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Hewi»*0on Hathi Dispatch THIRTY-FIRST YEAR Ht?/}?,1*1' WIKK 8BIIVICB <>K THK ASS< HMATKh I'ltlOHS. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 21, 1941 PUBLISH tSI) K V K H Y AFTEItNUON /**|?\Tf|vi r1Ala. EXCKt'T SITNIIAY. r I Vh C LN1 ^ vJOPY captured v^or respondent s Letter //a Dccaiac*. /*»• | Jjk*x ;4e<v 7/CaJ4 5- A /ttiudA //" QHfjV 4JUtt. Arc*- (*>**£. rf+St ufir /£r sifwfit* <Y> cu/t Ltf/k /&»v'//- Afa fyt sJTnyjlt 7&feufA • cdc/* /* ybu «m/ CA*t/k Ht*uC J*e 77i4Tii *4tS*3 Cauntr? d/so / yotty J&T. £/fSA*€rrt. // Ajy Jii/a/y <*Hf( jXc 's •// v^f//T /si svtT JiASe 7£ ut*'/C rt4*/y /ctfer* -%/b t^7Ae -jfriT'.'Atio, c&ff ?o /Oti — o-yte r*o Agn oti/e At* **Atr * yon Th\r is 4e*-y A»/ /W /r*&er Aft-lv*. /fojtAt J'/y k «t£f x^^r/" e«r db** Ar*L vtwA/ .hoyJ Ae/r 4/r Cfey. &4JV bjt Afar-Aj*/A*> faoW9 '*-**»$ *t*i Atf Mrf4>h TUT /ft OK. Mfoc /ty 7$tAt*U&-rtoLcl kVLL aT ft* 44/yim/*/. /U JMigtf for tot.*, tytf.CdMA* <vv7/ *RJtT Aty c/crAej^ g/%. ftr /hV i£. 7ir +~+20n. 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Jan. 2-1—(AD — Drastic simplification of tin income tax laws was proposed today by Representative Carl son (Kan., It.) who would: 1. Provide for only one t;ix on personal 'incomes, with a single base and single rates and exemptions through merger of the victory tax with the regular income lax. 'J. Kliminate the necessity of fil ing returns in the ease of persons whose tax liability is substantially withheld at the source, but permit returns to be filed at the taxpayers' option. (This would affect 30,000, 000 of the approximately 50,000.000 taxpayers and in general cover those who arc not now required to tile declarations of estimate?! tax.) 3. Permit use of the short form 01 returns by taxpayers with up to •Sa.000 gross incomes. (Present lim it is $3.01)0.) 4. Strip down both the short and long lorni of returns. 5. Give taxpayers until January l."> li Mowing the close of the taxable year in which to file an amended declaration of their estimated tax and thereby avoid penalty for any underestimate. "This," said Carlson, "will elimi nate the guessing contest in the present law which has resulted in s-o much irritation and confusion." Removed from further tax obli gations would bo those small tax payers now subject to the victory lax but whose earnings are not enough t" come within the regular income tax service. Thp potential loss of revenue would be offset in part by the reduction of the marriage exemp tion under Ihc regular income t> SI,100 and (he remainder by read justments in the surtax rate. Halstead H as Filed For State Office Raleigh. Jan, 24.—(AP)—Repre sentative W. I. Halstead of C'amdcn county, candidate for the Democra tic nomination for lieutenant gover nor, pjiid his $7 filing fee to (lie State Hoard of Elections today. Halstead thus became the first to file for that office. Another an nounced candidate. Senator L. Y. Hallcntine of Wake county, is cx pectwl to tUe »hortJy. Farley's Stand Is Question To Democrats Washington Jan. 24—(AP)—The political whereabouts of James A Farley became one ot the most pressing q n e s t i a n s confronting yotithtnl Robert K. Hannegan today as he took over the Democratic na tional chairmanship vacated by Postmaster General Frank C. Wal ker. Hannegan moved into Democratic headquarters with tJic expressed de termination to exert every effort tu bring Farley and other no fourth termers back into the organization fold. The new chairman hud what amounted to party instructions t< lay the groundwork for President ISooscvclt's rcnomination and one *>' his lirst self-appointed tasks was to try tu bring divergent elements intn line. The practical politicians ol the rational committee left no doubt where they stand on the fourth term issue with shouted approval Satur day of a hastily drawn resolution soliciting Mr. Hooscvelt to continue in the world leadership role they depicted for him. Hut even then some of them, not ably former Governor E. D. Itivcrs of Georgia, called for overtures t< the absent Farley, who was national chairman during Mr. Iloosevelt'i first two campaigns. Some indication of !• a rley's strength with the organization wa« given when seven committee mem bers voted him their first choice for the vice-presidential nomination in a poll conducted by the Associated Press. House Speaker Sam Hayburr of Texas topped the poll with II! votes and Vice President Wallace was second with I I Farley took third place and War Mobilization Director James F. I'ynies was fc.urtli with five. Farley. New York State party chairman, -talked with old friend here last week but did not attend any of the official sessions. While declining to talk for publi cation. Farley left no doubt in any one's mind that he Is just as rmieh I opposed t" a fourth term as he was I ^ - Ulu'U' Allied Troops 30 Miles From Rome; Reds Threaten Another Railway Line Destroy Nazi Bridgehead j :0n Volkhov j Germans Still Hold Narrow Stretch of Railway to Capital Moscow, Jan. 24 — (AP) — Sweeping along both banks of the \ olkhov river after wiping out a German bridgehead on the east bank, the Red army was within ten miles ol" Clni dovo today in a drive which threatened to cut still another vital enemy rail line below Len ingiade. i no Germans. whose communica tions ate being systematically chop ped up in vaiious parts of the Len ingrad front, still hold a narrow stretch u! tins line—the main Mos cow-Leningrad line—bitwecn Chu dovo .md Tosnu. Cluidovo is abuut 7.1 miles southeast of Leningrad on the west side of the Volkhov river. At the same time, Russian troops directly metiaied the key rail junc tion ol Ti siio by advancing through Pustinka, ten miles southwest of Alga. anil a Soviet communique said the Germans were retreating in dis order from the tip of the Tosno s;«I ient. "Ihe bulletin also told of continu ing Russian successes in lower White Russia, declaring that the drive through the I'ripet marshes already had passed Simonovichi, 5a utiles west of Mozyr. (Swedish dispatches from Berlin, meanwhile, said the Red army had launched a surprise offensive on the tar northern Finnish front about 150 miles southeast of Petsamo. The Finnish communique, however, re ported only r< utinc patrol activity. (In another unverified report, a Berlin broadcast said heavy fighting was going on southeast ol Kerch in the Crimea. Later Russian forces landed and dr> v(> inland. The broad cast said tlu' new landings came simultaneously with attacks by oth ei Rus.sian forces which already had established a bridgehead northeast of Kerch. The Russian communique said Soviet forces advancing southwest ol Leningrad in the Krasnoye Selo area drove the Germans out of sev eral localities, including Akalovo, ten miles west of Krasnogvardeisk. and onlv five miles from a Nazi rail line running to Narva in Estonia. Day Raiders Follow RAF Night Attack j London. .Ian. ;!4.— (AP) —Large formations of Allied aircratt swept out across Hie English Channel to hammer European targets by day light today after RAF Mosquitoes had stabbed at western Germany last night and slipped back through the Nazis' defenses without loss. British planes also laid mines in enemy waters, the air ministry said. The communique mentioned no oth er overnght operations. I hough a wide continental radio blackout and reports- from Sweden had indicated previously that targets 111 south western Europe might have been under attack. The day raiders took olf shortly I alter dawn and headed in the direc ! tion of the Pas do Calais area In j northern France, which was bombed ! by both British and American planes I yesterday. I Coastal observeis who saw the planes fleeting out over southern i England said they included waves of | medium bombers e.-corted by many fighters. Some of the aircraft were seen returning from the direction of Boulogne. Dieppe and Calasis 45 minutes later. Rails Fair On Stock Market New York. .Ian. 24. (AP)- Rails : continued do fairly well in today's -lock market but even these ran into sufficient profit taking to stall Iheir advance. Among supported stocks were Southern Railway. American Can. DtiPont and Westinghouse. Occasion al losers included Bethlehem, Chry sler. United Slates Rubber and American Telephone. Railway ootids were steady. Com j elipytU, t ^ ^ Where Allied Forces Landed on Road to Rome .W ^ J Strung Allictl aniphihii.-us forces have landed "ili-cp in trear ol I!>•> presrit* Na/.i front line pimitiors" and art- officially reported lit lie "progressing satisfactorily" aflrr o"cupying tin* port of Nettuno. 32 miles south of KoRif. The l.iinline, paced l»y t". S. Itangc's and llrit'sh commandos ol the Kiltli Army, was carried out "nder a shattering bombardment by All icd planes arc' warships. A steady stream of trivaps and equipn.cit continues to pour ashore with virtually r.o opposition from the (ierinan Air Force. (Inter uatio nal.) Aussies Nearing Bogadjim, Door To Jap Base Of Madang Aerial Action In Rome Area 15lli Air four Base in Italy. .Ian. 24.—t.\l')—Big homiirrs and fighters of tin- 15tli Air Force—hundreds of ilu*m—pur suing tlicir impressive offensive in support of ilie landing opera tion south of Komi-, struck at sonic 18 targets yesterday and roamed above the Italian capital at will. The chief targets were the network of roads and railroads immediately behind the Ger man lines and north of Koine. Absentee Vote Question Up Washington, Jan. 24.—(AP)—'The Senate beat down a one man effort to block immediate consideration of service vote legislation today, tem porarily shelving the ever-compell ing food subsidy issue. The Democratic steering commit tee decided to beat the House to the punch and gel a vote on its version of an absentee voting measure. Thcrcii|xtn. Senator Tall (Ohio. I{.) ri.ised the "unanimous consent" bar to laving llie calendar aside by re fusing to g've hi.- permission. He al so sought to bring up the subsidy legislation. Majority Lcadi- IJarkley then in voked a parliamentary weapon which forbids debute on motions during the so-called "morning hour" before 2 p. m.- and got bis motion to bring up the ,-crvice vote bill ap proved by voice vote. The Senate p; a modified sol dier vole bill late last year which struck out a proposed Federal wat ballot for service men and women and substituted a simple directive to the states to use their own absen tee ballots. That bill is pending in the House. The new bill which caused today's controversy again provides a Federal ballot but would leave with the states the power to pass on the quali fications of voters and the validity ol each ballot. Cotton Prices Lower At Noon New Y'ork. Jan. 24 -(AP) Col ton futures opened unchanged to 15 cents a bale higher. Noon values were five I > ten cents a bale lower. March 20.12. M.iv 111.83, July III 52. March . . May July October (new) Prcv. Close Open 20.14 20 15 10.84 10.815 10.53 10.55 19.12 10.15 Decembei (new) .. Japanese Retreating In Wake of Strong Australian Drive Advanced Allied Headquar ters. New Guinea. Jan. '-4—(AIM —Aussies who cut their tacti cal teeth on the problem of routing Rommel are drawing victoriously nearer Boga djim. south dour to Japan's big base of MadaiiK. New Guinea. Climaxing a year-l»ng drive up inland New Guinea from Buna, the Australian ground units which once battled Hummel in Africa, sent tin Japanese Ileeing in panic from the Faria river headquarters—less than 25 miles south of Brgadjim—Gen eral l>ouelas Mai-Arthur's commun ique said today. Outflanked by the Aussies' vic torious onslaught across quagmires and up al.-iost perpendicular. iTotly dclended heights. the Japanese abandoned loll dead in their hasty retreat. From llagodjim. the finest sur faced highway in the whole region offers a quick trip north to M.i dang. only 15 airline miles distance. Meantime, a great flight of Lib erators pulverized much of Borpop airdrome which helps guard the foes' big shipping base at Habaul. New Britain. Kara airdrome near Kahili on southern Bougainville, in the Solo mons. another possible hindrance to complete neutralization < f Habaul. also was hit—by more than 0f» tor pedo and dive bombers, escorted by more than 70 fighters. Neither raid drew air opposition and all planes returned. Allied air blows also fell "11 tile Bul;a [ilea of northern Bougainville: Gaamntn, New Britain. 200 ntlles southwest "f Habaul: Kav ieng. in n< rthern New Ireland: several northeast New Guinea coastal bases: the Admiralty islands further north: Dutch Timor. 4im> miles northwest o! Darwin. Australia: and flillma liire. in the Mi luceas. !»00 miles of Darwin—lhi» longest northward hop to date in the'anuthwejtt Pacific war. FINAL PAYMENT ON DUKE NURSES' HOME Ttichmond. V'a . Jan. 21.—A cheek for |;:.!!<>. the loufth and final payment on i Fedc .<I prant of S(i:t. 050 to Duke University to as-ist in financing the construct on of a/lditi onal facilities lor student nurses, has been forwarded 1>y the region I otfice ot the Federal Works Aueney to s \v My ill t. secretary of the uni versity's building committee at Dur ham. i\. ('.. Regional Director Ken neth Markwell announced. The new nurses' home, a two-story brick and frame building containing accomodations lor approximately 115 nurses, has been in operation since last October The university con Irilnited 50 per cent of the cost of construction . nd supplied all fur nishings and equipment. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy ami not quite so cool tonight. Tuesday, Increasing (luutliiu-cd 4iid kllglilly vtartnt-r. Nazi Officers EvacuateRome Madrid. .Ian. 24—(iVI'f—(.ter mini officials wore reported streaming northward out of Rome today in an exodus pre paratory to military evacuation of the city should this he made necessary by the Allied landings on the Italian coast to the south. Diplomatic advices from Koine suid the Germans already had removed their quartermaster corps headquarters to Florence, approximately 110 miles north vest of Kome. The communi cations center for the German army command was said to have moved back to Cliiusi. 8'J miles above Kome. These advices declared that the main highway leading out of Home was filled with the cars of both German and Italian fascist authorities and added that only military functionaries concerned with the actual de fense of the city were remaining behind. All telephone service between Kome and the north was report ed closed both to civilians and Italian officials on order of the German military commander of the area. Neutrals were per mitted to send only the briefest diplomatic d i s p a t dies from Rome. An Associated Press dispa(eli from Stockholm quoted reports from Switzerland as saying that the new Allied amphibious at tacks below Home had inspired the populace in northern Italy to violent anti-German demon strations. CIO Officials On Record For Fourth Term New York. Jan. J» — (AIM — Pledging tl>eir full support. 2.500 C< tigress of Industrial Organisation ollicials wciv on ret "i ll t<kI.-iy for .1 (mirth term for President lioo.se \ elt. Tin: gr^up. delegates !• ;i New York City CIO special conference on wages iitul political action, adopti (I a resolution yesterday urg ing the President to seek reelection saving he was needed to ass re: "A continuance «»l tci>|Kiiiilblc and effective leadership n the war el tort and to assure fulfillment ol Mi scow - Cairo - Teheran decisions for vpeeclv victory, and a mst and durable peace and the retirn of our nation lo ,i fully productive civilian economy." The ("Id lenders also passed a resolution endorsing with qualifica tions the President's proposal lor a iiHtion.il ten ite act. Appian Way Is Brought Under Fire Nazis on Offensive In Violent Attacks Along Cassino Front Allied Headquarters, Algiers, ■Jan. 'J I—(Al'J—American and British troops, driving four miles inland, are less than :»0 miles from Koine and have brought the Appian way un der shell fire from their long beachhead abt.ve the Pontine marshes. Allied headquarters announced today. Bui fishting with the fury <>l" a cornered lighter. the German Truth Army has gone over to the offensive <111 the whole Cas sino front, (ill mill's to the south east. In a series ol violent day and night counterattacks. the Germans threw the Americans baek ueross the Kapido river. "It is apparent that tin- German i-unnuiiui hoped :•> disrupt the en tire Fifth Ai v Ir.iiil t" gain time in turn around nnd deal with the threat m t:u*ii -aid si military i-..miiiriit.il . a: Alued headquarters. The American: have -rized ;< bridgehead aero ti.v i{:i|ndi>. thiee miles below t ,i- -i:iti in conjunction with Hit Allied landing; iiimi ISouie, but were immediately attacked in toice l>v the G« r: mil- w ho I'.ave been augmented i>y \ ice divisions witlt druwn front the Hume area only a lew days ago. As a result nl the .-iiiti <il German loiees. the -eaborne forces at Net t.ilin were still expanding their miles lot>14 bridgehead without meeting el IVet lve opposition, headquarters an nounced. Anieriean and Hiitish tMMi|>s and supplies still arc pouring ashore. The Allies raptured N'ettuno. it was stated olliciallv for the lirst time, holding the e >asl for several mile both north and south of that small port, and have brought the Appian Way under their guns. Thi.- road, the mam coa*tal high way between Home and the Ger mans' southern inml. i~ only twelve mile- from the beaches, and I he lour ii11to Allied advance placed the Am ericans and British within eight miles oi the artery. The road also was within ranfit-' ut warships off shore. Russian-Polish Solution Is Seen As keer to Moscow London. .Ian. -4.—(AP)—The re turn oi Ambassador Sir Archibald Kerr to Mi>sco\v stirred hopes today for .1 solution of the Russian-Polish deadlock which appears to center more on the exiled government m London than on the Soviet insistanec on the Ciii.-on line as a boundary. The British ambassador has been away from Moscow two manths, spending most ul his time in tho United States. Senate Group Opposed To Service Draft Washington. Jan. '-1—(AP)—I ho tlitiac o! national service legislation rested today with a small group ot senators who arc lar from convinc ed that wli.it tin- country needs Is a civ 'I .111 labm droit. It they voted today they probably w .l<l kill the proposal advanced by President Roosevelt as a part ot his new legislative program. "A bill ol that kind would do more harm than good." said Senator Murray (Mont.. IV). "It would he i s' ear • »ii the whole produc tion record in this country." "I don't think we need it." dc- • dared Senator Truman (Mo.. I) ), chairman ol the War Costs Investi gating Committee. Murray and Truman were joined in their opposition by Senators Rey nold.- ((N IV). chairman of the Military C'otm' (tec: Johnson (Colo., I) ),) and Kilgorc <W. Va.. I) >. Senator Wallgreli (Wash.. I).), with held comments but associates said he is against the bill. Many senators are withholding judgment until they can be con vinced ;i civilian labor draft could ■ be cauitnbly administered Others won't support the idea unless they : are sure that war profit controls j ami taxes are fixed to make the war ' burden equal on ldl>or and industry,