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HENDERSON, NORTH
CAROLINA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER l}>43
1*1" Itt.lSI 11 •; I» KVKIIY AKTISHKOON I.MV'I." li'viv n, .....
KXfKI'T SI NI.AV. 1 I \ L ( h.\ | .S ( ( Jl»\
GIVE IN
OR DIE'
ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY
AS GRIPSHOLM.ENDED VOYAGE
€ ' rf •
9P.iN3ING 0. S. REPATRIATES from Japanese concentration camps, t'n;
Swedish liner Grips'tolm moves up New York bay toward a Jersey 1'ity
tlrck. Among the 1,230 passengers were 221 Canadians. AI! were exchanged
lor on equal number r! J inoncse. ' int'riuiliouul)
Congress Is Told
$ IBillion Cost
Of 1944 Subsidies
Kitty Hawk
Pians Feature
Aviation Show
!• ■!• 1. 1 > e. (AIM Member.-; ]
'■ ■ ■ • : 111it11|«|iit<*(! I\v C ivi
'.i Hi I /plan lo. the re|io|
Kitty ll.iwl; I lay at Kill
! ilill >'ii I leeemher IT. told Hit*
ll<» ■'i ii*i' t'Klny that probably ili«• •
! . • ! .'ImiW <•! aviation thiii 1.• 11•
i l.i."V. ii will take plaee and Hi.it
ll I.Ii;ll tllllei.,1 nl i'.ov eminent I
ai.ii .1.1.111<'ii imlii-try would at-'
irnd.
I • 'i:;r« ■'n an Herbert K--niiei.
i in m • ' the <• in.itiitl-i:d that
C . 1 a! II. !!. Arnold, dud ot the
. air toive, would attend and
< Hi. pi meipal addn . N. providnu
military duties did not inter.
(. i v.
\ | . e\ Ii w o! the pi "m ain will !>■•
hi- i Ironi Kiil llevil Mill on
a n ition-wide radio hook-up troni
!i'i.i to !l:.iii a. in., on the inoiiunu
• ' I It < einlx-r IV. and hemnninu at
II hi,, thi main program will We
r 'lied o.i a . tatew ide broadcast.
I'l.an oi Hit Civil Air Patrol, ilr.'
-ii • liiivy, iliul Marine Air Corp#
Will par' leipato in ll»« eeirhi ati"it.
I'toniK r aid. Tin- CAI'. am y and
ii---. y .mi inn will fni iii. Ii Iran |«-i Ia•
i 'it lo ami 11 •■in the site lor the
\ i 'Imi; di|:ni'.ii M >.
Many mil lit ,-iati- v i. itoi will ■ l'n
n t'i W.i hiliKlon |o|- a t eoiul
i ' lei'iahoii eoinliieiiioiaiini: the
Wrij:lit liiolh' i-' In. t Ihulit. later n
III' ll-iv. ( io\ »TI|o|- l.lolluhl 'll lllll
liepri .entalive Homier will Hy
Wa lnn-;l"ii for that eelehiation.
Administration Says
Subsidies Necessary
To Avoid Inflation
Washington, Dec. — (AI')
—Tin- administration heltl out
to Conjjrcss today the choice
hot ween paying out
Ouii in subsidies to keep down
retail food prices throuirh 1U I I
or running the risk • >1' touching
oft" inflationary price ami wa^v
rises.
Tli.it estimate i)l' (lie cosl of
ri.iitinuiiiK final luicr controls
■it*\I year was laid before the
Senate Mankind Contmillee ol
the Office of Trite Admini-traliou.
and it was generally regarded
as the administration's
answer to congressional demands
tor a specific ceiling on
subsidy outlays, ur abolition of
the altogether.
1'ifiiiocralie leaders were !»•)•' ted
al -> preparing t«> olfer tin; hostile
farm bloc an amendment t • the
I louse-approved subsidy repeal bill
which would place a delinite time
limitation o:i the payments. Thus
tar, however, larnt slate senators
opposed to subs 'I os h e spi.rnecl
compromise talk and predict the
Senate will "o a loiiy with the Ihui o
and vote to end them January 1.
I". Carroll, chief of the and
price section ol tli«- (>l'.\. mad? the
•v.tiuia'e that would
! »• needed lor stilv-idit s it price- .ire
lo be stabilized near pre out levels
through 11)11. I*re\'iotisly Che tor
IJowles. ' 'PA adinini.-lriitor. had predicted
lliat if subsidy mice controls
are abolished 11\ co-Is m .:lit ;io
u:> Sl(l.n(l(i.O(lH,litM) next vear.
No 4th Term Candidacy
Is Predicted By Wheeler
\V,i hm^l'iii. Di'c. :t. (Al') Kxl»ie
Mi!*, donbl lli.il any DoitkktiiI
< •11 win (he pie iilctiry in MM I. Dem'"
i.iiif Si ii iini Whoeler "I Molilalia
predicted lull,IV 1 r i; i' l|(i(M'\l'll Will
not I if • ; i candidate lor re-elect i»n
!'• vi ir rcjiiirfilfs.-i of (lie -laic of
ll'i' war.
or nor war." Wheeler - i d in
an interview. a definite UopnbhiMn
licnd has et in and tlie rresiden'
Will lie alilc In icim1 this far mote
(|inrl;|v Ihaii any of hi* advisor.-.
"Hav ing had i- inli-i ri'fl upon him
'ile yrealod honor ever yr Cll the
I'lesident ol ||n« I'nilril Slates I a
'hird lenn) and having faced I1
'nil. diffit'llII year-, in my judgment
the President nut only docs not want
t<> run hm will not itin e\cn il an
attempt is made to draff him."
W'heclei. who c impawned actively
for Mr I;«ii«■ 11 ip Ht.'t:! and I
btil was silent in l!lIII. said lie regarded
Hie re.-llll of ,i >pci'i;il cmsjressional
election in Kenlneky.
where a Hcpuhlicaii wmi o\ crwhelmincly
in • > traditionally Dem»cratic
roni!lio|il. as inrlic iii\•• nt a
nationwide trend toward iTv (inp,
"There are a ureal many l>> "t'ierats
of excellent |>rcsi(lenti,i| thither."
he said. ' hut I do:iM that any
of them can he elected in !!i II. Cerlainly
there isn't much hope of a
Democratic victory unless there i<
a ~|>1 i 1 in the Hcpiihliean party or
unless Wendell I.. Willkie i^ the Pej-y'.i;.
it nctiiinvc.
Stalin At
Parley In
Middle East
Meeting Reported by
Newspaper in London
And Senator Connally
London, Dec. 3—(AD—The
London Star said today a
Kt.os.fVi'lt-Stalin-Churchill confel'ence
in the Middle East has
drawn up a final "jrive in or
•lie" ultimatum to Germany.
•"Stalin Is at War Parley;
Alerting Witli Churchill and
Roosevelt; Clivc In or Die to
Germany." was the way the aft
>-1110011 newspaper headlined
the article.
Farlier, Chairman Tom Connatly
of the I'. S. Senate Foreign
Relations eomniittee had declared
in Fort Worth, Texas,
th:il "another great conference is
taking place in the Middle Fast"
among the three I'nited Nations
leaders, an.I described the meeting
as of "paramount significance."
'
"Tin- Churchill. Roosevelt, Stalin
n i-e'.itisj. about which there has been
much speculation, has taken
jilacc." the l.niidon Star said.
"The three .-tatosmen arc now
11 er.ins .somewhere in the Middle
Some reports, axis and neutral.
say I lie meeting place is Tell
1 it hers say it is Tabriz, in
t:•«* Russian military zone of north1
111 Persia.
• The first definite news of this
conn-re: re was given to the world
l.y Cunnally in a radio address from
Fort Worth."
Official Washington and London
maintained a discreet silence.
while continental radio
told the world that President
I'eosevelt. Prime Minister
( Inn-chill and Premier Josef Stalin
were in Iran drawing up an
ultimatum calling upon Germany
to surrender under pain
of bring bombed to destruction.
The Gorman-controlled Paris radio
asserted that the conference was
!»«•: 11 n held it Tabriz in northwest
Ir;iii. across tho border from Russia,
mil .aid that Soviet troops had
been eorcentrated there to assure
tl'.i- -alety of Allied statesmen.
Siniliv reports emanated from
l'.i-in. Vichy and Turkey. All agreed
that the conferees were meeting
somewhere in Iran, bill some extircs-ed
belief the conference was
boiiiM held in the capital at Teheran.
Tho situation closely paralleled
the c'r< iims'.ancos surrounding the
rocout Xortli African conference,
when axis and neutral sources proci
1 imod that Roosevelt and Chureb1'
were conferring at Cairo with
Gi-neialissiai'i Chiang Kai-shek several
flays before the official anl
ouneonient of thai meeting.
Plan Thwarted
;To Murder
Roosevelt
Detroit. Dor. 3. —(AP) — William
A. Carlson, supervisor of secret serviee
agents in the Michigan-Ohio
I district. ~;iid in an interview with
i tin- Detroit News today that last
( month agents Ibw tied a plan by a
[ ment lly deranged Pontiac. Mich.,
' in.hi to as-as.~inatc President RooscI
\elt.
The man. Walter Rest. 38-year old
former worker in Pontiac and Detroit
faeiorio>, was adjudged insane NovI
v< nber 23. ten days after his arrest.
Carlson .- id. and is in Gallingcr
hospital. Washington, awaiting remo
al to a Michigan mental hospital.
llest's wife informed Oakland
<•0 r ty authorities of her husband's
plan. Carlson said, after receiving a
letter from him disclosing his intention
"to get rid of Roosevelt" and
ret tint; how the President had loft
Washington and that lie would wait
for his return.
Rest wa- said to have told secret
service age: ts that "I had electrodes
pinning through my brain, and they
told me to got rid of Roosevelt". A
I gun was found in his room in a
Washington hotel, agents said.
LANDIS HEARING IS
SET FOR DECEMBER 4
Now York. Dec. 3.—(AP)—Rasehall
Commissioner K. M. I., ndis today
si*id that William D. Cox. who
••esiUSied as owner of the Philadelphia
I'lnllis during La ndis' investigation
of betting on ball games, had
dewed statements ho made to the
commissioner concerning wagers lie
had made o*i ball u mes and asked
f a hearing December 4.
Fifth Army Breaks Stalemate
With Drive In Calabrito Area
INI I E1) NATIONS LEADERS AT CAIRO CONFERENCE
feSMf - .
Til kins liiiir < ut .ii ( itivo. Egypt. from their history- making ci'iifriPHCf en the war against .la pan. the three
leaders sit in the sunlight—President Chiang Kai-shek of China, President Roosevelt ami Prime Minister
Churchill. (International I
Greatest Battle Of
RAP Berlin Raids
Fought Last Night
Explanation
By Pearson
Is Postponed
Washington, »«• 3—(AP)—\Va*l»inyt'Mi
C'oliain-t Drew pea >n
sciulculed it '•> the Sfii.i'.iFinance
C'omir'ttfo today I;
tioil Ill.it ill! attorney I m1 I;.;- r
Chamber ol Conn icrco "Imant
he has Senator <'i : >■
taxes in his |nn ;.< v hut his .jpii.rancc
was temp ranly jd
whrn (Jeorse <l> (•. •. >. . 1:111:111
of the committee. showed up al tae*
eapital w ith a s< re t. . > it and ..
temperature.
Pearson recently sa il in his c >!limn
that Kl! \v : t1 ■ M\ inl. I' 1
of ('. counsel. .ule t!i.• allege I
boast.
George, \\! 1 • •! !te v.atiied 1>
(Continued <•: 1 I'.ije Four)
Absentee Vote
Plan Before
Senate Today
Washington. lite. (Ai'i s.
ate Icadri • set theii course for :i I 1
vote today 1 >■ plan I 1 u<.
priviletie.- to c :ned . , <•
time for neNt ye..:'s jin.,,de ti.ii <■
lion.
But tile I a itllorixed i P
mocriits .-mil dec .<■<! out hi l!«
can amend: cut ■ m is' l>
past a battely i«: attempts • " r
(C.itilima'd on Pa«e Four)
18
fsf/0PP//Y£
pjysafr
\ >
£/> -
lhirty Block Busters
Liropped on Capital
in Half Hour Attack
Dec. ;'•—I Al')—Britain*.
i)I ii'k-liustiiiji armadas
fleu ajrainsl 1 Jcrlin last night
for tin- fii'tli linu' in two weeks
and iniijrht their greatest battle
yet in the relentless csnnI»:15j*11
t<> erase tile Nazi capital.
SlunitiiiK toward a city already
a third demolished. h Iipic
Mil's still llari'd from the lire\
i'ltis attacks. the squadrons el'
l"iir-cni;inod bombers dime
llirntmh l'la re paths liKhtitii: I In*
appro.n lics to the city I'rum as
far away as 50 miles, pierced
cxplodiuu walls of lieavv awti;
ircral t lire, and slilSKctl it out
with scores of night I'i 3'iters
which the Germans had mas;.c.l
over the arena.
Tl.e II tish .iiiiKiutii i
11 . iriTiill in this and itimis.
hut .it the end ■■■X • .•-•at
Kv.vsern «>•' flame >»»•••>! ,> from
i!iv .s'ricUun »• 'y. e v. >rI r.: i .unit
i. and billow- ••. MiUHit! and
I1, mo which v: r 111 In ' < > t
three 'niles.
The licrce iltark listed half
■in hour and was oyer by 8 5:. in.
liiiriiiK this time at least "n
iiitir-ti.u lilccK blisters—which
(an t Illiterate evei vtliinc for
lipnilreds ol % arils around—
bit; tied down anions Hie neivtldercd
defenders. The telephone
titles to Sweden were knocked
nut almost at once, bat they wete
»in»rt'\ restored.
. in- i' ■ in t - <1 i|iticii lie . !v 1.
t.n'i t'nti t iti.» nf expl": .. hi 11
: i 1- Thi biniiuht ;n ... >•
I ■ ' on 11 t .1 (i 1(. 111 fil lb.,- . •!• nt
■
'("11 ii Oermnnii i" their br>,..' t:.c.
:i .iui il thai the laid 10.ir.••
1 thi* iviuM' llerllti .iri'.i, • •
• 1 t slti'e nf 'I ■ fupti ''it
iitlly .1 <<-y ti-ai'sp .rtalii'tt llnct if.
.»■' i ll '. ■ er\ Vc fi'uni pn v- . 1
•
• m It " ii ■ ><h 11- litttiii r>
..lures established ill cellars nil
ytrect *t. lids.
''.it lite /'s. Willi iippiiri-v,:v
' d 1 .itu i'iilt all' 1 «>v c v availiiil'"
veatwiti ird liuht' r llicv enttlrt mil*,
tor fur till* "fltitllc Mt IVi'lin" cl 1 pied
they Hnd nhot down :<»' hitmticr*
Siftlt 1* mi " s!v v lib the Me ii •
' :. 'M.i. tt" 1 . .leibit tiirget•ii
v. e-li ti (rei n ipv.
WI:AT*SfR
t or: ntut i i 1 < Mtoi.iw
I'irtiv rlotidv and eontlntied
mild tentglit and Saturday,
Reds Report
New Gains
Near Gomel
Nazi Counterattacks
Futile and Costly
I In Men and Supplies
Moscow, Dee. 15 — (AIM —
While Herman infantry ami
lank divisions, heavily reinforced
by mechanized forces
rushed from western Kurope,
battered in vain against the
Russians' Cherkasy bridgehead
011 the Dnieper river Hed army
yesterdav northwest of Gomel,
troons carved out new gains
where they cantured more than
,SU towns, a Soviet commniuni<jiie
announced today.
Kjtihtintt continued with unabated
leroritjr all jilor.it the I font, despite
the pievidence ol nun. -lu.-ii :uid
Miow. Held dispatches ,«aid.
The Kussiau communique reported
trains alone the lower I'riIirt
river southeast id' Xhlobin.
and in the direction ol Znamenka.
a rail center southwest id
Ki emending and key to lateral
conininnicalioiis between the
Kiev bulge and the l»nieoer
hrnd.
Approximately 2JM Germans
i were killed ;ii Th i: nay's battles,
i 111- e •: mint;<|«i<- said. <i«| the Itus-i.i<!«.•.-*:
>yed or captured 7J tanks
I aivl "tlier war ec|iiipnient.
The war bulletin said the
Germans ucr,. throwing troops
against the Itussian lines "williinit
consideration for large lossf
Continued on Piste Two)
I ~
Eighth Army
Pushes On
Six Miles
Allied Planes Pound
On Brenner Pass and
Installations Are Hit
Allied Headquarters. Alv.iei .
Dec. 1—( AI' i Ll. »>i i). Al irk
W. Clark's Fifth Army trn«»i«.<,
after a h.njr >taleinate mi tin*
western Italian frmit. It. oc
nicked forwar-l tiirm'v:
chinetfiurraked fields ami miri;
i'd wire in tile i';dal>rit» ar a
in tlie wake ui a r«»iiiuir l»arrajfe
of ai'tilli'ry shells and a ri.d
l<:>ni')s. Ai'i;' i :: .. ! jiiar! ■
announced .< lay.
The Br I s i l.i:i-..h trnii ;sl«o
continued Hi Mi.j-li tin- (■ im.nis
back lu'vnij;! l!t.' Sin;i'ii riilur.
and niituri'J t astci I-remaitn.
on ,i lateral in I wist i.l the
inipr.rtanl <acr:r.:in di'ieis-..- lawn
ul l.anciano. ami i.nsiied mi Inward
San Viln mi Ihr Adriatic
roast. si\ mill's ln\\nnd Wednesday's
line. Ilut tlcni'ial Sir
Rcrnaril I.. Moatsnmcrv'» drive
showed sic lis of slow iim down.
Uidh the Filth :»iim Ki-'lr.l Ann es
lunk prisoners n ;..1\ ame.
A1'. i'd ..ii' attai-:> v.''., 1H«- ic.~t
in many days i I'i <;••• matt
plants Were dcstrnvi. i |... nt
eight Allied planes'.
A force ol 1 ilirrators.
i'il l».v l.iitbtiiiiiK>. i>omi<Ii'd Bolzano.
on tin- Brenner I'ass line
in northern ltal\. u liile tin* British
destroyers ()iieciisb»roii!;h
and Itadicr bombarded Na/i installations
in tin- Albanian port
of Oura/.'/o at iiinht.
The Hermans made a palilalia Iy
determined el:..rl In halt '1 ! I i
Army in the I—IIH'ianii irea kvhci'O
they held INIO-fiKil idito • • h
dominVex the sumnindii ^ •• ntry.
The Gel inans were :< te.l • .'ciday
ri.shiru resi r.es :. n iti.ein
Italy in an attempt 1 stein the
drive.
Finland Has
Decided To
Continue War
Stnckh-.il .
land ha net
Kanda Inn ti. .!
vale war di»ii
world cnnilift
decided In emit
Russia as .. in
Germany
I Ins neeiMiui.
which sun Fn
ii tetldenc\
Of t ie Will, Wi
practie.il ill'. :
mill.lit ci .1 ilie
which the I n n
the\ \%milit I ■
diti"li.iilv. i<
In line wit• t
APi I
IIUll! till
eti t .
ud.
ell
(I", nit intied
Two Jap Ships Sunk In
Allied Bomber Actions
S i.-I I'.ii iiic \ nil llviKl<
tjit-it; |)ct'. (AIM Allied
. |- \\ l:»ia tho "i\i< ilic" ykir.s
the Mnrnhnlls Nnt Onincii.
*m\*.* sunk :i (roup-Union | hi
v-t• »t ;in.«por( ;im( .1 li'uei 1;inf.
rlniiKig(<>1 Jw '• t1c.»lro>rr-. I>I;im<•<(
rnoiny bit ten with iiiw ih>m 200
ni«. >•! I'n - li». . 111<I cinw tirii .'I \ip■nr-r
pliillc- 111 l),i!!V ,'t i'olli .•nrl>
' I • 2.-10II -i It* .111
I'Ik :.C l;i'<\»1 i(')it>ll- n| (it'lM'l.il
!>■ imltix MiicArthlir. Admiral Wtl■
1 K lliil < \ itnrl Ail' .il {"hi-.-tw
\ N11111I/ cuvcrtil fictions from
• l"iiriiiv llii'illKh \Vriliu*sd;iy.
New slicri'sj-ri" »il<o v.c:r srorfH on
In- uiiMmri. In the inliiiid ninylr- oj
\< w (iumoo's Huon pcnitiMilii. Ausare
e iv. figing n \Y, reo,
a .lapaiu j■1 I »m i than
ten mill'.- n«i|ll.vw ' I !•' n rhKilrit.
' •») tllO WP.-I ( 111 I i >a>t ill I'..Hlii;ii:i\
lllp in ivii tlicin S": mmi..,
tt'hw Amcrifiin Imw nn< N'hciih
l'PI 1 havr Iippii \\ di'lniu: in\irhlipari
ami i: !• in:: III -'tip,
nmro III.hi 15011 M,. two
, (l.iy I <1 n|i i • ' ;n i .1 imulrtc*
cwitiy 111 ii - Tlirv llrd inogo
th.in 200 Jii| .ii ■ ill •' iywl fin-uli'i
11»1»• Mippl ulit ii .< infra
■\\ in> • Iji r ~i/i : ;l " tli i l-'iflern
Mai hips « U; i '■ • I mid 7L
• wotilirlrri.
On flip mid 1' ii iii«• Winn. At.niivnl
I Niinit/. irpintrrt lairi- N'ovpnihpr 30
1 by army Llhrratoion Hip 'I'aro.i mr«
I drolltP in Hip Mal"rl..p atoll ni tin*
j \I;.is 11;111- and Hip following <i,iy nil
Mili it -1! i)irdi(-mc.