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Hfcttiter son Batlu Bfgpatdf THIRTIETH YEAR Tiii. as.s(m i.\ti:,» nu:>s. HENDERSON, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAV AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 2:J>, liMH itiili.si 11:i. i:v i:11v akti:kn« ><»n i:.\< i:i"T sr.\i» > y. FIVE CUNTS COPY bl)R Offers To Arbitrate Rail Issue Offers His Services With Understnading Both Sides Accept Washington, Doc. 2.'i (AT) —President Roosevelt today offered to arbitrate the wajre dispute lietween the railroad and the operating brotherhood? if they would ajri'ce to abide by his di'cisoin. 'I hey promised to jrive their answer later to day. by :{ p. m. (Eastern War Tme) if possible. Washington, Dec. •»;{—(Al'l — A joint committee nl' railroad management ami reprcsi'iilii livcs of tin- operating brother hoods—with a strike (leadline a week away—reported to Pres idium Roosevelt today thc.v had been nnahlc to reach an agree ment oil the workers' wage de mands. A joint conference before noon was continued little more than a li.ilf In nr. A spokesman oil one side re marked "the conference has terminated." A member from the other side of the table said the conferees were reporting "failure" to the President. Both management and brother l.ood committees afterward wont t ■ the White House, where President Roosevelt litis been tit ten pting ' mediate the dilliicultics. It was presumed they sought new guidance The government meanwhile pur sued .1 wait and see policy toward the demands of the l.llllUHHl no - operating workers, who also liavi Ihre.iti-ned to strike December 3d. The carrier- are now understood to lie willing to concede something under the heading of vacations InP i! fall short of the brotherhoods' demands. The carriers' first offer was four cents an hour in addition to the four cents recommended by tui emergency hoard, but the second four cents would be labeled eillic. tis overtime or awav from home ex penses The brotherhoods are un willmg lo sacrifice their claims 'o these concessions at that ivice antT want the second four cents as n flat, basic rate increase, and the ov ertime. expxense and vacations ns well. The carriers contend the stabili zation policy limits basic rate in i reuses to the four cents recommen ded by the emergency board. Many Fliers Of Forts Are War Prisoners Washington. Dec. L'.'t.—('AIM—The War Department announced today thai oi aJJI air crew members re ported mission when (id Flying For tresses were lost in the heavy bomb ing of industrial plants at Scliwin lurt. Germany. 34(! are alive as prisoners of war. Eighteen crew members, at first listed as missing, i.oware reported officially to htive been killed. Their names were not disclosed pending notification of next to kin. Unaccounted for as yet are -17 men. The War Department -aid. how ever, thiil reports -till are being re ceived and lii t it is expected more of them may be listed as war prison ers. The loss of tin Flying Fortresses .-et a record lor losses by United States air forces in any one mission. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy and colder to night with temperatures 1'J to 17 north and west portion, and 17 to 2'J southeast portions. Part ly cloudy and continued eold Friday interior. YANKS CHRISTMAS IN ITALY AMERICAN ",c1d artillerymen, grouped around a tiny artificiarChristmaa tree somewhere it. Italy, open their holiday presents from home. They arc (I. to r.t front): Sgt. J. F. Suchanek, N. Y. C.; Pvt. J. G. Pierro, Jersey City. N. J. "back row S?t. C. N. Myrick, Centerville, Cal.; Sgt. L. L* Obcn, Bcuudji, Minn. Signal Cores radiophoto. </>i<crnatio»al) Senate Body influenced By Budget Bureau Slash Finance Committee Unv/iiling to Levy Sum Treasury Asked WushillRtiin. l)ec. 21!—(AIM — The Srnalo Nuance Committee said today its decision to sock toss than oiie-lourth of the ail ditioual revenue tloniandi'd h.v the Treasury in the new tax hill was "influenced" l».v the budget bureau's action in cut ting $11,000,000,000 off estimates of the current year's deficit. Formally reporting tho S2.275. fiOO.DOD measure doling Congress' holiday recess. the committee as ■iert that the widely discussed "ir. latinnary gap" is likely to !>e re luced by a tapering ufl in war materiel orders and increased pro 1ml i. 11 to, civilian use. I)iscussitig the Treasury's request i' a bill Ilia! would bring in $10. .inn.ntin.ntMi dd.tional. the report de clared: "Your committee was not con vinced that a sum as groat as pi ■ »— >ose<i l>v Ine Treasury could cqui'. ibly l>e raised at this time in tin" maimer suggested by the Treasury that i.-. in the main, by hignc." rates of individual income taxes. In his testimony before your commit tee. Secretary Morgcnthau if.dici'.ed that the Treasury l)o|>artmcnl nre eneil .< bill raising only two to three billion dollars to o^o wr,i.! w ill Id include more by resort to general retail sales tax. "Aside Sroin its merit, about which I here was some difference ol opin ions the Treasury's po-ition in thN matter weighed heavily in i!i minds of the committee.'' Stocks Headed By Aircraft New York. Dec. 23.—(AIM—Air crali and chemicals moved up in today'- stock in rkel. Kxoept for American DMilling which dipped about four points, price changes either way were in small fractions near the fourth hour. Deal ings were slow from the start. Modest improvement was recorded loi Douglas Aircralt. U. S. Sleel and. Sears Hoebuck. In arrears were Cni ted Stales Hiibber. iSothleheni, Ame rican C n and Chrysler. Iloiifls and commodities were ns lisllc-s as stocks. War Veterans May Choose Work, Declares McNutt Washington. Ore. 23.—(AP)—Mini power ('li.iilinan I'iinl V. MdVull, declaring tii t return inn veterans must be Kiwii "every |ms.-iblc as sistance" made it dear today lli.it honorably discharged servicemen don't have to tiihi* wjtr jobs if they don't want to. Ht'Kiirdk'ss of local manpower programs which Hive essentil war plants rirsl call on workers, the vete rans will tie helped to find jol» !<> their liki: g. lie said. Tllul gOCa lul bo 111 lJIL'l) tlllU \\ OlllL'11. About 100,000 now are being dis cli.ii'K«*tl every month. 'I'lu same freedom ol choice con Iimics lot cloys after the veteran lia> accepted ills first civilian .ml). In "tin i words, i! lie doesn't like the 1 first job, he has the privilege, for till d. y>. of seeking other work. The women's advis'o y committee of the War Manpower Commission called mean while for positive and i specific planning to preserve the jobs nf women lis well as of men in con- : vcrtine industry Inick to civiliun' ji» j'.hxt.uJi. Pact Possible With Poland, Muscoy. Doc. 23. —CAP)— liussia and Czechoslovakia. linked in a 20 year friendship pact, "sincerely be lieve" they can "come to a settle ment and an s»vtn\ .ble peace also with Poland", President Kdonard Bcncs of the Ezechoslovakia govern ment in exile declared last night. He described the new agreement as part of "a general system of secu rity" and said "the intentions of the Soviet Union toward Poland are the vame .s they were to us—to see an independent country strong and de mocratic, and m lull cooperation". A protocol of thi> pact, leaving it open tn any neighbor nation, was "an invitation to Poland". Benes said, and a rcapproachment ot Poland and Kussia "is a question of the near future". He added, however, that a recon ciliation ot the two, which have broken relations, would be an "ex tremely delicate job". Cotton Rises At Noon Hour New VurU, Dec. 2.'i.—(AP)—Cot Ion futures opened live to twenty cents a bale lower. Noon values were ten to 2D cents a bale higher. March 1 il.5.1, May 10.20, and July lO.Ofi. December (new) .... IB.CO 111.72 HAYWOOD WOMAN IS DOING HER PORTION College Station. Halcigh. Dec. 23' —"Mrs. Frank L. Leopard of the Katclifle Cove section of Haywood county, has done her part ill pro viding the boys in Hie South Pacific and those in the snow-capped moun tains of Italy with food i<.r Christ inas." s iy- County Agent Howard It. Clapp ol the State College Ex tension Serv ice. With the older boys in the Navy and her husband in a war plant. Mrs. I>copard. with the aid of the younger children, is milking f we've cows and managing a lilt-a ere farm. The cms produced I."> pounds of milk during the lust ten months of the year. NAVV V-l J t NIT AT I NT TO TAKE I IVE DAYS ..OFF Chapel Hill; Dec. The Navy | College Training program at the Uni- ' versify of North Carolina closed down for a five-day holiday today. I but the V-12-ers will resume classes I and drills next Tuesday, December. 2B. Most of the N. v.v trainees were finishing up their work and leav ing ; for home today. Only a few lived loo far away to go home and back in 1 five days, and they will spend Christ mas with friends here or out in the blulc. I Prev ious close Open March May July October (new) I 0.50 !».-»(! 10.25 10.2.1 10.00 Hi.!)!) lii.TI 18.72 Fighting In Ortona Continues Bitter FigLting in Adriatic Port for Third Straight Day Allied Headquarters, Algiers. Dec. 2:5—(AI')—Kighth Army tanks niitl infantry fought bit terly in the streets of Ortona for the third straight day with Herman forces who were turn ing the tiny Adriatic port into ;t miniature Stalingrad, an Al lied headquarters announce ment said today. On the Fifth Army front lit the west, American troops rap tured snow-covered :».tlOO-foot Ml. Cavallo, three and a hall miles northwest of Venafro and French forces advanced in a mountain pass where a struggle had raced for several days. The systematic cleanup of pill boxes around San Vittore. a heavily fortified village six miles south ot Casino, coi'.tinned, but there \v;.; no indication that a lull scale attack had yet been launched on the strong pi silions guarding the road 1 Home. The heaviest tight:tig surged b ir . and forth in Ortona where Cana dians have been lighting the '«er mans in the streets lor three days. The (ierman Tenth arm> threw new parachute Initios into the battle in a desperate effort to retain its hold of the main road leading north to Peseara, the (icrnuns' main supply line to troops inland as well as along the coast. Nazi Inn ps launched a small night attack on the Kighth Army posi tions at St. Angelo in the cenirai mountains, but were repulsed. Although air activity in western Italy was greatly reduced by She weather, lighters patrolled the Ad riatic and shot up a schoouv' and radio station near Zara on the Yu goslav coast and- iiiimbers suppo. iei". the attack near Orsogna. Jap Centers In Burma Hit New Delhi. Dec. 2.'1. —(AP)— In widespread land and air fighting, Americanand British forces have suc cessfully attacked Japanese rail and communications centers in Burma, a communique of the Allied Southeast Asia command announced today. Action ranged Irom the Sumpra bum area in northern Burma down through the middle Chin hill.- .i d the Arakan front to i'rome and ..lonywa in central and southern Burma. In four days <>! extensive air ope ration.-, from December 19 to Dec ember 22. American and British planes inflicted heavy damage to Japanese installations without the loss of a single . Hied plane. Japanese ground forces launched a surprise dawn attack against a famous British regiment but the at tack was repulsed. German Tank Drive Balked By The Soviets CHIANGS VISIT SON IN INDIA THE SON of Generalissimo Chiani; Kai-shek. C'li •: -1; ■. •. :>• >il. nut Him emplacements to his father at a ('!iin< e l! > • 'iter i:i <■ tern India. Madame Chiang, wearing a sutifoiiiii ' i ' .1 tj AlluM chief Lord I-oiii-: Mo'intliatten. This 1 one ul tli.> lew I mu* th.>' .■ 'Uii". I'll. >r.; has been pictured with his father. ' 'alcrnal:on<il) Japanese Losses Total 16 Planes In Arawe Bombing King Peter Is Denounced By Tito's Council l.nnd»n. Doc. (AIM Denoun cing thi' "hostile attitude" and act- oi King Peter's- Yugoslav nm eninicnl in exile. Marshal Tito's council oi libe ration lias ordered Peter's regime deprived "of all its rights" and has "forbidden" the young king to re turn home until after Yugoslavia is entirely liberated. The strongly worded d«v amation I Came as the Allies were gr. :ii; i - I tary aid to Tito 11 nis war 4 Germans and attempt'ug l> rilir differences between the tv. Yugo slav factions. After Yugo: I \ ia is i. "tlu problem of flic king as v. i ll .>> lite question of the monarchy cm be decided", declared Tito's ('unci, re- 1 cently established with.n tnc slr.itc;- c ; Balkan nation. Trying To Lure Jap Navy; More Warnings To Balkans ISV Central I'rpss Washington. Dee. '.i'.i.—The atoll to-atoll oltensive of llii' I'nitcd States in tie Kin Pacific is co-siderably more tii.hi tiic rather eu.-tly sci/.iire dl strategic base.-. Wti I tin- N;i\ v hopes In accomplish is to lure the .laiwnese grand fleel into .in open showdown battle lor mastery of the .»ea. It is .1 sale hot that if the Nippo nese Meet ventures forth to -lug t out with the American se.i torces. ;t will l>e knocked out. at perhaps ureal cost to the United States ships and men. 1 Siil then, military expert.- .mice. .Jap 11 would be powerless t > ever wane auain aa ollensive war and the road to Tokyo—particularly by air would be shorter. Naval authorities an* inclined t • believe that the Japanese will not risk Jin open battle bee use they realize that the American fleet n »w is the most powerful arinadii ttit* world has ever known—with guns pointed toward the Hismg Sun nd the destruction ol Japanese impena ) ism. Secretary of St te Cordcll Hull's wan iii'i to Bulgaria to uct out ol the war will be followed by simil r blasts at the rest of Hitler's Balkan -atel litcs Of course. Itumania and Hungary have been put on notice ids" bill wherever Axis satellites arc making the ucsiim ol being ;•! war they will be warned to <|uit liie Udifijiipo will become clearer .'mil loadei the A Hit's Mir^o for wtird. I 'M re no timetable foi Ihet but llu'j will be niiidv as military i and 1 ■! t:i I development c I it" '.i" t • I lull'- declaration in Hulu.in.i In <11111 tin1 Axis cany was limed coincide v. 11 ti internal jjf\ ernmeiitnl i C"I"i>i~ in that country rather than tin* r>u!(jriiv tli ol \v r straeuy conference. at Tehran and Cairo. Iiu ideitfally. it was the dual events I <>t thi appro I'tiini; Hussmn army and 1 tin- tr -power decimal :i <•! mva.-iim plan- Inn the "east, wo " .ntd •■with"! that iir >unht <■ the Kiiilmi n 11 i- ' and set the leaders <•: Axis-related j natmns on then' cnnlu.-ed |>n»Krain to Mtamble the tsovernirr t in an el- ! fort In ( iraii an ini|»n >.« nil th.it i'. - (•ana i- iiu longer so elnselv affiliated with llitlerism and the N'a/.is. K.irm leaders expressed fe tf this! week that the government'.. !ui-e | latidrg ha me program may take some ill the niidenals n; initially schc- , (hiled to boost Ihe n n machinery product i'in goal for lit It With War Kood Administratm ] Marvin Jones |)rn:iiising meis tli.it agriij dtai i n .icliMtetv prnd .ction . for nest year will lie Hit per cent of ! (lie record lltin n itput. this latest ; threat may rit taimcis who arc j badly in need of nore machinery I > 1 meet the boosted acreage goals ol 1 Hill below Ihe minimum ref|iure inenls WI'IJ officials iis-( 11 thiil they arc more worried, however, alioiil the , (Continued ou Pais; Four) Only Slight Damage Is Inflicted in One Of Heaviest Raids Advanced Allied liend(|iutr tcrs. Xi w (iuinea. Dec. 2.'! (AIM—The Japanese have lest Hi more planes in their heavi est attacks so far on advancing American forces at ,Ara\ve. New Britain. Field commander of troops, which General Douglas AlacAr thur said today were extending and cousoldiating positions past the beachhead seized December t,j. reported nearly lot) enemy dive bombers and lighters in three attacks Tuesday caused i>ul> slight damage. It \v.i> tin- lir>: ic! .en i:i ! • by Jii|Kincsc aircraft si net* Iho vui'lt [lavs nt tilt- Si\:!i Anry n\; s. in which -H pl;i. i- wire i)i >ti'i.yeii. The I'nited Stales l iltli Air Force returned the .lapanese Arawr visit with another pound in'4 to the enemy's I ape (ilon • ester airdrome and supply hi.se on New Hi't.on till mile* northeast of Araur. Nearly 100 In a\ \ and medium bombers, dive liomliers and liglitri- plane-., dropped °!0."> tuns ol e\|»i»sives and strafed the area, starting many fires and damaging two coastal vessels. A i-:u\i» dc.-trovi-. d( :n<il;>i)c.t i.i '> and set ■ • ' ;e Tin I ii- • ;.i li.il- area • 11 tt'l II'.;- I ist . Ill UJJJI-II : I f» 1: ■i I 'ca'.ed i-i aii il'< () watels Nazi Push is One Of Worst Yet Heaviest Assaults By Germans Is Made In Kiev Bulge Area .Moscow. I >cc. 'J-'J—(.'vl'i—■ Massed liii.— i;iii luav> artillery :iinl I»ijr mobile field yun- blaz ■d away today aifaiii-t a yij'an iic iH-w (nnnan tank oflVnsiv.. ik-scrilied oii<- ..i' tin- war' heaviest armored assaults. I In- larjjv -call enemy attack was sprimtr yesterday on ( milc front st ivtchiiifr from White Iiu.--ia 1' ;h< |)ni«|..i bend. i>;it front iv110n -aid .led Army forces wviv lioldinv inn on all - ctors. The lU'W t :ien y oliati raitad. liink' as an eleventh-hour effort Russian |>re-stir. itauwri the Vi./i Vitet t detente v...:; t-'.i.t. «»<•:• . .. (i. . I. ii liaurair.iaii'.- : -' i t -in to be driving sleaaily ahead. Tin* (»t-rmuiis Massed l!i.-ir liravirot assaults i . tin- K«:-r» ten seetiir ill' liie Kii*\ IiiiIiji . wlieri' fur weeks .Marshal V»n .M.iniislrin has Ixi'ii trying li> break Itllssian lb-lenses In-line the I kraini.in iapir.il city. I)i - s|iil<- the tin \ hi the Na/i <iti stauKhl. troops ut tin- first I k rainr army helil firm anil ac tually int|iritveil their positi%>ns. dispatches saitl. hi tin- /.hi ib in hcit.r or Whita ItUffiig, li 'i mill's . uii'.l: cl Vitl'i xii and So ni les in rtlmest .>1 <> • ' • '. ■i tank drive ot coaal tci'c.ty > launched hv tile eliomy. Heir. • the Soviet lines reltised !o yicll. In the drive toward I.atv ' lei I>.i£laim..n's veterans closed iu> Gorodok. an important i.;; mint in Vitebsk's northern diicn.-o.-. I'he Russians loreed their . •• aero.-s a strongly deletiscs v 'ei >arrier. i.:lluiK siAcral thousand Germans a: <1 overrunning SO n villages despite le lauccd etu y resistance. The German* launched lli r ' • - 'crattacks m one sector al< u< • in vain efforts to stop the Kuss an-, who sucocfled in briin-ma their ' in oig gar.* within range ol Vitebsk, ic-s than ll> miles awav. German tank attacks ot lesser in len.-.ty .-■• I:, o! K:ro. ograd n Hie Dnic|>cr bend area were beaten oft iy tl:e >ci iui t'kraine army whan lias already partly en< ireleci that dust rial city, the com in unique u - |H*rtcd. ■ jwwme pjy i&r RAF And Yank Bombers Attack Rocket Gun Coast -(AIM Hr Its i liitnil.H'1 liiri'rs twvo bom1 li.rnwn inii> attack.-. .'liiwii-t t i it* "|.nl.el .c !i o>;i>>t" «•» Kninoo. il \v;ts dii<clo.'ed 1.(1 y. V. It!) |ht« liAK's heavy r ntli'l' I let t Iih the t ii .->1 t •>' d'\ oi'to I from «• .ioh liirurts us Berlin In" slash)'- ..I tii i»«-t- in ?inHum ii l- t .i re. An HAK strike at tliln coast lust j ' iclit in Ii- " et irielit thiil t;ii^( "-o Croat lni|Mirtamar ii <i liccn >|«iltixl iittrl (I litr <le>|r .itnn in nnrtli i!ii Kr.«iieo anil i!• "ttt: tin' I'.Mf-" T". rl;i> :i I»i•; t«»l hiL'h tlymg IhhiiIht -tiv.i.i tl ;n >--• |he I'.i tisli so iIIk-'nI c«i,i.-I apparently bound lor (l.iyltnlit blows ill the wmc tiiii;ris TIlO I' S (If C lliilis ill'Oil. lllO Ifill'l "f I he Kreneh c"iiv| nearest I'.nuliiiul. llilS IX'I'II batterer! (Iff:—nit l_v since \l«"lirl<v . 11 if I tljr fl iv "It fmrtv n I dentin i us stirUfliiU thf .. r . lto n !i ill* r S • in- (( Kii h'i s m I.kikIum iie!ie\e the bo;i»1ed (i< hi mm cm phiienieir in Krjmee .He i •< <>i>ii t - Ii\ »•- .it lho>e cmieotiti led i .<i(i Highlit A i I-" co hciidciuiii*li'y!< (IIk* cliiM'tl lh;r K (I >\.i- tlir <>:»UTliv« nl' the hem \ I h. iIm'. r.i.d I leroinln i:t Tin- HAI"> iii-l photogiii|»h nl -r ii - rod lterlin sillei the xth hiMvy ll" ii i; >(,, !('(l November 11! >ll«lW ed .it len.«t 7n mr.it fiietoi e-. ii<»\ — ernmenl lniildinu> .iikI other impor tant structures diiiiiaticd. tin* . ir 111:jii-11 > iiniii'- mri'd. London moi'iiiiiii nowspiipei - inter pret rd the diintime reported 1" ne.m tli.it Id t" rill pci cent oi the Gcinmn c pitiil hud heen de.»l roved. with the iireii nl tiller desolation .ilie;id,v ex ■ ceding: thai ><f* ll tnhiniv W'esti'iu btrlin ratted the
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