Bmlii Bfsmtirfi thirtieth year W1IIK KKItVICK OK TilK ASSOCIATED I'KKSS. HENDERSON, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 2G, 1D43 ,'L,!,-,s,i^^-.^l>N,^7KKXO,'N FIVE CENTS COPY New Naval Chief ^ ' rXSSX: FDR Hits at X J Mudslingers •* w * * ★ ★ ★ ★★★★ CCC Will Not Reduce Tobacco Allotments ADMIRAL Sir uohn El, D. Cunning* ham, 50, has been appointed new commander in chief of British naval forces in the Mediterranean, lie .succeeds his cousin, Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, who was recently named First Sea Lord of Great Britain. (intcrnalionoU House Body turns Down Tobacco Tax Liquor Levy Raised But Gasoline "Take" Is Not Increased Washington. Oct. 26—(A 1>) —The House Ways and Means Committee voted today to boost thi tax 011 liquor from $6 per jmIIoii to #8, but rejected all ptoposals for any increases in tot.acco or-gHRolirie levltes. Committee members estimated that under the increased liquor lax. 'he total levy on a drink of 100 pt.i.if liquor, estimating 80 drinks ' > tin- gallon, would approximate 12.5 cents. The tax would be small ci mi lower proof liquors. I'he tax training body also ap !•:■ >ved increases in taxes other al H'itolic beverages. Postwar Bill Wording To Be Specific Wellington, Oct. !!(>. — (AP) -- (' tics oi the Connally postwar po j y resolution sought today lo pin d"wn strong interpretations of the language as a guide lo the President r. peace negotiations. This appeared to be the strategy <•! the bloc oi at least I it senators fac overwhelming opposition to sit t' it pis at willing into the resolution demand for use of military forces i'j. iinst aggressors. Senator Hatch (N. Mex., I).) told r< porter.-, he believed the group had ii arte progress in narrowing the in t'i prctations that might be placed 'in a portion of the resolution pro viding: "That the United States, acting through its constitutional processes, join with free and soverign nations mi the establishment and mainten ance of international authority with | ovver to prevent aggression and to I eM'ive the peace of the world." army promotions are made public Washington. Oct. 20.—(AP)—'The »»ar Department today announced sonic temporary promotions of offi cers. appointments of officers, and orders directing newly appointed of ficers to report for duty. Included in promotions were: William Randolph Liles. CAC. 203 Aorth Virginia Street. Ooldsboio, 1., from second to first lieutenant. Labor Board Riding For Miners Awaited Washington. October 26—(AP)— With more than 45,000 soft coul "uncrs si ill on strike in eight states. u war Labor Board decision on a Proposed wage contract was an im *nV.j!,!c P"s:obility today. C nairman William H. Davis fin ished » tentative opinion for sub mission to the entire board at re sumption of (hp conferences today. Meantime, the "no contract, no 1 attitude "f mi ug river, 175 miles to the west. Front dispatches indicated that the badly mauled Nazi forces were waging desperate but futile rear guard battles along a 200 mile front from Kremcnehug south to the Sea of A/.ov, intent only on saving as much ns possible from what may prove to be the greatest German disaster since Stalingrad. The German retreat, acceler ated by the Russians' capture of the industrial city of Dneprope trovsk in the great Dnieper ItciuI yesterday, was bluntly charac terized by a Russian communi que as "disordered." It yield ed "enormous quantities" of war material abandoned by the Nazis. Thousands of Germans were reported killed in fierce fighting on the flat I'krainian steppes above the Crimea. (London dispatches, asked on Moscow advices and admissions of danger emanating from Berlin broadcasts, estimated there were perhaps one million Germans in volved in the mass retreat across the Ukraine. (Indicative of Russian offensive strength in the far north, the Po lish telegraph agency in London quoted underground sources as say ing that the Germans have already mined Lwow in southeastern Poland, ready fo blow it tn ruins in the event of a Russian breakthrough on the While Russian front.) Russian columns are battering at '•he gales of Krivoi Rog. where front dispatches said the 23rd German tank division had been travped and spearheads of the Fourth army were racing through Melitopol toward Ihe Crimea, shattering an enemy de fense line based on the Melitopol Crimea railway enroute. The Red air force, masters of the Ukrainian «:i\ies. were blasting the disorgan ized Nazis over the entire front. $.S() Million For Bond Advertising Receives Approval Washington. Oct. 20— (AP)—The Senate Banking committee approv ed today by a vote of II to ."> the Hank head bill authorizing the Treas ury to spend up I" $30,000,000 an nually for war bond advertising in newspapers. Only one minor amendment, pro viding that the advertising be plac ed at prevailing space rates, was inserted in the bill. Senator Bankhead (IX. Ala..) said he would seek to call the bill up for consideration fo the full Senate [ ' •.yiMiottl | Jap Bases In New Guinea Ripped By U. S. Bombers 1 South Pacific Headquarters, Oct. | 2G.—(AP)—A 1711-ton bombardment j of Tahiti airfield has left tlint Bougainville island air base piaeti | crJIy useless t<> ihi- Japanese for the ; present, a spokesman for Admiral William F. Halse.v. Jr.. said today. This spokesman said the last of three savage smashes on October 22 I showed Tahili inoperative. Large j bomb craters had not been yet re ' paired and planes were unable to use i the landing lield. I Three raids on Tahiii and a fourth against nearby Kara field were car ried out in lightning fashion over a [ tour-hour period on October 22 by | Mights of Liberators, Avengers and | Dauntless bombeis with tighter es corts Mown by the Army, Navy, Ma rine and New Zealand pilots. Bougainville, top rung of tliu [ Solomons ladder, is tin1 last remain ing major stronghold for the Japan ese in that area. The last semi-offi cial estimates placed 40,0t)ti enemy troops on the island. WA VK-SK I.MMING MITC1IKLLS EMPLOYING Ni:\V TECIINIQI K Somewhere in New Guniea. Oct. 2G. —(AP)— Wave-skimming Mit chells have Rabaul's number. I Today these medium bombers did I just what they had done October 12 and 18—completely bewildered the? anti-aircraft and fighter plane d" ! fense of the Japanese at their Now : Britain stronghold '»y going in low i Fathers May Be Put At The Bottom Washington, Oct. 2G—(AP! — I The House got its Ion*, awaited fline at father-draft deferment legislation today. Indications were It would, lty nightfall, pass a bill to put hus bands and fathers at the bottom of Major General Lewis B. Iler shey in administration of the Selective Service law. Up for action was a rewritten version of the measure on this sub ject which the Senate passed sev eral weeks ago when the upper chamber rejected proposals for an outright ban un general father | drafting. Opening debate on the House ver sion. Chairman May (Ky.. 1).) ol i the Military Committee which did i the revamping, asserted the legis lation was necessary 'rto preserve the homes of this nation, which a if the foundation of our society nnc the bulwark of our home fron' fort." and fast. S> swiftly did one wave or Mit chells sweep across the airdrome tn.ii they had set lire to the ltd enemy medium bombers caught on the ground before two Jap lighters managed to intercept. The second wave snved destruc tion with more than a hundred luo pound bombers. Kleven Nipponese fighters, unable to gut aloft, were cut up by the tracers of the third wave of Mitchells. Raiding pilots whose crew tin ed in exceptional performances included Lt. Donald J. Gibb. Minneapolis, whose wife lives at 711 East Mul berry, Ctoldsboro, N. C. Leaf Sales May Resume By Monday lialcigh. (let. L'(l (AIM The to bacco market holiday thw week will be observed as planned, rven though prices for lowci grades jumped a> much as seven cents .1 pound. Governor liroughton made this statement last night. He said the suspension ol selling tomorrow. Thursday and Kriday would as scheduled, no matter how much the prices ascended. lie said 1 tie recess could be used by rcdrying plants to remove from warehouse floors lobacco already sold. liroughton expressed hope that "we will receive such assurances from Washington that we will be able to n-open the markets Monday." ' He said he had telegraphed North Carolina Congressmen ol the action taken l>y him and Governor Colgate W. Dardeii of Virginia Saturday and asked them to contact the proper of ficials and "insist that proper steps be taken in line with assurances ; made earlier (that prices would be j upheld)." THANKSGIVING MENU! ! Washington. Oct. Ifi—(AIM — On TliauKskiving Day. the army will be fed: Fruit cup. roast turkey with dressings, cranberry sauce, mush ed potatoes, buttered peas. corn, tomato and lettuce salad, cel ery. pickles, pumpkin pie. ap ples, crapes, candy, nuts anil I coffec. The War Department, an nouncing the menu today, said every effort would he made to f- provide these courses even in <|l" ronit-.ll ritW), Says Draft Deferments ! Given Only 3.2 Percent President Denies Gove For Slackers; Cites Fi Washington. Oct. 20—(A I "mud sliliters" who have In-en lor drafl-dodjrers and slackers, that only :',.2 percent of the nt employees of the jrovernment I Allies Gain Road North j . German Opposition Vanishes Overnight; Yugoslavia Bombed Allied Headquarters, Aljriers, Oct. 26—(AP)—Allied armies in Italy have captured eijrht more towns in advances up to lour to five miles, it was an nounced today, and German op position on the Fifth Army i front vanished as the Nazis ap 1 parentl.v fell hackee new posi ! tions. Lt. Gen. Clark's Filth Army seiz ' cd Knviscania only 15 mile- sou til of the large transport city ol lser niii. and an Eighth Army ci.luit.n striking up I mm the southeast took i Objano. some 15 miles from isernia. The Fifth Army gained lour to five mill's in taking Ravis eania I!) miles north of Capua, and also took the (own of tYaii ciilise. two and half miles west of captured Sparanise. Four other towns besides Oli j.tno fell to the British. and Isernia. a key point in German supply, was being threatened l>> both armies from the south and , southeast. Official information in>m t !io I rout confirmed an earlier loivcrst that the Germans are preparing a ■ ii.ai'H" stand along a line trom Mon dragone on the west const nu.th cistward through Vcnatro and then i'ii"s> Italy lo the area ol Va.-to on r tin- Adriatic. , I: wa> disclosed today that the i bridgehead gained :>> the Eighth Army across the Trigno river was near the mouth of that stream, only seven miles below Ya-to. Alarmed by the success oi ,ln British in that crossing, the Nazis concentrated artillery there and lai.i clown very heavy shell l ie on the British front. Hammering out again at the Germans in Yugoslavia. I . S. bombers, escorted by Lightnings, struck at the airfield at Podgo rica. '!0 miles inland from the roast and not far from the Al banian border. The ^Lightnings went over tirst. destroying several grounded planes and damaging hanger- and motoi trail-port. Two merchant ships to taling K.iiui) tons were attacked oM tile Yugoslav coast In Italy. Allied .• Heels striki'v. over the battle area destroyed more than 40 trucks, two locomotives and some tank and treight cars. WtAIIIIR FOR NORTH CAROLINA Continued rattier cold east portion this afternoon and to nkhl. Possibly light rain or drizzle. rnment Is Haven gures on Issue )—Answering what lie termed L-alliiiK the jrovernnient a haven President Itonscvelt said today arly ."..OOO.UOti full-time civilian ad received occupational defer ments. To Vice Provident Wallace anct Speaker Hayburn. for reading to the Serate and H«>usc. the President sent a ^.700-\v«»rd letter <>!' rebut tal to what ho termed "groundless charges" aril "irresponsible ru mors." Many of these charges came trmn congressmen during arguments over the drafting of pre-Pear I Har bor lathers. These "unfair accusations must be emphatically denied." Mr. .Roosevelt aserted. Here a;v some of the fig ures he used tu back up hi* denial: Permanent full time employ ees of (lie government, both men anil women. 2.980.104. of whom 2.825.90 1 are in continen tal tinted Stales—as of July 31. Of those in the I niteil States. 1.952.700 work for the War and Navy Departments, anil about XI.000 have hen Riven occupa tional (lefcreincnts. The Post Oi l ice Department, the next largst employee, has 315,741 worker., o| whom only (51—all postal inspectors—have been deferred. In all other government agencies, 1 men have been granted oc cupational deferements. The total occupational determents is 98.053. In addition, there are 2.0(13 uni tormed personnel in the war ship ping administration'.; training or ganization and 14.050 cadets in the training organization's school:* who 'lave been deferred, but the Presi dent said these men are not "really ■>art of the civilian establishment of the govervmenl." Mr. KooseveTf asserted that standards of deferment of gov ernment workers are stricter than in private industry. I'n like a government employee, a privalelx employed individual may request his own deferment even though his employer dors not do so. Ik saiil dralt age men in the War mil Navy Departments are being 'released constantly" lor military service and are being replaced in iccordance with .replacement sched ule,-. The record, he said, is much letter than the occupational defer ments in private enterprise. FDR BETTER AFTER SPELL OF GRIPPE Washington. Oct. J(i. (AIM — "•resilient Roosevelt who has had he grippe since last Friday, was re inrtcd hv White House aides today o be "feeling a good deal better." Germans Lose Slav Center !.ondon. Oct. 36—(AIM—Ger man forces lost their last heavy industry center in Bosnia today when Yugoslav partisans cap tured the steel manufacturing cit> of Va res- May da n, a com munique of the Yugoslav na tional Ihieration army announc ed today. The cil> fell (o the guerilla warriors or General Tito after a fierce twelve-hour battle, the rontmuniiiue. broadcast by (lie Free Vugoslav radio said. Ger man losses in men and material were heavy, the bulletin added. Two nearby railway stations were also destroyed. Three-Power Accord Is Framed At Moscow i — Mfwirtv. Oct. 2(i. (AP) The t luce-power conference mnvnl into Ms eighth .session tod;iv. following ;i lengthv meeting liisi night of the diplomatic technicians who arc train ing the decisions arrived at by II. S. Secretary or State Cnrdcll I lull. Hrit Mi Foreign Secretary Anthony F.dcn and Soviet Foreign ('oinniissar Moli • ov. The job of the experts was said !•> be < .\ce«jiliij^lv .lifUMilt iti * 'nils' Wi'ith the value <>l the Word*** which have passed between the three "talesmen, it was explained, deter mine the meaning i.r the agreements they have reached and then commit, the decisions to cold type. The Hull-Edcn-Molit'ov talks were reported to be going along excellent ly with all parties pleased with the progress. Yesterday's session follow ed a meeting k'.vinii Hull and So viet Premier Josef Stalin ,,r wind. .vr< m • -i v.