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Henltersttn Bathj Hispatrh THIRTY-FIRST YEAR W"*E SEItVlCK OP TUB ASSOOIATKl) I'RKPS. HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 12, 1944 rUUMSHKI) KV Kit Y AFTERNOON e$&ept sunday. FIVE CENTS COPY Congress Is Split Over Service Act Bitter Fight Over President's Request Foreshadowed Today Washington. Jan. 11 — (A I') — President Roosevelt's re quest for enactment of nation al service legislation — under which the services of all men from IS to (>."> and all women from, IS to 50. with certain ex ceptions, would he subject to government call — split Con gress wide apart today and fort shadowed one of the most hitter fights of this election year. A cross section of sentiment in both Senate ami House indi cate [I it would lie touch and so whether the executive's request would he granted or denied, with the opposition seemingly having the edge. Labor leaders renewed their op positions, with CIO President Phi lip Murray dcnymnciug national M-rv ice lenisl.it ion ;is "quack medi cine" I«•i"* what lie termed the fail ures i>! legislative and executive agencies. Briefly, the measure provides that when voluntary recruit nient ot necessary workers fails. Jalior may he conscripted throimh local selective service hoards. All able-bodied men bcKiccn IK and Ii5 would he subject to such a labor draft while women front IK to 50. ex cept those with small children, or expectant mothers, also could he assigned. ..Workers assigned t'i industry certifying a need would receive tiie prevailing wage rates, wt.uld have I It e i i transportation furnished, wniltl lie guaranteed adequate housing, at it I would be protected in their light to reemployment at their original job. * Stocks Have Mixed Trends New York, Jan. 12. — (AP)— Heaviness o! certain key issues and ; lad «'t leadership generally handi capped the stock market today. Trends were mixed from the start with traetional declines more mnner nus than advances near the fourth ht.ur. Itoncin were irregular and com modities steady. Stocks inclined to slip incli'ded i Sears Roebuck. Bethlehem Steel, and 1 (••Midyear. Attracting better support j at intervals were American Can and ' Western Union "A." Values Rise For Cotton Now York, Jan. 1-.— (AIM—C'ot t >i! futures opened ion oont> a I»;»!«• Iiij.Ih'i to five rents lower. Noon \111<• wore 25 t'> 4tl rents ;i bale higher, March 19.9(1, May 19.01, and July 19.11. . m December (new) .. lB.Uti 18.97 Compromise Food Subsidy Bill Possible Washington, J >ii. 12.—(AP)-- lle liof thai 1'i-esidcnt Roosevelt loll llie door open for a compromise ol the loud subsidy battle was expressed in Congress today — even though the chief executive didn't mention tin? provocative word "subsidy" in his annual message yesterday. While he called for continuation of government controls over living costs, Mr. Roosevelt talked In terms which found ready acceptance among congressional leaders. One of the principal Senate foes of consumer food subsidies. Senator Aiken. Vt. R, said "no one could dis agree" with the President's .locom 'nend.ition for a cost of foods law authorizing government support of minimum guaranteed prices, coupled with a continuation of retail ceilings. Senate Democratic Leader Hark ley. expressing the view that additional legislation to authorize price support* would he needed, said. "As I see ii the President is most concerned abo.it holding in check the cost of the basic food items nnd if the prices of llixi lie# yy up, till light,-' l'rev. Close Open March May July ... October (new) I9.K5 19.87 19.511 19.58 19.33 19.33 19.10 19.10 Dies in Ohio Fire ANTANAS SMETONA, 69, President in-exile of Lithuania sincc the Rus sians invaded it in 1910, died ir. a lire which swept the home of his son, in Cleveland, O., A here he had resided sincc 10-12% Solie, 5B, wife of the Lithuanian .leader, escapcd injury. (internal ior.at Soundphoto) 34,000llile Road System is Proposed National Network of Highways Would Cost $750 Million Yearly Washington. .Ian. 12.—(AIM— President Roosevelt submitted to Congress today a proposal lor development of a nulinoal high way system of approximately 34. 000 miles to provide a network of modern roads "essential to the future economic welfare and de fense of the nation". It was estimated the program would cost $750,000,000 annual ly, "over a reasonable period of years". The chief executive transmitted to the legislators a repoi t by a nation .1 inter-regional highway committee which he appointed in April. 1941. to look into the need for a limited sys tem of national highways and the possibility of using manpower and industrial capacity which will be avail, ble at the end of the war. "The report recommends."' he in formed Congre.-s. "the designation and improvement to high standards of a national system of rural and urban highways totalling approxi mately 34.2110 miles and inter-con necting the principal geographic re gions of the country." Mr. Itoqpcvelt did not s y how much of the 34.000 miles represented new construction and how much rc» presented improvements of existing roads. Nor did the President -ay whether both Federal and state governn ents would be expected to share the costs of the highway system, but he said the expenditures would be divided about equally between urban and rural roads. Fear Rush To Jobs To A void Service Draft Washington, Jan. IU. —(AIM— A stampede of women, who comprise the chief reserve labor pool, to take any jobs which I hoy think might save them from arbitrary work as signments was predicted today in the wake ol 1'n v.deul Itnosevelt's re <jue I for a national service act. M npower niithoritle said they feared that such a reaction, coupled with the time lapse that would occur before any national service legisla tion could be put into effect, would upset present orderly employment recruiting. In addition, they foresaw possible abandonment ol plans for a combined military-civilian drive to recruit womanpciwer. | EASTERN GROWERS MODIFYING PLANS College Station. Kaleigh, Jan. 12.— I The present (arm labor shortage is I causing growers of Washington county to make many changes in their farming plans, ie ports County Agent \V. V Mays o| Plymouth to the State College Kxtension Service here. Tobacco farmers are making ar rangements with their neighbors to I swap work on that nop. Owners of ! large farms are consolidating their operation; as much as possible. Some ; grower are rushing the completion ! of tenant houses on their farms so • hat they will have a better chance j of holding good tenants. Land own ers . re buying a - much labor sav ing ir»«ehin«,ry as they can find in the JlliUiiCl. Reds Capture Rail Junction Of Samy ★ ★★ ★★ ★★ *★★★ ★★ ★★ ★ ★★★ ★ Allied Bombers Strike Athens Port Fifth Army Seizes More High Ground German Communique Says Nazis Evacuate Vill aye of Cervaro Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Jan. 12—(Al*)—Allied boniO ors, striking another day and , nijrlit double-header blow into the Balkans, battered l'iraeus, the port of Alliens in Greece, in heavy force yesterday, while I aground the Fifth Army seized more Itijrh ground in Italy. Al lied headquarters announced today. I (The German ciimmtiiii«iut: said the Nazis had hri-ii (liriiwii nut til' Cervaro. fortified villaec lour miles southeast of Cas sino on tile Koine rami, "alter haul lielitiiiK." and also lost a iniiiintain top to the northeast. (Cervaro was the last village out post guarding Cassinu. the powei i ill Na/.i stronghold blocking tile road l<> Koine. Allied t;ilops had I closed m on the village from the | Mouth and the northeast.) I The ground comimiiiiiilie said the Filth Army advanee eon tinned "anil some further liigh ground was se./.eu. Kueiny pockets of resist a nee were clean ed and our front line straight ened out." One German patrol crossed the Garigliuno river southeast of Cas tel Forte, headquarters said, taking : up positions in farm houses. But an Allied counter attack dislodged the Nazis and forced them back over the river. Artillery duels and patrol activity marked both the Filth and Eighth Army fronts. The British destroyers 'I roubridge and Tumult crawling the Adriatic coast Sunday night damaged rail way trains by gunfire, nad hit a schooner, drvnng it aground. Their guns also bombarded San Benedet to. Eleven enemy plait.es were de stroyed during widespread opera tions, and seven Allied aircraft were missing. Mitchell bombers hit the rail.vard at Falconara northeast of Koine, and Fabriano in northcentral Italy, halting trail t ic in the Falconara yards at least temporarily, and blasting concentrations of rolling stock at Fabriano. Hannegan Is Probably New DemocratHead Chicago, Jan. 11! —(AP)—Holjert K. Ilunucgan, ol St. Louis, tauw United States Commissioner ol In tern.') 1 Htvenue in Washington, is expected to succeed Postmaster General Frank ('. Walker as chair man of the Democratic National Committee when that committee meets 111 Washington January 2'J to pick a nalional convention site. Walker would not discuss his im pending resignation, hut it was learned authoritatively that he in tends to step out ol the political joh and thai llanncgan has the in side track as his successor. Others who have been mentioned for Democratic chairman are David Kelly, national committeeman from Kargo, N. I), and George K. Allen, of Mississippi and Washington, D. C., now secretary ol the committee. Late Tickets Will Retard Soldier Vote III the Sir Walter lliilH. Daily Dispatch Hufail. BY I.VNN NINIfKT Raleigh, Jan. IJ Commenting on Washington dispatches saying thai Dt mocs alic leader- had ahont given up hpoc nf fixing a late dale for the nation convention and thus having a -liort campaign. Thad Km c, secretary .of stale and cx-officio administrator of the federal soldier-voting act. said he favored an early convention. His experience with the soldier I (Continued uu Page Three) WOUNDED ARRIVE IN THE UNITED STATES AMERICAN SOLDIERS woumlcd In Africa and Italy happily hail the "good old U.S.A." as the Army hospital ship Acadia do ks at an East Coast port. Standing by to greet them were two military bands pi.tying swing tunes. The 776 casualties were taken to nearby hospitals. Later, in line with the government's policy to have them recuocrate near home, they will be taken to hospitals in their borne states. (JvteraaLwnal) 60 (J. S. Bombers May Be Lost FDR Demand I For Tax Boost | Is Ignored Washington. Jan. 11 — (AP) — j President Itooscvelt's implied . de mand for sharply increased taxes ! v.as all but shrugged oil today by a Congress which had heard—and re jected—a series of similar sugges tion* from the Treasury. The lirst move is up to the Sen ate. which began work on the $12, 275,61)0,001) tax increase bill, which the President regards as inadc- , quale, by voting to freeze the social security payroll tax throughout HM4 at the current rate. A "realistic tax la\y" led off the President's legislative recommenda tions in his annual message yes terday on the state of the union. He contended the pending bill "does not begin lo meet" the test of tax ing all unreasonable profits and re ducing the ultimate cost of the war. Congressmen generally interpret ed that phrase as meaning that the ehiel executive wants all or most of the S10.50tUM>0.000 additional revenue repeatedly sought by Treas ury Scent ary iUnrgenthau. ! Absentee Vote .Issue Still Is Unsettled Washington. .Ian 12. — (AC) —1><• - pilea pi>' idi-iilial request lor a Fcl : era I ballot In y'w .»I i I y soldier will ehampioiis ol ' iigiit- clung to their belief tod v that I hey will triumph when t e is.-uc comic- to a ballot. UeprcMnlive llankin. Mi.-s. I)., of Ihe House Klectl'-iij CommitIce. one of llio.-c siipp 'ilinu >tate eontiol. .-aid he felt a-siired Ihe House would ap prove a oill leaving the election machinery where it now lies. Hcpreseiilativ e H.mnagan. Va. Dr. expressed tlie !»«■!thai il Congri-s ran protect the < il rights ol person in the armed services through Un civil relief act it has e(|» I power to adopt a Federal ballot system, irres pective of any claims that il would be iincmMitutionol. Meanwhile, in a report In Chair man W or ley. Secretary of War Stim son emphasized the difficulties which be said would ensue in attempting lo h tulle absentee ballots front the 18 j tales, instead ol one single Fcdeiai ballot. WEATHER FOB NOBTII ( ABOIJNA Increasing cloudiness with little chance in temperature to night and Thursday. Slightly higher temperatures in northern • ral portion tonight. Rain in east portion by TIiui'mIm.v aftcrnuoii. Officila Report Not Yet Made on Great German Air Battle London. Jan. 12 — (AP) — London pros* speculated today that the t nited States Air Force had lost three score bombers in yesterday's attack on Germany. Today's German broadcast ennimnuinupie claim ed I-">6 American planes, in cluding 124 lour - engined bombers, were shot down, and German c e n s o r e d reports reaching Sweden estimated the United States Air Force lost 2") percent of the planes sent over western Germany. All those fie(ires were with out official confirmation—tflie highlit Air Force was still com piling its reports almost 24 hours after the bombers' return from the assault, which turned into a three-hour running battle. The Scandinavian telegraph bu reau's Berlin c >nespondenl, esti mating losses .it 2."» percent... said there u..s speculation that Nazi plane- \\i •• equipped with a 'l vv set lit device which improved their effectiveness in combatting the heavy bombers. A preliminary Ui:::ed Stale.- nn nounceiiieist on the attack, iinques tion.ililv one ot the greatest aerial battles i'l '.he war. said the bombers' cscrl i.iludt:! Tlr.iiule: 'inlts. I.ight nings and a now iype <>t Img-nntgo 1 ighter. \ Sti-fkhi'lm correspondent said pari of yesterday's atl.ick. at Iravt, was directed against .Mangdchurg. important arms and railroad center about 100 miles west of Iterlin. and Ilal liresladi, in the same vicinity. The correspondent added "lliat I'ertresses Hew across the out skirts of Merlin for the first little in attacking these places. He said the At erican I hers f«-iti1 — ed Inward IJerln. and an alarm sounded there in -1 be: • e noon yes terday—the second lane since the war's start that a real daylight warning h-«s beet given in Berlin, i An "unhnpi'rtant part" nt the bombers swept «.\«■ r the outskirts *>| Berlin. ..ti<l was met by anti-air craft lire, while most o| the planes turned south toward the main ob jectives. it added. The Germans admilbd the loss <>l only nine planes. 194} CORN HYBRID TESTS ARE SHOWN j College St ition. Kaleigh. .Ian. 12. | itesnlts ol nlI.'. i ll tc.-t» "ii corn hy brid- i"i lt»i:t m North Carolina have been published a^ Aginnomy Information Ciictilai No. III4 and are I now available for distribution to I grower*. officials "I the Agricultural j Ksperimenl Station at State College j announcerl here today. j The Slate Seed Law requires tlie i official testing ol corn hybrids be ! fore thev mav become eligible for i sale within the state. A free copy ol this information may be obtained by wilting the North Carolina Crop lin pioxemcnt Association. State Col lege, Haleiglj. Court Rules On Leave For Yelton fi.ilcigli. Jan. 12 — <AP> — The State Supreme Court ruled today !r, an advisory opinion Unit Nathan J Yelton. controller of the State Board ol Kdrcution. now in the army, may be granted a leave >1 absence as a constitutional officer of the State. Tne opinion requested by Gover nor Broughton and signed collec tively by the seven-member co.irt. authorized the Governor to grant Yel ton's leave and to appoint an acting controller for the duration ol the leave. Terming the opinion one that ' 1-; of considerable importance and in terest," the court did not specify the ■ length of ihe time the leave may | involve, but authorized the Gov ernor to proceed with the task e•' filling the oflice. POINTS TO FACTORS IN COTTON PROGRAM College Station. I! ill uli. .Ian 12.— | | < >110 of the most important lactoi s in | the one-variety cotton improvement I | program i» a continuous supply ol high-grade .-ced toi planting each Mineedinjj crop, reports County A vent \\\ ( > I).: \ • Halifax coun ts. tn the St.iU' C 'lli'ue K\tension Sen ice here. Mailt..--, won Ill's! place in the col ton improvement runtc-t lor 1!H2 and ha- placed i fiMdnahle em phi-i> <'ii lull -upplie- "I good coi tion seed for better taple and (jital I ! Supply Route Of Germans Is Broken Red Troops Plunge West Beyond Sarny In Drive to Railway London. Jan. 11—(API—Rus sian troops of the first I'kraine army have captured Sarny. Pre mier Stalin announced today, .seizing the fortified railway junction 3.i miles within old Po land after an assault over the Sluch river. The key railway center, astride a north-south line and also on a line w est to Warsaw, had virtual ly been encircled, and Soviet ad vance units already were push ing beyond Sarny. Towns on the railway north and south were taken yesterday. effectively breaking the Nazi supply route, and forcing the Germans to rcl.v on the railway running through IJrcst-Litovsk i:».« miles farther west. Moscow. Jill'. l'J — (AIM — Rile army troops smashed heavy Herman counterattack.'', yesterday as I key plunjred westward heyi.nd Sarny to ward Brest-Lit ovsk and in cl'eased their threat to the Od essa-Warsaw trunk railway in the lower l*krainc. dispatches to the army newspaper Red Star said today. The Nazis were mustering all available tanks and infantry re serves in an effort to stem the Russian advance. Kcd Star dis patches said, and fighting all along the front was violent. At 110 point, the dispatches said, was the enemy able to stop the Soviet drive. Furious tank charge.; against troops of General Nikolai Vatutin approaching the Odessa - Warsaw railway were beaten back. Red Sta:* said, with guerilla detachments lending valuable aid. The Germans were also reported launching I icrce counter-.issaults. but these wetc smashed. Red Star added. From inside the Dnieper bend where huge concentrations of Ger man troops laced encirclement by the forces led by Vatutin and Gen eral Ivan Konev. enemy resistance also was increasing. Rod Star said. These German counterattacks were not surprising, it was pointed out. as there have been recurring reports of heavy German reinforce ments being pushed to the front as the situation became more and more dangerous. The Nazis, it was saiel. must continue their resistance. 110 matter w hat the cost, in order to avoid a major calamity nut only in the Dnieper bend bat as far west as Odessa. The war is already being brought closer to Rumania as Vatutin's troops continue their march to throw the Germans hark on the resources of that satellite nation. The Naz's. dispatches sai<Tr"~Have been able to bring in reserveST m divisional strength, despite their re verses of the past two weeks and these fresh units have taken up the tight under commanders who liava been rushed to the front to try lu halt the Red army offensive. i Hucn Peninsula Control Is In Sight For Allies I Advanced Aliici Headquarters, I Now Guinea. .liin. (Al*) —Com ! plete control i>f the 11 ion peninsula | on northeast New G i.nea \v;is in sight tin the Allies today. Australian* ! defeated the .!;• pstiicsf in a tank iind artillery actum tin ic which ended with tiic victors eroding the Htu i river «>n the coast. The Japanese, finding their posi tion more and more untenable as the Australians torceu them up the coast tow id American r > asion troops at | Saidor. staunchly resisted the A us - sies but tin ally gave way before tup tanks, leaving their dead on the | field. I General Douglas Mac Arthur's com intini<tue reporting t He Australian , victory also told of Allied au action 1 against enemy barges , nd supply ! points along the New Guinea coast, j Many barges, some of them bearing | troops which the Japanese may be attempting to evacuate ■ from the . Allied nutcracker, have been de stroyed m recent dayt,. L" n i led Stoics Marines smashed back 1<> .In punt' so counterattacks south of Bor«on Bay in northwestern Now Brit.iin, ;<lid advanced slightly ill th< ii light fill 11111 00(1. important height in tin- Capo Gloucester area. Allied heavy bombers helped Ihu leathernecks with smashing ttackd on enemy delense positions. Nabattl. big enemy base on tho northeastern tip of iNew Britain, was raided by heavy bombers, torpedu and dive bombers from Allied Solo mon's bases. The attiick Sunday was continuation of daily hammerings here for more than two week*. 1*' ist reports sadi the raiders and their escort ing lighter* blasted I ft ercmy interceptors from the skies at a r ist of lour planes. Later advices from South Pacific headquarters boosted the Japanese losses to 21 planes for certain and five probables. A total of 78 Nipponese aircraft have been downed over Kabaul since .Jan uary 1 on the basis ol the revised
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