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mna" T-* i -zsr \A BONDS V 1 AND V 1 STAMPS VOL LVI.?NO. 15. ? ? ~ DOUGHTONATODDS MTU TOP A CITDV A\T TTI1I1 lillirtOUIlI Uil NEW TAX PROGRAM Ways and Means Chairman In Sharp Criticism of Mammoth New Tax Proposal of Treasury: Says More Asked Than Taxpayers Can Bear. Washington. October 4 ?The treasury's mammoth new tax program intended to raise another $10,500.000.000 from income tax payers, gum chewers. tobacco smokers and drin Kers of liquor and soda pop, apparen-1 tty died a-borning today. Rep. Doughton (D? N. C.) took a j quick look at the program which I would increase by 40 per cent the government's overall take from personal incomes, and proclaimed it too big a burden for the taxpayers to bear at this time Since Doughton is chairman of the house ways and means committee, through which all tax bills must go, it was believed unlikely that this tax bili or anything remotely like it would get to first base. Them was speculation that any tax bill passed this year would raise no more than half the amount the administration asked. To Doughton. portions of the treasury plan seemed "utterly indefensible." Calling reporters to his office, he said: "Any benefit which might arise from the effect of the treasury's plan incurbine inflation would n?> more than offset by such unbearable increased burdens, which may well have a tendency to break down the morale of the taxpayer. * " * "I feel that the secretary's (Morgenthau's) program is more ambitious, and calls for more tax, in the aggregate, than the taxpayers can reasonably bear at this time, in view of the already heavy tax liability. * * * I do not see at this time how we can make the full increases requested, either in individual, corporate or excise taxes. "I think some of the increases recommended on excise taxes (there are a score of them) are utterly indefensihe?picking out a few arti' eles that are already taxed excessively high and imposing on these articles greatly increased taxes, leaving without any tax whatever other articles which cannot be classed as necessities." Sizeable increases in the personal . income tax were a chief feature of the treasury plan. The effective rate in the lowest in- i come tax bracket would jump from 1 the present 22 per cent to 27, and j increases would be made throughout the other brackets. The effective rate on taxable income over $100,000 1 would be 96 per cent. Treasure Secretary Henrv Mnr-1 genthau with the approval of President Roosevelt, also asked for sharp increases in levies on corporations, and so-called luxuries, such as li- i quor and tobacco, and for new taxes v on soft drinks and chewing gum. JAPS REPULSED i BY AUSTRALIANS' C \ Village is Occupied South Of j Madang; Six More Barges * Sent to Bottom. Australian forces moving north- 1 west cf Lae against Madang, New ' Guinea, have reached the headwa- ' ters of the Ramu valley, General Mc- 1 Arthur announced today in a com- * munique. The troops occupied Kaigulin village 60 miles south of Madang. c In the Solomons theatre, the Japs 1 sent 50 planes against American- ' held Vella Lavella. Interceptors bat- 5 tied *he raiders and downed at least 1 t "?ral Solomons, where r -"rating their garri angara. Ameri-li ave ZATAl An Inde BOONE. \VA. Leading All Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, le ground forces, is pictured with Lis der of the fifth army, as they tou This front which started with bea miles. It stretches across the Italic Watauga Dot In War Roi Future General? Pvt. Earl Q. AllHoff of St. Mary, Ohio, whoso general classification test w us one of the highest in army records in the Fourth service command. Now stationed at Fort McClellan, Ala. he has been selected for possible training at the U. S. Military Academy. y .LIESPIISHONTO BATTLE OF ROME Fifth Army Pushes On Against Nazi Force of Perhaps Five Divisions. The American fifth and the Britsh eighth armies pushed ahead tovard the battle of Rome Tuesday igainst a sharply resisting German orce officially estimated to contain our to five divisions, or from 60,000 o 75,000 men. On the Italian west coast the Amiricans, supported by British armor, vere methodically wiping out Nazi >ockets of resistance left to impede heir progress a short distance north >f Naples. On the Adriatic coast Gen. Sir lernard L. Montgomery's army, adled by new" landings from the sea it Termoli, was going ahead more -apidly in the direction of Pescara, vhere the main lateral road from tome joins with the coastal road. In the central sector the Ameri:ans drove into Montescarchio in the nountains southeast of Benevento in 'xtensiun of a flank movement deiigried to the- " stand the jermans r make on he bank- ' ver, 20 niles n> The tot '"SSSsiSis UGA pendent Weekly Newspap iTAUGA COUNTY. NORTH CAR< lies to Berlin frffk I.i^ISR jgPffl Pi. commander in chief of Allied ?ui. Gen. Mark JV. Clark, commanred the Allied baiilefront in Italy, chhead landings has grown to 108 i > - *?? hi uwi ana. is moving nonnwara. ibles Quota lit! Campaign ___? | Sales in Third War Loan Arc , Now $241,125.75, As Against 1 Quota of $120,000; Farthing ; Says Final Reports Will Indi- ( cate Total Purchases Of $250,- i I 000; Loan Period Extended. ! . ; ; Total sales of war bonds through the Third War Loan period as of the close of business last Saturday, were $241,125.75, or considerably ] more than double the amount allotted to Watauga.County, according to ' W. D. Farthing, chairman of the local war savings staff, who says that , during the extended period to October 16th, sales.will easily reach the ' quarter million mark in this county. Of the total sales $218,793.50 had cleared the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and was properly credited to Watauga county. ' Mr. Farthing explains that bonds of series E, F. & G will be credited on the quota during the extended period, according to a recent treasury department ruling. ^ It is hoped by each member of tbe ( War Savings staff that there will be no let-up in the ruglar purchase \ of bonds at the close of the third j war loan period. The war continues to grow with intensity and the de- j mands of the men in uniform must be met. Everyone is asked to buy to the limit of his abillity every I month, so that all She fighting fronts i may be adequately supplied with the I weapons of victory. Boone Clubwomen to be ! Present at District Meet ' In West Jefferson 13th ; ; Plans are now being perfected for ( the annual meeting of the third dis- ; Irict of the North Carolina federation of women's clubs, which is to ] be held at West Jefferson on Octo- t ber 13th. A representative group from the t Boone Club is planning to attend and i Mrs. W. M. Grubbs, president of the < club will have a part on the pro- < gram, discussing "Youth Recreation" j Mrs. Virginia B. Jones, also of Boone t will bring greetings from the North , Carolina Nurses' Association. i The theme is "War Service and Post War Planning." Mrs. Ed M. An- , derson, the district president, will < preside, and present abjectives for ( the clubs in keeping with the theme , and the meeting. ( Mrs. J. Henry Highsmith, President of the North Carolina Federated Women's Clubs, and Mrs. R. A. (Continued on page eight.) . | Test for V-12 Navy Grovo Local Schr Th < - -,t ' dem< er?Established in the Ye 3LINA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER NO CITY LICENSE IS < NOW REQUIRED OF f IF A f PDC f V PA A I vE,/\L??ind i iy City Council Acts to Encourage Deliveries of Coal, as Shortage Grows Acute; No More Taxes to Be Assessed Against Truckers During Emergency. During the critical coal shortage in this city, the town government will desist from collecting coat dealers' license, in order to encourage other truckers to deliver coal before cold weather brings suffering to a large number of families in this locality, accordng to a statement made by Mayor Gordon H. Winkler Tuesday Due to the fact that many people who ordinarily haul coal were en gaged m larming during the past summer, and others on government payrolls, coal bins in this community are at a new low level of supply, a very few families interviewed havnig enough fuel to get through the winter. Since agricultural work is par tially out of the way for the season local coal dealers report trouble in getting loaded at the mines, in many instances having to stay aii night to get a load. Mines touched by railways, it is said, have quit loading the trucks, and at wagon mines, one lias to sit in line for hours on end it is reported. J Some mine operators have told total truckmen that if they will bring mine timbers, they will toad them. The labor Shortage precludes doing business on this scale, so all in all, the fuel situation is critical. ^ At any rate says Mayor Winkler, if anyone will agree Ui haul coal to the chilled households of the community he is urged to do so, and ;uaranteed that the lax. collector will f' lot interfere with his activities. A REDS MOVE ON IN S WHITE RUSSIA 1 ' 21. ti Russians Keejl Initiative and w Overrun 46 More Villages f. In Muddy Sector. ii Keeping its initiative in White -4 Russia alive despite mud and the 11 jermans, the Red army Tuesday ' iverran 46 populated places in the E Vitebsk sector and pushed to with- c n 30 miles of that Nazi strbnghold ri A'hich is itself 110 miles from the a -.atvian frontier, the Moscow radio a innounced. <'i The Russians mentioned only gu- 4 milla activities south of Gomel. C Berlin nervously indicated that e he Russians were moving troops -;l it both ends of the front ? around B _.ake Tlmen, far to the north, and it the southern end of the line just. iorth of the sea of Azov. _ In the Vitebsk advance. Kolishki, 1 10 miles east of the city , was among ? he points captured. Speaking of the iction the communique said' "The Hermans launched several counter- l ittacks. but were thrown back.'" The war bulletin listed more than 1,150 Germans killed in two engagenpntc npur VifoKelr on d r!rve.?w>nl . There was a fresh hint in the com- aj nunique's statement that four ene- si Tiy-laden landing barges had been ;unk by aircraft of the Soviet Black Sea fleet that the Germans were a lulling out of their slim foothold on c< ;he Taman peninsula, or even with- h irawing some forces from the Cri- c nea. n Reporting on air activity, the com- b -nunique said that fliers of one unit Si iilenced 16 artillery batteries, des- h troyed 70 trucks with war supplies d and dispersed about a hatallion of 3erman infantry. C 1< FINISH FIRST AID COURSES The following have passed their c standard Red Cross first aic I r es. given at the College: Hunt (advanced), R A. Olse Bedford Greene, F.. B 3CR/ :ar 1 888. 7. 1943. riroiinrl Is R New Buildii Hosiery M J PROMOTED ectly or indirectly with the war ^ogram. "'ontir 'H < - eight.) T8 Work ARCHIE G. QUALLS CRMER RESIDENT IS PROMOED AS U. S. ATTORNEY ield Offices of OPA Consolidated in Charlotte: Archie Quails is Enforcement Attorney. The Ashoville anu Winston-Salem eld offices ot the Office of Price dministraUon have been consolidate and moved to the district office \ Charlotte. Raleigh, formerly the tatc OPA Office, is now a district ffice. All food ration books for the tate are now issued from Charlotte, here have been several organiza,onal changes in OPA designed tolard more specialization of the peritonei in the various commodity ;e!ds. Archie G. Quails, former Boone jsident. who has been serving as .ssistant Enforcement Attorney in te Western North Carolina district as ben given a promotion to nforcement Attorney and placed in harge of the enforcement of the regulations governing the rationing r.d price of gasoline, coal, tires, and 11 consumer goods sold at retail ex pt food and clothing. District henduarters are in the Lav; Building in harlottc and serve the fifty westni North Carolina counties and the .wenty War Price and Rationing cards in these counties. JRGENT PLEA MADE TO RED CROSS FOR ~>R F.<wiNr,.?; 01 irvr a ocal Red Cross Workers Are Badly Needed To Supply Need Of Wounded Soldiers. An urgent plea is being made to II Red Cross Chapters to finish and tip all dressings that have been as[ned to them up to November. The program lias been retarded to certain extent due to delay in rejiving material, but in suite of the andicaps. the Watauga County hapter will be counted an to furish the dressings as soon as possile. In order to meet this demand, iv local Red Cross officials, we must ave workers in our Red Cross room aily. A statement from the local Red toss production headquarters foljws: "There is not a home in Watauga 'ruinhr that ic r?r?t offnMdrl rl? $1.50 A YEAR?5c A COPY roken For ug To House 11_ O ins in ooone I New Building to Bo Rushed to Completion Within fill Days by Local Hardware Concern: Is to Se 50x100 Feel. With Prospects of Further Expansion: Small Plant to Start Soon. Ground was broken Saturday on the lot next door to the Southeastern Motor Company building for the erection of a modern new structure to house the hosiery mills of the Baker-Commack Co., of Burlington. The building is being erected by the j Farmers Hardware & Supply Co., I and according to Walter C. Greene, the contractor, should be ready for occupancy within 60 days. ! The new manufacturing industry ! first intended to use the Earl Cook Building on Depot Street, but the i deal was never finally closed, and ! the local hardware concern agreed to provide a building for lease to I the manufacturer. , The building, which is being constructed largely of materials not of critical importance to the war effort | will be 50 x 100 feet The walls will I be of cinder block construction, a ' modern heating plant will be provid; cri. a sprinkler system installed and lall will be ready for occupancy withj in a two months period of favorable ! weather. Lease arrangements call for the enlargement of the building to four i times its original size, when needed, I it is said, and understanding is that j if the labor situation here works out | well, the plant is to lie a permanent ] addition to the business life of the j community. Officials of the Baker Cpmmack (Continued on page eight.) FIVE RESERVISTS HAVE REPORTED FOR ARMY DUTY r i j Selective Service Board Makes Inventory and To Siari Work Of Re-Classification. five Watauga county reservists ' have been accepted by the army aad ! have reported to their reception cert| ter. They are: la.... i U . kUlllCi Ira D. Ward Dean R. Hodges Henry C. Ford Bynuro. E. Hayes Local drafl board officials say that 'heir inventory c.f registrants has been completed and that the regular re-classification will start, at once. i . . ' . 1 . y/>-; 5<| J ; frag? RATIONING GUIDE Suuar Stamp no. 14 valid for five pounds through Octobc-r. Stamps 15 and 16 good for five pounds each for canning sugar to October 31. Food Stamps U V and W will be valid to October 20. All commercially canned, bottled, and frozen fruits and vegetables, including juices and soups, and dried beans i lentils and petts require coupons | from book no. 2. Dried fruits, j with the exception of prunes and I raisins, and dried and dehydrated soups temporarily removed from rationing. Meals. Fals. Oil. Cheese. Fish All types of pork, beef, iamb i and mutton, and butter, lard, othj er edible fats and oils, cheese and I canned fish now rationed under i " rwiint svstf^m" rvrt rpil /?<-?! ?r"u-?y*o *r? I War Ration Book 2. Stamp X v ' i be valid to October 2, Y to C ber 2 s?r>-i >Z <o October 2. T I Erom ids in book I 3 ?o* " | fate ^ j to be) I F. tot 31 r
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