotton, abort, lb 31o to 33Vio Cotton, long, lb 88o to S3o Con Seed, bushel IStto Bswtfp 5o CornrW. V.

W-8" Wheat, VJ1j65 f- PUBLISHED QN MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CEVENTY-SECOND YEAR MONROE, N. UNION COUNTY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1944 8-MONTHS, 75; 6-MONTHS, 1.25 SEMI-WEEKLY, $2.00 iZAB CoUect Waste THE LATEST WAR NEWS IN BRIEF MEMORIAL SUNDAY FOR SEAMAN F-C JENKINS War Casualty Joint Armies Near Belgrade 2AreInsiDected Paper Sunday Americans Hit Nazi Weshall r'r Sweep Through After Infantry Makes Breach SURPRISE TF0R ENEMY Sauadrons of hard-hitting American 1 i 1 -1 w. tanks which bad been held back for two days while doughboys hacked yawning hole In the Siegfried line north of Aachen were sent charging through the breach yesterday to blast German secondary defenses and help clear the path of Lt Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' First army to the Rhine.

Pouring into a can two and a half miles wide In the vaunted WestwalL the Tanks last night were fighting through minefields, tank traps ana hastily-built rifle pits more than two miles Inside the border of oermany after having thrown back three weak enemy counterattacks in the early morning hours. Front disnatches said the Nad com manders, for all their desperate need to halt the burgeoning Allied drive at the heart of the Industrial jtnineianq. did. not have enough first class trops to throw against Hodges' crack, infantry divisions and tremendous re serves of armor. More than 100 miles to the south In France, Lt Gen.

George S. Pat-ton's Third Army veterans fought bitter hand-to-hand duels inside Fort Driest a greet rabbit warren of do- fenaes sruardlne the vital city of Meta from the west bank of the Moselle river. After Tank troops stormed into tne gun-studded fortress and began driving the Nails out of underground tunnels with biasing ofl, the enemy rallied from hidden machine gun and rocket nests within the mlle-and-a-half long maze and a deadly close-quarter battle ragged into the night While headquarters announced officially that the fortone of several similar strongholds protecting Meta had been captured, a field dispatch from Edward Ball of the Associated Press said that the Nasi garrison. -composed of former students of the German officers school at Met, still was putting up "fierce resistance." The American officer commanding the attack told Ball, however, that he was optimistic his shock troops would stay Inside Fort Driant this time. Services WIU Bo Held Sanday After- At First Baptist, Memorial services for Seaman Tal-madge Clinton Jenkins will be held In the First Baptist church, Sunday afternoon at 8:30 and will be In charge of the pastor Rev.

Jack T. Akin. Special quisle will be furnished by the church choir. Seaman Jenkins, son of Oscar Walter Jenkins, tost his life In the recent storm which swept the Atlantic, when his ship, the Warrenton went down. Seaman Jenkins Is survived by his father, two sisters, Mavel and Dorothy Jenkins and one brother, PFC Henry H.

Jenkins of the air forces at Casper, Wyoming. Seaman Jenkins was 17 years old and bad served in the South Pacific area for nine months. He had three stars on his Pacific theatre ribbon, indicating participation In three major battles. He entered the Navy July 6, The young seaman was well-known here and often visited relatives In the city. He was a member of the First Baptist church of Monroe.

Russians Open Break Into Yugoslavia Along 55-Mile Stretch In New Attack NAZIS FIGHT FURIOUSLY The Red army opened a second front In Yugoslavia breaking Into the country along a 65-mile front north and east of Belgrade and driving to' within 37 miles of the Yugoslav capital, already reported under virtual siege 'of Marshal Titos Partisans. Welding an are around Belgrade to the northeast, the Russians eaptursa the communications centers of Patrov- grad and Bela Crvka, 40 miles north and 40 miles east ci the capital, re spectively, and. a dosen towns and rail way stations in between, including Dim a. Just 37 miles from Belgrade. The Russian drive, announced in Moscow's midnight communique re corded by the Soviet monitor, pene trated 34 miles into Yugoslavia at Petrovgrad.

It was launched from positions along the Romanian frontier acutKmwt of Tlmiaoara. ine new -offensive apparently nau been under way at least two days. While Moscow announced no gains vesterdav. Marshal Tito's headquarters declared that the Red army had joinea units of his 14th Partisan corps in a converging drive on Belgrade. The first invasion of Yugoslavia, an nounced Saturday, meanwhile was continued on a north-south front be ginning 60 miles east of the lower ex tremity of the new drive, and carried to a depth of ,23 miles westward with capture of the town of Rudna Olava, 36 miles southwest of the Romanian border town Of.Turnu Severin.

The Russians also announced capture of the town of Rudna Olava, 36 miles southwest of the Romanian border town ofTurnu Severin. The Russians announced capture of the Estonian Island of Ristna by amphibious forces bent on ending Germany's domination of tne saiuo Ristna. one of four islands com manding entrances to the gulfs of Riga and Finland, was taken by troops ot Marshal Leonid Govorov's Leningrad army, who captured the island of Vormsl September 27 and Muhu three days tatw.v.v'r:: How, the Russians need possession only of Saare, largest of the four islands, to give the Red fleet clear sailing in the Baltic, where It can be employed against German shipping and in support of future campaigns to drive the Oermans out of those parts of Latvia and Lithuania they still occupy, and to Invade East Prussia. The new drive Into Yugoslavia not only places Belgrade between one of the Red Army's vaunted pincers-assuming the more southerly offensive will drive westward to cut south -of Belgrade as well as southward towards the communications dtp of Miabut threatens to cut the last Nat escape, routes from the BeJksns4 Romanian troops were' believed to be participating In this hew drive, and Ool. Ernest von Hammer, Nasi radio military analyst, mentioned the pres ence of motorlsed Bulgarian forma-i tiOnS.

Berlin placed the Russian strength at five Infantry probably more than 60,000 men, and Indicated they were thoroughly motorized and accompanied by some armor. The Oermans announced evacuation of the principal cities taken by the Russians before the Soviet communique was issued. i' LOCAL DAT.Ik SET.DITIG HZVS OVERSEAS HQnlaiore Newspaper, "Sports -Slants," Being Received By Service Men. The miniature newspaper "Sports Slants" which the American Bank and Trust Company Is sending to the men and women of Union county vrho are on foreign service appears to be welcomed, according to letters the bank has received from both the European and Pacific theaters as well as fro a the Navy. A portion, of one letter from a Union county boy In New Guinea reads, "I not only enjoyed It myself but so did dozens of other fallows in the squadron.

Reading ma-t is very e.arce and we enjoy it I----- r-- t' at the 'If (f rv a and wo---- i i are on fori i i ea Xe i t. WESTERN" FRONT American tanks ptange' Into Germany thra wide hole te Siegfried line above First Army troop leas than SO snOes (rem Cologne and Daaselderf. Hand-to-hand fighting- jrages inside Fort riant In northeaster France. EASTERN FRONT Russians advance 14 miles tat drive into Yugoslavia and seise railway station miles northeast of Belgrade. Moscow annoenoes Red Amtv I forces seade contact with Marshal Tito's Partisans.

Finns close In en KemJ, German-held port en Calf ef Bothnia. SOUTHERN FRONT British radio reports doting In Vienna and ether parts ef Austria In respose te General Elsenhower's plea to Amstrlans te. break with Germans. American troops In Italy within IS miles ef Bologna. AERIAL American bombers poand Munich and Brenner pass, as RAF heavies poanoe en U-boat pens at Bergen, Norway.

PACIFIC FRONT Allied planes weeping ever Philippines, Celebes, and Melaocas, leave Japanese freighters sank er damaged. Enemy troops tn China within six miles of Feechow, last big east coast port remaining in Chinese hands, and pose new threat to Kweilln. Union County's Men In Service Sgt Preesley Cited For Bravery 15th AAF In Italy Sgt Houston Pressley, 38, of 507 Stafford Street, Monroe, ordnance technician with a 15th AAF Flying Fortress Squadron, is now the proud possessor of the blue ribbon designating that his unit, the oldest heavy bombardment group in the European Theater, has been cited for "heroic performance of duty against the enemy." VThe acting for which his organization, was cited occurred on February 34. of this year, when they led the heavy bombers of the 15 Air Force against the aircraft factory and installations at Steyr, Austria. Despite fierce attacks by more than 100 enemy fighters against their-unescorted formation, the Fortresses fought their way through to bomb the target successfully.

The gunners destroyed four enemy probably destroyed 'three 'and damaged two others, while their own losses were one man tilled and one wounded. In all more than 35 enemy fighters were destroyed by the other bombers and their fighter escort that aided in destroying the manufacturing center. In presenting the award, Major General Nathan F. Twining, commanding general of the 15th Air Force stated, "The folks at home are now doubly proud of the oldest heavy bomb group in the European xneater. Its record sneaks for Itself.

Sgt Pressley attended high school in Union ville. and was formerly em' ployed as a truck driver. He enlisted in the Air Forces July 15, 1941 and attended ammunition school at Aber deen. Md. He has been serving over seas for three months and has earned the Eurocean-African-Mlddle East Theater Ribbon with one battle star.

Pvt. Bui Walton who has recently been Inducted into service. Is with the Infantry at Camp Hood, Texas. wLl Medlin. 2-C.

of the U. S. Navy Is spending a seventeen-day furlough with lhs parents, Mr. and Mrs. Yates Medlin of East Windsor street.

Sgt P. O. Whltaker, who was stationed as engineer on a C-47 cargo ship at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, finished up two years there to the day on Friday, September 39th, and has been transferred to the 833 Specialized Regiment care Air Inspector Office, Topeka, Kansas, i Robert Fowler Is Promoted An Eighth Air Force Bomber Station, England Flying Fortress engineer and top turret gunner Robert B. Fowler, of 515 Everette street Monroe, has been promoted from staff sergeant to technical sergeant tn the European Theater of Operations. The thirty-year-old gunner, son of Mr.

and the late Mrs. H. D. Fowler, of Monroe, holds the Air Medal, won for "meritorious achievement" in action over 'German targets and has participated in 10 daylight heavy bombardment to date. Be joined his squadron in England last August 3.

Before Induction Jaanuary 3t, 1943, T-Sgt Fowler was a lumber Inspector with the U. S. Engineers In Charlotte. 8. C.

He was trained as an airplane mechanic at Gulfport Miss, and. after volunteering, for aerial gunnery and undergoing a course at Las Vegas, Nevada, won his wings at the latter station October 18, 1943. One of three sons in service, T-Sgt Fowler Is married to the former Miss Norma D. Brasweu; of Monroe. T-Sgt Oonta Woaaded Tech Sgt James Billiard Clonts, of Route Indian Trail, was iUghtly wounded hi action In France on September 13, according to word received bv his narents.

Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Clonta He was serving with the) infantry ano; nas oeen overseas sm June.

i "v- E.rL Clonta volunteered tor service November 30, 1940 and received tmln-isg at Fort Jackson. Camp Forrest, Tenn. Campi Phillips, Kansas, ar4 rort Dlx, New Jersey. He at-t 1 Fa.trvew school and was em-r i tv the Pepsi-Cola Eott" In before ente; wee. i Home Frees Tnni 'T r- L.

Eouser has return ed-oa page 8) City Tracks Manned By Members Of lions Club To Make Collection RAGS ALSO INCLUDED Sunday is the big day the Lions Club and many patriotic individuals in Monroe and Union county have been preparing for, the day that the second county-wide collection of waste I paper and rags, for the war effort will be made In Union county. And with the big day almost here, W. T. Wall, president of the Lions uiuD, ana otners wno nave oeen responsible fof the leadership in the campaign, are expecting the scrap paper to come In by the thousands of pounds until the goal of 60,000 pounds or more has been obtained. 8unday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the big canvass will begin, when approximately forty members of the Lions Club attired In work clothes, will, with transportation furnished by the City Sanitary Department and other patriotic truck owners, can upon every home In Monroe, Benton Heights, North and West Monroe.

These trucks will be manned by Sanitary Department employees. In the rural sections where no collections have been scheduled, residents are requested to take their scrap paper to the nearest collection station, where it will be collected and brought to the central collection station In Monroe. Trucks wiU call for It at Monroe, from whence It win be taken to the mill for reprocessing. In Monroe, a large, tent win be erected on the vacant lot in front of the Quality Chevrolet and people In the country are asked to bring their bundles there any time on Saturday. Local residents who expect to be out of the city on day the collection is made, can leave their bundles at the Quality Chevrolet Company this week, and it will be turned over to the proper authorities.

At Marshvllle, trucks furnished by R. P. StegaJl and manned by Boy Scouts, will cover the town beginning at 3 o'clock. Folks from the country are asked to bring their waste paper on Saturday to the Stegall warehouse in Marshvllle and the T. R.

Nisbet warehouse at Waxhaw. In Wlngate, the collection station will be at the Perry Mill Company under the direction of Sam R. Qaddy. At Mineral Springs, the collection station is located at' Coan's Store. People living in these communities are requested to leave their bundles at the above named places.

People are asked to leave the bundles of waste paper, including newspapers, magazines, paper bags, on the sidewalks, in front of their residences so that the truck can pick It up. LIEUT. MAX F. PARKER IS REPORTED MISSING Message Received Yesterday States Missing Over Holland, Sept. 11.

Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Parker of the Union community, Wednesday received a message from the War Department, stating that their son, Lieut.

Max F. Parker, of the a Air Force, had been reported missing over Holland, since September 17. No other Information was available. Lieut Parker to 37 years of age. He attended Union high school and following his graduation entered the University of North Carolina.

After completing his work there he was connected with the Ford -Ferguson Company as field representative until he entered the Air Corps In May 1943. Lieut Parker received his Wings about a year ago at the Government Air Base at Albuquerque, New Mexico, from which place he was transferred to Tampa, Fla. He went overseas-in March of this year and remained In England for several months- before being, transferred to the mainland, presumably fat France. a- He was recency promoiea mm sw ond lieutenant to first lieutenant and had been awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster and. SUver Bars, along with the Bronse Air Medal for meritorious achievements In combat operating over enemy territory.

THEIR TOTAL AGES Vv; EXCEEDS 50a YEARS Last Saturday a rea letter ay for number of old friends, of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Funderburk of the Smyrna church neighborhood, when they entertained at a ainner at tneir home.

Mr. Funderburk Is 80 and Mrs. Funderburk is 74. Their guests were taken from "tne older set" end the youngest one present was 69. The total years of the lives of an of them were 581.

The guests and their ages were: Mr. and Mrs. Funderburk, 80 and 74; Mrs. Sal- lie (Mattox) Walden of Buford, 93; Mrs. Jane Funderburk Phillips ox Matthews.

Ellis Godwin, 90; Mrs. Jane Franklin Funderburk of the Mangum school section In South Carolina, 83; and Mrs. Lizzie Davis Deese, They talked of things that have happened over a kmg period you may be sure. An account says: xnis was ai great day for them, talking about all kinds of things as they were the 60's, the 70s and the 90's; wars, earthquakes, schools, all manner of things as they were, experiences through four wars, the days in school, going from 10 to 39 miles to Monroe with one bale of cotton and two mules, a ben which was to be sold for ten for five cents, bow. thpy 9 out wheat and t.

jv-' matters of the krg gone by." Lure th is several tr in Grr-f-T -o ehTe -ie is vls-iug hci ecu. -a, lira. JF-oxio King. Soviets Joined With Tito' Forces, Make Swift Advance PUSHING GERMANS OUT The Red army, now joined with Marshal Tito's Partisans in a campaign to drive the Germans out of Yugoslavia, gained a point only 15 miles from the capital city of Belgrade yesterday in a spectacular 27-mile advance across open country to the nortneast. Belgrade appeared ready to fall soon, perhaps in a day, unless the Germans offer more resistance than they have put up so far against the new offensive on the capital from the north and east, the opening ot which was announced only 34 hours ago.

Knifing overland so swiftly as to suggest the Nazis were able. to put up but little fight after long harassing by the Partisans, the Russians captured the railway towns of Banetska Kraljevlvevo, 15 miles northeast of Belgrade, Crepaja, 16 miles north of the capital, Debilyacha, 18 miles north and aBnaska, Novo Selo, 18 miles northeast, Moscoow announced in its midnight communique. The plunge to Debilyacha represented a again ot 27 miles eastward from Ulma, capture of which was an nounced 24 hours earlier, and overran the rail stations of Alibunar and Vladimorovac en route. One hundred miles southeast of Belgrade other Red Army forces racing to smash the rail network over which the Germans must escape from the Balkans, outflanked the three-way rail Junction of Zajecar, capturing the town of Vratamica, nine miles to the south, and penetrated to within 40 miles of the important Junction of NIs, astride the main railway from Bulgaria and Greece. The Soviet command In its communique announced that Red Army forces had joined with the Partisans in this region "and with them fought engagements for the annihilation" of German trops the first Soviet comment on a junction formally announced Monday night by Marshal Tito.

Altogether the Russians overran 13 towns and railway stations in this area, Including the town of Bor, center of the second largest copper deposit In Europe, and villages within 10 miles of the Adenpek goldflelds. Bor is 50 miles north of Nls and the Mai-danpek fields lie farther northward another 36 miles. In to- cut me Nazto'''raid escape lines the Russians at captured Vratamica stood 45 miles east of the main Belerade-NJs railway and 80 miles east of Kraljevo on the last rail line the Germans could take out of the lower Balkans. Berlin reporter that the Russians, in cooperation with Romanian troops had struck a new blow at the heart of Hungary along a broad front south of Oradea, but last night's brief war bulletin from Moscow told only ot actions on the Yugoslav front Oradea is in Transylvania, 135 miles southeast of Budapest and 165 miles northeast of Belgrade. Capture of Belgrade would add to Moscow's prestige in the Balkans and provide a tonic for Marshal Tito's Partisans, who have fought the Germans at great odds, and militarily it would give the Russians control of one of the key points on the long transbalkin railroad.

SUNDAY HOME COMING DAY AT FIRST BAPTIST Services Sanday Morning W1H Honor Older Members Of The Chnrch. The congregation of the First Baptist church will observe Home Coming Day at the morning service Sunday at 11 o'clock at which time all the older members of the church will be the guests of honor. The pastor, Rev. Jack T. Akin, will bring the message and will acquaint the members of the congregation with the type of program, which has been planned tor the coming year and "what the members may do fdr the church and what the church, may do for the Miss Kathryn Orem of Kentucky, who has recently arrived in the city to assume hen dirties as church secretary, wiU be Hntrodtteed to the congregation duflnkYttte v.

Following the Services Sunday morning, communion will be observed. The interior of the church building has recently "been dedecorated and much favorable comment has been heard concerning the appearance, since the work has been completed. Officials of the church are anxious to have a large atendance at the services Sunday morning and those in the city who are unable to attend due to-the lack of transportation, are re quested to call the pastor, who will see that transportation Is provided. I i- WEDD1NGT0N KEWS A most enjoyable study class on The Church After The War." was held at the parsonage Thursday by Mrs. W.

W. washam, district stuoy leader from Cornelius. Union and Weddington churches joined for this study. A plcnle lunch was served at noon. Mrs.

8tough of Cornelius was a guest The Woman's Society of Christian Service will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. J. Cox. PFC and Mrs. Marvin Norrls Of Arlington, Vi and Willis Cummers of State svUle, spent Friday with Mr.

and Mrs. C. W. E. L.

Williams to visiting her danstT, fjrte CliSord Deal. Lv Price la visiting friends in i Mrs. W. H. rent E-Bfciy la Charlotte with tv County i Health Department Announces Ratings Local Establishments HO PERMITS REVOKED 't For the quarter ending September 30, 1944, the Union County Health department announces the aanltary ratings of cafes, meat marketa, hotels, And other food handling establlsh-lnenst In the country.

These ratings re grouped In grade, certificates of and and the ratings are based on numerous Items of sanitation, consisting of construction of the build ing, the equipment, the cleanliness and sterilization of all, utensils used, the disposal of garbage and other motes, and the method used in storing, and display of food. Visits are made at least once each quarter for the purpose of posting- a grade, and more frequent visits are made to check compliance Kith State Board of Health regulations. During this quarterly survey thirty-lour oaf es, twenty-six markets, and one hotel -rare graded. No operation permit was revoked during the These ratings were made by local inspectors L. T.

Bragg and Frank Dillon, under the supervision of Dr. Clem Ham, County Health Officer. The ratings In percentage ana grade groups are as follows: Cafes Grade A Crow's Sandwich Shop, Monroe, 02; Royal Cafe, Monroe, 90.5; Gamble's Drug Co, Monroe, 90.5; Casts. Monroe, 90.0. Grade Brass Ball.

Monroe, S8; Monroe Sandwich Shop, Monroe, 87; -Victory Cafe, Monroe, 80.5; Dai's Lunch, Monroe, 865; Rainbow Grill, Monroe, Godwin's Sandwich Shop, Marshvtue, 89; Mack's Lunch, Monroe; 44; Ellen 'Fitzgerald Hospital, 84; Montgomery Lunch, Monroe, 64; S. a Snack Bar (White), Monroe, 43 J6i Fitzgerald Cafe, Monroe, 83; Sanson's Grill, Monroe. 82.8; Monroe Sotal Pining Boom, Monroe, 823; City Cat. Monroe, 824; Center Lunch, Benton. Heights, 623; Kkmdyke Cafe, Wlngate, 82; Elliott's Canteen, Monroe.

813; New York Cafe, Monroe, 0.S; Hill Top Cafe. Monroe, 603; Alston's Sandwich Shop, Monroe, 603; Bauoom's Lunch, Monroe, 803; Star Cafe. Marsh villa, 80; Red Pig, Monroe. Royal Gardens, Monroe, 80; Wine Shop Grim Monroe, 80; U. a O.

Snack' Bar Colored, Monroe, 80. GRADE Monroe MlUa Lunch, Monroe. 973; Soda Shop, Monroe '8; Marietta Lunch, N. Monroe, 783; Bel--toont Cafe, Monroe, 74. Marketa Orade A Funderburk Market, Monroe, 91; Fitsgerald Monroe, 903; Secrest Grocery, Monroe, 90; Baucom Preslar, Monroe, 90; Helms Grocery, Benton Heights, 90.

Grade A dc Market, Monroe, Hancoth's Market, Monroe1 84; Five Points Food Store, Monroe, 83; Mengum's Food Store, Monroe, 823; Little Star Market. Monroe, 823; Baker's Market, Waxhaw, 823; Union County Com Storage, Monroe, MnMr'a Market. Mineral Swings. 82; Perry's Market, Wlngate. 81; Central Food Store.

Marshvllle, 81; Helms Market. North Monroe. 81; Nesbtt's Market, Waxhaw. 80; Star Market, Monroe, 80; Ross Market, Monroe, 80. Grade Shaw's Market, Monroe, 78: Dixie Home Store.

Monroe. 763; Edwards' Market, Marshvllle, 76; Rice Market, R3, Matthews 75; crensnaw Market, West Monroe, 73; Austin's Market, 73; Smith's Market, Stalling. 703. Hotels Grade A Hotel Monroe, Monroe, 903. 4' CHILDREN'S MATINEE IS REPEATED AT FESTIVAL Teemgaters Up To 16 Tears Of i To Be Admitted Age Due to many requests from parents of children who could not attend the -Children's Matlneo last Tuesday, officials of the Union County Fair As-soclaUon'i Fan Festival, will conduct another "Children's Day," on Saturday ot this week.

On Saturday. children np to 16 years of age will be admitted to the lair grounos rree, ana toe many shows and riding devices at re-i duoed prioes, from till 6 p. Marks Shows, Ino, who are furnishing the "Mile Long have proven to be the biggest and cleanest outdoor amusement company ever to exhibit tn these parts. The many shows, riding devices and other Including "Dare Devil Bruffy," the man-who actually defies death, by hanging himself with a regular hangman's noose, which he places around his neck and Jumps 60 feet Into space, have proven very popular. Art "Speedy" Spencer, and his Tit of Death," where and girls still In their teens perelorm te seemingly impossible, while mounter on motorcycles on a straight up and down wall, thrill their audience, when they turn two untamed lions le in the pit and continue their per.

lance wiJi the lions in pursuit. "Jump and Jive" the colored revue; "Ches Paree," the minis tre" msuical comedy; "WUd Funny Class House" and "World's Fair Odil-t ea, as well as the other attractions have been well reecived, as have the cany thrilling; riding devices, which g-ace the "MJe Long Pleasure Trail." Harks Eliows wU exhibit on the grounds in Monroe, until and In- cadlng Saturday Pvt. Bill Le, who is stationed at Tort came eewal days sto ft i luriiM ri here "i his rrv I t. Ar.v Pvt. I 1 1 I I r.e .1: .1 a f.

U. i to i a U.e retum-. i 1 MM PFC JOSEPH THOMAS PFC. JOSEPH H. THOMAS IS KILLED IN FRANCE Served With The Infantry! Landed In France On D-Day.

PFC. Joseph Hubert rhomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hurley Thomas of the Mt.

Pleasant community, was kiSed In action in France on September 4th, according to a message received by his parents from the War Department PFC Thomas was 23 years of age on August 14. He volunteered tor service with the Army in November 1940. He received his training at Fort Jackson, S. and before going into foreign service was stationed at Key West, Camp Forrest Camp Leonard Wood, a camp In Arizona and thence to training points in Ireland. At the time of hi death, he was serving with the Infantry and was with the first Invasion troops to land on D-Day.

PFC- Thomas was reared in the Hamilton Cross Roads community and attended the Marshvllle high school. He married the former Miss Doris Murphy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. G.

Murphy, of Wlnnsboro, 8. O. Mrs. Thomas died June 13, 1943. PFC Thomas is survived by his parents, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs.

C. C. Parker of Monroe; Miss Avis Thomas of Charlotte; 3-C Petty Officer Blllle Thomas, of the U. S. Navy; Bettle, Bobbie, Lucille, Brackle, Shirley, Barbara, Charles, Doris and, Carroll of the Memorial services are being planned for the near' future and will be held at Hamilton's Cross Roads.

Nazi Targets Munich Rail Yards, Brenner Pass, Bombed In Big Raid BATTLESHIP IS ALSO Hit Up to 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the U. S. 15th Air Force hammered Munich railroad yards and the Brenner Pass area yesterday while RAF heavy bombers dumped thou sands of tons of explosives on German U-Boat pens at Bergen, Norway. The Air Ministry revealed that RAF Lane asters which used a Russian air drome as an intermediate base, recently scored a direct hit with a 13-000 bomb on the German battle ship Tirplta anchored near Altenfjord, Norway. The attack, made without loss, in volved a round trip flight of more than 5,000 talles between bases In England and airdrome In Russia near Archangel.

While Allied heavy bombers were busy, Ninth Air Force mediums destroyed 10 enemy gttn positions that had-been holding up the U. S. First Army, drive Into the Siegfried line near Aechen. Other warplanes supporting the U. 8.

Third army near Luneyille, knocked out one gun po-sitkHvJa locomotives and a viaduct The heavy bombers of the 15th Air Air Force, flying from Italian bases, smashed points on the Brenner Pass rauroaa ana outer inas communication routes Into Italy. The plunge to Bergen by RAF Lan-casters and Halifaxes, a round trip, caught the Germans by surprise. -It followed the spectacular, puncturing Tuesday of the seawall oa Walcheren Island, which the Germans said trapped 6,000 traps In floods. A Berlin broadcast said "the fate of 3,000 others of our comrades who made for Flushing tn small boats Is not yet certain" Escorted by Mustangs and Mosqultos the giant RAF bombers flew unop posed by Bergen except for flak over the target which brought down one Lancaster, The submarine pens at tacked were mostly under construc tion. The base is Germany's most advanced since the coast of France feu.

Crews reported they saw vessels scrambling in all directions. Fires were started and a bit scored on a large ship as well as on submarines In their pens. Of the Tirplts mission, the 3.C"t-mlle of the RAF Lancasters wlih heavy bomb loads from bases in -r-land to Russia in 11 hours was -scribed as a great feat in 11." 'f. refueling in a tve 1 to Altenfjord, rr l.e 1. directly hit v- aa 't i bomb.

Mast 5 rve 1 i '1 fa --J i l.i ir i V. Planes Pound They were thrown back in their first attack last week after fighting across a moaat guarding the fort. Mets, which never has been taken by storm in all Its war-torn history, stands between- -Patten's. and the Saar basin of Germany JdTaJSea to the east f-" Capture of the elaborate fort, would open the way for an assault on Meta itself, strongest fortress city In Western Europe. The attack on Driant whose thick walls stood almost intact under heavy preliminary bombing and artillery fire, was delivered- head-on by tanks and infantry who just kept going until they smashed through.

There "Were losses of American men and tanks, but Information reaching headquarters said they were consider- ably lighter than were to be expected In storming one ot the main fort rings of the German defensive system. One factor in this, officers said, was that the Nads apparently never expected Infantry to slug through the barbed wire and moat defenses and that the fortress guns, consequently, would not depress far enough to cover the last close-up aprpo aches. Patten's men wriggled under the big guns on their x.4$- A 48-hour truce stilled the roar ot cannon at historic Dunkeerque, last channel port to which a German garrison clung, while 20,000 refugees streamed out of the town into the" safe emmtrytlde, British and Canadian troops there waited Impatiently to storm in. The assault was to be resumed at a. m.

Friday, and lt was doubted the 15,000 Nazis inside the port would put up much more than a broken fight be- fore surerndering. OBITUARY MRS. RACHEL AUSTIN Mrs. Rachel Austin, 67, wife of Mark L. Austin, died at her home near Pleasant Grove Methodist church late Wednesday afternoon after a prolonged illness.

Funeral services will be held at Pleasant Grove Friday morning at 11 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Walter Hill, assisted by Rev. Mr. Hope and Rev. J.

B. Fitsgerald. Interment will follow In the church cemetery. Is survived by her husband, one son, Raymond Austin of the county; four sisters, Mrs. Fannie Terry of Pinehurst; Jim llcCrsy, I -rs.

Baxter Starnes and Mrs. Jim I t-gomery of the county; three t- H. J. 2, Nash of the county a 1 Worth Nash with the United lat army overseas; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. ARTHUR J.

T2AVT3 t.zy Arthur J. Travis C'r c' 1 ft his home In Ca to Wednesday evf at following an I cf weeks. Funerul rvV-e this arvrrrvia at I Roads cl)u" it cf i member and descon i i The arvl-i It E. C. ITaf-y.

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