Pulaski Southwest Times (Newspaper) - January 16, 1944, Pulaski, Virginia THE WEATHER In noi lion and thin nf Monday fair moder ately o THE SOUTHWEST TIME Your Sunday Morning Newspaper Considered A Member of 98 Per Cent of Pulaski Homes you will Vocational Training Fund Flee Before Onslaughts Of Australians Railroad Unions Tell Somervell Dispute Is Over Three railroad operating brotherhoods which had held out on signing a wage agreement entered into by the majority of other rail formally notified the war department Saturday that the wage dispute has been set tled and that the strike vote has no or ef Notification of the which was announced Friday by the White Was sent to Brehon commanding general of army service forces With jurisdiction over the operation of the roads after the carriers were taken over by the Secretary of War Stimson in Somervell that he was authorized to approve the agree ments and to authorize or ap prove any agreements between any carriers which were not parties to the contracts signed This latter carried the under standing that payment of wage increases and allowances would not be in excess of those made in the agreements already sign Draws Attack Hamilton Sees Pressure Method Being Used By Managers UP John former chairman of the Republican national com charged last night that Wendell managers had brought undue pressure up on party leaders in every section of the country to pledge them selves to his cause before anyone else had a chance to be By false claims Willkie managers have sought to stam pede men dnd women their own said in an address for ovet the nationwide network of the Columbia broadcasting sys Points To Claims The Willkie backers haye specific claims that their candi date has from 300 to 500 dele gates in the he ixi The intensity of propaganda has such that it is called the Its purpose is It is a deliberate attempt to foreclose the Republican presidential no many months before the convention even assemb to the exclusion of oth er possible Should such a plan succeed it would a farce out pft bur American way of selecting presidential candi Urged The rank and file in at least one Apolitical party should have a freedom of Hamiltons broadcast was in ply to Governor William H Willis who the same week ago termed Wil No Real Contests Expected Short Of Madang By OLEN CLEMENTS ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD New Sun JP Japanese defenders of Sio last base on northeast Guineas Huon apparently are pulling out as best they can before the determined onslaught by Austra lian jungle Doug las communique in the Aussies may con trol the Latest fighting placed the allied forces outskirts of Sio and spokesman indicated the enemy is fighting a delay ing Leave By Night The trapped between the Australians and the American invasion forces at Saidor to the are trying to escape by barges moving up the coast at night and best indications are that no determined enemy stand will be made until the outer de fenses of 100 miles far ther up the are Paralleling the drive against Sio is the American marines struggle to take strategic hill 660 on the western tip of New The fall of this pro named for its is believed Started Tuesday which landed with the invasion force at Cape Gloucester started the assault of hill 660 last Tuesday and todays communique said that fighting is have built up a powerful network of pillboxes and mortar positions around CANT KEEP A GOOD SHIP as tough a vet eran as youll find among warships is HMCS pictured Survivor of 1 a German torpedo that wrecked her bow 2 a collision that detonated her depth charges and blew off her stern 3 a weeklong Atlantic worst in She has been retired from the convoy as pictured continues war service as a training ship for Canadian naval re Continued On Page Column 3 Concentration Of i only Republican certain Continued On Column 3 San Juan Reported Badly Damaged By Severe Quake J 4 MB and unconfirmed reports last night an which was felt in many in Argentina and Chile destroyed a large part of the city of San 76 north of Men were reported panic as the broke stopped clocks and broke telephone r apparatus and trst aid equipment were riish city of 000 Most with San Juan were reached I Front Reported Well Armed Sofia Evacuated Roundabout dispatches reaching London through Stockholm reported last night new German troop con centrations along the Bulgarian Turkish frontier The stories purporting to come Bombs Loosed On Brunswick Central German Industry Center Is Hit By RAF By GLADWIN HILL UP RAF block luster aided by Mosquito feints on Berlin shattered industrial Brunswick in central Germany Friday night with long tons of bombs in 23 setting a record bomb concentration of 87 tons per min In American that equals more than a per Drive Through The big bombers battled through skies aglow with nazi fighters flares and rocket shells to ham mer the city one of five prime targets of the massive American raids on Tuesday producing motor and railway On the basis of the bomb ton it was estimated that the fleet striking Brunswick alone amounted to between 600 and 70JO planes and that a tota of approximately bombers were out during the Relays of RAp and fighters continued attacks on the socalled coast of France on a smaller scale Satur day afternoon Likely Target There were indications hennault Gets His Choice Of State Offices BATON UP said he would rather be a Louisiana game warden than governor or senator and he got Ma the governors office an Asked in a letter from Ben Chase of Wa the generals home if he would consider run ning for governor or an enthusiastic hun answered that the only of fice to which he aspired was that of game The state department of conservation haa mailed to Chungking a mission and badge making the general a game warden in his native Tensas that same French area might been also coastal blasted from ined no but the reports pattern with others which have from Bulgaria again after British coastal watchers heard explosions last from the Calais area and Saw searchlight along the French The British press association speculated that at the height of the Brunswick bombs were dropped at the rate of 150 tons per Fires could be Replied Bolstered Shortly after President Inonu Turkey returned from his Cairo conferences with Presi dent and ter there reports that Bulgarian and German gar risons along the Turkish border were being strengthened and last weekend to said that Bulgaria no longer felt confident of Turkeys continued neutrality and called the in Sofia s uic seen for 150 miles by leaving the the RAF force was of great resistance was late forming and the fleet shot down just four German night Continued On Page Hobby Deficits Are Penalized Senate Adds Amendment To New Revenue As Vote Nears UP Work ing through a maze of technical the senate wrote into the new revenue Saturday an amendment fixing tak against individuals who operate hobby enterprises such as horse racing stables at a loss for five consecutive Characterized as the Marshall Field by Senator Clark the proposal was adopted on 37 26 vote af firming its previous approval by the finance Clears Barrier The action cleared away other barrier to final ax some time this in issue was a house pro j requiring labor unions to file financial Bark Governor Reviews Capital Outlay Details UP L An of to be used in providing additional vocational training facilities in various sec tions of to be designat ed by the state department of education and approved by the is recommended by Governor Darden in a addition to his message to be transmitted to the general as sembly The governor in the message gives the details of the capital outlay appropriations of mately in Ais budget Skilled Men Needed The necessity of expanding our vocational training program in the state has been ed in recent years by short age of skilled labor in nearly every craft and Gov ernor Darden We are now and shall continue to provide reasonably adequate higher educ facilities for the boys and girls graduated from our high But we have for some time recognized a deficiency in facilities for training our young men and women in Various voca tions which are indispensable in our present economic and social There are many among those now in the service who will want and need vocational It is important that every possible be made for assist ing The chief executive said the majority of the capital improve ments are to provide for replace ment of antiquated and hazardous structures and for general im provement of physical plants to BROWN STUDY Comedian Joe Browns famously infectious smile gets only a deadpan response from this chubby Chinese who wears a to ward off The photo was taken during the screen stars entertainment tour of Yank bases on fighting fronts in an vision charged the which still is subject ta house would placeman unfair tax on in who entered businesses radio said Sat the of ed twice this were the city all other large in Bulgaria besides the capital had been ord ered evacuated The air raids were said to have killed more than 600 wrecked about ten the capital of and the national and itei Roads Delay Traffic Itf Highways reported in and started condition last night despite and and ice formed during route to the was Continued Page Column 2 Bloc Supports Checks NonPartisan Aski Increase In Payments Vets By ALEX SINGLETON A bi partisan bloc rallied Saturday be hind a drive to increase service mens mustering outpay above pending proposals as legislation those in the armed ser vice took top priority on the con gressional work Why be remarked Rep spokesman for a group fighting for a dis charge pay scale ranging from Reds Plan Reply To Polish Offer For Negotiation Oft A soviet reply Polish overtures to ward a com plete settlement of differences between Poland arid Russia is expected within a short time because the speed with which the red army continued to push westward lends urgency to the question of re The policy proposal for ex amination of all outstanding questions with British and Am erican mediation was already under study at the and affirmative answers ap to hinge on whether Moscow would agree to deal with the exiled government it has previously the The highway department sent crews early yesterday when trucks and buses skidded the Lee highway on Draper mountain and when thei highway outlet became Dangerous spots and stretches were sanded by the department given in getting strand ed vehicles backon the fusion Results confusion resulted yesterday r wfl ed it was unable to obstructions and started to s gers and driver and All operating through Pulaski were no was MDO tije smashups that result f 100 to The a measure for a while the house military com recommended a range of Showdown Near With a showdown on the issue scheduled for Lemke de clared that he would oppose any trickery limiting debate or floor and said that the subject should be given at least two days consideration by V Weve got billions for one he and now with more than already discharged from the armed I think that we should give them enough to tide over period of readjustment civilian Sees Argument Omar Ket chant of the veterans of foreign wars opposed the senates must on the ground argument Hull Changing Official Setup Reorganizing Department Of Slate To Prepare For Peace UB A farreaching reorganization of the state designed to prepare the responsibilities ahead in the war and making a secure was pro last night in a mental order by Secretary Cordell Top ofthe French Forces Drive 2 Miles Acquafondata Is Seized On Left Flank Yanks Near Gassing ALLIED W French forces staging a comeback on the bat of Europe have fought at least two miles forward into the left flanks of the German fortifications in Italy guarding capturing Acquafondata and three high points near headquarters announced Sat The hamlet of Acquafondata lies seven miles Cas American troops stand less than four miles southwest of Cas Attacking incessantly in their the French have in the past three days adv two to five miles against stiff opposition and over some of the roughest country in They have captured 250 Significant Gain This advance of the French was a significant gain in what ap to be an encircling move ment toward the northeast fash by Mark Clark to lighten task of American troops battering frontally toward A strong buttress for the Am erican right been form ed by the success of the French under Beat ing off five furious these troops have Spread Mobile Outfits In South Striking At Border I out through The German army hill posi re j ine ipm army re tive duties to some in ordI ported late yesterday that Viti of S had been bypassed by the French while but it Was not known whether the created to new are prob lems of nature which arise from this weightier world Overlaps Ended Overlapping jurisdiction is eli and clearer lines of res established through a regrouping of the de The work of high departmental officers is to be coordinated more Continued On Column C village actually was occupied Claims Withdrawal Yesterday the German radio the nazis had withdrawn from South and southwest of Cassino American troops pressed farther into the belt of fortifications prisoners refer to as the Gustav Their advance was made on last big physical obstacle on the road On Column Identity Ot Unknown Hero Is Narrowed By HENRY JAMESON A FIGHTER BASE IN Britain identity of one the heroes epk American raid over central Ger Mustang pilot waded alone into a formation of 30 German fighters ap narrowed today to James of and lack of were BUB on the cool manee of the lone plowed who The ef the la being boosted for a by other of the eighth air force rhean difficult by modest reluctance the Mustang to Snt results the Mda to Ml J By JAMES LONG JPt Sov iet mobile units in southern white Russia dashed westward day toward the old Polish 55 while red forces in the Ukraine killed Germans counterattacking against the red army threat to Moscow disclosed Berlin told of a major Russian drive neat A Leningrad and in two other ern reawakening that S long inactive Constantine west and west from captured and fought their ward through the Pripet inflicting enormous losses on enemy without giving him a chance to reorganize his said the Moscow midnight gast communique recorded by the Head For The last reported 20 miles west of were headed for 116 miles to the The midnight bulletin did identify several localities ed won in the new but said that in the fighting Germans were killed and 16 tanks and guns One entire column of was ly routed by soviet Twentyeight three military 40 railroad 200 cara and other cap Marsh Patrolled Russian airmen patrolling the frozen marsh area destroyed an armored train with direct bomb the bulletin Far to the where Nikolai left wing has been beating back ceaseless Ger man thrusts since Germans continued their attacks in a dogged effort to bar the Rus sians from gaining the Odessa the main man communications line into the Dnieper The fighting was ast east of Vinnitsa and for the first time as north of Uman by the Russians who said the Germans were large forces of in fantry and Uman is 85 southeast of Despite their enormous losses the Hitlerites moved Continued On Page Column 4 Disabled By Work Injuries In 1943 Mora than persons were dis abled by work injuries in the highest number for any year in the last Declaring that most of these accidents could have been pre Secretary of Labof Frances Perkins said Saturday working time lost year because of injuries amounted to If economic losses due to 400 permanent toia and permanent partial impairments are she the equivalent loss would amount to a days work by She said that although were particular of present manpower an enco
