BOLT TO HEAD
PAPER DRIVE
Joyceas Plan Sunday Col
lection, Hear Dr. T. B.
Mitchell
President Doris Bolt will serve
as general chairman of the Jay
cees’ monthly waste paper collection
Sunday afternoon.
Committees for the project were
named at the group’s last meeting
when Dr. T. B. Mitchell, head of
the local Alcoholics Anonymous,
traced the work of that organiza
tion locally and nationally and
discussed the underlying bases of
alcoholism which he said has come
to be the nation's number four
•problem*.
REPORTS
A minute's silent tribute to the
late Bobby Lutz, a director whose
death occurred since the group's
last meeting, was observed at the
close of the meeting. Reports of
charity work done by the Jaycees
among deserving families in the
city and county were rendered by
J. E. Noggle, chaiman of that
program.
Dr. Mitchell, presented by Dick
LeGrand as one of the community’s
outstandingly useful citizens, dis
cussed alcoholism and the things
which lead to it through person
ality dispensations. He expressed
the hope that no Jaycee member
would become addicted to alcohol,
but he told of the marvelous re
clamation work done by AA In the
community and nation and he feels
the approach has an illness is pre
ferable to the holier-than-thou tac
tics some employ unsuccessfully
in dealing with the problems it
creates.
NIMITZ
Start* On Pare One
template Invasion of Japan itself.
The Pacific leader was cautious
ly optimistic but he made clear
rough going was just ahead.
Then he was asked:
“Would yon welcome Rus
sian participation in the Pa
cific war on our side?”
“Yes,” he promptly ans
wered.
“I am glad you put that last
phrase in—‘on our side’.”
Another ally of the European
war theatre, Great Britain, was
warmly welcomed into the Pacific
ocean scene. Nimitz said the big
British fleet which will be put in
to action has arrived but the work
of British naval units there al
ready is having a good effect.
His press conference . yesterday
followed the issuance of a 1944
war review which made point of
the fact that Japan, presently be
ing blasted by B-29s from Saipan,
now has become vulnerable to at
tack by carrier-based planes.
The review condensed these ac
complishments in 1944 against Ja
pan: Surface ships and aircraft
sank two battleships, five air
craft carriers, seven heavy cruis
ers, more than 300 cargo ships
and transports and 200 other ves
sels; submarines sank 468 enemy
ships; carried - based planes de
stroyed 5,450 enemy aircraft in
Pacific areas; and land-based
planes wiped out 1,200 more (to
tals in the theatre of Gen. Doug
las MacArthur are not included);
an estimated 225,000 enemy troops
and such strong bastions as Truk
and Rabaul “have been reduced to
impotence or ashes.”
Later at his press conference,
Nimitz said the destruction of
Japanese shipping was at a pace
exceeding production.
"The decisive battles, the i
greatest battles, the hardest
battles in the Pacific war are
still to come,” the war review
emphasized.
“The enemy, like ourselves,
WOUNDED—William Stamev Peel
er, S 1-c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sum
mle A. Peeler of Belwood, has been
wounded in action somewhere in
the South Pacific, Dec. 15, accord
ing to word received from the war
department by his parents. Sea
man Peeler is a graduate of Bel
wood high school and entered
service in July, 1943.
PATTON
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Champs, three miles northwest of
Bastogne, and near Viller - Ql
Bonne-Eau. 5 miles southeast. The
i
communique reported progress
northeast of Moircy, a much ex
changed hamlet.
Von Rundstedt’s attacks
against the U. S. 7th army
around Bitche and eastward to
and along the Rhine appeared
in preliminary appraisal to have
netted little gain. These prob
ably were the first of several
strong diversionary efforts.
The German still was throwing
most of his strength into the Bel
gian bulge. He was bracing the
hard defensive line St. Hubert
Wiltz and persisting in counterat
tacks around Bastogne.
The next moves in the gigantic
test of men, strategy and machines
were not yet apparent. It was plain,
however, that von Rundst^t has
been hurt badly by sustained and
heavy Allied air attacks which
went into their 11th day.
The whole front from Linnich
to Stavelot at the north-central
part of the bulge saw little activity
Monday. American flak guns des
troyed 17 strafing planes in the
IN HOLLAND
Allied artillery beat off German
self-propelled guns which the ene
my ferired across the mass in dark
ness north of Kapelle in north
west Holland.
Canadian guns threw back two
German patrols which also slipped
across the river. Elsewhere the
British and Canadian sectors were
quiet, just as for the past six
weeks.
During the night, British Mos
quitos ranged in a broad arc be
hind the main battle bulge destroy
ing or damaging 15 tanks and 90
motor vehicles. The U. S. 9th Air
Force alone claimed the destruc
tion yesterday of 279 assorted
transports, 11 railcars and the
disabling of 11 locomotives. Pilots
said 66 other vehicles and 182
railcars U’ere damaged.
Supreme, headquarters disclosed
that the Germans in a strong
counterattack on the night of Dec.:
30 drove the Americans from1
Moircy and Remange, between Bas- !
togne and St. Hubert. Patton hit
back hard, recapturing Remage and j
also taking Hubermont, Houmont j
and Chenonge. The Germans still
hold Moircy.
has just begun to fight.”
Nimitz announced yesterday
that Liberator bombers dealt two
Iwo Jima, enemy air base in the
Volcano islands, its 24th straight
day of air pounding Saturday.
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AMERICANS ATTACK GERMAN FLANKS—Arrows on this map indi
cate action reported Dec. 28 along the salient (shaded line) which the
Germans have' driven into Belgium and Luxembourg. Americans attacked
along ihe Marche-Manhay line on the north side of the German wedge.
On the south they had driven a relief corridor into Bastogne to rescue
encircled Yanks, and had crossed the Sure river farther east. Yank
forces north and south of the bulge were only about 20 miles apart.
FEDERAL-INTERSTATE RELATIONS
COMMITTEE GROWS IN IMPORTANCE
By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH, JAN. 2.—Tradition
ally the most important commit
tee in either branch of the general
assembly has been the finance
committee which fixes tax levies
and provides the money that
makes the state mare go. About
two sessions ago it became evident
that since a “permanent” revenue
bill had been adopted in 1939, the
most important committee was
that on appropriations—the one
that said which state agency would
get how much of the tax money
raised. Appropriations still holds
precedence, but the committee on
federal and interstate relations is
looming as one of the top rank
groups.
That is a natural and logical
development, because in recent
years there has been more coop
erative activity between the fed
eral and state governments and
increasing sentiment for uniform
state laws affecting many phases
of civic life in which the states
retain complete sovereignty.
NOVEL IDEA
Lieutenant Governor Ballentine
has conceived a somewhat novel
idea for setting up such a com
mittee. He proposes to select a
competent chairman and to make
the rest of the committee almost
ex-officio. It will comprise the
chairman of the committese on
appropriations, education, health,
labor, public welfare, roads, unem
ployment compensation and oth
ers dealing with subjects in which
there is cooperative effort on part
of the federal and state govern
ments.
Then when a bill is offered call
ing for additional money for vo
cational education, as an exam
ple, it will be referred to educa
tion, then go to appropriations
and then to federal relations com
mittees so that all phases of the
question can be considered in
committee before coming back to
the floor of the senate for final
action. The lieutenant governor
believes this will save a lot of time
and duplication of effort in handl
ing legislation.
It is known that both Qscar
Richardson and George Uzzell
have given thought to the same
idea, but they cannot go along as
fast as the lieutenant governor be
cause it cannot be positively
known until after Tuesday night
which one of them will name the
house committees.
Nazi Soldiers
Surrender To
Get Decent Meal
By HAL BOYLE
IN GERMANY.—(Delayed).—{A5)
—No man in the U. S. army hates
the Germans wore than Lt. Dil
lard E. Boland of Clinton, S. C —
but it took six months of fighting
before his grudge became personal.
Boland, who fought though the
Normandy and Brest campaigns in
France was leading his platoon in
an attack when a shell struck
nearby. The lieutenant didn’t get
a scratch, but one .'mall fragment
ripped through the sleeve of his
jacket and cut a package of ciga
rettes in his breast pocket. Then
it passed through the other side of
his shirt, jacket and sleeve.
“I didn’t mind those Helnies
ruining my shirt and jacket and
scaring me half to death,” said
Boland, "but that hunk of shrap
nel cut my last packet of cigarettes
right in half—and just at the time
When w* couldn’t get cigarettes
for love or money.”
CHOW CHARM
American chow is holding an in
creasing attraction for German
troops. S-Sgt. Cyrus Ainsworth
Grossback, Tex., said he met an
old German soldier still serving in
the army although he had a wood
en leg.
"How are they feeding In
the American army these
days?” asked the German. "The
same as in the last war?”
"Better,” Ainsworth retorted.
| "Then it’s a good time to sur
render again,” said the German,
who added that he'd-been captur
ed by the World war I AEF.
Four German soldiers came run
ning across "no-man's land" to
, ward the American lines, waving
! long objects over their heads.
Fearful of an enemy trick, Pvts.
! Walter H. Zeims of Chicago, and
; Charles J. Allen of < 204 Colonial
Drive) Thomasville, N. C., kept
' their rifles leveled as the enemy
! quartet came forward, shouting
"Kamerad!”
COOKS COME OVER
They turned out to be four Ger
man cooks, carrying long loaves of
bread. They said that while bring
i ing up the supper to their com
pany, they decided to get out of
, the war.
They dumped the whole meal
; into the mud, except for a half
dozen loaves of bread. These they
brought along as peace offerings.
1 Then they set off for the Ameri
can lines at a full gallop.
. Taking one tentative bite at the
heavy German bread, Zeims spat
it out and observed:
"No wonder some of these guys
are so anxious to surrender. If
that’s the kind of stuff the Jerries
are eating, you can see why they
are glad to get into a PW camp
I where they can get a decent meal.”
Michael O’Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers and Carmen Miranda make
up the frolicsome foursome in the new 20th Century-Fox Technicolor
musical hit, “Something For The Boys", which plays today and Wednes
day at the Rogers Theatre. An outstanding hit on Broadway, the song
and-dance-and-laugh-packed hit revolves about the adventures (roman
tic and otherwise) of three cousins who find themselves joint heirs of a j
broken-down southern “mansion.1’ and who in an effort to “do something
for the boys ’ open its doors to army wives, and one of the most hilarious
series of sequences fiimed. _ j
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Today Prev. Day
March. 22.09
May - -22.01
July - _21.72
October _ _20.73
December - .20.67
CHICAGO GRAIN
WHEAT
May . ..168
July - _1-58^
September . .1.56T4
CORN
May .-113%
July - ..1-13V4
September .1.12
RYE
May ..1.17U
July .113%
September . .1.09%
22.08
21.99
21.71
20.68
20.60
1.65
1.56
1.54%
1.17%
1.11%
1.10
1.14%
1.11%
1.08
OlWyRVO A*
Amn Rolling Mill. 15 5-8
American Loco - 27 1-4
American Tobacco B - 65 1-4
American Tel & Tel.164
Anaconda Copper- 29 3-4
Beth Steel.65 1-2
Boeing Air ....- 19
Chrysler.. 94 1-4
Curtiss-Wright . 5 7-8
Elec Boat.-.'14 7-8
General Motors-63 1-2
Pepsi Cola -- 25 1-2
Greyhound Corp - 23
International Paper . 21
Nash Kelv .- 15 7-8
Glen L Martin. 25 3-8
Newport Ind ... 19 1-2
N Y Central . 23
Penn R R. 33 3-4
Radio Corp ..-.10 1-4
Reynolds Tob B-31 3-8
Southern Railroad - 38 3-4
Standard Oil of N J_56 1-2
Sperry Corp . 28 5-8
U S Rubber . 52 1-8
U S Steel. 59 7-8
Western Union ..— 44 3-4
Youngstown S & T. 39 3-4
TRENDS MIXED
NEW YORK, JAN. 2.—<AV-Air
crafts and scattered specialty
stocks started 1943 with a show
of strength but many rail and
industrial market leaders stumbl
ed over profit cashing.
The fact that the averages hit
a new 7-year-peak in the final
session of 1944 tended to inspire
considerable speculative and in
vestment caution on the idea any
real bearish news could bring a
substantial reaction. Idle funds
seeking employment propped fa
vorites while individual situations
aided others. Many customers held
aloof to await European war de
velopments.
Commodities advanced. Bonds
were uneven.
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
CHICAGO, JAN. 2.—(Ab— (WF
A)—Salable hogs 20,000; total 30,
000; market slow, steady to 15 low
er, late trade and close mostly 10
15 lower than last Friday; good
and choice barrows and gilts 190
lbs. and over 14.60-73; top 14.75;
ceiling; few good and choice 150
180 lbs. 14.25-60; sows steady, vir
tually all bringing 14.00 celling;
complete clearance.
Salable cattle 16,000; total 16,
000; salable calves 1,000; total 1,
000; fed steers and yearlings
steady to strong; very active on
common and medium grades; lar
gely steer run; top 17.75 paid for
strictly choice long yearlings; next
higher price 17.50; bulk 13.75-16.
75; heifers firm; best 15.35; run
away market on cows and bulls
at steady to 25 higher price;
weighty cutter cows and bulls at
steady to 25 higher; weighty cutter
25 higher price; weighty cutter
cows to 8:50; good beef cows to
15.00; weighty sausage bulls to
13.00: vealers firm at 15.50 down.
Stock cattle slow, steady.
BUTTER AND EGGS
CHICAGO. JAN. 2.—(ff)—Butter,
firm; receipts 227,235. Eggs, re
ceipts 8,799.
N. C. HOGS
RALEIGH, Jan. 2. —(/P)—(NCD
Ai—Hog markets steady with tops
of 14.25 at Rocky Mount and Clin
ton and 14.10 at Richmond.
N. C. EGGS, POULTRY
RALEIGH, Jan. 2. —(Ab—(NCD
At—Egg and poultry markets stea
dy.
Raleigh.—U. S. grade AA large 52
to 54; hens, all weights, 25,
Washington—U. S. Grade A large
54; broilers and fryers, 31.45.
BYRNES
Starts On Page One
duty.
For the present, professional
baseball and football need not fear
a ban like that on horse racing,
he indicated. But he declared
bluntly that he believed medical
re-examination should be given
4-F athletes who "prove on the
football field every Sunday their
physical prowess."
He advocated that Congress at
once give the war labor board
power to make its decisions “man
datory and legally enforceable in
the courts,” as a means of check
ing work stoppages. Seizure of
firms for non - compliance fre
quently is an inadequate remedy,
he said, and imposes on govern
ment “onerous responsibilities of
running private business"
Byrnes put reconversion firmly
on the shelf “until victory is
within our grasp, until our mili
tary men tell us they have enough
supplies and that we can afford
to reduce production.”
TO BATTLE
While armament schedules In
the first half of this year are not
much above present production,
Byrnes said 45 per cent of the
programs, are critical—and “criti
cal production no longer feeds
pipelines or goes into strategic
reserves—it is going right into bat
FREIGHT RATES
SCRUTINIZED
Georgia Complains South
ern Rates Are Dis
criminatory
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2— (IP) —
Freight rates—long a subject of
bitter sectional controversy—come
under supreme court scrutiny to
day.
Specifically at issue in oral ar
guments this afternoon is whether
the high tribunal shall hear a
complaint by the state of Georgia
that southern rates are “discri
minatory.”
The case took on new signifi
cance last week, when the justice
department endorsed the Georgia
position in a brief filed as a
friend of the court.
Attorney General Biddle declar
ed the anti-trust laws support the
relief sought by Georgia. The de
partment already hais charged wes
tern carriers with violating the
Sherman anti-trust act.
In the western case the depart
ment filed suit against 9 railroads,
charging that “by collusive and il
legal action the defendants have
maintained freight rates for the
western pay£ of the United States
which are higher than those fixed
by the defendants for shippers in
the east.”
In the southern case, Georgia
asserted in its brief that "an il
legal combination” of 20 railroads
has resulted in “discriminatory”
freight rates to the state. It asked
not only an equalisation of south
ern rates with those elsewhere, but
damages of more than *1,000,000
for its shippers.
ICC ASSAILED
Georgia and other southern states
have asked rate adjustments of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
but in its suit declared the ICC
has been “derelict in its duty,
(and) is a party to the illegal prac
tices (listed in the complaint) and
condones them.”
The railroads have field peti
tions, however, contending the ICC ,
i is the proper authority before
which Georgia should make its
\ complaint. They also termed the
i Georgia complaint "camouflage” I
1 and "political oratory.”
REPORTER
Starts On Pap One
the Kiwanlans January 11. He will
be among the first members of this
congress to be honored at a big so
cial event January 13.
The senator-elect's daughter,
Mrs. Dan M. Paul, smart in her
tweed suit and gay striped blouse,
accompanied him and will stay in
Washington for two weeks.
Hoey said he would do just as he
did when he was governor: Answer
every letter he gets today with dic
tation tomorrow morning. But he
reminded the reporter of what he's
said before: "I hate to get up early
but I don’t mind working all night.” j
Representative-elect Joe W. Ervin
i is expected to arrives before con
vening of congress Wednesday.
"The turn is that our soldiers
at the front today are not short
j of ammunition and supplies as a
result of any production failures,"
he continued.
"However, they may be short a
few weeks hence if we fail. If
: they are to freely use what they
now have in order to save human
! lives, they must know that more,
in abundance, is on the way.”
If view of steeply mountaing
demands for artillery, rockets,
shells, superbombers, field wire
and other must items, Byrnes said
the government must resist all de
mands, "reasonable as they ap
pear on the surface,” to let civil
ian manufacturing start up when
I war orders are curtailed,
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Three New Members
In Monogram Club
The Monogram club will initiate
three new candidates for member
ship tonight at the high school
gymnasium The newcomers are
Zeb Weathers, Dick Walker and
Jim Cornwall, who made their
first high school letters in foot
ball during the paat season.
A banquet will be given for the
Monogram club Wednesday night
it the high school cafeteria. Earl
Spangler and Bill Tate, who left
for the Navy last week, will be the
bnly members not present at these
meetings.
Bobby Reynolds, popular student
and a participant in all sports, is
the president of the club.
2 NAZI
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and discharges from the Navy.
They had been supplied with
$60,000 in American money, of
which $56,574.61 remained at the
time of the arrests.
Commenting on the arrests and
the recent discoveries of two Jap
anese balloons in Oregon and Mon
tana, which he said might have
carried spies instead of explosives,
Hoover declared these were evi
dence of an espionage and sabotage
offensive against the entire Ameri
can hemisphere.
NAVY DISCHARGE
The FBI director said the two
agents, after landing, went to Ban
gor, Me., and stopped briefly in
Boston before coming to New York
where they went to separate ho
tels. bought expensive clothes, and
made purchases to construct a short
wave radio transmitter to com
municate With Germany.
Colepaugh. who once attended
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, also served in the U. S.
Navy until discharged in 1942 "for
the convenience of the govern
ment.’’
ON GRIPSHOLM
He went abroad as a mess boy
on the Swedish exchange ship Grip
sholm, leaving the ship at Lisbon
where he offered his services to
the Nazis, Hoover said. He was en
rolled in the Elite- guard and sent
to school in Berlin, the Hague and
Dresen where he was taught radio,
photography and use of explosives
Gimpel was arrested in Lima,
Peru, while working for a Oerman
radio firm and was Interned*in
Texas until repatriated to Ger
many where he continued radio
work until Joining the Elite guard
for training similar to Colepaugh’s.
In the Philippines, a tropical cy
clone is called a baguio.
American Legion,
Auxiliary Give Party
A New Year’s party was given
last night at the American Legion
building for members of the Le
gion and Auxiliary, service men
and their wives.
An entertaining musical program
was provided and Miss Carobel
Lever contributed a humorous
reading. Little Dennis Beam sang
two selections, “Always”, and “Say
A Prayer,” Mrs. B. M. Jarrett play
ed an Italian air and a military
march in two accordian solos, Miss
Anna Lou Toms sang “Through
the Years” and "Keep the Home
Fires Burning”, and the program
ended with a tap dance number by
Miss Anne Osborne.
A dance Immediately followed
the program.
Members of the Auxiliary serv
ed punch and sweet crackers dur
ing the evening.
YANK
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ere based In the Philippines,
was pointed at a reinforcement
and supply base for the Nip
ponese on Luxon. It was there
that the Japanese invaded the
Philippines at the war's outset
Today’s communique depicted an
aerial scourge of Luzon’s west side
from Lingayen to Batangas. Lib
erators cratered Nielson rtrdrome
at Manila. Patrol planes destroyed
five enemy aircraft in the same
sector.
The Corsair pilots over Batan
gas saw one ammunition train go
up with a thunderous explosion,
witnessed one of the attacked loco
motives disintegrate and saw their
bullets pour into trucks as well as
other ammunition trains.
The Lingayen raiders reported
seeing some of the eight ships go
down and said the others were so
badly KMT it is reasonably certain
they also sank.
Another day of mopping up on
the west side of Leyte added 995
Japanese killed to the enemy losses
in that campaign, now totalling
119,892.
Today's communique also report
ed the firing and exploding ol
enemy oil stores on Borneo and
airdromes in the central and south
Philippines and islands to the
south.
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