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.VVII<K hkkvu-k ok T»IK AShO'lATKD 1'ltKSS. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 21), 1944 FIVP. CP. NITS ,"npv UrA Annuls Rollback Of Milk Ceiling Old Prices Prevail Until February 23 While Survey Made Wa-hiiiKton. Jan. 29—(AI *) —Orders reducing North Car-! olnia wholesale milk mice ceil ings three cents a gallon, which caused the southeast's largest ili.-i ributor to halt shipments.1 were temporarily revoked to-: day by the Office of Price; Administration. I he price rollback order was re scinded until February 23. the price agency announced. Until that date, price.- in effect before January 15, when tiie rollback was ordered, will prevcil. Tin OPA said the interim period wi<1 jI'! tilili/od for survey of pro- j diction ei>sts in the plants it' the I ( i>1.!«• Daily Products Co., of Lex ingt"", N. C„ the State's only whole Mile oistributor and the largest milk tii.-l: ihutor in the southeast. Cliorge Coble, operator, abandon ed shipments to 34 government (•.imp* and projects in the Carnlmas and Georgia Thursday, declaring he was unable to operate under the re- | duccd wholesale ceilings. Kalrigh, Jan. 20—(AP)—•Inform- ! <1 lii..i the Offiee of Price Admin istration had temporarily suspend < I it.- milk rollback order. Clover inn I »r* >i igl i ton said today "that r. •. n is very gratifying. That is ill! v >• wanted." All we wanted." he said, "was a ' ' tin i.i discuss the matter with I'"riles concerned, and to be as mik"I <>l a steady milk supply." URGES RETURN OF SEIZED PROPERTY II".HiUen. N. J.—Urging immediate iiction, the Hoboken Chamber < >t (' noree has launched a nation v. de ii!o\e looking to the return to I.: . te ownership and local t.ix rolls, at tiie i liiso of the war. of the billions hi dollars worth of property taken ovci by the government for war p.a | >i >ses. In ,, brochure treating extensively o! ine lamous "Hoboken piers case", suiiect of many Congressional com :!.:ttee hearings, the organization c.ii - :I own community's "bitter and continuing experience" in a Iruitless twenty-two-year fight to regain a valu hie stretch ol its vvatertront property, taken over by the govern i: eni n 11117 and retained ever since. \V.lining tiiat other communities ' 1.1> lost- in tiiis war" as IJ«»i>. >k«•:> did n tlie first World War. the llo hoken Chamber estimates that Fed- I i r .I control of the City's piers term-1 111..I lias cost the community over i SI2.IKHI.00II in taxes and millions of 1 dollars in damage to local business I and employment. MANY ATTEND BUTNER RELIGIOUS SERVICES Camp Uutner, Jan. 2!).—A total of ' I-oldiers attended the 272 ro ! gious services conducted at the ' imp llulner chapels during l)ec i iiber, says a report to the Fourth Service Command chaplain in Atlan ta, covering chaplains' activities ■ t this pnsi for the month. In addition to the services in the 1"" : chapels, the chaplains conducted taree services in civilian commuti itic.-, near the camp. Other activities outlined in the report included: fi.'il! j personal interviews, 203 hospital ' visits to soldier patients, 10 welfare1 cases handled, one soldier marriage ^ performed, and one baptism. Spain on Spot Assurance that Naji nationals would In- moved at oncc from Spanish ports where sabotage might oeeur is believed to in dicate that Spain lias begun to veer from tlie Axis. At the same time the Duke of Alba. Spanish envoy to I.ondon (shown above) was reported about to return to Madrid with warning that Eng land was about to "get tough"— particularly after the incident of the "time bomb" sk retell in a ease of oranges. (International) War Prisoner Toil In Burma Reported High Chungking. Jan. -if—(AP)—Th: Japanese girding themselves for tli battle i I Burma, arc rushing con struction of a r.iiluay from Thai land to southern Burma at a cal lous expenditure of the lives o Briti-h empire prisoners of war ant Chinese civilians, according to re ports In m reputable eye witnesses The railway is being cut tliroMgi sonic of the world's worst jungle— dense masses of luxuriant vegela in 11 never betorc disturbed by whiU man- and many Australians. Britisl and Indian prisoners and Chinese forced laborers were said (o have "died where they worked and wcri buried where tlicv fell like digs." The reports, which came on tlx heels "l disclosures by Washingtor n.id London of brutal Japanese treatment o! prisoners, said four on of every six Chinese engaged ii forced labor in the jungle of Thai land died and mortality among the Kuroncans was ;is high or higher. Disagreement Over Effect Of Jap Atrocity Stories Wa liinylon, ,I;m. 20.—(AP)—Hope; that relciftless publicity may force ■ Japan's w.ir lords to w'fisc the tor ture and murder or helpless Amor- i iean prisoners was tempered in liiuh quarters of the government today i hy «r ve concern that il might have . an^ opposite effect. These two reactions, inquiry re vealed, stem from a fundamental disagreement involving chiefly the armed services and Office of War information over the wisdom the I'hilippine atrocity story, jointly is sued by the VVar and Navy Depart ments yesterday after being held secret for many months. Hut wh lever the reason behind thu disclosure, so far as its effect oil 'he Japanese may be concerned, of ficials agreed that no single an .iioiineement has so infuriated Ihc American people or produced such bitter determination for vengeance | since word flashes over the wire' two years ago that Pearl II rbor had been attacked. Whether the announcement signal ed a new policy remained uncertain in (he absence of any official com mitment on that point It was con sidered ceiUin, however, that other be rt-sickc-niiig incidents were .still to l>c told. The (piestion nf fund imcntal gov ernment policy w.is further compli c*iit<*(l by tlic apparent hick of ;i full on-the-rec >rd csplanation of why il was finally decided lo put out the report of the Philippine tragedy However, this apparently was thi situation: Afteh the three officers who mad< tin* report h d escaped from 4lu Philippines in the fall of 1!H2. re turned to Washington and recorder their experience . there began a loin dt bate inside the government c>vei whether the information should b< made public. Officials of the (>\VI. whose job il is to inform the American people oi the kind of enemies they face, arguec in favor of release on the grounc that the people A ve a right to know the full facts. Opposition to this pn-sition enm< largely from the armed services Many high officers fell fruit this dis closure might bring further tortun and vrffering for the prisoners win s irvived in Japanese hands and alsi might interfere with diplomatic ef ivi o ij iii.^itivt tiifcir conchUuu». Yanks Are Within Range Of Cisterna; Reds Drive T oward Last Rail Exit I Volkhov Arm Pushes Near War saw Line Action on Moscow \ Line Wins Citation From Marshal Stalin I London, Jan. 2!)—jf A1 *) — 1 Troops of Gnccral K. A. Muret j skov s Volkhov army drove to | day toward the Leningrad Pskov-Warsaw railway, single rail avenue of retreat left to i the German forces bleow Len ingrad, after cutting the ini I portnnt Leningrad-Yitbsk line ! west of Lake llmen and clear ing the Moscow - Leningrad , irunk railway of all but one ; zone of resistance. I Meretskov's mopping up opera | tint's on the Moscow-Leningrad ruil , \v:.y, climaxed by the capture of I Lyubnn and four other stations on ithc line, won a citation from Prem ier Satlin in a special order of the day. Moscow said complete occu | paliuii of the railway was expected ] hourly with the capture of Chu I d< vo, Isat German-held station 75 • miles southeast of Leningrad. Stalin said that the German gar i rison in Chudovo "is encircled and I is being annihilated." General Leonid A. Govorov's I Leningrad army, meanwhile, had j pushed down the east-west outer j belt line below Leningrad to within j .'J4 miles of the Estonian border, the Russian communique reported, and also was deploying to the south from Volnsovo and Krasnogvar - deis»k. capturing the towns of He polka and Kobrino, the latter a strongpoint 11 mites south ot Kras nogvardeisk on the railway to Pskov and Warsaw. Meretskov's left wing had cut the Leningrad-Vitebsk railway in at least two places between tho junc tion points fo Baletskaya and lino, according to the Moscow war bulle tin. German forces remaining In Ihe semi-circular arc of the Red j armies had only one r.iil retreat ■ open—the Leningrad-Pskov-Warsaw i iine 50 miles to the west, and j Meretskov's spearheads were plting | ing to plug that gap as quickly as j possible. In his westward drive. Meretskcv had captured the town of Stary 1 Shimsk. just west of Lake llmen. to peril the important rail junction J of Shimsk on the rail line to Sta raya Russia- German base south of the lake on a railway leading west to Dno and Pskov. The Russian comm.miqiie gnve little news of fighting on ether see i tors of the long front. Abdication Of King Is Asked New York, J<111. 29.—(AP)—The Bari radio announced thai a congress of five' anti-fascist Italian parties opened in tliat southern Italian city today in an atmosphere of "patrio tism and enthusiasm" jiTV.i that ab dication of King Vittori Kmmanuelc was immediately . sked l>y Henedctto ('nice, veteran Italian phiiisoplicr. Croce was named president of the conference, said the otoaclcasl as re ported by the U. S. foreign intelli gence service, and I10 was quoted as declaring in his opening address that Italy wants a "serious government, a capable and honest administration and a wort iy place in the European community of nations". Famous Editor Dies Today Emporia, K«ins«is. J;in. 29—(AP) ! —William Allen White, famous edi tor of the Kmporia Gazette and widely known as "the sage of Kni I norla." died quietly tAday. lie wa. j 75 years old. White had been in failing health for pearly a year. He entered the ! Mayo din!.' at Rochester. Minn., last October and submitted to a major | operatii.n. A month later he ro ! turned to Kmporia but was unable to resume his usual duties. White, who bought the Gazette in 1895 with $3,000 lie borrowed, was i the friend and counsellor of presi dents and governors. In his later years he was an elder statesman of • the Republican party, lie wrote iui i morons books, most of which con i corned politics and political figures Funeral arrangements have not Lteii made. ORANGES DAMAGED BY SABOTEURS ARRIVE IN ENGLAND THIS IS THE FIRST PICTURE to reach this country showing the results ot a time bomb placed in a cargo of oranges shipped to fruit-starved England from Spain. It subsequently was revealed that bombs placcd by saboteurs had exulodcd in oilier cargoes of Iruit. resultine in a controversy between the two countries. (International) Frankfort Raid is Largest In 8th Air Force History Airmen Hit Three Atolls Of Marshalls 2?nd Straight Day Of Aerial Attacks On Marshall Group Pearl Harbor. Jan. 2!*.—(AIM —Wotje, Maloelup and Mill—is lands becoming increasingly familiar In observers of tlie Paci fic war—were slugged again by t'. S. airmen who for 22 straight days have kept at the job of soft ening up the Marshall Group. Those three atolls in Japan's cen tral Pacific ba.-tien have between them undergone T.'J raids in tin* last two months, hast night the navy curtly told >■! "he latent raids which occurred Thursday: "Wotje was attacked in tho after noon by medium bombers. Fires were started among ground facilities. "Dive bombers and fighters made a late atternoon attack on Mili, bombing and strafing its airdrome installations and .nun emplacement.?. One of our dive bombers was shot down. "Heavy bombers dropped more than 'Jo in:;.- "i bombs on Taroa. in the Maine] ;• a!"!', at dusk, causing damage in th«■ cantonment area. All of our plain returned." The Marshall blasters extended their panche to (Nauru, an i-land west of the t its and south of the Mar-hall . ni\ .11 ' its I'l's". pouuding since Dece' iin! Medium bomb ers attacked 0 aid in.-tall lions in daylight assault IN l.\(iI,ANI> London. .I.111. 2D—(AIM—Ma jor (ieneral J .tines II. Hoolittle arrived in l.ugland from the Mediterranean theatre today to take command of the l-aghth I . S. Army Air Force. Spain Must Choose Side Washington. .Ian. '<?!(—(AP)—The implication today of the Allied chok ing oil of oil shipments to Spain was that unless General Franco stopped helping the axis, other drastic blows may follow. In effect, the action announced by the State Department yesterday told Franco that it Is time for him ! to decide which t< am he wants to | play with, and act accordingly. Uy hitting Spain's ceononvc sys tem. the conceited move apparently was intended to force Franco out of '.he par 'lexical situation where Spai" has Ixcn a "non-belligerent" shewing warn mess toward the Al lies as war progressed in their favor, ,i<l to a<d the a:;L. Second Successive RAF Blow at Berlin Made Friday Night London, Jan. iii) — < AI') — The Eighth Army air force scut the greatest number of heavy bombers in ils history— well over SHU—in a thunderous assault a gainst industrial Frankfort today even as Ber lin smoked and burned anew from last night's second heavy 11AF blow in a row. Fighter cmmiIs probably number inn several hundred accompanied and assisted Hie Liberators ard Fly ins Fortresses in t lie blow at the highly-industrialized German city. Losses were not announced immediately. Swedish reports s.iid the complete evacuation of burning Merlin was con tern |>!aled. arid the Nazis clamp i(I i tight censorship on details of the second successive devastating KAF blow 11> mop up the rubble strewn capital. All Swcil sh correspondents mule it clear the attack was one o! the -.evertsI >t ' directed ngainst 15c: lin. Altli.-ugh the air ministry's com munique gave lew details, there was little doubt this second suece- ,ive assault in the mopping up ope i tioi>- again.-! the battered and : >rn city was ,i paralyzing blow. Nazi st-irecs themselves ai-kn - vl edged '"very large damage."' it was the third raid by Allied \ \ bombers from Britain ii, Z t hour.-.—following close on the A ill, j— iean davlight sti i.e vesliyday against mystery targets ni the f\is tit Calais t "astal region l France. It brought the total i> 'inb weight 011 I'.erlin since the start of the campaign Nov. li! to about 20,1100 1 >im tons of e\pli>.- \ t - ippnixi inateiy twice the ;\ftiount tliat was required to devastate Hamburg, a city It-;-.- than halt as big. The 13th attack on Berlin came while the CScrmans were giving l.ondon the Tooth alert of the war. "wiathhT FOR NORTH < M!OI,l\.\. Fair and Hliehll.t cooler to nichl. I'artlv cloudy with mod erate t nil |ir rat ii rr Sunday. (Georgia Vote Bill Not As Good As N. C. In t!ic Sir Walter Hotel. Daily Dispatch Bureau. |{\ I.VNX M<Bi.T Raleigh, Jan. -U.—First copy ol the Georgia soldier-voting law to I reach North Carolina olt'icials show i ed up on Attorney General Harry ML'Mulhu'j desk Friday. McMullan i h s not had time to study it but per , nutted the newspaper bovs to luoi; it over. Cursors reading indicates that despite a lot ol bragging about what ' Georgia lia.- done to give the sol diers voi".ng privilege, the provision.-, .ue still less adequate than those 111 • eUeet in North Carolina. Instead ol being handled by the i regular election machinery, the sol ! dier vote will be administered by a 'special War lialloi Commission. There is no provision ft «• a secret ballot, jind ;.II soldier ballots niu.-t be voted at at the court house precinct rather than in t ie home precinct ol the I voter. Provision made lor regis | (ration by mail and poll tax pay ! inents for service men are waived lor j the duration. I Because in Georgia primaries and conventions normal y vine closer to election day than in this .-tale, the regular statute govern.:ig these dales .- suspended and parties may (but are : not required to) hold nominating | conventions and primaries -t more convenient limes. | Meantime, the Worth Carolina State Hoard ol Flections has been called by IChairMun Joyner to meet in the hall ol the house ol representatives at li.iii 114.1 next We.iiie- iay. February 'J. at 11 o'clock to adopt rules and regit I turns lor la .I.tat ng the sol (Coitinued on Page Two) NI W <M Mil s ISilenos Aires. Jan. 'Ml—(AIM —The city ol' sun .lu.m which was virtually destroyed l»y ail e.irthiiu.iKe Jiiiui.ii> l"> exper ience;! four new temblors l.ite > rvteriliiy hut no additional damage was reported. Penally Promised For ]Not Keeping Employees i Uniii They Enter Armv Hiilt ilih, J,in. L*!i i AP> Dr. .1. S. Dnrton, Stole win* innniwwrr dlrsc* tor. sJiid todiiy penalties would lie ;^s(.sscf| a{{aiii>t employer - who <n liber.ite|y f.itl t*» kpep tiii'ii 011 1heir l>,iyrolls between the* Mine the om ployoc p.isjic*s his pre-induction ex num.ilion find when ho reports for | service. Sevcr;il such instances Imve h"on reported, Dr. D-rton s.nd. and il thr j practice continue*, the tt'MO will I u«i» itc service to dcic. - tiujj; "nl'.'i - I iv (ho en |i|nycr jjihI I'll WMC Will i lll-i' t<> ;i- |s| n ||10 |)! i ell:''Irt( |i| i»; i-tin . c»ii|ilovr'*s. I'r. siiifl. "It i, ,i terrible •hln# for morale. The ituui in (jugm* I inn l>rli<\ iv lh.it >inet' lr vmplnycr I'm- n-Miscd In |c| h j; until |)1(. time lie k<k\s into tho niniy there will l><- nn giiarnntee th.il his job will hp wniliMK f'»r him iiftcr the Hi". It i.- ji very inipiiliiolir practice .Hid we in c going lo light it to the ;nd.' Troops Near Appian Way And Railway Nazis Suffer Badly From Air Attack on Shipping of Allies Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Jan. — (AP) — American beachhead troops, striking to ward the Appian Way and the main rail lint* to the Cassino front, have advanced to within lijrht artillery range of Cister na astride both arteries 14 miles north of Anzio, it was an nounced today. At the same time other Allied forces pushing north from Anzio up the Arziate road captured a bridge two mile:; beyond Carroceto where the British routed a German unit Thursday. This Allied force was about !!1 miles southeast of Rome, and twelve miles north of An/io. The Germans launched heavy air attacks against shipping on the beachhead yesterday and again suf fered badly at the hands of the Al lied air forces which shot down Ul enemy planes over the area. Foartcen mere plar.es were shot down during a heavy bomber raid on Ferrara. The day's total bag was 3t! Xazi aircraft for a loss oC five -\llitd planes. Violent fighting raged north of Casino where American tanks and .ntnntrv hacked ci.it gains agaist licrce opposition and repeated coun ter-attacks. Farther north. French troops seized two hills north of Bel vedere mountain and smashed down three German counter thrusts. Action on the fan-shaped invasion front brought spectacular artillery warships supported the drive as fire from British and American well as great aerial duels. The navy reported that the Ger mans had been pushed back out of j range ol guns of destroyers, but still I were being hammered by cruisers, [ which reach between seven and eight miles inland. Naval guns also i blasted at Formia. on the Gulf of J Gaeta to the south, and continued j their harassing fire into the night. Fighting was waged in a driving rainstorm, hut in spite of the wea ther sky battles over the beach i head continued in violence un 1 matched since the last stages of tho Tunisian campaign. Vengeance Vowed On Pacific Coast For Jap Atrocities S;m Francisco, Jan. 29— (AP)—■ I Vows of vengeance iitid demands for retribution swept 'lie war-con scious Pacific coast today as the re actions of horror to the stories of j Japanese atrocities mounted to new heights. So acute was the feeling in many localities on the west coast, home of more than 100.000 persons of Jap ancestry prior to Pearl Harbor, that Lt. Dclos C. Kmmons. commanding general of the western defense com mand. cautioned against individual retaliation in this country. 76 Nurses Are Prisoners Of Japanese Washington. Jan. 2!)—(AP)—Sev enty women r.urses of the /irmy And navy apparently are still pi isoners ut the Japanese, captured when tho Philippines tell. Army tiles show that fid army nurses are prisoners. Persons re cently returned to this country in an exchange of internees, say that ten navy nurses brought into Ma nila m 'early 1942 (possibly taken • the time naval installations in the Mar'la area were captured) a1si» ire held by the enemy. The army nurses are of (he val iant little band of women who through the long, hot despairing days of the Batan campaign nursed more than 5.000 wounded find Rick. Then on April 7. 15)42. they were taken to temporary safety at the fortress of ('< rrigidor. until that fortress was taken by the enemy a month later. A total of US army nurses were i n Hatann and Corregidor as th<j peninsula campaign begun to draw to a close. On June I. 1042, Gen eral MacArthur reported that 22 nurses had arrived in Australia and that "nearly all" of them escaped only h few days before the fall o{ , Ccrregidor. j
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