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Uiraud Declares
No United French
Move Agreed Upon
'Question of Politics'
Not Taken Up in Talk
With deGaulle, French
Commissioner Says
Allied Headquarters in North
Africa. Jan. 2!)—(Ar)—Gen
eral llonri Giraud declared to
day that there were no pros
pects of any single united French
movement at the present time
and that the only agreement be
tween himself and General
Charles de Gaulle would l»e one
"of linison on military, econom
ic and financial matters."
Giraud. high commissioner for
Frcnrli North anil West Africa. !
told a press conference that he
had not taken tip "the iiuestion
nf politics" with the leader of '
the I iylitini; French when the |
two were brought together :lnr- i
ilie (he Koosevelt t l'iechill con
ference at Casablanca.
"There is n > queM V • .•! a -in-.-. •
imiterl French movement tlimiiKlmiit |
the world :>l the pre.-ent time." he
siiri.
"We sire eMablishini* a permanent
lini-on mi critical economic and null ;
tary questions." j
Solons Back
Legion Head^
Post-War Planning
Is Premature, May
Occasion Dissent,
Stewart Points Out
Bv (IIAKI.FS I'. STF.WART
Cetitiii! Pie.-s Columnist
Wellington. Jan. 2B— American!
I.ed •■-. I'oir.mandor Hd.iiu- Waring's
warning that nmv's too soon for the
I'nited Nations' leaders to l>e dis
fu.-Viiit post-war pi.m.- i- t hiding a
dela : ipport in congressional cir
cle-. the ground that we'll do a
In", hotter to concent rati- HMI per
rent apon a guarantee ot "absolute
victory" as soon as possible than to
di-tract our attention with argu
ments concerning ultimate peace- j
bargaining.
C"i .ander Waring, in particular,
i: ade ureal hit with his declaration
lii't what's com inn will have to be
;« "fl:ctat«d" rather than a "negnti
olid-' peace.
K\ eiylmdy understood what that
meant that the I'nited Nations will
tin the dictat ing, with the axis pow
ers denied the right to a .-initio chirp j
<■11 ;i ncgotiational basis. From that ,
the-i.- there is no dissent.
The difficulty, however, is that the
I'nited Nations' spokesmen are likely |
to have considerable negotiating to
d'i amone themselves. If they Ret i
into a premature wrangle involving
their own respective countries' ulti
mate policies, it will tend to dis
unite their joint military effort while
the fight rages.
Having won. as Senator Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana remarks, it will
l>e the permissible juncture for us
to disagree as to the balance of
eternity.
1 have previously had occasion t"
observe thai Uncle Sam and John
Hull can't imaginably clash for a
l"ng. long lime, hut the U. S. A. and
I'ussia may be on precarious terms
f"r quite a spell after the current
rumpus wears off. Their rival phi
losophies are too conflicting. Sen
ator Wheeler says so also.
What About China?
And China? C'hiank Kai-Shek
seems democratic, but how* long will
be last? His civilized folk are won
derful people, but how generally are
tboy civilized?
Senator C. M. Heed of Iowa is
authority for ihe contention that it's
» "damned sight better to win the
war than to start discussing peace."
I be proposition is that, if the lnt
tcr's overly early, it simply
Will I Ms I, A Y peace.
Ihe issue isn't solely international,
either.
( hairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of
'be United Stales Social Security
!«>ard maintains that now is Ihe
'deal moment to establish an eco
''""'ic t'topia in our own land -no
nv»ie hard times ever again, no more
"''.employment, no more family hard
*n i p.
''resident Waller I). Fuller of the
v i.rlis Publishing company gives
(Continued on Page Two)
Draftee 'Pool'
To Supply
All Services
Washington. Jan. 2!).—(AIM—
The Army. Navy. Marino Corps
and Coast Ciuard will draw <>ii a
draltce '"pool" hereafter to till
their requirements.
Tlio now system, annonnood t>y
selective service head(|iiartors,
is effective Monday. While the
dialled men cannot be certain
which branch of the service will
claim them, selective service oi
fieials said, individual preference
will bo given "the fullest con
sideration practicable."
A single set of physical stand
ards tor jnduHtces, somewhat
higher than at present, has been
adopted and each sorvice will
notify national selective head
quarters how many men will be
needed during a certain month,
for example.
Kach slate and local draft
board will be given a quota and
draftees will report to an induc
tion station and an assignment
board for designation to one of
the services.
RAF Fliers
Pound Akyab
Now Delhi. Jan. 2!).—(AP>—HAF
fliers are continuing their pounding
>>l Akyab island, the British declared
today, with two night raids and a
sci les o! day raids noted in a com
munique on action 111 western Bur
ma.
Bombers attacked objectives on the
island Wednesday night, bombers
and lighters swept over the area ye.—
tcrdav and again last night tnc
Akyab /.one was raided, the Britisu
reported.
Of land ;ction. the war bulletin
reported only that the usual patrois
were conducted along the Arakan
coast, which is north of Akyab.
SURVEYORS ELECT
INSCOE PRESIDENT
Raleigh, Jan. 29.— (AI •» —The
North Carolina Society of Surveyors
at their annual meeting i<t X. C.
State College elected I'. I{. In.-coe of
Castalia president.
TOMLINSON DIES
AT HIGH POINT
High Point. Jan. 29.—(AIM-Char
les F. Tomlinson. 71. a pioneer in the
southern furniture manufacturing
industry, died here yesterday.
WISCONSIN PRISON
BREAK FRUSTRATED
Waupun, Wis.. Jan. 2JI. (AP)—
Straight-shooting tower guards kill
ed one man and wounded two oth
ers today to frustrate the attempt
ed escape <>l four young convicts from
the Wisconsin state prison at Wau
pun.
The fourth man escaped injury and
Rot over the 22-foot west wall but
was tracked to a private garage four
blocks from the penitentiary. Guard*
found him hiding under an auto
mobile.
MISTORIC MEETING IN AFRICA OF ALLIED CHIEFS
HEFE IS ARTIST PAUL FREHM'S impression of the momentous ten-day
conference held at Casablanca, Africa, in which President Franklin D.
Hooscvelt, Winston Churchill, Gen. Charles DeGaulle, and Gen. Henri
Giraud drew up plans for world-wide offensives against tlie Axis.
L. to r.: President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Chun hill, DcGuulle,
and Giraud. The French leaders arc shown cla.sping hands iirinly.
Lend-Lease Accounting Is Expected
State Guard
Bill Offered
Appropriation Asked
For Encampment,
Equipment and More
State Guard Units
Kalrigh. Jan. "J!1—(AIM—Hills
l<> finance a summer encamp
ment of llu* Slate Guard, tii pro
vide all (he men with equipment
and to increase the number of
units from 4'! to 51 were intro
duced today by Senator Farthing
of H'atauira and Representative
C'avoness of Guilford.
Requested by Adjutant CJeneral I
Van n Melts, the :%ia.siirc> would
appropriate S3.800 for the nine ad
ditinna! units. Si 1 Ji.JUi 1.!».» l.>: c(|U'|>
incut iind .<1 (13.34!). 12 for a tcn-da.v
encampment.
■ In addition. Cavenrss would au
thorize th(> iim' of .schi-ol l>u-.-es t >
carry tile State or Xation.il Guard
to places of encampment.
General Melts. who appeared »e
fore a legislative committee several
days ago. said that the Gua.'d was
responsible now for certain type of |
civilian protection, since the Na
tional Guard had been called into)
service. Additonal units, further
training and ■ it• <• i. In s.ni. ee
vitally needed and would p-ove their
worth in cases of emergency or dis
aster.
A measure similar to one intro
duced in the Iloti.-e yesterday would
provide scholar-hips lor children of
disabled or deceased veterans of any
world war. Should more than 15
apply, the Vetera1 - \<l 1 inMralioi
would select the la t" eceive the
scholarships to any State educational
institution. The s. • ite bill v i- b.v
Taylor of Anson Cherry »! Gaston,
and Rlythc of Meeklenlviru.
State Mental Hospitals Ask
Increase In Appropriations
Daily Disputed niirrau,
In thr Sir Walter Hotel,
n.v LYNX MSRKT.
Raleigh. .liin. Ufl.—SI;«ic? hospitals
for mental patients had their day
before the joint appropriation com
mittee Thursday and aggregate re
quests exceeded by nearly a half
million dollars the amounts recom
mended by the advisory budget com
mission. and Ihese recommendations
were approximately one million, one
hundred thousand dollars above ex
pendilures for the current biennlum.
The (Joldsboro hospital for color
ed patients reported that it could get
along on budget recommendations,
some $200,000 over present spend
ing. The other three institutions ask
ed fnr ubstjnfia! incrcasct.
Th* Raleigh h<>spital showed need
for tin additional $.11)2,11119 for i:n»
two-year period Ixmnnmi: nest .Inly:
Morgnnton nerds ;m iihknisc oi
$115.(1(14 nvei Hie amount suugeHled
by the budiirteer . iinH CiiMvell
Training School ;isk for $22,103.
These request-. made to Hie joint
appropriation* committee, are in in
most everv instance identical wilh
those filer) with the .itlvisoiy bud
Kef ruinnit "m l:i t I.ill. lull which
thi- commM-i'-n d< rimed I" approve.
II. (i. Devion. .< i-iitnf diree'or of
the budget. \\;»- :>nl on the .-pot sev
eral limes durini: the braiing to
explain why the ref|ue.-ls were nol
granted. One <•! I he most brisk of
the interchanges came when Sen
ator Eugene Brook* of Durham,
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I Withdrawal
Of Nomination
Is Suggested
Washington, Jan. 2!).— (APj
Senntor Van Nuys. Indiana Demo
11 at. added his proposal today that
Kdward .1. Klynn end a bitter Senate
controveisy nvcr his appointment a.s
minister to Australia i»y requesting
I'rosidonl ISoosovelt 1o withdraw his
name from consideration.
Van Nuys. who voted against
Klynn in the Senate foreign relation;;
committee in what lie >aid was a pro
lost against the submission ol con
troveisial nomination^ in wartime,
told reporters he believed the with
drawal of Klynn's name would be a
"very wholesome solution" to a sit
uation which had found the Senate
ihnost eciually divided on the ques
tion ot confirmation.
"The people believe that Mr. Klynn
i.- a ISronx. Tammany politician who
is not qualified I •' the important
post as mini 'or I" Australia." Van
N'ltys declared. "Whether that is true
or not, this is it" time to plunge the
Senate into controversy, when any
of a dozen well qualified men couia
tie conlMined without a dissenting
Stock Market
Does Little
New York. Jan. 'JO—(AIM—Spe- j
ciali/.ed strength on.ained in today's!
stock market although many leaders!
acted as though they needed a rest
after an alino-i interrupted recov
ery extending over nearly nine
months.
Honds and commodilies were I
steady.
Cotton Prices
Are Higher
New York. Jan 29—(AP)—Cot
ton futures opened a to 25 cents a
bale higher.
Noon values were 2" I" 55 cent a
Kale higher. March lfi.7fi.-May 19.561
and July 10.44.
WEATHER.
FOR NORTH CAROMNA.
blifrhtly lower tempfrdture to
night.
ute.'
October
l>reeniber
January
March
Ma v
July
Previous Today's
Close Open
lofi.'i io 7n
10 17 1050
. 10.33 10.30
10 13 10.11
10,10 1011
mots i o.ok
Stettinius
Declares Aid
Speeds Drive
| Washington, .fail. 29.—(AIM —
j American lend-lease aid lias
made the British Isles "an im
pregnable base for offensive op
erations." Kdward H. Stettinius
told Congress today.
Htettinius. lend-lease adminis
trator. asked continuance o!
lend-lease aid until July. Mill.
In testimony betore the House1
foreign affairs committee. Stettinius
.♦aid ;i large part ot the north African '
campaign and the Middle Ka.-t. Ital
ian Africa. Syria and Madagascar i
offensives stemmed from the British
Isles.
He related thai the program was
resulting in supply by other Unite'!
Nations of food. M unitions. servi<
barracks and transportation to I'mt
ed States troops -tatioued in ti
as well as making American weapon*
of war available to Hritain. China.
Russia and this nation's other aim
Canned Milk
Into State
Raleigh, Jan. 20.—(AIM—C. Ilill
nian Moody. state super1 is. r
distribution for the Depart':
Agriculture, said today ih.it 4 . m
cases of condensed milk i\' u/i <
min ed into six North Carol:*! i .
where critical shortages e\
Moody sai<l the -Inpini'iit-*
Ho to Charlotte. Wilniiim'' • -
ston. New Bern. Kli/.abeth i'-'\ ; nd
Kayettevllle. He said tha'
iiad developed in these an
of rapid population increa <
inn from either milit.ey "i ■ - ,
trial concentrations.
Extension
In Prospect
Stettinius Appears
Before Committee;
Showdown on Labor
Looms; Other News
\Vasiiiiigt»:i. .Ian. ''!!—(AP> —
A detailed aciiiunling of (he bil
lions expended in lend-lease ap
prarcil assured today oven as
Ciiii;ir>s started machinery to
kct'ii tin* program going another
.v ra r.
\\ Ink- tin' capil'l road witIt m
:< : i'm iln now s President Roose
i !t - iniit Idi-d v;.-i! lo Liberia and
i; t. ■ . i hi. in.- u..v home Irom I lie
ith A i-;: ' \v;i: culileiviiitj. the
llui ■ ifivmu .illjiir.- committee
hi :• c(i k'lin i ;-i- Administrator
I'.iv. ;::ri II. Stetl:ITlli.>. Jr.. for cpies
!' ■ .: 114 "ii '|*i■ ■ nl't'iis u! the wartime
net.
\ show (low n on labor's
strength in the new Congress
also k impending. Congres
<.ioo.il re:>rlion to a bill subject
ing labor groups to penalties of
the l!i::t anti-racketeering aet by
broadening: (lie definitions of
rubber* and extortion is expect
ed tn indicate whether sharp
re\ i ion of labor laws is in the
oiling.
Mr lime. Ciiiigrnt studied two
■ n1 developments — a
r'.« recoinmenda
li;;:l Kdwnrd Kl.vnn end a
• • Si njite i Miiriiversy by request -
,il <<i his nomination as
in!- -lev t<> Atisi: alia, and an at
c i \ in-' eonures^men to force
i' ■ lent ■ l»a«'U down on Jus
■n: .iii on Pa»te Three.)
American Forces in Solomons 1
Score in Attacks on Japanese j]
Washington, -l.it. -!• (AP> In
two riirimis day.- i>t >mitt:in 1 •
Solomon islands. the N.ivv rep" i< i
today, American fortes ((.imaged tw<>
Japanese carpi.' >-lii|>-. t\v> destri.vc
and a tanker, destroyed ten eti"i >
planes and killed 3f> •' p.mese ti'">p.
in operation}; which resulted in I
capture ot an enemy command
post.
One of the cargo ship- which wa
damaged probably -.ink. Four
American planes were repoitrd
missing.
Navy conimpnirc'e No.
"South Pacific:
"On January 27ih. ground opera
tions on Guadalcanal islfind resulted
in the capture of a large well c.~t.»b
lished enemy eajwmand p'>t Thirty
six Japanese were killed aild thiee
and ;i 1,|| amount <>f |
i ■ in1 .rod in other see- ,
i< U 1*1 - ci| enemy icsisl- ]
aim wei i \vi|>e(l out.
I'm i,; Hie i< urninj;. r.emy Hive
lier«. r.xeovieH hv fighter*. h|i
• i i d (; i.ui ilc- i'.il U. S Ii^hl |
• - ;j;ino<l tin- enemy plane* mid,,
m<i>ni|)l(t( repMit' iudirate lfi.il ninej,
Zei vi re rir-Iroyed'and ix others]
pr ' v 1 -vert The enemy |,
i i liriribf. Four; |
I" S pi,lues in'" mifsin.C. ,]
\ f • m () I'll boniber* with i j
i fichln i I.- t 1>iiti'be<1 installation!:
• Ko|on>l«,i"i;.ir;i i 'and in the New 11
Georgia group. A larce fire was I j
started li
Dm the evening a force of,.
(C om —ied <->n Page Three)
Soviets Gain
Of 45 Miles
Is Reported
Hitler' Army Losses
Since November 19
Estimated at More
Than Napoleon's
(HiI Tin Asxitci'tit 11 I'n.*.<)
Russia's triumphant armies,
crashing into the middle of the
German tront between Aloscow
and Rostov, reported today they
had buckled the nazi defense-in
depth system lor a gain of
twelve and one half miles, killed
o.OOO axis troops, captured 6,
000 prisoners, and advanced
within 7o miles of the key Gor
man hase at Kursk.
The thrust represented a to
tal advance of 45 miles from
Voronezh, which the Ru.--ian
announced they had recaptured
two <lays ago.
Simultaneously. a Moscow
broadcast declared thai the t;cr
niaiis had suffered greater cas
ualties since the Kussian offen
sive began November 1!) than tlir
whole of Napoleon's ill-faled
Krand army whi'-li invade:l czar- v
ist Kussia in tSl'I.
Napoleon led fi'j'iiwi French. C'.ei
man and Italian tro .ps into !!ii-m;i
in late June and only lOft.OOt) e-caped
after the- bloody rctie.it back across
the .snow le-s than six months later.
While the Russians battered Hit
ler's invasion forces into retreat in
many sectors. (leneral Sir IV L.
Montgomery's British eighth atuiy
pressed it.- pni'siiii of axis rear guards
in the northwest corner of Libya.
A bulletin from British general
headquarters -aid eighth jinny van
guards had reached iiie \ jc.n iv «i!
Zuara. t>5 miles west of fallen Trip
oli, after an advance of 20-odd miles.
Meanwhile. persistent axis
broadcasts indicated that Lieu
tenant General Dwiglit I). Eisen
hower's armies had either al
ready launched an offensive or
were imminently preparing to
strike. For the moment, how
ever. allied headquarters in
north Africa cave no inkling of
its plans.
An Italian communique aeknowl
sdged heavy allied aerial blows
igainst both Italy and axis position
'_ Tuni-ia. including destructive
raids on Slax in Tunisia and Pa
lermo province and Syracuse in Sic
ily. The high command listed 21
silled and ."4 injured in these wide
spread attack-.
I>"Patclu-- fri>i); ;'I!it rj headquar
ers -aid the twelfth t'. S air force
iclive-cd it.- heaviest attack of the
.var yesterday in a four-wave assault
•n Sfax. leaving many tires raging
n the axis supply port.
"The number ot planes ti-ed wa
hc largest the ivvelltb air (orce had
>vcr -enl against a single target."
in official spokesman said.
Six axis plane.- were shot down
vhen they ro-e t< • challenge the
•aiders, which included Fly ng Fori
esse.-. Hilly Mitchell and M naudei
ncdium bombers, and Lightning
ighters.
STATE INCOME TAX
COLLECTIONS SOAR
Raleigh. J;in. 2fl—(APt — W.rtli
i"'"'"ia income inx rollccti>.ii:
mounted to from f
!>42. to January 2::. |<i |:i. Uovrnii,'
'omniissioner ICdwin Oil! reported
•"»>' Tin1 total was nmrp than $2,
(10.00(1 i.vcr collections I<.1 nu» same
wind 1«ist yc»ar.
Vegro Rapist
Is Executed
Kaleitfh, .Ian, 20. (At')-- Sam
lairston. Nemo, who said that
whisky was the cause of it all" Hied
11 the «as chair,bet today 1 • >1 raping
52-year <>1(1 white woman 111 For
yth county in February. 1042
The execution, the 25<>th in C'en
ral prison .md the 15th tor ra:>o,
ras wllnw*t(l lij i\ Icgbtotori, fi\c
if them physicians.
llairston. after a pood night'*
leep and a hearty brea'<tast. died
11 nine minute Mid 15 seconds. He
treathed deeply <>f the deadly vapor
md there was little Mrimule.
The Negro told Pri.-on Chaplain
j. A Watts (hut he could not undci
land why his sentence was not com
nuted to lile imprisonment 111 view
>f a petition signed by ;i number of
rorsyth county citizen;, and the wo
nan he raped.