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BmUj THIRTY-FIRST YEAR WIUK SKItVII'K OK TUB ASSCKIIATKD I'HKHS. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 1<K, 1JU1 I'UUl.ISHKO KVKHY AKTKHNUON K.NCKI'T SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY London Vehement In Denying Talk Of Separate Peace Room and Bath YIELDING to no man In proclaiming the superiority of all things American, Pvt. Canner Madden of Evarts, * Ky., concedes that he has to hand It to the Italian mud. It's the stickiest. clammiest in the world, he says. Note his bunk is only about three inches above the goo. U. S. Signal Corps photo, (Internaliosal) Setback For Service Act Suggestion Action on Service Draft Indefinitely Postponed by Group Washington. !!•—(AIM — President Roosevelt's recommenda1 i<>11 tor national service legislation gut .i setback on Capitol Hill Uloay when the House Military Committee voted to sidetrack it indefinitely. In some legislative quarters, this step just a week alter the White llo isc recommendation was believed to foretell the end of such lcgislation tins session. The action. C'hairmiia May (Ky.. I).) explained after a meeting behind closed doors, does not preclude future consideration of such lcgislat on. under which the services of most ir.cn and women would be subject to government call. "We decided to hold it in abeyance for the lime being pending further developinnets," May told 1001 ters. The Senate Military Committee, he explained, already has arranged for hearings on the legislation and tin' House group ceil Id avail itself of information gathered by that committee if it desires to consider Hie bill later. Indications were. May said, that (lie House coinmit1< <• would call for hearings later to determine the need for the legisla Mustering Out Pay Question To Be Settled Washington, .J.hi. W> — (/MM—The House fared .1 new hold-the-hne Imlit today vilh its military committee spearheading !• drive to Keep a $:iii(i ceiling "ti mii.^ioi'inu °ut I'-'.v f« i* discharged servicemen and WOIIICII. (>n tin' niiliiHiic <>f tin' issue, which is expectcd to !><• .settled by nightfall, depends not only how much wiir veterans shall receive to tide them over between their discharge jiikI their return to private jobs. Imt also the amount of bonus or adjusted compensation they will net under legislation almost certain to come ns soon as the war ends. PROMOTIONS Washington. Jan. 18 (At*) The \V,ir Departmont announced today the following promotions: Second lieutenant to first Iieutcnant: Mall Oraham Slubbs, Jr.. fte i Springs; Nathan Thomas l.assiter, ICR K.ist J< hrstoii street. Smithfield: and Frank (.ray man Stieailn, Jr. OH Park a\cnuu, WiUun. Pravda Publication Of British-German Peace Is Denounced London, Jan. 18— (Al1) — The British press minced no words in expressing indignation over l'ravda's publication of a British-German "separate peace" talk rumor, the London Daily Mail denouncing it as insulting and the Mannchester Guardain calling it a "slanderous accusation." The morning papers generally dsiplayed the story mi their front I pages, emphasizing that the British I foreign office had issued a Hat denial < I the truth of the report printed in Moscow by the Communist party organ. Not one London London afternoon paper published the Moscow story jesterday. although there was no censorship ban. In the absence of any official cxplanatii n from Moscow, and in view of tlu» wide circulation given the rep' rt yesterday by the Moscow radio, the Daily Mad said the British government "may deem it necessary in the near future to reassert in Commons their determination to abide by their agreements never to make a separate peace." Continuance Of Big Army Is Advocated High Point, Jan. 1<!.- (AP)—Warren Athorton ol Stockton, California, national commander of tlx- American Legion, says the only way in whicn I utlire wars can l>e prevented is lor tliis count r.v_ to keep up "an American navy Chat can patrol and defend the oceans adjoining our .shore.-.: an army tli.it can take the ot tensive right now, and an air lorcc th-it can rule the .skies." This, he .said last night in an address before North Carolina Department Post officers here, means "training every boy and girl to take his part in a national crisis." Athcrton said that enactment ol the national service act could "shorten the war and save lives." lie said the Legion had urged enactment ol a universal service act for the last 20 years and essentially thi.s was the same legislation the President said recently was needed tu win the war. Nimitz Says Japs To Be Smoked Out Pearl Harbor. Jan. 18.—(AP) Japanese, strongly entrenched m their Pacific island strongholds, will be "smoked out" when and where the Allies choose to strike. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said in urging support >>f the Fourth War Loan Drive which starts today. The Japs are thoroughly entrenched in island archipelagos that remain to them in the Pacific." said the eonimandcr-in-chief of the Pacific fleet in a broadcast address last niglit. 1 hey are a vicious and resource Itil loe, but we will smoke them out, it times and places chosen l>v nurse Ives." Angel's Wings CART. JUANITA REDMOND wears the wings just issued to U. S. Army flight nurses. At the bottom is a close-up. Under the wings she wears her National Defense and Pacific campaign' ribbons, both bearing stars of combat areas. On the right she wears the Presidential Citation for liataan and Corregidor, from which she was evacuated before they roll to the Japs. U. S. Army Air Forces photo. (International) Black Cat Planes Sink Planes Damage Two Other Cargo Ships In Six-Ship Convoy Advanced Allied Headquarters. New Guinea. Jan. IS.—(Al'l —The navy's Itlark Cats, famed fur l«»\\ losses and heavy enemy tolls, sank a 1(1.0(10 Ion Japanese merchantman and left two other cargo ships a I lame in a six ship convoy off Kavieng, New Ireland. General Douglas MrArtliur's headquarters reported today. None nl tin' Catalina patrol planes —called I Hack Cats because ol their paint and night Hying habits, were damaged, tin- rinniimnii|iie said. The convoy included lour merchantmen and two warships. pussiblv cruisers, pilots returning Irmn the Sunday night action staled. The two damaged vessels still were allame next flay. While Allied llier- battered enemy bases at liaha :l. Now liiit.iill, and along the uofthea-t coast ol Xew Guinea. Japaiit se bombers struck their Ilea, u st i»low at the expanding An erica i invasion wedne at Saidor. Xew (iuinea. The raid did little (lainagc and cost the Japanese 17 fighter planes and a due bomber, with two other lighters listed as probables. Allied P—Ml lighters which intercepted suffered only minor !■>>>. Jap Counterattacks Repulsed in Burma New llelln. Iiulia. Jan. 1<!—(AP) —Allied troops lighting on the Mayi peninsuln in westren P.urnia reposed tv. o Japanese eounter-attcul - Saturday night, Allied hctidquaiters anno'incerl today. The enen y thrusts were described as small ar.d the communi'tue said \llied tr<>i.-,is remained ill control ol the contested villages. WEATHIH Milt NOIITII <\K<>I,I\A lair In partly cloudy. Slightly colder cast portion tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and w armcr. W ailace, Ray burn Cheered By Southern Democrats Washington, .Inn 1«"— <.\l'>—• Throats of .1 |>.• rly 11<>11 by southern Democrats appeared to lu»\i? molted down considerably today alter a aeries of niiilcrciiccs which ended up with cheers for tho party leadership .mil specif ii* ovations for VicePresident Wallace itiid Speaker Sam Wayburn of Texas. The shouts for Wallace—long a target of erit ielsm by southern members of the parly -came last night at the conclusion of a baixpie'. ! which a group ol governors from below the Mason Dixon lino Save for their congressmen. Karlier the governors had report j j.(| J, "vei v agreeable" meeting with President HoosovcN and agreed in a poll that although the South may not lie entirely happy under his administration, ii is still dependably None 'I lilt-in would advoeate s|)(cif u;ill> ;i lourlli term for tin* President. i>ii' '11«a- joined in predicting "ii" Inr.ik liom the party" i! ?r. 15 •iwm'Ii is <i candidate. de:>ii< i ills 1 .i; i month from some southern senators for a political "secession." The conference was called for the announced purpose of planning united action in .i light for freight rate *•«11 -1111v. I»ut polilieal matters came to the foreground. II was a suggestion hy Wallace that the South and West unite in the freight rale cause that prompted the eheers for him at the evening session. Three or lour unidentified members of the more than IOC southern g< venio ,if<l congressmen preset.! started the ery and it was echoed hy others who hy thai linn, were bU'taiilitig oul the (looi'a. Reds Closing In OnRovno, Rail Center Fall of Key Junction Would Imperil Nazi Communications Line Moscow, Jan. 18—(AP) — Troops of General Vatutin's First Ukrainian army were reported dosing in today on Rovno (in «.1(1 Poland), key (lertnan communications center 110 miles north of I'insk. another main objective of Yatutin's forces on the northern edge of the frozen I'ripet marshes. Fall <>! Rovno, junction of tin Ik'nliflit'V-Wiil'SiiW and Samy-l-wow railways, inevitably would imperil I lie German grip on a vast area Hi southern and southwestern Kussia, already threatened by Vatutin's lclt wing driving toward the Rumanian frontier. Vatutin's eentei was driving on the rail hub from the east, northeast and north, constitution a triple threat which made its early capture a possibility, fine column moving in from the northeast already has occupied Tuchin, 13 miles away, and is steadily beating tli \vn savage enemy resistance, a Russian communique said. Soviet engineers were called !:i to providt •■f|iii|)mcnl lor crossing of the lloryn river, which flows westward tnrnugh Tuchin's outskirts. and which has r.ot frozen sufficiently for transport on the ice Hey mil llie river there was a formidable tour-mile wide swamp barrier extending In the \ ill.me ••! (!oringrad. strong point ol Rfivmi's outer fleiense system ten miles to the north, which also has to !>e negotiated by Vatutin's forces. The five-day old Russian offensive no the Leningrad front, meanwhile. continued to roll fi rwar.l with the occupation <>! five additional localities, including a rail junction on the line connecting Vclikie-Luki and Riga (the old Latvian capital.) The Red army communique made no mention of the situation in lower White Russia, where Red I < trees were last remrled battling thenway through the frozen Pripel marshland toward Pinsk 100 miles to the west. Extra Newsprint 1 o Be Alloted for Fehru ar\- 29 Issue Washington. .I .n. 1(5—(AIM— Formal i rdi'i's authorizing daily papers In increase their 1944 first ciuarter newsprint cuiotas ti> meet the extra demands • I publication on leap year day—February ~'J—will be issued this week. The War Production Hoard printing and publishing division said today the order had been drawn and ! is now in process of clearance. I DURHAM LEAF FIRM PLANS EXPANSIONS Durham, J n. 18. —(AP)— Dm- ' ham's unit of the Liggett and Myers i Tobacco company is planning t" expand its existing cigarette manufacturing gacilitics here, according to 1 the Durham Morning llearld. The expansion will take pla:*e in j the postwar era. if not before, and i will involve • n expenditure oi SJ.- . (Mill,lino or more. State Liquor Sales Decline Dai I \ Dispatch Bureau. 1 In the Sir Waller Hotel, KY IANN NIKBKT I! Icigli, .Inn. IK. — Although Ihc '"Christmas bom " buttle <>l i un or brandy allowed (in A15(' coupon.'. (1111-1iiU l>cccn ><t lipped sale.-- lot that inontb above November, the SI.27U.!HK.!I() worth sold was not imieh more than hall tlie amount taken in the picvious December. | New llauovei i- usual led all enmities. but Cumberland moved up to I second place Wake was third anil Durli m |oiiit!i in dollar volume ol salt's. The growing seareity of liquor, plus tin- fact that many former regi>tr. tils failed to qualify lor coupon books before November :in account for the low DccembeY sates volume Kor .tanunry the coupons go back to the same value they had in November and sales arc expected to snow further drop. This is good news to those who fi vocate retain to complete prolub tain of legal liquor, but is not so Hood for the state department of revenue. Hcturn- from the beverage tax on liquor have declined greatly with smaller sales volume. On the othei hand, both beer and wine taxes showed increases for the ealendai year ol Mil:!. Theie has been . sea' • (Continued on Pago F. e, Churchill Back Home After Pneumonia Attack In Middle East POST-WAR POLICE FORCE? "555SS38S [FRANCE [CZECHOJ j _ ^i \swm}M ■ WjtgMAUSVW ^^^^8^^3HShuT. g a THE AUTHORITATIVE Army anil Navy Journal states that it was sut;jjested during the Tclicran talks that post-war Germany be occupied by Russia, Great Britain and the U. S.. each nation uarrisoninr; onethird ot the country. The garrisoning of Japan by Chinese forces, t>><* Journal adds, V.is discussed at Cairo. Pres. Roo.eve'.t 1 nted :is r:ii> ii in his Chri. tiv.a Kvc radio address, when he said th f'unque ;ionrd military coiitiol o[ disturbers of the peace is as iu.vi .. y anions mtions a- it is anions citizens of a community." ' international > Yank Patrol Probe Nazi Gustav Line s American Withdrawal Across Rapido River After Nazi Skirmish \liiv-«l Headquarters, Algiers. Jan. 18.— ( \r>—An American patrol crosscd the Kapido river north of Casino and probed the Nazis' strong "(Justav line" positions, headquarters announeed today. Trench troops occupied Saul' I'.lia. three miles northeast of ( assino. The dultKhs"} patio] found the Germans tnliciclifd n: i'urlitied position. 3ho yards beyond the western bank <>t the iiapidn. ;inii withdrew aern - tlu- river altei a skirmish. French lorce- advimced l.(it)l) yarils .sc./.e their .-truiu> point, and also captured ilii' hamlet <>1 Valvort tw omilcs farther northeast us the | are tightened on Cas-im>, sentinel of ' tin- \allev pathway tn Koine. I'atloI: Wile active el.sCwhote ' | tiie Kittli Arn y limt, and tlu Alia • I continued (-■•iiMiiidatuiK recent ^ain.s. I The (Scrmnn.s mean while q neulv put i.i ' inute t niche.-- on tin . new line which runs Ironi L'a-smo to j Saul' I.I and runs mi aloiiK tiie | west .ili "l the li.ipici", in sn •■ ! places considerably back from tiie! riv<.' i' it!i the slope- ul Mount i Caste ! •Me. I ( anadiaus supported h> tanks launched an attack on the \driatic II.ink on a 1.1)011 jard front in the Toniniaso area about a mile inland from tin- coast. Despite still opposition from (•cimans holding high mound. tlic\ made some gains which included a foothold across the | stream flowing into the >c,i, \t last reports, the fighting w is continuing Willi satisfactory re- ) suits. The W 'iitiui v • I.ik- but soinc—i what cl<itulj on the Filth Army J front, v. ':i . • ■ > u int» haul in I motintains. ('it the Kiuhth Army I front It a- c 1 I ml dear in lii«' ; coastal ai' . . btii II'. it? wen i: f£h 1 winds .iiiil now n Mid. In the an \tlicii heavy and medium homhers smashed al enemy communications. and |;A1 \\ elliuulon bombers early today bombed the I'isa railway yards in In 1 III mooulichf. t'. 8. In-. . h-mbcts -Intel; at rail > line- al Pralo. between Kloralicc and Home. Three Men to 1 )ic In (iiis C.luimber Kaieiu'n. .I.m. lif (AP) —Tiliw , men will (tie in the n.is chamber •I. i ar\ 21! miles.- (iovci iu>r IJri'iiyli'iiii |>1<*i veiies. The;, are Andrew Wilsir la.iell, 21. Durham county eal> d iver <■ >n\ teled III lapinc li ■ fi);hl-ypar-o1<l stcp-diiusMcr: <1 \ Harris. lf>. c.>n\ iclerl in ii.i< ii.rd of slaying Kuccne Hill. \l I-.. A. Mill, and Mrs. Kstel i »\ 11 si in at a tillnii; station: and a i.vman i.linger, 3!. convicted in Whitevlle 'H thi it.tying of llarry kV* .J a »• Tito Rumored To Be injured I.ondon. Jan. IS. — (AIM—A rumor that .Marshal Tito ol tin* Yugoslav partisans has been wounded in Montenegrin! fighting was broadcast today by tlie Cairo radio. There was no confirmation in the Partisan communique. broadcast earlier by the free Yugoslav station. Two Soldiers Drown Near Lumberton Ltimherton, Jan. !"•—(AP)—Two 1 servicemen were drowned, presu i ibly. :mil another w;.:- mimed last iif'tit when their cor clashed into ;. irinjje spanning ti.< Lun.bcr river wo miles e;ist ol hove and thon >vertlirned into the river A soldier who identified himself •* Lloyd K. Jarbo frot the Lmirinuiri'-Maxtun :iir ! -«• < > M-ied the iccident today lifter It,. till he had ii.m.iRed to crawl Ir m the rive ' "llowinK the wreck. lie tt::s -lnjlitly inin id Kc:-' ic workers • < l ••• the seen • ii:media'.ely but Von- mlr In locate Iho ror only after several hour* of J the wat i Workers s i (l thi \\ lei w.• dimit ! > — i di. (« ,t t!u In idt.. ,\i n . '■either the Imdic:. tne soldi.>r~. ■or the car had in-t-tt t.iUen m ■ [he river. 4th War Loan Drive Opens WnnhinRtiin, Jon -(AP) Five in lli>>11 \ ill inteoi - In m :li« i toil, v n| puttiiiK <• • ; '!•«• I >nr.h p.nt III till- I'll .1 III * si MllMI.'MMl.tlflll Fourth War Lotin. ml injj $ • simi.ooo.- • Him m c.i-!i an.":'. individual Americans. For two week* they'll wmowttriit# •>ti that phase 1 • *• campaign .11«nn-. ; then tlu' ill til.ilit • . Inn Uiimik'ks 11 hi - .n il -.i- ! u- banl;v ill (ninr into the picture. In sonic place*, tin l'il.» already is done. I'ersliinn enmity. Nevada, i example, vrporti I t«> the Treasury last night that . muntyv ide rally l ad sold slftft.llltli in \va hntvls ill nine minutes. I'ci S-utiu'- <i" »•• was $1 "*.i,8IIO. I.ast niulil in a .-Pd n broadcast, marking the begun- ol the drive, (leneral Duigh it. Eisenhower speaking front tnidnii. nald "we .in goill glo I |. .lie enemy and hi' . It again ir • ■ it11 the last me >i.c I Nazi u stance it «rush«.o - 'j'j. ,vt» Statement On War Be Made Soon Commons Is Cheering As Prime Minister Comes Unexpectedly London. Jan. — (AI *) — Prime .Minister ( hurchill ret turned to London unexpectedly Lodav after convalescing from :in attack of pneumonia in the Middle Kstst and told a cheering House '>»' Commons that he expected to make a statement m the war in the near future. The Prime Minister, who looked slightly tired but happy, asked the luii.-e th.tt he be given "some !.• t■ — . lie" ;ii>. i! th»- actual date lor disus.-in^ tin war. thereby ndicating 10 piann d a <..»«■!;ii summary ol • \ t j 11> ill tin j.Vei UK to the westcr-l livasi.n K rope. As tor himself, when asked l>y a men. what steps he was tako.g .11 relievo hi! sell >>1 si me "I his .llieal duites to conserve his lw>'ln, Churchill replied amid laughter: "I am obliged to yon for your soi.eitude. bat 1 have no change- to propose at present 11i my routine." Churchill attain drew laugoter v. iien he <loiuur:vd at Commander (Miver Locker-I.ampson's proposd ihat "\\'e go oil and drink ihis toast "Death to all dictators .mil long life to all liherators" . . "it is \ ei v early in the mornin:;."' Churchill chuckled. As the riucstiniiing pl'oci O'hxi. Sir Herbert William asUed il Chm chili wert- aw arc ol any ' false '>i>liiniMiV voired in a recent speech in wluc'i General Sir II. L. Montgomery in(ilealed the probably early captun; of liome. "I don't know about false optimism." Churchill replied. "There has been a lot of had weatner." One ol Churchill's first \ ■ ; •!-* is expected to be General T>v. igl't I>. Kisenhower. supreme Allied cainmander for the western invasion. "Hie Prime Minister has been iii close touch with events during his i-i'iivalesfenre, but he is reported anxious to have the latest confidential developments as the "zero hour'* approaches. Churchill's smiling reappearance m Commons came :.s a dramati • surpr.se to the MP's. f..r there hart been no inkling that he was com* inn home soon. Carrying a large bundle of typewritten documents, he suddenly emerged from the shadows behind the speaker's chair and walked briskly lo his scat. Cheers thundered spontaneously, and the members sprang to their feet. So\ oral gasped in astonishment. Offer Reaches Moscow Not Before Monday \V .sh.ngton. .Ian. 1»—(AP) -Secrctiirv II ill s id 1nfi.iv that thu American offer !■» «cck a rcnump* Hon of diplomatic relation# bc« tvm*n Pnlanil nml Mokcow ap|wtr-» riitly did not :cach Moscow until Mom'.-v iivriiiiu:. Mi.- d >< I rcuaidins the lim« kleit cut v. .is taken .is ono more cvt« <ti it tin* Russians at least h.o e t.iiicn 11«• steps t" reject tho oiler. TIj.s implied that the otfef c>iil<t not have In-cn brought to Ihc attelit: *1 "f 1li, !>■ -si.in i;n\ cnmicnt l»v .Vi'nassador \V. Averell M.• rI i — r in tintit if 1«-i" the Russians had wiir'l tl<< iv s'ronuly disapproving Mntement on the Polish message which ro'picsled Itritish and Atner« .(, ii 'ntervention in the disnute. Hul'"s disclosure today. referring 'ii Mondav morning Mnyimv time, meant that the Russians nad not so i;ii pone on record inter receipt of the American offei -hat tliey would he unable t'.' the offer. Russia's re.i, i - ii (n 1 lii- country"?* oMer b> close the diplomatic hveach xcuveen Moscow and th<? Polish k«'\ eminent in exile wan :i\v . i.-o here, nevertheless, .is a posway out of the most difficult medicament in which the leading fluted Nation* have yet found Ihemse1\ es. I The predicament: how fo «c( two \ muml) ode 1 \n »p«-diiiiig leirnn,
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