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forecast remember JfcSIKS pearl harbor warmer, followed by rain in west por- _ _ _ _ __ ■w_ AMD BATAAN VOL- 76.—NO. 331-- WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1944 ■ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 Subsidy Foes Win Victory in The Senate HEJECT proposal Vole Comes At End 01 first Day Of Debate ON Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—tfl Zioi consumer food subsidies won a major preliminary victory the administration today Then the Senate turned down, 49 . ,, a proposal to permit the Tending of $1,500,000,000 on such subsidies in 1944. The proposal was made by Sen ator Maloney (D.-Conn.) in the form of an amendment to the 'ending bill by Senator Bankhead Fn vla ') which would kill the sub sidies The subsidy payments, without specific Congressional au thority now are costing about $1, 00C 000.000 a year. Administration leaders backed the Maloney pro posal designed to put a $1 500, 000.000 ceiling on the exDenditures. The vote came at the end of the fi-st day of debate on the revived ..SUe which produced a charge from Senator George CD.-Ga.) that the subsidy program constituted politics of the rawest kind” and a prediction from Maloney that without the payments there will be "a hue and cry tor wage in creases the like of which we have nevei seen.” George elaborated on an “infla lion” pretest already raised t>y Bankhead, and told the Senate that the whole plan was basically one of labor appeasement at the ex pense of the farmer. The entire administration argu ment. George said, is “sheer non sense. To continue the subsidy system, he declared, would ’‘amount to ap peasement because we are repeat edly warned that if we break the lire labor is going to demand con stant increases in wages. 'Senators may vote appease I ment if they want—but the mo ment you do you open the flood gates for inflation.” Administration backers have in sisted that inflation will result if Congress kills the program of pay ing subsidies to farmers and pro cessors to hold down prices to con sumers. The Bankhead bill would call a halt to the payments June 30. Before the vote Senator Taft (R.-O.) suggested a compromise, saying the Maloney limitation was “too high” but favoring limited subsidies. "Here is a bald proposition to (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) -V Somers Body Found In Hotel CHARLOTTE, Feb. 9. —W— A soldier tentatively identified as Pvt. Lee M. Riley of Bluethenthal Field, near Wilmington, was found strangled to death in a hotel room here today. Twisted tightly around the neck was the sleeve of a sweatshirt. The body, sprawled on a bed, Was nude. Police Chief Walter F. Anderson, said the tentative identification was obtained from the hotel register, which indicated the soldier check - in about midnight Monday. Anderson said strangulation was ,e cause of death. He said there wore indications of a struggling In the room. The body was observed yester ay morning by a maid as she ontered the room to clean it up. inking the man was asleep, she withdrew, When, on her rounds this morn n-',she saw the man in the same Position, she notified the hotel anagement, and police were call lrh Anderson said. City detec es were assisted in their investi s ion by Capt. John E. Abel, com Ianding military police here. J, tary authorities took charge °ijte_body. Drive To Simplify U. S. Tax StructureUnderway Both Sides Of Capitol Work On Plan In Ef fort To Help Nation’s Taxpaye*^0^ WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.— «l —A drive toward simplification of the Federal income tax structure got under way on both sides of the Capitol today, but there appeared little likelihood of action in time to help 50,000,000 taxpayeijs with the 1943 final returns they must file by March 15. The fast-moving developments included: 1. Chairman George (D.-Ga.) of the Senate Finance Committee pro posed that Senate and House com mittees work together to hasten the processes of simplification. 2. Republican members of the tax-framing House Ways and Means Committee aligned them selves behind a streamline meas ure by Representative Carlson (R. Kas.h 3. Representative Knutson (R. Minn.), Ways and Means Republi can leader, i proposing memb." them , make ini congress tax statut comprise representatives of agri culture, labor, business, industry, individual taxpayers, consumers tax accountants, tax lawyers, anc tax economists. Virtually all the planning foi simplification pointed toward get ting the job done before March 1! 1945. The Internal Revenue Bureai gave a cold shoulder to a proposa by Representative Robertson (D. Va.) that small taxpayers file witl the government only essential in formation as to their 1943 income (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3] Interior France Battered By U.S. LONDON, Feb. 9.—UP)—The steady bomb barrage along the French “invasion coast” lifted sud denly today and arched 100 miles inland with more than 200 U. S. Medium Marauders striking heavi ly at railroad yards and repair shops at Tergnier. All the bombers returned safely. The daring attack was the Ma rauders’ deepest penetration of the European war, and apparently a great surprise to the Germans who had been allowing Allied planes to pound the coastal area with virtually no opposition in the last few weeks. It was executed simultaneously with blows by other Marauders against the Pas-de-Calais area, and by British M;tchels, Bostons, Mosquitos, Hurricanes and Ty phoons which carried out missions against other targets in northern France without loss. The Marauders now have made more than 580 sorties over enemy territory without loss since dawn yesterday. The operations against the At lantic wall con' '-ued throughout the day until weather forced sus pension, but not until the RAF had made 750 sorties across the channel using six types of aircraft. One British plane was reported missing against two enemy planes destroyed. The Germans’ surprise was evi denced by the fact that the hun dreds of planes returned without a single encounter with enemy fighters. “All our bombs dropped into the yards (at Tergnier) which looked like a pin-cushion spiked with bright pins,” said Lt. Theodore J. Ziemba, bombardier of Cranford. N. J. “The bombs crashed in the cen ter of the freight yards, ripped up a large section, and blew a num ber of freight cars sky high,” add ed Lt. Joseph C-, Dick, Akron, Ohio, a bombardier. The new daylight raids followed (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) --V Search For Amelia Earhart In Pacific Proposed By Solon WASHINGTON, Feb. 9— (* — Rep. Heffernan (D-NY) proposed today the Army and Navy searcn for possible evidence that Amelia Earhart landed in the Marshall is lands on her round-the-world flight in 1937 and that her fate had been concealed by the Japanese. The iamed American aviatrix was lost on a flight from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland island, 2,556 miles distant and on an airline route south of the Marshalls. Heffernan wrote Secretary Stim son and Navy Secretary Knox that Miss Earhart may have flown over the Marshalls, have seen the 'Japanese’ “illegal operations,” and then have been forced or shot down. U. S. To Broaden Its French Ties WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—(JB— The United States is expected soor to broaden its relations with the French National Committee in Al giers so that the committee may serve in effect as the temporary government of those areas oi France to be liberated when Al lied forces invade Europe. A statement revising the Amer ican policy probably will be issued by President Roosevelt. Whatever action Washington takes undoubtedly will be paral leled in London. Ever since Prime Minister Churchill visited General Charles De Gaulle, the French committee leader, in Algiers sev eral weeks ago, reports from Lon don have pointed in that direction. American policy toward the De Gaulle administration has been a source of one of the liveliest con troversies aroused by this govern ment’s conduct of war time foreign affairs. Powerful elements have contended, that the committee should be fully recognized as the government of France, but the White House and State Departmeni have stood firm on limited recog nition. The government’s position has been based expressly on the prin ciple that no action should be tak en by the United States whicl might deny the people of France a full expression of their right tc create their own government, once the Germans havr been driven out. Now it is understood that a for mula is being worked out in ac cord with both that principle and the realities of the military situa tion. It is expected that when the committee actually takes over au thority in metropolitan France it will be prepared, once order is restored, to hold elections and give the people a voice in the govern ment as rapidly as they come un der civilian rule. ——y Child Recovered Following Cavein PITTSTON, Pa.,N Feb. 9.—W— The body of two-year old Jule Ann Fulmer, who was swallowed up by the earth in a mine subsidence yesterday afternoon, was recov ered at 7:25 tonight. The spot where the body was found had been by-passed by a huge gasoline shovel which replac ed miners who had removed tons of dirt, bucket by bucket. As the arm of the shovel swung down for another load, it struck the side of the excavation. Loose earth trickled down and the child s arm and leg became visible. . Men reentered the pit and care fully freed the body, which was borne to the surface by Mine In spector Andrew Wilson of Hazle ton, Pa. Doctors at the scene said the child apparently had died of suf focation. __ I New Attack On Little Steel Formula Launched By Labor Members Of W L B ne'IASiiINGT0N’ Feb. 9.—m-A ' a‘;ack on the administration’s la,, , stabilization policies was Z “*ed today by the four AFL Whr ^ers of lbe War Labor Board to j. , clared the time has come lora the Little Steel” Formula rv’ "realistic figure based p " ’he actual cost of living.” hart6 deiTiancl coincided with the sals t° Ssnale debate on propo hoid j o’dliw use of subsidies tc It,,,. <?wn consumer food prices. w • baS£d on the contention thal short nC,°ntr°! has fallen so fal course L?°? S that “the only re' V’ace , 0 workers is to obtair 6C rate increases.” The “Little Steel” formula, so named from its first application in a steel wage casp, limits gen eral wage increases to 15 percent above the level of January, 1941. The WLB adopted it originally in the summer, 1941, on its own in itiative and on the grounds that the rise in living costs 'between January 1941 and May 1942 amounted to 15 per cent. Since then, however, the formula has been incorporated in wage sta bilization orders from President Roosevelt. The craft union members— George Meany, Matthew Woll, I Robert Watt and James Brownlow —petitioned the board to request that the President modify his or der. They said the government’s owr statistics on the cost of living are sufficient to warrant ditching the formrna—citing that the Bureau oi Labor Statistics’ index stands to day at 123.4 percent of the Jan uary, 1941, level. Actually, they argued, living costs have risen far more thar this index indicates, and thej pointed to an AFL-Congress of In dustrial Organizations study re (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2] Americans Open Full Strength Drive On Cassino Bottleneck; Reds 8 Miles From Krivoi Rog VIOLENT FIGHTING Nazis Claim U. S. Using 30,000 Men And 400 Tanks ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Al giers, Feb. 9.-—(A>)—Ferocious crag to-crag fighting raged on heights overlooking Cassino on the main Italian front today as American troops opened a full-strength as sault to destroy that Nazi hornet’s nest which was holding up their push to relieve beleaguered Allied forces in the Anzio bridgehead 50 miles away. (Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s main Fifth Army is slugging violently at the Cassino defenses, declared the German-controlled Vichy radio, “with 30,000 men, 400 tanks and powerful artillery.”) American riflei..en, charging up the steep cliffs of Monte Cassino west of the town through a hell of machine gun fire, at one time reached a point only 75 yards from the ancient Benedictine Monastery which crowns the crest of that key height, dispatches from the front disclosed. Inside Cassino itself the sweat stained doughboys fought into sev eral more fortified buildings, but after a week of fierce house-to house combat the Nazis still held about three-fourths of the strong hold and their line of supply was unbroken. The long-delayed breakthrough at Cassino can come none too soon to serve Allied strategy. From the shell-pocked beachhead below Rome, Daniel De Luce of the As sociated Press wrote that “no one in the beachhead is under illusions as to the grimness of the struggle now unfolding. Anywhere in the area you are liable to be shelled, bombed or strafed. “It is a very small beachhead. German power still seems to be mounting.” A broadcast by the Nazi high command claimed gains of “sev eral kilometers” through a Brit ish-defended sector of the beach head and claimed that 700 Allied prisoners were taken. Seeking to relieve some enemy pressure against the landing forces, American planes heavily bombed and strafed German posi tions around the Appian Way town of Cisterna, 14 miles northeast of Anzio, which the Nazis are said to have converted into a powerful fortress. Not a Gc-man plane ap peared over the beachhead yes terday, the enemy apparently not having relished the loss of 19 fight er-bombers over the area the pre vious day. ( The renewed Allied assault on Cassino’s defenses began before dawn yesterday, following a day of comparative inactivity during (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) -V Finns Disclaim Surrender Talk STOCKHOLM, Feb. 9-— (PI —The Finnish foreign r-'fice today denied that the Finnish legation in Wash ington had issued a statement that Finland would not surrender even if Helsinki were razed by bombs. The foreign office said its Wash ington legation had advised that no such comment was made on the warning of Secretary of State Hull that Finland must drop out of the war, or take the conse quences. (The Finnish legation official in Washington who on Tuesday had said) that Finland would not sur render even if Helsinki were razed by bombs, declared today when informed of the Helsinki disclaim er that he had “no comment” to make.) The Finnish radio said the evacu ation of Helsinki was continuing, with mainly old persons and chil dren being removed to safer areas, (Moscow warned that the Sun day night air attacks on the Fin nish capital were only a forerun ner of what is to come. The Soviet newspaper Pravda said “the Finn* declare with insolence that they in tend to protect Finland east of Petrozavodsk. The Finns will soon realize that the Red army will pro tect the borders of the Soviet Union in the district a£ Helsinki. The Red army will give the Finns what is due them.” (A Swiss newspaper, quoting German diplomats, said the Fin nish government had held a secret session last night to discuss Hull’s warning, and that Moscow had in (Continued on Page Three; Col U. S. Bombing Of Maloelap Atoll In The Marshalls Flames leap and smoke belches as bombs from a low-flying Mitchell medium bomber of the 7th Army Air Force find their mark during a raid on Japanese coastal defenses at Maloelap Atool in the Marshall Island. The raid on this atoll, southwest' of Kwajalein, took place late in January. This picture has just been released by the Army. (7th Air Force photo from NEA Telephoto Reds Threaten Key Ore Center LONDON, Feb. 9.—(£)—1The Red Army, forcing battered German forces from at least 57 more com munities along the Nazis’ crum bling front in the southern Ukraine, closed in hard upon the important iron ore center of Krivoi Rog to day with a swift 14-mile stab from the southeast which carried it to within eight miles of the cty. Other Russian forces drew closer their ring around ten German di visions encircled in the Lower Dnieper area near Shpola and pur sued beaten Nazi forces through eight populated places in the mud flats and swamps near Nikopol. Far to the north the railroad cen ter of Luga, on the Leningrad Pskov-Warsaw line, was under at tack as the Russians swept up 3C more towns and hamlets and reach ed Bolshoye-Zamochye, 13 miles northeast of Luga. In the Ukraine Russian forces were moving up from Apostolovo captured Monday, toward Krivoi Rog, taking the town of Radush noye, 14 miles to the northwest, in a drive that took 40 populated places. In the Nikopol area eight more towns were captured and in the Zvenigorodka-Shpola area where the Germans were surrounded nine more Gorodische, 18 miles north of Shpola; The Germans for several months have been able to keep the Rus sians at least five miles from their last railway supplying Krivoi Rog, a line running to the northwest through the junction of Dolinovka, but with the new breakthroughs oi the past week in the Nikopol area and with the ganeral deterioration of the German southern position, that thin thread of supply seemed doomed. The Russians also were sweep ing westward south of Krivoi Rog, (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) -V Betts Is Named Gas Coordinator RALEIGH, Feb: 9.—(^—Gover nor Broughton today appointed W. Z. Betts, director of the division of purchase and contract, as State Petroleum Coordinator. Betts will deal only with the matter of availability and distribu tion of gasoline in those sections of the state which from time to time experience shortages, the governor said. He will not deal with individual cases, the gover nor added, but only witt situations which affect the various areas in the state. The work will be in ad dition to the regular duties of the department of which he is direc tor, the governor said, and Betts will receive no additional compen sation. Betts already has been handling many phases of the gasoline prob lem, as affecting availability oi gasoline for school busses and oth er state equipment and facilities. He will .confer within the next few days with federal authorities in the state representing the Of fice of Defense Transportation and the Petroleum Administration for War, the governor said, and will keep in close touch with these agencies throughout the period of emergency. Earlier today Governor Brough ton asked PAW to make available an additional allotment of gasoline for the Vance, Warren and Frank lin areas to relieve an acute short age Mining, lumbering, pulpwood and farming work in the three county area has caused a serious drain on available gasoline sup plies, the governor said. County War BOND GOAL $4,859,000 16-Year Old Youth Arrested For Killing Young School Girl PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. Feb. 9. —(J>)—Special Agent John R. Rug gles in in charge of the FBI office in Savannah, Ga., announced today a Parris Island high school boy had been arrested and charged with the slaying of an eight-year old school girl on the Marine reser vation here last Dec. 8. Ruggles identified the suspect as Ernest Edward (Bobby) Feltwell Jr., 16, son of a Marine warrant officer stationed bf-re. He was given a hearing before U. S. Commissioner William W. Eiliott in Beaufort and bound over to the next meeting of the Federal Grand Jury. The girl, daughter of a Marine lieutenant, left home to attend a movie on the afternoon of Dec. 8. Her body was found by a searching party the next day in a creek in a marshv area of the island. ResidentsUrgedT oMatch Patriotism Of Serviceman At the same time that local officials in the Fourth War Loan drive are making a desperate last-minute ap peal to residents of New Hanover County to increase their bond purchases because the figures at present indicate that only about $10 ner nerson in the county has been invested in bonds, when individual purchas es of $50 are demanded, the Treas ury department revealed that two citizens, one of whom is a sol dier fighting overseas, are making tremendous investments in bonds every mohth. Can you match the patriotism of Corporal Max I. Baker, of Can nelton, Indiana, present ^address unknown, who returns all of his pay to the United States Treas ury? How does your record in the bond drive trortipa're-'With that of Richard B. Dulley of Palo Alto, California, who has notified Cec retary Morgenthau that he wishes to relinquish all claim to $1,600 worth of War Bonds already pur chased? Treasury Department officials have also revealed that every cent of the personal savings of Manuel L. Queen, President of the Phil ippine Commonwealth, and Mme. Quezon, has been invested in war bonds. In commenting on this re lease, Made. Quezon stated, “We must put everything— everything—in bonds. For the time being, this is the most effective way of avenging those who died (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) -V 'Ghost' Carrier Very Much Alive WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—W*— She’s a ghost ship on Nazi rec ords, but the aircraft carrier Ranger is very much alive and a continual threat to German ship ping. Ten months ago Hitler boastfully reported the Ranger sunk by tor pedoes and announced decoration of Lieutenant Otto Von Bulow for the exploit. Today the Navy made the dec oration look a little ridiculous by releasing an account of the Rang er’s war exploits since then Six months after she was “sunk” the Ranger daringly struck into enemy waters off Norway, the Navy ’repotted When the planes returned, more than 40,000 tons of Nazi shipping including four merchantmen and a tanker lay on the bottom, blast ed by better than 30,000 pounds of bombs Two enemy planes had been shot down. The Ranger had not been damaged; only three of her planes had been lost “It was a very fine attack, and many German troops were (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) Marshall Isles Being Pounded U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Feb. 9. —UP) —New and secret blows against Japan’s remaining holds in the Marshall islands are being struck by the United States air and naval forces which hit the de fenses of Kwajalein atoll so hard that if virtually fell of its own weight into the lap of ground troops. Because Japan’s communica tions with its isolated garrisons in the Marshalls probably have been disrupted, the Navy adopted a poli cy of not identifying the targets of bombs and shells. In the newest air and snip at tacks, announced last night, only one atoll was named, Jaluit, at the southern end of the Archipela go. Several enemy boats were sunk in the raid there last Sunday. Jaluit already had been attacked 16 times this year. Other atolls under attack may have included those that have been bombed most frequently — Wotje, Mili and Maloelap. One of the objectives of the Sev enth Army Air Force bombers in the latest raids was the “pet fight er field” of the Japanese, reported Paul Beam, Associated Press War correspondent. He was aboard a dive bomber that blasted the run way. Not a single burst of heavy antiaircraft fire was encountered. (Beam may have referred to the enemy airfield on Taroa islet of the Maloelap atoll. In the pre-in vasion raids on the Marshalls, that atoll was the center of greatest enemy air resistance. Virtually every raid there brought up a (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) Allied Ship Losses At The Lowest Ebb Of The Entire War WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—(P)— The Allies destroyed more German submarines in Janu ary than in December, a joint Anglo-American statement sa:d tonight, while merchant ship tonnage sunk by enemy U-boats was “among the lowest month ly figures for the whole war.” The statement, Issued under the authority of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, said the higher toll of Nazi undersea craft was ex pected despite dimishing op portunities to attack them. It advised that German claims of sinking Allied ships should be ignored “they are grossly exaggerated” and is sued for propaganda purposes Prospective Owner Of Tide Water Stock Has No Plans Now, He Says PHILADELPHIA Feb. 9.—UP Warren W. Bell, former vice pres: dent of Northeastern Water Corr pany, Jersey City, N. J., and pros pective owner of the comma stock of Tide Water Power Con pany, Wilmington, N C., told th Securities and Exchange Comrni: sion today that he has no definil plans for the latter company s present. Since taking over an office ; the Tide Water Building two week ago, Bell said, he has been “stud ing the affairs of Tide Water” an that he “hasn’t planned on an associates.’ Bell ''tas contracted with Geners Gas and Electric Corporation t - buy the Tide Water common stock • for $55,000 subject to the commis sions approval. t Questioned by Sec Counsel Dav - id I. Bursten, Bell outlined the e capitalization of the Tide Water ;- preferred stock, acquired from e Northeastern. t All the 5,000 prior preferred shares and 8,865 of the 9,850 class i B preferred >■' Tide Water are s owned by Northeastern, he said. y His wife, Pearl S. Bell, owns the d 600 shares of .class A preferred jr Stock, 985 shares of the class B, and one common share; F. L. 1 Fuller, Jr., a Durham N.C.) law-, a yer, owns one common share to Q, qualify him as a director and he himself owns 98 of the 100 com mon stock shares, Bell added. Earlier H. K. Halligan, vice president of the Wilmington invest ment firm of Allen G. Ewing and Co., who bid against Bell for the Tide Water common stock, had told him that ‘ some people in Wil mington were annoyed” concern ing treatment of the Ewing bid Cross examined by Ruddick. Halligan said he considered as “fairly evident” an implication that “unless their proposals were acted on they (Wilmington group! were going to start some rate pro ceedings . . . against the com pany.”
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