Two Armies
On Rommel
Fourteen Axis
Sunk
London, Jan. 21st.—-The Fighting
French mraraiaf northward from
Equatorial Africa have joined forces
with the British Eighth Army closing
on Tripoli, it warn announced tonight,
while the British reported sinking 14
Axis vessels in the Mediterranean in
the first three days of th's week..
These French troops swept up from
the Lake Chad ana over deserts and
mo ratlins, conquering the Italian
Fsszan, and now "are continuing
their advance northward and have established
contact with the British
Eighth Army," a communique from
Brigadier General LeClerc's headquarters
announced.
"These forces brilliantly are taking
part with their British Allies in the
advance on Tripoli. They are attacking
on the left of the Eighth Anny
moving northward," said the war I
bulletin broadcast by the Fighting
French Radio at Brazzaville.
Sink 14 Ships
The juncture was itnngunfed shortly
after the British had reported sinking
fourteen Axis ships in the central
Mediterranean in the first three days
of this week, and as twin British
columns pounding toward Tripoli
were reported within 40 and 60 miles
of the bomb-battered capital of Mussolini's
vanishing Libyan empire.
The new threat from this French
thrust incMased the probability that
Field Maiwqtl Edwin Rommel would
fight only a delaying action at Tripoli,
instead of making a final stand
there. . , *
The French column had moved up
under Colonal Ingold, the field commander
under LeClerc. Its new advance
was announced by the authoritative
French radio station at Brazzaville,
and not the "Radio Brazzaville"
used as a cloak by an Axis
broadcasting station.
A triumphant communique by the
Admiralty tonight disclosed that a
pack of destroyers, six British and
one Greek, sank these vessels on
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights
without damage or loss;
A 3,000-ton supply ship, appanently
carying ammunition which blew
up south of Sardinia.
Ten ships of varying sizes, off the
shores of Tunisia.
A motor launch, also off Tunisia.
A small naval vessel carrying gasoline
to the Island of Lampedusa.
Farther, a British submarine chased
an enemy supply ship for five hours
and sent her down off the Tunisian
coast. The same submersible also
drove ashore two small supply ships,
both burning.
The destruction of these ships
swept Mussolini's "Mare Jfostrum"
virtually dean from the Tunisian
coast to Sardinia 40 the Eighth Army
steadily drew nearer to Tripoli.
The Navy has announced the destruction
of 23 surface craft in the
central Mediterranean since the first
of the year.
The absence of opposition at sea
was taken here to indicate there was
little probability of the Axis attempting
to evacuate its forces from Tripolitania
and Tunisia. Thus these
would be squoased between the advaneng
Eighth Army and the Allied
DR. O. T. BINKLEY,
Professor of Religion, Wake Fbrest
College, Wake Forest, N. C., who
will speak Suaday in the fourth
dress of the 1949 Baptist Hour.
AVAILABLE
Sodium chlorate will be available
for weed eradication in 1948 in quantities
sufficient to care for major
needs without rigid State quotes,
says a joint announcement of the
USD A and the WPB
SEED
The 1942 production of winter
cover crop seed, including Austrian
winter peas, vetch, crimson clover,
and rye grass, totaled 361,680,000
pounds, as compared with 124,040,000
pounds in 1941.
Final Rites Are
Held For Highly
Esteemed Woman
Mrs. Sheba Flanagan
Passes at Home of Her
Daughter at Ballards;
Funeral Services Here
Mrs. Sheba Flanagan, 76, widow of
John H. Flanagan, and & highly esteemed
Pitt County citizen, passed
away Saturday morning after an illness
of several months, at the home
of a daughter, Mrs. E. M. Tyson, at
Ballard's Cross Roads.
A large assemblage of friends and
relatives attended the funeral services,
which were conducted from the
Christian Church here, Sunday afternoon,
at S;00 o'clock. Rev. C. B.
Mashburn, the pastor, and Rev. A. L.
Dickerson, of Greenville, wwe ' in
charge of the final rites. Favorite
hymns were rendered by the choir
and interment was mode beneath a
large and lovely floral tribute in the
family cemetery near Farmville.
Mm Flanagan had lived in this community
since early womanhood and
was widely known and Moved for
her cheerful outlook on life, her
Christian fortitude and sympathetic
nature. Up until a few months prior
to her death she was amasingly
vigorous for her years and led m active
Ufa She was a derated mother,
a faithful friend and a neighbor
whose counsel and able assistance
could ever be depended upon. A
worthy helpmeet to her late husband,
a well known fanner of this
section, she raised a family of eleven
boys and giris, who are filling high
places of service in this community
and in other states today.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. A.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.-^
workers began to make an
this month in the form of a 5
For many millions of Am
income tax are the first dire
meat to meet the staggering
taxes and War bonds ... to
. The Treasury Department ert-'
,• mates that the Victory tax will raise
' approximately $2,000,000,000. Every
person receiving more than $12 per
week must pay the Victory tax^jjpoa
' that part of his income ore* and
; above the $12. For example, a marJ,
ried man with a salary of $10 per
;' wed, with two dependents, would
! make only, a net payment of $1.W
ner week after allowance for costLi
war credit. " -V'
R The Government* has made every
•> effort to make the impact of the
A new ta> as light as possible. The
A law, in effect, provides that in the
i dpe of married persona whose sole
* income is from wages or salary, 40
percent of the Victory tax paid (up
to S maximum of $1,000) plus 2 percent
for each dependent (up to a
maximum of $100) may be used as
a credit against whatever. Federal
income taxes the individual may owe
at me cad <rf the year—provided ha
hng purch&Md ecrtsfa Wv
or paid old debts or paid life
ance premiums iqutf to the n
of this credit. In the case of single
persons this credit will be 29 percent
Of «. »■
maximum of fw). Hwnw
tory credit exceed the individual's
Federal income tax, Am unused
portion of the credit may be refundable
to the taxpayer.
Rlhren with the Victory tax, the
HHa income tax, and all other taxes
« — t .ft,,11, ..I, t- t|. —
pa la Djr mqiTKnua, «c average
American will have more money
with which to buy War Bonds than
he has ever had before. Hera are
! the itpftMW which explain that
In 1940 the total income payments
made to die American people
amounted to about * bfliioa dollars.
In that same year the total personal
taxes paid, Federal, State and local,
roughly >i billion dollars,
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Americans Kill 1,032 In
Five-Day Period; San-'
ananda Fighting Near
End
■:,H•. •: - •
Washington, Jan.: 20. — American
troops killed 1,032 Japanese on Guadalcanal
within a five-day period during
the pact week, the Navy announced
today.
It waa perhaps the beet bit of
ground hunting since the early
phases of the Solomons campaign
and raised to at least 8467 the
number of Japs definitely known
to have been killed & land fighting
since the American invasion
five months ago.
This does not include the many
thousands who perished at sea when
American air and naval forces
smashed since huge invasion armadas.
Nor does it include those who
have died of disease and starvation
or those killed in Jap-held areas
by American bombs and long-range
guns.
All told, the enemy's attempt to
recapture lost bases in the southern
Solomons is estimated to have cost
upwards of 60,000 Japanese lives
thus far.
In the first stages of the campaign,
the Japanese strength on
Guadalcanal was estimated at 2Qr
444 troops. Roughly half of this
force has been wiped out During
the first three months, the enemy
[frequently succeeded in landing reinforcements,
but when large-scale
invasions were attempted, Jap
losses in ships anc£i: men reached
such proportions that they subsequently
gave up the idea and have
since sought to move in with small
groups ef destroyers.
* Costly Debacle.
One of the most costly major
Japanese invasion thrusts w*s the
mid-November debacle whisk cost
the enemy an estimated20,000 to
40,000 men killed or drowned and
28 ships sunk.- _ ;
currad from January 1# to 17, in.In
i - 1. . . a. * _ i»
erosive, aurmg rvanous Actions
FRONT
(For SiImm Jan. 13.)
The President in his seventh LendLease
report to Congress pointed
out—"Supplies from the United
States hnv* had an important part
in the war effort of the United Nation*."
We can place a value hi dollars
and cento on the goods and services
made available to our allies
through Lend-Lease, bat we cannot
fully appraise live strategic value of
the aid we have given, beyond the
fact that our Lend-Lease assistance
definitely has advanced the allied
cause on many battle front* and
brought victory over the Axis that
much nearer. It is harder still to
measure the value of the reciprocal
aid we haw leteived from oar allies.
Under the teems of the LendLease
Aet, passed by Congress on
March 11, 1941, the President was
authorised to permit the delivery of
a wide range of goods, products, and
weapons and the rendering of many
hinds of services by this country for
the benefit of '"the Government of
any country whose defense the President
deems vital to the defense of
the United States."
, At, the time the Act was passed,
months of 1941, and nearly twice the
total for all of 1941. Aid was then
being ertewded at h rat* of mace]
than ten billion dollars a year, or
about 15 percent of the current rate
of spending on the entire United
States war program.
Lead-Lease Policy Proved Soon*.
Expenditures of such magnitude
American Governments
Informed of Action Td^y
Santiago, Chile, Jan. 20. — Chile
broke relation* today with Germany,
Italy and Japan, leaving Argentina
the only American republic maintaining
diplomatic contact with the
Ajds. v';-V .
The decree was signed by President
Rios after representatives of
other Amferidan countries and Britain
were notified at the step.
The announcement followed a 80
to 10 senate vote approving President
Rioe' deaiSK^ for the break
with Germany, Italy and Japan.
Official sources Said Axis diplomats
would be notified during the
day and President Rioe planned to
inform the country in a broadcast
over all Chillean stations at 7 pi m.
tonight
Barons— Von Schoen, wife of the
German ambassador, Bahon Wilhelm
Von Schoen, already has left
by train for Argentina, the one remaining
nation which will be left
in the |mmericas maintaining relations
with the Axs.
The senate's vote was taken lart
night after Foreign Minister Joaquin
Ferenandez, speaking for the
president in a private session, announced
the rupture decision snd
asked for the senate's approval. Of
the 45 senators, three were absent
and two abstained from voting.
- Circles close to the government
said a drive to eliminate Axis espionage
and liquidate fifth column
activities would accompany the
formal break of relations. . They
said suspected spits had been under
observation for same time and
WAR IN BRIEF
PnaJaiM iwMfWI*.* vmrAA mL
MllMlMli, OMlunulDg
arwe, oypmmm nuiwv in §jumhdi«
drive to trap Germans south and
east of city. Russian* fight fiercely
to broaden gap driven into the
German ranks iwnir Leningmi£ that
lifted long siege «f big city.
Fighting French forces driving
up from south across th^; Sahara
join hands with the fasf. moving
British EiM Army in pursuit ot
Axis Marshal Rommel's forces near
Tripoli Nasi tank attack in southern
Tunisia gains ground against
French forces.
Germans make daylight raid on
London, killing 49 people, half at
than school children. ~ :
Americans on Guadalcanal killed
1,000 Japanese during five-day period
of fighting to extend American an*
around Henderson field. Americans
and Australians nearing end of Saar
immi^ battle to exterminate Japanese
in Papua.
Washington reveals that Russia
now is getting the major share of'
lend-lease shipments from the Unit-1
ed States, but says U-boat menace
still is ssriotlg problem for Mb*.
—* f;.
K f INCOME" v
...Cash teeesM trass fans Marketing
in November totals *1,765,000,000, as
compared with $1^62,W0,000 in
October and $1,210,000,000 in Novembet
at 1M1, estimates the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
H£ yon should inadventently rail it
"ratfanaT board you will be calling
ft what H isn't
Food A Vital 4 I
Weapon in Straggle
For Freedom
Theme of Farm Bureau
Meeting To Be Held In
Raleigh January 26-27;
Prominent Speakers To
Appear On Program