Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 42, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 27 February 1945 — Page 2

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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES- TUESDAY, FEB. 27, 1945.

l';uil Poynter EU:aiior Poynter Jamison J oo-11. Adams Sullivan, Indiana Entered as second-class, matter July Sullivan, Indiana, under the Act of Published daily except Saturday and

ITniled I'rcss Wire Service. National Advertising: Representative: . Thcis and Simpson, 393 Seventh .Avenue,. New York (1) N. Y. . Subscription Kale: By carrier, per week .-. 15 Cents in City By Mail In Sullivan And Adjoining Counties: e ,

Six Mouths : ?l-ou Month '(with Times furnishing stamped envelope) 30 Cents Year $3. (XT By Mail Elsewhere: Year ....... . .....'....:... , .'. $4.00 Six Months . .... '.....' . $2.00 Month (wi1,h Times furnishing envelope) . 35 Cents touch' fight still ahead : Once the United, States was able to unleash the mighty forces which have been in the making; since Pearl Harbor the

lenipo of the Pacific has exceeded in swiftness the expectations of the most optimistic. With occupation of Iwo jima, 7"0 miles from Tokyo, and -control of the Corregidor surface :irea which will shortly make Manila bay accessible to our naval "shipping, our forces in the, . Pacific are, considerably , ahead of schedule. As recently as three months ago none of our armchair, strategists would have ventured to predict such brilliant successes. . . Occupation of Iwo Jima, the most important strategic success since the capture of Manila, will bring the TpkoYokohama area within daily bombing range of medium bombers. If the situation were reversed, it would mean that an enemy navy, had occupied the Bahamas, and was prepared to bomb metropolitan areas. daily as far north as Washington, r These events add up to tactical victory; Japan has been . defeated on the maps of our general staff. In other, words her position is no longer defensible taking the long view. But as experience has taught 113 in Germany, there. is a vast difference between tactical victory and the utter physical collapse of a nation. - . . No doubt a point has been Reached where even the hardboiled Jap militarists would gladly assent , to a negotiated peact; but the time before they will be compelled to submit to unconditional surrender must 'be counted with caution.--. ..... Germany has faced tactical defeat for well over a vear.

and competent observers are not. yet willing to, risk setting a definite date for the conclusion of that - conflict.;.; Current guesses range from early spring to late summer while the general staff -is planning ,as if the. conflict were expected to continue through 1915. Planning for the vcirst possible contingency instead. of the best, is manifestly the only safe way to plan militarily. t ... . t .' ., , , In the case of Japan, although the empire's lifeline, has been severed, and Tokyo is cut off fiom the rich loot of the Netherlands Indies and Malaya, the inner line of. J?p defenses remains virtually untouched. She has millions of first line troops in China and. Manchuria, and many of her industries, presumably jthe mp,st,:vital, are being removed to the latter legion. On the Japanese home islands her productiveness,. Ms. Secretary Stimson recently pointed out, has not yet bean luivJamentally weakened. Mr. Stimson added: "Undoubtedly , she has reserves of oil ' and other resources, and the military defenses of the .homeland are , intact. While hailing the signal progress that we have made, w e must also recognize the scope of the job ahead." , it also should, be remembered that 'Mac Arthurs ishnd hopping, tactics have, been geared to achieve speed .rathe". than thorough conquest. Not, more than one-fourth of Luzon'

nas wen conquered and some mat island. remains to be done Tun aiTnwnco N,mt.,li(,fvrhirl, tiiVn wl" , 7 ' ' , C "d!.. lKnl' !i,UeVel' nt Americans. Their present t uhfiU Km.,,.. Tl,r ;.. ,u.. """" iiiw i. intr ijim nde met a IOC equipped to ness. .For years the' swaggered

rs.x-iueiHi iu-e(ill'pj)e(l Lllineso. and thev bombed defense-

less cities with rusto. Although off this treacherous enemy is cunei ju.tU.catlon oi meic.

Local Soldier Fought, With Famous' '7$

l-'IVISIOn 1 Hat IVIade SA Jam6S Ridge' o72 S;rdwS r f? . . ouiii-. - . .. ,.-,, iiiemuer ui me ,,uin in-lantry-Division that made history, when Aachen was seized in hard . Hunting last mil. An account ot me expious oi tne i igntinglst Division and the 30th, -written" by William Strand for the Chicago Tribune Sei-vice, was published ! in the Chicago Tribune paper some time ago. A mimeographed copy of the article has been sent" to Mr! and Mrs. Ridge by their son who has been overseas more than a year. He is 22. It follows: The famed United States Fight ing 1st Division supported by Old DR. A. C. McPHAtL Will be in our store WEDNESDAY MAXWELL-BROWN SHOE VOr - ' M.J. Aikiri & Sor FUNERAL HOME Dugger "Aik in's Service Costs No . More."

... Publisher Manager and Assistant Editor

. Editor J Telephone 13 1, 1908 in the Postofi'ice at Congress of Marph 3, 1879. Sunday at 115 West Jackson St. of the toughest fighting on ..,,1 L .

? . '"WCMU-!e.m vi.w.th the aid of the A ir Force md.Lo 011 July 25 a date ?lIreadv J'nS: Of Pity. on. the part, massed, artillery fire. of. the, 1st . historieallv siiScant. was

los of face has reduced them -, , " ' lime in nlSIory in.'lT, . they teach them a lesson-in hnmhln. and boasted while their arm'complete victory nviy' be Ui - receiving at. last some ret i- ' r ' " v v .".iiiinvM ' H.1V.HOL tji, HlStOrV At'Aarhpn

-y -the Oth-stonncd'clirt.i1" ndwS'' bit "f Aashen after 13 Tr J

aays oi some ot tne hardest f eht ncf n this war Thi dl iclosure was permitted along with t,ie release of a stirring eomm'enUiu" me isi ana its com'"diiuer, iviaj. uen.. . uiaries . K. Huebner, by Maj. Gen. J. Lawton Collins. , Commander of the American 7th Corps. In a letter to Huebner, Collins said Aachen's capture closes .another brilliant campaign in! the division's opio histoiy. I Although it was the 1st th&t actually took the. city, ,, driving from the east end northeast and fighting thru streets block , b block, the 30th played a vital roh 'too. The doughboys 0I5 the 30t'i were the ones who drove arounJ .from the north to close the poe,ket behind Aachen, cutting, off the garrison, and rendering the Nazi position inside the city hopeless. And it was' the job the 30th to clean up enemy re5 sistance. in the northern oiru (skirts of Aachen. The 1st had jVlie Amission of reducing., the town.. .proper, auot , which . released itroops holding the perimeter in

'the Aachen bulge for use else- signment June 15th. aiid its pro- food. . ammunition and medical advance . etements: crossing ; the training period. of ten days with .where, -with -straightening the gress to- tlie Germaii frontier.' was- supplies .for. five and a. half days. border at Horv.ach.oi,,Septemberu the 452nd -, Bomb. 1 Group, comliiie in the sector. -f.'v ' ' ; ,. marked by battles that have been and despite the fact the harassed 14'. The attack on the . Siegfried manded . by' Lieutenant Colonel ' Within the space' of 2,4 hoursvital in the master stragagy . Qf infantryniwi were under con-, Line started October. 2, continued Burnham L.. Batson, 'of Mahches-

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' : SYNOPSIS ; How would you like to have been christened Agamemnon Telemachus Plum nd - though now & learned doctor and professor, age 34-to be called: "AGGIE"? .And to be under the personal social supervision of Aunt , Sarah, jolly, sophisticated,, and gossipy ? Well, when Aggie sad Aunty were in the ancient and ixpensive family, limousine, en route 'to Indian Stones, Aunt Sarah promoted Beth Calder as a matrimonial prospect for Aggie,' mentioning a family scandal which prompted her nephew to exclaim, "Arid you want me. to marry into .this shambles'." . Arriving t Rainbow . Lodge, Sarah's country house.r, about 10 p- m., they are greeted by 'old John, the family's veteran butler. Sarah, who- has been complaining mildly of a sore throat, enters the lodge by a side door. Aggie fingers his initials, carved by him in his boyhood, on the.verand- railing. This starts a train of thoughts. ... CHAPTER FOUR , .-Thirtv-four years old. The letters had been there for twenty-two. A long time. Old John whs disappointed in him, somehow. Aggie had never had occasion to be disappointed in himself, but he could see the butler's point of view. Mature. A scientist. Renowned in his field. A popular lecturer. Slangy, contemporary, knowing but a shy man, really, with a phobia about prowds and meetings and parties. A misfit in a Well-to-do summer eolouy like Indian Stones. A bachelor. A chap witli a wisp of beard and uo golf game. One who would pn-i'cr a book to a tea dance, and an assortod stack of petrified bones to a pack of playing cards. A man who would be petrified on his own account in the presence of such a pei'ion as Beth Caller. . He'd teased Sarah about itand he loved Sarah. Hn knew she,was excessively- loyal to him. Sarah financed "his extravagant expeditions and she even ''tried to wade through his scientific treatises. But It - was 'going-' to be; hard lor him, this summer. He timid banter with (M.e or two people at a 'time, so long j! they knew and -understood him; Kc cy.iihl lecture; ":but with ytrantK, his topjfue frdsie and his asjurMice' -vanished. An introvert. A njisosryniat.. A scOf-mad ih-y-a-(i:;st.f He'd fc.".v to avoid this Beth m iVOif-atHl.. it-arah was serious, -tin art would hurt, her feelings. Ii? s hrilled and turned back toward the car. A shimmer at the :.;.;c of the front door caught his :. lie :wall:ed .toward, it. .Stuck ii.io f ranis of tiic door, impaling .:. :-ou;!!. v.ivih' cur.:., was a knife of t..c 'sort .-that is .taken, on hunting tilli.'. A;r)tie himself had one much ii.:- i:. He ptilh'd it out, and the card t ' : 1 1 : l- tv. av on :U tip; lie carried card hi the i'sht It said: "Ivtr.ry II. f! -;uiy." A'.rj'ie locked - '-? V V; ... :-ii:m.' . ii' if.v c.ru. j uu muniK , t.i ii :,t.,,e m.jjs erjrnived ana muiii , raoum i: '1 rui it on the rail of l..e i.iivch ami v::l!;ed toward the Old Hickory .division, a: Tennes-, see National Guard outfit, .with - ve uei nidn counici -aiwcKs, Army's, biggest guns. The DivJ- , ', ".'.:, V.: .N.comnauqeq,o.v-waj .uen. L. s. Hobbs. Jt. is remembered ..or its -spectacular dawn crossing of .. "-.y. .. .11 r j n. i .u I lt f DTeK" - LSt ' For. some , time I , have been.j nuiijiiK i couiu, leu you xoiks i back home about this outfit nf

rsand the swell, record it has . Vie V"'e r-.inen in a specide in World War II from' The i tactular attack the Oid Hickory-

'i'1 ft. hit. the Normandy Beach and began fighting on June 15 stand up against any, .other, divisinn'c anH ihe Pnhlir Rr.h-ilim-i-2 rtaff.has. made ". it ... easier for., us to . get the information .back to vtu by -. summarizing the high lights of , thq, ,1()tlVs great , campaign and getting this material cleared,, through the press cen r.orship. . ' ' When the 30th lnliintry . Divi-, skn troops charged through, the greatest concentration of artillery and mortar fire they had met in he' Western ' Campaign to storm- ( hunkers of the German Sieg fried Line and establish a bridge head in the Fatherland, they reached an, objective for which, in, three months 'of bitter "ighting, they had been Da vin e the way since th e battle near the - shjng 'the Sieafried beaches. Smash 1 ine in the sector, north 'of Aaehen where it was heavily manned and then aiding in Closing vhe gab that - forced Aachen's .fall constituted one of the toughest jobs- assigned any division in the Battle" of Europe. But the 30th Infantry : Division eceived its baptism of fire on a tough as-

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automobile. Windle had carried the luggage indoors and was about to drive the ear around to the garage. Aggie realized he had spent several minutes in maundering. He did not stop the chauffeur; Instead, he went into the house. ' ... ; Old John was coming from Sarah's room, which was on the ground floor, across the hall from the living room. Aggie beckoned with his head, and, when the old man came dose, handed the card to him, "Know who that is?". The butler read the name and nodded. "Why, certainly. Although I haven't heard much about him for well thirty years, I'd say. Not till this evening, that is." . - - "It was pinned to the door frame with a knife. A mean-looking knife." "Knife, sir?" '"Yeah. I left the knife outside. Didn't want to alarm Sarah. It was biggish. Sort of threatening." ' , . Old John smiled. '1 don't think it's that. Mr. Hank that's Mr. Bogarty was quite a gentleman in a rugged way. He wired your aunt he was coming here. The telegram is in her mail and she's going through it now. Mr. Hank probably had no way of leaving his card conspicuously enough for Us to notice. He 4was like that, Mr, Aggie. I- mean to say the rough-and-ready sort " , -I see." . . 1 "Does it look familiar to you? The house?" Aggie glanced around the room. It looked startlingly familiar. He recalled vividly the -way the stones fitted around the fireplace their size and their shape and the Navajo rugs and the opulently ponderous "rustic" furniture -Sarah had always been what she called an "outsize."- Only little things-were new: stiff, white draperies, a chandelier, some bookcases." Aggie smiled slowly. "Yes," he said. "I do remember, John. It's a funny feeling." ' He stepped across the' hall and knocked on his aunt's door. "Come in," she shouted from her bathroom. "John?" ' "Be right out. I'm fixing myself an ice bag." There was a sound of chopping. "These darned cubes are harder to break up than an oldfashioned hunk." "Need help?" "No.". She appeared, presently, en deshabille. That is, she was wearing some sort of net over her giy htir a -purple- net and the most voluminous red silk kimono Aggie had ever seen. The'ice bag iiad been lashed to her neck with a lurid batik. She walked across her room and dropped down on her enormous four-poster bed. She observed, after a sigh of relaxation, the activity of her nephew. "You make a practice of going through other people's mail?" He glanced up from the bedside 'table, "Invariably. Yon know what you remind me of, Sarah? , -,u""vone wnoopeu wun iuugmer. inai World War II. : '.'-rhp all-imnnrtant breaktw.oUgh south of pulverized St. ically significant, pedineaueu uy u.e viu nioKoiy l .J i ii i tt!i. nien men. A real lighting team, ;he troops of the 30th had qualilied j for that aSsignmcnt-whieh battered open a passage through the hedgegrow .country, allowing AHcan armor to fan out over ,ians. At . the outset the 30th drovp ,h(. r,-crmans hark 'across men forced a crossing ot the Vire nivei: and opened . the drive on St. Lo. Those battles in the hedgegrow sector were real slugging smatches, every foot of advance being skillfully aid stubborijy contested Did , they .were iXimplicated .by rough and frequent counter-attacks. However, some of the heaviest fighting remained to bo accomplished , by the 30th .alter it, had given the "green light", ... to . the . irmorcd drive. That occurred in the Mor-tain-St., Barthelmy sector .when., the,-30th took; over : the . area of. the First Division at a time when four German panzer divisions, struck in the most powerful blitz effort of the campaign, to drive through to Avranches ana seperate the American - First , and Third Armies. It was there that infantry riflemen with bazookas, ' ar tilery and ..tank destroyers, cooks ''and messengers, with the help' of U. S. planes and RAF Jioc.ket ,':.'-ing " Typhoons finally threw back the German tanks in. a battle that - see-sewed for three days before hie Germans concluded that they were no match for one American division: In this fensive battle.- the .great, deat Mortain-St. Barthelmy, a battalion was isolated on a hill near .Mortain, cut off without

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act seemed to hurt her throat and she spent moment grimacing. Then sfle held out her hand for the telegram. v "That's from Hank Bogarty,"; she said, " 'arriving shortly for NEW RRCBSTAKE. LOVE., HANK.' , "I can read," Aggie answered. "Who's he?" "Oh. An old friend. I can't imagine why he's coming. We haven't seen him around here for ages. Some of us grubstaked him once lent him the money to go prospecting with ever so long ago. It'll be nice to see him.",.. Aggie was satisfied. ' .For a moment, the sight of the knife in the door jamb had. startled him. There was something sinister about it. Like finding a medicine man's ouanga pinned on your tent.. Now, his momentary fear vanished.Foolish; he thought,, to bring the associations' of Congo voodooism to the United States. He was always doing things like that. The price you paid for being an anthropologist. Sarah was settling herself for a talk. He helped. her arrange the bedcovers.: John knocked lightly on the door and came in. "Mr. Calder's outside," he said. "He wants to talk to you." , ? Aggie looked at his aunt with feigned dismay and said flatly to the old man, "His daughter Beth is with him, I suppose? Has he got a wedding license filled out in triplicate? A ring? . Tell him I never marry except on Thursdays." . .. Old John -was perplexed. "Miss Calder isn't there. He's alone. He seems disturbed." - Ao-gie glanced at his aunt and his glance held. Something had happened to her. ' She looked afraid or worried. .He said, "You'd better interview this cluck alter you got some sleep. Isn't he the cad who van off wih the doctor's wife and then, left her in California a fate worse than death?" -.-'. Sarah did not smile. "Tell him to come in, John. Aggie, beat it." I will not. I'm your guardian for a change. I stay. What does this oaf want? . Why are you suddenly full of hornets?" ". .': . "I'm not," Sarah said. "It's just that well nobody cares for Jim Calder much. He rarely comes up here.- His family does his daughterand his son - and his son's wife. But Jim has hurt so many people that he's" . , There were steps. in the hall..: The man who came in looked unlike either a home-wrecker or arobber of widows and orphans. He was a gaunt, weary-appearing ptrson with a short, iron-gray pompadour and liver-spotted hands'. Although it was a warm 'evening, he wore a dark, wool business -suit and a stij white collar. His dull plaid tie had too tight a knot in it. Hi3 face was sanctimonious; his eyes were blue, hard, and not particularly pleasai t.- He said, in a crack--linj; voice, "Oll-Sarah you had a wire from Bogarty?" and then ii saw Aggie. (To be continued) DinnljiiitiJ it Kins rcAiui? .vj(...(:..r, h-,c. . . ' " ' ' ' .. ' 1 '. stant enemy observation, artillery and mortar fire, they reiusea repeated demands to surrender. The 30th Infantry Division was commended for its heroic stand; for the courage and skill of its leiusea ro ici overwhelming c.dds discourage them in the battle against tanks at. St. uarineimy, ana ior me loyalty and stamina of the members of the. ."lost . battalion" who. defied surrender demands, their spokesman telling the German officers: "Go to tell, we wouldn't surrender if our last round of ammunition was fired and our last bayonet broken off in a Jerry belly." This battle of the 30th against the best of the German armor, started on the night of : August 7-8 and a week later the Old Hickorymen again were 'forcing the retreat of the Germans. .The : 30 th troops drove rapidly against the Germans to tree Evreux :and Louviers, then crossed the Seine at Mantes Gassicourt to enlarge the bridgehead there and prepare for the next breakthrough, this time into Belgium. Atv opposed infantry forced march record was made and an-, other commendation was -made vhen on August 31 and Septem - ber 1st to 30th dashed to Tournai, Belgium, covering . 180 miles I through enemy occupied territory jn 72 hours. The march was motorized during the last two davs and was screened bv a tsk i0rce of the division. The 30th was the . first allied infantry 4U vision. to enter- Belgium. .Still disrupting German efforts toward an orderly withdrawal, .the Old Hickorymen drove on to bpcome . the first allied troops in Holland, arriving there on, September,. 12, after having captured the famous. border fortress, Eben Emaol. on September -10. 'Maastricht.. -Hoiland fell to the 30th on September. .13, after which Old Hickory troops. ,, fought, .on. into- Germany,

for. two ; weeks, to-. establish' the bridgehead in . what was reputed by the CJerrrians to be their impenetrable.. West .Wall.'; . , More than 1,500 battle decorations have been awarded officers

and men of the 30th Infantry Division for gallantry in action and meritorious service .in the 'face of the enemy. The 30th Infantry Division is commanded by Major General L. S. Hobbs who has been twice decorated. j Although it was originally built around troops from National Guard . units of . Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas, and ithus gets its name, Old Hickory, from President Andrew Jackson, iwho led troops in that sector, the 30th officers and 'men represent jail States in the Union. . The Divisio climaxed a colorj ful . World War I history ' by crackink the Hindenber: Line, paving the way for German ultiI mate defeat ; then. Will history repeat itself? .. . Bus' OF News (Continued from I'afie One) holds the Philippines Liberation Ribbon and the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with .two campaign stars. BROTHERS MEET , IN GERMANY Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hayes of Shelburn have receved word that their sons, Norman and Clifford Hayes have met somewhere in Germany. The brothers had not seen one another for sixteen ! months.., They were permitted to be together two and onei-half days. SSgt. Norman. B. Hayes has; been awarded- the combat Infantryman badge for, actual combat against the enemy. He, is with the 78th- Division, 1st Army. Pfc, Clifford . L. Hayes is Ja.ihw-, Quartermaster Co. with the 9th Army . ' ;.! ,M- i-T- " - 1 '- BROTHERS 1 MEET, ON LUZON Mr. and JVIrs; Richard Brown, of Sullivan R. R., recently -received a. letter from their son, Pfc. James E. Brown telling . them of his great pleasure and. surprise at meeting his brother ,Cpl. ; Richard (Dick) Brown Jr., on February 7th. The boys are now stationed on Luzon Island in the Philippines having-heen in New Guinea for some; time. This was their first meeting in two years; They enjoyed a, three hour visit. Dick has served nineteen months overseas ; and . his brother - has. .served ten months overseas. Both boys have birth-s days in. April.. -Anyone. .wishing to write to them may secure their address from their parents. . "RUGGED RANGER" Mr. and Mrs; Arch Harrison of Sullivan, recently received from their son, Cpl. Lawrence E. Har. rison, stationed in the South Pacific, a newspaper clipping including a picture of another Sullivan I soldier, Staff Sgt. James O. White. 'son of Mrs. Olney White' of West , , . ' ,. ' . ... i, ,. ttr.. i , Willi mu (Jiuiuiu iL-au, nugguu, husky member of American 6th Rangers adjusts his 'cartridge. belt. He's Sat. James White. Sul

livan, Ind., one of the Rangers; sna m. Germany,,, where he-, was. who participated in the daring wounded November 20th of last commando raid on a Jap prisoner ' J'ear- -: i of war camp." j, In his phone message he re-

RETURNS TO BASE Pfc. Doane L. Scott of the U. S.' Army Air Forces, who has spent a; 21-day furlough . with ..his wifej and small son, has returned to his i station at Victorville, California,' where, he is an aerial engineer.' Pfc. Scott is a graduate of A. and braska, &so of Keesler Field, Miss. He is the son of Mr., and Roy Scott of Shelburn.' Mrs. GOES INTO NAVY Freal.Frye,, Jr.,, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Freal Frye, Sr., of Carlisle R. R. 2, left last Friday night for Indianapolis, where he was to report to the Navy Recruiting -Station Saturday morning for as signment to a Navy Training Ceniter. Freal is , memberi of the I senior class of the Pleasantville ',High School. . AWARDED MEDALS Pvt.. Calvin J.,Stultz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin E. Stultz of Sub i livan R, R. 1, now , stationed at. Camp .Blandiufi. Florida, has been . awarded medals for ; sharp, shoot-1 ) hig. expert '.rifleman including the Garand .Browning . and ; carbine' rifles, in bayonet practice, also, has qualified as- a. machine gun-, ner, He expects to be home on. his 22nd birthday ,. which is March 12th, on furlough. I t a , ,. ,. ! 1 ' -i FORCE AN EIGHTH,. AIR oUKiiihti MAI IONj,, England. Corporal Eldon W. Harmon,; 27, , of Fairbanks, Indiana, now .in.Eng-; land undergoing a ipre-combat

WOMAN NINETY RWEARS.IT helps

."My bowels just . and my stomach,, would swell up like a balloon and it would feel like a. hard, round mass. I was afraid to eat, and would sit and wonder what to do next... With this would come awful gas pains and I thought my time, had come. I used everything. Nothing worked right until a iriend suggested PRU-, LAX. It's so different,:: smooth, easy, and did away with the gas too. Now I count on results" : If you're constipated don't waitget PRU-LAX right now. Caution: Use this or any laxative only as directed'. MONEY BACK . if not delighted with results. Get PRULAX today. Milburn ; Pharmacy1, Sullivan. Smith Drug Store, Sullivan. Starks Drug Store, Shelburn. terConn., is preparing to take part in Eighth Air Force bombing attacks over Germany as waist gunner in a Brl3 .Flying Fortress, . Already highly trained by the AAF; the Indiana airman is now

getting tne Deneiit or ine comDai jeavei experience of veteran flyers. His Tng Lieutenant is a veteran of course of instruction, conducted more than tnrty COmbat missions by men who have flown from five in tne Soutn pacific where he was to seven months against. the Ger- a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator mans, includes advice on how to bomber. He has made two trips to conduct himself if he becomes a the pacific Theater. From the latprisoner of war, how to adminis- est three months service there he ter first aid to wounded comrades returned to the States in Scptemat high altitude and how to cope ber 0f 1944 and has since been with .the latest developments in stationed at Muroc. enemy tactics. . j .. i . The: Fortress group to which SGT. DONALD HOWARD HOME Cpl. Harmon has been assigned, is Sgt. Donald Howard of Camp

I a unit of the Third Air Division,

the division which was cited .by.rado arrived here -Sunday cvethe President for its historic ning for. a 30-day furlough with England-to-Africa shuttle . bomb- his mother, Mrs.' Kate Howard ing of the JVIesserschmitt aircraft and other relatives. He has bceu plants at Regcnsburg, Germany. overseas for many, months. "The son of Robert Harmon of " " '.' Fairbanks, he was a mechanical f All-V TIAAPQ fitter for the Pressed : Steel Car L AIL I I lVCj '-. Company in Chicago, Illinois, be- : '' ' ' T .

fore entering the AAF in August 1943.

' Letters and interviews of v PUOMOTED , suitable nature and proper newsOmar J. ivieek, husband of Mrs. 'paper interest are sought for, this Lillian Meek has been promoted column, the editor, reserving the to the rank -of corporal in the right to censor or reject any arUnited . States Army. He is a tide he may deem is not suitable member of the 607th Reconnais- nd proper. Articles of 500 words san.ee Co. Tank Destroyer Bat- or less are preferred. AH articles talion and is with Lt. General sent to the Open Forum must be George S. Patton's Third Army: signed and address fiven, in or- . In a recent letter to his wile 'dcr that the editor. may know; he stated that he . had met her the writer bowtverv the . writer's brother, Lt. Gene Cox, on three name will not be published if redifferent occasions and both d nested. '-,. , 4- ;:. found that they had lots to talk . Articles published herein - do

about, Lt, Cox is with . Reconnaissance Co. . 818th Tank Destroyer , Battalion and he also is with the Third Army. Cpl. Meek

has a brother in the Infantry and cry tt t .. all, three are now somewhere in . LET'S HELP OUR UOVS Germany. pleasant sui prise came to me t - i . Monday evening When I read in BACK IN STATES: ... the Daily Times that the majority Staff Sergeant , Hubert Leon of the Sullivan merchants were Benefiel,. who has been overseas cooperating 100 in the saving with the United States forces since of fuel, Jight and help by closing September of 1944,rwas returned on Thursday afternoon. . This into the States February 24th, ac- deed means, a lot to the help who cording to his family, who re- struggle, to serve us each day. ceived a telephone call, from him These merchants . have proven to on that date. SSgt.; Benefiel' has , us that they are good American seen action in Franccj Holland citizens and arc doing their best

veatea that he would soon arrive here for, a furlough with his .wife, Mrs. Helen Benefiel and son., and ns parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Benefiel of Carlisle.. .. . . . . ' ' 1 IN HOLLAND Mrs. Doris Graves of 438 East. Jackson Street has received word j tfcat h-er husband pvt. John "Johnny".-. .Graves safely somewhere, has arrived in Holland. Friends wishing his address may secure it from his wife. FLYER HOME ON LEAVE First Lieutenant: Maurice Enochs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil. pa

jfetcaui thty'r raolly m4htu4 COUCH LOZENGES Soothe your throat all ihe way 'down fax below the. drgle line. Each F k F Lozenge gives your throat a 13 minute soothing, comforting treatment . Used by millions for coughs, throat irritations or hoarseness resulting from colds or smoking. Only 10c box iiam Enochs of East. Washington street, is spending a week's leave in Sullivan visiting his family and friends. Lt. Enochs is stationed a4 Muroc, California, where he vUl - report at tne termination of his Carson, Colorado Springs, Colof lUrK hi IK I I AA not. necessarily rxprcss the- sentiment vt the Daily Ttoes and this Paper may, or may. not sgrre with iUlementi contained herein. to help, in every way possible, Everyc- 3e , readily recognizes the effort that every hometown merchant is making, .in spite of drastic curtailments and inability to secure hired help, principally clerks, to continue to, serve the public, in. Ihe, best way. possible. The merchants are doing, their best .to help our boys who are on the battlefields and the public can do their patriotic bit by cooperating too.. Closing of stores fin Elfjornrtfin arti 7rnl.- iu .1 ::-": " L;r' .: .... ... .!4 u . 7. - . .. . k uu uui guvcj iiincm s ui j5ni our requests that light and mnnpower be conserved .and utilized in the best possible way to contribute to a speedy end of (he war. Let's all -work together on the homefront. . - : .'"A 100 per cent' American." 0 ' II n : 0 0 o 0

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