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Washington, Sept. 8. — Senator
Brown (D-Mich) said today that the
Senate Banking Committee would
meet Friday or Monday to consider
legislating authorising President
Roosevelt to stabilise living costs.
The Michigan senator piloted the
existing price control legislation
through the Senate and called for
"prompt action" to 'support "the
PresMant in Us future efforts to
combat rising prices." He said committees
of the House and Senate
should work on the needed legislation
simultaneously.
There were widespread demands,
meanwhile, by members of Congress
for statutory contrpl of wages
in the program to prevent inflation.
Mr. Roosevelt's statement that he
would invoke executive powers if
Congress did not act by October 1
to knock down farm price ceilings
and provide new taxes brought retorts
that the President was "pointing
a pistol" at Congress, was waving
a "club" and was setting out on
"uncharted seas" of presidential authority.
But out of the storm of criticism
that arose over the language in
which he conveyed his objectives to
Congress in a nfessage yesterday
and to the people in a radio "fireside
chat" last night, these trends
were discernable among legislators:
Influential Democrats and Republicans
appeared agreed that overall
control? of the nation'p economic
machinery were needed, with many
contending that wages as well as
farm prices should be stabilised by
legislation. --
Farm state member* rallied to insist
that if ceilings were to be fixed
on the prices of agricultural
commodities at parity levels, partity
returns for all crops should be
guaranteed to the farmers by the
government.
(Parity is a price calculated to
give growers a purchasing power
equal to a past favorable period,
usually 1909-14.)
Members of the Senate Finance
Committee, who already have declined
to close some of the tax
loopholes which the President cited
in his message, appeared unlikely
to accept his recommendation for
rate increases which would ^ limit individual
incomes to |26,000 a year.
They speeded consideration of the
new revalue measure in an attempt
to bring it before the Senate by
September .21.
In his message to Congress, the
President said he was prepared to
act in an executive capacity to stabilize
wages, But insisted that farm
prices must also be controlled. He
contended that the present law
would permit the average of all
farm commodities to rise to 116 per
cent of parity.
Legislation to Jjsr introduced in
both houses this week to carry out
c*B for repeal of section three of
the Price Control Act which contacts
these restrictions on the operation
of price ceilings.
Leaf Average
Farmvie Market
Third Week of 1942 Season
Sees Steady Advance
In Price Trend;
DaOy Average Around
35 Cents
The third week of tobacco sales on
the F*rmyille market has seen an increase
in average over the past two.
Common tijte have constituted the
preponderance of offerings to date
on this market bat better quality
grades are beginning to show up in
greater quantities now. Most of the
tobacco is bringing around 30 cento
or more with medium and better
grades in great demand and bringing.
between 40 and 60 cents, with
superior leaf occasionally reaching
the sixties.
Farmers are apparently busily engaged
with grading and marketing
judging from the heavy poundage
being put on the floors here. All
types of tobacco have shared in the
great advances over last season's
prices and the average is expected to
reach a new high when the good tobaccos
begin to come on the the
market in quantity.
LULL IN EGYPT
Cairo, Sept 9.—Ground activity in
the western desert remained at a
standstill today, . but air forces
smashed again at Axis supply lines
with heavy raids last night on. the
Salum-Matrnh road and on the port
of Tobruk, which already had been
pounded with 3,000 tons of bombs
since June *23.
Both medium and heavy bombers
were included in a "big force" which
attacked Tobruk, leaving huge fires
raging in the dock' area and near
fuel installations, it was learned tonight.
The attack on the Satam-Matruh
road was anno'tnced in today's communique,
which said a number of
trucks, gasoline carriers and staff
can was destroyed. Allied planes
shot down three German, planes in
an air fight over enemy territory and
destroyed two other enemy planes in
actions.
The communique also announced
that bomber and torpedo planes had
scored hits an an enemy destroyer
and two merchant vessels during an
attack on a convoy in the central
Mediterranean Monday night. One
of the vessels was left with a heavy
list and with Mack smoke pouring
from its stern.
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guidp ontO you have investigated It
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Senatorial Body
( VlJltA WOT
nwpis ficiory
Tax' on Income
Um of Five Per Cent
Upon Gross Income
Earned In 1943 Would
Be Collected By Employers;
Would Be In
Addition To Increased
Normal and Surtax
Rates
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Washington, Sept. 9—A five per
cent "Victory Tax" on gross income
earned in 1943 which individuals
would be required to pay in addition
to sharp! jr-uicnaaeif normal and surtaxes
formally Was written into the
war revenue bilf today by the Senate
Finance Committee.
Fiscal officials estimated the tax
would affect 24,000,000 persons not
now paying Federal taxes and, with
anticipated reduced income exemptions,
would raise to' 43,000,000 the
number of persons paying money
into the Federal Treasury.
The levy, which - would add a«
estimated *3,650,000,000 to the
House-approved $6,271,000,000 measure,
would be collected by 'employers I
from weekly or monthly pay checks!
of the workers beginning January l.i
1043. It would, be applied a£Lt|
*11 individual income in excess of I
$12 a week or $624 a year.
A post-war rebate provision makes!
'he tax, in effect, a compulsory!
savings plan. Single persons would J
receive * post-war refund of 26 perl
cent of the amount the tax cost them, I
with a minimum rebate limit of I
1600. Married persons would get ]
a 40 per cent rebate with a maxi-|
mum limit of $1,000. Two per cent,!
or a maximum of $100, would be re-|
funded for each dependent.
Taxpayers may take credit against |
the victory levy for payments of!
life insurance premiums outstanding!
« of January 1, 1942; payment of I
debts contracted prior to that date,!
or purchases at War Bonds. The!
total of these credits, however, mayf
not exceed the 25 per cent refund I
allowance for single persons and the!
40 Per cent allowance for married*
persona.
Would Get Bonds.
K the credit were not used in
any of the above ways, the taxpayer
could receive a non-interestbearing,
non-negotiable bond which
could be cashed after the war,
The new levy would eliminate
the five per cent withholding tax,
also to have been collected by employers,
which the House approved.
£his tax, applying to. 1948 income
would have been levied while the
taxpayers were making payments
due on 1942 income.
The committee decided upon a
separate gross income tax in preference
to three plans submitted at
«a request by the Treasury which
would have merged the new levy
into the exJstiffc tax structure by
inC<>me Memp"
ti<w» and increasing present but
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Hutson To Address
Gathering At College
In Greenville
Greenville, Sept. 10.—J. B, Hutaen,
president of the Commodity
Credit Corporation, Washington, D.
C., will address farmsrs and business
men at six counties at a meeting
here next Saturday to diacuas
the recent ceiling price placed on
flue-cuudd tobacco by the Office of
Price Administration.
The meeting, originally scheduled
to be held Friday, was portioned
to Saturday afternoon, Sept. 12, at
4 o'clock to suit Mr. Hutaon's schedule,
J. E. Winslow, president of the
North Carolina Farm Bureau Fed-,
eration, stated.
The Pitt County Farm Bureau,
with a membership of nearly 2,000
is sponsoring the meeting. It will
be held in the Wright Building at
East Carolina Teachers College.
A barbecue supper will be served
the multitude at the conclusion of
the meeting. Dr. M. T. Friixelle of
Ayden, president of the Pitt County
Farm Bureau, will preside.
Meredith Kohlberg, Office of Price
Administration executive and nationally
known flue-cured tobacco
specialist, is also expected to attend
the farmers' meeting and discuss
the tobacco price ceiling.
1. E. Winslow of Greenville and
a delegation of farmers are going
to Washington Friday for a conference
with Price Administration officials.
They are Judsom Blount and
M. O. Speight of Pitt county, Joseph
Winslow of Martin county, A. C.
Edwards of Greene county, W. W.
Eagles and W. J.. Eason of Edgecombe
county, R. P. Richardson at
Rockingham, and D. M. Spense of
Fuquay Springs.
A preliminary conference at 100
Pitt county agricultural and business
leaders and takers discussed
the celling situation here Wednesday
night and perfected plans
for t^famers' meeting Saturday,
September 12. ; » ;
A WEEK OF
THE WAR
(For Release September 8) ; , «i
President Roosevelt asked Congress
to enact October 1 Legislation
under' which he would be "specifically
authorised to stabilise the cost
of living, indludmtg the price of all
farm commodities." In a special
message to the legislators, the President
said "inaction on your part by
that date will leave me with an inescapable
responsibility to the people
of this country to see to it that
the war effort is no longer imperiled
by threat of economic chaos.- In the
event that the Congress should fail
to act, and act adequately, I shall accept
the responsibility, and I will
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Mr. Roosevelt said the purpose of
thft "Legislation "should be 16 hold
farm- prices at parity, or at levels of
a recent date, whichever, is higher."
He said "at the same time that farm
prices are stabilized, wages can and
will be stabilised also. This I will
do."
The President recalled that two
points of-his original seven-point
anti-inflation program required legislation—"an
adequate tax program,
and * law permitting the fixing of
V&* ceilings on farm products at
parity prices." He said delay in,enactfng
this Legislation "has now
reached the point of danger to oar
whole country ..... We cannot hold
the actual cost of food and clothing
down to approximately the present
level beyond October 1. But no one
To Retreat Again
Russians Retire From 2
More Populated Places
Wear City; Germans
Increase Presiire
Upon Black Sea Port
Of Nororosask; German
Losses Tremendous*
Moscow, Sept. 10.—Massed German
tanka and infantry smashing in
a frontal assault toward the western
gates of Stalingrad forced the Red
Army to give op two mora populated
places tn the third Rbasian retreat
tat as many days, an official announcement
said early, today.
German troops also uhroke into
the northwestern outskirts" of Novorossisk,
Soviet Black Sea naval
base in the Caucasus which the
Germans claimed capturing Sunday
despite! "tremendous losses in men
and material," the communique acknowledged.
While the fight for Stalingrad
roared on, the Soviet Bureau of Information,
in a summary of the
Bummer fighting, said 78 enemy divisions,
including 64 German, were
routed by the Soviets between May
1 and August 81. On the Russian
side, a special announcement said,
42 Soviet rifle divisions sad brigades
suffered considerable losses
in the same period.
The.bureau listed 64 German divisions
that were routed, comprising
34 infantry divisions, four motorized,
two inotorised SS (Elite
Guard), two mountain infantry, and
12 tank divisions.
. Other Axis divisions routed went
Rum suit — Vive infantry, two
mountain, one calvary;
Hungarian — Five infantry, one
tank;
Italian — two infantry, one hmx
torized, one Alpine;
Slovak — One' motorized.
Also routed, the announcement
said, waa a "legion of Danish Hitleritea."
In addition, the announcement
said, 21 German infantry divisions
suffered severe losses—"from 40 to
60 per cent of their effectives" in
the' same period. ; ■ v . {
Courageous Red army men trying
to make a "Red Verdun" of Stalingrad
were reported fighting
agaihst tanks with only rifles, but
the tremendous Germah armored
oolumns attacking frontally were
creeping closer daily to the imperilled
Volga river city.- (The Berlin
radio quoted a dispatch as saying
that some German troops had
reached the city itself).
Southwest of Stalingrad the Russians
skid their troops were repulsing
constant attacks and ttut at least
21 ngorq Nasi tanks had been destroyed
and three German-Rumanian
infantry companies annihilated.
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Plans Being: Made Foe
Furnishing AAA lime
Plans .now are being made by
County. AAA committee* for furnishing
ground limestone to North Carolina
farmers as a grant-of-aid material
under the 1948 AAA program,
according to G. T. Scott, chairman
of the State AAA Committee, with
headquarters at N. C. State College.
'
I Orders for limestone under
1942 program already have exceeded
300,000 tons, and orders will • be
acceftetd under this program until
September 15, Scott said.
County AAA committees now an
soliciting bids *o- hauling limestone
from railroad points in the varoius
counties to farmyards, he said, and
arrangements are expected to be
completed before the end of the
month so that orders under the 1943
American Plsncs
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Bomb Japanese Base on
Gilo Island ill Solomons;
Also Down Flying
Boat
Washington, Sept. 9.— American
sir force*, turning once more to the
offensive in the Solomon Islands,
bombed and strafed Japanese shore
installations on Gixo Island, 21S miles
northwest of the United States base
en Guadalcanal, the Nary announced
tonight.
The operation was carried out last
Sunday without any resistance from
the enemy and apparently marked
the start of a whole new pfcaflP of
offensive activity in the conquest of
the Solomons. Ever since the Solomons
invasion started August 7; it
has been expected that consolidation
of American positions in the
southeastern section of the islands
would be followed by attacks' on
Japanese positions to the northwest
The Navy communique disclosing
the aerial assault on Gijso said that
the process of mopping up enemy
units in Guadalcanal reported seeking
out and attacking Japanese detachments
which fled to the Jangles
when the initial American landing
was made and which may We
been reinforced since by small numbers
of troops sent in by the Japanese
from time to time "under cover
of darkness."
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Another disclosure of the communique
was that on September 5
a Navy patrol plane shot dbwfc a
large Japanese, four-engined. flying
boat northeast of the Solomon*,, No
details of this engngement were
given, but the loss of the flying boat
brought to at least 123 the number
<& planes which the Japanese have
had destroyed in Solomons fighting
to date. ' ...1 , , <t --si; ^.',1 •'
Most interest in naval circles here
devolved upon the Giso action, however,
and what it may portend for
the future.
The little island, which is about
four miles wide by six long; and
heavily woedhd, lies more than
halfway on the route to Kieta, a
Japanese-held point on Bougainville
Island. Northwest of Kieta is
the Japanese main Solomons base
of Buka. * t • •
ACTIVE
Movement of orchard grass seed
from farms continued active during
the first two weeks of August, and
by . the middle of the month 69 percent
of the commercial 1942 crop
had been soU. 'r,V.; ,'.',£T
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You may not understand that boy
of yours but you can take it as a fact
Urging every man, woman and
chikj FWmviUe and vicinity to
hasten the day of Victory by salv«dS?tXy'SSg^Si
support to the local salvage campaign.
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"By t-rniBg *ver to the Salvage
Expresses s Confidence
fat Ability of the United
Nations
London, Sept. 8.—A British amy
is rapidly being strengthened in ban
and Iraq "which may eventually give
support" to Soviet Russia's imperiled
left flank, PHm* Minister Churchill
disclosed today, indicating British
preparation* to eotav Erectly into the
battle of Russia U nedbssary.
Bis statement came la a detailed
war report to the House of Common*
which reflected confidence in
the Alied situation generally in the
air and at sea and, specifically, on
the vital western desert front in
Egypt.
Tz~ Prime Minister gave Commons
assurances both that Egypt
was secure by the virtual raising
there of a new Allied army, stronger
than ever, in the midst at tattle
and that the day for an offeuaiva <
against Hitter's Europe is coming:
He called the Dieppe raid more
than a Commando raid, a reconnaissance
in force which was an
"indispensable preliminary" to greater
undertakings.
Thus, the Prime Minister pictured
Hitler as Mocked at one side of his
great 1942 campaign by control at
the Mediterranean and the transCaucasus
and possibly aboat to
oo me to grips with a new, strong
British force on the other.
The 19th army, separated now
from the Middle East command and
made an autonomous force under
General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson,
Churchill disclosed, "is being napidly
strengthened and, with substantial
air forces which it will require, may
"eventually give support to the Russian
left flank, and, in any case, defend
the soU of Panta."
Britain, ha reported in a wnr
summary to the reconvened Pariiment,
may be confident in oar ability
to mnrntffiin $ successful cksfensc .
of Egypt not far days or weeks, bat
for s^reral months ahead."
„ These specific details fitted fcxtc
what Churchill termed a continuing
tread in the Allies' favor since MM
report and with a complete accord
between Britain and the United
States on waging global war, an- accord
which he naid has existed since
the end of July.
At sea also, he gavy cheering news
with the report that, though loases
still "are heavy, they had dropped
so sharply that" they are1 at a slower
rate than replacements through new
building.
"Our warfare on U-boats," he added,
"baa been more succeaaful than
at any other period m the war."
Still, he acknowledged, the Nazis
have been building submarines faster
than the Allies have been able to
sink them. Nevertheless, be said,
the bombing of German shipbuilding
yawfe "will hare* Increasing effect
upon the output and assembly of
U-boats."
With direct reference to American
air cooperation in the European theater,
he commented;
"United States layiight bombing
is a new and increasingly important
factor and there is Ac doubt
that both in the accuracy of higtr
level aim and in mutually defensive
power the new possibilities of the
air warfare am being opened by our
American comrades and their flying