Batlu Utspatrh THIRTIETH YEAK HENDERSON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 31, 1<>43 f'l'HMSIIKI) H V K It Y AFTUIINUU.N KXC'El'T Kl'NUA Y. FIVE CENTS COI'Y FR Proposal Rejected By Rail Unions Non-Op Unions Refuse President's Basis for Arbitrating Dispute Washington. Doc. "1—(AP) —The 15 railroad non-operating union today rejected President Roosevelt's proposed basis for arbitrating their wage dispute. and insisted they were entitled to a ruling on overtime independent of evcri* other consideration. A letter it) reply to one from the President yesterday said "we do not agree to arbitration on the basis you propose." The President had outlined In them the scope of tlie dispute as he saw it. He lumped together the sliding scale increases and the overtime, hut the uniotueontend the sliding seale increases have keen removed from the arena of arbitration by their aereptanee of them. It was understood the President's terms for aribitration were acceptable to the carriers. vi mi i-oiuinni'o uarKcneu prospects for an early settlement of the wage dispute, army control of llio government-seized railroads for ai. indrfintie time appeared likely. I'rrsidpnt llooscvelt advised is ready to make a filial f'ecisiou in their ease, but lie stinthe 15-iion-operatiiiK unions he ulatcd a Itasis of arbitration which the union chiefs say is unacceptable. The War Department said i! wanted to return the rail system (■> private management but could not I because at least two unions—the firemen and conductors—instead of cancelling strike orders, had merely postponed them for the period of government operation. The union chiefs, alter lashin:; Ihc administration in one statement, asserted in reply to the War Department that they hail d< nc all they had agreed to d. Grinnells, chairman of tin1 conterence committee and veterinarian of the Slate College Experiment Station, announced here yesterday. He said that the disease is very difficult to diagnose at certain periods in its cycle and that it i< .still more difficult to control because animal carriers of the disease arc not easily located. It is produced by a blood parasite. DISCHARGE BITTONS READY Camp Butner, Dec. .'II.—Lapel bul-i tons for wear on civilian clothes to | signify an honorable discharge from . military service are now available ; at the Camp Butner military per- '■ sonnel office, announced Col. II. M. Pool, post commander. The billions, which are in the custody of Capt. Cbyton II. Hanzhaf, director of militory personnel, will be free to alt personnel who have served honorably in the Army of the United States since Sept. U. IIWI), which began the period of the national emergency. MAY RECEIVE SPECIAL RANKS Washington. Dec. .'!l — (AP)—The Atony and Navy Journal expressed belief today tliat President Roseveil Intends some new and special rank for Gen. George ('. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, and Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief ol the Navy. _ ■ CLOSE-UP OF NAZI 'SECRET WEAPON 1 • v * THIS BEING A WAR of "secret weapons," hero is the German contribution, which is no longer a secret. It is a rear view of Iho much written obout rocket guns used on the Russian front. Weapons of this type, on ■ much larger scale, arc believed to line the French Channel coast for us» against the Allies when they start their invasion. (International) Airdrome Captured On Cape Gloucester By Marines Of U. S. Occupation Thursday Just Four Days After Landing by Invaders Advanced Allied Headquarters, New Guinea, Dee. :>1— (AD —Strewing the jungle with hundreds of dead Japanese, United Status Marines; captured savagely defended' Cape Gloucestei and its air-! drome four days and a few. hours- after .( sualwrne force ] from New Guinea invaded that' northwest New P.ritain strong-, point. Today the surviving, Nipponese I'aeed entrapment. O.i tin- la.-l day «>l 1!M3. U. Cien. Waller K metier, ".'le I". S. Sis 111 Army, proudly anno . eril. "I have the honor to present tin* Gloucester airdrome lo the i-'inmnnder-in-1 ehiel as a New Ye.u'. present." The irrrsistahle manner in I which the Marines hunted their I way through pillhnv defenses with flame throwers, brilliantly sil|i|n>rte are attached 1" General KrueRor's army, landed iiii»|>|»im d Sunday at B<>rRCii Flay, mi the east side of the cape. They crossed beaches clearer! of .1 i|)iincse by naval and air bombradments and cracked entrenched jii 'ule |Kis:titilis t<. net .it the airdrome. Now they are mopping up survivors who. at any time, may come under fire of another Marine 'nice, landed Sunday southwest of the tape. Capture of Cape Gloucester cut the New Guinea-New Britain sea supply line .ilons New Britain's imriii c iast just as the caputre of lira we. fid miles to the southeast, on December 15 in the initial invasion of the island cut the south •nasi route. Cape Gloucester ir. Allied hands poses an air menace to nearby bases in the Bismarck archi« pelago and places in ail evergrowill!!
  • abaul. 2(>0 miles on the iwrllie,'stern end ot Xew Britain. I!;.baul now is being visited daily I • i 'in the Solomons by American lighter planes. The enemy's erii1"blin:j positions mi Bougainville ii> She northern Solomons is adding swiftly t<> Kabaul's peril. Governor Sees Yietorv And Progress For 1941 Year Now Ending Is Good One for State, He Thinks In (In* Sir Waiter iloiel. I).lily Dispatch itiirt.iu. I$Y I.VNN MSIHT Raleigh, Dcc. 31 -In « resume of State activities durum Governor ISrouuhton declare- r ' • inline (if tin* most notable >< i - m 'lit* hislory of (he State. witii 'lie ir11pact of will* having bee. r* 11 i > eve/y citizen. ;:nd cvitv Si i!i* ; cy influenced by wartime den • s. Ill* rinds iipihi tin* whole tin* i»■ >«pli* of the State have recognized !iie responsibilities and madr nf lh<* opportunities invoked in this situation. While commcnding Slate r'» ;■ irtment.s and officials. the ito\ i 11< r's chief praise is reserved for tin- private citizcrs who have Uep' "d isIry, agriculture and comnicrce l high productive levels. I A recalls that there are two hurdred and fifty thousand or ore North Carolinians in uniform. i'i every branch* of tin* armed servjc< . and represented on almost everv fighting front. At the same time there have been stationed a' I>• fifty-odd training; camps i this State sometimes as many ,1s hall a million men from other States. Presence of so many military installations has imposed hc.ivy rcspnn'ih'litics on the Stale Olid its people, but these responsibilities have been met by every agency giving full cooperation with the military authorities. Looking ahead to after tin' war. the governor sees some of the hospitals at tin* camps made i ailable for civilian use and Kiiftt'^'4 that counties or combinations of counties might develop them into line lubrrcular sanitaria. High tribute is paid to Tar Heel farmers, who under severe handicaps produced record yields of essential crops. While commendim! the room r iti' c altitude of the State and ieutiui ±dUl» it this year." Similar commendation is accorded industrial workers, bi.lh the owners and the workers in plants that have contributed so much to the naval need, lie finds reason for Kratil ication in the tact most of the industrial production lias come from old established plants, only a few temporary war babies having been set up m the State. This means an easy transition back to poacc time production. The seventy million dollar reserve in the unemployment compensation fund is pointed to as assurance auainst actual want in case of extended unemployment; but lie finds better assurance in the provis >n being made to provide jobs. "The best protection for lalior is not unemplc ymcnt compensation, but employment." he said. Along with agriculture and industry has come. too. a revival ot interest in mining with prospects almost unlimited for tuture develI opulent. ■** i The governor finds occasion for pride in other tields than the nvtc.'tal. 'I lie Stall1 has made si(*nificant progress in educational ji"d cultural lines. The year saw th» nine months scWpol established: teacher salaries raised: vocational i luiaiion expnaded: library facilitiis «really enlarged and State recounition of the arts and music b> II,r first approoritv'ion ever mailt lor their promotion. Of course, tin- general fund surplus gels attention, but (Snvernoi Puoughton puts more emphasis or i s< me of the evidences of growtl' in State services than on the anioun Iof money in banks. II ivivnu come through the trial: of I IMS with such flying colors. th< j uovernor s.iys North Carolina f*ice! the future with liich optimism (Cuii'.iuUkd oil Five) 5th Army Takes San Vittore ★ ★ i ★ ★ ★ ★★ * ★ ★★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ Reds At Bug River Defenses Drive Wedge In Routed # Nazi Forces I Great Red Offensive Carried to Within 30 Miles of River j Moscow, Dec. :;i — (AIM —' ' Russian I o r c e s streaming! through tli«' greatest hole yet torn in Nazi defenses have broken into the outer Hug river defenses in a driving offensive that has split lilt: routed remnants of Nazi General Yon Mannstein's legions and carried to within o(l miles of the river! itself, front line dispatches said today. J The liussian columns sweep- | iiiR Inward the lius. Ci-rmanv's i next line isf defense ahum the seutliecntral Iront wcsl of the | Dnieper river, through down i the Keiv-Zlimerinka railway to open a deep wedge in the reel- j ! nig Nazi arm.v. I Gi noi l i NiUi.uli VaUitin's vani guards were reported to within i-i. . miles of the old Polish border and i within !•<> miles of the Dniester riv-' 1 er whirl) forms Uumat ia's old eastI ern bonier. With the War.saw-Smrla rail- ■ i way severed at captured Kazatin. only one supply line re- i in.lined open to the retreating Nazis hclore the main Odessa- , I.wiiw line itself is endangered. I That •••'.'• 1 line fi-«m I'a- | land winds southeastward through the I kraine and United army advance lias carried ' to within "ill miles of the sup- { ply link, fulling of this line j would mean that all supplies for i Nazi forces in the Dnieper bond anil west of Kiev would have to move over the Odessa-l.uou railway. The advance colnmns sweeping) southwest ward toward trie old borders of I'lilami and Huniania was i just 150 miles Iroiu the provincial' center at Vumii/a on the ipper Hug i river. Vinit/a lie.- only (it) miles from the Dniester. Another arm o General Vat itin's First Ukrainian army was striking we.«wt«rd in a hard hitting mobile adv ance out Ilanding Zhitomir. This arm was reaching for Chepotovkn. 7n miles west of Zhitomir, the biugost railway junction of the J Ukraine, and Novograd Volvnski. a i junction < t two main highways about 45 miles northwest of Zhitomir. The Russians were about 2ti miles west of Zhitomir and Korosten at several points, and the great breaki through, now almost 2WI miles wide. I was affording a great now area of operations. MICA AND FELDSPAR REPORTS COMPLETE! O.iilv Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY LYNN NISBLT llaleigli. Dec ill.—Or. Jasper I,. Stueky. Si;itf geologist. said Kriday tli.it reports ol surveys of micM. leldspiir iintl kaolin. in which tin- Stale and feder I govornnients co-operated are about ready for pi. dication. ; The reports ate expected to i>e interesting and valuable in view >•! the strategic place mica is playing in ; mechanized warfare. For many years thi> stale roducci | about (in porcont of llie mi' mined in the United States, Since Pearl llarbor the ratio lias stepped up to To per cent. Mica lias many sir itcgie war uses, but it« most vital function is for insulation of electrical com; niunicaliiHi equipment. including radio and radar. So impot i r t i* ■!. for the w r. the government has alj located $25.HO(l for the nest cal i year to complete surveys ami reports. Heart of the mica prodi r ■ g area lies around Spruce Pine, but Iris been found in large (piantitv m .l.x-kson.C'Icvcland and other coutr < • Ho— centl.v attention has been i; >'n to deposits in Caswell con Iv I'.very deposit is being sought out and appt* iscd, bnl presently producing efforts are being put forth in the mountain districts where I hi* (piantitv and quality of mien ba> been pr< nen. The studies soon to be published. Dr. Stuckcy said, wil be of icstiinable value for war production, and of equal worth in the developnfont era cxpcctcd to follow ccs-Jtion ol li«litinj. _ 'WE WIIL WIN IN 1944— GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER emphasizes a point at liis last news conference before going to Britain to assume his command as leader of the Allied invasion forces from the west. He predicted that the Allit ; would win the Eufopc .n war in 1914. OWI RadiODhoto. (International) Suburbs Of Paris Bombed By Allies In Daylight Raid Paris Blow Follows Great 3,000 Plane Attacks Yesterday London. Dec. .'»! — (AI') — Allied planes bombed the suburbs of I'aris in dayliirht today, tin- I'aris radio announced, after yrrat formations of fighters and bombers of all types bail streamed out after dawn in a continuation of the l'.M'l grand finale that sent moiv than ".000 planes over enemy targets yesterday. Tlio brief radio announcement 5Jvr no details, and it was mil humrdiatcl.v known whether I lit* I'aris Itlow \uis dealt by American heavy bombers or l»y fleets ol' Allied medium bombers. I'aris. adinini-tral ion ceniei |nr Gcrn•;.!! occupation until"! I.e.-. ili i V.'/i war pr iductcenter. The Kenault works mi tl. Seine i— land at Uillancolirl is rep . ted In luprodueing transport vehicles. tanks, and airplane engines. Nearby is the (inohii -IJhnne work.-, which turn- , out airplane engines the Germans. Today's attacks were in the wake of an assault on an oli.ieetive—which was not announced but which nsa> have been the ehemieal and poison sas works of the (Germans at l.udwiijshafcii deep in southwestern (iermauy — \ ester da.\ by the srratcsl lleel of t uited States bemliers and fighters ever sent attains) the Iteieli. Tin ei .-.'il; i..id.- I IMS today alko followed fresh blows last night by | RAF M«»x|iiilos which hit target in \v(s|. in Germane and imrtlu.n Kranee and new mill)-laving >>p' tioiu. 1:1 which 11* -! .1 single Allied plane wa- losl The <1 ylight . •peratmn.- today weie launched in e.• 1.1 line weather by I lock- o| iredinr' bombers vvhlcli returned in an heiir An ithcr ure.it Imre weal out between Folkestone .nifl Dutigenc.. heading toward the French with nuiiierotis squadron* 01 fighters living top co\ er Tin Fortresse- ind I.iWerntm.- with their huh ling e.-< rt -hot down 2'.i Nazi plane- in their dnyllght foray* yesterday which lollowcd the IMI' J.2"i Ion blockbusting ol Merlin on Wcdne-day night. In return the Germans ilnblwl only li'-'htly by southeast Knuland la.-; night. c'.u.-ing slight d.image al "lie place bid no casualties. Soldiers Announced Missing in Action Washington. Dec. 31 The War Department made public today the names of at!" United Stales soldiers mi.--ing ni action, <>i the group, the following are from North Carolina Missing 111 trie Km ope 11 area: S«l. Douglas T. Johnson, grandmother. Mrs. Delia T. John son. Four Oaks. Miss am in the "Pacific area Tech. Fifth Grade George McDowell, mother. Mrs. Luac McDowell, tliiiabcthtoven. Cotton Charge May Be Raised Ten Percent Washington. Ui'tv 31.—t AP)—Tlit Ottice el Price Administration a: • noimced today lli.it cotton warehousenu'ii in Alabama. Florida. Georgia North Carolina. South Carolina . iu Virginia may increase their maxiiiHiiii charges ten percent for tin period through July HI, 1SM4 I ■ >i services 111 the storage and hur.dlnu ol cotton. Serf ires iiicliuicd are those •> storing. receiYTng. handling and compressing cotton. Tile increase i.» Ilowed. Ot'A said to oftsct higher operating expense: and to assure continue: co of adequate warehousing facilities. Profit Taking On Market New York, Dec. 31.— iy,. ,,ut nwn.\ lenders managed to extend the nd\ .in.hy i r ft ions : jioinl or more Occasional improvement was rc> gi.-tered lor I' S. su-el, Onysler .1: ( A'lu'i c hi teU'juio •• l.e-cr.- int lude< U estmghoi i-e. Sot til. Iii 111 a ay .nit General Klectiic. ft'heat lut ues i ii lined liotids did select,vely better. EXCESS PROFITS LAW APPRAISED AT DUKE D.irha . IV 31 Co oini 4 detailed exposition "i the provision i> the excess profit- ta\ laws will appraisal ts ce no me ei;e Law and Contemporai v Problem.-. tin Dtikc Lnw School (|iiiirterly, hus jus published a -ymp >-u .• >! eleven . tlicles on "Excess Pro: t» Taxation.' This -v pnsiuni the first of sf'fs • ' 'I'lce ■■ sin v.1 ••• 1 • 11.1 rpiarte iy v. ill devoir t«» the proolem arising troii' tin vii.-' volume ol \va eoitlmcU and tin.- go eminent'* ellolls in keep proiits t" rcasonabW levels The next issue in the serie | which will Mppcai shortly, will diM 1 W illi "War Coiitr ic' Hi cgotiatmn.' and the Mi I'd. w til "U . r Contrac Termituition.' WtAl BiKR FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair with little rliancc ill Inn lirrature tonielit ami Saturday ! except slirhtlv conlcr In inouuI,tins tonight. Fair and mild I tundav. Town Near Cassino W on By Allies Last Fortified Town Near Cassino on Road To Rome Is Captured New York. Dee. 21 —(Al'l — The It.ilain Bari radio said to. duv that the Allied Fifth \rmy '•ad raptured the fortified villace of Sail Vitlorc near Cassino 011 the road to liouic. A broadcast to Italy recorded by the OWI said lliat the village. the last lorlilii-d town in the valley leading to strategic Cassino. was captured alter a stubborn (ierinau defense. Allied Headquarters. AI jri«*rs. l)ei*. -".I — \ve-t i-hji^i of ! Italy ib.!i>i of i(v (i;iri;rliaii'» 1 l iver yesterday. ; in! -eirvd tininitiative from iit«- C!:-imniis I along the -lalema'-•«! ami \v;i| lerlojfjrt'd Iran', in that -<<*tor. Allied heiidt|i-ariei • : tuiouic--d ! today. J lit- :iiiuoui1< :i:.H. i u'i >(V !| at least in iwrl that the \'li"s hail made anaiuphihions lra|>fws attack in that am ami had c>talilishril a liri.lurhr.nl. Berlin broadcasts >i 'ItTtiay h ^i'l .that the All it" had boon nivvuite-l i from reachinsi the Appiati Waj n'l i Hint the lighters have I •von /.''I Ion the beaches with lu-.vy casu. !'i<>s tor the landing I• "'e;.s. '1 i.. y | cfty in this battle urea i< Mlt turn •, ! flinhllv inland !:«-m *11• i The attacks !>\ the A!tie: "oii'i| lered a heavy two-day otie:i.-i\e by tile German Tenth Army in I: CI:i— i nj'liano sect" r aimed at the I wii ■>:' , Ponte Fiumo at the mouth of the I river. Headquarters save n» additional information a hint Undine of American troops to take San Vittore. laM fortified v •!lase in the valley leading io ( issino. Hitter fighting has been rasing there and the to" >• has been reduced to rubble by Allied artillery, advices from the front said, hut the Germans \tree <1 n« into wine cellars underlying the town wlice it u.ij difficult to reach them with artillery fire. The communique said lh;.i act c.i Ion the Firth *rmy front was confined to pair. 1 activity oncvi'1 for 1 (ierman sheilmt; •>: Mian..:vi. Chi the Eighth Army front the I hard lighting troops ot tin C'an.ut| ian First Division plunged another mile " >ithward :imn o. t r . j>nttinc their I ti.s it about tu ■ ile.-; In ni the city, and front lit «■ dispatches s.ii.i they had established edvancr I1 >s:t.oils with'.:! i'"til : lie t«:it's of the vita' p.- ! ! Pcsc ira. Their drive was conci lltr.>ted ill ] a German-h^id cnyilac ml on a j ilill overlooking the Adi at c Se;i ! near the mo: th <>l the Teso-o ri\er land controlling much of tin* ground ; o\ t r which the adv ance bcr.fj I made. Steel Work Goes On; Talk 1 New Contracts Pittsburgh. Dec. 31.—(AIM- With niiinv collect ve barua.ir.tu: mil i ,u-|s i\| >).u lies! week in the teel in(litotry, President Philip Murray of the 1'irted Steel Wo-kev- I iron, today reiterated instruct io: - i" the I men «•! the mills t■ • continue ;it their iobs wli li- 'In- leaders <»f t ic minus I ticuotiato new contracts. Kxpir lion «> contract- ■ t-i 211 1 comppnie* on December "I started i -Irike which spread to IT" nun wo >er- before t \\ is ended I ■ ember 2K l>v a guarantee of i> v re. traclivily by the War l.fibor iioard 1 in newly ne^otmted wl id • Nc\: \londa> '•ont'.icts > . " i- w.th I In compii'irs iticlMdina