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SCRAP COMING ON MOVIE TAX Rtttoration Of 1939 And 1941 Schedule Is Recommended RALEIGH, Jan. 17. — The first big scrap In the finance commit tee is apt to crane on the budget recommendation to restore the 1939 and 1941 schedule of taxes on moving picture theatres, in lieu of the 1943 flat tax assessment. The “permanent” revenue act of 1939, unchanged in 1941, applied a tax of three percent on theatre admissions, with a maximum ad vance down payment of $425.00. The 1943 assembly changed that to a flat tax based on population of town and seating capacity of theatres with a maximum of *2, 500. Yield from the flat rate tax was substantially less than from the three percent, and the advis ory budget commission this year recommended restoring the ad mission formula* PROTEST The picture show folk base tneir | protest on two major premises: ! First, the excess revenue collected j under the admission tax in 1942- j 43 was due to wartime inflation, I and they desired then and now to be on a permanent basis. Sec-, ondly, they “stood the gaff” for years—through the depression and the late New Deal as well as early war time eras — and paid substantially more than any other business coming under schedule j B license bracket. In 1931-32 fc\; Instance, the picture shows yield ed about $69,000 to the state. Last year they produced $157,000. Meantime professional licenses, hotels, bottlers, manufacturers and others coming under the bracket had increased yields from ten to 60 percent, instead of 350 as was the case with moving pictures. Representatives of the picture ahow business say they do not want, have never asked for spe cial privileges. They do want fair treatment, and want to share In both adversity and prosperity with other business enterprises. And they do not understand why the budget made two years ago for restoration of the taxes that they paid under informal protest all during the depression era. The finance committee will hear a lot more about this. LEDO ROAD Starts On Page One It may deteriorate slightly under the effects of relative good fortune in the military field. The main facts in the Chinese political puzzle today are these: 1. Dissident elements in Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang party are gaining increasing strength and the 15 to 30 old-time conservatives who often have been blamed for looking after their party interests rather than the ultimate welfare of China no longer are in secure control. 2. Chiang himself remains the only real national leader in China. American policy, while welcoming the upsurge of the liberalizing malcontents within the party is de voted to supporting and working with him. 3. Nevertheless, President Roose velt’s representatives in Chungking, mostly notably Ambassador Patrick Hurley, are constantly putting pressure on Chiang to get toge ther with the communist elements in North China and add their re sources to the Chinese war effort. Two or three months ago there was considerable hope here that an agreement would be reached between Chiang and the commu nists to end the struggle and com plete China's unification. Now that the military outlook is ■o vastly Improved the Chungking government is believed to have stiffened over the communist is sue. The communists, meanwhile, since they also are growing in strength and enjoying a kind oi indirect American support, are in no mood to compromise either. DRINK DOUBLE COLA Double Cola Distributing Co. 117 North Morgan Street Phone 237 Shelby, N. C. CONGRESS FEARS BUT LONGS FOR PAYINCREASES WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—(/P)— i Congress looked longingly—but a little fearfully—today at a pro posal calling for a $15,000-per-year boost in pay for the lawmakers. Made by the National Planning association, a non-partisan group representing government, labor, management and agriculture, the 14-point proposal listed two rec ommendations that stirred up the ghosts of the ill-fated 1942 “pen sions for congressmen” movement. In addition to urging that the present $10,000 congressional pay check be upped to $25,000, the NP A's blueprint for “strengthening the Congress” called for a retire-; ment pay program for the legisla-j tors. FAIR The NPA held that It was a matter of fairness that congress men receive more pay and retire ment benefits. Members, howev er, tended to shy away from it. They voiced a private fear that the entire program for moderniz ing the legislative machinery might be jeopardized. The death of Senator Francis Maloney (D-Conn) brought new demands for this modernization. Rep. Monroney (D-Okla> called his the victim of a committee pro fedure "he fought so valiantly to odernize.” Maloney and Monroney were sponsors of a resolution setting up a 12-member senate-house group to undertake a modernization study looking to, among other things, a possible reduction in over-lapping committees. LIGHT Starts On Page One drew. The Japanese are well dug in along foothills of the Benguet mountains and are making a stout and diligent attempt to prevent the Americans from securing their left flank. Po zorrubio is the key town on a highway leading to Baguio, summer capital of the Philip pines. Other Japanese tanks were sight ed on the right flank of the 50 mile wide beachhead, but the ene my has been hesitant to risk his meagre supply of thinly-armored tanks against the American fire power. , This campaign is unlike many previous ones in that the Japanese are not hurling any Banzai charg es or making any suicidal stands. So far, the enemy seems content to stay out of the way. WITHDRAWN The effort the enemy is making j to delay the northeastern expan sion of the American beachhead I so far has confirmed Filipino re ports that the bulk of the Japa nese forces in the central Luzon areas started to withdraw north eastward into the mountains by the time the Sixth Army invaded the island. On the right flank of the Yank beachheads patrols reached Ala minos, road junction on Boliano Peninsula which Juts like a thumb on Luzon’s west coast. American warplanes, domi nating: the Luzon skies, sup | ported the southward drive with destructive attacks on key enemy bridges, communica tion lines, assembly areas and airdromes the length of the island. Bombers damaged runways and airdrome installations and de stroyed many parked planes at Aparri, Clark and Batangas air fields. Only three Japanese planes were seen in theair, and all were shot down. One U. S. plane was lost. FDR Starts On Page One • Murray had an alternative. He wras | told that this alternative involved 1 a better use of voluntary methods. Mr. Roosevelt replied with firmness that he didn’t think that would bring results. He said that he would transmit a report from Army and Navy heads, along with a few words of his own. While Mr. Roosevelt did not go into details, May predicted he would back his pending bill to penalize men in the 18 to 45 age group who won’t take war jobs. The May bill provides for in duction into Army work units of recalcitrant draft registrants, Committee sentiment, however, favors fining them up to $10,000 and putting them in prison for as long as five years. May said the President would leave the penal details to congress. Industry, like organized labor, has advocated voluntary rather than coercive measures, industry’s views being slated for presentation to the committee today by the Na tional Association of Manufactuerrs. According to law, Egypt’s king must be a Moslem, son of Moslem parents, and a direct male line descendant of Mohamed Ali. JUST OPENED New Record Shop MEZZANINE FLOOR MAXWELL-MORRIS & KENNEDY FURNITURE CO. PHONE 788 - SHELBY, N. C. / State Department Promises Supplies To French Civilians WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.— The State department announced today an increase in supply ship ments to Europe for French civil ian use. The increase results from con versations held by Jean Monnet, French representative, and Secre tary of State Stettinius and other American officials. It is part of a general effort to step up supply shipments to Eu ropean liberated countries on which the United States and Bri tain have agreed and for which they have allocated a few ships not I urgently required for military sup plies. SECOND Starfts On Pare One glazed with Ice and sleet this morn ing kept them slippery. Underneath all were massive German mine fields, planted during three months of lull. STRAIGHTENING The attack presumably was in I tended to straighten out a German wedge into Allied lines, it was backed up overnight by intruder air raids on German billet areas in the towns of Wassemburg and Wegberg just east of the Roer. To the south, the German salient in the Ardennes was flattened back until nowhere was it more than 15 miles deep* The U. S. First army was battering relentlessly down from the north toward St. Vith, last main road gate back to the Sieg fried line. A few German snipers were being hunted down in the ruins of fallen Houffalize. In the Maginot Line battle north of the Haguenau forest, the U. S. 7th army had withstood three days of an increasingly powerful Ger man attack against the village of Hatten and was slowly beating the Nazis back from the town. Three ! fourths of it was in Allied hands; | some 2.200 Germans with flame | throwing tanks were in the other j fourth. 2-WAY ATTACK The cross-Rhine German stand north of Strasbourg was under two-way attack by Lt. Gen. Alex ander M. Patch's troops for the ; first time. The Seventh army gain . ed a mile at both ends of the pocket despite German reinforce ! ments which built Nazi strength to 2,500 men and a dozen tanks. In the Belgian bulge, the Amer | ican First and Third armies join ed up in captured Houffalize, 15 i miles west of the German fron i tier. That union obviously sealed 1 out of the battlezone those Bri i tish forces which had been mop j ping up scattered German pockets , to the west. It also reunited the I 12th Army group of Lt. Gen. Omar ! N. Bradley, whose 1st, 3rd and 9th ; armies were split by the German | offensive. The American assault on the 1 north flank finally won Thirimont i and the battlewise first division was pushing through drifted snow and ; rugged country beyond Faymonville ' into the strongly dug in German ! lines guarding St. Vith. FIRST Starts On Page One northwest, and had broken through to the southwest of the area of Czestochowa, only 15 miles from the German border of Silesia. POLISH ARMY The First Polish army, com manded by Lt. Gen. Stanislaus Poplawski, participated In the capture of Warsaw, It was an nounced. Stalin’s order of the day said: “Troops of the First White Rus sian front, having carried out a swift outflanking maneuver west of Warsaw, captured the town ol Girardow, cut roads to Sochasczew and forced the Vistula north ol Warsaw, and thus, having cut off Warsaw from the west; today, Jail. 17, by the combined blows from north, west and south, captured the capital of our ally Poland, the city of Warsaw the most important; strategic center of German de fenses on the river Vistula.’’ Troops participating in the tri umph will have the name “War i saw’’ addfed to their unit names, Stalin decrees. He ordered a tremendous salute of 24 red, white, green and blue salvoes from 324 guns in Moscow. NEAR FRONTIER A Berlin broadcast, however, de clared the huge Soviet offensive below Warsaw had plunged to the eastern outskirts of Czectochowa, only 15 miles from the frontier oi I German Silesia, and told of other Russians deeply outflanking the Polish capital both to the north and south. The latest official Moscow an nouncement had put Russian forces 22 miles from Czechtochowa. The German high command as serted a Russian assault with 40 rifle divisions and several tank corps had penetrated deeply north west of Warsaw. Dispatches from Moscow, where the fall of Warsaw had not yet been confirmed, said capture of the Polish capital appeared only a matter of days. A mammoth of fensive reaching within 23 miles of Warsaw had outflanked the i city on the south. HOME ON LEAVE Dewitt Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wilson of McDowell street, who has returned to the United States after serving eight months in the South Pacific with the Navy, is spending a 12-day leave in Shelby with his parents. He entered the Navy in December 1943 and took his boot training at Bainbridge, Maryland. v v I Furnished by J. Robert Lindsay and Company Webb Building Shelby. N. C. N. Y. COTTON AT 2:00 Today Prev. Day March .22.18 22.23 May - _22.05 22.10 July .21.74 21.79 October . _21.09 21.17 December __21.05 21.13 CHICAGO GRAIN WHEAT May -. 1.62% 1.62% July .1.54% 1.55% September _ .1.54% 1.54% CORN May .1.13% 1.13% July .-.1.12% 1.12% September - _1.09% 1.10% RYE May . ..-.1.14 1.14% July....1.12% 1.12% September . _1.09% 1.10 STOCKS AT 2:00 Amn Rolling Mill - _ 16 7-8 American Loco . .. 27 3-4 American Tobacco B ._69 1-4 American Tel and Tel _ 163 1-4 Anaconda Copper _ _ 32 1-4 Assoc Dry Goods _ . 18 1-2 Beth Steel.. 70 1-2 Boeing Air . _ 19 1-4 Chrysler . _96 Curtiss-Wright . _ 6 1-8 Elec Boat . _ 15 1-4 Gen Motors_64 1-2 Pepsi Cola . _ 24 3-4 Greyhound Corp . _ 23 1-4 International Paper _ - 21 1-8 Nash Kelv.. 16 1-4 Glenn L Martin . _ 24 3-8 Newport Ind _ _ 19 1-4 N Y Central._. 25 Penn R R . 36 1-8 Radio Corp _ ._.. 12 Reynolds Tob B _ _ 33 5-8 Southern Railroad _ _ 36 Stand Oil N J . _.. 59 Sperry Corp _ _ 29 3-8 U S Rubber . . 54 5-8 U S Steel . . 62 1-2 Western Union __... 47 1-4 Youngstown S and T_41 3-4 MARKET REVIVES NEW YORK, Jan. 17—(JP)— Peace-rated specialty and indus-1 j trial issues led a general stock ; market revival today as Warsaw I fell and Russian troops extended i their drive toward Berlin. Moderately active at the start, the pace increased and passed that of Tuesday’s million-plus volume. A handful of radio equi ] ties provided the chief leadership. A sizable list of steel, rail, motor and rubber stocks also made gains I of fractions to more than a point. Bonds improved. Commodities were mixed. _ X. C. HOGS RALEIGH, Jan. 17. —{£>)— (NCD A)—Hog markets steady with tops of 14.40 at Clinton, 14.25 at Rocky Mount and 14.10 at Richmond. X. C. EGGS, POULTRY RALEIGH, Jan. 17.—fJP)—(NCD A)—Egg and poultry markets stea dy. Raleigh—U. S. grade AA 47; hens, all weights, 25 1-2. Washington—Not available at re lease time. BUTTER AND EGGS CHICAGO, Jan. 17. — UP)— But ter, firm; receipts 181,277. Eggs, receipts 10,383. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, Jan. 17—<£>,—Sal able hogs 15,000; total 26,000; market opened slow, later trade and general market fairly active, steaay; good and choice 180 lbs. and over at 14.75 ceiling; few good and choice 150-170 lbs. 14.25-14.65; sows steady at 14.00; complete clearance. Salable cattle 14,000; salable calves 800; total cattle 14,000; to tal calves 800; fed steers and yearl ings slow, steady; top 17.25; bulk 13.25-16.00; choice weighty steers 16.60; strictly good and choice steers very scarce; heifers weak, best 15^5; bulk fed heifers 13.00 14.50; cows in moderate supply, active, steady; bulls steady to weak; vealers scarce and firm; stock cattle fully steady at 10.50 13.00; largely fed steer and fed heifer run. Series Of Studies At Presbyterian Church Beginning tonight and every Wednesday night for the next sev eral weeks the Presbyterian church will conduct a series of studies on the philosophy of life. For the first few meetings the topics for discussion will be taken from the book, ‘‘In Search of Ma turity”, by Fritz Kunkel, which expresses a living design for peo ple in these troublesome times. The Rev. Walter L. Brown, patstor of the church, will be in charge of the meetings that will begin at 7:30 each Wednesday night. WANT ADS LOST: YELLOW JULY DOG, with V. O. Elmore name on col lar. Notify me and receive re ward. 3t I7p FOR SALE: ONE ARGUS CAN did Camera, like new, with lea ther case and film. One Camera No. 116 with film. See Robert Spangler at Lutz-Yelton Coal Co. 2t 17c FOR SALE: 82 1-2 ACRES ABOUT 9 miles east of Shelby, 2 houses, barn, plenty of outbuildings. All in good state of repair. 50 acres in cultivation. Good pasture. Plenty of wood. Price $4,000. Can give possession now. J. B. No lan Co. 2t 17c FOR SALE: 5 ROOM HOME. Good location. Price $4,000, with liberal terms. Immediate pos session. J. B. Nolan Cow it JJw MISS MAUNEY Starts On Fare One pital there and were returning home when the accident occurred. The automobile driven by Miss Wilson was owned by Burroughs and they were going below Patter son Springs to Miss Wilson’s home. Sgt. W. li. Hatcher, of the State Highway patrol was still investi gating the wreck today. As yet he has preferred no charges against the drivers. Miss Mauney, a graduate of Shelby High school, worked at Harry Saul’s service station, 1025 South La Fayette street. She is survived by her parents, five sis ters, Mrs. Harry Sauls, Mrs. Tur ner Costner, Misses Louise and Anne Mauney, all of Shelby; Miss Helen Mauney, of Greensboro; six brothers, Charles, Hugh, P. M. Mauney, Jr., Joe Billy, and Jimmy Mauney, all of Shelby. Funeral will be held Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at the Elizabeth Bap tist church of which Miss Mauney was a devoted member. Hites will be conducted by Rev. D. Boyd Can non, her pastor. HAVOC will be filled out later. Even the preliminary accounts bring out these startling points: 1. The pony showing of the enemy airforce, suggesting it lacks the diversified strength to spread out along the Asiatic shores while at the same time challenging the Superfortresses over Japan and attempting to Impede American invasion pro gress on Luson in the Philip pines; 2. The aerial belting given Nippon’s sorely needed oil tank ers and oil stores; and 3. The ability of Admiral Hal sey to roam the south China sea unchallenged by Japan's navy and unimpeded by her continental air power. In a back-and-forth sweep along more than 1,200 miles of the Asiatic coast from Amoy, South China, to Saigon, French Indo-China, since Jan. 8, the Third fleet air arm has sunk or damaged more than 300,000 tons of enemy shipping, knocked out more than 250 enemy planes S and smashed vital docks and de < fense installations. RETURNS HOME Fred Blanton has returned to his home in Alexandria, Va.. after coming especially to attend the fu neral of his uncle, L. A. Blanton of Zion. _ Dunmore's war was a war in 1774 | between the Indians and the whites | in Virginia HAMBURG Starts On Face One bombing strategy of breaking down Germany’s oil supply. The attacks touched off air raid sirens in Berlin. During the night assault the RAF dropped more than 6,000 tons of high explosives on three Ger man synthetic oil plants and the railway and industrial center of Magdeburg. In clearing afternoon skies, RAF Typhoons hit repeatedly at German communications feeding the enemy held ‘‘rocket coast” in northwest Holland. Pilots said rail lines were cut in 15 places south and southeast of Utrecht alone, 66 Nazi trans ports were destroyed and 41 damag ed, locomotives were hit, and nearly a dozen armored vehicles were de stroyed or damaged. British and American tactical air force planes flew 600 sorties. RAF Mosquitos strafed and bomb ed German billets in villages in the Sittard battle area in a sequel to the RAF night raids. u. s Starts On Pace One shipping for French use was reach ed after Monnet, a special repre sentative of the De Gaulle govern ment, conferred with Allied offi cials in London and Washington. Monnet had asked for sufficient ships to meet France’s import needs during the first six months of this year. "The governments of the United States and the United Kingdom fully understand the importance of this program,” the British state ment said. "It is in that spirit that the two governments have endorsed the French import pro gram for planning purposes and are giving the necessary instruc-: tions to their respective agencies I so that supplies may be readily available for shipment." SUPERFORTS Starfts On Page One in the home islands and Singa-, I pore on the tip of the Malaya Pen-1 insula have been hit. 40 MISSIONS The attack on Formosa round l ed out 40 missions by the twin ! bomber commands of the 20th air force since the initial strike last June 6 against Bangkok. B-29s 1 of the 21st bomber command nest in the Marianas. In a pageant of power these | mighty air fleets are pounding at ' every point within the perimeter of Hirohito's still extended realm. ' And General Lemav’s planes pos SPECIAL Starts On Page One commission, to be composed of tvo senators and two representatives, report back by February 1 or as soon thereafter as possible. Today’s sessions adjourned in memory of Lieut. Virginius B. Per ry, Jr., of Goldsboro, a nephew and foster son of Senator Tom O’Berry of Wayne. Lieut. Perry was killed in action in the Pacific. Senator Blythe of Mecklenburg introduced a bill to make records of juvenile courts available to the state board of charities and pub lic welfare, and to change the name of that board to ‘‘the state board of public welfare.“ AMENDMENT Both branches received measur es to amend tha general statutes to eliminate private examinations of married women in realty trans fers. The House passed a Senate bill to make former Legislator Walter P. Murphy of Salisbury a liaison officer between the House and Senate at $10 a day. The meas ure passed over the objection of Rep. Rountree of Gates, and now goes back to the Senate for con currence in amendment. Reps. Vogler of Mecklenburg j and Wallace of Lenoir sent up a bill to amend the law relative to the appointment of county boards of welfare, providing for stagger ed terms. Vogler also sent up another to permit the state board of charities and public welfare To inspect and license boarding hous es, rest or convalescent homes for the aged, mentally or physically infirmed. It relates to those places where at least two non relatives are housed. The Senate elected Robert Rasberry of Pitt county as read ing clerk. SPECIAL SERVICE A prayer meeting service will be j held at the Missionary Methodist church tonight beginning at seven | o'clock The purpose of the meet ! ing is a special prayer service for j | the men and women in the «rmed : I forces. _ The snake family ranges from grass snakes a few inches long to • 1 30-foot pythons. I sibly may lash out with increas- j j ing frequency as the result of new j methods of funnellng fuel to their China bases. , These planes, the air technical service command announced, now draw part of their fuel from gas oline flown “over the hump" by1 huge four-engined tankers. The j aerial tankers are stripped B-24 Liberators, and, said the ATSC, have by far the greatest fuel car rying capacity of any plane. 6-HOUR FIRE IN ASHEVILLE ASHEVILLE, Jan. 17. —(JP)— A six-hour fire early today left the J. J. Newberry store at 41-48 Pat ton Avenue almost a total loss. Approximate damage to Newberry and adjacent stores of M. V. Moore and Company and the Pollock Shoe Store is $125,000. Seven fire companies fought the Newberry fire from 12:30 to 6:30 a.m. The flames, believed to have originated at the back end of the long lunch counter, swept up an air vent to the upper floors. The Patton Avenue floor, the second floor and the stock room on the third floor were swept by the flames and water and smoke damaged all stock in the basement, A. A. Hubbell, man ager of the store, said today. HEARTENING MESSAGES By ZENO WALL Simple gospel truths from the heart of a gospel preacher fourteen brief devotional, ev angelistic, and inspirational sermons. 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