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PRE-DAWN COUP
Some Bloodshed Reported
During The Four Hour
Battle
ANTI-UNITED STATES
Geographic Reconstruct
ton Is One OF Junta's
Programs

LA PAZ, Bolivia. Dec. 20.-tRL
A nationalist revolutionary move
ment, led by slight bespectacled
sociologist and described by it's
enemies as militantly anti-United
States, today o1erthrew the gov
eminent of Gen. Enrique Penara-
da in a swift pra-dawn coup which
resulted in some bloodshed in the
course of a four-hour battle.
Victor Paz Es'enssoro, leader of
the coup, installed himself in the
presidential palace where Major
Gualberto Villarcel took over the
reins of government as chief of
the revolutionary Junta.
Center of Continent -.
dispatches from Buenos Aires
said the Movimiento Nacionalista
Revolucionario-MNR - has often
Leen accused Of affiliation with
Germaic elemeats in land-locked
bolivia, the strategic center of
South America. One of its chief
programs is geographic recon-
struction'' phrase meaning
an aggressive demand for an out
let to the sea, possibly at the ex-
pense of Chile or Peru.
Paz Estenssoro was arrested in
connection witha Nazi Futsch in
1941, but was soon released be-
cause of his immunity as a deputy
in parliament.
dispatches from S t a g o,
Chile, said the extreme national
ISM of Paz Estenssoro's move
rlent could hardly fail to affect the
war production of tin, upon which
Britain and the United States are
largely DEPENDENT
Gull Cooperation"
Almost at once the chief of the
revolutionists, Paz Estenssoro,
tod an interviewer the new gov
eminent would realize a policy of
full cooperation with the Unit
e.. Nations and would fulfill Boliv-
las international obligations.
The legislature affirmed on Dec.
an executive decree of last April
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Americans Capture Ara1ue Air Strip;
RussiQH 1rny Nears LATHAM Border
30. <la Reuolts; Bremen Is Bombed
Sofia Also Reported
To Haze Been Hit
By Waves Of Planes

LONDON, Dec. 30 (R u. S.
Eighth Air Force Flying Fortress
es and Liberato1s bombed the Ger
man port and U-boat center of
tBremen in daylight today and
with supporting fighters destroyed
a. Nazi fighters planes for a cost
of Is bompers and eight fighters.
A joint British and American
communicate declared the opera
ton was carried out by strong for
nations of raiders, under escort of
U. S. fighters, and thess together
accounted for 40 of the destroyed
Nazi planes 81 by the heavy
bombers and 10 by their escort
In supporting sweeps, Raj and
Dominion fighters knocked down
two enemy aircraft.
Sofia was reported BIO m b
again today and waves of Britain
based bombers and fighters blast
ed Germany and occupied terri
tory by daylight to complete 2
new tWo-Way aerial punch launch
ed yesterday when U. S. heavy
air fleets struck at Germany and
Austria from Mediterranean bas-
es.
The raid on the poiitically-shak-
en- Bulgarian capital, which last
was pounded by American raiders
for an hour and As minutes Dec.
10, was said by the Hungarian ra-
dio to have oeen unleashed at
noon. 1t was the fourth Allied air
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By RAFAEL ORDORICA

SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 2O.-lR-
The swift overthrow of Gen. En-
rique ?enaranda has placed in
power in Bolivia's lofty capital an
extrem>i, nationalistic group
which often has been accused of
dislike of the United States and
affiliation with Gernlanic elements
in the country
The party leader Of the Movi-
miento Nationalist Revolucion-
ario-MNR-is the former minister
of economy, Victor Poz Estenssoro,
who was arrested in connection
with the attempted Nazi putsch of
July 10, 1871, when the govern
ment charged the German minis
ter, Ernest Wendler, with plotting
its overthrow, and gave the Ger
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'FullAgreement'R Reached
For Drive In Yugoslavia

CAIRO, Dec. 20.-tRHHigh Unit
ed States and British staff officers
have reached full agreement
with officers of Marshal Josip
Broz Tito) on plans for military
campaign in Yugoslavia, it was
announced tonight.
The American-British staff talks
with representatives of Tito's part
isan fighters were held secretly in
Alexandria. An undisclosed num-
Der of partisans - possibly six =
made the dangerous trip from
their homeland in an effort to gain
more supplies and actual military
help form the Allies for their war
upon the Germans.
The rival patriot forces of Gen.
Draja Mihailovic, who have the
support of the government-in-exile
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OLD PAPER DRIVE
TO CLOSE FRIDAY
Collections Will Be Made
Each Day This Week,
Stewart Says

The scrap paper salvage drive
will officially end Friday, Dec. "a,
W. A. Stewart, salvage director,
announced Monday. Collections will
be made each day this week and
anyone having paper which they
desire to have picked up may call
6367 and it will be collected by
members of the Brigade Boys
club.
The Brigade club reports 1900
pounds collected Friday and Mon
day in addition to 10000 pounds
reported by the Southern ] u nix
Company and $4,000 pounds by the
Wilmington Paper Company, thus
making a total of 47,300 pounds
for Monday to add to the former
total of 21O,01 pounds. The total
for the entire drive now stands
at 257,7 pounds which makes
lO7,701 pounds over the original
goal of 100000 pounds.
The figures snow that Whining
ton has done an outstanding job
of collecting this necessary scrap
PAPER in connection with the ma
tional victory drive which had for
It's slogan, "Save a Bundle Week
Save Some Boys Life" This in
deed may be true of some Of the
very paper given by Wilmington
residents because thousands of ton
OF paper are needed to ship sup
plies, ammunition, and food to the
armed forces.
The original national goal was
2, OOO,O additional tons of waste
paper urgently needed for war pro-
Guction, essential civilian goods,
and the fighting fronts. Whining
ton has produced I25 tons Of the
needed 100000 and salvage Of
f,cials hope to increase this figure
considerably by Friday if Whining
tonians will heed the call to sal
wage all unnecessary paper, mag
aZines, and newspapers.
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SOUTH OF Newell
70 Villages And Hamlets
Are Taken In Big Sow
let Offensive
MULTIPLE THRUSTS
AxI T. Y
German Attacks In Koro-
stem Sector Beaten Back
By Soviets

LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. I'll
Russia's winter-trained first Baltic
army captured 70 more villages
and hamlets yesterday in an Of
fensive nearing the old Polish and
Latvian frontiers and Moscow an
rounced early today that ''the en-
erny is retreating, abandoning a
great quantity OF arms and am
nlunition.''
Developing their big push from
south of Newell, just bove t h e
White Russian border, the Rus
slams were believed to be within
IS miles Of both Poland and Lat
via in multiple thrusts toward the
rail strongholds of Polotsk a n d
Vitebsk.
1000 Square Miles
In less than week the Russians
have recaptured nearly 1000 So.
miles of territory the Germans had
been holding and fortifying 0 +
more than two years. including $40
localities, and have killed or cap
tured nearly 900 enemy troops.
A. German broadcast also an
that the Germans h d
evacuated their hridgehead on the
eest bank of the ice-bound Dnieper
river opposite the city Of Kherson.
4an imminent Soviet as
sault on Kherson itself, on the
west bank, the Berlin announcer
said "there is no doubt w;1atso-
ever that the enemy plans to take
of this
A midnight co1lmunique supple
ment broadcast by Moscow and
recorded by the Soviet monitor,
said Gen. I. C. Bagramian's first
Baltic army had wiped out 1900
Germans attempting to hold an
geous line south of Newell,
and killed 300 more in topping one
of several strongpoints reduced
during the day.
AttackS kepulSeu
German counter-attacks in the
Korosten sector west of Kiev and
near Kirovgrad in the Dnieper bend
also were beaten down by Rus
sian armies of the south, the bull
letin said.
The Germans we're said to have
lost 600 men and q tanks in one
Sc ctor of the Kcrosten front. They
broke into one populated place, but
Soviet counter blows forced the
enemy to retire to his initial po-
sition." the communique said.
Hurting a regiment of 5000 men
ard 100 tanks against Soviet siege
lnes near Kirovograd, the Rus
slams were declared to have lost
/ 200 more men and 80 tanks. So
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CITY IS THANKED
BY LORD HALIFAX
Letter Is Received By Ma
vor Cameron From Brit
ish Ambassador

Mayor Bruce Cameron has re.
ceived letter from Lord Halifax
thanking him for the hospitality
accorded him in Wilmington on his
recent visit.
The communication, written from
the British Embassy in Washing.
ton and addressed to, my Dear
Mayor reads:
IT must tell you what a real
pleasure it was to visit Wi1nnir ot"n
last week, and how grateful I am
to you and to all who took part in
the arrangements for the really
delightful programme you had pre-
pared for me.
1.-THE shipyard was most en-
coura ging sight, and I was very
glad of the opportunity of seeing
the parade afterwards.
"Yours sincerely, Halifax.
The Mayor has also received
copies of booklet. eau Revoir
America!" comYemorating the
visit of the No. / Composite Anti
aircraft Demonstration Battery of
the Royal Artillery to the United
States. Profuseiv illustrated. there
are several pictures made in this
area and at Camp Davis. The dou-
bie-page ceater-fold picture is of
the dignitaries en- the reviewing
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|MORCENTHAU HITS
NEW TAX MEASURE
Secretary Denounces Con-
gress For Batting His
Bill Down
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 tR

WASHINGTON. Dec. 20 tR -
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau
angrily denounced Congress to-
night for batting down his new re.
venue bill to one-fitth his recon-.
mendations and furthermore
charged the lawmakers with open
ing the door to truly extortionate
profits by war contra ctors.
Morgeathau's heayed comments
to a press conference immediate
ly raised the prospect of request
for a Presidential veto of the en-
tire tax bill.
The secretary helu out one hope
for his aims, g reversal of Con-
gressional opinion over the Christ
mas recess, which isn't consider
ed very likely.
Morgenthau blasted at two ac-
tons by the House and the Senate
finance committee on his $40, $780,
100000 tax bill-the way it was
cut down to $2,264 900, 900 and the
amendments rewriting the act for
renegotiation of war contracts to
recapture excess profits.
AS to the revenue yield pro-
vided now, Morgenthau said "the
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Bolivia Now Controlled
Bv Anti-America Bloc

man 48 hours to leave the coun.
try.
Two other prominent members
of the party, Augusta Cespedes and
Carlos Montenegro were detained
at the same time, and the Bolivian
military attache in Berlin was dis
missed from the army on charge
of treason.
Paz Estenssoro soon was re-
leased because of his immunity
as congressional deputy.
His chief lieutenant is Montene-
gro. a fiery lawyer who has de-
voted the last few years to at
lacking foreign tin mine owners
and limited States imperialism. J"
One of the principal tenets OF
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Proposed Addition
10 U. S. O. Building
Is Rejected By FWA

me proposed addition to the
OSO at Second and Orange has
Deen ejected by Federal
Monday.
In an effort to relieve the
burden on frequently over-tax-
ca facilities at this branch of
me organization. the city re-
Gently purchased additional
land and made application to
.ne EVA for funds to aid in
financing the project.
The rejection was based on
advice from the War Depart
ment that the facility was not
ADsoiutely essential to the war
effort. The adverse decision
was mitigated by the promise
mat if future developments
warrant. careful reconsidera-
tlon would be given the project
by the FWA. 1t was understood
unofficially, however, that no
immediate action to press the
reconsideration would be taken
by city officials.
Kenneth Maxwell, regional
director of the FWA at Rich
mond. in a letter to City Man.
ager A. c. Nichols explained
the action Of the agency as fol-
lows:
In further reference to your
application for a recreation IA
cility in Wilmington, North
Carolina. project No. NC 81
273. we have just been advised
by the War Department that
the "need for additional re-
creation facilities has been
carefully considered and that
the War Department does not
consider the project to have
sufficient war-connected need
So that failure to proceed with
the construction would be de-
trlmental to the war EFFORT
I'm view of this adverse rec
ommendation it becomes neces-
sary to disapprove this pro-
1ect. without prejudice, how
ever, to its reinstatement If
justified by any future deve-
l0pments."
"This office will be glad to
cooperate to the fullest extent
possible to obtain reconsidera-
ton Of your application if and
when developments warrant
reconsideration"
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BY WALTER LIFFMANN


All the new tax plans have now
been defeated. Congress has re.
jected the Treasury plan. 1t has
also rejected tine sales tax. Yet
the tax bill passed by the House
is altogether inadequate, and it
seems fairly certain that the Sen
ate version viii be still less ade-
quate.
There IS, however, no use cry
ing over split milk. In fact, it may
well be that oil the current tax
plans have failed because none OF
them promises to do directly, ef-
ficiently, aid obviously the one
thing on which the great mass of
our people are agreed. None of
them is Enthusiastically a tax de-
signed for the single purpose of
controlling the wartime initiation.
Yet it is possible to set up a
purely anti-intlation tax for the
emergency, a tax which not only
could be, but necessarily would be,
removed when the war is over.
1t is a tax which, so far as I can
see, meets every rational objection
to any OF the current plans and
combines the constructive advan-
tages OF all of them. This is the
spendlngs taxa progressive tax
Levied not on income nor on the
sales OF the bare necessities of life
but on the amount of money,
above minimum, spent for con-
sumner goods by individuals and
families.
Only expenditures en- consumer
goods above a bare minimum
winch woulo be exempt-would be
taxable. Any income which had not
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Walter Lippmann Says:
House Approved Tax
Measure Is Inadequate

been spent by the clio of the year
would not be taxable, whether it
was held in cash or in a bank bal
ance, was invested in government
bonds, in securities, or in proper
ty, or had been paid Tor insurance,
taxes, interest, or loaned out, or
used to pay off mortgages and
debts. Money spent Ky farmer
or a business man in connection
with his business would not be
touched by the tax. Moreover,
money paid OUT for education, for
doctors bills and similar desirable
and non-inf.ationary p u po S,
could and should be exempted.
What would be taxed, and that on
a rising scale, would be the money
spent on those consumer goods
above the nlinimum--w which are in
short supply during the war.
1912, itself proposed such spend
ings tax, and it has stated that
the tax, though new. docs not re-
quire an expensive additional adj
tive set-up but can be ad-
almost entirely On the
basis Of the existing income tax
il is probably true
that the original 1912 Treasury
scheme was too complicated and
was too severe; simple and mod
crate use of this tax system would
probably serve the purpose.
The plan should now be revived,
revised, reconsidered and laid be-
fore Congress and the country. For
it is the answer 10 the problem, and
all the contendlng parties to this
tax argument could agree upon 1T
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of King Peter, were not represent
ed at the conferences.
At the same { me was report
ed that uniformed partisans re-
presenting Tito now are in Cairo
consulting with representatives of
the British and American fighting
services. The report said the Cairo
mission also was concerned pri-
marty with military matters.
A British communique stated:
discussions have recently TAX
en- place at Alexandria between
representatives Ct TIE partisan
forces in YugosIavia and repre-
sentatives of British and American
fighting services
t'These discussions, which were
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man t1ghterS IN twin blows at
Augsburg in Germany and Inns
bruck in Austria.
The raids with their omen of
greater attacks to come, conceded
with local gains for two miles in
the west-central area, and the
Eighth Army, which was busily
engaged in chopping to pieces for
the second time it's old opponent
the Goth panzer grenadier division,
near the Adriatic coast.
The heavy destruction of Nazi
fighters over enemy soil bore out
predictions of American airmea
that blows from this theater, COM
b;ned with those from England,
would spread and weaken Germa-
ny's fighter delenses despite the
fact that the flight to Augsburg
was the longest yet made from
this theater, only II bombers were
missing from the two missions and
some of those were believed to be
safe.
The Flying Fortresses and Lib
orators were escorted the entire
way by American fighters, the adj
vancd airdromes making this pos
sible.
Engaged in the new Allied pol
icy of doing more bad weather
flying, Liberators of the 18th air
force flew to Augsburg, industrial
city IS miles orthwest of Munich,
and dropped their bombs through
cloud patches. Augsburg is but 80
miles from the Nazi shrine of Nu-
Between 40 and go Nazi fighters
swarmed into attack d were
heavily engaged by Liberator gun
ners and escort;ng fighters.
The Fortresses which pummeled
for the second tt m
within a week left the big rail
tnction above Bremen Pass a
mass of smoke and flame, despite
the attentions of between 70 and
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WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Fair and continS
ed cool Tuesday. Temperatures Is t.
30 west portion Tuesday night Wednes
day fair to partly cloudy and slightly
warmer.
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
SO 1870 am, 40; 80 am, 35; 1880 pm,
SO; 80 pm, Al.
Maximum, So; minimum, "a: mean, ~;
normal, 48.
Humidity
1870 am, So; 1880 am, g.; 30 pm,
26; 1880 pm, 30.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7 80 pm,
600 inches.
Total since the first OF the month,
1.94 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington --------------- 4:47a ----a
5:04p 12:06p
Masonboro Inlet ---------- 2 ga 8:51a
:3ap Slip
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Italian Based Bombers
Blast Germany, Austria

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Dec. 20-QP)-
Reaching for the heart of Naz Germany from New Medter
bases great fleets of American heavy bobers threw
aerial gauntlet into the face of Herman Goerngs Luf
waite yesterday shooting down badly damaging So Ger
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JAPS IN RETREAT
Cape Gloucester On New
Britain Hit By Ala
Tons OF Bombs
ENEMY BARGES SUNK
Jap-Held Marshall Islands
In Mid-P acific Are
Bombed By U.S..

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Tues
day, Dec 81 -R--Anlerican troops
captured the Arawe air strip in
southwestern New Britain Sunday,
General Douglas Macarthur an
nounced today.
The Americans gathered in the
Japanese air field in an advance
six miles east of Cape Merkus,
where they landed last Wednesday.
Cape Gloucester Hit
Allied planes dropped record
414 tons Of bombs on the enemy's
air installations at Cape Glouces-
ter, also on Sunday. This made
more than 1000 tons of explosives
put there since Dec 1.
The American invaders contin-
ued their advance in the Arawe
area, moving forward three miles.
Coast patrols spread their activi-
ties inland.
On Huon peninsula, New Guinea,
the Australians routed the Japa-
nese who are in full retreat across
the Masawang river.
Barges Sunk
In their push across the river,
the Australians bagged several en-
envy artillery pieces an other
equipment and stores.
The attacks On japanese barge
routes in this theater resulted in
Is barges, vessels which the enc
my has used almost exclusively to
move troops and supplies, being
sunk Or damaged.
Marshalls Pounded
PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 20.-tR
The intensifying air offensive
against the japanese held Marshall
islands continued into it's twelfth
straight day with 7th U. S. Air
Force bombers destroying at least
five Japanese planes and blasting
tin Mill Atcll with 80 tons of ex-
plosives, Admiral Chester w. Nj
mitz announced today.
While the Army's bombers were
making double raids on both Sat-
urday and Sunday on Mill, near
est Japanese base TO the Ameri-
can-held Gilbert islands, Navy
search planes raided shipping in
the western Marshalls.
A naval Catalina hit a large
transport in the Northeastern Mar
shalls near Kwajelejn atoll, and
left it in flames. Nirnitz did not
indicate whether the transport was
loaded.
Two American planes were lost
during the Sunday morning raids.
Only one United States bomber
had been lost in all the previous
attacks on the Marshalls which be-
gan in the middle OF November.
japanese planes made another
retaliatory raid on Tarawa in the
Gilberts, but the three bombs they
dropped caused no damage.
No indication came from Nimitz
as to whether The increasing tenn
DO of the raids on the Marshalls
might be a prelude 10 an invasion
of these mid-Pacific islands. But
his communicates yesterday and to-
day made it clear tina the Japa-
nese were becoming more alert to
American attacks.
Saturday m orning Japanese
fighters were caught completely by
surprise and siz Zeros were de-
stroyed on the ground. None of
them got into the air. When the
bombers returned III the afternoon,
four Zeros were over Mill to meet
them. Four Japanese were sh t
down and one American bomber
,uoc Dana oe6
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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-10-07

Here is more news of the three
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. D. j. Weaver,
203 West Side avenue--Norman j.,
Lloyd and William w.
Cpl. Norman j. Weaver, who was
stationed for awhile in, Louisiana, is
now on maneuvers out on the desert
in California. The corporal says it
is plenty hot out there, with the
temperature running from 140 to
100 in the sun. His new address is:
33200l22, Service Co; 339th Inf.
Regt., APO IS, care postmaster, Los
Calf.
Pfc. Lloyd Weaver is still stationed
at Norfolk, Va, and his address is
Pvt. William w. Weaver, who was
stationed at Fort Eustis, Virginia,
was home last week on furlough.
He left last Friday for Fort Meade,
where he is now stationed, but he
expects to be transferred to new
base almost Immediately.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-10-07

Schnebly, $50 Summit avenue, hav-
ing completed the course at the
U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School,
Chapel Hill, N. c., is now taking the
Primary Flight Training Course at
the Naval Air Station, Norman,
Okla.
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OUR CITIZENS in UNIFORM

Washington County who
serving with the Armed Forces
you relative serving in branch of the
information about him that
this Send items "The Globe
give to the phone Our
number is 3911.