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^ Itenlteraon Batly Utspatrii THIRTIETH YEAR 1 TI ( K A SSI)' • IA nM-' i'l \ HENDERSON, NORTH CAROLINA. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 18, 1SM3 FIVE CENTS COPY YANKS TAKE NEW BRITAIN PENINSULA AREA Final Wreck Deaths Now Placed At 80 By Red Cross Heads Bong! 21 Zeros CAHT RICHARD I. BONG of Poplar, V... . a U. S. Air Force fighter pilot, has downed 21 Jap planes and six ptohnbles in the southwest Pacific tlioatre. lie has been on 146 ir.is s "ii ■ and has 3G5 hours of c«>:rl)at Hying to his credit. Air Forces phuto. (International Soundpliole) Threat From South Is Not Dissipated W., -hington. IJw. 1!!.— (AP) — • .it- by Mili-Niw Dim I Democra K.itliorn congressmen t" I "fin a pally have boon .shrugged "If !■> >• political prophets. here, bill — Although Mirti a third party may : ' a;>peai. nevertheless tin: threats r made aiul behind the throats :. t!mt run deep and away hat'ii. l'lie -ugyeslioii by Senator Smith, Suinh Carolina, and Senator 1 Icy. ill North Carolina, that southerners, form a separate Domo i tic p.oty hi the South, with Scn.i I'.vifl. Virgina. as the presidential «.niiiidiite. was not a sudden, un i 'mediated outburst Almost a year ago Governors Sam .1 lies nl Louisiana and Frank Dixon < Alabama called lor a third party. . ijoiiRh Jones said then that the .S nth would not vote Republican. following are some ol their main c\pressed complaints against the ad im.-tration: i. Ft forts lo eliminate from those at hern states which .-till have it tin poll tax as a prerequisite ol Not ing Failure to adjust Ireight rates I' (he satisfaction of the southerner.s vim >ay I he present rail's discrim inate against their section and retard southern industrial expansion. '. Attempts to settle the Smith's l"iii:-slaiidhiK social problem by loicuifj racial equality between wliiie.-. and Negroes. Liquor And Taxes Twin Problem Now Washington. Doc. IB—(API U inul taxes. which started "tit as ;i separate congressional problem, htiiiid out t-> bo twins in I ho Senate today. A two-listed Iloor li*hl, af iootmn both. iin|/ttdod. The link sotting up the promised ciiip wiis established this way: The Senate Finance Committee adopted a new ta\ hill t" yield $2, 2BI.Ooo.ooo 11ion' nest year, less than <i filth of what the Treasury asked. A special committee Investigating the liquor shortage found tli.it 117, "110,000 gallons was stored ill ware houses was stoied in warehouses wailing to bo eight years old. when Federal taxes can be imposed. So sentiment arose for taxing the whis ky at the age >>f four years, on the theory this would release much of it for the parched public, and at the same time provide an extra billion dollars to finance the gigantic war cost. traffic Is Resumed Over ACL Main Line As Dead Are Hunted l.t-m'ierton. Doc. IS—(A I' > —Tin* task of yxtrieatinjt man {rled (It ad from the wreckage of twi. Atlantic Coast Line drains which collided near here early Thursday sped i'orward ioday and the lt;'d Cross 'stiniated that the final death toll niiulit mount to 80. Upwards of 50 others .vere njured. Wc;.ry military pnlitc ard wreck ii'H crcws nmr.ee! at debris with a vim h-c(|»i|>ped truck and tor* thr.-iifill the s nashed railw; v cars. di-e<-verinu |>< rti' *s •>: Ixidics and pu'Iing «r.i* i>li < i-snaked clothing. Th" wreckage was sinn ed ol'f tit" tracks ; nrl traffic was resumed over the Atlantic ( oast Line's double track main line ycsterrlay. Thr r.iimlicr «if known dead was rrporlril b.v llie Rctl Cross at "ft yesterday—IT scrviop men ami civilians—hut lat?r Hu lled Cross s:»id |»'isvil»ly ten more are still in one ear. The War Department an neuneed from Washinyt-m last nicht the names of 'JS soldiers killed, hut was uii;ihlr to say if the list was complete. Thi' Red Cross identified a do/en ei vilian dead and the task of identifying others continued slowly. Six more l>>d:e<—three sailor?, two soldiers and one WAVK—were taken from the wreck before the tracks were cleared. Relatives of those killed flocked to I.uinherlon and Stone J. Crane. Red Cross disaster director there, said help was he lm; provided them in identify ing the dead, and in necessary eases financial aid was being given to enable transportation of the dead to their homes for burial. Meanwhile. C. C!. Siblev. vice president ol the railroad, said at the •oid's general offices in Wilming ton that i "formal investigati) n will be held to develon the facts with resnect t" the action of the crews of both trains." FDR Foresees Peace In Our Time Likely Washington. Dec. lii. — (AP) — Peace for this generation ill least m.>y exoive from the C.'tiro-Teheran con ference. said President Roosevelt, buck at his White House desk today after a 36-day 25.000 mile trip that was spiced, to say the least, by a treat to his person.il safety. The President got to Washington at 9:30 a. m. yesterday, promptly met with congressional leaders, represen tatives of the British, Chinese, Tur kish, Iranian and Egyptian govern ment!; and his cabinet. Meeting the press alter this. Mr. Rosevelt revealed why he moved to ttie Russian embassy in Tehcr n, Iran, for his talks With Stalin and Churchill. Stalin, he said, warned him that there was a Nazi plot afoot against all three Allied leaders. Hy moving, Mr. Roosevelt explained, it was pos sible for them to communicate with out walking the streets because the British embassy was next door to the Russian headquarters. C ORN C ROP I XC u:ns 3 BILLION Bt'SIIKLS Washington. Dec. 17—(AP>—The agriculture department reported !•> day that this year's bumper corn crop totals 3.070.159.000 bushels and the country's wheat crop is B36.298. 000 bushels. 5f//OPP//V<r Mxrc&r Beautiful But Deadly -- 6K U. S. Bombers Off To Bremen ONE OF THE MOST BREATHTAKING photos to emerge from the war is this serial view ni 08 Flying Fortresses (B-17) and Liberators (B-U4) of the Army Fightli Air Force as they fill the sky high over Germany. Their destination is the imoortant shioyards at Rremen and tliev are nart ol the largest aerial force the United Stales has ever sent into action, Th® ghostly '.rails of vapor emerging from the bombers are the result of con densation which results when CNhnust gases encounter the a:r found at hich altitudes. Armv Air Force photo. (liitrrnntiunat) Americans Closing On Nazis Russians Are Circling Big Industrial Center London. Dec. IS.—(AP)—Troops of General Ivan Konev's second Ukraine armies have .strengthened their en circlement of the industrial city <>i Kirovogr.id. killing KOI I counter at tacking German*. Moscow . nnounccu today as Nazis sources reported new and heavy fighting in White IUi.>.ti. Capture of Kirovograd would seri ously meanace the German garrison at Krivoi Hog, principal source o! manganese lor Germany's war in..chine. Tlie Germans have held t>> this vital mining center for months, hurling back repealed Ited araiy frontal attacks. Today's Hus.-ian cnminun:>iu( was unusually laconic, confining itself main' / to actio i around Kirovograd. but inferring to actions lurther north. Defeat For Japs In China Is Decisive I Army Air Force Headquarter- in China. Dec. li!.—(AP)—Alajor Gen eral Claire I.. Che ault. commander of the U. S. Mth Air Force, declared today the Japanese "have been de cisively defeated in their drive into Free China's rice bowl." are... and are now attempting to extricate abo.it 10,000 trops from the Tlingting late battle area. "1 believe our planes inflicted con siderable casualties oil the enemy a-, addition to holding up the w'th drawal of tin- inv ders by bombing I the towns through which they pass ed," Chennault said. "If their object was to loot the rice harvest, we know a lot which they sized ha- been sunk by air attack ou boats. We still are trying to prevent them from getting otit tiie rice. I feci very much elated thai the Jap nose havc40ecn decisively defeated in the Chiingteh operations The campaign demonstrates again 'hat Japanese grounl troops are unable to penetrate any great distance -nto the interior of Cjbir.'. The greatest penetration did not exceed 100 miles, and I lie Japanese were unable to hold their positions at that distance.'" WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair to partly cloudv and slightly warmer tonight ami Sunday, t.owrst trinperature t<> lieraliirr IoiiIeIiI. 'Jfl lo '!.> in In tel li-i i:ur tri-'.iiiifc mi cca.t. possible heraldir i; the winter offen sive m the north. Associated Press dispatches from Moscow, me nwhile. s;ticl that Gen eral Viitutm's tirst Ukraine army, in smashing Marshal von MannsU'i tank offensive in tiie Kiev bulge, "has won a defensive victory a.s im portant as some of its offensive and a highway junction. they faded t* aehieve a in jor breakthrough." Most important ol the reported Soviet drives in While Kussia. ac cording: to l*.erlin. was a?; attack be gun last Monday l>v General And. Yeremcnko in the area s. utii of Xe vel, 70 mile- from the I.at\ian der. here, the German broadcast as serted. the Ked . rmy lias extents' d il- operations west and northwest of Ncval. Yugosla\ s Now On Counter ()ffensi\ e On Three Fronts I.omlon. Dee. 18. — (AP) — Yugoslav partisan troops have cone over to the counter offen sive in three sectors, seizing the initiative alter breaking the heaviest German assault yet launched against the liberated territory, it was announced to day. Marsh;.1 T to'- communique. broad cast by the Krco Yugoslav radio, re ported that :n Hie Serbia-Monteregro border re.i. Ill- second corps was "clearing the territory of tiie enemy" in eastern ttosnia. his troops were Riiin^ forward in very heavy light ing against tanks, and that in Croa tia as well Yutso.-lav forces were on the offensive. The Germans were hard hit I i Montenegro, where partis n forces were battling them to a standstill. Tito said The Yugoslavs counted "7o dead German- and Chctni'o on Cm battlefield. together with it ny •voiiudcd. and captured a large amo unt ol war m tcrial. Paper Boys Will Collect Double The newspaper carrier hoys of (lie Henderson Dally Dispatch in tiie city and vicinity plan lo make double collection from sub scribers on their routes this week-end. collecting for the week ending December 2a as well as the current week. This is being done in order that the bovs may have Christmas day as a holiday. Your co-operation will enable (lie young men who deliver your papers to have a more enjoyable Christmas season and will be greatly appreciated by the carrier organization. Only Slim Corridor Of Escape Left for Enemy at San Pietro Allied Headquarters. Algiers. Dee. 18.—(API—A Fiflli Arm.v pincers movement dosed in to day on the heavily fortiticd vil lage of San Pielro. srvpn miles south of Cassino. as the Highlit Army reported capture or de stroying 15 German tanks in a series of armored battles on Hu nt Iter side of the peninsula. American troops reached the out skirts- <ii San I'ietro, where hand-i i haud fighting continued fur the sec imtl day ;is the doughboys dug Inc Germans out •>! their pillboxes one by one. The Americuiw now h«»ld height- north, east, m tilth and - . i'i - wtsl ol the village. a military c mentator .-aid. leaving the to .lis onlv one road to escape. The attack on San I'ietro was coordinated with an assault on 1.000-foot Ml. MUngo to the south of the lloine. Josilie of the pincers would chop, all' a large section of the road tieli the entrance into the Casino plain. Further inland sillied lionVis r.ip tured Lagone. a 2.1M10-|"..| umui !..iu v illage two miles west l Fiii^naii1'. in hard straight imh'mg Three <; i man attack- iimiiIivm t '•! Vcnali'i were repulsed. bu< in central It.tly on the Filth Arn\ Ir »til Allied po sitions were driven nack bv .1 Icne German mount.mi lunge. 3 Prisoners Beat Guard And Escape I K.leigh. Dec. II! (AIM— Three | longterm prisoners escaped I nun the •lackson county prison camp tiear Whittle;' aboui 12 :>0 a. m. today, attacking .md severely injurini: .1 prison guard. Stale I'rison Ifirecio: ii-car I' ll- reported today. I'itls -aid ihat I ho guard. \V K Troiniuell. "|>:tt up a light" when cornered by the three escapccs. lind v.a- hit in the head. He is in n tio> pit.it at Sylva. fitts said, and has about a "fifty-titty chance to liyf: ' The three pi isoenrs who cscaped were Chai t( - Mm iicv. 23. of Wayijes \ ille. who wa- serving the fiist ol Ihice -enlence- imposed in Hun coiiibe |j.»i December. one of four to -is veils lor lorgery and false pre tense. one o| Hirer lo eight years for breaking and enteiing. and one of two to three years lor forgerv; Wil liam l.evay. 2fi, ol N'ew Brunswick, X. .1 . sentenced in Cabarrus in l(t:t(i t" 20 to 2."i year- lor burglary: and 15c 11 I tea-ley. 22. of Murphy. scnienc* ed 111 Cherokee in Ap it. I!H2. to fopr years for assailh with u dcii'.l " viid iobbeo I Rail Men ('outer W ith FDR Sunday On Strike Issues Cleveland. Ohio. Dec. 18.— (API—Kailmad leaders and heads ol' I lie live operating brotherhoods will meet with President liiinsnrll in Washing ton tomorrow in an effort to avert .1 nationwide strike order ed to start December .'Ml. The Brotherhood of Kailroad Trainmen's president. A. F. Whitney, said today: "The White House meeting will he at p. in., eastern war lime, and replaces a conference which the National .Mediation Hoard had scheduled for .Monday at Chioauo." The walkout would en into el icit first on major systems serv ilie vital industrial areas, a "strike blueprint." members or the brotherhoods showed today. Some Stocks Are Stronger Ni \ V ... U i 1AIM -Liq uors i- :!ii c<t fr<»ni .1 1:ulit proti'. Iiilting hting-ovvr in i.'day's stock it n ki't. i> • M'atl< i <i iarin impU •• flit-, i.i.!- .11id . ili'ics exhib it I'd ii r i!Hi»illit . streiiKtlt. Tin- ;i•• i o.ltural impic.ni'tit «io,i,> It (i i>v .1, I. ('a.-:, '..it now l'.H.i top)'. imidc fiirthi'i s ihslnntinl prog ma • i exiicctiitionx machinery prH oritics would lie rchiMfd. Supported v. i .c l')ii y>k': . (Ji'iii'imI Mnlnrs utid Standard • ':! <»! Pfcvv ■W : so> I niggards tic. idod U. S . Steel . ml lli-llilclto j Ho ds steadied. ( us■•li.tii-. | v. i'l e he.- Mailt. I . (Churchill (iuides War Plan'Despite Serious Illness | I011<I<<11. Dec. 18 — (API — Prime Minister ( InirchiU's pulse was reportej irrruular hut his teinprroture subsiding in a bul letin issued from No. Ill Down ing Street. Iiis official residence, today. Despite his illness, the prime minister was said in he insist ing noon continuing his dircr tion ol P.ritaio's war effort. Displaying the same drtermi liatiou and will power that car ried his cniintrx through the worst crisis of the war. the prime minister is keeping in closest touch with the war calil ne» in l.ondon. the Dailj .Mail sa'd last iiiilit. "and is trails adiitc urjcfil f.t.itf bu,'.inf>s.' Americans Expanding Positions Air Control Seized By American Fliers Over Wide District (ieneial MaeArtln.i - lli-adipi..: • er>. N'cw Guinea. IK:. 1- (.A I * • Tjnii|i> • >1 tin- L'n.tcil St.iV- S'-" Army hnvo occupied tin.' entire Morklls pi'iiin.-ula jji I!;,• : ;i\vc . • ( tor <ii New Brit tin island, stud continuing 1 > advance. General Mat Arihnr hcadqiiafit- - aim HKlil. This nave tiit." invasion (urc* winch landed !■ .1 day- ayi « • >■ <ipli-t<■ control <>| the three-mile necl. • ■! liinci IliiliUiim the Ariiv. »• haii ti til' .-ollthwe-t eoa-t lit lite : i.u. i Tlic |/eniii.-ula. tojiclhe: with t!i<* "'ll-lyniK I1:1-. i .-land, which v.a overrun tin- nr.-1 <«;.'• i>i the ..Maiu. were de.-ci lin-d a- tin- i w'ijie mi' . I ibicc'ive il tin- s» abmne -irsl;C • Hain-t .lapane.-e upatioii ..i \ev. Britain, theh major toe in the .-outhWe-t I'ni ilii- area. "i 'in ih-iii A. awe ionium. '.I. expand ii.-i I o.-lli . .. though nil cli.-Unct battle I... i;> i n i I. ii lishcd." a htn.dqu; rl >i|iukv>iiiiiii ssiid. Oil !. <■ i 'ill -uthwe-t I'aeilie land 11. iir ,.r. - : le V tin/ -i... i. Australian.* |trc>M<l lurtluv north ward along ire short : the Huuit pin.'; 11. i it Nev. (ii.itie . : 'id : ...: i — '..nit < 1 con: ,.t i ...tii tlie fin-: > in-'in .1 the Sanjja n\ e (•n tile Solomon- appi "aell to llabaul. Admiral Williapi F. llitlsey reported 2;:n more mo tie- IIV plain which ninmpli/ed tiic >kn.- over lioltgailiville. Far tn tile northeast •>! the Solo mons, Seventh Army air forec i Liberator- raided the mid-l'acilic ! \Iar.-hall-. 31)11 mile- Imm 111<■ An <-r ican-ht lit Gilberts lor the eighth traight day. Northwest of Australia. Lihera ors made a round trip Might ot more hall l.'."it'll mile- to hit .lapane-e oil elinerie- at Balikpapau on 15orneo. These an operation-. I'rum I» • : in• o the Marshall*. extended over an iceau are ol rotighlv 4.D0II miles. I Quick Action On Mustering Pay Demanded Washing :i. i >11 11) (AIM Itep , -esenlative Rankin, Mississippi DnnM'ml, an ounivd Unlay on the 1 House 1..>• i that In- would <>pj><».-■ • any .idi ■ nieent ol I'oiifSivss o\er the llolIM' II-•€ M thill he WOlllll op iii ise iiny ad.i minnient of Congress •ver the l'hi>tii.is holidays until ' tile llou.-< 1>. s.-e* a bill ti |>r >\ i<i> I ninslei injj «>nt |>iiy lor veW.ms oi i vVotlci Wiir II. ITl.o Semite yesterday iippn veft by imaniii o >> vote a bill mll iu t<>i diseliin He pjiy running; from SJMIt. 10 itiinki . expressed hopi tie ! House would agree to take up this | bill by iiiwiiiimo'is (onsen*. j Senatm MeFarland. Alabau > 1 Deinociat. \vh > loined with Sen,. j tor Mat-bank Sc th Carolina liem j orr.it. in i!.' oducinu i W< rid Win 11 !>■•:•:- bill lor l« u i the eoinpcn i sation |».i:«l \ de. ans alter the last. ' war. said in* had been promised am rurly l'e.uint: by the Senate Finance. Committee. 1 *l h..- bill would provide racli vet« era-i v. th . lucid, cash i'>le within three year* alter it* issuance. allow ins .'-2 for < .eh day I sert ;ee hi the armed forees i:i this country, with i i avium S1 .inHi. and SJ .VJ daily lor < vcr.-i as sc: \ ire. with it 'itiiNitnuni <»• M L' The re. p <*t • veter n ild draw i • peri'i I if «i m • > ■ t mi thly for edif ication;:! purposes. tor purchase <> a • home o: fi■ i -i : ■ t■ an nidus! a! i venture. o, net the whole sum in i cash lt<! thrc yea v He also ' eotlld hold lite bi nd until its ten ye. r aiat'.i !> I'he hoii is w-'ulil in- .j add n 'he pr | o-ed nui-lei 'ng oi,| al lowance. Cotton Lower Around Noon New York. Hoc 18—(AIM Cot Ion i Iure* opened unchanged to ir, eenls a bale lower, IV. ("t O-ien March Mnv .'iilv Oclobfr (ru .• i li» vi hi r,i I !»•'»» 111.27 If"'1 11>,07 ld.3'i ia.9>>
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