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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-10-07
Nathan's Creek
High School News

The Nathan's Creek High School
has announced their honor roll
for the first month as follows:
Grade 4-Wilda Ray Little,
Margaret Mash, Mae Tucker and
Carlene Orsborne. Grade Spa
tricia Woodie, Nell Reed, Zell
Reed, and Mary Ann Miller.
Grade 6-Nannie Lee Tucker,
Glenna Gale Mcmillan, Wilma
Gray Dixon and Anna Sue Jones.
Grade 7-Doris Massey, Alder
tine Miller, Maxine Roupe, Paul
inc Blevins, Dorothy Brown, Will
liam Grey Wyrick and Ethel Bare.
Grade 8-Ruth Ann Miller, Sarah
A. Miller, Albertine Goodman,
Geraldine Phipps, Helen Jones,
Clyde Hart, Carl Carson, Sidney
Pennington, Ruth Cope, Clayborn
Sheets, Thelma Green, Myrtle
Keely, Utah Massey and Thomas
Gambill. Grade 9-Ralph Stump,
Glenn Atwood and Robert Good
man. Grade 12-Billy Joe Dixon.
The seventh and eighth grade
boys are showing a great interest
in softball, with first one grade
winning and then the other. Out
standing players for the seventh
grade are: Ben Mcmillan, Clifford
Church and Radford Taylor. Out
standing players for the eighth
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-10-07
ALLEGED CHAPLIN BABY
BORN TO JOAN BERRY

Hollywood-Joan Berry, %, has
given birth to a six-pound, five
ounce baby girl, whose father she
claims is Charles Chaplin, movie
comedian. Both mother and child,
whom she named Carol Ann, were
reported doing we'll.
The baby was born at 1890
last night, announced Miss Berry's
mother, Mrs. Gertrude E. Berry of
New York. The expectant mother
was admitted to the hospital early
yesterday.
Shortly after the birth, the in
fant's footprints were taken on
legal documents. When the child
is four months old, blood tests
will be made in an effort to de-
termine whether or not Chaplin
is the father.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-10-07
JAP ZERO FIGHTERS
DOWNED BY ALLIES

Chungking - Filters of the 18th
u. S. Air Force, in one of the
heaviest American attacks ever
carried out in the Far Eastern
war zone, shot down 26 japanese
Zero fighters and probably de-
stroyed another ten over the Port
of Haiphong, in Northern Indo-
China, communique from 1t.
Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell's head
quarters said this week.
Three other Zeros were shot
down and three probably destroy
ed in another air engagement over
Indo- China, raising Japanese los
ses for the day to %. and prob
ably AZ planes. Both engage
ments occurred last Friday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-10-07
Last Thirty Days OF War
Declared Most Successful

The 80 days which have elapsed
since the invasion of Europe from
the south can readily be regarded
by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
and his armies as easily the most
successful for the Allies in the
whole war. In that brief span
his command has achieved these
results:
Italy has been knocked out
of the war and her fleet as we'll
as much of her merchant ship
ping added to the Allied naval
resources.
2-The Germans have been
driven from roughly one-fifth of
Italy and the great port of Ma
pies is secured as a base of sup
plies for future operations up the
peninsula.
3-The whole German posi-
ton in the Balkans has been out
thanked by the Allied conquest of
Southern Italy and the Adriatic
suddenly has been changed from
an Axis lake.
1.-The Nazis have been driv-
en- from Sardinia and are in full
flight from Corsica where en-
battled French troops have be-
gun the reconquest of their own
country.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-10-07

Farm-mortgage indebtedness
for the U. S. as a whole continued
to decline during 1912 according
to preliminary estimates.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-10-07

Feathers from chicken-dressing
plants were formerly wasted or
used as fertilizer. Now they are
being preserved in weak acid
solution and will be used for
sleeping bags, pillows, and for
camouflage.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-10-07

The U. S. Department OF Agri-
culture reports that pullorum dis
ease has been reduced about a
third since 1886, when official
testing of poultry breeding stock
began on Federal-State basis.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-10-07
, Mine Safety
, Help Wor Production

U. S. needs coal to keep industry producing
weapons You help your country by helping to in
crease coal tonnage
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-10-07

It is announced that the loan
rates on wheat in North Carolina
will be $1.46 per bushel for No.
2 soft red wheat.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-10-07
Brief Review OF State National World News During The Past Week

5-Bases have been secured
from which heavy American and
British bombers can blast not
only Germany but Hitler's Balk-
an satellites at comparatively
short-range in weather which
month after month is far supe-
rior for flying to those prevail
ing in Britain.
6-Other Allied bases for short
range operations against the Bal
kans already have been seized in
the Aegean Sea.
1.-THE Germans have been
compelled to shoulder a portion
of the job of policing the turbu-
lent Balkans which formerly was
done by the Italians and the po-
lice task has been made many
times more difficult especially af-
ter patriot bands obtained Wea-
pons laid down by the Italians.
8-Further strain has been plac-
ed on the German military ma
chine by the outbreak of fighting
in many Northern Italian cities,
while Nazi transportation prob
lens have multiplied by the ne
cessity of taking over Italian rail
roads and operating them with
skilled workers brought from
Germany.
Evening star., 1943-08-01

ernment by Britain and the United
States as other governments-in-
exile.
Hopes for Recognition.
Besides the appointment of Gen.
lie Gentilhomme, the French COM
mittee appointed Gen. Leyer as
chief OF the general staff of the
army. with Brig. Gen. Pierre Koenie.
De Gaullist Of Bir Hacheim fame.
as assistant chief of the general
staff.
Rear Admiral Lemonnier was
named chief of staff for the navy.
with Rear Admiral Philippe Marie
Auboyneau as assistant chief of the
naval staff. Gen. Rene Bouscat re-
mained chief of staff for the air
force.
M. Bonnet in the frankest state
ment of the committees hopes yet
made declared:
L hope today's DEGREES will have
a good effect on the question of re-
cognition by the United States and
Britain. I don't understand why it
has been so long delayed. Nom
recognition is weakness but weak.
ness which will not prevent us from
becoming stronger"
The new decree apparently grant,
ed Gen. Giraud the essentials of his
Evening star., 1943-08-01

military ambitions, but Gen. de
Gaulle more than ever emerged as
the strong man of the French group.
Positions Evenly Divided.
1t was noted that the French
Committee of National Liberation
expressly retained for itself the
power to direct the general con-
duct of the war and dispose of all
land, naval and air forces"
The committees retention of these
powers embodied almost to the last
syllable Gen. de Gaulle's repeated
demands that any man on horse
back" commanding the French
forces should be responsible to and
under the authority of the French
political government.
POSITIONS as chiefs of stats were
about evenly divided between the
followers Of the two leaders. Gen.
Leyer was on Gen. Girauds staff
during the Tunisian campaign, while
Gen. Koenig, his new assistant, is
a De Gaullist.
The new chief of staff for the
Navy, Admiral Lemonnier, Is a
Giraudist, while his assistant, Rear
Admiral Auboyneau is a De Gaullist.
Lemonnier Naval Aviation Specialist.
Admiral Lemonnier, Al, who for
merly commanded the naval anti
Evening star., 1943-08-01
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Predicting early action by Con-
gress to overhaul the Selective
Service System, Senator Taft,
Republican, of Ohio wrote Draft
Director Lewis B. Hershey yes
terday urging the separation Of
men over 80 years of age and
those younger into different
draft classifications.
Sen. Taft told an interviewer he
felt confident that demands for a
halt in the drafting of fathers,
linked with indications of an easing
off in Selective Service quotas,
would bring the whole question of
a reassessment of the present in
duction system before Congress
shortly after it I, convenes in Sep
tember from summer recess.
In his letter to Gen. Hershey,
Senator Taft said he believed that
II division were made at the 30
year ago level. it probably would
not be necessary to draft those
over 80 in the future.
II feel very strongly" the Ohioan
told Gen. Hershey, that men of 80
and younger should be drafted be-
fore the older men,"
Senator Taft listed six reasons for
the proposed change in the present
system, under which draft calls 20
out to men up to 38, with married
men being taken after the quotas
Of single men are exhausted. These
were:
Il. Men under 30 make better
soldiers and are more likely to stand
the physical strain.
.. Men under 80 are not going to
Evening star., 1943-08-01
WLB Denies Pay to Workers
When BIockouts Halt Duties

The War Labor Board, acting for
the first time on the issue. yesterday
refused union request that its
members be paid during blackouts.
A 10-city AFL committee made the
request for 5000 employees Of the
National Biscuit Co. In Atlanta, New
York, Philadelphia. Cambridge, Buf-
falo, Memphis, Kansas City, Niagara
Falls, Toledo and Marseilles, Ill.
But the board upheld its arbitra-
tor, Aaron Horvitz. who said that
Once of Civilian Defense rules are
binding on both the company and
the union and the resulting incon-
venience must be borne by both. The
company pays employees who actually
are assigned to any duties in connec-
tion with the company's property
during drills and test blackouts. he
said.
However, the board granted a 2
cent hourly pay increase to the
$500 workers and cracked its Little
Evening star., 1943-08-01

explains. 1t is noted, however, that
direct taxes on corporations will be
about $685., ,0O0, 900 less than the jan
uary estimate, amounting to $l4,-
os0, 400, 900.
Underlying this charge, it was
said, is reduction in the expected
yield OF the excess profits tax, off,
set partly by an increase in revenue
from corporate normal tax and sur
tax. Individuals are due to con-
tribute $18,795, 100000 to the Federal
exchequer.
Going into the economic impact
OF the huge program of govern
mental spending, and renewing his
call for more taxes. the President
explained that this spending creates
income for corporations and indi-
viduals. If these expenditures are
financed by taxing, or borrowing ac-
tive funds, he said, the volume of
"spendable" funds in the hands of
consumers will not increase. If the
expenditures must be financed by
borrowing from banks or by bor-
rowing idle funds, he said. this
"spendable" income increase
greatly. ...
Huge Increase in Demand.
Estimating the national income
at s150,000, 100000, Mr.. Roosevelt
said this would create "a tremendous
increase in demand for goods and
services" in the face of dwindling
supply Of civilian goods.
II recommended in my budget
message last January q truly stiff
program of additional taxes, saw
ings, or both," he recalled. II con-
| tinue to support that program. The
cost of living cannot be stabilized
unless the price and wage controls
are supported by a further substan-
tial absorption of purchasing power
as a deterrent to bidding up prices
and resorting to the black market.
The alternative to sterilization
is imitation and imitation Is the most
inequitable way of distributing the
necessary wartime curtailments. In
f1ation shifts the full burden to the
shoulders of the people in the weak
est bargaining position, the people
whose incomes do not rise with in
creasing prices. Imitation also re-
duces production by creating unrest
and friction.
"A war program, involving $780,
Evening star., 1943-08-01
'loye retirement, amount to $4,831
~, 400.
How War Budget Is Divided.

ploye retirement, amount to $4,831,-
074, 400.
How War Budget Is Divided.
The President divided the war
budget as follows: Munitions and
construction, $72,000, 900 900, and all
other costs, including military pay,
subsistence, travel and agricultural
lease-lend, $28 ,000, ,000,0 900. The COM
parative figures for the last fiscal
year were 100000, 900 and S1s,-
600, ,000, 900 for total of $75 900, ,00O,-
900, which alone was about double
the comparable cost of the last war.
In addition Government corpora
tlons, 1t was explained, again will
spend around S3,O00,000, 1000 for such
purposes as financing war plant IA
cllities, purchasing critical materials
and paying subsidies, but "eonsid-
erable proportion" of such OUTLAWS
comes back to the Government, it
was added. as war plants are amor
tized or disposed of, and as stock
piles are liquidated.
The 1943 war expenditures, it was
amplified, were 30 per cent below
the estimates made six months ago,
primarily because costs of produc-
ton for many munitions declined
more than anticipated" The con-
templated cost of the program for
1914, the statement said, is based on
the current cost of the items which
60 into it.
If we should fail in Our effort to
stabilize the cost of living, or if a
substantial increase in wage rates
should take place, war expenditures
would, of course, exceed the present
estimate" it was pointed out.
Veterans Benefits Increase.
Listed with the nonwar activities,
one of the budget tables shows that
veterans benefits and pensions this
year will cost $3.50, ,725 900, as COM
pared With S599, ,742 ,083 last year.
On the other side of the ledger,
the budget statement estimates in
come at S38, ,148 900 900, which is more
than $1,000, 100000 more than the
January estimate and nearly S16,-
100000, 900 above the figure for the
fiscal year of 1943.
The 1912 tax laws increased this
years revenue, which is being boil
stored further by the new statute
advancing the date of payment of
individual income taxes, the report
Evening star., 1943-08-01

aircraft defenses of France, organ
lied the transport command for
Gen. Girauds naval forces in North
African waters. known as a naval
aviation specialist, he has been aIoof
from Vichy politics since 1910.
Gen. Leyer, in his Sos, is consid-
cred a tank warfare expert. He
fought In the cavalry and infantry
in the last war, studied at staff
colleges and in 1910 rose from regi-
mental to divisional commander in
flerce engagements in Belgium and
Northern France. He headed the
Algiers cavalry school and Joined
Gen. Giraud for the Tunisian cam
paign.
Gen. lie Gentilhomme, 48, former
war commissioner in De Gaulle's ma
tional committee in London, led the
troops which took part in the cap
ture Of Damascus and drove the
VlchyiteS from Syria.
Evening star., 1943-08-01

Steel" wage formula In the progress.
The employees were entitled only to
LIZ cents an hour more under this
formula but, the WLB said, TO
grant this odd sum would pro-
duce bookkeeping difficultieH' ss
The WLB also clarified Its de-
cision in the Los Angeles Street
Railway case by saying that start
ing rates were increased cents an
hour, though a general 10-cent
boost had been denied.
The starting pay of trainmen OF
the Los Angeles Railway Corp. was
increased from 10 to rs cents an
hour, with a Accent stepup to 30
cents after six months service
Previously one year Of service
brought Scent increase, with an
other cents after two years. r
Evening star., 1943-08-01
Taft Proposes New Draft Setup,
Segregoting All Men Over 80
Predicts Early Congressional Action
To Overhaul SeIective Service System

be comfortable staying at home even
If they are married. In fact, many
have already volunteered.
"3 Men under 30 haven't reached
responsible positions in the various
civilian activities in which they are
engaged and can much more easily
and with less sacrifice give up these
activities. This is particularly true
of young professional men.
q. Men under 30 are of less value
to their employers because they have
not reached the key positions where
experience counts.
IS. Men under 80 have not built
up the standard of expense which
older men have assumed. This
means that their families will not
have to make the severe readjust-
.nents which have to be made by
many men over 30.
Is. In the case of men under 30.
1t is much more likely that their
wives will have families still fully
able to support them, to which they
may return temporarily While their
husbands are in the service"
Senator, Taft expressed the
opinion that the arguments he had
advanced applied equally as well to
married men over 80 without chill
dren as to those with children.
In this respect his proposal runs
counter to that embodied in a
resolution by Senator Wheeler
Democrat. Of Montana, approved by
the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee, which would postpone the
induction into the armed forces of
any pre-Pearl Harbor fathers until
after next January /.
Evening star., 1943-08-01
Budget
Continued From First Page

innate. The Presidents overall
budget estimates were cut by ap-
proximately S1,078,000 900 for war
purposes, and s15,OoO,oO0 for all
other.
The summary gave this break
down on the budget as it emerged
from Congress:
War activities, s97 ,e32, 1888, s,o62, plus
a $4,000 100000 contract authorize
ton given to the Navy: interest on
public debt, S2,700,0O0, 0,000 other
tnon-war) activities, $4,629, TIT,
for total of s106,962 ,5l3,779. Trust
funds, including those for social Sc
curity and railroad and Federal en-
Evening star., 1943-08-01
Widow Of Hero Christens
Second U. s. 5. Thomas :
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del, July sl.-
The second U. 8. 8. Thomas, q de-
stroyer escort ship named for the
first Navy officer to die In the World
War, was christened today by his
widow, who also sponsored the first
ship which bore his name. sg
The sponsor was Mrs. Herndon q.
Kelly OF Annapolis, widow Of, Is.
Clarence Case Thomas, killed when
the steamship Vacuum was torpe-
doed April %. 1917. He was In COM
mand Of the armed guard crew..
The. first Thomas, launched July
4, 1918, at Newport News, Va, was
one Of the so destroyers transferred
to Great Britain in 1910 In exchange
for insular bases. The second was
launched today at the Dravo Corn.
shipyards on the Christiana River.
Evening star., 1943-08-01
De Gau||e and Giraud
Unity Forces in Bid
For Full Allied Status
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ALGIERS, July 31.-Gens. Charles
de Gaulle and Henry Giraud today
achieved unification OF all the
French fighting forces under a sin
gle command responsible to a CEN
tral government in forceful bid
for recognition by the United States
as an equal partner in the Allied
war effort.
DEGREES named Gen. Giraud COM
mander-in-chief of all the French
land, sea and airforces in the world
and gave Gen. de Gaulle presidency
Of new committee of national
defense.
The new French organization was
Immediately followed with a demand
by the French commissioner of
information Henri Bonnet, that
British and American recognition OF
the de Gaulle- Giraud setup as q
provisional government was "abso-
lutely necessary"
Our countrymen in France re-
gard recognition as a sign we are
fully accepted in Allied ranks" he
said. when French ttoops land on
the shores of France tomorrow, they
must go there as the fighting forces
Of recognized Allied government. /"
Allied Demands Answered.
Previously Gems. de Gaulle and
Giraud had maintained separate
armed forces. Under the old ar
rangement as joint presidents of the
French Committee Of National Lib
Grafton they presided alternately
Now Gen. Giraud will preside when
the committee deals with military
affairs and Gen. de Gaulle when it
handles civil or political problems
When Gen. Giraud is in the field
with his troops Gen. de Gaulle will
preside alone.
While the new organization ends
a crisis in French affairs it remains
to be seen how well the rather COM
plicated compromise works out.
The new plan was apparently
worked out under the pressure of
the Italian situation in order that
the French committee would be able
to present a unified demand for
equal status with other United Ma
tions in determining peace terms
for Italy.
The compromise also settled the
issue of how American lease-lend
military shipments would be divid-
ed among Giraud-de Gaulle forces
and answered the Allied demand
that Gen. Giraud be placed in
charge of the French Armed Forces.
Giraud to Deal With Allied Staff.
The DEGREES specifically provided
Gen. Giraud with the power to deal
with the Allied staff on military op-
erations, which in North Africa will
be Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The new Defense Committee, how
ever, retained the right to decide the
general conditions and the distri-
button of French Forces in the va
rious theaters of operations"
The new defense commissioner
was not named but Gen. de Gaulle's
loyal follower, Gen. Paul lie Gentil-
homme, who commanded the Free
French troops in the 1941 Syrian
campaign, was appointed assistant
commissioner of national defense.
Members of the new Defense Com
mittee include Gen. de Gaulle, presi-
dent. Gen. Giraud, Gen. lie Gentil-
hOmme. and the chiefs of general
stats Of the army, navy and air
force.
French committee supporters de-
clared that with this unified COM
mand the French Committee of Ma
tional Liberation, with headquarters
on French soil, has as much claim
to recognition as a provisional gov
Evening star., 1943-08-01

000,000,000 of expenditure during the
next IL months is, repeat, gigan-
tic national effort for victory. That
expenditure program must be backed
up by a revenue program of suf-
ficient size to make sure that we
do not disrupt our home front. and
that we do prepare the way for an
orderly transition to future peace
economy"
Evening star., 1943-08-01

KEARNY, N J-NEW WORLDS RECORD-The destroyer Cot
ten built by the United States See
delivery to the Navy worlds completion
from keel laying delivery in 1856 days 100
than the shown by Navy figures fabrcang
washps in this country and days faster than the previous
record The days from
keel laying to delivery for producing lighter type destroyer
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